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Recently I came across this book called "Neengal Yaar?" (who are you?) by Mr. Soma. Valliappan. It was a book that categorises people into 9 groups based on their attitude and personality. To identify their personality types he had given a set of questionnaire at the annexure. This is a really useful book. Under my personality type I had been given some characteristics which I found surprisingly true to a large extent. Of one of the traits, 'a mild jealousy' was listed, which I agree and acknowledge. Today's blog is all about the jealousiness I had / have in my life. I always felt jealous when I didn't get something I longed for but it lands in somebody else from my circle's lap. Thankfully barring one instance, the jealousy trait had never been problematic.

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Today is my last day with Technosoft. No matter wherever I go, Technosoft will always be special because it gave me the entry into IT. If it was not my dear friend Prabhu Shankar, ex-boss Mr. Chandrasekar and Technosoft, I would have returned back to Dubai with a sales in job last March. Technosoft is where I learnt SAP IS-Retail, I got to have a confidant and well wisher in Prabhu Shankar. In fact I would love to have Prabhu Shankar along with me as long as possible in my life (careerwise and as a friend) and I pray that it should happen soon in future. This one year stint in Technosoft had taught me some valuable lessons in career about the efforts, presence being made felt and I must keep following them through out. I'll always be indebted to Technosoft (also Prabhu Shankar and Mr. Chandrashekar) for giving me a break into SAP. My sincere thanks to everybody here for bearing with me. Ofcourse I’ll be in touch but this is just an acknowledgement of my feelings towards them.

SureshSometimes good things come with an expiry date... Recently he got in touch with me through a social networking site. He complimented my handicrafts, wanted to know more about me. He kept mailing but I was very apprehensive whether he too turns out to be those 'gay' type who hounds the single introvert men profiles. I replied reluctantly, but when I got to know more, I found him a sweet personified. He just smoothened the rough edges I got from my past broken friendships. After a long time I got a friend who has no inhibitions to hold my hands in the public, giggle like a teenager, comically animated... just like me. Hitch is that he is leaving India by 6th June, 2008 on H1 Visa... I don't want to fret about the short lived friendship but am gonna cherish every moment of it... I just acknowledge this lively friendship, the difference he made in me, reinventing the pleasure of looking forward for somebody in evenings, dining together & grinning wide, making my mobile ringtones sound musical... All again.

'My in-laws are not permitting me to stay with my sister and look after her who had recently met with an accident' - recently my friend told me and she was damn upset, eyes brimming with tears, about the whole incident. I really don't know how to console her and whose side I have to take. I just told her "If they dodn't want you to go at this moment, all I can say is you please don't go. Because there are others to look after your sister right now but don't make a dent in your marriage in this regard. Also don't create a scene or showdown. Just try to mend the fears and differences or wrong notions your in-laws have at this moment. They would realise that they had been unreasonable in the passage of time". Looking from the very outset, her anger / outburst is well justified. She was recently married only for four months. Whatever happened at this moment is so unfortunate but one has to cross the bridge when it comes.

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'Welcome to IT!' This is what my friend told me when I was shocked at the sudden lay off in our company. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I was not one of the victims, but the experience was shocking, sending shivers through the spines. This is an inside of otherwise extremely glossy IT field. Here just the revenue generated by you is counted, there is nothing like recognisation of your talent, humanity, blah.. blah.. Of course every industry retains the employees who are productive for the company, but only in IT the axes fall based on the life of the project. No matter how much talented you are, if your project ends / terminates, automatically your service also is terminated without indication. I just am concerned about the well being of my friends who faced termination recently.

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D******** (20) is our family friend's daughter, we know her since the day she is born. Unfortunately she recently met with an accident and is being treated in a hospital. Yesterday when I went to see her, some diagnosis was going on and all of a sudden some blood earmarked for her surgery were used for that. Blood needed for her surgery was not still collected. The hospital's blood bank showed a shortage of needed blood group. Now doctors are left with only option - to collect blood freshly from donors. Within an hour we were supposed to collect 10 units of B positive blood. Then began the actual tension. To find out people with similiar group from the friends' circle we have is really daunting. If all of us didn't have a mobile phone that time, things could have been worse. Thankfully we got some donors in time.

