I got up today morning and tried to find out the time - but wait! where's the time? There's no watch. I turned on my lappy to appease my tension for knowing time, and No! there's no display of time in it either!!!I tried to ask my friends, all of them have no idea of time. For a moment,my tension levels increased, at a speed I never experienced before. Suddenly everything seemed so confusing, I felt I am lost with no idea of when to brush my teeth, when to have bath, breakfast, college, assignments - oh no!!! what's happening to me?
Slowly, with despair, I got my self refreshed. And as the day cleared, a strange feeling started to creep within me. Was it shock? or tension? or fear? NO! it was something else - it was joy,happyness,freedom,hope - all mixed up together - giving me a feeling so amazing, I started loving it. But why this strange feeling at such a strange point of time? I tried to think over and voila! I think I got the answer - yes! It was due to 'time'. I dont have 'time' anymore...Yippie!!! So no more deadlines, no more haunting dates, times of submissions!!! Oh God! Is this true? Am I really relieved of 'time'? can't believe it.I dont need to rush my self through my daily chores, I do not need to worry about other's timelines. All of a sudden, the whole world seemed to be so beautiful - I feel I am liberated from the chains of 'time'.
Now that I got my answer, I started doing things at my own pace, with all the time I ever needed. I tried to read newspaper, then I went into my garden and watered the plans - oh! how peaceful it is to be with nature! I watched my favorite movies, went to the market and on the way back I saw kids playing on the street happily, college students competing among themselves
to impress a local beauty, the busy businessmen aah! where was I all these days? Was I lost in 'time'? Yes may be!!! I had my lunch, slept to the pleasure of my eye got up and went for a walk...beautiful evening. Lost in myself I had my dinner and was watching my favorite movie...
"Get up you lazy fellow!!!" yelled my friend,"Did you submit the assignment due today?"
"OOh!! I...I just dozed off finishing that!"
'what a beautiful dream'. I got up and started to fight myself against 'Time'
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Are you 'Socially Network'ed?
Hello! This is Rakesh again with a new post and this time its about the common thing we all know and come across in our daily 'Net' lives. Please leave your comments after reading it.
Digital age is what can be used as an apt term to describe the current scenario of the world. With eeverything from eating to washing clothes to work now becoming 'Digital', there's hardly anything left that is 'traditional'. Coming to think of it, I feel though the 'Digital Age' and the pervasion of computers in everyone's life has done good, there has been a feeling of disruption of personal life and relationships. It is not uncommon these days to come across a person engrosed in working on his laptop even in his leisure time rather than going out and meeting his kith and kin.
Over a last few years, there's been a new trend shaping up among the 'Digitizens' - as we may call them - which is 'Social Networking'. What is this? It is basically a network of people comnected to each other on wire - or Internet as we popularly know it. these people are geographically diversified, they are of different ages, classes of life, and lifestyle. It all started when websites like 'Orkut', 'Facebook', 'iBibo' etc came into light and brought about the change in people.
But the question to think about is "Is 'Social Networking' really useful?". Well, I feel 'yes'. The reason - we being so busy in our daily lives, can't go out and meet everybody personally. Thanks to Internet and Social Networking sites, you can connect and to any person, view their profile, share pictures, videos and what not! I have come across cases where a whole new relationship was born just out of 'Orkut'ing.
But that is not all. As every coin has two sides, this social networking has also a dark side to it. The prolific penetration of these web sites has actually increased the number of 'Computer Addicts'. I have personally seen the profiles of people with more than 15,000 scraps in Orkut. That is a real big number...right? Moreover, there are so many fake profiles to lure the gullible people and thus only increasing the security threat. And there's always a 'Porn' effect out there!
There are quite a number of variety social networking sites depending on their purpose/function. There are generic social networking sites such as 'Orkut', Facebook', 'iBibo', 'BharatStudent' etc. and 'LinkedIn' for Professionals, and there are other sites which help to share the 'downloads' they have made, 'softwares' they have, sites for uniting the family members, and there are sites to form groups to actually 'fight'...ummmm ;) The bottom line - there's something for everone.
Over the centuries, mankind has evolved, survived and flourished due to one reason - communication. The new concept of 'Social Networking' in the 'Digital Age' has definetely brought out a new dimension of communication - thus leading towards betterment of society and mankind.
So the question remains "Are you 'Social Network' ed?"
