Movies I have watched so far in my stay in Hyderabad !!!

The following is the list of movies I have watched so far during my stay in Hyderabad.


1. Oye (Telugu movie) - not bad (Baby shalini has become aunty shalini :-) )

2. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.

3. Inglorious basterds.

4. A Christmas Carol.

5. Vettaikaran (Tamil - worst of all).

6. Blue (Hindi movie)

7. Kaminey (Hindi)

8. Avatar (Once in Talkie town and the second time in i-nox )

9. 3 idiots

Thats all coming to my mind as of now. Will update if any in the fore coming blogs.

My today's food !!!

I prepared curry (korma in tamil)for the first time with the guidance of sister and aunt. Let me tell you how i made it :-)

Ingredients :- 


Coconut, tomato, potato, beans, carrot, chilly powder, coriander powder, Fennel seeds (sombu in tamil) , onion, salt, oil.

First fry a little of fennel seeds in frying pan without oil. Keep it aside. Now put some oil in pan and fry tomato and chopped onion. Cool these a little by keeping in open space for some time. 


Grind coconut (as needed depending on the number of persons to be served) with fried soombu. Add a little of water and grind well. For grinding you can use mixer ! Now put fried tomato and onion, add a spoon of chilly powder and two spoons of coriander powder and grind well again. You will get a good paste now.


Meanwhile cut carrot, beans and potato as the shape you need and boil them in a vessel. After the vegetables are baked, filter the water and add this water to the paste we have prepared. Boil this mixture till it fumes. Now add baked vegetables and add salt to taste.

That's it :-) Try and enjoy the dish. It came up superb to me to my amazement !!!

Humour

HUMOUR

Laughter is the best medicine.

When you laugh, all kinds of wonderful things happen to benefit your body and mind. Endorphins are released in your brain which give you a "natural high."

Laughter relieves pain. You can only laugh when you are relaxed and the more relaxed you are, the less pain you feel. Funny books and movies are ideal pain relievers.

We often get sick by taking ourselves and life too seriously. What we need to do is laugh to help us stay healthy.

Let us assume that you are suffering losses in business and at the same time going through a bad phase in your married life.

If all this is going on, why make things worse by being unhappy as well?

To be a winner, one should have the ability to laugh at difficulties. One person, involved in the above situation, would resist laughing for two years. Another may decide that after two weeks it is time to stop crying and start laughing. Therefore, the first person gets to stay miserable for much longer than the second one. And he chose to.

One of our major responsibilities towards others is to enjoy ourselves! When we are having fun, we feel better, work better and people want to be around us.

From the book, "Be a Winner."

FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS

Tom says, "I can't forgive Jerry for lying to me."

Tom believes that if he can't forgive Jerry, it is Jerry's problem.

THIS IS NOT JERRY'S PROBLEM. THIS IS TOM'S PROBLEM.

When we don't forgive, we suffer. The person we consider 'guilty' is not bothered and we unncessarily put ourselves through so much mental anguish.

Some people never forgive their parents and ruin their lives just to prove to their parents what bad parents they are. Their message is, "It is your fault that I am unsuccessful and lonely and now you can watch me suffer".

They believe that by ruining their lives they are actually punishing their parents. Our parents brought us up the best way they knew. To blame them for a bad job of parenting is fruitless and destructive.

What is done is done. Get over it and move on.

The same goes for blaming other people. Do not hold grudges and harbour resentment.

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

Don't be a garbage collector. Throw out the thrash!

When someone harms you unintentionally then forgive and forget but if someone cheats you then forgive but don't forget their name.

You cheat me once, shame on you.

You cheat me twice, shame on me.

From the book "Be a Winner"

Discipline

DISCIPLINE

Winners know the value of discipline. Anyone who has accomplished something has never done it without discipline, whether in business, sports or academics.

Being disciplined means being committed. Everyone has dreams but not everyone is committed to fulfilling their dreams. Discipline requires total commitment and sacrifice. It means self-control and staying focussed.

Some people interpret lack of discipline as freedom. They interpret this freedom as 'I don't care' attitude which not only harms them but this attitude is also against the interest of the society. A youngster's interpretation of freedom can be driving rashly without following the laws in which there is the possibility of not only his getting hurt but also hurting innocent road crossers.

