Shanghai Breeze

Flying high in the air,
approving of the cosmos, I heard you come....
May the flora now subdue its pride,
for there is sacred and divine….
Call upon the tulips to sing,
that which did not exist seems to have dawn.
Here I hail, for thee is marvelous….,
So will I cherish it in the years to come….
Deep in the essence, I shall whisper,
I am taking the road to paradise.......

A parable of Legendary friendship......Days to remember

Just to burst at the seams of jubilation, I kept going on and on to make out the end of boulevard. My walk in time seems to have uncovered an astounding castle, built in anticipation of my arrival. Quite surprising it remains as I seek to apprehend the scheduling premeditated by deity. To be precisely positioned the universe must have certainly conspired. Had I arrived early, I would have failed on appreciating the beauty. Had I gone late, I wouldn’t have considered the significance. On time I am, to sail on the waters of divinity and to be shored on the sands of ecstasy.

The land is crammed with charisma; it seems to exert a pull on all trespassers leaving them with a bare chance to resist, neither would the trespassers dream to resist, and so was I. I started dwelling in this land of flamboyance cogitating on the intentions of the creator. For all I have now to decipher are the heralds whom I get to see.

I ask my mind as to where they hail from; may perhaps be the cosmos, the ocean or the earth core. Too void would be the cosmos…., Too coldhearted would be the ocean…., and Too scorching would be the earth core…., so it can’t be they. I as well wonder if the heaven cracked to let them down. Alas! How could the creator make such a costly miss? Nonetheless his costly miss has become my finest buy and I get to rejoice.

Dawn to dusk…
All get to see,
Still to chill…
Who grants to thee,
Loath to love
May Pilot to glee,
Murky to merry…
Days have happened to be…

I am found to be awing for this having happened and brooding for this to have not happened early enough to remained long. Remained long…, would that be right? It may not be. Quite right is my catch, said my sixth sense. That’s when it struck me; friendship doesn’t toil on mere presence nor does it obligate attendance. It would be too awful for words to encompass and hence it remains subtle by sticking to the hearts.

Far-flung possibly will I remain but in agreement would be the ranting of the hearts and the howling of the spirits to be together again.


Dedicated to the ALL-IZZ WELL Regiment!!! – Yours lieutenant-Shiv

Missing you all, General-Vaish,Captain-Georgeee,Sergeant-Kenny, Major-Sam, Nidhi,Chief.Oommen,Sandy,Seal,Pvt.Ashwin,Anand,Jerry, Muthu, Samtha, Yogi, Prabhu, Raj and Tintin.…

Cognitive Diversity - We offer with care, this inevitable element of Global Business :)

Empowerment, Independence, rights and so on are the customary things which most feminist groups muddle about… And until the time I got there, it was just another meeting.

Indian Women in Global Business @ Sheraton not only paved way to witness a bunch of powerful women in their late 50s but also reminded me that I’m on my way :)

Incredibly diverse the crowd remained though not by gender but by behavior, attire and age. The milieu assured me of key take-away thoughts and as surmised I did happen to learn for life. The speakers were no way less than expected; the mistresses of the conference were mostly grads from Carnegie Mellon, IIMs and who had been in the industry for 20+ years. Couldn’t ask for more, I waited for the program to start.

The seminar started with Mrs.Vijaylakshmi, President of Empowering Women in IT briefing about the EWIT’s activities. She accentuated on few things which I truly agree is the differentiating factor of EWIT from that of the other groups. A network of professional women who pull each other up the ladder by keeping in good touch and helping the needy, as against just enjoying a glass of beer in the evenings and travelling places to build the network, remain deeply appreciable. We had few speakers talking about readiness of women to take lead roles and the pyramid structure with the drop out of women etc…Amongst these the most noteworthy one was Mrs.Vanitha’s talk on work life balance in globalised world. She is the Managing partner, Global Business Services, IBM, South ASIA region. Well I should say, her one hour speech was a paradigm of an ideal presentation. I, not very lately though, recognized the affirmative upshots of proper planning and preparation. She started with the book “The New Normal” which talks about the evolution of individuals from 40’s to now. Pointing out the trend at various stages, she spoke about the role of women in every epoch.



I realized women have always been managers; if not as managers by function but as managers by influence. Just that we have not been the head of the family, but we have always decided were the head has to turn :) Also our traditional women are too good a managers as compared to the traditional men. They had a great command over the family matters, which is the most complicated of all businesses. Women belonging to the subsequent eras grew up seeing their mothers and grandmothers managing their family. So they tend inherit the managerial qualities as against men who remain alien to this. Traditional Indian men do not know how to adapt but women has always known it better. The global business wants women to just transport these acquired skills to the workplace. This becomes very important as we bring in the cognitive diversity in decision making, which is crucial for a triumphant business. Career development is also about managing these transportable skills. To make this transportation easy we have to understand that organizations are not demanding stressed out and hard working people. Organizations look for people who know to prioritize and contribute. We should learn to invest in ourselves. Remember these things planning, prioritizing and networking to have a positive encounter. Only because women don’t prioritize things in the much needed way they opt out in the professional ladder. As the statistics says, the proportion of women to men seems to be 50:50 in the junior level and it goes down to 10:50 in the senior level. This is because women opt out. All the nature imposed career breaks we take are just opportunities and not obstacles. Provided we have the aptitude, the opportunity will keep knocking our doors. At that time more than being hospitable, we should learn to be flexible and we should know to prioritize. Flexibility is the currency here and I firmly believe in it.

I am now prepared to be very flexible and I am sure to prioritize :)

With the common knowledge, I thank you for the time spent on the read.

