Have you ever thought about your life and realized that it isnt working the way it is supposed to work?? you go to college/office, work hard, return home and sleep and repeat the process. you work as hard as you can, you have sleepless nights and even 24 hours seem less to you but still there's something missing. you feel like time is running out and you havnt even started the "real" thing you wnt to do. lately i have been facing the same feeling...
today i wasnt well..was on bed the whole day and apart from sleeping i kept thinking.. looking back at my past years and thinking what went wrong.. my life isnt really what i wanted it to be.. this isnt really how i had pictured myself. It seemed as if i wasted a lot of years doing something which didnt even add to anything. and thus i have decided to work up hard to gather my life together and live like i wanted to. there are phases in lfe which make you think that you have nothing earned as compred to what others have.. be it in relatonships, money, career or whatever. but sometimes you need just to take a break and think. we all know that life doesnt work according to our plans..but then we cant stop making them..in the same manner as we cant stop living just cos we are going to die may be tommrrow.. so here i am making another plan for my life.. picturing myself again in the future.. trying to live the way i should have some 4 years ago.. still its never too late to start over again.. wish me luck!!!
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
My New Bginning
So here I am, 8.20 am in the morning, writing an article for my blog after so many days... and yes it does feel good… because today I have done a new beginning in my life. Starting from today I m living a new life, a disciplined one. My life hasn’t been without discipline earlier...its just that I prefered living it my way..doing whatever I felt at whatever time. Be it having lunch at 5pm and skipping breakfast or be it sleping at 4 in the morning and waking up at 8am. But from today everything has changed.
Today I woke up at 5.30 am and got ready for my jog. And as I had decided I was on the road at 6am. I did my jogging till 6.30 and then went up the terrace to do a little exercise and yoga till 7am. Then I went to wake up a friend who usually gets up earlier than me J . She suggested playing some table tennis, then snooker...it all finished up till 8 am. So I took bath and now I m here writing about it because this really feels good and I know I am going to do this again.
There are just two things needed for me and everyone else in life: health and career. So from now onwards I am working towards it keeping my mind focused on this. Because life without an aim or a goal is not life. We may think we can spend our life without struggling and taking the pains…but then it wont be worth living… If you stop STRUGGLING then you stop LIVING...because this struggle is what makes life what it is..as its not the options we get, but the choices we make that make what life is and predict what it is going to be… because this is called living…because this is called life.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
What I expect from IIITM,gwalior
Note: IIITM recently published its 2nd edition of the alumni magzine IIITM-OUR ALMA MATER. All "industry ambassdors" of each branch were told to submit an article on the above mentioned topic so that it may be printed in the same. When the magzine came out i was more than glad to see that out of whole Mtech only my article was published. thanks to ravi as well who helped me in the same.here is the article for everyone to read. this is what i actually expect from IIITM.
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It wasn’t a tough decision for me at the outset to opt for IIITM Gwalior as a choice to pursue my MTech education. IIITM’s reputation of being an apex technology institute formed by the Govt of India and being a strong brand helped me in my decision. Today a month after I joined, I feel happy for my choice.
IIITM being run by a team of proficient veterans promises to churn out able technology leaders of tomorrow. I imagine myself as a finished product coming out of the college after a couple of years with requisite skills and expertise; and rise to the challenge in the world of IT industry. As IIITM’s vision is to achieve global excellence in knowledge economy, I want to committ myself to this shared vision. I believe this institute will provide me requisite support to realise this vision.
Along with technical expertise, I also want to learn human relations and managerial skills. It has been a concern in India that Indian workforce are technically sound but when it comes to man management, a lot is left to be desired. Therefore, I also hope IIITM provides me ample scope to improve my man management skills and managerial abilities in general.
The kind of opportunites that IIITM has already provided me in this short span, I am confident I will grow individually as a person and make the institue proud with my accomplishments. As our respected Director sir has already said, “Peer to peer learning is the back bone of IIITM”, I also believe I will draw from the experiences and interactions from my fellow mates and faculties to grow into a true professional.
I expect the faculty here not to be just the faculty but to be the life mentors to us and guide us through not just within this two years but all through our lifetime, whenever we need their advice.
Regards,
Isha
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
A Journey...
My first day at my new college...
