Portland Travel – Kickoff and bit of Drama

It was Memorial day weekend and its been 5 months since I had made a long road trip. Good thing was Vishnu had arrived in Bothell, WA and that is the only state in west coast that I had not been in my 15 months stay.

Initially I was planning to fly to Seattle, but I did not find any place which demanded my attention. As we came close to the long weekend, I finalized the destination to be Portland – The #1 Green City of USA. Its aligns with my wish to make Photography trip as I had never went onto a long trip for Photoshoot with my Nikon DSLR.

 

As I was trying to know more about Portland, Pradeep, whom I met in twitter contacted me and said he was inspired by my Cross Country scenic drive and wanted a similar kind of tour as he is arriving in San jose for internship. I got to know that he is interested in Photography very much, it took less time to convince me to join him in the trip plan. Great, Vishnu confirmed that he and his friend are ready for the trip while Pradeep was keen get on-road. that makes us four, a perfect number for fun filled scenic tour.

 

 

The confirmation of all four turned out be late, which means the flight rates reached sky high and we are left with no option other than drive. Portland is 12 hours from my place and after making all Permutations and combinations, I finally balanced the drive for all of us, which means Me and pradeep would reach to  Eugene ( 9 hrs drive from Sunnyvale) while Vishnu and Pradyumna (Vishnu’s new roommate) would drive from Bothell to Eugene ( around 6 hrs drive ).

      

San Jose –> Eugene                                                                              Seattle —-> Eugene

Fortunately, I would love the drive than the flight, as I had a bitter experience with flight during my last trip to India. Pradeep had office on Friday, whereas I had holiday and I was waiting for my Camera Lens filters to arrive and later on did pick up some fruits and water from Safeway. Pradeep came to my home at sharp 3 PM, and no matter how many things one would have taken care, there are always few last minute hiccups and purchases which means we had to leave home at 4PM.

  

 

At last we were on road only to find ourselves caught in Huge traffic on I-680 Freeway. We drove around 5mph, where as we were expecting to cruise in around 80mph. The traffic was expected during long weekends and it continued for 2 hours and finally we were able to cruise.  I took a break from Driving at 9PM and Pradeep after requesting me for a long time, got a chance to accelerate.

  Car set to Cruise mode, iPhone tuned to play Kannada songs, We turned out to be AWESOME

A bit of DRAMA to wake me up:

I got back to driving after two hours, and on the way I saw few cops, who were highly alert on highways due to long weekend.  I heard that Oregon cops are much stricter in speed limits than the California cops. In a sense, they would not tolerate the speed limit if crossed by 10mph, while the California cops generally allow unless you are very unlucky (This is only my observation and may not be true). 

Around 2 AM,  while I observed one such cop who was dealing with person he had caught, I gradually tried to maintain the speed limit and to mention I was on fast track lane (left most lane). Strangely, as soon as I passed him,  I noticed his car with flashy lights turned back on the road.  I tried to maintain a vigil on him through rear mirror and was certain he was following me. He had turned off the lights after getting back on road, may be to go unnoticeable.

 

 I was constantly worried of his following and tried to maintain the proposed speed limit but in reality I was driving around 60mph, -5mph than the proposed 65 mph. After following me for 5 min, He switched back his lights, which is an indication to pull over. However, since he did not had the siren, I was not sure if that was directed to me, and took a while before realizing it and few more minutes to find the spot towards right so that I could stop safely. 

 

 The cop had parked the car so accurately that his car lights was flashing on the my car mirrors and I was not even able to open my eyes. He politely mentioned that I was stopped for going slow by 5-7 miles less than proposed  speed limit on a fast track lane( left most lane). He took the rental car registration and my driving license and went to back to his car. Meanwhile, my I started to shiver, as I was worried about the HUGE fines slapped ( I had already payed 2 fine for different purpose) and what could be black point in the driving history, which would in turn trigger my Auto Insurance rates. After 20 minutes, The cop came and handed over registration card, but that 20 minutes was enough to completely block my mind and by seeing the registration card with the flashy lights all around, I thought he was issuing a Ticket as I found number 280 in large font size. I asked him, could he let me with a warning as I was under-speeding than overspeed, for which he mentioned it was jus a registration card and he did exactly what I am asking for. He was very polite in the whole process and also insisted to exit to next rest area, if I was feeling tired. He asked me about why did I took so long to make a stop after he signaled.  I explained that i could not find a right spot which he understood. It is the one thing I admire US police, as they really understand the situation, without blindly slashing fines, even though he could have as per law (again Its my observation and hearing experiences ).

