Strength in Diversity.

Today I read a quote, "Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness" and I realized how true it was. Today we live in a diverse world.


Today 236 countries in the world, with over 6.91 billion people , speaking 6912 languages (source: ethnologue) , from 21 different religions live on one globe.

Why go far, consider greatest democracy in the world, India , on 2% of the world's land lives 17.5% of the world's population with greatest variety in languages.

नमस्ते, º¡´£ Both the words translate into ‘hello’ in English.



1,210,193,422 people, 28 states and 7 union territories, 387 different languages, 8 main religions, one nation – India. With median age of 24.9 years, India is also one of the youngest Nations in the World.





All we need is the sensitivity towards this diverse culture and the sense to leverage it to make our country and the world---a better place.

End of an Era

On this sad day, I want to remember this great icon in the world of technology and branding as a guiding light who proved this to the world that "No door is ever shut for the willing". Through his perseverence, he kept bettering his own designs. He changed the definition of technology by building a brand that not only had the might to rule the world of technology but also the world of branding. Its my tribute to the legend. RIP Steve Jobs......

Best Steve Jobs Quote:
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick, Don't lose faith. The only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love and that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers".

Best Steve Jobs Presentation:

Best Steve Jobs Speech:

Passion- An Enigma!!

Hi to all my bloggy friends! Its good to be back, ofcourse I know out of sight is out of mind. You may not recall happie birdie now but I will make sure that I would make my presence felt.
In the past few months, a lot has changed in my life. Now I am an eight months old MBA apprentice.
Without blabbering, I would come to the topic, guys yesterday I along with my friend went to Siri Fort auditorium, Delhi. A few days back she told me about this concert " The Rhythm of Life "by Hum Ensemble. Many wouldn't know about this band of musicians because they play classical music (alas we are the Bryan Adams generation :p). Hum Ensemble consists of a group of musicians from across the globe. Lead by Sandeep Das- twice nominated for the grammy awards, team consists of beautiful Cristina Pato- Bagpiper from Spain, Rajesh Prasanna plays Flute, Ahsaan Ali from Kirana Gharana plays Guitar, Anil Chawla, youngest out of all plays keyboard, Wu Tong from China plays Sheng and two percussionists, Shane Shahanan and John Hadfield from USA.
Trust me guys this music was so pure and enticing that my eyes and mind routed me to a trance.
I realized one thing that music wasn't their profession, it was their passion and they backed their passion to make it their profession which not many of us do. We choose our profession and hope that someday some miracle would happen and our profession would turn to our passion.
Had Einstein crammed those history dates and events at school, he wouldn't have been what he is today.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, all were school dropouts.They believed in themselves and their passions.Edison failed more than 1000 times in search of light but he backed his passion to enlighten the world.







Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff. BUT he contradicted everyone's assumptions.

Steve Jobs- a college drop out created something that even PhD's in that domain couldn't.

And if you think its too late to follow your passion then atleast do things with passion or not at all. Whether we win or lose in this endeavour doesn't really matter, what really matters is whether we cared to try.

Expectations

Expect a flower to always stay fresh,
But one day it will wither away

Expect a glass to never break,
But one day ,it will break into pieces

Expect your dog to stay with you forever
But one day ,it has to go away

Every thing in life has a lifecycle,it has to grow mature and die one day.
But still we expect people to respond the way we want, things to stay the way they are.

Expectations are a heavy burden to carry. The more we expect out of something or someone, the higher our chances of disappointment become.



Nobody likes disappointment. A way to avoid it is to shift our mentality from that of having expectations to one of looking for possibilities.

Looking for possibilities instead of having expectations allows us to adjust our goals and maintain a positive outlook on what the future holds.
It allows us to look at life in an entirely different way: If great things happen, it’s wonderful; but if our interactions and work don’t bring immediate rewards, everything is fine regardless because the possibility of reaping them down the road is still there.



Doesn’t this mentality make life much more enjoyable? Much less stressful?

Shore To Shore!

Life is like a boat.

It travels from shore to shore.

At times ,its you who decides your destination.

And at times ,its the direction of the wind that compels you to reach a terminus.

And Your stay depends upon the weather there.

If the weather is suitable,you leave your footprints on the shore.

But if its not......then you have to MOVE ON.

From one shore to another!!

A new me :)

Its been almost 2 months since I am at TCS ,Noida and life here has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride.I have become the way, my parents always wanted me to be-Independent!Now my day starts at 6 o clock and surprisingly ,I get up all by myself without papa rolling his hands on my forehead.I get ready on time and even reach office on time because I know that there's noone here who will say ,"You are late again?Come I will drop you".

Now, I have become an aunty scrooge :P-a big penny pincher :).Even if I feel like having an ice-cream,I avoid it-just to save a 10 rupee note(Mumma always used to say that you will realise the value of money once you will start earning yourself.Now I realised what she actually wanted to say).
I never valued the fruits that were kept in the refrigerator by mumma but now I will do, once I will go back home .I never knew that an apple kept in the refrigerator could cost Rs 15/- and a glass of milk Rs 12/-(Itni mehngai...huhh!).
I even learnt to travel by local buses and metros.Now I know the routes of 392 and 543.And I can reach any place in South Delhi on my own.(Its like my second home:) ).
Life and People out here are different.People are running to make their ways out of the traffic jams to reach their offices on time.And then the heat.Earlier I used to laugh at girls who covered their full faces and looked like the talibans but now ,even I am a part of them(garmi hi itni hai...)
But nonetheless ,my experience with a metro has been quite good.
Hats off to Delhi!!
And pa ma ,I grew up finally (though a bit but I did)

A Soul Changing Shores!!

Its been a while since I last updated my bloggy dearest...around 3 months and a lot has changed since then.After college ,I was waiting for my TCS joining but TCS made the wait, a little ,too long.So I decided to take CAT.In the meantime ,I joined a web designing company at my hometown.That company gave wings to my imagination.I wasnt given any payslip but what I learnt there, values much more than theses paper notes.I worked on things that I always wanted to like Web template designing ,creating animations,web advertisements etc .It was something that gave me happiness.And my happiness touched the emperium ,whenever my work got an applause.Here ,I have uploaded the glimpse of my toil,for which I burnt the midnight oil.










And then ,in the third week of februrary ,I got my CAT results.I had scored a decent 94 percentile.The result didnt bother me much, as I was enjoying my stint as a web designer but then came a shocker -my TCS joining.I loved my work but realised that ,payslips do have some value. It was time for me to move out of my hometown,to start a new life,a life -all mine!!

Now ,I am at TCS ,Noida for the past one and a half month.