Thursday, July 20, 2006

I always wanted karnan to win

Coeval Karnan

Oh Lord...Am I growing ?
What did I learn and Where
I m forcing myself into by
embracing outdated ideals.

Everywhere I find people
who have made winning a
habit and here I blame them for
being not as ethical as I am..

When it matters the most my
skills betray me..And victories
where always the monopoly of
Arjuna..Am I the born loser ?

This world will respect me,
This world will idolize me
My image will grow and glow
But still I will be a gracious loser.

I hate losing this war.. so Indra !!!
Go back to your abode..You
will never get what you want.
I've the might and I choose to win.

When coeval Karnan wages the
war that will change the course of
history which is full of false notions
and unneccessary glorifications.



Thursday, July 13, 2006

I have ran out of titles...

so.... no title for this random thoughts also...

When the hand that held you tight
slowly lossen its grip to leave you
Then the entire joy wanes away..
Your eyes are wet may be not due
to the pain,but due to the very
fact that someone whom you treated
better than thou in your entire life
let you down, alone in this crowd.
But the nano hope of the return
of that griping hands make you live.
Accept it or not..We are either
living for love or searching for one

They comment on my life and I share that with the world - "wonderfool..."

This Is My Life, Rated
Life: 6
Mind: 6.6
Body: 6.5
Spirit: 9.2
Friends/Family: 3
Love: 6.9
Finance: 6.1
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

Some one has devised a program to quantify things which are usually beyond quantification.

Though it is useless I dont find it as nonsense.I knew that I will get high rating in spirit..But what about my friends and family...3.I dunno what happened..

Come on my dear friends...Come on amma n achan...boost my ego. I want a perfect 10 there....next time when i take the test.

Monday, July 10, 2006

The Ethical Paradox

Ethics is a paradox and almost everything has double standards.Let me go to the incident directly. My friend got a job in the reputed IT firm in India who are considered to be the epitome of corporate ethics.

He got the job by faking his resume.He had the skillset but he didnt get the right opening because companies wanted a person who had 'real time experience'.It doesnt matter if the person spent most of the time on bench and did some documentation in the previous company.

Eventually on the basis of fake experience certificate he joined the company.He slogged,conducted training for those who were much senior to him and eventually became right hand of his team lead.And he was selected for an onsite within 4-5 months of joining the company.
Here comes the twist of the story,the external agency that was assigned to conduct 'pre-employment verification' submitted its report. It categorically conveyed the fact that the experience certificate my friend produced was 100% fake. HR tigers came woke up.He was into the organisation for past 5 months and as HR got a negative feedback on 'pre-employment verification', they had to sacked him... Is it that 'pre-employment verification' means something else in thier dictonary.God only knows....
No shortfall on their part ? Hail corporate ethics. !!!!!. Twist pe twist... After getting the marching order,he joined the same company again in the next week in a contract role. I dont know who is having the last laugh.Within a week he flew to onsite to serve an esteemed client.

Can contract employees go for onsite...?? aree yaar rules are not to be broken but it can always be bent.See the company submitted fake resume to the client and didnt had the guts to say that its own employee fooled them.What if they lose the contract by revealing an unpleasant truth.Or maybe they didnt get a replacement candiate to send to the site on time.Whatever maybe the reason I find it very difficult to digest the complexities of corporate ethics.The fake resume cost him his job,the same fake resume took him to onsite.Of late I came to know he was getting rave reviews from the client side...Anyway he was carrying an updated copy of his faked resume in his briefcase who knows when opportunity knocks.....!!!

I m neither blaming the company nor my friend.Because I thought these all are exceptions but repeated incidents are shattering my convictions.When exceptions become rules and rules become exceptions,I feel so outdated in this highly updated world.

Disclaimer:The organisation i work for,my parents,my friends,my enemies can have different view points about the same incident.And afterall I can verywell say that the story came to my mind when I was munching peanuts while waiting for my sweetheart in arizona desert.And the story is as true as my previous sentence.

Monday, July 03, 2006

MOHAM in malayalam...



















This is the film song adaptation of that famous poem.

Moham

There is a poem named 'moham' by a renowned malayalam poet
O N V Kurup. I believe this poem doesn’t come under the purview of plagiarism or translation.
When I wrote this I don’t know whether subconsciously my mind was translating 'moham'
But if he has written a similar poem with a similar theme… What can I do if my mind…also
think in a very similar fashion. Hence i wrote...If I get brickbats for this one I am only responsible
for distorting such a beautiful work by ONV (though I did unconsciously) and I am extremely sorry about that.
If someone likes this go and read Moham(if you know malayalam)...its an amazingly beautiful poem.

Wish

I wish I could rewind my life,
I want to live that life fully.
I wish I got my childhood back,
I want to enjoy it completely.
I wish I got my innocence back,
I want to flash that toothless grin.
I wish I could change my views,
I want to drop all my prejudices.
I wish I could take a decision,
I want that decision to be unbiased.
I wish that I lived in a utopia
I wish to be the ruler of that utopia
I know how futile my wishes are
Still I wish that my wishes turned true.
Am I the prisoner of my futile wishes?
Or am I the man the world waited for?
May be when I rest in peace I will
find answers for all these questions.