Once I realized I was let out with warning, I was relieved and got  back to track and trust me for rest of the trip, I kept a tight check on speed and drove mostly on right most lane (slow lane) even though I did not want to do it. it is just the incident at the back of your mind makes you take such decisions,

 

Finally we reached Eugene at around 2 :30 AM 1.5 hours more than expected time. Vishnu and pradyumna already had a good sleep. We chit chatted for a while and and fell asleep.

Traveling

Are you tired of traveling? Trust me, I would love to travel my whole life. Travelling has been part of my life. You know as i posted here.. almost most of my life I stayed away from my home. During my 1st year of my Diploma, I travelled from my native Chintamani to a village called Bagepalli. Although, the distance was 56 km, It used to take 2.5 hrs of journey to reach the place, But the fun part of the journey was  passing through many villages, where I was immersed to see the village life through a small window. It was like a movie, instead of the scene rolling at 24 FPS, I was moving at 22.4kmph .  Gradually, I started enjoying the traveling subconsciously. 

 

This enjoyment doubled while I was in Udupi. Thanks to prasanna for organizing many trek events,  where I got to see different landscapes of Western Ghats while enjoying my time with the nicest people. Our First trek was to Kundadri, although he morphed us by saying he is taking us to Kodachadri, a place which was then famous for  Yograj Bhat’s Gaalipata movie. But that was a good start. In our very next trek, we went to Kodachadri and scenes over there was Bliss!! Although we have been to many other beautiful places thereafter, trip to Kodachadri is still the best, because it was the first time I enjoyed the nature so much. ( Although Bangalore is called Garden City, it is much polluted ). This trip strengthened my like to live in rural areas than the urban areas. As a fun part, we did a Beach Trek, which had 14 members walking on the shores of Arabian Sea, from Kumta to Gokarna, most of the part was covered by foot.

 

We did few more trips by train to Yaana, Kumta for Beach Trek, Murdeshwara. Those were really awesome.  My longest train journey  was to Shiridi. Imagine being on wheels for 1.5 days each way, seeing those marvelous places pass by. I know it does not sounds much of an excitement for some who have travelled more than that or very frequently, for me it was my first time I witnessed such diversity in our country. Sit next to a window and seeing the changes like divergence in construction of house, various ethnicity, changing landscapes, a change noticed every few hundred kilometers.

 

 

In-spite of all these changes, one thing that remains same is the SMILE . Moving at 60kmph, our eyes capture only certain moments from the window, it could be a mother lighting a lamp in her house, children playing outside their house, school, or while getting back from school, elders chit chatting, farmers working in their fields and many more, In all these, the smile on their faces remain the same, that is what makes me to enjoy my travel. 

 

Traveling got a new dimension when I moved to West coast of USA, and in the process discovered that I enjoyed something else. I will continue after a break..

 

Meanwhile, I would love to hear your traveling experiences.

Doppelgänger or Hallucination?

 

My Life is on a fast track lane witnessing so many transitions, coming across many people, few get close, few pass by, while some remain in memories forever. I rewind those memories once in a while and am sure many of you also do the same.

We meet many people having different characteristics, different mannerisms out of which some stands out for us. We try to attach an incident, it may have happened  the first time you saw, or the first prank you played with them, and when we see such similar incident they are the ones who come to our mind. Its like something like, “Oh I had a friend who laughs like you!!”. Give yourself a try remembering your best friend and the first incident that comes to your mind.

Sometimes, to the extreme, it happened that I meet a person for the first time, but his character, mannerism or behavior matches very close the person I know, that for a moment, I  thought these two people might be twins (although they are not). Is it kind of a hallucination, to see a close match in someone whom I just met? Not only their behaviors match, they look alike. Is the saying true that there are 7 people of same face exist? In German, they have similar theory called as doppelgänger, where they believer there exist a  paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil.

You know. At that particular moment, I always wish that I could get that person I know whom the stranger resembles and have them stand next to each other. That would be a real surprise!! Unfortunately, in all such incidents the two person were not at reaching distance

 I have seen that there is a event conducted in Japan where twins are gathered at one place. But  Isn’t that wonderful to gather all these characters at one place, although they may not be twins, but they act the same?

I wonder, Is this behavior happens just with me or do you feel the same?

 

Cross Country Scenic Trail ( California to Oregon )

With the Labour day weekend, we took the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway route and wanted to share some some statistics.

