BEHAVE YOURSELF……….

Off course if I start talking about human psychology I am going to run into pages. It is not also the fact that I am (even if I am) very keen towards the subject called ‘psychology’ but there are few rows and columns of thoughts that are lining up in my psychology about ‘psychology’. God has made the structure of our head same (round in shape) then why we all don’t have the same thoughts or perception about things. What I interpret you may not or intervene in the similar way as I do. Why? Because of our different mentalities and different ways of thinking. No wonder what you like, I may hate. Neither your fault nor my mistake!

What I have learned from my psychology teacher is ‘psychology is the study of behavior’. BEHAVE YOURSELF! People, mind when you behave because you never know who is studying your psychology when you are not behaving. :P

God is so organized…isn’t it? See the way he created feelings and see the symbols that he gave to express your feeling. Cry=when you are hurt/or in pain. Smile=when you happy. Scold= when you are angry. The human race is also so apt in all the organized ways of God.

I wonder why Dulu (my 4 years old cousin) is so much into Doremon(cartoon)? Doremon brings out gadgets from the pocket on his stomach and gives it to Nobita (a character) which always saves him from homework, scoldings etc etc. Then I realized, he (dulu) himself doesn’t like doing his homework and he must be having a desire to have a Doremon for himself. His behavior helped me learning his psychology.

Dulu is just an example but I guess it’s the same case with all of us. We unknowingly do some activities which can help others to read our psychology too.

Tragedy Queen for a DAY!

How about a day when you get stuck in the lift....I mean, A DAY when you get stuck TWICE in the lift and you don’t have a cell phone with you? Can you imagine? Well getting stuck in a lift TWICE in a day sounds boring....how about A DAY when your room gets locked from inside and your cell phone remains inside the room and you are getting late for the office? Now that sounds little happening but............to make it more happening how about A DAY when you are half dressed with bathroom slippers, your room gets locked from inside with your cell phone inside the room, you get stuck in the lift TWICE in a day and you are required to go and get another pair of keys from your roommate by traveling 11 kms? And you don’t have money?.........now that is most the happening one...right?

Subah subah ye kya huwa, najane main……main phaas gayeeeeeeeee…….yes in a lift TWICE……my room got locked from inside and my cell phone remained inside and the clock reminding me “babes you are getting late for office”. One of the most memorable days that I am going to mark in my life’s history would be 18^th July, 2011.

Getting stuck in the lift was less that’s why the tragedy repeated again and again…that too SAME DAY! Oh God it was such a mess with me that day. I traveled almost 11 kms with a non-matching dupatta (that too borrowed from my flat mate). Bathroom slippers…..a dupatta which didn’t matched my dress at all….. Using auto-walla’s mobile…..and my messy hair…..wow what a trip it was (awesome experience while going to collect the extra keys from my roommate).

Finally when I got back with the keys, I got stuck in the lift for 15 minutes as the power went off. No cell phone with me and no one around to help me out…. But I was busy inside the lift. You know with what I was busy with? THINKING…..thinking whether I should laugh at my situation or I should cry?

A red rose and a silent heart......

She passes by that florist shop every morning. Morning bliss and a new world ahead, loaded with things in mind and heart...and a pair of dreamy eyes which still wants to go back to the bed and sleep...rather dream! It’s a different world out here and a different life too. The blend of everything is best experienced…..

A silent red rose which rest in the water bucket of the florist can express so many things of a silent heart.…never knew that! Everything has a purpose in this world....the flower grows (it is the purpose of nature).....the flower is taken care by the gardeners (it is the purpose of the gardener to cut and deliver it to florist).....it is sold in the florist shop (it is the purpose of the florist for business and earnings).....it is bought by someone for someone (it is the purpose to show the feelings that are left unexpressed)

She wanted to buy the rose badly.....she wanted a chance to hand it over to someone....she wanted to express few things of her silent heart! Truly…..a simple silent rose expresses too much of a silent heart!

‘Make my trip’ vs ‘Ruined my trip’!

Economic Times on 6th May carried the story of “Make my trip.com” (17th page). The fairytale beginning & stupendous journey of MakeMyTrip! As soon as I saw the story, it took me back to the story that I read few days back (may be 13th April) in almost all the newspapers (main lines) about ‘make my trip’. After analyzing the story, I admitted to myself “wow what a wonderful crises management and PR strategy of the company (makemytrip.com)”.

