National Anthem in English

Well interesting!!! I have not done much but lifted from India Year Book the below English rendering of National Anthem!!!

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
Dispenser of India’s destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is
chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
Thou dispenser of India’s destiny.
Victory, victory, victory to thee.

Wondering, does this carry the crux? I mean is this enough when singing for a Nation like India? Contemplating!!!


Meera

Feeling blessed

The experiences life is offering me makes me feel blessed. It is easy for me to express emotions and I have heard my people telling me I am good at expressing myself and well I agree with them. This feeling of Blessed is something which I have not been to express as vividly as I experience. I feel touched by divine, life taking an ascend of learning.

Still wondering how to put it when I say I am feeling blessed. Ocean of things happening around me for me:-)

Would it not be wise of me to write all that is shaping my life? I will for sure blog them.

Maybe before starting with them all... I would want to list down all that I need to be covering, that way it makes it easy for me to blog about things I badly want to and also makes it easier for my folks to track my blog in case someone does:-)

• My dad's influence in my life
• There is no falling only raising in Learning
• VoY - What I am today!!
• Challenges - I see myself growing!!!
• Best experiences of Life

To cover all this would definitely take me close to one month provided I blog regularly!!!
I will pen them and right now I am feeling so contended with life and excited about living!!!! :-)

Cheers,
Mira

My Name means...

Guess I m very normal like any other person... gets very excited to know about oneself...
A lot of us would have got the forward floating around having the meaning of our Names and the meaning for my name has always been ... worshiper of Lord Krishna....
Man I don't need an forward mail to tell me the meaning of my name...

My grannie is an adherent devotee of Lord Krishna and for that matter my dad's name is Krishnamurthy and he was born after Janmashtami (Lord Krishna's Bday)... See how things fall in place... I am the first girl baby in my family ( for my grannie in particular the first grand daughter).... So they named the daughter of Krishna (tat is how my dad is addressed at home) as Meera.

No worries I just love my name... NO second thoughts please.... The other day we (Puneet, Bhavin n Me... we 3 make a team in office) were just looking at the meaning of our Names... and I insisted that they don't search for the meaning of my name for I know what it means... But surprisingly Google god returned the search result and to my excitement the meaning that came up was....

Meera means Prosperous.... Wow... Isn't that really exciting to know the actual meaning of the Word Meera....

Very true .. I get real excited about small things in life...

So here is a PJ.... Next year I would wish my friends a very happy and Meera New Year... hehehe... I know I know that's indeed a PJ :-P ... but still I m sure to wish folks a Meera living... he he he..

I guess this one is a little vibrant post from me... ha ha ha... MY first PJ attempt in blogs:-)

Cheers,
Mira

My days in Office

I started the post below part of my Memorable Birthday and figured out this narration needs to be separate and I can't mix this with Bday 09 post... So did a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V...

Pulled from the Blog Bday 09:
During my school times I was so specific about having lots of friends around... This is pretty normal with everyone... While in College I was happy with a close group of 5 and the 6 of us made sure we have enough fun :-)....

After joining Infy, I don't as such remember having a bunch of friends around me... Definitely not during my training days.. I guess this is little ironical... Bcoz people who join infy would generally have a group to hang around while in training over any other time...While I was in Mysore, Bangalore I took my own sweet time to get acquaintances...

I have had some bitter experiences while in training and I stopped trusting my people in work place... I rather became too conscious and choosy to call someone as my friend...

But slowly with time I got a few good friends and a lot of acquaintances.. I started to have the regular going out for a coffee break with a group, having lunch with a big circle of people.... Bunking office and chatting in groups .... Say after close to an year; as a shocker I was suppose to get myself a transfer to Chennai and one of the first few things that made me uncomfortable was the fact that I had to move from a comfortable zone of friends to an unknown place...

I mean the whole process of getting good set of friends all the time with u is never an instant thing for me and to move out of my shell made me little too weary!!! But then, if I had resisted the move, I guess I wouldn't be blogging here about my friends in Chennai right:-)....

How true is the phrase 'All happens for Good'....OK! let me continue with my narration...

When I came to chennai I felt all alone and it was so depressing to chat with ur folks (ones in mys blr) over the messenger... I had this strange feeling of everyone around me being indifferent in nature (gosh! wat all I imagined)... First three months I was wandering like an alien with no one around... TRUST ME... absolutely no soul.. not even a bench mate, batch mate, bus mate, Lunch mate.... absolutely NONE....

Man seems like this is going to be a big narration... Sorry folks... I am not able to cut it short and jump to my bday this year... apologies...

