The fine curving in the City Palace's main durbaar
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Nightout
Its worth realising the fact that silence can be deafning,and i did realise it tonight.Indeed we are so very much accustomed to noise these days that silence is one abstract phenomenon for most of us.Today i had loads of work,and i had to stay back in the office at night,not that they were urgent but somewhere my pride and self belief was at stake.Not that i had to proove it to anyone,but i needed to proove to myself that i can and thus landed up spending the whole night in my office.
Initially i had loads of work but slowly when i completed most of these tasks i was left alone to wander through the dark passages of my office floor.In the day it is buzzing with enthusiastic crowds of people trying to work their ways though the amazingly complex lines of codes,but at night silence and peace prevailed here.
The whole of the building is silent.Even the A/C have been switched off ..so i guess its pin drop silence.As my office is far from the main city so there is not many high rise buildings here,so my office stands like a ghost in the vast darkness of neverland.As i look out now i can see a faint glow of crimson in the eastern sky,reminding me that another day will begin soon.Another day when all of us will follow the routine to office and back home.But today its different for me.I am where i usually not everday.
Its the first time i had spent a night working in my office.Usually i work late from home as i have the facility to do so.But really laying in the comfort of my bed never make my ideas flow.The comfort becomes a sort of curse in disguise for me.But today its different.I was just working from the same place where i have spent the last 19 hours and will probably spend another 13 hours.The best thing that happened was that my mobile fone had gone out of use today.So i am absolutely cut off from the world.The net result was that i had created a wonderful system that will be a handshake between the old legacy system to the new age SAP system.It feels good when i look back to the result that have been produced over the night.I feel good and happy.
Rightnow i was feeling just a bit worn out...may be thinking for long has made me lighheaded temporarily...But YANNI revived me.I had a whole collection of YANNI in my TP and just as i started listening to it in the lonesome darkness of the cubicles i was taken to a world of symphony..where expressions and speech and emotions are made by a combination of Do,Re,Mi,Fa,So,La,Ti. Amazing music,sheer brilliance.
This was one moment i would have liked to capture with me for a long time.A moment where the wonderful music is making a spectrum in the background ,where a faint light of the moring sun is peeking from the eastern horizon,where the silence and the darness is giving me company.But like all good things this will end soon..and the maddening chaos will begin.But i guess i am ready to take that on too now!!
Initially i had loads of work but slowly when i completed most of these tasks i was left alone to wander through the dark passages of my office floor.In the day it is buzzing with enthusiastic crowds of people trying to work their ways though the amazingly complex lines of codes,but at night silence and peace prevailed here.
The whole of the building is silent.Even the A/C have been switched off ..so i guess its pin drop silence.As my office is far from the main city so there is not many high rise buildings here,so my office stands like a ghost in the vast darkness of neverland.As i look out now i can see a faint glow of crimson in the eastern sky,reminding me that another day will begin soon.Another day when all of us will follow the routine to office and back home.But today its different for me.I am where i usually not everday.
Its the first time i had spent a night working in my office.Usually i work late from home as i have the facility to do so.But really laying in the comfort of my bed never make my ideas flow.The comfort becomes a sort of curse in disguise for me.But today its different.I was just working from the same place where i have spent the last 19 hours and will probably spend another 13 hours.The best thing that happened was that my mobile fone had gone out of use today.So i am absolutely cut off from the world.The net result was that i had created a wonderful system that will be a handshake between the old legacy system to the new age SAP system.It feels good when i look back to the result that have been produced over the night.I feel good and happy.
Rightnow i was feeling just a bit worn out...may be thinking for long has made me lighheaded temporarily...But YANNI revived me.I had a whole collection of YANNI in my TP and just as i started listening to it in the lonesome darkness of the cubicles i was taken to a world of symphony..where expressions and speech and emotions are made by a combination of Do,Re,Mi,Fa,So,La,Ti. Amazing music,sheer brilliance.
