Reminded of WAR by "Turtles can Fly" thought would also post this small rhyme i once wrote on the same topic...
sarhad par lagi aag ko
lahoo ki varsha se nahin bujhaya jata
suno apne dil ki dhadkan ko
barood se dilon ko nahin milaya jata
kya hua hamare vivek ko
ke ik insaan insaniyat par goli barsata
haansil ho ga kya kisiko
bas ik aur taaboot pahadon se neeche aata
kitni zamein lagti jeene ko
ke koi jag jeetne nikal jata
roko jeetne ki is hoad ko
bas dhara ko lahoo se seencha jata
itihaas gawah hai sacchai ko
ke jung mein koi nahin jeet pata
dekho mahaan ki mahaanta ko
ke kisi aur ki haar par jashn manata
baatenge hum aakhir kis kis ko..
taaron se dilon ko nahin baata jata
kholo dil ke darwajon ko
ke dushman bhi yaar ban jata
dekh hamaari sankeern soch ko
hoga woh ram-raheem bhi sharmata
mitaa do sabhi sarhadon ko
ke pane ko aur kya rah jata
...ME
Friday, February 23, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
E-2-E
Today even a small IT startup might call themselves an E2E (End-2-End) service providers.. so one can imagine the extent of E2E the biggies might be talking of.. infact for them i guess its, Eternity-2-Eternity now :) So in this era of our IT finnesse, maturity and high end capability its very hard for me to believe that an employee of one of these biggies has to wait for 10+ days for his login id and is still waiting!
The entire sequence has been very funny out here. After 2 odd (yeah i know 2 is an even number) days the infra team says that the HR hasnt told them anything about us. The HR female, dumb of the species (wait ladies dont draw your guns and start shooting. I am not being sexist here, what i mean is the entire HR department and this particular female in specific. Infact I doubt whether she does anything more than getting various paper formalities done by new joinees and then utter politely with a big grin, "Welcome to the human poultry farm") says she thought my manager would intiate that.. Whoaa.. and who is my manager maam!? Do i get to choose one myself!!?? Okay so w catch the senior HR, dude this time, he says, oh okay so you people need a login too.. hmm.. okay i'll try "initiating" that! (we were totally unaware of what that innocent 'initiating' meant at that time)
Two more days whoosh by and daily I keeping paying my deep homage to the HRs of the world. Then the dude cutting a sorry figure says, eh actually i am unable to 'initiate' the process (i reda that as, these infra people have barred me out of it all... i swear next time i would allot a boss rather than 'initiating' it myself) may be you should ask your boss to do something for this. Fortunately i had a boss by now so i knew who..
Boss, with a smile, Hmm.. okay so you people still dont have it! (as if that was our winter project and we have utterly disgusted him with our failure!) So he also 'initiates' it and a couple of more days pass by. And by this time I keep paying my deep gratitude and reverence to all of them!
Then one day when I again enquire (read beg) the Boss regarding my login he too cuts a sorry figure... Oh yeah actually i tried 'initiating' but theres some problem in between. (in short, I am helpless too these infra people have not even spared me :() But well i will email people sitting in chennai for help in this regards and I m leaving for UK today.. meet you after 4 days!!
So thats it.. the HRs are enjoying themselves with other new joinees and interviews.. the Boss is busy entertaining clients in UK and I am still banned from any access. I ofcourse have stopped visiting people for login ID now. To add salt to the wounds.. its not that since I didnt had my login i was having a free ride at office... I was made to work like a dog for first 7 days :(
The entire sequence has been very funny out here. After 2 odd (yeah i know 2 is an even number) days the infra team says that the HR hasnt told them anything about us. The HR female, dumb of the species (wait ladies dont draw your guns and start shooting. I am not being sexist here, what i mean is the entire HR department and this particular female in specific. Infact I doubt whether she does anything more than getting various paper formalities done by new joinees and then utter politely with a big grin, "Welcome to the human poultry farm") says she thought my manager would intiate that.. Whoaa.. and who is my manager maam!? Do i get to choose one myself!!?? Okay so w catch the senior HR, dude this time, he says, oh okay so you people need a login too.. hmm.. okay i'll try "initiating" that! (we were totally unaware of what that innocent 'initiating' meant at that time)
Two more days whoosh by and daily I keeping paying my deep homage to the HRs of the world. Then the dude cutting a sorry figure says, eh actually i am unable to 'initiate' the process (i reda that as, these infra people have barred me out of it all... i swear next time i would allot a boss rather than 'initiating' it myself) may be you should ask your boss to do something for this. Fortunately i had a boss by now so i knew who..
