Some of best epic stories which we have studied during our childhood in the history books and a lot we have heard from our granny and grandpa. These stories are still around us in some different format.
Holy books Ramayana and Mahabharata are some the best written stories in the world. Some says its real and some says it’s totally mythology. Let's not go into the discussion about the reality of their existence or maybe we are not supposed to. However, the essence of these stories is much deeper and very helpful to many of us.
Ram's character of being "maryaada purushottama" - supreme glory of mankind, whereas on the other side the supreme politician Krishna's Character are truly create affection in you to read more about the situation they were passed through and the life they have lived. These mythological stories are vast source of lessons if you understand comprehensively and relate them with the current situation of our life and corporate culture.
As a part of my reading material, I used to read “management mythos” in Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic times on every Friday. They have these mythological stories and relate them with the office environment, corporate culture and even our life’s principals. They are worth reading and we all should imbibe them in our life.
These days, i am not able to catch-up with ET paper, so found the e-link of the "Management Mythos" author “Devdutt Pattanaik”. He is great mythologist and his articles are available here.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A usage of word 'hallucination'
I came across a new word “hallucination", while writing in Microsoft word and using the synonyms application.
Fantasy of using different new words makes me feel proud or sometimes make a foolish out of me among the others. But, who cares attitude give strength to my unbound courage each time and I am keep attempting on new words. Hereby, describing one of the occurrences of such thing.
Passing through a little confusing and unclear state of my mind, made me use of word “hallucination” in my status of Goggle Talk. And the show has begun. Many of my online friends contacted me asking what hallucination is. I have been proudly explaining them about using my shallow understanding about word and projecting my extraordinary knowledge in English vocabulary to them, until one dear friend of mine broke my understanding about word.
He started to ask “what happened to me? And why hallucination?”. Similar to others, I have explained him about word and told about unclear state of my mind. But this dear friend of mine was having deep understanding about this word and its usage. So, he understood that I am passing through the mental disorder (a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders – which is the actual meaning of this word). He has also suggested me, it’s not good to be in such hallucination state and don’t update such status in Google talk. On top of that, he was trying to help me out to come out of this state; he recommended a course of ‘Art of Living’ which he has attended.
On the other end, looking at the chatting window I was laughing, that my interest of using different word, without understanding them properly, pulled me in such troublesome situation.So, even if I was not in such a mentally disorder condition and not seeing any imaginary things, the world got to know that I am in hallucination condition. Ohhh GOD...!!!
PS: for better understanding of the word click here
Fantasy of using different new words makes me feel proud or sometimes make a foolish out of me among the others. But, who cares attitude give strength to my unbound courage each time and I am keep attempting on new words. Hereby, describing one of the occurrences of such thing.
Passing through a little confusing and unclear state of my mind, made me use of word “hallucination” in my status of Goggle Talk. And the show has begun. Many of my online friends contacted me asking what hallucination is. I have been proudly explaining them about using my shallow understanding about word and projecting my extraordinary knowledge in English vocabulary to them, until one dear friend of mine broke my understanding about word.
He started to ask “what happened to me? And why hallucination?”. Similar to others, I have explained him about word and told about unclear state of my mind. But this dear friend of mine was having deep understanding about this word and its usage. So, he understood that I am passing through the mental disorder (a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders – which is the actual meaning of this word). He has also suggested me, it’s not good to be in such hallucination state and don’t update such status in Google talk. On top of that, he was trying to help me out to come out of this state; he recommended a course of ‘Art of Living’ which he has attended.
On the other end, looking at the chatting window I was laughing, that my interest of using different word, without understanding them properly, pulled me in such troublesome situation.So, even if I was not in such a mentally disorder condition and not seeing any imaginary things, the world got to know that I am in hallucination condition. Ohhh GOD...!!!
PS: for better understanding of the word click here
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wandering on city streets
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...!!!
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...!!!
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...!!
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