It'S sTill aNYday a BeTTer PlaCe to LiVe !

awww....Love you Dad!!!

Loved this pic more coz of the smile of the baby....
Yeah, even I behave as childish as possible before my Dad!!!

Have A Passion !!!

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and

gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my

postgraduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel. Other girls

were pursuing research in different departments of Science.

 

I was looking forward to going abroad to complete a doctorate in

 computer  science. I had been offered scholarships from Universities in the

US. I had not thought of taking up a job in India.

 

One day, while on the way to my hostel from our lecture-hall complex,

 I saw an advertisement on the notice board. It was a standard job-requirement

notice from the famous automobile company Telco (now Tata Motors).

It stated that the company required young, bright engineers, hardworking and

with an excellent academic background, etc.

 

At the bottom was a small line: "Lady candidates need not apply."

I read it and was very upset. For the first time in my life I was up

against gender discrimination.

 

 

Though I was not keen on taking up the job, I saw it as a challenge. I had

done extremely well in academics, better than most of my male peers. Little

did I know then that in real life academic excellence is not enough to be

successful.

 

After reading the notice I went fuming to my room. I decided to inform the

topmost person in Telco's management about the injustice the company was

perpetrating. I got a postcard and started to write, but there was a

problem: I did not know who headed Telco.

 

 

 

I thought it must be one of the Tatas. I knew JRD Tata was the head of the

Tata Group; I had seen his pictures in newspapers (actually, Sumant

Moolgaokar was the company's chairman then). I took the card, addressed it

to JRD and started writing. To this day I remember clearly what I wrote.

 

 

"The great Tatas have always been pioneers. They are the people who started

the basic infrastructure industries in India, such as iron and steel,

chemicals, textiles and locomotives. They have cared for higher education

in India since 1900 and they were responsible for the establishment of the

Indian Institute of Science. Fortunately, I study there. But I am surprised

how a company such as Telco is discriminating on the basis of gender."

 

 

I posted the letter and forgot about it. Less than 10 days later, I

received a telegram stating that I had to appear for an interview at

Telco's Pune facility at the company's expense. I was taken aback by the

telegram. My hostel mate told me I should use the opportunity to go to Pune

free of cost and buy them the famous Pune saris for cheap! I collected Rs

30 each from everyone who wanted a sari. When I look back, I feel like

laughing at the reasons for my going, but back then they seemed good enough

to make the trip.

 

 

It was my first visit to Pune and I immediately fell in love with the city.

 

To this day it remains dear to me. I feel as much at home in Pune as I do

in Hubli, my hometown. The place changed my life in so many ways. As

directed, I went to Telco's Pimpri office for the interview.

 

 

There were six people on the panel and I realised then that this was

serious business.

 

"This is the girl who wrote to JRD," I heard somebody whisper as soon as I

entered the room. By then I knew for sure that I would not get the job. The

realisation abolished all fear from my mind, so I was rather cool while the

interview was being conducted.

 

Even before the interview started, I reckoned the panel was biased, so I

told them, rather impolitely, "I hope this is only a technical interview."

 

They were taken aback by my rudeness, and even today I am ashamed about my

attitude. The panel asked me technical questions and I answered all of

them.

 

Then an elderly gentleman with an affectionate voice told me, "Do you know

why we said lady candidates need not apply? The reason is that we have

never employed any ladies on the shop floor. This is not a co-ed college;

this is a factory. When it comes to academics, you are a first ranker

throughout. We appreciate that, but people like you should work in research

laboratories."

 

 

I was a young girl from small-town Hubli. My world had been a limited

place.

 

 

I did not know the ways of large corporate houses and their difficulties,

so I answered, "But you must start somewhere, otherwise no woman will ever

be able to work in your factories."

 

Finally, after a long interview, I was told I had been successful. So this

was what the future had in store for me. Never had I thought I would take

up a job in Pune. I met a shy young man from Karnataka there, we became

good friends and we got married.

 

It was only after joining Telco that I realized who JRD was: the uncrowned

king of Indian industry. Now I was scared, but I did not get to meet him

till I was transferred to Bombay. One day I had to show some reports to Mr

Moolgaokar, our chairman, who we all knew as SM. I was in his office on the

first floor of Bombay House (the Tata headquarters) when, suddenly JRD

walked in. That was the first time I saw "appro JRD". Appro means "our" in

Gujarati. This was the affectionate term by which people at Bombay House

called him.

 

 

 

I was feeling very nervous, remembering my postcard episode. SM introduced

me nicely, "Jeh (that's what his close associates called him), this young

woman is an engineer and that too a postgraduate.

 

She is the first woman to work on the Telco shop floor." JRD looked at me.

I was praying he would not ask me any questions about my interview (or the

postcard that preceded it).

 

Thankfully, he didn't. Instead, he remarked. "It is nice that girls are

getting into engineering in our country. By the way, what is your name?"

 

"When I joined Telco I was Sudha Kulkarni, Sir," I replied. "Now I am Sudha

Murthy." He smiled and kindly smile and started a discussion with SM. As

for me, I almost ran out of the room.

 

After that I used to see JRD on and off. He was the Tata Group chairman and

I was merely an engineer. There was nothing that we had in common. I was in

awe of him.

