Active Blogging

I was just browsing through some of the blogs. Huh! I saw so many things.
- Postings in various languages.
- Postings of players which downloads and plays music when the blog page is opened.
- Hosted their own music recording on to the web.
- Having chat boxes with the blog.

The list goes on. I don't know why feel so jealous about all these hi-fi soft gadgets. But there is no harm is feeling jealous for lack of knowledge. Probably that will drive you towards learning these things and implementing the same with you. But don't ask me, "Are you really going to do all this in your blog?"

So is this what active blogging means?

Choice...

Often we get choices to make in our life. Some could be as simple as choosing a shirt to wear to office, and some could be as critical as choosing ones life partner. Choices we get in life are like finding two paths on your way when you are wandering around the streets trying to reach a defined destination. It ends up so critical to choose the right path.

All said, a very common mentality of many (at least me) is that we tend to think about the choices even long after making decisions. Our mind tends to bother more about "what 'would' have happened, if I had chosen the other option", than working a way out of the current situation. This specifically happens when the path we choose to walk turns out to be the wrong one. We refuse to accept failure. We become week. Weakness unduly forces us to take the wrong paths again. This is a vicious cycle.

Isn't it much better forgetting about the choice we had and go ahead in life?

Air Conditioner

Bangalore is pretty chill these days with the mercury dipping up to eight degree Centigrade during early hours of the day. When I travel to office in the bike, I feel its a natural air conditioner out there, with temperature set to the minimum. But the real air conditioner is inside the office where we feel quite comfortable and warm.

I remember my childhood days in the shore of Bay of Bengal, Pondicherry, where the climate is quite hot and humid. Those days, as a small child, the only thing we know about an air conditioner is that it will be quiet chill inside the room and the more funnier part, we feel very hot when we come outside. I remember quite vividly the Angle French Textile showroom in the Nehru street, was one of the places we would stop by during summer afternoons. Those were the days of joy and fun.

Things have changed and we have air conditioners at almost every place we go today. Its in our own houses, the big shopping malls, every shop we do our daily purchases, and strangely they even make temporary ACs in tented party grounds. Huh! What a comfortable life does a human gets to live in these days?

Its quite chill out here, so let me take a break and get into the Air conditioned room to get some warmth.

Confidence Personified

I joined EMC on January 3, 2007. And with just three days I feel better and confident with the new location, new changes, new role and new company.

Its worth mentioning that the processes here are great and the formalities the new joiners need to go though are well structured, even being one of the scarce recruiters in India. However, off late there has been a steady increase in the workforce here, during which, I assume these processes have matured.

Day One:

On the first day I was mainly occupied with completing the joining formalities, filling up of the employment forms, opening of a Salary Account and so on. I also got the Temporary access badge which can be used till my Main ID access badge is ready.

Day Two:

I was assigned the cubicle, given a laptop (that surprised me) and things were setup on it. I met my team and got introduced to all of them, at least most of them. Apart from that nothing much happened worth mentioning.

Day Three: (Today)

There was an induction program today in the morning session, in which people from all the functions inducted us, by giving an overview of the respective functions. I am still waiting for my email ids and the login ids which are going through its approval process. Hopefully I will be getting them on Monday.

With three days passing away in the new place, I should say I am feeling much more confident than ever before. I feel that I can perform well and the environment here seems to be very much conducive for the same. I am Confidence personified now.

Resolutions...

Last year, when I read some blogs regarding the Resolutions for the New Year, I thought, if theres something you wish to do why wait for the new year. But this year my thoughts have changed. Its always nice to begin something in the new year. So here is my list of resolutions. I have taken this quite seriuosly and I hope that I succeed in keeping up with the promises to myself.

• Blogging - This gives me a sense of relief
• Wake up early in the morning - Off late my timings are becoming worse. Hence I would want target at 6:30 AM
• Exercise in the gym - This is to improve my fitness. I have been doing this - quite irregularly though, would like to resularise this.
• Visit a temple once in a week - This also gives me a sense of relief, happiness and contentness.
• Work Hard - This might sound very generic but, my first focus would be on the official work, particularly because I am stepping into a new company this New Year.
• Read a lot - First half of 2006 was worst in this regard, as I got along with my family after nearly 2 years. I had not read anything at all during this period. The later half was better in a way that I did some technical stuff. This new Year I want to read more, whatever it may be...novels, self help books, biographies, spiritual.
• Buy Books worth Rs 200 every month. This is to compliment the earlier resolution.

I am planning to put these points on my pin up board at home and office, so that I keep looking at this regularly.

All said, Resolutions are NOT meant to be broken, They are to be reshaped.