Unconventional careers

Every time I watch animal planet and other non-soap channels, I see guys who go diving into the oceans in search of ships or some rare fish! This is their career. Well, my question to you is, can a kid in India confidently dream of diving into deep seas in search of decayed ships rather than taking up the IIT entrance test or CA foundation course!

For example – Siddharth Narayanan, the Karan Singhania of Rang De Basanti has completed his MBA from S.P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. He was in fact, declared the “CNBC MANAGER OF THE YEAR” in 1999.

In spite of that, this guy chose film making to a career in corporate world! He actually quit his job to join Mani Ratnam as an assistant director for the movie Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil movie) for a meager salary of Rs.3, 000!  

In one of his interviews he said – “Cinema has always been my life. In fact, after class-10, I went up to my dad and said, enough of studies, Appa (Dad). Let me do something in cinema. But my father was smart enough to get me educated this far. So, MBA or not, I am in the industry I dreamed of being in.” 

Reality is – Not many of us would want to choose movies or similar careers unless we have something concrete in place nor would we quit a job that actually won you great accolades like, CNBC manager of the year! It’s all about how badly do you want it? Hence, i guess there is only one Shah Rukh Khan/Tom Cruise but over a lac computer engineers. After all, at the end of the day, everybody wants to play safe!

This blog is continuation of my previous post, “Do you know what you want in life?” Not many of us would dare to become what we dream! I’m not being pessimist, but the reality is, being unconventional is taking risk, risking the biggest things of our lives, career and money! 

I’m facing it myself! In a juxtaposition of choosing the corporate world to my passion ! Well, I don’t know. I would love to follow my heart than follow my mind which keeps reminding me of money & career…But…

My day - TOMORROW

Did I tell you that tomorrow is my B’Day? Yahoo JJ

Might sound funny, but I actually wait for this day every year, 12^th of February. I feel soooo proud on my b’day…hehe. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know myself! It’s been a track record, every birthday somebody makes me cry..Errrrr.. This time I want break this jinx

Nothing special happening. I don’t think I’ll even have the time to go for dinner. It’s going to be work and work. That’s the order of the day…But I’m hoping for some good eggless cake being ordered for me, like how it happens to every other employee here. In any case, as long I get to eat good food, I don’t complaint. After all, I live to eat and not eat to live!

Hence forth I plan to have a theme for every b’day. This time it’s going to be a food carnival. I’m going to have as much junk as possible (“Death by Chocolate” ice-cream, Fried Ice-Cream, Corn Kernel Popcorn, Domino’s Garlic Bread, Eden’s Chef’s Baked Pasta, China Town’s Sizziling Chocolate Brownie, Capsicum & Paneer Sizzler, Lays Sweet N Sour Chips, Pani Puri Chat, Crackle Chocolate, to name a FEW!)

Did I hear someone say, is that enough (Peet hai ki kuaan?)? Hey, but this is the real me

As understood, my work is keeping me way too busy to write a post, so I thought I would post some funny forward mail junk on the website to entertain all of you! I’m waiting to write on 4 different weddings that I had attended in the last 4 weeks! So, hold on!

Till then, this is Vaishno signing off, good night, shubh raatri, shabakher and please please please take good care of yourself! (To be read in Amitabh Bachan’s style, especially when he used to end KBC-1)

Intelligence Test

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1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? 

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated  way. 

2.  How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? 

Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? 

Wrong Answer!

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door This tests your  ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.  

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All of the animals attend… except one. Which animal does not attend? 

Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory. 

Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities. 

4.  There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it? 

Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.

This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes

Let me know how many of you got it right, i got none right!

Belated Happy B’day Nova :-)

 

Dearest and sweetest Neha,

Many many happy returns of the day Nova!

Wanted to wish you on 2nd, but had to attend a series of weddings this weekend, could not blog at all!

You know what Neha means?

N - Naughty

E - Energy

H - Hot

A - Amicable

One of the most striking features about her is - she is soooo tall, that she would give most of men a complex!  I have spent one of the best times of my life with her in a ‘matchbox’ sized hostel. Night shows, shopping, restaurants, fun and more fun! My internship would have never been the same without you sweety!

Lots of love & wishes,Vaishno J

Fully Faaaaltooooooooo

1. Lecturer: Write a note on Gandhi Jayanti.
   Sardar: Gandhi was a great man but maa kasam, I dont know who is Jayanti. 
    
