The most expensive meal

Mr. Warren Buffett-a billionaire investor, industrialist and philanthropist host some power lunches to benefit the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco community-based charity organization. The lunches are auctioned on eBay and the winner generally pays more than $5 million dollars for lunches. This amount is for the help to mankind.

Recently, the tragedy in Uttarakhand is unfolding as the death toll in the flash floods and landslides continued. Thousands of victims have saved their lives in do or die conditions. Not enough food was supplied by the government due to bad whether or any other reason. Many of the charitable trusts across whole India were trying to do their best to help the victims.

But opposite to that the tragic news came that many of local people looted the victims for food. They took the advantage of the situation for self-benefit. Many of the middle-class families must have had the most expensive food of their life. 56-year-old flood victim and Dehradun local Manohar Lal Mauriya forced to pay Rs 250 for a 'paratha' and Rs 100 for a small pack of chips. Amit Gupta of Baghpat UP said they had to pay Rs 400 for two small packets of chips and two bottles of water. Some others had to pay Rs 200 for a water bottle. Isn’t it terrific? Such sellers are only going to get the curse of the victims. The situation is truly condemnable.

Actually, not the meals taken with Warren Buffet but the food that was purchased to satisfy the needy appetite was truly the most expensive meals, because it was sold at the stake of humanity. May God sanctify them all…!

< H P >

unEMPLOYED

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be”.

The post-graduation is over, now the soul is eager to unfold the arms for a nice career opportunity ahead. The mind is thinking about and the heart is expecting for it. The eyes are also waiting eagerly for a perfect opportunity and the feet have become keener to step forward. This must be the situation of all my still-in-search-of-a-job friends.

During studies, a student generally wants a tension-free time, and he gets this much desired time only in the vacation. But the situation is totally different after completion of the course when the one is ready for no more study and to find a job. This time generally becomes the toughest time, especially for a fresher. The situation is very similar for me right now.

The time and its upshots have changed a lot. Everyday, the morning starts with newspaper reading. The eyes now look for just a single advertisement about a vacancy in any well-known company or institute, which were intentionally avoided to see ever before. The absence of any advertisement about a vacancy or walk-in interview frustrates me now, when the presence of which on the same place had never pleased me before these days. My email id is also very pleased to see me making use of it more frequently than ever before. I have become more familiar with the practical and market aspects of the companies than that I was during my graduation and post-graduation days. The first time in my life, I have made use of internet not for Facebook and YouTube. I have known the meaning of the word 'interview' more than that is explained in the Oxford dictionary. I’m not confident that schooling has a direct connection with employment anymore, I am compelled to feel.

The most severe problem is regarding how-to-kill-the-time. Above a particular threshold, all the activities like watching television, meeting relatives and friends and roaming here and there becomes unamusing. Social networking has also become boring after its overuse. The whole day passes in wantoning away. Actually, it seems like I am not killing the time but the time is killing me. What I hate is waking up in the middle of the night, my heart pounding with anxiety-many of my friends have confessed this. No reaction for the time when our elders used to say, go to college and study something interesting, be a graduate, and you’ll get a decent job. This sounds me hollow now. What I miss the most is feeling productive, that I’m a part of something larger than myself. It’s really hard not to have that.

There is not only mental pressure but also the social pressure. Everyone asks what you are doing currently. And I have to answer – waiting for the results. As per a message from my friend, height, result, age and salary have become the most favorite topics of my relatives. Sometimes I get bored of all these questions. In fact, I’m not yet ready to settle for a version of life that is less than what I had imagined.

It’s not that we don’t have any option and we are totally helpless; sometimes there are some career options, but due to one or the other reasons we have to reject it. My mind goes to “Manmohan Singh Mode” when I come to know that I’m overqualified for some jobs! "Overqualified or underqualified-I am never the right amount qualified". The state of unemployment in the state having the largest number of industries makes me feel like dying of thirst in the sea.

The time between the completion of study and getting employed is truly the most challenging time. We just need to use it as we are not going to have such time in our life again as we will have it only after our retirement. But who has seen tomorrow? Just make it the most creative time, watch movies, read novels, go to picnics and weddings, try to fulfill your wishes, satisfy your hobbies and enjoy the rain.

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success”.

-Elbert Hubbard

The one only needs not to get frustrate and to hope that the God must be a little busy in creating the best chore fore me…!!!

