Beginning of a new Journey

Life is like a Video Game. In a video game, you get bonus XP (experience) either upon completing a level successfully or performing well while the game is still in progress. Its the same case with Life, you get such XPs from time to time as you progress.

I got mine recently on 13.12.2017, when I became a member of Chandigarh Management Association or CMA. And that also on its 51st Foundation Day. (what a coincidence na... !)

CMA is an apex body of professional management, working closely with industry, Government, academia,and students to further the cause of management  professions in and around Chandigarh.

I also got the opportunity to meet and receive my membership certificate from Mr. Christopher Gibbins, Consul General of Canada. I also had the chance to meet some of the biggest names in Professional Management and Technological Development industries

Well it feels great when, the prefix before your name changes from 'Master Chaitanya' to 'Mr. Chaitanya'.

There's still more to explore in life.....

The Game is ON!!!!

.....When 14 years of wait FINALLY came to an END......

Recently I found out one of  the initial mentors from my childhood days after a time lapse of 14 years!!!!!   (Thanks to this 2.0 age of Google and Facebook).

We last met around 2003, after  which I completely lost contact with her . All these years, I had been searching for her, finding out ways to reach to her but all in vain. But I didn't lose hope and kept up my 'Never Give Up'  attitude, as I always believed in : Every Cloud has a Sliver Lining.

So one lucky day, my wish was finally granted, 'The Great Google:' opened its gateways  for me  on the other side of which, I FINALLY found her.

 She was my counselor and special educator .
She was my Amir Khan and I was her Ishaan Avasthi :) as she was the one to detect my Dyslexia for the very first time.  So by default, she played a very important and crucial role in my
Memoirs of  'A'  Letter  journey.

I don't know if  without her, I could ever have been able to put even a proper 'A'  into the Aim of my life or not :)

This  Diwali I got the best Diwali gift of my life, as I got my dear didi back! 

Memoirs of My Europe Trip

This was the best trip of life.........not just because it had beautiful scenic view, buttery smooth roads, people had excellent road sense,disciplined lifestyle and of course wonderful people...........but because this trip taught me a lot about life, lessons which are not available in books of best selling authors, lessons which even top rated universities of the world can't teach you.

   They can only be obtained by cherishing and comprehending the experience called 'Life'

         Here are some of the Lessons which I want to share with all you guys:-

• True relationships are not bounded by Time and Distance : One can't explain the joy and contentment of the moment when you  meet your near and dear ones after an endless wait of 17 years!

• Age is just a number : You can still drive across 3 countries in a day single-handedly  at a very tender age of just 70!   (  This we discovered in our very dear Dutch friend Gwenn  )

• Where there is a Will there is  always a Way : Have Faith in yourself and you can do Wonders!

We made wonderful memories, met great people, had everlasting bonds and got some of our most valuable Lessons of our lives.

..........."Life is not about sulking about the Past or taking  not-so-worthy tensions about the Future, it is just about living in the moment and enjoying the Present" :)

Here are some extract from my memoirs of Europe  trip :

Baseball Ground in Amsterdam

View from our Balcony

Friends  are Family

Its Cruise Time!

Streets of Gauda

The famous Cheese Market of Gauda

View of  Rotterdam from the famous EuroMasst

Friends  are Family

Shameless Politics !

These morons are called our leaders. What a shame ! Basking in his self glory, this joker mimicked the appearance and body movements of children with Cerebral Palsy, while addressing the public. And the equally " blessed" audience, many of whom were MLAs and other important officials were laughing and enjoying his performance.
What better reflection of the callous attitude of the society towards differently abled than this man and his puppets? They are a perfect example of sufferers of " Emotional Palsy", dribbling nothing else but contempt and insecurity and creating pollution with their very presence. These self centered parasites being severely myopic, can't see beyond their own selfish shell. Certainly they are afraid of the extra ordinary abilities of the differently abled !
And they can't think beyond doing some cheap act that perfectly suits their dwarfed thinking.
Shameful indeed !

Text Courtesy- Dr. Rita Dutt

My Best Birthday Ever!

16.02.2017

It was one of my Best Birthday ever!

Why????

Because I celebrated it with my 'true friends'

Who 'true friends'  really are???

Well, the answer may vary from person to person.
But if you ask me, ' true friends' are those precious gems who can never lose their shine  in your life :)

I celebrated my birthday with  my old friends  at an NGO which works for the welfare of the specially-abled.

The friends whom I invited were also specially-abled in some way or the other..But despite their challenges, they still came just for me :)

Many of my friends are working . Hence they took a half day leave and some even took a complete day off from their respective jobs to celebrate with me :)

 So inspite of  having a busy schedule and being a specially-abled themselves, they came to enhance the 'happiness' of my birthday celebrations :)

One of my friend at NGO said, "How-come so many friends have come for your birthday??? .Do you have some sort of magic wand or what"????

