Decisions are emotional

Sharing an article review....and link to that article...
I would like to start with concept of emotional intelligence EQ...(emotional quotient) like IQ.... EQ  is being thought as more important in leading happy life than IQ....
Here is one article which explains how and why emotions play role in decision making
They say in this article that total decisions are based on emotions and not logic....
My take away from this article - in any negotiations be it with kids for making them study or with ur spouse ....it's important to make emotional appeal apart from logical.... if u are able to appeal considering the real issue which is more or less emotional the other party is more likely to come to agree to ur proposal ....

Link to article...
http://bigthink.com/experts-corner/decisions-are-emotional-not-logical-the-neuroscience-behind-decision-making

Rise n Shine

My friend posted a video named "Rise & Shine" on FB is really very inspiring. ....here is link. http://youtu.be/Tzm6TEManmQ
I saw this video on the very first day of my swimming exercise, just after coming back from the pool....and I could easily relate to it....
I'm not an expert swimmer but I could understand what it takes to get up from comforts of ur bed n house and enter the swimming pool early in the morning.
But once you start it....there is no stopping. ... today I could breathe underwater by keeping my eyes open (thanks to swim goggles)and it was a beautiful site.... just to be able to see underwater. .. and it just mesmerised me.... and its addictive. ...
That addiction is motivating me to breathe underwater while I swim.... Great experience.

My whatsapia

There's a new illness discovered at the University of Bheja. Its a condition called "whatsapia". The symptoms are, 

1.having an app called whatsapp. 

2.Constantly checking to see if you have messages.

3.Checking if someone has been online and why they haven't replied to you.

4.Anxiety that you must reply or the other person will feel bad.

5.Expecting comments if you change your profile pic and/or update your status.

6.Pretending to listen to someone, while busy chatting on whatsapp.

7.First thing when you wake up needing your dose of whatsapp.

If you have any of the above conditions, you suffer from whatsapia.

I'm really suffering from this disease & I'm happy about it.

Don't u feel disconnected from friends? With what's app or similar apps I can be connected with almost with all of my close family members & all close friends. .old n new...We laugh together, pull each other's leg, get furious, cry, but we are together all the time ..its a good support system in this fast moving world..... I really like to be connected with all of them anytime from anywhere in the world. I know with this we may loose touch with real people but today we r running so fast in our own world. So that we hardly able to manage time for our own family. ..&  we don't even get time to meet our friends. ...whom we really want to meet. ..that's a stress buster..When we are with friends, one doesn't have to bother who will think what. One can be as much natural / raw as he / she is. No pretendance.

So I think its great, Im loving it.

Photography my recent passion

Photography has become my recent passion... wherever I go, I think, how this will look through lense....
I have a passion to shoot nature.... its beautiful...it has vibrant colours.... it has variety.... its natural after all... I'm loving it these days!! (though Amod says I'm crazy abt photography)

I try to make full use of all camera functions....I do not own a hi-fi SLR digi cam.. mine one is with 12X zoom & 10 Mega Pixel cannon basic automated digi cam.... but it's good....
I have not learned photography in any where.. but I wish I could someday...

Here is some of my work

Viraj - then & now

Then......

Now...........

 

 

Crochet.....My Passion.

As a kid I loved crochet. My mom used to crochet when I was small. I learned the basics of crochet from her. And now, I just love crocheting...... Now I teach my mom ow to crochet different patterns.

As a college gal, I crocheted one jacket for myself.....all design and developed by myself......Now I don't have its picture to post it here....

After my marriage I crocheted one small Jacket for Tanya my niece as her Birthday Gift. Crochet pattern used for this jacket was really diffcult one...... but sad ...I don't have photograph of this jacket also.

Then I started with a pair of handgloves for my hubbby, but the project still in WIP for last one year, hope to complete before this winter.

Last year, after detecting my preganancy I started with a bubbles baby blanket for my baby and I could complete it on time.

Mean time I crocheted one small beanie cap for my friend's duaghter. She loves that. There are lot many projects on my mind but not yet reallised. I want to crochet a small sweater for my son Viraj.

I actually love to crochet small things, which can complete within a day or two.

During this period I crocheted a lot many mobile covers with different self made designs and distributed them all....

Crocheting is fun for me and now turning into my passion. I'm not so creatinve with my own patterns but like to copy the patterns....from others.....

Here are photos of some of my crochet work

Bubbles Baby Blanket made by me.......

7 weeks pregnant........

I am expecting a BABY. This is going to be a totally different phase of my life.... Its just 7 weeks today.... but I'm so excited about this whole episode of my life...... at the same time worried a bit about how this will proceed...what will happen to my body shape (even though it is not in shape right now also).... how will I look with my tummy bulging out....... how will I feel with ....



