What A Question Sirjee

I thought answering "Where you see yourself 5 years down the line ?" was the most tough and stupid question asked in an interview , till I came across the following questions in a news article :

1."Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?" -Deloitte
2."If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?" -Hewlett-Packard

3."How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2.30pm on a Friday?" ( Google) 

4."How do you feel about those jokers at Congress?" (Consolidated Electrical) 

5."If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?" (Summit Racing Equipment) 
6."You're in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?"

Thank god I got placed earlier , still scratching my head to  find a sentence to say after "Actually Sir what I feel is ..."..maybe you can answer a few...

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Though I liked Biology , and might have become a doctor had I not been scared of dissection , but this has nothing to do with the medical sciences .
Split personality , or exhibiting different personalities at different spacial intervals of times , is a disorder I guess the whole human race suffers of.
Haven't there been times when you know a person in a particular vertical  of your life ( by verticals I mean personal , proffesional , entertainment etc ) and assume , he/she will be the same elsewhere.
For ex : If your boss is a very good nature person , always jovial , and exhibits good managing skills ( i guess not a very good ex to take :) ) , we tend to assume he/she will be the same in his personal life , till the time they don't disclose the truth .
Similar is the case with people you hate to the extent of "Mere haath mei ek khoon likha hai.." , are not the same when they are with a different set of people , to whom they might be best friends.
People who you know as your friends and the way you know them , have you ever imagined how they would be in office , or maybe there home.
I guess no one is always a good natured , or a bad human being .Neither should we assume either ways .
Whatever way anyone is in front of us is just a temporary character , just a change in costume .
How good or bad the costume is depends on the audience.

Thank God ! You made me fall...

There are many times when I fall

Times when my worries stand tall

Times when I feel dejected

and awfully rejected ,

Times when I feel nothing can be worse

And life feels like a curse ,

Times when I brood over and over again ,

With all pain and no gain.

But then I realize

That I had decided to live life king size

And this is such a petty thing I cried for

Things could have been better had I tried for

And I get up..

Stronger and happier

Brighter and wiser

To realize my true potential and sense a direction

With a new zest , to live life at its best

For a while just thank god and forget the rest..

For it is he who has given me all

And I thank you god

For making me fall…

" When God Pushes You To The Edge Of Difficulty ,Trust Him Fully Because Two Things Can Happen ,Either He'll Catch You When You Fall Or He Will Teach You How To Fly "

Will I smile , smile the most true smile of life..

The turquoise blue water all around till I my eyes can see ,

The palm trees bend sometimes touching the golden sand , 

When the wind flows carrying with it small particles of water ,

Which touch my face and stay there , and the chill penetrates deep inside me ,

Where the rays of the sun brighten the sand and the warmth makes me feel cosy,

The sun shines bright on my face ..

Where I can hear the sound of the wind

The gushing of water , the fluttering of leaves..

Where the stars will twinkle and twinkle bright in the clear sky

And the purity of white moon lights the soil beneath

When my dream will be a reality

Will I smile , smile the most true smile of life..

SALE

For all the female readers , I am sure this word must have put a smile on your face..for all the males ..umm lets skip this part..
Shopping is I must admit is one of the high ranker's in things that make my adrenaline rush ( to be frank there are only two shopping and chocolate ).
Its that time of the year again when almost all the shops have these huge colorful signage , that hallucinate me..though I have  detested percentage all my life and my mind always stops working when I see such alien symbols..but the percentage signs here make a lot of sense to me..even though i have never been able to  calculate the actual price after the discount percentage, that's too much maths..at too critical a time..
Going from one glass door to other..seeing colorful stuff all around makes me ecastic , most of the time ( in fact lets make it all ) I never buy things that I may need , will need , would ever need ..but at that point of time it seems to be the most critical part of my wardrobe , and good that we girls are at making excuses to ourselves , we obviously find a reason for every junk that we buy .
The weight of the packets , the number of packets , the numbers of brands covered..ahhh..these are the only numbers we like when the count increases ( i mean that's not the case with age or weight etc..)
Suddenly you also realize that someone in the census department is so wrong in quoting figures , who in this world says the female count is lesser than the men I mean look at it its like a mad rush where its a situation like 'All that you get here is free'..
And if its your day ..you will have a situation like - "while searching for something (which you obviously have no idea what it is ) you hold on to a piece,a lady by your side asks ' are you going to buy this ? ' and then you realize you had the most beautiful thing in your hand and what a fool you were , you dont see anything left right  and buy it " that feeling is nothing less than the feeling of victory
I know I always end up buying things I don't need , spending much more than I really needed ..but the joy of shopping cannot be expressed in words..." There are truly some things money cant buy "

