Regrets

One of the biggest regrets of my life :

Wearing white Shirt in Carbon Black P l ant

You know you have been in Consulting long enough when

You know you have been in Consulting long enough when :

• You start believing you don't have actual problems in your life; rather "gaps" and "improvement opportunities"

• Hotel staff seems friendlier to you than your actual friends

• When customer tells you that your rates are too high, you kind of blush, look away and then start talking of best pricing, core competency, etc

• When you look at your phone book more than 80% names are of those whom you don't even know

• While at Home, at times you get up in nights and try calling room service

• You almost always refer to Hotel as Home

• You get the best sleep in flights and trains

• While travelling, you find it easier to strike conversations with tough looking oldies rather than with girls of your age

• When you are about to travel onsite, you cleanup your room and tell your flat mates that you are checking out

- Ketan Waghmare

Note : This is one of those rarest articles wherein I have refrained myself from indulging in any sort of plagiarism what(so)ever !!

Shepherd and Consultant

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered "sure".

The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM ThinkPad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130-page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep. "That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car.

Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?", "OK, why not." answered the young man. "Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd. "That's correct." says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business...... Now give me back my dog."

Truth and dare I say lie

One day you will realize that you are a habitual liar.

On that very day, you will not move from falsehood to truth, rather you will move from lower truth to higher truth.

- Ketan

Movie Review : Ek Main Aur Ek Tu

Take 500 Days of Summer, put some What happened in Vegas , take kareena from Jab We Met and Imran from Jane tu .., remove all reality check riders and you get "Ek main aur Ek Tu" . Bah!!!

Book Review

Book Review: The 5 people you meet in Heaven :

It is one of the 5 books they give you to read if you land up in hell.

Phases of a Project

1 -- Exultation

2 -- Disenchantment

3 -- Search for the Guilty

4 -- Punishment of the Innocent

5 -- Praise for the Uninvolved

I don't believe

I don't believe in superstars,

Organic food and foreign cars.

I don't believe the price of gold;

The certainty of growing old.

That right is right and left is wrong,

That north and south can't get along.

That east is east and west is west.

And being first is always best.

But I believe in love.

I believe in babies.

I believe in Mom and Dad.

And I believe in you.

Well, I don't believe that heaven waits,

For only those who congregate.

I like to think of God as love:

He's down below, He's up above.

He's watching people everywhere.

He knows who does and doesn't care.

And I'm an ordinary man,

Sometimes I wonder who I am.

But I believe in love.

I believe in music.

I believe in magic.

And I believe in you.

I know with all my certainty,

What's going on with you and me,

Is a good thing.

It's true, I believe in you.

I don't believe virginity,

Is as common as it used to be.

In working days and sleeping nights,

That black is black and white is white.

That Superman and Robin Hood,

Are still alive in Hollywood.

That gasoline's in short supply,

The rising cost of getting by.

But I believe in love.

I believe in old folks.

I believe in children.

I believe in you.

I believe in love.

I believe in babies.

I believe in Mom and Dad.

And I believe in you.

-Don Williams

Too much love

Too much coffee, too much tea,

Too much sugar isn't good for me.

Too much money and too much fame,

Too much liquer drives a man insane.

But too much love, too much love,

There's no such thing as gettin' too much love

OOhh love, Oohh love,

There's no such thing as gettin' too much love.

Too much fighting and misery,

there's too much trouble in this world for me.

There's too much of this and too much of that

and too much of anything will make you fat.

But too much love, too much love,

there's no such thing as gettin' too much love.

Too many people saying don't do that,

It's a no, no, no, no, no.

I don't need telling where it's at

I said I know, know, know, know, know, know.

Too much pleasure and too much pain,

Somewhere someone's getting too much rain

And too much junk's being advertised

And too much television hurts your eyes.

But too much love, too much love,

There's no such thing as gettin' too much love

Oohh love, Oohh love,

There's no such thing as gettin' too much love.

La la la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la...

Weird..

“You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.”

― Jim Shepard

The right wrong

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

― Galway Kinnell