Frightening medicine(pills)

While swallowing medicine pills reminds my childhood incident related to Fear. For me, fear is just a barrage- an artificial barrier. It is created by mind after experiencing events or impression from the outer world. Everybody has some kind of fear but the amount of impact varies from person to person. It depends on how we handle it. Its easy if we break the fearsome barrier in the inchoate statge ifself.

Fear can be of any type. Many kinds of phobias are defined in lexicon, but not this one. :). Being an urchin, it’s always difficult for my mom to make me to understand things. It was a tense situation for every parent, when their son or daughter was suffering from illness in the childhood. It exacerbated in my case because I had a fear of swallowing medicine pills. Literary it was an impossible task for me and sometime it appeared as a nightmare to me. I had a fear that "if I try to swallow the pills than I will vomit everything out." The same phobia put me in embarrassing situation when I was out of my home and sick.

Not able to recall that what was the catalyst that prepared my mind to overcome this fear. When I was get ready to take my first pill independently, I uttered internally "swallowing pills is very small task, if you can't do this than how will you do big things in life". Than I swallowed the first pill independently without vomiting out and I had a feeling of some achievement. I learnt a big lesson from this incidents that fight with your fear. If you fight than you have created a chance for victory.

All have heard the punch line of Mountain Dew’s advertisement “Darr Ke Aagey Jeet Hain" -Indeed true.

Digitization at (Tapari) Tea Stall

In our organization, there was a plan for digitization of learning cell courses. Those who are not aware about digitization than it’s a process of video recording of learning cell class-room sessions. So, new joiners’ can take this course online any time for their learning. I helped learning cell in digitization process by digitizing lecture on one topic. It was appreciated by the top level managers for my efforts and help to learning cell in overall ODC, although it was not so good. At that time, internally I uttered that it was a good accolade and established good impression in my immediate manager’s mind.

Here the question is “why am I telling all this?” Because below informal conversation depends on it.

After few days, I went to the tapari(roadside tea stall) for a tea very near to my office. There, I met my colleagues of previous projects – A1, A2. We had a below conversation.

D said: “How are you - A1, A2? How is your project work going on?”

A2 said: “As usual, you know that …right ..!! (He knew that I was working in same project before).

D said: “So what is at your end A1?”

A1 said: “Everything is going good. Who cares much? ..I am planning for a long vacation.”

D said: “Ohhh… Really that’s good!! I am sure that you have already informed your boss about vacation plan.” (Trying to pull his leg, as getting long leave is a problem)

A1 said: “No yaar !!… My boss is already there in Chennai. (A1 is from Chennai). He went for some digitization of learning cell “(Here digitization is same as I have explained earlier).

A2 said: “D knows about it. He had been to Chennai for digitization of one course.”

A1said: “ Ohh Great!!! Tell me one thing…This is the same process in which you have to scan your presentation slides which are on papers (hard copy). …Is that Right? …!! “

D said: “No… Man..(Just surprised .and laughing… lol …!! ) It is not the scanning of the papers. It is a video recording of the course. So, that other people can take the course online for their learning.”
(Suddenly lots of thoughts arise in my mind. By thinking logically, I am sure that he is not pulling my leg because for scanning the paper we don’t have to go all the way to Chennai. :) . Another thought is that “Which engineering degree is he holding?” “Does he know about digitization or not?” But looking at his position in organization, couldn’t dared to ask that….lol…. :) “)


On the way back to office, I was thinking that other associates might have similar thinking like “A1” than till now I was in fool’s paradise. “There is no need to be happy due to this accolade and praising.” In a moment, my all happiness vanished.
For my ease, I asked my cube mates that weather they know “what is digitization?” .. … “ahhhh …Thank GOD !!…at least they know that" :)

Keep Smiling...!!!

When an unknown person smiles at you, what makes you smile back?

It happens that sometime at workplace you have a big argument with your boss regarding work assignment etc... The similar is happened with me few days back. After this predicament, I was marching towards home with disgruntle mind which was still thinking about all those contentious argument. Suddenly I had an eye contact with someone and that person smiled. :) I forgot everything and just smiled back. Immediately, I looked at the sideways to make sure that the person smiled at me and not at someone else. Thank God…. no one was around :). Than, I tried to recall the face as if I have a good memory power. But after few attempts, I concluded that I didn’t know that person. Suddenly, something twinkles in my mind that what does that make me smile back at unknown person as I was actually in very anguish mood.

May be we always looking for cheerful and jovial moments. As soon as we saw it, we forget all our worries, miseries and start cherishing into it.

