The Perfect Boss . . .

There were about 70 scientists working on a very hectic project. All of them were really frustrated due to the pressure of work and the demands of their boss but everyone was loyal to him and did not think of quitting the job. One day, one scientist came to his boss and told him - Sir, I have promised to my children that I will take them to the exhibition going on in our township. So I want to leave the office at 5 30 pm. His boss replied "OK, You're permitted to leave the office early today" .The Scientist started working. He continued his work after lunch. As usual he got involved to such an extent that he looked at his watch when he felt he was close to completion. The time was 8.30 PM. Suddenly he remembered of the promise he had given to his children. He looked for his boss, He was not there. Having told him in the morning itself, he closed everything and left for home. Deep within himself, he was feeling guilty for having disappointed his children.

He reached home. Children were not there. His wife alone was sitting in the hall and reading magazines. The situation was explosive, any talk would boomerang on him. His wife asked him "Would you like to have coffee or shall I straight away serve dinner if you are hungry. The man replied "If you would like to have coffee, i too will have but what about Children ??"
Wife replied "You don't know ?? Your manager came here at 5.15 PM and has taken the children to the exhibition "


What had really happened was ...

The boss who granted him permission was observing him working seriously at 5.00 PM. He thought to himself, this person will not leave the work, but if he has promised his children they should enjoy the visit to exhibition. So he took the lead in taking them to exhibition . The boss does not have to do it every time. But once it is done, loyalty is established. That is why all the scientists at Thumba continued to work under their boss even though the stress was tremendous.

By the way , can you hazard a guess as to who the boss was..?

GO BELOW FOR ANSWER

He was none other than . . . . . . . .












Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former-President of India . . .

The Panchatantra Story !!

Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river.

He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market. One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in the river.

Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood (the woodcutter and the axe), he started praying to the River Goddess.

The River Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.

As usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty.

She showed him a match box and asked, “Is this your computer ?”

Disappointed by the Goddess’ lack of computer awareness, the engineer replied, “No.” She next showed him a pocket-sized calculator and asked if that was his. Annoyed, the engineer said “No, not at all!!” Finally, she came up with his own Pentium machine and asked if it was his. The engineer, left with no option, sighed and said “Yes.” The River Goddess was happy with his honesty. She was about to give him all three items, but before she could make the offer, the engineer asked her, “Don’t you know that you’re supposed to show me some better computers before bringing up my own ?” The River Goddess, angered at this, replied, “I know that, you stupid idiot! The first two things I showed you were the Trillennium and the Billennium, the latest computers from IBM!” So saying, she disappeared with the Pentium!!

Moral: If you’re not up-to-date with technology trends, it is better keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re a genius, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!!

Tomato Story

A Jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft.
The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.

'You are employed' he said. Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start.

The man replied 'But I don't have a computer, neither an email'.

'I'm sorry', said the HR manager. If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job.'

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate.
He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours,
he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times,
and returned home with $60.

The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday.

Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US
He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance.

He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan.
When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his email.
The man replied,'I don't have an email.'
The broker answered curiously, 'You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e mail?!!' The man thought for a while and replied, 'Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!'

Moral of the story

Moral 1
Internet is not the solution to your life.

Moral 2
If you don't have Internet, but work hard, you can be a millionaire.

Moral 3
If you received this message by email,
you are closer to being an office boy/girl, than a millionaire..........

Lol, its a funny message i thought i would share it with my blog buddies :)

READ IT ONCE...

Once a man and his 24 year old son were going from newyork to texas by train. The son sat next to the window with his father beside him. The son looking out from the window shouted " Dad, look the trees are going behind". Dad smiled and the young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old's childish behavior with pity.
Suddenly he again exclaimed "Dad, look the clouds are running with us!". The couple couldn't resist and said to the old man, "why don't you take your son to a good doctor?"
The old man smiled and said "I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today".


MORAL: Don't jump to a conclusion directly, because what you see is most probably not the truth.

THE DONKEY STORY ...worth reading!

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.
3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less from people but more from God.

You have two choices... smile and close this page,
or pass this along to someone else to share the lesson .
God bless us all!

THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE"

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.

QUESTIONS :
1. What were the five words ?
2. What is the implication of this story?

