All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

If anybody happens to watch the Weather and Pollution levels of each city which they show in NDTV and you see that Bangalore has high sound pollution... I know who is spreading the love of sound in Bangalore

My driver....the driver who drops me to office everyday.

Whoever goes to Old Madras Road area at around 6pm on weekdays and hear an irritating honking sound (sounds something like kkkeee kkkeee kekekkkeee and mulitply that by 1000) will tend to agree with me. and if anybody sees a tall lanky fellow in there seated in th backseat , well he is innocent. Its the guy behind the wheels who is the culprit.

Now, apart from all the honking and abusing the people on the road another important charecteristic of the driver is that he does not like the roads empty. If he doesnt find any car on the roads he feels bored. Something similar to the drivers i have noticed in Delhi. They just dont like 'em empty.

The moment they see roads are filled with cars and people some kind of a mad spirit enters their body, the ones which you see on tv where people start acting weird when they go to a durgah and all.

Anyways, my point here is people have started losing patience here. There is this another case which i'm sure most of us would have come across in our daily life. There are people who keep constantly pressing the lift button expecting the lift to come to their floor faster. but the fact is that it actually comes late. Thats because the lift does not like constant reminding of what it has to do. Something similar to human mind. We dont like being reminded of what we have to do.do we? Now the key here is Patience. You just need to tbe patient till the lift arrives to your floor.

Now when my computer at work gets stuck trying to multitask and my directors are waiting for the report at that point of time i try banging my system hoping it will bring some sense into my stupid computer. well you know what, no banging brings your system into your senses. It will come back to life only when it feels like. Sometimes it likes to act dead and doesnt come back at all. Thats when you confirm a system has crashed. Now take my advice, its not good to bang at something which is dead.

There will be other instances when you feel the whole world is against you.especially in situations like when you have to reach some place urgently(most of the time office) and you get stuck in maddening traffic, or waiting to get a haircut done on a sunday and realising that 3 people have already arrived before you, or calling up a call centre for a very minor info and ending up going through all the option from 1-20 or when you are at a public place and you have to use the restroom urgently and then realise you are in queue.... hmmmm..maybe that has to do more with self control than patience.

Patience is one thing which cannot be inherited. It has to be learned and experienced. and for that too one needs patience. Now if you ask me how to get that initial patience ...I'ld just say...Read my blog.

Ice Ice baby

Thats what we thought we'ld be doing when we (Vishnu,Bobby and myself) decided to go Skiing on our vacation this December.

Well we realised that what you expect is not what you always get.

I'm sure you'ld have all expected somethings to be really easy and silly but when you actually try it out, its aint silly anymore. 

Well Skiing was not exactly there in our itenary.But the 3 of us couldnt resist that thought on our way to Rohtang Pass especially since we would be amidst the honeymooning couples and we wanted some adventure of our own. 

So we spend around 4000 bucks renting equipment for our skiing expedition and headed to Rohtang. Now my advice to all those who have long feet, you need to have pateince while trying out the ski because skis for long feet are hard to find.

Now after spending 4000 bucks, pushing cars to get to the top and an adventerous road journey through the edges of the moutains and slippery icy tracks, this is how we ended up.

I think our driver caught the dissapointment in our faces when we came back as we were not able to fly like the red & white eagle above which looks like a human. So he demonstarted his version of flying in the car on the way back since he preffered taking the aerial route in the car to reach our hotel than by road.Now if you ask me how on earth we are still alive i just have 3 words....GOD is Great.

Wake me up when February goes......

February!!!!

Well the only month which cant make up its mind, shortest month of the year but tries to compete with itself by adding a 29th day in there. Being the shortest has its advantges for the working professionals, you work less and get paid two days in advance. Now thats why i always want every month to be a february just like i want every day to be a sunday. 

