Creativedot

Click click…this job is so boring, “Sir I just can’t focus and I’m afraid this way it looks like i have to pack my bags from this company very fast ( to which my boss gives his typical smirk and went away ) , I want a break from this stupid office work. ( Boss shouted from outside ) Abey toh why not you go for a small vacation or something? Yeah right..as if you would give me a vacation. Targets Targets Targets…iske bahar is company mein aur kuchh soojhta hai kisi ko? Anyways lets check out my orkut scraps, its been quite a while. (Talking to my colleague) You know i’ve been one of those creatures who always believed orkut to be a wastage of time but still

It is a very famous saying that " Nobody dies a virgin, life screws us all ". Although it is not an appropriate quote to start a travelogue but there are instances in life which makes you wonder about the sequence of events and then suddenly everything comes back in front of your eyes and you start thinking whether you were actually there. Ohh shit! what am I talking about? Looks like the manali's thief has also taken away my basic sense of putting things in perspective along with that blue denim bag.

Take me back, take me back
O wizard of winds
To the land of musk deer,
leopard and the brown bear.

होली, एक ऐसा अवसर जब हम भूल जाते हैं की दोस्त कौन है और पराये कौन हैं। रह जाते हैं तौ सिर्फ़ रंग, लाल हरा, गुलाबी, नीला। साल भर की चिंता थकान और नफरत को धो जाते हैं यह रंग, मानो कुछ हुआ ही न हो। हमारे जीवन के मायने बनाते हैं यह रंग। और फ़िर जब होली आती है तोह मिल जाता इन रंगों को मौका, हुर्दंग मचाने का, मानो छेड़ दिया हो किसी ने मदमस्त हवाओं को।

हाँ मैंने ज़िंदगी को छू के देखा है
छोटे से कमरे में हजार सपनों को खुली सांस लेते देखा है
एक आम सी सुबह को ना जाने कैसे खास होते देखा है
हाँ मैंने ज़िंदगी को छू के देखा है

बंद आंखों से सपनें तोह बहुत देखे थे
पर खुली आँख के सपनें को
हकीकत होते भी देखा है

अनगिनत ख़्वाबों को पिरोती वह आंखें।
कुछ अनसुलझे सवालों के जवाब खोजती वह आंखें।
ना जाने ज़िंदगी से क्या उम्मीद लगाए बैठी हैं वह आंखें।
धड़कन थम जाये एक नज़र भर के जो देख लें वह आंखें।
मगर खामोशी कि रजाई ओढे हुए हैं वह आंखें।
अब टोह इंतज़ार है कि कब चुप्पी खोलेंगी वह आंखें।

A famous hindi song lyrics in a recent Bollywood movie goes like this.."Ab to aadat si hai mujhko aise jeene ki..." and perhaps this is the story of every Indian today. By nature, we humans and Indians in particular are resistant to any change. It is not that we do not like excellence, but we are far too scared to mess around with the status quo in our lives.

This country runs on just one thing, not hope but ‘Jugaad’. A word which gets attached to each one of us from the day we are born. 'Janaab yeh India hai, yahah sab chalta hai', this attitude if continued will bring nothing but doom to the society. A country where every person is all set to press the self destruction button, some irresponsible journalism can surely trigger chaos and pandemonium all around.

When I woke up this morning, I found the pigeons in my vicinity behaving in rather strange manner, almost as if they were conspiring something...may be about my new hair cut? or may be they were planning to watch the Munnabhai movie this weekend...anyway the squirrels had already finished their breakfast & were now cracking jokes on me.I stood there for couple of moments, watching the amazing sense of humor of nature's silent observers in our lives with a sense of utmost disbelief.

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In wonder, I stand in wonder
In wonder, I stand in wonder

Somebody please tell me where is the image? Indeed, Nikon is becoming smarter day by day but at what cost? Eventually it has ma de the photographer dumb. Perhaps we should change the meaning of Photography from 'painting with light' to 'painting with pixels'.

I am facing a severe peer pressure to go digital but not able to persuade myself to buy a digicam after my love affair with the analog for so long. For someone like me who loved sweating it out in the scorching heat, getting up early in the morning in winters, for getting one good shot from his manual SLR camera and waiting eagerly for the final prints, digital is a bane for sure.

During one of my job interviews, a guy sitting in the panel asked me about my favorite website, and strait came the answer with a hidden sarcasm "My favorite website is Ummm...GOOGLE, what else can it be? Long back I saw this Hollywood movie in which a Christian priest was telling the protagonist "My Boy go this way or that way, every road will lead you to same place". I do not know whether that priest is alive and surfing the internet otherwise he would have said the same thing today.

I've been pondering over this question for quite some time now. Is Internet = Google? Everyday my office colleagues at Times of India ask me the same question, what would have happened had Google was not there? Yesterday, I came with a stupid and perhaps the most obvious solution to crack this mystery. If Google has all the answers then why now ask him this one too. And as expected, Mr. Goooooogle gave me a mammoth 688,000,000 links to find my way, Go Figure.

Since the day I purchased my Vivitar SLR camera, I have realized that it's not always the camera which is responsible for poor results, there are quite a few other factors which spoil the picture.

a. Lack of knowledge about the potential of your instrument: More often than not, people who buy digital SLR cameras or manual SLR camera, never read the complete manual that comes with the instrument and they end under utilizing the potential of the camera and later curse the light conditions or camera.

b. Wrong choice of developing studio: At times, to save some money, people tend to give their film rolls to road side developing studios who produce such horrible results and above all damage the film for life. Make sure that you always give your films to the best studio in your area.Never ever compromise on this, else you have no one else to blame later on.

To begin with, lets get few things straight here. There is nothing 'broad' in broadband as yet, at least not in India. It's a highly misnomer term primarily because of its hype created by media. It's highly unfortunate that unlike other countries, technology grows in a strange and haphazard manner, here in India.

Its like forest fire which spreads rapidly from one tree to another. Within no time, the term broadband has started to feature in big national dailies. Every local cable wala on the street is now offering you 'so called' high speed broadband connection.

With the terms like dial-up have already become antiquated, I wonder whether we are ready for the next and the biggest of all revolutions in the 25 years of Internet history.

After some 30 CVs emailed and some 40-odd calls made to the HR department of various companies, when there was no reply I changed the subject title of my 31st email: "Ten reasons for why your company should hire me". I actually mention ten reasons in the body text...ten genuine reasons. It took me more time to think of those ten reasons than for making the whole CV. I also had to think of different reasons for different companies. Ten more emails added to my gmail sent folder, and still no reply. At last I received one reply: "We admire your interest to work with our company but ten reasons are not good enough, Yeh dil maange more, bole to more experience".