posted by Shriram at 9:44 PM 0 comments

I have always assumed as only words when people talked about balancing work-life. After all, you get to know things only if it is within your experience. Office has now clearly become first home for a lot of people. A company is truly efficient if it creates employees who treat office as their first HOME. When I look back into the last year I can clearly see how much I have missed in my personal life. Events that can never occur again like Attending Marriages, Wishing someone on their Birthday, Visiting New Born, Meeting Friends, Calling relatives and Friends to enquire. Fortunately, there is not a death I missed ! And all of these activities that are of high personal significance I was blind to until I introspected all areas of my personal life.

While in college, 5 years ago, I remember when I made a list of friends I WANTED to call for my birthday treat, the closest of friends, the count was 176, confined to a small district in Tamil Nadu. I am now thinking whom should I call for my marriage !

When the clock strikes 6:00 PM my mom would call to enquire, when I am reaching home. I have never had a definitive answer for this question till date. As time goes on I start realizing that I need to do something very consciously for my initials. All they need is a soothing solace, a word or two of kindness and maximum two ears of yours. Time I started the Art of Balancing.

posted by Shriram at 6:18 AM 3 comments

Bank, a word derived from Italian, meaning 'Bench'. How apt is the word in the software world.. Where loan amount is the duration and frustration levels being the interest paid. So, greater the loan amount, greater the interest u pay. An ideal software programmer, with work at bench, would deal with a great number of softwares than he is at work. He uses a lot of channels as vents. Orkut, gmail, yahoo, google, yahoo messenger, msn messenger, scrap boy, skype, google earth (Finding if his house is updated in Google's GIS), blogs, trading site (usually ICICIdirect) are a few to mention... whew all high-end softwares .. Managing these many windows by itself is an ordeal... This is the period when software professionals get time to retain their contacts.. Their outbox suffers a 5 MB stress everyday.. One of my frends, during times like this, sent out app. 75 mails and would receive 150 mails everyday..The figures suggest how many others are on the same line... Srry same 'bank'..
Coffee is a killer bee at these times..there is no count on cigarettes and coffee.. and this is time when the organisation that you loved so much seems like it turned against you..
Sometimes this software professional tends to stare at the monitor screen thinking about whats in store for him.. then regains position and starts applying to a few job consultancies..Jus hoping he would pay lower interests in the new place..

A few of them would also start writing Blogs !!

posted by Shriram at 7:22 PM 4 comments

posted by Shriram at 9:07 PM 1 comments

I have this pretty smart car lover whose praise the world doesn't know.. As his friend, it is my duty to get his work to limelight, with all due permission.

1. Love the girl u want,
not, the girl, u live.

2. She in me, is to live,
To die, is to gain.

These are very powerful words... If u dont understand the essence of it, feel free to drop in your comments leaving ur Email id behind.. I will respond to you on this .. Expanding it here will loose its authenticity, and I really want to keep it intact.

PS: This work is solely owned by Jai Simha, Chennai, India and has been published under the copyright act 1992. This is no work of plagiarism.

posted by Shriram at 2:09 PM 3 comments

Fun filled love of joy I could feel,
When in the woods he was there to heal,
With a volcano inside I spoke to him in zeal.
He doesn’t know how I am inside, without meal,
Without water, the disaster, an eruption that is real,
Nobody on earth can cool this feel.

I know God is vengeful, the perfect resident in me,
Why should he, the almighty, pour the venom,
Like a thousand arrow, striking the very cause of existence,
Am I deprived of the knowledge of life’s essence?
I thought everything would soothe in a master’s presence.

Didn’t you know that I took a hundred steps, or
Was it all this dumbo’s pretence?
Oh God the miracle healer of the universe,
Even I am an ingredient of your victims,
But also I am a constituent, a speck, of your creation.
Why don’t you create in me ‘The Harmony” ….. No Pretence!!

posted by Shriram at 2:08 AM 2 comments

A couple riding on a horse hugging each other??
A candle light dinner at the carribean island??
Both sipping from the same glass of coke??
Or is it sharing the bed levitating??

Does it really take a horse ride hugging,
a candle light dinner at the carribean,
Sip along from the same glass, or
Levitating on the bed to be in Love??

All these are desperate attempts we make,
To experience love - But how successful we are
Is evident in ur eyes showing despair.

For me love is not a one-to-one concept,
You dont fall in love you are bolstered by it,
You are enlivened with love.

For me love is one-to-many.
Do you see me out of societal framework,
Do you see me running out of relationship ethics??
No wonder you do...
Coz it takes more words to understand what i am..

posted by Shriram at 3:39 AM 4 comments

I scream at midnight,
Just to see myself out of the bed petrified,
It was not a dream - beyond my perception,
I could relate to that after a bit of introspection.

Am i making a fool of myself??
Said the inner me....
There was none to turn to but i know only thee
But how could i after all that,
turn back time and find myself in glee??

There might be certan things i did-which
Stung you quite hard,
With its venom more powerful than rattle snake's.

I repent for that and feel life is a bitch,
For even after a thousand on-my-knees,
i couldn't get off with the painstaking twitch.

But somewhere i could see the streak of light,
That gives me hope and waiting for the day-when,
I would laugh and say "It all happenned one day".

posted by Shriram at 2:58 AM 0 comments