Moving to a new place for blogging

http://naziaslife.blogspot.com

I have received one of the most wonderful news of my life today.  Sandeep has got a RAW publication of his book today.  I am so much proud of him.  And I am really lucky to be his friend... I have told him to give me his autographed book.  Although I am not going to understand a word of it I am going to keep it.  My friend - an author of a book.. WOW

Just one news to make this day the best of the days. Thanks Sandy!

Going through a very different struggling and busy phase in my professional life.  It feels like the days when I joined the new job but I am not scared or insecured in any sense and so this is different.  It is quite busy since the work is new and the responsibilities are more.

But I am learning to handle a lot of things at once.  I am actually liking to see that things are being accomplished under my supervision and guidance (in a way).  Seeing positive things happen because of you is always a very good thing.

Learning is immense. 

In such an awesome phase, there is a pressure from family to get married.  I do not mind getting married, but at this age, I have some expectations in terms of comfort in a relationship.  Whatever you see from outside may not be the same from inside.  One requires time to get comfortable.  I hope my family understands and allows for some time towards this and not take me wrong.

I love my family and I do not want to disappoint them in any way.  But I do not want myself to suffer too.  Achieving balance is what is required now.  I hope I learn this too...

I have another workshop tomorrow.  I hope it goes well.  The career side is own.  I really want to own and control my personal front.   

I just read a parable by Shams-e-Tabrizi.  I loved it so thought of sharing it on my blog. 

Here it goes:

I have been a misfit since childhood. I knew that no one understood me, not even my father. He once said, "You are not a madman, fit to be put in a madhouse, nor are you monk to be put in a monastery. I just don't know what you are!"

I replied: "You know, father, I can tell you what it is like. Once a duck egg was put under a hen to be hatched. When the egg hatched, the duckling walked along with the mother hen until they came to a pond. The duckling took a nice dip in the water. But the hen stayed on the bank and clucked."

"Now, my dear father, after having tried the sea I find it my home. If you choose to stay on the shore, is it my fault? I am not to be blamed."

The story was taken from: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/index.html

Still enjoying more stories..

Yes, it is FED 2010.  I have not been able to sleep since last 2 days.  The excitement is killing me.  Cannot wait till tomorrow.

I will be in the FED hall tomorrow at around 9.30 AM.  All the free people around and I am much more excited to know that this is going to be my future very soon.  This is so good.  Seeing your future in the present.

I am surely going to post whatever I note down during the function.  It is going to be fun and celebration of FREEDOM!!!!

Well, its been a long time I have visited this place to write something.  It does mean something.  One of the interpretations of this definitely is that I have got some other place to vent out what I think in written form!

Yes, it is.  But I finally realize that there is nothing like my blog.  Every place has restrictions to write but this where I can be free to write.

Life changes a lot and there is nothing like change.  The most wonderful thing about it is that we can monitor the change and also  control it.  We can let things change as we want them to.  But this requires a lot of discipline.

I want to brush myself up in technical writing.  One of the burning desires in me and I really want this.  I have been following technical literature and reading some of the authors who do write.  I have also tried to practice it.  But now time has come to become much more serious about this.

The wish has come up on my blog and now there is going to be a greater self discipline.  Hopefully I will be back here with some good news about this skill that I am trying to brush up here.

Wishing me luck this time!

I visit this website once in a while and browse across random quotes and poems. 
http://www.khamush.com

Today, I clicked on a random poem and what I found out was this:


What I wonder here is, God can be so much mysterious and changeable, human being can have such a nature, but can a devotee be of such a nature too?  A teacher can be such too?  But then the answer I got was that, why not? After all, they are the representations of God!

Enjoyed the poem, so thought of sharing at one of my favorite places.

I was reading a book by Napoleon Hill and came across this beautiful poem.  I would like to share it here:

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose you've lost,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will –
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are -
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.