The evils of bad mouthing

"I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition."
                                                                                                                     - Glenda Jackson

If there's anything I'm learning in corporate life, it's this: People can be very ehh.... immature sometimes.

College was tough and I vent my frustration here on blogger. Now when I look back at those posts I'm almost embarrassed at the amount of bad mouthing I did back then. Principal, my classmates, friends...I spared nobody. And then I realized what I was doing and began concentrating on (trying some) positive writing.

I'm seeing far too many cases of people belittling others just to make a point.This and Office gossip are two things that can not only poison an otherwise healthy mind, it actually leads to workplace enmity- the last thing you need at Office is a person who wants your head.

It's funny how a study actually thinks it is healthy because in my short experience it's only led to hard feelings and heartache.

The world is not ideal and it's a tough task adhering to ethics and rules... but there's always a start... better late than never.

The year that was: 2011 in pictures

In Mumbai for CEED 2011. In pic: With Atir at band stand, Bandra

With Atir at Gateway of India

A picture collage of the annual Numaish of Hyderabad

The road not taken: GRE and CEED

My rant on not owning a bike did nothing. All I got was praise for this image.

Things went downhill in feb. I turned down two offers..

Nayeem bhai and gang came over for some world cup action

We won the world cup and India went crazy

That flyer on the bottom right is a simple dtp job I did for a friend

May 02, 2011... I had a desk at one of the largest professional firms of the world!

Digital dream team! From left: Amit, myself, Ari and Rasik. The camera-shy Vishal is missing.

Atir's birthday. Ice cream at Temptations.

My birthday... The gulab jamuns on the bottom right were like rocks.

DTDC stole my phone and gave me a full week of stress

And then a miracle happened... 

Ramzan: the festive season arrived

I never had so much Haleem before...from Pista house to local versions. Everything.

Rain was moderate. No fun...

My trip to manuguru was the best ever.

Then the battery died on me...

Metaliica. Enough said!

Our year end party at Office. The theme was 'Beach'

The year ending with some awesome weddings

All images cross processed in Photoshop for a 'retro' feel :-)

Battery woes, work and trance

After a long, tiring and mostly depressing month of September, October started on an optimistic note. I cannot discuss office life here without turning a few heads(and a few offshore) so I'll just keep it short.

I mentioned in my earlier post, the NP 500 battery on my Sony died on me last month and gave some really frustrating moments...it would flicker out at such alarming regularity and timing I missed some really great shots at Maredmilli. And perhaps for the first time ever, my own blog came to the rescue! I deep froze the battery for about a week before charging it for a full two days and tada! It's back to normal! I am double convinced this method works! It's giving at least 10 flash shots for 1/100th of charge...remarkable.

It took 3 days to blow my salary. I bought a refrigerator and a pair of Sony headphones...the latter just another addition to my useless and regrettable purchases.

The shiny packaging, the overly friendly sales guy and the image of my patch tape covered Philips earphones back home convinced me into buying these cans. I thought I'd give it a glowing review...white box pictures and all. It's just not worth it...the base is flat and trance just sounds lame. And what's with the low volume?
Ironic considering Sony means 'SOUND'

Back at office, I am being called the next "ghajini' with the number of post it notes I've put up at my desk. Call me whatever, I think they help. I even put up a stack of them in the drawer for easy accessibility...in four colors! Miss the usual yellow though.

Now that my PC has replaced the defunct Acer laptop at my brother's place, I'm making do with my  work laptop with the extended Benq 22 incher. I must say working and playing movies on a dual screen setup is very very addictive.

And oh, I woke up to the new of Steve Jobs' death. As Obama so rightly put it, the fact that most people got the news of his passing on the devices he had pioneered was a testimony to the impact he had on technology and this generation.

CEED is coming and I'm yet to fill in the application! Now that I have a job, maybe I can finally look forward to getting a case of Prismacolors for myself.Some random sketches from my (very rare) spare time at office.

Moonbeam is on a roll. Their latest album is in word- awesome. The synths are enchanting and the beats groovy. I can't post link to downloads here but they're all up there on youtube here: Cocoon is a good place to start

And yes- I'm running out of ideas for blog posts...no time.