Monday, June 7, 2010

Life of Jack: A story of a Gentleman

Happiness is not a season, it is a moment. There will be various reasons for a person to be unhappy. Mr. Jack is not at all an unhappy person. Jack always likes to be in a state of Trance. To attain Nirvana or state of Trance some people do consume some C2H5OH, but for Jack it is not needed since he is made of that. When in nirvana, he is the happiest and make sure that people around him also is happy. Now why Jack? What is his significance here?

So one day, as usual jack was resting on his favorite place in Singapore. Its late night and people are around. Jack likes people around, especially people confused in buying things and saying those good comments after seeing him sitting. The looks on their faces, it says "i want everything , but i don't want to pay for any of them". The classic human nature in a way, to dream about getting things free of cost.

Jack saw a man rushing and in another moment, All he can see is darkness. There is no light, nothing is visible though he can hear people speaking. The man on the counter speaking about Dollars and offers. What about the gentleman who came rushing? Why was he rushing, this thought made jack little confused. After sometimes, he realized that he is on an aeroplane, flying to some country. All this is happening without his consent. He is missing all the fun around. He is missing his friends Johny, Constantine, Brown, Evan etc.

The plane landed and Jack is still not free. He is worried of where he is taken. The state of no freedom surrounded by darkness is bad. He is in a car now, he is moving towards some unknown location. The car stops, he can hear the driver talking in some strange language. Some unknown , never heard language. "Now where am i" Jack tried shouting, but his voice never came out. Jack can feel someone carrying him. He tried peeping out, but he was not able to move. May be jetlag. The person carrying him has put him down. The question was Where am i and who took me here? Why? Jack knows, there is no answer for this question, he has seen many of his friends being taken away, but no one ever asked their permission. They also must have had questions like him. This was a known fact to him, Life is not immortal, it is going to get over sooner or later. But he never expected it to happen this soon. he remembered once johnny telling him the story of someone taking his cousin by mistake and dropping him home later.

Where has the darkness gone, how come there is a light. Now jack can see that he is sitting with some strangers. They are talking in some strange language. He never heard this language, may be Italian Mafia? No they are talking in english at times, their dialect is no where similar to Italian. Suddenly Someone Kicked Jack on his back. He can feel the power of the shot, moving his Disc. Jack tried crying loudly, his voice is not coming out. Those people are tearing his head and they are taking blood in glasses. Jack can feel his limbs getting light & darkness embracing him. He can't feel the pain anymore. Last thing he heard was "Cheers" and its all over. Now Jack knows why the gentleman was rushing. He bought him and now Jack will be staying in their intestines for them to attain Nirvana.


The life of Mr. Jack Daniel's is over here. A gentleman who lived as a king loosing his life in 25years. Yes This is the life span of a Jack Daniel's bottle. He was treated like a King for 25years and one fine day his life Ends. Still he is the King, King of all Whiskey's, Jack Daniels. born in Tennesey

For all Jack Daniel's lovers :P

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Lost and Found

We knew since sometime, quite sometime. We know each other quite well, we are good friends, more than that. Some relationships can never be named. Yes that is what i wanted to convey.

Two friends who know each other since long time, but due to some reasons not able to be in constant touch. Now what is wrong with that? Nothing, we are the same like we were before. There is nothing like we need to be in constant touch all time.

Let me tell something about my friend, Knowing a person since longtime is awesome, especially when am able to predict what that person is going to do and am always able to spend sometime daily thinking about that person. A complicated, sweet, sophisticated innocent person. SO what is great about that, there will be lot of people like this, but why this person. Irrespective of difference in opinion and other things, we have never fought. We never got chance or may be that person was too sweet with me.

One thing i know is after every conversation of ours, we are happy, ateast i am.

Two different states, cultures, human minds who got some common things in mind and a unbreakable bond. That is what i think about it. We lost contact almost a year back and two days back we met online, we spoke. We spoke for long time, we spoke about different things, but never felt bored. I felt guilty for not keeping in touch because of unknown reasons.

Why am i writing about this?
Its simple, I writes about things in my heart and this one, am never able to understand. The positive part is understanding or patience to listen to each other. Two hard rock fans, who have similar thoughts, but trust me i love this person.
If i ever get a chance to do something for this person, i will be the luckiest to get that opportunity.

I have heard people talking about how they lost contact and how they lost their friends, but as per me, am lucky in this. I also know people trying to define relationships and come to a conclusion. May be we have never tried this or may be we never wanted to do so, but my experience: Not all relationships are to be named or defined. There are some relationships which are above friendship and it is better not to name them or not to find what they are. Just let those relationships as they are, because they are the purest.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The God of Cricket on twitter, will he create record here?

Twitter is a place where you can see celebrities, media, High Profile people and even now Cricketers. This is a single place where you can see the live updates of these people. For a common man, this is sometimes too much a reason to use twitter. For media, this is a place to make news, infact the media collect feedback's from people in twitter. The influence of twitter is so much that, it is changing the way things used to work.Guess what, God joined twitter today, by God i mean "The God of Cricket", Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

A common man may be using twitter for either micro-blogging or may be for his small business or just for fun. A celebrity or a politician using twitter, they have to tweet carefully. Each statements they make here is going straight to the people. We have seen examples of these in the past months.

When twitter is having a negative effect at times, then why to use. This is the question you should know. What you have to tweet is important rather than whether you tweet or not. People follow or unfollow based on the tweets and kind of interaction.

Recently i have noticed many cricketer's on twitter. They have got plenty of people following them, today The God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar joined twitter. Now how did i know it is real sachin, The person who introduced is Atulkasbekar the super lensman. But the account is not yet a verified account. Though nobody is sure whether it is real account or a PR account, the number of followers is increasing very fast. In an hour, more than 1000 people are following him & there is a high probability that this will become a trending topic in twitter and also on the media.

The people in twitter are happy seeing Sachin's twitter handle and profile, but none sure whether it is real sachin or someone else. The reason being the very first tweet of SRT said "Finally the original SRT is on twitter n the first thing I'd like to do is wish my colleagues the best in the windies" and people are damn sure that a person like SRT will never tweet like this, but since Kasbekar announced SRT's arrival on twitter and all the updates are being sent from a blackberry, it will be SRT only. The handle of God is "Sachin_rt" and this will be the most watched handle in coming days. Twitter is always in news and now it will be most watched, atleast in India. hope this is for good. :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Life was a bitch, I Tamed it!

A post after a long time. I took a break from blogging. Guess what, it wasn't intentional. Past some days i am going through a packed schedule, not getting time for anything. I will give partial credit to the hot weather too.

There are many blogs which are pending and most of them are travelogues. I want to post them,but not getting time for that. Now time management is something i want to learn. I am getting enough and more time to manage my official work, since it is all about my career and passion. The problem is personal life and activities such as blog.

Let us rewind my life 2 years back.
Location: Pune
Job: Careless easygoing party guy, a biker and a techie

A easy going guy who doesn't have any order in life. The only pain in my life was office, the weekly off's. We were a gang, 7 men gang in office. The work environment and nature of work put some restrictions on our life. There were very less chance of 7 of us getting off on the same day in a week. To compensate with this, we used to meet daily, Hang out daily. Drinking is not a good habit, drinking without a time set is a bigger problem. The nigh shift and sleeplessness made us start a new habit. Drink and sleep. We stopped it eventually, we changed it to play cricket after shift or go for a ride after the office and sleep. Saturday and Sunday were party days, meeting up with friends etc. Another activity was long rides on bikes. We were a biker gang, all biker freaks. IT was totally awesome life, but then career thoughts came in. Opportunity knocks and i accepts, have to leave Pune. Lands in chennai, the first threat announcement in flight "The Temperature outside is 34Degrees". The flight landed after 1am and i never expecting that amount of heat.

Twist:

Location: Chennai
Schedule: work in nights, sleep in the morning, even it is hot.
No activity here, not much friends here, the only option was office, Entertainment, work, learning that became my life. Accepted the fact that this is the best option when the question is career. Accepts it, still keep going to pune in between to meet up with friends and enjoy. Time passed by, got promoted, made some very good friends in chennai.Then twitter invaded my life and things changed again. I became a total social animal. Started attending tweetup's(Twitter get togethers), met people and there number of friends started. Eventhough this place no where near to Pune regarding the weather and fun part, the friends made me feel good. Now got used to this place and life here.

Now you saw a small part of life and the changes which happened. Human's are so adaptable to change, sometimes selfish when it comes to their personal benefit. Being a human, i also did that while coming to chennai. But still me and all my friends meet. We meet mostly for all Newyear's or whenever all of us get leaves. Distance never becomes a challenge, if the friendship exists.

Life is something which changes. There is no way you can live a life at a constant speed. From the time we are born till whatever we are now, life takes many twist and turns. The point is we should accept those twists if it is good for us. We will have to sacrifice somethings for accepting the twist though. Now when someone asks, "How is life dude?" My answer is "Life is a Bitch, I tamed it".

