CC #1- The Ice Breaker- Streaky Phoebe

CC #1- The Ice Breaker- Streaky Phoebe

It wasn’t the time of a Kings’ rule, but from the land of Nawabs was this one cute little princess. Her birthday was the First day of a month. She was envied upon for her astounding beauty- her long eye lashes, soft tresses and her naturally red lips. People came all the way from various places just to get a glimpse of her.

As she grew up, she became more beautiful and seemingly blessed- she lived in her own cozy home that was surrounded by a garden full of trees and flowers. She had her own bunch of friends she would play with. It used to be a battle to decide which kitten belonged to which person!  She even had regular guests visiting her place- deer, woodpeckers, puppies, kittens, robins and kingfishers. (Well, I mean the bird.).

Good afternoon fellow Toastmasters and guests! This tale is indeed special; you can actually see the princess unlike Snow White and Cinderella. You might have guessed it, yes, that’s me.

I was born in Hyderabad and brought up in Chennai. And yes, the story is real; it was a time when Chennai had more connects with nature.

I always will be the craziest person you can meet. A person who loves to experiment everything- be it small or big, tree or a twig. Every time I see someone doing something, I get this stimulus in me which says, “Hey Vaish!, go for it!”, be it good or bad, and I live with the wish, expecting to fulfill it someday.

Many –a-times I have a whole lot of people telling me to do only those activities that I can do and that I was wasting time doing unnecessary activities that I cannot do. But, I strongly believe that a person who is an expert now, was a novice earlier. There is no offense in being odd for, “You need to be Odd to be number One”.

If I listen to a soulful musician, I would want to be a Rock-star. If I see someone dancing, I would want to be a ballerina. If I read a good book, I would want to be an author and if I see someone speaking on stage, I would want to do that too. The innate quality in me wanted me to be a winner in every single aspect that I participated in every contest that happened, just to prove myself in that aspect. I even believed that my birthday ONE made the first encouraging impact on me to be the number ONE. While I managed to do the others with at least a meagre self satisfaction, public speaking was always something that I looked up to.

To speak in front of people with natural attitude has always been a hurdle to me. To satisfy my own self as a public speaker, I am here as a Toastmaster, to learn and let learn. 

Together we’ll make miracles happen.

That’s a snippet of my life; await more competent code in the coming days.

(Over to you TMOD.)

CC #2- Organize your speech- Pieces of My Puzzle

CC #2- Organize your speech- Pieces of My Puzzle

I was three. Shifting from ICF quarters to Tambaram quarters wasn’t that easy, for, I will miss my best friend- Parvathy. We rarely spoke. Okay I agree we hardly knew to speak properly at that age. But the love we had for each other’s company was something that contrasted our size.

Good afternoon fellow Toastmasters and guests. I am sure all of you have a similar story from your childhood to narrate about losing friends. It might also be the case that you have totally forgotten your age old friends as you have moved on in your life.

I honestly do not remember minute detail of every friendship I had had, but I confess that I do remember a few details for certain ones. Yes, that’s exactly what you call BFF- Best Friends Forever!

First of the lot is Preethi- my kinder garden class mate. This isn’t a friendship story with a sad ending like the previous one. We grew up together, stayed next door, and ended up choosing similar graduation disciplines and yes we studied together all the four years of college for every single paper. As we spent more time together, our friendship grew more. I am an emotional person- I cry even now if I have had a fight with her. Not that I am scared of separation, but because I can’t bear the heart of not talking to her for some days because of a silly fight. I am sure you all have a friend like that too. Aww, I see smiles on everyone’s faces.

And to all the people who said you cannot get true friends at college, I broke your assumptions. I had this little (this tall) innocent soul in my class. Sreeja, a.k.a “The Sree kutty” is someone I met at college. We never felt embarrassed snatching each others’ lunch boxes even when we were surrounded by people of all sorts at college. We both landed at TCS. That was an extremely happy moment coz College had ended and still we were sure to meet each other at work.

But Things weren’t as we had expected. The moment we got to know that her ILP was in Ahmedabad, both of us were equally shattered. I wanted my ILP in Ahmedabad too, just to be with her, but unfortunately I got it here in Chennai. I was worried if she would feel alone there. That’s when the Super woman in me found out that another school friend of mine had her ILP at Ahmedabad. There they were for 3 months, as roomies. It was another blow when she got posted in Kochi. Sadness worsened but fortunately she got a transfer to chennai. Now in siruseri is my bestie, a person with whom I don’t bother to be embarrassed.

