Life Is As We See !

Readers you been my strength to be connected.Today I attended my student's wedding. Her mother and me we are friends also. The girl was looking very pretty as they made a good pair. After a long time attended two days wedding. My friend was happy,tired,relaxed and tensed,a mixture of all feeling at once.In the meantime I observed a lot of things happening around at the wedding venue.

Now I come to the main motto of this blog.There were few other friends always grumbling against me that I don't join their group...kitty.... etc.I respect them for enjoying their lives in their own way. But some how I don't fit in their frame,so I have chosen writing as my passion led profession.

I spent two days listening to their conversation,of sarees,ornaments,recent trends,who got married to whom recently....and all that.Katyayani is furious over me for not joining her kitty. So she introduced me to some one 'We are all kitty friends except this!( pointing at me)Enough now... leave the job and sit at home!' Then I started thinking Katya is a 'happy go lucky ' person.In a given time she would talk on any topic,like saree, food delicacies,jewelries,fashion and relatives etc. Always smiling and talking  she likes to make friends as many as she could!  I  wish I could have that quality. My motto is reverse! I try to maintain rapport with limited ones.

Really readers,I realized ...I  missed all those joys of typical talks of fair sex.IT industry has made me talk to the point,get the work done and go home.
As I was coming home I introspected myself Somewhere something was  missing..... but my IT culture screamed from within 'how many of them could do what I am doing right now?' Wishing them good luck 'I picked up my way 'Had sumptuous food and came back to write this blog.

Katya, this blog is dedicated to you,enjoy life...keep smiling throughout your life.

Geeta Rao

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Life Can Slap You On Face Sometimes!

Readers,

you know what happened the other day? Literally life slapped on my face! I was coming out of the office hurriedly to reach home ASAP.Usually I commute in a rickshaw. I saw a man standing near rickshaw. He was leisurely rubbing tobacco  in his palm. I told him my home address and he acted as if unheard!Then I screamed little loudly my address. He looked at me sternly ans said 'maaaam, this is not my rickshaw,neither I am a rickshaw driver! My car is that!'Ho pointed at a luxurious car!I was feeling just the ground should split and I should go in.He gave me a look 'what a waste you are on earth!'and drove off the car! I was feeling insulted,humiliated,and annoyed on myself.

You know readers I feel great pleasure to share with you such small and petty incidents. It gives me great satisfaction.

Lesson I learnt: Not to assume or presume anything unless we know very surely.Never to judge anyone by his clothes.They may be in disguise!Don't judge the book by its appearance! hahahaha

Bye
Geeta Rao

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Life- And it's Youthful Dreams

Yes.
readers,I connect with all of you by sharing my pleasures and sorrows of 'daily happenings.' You know what happened today at my work place? let me brief....  I got a mail of a roughest and toughest looking car and description of its make.I just forwarded to all these three youths who share my cabin. They immediately got thrilled with the look of it. and started to dig out more information Anyway IT youths within fraction of seconds every information was there in their hand. Then started dreaming..... how about buying ...how to apply for loan.Every one knew it was highly unaffordable.But sarcastically they started dreaming. For few seconds I also was carried away by their dreams!
One told 'OK OK  then we can buy and do business... lets use it like taxi.'And the discussions went on in all directions...Everyone laughed to his glory and went back to work!

I being the senior most person was watching something else.'How fast my country is growing...probably we couldn't afford to dream also such things.'Now these youths know so many things.... they can stand confident ally on international platform at any given time.Somewhere in the corner of my heart I was feeling prosperous and flourishing.I smiled for having seen both the time.Flourishing and flourished.


Moral: Unless you think big you can not achieve anything. May be in the process you face lots of problems but the end result is just wonderful....!So dream Big!And you get a way to reach your dream......this happens......really....

wishing you all the best and asking Santa to fulfill your dreams.....in 2011!

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Life is Really Beautiful!

