A picture perfect!!

People say "A picture speaks 1000 words" but, this one speaks life itself :)

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Need some inspiration for myself!!

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మనోవ్యధ

Something that I came across which really moved me.

ఆటపాటలకు నోచుకోని తమ్ముళ్ళు
ఙ్నానం చిరు దివ్వెను చూడని తోబుట్టువులు
ఆకలికి అలమటిస్తూ ఎంగిలి మెతుకులే అమృతమని భావిస్తూ
మరణశయ్యపై నిర్జీవమైన తలిదండ్రులు
అడుగడుగునా ఉంటే....

ఆటలలొ గెలిచానని భ్రమపడ్డాను
అన్నగా ఓడిపోయి
మిడి మిడి ఙ్నానంతో మిడిసిపడ్దాను
తోబుట్టువుగ తలవంచడం మరచిపొయి
వ్యసనాలలో వ్యాపారాలలో మునిగి తేలుతూ సాధించిన దానికి గర్వపడ్డాను
సిగ్గుతొ కుమిలిపొవడం పొయి

దుస్థితులను చూడలేని గుడ్డివాడిని
అన్యాయాలకు తలతిప్పే చెవిటివాడిని
తెలిసిన దురాగతాలను పైకి చెప్పలేని మూగవాడిని
తోబుట్టువుగా...
కొడుకుగా....
ఒక సాటి మనిషిగా..
విఫలమైన నాకు

నువ్వంటూ ఉంటే, నువ్వంటూ వింటే
రెండిటిలొ ఒక వరమియ్యి

ఇస్తే వాళ్ళను మర్చే శక్తి నాకు ఇయ్యి
లేదా నిర్వీర్యమైన ఈ శ్వాస తియ్యి

                                                 --Unknown

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Mayo - A saga of service in medical care

"The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered"

- William J. mayo, M.D.

We spent our Christmas vacation this time with my sister-in-law and family living in Rochester, Minnesota. This amazing city is known for two things, one is Mayo Clinic and the other is IBM. As everyone knew, IBM is one of the techie giants in today's innovative world, so nothing more to say about this monster. What impressed me most was the Mayo!!! the service they are doing to the humanity is noteworthy. Especially when I came to know about the mission with which they started the Mayo Clinic and the way they transformed it to today's one of the best non-profit group in the world is an inspiring story. We visited all the different buildings of the Mayo complex in Rochester downtown. Every building and every corridor has got a story to tell.There are so many generous souls who donated their properties and estates to Mayo for the development of medical research. Kudos to all those souls who joined hands in making this great medical group, which is known to be one of the best. No patient will ever get that sick feeling when they are inside Mayo, its just because the Mayo cares for them and comforts them.
No wonder everyone of us today are able to combat any disease or any illness without any fear. As a token of respect I dedicate this small appreciation to all those great doctors who dedicated their lives in this noble profession and kudos to Mayo for their amazing service to humanity.

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Cheer up!!!!

Suddenly my mood went off yesterday. Sometimes this patience of mine tends to hurt me in a bad way. Anyways...just want to cheer up myself from that mood :)

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Oops!!! I got tagged

It seems I need to list out seven weird/random things about myself. hmm...wondering just seven!!!!I feel that I am so different with my weird thoughts and crazy things how can I wrap those so many into just seven ;-) Anyways thought of giving a try....

1.The first and the foremost one is..I am crazy about quotes, proverbs, blogs any good articles or mythological stories etc...whenever I find any new quote or a good piece of writing I will immediately put it in my magic box i.e.just a notepad which I maintain. Whenever I get bored or want to boost up myself I will open this khul ja sim sim ;-) and read them once. If I read any nice quote or a good article, I think about it the entire day and feel happy. This may sound crazy but I cherish these small pleasures in every way.

2.I love writing whatever I feel like.....anything in this world. I am having this writing habit right from my 10th standard. I am not a great poet or literary person. I will just put my feelings in some plain words to make myself happy. I used to maintain a personal diary before but later on stopped that habit........I scold myself for quitting that habit but I don't remember any proper reason why I stopped that, anyways everything happens for a reason. Now, I desperately want another reason to start it again.

3.I am very much passionate about technology and the science involved in all those fancy electronic gadgets. I have my wonderful brother explaining the science involved in them and in between asking some common sense questions and me giving some senseless answers and he posing a question in surprise saying "how can people be so dumb ;-)".I just love all those conversations.I always have an open mind to learn new things and explore them.

