No this isnt a film review. Dont generally write one as have friends who can give much better reviews and describe the film in much better way than I can.
Also i dont generally copy ideas from peoples blogs, neither do i copy the theme/content of the posts. But as they say in Indian Film Industry, have been inspired from Pratiksha's O3 blogs and hence am writing this post.
And its not the viewing of the film that made me write this post. Its rather its tagline. "Every child is special" does make you wonder whether its really true [mainly bec of introspection :)].
But the tagline of this post of mine would rather be "Every friend is special". I was often asked as to whos my best friend and i kept wondering as each friend had their level of closeness and mutual sharing. How can one compare a friend with other. If thats done the entire meaning of friendship is lost. A friend is to be accepted the way (s)he is and cherished for the way the friendship is.
But yeah, not sirf dard mein, but aise bhi beetein lamhe bahut yaad aatein hai.
Those innumerous train travels and eating of bhajiyas and samosas, those bunking of classes to play cricket, those burgers & cocktails at canteen in school, those bike rides & writing of poetry, those long talks on phone & fighting on petty things, those childish arguments, watching movies together & sipping coffee @ CCD/Barista/TCs/Mint, those filmy dialogues, those night-outs at my home, those sessions where we played cards/sequence/cricket, those cricket matches & ducks at grounds on sundays, those trips to and from surat in buses, those drinking sessions in daman/'k'ampus, and many many more......
Sorry if i forgot something very significant... Just that am posting this at 2 in the night might justify the (unintentional) omission.
Hope you had as much fun reading this post as much as I did remembering all those times.
In the end, theres a feeling of nostalgia. And my heart says "Jaane kaha gaye woh din, ab nahi lagta dil yaaron ke bin"
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Team Work or the lack of it.
We all keep talking about the importance of team work and that the group should be in synergy and work towards a common goal. Its not only important in corporate world but also in sports and other group tasks.
Am quoting a real-life example here which was so very ordinary but could turn out to be a bigger lesson than any of the OB chapters.
The other night our group of 7 - Alok, Gaurav, Girish, Mayank, Mohit, Neha and me, had gone for dinner to a restaurant called SEA QUEEN. But even before reaching there we saw glimpses of conflicting individual choices. After eventually deciding on SEA QUEEN and landing there, everyone had their own choices. Some wanted to have 'kofta' while others wanted to have 'mushroom'. There was yet another group who wanted to drink beer and someone who wanted to have weird starters like German Potato Salad. If it was a marketing CASE STUDY, all these could have worked as criteria for segmenting. But we had gone there as one bunch of friends and couldnt understand why no one even wanted to compromise and eat something that everyone could share.
Due to all the arguments, someone suggested to order whatever one wanted. Someone also suggested to form 2 groups of 4 & 3 and order food of their choices. Eventually, in order to please everyone we ended up ordering so much that couldnt eat some of it.
Just remembered the days when our college (DDIT) group of 14 went out to eat. Inspite of being exactly double in size, it always seemed to be in complete harmony. May be after all the work experience, it was the ego that came into the picture and made people make their presence felt by ordering something weird.
But the group is generally insync because each of us work as a seperate entity. Looking forward to another OB lesson on our next dinner outing ;)
Am quoting a real-life example here which was so very ordinary but could turn out to be a bigger lesson than any of the OB chapters.
The other night our group of 7 - Alok, Gaurav, Girish, Mayank, Mohit, Neha and me, had gone for dinner to a restaurant called SEA QUEEN. But even before reaching there we saw glimpses of conflicting individual choices. After eventually deciding on SEA QUEEN and landing there, everyone had their own choices. Some wanted to have 'kofta' while others wanted to have 'mushroom'. There was yet another group who wanted to drink beer and someone who wanted to have weird starters like German Potato Salad. If it was a marketing CASE STUDY, all these could have worked as criteria for segmenting. But we had gone there as one bunch of friends and couldnt understand why no one even wanted to compromise and eat something that everyone could share.
Due to all the arguments, someone suggested to order whatever one wanted. Someone also suggested to form 2 groups of 4 & 3 and order food of their choices. Eventually, in order to please everyone we ended up ordering so much that couldnt eat some of it.
Just remembered the days when our college (DDIT) group of 14 went out to eat. Inspite of being exactly double in size, it always seemed to be in complete harmony. May be after all the work experience, it was the ego that came into the picture and made people make their presence felt by ordering something weird.
But the group is generally insync because each of us work as a seperate entity. Looking forward to another OB lesson on our next dinner outing ;)
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