My Work Place

The last one year has probably been the best of times for me. Lots of memorable moments which I will cherish for the rest of my life.. Well.. about me.. I am a 22 year old, simple female(atleast not too complicated, thats how my profile in orkut will look to you.) I have been working in a software company ever since I got out of college and I should say that life has been a bliss.. (so far:-)).. Though there is nothing so interesting about the kind of work in a software industry(atleast I dont find any), I have found some great people to work with, good money, some kind of an independance and beyond all this, the most important stuff--- Three great friends..

I used to have(and still have), two great friends from college, and when I got out of college, I thought that good times have come to an end, atleast as far as friendship is concerned. Cus, I was under an impression that at a work place you are supposed to behave quite professionally and you ought to keep a distance with your colleagues, cus in a work environment everybody is selfish and is bothered only about his or her ambitions, interests and recognition. But for me, things have been quite different.. So many good things have come my way--good name, recognition and on the lighter side, fun and money..

I have three great pals at my work place and I am sure they will stay with me through thick and thin.. Either it be break fast, lunch or tea(Thats the only free time you have in a software company unless you are on bench), we have it together and spend most of our time bitching about dumb collegues, irritating PMs or horrible work. When you have nice people around you, everything looks good. In case you have had a bad day at work and dont even wanna look back at how it was, and your friend calls and asks you'Enna machi, semma rodaa?".. and after you tell him or her how bad your day was, and they say"dont worry machi, freeya vidu", you seriously feel a lot better. Happiness in life is all about having such machis around and putting some mokkais(A mokkai technically speaking, means nothing more than a worst PJ!) and if you are lucky enough to have a few machis around you like me, life as a sofware engineer cant be that boring actually!

New Generation Business!

In the month of romance, with just a few more hours left for the V-Day, shopping malls across the world have been flooded with impressive cards and beautiful gifts. A V-Day is a very beautiful concept. A day which is dedicated for love, without which neither you nor I exist. Love is Life, Love is everything, Love is what makes life meaningful. But too bad that our lives have become so fast paced today that we actually need a day to remind us of the importance of love, which after water should be the elixir of life. Since it is for a good cause, the commercialisation of V-Day is also acceptable to a great extent. Cus, though love blossoms in the heart and bla bla, at times you have to be materialistic. Nothing wrong about it rite... As long as you are making somebody happy..
Whats gaining even more popularity these days , is the concept of anti valentine cards. I got a forwarded email from a friend last week and thats when i got to see an anti-valentine card. The card read " Loving you, has screwed up my life.." and there was another one which read "Roses are red,Bullets are lead,Take me back now or get shot in the head". It was very funny to see a forward like that..But jokes apart, I wonder where the world is heading to.. Somebody out there has real outaa box thinking. But should we commercialise such a concept? Looks like people have started to find a business opportunity in every simple thing that we value and respect. But have we become so heartless that we have started commercialising and strategising our thoughts that might hurt somebody somewhere, who probably does not deserve this kinda treatment?.. At this rate, two generations from now, we would be celebrating an anti valentines day.. Why are we so money minded? The world has become a mad man's place, it has gone crazy.. No place for feelings or emotions, jus money, more money, more and more money...

Wedding Circus!

Yahoooo! My cousin's wedding is coming up next month and am planning for a big vacation.. By big I mean 5 days, thats 24*5 =120 hours of pure fun.. away from dumb work, stupid meetings and the crap called coding! I jus cant wait.. I am not sure if I will be this happy and look forward to my own wedding.. You can see how badly I need a break.. again nothing like, am the busiest person in my office or all that I do in the week days is work, work and work.. But still, to get out of the routine schedules.. thts seriously something!

The best part is that my cousin's is gonna be a love marriage and she is getting married after quite a bit of struggle and clashes with the household. Well.. I come from a very orthodox and conventional background, where you know, love marriages are considered as some sort of a crime.. I remember the day when my sis declared that she had found the guy of her life.. All the family members were called to discuss and there was such a lot of confusion, tears and screams in the household that any stranger passing by would have thought that somebody died and we were mourning. Its only during such ocassions that I sometimes wonder if my relatives and even parents for that matter are really educated or not..
What is the point if you are cannot even choose the guy you wanna live your life with.. I can accept that your parents are against the whole stuff, if you are studying in eighth standard and you wanna run away with a lorry driver. But when u are independant and old enough to understand what is right and wrong, your parents protesting is meaningless.. I have heard people say that, in case an arranged marriage flops, you can atleast go back to ur parents.. But such a thing is not possible with love marriages.. But if you cannot save ur marriage and are not ready for any kinda adjustments and wanna live a life for yourself, why marry in the first place?.. If a marriage flops, only the individuals should be held responsible.. Not the category which the marriage belongs to.. And even if a love marriage fails, you can atleast be happy that after all it was your decision.. But do our educated parents accept all this.. no... India is independant.. Are we?

