DreamingAway

It is very “rare” and hence you are very lucky if you already had a chance to meet someone, including self, who suffers Monday Blues ​​I wonder whether long weekends can help you to get a sweeter Monday or not! So, how is it with other vacations? How about the summer holidays? Summer holidays is the April - May school holidays and you are in a new class after the holidays. I don’t know whether it is universal or not. It is hard to find any other happiest day in the year when you consider the last exam day before the summer holidays. It is still the same feel when you wear the parents’ hat. Isn’t?  For me, even if I don’t have calendars, there are three regular indicators to say that the summer has arrived. The shops in the market are filled with mounds of mangoes - the king of summer fruits - at the price that is too less for the magic they do on your taste buds. The Nungu fruits are the next seasonal fruit that is seen everywhere. I guess you love to scoop out the jelly part...

You may love pets but usually it is people at home who take care of them a lot than you. They too love them, of course, caring can’t stay away from love for a long. My mother, aged over 60 now, never asked for any pet animals or birds but we always get one or more at home and she loves them. Now we got two green parrots. They wake up very early and start chattering. My mom would be preparing morning coffee and she would be having a “hey, don’t make noise, keep quite” kind of conversations. Now and then all three would forget each other and let the morning quietness return. The parrots take bath almost everyday. They always try to run and hide when it is time for bath. I wonder how they know it! We put them in the bucket and turn on the tap. They like it that way. They will be in deep calm for at least 1/2 hour after the bath as if a great saint in a deep meditation. My mom keeps one parrot on her shoulder most of the time during her morning chores. She keeps talking to them and...

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world ― Emerson She has joined the team two years ago as a project trainee and now she is one of the top rated performer in her team. Her formula to success is simple and well proven, though not many do it. She started like every other trainee and started exploring more than what was asked from her. That means, she had to dedicate all her time in learning and be determined to take up the challenges. She did that successfully. She then started contributing to the team and that was on par or even better than many of the senior members in the team. Well, she truly deserves all her success so far and I am sure she will continue to astonish everyone. I was reading an article on creativity last week and suddenly I felt like taking this girl’s success and see what really is behind her success. Is it her creativity? This question itself turns out to be so dangerous as it let me doubt ab...

I didn’t die, thankfully, because it was not poisonous. I promise, I didn’t know then that an ounce of poison would be enough to kill a person. I plucked the fruit from the (False) Ashoka tree and ate it so cautiously, little by little and I survived. Now I can say that this fruit is edible but not tasty. It had all happened in my school days. We had a very old park behind our school and that was our lunchtime play area. It got place for all the games and we mostly played the run and catch (Tag) game. We took rest on the branches of the Ashoka trees when the catcher is not good at climbing the trees. That was actually unfair but we had no rules to stop it. These old trees got too much of fruits - in bunches like the grape cluster, and we couldn’t resist plucking them and throwing, after all, what else you would do as a kid? I perfectly remember the old mango tree in one of our schoolmates home. It was great pleasure spending time under that tree. We used play Marble and Top game...

Love is Blind. I am sure those who believe in this will never attempt to define what love is. And those who never believe in love won’t be interested in defining it either. Let me take an exception and try to get the definition of love, love in the context of men and women. It is an absolute trouble to be in between and try to define it. Anyway, no harm in giving it a try. What is love? Let me share few of my friends’ love stories and try to extract some insights that can enlighten me a bit. D and C were in love. Their parents didn’t approve of it. C is so religious. She was waiting for God’s mercy instead of a register marriage and made D too wait. She got married to someone else (God’s will!) and then D too married another girl. They both are leading a happy life of their own now. Thought: Can’t there be anything else superior than love, like C’s belief in God? Can the love turn into hatred? J and R’s marriage is a love marriage. They got a lovely daughter now and I am sure they ...

★★★★☆ Self-help books are easier to read. It becomes simplest if you keep reading many of them. About 100 pages long, I was happy the moment I got book “Life is Tremendous” since I felt I would finish reading this book in few hours. That was indeed done. But what surprised me is the spark of inspiration found in the book here and there and powerful enough. Major portion of the book deals with the 7 laws of leadership and the rest is to discuss about the three significant decisions that we need to take in our life time — “Who is your life long partner?, What is going to be in your life?, and what is your life for?”. I am still not in a position to have my personal answers but these decisions make sense. Here are the 7 Laws of Leadership mentioned in the book: You must get excited about your work  If you don’t use something you have, you will eventually lose it.  Get your work to perfection  Give and you will get more  Allow yourself to experience more...

★★☆☆☆ I chose this book because I wanted to read all of Preeti Shenoy’s books. Since I have already read couple of her books, I can say that this book doesn’t have her touch. It is a bunch of articles written for Financial Chronicles column Sex and The City. The books talks about various love — relationship issues. It is obvious that the author has spent a lot of time on researching for this book. This book let you know of various problems that exist in love relationships. As the book covers so many sections in so few pages, I think the author doesn’t have space to give in-depth explanations and solutions. After reading few chapters, I thought I would pick the movies and books mentioned in this book and share. There are quite a number of mentions about songs, research papers, arts but they are little alien to me :) I don’t have any takeaway from this book apart from knowing there tons of issues exist. Books The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunde...