Agri Tourism-Going back to the roots

In a world where Vertical expansions are the theme of the day ....in a world where people are getting to actually live at a height where they can feel the sky up and close... a world where a certain gentleman has made himself a home of say around 27 floors ....in that world some people are going back to visit their roots

People who have been living all their lives in the hustle-bustle of the metros ,the wannabe metros and the smaller cities want to go and relish the feel of living in a village....and some intelligent human being saw an opportunity out of it and thus emerged the most innovative tourism product by the Ministry of tourism of India, Agri Tourism.

The concept is not new , it has evolved from where humans lived before they got busy in the race to make it big.....they used to live there and hate it because of the lack of the opportunities but now they pay to get back there and stay there as a break from their lives of air-conditioners and laptops to enjoy the fun of clay-moulding and eating fruits picked by them from the trees rather than the processed juice in the retail store near to their flat.....

The concept is spreading and spreading like fire because it offer an opportunity to the people who are a part of the rat race to break free and reconnect to the nature ......no longer is a foreign trip as attractive as a trip to the hills of a village and living with the villagers....

Considering the four P’s for this service ....Its not only the place of this service that attracts the consumers but also the price advantage as compared to other holiday destinations.....u get a healthier package at a lesser price .....nothing works better than that theme......and our product is easily at par with any other offering in its category...it provides you with all the facilities, you enjoy yourself close to nature ,it comes at a cheaper rate than a foreign trip (J) and you can tell proudly to your kids that the villages are where you spent your childhood ...... the only thing that i feel is a bit slack is the promotional activities that have been there .....though the world is catching up but not yet at the speed at which it has the potential of .......but as more and more young people get into exploring the opportunity in this field ...i guess in due time that would be taken care of to and also the government is also supportive of this new variant of tourism...

They say “Innovation is the key to success” and i cannot agree more.....who would have thought that the same people who ran away from the villages to the dream cities to make it big would like to come back to those villages again and this time at a price ??? But as i said some wise person did see the opportunity and we should be glad that such a thing happened ....because thanks to the innovation we have a chance of going back to our roots and feel happy about it ....... J

MAKE A MOVE

Whats often said is seldom done and whats done is seldom said ...thats  the irony we live in today.....often at the friendly evening discussions we often point out the problems in our educational system , in our economical situations, in our administrative scenarios.......we discuss corruption,red tapism ,politics and what all should be done to stop it and make the country a better place to live in.....yet the very next second if we face a situations where we have done something and can be let off with a small bribe we do so as who wants to get involved in the mess of the judicial system....

What now???? when the world has its eyes on India...when we have d resources to make it happen....when we have chance to change the way things happen.....should we not now stop talking about what should be done instead do something....MAKE A MOVE...

We live in a world where we have all the freedom that one could wish for...its time we make use of that freedom in a way that it would help others around us also....yea, I agree that what we do as an individual may not create that big an impact on the whole macro scenario of the country ...but then its drops eventually that form the sea ...i know its a long shot but then its worth atry ..dont you think???

The next challenge people say they face is the channel through which they could help ......what is the appropiate and trust worthy channel....well according to me the first channel of helping others would be you yourself.. if you have a child employed below the age of 14 .....stop that and promote his parents to send him to school rather than involve him in the drudgery .......true they may not agree and send the kid to another home but then if all d it then they would listen ..dont you think.....

Do your duties atleast ...the rest may or may not follow.....its tough but you are doing your bit for the country that has given you all....for the people who have helped you in times of need ....for d child across the street who does not know whats the spelling of begging yet does that same thing everyday .....

Give your hand to help build a solid base for the future of this world...the kids...help spread education.....to one and to all...without the barriers of caste,creed or sex.....we all have the same right to grow , learn and flourish....we are all the citizens of the same country..

Give them a chance ...to grow and reach the levels of success that you have reached ...to a be a better person than we are ...and for the world to be a better place ....a much better place...

