Stop Worrying..!!!

At any day or any time have you thought about the missing happiness or energy level, which you normally have at the start of a year??

I don’t know whether you came across such questions before in your life, but my mind raised this question today while I was planning to celebrate the commencement of 2011. Initially I struggled in finalizing an answer, but once I reached, it seemed simple for me.

To put the answer precisely in a word, I am terming it as “Worry”.

We worry about so many things in our life even by knowing that those circumstances cannot be changed. This is the major problem of our life. Just read the following to understand easily.

• We worry about the scams of the politicians
• We worry about our country’s status
• We worry about ourselves
• We worry about our son, daughter, siblings, cousins, in laws, neighbors, etc..,

As I always insist on being optimist in my posts, let’s try the above sentences by replacing just a single word ‘care’ for ‘worry’. Now you will sense the dramatic changes in those sentences.

• We care about the scams of the politicians
• We care about our country’s status
• We care about ourselves
• We care about our son, daughter, siblings, cousins, in laws, neighbors, etc..,

Being positive always helps you to be energetic and lead a happy life. Take for instance that, when you worry about your country only negative thoughts will flow into your mind about it, but the same will be reversed into positive thoughts when you care about your nation. So the thing I am trying to convey in this post is don’t worry for the things, try to care about it. Surely you will feel a lot of change within you and your surroundings.

Even if the story is common, every chapter in a book is different. Likewise every chapter of our life i.e., years will be different. As a new chapter begins tomorrow, let’s stop worrying and take care of the things around us. Have a positive 2011.

2010 !!!

We have just a day more to complete the year of 2010. So it’s time for me to take a look at the paths I had traveled along this one year.

It’s a year like Shankar’s movie for me. I had a smooth start and then a roller coaster ride in middle and finally a happy ending climax. I like to term 2010 as a year of whistle blowing, because that word suits for  me, my country and also the entire world.

It’s because many things about me, both positive and negative, have been blown out by the persons around me. By knowingly and unknowingly they corrected me to travel in a good path. There are several persons who are completely responsible for the changes in me.

India too needs such personalities, because for the whole year the news we hear from our media are scams and frauds. Exposing such activities to public is a good thing, but those aspects are yet to be corrected by the people in high command. As a rapidly developing nation we need those changes soon to be happened and those changes are possible only when the people are changed. But leaving all aside if you think that did we experience only the negatives? No, there are positives things happened for us to celebrate. Here I tried to come out with such things which I can remember.

When it comes to politics, 2010 is the year of scams. But the happiest thing is almost all of the scams are been exposed and politicians are switching over to correction mode. Every person is informed about the scams and frauds by our efficient media. But sad thing is they focused only about such things. We have achieved several things in sports, arts and in business.

In sports, we organized common wealth games successfully; our athletes and sports persons won several medals in Asiad and CWG. In cricket, Team India is the leader in test rankings and they performed well for the complete year. Importantly Sachin Tendulkar created history by scoring 200 runs as individual highest in ODI’s. In Arts, A.R. Rahman’s music has reached round the globe and he is the most wanted composer in Hollywood. And finally in Business, our empires have been extended to almost all continents by great business emperors of  India.

This says we have lots of achievements to celebrate and remember for 2010. Celebration is the key word for everyone at both ends of a year. So let’s cherish our achievements of this year and perish our negatives in the forthcoming year.

My favorites of 2010 -Part two

In my previous posts i listed out my favorites in entertainment sector. Now in this I am going for sports and politics and news makers.

Sports:

1. Virender Sehwag 
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Saina Nehwal
4. M.S.Dhoni
5. Gagan Narang

Politics:

1. Manmohan Singh
2. Nitish Kumar
3. Narendra Modi
4. M.Karunanidhi

Newsmakers:

1. Julian Assange
2. Mark Zuckerberg
3. A. Raja
4. Kanimozhi
5. Niira Radia.

I had considered the persons in both ways and listed the favorites.








P.S: Please add up your favorites in comments here so that i could know something which i missed here.

My favorites of 2010

We are in the last days of the great year 2010. Everybody started to list their favorites of this year in various departments. Now it’ turn to list mine.

Movie:

1. Nandalala
2. Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
3. Inception
4. Ayirathil oruvan
5. Angadi theru
6. Raavanan
7. Enthiran

Albums:

1. Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya -A.R. Rahman
2.  Aadukalam -G.V. Prakash Kumar
3. Enthiran -A.R. Rahman
4.  Engeyum Kadhal -Harris Jayaraj
5.  Naan Mahan Alla -Yuvan Shankar Raja
6.  Manmadhan Ambu -Devi Sri Prasad

Songs:

1. Aromale -Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
2.  Mannipaaya -Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
3.  Ayyayo -Aadukalam
4.  Dhimu Dhimu -Engeyum Kadhal
5.  Irumbile -Enthiran

Positive Vs Negative

I had seen many people perform self-analysis and trying to identify the positive and negative aspects of them. Some goes to an extent of asking the close ones to identify it. Even I had the habit for past couple of years. But for the past few days my mind raised a question that why we doing this.

