Gone are the days

Gone are the days, when I used to wake up lazily and decide to go to college or not. Now, I don’t have much of a choice.

Gone are the days, when the school bus used to wait for me to board. Now, I miss the office bus almost every day.

Gone are the days, when I used to decide which period to bunk and calculate 75% attendance. Now, I'm sitting and calculating 9:15 mins average.

Gone are the days, when I sat and burnt the midnight oil. Now, it’s either bench or slogging day in day out.

Gone are the days, when I studied hard and got good scores and appreciations. Now, how much ever good work I do, managers find fault.

Gone are the days, when I used to check the marks and ranks of others. Now, it’s with the peer group and many would have the same rank, which they call the CRR, which can’t be checked.

Gone are the days, when I used to pay college fees and bunk classes. Now, it’s the opposite.

Gone are those days... will I ever get them back?

To all those who are.... Love is....

1.To All Those Who Are...........SINGLE

Love is like a butterfly . The more you chase it , the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often it hurts , but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose the best.

2.To All Those Who Are............NOT SO SINGLE

Love isn't about becoming somebody else's "perfect person." It's about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be. Never say "I love you" if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart . Never look in the eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it works both ways...

3.To All Those Who Are............MARRIED

Love is not about "it's your fault", but "I'm sorry." Not "where are you", but "I'm right here." Not "how could you", but "I understand." Not "I wish you were", but "I'm thankful you are."

4.To All Those Who Are............ENGAGED

The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you are for each other.

5.To All Those Who Are............HEARTBROKEN

Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.

6.To All Those Who Are............NAIVE

How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but never keep the pain.

7.To All Those Who Are............POSSESSIVE

It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.

8.To All Those Who Are............AFRAID TO CONFESS

Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.

9.To All Those Who Are............STILL HOLDING ON

A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now he's not going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now. Let go.....

Source: Mail

Love & Like

There were 2 friends - Love and Like. Love loved Like, but Like liked Love.

When Like was in front of Love, its heart beated faster. When Love was in front of Like, it felt happy.

When Like was in front of Love, winter seemed like spring for Love. When Love was in front of Like, winter was just beautiful winter for Like.

When Love looked into Like's eyes, it blushed. When Like looked into Love's eyes, it smiled.

When Like was in front of Love, Love couldn't say everything that was on its mind. But when Love was in front of Like, it could.

When Like was in front of Love, Love used to get shy. When Love was in front of Like, Like used to be itself.

For Love, Like used to come to its mind every 2 minutes.

Love couldn't look straight into Like's eyes, but Like always smiled into the eyes of Love.

When Like cried, Love too cried. But when Love cried, Like comforted.

The feeling of love starts from the eye.

And the feeling of like starts from the ear.

So if you stop liking a person you used to like,

All you need to do is cover your ears.

But if you try to close your eyes,

Love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever after.

When Someone Loves you, you don’t realize it. When you realize it, its too late. You always love the one who leaves you & leave the one who loves you.

Recession & Hike

"Make hay while the sun shines" - this is what I most closely relate recession to.

Salary cuts for employees - company accumulates wealth.
Introduce new mind boggling policies which won't be modified - betterment for the company.
Cut the cost every nook and corner - company saves.

Now, the "hike" news is buzzing all over.
Will the hike really benefit us? The prices of essential food commodities have (or will) increased. Other essential must use things such as petrol, medicines, house rent, dresses, etc, also will increase. We would be paying more for these things. So, we end up saving only the same amount we used to save previously.

"Hike" is just a mental satisfaction.

Whatever...

The company pays you just enough so that you won't quit the company.
You work hard just enough so that the company doesn't fire you.

CAT 2009 Question

Mr. A works for company XYZ. The company has introduced a new leave policy in the new year which is applicable from previous year. The following definitions are applicable.

