What discipline has work environment brought in me?

Hi, I am a person with highly random eating and sleeping habits. Well, they are not actually random, but are the outcomes of decision-making stage-gate process that is embedded in my system. Most of the inputs to this stage gate process is dependent on 'Moods' (anger, bewilderment, happy, tensed, peaceful, raged etc) and some 'external conditions' like (work pressure, assignments, nearing deadline projects, post deadline projects, success in some work, climate being sunny, cold, warm).

"Nenu inthe Anitha", he he, yeah, me are the same since school. Oh!, please don't be mistaken, it was the cable connection era back in the '90s which came to every household which made me stay up late nights, typically 2-3AM. Since then I became a movie freak, watching movies, how ever bad others may think it is, viewing it from the director's perspective. So since school days, I were the same, NOCTURNAL. Ofcourse, subseqently it was studies that kept me awake during pre-iit, time-pass with friends @IIT, Saarang during final year, and again Studies at Duke. I found 'my kind species' atleast as far as sleeping is concerned @ IIT. Most of IITians don't go to bed before 4AM, ofcourse, I am not speaking of those who get up early next morning and go to classes. Well, even the nocturnal species try to go to classes, but they have their own preferences.

Coming to my eating habits, I have passion for cooking. Vegetarian dishes ONLY. I learnt cooking helping my mum in her daily chores and with the inquisitve me got better at it day by day.

I am lazy butt, unless something really enthuses me, makes me curious(business opportunities, creative ideas, talks/ arguments on global-issues, politics, SONGS always keep me going). I mostly hang out with friends, who have remained the same since IIT. I make new friends but am reserved in how much time I spend with them.

OK, this is something most of you do not know and one thing for sure would shock Anil! I was a sprinter back at School. Well, one day I'll kick-his-ass in 100m dash for all the beating he and friends gave some years back at IIT entrance gate. So post school, I always wanted to maintain this fitness, but all trails were short lived.

Now, I am in a phase where I am building my career to succeed in my future dreams. The professional environment has brought some changes in me against what I spoke till now.

1. Organized work and enthusiasm - I was always perceived to be a great starter but a poor sustainer. I have been working on it and now I have categorized my activities based on importance to maintain the enthu levels high from start through end.
2. Efficiency and achievement - Maintaining daily schedule of tasks, When I am doing a particular task (work or otherwise) I am setting the amounts of time and energies for each and trying to accomplish the goal of the task within the set limits.
3. Do not overstrain - Office work or otherwise, I have learnt that everything has its limits. There is no point overdoing something. All things succeed with good planning and execution.
4. My daily schedule has been impressive offlate: Sleep by 12-1AM, get up by 7 AM and Break fast at 7:30AM, reach office by 8AM. Lunch break 12-1PM. Make daily work shcedule at office and finish it at Office by 5:15PM. Come home, relax, job/swim/work out - 6PM-8PM, chat with friends, personal work (orkut, mail etc) - 8 PM through 12AM with a 'light' dinner + fruit juice and sleep- Wow!!
5. Life has been beautiful with all this happening, with memories of all happy times I had with friends, on personal front, I have few issues to sort out, waiting for them to happen soon.

Life is beautiful, Indeed!

Office Cabin Photos

Theories of Life - Theory 1, chapter 1

Relationships snap shot:

Initial days:

Guy: Good morning sweety, how did you sleep last night?
Gal: yaaaaawn, well, it was ok, but you know what, I had a nightmare!
Guy: ooh…why?
Gal: donno rey!hmm…..
Guy: ooh, don worry sweetu, your day will be real damn good – reads out a poem
Gal: happy – blushing!
Gal: so what’s the plan for the day?
Guy: (discusses)

Afternoon:
Gal: hi ra!
Guy: hi babes.
Gal: what full excited moods. Had a nice day eh?
Guy: with you in my life, how can I ever have a bad day.
Gal: he he, so did you have lunch?
Guy: not yet rey
Gal: what ra, why do you do like this? Have food at the right time, and have it stomach full. Now plz go and have your meal, else I will be sad!
Guy: ok, ok sweety, sorry, will go right away

Evening: Meeting + movie, sweet talks, dinner

Night:
Guy: hey, sweety, had a very nice day today. Thanks for the kiss. I am still floating in that feeling
Gal: (blushing)
Guy: wowww…..sweety, tomorrow, two ok?
Gal: (blushes further, controls it) No wayyy (à implies for sure)
Guy: plzz plzz rey
Gal: No wayyyy….lets see tomorrow (imploies it can be more than two too!)
Guy: ok, sweety, have a goo nite sleep, my darling, my sweetheart…muaaa
Gal: (can’t stop blushing): po ra…good nite
Gal: happy, thinking of days events, blushing, dreamy
Guy: happy too, content, thinking of tomorrow

What’s this all about? Well, it is just an incomplete example of how humans handle relationships, specifically, or how they evolve.

The theory that I shall discuss here would be on a much broader category:

Applications of Law of Diminishing Returns to Human interactions and grouping

We all live our lives, learn scientific knowledge, apply them where ever applicable, fall in love, and break up, again fall in love, make friends, old friends slowly fade from thoughts as we lose contact, nevertheless, we make new friends, feel comfortable, eat, sleep, work, play --- what crap?