Prospects on hold….

Today wasn’t an expected everyday :), neither was it a day of hovering in Chennai with the bunch of Toasteees (Toastmasters)

The hours of daylight were faintly Usual, feebly futile, slackly dreary, weakly comatose yet slightly puzzling, greatly influential and significantly decisive!!!

Though the intent is not to baffle you, the so called gratification arises only when I create some hodgepodge with words. So the readers are asked to bestow a compulsive excuse and build an even compulsive joy on your time here ;) Meant to be a joke, laughter permitted.

On a serious track, the writer intends to pour out the experience of hers with the admission council of NUS. Supposedly serious,

Like the spectrum on a rainy day, today was a rainbow on an everyday.

Today’s day has fashioned a ripple, an unending logic which instills the very spirit of confidence in me.

As never happened before, I woke up ahead of my time of arrival at Coimbatore and was so fortunate to get down in a station where the train on no account used to stop.
Lots of surprises were on the way to the start of the day. The road from the recently deciphered railway station led to a supposedly eventful road, where I had spent excellent time shopping. And to my conception, I realized that I am out of mystification of my whereabouts. The meeting of minds, with a mind on one side totally imprecise, is about to institute in seven hours time from then. I was sure the imprecision will be vented by a nap, though by a nap which would last for four plus hours. I had no problem compromising four hours in the seven handy hours if it is going to unplug the intellect. ;) Could happen!!! After all conviction is life.

Not as something which never happened before rather as something which usually happens, I had a prolonged nap. God only knows why the hell on the mobile phone the man laid the snooze option. May be he wants us to appreciate the value of time. I did appreciate it today as the snooze was put on a black box testing with several alike scenarios though after quite a lot of months following the release.

Yet being late could never stop us from doing things at least for us having seen lots of rewarding days in the past 20 odd years. The present day was no exception I compromised on the dinning time and stepped on arranging the desk for the interview.

Time flied like a fly and in no time the clock hit 15 past 12. I was on my nerves as I failed to wear the watch and the chain, which were in my to-do list. I iced with the judgment that I appear professional even without them. Also the sight of the IM refrigerated me to a superior degree since I have 3 years of fine experiences on it ;) Readers, you mocking me mean you mocking yourself. Better confess your experience as well :)

The IM updates flickered with the names of the NUSMBA chat acquaintances. I intently looked at them to grasp the co-interviewee’s name, the so called competitors. While I did that the video call was initiated and I had to take on the fine manners. I wished the interviewers and they took their turn to introduce themselves. The interview started with me discussing about myself as requested by them. Having had enough comprehension in those lines of discussing myself (Anyone suspecting on this can read the previous blog to know about the self-comprehension a.k.a introspections to be clear. Hmmm...marketing is indispensable and why would I not do that here, lol..,:)

Contd....
Having had enough comprehension in those lines of discussing myself, I sounded pretty proficient in this portion of the call. Like Williams for tennis, Sachin for cricket, Chaplin for comedy I wanted to be a metaphor for superlative interviewee. But I didn’t know to whom I should set an example so I didn’t trouble anyone much. I remained gracious thought out the call and I completed my interview with utmost satisfaction.

Hooray!!! The interview has ended.

As an extravaganza for the efforts I looked out to see four more days waiting in a row to be at home with Rony. I literally looked out of the window to find Rony heatedly waiting in the gate for having locked it outside.

As happily ever after I went to share my joy with my parents, aunty and uncle, and Rony.

I was then offered ice creams and fruits to have a true extravaganza!!!

The day after that started becoming strongly usual, convincingly futile, tightly dreary, and expectedly comatose.

The End!

As a captive enthusiast...

I love managing risk and I have to say, I have become habitual of managing it. So is my profession as a risk analyst.

Risk is omnipresent if I were to say!!!

Certainly avoidance could be the easiest of all escapes but with a savior the sacrifice has no significance...

And so Risk Management evolved.

What is it with shiv then???

McCarran Ferguson returned power to states and Shiv would work towards returning the health to the market....

More on the next blog..

Breathe.....

Eternality went for auction with the chamber witnessing the aridity...
Take me there my seraph, to the world of love, and then I shall see the need for eternal life.

Raveled, unsigned and hazy it looks, filled with utmost misapprehensions. Attempts to comprehend were a lovely experience. But I should say it gave me the joy. There is now so much joy in me; obsessed with it that I immediately share. No wonder it keeps me poor!!!

Piled are the tributes with sagas of hunting and search. To live beyond the horizons, to see beyond the smoke and to give beyond the need is an incessant legend. Everything which is true, righteous and easy is always an obsession. Everything which is not is tempting and alluring more than a novel art whose value is undisclosed. True that a broken masterpiece is more than a novel art as it always reminds the value of a whole. Is that why sorrows overwhelm? It is not very tempting albeit very central. Never felt the suffocation till that time; just heard it to be throbbing. Never knew it could be this throbbing until it arrived. I welcomed it with joy and I was praised for the hospitality. After all I knew life doesn’t take you through the tunnel but you choose it. We shall make, creates it all. We shall do, ends it all. We shall breathe, lives it all. Unreciprocated could be the question of what can I do as you are ignorant of what you could do.
Nevertheless not too late, the engulfing dusk showed me the moon, the mounting dawn showed me the rays also I heard the seraph whispering into my ears “Live for yourself truly which is all I want you to do”.

I jumped in joy, sang in thrill and danced in the seventh heaven and I looked deep in me to be astonished to see the princess who lived years deep within. I kept seeing and seeing that slowly she became true.

I am inundated with joy and I realized that I should just breathe to live.

And at last I did inhale….