Whether Weather

Looking Outside from the glass windows of my office turning my face away from my workstation , I see the sky has suddenly turned dark , though i cant feel it , but i can sense the cold wind that makes the trees bend , and then suddenly with much fanfare the drops of water fall..yes its raining and its what they call awesome weather outside..but then how so ever much i may wish I cannot go outside and enjoy the rain , and I feel helpless..
But this feeling isn't new to me , since the time my brain started forming memories , I remember feeling the same always, just the reasons were different..
When I was a school going kid , and the weather would turn beautiful , which at that point of time meant the "Best weather to play/To get Wet" , it was always exam time (I guess god deliberately makes march and april the best months of the year) and going out meant a week long course of coldarins and paracetmols , then I would think let this school thing get over then I would enjoy the rain.
As I grew up , the same weather became romantic weather , and i would dream of enjoying it with my  would be sweetheart , long walks , rides on the bike..
As years flew by , the same weather meant "Not going to the Office/Don't feel like working weather" ,and somehow I would try to pass my day in the office , in a hope that I would enjoy in the evening.
But today as I write this , I have come in peace with the helpless feeling of not wanting to be where I am and just being somewhere else to enjoy the weather, the feeling of missing the opportunity to enjoy , I have realized no matter what I may want some things are not in my control and I should make the best of whatever the present is..
Whether I will one day be able to enjoy this Weather , is a question that still remains unanswered..

Google Panic

Okay so this is a bit technical , but i couldn't help posting it when I heard of it.
Google Panic - a button which appears on your google chrome , when pressed , displays a completely new page and hides all you tabs.
Usage - I guess we all already know the best use of it , now no more panicking when you have your facebook or gtalk open and your boss arrives silent footed from the back and embarases you by peeping inside your desktop , and even if you minimize it all , the gtalk window still blinks and shouts out loud "She was chatting"..
Now set the most technical web page which has all the jargons you don't understand , as your panic page and relax
Buttt ya just remember to read a little text ..just in case your boss may like to know what exactly were you doing ... 

Crossing Borders

Packed Bags , packed lunches on the table , checking rechecking of tickets , the fainting whistle of the train , the plains flying over board the puckish feeling and cramps in the stomach ..happens with me , I cant see people crossing borders , I cant see people go away
Though dad being in the army this was normal since the child hood but i haven't been able to able to come at peace with this truth of life , that not everyone dear to you stays with you forever..
The other day I had this destructive ideas of  destroying the whole transportation system , so that no one could ever go away , but ya then that means we will also not be able to go for vacations , so I dropped that idea..
The feeling of not being able to see your family for days to come  , makes me feel handicapped .
Because no number of phone calls , chatting , video chats can ever ever compensate for the one face to face conversation you have..for the one laugh you see real , for the one tear you see flow...

The Question Called

"Where do you see yourself 10 years down the line ?" - first heard 7 years back in my MBA coaching class , as one of the most important questions during interviews .
And I listened to it with my jaw dropped , eyes wide open and with no facial expressions , because to me it sounded weird . I mean how can you predict what will happen in your life 10 years down the line , when you don't know what will happen the very next moment , isn't this what we have heard all the while
"Live every moment as it was your last.." , and so I believe..
This question got repeated many times in job interviews ( no i didn't make it to any MBA interviews , full blame on this question ) and in conversations with Friends . I wanted to know whether or not I was the only one who was not sure of her life.
And to be frank I haven't been quite convinced with any of the answers , neither could I even form the first line of this question ever...
The only line I have been able to formulate is
10 years down the line..
I see myself more fat and with more facial lines ( but isn't that obvious)
But that's it , I cant predict anything else in measurable quantities my stature , my bank balance .
in in measurable items happiness , health ...
Maybe I will never be able to answer this..
But ya I have a wish that
10 years down the line "I am more healthy , more happy, have more loved ones , who are also healthier and happy , have traveled the world and that I have memories I love to remember.."

Of Those little things which were once big ...

As a part of growing up , many things happen , which you so wished did not happen , and if god had given you the magical power , you would have changed it all.
Few things which made me and I am sure all my fellow engineering Friends feel helpless , those little  little things....

1.When you would show your immense leadership skills by arranging a mass bunk , convincing everyone and messaging to all who were not present , just to find a couple of them turn up and the attendance is marked for the whole class .( Though this never meant we would give up on arranging  mass bunks )

2. When you felt that the question paper was long ( which was the excuse most of the times ) , just to find out later that you had attempted both the questions which had an 'OR' symbol in between .

3. When you would watch your watch 20 times in 5 mins , because its just 5 mins left for the boring one hour lecture to get over , just to listen to "I will be taking your next class as well" , at the end of it.

4.Waiting hours to get those highly important photostats done at the last moment ( wonder why the books we had never had the material ) , and that one photostat you didn't have had 30 % of the question paper made from.

5. The good feeling of attempting all the questions as you walk out of the examination hall , gets ruined , when you overheard someone talking of a question which you didn't even see , you check the question paper , just to find it was on the other side (no wonder you finished on time :))

6.Out of 20 big chapters , the couple of those you missed out (c'mon its not humanly possible to finish all 20 ) , had 40 % of the questions made out of them , and then you discuss how uneven was the marks distribution.

