Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Failed Promises

Funny, politics is all about failed promises...
another one of the promise which soon will be added to the failed list

Power will be restored back in 90 minutes
~Shinde

this was said about 30 minutes back.. lets wait and see!


Thenappan..,

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Kargil Vijay Diwas


Kargil Vijay Diwas

It was this day some twelve years back the 60 day Kargil war came to a halt with our Victory of Operation Vijay which is now named Kargil VIjay Diwas!

My Respects to the brave souls we lost in the frontier for a cause which the politicians are busy exploiting today!


For more about Kargil (1999): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_Vijay_Diwas


Thenappan..,

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

In Time


Time: It teaches you bitter truth of life..

In time,
Your friends become foe and foe your friends...
You master your virtues, nevertheless become slave of debauchery
You start out in the name of passion, end up with boredom
In the end, you become whatever you wanted to be and hate yourself for the same...

Thenappan..,

Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Replacement Factor


It's been hardly a week and the Guwahati incident has already been replaced by Rajesh Kanna's death.

NDTV headline reads "The last words of Rajesh Kanna - PACK UP"
Nut heads, real nut heads these media people are. Not now, not henceforth, it's been ever since early nineties. Those who have known Kublha Khan or those have watched the movie Citizen Kane would know this.

Citizen Kane is a character, a mutli millionaire who lived through the world wars and an influential entrepreneur. His dying words "Rosewood" were fuming across the streets as media made it talk of the town. News reported were competing to find it out first. The following two hours after the death of Kane was merely a reality show run by press person only to find out Rosewood was no person, no concubine of Kane which most of the media persons believed, not the name of his virtual daughter, not his crush and not his second family, but the skateboard he had as a kid. Yes, the skate board was named "Rosewood" which none of the news persons found out until it all came to an end.

The once sensational news is overridden by the next. People move on, funny, yet it's incontrovertible!
Seriously "PACK UP", god I just can't get it over my mind. Who cares what his last words meant, no disrespects to the veteran, but it's just intolerable !

Thenappan..,

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

When will this end or will it end firsthand?

Ref. to Guwahati molestation case

I've been receiving twitter feeds over my mobile since July 9th. And it is today, a week after the horrid incident, I am aware of it's seriousness. Firstly its a shame on me that I turned my face away for the sole reason it didn't concern me. Secondly who are those as**oles, are they even one third human!

The Guwahati Incident <A Brief>
July 9 '2012, G.S Road, a teenager was walking past a local night club after attending a friends B'day party. She was pummeled and molested allegedly by a mob of 20 monsters (which the media now claims to be a team of Newslive channel).
As she was stripped off and harassed in public over 30 minutes, it's a shame no one came to her rescue and the more sickening fact is the whole scene was video taped by another mean monster of the same regional television channel.

Getting to know of such incidents just scares the shit out of me!
How could one behave as if in WILD !
What kind of a sick bastard would pummel a teen out of lust!
I still can't believe if this is India or am I reading about some Arab countries!


If I were given the authority to verdict!
I might sound harsh, but they deserve it
These mean monsters should be stripped crude and made to walk out on streets with burn marks from cigarette butt stamped all over their bodies, which they should carry.

But again I wonder would this happen, some freak or nerd from Human Rights or XWZ Commission would peek his nose talking some crap - "Whatsoever might be the crime, one should not be treated this way"

It just makes me ponder, what can be done. If the guilty isn't punished a crew comes shouting with plea for justice and if by miracle if a crude verdict is passed some other NGO group comes around the way bargaining to show some humanity and call this insanity

What needs to be done and can it be done? Perplexed !!!

Thenappan..,

Thursday, July 5, 2012

It took me two years..,


Took me two years, even though it was by choice

I still remember sitting in the interview room affront my then QA Manager two years back. He did ask some tricky questions and apparently had knocked me down. It was one though which would be resonating in my inner walls of my cerebellum.

"How do you see yourself in, say about, 3 years from now?"
This was prompted against me, so I had to answer something witty and convince him to recruit me, so I gave my best (or atleast I thought it to be the best :D )
"Three years from now, I'd be the same place you are now!"
What I expected was a pat for my attitude, but the actual was a failing test case!!!
He poised back - "Do you think I am here in just a matter of three years?"
"Do you really expect things to be that easy?"

There were a lot of questions popping up in my mind in response to such a flabbergasting question "Damn, is that what a manager would expect of me, or would the so called internal politics hinder my growth or maybe I'd never get a chance and I'd remain a resource, the bottom of the cycle whose name, sorry, only his title would be mentioned every once in a while in the onsite status calls!

Fortunately/ unfortunately, I was indeed recruited and here I am, to be seated in an interview room, for the first time not having to answer but to poise questions!

Though it was not by my choices and just an option that my present manager is held up with things, I wouldn't be presumptuous and call this "It was destined to be" for I believe "One paves his way to his destiny"

Am even more gracious that I am here in the place an year ahead while I had intended to be there sometime later!

Thenappan..,