Today is my friend and colleague's last day. It's meaning in all the type of " Last day". I think, very first she announced it to me. She got a new job and joining there on Monday. I am wishing from my heart, a very successfull career. I know, even if I don't wish, she is the blessed one. Doesn't have any type of stumbling blocks on her way.

I given her lunch, that was my treat, on last saturday. I told her one word, we may not have together today. That happened. But, she complained at the time of lunch, when she came to know, I am going out for something and would have lunch. It was like this...." What is this..... On my last day.....". I said "What to do?" I really can't avoid that. But, by the way, lost something else.

I wanted to wish her, but I don't know, how it will overflow and reflect. My mind is not in a stable. Somany times, she knew me very well and helped a lot. She was my good friend, but can't say true friend. So many reasons....... I know where she going and who will be her colleague. I know the situation of that working place, because I have lots of connections overthere.

I really knew, this relation won't be stable. But I liked that moments, can't say any other words. The series is going on. But something happened together. The good thing, I think, there is no memorable moments in our relation. But I never forget her. Not only her, whoever walks to my life and gone.

This is a beautiful message by Mr. Azim Premji. You must read it.

If you are a parent, you have many aspirations for your child that may include him or her becoming a doctor, an engineer, scientist or another kind of successful professional. I believe these aspirations are driven by your thinking about your child's future, and her centrality in your life.

Since good education is often the passport to a good future, I presume it leads you to getting your child admitted to a good school. Then you encourage your child to study hard and do well in school exams. To bolster this, you send him or her for tuition classes. This would have primed your child for board exams and entrance exams, thereby leading to admission into a good professional course. Doing well at college increases the probability of landing a good job. And a good job means the child's future is ensured.

I am neither a psychologist nor an educationist, and what I will now state may seem counter-intuitive. I think that these aspirations and actions might be doing more harm than good to your child. To understand why; we .need to re-examine some of our fundamental assumptions.
In the first place, I have seen time and again that living: for some distant future goal also means you do not live in the present. The distant goal will always translate into an external measure of success, such as exams. And most exam-focused children start forgetting what it means to be a child, to be curious, mischievous, exploring, falling, getting up, relating, discovering, inventing, doing, playing.

Childhood is very precious; precious enough not be wasted by the artificial pressures of contrived competition, by too many hours of bookish study; and by school report cards that simplistically wrap up an entire human being in numbers.

The second assumption is that education is merely a ticket to socio-economic success. Given the state of our country; this reality cannot be ignored. But restricting education to only this aspect is, I think, a very limiting notion of the aim of good education. The primary purpose of a school is to guide the child in her discovery of herself and her world, and to identify and nurture the child's talents. Just as every seed contains the future tree, each child is born with infinite potential. Imagine a school which sees children as seeds to be nurtured - here the teacher is a gardener who helps to bring out the potential already present in the child.

This is very different from the current view which sees the child as clay to be molded -where the teacher and parents are potters deciding what shape the clay should take. There is an old (and forgotten) Chinese saying: "Give a seed to a potter, and you will get a bonsai".

Even in a commercial organization, to make profits we do not have to chase profits. Rather, we need to build an institution that gives every employee an opportunity to do meaningful and fulfilling work.

Create an organization driven by values of innovation, integrity, customer centricity and care. And as you practice these values everyday and moment, you will see that the profits take care of themselves.

Similarly; dear parent, this is my request to you. Do not give up your child's present to secure his or her future. Give your child the freedom to truly explore life with abandon. In doing this, you will see your child flower into a creative and sensitive human being. And when this happens, everything else -money; social success, security -I will fall into place automatically.

Let your child be a child.

(The writer is Chairman, Wipro Ltd )

This is an e-mail came to me from one of my friend. I would like to blog it, so that, many can view this and can spread. You must read it.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line. There isn't one. Read it anyway.

My question to all of you is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.

After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question.

When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?"

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. "I believe, that when a child like Shay comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes, in the way other people treat that child."

Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.

Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?"

Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play.

The boy looked around for guidance and, getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning."

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of! the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in theoutfield. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher took the ball and turned and threw the ball on a high arc to right field, far beyond the reach of the first baseman.

Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!"

Never in his life had Shay ever made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!"

By the time Shay rounded first base, the right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions and intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.

Shay ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home.

Shay reached second base, the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third!"

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams were screaming, "Shay, run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the "grand slam" and won the game for his team.

"That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world."

AND, NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY:

We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people think twice about sharing.

The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people on your address list that aren't the appropriate" ones to receive this type of message.

Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make adifference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things."

So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up that opportunity, and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

You now have two choices:

1. Delete this.

2. Forward it to the people you care about.

Remember: Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

You are one!!

Hey, this is somewhat I found the solutions for the creamy Traffic Jam for Mumbai.

Point 1 :- Implement the season ticket system for BEST.

This is just like the system, what they had implemented in the APSRTC's city bus services at Hyderabad. The system works like this.

a. Issue a monthly season ticket for the passengers. It can include a daily pass also with a fixed amount.
b. The different passes should be availble for the buses like, AC, Ltd., Spl, and running to suburbs beyond Mumbai districts.
c. The highest grade can use the same pass to the lowest grade bus, while lowest can't use the same to highest.
d. The daily pass is for a fixed amount and it can be used anywhere within the day, depends on the buses. It should be marked / punched the date of issue and the validity for a day only.
e. The season ticket can be used any city bus from anywhere to anywhere.

The advantage of this system is, people don't want to wait for a bus to their destination and can avoid the rush on the bus and long queues for waiting a bus. If one had a season ticket and want to go from Andheri to Ghatkopar, he don't want to wait for the bus no. 34o. If he sees the first bus 415, going to SEEPZ, can get in from Andheri and get down at Chakala, then can catch another bus going towards Sakinaka, from there, he can catch another bus to Ghatkopar. Because of this system, people can leave their vehicles at home and can avoid the traffic clogs in the roads.

Point 2 :- Re-arrange the traffic flow.

For the peak time, controll the traffic of heavy jamming areas by preventing the entry of taxi's and rickshaws. It's observed that, the taxi's and rickshaw's are creating the big traffic problems in the city.

Point 3:- Follow the rules strictly

The main offensers of the traffic rules are Mumbai's Public Transporters (BEST). For example, if it is a heavy jam on the one lane, the BEST drivers are taking over through another lane. So, the followers, whoever, will come through this lane and makes fully jammed situations. The policemen, never take charge against this. I think, they are considering, it is a public transport system. Because of this offenses, the situation will become worst.

Secondly, the taxi's are stranding near to the stations, makes big problems. Police should not allow taxi's or rickshaws to strand from their lanes.

Point 4 :- Derive new laws for better performance.

This may be little difficult, but practice will make easy. In the city, all the bad habits are developing by the IT companies. They are for the growth of the country and the growth of the bad habits too.

Suppose, if one company is offering it's employees to the free pickup facility, then 50% will use the system and the rest will come by their own vehicles. To come office by own vehicles or by taxi, company will give the extra perks. For this extra perks, people will try to get own vehicles or use taxi's and increases the traffic and make the situation worst.

Here, police and govt. should follow the new rule, which recently applied on Banglore city for the solution of traffic jams. This rule is built in Banglore now only for the schools, but it can apply here for offices. The rule is as follows:-

" If one school having school bus to pick up their students, if any students are coming to the school using their own vehicle, fine them a minimum of Rs. 500/- and warn. If any school doesn't have school bus, govt. are offering state own bus for plying school service for a particular time. This will reduce the traffic and could effective. "

This can be applied here by changing it to the companies, those who are having own buses. If the company needs vehicles other than bus's for their service, it should consider only for special purposes and can reduce the cost, effectively.

The above ideas can be utilize perfectly. If anybody agrees or not, expecting a comment on this.