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Blog Marathon - Post # 4

The problem with people these days is that they post every single crap on their facebook wall (or timeline these days :-) ). Their posts are like "Cooking maggy... oh my god its so yummmyyy… I’m lovin it!!!” I would suggest them, guys no one gives a shit. Why don’t you update your status while brushing your teeth as well, just as "Brushing my teeth after 24 hours... yeaaah feeling great !!!" Dude nobody cares unless you are a girl. Yeah seriously man.

And the problem with girls these days, their statuses start with bit suspense. "Don't you dare to do this again". Or they just have to put a saddy “ :-( ” on their wall and after that, the troll starts. Guys keep on asking "What happened sweety?" for hours. And the reply comes. "Nothing, aise hi". What the fuq ????. I think this is the new entertainment channel for girls these days. Girls talk must be like this “You know… today I got 78 comments and 122 likes, I won today as  I got 10 likes and 20 comments more than you.”

 And the new trend to help poor people. One picture of a poor little girl uploads with caption “Like if you are against hunger”. And people starts liking and within minutes that picture gets 10,000 likes, and people feel very proud.  It’s like their one 'like' will act as Rs. 100 note and directly reach to that poor little girl whose picture they are sharing.

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Guys what happened to you ?? Post something meaningful, like I’m going to post this blogpost on my wall.

Gurgaon from my eyes

Blog Marathon - Post # 3

It’s been more than 10 months that I'm into this Electronic city. It’s a city of ambitions. People come here, build their dreams and live like what we call these days gangnam style. But today I'm writing what I have observed about this city. Here are some interesting facts about Gurgaon.

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• Gurgaon has no roots of its own. Almost everybody here is from different city. So nobody can actually claim that it is ‘his Gurgaon’.
• Yesterday my landlord told her daughter that they are planning to visit Qutub Minar. Then that little daughter asked very cutely 'Mom which mall is Qutub Minar'. Sad but true. The only things to hang out in Gurgaon are Malls. If the weather is good, we plan to visit Malls. If the weather is bad, we plan to visit Malls. Almost every plan ended up to Malls in Gurgaon.
• Window shopping, window shopping and window shopping. These are things we do in malls. Guys generally select things in stores at malls, come back home, browse online shopping websites, redeem coupons and buy the same things online.
• Auto walas here will not kick start their auto until it is packed with at least 12 persons. Almost every auto wala has developed his skills to drive the auto by sitting on the side passenger seat because his own driving seat is already been offered to some other passenger.
• Traffic is the biggest problem in Gurgaon. My small company has strength of 1000 and from 1000 I think 350-400 come by driving their own cars. It was an example of a small company. And in Gurgaon, you will find big companies like Infosys, TCS, Microsoft, and Google. Maruti has 28000 employees only in Gurgaon. You can easily imagine the traffic problem of Gurgaon.
• In metro trains, if the person is alone, you will find earphone stucked into his ears. If he is not alone, you will find him preaching down his project managers. Every second person in Gurgaon is a software engineer.
• In Gurgaon you will find more PGs than homes. PGs are the places where horrible food is fed to the peoples. And in search of eatable food, people keep on changing these PGs. The same apply on their jobs. In Gurgaon, people very frequently switch their jobs.
• The buildings here are very fascinating. But I think after building all these buildings, Government got to know that they forgot to give drainage system to this city. Sectors get flooded with water on rainy seasons here.

Da-fuq moments of my birthday

Blog marathon - post # 2

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When you are expecting a high volume beer party with all your best buddies rolling yummy chocolate cake on your face, but all you got a single tasteless sandwich and nothing else for whole damn day.

When just 5 minutes left for the train to departure and at that moment you got to know that Delhi railway station and New Delhi railway station are actually two different railway stations and you are standing on the wrong one.

When you have to wait for someone not just for 15-20 minutes but for 4 hours and there is nothing for time pass nearby. No mall, no theatre and not even a single shop because of Sunday.

When you are expecting a Shatabadi Express AC coach ride with romantic Danielle Steel novel, and all you got a crowded roadways bus running at 25 km/h.

But my whole day fret, irritation, tiredness gone in one second when finally I reached home at 11:45 pm and ate my Mom’s food after so long.

I still do childish things

Blog marathon- Post # 1:

I turned 25 this month. This year was very special for me as I stepped into professional life. But for me, I still find a child in myself.

Here are 10 I-STILL-DO-CHILDISH-THINGS facts about me.

·        I still chew my nails. I know it’s a bad habit but chewing nails give me power to think with supernova speed.

