THE THOUGHTS

We have a wonderful mind. An ultimate complex tool called brain. This brain had a very unique structure. It saves and serves information. This information can be called impulses of thoughts. The unique thing here is how it generates thoughts. A good thought and bad thought; and ultimately its reactions on these thoughts. But what decides the action or a reaction. this is interesting.

(................To be continued...............................)

Tryst with Destiny of my Country : Independence Day Celebration

Sometimes, we do things which we never expect ourselves to do. Well, this time, it was time for celebrating Independence Day. Of course it's an important occasion for every Indian. But do we Indians have any sense of what this means? I have started my quest for it.

In my childhood school days, I never displayed any kind of fervor for an occasion like this. For me Independence Day was a day where some idiot kids will give mugged up speech which they themselves don't understand. A mindless principal will give an endless speech while he will start like “I will not take much of your time.". Some stupid girls will dance on stage. And we will get sweets at last. I used to get some money from my father to eat ‘Samosa’ and ‘jeelabi’ with my friends. I always tried to skip the speech of Prime Minister. Yeah, that day, my mother used to cook some delicious food like "mutter paneer" or "kathal ki sabji" or "rajma ki sabji". In every sense for me Independence Day meant delicious spicy food, sweets and the movies telecasted on DD1. It was the same kind of show every year for me.

In my engineering days, Independence day meant no class and no celebration. I used to sleep and watch movie. That means complete rest. It was just a national holiday for all of us. To flout a day like Independence Day was my foible. I was an engineer in making without even 1% of common sense.

Now-a-days, I feel myself more involved in the celebration of Independence Day. Particularly, this year the zeal is more. First of all, I am getting ample opportunities to show my creativity independently. I participated in almost all the events conducted in my company. There were no established rules and everything I did was for the first time in my life. And thus, it makes things more special like the day. I had a unforgettable last two days. Yesterday, it started with a kite making competition. I with two of my colleagues participated and made a big kite. It was a organizational level competition and results are still to come. Then, I took part in "pen your thoughts", a floor based competition. We were given a topic "what one thing you would like to change in our political system." I could not put my words or my thinking the way, I should. Perhaps, I was more exhausted due to my participation in kite making. But an event is an event and that moment my mind has no idea to click and drill in allotted time of 15 minutes. I am very upset with my performance in “pen my thoughts”. I could have performed better in that. I would like to pen my thoughts again. Next, I with three of my colleagues participated in "Antaakshri", another floor based event in which my team stood first.

Today, there was a floor decoration competition with ethic touch. I became a farmer as I have to represent the era of green revolution. I had an outfit of farmer with lots of greenery and fields around me. The whole floor was decorated and all the cubicles were decorated according to the floor theme "Past Prsent and Future of India". The most beautiful part was that we were the part of floor decoration too and we acted also as per our outfits and roles. The actor inside us was on its high. I enjoyed a lot.

In the course of celebration I came to know few things like "the speech of Jawaharlal Lal Nehru on the eve of Independence day was called "Tryst with destiny." I read the whole speech. I also came to know about Green revolution and White revolution. Now, I know how to make a kite? I acted like a farmer on bare feet. And above all, I became aware about the importance of Independence and its celebration with my team.

It's only when you involve yourself in such events, you would discover the true meaning of it. One should participate in such event actively because there are lots of things which you can improve later when you know in what present condition it is now. An aware mind is the right mind of thoughts. And believe me an idea can click any time ; and has the power to change your life.

The LAST 3 YEARS of proffesional life

Well.......this story started on 7th of August, 2006.

A guy started his professional carrier as a VC++ trainee. He stood 2nd in the batch by scoring 79 out of 100. He joined a development team as VC++ developer. Although, the start was not so pleasant and there were few frictions that he had to face. He bought world's slimmest mobile phone with his saving in next three months. He made few good friends in this course of time and became a permanent employee after six months. He continued working as a Software Engineer.

April 1st, 2007 he became part of an another team in the same account. The new team had some magnificent team players like Vikrant Vardhan and Truptha Prabhu who played mentoring role for this guy. This guy was active and did some good work for his team.

January 5th, 2008 he bought a high tech laptop for personal use and reduced the use of paper and ink in his life.

