I came across this beautiful article written by Evan Mehlenbacher as given below:
BUZZARD
If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.BATThe ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
BUMBLEBEE
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it expires.
PEOPLE
In many ways, humans are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. They struggle about with all their problems and frustrations, never realizing that all they have to do is look up.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but faith looks up.Where are you looking today?
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Champions Trophy…….
I don’t know why but I was not really keen to follow Indian cricket matches in this tournament. As expected, we are out of the trophy and mighty Aussies have done it again. I was not really surprised when we lost that match. The lack of confidence was clearly visible in our players. After all it is a game and in this tournament one bad day on the field could throw your team out.
One can tell lot of reasons for our poor performance recently. People will crib about Chappel’s tactics, his rotation policies, Dravid’s inability to lead the team aggressively and so on.
Still I feel that this is not the end of the road. All we need is couple of comfortable wins to get the team spirit back on the track. This is the same team who has done fantastic job in some of the past tournaments. It was good to see that Viru was coming out of his shell and smashing the ball everywhere on the ground. Tendlya, Dravid , Pathan are already in form.
Well, team for the South African tour is already announced. It was really pity that Rajesh Powar is left out again. With Wasim Jafar’s inclusion in one day team, Sehwag better continue his form found in the match against Australia. Dhoni has to also click this time. We want more fireworks from him and he is definitely capable of doing it. This guy plays as per the situation now days. It will be also interesting to see what Apna Anil bhai does. All Asian teams are out of this tournament, so let’s see if Australia manages to win this time at least. ;)
I am sure that Men in Blue can bring back the world cup this time. We have the ability to do it. And just like millions of people in India, it is also my dream to see the world cup in the mighty hands of apla Sachin Tendulkar.
Cheers,
Amol
One can tell lot of reasons for our poor performance recently. People will crib about Chappel’s tactics, his rotation policies, Dravid’s inability to lead the team aggressively and so on.
Still I feel that this is not the end of the road. All we need is couple of comfortable wins to get the team spirit back on the track. This is the same team who has done fantastic job in some of the past tournaments. It was good to see that Viru was coming out of his shell and smashing the ball everywhere on the ground. Tendlya, Dravid , Pathan are already in form.
Well, team for the South African tour is already announced. It was really pity that Rajesh Powar is left out again. With Wasim Jafar’s inclusion in one day team, Sehwag better continue his form found in the match against Australia. Dhoni has to also click this time. We want more fireworks from him and he is definitely capable of doing it. This guy plays as per the situation now days. It will be also interesting to see what Apna Anil bhai does. All Asian teams are out of this tournament, so let’s see if Australia manages to win this time at least. ;)
I am sure that Men in Blue can bring back the world cup this time. We have the ability to do it. And just like millions of people in India, it is also my dream to see the world cup in the mighty hands of apla Sachin Tendulkar.
Cheers,
Amol
Thursday, October 12, 2006
My overseas work experience……..
How did I get job in Sydney?
I was in Sydney for almost a year or so. After initial struggle of finding job (because not having any local experience), I finally got the job in the Software company located at North Sydney. Thankfully this struggle was not so long and I managed to get used to new circumstances in that time span. I remembered that evening when I got a call from CTO of this company. He was looking for .NET, SQL Server professionals and hence called me for technical interview next day. Then I quickly analyzed the options to travel to North Sydney. By this time, I was familiar with Sydney city internals. I was lucky to have my best friends and relatives there for me. That helped me a lot for smooth transition. And I must say that everyone helped me in whichever way they can. But getting a job was my own battle, right? Okay, so next day I catch a train to North Sydney and was thrilled to know that this train would cross the harbor bridge. It was raining heavily that time. I entered the office premises. Again, thanks to accurate road maps and directions.
