2013

Would remember this as one of the best! It says the story of my cooking experiments with truth. 

Well! I hope 2014 would be better. I am waiting for a 180 degree turn and hope that it turns out to be the best one :)

Happy new year folks!

So thats what i've learned!

Life teaches you a lot, many a times in a hard way!

It has been almost one week since I lost my handbag. It was a wonderful experience when I got down at Chennai on 4th Dec without a penny. The loss amounts to around 20k. A complaint was filed with the Police quoting the IMEI number. I hope I will get my things back. #hope

Moral:
1. This one is for gals. Never keep all your valuables in your handbag. Otherwise you will be penniless when you alight the station after a good sleep. Keep valuables inside your bigger bag which one cannot take out so easily. If you are taking one with you, keep it under the cover so that no one sees it while you are sleeping.

2. Prefer to travel in Sleeper/3ac rather than 2ac/1ac. Chances of missing are more when you travel in isolated compartments.

3. Keep the ATM card number and bank a/c no ready with you for blocking your ATM card at any time.

4. Note down the IMEI number of your phones somewhere.

5. Keep some important phone number in your mind preferably someone who picks up the call from an unknown number even if its midnight.

Perfection

Well! It seems that being truthful is just not enough. You have to be perfect in every sense if you want to see the change. 

Wow! I found something new today :) That's a trump card for sure! I hope it does not end up being a 'Joker' in the end.

After all whats there in a name !!

Your life is the best emotional thriller you will come across! In fact I should say, each day is a mega novel.

Its a journey to where I belong to.

Perhaps these are the only lines of a poem learned in high school and I remember even now :

"The woods are lovely dark and deep
But there are promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Far away from the crowd

Sometimes its like that. All of a sudden you are alone in the world. The most difficult part is to decide whom to believe and whom not to. If you want to stand alone, you have to pay a price. But for 'how long?' is the question. 

American Junction :P

I believe that the difficult part of life is to take a decision when you are at a juncture. Your life ahead depends on the decision you take. But the problem comes when you don't have enough time to analyse the pros and cons of available choices. The beauty of life lies in the fact that be it any decision you have taken, it turns out to be the best one in the long run. 

The best way to live is to try for the best and to be happy with what you have. One thing which lasts forever is your self respect. I remember one of my profs saying, "You have to stand for something, else you will fall for everything".

Our life is so short, by the time start loving to live it, it just happens to cease. Our life will always be remembered for the last scenes of it, more graceful,the better it is remembered. I just remember the story of the milkman who used to sell his bottles of milk diluted with water.

Life is just a sigma of what we have done in the past. Whatever has been received illegally we will have to pay back, may be in multiple. But self respect is like a bubble,once pricked, nobody even thinks of its existence.

Once came up the question of who is a better option, an inefficient honest officer or an efficient dishonest officer. I would like to go with the first one, the reason being he will have self respect. Somebody told me that my job is like a game-one without any rules. But I'm hopeful. Its not so. The movie has just started scenes are pending. Ultimate victory belongs to the TRUTH.

Ambition

It is something which may change every now and then. I have always dreamed of becoming a teacher since joining my ug course(although no one understands when i try to explain something. It ultimately ends in a giving up, either me or the subject. My sister was the greatest example. ). It was the combined influence of my parents' wish and some of the dedicated teachers I had over there. But things changed when I got a call from railways. What I am now is something which i have never thought of in my lifetime. Dealing with people in large numbers, that too varying from from very rich to very poor, innocent to crooked and yet another set of people who doesn't show their true self. I am sure that I have of got a lifetime experience; within a short tenure with this organisation. 

[This is a wonderful organisation to work with in spite of all these. The way trains are run in this subcontinent is just amazing. It truly involves sincere priceless efforts of staff (may be of a small percentage I should say) of this huge organisation. 

I have noticed people complaining about the IRCTC website. It is considered almost impossible to book a tatkal ticket through irctc. But i dont think that there is some other server in the entire world handling more than 2 lakhs requests per second which includes a secure money transaction for a successful request. It goes without saying that the site has improved a lot and will definitely overcome all the problems within no time (not defining :P).  I had to say these bla bla bla just to convince that my present organisation is super awesome.]

 Life is about the lessons we learn, the set of changes we adapt to. Your ambition too may change then. This involves setting standards for you and redefining them to suit your present environment. The perspective, the prospects everything will change and it will change you in turn. But my conscience has never failed me. Even now I dream of being a teacher and my God will make my way for it. 

faith

Life is always a riddle. Long awaited things come to us when we stop thinking about them. I could never understand this. The way God sets our path is beyond our imagination. he knows when, where, what  and how to do for us. Only thing we could do is never to lose faith. But faith is a gift. But always one can pray to the Lord to increase faith. In my opinion is silence is the best prayer.

ie humble submission to everything that happens. The belief that everything was/is/will be for the best. Just because i have 2 eyes i cant understand the agony of a person who does not have it.

That will bring about the true faith in you.