Thursday, May 24, 2007

Mind navigation !

At times I utter something really stupid and my fnd goes "Kindly use both sides of your brain!"....... I use my brain fair enough, but how do I tell it which side to be used???
Do I need to navigate it, say "now a right turn..... go st for 100m and then take a left turn...... :-D"..... sounds absurd! Sure it does... but an article says ur brain is direction-oriented and one can navigate it! This was indeed some food for thought.

Left-brain - works independently, heeds to verbal instructions, preferring written assignments to projects, meticulous, analytical, rational, multitasker, follows the tested pathways of working and express themselves easily.

Right-brain - disorganised, hate process, spontaneous, day-dreamers, creative, prefer art and demonstrations in projects, trouble in expressing themselves, ppl with open-ended questions and have their own sweet opinion almost abt everything.

One look at the traits and I instantaneously hated the right-brains' , so that makes me predominantly a left-brain dominated. But on second thoughts I noticed that I do have a few qualities of the memory mapped right-brain. I am born left-brained but developed right-brained over the years. Hurray..I'm my own navigator!

Think of any icon you worship...... whomever you feel is a star. If you carefully observe their characters, they 'll be a balanced blend of both sides of brain......... alias they are middle brained. They took an initiative to do things in their own way, challenging the existing ones or even breaking the tested paths. But it isnt possible for anyone to reach the pinnacles of success without a logical and a meticulous planning. Maybe this is the origin for the phrase "level-headed thinking" !
In my opinion everyone is middle-brained but preemption takes its ugly head out. A lil piece of advice......delay the preemption..............:)

For more chk out
http://www.indiaparenting.com/raisingchild/data/raisingchild060.shtml
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/May172007/dheducation200705161972.asp


Friday, May 18, 2007

Retrospect me

When my professional career had just kick started, I was a part of this retrospective meeting on a project which 'd little significance to me. As a fresher I could only think of " Now whats that supposed to mean! ".
It made sense later when there was another retrospective meeting for one of my projects. Then a thought just floated thru my mind "Y not a retrospective review of the goneby quarter century of my LIFE?". And here I start my first ever blog and I cant think of a better topic than to blog about myself.

It has been a quite a journey from a tiny tot to a kid to a teenager and now to a girl on the thresholds of a woman.
Mom says, as a tiny tot I was a well behaved kid - no nagging cries and definitely not the tarale (the naughty) types. But not the tarale types meaning not a very inquistive one... doesnt sound too good to me!
As a kid, I have had no special achievements. It was a nice life for me with my small little family. Studies wasnt all that tough, but blame it on the education system which thrives on the cramming system! Sharing a slot in the top 5 was an "achievement" then but now I rather term it as "koopamandooka". I had very limited interest in sports neither to follow it nor to play. But I had this special interest in reading... . My foray into reading started with those fairy tales with illustrations, the pictures there looked larger than life and I discovered my new world in books. And then it graded up to chandamama, tinkles, tintin, nancy drew, fictions and then as the cliche goes "rest is history".
Then came the teens bringing in its own troubles. I advanced to college, the world was all new... the so called koopamandooka found herself in a big river. There was a lack of individuality and confidence. I felt I had to scream to make myself heard.
And then the course of the life changed all of a sudden. Something unthinkable happened. Confidence levels sinked to the abyssmal level. But as the saying goes "Lifes a show, it must go on", I rose as a phoenix from the ashes. Life taught the living. I was a new me, reformed for good. As though aware of the fact that this is indeed a mortal world, there was an urge to live life in a fast lane which was so unlike me. Till date speed scares me! .
When I was stablised with my academics, my low profile dance career became important. For whatever reasons I could not devote much time to my dance during my school days and I started honing the grace from college and I saw myself "enjoying".
There is this one thing which really puzzles me, as a child I had major travel sickness but it seems like it vanished into the thin air overnight. Today I'm a fullto travel freak. Wish to travel to the world's end (PoC -- thats one of my fav movie)...:-)

Thus in the retrospective view, my life has been a rollercoaster. I'll be lying if I say I enjoyed every moment of it but yes I definitely cherish every microsecond of it... :)