Delay or Dheelay?

Did you ever realize that the hindi word 'Dheelay' and English word Delay are somehow related.

Different aspects of my life (as below) have different levels of 'dheelapan' or a delay element in them. Let's take a deep dive (no delay here or 'wait for it'- like Barney of 'How I met your mother' – I know I am the undisputed PJ kingJ)

Guitar life: Managed to again break the E string recently - got replacements. If not a good guitarist I might as well become a good guitar repairerJ. Here is my latest dheelay reasoning: I do not have good guidance to take me out of the stagnation point in guitar journey.

Dance life: Last I did a few salsa steps was at a party at a friend's place. Not really giving time to something I just keep imagining myself doing more but not actually do it. Big delay here!

Yoga life: My work life and indirectly the financial life are the culpritsJ. Never mind, the basic tenets of yoga are there in place. And tension not! Mom is there to keep reminding me of what simple techniques I can keep following even if there is not much time available for doing proper Yogasanas routines daily. Dheelapan shows its ugly face again!

Work life: from a boat standing still in unknown waters to ship sailing smoothly in calm waters. Funny team parties (recently one at F-café and lounge –7^th Nov'09 -awesome fun) are back. I am getting appreciation for my work and liking it for now. There is not really much dheelay here … only thing is my time to reach office is having increasing dheelay J

Family life: Upcoming planned trip to Andaman with Dad, Mom and Sis. But other than that, I just keep delaying future planning etc, you know what I mean.

Financial life: Loans and bigger loans are over my head; I am working hard to improve the situation - Adding further stings to my big time 'kanjoos' outlook to finer things in life… Dheelapan here pertains to my long overdue tax planning for this year. Boss, when will I do it? Last weekend I initiated preparing an excel and then something more important caught my attention ..

 

So you see, Delay is the element of varying degree and complexity levels in various aspects of my life. But really, what is life, if lived from task to task, goal to goal or very generically NO-DELAY to NO-DELAY. I think a little delay helps you sit back and enjoy life.

So enjoy the dheelay / Delay elements of your life while they last.

Dil ne kaisi durgat ki hai…

To continue from where I left last time, we were discussing about the changes in my life (workplace, rented house) and the parallels I drew from last time. Then today I sat down to think some more and strange coincidence that when I noted down the time and date when I started, it came out as: 12:13 am, 20-08-2009 (So the patterns says +1 from 12 to 13 and 2008 to 2009).

I can be as comically philosophical here as I want to be, since if you would not like what I blabber about -the rule that would apply to you would be "Thou shall not proceed further!"

I am experiencing life in its full blown manner in the post-MBA world. Although I come across to many people around me as a refined person but truth is I may not be in all situations. I am still a kiddo at heart. I assume everyone around me to be good people, with only a few cases of abnormal behavior in them. To the extent that I don't think twice before forgiving

I don't want to grow up. Something in me says to me constantly "Why is world around me so complicated. Why aren't things perfect and in the way that I want them to be"

Probably it is my moon-sign Virgo. Probably, it is my inexperience with life.

 

Don't know which song fits me today: Aahun Aahun Aahun(Love Aaj Kal) or Hai junoon (New York) or Raat ke dhai baje (Kamine)??

I prefer to kiss- keep it simple stupid. Its 2:30 am now.. so the Kamine song wins!

 

 

MBA = Cross the road?

A lot has happened in life since May 16^th, when I posted last.

My ISB Academic Associate avatar was a transforming experience. (Do I hear giggles? No, I mean it boss! Personal, professional and spiritual transformation). I even thought of starting a centre at ISB called CRAP (Centre for religion and philosophy!) with Srini as the leader.

I left those ideas in discussion as parallel threads to develop them further. I guess I do the same with a lot of things these days. Moving on, I have joined a Big Five consulting firm (all those who have been reading the blog may know it already). And now I am feeling nostalagic. Ask why? Okay since you want to know it so much, let me tell you that the D-company (post-mba firm) is just opposite to the O-company (pre-mba firm). Imagine this, I used to drink free Maaza (yeah, it got paid towards the fag end of my stint at the O-firm) at 3^rd Floor of Cyber Gateways facing the D-company and now, I am sitting on 3^rd Floor of D-block of this D-company.