Last week on 11th Feb 2008 I got sonograpohy done of my uterous, which confirmed that I was 6 weeks 3 days pregnant. It was coincidence that we got the news confimred on an auspisious day of "Vasant Panchmi" as per Indian Solar calender. The day which is marked as start of Spring and considered very auspisious amongst Indians. One more coincidence is like History repeats. When I told this good news to my parents, they remembered that they had got the good news of me in my mom's tummy on the same day of "Vasant Panchami" 28 years back. Its amazing!



Once its out that I carrying, everyone at home started helping me with a spoonful of dose of advise everyday. My mom, my mom-in-law, my closeset friend geeta, my aunty, my sis-in-law....all ladies near and dear to me started sharing their experience and advice. All started with dos & don'ts while you are pregnant. At the same time me & my husband are clueless whats happening around, how to cope up with this new phase of life.... As we're excited about having a baby and all..... at same time feeling pressure of a responsibility of raising, growing and developing a new human being.....to young energetic & charismatic personality....... this is such a big responsibility...... just like our parents did..... how r we going to shoulder this responsibility.....



Its not going to be same good old life hence forth....when u are pregnant....u r pregnant that's why u cant move and do whatever u want......once u have baby then baby is so small that u have to be with your baby and support him / her.... After kids grow and start running here n there and u have to keep running behind them to make them do things u want them to do......then kids start going to school and then gets out of the school and u find that he/she is totally different individual now and u no more play any role in their lives.... and u suddenly reallise that u r in ur forties and u have lost all ur young age just running behind your kids and now ur kids dont bother about u much........

Whatever it will be....I don't care....right now I'm enjoying this beautiful phase of my life....

Happy New Year!!!!

On the eve of new year, here I am to wish you Happy New Year.
May the coming year be filled with dreams, hopes, promises and lots of happiness for you!
Wishing You & Your Family a Very Happy New Year 2008!

We Bought a House......

For last 2 months, me and Amod were in the process of finding a new apartment for us. On every weekend of ours, we used to look in newspaper classifieds for new apartments ready for sale or look for ads by builders for sale of apartments.


Finally we found one apartment which both of us liked the most.


Yesterday we completed the agreement formallity and now the apartment is on our name. We are proud ownwers of 1059 sq ft of apartment area. This feeling of havingg your own house is so great, that I can not express it in words....

Sandip & Salil's Kavita

On orkut you will find fan club community of Sandip Khare and Salil Kulkarni. I was just surfing throught this community, where in disccssion topics, I could find a link. Where I found Sandip's & Salil's all songs from all albums in MP3 format. Anyone can download these songs for free. Although I have all his Album's CDs, I wanted all those songs on my laptop and I was not able to take out some time to load these songs on laptop. But from this website I could download all the songs easily and within no time. Now I can listen to all these songs anytime.


I am a great fan of both these guys. They have done so well, Poetry as well as Composing. In such a easy & simple languagae what Sandip has expressed is just amazing. Both of them rock. I like all the songs, but few of them touched my soul, one is "Gadi Sutali, Rumal Halale..... from Ayushyawar Bolu Kahi Album", "Tutale Re....., Sang Sakhya Re....... & Tuze ni maze nate kay.... from Sang Sakhya Re album". In all his poems Sandip has put the words with such a care, that its ought to touch your heart, your soul. Salil has backed up Sandip's words with intense compositions. Combination of which makes these poems, songs all time great.

Here is the link to all the songs. Enjoy & have fun.

http://www.4shared.com/dir/3220942/9f4e5dd2/MARATHI_SONGS.html

Year 2007 till date....

Year 2007 is proving to be one of the best years in my professional career till date. Year started with my new Job assignment in Cummins IPO, which I was aspiring to take since May 2006.

This new assignment was then followed with a Cummins India ABO Chairman's Award for my contribution in Accelearated Cost Efficiency project on exhaust and intake valves. (for which I worked for when I was in Metallurgical Lab).

Hardly month or two must have passed, the Big Award was waiting for me on the way. Cummins Inc, Chairman's Qaulity Award for Best project in 2005 in Design For Six Sigma stream, was awarded to Camshaft Durability Improvement Project, in which I was a team member. Chetan Prabhu was leading the team. Last week Chetan arranged to give away the award to all team members at the hands of CIL Chairman, Mr. Anant Talaulicar.

I worked in Metallurgical Lab for almost 3.5 years and bagged 3 Chairman's awards in this period. This was my first job after engineering graduation. I was new to professional work culture when I joined Cummins metallurgical lab, but could do well. I feel good about this.

Then that big thing happened. I got recognition as ASQ - Certified Quality Engineer. I could clear this exam in first attempt and I got a mail from Mr. John Wolfe, Quality Director at Cummins Inc., congratulating me on my achievement.

