I came, I saw, but felt too lazy to conquer

After so many bad, unproductive, boring, sickening (and a few more bad adjectives) days later, today I had a really nice day. Nothing big though. Just had a workshop to deliver on Data and Dimensional Modelling. But I had been preparing it for what seemed like ages to me. I had initially started it on last to last week's Friday. Then I thought I will finish it over the weekend. The coveted 'weekend' came and passed by without even informing me about its arrival. No probs! I thought. There's one more week to go right. So here I was, trying to prepare for this seemingly mammoth task. I always tried to start by opening up the Business Intelligence Development Studio along with the Word document to write down whatever I did so that I could pass it on to the participants. But I never actually could do more than 2 pages a day. So after one more (working)week, I had 10 pages of 'How To' stuff documented. The weekend was supposed to help me finish the job. Instead, it ruined it by letting me get drunk(Saturday night) and watch movies(Sunday - The Aviator, 300, Passion of the Christ, Teen Patti) all day. 

Then came the dreaded  D week(something similar to D Day :P). I didn't know what to do. But somehow I was still confident that I can crack it. After all I had not done anything for the past one week citing this ONE reason. Yeah, and I forgot to tell you why I was confident. Tuesday was a holiday as it was a Kannada festival called Ugadi. No goodies to guess what happened that day also. But somehow I managed to do 5 more pages. The workshop begins on Wednesday, and my session on Thursday. But it was funny how I still didn't feel tensed. The 10 minutes of 'away from the whole world' time in the loo was spent on pondering why wasn't I working? Am I not interested or what? Then enlightenment dawned on me. It struck me that all my life I had followed this one principle, which one of my colleague helped me realize a few days back - "when some thing can be done at the eleventh hour, why do it now?" So now that I had the answer to my problem, I felt a lot more free. Whole afternoon and evening on Wednesday was spent on doing what I do best - nothing. 

After I came back home, I saw it was The Eleventh Hour. I sat down at 10:30pm, worked till 2:30am, and came up with a 84 page document covering the most simplest to the most complex of concepts. Also things which even I didn't knew existed. Beat that! Finally I delivered the session today, and according to me it was a hit. People liked it and even came up to the dais(where I was packing my laptop) to appreciate and thank me. Only time will say if those appreciations really worked. Eagerly waiting for the feedback results tomorrow :)

I was ROFL while i was writing this

I find it really strange. Don't know if its funny or what, but it's really strange. Ever observed people who are so happy with using as least letters as possible when they type? There are a few that I know who do that. In fact I never knew what ROFL and LMAO meant until I met this guy. I taught him one also - ABCD(he will surely explain this in the comment). I mean I understand its a pain to write the entire word at times, but this is outrageous. And all these so called acronyms are so badly abused by almost everyone who chats. I mean, Rolling On the Floor Laughing is fine, but imagine Laughing My Ass Off. How can one do that??? Intriguing. I definitely want to see someone laughing his ass off.I wonder how it would look like! Like this maybe - 

And then there are those who like to use letters as if they are in abundance. I still haven't been able to understand why Pneumonia, Pseudo, pariS, hJose to mention a few are spelled the way they are. After all we are naive Indians. How would Jose feel if someone pronunces his name as jo-sey, or asks him, ka re jo-sey, tumko pa-neu-monia ho gaya hai kya?

Think... what a pity!

There are several ways to earn

Well, people like me, who are naive and mostly disinterested most of the times just have one way to earn -  from their full time jobs. But if you look around properly, there is not one, two but plenty. One very easy way is to make chu**ya of everyone around you. Ask Roch how to do it. Even I am up for tutorials from him. Another very god way is the internet. Referal schemes, blog posts, ad spaces, content writing etc are hot businesses that fetch loads of money. Google adsense has taken up the center stage here. But whatever you look at, unless you have the flair to do it, you beat around the bush and return to square one - which was the attempt to earn some extra cash. I have absolutely no idea what crap I am writing here. So got to stop now.

My Blog is improving

Dear All,

I am in the process of improving my blog. I am adding a few new widgets that I think looks good. Please comment liberally and also use the shout box to let me know what you think of it. Theres also an aquarium way down at the bottom. You can feed my fishes by clicking on the white part. So just browse around and keep rocking...