The answer is simple, we believe removing our negative things will help us to grow higher, we believe successful peoples have only the positive aspects. Almost every people say negative things will act as a hurdle in  relationships. Believe me all of the above is just an illusion and the reality is entirely different from it.

If it is possible to remove our negative aspects, then there will not be any uniqueness among human beings. We are human’s, we do have our uniqueness which others races cannot have. Take for instance about me, I have several positive as well as negative aspects and the persons who are close to me know about both sides clearly. They never complained about the negatives I have, because they loved my positive side.

Successful peoples never have only the positive sides. They do have these negative aspects, but they wrap it under their positives. Most successful persons in this world do the following things,

•     Developing their positive skills
•     Being optimistic to use their negative sides also for successes
•     Importantly they hide their negatives.

The thing I am trying to tell is focus on your positive aspects to develop it big so that people will not care about your other side. Remember even a particle is said to be an atom only if it has a proton and electron. Physics say for the flow of energy we need both positive and negative terminals, likewise we need both aspects within us to have a good flow of life.

So don’t worry about the negative side of you, develop your positives and lead a great life.

Journey of life

 “Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination”

                                                                                                             – David Russell.

Life is always related to journey by philosophers and eminent speakers. There are several quotes said by them in relating life with journey. Is there a relationship? I tried to explore it in this post.

To make your journey smooth you will always need to choose a good path to travel, the same applies for your life. You need to choose a suitable path for you and that should also be a good path in order to make your life sweet and enjoyable.

The important thing in a journey is you will have several vehicles coming at you in opposite direction. If you like vehicle, you observe it and admire it. But you never consider it once it passes away. In life you should admire the persons who are opposite in nature, but never care about them once they moved away from you. Because persons with different or opposite to us will always have a lesson to teach or a special thing to admire. 

At some point you will have to overtake the front runners of your journey. It is possible only by great efficiency and precise timing. The front runners in your life are the competitors in workplace, business and for wooing a girl. In order to win them be efficient and empower yourself. Timing is the great influencing factor here, because in life you can get back everything you lose except time.

The medium used for the journey always changes, so do the co-passengers. Accept your changes in life with open hands, because you will not have the same perception and persons with you always. Like you explore new place for each second in a travel, change yourselves according to the present world. 

I hope you love to drive by own in a journey rather than keeping a driver. That’s always sweet. Don’t let others shape the course of your life, steer yourself with abundant energy, don’t confuse at cross roads, follow your own path and reach the desired destination. 

I wish you a sweet journey for long time. And I also believe that by making you to read this post made me a co-passenger of your journey.

Insights on Myths-1

When I first heard this story about the two gods Muruga and Ganesha my perception on it were completely different. I heard it during my childhood and those days I blindly believed my elders say. Before going into my perceptions I like to brief you the story.

It is Narada who made the trouble again to lord Shiva and Parvathi as usual. He visited them and presented a fruit saying that they should give to the person whom they like most.

Shiva set a test for his two sons Ganesha and Muruga. He asked them to go round the world and said that the person who finished doing this first would get the fruit. Muruga at once rushed on his mount, the peacock and made a quick trip around the world. He was surprised to find that Ganesha had already finished doing this, since he knew that Ganesha could not move very fast. Ganesha replied that his parents were his only world. So he had completed his task by just going around them.

When I heard this story at first time, my perceptions were,

• Muruga lost the test
• Parents are our world; we should be with them always
• And Ganesha is greater god than Muruga

But now my perception on this story differs from the earlier one. This time I don’t see any loser in the story. I categorized Muruga and Ganesha as hard worker and smart worker respectively. There are several Muruga’s in the present world who acquires the fruit in the life by searching for it in many places. They work hard, gain the experience and attain the fruit. Of course they too achieve the success, but the time period is comparatively high with smart workers. Because the smart workers learning lessons from their ancestors and scholars. They use those lessons and a little of practical experiences to achieve the needed success. This is the characters of Muruga and Ganesha inferred to me from the story.

In the present competitive world being a Ganesha doesn’t help you to achieve the success. We should build ourselves with characteristics of both Muruga and Ganesha. So if you’re a smart worker, try to work hard and if you’re a hard worker learn to be a smart worker.

As u know change never changes this perception too might change at a point of time in my life. If I were an active blogger during that time will make a post on it.

Is 2G spectrum allocation is a Scam or an Error??

I know it’s very late to write about this issue. I like to analyze keenly in any issue before arriving to a conclusion. Now looking at the proceedings in the allocation of 2G spectrum to the companies and later on reports about the issue, I doubt whether it is a scam or an error. You can wonder that while majority of the people saying it as a scam how this idiot is saying it might be an error.

First of all let’s see the process undergone in allocation of spectrum. It is allocated by First Cum First Service basis; people say it is a old model which was followed by two of our telecom ministers in past. Due to this the companies are allocated spectrum for relatively cheaper prices when compared with the market. Then those companies sold their stake to overseas and domestic firms for higher prices. Here the experts say A. Raja has been convinced or corrupted by the companies for getting spectrum in low price. They also say Niira Radia might have did the lobbying work.