4.Though I am not a cleanliness guru or something but I do feel very happy when I complete my house cleaning, laundry and all that weekly cleaning stuff by Saturday of every week. sometimes I laugh at myself thinking about this.....I am so crazy :) But every week I try to get all my cleaning stuff done by Saturday to get this wonderful feeling...hmmmm....or a crazy one whatever. One more thing for which I feel happy about and pat myself on the back is, I am very much particular about keeping my books neatly. Those lovely school days, when I used to neatly cover all my notebooks and textbooks with nice covers, staple them properly and putting those names stickers....hmmm....somethings you just cannot forget.

5.I never used to have any interest in makeup or beauty tips or getting ready with all matching stuff right from my school days. Its not that I hate these stuff its just that I don't know anything about them. Infact I used to buy those colorful hair bands, bangles etc. just for the reason that they look so nice but never showed any interest in wearing. My friends used to scold me for lacking interest in all these being a girl but after marriage I think I am far better and learning some dressing sense. But even to this day I don't put any nail polish or lipsticks or any such fancy stuff. Anyways change is not merely essential to life....;-)

6.hmmm...I am already onto my 6th one...ok. I love singing and listening to music.It's not that I am always infront of a big Bose music system or with a fancy iPod, but music is one of the habits I relish in my leisure time. I like the classical ones and the ones with slow music. For me lyrics matter a lot in addition to just the music, doesn't matter it is hindi or telugu or english or tamil. In a sense I feel blessed for learning music during my school days, I never utilised that knowledge properly, but at least I had that satisfaction of learning it.A soft and soothing music is all what I need most of the time.

7.Coming to the final one...I am a bit absentminded which makes me even more weird.I always plan to do so many things but because of this absentmindedness I forget to do half of the them most of the time.I hate myself for being so weird in so many ways :-( but I console myself saying sometimes these imperfections do make me beautiful.

Yahooooooooo!!! I have successfully completed my seven most weird things without letting my secrets out ;-) Thanks to Vidhya for tagging me.I had fun writing something about myself and at the same time I really strained my gray matter to sum up the entire weird stuff into just seven.

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Happy Children's Day

Today is celebrated as Children's Day in India in remembrance of Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India who has a fond affection and love for children. His leadership qualities and vision have paved the way for a modern India with a perfect blend of our cultural values, western thinking and technological progress. Celebrating his birthday as Children's Day is a fitting tribute to that great person and this day serves as a reminder to each and every one of us, to renew our commitment to the welfare of children and teach them to live by standards and principles and be an example.

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Happy Diwali

"Wish you all a very Happy Deepavali."

This is one of the most loved festivals among Indians. Every house will be beautifully decorated with diyas and the real fun starts in the evening with crackers. Those childhood memories of burning crackers for hrs and hrs on diwali nights with my dear brother, parents and our neighbours (Raja, Mani, Seshu anna, Ravi anna, Sastry anna, Shravan, Bharathi, Shivaji, Venu, Vijay Kumar) and the fun we shared will be cherished for my lifetime. Once again on this diwali day I want to wish all of them a very "Happy Diwali". May this festival of lights sparkle their life with happiness and prosperity as always.

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Oh My Friend...

Whenever I listen to the lyrics of "Oh my friend" song in "Happy Days" movie, a pleasant feeling touches my heart, particularly the following lines are awesome. Kudos to the lyricist :) What else in life can be a greater gift other than having such a wonderful friend with whom you can be just urself and feel like stopping the ticking of time when you are with that friend to have that fun and happiness forever sharing every single thing that happened in each other's life.

అమ్మ వడిలో లేని పాశం నేస్తమల్లే అల్లుకుందే..
జన్మకంతా తీరిపోనీ మమతలెన్నో పంచుతోందే.....
ఒంటరైనా, ఓటమైనా వెంటనడిచే నీడవేనా...
Oh My Friend తడి కన్నులనే తుడిచిన నేస్తమా...

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Happy Days

Today we went to a telugu movie called "Happy Days". This director is one of my favourite directors as I liked his previous two movies a lot.This new movie is about the college life in particular about the 4yrs of engineering life and how important it is in each and every engineering student's life as it holds so many sweet memories, shapes the attitude and mould him/her as a complete person. This movie has flashed all those wonderful college day memories infact happy days infront of us for about 3hrs, starting from the first yr ragging to the final yr farewell party.It really opened the stopper of that memories bottle which I treasure for a lifetime to feel that fragrance and live the college life one more time. Ragging sessions with seniors, fresher's parties, long night chats with friends, night out sessions before exams,love story gossips in the campus, valentine day nights, campus placement celebrations with friends and most importantly those friends with whom we have shared everything for 4 long yrs and I am sure everyone of us will cherish those friendships till this very day. Thanks to the director Sekhar Kammula who made us to live our college life one more time through his movie. In the movie there was one stanza of Rudyard Kipling's poem which was quite inspiring.

