Baba Ramdev's Facebook Profile! :)

One of 'THE' funniest forwards i have received in a long time...would love for it to be True! ;P (Note: Click image to enlarge it)

Leaf Insect?

Probably the strangest thing that i have every photographed. I found it in my XLRI hostel room some years back. Observed it very closely before it left my room. At first thought it was a leaf but when i went closer i was quite amazed to see it is an insect.

Oh...by the way, Those (leaves) are Wings!

Can you spot the eyes and the antenna?!

P.S - Did not find anything resembling the same on the net. Would appreciate it if someone has any clue on what they are called?

My Definition of Leadership

In my opinion, a leader does not have any right to be called a leader if the person does not have the respect of their peers, superiors and subordinates. And this respect comes only from Humility and not getting stuck to a Title or Position; a disposition to be humble and a lack of false pride.

Leaders do not need to shout from the top of the roof about their leadership values. People will automatically ask a person to lead them if they respect him/her and the judgment. In most cases, a leader is given this power by either other people, by acts in organizations, by laws or by force. In each case, the power should be considered finite, particularly in the last three cases since the leadership is not really of the person, it is of the position, which will be taken away with time. However, if a person wants to build a lasting legacy in whichever field, it’s the respect of others which will define the leadership. Mahatma Gandhi never had any position in the British or Indian government but he is still the person who got India her independence and is considered the Father of the Nation.

There is a good chance that a person will get alienated if s/he tries to hold on to the position. The reason is simple. The person will be striving for the survival of the position than doing work selflessly to help others. More often than not, these very people are responsible for the leader and vice versa. Probably a reason why politicians are such a derided lot, at least in my country!

When a leader works to help others, it is those others who actually carry the person along when in dire need. There are so many examples of people who have rallied around a call of a leader and have been ready to even sacrifice themselves. These people know in their hearts that the one they are following is aiming for their collective success and not just their own. A leader needs to show humility simply because it’s the collective might which always gets the work done. Leadership qualities will come to naught if the support is not there. Something a leader should always remember however good that person is.

Meaning of "Lorem Ipsum vim ut utroque mandamus intellegebat, ut eam omittam ancillae sadipscing, per et eius soluta veritus"

Was just editing my blog when i came across the following quote at the bottom of the Blog 'Edit':

"Lorem ipsum vim ut utroque mandamus intellegebat, ut eam omittam ancillae sadipscing, per et eius soluta veritus"

Was quite intrigued and so googled for the same. And the answer is also quite interesting. Well, in the first place, it doesnt actually have any meaning nor is it Latin. It is actually gibberish which is written so that some sort of content can be used for the sake of illustration. It's called "greeking" -- it's filler text that developers, publishers etc use to designate a text paragraph, without actually putting anything specific in the paragraph.

Wikipedia says: In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is the name given to commonly used placeholder text (filler text) to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout.

Even though using "lorem ipsum" often arouses curiosity because of its resemblance to classical Latin, it is not intended to have meaning. Where text is visible in a document, people tend to focus on the textual content rather than upon overall presentation, so publishers use lorem ipsum when displaying a typeface or design elements and page layout in order to direct the focus to the publication style and not the meaning of the text.

Very Interesting!!

Life - A Card Game

One moment in life you are so happy...the other moment you are reflective...What's actually in store for you....what's life hiding from you...

Its like a classic card game...You vs Life...everyone hiding their cards...keeping them close to their chests....life trying to stump you....you trying to be one up over life by making your decisions...

The only problem that i see there is that when we play our cards, it is strengthening the decisions that life takes in the future while the ones that life takes for us might just weaken us....or the fact that we may never even find what cards had been played....

Strange no...when you think of this complex maze called existence...how it struggles to eke out a move when so many strange forces are trying to stop it from doing so...and that includes us too...

Why do people work?

I am sitting in my office today - a Saturday - and just thinking about the work that i am supposed to be doing today and tomorrow, - a Sunday - makes me feel like i am an extremely foolish guy who is living his life rotting away in office hell for no reason at all. But is that TRUE??

I am not so sure that i love this work but maybe at the bottom of the heart, i know that if i hated it completely, i would have walked out of this office ages ago. But i didn't which must mean something. There can be many things making me want to stay here:

1. I am just a big coward who has become "Institutionalized" and do not want to move out of my comfort zone to look for greener - supposedly - pastures.

2. I love my work somewhat and i am feeling that i should learn something from this role that i am playing. The only problem with this statement is that i really do not know what role i am playing or is there really anything that i am learning?

3. I have a cushy job which really pays me very well and i am able to maintain my lifestyle because of that. But that again brings us again to the age old question - which i anyways think is stupid in the first place - about money being the most important thing in life and what about having a great heartfelt life without always having one sliver of thought on a big pot of gold that might crop up?

4. I just plain love the feeling of telling my friends that i worked on weekends and 100 hour weeks and they exclaiming my greatness by saying things like...dude u rock man....u must be the most hardworking person in office or they must be going to make you the CEO soon!!....i know its kinda strange but i can acknowledge that in the deepest recesses of my heart, i sometimes do like this talk...and don't blame me....everyone has a right to dram once in a while. huh!

5. This is a company which doesn't throw out people so even if i have to work hard today and from tomorrow onwards i don't work and just faff my way to glory, it does not matter since i will probably get a average rating and an average payout which would still be significantly higher than what is required for a very very very cozy life.

Well to tell you the truth, i dont know....maybe its one of the reasons listed above, maybe its a combination of more than one, maybe its plain hogwash.....
The fact of the matter is that at the end of the day, i am sitting in my comfy chair under airconditioning and am blogging while i am supposed to be working....and working hard for that matter.....

Puts thing in perspective...right ;)))

Fighting the Waves

Have you ever fought with the waves?. I have! And you know what, it’s the strangest feeling I have ever had. It’s a great feeling to be sprawled face up on a beach looking at the bright sun with the water just reaching your hair making you glisten like a jewel. Just imagine the calm that you feel, its almost surreal and it felt to me that I can lock this moment forever. I still think about it whenever I need the same calm to descend upon me. But that day, alas, the ocean had a mind of its own. The waves just kept growing stronger and made me move on the beach like I was a soft toy. I tried to move up so that I am untroubled by the waves and can lie peacefully but to no avail. They just kept following me wherever I moved.

This is when I decided that I will fight the Ocean. Call me foolish or just plain stupid, I ran into the waves and tried to fight the rising waters by trying to push out of them in to the open sea. The thing is, I knew it was childish of me to do that at that moment but then it was fun! We all know how funny I would have looked running into the water with an angry look and jumping on the waves after that and today I can laugh about it but that day it just felt so good to have fought the nature at my own terms. I know I lost (Am I kidding :-)!!) but I know that I did what I wanted to do and then I failed….i failed while I was laughing madly and yet at the same time, very much at peace with myself.

You know what, maybe there is a lesson to be learnt there……