Can you personify - Rain!!!

Just going back to my kinder garden days…

"Rain, rain go away, come again another day, little jony wants to play"…….!

'I use to joyfully sing every time it poured around my small little home back in Goa'

Those were the moments were rain was our friend & also our enemy, as I grew up in my teens, I could visualize something more affectionate about this weather, now its all about two cupids sheltering one umbrella and at the back drop its… "pyaar hua ikrar hua hai… pyaar se phir kyun lagta hai darr…"

After nine long months, the sky has opened. Tears of joy rolling down, warmth will be gone to welcome the coolness around; sun would be playing hide & seek with no co-friends. The weeds will shoot up, painting green all around, flowers blossom to add more colors. Small and big streams competing with each other to breakthrough and make way to the titanic sea. Adding lives in the laps of the flow is the tiny tiny fishes and other creatures playing and farmer's ecstasy of the standing crops. All this fancies is enough to romance your loved one!!! "
Now when I stand at the balcony to see the rain jumping, I feel like breaking all the shackles, with hands wide open, jump into the rain like a free bird to shower the nature. I just wait for a reason to get wet. Evenings, returning from college with the rain giving me her romancing company, just hoping that someone waiting for me at the door would serve at least a cuppa to beat the shivering, but to my misfortune it was just a day dream and I'm in the room absolutely drained and dripping down. All these takes my memory back to those school days where "I come dripping home, Maa shouting at me, running to get a towel to dry me out. Banging the cuppa along with some hot edible stuff on the table, after a quick hog run down to catch up with friends, with a raincoat on and catch fish, make paper boats, play in the flowing gutters, playing football or simply doing nothing to chat on funny thing of our days laughing " I just smile!!!

Now, that the days are different and the childhood has come to a halt, it's all about personifying rain with our loved ones… watching the rain blissfully showering the greenery allover, giggling naughtily at the breeze flowing at our face, looking at dancing flowers along with the butterflies singing around them, the earth dressed like a newly married bride and the rainbow with it's seven colors adding to the wonder, as if the fairy has blessed the creation with her magic stick and time has just come to a standstill, leaving me grabbing the moments to burry it somewhere deep in the heart to treasure it forever…

"pyaar hua ikrar hua hai… pyaar se phir kyun lagta hai darr…"

When You Believe, your Mind finds Ways to Do

It is the nature of the people to have their own sense of believing and reasoning out things and one should undefeatedly take it on their stride, as one of their fundamental rights. It’s when you believe something is impossible; your mind goes to work for you to prove why? But when you really believe something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you to find the ways to do it. Believing has an own power in itself. It can pave the way for creative solution. Think of something special you’ve been wanting to do but felt you couldn’t, make a list of it and begin to work out. We always defeat our desires because we concentrate on “WHY WE CAN’T” instead of focusing our mental concentration on “WHY WE CAN”. Now if you are thinking of something… believe it and start constructively!

The Innovation Workshop at ISBR Bangalore.

Few days back we (ISBR students of SMU) met the inspiring man for the first time Mr. PAVAN SONI. He was here to conduct a workshop on innovation, which is supposedly his hobby & much more. Till this d-day I & most of my other classmate knew the dictionary meaning of it & were far too away form the implementation of this skill or call it a talent. Lots was just said & heard about these subjects (innovation & Mr. pavan soni) in the past. Apparently the environment was exciting. This elusive person & we vibrant & disruptive students that was a perfect combination for making a great Sunday.

It all started with his ever inspiring speech as though he possessed that art in him with a perfect use of diction.
Start, teams were created ironically with unlike people making a team and him candid the attendance with his camera to make sure we follow the same team till the end.
We were made to visit the city & observe how various firms work. Each team was given different segment of industry focusing on hospitals, fast food joint, transport, entertainment & retail industries.
These were the teams asked to observe PROBLEM AREAS, POTENTIAL BLACK SWANS & capture all this into our video camera and summaries the visit.
Also given a challenge to start a business (if sir Pavan Soni were to fund) what would be SO UNIQUE about it here. We had to create modals and demonstrate the worth of he putting money there.
Out of all the five teams made, the team named Creating Escalators (my team) won the appreciation for the best business model with the POTENTIAL idea,
Offering outsourcing services all the city hospitals for managing their fleet of ambulances, which actually reduce the time by half of shifting the patient from his doorstep to the needed hospital & it would reduce the management & maintenance overheads to the hospitals.

Sir Pavan Soni the silent mentor!

As everybody idolizes someone or other & I’m no different. I live in the edge of inspiration and also have few idols whom I worship for their achievements. These people generally show us a way to many good things, but ironically not many of them are fortunate enough to meet and talk to the persons who in unknowingly setting inspirations to his or her admirer. I’m one such boy who is fortunate to meet my so called inspiration, who happens to be our lecturer Mr. PAVAN SONI., who is also lending his service as innovation evangelist at Wipro. I would call him ‘an elusive’, who is officially lecturing us on the subject ‘operations management’ for our MBA course but unofficially on many valuables of life & business. He is been the reason for creating this blog. Yes! He is the scholar of life. For him it is few things that interest him but they cover most of the aspects needed. Innovation and knowledge is his talks. He is so distinct in his talks & makes so much sense out of all the nonsense around. I was speechless for his accolade for our team at the innovation workshop. It’s been great to have an association with him and always be hopeful about it. He is one topic which I can just RAVE about on and on, Thank you sir.

Sports week of ISBR (EL DORADO 2008)

I don’t know if an MBA program really has time for so many activities other than corporate studies. But I say it is necessary even for an MBA institution to have activities such as sports week, where I came across many robust, vibrant sportsmen/women who showed their verve & viability in their respective game of sport. The basic motive was to culminate with the idea of building, working & growing as a team with leadership quality which we would anyways be implementing in our corporate life while we are making our fortune. This is my first experience of being a part of the sports week & I too felt the same enthuse on & off the ground even while supporting the battling team like my other counterparts and cheerers.
And by the time we conclude the sports week everybody should have learnt a great deal of lessons to make us a better MBA.
Thanking the initiative ness taken by the student’s sports authority of ISBR and the management for coming up with one such candid event.