"If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"

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A home away from home

This weekend we had a great time at the Indian festival in Columbus. Seeing the ambience there, we smelt the fragrance of India. All Desi shops, typical Desi food like dosas, vadai, idli hmmm.........mouth watering cholebaturas etc. There were so many cultural events performed by kids of different ages. Seeing the auditorium there reminded me of my "audi" (i.e. auditorium) in RECW. All those musical evenings, Saturday night movie shows, guest lectures, Spring Spree (i.e. a cultural fest in RECW) nights, Technomatrix (a tech fest in RECW) events in audi flased through my mind."If only memories could be bottled like perfumes and I could remove the stopper to smell them whenever I want to..". Anyways nothing can be more sweeter than these college life experiences with close friends. Seeing all the events in the festival I felt like wherever we go we will make our presence felt with our values and traditions.This feeling became even more stronger when I saw someone in the audience, a foreigner holding our national flag and clapping to those kids who are performing on the stage. We came home with a great feeling that we do make the difference being away from home.

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A feeling of being cared

A few days back one of my colleagues got operated for brain tumour It was really a sudden surprise for everyone of us in the project as he never complained anything about his health.The next day another colleague of mine got a "Get Well Soon" card and passed on that to every one's cube to wish good luck to him to recover soon. That card travelled through my cube also for my wishes.I have this inquisitiveness of reading quotes, proverbs,or any kind of writings from my childhood except the personal diaries or anything personal of course .I don't know whether it is good or bad but I can't help other than reading when there are some words in front of me :). Now coming to the card, after seeing all my colleagues wishes I was so touched with her thoughtful act of getting a card. Everyone conveyed their wishes in simple words.........no Shakespeare sonnets or William Wordsworth's poems just few words saying that they will keep him in their prayers to recover soon.Sometimes it is so nice to express our thoughts and feelings openly. Even I do care for him and want him to recover soon but after seeing her card, for few moments I felt like why didn't I get such thought.Sometimes these kind of small things go a long way. Anyways I signed the card and gave it back to her appreciating her thoughtfulness. I am sure after seeing all our wishes my colleague will definitely feel good, May be it is a simple piece of paper with some letters by looks but it is a great feeling infact, "A feeling of being cared".

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Happy Vinayaka Chavithi

"Wish you all a very happy Vinayaka Chavithi."

This is my most favourite festival of all.My wonderful brother Kiran made this one even more memorable by making a small ganesha with clay. Thanks a lot Kiran. Decorating the bojja ganapayya with palavelli, fruits, flowers....hmmm it used to be so much of fun from my childhood. My mom used to be busy in preparing Vundrallu and all special dishes for naivedhyam, I used to spend 2 to 3hrs in decorating our Vinayaka.There used to be some sense of decipline in life before....we used to get up early in the mornings, infact even early during Vinayaka Chavithi day with full of enthusiasm to wear new clothes and to go for shopping to get a small idol of ganesh,flowers, patri and fruits for pooja.Today when I was decorating GOD and preparing dishes for lunch it reminded me of my mom so much, how she was able to manage everything so perfectly.........why can't my dishes be so delicious as hers.Missing home a lot for everything :-(

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60 years of Independence

"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!"

--Sir Walter Scott

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A tribute to a great mind - Dr.A.P.J. Kalam

"I am in debt to my father for living,
but to my teacher for living well"

