Will your job be safe in 2009?

“It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S Truman

 

If you have asked the same question a year before probably, for many of us the answer would have been more positive but in the present scenario for most of us it’s quite obvious that it’s going to be negative. Its really scary out there where every other day you get hear about job cuts, lay off’s and well know customer facing businesses go bank-corrupt and goes into administration.

It’s too complicated for me to talk about the economic downturn or recession but got a question – What’s the use of having all this economic experts and why is that every country passes it on calling it as a global problem?

I know for sure that before recession, ‘Human Resource Department’ in every company were so busy in hiring people to meet business standards. But wonder how they are dealing with recession? As we all know that every organizations looks at ‘Human Resource Department’ to discuss various strategies of doing cost cutting and among them would be to prepare every one for layoff. Guess answer to my question is “UN-PREDICTABLE”. Hope you all agree wit me…

 

 

Time just flies

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” – Jeremy Irons

Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and before you realize months turn into years. Whoever said that sounds very true as we all know time just flies before we even realize it. Anyway, my first week of this New Year was really hectic and a bit stressful because of work and planning my finance to have some kind of stability in savings.

Nothing much happened this week apart from being busy at work, and in the middle of the week comes really disappointing news from my parents about our pet. This is the first time I’m writing about my snoopy on my blog. He is such an adorable ‘Lhasa Apso’ breed. He is very friendly and doesn’t take time to drag attention and always wants people do adore him..lol. For some reason from past few months he was not on his best and was informed by doc in one of the visit that he is having ‘Hernia’ for which poor snoopy has to get operated and its all because of his inappropriate diet. Hope he will get well soon. I miss him soooo much.

Its New Year..

My first post for this year and let me start by wishing HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. Been so busy lately doing many changes in my life. I don’t want to name those changes as my ‘New Year Resolutions’ because I believe resolutions always narrows down to a single path and according to me keeping options seems sensible thing to do according to present situation. It is quite obvious that getting excited for sometime then after few days or months the same excitement starts to disappear and the best example would be – New Year Resolutions!!! (No offence to those fine people who believes in resolutions).

Thursday 01st January 2009 (Time: 12:00am) started off by wishing friends and family then as I was about to go to bed saw people bursting crackers from my window. Its time for celebration but during this financial crisis, I didn’t like the idea of spending money on crackers only to turn that into ashes. Anyways was all set to kiss my bed because had to rush to the work for overtime in early hrs and finished late. What a way to keep myself busy and occupied on the very first day of the New Year… lol.

After long day at work was still eager to do something more other then just going back home, so went straight to cinema to see ‘Yes Man’ starring Jim Carrey.

Jim Carrey is genuinely likes making people laugh which I believe is an amazing talent. Sure this movie has got lot of energy and ‘Jim Carrey’ is always funny, even if it’s a crappy movie. No I dint say that…or…did I???

I’m getting some good vibes especially when I think about the changes which I have started implementing and will be making you aware as the days pass by…

Happy New Year 2 all . . . . &… Luv u all.

Roller-coaster ‘08′ & Hello ‘09′

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I just did a quick look back at my roller-coaster year 2008. I admit that I don’t have any second thought in calling it as my roller-coaster year 2008 which was filled with a mixture of ups and downs, which involved lot of emotional stress. Good or bad I’ve only myself to blame for it.

I’m having high hopes for 2009 for couple of reasons really, (1) For some reason number ‘09’ being lucky to me and (2) Will be taking one step at a time with more positive effort. Now, that makes me to get excited for the New Year 2009 which will be another chance to start over. If you have been reading my previous posts then you very well know by now as how desperate and how geared up I’m for this change. 

PS – Feel free to leave a comment 2 know your thoughts, I would love to hear them..

Wanting to figure out….

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” – Henry Miller

I’m sure most of you are in Christmas and holiday sprit. Well, I had nice couple of days off for Christmas but most of the time I spent at home cause of freezing cold out there but did manage to go for cinema on Boxing Day to watch bollywood movie ‘Ghajani’ starring my all time bollywood favourite actor ‘Aamir Khan’ and without any second thought I enjoyed it till the end. It was just awesome.

