Standing Over

What a tiring weekend had been this till now and when I am tired I like listening to some good songs which have some heavy beats in them, and the one I am listening to is the Theme song of Blue at a high volume. It feels as if it is takes me to a trance mode where I enjoy myself a lot, with my mind relaxing to the music.

This is when, I tend to think about myself and the people around me, and how our life's interact with each others and we carry on with our day to day things. Each people stand at different places, some being very good and dear friends, with some we hold grudges and their are few others whom we don't bother.

The people I hate the most are the ones who always try to Stand Over on their sub-ordinates. We can see these type creatures everywhere, and my office is no exception. And these people make it worse when they call their so called heroic act (cowardliness, for me) as professionalism. I see few of my colleagues who are always being walked over by their seniors and they just don't retaliate.
I remember one golden rule of street fight and I guess it applies everywhere, rule being "Never go onto your back foot, and if you ever go, then hit back real hard". I feel, the moment you let somebody stand over you, it is the same moment you show your greatest weakness.

I would like to keep this short, as I don't want to loose my trance state of my mind as I still want to enjoy some more music. I just want to urge my friends, guys don't let ever anybody to stand over you. One should always fight back, no matter if you fall, you can always stand up and learn, and that is the only way to go ahead.

Cheers!!
Anup

City and Town

It feels to be good back to the place where I actually belong, and that is Pune. After two weeks of holidays in my native place in Kannur (a district in Kerala), I realized how much a Punekar I have become, and how much I miss the Pune City. It doesn't mean that I don't like my native place, place where I was born, I like it very much, and the main reason for it, which I believe, is because the place is not a city yet, its just a small town like place. A place where the roads are narrow, a place where you won't find much traffic, not much people with high fashionable branded clothes.

Pune is a place which have always changed with time, and it has always amazed me. The first time I was away from Pune for long, was in 2006 when I had gone to London. Pune did changed in those 6 months, and now I always sense that change happening in the city and I also sense that change creeping into me, which a city does to its own people. But to my amazement, my native place haven't changed, it still looks the same to me. the only change happened are the number of houses which are being bought up people with their hard earned money from the Middle East countries.

I do believe in the changes which a city does to its people, and I have seen that. The people in the city are always busy and does not find time for any body else. The eyes of majority of the people speak the same language, and it tells us that I does not care for anybody else. But you won't find this in a village or in a small town like Kannur (my native). Their eyes are different and they speak a different language, a language which is spoken by majority of the people. Their willingness to help others. I have felt it and can relate it with an example, the way the conductors behave in the buses. It is because of their simple eyes, I guess, I remember the face of every conductors I have in the last 2 weeks, and I dont remember the face of the conductor of the bus in which I traveled from Panvel to Pune. But with said so, I agree by the saying "All five fingers are not same".

But still I love Pune, the Pune city, because the person I have become today is because of the city, but with my roots still finding its way to Kannur. As a person, I would like to keep on changing with the pace of the Pune city and would like my eyes to speak the language of Kannur.

Anup