Long time since i have written anything here. Life is both good and bad. Happy, Enjoying and at the same time frustrating. I want to get out of the routine stuff and do something new and different. I hope and i wish that the coming new year 2010 will have something new for me.

Better be Running

Every morning in Africa a deer wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest deer or it will starve to death.

It does'nt matter if you are a lion or a deer. When the sun comes up, you had better be running.

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कभी कभी मेरे दिल में ख्याल आता है की,
ज़िन्दगी तेरी जुल्फों की नर्म छाव में गुजर पाती
तो शाह्दात हो भी सकती थी।

ये रंजो गम की स्याही जो दिल पे छायी है ,
तेरी नज़र की शुआऔ में खो भी सकती थी ।
मगर ये हो न सका.......

मगर ये हो न सका और अब ये आलम है की,
तू नही, तेरा गम, तेरी जुस्तजू भी नही
गुजर रही है कुछ इस तरह ज़िन्दगी,
जैसे इसे किसी के सहारे की आरजू भी नही,

न कोई राह , न मंजिल, न रौशनी का सुराग,
भटक रही है अंधेरो में ज़िन्दगी मेरी ,
इन्ही अंधेरो में रह जाऊंगा कही खोकर,

में जानता हु मेरी हम्नाफाज़ मगर यो ही,
कभी कभी मेरे दिल में ख्याल आता है।

Strikes

Today-
1. 400 pilots from Jet airways are on strike. They already earn more than Rs400,000 a month. Dont know what they want.
2. IIT bombay professors were on strike. They too want more money. They need it.
3. Advocates in Rajasthan High court were on strike last week.

Delhi is on strike (forced one) due to heavy rains. 40 mm rains and traffic is out of control. Mrs Dikshit - the CM can still pat her back. She is CM since last 10 years and now running into 3rd term.
A few cabinet ministers and MP's are staying in 5 star hotels at my expense(tax payer's expense).

Mayawati has already spent 2600 cr on statues. Again tax payer's money. Out of 2600 cr - 1000 cr must be actual spent. Rest must have gone in her own pocket. Who knows ??

AP CM died in a copter crash and his son is now the main contender for CM position. God knows when we will come out of dynasty rules.

But leave all this. Lets enjoy cricket. Australia is playing England in One Day internationals. One dayers are still the best. Great fun.
And Vijender has confirmed one medal for India in some boxing championship.

In every good company, if experienced and qualified Ops guys can screw up something, they will use all the experience and qualification to screw it up and will also take a lot of time to do it.
Eg - A cheque will get issued without signatures and only bankers will find it out. By then, one of the authorised signatories will leave the country for a week.
Relatively inexperienced and unqualified kid will fear errors and hence will carefully and quickly do it.
This is today's learning.
Cheers
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Happy Independence Day

Wish everybody a very Happy Independence day

Anurag Dangi

Jai Hind

We have forgotten the Jaipur blasts, forgotten the delhi blasts, forgotten the Mumbai attacks. Remember the sms – those who have come by boats and those who will come by votes…

Elections are over. We have similar politicians ruling us.

We also forgot the attack on akshardham temple in Ahemdabad. The parliamentary attacks and the bihar floods too have gone down the memory lane.
We have a tendency of forgetting /forgiving and hence we have to pay the price year on year.

That Kasab is playing tantrums in the court daily and the whole nation reads it in newspapers. Why don’t we understand that our money is being wasted on kasab.

Mayawati can build statues at her own will and on our cost and we keep watching.
Mamta Banerjee wants to operate out of Kolkata. Who will bear the extra cost ?
Laloo and his illiterate wife after being thrown out in elections is quiet and I am happy. No news from Mulayam/Amar singh these days. Jayalalitha – God knows where she is ? but she has amassed a lot of wealth.

Our Sr. Finance Minister Mr. Manmohan singh is happy that inflation is down, in fact negative since last 9 weeks and he must be patting his back. But, where are the prices falling. No commodity is cheaper. It’s a drama being enacted to fool a common man.

I keep writing such things because I want to play my own small role of highlighting such issues. We all need to do small small things in a similar way.

Date with Swine Flu ..