Boss, with a smile, Hmm.. okay so you people still dont have it! (as if that was our winter project and we have utterly disgusted him with our failure!) So he also 'initiates' it and a couple of more days pass by. And by this time I keep paying my deep gratitude and reverence to all of them!
Then one day when I again enquire (read beg) the Boss regarding my login he too cuts a sorry figure... Oh yeah actually i tried 'initiating' but theres some problem in between. (in short, I am helpless too these infra people have not even spared me :() But well i will email people sitting in chennai for help in this regards and I m leaving for UK today.. meet you after 4 days!!
So thats it.. the HRs are enjoying themselves with other new joinees and interviews.. the Boss is busy entertaining clients in UK and I am still banned from any access. I ofcourse have stopped visiting people for login ID now. To add salt to the wounds.. its not that since I didnt had my login i was having a free ride at office... I was made to work like a dog for first 7 days :(
Turtles can Fly
The movie i recently saw (ofcourse on my lappy... its been more than a month that i have watched a movie on Big purdah) was one of those good movies that touches and etches somewhere deep inside and leaves you silent for quite sometime. A kurdish movie with english subtitles. The movie revolves around the lives of kurd refugees just before America is contemplating to invade Iraq (saddam). The refugees who dont have any say whatsoever in the war but to wait and watch for others opinion on which there life depends (only thr life ofcourse coz they dont have anything much that belongs to them) Their only aim and prime goal is to save the lifeforce within and keep dodging death!
"Satellite..Satellite..", people scream for the central character in the movie. Two things of this character that catches the eye are his name and his bicycle. A lanky boy with a strong voice, he is the leader of all the orphans and organizes them for daily work and wages. Their daily work primarily involves disarming leftover mines by hand and selling it to nearby arms dealer. The scene where the 'boy with no arms' (another prominent character but with no name, who lost his hands in a blast accident while disarming one of those mines) disarms a mine with his mouth is one of the pinch scenes. The boy with no arms has a sister named Agrin, a beautiful girl for whom industrious Satellite falls for. Agrin is a rape victim of iraqi soldiers, bears a child called Risa when she herself is a kid. Risa entices with his innocent laf and voice. The boy with no arm loves Risa but Agrin hates him for the memories he reminds her. Agrin makes a few attempts to get rid of him and finally there comes a scene which just strangled me for a while... she ties a big stone to risa and puts it in a deep pond!!
The movie ends with Americans toppling the Iraqi government and hence the temporary end of war. In all this play of seriousness and melancholy there are a few lighter moments to the movie. Like the one where one member from each family stands out there on a hill and there family members keep yelling, "slight left... slight right" then the one where elders ask Satellite to shuffle and find a news channel (bypassing the prohibited ones) and translate english for them etc.
what i still fail to understand is the movie title "Turtles can fly"... if anybody has any clue please enlighten me. I would strongly recommend the movie to all who like real life potrayal of people.
"Satellite..Satellite..", people scream for the central character in the movie. Two things of this character that catches the eye are his name and his bicycle. A lanky boy with a strong voice, he is the leader of all the orphans and organizes them for daily work and wages. Their daily work primarily involves disarming leftover mines by hand and selling it to nearby arms dealer. The scene where the 'boy with no arms' (another prominent character but with no name, who lost his hands in a blast accident while disarming one of those mines) disarms a mine with his mouth is one of the pinch scenes. The boy with no arms has a sister named Agrin, a beautiful girl for whom industrious Satellite falls for. Agrin is a rape victim of iraqi soldiers, bears a child called Risa when she herself is a kid. Risa entices with his innocent laf and voice. The boy with no arm loves Risa but Agrin hates him for the memories he reminds her. Agrin makes a few attempts to get rid of him and finally there comes a scene which just strangled me for a while... she ties a big stone to risa and puts it in a deep pond!!