March 31st, 2008, he was promoted to Senior Software Engineer . He did some very good development works and was awarded for his performance with a Blue Certificate but unfortunately, he got a wrong certificate. :) This happens sometimes. He was also nominated for Gold Club, which is to groom future managers to strengthen the organization.

September 14th, 2008 he went to US for official purpose. He was their for six months. He understood the working cultures and met some amazing people. He celebrated every moment there and improved his technical skills on other products and technologies.

April 1st, 2009 he came back to India and resumed office. He was asked to take bigger responsibilities.

August 7th, 2009; he is completing 3 full years of his professional carrier.

This guy is Me.

I thank God, my family, my friends and my colleagues for their support and inspiration. The last three years were amazing and full of accomplishments. Thanks!

MAST

A wise man has said "If you want to grow in life; always see towards the sky." I really don't know who said that or maybe they are purely my words. One more wise man said “ if you want to grow in an organization; check out with the trainings conducted there”. In my opinion, these trainings make you think about yourself rather than the computer/software with which you spend most of your quality time.

Today, I attended a training called "Mast". It was like "Baby’s days out". Although, there were few interesting people around me but I did not see any kind of spark. Most of them looked tensed and unhappy. I am talking about what I saw their eyes. May be they were tired. Surprisingly, the trainer’s eyes were totally red due to some infection or allergy. But she was fine and ready to take her charge.

Initially, I was little bit upset with the strength of the crowd for the training. We were just 7 people including the trainer (3M+3F). There was a bit too much of theory involved. But it was kind of OK!! because it was not for fun but for MAST. The story started in a building (which I call) SER 1.5. As usual, the training room was empty when I arrived there (with one more guy). I had a weird feeling that probably nobody will turn up but my optimistic side said, may be I am just lucky enough to grab a chair of my own choice. Well, I settled myself right in the middle of the room to see everything around in a better way. Let me tell you that, I was very excited for this training as it has a reputation of its own. Also the name is "MAST" you know. MAST stands for managerial skill training not for someone like “Raveena Tondon” .You may ask yourself why the hell I am writing about something like that....crap...but anyways it never matters. It is worth to waste your time this way than going behind someone for something. At least, you will know that it is your original views getting in shape. Coming to the topic....

The training started late and ended well before the scheduled time today. I have to attend the rest of it tomorrow. Frankly, speaking I was disappointed with first day response. Perhaps, I wanted an aggressive training which would make me eat my nails something like “iss Jungle (Training) se mujhe bachao". Every one of us was feeling shy and everything was at place there. There was an unpleasant peace around. I thought I was back in my sweet school days where a teacher comes in SUPW and blabbers something and we go out more pleasantly when bell rings.

But, you know there was little bit of fun added here. There was a game in which you had to arrange some cups using few threads and few rubber bands without touching those cups with your fingers. You were supposed to make a structure. All boys were in one team and all girls grouped together. We made a bit of something piled up one over the other and it came like a structure in the given time of 3 minutes. The other group was given 2.5 minutes for the same activity but they could not do much. The hidden agenda behind this game was to let us know the importance of “planning and work sharing”. Basically, it was to make us aware of our responsibility. I learnt two more thing in two different tests:

1. I am less social than I think really I am. Socialism is nowhere in my life now-a-days. I am thinking to improve my socialist factor.

2. I am too much supportive and a confused kind of guy who is an emotional idiot and who has a wrong faith that he is social and also, I cannot take a clear decision. I have to work on this.

One more thing which I would like to add that now-a-days my driving factor is "Spirituality-Search for truth". :) Thanks to those Swami Vivekananda books which I read during my weekends.

You know last weekend I was reading Sanskrit because I had problem when I was reading holy Gita slokas(book). I spent most of time around spiritual books and discussing the same with my friend Shashi Shekhar. There is only truth which I cannot understand or perceive". The rest all is just "MAYA" a window of time space and causation. J SAB MAYA HAI.

The programs like MAST saves a lot of money and time when you compare it with going to a psychiatrist or doing self analysis. These programs give you a bit of feeling about your orientation in a better way as the questions are tested and designed by experts.

I think tomorrow it would be fun and better in comparison to the experience what I had today. The training programs in companies are kind of mirrors which reveals the expectation of that organization. A careful planning and a right approach can lead you to the sky. I hope tomorrow would be a better day with more sparks and hopes around.