27/07/2009
So here I am... at my new college...my new home for the next two years and how am I feeling? Well obviously not at all ‘at home’. I had to face some minor problems today, not just carrying my entire heave luggage to my room at the third floor all by myself but also sleeping on a bed without mattress. Let me not get into the details but the biggest problem I faced today was my father’s accommodation. Here I was thinking that it won’t b any problem but as it turned out even after my mailing and calling the authorities many times, there was still no room reserved for my father. Anyway, finally he got a room at 9 pm and the day was settled. Now I am sitting in my room feeling lonely. No girl of my class has come and I am all alone on the whole floor. I am missing Mumbai and Pune and Hyderabad. The cities and the love they have showered upon me. Well I hated Hyderabad at first but now I wish I were there. Anyway, I tried to get in touch with my friends thru internet but as I haven’t registered as a student yet, I couldn’t log in to the network which required a username and password. Anyway here I am writing this post. Just for you people to know that life is like that. We have to leave aside everything to progress in life. Friends are important but sometimes they can’t be involved in everything you do. Mom once told me, “Life’s like a train journey, some people board the train with you and you talk and get close to them. You share a wonderful journey and some beautiful memories with them. But what you must not forget is that they have to get off the train at some station. And with just memories left, you have to continue your journey. This way make friends but just remember that you have to continue the journey of your life even if your friends are not with you”. So here I am...at my new college...proceeding forward without my friends...all alone...waiting for new passengers to board the train...because this is called life...
27/07/2009
So here I am... at my new college...my new home for the next two years and how am I feeling? Well obviously not at all ‘at home’. I had to face some minor problems today, not just carrying my entire heave luggage to my room at the third floor all by myself but also sleeping on a bed without mattress. Let me not get into the details but the biggest problem I faced today was my father’s accommodation. Here I was thinking that it won’t b any problem but as it turned out even after my mailing and calling the authorities many times, there was still no room reserved for my father. Anyway, finally he got a room at 9 pm and the day was settled. Now I am sitting in my room feeling lonely. No girl of my class has come and I am all alone on the whole floor. I am missing Mumbai and Pune and Hyderabad. The cities and the love they have showered upon me. Well I hated Hyderabad at first but now I wish I were there. Anyway, I tried to get in touch with my friends thru internet but as I haven’t registered as a student yet, I couldn’t log in to the network which required a username and password. Anyway here I am writing this post. Just for you people to know that life is like that. We have to leave aside everything to progress in life. Friends are important but sometimes they can’t be involved in everything you do. Mom once told me, “Life’s like a train journey, some people board the train with you and you talk and get close to them. You share a wonderful journey and some beautiful memories with them. But what you must not forget is that they have to get off the train at some station. And with just memories left, you have to continue your journey. This way make friends but just remember that you have to continue the journey of your life even if your friends are not with you”. So here I am...at my new college...proceeding forward without my friends...all alone...waiting for new passengers to board the train...because this is called life...
Thursday, June 4, 2009
a radio show worked...
From past few days i have been depressed... i dont know why.. may be due to the lost of goal.. You must be thinking what i am talking about. Well as I had mentioned in my past posts, i wrote the GATE exam and qualified it with good score.. and now I have got admission into a very prestigious college the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior. But instead of being happy, I am sad. Not because I didnt want this college but because I dont have anything to do now. I was pretty busy with the admission process. But now its over and there's still time for the classes to begin. and I cant figure out a single way to keep me busy. I am in a new city and have no friends here to hang out with. plus all my friends are so busy in their jobs and other things that i hardly talk to them over phone or so. well i am not writing this post cos i want to talk about my problems..this post is about the solution to my peoblem.. the magical solution i found yesterday evening.
I was listening to a show on radio yesterday evening (as i do every evening).. and suddenly i tuned to this channel (which I always felt was the most depressing one with really bad choice of songs)..to my surprise there was a good radio jockey talking on air and i decided to listen. she was telling a stroy abt a king who had faced some problems and consulted a priest. the priest gave him a note and told him to read it when he faced some problem next time. he told him that the note had magical capability and should not be read or even opened if the king wasn't in some danger or problem. the king obeyed the priest and took the note as a blessing and kept it in his pocket always.. one day the king was out hunting in a jungle when suddenly he got lost and found himself in the territory of the enemy. suddenly he heard a troop of soliders of enemy comming in his direction. he climbed up a tree to hide himself.. suddenly he remembered the note. he took it out of his pocket and read it.. it said "this too shall pass"...