This was one moment i would have liked to capture with me for a long time.A moment where the wonderful music is making a spectrum in the background ,where a faint light of the moring sun is peeking from the eastern horizon,where the silence and the darness is giving me company.But like all good things this will end soon..and the maddening chaos will begin.But i guess i am ready to take that on too now!!
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Bachelor Party.
Myself and Subir had been pestering Anand for a long time now to arrange his bachelor party.He will soon get married(The first in our circle of friends) and so we wanted to celebrate the last few days of his bachelor degree. But as cost-cutting is the 'Buzz'word of the day.I guess this party is a far fetched dream.Anyway i still hope we will comeup with something.
Yesterday i saw a movie 'Bachelor Party'.After seeing it i realised what fun we will miss if Anand doesnot throw one! Anyway let me talk on the movie rather than the event.Well it was one of Tom Hanks old movies,but its kinda good one for timepass.The comedy is on the borders of being slapstick.Tom Hanks who plays Rick Gassko actually turns out to be the guy with lots of character unlike he was portrayed initially.The plot and characters are all very loosely bound but as i said its a good timepass if you have nothing else to do.
But the trickiest part of this movie was that if one looks around one can almost instantly relate the characters to those around oneself.I did find many similiarities of the characters that i saw to those around me but lets not go into details of it.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Things that matters..from now on!
I feel some times one must take sometime away from his life,look up and see the life around. The past two months have been a revelation for me. Revelation so astounding that I have been amazed by what life has shown me. I have come across different people and have learnt about life. But the best part of the past two months have been the different places I have been to Aarhus, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Delhi, Gurgaon, Jaipur.
When I look back to the life in Denmark I find amazing how a little bit of discipline, mutual respect for one another and for life as a whole can dramatically uplift the whole life standard of a country. Statistically Denmark is the most happy and rich country of Europe. Well no wonder the people are happy over there, because they have something called ‘Life’. They know how to balance work and life. They have made work a part of their life but not the whole of it. It’s amazing to see how successfully they balance the work and life. They would come to office early in the morning and do a perfect eight hour job and then go back to their families. They would enjoy vacations atleast once in a year. The simplicity of the people and the zeal to enjoy life is the thing that makes them so different. Their culture is open yet so rich and civilized.
When I come back here I find that work is the driving force in our life. No matter what we do or say we do, its work that is eating away the largest part of our lives. When I look around I see people who work and talks about work, during breaks the only topic discussed is work. No one has time and everyone is busy. No one is sure why they are busy. And many people are happy being busy. It’s a paranoidal chaos everywhere and I am proudly a part of this.
Picking up the lessons that i have learnt from Denmark I have decided to look to the finer aspects of life from now on. Its easy to say I want to do it….but I guess its worth giving it a try.
When I look back to the life in Denmark I find amazing how a little bit of discipline, mutual respect for one another and for life as a whole can dramatically uplift the whole life standard of a country. Statistically Denmark is the most happy and rich country of Europe. Well no wonder the people are happy over there, because they have something called ‘Life’. They know how to balance work and life. They have made work a part of their life but not the whole of it. It’s amazing to see how successfully they balance the work and life. They would come to office early in the morning and do a perfect eight hour job and then go back to their families. They would enjoy vacations atleast once in a year. The simplicity of the people and the zeal to enjoy life is the thing that makes them so different. Their culture is open yet so rich and civilized.
When I come back here I find that work is the driving force in our life. No matter what we do or say we do, its work that is eating away the largest part of our lives. When I look around I see people who work and talks about work, during breaks the only topic discussed is work. No one has time and everyone is busy. No one is sure why they are busy. And many people are happy being busy. It’s a paranoidal chaos everywhere and I am proudly a part of this.
Picking up the lessons that i have learnt from Denmark I have decided to look to the finer aspects of life from now on. Its easy to say I want to do it….but I guess its worth giving it a try.
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