American Society for Qaulity conducts this exam and is one of the toughest exam in Quality functional excellence. Getting this certification will definitely enrich my Quality functional excellence.

In my school / college life, I never stood first in any exams. I was an above average student, though everybody else considered me as an outstanding student. In my work life also I was considered as an average employee. But these three awards in three years and ASQ-CQE recognition have helped me boost my confidence, helped me prove myself.

These were all my professional achievements in year 2007 which makes this year memorable one in my professional career.

Madhumalati......

Madhumaalatii......Ek sadha pan Atishay Manmohak, Sundar, Suvasik phool. Junya bangalyanchya aavaaraata hamkhas sapdanari hi wel.... Unhala ala ki ya welila bharbharun phoola yetat. Guchha chya guchha osandun vahat asatat weli warun....

Lambshi hirawigar pokal deth. Tya dethacha ek tok nimulata houn welila jodalela tar dusar tok motha zalela ani hirwat pandharya rangachi nakshi asalela.. tya nakshi bhovati 5 pakalya umalelya...kadhi gulabi, kadhi lal, tar kadhi nusatyacha pandhrya, tar kadhi pandharya war gulabi rangacha shading.... ase wegwegale rang matra dethashi ekacha thikani julalele....
Kahi pakalyanchya khalachya bajula shading tar kahi pakalya gadad rangachya....itaki permutassion combinations bgahun kharach harkhun jayala hota.
Madhumalatichya kalya tar ajunach sundar astata....agadi ekhadya lahan balasarakhya niragas, gondas..... hirawya dethachya tokala sagalya pakalyanni swathala dome shape madhe mitun ghetalela disata.....

Eka thikani 10 - 12 phoola ani kalya ekatra umalun chhanasa ghos tayar zalela asato ani ase anek ghos compound war pasaralele asatat. Ghari yenarya pratyekacha hi phoola apala suvas pasravit swagat karat asatat.
Ratri andharat hi phoola mhanaje sarvatra vikhuralelya asankhya chandnyach janu....

Madhumalatichya phoolan sobat lahan panichya khup athavani ahet.... Lahan asatana ya phoolanchi veni vinun dyayachi aji ghalayala.... nantar hattani tichya kadun ya phoolanchi veni karayala shikale.......Madhumalati phulali ki roj ha karyakram, gajare karun swatah ghlayache, ani aai ni ajila ghalayale dyayache..... maja watayachi tenva yat.
Nantar kuthetari harawun geli hoti hi madhumalati..........pan maza lagna zalyawar parat ali mala bhetayala......lahanpanichya sagalya athavani gheun..........amachya ghrachya bagetach visavali yeun.....chhan watala....

Ata me sakali sakali madhumalaticha suvas swatah madhe bharun ghete.... yahun sundar kay asu shakel divsachi suruwat....

Conversation with a friend.....

Me: One should find new horizons... but your horizons should line up with your ultimate goal. Always make sure that…..

Friend: magacha varsha khup waet gela aahe mala

Me: tyacha vichar karu nako

Friend: aata 2007 tari changla gela pahije

Me: zalya goshti apan change nahi karu shakat.

Friend: Khara sangu ka ata kharch titki shakti nahi aankhi kahi sahan karayachi. kal wichar karat hote sagla athvat hota. tumhi saglejan hotat mhanun savrle nahitar................

Me: Apalyakade tremendous shakti asate kuthalyahi problems / isssues madhun baher padayachi, te problems face karayachi. ti shakti apan yogya tya weli vaparali pahije. ani friends kashasathi asatat?
tya shaktichi olakh mitr-maitrininshi bolalyawarach hote

Friend: mi na tumche saglyanche aabhar manave titke thodech aahet

Me: aga, ugich ata emotional hou nakos

Friend: nahi aata i m waiting for some new nice things to come...

Me: navin varshachya pahilya divashi jomani kamal lag.
bagh tuzi dukkha kashi apoaap tu visarun jashil.
Me friday la pathavalela New Year messege wachalasa ka?
“Always be Happy, always wear a smile. Not because life is full of reasons to smile, but because your smile itself is a reason for many others to smile.......”

Friend: mhanuntar navin varshyat baryach goshti karaychya tharvlya aahet

Me: Don't wait to be happy for some nice things to come ur way to make u happy. Try to find happiness within urself..........
If u find that then u will be the happiest person 'coz ur happiness will not depend on external things

Friend: and i want to be the happiest person

Me: external things will not affect ur Karizma

Friend: ugach bolava watla mhanun bolun ghetla aata halka watataya man! good!

Me: chal ata kamal lag jast vichar karu nako
Whatever happens, always happens for good
chal bye

Friend: bye