Harsha Hulageri

Pics tell a lot than words.. here are some for you..

Sun does overtime here.. he sets here at 10 pm.. and this pic was taken at 8.30 pm.. beat that

And I cook here.. yes really.. I cook daily.. beat that too

ihop (International house of pancakes ) restaurant serves best pancakes.. Try buttor scotch pancake in these chain resturants.. *delicious*

There are Indian restaurants too.. Ruchi is nearest one to my place. The owner of this hotel started his career as pizza guy and now he owns this.. *dedicated effort*

There are multiplexes too.. I watched ‘New York’ movie here.. first hindi movie on the land of angrez !!!

Thats it for now.. have pun!!! Tunned in for more pics

Life has taken a little twist. It has  been a week since I have landed here.  Yes, I am in Uncle Sam’s land. It took almost 27 hours to travel 15000 kms. I had to change two flights one at Paris and other at New york.  Both are very huge airports. I have to travel through train and buses to change terminals at both airports. Although I had traveled through air before, but hadn’t got opportunity to travel on daytime. It was nice to see the land and ocean well above the clouds

Well talking about the city where I stay.. it is calm.. infact very very calm.. full of greenery and very well organized. People are seen hardly on roads. In bangalore, if you throw a stone it either hits dog or SE. But here, if you throw a stone, it either hits a car or another car. Public transport is pathetic. Life becomes tough without car. One must have car. Kansas City has spread across two states Missouri and Kansas. There is one state line road that divides these two. I work in Kansas City of Missouri state and I stay in Kansas City of Kansas.

Talking about the cars, one can get to drive the cars that one had never ever imagined of. People drive cars crazily. Traffic rules are always followed. Things cannot go wrong on roads and if they go.. don’t ask.

Everything is organized to the core.

Regarding the work, I am the 1oth infoscion who joined here for the client of size 500. Office environment is very good and office culture is very different from the one that we have in India. Loads of formalities, exchange of greeting s and smiles. Good thing about these people is they treat everyone with the same respect be it a CEO or a housekeeping guy. Everyone does their job and they do it properly. Working hours will be 8 hours usually from 8 to 4 or 9 to 5. People never stay in office after office hours unless required urgently. But one mentionable thing is .. if they work for 8 hours , they do only work and nothing else. Lunch break will be usually of half an hour. Most of times, people have  their lunch at their desk.  Like us, they too wait for Friday to come. There won’t be any important meetings during Fridays. People start leaving office from 3 pm. Everyone will be in weekend mood on Friday.

I am here on long term assignment. Hope, I soon get adjust with this place.

My tea-mies, Prazy and Amar, presented this before I come here ( I am still missing our daily tea sessions  )

I believe that everything happens for a reason and I hope this my new phase of life would make me better than what I am now. Onsite has  definitely a lot to learn from work perspective as well as life perspective.

Oh.. Grrr… when did I blog last time?

I apologize for such a long non-commercial break.  Where was I? I haven’t been anywhere.. I am here only in Bangalore doing well ( well ? ) .

It was not facing a blogger’s block or writer’s block or whatever.. I have been very busy for last few weeks. Well, you know, I work for a company which is 23 kms away from my home. Can you imagine that I travel 46 kms a day.  It takes 1 hour 15 mins in the morning and 1 hour 45 mins in the evening. That means I spend 3 hours daily in traveling. Thanks to the company, it provides bus facility which makes my commute easy. Otherwise, I can’t even imagine travelling such distance in such traffic in such time in bmtc bus ( well even the bus that I travel daily is also a bmtc bus for that matter but it is on contract.. so that means.. enough seats to sleep or to take rest or to listen to music or to read a book or to the whatever you want to )

You know long time back they have made a rule that every bus ( and obviously all employees who travel in buses ) should enter campus within 9. Thanks to them. Now i have my last bus at 7.30 AM !!! That means.. I have to wake up atleast 1 hour earlier. And the damn bus will be on right time and waits for none ( unlike cabs ). So most of times I endup running from home to bus stop . This is how my morning begins.

Offlate, I have rejoined the GYM ( this time .. the office gym ). Talking of gym, office gym is much much better than the one I used to go earlier nearby by my house.  Gym after office hours means… that much of delay in coming to home.  Being a lazy bum, I have started bunking gym also.. Hey wait.. not every time.. but only few times. Most of times, I bunk because of  office’s hectic schedule. Well that’s ok.. Because of all this, I reach home daily after 9 PM.

I read morning news paper with cup of tea at night.. i mean after i come from office. And after that dinner.. and some spamming on twitter ( well I do this most efficiently during commuting especially while coming back from office ) and some browsing and some chatting and some mailing. By the time, i finish all these, it will be almost 12 AM.  This is how my life is crawling. This is the reason why I am not able to blog.  Infact, I am unable to do anything. I am unable to study. I am unable to watch movies. I am unable to learn anything new. Life is just passing.. just like that. How can I organize myself in more better way? How should I manage time so that i can use that time to learn new things? Help? Pls?

I have a lot to do.. No time.. One life is definitely not enough !!!

For last few days, “Susan Boyle”  is a trending topic on Twitter. I never realized this all craziness about Susan Boyle until I saw the news of Susan’s popularity over Obama in Youtube on yesterday’s edition of The Times Of India.

I was shocked, surprised and stunned the first time I saw this video. It was perfect kick-ass slap to all audiences and judges by Susan Boyle. This is an excellent example of “WHY ONE SHOULD NOT LAUGH AT ONE’S DREAMS”. It also has a lesson to be learned “NEVER EVER UNDERESTIMATE ANYONE”.

