Me My Mine - Time to Whine

Title of this post is same as "Realty Show for Talent Display" on Fox TV - In India it comes on one of the channels that I don't remember the name. On this show, performers will have 30 seconds to impress an audience and a panel of judges with their skills. Each week's winner will win a cash prize of $25,000. Another intersesting thing that happens is that studio audience can vote the contestant out even before 30 seconds are over if they don't really like the performance or contestant. And believe me, 30% cases, contestants are voted out even before 30 seconds. It is really interesting and intriguing concept but at the same time a scary proposition if you link it to the real world scenarios where you are possibly judged "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" probably within first 30 seconds of you meeting someone, within 30 seconds of you conducting trainings/sessions/presentations, within 30 seconds of you meeting a date, within 30 seconds of talking t...

Deep down in the time wrap the dark hue has totally covered my part of the earth, pigeons had gone into sewer holes in my apartment complex to sleep and only tone that contributed to the decibel-level outside were occasional cell-phone polyphonic tunes or wind-chimes getting excited by occasional summer gust of wind. It was time to strech out of my comfort zone in my apartment and lug outside for my recommended 20 min walk. It is kind of biological alarm that starts ringing with all the technological frills - like stern faces of doctor gazing down into my eyes and threatning with model of heart in his hand showing how bad cholestrol was winning the marathon in my veins and leaving its won-plaques littered on the way - clogging my good cholestrol. In my brain, there is this royal parliment that has two zones clearly marked out - proponents and opponents and believe me the sounds, shrieks and thumping of opponents really have such an impact that little and my muscles in legs suddenly g...

"Old Order Changeth yielding place to new " If I remember correctly, this is the right quote. It summarizes the essence of the change which is - It is not "If" but "When". Not very far off , there is a huge river that meanders by through beautfiul valleys and dangerous gourges. Everyone of us is trying to cross this river to reach to the other end where I can see lush green meadows, fruit-laden trees and shrubs and everything else that anyone can ask for as perfect utopia. Recently, I had to make a choice of moving forward towards the other end and that is when I stepped on to another rock in this river.This rock is much smaller than the one that I was standing for more than five long years and as you can imagine my legs had started aching and my muscles had started getting stiff. That big rock is one of the most shapely rocks in this river with seemingly right kind of surface where you can perch and enjoy the chill and cold water flowing by you. Isn'...