as i heard the story, i felt as if it was meant to b heard by me and many people like me who were in bad phases of life. what magical words "this too shall pass". just to remind us that life is not going to be this way always. its just a phase and will pass soon.
i learnt a major lesson in life thru this one sentence.life is always changing and due to this it sometimes leads us into bad phases where we feel we are stuck forever and we are never going to come out. but what we must remember is that it will be okey in the end. we will come out of this part of life. all we need is to believe and have patience.cos in the end nothing lasts forever.. in the end we have to recollect our energy and be ready to enter a new phase...
i am much relaxed now..all i needed was a line to make me feel better.. watching funny movies ddnt work.. studying ddnt work and what worked was a show in radio..cos of a story and just one magical line "this too shall pass.."... cos this is called life...
I was listening to a show on radio yesterday evening (as i do every evening).. and suddenly i tuned to this channel (which I always felt was the most depressing one with really bad choice of songs)..to my surprise there was a good radio jockey talking on air and i decided to listen. she was telling a stroy abt a king who had faced some problems and consulted a priest. the priest gave him a note and told him to read it when he faced some problem next time. he told him that the note had magical capability and should not be read or even opened if the king wasn't in some danger or problem. the king obeyed the priest and took the note as a blessing and kept it in his pocket always.. one day the king was out hunting in a jungle when suddenly he got lost and found himself in the territory of the enemy. suddenly he heard a troop of soliders of enemy comming in his direction. he climbed up a tree to hide himself.. suddenly he remembered the note. he took it out of his pocket and read it.. it said "this too shall pass"...
as i heard the story, i felt as if it was meant to b heard by me and many people like me who were in bad phases of life. what magical words "this too shall pass". just to remind us that life is not going to be this way always. its just a phase and will pass soon.
i learnt a major lesson in life thru this one sentence.life is always changing and due to this it sometimes leads us into bad phases where we feel we are stuck forever and we are never going to come out. but what we must remember is that it will be okey in the end. we will come out of this part of life. all we need is to believe and have patience.cos in the end nothing lasts forever.. in the end we have to recollect our energy and be ready to enter a new phase...
i am much relaxed now..all i needed was a line to make me feel better.. watching funny movies ddnt work.. studying ddnt work and what worked was a show in radio..cos of a story and just one magical line "this too shall pass.."... cos this is called life...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
trip to harihareshwar cntd...
DAY Two:
7 am, hotel room, shrivardhan:
i lazily open my eyes to see the time...oh my God!! its already 8 am...we were supposed to wake up at 5 to see the sunrise on the shrivardhan beach..and we are still in bed...i call up the guys in the nxt room and as supposed they are sleeping as well..anyway we plan to meet for the breakfast downstairs in one hour...
9 am , shrivardhan beach:
(click on the pics for a larger view)
finally we are here...on the first beach..it looks so beautiful..its not crowded like the beaches in goa..it looks like a long spread of water just for us..we didnt hav any difficulty in finding the beach..it was 10 mins walkable distance from our hotel room.. and plus the cute girls going to school in shrivardhan told us the way... the beach looks so amazing... large shore.. silent boats floating to catch fishes..i soo miss my camera.. as we are enjoying cool breeze a stranger comes by and starts talking to us..he invites us to see his beach house and the whale skeleton kept there.. we are ammazed from the idea of seeing real whale bones.and go to the beach house..its really a beautiful place with all the tree houses and all.we hav a look at the place ask for charges so that we can plan and stay there in our nxt trip..and they ahve the whale bones..just the tail part but its too big...one can imagine how big a real whale is by just looking at its tail...only the tail is more than 5 feet long...
10.30 am, tahsildaar office, shrivardhan: we are leaving the shrivardhan beach and going towards harihareshwar...the more famous beach... we come to know that it takes one hour to reach harihareshwar in six seater rikshaw...so we get to the place where we can get the rikshaw which would take us to the final destination...
12 noon, harihareshwar: we are at harihareshwar finally...sitting in a local restaurant, waiting for our lunch to be served... although we had a heavy breakfast (of my favourite upma) but still the journey was tiring amd we are hungry already..we decide to have lunch and then move towards the beach... finally our orders come...as my frnds are from orrissa basically so they are more delighted to have the sea fish (i dnt know the exactly which one..they all are same for me...)..and i hav to compromise with veg thali...still the food tastes amazing..there is no btter feeling than going to a village and having the local food...
