Friday, March 28, 2008

Super Friday

Today is a super Friday as far as Indian Cricket is concerned, as Indian lead an upper hand in ongoing Future cup test series with South Africa. Obviously star of the day is Veeru who displayed a furious knock of triple-ton and still unbeaten on 309, that already fecthed him a place in elite players who scored 300 two times and he now joins with Sir Don Bradman and Lara. He is always in my all-time favourites list. Such a powerful striker of the ball; it will be absolute treat for me to watch him in full flow as today, he hammered SA bowlers all over the park.i would rate this innings as one of the best innings i known and better compared to the previous triple-ton for two reasons.Firstly he never has any life or dropped chances in this innings, whereas the old one has. Nextly, he delivered this fabulous knock under more hot and humid conditions than Multan. For me, he is well deserved to score 400 run marks which would get him past Lara's world record for maximum run scored by an individual in an innings.

Though, India starts the series as favourites, we can't underestimate SA as they won their last 3 test series in a row. Clearly it is unfair to prdeict the outcome of this match as lot of cricket left in next two days.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Unleashed Moments

Long time since I have published my previous post; and this time I am here to write about my trip to hometown. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, I desperately need a break to dilute myself from pressure or whatsoever which mounted from a hard spent two months.

Highlight of the trip was on Friday as I went to Trivandrum to meet a person of great holiness. When I was in native, I used to visit his place frequently say once in a month. But after got into the job, I never get a time often to make it.

Inspite there was a heavy rain;I loved that cool climate.More importantly I had very lighter moments with family.

I forget my routine to some extend; really that’s what I expect from this trip. I know, this break going to make some difference in me. Honestly I felt relaxed and lot more comfortable; as I am realising the magic behind this mighty break.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Few Minutes before week-end

I had left with some few minutes to arrive at a week-end; I had to welcome this week-end with red carpet after a hard spent weekdays. I knew that, I have nothing to comment on. Still trying to write something isn't the right thing. Keystrokes became very slow; as I have to search each key to complete a sentence. Destiny horribly claims to have a monopoly on major things. Meet you with a fresh frame of mind.

Note: This post was supposed to be published on last Friday.

Friday, March 7, 2008

An Another Week-End

It's yet another week-end. Many of such days were spent in-effectively in the past. And this time around, I have a good plan to work-out.

For me the only nightmare is laziness shouldn't overwhelm the plan, as it did in the last Saturday. Only thing I can console about last week-end was, I along with a room-mate walked for a dinner to a nearby restaurant. On the way; we discussed a lot about organizing Time & Money effectively. Interesting thing about my mate is he has an admirable knowledge on current affairs more than that he has a vivid vision over a future. And this time around he made me amazed by exposing the fact he operates to achieve his own goal. I got impressed by the way he narrated a story to become a winner. Leaving all those things apart I felt better and most relieved after a hard spent week days.

Have to put more care this time around as this couple of days should stick to the plan and not to be over complacent as always. Still, life becomes more boredom without fun. Hence need to calibrate the plan so as to ensure enough fun is there amid engagements.

The intention is very clear; fun and other actions should go hand-in-hand.

Intuitive Effect

A weird thought might arise as if something going to take place; often it would leave me in mystery. But when such thing happens in reality, it was a strange for me to believe; but gradually I got used to it. Contrarily, mind frequently tempts me to relate an occurrence with a panorama of thoughts; got succeed occasionally to match those events.

Checked with various sources and it seems many were complying with this.
Never mind the way others describes about this; all I can say about this as an "Intuitive Effect". Believe me or not; I had experienced this time and again.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Learning Curve

Even though it's a hard day for me in the office, I enjoyed this day because I get a chance to learn a technology related to performance tuning, which is a completely innovative to me. I am on the way of researching a tool "Mercury J2EE Diagnostics Probe" which would address memory leak and performance issues in our application. It's not easy for me to get away with, since I was asked to get through some 600 page PDF doc to understand its detailed configuration. Still, what made me more astonished was; I have done a significant progress to explore the features in conjunction with our requirement. I loved spending more time digging it; since mastering the skill would help me in improving my profile. I was so curious to know more facts about that in coming days.

