New City, new people, new surroundings – hundreds and thousands of observations. One of the obervation was little funny, describing here.
A number of advertisement boards and billboards about new construction sites and new home schemes on our way to the office and even everywhere in the city. From this anyone can easily make out that, the city’s real estate is booming and lots of construction work is going on in the city. So you might mislead yourself that houses may be cheaper here because of so much construction work and new areas are developing. But when you look at the prices, one quote can easily describe it – “Sky is not the limit”.
On the other side, What will you think; when you were travelling in a local city bus and you got to see the doctor’s advertisement for the diagnosis of piles in almost all the buses (specially on all handles of the bus, where we hang for support). Next thought was, "Does this city have lots of piles cases? Or there may be plenty of doctors who are really good in diagnosis of piles and may be because of that they are having blood shedding competition?" Whatever is the case, I got little scared and nervous about my own digestion system.
Plenty of advertisements on the same topics or subjects are sometimes very misleading...!!!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Bored with own character-behavior-personality
Thought provoked me during the morning meditation session and made me write on this.
We easily get bored with our work, life, people/relatives/friends, hobbies and activities in few days or may be in few years. Is that any time happened that we have bored now with our personality or behavior? “Just want to clarify that getting bore does not mean you started disliking our own self, but just want to try different stuff. It is also not that we are not happy what we are.” So, it means that any time it has happened that I have just bored now being so rude with others, I have bored now being angry all the time or sad all the time. I have bored now being so kind all the time, I have bored now being so emotional all the time, I have just got bored now being follower all the time, I have bored now being so caring person all the time, I have bored being so perfect and meticulous all the time, etc, etc...And the list goes on.
Other side, I think we never get bored with our personality or we never get a chance to get bore with it. Because surrounding environment do not allow us to change it. It keeps reminding us about the older things and we keep on retaining it for life long, years on years. Of course, the passing time and a shift in responsibilities will definitely change our character/behavior/personality, but this is not just because of we have bored now and you changed it. It’s a gradual, necessary and situational change.
May be its difficult or may be its just impossible to change it when you bored with it?
I think , I should experiment such things someday, because I felt really bored now.
We easily get bored with our work, life, people/relatives/friends, hobbies and activities in few days or may be in few years. Is that any time happened that we have bored now with our personality or behavior? “Just want to clarify that getting bore does not mean you started disliking our own self, but just want to try different stuff. It is also not that we are not happy what we are.” So, it means that any time it has happened that I have just bored now being so rude with others, I have bored now being angry all the time or sad all the time. I have bored now being so kind all the time, I have bored now being so emotional all the time, I have just got bored now being follower all the time, I have bored now being so caring person all the time, I have bored being so perfect and meticulous all the time, etc, etc...And the list goes on.
Other side, I think we never get bored with our personality or we never get a chance to get bore with it. Because surrounding environment do not allow us to change it. It keeps reminding us about the older things and we keep on retaining it for life long, years on years. Of course, the passing time and a shift in responsibilities will definitely change our character/behavior/personality, but this is not just because of we have bored now and you changed it. It’s a gradual, necessary and situational change.
May be its difficult or may be its just impossible to change it when you bored with it?
I think , I should experiment such things someday, because I felt really bored now.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Snoring of My Roommate
Does anyone think that how he/she can generate or make sound while he/she is sleeping? Isn't it very interesting to know and sometime very irritating to handle? Yes, specially when your roomate is snoring while you are sleeping.
The most important part is that person who is snoring, not even aware about his snoring activity. Very unlikely that snoring is not even disturbing his sleep. He/she will be in a very peaceful sleep. When you inform them next day, they are in a shock and not even ready to accept their noisy and non-human activity. For such cases, our very much realtime handy and helping tool - mobile - captured the video/sound of the person who was snoring and we showed it to him. Caught you..!!! :) :)
Jokes apart, but It really make me curious that what does make us to snore while we are sleeping and I end finding below details and stats from my favourite search engine.
