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Moved 2 My Own DoMaIn....

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:18:00 +0000

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Reaching out to my own domain...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:54:00 +0000

When desire turns into passion things will tend to become more serious and dedicated so is the case with me. As I have mentioned in my previous post about moving my blog to my own domain, guess it’s almost done apart from giving it a bit of shape and do a bit of changes to my webpage.

Have to mention that I always wanted to have my own domain and finally got one. Now trying to fit everything under one roof and among those blogging is something which I wanted to have in my own domain. Sharing my day to day random through my blog to you fine people is making me to feel so comfortable and honestly as the days pass by I’m finding it kind of addiction and feeling good for various reasons.

It will take a while before I play around wit all the web tools provided by my host to design my website but the good news is that I have managed to move all my post with comments to my domain and is LIVE now. Will be doing few more changes before I stick to my routine and in the due time requesting you all to update your bookmarks, subscribe and add link to your blog roll.

My Blog : http://www.raghavendrabhat.com/blog

Regards

Rags

xxx

Update !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:25:00 +0000

I'm sooooooooooooo Sorry for disappearing but actually I wasn't ....lol. Was busy doing a bit research on having my own domain & guess what, I got one..... yeeeeey!!! Now, I need to work on templates then decide to add BLOGGER as my BLOG or should I export my blog to Word Press.

Trust me I got loads to share but guess at the moment I'm enjoying my long weekend in London then visit friend in Oxford and will be back to Cardiff on wednesday. More update later....

I hope all my blog friends are having a great weekend :)

Will your job be safe in 2009?

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:45:00 +0000

“It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.” - Harry S Truman

If you have asked the same question a year before probably, for many of us the answer would have been more positive but in the present scenario for most of us it’s quite obvious that it’s going to be negative. Its really scary out there where every other day you get hear about job cuts, lay off’s and well know customer facing businesses go bank-corrupt and goes into administration.

It’s too complicated for me to talk about the economic downturn or recession but got a question - What’s the use of having all this economic experts and why is that every country passes it on calling it as a global problem?

I know for sure that before recession, ‘Human Resource Department’ in every company were so busy in hiring people to meet business standards. But wonder how they are dealing with recession? As we all know that every organizations looks at ‘Human Resource Department’ to discuss various strategies of doing cost cutting and among them would be to prepare every one for layoff. Guess answer to my question is “UNPREDICTABLE”. Hope you all agree wit me...

Time just flies

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:13:00 +0000

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.” – Jeremy Irons

Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and before you realize months turn into years. Whoever said that sounds very true as we all know time just flies before we even realize it. Anyway, my first week of this New Year was really hectic and a bit stressful because of work and planning my finance to have some kind of stability in savings.

Nothing much happened this week apart from being busy at work, and in the middle of the week comes really disappointing news from my parents about our pet. This is the first time I’m writing about my snoopy on my blog. He is such an adorable ‘Lhasa Apso’ breed. He is very friendly and doesn’t take time to drag attention and always wants people do adore him..lol. For some reason from past few months he was not on his best and was informed by doc in one of the visit that he is having ‘Hernia’ for which poor snoopy has to get operated and its all because of his inappropriate diet. Hope he will get well soon. I miss him soooo much.

Its New Year..

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:33:00 +0000

My first post for this year and let me start by wishing HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. Been so busy lately doing many changes in my life. I don’t want to name those changes as my ‘New Year Resolutions’ because I believe resolutions always narrows down to a single path and according to me keeping options seems sensible thing to do according to present situation. It is quite obvious that getting excited for sometime then after few days or months the same excitement starts to disappear and the best example would be – New Year Resolutions!!! (No offence to those fine people who believes in resolutions).

Thursday 01st January 2009 (Time: 12:00am) started off by wishing friends and family then as I was about to go to bed saw people bursting crackers from my window. Its time for celebration but during this financial crisis, I didn’t like the idea of spending money on crackers only to turn that into ashes. Anyways was all set to kiss my bed because had to rush to the work for overtime in early hrs and finished late. What a way to keep myself busy and occupied on the very first day of the New Year… lol.

