Phulpakharu learned one more thing! \o/

I started reading novels very late in my life. But when I started it, I became very fond of reading. And after that, whenever I see any book, I at least turn its pages to check what it is about.

Every weekend I travel from Mumbai to Pune and Pune to Mumbai by Indrayani. A book-seller always comes in the train to sell books. Those are all pirated copies of books. I can’t control myself from at least skimming through most of the books. And many times, I buy one. I buy the pirated book.

When everyone is breaking the rule, no one feels that he is doing anything wrong. That way, I never felt anything wrong in buying pirated books. Most of the times, I avoid doing anything which I feel is illegal. But somehow I forgot my own principle in this case.

Once I told my friend that I had purchased a pirated book . He called me “Thief” as I had bought a pirated copy. He said I should not be given salary for a month as I am not allowing the author of the book to get the fraction of royalty for his work. I took it very lightly.

After some days, I again did the same and bought another pirated book. He again called me a thief. I agreed that I should not repeat it.
But then again after few days I happened to see a small book stand on the road, selling pirated copies. I couldn't control myself from skimming through the books and as I liked two of those books, I bought them.
I again told my friend about it. This time he said it in a more effective way. I explained to him how I can’t control myself from buying books (not only pirated ones though). He gave an analogy of an actual thief. He said that same thing happens with a thief. Thief sees the money. He feels he is short of it and can’t stop himself from stealing it.
And I think, giving this analogy was the most effective way to convince me and to stop me from buying pirated copies.
Now this reminded me of my principle of avoiding doing illegal things.
And yes, I’m going to stick to that. Now onwards, I will buy books from a proper shop where I will get original copies and will allow my favourite authors to get their fraction of royalty for their valuable work. I can avoid doing illegal things atleast in case of books.

The Kite Runner

For the first time I read a fictitious story which is altogether different than the novels I had read till now. It showed me the different world of stories. In my opinion, watching a movie is the same thing as reading a novel. The only (huge or small) difference is that novel gives more satisfaction than the movie (at least to me).

I have seen many Bollywood movies. And I like almost all the movies I watch at least for the first time. I call some movies crap when I watch them second or third time (with some exceptions). Fortunately or unfortunately the number of exceptions is very high. :D

I like all the emotional melodramas. Many times they make me cry too. :D

But when I read this novel – The Kite Runner, on completion of it, the first thought came in my mind was – “Why did I like those emotional movies which are totally unreal?” In Bollywood movies, the main character is always divine. This character has all good (say best) qualities in it from birth. This character is unselfish, trustworthy and ……and the list will not end. :d

This never happens in real life. We learn from experiences, from the people around us. We can’t always behave the same way as we had behaved some years ago for the same situation. Everything changes even we do. 

I observed this reality in this novel. We can see how the main character of this book – Amir goes on changing himself or we can say destiny makes him change himself. Though in the initial part of the book we don’t get impressed much by his temperament, at the end we do. I liked this thought lot. We are not God. We are humans. There are some people in the world who are divine. But the count is incredibly less. But it doesn’t mean the others can’t behave like those divine people at certain situations. It is we who have to make choice in our life. It is we who have to decide what to give priority to. If we could make better choice always, we are on the path of becoming divine. For me, there is nothing like divine. I am human. I can become better human than what I was. Becoming divine is not in the realm of my possibility. There is God. We can’t be like him. And we are not supposed to be. If we try to become better and better every day, every single moment of life, then this is the correct path we are moving on. So I would say, if we could make better choice always, we are on the path of becoming better human rather than divine. And this process of making better choice can be learnt only by experiences. We have to decide, only our experiences or others’ too. This is what I could observe in this book. We need to be sensitive enough to feel what the writer wants to tell us. In fact we should always be witty for the things happening around us. This is the only way to get involved in the outside world. And we should involve because every minute thing happening around us is to teach us something.

 If I keep reading such books, I will save my time on watching all crap melodramas. :D

 

One more Surprise!!

While writing the previous post i was wishing to receive a surprise. Now i am repenting for making such a wish. Invoicing is one of the best team in Amdocs. I worked in it for more than three months, had started to acquire quality knowledge. I was feeling my job immensely interesting. This was what i wanted at this phase of my career. And suddenly i got a call from other project. Today i shifted to that new project. Suddenly all enthusiasm died as somebody had shot my mind. Its not because I'm scared of adopting to the new environment and new tasks. But its because I dont have good impression for the new project. And as far as i have heard from the people working in that project, the work is not challenging there. And whatever work i did today, it doesnt seem to give me an expected growth and improvement. In Invoicing due to the high quality work and due to the great people around me, every time i would feel i have a large scope to learn here. My stack of to-do things was always full.

I can't predict the future now. But i'm sure it won't be as good as it was. Thle whole thing is changed. 

Anyway, I just need to get out of this depression as early as possible. So that i can start with new fighting attitude and add more and more items in my stack. The only thing i can do is hoping for the best, which i always do. But seemingly best things are not best always. Its just we set our mind to feel them good as we dont want to stay in depressing situation for long time. I would pray God to grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. 

Surprises!!

Amdocs gives lots of surprises!! Today we got one more surprise!! We four from freshers' batch were selected for Invoicing (Team in project APDO). Few days ago we came to know that 2 from us were shifted to A&F(Another team in the same project). Now we 2 – I and Prakash were remaining in invoicing. Today Prakash was told to shift to A&F. So now I am alone here in invoicing. Let’s see what is next.

Anyway, Everything happens for the good. So Lets hope for the best!! J

A Quote

I found a quote by Ray Bradbury in one of the posts of my friend's blog. 

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Very True!!

Book

 

 

Yesterday I read a book – Chuknyapurvi. It’s a non-fiction, written in Marathi. I had read it 1-2 years ago too. I had liked it. Today while arranging my books properly, it came into my sight. And I felt like reading it. It’s very nice. While reading, 60-70% times I felt it is written for me only. It’s a kind of psychological book, small and divided into 15 sections. Each section focuses on the particular nature of a human. I liked it because it answered my questions. And we like every that thing which reciprocates us as per our need.

            I got to know a new term in psychology – Type ‘A’ personality. For such personality, work is the worship. They never get bored. They keep doing something. So there must be Type B and Type C personalities too. I would love to know what kind they are of. This post will be edited when I will get to know about them. 

Strom

This was written on 4^th Oct.

 

Today we met with a small storm. It was around 5 in the evening. I had come to Mumbai on weekend. I was taking a nap. And suddenly I got up hearing the noise of stormy wind. I shut all windows and was observing the things happening. All trees were struggling to hold their existence in ground. Lightening had made a spark with the electric tower in front of my home. I was watching all these things from glasses of my window. Suddenly thought of clothes which were kept to get dried out in the balcony, struck to me and I opened the door of balcony. As soon as opened it, all the drops of water started breaking into the bedroom. Anyhow I managed to collect all the clothes and books which I had kept in a cupboard in the balcony. After all this happened, a thought came in mind. How strongly we are protected in home!! A minute before opening the door of balcony, I was safe behind the walls of home. Just a step out of it made me realize the existence of safety under the roof. I Hat off to all civil engineers for this reason. (Though we always fight that software engineers are better than civil ones :D)

            Same way, we are safe under mother’s roof. But when we enter just a step out of it, we realize the absence of it. This phase in my life has showed me lots of things that I didn’t have imagined also.