Corporate- the high funda word is said to have its own limitations. There have been lots of myths associated with life in a corporate. Everyone is your colleague and NO ONE CAN BE YOUR FRIEND! Oh yes, I proved them wrong too!  Guess who she is, she’s right here. Any guesses? A kid in disguise- has a tough time in having her food! There she is- Madame Srishti.

Toastmasters gave me a gang, to hangout, have fun and have a great company. “The partners in crime” are right here. We are blessed indeed!

These people are important pieces to complete my jigsaw puzzle called life.

No one told us our life was going to be this way. When our job was considered a joke, when you were broken, when your love was dead or alive, when your life was stuck in the second gear and when it was not your day,your week, your month or even your year- you always have a friend who says-

I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour. 
I'll be there for you, like I've been there before. 
I'll be there for you, ‘coz you're there for me too. 

Happy world best friends’ day!

(Over to you TMOD)

CC #3-Getting to the point-Everything Begins at Home

CC #3-Getting to the point-Everything Begins at Home

Good afternoon fellow toastmasters and guests. Our Independence Day is approaching. The common wealth games in Glasgow recently had 64 Indians winning medals finishing 5^th place in the world. The World Bank report says India has displaced Japan to become third largest economy in the world in terms of Purchasing power parity. The place we hold in the world is made very prominent with University of Michigan taking up “India in the world” in their curriculum to teach how well India has prospered. Despite all this, India is still a developing country.  Can anyone tell me some reasons behind this state?

Thank you all. There have always been reasons and constant complaints about the people pointing out at officials that they were not doing their responsibilities properly.

Let us now consider Mr. Ravi, a sincere official who always did his job well. He is a 12 years experienced person and there aren’t any black-marks in his entire career. He has always managed to turn deaf years to all the people who wanted to get him into wrong practices- personally and professionally.

One fine day, Mr. Ravi has an important document to be sent out to his chief so that they can decide on the company’s revenue forecast. There comes Mr. Rony- formally dressed. He portrayed every quality that a gentleman would have. (Rony is actually the friend of Balu, the person who sits next to Ravi at work)They both have a casual conversation:

Rony: Ravi, I heard that you were working on this document and it was due to sent out to the chief today?

Ravi: Yes Rony. I am putting my heart and soul to deliver this document.

Rony: That’s really good Ravi. Could you do me a favour?

Ravi: Sure, please tell me.

Rony: One of my friends is running a company. He is very sad about his company performing badly at the stocks. He even went to the state of committing suicide twice!If you can change the value from 9 crores to 7 crores in your document, he would be happy.

Ravi: Rony, this is ridiculous! I cannot do something that’s against my value!

Rony: Does your value say you can allow a person commit suicide?

Ravi: No. But….

Rony: Please Ravi. He would also give you 1 crore rupees for the favour you are doing.

Ravi: Bribe? No way!

Rony: It isn’t bribery Ravi. You are Balu’s friend. Will I let you get into trouble? This is a token of gratitude; a gift that he would give.

Ravi: Still it is bribery Rony, I wouldn’t do it.

Rony: C’mon Ravi. When you presented your wife with jewelry, was it bribe? He is my friend, which means he is your friend too. Please help him.

Ravi: Hmm…

(Ravi changes his document from 9 crores to 7 crores, gets caught in the financial review and is behind the bars for bribery)

Let us see what happened in Ravi’s childhood that made him accept that it was a GIFT like Rony had mentioned.

32 years ago-

Ravi’s mom was very happy to have given birth to a healthy boy. She wanted him to be the first in everything, like every mother.

When he learned to walk, she stood on one corner and called him “Ravi! Come to your mother” and cuddled him. Every kid is born to experience love.

Suddenly things change. Ravi is in class one when his strict father tells him, “Ravi, get first rank and I will give you a new box of Crayon”

Ravi works hard thinking about the Crayon he would get if he succeeds.

Ravi grew up and his father now says, “Ravi, get above 90% and I will get you a new bike”

Ravi works hard that he gets the bike some way or the other. He studies day and night and scores more than 90% and gets his dream bike.