 

Route: Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway ( Literally Sunnyvale, CA to Crater Lake National Park, Oregon via Mount Shasta City, CA )

Number of Travellers: 2

Number of Days : 3

Total Miles Covered: 1190

Lakes Visited : 6

Waterfalls: 4

Mountains : 1

Number of Strenous Hiking Trails: 2

 

“A Picture worth a Thousand Words” – thats very true and I’ll leave it here to take a look at few Best Pictures of this trip.

 

 

#1 Sunset at Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

#2 Burney Falls, Mount Shasta City, California, USA

#3 Sunset View from Watchman Peak, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA

 

#4 Scenic Backdrop at Mount Mazama, Mazama Village, Oregon, USA

#5 Shasta Caverns, Lake Shasta City, California, USA

#6 Picturesque view at Lake Siskiyou, Mount Shasta City, California, USA

#7 Vindae Falls @ Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA

#8  Dawn’s view of Mount Shasta, Mount Shasta City, California, USA

More pics here:

1. Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway ( Facebook Link )

2. Scenic Captures @ Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway ( Facebook Link )

Njoy

Lemon Rice Mania!

So I was looking into my friends blog about she having a phobia on Lemon Rice and realized OMG, we(me and my friend Sid) were in love with it without knowing it most of the time for ourselves.

 

While I was in Udupi, I stayed with my roommates Sidda, Naveen, and Anand (Shetty) , while Sidda and Naveen were Master Chefs, Shetty at that time did not even know how to turn on the Gas stove . I was pretty lucky to stay with them as I was not very well adjusted to the hotel food in Udupi and my cooking skills was made a mockery. During the weekends, we used to prepare a lots of tasty stuffs, experimenting new things like payasam, Ragi mudde and so on. 

 

But there used to be days where our master chefs are not available  and at that time I had to learn one item as a defense to fill my stomach. For the first time, while me and shelty were experimenting to prepare Lemon Rice ( we chose it  after Maggi option to eat something fresh and natural), we had to boil the oil and add some Onions and curry leaves. The moment I dropped the Curry leaves and Onions, Shetty took an evasive action as if I was dropping bomblets

 

Sooner I mastered my self-defense and eventually turned out to be me cooking whenever we decide to have a quick and tasty dinner. This became our answer to Maggi as a fast and tasty food. Me and sidda only noticed that we loved this (inspite of eating it often) when we had prasanna as our roommate while in bangalore. Prasanna is a typical guy where he hated many food items like Lemon Rice, Water Melon, papayya and so on. You name it, He hates it (jus kidding). Since then, we stopped preparing Lemon Rice, Well we sacrificed it

 

One fine day, He had left to Rajasthan for trekking and he would be back only after a week. That is when we realized that our appetite for Lemon Rice had increased and we decided to celebrate Prasanna’s absence with Lemon Rice Mania. We both made varieties of Lemon rice that week- Normal Lemon Rice, with Vermicelli, With Mango, Tomato, Avalakki (Beater Rice / Poha). Boy, it was a marathon and We loved it . We had this marathon only after two years when Prasanna’s Facebook status changed from Single to Married. Hey we took the pics of our favorite food at that time:) Here it is..  

 

  

Well, things have changed drastically in past 6 months after I moved to USA. Whoever said ‘Necessity is the mother of Invention’ are absolutely right. I not only learned to cook several items, but I kind of get the interest in cooking which I was badly missing earlier.

 

Happy Cooking!

In our Time.. (part 2)

I have said about few advancements in Technology In the past twenty five years in this post.

 

I found one more instance on how technology changed the way we did few things in our time…

 

Check this snip from my FB Timeline. This is post by a boy from 10th Standard promoting himself to request for votes to become a School Captain.

 

 

I still remember, In our school, all the students were asked to assemble near prayer hall and would choose the school and house captain by manual polling through asking the students to raise their hands against each name when they are called.

 

Times have changed and its no surprise if the next generation would cast the vote in elections through Facebook and all the advertisements and poll campaigns run through Facebook. In a way its a Eco friendly solution.

 

What do you think?

In our time…

Its been 3 months in Silicon Valley and there are 3 words buzzing around my ear – Technology, BMW and Apple. Never spent a day without hearing those (>.<)

Let me admit that I am obsessed with anything that sounds technical, but I made a strong point that this blog will be dedicated purely for my personal stuff, which does not involve anything I do in my profession. I still adhere to it and the content you would read now would sound technical, but Trust Me! Its not..

