4th August last year I lost a very nice friend of mine Tweety. I could see something coming but never thought of it to be so bad. I tried making things better but I never got a last chance. I wanted to go and meet her on friendship day with the greeting card I made my self for her, but just a day before then that she decided to end our friendship.
May be things would have been very different if I would have been able to tell her, all that matter is a good friend like you and for any reason I don’t want to loose her. I remember my childhood when I always used to argue with my parents about destiny and fortune, but with time I have learned that there are things which you have to just let go and do nothing about it while just looking at them passing by hoping things to get better.
I truly feel the sense of happiness and joy when ever I try to recall the moments of immense and true friendship spent with her. I do remember sitting by the stairs in balcony when electricity would go away, talking, sharing our experiences, moments of joy and sorrow. After all that is what friendship is all about. May be it was foolish of me to want more out of our friendship, I guess that was because I never had such a nice friend ever before.
I really don’t know if it was hard just for me or if it was even more harder for her to go across all this because I don’t know color of "The grass on other side". Now all I have out of our lost friendship is memories and at times they make me feel happy but sad as well. Life is about moving on and I have learned this lesson in last one whole year. The more I tried to keep our friendship a part of my life even when it dint exist hoping that it is just lost somewhere and I may find it again one day, things kept on getting even more harder for me. The only reason for all this was that I couldn’t agree on a picture being shown to me by others and somewhere I always believed that the reality is lot different from that.
I sent her an e-card last year and even celebrated her birthday with my office colleagues. Doing all this made me feel an existence of our no more existing relationship. When I went to the place where she belongs to I visited places where we spent time together and I took pictures of them. Yes I know it was a good way of making myself happy but for how long, so from now on I am going to be stopping all this, this is not just because of that I am tired of being acting like may be things will get better some day but the way things have been coming up, I really think that continuing further like this may lead to hurting my own emotions and wasting my feelings. There are better deserving people, not that she is not one of them but now I don’t know if she wants it anymore and I really wish to move on in life. I don’t expect it but I will never believe that our friendship was so weak to get shattered so easily unless I hear it from her what went wrong?
In the end a very very Happy Birthday to Tweety who was really a very good friend of mine and may God bless her.
Out of blues I thought of reading news paper today and was bit surprised to see that an advertisement which used to come on television of Amul undergarments is being taken of the air by I&B (Information and Broadcasting) ministry. They have stated the advertisement to be vulgar and indecent. I obviously used to find it quite strange when ever I saw this advertisement on television, more over I was even more stunned when I saw posters of the same advertisements on Patel Nagar metro station and at few other as well. Delhi metro is Government governed it self and when they are banning this advertisement on television channels and giving them a piece of advise to be careful while choosing what to air, I really don’t understand what do they have to say about them self being promoting such a vulgar/indecent campaign. Though the posters at stations dint had much of so called vulgar element as found by I&B ministry but it definitely relates indirectly to the same campaign.
When I first saw the advertisement at the station I thought of taking a snap of it for my blog but I dint as I was in hurry, after reading the article in paper I decided to do it but then it was late the poster was being removed from Patel Nagar station and I could not find it at any other station as I kept looking from it while going back home. Anyways on searching the Internet I could find few other people also talking about the posters on metro stations of this campaign.
I find it really interesting that now ASCI (Advertising Standards Councils of India) has given this advertisement a clean chit as they dint found it to be obscene.
While reading review on mouthsut of this advertisement I came across a reader’s comment saying that I was clueless when my niece - 9 year old - asked me ’’what is she doing?’’. Similar would have been my situation if I would have been at his place. I personally find it a very cheap concept of promoting an undergarment and it is really not going to target educated audience just by adding a line in English at end of the advertisement saying ‘Crafted for Fantasies’.