Just like Ravi, most of us were fighting to conquer our own self to get the GIFT promised by our parent. Never did we think that our parents would be happy if we got the first rank, our parents would he proud if we scored above 90%.

That is when the pride for a priced article overtook love. We yearned for priced goods than priceless love. We bribe the children unknowingly that, on doing something they would get something.

Children should be thought to work for a target to reach glory, not to reach for a target to get something that money can buy. If the child succeeds, let that be celebrated with a vacation with family/friends or a party with the closed ones; but let us avoid promising gifts for an achievement. Let us make children realize that it is for their good. We aren’t avoiding celebrations any ways!

Let us eradicate the root cause for bribery.

Let us remove corruption from our country and make India a developed country.

 (Over to you TMOD)

The Conjurer

It is definitely not something new. But something much better than what we imagined it to be or what we have seen before. The Conjurer Arun Sharma enthralled the audience from the minute he walked on to the podium. His charismatic attitude in engaging the audience was well received. His way of using the magic slogan “Bambam bazooki…Maruti Suzuki” was the best take away for the audience.

It is really a tough task to grab the attention of the crowd and to make them laugh and giggle within 10 minutes. But Arun not only made them to cherish the 10 minutes but also to leave them awestruck at the surprises. There were aahs and oohs all throughout the 10 minutes and that by itself showcases the elements of the show.

The first event where he pulled out the silk cloth out of his naked hands seems to be a usual gimmick. But the profound fact is that Arun did not use a full sleeve shirt. His hands were literally naked. So the act added more glamour and captivated the audience.

The second act would probably be the highlight of the show. If the first one was a starter, this one was the main course. It was very evident from the premises that Arun set on how the energy can only be transformed from one form to another, that he has magic in his blood. Being the son of the great illusionist Mr. Rajkumar, Arun easily set on to transform the audience’s energy to hold a playing card on the air for a few seconds. The inhale and exhale exercise only fascinated the room with more energy.

The last act was precisely the dessert. There was a lady from the audience who taught Arun a way to shuffle by dropping everything on floor. Arun did not let the volunteer panic. Instead he made the situation very light and that would come only on experience. Arun did a stupendous job in reading the volunteer’s mind and spotting the card correctly.

“I was dumb-struck at this performance” said one of the attendees at the conference. “I have seen many acts like this before. But this one is special because I thought I could figure out but ended up just mesmerized” said another.

These are the true testimonies of the fact that Arun rocked the show with ease and elegance. We are all looking forward to many such magical moments from him.

If you are interested to know more about Arun Sharma, please visit the below link:
http://arunsharmamagic.wix.com/arunsharma and if you want to master the art of impossible, please visit https://www.facebook.com/delhischoolofmagic

The 20 P's of Public speaking

"Public speaking is an art and every speaker is an artist". Having said so, no art form can be mastered without proper efforts. Unlike our engineering examinations, where we prepare in the last minute and still manage to clear the exams, art forms need proper practice and efforts to achieve a step by step success. These are few P's that might be essential to give a good speech. These are the points I have learnt from senior speakers and out of the little experience I have. 

Speech scripting phase

• Passion - Develop passion towards the art of public speaking. As Oprah Winfrey said, "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focussing on what excites you". Let the art of speaking in front of an audience excite you. Feel elated each time you speak in front of an audience. Your passion will drive you to write great speeches. 
• Purpose - Speech Purpose is a very important element in public speaking. A speech would have a general purpose and a specific purpose. At a high level, the general purpose can be to entertain, enlighten, inspire or persuade the audience. Specific purpose depends on the topic or subject you choose to speak upon.
• Preparation - Prepare a rough outline of what you are going to speak. You may have 100 speech topics running through your mind and you may be confused on which one to choose. Finalize on one topic and have a set of ideas which you can speak about in 5-7 minutes. Normally when I get a subject to speak, I take a piece of paper and have the ideas like a flow chart. Not because am a computer programmer, but because a flow chart helps me to keep the ideas ready so that I can start writing. For example, when I wrote my CC #3 speech about my friend, This is what I initially did. 

