Monday, June 30, 2008

The Secret of Life

Secret of Life

Today is the beginning of my new Life
I am starting over Today
All good things are coming to me today
I am Grateful to be Alive
I see Beauty all Around Me
I live with Passion And Purpose
I take Time to Laugh and Play Everyday
I am Awake Energized and Alive
I Focus on All the Good Things in Life
And give Thanks For Them
I am At Peace and One With Everything
I Feel the Love, the Joy, the Abundance
I am Free to be Myself
I am Magnificence in the Human Form
I am the Perfection of Life
I am Grateful to be ......... ME!
Today is the Best Day of My Life!!!

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHBOMiM9ozs

A decade of belief! A decade of Teamwork! Rincon!

Last Saturday Rincon India Solutions Pvt. Ltd completed a decade of successful existence. An idea that led to the creation of a company with probably 4 people on board (I guess it was Kanumama, Manish, Yogesh and Harshad)...not many might have thought that it would grow so much in a decade...specially since it was new (and in India, and undiscovered) field and the people who started it were not even from the same domain...but it was bold..courageous step that was bound to yield results.

The teamwork at Rincon is an example. I have not seen such a cohesive team..I mean I know the core team like Harshad, Hitesh, Bhavesh along with Vidya and Shankar...and they contributed equally in making the organization grow. Hats off to them too!

It must have been a ride full of roughs, I am sure...but probably today Manish and Mama must be feeling quite satisfied. I know they still have a hunger for more...and thats probably what keeps them going...I wish them all the very best...! As Mama keeps saying "Together we can! Together we will!" I have no doubt that the growth will be phnominal in the next 4-5 years and Rincon will go places! Amen!

Good News! Officially!

Well! What can "good news" be in India after marriage? Its the same...yes..I will be a dad in December...I just can't believe it..its going to be God's biggest and unarguably God's biggest and happiest gift I have ever got or will ever get. Can't be more happy! :D

Well this weekend was crazy. Saturday morning PApa-Mumy arrived at 0530hrs...we kept talking till 8 and then went to Samartheshwar temple from where I dropped Papa to his Conference venue. At home we again talkeda nd talked. Wanted to tell Bhartimami to inform

Manish and PAuravibhabhi about the good news. When we called they were all at Matunga Gymkhana for a party to celebrate 10 years of Rincon..a truly great achievement. So didn't talk then.

Around 4pm we picked up PApa and went to meet Pune gang who all had come to Nishitmama's surprise bday bash. I was all the more interested in meeting Ria and seeing Zara. Ria is still the same...extremely cute...very thin and still weighs 13 kg..the last I saw her in 2006 she was probably 11.5kg..wow!!! thats some gain ..hehehe...but I was happy to meet all of them.

Mummy informed Rekhabhbhi there and she suddenly came out of the room (Meenal, Nehal, and the 2 of us were sitting in the hall) and started singing "mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari"...and then hugged kruti...meenal and nehal immediately realised what it meant...nehal to started crying...she was very happy....it was a good senti moment for all of us....and then it was fun all the way...

In the evening Manish called and congratulated and so did Pauravibhabhi. Manish was so so happy. It means a lot to me to see him happy..for me brothers are pranav and manish....
anyways...it was a good chat..as usual manish kept on teasing kruti and as always she handed over the phone to me!!

For dinner we went to Rajwadu..it was get together for all the block members of our Block E in Indraprasth-II. We had a good time...only negative was that it was toooo hot and toooo humid...but still enjoyed....

Thursday, June 19, 2008

એક નાનકડો પ્રયત્ન! A small try!

એક ઝાડ, એક ડાળખી, એક પાંદળું, એક ફૂલ
એક દરિયો, એક કીનારો, એક વ્હાણ, એક લંગર
એક પત્થર, એક ઓરડો, શ્રધ્ધા, એક મંદીર
એક શબ્દ, એક સ્વર,એક રાગ એક ગીત

એક ઈંટ, એક ભીંત, બે જણ, એક ઘર
એક તું, એક હું, એક મન, એક જીવન

- Kashyap Shah

29th May 2008

Death! The End!

