पापा, ये जूता बहुत काटता है

पापा, ये जूता बहुत काटता है
सुबह शाम, सोते जागते, हर समय
ये जूता बहुत काटता है ।

जाने कब, कंहा ये जूता मैंने पहना था,
चाह कर भी उतार नहीं पाता हूँ,
पापा, ये जूता बहुत काटता है ।

मुझसे कहा था, "तू बड़ा है ।", इसलिए पहनना होगा ये जूता,
मोज़ो पर मोज़े चढ़ाये मैंने, पर फिर भी,
पापा ये जूता बहुत काटता है ।

to be continued....

Salt n Pepper

It's always been salt n pepper...do not know what took me so long to realize it again....anyhow now since it's been sorted once more...life is here to ride... :)

a new day...with the revelations of course...

Salt n Pepper...45 days....21 days to pour the habit...21 days to bounce... and 3 days to rake it all...

remember ...it Salt n Pepper always...

तो कुछ अपना लिखना

जब मिले न कुछ, पढ़ने के क़ाबिल,
तो कुछ अपना लिखना,

जब मिले न वास्तव में, कोई पास अपना,
तो कोई सपना लिखना,

न दैन्यं न पलायनम, कह कर भी मन न माने
तो कृष्ण की सुनना,

जब सूझे न हाथ को हाथ, अंतर्मन को कर शांत, 

पुकारना एक बार, कृष्ण दिखेगा तुझे, अपने आस पास,

जब मिले न कुछ, पढ़ने के क़ाबिल,
तो कुछ अपना लिखना ||

कृष्ण कहता है

कृष्ण कहता है - मोह न कर
पर जब तू इठलाता है, पालने में
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है ।

कृष्ण कहता है - संसार मिथ्या है
पर जब तू चलता है, थामे ऊँगली मेरी,
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है ।

कृष्ण कहता है - योगक्षेमं वहाम्यम्
पर जब मैं पहुचता हूँ, घर थक कर,
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है

कृष्ण कहता है - निष्काम कर्म कर
पर जब देखता हूँ, महीने में खाली जेब
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है।

कृष्ण कहता है - भविष्य की फ़िक्र न कर, 
पर जब पाता हूँ तुझे देर रात में भी पढ़ते हुए 
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है।

कृष्ण कहता है - शांतचित्त से समर्पण कर 
पर जब पहुचता हूँ मैं, हाथ जोड़ कर,
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा चला जाता है ।

कृष्ण कहता था - साथ रहेगा वो सदा 
अब जब भी चाहता हूँ मैं, भाग निकलना,
न जाने तब कृष्ण कँहा से चला आता है।

कृष्ण कहता था - तू मुझमे आ मिलेगा
आज मैं आ गया हूँ बैकुण्ठ के द्वार पर
वो देखो कृष्ण आ रहा है। वो देखो कृष्ण आ रहा है।

।।इति श्री।।

घड़ी-साज़ - Horologist

I met him yesterday evening. He was sitting at his humble makeshift counter shop at the sector market. While I was waiting at his counter, to get battery changed for my wrist-watch, my mind started to notice, the calm, the smoothness with which he was dealing with customers.

He must be around 50, his voice and his composure is the written proof. He fixed the chain length for a boy, boy ask,"Uncle, kitney paise hue ? (How much to pay ?)", he responded with same depth, in which he told me to wait, "dus rupuye beta (Rs 10/- only son)"..After which he took my watch, took out clippers to open the dial at the back, 1st try, didn't budge, 2nd trial...no success....then he took out other set of tools...tried again...no luck...'hmmmm...he said'....

3 failed attempts, in front of customer...I started to think...how will he face me now...his job is to open...and with failures !!! at this age...what's he gonna say...?

Well...he said, "beta lagta hai ye jaam ho gaya hai, isko kal din mein dekhte hain, thoda oiling karni padegi..abhi raat bhi ho gayi hai...kal din mein le aana...mujhko bhi saaf dikhega"...(Son, it seems, the join is bit rusty, bring it tomorrow during the day, I will oil the join a bit and then it should budge...no worries, I will fix it for sure tomorrow...during the day I can see much clearly".

I listened, I listen the calmness and sooth in the tone, the clarity in the voice and the belief in tomorrow. 

I saw him getting small money for fixing time for others.There he is smiling for each coin...and here I am still finding happiness in the ...what the heck !!!...

There he is sitting in hot weather of NCR, in front of pavements with his wooden makeshift counter, with a small wardrobe...with calm face...belief in tomorrow...and hope in eyes at the age of 50...and here I am standing...all worried...for thousands of lame expectations of family, friends, colleagues, superior...lord and myself...

There he is sitting calmly on his wooden broken chair managed by brick on one side, smile on his face...deep wrinkles around his eyes...and here am I thinking about how to and what to and when to...always in hurry...always thinking...2 steps ahead...where is pleasure...when will I be delighted...

what the heck...the thought machine kick me to my sense...no more...thoughts...no more worries...kick the stress...breathe ...respire...inhale....that's life...

from now on...

I will Inhale....I will Inhale deep....respire...breathe and will live long...that's what I am destined for....Live Long..enjoy and be happy !!!

Kyun

जब से कॉल रेट हुए सस्ते, शब्द न जाना क्यूँ हो गए महेंगे

What have you saved today ?

So dear, what have you save today ?

Your Boss's Ass or Your Ass's Boss :) in short...your B's A or your A's B.

......

Is it all lies ?

I asked lord - "If this world is not real, then Is it all lies ?"

HE smiled and said,"Well, my son, not the part that matters"

It's Written...or It's Free Will

होईं वही जो राम रचि राखा ....
वही होता है जो मंजूरे खुदा होता है

Both of the sayings above translates to same thing ....
It's written...somewhere...by somebody...it can be your Raam, or your Khuda...whomsoever it is ...He has alrready written it....

then why do we all fight with it all the time...why do not we accept whatever comes to us...or Do we try to prove anything...by not accepting it... ???

What is it that keeps me rolling...or u rolling ahead...or take back...the steps already moved...??
Do you know...? or Do I know...? I feel...I know some of it....
It's the "Free Will"....While writing our destiny...He himself granted the free will...It's the same free will, that makes us to makes choices....everytime...all the time...that is why we agree to disagree with what is already written..try to prove otherwise and most times...though we might not be making any difference to the result ...but what we do really is that we change the perception...we make it feel to us that...this has happened coz we did made that choice...

It is you, yourself and your own ego that decides the Success or Failure....

Both the above thoughts arrive in words from the movies
1. Slumdog Millionaire - It's written...
2. LuckByChance - We conclude Success or Failure... Success or Failure हम तय करते हैं। We decide Success or Failure...

Egg-Jacktly

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good, is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

One of the biggest problems of the world is that the stupid ones are damn sure and the intelligent ones are full of doubts!

Re-iterating the logics

Folks,

Again trying to commit to my soul...

1. If you want something to done correct. Do it yourself. - Here the constraint is that if you donot have enough bandwidth to do it all or the task is so huge that you need to distribute the responsibilites then, here is what comes from James bond's movie

• Always have an escape - which means always have a plan B which should be executed if after 33% execution of task or the 33% of time spent over on plan A whichever is earlier, you visualise that Plan A shall fail. - I normally execute plan B after 27% and force plan C just after 22 % of Plan B just to mitigate the risks. The problem with this is that I spend too much energy in finding the parallel/backup/shadow resources to achieve :)
  
  2. Live in Realisation and keep dreams for others to roam in.
  
  Rest Later...

Stop asking questions

Well, as everybody knows that hirdu is known for his one liners...here is something which is coined today ;)

Stop asking questions, they shall ruin your own thinking process. - Hows and whys...well do not ask me...think a bit and thy shall yourself know it....

The suo motto of this thought is to encourage self thought & decision making process, Asking questions and than seeking answers from somebody else, ruins the your own thought process and ability to effectively deduce the deductions which in turn limits your own imagination to analyse.

Learn it by Heart

I know these already, but sometimes, since I misplace trust some of the times, I need to remind these again and again to myself.

1. If you want to keep secret, keep it to yourself.
2. If you shall feel pain in sharing something, never ever show or talk about it to anyone, with whom you do not want to share it.
3. Whatever personal info thy shall share with any of colleague or friend or anybody, He or She is bound make professional use of it.

Need to Follow these more strictlyand then only I believe I shall be bit more happy.

