An Amateurs New Year

New responsibilities and roles
new are the friends and foes

New ways new pace
new are the problems
which we are gonna face

New love new luck
My new be our
yellow rubber duck

New rush new blush
new is the guy
whose heart i am gonna crush ;)

Nice or a Pushover !!!

Today i read a gr8 article in Mumbai Mirror titled: Nice employees finish last. This is a small Summary.

Nice: Offering to stay late so that your colleague finishes a project before vacation.
Pushover: Stay late regularly because u cant say no to your colleague.

Nice: Forwarding/sharing Kudos with responsible team mates.
Pushover: Giving Kudos to the team so that u don't seem self-serving.

Nice: Reviewing your new colleague's work & explaining any change.
Pushover: Reviewing your new colleague's work & making changes yourself so that they don't feel hurt.

Nice: Proposing a new idea in a meeting, acknowledge inputs from colleagues
Pushover: Not opening your mouth when someone takes credit for your ideas.

Nice: When someone misleads you discuss the same with them.
Pushover: When someone misleads, instead of discussing the same with them you try to get better information on your own next time.

If you ask me, there is a very thin line between nice and pushover & we cant be in one side all the time. Both qualities exist in us, we have to balance in such a way that we do not become a pushover.

Stand up for your self and be assertive.

Tolerance

"Sometimes with secret pride I sigh,

To think how tolerant am I;

Then wonder which is really mine:

Tolerance or a rubber spine?"

Living in the present

"there is no future, there is no past,

i live this moment as my last,

there's only us, there's only this

forget regret or life is yours to miss,

no other road, no other way,

no day but today"

Happy Birthday Bro !!!

It's Showering Anniversary

August 10th not a very special day for me, but its the birth anniversary of my brother & buddy. [2 Anniversaries + One Day = Panic Attack :) ]

Why are anniversaries so important ??? & the bigger question "WHO INVENTED Anniversary ? ? ?"

I am not against anniversaries, on the contrary, i enjoy my anniversaries whole heartedly. We eat, drink and celebrate aniversaries with friends and family. Eventhough, before these celebrations the "Why?'s" always wander arround in our mind;

Why do i have to buy a gift?

why do i have to come early from office?

Why do we have to cut a cake?

However, once the merriment begins, all the 'why?'s & what?'s' take a back seat & we immerse overselves in the merriment and forget 'what was and what will be' and just live in the present. Yes, eventhough for a brief moment, we live in the present during these celebrations. Is this why anniversaries are important (apart from the gifts that we receive :P) to most of us? Well may be or may be not. Who am I to tell ???

& who invented anniversaries?...... I dont know and i dont care...... :)

. . . : : : Sheriff's Pizzeria : : : . . .

Well i have made various entries for photoshop contests, although havn't won any :P This is another one which is very close to my heart. I just loved doing this pic, because i learned to apply retro effect for the first time with this pic. I think the retro effect turned out pretty good for a first timer. I guess i need to work more on the color combination. Well, that was all about this Poster for pizza place :) ......... Pizzeria