Today as usual I got up early in the morning and was getting ready to go to office. In my hussle and bussle my son called me up.He is in USA working for world no 1 company. I was rushing to gulp something in the name of breakfast hurriedly.He told me 'mamma...just listen since three days am struggling to tell you this but somehow time fit is not there..mamma...I am really proud of you for whatever you have been doing...for the last 27 years am watching... you are working like clock monster!hahahaha... 'This made me suddenly stop for a minute and think....did I work like that or he thinks out of love...?
 Whatever it is ! I felt so soothing his words were  like solace to me in the morning.
I jumped up and started towards my office with double speed!The strength of children is the strongest!!



Moral: You can win the world if family is there with you.Dealing with family members purely needs heart not brain! For such small things do we need to attend big big sessions? show your love openly to you family members.....


Geeta Rao

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Life Is As Light As You Think!

I have been describing the incidents happening around me with you all. The other day I stumbled upon one more incident which I want you to know too. Our manager is my student only. He is such a loving boy.


 Outwardly he wants to create a picture of him as a light hearted and floaty person,but basically he is a serious minded person. we were all involved in talking about some office matter. I suddenly asked 'Hey what is there tomorrow? Then our my student / Manger told me 'Maam tomorrow is Friday...hahahahha.Then I turned at him and said in a teacher's tone' Why are you cracking such chindi Joke?'Leave it to him.



I pointed at the other person who never answers straight! Then he burst into laughter'Hey maaam, it is my right too to crack few chindi jokes sometimes!!''hahahahahahaha' Everybody laughed....
Immediately I introspected myself. I felt 'a child within him is trying to come out to enjoy the light moment.'

We go to attend big corporate sessions on how to balance life and office work? Isn't it the way...I kept on asking myself...We shouldn't miss such small pleasures of life.


cheers
by Geeta Rao

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Life is like this also!

Old habits die hard.Speech is very important. Sometimes it may make or break!In some serious discussion if some one cracks joke without his knowledge it is the sweetest comedy of the day.Recently I cam across this incident in my office, which I would love to share with you all.



I work for an IT company. And I am surrounded by youngsters working with me. We have a beautiful team sharing fun.Team means all sorts of head we are having. Funny,serious,foolish,task oriented etc.Every one is habituated to something. One is highly addictive of saying 'no one will come to know....' He has been nicknamed in the office as 'No one will come to know.'
 


That fellow has the habit of saying 'no one comes to know.....'very often.That day we were talking on some marketing techniques.Four five of them gave some suggestion which were futile. And you know the boss was red! That day seriously the team was discussing about -how to go and get it clicked.....Every one was worried! In that situation This fellow entered and loudly spoke' will go for this trick no one will come to know....?!!!...'

The whole team burst into laughter,that fellow did not understand what made them laugh so loudly...

Then boss answered 'after all what is the use if no one comes to know...?'This is marketing Everyone should come to know....isn't it?' Then that colleague understood his slip of tongue!He mended it after this incident.



Geeta Rao

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Take as it comes

We have no choice but to accept what life offers us!Recently irrespective of my age I enrolled myself in a blog writing competition. Did not win,instead I won loads of cute friends! I enjoyed the other side of life.I could write a blog at the most,but they all were backing me strongly for technicality.Now I feel it hardly mattered for me. Losing also has gained me good friends around.Many of 50 + age people will be suffering emptiness syndrome,I don't have time for that!Isn't it good? Thanks to my working ability and to my group. I have been timely helped by a group of technical warriors!
We as elders overlook so many attributes of today's youngsters I feel. I move a bit in their group so I hail their intellectual capability.Be open to them,talk and share with them,they will come  out with wonderful 'Out of the box' solutions.
I feel the technical bridge is widening between youngsters and elders.... isn't there a way to bridge this gap? First of all elders should be ready to learn whatever they could!Here we score very less marks I think.It is really a joy to work with youngsters.Life can be good with this attitude.