There is only the ocean, the sky, and the figure of Howard Roark

Next Post shall be on this statement...The Last line in the "The Fountainhead". From Last 3 Years this is the signature in all my emails.

Along with it...there is another line that goes in my signature which is as follows...shall write sth onto that too...

They judge me before they even know me - Shrek

What if there is no ME ?

It's around 1 AM in the middle of the night and as the night is darkening more, the tussle between the morning and night to engulf each other is sharpening, I am having no clue to answer this thought.

"What if there is no ME?"

Will it make any difference to anybody ? Even if does make, then till when and how much ? Am I dispensible. ?

Does it matter to my manager, my HR or any professional aquaintance ? - Well for them I am just a resource. Inventory or if I be true then just raw material. They identify me, by my skillset. Fairly Dispensible...

How about Friends ? - Well, though not many now qualify for that list...but still... not much even to them...they might start or end their talks with "Hirdu was honorable man....blah blah blah"...just few words and finished...or even this shall be too much to expect...

Relatives ? - Nobody cares Actually... huh ? do they...

How about fellow bloggers ? - Well I am just a page for them...some know me by my senti posts...some have chatted with me...they might post on there blogs on me "Missing in Action"....Some might do google or try to find me on orkut and than slowly & slowly I shall only be referred in cached pages...

How about my immediate family ? - Well they shall be sad for sometime...might even break ...but time is a great healer...

So who shall be effected the most...? As I am delving deep into it...Answer is very clear...crystal clear....Me, Myself and my Lord. ...Why ? Well since I cease to exist in real as per vision of mortal world, my thought process shall be no more. This shall in turn diminish the amount the Free-will granted to humans by the Lord Himself. The tasks assigned to be completed by me in HIS domain shall remain unfinished and thus the reliability of HIM shall cease to exist.

So what I learn from here. - The learning is very clear. The life and liveliness associated with me is important and valid in my and my Lord's domain only and that is somehow true for everybody else also...

Thus live life coz that's your's forever...and as I always say..."Though it might not matter if I am not there, But We all know that it always matters when I am there"

Sight of beauty is joy forever

As I was thinking about this post, I was wondering if I have written about it before...I believe when I started writing the blog I wrote of joys of sighting beauty....

So after almost 2 years of writing the blog...lets again revisit the same with difference

So How do we identify the beauty....Before we start onto it, lemme make it very clear that this post is not about architectural beauty or sth...It's damn raw and tries to enjoy the subtle beauty of female gender in human beings :) so guys and gals we are talking only and only about gals....

Yes, so where we find gals...beautiful gals, gorgeous ones...the ones for whom you not only turn your head...you might even take a complete U circle on the road to just have an another glance.

So we see them everyday...They are very much there, spending hours and hours preparing themselves, polishing their personalities for us to cast a second glance over them, to check them out :)...You find them everyday as you cross the reception of you office, you pass through the HR aisle in office, go out for a breath of fresh air (read "to smoke") and you see a shift change in the Call centre next to your building, you find them when you are boarding the flight, on the airport, when you have a sip at CCD (Cafe Coffee Day) or Barista, you see them checking you out and just tapping their hairs here and there when you pass them in malls :), every nook and corner they are there, just for the sake of appreciation.

So what to do then..."Arrey...jaker bolney ki Mamu kya bindaas lag reli ho..." Abey aisey ke aisey he nahin bol dene ka...thoda politely bolney :) angrezi mein....

Here are my own personal favorites to break the ice with stranger gals anywhere...I am classifying them on the basis of scenario, and they are damn simple...I still wonder why and how they work :)...anyhow Since last few years I have felt, that there is almost no situation when you cannot strike a chat with a gal...and carry it forward :) it's just the matter of being there...Along with that I have also felt that the gals also desire to engage in talks...they enjoy the thrill of it but somehow they are either afraid to begin with or just dumb to start ;)

So here it comes....These liners do not wait for any ocassions to arrive... :) life is too short and happening to wait for anything...