 

One day I was waiting for Murthy, my husband, to pick me up after office

hours. To my surprise I saw JRD standing next to me. I did not know how to

react. Yet again I started worrying about that postcard. Looking back, I

realise JRD had forgotten about it. It must have been a small incident for

him, but not so for me.

 

"Young lady, why are you here?" he asked. "Office time is over." I said,

"Sir, I'm waiting for my husband to come and pick me up." JRD said, "It is

getting dark and there's no one in the corridor.

 

I'll wait with you till your husband comes."

 

I was quite used to waiting for Murthy, but having JRD waiting alongside

made me extremely uncomfortable.

 

 

I was nervous. Out of the corner of my eye I looked at him. He wore a

simple white pant and shirt. He was old, yet his face was glowing. There

wasn't any air of superiority about him. I was thinking, "Look at this

person. He is a chairman, a well-respected man in our country and he is

waiting for the sake of an ordinary employee."

 

Then I saw Murthy and I rushed out. JRD called and said, "Young lady, tell

your husband never to make his wife wait again." In 1982 I had to resign

from my job at Telco. I was reluctant to go, but I really did not have a

choice. I was coming down the steps of Bombay House after wrapping up my

final settlement when I saw JRD coming up. He was absorbed in thought. I

wanted to say goodbye to him, so I stopped. He saw me and paused.

 

Gently, he said, "So what are you doing, Mrs Kulkarni?" (That was the way

he always addressed me.) "Sir, I am leaving Telco."

 

"Where are you going?" he asked. "Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a

company called Infosys and I'm shifting to Pune."

 

"Oh! And what will you do when you are successful."

 

"Sir, I don't know whether we will be successful." "Never start with

diffidence," he advised me. "Always start with confidence. When you are

successful you must give back to society. Society gives us so much; we must

reciprocate. I wish you all the best."

 

Then JRD continued walking up the stairs. I stood there for what seemed

like a millennium. That was the last time I saw him alive. Many years later

I met Ratan Tata in the same Bombay House, occupying the chair JRD once

did. I told him of my many sweet memories of working with Telco. Later, he

wrote to me, "It was nice hearing about Jeh from you. The sad part is that

he's not alive to see you today."

 

I consider JRD a great man because, despite being an extremely busy person,

he valued one postcard written by a young girl seeking justice. He must

have received thousands of letters everyday. He could have thrown mine

away, but he didn't do that. He respected the intentions of that unknown

girl, who had neither influence nor money, and gave her an opportunity in

his company. He did not merely give her a job; he changed her life and

mindset forever.

 

Close to 50 per cent of the students in today's engineering colleges are

girls. And there are women on the shop floor in many industry segments. I

see these changes and I think of JRD. If at all time stops and asks me what

I want from life, I would say I wish JRD were alive today to see how the

company we started has grown. He would have enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

 

My love and respect for the House of Tata remains undiminished by the

passage of time. I always looked up to JRD. I saw him as a role model for

his simplicity, his generosity, his kindness and the care he took of his

employees. Those blue eyes always reminded me of the sky; they had the same

vastness and magnificence.

 

-Sudha Murthy

(Sudha Murthy is a widely published writer and chairperson of the Infosys

Foundation involved in a number of social development initiatives. Infosys

chairman Narayana Murthy is her husband.)

 

wishes

“I wish I clear my exams in the first attempt” said Rahul sitting on his couch.

“I will be the happiest person if I clear out, I really hope it happens that way” he added.

Ajay seemed indifferent to whatever Rahul just said.

“Are you even listening to me?? I am so tensed here” called up Rahul throwing the remote control on Ajay’s side.

“Ouch!! Oh yeah yeah I am listening, but for the fifth time since I have arrived at your place one hour ago, can you just tell me something new, I am too bored of the same thing again and again”

“No I don’t wish to talk about anything else, I hope I would be able to complete my portions before exams...these books are sending me horror signals!!”replied back Rahul.

“Ok answer me a few questions, Rahul”

“Would you be happy if your portions would be completed?” asked Ajay.

“Obviously Yes, I would be very happy, it would boost my confidence”

“What if you don’t manage to complete it?” demanded Ajay.

“I would get tensed and maybe I may lose my confidence and grip” said Rahul making tensed reactions.

“Suppose to add to your agony, your exams don’t go really good, how would you react then?”

“Don’t even dare to say that, I may end up leaving the course itself, failure is not my cup of tea, I will spend the rest of the months too much away from my comfort zone of mind!”

“There you go boy, the rest of the few months will be a horror for you for sure, mark my words!” Ajay said as he got up from the table.

“What makes you say that? Do you mean to say I won’t be able to complete my portions? Won’t I clear the exams?” said an alarmed Rahul as got up too.

“I am not saying that, your outlook says that!” Ajay said with a smile.

“What’s wrong with my outlook?” asked Rahul.

“If Nancy doesn’t call you up for a day, does that make you unhappy?” asked Ajay.

“Certainly, coz she’s my best buddy and talking to her is like a habit for me, if I won’t talk to her for a day, that makes me vacuumed somewhere” added Rahul as he got a bit lost in her thoughts.