COMMON WEALTH GAMES

COMMON WEALTH GAMES

 These games have followed a huge sequential naming procedure from British Empire Games to British Empire and Commonwealth Games, then British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and then finally they got their current title COMMONWEALTH GAMES in the year 1978. The player countries are generally are members of Commonwealth of Nations.But little did the people who had named the games such did not think that 32 years after the final nomenclature one country like India would take the name too literally.

India has taken the games as the means of COMMON WEALTH fund rather than the GAMES....the people incharge have thought of the games a COMMON WEALTH GENERATING source...India’s initial bid for CWG was 0.138 billion...but the recent statement of the officials of OC has the cost jumped upto 70,000 crores ...Where did this huge sum go???? The officials say that it went for the development of the games village, the whole infrastructure....we would have bought that had the review of four committees placed the village as “NOT WORTH LIVING” and the bridge connecting the village not collapsed injuring 27 people...

The media is also not untouched by the COMMON WEALTH but here WEALTH means coverage...each day the media is flooded with new reports of the government’s recent failures.....the front page of all the newspapers everyday makes you feel sorry for your own country and angry at the government for its consistent failures....the result more copies sold, more margin and more profit ...more wealth for them

There have been a plethora of discussions over whether we should have taken up the idea of hosting the games when we have such big issues at hand, what should have been done for reviews and so on and so forth...but now we have a bigger issue at hand..few days left and then INDIA is on show...

So what do we do now??? Sit back and criticise our own country ...banish the games ...issue articles demeaning the government??? I think not ....The least we can do sitting far away in our homes, offices and colleges....spread a good word....see  d work done till now .....see d pictures issued by the government ...and then don’t criticise ...true we have had our share of problems and some of them were aggravated by the media and our little needy and greedy officials...but then an event of this scale has to have some problems ......we need to support our country ...we can play the blame game later on ....right now our country needs us...and we owe it to INDIA...

We have seen what the media has shown us ......but we being informed citizens should take any decision only after hearing both the sides of the coin...The second side??? Well the outcome...The least we can do is SPREAD POSITIVE VIBES about the work of our own countrymen...they have worked ...we need to realise and give credit to their hard work..

We are Geared up for the GAMES.....And INDIA known for its hospitality since ages....welcomes the world .....

WELCOME ALL

ACE- A Corporate Endeavour

How often have we all seen small kids washing utensils , cleaning tables at some roadside dhabas??? Seen them in one of those orphanages by the street playing with used toys , wearing torn clothes and yet they seem to be happy about themselves. We all crib about the little things we don’t have but they thank their stars for everything they get ranging from a cricket bat to a chacha choudhary or archie comic picked off the streets.....Childhood is the age when u dream and dream without any constraints...what a child becomes in the future depends on how he has lived as a child.

We all had a childhood where we had guardians to fulfil our wishes ....teachers to take care of us the first day we left home ...friends who helped us every time we got stuck on to a problem...and that has resulted in what we have become today...if today we have the knowledge and confidence to fetch any job for ourselves, buy the latest technology we require , live the way we want it is because we have a strong foundation...we have emerged as what we are because of what we got when we were kids...

If we have been so fortunate why not the others ??? Why not the kid of your maid who lives just across your house in those slums ???  Why does the kid in the dhaba have to clean dishes and not read books like you did when you were his age....we dreamt of fairy tales, of the new gizmo toy...they dream about the meal the next day, if they can ever go to school like the others....

This is the thought that led to the inception of ACE.....Formed by a group of friends who believed that education is for all ....ACE aspires “To have a nation where everybody has an equal opportunity to grow and progress.”

At ACE we strive to let the under-privileged have access to basic resources to ensure “equal opportunities” for all. At the start we have started with a drive asking people to donate the basic requirements for education : Books and computers....We try to let them have the world they deserve and not a world where they are bound by constraints of money, resources and knowledge.

A Lazy Friday!!!!