In this journey of life we come across different kinds of people who might have influenced our lives in many aspects. On one side we have parents(and family) and teachers who shaped our destiny with the gift of education and good character. On the other side we have friends who filled our lives with happiness and fun. In my view there is one more side to everyone of us which gets inspired by some unique things and unique people. You need not be with them to experience that uniqueness just the sight of them itself will shape our attitude and mould us as good human beings. Dr.A.P.J Kalam, is such an unique name, just hearing the name itself brings so much of respect, a proud feeling that we are also born in the same land as this great man. A man with principles, a man with simplicity, a man with utmost humility, a man with tons of knowledge.......falling short of words to describe this great person!! His life is a fitting example to everyone of us in every way. I owe all this to my dad who taught me about this great scientist and a wonderful human being when I was in my 8th standard. An article came in Hindu about him and his success stories in ISRO. I used to wonder how can a person be so intelligent and so simple at the same time. From that day till this very day nothing has changed about him, his love for children, his passion for teaching, his principles and attitude towards life remained the same. It's an honour to every Indian for having such a wonderful human being as the first citizen of India for 5yrs. "All good things should come to an end..." don't feel like saying these words, heart became so heavy when I came to know that his presidential term has ended. But later on laughed at my ignorance, people like him are torch bearers, their presence will be felt and ignite the minds of people wherever they go. Hope the footprints of ethics and principles left by him as president may guide our nation and people in the right path and as a teacher I am sure he will continue the legacy of moulding great minds with his jewels of wisdom.

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నా ఆశ ... My W(V)ish

జీవితమనే సముద్రం లో,
బ్రతుకు అనే నావ పై,
నేనంటూ పయనిస్తే..

కష్టాలనే కెరటాల వలన కలుగు నష్టాల వలన జారిన కన్నీటి చుక్క,
సముద్రపు అంచున ఉన్న ఆల్చిప్పను చేరి,
పగడ ముత్యమై నను అలంకరించాలని ఆశ!

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Let's be together

"Life is like a journey on a train; ...But should fate mark me to sit by your side; Let's be pleasant travellers-it's so short a ride!"

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Alike or Different

"They laugh at me thinking that i'm different !
I laugh at them coz they all are alike !!"

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Attitude - It changes everything

Somehow today I encountered this word "Attitude" couple of times. May be a coincidence or I badly needed some topic for my blog. Today we had a department meeting with our group director in the morning. As usual these high level meetings have more hype than real content and quality, so my eyes started scanning that big conference room which has got some interesting posters. One of them caught my attention very much, its about.....I think anyone reading this can easily guess what that word might be? Yes, ofcourse "Attitude". The wordings on that poster were "Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?" hmm...my gray matter started to react for these words. To add to this,I saw an article in rediff saying "Attitude can pay you big bucks". What a coincidence? I was not able to resist anymore seeing all this. Why not put my two cents also? Here you go..
      "Attitude", it has a simple meaning i.e. state of mind, just feeling good about oneself and others. It looks so simple. Isn't it? I dont know why we tend to make things complicate and then try to understand them. Few months ago on my first day in this company, I asked one of my collegues about the work culture here. He told that this is a good place to work particulary people working here dont have "A" factor. I was so much surprised by that answer. why are we having problems with this attitude? Attitude is nothing but the way you think, the way you perceive things, so basically the problem is lying with us only. It has nothing to do with others. My dad always says, "If the mind is good everything will be good". Many times we are into these attitude problems during meetings or any discussions with friends or collegues. If you have a clear mind and know what you are doing is right, then you don't face any kind of attitude problems. If people don't agree with your thoughts and ideas, there is nothing to name it as attitude problem. Everyone one has got their own ideas and way of doing things which is unique to them. We need to respect those thoughts with all grace and dignity. We are no one to contradict their thoughts and feelings. I don't know why, sometimes we fail to realise this small thing and tend to react in a different way. "You are what you think", no one else other than you can make you or your thoughts inferior.There is no point in showing these inferiority or superiority complexes here. It's just that one factor called "patience" which we need to retain to shape ourselves and our attitude. Someone has rightly told,

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...dedicated to the soul who completes me

"If i ever had to invent something,
that something would be you..
If i have ever searched for something,
that something has been you..
If ever my life has had a sense,
that sense is you..
This world is too much big for me if u'r not there,
I need your eyes to gaze at it,
I need your hands to touch it,
I need your love to live it,
I need you to live . . ."

Falling short of words to express my happiness today as
this is the most memorable day in my life, the day I was
tied with a sweet and lovely bond with my gundu 1yr
before. Since then every single day has been so wonderful
in its own way. Felt like GOD has gift wrapped the entire
happiness, love and affection and presented to me in the
form of him. His very presence will bring a special
fragrance which makes every moment spent with him even more
memorable. He filled my entire world with so much of happiness
that I can't ask for anything more.

Happy Anniversary my dear "GUNDUS".

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A Refreshing thought...

Today I went to one of my colleague's cube to resolve some project related issues. There was one hanging in his cube which caught my eyes. After reading those lines, a kind of new energy flowed through my veins. It was truly a refreshing one.