After long day at work was still eager to do something more other then just going back home, so went straight to cinema to see ‘Yes Man’ starring Jim Carrey.

Jim Carrey is genuinely likes making people laugh which I believe is an amazing talent. Sure this movie has got lot of energy and ‘Jim Carrey’ is always funny, even if it’s a crappy movie. No I dint say that…or…did I???

I’m getting some good vibes especially when I think about the changes which I have started implementing and will be making you aware as the days pass by…

Happy New Year 2 all . . . . &… Luv u all.

Roller-coaster '08' & Hello '09'

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:48:00 +0000

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I just did a quick look back at my roller-coaster year 2008. I admit that I don’t have any second thought in calling it as my roller-coaster year 2008 which was filled with a mixture of ups and downs, which involved lot of emotional stress. Good or bad I’ve only myself to blame for it.

I’m having high hopes for 2009 for couple of reasons really, (1) For some reason number ‘09’ being lucky to me and (2) Will be taking one step at a time with more positive effort. Now, that makes me to get excited for the New Year 2009 which will be another chance to start over. If you have been reading my previous posts then you very well know by now as how desperate and how geared up I’m for this change.

PS – Feel free to leave a comment 2 know your thoughts, I would love to hear them..

Wanting to figure out….

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:12:00 +0000

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” - Henry Miller

I’m sure most of you are in Christmas and holiday sprit. Well, I had nice couple of days off for Christmas but most of the time I spent at home cause of freezing cold out there but did manage to go for cinema on Boxing Day to watch bollywood movie ‘Ghajani’ starring my all time bollywood favourite actor ‘Aamir Khan’ and without any second thought I enjoyed it till the end. It was just awesome.

During the rest of the free time was sitting idle at home and some strange thoughts were coming on my mind which made me to think about my life and trying to understand as where it’s headed. Don’t you think it’s always difficult to find the answer? Among those random strange thoughts I was failing to figure out a simple question “Who am’ I?”

I say it simple and also admit in failing to answer cause every time I tried it just throws up more questions. This question made to recall one of those struggling days in Bangalore (India) where I was knocking every company’s door for a decent job and in every interview they used to ask me a questions like:

Tell us about yourself
What kind of person are you?
Where do you see yourself in next 5years?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Blah…blah…blah

During that time I never had a problem in answering those questions and must be honest, every answer that I answered was so positive filled with confidence. So, why am’ I failing to figure out a simple question like “who am’ I?”

Not sure if this makes sense but guess my life has been taken over by something which I’m failing to identify and guess I don’t have any control on it…

Christmas Wishes...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:06:00 +0000

Just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy holidays, it’s a great time of year, so spend it with your loved ones with laughter, happiness and sing along with santa… Ho Ho Ho… Have a good one.

Cheers
Rags

State of mind...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:23:00 +0000

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” – Christina G. Rossetti

I’m so down right now, time is really hard lately with some ups and downs. Personally I hate moaning about every little obstacle that comes up in my life. I have been feeling really sad lately. My self-esteem has dropped to such a low I don’t know if I can ever recover it again. My life at the moment really sucks.

If you have read one of my previous post where I have mentioned about my holiday to Bangalore to visit my parents, was so excited cause its been such a long time but sadly this morning I was told at work that they can’t grant my leave as its only now I have been promoted to different role in the company. Addition to that because of this economic downturn every one at work is really scared and no one including me is willing to take chances. So, I simply agreed to cancel my leave and re-apply in April 09.

God, I’m feeling so sad! But felt a bit relaxed after getting a bit of advice about my trip to Bangalore. According to my friend since the market situation is very bad and it’s been only 2-3 weeks since I got promoted for a new role at work so need to dedicate sometime and save some more money then plan my trip.