If i can adjust, if i can accept the truth and doing so if i didn't loose anything other than growth in my life; i am right, i have tamed it. Taming it doesn't mean my life is set, there will be more challenges and these challenges are what makes me keep going. Without thrill, there won't be any fun...

I wrote this blog, because many people asked me about my google status message & how it happened. This is the reason for that status message. May be i am wrong or may be this is my destiny, but definitely everybody will be getting a opportunity which if used will turn good.This won't be acceptable to all, but this worked for me & this is the reason for the status update...

Every moment is precious, live it.

Monday, March 22, 2010

World Water Day: Save Water

Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested.Water is one among the five elements as per Hinduism.Water is a colorless, odourless liquid which is inevitable in this Universe. All living beings need water to live and sometimes Water causes Death too.

Today is World Water Day. Save water is a motto that we should make practical rather than saying it. Instead of wasting water by keeping the taps at your home/office/street open, remember to close them after use. But these are just basic things, What about polluting Rivers and Sea's? Why there is no plan to stop? There are many organizations who are fighting against pollution and still nothing happens. It is sad to see the natural resources being converted into the Waste Dump-yards. This is the case of Rivers all over our country.

These organizations have a limitations, what about we the people? Are we ever trying to do something to protect these River's? Whom should we blame for all this? We the human's, so called Sophisticated and Intelligent lot. Our experiments and greed for money are one reason, we are constructing new Sky Scrappers by filling the small rivers. I have seen this scene in places like cochin.

People are complaining about scarcity of water and many of them are paying/per litre of water they drink. How ironic it is, You have Water sources lakes, rivers, oceans, You Destroy those and later on You are paying for whatever you destroyed. Still no one realizes what they have done.

Sometimes the way this world is developing is scary. On the name of Development and luxury, we are forgetting about our nature and natural habitats. We are even suffering because of that, in different ways. Even nature had started showing its hate on us by natural disasters which is happening more often. The mother nature is hurt. We human's the most intelligent and sophisticated species is ignoring all this and living life as though nothing happened, i think this is one positive attitude of Human's, forget past and move forward.

Some Tips to Save Water:

Try to make yourself aware of Water and it's importance.
Stop wasting water in shooting Rain songs for Bollywood. Do that in a better way.
While constructing houses, try to use Rainwater storage & recycling it.
Stop constructing buildings by Filling water-sources.
Stop Polluting rivers and other water sources by dumping Waste.


One last word. Water is a natural resource, not a man made invention; Preserve it.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Rendezvous With a Shashi Tharoor - Chennai Tweetup

Twitter is one of the fastest and easiest Social networking platform in the world. Twitter can even be called as "The New World Order". Freedom to express & reach is what makes it unique from others. One single update in Twitter can reach millions, which includes celebrities and Top Officials and even members of Legislative Assembly.

 Me and my fellow twitterer's from Chennai were lucky enough to get a chance to have a Tweetup (twitter users meeting) with Mr. Shashi Tharoor, that too in a short notice. Mr. Shashi Tharoor is the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs. . Formerly he was the Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General of United Nations. Apart from this, he is a very rigorous writer. He had published several books and he is a columnist for many major News papers.

Someone came to know that Shashi Tharoor is going to be in Chennai and came up with the thought of having a tweet up with him. I was clueless and was thinking about ways. In another 30 mints, i got a Tweet saying, Tweetup with Shashi Tharoor, 8Pm - 10PM.


The Gentleman:
 On twitter:  @ShashiTharoor
  • A celebrity and popular twitter  639,430 Followers, Included in 3698 lists with precious 2883 tweets
  • He is the first Indian celebrity to cross the milestone of more than 1,00,000 followers on Twitter (Now he has over 6,39,430 Followers) 
Global Leadership

Shashi Tharoor was named “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by World Economic Forum  Davos, Switzerland

In 2009 Shashi Tharoor accepted the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour awarded to non-resident Indians









Shashi Tharoor is the Author of 4 fiction (including 'The Great Indian Novel') and 6 non-fiction books and 2 Illustrated books
  • "The Great Indian Novel" by Shashi Tharoor won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book Of The Year in Eurasian Region - 1991
  • In 2009 Shashi Tharoor was awarded the Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" Award and the Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration by the Maharana of Udaipur
For more information about the versatile personality of Dr. Shashi Tharoor as an Author, peace-keeper, refugee worker, human rights activist and now is the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, kindly visit his website at http://tharoor.in/


Rendezvous

 A gentleman with good knowledge and a positive attitude. That is what Mr.Tharoor is. He was ready to take logical questions which can be answered rather than the political tongue twisters. He was there with us ignoring the 104Degree Fever fighting with him. With patience and pleasure he was answering the constant flow of queries. The way questions were coming in, we can understand how much respect people are having for him. He is my Idol and i will say he is the Cool dude in Indian politics. He may not be a hardcore politician, but he was a man who is ready to listen to people's grievances
and complaints and give them a solution or a better guidance. His tweets are inspirational aswell as Solutions. According to him, if used twitter is a good platform for direct queries and also conveying issues in a faster way to the authorities. Depending on how fast Internet users in India grow, this will also happen.

