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A group of IIM-A 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 but normal for 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

If it is "Aadi", the fourth Tamil month - if you count from "Chitirai", the thing I associate with it is "Kool" - those old days are crystal clear like many other wonderful moments of school days. The grandma story is: While Jamadhakni rishi, a devotee of Lord Shiva, was burnt, Renuka Devi - his wife also leaped upon the funeral pyre. Since the rain God, Varuna, drenched the fire with heavy rain, she was just burnt but alive. The people around there made her lay on a plantain leaf, neem leaves and gave her tender coconut, Kool - a porridge, butter milk, etc. In fact, it works scientifically too. I mean, these food items are good for everyone in this month. "Aadi" begins with a season shift after the three hot months of summer. The season change creates a lot of 'heat' related diseases. The remedy for common disease like chickenpox, smallpox is the food consists of tender coconut... It is Aadi 30 today (Aug 14, 2008) and it got two more da

It was auto primetime (time when people rush to get autos and taxies rather than waiting for the bus, not just because it is late but because everyone else is leaving, and the fear, they might be left alone in the night) at Vijayanagar bus terminus and I was waiting for the bus, knowing that the bus would surely come within maximum of 20 minutes. It is such wonderful feeling to stay relaxed in the midst of disarray. Of course, thank God for the 'flexitime', both at home and in the office. Three buses came in succession: 21L, 10G and M45E. I was looking for 5A, M21 or some 51s. Before I turn my attention back to the crowded auto, I felt, I saw something I was waiting for. It took few seconds, perhaps such an unmatched complex queuing system, for my mind to pick the scene from what it had seen a second before. The word 'Tambaram' - exactly the thing I wanted. Why did I take those few extra seconds to notice it? I realise, it is because, the bus is new in this route, at le

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Do you allow a LKG kid to take your mobile phone and use it? I do. She is matured enough to talk over the phone to anyone she knows. And she is 'matured' enough to talk to her friend without actually dialing (simply because she doesn't know how to unlock). Since she holds the mobile safely, I am not afraid to give it to her. Taking a photo is very simple with my mobile. You just have to nudge the camera cover down and get it opened, press the center button on the navigation panel. She loves to take photos, probably she prefer watching the image in front of the camera moving on the screen and enjoys the click sound. I am happy as long as she could move some of the 'objects' so that it comes under the camera, without disturbing me. Last week, I got a polite SMS from one of my friends: "May I know the reason, why you called me so early in the morning?" I was bit surprised because I didn't call him. I checked the dialed number and his number was there. Wel

Can't think of starting my day without MorningCoffee . I have listed the rest of my favourite Firefox extensions below: FlashGot + DownThemAll! Wonderful combination to download web page content - quick and easy. MR Tech Toolkit Should I say"META" extension? Firebug How could you miss this, especially if your work involves CSS and JS? HttpFox You might be using LiveHTTPHeaders . Organize Status Bar I always prefer simple browser interface. Clean up those icons placed on the status bar. Stylish Take control and be stylish. Tiny Menu I prefer simple menu interface. BlockSite I hate if the Ad is too big to my taste. I block it. Kovil Pillai P.