FRIDAYS are the laziest days of the week for us....so usually i spend my Fridays getting my beloved early morning sleeps....which m generally deprived of (Actually 9am is also early morn for me :D)...but this week since i already had my fill(Thanks to d cancelled lectures J) ...i thought of getting up real early...i mean people 9 am is like hardly the time of sunrise .....

Ok so after wasting any further time ...moved to the academic block or populary known as the college building of my campus after quickly munching cup noodles .....the reason for coming to college building??? The net connection at my hostel sucks !!!!! and secondly the greatest idea ,innovation and business model of all times...YOU TUBE is blocked in my hostel campus...

So i started my day with the usual gud mornings on GTALK, updating my status message on FB and also seeing that if any extra class has been scheduled ....all ok ....we begin on the journey on self –learning ..

Started with the days headlines on the paper i have recently grown very fond of MINT ....it said SEBI thinking of keeping ELSS out of the tax net.....have to admit it was what we generally call Over Head Transmission (OHT).....did not have a clue ...so then thought of searching the meaning .....what i got to know i would like to share with all ...no copy paste just my understandings in a SHIMPAL language ....ELSS is equity linked savings scheme...basically used as a tool for tax savings....it comes under section 80c wherein the investments to the tune of Rs 100,000 are allowed and would be exempted from the tax calculations from your salary with a lock in period of 3 years....Positives ???? U get what u want....more tax exemption and high rate of return ....Negatives??? There’s a high risk involved with this equity scheme....thats my understanding of the topic ...any suggestions,corrections and improvements are welcome J

Went on further to read about a more financial topic that catches the breath of each and every nation...FINANCIAL INCLUSION...sound nice na??? But for a novice like me this term is new and not understood ....what is financial inclusion....bhai log ...ye kya “bala” hain??? Ok so Financial inclusion as i read it and present before you is just getting the financial services to every citizen of the country ...so that they don’t have to depend on any other individual ...and the country gets better economic life of its citizens....so how do u do it???? The apex bank of the country RBI , has asked the govt to be creative in implementing the programme....because we r not talking of educated customers here who want to know about the benefits or flaws of the scheme ...we r talking of customers prob who don’t even know that such a scheme exists ....we r talking about breaking the barrier of ignorance ...till now around 60% of the country does not have access to financial services ....the potential is huge ...the challenges bigger???? Relaxing the KYC norms is a great initiative but would be difficult enough to make the people understand for once J ...they say financial inclusion is the gateway to the inclusive growth ...which i believe in after reading it in detail ...in short this policy getting the poor also some money in their wallets....and a bank account no too J

All this while i could not have survived without the old hindi songs which make ur heart feel good....which make u at peace with urself....and all this thanks to YOUTUBE....who says this site is only for downloading ...it can provide u continous support also while u r doing something completely different...

Had the entire day to myself....lived it with myself ....enjoyed it fully ...learnt somethings new ...in the end realised i love myself and i love music ...because it is the only thing that hits u hard and still u don’t feel d pain J

Thats it for d day....i sign off.... J

Controversies...controversies and controversies :D

The Sehwag- Randiv controversy has once again brought cricket in news for what its famous now –CONTROVERSIES....time and again various sports and sportsmen have been under the public eye scanner for the wrong reasons....

The irony with cricket is that it is termed as the “Gentleman’s Game” and yet hardly do we see any cricket tournament passing without a controversy ...Ranging from the age old Ashes to the newest form of the game of IPL twenty –twenty ..no form has been left untouched by some or the other news attached to it ...

Controversies know no language ,no boundaries and no limits ...there have been very few players on the list who have never been touched by one or the other “situation” as they term it .......we have the Harbhajan –Symonds controversy ,the Bhajji-Sreesanth dispute ,the Ashes series ...the list goes on..

We all as spectators see the problem as is shown to us and the controversy has already occurred....we see the after effects ...but what causes that kind of behaviour ....these players play for the country but off the field they are friends ....then what causes them to abuse each other even go the extent of slapping each other on the field??

