Archive for July, 2008
Hey you know what…
Posted by Pravina in Life's like this on July 31st, 2008
Universally hated yet loved by all. The purpose is unknown yet we do it. Whether we are busy or idle, whether we are literate or illiterate, whether we are educated or not or whether we are men or women we all love to do it. GOSSIP is the word we hate to say but love to do. They start “I just hate people gossiping. I don’t like them. I can’t stand them†and then continue getting personal as to what miracle has happen due to somebody’s deeds and “if was in his place I wouldn’t have done it†(There is no realization that he just now finished gossiping).
Well all that is fine but what about the harm that it causes. It ruins somebody’s life, somebody’s relationship and much other destruction. What can be the motive behind it? Why people do it?
Sometimes I feel there are few group of people who have different motive for it. Like some might do it to hurt their enemies (that’s done intentionally) others might do it for their advantage (it’s something like criticize others and you become the hero) others might do it for mere time pass (no intensions of hurting anyone, but someone might get hurt unintentionally) and others might do it unknowingly (these people do not know that they are gossiping or may be don’t want to realize).
Chaos Of The Year (Team Treat!!!!!)
Posted by Pravina in Life's like this on July 30th, 2008
Flash back stories in hindi movies start with a event that turns the lives of the characters in it.
I take the privilege to narrate this story to you with a most controversial event that changed our lives for an evening. Hum sab log insaan se jaanvar ban gaye the. The key characters in this film are Samir, Rikhav, Michael, Pravina, Yogita, Jiten, Pramod, Neetesh, Shekar, Shweta, Jayshree. The film starts with a perfect question “which movie?â€. Someone suggested why not 5 minutes conference on spark. So mike initiated and we all started presenting views and choice of interest with a lot of chaos. So at this point we introduced the most simplified solution. And that was ‘nominate a person and we all go for what he/she says’ and Neetesh
never felt so lucky before. Here is his plan
“Let’s watch ‘The Dark Knight – Bat Man’†(neetesh is too good sometimes…)
And the next chaos was about the place or rather what we call a mall (another chaos). It was difficult to decide upon it. So someone comes with newspaper the other with online time table for cinemax and pvr and fame and some say ‘it’s far away from my place’ the other with the same dialogue and blah blah blah…….. And finally we decide to go to the new upcoming mall “Oberoi Mall†and watch “Bat Man†at PVR (great seats… cannot compete anyone).
Here the team of 11 fighters (cock fighters) leaves to make their plan successful. We made grps of 3 caught whichever vehicle we could (who else then a rickshaw could stop looking at rikhav and ……) and headed towards the target some thru the linking road others thru arrey colony. Rick as I call rikhav was amazed looking at the Indian sky scrapers at borivili. His gujju mind started working and we were sure it wouldn’t stop till he goes home and discuss this with his near and dear friend (should be another gujju). Well let’s not bother much about rick. Wo adat se majboor hai. We all gathered near the food court and all these guys had a wash in the washroom (off course… where else can you have wash) and we girls did not require as we always look fresh and young and beautiful (bad guys won’t agree you see…..). And just let me share a secret that these guys looked no different even after the wash… ok coming out of that wash room mike and I had a confusion whether to order first for food or get the movie tickets…. We agreed on ordering as we all were starving and reason for our hunger was those stalls and all the poster food… And now we all were behaving like kids (we want to seat here…. No no we want to seat here…. No no lets seat here). Oh god!!
Why we hate leaders?
Posted by Michael Fernando in Life's like this on July 24th, 2008
Is God good or bad? Most of us say, God is good only. If we say God is almighty then he should control Bad also. Confused?
The same is the case with leaders. We all love them when they are Good, but when they criticize us, we dont.
One of the three secrets told in the best selling “One Minute Manager” is that a leader should learn to reprimand. Being honest and reprimanding when a wrong has occurred, immediately and specifically. And please dont confuse this with BLAME.
Reprimanding will give an understanding of responsibilities and how to complete them correctly.
One more important point. It should also be understood that company matters should be kept within the company. The leader should not hate the person “personally”. What he didnt like was simply their performance. The one minute reprimand consists of the reprimand and the reassurance, both being equally important.
Mistakes are of great value and they arent worthless. This should be conveyed by the leader to them. So reassuring is equally important. If you leave the reassuring out, you will not be liked by those around you.