Tough time (Tougher time)

It was a tough time these days to me. Dont know what is going on. Things were out of my hand and i had no control over things. Everything was in worse state. I had a lot number of well-wishers taking care of me (Siva, Ashwin, Shyamala, Abinaya). I must bow before you all for all the care you showered.

The following are some of the quotes from you all which consoled me a lot.

adivaangum kal silai yaagum

adi thaangum kal swami silai aagum

adi thaankaatha kal kovil vasal padiyaagum

 

- Siva

 

yethu nadakumo athu kanndippa nadakum

 

- Siva

 

When things are bad, take relief in the fact that they aren't actually worse.. when they get worse, take relief in the fact that they cant get more worse and HAVE to get better

 

- Ashwin

 

Without you all, i dont know where things could have taken me. Hmmm. I hope i am okay now.

Dedicating this blog to you all (Siva, Ashwin, Abinaya, Shyamala), my well-wishers.

Awesome Weekends

It's above 12 pm now. I am still awake doing nothing, but simply enjoying my free time. The weekend went very well and i enjoyed well. This is what i did the last two days :

Saturday (12th Dec 2009) :

I woke up by 11 am. Toasted 4 bread with butter and had it to kill hunger. Room-mate made panner gravy. I had to just prepare rotti. I prepared 5 and had. I filled a bucket with water and put immersion water heater in it. Sun TV was screening Friends, a movie starring Surya and Vijay. I like that movie. So i simply passed time watching the movie. After the movie took bath and planned to go to Hyderabad SKY(Simplified Kundalini Yoga) Trust. All I know is the address. The number i had was no more working. I took my scooter and started riding towards Sri Nagar Colony. With the help of Google maps i reached Sri Nagar Colony. I wandered for half an hour here and there searching for the address. Since i dont know both Telugu and Hindi which are the most spoken languages here in Hyderabad, i had a good experience in finding out the address. Finally i reached the place when a gentleman guided me rightly. There were only 3 in the home. An old man, his wife and his son(seemingly). The old man and his better half were in meditation. Since I am going to their home for the first time, i didn't want to frighten them by joining in meditation. After the meditation, i met him and we had a chat. I promised him that i will help him in all ways with regard to vedathiri maharishi's yoga proceedings. I always wanted to help people. I need to stress here that it is because of vedathiri maharishi's vedathiriyam I am here alive and happy after worst possible aches in my life. I hope i will take this as an opportunity to engage myself more actively in some useful things. I left the trust and i headed towards Birla Mandir. This temple attracted me a lot when i came here during the Hyderabad IV. So i simply went there even though i was alone. I returned home by ten pm and prepared tomatu chuttney(I am an expert in preparing this :-) ), made rotti and ate happily. Then i watched movie till 2 30 in TV. Switched off TV and took the book i bought in Birla Mandir "Swami and Friends" by R.K.Narayanan. Soon i felt sleepy and went to bed. Saturday went happily like this.

Woke up by 2 pm on Sunday :) Prepared 6 butter toasted bread and had it as i was hungry. I felt like i should invite Santhosh, my school day friend, for dinner. I called him and he accepted to come home :) Watched a part of a tamil movie and started to wash clothes. My goodness, washing clothes is so painful :) Meanwhile Santhosh arrived Miyapur. Went to the junction to pick him up. Came back home and showed all rooms to him. I went to take bath leaving him in the hall to watch TV. I planned to go to the nearby Saibaba temple. We both went there and had a good time. It was really great there. From there we went to Vijetha, a super market in Chanda nagar. Came home and started preparing dinner. Planned to prepare tomato chuttney and rotti as this could be prepared soon. Santhosh gave a good response to the food i prepared. Felt happy and satisfied. Thought of giving the food to Shyamala to check taste. On the way to Santhosh's home we went to Shyamala's home and had a small chat. Dropped Santhosh in his home in Madhapur and came back home, and started writing this blog. This is how this weekend passed happily.