Is it the national feeling or their pride??? What is it that the gentlemen behave in the most indecent of manners??? What drives them to the level that they forget that each and every one of their movements is noticed by the umpires, commentators and above all the media ??

Is it only cricket or does this apply to each game??? the answer is simple ..YES..this applies to each and every game .....just that it gets a bit over noticed by the media ....we have the head –butts of the Zidannes of football too :P ...but then why is it that games like table tennis, badminton etc are usually not the favourite halts for controversies ....

The possible explanation from my side would be that these players have their lives as these games .... its their passion ...its what they excel at ...but then these games are the ones that get them in the news , and the popularity of these games get the players under a lot of pressure ...loosing a number of matches in a row can cost the Indian team hard at the airport reception.... the winner is welcomed by open hands and hearts full of love and appreciation..the loosers are shown the door ...the winner is applauded , the looser is blamed at....

We say and preach that we all should possess the sportsman spirit ...we should take defeats in our strides ...but do we actually do??? Are we not the ones who blame the team of not being worth anything if they loose say five matches in a row??? The coaches of the football teams are fired if their team loses the world cup ....Is the media not equally responsible for building the pressure on the players and then blaming them if they loose ....making a player the headlines if he is out of form for say three matches ?? And don’t we watch that with keen interest ? Yes we do ...

So who is responsible??? We, they or the media??? actually none ....we are all made that way ...we judge people easily without going in the depth of the matter, we take an interest if anything wrong is going on in life of the other person and don’t pay any heed to him if his life is going good...and we definitely don’t take defeat easily....

The media cant be blamed ...as they are doing their business ...the media that used to be the fourth pillar of democracy has long disappeared ....and now what we have are just various channels fighting it out for the TRPs...

We love controversies , we love gossips, we love catfights(till we r the ones involved) ......so we should not be the ones complaining ....so next time a controversy pops up ...just sit back ,relax and enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The child is the father of man

“The Child is the father of man” quoted William Wordsworth in his famous poem “Rainbow” .They say poems are mostly the reflections of the poet’s thoughts and observations of real life, and rightly so because there can be nothing closer to the truth than the fact that what a man becomes depends entirely on what he was as a child.

Our lives can be understood like the clay moulding process .When the clay is new and totally wet u can mould it the way you like, like the way you can mould the mind of a child .As you grow old and the clay starts getting dry ,the moulding process stops, we become rigid in our thoughts and ways ,and we become the people we live to be.

They say “Home is the first school and parents are the first teachers “which is the universal truth. As children we learn what we see. A child born in a Punjabi starts his day by wishing “Sat-Sri-Akal” to his elders while a UP kid would just go and wish “Pranaam”. We owe our culture, values, principles and the people we are to our homes, our parents and our childhood.

What we learn as a kid stays with us forever as the imprints are always there on the clay unless you dissolve it completely. We often expect the child to follow in his parents’ footsteps, why? That’s because as a child you live in that atmosphere, you see your parents work with passion, enjoy their work and then you aspire to join their league.

We all still remember our mother’s warning “Dont talk to strangers dear” ...dont we??? And till date talking to strangers gets a strange feel in us. We are no longer afraid of talking to strangers yet that warning comes into our minds once in a while. We still believe on the age old superstition of not moving forward if the cat crossed your way...because thats what we were told by our mothers and they were told by their mothers and so the chain continues.

We all were lucky to live in atmosphere where kids played more and studied less...have fun with friends offline ...play under the sky and not in front of the laptop...when marks mattered but were definitely not the subject for life and death..but the Gen next kids ??? they are not so “laid –back” ...they have to compete for that one seat available in KG class of the city’s premier school...they have to top the batch to meet their parents’ expectations ..to get promoted to the next best school....You are not a 98% holder??? Pity you!!!! Is this the way we want to them to be when they grow up???Do we not want them to have a mind of their own but just keep running in the rat race till the point it drives them mad??? They are our future ....we have to give a better upbringing than the one we received...We have to make them free birds so they have their own opinions , their own interests , their own unique personalities and not like twenty others...

