Poor Cat!

A man hated his wife's cat and he decided to get rid of it. He drove 20 blocks away from home and dropped the cat there. The cat was already walking up the driveway when he approached his home.

The next day, he decided to drop the cat 40 blocks away but the same thing happened. He kept increasing the number of blocks but the cat kept coming home before him.At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right and so on until he reached what he thought was a perfect spot and dropped the cat there.

An hour later.... The man calls his wife at home and asked her, "Janu is the cat there?"

"Yes, why do you ask?" answered the wife.

Frustrated the man said," Put that damn cat on the phone, I am lost and I need directions to reach home!!!"




Moral: “ How much ever we dislike somebody, someday we will need their assistance. So never worry how many people dislike you... "
-PC

Just for Today

Just for Today :

1. Smile at a stranger.
2. Listen to someone's heart.
3. Drop a coin where a child can find it.
4. Learn something new, then teach it to someone else.
5. Hug a loved one.
6. Don't be afraid to say "I'm Sorry".
7. Smell the rain, feel the breeze, listen to wind, enjoy the sun, enjoy traffic.
8. Make a promise and keep it (at least for self).
9. Call someone, for no other reason  than just say "Hi".
10. Cherish all your TODAYS!

Yes, your life will be beautiful every Today :)
-PC

Rice-n-Chilly(ing) Powder

A grand party in Pizza hut for no reason :) Today I could spend almost 500 bucks for a pizza and I am THE pizza fan! But those days were better than pizza moments. There was one special situation in my life when I was travelling by train from Dharward to Davangere.
It happens to be sometime in 4th semester of engineering life and I was on the way back to Davangere from Dharwad (favorite city).

 I left previous night by 11 PM towards DWD by train. In the rush of playing carom I forgot to have dinner. early morning in DWD, after so many days I enjoyed Shira - called as "kesari baat" in South Karnataka. I was surprised to pay 5 rupees and to get only one small bowl :( only 2 seconds in was in bowl. If it was in davangere, I could have had khali dosa - 3 small dosas and important thing is unlimited amount of chutney :) Anyhow I couldn't afford more than that; I had money but I didn't spend it.
My friends' with whom I had meeting were busy in classes but still they arranged a bed to sleep. Neither they asked me about food nor did I thought about it. We went for a party by late afternoon and it was my turn to treat being an engineering student :) We came to JSS college campus. I can't forget my first day at JSS college, Vidyagiri. Today was another such day with drizzling rain and just another day in heaven :)

Here comes the party time! I was not happy about the hotel  we entered but was helpless. I opted for Dal-n-one roti which itself was charged with 50 bucks! (almost ten khali dosa :( ) My friends were doing favor of being with me! I didn't eat much was left hungry even after so called party where I paid 200+. Friends are friends :)

By 5.45 PM, I was in Hubli railway station to reach back my college. I had two trains, express which costs 50+ and passenger costs about 30+ ( I don't remember cost exactly but there was difference, I mean too much difference). Few crocodiles were passing inside my stomach by this time. I took a right decision to travel by passenger which may leave by 7.30 PM. I slept for an hour in railway station. Grabbed a nice seat in general compartments. Now the story starts with my return journey!

It was expected that train will reach Davangere by 12 midnight and with experience one could say by 1 AM with maximum delay. I could still get food in my hostel, especially BC beer (minimum 3 days cocktail what is called as buttermilk by few folks). I had a second thought to buy idli-wada but 2 idli and 1 wada costs 10 rupees! thats too much :) 