Good Life :)

And then I realized

Finally I have arrived at the conclusion that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. How you ask? Read on…

I thought work is important. You need to DO THE JOB assigned to you first. Then think of play. Then I found out that no matter how hard you work, unless you work smart, your flight isn’t taking off. That made me kind of dull. Hence after long self realization sessions, I thought I won’t work - come what may. Even that backfired as I had put my own reputation of hard work at stake. Suddenly I had a dawn of enlightenment (yet again). Remember the second line of this paragraph? Yes. Exactly that. I just tweaked it a bit. It now reads – “You need to GET THE JOB DONE assigned to you”. Forget “first”. No matter who does it. And now little jack has all the time in the world to play. I can even do things like wasting your time by making you read this absolutely senseless phase of my life.

Now the first few lines of the last para reads something like this – I think work is important. Think of play. That will give you ideas to GET THE JOB DONE. So you keep on playing while the job is getting done. So far it has been good. It’s just a matter of time till you will find yourself reading another such post from me on self realization and dawn of enlightenment kind of crap.

What we believe is true

"No matter what they tell us,
 No matter what they do,
 No matter what they teach us,
 What we believe is true."

There are times when things don't go the way you want it. They often go exactly the way you don't want it. Feels like the principles, belief, faith, everything is a shit. But if what they say is true, then whatever we have believed so far, thought so far, lived by so far, don't hold any value. That would mean we have been a living lie all this while.

Keep the flame of faith burning. Let your belief be stronger than the strongest thing in the world. Shit happens. Shit happens all the time. But it is because of this shit happening that our faith is strengthened. So be thankful to it and walk the path called the journey of life, undeterred. 

I Inspired

It gives a real good feeling to see that what you do is at times liked and adored by people around you. It is liked by them so much that they go to the extent of saying - 'you inspire me'. And such is a story about a friend of mine who had 6 first loves and 2 true loves(thats what he Claims - at which i exClaim). He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he has no such "bad habits", and girls dig him. I wonder how. But thats not what I am writing about. I a writing about how what inspired him and how.

He went through mine and Sid's blogs when we both were wasted and lying half dead on my bed. He followed a few more links to check out more blogs, and found that we actually write good stuff without ever intending to do so. We just write what comes to our head right... and not a literary masterpiece - well not always at least. And this is what he liked. The thought of being able to document what's on top of your mind so that later on when you are in all your senses, you can retrace and enjoy all those moments once again. Over and over again. As many times as you want. Like I still enjoy reading my post about earning money and the one with ghosts in it. I cherish those moments. They are an intricate part of my elaborately ugly past, which is as of now lost somewhere, at times intentionally oblivious to me. But I still cherish them.

And Sattu was sold on this idea. He started his own blog which you can find here. Hope this turns out to be a good experience for him. I am sure it will be. After all, he was inspired by me(too :P).

The night that was

Yet again, I got drunk, spoke crap, did a whole lot of 'harkat' but at the end of the day, for the first time ever, didnt sleep. Been awake since yesterday 8am. That like 24 hours now(WOW!!) but it was good, enriching and fun with all the different kinds of people i was with. Not one had similarities with the other. 3 totally different characters, different types, likes, dislikes, motives, relations blah blah blah.

I am awake not because i was doing something, but just that my bed was occupied along with my blanket. So couldnt sleep in the chill. now that its morning again, i am wondering if i should go to sleep. I chatted with total strangers all night. Most were weird. So was I, I guess. And what else do you expect from a guy who was almost half asleep but didnt sleep just because he wasnt allowed in his own house?

Sweet sleep sacrificed for friendship... the night that was.

Earn Earn Earn

The internet seems an endless ocean to earn - be it money reputation, fame or maybe something else that I haven't experienced yet. Lets talk about earning money. Lately i had this craze to earn as much extra cash as possible. So I stared to look for sites that would give me job to do. Fortunately I found one and also made a few dollars. But then it struck me, if I am making so much money from a middle man, how much is the middle man making and more so, how much is the person giving out these kind of jobs making!!! I started searching the net like mad. Didnt get any answer. Searched harder, landed somewhere. Got a few answers that clarified the air a bit, but created new confusions. And now, today, I think I finally solved the confusions and I think I am on the right track to earn some decent money. What remains to be seen is if I really at all make any money.

PS: Whoever reads this, please wish me luck :)

Just let off some steam

feel bad... lonely, broken... dont worry - just read on

call me, i'll be online,

saying its gonna be fine,

dont you worry bout a thing

Go on... Just let off some steam...

- Outlandish

Feel good now?