Today we are responsible for making the men for tomorrow...and we have to make sure that they develop to become men and not rats....let them be free , pursue their dreams and be the men they want to be....

"A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out depends on him. He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations. All your books are going to be judged, praised or condemned by him. The fate of humanity is in his hands."- Abraham Lincoln

This article owes its title and inspiration to our college and the PRAYATNA guys.....

The whites, blacks and grays

The three primary colours –blue, green and red . Then there are the blacks and the whites. This is what we were told at the start of our lives. Then as we progressed in our lives mom told us about the existence of purples, pinks (which are now the favs for all girls J). Now when we have seen life on our own we have discovered the mouves, peaches and turquoise. No i am not starting a colour teaching session.

All i am saying is that like colours as we grow up we see various facets of life which make us differentiate between the good , the bad and the umm the ok ones .....when we were young we were fascinated by any new colour, any new dress we saw, ant new toy kept on that mesmerising self where the most attractive of products were kept for display.

Now we are bound ....we look at a new dress which seems to draw you towards it....but then we look at the wallet which shouts “This is the budget for this month, dare not spend it “.But our heart still keeps beating for that dress or the one next to it. Trying to make a pact between heart and wallet we settle for the dress which makes the heart happy and the wallet not too angry!!!

Any fight in childhood is solved easily and fast. We shout “She took my candy , I am not talking to him any longer”. The “she” says sorry and mom gives you two candies in compensation. You happy, her happy, dispute resolved...simple wasn’t it??? There was either black or white...even a gray did not exist.

But now there are many sides to an issue, any issue not just shades of gray but spectrum of colours. The good, bad, ok depends on the context, perspective and use. We no longer bluntly accuse her of stealing our candy. We think what she will think, what our friends will say, what her family would say, is it right, is it polite ,blah blah blah...... We keep the spectrum to ourselves, keep matching the best of colour mixes and then present our condition in the most pleasant to eye combination.

Our sadness has grades....i don’t feel good, i feel terrible, i m lost.....and our happiness also has various heights...i m glad, i m happy, i feel good, i m on the top of the world....every emotion we feel has various colours attached to it, every decision we take has various view points attached to it and every action taken by us has various implications to it...

Its said that boys are good in directions and girls in colour differentiations. Guys at times do see the world in whites and blacks but for girls the world is segmented in dark gray, blackish gray, greyish silver and the likes. Hence most of them always end up being confused on which shade to pick up in all matters of life. :P

Thats the youth story but as u grow old and the get into the grandma, grandpa stage we again start seeing the colours again in more basic shades...Reasons??? Your eyesight is detoriating, you are not bothered about others, you have had your share of choices and you do not want any more and last you wanna have a blast in the last phase of life.

You see, feel , realise various colours , various emotions during this journey of life. But in the end you realise that only the whites and the blacks exist, only goods and bad, there are no grays,no oks.... at the end they just seem to be ILLUSIONS of the mind ......

Bargaining ,Retailing and India

My friend asked me this evening with that sweet look in her eyes and i somehow knew the question that was about to be popped up next “Can we go shopping today?”. I had to decline her not because i did not want to go but because i have become kind of a big spender these days and now my ATM card growls at the idea of going into that machine once again :P ....being a bit free these days we always find reasons of going out and inevitably find ourselves buying something or the other...

But just the mention of shopping made me go back to the times when me and my mom used to go out for shopping ..we saw and saw and saw all the products available in the shop till the time mom was totally and totally satisfied ...and then followed the most interesting procedure of all “BARGAINING”....when mom used to “negotiate” with the shopkeeper about reduction in price....right from the price of vegetables to the silk saree she bought herself she would bargain regarding everything...she firmly believed and always said “Being a buyer gives you tremendous authority," he says. "Salespeople know that if you don't spend your money in their store, you will spend it somewhere else."

