Gray Hair Matters!!

One of the main reasons for moving out of my first job was, lack of scope for utilising my talent. I felt I had moved up quickly and was getting bored where I was. Since I moved out, I have come to see that though my resume is impressive my total number of years does not validate my experience and people are not convinced with the facts I offer. My second employer was a perfect example for this.

So what has more value Grey Cells or Gray Hair? How do I sell in a virtual world where "what is see may not be what you get"?

idea...in a box

I was just browsing thru all I have written on Jasmine Summer, since this year beginning. Couple of things stuck me.
1. Humor has totally vanished from my words....hmmm that's not a good sign
2. No more comments :( ... Well like any other mortal some outside support will help. Even my best friends have stopped commenting...

Then my thoughts started moving towards the humor factor. Leafsol work has definitely taken its toll. My free form of thinking... And it all became clear, too clear, as why me and Rita are struggling. Well, I have a formula now...need to bounce off with Rita and see if it will work.

My thoughts jumped to how I have been branded as an innovative person at office :). We had this task force..which had to force people to think innovative. hmmmm so innovative! So there are these standard phrases that are associated with such task force. One, IDEA JAM. Two, IDEA BOX.

So it was Idea Box to collect 'out of the box' ideas. I am sure you know what it means!! So the rally began. All the Managers ensured the team members did some out of box thinking...after couple of (multiple) reminders. Then another task force opened the hard thought of ideas and tried hard to evaluate.

By the time the ideas were evaluated...one whole year had passed and I don't remember if the winning idea ever came out of the box and saw day light in implementation.

It is almost like history repeating....I have been trying to think out of box since last December. With 9 solid months rolling off, I can clearly see why I cant strike gold. Its time I stopped boxing myself and forcing myself to get an idea in a box.

Dejavu

Since my childhood I have experienced this strange feeling at various times. Been there done this. Some times it just a fleeting moment, but sometimes it a whole event. It is almost always been like a recollection, but a few times I would even know what next. It scares me when this happens. The latest was two days back, when I was trying to serve dinner to my grandma and I knew exactly what conversation was to happen and I knew not just the conversation but the whole environment. The rain, my sons parallel conversation etc.

As a kid I remember my father taking about multi dimensional world. He would tell us that there were more than the known three dimensional world. He said, we lived in an universe of multi dimension. There were worlds that were in various time and space dimension that co-existed.

So basically, there were other humans in another earth and another time point but living in our co-ordinates but in a different dimension. At any point in time there may be humans passing through us and we never felt it, because they were in different dimension.

I found this piece of information very exiting. I would go around imagining the 'older me' passing through me without realising my presence :). Imagine we had such dimensions and there is information leak happening between such dimensions..we can always have Dejavu.

If such information leaks are possible then may be ....may be we can travel between those multi dimensions...do time travel...correct some historical mistakes....there are so many possibilities.

But, I checked the websites and the Dejavu has been attributed to simple things like fault in memory storage (Short term vs Long term) or sensory delay between the two eyes etc.

I would love to believe in the stories my father told, than those memory issues which makes me feel like my dump PC.

What is a Brand? Can you tell me?

Its been a long time since I logged in here. It has been busy since we came back fron Thirupati. Lot of positive signs. With LeafSol work picking up I am all excited. It has been great. At the same time I miss talking to myself at Jasmine Summer. Guess thats what ranslated to all the Blah Blah I did this afternoon....God I must have spoke for about 4 hours and it was all about me , myself.

It was wonderful to think about school days and it is really nice to get back to those memorable days through aadi. The PTA meting we had 10 days back was really intresting. Guess no one gives feedback to the teacher. It appears to be a 1 way traffic, with teachers rattling about your kids performance. I saw the teacher react in surprise when I said I liked a few things that she is doing for her students.

I am not very sure if the teacher appreciates what she is doing. Is it just a job or does she love her profession? She seems to have pre-formed notions & opinions and does not think beyond that. She said things I aleady know about aadi. What I would apprecite is to give us insights about how things can be made better. I have only one kid & she intercats with 30 kids a day..and I wud expect her to be more of a specialist....am I expecting too much?

