Goggles In Space

ഹേ ഹേ..വെയിറ്റ് !! ഇട്സ് ഓള്‍ കമിന്ഗ് ഇന്‍ മൈ മദര്‍ ടൊന്ഗുഎ ഇഎ, മലയാളം ലാംഗ്വേജ്..ഐ ഡോണ്ട് നോ വ്തത്സ് ഹപ്പെനിന്ഗ് ബട്ട് ഐ സ്വീര്‍ ഐ അം ടൈപ്പിങ് ഇന്‍ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്..ഗിമ്മേ സോമേ ടൈം. ലെറ്റ് മി ഫിന്ദ് വ്തത്സ് ഹപ്പെനിന്ഗ് വിത്ത് ദ കേയ്ബ്പര്ദ് !!!

The other day i attended a training on Assertiveness Skills. I took it as part of my regular training plan and not to understand how/when to say "No". People around have always known me as a pretty strict and direct person. I would tell things frankly, without apprehensions about what the listener would feel. But i know i have changed a lot with time. I dont open up many a time but i certainly have to be assertive to a large extent at workplace. During my early days as a developer in 2003, I would take up piles of work on my shoulders and toil on weekdays/weekends to finish it. After a couple of years, I realised there is no use working like a donkey. I had to be smart. Its ok to be a workaholic if you are a bachelor but not when you have a family.So i became a little firm in my decisions. I would signal my boss well in advance if things were not coming out as expected. I started to plan and foresee risks. If things are so very urgent/critical, i do work late night/on weekend...

July 9th,2006. It was midnight. I had been admitted in the hospital since July 3rd. After a full week in the air conditioned room there enjoying food and visitors, i was trying to grab some sleep.My mom was lying in the other bed and she was fast asleep. Sree was in the room watching world cup football finals.I was feeling some butterflies in the stomach and was trying hard to catch the train of sleep.In vain..i couldnot sleep. I aksed him to switch off the TV so that i could sleep but he wouldnt do that either. After a while, i could sense a fluid leak. And it must have been about 1am on July10th, i started feeling some sort of pain (labour pain,is it ? not sure). I told my hubby and he rushed out to call the nurse. She came and in a very casual way said, "looks like labor pain. This would continue for few hours now.pray for a normal delivery." I told myself "Yes..the pain had started.But how many hours?". My mom had got up by then and sat beside me. The pain made ...

Any parent (atleast an Indian parent definitely) would agree if i say that they start getting worried once their young,sizzling daughters graduate ie, attain something like 22-23 years fo age. In the traditional sections of society, they would start looking for someone to give their daughter's hand at much younger ages. Have heard some grandmas saying they got married at 12-13 etc..cant imagine. I swaer i was a kid then). But i would believe that was much older times or you have to be a tribe or something. Well, whatever the age be, at some point in time, parents start thinking about their daughter's next responsibility, as a wife. Then starts the hunt for a matching groom. If the daughter is smart enough, she selects one herself and tries to get a consent from her parents. Sometimes even the "consent" part doesnot happen. She runs away from home, gets the marriage registered or starts living with her lover.(There might be hundred other ways too of which i am not awar...

Guess why this title for the blog :) Simply because I have been always late learning new things..(though some of my school friends would disagree - they even now say i am a studious person)esp when it comes to new technologies. My mind is so old and i like to remain an old fashioned person,untouched by changes in this modern world. So was it with blogs too. Infy had started internal blogs more than an year back and i hadnt even attempted to learn how to even read one,forget creating one. Thanks to the freetime i got oflate at office, i started finding out how to login into the internal blog site and started reading blogs. I wondered for a week or so about the multi talented people around me and later when i got a net connection at home, i went orkutting again. Came to know of blogs of umpteen friends and thanks to all that, i could create a blog of my own and start blogging too.It feels awesome to put in your thoughts in such a nice way(i mean using the click of a mouse or a key press)...

My first two lines in the blog !!! I just created one..till now i had only been reading blogs..now i have one too..my own :) Hurray !!