Mufth ka advice!

Now a days people giving advice for free has increased manifold or it may be the case that I am experiencing it only now! they just give advice on anything and everything! May be some of their intentions are for my good but still.. too much of interference just pisses me off far too much!

Advice would be an understatement.. actually they try to rule ur life by telling you what you should do when! some of such common free ka advices or orders these days are..
"Why havent you guys still bought a car?? How long will u travel on bike!"

I dont understand how me and my hubby travelling on a bike can make them feel so uncomfortable! Not even the case that I cribbed before them that Bike in bangalore is so tough to drive and manage!

"You have not yet planned to buy another house? I think you should start thinking about naother investment"
I wish I could say.."Sorry i dont remember.. when did we appoint u as our financial portfolio manager? U r s good in that!! "

"You have not yet bought an LCD TV? Why??"
What a waste of life .. we didnt buy an LCD TV.. !! I am so sorry.. I will make sure the next time u visit us we will have an LCD TV!!


And the worst and most irritating of all " You guys r married for 3 yrs. No good news yet??.. too bad start planning"

"Thank you so much aunty It was so very nice of you to interfere in my most personal matter and made me realise what a crime I was committing!! If not for your eye opener.. We wouldnt have known and lived our whole life childless! I am indebted to u for my whole life"
I seriously dont understand why others are so curious abt the happenings and proceedings of others life and expect others to live life according to their wish!!
Some issues which wouldnt make a difference to them in any which way.. but still they would give their valuable opinion/suggestion on everything!!

This post is coming out of sheer frustration on people who have been continously giving us the set of rules by which they expct us to live! Puhleez people.. Live and let live.. everybody is mature and capable enough to handle their life and everybody know what to do when and how!!

Poppat umpteen- Timing couldnt be better!

This happened almost an year back.
There was some work in project that was scheduled for the weekend and my lead was looking for a resource to assign that work. As usual everybody was passing the buck and I also told him " I will be out of town.. I cannot come" . By that time there was absolutely no plans for the weekend but I just didnt want to waste my time in ofc over that weekend.
Later we planed to go to Wonderla that weekend along with Naresh's colleagues.
Wonderla is a theme park in bangalore with all water rides and land rides.
Saturday I was having fun in full blast in those water rides. There was one ride where we need to take the stairs and go up and slide from there in a water slide.
I was on top of that ride when I saw someone very familiar there.. And the worst of my dreams came true.. it was My Lead!!! What would be the chance of meeting me meeting my lead of all the people and of all the places in wonderla and of all the rides. on that single ride!!!

I didnt know whether to talk to him or act as if I didnt see him or just slide immediatly from there.. Before I could decide on anything.. My lead saw me and came to me and introduced his family.. I was never more comfortable.. The downslide was never more comforting..

Stop Cribbing.. Stop Living

Yes.. thats exactly my funda of life from today.
Inspired from a lot of things..

Today while I was doing my usual running to catch the office bus, I was cribbing so much tha only I have to get up early and run and catch the bus .. I almost felt like all troubles of life were dawned on me. Then I noticed a lady walking bare foot carrying two big containers of water.. one on her head and one on her waist.. I then realised I forgot to thank God for giving me the life I am leading.

We have got used to cribbing about everything so much that, we have stopped enjoying what we have. We have started taking things so much for granted that no matter how much we have, we are never contended.

A warm shower, New clothes, good breakfast, awssum lunch, hands full of work, good bank balance, a movie , dinner with family.. believe me enjoying and being happy for all these makes life a lot more happy and feels gifted! atleast for me it did :)

Dumb.. Dumber.. Dumbest!

Engineering days were great fun! and what was more fun was the 2 hour travel from home to college in the bus! Travelling with a bus full of monkey was never more fun!

In the route from home to college, there was a bridge over a railway line and sometimes it so happened that whenever our bus went on that bridge, there used to a train going below the bridge. Somehow this story reached my ears that, whenever a Goods train passes by when we are on the bridge, we should make a wish and that wish will come true!!!
Me and my friends strongly believed that whatever we wish , it will definitely come true.. and the wishes usually used to be for clearing all the papers :)
While we used to wish , there were some monkeys who wished loudly that whatever we wish should not come true!

And I still cant believe, how I could actually believe the reason behind the wishes coming true only when a goods train passes below you and not a passenger train... Yeah am sharing it with all of you and you can figure out why!!
Goods trains generally carry coal or wood in them. This coal will carry our wish and when the coal is burnt, the smoke goes up, forms clouds and it fulfills our wishes soon!! and if its passenger train, and we make a wish , someone in the train would pass away to get our wish fulfilled!!!! and its only devilish to wish someone dies to get our wishes fulfilled.. so we dont wish when a passenger train goes under that bridge!!

Thanks to that person who actually made up this story and believed that i would believe it.. and yes! th eperson was very very successful! all the 4 years I spent time waiting for that goods train to go below the bridge when I am o that bridge!

Common Poppats

There are some common incidents that keep occuring time and again and I never learn from them.. it has now become habitual to behave like this!