And the Hero enters; He was travelling for the first time to Bengaluru, was crying and very upset to leave parents and his hometown! Dressing clearly made me feel like family is BPL (Below poverty line). His parents finally said adieu when train started in good pace. I thought I should talk to him and make him relaxed. After few minutes we became friends :) And sat by door enjoying wind speed as time pass by. He is 16+ and going to Bengaluru to get a job which seems to be more of a assured and his job was connecting wires what he says and i felt its like networking or cable related.
Another twenty minutes passed and train stopped. 8.20 PM. We were forced to move away from door. Train was expected to arrive in DVG by 12 midnight and I was suppose to eat something by 30 past 12 or 1 AM with  max delay. Twist started here when I felt train or the driver is sleeping. Its been an hour and there is no any movement. My stomach was yelling. I felt as if Yakshyagaana is being conducted in my stomach.
I said to my travel mate about artistic sounds in my stomach and he insisted me to take his meals packed from home. Off course I didn't accept that with due respect. Its 9.00 PM now and surprisingly not even water is being sold. There are no any eatables, no idly, no vada, no bhelpuri not even biscuits or anything at all! Not even good trees nearby to fetch fruits Another hour passed by. It was difficult for me to talk also. Yesterday afternoon I had good meals and little bit of shira, dal-roti today afternoon. Train was suppose to reach by 12 and till 11.30 PM it didnt move at all We are just one hour away from Hubli. There is no sound of movement also. I learned by this time that engine is on strike and we are waiting for another engine. Meanwhile my friend insisted me to have his food 2-3 times as I was too much uncomfortable.My eyes I felt bad for not eating in party or not purchasing anything in station. I felt now like I have too much money but its just a paper. Finally by 11.45, I agreed to his offer ( as if I was doing favor to him:) ).
He opened a box, full of white rice and chilli powder on that. My mouth was watering. But only rice and chilly powder? I asked him if he have anything else. I got one big onion. hmmm. Had no options. next five minutes, I cannot forget this moment ever in my life, these five minutes I don't know how I ate it when tears are more like nayagara falls and still it was too tasty. I didnt even ask him if he wanna eat. I was not in this world at all. For my badluck now after this big drama train started. Just after 15 minutes we reached next stop and yes .... There are lots of eatables. I could see some ready foods like chips, biscuits, chocolates etc. Just fifteen minutes earlier if engine was working fine then I would have not tasted rice-n-chilly powder......! I took few biscuits and few more eatables and I offered to him for his great survival support.
Today when I could spend 500+ for a meal I can't forget that memorable day of my life.I tried to save money but someone else saved me from hunger. I get know what does hunger mean :)
I cant say I was wrong when I tried to save money. I cant even say I am right especially when I was eating HOT rice-n-chilly. I was lucky to try to help that guy who in turn helped me a lot. Today I could spend thousands for a meal but was the day where money didn't work in any way. I can't eat only rice and chilly powder with an onion now. Rest of the journey till DVG was fantastic and memorable. I never met that guy in my life and I wish I will never face such situation in my life.

Nice answer to "why me?"

ONE PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS LIFE! 

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of Cancer which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983..

From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

"The world over, 50 million  children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the  grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' "
 

"You Smile When You Are Completely Broken Up,
Then There Can Be Nothing That Can Break You Next Time"

-PC

A "COCKROACH" STORY Very Interesting

Very nice thought shared by one of my friend! I am not the author!!!!!

Why so?

When a kid asks "why sky is blue?" everyone love it and when same question is asked by me, either it will be treated as PJ or they feel as if I am from Dharwad (can be replaced by Agra as well)!

I have to something to say about activities conducted either in campus recruitment or off campus recruitment. I never had a chance to ask why I have to pass aptitude test or why should I attend GD. In fact, I didn't even think about them and I had only one goal - get a job! When I felt that it’s too blur for me to reach this goal, I turned around to see what’s happening with me; but it was too late! I wasted six opportunities but still luck/bad luck was with me.

Learning from others mistake is better as we wont get chance to do all mistakes in our life :) when you are getting something for free why can't use it wisely? I know It is easy said than done.

OK, let’s talk about Aptitude test. Why so? Why is it necessary to have aptitude test? I am very good I studies or I can do designing very well (you name it as PCB, program, plan/elevation or a machine design). Most of the companies have few mandatory rounds for recruitment like aptitude and group discussion. Oh! We didn't think of minimum criteria of marks!

If I want to rent a house, it is not possible for me to visit every house and check if it is vacant! First I have to choose where I can stay and what kind of house I need and then I start hunting. Narrowing search to get potential good results! May be I have very good house which is about 50 KM away from my home; you want to go for it? Minimum criteria whatever is set in many cases is to narrow the no. of candidates. Depending on no. of people recruiter want to hire and how competitive job is, minimum criteria is set. I may answer if you people have any more questions on this. 

Remember your childhood days? When your parents were so proud to announce that my son/daughter is studying in 1st standard and can sing songs, say no’s in reverse order! Oh:) what a moment! Especially when rewarded with some coins/sweets or fruits, it is like we are on the top of world. Believe me, our parents enjoyed these moments more than us. This is what we call as an aptitude! When a child start learning new things and explore it more and more aptitude rates moves on and on just like the food price now a days :) Many cases it happens to be your living environment, which stimulates you to learn/understand more. I stopped my studies from 3rd STD and rejoined for 6th STD. I was null by all means! It is my name in fact which made me popular for the first time (still it’s my name which keeps me high always) and I started learning things quick just because I like to be in limelight. My teacher's sir was a champ, he could say table of numbers in reverse order as well! Sometimes when children are compared to each other, they get demotivated; that’s true in every stage of life! It is all about how you want to see world. It is very common to be demotivated, but it is not common to be a failure. Just like home far away, if you are too good in what you studied but not in aptitude may not be good! I didn’t mean that you are not good rather there is a probability of you being exceptionally intelligent or some kind of fraud. Obviously recruiters don’t take much risk.

Think of a child, who is good at studies! This gives more confidence and gives an opportunity to think rationally. His/hers society always motivated for speeches in public events or sing a song. Think of a child who could read English news paper in the age of 7! (Which is common now, but I am saying about 1990's) Stimulation to these people is so high that ideally all such lucky people can be gems of a country! Isn't these qualities sound good for any kind of job? No matter that job is only about punching pins but such a nice person could change the way work is done itself! Wait a minute, I am telling about what was there in past or partially what is there now! Why industry thought of aptitude at first step is high aptitude may be stimulated by sound society and healthy brain, which could help them in their business.

