Field trips are great fun as a kid and I often see the excitement in our 12 year old when she has one. It might be a trip to the same museum we have gone before, but for kids it is a major event that they start planning well ahead. Today as I took my morning commute a whole class of second graders got … Continue reading In life there are lot of trips we take and then there is the field trip we took as kids
If you are in london ever do these things; you will love it. Spend weekends at the banks of Thames drinking beer and going through the several street vendors selling second hand books. The historic town will carry you away into the past and you will become part of what happened there centuries ago. Watch a Shakespeare play in the globe theatre and when you … Continue reading When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London
I have nothing much to say today and so I thought I will write a poem and here you go.. I have nothing to say today Seems all have been told Not by me, but someone else before me For my mind is silent and relaxed today I sometimes wonder why I should write Though I can still sound them out What difference does it … Continue reading Always be a poet, Even in prose
A while back I had done a Facebook status update that read something like “Man lives his life by creating complex solutions to life’s simple problems”. I was reading an interesting comment in a book “Men are reluctant to accept what they can easily grasp”. People think they are less challenged if they only go with the simple things in life. Somewhere within us is … Continue reading The simplest things are often the truest
Communication is the most powerful tool taught in business and life. A few weeks ago when I took my 4 year old to the doctor, the doctor said that we should teach him more than one language and that helps in IQ. It was interesting to look back and see how I connected with the English language, the one I now mostly use. As a … Continue reading You are not born with a dictionary in your head; but a few thoughts lined up in your heart
I have always had an attraction to using bad language but have seen many of my friends who used to do so frequently in normal communications moving away from it as they grew older. Now nearing 40 years I admit that I still use that foul language skills when ever I get a chance. I guess many of the people I know roll their eyes … Continue reading The urge to shout obscenity can be quenched only by doing it; do it, don’t hold back
“It is a jungle out there” I have heard that many times. The usage was more common when someone had to tell that you should be ruthless. But I always imagined how the jungle would be if everyone there became ruthless. I agree that the advice was to ensure that you survived against all odds, but also it was an advice that finally meant being … Continue reading To live life to the fullest you have to be fearless to trust the person next to you
It is interesting to note that everything we are now is the result of an evolution. Just like how man evolved from what he was before to how a person evolves over his life time. Long ago I read somewhere that we keep our couches normally facing the front door for a reason. If not facing the front door, I have found that we often … Continue reading Life is not just a journey of learning; it is also a journey of unlearning
As a kid once I asked my mom and dad, if they had two jobs one easy and fun and the other hard and boring, which would they choose to do first and why. I am not sure why I asked that, probably I was in a dilemma with two tasks I was asked to do by someone. What interested me was how differently my … Continue reading If you had two jobs, one hard and boring and other easy and fun, which would you do first and why?
I was looking at my posts in the past days and found that most of it had a rather serious bend always. It is not that life is always serious; it is just that the serious stuff bubbles up faster. Today on a lighter side I wanted to mention about something that many of us would have experienced. I am not sure how many of … Continue reading No Job is good enough unless you say Good Job!!
Vinod Narayan 