i struggled hard to write something about this picture... I didnt know if I wanted to write about the mist, the net, the stones or the plants... or just the emptiness that it depicts...
what do you think?
Friday, November 30, 2007
play
Thursday, November 29, 2007
days
I agree when they say that a day is well spent only when you learn something new... each day...
but then they are days where you learn things you rather not learn ever...
and then on days like these you wish for days where you just dont learn anything
but then they are days where you learn things you rather not learn ever...
and then on days like these you wish for days where you just dont learn anything
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
do i know you?
have been with you all my life...
and i have seen you through thick and thin...
i am always aware whats going on in your mind...
i feel like I make every decision for you...
and I am responsible for every act of yours...
but dear 'ME' just sometimes I wonder do I know you really?
p.s: I am not a freak - just that each time someone says they know someone really well I always think that's so cool because sometimes I wonder 'do i really know myself well'
and i have seen you through thick and thin...
i am always aware whats going on in your mind...
i feel like I make every decision for you...
and I am responsible for every act of yours...
but dear 'ME' just sometimes I wonder do I know you really?
p.s: I am not a freak - just that each time someone says they know someone really well I always think that's so cool because sometimes I wonder 'do i really know myself well'
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
treasure the 'everyday'!!!
We all have favorite places- places that make us comfortable- places that we relate to- places that we long to go to- places that make up a thousand memories- and sometimes just places that we have inhabited at some point of time on a daily basis...
it could be the house that you lived in - the school that you went to- your neighborhood park - the street that you frequented- your favorite restaurant- your workplace- your playground- your temple, your corner store... some place that you belong to - in some way or the other has interacted with you...
ever wondered- or ever experienced the feeling of seeing these places being demolished?... it hurts... yes to see it torn down but more when you realize that the place doesn't exist if you feel like going back to it sometime in the future...
Just like everything else - they stay now only in your memory -
and just like we value everything in life - you learn to value these 'everyday places' which we almost take for granted
- because there are a thousand bulldozers waiting there to tear them down... might just be something different in their place next time you visit!
it could be the house that you lived in - the school that you went to- your neighborhood park - the street that you frequented- your favorite restaurant- your workplace- your playground- your temple, your corner store... some place that you belong to - in some way or the other has interacted with you...
ever wondered- or ever experienced the feeling of seeing these places being demolished?... it hurts... yes to see it torn down but more when you realize that the place doesn't exist if you feel like going back to it sometime in the future...
Just like everything else - they stay now only in your memory -
and just like we value everything in life - you learn to value these 'everyday places' which we almost take for granted
- because there are a thousand bulldozers waiting there to tear them down... might just be something different in their place next time you visit!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
happiness
we have heard and said most of these things...
...once I get there I shall be happy... .
..if I get this I shall be happy...
... once this goal is achieved that's where happiness shall lie...
... if you are happy I shall be happy...
... if this works out we shall be happy...
... I am just one step away from happiness...
... money makes me happy...
... being with family makes me happy...
... fame makes me happy... ...success makes me happy...
... a sense of achievement makes me happy...
... only if life would have worked out this way I would be happy...
does happiness always lie in pursuit... a condition... or a regret?
at somepoint in life ...somewhere WE all realize...
Happiness is not a destination... but a journey!
Happiness does not always lie in the extraordinary!
Happiness in its lowest form means just 'not being sad'
As hard we all are on this word it is the most giving of all...
Happiness lies in valuing life... in valuing oneself... in valuing the loved one... in valuing just that fact that we are not sad!!!! in valuing a daily sadness free life as much as an achievement or intense moment of joy....
Happiness lies in acknowledging not just a dream but a lot more in living an accomplished dream!!!
Enjoy!!! - that's not too much to ask for is it?
...once I get there I shall be happy... .
..if I get this I shall be happy...
... once this goal is achieved that's where happiness shall lie...
... if you are happy I shall be happy...
... if this works out we shall be happy...
... I am just one step away from happiness...
... money makes me happy...
... being with family makes me happy...
... fame makes me happy... ...success makes me happy...
... a sense of achievement makes me happy...
... only if life would have worked out this way I would be happy...
does happiness always lie in pursuit... a condition... or a regret?
at somepoint in life ...somewhere WE all realize...
Happiness is not a destination... but a journey!
Happiness does not always lie in the extraordinary!
Happiness in its lowest form means just 'not being sad'
As hard we all are on this word it is the most giving of all...