The session was not just a Q & A session, though it started like that, it turned out to be a group discussion. He was telling that there are lots of options for Young Entrepreneurs. Moreover he answered some questions which are kind of personal too. This was a remembarable evening in my life. I follow 2 Idols in my life. 1 is Shashi tharoor and 2nd is Sachin tendulkar. God gave me a chance to meet Mr. Tharoor. Hoping the same with Sachin too.

Some facts:


One thing was clear, controversies are created when someone answers questions unbiased. The tweetup's if kept without press and other disturbances can be a good platform to clear our doubts, especially when it comes to people like Tharoor.People say you are blessed, that is when you meet people like Shashi Tharoor, where you understand the difference between a uneducated Thug and a Educated Gentleman.



Monday, March 8, 2010

Life is Beautiful? Ain't it Ironical?

Day begins and people starts running frantically. Ican see happy faces, sad faces, angry faces and even people without an expression. Hardly i see fresh faces in the morning. All are busy, they got to go to work, they got tensions at home, the newspaper makes them angry or sad etc. None of us are happy about our life eventhough we are alive and got food to eat and water to drink, but every day we got something to complain about. Life is beautiful is Ironical at times.

 Why so Serious??

A quote The Joker said in the movie Dark knight, it is a very relevant question that joker asks. If you relate it to day to day life, the relevance increases. From the very moment we are born, we start living life, we start to adjust and compromise and learn how to deal with things. This thing continues till we die, Other than that the small happiness in life is family, friends and fun we have. This will be hardly One third of our total Living hours. An average human spent's more than half of his life working / trying to earn money. Whatever he earned, he wont be able to spend this on him, he has to spent on his family, relatives, friends, rent, mortgage and what not. Relationship is something which keeps life Cycle balanced, but when compared to a Single human being's life all these becomes burdens to. All of us are burden to each other in one way or other. May be i am wrong, but what i have seen and what i have learned is:

Work hard and earn, get married, have kids, welcome oldage, Dream about things which you haven't achieved and things you have achieved, Diseases (Optional), Wait for the Final call(Call from God), Embrace the earth.

I believe this is the life style of every human being or may be more than 3/4th of the Humans. In the end, when you look back:
what is that you achieved?
What good you have done to others?
What was the purpose of living?

Living being or Living-being is all the same.

On a day to day life, we do planning. Some do short term planning, some prefer planning in long term and some others are very clear about what they want to do and plan for their entire life.  Not all these plans gets executed and infact most of them become big Flop. But the planning phase never stops, why are we becoming Schemers? Are we happy after being a Schemer? I don't think so. May be the Almighty has Designed us in a way that we are never 100% happy about anything. This makes us the unique species.

Forget a single human, if we consider a community also there is the same problem. Caste wise, religion wise, region wise, Country wise, politically etc. But what is the outcome of this hatred which we had developed due to the selfishness?

Being the most intelligent and sophisticated species, Humans have achieved no happiness, but some way of making one self believe that "This is happiness". "Life is beautiful " is a quote which is Irony at times, i mean most of the times.

 Man vs Nature

Nature is also angry at us, the recent earthquakes and Tsunami warnings are good example. We destroyed nature to build buildings and many other things. Every time we say we achieved something, we never realized what we are loosing. Now earth is in a unstable state. The recent earth quake warnings are a very good example. "The world will come to an END" may or may not be true. But the recent happenings should be a good lesson for people to learn about some love. Whatever so called achievements we have is like an Oasis. We got a life which is undefined, it have only a Singin option and no Sign out option, unlike our Login screens. Once in you are Signed in (born) try to live life happily, find happiness in every small good deeds. Forget about your worries and try to lead a happy life. Instead of becoming a schemer planning big things and dying to earn money to make that plan happen, Live life happily, it may not be a 100% planned way, but definitely there will be happiness. Once you Sign out or your Session expires (die), then you don't have a chance to rethink.

Live life like a Man, Not like a Schemer.