Coming back to Silicon Valley story, I made my time to visit Computer History Museum with the intent of seeing the First Mechanical Computer, The Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, which for most of us is limited to textbooks. The place turned out to be a wealth of knowledge, and in simple it replaced the content in my brain from mere text from those HUGE text books to real computers visible to my naked eye.

Do you know how the Time Sharing machine looked like? A Processor Chip that took the whole room, The machine’s running at KHz speed but occupied a large room?  Its surprise to see The entire Computer Evolution is captured in one single room. I could not even remember what I saw a few min before over there as I moved chronologically to see next revolution of computers. Such was the volume of info over there. But it took me to flashback of the revolutionary products and services that had influence on Me ( and most of you as well ) so far. 

Do you remember, We used to hear from our granny saying “In our generation, this thing cost a penny”, “In our time, we had telegrams..”, In our time… and so on…

Well, 25 years on this planet, I have a chance to say “In our time..” (That does not mean I am old , its shows that how technology grew exponentially in small amount of time)

Let me layout the most revolutionary products and its impact on Me in past 25 years.

Telephone - Connecting People 

Rotary Dial Phone – 1994-1997

Its started with No Telephone in our home (or very expensive to afford one) and few years later my aunt got this.

 

As some of you know, I had to stay far from my parents for schooling (and it continued from there on ) So the only way I could speak to my parents was through this. However, Owning this was not affordable (around 300Rs/) to my parents and they used to have a walk after their dinner to the STD booth to make a call.  During that time in 1990-2000s, Calls b/w two districts were considered as an STD call and it was about 3 Rs / minute. Now its 0.2 paisa per minute!!

Trunk Calls – 1996-1998

At last my parents bought a phone, but still could not afford to add STD feature. The alternative was to make a trunk-call.

For those who are wondering what a trunk calls is – it was an alternative way of making an STD call where you dial to a local telephone operator and provide them the receiver’s number and disconnect. The telephone operator would connect to the receiver and gives back a call once the receiver accepts the call. Cost: 5-10 Rs / minute

Pager – 1997 – 1999

Sometime, I wanted my cousin to stop by our home and get some sweets or have chat with us. But, there was no way we could call him while he is out for his work.  One fine day, he bought a Motorola Pager – it was for his business purpose though. It also opened the door for something else – Guess what, we could get the live cricket score update. During the cricket match, I used to grab the pager from him for the whole course of the match – The Cable TV was not affordable. This pager was my cricinfo at that time

How did it function?  - Well, again there comes an operator between us. We call the operator and leave the message along with the Pager number which would be sent immediately. It was so fun that we used to bug the operator to an extent where they would warn us for calling frequently. 

 

Mobile Phone – 2000 – present

(Image Courtesy: http://www.tech43.net/2011/09/evolution-of-mobile-phones-first-ever.html )

My cousin, once again, was the first to get a Mobile phone in our family. The fact that it was mobile was the only interesting part. Otherwise it was heavy and It was Rs 4 for outgoing and Rs 8 for incoming call. SMS was buzz word at that time and in the process, it sent the pager to its Graveyard.

Its amazing to see how the technology has leaped in this area –  Now I am 14118 Kilometers  / 7618 Nautical Miles far from my parents, friends and relatives and not only I can speak to them, but we can do a video conferencing without much expense. ( But nothing replaces being next to the person )

What next?

I would see that this would take a U-turn where people communicate in-person, the feeling which cannot be replaced by any technology. But there will be time, we call a person and he/she would be with us the next moment . ( Laser rockets!! BooooM )

Next Revolutionary product – Inland Letter -> Email -> SMS,

What revolutionary products did you encounter in your era?

 

 

Those Five Minutes

A bunch of similar people from different parts of India ( including Me ) moved to California, USA on employment two months ago.  We had to spend some hard time on settling the basic things such as adjusting to new office environment, finding the shelter with a decent price in this Hot real estate market, adjusting to new culture, rules of USA and so on. It was tiring 8 weeks but at the same time has been a learning curve for all of us. Now that things are looking fine after 8 weeks, We decided to make this long weekend (on account of Good Friday ) count by taking a long drive to Tahoe City-famous for a lake by its name and Snow fall.

 

With all set, Pritam and Sameer wanted to include Sky-Diving in this plan. Hmmm… What!! Are you Crazy?? was the first reaction from many of us. But it was their dreams. We questioned ourselves, whether we wanted to join them for this crazy adventure. While the answers were Yes and No, I just chose to delay the decision until that particular moment than thinking of it from now whether to do or not. Its the good lesson which I learnt in the recent past.