The movie ends with Americans toppling the Iraqi government and hence the temporary end of war. In all this play of seriousness and melancholy there are a few lighter moments to the movie. Like the one where one member from each family stands out there on a hill and there family members keep yelling, "slight left... slight right" then the one where elders ask Satellite to shuffle and find a news channel (bypassing the prohibited ones) and translate english for them etc.
what i still fail to understand is the movie title "Turtles can fly"... if anybody has any clue please enlighten me. I would strongly recommend the movie to all who like real life potrayal of people.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Who moved my Kitchen??
"Dude, who moved my kitchen?" .. i find me interrogating myself very frequently!
Rings a Bell!?..and you also feel there is some mistake there!!?.. if it does then first let me congratulate you as you are one of those smart individuals who seek inspiration from mice and its various glorified activities and desires! :) Further confirming my belief that one could draw inspirations from anything and everything in this world be it spider, mice etc.
But a block of cheese doesnt appeal to my appetite at all and i ofcourse am not a mouse... and hence the 'Kitchen'.
My Kitchen at NITIE was so darling and important to me and I always used to think that its going to be with me for ever. But somehow it slipped no matter how hard i wanted to hold on to it. So one thing for sure that has happened is that my kitchen has been moved by somebody and i am starving to death now. The mouse said, “They keep moving the cheese.” (Change happens.) Worst i am also stuck and lost in the maze (read cubicles) that too a quizzical and enticing one. And all that my daily search and toil in this maze leads to is discovering Cups of various shapes and sizes.
Tragedy is that though i always smelled my kitchen, I never realised that it was ever cold or old :(. So need of the hour is
->movement in a new direction to help me find new Kitchen
->to let go of old kitchen, and the mouse said sooner you do that the sooner you find new kitchen.
And yeah now i realize the importance of the mouse saying at one point, “Noticing small changes early help you to deal with the large changes to come.”
Dont know whether i am 'Sniff' or 'Scurry' and would depend more on what my mate in the circumstance Tom would like to choose for himself :). Going by the saying, "If you do not change, you can become extinct" i might be heading right away to extinction if i dont find my Kitchen soon. Dear reader..Wish me LUCK
Last but not the least, for all those who are reading this remeber:
“They keep moving the Kitchen.” (Change happens.)
“Get ready for the Kitchen to move.” (Anticipate the change.)
“Move with the Kitchen.” (Actually make the change.)
“Enjoy the taste of new Kitchen.” (Enjoy the fruits of change.)
Rings a Bell!?..and you also feel there is some mistake there!!?.. if it does then first let me congratulate you as you are one of those smart individuals who seek inspiration from mice and its various glorified activities and desires! :) Further confirming my belief that one could draw inspirations from anything and everything in this world be it spider, mice etc.
But a block of cheese doesnt appeal to my appetite at all and i ofcourse am not a mouse... and hence the 'Kitchen'.
My Kitchen at NITIE was so darling and important to me and I always used to think that its going to be with me for ever. But somehow it slipped no matter how hard i wanted to hold on to it. So one thing for sure that has happened is that my kitchen has been moved by somebody and i am starving to death now. The mouse said, “They keep moving the cheese.” (Change happens.) Worst i am also stuck and lost in the maze (read cubicles) that too a quizzical and enticing one. And all that my daily search and toil in this maze leads to is discovering Cups of various shapes and sizes.
Tragedy is that though i always smelled my kitchen, I never realised that it was ever cold or old :(. So need of the hour is
->movement in a new direction to help me find new Kitchen
->to let go of old kitchen, and the mouse said sooner you do that the sooner you find new kitchen.
And yeah now i realize the importance of the mouse saying at one point, “Noticing small changes early help you to deal with the large changes to come.”
Dont know whether i am 'Sniff' or 'Scurry' and would depend more on what my mate in the circumstance Tom would like to choose for himself :). Going by the saying, "If you do not change, you can become extinct" i might be heading right away to extinction if i dont find my Kitchen soon. Dear reader..Wish me LUCK
Last but not the least, for all those who are reading this remeber:
“They keep moving the Kitchen.” (Change happens.)
“Get ready for the Kitchen to move.” (Anticipate the change.)
“Move with the Kitchen.” (Actually make the change.)
“Enjoy the taste of new Kitchen.” (Enjoy the fruits of change.)
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