Happy Teachers day

When everyone wishes their teachers on the eve of teachers day, I tried to remember any teacher who taught me good and bad or any teacher who helped me to become a good person in this society. But sadly I couldn't remember anyone. All my teachers taught me the syllabus of Maths, Science, English, Telugu etc., and their intention was to make students score good marks in the exam. But I was expecting much more from a teacher.

Life taught me what is important for happy life.

My mistakes taught me what I shouldn't do in my life.

Kids smile taught me the beauty of innocence.

Good people taught me what I should do in life.

Bad people taught me what I shouldn't do in my life.

Books & News papers taught me what is happening around the world.

Nature taught me what is the real beauty.

Yes. My perception of teacher was wrong. When you are eager to learn, everything in the WORLD IS A TEACHER for you. I'm glad that I have that quality of learning irrespective of age. I learn from everyone I can come across in life. I learn from everything that happens to me in my life.

Thanks to everyone & everything for teaching me something and helped me to become a better person. HAPPY TEACHERS DAY.

Earning money is easier than saving it

Note: This post was originally written for Tricon Infotech's quarterly newsletter 5th edition .

Having completed 7 years in this Software Industry, doing my job has become much easier for me now. I know how to handle work tensions, how to manage work on weekends, how to juggle between family & social life without compromising with my hectic work schedule. Taking the client calls at unusual timings, not having dinner with family members, going home late, etc., are very normal things for me. I have become used to these things in my life now. Since I'm used to all the toughest things in job, they don’t seem to be tough any more. They have become a part of my life. And finally at the end of the month, I will get my salary because of it.

Everyone knows salaries in software industries are better than lot of other industries. But people don’t know that most of the software guy’s bank accounts will become null by end of the month. This will be due to various reasons like

• City culture
• Lot of options to spend money in cities
• Inflation

For people like us, living in metro cities, spending thousands of rupees on a weekend is the easiest task to do. I must say it is like a walk in the park. And to support our cause we have 8 weekend days per month.

• Go to Wonder La (amusement park) with Family of four. Boooom 4000/- is gone.
• Two pastries and two coffees at CCD. Boooom 1000/- is gone
• Go to a movie in multiplex on weekends. Boooom 1000/- is gone. (Applicable only for 2 people)
• Don't ask what happens when we plan an outing outside Bangalore. Will end up paying 2000/-, only for the car rent.

Even though the salary slips show some lakhs, I don't even have 1 lakh in my account for medical emergency. It doesn't matter how many lakhs I earn, I can never be richer with those empty bank balances. Whether I liked it or not, I started savings for the sake of tax benefits under section 80C. Every tax saving scheme requires 3-5 years of waiting time to give the returns. It will be painful not to enjoy the money immediately. But when I started getting returns, I realized how useful those savings are. With small amounts every month, we can achieve smaller dreams. But to achieve bigger dreams we need big amount. This is where savings will help.

With the inflation going higher and higher, now I see those returns helping me big time and making me feel safe and secure. Medicine is always bitter, but cures illness. The same way savings are tougher, but makes your life easier. Once I realize the benefits of savings, I decided to keep 25% of my salary to savings. The remaining 75% is still with me to enjoy the current moment. This way I’m happy “Right Now” & I’ll be happy in “Future” also. Now I feel "Savings are the real earnings".

Girls call it fashion but I call it killing enthusiasm

Look at the girls in Bangalore. They are trendy. They get updated with the fashion very quickly. Boys are very happy by seeing those short and transparent dresses. The best thing is girls won't feel bad when boys stare at them or at their private parts. They actually want to show their assets to boys. Ten years back we haven't imagined all this will be possible.  

The Indian traditional saree is also modified to match with latest fashion. The intention of saree was used to be to cover body parts. But now they modified to show important parts of the body and it looks very very sexy. Wow - I'm loving that. The skin show has been the mantra for all the latest designs and fashion.

Apart from dress, the culture & living style also got updated. Dating became very common in youngsters. Just imagine the future with similar transformations, it looks so colorful.

Wait Wait Wait. Is all going good with the fashion?


Just spare a thought on the day, "A boy and girl go to their first night bedroom and they are not excited".
The fashion nowadays gone so wild that private parts of girls are not so private. The girls in the cities are exposing mostly every part of their bodies in public. As per the "Supply and Demand" analysis, since boys got to see everything before marriage they won't be very excited about a new girl coming into their lives. If the trend continues the same way, the boy's enthusiasm of inviting a girl in to the life for the first time will surely die. Wife will become just another girl in life.

On a fine Friday morning, the corporate girls waiting for cabs brought me memories of pr0$t!tutes waiting for customers (Most of the software companies doesn't follow dress code on Fridays and allow girls to wear any kind of dress). The over makeup, the tight/small/transparent clothes and their intention of exposing body parts to public made me to think about fashion in a different perspective and inspired me to write this blog.

I'm not completely against fashion trends but I didn't like girls losing dignity because of their dressing style.

Dear Girls,
Follow the fashion but not at the cost of your respect. When you start exposing your body parts for whatever reason, people's perspective about your character will definitely goes negative.