For me workplace will become more delightful, if I get more prospects in this fashion.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Men In Blue thrashed out OZ

It's a very memorable day in world cricket history as Team India registered an emphatic victory over World Champion Australia in The Gabba, Brisbane and stolen home The Commonwealth Bank Tri Series Trophy. I was watching the Indian innings in my home. After a steady start provided by Sachin and Uthappa, India reached 200/3 in 38 overs. Sachin guided India with his marvellous 91. It's the seventeenth time he got out in nineties. Since he got out India slowly starts lose their momentum and losing wickets at regular intervals. Michael Clarke, who did damage with the ball, crabs 3 important victims. At one stage India threatens to cross over 300 plus as Yuvi throws his willow on everything. Clarke's spell proved crucial as Sachin, Gambhir and Rohit fell to his trap. Thanks to Indian tail as they managed to stay complete 50 overs to make sure India reaches 250 run mark.

Shock waited for Australia as they start their innings. Gilly was made out for duck which eventually turned out to be his last match in International Arena. His wicket was taken by a new born Hero the UP lad Praveen Kumar in his very first over. Then came the Aussie skipper Ponting, he was yet again trapped by Praveen caught brilliantly by Yuvi. I just get a feeling that, it's time for punter to make some technical adjustments. He is not in best of form; after Gilly's retirement it's important that he needs to find himself in the top. Praveen continues to impress by dismissing Clarke and bowled out Lee when India desperately need wickets to clean up. Finally he finished his magnificent spell with 10-2-46-4 dismissing.

Match seems to drift away from India when Symo and Hayden delivered some fearless shots; their partnership was put to an end by a run-out and in the same over Symo was sent back to pavilion by his good mate Bhajji.

When Indians starts breathe little easier after Symo's dismissal; Hussey and Hopes had begun to nightmare them with their excellent stroke play. Match was evenly poised when both of them out there in the middle. Dhoni was smart enough to get rid of this partnership at that crucial stage by shuffling his bowlers; and this time Sreesanth done job for his captain by provided a vital breakthrough by dismissing the dangerous Hussey. Bhajji and Chawla were used effectively in middle overs to cut out the run flow. Pathan once again seems to be more expensive conceding more than 6 runs per over.

James Hopes stayed and panicked India by hitting a six in last but one over; and the climax was decided in the final over as Aussy need 13 runs with two wickets remaining. Indian skipper bangs on Pathan to finish the proceedings. I really get amazed to see such a courage decision from Dhoni as Pathan was proved to be very expensive in his previous overs.

And finally the story ended as Pathan managed to get rid of Bracken & Hopes; it was a thrilling win in the end.

My heart pumped faster for last 15mins of the match. I had seen many close finished games. I am sure this one would be a new entry added to that list. Praveen adjudged man-of-the-match for his splendid spell. Nathan Bracken declared man-of-the-series for bagging 21 wickets in all. Gilly and Hogg bids farewell to ODI, it was an emotional scene though.

There were days when Aussies are considered more formidable and un-beatable; but Indians re-writes the history by striking with a bang. The most debated and the most suspected young Indian squad outplayed the Aussie which was a real treat for me to watch. What I understand from this victory is "Impossible is Nothing"

Monday, March 3, 2008

Monday

Most of us hate this word, due to some obvious reason and me too not an exemption. After the fun-filled week-end, once I reached office the scenes come in front of me would be issues, escalation mails, clarifications and many similar buzz words. This is what happens for me in every week and the same happened today. It's a very gloomy day for me and I am in a depressed mood. Once again I fell into discomfort zone due to some miserable decisions I made in the past. One such decision did lot of damage. But I didn't like to comment anything on the past as it was out of my control. As of now, many issues need to be addressed personally in addition to the official engagement. I am completely pissed off and in search of a long term solution and I desperately need a break till then. But unfortunately I am unable to move out of this current engagement due to a heavy dependency constraint.

One thing I can be sure is that, all these distressing situation are due to my own soul. The only salvation I felt to get out of this trouble is to confess to the Almighty. The Holy Quran says as follows: Say, "Shall I seek other than GOD as a lord, when He is the Lord of all things? No soul benefits except from its own works, and none bears the burden of another. Ultimately, you return to your Lord, then He informs you regarding all your disputes." [6:124]

And in another verse:

He said, "My Lord, I have wronged my soul. Please forgive me," and He forgave him. He is the Forgiver, Most Merciful. [28:16]

Looking forward to meet you in a fine day where all my worries apart.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Work Life Balance

I had very hard time over last month as far as my profession is concerned. I tried many options to mark a barrier to separate work life from personal, but I had a very less chance to win that contest. I felt relatively high pressure to finish tasks and very much fed up working in multitasking mode. Slowly serial task allocation is getting eradicate from corporate dictionary. Just got a feel that corporate work culture is driven only by business rather by human values this enforces to a machine like life. I did agree, business is important but one's personal life is equally important. We used to communicate often with the phrase "End-of-Day" but when I turn out to home each day that literally became a end of that day! One day if I turn back my past, I would leave with a huge space which might have filled with happiness and joy.

