..." i know you are bootylicious!, but why show off?" ...

... "just because i am not making sense doesn't mean i am all nonsense!" ...

... ‎"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age "...

..."Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."...

One good thing about my grey matter is that it is holding up pretty neatly awl together… now that is not something I should brag about on my blog… especially when I have followers who have somehow mastered the art of keeping the billion neuron strong network together and electrified… and why only blog followers? I’ve been fortunate enough to have rubbed my online identity with zillion other people… and ironic it may sound these very grey cells have left me wondering and exasperated as well and on more than one occasion… but then… that is different story…

… I was pretty excited about the ninth day of this month … and you can read the trailing posts to know more about it… however the fire event @ Bombay House threatened to turn the mood towards the gloomier side but then the subsequent chit-chat left me in better sense of general well-being… which meant I was in a better position to concentrate on the travel bookings for my mom…

… February fourteenth usually puts me in a confused state … and my experience is that this topic is more philosophical than most people think, so I would stay away from it… and while a sizeable population was wandering here and there for some opportunistic moments, some of my family members were on their way to meet me in Poona… and this is a good thing… nothing beats the pampering by mom… and since my sis was also joining-in I knew I will be having some honest exchange of ideas on some mortal aspects I’ve been left wondering lately upon…

… so while I am spending time arguing debating defending fighting laughing and (sometimes) doing nothing … you enjoy the blog and don’t forget to leave your trail in the comment section… J

... "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ...

... there was a fire that broke out in the "Bombay House" in Mumbai yesterday ... till the last news came 3 people (out of 4 who were trapped) had died inside and one person was hospitalised... the fire strated in the basement canteen due to a short circuit in the airconditioner while the complete picture may emerge after the investigations, the prima-facie it appears to be the outcome of another careless attitude of the humans towards the work/living environment...

... usually at such moments it is easier to take the 'i am holier than thou' approach ... but then, it wud be better & better for all of us to take cognizance of our behavior and attitude towards ourselves and humans surrounding us and then work upon it to make this world a safer place to inhabit...

... it was a usual work day... and i had returned from the lunch, opened the web browser to catchup on the day and with Google news in fornt of me i saw "Fire in a Mumbai Building" ... and just when this news was on my screen i saw few colleagues whispering around "...Bombay House mein?..." ... and my fear was bang-on... the fire was in our corporate office...

... and in next few seconds i could think of at least one colleague who probably works there... and apart from the Knome and couple of emails we haven't interacted much... "...the building was evacuated by 11:30..." said the news and i knew she should be all right and still i couldn't just let go... i found her contact information in our corporate email... dropped her a message immediately... and positive reply came in after few moments...

... i guess there are nasty surprises all around the corners of this long winding road of life, wouldn't it be a better thing to continue with the positive outcomes?...

..."Success in marriage isn't in marrying the right person, it's being the right person"...

best thing today: my parents' wedding aniv AND so is A-MG's as well!! |-D

good thing today: i reached the office forty minutes before the scheduled time |-)

bad thing today: it was 5:50 AM then! |-(

..."It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."...

... it was not the usual monday morning today... as per our, recently introduced, shift schedule i was in the first shift... which translates to 0630 hrs swipe-in time... it sounds way too early, but trust me... in winters AND in monsoon it IS way too early! :-) ... but as i said saat farvari was not the usual morning... and then i forgot wat was so special ...

..."You've gone a million miles ; How far d'you get ; To that place where you can't remember ; And you can't forget"...

We Need To Talk:

… if you are hearing this particular sentence in a rom-com/sitcom it will often be followed by giggles or burst of laughter (sometimes as a voice-over as well… for the un-initiated ones!) and if you are hearing this face-to-face there is a good chance that your face will develop reddish hues and difficulty in listening and general loss of concentration…

… communication is not easy… and that is in spite of the spectacular growth in the field of ‘transmission’ be it data or voice or pictures or even humans! … it really doesn’t matter how fast you are able to send your ‘thoughts’ or ‘views’ unless the intended (or even unintended!) recipient is able to ‘get-it’ from your perspective… be it Orkut or FB or ICQ or AIM or Wikipedia or Knome … last of which is an interesting place to be… the riot of colors on the pages was welcome and inviting … an exhaustive FAQ page was another surprising aspect … they don’t bother to ‘create’ it anymore these days…

… Knome what?? … “ a Knowledge Management and a social networking website. It blends cutting edge consumer web collaboration patterns with enterprise KM to provide a platform that is easy, intuitive and adaptable. It is an interactive portal having modules like Q&A, Bytes, Blogs, Wikis, Ideas, Debates, Community and Media which provide a one stop shop to look for and contribute to the generation of knowledge in your organization.” …

… there was a reason why the ‘coffee house’ became so popular… there was an entire generation which turned to these places; not only to drink good coffee and munch the mouth watering and delicious and crunchy hot snacks… be it vada-paav or masala dosa or bread pakoda or medu-vada sambar… but also to sit across and talk and share and debate and laugh and crib and most importantly communicate… ideas, perspectives, feelings, passions… everything was put on the table and dissected among the peers …this helped anyone and everyone who was willing enough to sit for the entire length of the chit-chat … the beauty of such ‘verbal battlefields’ was that they were slugged in the most casual way possible…

… and THAT is what is needed… an informal, casual and light-hearted chit-chat … you can post an open ended query in ‘Q&A’… you can ‘blog’ your doubts and seek answers… and you can definitely ‘byte’ your crib… but if you want to get the answers first-hand… get ready to walk the longer way round … the shortest path between two points is not always a ‘straight’ line… so go ahead and buy a decent pair of spare footwear… tap gently on the shoulder… wear a friendly smile… tell them that you want to help and let them sing… and they will…

(originally posted in the intranet portal: Knome)

‎... "You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' friends. :-)" ...

... i guess i need more masala in this post, just to makeup for the previous 'short' ones! ... but then this ain't no masala blog! ... somewhere down the line i went slightly, only slightly, off-track ... but then it is easier to pen down your thoughts wen u have accumulated something! ...

... it was very silly of me to stay awake late in nite that Sunday, more so because i was in early shift the following day! ... and to make the matter worse i started browsing Knome from home! ... now usually that wud not have made any difference but wat took my forty winks away was this 'sarcastic' (as said by the author himself!) article on me AND another female colleague, though she sits about more than one hundred miles away from me!! ... now being the ever forgiving and ever forgetting... i thought to sleep over it... but wat made me angry was the fact this article was totally uncalled for! and the damage was done! ... with some toss & turns i was able to spend rest of the night on the bed! ...

... however this dumb fellow needed to face the wrath of the caustic Piscean!! ... just because i am long on warm tolerances doesn't mean i will count till ten and leave it! ... 'duffer' has faced that! ... and many of my colleagues know this!... and so this guy was going to get some of it from me... by the time i was asleep i already had the thought process flowing in my mind... and i executed it in the ever amazing ever evolving word play the following day! ... first thing in the morning!! ...

... the good thing is that i prevented the slug-fest ... the bad thing is no one noticed! ;-) ... and while all this was happening in the week me in the first shift... what came as another surprise next week was our departmental meeting ... it was a follow through of the G12 survey result meeting ... and certain very welcome things came out! ... first of all we get to know about this new project... although the background was already known, the presentation was a welcome change! ...

... and my project has been decided to be the next on the projector! ... already received the 'bare-bone' presentation to start my work ... i guess this is going to be one good exercise! ...

... "i may be bad, but i am perfectly good at it..."...

... i guess we humans are more attuned to being plainly opportunistic ...

... and if u looking for the song... then (sigh!) it is here ...