Let us get some stuff organized here and for once, let us stop and apply some principles to real life situations.

I am not speaking of applications of Darwin's theory and neither what shall follow is from any text, it was a brain child of certain brain cells in my head which worked day in and day out for years, to see a possible relation, constantly observing, taking notes, and now fairly satisfied, it made a report, a research paper and got ‘em published in 'left half brain cell conference'.

OK, coming to the organizing factor, let us keep it simple,
1) Internal - eat, sleep, play, watch tv etc
2) External - Interacting with friends, love, relationships, work place etc

Now coming to the theory:

We all would have studied or heard of one very famous law in economics,
'The law of diminishing returns'
Well, to put it briefly, the rate of satisfaction on any product/service decreases with increasing rate of consumption.

Have you ever wondered how it applies in our lives?
Yeah, it is pretty obvious in certain cases, and there are exceptions, lesser in percentage to those that go along the lines
of the principle though. It is obvious in all our internal things:

--> eating: If you are hungry and eat your favorite dish, you relish it most, the first time you take it and then you might
go 2 times more, 3,5, but by the time it reaches 4 or higher than that, you start to lose interest, your satisfaction levels are not as high as they were when you took it the first time.

So to put it simply satisfaction during intake 1

Similar is the case for sleeping or watching tv, but our measurement basis would be in hours then.

Now, how about the external factors?

How do you think it applies to friendship, relationships, love, hatred, sex, interactions with people etc?

What I feel is, the law applies here too, just that the time frame and interacting factors are more and different and hence measurement and subsequently observing them could be problematic.

What do I mean by external factors?

Say, in the eating example above, after the first two times you consumed you are given another favorite side-dish. What happens now? the environment of testing has changed and hence it is possible that you are satisfied more for the next one or two times you consume your favorite dish along with your side dish...

So it is possible that satisfaction during intake 1 <> that during intake 3 + side dish < ...

Now answer the following questions: (people who have been in relationships can relate better, I guess) 1) When you meet a new person (make a special note if the person is of opposite sex), and let us also take it for granted that both of you interact well. Then 1.1 How do you classify your initial interactions?

• Exciting
• New world and Nice to be in
• Want to know more of him/her
• Should make an impression at any cost baap
• I should do something so that he/she should develop interest in me.
  and so on....

2) OK, it has been 3-4 months and now you have done what all or most of or some (as you wanted to) of the above: now here we diverge into two things:

2.1 You both have become good friends and are interested in continuing the friendship or have been thinking of a relationship (for opposite sex interactions and given you both are single not considering cases of deceit) - then go back to question 1 and answer again, what do you think these answers would be compared to that of 1.1, more intense, less intense, equal?

2.2 You are not as interested as in him/her as you were before, but will continue to interact based on his/her interest and or your chances of meeting regularly, in that case, don't you think the LAW applied here? Your satisfaction/mental curiosity to know about him/her is quenched and because of the findings, you wish not to know more?

3) What do you say when I ask you to recollect names of your school mates? Your college-mates? You remember only few of those you are not in touch with.

4) How about those who have been in relationships? First 3-6 months Vs feelings/experiences after 1-2 years, 4-5 years? Don’t you think things have changed? That it is not that initial excitement and love he/she showed? Well, remember, your partner too might be feeling the same.

So, does the theory apply? How, what are the controlling factors? How to uncork it so that you sustain your relationships, friendship longer and more satisfying???

-------------------------!!!HOW DOES THE ThEoRy work, coming soon!!!.------------------

Venturing Underwaters!!

When you learn something you start off with learning alphabets...then some simple words then probably you are all ready for All American Spell Test and so on and so forth...

It is not just our mind, even this physical body has limitations of being tested. And when we venture beyond those limitations...we are taught a realy ugly lesson.

Well, I always had interest to learn swimming when I was a kid, some times because friends speak about all the fun they had or sometimes because I watch the competitions on star sports or espn. For that matter, I also wanted to do F 1 racing, play tennis, volley ball, snooker, and what ever i thought was a real challenge of speed, adventure and limits this physical body can cope. But my school days were filled more with eves than adventures, and then suddenly dawned scientific questions and answers which seemed more challenging and I kept aside the speed, the adventure, but the zeal never stopped growing.

So after many years, after having successfully traversed the world of science, atleast I feel so, completed my Bachelor's and Master's from most famous universities, I felt elevated.

If there is determination to learn...nothing is impossible and that took me underwaters yesterday. It all started 3 days ago you see, first day was to float, second day was to swim from one end to another end, which I did quite like a veteran itseems, and then what do does an engineer do next?, EXPERIMENT, under water, open eyes, the world beneath perplexed me, ofcoutse it was not that I saw and played with millions of varieties of fish or whales, just the very feeling, was enough of a satisfaction. Spending hours Underwater seemed fun, reaching the floor....

That excitement made me spend an hour, two...three...actually three and half hours in water, with all sorts of stunts.

THE AFTERMATH:

Eyes are covered with a coating which I can least comprehend!!!This does not allow me to open my eyes more than few seconds.

Terrible pain in the lung region and ears!

Fever!

and the worst amongst all this is I have to go to office and do an important presentation today evening.

The question is will I be awake/alive till then?

~any suggestions, plz post~