My Life in Dover, Newhampshire

A phase of life - a big experience and lot of learnings and few new friends.
Some happy lone time for reading and travelling with roomates.
In a jist that was it.

But If I go in to details...........

 

My first Photography exhibits

It has been more than 10 years that I started blogging though with lots of breaks inbetween. But I love this blog and writing on it for various reasons.

Now ...I cannot think of anything to write after such a long break
Oh Yes! Got one.

Recently I participated in my first ever photography exhibition.
My photos - two of them were exhibited as part of Irving Art Association 2nd annual Photo exhibition.
I was so excited and happy and shared with my family. and They were so surprised.
My Son too, now he wants to do learn photography too.
I feel so proud to hear that.

The Names I gave the photos
Morning Glory  & Evening shines

Struggled for month to get those perfect pictures. At last I could find one from my photos from last year and an other I had strolled so many morning for a perfect location to capture Sun rise.
I did it though.
I was happy with my photos but not the prints I took from the photo print shop.
I had to compromise on that anyway.

School Time again

ITs started again, as if i am going to join my new school.
My son who will be 4 next month now joined the school last month, but it is not so easy with him.
when I took to him to all different school to enquire he was ok with that and one final day when he had stay in Excel academy, he says we can just check with and go home

I had to move him to West chase , he was ok with it on the first  week or 2 but start crying from then on.
he wanted to go back to his old school.
All in all whatever he enjoys at home or with me , he would not do it in the school. Shocked at it, I asked him why he says he does not like it with them.

Still the phase is going on ....
help me god
 

A night to Remember by Walter Lord

A Night to Remember

Celebrating birthday with my prince soumi

It was one of those memorable birthday I ever celebrated generally with my mom dad and brothers, but this was kind of special with my son, my prince , my angel when he requested for birthday party for self (actually he attended two parties and he wanted one of his own). It started off when i got my dress from mom and then with cake cutting at midnight by some friends, my son was sleeping of course . Few gifts from hubby, wishes from brothers on video call. The special thing is i cooked all varieties. Usually my mom did this to me, but this is the first time I did it for myself. Me and soumi decorated the house with balloons and other decorative items. We prepared a cake and invited his two small friends for cake cutting. We treated them fruit salad, and at last went to ashtalakshmi temple and had dinner out side and returned home, but there was an other cake waiting, so we had one more cake cutting and ended the day ...my birthday..

Books

How can anyone live without reading, Atleast I can't imagine myself. My dad and mom read a lot, and so do I. Now I would give that habit to my son as well in future. But my life is so much changed now due to my son. I don't read that much now, though I try to make time, I resigned my job to do all those things I wanted but all invain. Hope to look forward to read more books in future.

My dearest Grand Pa ...No More

Every body says this is part of life...even i know that it is part of life...but whats this ..why so suddenly..that when i am already depressed so much. And the most sad part is I dint know until day before ..a month after his death. My family is so worried about me that they dint let me know that my dear grand pa is no more.

God Why should I lose him. Whenever we meet he greets us saying "em sir intha late ayyindi"... "kyaji ab aare".. preferring to talk in hindi always with us.
Eppudu Ammamma noomu chesukunna...thanadi antha intha hadavidi kaadu.. anni entho responsibility tho andariki dictate chesthu..chese aa manishi naaku chala istam.
amma valla nanna ayina sare ..naaku tatayya ante athane.. andariki pedda dikku. chinnappu andarini chuttu koorchopettukuni kathalu cheppetappudu...bangla meediki ginnalaani teesukelli annam tinadaniki...maatho patu denikyna thanu ready ayyevadu...sadasivuni guttaki velladaniki.. polam daggara ,,bavi daggariki velthe...uyyala kattichi adukamani..thanu pani chosutkuni vasthadu... bavi loki digithe...eetha nerpatam..
asalu enda kaalam selavulu vasthe ,..thathayya eppudu vachi ooriki teesuku velthada ani ediri choodatam... aa taravatha ,vellatam taggipoyina...kalisinappudalla....ammamma kanna tathayya daggare ekkuva gadapadam...athanate ne ekkuva istam.
kanti operation ki intiki vachi naapudu... 15 ,20 days unte.. naaku kaaliga vundatam valla..iddaram kalisi undatam ekkuvypoyi... velletappudu edisthe..thanu chinnapilladila edisthe.. amma, tammudu nannu thittatam.. enduku..asale kanti operation, pynunchi nenu edipinchatam.