"what causes snoring is simple. While asleep, the tissues of the throat and nose vibrate because of the air flowing through them. The volume of the snoring sound can therefore be largely dictated by the turbulence of the air flowing through the throat and nose. The more turbulent the airflow, the louder is the snoring and vice-versa; the lesser the turbulence, the more likely that the sound would be more tolerable for a bedmate or roommate."
"Statistics on snoring are often contradictory, but at least 30% of adults are snoring. 60% of men and 40% of women aged 60 to 65 years are snoring. this suggests an increased susceptibility to snoring as age increases."
And unfortunately, my roommate is a part of this snoring community. :)
Thanks to medical science that there are many such solutions like nasal sprays, nasal strips or nose clips are available in the market for snoring treatment which helps you to reduce snoring. So, my roommate do not have to worry much about, as he is getting married in few months.
This post of my blog is actually dedicated to him. Because of his snoring ,I couldn't sleep many nights and end up reading many good books (after giving him so much galis). Today, as he is leaving our room, I will wish him all the best for his future endeavors on his last day and wish to myself a very happy and peaceful sleep now onwards.
The most important part is that person who is snoring, not even aware about his snoring activity. Very unlikely that snoring is not even disturbing his sleep. He/she will be in a very peaceful sleep. When you inform them next day, they are in a shock and not even ready to accept their noisy and non-human activity. For such cases, our very much realtime handy and helping tool - mobile - captured the video/sound of the person who was snoring and we showed it to him. Caught you..!!! :) :)
Jokes apart, but It really make me curious that what does make us to snore while we are sleeping and I end finding below details and stats from my favourite search engine.
"what causes snoring is simple. While asleep, the tissues of the throat and nose vibrate because of the air flowing through them. The volume of the snoring sound can therefore be largely dictated by the turbulence of the air flowing through the throat and nose. The more turbulent the airflow, the louder is the snoring and vice-versa; the lesser the turbulence, the more likely that the sound would be more tolerable for a bedmate or roommate."
"Statistics on snoring are often contradictory, but at least 30% of adults are snoring. 60% of men and 40% of women aged 60 to 65 years are snoring. this suggests an increased susceptibility to snoring as age increases."
And unfortunately, my roommate is a part of this snoring community. :)
Thanks to medical science that there are many such solutions like nasal sprays, nasal strips or nose clips are available in the market for snoring treatment which helps you to reduce snoring. So, my roommate do not have to worry much about, as he is getting married in few months.
This post of my blog is actually dedicated to him. Because of his snoring ,I couldn't sleep many nights and end up reading many good books (after giving him so much galis). Today, as he is leaving our room, I will wish him all the best for his future endeavors on his last day and wish to myself a very happy and peaceful sleep now onwards.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Ethics of a Roadside Key-Maker
Some of my observation and incidents help me to fetch some of the best things out our society.
Few days back, I have lost my cupboard keys. Unfortunately, I did not have duplicate key for that cupboard. So, I went to the Key maker’s shop which is at the end of my street. Hundreds of keys and locks were hanging in his small shop’s front door and the guy was engrossed in his special art of making keys. He has noticed me that I was standing in front of his shop. I asked “Can you help me in making of my Cupboard key? I don’t have duplicate key for that.”
Wiping the sweat of his forehead on his shoulder, he showed affirmation for help. Then, he put on his shirt on his sweat t-shirt which he was wearing, took all necessary equipment in a small cloth bag, put on his thin slippers and asked me “Where do you stay, sir?”
I told him, “nearby, just five minutes’ walk.”
We came to our home and I showed him the locked Cupboard. He took out some blank key from (Blank key – without any cuts or notches). He put that blank key in the cupboard lock and started to understand the lock’s movement by putting his ears very close to cupboard lock. After that he took out the key and started making cuts and notches (bitting) on the blade of a key. After doing some cuts or notches, again he tried to open lock and try to understand the next movement of lock. Again he took out the key and started making cuts and notches on the key. This procedure continued for almost half an hour, until he opened the cupboard with that new key.
Seeing this procedure and his skills, I was surprised and really happy too. I thanked him for all his efforts and paid him the amount that we negotiated at his shop.
