2 years.....

Tomorrow will be 2 years since I saw my parents and sister last. I just cannot imagine living without seeing any family what so ever for last two years....WOW.I don't know how is my rest of the family dealing with it? Must be hard for them.

My mom always says" when you see off somebody say goodbye with a smile on face because that is the face , they will always remember till they see you next." This is very true, till today when ever I have glimpse of my family I always see their smiling faces. I hope they also remember my smiling face always.

Two years is neither a huge time difference nor a small time difference. But this is the longest I have lived with out seeing anybody from my family. Yes I do miss them, yes I want to spend time with them. I still miss those tender moments with my mother. I still admire my fathers way of showing affection to me. I still miss all those brother sister fights almost on anything with my sister. But I have certain goals to achieve and I am very focused for them.

I remember how my mother was against my decision of leaving home. I also remember how much effort I need to put to persuade my father. I also remember those stress times in order to get all the paper work done. Making a decision is one thing and sticking to it is another. I have proved it to my self that I made a decision and clinged with it.

Lately, My parents and I have started to drift apart, becuase of difference in opinions. But this doesn't mean I didn't love or respect them. I still miss them and hoping for things to get better between us.

Peace
MS

Morning Commute

In the train, generally in mornings see a lot of people sitting around me. The fascinating thing about everyone is,we all are thinking the same thing in a different ways. Some people are working on their laptops, some people are reading books, some people are listening to music,but all of the people are thinking why is this train moving so slow? Despite the fact it is running a the normal speed.

Morning commute is always fun. The main objective for people,who use public transport, is to catch a specific train or bus, though the next one is coming in 15 minutes. If they get the bus they feel like they conquered a big battle against the time. However, if they miss it they will be so mad at the driver, like it all the driver's fault that he/she is trying to run service on schedule.

I tend to observe a lot of people on buses. There are all kind of people taking buses and trains for example,students, workers, small business owners etc etc. But one thing which I observed is nobody want to sit next to a stranger. People have very high self esteem. They prefer to stand despite if they have an open seat next to someone. People are very less friendly on buses and trains I don't know why? . This is what it looks like, there are 40 people in a bus and nobody is talking for 40 minutes. If we put these people in a room for 40 minutes I am sure people half the people will end up talking. But on public transport I never saw it happening.

It is also fascinating to see groups of people taking the bus/train. They will end up being the loud and obnoxious people on the bus. Because nobody else is talking and they have somebody to talk to so they flaunt it to others. They think they are the only people in the bus/ trains who have friends. Isn't it funny.

Disclaimer:This is mere an observation.Facts may differ.

Cheers
M

Networking With right minded people

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I once heard " Man is known by the company he keeps",trust me this is so true, I have personally experienced it. However, it doesn't mean people who are not in good company cannot do wonders. I always remember one saying one of my old friend use to "Man makes his own destiny" and that is true. But again what is destiny for one individual will not be destiny for other individual. Some people are satisfied with the mouthful of sky and some people wants whole sky and there is also a third type who doesn't know what they want. To be honest there is nothing wrong with being any of the three types. It is totally personal choice. However, in order to achieve right set of dreams and aspiration one need to hangout with people who have similar kind of vision. For example, if a person want to learn to play guitar and he goes and hangs out with athletes who want to play and exercise the chances for this person to learn guitar is very low because whenever he is surrounded by these friends he cannot focus on what he wants. This doesnt mean he cannot learn to play guitar if he wants it really bad yes he can make it happen. But hanging out with people with right mind set helps a lot.


To be continued .... (be back with more)

Networking is The Key to Success

In this day of technology and Internet,the one issue which is emerging is people are getting isolated from each other. Mostly everyone have their profiles on "Myspace", "Facebook" ,"twitter" or any other social networking site, they have loads and loads of friends on their profiles but they don't have real friends.

Today I am not going to talk about social aspect of networking, the focus of this blog is the success in terms of financial and business endeavors through "NETWORKING". This century is the century where people can be successful(Monetarily ) by just having a great idea. The information is the most valuable thing in today's world. The popularity and commercial success of Internet is the proof of it. However, we still need human intervention in order to run it. In this technological advance world the one thing which people lack is human networking.

Networking is needed so much in order to be successful. People, need it at each and every aspect of life. If you want to grow you have to be networking. And everyone cannot be amazing at it, this is some thing which one have to learn. By networking one can leverage their effort to an astonishing level. Networking with anybody can not help however, networking with right people with a progressive mind set help one a lot.

The most important attribute one need to posses in order to do some thing is "positive attitude" everything else can be learned.

To be continued.....

Slumdog Millionaire and Wolverine:Same story line pretty much

Most people don't agree with the statement above. I know, it doesn't seem to be right, but in reality if we observe closely we can find it. For those who have not seen either of these movies and care to watch them, I will suggest them to watch them first and then read the analysis.