Happiness lies in valuing life... in valuing oneself... in valuing the loved one... in valuing just that fact that we are not sad!!!! in valuing a daily sadness free life as much as an achievement or intense moment of joy....
Happiness lies in acknowledging not just a dream but a lot more in living an accomplished dream!!!
Enjoy!!! - that's not too much to ask for is it?
Friday, November 16, 2007
OSO update!
... so there is one blog I trust when it comes to bollywood reviews and what movie to look out for...
I have already seen OSO.. .and shared my two cents on it with all of you...
but check this review by ' My Stance' - it does total justice to what the movie is - even the title of her post :)
http://maithilikabre.blogspot.com/2007/11/picture-poori-filmy-hain.html
I have already seen OSO.. .and shared my two cents on it with all of you...
but check this review by ' My Stance' - it does total justice to what the movie is - even the title of her post :)
http://maithilikabre.blogspot.com/2007/11/picture-poori-filmy-hain.html
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
do not miss
if you have even a remote connection/liking for bollywood... you will thoroughly enjoy OSO...om shanti om.... one of the funniest Hindi movie spoofs seen ever!!!
and yes Shahrukh rocks... Farah Khan is actually talented... Ms. Padukone is extremely comfortable and confident for her first movie...the movie sports a lot of young talent on and behind the screen!!!
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
where will IT and Green Design meet?
this article was in my mail box for the Green Team at the office... and I enjoyed reading it completely... the last line is sweet!
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman
Nov 7
Remember Y2K? That was the “millennium bug,” the software glitch that threatened to melt down millions of computers when their internal clocks tried to roll over on Jan. 1, 2000, because they were not designed to handle that new date.
And remember that the only country that had enough software programmers to adjust all these computers so they wouldn’t go haywire, and do it at a reasonable price, was India. And remember that it was this huge operation that launched the Indian outsourcing industry — which is why I have long felt that Y2K should be a national holiday in India.
Well, remember this: there is an even bigger opportunity for India than Y2K waiting around the corner. I call it “E2K.”
E2K stands, in my mind, for all the energy programming and monitoring that thousands of global companies are going to be undertaking in the early 21st century to either become carbon neutral or far more energy efficient than they are today. India is poised to get a lot of this work.
I first started thinking about this when I heard Michael Dell declare that Dell Inc. would become “carbon neutral” in its operations by the end of 2008. He said Dell would take inventory of its total greenhouse gas outputs and then develop plans to reduce, eliminate or offset those emissions.
With a carbon tax or cap-and-trade legislation looming, every day you are going to see more and more companies doing the same thing. It is going to be the next big global business transformation. And it’s going to require tons of software, programming and back-room management to measure each company’s carbon footprint and then monitor the various emissions-reduction and offsetting measures on an ongoing basis. Guess who’s got the low-cost brainpower to do all that?
Some of the smartest Indian outsourcing companies are already positioning themselves for the E2K market.
“What did Y2K do?,” asked Nandan Nilekani, the co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, one of India’s premier outsourcing companies. “It was a deadline imposed by the calendar, and therefore it had a huge ability to concentrate the mind. It became a drop-dead date for everyone. Making your company carbon neutral is not a date, but it is an inevitability.”
When Y2K came along, some companies responded tactically, doing only the minimum reprogramming to keep their computers operational after Jan. 1, 2000. Others approached it more strategically, saying: “Since we’re going to have to go through all our software anyway, why not just retire all the old stuff and upgrade to the newer, simpler systems that will make us more efficient.”
These companies went from seeing I.T., or information technology, as a cost to looking for ways to make money from it — through data mining and using better information to cross-sell products, reduce cycle times for introducing new services and to manage inventories more efficiently.
The key to winning E2K business for the Indian outsourcing firms, said Mr. Nilekani, will be showing big global companies, like a Dell, how becoming more energy efficient or carbon neutral doesn’t just have to be a new cost they assume to improve their brand or satisfy regulators, but can actually be a strategic move that makes money and gives them an edge on the competition.
“The strategic companies will say: ‘We are stuck with this problem — why not take advantage of it and use it to revolutionize and rejigger our whole energy infrastructure,’ ” added Mr. Nilekani. They will use E.T. — energy technology — “to reduce material costs, simplify logistics, drive down electricity charges and shorten supply chains.”
As they start to do this, it will require a lot of data management, which companies will want to do as cheaply as possible. Hello India. Hello E2K.
