Quote from Azim

Azim Premji in an interview quoted the below lines when talking about the impact on BPO requirements due to US Economy Slowdown:

"When you are under pressure you make the bold steps faster, you don't make the bold steps slower."

Some times Quotes without the context at which it was said doesn't give the exact meaning, but this could be taken individually.

My own experience of the quote but at a very very smaller level
Last week Friday, suddenly, I have decided to leave by 6 and the time is now 5:30 and lots of work do within that time. I have to send a "political" email as well, which I started only by 6:05. I typed the complete e-mail at a stretch and sent it. After some time I thought that I sent it in a hurry, but content came out boldly. I usually send mails in a sugar quoted way. Today I opened the replies and it has reached every body in the correct sense. May be if I would have thought more, I don't know whether the same words would have come. But it doesn't mean that you always have to type mails in a hurry. It just happened this time!!!

Tho dhus rupaiya

I never felt so bad about not knowing Hindi till I went to US. People from every other state at least understands Hindi. Most of my friends / colleagues know Hindi and I miss lot of funny conversations.

Another incident happened @ Delhi Airport during immigration check. I gave my passport to the immigration office. He started asking some questions in Hindi. I said I do not know Hindi. He replied, aren't you an Indian ?. What should I reply ? I replied to him politely that I am from Tamil Nadu and Hindi is not taught in the normal schools ( I meant Government Schools).

Hindi was never taught in the Government Schools along with Tamil. Tamil is one of the oldest Language and I am happy that Tamil is my mother tongue. Kaveri Valley Civilization is equivalent to the great Indus Valley Civilization. I am fortunate enough to read and know the ancient tamil literature.

I know I am not the only person who doesn't know Hindi in Tamil Nadu.

One of my friend went to Mumbai. He went to buy something and he want to get that for Rs.20. But he only knows "dhus rupaiya" (Rs 10), so he asked it for "Tho Thus rupaiya" (two ten Rupee).

All thanks goes to the so called great politicians of Tamil Nadu. Is there any harm in teaching the country's National Language ?

Patience or Comfort Zone

I didn't write a blog entry for quite some time. Just thought, why didn't I write for quite sometime? I always have a lot of things to say and speak about, because I am passionate about lot of things technology, music, football...

I have more balance in my life. These days, you know, I am more satisfied with things I have. Sometimes, a thought pops up: Why don't you go out of your comfort zone and current life.... If not now, when? What are you waiting for?

I dunno whether I have lot of patience or I am very much in my comfort zone...????

Money, Money, Money...

Our predecessors are true, when they said, “How much money we get, it is not enough.” When it comes to money, I believe there are two things

Ø Increases your means to get more money or
Ø Spend less.

Mostly, it is ‘either or’ kind of thing. Mostly we are taught to do the latter. Monthly I have to track where I am spending the most and try to reduce it the next time. I have computerized (being a software engineer, I can use the technology wherever I need it) my spending, Tax stuffs as Excel Sheets (We can do a lot of stuffs with these simple excel sheets). We plan money for something and it will go for some other thing. There is a John Lennon told, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” It is true not only with respect to money, isn’t it?

It is not wrong trying to get money you want. But the compromises we make to get that money, determines whether we enjoy getting that money or not. Money was made as an evil thing by people who made it as a measurement of a Man’s status. (Here, Money also includes material wealth).

I am trying to live a life where I live for my needs, to some extent to my family’s needs and not for others. I am already trying and I hope I will continue. There are lots of people around you who ask, “You didn’t buy a land, house, car, bike and every other stuff they saw in another software engineer’s house.”

As said in The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, “In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.” I have to overcome the thought about me, “What others think about me?” These are all the thoughts which I am fighting for. I know it is worth fighting.

I got little advice from elderly people that “when we get more money or when we move up the ranks in work, Humbleness should be there”. That’s true, isn’t it, I am trying my best to live humbly.