Later, when he was leaving, one question struck to my mind. If he can open cupboard in such a short notice, he can open any damn lock in considerable timeframe whenever he wants. With the curious face, I asked that guy, “You have such a great skill, is that happened any time that you have to use your skill for the wrong purpose?”
The guy answered it very well. He said that when my father taught me this skill, he told “if you use this skill for the right purpose, someday you may have to sleep with empty stomach, but when you use it for wrong purpose, there is a definite chance that you don’t get sleep even if your stomach is full”
“What level of ethics and honesty this guy has” I whispered internally...!!
Few days back, I have lost my cupboard keys. Unfortunately, I did not have duplicate key for that cupboard. So, I went to the Key maker’s shop which is at the end of my street. Hundreds of keys and locks were hanging in his small shop’s front door and the guy was engrossed in his special art of making keys. He has noticed me that I was standing in front of his shop. I asked “Can you help me in making of my Cupboard key? I don’t have duplicate key for that.”
Wiping the sweat of his forehead on his shoulder, he showed affirmation for help. Then, he put on his shirt on his sweat t-shirt which he was wearing, took all necessary equipment in a small cloth bag, put on his thin slippers and asked me “Where do you stay, sir?”
I told him, “nearby, just five minutes’ walk.”
We came to our home and I showed him the locked Cupboard. He took out some blank key from (Blank key – without any cuts or notches). He put that blank key in the cupboard lock and started to understand the lock’s movement by putting his ears very close to cupboard lock. After that he took out the key and started making cuts and notches (bitting) on the blade of a key. After doing some cuts or notches, again he tried to open lock and try to understand the next movement of lock. Again he took out the key and started making cuts and notches on the key. This procedure continued for almost half an hour, until he opened the cupboard with that new key.
Seeing this procedure and his skills, I was surprised and really happy too. I thanked him for all his efforts and paid him the amount that we negotiated at his shop.
Later, when he was leaving, one question struck to my mind. If he can open cupboard in such a short notice, he can open any damn lock in considerable timeframe whenever he wants. With the curious face, I asked that guy, “You have such a great skill, is that happened any time that you have to use your skill for the wrong purpose?”
The guy answered it very well. He said that when my father taught me this skill, he told “if you use this skill for the right purpose, someday you may have to sleep with empty stomach, but when you use it for wrong purpose, there is a definite chance that you don’t get sleep even if your stomach is full”
“What level of ethics and honesty this guy has” I whispered internally...!!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
An Old Belief and Today's Scientific World..
Interesting old beliefs which we easily pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today’s modern world reality, such is the incident I am briefing hereby.
Few days back, in the night, I was cutting my nails using nail cutter. My mom saw it and she started screaming on me. She didn’t like that I was cutting the nails in the night. I asked with curiosity, "why?”. She didn’t have a proper answer, but she said “Don’t cut the nails in the night; it’s not good for your fortune/planets and not even good for our house’s fortune”. I was surprised that “Cutting nails is such a dangerous activity”.
My curiosity didn’t stop there. I have searched on the internet and found that, it’s a myth. The actual reality is different. In earlier days, neither there was electricity available in home nor was nail-cutter invented. At that time, they usually use kerosene lamp for the light inside the house and the blade instead of nail-cutter. So there was a high chance that the person who was cutting his/her nails may hurt fingers because of the usage of blade. Before the Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric bulb, this belief was very true and needed to stop ones from cutting their nails in the night. But now, it is not holding any weightage.
When I explained this to my mom, she just started laughing on her old belief and accepted the new reality.
I found that with every new invention and innovations we need to brush up once again on all those old beliefs which we have and remove if they are not applicable in this modern world. So that, these wrong believes shall not pass to the next generation.
I am sure there are many such old beliefs still pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today's world reality. Would like to know such beliefs and investigate them in detail..... :) :) :)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
wait...till the quality matters
Business minded people have eyes of observation which can see the business opportunities in every situation. But there are many unknown parameters affect to the business which took them to the top of the success ladder or in deep failure.
