<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:11:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>NCR</category><category>achieve</category><category>driving</category><category>experience</category><category>Beliefs</category><category>Book Review</category><category>Brand Management</category><category>Budget 2009</category><category>Computers</category><category>Finance</category><category>Goals</category><category>Godrej</category><category>Job</category><category>MBA</category><category>Sensex</category><category>Six Sigma</category><category>Videocon</category><category>astrology</category><category>childhood</category><category>college life</category><category>dream</category><category>jargons</category><category>memories</category><category>placements</category><category>profile name</category><category>rain</category><title>All about life</title><description></description><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-4560900671472335606</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-21T03:11:18.184-07:00</atom:updated><title>Laptop buying experience - think its easy, think twice :)</title><atom:summary type="text">

Recently, father appointed me with the task of buying a new laptop for him. Considering the tech enthusiast person I am, he (and me too) considered this to be an easy task. As I do for almost all major purchases, did a thorough study online for&amp;nbsp;the new laptop. In spite of being very comfortable, researching online for my purchases, I am yet not comfortable&amp;nbsp;in buying&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;major </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2013/04/laptop-buying-experience-think-its-easy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-6880563009556097552</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-27T10:07:19.434-08:00</atom:updated><title>Who said travelling alone is boring?</title><atom:summary type="text">
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</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2013/02/who-said-travelling-alone-is-boring.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-4193075311238661307</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-27T10:40:31.791-07:00</atom:updated><title>My Anu aunty moment!</title><atom:summary type="text">

I recently read an interesting book (thanks to my cousin who gifted it to me) - &quot;How&amp;nbsp;I braved Anu aunty and co-founded a million dollar company&quot;. After a long time, I truly enjoyed a book from first page to last page and completed it in one day in one go. The book has been lingering in my mind from the day&amp;nbsp;I read it and have been ever laughing secretly in my mind everytime I am </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-anu-aunty-moment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAKooA3QPfUfDOdn3lyO1SILgHH0FAh3RD2ahWujbMbvutfwQrTfiRLXoOvrHDtu2h6j18ULv4QK69T7mnKR_bkhXKIUBwyX2NM6-JNulqI4oDffGPjyYesItMgMqqNkYXPKFhYTW4dw/s72-c/anu_aunty.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-5525718154280414461</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-16T21:14:09.109-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">astrology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Beliefs</category><title>BELIEFS, HALDI TILAK and MORE..</title><atom:summary type="text">An old story which keeps knocking my mind now and then. Here it is:


Beliefs are an integral part of human beings. One person’s belief might be a superstition or even a fad in another person’s views. But this does not stop the first person from believing in his beliefs. This often results in a continued quest between the two persons to turn the other one on his side. This objective may be </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2012/02/beliefs-haldi-tilak-and-more.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-2738815556982926959</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-15T04:13:20.058-08:00</atom:updated><title>Extra Two Hours - Do something special!</title><atom:summary type="text">

Lata and Arjun, recently married, had shifted to US right after their marriage. Arjun had been sent to US by his employer (a big software company of India) to work for a client. Lata belonged to a small two tier Indian city. Though she was confident at the time of leaving India that her convent school education and her B.Com graduation has made her capable to adjust in a world class city like </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2011/11/extra-two-hours-do-something-special.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--ckKV6efYSU/TsHz-TcuPNI/AAAAAAAAACU/1w4ehzahlI4/s72-c/indiblogger-logo.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>13</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-7485773023420108925</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-27T14:22:56.067-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>Fate, Fraud &amp; a Friday Wedding: Book review</title><atom:summary type="text">This is my first book review on this blog, though I have been wanting to do this for&amp;nbsp;some time. 