So Keep Smiling…!!!! :)

Surrounding external environment....!!!

Not directing you on natural environment, but here environment means friends, relatives, societies etc... with/where we live. Does it really make any difference that how the environment is? No idea..!! Actually speaking I never know in which way it affects us. Mostly everyone heard in childhood that keeps your friendship with good boys & girls in schools and in society. At that time, we never distinguish between what is good or bad. As a kid we just go in the environment which suits to us or the environment which adopt us.

Does the same thing applicable when we already grown-up? Generally, everyone has a feeling that it really makes a difference as people uttered frequently this proverb, "one spoiled mango spoils other mangoes in the barrel". Look at this in a different way. If the spoiled mango has no intension to spoil others, than...?

My view says that environment is just a requirement which only create lots of impressions on you. As a person it’s up to you that to allow them in your inner environment or not. Everyone has to make their inner environment very sturdy and unbreakable. Thinking if the same tendency adapted by the spoiled mango than least chances to ameliorate itself. Actually your inner environment is created by your inner voice, so it is pure and exquisite at its instantiation. Sometimes, it might be possible that a layer of dust settled due to external environment. So be in any environment, but listen to your inner voice. Little absurd but its true that sometime the Inner voice has nothing to say :-)
Anticipating your views on this... :)

Ignite your mind ...not lungs..!!

Few days back, I had been to one of the music concert and it was good. But troublesome part was that most of the teenagers and elders were smoking for the just sake of ostentation and representing themselves as coolest dudes. In concert, when the singer sang a song with the theme "Ignite your mind" and these people were ingniting their lungs by filling smoke. They were knowingly putting themselves in jeopardy. Smoking had affected me to such an extent that I couldn't inhale properly and came out of the concert in half an hour. Similary,in office also many associates smokes in the building's gallery just to stress out or may be for other reasons. It is extremely difficult for others to take breathe in building gallery.May be this kind of problem in mostly every offices. Smoking has been spreaded to such an extreme that we all turned into smokers. Not actively than passively. Already many things are burning in this world, why do you want to ignite more?

Investigation for the instantiation of something is what I like. I searched "who has started this smoking?" Briefly, smoking tobacco- the herb was used for healing purpose as medicine initially. Later on they have started using as substance to fill into cigarettes and bidi. Researcher has pointed that it’s originated by our one and only Uncle Sam and propagated in different countries. For India, we can give this credit to Portuguese.

Thanks to our health minister Ramadoss that he has already announced ban on smoking from 2nd October in some public places. It will be a splendid gift to Mr. Gandhi - The Father of Nation, if this ban is not converted into moratorium. To support health ministry in this excellent initiative, private sector companies should contribute. One of the idea is that companies should stop hiring people who is smoking? – definitely the company’s CEOs should be a nonsmoker :). Even we can also contribute to some extent through forcing our smoker friends, colleagues and relatives to quit smoking.

Unintentional cursing..sometime appear as reality..!!

Have you observed that when someone blasphemed or cursed you and it converted in actual reality? How is that possible? Do they possess any sovereign power to convert their own words into reality?

Here is real life example which happened with me few days back. On Friday evening, I was leaving for the railway station to catch the train and accidently I met my colleague in staircase of my office building. We had a small chat. Then, I said that "I am in a hurry and need to leave for station." He knew that biweekly I am going home. So, suddenly he said “yesterday the train was cancelled out due to some reason. May be today also it may happen than what will you do?" (He was laughing and trying to pull my leg ). I smiled back and continued with my journey towards station. As soon as I reached there, I have heard the announcement, "The train is cancelled ". That was really annoying situation for me. Immediately, I called up my colleague and asked him that did he know about train cancellation in well advance ? He said "No". Actually, he never cursed me deliberately. He is one of my well wishers.

Other similar incidents also happened with me. I have observing this from quite a long time but not able to find any absolute reason that why did it happen? May be it is just a coincident but when it happens, you can't resist yourself to curse that person back at least once...he he he :)

Slow Eaters...!!!

In life, we meet idiosyncratic people. Some people eat their food very fast while some eat it very slowly. It's one of my observation that people, who eat their food very slowly, are very intelligent, shrewd, smart, sharp, astute, wise, meticulous, quick-witted and a lot more. Not sure, it may be wrong also. Would like to know that is it related someway..?

I am sure that other way is not true. I mean the people who are smart, intelligent, shrewd.etc not necessarily eat their meals very slowly.

If this observation is true than let me know. I will start eating slowly. So people can use some of these good adjectives for me till they know reality :-)