Divya Raghavan

We all dream about it, talk about it, but this guy is doing it.

Sean Aiken has gone through 52 different jobs in the last one year. Has done everything, from being a Bungee operator to a Caregiver to a firefighter.

http://www.oneweekjob.com/previous-jobs

Damn! i wish i could do all that in a year.

http://thinkgos.com/  ; what luzers!

UBUNTU rocks!

All of us (ok, most of us) are very proud of the schools we studied in. We love to be associated with the name, with the people, with anything to do with the institution. We are the schools' "Alumni".  Some of us have the privilege of having "Alumni association"s and networks.

Most of the Business schools around the world brag about their specific alumni groups, for, they are their most valued possession. They carry their values and culture with them throughout. They play a very important role in getting the new entrants get hold of their jobs, careers.

Totally love the way they work.

But, i have a few questions for all of you.

Do you actively participate in your schools' alumni activities?
Do you catch up with old buddies and help new ones come on board?
Are you in touch with your schools admin?
Do you play any part(small or big, even just telling someone how good your school is) at all?
Do you even know whats happening in one of your schools now?

After thinking about this, please also tell me ,would you like to do any of the above and why?

Please leave comments, with your name and emailid(would be great)  would love to hear from all of you :)

Oh btw, I am from
Aurobindo Vidya Mandir, Bangalore
Bethany High School, Bangalore
Jyothi Nivas College, Bangalore
Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Would love to do anything to get  in touch with people from these schools.

my papa told me to stay out of trouble
"when you've found your man make sure he's for real"
i've learned that nothing really lasts forever
i sleep with the scars i wear that won't heal
they won't heal

cos every time i seem to fall in love
crash! boom! bang!
i find the heart but then i hit the wall
crash! boom! bang!
that's the call that's the game and the pain stays the same

i'm walking down this empty road to nowhere
i pass by the houses and blocks i once knew
my mama told me not to mess with sorrow
but i always did and lord i still do
i'm still breaking the rules
i kick it up
i kick it down

cos every time i seem to fall in love
crash! boom! bang!
i find the heart but then i hit the wall
crash! boom! bang!
that's my real middle-name
it has always been the same
that's the call that's the game and the pain stays the same

i still feel the heat
slowly fallin' from the sky
and the taste of the kissing
shattered by rain
comin' tumblin' from behind
and the wild holy war
i kick it up
i kick it down

and every time i seem to fall in love
crash! boom! bang!
i find the roses dying on the floor
crash! boom! bang!
that's the call that's the game and the pain stays the same
that's my real middle-name
it has always been the same
oh yea oh yea oh yea uh-huh
been the same been the same
it has always been the same

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Crash! Boom! Bang!........... Always been the same :)

run Divs, run! you are being chased!
who by?
dogs? tigers? ghosts?Aliens?
no.....

NUMBERS!!!

Cant wait to watch this movie. Loving the book too, the first of the Trilogy, His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman.

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/

Happy watching!

Me back at work now and ,phew, am i glad i am alive to write this!

Its been almost a year since my last "outing", that was a nice 3 week break doing what i do best, travel. After way too much nagging, K decides that we need a break, and it has to be a two day thing for we have to get back to work monday. Decide to go to Matheran. Got a "quiet and secluded" place there, which just happened to be the last resort in the line of resorts available.

Anyways, we headed out from work guessing it would take us about three hours to get there, considering it takes us more than an hour just to get out of the city. It was about 4 when we left, went home took a five min break and headed out for Matheran. We had to take the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and divert from a point. Reached the diversion at about 6:20 and it had started to get dark, wanted to make it to the parking lot half way uphill after which no vehicles are allowed to go through, so we had to walk. The parking(point called Dastoori) is about 25 kms from the toll booth off the expressway. Started to get dark and my car( which has never ever broken down during a drive) decides to not let the headlights turn on. We, not knowing how much farther we had to go (the innocent puppies that we are) decide not to turn but head out to Dastoori and park there.

It started getting real dark real soon and there were no lights on the road. Truck wallas Zindabad, we decide to follow the trucks' tail lights and not to leave the road or stop the car at any cost. Continuing at a low pace, we reach a place, Chowk, where we had to turn left, barely missing this man on the road( looks like he dropped from the sky in front of our car). We turn to find out that its uphill from there and we still have about 15 kms left, this is where the troubles began. The trucks had not turned with us and we were entering the forest with no lights on the streets and no headlights. My heart racing, i turn to K, who's been really supportive all the way specially when we decided to spare that guys(the dude who fell from the sky) life by not running him over, asking if we should turn back, he says it would be ok and we should continue. We head straight up the hill with just fog lamps and parking lights on, barely able to see anything, except the moon from between the trees.

