The voice within

I recently read this interesting novel called Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple. I just couldn't stop reading it. I continuously read it even while having my breakfast and lunch and in the park where I take my evening stroll and finally completed reading the book before I went to bed.The story is jaunty and attractive. picture source: google images The book just gives you so much of information. It goes on and on, adding to lots of information is the eccentric character of Bernadette Fox. Bernadette who is an intelligent architect from LA who settles down in Seattle, yet her experiences in life let her grow blackberries in the basement of her home! Constantly concentrating on her 15 year old daughter Bee she just does everything she could do for her house and her daily life. She is very honest and loyal. Her loneliness perhaps made her disclose her personal life to Manjula Kapoor via e-mails. It'll be interesting to know who Manjula Kapoor is by reading this ...

picture source: Google images Goethe once said -  Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.   Goethe, Johann Wolfgang  Von The two words commitment and excellence are always there in one's life. What does it mean to be committed? We often set goals and we say that we are going to do something and then let our circumstance...

Two days ago, I was standing in a long serpentine queue in the bank and was getting a little frustrated. Two women in their thirties were standing behind me and their chit chatting entertained me for a while. Few minutes later, I saw a poster on the wall near the last counter that read "what did you leave behind in 2011?" well it was regarding a charity work, the name which I apparently forgot...but I couldn't stop thinking about that question. What did I leave behind in 2011? On my way back home it occurred to me that I left behind fear in 2011! Fear of open and honest communication, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of judgement, fear of being wrong, fear of being victimised, fear of insult...Fear can be so destructive and to be honest I'm sick of it. Why should fear hold us back from the things we want most in life? The things that we deserve, for which we work hard...Life is an amazing, incredible gift. In life, we get to challenge ourselves every day to g...

I always prefer to read classics. I was really blessed to have done my pre-university in SJRCW, the library there had these fantastic collection of classics in English and French...It has almost been a decade now and every book I had read then is making sense to me now. I do not remember the name of one such classic but would like to share it with u all in a short n sweet manner :) ... Two young, beautiful and gorgeous ladies always had a competition with each other, may it be their dressing, may it be in school or any small thing you could possibly think of. They always compared who won and who lost. People ridiculed them for their behavior and wondered what if they were to fall in love with the same man. And as their people fancied it, they both did fall in love with a young, handsome,smart, in other words the most eligible bachelor! He fell in love with one of them, spent a lot of time with her while the other lady was stupendously jealous of watching th...

On 5th March 2011, 30 of us went to the SPARK program conducted by Infosys from our college ISiM. SPARK is an initiative for students   to enlighten students and prospective employees of the company.   We were late by an hour and we learnt about time management .With us were a college from Satara and a college from Kannur. In the session we learnt about the history of Infosys which was inspirational.   In between they screened videos titled as "Leader Speak"  from leaders like N.R.Narayan Murthy and Nandan Nilekani.  After a short tea break we re-entered the hall to know more about Finacle. The Finacle song in the end entertained us.Shortly we were accompanied by yet another college CMRIT who joined us as latecomers. Now we learnt about  a centre called PmCoe – Project Management Center of Excellence in Infosys, which has developed an approach called Project Think Approach. This approach is towards taking every task in our daily lives as ...