Respect!

When I first landed in Bangalore, I was stunned by the generosity of the people. They had a such welcoming heart and they were so friendly, that one of my friends considered me as his own sister and started introducing me to his family members as his little sister. It takes a lot to accept some outsider as your family member. He gave me a family in Bangalore that I could visit anytime. The million dollar question here is .. "What did he lose by doing so?".. I'll leave it to others to think of the answer

Next, coming to the attitude of these B'lore guys, I've seen few of my friends addressing the auto drivers , watchman etc by calling them "Sir" .. When I asked them why, their answer wasn't an expected one - "These people( with low cadre jobs as we see in India) would not be respected, they will not be respected by their profession or age. So, we can be kind to them by respecting them." 

This made me ponder on these lines "What on earth will we lose by respecting our fellow human being ? Literally nothing! What is wrong in thanking the auto driver for driving us home ? Of course, he just did his job. But he drove us safely to our destination. Isn't that enough for us to thank him ?"

As days passed, I landed in UK for my first onsite. I had to spend the initial days setting up the application and one of my colleagues helped us extensively in that aspect. I had few doubts regarding the application setup and when I went to his place - I found a note which read - "Don't treat a person as a resource". This came as a slap to me because I  was one who always had the mindset that "Only toppers are eligible friends to me and only top performers are eligible colleagues to me" . The same question again "What will I lose by respecting a person?"

To be continued ...

Airlift review

One of my friends recently tweeted... "Are Air India flights the only ones that get affected by weather? Why are they delayed often ?".... I was on the same lines .. I keep telling my friends - " If it's AirIndia, then a delay is guaranteed ".. Such a sad state of affairs... But for those who are on the same boat as mine, watch Airlift. You'll start to respect AirIndia. Suddenly the patriotism in you is awaken, the love for India surfaces, empathy rises and your whole perspective towards our state of affairs definitely changes.
Good movie. Worth a watch.

Wazir Review

An intricately written plot that transforms an Amateur to Expert by sheer Breakthrough. Well enacted by the cast. "Khel khel mein, khel khel ke, khel khel yeh aa jayega ... haar jeet se, haar jeet ke, jeet haar sikhayega ... khel khel mein". Good movie. Worth the watch.

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Haunt ends with Hunt!!

There is this funny scary incident that happened today in my room. It starts off like this... At 2:30AM today, my roomy Spurthi (Spoo) starts screaming all of a sudden asking me to turn on the light. Taken away by fear being awakened all of a sudden, at that point of time, I managed to grope for the switches n finally turned it on. 

Here I go flabbergasted finding a tiny-winy rat jumping off my roomy's bed. My roomy asks me "What's making u surprised?". I said "I found rat under the table", deciding not to tell her the truth so as not to scare this girl. Despite me telling this lie, she was so scared, the reason being she felt the rat walking over her blanket when she was asleep.

Now I manage to scare the rat out of the room & I bolted the door. After 30 mins or so I felt something walking over my back too & woke up screaming. Then I felt, it was more of hallucination than reality. So I got back to bed, trying my level best to sleep. After 30 mins again I hear my roomy shouting "I hear some murmurs. Letz turn on d light n sleep". I was like "Don't worry Spoo, probably u r just imagining..Sleep now!!". I wrapped myself in the quilt n managed to try sleeping.

Exactly, half an hour later, Spoo finds the rat jumping off my bed. She gets so frustrated that she decides to kill the rat. She tells me "I'm gonna kill this rat now." She seriously went out of the room n brought a broom-stick with all the grit n determination to kill this stupid rat that was pestering us soo much. N now, I sit shivering on the bed  Finally, my roomy killed the rat abusing it for not letting her sleep peacefully, n the story ends with her throwing the dead rat on the gate of our opposite house. ROFL 

Moral of the story: Silent people may become violent all of a sudden. Nobody is predicatable!

U r no longer "Johny Bravo" Spoo... U r "Spurthy Bravo"    

Same story on FB with funny comments :-D