How Selfish Are You ?

You Are 39% Selfish

In general, you are a very giving person who treats others very well. But at times, you insist on getting your way - when it matters most to you.

How Selfish Are You?

What are the Keys to Your Heart ?

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as something you don't need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Are You A Gentleman?

You Are 84% Gentleman

No doubt about it, you are a total gentleman. You please the pickiest ladies, and you make everyone in a room feel comfortable.

Are You A Gentleman?

The Five Factor Personality Test

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. But you borderline on being a total perfectionist. Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You're generally a friendly and trusting person. But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair. Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium. You are generally broad minded when it come to new things. But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it. You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

The Five Factor Personality Test

How Virgo Are You?

You are 80% Virgo

How Virgo Are You?

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

Your EQ is 127

111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

Tatvamasi - An Elucidation

T(h)at(h)avamasi ! What Does It Mean ?!

Whenever people check out my blog, this is and will be the first question popping up in their minds. A few have asked and hope I gave them a satisfactory reply. But I never felt the need to elucidate the meaning of the great mahavakya! I thought people will do a google and can thereby strike with a fair explanation in some web page or another.

When my new colleague asked the same question to me a few days ago, I wasn't able to give an apt reply that will make her understand its meaning perfectly. That has made me come up with this post, to make things clear.

I first saw this mahavakya (holy-phrase) in a picture of sabari mala. That time I had no clue of its meaning or its importance. As I became more and more devoted to sri ayyappan, I got the opportunity to realize the importance of this mahavakya. In simple terms it means " You Are That!"

There is a small story I got by doing a google, from chennaionline.com, which speaks about how the mahavakya was born. Saint Suvethakedu was the son of Uthalaga Aruni Rishi. Suthevakedu, being trained by his father on sasthras, felt a bit of too much self pride that he knew *everything*. Aruni rishi wanted his son to realize that his son was just boasting around; so he called upon his son and asked him to tell him which was the most powerful of the all the shashtras. Suvethakedu couldn't answer this question and he relaized himself. His father then made an explanation for the most powerful of everything present in this universe...

One who has the perfect knowledge of god, one who has understood and realized god, is the one who has the perfect knowledge of everything. God is the source and destination of everything. Everything comes from him, everything is a part of him and everything ends in him. God is present in everything that exists in this universe. So, one who has realized god becomes master of everything and as there is only one master who owns everything, the same person becomes god himself. Thereby, realization of god is actually becoming god himself. Once you realize god, you and god are one!

Tat Vam Asi ! - God (and) You (are) United (one) !

The most purest and sacred form of spirituality is the realization of god. Srimad Bhagavat Gita speaks volumes about the same, relaization of the eternal, the ultimate, who creates everything, who owns everything and who is everything. Tatvamasi, is a simple vakya which incorporates a great spiritual truth within it. The best place you can find god is within yourself. There is no necessity to search for god. What is required is realization of the lord within us. He is nowhere other than within ourselves. Athma or Soul is the original form of paramathma or the lord. He exists as soul within us, which is said to be the seed of life. The size of athma is said to be in the order of 10000th of the tip of our hair. Still it is the reason for our existance and it is something which doesn't have a birth or a death. Even when our body dies, the athma quits its shell (our body) and reaches paramathma. The paramatha gives the athma, another body to live with or takes it within himself, which is said as attaining moksha.

Thus, tatvamasi brings to our realization that we have every quality to become god, or to say, to attain the holy form called god and become a part of him. Thus, realization of the god should be the first priority of every human existance, which is none other than realization of himself (athma)!

10 Simple Pleasures

Its sooo long that I got tagged by some one, thereby making me scrible something in return. This time ashy has tagged me, which has made me think hard to find the 10 simple pleasures. This is realy hard, as I never brand something a pleasure or pain and take everything with a smile :-)

Here I go with my 10 simple pleasures...