Some 4/5 days back , I was feeling a little low. There is a lot of hue and cry about swine flu these days. Hence, Mona insisted that we should go and get me checked.
We went out to a nearby private hospital – Columbia Asia. It’s a good one but was not equipped for swine flu. They were prompt in handing over to me a newspaper cutting which was about swine flu helpline in delhi. They also helped me with Gurgaon civil hospital’s contact no. as it was the nearest centre for check up.
I dialed the delhi swine flu helpline but it was busy for the next 15 min and I finally dropped the idea of contacting them. One phone no. for 2 cr population of NCR. Its simple lack of common sense. They need to have 50 lines at the back end. Anyways..
Now, I started dialing the Gurgaon civil hospital’s no.. Again, no body picked up both the numbers for next 15 min. Finally and luckily a typical government servant’s voice answered my call. When I said if it is possible to get swine flu checked in that hospital, the only thing he said was yes and he kept the phone without waiting. I wanted to know what time, where, who, when, how but no luck. I just don’t understand why as a citizen of this country I should digest the poor attitude of government servants. This attitude flows across all the departments whether it is health, water, power or income tax or any other.
I started trying again and was able to speak to somebody after 15 min. This time he gave me a mobile no. of a doctor saying that he will let me know further details. When I tried this doctor’s no. it was switched off. Again poor attitude..
Finally, I went on to the civil hospital, Gurgaon. It was a horrible experience. There I realized that even if I don’t have swine flu, I will catch something or the other. It was stinking and there was nobody to attend. It was dirty and….. oh god !!
I read in newspaper that Haryana government has declared swine flu as epidemic. Now , that’s how you prepare for epidemic.
Finally, I went to my all time favourite and neighbourhood doctor Dr. Jain. Since last couple of years he has been taking care of us whenever we have fever, cough, cold, viral, etc. He keenly discussed with me the symptoms of swine flu, listened to my symptoms, checked my temperature, ears, tongue and convinced me that I don’t have swine flu. No prescription. No medication. Just precautions. The moment I walked out of his residence cum clinic, I was a new person as has always happened with me.

And I was not feeling low now.

Cheers
Anurag Dangi

1. Every dark hour will last only 60 min.

2. Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Thats me and Pammu mama. We had a good amount of togetherness during this marriage.

Cheers

Happiness of getting my younger brother married.

"Its not lost till the time you win it. Never give up."

1. This world is not given to us as a gift but as a responsibility for the future.
2. A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants.
3. When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
4. To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
5. People don't make the same mistake twice, they make it three, four, or five times.
6. The best time to ask for a raise is when everything has gone wrong and your boss is in a panic mode.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong one hour before the start of a three day weekend.

Budgets

The budget was presented in parliament 2/3 days back.
The irony(bad luck of others) is that both the railway minister and finance minister come from bengal. Mukherjee and Banerjee. Somebody needs to tell them (especially Banerjee) to think above bengal. Now, they are railway minister/finance minister of the entire nation and not just bengal.
Very conveniently, Ms Banerjee has given(taken) sops for bengal. Lot(most) of new trains/stations will be coming up in bengal. Railway ministers in our country have traditionally been coming from Bengal/UP/Bihar. Thats the reason these regions are well developed as compared to other states(in terms of railways).
Ms Banerjee even wants to operate from kolkata and not sit in delhi. Thats an insult to entire system of protocols. Looks like, if she becomes PM tomorrow(god forbid) , she will shift PMO to kolkata. HUH...

For Cyclone Aila - 1000 cr have been allotted. Do we have a detailed plan as to how this money will be spend/utilised. God Knows..

Will continue writing...

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1. It takes 20 years of hard work to become an overnight success.
2. If you have too much of work to do, then dont think about how and when you are going to complete it. "Just start doing it"

2009

Welcome to New year 2009.

1. India runs out of fuel.
2. Oil PSU officers on strike
3. Truckers on strike
4. Vegetables and fruits to be costly
5. Satyam - Rs 8000 cr fraud
6. Sensex weak
7. Rupee weak
8. Mumbai terror blasts
9. Tatas forced to move out of singur (a little old one)
10. Rahul Gandhi to be next PM (lets shift to monarchy and save the election expense atleast)
11. Job cuts across the industry
12. Pink slips - a common phenomena
13. DDA allotment scam
14. Golma devi - uneducated woman becomes a minister in Rajasthan government
15. Sixth pay commission - steep pay hike for govt employees
16. Salaries for MLAs , MPs hiked - Why ?? Who did the performance appraisal ??

I wish .......