·        I still paste timetables. You can find weekly, monthly plans on my room's walls. Though I never follow ;)

·        I read Danielle Steel, Agatha Christie, PG Wadehouse but RK Narayanan, Munshi Prem Chand and Chetan Bhagat are still my favorite authors

·        Cricket is still my first priority. Radio commentaries, mobile score, cricinfo.com, ESPN are always activated around me.

·        Unlike my all other friends I am not a phone addicted person. Last month I sent just 4 sms' and my cell's battery lasts up to 15 days without charging.

·        Music Bands, Rock music, Jazz still don't fascinate me. I still like high beat bhangra songs and like to dance on its beats.

·        I still read Chacha Chaudhary and Pinki comics. Though I don’t find them in market, but I read online.

·        I still cry during an emotional scene in a movie. Last movie was 'Burfi' and I was actually crying in the last scene.

·        My mom still teaches me to say ‘namaste’ and ‘pari pona’ whenever I am going to visit any relative.

·        I still love maggi and may be the reason is this is the only thing I can cook.

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Did I waste you time ?? So sorry.... you can curse me below :)

Blog Marathon

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To keep myself focused and motivated for blogging, I decided to start blog marathon. This idea was wandering in my mind from few days and I think I should give it a shot. I am going to write 21 blog posts back to back, one post per day. Though marathon is of 42 kilometers but it would be great if I complete half marathon, because the kind of job I’m doing (9 to 9), it’s very difficult to get time for blogging. Let’s see if I’m able to complete 21 posts in a row.

I have not made a particular list of topics on which I’ll be writing. I will just write what my mind wanders while doing daily routine life things.

Thanks Preeti Shenoy for this lovely idea.

 

Haiku - paper boat

Being straight sinks

 Have twists and turns

 And sail like a paper boat

Haiku - Hummingbird

Either hold me

Or let me fly high

I am not a Hummingbird

Whose fault ??

The debate was on its peak, and the topic, same 'corruption'. Two speakers on NDTV were debating, one in favor of Anna Hazare movement, and one against.

Rohit, a software engineer in a multinational company, was listening to this debate with a great interest. For some extent he also agreed with this movement. 

"From Politician to Traffic Police, everybody is involved in this bloody business" Rohit, from whom a traffic policeman took 500 as bribe, today only, said distressingly.

"You just keep quiet on this topic." Deepika, wife of Rohit said. In her college days, Deepika participated a lot in these movements, but after marriage, she too became a mute audience in front of the television.

“Why should I? After all I’m also an ideal citizen of India” Rohit asked with a bit anxiety.

“If you do not participate in building the system, you do not have rights to speak against the system.” Deepika replied.

“What do you mean?” Rohit slowed down the TV volume and asked. His full concentration was on his wife now, rather on TV.

“Ok... tell me, when last time you went for polling? Every election you skipped because of your office work or that your damn client calls.” Deepika explained.

“My single vote doesn’t affect the system” Rohit passed a witty remark.

The topic of debate on the television was now the topic of debate of Rohit and his wife.

“Haha… 55% people think the same as you. You know this time only 45% of the city people casted their votes.” Deepika said with a cunning smile.

Rohit didn’t bother to stretch the debate. He promised his wife to cast next time, turned off the TV and slept.

Next day Rohit was in great hurry. Deepika knew that he has a client call; a person from USA will decide his next course of action. Whenever there is a client call, Rohit goes out of his mind and the only thing he can think of, is his client.

“Hey… Can you wait for a while? Actually I have an appointment with the dentist. So just drop me on the route to your office.” Deepika asked his husband. Though Rohit was already getting late, but he didn’t argue and agreed. 

In the middle of the route, what they see, there is a traffic jam. Some Anna movement volunteers were protesting.

These freaky people, don’t they have time to do other stuff instead of troubling the public?” Impatient Rohit said in anger.

Deepika stayed quiet.

Some how he escaped from the jam but couldn’t from his bad luck. In anxiety, he forgot to wear seat belt and a traffic constable caught him.

As he was already getting late, he took a note of 500 and gave it to the constable to escape from the spar.

Deepika had no words to say. She was just watching through the glass and thinking.

“Who is responsible for this system, the foreigners, who think they can take any work out of puppet Indians or the Indians who give them peak priority, the traffic constables who take bribe or the ones’ who give them, the politicians or the people who vote them or the people who do not bother to vote any ?” 

With this dilemma, she reached where she was heading for.

Are problems really problematic?