• Pen down your ideas in the form of a proper speech. Choose the points that are of high importance and organize them so that you stick to time limits. Remove the points that are of less significance.A convenient idea would be to have roughly 100 words per minute. So if it is a 5-7 mins speech, which again has 30 seconds grace time, you can roughly have 750 words in it. 
• Prioritize your ideas properly as speech organization and development is very important. There are umpteen ways in which the speech can be organized. It can be chronological, cause-effect etc. Make sure you have a striking opening and a bang on conclusion. Your opening has to be attention grabbing. Have an organized body, which keeps the audience hooked to your speech. Conclude in such a way that it leaves a lasting impression in the minds of audience. In DTM Saro's words, "Last words are the lasting words". 
• Personalize your speech according to the target audience. At times we use few jargons and end up in excluding a set of audience. For example when a speaker says, "Life was tough when I was working in night shift. Everyday we used to have compilation issues and the deployment would fail. I had to fix them diligently". In the above statement, words like compilation and deployment may suit only those who are from a Software engineering background. It is ok to use them in corporate clubs where all of them are from the same field. But when you address a mixed crowd, make sure to avoid these. Ensure that everyone in the hall is included and none of them feel excluded from your speech.  
• Proofreading or script review is a very important phase. This is the phase where your speech script would attain a state of completeness. Send your script to your mentor who would review it and give his/her comments. Based on those comments, edit your script and create a final copy that would be delivered on stage. You can even deliver once in front of your mentor before going on stage so that you feel more confident and you learn stage usage and body language for the speech. Make sure to send the script well in advance to your mentor, at least 10 days prior to the day of speech delivery. This gives sufficient time to mentors to review the script as all of them are working professionals in one or the other field. This also gives you enough time to rehearse. 
• Practice makes a man perfect is a well known adage to all of us. Nothing makes you a better speaker than constant practice. You can practice the speech in front of your mentor, family members, or even a mirror or camera. Make sure to time the speech when you practice at home. Be sure that you do not get time disqualified on the day of delivering it in your club. At times there are speakers who deliver a wonderful content, but they get disqualified by time. They could have made things better if they had attempted the speech at home, with a timing device in place. 

• Pronunciation is a key challenge for most of us while speaking. Since we are not native speakers of the English, we end up in pronouncing the words with mother tongue influence. One technique that has really worked for me is "Words in the news" by BBC learning English. It gives you a passage from the current news. Ten words the in passage will be highlighted and their meaning would be given in the bottom segment. There is a listen button which enables you to listen to that passage as read by the BBC news reader. So every day, if you can spend 3 minutes on this, you can learn ten new words, with meaning, usage and pronunciation. Another technique that I learnt from my mentor is to read newspaper or an English book loudly for few minutes everyday. By doing this your tongue gets comfortable in pronouncing English. 

Speech delivery phase

• Punctuality - You might be thinking, "What is public speaking to do with punctuality". I would say that there is connection between them. Arrive early to the club meeting when you are delivering your speech. Or if it is a contest, be there at the venue well in advance. If you come late and see that the meeting has already started, your nervousness will increase. Your heart will start beating faster due to tension. It is very important to make sure that you are in your comfort zone when you are delivering a speech. So go early, say by 15-20 minutes, have casual talk with people around and relax yourself. 
• Positivity - Positive attitude defines your performance on that day. It is necessary to look positive and sound positive. As Toastmaster Rajesh Natarajan told in one of his sessions, "Everyone has fear. It is inevitable. What is important is masking the fear and looking positive and confident on stage". If you want to mask your fear, the only way is to be positive. 
• Pleasant look - Look pleasant with appropriate dressing when you deliver a speech. A pleasant attire does not just mean wearing a suit and tie. The clothing that looks appropriate to the speech content is always welcome. If it is a professional talk, or a seminar, an educational session etc, a suit and a tie would be the perfect choice. Your dressing is the first thing that would catch audience's eye even before you start your delivery. Make a careful choice in this aspect. 
• Pitch, Pace, Pause and Projection - Once again, I learnt these 4 P's from my mentor DTM Saro. These are the major elements of vocal variety. Pitch is nothing but the ups and downs that we bring in to add emotions. Pace is the rate at which we deliver the speech, or the speed of delivering. It should neither be fast, as this may lead to few words being unheard, nor be too slow. The pace has to be in accordance with the script. Pauses play a major role when we speak. The can be used for a lot of purposes. For example, you can pause before you break a suspense in your speech, or you can pause after you deliver a heavily emotional line (both happy and sad emotions) thereby giving the audience some time to absorb those emotions and react to them. Projection of your voice is based on  the size and acoustics of the auditorium. The projection should be such that even the last seated person in the hall is able to hear you. 
• Palpitation is your friendly enemy. You can neither avoid him completely, not let him take over you. It is natural to be nervous, but make sure that it doesn't become obvious. At times when we get nervous on stage, we start clasping our hands, fiddling with our tie, holding our id card, looking up and down etc. Make sure not to do all these as this would portray your nervousness evidently. 
• Performance - At the end of the day, what matters is your performance. Try and give the best shot. Despite the Sergeant's instructions, there might be mobile phones ringing, people walking in and out. Do not get distracted by all these elements. Just focus on the delivery and make sure that it creates an impact. Deliver a speech to express yourself and not just to impress the audience. 
• Power - The power of your speech should be such that it has to leave an imprint in the minds of the audience. The audience should be able to take away something from your speech. It may be a message or it may even be memories, ensure to deliver in such a way that it stays longer in the hearts of audience.
• Pride - Pride is one feeling that has to invade you after your delivery. You may or may not have done well. Whatever be the case, feel proud that you have taken one step forward in your career as a public speaker. 