I know what you are saying. "So boringly philosophical". Well can't help it.
My friend Saumil's mother passed away yesterday. Chhapia came to my desk and told me that he just got a call from Saumil and that Saumil was inconsolable. Well, it is natural. Mother is a person irreplaceable...its a vacuum that their absence create..I can't imagine what must be going through Saumil and his family's minds at such this point.

Chhapia, Keyur, Gupta and Jatin left early to go to his home. I got down at High Court where Devendra picked me up and we went to Saumil's place. It was sure gloomy. Saumil and his brother had not yet arrived from the hospital. We prayed for the departed soul and then sat outside waiting for him. He and his brother came at around 8pm. We met him. He explained that she was on life support for the last 10 days or so and in coma. We all knew that she had a health problem and it was not small..but none of us knew it was this serious. She had suffered 2 massive heart attacks 1 after the other.

We sat there for some time with him and his family. Personally, I have never realised what to speak in such a situation. Words of consolation won't repair his loss, nor will he be in any such mindset where he would understand things. Speaking just for the sake of it is something I don't like. We all sat silently.

Today morning we all went to the smashaan for the cremation. Saumil was inconsolable today too. But I guess he will come to terms. God has given this excellent ability to humans to "forget". He would surely not forget his mother. But the loss is gradually forgotten...or rather the effect of the loss is gradually forgotten and thats probably what keeps us humans going.

More than Saumil I also feel for his father. Saumil has begun his life. He just got engaged..he will get married sooner or later. He will have his family and will get busy with it...thats how it should be. But his father? He has lost his soulmate...probably his only companion in his last years..what must he be going through? I dread of being alone...can't even imagine it...my heart goes out for him...I sincerely pray to God to bless him and give him enough strength to wade through this most destructive event in his life. Amen!

Monday, June 16, 2008

"increment" weekend!!!!

The D-Day is here. What a Friday it was. It is increment season all around and so it is in my company. Since last 2 weeks or so, there have been "lay-offs" from my company. They are actually reuqest resignations by all low performers..the lowest in their bands, not all but some percentage, which I am not aware of. Although funny, but I had this strange feeling grip me in those last 2 weeks that am I on the line too???!!!! I know my past performace was more than good and even in 2007 it has not been bad. It may not have been to the mark as would be execpected from my deisgnation, still it wasnt less than average by any means. Initially I didn't sound the tension to anyone but that I talked about it to Kruti and Devendra and both rubbished my thoughts. The fact that it was a client visit here and my boss was extremely busy, made matters worse. He had not time to take feedbacks and I was getting tensed. Finally Friday noon we started getting news that the increment letters were being released. Initial news came from another BU to which Devendra belongs..the news weren't encouraging though. We all knew that the increments were not going to be too good this time, but didnt know how bad. My letter didn't come. On my way home in the bus, I got a call from Chhaps that Keyur had got a 30% increment. I was happy for him. 1 year into the job and this is a good achievement. Upon reaching home, I started getting restless. My letter was not appearing. A collegue called and told me that she had got an increment of just 5k. Devendra also got similar hike...Devendra was senior to me and bhairavi joined with me.... I got really tensed...Kruti kept encouraging me. Then at @ 9pm I saw my letter...increment of 8500/-..about 15% hike....good considering the industry situation and considering that others in my band weren't getting too good hikes either....so was happy. Went out with Kruti at 2330hrs for a drive...was happy so had to celebrate. We went around for sometime and got a masala paav packed. Then also got a alu-mutter sandwich packed for kruti from her favourite Purohit. Went to sleep around 2am. Saturday morning I had booked tickets for Mere Baap Pehle Aap movie at Red Lounge in Cinemax. What a pain the movie was. How can they call it a comedy. It was plain waste of time and money. We were so huingry as had eaten nothing at all. Kruti was weak so decided to go to Grand Bhagwati for buffet lunch. I like buffets as it has a lot of salads and I can take whatever I want. I usually want to avoid punjabi and I can do that in buffets. We enjoyed th buffet and then went home and slept like pigs for 2-3 hours till Pranav called..thankfully...India was going to lose to Pakistan in the Final in Bangladesh and anywas I was not interested anyways. Sunday was an ok day. Got up late at 9am and then wathced TV. Had biryani for lunch and it was really good. In the evening we decided to attend a Khadayta function. It was a Nadia Khadayta function and PRavinfua was actively involved, so didnt want to disappoint him. He was instrumental in publishing a directory of Nadiad Khadayta people living in Amdavad. Its a good descriptive directory. Food was ok...anywas didnt want to have much outside food. Went to bed around 1030pm as Monday se routine starts......