7. The professor makes a casual comment that all the papers he has checked , people haven't passed, and he started from the back on the roll sheet ( how much back ??) , why on earth can he not just check 100 % of the papers and then just give them away in one go.

8. Practicals - what , why , when , where :)

9.Attendance - 75 % - fourth year - and they think its possible to achieve .

10. You have a 10 mark question and you know writing some crapping 10 points is the least you can do..just that you have written all the crap in the 9 points above you just don't get what to write now :)

My little brother 'Varun'

Though 6 feet 3 inches tall , with a slim built,pictorially he ceases to look like my younger brother and that will remain the case forever in this life time , because howsoever may be the amount of horlicks or complan i may drink that height is practically unachievable.

But then to my eyes he will always be the cute ( an highly exaggerated statement to make now ) little baby i held 20 years back , and who came and filled the space of a sibling i always wanted to play with eat and fight (ya ya that's the major chunk of it )

5 years younger to me , but we both have the same taste in all respects ,since after the age of 14 we both refused to grow up , and hence the similarities .

We can listen to rhymes and watch funny stupid videos , play any game and no matter who looses or win , we are more interested in telling our mom dad that the other is a looser , eat weird combinations of food ( and in true sense they are weird ) , enjoy making endless jokes on mom which she loves ,
talk about our friends in school and our grade comparisons , still watch duck tails and small wonder  n number of times , telling each others secrets to mom & dad when it was the most inappropriate time to do so ,and fight to an extend where we would feel like breaking the other person heads into two halves and then suddenly being buddies the next moment...

When together , we refuse to grow up , even now when we meet like after so so many months , the first minute  its all like back to what it always was..

P.S - This is  for you bhai
What it means to have you  in my life is obviously something i can never ever describe in words...
You were , will and always be my champ , stud , life ...
May the child in you never grow ...you are the best and whatever planets may do , remember you always had and will always have your pillars by your side
Stay the way you are..
Love you :)..

How once I wished I looked like...

A Barbie..and I am sure many girls ( where many = 99.99 %) wanted to look like her .
Her 39-21-33 inches figure..which is improbable to attain , her blond hair , skimpy dresses , not to forget her foot wears , how I wished I had it all in my size.
The most prized possession of every girl , barbie is almost 41 years old , and what keeps it still going is that she has had about 80 professions in such span of 41 years ( i guess that has kind of told women that they can excel in all fields , after all they have grown up seeing that )
I remember having miss universe contest for our barbies , celebrating their birthdays ( and having gifts for ourselves ) , and ya ken her boyfriend...and the famous " I am a barbie girl..." song
But what is astonishing is that it is still so popular..with Disney also launching its dolls it does face competition and bcoz kids of today are not they were 40 years back..(i am not on the extreme range just FYI)
Maybe a little to grown up to play with barbies , but I guess barbies new perfume range can be a new source of indulgence to keep the old fragrance alive....

Deserve being happy vs Worthy of being happy

A casual conversation made me inquisitive of how oprah winfrey reached the place she is today .And so as I read about her life story , I came across the last script of her famous talk show, which ran for 25 years . And as she puts it there
"Thinking that you deserve happiness and thinking that you are worthy of being happy are two very different things .Most of us don't feel we are worthy of being happy , the reason we are born is in itself a reason enough to think that we are worthy of being happy .
All the times that we go wrong in life are those times we didn't hear the whispers life made to us , which in turn got transferred into disasters .God is always with you and it depends on you whether you acknowledge his presence or not.
Most of the times even if we get what we thought would make us happy , eventually did not make us happy.
Everyone around us has three basic questions 'Am I being seen ?' , 'Am I being heard' , 'Does what I say matter to anyone' , if we can make people around us (our family , friends , spouse ) feel that they are being heard , we make a difference ... "

We didnt need it anyways

 

After having waited for a month to get my iphone fixed for a problem , all I get to know is that the new one which has supposedly being replaced doesn't work either , with more problems than the previous ones .
So my life which was going simple without it , and I was enjoying the clarity nokia 1100 gave in terms of sound quality( the basic feature of a phone ) , has now become pretty complex again.
Which makes me wonder life is so complex with things that are actually supposed to make it simpler.
If we could just eat normal stuff , sew things by our own , create things that we needed , with no malls no shopping life indeed would have been more simple.
We would have more free times , if we were not busy updating on the facebook , a lot more creative and a lot more closer to our loved ones.
Maybe it isn't rocket science to do all of this..
"There must be more to life than having everything!"

Shubh Aram

I have this wierd problem , my brain never seems to be short of thoughts , most of the times I have conversation going in my head , past memories ,pre planning stuff , imagining how things would go , how I should have reacted differently to a situation , how someone else should have said somethigs different , why things are the way they are , why they are not the way I want , day dreaming ( guess that's every girls right to do ) and sometimes this non stop hullabulla drives me crazy.So I thought of a cure , maybe not sure shot but if I vent out my thoughts by blogging , my brain might as well just rest for some time. That's why I searched "Create a blog" on google and viola this is how it begins...