2. Sardar : You cheated me.
   Shopkeeper: How?
   Sardar: You said this is American made radio.  But when I put it ON, it says All IndiaRadio. 
    
3. Sardar got into a bus on 1st April when conductor asked for ticket.
   He gave Rs.10/- and took the ticket and said April fool.  I have pass. 
    
4. Sardar joined new job. 1st day he worked till late evening on the computer.
   Boss was happy and asked what you did till evening.
   Sardar : Keyboard alphabets were not in order, so I made it  alright. 
    
5. On a romantic day sardar’s girlfriend asks him. Darling on our engagement day will you give me a ring.
   Sardar : Ya sure, from landline or mobile. 
    
6. Doctor to patient: YOu will die within 2 hours. Do you want to see any one before you die.
   Patient: Yes. A good doctor. 
    
7. Two sardars were fixing a bomb in a car.
   Sardar 1: What would you do if the bomb explodes while fixing.
   sardar 2: Dont worry, I have a one more.
   
8. Interviewer : When is your birthday.
   Sardar : 13th Oct.
   Interviewer : which year ?
   Sardar : Oye Ullu ke patte : Every year.
   
9. Sardar was busy removing a wheel from his auto.  A man asks sardar why are you removing a wheel from your auto.
   Sardar : Cant you read the board. Parking is only for 2 wheeler.
   
10. Sardar : What is the name of your car ?
    Lady : I forgot the name, but is starts with “T”.
    Sardar : Oye Kamaal ki gaadi hai, Tea se start hoti hai.  Hamaara gaadi petrol se start hoti hai.
    
11. Boss: Where were you born?
    sardar : Punjab.
    Boss: which part?
    Sardar : Kya which part ? Whole body born in punjab.
    
12. 12 . American told sardar : Hamare desh me 90% shaadi e-mail se hoti hai.
    Sardar : Kya bath hai. Hamari desh me 100% female se hoti hai.
    
13. How will you destroy a submarine full of sardars?

         Simple.  Just knock the door and they will open it!

Busy, busy…

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Misc. CRap

My life – In the last 1 week

 Got bored. So, I cut my hair short! Till about 4 months back, I had my hair as long as my waist line and right now, it’s not even my shoulder length!

Personally, when I look for a change, the 1^st thing that comes to me is to change my hair style!  Look different, feel different. That’s my philosophy.   Now, there were people like my aunt who said, “Why did you cut such long hair, who will marry you???”[I didn’t know that men prefer women with long hair].  

Wanted to tell you something else too. Nopo. I’m not complaining. I’m not trying to say anything new either. But…24 hours is just not enough for me! 8 hours of sleep and 12 hours of work [including traveling time]. I’m hardly left with 4 hours for myself. And hey, bathing, eating, drinking water too takes some time! Set aside another 2 hours for that. Now, it’s only 2 hours! Now, these 2 hours are distributed unequally. Oh! I forgot to set aside some time for gym. I shall at least go for a jog for tomorrow. For sure. Well, I had paid a sum of Rs.3, 000 few months back to a gym near by, but managed to go there only 4 days in the last 3 months. Lol (It’s okay, I always keep telling myself, ‘There’s Always Tomorrow’]   

Here you go! 2 hours of gym (30 minutes of travel + Changing time + etc). How I love to look thin, I love of imagine myself in the most fashionable clothes, but fail to work out! Good news -

I have started painting from yesterday [I don't know after how many years] I’m glad to let you know that my venture of the season is painting on a stain glass…Will try and get some pictures of it, once done.  I was working all Saturdays and Sundays too, in fact, was working the Pongal festival holidays too. What can I say? :@ 

Last week I was sent to Mumbai on an assignment. Now, that was just for a couple of days, but by the time I was back, I felt as if I missed out on a lot of things at work. But, what a trip it was! I attended some summit in Taj Lands End, Bandra.

If Mumbai is termed posh, Bandra is (Posh)² and Taj Land End in Bandra is (Posh)⁴… Boy, what a place it was! I got to meet people like Kishore Biyani, watched him being interviewed live. That trip was memorable, mainly because I had to complete the work all by myself without any help, went through a lot of adventure and got to meet a few biggies! And the most adventurous & thrilling part was, i went to Taj Lands on tempo traveller  The guard looked stunned… and of course, didn’t let me in till i showed him my ID card.

Guess what? I met Bipasha Basu in Taj’s rest roomJ She looks stunning. She really does. By the time I realized that it was her, she was gone! 