Going out shopping was always such an experience for me ....i used to just sit and watch the negotiations....sometimes d shopkeeper won, sometimes mom did but most of the times it ended up in a sentence “neither yours nor mine .lets settle at this”. This bargaining, negotiations ,haggling or whatever you call it form an integral part of the purchasing behaviour of all consumers and Indian housewives define shopping pleasure by how much they were able to negotiate. Being consumers Indians realise that the best point of bargaining is that they have nothing to loose.

But now with the emergence of the retail stores, speciality stores and big brands flooding the markets ..the joy, the practice of bargaining is slightly evaporating but the Indian consumer is missing the pride of have coming victorious after a battle with the shopkeeper...even the heavy discounts at the discount stores cant give that feeling of satisfaction of your will prevailing over the shopkeeper’s price. The idea of bargaining is not practiced nor is considered appropriate in the high level retail chains.....buy the thing at the stated price or leave it ....there are others waiting in the queue....

But cant we in a country like India where the customers feel proud of being able to win the negotiations...start a trend where retail, organised retail goes hand in hand with bargaining???? Can’t we start what we can term as “BARGAINING RETAILING IN INDIA”??? You step into the mall filled with all the facilities u require and expect from a mall ....all the products are the same....u choose the one that best suits your need and pocket both ;) and after finalising when you go onto the counter u can start doing what we Indians love doing and we are definitely good at “NEGOTIATE”

Like the discount store model which was a revolution in the marketing scenario of India...can we give the Indians the pleasure of shopping the best in what they would call reasonable prices????Retail for us has meant no negotiations while the Kiranas wala were about bargaining....when its the same prices that are levied inside and outside the outlet why not offer the last and the most convincing pleasures to your consumers....

The idea of bargain retailing could really prove beneficial in the rural areas of India where people are still not used to the idea of one-price shops...they are getting brand conscious but still their brand knowledge is limited to the knowledge of the near by shop....the Indian consumers feel the big brands to be overpriced.....but a chance to bargain on them probably could benefit both the sides included....the minimal price that is set by the retail store is set after lots of negotiations and whatever is set by negotiations should be open to negotiations. The retail prices set by some humans which can be questioned by some other humans....

Just the thought of going into a retail store, choosing the things of your choice and coming out with a price that suits your pocket and does not cut the company’s pocket too much either is a dream come true for any consumer....as an Indian customer i can say i would love the idea....what do u say???

JUGAAD

This word has various interpretations in various minds .But for me , I liked and am in total consent with what I read on the t shirt of a guy…..The tshirt had JUGAAD printed in bold and just blow it was written a line “The Indian word for creativity”. India is known for its innovations at the cheapest of costs involved. The people who come to visit India are often amazed at the fact that even after having such a large population and chaos, India works efficiently.
The Indians cannot survive without jugaad. How to catch a train on time when you are impossibly late by asking the auto wala to do some jugaad, How to get your file through a series of “friendly”(pun intended) government officials, How to make seating arrangements by using storage trunks, how to make a scooter run for the longest distance with the petrol on reserve by tilting the scooter every now and then on the way…these are things an Indian knows by the virtue of being an Indian.
For majority of Indians, jugaad is creativity,innovation but for some others it is making the seemingly impossible work at the minimal resources present. Quoting my friend here “Jugaad is getting the easiest and most effective solution at the scarcest of resources”. A country like India where people are faced with different situations each day , you can witness the most innovative solutions . I witnessed such a solution the other day on the trip to Lavassa, the first integrated township and hill city .On our way we crossed the area where people face four months of heavy rains each year. Most of the people residing there are villagers who neither find the idea of raincoats effective nor have the comfort of carrying an umbrella to the fields.So the people have designed their own versions of suitable rain shields. They cut the sack (boris) in such a way that it can be easily placed on their heads and over the sacks they have a heavy plastic cut in the same manner as to suit their needs,or at times a plastic sack was proving effective. While wearing these they can roam around freely on the fields and the investment is also negligible. This is “JUGAAD” of India.
The major point for the Jugaadis is that they never say “NO”. They just get the work done. Their decision is not irrational but is rather affected by various factors.