Now what is it like being born on 29th Feb? Does it mean you turn a year older only once in every four years or do you have to celebrate you birthday on 28th or the 1st of March. If thats the case you'ld have to remember two dates just to be safe. also if your gift didnt make much of an impression you could always produce another on the 1st of March.Or if you if you don't have the finances at the end of the month to buy a gift on 28th, which is most likely, you can always give the real gift on 1st of March once you get your pay.

Also February is not the best month to invest in stocks. so is Jan, March, April, May, June, July, August, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec

To err is human, to forgive divine

If forgiving is divine, yes than I'm divine.

Lately I've been the forgiving kind.I seem to forgive everybody.

If somebody comes and pushes me to the ground i might as well say sorry on their behalf. See I forgive.

The other day My manager sends me a stinker mail for not sending out a particular mail to our client. As a matter of fact the next day he was supposed to do it and he forgets. What do i do? I forgive.

The other day i took a loan from one of my colleague. He comes and asks for the money. I couldn't repay him. I'm broke. What did i do...I forgive myself.

My Cab comes late when i really need to get to office. The driver throws attitude as if I'm late. What did i do.... I forgive

My Directors give me work when I'm about to leave for home and make me work extra hours almost daily. What do i do. I forgive.

Amidst all this My Supervisor gives Zero support. What do i do. I forgive.

My Supervisor sees this blog after a week. What would i do. I forgive him for reading this.

Trust me. You write "I forgive" 7 times . You will actually start forgiving.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Date : Jan 29 - 21:55 - Mission - To board Kanyakumari Express to go to my home..sweet home.
22:00 - Train arrives . Board the train hoping to see a good looking female just opposite to my berth. But as bad luck would have it I get an elderly couple. Not the first time it has happened so I'm quite used to these kind of disappoinments. Anyways the story continues.

22.30 - No sign of TT and everybody is getting restless, nah, not to sleep but to go the bathroom because they didnt want to miss the TT when they are at the bathroom. Meanwhile confusion breaks out as to which berth to occupy. For the benefit of ppl who have not travelled in Trains recently ..Now there are 81 berths compared to 72 what we had before. confusion being which berth to occupy, the old system of numbering or the new system of numbering the seats.

22.45 - Still waiting for the TT. The babies start crying.even they are restless.

22.50 - Mom calls.even she is restless. wants to know if her only son boarded the train.

22.55- The TT finally arrives.ends the cofusion and asks us to follow the old numbering. proving time and again that the Railways are a confused lot themselves. Now why would u invest so much money on increasing the number of berths and not actually use it.

23:55 - People finally get a chance to go the bathroom and hit the berth. and like everybody else I also hit the berth.

00:35 - The train stops and I'm awaken by a loud roaring sound. and no prize for any guesses...its the person next to me snoring away to glory. and now since i was wide awake and my neighbour in train showing no signs of letting me sleep my thoughts began to wander...which led me to a question.. Why do People Snore??.. So i googled it and found the answer.

Vibrations of soft tissues located at the back of our throats cause the noisy, annoying sounds of snoring

The palate, uvula and tonsils are the tissue structures that flap against each other when someone has too much tissue at the back of their mouth or when an obstruction is blocking the air passageway to the back of the throat.

People with snoring problems tend to have one of the following conditions:
Poor muscle tone in the tongue and throat
Excessive bulkiness of throat tissue
Long soft palate and/or uvula tissue in the back of the mouth
Obstructed nasal airways

See, This blog is not just a waste of time. apart from ruining your day by reading this, it also imparts knowledge. hmmmm maybe i Should start thinking of a new name for my blog.

Anyways, Its not a Happy Ending altogether. Return Journey in a bus, I end up with a same fate . This time its a guy who should be younger to me, i guess, since he is still in college, and i thought only old people snore.

And for all the snorers out there including my buddy Vishnu, You rock, so you shoud just go ahead and join a rock band.

Doesnt make sense huh??... I guess i should just stick on with Waste of Time.