This is Life!

This is from one of the forwarded email:

When there is no friend,
When life is on the dead end,
When world is not a paradise,
When your confidence dies,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

When things don't go right,
When there is no ray of light,
And its too hard to survive,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!


When there is competition to face,
When you are lagging behind in the race,
When you've lost faith in God,
When you're betrayed by a fraud,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE

When others don't respect you,
When you're not amongst the admirable few,
When for a question, you can't find a solution,
When all you're sure about, is confusion,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!


When your destination is miles apart,
When you don't know where to start,
When all you see around is pain,
When your hardwork is in vain,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!


Even though all this happens
just have faith in self & face the life
with smile,
things will surely change one day
because as said "THIS IS LIFE ...

Lalu in Singapore

Last Saturday, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav was in Singapore and delivered an interesting lecture on "Turnaround of Indian Railways". As expected, the hall was full. It was my first opportunity to listen him and I went there just because of curiosity about Lalu and Railways.

Mr. Sudheer Kumar, IAS officer, gave excellent presentation on the actual reasons of turnarounds. I was impressed by the dynamic ticket pricing policy and turnaround time of the goods carrier. Seemingly simple ideas had excellent results in terms of the profitability.

Coming back to Lalu, He was self as usual. He spoke in hindi (and there was some arrangement for people who don't understand hindi). He shared couple of funny incidents and talked in various topics rather than concentrating on the Railways. The question-answer session after the lecture was equally fascinating with people asking very funny to very intelligent stuff. Overall, it was an exciting event.

The Tipping Point

I recently read this book called "The tipping Point: How little things can make big difference" by Malcolm Gladwell. This isn't a novel, but it is regarding how epidemics spread, kind of general sociology. It has some very interesting ideas and discussion about the root causes. It is easy to correlate with ideas discuss in this book. If you find a copy in your library, it's recommended to read.