“Oye, come back here, Nancy is good at her home” said Ajay as he shook Rahul.

“You wish to get an Apple Ipod if you clear your exams, right?”

“Yup, that’s an awesome thing, but I will get that only if I clear in this attempt”

“Have you lost it Rahul?” asked Ajay.

Rahul got puzzled, “What do you mean?”

To which Ajay replied back “How come happiness is so much a product of your wishes being fulfilled?”

“How come your wishes have no relation in your mind with your efforts?”

“And how come your wishes are about so much narrow aspects?”

“You know Rahul, you are like that artist who will be satisfied only when his painting would be sold that too at a good price coz the moment you take the brush in your hand you think about the price”

“Enjoyment to you is so much calculative, if wishes fulfil, good enough, and if they don’t what follows is a series of agonies and sorrows”

“Wake up, still time is not lost!”

“Take control of your mind which makes happiness a product of the hopes and doesn’t enjoy it as a feeling”

“When was the last time you looked at your books with a motive that studying them is going to be damn exciting?”

“When was the last time you wished on a morning that you study hard today, and enjoy the whole portions?”

“I think that day hasn’t seen the sunlight in your life as yet!”

“I am not saying stop wishing, no ways, coz wishes are something which add colours and those just awesome feel good feelers in your life”

“Wishes lead to you dreaming or at times living that thing and dreams are those vibrant energies we emit towards the Universe, but your wishes have tensions as attachments, if your energy emitted itself is tension accompanied, in what manner you expect it to return back to you?”

“Wish for sure, but wish something which adds to your present and not to your uncertain future”

“Don’t make your happiness a product of your future wishes but a part of your present life”

“Tomorrow when you get up, just say these few things:

I will keep myself as much happy and composed as possible, and I hope my day goes full of enjoyment with interesting subjects to study, exciting sums to be solved”

“Give yourself a smile and start your day, and then see how better and satisfied the days will go for you, coz everyday you will complete your wishes and that too happily.”

“Make happiness as a habit and you will start attracting positivity which in turn will boost your confidence and give you the strength to face the challenges”

“Mere dost, use your mind effectively rather than getting carried away by your mind”

Rahul was amazed and floored by whatever he heard so long.

“How come you manage to make life so much simpler?” asked Rahul smiling endlessly at Ajay.

“You just gave me the solutions I needed, though it will go slow but now I think I can do it all”

He just went and hugged Ajay and said,

“You are the only best friend of my life Ajay yaar! You are the best! You care about me so much”

“Arre Rahul, main philosophical banta hoon tab tak thik hai, tu yeh senti mat ho ja, bichari Nancy ka kya hoga??”

They just laughed out loud.

This was just a piece of fiction to make you understand the silly mistakes of life we attempt.

Don’t make your happiness so much dependent on your future or rather your endless wishes.

Let happiness be your asset, always there with you just without any depreciation.

It’s you who can create expressions of life, and Happiness is an expression.

Enjoy every moment of life.

Enjoy it when you have too many things to complete, just laugh them out.

Your smiles and laughter are like swords for against your tensions and agonies.

Wish !!..

But wish or dream something that you enjoy the small moments that give those feel good feelers.

Wish something which provokes you to live lively.

Just as those lines say from the movie “Life is a Metro”..

“In dino..

Dil mera, mujhse hai keh raha...

Tu ...khwab saja...

Tu jile zara!!!”

Gemini>> Proud to be one :P:P

.Well, people say I am a typical ideal daughter....seedhi saadhi types... well guys don't forget I am a Gemini..:P:P

Born devil :DDDDD

What I am to you I am 100% sure I am not to anybody else....

Till date if I find someone who has understood me the best, it has to be Linda Goodman...

The Lady who recognized the sun sign characters so well that at times I feel I should have definitely got a chance to have a chit chat with her over coffee...

Read her work in the field of astrology and you will be bowled on by her accuracy ...

And that's what makes me read her description of a Gemini Woman again and again...it is a feel good read for me :P:P:P

Here's an excerpt of the same...

"""" Gemini Woman """"

Though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. "The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

Have you always secretly thought Brigham Young had a sensational idea when he advocated several wives for one man? Do you inwardly envy the Eastern potentates with their harems? You needn't resign yourself to romantic Walter Mitty daydreams. Just marry a Gemini girl. That way, you'll be guaranteed at least two different wives, and on occasional weekends, as many as three or four.

Naturally, there's a small catch. The difference between a girl born under the sign of the twins and a harem is her apparent lack of interest in earthy passion. It's hard to get her to settle down long enough to take passion or anything else very seriously. Her mind is always traveling, and she keeps up a pretty good running commentary simultaneously. But look a little deeper. Somewhere, hidden among the several women who make up one Gemini female, is a romantic one-one who is capable of intense passion, if you can manage to make the mental, spiritual and physical blending complete. How to develop her and still enjoy all the other women bottled up inside the Geminian personality may create a problem. I can tell you that one Gemini girl equals several women. But I'm afraid it's up to you to delve into the advanced algebra of sorting them out. Each individual case is different.