Let me give a glimpse of what happened last weekend :)

Last week myself, sriram, raghuram and sundara raman went to bangalore to meet our friends there. We were 12 in number there. Karthick Ramanathan, Vineeth, Vinod, Venkatesh, Srini, Sabari, T.M.Vinodh, Sethu, Sriram, Sundar, Raghu, myself. We four from hyderabad reached there on 5th Dec, a saturday. Got down from the bus in Iqbal(not sure of the name) and took an auto to reach Indira Nagar. Karthick ramanathan came to take us to home. It was 8 am. Almost everyone was sleeping at home. When everyone woke up, we prepared some bread and had. It became noon when everyone finished taking bath. It was time for lunch. We all agreed to go to Barbeque Nation for lunch. The lunch was 350 per head. My goodness. I remembered those days where i had lunch for 35 rupees. Now it is 1000% more. Hmmm. Post lunch there was a dilemma about where to go next. There were two options. Snow bowling or Go Karting. I voted for Go Karting as i always wanted to. I snow bowled once during Mysore IV in Infosys. So i wanted to experience Go Karting. Only very few were for Go Karting. In the end, everyone was ok with Go Karting. Went to some unknown place whose name i forgot. There were only few as it was just started. It was good with Go Karting. Then we went to Garuda mall, one of the famous malls in bangalore. I felt like Garuda mall is not better than Forum. Btw, I went to Forum once during bangalore IV. In Garuda mall, it was fun again. Had dinner there itself and returned home. It was planned to go to Wonder La, a water theme park, the next day. Wonder La was awesome. In my opinion it is not that good compared to Veega Land. Anyhow it was a good time pass. Btw, this is where i caught cold :) This is how i passed last weekend happily.

Nowadays i started using the term happy as often as possible :) Why ??? The answer is so simple !!! Life is to be happy. You need not win always if you know how to stay happy when you lose. It is all your mindset. I remember this technique from the book The monk who sold his Ferrari. Whenever you feel like you are sad, you must first feel that you are unhappy. The moment you sense that you need to think that why you should be sad. Being sad you cannot achieve anything. So you need to think that you are happy. Make some movements which you will do when you are happy. Staying happy always is the key thing in life and of course it is the purpose of life. Enough philosophy for this blog.

I think it is time for me to go to bed now as it is 2 am already :) So signing off here with this blog. Wishing a great week ahead to all.

Friend forever,

Baskar.

The Monk who sold his Ferrari

I have started reading books :) I always wanted to read good books. My friend Shyamala, today overwhelmed me with her advices on how to kill boredom and loneliness. One of the methods she told was Reading books. Wow. What a good time pass. By reading books, you are becoming wise and at the same time you are enjoying.

The book I am reading is "The Monk who sold his Ferrari" penned by Robin Sharma. I will write blogs with the wordings from this book henceforth. Marvelous words. This book is amazing. Worth reading.

THERE IS NOTHING NOBLE ABOUT BEING SUPERIOR TO SOME OTHER PERSON. TRUE NOBILITY LIES IN BEING SUPERIOR TO YOUR FORMER SELF.


IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT YOU SAY TO YOURSELF.


EVERY SECOND YOU SPEND THINKING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE'S DREAMS YOU TAKE TIME AWAY FROM YOUR OWN.


FOR GOD'S SAKE, NEVER GET INTO THE PETTY HABIT OF MEASURING YOUR SELF-WORTH AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE'S NET WORTH.


THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS SIMPLE: FIND OUT WHAT YOU TRULY LOVE TO DO AND THEN DIRECT ALL OF YOUR ENERGY TOWARDS DOING IT. ONCE YOU DO THIS, ABUNDANCE FLOWS INTO YOUR LIFE AND ALL YOUR DESIRES ARE FILLED WITH EASE AND GRACE.

These words must be true. We are what we think.

Signing off as of now.

Marriage is not a word, but a sentence

I am back to my blog after a long time. Just wanted to write something. Today I went to Amantran, a restaurant(pretty decent) located in Madhapur, for a birthday party. There was a tv placed. My eye captured this - Marriage is not a word, but a sentence. You need to think a bit different to understand this. Think !!!

Is marriage really such a trap???!!! Who knows... Btw, let me see once i get married ;-)

Signing of now hoping for a good week ahead :-)

I cooked food today

Today, Sep 26 2009, is the first day when I prepared food at home. Since my stay at hyderabad this is the first time I am cooking on my own. It's been almost two months since I boarded this home at Miyapur. We are totally four in number staying at this home. And I am the only south Indian:) Rishi and Vishal are from Jharkhand. And Mishal is from West Bengal. When I say this I could remember my first semester in hostel. It was August 15, 2009, a sunday, the first day when I stepped into PSG Tech Hostels. I was allotted the room G-114. It was a 4 member room in ground floor. To my surprise all others were north indians. Two from Arunachal Pradesh and one from Himachal Pradesh. Milli Riba and Niladri were CSC students and Neeraj Sharma was into Textile.I was famous at hostel for being into a room like that.