An Impressive Book

Reading has always been one of my greatest passions. But the life as a software engineer is so monotonous that you hardly find time to do something interesting. Not that I am busy to the core or something like that. But this routine kind of a life style has created some kind of an emptiness in me that nothing seems to be interesting any more.. I am not a bookish kind of person, but still had taken it up as a hobby ever since I was 6. I still remember those days when I used to compete with friends on who has read the maximum number of secret sevens, Famous fives and Nancy Drews. Life has changed so much now. I have to struggle to concentrate and read for more than an hour these days. I was just cribbing about my friend on how out of track I was on books these days, that she gave me this book by Mitch Alboms. I wouldnt say that it was the most amazing of all books that I have ever read.. But then this was one book, which i found easy to concentrate and the one I got to read after a long time. So sofware guys do check out this book. Its called The Five people you meet in heaven.

All of us would have visualised as to how life after death would be, at some point or the other.. We imagine heaven as a lush green land.. some kind of a paradise or a place where we get together with those people we have known and those who departed from us, somewhere along the long journey of life. But the author of this book has a different idea. According to him, life after death is the time, when we get the answers to those questions that went unanswered during our course of time on earth. He also says that the biggest gift that life can ever give us is the answer key to the question paper called life.. An answer key, that makes all of us believe that we were here for a purpose and like shakespeare puts it.. All the world is a stage and we are all actors.. The central character of the book, meets five people in heaven, some of them strangers, and his loved ones, who make him understand why he lived and teach him a few lessons that he couldnt take up inspite of living 83 years on earth.

Not that this book taught me a few things I never knew about.. But reminded me about a few things that I had stopped giving attention to, in the process of taking part in the running race called life.. There might be a few shattered dreams, broken hopes and what not.. But all of these put together make our life more meaningful. None of us know for sure as to how life after death is gonna be like.. and I dont actually care how it is going to be like.. But we can actually live a life of purpose, purposeful to us and to somebody else. Purposeful to us by striving hard for what we want to achieve.. Anything Major or minor.. Atleast a small initiative that makes us feel that we have accomplished something.. What makes our life ever more purposeful is sharing what we have learnt, by imparting hope and keeping up someone's trust or atleast by being the reason for somebody to smile....

Life is Beautiful..

"All love poems do not rhyme.. and all relationships do not have a solid beginning and a great end"..This is one of my most favorite thoughts. Obviously, this was not written by me.. I dont actually remember where I got these phrases from.. But I should say that it has always remained very close to my heart.. Somewhere down the long and rocky lane called life, I have made a few great friends and met a few special people. On the darker side, I have also lost a few good friends, to my own in built enemies like ego, arguements and misunderstandings. Rejection or being cheated by a loved one can be very painful.. Its very difficult to talk about or even think of the positive side of a broken relationship. None of us are that optimistic.. But when I started analysing the pros and cons, of the same, I found that everything made a lot of sense.. I even came to a conclusion that sad stories teach you bigger lessons about life, than sweet and happy ending love stories.. cus if things were to click the very first time, life wouldnt be all that interesting after all.. People come, people go.. We like it or not.. But these ppl, come for a reason.. Few of them teach u hard truths and some make u realise that life is beautiful after all...
The lighter u take things to ur heart, the happier u will be..We always think.. why me... But all questions do not have answers.. some just remain unanswered forever.. If u still think, u deserve an explanation, its somewhere within u... Try finding...

The Freedom of Expression

Writing and expressing is something I have always been passionate about.There can be nothing greater than the power of expressing.. Its gives me a sense of freedom.. some individuality.. So with this in mind.. I have logged into this space meant for Bloggers.. It feels nice to be a blogger..