During the rest of the free time was sitting idle at home and some strange thoughts were coming on my mind which made me to think about my life and trying to understand as where it’s headed. Don’t you think it’s always difficult to find the answer? Among those random strange thoughts I was failing to figure out a simple question “Who am’ I?”

I say it simple and also admit in failing to answer cause every time I tried it just throws up more questions. This question made to recall one of those struggling days in Bangalore (India) where I was knocking every company’s door for a decent job and in every interview they used to ask me a questions like:

• Tell us about yourself
• What kind of person are you?
• Where do you see yourself in next 5years?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Blah…blah…blah

During that time I never had a problem in answering those questions and must be honest, every answer that I answered was so positive filled with confidence. So, why am’ I failing to figure out a simple question like “who am’ I?”

Not sure if this makes sense but guess my life has been taken over by something which I’m failing to identify and guess I don’t have any control on it…

Christmas Wishes…

Just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy holidays, it’s a great time of year, so spend it with your loved ones with laughter, happiness and sing along with santa… Ho Ho Ho… Have a good one.

Cheers
Rags

State of mind…

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” – Christina G. Rossetti

I’m so down right now, time is really hard lately with some ups and downs. Personally I hate moaning about every little obstacle that comes up in my life. I have been feeling really sad lately. My self-esteem has dropped to such a low I don’t know if I can ever recover it again. My life at the moment really sucks.

If you have read one of my previous post where I have mentioned about my holiday to Bangalore to visit my parents, was so excited cause its been such a long time but sadly this morning I was told at work that they can’t grant my leave as its only now I have been promoted to different role in the company. Addition to that because of this economic downturn every one at work is really scared and no one including me is willing to take chances. So, I simply agreed to cancel my leave and re-apply in April 09.

God, I’m feeling so sad! But felt a bit relaxed after getting a bit of advice about my trip to Bangalore. According to my friend since the market situation is very bad and it’s been only 2-3 weeks since I got promoted for a new role at work so need to dedicate sometime and save some more money then plan my trip.

I feel like a crap anyways so well, decided to postpone my visit to Bangalore…

Being Happy…

“Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages” – Nichiren Daishonen

It is a fact that every one of us can go to any extreme just to be happy and why not? Is it wrong to be happy? Being happy is what I strive for each and every day and I don’t believe when people say like being happy now means I’m going to pay it back later. I think that happiness and sadness is definitely in store for each and every one of us but some might be lucky to have happiness first. But what truly worries me is that when I hear people saying…

- > Don’t laugh so much you might end up crying

- > Don’t be so happy ‘cause something bad going to happen soon

Why do people say that? Or, why do we always have this negative thinking? Now don’t get me wrong, I know there will always be those kinds of people who want to suck us down. In my case each time I find myself too happy, something from within me, come along and knock me down.

So I tend to get scared knowing that there’s something terrible waiting for me…

Can Dreams…

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence the highest form of living”. – Anais Nin

Since child I have this strong blind-belief that ‘Dreams can provide helpful clues for the future actions’. I’m not entirely sure if that’s true and at times I even feel that it’s not the dream but guess It’s just my imagination which I take along with me when I go to bed. Having all this random thoughts makes me to visualise and look for the options hoping it’s going to help me to overcome with the situation. I need to be honest it worked so many times. I don’t know if I should call it a dream or is it something which I force my brain to work on. I just keep wondering as how an imagination can possibly help me to solve the problems.

Mom says every dream has got a meaning or a purpose and in a way it’s linked to so many aspects of our lives such as spirituality, career, and relationships. I guess in my case I’m failing to establish between dreams and imagination. After giving a bit of thought I was able to draw a conclusion just to satisfy myself but not entirely convinced.

“Dreams are something which can’t be recalled when you are awake and imagination is something which we keep working during the gaps in our sleep”.

Let me know, what you think???

Transporter 3

Last night after work went to cinema “Transporter 3″ staring ‘Jason Statham‘ who is one of my favourite action hero. From my point of view although this film has got so many poor points when it comes to editing and all that shaking cameras during the fight scenes still ‘Jason Statham’ as an action hero has given his best with some incredible action sequences and is worth to watch it once if you are an action flick. The actress in this movie was so annoying and terrible because she just couldn’t act. I almost forgot to mention about the scene in this movie where statham drives car on just two wheels which was so fake. 

Overall it’s just another movie with nothing special or new….