Dreams

Dreams make you what you end up finally in your life...at least for most people. You dream something, to be something or to achieve something. You relish that dream. You start finding ways to achieve those dreams, you set yourself goals, you work hard to achieve your goals and finally the dream. And once you achieve your dream, you are happy! And if by chance, you don't achieve it, you will still have the satisfaction that at least you tried. And then if you are still alive, you dream up something else, you relish that dream, you work hard...blah blah the cycle continues :)

Well, this is what I can call a Dream Cycle. But there is a step before all this. Getting onto the Dream Cycle :) and that is to first have a dream.

What if I don't have a dream? Then does that mean you are already happy with your life and wait what if you don't have a dream and you are not happy either? Does that mean, I have lost my dream somewhere in the mundaneness of life or have I just never dreamt it yet, or worse, that it is right in front of me and I don't realize that this is what I really really want?

And what if I don't know in what state I am right now? How do I find myself?
Do I blindly set my self some goals which make no sense to me? Or do I think practically and make up some reasonable goals to achieve? But if my goal is something realistic then how can it be a dream? And if it is not a dream and it doesn't have that charm, that elusiveness that excites you, entices you! :)

And what if your dream is something very negative, very dark? And thankfully you are sane enough to realize and thus not to follow it. But you are still not happy. So what will you do?

What will you do if you are stuck in an overlap of dreams and reality and you can't decide which one to choose? Do you continue to live a life in disillusion and wait for reality to catch up when you finally realize that oh, I can't reach my dreams anymore and so be sad about it or do you just come back to reality and strive to improve upon something meaningless?

All this and more eludes, deludes, dispositions me. And I know, I am a sail less ship out in the storm, whose only destiny is to get wear down enough to shatter against the waves. But hey, the debris will still reach the shore, or maybe at least a few of them .... :)

Value add

You know, the buzz word in our office now-a-days is Value Add. The recession is working like a 2 edged sword and its doing its job pretty well. First of all, my company is coming up with like a ton of initiatives. Each one supposed to do more value add to the customer by improving productivity, more documentation, stricter processes, saving costs blah blah...and next there are another set of initiatives driven by the company itself to reduce the employee benefits.

But anyway, so one day I am with my friend eating dinner and he orders for curd, the innocent food serving guy brings the curd and along with it sugar, even though my friend didn't ask for it exclusively. My friend looks at it, obviously happy and says, this is value add. And I just stare at him, thinking hard on how to relate this incident with what is happening around at work and I finally manage say, you know, what our company would have done...If the customer ordered curd, they would have given him curd along side a set of documentation on how to mix sugar to it...

Moral: If the current project failed even after a Ton of documentation, the next project will not succeed by doing 2 Ton of documentation.

Amen.

Funny, my senior management staff thinks they understand the problem of over documentation and too much processes. So, in the last meeting my senior manager says, "You know I completely understand, so what I will do is that if I propose a new excel template to be introduced in the project, you guys are free to change it whatever way you want." Oh, I know a way! Select the document and press Shift-Delete.

the other difference in bollywood and hollywood movies...

that is, apart from the well known ones like, bollywood movies are a generation behind when it comes to visual effects, lack of creativity in coming up with story lines etc etc...

To my amusement I realized that difference in terms of using music. Many Bollywood movies tailor the film to fit in the pre-recorded sound tracks, whereas Hollywood movies search for the most suitable tracks from already available music to include as the most fitting background music and thus enhancing the overall effect of the movie.

Out I go.

Next steps...

Hopefully, will learn the magical secrets of hosting a website fully... and will then move to a dedicated host...if you have ny suggestions, just put a comment...

Blogs on more interesting or bizarre topics coming soon... :)

Ciao soon.

moved my blog....

Pointing to a new domain...

I didn't renew the previous domain (www.thecobwebblog.com) and didn't bother to...
Anyway, I didn't like that domain name...so now moving this blog to new home www.oxymoroned.com

~Puneet