Oh yes, we drove all the way, with K going "Slight left", "Slight right", "Riiiight", "Extreme Right", etc. There were no barricades on either sides of the road, cliff on one side and valley on the other each deciding to switch positions with each turn of the car. We then have a small stop when we ram( touch in this case) into a pile of rocks on the left when we had to give way to a car coming at us. Phew! It was all dark, could hardly see, hearts racing, we go around the hill managing to reach a certain level after times that i felt we were going to fly off the cliff. it was SCARY alright!

Got there and thanked god that we were still alive.

From there we had to walk up the hill for about 4Kms in the dark(mind you, completely dark). Found a guy to carry our bag and also lead us uphill. He had these tiny torches at the back of cigarette lighters that he was carrying. Half way we walked along the railway tracks and the other half through a path through the forest. Was fun.

Got there had a good time, went for walks, read a bit, watched Ice Age 2, hung around. and headed back this morning, walked till the parking and drove back home. (After the journey to Matheran, all that happened there and on the way back seems too small to write too much about)

You guys should visit Matheran if you are somewhere near Mumbai, though, i wouldnt want to go back there ever again.
Will upload photos on flickr soon.


Ps: Too long for me to review, pardon my mistakes :)

We have about 4 kittens who would love to find homes and family to take care of them in Mumbai(unless you are ready to drive to Mumbai to pick them up)

They are about 3 weeks old and very healthy. They are right now with a friend of mine, she took them home after they lost their mum to an accident. They have been vaccinated and are visiting a vet regularly.

Please let me know if you would like to give them a home.

For a fan of AC-DC this was BLASPHEMY!

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I have been in Bombay for a little less than two weeks now and been driving here for about ten days.

Firstly, nothing, and i mean nothing, is "close by" here. You need to "travel" a significant distance before you get anywhere, so saying "i'll be there in 5 mins"(unless ofcourse, you are in the same building) is out of question, you would be mostly saying "i'll be there in an hour and a half" and you may get there, in case you dont take ONE wrong turn, by about that much time.
If you are new here and not exactly well versed with the roads, you can count another hour or hour and a half to that. All this i am saying is for travelling a distance of about 12 kms from east to the west side of the Western line here.

Ok, now that we have the distance and time in mind, we should not be forgetting the way people drive here. Its absolutely impossible to drive through a road without a vehicle(even expensive ones) around you pressing the horn like thats going to get their car flying through all the traffic. oh! Lets not forget the rikshaw wallas.... oof!

Anyway, why i'm cribbing (more like clearing clouds around our thoughts)  is because of the wonderful day we,sabiokap and i, had driving around small little "gallis" couple of days back getting to work and back. We have to travel about 12 kms from Powai to Lokhandwala,Andhei(W). Left home at 10,so, it should take us about 40-45 mins through the traffic etc. We decide to avoid the Andheri Flyover and go through Malad and Goregaon and pass InOrbit and take Linking Road straight to work. We reached office close to 1pm :(, one wrong turn and we were going around Goregaon station a few times looking at the Cow (theres a statue of a cow and its calf right infront of the station at Goregaon) over and over again from different directions. Why? That one wrong turn i was talking about.Getting back home wasnt anybetter, we reached Ghatkopar which is full of Jhopad pattis.. and took us 2-2.5 hours to reach home at 9 :(.

The positive side? Kapil jumped off his seat every time we saw his old workplaces or the Cow :P

Two lessons learnt; Dont ever take directions from Kapil and buy a map!

-Damn!

Moved to Bombay(i like this name better than Mumbai) last week, first day at work today, completely clueless.
Moved into a flat too, its totally cool, totally love it (thank you ,Kapil, for finding it, its lovely, its home)
This is my first time away from home ,wonder where im going to go from here..

Miss all you guys in Bangalore :(.

How do you know someone in your life is 'the one"?

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down.

Music played, and people sang
Just for me, the church bells rang.

Now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie.

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down...

Am sitting in a conf room with my team right now and the first thing that comes to Mr jitzpop is "why am i losing continuously at the TT table?" hahaha. He's so weird. Playing around with the pager he's carrying around the last few days, this is all he is sincerely worried about.