Continuing from here:

Slowly I got to know very special people like Deepak, Jo,Shyamala, Vasanth, Arthi,Puneet, Mahima, Bhavin, Kats,Yoga.

It is so much of fun to be around this group.... Everytime we end up laughing loud and our dear project folks giving us stares:-)... Who really cares u see... its fun to get attention like this ;-)....

I never worked my way to know these people... Time made it so for me... We have one thing in common 'To enjoy the moment and spread cheer'... You can never find the above mentioned pals of mine fretting over things ... at least not always.... This group of friends are so tailor made for a person like me...

I never ever dream t to have these folks in my life... After a big disappointment of having No good friends in my training I decided that I would never get good friends in my office and my profession would have no good mix of friends ....Thankfully that is not the case... I have got more than I asked for.... We always find time for our self and get along like school buddies...

We laugh at everything we find... enjoy everyone's company.... Move as groups wherever it be...

Few memorable moments with these guys are:

1. Was there in the ground to cheer while I was playing for Infy Cup 2008 - Throw ball
   
2. For my birthday party
3. Time spent in Cafe Coffee Day and Blur
4. Went out for Movies
5. Sea Diving at Temple Bay ECR
6. Countless Treats at Asiana, Fortune, Bassera, Delhi Dabba
7. Weekly once having lunch outside the campus
8. Wow.... Went to Beach.... probably this was the first one...
9. Taking pics as a group (Uploaded in orkut) by the DSLR group
10. Regular Coffee breaks.... where we rip laughing endlessly:-)

The list should indeed be called as 'ENDLESS' only then it makes sense to me.....
Oh boy oh boy.... Wat a lovely set of people I m gifted with .... Loved every moment spend with these guys and I know we would continue to spread cheer as a group:-)

Probably this could be titled as 'an ode to my best buddies' in office

I m so happy about penning this here...

Take care... Cheers,
Mira

Bday 09 - Best till date :-)

I have been thinking about coming up with this blog for quite some time...

I guess everyone of us would have something to talk about when asked; 'Which has been your best birthday'... and I m no exception to it.... Without a second thought I would tell you right away that this year's birthday was the best and for so many reasons...

My birthday's have always been very special to me... I ensure that I have a memorable day.... As such there hasn't been A b day where I have left like I m missing the fun and celebration.. however this year's B day seems too special over so many others:-)

My dad surprised me with a BIG cake to cut... My little sis was busy the whole night wrapping gifts to be given.... My dear friends (college ones) had given the gifts thru one our friend in Infy... But then I was instructed to open them only by 12 o clock...

I get a little hyper when its my b day... I ensure folks remember my b day and say they forget.. Never mind...I call them n declare that its my b day:-)...

My patti had prepared sweets for me, I m not crazy about sweet but that's the way my Grannie expresses her love.. by preparing sweets on occasions like birthdays...

Every year every one in my family gifts me something but my mom doesn't really do tat.... But wat was special this year was... She had as well got a gift... N u know wat; .... It was a beautiful Silk Saree ... I was delightedly surprised....

31st is my B day and on 30 I got my OTS (On The Spot) and on 29th I gave my SCJP and secured 94%... Happiness was getting added as each day drew close to my birthday.

Since it was a Saturday it promised me to meet my friends and treat them... More importantly two of my best pals (Shyamala n Vasanth) were to go On site any time and I was actually praying that these guys were there in India for my Bday!!! And as it is destined to be my most memorable b'day, these guys were as well there for the treat....

My parents were leaving for a marriage that day and they got themselves dropped to the Station a little earlier so that I could take the car and meet my folks on time... That was such an humble gesture from my parents hinting how much they are part of my happiness....:-)

Had loads of fun in the treat and truly enjoyed every moment of it!! I was gifted with a lot things;-) and loved every one of it!!

I thought of narrating more on the treat but due to time crunch I am ending this post! Whether expressed less or more this birthday was indeed the most memorable one:-)


Cheers,
Mira!

My mother Tongue

Before I could begin writing this blog.. I would like to apologize to the fact that I never learned my mother tongue... I mean though I had tamil as a subject, it was only till 8th std.... And whatever I learned was very minimal and I never really gave attention to learn it...

So what's result of the same... I have never read a single story till date in Tamil.. Yes I m being honest; not even ONE... I don't even flip through Tamil magazines nor do I read the headlines on the newspapers....

I m not narrating here feeling guilty about this fact... but What is it I have found is a little shocking for myself...
The facts that I have understood or figured out recently are...

• English is just a language and not way of life.
  
• Every literature has its own greatness and my mother tongue is no exception to it.
• People with great ideas matter or not the language in which they express.
  
