Feedback

It is so easy to give and so difficult to receive . I am amazed at difficulty that I have receiving it and the ease with which I give it . It hurts and pains . All the positive feedback that you receive gets eclipsed by few negative comments that come your way ... Dealing is one thing ...I think the whole thing becomes more difficult when deep down you believe it is true 

Writing a book while waiting at airport chapter 1

Well who knew that one can write a book waiting at the airport of all places. What happened o writers seclusion , quiet and tranquility of the place . I have just decided I will write a book on ...art of waiting at the airport. Among children screaming and running heater skelter ..among mothers chasing them , among not so old people going in a wheel chair and me always wondering about why they are there. Among announcements saying 'any jet airways guests for Hyderabad ' ...among diffent coloured bags and suits of the elite. Among air hotness and front desk people trying to have the smile even when they have to repeat the same thing over and over again . Among forgotten calls and ' time pass' calls as some of us have nothing better to do. Some bright faces in anticipation of the moment that awaits them when they land . Airports are no longer elite territory which they were earlier. Airports have become more middle class than before which is good in most ways. But this has led to middle class becoming more elite , it emas they are more conscious of what they wear and what lugged they carry . Some of them still manage to carry the heavy bags which they don't want to or cannot check in . Emotions floating around the airport that I have been able to catch range from boredom, anxiety , envy to thoughtfulness .

Languages and art of learning them

I have always wondered and envied people who pick up another language in a jiffy. It takes me a lifetime to do that. I stayed in bangalore for now thirteen years ..my knowledge of Kannada is dismal . I enter to kerela for six years but I never picked up Malayalam , I wanted to but I wa s told it is tough that really got me psyched and I left it at that... What is that , that makes people learn languages  so well 

Morning rush

This is a morning rush blog . I am waiting not because I have time but I want to experience and pen down experience of morning rush .. No matter how much you plan ..somedays it invariably happens ...what we can do ..I get up earlier, I plan to last degree and one unexpected phone call ...one thing out of sync and you get that hurried feeling 

Wnters or summers ...it is so relative

Wen I was living in north part of India , I thought we could identify clearly difference between winter or summer. You wore different clothing all together. You could have cooling or heating depending on what weather it was .  They were chalk and cheese so you could distinguish them so easily. I remember days when my mother used to tuck all winter clothing in a big steel box and then officially winters would go. Then anyway I moved south. There was a very mild summer and milder winter. So the season change lost some its meaning. After than I moved to mumbai , I use dot feel like smirk when anyone said it is winters in December or anyone commented on "nip in the air" ..at 20 degree centigrade ...I guess now more or less we live in one season 

Reading what is good versus what you love to read

This particular dilemma hounds me by leaps and bounds ...I don't know where her I should read what is good for me or what I enjoy reading. There are times when I want to read fiction and I just assume that fiction teaches me something. The whole world of jargon s and management books wears me off sometimes. It is not hat I don't do hat , it is a professional hazard and I need to do that ..but had I had a choice I would rather not do it. Learning is something that I don't want to let go but I wish it comes o me more naturally than it does some days 

Meetings and outcomes

If I were to draw corceraltions between meetings and outcomes - I am sure the coreleation will eb very little or perhaps insignificnat. No let me try to repharese it - in all my corporate life I have wondered why there are meetings ..

Sunday

Today was a Sunday that I liked a lot - what does any Sunday behold for anyone - Sunday - that holds a lot of hope for anyone who works five or even a six day week - sometimes I wonder for some people who work and don't have enough to do or catch up on - Sunday actually must be lonely . These people must not be looking forward to a heavy weekend

Plan what to do at 70

I cannot say what I will like to do when I am seventy...but I want to plan for it ..wish I knew what can be done so that I have lots to do at seventy . Can I plan for it? I need to make my age meaningful even if it is old age  

Why of work

Some days back I had seen a book called. 'why  of work ' ....it set me thinking of the fact that why do we work..what is there about our work that takes us really forward ...what is enjoy,net...should work be enjoyed at all? I seek these answers ..my experience has come down to these four conclusions
1 I live the social part of work, where you need to dress up  every morning ...meet people ..have collaborations , get a sense EOD achievement , accomplishment .

2 I think work should be enjoyed , ...it should have get up from the bed power for you ..that is only possible if it is meaningful as well

3 All the times by nature it will not be fun... You  need to create the fun part of it as well.

4 if we don't compete and put pressure on ourselves then it can be enjoyed

5 most important is people that we work with ..

Food

Why has food become so important even when the whole world agenda has become on ..how less we should eat.

I always wonder why eating has become a science in itself . Gone our ten days when human beings used to relish food and feel the energy that it used to bring

I always hear one of the following conversations
.. I have eaten too much
.. This is so heavy
...I should not have eaten that much
...this food was so rich
...I cannot eat any more
..... I will have to compensate
....this is all
...I cannot do this all the time
...I am so guilty

What has suddenly happened to human race that guilt and food go together 

How much to eat

When I try to do the mathematics that if calories are this much and burning rate is that much it feels sometimes that I don't have to eat anything at all...wow ...and then I read those diet charts ..guess that they say ...oh eat a slice of apple and if you are hungry after two hours drink hot water .. Should we just give up eating at all?

In love with myself

How can that be possible ; I saw a movie where the person say that I am my favourite person ..and here I was thinking why am in not my favourite person ...why am I not i love with myself even the optimum bit really!!

Personal and professional

Are these two really very different ...I always hear people talking about it and I am absolutely lost ..I don't know what are boundaries or where and how to draw them... deep down I am not convinced the need to draw them anyway

Notes to myself

When I was young ...( not that it seems a lot of time ago..) ..I came across a book called notes to myself ...what really struck me was that how simply it was written and you don't need to read in sequence ...is it simplicity of writings that attract us.... When I write here I don't know  if anyone will read it but one day when I will ,I will awestruck by what. Thought and wrote

Another Holi came ...

Is it just me or that we don't play Holi the same way as we used to , by the way we did not even get drenched remotely ..Had a bath of course as every other day ...I am vividly remembering the days of my childhood where we would be so drenched and colours will be all around us. So much so that it was tough to recognise people around..in a campus when we will be going door to door playing holi...Holi Hai..