Reports by the government agencies like CVC, CAG and CBI say that raja declined the recommendations by PM, MOF, and MoL. From these facts they say it’s a scam, but by implying basic common sense you can say it’s not enough to prove it. Because none of the report carries an evidence against Raja for corruption, if you take for the Niira Radia tapes not a single tape deals with the spectrum allocation.

Now let’s take our focus to CAG report, which says due to this our government lost Rs.1,76,000 crores. They say it by calculating the stake price of those companies at present and also by allotted spectrum’s market price. Here too use your common sense is it possible to gain such an amount as our 3G auction too doesn’t valued that much.

Before going into it deeply I like to inform you that its not the first 2G spectrum allocation process, already some of the market players like Airtel, Vodafone had been allotted with these spectrum years ago.

Here arises a doubt for me, how the allocation should be for the new companies as they need to compete with the existing players?? If we think in this manner, the mentioned allocation process seems to be reasonable for me. Because the new players who enter into the market need to compete with the existing, so they should be allotted with some reasonable price. Only because of the low priced allocation we people enjoying the low tariffs from service providers and also the price war among the people helps us a lot. So the low price allocation can be considered as a like a subsidy given for petroleum products and several others. If giving subsidy is a scam our governments are doing that since our independence.

Before concluding this post I like to mention a scam by our medias and CAG. CAG is a government agency which investigated this allocation process and made a report based on the investigation. Before that report was submitted to our president media got access to it. Is it possible without corruption??

Overall, I am not convinced to accept it as a scam, as there is no evidence for it. Still I think it’s an error.

I need your valuable comments, because I might be completely in wrong perception.

The Social Network

How do you feel when you get a chance to see the development of the product which is one of your most favorite?

What are the words you use to describe that feeling?

Got an answer?!

I guess you will say ‘No words to describe it’. Because that’s the answer I got with these questions. I felt like that while watching the move 'The Social Network' . I hope you know that it’s a movie on Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook.

I liked the line they used in posters of the movie “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”. The movie starts with the law suits faced by the Zuckerberg and it travels back according to the investigation details. I didn’t want to make this post as a movie review thing; I got some insights of the movie, so I liked to share it in my blog.

As a management student I learnt two things from this story,

• First, generating a great idea doesn’t help you to grow big, you need to love it, live with it and importantly you should work on it.

• Second, Even though you do a business on social networking, to sustain it, you need to sacrifice your relationships and your close friends might turn up into enemies.

I learnt these two things, but as an Indian citizen I got stuck up with some questions,

We do have several quality educational institutions, but why there are no innovative business ideas like facebook?

Why we never care about Entrepreneurships?

Why we are not making such movies like The Social Network? At least it might motivate persons to innovate or work on an idea.

I think the change should be in ourselves, because you cannot search a thing for somewhere, keeping it with you. If you think I am wrong on this, please do correct me by adding up your comments, I will be pleased to see those.

And finally if you love social networking try Facebook, its fun.

If you love Facebook see The Social Network movie, it’s cool

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Story of Water

It’s raining all the day. Our meteorological department says that for the past five years we have been receiving 90 to 98% of rainfall. A friend of mine by seeing these facts asked me a question that if we were receiving needed rain, why do people suffers in water scarcity. That’s the question made me to write this post.

In order to make you understand reasons for scarcity, I need you to travel along with me to our past. It’s the period of Cholas dynasty, the rainfall is not very high but the availability of water is high, people do agriculture throughout the year. How?

It is not because of the rainfall, it’s due to the methods adopted for irrigation. They had built several lakes to store the flood water and each of the lakes is networked among themselves and also with rivers by using canals. Not a huger quantity of flood waters is allowed into the sea those days. Particularly in Ramanathapuram district (now it’s been declared the water scarcity area) had 127 such lakes to avoid water scarcity. Even the irrigation experts in US wondered by seeing the satellite pictures of the network. But at present all those networks are disrupted by encroachments of people. The flood water due to the rain is not getting into those lakes like it did in the past. Also many lakes are destroyed or made into small size lakes by our irresponsible activities.


Not only Ramanathapuram, take our state capital city Chennai as example. During the period of Pallavas their irrigation plans made Chennai the next major agricultural area after Tanjore. But irony is that our history subject in the academics deals only about the construction of Mahabalipuram and Tanjore temples. Researchers say that Koovam rivers flows completely in a different path at present due to the several concrete structure built in the middle. Koovam and Adayar are the rivers which irrigated the agricultural lands of Chennai during the past, but now they act as drainage for the city. Many lakes of Chennai is been completely destroyed and today you cannot see the traces of it. Nungambakkam is one such place.

Both Ramanathapuram and Chennai are just examples. There are others cities and towns in Tamilnadu like Coimbatore and Tirupur with the same kind of stories. Here the blame should not be on the governments which ruled us; it should be on us the citizens of this republic. So we youngsters should be aware of things and should not repeat the same mistakes done by our ancestors and should make a prosperous Tamilnadu for our children.