The Beginning of Professional Me...

Life in Chandigarh is complacent since the day it began. I no doubt had my own share of ups and downs, both professional and personal, but am satiated so far. 
I often think of the professional Me and then again I go back to my initial times and ask myself this question over and over again - Did I ever dream of being a corporate professional? Till date, I haven't been really successful in getting a satisfactory response to my constant questioning but if I think of today, I do feel good about my work. Working and being a part of corporate world is more of an experience than a feeling. Its full of numerous new interactions, new people, new places (specially in my case!!), new goals and perhaps new challenges. Though not much has come my way yet, or may be i didn't feel like that till now, but its really a good feeling working in a company. It means a lot.. it means you have a responsibility in your hands, it means you have to fulfill certain expectations, it also means you're a part as well as representative of a team.. a huge group of people, and then it means you have to make your living!!
Working with Infosys has been a roller coaster ride. There have been numerous ups and downs in all these months and don't know how many are piled up ahead. But seems it has prepared me to deal with any uncertainty with a chilled out attitude. I still remember the time when I was in mysore for training. Despite the pressure of maintaining a decent CGPA, despite the constant stress, despite the struggle, despite those zillion tests and modules, despite those sleep deprived nights due to the zillion tests, despite the home sickness, those were the best days of my life! I have lived one of the most beautiful days of my life in Infosys Mysore DC and I really wish if I could get a chance to visit it again. Well, they don't prefer calling it office, instead, they call it a DC - Development Center of Infosys. Seems fine too, for a distinct organization, there should be certain distinct labels. Everything was so perfect there.. the huge mansion-like campus - the kind which make you feel that they belong to you, the serene greenery, the paths so clean as if the roads have been built a moment ago, the hotel-like food courts, rocking DJ parties, our very favorite pool side, entire ECC (Employee Care Center), darling multiplex (This one is probably the best part of Mysore DC!! Gawd.. I miss it!!), late night CCDs and Baskin-Robins, awesome weather round the year and so much more. Its less of a professional and more of a college environment. 
Those were the days which laid the foundation of building the college student in me to a responsible corporate person. I wouldn't be justified in calling myself the exact replica of what I always looked up to when I admired a successful figure like Mr. Narayan Murthy, it has taken him a long time, perhaps his entire lifetime to reach that place, but I can definitely say that I see myself travelling the same road with a similar vision - To change the world - To change MY world.
As I write this post, I realize that dreams are actually indefinite and it only takes a right vision to turn them into reality. I hope mine too comes out to be one of such kind because I completely agree when they say:
If you can dream it, you can make it happen.

Has it REALLY ended???

Even after 4 years, even after the execution of the lone terrorist alive, even after people trying to move on and trying to forget what happened on 26/11, I still feel compelled to ponder over the remedies and strictness shown by Indian govt to cater to the country's demand and urge to see the perpetrators hanged! Besides sharing multiple coward copies of proofs and files establishing pakistan's involvement in the episode, what did they do in tackling anything of similar nature in future? What did they do to tell the people of our country that they feel for those who fall prey to those bastards and tell them that everything had been taken care. If US can hunt down Bin Laden and kill him, why can't we do the same to the people behind this massacre? Today, while watching the documentary on History channel, I seem to remember everything that happened in those 60 long hours. Eventually everything seems so fresh, the anger, the outrage, the avenging desire. And that's where I felt that no matter how many years pass over that unfortunate day, it will always make our eyes moist and make us pray for the families who suffered losses.
Once again, I wish afresh that they get their place in hell with no more delay, that the affected people are able to move on in their life with a blessed future and that our county is proud to have brave heroes like the NSG commandos!

He is Aamir Khan!!

Hola!! I am so happy to have got the opportunity to check in to my Whatever after a long time! Well, things and ideas keep climbing up the mind's staircase every now and then but  this one thought was pestering me since a long time now. At last, I am here.

