Great time with old friend

Vikrant was overjoyed from the past one week about his good old friend Vilas's visit. They recollected the memories of their initial meeting, getting close to each other while working together, old jokes. They roamed together around the city like they used to do during their graduation.

"What a lovely beach! I should have come here with my girl friend. I came with you, really I am an idiot", said Vilas, combing his hair. Vikrant came out of his thoughts suddenly when Vilas waved his hands before Vikrant's eyes. "What are you thinking?" asked Vilas.

“Nothing in this world is permanent, why do you crave for something?” said Vikrant. Vilas got surprised to Vikrant's unexpected Vedanta and said "Hey Partha! Please leave me, no preaching philosophy. I want to live". Both started guffawing at the same time. "And that too I am on vacation, its party time. I hope you can understand and of course why don't you too have party time with your girl friends, Partha!” continued Vilas. "You should definitely need a girl friend. A best way to become penniless, you deserve it", replied Vikrant still laughing. "Yeah, my dear friend, only for that reason I am making friendship with you so that I can come to you when ever I get broke", sighed Vilas. Vikrant chuckled and said "wah, wah, Great foresight! You didn't even get a girl friend but started preparing for the consequences".

"Its ok, enough for now, tell me what were you thinking?" Vilas asked for the second time. "Nothing, leave it. Just enjoy the waves there", evaded the question.

Now it is time to bid good bye to each other. Both were feeling the moments of farewell with lot of difficulty, but they know it happens in life.

"Vilas, I had a nice time with you. I have no idea for what you said those words at beach but you were right; nothing is permanent, neither we being together nor being away. Okay pal, we will meet again".

"Yeah sure, get a girl friend soon. You would be here with in no time". Both burst into laughter along with the siren of the train. And in few seconds the train left the station and Vikrant ran towards his busy office life, thinking about the week's pending work.

Nice Farewell to our Seniors

And at last the date and time of the farewell party for the seniors' was finalized amidst the busy schedules. It starts at 7:00 PM on that day. I was too busy as I was roaming with my friend. I returned from shopping at 8:00 PM. And then after getting ready I started at 8:30 PM. Thanks to that guy for helping me by offering lift to the bus stop in his motor bike, when auto riskshaws were not available. At the bus stop I got into a bus. After starting, the conductor said in a tired voice "Pay Rs. 4 for the ticket". I had no change except five 100 and one 20 rupees bills.Very Rich guy aint I? When I said "I have no change", then he told me just get down in the next stop. What! How can he say so? I don't have time or patience to fight with him. Because of being too rich, I got down in the next bus stop. No auto rickshaw anywhere near in the line of my sight. After walking quite a bit I found an auto-rickshaw. I thought that I still have a bit of good luck. When I said the address to driver, he said its just 3 minutes walk from here and showed me some distant invisible landmark that I need to go. Again my walk continued thinking about the power and efficiency of the driver's eyes. I am sure he might had eagle's eyes which sees the distant prey from thousands of metres distance. At last I reached the restaurant at 9:00 PM.
Every one is having fun there. All the seniors are sharing their experiences with academics, girl friends, sports & games and the most important "Guide". Then we had scrumptous dinner, and a delicious ice cream. Took some group photographs. Now the real fun began. We danced to the punjabi, hindi fast numbers. All enjoyed dancing, forgot the world around them in it. This is one of the great parties I had after coming here.

Experince with Mumbai Local Trains in rains

Travelling in mumbai local trains will give u a lot of confidence. These busy trains will halt not more than 20 seconds. In that short span of time at least 20 people will get into and out of the compartment. If you were able board into the train, it means now you can get into any vehicle that will halt for just few seconds. And when you are made into it, even by hanging, holding the rod with one hand and a book(A real Catch 22) with the another, a heavy rain with lightnings will visit you, as if it never had leisure time other than those important moments. Drenching in rain is fine, but you can't bear your newly bought book getting wet. By some means you were able to move little bit inside the compartment. Ah! Now you really won the battle saving your book. Of course even winning after an intelligent battle you get the kingdom which was already adversely hit by the attack.
If you get down from the train, you can be regarded as one of the fastest runners and you can try in some 50 or 100 meters sprint. Only difference is you may or may not get prize money in sprint but here you will definitey have clothes with wrinkles & sweat. Actually this is an ideal venue to the test the effectiveness of the wrinkle-free clothes. They garments of any company which pass this test can have free publicity as there would be already a huge audience. Finally you would cuss the traffic and praise the lord for reaching the destination safely.