Can you imagine what was I thinking that time? My first overseas interview. Totally unfamiliar circumstances, unfamiliar people, unfamiliar places and so on. I must say that before leaving India, I was very much settled in my job. I was full of butterflies in my stomach. I was anxious. I was curious and I was also little bit nervous. One good looking receptionist politely asked me to have a seat and offered me a cup of coffee, which I politely refused. I was told to come there at 5 O’clock in the evening. And I reached there at 4.50. So, I waited, waited and waited for next 35 minutes. Obviously, the CTO was a busy man and was help up in some kind of conference. Finally, the wait was over and CTO himself came to see me. He apologized me 10 times for coming late. He started with informal chat and offered me a cup of coffee again. ;) I was amused by his personality and his manners. Then we went to the conference room and started the first part of interview.
First part was sort of generic. He asked me generic questions. He was basically trying to check if I could suit in his organization or not. First part was over and I though that I had performed well in the first part. In the second part, lots of techie questions/scenarios were discussed. I was really confident discussing these questions which ranged from ASP to .NET to BizTalk to XML to BPEL4WS. That was really good time of the interview. And I could feel that during this time my anxiety, butterflies were gone completely. After almost 1 hour, he finally told me to join his office from very next day. And all I could remember is that I was sitting in a train back to home. All the time I was thinking that people say that every dog has its own day. And yes, that was my day. ;) Getting job there in the IT Company (that is also purely development) was not an easy task. This is what I was told. I had met few people and everybody advised me to be patient as it was going to be a tough task. This is how I was in and I knew that half of the battle was won in one day.
My first day in office
Suit bute me aa kanhya..band bajane ko…:) No, no, I was not singing this song while going to office. ;) I was well dressed (as usual ;)) and entered the office premises. Then the formal round of introduction took place with all team members. Monday was the meeting time in the office. Everybody was served the coffee. And who do you think bought coffee for all team members from the coffee shop? It was MD of the company. He was more interested in the project I was about to join. That was a big account for the company and initially a team of 10 people was set up. I was now one of them.I was expecting formal round of induction for at least 2-3 days. That is what we do in domestic companies. So, I was in sort of holiday mood. I was also happy to know there were 2 Indians in the team. You know…mitti ki khushbu aayi :) Then I met this guy, my project leader. He handed me various print outs. It included a database diagram consisting 40 tables or so, functional specification and a very high-level technical specification. He welcomed me and then assigned me 30 ASP.NET pages to be completed in 40 hours. :) That was my first day. Later on he told me that he wanted to check my capabilities in the first week itself. ;)
Conclusion
My friends, my juniors, relatives….so many times ask me about what I learned there while working. Well, I can go on and on writing on this but this time I will keep it really short. WORK HARD AND PARTY HARD. You will be given lot of responsibilities if they think you are capable of doing.
I was in Sydney for almost a year or so. After initial struggle of finding job (because not having any local experience), I finally got the job in the Software company located at North Sydney. Thankfully this struggle was not so long and I managed to get used to new circumstances in that time span. I remembered that evening when I got a call from CTO of this company. He was looking for .NET, SQL Server professionals and hence called me for technical interview next day. Then I quickly analyzed the options to travel to North Sydney. By this time, I was familiar with Sydney city internals. I was lucky to have my best friends and relatives there for me. That helped me a lot for smooth transition. And I must say that everyone helped me in whichever way they can. But getting a job was my own battle, right? Okay, so next day I catch a train to North Sydney and was thrilled to know that this train would cross the harbor bridge. It was raining heavily that time. I entered the office premises. Again, thanks to accurate road maps and directions.
Can you imagine what was I thinking that time? My first overseas interview. Totally unfamiliar circumstances, unfamiliar people, unfamiliar places and so on. I must say that before leaving India, I was very much settled in my job. I was full of butterflies in my stomach. I was anxious. I was curious and I was also little bit nervous. One good looking receptionist politely asked me to have a seat and offered me a cup of coffee, which I politely refused. I was told to come there at 5 O’clock in the evening. And I reached there at 4.50. So, I waited, waited and waited for next 35 minutes. Obviously, the CTO was a busy man and was help up in some kind of conference. Finally, the wait was over and CTO himself came to see me. He apologized me 10 times for coming late. He started with informal chat and offered me a cup of coffee again. ;) I was amused by his personality and his manners. Then we went to the conference room and started the first part of interview.
