Global Service Day@MOTO

It was bright Wednesday morning,a typical weekday when the day started with usual hustle of coming to the office and trying to complete the unending tasks...but there was something to look forward for...yes...it was Global Service Day in Motorola, a day when Motorolans globally got an opportunity to give back something to the community they lived in....thousands of employees across world volunteered to go for activities involving service to old-aged,disadvantaged and cleansing of environ ment....7 of us from Motorola,Hyderabad chose to take up this activity of creating profiles of 150 odd students by interacting with them and also conduct workshops on life skills like hygiene and communication skills.

All of us set to go to this school-cum-hostel called Ashirwad managed by CHORD and Super-Gas.It was small, well-maintained, colorful building set in the outskirts of the city where the urchins and children from suburbs around that place came to study and stay.The activity started with us ineracting with 1st grade students.The kids geeted us with their heart" GOOD MORNINGS .What striked us the most was their innocence and the "happy" smiles they showered despite of the traumas they underwent...one kid's dad passed away when he was an infant...one kid's family lost evrything during floods.What is the most-awaited day when one is 6 years old...yes,their birthday and it startled us most of the kids over there did not even know their birthdays.But,despite evrything there was a whole-hearted smile on their face...quite different from the plastic smile that we sport all the time.Then we made them sit in one place and asked them to do something to entertain the audience....they readily came up and were seen singing and dancing merrily to their own tunes...for a moment we just wondered "why cant we be happy like them??" Despite all the comforts in life we crib and crib all day about every silly thing on earth ..."what was stopping us from being happy?".Then we realised that it was the lack of understanding the simple principle of life - 'live for the moment' and taking happiness from those 'simple joys of life'

Then the day proceeded and we comleted the activity of making profiles...it was evening time and hurray!!!it was play-time for kids and us...we played all those games which we used to play in our childhold...chanting with them...shouting with them...running behind them....we were so lost that we did not realise how the time flew.Like all good things have to come to an end...even the "most memorable" day of our lives had come to end.It was time to bid good-bye to those lovely kids aho made our day.The gratitude in their eyes and their wishes touched our hearts.But there was really nothing substantial that we did for these kids.Heart-in heart we were thanking them for the "happiest day" that they gave us and the valuable lesson they taught us staying happy in the tougher times.


There were so many memories to cherish...ramyas anger...uma's playful chant...the photo taken with the twins kavitha and kalpana...and a huge treasure of memories.We all took a resolution to visit this place often and do something better for these lovely kids.Thanks to Motorola ,Ashirwad and the bubbly kids for giving us this opportunity.

DATE:18OCT2006

IS THIS THE BEGINING...!!!

its attack season again theres something vth this number "11" it was 9/11 5 yrs bk...its 7/11 now....a series of seven blasts across mumbai killing nearly 200 odd ppl...all the blasts in first class train compartments in matter of few minutes...it has bcome a trend... it started vth 1993 blasts in mumbai..."series of blasts" one after the other shook the commercial capital...b4 system cud react to the 1st thr was other one...i mean so much of meticulous planning and coordination would have gone into planning all these blasts...if only such thinking and planning cud be put into something useful....last year 7/7 i think it was those series of blasts in London then during diwali in delhi ...n then varanasi...n again today in 5 grenade attacks on piligrims in srinagar...i think kashmiris are used to this phenomenon..... and mumbai on the same day....why is this happening...is it security lapse or lapse on intelligence or is it jus outbreak of uncontrollable terrorism....cud be nething but ultimately a common man suffers...mumbai ka tho bure din chal rahen hain...firstly it was incessant rainfall then it was shiv sena ka "halla-gulla" then its these blasts...day b4 yday agni-III falied the next day INSAT-4C failed wht is happening....I mean some1 really cast an evil eye on India....the images and snapshots of all these attacks are so disturbing...it jus makes me feel so restless to sit idly n watch all this on telly and jus feel sorry for it...nothing less and nothing more...i srsly feel from vthin to do something either go and attack all those terrorist camps...or hunt them out and hang each of them in public or be of some help to some1 but its easier said than done...theres so much vthin tht i want to vent out....those images really brought tears...i mean jus in a matter of few seconds... a young man thinking abt his future.... an old man thinking abt his family....a young lady thinking abt her career...all their dreams are shattered ...all those ppl wiped off from this planet just in a sec....jus imagine oneself in such a position...theres no security anywhr...n no1 to be blamed...n wht am i here worried abt...tomm training session.... some pending work at office..... all these things seem so insignificant...wen u urself come to an end for no mistake of urs....i am no pessimist neither am i so cynical but was really feeling restless vth all these happenings and jus wanted to let go all the thoughts floodin my mind...i know this post makes no sense...jus want to pay tribute all those who lost their lives for no mistake of theirs...those unreasonable deaths...wht has ne1 achieved vth such mass destruction...INSANITY!!!!everywhr...life though goes on........

written:11thJULY2006