Bikaneri......

Bikaneri Lunch Home, was the name of that place where i had lunch today. Occasion was Raksha Bandhan and thought i should try out something new during the lunch time today. So me and my 2 friends managed to plan this.Was a bit far away from my office but still managed to get there quickly. It was my first time at Bikaneri (as it is well known for).

Menu : Was very similar to the other indian sweets lunch restaurants, but had some more dishes than most of them, and also had the complete menu available, as in rest of them its on a daily special basis, which i hate, coz i cant eat something when i desperately want to eat it. But anyways, menu was outstanding
Rating : 5/5

Service : Was a bit slow, or may be they were a bit short staffed, or may be it was more than expected for them. It wasnt the warmest of the greeting as i have received in some other indian restaurants over the counter. Not very pleasant, but ok.
Rating : 3/5

Ambience : Very traditional. Had some sculptures including a Ganesh idol craved out of rock. Had a small stage in a corner with sitar, tabla and peti on it. May be they have some musical night once a week. Indian music filled in the taste as well. Just that the sitting arrangement was not very planned. May be needs a bit redesigning.
Rating : 4/5

Food : Delicious. Hhmm, the best indian taste i ever had. I ordered Dhokla just to start with, and then chole bhatura, and my friends ordered allo kulcha and gujarathi thali. My taste buds r still tingling. I really felt homely with regards to food. We tasted everything form each other's thalis.
Rating : 5/5

Overall had a nice time out there and enjoyed the food to the fullest.
Cheers!!

A cushion.... LOST ..!

Yeah, i lost a cushion today. It was my manager's last day. She got promoted (good on her). I m happy for her success and wish her all my good wishes in her future role. Nice lady, and i truly mean it. As a manager and just as a person. Kind enough to understand things and better of getting the best out of us all. A true champion of her own style.
I know it happens to all of us and it has happened with me many a times before, but this one is just very overwhelming. In an unknown country when u loose someone who understood u so well professionally. Yes andi must admit, that i lost a cushion. A cushion that i can rely upon, someone that i can trust at work, someone as a guide and someone as a mentor, someone who knows what i want and want i need to do at situations no one even expect to be in, someone who accomodates and respect every word u speak and set u freedom within correct boundaries to let u learn ur way and earn ur knowledge .....
I could say pages about her and small incidents that run through my mind right now. But i must pass on it. Its very emotionally to me now. It was very emotional when we had r final goodbyes today evening.
I know i ll wake up tomorrow morning as a usual sunday, and life will go on .... but i just had to vent myself. I ll miss her so much at work and things will change definately .....Good night guys, i need to be my own cushion tonight....
Cheers!

Graduated ......

Hi Friends,
Its almost over 3 months now that i have been away from blogging. I misses it a lot and hope so u missed me at this corner.

When someone is away we always think that the person is busy, something very important must have come up and hence cannot give time to the thing, that we all love the most, blogging.

I had many of u ask me when is my next post coming and when is my blog getting updated, and i always kept saying, very soon ..... that very soon is today !

The only reason i was away from blogging was, bcoz i was studying my last semester and had to put some extra efforts as required by the course. Finally today i m proud to complete "Master of Professional Accounting". I graduated .....

So relaxed and revived. Feels like on cloud 9. Change of approach in every litte thing i do is slowly creeping in, and i must say that i m sensing it openly. Hhhmmm, what a feeling.

I know many of u must have had a similar experience, its not very new me as well, but away from home makes u feel it much more.

Anyways friends, i ll be around more often now and this corner of my life will be updated regularly. Thanks for staying by my side.

Cheers!

Is it really LUCK or RISK .....

Is luck opportunistic?

I don’t know if luck plays an important role in any act of human life or it is just the right time that matters to get things done. Basically I m confused, if luck really exist and if yes, how do u prove it?
Many people say that a person needs to be luck to get certain thing, eg: a particular high paid job or a good car or the best house etc. etc. Is it so that only if you r lucky u can get all that? Can 99% hard work and efforts be less important against that 1% so called luck?
So is luck opportunistic? Is it selfish enough to be with only rich and beautiful people? Does it really knows whom to favour n whom not to. Is it to blame or mental guts play a vital measure to understand if it really helped?
Again, I might be contradicting my own words or may be I might differ from the actual topic. But you know, these r all my wage thoughts. Because I m trying to replace luck with a bit of risk.
Am I correct when I say that Luck is nothing but a bit of Risk?
Because all the rich, famous and beautiful people whom we say to be lucky have taken some or the other risk in life. Probably they have taken the right risk at the right time, as a reason of which they r what they r, if that small amount of risk that they played with had gone the other way they would have not been what they r today. Do I make sense when I say that?
A candidate might get that highly paid dream job by just answering a single question correct, correct means as per expected. It might be a stupid answer but a risky one.
A player playing any game needs to take risk while playing a particular shot. If he misses he is gone but if connected right he is the hero.
All rich n famous people have taken very calculated risk at a particular point of time, which makes them what they r today. Bill gates bloomed his idea from a garage and once when in debts, had offered a supplier 15% of Microsoft shares, guess what? The supplier said I have no interest or confidence in your business, I don’t need your partnership, give me my money. Imagine 15% of Microsoft shares $$$$$$$. Would u call that supplier unlucky? I would say he did no have guts to take a positive risk.
I dont know if i made sense, but i dont believe in Luck. I would say, its a little bit of calculated RISK.
Post your thoughts.

PS: Above article is just a running thought that i scribbed during my way back home. Was thinking about a few planned things in my life and trying to find reason for the best and the lost things that happened. Anyways ......

Right to ask question ....