Full Day(FD): Full day in office which is 9 hrs 25 mins (9:25).
Half Day(HD): Half day in office which is 4 hrs 45 mins (4:45).
Full Month(FM): Number of working hours in a month (9:25 x number of working days).
Average Day(AD): Average hours in office which is 9 hrs 25 mins.

The policy has it that, in a month, if AD has not been met, then the deficit hours would be deducted from the FM and the hours obtained will be divided by the FD and the number obtained will be the corresponding number of leaves deducted from an employee.

Suppose June 1st of last year was a Monday. The number of hours of Mr. A for the month of June is given as below.

June 1 - 10:00, June 2 - 5:00, June 3 - 3:00, June 4 - 4:00, June 5 - 4:45
June 8 - 8:00, June 9 - 7:00, June 10 - 10:00, June 11 - 4:30, June 12 - 5:45

For the rest of the working days, Mr. A maintains an average of 9:00 hrs. What would be the number of leaves deducted from his leave balance?

Options:
a. 2 days
b. 5 days
c. 7 days or more
d. Too complex to calculate, skip to next question
e. Didn't understand the question(policy)

P.S: I'm irritated with the policy!

I'm bowled!

Everyone said.. "Start searching from now, it will take a year for completing the search", and my parents decided to hear the crowd. But my fate & destiny had other plans. Within a month of rigorous search operations, I got out on the very first ball. The crowd cheered.

I'm in a kind of mixed state as of now. I didn't know how to react. I was actually prepared for a long search innings, but the sudden falling of my wicket surprised me. Currently, I'm not able to sink in things. It will definetely take some time, I know. I don't know how would be the road ahead. But, I'm hoping that everything would be just fine.

And, as people say.. whatever happens, happens for good!

I'm bowled! :-)

The song

It was raining the other day, and most people preferred to stay back at home. But, I got really bored sitting at home as power wasn't there also, and decided to venture out. I took my umbrella and just walked out, without any destination in mind. Just a brief walk, to enjoy the rain I thought.

At around 200mts, there is a temple nearby. As I walked, I saw only 1 person in the temple, that being the priest himself. I knew the priest personally and thought of having a word with him as it had been a long time since I visited that temple and had chatted with him.

God wanted me to come to the temple.

The priest was talking to someone over phone. I thought of not disturbing him.

I stood there folding hands and praying in my mind. I was wishing many things. Suddenly, a hero ran past the temple in his car playing the song "Bakhuda tum hi ho" from Kismat Konnection loud enough to disturb my concentration.

However hard I could control not to play this song in my mind in the temple, it didn't work. I kept telling to myself - "this is a film song, keep it away here", but my mind wouldn't listen.

Finally, I gave up and decided to do something exciting. I thought of converting this song in mind to be positive. I changed the subject of "tum" in the song from the lady to God. So, this song was up dedicated to HIM..

It thus meant -

Bakhuda tum hi ho .. With His grace, you are the one
Har jagah tum hi ho .. You are there everywhere
Haan mein dekhu jaha jab .. Whereever, whenever I see
Us jagah tum hi ho .. You are there, at the moment

Ye jaha tum hi ho .. You are the world to me
Wo jaha tum hi ho .. And in all worlds too
Is zameen se falak ke .. All the way from earth to skies
Darmiya tum hi ho .. I can see you everywhere

Tum hi ho beshuba tum hi ho .. You are the one, beyond all limits
Tum hi ho mujh me ha tum hi ho .. Yes..You are the one in me too

Tum hi ho .. You are the one

I continued this song for the rest of the time I was in temple. In my mind.

And it worked! My wish had been partially fulfilled :)

Back home, I tried recollecting all songs which have "tum" or "tu" sung by one and addressed to the opposite gender. And, I got a whooping list of songs! Some of them are -

Tum ho toh - Rock On!
Tum se hi - Jab We Met
Haa Tu hain - Jannat
Tu bin bataye - Rang De Basanti
Agar tum mil jao - Zeher
Ek ho gaye hum aur tum - Bombay

I thought - all these songs, could be changed depending on context :)