I am back!!

It's been long since i have gone missing from the blogworld. But i am back and back with a bang.

I feel ashamed

I feel ashamed when my countrymen trouble their fellow countrymen. I feel ashamed when my people try to hault their country's progress in the name of 'bandh'.

To oppose the rising prices, the whole of opposition united to fight against the United Progressive Alliance. The opposition that consists of parties with ideologies ranging from extremism, shallow secularism, communism, regionalism mixed up to form a cocktail that proved to be a an unbearable bitter concoct for the common man.

I feel sorry for myself and for all my fellow country-men that the ruling party is unable to control the rising prices and the opposition instead of properly opposing is further pricking the wounds of the terribly troubled population.

--sudharm baxi

Memorable quotes

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside them - a desire, a dream and a vision. They have to have the skill and the will, but the will must be stronger than the skill.

                                                                       --Md. Ali

Someone has so wonderfully stated that if you have the will to do something, half the task is already done. But the real trouble is there is no shop where one can buy this 'will'. One has to create it within oneself, one has to forego luxuries, every pleasantries, sleeps and all those things that give temporary pleasure instead of the permanent one. But, we humans are bad at analysing the fruits of hard and smart work. We, on the other hand, are more willing to enjoy the fruit cakes in front of our eyes.

We are not willing to go that extra mile in order to ensure much more luxuries..

Updates

I know nobody is interested in these trifle things..but still i would like to mention them here...


RAS notification 2010 out - I don't know how geared up am i to fight the battle?
Purchased an MTS data card for internet mobility.

Football fever

I am not an ardent football follower, but still like to read about the happenings in South Africa about the most followed sport on this planet. Looking forward to the match between Argentina and Germany - the two biggies are surely going to lock some horns and spill some blood...A big day in the sporting history..

Oh God, if tension could help!!

Oh God, if tension could help, I would have been the happiest person alive. A few months back, I used to lecture everyone (particularly the two important women in my life) on not taking tension whatever the circumstances are.

But now, I am digressing from my own saying. I used to say, if we can't do anything about a problem than what is the point in taking tension, and if we can, we must devise a detailed contingency plan. But, in both the cases we should not be tensed or stressed out.

But recently, I got terribly apprehensive, poked my nose in every negative happening at home, at workplace or for that matter anywhere and everywhere.

In a way, I became a spoilsport, who not only ruins others' parties but also squader his own. A person who gets so terribly drenched in pros and cons that he no more can swim and gets deeper and deeper in the pool of depression.

The pros and cons should be used as oars to sail the boat of decision-making, but I never use them that way. My fault entirely.

But now i am trying to change. Change the course of life, change the approach and bring in a lot of positivity from where ever i can.

God give me strength to achieve the same.

--sudharm baxi

Do more, act more ..think less

The other day at a showroom inaugration, I met an architect, a jolly guy with good command over both English and the local language Marwari, let me quote one of his beautiful lines - सोचो कम करो ज्यादा (think less, do more). How true? Isn't it?

At least, I have a very bad habit of thinking toooooo much. I analyse so much, I keep on calculating the pros and cons for an indefinite time, I am calling it indefinite coz it almost never ends. Recently, I was in a heavy conundrum of whether to join a job (that i did not like) or not. One moment i made up my mind that i m gonna do it; the other moment, no in no case; yet another moment, then what? so it keeps on going untill infinity. The confusion actually arose because of the option given to me. If there had been no option, I would have continued with what i had in hand but i received an option, got tempted and went to join a job that I had so terribly disliked and left 4 months back.

I worked there for 3 loooooooong days, and at the end of the third day, I said enough is enough. I can't take it anymore, I know I got to be more responsible, I know INDECISIVENESS screws like anything, but i could not help, I kept on going deeper and deeper into the conundrum and finally decided to resign just after three days :(

The reason for my trouble and the trouble i transferred to all my well-wishers was nothing else but a weak process of thinking, in fact a lot of thinking; I was in fact thinking of things that were of no point, somewhere down the lane I was indecisive too, but the real culprit was my imbalanced brain that kept on counting pros and cons of all the prospects I have, I might have or I could have.

Now i am back with a bang, handling my dad's business, looking out for something new to start with and above all focussing on my civil services preparation. In crux - Life is complex, work towards making it simpler..that's it.

--sudharm baxi

IPL debacle

Talks are going on for replacing Mahi with some other young gun. But would that be of any use? If players don't perform what can a captain do? You got to have a team like Australia's in order to experience the magnificent captaincy talent of a guy like Ponting or Waugh.

The Australian team is at the top of the small pyramid of a meagre 10 international cricket teams, for more than a decade now. They are consistent, they bounce back like no other team in the history of sport ever has (West Indies could never bounce back). They take up responsibilty, they face termination just on losing the final; we on the other hand feel happy that we were the runners-up. It is all approach and nothing else.

A big pot of blame for the poor performance in T20 WC hangs on the IPL and its (in)famous night-parties. In fact, our players need to take up dictionary and look for the meaning of the word party. We party to celebrate, but in IPL they party coz they are part of IPL.

Players get worn-out, they think more of the parties than the upcoming matches and we see results right in front of our eyes. And when our captain-perfect says-it was because of the IPL parties that the players could not perform well. He gets a thrashing from the veterans as well as the young guns, who all are by mistake on IPL payrolls.

Things have to be straightened out, as this is amongst the few sports where India stands SOMEWHERE. We need strategic changes at the governing bodies, we need people who take up responsibility and not pass on the bait at the time of failure. We need people who are actually willing to take the sport to greater heights and not just the hoopla associated with it.

That's the last ball to score the winning run for cricket as a whole.

--sudharm baxi

Smart phone operating systems

Thanks Anurag for publishing my article on MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS on your website.

--sudharm baxi

Give me Command

Oh God, I demand no riches, I demand no prosperity, If You are willing to give me something..give me COMMAND and not OPTIONS in life. Command me to walk that one path.

Whenever I am given options in life, trouble creep in, I get tripped, I get into the conundrum and get so terribly engaged in the pros and cons surrounding the maze of life, that i can't concentrate upon anything.

How much more do you wish to test me God?
How much more do you want me to be stronger?

Kill my indecisiveness and give me strength to be sure of whatever i do, take me to the toughest path and i shall walk on it with earnestness, but don't provide any other path...