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]]> http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/employee-engagement-questionnaire/feed/ 1 pravinmusings http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/my-best-buddy-sandeep/ http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/my-best-buddy-sandeep/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:27:26 +0000 pravinmusings http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/?p=92 ]]> Long long ago, when I was a kid and a student of JNV, my father thought that I was doing everything in the hostel but study, so he took me out of Navodaya and kept me with himself. It is the story of class 9th. So, for the admission in the school whose principal was my father himself, I had to take a test; unfortunately or fortunately, I cleared that and I was admitted there. There I came to know Sandeep who became one of my best friends, quite a few I am left with.

I don’t remember exactly how we started talking but in a little time, we became good buddies. There was one more boy (still alive and kicking), Ajeet, who also became my friend and the next two years were kinda best years of my life. Both were very simple, humorous and good nature kids, though once Ajeet took blade from me and made a cut in the dhoti of one of our teachers; the teacher asked me who had done that (he was quite sure about the indulgence of Ajeet) and Sandeep was given the work of getting the dhoti stitched, but that was not a crime but vengeance, all of us were pretty much irritated by that teacher. There is one more story of Ajeet related to one other friend and his female friend but that’s none of my damn business.

Once I was expelled from the school because of some disciplinary actions and then it was Sandeep who stood for me. He was the one who despite of all the dissent from the teachers and most of the students, supported me and vouched for me to my father. Good thing, I was not expelled, thanks to Sandeep.

After High School, both went Gorakhpur for intermediate. We took a room but unfortunately, I became sick and then I took hostel and he returned his home town. When he came to Gorakhpur again for graduation with Ajeet, both asked me to live with them but I had to stay in hostel and then next year I went Greater Noida for engineering. In the meantime, Sandeep completed his graduation, and then B. Ed. from Meerut.

In High School, I regularly used to go his home, his parents were very kind to me, and they still ask me to come. Though after High School, I went there only once or twice.

In all these years, he has always been good to me, like a big brother.

I am quite happy for finding such a good friend.

I wish him good luck, God bless him.

]]> http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/my-best-buddy-sandeep/feed/ 4 pravinmusings http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/once-upon-a-time-i-was-a-happy-kid/ http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/once-upon-a-time-i-was-a-happy-kid/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:55:52 +0000 pravinmusings http://pravinmusings.wordpress.com/?p=72 ]]> एक वो भी दिवाली थी, एक ये भी दिवाली है,
उजड़ा हुआ गुलशन है, रोता हुआ माली है,

बाहर तो उजाला है, मगर दिल में अँधेरा,
समझो ना इसे रात, ये है ग़म का सवेरा,

क्या दीप जलायें हम, तक़दीर ही काली है,
उजड़ा हुआ गुलशन है, रोता हुआ माली है||

The story is not of very long time ago, just a couple of days or a couple of months or maybe a couple of years when I used to be a happy kid. I had no worries of my own(I had never seen anything as problem), no objective or aim(that was my favorite part), no friends to take extra care and above all no dreams to follow, just a happy tension free life to live with.

हम भी कभी आबाद थे, ऐसे कहाँ बरबाद थे,

बेफ़िक्र थे, आज़ाद थे, मसरूर थे, दिलशाद थे;

I still remember the days when I used to spend the whole day doing nothing and at the end of the day there was not even a single wrinkle on forehead about the wastage of time. I know it was total stupidity but that was the thing I was enjoying.  How I was living, what I was doing, whether my deeds were going to affect anybody, I didn’t have to take care of these nasty things.

Those days my friends cared for me, (they still do but, you know, things change). Fault is also on my behalf, the time I used to spend with them(the most important thing for any relation to go on smoothly) has been long gone. We used to visit one another and all of us were happy. The story was same until I was in 3rd year. Then I was told about MBA(Nobody was culprit but me because it was solely my decision to step forward) and with this MBA thing I ruined my self like anything.

वो चाल ऐसी चल गया,हम बुझ गये, दिल जल गया,

निकले जला के अपना घर, मैं और मेरी आवारगी||

Everything shattered though not in a moment, it took days, weeks or may be months to become things so ugly. First I got short in time being busy with my career(just another excuse). After some time I lost interest in nearly everything and here I am reckless, ruined and left with nothing.

जब हमदम-ओ-हमराज़ था, तब और ही अंदाज़ था,
अब सोज़ है, तब साज़ था, अब शर्म है, तब नाज़ था,
अब मुझ से हो तो हो भी क्या, है साथ वो तो वो भी क्या,
एक बेहुनर, एक बेसबर, मैं और मेरी आवारगी |||

It will be a lie to say that I have not gotten anything in this duration. I got new friends and a new life which is better than previous one in certain aspects but the problematic thing is I miss my past sometimes. Also I got some achievements not very big ones but for which at least I can proud of(though I can’t do anything without help of my friends, so credit is all their.)