Its not my magic neither do I have any sort of  magical powers!

But its the magic of 'true friendship'

I feel myself very much blessed to have such 'real' friends

Such rare friends are hard to find in today's world where everyone is living for  themselves .

Here are some picture of that memorable moment :)

Back To School......!

On my last trip to Dharamshala 2 years back. I went to my old school i.e. Dayanand Model Sr. sec. School. It was one of the best schools I have ever had. The teachers, the staff and my classmates, all were so cooperative that I didn’t feel for a second that I have some limitations of my own. They helped me in every possible way, and for the first (and probably for the last…) time in my life, I felt like going to school can also be fun… It gave me an all new definition of Bonding & Friendship J

I am very much choosy when it comes to making friends, but here, the whole class was my friend. I remember, some girls of the class writing “East or West Chaitanya is the Best” on the Blackboard. Though the word ‘Specially-abled’ was not much prevalent at that time in India, but still my classmates made every effort to make me feel special by doing such sweet little gestures J

I studied there for only a year or so, but that year was one of the BESTEST years of my life till date…!

I would like to thank Mark Zuckerberg who made it possible for me to connect with two of my best friends from this school: Diksha Ahuja and Tarun Dhiman through Facebook J

I would also like to thank Brian Acton and Jan Koum, makers of Whatsapp, who connected me with two of the  my  most favorite   teachers of all time from this school: Minakshi Mam and Nirala Mam who are as sweet and charming  today as they were 15-16 years back J

I have many wonderful memories with this school, out of which some are ‘sweet’ while others are just ‘too funny’.

One such funny instance goes like the;  A girl in my class wanted to make me her brother ( you see, guys like me are hardly good enough at making girlfriends J) so she offered me a Rakhi ( an auspicious piece of thread, symbolizing the sacred bond of brother and sister in India).

     But me ‘Chaitanya  The Great’ rejected her request, because  like any other responsible parents in India and abroad, my parents also taught me “NEVER TAKE anything FROM  ANYONE OUTSIDE  HOME” .So unfortunately for me , this  Rakhi  was also one those ‘Unidentified Objects’, out of home , which constitutes ‘anything’  

Later on when my mom & dad came to know about my ‘anything saga’, they were like; “YOU FOOL!!!!  A Rakhi does not come under the category of ANYTHING!!!!!!”

And I was like; “Huh! Have I done something wrong???  But I was just being obedient"

Soon I realized my ‘Greatness’ and how I acted like an absolute jerk!

I don’t remember if I said sorry afterwards or not…..but if I get a chance today, I will definitely apologize to her for my ‘act of Greatness’…..

 So to ask; How much ‘Great’ can a Kid act at this age?????
   The Answer is; Well it depends………. ;)

Here are some picture of my memorable visit :) 

Back to your classes Everyone !!!!

Its time for  some excercise!( with my PT teacher)

The  most strict yet sweetest teacher of all time ( my maths teacher) 

From left to right- Minakshi mam, my brother, Nirala mam and me

I owe very much to my English teacher for writing this blog :)

Where the World is Heading????

New Year eve, the time when people celebrate the beginning of a new era of happiness, harmony and prosperity all around the world. India a home to approx. 100 million people, witnessed not one but two acts of ignominy in the city crowned as ‘India’s IT hub’ Bengaluru, where two women were groped and molested in a single night by some ‘so-called well-educated modern day Barbarians’ on the new year eve of 2016. 

In the first case, a young woman was assaulted by two men, which was captured by the security cameras, was stalked for nearly a week by a group of men, four of whom were arrested on Thursday. The main culprit of this incident, who was also arrested, was an ITI student (that’s why I called them well-educated Barbarians).

In the second incident another young woman walking home was approached by two men on a scooter. Alarmed by this, she tried to side-step them, but one man debarked and attacked her. She tried to fight back, but he pushed her towards the other man, who groped her for a minute or so and then threw her hard on the ground. This video was also got recorded by security cameras at a house nearby in East Bengaluru. The video also show a group of ‘shameless watchers’ who didn’t even try to intervene.

Such perverts should be hanged straightaway; they don’t deserve to be part of human race.
There should be strict laws against these ‘creatures’. 

Not only in India but world over the crimes are increasing and humanity is decreasing.

The society should take action-genuine initiative to curb such acts of aspersions 

 A Woman herself is the manifestation of Mother Nature, and whosoever dares to ill-treat Nature, will have to bear the consequences.