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So, what’s left of this genius. Is it his works, his inspiring speech. Taking cue from the memorable punch lines from Steve Jobs , I look back the potential efforts wasted each day in my life.
Let me take a page from his life, or work and see how well I can emulate this leader in my life…
Few other quotes from Steve Jobs
So, what are your predictions to the future? How will it transform your life
Pls share your futuristic thoughts in the comment box.
Based on my hunch, here are my predictions:
So, while we’re still chipping our life with in the stone age version of Facebook or Twitter, it’s good to think on how life will change inside out with these social media channels.
Share your input on how you think of the changes or how social networking sites will marry off new changes in our lives.
On the same lines, I felt the need to renew my abandoned blog. Yes, it struck me while I was boozing at Hard Rock, cafe. It then struck me like a thunderbolt to blog on topics around my life. Just share the daily scenes of my life.
So, on that cue, I’m trying my amateur writing skills to portray ordinary views around my life. At least, I could improve writing skills.
Another thing that surprised me is when I looked at my previous post. I had done it some 5 months back. Hold Ghost! How long a break? And in just 10 minutes, this is my third blog post.
What other ways can you enliven your blog? Do you have other thoughts, topics to write on your blogs?
Pic source: PostSecret
I frequent this site to see the common secrets. There are many and this one caught my eye. With my expenses going off the roof, first week of the month is always a panic attack for me. Can’t get hold of expenses despite living a low life.
Now tell me your PostSecret you’re holding on. Do you get a chance to spill it out to your spouse, friend or to strangers.
I make my way to the dingy room behind the bar counter. Found a corner and placed the drink 60 ml Mansion House Brandy. ( Rs 35 bucks). Paid Rs 5 as tip to the waiter. In few gulps, I finished the drink, and walked out to the open space.
Next I walked inside the swanky Hard Rock Hotel. Familiar bouncers acknowledged me and ushers inside nodded with complete anonymity. Inside counter was packed with jovial guys. I squeezed my way to the little space.
A young lady who stood next to me was merrily texting while her accomplice was looking forward to her nod. She gave me a disapproving look while I touched her bum. I said sorry and moved on to the next pasture.
Another Saturday has dimmed away, just any unknown day in my life. I couldn’t talk to anyone new, nor shared a smile.Another day, another place, another scene I’ll get merrier.
But after leading a corporate life, I have more questions in front of me? Every day after keying in the hours, I contemplate on the day spend in those sterile walls. Apart from work, what did I do in those 8-10 hrs. Did I make a difference to my work, to myself or it’s the same rut.
Well, I could write more question, but it’s comes back to the same point…Why don’t you share couple of points running in your heard?
Or if you feel like talking to me, you can call at my mobile for an idea sharing session, or just for a coffee or beer meetup.
See ya,
Charles
A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.
– John Updike (Pigeon Feathers)
Right now I don’t have much thoughts, but I’ll be back with my version.
One day less in my life…
Sometimes I wonder what I learned, experienced is the past 24 hrs. Did I do anything new, did I discover a new thought, a new passion or innovate something that will help in our business, or did I return back with the same bag and baggage.
Millions like me throng to the work places, earning, living, and bitching. What extra is happening at your work place? Is this enough for a long 24 hr day? I don’t have answers to these question, and so I’m sharing these to you. Do you have any answers? Or are you different from the usual 9 to 5 tribe.
My question to other working folks in Bangalore… how do you make a difference to your work place, to your colleagues, to your society? Is there anything you can do extra? An extra effortless smile, a little kindness, little extra that no one told you to do…..
Finally….Are you enjoying your work in the cubicle?
Central message
Do not settle for the limitations of your experience. Try to break it and move to the next level. If you do that, you will know that there are many levels of reality outside and within yourself.
“Don’t settle for who you are right now” But why not? ….Don’t you want to play golf a little better tomorrow? We all ant a little more what we knows best – money, love, power, knowledge.
There is something within in us which does not like boundaries. If we find unconscious expression of this, we call it materialism. You can either walk with your eyes open or closed. I am saying why not keep them open.
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| Garib Rath ( Green Budget A/C Train) Pic Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27223684 |
I prefer trains to bus. In my regular visit to Trivandrum from B’lore, I usually take Garib Rath, Kochu Veli Express on Monday’s. This train saves me from paying arbitrary prices charged by private buses. Moreover, there’re other personal reasons why I prefer train to bus.
First, I love the raw metallic grind of train as it wobbles and sways on the track, making all the screes and metallic grunts. Also, a train travel makes me relaxed – a time to reflect, read, have coffee or even have a friendly conversation with fellow passengers.
On the initial days of Garib Rath in Kochu Veli, it departed by 20:00 hrs. Now, with popular demand, the timing is from 17:00 hrs from Kochu Veli and reaches Banaswadi by around 9 in the morning.
Also, like every thing about a public service, this train was clean at the time of initiation. Now, the glean is replaced with growing dirt in the corners, broken cabinets and uneven loo floors. Apart from these issues, there’s one main glitch – loo door latch.
Garib Rath Loo Door Lock issues
During one of my train trip I went to take a leak break…too much chai…coffee from the train. I happily closed the loo door, just when I started to pee, one fellow pushed the door ajar. Oops….. I was embarrassed so was him. First I blamed my absent minded nature as I keep forgetting to do things. For instance I forget to zip my pants after visiting the loo or keep the scooter keys on the vehicle, etc. Likewise, I thought it as a case of amnesia. But, later I realized it was the problem with the door latch.
The problem is with the sliding mechanism of this latch. It’s a faulty design, that requires a complete recall or a change in design. What happens is this – as the train moves, the whole bogey jerks and in the rocking movement, the latch comes off from the hook. ( Mystery solved)
And and even embarrassment happened during anther tip. This time I was the villain. I pushed a door while a lady was inside…Mother of Ooops….lucky she didn’t notice me. I quietly closed the metal door and fled the scene.
Attention Railway Engineers or Employees
Can anyone from the Railway coach engineering team look into this issue or similar issues? Also, there’s a problem with the toilet seat used in the commode in western toilet loo. Pls take it as high priority and so necessary modification will improve the quality of train travel. And it will save many people from many embarrassing moments for train travelers.
Advice to passengers:
Next time you travel by Garib Rath, double check the loo lock before you start your business.
Your’s in Concern
Charles
NB: I wrote this post on April 2011, but even as on May 2012 the lock issue remains. And now October, they have kept new lock ..but not everything is fool proof… Again, during a recent trip, I had to keep one hand secure on the door, while I used the other hand for the business.
P.S: It’s time Railways start Facebook ( It can start for different zones ) Southern, Western, etc..
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