This thought suddenly came to mind when I realized that I have been listening only to Raavan songs for the last few days.

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What you read below are not my thoughts/sayings but the ones I came across while surfing. I have only collated them and presented here. Will add more whenever I come across good ones like these. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did when I first read. So... here you go.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

If you lend someone 20 bucks and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

It's always darkest before dawn, so if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes.

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station..

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

Back in my place, elders say that men are not supposed to cry and tears show that the man is weak. I have always trusted those words but all that changed one day, on June 07, 2009, when Roger Federer won French open and completed his career grandslam - The day that made me realise that men are allowed to cry when they have a valid reason.

Moment of Success


-----> Feeling of Elation <-----

The word 'Bench' is the lingo used in the Indian IT industry that represents the phenomenon in which an individual is not working in any project and idles out the entire office hours. The term may have been inspired and coined by looking at the idle people sitting in benches kept in parks. I believe that two facts, (i)there are plenty of parks in Bangalore and (ii)Bangalore is the IT capital of India, support my hypothesis strongly.

Typical activities that one involves in while he/she is in bench ranges from surfing through the net to chatting with fellow benchers to playing carom/TT/billiards. In short, a bencher is a 'Non Performing Asset' for the company who is retained (read 'paid') in the hope that a project may soon come and he/she can start heads-on in the new project.

All through my career, I had envied people who were in bench and chilling out all time when we used to work for long hours in a project . Well, at least that's what I thought at the time - that they are chilling out.

But after experiencing the bench factor for a few weeks now, I have realised how difficult it is to be in bench for more than a week. You feel great in the first week; you can come and go at any time, need not worry about any delivery and play as long as you wish. Everything changes gradually from the second week onwards - you are really concerned that you should not go late to the office because you are in bench and you don't want people to think that you are taking it lightly; you become conscious when you play thinking that there is somebody out there watching you all the time. You can't even sit in your place and do something peaceful; so-called billed people come and ask 'Having a blast, buddy???'. And finally comes the worst - glancing at your watch everyday as it ticks past slowly and shows 6 p.m. - it's the nation-wide accepted ideal time for a bencher to leave the office.

Time management is something that we all wish to master but there is something that we should all know as well - Time killing for weeks together at a constant rate of 9 hours a day. If I sound frustrated or philosophical, well it's because of the power of bench factor.

This blog was written in Dec '08 in one of my other blogs and and is imported to this blog.

I was thinking for a long time to post my first blog but nothing drove me to write a blog and then happens the terror attack in Mumbai. Now that all is over(for the time being, I should say), I am not glad that I have got a 'worthy' incident to muse about; rather it's the sense of helplessness surging within me that makes me write this. It's been 8 days since the attack took place and all our politicians and news channels still debate on what went wrong or what we should do to prevent this; and to top this all we have resignation drama going on as well.

I am also not sure whether our politicians are at least seriously discussing this or are making use of this as a free publicity as elections are just around the corner. But the million dollar question in every Indian's mind is - "What has the government 'done' till date or what is it planning to do?".

I also happened to notice another thing when I was following the news channels. The two sentences "Enough is enough" and "Spirit of Mumbai" are being repeated so frequently that these statements have now become cliches. I have spent 7 months in Mumbai and I know or rather I have felt what the statement "Spirit of Mumbai" means. But someone answer me - Just because the people are spirited and come together after any tragic event whatever be the magnitude, should they be tested till their death? If the same repeats every now and then, there won't be a city called Mumbai about which we can all boast sitting in the safety of our home town.

Or perhaps, who knows? my/your city is the next in the agenda of terrorists. Looking back at the last statement, I wonder if two dozen young kids can wreck such a massive havoc in a city like Mumbai, then what would be the effect if a few hundreds of them enter a small, peaceful tier-2 city about whose 'spirit' we have never even thought of. They can literally take over the whole region and if taking lives is the only thing they want, they can thrive on the city. NSG, Army, Navy or any force for that matter would find it difficult even to reach the place thanks to the strong infrastructure that is built in the last 61 years. We would finally end up with 'LeT Occupied CityX', 'Indian Mujahideen Occupied StateY' etc... and we would be content to give fancy acronyms in the lines of 'PoK' and '26/11'.