Lets begin form the beginning. So, Slumdog Millionaire is tale of two orphaned brothers and how their relationship changed with the course of life based on making personal choices. Now, coming back to Wolverine it sounds kind of similar, but I will explain it how. Two brothers (I know they are not really, but it is pretty much depicted this way) with similar kinds of super powers that have rough childhoods. Then, as they grow older, they drift apart because of the choices they make.

Lets take much closer look: Logan and Victor have super powers and this makes on of them different form others however one embraces the fact and go do the right thing other become bad and vicious. Jamal Malik and Salim are poor brothers in the slums of Mumbai, India. As the grow older, Jamal becomes nice and hard working, while Salim becomes a gangster.

Now we are coming to the part which also make both the movies' story lines similar-the love triangle as we speak. So Victor, a.k.a. Sabretooth, takes away Kayla (Logan's lover)whichthen motivates him to go out and look for Victor so that he can take revenge. So, becuase of this the whole deal , where Logan get injected with Adamantium(alloy) , happens. The main thing which makes wolverine who he is. Now lets compare with Slumdog. Salim rapes and takes Latika away from Jamal. Now Jamal wants to find Salim so that he can find Latika and that is why he tries to go on the game show. I know they are depicted differently but I have to say similarity is there.

Lastly, Victor defends Logan against Deadpool, and similarly Salim protects and helps Latika to escape which in turn helps his brother.

Don't get me wrong I like both movies. They are very well made, directed and above all very successful-which I appreciate. But it looks like it this might be a great formula for Hollywood now to create blockbusters.

Cheers
Mragendra

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Dream+Determination = Fulfilment of Dreams

I was raised in a middle class family of India. My dad is Doctor and he has his own reputation in the small community of ours. He is brilliant at networking with people. He loves to help people but he never expects any things in return. But today here I am not talking about my dad here. I am going to tell a short story about a "milk man",that what my dad use to address him as.

It was the whole surge in our great city of lakes, Bhopal, people were switching to unpasteurized milk because some how people conceive this notion that purest form of milk is unpasteurized instead of pasteurized milk. My dad was very skeptical about this switch because he is doctor and he knew the benefits of pasteurized milk. However my mom some how convince him to get the pure milk from a local dairy where people milk cow and deliver fresh milk to houses, even though it was a bit expensive. Simple economics I will say, demand and supply. So, through my dad's huge network we got some connection to a dairy which was a good local dairy and they use to supply unadulterated milk. At that time lot of dairies were doing un-ethical business as well. They use to mix milk and water and sell it little cheap and earn big marginals profits. My dad was wary about it that is why we agreed to this specific dairy because the owner had a good reputation and my dad got good referral through his network.

After few years the trend changed because of privatization of diaries and there were several independent dairies which were selling pasteurized milk at subsidized rates. People start going back to pasteurized milk. And we stop using that local dairy. I heard later that at that time this guy, the owner sold his dairy for marginal profit and moved on with his life.

People generally keep in touch with him because of my dad magnetic personality . So, every now and then I use to hear about our former dairy owner that he invested somewhere , helped some politician, bought some business and stuff. Since our family is middle class types and we never use to open to the business side, the only concern in the family is to go to college and get a good job and that kind of stuff.
In this economy when people are getting laid off everyday.It was couple weeks ago my dad got concerned about my job situation and he asked me how am I hanging in there? Then he mention about our former dairy owner. I know it is predictable but it is true story. That guys became really big now. He has his ties with some of the big businessmen back in India. So, my dad suggested if I need he can ask him to help me if needed.

So, the point is this guy has a good sense of business trends he knew when to go in the business and when to jump out, the other thing which was consistent with him is that he is persistent and he keeps trying and he is willing to take risks.

It always occurs to me, people who have dreams and have the determination can always achieve their dreams. It doesn't matter what effort one can put into something but the only thing that matters is where they are heading to in term of goal & dreams achievement , I also say everybody cannot be at top but people who have dreams and determination, can be on the top.

Cheers
MS

Inspiratrion

What is inspiration to me might not inspire my girl friend and vice-versa. There are so many people out there who did wonderful an amazing things, people who have amazing talents and they do it so beautifully and surprise us and inspire us to believe that impossible speaks out loud and says "I M Possible".
Couple days ago I was surfing internet. Internet is such an amazing invention, mind you it is also born of inspiration, imagination,dreaming and love(Like every good thing in the world).So, I was on youtube and on the home page it had featured videos of the day one video caught my attention. So the clip looks like Simon Cowell is resting his head on him palms. It made me curious to click on it to see what is in there. That clip is so remarkably amazing I just realized after seeing. It was Susan Boyle's audition for "Britain Got Talent". Stunning performance not only because she is good singer but also because she is 47 year old ordinary looking woman who have never been kissed and spend her life in taking care of her sick mother. When she came on stage audience plus judges thought it is going to one of the performances where people think they can sing but they just go on the national TV to make fool of themselves kind. But her performance was simply amazing.

This is a perfect example of how perseverance can get you what you wanted. I don't know about other people but when I saw that I got all pumped up with inspiration which motivates me to achieve my dreams.

Below is interview of Susan Boyle: