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Hi hearties
the crow n the time files straight:)
PJ maaf. It seemed just yesterday that i left for Chennai to join my new job.To day i have comfortably completed a year. So time to bring out the champange bottles and celebrate (as is the Motto of my organization Celebrating Work).
Well how much have i evolved from being a starry eyed fresher to a comfortable techie? I remember when i used to pass throught the office building i used to be awestruck.(incidentally my college n office are in the same locality ..Sector V in Salt Lake). Now i feel like "been there done that" when i enter the same building.
I have picked up the tricks of the trade and becaome a responsible techie. Self confident tot he outer world (but not so much inwardly all the times). I guess we all suffer from this syndrome @ some point or the other.
I aspire a better position , from where i can choose and do what i want to do rather than do because i am told to do. A postion which will command more respect and a fatter pay packet...enable me to buy the car i have always dreamt of.
A cabin of my own where i can call the shots and see my ideas getting translated into business.
Well a long haul i know.. but i am ready for it.So i end with a well deserved pat on my own back :)

Have you ever wondered about the things that you surely want to do?
May be seeing the sun go down in a sun kissed golden Goa beach, or hiking in the Himalaya or watching GnR LIVE. What about seeing your reflection in a clear stream or making shapes out the clouds...
The list goes on & on. Here i present a link to 100 must do things before you say bye bye!!

100 things to Do

Have you ever thought about the effects of constant bombardment of Fairness Creams in the Indian psyche?
Well I found the way in which the latest ad of fairness cream portrays the dusky beauty is a downright insulting.
The ad went about some thing like this.
A group of college kids are featured in an outing in Kashmir. The heroine (or the villain) is snubbed by the handsome fair hero. Our dame is devastated by this. A beautiful (read fair) Kashmiri girl leads her to the Holy Grail which is the Kashmiri Kesar! Predictably our girl uses the secret remedy and viola ... she has metamorphosises into a fair skinned beauty whom no longer our hero can overlook. And there the happy story ends.

This is just one instance. You turn on the TV and you are flooded with hoards of Beauty creams which promises overnight transformation into a fair skinned brilliant beauty (!)

(Reminds me of the tale of the frog turning into a handsome prince)

What is the moral of the story?
If you are dark skinned you have no value in this earth. You cannot get your dream job(as the case of a reporter) ,your parents are ashamed of you , you wont get a good groom for yourself. You won’t even get a handsome boyfriend.
If a boy falls for a girl by judging the degree of fairness, the girl better not say yes. This is a mass propaganda fuelled by the cosmetics industry. (Whose existence depends on crowning a few miss world/universe from India or other backward country).
No doubt one of the most intrinsic cravings of the human being is to look beautiful. I accept it. That is the reason we buy branded clothes, use fancy perfume. But the mass is forced to equate beauty with fairness.
As a result the gullible Indian mass is falling easy prey to the ploy of the companies, who are laughing all the way down...