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Kangalaal pesinaai…kaarkuzhal kodhinaai…

Kaiviral pinna pinna…kaal viral kolam poda…

kaadhalai mattum yean thaekkinaai.

Just in case if we’re wondering, ThinkGeek has flashed first set of 8 cards of the 56 collectible Geek Trading Cards all of them illustrated by famed artist Len Peralta.

It seems, Len Peralta has been interviewing one geek hero a week for last 52 weeks and has also been posting podcasts of the discussions online that he used for designing the front and back of  the trading cards.

Joins him are the comedic music duo Paul and Storm to write the descriptions in their own wacky geeky way!

All these geeks are leaders in their respective industries: Art, Movies, Music, Computers, Science.

The first set comes with the following geeks personified by Len Peralta:

• Jonathan Coulton
• Fred Seibert
• Veronica Belmont
• John Scalzi
• Rifftrax
• Bonnie Burton
• MC Frontalot
• Ken Plume

Clearly, the fun of geekdom has just begun with the first set, wait for the rest of the 48 cards to get flashed in the weeks to come!

Passages are made when you want to pass through...

My sunshine is not far away...

I'm attentive...are you...?

I’m not sure if theres going to be a lot here, but guess what ever gets clicked and published on flickr can go here too.

So thats about it.

More to come in the form of PhotoBlog. Very little words if at all.

Cheers!

I for a moment started thinking, but then something flashed in my mind…

A small story for that I once  read, may be you have read it already sometime…

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf’s edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, “You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can’t possibly make a difference.” The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, “It sure made a difference to that one!”

Story ends there…and here is my thought around it…

I probably am one of those thousands of starfishes…The guy knew that he was making a difference in those starfish’s life…

Don’t know if he looked to measure how he made the difference…I wonder if the starfish could have measured it too or is it even measurable…

Just thought its wise  to leave it for the star fish to cherish the difference…

Told them, “just know you did make a difference…I’m cherishing it”.

When its something too good, how and why to measure it and when its something bad, don’t even bother measuring it, how much ever you measure it, its bad.

Have you heard the story of the scorpion and the frog?

A scorpion wanted to cross the stream, but since he did not know how to swim, he went over to the frog and said “Why don’t you let me ride on your back. I can’t swim!”

“I can’t possibly let you do that!” said the frog. “You are a scorpion. You will sting me!”

“Oh, you stupid frog!” said the scorpion. ‘I wouldn’t possibly do that. Because if I did that, we would both drown!”

Sensing the logic on that one, and seeing an opportunity to win bragging rights for having helped a scorpion across the water, the frog agreed to take the scorpion on his back.

And when they were in the middle of the stream, the scorpion stung the frog.

“Why did you do that?” asked the frog, shocked, and quickly going down in the water.

“Because I am a scorpion! I sting…its my nature” came the reply, as both the frog and the scorpion drowned.

Good thing to remember. Just because you do a good deed to a scorpion, it’ does not mean it is going to stop him from stinging you. Scorpions are scorpions. They sting.

Ok, After posting this, I got to see a related post showing up in wordpress with this

http://freshikanmasin.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/the-scorpion-and-the-frog/

Looks like its from CSI Las Vegas, season 2 episode 1

Due credits to them – I just found it as a forwarded mail and found it good to be posted.

Guess that puts me off from the guilt of being plagiaristic.

He has recently been promoted and now handles a whole lot of people who aren’t entry level and been there in the organization for a while and he seemed to have gotten tired already of repeating instructions to folks and more with the frequency.

Here is what came to my mind:

Hear me out kid, tell me do you have the electric bore well and a over head tank in your house?

He was a little reluctant, considering the fact I sounded croaky as I just woke up from sleep.

I asked again, tell me do you have the electric bore well and a over head tank in your house?He said yes, I do.

I was thankful, the analogy that came to mind could be well related.

We all hopefully would have experienced using a bore well and a over head tank to suck water deep from the earth and store in the over head / underground tanks for daily usage.

During the initial few days, we go through the change of using a new equipment and are bound to not know to measure the requirement.

As we get used to the usage of the facility, we tend to understand the dynamics of how many minutes to use the borewell to fill the tank, how often to use to ensure constant availability of water.

Such is the case while mentoring / coaching someone, iteration & reiteration is essential.

Two questions were answered here…

1. Why should I repeat and remind someone of their responsiblity?

Would like to relate to the change management theory – Four rooms of Change by Ph.D. Claes Janssen.

As we know change is constant and during change there is always switching of one state to another involved.

Every individual during a coaching goes through change, and as a coach / mentor it’s one’s responsibility to remind and iterate the responsibility of the individual.

2. When and how to know how often to reiterate?

Its been observed and proved that higher the inspirational and renewal frequency, lower the chances of an individual going into denial or confused state.

Hence it is essential to understand the individual’s requirement and cater accordingly.

It was indeed great pondering over his question and helping cause.

Its told that the unspoken words are precious, but I feel being felt when not around is far more precious and invaluable.

Now that brings these questions, whats the feeling like? What kind of energy do you emit? How are you being felt?

I would like to know just as curious as I’m as always, what’s my significance? whats the measurement?

Or am I looking for something that I shouldnt be looking for, too silly?

As usual in search of lucidity in my deluded, distant, far fetched, never ending, piped dreams.

Columbus Stockade Lyrics
Way down in Columbus Georgia
Lord I wish I was back in Tennessee
Way down in that old Columbus Stockade
My friends all have turned their back on me.

Go and leave me if you wish to
Never let me cross your mind
In your heart you love another
Leave me, little darling, I don’t mind

Many a night with you I’ve rambled
Honey, countless hours with you I’ve spent
Thought I had your sweet love and your little heart forever
But I find it was only lent.

Go and leave me if you wish to
Never let me cross your mind
If in your heart you love another
Leave me, little darling, I don’t mind

Last night as I lay sleeping
Oh, I dreamd that I was you in my arms
When I woke I was mistaken
Lord, I was still behind these bars

Go and leave me if you wish to
Never let me cross your mind
If in your heart you love another
Leave me, little darling, I don’t mind
Lord, I’ve got the walking blues

If it was another god or goddess,
They wouldn’t have dared to do this…
Reality check on me.

I’m grateful…
that I could see it never ending.

You are worried…
that you weren’t able to say Good Bye to me properly…

I’m glad…
that there wasn’t a Good Bye.

Now, this I call it perspective.