Gone are those days !

Just now, I read an email from one of my friend which recalls my school days. I know the itention of this is to fit for most. Somehow, it fits more than 90 % for me. Though its a copy & paste from that email, I want to have it in my blog, atleast for me to read whenever I want to.


When

The school reopened in June,

And we settled in our new desks and

benches!


When we queued up in book depot,

And got our new books

and notes!


When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet

managed to line up daily for the morning prayers...

We learnt writing with

slates and pencils, and

Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!


When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to

Color pencils and finally sketch pens!


When we started calculating

first with tables and then with

Clarke's tables and advanced to

Calculators and computers!


When we chased one another in the

corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms

Drenched in sweat!


When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,

Playgrounds,

under the trees and even in cycle sheds!


When all the colors in the world,

Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!


When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,

Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!


When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,

And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!


When few played

'kabadi' and 'Kho-Kho' in scorching sun,

While others simply played

'book cricket' in the

Confines of classroom!


Of fights but no conspiracies,

Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!


When we used to

watch Live Cricket telecast,

In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!


When few rushed at 3:45 to

'Conquer' window seats in our School bus!

While few others had 'Big Fun', 'peppermint' ,

'kulfi', ' milk ice !' and 'sharbat !' at 4o Clock!

Gone are the days

Of Sports Day,

and the annual School Day ,

And the one-month long

preparations for them.


Gone are the days

Of the stressful Quarterly,

Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most

enjoyed holidays after them!


Gone are the days

Of tenth and twelfth standards, when

We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!

We learnt,

We enjoyed,

We played,

We won,

We lost,

We laughed,

We cried,

We fought,

We thought.

With so much fun in them, so many friends,

So much experience, all this and more!


Gone are the days

When we used

to talk for hours with our friends!

Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!


Gone are the days

When we played games on the road!

Now we

Code on the road with laptop!


Gone are the days

When we saw stars Shining at Night!

Now we see stars when our code doesn't Work!


Gone are the days

When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!

Now we chat in chat rooms......!


Gone are the days

Where we

studied just to pass!

Now we study to save our job!

Gone are the days

Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!

Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!

Gone are the days

Where we shouted on the road!

Now we don't shout even at home

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!

Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!

Gone are the days

But not the memories, which will be

Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and

Ever and ever and ever .....


Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!

NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,

DONT FORGET TO

LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL

EXISTS...... ...

Inspiration !

Today, I read one article. here it is for everyone who reads my blog:

"When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will."

---Anon

Some facts about your brain

Toady I raed an aritlce wihch I fuond so interesting. Tihs epxlians how the hmuan bairn wroks. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

The Countdown journey

It was one of the day that I was waiting for a nearly a month. That’s the day that I am starting home. As usual the travel tickets were not available for the train that I indented board. So, I booked for an express that starts at 6:00 PM (that’s what I initially thought) from central station. This is one of the rare occasions that I start home on Friday evening after coming to project. So, planned and packed well before. The day starts well in office. As usual in the project there is very less task to be handled.

So, I planned to leave office at 2:40 PM, so that I get the complete time cushion. As usual with some last minute books from lib started sharp at 2:50. There starts the surprise, when I saw the train time; it was at 5:00 PM. I kicked my self though I have reasons to that confusion. How do I miss that one? (Its bcos I have booked one another ticket for my friend on the same day for 6:00 PM train). Then when I am on my way to the gate, I felt thank god, I had enough buffer time to manage this crisis, so this mistake wont be much costly. But the surprise doesn’t end there... There are just two options left for us here. People who are here in this office can only know how inflexible is to leave out of office in these unusual hours.

1. Need to walk with that luggage for nearly 5 KM to the railway station
2. Wait for the shuttle service provided every 40 min

To my bad luck, I just saw the cab moving out when I was nearing the gate. So I need to wait for another 30 minutes or so. If we think of the first option, that too won’t be a wise since there won’t be any train from that station even if we reach earlier. So, I just stick to the II nd option. Urging the people around there and reached the station to board the 3:30 local train to central. With 90 minutes in hand it looks as an easy task, but remember, I need to cross 24 local stations to reach central railway station. Here are the station names in their order: Paranur, SP Kovil, MM nagar, Kattankulathur, Potheri, Guduvanchery, Urrapakkam, Vandalur, Perungalathur, Tambaram, Sanatorium, Chrompet, Pallavaram, Trisulam, Meenambakam, Palavanthangal, St. Thomas Mount, Guindy, Saidapet, Mambalam, Kodambakkam, Nungambakkam, Chetpet, Egmore and next comes PARK. After some long time, I am just doing the mathematics in my mind without any aid:

24 * 3 = 72
24 * 3.5 = 84
24 * 4 = 96

One more thing to be noted, even after reaching 'park' station (local railway station nearer to Chennai central station) I need minimum of 4 min to reach central and find my train. Anyways, the calculation works only if the train crosses every station in less than 3.5 min. This is really a tough ask. To my luck or surprise some stations are crossed in 2 minutes and some in 2.5 minutes and so, that gains me some time, but at Tambaram the train is taking some breathe it seems. I am just counting every minute of its stay. At that time, I just thought of the other alternatives if I miss this one. But, since it’s the start of the weekend it won’t be that simple for me to travel in general compartment with such a huge luggage.

