Why???

She walks alone,
Straight and tall,
So much hope
glitters in her starry eyes

But then again,
You crush her,
bring her back down
to her knees

Her teardrops fall thick
and fast
believe in me
she pleads

But Alas!
you were never taught
the strength of a woman
comes from within
though it may not
show without

This moment will pass
She will get up
will fly again
but believe in your daughter
you must!

Tribes

Last week , in CCM ( to the uninitiated, cross cultural management), Father showed us this video by Seth Odin about Tribes and it described man as a very tribe oriented creature and that really got me thinking of the different applications of the tribe culture. If we hype anything, and i mean literally anything upto a cult level, there will always be takers, right from tweens to adults. Its all about tapping into the few people who actually start trends and are bold enough to take that first step. Starting with them, we can then create circles of influence and before you know it, you have a trend with mass appeal. However the real challenge lies not in creating the buzz, though that it difficult but in continously innovating to the level of the influencers, because their psyche demands cutting edge newness every time and their attention spans seem rather short especially among tweens which is where all brands should begin their initiation processes...So in a nutshell, besides our usual marketing gyaan by kotler and all the other greats, tribes could really hold the key to building great brands.

why i should not waste sleep over studyin 2

Long gone are the days of my goan sussegadness, now my life revolves around being time efficient...trying to fit as many things to do in the time available to me...cuz i have learnt ; through first hand experience :) that usually when ure up till 2 in the morning you have a tendency to fall asleep , specially when the class is not as interesting as you hoped it would be! And it will be your good fortune that jus the minute, you manage to drown out the proff and are sinking into blissful oblivion, that he catches you and depending on which proff it is, you run the risk of getting a severe telling off or being thrown out of class...Plus paying attention in class helps a lot... When it is arts subjects you are studying, you can rely on self study, so sleepin in class is kinda ok...but when flung head long into the world of quant and operations and accounting and other such subjects which you have no clue of , it far wiser to try to listen to the proff standing in front of you, cuz he def knows more than you , ok at least thats the case with me. So i have arrived at the conclusion , that fallin asleep in class is definiately not a good idea for me and thus i need sufficient sleep and it just does not pay to lose sleep over studyin !

Why I shouldn't lose sleep over studyin

Every goan is supposed to be inherently sussegad( which when translated means content, happy go lucky and sometimes plain lazy). So being Goan , you might be surprised to find me doing my post graduation in a B- school. For those of you naive creatures who thought that all the hard work ended with the gettin of a certain percentile in cat or xat or some other exam which then allowed the individual concerned to appear for a group discussion and eventually led to his/her selection into a pretty ok/pretty good/ awesome B-school, you are mistaken!

That is not even the tip of the iceburg. So stop with the congratulations!( whether its, you, yourself or your friend or a family memeber) The commerce grads I've spoken to, say the first two weeks were easy but after that, they were as befuddled as anyone else. My being from an arts background doesnt help any. I was befuddled right from the foundation course.

The progressively increasin amounts of work we are expected to complete are really something to reckon with. Sometimes in the canteen, I see some second years just staring blankly into space, looking completely lost. and i wonder, how long it will be before thats me! I hope it never will be, but since i have a tendency to be a lost soul, i think I'm fighting a losing battle.

Before I got here, I enjoyed my me time. But the way things are going, I'm guessin thats something i'll have to let go off unless I perfect my time management skills. Right now they're at zero.

The prospects of 2 D's and 1 F , 2 F's or 4 D's are I guess what kep me awake most nights trying to study. The key word here is trying. Don't really think I'm getting anywhere as of now. Even when I do get sleep , The F's and D's haunt me , resulting in restless sleep frequently punctuated with nightmares. As a result I fall asleep in class and sometimes am awake but too sleppy to comprehend what the proffs are trying to teach!

Something that really freaked me out was when a proff said, there are a lot of changes a person goes through in B-school . Two years later he's a completely different person! I can already see bits of me being chipped away. Will I become a polished corporate woman unrecognizable to all including myself????Not that change is a bad thing . In fact a world without change would be static. But like all good things, change is better in moderation.

A second year student aptly said, " If you don't go mad here , you'll go mad in the workplace". So either which way us, B-schoolers are destined to go nuts so I'm not gonna lose any more sleep over this!

sometimes when we touch

All through life we constantly meet new people. Some become acquaintances, some friends and yet others, those special someones....people we know we'd like to know better, and spend time with ...and thats the very beginning of a love story..

So many movies are made bout the beginnings of love stories but so few bout the end...can't say none anymore cuz of " the break up ". When I first saw it, I thought ,"How depressing ! ". But tis a brilliant movie cuz it gets you to feel exactly what the two people ending the relationship feel. A lil frustration cuz realization dawns too late sometimes...and then practically nothin can be done to salvage whats remaining. People can only be stretched so much and then when they reach breaking point, they tend to call it quits..

How fickle can our hearts be?? Playing tricks on us causin us to falll in n out of love, causin us pain we don't really wish to feel and not content with jus that, inflictin pain on other peoples' hearts too...Was this really part of the master plan or is it the part we've tried to modify and messed up royally by not having the patience...I guess all the answers lie somewhere within us but right now I'm just too lazy to begin the search!!!

the intricacies of being good part 2

To continue from where i left off...everything that went bad is now getting better. The friend is talking to me again and still loves me :). God is awesome!!!! I guess sometimes are testing times and sometimes He just wants to show us things that are right under our noses, that we still haven't noticed....( dumb as i can be sometimes) and He gives and He takes away but there is always a lesson. Maybe it's just intervention before we do damage that is irreparable.

However if you're looking at this as a payoff for being good, you're wrong. there shouldn't have to be any. We've become so goal oriented that we look for successes everywhere. And to add to that we want the easy way out. But it's all bout perspective sometimes. What may seem like failure might just be success behind a cloud. ;).

So keep looking... May you find all your rainbows... Sometimes you may not think there are any... but maybe just maybe, you have to wait for some rain first.

Keep the faith!!!

the intricacies of being good

Very recently i decided to make a positive change in my life, something that i had been contemplating for a while.There had been halfhearted attempts in that direction before but.... this was the REAL thing. There are just these few moments in my life when I know with utter conviction that there is something that i must do. It was not that this was a particularly easy decision to make, it was just that i reached a point where i would be a hypocrite no more!!!! (at least in this area of my life :P)

At first there was a warm glow inside me, the nice feeling that i was doing something good. Things began to go downhill rather rapidly after that. Something i said was misunderstood and a close friend thought i was a liar, maybe even a hypocrite ....actually i really wouldn't know cuz he's not talking to me right now....

Being good seems to be a lot more trouble than its worth right??? So why even try??? That's cuz as much as i may try to deny it sometimes...my conscience does have a lotta say in my life ... and when it is quiet, the silence is deafening, which another recent realisation. Another good reason to be good is that i unblock the block between God n me...which i put up , kinda like a screen that supposed to allow me to do things without him seeing me...even though i know that he can see anyway...lol jus another one of some of the futile things that i do that make me, me. And last but not the least i have this feeling of peace, of oneness with the world and I'm happy even though I'm miserable...contradictory huh!!!but yeah....