You Matter To Me - A farewell sort of post !

On the eve of your last working day in Chennai, I thought I should give you something back before you leave the most loved and the most happening city, Chennai.

For many, Chennai reminds of its humidity, pollution, and awful food. But for us, it’s more of an emotion. When everyone around us took the city for granted in hurling abuses over its culture and habitat, we proved them wrong on all fronts.

Being an outsiders, we clearly felt Chennai more like a second home.

I still remember the early days of 2009 when I first shifted my base to Chennai. It was all new for me. In addition to that, situations at that time aren’t really encouraging for me to feel settled and comfortable.

Language has always been a barrier throughout the first year. When I looked around for someone who is good at the language, I found out, it’s you.

If I can re-collect the most common usage at that time would actually be,

Hello, Enga irukeenga? Na Avadi la iruken, aparama call pandren.

The way you adapted to the city’s language moved me and inspired me to learn the language in quick time.

Once after mastering the local language, it was clear enough that I should actually be doing something to survive in the city and get things done whenever needed.

In the process, when I started off with a basic ground work on self-improvisation, I realized one should always be good with numbers and good with people.

While implementing the same, I look up to you every time when it comes to dealing with people. I’ve learned a few that’s helping me doing well today.

You are the one who showed me how weekends are like in the metropolitans. You took me close to the neighbourhood of an average IT professional in the city. You took me to the finest of restaurants in the city.

To be precise, you played a significant part of my survival in the city since 2009.

Now, when you are all set to leave the city for one final time, I look back into the past and reminisce some of the memories that we had since 2013.

I still remember the day when I was offered a job in August 2013. We celebrated that night at Mc Donalds, Navalur. I felt wonderful.

You were there for me all the time whenever needed. Your presence made feel that I am not alone!

The weekend movies that we had watched in AGS, Luxe, Casino will forever be in thoughts.

And today, while you leave the city for good, all I can say is, Thank You!

Thank You for everything that you’ve done to me. Thank you for being there every time when I needed someone. Thank you for cheering me up when I was down.

Literally,

“Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between us remains ever strong.” 

Stay blessed, brother! 

PS: Here’s wishing you all the very best for the exciting life ahead. 

Airtel 4G - Fastest Network Ever

Hola! 4G is now ON! Who else are the beneficiaries? Undoubtedly Airtel customers.

Yes, if you are in India and are looking for a network that will help you in keeping connected all the time, then you will have to switch to Airtel. The number one Mobile Network in Country. 

I was quite a bit sceptical about the internet services in India after the recent change of trend. But what Airtel is doing today is something that is highly appreciable. Providing uninterrupted internet along with super awesome bandwidth speed at a very minimal price. Who else can wait without switching to 

Airtel?

With Airtel 4G, it very much looks like things can now get done faster and simpler when compared to the recent times. Surfing, YouTube videos will now take no longer time to load. With a click on the button, you can witness the videos playing by default. Undoubtedly a landmark in the history of Telecom.

When I was a kid, I used wait for days to watch a movie that has left the theatre. When it comes to downloading movies from the internet, it normally takes more than a day with the kind of speed limits and the pricing packages that we all had long time ago.

But now, things has changed for its own good. Even large size movies are getting downloaded in a matter of minutes. Thanks to Airtel 4G once.

When you go with the terms of the internet history in India. I was there during the single G, 2G, 3G and now glad to experience 4G services.

This is a stupendous growth for the industry for over a decade.

Also, a good thing to notice is that Airtel has been really quick at spreading out the services in India.

296 plus cities on a single go is never that easy. A lot must have gone through this transition phase of internet in India. Only to make things go much better than ever before.

And more importantly, offering 4G services at 3G price is like icing on the cake. Never in my wildest dreams had I thought of something like this. Truly amazed by this incredible act.

Also, making the sim cards more available to its customers, Airtel came up with a tweeting concept that can possibly get you the sim card to your doorstep.

How cool is that? Exciting isn’t it?

Who else will do that for you? Always Airtel!

#GetAirtel4G with a hashtag on Twitter can get you the 4G sim home.

Exciting.

And that too, free home delivery. Can’t hold the real excitement. I just did the tweeting on my part.

Have you done it yet? If not, please do. Now. The sim is waiting at your doorstep.

Once activated, there’s no look back. The speed goes on to the top!

For more details, http://www.airtel.in/4g/index

Realizing The Concept of Death

“What happens when you die?”

A couple of days back when I was reading random articles on web, one article caught my attention. It has got more than 250K likes and equal number of shares on different mediums.

‘I felt fascinated.’

When I was young, I used to go through the local newspaper at my uncle’s place. It was those days, waking up and reading newspaper in the early morning sunshine used to be a routine.

In the process of reading the newspaper, only 2 sections usually gets my attention. ‘Sports’ and ‘local news’.

Once after I am done with reading the cricket related news on paper, I quickly move on to the local news section.

‘It’s not that I am eager or keen to know the political movements in the city or state. Neither if the following day goes for a bandh’.

It’s the accident zone that I look for. Every single day in the newspaper there comes a news of an accident that killed people.

I read it with whole lot of patience.

I kind of understands the situation.

I think of the victims.

I think of the last few words the victims had to say before they leave this world for one final time.

I think of the family who normally builds sky high hopes on the people who got trapped in the accident before they finally give up.

I think for a moment and would say to myself that,

“Accidents are unpredictable.” If accidents were teachers, they are the toughest teachers you will ever come across in life. In fact, if you commit one mistake, there’s no look back!

“Teachers give you a second chance. But, accidents don’t.”

The irony of life is that, people don’t live it. They just ‘leave’ it.

When I look at people around, I see them smile. I see them celebrate. But none of them seem to be with real happiness. They aren’t realistic. It’s just an artificial ones that people create for the society. They are more concerned about being the reflection of others rather than knowing ‘what they really are inside.’

Getting back to the inevitable thing so called ‘dying’ it can just come anytime. 

Today or tomorrow. We have no control over it.

I’ve seen people die. Some closely and some at a distance.

The most common thing of all, ‘they are not going to comeback forever’.

Money, Property, Job, will meet their ends.

People will think of the deceased for days and then will slowly start to move on in life, no matter how important the deceased person means to them. One day, they will start to accept the facts.

People in this world are here on a temporary purpose. Once the time arrives, everyone will be washed away. The new generation comes and they will follow the same cycle. And that’s how the life is for everybody.

When I look for the same in reality, people are not just the same. They are something that I find it a bit difficult to get. I wonder, if everyone thinks the same way that I do. I wonder if people deal with the same doubts that I get in a much better way. I wonder why I get weird thoughts unlike others. I wonder why I look at life in a different way.

At times, I don’t think of relations. I don’t think of friends. I don’t think of entertainment. I just think of myself. I just re-collect the words that moved me and inspired me a lot. I just try to be ‘myself.’

I so wanted people around me to realize the quick facts and to start taking the life changing decisions in life that will have equal number of pros and cons.

“Being defensive at young age probably is not the right thing to do.”

So, take a chance. Try and win!