Story pitched on 13th April: Mangalore-based Vishal Rao was cheated by the online travel agency MakeMyTrip. Aggrieved by this treatment, Mr Rao created a blog, 'Ruined My Trip', to make people aware about his experience and the unfair business practice by the company. Being, an expert in the web business, Mr Rao used his skills in the search engine optimization (SEO) area to push his blog into the top ten Google search results for 'Make My Trip'!

Feeling cheated by a company, either because of unfair treatment or poor services, many of us would usually end up staying silent. Yes, in the head of the moment, we did get angry and some of us may even vent the anger on the company's staff. Still fewer would choose to take legal recourse through the consumer court, where the battle could be long. But here's an example of a person who chose to use his skills with the Internet to fight against injustice.

Story pitched on 6th May: The fairytale beginning & stupendous journey of MakeMyTrip! Deep Kalra says he was following a gut instinct when he set up online travel portal MakeMyTrip way back in 2000. But the fairytale beginning would soon run into some very rough weather as the global dotcom meltdown, the 9/11 attacks and the SARS outbreak led to a severe loss of business. In conversation with Radhika P Nair, Kalra tracks the many milestones that have since marked the company's journey, including a blockbuster IPO in the US, where on the first day of listing, the MakeMyTrip stock closed 89% up, the best listing in the US since the pre-recession year of 2007.

My analyses: The negative coverage in almost all the main lines spoilt the brand image in front of the consumer. ‘Makemytrip.com’ has recently invested a lot in the promotional activities (I mean TV ads etc). Mr.Rao is almost a nightmare for the company. It’s a thread to the company and in lieu to that the company has adopted a new PR policy. Their PR is basically talking about their brand which will now divert the audience. THIS IS A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE PR PROS AND HATS OFF TO MR.RAO! JAGO GRAHAK JAGO……

PS-For any further details on this story you can log on to www.runinedmytrip.com

A ‘B-School’ Dream!

A ‘B-School’ dream….oscillating, galloping, escalating, and waving high! Obviously not frenzy. B- School does give me a stereotype meaning i.e. ‘Best School’ rather ‘Business School’. Life is all about ‘terms and conditions apply’. Term- A white collar job before your Dad’s retirement and condition- Get into a B-School. I think I am right here! Sometimes I wonder, life is too short to achieve so much. But then there are no exceptions to it because we have term and others apply conditions. :(

Stepping into IIM’s or FMS (Faculty of Management studies) doesn’t make you the Protagonist within the campus, off course but definitely allows you to venture your dreams (with jeopardizing it). My teachers never wrote on the blackboard about ‘IIM’ or ‘FMS’ when I was in nursery. Then from where I learned it? Out of myself…probably?

The rigorous selection process of these B-Schools comforts the students with many sleepless nights. All the hard work pays but its still ‘hard’ for the ‘hard work’. CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, MBA CET, ICET, TANCET, MAHCET……and what not? To bag a smart package and wrapping yourself ‘corporate’ is the ‘flip of the coin’. One side of the coin consists, preparation for a B-School admission and the other side is the fat package and status (an aspiration).

What’s my B-School dream whisper to me? If I get into (IF)…..it will be a tribute to my parents rather than anything else!

I nag…………

Yes I nag……I crib, I whine!!! I go on and on and on…….most of the woman does!!! Ever wondered why a woman nags? Well, it is not always about the so-called ‘ever-nagging wife/girlfriend’ and her overtly infuriating trait but also as to ‘why’ she is doing that. A woman is supposedly the more sensitive being. For her, little things like mere attention from her partner are very valuable and something that she treasures to extent that she would go on from nagging to doing something even worse. And, the most probable reason for this behavior of a woman is likely to be the fear of losing their relation or love of their partner. (oh, fear of losing what?...I don’t have anything to lose now….)

When a woman sat near her partner and tried to look into his eyes with love. But he was busy watching a movie. She wanted to bring her heart in front of him. She wanted to talk to him and share the turmoil that’s going on in her mind. But he is busy!!! She waited and waited and waited….but he is busy. She softly went near him and rested her head on his shoulder and said ‘baby…plz talk to me’. Finally he talked. He said “DON’T NAG”……her heart shivered after listening to it but she kept quiet and slowly moved back and quietly slept near him turning her head behind him. A drop of tear wetted her pillow and slowly she went off to sleep!!!

SHE NAGS!!! A WOMAN NAGS!!! I NAG TOO!……BECAUSE FEW THINGS HURT!!!

An excuse is an excuse to an excuse!

Awesomely said “an excuse is an excuse to an excuse”…I rate it 10 in the scale of 10. People have excuse for everything in life. JUST EVERYTHING! An apology is also sometimes ruined with an excuse. Isn’t it?

Senior/boss: why are you late?
You: mam/sir I was stuck in the traffic? 

This is the everyday and all time excuse (which is quite acceptable)……even it’s the most frequent excuse of my father which is off course acceptably rejectly by my mother :P

My favourite excuse during my schooling days-
Mam: where is your homework?
Me: Mam, I did my homework but I forgot to bring my HW copy (home work copy)
Mam: Get out of the class!
Hushhhhhh my excuse never worked (except 2ce or 3ce) …Poor me!

But the whole idea of writing this post is to understand these following lines:
“ I want you to be happy ....
I know I messed up every thing
I should have stuck to what I wanted...
But was not able to see u in pain....
So I took a decision...”
is it an apology or an excuse? I have no clue! I can just conclude it as “I gave you pain because you wanted it”. Now why on earth anyone will beg for pain. It’s difficult to understand but again it’s an excuse to an excuse! It’s well said that “never ruin an apology with an excuse” (repetition from the 1st paragraph) !

Stick no bills!

Just had an encounter with an article named ‘rise of PR, fall of advertising!’ …the funniest part is, I was the one who was actually trying to audit the fall of advertising. Which is definitely not correct! A simple search in Google uncle will prove this point. Advertising is one such business which is in the highest point of escalation now. It’s strange to believe that foreign companies are hiring Indian Ad agencies for their ad campaigns. WE Indians are smart...lol (at least in few things). See, how smart Indain Mr. Kalmadi is…: P

‘Stick no bills’…many a times I happened to spot these words on some walls. When I was in my early schooling days, I use to think it might be the name of some political party (since in Assam politics is very strong)…lol. I asked my father. Which party is this?He laughed! L He explained me the meaning of it. According to him they write ‘stick no bills!’ inorder to prevent the place from any advertisement. But as usual I am a question jigyas (question bank!) After his explanation another question popped up.. i.e. “why?’ ….why they want to prevent the place from any advertisement? He looked blank for few seconds but I fixed my eyes on him to know the answer.

His reply ‘they write ‘Stick no bills’ because people dirty the walls by jotting advertisements’…I wanted to reply him ‘papa, what a meaningless answer. Writing ‘STICK NO BILLS’ with the big font size makes the wall dirty too.’ But preferred to keep quite! As usual after getting the answer, back to play!

But now I understand…..what a pain it is for the advertisers to spot the words ‘Stick no bills’ on the main targeted sights!

When I changed the calendar….

2010+1=2011……..finally added one more year. Time time time…..it just goes on and on and on, things change, people change with this ‘time factor’. Oh ho how can I forget to insert one more change i.e. relationships….even relationship change. How nice it would be if I ever had the chance to hold the two hands of the watch with my two hands…sounds funny?

1^st January….time to change the calendar, time to pray God for all the past sins and a peaceful year ahead and of course time to resolute. I was wondering what should be my resolution for the year 2011…perhaps none! Oh am I so perfect that I need not modify (modify=resolution :P ) anything in my life? May be yes (:P) or may be my mental set up has a different approach. Not too sure!

Life is all about gathering moments….sweet, sour, bitter etc. when you changed the calendar I am sure your eyes got hooked to few dates and days. Even mine too! Planning, planning, planning but plans always fail with me. So I am not paying any heed. I don’t want to be a part of the world but I want the world to be a part of me. I wish to plug the whole world within me and extract my needs. Is it possible? People say “impossible is the word found in the dictionary of the fool” and I am not a fool :P. Everything is possible (am lying).

I don’t want to resolute or set up any new plans this year but follow a path of my own (which is already paved by the supreme power). HE always has plans for me (us) so I need not break my head for something which is already sketched. Leaving everything on HIM and demanding him my happiness I cheered all the 1’s of the year i.e. 1-1-11……