• When u can appreciate the beauty of English then have the same instinct for your language as well

Will continue on this a little later... Kadamaai azhai kiradhu (Work beckons me)...

Edited:

Started this post with the intention of expressing how ignorant I have been about enjoying the beauty of tamil. I don't know to read (swiftly without hiccups) and write tamil and guess what; I m actually feeling happy for being honest about this... probably that's the least I could do...

Anyways I have promised myself to start picking with reading tamil novels (short ones) whenever I get a chance to... But I am not expecting myself to read all those famous ones ... all the Kurals, Noolkal (Novels)... I mean I am no good in understanding the literary part of it....

This just brings this little thought to my mind that; IGNORANT is not bliss all the times:-)

BTW if someone is reading this post, can you please help me in bringing up emoticons on my blog...

Stay glued for I would be back with more:-)

Cheers,
Mira!

My Latest Addiction

Yes this has been my addiction off late.... Oho ok... I m yet to tell u wat it is right?? :).... here I go... in one word 'PHOTOGRAPHY'

The first thing that I do when I log on to my system ... is to go straight to the SLRBB... (that 's the name of the public bulletin) to check all the pics posted there...

Every post... or every pic keeps me spellbound... What an eye these people in photography have... man its breathtaking....

These people get up early in the morning and go on hunting to capture Birds, Nature, Flowers.... the list is endless.... I mean they have this gift to see the world thru their eyes and indeed see all that are unique ... :-)

How much ever I might blog praising the beauty of each pic I should admit right away that I m not kindled to try my hands on Photography.... For I understand that I M no fit for the same :-)....*me the honest kid*

These people have their own lingo's like ... EXIF, Aperture, LENS, Panning,bokeh ... I mean I don't even remember them... :-(... They do maintain a wiki page to explain all about Photography but then royal princess never finds time to check it out ... :-)

There was a display of the pics of these photographers at our campus.... Goodness me... It was like getting into a whole new world.... Every pic had something to express thru its silence.... So many candid moments... So many beautiful snaps... I am running out of adjective to say how i felt...

To say the least SLRBB keeps me stunned every time... Everyday I honestly look forward to some beautiful shots... And trust me i have never been disappointed till date...

Now what has this latest addiction done to me? It has urged me to learn few things like Photo shop, PAINT .NET, GIMP.... I really really wish I get to learn these at my own leisure....

BTW I would be a little busy in this space say for another 3 days... So will catch u up with more posts....

Till then.... Take care,
Mira

Election around the corner

Its election time... And personally these are the only times you get to know more about the Politicians and How Indian Democracy runs:-)....

Right from Childhood I have this strong desire that I shall be part of the Indian Ruling System. My parents have always taught me that if you have ideas to change the world then u must be in the power to do the same....

Somewhere deep within I sense that I will be in this job of serving my nation being in its highest power.... But the most ironical thing is, I have found Politics or Politicians too boring to keep myself updated....

Its only this time because of the general election i have promised myself to stay updated and I m making a conscious effort towards the same...

This time around it is so nice to see so many initiatives like jaagore, ROCK band(SHUT UP N VOTE) which emphasizes the need for the young people of India to realize the value of their votes and make it count!!!

One such initiative is the AD that comes in TIMES NOW... where the parents swear on their kids that this time around they won't give lame excuse to NOT TO VOTE. I just love that ad, it gives a sense of responsibility when comes to electing your Person.

Also the one from Aamir Khan... it gives me goose bumps where he says for a secured future for our kids we need to vote....

Personally I feel that; this time around there is so much of focus on youth getting to be part of politics and I see this as a positive sign for India's Politics...

I sincerely wish that the Youth Power of India can make a difference to the Indian Administrative system....

I m too happy to have shared my thought here....

Take Care,
Mira

Me in Twitter

I was so much fascinated to know about Twitter and here I m successful creating an account for myself... Hippy:) that calls for a party from my side ;-).....

So happy to have found few of my friends there :-)... Find for MeeraMurthy:-) to know what i m up to ... *devious smile* :-)

Ciya,
Mira

Feeling Sorry

I am seldom available on this space and I take a regular long break for months to post a blog.... I really feel sorry for myself.... How I wish I could be active around here.....

There is an internal blog available in my office and I strictly stay away from blogging there... For I m sure it would be a big addiction for me... But i can't give the same reason out here... I I really wish to stay active here even if it calls for being addictive;-)....

It brings so much joy to read your own post after a long time... U don't believe that you could express so much about yourself.....

This week is just going fine... Nothing much to narrate about .... Whoever is reading this blog... Wish me luck to stay active :-)

Take Care,
Mira