Respect... Take Home #245

Respect, but do not get lost in it too much that you keep quiet where otherwise you would question the decisions/happenings. 

Friend, you are the one!

In the moments of Joy,

In the moments of sorrow,

In the moments of setback,

In the moments of triumph,

You are the one!

You are the one,

Making the laughter of joy,

Shedding the tears of  sorrow,

Patting the back in setback,

Sharing the fruits of triumph.

Friends fill colors in life. Friends bring smiles to the moments. In need, in pain, they be the ones to support, to encourage. They play a major role in keeping our spirits high always. More than anything else, they give the moral support, which is much needed to keep a person's confidence levels on constant note. Keeping apart what a friend is and does for you, it's important that you be the friend, to share and care your friends as well. 

The best way to win a friend is to be a friend.

Wish and will... Take Home #244

Along with the strong wish to come into limelight, have strong will to face the rejection and criticism. You can never achieve all; you can never satisfy all.           

The 'key' in defeat... Take Home #243

Giving it fully matters and is important. Outcome is important but does not matter too much. Life opens a lot doors of opportunities and often the key lies in the form of defeat.  

Five years and on...

What else could be a better topic for the day? Five years back, same day, I along with few other aspiring young engineers joined the organization that I work for. It's been a beautiful journey since then, undoubtedly.

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When in college, you aspire for a good job, salary and weekend parties. When in initial days of work, you look every where to learn everything. As few days get consumed in understanding the whole intention, what for you are in a job or in that organization etc, some more days go with mugging up the hierarchy. Though you spend days put together at initial stages, you may hardly understand the ocean-like structure/happenings and especially the responsibilities to come. That's not something very different that occurs only to you. Unfortunately, it appears that way. The free time and the weekend outings etc of the initial days let the pressure stay away from you. But as the years pass on, you get conscious.

Experience brings the exposure, provided you are open to look here and there apart from the path that you are supposed to look at. Drawing strict and thick borders for yourself, especially in work, can work against you as the years of experience get increased. While you get involved deep into your work, looking around helps and at times makes you realize that you are not alone under the radar and eventually reduces the pressure as well. It also makes you realize of your strengths and improvement areas. After all, life is all about learning and growing not just older but experienced. 

It's not just work that fills one's career or professional life. Neither it's just learning. To enjoy the other fruits of professional life, one must be as a good friend and not just as a colleague. All who can support you the most are your colleagues not just at toughest of the tough times but also at all the times when you need a lighter moment to your otherwise routine workout. Gossiping can be the best stress buster at times! Well, don't spread out the words until and unless you are too sure to be said. Might not be possible always, but ensure it as along as you can. Participate in off-the-work activities, group activities. They do not just give you another experience, they also ensure you a well deserved break at times.  

Spend time for yourself too. Make friends. Enjoy.

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Wishing my friends, colleagues who joined along with me and equally completed five years. Hearty congratulations and best wishes for the years to come.

Making impressions...

Power of different leaders becomes evident at different point of times. Showing power and making inspiring impression are two different sides of a single game. As long as you are one of the spectators of the game, you understand the victory as a win and loss as a defeat. Once you start playing the game, you will actually understand how to read the win-loss statement and their practical definitions. Power lies in a victory. But 'making impressions' could lie in a win as well as in a loss.  

Movie: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is an inspirational biopic, produced and directed by one of the bollywood's finest directors, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Prasoon Joshi's carefully written script does take the story and the emotions deep into you. 

Milkha Singh, India's most successful athlete in the track and field events, needs no introduction. An Olympian he is, a proud one indeed. Being the best Indian runner among his contemporaries, he has been inspiring the generations in choosing their run. His achievements and glory are truly out of hard work and commitment. For any champion, its important that he or she must set targets. In the history, the targets have defined the champions. The target that Milkha Singh had set for himself was to break the world record in 400 m run, who later successfully changed it down. Changing records isn't that easy and if there is any doubt about it in any corner of anyone's mind, the way this film depicts Milkha Singh's punishing workout and practice, waves off the same. 

For all of us as an audience his runs, records, wins and glory are important things to look at. Not just that, they give us enough inspiration to strive for the best in the work we do, whatever the field it may be. But for the director, and if I'm not wrong, for Mr. Milkha Singh himself, running the movie around his 1960 Olympics loss was important. For director it's for keeping his audience to their seats and for Milkha Singh, it's to let the world know him, his past and his pain from his personal life. All in all, it was a good move and brave attempt by the director. 