1. In big Offices : Most simple
   1. "Hi there, Do you have any idea where Miss Riya sits" ( Make sure you pronounce sit not shit :) - As soon as you are told, pop another question, "Would you mind guiding me there :)?" and lo and behold, she will start walking with you :)...umpteen gals have fallen for this...It's Most popular in Infy, but there guys subsitute Miss Riya with Building numbers...It doesnot matter if the gal is new or you are ...you just have to let your voice flow through her nerves :)
2. In small Offices : Again more simple: (here everybody know everybody) ... A bit of tactic.
   1. In case you are of the type who wait for occasions : then occasions are immense...
      1. As soon as you see her going towards the lonely coffee machine...you too rise and meet her at coffee machine...there in there are millions of things you can say, you can use the common ones stated later or few specific...like .."It's been a long time since it rained in here (as if it rains and the roof shall start leaking - donot work in that typer of company)..."O Lord!! It rains too much in this city...Does this rains in whole city all the time or it happens in batches, what do ya say"
      2. In small offices the best part is that you never need a ocassion to begin the talk..coz there are very few options available, so it doesn't matter if she is new or you are a new joinee or even if both were there from quite some time and never had talk...just walk straight to her cube and begin..."Hi there, I believe we haven't been introduced...So Preeti, how is it going ?" :) knowing the name helps ...it really...helps ...
3. In all the office the top most is "Did you worked for HP ?" Yes no whatever...who cares...even if you yrself never did ;) start it from here now...
4. In CCD or Barista
   1. In case She is smoking - Never take out your lighter... - Go and ask it from her...and If She is alone and you too are then join her...tell her..it's not gud for the nature to smoke alone :)
   2. In case She is not smoking - Now it's a bit tricky

To be Continued....

Tum marogey to yahan Meri Bahaon mein

Tum marogey to yahan Meri Bahaon mein...Superb Dialogue in Anand...It really needs a lot of courage to be able to say it....

Yes folks ....Watched it again on newly bought LCD TV ...Thoda costly pad gaya yaaro....But shayad life mein ab cost effective rehna ...jayada profitable nahin raha...

anyhow more about this later....the only thing I wanna say right now ...

"Jeena seekh lo"...."Go Get a life"

Life is too precious to be spent in daily chores....Invest in Life ...

I don't know what a pear tastes like to you

Another simple dialogue in "City of Angels". Isn't it a amazing to understand this?

I know what a pear tastes to me, but how shall I know, how a pear tastes to you.

Some might not care if it is of any importance to know what something feels like to somebody else who is as human as they are.

But dear I tell you it really makes huge difference, if you can just feel a bit, know a little bit more of it.

It shall create the difference forever.

so folks, next time when you are out with somebody at the beach in the night, just ask how the waves feel like when they roll over, how the breeze smoothens the heart, how the stars twinkle the eyes, how the sense of togetherness smells like...Just a bit...more and then thy shall never forget the differnce in the night forever.

And then thy shall Hear the Music in Sunrise.

Stand a while with someone and even if alone stand a while in rain, the fragrance with each drop falling on your head shall make the difference forever and before you could imagine, the angels around you shall make you dance with love, joy and delight shall be thy neighbour.

anyhow ...another movie to watch is A walk in the clouds...watch it and thy shall feel the difference forever.

Tommorow shall be another new day...the day shall begin as usual and I shall be going to watch "Basic Instincts 2 and Darna Zaroori hai" back to back.

Another post shall be needed to ....you know what I wanna say...

!! You take charge of your team coz you never had a leader in your own life. !!

This is a simple dialogue in "Mindhunters" but ultimate deep one.
How many of us realise it? We all are always in search of mentor and then one day we realise that there is no one around and ppl are looking up to you to be mentored...and then suddenly you become the ONE ...you become the ONE LEADER for all times to come.

For some this comes like a gift and for some it becomes a curse...
The sheer pressure of being a leader kills them day by day and then one day they wanna to sit back in corner...they wanna move in solitude and rest a while...but the curse of being a leader brings them back again to the foray and then they lead on...

The anxiety to perform each time, the expection to make that long awaited change, slowly and slowly poisons the natural flow of being alive and finally they themselves unknowingly transform into that Old Baniyan Tree, around which people come, rest for a while, sometimes appreciate the vastness but can never feel or even have glance of the pain of being alone; standing in solitude ...

Unable to move, they respire the very breath of greatness spun around them and thus day by day loose upon the phenomenon of being Alive.