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Nothing was right today or should I say ... it was right but I never felt it. The class was a chaos, it was maddening and noisy and I was feeling so damn helpless. Every experience teaches you something and this teaching experience has taught me so many things. First being, patience. I thought I have overcome that bit of having patience but today, i completely went back to being my old self, with no patience. Am still not sure what went wrong... probably my expectation of myself was too much or may be there were too many children to control. The whole class was not together ...somehow pupils were not paying attention. It did start off well, but then down the line, it all fell apart. Was it the fact that there were not activities or games included. May be. Could have done it a bit better. I did start the class with a nice energizer and then the power point did keep the children engaged. Think the whole idea of the just getting them to understand stuff was right but the way to d

Time is immemorial. Nothing can stop its passage. There is not beginning, nor any end of Time. It just is there. Sometimes, we don’t even feel the change and sometimes it is so apparent. Even while we sit doing nothing, time keeps on moving as if some unknown movie playing in the background. Slowly we tend to come nearer to the most realistic thing in the whole life i.e. DEATH. Even though none of us wants to die but that is the most certain thing in this whole life of illusion. Right from the day, we are born, we are taught how to survive, how to fight it out in this world, never are we told how to face death in the eyes and brave it. That is the fear of the unknown. Nobody has treaded that path to tell us how it is. Seems like it is beginning, yet another one! What is it that keeps us attached to things, to other people? Deep in our hearts, we all know that we all will make a journey beyond this life, all alone, single. Still we cling on to materialistic things, to our beloved, to ou

There would be times when you feel that it is not worth having somebody, when the person does not respond the way you want him to. Somebody rightly said "expectations can kill you" and with me it is always true. I keep telling this to myself over and over again but still I end up becoming a victim of this over expectation. I fall flat over my own expectations form somebody. Falling hurts be it in love or in over expectations.  Where does all this stop? Where do the expectations end? Is it not right to expect something more from the person who cares about you or is it too much? What is the limit of such expectations and who defines it? These questions keep popping in my head and I have not even a single answer.  My friend asked " how can one be happy and at peace with himself and with his near and dear ones?” Pat came my reply “have less expectations or if possible no expectations and then you will sail through", but do I really follow it in principle.

An oriental delight Not that I am a great foodie, but I do agree that I am a good Chinese foodie. It has always been “food from the oriental” which has tantalized my taste buds and made me go ga ga over the saucy silky cuisine. Any day, any time, any place, Chinese cuisine is for me or is it the other way round (I am still a little confused over it). Though it has been a few years that I have sworn to be a true follower of “vegetarianism” and have forbidden any moving being enter my mouth and make way through to my stomach, still I relish the Chinese cuisine. After making Delhi, my home away from home, for half of a decade now, I have hogged on my favorite food in most of the good as well bad restaurants which specialize in the cuisine. Starting right from the “House of Ming” (courtesy my previous job), the most popular and one of the best rated Chinese restaurant of Delhi’s one of the well known five stars hotel, to the little Van parked right in front of the FICCI auditorium at Mandi

A Team of one of its kind, A team of the “Navratnas”, each having its own unique quality. Each a kind of a rare spice with its own flavor to make the team vibrant, enthusiastic & always ready to face challenges. Let’s get a sparkle of each of the “nine gems”…….. Rakesh Kanda “Leading from the front with that extraordinary feat for work & relentless energy. The “Never Say Die” attitude always depicting his persona. A Friend, Philosopher & Guide”. Mohd. Zafar A new face with a freshness of its own. The most enthusiastic of the lot. Young at heart & full of boundless novel ideas. A true team player & a huge morale booster. Shachindra Pandey Tall & lanky with that great “Happy go Lucky” charm about himself. The “WHIZ KID” of the Team. Always creating wonders with computers. He is another pillar of success of our team. R. Nilakanthan ( Neel ) A new chip of the block. The “Six Sigma” champion…..another feather in our cap. Always humble & ready to help, A man with

It is every day on a daily basis, has become a routine. Every night the clock strikes half past eleven and every day another day at office draws to a close. The very monotony some times bogs me down. Yet with not much tension of work and with a happy feeling of heading home I welcome this hour. One gets to know the destined hour, the hour that marks the end of the official day. One can get to see people just switching off their PC's and wrapping up their work. The drawers at their desks are stacked with the day's work and then locked, the cupboards and flipped open and then shut as if some unknown order has been made and it has to be followed. Some tidy up their workstations (for the person coming in the morning, as we share the same workstation), some just shut down their PC's, carry their belongings, say the customary "good night" and push off. At this point, if one stands near the exit gate it seems as if, some factory has sounded the gong for ending the day an