Federer Vs. Roddick

 

There are some ordinary things in life which touches your life and teaches you something in the simplest possible way. It was a Sunday evening and I was watching the Wimbledon match between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick. It started at 7 PM IST and went till 11 PM. Both the players were awesome, hardly any mistakes and playing very consistently.

But one thing which strike me was the calmness and the humbleness of the Roger Federer. There were putting in so much of effort but hardly showing joy on breaking the serve or earning the deuce point.

In the entire four hour match, hardly Federer was able to return the service of Andy Roddick. But to my surprise, he never expressed any anguish or even frustration about that. He tried it and just kept on trying.

This was absolutely stunning! You got to have control on your emotions and the way of expressing.

iPod Shuffle

Recently I was given an iPod shuffle from my company. Before that I had never used any Apple product, but I had read a lots of review and seen the demo of those awesome products.

If one company takes 2-3 years to create these kind of products then it’s worth to wait for them. iPod shuffle is so small and sleek that one would love to use it. All controls are in the earphone… huh.

I could not have imagined this before or anything like this before. Just amazing. Especially the Voiceover feature is great, when you are listening a song and you can find out the artist name.

Hope I will buy my iPhone soon. :)

Some time away from the busy life schedule...

Trip to BNP

Taking a day off from your schedule and visiting some place like National Park is really fun and exciting. I would like to share some pictures i took there from my cellphone.

Sometimes these cell phones are also very handy in a place like this...

An everlasting Impression

There are many times when we come across one thing and it creates an impression which lasts for whole life. If I am asked to name a few, they would be the prayer my school English teacher taught us to pray before Tiffin break, Chapter 9 of “Physics book which was on Heat and I still remember the definition... (I was in Class 9 and since then my love for Physics started) and many more…

During my engineering days, I started reading fiction books apart from my academic books. I almost remember the books I have read till now. Out of those books read, one of them which has created an everlasting impression on me is “The Alchemist” authored by Paulo Coehlo. Till now I have read it thrice but on a similar occasion and the occasion is when I feel I am low, depressed, lost against someone/fate etc… In other words, when I am not “Nishant Verma”, the most optimistic person I feel I have ever seen. This book fills me with joy, jubilant and gives me mammoth power to fight against any odds. Yesterday once again I finished reading that book and felt I should share some good lines from that book.

Here it goes…

“It’s the simple things in life that are most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them.”

“When someone sees the same people every day they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And they want the person to change. If someone is not what others want to them to be, the others become angry.”

“At a certain point in our life, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world greatest lie.”

“Principle of Favorability: When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. And that is called Beginner’s luck.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them or that they will be unable to achieve them. Our hearts become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever or of moments that could have been good but were not.”

“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”

“The darkest hour of night comes just before dawn.”

“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom you are believed.”

How to make your presentation "Rocking"????

I have been looking through few videos of Steve Jobs demonstrating Iphone. And I was highly impressed... Oops not by the Iphone but by the way Steve Jobs presented it. It was really very effective and impressive. Personally I was very impressed by the way he used the words to emphasize , to infuse interest in crowd etc... Let me come straight to the point; There are few tips which I noted down and can surely improve the presentation which we give.



1.Set the Theme
a. Basically a big picture.
2.Create a headline that sets direction of meeting
3.Provide Outline for presentation
a. Boundary
4.Clear transition in between the topics
a. Or link the transitions to make sense
5.Demonstrate Enthusiasm
a. Varying your pitch
6.Use words like “Amazing”, “Extra ordinary”, “Cool”, “Revolutionary”, “Re-invent”
a. These words enforce power in the presentations
7.Sell an experience
a. Use numbers meaningfully like 120 GB is sufficient for a people to carry songs for a journey to moon
8.Use Video, Demos
9.Rehearse , Rehearse and Rehearse
10.Add value to presentation by sharing some ideas or experience

Orkut...

I heard about it as a platform where you can make friends, share idea, keep in touch with your friends etc… Oh yes, you guessed it right, I am talking about none other than SNS (“Social Networking Site”). So when social networking site came into picture, enthusiastic about it I got myself registered into it. I am talking about ORKUT (named after the Turkish creator who is a Google employee). A smash hit in Indian market. I think almost all school, colleges or company which is invaded by internet has their presence in Orkut. So what we generally do is get ourselves registered into it, add friends (whom we meet daily:)), update profile and photos (more required when you are onsite:)), get added to some community (where you don’t know what to do :)), make profile colorful. So apart from bonding with your friends it also gives you canvas to advertise yourself:). Wow man! Now this is called technology. Truly Impressed! Apart from this, we also browse through some of the profiles who are not friends or sometime not known to us but they are friends’ friend. I don’t know about you people, I have a category for them “wish they were friends”:). Now the only thing which compelled me to write this blog is to share such one friends’ friend profile which was just awesome. I really liked the way "People" have expressed their thoughts...