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Monday, December 12, 2011

Time Management Quotes


Take inspiration from this collection of time management quotes in order to make the most of your day and manage your time more effectively.
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most”
Stephen R. Covey


"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin


"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau


"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

M. Scott Peck
"Never leave 'till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin
"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."
Stephen R. Covey
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
Muhammad Ali
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
William Penn
 "It always seems impossible until it's done."
 
Nelson Mandela
 "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." 
Napoleon Hill
"Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?"
Kerry Johnson
"The bad news is time flies.  The good news is you're the pilot." 
Michael Althsuler 

                                              source:http://www.greatminds.ie/Time_Management_Quotes_Quotes_on_Time_Management/Default.561.html

Thursday, November 3, 2011

view from the other side



The complexities of my mind
The restraints that blind
the curiosities i find
I must over come all of them..
I am my savoir
Have to defy the learned failure
Set patterns in quest of solutions
And sometimes break them to think beyond
If only i endeavor to take a chance
I know the view from the other side will be spectacular.........


Sunday, October 30, 2011

Busy Bee

Finally I have completed designing my template.Today i am visiting my blog after a lot of days.Mastering Business administration is indeed a busszzeeee process.Finding no time to relax. :-(...I have become such a busy bee that i have no time to visit my home or a friend even for the weekend.Exams Exams and more Exams....confused on which brand to choose as my presentation topic on "positioning" this Monday. Samsung smart phone or Micromax.Finally decided to go with our desi brand.I was appalled when it took me more than one month to finish Ayn Rand. :-(

Yesterday our class attended a workshop on "finding the champion with in". A girl of my class asked my fav.. Organisational Behavior professor regarding work-personal life balance.
As a student never thought regarding this aspect.I realized that until now we were in a so comfortable environment where most of the things were managed by our parents.Life is easy now though it seems to be tough.If forecasting is to be done then comparatively life is smooth and comfortable now.Being an adult and doing a job is seriously an adult business.Some times it really gets tough to balance your work,family,personal life and health.c'est la vie.
The girl was answered that there is really no clear cut solution for handling it.Only the situation teaches you.
You must have clarity in what you are doing and must prioritize properly.
I feel the majority of work stress can prevented in working in the sector you love and the job which you are passionate about.
Exercise or dance.
Have some thing(hobby) or some one(strong relationships with loved ones,friends and family)  where you feel relaxed and relieve out all your stress.if you find any more incl. plz tell me.
Anyways i am stressed more as i sit in-front of the screen.Got to go.Have an boring economics exam.... :-(....  Now don't yell at me saying what i am doing on my blog if i have so much work.Its my relaxation mechanism. :-P....Yeah Yeah I am going. hasta la vista
                                                                                                                 -starlet

Sunday, October 23, 2011

HEAL



Today I can understand why people are still happy, even they lose everything. 
I learnt the magic of healing and patience in the life. 
I realize that there was no need to worry so much about the things out of my control. 
Today, I have learnt that to find solutions, I must tame my mind to stop bothering and start working. Today, I no longer fear the unknown because I have already faced the dangers of the comfort zone. And it’s today that I really feel that I have grown.

ADDICTION




The other day, I was travelling back to Hyderabad from Bangalore. I got in to the bus. An elderly couple was sending off their young girl to their relative’s house. I was made sit beside her. The women gave multiple instructions to her daughter and the driver. The bus started. She waved her daughter until she disappeared.

I felt, children can grow up, but parents can never grow up to the stage of accepting the thought that their child can manage on their own.

I was happy. I hate journeys and I was wishing for someone to talk. And here was a girl of my age and we both face the same sadness (mummy's emotional attyachar) of going away from parents for a few days. Well this girl was very nice. I didn't feel the boredom of the journey. It’s like we were friends before. We spoke about everything possible in the world. We also discussed about religion, science, movies, boys, role models, Mother Teresa and all. It was a nice journey. Our talking was going on and on...

We were hungry and the bus stopped somewhere. All the passengers got down to have their dinner at a nearby dhaba. We had our food packed. So we chose to sit in the bus and eat. No sooner did we start eating an old man was standing in front of us. He was thin, weak. His right hand and right side of the body were paralyzed. He smelled all the drugs and medications. He was travelling alone. It felt like hardly he can manage to walk. We felt pity. He wanted me to open his tiff-in box from his bag. I did as he signaled me. I opened his bag, took out his tiff-in box, took out the spoon, put his water bottle beside him and helped him eat. He ate as if he were hungry for ages .He was stinking. I hated it. I was hungry even. But I grew sympathetic. I felt pity for this old man. I thought let him eat first. But still I helped him. He ate. I was contended that i did not get in to a medical college. I felt, just to help a half paralyzed man, a little part of my heart was hesitating and reluctant, hats off to mother. She went out in to the slums and helped to the extent she can.

Meanwhile the passengers, bus driver got in. We all thought if the bus starts earlier we can reach home early. The driver stared the bus. Suddenly someone told driver to stop the bus. We thought there might be an emergency. But to my surprise it was the old man we helped. He was requesting the driver to stop the bus. I further inquired and to my shock i came to know that this old man was asking the driver to stop for five minutes so that he can smoke. Damn. I regret helping him. This guy when he was denied to get down the bus, he started smoking in the bus only. I felt anger, at the same time I was laughing...SOME PEOPLE NEVER CHANGE.