Sare jahan se accha, hindustan hamara .....

Yesterday was Sunday, and i would say the only day of the week when its possible to listen to some indian music and listen to some indian cultural, traditional and moral discussions.
I tunned in as a regular listener in the morning and soon they telecasted a Akashvani pre recorded show from Delhi. The topic was very interesting and a bit funier to me, it was, The law of "Right to ask question".
Wow, golden day in the Indian constitution, I must say, that now allows every commom man to ask legitimate questions to the government. Yes, government. I m not making any fancy laws here, but its true. As every member of the parliment has the right to ask certain questions that he/she may not be happy about, is now passed on to the common public. It was put in order from october 2005. An organisation called "Parivartan", has played a major role in making this law reach the common man through various medium including conducting workshops. The recent 4 day workshop produced a staggering 2000 applications, full of different set of questions that will be put forward to the government. That's an acheivement, i must say. 2000 complaints ? in 4 days ..... from just one part of the country ? What if, when it reached every person of India and hopefully there will be a similar workshop on every corner, just as a voting centre during elections? God help government then ......
A very important aspect that the speaker put forward was that, according to him this will bring a lot of transperancy in the system, as the government will have to answer every bit if any individual is no happy the way he is treated. He also supported his judgement by the 2 most intresting cases he reviewed.
Case # 01 : A lady from a local village applied for "Ration card". As usual days, weeks and months passed away, but the ration card was not in her hand. She waited double the normal waiting period, ie: instead of 3 months, 6 months passed, when she thought of finally making some inquiry about the ration card. She went a few times to the government office, but as usual, deep pockets, just tossed her from table to table. Poor lady finally landed up in the NGO, "Parivartan". They were more than happy to listen to her and suggested her to ask a question to the government, as to what happened with her application. The lady put down a few questions, like she wanted to know the status of her application or the name of the officer that was handling her file and whom can she go and meet regarding this issue. Two days later a Food Inspector knocked her door with her ration card himself, saying "Your card was ready since so many days, you did not come to pick it up, so i thought of delivering it myself". Can u believe this ......
Case # 02 : Just after elections one common things that every elected minister does is to make new roads. One man in a building just next to the road, noticed a pot hole right in the middle of the road just after a couple of first rains. Vehicles started bumping in and traffic jams caused more than kois and runied the happiness of the nearby residence. This man, under the same law, asked who the contractor was that won the tender to build the roads and why is it in such a state. Was he not paid enough by the govenrmnet to make good roads that can atleast last a complete season? Its said that, even before he received any reply from the government or the contractor himself, the road was repaired overnight.Amazing, isint it?
But as the speaker said that this will bring transperancy in the system, the secracy oath would really be a question.Anyways, i just want to make a point her, ie: what if each one of us has a question to the govenrment, and if every question is answered in a similar fashion, will it not take india to a different level ??
What will that day be when these small but high priority jobs would be willingly done as a responsibility and not as a mere requirement of duty.......

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

It was 1989, when my mom changed me from division C to division B as my class teacher was pregnant. So just that i dont have a mental study break in between the year, i was moved. I cried as i did not wanna seperate from my friends. But i thought who cared, but i was wrong, she only cared about my better.
Anyways, i was clubbed in with a few friends very quickly and some of us became very very good friends. We went to school together and came back together. Studied, played and fought as every other kid. I was in 2nd standard then. But my friends were my friends, and i was very proud of them.
Years went on and we went up higher and higher in grade. Started hanging out outside school, studies together, borrowed notebook when missed school, enjoyed school picnics etc etc. It was so nice to have all of them. But then in 1997, it was our SSC and soon we all realised that its time for us to bid good bye to a few forever. It was tough on everyone of us, as we were probably not prepared to take that challenege. We were still cushioned for each other, and emotions played a mjor part in everyones life. It showed how much we cared for each other, and how much we wanted to stay more in the same school. Together.
I had a few friends, but real good friends. Everyone enrolled in some or the other college for different streams and life changed suddenly. It was no more school. We could miss the lectures and still be ok. Life started playing its own turn now. It just reversed. Untill them life controlled us, but now on it felt as if we controlled life. Seriously, it was freedom.
I still made some new friends but my pool of school friends is still much stronger. We r in touch even today. Not many of us but really a few, and we meet regularly as much as we can.
Since in college, we kept in touch through phone calls and meetings as n when everyone was in town. Many of my friends went out of vasai for studies, but my best one was still there with me. And i made a few more best.
Life rolled and i finished graduation and then it was time to think and do something responsible. I found a well paid job and stuck to it for 3 years. It was such an amazing learning experience. I met so many big personalities of the market. Just amazing for a person of my calibre.After which i decided to think long term and came down to sydney for my further studies. Professional accounting was never going to be easy and away from house was just too much to handle in the beginnning. But life kept on teaching something new everyday and i just got used to this life very soon.
And today i m on the stage of just finishing my studies and i have started thinking of doing something responsible ahead. Many things, many responsibilities and many obligations. Life is all that we can take, and then i say to myself, "Bring em' on".
All this went so quickly with time, but all that kept it all together were my friends, very few, but my. I miss them just next to as much as i miss my family.
Many of my friends will be reading this and i m sure all this is related to our lives somehow. I m sure u ll try and find it and fix it.Just that i would like to mention a very small list of my friends .... but just scared that i might miss some .....

P.S : Above writing just was not on mind, but dont know y i just scribbled today. Pls understand ......

Happy New Year .... 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY .....

Have a prosperous and delightful new year.

May all your expectations be fulfilled as deserved and you have a safe year ahead.

Take care.

P.S : I know its a bit too late on the occassion but i hope u understand .....