Circle of life

Jackey, I met him around 5 years back in Japan. I vaguely remember how I met him. I was working in Japan , after lunch I went for a walk with my friend to nearby Hibiya park of Tokyo, Jackey was also there having lunch with his parents, I think he asked me to take his photo with his parents , he took a photo with us as well in his camera.I left Japan after that, now after 5 years I joined a company where they have branch in Japan. Present company published my photo in their intranet, he saw my photo , with his great memory he send an email to confirm my identity. After exchange of few emails , he searched his albums and send me the old photo which we had taken 5 years. It was quite a surprise for both us to meet at the same company. Its proving again and again that world is very small, present company is having an annual event in few months time at an island , will be meeting Jackey there soon.

My engineering classmate Kiran , blessed with baby girl, happy to hear from him, it was just few months back where we were fighting for girl friends and for silly issues in college days, today he is a proud father.

My sister in law got placed in the best possible company , happy mood at homes, high pay adding more happiness. Wife is very excited to see her sister growing in career, its 16 years of her hard work resulted in the form of this job, excellent, I should congratulate her after this blog and I wish she achieve everything in life with her dedication, I am sure she will. My memories going back to my first job, when I called my dad after getting offer, I hardly see any reaction from my father where as classmates praising me for cracking in the first company ,my father told me that “don’t excite for just a job”, I felt bad for not sharing my happiness but down the time if I look back that’s the best thing my dad has gifted me, few words taught me so many truths of life.

My wife and her sister both are from BITS, two girls in a family are from one of the India’s prestigious institute. At my wife’s time , she was the only girl in town who made entry to BITS. She grabbed enough attention at that time. Her dad awarded with “BITS” prefix in his office. What a proud moments his daughters has given for him. In my college days I can’t even dare to dream about BITS, that’s my intelligence level J.

It’s a good day today. Good news from friend and family members and surprise from Jackey

Offered Food is ok or its the best???

Whenever someone offer me home food, after I finish eating my compliments to host vary from “ very good, excellent, delicious, the best food I have ever had etc……” irrespective of taste .My comments not just for the food but for their effort in preparing food. Someone calling to home, pain in preparing food, serving and the attention they give to you..after all this if anyone gives adverse comments then I feel that’s the worse anyone can do for others. Give any negative comment about food and observe the feeling of the invitee, at least for a moment she will think to kill you by poisoning the same food. On the other hand, even a simple compliment makes them very happy and make them forget all the pain they have gone through in preparing, thats the least one can do for offering food.

I had discussions on this topic with friends many times, their view is that “ if we don’t correct, how will they improve”, as if your job is to make others as THE BEST CHEF. Life is not going to stop with a single normal meal or many such meals. But negative comments will stop others life for a second at least.

Today my wife learned and prepared delicious dosa. It was really very good . I called her mom and informed about her daughter’s cooking abilities, everyone is exceedingly happy, my wife didn’t even allowed me to wash the dishes today, just an hour before she very very angry with me for opposing her view on a discussion and she want to beat me like anything but not now, positive comment is simple but its advantages are many.

Its not just at food, about job , about , about jewellary, about appearance etc.....even a slightly negative comment take away life from others for few moments, we cover comments with the so called "suggestions", only our consciousness know its suggestion or not.

Ok , enough of your philosophy for today Anil, as if you never give any negative comments, yes I never:-)..........my consicousness...


Attached photo is the view I see from my office desk if I turn my head. Tallest building of the world, a river in between those buildings, heart of Singapore.

Hourly goals

What’s new year resolution?? What’s birthday resolution?? What’s this year resolution that year..so on……I have been hearing these questions and respective answers from individuals throughout my life. Some achieving at the end of the year and most end up in postponing their resolutions for the next year or ending up with disappointment. Many times, this disappointment gives lot of positive energy to measure/extend themselves and achieve the goals next time, this is even more effective in case of exams in school and college days.

Setting long term goals and ending up either in happiness or disappointment once or few times in an year, and most valuable outcome of setting goals called “EXPERIENCE” comes just few times in an year. Imagine if that experience comes 10 times in an year, 20 times, 100 times in an year , 1000 times in an year and …….…….

Six months back, when I was working on some work at SCB myself set a target of finishing work in 2 hours and the end result after two hours was nothing, too much frustrated but deep down thoroughly enjoyed the process of setting goal, measuring myself and gaining the experience. Then continued the same for the whole day and at the end of the day found a valuable realistic hourly life cycle “set goals-measure-experience”. I stated enjoying work and work place more than ever, every hour of my life looking so valuable for me, I report to my work to manager once in a fortnight or once in a month but I am reporting to my consciousness many times in a day, it became part of my life. It’s not just for work but for anything I do, when I play , when I help my wife for cooking, when I travel, when I have to escape work for next one hour ,when I think……for everything this hourly goals automatically triggering in my mind and the experience I am gaining out of it is so wonderful.

These hourly goals are not obligation on me, these are something which helping me to know myself better, to gain experience many times in a day, to enjoy life better and to enjoy the life journey better.

Rather than having yearly goals or quarterly or few times in an year and just few experiences, I feel hourly goals are realistic for individuals and one can have many experiences in a day itself. one may consider to try it…

PS: I finished my hourly goal of watching IPL, replying to my wife’s questions and writing this blog before sleep in parallel :-)

New beginning

Just joined new job, first days itself started working. Murex office, it’s the most happening place, one get to know global picture of investment banking at this place. Got some injury , muscles paining too much, confined to bed rest, looking forward to go to office and add some value to the team.