In my Journey called Life

RISK TAKER.. Attitude decides your Altitude. I keep hearing many critiques denigrate successful people on how luck has favored them unduly. Yes , there might be a grain of truth to that but we have to acknowledge the tremendous hard work and determination behind their success . What has differentiated them from the lot is the Risk they took and those who didn't. Yes, people regret at some point in life about the risks they didn't take and the opportunities they let slip. And I have to share a inspiring story the great Super star shared recently in a stage speech. The story of Three frogs and the insurmountable hill. There was a mighty hill in a village of frogs. And  the frogs have been trying to reach the peak of this mountain for ages. But no frog has ever reached the summit till date . And one day again three frogs tried thier hand at the competition. And they started climbing on hearing the whistle sound. As time progressed the first of the 3 frogs fell down . There...

My engagement.. My marriage process of finding a suitable bride was dormant for a long time and when we started it got completed in a jiffy.. I am more than happy than disappointed about the fact though. Yes it is a very difficult state for many of my friends who are searching their life partner for years altogether. But I am little disheartened about the fact that I have to marry ahead of my sister and this has pushed her scope of marriage by a year. Hoping she finds her match soon. It is only in the month of Feb that I actually activated my dormant account of 7 yrs to life and in less than a month found the destined girl to be. Myself and my mom could feel that she is the girl for the family. And things also moved positively on both sides further strengthening the bond. And both families agreed to meet on April 10th Friday at Vadapalani Murugan temple to finalize things. I arrived at Chennai directly the previous day morning and later that evening did my shopping at Pothys Bou...

I have been married for just over a month. The experience so far is fantastic and wishing it to continue for at least another 50 years :-). And as a routine nowadays we are introduced to so many whatsapp groups starting from friends , families of different sizes on either sides. One of them is a large group my cousin with mostly married members. And we receive mostly forward jokes only in this group. And lately have been receiving lots of marriage jokes or that I have started recognizing them after marriage.  Either being the case, I suddenly couldn't laugh on these whole lots of jokes about husbands and wives  anymore. And on a serious note,  wondered whether we would also end up like this. And felt that too much exposure to these kinds of things will make us like that. I am now confused whether I am seriously right or humorously wrong. Then I asked my wife on her opinion on this. He replied stating that they (who pull their spouses legs all the time in the group) h...

For the past few days, I had this rush in me to inquire more into the philosophical angles of life. I had been listening to speeches in TED and you tube. One interesting philosopher i came across is Arthur Schopenhauer, the eminent German philosopher of 18th century. His works had not been recognized for a long since his musings were not in line with the christian teachings and beliefs. But gradually during his last years he started gaining followers and positive critiques. I would like to share few of his prominent thoughts which has influenced me vastly. His book is "The world as will and representation". He states, unlike his contemporaries who share a very optimistic picture of life, he seems very pessimistic about the way of life. He states that humans are always in a state of suffering and despair and experience only a brief period of happiness and bliss, unlike the reverse. His explanation for the same is humans are none other than their consciousness, which he cal...

The story goes on like this..Me and my cousins were on a weekend meet in a XYZ sagar in Bangalore..And after having some chats I ordered for 4 coffee..suddenly my bro pitched in and said to give 3/6..I was surprised by his words..I commented instantly that it should have been 2/4 or 3/4 ..there aren't 6 of us here.. He told he ll explain me ..and once we got the 6 cups filled to its 3/4th,it struck me..he poured the 2 extra glasses into the rem 4..Hah!! here we had 4 cups of coffee at the price of 3..What an act of Genius..we saved 10 Rs..thats Rs 540 for an year..

Its true a thought gets converts to action. On Saturday morning, I called up my cousin ,who is currently studying in Adhiman,Hosur. While chatting, he told its been a long time since u came here, hah suddenly the plan for the trip was conceived in my mind. I told without second thoughts, why not meet for supper and have a nice chat .Thus confirmed with him the college timing restrictions which was 9'o' clock. Now I called up my Racing team,my cousins with Apaches, to check their availability. And as always they were too enthu about trip. So we planned to start by 5pm  and to spend sometime in Kutti tirupathi and then land in Saravana(rich)Bhavan, tastes like original  HSB. But after my cousin arriving a bit late, just 2 hrs late, I had second thoughts about leaving. But a push from the other 2 for going forward, I said lets do it. To give a brief about the road and route, the road is a newly laid NH, has awesome bends and has steeps down till hosur. Top this with Bang c...