For the stereo types of Indian cinema to get through the audience, either you must show the hero's win at the end if it's a fiction. And if at all you want to show the hero's defeat, you must dare to do an according biopic or at least you must attach a tag saying that the film is based on real incidents. Unless you do that you are not accepted to show a hero's defeat. This movie revolves around the hero's biggest losses of his career, perhaps of his life. I really hope the reason for the defeat shown was not a typical cinema stunt. Well, none of us know it. Better believe that it was not fake. 

After watching the movie I thought the movie wandered around his Olympic defeat leaving out all of his greatest achievements. But later, once it got sink in, I realized the importance of looking at the movie with winner's eyes. It depicts the making of a champion, an all time great runner of India. 

If a movie can bring stardom to an artist, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is one such movie for Farhan Akhtar. If he was not considered in star's list earlier to this film, it was the last time to happen. What a man! What an artist he is! and what a runner as well. Farhan has done an unexpectedly great job as Milkha Singh. You can easily understand his efforts that he put in to make himself appearing as India's finest athlete ever lived. He did not act as a runner, he actually ran. And the best part is that you can actually sense it. 

I'm damn sure, Farhan Akhtar will be one of the best competitors for all award races this year. I hope he will win plenty. Well done Farhan and all the best. Also, I will support Divya Dutta for a best performance in a supporting actress' role.

Being a basic follower of sports, I'd been dying to watch this biopic. After watching it, my desire to watch many of such biopics of sports men and women is increased. As the next one is already on the sets, i.e. the movie based on Marry Kom's life, my best wishes are with the team of the film and Priyanka Chopra, a versatile actress among her contemporaries, who is playing the leading lady role.

Hope India cinema will continue to honor our legends through many more biopics. 

Those moments, in rain!

Remembering those moments,

With you under the rain shower,

Forgetting the pain, and every else,

Making it a touch wood, for life.

As the droplets run down,

Hearts warm up from within.

As the world escapes slowly,

Just you and I remain, closely.

Every step we made,

In need of oneness,

In search of happiness,

Resulted in the togetherness.

Beautiful ever those times are.

Memorable ever those moments are,

Times and moments of being with you,

You make my time, you make me.

A daily dose of exercise!

This is to spread the word a doctor had told me couple of years back!

"If you do not spare at least half an hour in a day for yourself for exercising, you are not living for yourself at all"

Exercise is the most important routine we must have in our day to day life. By saying that I do want to confess that even I hide behind plenty of reasons, laziness tops the list though, to skip the daily exercise. Feeling like not doing it, skipping it thinking of the pain here and there and no one knows if its really pain, thinking that the day has gone with physical exercise at work etc are some of my famous reasons for not exercising. Knowing all these does not change the motive. But understanding the importance of exercising can do so. If not anything else, when I used to exercise regularly, it used to open two doors for me: one, I could eat more what I like. And two, I used feel confident that I would be less prone to illness. 

It's been almost a year that I stopped doing this daily routine at home. Well, i must confess. This one year has been the tough time of my work life and personal life during which I needed the exercise the most! I can't get back the days. But I can certainly change the time to come. I've decided to give it a shot every day. Let me see how much I'd succeed in keeping it up.

Keeping my routine apart, it's important for everyone. starting from earlier ages to the old ages, one shall have some physical form of exercise which he or she shall do religiously. More than that, spending time to oneself gives immense interest in one's own life. This is applicable for women the most. Who, by nature and by the kind of routine they carry, are bound to do work for their family. Studies say that keeping time for oneself always creates a kind of satisfaction that helps in supporting others/family in a better way. I fully agree to that and I experienced the same as well. It's utmost important that we from internally feel that we live for ourselves too. That's the motive. That's the work force. That's the tonic for anyone to be energetic and complacent in what they do.

Friends, do exercise. And also along with that, spend time to do the things for yourself, doing which you feel like you have given importance to yourself at least for sometime. This will help in efficiently spending time for our own people too. 

Tough times make you tougher... Take Home #242

Tough times make you tougher. Thank them and also thank the people who knowingly or unknowingly create them for you. Just hang on and keep up your spirit to crack the difficult times. Confidence will build up as well as the dealing capability. 

Happiness ever after...

Relationships are not just made of people. They are made of sacrifices and adjustments too. Never try to prove to your partner all that you have been doing for him or her until and unless, by your heart, you feel that you cannot hold it any more and helpless. You may not be aware of what he or she must have been doing for you.

In case one bursts out, the other shall hold back for the moment to let the wall fall completely such that the relationship builds itself back . All it needs is knowing each other. And later comes the forgiving, adjustment and happiness ever after.

Success-mantra... Take Home #241

You never know how long you can be part of any game. But as long as you are and you can, try to ensure that the game is played fair. 

This might not be a winning-mantra always but this is a success-mantra. 

Its the matter of understanding...!

Understanding things half-way is more dangerous than not understanding the things.

But, neither does that mean that one should not try to understand nor that not understanding things is incorrect. Most of the times, we shall go by the conscience, as we all can stuck mid way through our wish to understand the things completely because of many reasons. All one can or shall do is to be more conscious in our try and hold it tight forgetting the fatigue until we can. Humanly impossible it could be, sometimes. But every time, humans can forgive each other, help each other and move forward towards success together.

Mr. Modi, all the best

After a long time, I feel like I've been thinking about Indian politics these days again. Also, I feel like wishing a politician for his or his team's success. I'm not wary of the statistics. But somewhere from the corner of my mind and heart, I feel like supporting a political party for their PM candidate. As the rupee value is going down and down every hour, we, Indians certainly  need a PM who is not just a brainy, but also a gutsy and charming. Being a citizen and as an amateur writer of politics, I frankly do not know what else must be written on this topic here. I just wish Mr. Narendra Modi and his team a hearty all the best. Looking forward for his charm to work out at India level as well. I'm at the moment surely not taking any side. But just wish and hope that he and his ideas work out. Well, new faces are always welcomed. Hope he does utilize it. 

Do not fear... Take Home #240

Though we need not fear in life for anything, being humans we all succumb to fear at times. Remember, where you can achieve something by not fearing, do not fear. At least, resist the fear and enjoy the fruits.

Learn and Grow... Take Home #239

Two things we strive for in life are learning and growing. The later has limits and the former has no limits. Whereas both are important, at different point of times one of them shall be taken on priority. 

Shattered lives with hopes alive! Thanks to The Indian Army

Uttarakhand disaster, known as the Himalayan Tsunami, has struck many lives in shock. Not just across the nation, across the world this disaster has hit the emotions, believes and hopes of billions, especially of Indians. The famous 'Chaar dham' has now become a place where you have to search for the bodies in mud. Government resources say it will take at least two years to resume it back. But those who have been staying there say that it might take even longer. Hope government proves its statement right this time. 

Rescue operations have been consistent despite the incessant rains and halts in between. The Indian Army has once again proved its existence for the people. Salute and tribute to all those twenty soldiers who have died in the chopper crash during the rescue operation. It's been a tricky job for all the pilots as they say, due to the weather conditions. But they are all well trained and that always helps. The relentless rescue operation has been applauded by the whole nation. A very well deserving one too by the Army and Air Force.  

Its been two weeks that everyday's news paper comes with some or the other head line on the Uttarakhand situation. Final death toll has not been declared officially yet as the area is yet to be cleaned up. Down from the mud, one may find number of bodies. Hope not but we may have to face this truth. Families have been lost, homes have been destroyed and now the real challenge is to bring back life and living to the residents of Uttarakhand. However long it might take, they all are backed up by the whole nation. 

Whatever happens, happens for a reason. And politicians find every reason to get through such situations and go for mud throwing. Some of them have flown home some of the victims along with. Good reason for good cause, however. Well, some disasters are natural, some distastes are man made, and some of them are people made in the democracy. Nonetheless, mankind has a way to recover from every disaster. 

My heart goes for the localities there. Nation steps forward for help. I wish a speedy recovery for those who have lost everything out there and also for those who have witnessed all this and eventually lost the mental peace. Hope all this sets soon.

Approach one's own self... Take Home #238

Building the self-confidence is one's own task. That shall start with trying out the things and end with task accomplishment and learning, using which one can make up the mistakes next time. In between, all one need to do is to approach right people for direction/suggestions, and at times to approach one's own self to find the answers within. 

Your own arrow against yourself... Take Home #237

When you are aware that your biggest strength is your biggest weakness as well, be careful in spelling out about your strength, especially to your rivals/competitors. Ensure either you improve on your weakness or on being diplomatic in conveying your strength. Otherwise, it means that you are targeting your own arrow against yourself.

All the best, Team India!

Amidst all the speculations on every movement of the players, especially bowlers, on the field, I'm here watching or rather following another prestigious cup race of the ICC, The ICC Champions' trophy. Nothing less than a greater disturbance has occurred to the Team India, days before the tournament, and they are straightaway in the finale. They have set everything very right to reach out to the English players on their own soil. 

It's been long time we have seen India playing like a champion on the foreign soil as if they are right at home on home soil. The credit must be given to the aspirations of young hearts who have been thriving to prove themselves on the international stage. Some of them are the come back kings where as some others are first time right types. This is a balanced side as we see them. However, there is always a scope for any damn thing to happen in the game. They have to play their best in the middle. Only that can give them the title. Hope they will play their best. 

All the best to Team India. England is the best opponent and a fighter team. Indian players have to show their nerves. I hope and wish they do so.

Especially for my blogger friends...

Hello blogger friends, 

It's been quite a long time that I've visited your wonderful blogs and shared my opinions with you on your posts. With time, a lot changes. So as my occupancy. There had been a time when I used to reply to your posts/comments within minutes, and sometimes within seconds even. There had been a time when I used to update my blog one every other day. Well, those were some of the most memorable days when my blogging was on full flow and we were all in regular touch. I truly enjoyed that phase. Hope you guys are in perfect moods of your own writing and blogging. I'd like to get in touch with you once again. But I'm not sure weather I can do that right away. However, I'm enjoying these moments of remembering all of you once again. You have been the greatest source of my inspiration when I was in very much need of the same. Keep up your good work.

See you,

Prams

Life might be difficult but living it is easy... Take Home #236

People do say a lot. Do what you think is right and continue to believe it. Introspect at regular intervals. Correct yourself when you think that's needed. That's all. Life might be difficult but living it is easy.

Believe in TIME... Take Home #235

It's not always about being the front face, at times impacting the major decisions from back stage sets the stage for you which you deserve. Just hang on and keep up the motivation. Sometimes, you just have to believe in TIME and of course in your own capability.

True to yourself... Take Home #234

You cannot control when and how others develop opinions of you. All you can do is to be right and true to yourself.

MI's win and Sachin's last IPL...!

It's been a long wait to see Mumbai Indians lift the Indian Premier League trophy. Since the very beginning, this team has been one of my favorites not just for the title win but also for the streak of players it consists. It strengthens the franchisee when it has the senior supporting staff and more importantly and equally backing management. Mrs. Neeta Ambani has been one of the active visitors to her team's outings in the field. Not just with her smile, with her juncture as well she has made a definite place for herself in the team. For me, personally, she is a role model franchisee owner.

When you are a fan of Sachin Tendulkar, you cannot stop yourself for long time from saying that you have supported MI as he being one of the biggest reasons. In any team game, any player is too lesser to the team. Well, fortunately, when it comes to Sachin, he himself broke many generalizations, and that gives every chance for us to follow him.

As I missed Mrs. Ambani while watching the MI celebrations at the Eden Gardens on the night of the IPL final, the 'thank you' message in today's TOI has pleasingly surprised me! I wish BCCI or Team India adopts this for their major wins and for the ever lasting support of cricket's and Team India's fans.

Sachin's announcement saying that he has played his last IPL this time has surprised me. Not in the sense that he should not have done that. But, I remember him not quitting cricket after India won the world cup two years back when everyone was anticipating him to do so. If I remember it correctly, he mentioned that it is your selfishness to retire when you are in good form or after your team wins a major tournament. Now, as MI wins the IPL season-6, I'm not sure if it is not being considered as a major tournament or if the form of him is not satisfyingly good. I believe the reason to be the later than to the former. With that, his retirement from all forms of cricket might just be around the corner! If so, India must be ready to farewell its best ever cricketer.

Congratulations MI... :)