come on man!!!!!

My inner voice keeps telling me that I should do something to lose weight but since last few months, my mind wasn't listening...or may be not implementing. I put on some more weight in the last 6 months or so, and more than anyone else I know that it is not a good sign.

Thank Almighty, I started going to gym/walk since last week regularly. I get up at 0500 and am at the gym by 0540 hrs. I think I have made a resolve this time...God Willing.....I just hope I dont leave it in-between this time.
As Kruti keeps telling me, I won't get much time once December approaches and once baby is born there is no way I would be able to go to the gym, specially because we 2 stay alone here and it might become difficult to cook...but thats a far off thing...right now I have 5 months at least and even I lose 8-10 kgs in this time I would be good. And I know this is achievable. After all I lost nearly 15kgs in 5 months when I was in Jersey. I need to get into that state of mind. In Jersey I used to literally ENJOY my workouts and probably thats why I lost so much weight.

It seems establishing the goal and then enjoying the perseverance is what helps achieve the goal. All the last year or so I would keep thinking of and getting tensed about my weight and I cudnt do much about it. Whenever I would begin doing something I would think that its too late re! Cant do it!...all those damning negativities that I hate so much but have been unable to keep at bay. At least last 3-4 days that I have been to the gym, I've enjoyed the workouts and that I guess is a good sign. I weighed myself and will weigh myself again not before another 10 days at least.

Lets hope for the best! Insha-allah :)

Friday, June 06, 2008

What a day!

Yesterday..or rather yesternight came with some tension. Pranav (my brother in Bangalore who has just returned from US after speding 19 years there) had hired a driver through an agency and the driver had shown willingness to work directly for him. Now last evening Pranav got an sms that the agency wanted to proceed legally for breaching the contract...the contract does mention about paying up 15000/- in such a case. Well we learn from our mistakes..we didn't read the contract so closely. So now Pranav is going to let go off the driver and sort things out with the agency. Poor guy is being troubled with newer things everyday....hope things will straighten out soon enough...

I was tensed because of that..I don't kow why. I need to learn to calm myself specially things in which I have really no control at ALL! Worrying about these things would not solve things in any way and in fact increase health problems for me. So I better learn fast. The fact that Kruti is quite positive about things will make stuff easier for me!!! Lets hope so!

So finally Manish came back from US couple of days back after a much needed vacation for him and bhabhi and Kavya, specially in US with Parul...after almost 20 years of marriage Parul's dream of her brother visiting her home finally came true..the 4 weeks must have zoomed by but am glad the trip happened.
Kanumama and mami must be really happy to see Kavya after a month...hope they all enjoy....

Ciao!

What a day!

Thursday, June 05, 2008

1st Blog..is this good?

This is my first blog...I have apprehensions..how would it be? Is it really fun?
I used to write diaries some years back and religiously at that. Suddenly around 2005 I left writing my daily diary. Tried many times but could not continue...(have wasted so many diaries that my mom, and now my wife curse me...after all I would spoil the best available diary in the house.

Well, as is the case since quite some time now, not much work today in office and that sucks. Whatever work came after talking to Mike in the morning call, got completed by lunch time and since then have tried different ways of killing time....creating a blog being the last try! Hope I am successful.

Hope to continue this practice now at least! Amen!