Honesty and Integrity

Here is the Copy paste of the meaning of the Following words Honesty & Integrity
(I'm trying to be honest eh....)

Honest

• Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
• Worthy of being depended on
• Gained or earned without cheating or stealing

Integrity

• An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
• Moral soundness

While I'm bit with some unusual itch of learning some meaning and putting it to application.. I found an apt example which some one said to me, which defines the larger meaning of the above words..

Here is a milkman who supplies milk to my friends home.. these days he dilutes milk with water...
May times my friend sulked and one fine day the milk man thought he has to be honest to his customers..
He said ' Sir, with prices raising and lot of inflation around ,, I can't sustain with the price you pay per liter and hence I dilute'...
My friend agreed and appreciated his honesty.. at the same time this man with the label 'milk-man'  has to sell the milk alone and not water ?.. which means he lost the integrity

I told my friend I'm trying to soak in the definition in my head ..

Applied Common sense [or] Functional Literacy..

While I was pondering the meanings  common sense and functional literacy .. I recalled an anecdote I had experienced some time back.. 
As a cyber slave of an mnc I happen to put my bum many times in a month on the airline seat !!
It happened when one of my colleague and I were returning from Delhi in a KF airline. My colleague's Seat was hijacked by a neta ( yes you are right, it was a man dressed in the typical dress Indian politican don) He had an argument with my friend and of sheer common sense my friend asked him to show his boarding pass.. He got furious, by then his chela ( personal assistant ) came searching for him and told him that " Sir aap ki seat udhar hai' ( sir your seat is there ).. pointing to the business class.. and winked at my friend and told his boss.. yeh sob hot hai (It all happens)
But them I told my friend..a quote I had read.. 

Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel

and we had  good fun discussing, politics/common sense and functional Literacy !!
Guess what this guy is not aware of what class of Ticket was booked for him !!
But then when we landed we were getting out of the exit gate with big laughter and surprised to find people garlanding this man and some touching his feet..
We just slipped in the narrow gaps found between the people to save our Skin..

Executive Education AND/OR the Rat Race

While much has been talked and read about schooling and Education. I started scribbling this blog for the fact that I would be graduating with twining Masters Program in Business IT in Couple of months!! . This lead to recall a short anecdote, once a Wise Prof told.

This Story is about The Verger By Somerset Maugham, as Usual I don’t use my Brains while I google’d... for this short Story by Somerset Maugham...

Here is the shorter version of the short story...

There once used to be a verger who was happy in job, one fine day He was fired, He set’s up a small shops and scales to five shops with a saving of 30,000 Pounds and the bank calls him and says "Mr. Foreman, Here is the draft of how we can help you manage the savings... Could you please read them and then sign that you have read them?

Mr. Foreman Replied that he doesn’t know to read and write

The manager stared at him as though he were a prehistoric monster.

"And do you mean to say that you've built up this important business and amassed a fortune of thirty Thousand pounds without being able to read or write? Good God, man, what would you be now if you Had been able to?"

"I can tell you that sir," said Mr. Foreman, a little smile on his still aristocratic features.

I'd be verger of St. Peter's, Neville Square

One might Read the full story @ http://www.esnips.com/doc/a6527add-768d-4440-9760-ebe10f099743/The-Verger---W.-Somerset-Maugham

The Wise Professor set the perspective as to how this Twinning Masters (Like/Unlike the ‘Buy one get one offer’) will help most of us become ‘Better/Bigger /Richer .......with/Without this programme!!

Well, will it help me be the same as verger after completion of this programme or make me a Business man had I not done it (Like Mr. Foreman)

While In My view Being Educated and Being Schooled are two different Things... As rightly said by Mark Twain.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

While in 2009 the Markets Trembled, The Notional Wealth/s crumbled like a pack of Cards... Call it Recession or Human Stupidity... While Each one of us was having a morbid fear of loosing our corporate slavemanship!!

While there are retrofitting (Cannibalizing the work Force) in Top MNC... Retaining the Workforce in Economies of Scale (Cheap Cyber slaves eh)..

While companies came out stronger (With a Lean Muscle...eh... By retrofitting the Salaries, By Retrofitting the Workforce...)...

Like “All is fair in Love and War" " All is fair in Recession in too"... One can do what ever one wants... 'Man thinks that Man is the Master of his own fate !!

In this day and age of Innovating the Innovation, Challenging the challenge of the market space . All I know of this Quote is ;

To be educated is not to have arrived at a destination; it is to travel with a different view. –R. S. Peters

This is what precisely I would do and I want to carry on while I would receive the Twin Pieces of Scripts!!