First part was sort of generic. He asked me generic questions. He was basically trying to check if I could suit in his organization or not. First part was over and I though that I had performed well in the first part. In the second part, lots of techie questions/scenarios were discussed. I was really confident discussing these questions which ranged from ASP to .NET to BizTalk to XML to BPEL4WS. That was really good time of the interview. And I could feel that during this time my anxiety, butterflies were gone completely. After almost 1 hour, he finally told me to join his office from very next day. And all I could remember is that I was sitting in a train back to home. All the time I was thinking that people say that every dog has its own day. And yes, that was my day. ;) Getting job there in the IT Company (that is also purely development) was not an easy task. This is what I was told. I had met few people and everybody advised me to be patient as it was going to be a tough task. This is how I was in and I knew that half of the battle was won in one day.
My first day in office
Suit bute me aa kanhya..band bajane ko…:) No, no, I was not singing this song while going to office. ;) I was well dressed (as usual ;)) and entered the office premises. Then the formal round of introduction took place with all team members. Monday was the meeting time in the office. Everybody was served the coffee. And who do you think bought coffee for all team members from the coffee shop? It was MD of the company. He was more interested in the project I was about to join. That was a big account for the company and initially a team of 10 people was set up. I was now one of them.I was expecting formal round of induction for at least 2-3 days. That is what we do in domestic companies. So, I was in sort of holiday mood. I was also happy to know there were 2 Indians in the team. You know…mitti ki khushbu aayi :) Then I met this guy, my project leader. He handed me various print outs. It included a database diagram consisting 40 tables or so, functional specification and a very high-level technical specification. He welcomed me and then assigned me 30 ASP.NET pages to be completed in 40 hours. :) That was my first day. Later on he told me that he wanted to check my capabilities in the first week itself. ;)
Conclusion
My friends, my juniors, relatives….so many times ask me about what I learned there while working. Well, I can go on and on writing on this but this time I will keep it really short. WORK HARD AND PARTY HARD. You will be given lot of responsibilities if they think you are capable of doing.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Trust…….Can you define it?
We all use this word “Trust” frequently. I trust that person. That person will never betray me because I trust him. We rely on our family and friends. We bank on our education and knowledge. Sometimes, we trust everything we hear or see. You will find so many definitions of this one word ‘Trust’.
So, what is trust?
It is a simple mathematical equation which adds your emotional quotient and your logical quotient together. Okay, I am not getting philosophical here. I have read few articles on this. And based on that information, I could come up with this equation. And I really think that it is true.
Your emotional factor consists of various things. It can be anything from love, affection to fear as well. Sometimes, you trust because you are afraid of something. Probably you are afraid of losing something. So, you have no alternative but to trust. You are attached to your own people. This might be because of your love or affection for them or vice-e-versa. This list of emotional factors is long and one can add so many things to it. But one thing is certain that these emotional factors expose your vulnerabilities to the world.
Logical factor or rather I would say it as practical factor, is really practical. This is the common nature of human being. The presence of logical factor in the trust equation indicates that you have assessed all possible outcomes of this relation. When you trust somebody then logical factor tells us that you have understood all possible conditions that could happen with respect to your trust relationship. Will you trust any person, who poses you death threat? Answer is no, right. Your logical factor will do all such kind of calculations and then add appropriate value to the equation. And then you decide whether this trust relationship can work or not.
So, next time you trust somebody; do remember this equation. You may be in a better position to judge. ;)
When you throw your baby in air in order to hold her, have you ever looked at her eyes? Believe me, your baby will not even get scared, rather she will enjoy the jump. Because she knows that your hands are up there, waiting to hold her safely. That is TRUST!
