ना मोहब्बत ना दोस्ती केलिये
वकत्त रुक्ता नही किसी केलिये

दिल को अप्ना सज़ा न दे युऩ ही
इस ज़माने की बेरुखी केलिये

कल़ जवानी का क्या हशर क्या होगा
सोच ले आज दो घडी केलिये

हर कोइ प्यार डुण्ड्ता है यहा
अप्नी तन्हा सी ज़िन्दगी केलिये

वकत्त के साथ साथ चल्ता रहे
यही बहत्तर है आदमी केलिये

ना मोहब्बत ना दोस्ती केलिये
वकत्त रुक्ता नही किसी केलिये

- Jagjit Singh

(Its difficult to type it right in Hindi. So for any purists,take a hike!)
Update:I also realized that depending on what Unicode font is installed, the font may show some mistakes….

Yesterday was one of those great days when the day was dedicated to friends…from 6 till 11 i was almost just talking to friends on the phone or meeting them up…was a great feeling to think that so many ppl are thinking of you…

The first was an hr long call with a friend in Hyd and we talked about so many things…some personal experiences shared…the next with a batchmate from Chennai who had just come down from the US, more or less cribbed abt work…then met up a group of college friends for dinner with lots of goofy talk…then talked with another good friend from work who has been having a bad time the past few days with some pep talk….

Friends are what makes the world a much better place….Today when we are all working so hard, it is so refreshing to have people to talk to…the only people who do not keep expectations of this is how it should be….the friends that we cherish…may the breed increase….
Amen…

How many people do we actually message regularly from our messenger contacts? I presume not too many. At least that’s the case with me and I think most people would probably be the same…

You start adding people in messenger and the contact list keeps growing. You chat with some, then lose contact and then for a long time, you dont talk to the person….

Then you one day notice the popup saying ‘xxxx is online’. That’s when you suddenly realize that you have completely lost touch with him/her. There is a small pang of guilt in your mind…you could have put in a little more effort to keep in touch….

The other person is realizing the same when you log in…but both still dont make that simple effort to just send a hello…both are too busy in their own lives and tell themselves that they will find some time soon….

But the fact is there is never a good time…that’s why I have great respect for those few individuals who make that simple gesture to say the hi and renew the relation just for the heck of it….

And in that note, there are quite a number of ppl who diminish the value of this by calling it ‘networking’. I personally think it is one of the most decadent of words…or possibly I have started disliking it since the usage in IIMB…

Technology may change and you may have all the Skypes but then nothing can replace the basic requirement - a will to cherish the relationships and friendships that one has acquired over time…

I have never been one for social networking on the web. Therefore things like orkut never appealed to me. However in the last 1 week, since I got onto orkut, I have been meeting people that I had lost touch some zillion years ago.

There was this friend of mine…while in school, we were real pals for a good 10 yrs….somewhere something changed and we started drifting apart…..now it’s been more than 10 yrs and i suddenly find him on orkut….that’s amazing…

I guess I am at that stage of life the value of friendship is so much greater..

I am converted….but still think i will mail more than post messages…

With the advent of the digicam, the number of photos one clicks has become so many that it almost is impossible to have those ’special’ photos. But months later when you look back at your photo albums, it does bring memories of the good days gone by.

I have about 3000 photographs from my Europe trip in many folders in Picasa. On a day like today when there is nothing else to do, it is just good fun to go through them and refresh my mind about those umpteen trips that I have taken in the last 1-1.5 yrs…

However, this photo was taken in Bandipur Sanctuary. It was a lucky shot that I got but thought it was just amazing….. 

Now that my cynic head has been folded in for a while, let me rant on for a while feeling good about life.

Everyone talks about how it was a rotten day and how things went all wrong.
Hmm…..just a thought…what things would make you feel good at the end of the day? Would there be 5 things that you would list out….

These cannot be anything special like winning a Nobel Prize or anything (hmm..not that I know anyone who has a chance of doing that)…these have to be the little pleasures in life…what are those 5? Let me attempt at this….

1. Talking with a friend after a long time….especially those ones with whom you can pick up from where you left irrespective of how long its been..
2. A job well done…and i mean in the strictest sense, well done according to myself not wrt the world, the bosses, the peers…i can tell you that should not be very often if your standards are high enough….
3. Somebody stopping for you on the road to let you go first…that’s such a rarity in India….but trust me, you do it once in a while and hopefully the other person acknowledges it, it feels great
4. A real great joke….long live the sitcoms…even better if it is something in life…i do miss those amazing sessions of completely non-intellectual talk in B-school which leads to nothing…as George says, ‘this show is about nothing’ (Seinfeld)

5.

- Nothing more to say about this

This is tougher than I thought…..

Anybody interested in doing this can tag themselves and let me know their list of 5…

Had the most pointless day at work. Chatted with a friend for about 2hrs in the morning. Sent about 14 emails in the space of 1 hr with another friend in the evening & not one word making sense.

Today was the day of the blues with all parties asking questions like ‘What am I doing in life?’, ‘Is this what I want to do?’. I think this is what they call ‘mid-life crisis’ (albeit a trifle earlier)

Finally made up my mind to travel to Berlin for the Easter weekend and did the bookings. So something to look forward to for this week.