A burning cigarette in dark lane

"Oh, I almost had you", said my colleague after a loosing badly in badminton match at indoor court of our office. I was too tired to argue after that defeating him with 6 - 1 score and mocked, " yes,  you almost had me."

It was almost 7.00 PM in evening and had to leave for home. We came back inside packed our stuff and set out for 2 km hike to main road from the office. The office was a Farmhouse and is located at far distance from the main road. There were multiple lanes and alley that we had to cross to reach main road and usually there were very few people in the lane with no street lights at all. It was routine for us to walk through the lanes talking, laughing and playing around. 

In no time we were in one of the dark lanes with no visibility to the naked eye. "Don't you think it way too dark today as compared to other day", my colleague whispered in my ears as if someone is listening. I said, "It has to be dark it already past seven and winters are on there way". He responded with hmm and we kept walking.

"Hey, don't step on that dog" he screamed, pulling me towards him. I was taken aback with that scream and stopped there. I saw a dog sitting right where I was about to put my next step, he was black dog with shiny eyes looking right at me. I realized it was very dark to even see something so near to me. If he hadn't screamed at the moment I might have stepped on the poor dog and consequences could be terrible.

We moved forward, now more attentive on the roads and carefully watching our each step. There were trees and plants all over the place where even moonlight was not able to pass through those dense plantation, we realized we were in the darkest zone of the alley. Trying not show any fear on our faces we were walking swiftly to reach the light as soon as possible, Then suddenly a a dim light appeared at little distance from us. It was walking towards us. We couldn't see anyone from that distance as it was very dark.

I looked at the light continuously, the distance was reducing and I was trying to see the face of that person walking towards us. The light was moving to and fro as if someone is holding it and walking. It was coming closer at the same speed as we were walking towards it. I looked at my colleagues face he was too terrified to look at the light and was looking at the opposite direction trying to avoid any possible contact. The light reached very near to us and I was very curious to find out who that person was in spite of being so close to us still there was no sign if there was someone or not. It was pitch black and I could see nothing. Finally, we were right beside that light and still there was no one to be identified as person. The light crossed us and I turn back still to find out if I could see what was that but it just disappeared right in front of my eyes. It was again Pitch dark alley with no sign of human race. 

"What was .....that?", I tried to utter looking at my colleague. 

He replied in petrified but firm voice "Just keep walking, straight".  I looked back again to get a idea but it was same dark alley. 

Did you see that, I asked out of curiosity. 

He said, "of course I did why do think I am walking so rapidly".

"but what was that?" , I asked, regaining my senses.

"I don't know, Okay. Will you stop asking", he replied, still recovering from the Trauma.  

" I saw a light, just a light, coming to us and then disappeared suddenly as we crossed it, it disappeared", I explained.

"I know, it was not just a regular light, it was something was burning, like a cigarette, as if someone was holding it and walking towards us", he exclaimed. 

He further added,"it was moving like a motion of someone's hand as we walk, to and fro".

I again thought of what he said by going in the Flashback and realized he was right. It was like a burning cigarette, with motion of walking and then it disappeared as we crossed it. It was even more realistic now.

"But how can it just disappear like that", I asked, still working on believing what happened. It might be just a illusion of light of something. But a similar illusion seen by two different people was a little hard to believe. A part of me wanted to go back and see what just happened but then something refrained me from doing so. I held myself back. we kept walking.

Now we were in the end of that dark lane, which rhymes with its original name which is park lane, the lights filled up the darkness, the noise of vehicles filled the long silence we were going through.
We had people around us, chirping and screaming.

We took rickshaw and headed towards Metro to reach home. Everything seemed normal again. But was it ?

Hello World by 350GC !!

350GC..  A bit awkward name for company giving services of Website development,  graphic design, games and app.
So why the name 350GC. It all began in college hostel, room number 13 where Suroor and me used to dream about how a cool it would be if people work for themselves and not their boss or salary.

The name came out as code name for girl, which led us to think the most common figure we see in world is 350. May be in rupees or  number or figure or anything. I believe you have noticed that and if not you will start doing that. :D

We thought what if we keep the prices starting from 350 and increase in the multiple of it with respective product.  Ofcourse this idea was framed upon to cover the original story ;)

So hence the 350GC. Hope it's justifies what we are and if it doesn't, we satisfy ourselves by repeating qoute of Shakespeare, "what's in the name".

The services would be impeccable for you.
We are really small in number with high skills and ambition.  We have done it all. We have been in deeply in website design and development.  We have our roots in Android apps.  We are crazy for making games and my friend Suroor Gupta have been an awesome graphics designer from very beginning. He is a maniac, one pixel here and there he looses his mind. Well actually everyone looses their mind on this. Then we have Mr. Siddharth who is currently pursuing his MBA and takes out time to works for us from his busy Bschool schedule (we appreciate that sid :p )

Well on last note, we don't create perfect things,  we keep on doing things better and better till you and us are proud of what we did.

