Refreshing!!

Hav you ever watched an ad and felt yourself slipping into its joyous mood no matter how deep down in the dumps you feel? This ad is one. Its pure magic and you will automatically smile when you see it. The lite mood of the ad captures the essence of Limca (I dont know if the drink is effective but the ad surely is).

The music, the voice, the lyrics, the concept (splashing water and playfulness after a hard day’s work)- everything is wonderful and leaves you with a feeling to go out and splash water.


Lyrics:
Fuhaarein, bochharein, nazaaare chura lo na,
kuch boondein chura lo na;
Thaki si zindagi se, ruki si zindagi se,
kuch lamhe chura lo na…;

Kuch yaddein, aur sapne, apne chura lo na;
ooo Ruki si zindagi se, thaki si zindagi se,
raftaarein chura lo na…

lukka chupi khelti hai,
bheed mein hazaaron kaliyaan (hazaaron kaliyaan);
mmmm galiyon mein yun bheed banke,
chup gayi hain saari khushiyaan (saari….saari khushiyaan);
Khushiyon ko bula lo na,
muskaane churalo naaaa…
sulagti pyaas hai toh,
machalti pyaas hai toh;
ek limca churalo na.

Kuch yaddein, aur sapne, apne chura lo na;
Ruki si zindagi se, thaki si zindagi se,
raftaarein chura lo na…”

And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

"Love" - defined

Love is not what happened when our eyes met first,
Love is not what I felt with your first touch.
I knew it was love when...
..my heart cried seeing you unhappy,
..my heart danced seeing you smile,
..my heart sang at the mention of your name.
I knew it was love when,
..I felt lonely if I did not see you for a day,
..I got the courage to stand up against the world to be with you.
I know it is love when I leave you realizing that you love me not anymore.

Read this when I was vetti browsing the internet. It was anubavichu posted by someone in her blog.
Followup link: http://sanmad.blogspot.com/2006/10/love.html

First day special

Yesterday I attended a program about Ten commandments to follow to make the first day of an employee in an organization a memorable one. The program started at evening 6 and the speaker's booming voice woke everyone of us who were comfortably sleeping after a long day in class.

"So how would you like your first day of your first job to be?" the speaker asked.
Not many hands rose for everyone in hall either still managed to sleep or were thinking of a proper answer. Finally one girl rose to the relief of everyone else(for they can now go back to sleep).She replied " I would like to enter my office to a round of applause and it would be great if they introduce me like very intelligent person joining us... great honor n bla bla" The audi broke into laughter and everybody was now awake imagining their would be first day in their first job.I thought of something like wonderful office, all smiling staff, a great infrastructure and finding an old friend working there and a HOT BOSS!!! The speaker's voice cut me across from taking my imagination any step further(I had a vague image of how HOT my boss would be!!)
He then showed a video which was all about the checkpoints to make a memorable first day(an employer's perspective).Everybody settled back to continue their nap. The blissful period lasted only for 20 minutes:( The speaker(a approx 40 odd yr old bald man who has about 15 years of industry experience. He had so far switched about 7 jobs)then reminisced about his first day- the reason why I am writing this post.
His first day was whacky I guess. He had joined an Ad company early 1950s and they had welcomed him cordially. He was asked to remove his shoes outside the office and was ordered to offer prayers to the "creative" department. When he came out after offering prayers, the shoes were stuck to the ground(??!!). After a struggle to remove, he had escaped to the restroom where he had the biggest dilemma he had ever faced in his life. The restroom doors were labelled "THEM" and "THOSE" instead of "GENTS" and "LADIES"!!!!!!! Well yeah. I never found out if he managed to get into the right room. :p

A year later, when he was in the team to welcome freshers, they had gotten even more creative and had designed fake food coupons of OBEROI hotel(early days when photoshop was first introduced). The appaavi freshers had taken those coupons to the hotel and what was more weird was that the hotel had even accepted them. WOW!! (of course this company's manager had immediately called up the hotel and apologised and asked them not to accept these vouchers!*sigh*)
What a day those freshers would have had!! I personally prefer that "them & those" idea better..!! :)

So first day in the office, I now wish, that it is something whacky like this instead of a boring or over sweet introductions but i doubt if any corporate will ever take time to make any first day of any employee memorable. So much for the program I attended!

If u have patiently read this post I would appreciate if u can share your first day experience or your dream first day with me.. :)

PS: I would also appreciate if someone can enlighten me about that "them" and "those". It would be highly helpful for my future reference!!

Mind Behaviour!!

"Yengeyo un mugam
Naan paartha nyabagam..
Yeppodo unnudan
Naan vaazhndha nyabagam...
ta ra ta ra tata tata rara ra ra........"

My mind waged a battle between absorbing this wonderful song and taking in the various types of decision making shortcuts that people use(I had OB exam in another two hours). The author of the book had done a great job filling the book with loads and loads of real time examples and only for that reason I am still with the book else I would have given it up as a bad job and caught up on lost sleep.
Note: Just because I am with the book does not connote that I have absorbed anything that is written in there.!

But yeah, Thanks to Stephan Robbins, I have taken a liking to this subject.I have always thought that I should have taken a course that deals with people (I can imagine some raised eyebrows. The probability that I would scare the people away with my stares is higher than that of any effective dealing with them!.)But still its one very interesting job, dealing with people because they are the most dynamic of any species. Anyways, the reality is I am very clumsy in handling people because of two main reasons.
1. I have poor reaction skills that can utterly confuse the one talking to me.
2. After the casual hi, I usually run out of topics while talking to someone I dont know much. So when I talk to any one I dont know, I give them an impression that I am dumb or that I am not interested. So much for wanting to deal with people!! *sigh*

Now I have taken a liking towards marketing thanks to Brand Equity supplementary of ET paper. The very word marketing and brands brings in a whole lot of colors into my closed eyes and I can see a kaleidoscope of vision in my mind. Due to the above stated reasons abt why I cant handle people well, It can be safely concluded that I am utterly and naturally poor at marketing stuff to people and that was the main reason why I avoided marketing field so far. But now, the brands have created an extremely colorful image in my mind that I want to try.

Ps: This post made me realize one very important thing. It is that our human mind has a knack to cook up uncomprehensible jumble of extreme nonsense when one is extremely bored.
Proof- The above post. :) Thank you for wasting your valuable time for me!!

Love Stories!!!

"A lot of things had changed, in me and around me. I had started slipping out of conversations with my friends just to give her a call. I slept less and talked more. My phone bills led my monthly spending chart,leaving the house rent miles behind in the race. I started noticing couples:the way they sat together in gardens, hand in hand; the way a girl holds her boyfriend, on a motorbike. I started worrying about the "how do I look" factor. My status on Orkut changed from "single" to "committed". She became the password to my several internet IDs. Sitting in my office alone, I used to smile, talking to nobody
Love was in the air!"

Recently I read a novel by name "I too had a love story" by one Mr. Ravinder Singh. I dont know if this book is popular or not but when I read this book it made me smile in a lot of inst ances which was just damn simple and not "novelistic". It was just out of the real life scene. And so it was boring in some places but I went on reading it for one reason. The book cover said "A heartbreaking love story" and I read about 170 pages of this 210 page book and everything was flawlessly sweet. It started with a guy meeting his love on one of these matrimonial sites and everything was perfect. The girl was beautiful and the guy handsome( of course, its the author!), the family cooperative, both guy and the girl in good jobs... it was just too good and yes the guy n girl were head over heels in love with one another and they cant wait to get married. I thought, after reading all their cute romantic interludes(sometimes it was boring cause they were too cute!) that the "heartbreaking" part in the novel was just this heartbreak for the readers who will be awaiting for the heartbreak and when none comes up, they will be heartbroken(I know I'm intelligent!!).

But anga vechar author oru twist..

Two days before the engagement the girl will meet with a tragic accident and be admitted in the ICU and naturally the guy was heartbroken. And suddenly I didnt want to continue reading the book for that pain in the book will be infectious and it will make me go dull for days together. But being a compulsive reader, I couldnt stop reading it now and so I plunged ahead with a braver heart and heart thumping. Actually I'm scared of watching horror movies(I got scared while watching saroja movie! Imagine that.). But that time, my sense would prevail and my heart wont jump out of my mouth and I will be in control which means though heart racing, I will still try to laugh it all out and have fun. But these tragic things like losing someone close to us, rape and all these things will leave me empty for days on end. I have read so many Daniell Steel and Sidney Sheldon and I used to feel moody for days and confused thoughts would clutter my brain after reading about the one character I love the most end up in pain or see them leave the world making other characters(including the reader in my case) weep and go on mourning for days together. So back to this story, the guy would pray pray and pray but his prayers unanswered, the girl would leave him and the world. She would leave him with such an ache that it left a gaping hole in his soul(and mine! ) which not even time could heal.

"She died. I survived.
Because I survived, I died everyday."

It was a heartbreaking love story indeed. With my exams around the corner, I cant afford to feel down and stare at the clouds for days and hours. So I tried to ventilate my thoughts so I could get some fresh air. Fresh thoughts.