"Proper planning preparation & practice prevents poor performance"

Those few moments

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I was one among those few lucky candidates who had the privilege of skipping the aptitude test and attending the personal interview directly. I had already thanked God, because I know that I would have suffered if I had to take up an aptitude test. And I may not have been in TCS if I had faced the aptitude test. “Mathematics” had never been something I was really good at. 

I had missed the regular bus on the day of interview and went in the subsequent one. It was almost 9 AM when I reached our campus. I had carried my shirt in a backpack and thought of wearing it few minutes before the interview begins. I went to the computer science laboratory to staple my resume which I had not done earlier. One of the fellow prisoners in my college came up to me and asked, “Dude, Are you from the Computer science department??”. “Oh yes!”, I replied. “In that case, your interview has already started I believe. I saw a few guys from your department going towards the interview panel room”. I was shocked to hear that and rushed to change my clothes. Finally I went to the panel.

Thank God. Students from Electronics and Communication department were not done with their interview and we guys were asked to wait in the cloak room. Umpteen discussions were taking place among students. I heard so many voices around me “Dude, what is the answer for this question, what should I answer if they shoot this kind of question, what is this, what is that.....” Oh my god !! I heard all terminologies from 4 years of engineering syllabus in those few minutes. All this made me feel even more tensed. I refrained myself from talking to my own friends. Even lending my ears to people around seemed dangerous as it may shoot up my pressure. At last our placement co-ordinator came and announced “Students form the CSE department, kindly gather near the panel”. We were asked to sit in the corridors of the panel area. Finally a fair man from TCS came to us. “15 people can come to the waiting hall now”, he said.

[In the waiting room]

I quickly occupied the very first chair as I desperately wanted to get done with my interview at the earliest. I couldn’t withstand the pressure building within me. I was eagerly waiting to be called for the personal interview. Finally the placement officer called me. He pointed out a panel and asked me to get in there. Eventually the so called interview was about to begin and I was ready to face it (was afraid of course).

[Inside the panel room]

Me : Knock ! knock !

(I saw 2 gentlemen inside. One seemed to be a mid 30s man and the other one was much younger. The young man looked at me and shook his head signalling me to come in. The moment I entered both of them gave a broad smile. I smiled back and greeted them. I do not remember their names. So let their names be x and y. Oh no.. I told you in the beginning of the article that I am bad at mathematics. No more algebra. Let x=Suresh and y=Joseph)

The short man : Very good morning. Am Suresh and he is Joseph. Please take your seat !!

Me: Thank you sir.

Joseph: You are Mr Gautam right ?

Me: Yes Sir!!

Joseph: So just brief about yourself Gautam!!

Me: Hearty welcome to our campus gentlemen. I am Gautam Vaidyalinga Sharma. (I spoke for around 7 minutes. Spoke about everything except my horoscope. I knew those gentlemen won’t be interested in that. Then I concluded my introduction with the following sentence) I love to work a lot and I have the habit of understanding and analyzing things before doing them as it gives me more mental satisfaction.