Other day I was talking to my friend on my mobile and somewhere in the middle of the conversation I started searching for my mobile in my handbag.. and obviously I didnt find it, I started searching frantically and told my friend I will talk to her later as I need to search my lost mobile!!!
Friend ka tho obviously sound off and by the time I realised how dumb I was acting.. damage was done :(

Coming to a more common situation.. I always have a great confusion when it comes to directions.. north east west south left right.. ohh god! so many of them!!
and directions combined with mirror imaging is lethal!! when some instructions say right side of the screen.. it takes a minute to decide which side of the screen I have to look at.. is it my curren right or is it the right if i am not facing the monitors .. which side!!!????

When giving directions to someone is even more confusing...
Once I was giving Naresh some directions to reach a place.. at a point I said "take left take left" and I was actually showing my hand towards right! poor thing just stopped not knowing which direction to go!

Things like these have started happening more frequently these days.. and people arnd me are getting used to it!

Joey Poppat 10 : It was my system that was not working!!

I was in the IPC training in training room no 13. I think you all know how systems are lined up in a training room. Monitors adjacent to monitors, cpu adjacent to cpu and so on.

I was asked to try out a program and as expected when I ran the program it went in to an infinite loop and the cpu utilization went to 100% and there was nothing I could do to end that task but to restart the system. I tried restarting the system, but even that was not working. So I switched off the power connection and I was shocked to see that my system was still on... was my program so devastating???!!!!

All this while as I was busy with my ultra poppatness, i didnt notice that the girl sitting next to me was staring at me completely flaring up!
Ha ha ha!! all this while I was restarting her system's cpu and unplugged her cpu's power connection :) :) :)

Poor thing all she did was to stare at me blankly.. helplessly!!

I still owe her a treat as it was because of me that she couldnt save her programme and both of us got a B grade in that training :)

I accept donations for giving her treat.. all my friends.. listening??

Poppat queen!!! Couldnt get better than this!!

Ok I cannot tell you when this happened, why this happened but it happened. something that shouldnt have happened!

I once happened to extend my leave for 2 days and after I came back I had to go to my manager to explain why!! I was tensed like mad.. and was thinking of all possible bahanas I could come up with and was rehearsing each one in mind.

Went to my Mai baap and said this.. exactly this..

" Hi.. As I was suffering from my cousins wedding..." Bham.. bhoom #%#$%$%^%^%$&&

what the Dash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldnt utter a word more and my boss was ROTFL :(

Bouts of guilt.

Do you believe in the eveil eye/nazar lagna/dishti concept? Even I never took it very seriously till I happened to experience it first hand.
Coming to some elaboration on the concept, people say that if X is not hapy abt Y's happiness and is very Jealous of Y, then something bad will definitely happen to Y if X has that Bad.. Evil eye. There will be some people who will be unaffected by others success, happiness and prosperity but some get really cranky.
And to not to have such effects of buri nazar, they do Nazar utaarna/dishti theeyatam.
First time when someone utarofied my dishti was after my marriage, Naresh's mom did that for both of us and I found the process extremely funny, but now I see some sense in it because it really does work.
Ok.. now coming to what happened in my case..
I am currently in a project which is still in mobilizing state.. as in team formation. and they are filling up both offshore and onsite positions. I had been staffed for a module lead-offshore position. Later I was asked to interview other resources for the team.
There was one girl, a Java resource whom I had to interview for an offshore position but required to travel to onsite for knowledge transition KT. < My manager told me that I need not travel onsite for KT as I had to handle offshore KT> I started sulking the moment I heard it as there was nothing else that I could do about it!
I went to interview this girl and may be because of my sulky state of mind or whatever, I didnt make her feel comfortable and asked her all possible crap. But I have to admit she was good! she was damn good. So at the end, as instructed by my manager I asked her if she was ok to travel and had no problems with it and whether she had a passport or not. I could see the glow in her face as she almost jumped and said, she had no problems travelling and whatsoever!!
By this time my mood had worsened.. it was the only thing in my mind.. I was actualy cursing my luck that how could i have been in a situation where I am interviewing a person for such good opportunity and I myself am not able to take it up even if I so badly want to! I truly felt I was more deserving :)
I was also very very jealous of this girl but conveyed my manager that she was good and we can take her.
I kept sulking that evening and shared my woes with almost everyone possible just to pacify my badly beaten ego and luck.
Believe it or not, two days later my Manager came to me and said we were not able to staff that girl. Because by the time my manager went with the staffing request, she was staffed by some other project. and he said we might have to look for other people to fill up that post in our project.
Then my guilt took over me, it rarely happens this way. Two projects trying to staff the same person at the same time when there are hundred others lying free on bench. Her tough luck that she got staffed in to a project which didnt require her to travel or may be it was my jealousy which turned as bad luck for her.
From that day on, my guilt pangs keep coming back whenever I see her anywhere in office.
I really feel bad about my own thinking and the way I took things.. its a small opportnity which really doesnt matter much for me at this stage of life and there will be lot of such offers or even better ones that will come my way in future.. I shouldve been happy for her that she was getting that opportunity.. instead I sulked and believe me till date that position in our project has not yet been staffed .. for some reason or the other.. :(

From then on I decided to make a conscious effort in being truly happy for others when they are getting something that I am not.. and I highly recommend this to all of you because it really makes you grow as a person..a lot better person :)