"GOD give me the serenity,
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time."

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A Rosy Day

A rose is a rose is a rose........people say these flowers convey so many things without speaking anything. We went to a "Rose Show" this weekend. After seeing the amazing sight of different colors of roses, an unheard sound of music, a peaceful and soothing one began to play in my mind. Can't express in words about that wonderful feeling. We people became so busy with the day to day activities and mundane jobs that we tend to forget about these small happy things which GOD has gifted us. Thinking about all this reminded me the lines of William Henry Davies. How true!!!

What is life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

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Pictures that define ME!

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A perfect definition...

No rose,
No diamond ring,
But if this is not love,
What is love?
With enthusiasm, Love your life!
Love the people around you!

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...Sweet memories

What on earth can be more delicious than this amazing fruit? This is best part of summer which I used to love in India. The thought of this itself brings so many wonderful memories of my childhood. Every meal of us used to end with curd rice and mango pieces. Me and my brother used to quarrel for the big pieces and my mom used to cut another mango to stop our mahabahrat yudh for mangoes.This fruit makes the meal so complete and heartful. No single day used to go off without eating mangoes during the summer which is a ripe season for mangoes in India. When I saw the magoes here, all those memories came falshing through my mind...one of my friends wrote in her blog saying "If only memories could be bottled like perfumes and I could remove the stopper to smell them whenever I want to.." I wish I could...

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How fair are we in this game of life?

“Life is a game, play it”, someone has rightly told. But its not just playing that is important but how fair are we in that game? Winning is something that every one of us wants to cherish but doing our best is the ultimate, no matter whether we win it or lose it. The ultimate thing that I am talking about is how true we are to our conscious.

        Recently I made a trip to India for my brother's marriage. That thought of going to India brings so much of happiness, a feeling that we are going to go to our own place, the place where I was born, brought up, studied, learned every aspect of life, a place which taught me to be humble, a place which taught me my culture, traditions and everything whatever I am right now. When all these thoughts were flowing through my mind my happiness knew no bounds on the day of our travel. The tiredness of 20hrs of journey was gone after seeing those beautiful smiles of our parents who were anxiously waiting since 3 months for this day. I can't express in words about their happiness after seeing us. Right from the day we were born and till this very day they never failed to think about our happiness in every single way sacrificing many things which they well deserved just to give us a wonderful life. My dad used to say "That umbilical cord bond is a miracle which GOD has given to every human being". How true…!!! Then a thought provoking thought aroused in my mind. It sounded like someone patted me and asked me this question? Don't you think that you are behaving selfishly staying far away from them, leaving your own country and people? How fair it is to make them wait for years and years at this age to just see you for one or two weeks? After seeing so many anxious parents waiting for their loved ones, this thought grew even stronger. There were some parents who are in wheel chairs but still bearing all that pain just for you. May be that pain is nothing compared to the happiness they want to give us. Even at this stage of life they are ready to take all the pains to make us happy. Tears rolled in my eyes after seeing all this. Those were not the tears of happiness, nope not at all. Those tears are for the pain and the suffering they are undergoing at this age. It is always they who took all the pains, that day when we were just 1 or 2 months old they happily smiled when we were kicking them with our hand and legs and even this day they are smiling when we are kicking them in their hearts and playing with their feelings. The difference being, that day they smiled thinking about our innocence and this day they are smiling might be thinking about our ignorance towards life. That passion to win and conquer this world (may be for status, money etc.) doesn’t matter whether someone else is getting hurt is making us deaf, dumb and don’t know what to call this deadly disease. Those happy days of family get-togethers, mom’s wonderful dishes, playing games with cousins, teasing aunts with their typical gossips, those coffee sips in the mornings reading the day’s news paper, evening movie shows with friends…this is going to be a never ending list, don’t know why are we trying to redefine life where as life’s real meaning lies in these small happy moments which we spend with our loved ones. This is not just my thought but many of us might be going through the same situation. Why are we trying to wear a mask of happiness seeing this success which in true sense is not. I tried to console myself with a good answer but not able to. May be we are trying to keep our loved ones more happy with all the worldly comforts, may be we are trying to relieve them from the burdens they carried till now. Or sometimes we fall short of words to answer…..may be this question is one among them.
"It doesn't matter how fast you move ahead in life, But what matters is the road on which yoy move ahead. On the road of life be true to others. More importantly be true to yourself."

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