Now, what trend do we have? A month of hard work with R S Agarwal and couple of weeks with Shakuntala Devi or few others (I mean books written by these authors), you are the champ! I spent less than a month in fact and few of my friends didn't read them at all (off course they had very good backbone from childhood) At any moment, sound aptitude and attitude makes life easier. It is not expected that you spend couple of days thinking how to solve the problem which can be solved in an hour or so on an average. Recruiter expects that you should be one among those who can take quick decisions in less time although which is not easy every time but such a potential can be present with people who have good aptitude.

And the wondering part is we all have aptitude, in fact very good aptitude which we don't know at all! It is very easy for us to decide whether to cross the signal or not, considering that only 4 seconds left! It is our aptitude! It is our aptitude which says is it right time to propose her or not! (I think in this example, boys always fail, no matter answer is yes or no:)

There is nothing wrong in preparing for aptitude when we are not lucky to get it in our childhood or when we neglected it. This also gives a strong reason to recruiter that, even if you are not too smart at least you are a hard worker! Being good in aptitude in any manner is good for you. But just don't think of only numbers! Or forget it once you get a job. Puzzles are into place along with aptitude so that one can think little more than just numbers. Think of real scenario happening in our life and use your aptitude knowingly. Unknowingly we always use. And it doesn’t mean that if you pass aptitude you are smart! It might be your luck too (which is true in my case!).

Now, when we did mistake just in case, how can we help others not to do it? As a citizen it is our responsibility to think and act! How our children of 20th century are being treated? How good their aptitude can be after 10-15 years? May be we should post questions like "what is the length of Harry Potter's groom stick?", "In which AVATAR ben10 can create electricity?", "When did you see your parents recently?" Sound very funny but it is going to happen soon! Human is a social animal. We cannot be happy alone. Just don't train your brain! TACT-Think And aCT. It is in the youth of present we have future. Yesterday is past, tomorrow yet to come but today is a gift, that’s why it is called as Present!

We don't have to think too bug and start changing the education system of India or start another marathon, campaign etc! Make a difference to your juniors! Make a difference to your society! To your family! You will feel the difference only when you do it!

I know I write lot :) I simply can't avoid it!

-PC 

Google Inc

A hot-cake "The Google story" by David A. Vise sold like anything in market few years back. Self stated businessmen, enterpreneur, students, managers everyone read this book. Even I purchased this book! The success story of college students, the first payment changing the name of company there are many more things about this Google.

When I received gmail invitation in 2004, I felt so proud of it. I moved from indiatimes to gmail and you can create account only via invitation that made me so proud! I started stating that having email account in Google is like good status and only intelligent people will get invited. What more, when I sent request to one of my friend here is the response

"Thank u for sending me the invitation. I have created my account successfully in Gmail. However I need not send this news to u because this news will be given to U automatically byGmail people as I have learnt. "

So easy, Google does everything for us :) Here comes the problem. 

Now I am worried too much about Google. First ever bad news I heard is that Google maps is showing all Indian military bases on web. A wide open invitation to our beloved neighbors! No doubt, I was happy to see top view of my house sitting away by 600 KM! Google became so strong that, there is nothing which they didn't touch. Orkut, YouTube, Andriod, Chrome and a new trend of waves! One and only the GOOGLE; Almighty in internet world.

It was Chinese government, questioned about Google! There are many reasons behind like security, local policies, culture and impact by Google. Few days before when I heard about banning of Google in China I really felt bad for IT industry workers in China :) (There was a recent news that Google was hacked by Chinese just like the news Chinese hacked Indian Govt. site) China government promoted Baidu, a Chinese search engine.

There are thousands of helping hand if you have Google. Everything You need is a click away starting from a calculator to white papers and everything else which you don't want also. For IT industry Google is the BOSS. We cannot survive without Google. But think about it for a moment. We are so addicted to Google that Google brand is always in #1. Most unknown secrets about you are present in your Google account. Imagine someone making it public! Even this blog is under the shadow of Google. 

Such a power to one name Google, doesn't sound good. It says something worst is yet to happen! We like dog when it is one month old, but after a year or so sometimes even we are afraid to go near! But we only feed good food for its growth. 

  One has to think about monopoly of Google wisely! When it comes to me, Yes I am worried! And now is the time I have to think about relocating at least few information away from Google. There is no privacy at all! Everything is Globally published and what more, if Google goes down with present situation, IT will fall sick. And many of us feel proud to say that we are dependent on Google. Last year movie, Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks represented Google in many conversions and dependency on Google.

Do you know what is the informal slogan of Google? 

Don't be evil

Very contradictory to its victory!

-PC