naa pellike aaginattu...pellyna 1o rojulake..ila avvatam...adi naaku teliyaka povatam. hospital lo vunchandi ante... ledu kudaradu...labam vundadu ani ante...poni ilagyna konni rojulu unte, unnndanna santhrupthi... kaani meerantha alonchinchedi,, athanu ala badha padthu undatam kastam. chese vallaki kastam ani... kaani ...naakemo vinna vishalu.. gurinchi alochiste...antha thvaraga chanipoyevadu kaadu..kaani...

I love you Thathayya...morethan that now I miss you even more

ME & INFOSYS

"Infosys" This is what I was dreaming from the time I had to find a job. My journey though started slowly and hardly here I am on June 5th'2006. Coming to bangalore itself was a tough task since had to handle my family emotions and now settling in bangalore was my decision.

When I had come to this campus for Interview I was confused about the ways from One building to the other, my frnd made it easy for me(thanks to her). After I joined , for first few days , I went around the whole campus with the new found frnd on the joining day getting used to the place....I had decided that I would show the campus to my family definitely, So I had invited them on July 10 .

There are totally 41 buildings when i joined here(though it increased now). I work in building 21 Second floor. There are 5 or more big canteens , seperate buildings are built for that.First time when I saw all these it looked awesome.
There is a fish pond where u can go for boating also between building 11 and 12, there is a swimming pool as well on the way towards my building 21 from kamat(Lotus-bld 18). There is a fountain flow of water and and an elaborated fountain when viewed from building 15.. thats really too good.

I wanted to show all this to my dearest people.
so with in a month I took my Parents and brothers as well. I made them ride cycles inside. It was as if going to childhood. Even dad had ridden and felt very happy I suppose.had coffee in coffee day , what ever my brothers wanted. Above all My mom was so much more happier for me. She enjoys everything I show so interestingly. I am even more happier about that. Expressing feeling for such things can make speech impossible.though now its not that interesting still I remember the first time feeling so proud to be part of all this.I always cherish those days in my life.

My Painting

What do you think About this?

Life @ Wipro Technologies

Though I joined Wipro I feel out of place here.... like i am not a direct employee of wipro nor i got my access Id and some times i feel what is this all, will i never have that security in job which i always wanted. all this was at the starting when i joined here first due to the circumstances.. but later on i began thinking that its all part of the game you play "Its important that whether you are playing or not putting your heart and soul and not whether you have won or lost" . because i am still in the game and there are pure chances of winning.

Now abt my team members.i am close to most of them the ones i have to refer to are.... Pavani - she always comes first u see - as a boss and more than that..she is my friend first.
The other members Sajna, Bindu, Subhashini, and Renga who are always fun loving and enjoying life at the moment.
Bindu is a little different from the regular people, She is a liltl practical and more commanding and with a positive attitude towards life. cool going..hmm
Sajna the eldest but still mingling in like the same age group as ours, I never felt she is above all.
i feel subhashini is feeling insecure or have some sort of inferiority in her.. no comments please.
Renga- cool guy, always joking and playing around with lot of sensitivity and a good analyzer. can be a very good friend to any body.

Abt the campus: Such a large place to go around , need to walk atleast 5 min to go to canteen.
if u have a look from my second floor it looks simply great with the greenary all around.
i cannot place any of the photos thats really bad to not have. I feel like sitting between those trees on the steps near tha amphi theatre and would feel like writing some good things I always wanted to write.
sitting on the bench beside the path towards building 6 and 7 is even more nice(I sat there only once and that too in the afternoon-thats a different case altogether).

Wow I will leave all this in somedays. I dont feel unhappy about this. Becoz anyways i dont belong here.

Books Change Attitude

The Human Psychology tends to change according to the time and environment. And the one who says that they never change also tend to change even more faster than you expect and this is a fact. I wonder at the way people put up an attitude such that they are the only one’s who have lot of problems and they are living with so many guts with all that mourning inside.I accept that Every person has their own individuality . But why are some people so irritating that even after complaining so much they never change their attitude? Most of the persons I met in Life until now think that, they think right always and it’s that the other person who is wrong. I find this attitude in almost every single person.
Some times it appears great that people are atleast trying to cover up their own small or big issues rather than broode over it. But at the same time they feel they are carrying all the worlds burden over them.

