Happiness and Sadness run parallel

Hey ppl..

Last weekend (5th & 6 Mar 2011) something unique happened to me, its an different experience all together. I faced happy moments and sad moments at the same time.

To start with March 5th and 6th, 2011 was an important dates for my friend "Pranesh Madhavan". This was the day he was getting married. Well way back then, when I used to live near New York, he was one of my friend.
We use to hangout a ton. His marriage was fixed and venue was decided at Chennai, India. For this occasion lot of my US friend planned to come. I was really excited to meet them and planned my trip well in advance i.e in Dec 2010 itself. As planned, I visited Chennai, attended marriage and enjoyed with my friends. That was the best weekend I spent with my USA friend.

But, there is a person who never care about your plans instead he will always executes his plans  ( GOD). He planned something else for me for that weekend. I was all set to go for marriage on Friday ( 4 Mar 2011), my Grand Mother( My mom's mom - Rangamma ) had Myocardial infarction( Heart attack) and she was admitted to "Jayadeva" hospital. I visited her on Friday before leaving to Chennai and had a word with Doctor. According to doctor it was mild attack, and she will be alright. With his words, I left to Chennai hoping I will see her on Monday.

I remember last time in hospital she said take care and kind of happy journey ( By that time, some nurse started shouting at me and grandma. She want me to go out and my grandma not to talk).With all that I left hospital and headed towards my cousin's house who drove us to Chennai that night.

I really enjoyed each and every moment at Marriage function. But I was trying to reach my parents here in Bangalore to check how is Grandma.  But no one was picking up my call. I thought they were busy and once they get time they will call me back.

When I didn't get any call from them for 2 days, I guessed something wrong. But still I was hoping for best and returned back to Bangalore on Sunday 2011 at 11:30 PM and heard the bad news. My Grandma expired on Saturday early morning itself :(

I still had my sweet/ happy memories of marriages in my mind and here death. My mind was kind of confused, shocked, blocked out for hours… I was not able to sleep, I was still not able to figure out, what was going on… Somehow after long time i.e early morning I slept.

Anyways, its been 2 days, I am almost normal now…

Before ending my post  I would like  to Congratulate "Pranesh Madavan" , "Shashi Madhavan"and wish them Happy Married Life

and

I will pray god to give my Grandma a good gathi in paraloka…

-Vijendra

Spellchecker - My real enemy

Hey people,

Today I am writing something which is troubling me from very long time in my heart. Its my "Written English".
I am not sure how many of my friends know I suck in written English. It could be grammar, spelling mistake, sometime using wrong word... this list goes on and on....

Firstly, I started my journey of learning English in my school day (its not LKG or UKG, but its my 6th grade). I learnt alphabets and framing 3-4 letter words in 6 & 7 grade. When I moved to Hight School, it became nightmare. It was one of the tough subject I faced. Somehow I graduated from high school even without knowing much english.

Later joined college, with friends also used to speak Kannada. When my professors write something on board I remember I use to read word by word. Forgot to mention, my 11th and 12th grade were in English medium. Graduated from pre-university college and joined Engineering.

This is place which made me realize that "English" language is very important. Just an year before my graduation I started my preparation to learn everything about the language. My friends taught me grammar, tenses, when to use "is", "was" etc etc. Somehow with god grace by end of graduation I was able to speak some broken English.

When I joined Mahindra Satyam as a Software Engineer, work place taught me how to speak in English. I am sure, I am so much better in spoken english than I write it.

From past few months, I started writing blogs, essays and realized that " I am so bad at writing English". Let me put it this way - " I am not at all improved in my written English". The major reason for all this is Computers.



When ever i feel like writing something, I type it in Mircosoft Word or in some website. These application(word, browsers) are programmed to correct spellings if any. When I started my career as programmer, I used to pick spelling suggestion  from the computer to correct my spelling and without my knowledge it became a habit. Now I can't write on paper or type on any computer tool which not support spell check, because which make me uncomfortable.This uncomfortable feeling is fear of mistakes, which paper can't highlight or my mind either.

Now its time to put an end to this excuse. I decided try hard to improve my written english and want to feel myself good. I seek all my friends help in achieving this.

Last by not the least, I thank all my friends who made me realize this. And special thanks to "Girl" who always correct me then and there when ever i make any mistake.

P.S: Any spelling or grammatical mistakes please ignore.

Cheers,
Vijendra