2012 - Another year, certain successes it brought to me!

Today is the last day of 2012. It is so good to just turn back a year and recollect the happy moments and challenges seen throughout the year.

During the start of 2012, a change in my career happened. I got offers and obviously I need to make a plan to switch over. As I decided to proceed with Renault Nissan, I gave my resignation letter to my reporting manager. The notice period was a both challenging and time passing. The efforts, I have taken to convince my manager was well received. I was really happy to communicate in proper manner. Since, I was coming back to Chennai and join my family, I was interestingly thinking and doing things to vacate Pune, my unforgettable place. Two years in Tata Motors fetched me good friends, good understanding nature, and ofcourse, I developed talking in Hindi.

It is a good start after joining Renault Nisasn. The way of working and looking at things happened to be more-or-less the same, what I anticipated. I started to have very good challenging and encouraging environment. New friends, new working culture, new assignments etc added a different dimension in my career.

The travelling time is almost couple of hours everyday to office, I started to use this time in reading again. I continued my reading habit and it gave me good energy for body and mind. I earlier keep track of books that I read. But now, I dont keep a track as I started to outflow my target. Thanks to the travelling time!

Gaining weight was almost a unreachable task for me yester-years. But this year proved untrue for this. I gained considerable weight after concentrating on regular work-outs in gym and regular natural diet. Thanks to my friend who runs the gym and his friend who is a personal trainer. Most of my friends never believed on seeing my photo, to see me gaining good weight, compared to what I was earlier. This is another challenging task accomplished.

I feel, one of the important accomplishments for every individual is buying house. Though, this got fullfilled end of last year, the construction work actually started this year and the possession would be sometime during next year. This is improvement over last year accomplishment on buying house.

Another happy incident of 2012 for our family is: We celebrated 80th Birthday for our grandfather. It was a family gathering. All of us, uncle, aunt, cousins everybody visited to native and enjoyed the occassion. He felt very happy for our presence and we felt happy for his happiness. This is the first incident in recent years, I remember that all members of family were present. Good occassion to remember for life time.

I had Christmas vacation of about a week. I planned to visit Pune with my parents, sister, niece and cousins. Finally ended to visit only with my parents. It was a four days visit to in-and-around places in Pune and Mumbai. My parents were very happy during this visit. I felt I have done a good job by taking them to the place where I lived for 2 years in my career. I felt so happy that all my friends have taken good care of me and my parents. It gave me comfortable feeling.

On the whole, 2012 is really a good year for me on both personal and career front. I expect 2013 would be very good for me as I have planned few important things in 2013.

Happy and Prosperous 2013 to all of you!

Busy, but bit lazy!

People choose to spend their time either busy engaging themselves into any activities or in leisure. After I am back to Chennai, the days are busy! It is not only during office hours but also after office hours. New company, new assignments, new people. Yes, it takes few weeks or a month to settle down. But having settled, it becomes routine. I am into work! 

Office hours have become busy! But the rest of the time? Have I become lazy? Yes, lazy to be on laptop! When compared to the time spent on laptop few months before, I don't spend much time on laptop. However, I spend time on  travel from home to office. Though the travel time is well utilized either by reading books or talking to friends over phone or nap! The time is diversified in many activities and time spent on blogs have become very less!

I am spending more time for myself now! Earlier was not physical though, but like reading articles on net, blogs, Wikipedia etc. now time on them is reduced and increased for physical activity during after office hours! Physical exercise changes the system, system of appetite, system of sleep, system of energy, system of appearance and system of thoughts.

After long time, allocating time to my posts. If the continuity is lost, it takes certain time to regain. This is applicable to most of the activities, either physical or mental! Result of few months away from writing a post, took some time to choose apt words to complete this post. But nevertheless, happy to be busy for the entire day.

Friends to be always in touch!

I remember, my sister used to write letters to her college mates a decade ago. She used to write to her friends and wait for their reply. It is always pleasure to be in touch with friends. I have asked my father, mother, aunt and uncle about their childhood friends. They told that they had contact with some of them till some point of time. My chat with them about this, sometimes reminded them about their childhood friends. 

My elder sister used to write letters to her childhood and friends to keep in touch, during earlier days. Now she is not in touch with many of them.

The present scenario is different. There are so many ways of being in touch with close buddies. Cell phone call, sms, social networking sites, etc are the ways to be in touch with friends, though they don't have much time to meet each other frequently.


Earlier Google Orkut had taken big credit to keep friends stay in touch. I have asked my cousin, who used to be online on Orkut. I did not understand the social networking sites then.  But after couple of days usage of them, I liked to get most of my school friends online. College friends would be recent and keeping in touch with them, after the cell phone boom, is easier, unlike school friends. 


Orkut is now nostalgia, after Facebook came in to picture. FB has become mandatory for all new mobile phones, be in any time of mobiles. FB on mobile has become one of the marketing point for the mobile manufacturer. 


I am happy to be in touch with most of my friends. Thanks to FB.


Friends are moral support for anybody. I have very good supportive friends who encourage me every time. I am happy about it. 


Today being Friendship day, I thought, it would be more appropriate to mention this.


I received sms, calls, FB wishes from my friends. I wish all my friends, "HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY"!!!

Accomplishing a task! - #39 I Believe

Accomplishing certain tasks needs lot of efforts. Once attained, pains go vain and results give satisfaction!!

First Novel that I read!!!

