Bon Voyage to me

Haven't written here in a loong time... one of the reason is I have been too busy preparing to change all that is now... Its less than two days to go now and I am jus starting to feel a little weird.. I wonder how it ll be to start everything all over from scratch.. But it sure is exciting and i embark on this journey with hope of having a lot of fun..so wish me all the best and to my indian friends i say " I dont like goodbyes so v ll just say until we meet next :-) " my next post will be from US of A...

ManOwar

The warriors of old believed that to battle was their destiny and the ultimate honor was to die in a battle for it showed courage and valor. .. It fills me with inspiration coz all you need is the courage to give it your best !! for then there is pride and glory even in failing !!

I Surrender My Soul Odin Hear My Call
One Day I'll Sit Beside Your Throne In Valhalla's Great Hall
Like So Many Before Me I'll Die With Honor And Pride
The Right Of A Warrior Forever To Fight By Your Side
Send A Sign Raise The Sail Wave A Last Goodbye
Destiny Is Calling Immortality Be Mine

PS: How many stories of valor include wars and victory of good over evil..but someone said "who s actually evil?? coz its normally the victor who tells the story" :-)

Chaos

Unemployment is fun!! I have been travelling a lot in the past few days..doin my tirthayatre before flying across the seven seas :-) .. had been to tirupathi with a friend.. it was real good fun climbing the hill.. the weather was really awesome and there was a slight drizzle keeping us cool all the way.. but inside the temple it was chaos personified!! I wonder if the ppl there had ever heard of the queue system.. it was like a race wer everyone wanted to finish before the person ahead of them!! I wonder if I missed a sign saying "blessings are limited offer only, HURRY!! "

Final Day

Its time to get nostalgic!!! Its been raining since yesterday night and the weather is so dull. After two years in infy,today is the time to say goodbye. Its kinda sad because for the last couple of days I am meeting colleagues who have become friends and saying goodbye not knowing if our paths will cross ever again in this wide world.

I must say Infy does not let you go easily, i guess one of the methods to retain an employee is to make the exit formalities a big pain!! Some of it is fun, like my exit interview. The interview starts like this, I walk in and hand the guy a print out, and he says Congrats!! and I say thank you, is it because I am leaving infy.. he doesn't see the humour and just says NO, for getting a seat in a good college :) .. I told him what I thought of the company, it was mostly positive except for the dreaded night shifts!! He finally said things will change for the better and being an optimist I believe him.

OK, now its time to take my camera, get a couple of pictures.. meet some more friends and bid farewell to a place where i've spent more than half of my past couple of years... It was a ride with its ups and downs..but i guess looking back now i see more ups than downs :) .....

"Change is difficult but often essential to survival" Exactly my thoughts!!!

Passion

I visited my uncle's farm house recently.. He is an agricultarist who has won many state and national awards for his innovative techniques and research in the field of agriculture....It was like going to a theme park!!! When you think of an estate you normally don t think about science and maths...but here everything was different... For starters he believes in making use of everything available in nature.. all the dead wood becomes manure for the newcrops and all animal and human waste becomes gobar gas which powers his estate!! There were mobile ladders which were designed using physics and maths..I saw it all from soil testing ground to an olympic standard skeet shooting range inside his estate !!! but what impressed me the most was his passion for agriculture.. after 50 years of agriculture he is still soo enthusiastic about it and is constantly innovating and using science to automate agricultural processes!!! There s so much of talk in IT these days about employee burn out and stress but i feel if you are passionate about what you are doing then everything else becomes immaterial.. My uncle has spent 12 hours everyday in his farm for the last 50 years and even now and i am sure he would rather do this than anything else in the world....

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Wedding!

The weekend saw me attending my cousin's wedding..sporting a formal attire in this heat is not a very comfortable thing but such is the constraints a society imposes on you.. it was an inter caste marriage and the good thing about it was the difference in the rituals performed. I have been to many weddings but never have i seen rituals where the groom has to run from the mantap and some body catches him and brings him back only for the bride to run and somebody again has to catch her and bring her back!!! I cudn t help but wonder what wud happen if one of them was a very good runner :p ... to make matters more interesting there was even a mini skit which had to be performed by the groom... everyone had fun but the poor groom was a li'l embarrassed... it was entertaining alright!! and as usual got to meet sooo many ppl,some after a very long time. some one at the wedding was saying, "given everyone's busy schedules these days, weddings and funerals are the only ocassions where all us relatives get together" blunt as it is I couldn't help but agree.

Somethin i wrote :)

In the middle of the jungle so dense
there roams a beast so immense
The night looks so still
the beast looks for a kill!!

Fiery are its eyes burning bright
scanning for food in the night
Happily ignorant are its prey
knowing not, DEATH is on its way!!

Ever so cunningly he stalks
getting closer to a stag as he walks
A final lunge, the tiger roars with all its might
the ground shakes in the jungle of the night!!

going for the neck, he s swift as light
the act is done without a fight
Sorry for the soul which just died
necessary it was for another to be satisfied!!

Who said life's fair..