Wisdom

Photography

2007-01-08T14:57:00.000+05:30

Beauty & innocence.
Bombay - Pune Express Highway
A view of Guest House at Kandala
A temple by the riverside 40 kms from Pune

An divine elephant which carries the god on it, during the festival (At Srikalahasthi)
A cheerful and happy moment on occassion of diwali. (Sri Kalahasthi)
A flower which is in the shape of a bird. (Tirumala Hills)
A beautiful picture painted on the body of a bus. So Chweeeet.
Jai Hanuman. A tall Statue on the way to reach tirumala hills. Exactly half way from tirupathi.

10 GREAT NEW YEARS' RESOLUTIONS

2007-01-05T13:35:00.000+05:30

If you're shopping for a new year's resolution, here are the ones that I would recommend:

1. Resolve to stay optimistic.
See the opportunity in every difficulty and anticipate the most favourable outcome to every situation.

2. Resolve to identify the most powerful benefit you offer to the people around you and then deliver it.
"The purpose of life," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a life of purpose." What's yours?

3. Resolve to pump-up your personal vitality.
The real currency of the new century is not cash. It's vitality. It's the ability to keep going every day of every week of every month of the year with vigour and verve.

4. Resolve to be habitually generous.
Success is not something you pursue. It's something you attract by what you become.

5. Resolve to refrain from verbal attacks.
Use the language of conciliation, not the language of confrontation. Use words that express your joie de vivre and connection with others.

6. Resolve to be open to the cultures and influences of others.
There is a direct correlation between personal well-being and openness to other peoples' ideas and cultures.

7. Resolve to take control of your destiny.
Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you forget to make a life.

8. Resolve to increase your human connectedness.
The person with the best connections wins.

9. Resolve to increase your creativity by letting go of the familiar.
Try to see the world through fresh eyes every day.

10. Resolve to be you because others are already taken.
You and I are at our best when we're being authentic

Men Are Just Happier People

2006-02-07T14:38:00.000+06:00

What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.

You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white
T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car
mechanics tell you the truth.

You never have to drive to another gas station
restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and
think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.

The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected. New shoes
don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone
conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A
five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own
jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If
someone forgets to invite you, they can still be your friend.

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Three pairs of shoes are more
than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are
unable to see wrinkles in your clothes. Everything on your face stays
its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life. Your belly usually hides your big
hips. One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons. You
can wear shorts no matter how your legs look. You can "do" your nails
with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a
mustache..

You can do Christmas shopping for all your relatives on December 24 in
30 minutes.

No wonder men are happier

Learning Vs. Teaching

2006-01-17T09:39:00.000+06:00

“I wish to learn. Will you Teach me?”
“I do not think that you will know how to learn” said the Master
“Can you teach me how to learn?”
“Can you learn how to let me teach?”

To his bewildered disciples the Master later said: “Teaching only takes place when learning does. Learning only takes place when you teach something to yourself”

-From “One minute Wisdom” – Anthony de Mello

India...........aha

2005-12-30T10:22:00.000+06:00

The source for this is not me. I just copied it from somewhere(including the comments at the bottom). Just thought of sharing it with my group.

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament
(MP)

Monthly Salary : 12,000
Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000
Office expenditure per month : 14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 (For a
visit to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily BETA during parliament meets : 500

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train : Free (For any
number of times)
(All over India)

Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40
trips / year
(With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free

Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge : Free up to 1,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP per year : 32,00,000

TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000

For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000
(nearly 855 cores)
And they are elected by THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, by the
largest democratic process
in the world, not intruded into the parliament on
their own or by any qualification.
This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and
price hike on our regular commodities.......
Think of the great democracy we have.............

On seeing the article, I was tempted to make a search on internet and came across the above article. It was really a good sarcastic article on the MP's. Please do take a look.

To think that we are spending a whopping 170 crores of visible expenditure on our honorable member of Parliaments, I now understand why we have many uneducated people at power.

Instead of saying "God save India", I prefer to say "Let us save India"

Self made savouries in Srilanka (On the eve of Christmas)

2005-12-28T12:52:00.000+06:00

Chicken Fry

Alu Fry

Rasam

My Meal

Poori with Alu Fry(breakfast)

One of my Telugu Poem's (On Demand)

2005-12-23T14:15:00.000+06:00

Kanulu moosina neevaaye
Kanulu therachina neevaaye
gunde ninda neevaye,
akkada nivasinchunadi neevaaye

kanulu therachi choodakunna
kalisi poye manasulu
pedavi vippi cheppakunna
palikevu bhavaalu

Kuhu kuhu la koila paatalu
virapoosina manasula aasalu
anu kshanam ni oohalu
brathuku saaginche na shwasalu

paatalu paade oo maina
ninnu vidavanu eemaina
choosukuntanu ikapaina
daachukuntaanu nalona
nee prema....na premaaa.....mana premaa.....

