Decaannaa ..... Mind it !

These r some of the hoardings you would find all across Hyderabad end of last year, courtesy Deccan Chronicle.

If u r wondering whats the Deccan Chronicle, its a news paper in circulation in Hyderabad. Over the past few days commuters notice such hoardings published by the newspaper.

Dont know the exact reason as to y have they come up with something sleazy actually. Isint it sleazy ? With sleazy captions on the t-shirts these hot models r wearing. The one here says, "GET BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY". Excuse me, whats does that exactly mean. Dont every other newspaper provide u with the real pirture of any news or is it sleazy enough for people to understand what they really mean by what they have written and where they have written, which ironicaaly ends with "For Young Minds" at the bottom of each hoarding. And to add to it they also mention the number of copies in AP ? Is this just the reason y u selling so many copies ?

The second one here says, "RETAIL FDI BOOM OR BUST"..... wow, now isint that what people of really wanna read. Can u even make a realistic guess of all the people reading this hoarding, how many would even understand the meaning of Retail FDI ? But they would definately understand what the rest of the caption says, isint it? Now is this some campaign that Deccan has introduced to boost up their sales and targeting the younger generation to spend some money to buy their newspaper and hope to find something sleazy inside as up on the hoarding. Value for money is so diminishing in the mind of the publishers that they have adopted such sleazy marketing strategy.

And again the number of copies in AP and for younger minds. Indicating it to the older, experienced genration to stay outta this and buy something else, coz we r now trying to capture the yonger people with our sleazy practices.

And here is the third one that says, "INSTITUTE RELEASES VITAL STATISTICS". OMG, now what institue r they talking about and which vital stats r they mentioning. No doubt, everyone knows and expects them to release the vital body stats of those hot models. Now is this cheap marketing strategy ? Definately not for the publishers and they must have spent enough to get these hoardings up.

Now the question is, would they increase their bottom line by these sleazy techniques ? They probably would at the end of the day acheive their sales target, but by what means? Will their self respect hurt a lil bit when they sleep or is it just too hillarious to look at and turn ur face around.

Mind is knocking on one more reason, It also could have been the strategy to earn more money simply because they sponsored the IPL team, in which they have put in crores of rupees. R they making it up for it ????
Deccaannaa ...... Mind it !

A Silver is never Won, its the Gold that is Lost ....

I remember that day when i heard this statement for the first time in my life, and since then always believedin it and respected it in all phases and aspects of life.

It was the day in office as usual, tensed, as we were nearing the end of our Quarterly Based Review (QBR), a few weeks away to be the best performing site throughout the world, competing against the best. This quarter has been one of the best our site has performed so far. A couple of more safe weeks and we r the Numero Uno throughout the world. The Emperor of this world.

Our Big Boss conducted a Managers meeting and we all, around 25 of us stepped in the conference room thinking that we've gonna have our butts kicked again.But so was not the case this time. It was a session that we all will remember throughout our lives. Some things we will cherish in all the good and the bad that we do, thereon.

So there was it, the results of the QBR, which our Big Boss had just brought back along with him from US of A. This was the first time when all the Site Leads were invited to US of A for the QBR (every other quarter, its only video conferenced).We all were so exited to be there and to know if we had kicked some ass or is our ass getting kicked again. After a few good words and a few if and buts and so on and so forth, we heard that we ranked second across the globe.

All of us were so happy and satisfied by the result, as it was the first time out Mumbai site had been in the Top 5. It was cheer and claps and congratulation to each other and gala time to have a party on. All fair and all happy moments, something to feel proud of.
That went on for a few minutes and then our Big Boss proceeded to wrap up the meeting with his final words of wisdom. Here is what he said (not exactly, but the meaning remains the same).

"Congratulation's on the second ranking through the globe. This has been the best ever out site has performed. By the pace and position we were in a few days ago, i thought we would be through this time on the top position, but to what so ever reason, we were given a silver medal.Not that we acheived it, or we earned it (at this moment all we thought was, why the hell is he saying that we were given and we did not earn it, we all knew how hard we had worked to reach that position), but someone has given it to us. Because, "A Silver is never Won, its the Gold that is Lost".

Very true as we realised what he meant. We never compete in a race to be second, we always wanna win. We never rank second coz we finish second, but coz we dont win the first place.

P.S. - No doubt we had all the grand celebrations across the whole site, but that one statement always mades me do whatever it takes to be Numero Uno.

This song had been on my mind for a few days now, many things rushing through my mind and too many things to do with so less options in life.
Dont know if this is just the reason or something else is hurting me deep down. I always liked this song, heard it quite often, but today i m deeply sinking into this drakness, and i need to shout out loud to my self as my subconsious is taking over and telling me to just hang on.
This song is truly inspirational as its carrying me along and asking me to just hold on and hang in there in life, as life has something better to offer, something good is coming ur way.
Now m i really asking too much or i should just have to put my foot down and just stand still and go with the flow.
Suddenly unexpected, this day today, i need to just hang in, things will change and i know change is constant.
Everybody hurts .....

"Everybody Hurts"

When your day is long

And the night

The night is yours alone

When you're sure you've had enough of this life

Well hang on

Don't let yourself go

Cause everybody cries

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong

Now it's time to sing along

(When your day is night alone)

Hold on, hold on

(If you feel like letting go)

Hold on

If you think you've had too much of this life

Well hang on

Cause everybody hurts

Take comfort in your friends

Everybody hurts

Don't throw your hand

Oh, no

Don't throw your hand

When you feel like you're alone

No, no, no, you're not alone

If you're on your own

In this life

The days and nights are long

When you think you've had too much

Of this life

To hang on

Well, everybody hurts

Sometimes, everybody cries

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

So, hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

(Everybody hurts

You are not alone)

I miss u Aai, I miss u so much ............

01.06.1947 - 15.04.2008

Is it just a bad dream that i m living or a horrified night that will soon have a cheerfull morning. Not that i dont understand the reality, but just that i m too naive to cope up with it. I miss u

You are always in my mind and my heart, always with me in all that i do. I always feel u holding me close to u, when i need, as u always did. I miss u

I pray u get all the peace u deserve. I miss u

P.S.

Hi everybody,I was away for a long while now, in which many good things of my life happened, but there was one thing that i never expected.

My mom left this world and left us all last month. Please pray for her peaceful journey.

Thank you.