Finally with some additions and subtractions, I reached the park stations at 4:50 PM and rushed to my train 3 min in advance of its scheduled time. I haven’t even bought the water while boarding. After boarding, I just felt as if I have achieved some thing great... As in films; irrespective of all troubles and hurdles, the hero wins atlast. But this count down story winds up with a comedy at the end, the train started late of 25 minutes than its scheduled departure. :)

SUBAM!!!

Fueling the flame?

It is high time for every nation across the globe to be more cautious. The main cause of the concern is the inflation rate of our country which raises to two digit mark and crossing its 13 years high. As per the saying "Wise men learns from other experience", we need to learn from others around and also from the history.

There is an african country with most billionares yet starving for food teach many lessons to rest of the world. Imagine their position, their inflation rose to more than 6 digits (inflation >100000). The cost of the Paper worth more than their currency. Thats the real worst case. Though we can quote thousands of reasons for its cause, acting on the solution is most ultimate and vital. Its as simple as not to point the hole in the boat but to fix it, atleast not for others sake but to keep ourself in a safe place.

The supply is not matching with the demand. Government and its central banks trying with to take stern action with repo rate and CRR hikes. Is just the absorbing of money in the market cools down the burning fire? I dont think so. More investments on farming and increasing the food production may be the first and foremost action item. But its not as easy as it looks. Farmers dying in many parts of the country without food. With many other jobs in hand, government is sponsoring money in installments. By this time, they are left with two choices in their hand which I believe that they can do it more efficiently

1. Go ahead with reforms to curb the inflation and have it under their control.
2. Give away all the possible free bees (which may add fuel to the flame)to attract people to have a fresh start later in their next term.

With the 6th pay commisions approval at this point of time, i believe they are fueling the flame of inflation,(may be with the belief that they can calm it down in the next term) and waiting to catch the crane with butter on its head!

No politics only about policies.

Disclaimer:All that are mentioned above are my own imaginary views and ignore if you feel contrary to it.

Six golden rules for love relationship

Follow the six golden rules which binds all the love relationship

• 1. Relationship lasts only if we give something not if we get


• 2. Make sure that your rules, priorities and expectations are known to your loved one.
  
• 3. Do something unique and simple to make them understand how you love them.
  
• 4. Never threaten the relationship saying that if you do that I will break and so on. The relationship breaks at that point itself.
  
• 5. Reinforce the feelings of connection with regular expressions :“How lucky am I to have u in my life” and so on…
  
• 6. Don’t take your lover for granted. Give a special moment to make him/her a legendary one for you.

Fearless Indian Team added feathers to their crown

After winning the T20 world cup, there was a feeling that our team has re-shaped as the best team in the world. But the one-day series against the world champions of one-day cricket is going to be the acid test for the team. The Australians asked many questions about the new Indian talents with their ball and bat.

With the lights of Sachin, Saurav and Dravid in Indian soil our team was expected to put a tough fight. But the things were different. The series was fully dominated by the two mighty Australian batsmen (Hayden and Symonds) and with the worst form ever in the career of great wall of India, the series loss becomes obvious.

With all these, the final match that happens in the Indian cricketing capital is only for entertainment with nothing to decide the way the series goes. India WINS !!!

Dhoni’s final words about the T20 match, “let’s hope for the best” with a confidence in his eyes.

The clock ticks 7 ‘O’ clock evening. The match starts. Australians won the toss and elected to bat. As usual Indian gave ample of runs except the only Indian bowler who took a hat-trick in test cricket against Australia. (Harbajan Sigh – 4-0- 17-1). They put up 166 on the board.

It’s not an easy asking for Indian batsmen. But the Indian batting led by Gambir with three other batsmen to follow, India wins the match convincingly. The strike bowler of Australia ‘Bret Lee’ went for more than 11 an over and the sixes from every one’s bat except Shewag tells the story how the Indians batted. Indians were marching towards the target with such a fabulous stroke play.

Six runs away from victory. Dhoni on strike… Lee to bowl… that’s SIX!!! Indians wins with great flat hit for a six from the Indian Captain MS Dhoni…

Though we last the one-day series, this win in T20 proves to the world that we are the real champions in this format. The Aussies will also accept this!!!

The sad part of this moment is ... I am in office at all these time :(