In today's world of accelerating awareness, many of us keep cribbing for issues around us, be it social, personal or national. We know how to curse government for bad roads and facilities, we know how to curse the nation for corruption, population and we very well know how to curse the entire system for any small problem we might face. But how many of us actually take a step to tackle it? How many of us actually strive to eradicate what discomforts us? How many of us take it on ourselves and realize the fact that its no one's but our own duty to confront the problem, to clean our society, our system and our nation? In reality, the ratio of those who crib and those who actually think of bringing a revolution is like 1 in a million. And then, for that one in a million who actually think and start with something, it is so assumed that the path wouldn't come out easy for him. Take for example case of Satyameva Jayate, Aamir Khan's perhaps most talked about television show on social issues residing in Indian System, if a layman like me would have taken an initiative like that and thought of airing a show, I doubt on the amount of audience I would have been able to gather and above that I doubt even a channel would have actually allowed me to air it. But it makes me feel so proud and patriotic of Aamir, who with his place in society and with that name of fame, have actually thought, started and executed that project so well.  If it wouldn't have been for him, I again doubt on the popularity and impact of a show of this kind. The stats presented, the stories elaborated compelled me to think about the impact on those victims and future shape of India if they continue to reside in our social system. Every episode made me wonder what will be the next issue, and and every next episode left me all the more petrified. The content, stats, audience and Aamir's scripts, everything throw a clear picture of the intense research the team has gone through. For issues like problems in medical facilities, and khaap panchayats, despite knowing the probable consequences, its commendable not to have felt frightened and present everything audaciously.

Every time I saw his episode, I felt so touched and felt that despite knowing the issue already, I never knew it was that severe and its victims are so intense and large in number. When the question was asked in the episode of Child Sexual Abuse for the percentage of children facing it today, my mind's reflex answered me somewhat around 3-4%% but I was horrified to know the figure to be above 50%. The Dowry problem, the untouchability or human scavenging, the water pollution problem or female foeticide, every problem was so known and so much heard but I would applaud for an initiative and thought this man has put into it and came up with such a huge wave of impact.

I am writing this not because I liked watching the show or I appreciate every social initiative that comes up, I am writing this because I am also a part of those 1 million people who can only sit back and watch the show. I am a part of that 1 million who are happy till they haven't fallen prey to any issues of these kind and think that they never will be affected by them. But I am one in that million too who is moved so much that I feel like contributing to my society and nation now. Don't know how far this feeling of mine will go with me, but for now, I do pledge that a day will come soon...

For now, I salute you Mr. Aamir Khan, Hats off to You!!

Soo Cute!!

His cuteness was the first thing that made me notice him some 3 and half years back from now and till date it rests as his most adorable thing for me!! Simply adore it!!
Love you my Cutiepie...

Life back to Life..

Long time no see applies to me when it comes to Whatever these days. Life never got busy to an extent where I couldn't take out some time now and then to write my heart out. It was rather my own decision which kept retaining my resistance to interact someway or rather anyway with this post editor. Unlike the usual, it was a time when I didn't want anyone to know how and what I was feeling. When life changes, everything else has to wait for its settlement. Now, I guess settlement has started taking place in my piece of life. And by the grace of God and my loving family, like the usual, I again want to share my unbound thoughts and feelings with my world.
My legacy of contemplating life still continues the way it has always been my favorite topic. All this time, life had been a ride with perhaps its lowest of the lows and the highest of the highs. 
Today, as I prepare myself to step ahead in an all new phase of life, I lay still, completely undisturbed and think of all the things I have got from life and of those which life might have in store for me. I know I had been bit stubborn and demanding from life lately, but then I also believe that it was going to be a now-or-never decision. Millions of things are running through my mind and I am unable to settle them inside all by myself. I look back to those days of childhood times when going to school seemed a big project and scoring 10 out of 10 was the only goal of life. When getting candies from Mom was the only delight in life and fighting with Bro was the only problem I would have. Then I recollect growing up to those days of adolescence when I assumed myself the queen of the world. It was a time when Mom's candies had turned into personal vehicle and fights extended their domain to friends as well. Gradually while stepping out of that growing-up adolescent age, there came a grown up stage where responsibility takes over most of the immaturity in you and life suddenly becomes an object of endless contemplation. Its the time when you start setting your priorities and you also start driving according to them. From that point onwards, I only see myself transitioning slowly and slowly into a new someone everyday.
Now, when I dig deeper into this transition of mine, I realize there had been people who had stuck with me every moment despite the changes in me being good or bad, I realize that knowingly or unknowingly I have earned some gems which were the sole reason of all  the happiness in my account, I realize that my family is my constant source of existence and that its my first and last destination, I realize that my friends are my ultimate companions in this ride and they are the reason for my first and last celebration.
With all these amazing realizations, I do feel sad leaving behind a part of me where I have lived my first half of life, but I also feel enormously confident to step forward and enter a new world with new people and new responsibilities. I just hope life and God keep blessing me with these amazing people together with the new ones as I transform my Love into this beautiful relationship called Marriage...