Hidden Story of Rennes-le-Chateau

Can any one imagine that the ancestors earlier than 10th century are very good in measuring the dimensions of earth? They are very good in geometry and they imbibed it even in art. Painting by Nicolas Poussin entitled ‘Les Bergers d’Arcadie’ or the ‘Shepherds of Arcadia’ is one of the example of those sorts. Of course its always that even with out modern sophisticated equipment they build massive structures - Chapels, Forts. But what puzzles me is how they were able to plan such gigantic marvels - which prove that our mind is the ultimate source of knowledge and energy. Just using our brain we can make wonders.

Shepherds of Arcadia

When ever you get the opportunity to watch the documentary "Origins of the Da Vinci Code" with Henry Lincoln and his mind-boggling discoveries about Rennes-le-Chateau, don't miss! He is one of the authors of the 1982's best seller The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail.

One more from Kelkar

A man falls from the staircase and fell to the ground rolling on the steps. His darling who is at the ground said him - "You missed the one step, dear". Then the man said "No, I hit the every step." Ha Ha.
He said this in the case of reviews. We need to be very careful about result of the review because if we miss one point(careless to tackle risk) then down the line you will miss it in all the reviews and need to face the consequences. Good comparision with fun.

Good Sense of Humour

Kelkar tells every small aspect with humorous analogies.
1. He was telling the difference between the cost estimate and preparing budget.
"I can write him a cheque for Rs 1 crore, no problem at all, but if I have to give you the cheque. Then no, not at all." Every body laughed.
2. When commenting on Software requirements this was very classical joke.
A guy asks a girl.
Guy: Will you marry me? -(Actually Mistake No: 1)
Girl: No (Bach gaya)
Guy: Will you marry me? -( Mistake No: 2)
Girl: No (Doosre baar Bach gaya)
Guy: Will you marry me? (Final Mistake)
Girl: Will you keep me happy?
Guy: (In fix) So what should I do to keep you happy?
Girl: You need to praise me, wash the clothes, cook the food, watch baby at nights, buy a ring on every birthday. These are my minimum requirements. (Ha Ha)
Suddenly a student asked that why usually requirements are always incomplete. To that he replied "That's why it is called an IT project. (Ha Ha Ha) In IT and marriage projects, requirement specifications are never complete."
3. See, some times wife also brings us success factor. A guy kept his wife's photograph on his table. Every time he thinks going home he sees her face and he will start working. Wife is the secret of success.
4. You see if my wife is here I will not crack jokes on her. Ha Ha.
Really, humour brings a lot of enthusiasm & energy in our life. I too want to become like him. I will try.

ITPM talks with fun

In our 4-day workshop on IT Project Management I liked Kelkar's jokes alot. He cracks them very well.
One of them -
There was a man who offers milk to his deity during puja daily. But always his cat comes and drinks all the milk before the completion of puja. Then to tackle the situation he puts a basket on the cat every day during puja. His son watched this activity which he does everyday.
When the man died the son also used put the basket on the cat before the puja. And then one day when the cat died he went in search of another cat to put the basket during the puja. Ha! Ha! Ha!
(In the context of adapting the process for the company or organization. Don't just follow what others followed.)
I learnt an important attribute from him. If we crack jokes and make the topic interesting then every student feels fun in learning and listening to the lectures or talks. And you know these people note and read the jokes when ever they read or listen somewhere. And at the right time with their wits they amuse everyone.

Dreaming Guy wakes up for Duty Call

Thinking a lot about future strategies and ignoring the present tasks. Shri, Where does this lead to? Ultimately the siren rings to make you remember that you are still a worker here and at first better complete the work in hand. So, once again you get back to your heels and start searching the way to get into office as main gate would be closed after the siren. Need to search shortcut and run to reach the place of worship. Who said work is worship? Its always done in hurry - both work and worship. Wake up! Wake up! Its time to work. No room for your dreams here, until the nights fall.

Read The Da Vinci Code

Today I completed reading a great novel "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. It is a fantastic book comprising of many double entendre riddles. The treasure hunt in the book is mind boggling.
I don't know whether Brown's version is real history or just a fiction but what I appreciate is author's out of box thinking. Previously I used to surprise why people praise Da Vinci's paintings. Now I really understood a bit and will appreciate a lot.

Blinding ignorance does mislead u.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo Da Vinci

What a great message! Learn the truth rather than enjoying the ignorance.

Need to learn Programming

In the last two days I spent my whole time in creating designs of small games for kindergarten children. I gave one task to Anitha and another to Prakash. I can test their enthusiasm by these works. I was busy in planning, documenting the plans, mailing and chatting with all the people. Now I am understanding how all the time a project leader spends communicating with others.
I feel that I don't have that much expertise in programming. I didn't do programming from the past one year and I lost the confidence in that. So, I decided to learn Java or C# every day with a friend.