Thanksgiving!

Sitting in India, I am having a delicious self made lunch and lying comfortably on my bed with this laptop in hand and typing this post. It is a sunny weather outside and the atmosphere is just so cool and relaxed. And this has been made possible on a Thursday because I have a holiday today. You ask why? Well, because it is Thanksgiving in the US and we have all(those in the outsourcing business) coordinated our calendars with the Americans. Funny isn’t it.

So before this day, when Thanksgiving came to me as a blessing, the only thing which I knew about it was that people eat turkeys on this day. Huge turkeys served at the family dinner table and as the name suggests give thanks. What is the history or the significance or the origin of it all is unknown to me. I made a search and found some stuff on the wiki and History.com. Check out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

and http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving

Apparently, Canada and USA celebrate it on different days.

Well, whatever be it, I am pretty thankful on this thanksgiving for the 2 day holiday that I am going to enjoy.

 

 

 

Inspiration

My dad gets me. Exactly what I feel, he understands. But the trouble is I hate to even think of compromising. And he tells me that life requires compromise.  He tells me that I will have to be patient. I don’t know how will I ever do that!

New Chapter

My corporate life, of 5 months, is seeing the closing of its first chapter. I ended my tenure as a Software developer yesterday and am going to be a Data Analyst from Monday. I am excited and hopeful that this will interest me. That I will be able to enjoy work and thus, my life. Yet, this is not a finality. Already, my mind is asking the question “what next??” That is classic uber restlessness. I have not gone one day on this job and I am asking myself what next.

The truth is, I want to do something big. Something pioneering, if not that at least something which has an impact, something which solves a problem.I might be able to do it. I might not be able to do it but this I know, I will never stop trying to do it.

As of now, at this very moment of writing, Life is Good

 

I drank a lot and got high and cried and threw up! Just like in the movies and it was terrible and embarrassing and I am never ever doing that again. Ever!

slight knock

…of an opportunity and I might not be able to open the door. Nothing, I repeat, nothing is more maddening and saddening at the same time. It is all just so bad these days!

Wonderful Woman – Marie Curie

This is the first post for the series Wonderful Women.

 

It is the season of the Nobels and this year, women have done exceptionally well in catching the nobel prizes. They have got it in Medicine/Physiology, Chemistry, Economics and Literature ie in 4/6 fields. When one thinks of Nobel prizes and one thinks of women, it is hard to miss the person who has done more than anyone else to make the position of women in science respectable. And that is the first woman nobel laureate, the first two-time nobel laureate in two subjects – Marie Curie or Madam Curie.

The biography and other details are chronicled nicely in Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

What I want to observe here is the way she managed to tackle all her obstacles and make them look small even when they were so huge in the times that she lived in. To fight the financial burden, to fight the fight of being a woman and therefore getting rejections by default, to fight the doubts as to her abilities and many other such small but significant things. She did not let anything stand in the way of her love, her curiosity of finding things.

I cannot but imagine how daunting the conditions must have been for her to pursue what she truly loved in a field where women wee not only not encouraged but straight away denied entry. Instead of fighting it out loudly and getting dejected, she found a better way. She did the best job she could do, she did the job better than others could do and thus shut the mouth of her detractors and became the icon for women and other scientists that she is today.

If there is anything one ought to take away from her is the spirit and strength.

Thanks goes to Madam Curie for showing a way to numerous aspiring women scientists who would later join her in the eminent scientist’s club. The one who started it all – we salute you.

Wonderful Women Series

I just saw the trailer of Mira Nair’s new movie “Amelia”. It made me think that how wonderful a woman she was.  And that led me to think about many other women who are pioneers in their fields, who have achieved so much, sometimes with hardships and sometimes with just their dedication and I am just so amazed and inspired. I think that every aspiring woman should be able to read these stories and draw courage, wisdom and strength. I just want to recall these stories and chronicle them on my page. So, today I have decided to start a series where I will write about the wonderful women that have been and are, the things that they have done and why their lives are like a shining torch.

The series will be called Wonderful Women. I will try to make it as inclusive as possible.

Its old !

The job is…It is 5 months old now. The excitement has died down. I can see that the lights that are shining are not very bright now. So what is next??

MBA or no MBA, that is the question. The trouble is that the answer is as ambiguous as it can be. I want prosperity. Who does not? But I don’t know how to get to there! I want knowledge but I don’t know where to find the time and the resources.

It is a non nice situation. It is like a jungle where there are animals who will eat me. Some small ones are hollowing me already and yet I don’t know which way to run to get out of it.

An inspiration occurs and it dies down. It occurs again in another format and it dies down again.