Her age will be an important clue to what you can expect, because until she matures, romance is only a game to her. She can be fickle and unpredictable to an incredible degree. First she'll be ecstatically carried away by your smile and your voice, even the way you walk. Then she'll reverse her ecstasy and criticize everything from your socks to your haircut, and she usually does it with such clever, sharp sarcasm, you may need iodine for your wounds. Now, don't let this put you out of the market for a Gemini woman. Remember you're getting at least two for one, and that's indisputably a bargain.

Mercury females aren't as heartless as they seem to be 'at times. Their active imaginations create many fantasies. Romance is the easiest way they can express them, and Geminis have at least twice as much to express as other women. A Gemini man can be a producer, a singer, a sailor, a lawyer, an actor, a salesman and the chairman of a few boards of directors all at once-and express himself ad infinitum. But a woman can't very well swing all that, or she would be considered a

little freakish. Not that Mercury girls don't pursue careers. They do. Almost every last one of them. But under the existing conditions of society, a career still doesn't offer her as many opportunities as romance to try out her myriad theories and practice her emotional gymnastics.

The Gemini girl needs your pity, not your anger. It's painfully difficult for her to really commit herself to one person at a time. While she's being impressed with a man's mental abilities and his intelligent wit, another side of her is noticing his antipathy toward the arts or his lack of response to music and poetry. When she finds someone who's appropriately creative, who's at home at the ballet or in the literary world, the duality pops up again. Right in the middle of a stroll through the museum, her other self will begin to wonder if he's practical enough to make a living or if he has enough common sense to know where he's going. I trust you're beginning to have a more sympathetic understanding of the conflicts peculiar to those born in June.

Give her credit. Shell usually manage to keep her bewilderment at her own complex character to herself, and not burden you with it. She's a lively and gay companion. Most of the time (when the mood is on the up-swing), she'll sparkle with a vivacious personality, amuse you with her clever, witty remarks, and converse intelligently about almost any subject under the sun. She enjoys all the sentimental gestures of romance and has no trouble making conquests. No woman you've ever met will delight you with more imaginative ways of loving you and such appealing charm. She can flutter her lashes with delicate femininity, but she's not at all helpless when it comes to earning her own living. A Gemini woman can play the giddy party girl to perfection, flattering a helpless, trapped male right out of his mind and his bank book. But she can smoothly change into a demure and adoring housewife, from which she can quickly switch into a serious intellectual who studies the great philosophers and talks about politics or poetry brilliantly, then suddenly turn into a bundle of raw emotion, full of nerves, tears and fears. She's certainly not stuffy or monotonous.

If you think this is an exaggeration, remember the late Marilyn Monroe. Every man she ever knew, from Carl Sandburg to her hairdresser, saw her as a totally different person than the other men who thought they knew her, too. Place a photograph of her as the seductive love goddess next to a picture of her wearing horn-rimmed glasses, a babushka and no make up, seriously intent on a lecture about Russian authors. Then add a third and fourth shot of her in a gingham apron, learning to bake a cheese soume for a husband whose athletic talents and warm, human qualities she worshiped-and walking sedately beside another husband whose intellectual abilities and literary talent she deeply respected and admired. Add two more photos. One showing her with a tear-stained face, full of longing, after losing her third baby-another shot of her in a bikini, gaily laughing with a handsome French movie star on the Riviera. These are not posed pictures. They were snapped when she wasn't even looking, let alone seeking publicity. It's a perfect example of the eye of the camera exposing all the women contained in one Gemini female, who successfully kept her multiple nature hidden behind the image she chose to project

the most frequently.

Your Mercury-ruled girl longs to be "really, truly in love," but it keeps eluding her. She yearns for motherhood, but often that eludes her, too. She finds a different perfection in each man she meets, as she restlessly searches for the one man who has all the qualities she needs for happiness.

You'll find her a great pal. The Mercury girl will go along with you on anything from scuba diving to speed racing-bicycling or badminton. She'll show an interest in all the outdoor sports, and still manage to look as soft and feminine as a powder puff, with a mind as fast as a whip. The Geminian sharp mentality will show clearly when her curiosity is excited by any new subject. Her Mercurial mind will let her see all the intricacies of your creative ideas, and she'll probably throw in a few promotional schemes of her own. As long as you don't demand consistency from her, she'll be completely fascinating.

It's only fair to warn you that this girl can sincerely believe she's in love, and find other men attractive at the same time. Unless she's near you all the time, she can forget you quicker than a woman born under any other Sun sign. It's her nature to accept change, even seek it. Until she leams to control her devoted courtship of con-stant activity, neglecting to cultivate patience and stability, the Gemini female can make quite a mess of her life- and yours. Fortunately for the men in love with them, most Geminian women settle down into a deeper understanding of their own natures before it's too late.

Once you've proposed to her and she's accepted, you can pity all those men who are doomed to a life of monogamy with just one woman. You'll have several wives when you marry your Gemini.

Wife Number One will be able to adjust to anything you require of her. If you require faithfulness, she can manage that, too, providing you're interesting enough to have won her real love. I refer to that blending of mental, spiritual and physical compatibility, with the physical part added last, like the paprika, after the other three are well mixed. This wife will never sulk if you take a new job out of town. With her ingenuity, taste and sense of color, she can make a new home look lovely with a light touch of her dainty, clever hand. Besides, she'll love the adventure, and there will be no nagging reproaches that you're gambling with future security. The excitement of new horizons interests her more. She may have a surprisingly good head for business and she'll back all your original ideas. You can count on her to go to work if you need extra income, and she'll be pretty practical about how to spend it. Although she may give an outward impression of flightiness, she's not as nighty as she appears. She's a thinker, and a very clever one, underneath all the bright small talk.