Epic of the "History of one's Future"

2005-12-17T09:42:00.000+06:00

All,

Can someone help me unwrap the possible interpretations of this statement. It just came out while talking to my best friend y'day. Just wanted to take all your opinion on this.

Dina

Can you appreciate this creation of ones imagination

2005-12-16T17:43:00.000+06:00

All,

For those who can appreciate the creativity, the imagination, this is a sample for you.

http://www.neave.com/lab/imagination/

Ashwin,

isnt it some one's dream, and he/she would feel proud if they happen to see our comments here.

Dina

Project Go Live

2005-12-15T14:00:00.000+06:00

All,

I head a project of Setting up a shared services. My project's Phase 1 go live was y'day. The phase 2 of the go live is 1st week of January'06.

It went on much smoother than expected, thanks for the wishes from my best friend.

Wish me luck.

Dina

My Friends New Born Son

2005-12-15T12:07:00.000+06:00

Sanjeev, the son of Sanjala & Arvind.

Nature's Beauty (Kandy - Botanical Gardens)

2005-12-03T16:34:00.000+06:00

It was a rainy day where you could reach for the clouds. The beauty of the nature was in full bloom. Though i spend only 2-3 hrs here, the memories will remain deep within for a long long time.

Dina

Complaining abour your life......??? Think again

2005-12-01T09:44:00.000+06:00

Just an idea of how lucky we are. We are all blessed and we could help out the people in need and give them back their future.

Dina

Lanka - the preview

2005-12-01T09:21:00.000+06:00

I was travelling home in a Trishaw(Auto in simple) after another hectic day of meetings all day. Happy about my friend has joined me back in office after 5 days of vacation. We were talking our usual stuff about the updates of office during last week.
The auto was stopped by the military. They check the lisence or even the identity of the passengers. The police dont chase the vehicles here. They have a stop board in their hand and the vehicle stops in no time. Discpline is the order of the day on roads. People stick to the lanes, 1st preference to the pedestrains, no walking on roads, only footpath is used. No vendors blocking the roads. Definately stop on Red signal.

The Trishaw stopped at an Petrol bunk, and i was not so happy about it as it was already a long day and i wanted to reach home at the earliest (Need to go home, cook and then eat and sleep). The auto driver asked me about the price of petrol in India, when i told him he was amazed saying so cheap. I didnt bother as i told him price in INR and i thought he was comparing it with LKR rate. He immediately asked me about the exchange rate for the 2 currencies. He knows the reason for the exchange differences. He understands the economic differences between the two countries.

It rained heavily for continous 3-4 days last week. No sign of water pools on main roads. Vehicles move with ease even in rains.

Probably the only difference is discpline and very less population compared to India.

Good days ahead with this country.

Dina

The place i live in

2005-11-30T18:44:00.000+06:00

Things were never the same in life for me since 1999. Yes that was the first year that i stepped out of my house for my first job. I was leaving home on "Vinayaka Chavithi". It was 13th of Sept,1999. 13 is again a lucky number for me.....its my date of birth.

I had gone to gurgaon. I was transferred to the hyd office after almost 2 years. Couple of weeks in Hyd and i had to go to Australia, Sydney for another 6 months. Returned from Sydney, another 6 months at Hyd, I had to rush to chennai for my CA final, another 5 months, i had to return to hyd, and i started persuing my CPA, so for writing the exams, i had to rush to USA, another 6 months there, with my company, my sister and brother and few of my cousins, i came back, another 6 months in hyd doing my Oracle financials, and i had to go to Bangalore for my job (yet another 6 months) i got transferred to Hyd, another 6 months and i got a posting in Chennai and on a project currently in Colombo Srilanka for 1 year.

Well, though i made a conscious attempt not to settle down in USA as my bro and sis are already there, i wanted to be with my parents in my mother country. But this much of travel and all this in 5 years is what amuses me. Even if i have not settled in US am i being with my parents all times. Am i establishing my network in India. I still dont have an answer to this.

Few of the pics from the place where i live now. The view from my balcony of the vehicles moving, its right in front of the beach, the sunset with the sea and my living room.

Dina

Dambulla - Tallest Buddha

2005-11-29T12:18:00.000+06:00

This is the place called Dambulla which is between two cities of Srilanka. Its 70 kilometers from a city called Sigiriya. Sigiriya is a place which was ruled by the Srilankan King. It has a Fort of the king on top of the Sigiriya Stone. Will post the Sigiriya Fort soon. Going further another 150 Kms you will find the hill station called Kandy. A view of how kandy looks early in the morning. It was a wonderful trip. One of the momorable trips.
Dina

Freedom

2005-10-26T09:15:00.000+06:00

Freedom of life,
freedom in life
freedom after life.
its the same word.........with different meanings

My first posting