What if everything goes smooth in your life? You go to office, do your duty, come back, watch TV, sleep and next day again same schedule, same office, same TV. Isn’t it boring?

The excitement comes when you get a problem. Don’t you believe?

When you get a problem, you start thinking smartly, you do something creative to solve that problem, you come to know about your strengths, means you do something different from you regular routine.

Some of my friends used to create problems intentionally when we were in college. Because creating problem and finding solution both gave them limelight. And if there is problem, there will be a solution, that’s for sure.

Why we call maths questions to problems, because they help to enhance our mental ability.

So problems teach us, inspire us, and encourage us to think out of the box. Without problems we would not grow.

“Uljhoge nahin to suljhoge kaise.”

5 books one must read for self motivation.

1. Connect the dots.

When Rashmi Bansal wrote her first book “Stay hungry stay foolish”, it created bizarre among MBA students. That was on 25 successful entrepreneurs who passed out of IIM-A and their journey of becoming multimillionaire. After that book, people started thinking that only management institutes crops up multimillionaires. So to shut all those mouths, Rashmi Bansal wrote her next book “connect the dots”. It is the success stories of 20 successful entrepreneurs without an MBA who dared to find their own path. Every story that I have read in this book is an eye opener. The stories are classified into three categories – Jugaad, Junoon and Zubaan.

1. Jugaad – has the stories of entrepreneurs who have no formal training in business and and learnt by observation, experimentation and application of mind.
2. Junoon – has stories of seven entrepreneurs who are driven by a particular idea, or passion.
3. Zubaan – has the stories of creative people who were in need of a platform to express themselves.
   
   

You will learn to swim only when you jump into deep water and these stories will give you the courage to do so .

2. The monk who sold his Ferrari.

This book is about how to bring those things in life that money can't buy, like happiness. This well crafted story by Robin S Sharma provides an approach to living a simple life with greater balance, strength, courage and happiness.

The monk who sold his Ferrari is a tale of Julian Mantle, a lawyer who had achieved everything most of us could ever want: professional success with a seven figure income, a grand mansion in a neighborhood inhabited by celebrities, a private jet, a summer home on a tropical island and a shiny red Ferrari. But one thing is missing, the happiness, the joy, the inner peace. The story is about how he found all this in the peeks of Himalayas. This book has changed my whole mental attitude, obviously in positive manner. The principles explained in this book are pasted on my room's wall. Some of the virtues are:

1. Master your mind
2. Follow your purpose
3. Practice kaizen
4. Live with discipline
5. Respect your time
6. Selflessly serve others
7. Embrace the present

  

3. Discover the diamond in you.

 Its a 59 minute guide to success, because you can finish it in less than an hour. Professor Arindam Chaudhuri, an economist, management guru and also an eminent author brings a lot of real life success examples in front of you via this book. Arindam in this books questions those criticizers as whether they knew Sachin, at the age of 13 used to practice cricket for 5 hours every morning. He asks them as to how many people they know who wake up that early and practice their passion at that yound age. Only winners have that in them. So many other examples.

1. Marilyn Monroe was rejected by 20^th century fox as they thought she was unattractive.
2. Beethoven music teacher told him that as a composer he is hopeless.
3. KFC's Sanders pitched his secret recipe to 1000+ restaurants. Finally he got a taker.

Whenever I lose hope in something, I read this book. And in one hour I'm again full of energy. A must read for everyone.

4. How to win friends and influence people.

The main point of this book is that if you want to have friends and be successful, you should be nice not mean. It sounds so obvious and I thought I was doing it, but now I realize all the mean things that I've done and still do to people when I don't get along with them. Now I try to think more about the other person's perspective . I've already noticed a change in the way I interact with people.

That fundamental principles are the same that you have learn t from you grandparents or parents or from you favorite teachers. But the presentation in this book is just awesome.

Some major sections of this book are:

1. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
2. Six Ways to Make People Like You
3. Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
4. Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
5. Letters That Produced Miraculous Results
6. Seven Rules For Making Your Home Life Happier

5. You can win.

Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently. That’s what Shiv Khera tried to explain via this book. You will find so many short motivational stories in this book that will compel you to change your perspective.

This book reveals the success strategies step by step with simple examples. The book is so interesting that I'm sure you will finish it in one stroke. But I'll suggest you to read it slowly chapter by chapter and make notes if possible.

This book is an international best seller with 2 million copies sold in 16 languages.

Ok signing off, probably will back with 5 best fictions coz I'm addicted to reading. For now good bye.

Happy reading.

------Kapil Garg--------