Wife Number Two will be moody. You might just as well expect it. She'll have her satirical moments when she can be cynical and flippant, by turns. At the same time, she'll challenge you mentally. But a man needs to be stimulated, doesn't he? Go

ahead, top her in an intellectual argument. (It's what she secretly wants anyway.) This wife won't be easily shocked by life or have any preconceived prejudices. She may decide to march in a protest parade or join a sit-in and forget to come home until midnight. What if you do have to join the fellows while she's out making a speech or going to night school to pick up a few extra credits? At least she probably won't hound you with • suspicious questions about who you were with, where you were, and what you were doing. Don't question her, either. You're on the honor system. So is she. This one is a highly independent individualist.

Wife Number Three will be bored and depressed with housekeeping routines. The beds will be unmade and the dishes will stand in the sink while she daydreams, reads or writes the outline for a play. She may serve you a can of beans for 'dinner without even bothering to open the can. But you can have the most soul-satisfying conversations with her into the wee, small hours. She'll sympathize with your frustrations at the way life has treated you. She'll satisfy both your emotional and your intellectual cravings, be curious about your opinion of Buddhism and excited about your attempts to write a song. In short, she's pretty good company. She'll be very affectionate, too, since you haven't bugged her about dusting and baking and all that nonsense. This wife may make a mess of the checkbook now and then. But if you suggest a sudden camping trip or a few days in Las Vegas, she'll enthusiastically pack her suitcase without a bunch of silly objections, like how it's going to affect the budget or who will feed the Siamese cat and what if the bathtub leaks while you're gone.

Wife Number Four will be a gay and laughing mother. She won't let the children restrict her, because she'll probably have too many projects going constantly to smother them with over-protectiveness. They'll imitate her independence and benefit by it. If anyone asks her how much time she spends with them, she'll probably answer, "In our family, it's not a matter of how much time. It's a matter of how much love." And she'll be right. The children may not always obey her, because she's inclined to be emphatic one day, then melt and give in the next, but the youngsters will love their long talks with her. Her imagination will match theirs, and they'll amuse each other. She'll probably be a permissive mother, but she'll worry about scholastic averages, and she'll probably insist on good grades. They won't get by without doing their homework if she can help it, although they may get by without hanging up their clothes.

Wife Number Five will be a beautiful hostess, an expert at the whole candlelight, flowers and sterling silver routine. You can bring anyone, from your boss to the Governor home to dinner, and she'll be so gracious and charming, they'll never want to leave. Shell organize her life efficiently and effortlessly, dress like a fashion model and love the theater. You can take her to art galleries and concerts- she'll be right at home in any kind of society. Everyone will stare at you enviously and wonder who the glamorous woman is who hangs on your arm so sweetly. She'll be romantic and ultra-feminine, maybe even write you a poem for your birthday. You'll want to buy her velvet dressing gowns and expensive perfumes, because her gracious style will make you feel like a country squire. If you mention a trip to

Europe, her eyes will sparkle. She's a sophisticate.

Well, there you are. I may have missed a few girls in your Gemini harem. Every husband in town will be green with envy when they see you with a different woman every day. If they ask you how you get away with it, play it cool. Polygamy is against the law, you know.

Your Gemini woman will never take a train when she can fly. She'll never be silent when she can speak. She'll never turn away when she can help. And she'll never walk when she can run. Her mind is full of so many thoughts and her heart is full of so many hopes, she may seem to need a computer to sort it all out. Or does she just need someone who can run beside her and toss dreams with her-from here to tomorrow? If you're that man, she doesn't dare look over her shoulder to see if you're near. Some deep, unexplained fear within her keeps her from ever looking back. When you finally match her speed, get her to slow down to your pace. You can do it, if you hold her hand tightly and never let it go. Though Mercurial north winds drive her on, secretly she may long to rest awhile more than you know. Do hurry and try to reach her. She needs you.

Even read this one today...

""" Gemini Employee """ >>> Gawd it's ditto to what I am..:P:P

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things;

Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-•

Of cabbages-and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot-

And whether pigs have wings."

Yet, what can one poor voice avail Against three tongues together?

Do you have some employees around your office who talk fast, move fast and think fast? Do they look young and act young, forget about their ages? Are they unpredictable, restless, original and impatient? What a smart man you are! You've gone and hired yourself some Geminis.

It's easy to understand why. With all that charm and guile, not to mention flashing intellect and creative imagination, you probably couldn't help yourself. Now that you've had a chance to watch these Mercury people in action, you've learned that they can take an abstract idea and reduce it to a formula better than anyone else in the office. Your Aquarian employee can think in wildly abstract terms, your Aries employee can toss out some red-hot ideas, smothered in enthusiasm, and the Virgos can organize the details meticulously. But Gemini can do all three.

