Few more quotes!

Here are few more quotes collected from internet:

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

The worst pain in life is when someone you know turns into someone you knew...

Two things always in life to be remembered:
Don't take any decisions when you are angry.
Don't make any promises when you are happy.

Cofidence and hardwork is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure.

If 1 = 5
2 = 25
3 = 125
4 = 625
5 = ???
Answer is 1. Don't complicate simple problems in life.

Lazyness is our biggest enemy. - Swamy Vivekananda

Silent lips may aviod many problems. But smiling lips will solve many problens...

Nothing is permanent in this world not even our troubles. -Charlie Chaplin

Success comes to you in private...but failure always hits you in public.

The day you don't come across problems, take it for granted that you are travelling on the wrong path.
- Swamy Vivekananda

Make yourself like that even your enemy also remembers you,
laugh like that your sadness also laugh with you and
live your life like that God also feels proud of you.

A famous poet says, "It is possible to cross an ocean without wetting legs... But it is impossible to cross the life without wetting the eyes".

Those who are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in fulfilling it.

Life is like this: just when we get all the answers of life, life changes the question...

Sometimes god upsets your plans to setup his own & gods plans are perfect. So never get upset when your plans get upset. Have a faith...

Your dream will not die, your plans will not fail, your destiny will not be aborted, the desire of your heart will be granted only if you BELIEVE in YOURSELF.

Which is more painful? She a person whom you TRUSTED hurts you, or the person whom you HURTED still trusts you!

How we see things outside us, depends onhow things are inside us.

If you fall, don't see the place where you fell but see the place where you slipped! Success is all about correcting your mistakes in life...

There is no market for your sorrows. So never advertise your feelings... - Swamy Vivekananda

No one can go back and change a bad beginnig, but anyone can start anything anytime and create a successful ending!

"MISTAKES" are painful when they happen..but, years later a collection mistakes is called "EXPERIENCE" which leads you to "SUCCESS".

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. -Vernon Heward

Living by your word, Talking with your actions, Breathing for your dreams, Never bending down to anybody...
Yeah thats ATTITUDE...! Live by it.

Prayer is not a spare wheel that you pull out when you are in trouble. Use it as a steering wheel that keeps you on the right path throughout life!

Agar koi aapka dil dukhaye to uska bura mat manna. Kyonki ye kudrat ka niyam hai, jis ped par sabse jyada meetha fal hote hain usko sabse jyada pattar lagte hain.

A strong and positive attitude creates more miracles than any other thing, because... life is 10% how you make it; and 90% how you take it...

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy at-Henry David Thoreau

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die...

If you desire to blossom like a rose in the garden, you have to learn the art of adjusting with the thorns.

Having GOD in your boat does not mean that you will not face any storm, but it means that no storm can sink yuor boat...

Success is not permanent & failure is not final! So, never stop working after success & never stop trying after failure!

Alphabetic advice:
A B C: Avoid Bad Company
D E F: Don't Entertain Fools
G H I: Go for High Ideas
J K L M: Just Keep Lovely friend like Me

Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship.
Its not how much we care in the beginnig, but how much we care till the end.

Champions are not supernaturals.
They just fought for one more second when every one else quit.
Sometimes one more second of effort gives you the VICTORY!

Every bad situation will have something positive.
Even a stopped clock shows correct time twice a day...

Be positive in life.
Knowing others is intellingence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Victory is not the measure of the position where you are,
rather it is the number of obstackes crossed by you to reach that position.
If you learn from yur mistake, then you are really intelligent.
But, if you learn from somebody's mistake then you are a genius.
All hard workers may not be winners, but every winner must be a hard worker. - Abdul Kalam
Everyone wants happiness, noone needs pain, but its not possible to get a rainbow without a little rain.
Appearance can be disappeared by action.
The hardest moment in life is not when yu lose something and tears come out of your eyes...
it is when you know you are losing something and you are forced to smile.
No need to complain about others, just change yourself! because it is easy to protect your feet with shoes rather than to carpet the whole earth.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed ANYWAYS.
Be simple & humble like a grass. When a wild storm attacks, all the big trees get uprooted. But the simple grass survives. Be simple but powerful...
A fantastic german proverb: "What is the use of running fast, if you are running on the wrong path".
Change is a low of life.
Challenge is an aim of life.
You have to challenge the changees,
not to change the challenge!
A little less ego, a little more understanding, a little less argument, a little more concern, thats what keeps relationship forever.
Always be the reason of someone's happiness. Never be just a part of it. Be a part of soneone's sadness but never be the reason of it...
Excellent quote: If you want something which you never had, do something which you have never done...!

Qoutable quotes!

Hi all,

I'm back again after a while. I've collected wise and witty quotes over the period of last few years and here is the collection. As I don't remember the origin, I attribute all the quotes to who have said it !!

Here we go-

1. Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
2. knowledge speaks, wisdom listens
3. In a day when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path – Swami Vivekanand
4. Three sentences for getting success – know more than other, work more than other, expect less than other – William Shakesphere
5. If you win you need not explain – but if you loose you should not be there to explain – Adolf Hitler
6. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself – Alen Strike
7. If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love god, whom we cannot see?
8. In my non technical world this confusion reigns supreme if one surprising word enters the mix :-)
9. Future will take care of itself !