But I even contradict this as I also came across some people who are rather really great in every way as they handle all the situations so intellectually and solve it some way.

I think people should read the book called ‘The Present’ by Spencer Johnson.
It illustrates how people should handle life with out burdening themselves with all the unnecessary thoughts and actions.
One more book by the same author is ‘Who moved my cheese’. Its worth a reading and understanding.

Being a Hero

This happened long ago when i went to write my exam for the distance education course.
In my group there was a girl who belongs to different religion, where they had some restrictions on girls. But she didn't have any problems from her family.

That day when we gathered near the exam hall she told us what she experienced on the way while coming.
She ws coming along with some of her friends and people belonging to her community blocked her way and were abusing her for coming along with friends other than her religion. And when it started into an argument, she reverted back saying when her family dont have any objections why are these people restricting her and that too just because she is walking along with some friends.... Arguing that way she came upto the exam hall and with the help of the security she could convince them to let her write the exam.

She had finished the exam and even i finished it and came out ,discussed the paper and then it was time to go home. but she was so afraid of those men sitting near the corner of the road. she dint know how to escape from their site and go with out being caught...

This was the time for me to act quickly. So I told her to put on a different style or attire and I was covering her while walking out of the building. Instead of the road we went through the building basement which was being built ,right opposite to the exam hall, took the opposite way from which we generally go... we ran towards an auto.. and travelled some distance ,stopped at a busstop and then gave her some money since she had nothing with her, and sent her in the bus that goes towards her house and atlast relieved got into my bus and came home.

I told all this to my mom and I became a Hero for her ...
jus cool na........

A Rainy Day in Hyderabad,India

God! 2nd September 2005, Can any one say that it's a rainy day , rather it could be said as Floods occurred in hyderabad.
I Started from the office after waiting for the rain to stop, but it would not stop at all. Sometimes I think as if I am acting smart and taking wise decisions, but in reality they turn out the opposite.
So It happened again ....
Being in a hurry to reach home i forgot about the path way i have to travel...
Oh gosh so much traffic and i confirmed at that moment that i cannot reach home atleast until i spend 3 hours , thought that the other way round would make it easier and went ahead.
Lo but here the roads are filled with water all over but i think i can cross this and landed ultimately in front of Raj bhavan. Slowly I cud make my way towards the front of the traffic , there what i see is the reason for people waiting with their vehicles.... the road is blocked with water .. its just as if a river is flowing and there is no bridge to cross it, some heavy vehicles are making thru that water , so i thought even my small scooty can move instead of waiting .. as i took a step forward people started shouting -- madam ji , your vehicle will be drowned , don't go , but vinaash kaale vipareeth buddhi- so went ahead.
With the hefty vehicle and the water drowning me and my scooty and pushing us to a side whenever a four wheeler drived by ... balancing thru it very strongly at last after half an hour i cud cross the river as i said. ah ! a sigh of relief.
But the next problem.... kicked the starter and it wud not run , the water spread into the its stomach how wud it start. an other half an hour and it wud not start...... the end had to ask my family members to pick me up. Got home with all the pain and strength lost.
Thank God ! at least I reached Home.

Action Plan To Success

1.Come Up with three suggestions - how can you do your Job better ,faster and more effectively
a)......................
b).....................
c)......................

2.Write Down three ways you can use the success principles in each area of your life.
a)Work..................
b)Home................
c)Socially..............

3.List the areas in your life where lack of discipline is hurting you, Estimate its cost to you.

4.The next time you meet with adversity Stop and ask your self these two questions
a)What can I learn from this challenge?
b)How can I turn this lesson in life to my advantage?

5.Write your definition of Success
..........................................................

6.Define your goals in Life...................
Why they are important to you?

7.Think back: Have your goals changed in the last 10 years? If Yes, Why?


I had read this from 'U can Win' by Shiv Khera and felt its a lot worth to take an action.
Life is not to Lead, but to Live. So Lets Live it up to its full extent