Hold on! Its not over yet!

The rented accommodation I have taken is in Sai Residency is a room just one level below the earlier one (pre-mba one, when I was working at the o-company!)

Hang on for more! (lots of things to talk about, and the trainings at D-company are taking up all my time!)

 

Life on the other side of ISB

Yes, I am in ISB since April 20th, and plan to be here till July.
No, I did not fail any subjects last year and Nooooo, I am no repeating any terms for any honor code issues!

I am a academic associate for Statistics course this time. Hence, "life on the other side"

It is rightly said, to change the system, you have to be in the system
with that idea in mind, I wanted to come back before I join my job.

Now guess what, I enjoying... spending time here with new batch, sharing so called 'gyan-bytes'
helping them cope up with tension of settling down and also having parties with 15-20 other ppl from my batch who are staying on campus.

Of many other things, one peculiar happening is that every time I meet students, there are always 'personalities' whom I can relate back to some or other person in my batch. Its fun!

It kind of amuses me to listen to what they are feeling what they go through because I can relate back to things in my time ( that is precisely an year back. Btw : do I sound very nostalgic?)

Of various things that I have picked up again besides taking statistics tutorial classes etc. are guitar and swimming ... oops, yesterday only I escaped being hurt while re-stringing my GB&A guitar. The 2nd string broke while I was tuning it for first time

Of various other things, I am also considering taking up an initiative for starting some kind of spirituality centre etc. ( Okay, nostalagia leads to spirituality, you can stop reading if you so wish :) )


Before I go further and discuss my talks with Srini... lets take it offline :)
Many profs use this line, isnt it?

Life comes full circle

Consider these facts

-My engineering and MBA grade sheets make the EXACT same …<hold your breath>…. Sine curve! ( Mind you….the peaks are real high!)

-I got two placement offers each in my engineering and MBA placements; In choosing one of them the decision was pretty much based on similar attributes: location comfort, monetary difference and brand value

--etc

The list can go on, but the point I was pondering about is that the two most important aspects of higher education in India are grades and placements (quite unlike other countries) isn't it?

Now you must ask, how come at ISB, I have so much 'vella' time to ponder quite some useless absurd unusual similarities? Actually, I am in Delhi on term break ( It's a long one and incorporates the erstwhile placement week). As I might have announced earlier, I am placed in Hyderabad only and would have to join sometime in May end or June first week.

Coming back to the difference I am gonna make this time to MBA is that, I will be attending my GRADUATION ceremony first time in Life (yeah.. I know it sucks.. I didn't / cudnt attend my engineering graduation ceremony, had to join another company on that exact day and college authorities sent an email on a very short notice)

I have made all plans and ticket bookings. Mom, Dad and Sis will fly to Hyderabad on 2^nd april and 4^th april is when the Graduation is. Hopefully, I will show mom and sis some of ISB and Hyderabad

Dad has already been to Hyderabad, on a not so nice trip (he came here when I had that bike thing!). Technically Mom and Sis also have been there earlier but that really doesn't count as a 'visit to hyderabad' and is more like 'attending a wedding' for mom and 'attending a conference' for sis

So, keeping my fingers crossed, hope it will be a good time.

TERM 7 OVER!

What a way to end term 7, just now submitted the last two grilling assignments ( mkts and crsc) online while sitting back in Delhi and mom and sis are about to wake up after their night of restful sleep

I will never forget Harrah's casino (mkts) and ImmuLogic (crsc) for the inflictionssssssssssss! Grrrrrrr

 

Gnite…. Or rather good morning…. Its 6:00 am!

Is the world bad or your window dirty?

A 1-1 meeting with Swami Chidananda and an hour long discussion that followed gave me quite some perspectives about my own behavior. The gist of the discussion was that while looking at the world outside and people around us, we tend to make hasty judgments.

Leadership has the personal aspect of looking from inside out. We should step back and ask ourselves why is that behavior so? Is it really the case that our 'Window' to the world is dirty itself rather than the world outside!