Nostalgic : Soz-e-Ishq by Abida Parveen

A very touchy ,well composed, and fantastically performed by legendary Abida Parveen.
Takes you to a different realm and living.

Being true to yourself

Today, I enjoyed being my real self after a long time.
 Its always good to know your true self once in a while.
And pursue the passion you always crave for . !!!! 

2012: Long Term Evolution (LTE) or Long Term Travel ( LTT)

Flying back on the evening of 24^th December,2012,  may sound exciting.

 The joy of Christmas may let your forget all the worries of the travel.

However, this time it’s a partial joy of flying back home (Dallas for now) for Christmas.

The excitement calls to the end of a productive year of teaching and travel.

Lets take a look at the stats.

Number of platform days  = 188 days

Total days in the year = 365 days

Prob. = 0.51 ,

This means on any given second day , I was teaching .

 more than 50% of the time.

An average class duration is 8 hours.

 8/24 = 0.333. More or less, I was spending one third of my time.

 Teaching or training . If I include 2 hours wasting in traffic everyday

8 hours for proper sleep . I have 6 hours left behind. These 6 hours

 include the time to catch up and prepare for next days and relax.

 includes  eating schedule as well. 

This estimation boils it down to the pretty much 24 hours covered.

Question is ? Why to discuss this ? What did I learn from all this

  or just taught  with straight face?

My first class this year covered North America virtually J.

First three days of the class in Canada, last two days in United States.

From there on started the avalanche of distance classes.

 January, was spend in delivering distance classes online.

Feburary, brought a breath of fresh air with internal classes ,mixed

 with distance classes and to wrap up the month, went to see the beautiful DC

 Area and Sprint big offices in Reston,VA.

March madness was filled with trips to Kentucky and welcoming

spirits of the red necks from country side. To top the schedule 

 with digestible schedule I got some better AIPP classes.

April , was fun , from North Carolina to Seattle, LTE was everywhere

From Verizon to Blue grass, from Ericsson to ACS Alaska. Everyone wanted

 To learn about LTE J

May , brought the advent to hot season. To cool off, I was fortunate

 to spend the weeks in Seattle, accompanied by trip to DC and KY.

In short road warrior percentage for May was 75%

I have never been to MO, just heard of it. The month of June brought

with it the joy of visiting MO + having some adventure at the airport.

J, off course, rest of the month was mixed by distance learning.

July was a month to relax and focus on DL for two weeks only, followed

By the fully packed DL month of August.

September brought a trip to Iowa and rest of the month was usual

 DL classes to T-Mobile.

How can travelling fun end, without including sunny California in the picture.

 October brought a trip to LA ,followed by DL classes.

November was pretty slow and just delivered one class to internals.

December was fun , reached the end of the year with trip to San Francisco

Followed by Hartford, CT ( Metro PCS). Learned some tough lessons from

 corporate diplomacy as exercised by individuals.

However, now when I look back , the whole year flew by L.

Off-course, I have learned a lot of new experiences, professional

 exposure, met some failures, faced some harsh realities, came to know some

 dirty politics . 

 In order to earn a living and make both ends meet I had to place

 personal goals on the back burners.

Question still remains un-answered. How to tackle all this ??

 Having described all the travelling and teaching in a nut shell.

 At the end of day, my regret and thirst still remains there, for a vision.

 The vision to focus more on my school. Get my two  year old pending research paper

published and graduate with flying colors.

Amen.

Who should do all the work ??...

Larry Page has said damn so right, couldn't agree more.. , " I’ve always believed that computers should do the hard work – so you can get on with the things that matter in life … living, learning and loving."

These lines really made me think, why I have invested 10+ years in the field of engineering and ICT. 
 It really motivated me, to make use of our high tech knowledge and use it for the good . Peace !!!

Woh Humsafar thaa

Tark e taulaqaat? pe, Roya na tu na mein,
Lakin yeh kya keh chain se soya na tu, na mein

As you know , it is a very famous Ghazal 

Looking in past for future ..

I was not supposed to be blogging at 2 am in the morning.
 But looking back in years, I find myself, doing the same stuff repeated over and again.
The power within , as we all are unaware of it.
The joy and happiness with in , have no limits.
 Looking at the past brings a lot of good memories and
 lessons learned.

 My routine remains the same ,
 I try to look at the past and
 find  encouragement from the hurdles over come..
 What looked so difficult is a history now.

Thank you for good insipiration my good memories,
 not only myself, most of us remember the good old days,
 because life  , gets its meaning from the past.



 

You bring Spring...

Once I heard from an old friend , "What do you know about H2H /D2D or B2B communication ". 
I could not understand this question on a personal level until today. When I met some one today again after a long time. Who ?? My mind would say a good friend, heart would say an amazing friend, emotions would say dont lie to yourself , use a word exceptional best friend   
Apparently we have so many people around in our lives. But then there is some one you dont know the limit of your relationship with them . Is it finite or inifinte ?

Imagine you wake up one Saturday morning, in North Texas heat. You have no plans and are being lazy. Suddenly , you get a message/mail, and know that you have a plan. You look out of window , expecting bright sun outside . But instead , there is a panoramic view of Hawaii  :D . So  romantic , little drops of rain , cool breeze flowing around, everything is so fresh. This must be waking up in a wonderland. What is this feeling ?? What causes all this ? ?
In such a situation ,would you literally keep on jumping for the excitment ,since you are going to see some one you have not seen for a long time.? Well I did today , I did jump for 10 minutes to vent out my adrenaline kicks!!! What for ? Only two answers , who knows it or everyone knows it !!!

Have you ever wondered why is that ? , some people have so much control over your emotions , personality and passion. You never realize it. unless they leave you, and you desire for every single possibility to be with  them .While with them you see everyting colorful around you. You see as if there is Spring  for 12 months a year.

If you ever find some one who will give you this feeling ,than nothing else matters.  We are  Humans ,  we are social animals, we live on relationships, depend on  friendships and express emotions. When days are good, we do not care, we reach the sky. When days are bad, we want to die.
 They say there are no straight roads to success. On the same pattern, there are no straight roads to find that some one special . They will rise you up, they will bring you down. When you are all happy ,they will break the bubble. When you are so down, they will raise your imaginations to reach the stars. These peaks and valleys are brought in your life, through them. If you admit it honestly, they are the ones, who keep your heart beating and beating more fast when you see them.
If they are not here , you can spend all the time available, whether there is
blizzard in Chicago or wilderness in Virginia. May it be chillax on a rooftop bar to the unbearable heat of Texas in August.:) You would convice yourself that the better use of your time is to stare on their photos.

The sad news is, what if the one who keeps you going , does not feel the same way for you ? Dang
Hard Luck !!!. But this is life, you cannot  change them for who they are or what they feel for you. What they are is what makes you go crazy  :). But one partial solution is, you sure can  let them know what they mean to you . But how ? Simple just write a blog about what you feel about them :) :) :) 

Hope is one of the best words ever . It cheers you up , never lets you down. Gives you influence too. I have hope too, may be one day , I and many others like me,  will get to see Spring for 12 months a years. . And the ones who bring spring in our lives, they will have their emotions deep  rooted in the same :) .