Mightily, mightily impressed with One Republic's 'Secrets'. Strange kind of a song but then what powerful arrangement !!! Just sweeps me away in its juvenile power !!

Presentations !!

hey, just realised why am smiling so much suddenly after some uninspired performance at work. I suddenly got an instruction from my boss, " Anup, can you help me with a presentation ?" That was like music to my ears !! I have a job where I have never made any major presentations or worked on any. Somehow in HCL there is no presentation culture. And being in the junior cadre I was never the one who made presentations. To add to that I never got to present apart from some internal trainings that I did for the other teams.

So here I am realizing that what I always wanted to do in corporate world, is this. Present my ideas, my way, and thats what excites me..... I have a way of doing presentations which I think is pretty good ( atleast my B-school thought so). So now I know what i have been missing from my work....

Now that I am at a good position in the company, I expect more such presentations, and more such exciting work ! BRING IT ON BROTHER !!

New year post

Hey, I almost forgot that my last post was a 'not-so-nice' one. Can't have such a post adorning my blog so lets take inspiration from my Guru Mr. Deepak Gupta and post this beauty by Emily Dickenson. Deepak sir sent this to us yesterday as part of his Monday Morning mail to us.... So here it is, the first post of the new year dedicated to him and his joie de vivre

life


If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.


emily dickinson

falling with a 'thud'

Sometimes optimism can be a bitch ! you think positive and think that things will work out... but naaah! it doesnt happen sometimes that way ! Life can be a bitch some times - Hell bent upon teaching bitter lessons. But hey, what to do if I refuse to learn from my mistakes... well instinctiveness can also be a bitch sometimes !! Nonsense can also be a bitch sometimes - making me feel as if I am the only one making a mistake in the process of trying to make things work out. As if the others are perfection and matuarity personified. And then sometime I myself am a bitch - i write posts like this !! Lol ! Everythings a bitch sometimes - Ha ! Ha ! Ha !

NEWS

NEWS - is North East West South. I don't find any of that on TV. Whatever happened to good old information !!!! And the sight of Barkha Dutt makes me puke. Once upon a time she was my 'dream date' ! Lol ! The Headley 'investigation' sounded like some soap from primetime tv - what with all the sound effects and background razzmatazz ... whew! I just dont feel like watching news on tv.

Grrrr !!! :-{

All my life I thought am a Sagittarius, but now am finding many astrology columns listing out my birth date under the capricorn section !! what the hell is this?
how can the dates change ....? I was born a sagittarius as till a few months ago sagittarius was till 22nd december. And today I find two columns in different publications saying sagittarius is till 20th december.... buggers knocked off two days and in the bargain made me into a completely different personality !!

buggers !!! :-(

Say it Possible & still not possible

I can't believe I missed Terra Naomi's visit to Bangalore. God, I read about it and then made plans and then completely forgot about it. Screw you Anup !!!!!

Oh one more of my much awaited events has passed by without me making it there.
To those who do not know about her, just do a google search or go to youtube and listen to "Say it possible" . And if you like her music, then please come back and thank me ( i love some sense of self-importance ). Read about how she made her music famous ! Watch out for more of her in the years to come !! Thats my word for it !

Hey btw, did any of you check out Ronan Keating's version of Time after Time? Lovely he sings. Naomi also has done a video cover of the same song.... again her vocal abilites stand up. But Ronan you rock too man !! Check out his new album "Songs for my mother". :-)