Have you reached your home?
Both sides - Good intensions but bad leadership and attitude?
Protect what’s yours
When i was a kid my mom used to frequently bring us to the beach. An outing at the beach meant horse rides, sand castles, eating by the beach stalls and walking along the water. There is this one particular day i distinctly remember, i was sitting by the beach and watching another kid build his sand castle. This kid over the last one hour had put in a great amount of work in defining details like windows, doors, a chimney, a garden and a dog house. Then suddenly out of no where there was this teenager who came up to the boy and kicked at his sand castle destroying it completely. Seeing that i was so upset that i ran to the bully and asked him why did he do this but he just ginned at me and walked right past me with no answer and no reason. I remember thinking to myself, wow this boy took over an hour to build something so wonderful only to be ruined in a matter of seconds by another person. The reason why i remember this incident now is because over the last few months i have come to realise that there many such people out there who never manage to build anything good in their life but they take pride in ruining things for others who have things going for them. Seeing so many instances of people ruining other people’s marriages, driving others to financial ruin and sabotaging other peoples careers. All these people only know one thing that is to destroy in a instant what other people took many years of toil to build. We need to guard our hearts, marriages, friendships, relationships and finances from these destroyers who just look for that weak link in us to strike us down with their deception.
25 Randoms
The 25 random chain that’s happening at Facebook i thought i should repost mine on the blog.
1. I don’t like mangoes and the first and only time I had a mango in my entire life was on my first date with Chris as I was too shy to say no.
2. My first ever published article was wrongly attributed to a professor of mine and they issued an erratum the next week and gave me credit for it.
3. My favorite drink now is ‘Milo’ and I had my first ‘Milo’ just 4 years back when I visited my friend in Shanghai.
4. I pinched my teacher’s butt when I was in Kindergarten.
5. During my hostel days I was known as the banker and the lender. Anyone who wanted money would come to me. My hostel mates even gave me money for safe keep as they thought it was safer in my hands. No I didn’t charge any interest and probably made some losses out of all this.
6. I have a heart condition called ‘Wolfman Parkinson White’ syndrome which essentially makes my heart beat faster and no that’s not the reason why I feel that I am in love always :)
7. My favorite musicians are Annie Lenox, Whitney Houston, Sade, Cold Play, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Gun’s & Roses, Pearl Jam, Bee Gees, Eagles, Bryan Adams, Moby, Paul Van Dyk, these are just some that come right to my mind.
8. My favorite song is “Secret garden” by Bruce Springsteen. I just feel it illustrates well the depth of a woman’s heart.
9. I am inherently an introverted person but over the years I have forced myself to be a bit more open. But I would still classify myself as a bit stuck up.
10. Yes I am very aware that I am anything but cool and my favorite line on this is from the movie almost famous. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool”
11. What hurts me most is ‘Racism’ and i just hate it when people pretend that it doesn't exist. The only thing I want to say about this is ‘if you don’t understand a culture, don’t hate it’.
12. I have had 2 surgeries done on me till date and no it’s not plastic surgery.
13. 13 is my lucky number.
14. I consider myself as a person who is 100% in touch with my feelings I know exactly how I feel and why I feel that way. Because of which I never have any excuses for myself when I behave bad.
15. My earliest memory is from when I was 3 years. It’s still as fresh in my mind.
16. I love to play the role of a DJ. One of my childhood dreams is to have a house that’s big enough to have a disco room.
17. I have had more woman bosses than male bosses. My preference is …. (it’s an easy guess)
18. I have problem with clannish behavior. I don’t like anything that is forcefully synchronized or choreographed to be similar. I am of the firm belief that we all have our unique strengths and it is this uniqueness that makes us a pretty picture. How would a family look if they wore clothes made from the same fabric? Weird right?
19. Please note again in pt 18 I said forcefully. There are things that flow together with free will but those are rare and you will know when you experience something like that.
