My tribute to the GOD of Cricket

I have heard many players and fans quoting so many about Sachin. I thought I should lend my part to it as well. So here goes my tribute to the man himself:

'For a few, God works in heaven! For the rest, he plays cricket for India!'

'In India even atheist believe in GOD!'

'The toughest things on a cricket pitch is umpiring when Sachin bats, as its not easy to accept that GOD makes mistakes!'

:)

Something New Abt Me!

About me! - Telling this in an interview or writing it in a social network is not easy for many! This is my version of it -

"I am not a nerd! but loves to learn anything new and interesting. I am not a narcissist! but always confident in what I do. I am not Steve! but loves to innovate. I am not Tim Brown! but loves design thinking. I am not Google! but would like to be loved. I am not a smiley! but really enjoys my life with a smile. I am not Bill! but loves philanthropy, politics and technology. I am not Freud! but likes understanding you. I am not Pandora! but loves music. I am not Gandhi! but loves peace and simplicity. I am not Warren! but would love to foresee. I am not Yahoo! but loves to 'THINK BIG'. I am not open source! but quite open. Enough of my not's! I am Vignesh Venkataraman! and I like to make some difference to the world by negating some 'not's!"

PS: Sorry for this time pass post! But anyways something to share! :)

A Small Tribute to a Big Man

These men lead their lives by saving men in the process burn themselves. They are ones who give rebirth to so many lives. These men are the most courageous personnels I had known. These men don’t see caste creed to help. These men are best at management and planning in a crisis situation. These men are the ones who are angels in this world, more than the doctors whom today work only for money. But still no one wants to take it a profession, why think about it a profession, we don’t even remember them, we are never proud of them. I was too till a few hours back. Be it the WTC collapse, be it the terror attack in Bombay, they were the ones who without even a second thought about themselves served us all. You should have understood that I am talking about none other than the Fire-fighters.

When my emotions are flowing high, when my thoughts are pondering all over the past, when my eyes are filled with tears, when there are no words flowing, when I am all alone on the other corner of this world. I wish to write this for you.

On the day when I lost one of proud Fire fighters of the yester-years(he would be proud to know that I have addressed him this way :'( ), who till the very end used to proudly boast to anyone he encounters, as ” I am Subramanian, Retried District fire officer”. I have never seen a person at the age 80, do this. Such was his love for the profession he was in. Everyone today who hears this, might say “What is he boasting, as if he was the CEO of Microsoft”, never saw the immense satisfaction he has got out of his work through the years, and commitment he had, which not a even close to anyone I can think of. I have never seen him sit idle till the age of 75. A man who was wise enough even at the age of 90, to say ‘Thank-you’ and ‘Sorry’ to us, a man who was the most systematic, which in today’s world no one could even appreciate, a man who had immense will power, which I always admired, a man with such linguistic competence which I don’t have studying in US of A and to have studied in English as the medium of instruction for so many years, whose ‘thanks-giving speeches’ we can never forget, a man who never ever wanted to disturb anyone for the sake of him, and a man who till the last date lived the way he was . A man of conviction and love, which I have seen in very few. I cannot forget the days when you gave yourself for paati’s (grandma’s) last years, when I understood what love was, not the ones you see in park, beach and movies. I am not able to forget the joy in his face when he sees the entire family at a place, which taught me so many lessons. I miss you a lot Thatha. :’(

You were my best friend when I was 1 yr old, when I wouldn’t have realized anything. The days when you had taken me for a walk, and the scolding you get from my appa and amma, for getting me chocolates which I would have insisted you to buy, which you would never reveal. The days when I used to sleep on you. The days when you brought me from school in a bicycle. The days you asked me my marks and was proud of it. The days when you took me to medical shops and auto drivers near-by and introduce me to them as your grandson. The days I have seen you doing your work and never asked for any help. :’( You were my first roomie and talked about so many things before me going to college. You were the reason for me to get in BITS, when you always prayed for me to get there, even when things were so boggled up, I still remember the words you said “Onaku anga dhan kadaikum, enkitta anga poganumnu sonnala” (“You will surely go there only, coz you told me you wanted to go there”). You proudly sent me to America, Anga vandhu paakara varaikumaavadhu nee irundhurkalmey thatha. :’( Last days la kooda ennala paakamudiyalaye unna :’(