A 47 year old ordinary small village woman proves everyone wrong by her amazing performance.

Enough of said. Watch video yourself and realize. I bow to SUSAN BOYLE.

Here is the link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY.

All the best Susan for next round

Ordered these from @pringoo …

Every morning, he board the office bus.. his eyes automatically search for two-seater window seat.. preferably last few rows. With headphones on.. 318 songs playing on shuffle mode at 90% volume.. he ends up listening to random songs with random emotions attached to them. There arises a another he in him.. the thinker. He starts to rewind his early tapes.. recalling each and every incidents of his life. and trying to connect the mysterious future. resulting into more mixed feelings surrounding him.. feelings that ranging from deserted loneliness to lost kid who can’t decide which path to choose… These weirdest feelings go on haunting him till the bus makes its way to its final destination.

When he swipes in at the building entrance, one more he in him takes birth.. the SEist.. a sincere work-ious chap.. who finishes his class work regularly on time.. like a DD ( Dhobhi’s Donkey ) making his owner proud of him.. with the hope of some peanuts..like in a center fresh chewing gum ATM ad.

There you can see the evening bus.. which leaves him promptly to his home. Again he ends up either dozing off or listening to songs and ofcourse with the thinker who is parallely creating ripples that disturbs the deep shit settled at the abyss of his life.

The thinker won’t leave him so easily.. he haunts him every where.. every second.. while having food, while watching tv.. even while sleeping making him insomniac with so many sleepless nights.

The next morning its mundane again.. two seater window seat.. last few rows. headphones.. 318 songs.. shuffle mode.. 90% volume.. the thinker… and it continues..

#life #love #family #friends #career #mba #ms #money #greed #selfishness #emotions #ladder #morale #motivation #ego #… there is nothing like that thinker leaves untouched !

He becomes comfortably numb with all these !! Silence takes over him completely.. making him less reactive to the surroundings and happenings.. He becomes numb to everything.

He starts facing Quarter Life Crises.

Ajay (name changed) called me up at my extn and asked me to come to Terminal for a coffee.  His voice was not as usual and i had guessed that something has gone wrong.  We took coffee and placed ourselves at the seats of near by table.  Until then the conversion was casual. Before i open my mouth, all of sudden he started crying.. he started crying like a child. I didn’t stop him.  Men are conditioned to not to cry. No matter what happens, you should not cry. This is what their subconscious mind instructs. If a man is crying, well you know.. the matter is very very very serious. After five minutes or so, he stopped crying and said “she deceived me“.

This incident happened 6 months back. Why i am telling you this now?

Last week, she got married ofcourse to some other guy and not to Ajay. And he is still unable to forget her after six months of break up and even if she got married.

Ajay is a type of person who always smiles, makes everyone cheer and very friendly. You have to meet to him to know him. Now also he does the same thing. He smiles at everyone.. a false smile that covers the scar. He smiles to hide his tears.

Why men cannot forget that whatever happened? Why can’t they move on?

How women adapt themselves so easily within a short span of time? Don’t they have heart?  Don’t they feel?

Why woman do this? Why she dumps him?

Q. Why men cannot forget that whatever happened? Why can’t they move on?

A:  Answer is already given. Men are not conditioned to accept failure. They are not conditioned to hear “NO”. A male child grows in a family with all privileges. He will get whatever he wants from his parents, be it a chocolate or a bicycle or a bike. He gets it. His mom never says no to him and gives him whatever he wants. He was not conditioned to hear NO since from his childhood. There time comes when someone makes him this realize.. when someone dumps him.  He spend his whole life wondering “how she could do this to him ? ” Well, he forgets that “she” is not his “mom“.

Q. How women adapt themselves so easily within a short span of time? Don’t they have heart?  Don’t they feel?

A:  How they adapt so easily? God made them that way. Don’t they have heart?  Yes, they have. Don’t they feel? Don’t they get hurt? Yes, they will. It is not that women forget everything very easily. But, they adapt themselves to new environment very easily.  That’s why a man takes ages to forget the one he loved and a woman a very short span of time. If she gets someone to console her at that time, she won’t take much time to get back to normal routine life.

Q. Why woman do this? Why she dumps him?

A: Answer for this is the title of the post. “Grass is always green at the other side of the fence”.  There is one school of thought saying, “you should not search for the reason. You will never be able to find it through out your life”.

B. R. Lakman Rao (BRL) has penned down a beautiful poem to describe the emotions of a man who was dumped by his love.

hELi hOgu kaaraNa hOguva modalu
nanna baaLiniMda dUraaguva modalu

olaveMba haNate edeyalli beLagi
beLakaade baaLige
iMdEke hIge beLakannu toredu
nI saride neraLige ?
iMdyaava baMdha toDaride
ninna kaalige ?
suDubeMki beLaku uLiyite
nanna paalige ?

savibhaavagaLige nI naada nIDi
jotegUDi haaDide
iMdyaava aLalu ? sereyubbi koraLu
nI mauna taaLide
nI neTTu beLesida I mara
phala toTTa vELege
hIgEke muridu UruLide
yaava daaLige ?

- bi aar lakShmaNaraav.

Lyrics taken from : http://www.kannadalyrics.com/?q=node/1377c

C Ashwath  has sung this song beautifully and is also available online for purchase.

Also, there is one kannada novel on this subject “Heli Hogu Karana” written by Ravi Belagere. If you know kannada, do read it. That’s one of finest works of Ravi Belagere.  You can buy the book online from Total Kannada Dot com website. The whole book tries to prove one point “Why Grass is green on the other side?”