Why I need to bear all these things? Reason is very obvious, nothing but money. Almighty kept our very existence in the shadow of that printed paper. Hence no other go, to survive I am in need of that. But the bad thing I felt about that is, it became the integral factor to decide major things in the world. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too to check up once in a while and make sure that I haven't lost the things that money cannot buy!

May be this blog turned out to be a check point to validate and come up with a necessary action before a huge damage has done. I starts write blog as one of the mitigate measure.

not over…to be continued...

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Visit

I went along with my friends to attend my friend Imran's marriage, which was happened on 16th Feb at Rajapalayam.We started from chennai on 15th Feb by train.We enjoyed our journey and reached the destination at the right time.To our surprise, we get a reception from bridegroom at Rly Station itself. To tell about Imran, I had seen very few peoples who are very religious and much devoted to Almighty.
We were placed in a hotel for refreshment. After we got ready, we were taken to marriage hall through car. Reasonably descriptive speech was given by one brother and in comes the Nikkah.After that we were offered Walima, the feast provide by Bridegroom after Nikkah .i.e. feast provided after marriage got over and Once we done with all formalities, we return back to hotel.
All of my companions were preparing to leave to their hometown except me since I had planned to return back to chennai to attend FCL cricket match. I was in dilema, whether to go-ahead with my plan or break free and leave to hometown along with my friends. My hometown is hardly 2 hours travel from there. I felt there were many odds If plan got breaked. Hence I decided to stick with the plan. But I felt very bad, I couldn't digest because my mom was very desperate to meet me after a long time.I found it hard to spend that saturday evening, since nobody to accompany me. Finally, catched the train and reached chennai.

There are some experience I gained from this trip, which I never faced before.

And at Last,
I started counting the days when my mates return back this to me!!!

Monday, February 18, 2008

An attempt to live without doing sin!

This great land formerly filled by great personalities but currently dominated by ones who does all sins&evils. Ofcourse, definition for sins may depends upon persons.Here, sins takes traditional assumption. There were days, when persons takes alchohols where known as sin-doers. But now, one who avoids alchohol are treated as if they are not elgible to live in this earth. Drinking or not drinking is depends upon one's own interest. But, What I made me shocked was, even government instead of stopping this,became more commercial thereby running wineshops within every few meters reach. Really get ashamed of these poorbeggars, when they claim themselves saying that they are generating huge revenue out of this.What's more interesting is the caption written in advertisement hoardings "Drinking is harmful to health,family & nation". Solution to AIDS is still more erratic, instead of preventing the rootcause the advice is to use "pre-cautious" measure. As a result, a survey conducted by one university students to the lovers about "Are you guys support pre-marital sex?". 60% of them replied "Yes"!!!... Where we are going?. Culturally are we heading towards a boom or pain?.

Wherever I go, very few things stops me from reminding sins. I just got a feeling that manything turns it's face towards western culture. Even those people got tired of that culture. Do we really need it?. Slowly we are loosing our originality.

Putting all those things aside. How I am going to react to this environment. I started adjudicating myself. To lead a decent life is purely depends on me. I am not ready to blaim either the soceity or other external factors. For me, heart becomes a devil's workshop. Many times I thought of living a peaceful life without doing any sins, but i am unable to do so.

I felt, there's always a pleasure in living life with boundaries than without any. I chose to lead a former one, I am in a situation to face challenges with my soul. Also I can witness lot of conflicts between mind and the soul. Mind always entice me to lead in a way it feels comfortable. I know, it will be wrong in most circumstances. But still I keep asking advice from mind rather from soul. Do I really needs to exists with this struggle ? is a question often nudging me.

I will be in peaceful state, if I manage to live without doing any evils, which I had went near in the past. But I had lost that kinda peace at this moment. Setting target was very easy but to reach that it involves real hard work.I am hardly working on that to bring back.
If god willing, Soon I will attain and atleast live a day wihtout doing a sin.
It's not a end, it's a beginning....!