The days I can never forget in my life still fresh in my, living with my thatha, a great human being who lived such a simple life. I love you a lot thatha and miss you a lot too. I learnt a lot from you thatha, and cannot accept that you are not there, whenever I think about it, I hear an inner voice which says I am here only, I will be here with you, don’t cry. For all you have done for me, I will surely make you proud thatha!

:’(

To G.Subramanian, Retried District Fire Officer

With Loads of tears,

Vignesh

Its time we realise it!

Between the last blog I had written and now, there has been a series of things that had my thoughts in sway every day after another.  Probably something that had been disturbing me for quite sometime now. Man has risen from the days where things were merely accepted as either truth or divine, and questioning it doesn’t make real sense, to this date where we have tried to answer every single question through science and technology; from the days of mere superstitions, to this day’s true knowledge; from the days where there existed much of barriers because of cultures, and thoughts which were never understood by the other parts of the world, to this day where information about them are just a few clicks away; from the days where people outside their borders were just thought to be aliens, to this day where friendships need have no boundaries;  from the days where external communication was never thought to be possibly easy, to this day where communication couldn’t have got  any better; from the days where what I wished to write could only reach a few, to this day when most of this world will be able to read and understand what I write. Sometimes I get carried away in this thought, to feel ‘Am I living in the golden era of civilizations?’. I know some of you guys might be laughing at me, like myself.

With so much of advancements in thought and action, there are somethings which I haven’t got a real answer. Don’t worry, I am not saintly enough yet to ask the questions like ‘Who am I?’ yet.  Did knowledge give us real wisdom to segregate truth and falsity?, right and wrong?, wise and unwise? Are we knowledgeable enough to understand the sublime meanings of things? Have our thoughts grown enough to love everyone around? Hmm.. I do not really know the answer, though I have tried to tell you the hidden truth in it. Lol. But if the answer was yes, I shouldn’t have seen so much of fights, terrorism and blood shed in the name of religion, which I thought true essence was to spread love.

I hear every day in the news about some hundreds and thousands being killed from everywhere.  The sickest part of it being, they have been killed by our very own men.  Even animals would think twice to do that, if so what is the sixth sense of ours for.  If all of us here are one species of creature, called human beings, why should we support something that is leading us to extinction.  Be it our religion, be it our ego, be it our selfishness, why do you need it?

In this, if you feel that ego and selfishness are innate, I agree to a certain extent, I don’t want to digress talking about it now, but what do you have to say about religion? Something that brought people together, who follow similar ideals and thoughts, so many centuries back. I feel that anything that is not going to lead to growth of humanity; I don’t find any reason following it. I don’t find any more relevance of it in modern day scenario. If we are smart and knowledgeable why don’t we have wisdom and knowledge to agree to the ideals and thoughts what we believe in every religion and follow them, like what Gandhiji did! In your modern day, our education should have taught us this, but none had the courage to.

Are we finding reasons here to fight rather than to love, if we start loving why would we ever fight and if so why would any knowledgeable creature in this god-damn-world not do that. If you take religion just as a sense of your identity in this world, to me, I would love to portray myself as an ‘Indian’, at a higher level an ‘Asian’, a ‘Global citizen’ and more so as just ‘Homo Sapiens’ rather than a Hindu or a Muslim.  I don’t mean to say that I have no belief in God.  I truly believe in God (Super power), who is above all of us, but in one of his forms within us. He is in the form ‘love’. It is for you to realize it. Worship any diety, go to any chruch/temple/mosque, pray in any language, but show ‘LOVE, the god inside you’.  