So, losing in TT. What would you be worried about while on a conf call?

Me: What should i be having for dinner?
teemus : man! i wish i had "her", damn!
someone else : how's my manager gonna fire me today?
spo0nman : wonder what i should cook for dinner...
premshree: My FM 10 is so amazing....hmmm

i truly cant think... tell me what you would think about while on a conf call.

" why on earth am i reading this blog"?

Some genius said...“Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.”

We have been told this many times in our lives and believe its true too..but,why do we still screw up?

i'm going on a diet from today. Enough!

Havent been here in sometime. :)

Feeling restless, work is driving me crazy, the worst thing is i just got back from a really long vacation.

Been wanting to write about dreams for sometime now, but never got to do it. read  makanakago blog about his dream and thought i should write about mine too.I never remember most of them, but wierdly i remember this.

As a child i have always been scared of things that i cannot relate to and been scared of the dark for most of it. with the dark comes the fear of supernatural creatures( if thats what they are known as) better known to me as "ghosts". Though i know these things are fictional, i still get these jolts of fear.

I had a dream during my midday siesta, was wierd as it was broad day light and this dream did not exactly fit into the scene. but anyways here it goes.

I'm at home, reading , in my room have the fan running, things are pretty quiet. i'm flipping through pages and then suddenly a huge balloon like thing shaped as a girl dressed in green falls off from the fan and lands right on my bed. Has burning red eyes staring at me, and blood oozing out of her mouth. She had a hand missing, just been cut off, i looked up at the ceiling to find her hand up there stuck to the fan. i leave that place screaming, i bring a friend of mine who's at home that time to my room, the wierd balloon thing is gone.

i go down to the living room, kinda shaken and sweating from fear. i sit down and suddenly see there are a lot of such things floating around the living room, i lose it, i run out of home to get someone who knows these things or i thought understood these things.

I bring in a guy who looks around to see whats happening and tells me there are six of them in my house. I ask him why they were there and he says they are here to hurt me, but wont do anything if i keep doing all that they want me to. he leaves.I'm petrified by the idea of going back in there. i go in anyways.. go to my room to pick up some stuff when i suddenly see that girl like thing on the fan, she falls this time with both her hands towards me like she was going to kill me.. her hands touch my neck i scream....

i woke up screaming.

Friendship is the most important thing(relationship)for most of us, ever wondered why?

A comfort zone that you enter with that person, experiences you share, things you confide,thoughts you know, you develop a bonding thats only known to the two of you. Can you define friendship? Can you give your friends their limit in your life? Would you define boundaries for them? I'm not sure i do.

Coming to think of it, the small and the happiest moments have been when a friend of mine is there to take care of me, there by my side when i needed or not. Those days when i wouldnt want to leave my bed and stuck with a book, a friend comes over saying i am the most useless person she knows and brings me dinner. Makes me a cuppa and looks after all that i would need for the next few days assuming i would still not want to do anything for myself, i love it, i can see the concern and love when someone does that for me. Should i tell her she is assuming too much and thats not what i would have done, or should i just give her a hug and say i'm so glad she's here.I would hug her and tell her i loved her too.She cares, and thats not all, shes ready to do something for that.

A lot of things in life go unsaid, specially with these people who you share your life with. Small things like this make that person closer to you, as you know they care. Would all let that happen?

No i know people who do not like the idea that others do things for them, why? Their close friends are not comfortable with doing anything for them with out speaking with them, and by anything i do not mean buying a house for them, but maybe making them dinner, and making sure they take care of themselves. why? Most of the times its hard to say what they want and how they would react at you doing something you thought would make them happy. Ive been through a lot of things with such people when i did something thinking its nice for them and it came back in my face saying i assume too much and they dont like it. i dont know what someone means by assume too much, what is too much? Knowing that they need to be taken care of at that point is what rides over everything else in my head. Knowing that i could do something for them to make them a little comfortable is more important to me than anything else.Am i being too concerned? am i barging into something i shouldnt? I dont know...

I wouldnt say that theres a particular response i want from my close friends for things that i do, but then again i wouldnt say this is fine either. Is the relationship then one sided, is it that she doing things for me without asking is good, but when i do the same its bad? Is is some kinda control thing? what is it? should i get angry when such a thing happens? Should i accept whats handed out and shut up. Its not fair is it..