ANSWER :
The husband just said "I am with you Darling"

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother.
Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

This story is really worth reading. ..... Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know.

By this way we miss out something called L.I.F.E.

A SMALL STORY...

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.
The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.
That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Moral of the story: If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship etc., Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully

IT WILL JUS TAKE 37 SECONDS TO READ THIS AND CHANGE UR THINKING....

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end.They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside... He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.

It faced a blank wall......!! !!!

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'
Epilogue :

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.
Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.
'Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present !'

STORY OF THE WEEK......!!

A POOR MAN ....

A man, who was full of self-pity, went to a priest and said, “I am very poor. I am totally disillusioned because I have nothing. I want to die. Please help me to become rich, or I do not wish to live.” The priest thought for a moment and said, “Alright, give me a day to think what I can do to help you to become rich. Come back tomorrow.”

The next day this poor man went to the priest's house again. The priest introduced him to a blind man and said, “This man would happily pay you two lacs of rupees, if you would donate one of your eyes to him. You can earn this money today. You only have to say, 'Yes'.” The poor man shook his head and said, “That shall disfigure my handsome face. I do not wish to give him my eye.”
The priest shrugged his shoulders and said, “If you are so concerned about your good looks, come again tomorrow, I shall think of something else.”

The following day, the priest had another guest sitting by his side. He said “This man is suffering from kidney failure. If you want, you can sell one of your kidneys to him for a fair sum of rupees three lacs. This deal shall not even hamper your good looks.

“No,” said the man. “I don't want to go through the pain.”

Then the priest said, “My dear, God has given you a perfect body. You are richer than many thousands of people who are disabled, old, sick and suffering. This is your greatest wealth. You do not know its value. Make use of your limbs. Seek out work. There is no dearth of jobs. Good establishments are in fact, in search of good workers. If you work and prove your worth to your employer, he shall surely value you. Get up and get to work. The world is waiting for you.”

This reminds me of what my mother once told me. She said that whenever a baby was born in the family (it was an extended family). My late grand-mother never asked, whether it was a boy or a girl. All she asked was, “Is the child normal? Are all the limbs complete? Is the mother alright?”

In a society obsessed with male progeny, this was a great attitude. A normal healthy child is all she asked for. The sex of the child was very secondary.

So, all of us who are lucky to be blessed with normal healthy bodies are indeed wealthy. We just need to understand that this is the greatest wealth that God could bestow upon us and so, we should value it and put it to good use. Contentment they say, is not achieving all that you dreamt of, it is valuing and appreciating the things you already have.

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE

Hi people :) This blogging has been taking most of my free time lately. But i am happy that i am able to keep my blog updated every alternate day. Thanks to Mitran, one of my close pals who inspired me to write posts daily and keep it going. My goodness, have a look at his blog and u will be surprised to see more than 40 posts been posted in less than a month! After seeing this, i thought, why not do the same...and here my blog...as u can see, is updated as frequently as possible.

Well well...i can see you wondering what has the title got to do with my post...Don't you worry ppl...As i said, this post is to update on what i'm doing at the moment. And As the title states, i am reading Paulo Coelho's "VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE", another inspirational novel . The story is so far so gud and i wud finish reading it by this weekend. Keep looking for my review on this book that will be posted soon!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

JAI HO.......!

JAYASHREE IS BACK TO BUSINESS :)

     Hello people. :) I am very happy that my exams are over now and i hav completed THREE successful years of my college life in the most enjoyable way!  Its vacation time again and i'm back to my own 'time-spoiling' business :P

    I had posted many topics which i said wud be updated once my exams are over and here they are for a short re-cap:

1. The soul hacker's new venture

2. The "BBB" - my b'day bash

Apart from these, i gave a classical music performance at a temple and i'l be posting about the concert as well. there are lots more to come in and plz do keep coming in and post ur comments! 

CHEERS!

THE SOUL-HACKER'S NEW VENTURE

       Well, if you have been a follower of my blog so far, there's something interesting coming up for all of

 you specially "the novel lovers" ... My brother, nick-named as "THE SOUL HACKER" is venturing on the

traditional way of novel writing and i must agree, that he has come up with some really interesting stuff!

 Hope even you appriciate his work that i'll be posting here in my blogspace as and when he's ready with the

 scripts. :)

  CHEERS!!