What an odd feeling if things with out reminding you!!

What a stupid laptop with out your name in it!
What a stupid system with out your name in it!
What a stupid drive if it doesnt have a folder for you?
What a stupid me with out your thoughts..!!

There is no program without your naming conventions..!
There are no debug statement with out your name ..
There is no input with out your name in it..
There is no numbers with out your age in it ..
There is no DOB with out yours..

Uffff...Mudiyala.. Its very difficult for me to live with out..
Better I can say its all your memories I live with...

கவிஞ்னனான் கம்பூயுடர் என்ஜினியர்

Life does has its meaning!

Did you ever felt "what the hell this life is for?" . Did you ever felt that "Is my life meaningful?". Did you ever felt "Is it worth living this life?".Did you ever felt "Do I have to live this meaningless life?". I have encountered these kind of situations so many times, until Aug 28,2010. It's a Saturday and it was a working day for me since I have been deputed to work at one of my clients place SAMBA based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Things went as usual until evening. After a hectic day I went to my room and joined with my friends to watch a movie on S-pix. The movie name is "Om Shanthi Om" where most of you might have watched already due to its start casts. It went good but when I finished watching the movie I had a very different feeling , say a kind of pain or something. The feel is strong and I couldn't control few tears too. I couldn't say “what is it for, why so, am I missing something” .. I don't know.

I didn't took my dinner too. I didn’t get sleep too. So again .. decided for a movie. Here I have to tell you guys something. After reaching KSA for my deputation, due to restricted access to funs, entertainments I got habituated for download the worst movies of Hollywood history and started watching it (since I have almost completed the IMDB good movies list though). There I had a movie called "As Good As it Gets". Don't know how it came in that path, but I started watching it.

The movie started slowly and when it goes on, I got lost in it. I am enjoying the movie and laughing like a mad person. Its all because I could relate it to a person in my real life. I have thought many times that the person is useless, doesn’t have any goals, remarkable things done. But believe me, the things I was up to that.. the movie has jus changed me. Even a stupid , ruthless person (What I thought, but I’m really sorry for it now) could make such an impact. May be its not he wanted to
be..But he could make such huge impacts in other lives. Simply , that’s the one which induced me to write this post.

From that moment I started thinking, actually started believing myself. I, Me, Myself would have also created some impression?! I don't bother now either I have done it or not. But I have started believing myself. The best way of living a meaningful life is, "Be As you Are". Never change it for anyone except if you feel that person is worth giving up everything. Be as reasonable as possible to you.

Some day, when you turn back.. U should feel that you have lived a good life so far. Never missed the joy of life. If some other person looks back his/her life, the person should remember you. The impact should be there. That’s creates a lots of meaning.

Note: Guys, I am not good writer, also this is just my idea. I have tried my best to put it on blog. Your comments and ideas are most welcome. If you like to share something that will be useful to many.

Living in Saudi Vs India

If you are a non-muslim, if you doesn't know arabic its quite difficult to survive here in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AKA) KSA .Atleast you should know Hindi. Here 95 percent of people doesnt speak english / doesnt know english. So better be prepared for the language first,also for the change in week ends. Our week starts on Monday and ends on friday, but here its from Saturday to Wednesday. That makes your weekend as Thursday and Friday where as from normal Saturday and Sunday.

Here living expenses are considarbly good (Except the mobile services!! its too costly over here, you need to spend min 1 SR per min). You can live a good life with
1000 - 1400 SR. My sincere advise for you is better learn cooking before you come here. Because whom ever I knew over here are cooking themselves. Its the best way to
save money, though the restaurants costs you the same of our cities, we should remeber the only reason here we are for make some money!

In saudi there are so many super markets (they call it as hyper markets) where you can get all the groceries you need. They have computers to slippers in that place.
For the country people,We say it in Tamil as "Mannin Mayintharkaluku"!! You can see so many Indians out here. Not only Indians,people from Pakistan,Bangladesh and also
lankans and Philiphines. In short you can see most of the south east Asia people out here who's country's economy are not as good as UAE, KSA. We have separate area's
for differnt people's too. Like one of the Riyadh's (KSA Captiol is Riyadh) happening place like Baddah has differnt areas for Tamil,mallu restaurants. You can feel that you are in your home land when you enter those places. You don feel like you are in a Muslim country that too way away from your Native.

We have to remember to maintain our activities with our limits. This country is too sensitive. They follow all the rules as per King. That too a religious Muslim country, which has Medhina,Mekka you have to respect their customs. As our MNC's like TCS say, each and everyone of the employees is a Brand ambassidor. The same way,
here each and every citizen of KSA is a represntative, brand ambassdor of the country. They have all the rights to enquire you, search you if they feel. So better be respect all and keep things right.

Also know about the Ramadan period. In Ramadan month you wont see any one working for more than 6 hours. Banks, IT firms everything will be from morning 9.30 AM to
3.30 PM only. We don't get food , water at this time. No shops will be opened, no restaurants nothing.Food stalls and malls will become functional only after 9.30 PM.
So if you are not preparing food at home, be prepared for the fasting at Ramadan period. Lol

As I said earlier, this country is too sensitive. Each and every citizen of KSA has the rights to bust you out if they found you misbhehaving. No bird watching, No
boozing (also, they are not available here).The police here wont be nice to you since you are a foreginer, moreover they will be even more strict. Remember, if you
caught and thrown into prison it's very tough to come out. You wouldn't be allowed to contact outside. Better learn the rules, respect it and don't get into trouble.

Only god can help you out. May be you can read the below thread if you want to know more info.
http://speaktoshadow.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-experience-in-saudi.html

The sad thing about this Artical:

I have been keep on telling KSA is like this, rules are very strict, you have to obey them, respect the culture etc. Did I ever thought about those when I am in India? Do we?

A best example I can tell you.

This is about a business man (A big shot) in India. He use to take his dog for morning walk every day. On this time he makes sures that his dog finshes its natural calls by there, on the road. But the same guy, when he went to USA , who took the dog for a walk ensures that it completes the activities in home itself.

Its all because our mentality has changed all over the time due to laws that are not capable of shapping us. To be put in other words it has lead us to grow in a uncultured manner. If you are not accepting this fact, leave here a one good reason on the comment section. The laws are strict in USA, and it doesnt care about whom, so
the business guy does makes sures he is following the rules. Because he knows that rules are not like in India.

Guys..Don you think its high time to think? Also ..

http://speaktoshadow.blogspot.com/2010/05/mera-bharat-mahaan.html

Few things you might think off possibly .