Whatever may happen to that Old man? I don't care.


Addictions are strange. People are strange... weird...

Sunday, October 2, 2011

FORCED INTROVERSION


Don't blame me for my solitude.
All of them pushed me in.
I am into state of forced introversion.
I retrieve in to a cocoon of my imaginary world.
A sort of self imposed exile.
Started with the "all-are-good" perception towards the world
Which,eventually,proved me wrong
Its so not-like-me-style to have a pessimistic approach
So left caring the world.
I know nothing can cure me.
If such melancholy is reality,
Who wants to be cured.
I would rather love be nurtured
Waiting for you in an eager.
I know the scope of my 'imaginary-you' is meager
Nevertheless,longing for your love my dear.
To create our own world where i identify my belonging.



Friday, September 16, 2011

miss u ma friendz

Please say you will be there
I know,some day i have to be myself.
But ,still please just say...
When i fall,
I need some one to fall back on
Please say that you will be there to hold me.
They say that now-a-days, 'friendship is just a marriage of convenience'
But dear we will build up it on sacrifice.
Life is all trust and belief
Every clarity is leading to confusions
Every confusion is making me more clear.
Unstoppable curiosity,
Unexpected mistakes,
Unpredictable results,
I can handle on my own.
I know that you know it.
But please be there for me until i know it.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

a caring touch or a word is enough to cure and make some one feel better.


                   

Friday, April 8, 2011

potriats

Some of ma friends are asking why I was not posting any blog these days. The hard drives of my lappie are filled with and needed to be cleaned up. So I was just going through some old photographs and wanted to share some of interesting ones.
These were the photos taken by my mumma when she went to a tour at paderu agency in vizag for some social cause with her friends. My mom managed to click some great portraits of those tribal people.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

IDENTITY


Some of my friends say summi concentrates on cliche, not-so-happening things. They complain that sometimes I think too much. They say i am not contemporary. Yes, may be. May be sometimes I am committing social suicide by involving my mind into curable but uncured obvious problems of society. I do not understand what sort of trend, fashion, lifestyle or modernism demands you to live by showing blind eye to inner you. We have to enjoy every aspect of our life. Have fun. However, does enjoying every time mean losing yourself? Can’t we enjoy by being ourselves?
I am an Indian. I am a practicing, moderate Muslim, A small town girl of Telangana and a social conscious youth pursuing her education in a city, a fun loving girl who loves to have many diverse hobbies and interests. I am lucky to grow up in an environment with amalgam of cultures bestowed to these contemporary youth. I do not have any stereotypical identity. My identity is a blend of all the positive traits that I have learned from my cultural surroundings, the good things I am able to absorb and seek from the knowledge resources until now. Well may be its time to recognize the fantastic blend identity, which most of the youth in the society have. May be its time to move on and start recognizing people also by what they choose to be apart from what they are born of or where they belong.

Monday, February 14, 2011

TELANGANA WOMEN'S INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSION

On 26 th January,2011,republic day, I got an opportunity of involving in some good discussions on actual situation of our country.I was invited to a discussion on TELANGANA WOMEN'S INTELLECTUAL COMMITTE.It was different form all the others because some extra ordinary women from all the sectors of the society walked in for open discussion and their aspirations regarding telangana moment.I felt this as a good discussion because people were actually discussing the topic and the need for telangana.Many women,in much more then the expected numbers came there.I have some where heard that women's empowerment, political and social consciousness of women has been related to socio-economic status of the country.If that is true the situation of the country has really improved.We have changed from "just survive" situation to a "make a change" state of mind.


My topic was aspirations of Muslim girl students regarding telangana.I spoke this after discussing with many of my friends.I responded this when there was a cat fight about backward class or muslims nd all were digging and clinging to past and fighing and all instead of fair discussions about aspirations of telangana.
                                    Thanks to z.p.h.s l.m.d colony urdu medium staff,shahanaz fathima,shafia kouser,afreen,ayesha sultana,murtuza,n.p, and many other friends who helped for the mini scale research on the topic.
                                                                            

Sunday, February 13, 2011

LET ME

The way i follow is always new not strange it thrills me.

I feel connected and myself with it.
So plz dont bother about me and hold me back with your care...
I am following something which i cant figure out right now.
It may seem dark,full of trouble.
It may appear risky, untraveled.
Or it may seem silly,stupid and common ,which you may feel i do not deserve..
But the way amuse me.
I may not reach it.
Or i may feel how freak was i to follow it
But plz let me go to the extent i can..
Plz let me discover myself.