May be issue is actually not with the advertisement but with the way campaign is being designed like it should have been designed in a way campaigns for condoms like Kamasutra etc is being designed. For example I usually don’t see advertisements of condoms coming up in day time at least on any of the family channels or news channels. But I really don’t think that the people manging this campaign would be interested in this idea as they are already planning to air this advertisement on Doordarshan and already working on a sequel as well.
Few months ago Manik suggested me to read about Scrum to see how we can implement it in our organization and prepare a presentation for everyone. I started reading book by Ken Schwaber called ‘Agile Project Management with Scrum’ based on which I developed an understanding for Scrum.
Basically Scrum is a simple approach towards managing complex projects that focuses on early returns with iterative process model and provides high level of flexibility but with few rules that must be followed. Read more
I am not sure about how much my presentation helped others but I was sure about one thing, that a clear understanding about Scrum and confidence on it can only be gained by practicing it. To be very honest even after reading the book I was not feeling confident enough while presenting Scrum because convincing others to something I have myself never experienced was really something new to me.
Just by chance one day I came to know about scrum society called ‘Scrum Alliance‘ they were providing training on Scrum and that too by well known certified Scrum trainers. Sounds interesting, I told Manik about it and he was also very keen on getting me trained in Scrum. Unfortunately the next Scrum training session was quite far.
We started to implement Scrum with basic activities like daily standup meetings. I was not playing much of role in implementing Scrum but I was finding it really interesting to see others so excited.
As I kept on checking the Scrum Alliance website regularly for updates I noticed that there was an upcoming Scrum training session in Delhi. As I told about this to Manik, he agreed on sending me there.
The training took place at InterContinentalDelhi and it was for two days. I really enjoyed the training by Pete Deemer who also co-leads Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum. The training was not just talking and talking but it also included exercise to give us better understanding of Scrum. Discussions with other people attending training and Pete were really amazing.
After the training I developed confidence in Scrum and was clear about what Scrum actually is.
I am really thankful to Vinsol for giving me this opportunity and making me a CSM (Certified Scrum Master).
OK so today is Day 1 from 365 Days of Aditya and I am really excited about this and I hope its gonna turn out good.
The place where I am in the photograph above is a Tea Bar called Passion My Cup of Tea, I go there and stay all day every weekend like today. I read things on Internet, blog, work and enjoy the environment.
I love the ambiance of this place and the service is also very nice. With lovely music playing all around, lovely drinks and food to have, it is real fun spending time there doing things I would get bored with otherwise.
Today I even went to my Salon and that too without appointment. Poor me I am looking so shabby in the Day 1 pic itself. Anyways it will not be like this tomorrow, taken the appointment this time.
I was just looking for a few photographs on Flickr and I landed on a album that is named 365 Days of Michelle. In no time I was able to understand what it was all about. It is an album of self portraits by Michelle, one self portrait per day.
I found the concept really interesting and even posted a comment to appreciate her creativity.
After a while I found that there is a group on Flickr called 365 days. I was really amazed to see so many people posting their portraits in that group. As photography is my passion how can I stay behind in this.
From today onwards I will also be posting one self portrait every day.
As very well said a photo is worth thousand words I am sure this will really express my personality, my nature, my daily experiences and moods in a fantastic manner.
I plan to post these photos on my blog, my picasa and flickr galleries.
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Out of blues I thought of reading news paper today and was bit surprised to see that an advertisement which used to come on television of Amul undergarments is being taken of the air by I&B (Information and Broadcasting) ministry. They have stated the advertisement to be vulgar and indecent. I obviously used to find it quite strange when ever I saw this advertisement on television, more over I was even more stunned when I saw posters of the same advertisements on Patel Nagar metro station and at few other as well. Delhi metro is Government governed it self and when they are banning this advertisement on television channels and giving them a piece of advise to be careful while choosing what to air, I really don’t understand what do they have to say about them self being promoting such a vulgar/indecent campaign. Though the posters at stations dint had much of so called vulgar element as found by I&B ministry but it definitely relates indirectly to the same campaign.