Children brought up with excessive freedom and lack of discipline grow up becoming law-breaking adults.

- From a book titled "Be a winner"

Republic Ride

This is the first Republic Day after my school life on which I woke up too early. It is for the cycling event "Republic Ride" organised by Atlanta, a foundation for providing education to needy. The registration fee is 2k for everyone. The event is for a number of firms. Some of the firms other than Deloitte include TCS, CTS, Infosys, GE, Franklin Templeton, Aliens Group. 

I woke up by 4 30 am, but went to bed only above 1 am :) Was reading "Three mistakes of my life" by Chetan Bhagat. It was the climax part of the book. I couldn't sleep without completing it. The book was good. 

I am supposed to get a bicycle on my own as i couldn't register for the event when the mailer for registration came. So on Jan 26th morning, i had to go to Madhapur to get Sriram's cycle. Got cycle from him disturbing his sleep at 5 am. My goodness. There was no time for me that i could not ensure that the pressure in the wheels are good. So, it was a bad start. From Madhapur i need to go to Novotel which is the starting point of cycling event. Approximately 5 km travel with his cycle. Almost exhausted by that time itself :) There were three categories : 10 km, 50 km and 100 km. I had a plan to participate in 100 km. Since many cycles were available there, i thought of taking one. Another bad decision : Selected a cycle which was too small. 100 k event is supposed to start by 6 am. As it got delayed in distributing T shirt, i started only by 7 15 or so. Enough protection was given for riders. Police were standing clearing traffic. Felt like VIP :) As a mark of poor organisation, we were directed to a wrong path by a volunteer because of which i traveled an extra 4 km unnecessarily. A number of Rest stations are planted at irregular intervals, providing refreshments :) Reached Rest station 1. Met Manohar, my collegue. 

On the way to Rest station 2, my brand new cycle tube got punctured. I had to put it in the help vehicle. Reached Rest station 2. A colleague of mine in MOSS team was about to give up, as he was very tired. So took his bicycle. On the way from Rest station 2, i got the first muscular cramp when i tried to climb up an uphill road,which is the worst of all three spasms. I couldn't stand because of the pain. I had to lie down on the ground leaving the bicycle. Manohar came for rescue. He tried to relax thigh muscles. Organizer camera team came. One of the guys there provided first aid to me. They took photos of that :( Bad boys :)

In the middle of the paths i had two more spasms, but during the second time i simply managed myself, relaxing and walking for some time. Manohar went ahead. So i had no other option. Resorted to "Self Help is the best help". Started alone after relaxing for some time. Had 3rd spasm after some time. After this third spasm i decided not to stress anymore. So started to ride as slow as possible. There was this guy named Vikram from CTS, standing near a cycle repair shop. I stopped on seeing him. He told his cycle tube got punctured. There was no one in the shop to help him. But the required tools were all there. I decided to fix the puncture. Yeah i did it for the first time in my life :) After fixing, we both started together having a good talk. It is just another 7 km to finish. His cycle tyre got punctured again. No way this time. He had to resort to the help of help vehicle. He went along with it. I am determined to finish it completely. So i started alone again. After all uphill roads Hyderabad being a plateau, i made it :) But the time was 2 15 pm. I covered 50 km in 7 hours :) Some covered 100 km in the same time :)

In this travel of 50 km, I had three nimbooz, 3 Red bull, 6 bananas :) Even then i was very tired. I am provided the certificate on completion of 50 km. Even though i did not feel that hungry, i decided i should have food in the 7 star hotel :) All i had is fruit salad, a stuffed rotti, one nimbooz. It was awesome but :) Met another colleague who completed 10 km. Met college senior Allvin and his senior. Allvin is from TCS and the other one from Deloitte(forgot his name :) ). On the whole it was a superb day with a mix of feelings : joy, pain, exhaustion, briskness :) This is how Republic Ride went :) Good experience :)

23rd Sat, 2010 - a good day

Today is a remarkable day to me, being the first day I provided weekend support to my team. I am supposed to work from 5.30 am to 2.30 pm (weird timings !!!) from home.