I feel like a crap anyways so well, decided to postpone my visit to Bangalore…

Being Happy...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:52:00 +0000

“Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages” - Nichiren Daishonen

It is a fact that every one of us can go to any extreme just to be happy and why not? Is it wrong to be happy? Being happy is what I strive for each and every day and I don’t believe when people say like being happy now means I’m going to pay it back later. I think that happiness and sadness is definitely in store for each and every one of us but some might be lucky to have happiness first. But what truly worries me is that when I hear people saying…

- > Don’t laugh so much you might end up crying

- > Don’t be so happy ‘cause something bad going to happen soon

Why do people say that? Or, why do we always have this negative thinking? Now don’t get me wrong, I know there will always be those kinds of people who want to suck us down. In my case each time I find myself too happy, something from within me, come along and knock me down.

So I tend to get scared knowing that there’s something terrible waiting for me…

Can Dreams...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:12:00 +0000

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence the highest form of living". - Anais Nin

Since child I have this strong blind-belief that 'Dreams can provide helpful clues for the future actions'. I’m not entirely sure if that’s true and at times I even feel that it’s not the dream but guess It’s just my imagination which I take along with me when I go to bed. Having all this random thoughts makes me to visualise and look for the options hoping it’s going to help me to overcome with the situation. I need to be honest it worked so many times. I don’t know if I should call it a dream or is it something which I force my brain to work on. I just keep wondering as how an imagination can possibly help me to solve the problems.

Mom says every dream has got a meaning or a purpose and in a way it’s linked to so many aspects of our lives such as spirituality, career, and relationships. I guess in my case I’m failing to establish between dreams and imagination. After giving a bit of thought I was able to draw a conclusion just to satisfy myself but not entirely convinced.

“Dreams are something which can’t be recalled when you are awake and imagination is something which we keep working during the gaps in our sleep”.

Let me know, what you think???

Transporter 3

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:32:00 +0000

Last night after work went to cinema "Transporter 3" staring 'Jason Statham' who is one of my favourite action hero. From my point of view although this film has got so many poor points when it comes to editing and all that shaking cameras during the fight scenes still 'Jason Statham' as an action hero has given his best with some incredible action sequences and is worth to watch it once if you are an action flick. The actress in this movie was so annoying and terrible because she just couldn't act. I almost forgot to mention about the scene in this movie where statham drives car on just two wheels which was so fake.

Overall it's just another movie with nothing special or new....

My Weekend GetAway...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:52:00 +0000

If you have read my previous post where i mentioned about my weekend getaway plan to oxford, which i did...and must say, had a wonderful time and It's hard to believe my quick weekend getaway was really quick, I mean it went by way to fast. It was just amazing two days.

I kick started saturday by meeting few friends for dinner at 'Tree Hotel" which is known for Indian, Thai cuisine and quite popular in oxford. Usually I'm such a food freak but that night it was more of getting to know few new friends, cracking jokes and ended our gathering by sipping 'Tequila"... lol.

Pornima, Pallu,Sheets & Me (Naveen takng pic)

On sunday, spent entire day in city center to do window shopping along with friend and also we managed to go to 'Chang Mai Kitchen' for lunch. This would be my second visit to this restaurant. [Click here -> to check my previous visit post]. It was just perfect short break what i really needed from my busy routine.

Such an IDIOT...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:06:00 +0000

Oh dear i been such an idiot! I'm really sorry i didn't mean to make all my blog readers to feel sad. I am sorry about previous post. Its just that i tend to react in some strange way when things start going in wrong direction.

Everyday I wake up and carry on with my normal daily routine and most of the time i am happy with what i am doing. I pray to god and seek his blessings to make me more strong to face the unpredicted tomorrow. I am just normal guy who smiles for the silliest things and laugh out loud for the dumbest. I miss my parents and friends, life isn't easy when you stay far from the people who mean a world to you.

Every time something goes wrong, it will take time for me to figure out as where and how its gone wrong and before i do, it would have gone out of my reach. So, here I am saying to myself to start over again by moving on in life hoping things will be different. Life will be easy without any complications but hey...knock...knock soon i feel like its back again ..... 'Nothing's changed'. So am I ....

As i mentioned on my previous post, will be traveling to Oxford as a part of my mission to catch up with friend and also to be honest i needed a break really!!!

