Simple words but have great power to change the world in and outside you.

Abraham Lincoln

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition". 

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Albert Einstein

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

Bill Gates

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"Life is not fair; get used to it."

"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."

Bruce Lee

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."

Buddha

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Dalai Lama

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

Mahatma Gandhi

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

Mother Teresa

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."

William Shakespeare

"An overflow of good converts to bad."

"Listen to many, speak to a few."

Chanakya

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are "screwed first."

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education "beats the beauty and the youth."

"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

"Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune."

"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

Swami Vivekananda

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

Charlie Chaplin

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

04 Years on & Still Counting.

My four years complete at Indiamart.com

On 23rd July, I completed 04 years of service at my current work place Indiamart.com at Noida. Starting from 23rd July 2007, one year after another passed on, leaving behind lots of memories. Few of them are in heart and will remain there forever and few are in my mind that keeps me inspiring and give strength to move on. The completion of 04 years at one work place has moved me to sit down for a while and pen-down the time line, looking behind for the journey so far.

23.07.2007 to 31.01.2009 (Total 01 Year 06 Months) at Surfindia.com:-  My journey at Indiamart started as a content writer developing content for one of the lead products of Indiamart, i.e. Surfindia.com. Surfindia was my first rendezvous with the professional use of Internet and its limitless powers. With time alongwith content development I also got to learn the basics about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here I wrote several articles for the automobile, festivals, shopping, culture, cuisine sections. Writing on the myriad topics was what I enjoyed and loved to do. The guided supervision from my manager/seniors was always there that was inspiring and motivational too. An achiever's award, new skills, learning and no-doubt earning were the key features of my working at Surfindia.com.

31.01.2009 to till date (Total 02 Years 07 Months):- After a period of one and a half year I was transferred from Surfindia to a budding and soon-to-be a flagship project of Indiamart.com i.e. Hellotravel.com. My transfer to Hellotravel was a result of reshuffling at Surfindia and came to me as a shocker in the first instance as now I was not supposed to be working as content writer. Now I was a part of Quality Check (QC) team responsible for assuring the quality of the travel enquiries coming from umpteen no. of travel portals to Hellotravel. After handling content development and QC profile I was given an added responsibility of handling the helpdesk of Hellotravel.com which was again a new learning in itself.

Different departments and totally different work profiles have been the USPs of my 04 years old life at Indiamart.com. The vibrancy of profiles has filled-in big positives in my personality traits and helped me becoming a well-organised professional. Here is what I love about Indiamart:

• Independence of thought process.
• Employee friendly environment.
• Very supportive-kind and expert supervision from the seniors.
• Responsibilities handling.

On this very special occasion of having completed 04 years at Indiamart.com I convey my gratefulness to all my teammates for being so nice and friendly & I express my heartfelt respect and thankfulness to my seniors for their expert supervision and guidance which has been like a guiding torch  for me throughout.

Thank God ! It's Natural Death !

Killings of innocent civilians, armed personnel in recent terrorist and militant attacks in India have posed one question to me, which end is better? Being killed in a bomb blast with blood-bathed body parts scattered here and there OR dying silently in a sleep or at home or workplace. I would prefer the latter one as being killed by a "bloody" terrorist/militant won't be the right time, place or situation for me to "bid-adieu" to the world, so it would be for those thousands killed in recent terror attacks.


Now have a look at following figures of few of umpteen terrorist attacks and their death tolls:- 


- MUMBAI

• 13 July 2011 - series of three coordinated bomb explosions at different locations in Mumbai, killing 19.
• 26 to 29 November 2008 - Coordinated series of attacks, killing at least 172.
• 11 July 2006 - Series of seven bombs go off in trains, killing 209.
• 25 August 2003 - Two Bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 50.
• 12 March 1993 - Series of 13 bombs go off, killing 257.

-  Insurgency in JAMMU & KASHMIR has killed tens of thousands till date.

- Three explosions went off in New Delhi, the capital city of India, on 29 October 2005, which killed more than 60 people.

People who lost their lives in these attacks were shopkeepers, office goers, students and also children, doing nothing or just playing around. Suddenly a bomb blast ends everything, leaving behind tears, cries, blood pools, wounds and a fear that may be for life long, if survived. The sudden, painful and drastic end of life, which resulted by the heinous-coward terrorists, is not-at-all rightly timed and placed for innocent people.

So it's better to die silently-naturally instead of being ended "un-naturally" by the hands of terrorists who are trained to kill others and trailed in courts, if caught, for years.