Woke up at 6 :) and opened the laptop. I was so busy that i had no time to brush teeth at the right time. Didn't drink or eat anything till 2.30 pm :) Was simply working because doing something is always better than doing nothing. Had food around 4 pm, till then was watching "pudhu kotaiyilirinthu saravanan" in sun tv. Power went off signalling me to atleast clean the room today. But didn't clean it yet :) Instead in the pleasant evening started watching "Aayirathil oruvan". Unfortunately i dont have the complete movie. So planned to watch "2012". Wow :) Movie was simply superb. Awesome scenes. Kudos to the technology. Scenes were very realistic. It has a good concept. Imagine that earth's crust to going to dismantle owing to emission of radiations from sun. Then everyone thinks about the ultimate truth of life : Affection, care, love. Thats all everyone yearns for. Movie's baseline is so good that it should have kindled the hidden love in hard-hearted fellows :)

After the movie, i thought of talking to chennai akka. Left home for a walk besides talking to akka. Had a nice walk and talk :) Returned home after an hour and watched "Transporter 3" in Star Movies. It is a very good action movie, with each stunt encouraging to build your body like the lead actor Jason Statham's. Prepared rotti and had dinner after the movie.

The day was good with little problems. After all life without problems will be a bore :) As long as you can control yourself in any situation, you can actually enjoy problems. There could be problems which could make your temper bad. The very first thing you should think at that time is "You are going to lose enormous amount of your energy by losing your temper". Instead focus all your energy on the problem, not on the person. A person's behaviour at a time depends on a lot of factors. So it is better to think well and do something rather than thinking after committing a mistake. For every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity, one should be thankful to the problems he get. Only at times of crisis you will come to know about the true color of others. Be thankful to God for whatever you are. Thank God by being good in whatever you do. He knows what to give to whom and when.

Life is of course a mystery full of puzzles with all clues scattered all around you. You just need to figure out what is the right stuff you need. Automatically things will fall in your hand once you figure out what you need. To stay happy you just need to do what you like. Dont think about what others will think. As long as it does not hurt anyone you can actually do anything humble :)

One more philosophy : If you think bad about a person however he/she good is, it wont matter to you. It is better not to come to a conclusion about a person. Accepting the way what others are is the best way to live a cool life. Because no one can change others. But you can change yourself. You can change the way you think. Starting thinking differently and in all possible ways and coming to a wise decision should be the right turning point to develop personality.

Btw, day was overall good with all these incidens and thoughts.

Signing off now with the following principle of life

"Don't believe in everything what others say"

- Vedathiri Maharishi

Sunday, 17th Jan 2010

This is how my last week's sunday went.

Golgonda fort - One of the places which reminds me of my Industrial Visit. It was hyderabad IV, the third IV. It is one of the nicest industrial visits in my college life. I imagine how lovely college life is :) Except for the fact that you can't earn, college life is simply the greenest part of everyone's life :)

This is the second time I went to Golgonda. It is relatively nearer compared to the distance I thought it would be from my home. I reside in Madinaguda. It is on Mumbai National Highway. It was Sunday noon 2 pm and I heard my mobile ringing while I was still on bed enjoying the Sunday sleep. It was a call from a friend asking me whether I could make it to the Golgonda trip that evening. I thought for a while and decided that I could make it as I always wanted to visit as many places as possible. But this decision has once again made me unable to clean my room. I had to go to Toli chow, a place on the way to Mehdipatnam from Gachibowli. There were colleagues waiting after their lunch. Reached Golgonda after a 10 min travel from Toli chowk.

In my Industrial Visit, we guys rocked taking the path through all "No entry" points of Golgonda fort. That time, it was really good to enter "No entry" areas, breaking all rules :) It was fun.

This time it was a fun of different kind. Enjoyed thoroughly though :) Evening six alarmed the arrival of mighty night. Planned to go somewhere else. So we agreed to the plan of going to Landmark, a novelty center in Banjara Hills, but pretty bigger one. Decided to get some books. Bought some and satisfied with the weekend :)

Excerpts from MEGALIVING - Robin Sharma

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility lies in being superior to your previous self.

- Proverb

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than your ever dreamed yourself to be.

-Patanjali

There is no such thing as a negative circumstance, only a circumstance that you may learn from. There are no mistakes in life, only lessons which will allow you to grow and advance higher on the path of self-mastery.

Stop being a prisoner of your past - become the architect of your future. Every event happens for a special purpose. Every problem is a special challenge from which we can learn and prosper to new heights of achievement.