One of my friends used to read books while traveling in bus. Traveling time was almost an hour in the bus when I was with my earlier employer. Except for one of my friends in school days, I don't remember anybody else read books other than school books. I did not develop the habit of reading during school days and it continued during college days as well.

After seeing one of my friends who read books while travelling, I also wanted to taste the effect of reading. I always discuss most of the things with one of my friends. I told him that I wanted to read books. He was also insisting me to read books for long time and he gave me a book. It is the famous Tamil novel "Parthiban Kanavu" (Parthiban's dream) written by famous author Kalki. The initial pages were read only slowly. But after few pages, the book was only page turner. The story revolves around the "Chola" and "Pallava" kingdom.

I liked reading the novel. It brought the entire kingdom in front of the face. The credit goes to the author who has made sincere efforts to portray the scenes as if it is happening on the screen. I used to go to my native place, a kind of town, every summer vacation during my school days. Mostly we preferred bus journey. We never missed seeing many paddy fields and greeneries during our journey. The author brought all the scenes in front of the eyes. 


Books always unfolds the imagination. If we had see any similar type earlier, then that adds to the imagination. The imagination is left to the reader. The author guides the reader to travel through a particular path, the way in which he has mentioned in the book. That is why, some critics have always told that, some films based out of novels has not really come out the way in which, it was penned.


The first novel pulled me towards reading books. Be it a novel, be it a fiction, be it a history, biography, the author must attract the readers to sink into the book. Then only the readers go for next book due to the interest and urge created by the author. Not necessarily the same author, though. Had my first novel would have not been so interesting, I might not have been so keen to read more books of different kind. It is the same way of my first english novel - "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown. After the speculation of "The Danvinci Code", Dan Brown is almost know to everybody. "Digital Fortress" equally pulled me to read much more and I am happy that I read books during my journey time. 


Happy Reading!!!

Rewinding memories back to Pune

People always rewind their memories when any present incidents look similar to the earlier happened incidents. It was a sudden rain in Chennai couple of days ago. Though rain is a common factor in almost all the places, somehow my memory is connected to Pune, if there is any rain.  


It is just one and half month that I am out of Pune. But the hill stations, I visited, keep coming to my memory when I was sitting at the window seat in the bus. The office was very close by my flat. So I did not get much of a chance to walk or travel in rain for a long time earlier. Nevertheless the duration of the rain was for entire day, week and months continuously. It keeps raining, rather drizzling for almost entire day.


The chill wind with droplets of water, that passes by, with the scent of sand, water and air mixed with, always a pleasant. The smell remains for the whole season and it is present everywhere, office, flat, balcony, balcony plants and everywhere. 


Earlier, every day evening, when I was walking from office to my flat, it neither allowed me to keep my umbrella opened or closed. By the time, I open, it gives indication that the drizzling stopped and by the time, I close, it starts to pour. I have told this over phone, then. I even reached the point that, let it rain or not, let me hold the umbrella opened. The bike ride sitting either at back or front always a good memory to cherish, though I have not ridden bike during rainy season in Pune for many times.


Chennai started to rain? A couple of days ago, only for two-three evenings for about half an hour or so. But the feeling it had created drove my memories back to the last rainy season in Pune. I did not remember enjoying rainy season in Chennai during my school days or college days. The only enjoyment was whether the school or college would announce holiday due to rain. That was the only expectation and enjoyment during those days. Subsequently, the water logging in Chennai makes life miserable in rainy season. This makes many people to hate rain. I am not an exception! But no water logging, no mud splash, and drizzling and chill wind always make a person to enjoy the rain. And that is what made me to enjoy rain in Pune. The same effect in Chennai (at least to the place I belong to, did not have too much of water logging for half an hour rain) made me to rewind my memory back to Pune!

Decision made!!! - #38 I Believe

Decision made is always correct.

If the consecutive sequences of the decision becomes bad, then it proves that the outcome has become bad only. And had it not been taken in such a way, the outcome definitely would have become worse (or even worst).

On the other hand, if the consecutive sequences of the decision becomes good, then it proves that if the decision is not taken such a way, the situation would have become bad.

Movies!! Reasons to see them???

Seeing a movie is definitely going to cost few rupees (now a days, going to a theater is no more few rupees...!!), cost time, cost petrol (petrol is nothing but money, but it is becoming more expensive now a days!!). The money, time and petrol spent for a movie should be definitely worth watching a movie. The content of the movie should do either of the following from my perspective:

     1. Should enable one to enjoy it from humorous perspective

     2. Should recollect some of the past memories

     3. Should get excited about the twists and turns sitting on the tip of the seat

     4. Should kindle the thoughts

     5. Should feel the impact of any of the element of the movie like story, screenplay, etc

     6. Should bring out a true incident happened somewhere in the corner of the world

     7. Should be a outcome of the modern technology like graphics, camera, etc

     8. Should create feel good feeling after coming out of the theatre 

A movie can have any of the above or many of the above or completely hijack couple of hours and finally make it pass!!! Ofcourse one of the main factors to go to a movie is to time pass!

Some of the movies may not any one of the above factor. I don't want to find and mention here.

Recently seen movie "Kalakalappu" is one such movie, where I burst out laughing during most of the scenes. Director has made it again bringing out the comedy sequence for most part of the movie. After long time, this is one such movie with lot of comedy sequence, I have seen.

I enjoyed myself for close to couple of hours sitting in the theater watching "Kalakalappu" with my sister.