Man with different thinking Now

yesterday I went to meet one of my college friend whom I was meeting after a long time. we met and we decided to go to a very famous junk food store. it was very regular and wasn't expecting any thing special. but an event occurred which totally changed or I would say modified my thinking. 
we do sometimes backout in talking with someone who are special or are not like us for example blind, deaf or dumb etc. if not all then Atleast I was little uncomfortable in this. but after yesterday I believe I am not. in fact I started believing that they are actually smarter then us.

So we went in food store and we're standing in queue to order some really junky food to satisfy our taste buds. people were gradually moving ahead and ordering there special orders and understanding the menu,  trying to order best possible combo in which they were not at all benefited. So we move forward and just with one person before me I saw something strange. He was just pointing at large menu card of what he wants.
By He was pointing at large menu cards to things he wanted. I was little amazed with that thing. Initially I thought the guy was too rich or too lazy to speak up the name of each item so he was just pointing to it. He finished up his order and went aside. It was my turn now. I stood there looking at the menu card. I spoke one item looking at the card and I looked up to the guy who was taking orders. He was just looking at my finger and card. I didn't understand why he didn't wrote the thing which I just told him. Then with sudden flashback of memory I realised or assumed that he was deaf. He just looked at the finger points and takes the order. I was shocked and a little afraid too about how am I going to communicate with him. That would be hard. I repeated the same thing which the rich guy ahead of me was doing..  I pointed at the items on menu card and started giving my orders. And to my surprise the fellow was really good at his job. He was not only just taking order from me but was also suggesting me what would be best for me. I was amazed and extremely happy on seeing how wrong I was. Just because he is not having what we think is normal doesn't mean he is different.  I would say he was more normal then me. He was working with amazing confidence and happiness.  I was definitely impressed and even extended my order on his suggestion.
I was never so happy before when I was leaving the restaurant. And I was man with different thinking now.

Offer letter

What is an offer letter?
I googled definition of offer letter, what I found was :

" A document or set of documents that contains all information relevant to one’s employment with a company, denoting the last communication between recruiter and candidate until the candidate becomes eligible for transfer consideration. "

Well technically offer letter is just a piece of paper, with some amusing texts on it and -very important thing- company name on it. That's it. But a real value of this piece of paper can determined when you talk to a unhired guy who is looking for job and has just stepped into the enormous world full of competition and cutting edge. Such guys have cliche name "Fresher".

For a Fresher, his offer letter could be as valued as declaration of  independence for America. The best way, you can swing a mood of fresher is by talking about job with him. They so desperately want to see their name on the company's letter head saying Congratulations in the first line. Running out here and there , saying 100s of lies in an interview, asking their friends to talk to their friend's friend for a job or opening, cursing their destiny and every other things they can do.

I too was no exception, I had same days, same thinking. I did all possible things to get a job and leave college except the "jugaad or fake offer letters".

But I remember a day, some guy in Pre-Placement talk of his company was doing all blah blah about the company. I was least interested for job in his company but I had to, for that important piece of paper. He said various things about IT field, freelancing and many more but only words of his that got my attention to him was " Is offer letter so important? "

I listened to him. The next thing he said completely changed my thinking, he said "You will loose the value of offer letter as soon as you get it". I was sitting there thinking and repeating the same words in my mind. We are like obsessed little children who want a some toy very desperately and does all weird thing to get it. After getting it, its just another toy in the collection. The same is the case of offer letter. It only has its value until we don't have it.

Today when  I have two offer letter from different companies which makes me realize how right was that person. They are just a piece of letter in my file or a just another email in my inbox, and I am still looking for a job I'm interested in. All the excitement and a fire to get it just vanished. Of course it feels good to have a job in hand but its always a better feeling when you a get job you are actually interested in.

So in the nutshell, stop running for offer letters and start looking for a interest.

DreamsJob

College degree on verge of completion, people moving out in search of jobs, a bit of tension, feeling regarding what your future will be, where do see yourself after 5 years and etc etc all those things going in and out of your mind.

I never thought of any of the above things before 6 months. I had much more simplified dream of getting a sober job for year or two and then starting venture of my own(dream shared by 2 other friends also, SlashG and Vickynessus). This dream, TODAY has been much more complicated, like getting a job which satisfies you, your family, your relatives, your not-so-related-neighbor and which  has good salary which lets you survive in the environment and which matches the status of your family and every other possible things.

Is getting your dream job so much difficult?
We grow up thinking about becoming something which we have always wanted but end up doing something which others want. I have seen many of my batch mates thinking of going into fashion, becoming a writer, to become a army officer but all of them ended up getting a cubicle job in IT fields from company which came to university. All the dreams which were raised in their mind just vanished. I wonder few of them even forgot what they wanted from life. Is it so easy to give up on dream?