Jugaad sells in India. The biggest example infront of us are the Dabbawallas who manage to make the tiffins reach the customers just before lunch and make it reach their individual homes before the person leaves office for home by the simple color coding which not only determines the tiffin routing but also tiffin prioritizing as tiffins differ from train to bicycle to foot. No science ,no major technology just a plain simple Jugaad of playing with colors has made them achieve virtual six-sigma quality.
North India has moved a step forward in selling the word and its feel to the people. They have introduced a motor vehicle by the name “jugaad” costing around 20,000 bucks. The funda of the vehicle is simple- wooden planks, tyres, water pumps converted to engines and diesel and your are ready to roll……agreed that it has its negative points but it sells and there is no refutation regarding that.
TATA Motors also excelled at selling the dream of the common man by achieving something that even the best of automobile companies could not achieve. They thought and dreamt of selling a car at less than $3,000. When the world was busy with product enhancement they found the solution for the dreams of the millions of India who have been dreaming for years of replacing their bikes with automobiles. They did the “jugaad”.
In essence jugaad much of India runs on Jugaad .In an examination if you do not have a scale you make do with the pencil box for drawing the lines ,if you have a skin problem you prefer using the local herb than going to the dermatologist ….Love it ,Hate it, Ignore it but knowingly or unknowingly we all at some time or other do the “ JUGAAD “ 

References

http://www.thethinkclub.com/pdf/jugaad_an_introduction.pdf

Random thots at two am

First i m wondering what to write abt....and second thinking how to go about it...so i thought just let me share few random thoughts coming in my dimwit brain at this hour of d night or morn is it??? first thought came to my mind was to thank the inventor of headphones which enable you to hear your kinda songs at full volume even with ur roomie sleeping d room :P....doesnt it feel great at times just to plug in the headphones listen to your fav songs and just do nothing?? the feeling of being with yourself conquers many others.....

second i just opened my fb account and found my home page flooded with posts of my friends....at two am my world is yet not asleep ....who says early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy wealthy wise ???these are d people who have made my life, made me d way i am and however much i thank dese idiots .....it wont be enuf...true we have had our share of fights, disputes, shoutings ,periods of cold war ....but then is that not d beauty of life???? if everything was good and happy and pleasant what would be d point ???would we even then crave for those precious moments with our select few as we do now??? would we not miss d way we tease each other,get angry, and den try to pacify each other ...or after days of cold war facing each other and saying..."chal ho gayi nautanki" and then give each other the best of d hugs to let d other one know that whatever happens m dere wid u ???i surely would....and so tonight at this weird hour i want to say to all my friends "I LOVE U ALL"...

Third enjoying d second year of my MBA where lets say we r nt "dat" busy as we were in our first year..we sleep late get up late....attend d interesting classes(pun intended)....just went to my friends room who had meticulously placed her laptop on d bed table....and wid amzing concentration was watching "Rocket singh" for d umpteenth time ...I love dis life ....they say once into job u wiill miss student life ....i will miss it d moment i step outta dis campus .....where we have lived and loved life :)

Being in this age bracket of twenty something u realize hell loads in life....friends change,foes change,boyfriends/girlfriends change,places change....u crib,u cry,u bitch,u worry about future,money,life yet u laugh, u think(occasionally :) ),u love,get hurt,love again....but then even in this state of not knowing something u keep findings hopes....hopes of happiness,of love,of friendship,of strength,of ur inner self...in this dilemma of what to do and what not to do...u get something more important...u get "YOU"....so if u r in dat state of confusion and worrying ...dun worry coz we all r in d same boat for once....but have d faith dat we all shall sail through...and even if we have problems in sailing whats d complaint all about...nobody ever said life is easy ,they just said its worth living it !!!!!

and now m really hungry so will try and get sum instant food in one of d rooms...so dat i survive till d morn...