Before you fire those other people, however, remember that the Gemini doesn't have the intense drive of the Aries, nor the willingness to work overtime. He also lacks the fixed and steady purpose of the Aquarian and he'll never understand the endless, devoted dedication of the Virgo. We won't cover the other Sun signs. You get the general idea. Your Gemini employee is not a one-man show, all by himself, even if he is a dual personality. He'll come closer to it than anyone else, but you'll need the other workers just the same.

Geminis share with Virgo, Aries, Leo and Scorpio a built-in ability to deal with emergencies. They can meet a crisis swiftly. The typical Gemini will make instant decisions and go into action while most of the people around him are still polishing their skis. He's easily bored with routine, happiest when he's free, so don't try to chain him down to the work bench. He'd rather do a stretch of time in Sing Sing than work for a clock-watcher. At least in prison he could turn his curious mind to studying the behavior of the inmates. I'd sincerely like to point out here that the Gemini behind bars is a lonely man who couldn't find the right niche for his multiple talents in an over-organized, conformist society. Many a Gemini forger or petty thief is basically as honest as the judge who sentenced him, and twice as idealistic. When Gemini is made to feel guilty about his vivid imagination and restless energy in childhood, then constantly criticized by the business world for being too progressive and refusing to fit into stale patterns, his high sense of moral and mental ethics becomes distorted, and he strikes out on the only original path he feels is left to him.

Most Geminis are so glibly persuasive they can talk people into buying things they couldn't possibly even use. It's never a mistake to utilize their talents in sales or pro-motional activities. When the Gemini's silver tongue gets through extolling the virtues of your firm, you won't even recognize it yourself, even if you're a blind

egotist about your own company. Send your Gemini man out to sell the public, or to wheedle your customers and clients in restaurants and on golf courses. Or send him on the road to gather up an avalanche of good will and orders for business. If you must keep him in the office, be careful where you place him. He doesn't resent supervision as fiercely as Leo or Aries, but he will become nervous and inadequate if he's confined and unable to express himself. When this happens, your Gemini employee will break his shackles and breeze off to more freedom without an instant's regret. Now don't run in and take a hasty peek at his desk to see if he's still there. He won't fly away or disappear into thin air until he's had a chance to tell you his reasons and take his chances of winning you over to his point of view. Unless you hear differently, directly from him, he's probably as happy as a winged messenger from the gods could be here m earth, doing whatever it is you have him applying his agile mind to. If there's an office pool of any kind, you may see your Leos, Aries and Sagittarius people doing lots of showy betting, but you can bet your old Brooklyn Dodgers button hat it was probably masterminded by one of those streaks )f lightning you employ who was born in June. The Gemini von't throw extravagant sums of money into a complicated mbble scheme as readily as Leo, the lion. He's more likely :o risk his security in a situation where there's a challenge o his wits, where there's fast action and a quick return. His conversation will be full of phrases like "Let's give it i spin," "It's worth a flyer," and "I'll try anything once." And he will, too. Try anything once, that is. Twice is out.

He's bored by then.

Your Gemini employee may be conspicuous by his absence or absent-mindedness (same thing), during baseball season or golfing play-offs. Most Mercury people enjoy these sports, and many of them have participated, thanks to the uncanny Geminian dexterity. There's little he can't do with the synchronization of his intelligence and his clever hands, and that can include calculating precisely how to swat a white ball over the fence or making a hole-in-one on the green. Sports often attract him as a way to work off all that nervous energy. In the long run, however, the Gemini prefers to exercise his wits and give his mind a workout, so he can bat plenty of home runs for your firm. Still, he should be encouraged to engage in physical activity. It will wear him out so he can sleep. All Geminis are prone to insomnia. Many Gemini employees who work in offices where they're required to be on the job early in the morning can be recognized by the circles under their eyes.

Your Geminis will keep the office humming with busy activity, lots of jokes and gay chatter. But they'll get things done. The Mercury secretary may be the fastest typist in the crowd, and quick to catch your dictation. Normally, if she's a typical Gemini, she'll be able to form an intelligent, clearly-stated letter with just a hint from you about the subject matter. In spite of her secretarial talents, you might be better off to put her out in front where she can charm the people who walk in the door and run the switchboard for you. (Doing two things at once and juggling them expertly is no problem for a Mercury girl.) You'll have fewer disgruntled people calling you. Not only will she sweet talk strangers cleverly, she's not apt to scramble the cords and cut you off in the middle of a call to Kalamazoo to connect you with

Katanga.

I'd better warn you not to discuss raises, bonuses, commissions and such with a Gemini, if you can possibly help it. Use a stem Capricorn or a dogmatic Taurus or a no-nonsense Virgo as your middle man. If you don't, the Gemini may talk you into giving him a higher position with the firm than you have available without firing your wife's brother and twice as much money as you make yourself. He'll make it all seem perfectly logical. It's much safer to avoid financial huddles with a persuasive Gemini. If you're game, go ahead and try it. But you may come out of the huddle having promised him a weekly expense account that would support a couple of Virgos and Cancerians for a year.

You're likely to trip over a few broken hearts in the office hallways when you have Mercury employees. A flirtation or two a month and a rather fickle way of changing his mind is the average behavior before maturity. There's a youthful air of irresponsibility about many a Gemini (unless the natal chart indicates a more stable nature). He has a mind at least a million years old, and the emotions of a teenager. He'll look like one, too.