It may take time to reach where you wanted but it will always pay you for the time you invested in it. That satisfaction of becoming what you always wanted to be, quite a story to tell and inspire others, That joy and happiness of doing what you dream of cannot be compared with fat salary jobs which you were never interested in.
 I recently read a article sent by my friend saying,

 "Not all those who wander are lost in life"

 That's it. I won't say dream big but I would surely say "DREAM" "BELIEVE" "CREATE" "ACHIEVE".

First love.. First "TRUE" Love

All of us.. we all have been in love once or more. Some love truly some love partially some love just for time pass, some love once some love twice thrice and count doesn't end. But the point is we all have been in love.
Being in love we all experience pleasure, love,jealousy,quarrel,break ups etc. i would say its part of being in love. Some of it makes you feel so awesome and special while few things may not.
This was all about being in "LOVE".
but the "true love" its entirely different feeling,its just out of the normal world. being practical and being in true love together is real tough thing. you feel great every moment, you miss your beloved every single second. you cant stop thinking about them. you don't want to talk to any one else but your special someone. and lot more things we just cant be explained you know it just by experiencing.
true love doesn't demand any special attention, special time its purely love., understanding. i would say it is innocent.
just imagine love between mother and her small baby. mother understands everything what child wants, even though the child can't utter a single word. it doesn't matter how much child harasses mother but mother never gets angry she just lovingly sees the child doing mischevious thing. The same applies for a real love, it doesn't need any medium to talk, its purely understanding and loving. you don't feel like fighting ever, you worry about them you care about them. you can never get tired of talking with them. its wonderful feeling.

Being with them you think about you cannot imagine your life without them. they are part of it. your morning starts with them your night ends with them. the single thing you want in your life is "to be with them till your last breath". love has got cure to heal every problem in life. some one stands beside you holding your hand and promises never to leave in any problem. you automatically gain enough strength to endure the problem. you get peace of mind, you can share every thing and anything with them. the best part is we never get bored talking to them.
Some wait for their true love. lucky ones get their true love. Go out , find , and if you get that keep it safe with you, don't make your self get counted in the list which you see out there. 

"the first rain"

""FIRST RAIN""

well it happens sumtyms we are desperately waiting for something.. whn it arrives its just we njoy ech nd evry

moment of dat.. well same as home coming... we just njoyn lyk anything....

same is aplicable for the first rain.. right now i m njoying the first rain and its almost wordless what i m

feeling... i just say ""THE FIRST RAIN FIXES EVERYTHING"" .. i wud say it just washes off all the troubles..

it makes mood happy , it gives best moments of life.
we just forget everything and make ourselves to go in with the rain .. it takes us to the bindass, happy and

tension free place i suppose...

it gives all positive energy around us and i really feel dat.. it reminds us of all happy moments we hav ever

xperienced in our whole lyf tym.. seriously dis rain improved my mood...

talking about surroundings aaah wat a scene... societies full of running water, everything seems has turned 2

green ... i can really feel the nature now... small childrens coming out of houses and cherising ech and evry

moment of rain.. i suppose dats the tym whn children find something more interesting thn TV, and dey step out

of house and feel close to nature...

some may hate rains for interrupting there day 2 day activities.. but i suppose dis iz time to forget evrything

and trow awl d burden of work and tension for sometym and just enjoy the life... its strange dat in our

childhood we uised to njoy ech and evrything dat we faced but as we grow up we just forget njoying all

thosethings dat we used to njoy,  may be due to our work or may be any reason but we shouldnt do that we

should always take out time to feel everything in life... when its tension we feel it, and now its relaxing and

njoymnt tym thn we should njoy dat also ,, so just give a break to your buzy life step out , feel the childhood,

feel the njoymnt , feel the LIFE../.

And to other side, its best tym for romeos and juliet to get out and njoy dere time in the rain.. i think dis

happens becoz of the mood dat i was talking about.. as mood iz good every one try to make other happy.. ""here

i have a simple theory of myself dat if we are happy we try to make people around us also haappy """  wwll its

my theory i dont knw its true for others or not but for me it alwyas works..
so if romeo is haapi, he vl try 2 make juliet haapi or vice versa..  ;)
so the things happens, u can find all such couples spending there best moments all over the palce, roads, shops,

lakesides etc etc..
and i really think its best feel to be wid urs beloved in the rain...

so it does work "the first rain fixes everything in life, its vry vry undescribable feeling... i bet if i ask any1 to

say about how dey felt about dere first rain,, dey wont be able to xplain...
dats it , dats the rain.. and especially the "THE FIRST RAIN"" //...
so njoy the rain ...
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