Back to today... I woke up at 12 pm, pretty enough to prove that I am a bachelor:) I was not that hungry that time. I planned to cook. Till the last monday one of my friend's mom was at home. She is Rishi(one of my room-mates)'s mom. She considered each one of us in the home as her son and we all enjoyed all the varieties of food she made. Off all the food she made I like chowpathi. The way she makes it is simply great. I learnt it as an onlooker. Now after she has gone home it's pretty difficult really. For the past four days I didn't prepare at home. I had it at office cafeteria. Today being an holiday made me to cook at home. I don't go with the concept of having food at restaurant or mess. I am much concerned about the quality of the food. After all health is wealth. And obviously it's the quality of the food which makes us healthy. All these insisted me to cook at home.

The dish I prepared is nothing but the chowpathi which I like the most when it is prepared the way Rishi's mom cooks. I planned to cook the same way. I had to buy vegetable oil, tomato, chilly. Reliance Fresh, which is located just at a stone's throw helped me to get these. I planned to first cook the side dish and then chowpathi. It was excellent really:) I liked it. My roommates called to have lunch outside. I told them I wanted to cook at home. Since they were hungry they left. When I finished cooking they popped up at the door step. I told to taste it. The feedback was good:) Thank god, I made an eatable dish.

At this point I want to stress an important point. WE ARE WHAT WE EAT. Only few can understand this sentence. But it's absolutely true. To validate, think about how you have grown. It's the food which we eat transforms into flesh, bone, muscle and everything. Isn't it? If this is the case, think how important is the food we take. I can remember this scene from the serial, SITHI. It's a popular tamizh serial. I can say that it is this serial which gave rise to a serial revolution in Tamil Nadu. The lead actors are Sivakumar(Surya's father) and Radhika. In one scene, Sivakumar's son expressed his concern over eating home made food. He wanted to have food outside. Sivakumar tells, "People at hotel prepare food for money. They never consider customer's health. But when mom prepares food she will be cooking with affection." These words are very true. When you take food prepared with affection you will gain strength obviously. In the end, only love matters. LOVE IS GOD.

A very good lesson I learnt today..

Today I learnt a very good lesson. Usually we learn things as we experience in our day-to-day life. Corporate world is all new to me. And the lessons are here always. You just have to pay attention to those so that you are on the track. The biggest lesson I learnt today is:

LOOK BEFORE YOU TALK

This is very important, especially in your work place. Before talking one must look around and see who are all there. Then only he/she should speak to be safer. None can actually save us when we loose talk.

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK

THINK BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING

ASK YOURSELF "WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS GOOD OR NOT GOOD"

At times we may fail. But we should not fall prey for those things. Things once past us are always past. We dont have a time machine to go back and change the things. So it is wise to do the good. It's wiser to get up when we fall down. Life is once and it is for enjoying.

I like this forward which my friend Abinaya sent today.

KNOW UR Value....!
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note.

In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this Rupee 500 note?"Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this note to one of youbut first let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the note up.He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground andstarted to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now allcrumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?"Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.No matter what I did to the m oney, you still wanted it because it did notdecrease in value. It was still worth Rupee 500/-. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirtby the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel asthough we are worthless.But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never loseyour value. You are special. Don't ever forget it! Never let yesterday'sdisappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.

" VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED"

<\End of forward>

So we all are valued. What is important is we have to value ourselves. There should be no place for inferiority complex. What we know may be 'greek and latin' to X. What X knows may be 'greek and latin' to us. But basically all are equal. The attitude decides where we stand ahead from others.

I love this quote in my college, PSG Tech.

YOUR ATTITUDE DECIDES THE ALTITUDE YOU CAN REACH.

Enough philosophy for today. Let me wrap up this blog here.

LIFE

The power of thinking is all I want to tell in this blog. Thinking is a very normal process in all normal human beings. No one can stop thinking. If it is so, then it means he/she is in coma:) We think upon many things. Whatever we think it is all because of whatever was previously there in our mind. Say you think about one thing now. A frequency is there related to every that thought. When you think about a thing in one frequency, the same thought will come to you when you are in that same frequency some other time depending on the situation. When you take EEG(Electro Encephalo Gram) it will depict the frequency you are in. There are usually four group of frequency in mind. They are

1. Beta (14 to 40 cycles per second)
2. Alpha(8 to 13 cycles per second)
3. Theta(4 to 7 cycles per second)
4. Delta(1 to 3 cycles per second)

When you are sleeping you are in the Alpha group.

When you are normal, very emotional you are in Beta group.

When you think deep and concentrating on a thing then you are in Theta group.

When you think very deep you will be in Delta group, which is very difficult for a normal person.

When the frequency is high you will be under the control of your sensational organs namely

• skin(feel of touch)
• tougue
• nose
• eye
• ear

Let me put a break for the intro about thinking here. Controlling the senses is beyond the scope of this blog. I will talk about some time later.