Have a good weekend every one.... 'God Bless'.

Just when i thought ...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:23:00 +0000

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character. Would you slow down? Or speed up"? - Chuck Palahniuk

Just when i thought everything was finally going to be all right and everything seemed to be in place, something happened which bought me straight to the ground. Its nothing but the reminder of my commitments and responsibilities.

Oh God, why can't life be simple without much complications? why do i always think twice to take any step? When i think about my commitments and responsibilities, my life seems to be in 'STILL' mode. Nothing seems to be going in the right direction and in addition feel like burdening myself more and more. Can't keep satisfying myself with false assurance anymore, Can't keep saying that "Everything is going to be just fine", when i know the fact that its not.

I feel like banging my head and screaming out loud till tears start rolling out. Things are very stressful lately, and no its not the job. Something is like killing me from inside by not giving me a chance to figure out as what it is so that i can work on to solve it. Everything seems to be going in a wrong direction at the moment.

Guess, i reached to the point where there is no looking back and i feel stuck. Life is so confusing and i know its too early for me to feel that way but guess its the fact and i just need to make more sacrifice and as the time passes by need to make more decisions.

On a better note, will be traveling to oxford to catch up with my best friend. Hope its going to be nice get-away...

Friends are like ladies BRA...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:41:00 +0000

Started my day by checking my email and couldn't stop laughing after going through this email which is soooo funny and best part is it links between FRIENDS and ladies BRA. Check this out.....

A Friend is like a good BRA

Hard to find

Supportive

Comfortable

Always lifts you up

Never lets you down or leave hanging

And is always close to your Heart..!!!

One Of Those Days..

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:31:00 +0000

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live". - Jean-Paul Sartre

Last couple of days was one of those days where i was feeling very low. I was missing home, parents and closed ones so much. I just felt like not being myself and did some weird things like blocking myself from reaching outside world. It usually takes time for me to get back to normal but kept wondering as why i feel this way?

It took a while for me to come up with the title for this post as 'One Of Those Days' and must say it truely makes sense because its quite often i feel this way and since there is no particular reason so need to say as its one of those days. I remember one of my close friend used to say that i just need a reason to feel low. But the question i keep asking to myself is 'Why will i look for a reason to feel low'? I mean common, who wants to be sad? I kept saying myself that i need to be responsible and act like a matured adult. ( Whatever that means...lol).

On the other hand feeling low creates a lot of problem for me, like not being able to concentrate at work which is really bad and that makes my self-esteem to hit rock bottom and everything i say comes out negatively (GGrrrrr).

Anyways, there was some good news to cheer me up, my leave got sanctioned from 23rd Jan 09 to 15th Feb 09 i will be traveling to bangalore (India) to spend some time with my parents. God knows how much i miss them....

Just Be Yourself...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:32:00 +0000

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting". - Cummings

How tuff or difficult is it just to be yourself? Have you come across those kinds of people whom you really want to say “Be yourself” GGrrr...lol. Well, sounds so simple and a very good advice to give. I wonder if it’s possible in this materialistic world where we keep getting influenced with almost anything.

I asked a very simple question to myself: Who am I? Then I tried to write down in points that first came to my mind thinking that once when I write it down in points it will be easy for me to sum it up to get the answer. I must say this was not at all an easy or simple question as I thought it might be. I think I now know why some people spend their entire life term to figure out who they are?

But in this highly influenced and materialistic world probably we often don’t like to scratch our head for this which takes ages and the risk is you might or might not get the answer you are looking for. It was definitely not easy for me to find out the answer but I’m determined to be the way how I was all this years and love to hear from all those people near to my heart to say that I’m still the same.

Guess when I hear that I will get the answer what I was looking for…..

Terrorist attack on Mumbai 26/11

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:02:00 +0000

The Taj Mahal Hotel - Mumbai (INDIA)

People watching Taj going in ashes

Indian Army working hard to bring situation under control

PANIC

(Note: Pictures above are from BBC)

When i was on my way back home from work i got a call from my friend who told me about terrorist attack in Mumbai (India). I was so shocked by hearing the horrific news. Without much delay rushed home and started switching between BBC and NDTV news channel on which there was live coverage of the dreadful incident.