Rita & me were talking about printo...more and more outlets in India are trying to Project them as a Brand and they are also charging a premium for that. But, at the end of it I do not get personalised service..or even worse a good standard service. It took Rita several hours to get our visiting card and brochure done at printo. This expierience has been very bad and we have decided to go to out next door local provider, to get the course material printed for our next session.

I wonder what a Brand means? What kind of service can we expect from Brands? Why do they charge premium? Just because they have 10 or 20 outlets in the state / country can they call themselves a Brand? Be it a school or a printing outlet or a electronics shop. We pay through our nose, our hard earned money. Is it wrong to expect a better service?

With retail stores mushrooming, I feel consumers are being taken for a ride, more and more. hmm what are my options?

Thirupathi

I wish I had some photos from the weekend Thirupathi trip. It is always a pleasure to see aadi enjoying out station trips. All three of us enjoyed this one, a ITDC package trip. This time the Dharshan took much more time than the previous one that we went 4 years back. I need to rework on the timing , have to check when it is best to be there, with least crowd. May take one of those seva tickets in Dec...not sure. But, what happened was amazing, for no reason I suddenly got a feeling that I have to be in Thirupati, and we were there in less than a week, no major planning. Unless god wishes this cant happen. After almost 4 years going there was great. This was aadi's second trip (but of course he remembers very little from his first trip).

Looking forward for some more outing this year, with family.

revival of reading...

The first fiction that I read was Pride and Prejudice when I was doing my graduation. Till then either I dint have access to books or no time to read anything, other than school books. Till date this book has remained my favourite. I liked the Indian version movie with Ash.. just for the reason that it was a lift off from PnP.

During my PG days Di introduced me to lending library ( a concept I never knew existed..hmm real frog in the village well). The toughest read was fountain head by Ayn Rand. I could not relate with the ideas and feelings expressed by the protagonist. I attempted reading the book several times and kept the book for almost a month and couldn't do much...except the rental library started sending me postcards reminding that the book was overdue. I finally gave up.

The other book that caught my attention was Picture This by Joseph Heller, yes this is the same author who wrote the famous catch 22. I couldn't complete the book for some reason, but I want to read it some day...I was so impressed with the little I read, I bought catch 22 when I saw it in a Mysore Book shop. Unfortunately it is one of those long list of books that I have bought but yet to read.

Mahesha and me share the passion for books. I wish I pursue this hobby more aggressively than today. Of late there has been severe power cuts in B'lore. It meant one good thing, no TV for time pass, so I have gone back to books and finished two books recently. Both are fictions, and I enjoyed thoroughly. Deception point, though unrealistic, it was quite engaging. Stone Cold by David Baldacci was the other book, similar book, not realistic but engaging. I usually like narration which has parallel tracks that merge at the end of a book.

I am hoping I can pull & start reading those 'many books' that I have collected and never read.

aadi's first pet

Aadi has been looking forward to have his own pet. His initial pick was dog. All the nice movies show them friendly, loving and best of all 'can perform tricks', since having a dog meant high maintenance, I was not too much for it. Also, I am a cat loving person. But, then cats were also no no as we stayed in apartment.

Finally, we have settled for FISH. Hoping it is low maintenance and also, it can answer those umpteen questions aadi has on vegetarianism. He was asking "my friends say egg is good for health, why don't we eat?". Well, we are vegetarians..thatz all was my explanation. Sometimes i think I should give him the choice to eat egg. hmm I donno, I am not ready for it.

Now we have 5 pairs of fishy...aadi has named them sharky, zebra, goldie, sky and blackie. All in pairs. We got them home yesterday and we had the first casualty today. I guess one of the sharky could not stand the water change and I am hoping the other survive. We replaced the dead one, so that the other sharky doesn't feel lonely.

But, it was a sad experience for all 3 of us to see the fishy dead. Hoping we will have the rest survive. I also found this very informative site for anyone looking to have fish as pets, http://www.algone.com/ .