Sunday mirage

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I woke around 7:00 and while still in the hang of my sleep, I had a quaint feeling about the week ahead. My mind raced to think of the Monday chores, the un finished work at my office and all the backlogs. Then yet again, I had a second thought about what day I had woke up to. Is it still Sunday or Monday morning?

My trance mind zeroed in for clues… did I shop on Saturday, did I go to church, did I talk to my wife… and finally I got the answer. Wow, it’s just Sunday only…. There is more going in for this day and more rest before the daily rush hour comes to play..

Never had this feeling. I’m short of words to express my feeling on how I though Sunday is just breaking up and I’ve still miles to go before I reach Monday and more to go before I reach my office….

Chase : one of my favorites

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James Hadley chase: nothin can beat him in the way he can pen down the thoughts and situation….

here is one which I had written down in my scrap book. Forgot which book its taken from …

In Foll’s panic stricken mind came the heading of chapter six of his correspondence course. If subject to torture, remember your loyalty to your boss comes firs, A top class investigator never TALKS.

He fervently wished the writer of this course was now in his position. He was to bet the creep would sing like a canary.

I’ll talk, he said breathlessly.

Tust – Key elements

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I couldn’t but copy this passage for my reference and to the world around. From what I can infer from this article, I’ve plenty of gray areas wherein I’ve to improve..

TRUST

I believe all relationships are trust relationships, such as employer employee, parent child, husband wife, student / teacher, buyer / seller, customer / salesperson.

How can we have

trust without integrity? Crisis in trust really means crisis in truth. Trust results from being trustworthy.

What are the factors that build trust?

•Reliability –gives predictability and comes from commitment.
•Consistency –builds confidence. ( I lack this )
•Respect–to self and others gives dignity and shows a caring attitude.
•Fairness–appeals to justice and integrity.
•Openness–shows two-way traffic.
•Congruence–action and words harmonize. If a person says one thing and behaves
differently, how can you trust that person?
•Competence–comes when a person has the ability and the attitude to serve. ( this too )
•Integrity–the key ingredient to trust.
•Acceptance in spite of our effort to improve we need to accept each other with our
pluses and minuses.
•Character–a person may have all the competence but if he lacks character he can’t be trusted.

Trust is a greater compliment than love. There are some people we love but we can’t trust them. Relationships are like bank accounts: The more we deposit, the greater they become, therefore, the more we can draw from them. However, if you try to draw without depositing, it leads to disappointment.

Many times we feel we are overdrawn but in reality we may be under deposited.

Communist ideology

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I’ve taken this picture some 5 years back. The building in the background is AKG centre, the nerve center of Communist party in Trivandrum.

Being a photography enthusiast I used to carry my heavy Yashica SLR camera. When I saw this capitalistic car parked next to this socialistic building I could’nt help by capture it in my lense.

Now Communist is in power and this building is back in the limelight for sprouting plenty of unproductive decisions. I can’t help wonder how and who takes up decision process. Are they still living in the old U.S.S.R era, esp in their thoughts and I know not in their remotest action….

Big boys in are taking big, but when it comes to any real turnaround I don’t see any. Same old sex scandals, same old discussion in T.V and some rhetoric speeches… even now when I go to a govt office all things are same. Same bribe, same queue, same forms…

What are these doing to bring down beaurocracy , I think they won’t easily cut down on executive’s long arm for with out them they won’t exist and vice versa….

Quote for the day..

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Don’t try to change the world , change yourself..

don’t u think it’s easier said than done.. why is that some can while others are very rigid to the core… is it in the DNA, the history, the breed, …

why is change so hard for me.. to change some of the basic life skills.. ?

Doors of opportunity are always open to all….

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there may be no one to help him, but there is also no one to prevent him making something of himself there..

If heis without resources, his also relatively free of the constraints imposed by tradition and class. Though he is alone and insignificant as he walks into Philadelphia, its streets are not closed to him…

From autobiography of Benjamin Franklin…