12.30 pm, harihareshwar beach :
wow..a beach with cemented shore?? this is something i hav never seen... the sea is at the foot of harihareshwar hills...and its deep...right from the piont where water touches the hill foot...so for safty it has been made from concrete...we sit near the water and talk..abuot the world and us and the world and us again...and enjoy the cool water sprinkles..and sometimes the waves are big enough to reach you and wet u all over..(as happened to my friend)..there is an old man sitting near the beach with huge coconuts...not big but huge!! they are three times the size of a normal one... this beach is a little bit crowded cos its more popular..but then its different ...different than all the other beaches i hav seen...its like some divine energy is holding us to be near it..not to leave..ever.....LEAVE!!!! oh my GOD!! what is the time?? we hav to catch a bus and return back...but first why dont we have a "naryal paani"... ;)
2 pm, harihareshwar: we are in a rikshaw again leaving harihareshwar and taking the memories with us..we hav to catch a bus at shrivardhan and reach pune before night...
3.30 pm: we are in the bus for pune..and mentally m still at shrivardhan- harihareshwar.. what a trip..what beautiful beaches...m mind in wandering in the shrivardhan lanes..and the harihareshwar restaurant and near the naryal paani wala...
i wish i had more time to spend there and enjoy the nature... its so strange how human beings love nature and cant live without it..but still chose to live far from it..in the city where all u can see is human faces in the crowd... why cant we live near the mother nature??? but then if we did we wouldnt admire it as much...
10 pm, pune: i reach my other friend's house to spend the night with her...and the trip comes to an end like every good thing does...cos other good things have to fill old one's place...bye harihareshwar..i'll come back again...
7 am, hotel room, shrivardhan:
i lazily open my eyes to see the time...oh my God!! its already 8 am...we were supposed to wake up at 5 to see the sunrise on the shrivardhan beach..and we are still in bed...i call up the guys in the nxt room and as supposed they are sleeping as well..anyway we plan to meet for the breakfast downstairs in one hour...
9 am , shrivardhan beach:
(click on the pics for a larger view)
finally we are here...on the first beach..it looks so beautiful..its not crowded like the beaches in goa..it looks like a long spread of water just for us..we didnt hav any difficulty in finding the beach..it was 10 mins walkable distance from our hotel room.. and plus the cute girls going to school in shrivardhan told us the way... the beach looks so amazing... large shore.. silent boats floating to catch fishes..i soo miss my camera.. as we are enjoying cool breeze a stranger comes by and starts talking to us..he invites us to see his beach house and the whale skeleton kept there.. we are ammazed from the idea of seeing real whale bones.and go to the beach house..its really a beautiful place with all the tree houses and all.we hav a look at the place ask for charges so that we can plan and stay there in our nxt trip..and they ahve the whale bones..just the tail part but its too big...one can imagine how big a real whale is by just looking at its tail...only the tail is more than 5 feet long...
10.30 am, tahsildaar office, shrivardhan: we are leaving the shrivardhan beach and going towards harihareshwar...the more famous beach... we come to know that it takes one hour to reach harihareshwar in six seater rikshaw...so we get to the place where we can get the rikshaw which would take us to the final destination...
12 noon, harihareshwar: we are at harihareshwar finally...sitting in a local restaurant, waiting for our lunch to be served... although we had a heavy breakfast (of my favourite upma) but still the journey was tiring amd we are hungry already..we decide to have lunch and then move towards the beach... finally our orders come...as my frnds are from orrissa basically so they are more delighted to have the sea fish (i dnt know the exactly which one..they all are same for me...)..and i hav to compromise with veg thali...still the food tastes amazing..there is no btter feeling than going to a village and having the local food...