Now I have coped up with myself because reversion is not quite possible and also it not not so bad as it seems. Also, I’m getting my smile back, though it’ll take time to attain the same height of senselessness. I want to convey my thanks to all those friends who had helped me during my tough time and were with me despite of my shortcomings.

The historic event occurred at second last Tuesday of March in b’day party of my friend. I was away for an College interview in Delhi, got a call for the party. So after interview, I directly arrived to his place. The was not decorated at all but hearing the noise you could easily know that some kind of party was going on.

I was welcomed there and invited for dinner which I politely(nhin khana hai saalon abhi hmko) refused. Then I joined a group where some kind of discussion was going on about my college students. During the discussion there was a round of drinks, which was also POLITELY refused by me(namuradon jb hm nhin peete, to kyun poochh rhe ho).

Then during the discussion I was staring the ceiling of the room, suddenly I don’t know how a good friend of mine (well not only good but old also) poured a peg of McDowell whiskey into my mouth and thus I lost my so called abstemiousness. As soon as, it was poured I felt myself as Lord Shiva because of the similarity of poison Halahal which he stored inside his throat, in the same way i spitted every drop of whiskey even before ittouched my throat and moving on my tongue.

The taste was awful and I was amazed on the thought how people dare to drink it. I’m not going to drink it again(most probably), not at least on happy occasions, though I can’t say anything about sad occasions like failure in exams, cheated by friends or some other execrable situations I don’t want to talk about.

I’ve heard and also I believe that “Drinking is not a bad habit, its just injurious to health.” I’ve no moral problem with drinking but I don’t think I can bear the taste.

I want to know those brands which have good taste so that in future I can try them. Any help will be appreciated.

P.S.- Though I’ve told you all about not drinking it , it is not a legal announcement, I can so don’t produce a print out to embarrass me because that will not help.

Three years in greater noida I’ve lived with my friends in different blocks and have a really vast experience of the fooding culture of the place. Same parathas, samosas, bread pakaudas etc or quite a normal thali including rice, daal, vegetable and some chapatis. it was kind of daily meal. at the start of 4th yr when i shifted again in beta-1, and i had to live here in june for my MBA coachings, no cook was available and i was lazy enough to cook by myself. So naturally i had to search for dhabas n restaurants for living. there are a large number of fooding places-raja dhaba, sanjha chulha, kanha,bhati bhojanalay, 9 to 11, spice to name a few. last two are costly so i preferred others and to change the taste i had a pattern for them. By d grace of god, when i was surfing the streets of jagat formfor a change of taste, i came to know a new name DEEP NASHTA POINT. i thought to give it a try. paneer is my favourite dish, so i ordered the same with  butter roti.and that day everything was changed for me. after that i never tried to looked at other places as i was glad that i hv got d place which i was searching for years.

After that day, i tried nearly every available veg dish there and i can’t explain how happy i was knowing they could cook every dish nicely.

I loved the butter roti, i got there. i still remember how i had to stop myself from eating more as the count exceeded single digit numbers. the quality of their shahi paneer was even better than 9 to 11. only place where it got a competition was spice where it cooks paneer much better, though now it hase deteriorated the performance, god knows y.

DEEP also provides different kind of parathas as breakfast -gobhi paratha, onion paratha, tomato stuffed paratha are just a few examples. apart from these things other kind of available breakfast is chhole bathoorey and poori sabji. i like them too.

they provide plain thali, special thali ec for normal and daily customers. u can enjoy special dishes like matar paneer, palak paneer, chhole, daal fry, mix veg etc on demand. charges are nominal, place is clean and hygienic, workers are well attentive. they have started to provide vrat thali and also makka roti with daal n goorh.

the only sad part is that their paneer is not so gr8 now a days, yet it is better than many places and i can gaurantee that u r gonna lv the butter rotis of d.n.p.

hope u will visit their some day..

N.B.- the material is not for advertisement but written for self interest purpose only though information provided here are totally correct.

Some thanks go to one other friend and one of my cousins who(both of them) told me to write it in order to improve the thoughts as well as the writing skills.

These three people are directly involved in my blogging,, apart from these all other people who have influenced me in any way are also worthy of my gratitude as they have willingly or unwillingly helped me build up a thought process within me.

Now if anybody has left so i beg their pardon,, kindly forgive me, just inform me and i’ll edit the post in order to add their name..

hope you’ll have a great time here..

good luck..