Geeta 

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Life Can Shock You with Pleasant Surprises…………

In the last post I was little disturbed by the attitude my management showed towards me, but today am writing this post being more than a happy mom! We had met our both the ends with high calculations. I and my husband never ever dared to cross our economic limits. In the process we might have squeezed many of our dreams. But when our hard put efforts come back to us in the form of children’s achievement then there is no boundary for the real pleasure of life!
My son is working in the USA as a software engineer since last three years. I kept my fingers crossed because of the recession. He always used to tell me , ‘Mom am very busy.’ But I used to be very happy to hear this! When the whole world is affected by poor economy, my son must be doing really well.
Last week when I called ‘Mamma am sleeping….’ I was not able to understand as I had never seen him sleeping at 9 p.m. Like this we passed 15 days. Then in the midnight at 1 o clock he screams and tells me ‘Momma I got in _______  with a good hike!’The company he got just now is no 1 I the world for technology! I did not know  how to react………
Still I am in the trance! And I am amazed at God’s hidden agenda! My head bowed itself to thank God for showering such an extra ordinary blessing. Now when I look back I felt it was worth sacrificing small pleasures in those days. There is good time waiting for us in this world! Am feeling at the top of the world!

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Life Can be Like This Also???

Today am sharing an 'attitude' with my readers and asking your views please.I am working with IT indistry as an SEO content writer.I was due for promotion this month.I hail from well settled family. When there was a need I struggled for the company and wrote articles.I used to  write 5 articles at times!But when my turn came for appraisal....the bosses are thinking'Whe does she need money?'Isn't it obnoxious? A typical 'attitude'?It means if there need then only these will consider...?I have become very bitter with this attitude.What I thought was 'I will work and get paid as long as I wish.'Scenario has been changed.May be i quit....I don't like to work at the cost of my self respect.What do you say? readers? Now my family is world...! 

I want to live but these are putting an end to my life.

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Life As I see and Try To understand In A Hurry!

Yesterday I was fascinated to see my articles listed in Google first page.It was an achievement indeed for me.I found out all my recent articles listed on Google and got excited and suddenly screamed for my husband to come and see!I thought he also would be as excited as I was.But he was damn cool watching daily soap.He told quietly"Last scene is going on...I will come and see... don't worry!' I was furious and fuming with anger.....I returned to my pc switched it off. Then started thinking coolly that in a way my husband was right! My articles listed on Google he could have seen at any time.... I calmed my mind.within a minute he was there to see my listings! I learnt 'Patience' is needed at the crucial time more than the normal time!

Then next moment we were back on track as if nothing has happened!hahahahahah.....That is life

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Life Can Play Mischief Also!

You know the other day what happened at our work station? Our office boy, a half wit 'knows somethings' in technology.He had opened an account in face book.Later he realized one employee whom he knows closely has been misusing his id! He came to that employee and requested him not to use his id.

There are two technology competent teams made to sit on the same floor. With all sorts of snarl and growl they were seated! Everyone is a combination of tech competency and humor and a bit of 'one up' feeling.

That boy came and told the employee ' will you stop using my id?' That employee jokingly gave a floaty answer.Office boy went and immediately changed his pass word! then came back and challenged that employee to use the account,which he could not! Then that boy and half of the office started laughing! The other tech group had helped him fully!

Then this employee became charged.....somehow he wanted to know that office boy's password. In the meantime that office boy straight way went to the other techies and requested them to delete the whole account.And got it deleted.Here this employee could find his account.I was witnessing the whole scene! and felt happy on the note 'My country is growing rapidly in technology!'An office boy could challenge the employee in tech mischief!
Life is like that!I was the one who enjoyed the most!

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Gift Of IT Industry...?!

Luckily or unluckily I work with an it industry. I would love share my feeling being eldest in the company. I was asked to counsel on the sense of dress of female employees especially! Newly joined girls come to office with a very high sense of fashion, where as it distracting and disturbing for the people who are around them. Can’t these female employees come decently dressed? And let others also have a peace of mind?