So we are all set for the drive where we started at 6:30 AM and reached Lodi – Sky Diving in about couple of hours. Finally the time to make our decisions. Pritam and Sameer stick to their plan. I was blank until I heard Raghavendra is doing it. It was a shock!  I was under assumption that he being the father of a kid, would not do this Stupid Crazy thing. Alwin was in the same state until his wife, Sangeetha, got ready which is another surprise to me. So with those two guys decision, it inspired us to do this what you might call a stupid act. Finally, All seven of us which includes Vishal was ready for this crazy act.

Follow your heart – I have neither seen any video nor have listen to the experiences, esp. the bad ones,  of Sky-Diving. After seeing the environment over there I wanted to experience the thrill, So I decided to go ahead. Hmmm.. Do I sound crazy?? Hun??

 

The Interesting Part.

What I observed in U.S.A regarding Sales and Marketing, in my short stay, is that they sell the product first and then enable the customer an option of Return Policy which allows him to return back without asking any questions. Well it has its advantages. In this case, it wasn’t. We paid $100 + $75 (for jump + dvd & Photos ) and then they made us to watch 15-min video. In summary, this video contained an old man sporting a long beard, who makes a statement -

NOTHING IS PERECT or GUARANTEED-the Aircraft, the Trainer, the Parachute, whichever thing is involved.  There is no prize to guess what the outcome might be, if any one of the thing failed in next few minutes. You would get a refund until the time you wear the suit, but no one was ready to return assuming that, it will be a step back which would lead to a sort of feeling, where everything goes fine and then you are the only person who missed out to experience the thrill. Well.. that is what happens when you are in a group and I bet we would have not done it by going there individually.

In U.S.A everyone is aware that the Law is very strict and anyone can sue anybody if they can prove it. The old man ends up saying the agency is not responsible for any kind of disastrous or even a minor injury and we have to sign a legal document agreeing for the same. Add to that, there is no insurance coverage as this does not cover under accident.

 

Get ready for the moment

Once we signed the papers, we all geared up with suits except me. The instructors took a video while interviewing each one of them asking Why would we need to Sky-Diving?? Hmm.. Its because, We have gone crazy Isn’t it?. The plane we boarded looked like its on its way to graveyard, but none of us gave attention(?) to that as we were pretty excited, Really?? .  While we were smiling looking at each other faces, I just realized that the plane already reached certain height within no time.. That is the first time I saw the ground from that height. The previous one which I took to reach USA was my first ever experience in the flight, but I was unlucky to not get the window seat & hence I could not see the ground.

 

This is the moment..

 

Each person was accommodated with the instructor & videographer. As the Altimeter clocked 13000ft, the instructors got ready and within no time Alwin, and other guys were out flying in the air. I was the penultimate one to go and once I reached close to the door, I got a full view of the ground with naked eyes and my heart-beat stopped for a moment. By the time I said NO… I was out flying in the air!!. I did start to panic with the wind blowing toward my face and started to take as much as air through my mouth. However, I did manage to give a thumbs up to my videographer in front of me.

For a couple of moments, there was a fear with all sorts of negative thoughts coming up, But I remembered the words of CEO in my past company, where he was giving an example of Falling off from a mountain without a parachute and how one should try to find his way back to the top of the clip. He was actually comparing a similar situation in life.

Well!! I never thought It would be real, of course I had the Parachute, but then you never know how things turn around. That is when I decided, the best thing is to enjoy the moment as this would come once in a lifetime (it needs a lots of guts to do it for next time ) without worrying about what would happen in future.

We did a turnaround during the free flow before the parachute was raised. It became easier then, where we had control against the wind force. I was also in a position to see down. By this time the fear of height had literally gone and I started enjoying the view of the ground from the top. It looked like a beautiful painting with the green square farm fields taking much of the space & vehicles and people moving around were so tiny. The instructor started doing some stunts by tilting and rotating the parachute, which was both scary and at the same time thrilling.

 

 

 

Be Positive! Enjoy this moment – By Enjoy means “It is to do what you like the most!”.

One thing I would like to say here is, There will be many decisions we make, and there is no such thing called as a bad or a good decision. It depends on what it turns out to be when it is executed. If things had gone wrong here, it would have been different scenario. So, Follow what your heart says and Be Positive.

