My Dad, my Hero

Dad,

Every time I faltered and made mistakes, you understood, and you made sure I learned from those mistakes to become a better person. You fostered a strong sense of pride in me from the day as far as I can remember. You instilled wisdom in me my entire life, You taught me that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet, Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. I am what I am today, only because of you, I know you would be a proud dad right now for your son, a Software professional at age 23, writing his own checks, signing documents, making a living on own. You have been an apt definition for a Dad, you truly are !
You taught me to think big. You taught me to take care of everyone around me like you always did, to protect and give from the heart. You taught me that life is tough but with laughter and love anything can be surmounted. Things were never easy between us, but what is easy is the love I feel for you. I am so sorry Dad, I didn’t get to tell you how I feel and how much I love you. You have become my strength and I everyday realize how many lives you have touched and transformed. I hope one day to be even half or even a quarter of the Father you've been to me. I hope that when my kids need something, I'm there for them as you have been for me. I hope that when my kids have questions, I'm there for them as you have been for me. I hope that when they are going through good times or bad, I'm there for them, just as you have always been for me. Dad, I never had to search for a hero, The hero in my life was you. Happy Father’s day.

Son.

World Telecom day Celebrations

The jinx of my second birth in this AT&T account at IBM after my graduation had taken its vengeance on me yet again. The "Not so uncommon" thing that life has screwed me up with, through out these two years of staying late night at office and waking up late has cast its spell once again and stood as a hurdle to vault over before I realized that I already fell down. This has deprived me from participating in this blog contest held as part of world telecom day in my AT&T account. The request for Blogging in the contest (which I always loved) on any Telecom topic had to be sent by 11 AM , so that we would be entitled for participation and would be authorized to access the blog space where the topic has to be posted. but It was 11.30 by the time I woke up. :( It was sheer bad luck that I could not participate. Skimming the wide variety of the posts that were posted at the IBM blogging contest and the quality of its content, I felt, I stood a fair chance of making a podium finish :p, This Post which was declared to be the best and given the First prize had made quite a few eyebrows raising as people found that It has been plagiarized from some other document online (In fact It was me who found it out and wrote a rotten comment at his post) I could not have taken part in this contest which saw quite a few highs and lows and ended dramatically with some sour comments at the winning post, but, that would not stop me from posting my post written for the contest on my own blog. So here comes my endeavor.

After the Trojan War, Nestor had to travel back home for few hundred years to convey the Greeks victory over the Trojans (poor fellows! didn’t have Mobile phones then :p) but now, practically witnessing a drastic transformation and an exceeding growth par or thoughts, during the past one decade in technology specially the communication sector which has telecom flavor attached to it is remarkably a stunning experience. The history kindles nostalgic memories of the efforts made by pioneers in the past to help people communicate with each other through telegraph and telephone. The trends had fast paced up, the Electronics and Telecommunications, together in conjuncture revolutionized the entire world, and are changing at an astounding speed driven by the convergence of technologies, especially in this span of bygone ten years. The Phrases like VOIP, SIP based services, Wi-Fi, IP-VPN,WAN are about to sweep the international markets leaving people stunned over. This is the time when the words like cell phone, internet etc which only a countable number of people used some time back, have become passé. There is nothing that you cannot buy on Internet literally or learn about anything that you are not aware of today, and Cell phones Huh! They were only devices to communicate when they initially evolved, now it is no more what it was. They have grown to unreachable expectations and every thing is incorporated in to this mobile device from cameras, organizers, Juke music boxes and what not! They have become portable computers with Wi-Fi to access fast speed Internet services and stay in touch with the rapid growing world all the time. This rise in telecom has changed our lives prodigiously. Now we cannot imagine a life with out our mobile phone for one single day. I am going through that now, as I lost my mobile for the second time :( in one year.
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Learnings from the journey of Life

I have decided not to let my laziness get the better of me, I am going share my painstakingly accumulated gyan for all these years of birth. So here goes:

Ten things I wish I knew before entering the real world:

1. Life is unfair: The good guys sometimes do end up last. Things don’t always turn sunny side up.
2. love is not about champagne and roses but learning to stand each others farts too.
3. Nobody is perfect: No one is perfectly happy or miserable. There is no such thing as perfect, just an adjective, nothing else.
4. Everything that goes up comes down: Only make sure that you don’t land on your ass but on your feet.
5. Once you’ve hit rock bottom rejoice, you can only go up from there: It’s the ride down, which is the worst.
6. Ultimately it is inner peace that matters: If I spend the rest of my life making money and end up unhappy anyway I have wasted a lifetime.
7. It’s the journey that matter’s not the destination: Tell that to me when I am stuck in traffic jam!!
8. You can stop pretending, coz no one is watching and no one cares anyway. The ones who do care know that you are pretending and play along.
9. The baby fat that your mom said would melt away, doesn’t: It’s no longer baby fat, the truth is that you are just plain, adult fat. you have to be what you are and not try to be someone else.
10. Not everyone will like you. It’s ok! it really is!