< H P >

એ કૉલેજના દિવસો

કૉલેજ અભ્યાસ પૂરો થવા આવ્યો છે ત્યારે મારા વહાલા ફાર્માસિસ્ટ મિત્રો માટે લખેલી કવિતા…!!!
“એ કૉલેજના દિવસો”

ઘણુ શીખ્યા, વધુ જીવ્યા, ઘણા બધા મિત્રો મળ્યા, કેટલાક તો જીવનભર ના સાથી મળ્યા,
થોડી યાદો, ખૂબ ખુશીઓ, થોડા ઝગડા, વધુ મસ્તીઓ…!

એડમિશન લીધુ ત્યારે હૃદયમા આનંદ, મનમાં અભિમાન હતુ, ખોટુ નહી કહુ, થોડો ડર પણ હતો,
અજાણી જગ્યા, અજાણ્યા લોકો, પરંતુ મનમાં ઉચાટ કરતા ઉમંગ વધુ હતો,

નવા મિત્રો બનાવાનો, ફાર્માસિસ્ટ બનીશુ ઍ વિશે નો,
ખબર ના પડી બે વર્ષ ક્યા વીતી ગયા, કૉલેજ ના દિવસો ક્યા ઓઝલ થઇ ગયા,

હજુ કાલે તો પહેલો લેક્ચર એટ્ટેન્ડ કર્યો, હજુ કાલે તો પહેલો પ્રેક્ટિકલ એટ્ટેન્ડ કર્યો
હજુ કાલે તો ટેબ્લેટ રૂમ મા ટેબ્લેટ પાડતા શીખ્યા, હજુ કાલે તો ગોટા જેવા માઇક્રોસ્ફિયર બનવ્યા,
હજુ કાલે તો પેલા બગડેલા સ્પેક્ટ્રોમીટર મા રીડીંગ લીધા, હજુ કાલે તો લેબ મા ભજીયા ખાધા હતા,
હજુ કાલે તો ચાલુ લેક્ચર મા મેસેજ કરતા હતા, હજુ કાલે તો મોડા આવવાનુ બહાનુ બનાવતા શીખ્યા હતા,
હજુ કાલે તો પહેલો રીસર્ચ આર્ટીકલ વાચ્યો હતો, હજુ કાલે તો કાલે રાત્રે તો જર્નલ બાઇન્ડ કરાવી હતી,
હજુ કાલે તો પેહલી કસોટી શરૂ થઈ હતી, હજુ કાલે તો ફાઇનલ નુ રીઝલ્ટ આવ્યુ હતુ,
હજુ કાલે તો ગાઇડ નુ સિલેક્શન થયુ હતુ, હજુ કાલે તો પ્રોજેક્ટ ચાલુ કર્યો હતો,
હજુ કાલે તો ડિઝર્ટેશન લેબ મા પગ મૂક્યો હતો, કોલેજ મા શિક્ષક દિન ઉજવ્યો હતો,
હજુ કાલ સુધી તો બધા ના માનસપટ પર એકબીજા ની મિત્રતા અને મસ્તી નો નશો સવાર હતો.

આ બે વર્ષ, આ યાદગાર બે વર્ષ, બધા ના હૃદયમાં કોતરાઈ ગયા,
હજુ વિશ્વાસ નથી, કે કાલે છૂટા પડીશુ, દરેક ના મનમાં ઘણા સવાલો છે,

હવે ક્યારે આખી રાતો જાગી ને વાંચીશુ? હવે ક્યારે લક્ષ્મીઍ સાથે ચા પીવા જઈશુ?
હવે લોજીક વગરની ચર્ચા કોની સાથે કરીશુ, હવે રાત્રે 12 વાગ્યે કોનો જન્મદિન ઉજવીશુ.?
હવે ક્યારે રાત્રે 2 વાગ્યે મોટા બજાર નાસ્તો કરવા જઈશુ? હવે બંક મારી ને સિનેમા જોવા કોણ જશે..?
હવે ક્યારે બાઇક પર ત્રણ જણા બેસી ને જઇશુ? હવે ક્યારે કેન્ટીન ની મસ્તીઓ થશે..?
હવે રૂપિયા નઈ હોય ત્યારે ઉધાર કોણ રાખશે? હવે મિત્રો પાસે વારંવાર મફત ની પાર્ટી કેવી રીતે માંગીશુ?
હવે વાત-વાતમાં શરત કોણ લગાવશે..? હવે વગર કારણે હેરાન કોણ કરશે..?
હવે કારણ વગર ફોટો કોણ પાડશે, હવે ઊંચા લેવલ ના હથોડા કોણ મારશે.?