Startin up a Brand New Day…

This particular one is one of my favourites…Very Inspiring.. This is exactly how i feel this New Year that everything has changed and it’s a brand new start again.

Little did i know till i met this ’someone’ who said, “It’s your mind and the eyes of your mind thats trying to see something new, this world is still the same as it always was”!!! I don’t know if that is true.. but

Yeh Hosla

One of the most inspiring songs I have ever come across. Seen this movie with Nova and will always remember the good times we spent together! Brilliantly picturised and awesome tune… I wish this movie was nominated for the Oscars, too good!

Wanted this to be the 1st post of this New Year, but as always, things don’t happen the way you want! Never mind… It’s a part of the deal…
Here is the tune -
Yeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke

Manzil Muskil to kya,
Bundla Sahil to kya,
Tanha Ye Dil to Kya
Ho Hooo

Raah Pe Kante Bikhre agar,
Uspe to phir bhi chalna hi hai,
Saam Chhupale Suraj magar,
Raat ko ek din Dhalana hi hai,

Rut ye tal jayegi,
Himmat rang layegi,
Subha phir aayegi
Hoooo

Yeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke

Hogi hame to rehmat ada,
Dhup kategi saaye tale,
Apni khuda se hai ye Dua,
Manzil lagale humko gale

Zurrat so baar rahe,
Uncha Ikraar rahe,
Zinda har pyar rahe
HooooYeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke

For all those who do not understand Hindi, here is the English translation( Frankly, this translation sounds very funny, but I could not come up with a better one basically because I don’t have enough time to think for long & I’m not good at it either)… How can I lose my courage?
How can I lose my desire?

So what if the journey is tough?
So what if the horizon is hazy?
So what if my heart is lonely?

If my paths are laden with thorns
I must still continue to walk.
Even if the evening hides the sun
This night will set down someday.

This gloomy season will fade,
My courage will pay off then
Spring will paint the garden,
A new day will dawn.

I cannot lose courage
I cannot lose desire

If I have god’s grace,
I can enjoy even the heat in his shade
My request to god is,
May my goal hug me before I reach it!

Never lose my courage even 100 times,
Let my decision make me proud always,
Let every love live forever…

Panic all around ;-(

2^nd January 2008 

10:30 A.M – I got a comment from Ruhi telling me the picture in the home page of my blog is gross. I replied to her asking what’s so gross about it, after all, all it had was black & white leaves.

11:00 A.M. – Got a mail from Sathish saying that my blog has been hacked and there is something obscene on the home page. I was wondering what it was, cause I could not see anything gross on the front page!

11:30 A.M – I got another comment from Arvind asking me, what made me put such a gross photo (of a guy bending down and showing his ass****)…

12:00 Noon – I was confused as I could not see any gross picture on my blog as described by others. (Because I was in office and many websites were blocked, I probably could not see what it was)

1:00 P.M. – I logged into my account & changed my password.

2:00 P.M. – Messages kept coming saying that they found this particular picture in some link (This was comment they left on my blog). They asked me to delete it but since I could not picture, I could not delete it.

2:30 P.M. – I called up Gaurav and asked him if you could see anything obscene on my blog. I gave him my new password and asked him to delete it from my blog. Suddenly he said the password is not working! I gave him my old password too; he said that too is not working!

I started panicking. There is an option, “Lost password” near the login. I filled up my gmail id and got a confirmation that my new password has been sent to my gmail id#.

I asked him again to log on to gmail and get the new password. He finally logged on to my blog. He deleted the picture and changed my password.

Meanwhile, when he doing all this, I logged on to wordpress and logged in a complaint that my blog has been hacked.

4:00 P.M. – When I tried to log on to my blog, I got a message that my blog has been suspended due to violation of terms and conditions. This time I really panicked, thought I lost it forever!

5:00 P.M. – Though a proxy, I somehow managed to log on to my gmail and found a mail from Mark of wordpress confirming that the blog has been suspended and he wanted to know the exact flow of events for him to understand the intensity of the situation.

I got a hope that I could my blog back and yesterday, finally they resolved the issue and I’m back to blogging now.

I extend my gratitude to Arvind, Chini, Gaurav, Ish , Mark, Neha & Sathish ; for all their support and concern, it was really nice of all of you… Thank you

Didn’t know this blog would mean so much to me, I was totally bored without you my baby!…

 P.S – Knowing Gaurav, he would be annoyed hearing “thanks”, but that’s okay Gaurav…