I wish to end this with ‘Merry Christmas’ wish;

    عيد ميلاد سعيد وكالة   [Arabic]

If you transulate 'Happy Birthday Esa', into Arabic you will se the above script while transulated back shows up as 'Merry Christmas'. I had an Interesting observation here, Esa means Jesus, and Esa also means Esan, Lord Shiva (Hindu God). If a muslim language can connect Hindu and Christianity, to say we are all just one and the same. What more can I say! Start Thinking and start talking about it to people around you.

India and Indians, I love you. Pakistan and Pakistanis, I love you too! After all you are my brother! :)

- John Vignesh Mohammed! (Would have loved to have such a name)

I was born Intelligent, but Education ruined me!

Blogging!! Knew that I would be into it one day, but never knew it would be so fast. The major reasons for my restrains from blogging being, I love talking more that penning things, and I have always felt that words from the mouth have more effect that words from the books/posts. Its very difficult to embed emotions with those words in paper, at-least I am not the best one at it. Ppl who knew me closer would now know the reason of my phone calls over chat, now that I am a few continents away, I can't really afford it. :) So I am jus learning to write here, with pinch of thoughts and emotions in equal propotions! I know you would have been thinking, whats this guy blabbering? Who in the hell cares about you? lol.. He has nothing relevent to the title inside, sheesh. Newys lets see what has written inside! Lol. Agreed! I am not gonna bore you anymore, let me start!

About the topic: 'I was born Intelligent, but Education ruined me', the quote that most of you might have heard, with a sense of sarcasm. But I felt it made true sense. Weird??? This guy is trying to show-off in his first blog, loser! :P Hmm. Not really!

I agree, education has shaped the way we are today, and the world is there today. Without a proper education system being implemented, we would never have reached this height. It has given us a sense of being rational. It has taught us to live and lead life! Wth! I thought he would be saying something against it! Lol. Ya I will. Do you really think, it has? Do you really think education has given what it has to, I agree probably knowledge, but the quality and quantity of it which spanned for more than 17yrs now. I dont really think so. If it had, it should have made us wiser, better, confident individuals focusing on what we wish to achieve and move forward with.
Is every educated individual able to cope up?! Is every educated individual successful. Is every educated individual confident! If you think it has, then think again! Dude, I never gave a thought, dont trouble me. Move one with whatever hell u wished to tell! Okies! :)

I feel it really hasn't, "12th standard guys suicided before board results!" Confidence taught them this, "A guy kills his gal friend" The guy just became wiser!, "A group of students from a law college, almost to kill a guy with all policemen around" who were waiting for the principals permission; What is it thats happening, what is it that they are going to do. What is the differnce that education has brought in them, from the one who is not. Hmmm! Is education just here to teach you the formulas, and equations, trying to find the meaning of logic gates, when not many even know essence of their living. Are we missing something?! I feel yes we are. Jus have ur thoughts ponder over it. Hm. Maybe sometime. I hope, you will agree. Is it that teachers in school always concentrated on us to by heart, 1330 Thirukurals(Thriuvalluvar), not the meaning that he wished to convey, parents always wanted us to chant slokas/vedas without actually knowing what it teaches you in life, history always gave the story of how ppl lived and where they lived, rather than letting ppl analyse what went right and wrong in civilizations. what is the moral that we learn from them. I feel a few chambers of cells in the head being wasted.

Other than this socialistic thought, even as an educationist, I feel education never was sastisfying too. Mankind evolved to this situation because of knowledege transition and creativity. Today at the time when information is overloaded. I feel that actual knowledege transition and creativity will be lost! What! Again Blabbering started aa! Lol. No. We have turned into a species where we accept things rather than questioning them. Have we ever questioned things that are essential to us, why should fan be designed like this; Almost never, we take things for granted and try to study over, ultimately not understanding it completely. Thats what education has been doing. We neither use our creativity coz everything you need is just few clicks away. So why should you think be creative and waste time. Hmm. Correct! Think about this as well. I hope I make some sense, if I was able to connect my emotions with what I wrote.

I am not here to say that education is bad, wish to say it would have been great if it was better. What Kamal fan a! Lol. Build better education, build better society! Jai Hind!

Hurray! Finally I too started blogging! :)