1. Sleeping on the lap of my mom :-)

2. Hearing to stories being told by dad, grand pa and mom.. even though I have heard them 100 times before :-P

3. Hearing to hariavarasanam every night :-)

4. Hearing to melodious music and getting into sleep... :-D

5. Being with friends, kalachufying some one :-P

6. Akkas smile in her face and her konjals :)

7. Some one calling me naughty boy ;-) :-P

8. Fighting with my chella thangai, which is actually the way we play... and at the end konjifying her max ! :-D

9. Sunday noon sleep ! :-D

10. Wading through the chennai traffic, doing risky maneuvers :-D

I still have a few more, as it's 10 simple pleasures I stop with this. I have to tag some one na.... hmmm.... I tag Vejay ! :-P

Naughty Joke ! :P

Teacher was teaching mahabaratha to 6th standard students and was telling about the story of krishna,

"Kamsa heard a voice telling him that devaki's 8th son would kill him. So kamsa put devaki and vasudevan in the prison. Their first child was born, which kamsa killed by poisoning it. Then their 2nd child was also born, whom kamsa killed with his sword. Then the 3rd child..."

Suddenly one boy raised his hand meaning that he has a doubt. The teacher was surprised that a boy was able to ask him a doubt. Teachers asks the boy,

"The whole India doesn't have a doubt over mahabharatha and what doubt did you get ?! "

The boy replied,

" If the 8th son would kill kamsa, then why did he put devaki and vasudev in the same prison cell ?!"

The teacher fainted !! Will not he ?! :P

NoteBook'il Kalyanam

NoteBook'il Kalyanam :: Marriage in the NoteBook

The title seems odd but yet funny . Can marriage happen in notebook ?!

When the kids try to speak things which they can understand only when they grow up. This happenned today in a family function. Me and my sisters were looking at my brother's engagement album. One of our relatives, a kid of age around 7 or 8 was also standing nearby and having a look. He suddenly asked " Sriram anna ku kalyanam acha ?!" Me and sisters tried telling different reasons for his question, because he couldn't understand what an engagement or nichyathartham was.

He went to my brother and asked him whether he had got married. When my brother said "No! Enakinnum kalyanam agala ( am not yet married)", he asked ....... " appo anda notebook la mattum ungalku kayanam ayidutha ?! " ( then, did you get married in the notebook ?!) !!

Hehe.. we all had a good laugh and started teasing my brother as "NoteBook Mapillai" ( NoteBook Groom). Nice name, Isn't it ?! ;)

A good work to TAG in !

Hey Buddies,

Shocked to see me posting within hours after my previous one ?! Things happen pretty fast :D
I made friendship with a budding enterpreneur today and got the chance to read one pretty amazing blog of his. It talks about the actual situation existing in todays Indian Job Arena. Here's the tag, pass it along :)

Candy, Coffee and Cocaine: Job Life Cycle

Something to scribble out ...

When it comes to writing a blog, I face one main problem.
What to write ?
The actual reason is that there are many things to write up,
But nothing solid lights up in my mind.
So, I decided to write something in some different way !

The past one month have been quite different.
Both professionally and personally.
Projects changed and learnt some new skills.
Friends changed as I got new ones,
And lost in touch with old ones.

Ideas changed, as I came to find new leads.
Experince changed, with trips to thriuvannamalai for the Linux Seminar.
Goals changes, as I started thinking of preparing for CAT.
And sometimes, looking up for a career break through.

But something remain unchanged.
My laziness, the first to point out.
The spirit of Linux, which had been rising up the epxonent,
Since I became an active tuxian.
My attitude remain, as I struggle to make them better.

A lot of things ending up in vain.
Broken friendships.
Turned down applications.
vanished dreams.

But, still my heart carries the hope.
Hope over the Future.
belief over myself.
Trust in my abilities.

I have become a chameleon.
For, I was always one.
Mingling with the mass.
Being a roman when in Rome.
Being me when in home :P

I have mastered the art.
Being into it for years.
Adaptation was my strength.
Which made me famous wherever I went.

It was something which I learnt in my life.
Be what the situtation demands.
Mingle with the environment.
Be the one who bests suits the situation

But, I have been just a silly reptile.
Same like the chameleon.
Its greatness never realized.

But, two things makes me feel happy.
My current job, which I enjoy,
Though its not the one which I aim to achieve.

For years, I have been flustering to fix a goal.
When someone asked, me used to smile.
That was my answer, which meant
" I am not sure! "

One day, I was determined to decide one.
There were 100 things to chose from.
I din't choose one,
Atleast ended up with a few.

Tux pulls me at one side.
But, its not giving me a picture.
About where I can be.
It has a lot of options,
Like what I already have.