Digital age is what can be used as an apt term to describe the current scenario of the world. With eeverything from eating to washing clothes to work now becoming 'Digital', there's hardly anything left that is 'traditional'. Coming to think of it, I feel though the 'Digital Age' and the pervasion of computers in everyone's life has done good, there has been a feeling of disruption of personal life and relationships. It is not uncommon these days to come across a person engrosed in working on his laptop even in his leisure time rather than going out and meeting his kith and kin.
Over a last few years, there's been a new trend shaping up among the 'Digitizens' - as we may call them - which is 'Social Networking'. What is this? It is basically a network of people comnected to each other on wire - or Internet as we popularly know it. these people are geographically diversified, they are of different ages, classes of life, and lifestyle. It all started when websites like 'Orkut', 'Facebook', 'iBibo' etc came into light and brought about the change in people.
But the question to think about is "Is 'Social Networking' really useful?". Well, I feel 'yes'. The reason - we being so busy in our daily lives, can't go out and meet everybody personally. Thanks to Internet and Social Networking sites, you can connect and to any person, view their profile, share pictures, videos and what not! I have come across cases where a whole new relationship was born just out of 'Orkut'ing.
But that is not all. As every coin has two sides, this social networking has also a dark side to it. The prolific penetration of these web sites has actually increased the number of 'Computer Addicts'. I have personally seen the profiles of people with more than 15,000 scraps in Orkut. That is a real big number...right? Moreover, there are so many fake profiles to lure the gullible people and thus only increasing the security threat. And there's always a 'Porn' effect out there!
There are quite a number of variety social networking sites depending on their purpose/function. There are generic social networking sites such as 'Orkut', Facebook', 'iBibo', 'BharatStudent' etc. and 'LinkedIn' for Professionals, and there are other sites which help to share the 'downloads' they have made, 'softwares' they have, sites for uniting the family members, and there are sites to form groups to actually 'fight'...ummmm ;) The bottom line - there's something for everone.
Over the centuries, mankind has evolved, survived and flourished due to one reason - communication. The new concept of 'Social Networking' in the 'Digital Age' has definetely brought out a new dimension of communication - thus leading towards betterment of society and mankind.
So the question remains "Are you 'Social Network' ed?"
Friday, July 4, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Watch your words...
Hello all, thanks for reading this little attempt at expressing my thoughts about this topic “Watch your words”. Before starting my story about words, I would like to thank Rakesh for inspiring me to start writing blogs, Sagar for the same and Dada(Ravi Shankar) for keeping me on my toes all the time(he used to say “You will always be thinking and you will never write anything”).Thanks guys
Well let me come directly to the subject now, “Words”. Now if you were wondering about the title and trying to make any “intelligent” guesses about the content of the blog, let me inform you before hand, this is not any tutorial on learning vocabulary or such stuff – I strongly feel that the people who are reading this post have a decent vocabulary,right?
So still trying to figure what this is all about? Let me make your life a bit simpler. This “short” post on “words” is just a collection of thoughts and feelings which I had in me for a long time, which I wanted to share with others. Now why only “words” and not anything else on the face of earth? Well, I would say that everything on the face of earth boils down to “words” finally when you start communicating about. So instead of writing about dreamy things like “Love,Family,Relationships,etc.”, I decided on writing about the “words” themselves.
I believe in the power of “words” strongly. The reason being that they are so powerful, they can create and destroy whole worlds altogether! They are ubiquitous and are of course the basic building blocks of any human language. Words are the most powerful way to express our feelings, anytime and everytime. They can be used in a most intelligent way to get things done(what all managers do exactly!), in difficult situations to negotiate, to make relationships and sometimes even break one.
I was going through an article recently which was about personal management in which I came across a section which described the potential of words. It essentially said that every word we speak has a definite effect on what we experience in our lives. It may look strange how words can have such effect. But did you ever realize or notice the feelings of the other people when you talk to them lovingly or may be even rudely? Well in the former case, it’s the words which build the bonds and in the latter case, break them. We might not realize the influence of words on others easily, but the moment we try to, I think this world would be a better place to live.