The fact is whatever you think it will come into effect 100% without fail. So be optimistic always. Think that you are great. And think that you are successful, helping others to succeed. Always think something good. When you feel that you are thinking not good, then attach a positive thought with that negative one. Then automatically when the negative thought arises the positive which you have attached with the negative thought, will also arise keeping you in a conscious state always. All I want to say is, your life is WHAT YOU THINK. If you think you are happy, it ultimately means you are happy. Lets think good and be great always.

I am signing off here. I came to know all about these only through Vedathiri Maharishi's Temple of consciousness. I have done a Diploma degree in Yoga. I dedicate this blog to my guru Vedathiri Maharishi.

Courtesy: Vedathiri Maharishi, without whom I am nothing.

VAZHGAE VALAMUDAN

My stay in Hyderabad so far..

I remember boarding train on a thursday in Coimbatore. It was June 25,2009 . My brother Ravi accompanied me to railway station. I had just two luggages. A suitcase and a bag of clothes. I got a lower side berth. The train left the station around 5:30 pm. It reached Hyderabad the next day by 1'0 clock at noon. I took an air bus from Secunderabad Junction and got down at Amerpet Image Hospital stop where I am not supposed to get down. I am supposed to get down at Image Hospital-Hi Tec city. This is the first lesson I had in Hyderabad. My immediate senior Sashi Kumar was actually about to take me to the "Silicon Valley" guest house from the bus stop. Since I got down at Amerpet and it's 10 km from Hi Tec city and my senior had to attend a meeting; so he had to go to office. But he sent me a clear message stating the whereabouts of the guest house. I should thank him a lot for all these. The second lesson I had in Hyderabad is "Make hay while the sun shines". I actually had the chance of recharging my mobile phone in train. But I dint use it. And I faced a lot of problem because of that. My cell phone was about to sleep when I was in Amerpet. And you know what. I couldn make a call from Public Call Office at Amerpet since there was no power there that time. All are good lessons. And my friend Shyamala was also trying to call me. I couldn attend it:( She is one of my best friends in this world. My mobile survived till I reached the guest house:) I managed to reach guest house with the message my senior had sent me. Hats off to him. The message he sent was so clear.

The prominent languages in Hyderabad are Telugu and Hindi. If you know Hindi you can manage in and around Mathapur where the Hi Tec city is located. My goodness:) I dont know both the languages. I should have learnt at least Hindi. This is my next lesson.

My mom, Uthirakkani, always insisted me to read dictionary in my school days and some books always. I now realised how powerful those words are. My mom always wanted me to speak English fluently. And to an extent I can speak English fluently. My mom will be the first person to be happy had she been alive now. Hmmm all fate:( Ok lets come to the point. I had to attend the Orientation Programme at HICC(Hyderabad International Convention Center), Novotel on 29th and 30th of June conducted by Deloitte HR. It was the first shock at Deloitte on 29th. There are two offices for Deloitte in H'bad. One at Hi Tec City and the other one at Gachibowli, which is 10 km away from Hi Tec City. I was told that my office will be the one at Gachibowli. I was heart-broken because all the times from my placement I was thinking that I will be at Hi Tec City. I didn't even know that there is an office at Gachibowli!! The other shock is that my best friend Ashwin being shifted to Mumbai office. Thats very paining. We had a plan to stay together at H'bad.

After the splendid two day orientation I went to the Gachibowli office on the third day. It was a wednesday. We had orientation for EAG guys alone at Dhamaal in E-block. The morning session was the ice-cooler session with the managers. It was energising. In the noon session we had the "Inter-personal" skills session at E block itself. That session was so lively and of course we all were very tired in the end of the day. For the next two days we had "Soft Skills" training at D block Anaheim. It was so lively and fun-filled and informative all through the two days. And here started my viral fever on the Thursday ie., 2nd July. I was almost dying with the fever appearing on evenings and leaving me exhausted. I was facing atmost difficulty in the training with the traces of fever and I was shivering in the AC hall. The training for 6th and 7th are SDLC. I had to get permission and take a session off owing to my disability. Thank God. I was given the permission. I lived on fruits during these times. The next three days training are for RDBMS. I was almost feeling like dead and I couldn go to the training on thursday and friday. In the mean time one of my best and great friends Sriram who is in Madhapur who is residing nearby got me an umberalla and jacket to beat the chillness at work place. Unfortunately I couldn attend the training on thursday and friday.