What I lack is a guide,
A guru,
Who can lead me, when I meet dead ends.
This wish, has never been fulfilled.
A lot of people promise,
But forget them.

This Parthan, needs a Krishna! :)
This Dhasan, needs the Sastha! :)

Being Dynamic !

" Dynamic ", What does the word mean and why I have to speak about it now ??

As per the standard dictionary, dynamic means " Characterized by continuous change, activity, or progress "

I considered myself to be dynamic at my junctures of my life. When I have to take decisions over alternatives I always fluster; not because I am not sure about what to select, but because I am really capable of doing many of the alternatives.

This is what happenned a couple of weeks before, when my HR asked me what division would I like to work with ?! I answered "B&C", thats where I am currenty in. But when they asked me to prioritize the other divisions, I got struck at the bottle neck. I was comfortable with many of them. Then, I took a minute to analyze and my answer was "Global Market Research" to be no.2 with a reason of me having an idea to do MBA after 2 yrs.

Perhaps, being into 'organizing and managing responsibilites' right from my school days, I rather became a well known organizer than a prize-winning participant. I loved taking in pressure. Even though I din't get proper recognitions or rewards for all my contributions, still my self-motivating attitude kept me going.

In school, atleast they said I did things in the mike, which was all that made me happy and contended. But in my college, though I worked like a Samurai - dedicated and selfless, for 3 years - they din't reward me even once, atleast like how they did it in my schools - In the Mike. Me never got anounced even once, inspite of single-handedly managing two releases of news papers and a magazine + organzing during symposium. At the end of the last newsleter release, they announced something called as "golden volunteers of the dept." Many expected my name would be the first to be anounce. Even for me, who was half-awake in the last row of the auditorium, sick with a high viral fever and still been there for the releaee of my work, believed I am going to be called. It was all like dumping me to ditch! They gave the award to 7 people, and I WASN'T one ! That day, I questioned myself "For whom and why did I took so much pain all these years ? For what reason I wasn't one of those 7 people, who took away the credits for all my work ? Why I wasn't recognized ?" But, there were no satisfying answers. That night I decided am going to do no more voluntary work for people who failed to recognize my dedication.

It was only a few weeks left for us to get rid of the college. We weren't passing out jubilantly, for I and many of us haven't scored much even once, a score to make me class topper in any subject, even my favourite ones. I never mind, I live fighting with luck and I never let myselves down.

Then came 6 months of struggle to find a jo, all b ending in vain.... did the god's eye open ? Perhaps, atleast a bit.. I got a *decent* and *interesting* job. Slowly I became sick of software jobs, started calling them "slavery". I wanted to make use the opportunities that come in my way, as Jason Bourne said " Opportunites present themselves, recognize them!". A lot of my colleagues wish they could get some s/w job and I feel like asking them " Why don't you make use of what you have" "why do you long for things which lakhs of other do and miss your dedication in something only a few like us do? " But, I have no hearts to debate with them, for nothing is permanent.. not even my current life and work! ( Don't wurry, neither am going do leave it, nor they going to throw me out :D )

One sec......
OMG! Where did I start and where did I end up. I spoke a lot of things which I could have written in few more blogs :P ;)

Ok.. Dynamic! When I sit before my Linux Box and think of what to do in it, I get atleast a dozen replies. If you get a chance to see my study table, you will question me "Who does read them all?" Believe, I have 8 books on different subjects on them and the thing is, I read them all whenever I get time to... :D If you want more light ove this, here it is.. the books are,

1. Bagavad Gita
2. Emacs - Word Processor in Linux
3. Linux Device Drivers
4. Understanding the Linux Kernel
5. Python Programming
6. C++
7. Perl Proramming
8. DSP

Ok Ok Ok.. half of them confined to Linux space, but still they are different things... Hence my brain works "Dynamic!".

I work in office from 9am - 6 pm, leavaing the 1.5 hours for lunch, tea and relaxation.. its atleast 6.5 hours I put my brain under different task mode. Once I get out of office and start my bike, my brain goes into different kind of mode, it concentration level rises to 200% to wade through the evening chennai traffic and get home. Once I am home, I subject my brain to different activites including a few of the above said books. And finally, before going to sleep my brain is put into thinking about the most important thing... MY FUTURE! It works DYNAMIC! Atleast, lemme give such a credit to it, even if others don't or can't ! :)