India Premier League

I am definitely not a big fan of the concept, especially in the time of recession, when thousands are loosing jobs and not only because their roles have become redundant in the company, but also because companies are using downturn as a shield for shedding of extra resources that they have recruited just to make numbers. Its like someone recruits for completing his or her own transactional targets and not thinking of enterprise first. And when cyclic things like recession is witnessed, poor employees like us have to face the axe. Any ways, that can be a totally different post on which I can try my skills (:D) later, but as of now I'll focus back on IPL.

Yes, so IPL, a concept which could have been revisited with different approach this year, just for the sake of what is ging around, I mean the lavishness, the financials of the same.

Any ways, keeping all its negatives aside, what makes me adore IPL is the perseverence, the persistence, the hard work, the never say die attitude of the teams and on top of all the leadership qualities of few guys, the likes of Warne, Kumble, and Gilchrist.

What Warne and Co did in the last IPL is totally commendable, coming from the least favourites, they just went on winning and winning. No big stars to start with, all newcomers or laggers but immensely talented guys. Warne has taught what otherwise is missing in many self proclaimed leaders/managers. This is true everywhere in life, its what we call 'Respect' for people, everything cmes out of it. When you respect the fellow human being, when you confidence in someone, the guys can do wonders. But unfortunately this 'respect' is very much missing in our country especially.
You take it any aspect of common man's life, we have become so mechanical, the 'human touch' has gone missing.

I am not talking about respect among friends, peers, thats all very fine. It becomes crucial then there is difference of levels.

One must observe the arrogance and carelessness that is apparent on the roads, no one wants to spare one extra minute to let someone else pass by, but at the same time are ready to fight for half an hour advocating once fault. Pathetic.

Look at how workers(construction) are treated by contractors, they are nothing more than a machine to them. They are treated like objects.

The scene is not very different in many corporate offices.

Again went little off track, yes so the point was that its all about Leadership that does the miracles.

I am not sure if what I scribbled here makes any sense or not, but I just wanted to write something, its been such a long time :-).

-Ali

Ways of 'Sorry'

Hi, found this nice postmartem of different styles of 'Sorry' on one of the bulk mails, thought I would store it here publicly :-)...

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The way people apologize and their style of saying sorry depends a lot on their personality and zodiac traits. No wonder Leos embarrass you when they say sorry while Arians will actually annoy you with their apology..

Aries:
For starters, Arians think they are so sweet, they could not have possibly said or done things that need an apology. So in the unlikely possibility of them actually going down their knees to apologize, it will be a simple sorry. Nothing less, nothing more.

Taurus:
They are so scared to face others when they make a mistake that by the time they resurface to tender an apology, the damage is done. So Taurans end up making foes out of friends because of their laxity in apologizing.

Gemini:
Geminis think they are infallible and therefore will never really apologize for anything. But once they realize, they prefer to act as if nothing happened, and behave normally with people who have a problem rather than remind others of the incident by tendering an apology.

Cancer:
Cancerians will make you feel sorry for demanding one when they make a mistake. They are the legendary characters that burn hands and slash their fingers! in order to display the quantum of their repentance. Their repentance is dangerous.

Leo:
Leos are a delightful bunch even when they are trying to make up for their follies. They will go down their Knees, buy flowers, put up sorry posters.. Do everything colorful to flatter you and make up for their mistakes. In fact it's fun to induce them to make a mistake and let them apologize for it.

Virgo:
Virgos will first formally set aside a time and date and inform them what they want to tell you. Then they will mentally prepare themselves to talk out the same things. They will finally draft the script and read out whatever they want to. In short, even their heartfelt apologies sound like well-drafted scripts.

Libra:
They are very vocal once they realize their folly. They never ever hesitate to come clean and admit their mistakes. In fact, they will go out of their way to convince you about how genuinely sorry they are.

Scorpio:
Scorpios are formal and think that tendering an apology is more of a formality. So instead of just saying sorry, they will send a formal mail or send a card, whatever it takes to avoid direct confrontation.

Sagittarius:
Sagittarians don't believe in being sorry or apologizing. For them, it is human to error and therefore saying sorry is just redundant. Interestingly, even if others make mistakes, they are pretty cool and don't expect much from them.

Capricorn:
They can't take a simple sorry. They need reasons, explanations, written letters and the works to get elicit an 'Ok, you may go now' phrase. They are hard to please and even harder to appease.

Aquarius:
They are sweet, genuine and innovative when they think they are wrong and need to undo the damage. Aquarians are easy on their mistakes and don't take too much time to do their apologetic.

Pisces:
Pisceans don't easily give in because they believe that everything is about perspective. So if somebody thinks they made a mistake! , it's because they have a wonky perspective. Pisceans and apologies? No chance!!