Was awake till 03:00 am watching news channels as i couldn't sleep and also was getting more curious to know as which group or organization were behind this attack which has caused absolute KIOS in india. News channels are not sure as who is behind the attack but considering the way how attack been planned they are suspecting it must be some well known group who has done there homework. I feel sad that despite every country joining hands against terrorism, allowed something like this to happen.

Click here to Watch BBC Coverage on the incident

Blog Addiction...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:16:00 +0000

“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit”. – David Ryan

Am’ I addicted to blogging? I kept asking this question to myself and the answer is YES. I’m addicted to blogging just like many people are addicted to coffee, tea or cigarettes. I feel this is the best place where I can express all my thoughts, feelings and also to get to know other bloggers form different corners of the world with whom I exchange comments or advise about posts. I just love all those people who are frequent visitors to my blog and also want to thank all those who have subscribed or added my blog to their blog list.

Sunday...

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:23:00 +0000

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer” – William.S.Burroughs

I happened to get a break this Sunday after a long 45days of hectic long shifts. Had planned to go to temple and then for a cinema but have to alter my plans because of this stupid weather and also cause of my laziness, decided to stay in bed for the entire day.

So soon it’s Monday and I’m at work thinking about my Sunday which went so quick. Something interesting happened today at work. I was told from following Monday I will be in training for a different role in the organisation. In other words I have been short listed for the specialization team… Wow. I’m really looking forward for my new role.

I thank god for guiding me in each and every step...

Birthday Shout-Outs..

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Top right - (Bala) & bottom left (Ajay)

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:

Your birthday as my own to me is dear...

But yours gives most; for mine did only lend

me to the world; yours gave me a friend. - Martial

It's 23rd Nov 08 and that means its time to wish my two very good friends, Happy Birthday .. may you have many more happy birthdays. Have a good one mates :D

Life goes on..

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:13:00 +0000

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” - James Dean

I don’t want to be lost in thoughts like many people do; rather I would prefer to go with the flow. In that way I don’t have to predict or prepare for tomorrow as I’m sure most of you agree that we can’t really predict as what’s going to happen tomorrow. But still somewhere I feel it doesn’t sound right as one should always be prepared for tomorrow either by forecasting or taking appropriate precautions depending on the situation. Don’t you think it totally depends on the way how you look at the situation?

The only thing that’s worrying me at the moment is about my financial planning. Its only recently I bought a plot in Bangalore and registration is due to happen in next couple of months for which I’m so excited as this will be officially my very first asset. Addition to that I had a plan to expand my dad’s property by constructing couple of studio flats but guess need to keep it on hold because of tremendous exchange rate difference. In Aug 2008 Exchange rate was £1 = 88/- INR but according to today’s exchange rate its £1 = 74/- INR. That’s unbelievable massive difference. So, in other words financial crisis is hitting me hard ‘cause of which I need to hold back or think twice before making any move.

There is a delay but that’s definitely not going to stop me as I truly believe life just goes on ….

Lay-off stress..

noreply@blogger.com (Rags) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:42:00 +0000

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important". ~Bertrand Russell

I’m in so much stress! As we keep hearing on the news about lay-off’s happening almost everyday with the most of the major companies all over the world. I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping things should be back to normal real soon and as I was waiting for my turn and the latest one to the list of lay-off or job cuts is UK giant, BT. I heard this bad news on BBC the other day saying British Telecommunication (BT) is planning to lay-off 10,000 employees all around the world and yes i work for BT so, you can imagine what I’m going through at the moment.

Interestingly, I had a quarterly performance meeting with my manager and the good news is that I have exceeded all the expectations and been asked for a bigger role in the organisation…. Wow... something came up just in time when I wanted to be cheered.

Does anyone know as where this crisis is leading too? What is in store for all of us who depends so much on the economy? Well honestly, I feel certain question looks good as a question unless one tries to attempt to answer only to invite many other…