Distance and RelationshipsFebruary 9, 2008. I never expected that this day could bring a series of meeting 'long lost' friends. Also there were some interesting observations, that passage of time seldom brings changes in the friendships. I met with Mohanasundaram who was my close friend, for whom I had an obsession when I was in Engineering College. That same evening I caught up with Gurumoorthy, who was my close friend in my Masters - a planned event. One week back I saw Preetha who had finally moved to Chennai after a globe trotting. I, Preetha, Guru were the known trio of our batch in PSGIM, Coimbatore. The occassion was the marriage of Guru's sister's marriage, who was also like an extended family to me and Preetha. I missed Guru's marriage itself, so I didn't want to miss this marriage.

{mosimage}the best colour for you, we'll tell more about you. Order the following animals in the list according to your wish.... So many online personality tests are available like this. There are lot of subtle choices that unconsciously reflect our personality in some ways. When we observe the people around us, we notice that people who have an affinity towards certain actors / actress / books / writers have a similiar behavioural pattern. So whenever we hear somebody new who say that they like that author's book very much, find that actor/actress attractive, we immediately tend to form a personality image based on our past experiences. Sometimes we may go wrong, sometimes we may get a right idea... but the ability to form an image is something that comes with the experiences.

இம்முறை வைத்தி வீட்டுக்கு போய் வரும்போது 'எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணனின் சிறுகதைகள்' தொகுப்பை எடுத்து வந்தேன். பஸ்ஸில் வரும்போது முதல் 4 சிறுகதைகளை படித்தேன். ஒவ்வொன்றும் நான் புரிந்துக் கொள்ளக்கூடிய உணர்வுகளை கொண்டு இருந்தது. அவற்றை படித்தவுடன் அது சம்பந்தப்பட்ட சம்பவங்களுக்கு மனசு தாவியது. நினைவுகள் நல்லதாக இருப்பின் நமக்கு மேலும் புத்துணர்ச்சி கிட்டும். ஆனால் நினைவுகள் வலி கொணடவையாக இருப்பின், it leaves us emotionally dry. பொதுவாக புத்தகங்கள் படிக்கும் அனைவரும் இப்படி emotional travails-க்கு ஆளாகிறார்களா? இல்லை என் போன்ற சிலர் மட்டும் தானா? இந்த சந்தேகம் தோன்றியதும் புத்தகத்தை மூடிவைத்து விட்டேன். நீங்கள் ஒரு திரைப்படமோ / நாவலோ பார்த்தோ / படித்தோ நாம் வாழ்க்கையில் இது போல மாறவேண்டும், இப்படி இருக்கக் கூடாது என்றெல்லாம் நினைத்திருக்கிறீர்களா?

{mosimage} பல முறை விமான பிரயாணம் செய்திருந்தாலும், இதுவரை விடியற்காலையில் பிரயாணம் செய்ததில்லை. சமீபத்தில் பெங்களூருக்கு ஒரு டிரெய்னிங் விஷயமாக போனபோது, காலை 6:00 மணி விமானத்தில் பயணிக்க நேர்ந்தது. விமானத்தில் இருந்து சூர்யோதயத்தை பார்ப்பது தனி அழகு தான். குறிப்பாக இந்த பனிக்காலத்தில், மேகங்களிடையே கிழித்துக்கொண்டு போவதும், அதிகாலை சூரியனின் வெளிச்சத்தில் பஞ்சு மேகங்கள் பொன்னிறமாக வறுபடுவதும், பிரம்மாண்டமான சென்னை பொம்மையாக சுருங்கி மேகங்களிடையே மறைவதும் தனி அழகு தான். Hollywood படங்களில் மட்டுமே இதுவரை நான் பார்த்திருந்த அந்த மேக காட்சிகள் இப்போது நேரில் கண்கூடாக காண முடிந்ததில் ஒரு தனி excitement. அந்த குதூகலத்தில் தூக்கம் முழித்த, வரிசையில் நின்ற களைப்பு எல்லாம் போயே போச்சு. துரதிர்ஷ்டவசமாக இது போன்ற காட்சிகளை நான் எதிர்பார்க்காததால், கையில் கேமிரா எதுவும் வைத்திருக்கவில்லை. Better Luck next time.