Whatever I was asked to counsel, I did that, then I asked myself ‘are we still not ready to accept the change in the fashion and style?’How many employees we go on telling about the dress code? Body hugging and revealing dress code is not IT ! Technical competency is! His is one version. Another version is what is wrong when girls come fashionably dressed to office? It means are we not ready to accept the cultural change around us? Or are we just hypocrites having double standards? I seek your advise readers…. am listening…!

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Our Profession Speaks Louder Than Us!

The other day I met a friend who is a doctor by profession.We met over Ganesh festival after a longtime. We exchanged the pleasantries.We use the language according to our profession. That is what I want to write here.We usually say 'We installed Ganeshji....... or we immersed Ganeshji.'
She suddenly got excited and started saying  ' tomorrow I need to discharge Ganeshji!'
Everyone around were looking at us as if we were supposed to be abandoned!Then I acted quickly upon it.I told it is obvious no our profession speaks! Then they all started smiling....

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Life Is Full Of Surprises Sometimes!

I started my career as a teacher. Don’t have all those crooked thoughts and mischievous smile  on your face. Then I got shifted to an IT software field. I have taught in the convent also. This is an incident when I was a teacher…. Digging down my memory lane am writing this. In those days along with students teachers were also in the competition. Competition of ‘One up’ sort …..That was the first day of school reopening. It was my class turn to prepare assembly activities…like reading news, asking quiz questions…etc. And the girl whom I delegated the task had forgotten completely. I became angry on that girl and scolded her, and the announcement was done in the mike…. That so…. And so…. Class is unable to assembly duties…….. that poor little girl… with tears in eyes stared only the floor!
Then recently…I happen to attend one reception. The most beautiful girl caught my eyes. Then I kept myself busy in the dinner. Then that beautiful girl came and hugged… ‘Miss….this is…… u remember I had forgotten assembly activities….and you were furious on me?.....now I have become Doctor…. Now I don’t forget!’ hahahahaha
I felt so happy. I felt as if am touching the pod of standing crop in the field!  Felt very happy. That small girl’s face was forgotten……somewhere in the corner of my heart face of small girl got  replaced by a young girl!

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Life-Always smiles If You Smile!

OK, Readers, again I want to share with you what I come across during my walking time in the morning. Today I met the same old lady and told her enthusiastically 'I have written something about you in my blog you can see ... I'll send you URL.' Then meekly with spark in her eyes she said 'I don't know how to operate computers... and in my home no one is free enough to tell me all these things!!' but she was still smiling.....my walk continued,saluting her in my mind!There was a lady regretting that she could not be enough educated. 

Next scene a group of gentlemen were also walking rigorously.Out of curiosity my ear listened to their conversation even.'This year ground nut oil will be costlier than cotton seed oil! I'll buy at least 6 tins!' I was worried whether these have come to lose the calorie or planning to put on more..?

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Anecdotes - Life is Like That Smiling Always

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I am an early bird, longing to start my day as early as I can! Me and my husband in the late fifties went for morning walk. It was beautiful morning in the city of Ahmedabad. Birds chirping somewhere, noise of highway vehicles, and a road sweeper with a ‘bigger than him’ broom! We walked as per our schedule.
It was last round of walk, then I stumbled upon an older lady.I have been seeing this lady for the past 15-20 years. But never tried to talk to her. Don’t know why?.... Today when I saw her, greeted with ‘good morning’ and told her ‘I have been seeing you for the past 15-20 years….. You are also an ardent walker!’ That probably boosted her. ‘I used to walk a lot…. But …. Now I can’t … you see… age matters..!’ I said ‘Yes.’ We exchanged our whereabouts like long lost friends! When she came to know that I am working with IT Company she came closer and shook my hand with a proud smile on her face! She told ‘Very Good Keep it up.’
This gave so much strength to me…. Readers… I swear…I can’t explain you in words…she made my Day! Can’t we make others ‘Day’ Like this?!

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