Category Archives: Life is like that

Another travel and the same memory

Life is like that, Travel

Tomorrow morning I am planning to travel to Chennai to attend one of my ex-colleague’s marriage. She used to work in my earlier firm and she is a wonderful person herself and a fantastic team mate. Now she is working in e-Bay. I’m thrilled to see her get married and also, if possible, to see some of my ex-colleagues.

Including this trip, I’ve driven to Chennai thrice in the past 6 months. Though I am looking forward to the trip, I am little concerned about the weather – it is heavy rains both here and in chennai; plus there has been earthquake in Indonesia recently. Not that I am keen on living; but I am not keen on dying as well.

Every time I have to take a trip, one of the old memories flash through. I miss the company I had in each of the trips. As I cruise along, my mind will ponder those memories.

I know I need to live in the present. But I cant but help thinking of those times.

Good weekend

Life is like that

Anita (http://anitabora.com/blog/) mentioned in her blog that there will be a photo exhibition this weekend. I’ve been following her blog and she is simply a superb photographer. It would also be an opportunity to see her in person.

I made plans to go to the exhibition. Initial plan was … well, I don’t want to talk about it.

Anyway, we went to the exhibition. BIL was kind enough to drive us there. I am glad we went there. It was an awesome exhibition of photos of four folks. I even bought a photo (http://flickr.com/photos/350d/172520360/) for my sister as a gift.

P.S: I am not linking to her blog as this is a private one and I don’t want any back link. But visit her blog, she writes well as much as captures well.

I don’t need this now

Life is like that, Nothing official about it

I’ve said many times here that I’m going through a tough time, personally. One after another has been draining the mental fortitude. I also said about the electrical shock that I escaped.

I’m not sure if I mentioned in this blog; but about a year and half back, I had to fire an (lady) employee. As a matter of fact, I was the first one to fire someone in this department. I’m not particularly proud of it (in fact I went through couple of sleepless nights on that), but that was a professional decision. I discussed that with HR, the head of the department; we provided two chances for improvement; only then we decided to carry out the decision.

Year and a half is a long time. But two days back, I got an SMS from this gal, in which she said, she was going through a trouble and she was not able to concentrate and I found it easy to fire her!

I didn’t know how to react. Firing someone is in itself a tough call; and having to read this after so many months is another disturbing one. On one side I felt pity and another angry. I didn’t respond immediately, but next day I brought it to the notice of the head of the department and the head of HR. Though they were completely supportive of me, I didn’t have a pleasant feeling sitting through these discussions and meetings.

It is much more a disturbance as I go through troubled times.

As the things go from bad to bitter to worse, I feel like crying aloud. I wish I had someone on whom I can lay my heads and felt comforted. But I have none!

Hope I pass through these days keeping my sanity.

P.S.: I know I’ve been only lamenting on this space. This is the only place where I vent out my feelings. If you find it tiresome, please come back after few months.

Still shocked

Life is like that

Some days end better than the morning; and some worse. Today falls into the second category.

I’ve been emotionally drained since Friday. I tried to have a better weekend but things didn’t go well as well.

Today it seemed to be a better day; only it didn’t end well.

See there is an electrical post near the garage at my house. One of the support rods for the pole crosses the garage. I’ve been parking for about a year and half and it posed no trouble. Today I was parking as usual and there were electric sparks. Luckily nothing else happened, other than the fact that the power went off. I was shocked. I am just writing this to cool off.

Walk A Mile In His Shoes

Life is like that

Sometimes good, Sometimes bad,
Sometimes happy, Sometimes sad,
Everybody sometimes falls; He needs someone,
Sometimes weak, Sometimes strong,
Sometime right, Sometimes wrong,
Everybody sometimes falls; He needs someone.

Walk a mile, walk a mile, in his shoes,
Don’t look down, criticize or accuse,
Take the time to see the things he’s going through,
See just how it feels to walk a mile in his shoes.

Words can bless, words can curse,
Make things better, make things worse,
Everytime you throw some dirt, you lose someone,
Words can heal, words can save,
Take a weak one, make him brave,
Everytime you gain a friend, you gain someone.

No, I didn’t write this. I was cleaning (again) and was going through few old papers. Someone wrote and gave me this. I don’t remember (I am ashamed).

Guess I need this at this phase of my life (Do I have one now?).

Could it be this?

Life is like that

I’ve been thinking for a while, why so often I get moody and depressed.

I realized that, I didn’t get what I value as single important thing in life. I still value and I still don’t have. I’ve tried to bridge that gap many-a-times and mostly failed. I say mostly, because there was a brief moment in which I did get it.

This gap and the chase drains emotional fortitude and the rest is ….well you know.

Either the gap is bridged or I stop the chase. I think I better stop the chase.

bad day; okay end

Life is like that, Nothing official about it

I had two escalations today which kept me on toes through out the day. We might miss out on a published schedule. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue; but one of the module is for CFO and he is tracking the progress. This has put me under a good amount of pressure through-out the day.

However later in the evening (19h00-19h30), we had a demo to CEO. This particular project has been in chaos for years and now with new IS head this has gotten a new perspective. The new head wants me to be part of the project and I was in-charge of creating the prototypes. We were little skeptical of the demo; but it went better than we anticipated.

Not so bad end.

Tomorrow I got a status review of the stuff that I talked about CFO module. hmmm…getting ready to be beaten up 🙁

To be a writer

Life is like that

I always wanted to be writer. As a young boy, I remember registering for a journalism course, when I was so young, by saving the little 10 and 20 paise that I got. I don’t remember the reason, but it got rejected.

Anyways, life changed. I started to blog and then opened a website so as to express myself. But I wasn’t disciplined to contribute regularly.

It is never late to realize one’s dream. Right? I have decided to write at least one article every week. I started with a technical article, with my experience on shifting from one laptop to another. It is unbelievable that I took the whole day today to write it. I had to control my mind from wandering.

I hope to continue to write.

You can read the article here.