It's the futility of life itself that, sometimes best laid plans can become disfunct just at the nth moment and you cannot do anything for it. And then you look back and it dawns on you that this has been a recurring thing and this is not the last time this has happened.
This particular incident which happened today, made me get the thoughts above. Today was a festival for us. Karva Chauth. My wife has been planning to go a day long fast for me :-) Well she talks to our neighbours that we celebrate together, gets a new dress, comes a bit early the previous day, makes sure that fruits are there for the d-day so that she can eat soemthing in the morning and many such small small minor details taken care of.
She gets up in the morning to eat before sunrise and then she gets a phone call.
A call which had to be made and was made on the right time. Just in time, before she was planning to start the fasting process.
And the whole thing comes to a stand still. No fast today, no celebrations for next 13 days, no crackers this Diwali, ....
Isn't this futility of life?
But when we come out, go on the usual routine, come to office, nothing. Same things and life is going on as usual.
Life just moves on...
Didn't realise this for the full day, any trace of phone call in the morning didn't enter into my thoughts, as was busy doing my work. and now in the evening, when I am done, again I am reminded of the morning call and these thoughts came rushing to me.
So thought would vent them out here, while I am at it..
Even if I didn't, life would still have moved on..
Friday, October 17, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Trouble ahead? Top bank borrows Rs1,000 cr @ 20%
Desperate short-term borrowing signals need for regulators to help Indian banks as liquidity issues persist; many banks have almost stopped lending
A large Indian commercial bank borrowed Rs1,000 crore from another major domestic bank at more than 20% interest rate earlier this week, a desperate move that underscores the gravity of the liquidity scarcity for some Indian banks, notwithstanding assurances to the contrary by regulators and politicians alike ....
A large Indian commercial bank borrowed Rs1,000 crore from another major domestic bank at more than 20% interest rate earlier this week, a desperate move that underscores the gravity of the liquidity scarcity for some Indian banks, notwithstanding assurances to the contrary by regulators and politicians alike ....
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I know it and God knows it!
Got this as a forward today. Very good story on excellence.
A gentleman once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.
Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.
Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage.
"Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?"
The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I know it and God knows it!"
The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. “Excellence” is a drive from inside, not outside.
Excel at a task today - not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction !!
Really nice forward
A gentleman once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.
Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.
Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage.
"Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?"
The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I know it and God knows it!"
The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. “Excellence” is a drive from inside, not outside.
Excel at a task today - not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction !!
Really nice forward
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Great Indian IT Welcome
Innovative ways to welcome the new employees to the company.
I cannot only imagine, what's more to come :-)
I cannot only imagine, what's more to come :-)
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Usability Matters!!
Came across a site on usability matters. This talks about flaws in normal stuff which we see in our everyday lives and how these could have been rectified.
Putting the logo of site also here :-)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Lessons from January 2008
Indian stock markets fell for two consecutive days and lots of lessons to be learnt from it. Found a good article on moneycontrol..
The thing about life is that one makes mistakes. Many mistakes were made in the second half of 2007 and those sins have to be washed away by blood, such is the way of financial markets. Some participants will go down under and never be able to get back to the market again but most will survive. The pain will linger for many months, maybe years but lessons have to be learnt. Every such debacle has lessons for us and the sooner we forget them the more we suffer.
more...
The thing about life is that one makes mistakes. Many mistakes were made in the second half of 2007 and those sins have to be washed away by blood, such is the way of financial markets. Some participants will go down under and never be able to get back to the market again but most will survive. The pain will linger for many months, maybe years but lessons have to be learnt. Every such debacle has lessons for us and the sooner we forget them the more we suffer.
more...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
It all makes sense now
Got following mail as fwd. It reasons out, the things that makes one a bit on the heavier side :-)
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We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. So I'm not fat, I'm just really intelligent and my head couldn't hold any more so it started filling up the rest of me!!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. So I'm not fat, I'm just really intelligent and my head couldn't hold any more so it started filling up the rest of me!!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Monday, January 14, 2008
America by the numbers. No. 1?
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." No. 1? In most important categories we're not even in the Top 10 anymore. Not even close. The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.
Read more here.
Read more here.
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