Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Cup of Coffee

Got as a fwded mail. I liked it a lot and think its the best analogy/illustration I have ever come across.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Quotes

1) Sure a picture's worth a thousand words. But do you know how many gigabytes it takes up? - Compaq

2) In every aspect of life unexpected is always expected.

3) For any product don't sell the features, sell the benefits.

4) Imagine a football game with no yard lines,end zones, goal posts, scoreboard, clock, or even clear-cut teams; just a bunch of players whose goal is to pass a football, run around, and collide. It might be fun to watch for a while, but not for long. The chaos would soon drive the fans out of the stadium. Shortly thereafter, the players, unmotivated and confused, would wander off the field. "Similarly tasks with out measurable goals, eats up ones time resulting in nothing in many ways".

5) Without accountability, goals melt away, forgotten, remain flexible;

6) Always add a 50% time to ur meeting time when ever there is one.

7) To not to skip any of the tasks, instead practice giving self appointments and respect them as the ones given to others.

8) Truman Capote once said, A Failure is the condiment thatgives success its flavor.

9) Franklin D. Roosevelt put it morefamously: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

10) Improvement always starts with I.

11) Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas A. Edison

12) Ability is what you're capable of doing... Motivation determines what you do... Attitude determines how well you do it.

13) One day LOVE asked FRIENDSHIP, "why are you in the world when i am here?" Friendship smiled & said "TO SPREAD SMILES WHERE YOU LEAVE TEARS...!"

14) The Shortest Distance Between A Problem And Its Solution Is The Distance Between Ur Knees And The Floor. The One Who Kneels To GOD Can Stand Before Anything...

15) "Often when you follow others footsteps you do not leave your footprints behind".

16) A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

17) Two Lovers plan to Suicide. Boy jumped first; Girl closed her eyes, and returns back saying Love is Blind. The Boy, in mid-air opened his parachute saying Love never Dies...... "Cheers"

18) If i would be a tear in u r eye I'll roll down on u r cheek and die in u r lap and if u would be a tear in my eye I'll never cry by a fear of losin YOU.

19) Life is complex - it has both real and imaginary parts.

20) WOMAN has MAN in it. SHE has HE in it. Mrs. has Mr. in it. LADY has LAD in it. MISTERESS has MISTER in it. MADAM has ADAM in it . HOSTESS has HOST in it. FEMALE has MALE in it..........and so on..... the list is unending SO NO need to be proud ....Girls are always incomplete without Boys.........ha..ha..ha...ha

21) Adam n Eve started to love...,Romeo n Juliet introduced it...,Devdas n Paro suffered 4 it....,Laila n Majnu died for it....,so my dear frnd beware of it.....Feb14 is ahead..!

22) Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves. -Homer Simpson

23) In difficult moments behave like a duck, be unruffled on surface but keep paddling crazy underneath.

24) My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way.-Henny Youngman

25) My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.-Rodney Dangerfield

26) A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. -Milton Berle

27) I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "Therewas water in the carburetor." I asked her , "Where's the car?" She replied,"In the lake." -Henny Youngman

28) The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -Henny Youngman

29) After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

30) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

31) I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't like to Interrupt her.

32) My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got myself two girlfriends.

33) A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it since the thief was spending much less than his wife did.

34) Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

35) A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" The father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

36) Young Son: Is it true, Dad, that in some parts of Africa a Man doesn't know his wife until he marries her? Dad: That happens in every country, son.

37) Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; then it was too late.

38) A man placed an ad in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same : "You can have mine."

39) A woman was telling her friend, "I made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend. "A billionaire." she replied,

40) Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

41) It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

42) Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

43) Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

44) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

45) Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery.

46) The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

47) First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive".

48) Skill is, successfully walking on a tight rope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is, not trying it.

49) Fate determines who comes into our lives.... heart determines who stays...

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Travelogues - Warangal

I knew, my home town is very rich culturally and is a great historic place (home for Kakatiya Dynasty -who brought whole telugu speaking people under one rule). Though I visited many places as a kid but never took snaps of those. Glimpse of what you can find at Warangal. This dude has done a fantastic job, if you love exploring places, its a must watch blog Travelogues.




Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Make your Life Colourful

HAPPY HOLI, festive of colours. Colour ur friends with I/O brush, the latest invention from MIT.

For more info http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/


Today morning I found a beautiful Symantec bag with different colurs at my cubicle...
I thought I am safe, coz many ppl didn't come to office today, but with in mins, many of my colleagues coloured me with... so thought why should I spare any one, went straight to Kranthi and Suresh.. he he he.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Fairy Tale

I knew, the topic is going to be THE MATCH between Aus and RSA every where played at Wanderers(Wonders), Johannesburg. That was fabulous and exceptional chase from South Africans. I thought Gibs will be the man to reach 200. If SA's strategy was to score 9 RPO, they executed it perfectly.

While playing Stick Cricket, I used to think how it will be if it happens in real life, boundary almost every 2nd ball.... here goes the match. At the end of Aus innings, I truly believed such glorious records has stay unbroken for a long long time or tooooooooooo short.

During the lunch, I thought only Indian team might have tried making a good contest, given the recent performances. But South Africans for the first time have overcome the "chokers" tag and astonished many including my room mate Suresh. At one point he said that even 299 was more than enough for the Aussies to defend (though he believes in Australian team's strength, he has more belief in SA's chokers tag, they fail to perform in crucial situation, even if the total is dismal).

To be simple it was SA's day, during 1999 world cup, when Gibbs dropped Steven Vaugh's catch, commentator said, they lost the WC. Any yesterday, when Gibb's catch was dropped, I recalled those words and was sure Australia dropped the match. Some how, SA teams plan worked, Gibb's promotion to 1 down, and Van der Wath ahead of Telemachus ... etc.

Still I feel, these kind of matches can be imagined/played on a PC game (take EA's cricket 2003) but its hard to believe, such a match was really played.

Well everybody is saying around me, highlights for this match will be a full match :-)

If u missed it, don't worry just tune into ESPN or Start Sports, it will be aired many a times. But u won't get the same feel watching it live. I was one of those who enjoyed it live.

To add, my colleagues went for a marriage reception and and called me up for score updates, they were not able to enjoy the reception and I could hear the joy from the other end every time my update was positive.

Finally, would it had been India (instead of SA), the whole nation would have celebrated it at least for a week.

The Match 12th March 2006

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Have u listen to this

These days; I am just listening to one song "Adigi adagaleka" from Devadas. I don't know which of (music, lyric, ..) the elements are good, but this song touched my soul, seems like its taking me to somewhere else.

Close ur eyes and listen to this song over the weekend :-) wonderful.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Score board 03rd March '06

Hmm.. today was both mix of everything at our ground. I got "0" wickets but managed to get my prized wicket of Channa, through a direct throw run out. He was worried more for being got out in my hands rather any thing else. And the best celebration come when sarat got the (prize) wicket of Nitin . Sarat wanted to show his celeb skills in front of Nitin and ran down the pitch towards the batsman. Then suddenly..... At the end ppl said that, Sarat got the wicket but Nitin got the prize.

Well to fill those ......, Sarat slipped in front of Nitin on the ground and in the end, got his finger dislocated.