12.30 pm, harihareshwar beach :
wow..a beach with cemented shore?? this is something i hav never seen... the sea is at the foot of harihareshwar hills...and its deep...right from the piont where water touches the hill foot...so for safty it has been made from concrete...we sit near the water and talk..abuot the world and us and the world and us again...and enjoy the cool water sprinkles..and sometimes the waves are big enough to reach you and wet u all over..(as happened to my friend)..there is an old man sitting near the beach with huge coconuts...not big but huge!! they are three times the size of a normal one... this beach is a little bit crowded cos its more popular..but then its different ...different than all the other beaches i hav seen...its like some divine energy is holding us to be near it..not to leave..ever.....LEAVE!!!! oh my GOD!! what is the time?? we hav to catch a bus and return back...but first why dont we have a "naryal paani"... ;)
2 pm, harihareshwar: we are in a rikshaw again leaving harihareshwar and taking the memories with us..we hav to catch a bus at shrivardhan and reach pune before night...
3.30 pm: we are in the bus for pune..and mentally m still at shrivardhan- harihareshwar.. what a trip..what beautiful beaches...m mind in wandering in the shrivardhan lanes..and the harihareshwar restaurant and near the naryal paani wala...
i wish i had more time to spend there and enjoy the nature... its so strange how human beings love nature and cant live without it..but still chose to live far from it..in the city where all u can see is human faces in the crowd... why cant we live near the mother nature??? but then if we did we wouldnt admire it as much...
10 pm, pune: i reach my other friend's house to spend the night with her...and the trip comes to an end like every good thing does...cos other good things have to fill old one's place...bye harihareshwar..i'll come back again...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
trip to harihareshwar
Imagine a place where the heights meet the depths...the mountain meets the sea...yes, a place where all you can see, feel and experience is 'Nature’. By my good luck, I got a chance to visit such a place last weekend...Hari-hareshwar...a beautiful beach and this beach was much more beautiful than the popular beaches of Goa. I thought why not share the experience. Let me start from the start.
Day one:
Place: dadar station, Mumbai, 8.30am
I am ready with my bag-pack to travel. No it’s not to harihareshwar…that’s not even among the rarest of my ideas...I am travelling to Pune, where I have to meet my friends to spend my weekend with. My exam of GATE has finished a few days ago and I m free, after months of studies, for some gala time with my friends. As the train leaves I decide to log into the messenger on my cell for a small chit chat before the cell looses network. And I see a friend online who has just arrived at pune station. We decide to meet up at the station itself before we move on to visit our other friends.
After three hours of journey I reach Pune station at 11.30am and see my friend waiting for me. We decide to take a few of other friends with us and travel to some place away from the city. After searching for getaways near pune the place Harihareshwar, 180 km from pune, is decided…
Place: swargate bus-stand, Pune 2.30pm
After lunch at famous chaitanya’s parathas at FC road, without loosing any more time I and a few friends have arrived at swargate, where we’d be getting a local bus to take us to Mangaun. We have got not much money and just the names of major stops ‘mangaun’ and ‘shrivardhan’ to start our journey with. We board the bus and the conductor tells us that we’d reach mangaun in approximately 3 hours…the bus is full of local villagers and we talk to some small girls about their lives.
Place: mangaun bus-stand, Mangaun 7pm
We have just arrived at mangaun. The journey to mangaun was good without many stops in between. One of the major stop was Mulshi Lake, which is also one of the major tourist spots near pune. After talking to the local people and a few bus drivers we came to know that we have to take another bus from here to Shrivardhan (one of my friends has major difficulty remembering this name and I suggest him to remember the name Govardhan which has much importance in Hindu mythology.) We also come to know that we won’t be able to get any bus service from shrivardhan to harihareshwar and will have to rely on local transport for that. After waiting for almost one hour we finally spot a bus to shrivardhan and with much difficulty fighting crowd we finally board the bus and get a place to sit. The journey from Mangaun to Shrivardhan is roughly of one and a half hour long.
Place: Shrivardhan bus-stand, Shrivardhan 9.30 pm
As we get down the bus we figure out that our timings were wrong and we are running late. Shrivardhan being a small village, we can’t get anything to go to harihareshwar until dawn. So the only option left for us was to find a nice place to rest and spend the night and start early morning for harihareshwar. But as it was a small village we had much difficulty in finding a proper accommodation for the night. After walking for about half an hour and the guys rejecting many motels (because of girls’ safety and bla bla) we finally reach a recommended place and take rooms for the night.
As for what happened the next day just wait a little more as my next post will be on day two which is the last day of the journey and where I get to see two most beautiful beaches of harihareshwar and shrivardhan.
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