Early morning had a long breakfast with bread & egg scramble, fruit salad. After that I felt like having ice cream ,so I went and ordered ice cream, waitress asked me again "ICE CREAM for breakfast ,are you sure", I said yes and yes again, she smiled and said "NOT A BAD TASTE"....I had wonderful memory with first ICE CREAM. May 1998 that was the first time I had ice cream in my life, I went to ice cream shop and sat down on the table, waiter gave me glass of water and menu. I ordered cup ice cream, he gave me cup of ice cream and flat wooden spoon, ice cream was very hard, I tried to pierce the spoon but no luck, waited for few seconds still its hard, scanned surroundings , no one was having cup ice cream, one person was observing me, I looked at my table, I thought that waiter gave me water to dilute ice cream, so poured water in the cup, now cup is full of liquid, unable to take anything out of the cup with flat spoon, drank cup of ice cream water and ran away from that shop. I still remember face feeling of the person who was sitting next time to me, I am sure that person will never forget such worse moments of his life. After that I had so many ice creams at the best possible places but still my first ice cream is the best and it will remain so forever. If possible, please try ice cream water in a restaurant , it will give great memory not only to you but also who ever observe you:-). I smile first when ever I see ice cream.
My friend was still on fire till today morning, single phone call made my friendship more stronger. We are group of 10 friends, rest of the friends acted as catalyst between me and my friend. When ever some thing goes wrong among any of us, rest of them takes lead role in pacifying the situation keeping their busy life aside. Our friendship is 10 years old, most of the times I am the one who cause problems with my head strong attitude. We all don't even have a thought to be separated, the more we fight the more close we are. I am sure my friends will read this blog, guys I want to fight always and make our friendship even stronger, no regrets, its all part of our fun life. I cannot go and fight with my colleague or with my delivery manager, I can fight with who mean to meatier that we all discussed future plans, pros and cons of business and so on over a conference call.....
Movie of the week is "Luck By chance". I have never seen how and when luck comes , so I don't even think of some thing which I can’t reach. I think people use luck, grace, salvation, fate, etc.....to escape from their responsibilities and from their honesty.
All the crucial assignments which gave me everything in life were rejected others before they came to me.
(1)Japan:One of the senior didn't like to goto Japan so that opportunity fall on my lap, though my practice head was uncertain about me , he send me there as no one was available, Japan is the first break through in my life, excelled at work, received my first award in the company, cleared all the financial burdens and most importantly learned true value of life. Japanese start their second life at 60's and they are true meaning of helpfulness. I always look up to them in terms of helping nature and gratitude. Japanese have lot of respect towards any outsider, they like Indians a lot. Of all the places I have seen so far Japan is the best. Their products are always in quality and they don't know cheating, I always buy any Japanese product without even looking at price and gaurantee.One of year of my life in Japan changed me completely.
(2)Paris and Singapore: This was also rejected by one senior for various reasons. This is the project where project sponsors are in London, end users in Paris, systems team in Hong Kong and development out of Singapore. I used to Interact with all these people daily and traveling between Paris and Singapore. This was the first fixed bid project in the history of that client which completed on time and budget. This project shoots up my confidence level exponentially. Second consecutive award in the company and lot of recognition.
(3)Australia: This opportunity also follows the same path as above two.After working for few months, client gave feed back about me to my company, after that company CEO Ashok Soota directly appreciated me which I cherish forever, this is even bigger award for me than the above two. Frankly I worked hard for the first two projects only, this appreciation is bonus for the knowledge I gained in the above two. Mr. Soota gave me confidence to achieve anything in life.
If the above projects are not there in my life, I would have been on roads for so many reasons. Just before I go to Japan, my family ship was about to sink, my uncle came to my house and warned that he will kill my family. Today same uncle is waiting for my appointment. Time is so fast, my family position has been transformed from poor to rich now and so many changes , when I look into myself today no change in me or my behavior, I was simple and want to be same forever.....................
I don’t know what to call those opportunities, they happened because of luck or destiny or god showed me grace because I never pray to him or should I thankful to the person who rejected those projects or to my company or to myself?? Above three projects were rejected by same person..... .May be he is the angel of my life:-).
May not sleep tonight, will spend most of the time by memorizing these formative years of my life............
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