A matter of choice

A story read long back in anandha vikatan or kumudham.

He has a unnatural knack. He could identify things that were different.
When he saw the one lottery ticket that was going to win the prize, he sensed it. He bought a lot of lottery tickets, He always won. He started trying his hand at number locks. He could very easily open any safe vault. He always succeeded in finding the pass code.
He became famous. He was arrested.
He argued that it was his special gift and he had merely used it. Judge was rather amused and offered two choices considering the un-natural gift.
He could take a ten year sentence. Or,
There would be ten thousand guns outta which one is empty. The culprit would choose the gun with which he would be shot.
He chose the latter.
He was pretty tense when he saw the ten thousand guns lined up. He started analysing one by one. His confidence returned. He felt like choosing a lottery ticket. He came to the gun. He could feel it.
They shot him with the gun.
The judge was sad. It was the only one loaded.

Some choices end like this. I wonder if god, like the judge, goes sad when such things happen.

OOB

I will be in training the whole of tomorrow and might not be able to post/comment/reply promptly. for any blogger anxieties, you may contact jagan.

P.S:
1) OOB - out of blogdom.
2) I am attending a business communication session. The history is the second previous post. I am so lame, ain't I ?

brethren of bad breath, I salute you.

It was a beautiful day in hyderabad, with the rain gods granting liberally. I dint have a camera in hand. Near gachi bowli signal. The less used right turn, with open fields on both sides. dark clouds above, not yet opening up. cyber towers signal. Rain lashing, wind pushing it into a arc near the ground. Office. I parked and went to the smoking zone.

I have been waiting here for a matchbox for the last half an hour.
oh !? Is it? no body came?
And no body came to smoke. I caught hold of a few passers-by. They told me that they were non-smokers.
:) light?
No. I finally got it just now.
oh ok.
Actually today the weather is good.
yeah. Its a nice weather to smoke. Would you want another cigarette ? (Offers a open pack)
No. Actually i have quit smoking. But today i wanted to smoke because of this weather.
Probably the cosmos are trying to keep you from smoking again.
(doesn't listen to the previous sentence) No. I have smoked like less than ten cigarettes in the last one year.

Oh. Thats great. I mean if you had been a serious smoker before that, this is very great.
I used to smoke a minimum of two packs per day.
Wow. Then this IS great.
Yeah. I save a cool 100 rupees per day.
and your health.
yeah. That health consciousness is there too.
:)
And i am durga prasad.(offers his hand)
I am ramakrishnan.(shakes hand)

oppurtunity areas

We have mid year appraisals(but no hikes) to review performance and progress. My manager made some sweeping statements
My more-than-one-hundred bug producing feature wasn't mentioned. He noted that it was a good contribution in the project overall and dint touch the specific feature as a subject.
At the same time, i had transitioned a whole project over to a china team. I hadn't written more than a few hundreds of lines of bug fixes for that project. But i transitioned. I knowledge-shared on open-source code. He thought that was ok performance.
I told him i ate snake in china for one month for the projects sake. He told he was a vegetarian. and he was in a village in ireland for 2 years. ok.
I told him several other things. He had noted down some opportunity areas. Business communication because I cant talk US times when i fix appointments. I confuse him cos i tried to explain things. so he goes on and on.

I opposed everything.
He accepted everything.

He removed all the negative feedback to which i had objected.

I had gone with an intention to fight. I wanted blood. There was no fight. He won by coolly saying ok to everything i said.

At the end, he said " you should take things more coolly, This is one other opportunity area.".

vinaayagar sadhurthi story

Its vinaayagar's happy birthday. of-course. But then on one his birthdays he ate so much kozhukattai/modhak/sweet-balls that his already big belly was bigger than usual. So he goes for a ride on his mouse-vaahanam. and suddenly a snake crosses the path. rat is scared and jerks causing vinay to slip and fall down. And hahhaha, his stomach bursts and all kozhukattais fall down and scatter. And tops, he picks them up and stuffs it again into his mouth (don't remind me that his stomach has burst open. Think of it like the mercury body of terminator villian. And he is god.). Funny ? atleast thats what the moon thought. And it giggled its heart out. But vinay is hero, not comedian, so he doesn't like all this giggling business. And he curses moon that nobody will ever see the moon on his b'day else ill-fate will befall them too. Ofcourse, he being a god and a good god at that, he added clauses to escape punishment for non-compliance. So don't bother too much, o.k?

P.S:
we had our own mouthfulls of all kinda stuff at Lak's place even as we were told this story.

Ye Sama Kuch Aur Hai

Gumsum Sa Hai, Gupchup Sa Hai
Madhosh Hai,Khamosh Hai,
Haan Ye Sama, Haan Ye Sama Kuch Aur Hai

rock on lyrics

rock.