There are simply no limits for a person who accepts no limits.

Two States - my views

Two States - a novel by Chetan Bhagat under the Fiction category. This is the fourth novel by the IIT-Delhi, IIM-Ahmedabad pass out, manager turned writer. I remember my friend Ashwin telling about Chetan Bhagat's first book, " Five point someone", in college. I downloaded the e-book, but never read it. "Two States" is the first English novel I have read completely in my life. I went Chennai for x-mas. On returning, it was a 14 hour long train journey. I thought of ways to pass that time well. Reached Chennai Central station one hour prior to the departure time. Went to Higgin Bothams book shop in the station and thought of getting some books. I saw "two states" with Chetan Bhagat's name in the cover page. I had a flurry of excitement from within to buy the book as the subtitle in the cover page read "the story of my marriage". Along with it, I bought "Three mistakes of my life", the third book from the same author.

Started reading the book, even before the train started to leave the station. The very first page of the novel was charming. Since the novel is about the story of author's marriage and since the bride's home town is Chennai, I decided to read it till I would feel asleep :) The narration was fantastic that I laughed well as I read through the book.

I felt angry about the author when he was telling bad (eventhough some of them are facts )about my birth town Chennai. I feel like he should not have written those tamil indecent words in his book. The words in this book were written so correctly that I doubt whether the author is a punjabi :) I wish he should not come to Chennai. What the hell do punjabis think about tamilians ? Just because they are fair-complexioned doesn't mean that they are the best. After all it is not the look that matters, but it is the character. Author's mom referring the bride Ananya to Jayalalitha is absolutely not acceptable. How dare Chetan Bhagat is to use Jayalalitha's name like that !!! (Chetan Bhagat - You better don’t come to Chennai. If you come, it may become your worst trip. I appreciate your writing skills. But don’t dare to come chennai again.)

The world has a great opinion about Indians, specifically to Tamilians, specifically to Brahmins. The things mentioned in the novel about the so called Tamil Brahmin Ananya is 100% obnoxious. She eats chicken, drinks beer, makes love before marriage, kisses a guy in public. My goodness. How dare you wrote like this. It could be a novel. But it should not affect anyone. It should've insulted many in Tamil Nadu I suppose.

The parts of the book where he had written about Citi Bank is depicting real life corporate world. I particularly appreciate some sentences in this book which made me laugh like I have never laughed on reading a book. I am grateful to you, Chetan Bhagat for this. The book is worth the money 95 rupees. Even though it has some disapproving facts, the book is a good time pass to youngsters. I don’t know how old people could think about this book as it has lot of spicy stuff.

Looking forward to another Chetan Bhagat's novel,

Signing off with smile :)

Flowers in my plant :)

2009 - A look back

Key events in 2009 for me :

1. Completed my Diploma in Yoga program.
2. Completed my BE in ECE from PSG Tech in May.
3. Joined Deloitte on June 29th.
4. Started learning Swimming.
5. Danced for the first time on stage after my dance in 6th or 7th standard.
6. Organised a two month Yogasana program in PSG hostel during the last semester.
7. Went aliyar as a volunteer for twice or thrice.
8. Bought a scooter, Suzuki Access 125.
9. Sounds funny but truth (boarded a train in a sleeper coach after a long time when I had a NCC trip to New Delhi in my ninth standard, i always travelled in general compartment hitherto as all my travels were mostly unplanned).
10. Went to Kerala for the first time(Went to Veega Land).
11. Got admitted in a hospital for the first time as far as to my knowledge owing to a bad fever.
12. Travelled in a sleeper coach bus for the first time(Trip to vignesh's home in tuticorin). Visited my ancestral origin town after a long time.
13. Got Siva as my sister, friend and even more than that (equivalent to mom).
14. Got a flower plant as a part of Greening Day event. It blossomed nine flowers till now :)
15. Learnt car driving and got License.
16. Got PAN card, Passport.
17. Got a laptop on the first day of employment (Din't even know how to switch it on that day :) )
18. Lost my precious Nokia 1108 mobile in Gachibowli swimming pool on the first day of swimming class.

I consider point no 13 to the best thing that happened to me in 2009 :) I pray God to give my akka Siva everything she wants.

I wish all a very happy 2010 :)

Let God give us everything needed to face 2010 with ease:)

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:)