 

More Pictures here

 

DISCLAIMER: I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO DO THIS TASK

Things I like the most…

Not sure how do I start, but I would like to say something about couple of things I like the most Drawing and Photography ( a beginner ).

I have grown up seeing my father’s creative works in painting, knitting, Radium sticker cutting, while my interest started towards Pencil Drawing. I had started doing pencil sketches in my teens, by looking at posters mostly of god / goddess. it was more of a see and draw kind of thing than learning in a professional manner. Neither I bother to ask my parents to join me to learn drawing nor they did. I went ahead drawing with things I had access to like Pencil, painting with water colors. It went on as a hobby and had a portfolio of 3-4 sketches. While some came up nice and others had lost their shape. Unfortunately, I failed to preserve those, otherwise could have been a very good lesson of mistakes you made.

As I moved on to my engineering, I completely gave up this art although sometimes tried to regain, but never made it. I got a chance to restart only after i completed my 2 yrs of employment in Udupi. This place actually deserves another post to say about it.  With respect to Art, Udupi is known for its possession of many form of Arts like Drama, Yakshagana, Classical Music and so on. Even My colleagues-turned-friends had their hands on learning Flute and Guitar.

The urge of regaining control on Pencil Drawing came when I visited to Srinivas prabhu’s house, where his sister Sudha had done many art works, which I wish I could have remembered those names. That is when I got to know about “Drishya school of arts” located in udupi well-maintained  under the leadership of eminent artist Sir. Ramesh Rao.

The atmosphere at this school is AWESOME and unbelievable. There are people, right from 2 yrs kid to 70 yrs old man, come here to learn and excel in many form of Art. The teachers here are very supportive and literally provide one to one support, especially at the initial stages and keep you motivated. All this at a very nominal fee of Rs. 200 / month…. Yes, you read it right!!…

Now compare them with the hefty amounts schools charge for the same in bangalore and most of them are only summer camps where you lose continuity, in your learning. Here the fee is a mark of respect and to support the school.  Ramesh sir and teachers here always go beyond to teach you if you show them zeal. I went on to learn for around 5-6 months,  and more than the art, it instilled a lot of patience in me. (Yes, you do need to have LOADS of patience to get the shape of the figure right)

As months passed by, I was destined to move back bangalore, I had no thoughts or guts to take up this formally, and it was mere end to my learning this art. Here is one of the few sketches I had done. This is the one that came out with 95% of my effort and Hopefully you do recognize the person in the Picture.  (Teachers used to help us in getting the shape of the figure, which is the toughest part).

 

As days moved, gradually I got attracted to another form of Art, The Photography. Initially I had a thought that it needed expensive cameras and a professionally well trained to get your hands on Art of Photography, which is quite true but by no means mandatory. All you need is decent camera and good sense of framing scenes with color combinations. This could be the right way to start and take up from there once you gain confidence, Which is where I am. I waited for a long time to get a decent camera with maximum options for an affordable price (Asking for more. Isn’t it? ) and finally laid my hands to Canon SX 230 HS model which is greatly helping to improve my photography skills.

Here are My Clicks with Cannon SX 230 HS so far and Here is the best resource on “Digital Photography” that helped me a lot.

 

 

Surely, sometime I want to get back to drawing where I had let off. I need to spare some time and be focused and am hoping that this could be the start.

So Finally, For those who are in the verge of starting their career on something new.. Here are three words from what I have learnt.

Be Passionate, Have Patience, Self-Discipline.

Never get complacency creep into you!

Complacency – Keep this word out of your dictionary.

 

I have heard this word a lot in cricketing world, especially when Indian team performance is disastrous after an outstanding previous series, just like what happened now in England.

I have probably experienced this but today its haunting me like anything. From past six weeks I have been continuously writing my internals on every sunday, with the weekdays getting busy with hectic work at office. Today was the one such internals and was pleasing that the question paper be easy, so that I can avoid the third internals, which would give me a much needed break.

By God’s Grace, the Question paper was not only easy to answer, but there was nothing much to write , Oh wait!!,  I mean it was not lengthy

So, I did complete all the answers before scheduled 10 mins and this is were that I believe I was complacent. Complacent to check if I had answered all the questions correct. There was a HELL lot of time, that I could literally re-answer half of the questions which I wrote.

Later, I realized that I had missed a part of answer which cost me ONE MARK :*. Mind you, if I had scored that mark, it would have been FULL marks in both internals of the subject.

It does not bother me that I failed to score FULL marks, but it is the fact that complacency in me cost this, which is a great lesson I should & will definitely learn.