Life is…My thoughts…

I had to get the third party transfer option enabled in my HDFC bank account and that needs you to fill a form and submit it to some branch. So I went to HDFC bank nearby and asked for the form. For the first time in my life probably, it was a really simple form. Just 3-4 required fields and that is it. Though there was one little thing that can be pointed out. They asked for customer ID which is not as common thing as account number. But the lady at the counter asked me to write account number only. So problem solved. It was really a rare example of good experience of “going to a bank”  . Wish all the bank related things were that simple .

Cheers !!!

I go to Gurudwara, once in 2-3 months. That means I am not really a religious person. Period ! But from what I see around, I think people are way better. They go to Temple/Gurudwara/Mosque daily and some even twice in a day. But what leaves me wondering is the other side of  the coin. That is their behaviour in their lives. They are fully dedicated to these religious practices but when it comes to applying the teachings in their daily lives; NO…it is nowhere to be seen. And often I put this very same question to everyone who talks about this religious commitment thing and the answer is …but still…he does go to Gurdwara/Temple daily. I mean one doesn’t go for the sake of going. It is for your betterment, to learn to be good and do good. If you aren’t ready to follow what religion teaches then what is the use of going ? Are you trying to fool God ?

How similar or different they are ?

Mera Bharat Mahan !

In last 6 months or so, I was looking for a job change so I created my profiles on different job portals. This post is an advice that if you are doing the same, never create your profile on timesjobs.com. It is completely crappy website. They have nothing useful to send you. Rather you will get some useless mails talking about say Storage Admin whereas your profile is of a C/C++ developer.  Moreover I couldn’t find an option to delete the profile from there. Some of the standard mail subjects you will always be receiving from their side:

• Xyz, are you sure you are in the right job?
• Xyz, grab these jobs before they are gone.
• Xyz, 7 job opportunities waiting inside.

That is it. You will receive nothing more, nothing less. So stick to Naukri & Monster, if you are looking for a change .

Have you ever observed that the feeling of slavery (in Indians) has not completely gone ? It still runs in our blood. That pleasing-the-master feeling, habits and the nature just don’t away. Being in corporate sector, I can relate it to so many things happening daily. Just few of the common observations:

• How difficult it is to say NO to your boss ?
• How comfortable most of the people are in expressing their “personal life” needs ?
• How much buttering-of-the-boss happens in most of the companies ?
• How we never say NO to the client because he pays us !
• How we are made to work on Saturdays, Sundays and late evenings and we don’t have the guts to say NO !
• How we don’t have the guts to call a wrong a wrong !
• How stupidly we think that if we don’t agree to what the guy sitting in front of us says, he will feel bad !

And so many other things. Is there a hope that India would get rid of all this ?

Again, it has been really long since I did my last post . Actually tried writing something many times but couldn’t complete it. Sometimes you just aren’t able to complete a post. Ohhh this is the first post of the new year so very very happy new year to everybody coming here (Better late than never ). This post should be about the new things and resolutions for the new year . Well, a major change is that my job has changed and the new one is much more demanding (as compared to the previous one ).  So these days I am having the real feeling of working in IT sector . And it is one of the reasons that I am not able to give that much time to blogging. Talking about the resolutions, I think the first should be  that I should write more often on the blog . Ooops…again nothing much to write…so, before adding any more crap, this post should be terminated here . Will see you more often, this year ! Promise !

Watched Rocket Singh yesterday and its a must watch. If you understand a bit of corporate culture you will relate to each and every bit of the story. Totally honest and no-crap story. No faaltu songs, romance and all. Excellent performances by all the characters. Do watch it because its an intelligent film way away from the standard crap we are bombarded with !

At almost all the marriages I have attended, one thing that has always attracted my attention is the guys carrying lights and all the stuff with the baraat. This time I got a chance to click few pics of them. Everybody is lost in the celebrations and they are carrying the lights with the baraat with most of the times lights of their faces off. So here are 2 pics dedicated to all such folks who make such celebrations possible and the title that came to my mind at that time is “Carrying happiness” as that is what they are doing, No ?

After I was just done with all the struggle required to buy a good PC, the keyboard and mouse combo I had chosen was Logitech Cordless Desktop® MX 3200 Laser.

But sadly that set was crappy and all others that he showed, so I returned that back to dealer and took money back. Then I started searching for some simple keyboard and with a bit (or byte ? ) of help from Aman, settled for Logitech NewTouch™ Keyboard 200 (USB) (Just feel, how sweet it sounds from the name )

The biggest problems with this keyboard are the small size, bigger Return key and pipe key moved in upper row. All the crap. So again the time to look for a new keyboard. Never even get moved by the fancy terms used in the name. Please do read reviews on Amazon and then only move to buy the stuff. Not much useful post it may be, just wanted to let out some frustration .

Very simple thing but do you manage to properly decode all the emergency signs and methods in metro or newly manufactured buses (There are hardly any in trains or old buses and too simple if any) ? What I noticed is that they are too difficult to understand even in daily travels. God forbid, if something should happen, I don’t think it is everybody’s cup of tea to make use of them. Shouldn’t be they made simple to understand ?