Woman Power

This started with casual discussion with my colleague over chat about power bike - bullet. We were debating if bullet is feminine or masculine. As per him for all males it or rather she is feminine but I do not agree with it bcoz I feel it makes the two wheeler beast weaker from inside. But he was firm to his point and tried to convince me that woman are not that weak.

Coincidently the next day it was international woman's day and all measure news papers gave lot of publicity to it. There was interesting stats and info on front page of TOI as well as lot of articles inside. After going through all these articles what I concluded is - Woman have lot of soft power and can direct the society the way they want. I mean woman are pillar of culture for every society. This is universal truth that woman are responsible to look after family, shape up kids early days who then will grow up in sensible citizen.

The other day I happened to read one article about research on human evolution. It claimed that early weapons (during stone age) for hunting were innovated by woman. The reason for that was simple. They were weaker than males. They did not want to put their life in risk as they have important responsibility of growing up next generation. So that’s why they invented weapons to minimize risk in hunting. After that males took over and started exploring different variation of these weapons.

So the bottom line is - woman may be weak physically but they have lot of mental strength with EQ far better than mans and ability to change the civilization. That’s what I collectively called soft power. But main question remains unanswered and that is whether Bullet is Feminine or Masculine.

Being Paranoid

So this is my first ever blog and I am paranoid for this also. How it will look? What people will think about it and bla bla. All are useless questions.... that’s makes me look dumb and even some time I tend to under perform due to that .... to be frank it helps also some time.

Actually funny thing is that I was not aware at all I am paranoid until in one of team meeting ( BTW I am software engineer) our VP said 'Paranoid always survives'. And then I started thinking over it. Is it really true that paranoid survives? So I decided to recall my reactions to crisis situations in past.

It was June 2002 at IIT Kharagpur. Just beginning of my 3 rd semester of MTech. It is supposed to be project semester. For us those were golden days in our life. No classes, No exams. But my paranoid mind was continuously pushing panic button. Because I was not able to rope in only Professor in our department who works in field of FEM to guide me. Reason was simple I was not amongst the topper of department. This field was very promising and had lucrative job opportunities.

So one fine morning as my paranoid mind directed me I went to this Professor’s office and requested from my heart to guide me. As usual my paranoid mind was helping me to make it more real and touching. Professor agreed and on the basis of this project I got into well known MNC.

Now consider another situation... Jan 2006. Tennis court in Bangalore. I was going through training and that day junior trainer taught us service. I was enjoying it a lot bcoz I was picked it very fast. Now suddenly from somewhere senior trainer turned up and wanted to see how we (Me and my friend) are doing progress. So he asked us to serve for five times. Now my paranoid mind panicked again... lots of questions in mind, what will happen if I fail? What trainer will think about me? will I look dumb in front of my friend? and so on... Finally it took its toll and I missed all the five services.

It was same response in two different situations but in first one it helped me to come out of crisis situation but in second one it pushed me to under perform......
Now it is up to readers to be paranoid always or to be cool and fearless. I guess mix of both as per situation can pay off better.