The truth is that the Gemini, like Peter Pan, hates to grow up. And like Peter, he needs a Wendy as smart as he is to clean house for him every spring, letting him come and go as he pleases. If you're the kind of boss to play office Cupid, don't introduce him to any other kind of girl, or you may have to loan him money to pay his alimony shortly afterwards.

Do you want to make your office really swing? Put your Aries employee and your Gemini employee together in a room to discuss a new project. Then stuff some cotton in your ears to protect them from a sound like one hundred adding machines and two hundred ticker tapes all going at once. Stand close by with a big, strong net to catch all the pink balloons that will be flying through the air. Gather them up, take them in to your office, and study them carefully before you stick a pin in them. One of them is likely to contain a million dollar idea.

He thought he saw an Albatross

That fluttered round the lamp:

He looked again, and found it was

A penny-postage-stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said, "The nights are very damp."

Acha tha na...???

Well Mai hun hi achi :P:P

Bring it on!!

Bring it on baby...!!!

That's my thinkstock tagline these days...

Difficulties?? Oh I have all of it...

Expectations?? People simply don't stop expecting around...

Tensions?? They are never ending...

Stress?? I carry it on my the ends of my smile..:P:P:P

Time?? Thrilled to run as ever ...

Targets?? Each one adds one...

In short the one up above has made me sit on fire...
Something he loves to, and something I love too...

So!!

BRING IT ON !!

I WILL TAKE IT ALL AND STILL MAKE YOU REALIZE AM MORE CAPABLE :p:p:p

MY CAPACITY AND WILL POWER ARE CERTAIN THINGS I NEVER ESTIMATE COZ C'MON IF IT'S ME, IT HAS TO BE A STEP AHEAD :):)

loved it....

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Me and My way is the only motto

The title sounded self centered types right???

Well, don't worry most of us fall in that category....

Yeh kaam ise is way mei karna chahiye tha...
Why didn't he/she do it this way??
Puch lete, time hi waste karna ata hai....


These are a few soft one liners I hear around...By soft I meant this was just a sample....
I mean people go at heights of tone change....

Come on...!!!

Don't create your clones on your own...That doesn't actually leave any room for self thought process...

I mean simple example happened with one of my friend...

He started talking about a girl, "Idiot hai puri....Exams mei bhi fb pe tp karti hai...!!!"
"Isse Acha padhai mei time invest kare..."

I just gave a smile ...

but the thought in my mind was, "Dude, Mind your own business!!!"

Seriously, no matter what we love to comment on what others do, how do they do, how should they do, and at the end he/she should do in a way I feel is appropriate....


Who are you re???

Have you ever seen God doing that...does he come down and comment on your doings that you just say it all around....

It's all a personal choice at the end...

I f you say that I don't wana be God like, no problem...
At times just think how he acts with you...

At times I feel he is my best company....

The best acceptor and change-maker....

I wish I was him....never mind...he shouldn't be cloned!!!..:P:P

Lessons on the way

I was in shock for a while !!
At times it happens that you expect normal human tendency out of those in front of you, but they leave you in super surprise by behaving in a manner opposite or rather worth a thought...
This thing happened in my office..
Actually I am too bold when I speak to someone, I mean I don't have that typical fear or shyness...
Whatever maybe, I say it one face and even when it comes to dealing with clients toh frankly thoda zyada hi bold ho jata hai...
And my office folks converse in a manner that we are too down to the client...
on the other side, I speak as if am just a bit low then the service reciever :P
This makes a situation come where my Boss gets to hear from the clients that I am too friendly and straight to talk...
Kuch din pehle aesa hi ek call Boss ko aya...
And at that time I was in his Cabin only...
The client started claiming that ask her(here me) to not ask straight forward...
Actually the one who called was a relative of the client I am handling...
Yeh sunke toh I was like::
a. Was I so straight?? ab itna toh politely baat kiya yaar!!!
b. aaj toh pakka lag gai....Sir pakka sunayenge...
I was just composing myself that calm down, jo bole sunke lena, make it a point that next time you talk to the client like you are her servant..:P
Was waiting ki Sir phone rakhe toh mai sunke lun...
Finally Sir hung up the phone and I looked at him in nervousness...
He smiled and just went on with the talk on the issue I was previously discussing with him...
I was like, "Hang on Sir, you don't wish to shunt me???"
"I mean the call you got was against me!"
He laughed out and said' "Why should I believe him??"
"He was just a relative of the client you are handling, your client hasn't called up and said that to me, so why should I react till the time I don't get the perfect conversation from your client"
I was like .....
This was unexpected
I mean had I been in his place I would have surely shunted my intern, But Sirji ne toh bhagwaan jaisi harkat kar li :P:P:P
I learnt a wise lesson from him that day...
That never believe someone till the time the exact person comes to you and conveys his/her point.
I find it tough, but I guess life will be much simple then!!
And yeah, a day later when Sir called up my client she said that she's quite cool and well with the way I converse with her...
I was like, aahh... Thank God!!!

Problem is in others and not us !