Fate, Fraud and a Friday Wedding written by Bhavna Rai (who is an ex-Adobean) was a book which captured my undivided attention after a long time.
I love reading books and have been reading fiction since fourth standard. I started with Enid Blytons and reached Sidney Sheldons and Jeffery Archers.</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2011/05/fate-fraud-friday-wedding-book-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-5093755388804108058</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-02T06:25:41.401-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">college life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">memories</category><title>Reliving Cherished Memories</title><atom:summary type="text">I have always heard people saying that how they miss their childhood, college life, etc, etc. How they wish they could just return back to that life once more. Well, I have surely had my share of good moments (ok not good but great moments) in life and the ones closest to my heart are my engineering college days.Recently I got a chance to visit my college. 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He asked all his followers to tweet about their first crush. No doubt, an interesting parady of tweets followed this.  Well, this lead me to think of mine. Though, it might sound crazy, but I had my first crush (and yes it still exists) in III standard. My father </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-first-crush.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>9</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-9058060035137290783</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-28T10:46:46.947-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Job</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">placements</category><title>Do you love your job?</title><atom:summary type="text">Wow! That&#39;s an amazing question.A question which probably instead of asking others, we should ask ourselves. So, let&#39;s rephrase the question - &quot;Do I love my job?&quot;Well, I can proudly and confidently say Yes. But maybe for me this question does not count as I have entered my job only 3 months back. 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And the reason they are problematic is that they refuse to leave me until and unless I have given them justified time and thought. I was comfortably sitting in my </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/deep-insight-into-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-3600544144949703587</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-23T22:47:56.001-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">childhood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rain</category><title>Why is this rain not the same?</title><atom:summary type="text">NCR was blessed by a huge downpour yesterday. A much awaited rain.I was in my office working calmly on my comp when a girl sitting in a cubicle next to the window stood up and shouted with excitement that it was raining heavily outside. All of us gathered around the window, most of us with a coffee mug in our hand, and stared blissfully at the rain.At this moment, a thought crossed my mind. All I</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-is-this-rain-not-same.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-1147804488738093157</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-19T23:26:30.205-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">experience</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NCR</category><title>The Great Driving Experience Part II</title><atom:summary type="text">I am back with a second article on my ultimate, mind rocking experience on the Delhi roads these days. As a general thumb rule, practical learning is always very different and more benficial than the theoretical learning. This is a well known fact. But i had no idea, that this thumb rule would be so aptly applicable to driving. When I started driving, I knew all the basic rules quite well - wear </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-driving-experience-part-ii.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-4010611162514008692</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-16T23:21:07.821-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">experience</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NCR</category><title>The Great Driving Experience</title><atom:summary type="text">Well, I have decided to write about my recent discovery of Delhi roads.Believe it or not, but I have started driving lately only and I must say that I am having the experiences of a lifetime when viewing the Delhi roads from a different perspective all together. My daily driving consists of almost the same route between my home and office. I live in South Delhi and my office is situated in Noida.</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-driving-experience.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-3654724942399678737</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T22:37:06.959-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brand Management</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Godrej</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Videocon</category><title>Two well-thought out rebranding exercises</title><atom:summary type="text">I am in love with the new Videocon green icon --- the dancing, cheerful &#39;V&#39; of Videocon. The same was last year when Godrej introduced its new colorful logo. Both the companies, in an attempt to maintain their prominence in people&#39;s mind and not be completely eliminated by new competition have given a shot at a complete brand makeover. And I must say that its a damn good shot!! Both have surely </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/two-well-thought-out-rebranding.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-5808466368989676719</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-08T06:23:35.226-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budget 2009</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Finance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sensex</category><title>As the budget progressed, the Sensex took a reverse turn</title><atom:summary type="text">Indian Budget 2009 presented on 6th July by Pranab Mukherjee from the inside of Parliament House, New Delhi was one of the most awaited budgets (atleast in my lifetime I haven&#39;t seen a more awaited budget). The atmosphere was perfect for hearing the budget. We were seated comfortable in front of the television - me, my father and brother. Both of them with a notepad in hand to jot down as soon as</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/as-budget-progressed-sensex-took.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pjrQY7O5EwU/SlSVjD-74OI/AAAAAAAAAAM/aZ4EEMRg4PI/s72-c/sensex.bmp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-7965745882626880570</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-02T01:21:24.047-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jargons</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MBA</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Six Sigma</category><title>Six Sigma for a novice</title><atom:summary type="text">MBAs are famous worldwide for their extravagant use of jargons. Being an MBA myself, I guess this habit has rubbed onto me also. After the numerous presentations, reports, assignments, live project in MBA college, jargons become almost as familiar to MBAs as their names.Few days back, my father picked up my single page resume to read. Now, I come from a family of Chartered Accountants. My father </atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/07/six-sigma-for-novice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-5451925551469887053</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-30T04:34:24.113-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">achieve</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dream</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">profile name</category><title>A look into my profile name: dreamz2achieve</title><atom:summary type="text">I have always believed that to achieve something in life, you need to dream it first. The best way to achieve your dream is to have the picture of success always freshly visualized in your conscience. this would make you work harder to achieve your dreams. It surely works for me.I believe that dream is a tool that God has given us to simulate our future and plan ahead to achieve it in reality. So</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/look-into-my-profile-name.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7957618866213677329.post-6481836906382599881</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-29T05:53:35.655-07:00</atom:updated><title>Hi ...this is my first post</title><atom:summary type="text">Hi all,This is my first post.I guess all my would-be followers do have a right to know a bit about me.I have a background in software engineering and management. People with this combination often refer to themselves as Techno Managers. I am an avid reader of books since childhood -- strictly fiction. I love computers and anything and everything to do with it.My inputs to the blogI would describe</atom:summary><link>http://dreamz2achieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/hi-this-is-my-first-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (dreamz2achieve)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item></channel></rss>