So, what is trust?
It is a simple mathematical equation which adds your emotional quotient and your logical quotient together. Okay, I am not getting philosophical here. I have read few articles on this. And based on that information, I could come up with this equation. And I really think that it is true.
Your emotional factor consists of various things. It can be anything from love, affection to fear as well. Sometimes, you trust because you are afraid of something. Probably you are afraid of losing something. So, you have no alternative but to trust. You are attached to your own people. This might be because of your love or affection for them or vice-e-versa. This list of emotional factors is long and one can add so many things to it. But one thing is certain that these emotional factors expose your vulnerabilities to the world.
Logical factor or rather I would say it as practical factor, is really practical. This is the common nature of human being. The presence of logical factor in the trust equation indicates that you have assessed all possible outcomes of this relation. When you trust somebody then logical factor tells us that you have understood all possible conditions that could happen with respect to your trust relationship. Will you trust any person, who poses you death threat? Answer is no, right. Your logical factor will do all such kind of calculations and then add appropriate value to the equation. And then you decide whether this trust relationship can work or not.
So, next time you trust somebody; do remember this equation. You may be in a better position to judge. ;)
When you throw your baby in air in order to hold her, have you ever looked at her eyes? Believe me, your baby will not even get scared, rather she will enjoy the jump. Because she knows that your hands are up there, waiting to hold her safely. That is TRUST!
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Has Ganguly missed the boat?
Ganguly failed miserably in the Challenger Trophy Tournament. I believe that it was just a game. And anything can happen in the game. Sometimes you click but sometimes you cannot. That doesn’t mean you are less qualified. But I feel that current tournament was the best opportunity for him to knock the selection committee’s door. He still has cricket and his leadership qualities left in him. And with our own ‘Colonel’ Mr. Dilip Vengsarkar in charge of the selection now, I think Ganguly still has a fair chance.
I do believe that whatever goes up has to come down. Right, that is what we have been taught in the schools. They call it as ‘Law of Gravitaion’. But what matters is how gracefully one falls down from the top. Irrespective of all the things associated with Ganguly in the past, it would be definitely good to see him ending his career positively and on a happy note.
I must also say that is not possible for everybody. Very few people have retired gracefully. Some of them are legends like: Gavaskar, Sampras and so on.
Cheers,
Amol
I do believe that whatever goes up has to come down. Right, that is what we have been taught in the schools. They call it as ‘Law of Gravitaion’. But what matters is how gracefully one falls down from the top. Irrespective of all the things associated with Ganguly in the past, it would be definitely good to see him ending his career positively and on a happy note.
I must also say that is not possible for everybody. Very few people have retired gracefully. Some of them are legends like: Gavaskar, Sampras and so on.
Cheers,
Amol
When Viru fires…………..
Virender Sehwag scored 90 runs not out yesterday in the Challenger Trophy. It is good to see that Viru is finally gaining his form.
Come on Viru, we are expecting lot more from you in the coming World cup. And I am just hoping that he opens the batting with Tendulkar in the World Cup.
Cheers,
Amol
Come on Viru, we are expecting lot more from you in the coming World cup. And I am just hoping that he opens the batting with Tendulkar in the World Cup.
Cheers,
Amol
Monday, October 02, 2006
Sachin at Challenger Trophy Tournament
Saching scored 139 out of 100 balls. One more magnificent innings. Remember Piyush Chwala. He got Sachin out in the last year. He was brought upon to stop the fireworks. He is the same person who celebrated like anything after taking wicket of Sachin and that also in front of him. Well, he crossed the danger line that time only. Very few bowlers have dared to do that but later on cursed them for crossing the danger line. This is what we have got from the last match for Mr. Chawala from our only Tendlya:
Six, four, four, six - four consecutive blows in his first over and Chawla didn't know where to hide.
Cheers,
Amol
Six, four, four, six - four consecutive blows in his first over and Chawla didn't know where to hide.
Cheers,
Amol
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