baba's curriculum

This blog post goes for a limited few. 

I found this document in my computer hard disk; which took me to aug/sep 2009 memories. 

While I was struggling for marks and running the race to get that job, this document was annoying!! 

When I read this for the first time, it occurred to me 'what shit is this?' and closed the word doc and honestly this was nothing but senseless jumbled words; wondering why didn't delete it! 

Un-describe-able is what happened after that... 

And today, deleting this from the computer hard disk, won't help!!! 

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B2B: Emerging Structures and Relationships in Markets (STARMarkets)

Course Objective:

Dramatic changes in the landscape is a given at the cusp of a transformational upheaval. The chaotic and seemingly unpredictable movements that one sees at the global level in almost every walk of life on the planet have only left enormous amounts of confusion in its wake.

Towards a fitter me - 1

This is not an article on 'how to loose 20kgs in a month' types, there are many such articles on google, go check them out (if you want to loose muscle weight and become weak, been there done that!). This is my (series of) short story on how I am growing towards fitter-me! 

I wasted myself during last semester at college as there weren't many classes to attend. I used to sleep late watching movies, get up late by lunch time, became a lazy bum. It was never a good sight in the mirror; with and without clothes! No dress was good enough to hide stuff I didn't want people to see. I tried hitting the gym at my college, paid them twice but nothing could motivate me. 

When to speak?

It had been three weeks since my throat started to feel sore, and it wasn't getting better. The pain was most acute when I spoke. So I decided to spend a few days speaking as little as possible. Every time I had the urge to say something, I paused for a moment to question whether it was worth irritating my throat.

This made me acutely aware of when and how I use my voice. Which led me to a surprising discovery: I spend considerable energy working against my own best interests. And if my experience listening to others is any indication, so do you.

In my observations, we speak for three main reasons:

1. To help ourselves
2. To help others
3. To connect with each other

That's not surprising. All three of those objectives are legitimate and worthwhile.

Woman in the bus

What is worry? It's a state of mind, a state to be 'there' somewhere. 

An old woman was traveling on a bus, and she was anxious, worried, and continuously asking what stop it was. The stranger sitting by her side said, "Relax, don't be worried. The conductor will go on announcing what stop it is, and if you are too worried I will call him here. You can tell him where you want to get off so he can keep a note of it. And you can relax!" 

He called the conductor and the woman said, "Please remember, I don't want to miss my stop. I have to reach somewhere very urgently." 

The conductor said, "Okay, I will make a note of it--although even without your asking I will be announcing each stop. But I will make a note of it and I will come to you particularly and tell you whenever your stop comes. But you relax, don't be so worried about it!" 

She was perspiring and trembling and looked so tense. So she said, "Okay, you note it down--I have to get off at the bus terminus."

The History Class

She used to ask him, the one sitting on extreme right corner - on the first bench, to start reading the first paragraph of the chapter, out loud.

"Each one of you, read a paragraph - sit down - and let the guy next to you, read from where you leave", this was understood and was embedded in our subconscious mind. The moment she said, "Start reading from here", pointing at a guy, we knew we have to follow the sequence.

While in the second row, somewhere around last bench was my seat; I immediately used to start counting the paragraph that would fall on me. The nervous system was alerted; and on top of it, some over intelligent / over smart kid - out of the blue - read 2 paragraphs (to impress the teacher, certainly); the entire calculation had to be done again. "Now which paragraph would fall on me?"

Spelling of Entrepreneur

He: These days, calling oneself an entrepreneur is the in-thing. Its a fashion statement. People who don't even know the spelling of 'entrepreneur' aim to become one...

Me: One doesn't need to know the spellings to be one!

This was recent conversation I had with a friend. He definitely isn't one of those who either IS or aims TO-BE an entrepreneur. In fact, that's precisely where his statement came from. Because people who did it, doing it, plan to do it, or failed once - knows.. It's much more than a statement!!!

And those who just make statements, are questioned and muted.


Me: And what about those who know the spellings???  Do they know what it is?
 

A Road Trip turned Incredible!

Tires of our car were lucky, as they kissed the roads least taken as we touch dead-ends more often than destinations. We Crossed the Indian Bermuda triangles… Directions? Google maps felt helpless! And Roads? They often turned ghostly.

If you don't like reading, skip to the movie we made! ;)

Indian is Polio free

Great! Its a polio free India. Congrats Countrymen!