Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Start where you stand

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don't give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeats

If you can start anew and win success,
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,

To-day's the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history;
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned,
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Time..


The river of time flows
Day and night two sides

Month, years walking alone,
Wasting precious life..

Rising hot and cruel sun,
Drying land, Killing hope and inspiration

Lets all come together

Bring down this cruel sun in deep sea
Never to let it to kill any hope again

Lets pull some clouds of affection,
Bring some drops of love and spirit
Quench the thirst of dying soul...

© Rakesh Kumar

AT hard rock café...


Yesterday we decided to visit hard rock cafe .
Hard rock cafe branches in Mumbai as well Delhi in India.. We got the seat and ordered platinum bloody marry my colleague ordered purple haze.. Drink was ok.. We ordered chicken wings which was dipped with sweet tomatoes sauce it was ok but not very exciting per my taste. The environment was excellent and few waitress were really very hot.. I did tried with southern rock was something mix of vodka with jack Daniel.. It looked that waitress had forgotten my order but I was determined to have it, so I enquired and it was served finally. We got really scared with chicken wings so we decided not to order anything we came back around mid night…..

At ESPN Zone


There are many popular bar and restaurant around inner harbor ESPN zone and hard rock cafe being one of them..
One day we decided to try ESPN zone… ESPN zone has two type of seating arrangement in side and also around harbor water.. It was weekday and there was not much crowd beside usual visiting tourist, we went inside but it was bit crowded with loud music also lot of gaming stuff both of kids and adult. So we decided to sit out near sea water the seating place was build on roof over sea water.. We order some draught beer which was more kind of their specialties there was not much food varieties available my other colleague ordered some sandwich we ordered some chips and I decided to have dinner at room...

At Philips...


It had been around one moth for me here and I still not happen to had authentic sea food at any restaurant here so I decided to spent weekend evening at one of widely famous sea restaurant near inner harbor Philips. Basically this is the chain of the sea food restaurant and well known ( not know to me, I was advised by colleagues) for sea foods only. We landed in the Saturday evening and after much thought and discussion what to try and not to try we ordered sea food platter which was supposed to contain fried sea food, what we got was tuna fish, shrimp, crab cake French fries and with some sauces. Taste was good and shrimp and fish were crispy with sangrita sips it was all great..

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Independence day...

Exactly 5 weeks back I left my beloved land
To explore a alien continent, there was no one behind


No laughter of loved one or smile of closed one
No tears of separation or any emotional burden

With all those emotions Standing still
Before my last step to flight

I slipped before I put last step to ride
Like the ground beneath my feet cried..

Now I realized it was holding me calling me
To come back everything is here if you realize

I didn't notice and found in strange land
Searched comfort in stranger all around

Back at home the room was dark without light
But looking at horizon I always found moonlight

No rainbow in horizon with only artificial light
No longer I was able to put my words down..

Searching for few corner whom I call my own
I remebered mud walls of my village where I had grown

How could I put words , with no feeling inside
After hours trying I got up with deep sigh.

Dream faded away when cruel reality strike
On few occasion I was cut with sharp knife
My mother tongue was only language in which I cried....

© Rakesh Kumar aug 2009

All but crabs…

Friday after noon was summer picnic here at Baltimore office there was enough variety of food but most amazing among those was boiled crab… basically crab were full boiled and you have to break it with mallet to eat it.. You can use pepper and salt if want… they were served on table you pick them break and peel of their skeleton and eat slowly. it was a amazing experience… with beer. I must say it was most exciting among all the food experiences I had here till now…it was truly memorable.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Some numbers...

So statistic discovered by me.... no offence please

97.8% of time if a guy look in the eyes of some girls and if they found at least twice girt looking back they think that she is interested.. And they will discuss it 80% of time instantly with person sitting with them, 20% after coming out of restaurant. 1.2 % time they don’t notice.

73% of time a guy will forget any attractive girl seen in market in next 3 hours

In 2% of cases they will remember till next year.

72% of time you will find even below average looking girl in foreign county more attractive…

89% of time if you find some girl smiling during conversation she must playing around with you and you don’t deserve any value in her eyes or rest of 11% you must be funny…. Which is not true…

73% of people sitting while drinking 81% of time think of a girl at least 3-4 times during a drinking session.

97% of people don’t like beer when they taste it first time. And they are still drinking it today

70% of men will cry while watching a romantic movie..tears may not come out..

60% of time if you see checking baggage tag in person who has is not coming from airport must have travelled less than 3 time in last 6 yrs.

66% you fart but don’t accept the fact even some one talks( 18% of time unless you sitting with chadhi yaar) about it.

81% of time you will promise to your self not to drink again after a bad hangover next day..

74% of time you wish talking or lift to stop if you find a attractive girl in lift unless you are getting late for office.

87% of people will exercise more or run faster than usual if they found a girl running in side trade mill in gym.

96% of guys will find a girl more attractive and appreciate it if they find a unknown girl smoking or drinking.

84% of girl who is smoking , is more than usual attractive and beautiful…

93% girl will fall in love with a guy only when they know he is rich.. 7% time guys were able to pretend themselves rich..
77% people dont know abt HR in any organzation. all rule is set by their own boss.
98% HR dont know what role they have in any oragnization. other 2% don't know what they are doing.
91% people will feel same nervousness while buying condom as they feel at their first job interview.

Friday, August 14, 2009

The Care taker

The other day i was discussing some project stuff with my American colleague Pete.. I like interacting with him and listening him, his way of speaking is smooth always in same tone and pitch and even you don't know if he is talking something good, bad, he is criticizing something or praising someone no expression and listener has to be very careful not to miss any words..
So during that discussion Pete was mentioning about 3 Gods in Hindu mythology.. he knew about creator and destroyer. I explained him about Brahma- The creator, Vishnu- The care taker and Mahesh- The destroyer.. Pete took it in our work context and said "Hey guys we know about who is creator and who is destroyer here, so lets become ourselves as Caretaker....

Monday, August 10, 2009

Update from baltimore,...

One more week left for me here and i will be flying back to India next Saturday.. it has been exactly one month here.. and i had exciting time here.. visited lot of places .. had different kind of experience and lot of new learning.
The recent update is that i will be staying here till end of august.. day by day personally i am feeling lonely and and isolated. My colleague most of time is busy with net and about himself we hardly talk with each other... its better to enjoy in one's own company rather than being with someone and feel like stranger. I started doing my usual stuff and occupied with my own stuff like going to gym and playing pool in community hall. I have started interacting with other members in the community....

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Burning….

Yes I am keep on growing,
Running, burning

But not without you...

Taking you like burden..

I am not tired of doing it.

Burning help me..
Makes me feel lighter day by day

The joy of burning…
You will never know….

© Rakesh Kumar

A dark night


On a road in a winter cold dark night
I was there abandoned , left alone and afraid

On this never ending road I sat and cried
I was thinking where to go or just die

I walked alone but deserted like no other
Did I hope you to be on my every twist and turn

Now Every day I passes alone
Nothing seem valuable that I own

Bending on my knees
Did not I try hard to pay this fees

For sure now I walk to solve this code
You will never realize and feel this pain..
There is nothing now you will gain

© Rakesh Kumar