20. My favorite movie is ‘Jerry McGuire’
21. My favorite color to wear is blue but for everything else it is ‘red’.
22. I have learnt how to be patient around superficial conversation and I know that there are places you can’t avoid it.
23. I get my short temperedness from my grandpa.
24. I have an ambition to be an author of a best seller one day.
25. There 25 more things that I don’t want to pen down :)
Mumbai i write this with a heavy heart
Its taken me over a week to gain some composure to write a post on the terror attacks that happened last week in Mumbai. Probably after a very long time I experienced unbelievable anger, sadness and a sense of hopelessness watching the heinous acts unfold for so many days. Being away from Mumbai which is my home city made me feel even more helpless and alone in it. And as I went through a range of emotions that at some points were hard for me to contain, all that comforted me were my silent conversations with God seeking his answers and comfort for me and people who were going through the ordeal in Mumbai. The entire time I was just glued to my TV and computer, switching channels and watching online streaming video getting both international and local coverage. I even kept a tab on blogs, twitter and social media sites that were reporting about it. As I watched the terrorist vandalize those great land marks of my city, my mind raced back in time when I had many joyous occasions with family and friends in all those places. It was unbelievable how 10 men could hold the city of Mumbai at seize for so many days and all we could do was helplessly look on. What was even more unbelievable was the way the politicians on both sides of the divide behaved and reacted. Some stooping to lowest level by trivializing the events and making irresponsible remarks. As like everyone I had questions - how could our intelligence agencies not detect such a huge operation? who was behind these attacks? and what we as a nation need to do that this never happens again? We have many of those answers now but again the same deadlock with a neighbor who refuses to take responsibility of the happenings in their country and our political leadership that never seems to rise up from their petty bickering. The people of India have unanimously spoken 'Enough is Enough', no more of this terror. Our government needs to get its act together to protect its citizens. Some learning's have emerged very clearly and if we don't learn from them, then history will repeat itself. Lastly let us never forget ever the heroes who gave their lives for the nation in this.My prayer request to God
A day to remember
I will keep coming back to look at this screen shot whenever i feel i have hit a roadblock.
Best of my Twitter updates (So Far)
· Felt I heard another confession "we are afraid to let foreigners into our lives, what if we don't like them, worse still what if we do?"
· Jamshed felt he heard a confession today - "I don't know how to be honest, maybe that's why I like metaphors"
· I love watching people's expressions when they run out of money on their bus card it's like 'what's wrong with this damn card'
· Jamshed feels life would be more peaceful if people focused on bettering themselves rather than pulling others down in order to get ahead.
· Let’s give people the smiles we never get in the hope that someday it would come back.
· I like this quote "if we don't win their hearts today, they will break our hearts tomorrow"
· Noticed a man on the MRT wearing an interesting T-shirt that said 'Searching for an Aspirin and also details of what happened last night' :)
· When genuinely nice people come along, people begin to question their motives & search for hidden agendas, but in reality there are none.
· Just saw a funny bumper sticker 'I drive like this because I want to piss you off’
· It’s important to have clarity before ambition; you wouldn't want to land up on top of a wrong mountain.
· Nobody really cares if you are right all they want see is how you react.
· I pointed out to my girl friend at dinner that her favorite word is ‘No’, and she said.. 'No, I don't think so' :))
· Jamshed just realizes how much he dislikes indecisiveness, people take a stand, make a move, have an opinion, live your life.
· To see yourself in a younger face, there is no better joy.
· People are like metallic springs the more you contain them the more they jump.
· Collaboration is a key skill to have in world where people have diverging views and less authority. Mantra for Life 2.0 is to collaborate.
· Ladies chase a good man not a good ring.
· Leading someone needs courage, but following someone needs even more courage
· Should we seek answers to questions that are not ours to ask?
· It’s either right or wrong, you can't be half pregnant.
Why i love Twitter
Corridor Conversations
Last night (rather early this morning at 5 am :) ) i made my finishing touches to my new blog 'Corridor Conversations'. I intend this to be my professional blog where i can talk about marketing, branding, internet, technology etc, basically anything to do with corporate life. I have been wanting to set up a professional blog for the longest time because bloging on reflections (which is this blog) always made me feel that i was missing out all the business related stuff i wanted to talk about. So for now it is one personal blog and one business blog and the on the roadmap is 'Let's blog for God', but not yet ready for that, URL is booked though :)P.S. Thanks Joy for helping me brainstorm on the new title.