Tea stall (in a slang way we called "Tapari") outside my office provides wonderful tea with all Garam Masala and ginger. But it seems that his business is limited and not creating worthy revenue. On the similar side, our office has average kind of canteen. Our office canteen is not providing a quality food as well as tea. But the company is paying for all employees; everybody insists to take the tea from office canteen only despite the tea quality is bad.
Few days back, all of a sudden our management has decided that the employee has to bear their own cost for the food. This has made a drastic change. Everybody has realized the need for the quality, as the money is now going from their own pockets. So they felt that if they are paying then the quality matters. So, everybody shifted to that Tapariwala for the Masala Tea and Maggie. And, immediately that Tapariwala's business shoots up. That canteen wala got a tight slap on his chick and realized that he was earning just because of the employer was paying. No employee was actually interested in his degraded tea and other unhygienic food items. So, due to his degraded quality, he has reported a loss in his business.
Now that, Tapariwala is also thinking to extend his business to meet the requirement. I also appreciate Tapariwala's ethics that he didn't change the price of tea even though the demand has increased tremendously.
In the business clouds, when and which parameters change suddenly we never know. We just keep following the path of ethics and provide the good quality products even if the revenue earning is less initially.
Tea stall (in a slang way we called "Tapari") outside my office provides wonderful tea with all Garam Masala and ginger. But it seems that his business is limited and not creating worthy revenue. On the similar side, our office has average kind of canteen. Our office canteen is not providing a quality food as well as tea. But the company is paying for all employees; everybody insists to take the tea from office canteen only despite the tea quality is bad.
Few days back, all of a sudden our management has decided that the employee has to bear their own cost for the food. This has made a drastic change. Everybody has realized the need for the quality, as the money is now going from their own pockets. So they felt that if they are paying then the quality matters. So, everybody shifted to that Tapariwala for the Masala Tea and Maggie. And, immediately that Tapariwala's business shoots up. That canteen wala got a tight slap on his chick and realized that he was earning just because of the employer was paying. No employee was actually interested in his degraded tea and other unhygienic food items. So, due to his degraded quality, he has reported a loss in his business.
Now that, Tapariwala is also thinking to extend his business to meet the requirement. I also appreciate Tapariwala's ethics that he didn't change the price of tea even though the demand has increased tremendously.
In the business clouds, when and which parameters change suddenly we never know. We just keep following the path of ethics and provide the good quality products even if the revenue earning is less initially.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Why only Money for Donation..
Why do they only ask Money as Donation? Or why do beggars always beg for Money? Money is just a medium of exchanging your needy things. There are many other things which are possibly to be donated and there are hundreds out there in a need of that. Like books, knowledge, your time and the last things is usage of your mind or your ideas (which put you in position to donate other things). Why can't we donate our senses (of course, only if it is alive) for few days to someone? At least he or she can improve using those senses and will make his or her life better. That is the actual things which we need to pass on. Awareness and alive senses are the need for everyone.
There is a reception on the other side is equally matters. If you want to pass on something but the reception is not tuned, it is just a waste of effort. That leads to me to conclude that we need to provide the basic things to the person first and then pass on awareness. Without food, shelter and clothes, you can't even teach simple things to someone. Those untuned person will never even listen to you and it looks them as if it is very complicated. That is great saying that “A hungry stomach cannot hear”. For Food, shelter and clothes, you need money. Because of that only passing money to this needy people as donation is required. After the person is at sufficient stable stage, they start accepting knowledge and accept those awareness fundas. Later, if the person is lucky enough, he explores and try to understand the spirituality concepts to make life even much better.
There is a reception on the other side is equally matters. If you want to pass on something but the reception is not tuned, it is just a waste of effort. That leads to me to conclude that we need to provide the basic things to the person first and then pass on awareness. Without food, shelter and clothes, you can't even teach simple things to someone. Those untuned person will never even listen to you and it looks them as if it is very complicated. That is great saying that “A hungry stomach cannot hear”. For Food, shelter and clothes, you need money. Because of that only passing money to this needy people as donation is required. After the person is at sufficient stable stage, they start accepting knowledge and accept those awareness fundas. Later, if the person is lucky enough, he explores and try to understand the spirituality concepts to make life even much better.
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