He just pounced in saying that I broke down again yesterday..

ask him reason and he narrates how one of his friend on which he was trying just went ahead with someone else..

all through the chat he said that I just wana get rid of my life...

that I am not that good and that's why this happens..

Hang on !!

Were you a problem??

or others have a problem that they can't decide what they want in life??

How can we judge yourself only by how others react to us..

If somebody is not talking to me for a while that doesn't mean that I am the problem..

So if somebody just preferred somebody else over you its his/her personal choice..

Not that you lacked anything..

Maybe she wanted the other guy..

I rather feel instead of making judgements over how others react one should directly clarify his take on the situation and ask the other person's opinion...

And besides we should become less needy of people.....

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no fat pizzas

If I was God series #1

I would actually make bread the most fat free food ..:-P

I mean seriously, eat cakes, pizzas, burgers and it becomes visible on me...

fir gym pe zyaada bhaagna padta hai..

agar fat free hoga toh naa rahenge calories aur na hi mai healthy houngi..

I mean I have to keep a strict check on hw mny pizzas I eat every six monthly..

why do such taste quenchers come with a price on health..

I would actually remove such bacterias from it :-P;-):-P;-)

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what a start !!!

I open my eyes and the first person I see is ....

guess who???

geeta !!!

dont get surprised its not the Bhaagwad Geeta wali Geeta..

Geeta is our maid..

actually shes our cleanliness supervisor to be more precise..

and since last two months she was at her Gaanv...(village u c)

and mind u me and Muma would miss her everyday ..

all bcoz last months were so hectic at home that Geeta was the 'Most wanted' one..

we were just awaiting her since last week..

the moment she saw I woke up, she said, " deedee kaise ho?"

I was like ab toh finally I can be relieved..

nowadays maids are so much an imp part of our life...

Geeta love u that u r bck :-P

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Wave

Even death is nothing to the spiritually strong. I once dreamed I was dying. Nevertheless I was saying to Him: " Lord it is all right; whatever is Thy will."

Then he touched me and I realized the truth: "How can I die? The wave cannot die; it sinks back into the ocean and comes forth again. The wave never dies; and I can never die"

- Man's Eternal Quest

(Yogada)

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haye Alaa !!

guess what??

a celebrity is on our client list..

well she just got her Return filed frm my firm..

thode din pehle when Manisha came up and said me that shes gona do  a Return done of This lady toh I was like, "Is she that celebrity, the one who does publicity stunts?"

she was surprised..

asked, "aese naam ki koi celebrity bhi hai?"

I was like 'gai behes paani mei'

office mei kisi ko b uske naam ka koi ata pata nai tha..

then achanak se today when Sirji was sitting besides me toh he got her call..

I was surprised as to with whom Sir as talking abt modelling income..

finally jab call khatam hua toh Sir said she was quite down to earth typo person..

I asked, "who?"

and Sirji told abt her..

getting cheesy I said ti Sir, "ek baar toh Madam ko hamare office mei ana chahiye" :-P:-P:-P:-P

well, dont worry its not Rakhi Sawant :-P:-P

but I cant reveal more now..

mere andar k CA k gun mujhe cheekh cheekh kar keh rahe hain, "bhul gai IPCC mei kya padha tha??..

Confidentiality is d foremost duty of  A CA..

abtak puri CA nai bani na..

toh itna sab bol diya ;-):-P

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He started running with a whole lot of enthu...>>Anology

I was driving my way back to home...

normally if I don't have my headphones I get super bored on the way back as I am tired...

So just while taking my wandering eyes around, a kid on the turn looked at me smiling..

I was surprised as I did not know him...

As soon as I took that turn he started running fast along with my gaddi...

This was too nostalgic for me, scenes I observed in school days while we went through our rickshaw and the kids in front would compete with bikers or at times try to climb the trucks...

we as kids would actually roar out to support them...

and this time he was competing with me...

taking care of all the doordrishti precautions I paid attention that he has a clear way ahead to run..
And I increased my speed...
He ran faster..

Looking at me, laughing....and shouting "Bhaagoo!!"

I was having my time...

Mind you he reached ahead of me...
coz I had to control the opposite traffic too...

I feel same does the one sitting up above...

He uses his doordrishti, ensures that we are safe, and then tests our capacity and 'never say die' attitude and makes us run...

depends on us as to how we react to him, how well we stare at him prepared beforehand that come on give a challenge..
and yeah, he enjoys it more when we laugh our way across...

Wow.. I am actually good at forming anologies...

Such super raapchik is life!!!

Disclaimer

This is for those who are gona read my previous blogs....

wherever I have mentioned the "he" as the opposite person, it doesn't mean all are one and same..:P:P:P:P

Arre, I mean can't I have many he's around???

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Look those posts are just random that make me smile endlessly...


So no judging, no teasing!!!!...:P:P:P:P

the morning worship..

There is devotion all around when I drive my way to office..

shopkeepers have these markable chores..

sprinkling water in front and on the counter to let positivity in..

doing pooja of d whole shop..

hmm..

I just cnt stop smiling at how devotion creates so much of faith..

the faith that my morning will start well with his blessings..

the faith that He will make me earn better through the day..

His faith, His disciples, His world !!

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