Captain I-tag

Tagged by Cinderella. This is all bout the "I" that meets my eye - in short looking at myself and well finding out which nuts and bolts need tightening, which spare parts needs oiling and which are just fine the way they are. So here goes....

I am : Lost In Translation
I think : More than required
I know : We are all perishable so make the most of this given moment
I want : to be someone who people look upon in a good way
I have : I "think" (see again) to be the one I "want"
I wish : Life could be a little simpler to comprehend
I hate : My lazziness
I miss : My family and Bombay
I fear : Claustrophobic spaces
I feel : Life has more to offer than what we perceive
I hear : All kinds of sounds
I smell : Good food
I crave : Food from a certain place in Bombay
I search : Things to do constantly
I wonder : Rarely - make people wonder usually
I regret : One small thing
I love : Travelling and exploring places
I ache : When I move my lazy muscles
I am not : always sure of what I am about to do but do it anyways
I believe : Someday all new borns will be embedded with a chip that will interact with satellites for everything that we do today and have seperate gadjets for
I dance : Whenever I hear foot tapping music
I sing : Only in the shower
I cry : Sometimes
I don’t always : Confront
I fight : My craving for sweet stuff
I write : When in the mood
I win : dows not mac
I lose : All the time with kids
I never : Can approach someone upfront
I always : Love to be jovial
I confuse : Everyone who meets me for the first time
I listen : Nowadays to certain people
I can usually be found : Doing something or the other
I am scared : To loose the power to discern
I need : A new car
I am happy about : Able to do many things I want to
I imagine : The Built Environment (thats my job!)

I tag two people who I would like to know more about : Hiren and KP

1-2- Three Tagged

I was tagged by three bloggies on the same day with this tag:
Neeku Satish Jaggu
Honestly I am not reading a lot these days except some magazines. So Neeku - I dont have any architectural books that I read on a regular basis....
Few week back g-man eluded to a book 'kafka on the shore' by haruki murakami - this reminded me to read the original Franz Kafka - the author.
If interested here is an online version in PDF of one of his few completed works A Short Novel: The Metamorphosis
So just in time for the tag I received the book yesterday that I had ordered :
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

Now the Tag Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (since it just arrived - it was the nearest one)
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

So here's what it says...
I stood all ready to go. but the horse was missing - no horse.
My own horse had died the night before from exertions of this icy winter.
My maid was now running around the village trying to scrounge up the horse, but it was utterly hopeless.
I knew it.
Now the 5 people I would need to tag -
Any 5 people who read and are interested can take this up from the blogroll....

Winds of Change

Obama is the first African American to have won the Democratic Primaries. Hope he goes to win all the way.



There is a song - Yes, We Can! - Si, Se Puede! featuring a star cast, by will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas and inspired by Barack Obama's 'Yes We Can' speech that was hosted on YouTube and has been watched 7.6 million times already.



These are changing times when yougsters are making a big difference in the outcome of an electoral process participating online and making their voices heard. This process also saw many great debates held by C.N.N. (link) where people hosted their questions on Youtube and candidates answered them on Live TV.

Though am not an American still, I support the nomination of this young charismatic leader - Barack Obama.

Also for a completly different reason - I like Bill Clinton - The Clinton Foundation - and the work he is doing all around the world.

I was lucky enough to be able to meet him for few minutes and shake his hands in September of last year. Here is the link to that post Surreal Bill from my archives.

So now hoping that Hillary Clinton does accept the post for running vice - president - a dual ticket - will really embellish this moment in history of United States.

Quirk-tag

These are the rules:
1. Link the person(s) who tagged you…Brocasarea
2. Mention the rules on your blog
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours...
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them…
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged..
Quirks
1) Cant stand to explain something to someone more than once. If they dont get it at the first attempt...I feel that they dont need to understand it. At work it sometimes becomes an issue.
2) Dont like my hair touching the ear. Dunno why - but head starts feeling heavy if it does.
3) Have a knack of remembering things. The head is always buzzing.
4) Like connecting unrelated ideas and concepts to create a funny situation. Sometimes results in atrocious PJ's which even surprises me sometimes.
5) If I have to travel or have an early morning meeting always get up before the alarm - no matter how late I have slept or how early I have to get up.
6) Being an architect whenever I walk into a new restaurant with friends - everyone is interested in the menu - I am more interested in how it is designed and detailed and picking the best spot to sit and enjoy. Its a quirk as I walk in looking at the ceiling first.
Now tagging:
Ankur Sam Neetal Princess Mia Solitaire Xh

Are of ONE of these?

A while back we got a brochure at office to take part in the seminar "How to Deal with Unacceptable Employee Behaviour".
It was more for the principal and managers. Being a small office we really did not need to attend this as we have a culture - "Do it as you please - when you please - where you please - as long as you meet the deadlines".
Being a desinger I have never been in a corporate environment - well yes I was for a year in a corporate architecture firm here - but I quit the job...
Design or ideas cannot be time bound or specific, it is a process and a concept or idea has to be massaged, rethought and analysed many times over before one even draws a line. In short it is a continous process.
For me the shower is the best place to get best of the ideas....I sometimes forget I am showering...just waiting to get that Eureka idea like Archimedes.

So here goes a list of Unacceptable Employee Behaviour (At the end honestly comment and let me know if you are one or some of them or better still print this and ask your managers to evaluate you)
1) The Excuse Artist : Misses every deadline and goal, but always seems to be ready with a "good" excuse or to place blame and point fingers at others.
2) The Short Changer : Late to work, early to leave, "stretched" lunches, extended breaks....this person makes an art out of shortening and short-changing the workday, while leaving coworkers "holding the bag"!
3) The Intimidator : Everyone's tip-toeing around this person, lest they incur wrath and anger!. The Intimidator uses fear and bullying tactics to control coworkers and can single-handedly ruin an entire team.
4) The Gossip : The are guys who are waging a verbal warfare....everyplace, everytime....personal attacks, rumors,, carping and criticism are the tools of their trade.
5) The Clod : The master procrastinator who can come up with plenty of excuses as to why a task or a project hasn't been started. And when he does start the project it moves at snails pace..slowing everyone else down
6) The Downer : No matter what, this person is unhappy. maintains a consitently negative, stifling presence and spreads bad news.
7) The Minimalist : Apathetic and low-performing...these unmotivated workers can be counted on to give the "bare minimum". They turn up mediocre performances that are poor enough to frustrate managers but passable enough to keep them employed.
8) The Soap Star : Their continuing "soap opera" of personal problems not only hurts their own productivity, but distracts sympathetic coworkers.
9) The Itch : They need constant attention, reassurance and feedback....and take too much energy and time to manage, you often find yourself sacrificing job responsibilties to help them meet theirs.
10) The Smarty Pants : Challenges your management authority and questions management desicions and creates a harmful undersurrent of "anti management" chatter.