Ok, enough of lecture, but is it enough to use words as often as we can just because they have influence on others? No way!!! It’s the right word at the right time that would have the most impact on others. To quote a simple example, lets assume you see a beautiful girl. What’s the first word that strikes your mind? Beautiful? Well to say it does to about 60~70% of us. And if suppose you want to describe the girl to your friend. Did you ever know that there is something in English called degree of expression and if you followed that, you would have a tremendous impact? Continuing our previous example, imagine describing the girl as “Gorgeous” or “Stunning” or “charming” or “gracious”. Each of these words has a different degree of expression and they are meant to be used for different occasions. For that matter, the whole point of having synonyms in English language is just that – express your feelings at the “word’s” best. So the next time you use any word, try to experiment with new ones – ones that would have a major impact on others because in today’s world, no one has time to listen to same old words all the time. The essence – “Right word at right time will take you to the right place and at a right pace”.
After having seen the greatness of the words on the positive side, lets flip the coin. As I said, words have influence on others and believe me, they have their darkest and dreadliest influence if used in offending others. Well, we all offend others but we also offend others unknowingly, where the words play the spoilplay. Our intentions might be benevolent, but words do have their chance. And we can see these incidents happen in our life almost daily. If feelings are the flames, words are like fuel to these and you know the end result. But all this could be avoided if they can be used as water, instead of flames…its all in us.
There was a recent commercial on TV which had the caption “Barriers break if only we speak” and how true it is…had it not been because of the great “words”.
Well, I think I ate a lot of time by now, so I sincerely suggest you to get back to work and remember “Watch your words…”
Well let me come directly to the subject now, “Words”. Now if you were wondering about the title and trying to make any “intelligent” guesses about the content of the blog, let me inform you before hand, this is not any tutorial on learning vocabulary or such stuff – I strongly feel that the people who are reading this post have a decent vocabulary,right?
So still trying to figure what this is all about? Let me make your life a bit simpler. This “short” post on “words” is just a collection of thoughts and feelings which I had in me for a long time, which I wanted to share with others. Now why only “words” and not anything else on the face of earth? Well, I would say that everything on the face of earth boils down to “words” finally when you start communicating about. So instead of writing about dreamy things like “Love,Family,Relationships,etc.”, I decided on writing about the “words” themselves.
I believe in the power of “words” strongly. The reason being that they are so powerful, they can create and destroy whole worlds altogether! They are ubiquitous and are of course the basic building blocks of any human language. Words are the most powerful way to express our feelings, anytime and everytime. They can be used in a most intelligent way to get things done(what all managers do exactly!), in difficult situations to negotiate, to make relationships and sometimes even break one.
I was going through an article recently which was about personal management in which I came across a section which described the potential of words. It essentially said that every word we speak has a definite effect on what we experience in our lives. It may look strange how words can have such effect. But did you ever realize or notice the feelings of the other people when you talk to them lovingly or may be even rudely? Well in the former case, it’s the words which build the bonds and in the latter case, break them. We might not realize the influence of words on others easily, but the moment we try to, I think this world would be a better place to live.
Ok, enough of lecture, but is it enough to use words as often as we can just because they have influence on others? No way!!! It’s the right word at the right time that would have the most impact on others. To quote a simple example, lets assume you see a beautiful girl. What’s the first word that strikes your mind? Beautiful? Well to say it does to about 60~70% of us. And if suppose you want to describe the girl to your friend. Did you ever know that there is something in English called degree of expression and if you followed that, you would have a tremendous impact? Continuing our previous example, imagine describing the girl as “Gorgeous” or “Stunning” or “charming” or “gracious”. Each of these words has a different degree of expression and they are meant to be used for different occasions. For that matter, the whole point of having synonyms in English language is just that – express your feelings at the “word’s” best. So the next time you use any word, try to experiment with new ones – ones that would have a major impact on others because in today’s world, no one has time to listen to same old words all the time. The essence – “Right word at right time will take you to the right place and at a right pace”.
After having seen the greatness of the words on the positive side, lets flip the coin. As I said, words have influence on others and believe me, they have their darkest and dreadliest influence if used in offending others. Well, we all offend others but we also offend others unknowingly, where the words play the spoilplay. Our intentions might be benevolent, but words do have their chance. And we can see these incidents happen in our life almost daily. If feelings are the flames, words are like fuel to these and you know the end result. But all this could be avoided if they can be used as water, instead of flames…its all in us.
There was a recent commercial on TV which had the caption “Barriers break if only we speak” and how true it is…had it not been because of the great “words”.
Well, I think I ate a lot of time by now, so I sincerely suggest you to get back to work and remember “Watch your words…”
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