I know you will always be there when i fall apart and return.
You say let me come along with you...
But that journey would be ours not mine...
And I want this one to be mine..
I want to test myself..
Test the skills u have taught me.
Why don't you feel proud when i walk alone all by myself?
Why do you want to hold my hand even when I am able to walk..
My path..Its pulling me.
I can feel its gravity,the hope for the new world which lie undiscovered.
Waiting just for me to unfold.
A new turn,a future for us..
Now you say that if i don't want u to come along with you i will assign some one else.
But please realize on this path and particularly this one i need to travel on my own.
I am strong enough to deal
If I am not strong the troubles in my way will make me...
After all my quest is for unknown.
It may lead to glory or to the doom.
I do not know.
Still i want to go.
But i will not be able to take even a single step when you are dissatisfied...
I know the paradise lies under your feet.
but let me discover and realize the door to it.


                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                      -Starlet
                                                                                                              

Saturday, February 5, 2011

CLASHES


In the battle of fundamentalism and modernity i always trouble my heart and my mind..
To what extent shall I embrace the conventional,contemporary and modern traditions.
Should I act according to the situation or should I stick to what I am supposed to do.
Should I allow myself to act according to the reason,a reason to do everything,a reason to justify what ever i have
acted in the past and whatever i am going to act,every step i take or should i simply go by emotions?
What is the dividing line between individualism and selfishness?
A distinguishing point between fun and happiness?
follow principles but on what principles they are laid on?
Should i do something because it is the safest thing to do or should i take risk and offend the unjust?
Are certain things really unjust or am i the only one who is bothered?
How do i know that every time i act am i acting with courage or madness for a wild goose chase?
How do i know if my dreams are realistic or am i compromising on my dreams thinking they are too imaginary and fancy?
Is following my heart offending others?
Is it really hurting them or hurting their unthoughtful, prejudiced ego and emotions?
What are the things i can change and the things i cant change?
I aspire freedom but to what extent?
I aspire practicing traditions but to what extent should i practice?
Will this lead to open mind or will i be blinded by faith?
I want to be creative but what can be the limit of my creativity and free thinking?
Is my creativity killing the rules and regulations?
Is my creativity actually disturbing the system?
Is the system actually helping things to happen or limiting the man's potential?
Is there any equilibrium point?
Then one of the thing my heart replied is the that "The point,the limit,the extent is where your soul and heart stays unpolluted and pure."
But how do i know that?
                    I think my life is full of never ending questions..... 

Sunday, January 23, 2011

INHERITANCE ACT 2011



One of the undigested facts I have heard from my friends is that many guys are interested in dowry even in these modern times. They claim that it’s their right to have dowry as boy. Their parents have invested so much in their studies and indirectly it is helpful to his wife. So funny na... I feel such thinking as ridiculous. In fact one of the guys has gone up to the extent of saying that he is not in need of the money but still if he doesn't take dowry he will be left behind in the competition of having huge bank accounts. (God! what kind of people am I meeting these days. I regret meeting such people).

 I have also seen some girls who are willfully taking huge amounts from their parents’ home to their in-laws. Their argument is that father's property is inherited by male child. And this dowry system, originated mostly as a Hindu tradition ancient India, was followed to benefit the girl child. The share of the girl is deposited or given to the female child's next guardian, her husband in the name of dowry.

 Women's financial security was also considered in the Middle East cultures and religions. In Islam, the female child inherits a less fraction of her ancestral property and she also benefits from the Maher received from her husband on her marriage to him. But in India, this dowry system has adopted and inculcated in the Islamic culture as well. Its repercussions are visible cultural practice of Jahez in Muslims of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin.

 Bride price was practiced in the ancient times when the suitors used to offer amount to the bride’s parents and the highest bidder used to win the bride. This was followed because in that sort of society the wellbeing of the girl and the comfort of her future was directly related to the wealth that groom possesses. Richness was proportional to comfort, lifestyle for bride which indirectly preferred in choice of the groom by the parents of the girl. But that was old strategy. Today's society is different. Even though many bride abandoning cases have been reported, I still don’t understand why parents of Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and many other parts of our country are getting carried away with the glitters of the N.R.I grooms.

 There is a decline in the number of violent cases of dowry reported since the last decade. But still the rate of decline is very low. I have seen in the case of some of my Karelite friends that, despite Kerala has a literacy rate of 90.5%, parents are literally bankrupted after they marry off their daughter. Hence, we can say that education need not totally wipe away the social evils. The mind-set of people has to be changed. Small cause or the large cause we must encourage ourselves to take a pride stand against unjust.

In most of the societies in our country women are grown up, though they are properly educated, with a mindset of man-dependence. Many sections of society, even today, think that the primary purpose of women is to be a subject of men at all stages of her life. Women are raised up with an attitude to serve the one man and his entire unit. I was shocked to hear from an educated friend of mine when he said his sisters are married away no sooner they complete their primary education, as they think women lose their innocence if they let her pursue higher education. At first they will assign her with a man and if he wishes to educate her, she will study. With such attitude and mindset they make a totally unfriendly environment for a girl child to grow. No wonder why female infanticide still persists.

I don’t understand why a guy or a girl should be inherited with any kind of property in any form from the parents. The most valuable property whatever parents can give to the child is the skill and the ability to learn to develop in any circumstances or situation. The intellectual property, the best ever learning environment possible to them, so that a child can gain the strength to face odds and the strength to stand still on the principles he has learned by his own experiences while growing.