“My impression is that there is certainly a significant opportunity for Indian outsourcing companies,” said B. Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, another top Indian outsourcing company, adding that the precise size of that business will depend on “the speed and scale at which the carbon neutral policies are adopted by the global companies.”
To better compete for such business, Mr. Nilekani is installing solar systems and other efficiency technologies at Infosys’s Bangalore campus. Satyam is planning to do similar things with its verdant Hyderabad complex, which already has its own zoo.
I.B.M. seems to be moving into this space, too. Big Blue knows that even if Indian companies do a lot of the back-room work, there will be lots of front-end jobs nearer the customers.
So, mom, dad, tell your kids: if they’re looking for a good stable-growth career — green consultants, green designers, green builders are all going to be in huge demand. And if they can speak a little Hindi — all the better.
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman
Nov 7
Remember Y2K? That was the “millennium bug,” the software glitch that threatened to melt down millions of computers when their internal clocks tried to roll over on Jan. 1, 2000, because they were not designed to handle that new date.
And remember that the only country that had enough software programmers to adjust all these computers so they wouldn’t go haywire, and do it at a reasonable price, was India. And remember that it was this huge operation that launched the Indian outsourcing industry — which is why I have long felt that Y2K should be a national holiday in India.
Well, remember this: there is an even bigger opportunity for India than Y2K waiting around the corner. I call it “E2K.”
E2K stands, in my mind, for all the energy programming and monitoring that thousands of global companies are going to be undertaking in the early 21st century to either become carbon neutral or far more energy efficient than they are today. India is poised to get a lot of this work.
I first started thinking about this when I heard Michael Dell declare that Dell Inc. would become “carbon neutral” in its operations by the end of 2008. He said Dell would take inventory of its total greenhouse gas outputs and then develop plans to reduce, eliminate or offset those emissions.
With a carbon tax or cap-and-trade legislation looming, every day you are going to see more and more companies doing the same thing. It is going to be the next big global business transformation. And it’s going to require tons of software, programming and back-room management to measure each company’s carbon footprint and then monitor the various emissions-reduction and offsetting measures on an ongoing basis. Guess who’s got the low-cost brainpower to do all that?
Some of the smartest Indian outsourcing companies are already positioning themselves for the E2K market.
“What did Y2K do?,” asked Nandan Nilekani, the co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, one of India’s premier outsourcing companies. “It was a deadline imposed by the calendar, and therefore it had a huge ability to concentrate the mind. It became a drop-dead date for everyone. Making your company carbon neutral is not a date, but it is an inevitability.”
When Y2K came along, some companies responded tactically, doing only the minimum reprogramming to keep their computers operational after Jan. 1, 2000. Others approached it more strategically, saying: “Since we’re going to have to go through all our software anyway, why not just retire all the old stuff and upgrade to the newer, simpler systems that will make us more efficient.”
These companies went from seeing I.T., or information technology, as a cost to looking for ways to make money from it — through data mining and using better information to cross-sell products, reduce cycle times for introducing new services and to manage inventories more efficiently.
The key to winning E2K business for the Indian outsourcing firms, said Mr. Nilekani, will be showing big global companies, like a Dell, how becoming more energy efficient or carbon neutral doesn’t just have to be a new cost they assume to improve their brand or satisfy regulators, but can actually be a strategic move that makes money and gives them an edge on the competition.
“The strategic companies will say: ‘We are stuck with this problem — why not take advantage of it and use it to revolutionize and rejigger our whole energy infrastructure,’ ” added Mr. Nilekani. They will use E.T. — energy technology — “to reduce material costs, simplify logistics, drive down electricity charges and shorten supply chains.”
As they start to do this, it will require a lot of data management, which companies will want to do as cheaply as possible. Hello India. Hello E2K.
“My impression is that there is certainly a significant opportunity for Indian outsourcing companies,” said B. Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, another top Indian outsourcing company, adding that the precise size of that business will depend on “the speed and scale at which the carbon neutral policies are adopted by the global companies.”
To better compete for such business, Mr. Nilekani is installing solar systems and other efficiency technologies at Infosys’s Bangalore campus. Satyam is planning to do similar things with its verdant Hyderabad complex, which already has its own zoo.
I.B.M. seems to be moving into this space, too. Big Blue knows that even if Indian companies do a lot of the back-room work, there will be lots of front-end jobs nearer the customers.
So, mom, dad, tell your kids: if they’re looking for a good stable-growth career — green consultants, green designers, green builders are all going to be in huge demand. And if they can speak a little Hindi — all the better.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)