From 6th we EAG people had the training at E block which is our office. And till now it's going on. This is my experience at Hyderabad so far. And I forgot to mention the good people who were helping me when I was not well. First I should thank Mr. Sathasivam. He is a doctor at Saamysettipalayam, Coimbatore. He suggests how to cure diseases naturally by modifying the food habit. He helped me a lot giving me all kind of treatment over phone. And I should thank my akka Malarvizhi. She is an MBBS doctor. She only told me that what I was having was viral fever and it persists for a week or ten days usually. I became a prey to viral fever somehow. And Prema amma is a person who prayed for my well being always. I should thank her. Thank you amma. She is like a mom to me. And one more amma is Sumathi amma. We knew each other from the PCP(Personal Contact Program) held at Aliyar for 5 days for the Diploma in Yoga course undertakers. I am now an BE, DYHE(Diploma in Yoga for Human Excellence) graduate:) Thats it for this post. Pretty long I suppose:) I found myself comfortable writing this now only. It took this much time to settle a little in Hyderabad. Ok let me sign off here. Will come up with different content next time. See you my blog:)

Today is my Ashwin's birthday

I am back to my blog after a long time because of my many reasons. After I reached H'bad I had a very nasty time for two weeks. I had viral fever which transformed me from weak status to weaker status. I had a bad time managing things all alone. Thank God. Sriram, Raghuram and Sundararam are here at H'bad. As like in college Sriram is the one who helped me during these worrisome days:) Thanks a lot da Sriram. Hmmm the reason why I am writing this blog at this midnight is that today(July 23) is my friend Ashwin's birthday. I pray God to make Ashwin successful in all his endeavours. Many many many many more happy returns of the day Ashwin:) Happy birthday.

I am signing off here. Will catch up with my blog later.

Journey to work

Yesterday evening at 5 o clock I boarded train to Hyderabad to join Deloitte Consulting on June 29. The train was no new experience. It was as usual. Reached Secunderabad Jn at 1 o clock noon and took a bus to Hi Tech city and was dropped at a wrong bus stop:) As I don't know both Hindi and Telugu which are the prominent languages here, I wandered for some time and found out a bus stop. Then I reached the 'Silicon Valley Guest house' at 4 pm. Just went to Hi Tech and had a look at the Sky Scrappers:) in the evening. In the whole it was a new experience.

Movies

Let me tell something about 3 of the movies I watched recently namely Pasangae,Mayandi and Masilamani. I watched Masilamani today in Senthil theatre. The picture was a full long comedy with added flavours of stunts, songs. You cannot expect logic. But it's worth the money in my opinion. The lead male actor was Nakul(Actor Devayani's brother) and Sunanya in the lead female role. This is the second movie the duo is acting. The first one was Kadhalil Vizhundaen. It was a lovely romantic movie showing the depth of love. You can see that in the list of my favourite movies. In Masilamani the comedy scenes are well screened except few scenes. In the whole Masilamani is watchable:)
Pasangae movie was a good 'U' certificate movie. Movie reminds us of the older movie 'Anjali'. Movie rolls around the families of two boys. The screenplay was pleasing. An another watchable movie.
Mayandi, sentimental movie, was another village based story in the list of the traditional village based stories. Movie well shows the problems faced in a joint family. The lead actors are tamil film directors. And the song 'malai indru varuma' rocks:) It's a must to watch movie:)
Let me wind up this post here with a thought for life.
"To maintain a relationship three things are vital :

1. Tolerance
2. Adjustment
3. Sacrifice "

----------Vedathiri Maharishi

My first post dedicating to my greatest friend Ashwin:)

Hi all. This is my first post:) And I dedicate this to my best and greatest friend "Ashwin Ramachandran". It all started four years back. I am glad to say that we both are engineering graduates. Did our BE in Electronics and Communication Engg Dept of PSG COLLEGE OF TECH. We are 2005-2009 batch. I remember having met Ashwin with his mom for the first time in PSG Tech Hostels. We became the closest friends soon. We were together always. Many asked me how we were so close. Such an intimate relationship is our's. We pledged that we will get placed in the same company in the first year of UG course. And Ashwin is a genius that he is the first person to get placed from Circuits branch(EEE,ECE,IT,CSE) during campus drive. L&T was the company. Then I got placed in TCS which is the 1st bulk company. And I am sure it's Ashwin who is solely responsible for my placement. He is the one who designed my personal resume taking all pains. He was with me the whole day till I entered the interviewing room. Hmmm see how close we are:) Then I got through TCS. Then started dual placements:) After untiring efforts we both sat for Deloitte and we both got through achieving the pledge we took in first year:) And lots more to say about us. Will post them soon:)