2011.. a roller coaster ride.....

This year almost started for me with a BANG!!!....  As always... New Years' Eve was celebrated with a bash ------ Gogu's B'day.. :) :)...  that was a hell of a night.. all plannings were done in rush.. and eventually we ended up in a lame restro-bar.. but the group ( Gurpreet, Ankit, Ashish, Sagrika, Rahul, Me and Priyanka) made the night......  time continued.. and suddenly after 2 months.... one morning...another bomb on my head....  Gogu (Gurpreet Singh Suri) is getting married...  !!!!!.... WTF.....  how come.. abhi kaise... itni jaldi... so many questions... but i somehow swallowed all of them without water....  well as the damage is done....now planning starts for the D Day.....  after everything... we all planned a very good and memorable first wedding in our group.... Now we have a new member in our group and the first (Bhabhi) in the group ---  Mrs. Suri.

As the year passed... we celebrated several b'days in our group... Meanwhile several good things happened with some or the other person in the group....  As Gogu got married, Ankit and Gogu planned to setup a new office. Another long awaited achievement for Tushar ---- the fun guy in group --- he cleared all his CA exams and is now working with a good organization.

As the year was ending, Shakti's long awaited bond was about to end with Wipro and he was about to get a good salary raise too... and for this goes a TOAST..... :) :) congrats buddy..... :) :).... after all this another perky member of our group (Priyanka) got a better opportunity and she joined HT.... Finally last but not the least its ME.....  my long wait also got over as I got selected in Accenture and I moved out from HCL.......

So this year 2011 was kind of a roller coaster ride for me... it was a very happy year for me... i came across several ups and downs... came across many new friends....  new opportunities.... but in the end I really cherished and will cherish all the memories and moments i enjoyed in this year....  This is for all my friends.... Luv u all guys...

Is Life Full.. ????

When things in your life seem, almost too much to handle, When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee story.

The story goes like this...

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students, if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.   He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.  They agreed it was.The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.  The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor,   as the laughter subsided,
'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things - family,children, health, Friends, and Favorite passions – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, Your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,'  He continued,
there is no room for  the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play With your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

'Take care of the golf balls first --
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.
'I'm glad you asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

Please share this with other "Golf Balls"
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Cant get over it..!!!

Broken relationships are like a rusted iron bar which eats you slowly from inside. People do say, time is the best medicine for such hard times but memories acts as a reacting agent and tend to revert the effect of passing time.

We can overcome the aftereffects of a breakup but how can we let go all those memories, precious moments which we used to cherish and will remembered for our lifetime.

Everytime we try to move on.....  that one small feeling, that one song we used to listen together, that coffee shop where we used to always meet.... reminds us of old times and takes us back in time.... and you cant get over it...

Resistance....

Calling a very old friend who hasn't called you in years, looking for something to eat when you are not hungry, answering emails, putting the washing on(when you are alone), feeling irritable, dithering, going out with a group which includes the one you had a bad face-off,  being compelled to visit utility shop while your favourite show is ON - what do all these things have in common?

They're all forms of resistance, and resisting is what I have just been doing. Yes, resisting writing this article! But I became inspired to sit down and write when I realised I was practicing the very thing I wanted to write about! And that acknowledgment of what was really going on, allowed the resistance to transform into action.

This is one of the tricks about resisting. So long as you are stuck in the pattern of thought, feeling or action that is demonstrating itself as resistant, then that's where you'll be - stuck.

I'm sure you'll recognise this example above, but here's a few more ways that resistance shows up in your behaviour. Tick the ones that apply to you.

-Feeling overwhelmed

-Thinking you have to do it all, and therefore rarely if ever delegating

-Regularly working late, to the detriment of home life

-Answering the phone during mealtimes/breaks

-Lack of regular book-keeping

-Never completing anything

-Not asking for help/feedback

-Charging ahead with action before stopping to engage with your inner self first

By doing this exercise you are doing the most valuable thing you can do in regards to resisting - admitting that it is happening in the first place. Ideally, you would be doing the opposite of resistant behaviour.

To get rid of this habit we need to start accepting, but don't need to go immediately from resisting to accepting. Sometimes, it is easier to take it step by step. But why would I want to accept the very thing I don't want. Paradoxically, this is the way that the resistance begins to drop away.

The day before the exam...

Today, preparing for my exam made me pen down this blog. It made me dive into old memories when we used rush for libraries to grab the best book for notes, search our old photocopied notes, calling each other asking for which extra book they are referring and all the thrill we used to go through.

Now I am pursuing my MSc. in telecom technology in DLP and i really miss the enjoyment we used to have during our bachelors. Although I can still search for books in stores, libraries but that adventure and thrill is lost somewhere. There is no friends to call to share your problems, and issues.

I really miss that time, thrill and adventure and want a rewind button so that I can go and relive those 3 wonderful years of my life.