Bangalore Ultra 09

If you want to win something, run 100 Meters.
If you want to experience Something, Run a marathon.
- Emil Zatopet, 1952 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist

Here are the Encouraging words which I recall before scribing this blog. Well I was gearing up for the bangalore Ultra 09 I had registered for a 50 KM the longest ever I would be attempting to run in my life, A lot of my FFF ( Family Member, Friends and Fools) told me about the Fit young CEO of SAP India. Who passed away and the reason yet unknown..
Folks thought that that I had a morbid interest in death,well I recall Rudyard Kipling say " Birth and Death are Twin Forces of Destiny" . If I were to die running so be it.. when on reaching the venue I found that there are plenty of young men in their 50's, 60's who had registered for a 50K & 75K and some Young men who were already running the 100K.
The weather was awesome and Course was bit tough and mere words to describe the Landscape of the country side will not be apt.. Some part of the course was a Lovely green landscape, some with Eucalyptus groove and some with a mix of pathway and road .. That said I could only run+ walk 37.5 KM Finishing Strongly in 5 Hrs 10 Mins .. All I said to my self was I'm here to complete.. and not Compete.. So I could complete the 75% of the Registered Distance.. Well I completed the Ultra patting my own back with out an Injury and finishing strongly..Completing the longest distance ever I had run in my life...
While my FFF ask why I run, I say.. I enjoy so I do.. But personally running to me gave much more than enjoying.. a Kind of Mental Endurance, Perseverance, Patience etc... huh...looks like all English Words, Which have much more meaning beyond the words..

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.- Albert Einstien

Murphy's Law and my Sunfeast Running..

Though it was a Good start in the sunfeast.. But yet my Knee had to support my spirits.. All said and done it was a Good start, but had to slow down due to the ACL I had.. As I learnt some where, that "Reason is the most beautiful thing" .. well.. reason doesn't need to have a reason Though.... As Last year the start was not well organized, This year most of the participants had to Jump the fence and rush to the start line.. Though the Chips showed the timings of one's start and end timings..
Looked to me that these Kinda runs going the IPL way,, with the bollywood blonds cheering it's way !! End of the Day some one has to make money some how !!
While my Knee gave away and I could finish with my personal worst of 1.06 hrs.. ( I had done decent 56 Mins last year ) .. On the way I met many of my Colleague's one of whom happened to register for 5K and in one of our practice run he realized that he could do 10Km and had to change his registrations to 10KM.. Appreciate his efforts as he did in 1.04 hrs..
The Amazing part was I met an young man of 72Yrs ..who happened to run in 1.18 hrs, I guess.. What a Spirit... While I was shocked to see his mail to the Runners forum that he was second by 45 Sec, as another Young man in his age group had beaten.. What a spirit Sirji

While the debate goes.. why and why not I could do better.. All I could recall from the poem Invictus..
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

The trait of lacking discipline and having them

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. - Jim Rohn
Well..I have to confess that I have been extremely unorganised for a year now,, for reasons unknown..
Reason doesn't have a reason,, you see .. Some of my achievements for a year are ...
(i) Gaining Weight ; as you may be running.. too much of some thing is too bad.. and i had a ligament tear and a good reason to catch up with my bed early mornings.. well this helps me to gain a decent 5 Kilos.. Now that with the advise of docs.. got back on the road..
(ii) Becoming lazy; reason Unknown.. guess if some one has a reason for laziness.. ah yeah.. Reasoning is the most beautiful thing on earth
(iii) Get more sympathy from friends and relatives due so Recession..( thanks to recession.. at least people care for Job losers..) Well.. this is an Interesting topic.. Where I go,, Thanks to Recession ..I was/am greeted grief strikingly in most of the social gatherings..
However, Last but not the least get enlightened Intellectually..( Read my other Scribbling ' Audacity of Hope ' )

Murphy's law and my running..

It's been a good year with Lot's of running .. around 8-10 Half marathons and many more 10K/5K's averaging to 30-50 KM/ Week. Either on Road or on a treadmill..
All my Official Marathons this year had to be cancelled due to an ACL and an ITB, the Doc who advised me, that getting back in shape/ life is more important than running.. and I agree that running should be enjoyed for ever till we live and not just event based..
Seems like the Murphy's law is been applied in my Running here,
" If anything can go wrong, it will"
All it happened due to my over enthusiastic running aiming to complete my personal best in the Delhi Marathon, I was running an average of 18Km/ Day till I found that some thing is wrong with my left knee, this is the time I consulted a sports Medico who happens to be runner first and a Doc.. ( or Vice verse)..
Well the Good doc Identified it as an ACL and an ITB.. Though I passionately hated all these biological Jargon's from my school days.. I tend to learn about them by Googling.. Oh Yeah.. I tell people don't use your brains while you google ( and Vice verse)
Well, Though I generated quite a bit of Interest among my colleges and got them addicted to take a bit of running.. Feel nostalgic to miss some of the events happening around Bangalore.. Now that I'm Recovering by doing some strengthening and RICE therapies..
Will stay focused to be back on road i First week of Jan-09 ( God Willing)..