Rangoli & Cubicle Decoration Competition in Office :-)

After a long long time this was a participation attempt at some competition - This time it was Rangoli...
With a sub-cousious ney arising out of laziness grown out of getting into organizing events every time at work place. On one side being crazy about event organizing & also having organized close to dozen+ full fleged 1-2 days cultural events consisting of popular competitions (viz. Dance, Singing, Plays etc..) had put up an impression on my mind that participation isnt that interesting.. How ever I was wrong :-D....

"1 missed call !" - Oops who called?
Ohh Manish Babel - my team mate, I recalled he and Ashwini had gone to get Rangoli for the competition and seems like they are back... I went to the location with an idea of helping a bit and coming back as early as I can...

How ever with four of us from the same team (me, Manish, Ashwini & Keerti) it went on...

till it was

With Legs still aching next day but very content at heart with this small accomplishment admist considerable teasing (for our software lingo usage and disbelief in our creativity perhaps due to our Geeky or Nerdy image :-P), constant advising (on how the rangoli could get better) and appreciation (that it looks good!! :-) :-))

This design was brain-child of Sachin who gave us not only this idea but a detailed design on the National Integration Theme.

Parrellely there was Cubile Decoration going on as well,

As we moved taking pics of the mesmerising themes & decoration...
They are as follows :

As we moved on feasting on the awesome decoration, witnessing traditionally dressed friends representing different cultural traditions made us silently proud to be home to such beautiful values and wonder at who creates issues :-D

Happy Deepawali & a Prosperous New Year!!

Actual Lessons to Understand!

From the time we are born through

The time, on our own that we start to stand

And till the eternity as it seems we have to understand

A feeble memory exists in the memory

When first was I asked, "Did you under stand?"

Sports I played hard and hurt many a times

Always it begun with a failure which I could hardly stand

Spell bound with game intricacies

That I tried hard to understand

Sportsmanship, Fair play & the patient endurance

Were the actual lessons I had to understand!

Books I read to score good and to top

Read & practiced till I knew it by heart

Thinking sometimes about the wisdom of history

Can it be sometimes be really of any use to me

And the geographical boundaries could I really travel

But then it struck that Education actually

Gives knowledge more than you need 

And

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

Being small I always wanted to grow up

But growing up destroyed many many small childhood joys

Being an audience I always wanted to anchor

Anchoring though gave me highs and pleasure

But calmness of being Audience was lost forever

With pleasure of something that was conquered

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

While Learning to drive I loved to gaze at pace

When the fear was conquered,

It was thrilling in its own ways

But all in all it was not that worth the risk

Neither the race nor the reckless breeze

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

In the frames of general usual passing life

In a spontaneous growing old we learn that we should grow wise

Joys & sorrows which shows friends & seasonal friends like wise

Learning to shrug the failure & the criticism was nice

And Nicer was separating stupid comments alike

An unending learning, continuously unfolding an interesting mystery

Thereby making a small regular each one of us’s Life

Challengingly beautiful in its own way & style

Rather than just a repeat of anyone else’s History & Lifestyle

And

And

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand!
-Kiran Hegde