સવાલ ઘણા છે, જવાબ નથી, છે તો માત્ર ઍક આશા. ફરી મળીશુ, ફરી જીવીશુ.
ફાર્માસિસ્ટ બની ગયા, મંઝિલ તો આવી ગઈ, પણ હવે લાગે છે કે મુસાફરીમાં જ મજા હતી,

ખોટુ નહી કહુ, થોડો ડરેલો છુ, આ વખતે ઉમંગ કરતા ઉચાટ વધુ છે,
બહાર નવી દુનિયા છે, અજાણ્યા લોકો છે, પણ મનમાં આત્મવિશ્વાસ પણ ભરપુર છે.

દરેક નો આભાર, આ બે વર્ષ સુંદર રંગો થી ભરવા માટે, ઘણી યાદો આપવા માટે,
જેને યાદ કરીને, ક્યારેક એકાંતમાં હસી લઈશુ ,ક્યારેક રડી લઈશુ.

આ બે વર્ષ, ઘણુ શીખ્યા, વધુ જીવ્યા ઘણા બધા મિત્રો મળ્યા, કેટલાક તો જીવનભર ના સાથી મળ્યા,
થોડા ઝગડા, વધુ મસ્તીઓ. થોડી યાદો, ખૂબ ખુશીઓ…!

-હાર્દિક પરીખ

My College Days

The last semester is going on and now my college is about to over... I am going to be M.Pharm degree holder now... I don't know whether to smile or to feel sad... But I wold choose to be happy. I wold love to dedicate this blog to y college days that I lived, I cherished and I enjoyed...!

It was great experience being here at ARCP. Two years…. I learnt a lot of new things…. Now when I peep into my past, all I can see are the changes… It’s the similar feeling I had when I passed B.Pharm two years back… People come… People go…. How time changes and how life keeps on moving without a pause… We laugh… We cry…. Some are really low moments…. Some are really high…. Life is so beautiful in its own way... 

I met plenty of new people during my last two years of M.Pharm …. I have been heartily attached to many…. and worked and enjoyed with everybody I came across…. I discovered a different me in myself…. More self-centered, bad and self-indulged me… And I improved as well in terms of public speaking, anchoring, organizing and so on…

All I can now recall is those lectures… Talks... Bunking classes…. Laboratories… Practicals… Overnight exam preparations… Results… Playing cards till morning… Bike trips… Late night tea… Early morning cricket… Train journeys… Gossips… Hathodaas… Punishments… Problems and improvements… And so on…. Life was always fun and exciting here…

I have learnt very good problem handling skills, decision taking skills and stress management… How to meet deadlines … by completing a week long journals and syllabus overnight… All those group tasks which compelled us to stay up all night with our whats app on…. All those frequent semester exams….

These two years of my life were really good… I know what I have learnt… I can sense the changes in me… I met some really great people…. I would not name all of them here but they had a great impact on me…. I will miss their presence every time I achieve something… I met many who contributed to my life in one or the other way… I was encouraged, appreciated, criticized, laughed at and discouraged time to time… But it always added towards my learning and helped me to learn and become better with every step…

I would love to thank the people who were always there for me… whether we talk daily or not and those who were always there for me as a life supporting system…. But I’ll not mention them because I don’t want to hurt anybody by skipping their name by mistake….Those who are special for me know this and understand this….

Everybody expects from their family because they are the people sent by God for us…. It’s very difficult to find people outside family from whom you can expect…. And I am one lucky person…. I met such people at every step of my life…

I feel that I am kind of detached soul… But still I miss people from my past…. Places… time… memories… tears and smiles…. I can relate to everything I left behind…. And touchwood I feel blessed because whenever I look back I find my people standing there for me… To bless me… To help me… and to support me...

Now, I am going to start with my professional life… I am definitely going to miss the company of my beloved ones for the moments we shared, we enjoyed and we lived together. I would like to be thankful to all the persons who became a page of the book of my journey and made it so decipherable. I just wish all my friends and acquaintances all the best for their future endeavors… Just hoping for everyone’s kindest support and I wish my heartily blessings to all of you for a much impressive and bright future life... I hope to stay connected with you all... God bless you all...!!!

< H P >