Let me know if you like them~

Ta,

My fav video in the recent past!

It's one of the most rated video in the world, rightfully so!

Here's the lyrics of this beautiful song from Phil Collins:

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Ive been waiting for this moment, all my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
Ive seen your face before my friend
But I dont know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where youve been
Its all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Ive been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord
And Ive been waiting for this moment all my life, oh lord, oh lord

Well I remember, I remember dont worry
How could I ever forget, its the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you dont fool me
The hurt doesnt show; but the pain still grows
Its no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord...

Citibank and the story of "preferential rates"

Well,

One more insightful story and review of how Citibank India (esp NRI Services division) works - rather crawls.

The adventure of Citibank transfer into NRE account has started about a month back and on both occasions the trials have gone horribly wrong. Not sure others are also in the same boat though....(your comments are welcome).

I transferred money into my account few days back only find no action was taken for 3 days and I had to remind them of the transfer. Then they credited the amount and sent a mail stating the my account will be credited with "preferential rates" within 3-4 working days. Well, waited for another 3-4 days and another followup. This time around a lady proclaimed its already a preferential rate which has been credited already and there is no more preferential rates.

Worst is there is no way of knowing what are the rates that they are going to effect your transfer with. For security reason they cant publish it on the Internet -- I was told !

The point here is Citibank officials visit corporates (Infy, Wipro, Satyam alike) and proclaim that they offer so called preferential rates and the actual matter of the fact is that their "preferential rates" are way below markets rates for that day.

Just wondering how many are in the boat ?!

For reading similar story go here: http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Citibank-121822-1.html

Air India - nightmare travel experience

Please refrain from using Air India -- I'm cautioning out of my terrible and forgetful experience when I recently travelled with these carriers (yes, multiples mistakes!). This caution is more out to help my fellow citizens who shouldn't go through the same ordeal what I've gone through.

I just did happen to travel using our 'flagship' carrier Air India and here's the account of what happened. After reading through this blog, I truly hope you'll never venture to fly with this airlines (but still owing to few reasons you'd still book it right?!) (At least I did take oath never to fly them again -- hmmm...now that two troubled airlines are joining, what can you expect?)

Here goes my itenerary.

Forward Journey: London to Bangalore

Well, the drama did start right at the LHR airport on 18th June (forward trip to Bangalore) -- the flight (AI 0112) which was supposed to take off at 9.45AM had no sign of leaving up until 12.00AM and there was no word from any Air India official why the delay. It eventually took off at around 12 noon (same happened with my wife when she travelled in Dec '06). The inflight announcements were so feeble that I couldn't hear anything - it sounded like whispers and captain had no energy to speak louder! (how will he fly then?!). As we all aware the inflight service was second worst to none. Eventually I came to know that the flight was originally from NYC to LONDON to DELHI to MUMBAI --> Change over in Mumbai to Domestic which will take me Bangalore -- I nearly fainted just by hearing this!

When I booked my tickets with travel agent (Southall travels) they never did mention that the flight will be via Delhi - I'd have never taken this flight then. Please check with your travel agent how many stops (just like you used to do when travelling in remote places via state transport buses in India) before you book with them.

The ordeal starts right at the starting point at Heathrow due to delay by half a day followed by aircraft landing in delhi instead of mumbai and then to mumbai with about 10 hours of delay and finally missing the Bangalore flight -- In all these mess I lost baggages and waited for about 6 hours at the belt in mumbai as the baggage dept kept telling bags will appear in 15 mins and announcement came up repeatedly for 6 hours -- but without the bags.

Ultimately bags have arrived but we needed to obtain a new ticket to Bangalore from so called Air India Assistance Counter which wore a deserted look as we waited for nearly an hour only to find none attending the desk and we had to eventually go in search of finding an Air India officer who had the authority to issue me a ticket on Jet Airways!! (Finding the right Air India officer who had the authority to make such changes was another nightmare story to tell). All this is for the forward journey.

The return: Bangalore - Mumbai - Delhi - London!

The return journey also started in the same fashion. The flight should have taken off 6.55pm from Bangalore -- but it actually took off at around 9.30 for no apparent reason. The flight from Mumbai should have took off at 2.55AM and should have reached Heathrow at 11.30 -- But again here also we had a huge delay and finally it took off from Mumbai at 9AM. No food and no water up until then. The only food store near gate17 charged Rs.90 only for two slices of crap bread sandwich. Needless to say, flight could only reach London by around 5.30-6pm local time as against official time of 11.30am arrival.

Now imagine the repetition of the above ordeal for 2 consecutive trips - one for myself and another one for my family !

So, I urge the individuals planning to travel using this carrier to think thrice (not enough!) before booking their flights. Now that two troubled airlines are merging, what improvements can we expect from them?

My firstever blog!

There has been a thought to make my own blog site but looks like it was awaiting for 1st April 2007 date! ;)

Well, I'll collate thoughts and try and post them when I get time. But surely, this blog will soon be alive and kicking !

Ta for now!

Mahi