Suresh: Can u give an example of this characteristic of yours. Just tell one instance where you have done something after understanding and analyzing well. It would be nice to hear that as well. 

Me: 110 crore people from our country sing the Indian national anthem. But how many people do you think know the meaning of our national anthem. Once we understand the meaning, we’ll sing from our heart with the pride that we are Indians. So it is always better to understand something before doing it !!

Joseph: Oh!! Even I don’t know the meaning of Indian national anthem. Can u share it with me so that I’ll also sing it with pride?

Me: I would be glad to share it with you. 

You the ruler of our minds our nation
To you our humble salutations
You the custodian of so many
You the guardian of India’s destiny
Through Punjab and sind
Gujarath and Maratha
Dravida utkala and Bengal
Across lofty crests and mellow leas of the vindhyas and Himalayas
Your name awakens one and all
It rests upon the melodies of Yamuna and Ganga in harmony
And swells the waves of the titanic sea
Your blessings we seek
Your praises replicate you
As the protector of India’s fate
Jaya hey jaya hey jaya hey
Victory for ever to you !!
Suresh: Ammmmazing!!! (In the meanwhile Joseph applauded as a symbol of appreciation)

(They turned the pages of my application form. He saw the second page where I had mentioned “Oracle - Java Standard Edition 2 programmer - Certified Professional”.)

Suresh: Oh you are a certified Java professional. That is indeed nice to know. Is java your favourite programming language?

Me: Yes sir. It is my favourite.

Suresh: Very good. I appreciate your extra-curricular and social activities. Now let us have some tech talk about your favourite Java.

“My bad time has started”, I told myself.

The so called “Tech talk” went on for 20 minutes. He asked me all possible interview questions in Java including “How to make java understand inputs from other languages apart from English”. All his questions were answered by me rightly/partially rightly and at the end of every answer I received a “Good” from him. Very kind of him indeed. He made sure that I am motivated always. 

[After the deadly 20 minutes of life in the Java world]

Suresh: Apart from Java which technological learning has fascinated you the most?

Me: I am fascinated towards web application development. Learning J2EE now.

Joseph: Are you by any chance nervous Gautam?

Me: I was initially nervous. But the gentlemen in front of me are so friendly that I am feeling good now :)

(In the meanwhile Joseph walked out. He got a call I believe)
Suresh: So let me ask a few questions from servlets.

Tech again .. ahww no!! :(
(Then he questioned me for some 5-8 minutes from Servlets. Again I answered all of them rightly but for two)
Suresh: It seems that you have presented a paper on cloud computing. Just explain me about cloud computing and it’s benefits.

(I gave him explanations which he asked for... Then I saw a smile in his face. I thought that he would spare me at least now. But he did not!!!)

Suresh: Gautam!! Where do you imagine yourself after 5 years?

Me: I can imagine myself as a responsible employee of TCS in a better designation than now.

Suresh: When there are so many companies. Why TCS??

Me: TCS is the best IT solutions provider in India. TATA is the pride of India. (I spoke about the glories of TCS and the TATAs for about 5 minutes). When all these glories are there. Why NOT TCS... sir????

Suresh: What do you expect from TCS?

Me: I do not have much expectations. I would expect the company to expect something from me and will deliver my best to satisfy those expectations.

Suresh: Do you have any geographic constraints ?? Because TCS has around 147 offices in 42 countries!! Do you have any problem working away from home town and away from family?

Me: TCS is TCS everywhere sir. I am very eager to work in different geographies. Would be glad to!!!

Suresh: U have to sign a bond for 2 years [and he explained so many other procedures]

I just smiled and said “I am fine with anything”
Suresh: Am impressed by your performance Gautam. All the best for a bright career.

Me: Thanks for the wonderful session sir.

(A hand shake.... and it was over)
Phew !!!!!!!!!

Blessed Creation

We THE HUMANS are least equipped when compared to all other living creations existing in this universe.

We cannot run as speed as a tiger, 
We cannot dont have eyes as sharp as an Eagle,
We dont have teeth as efficient as wild cat,
We cant swim as fast as dolphin

Yet all these other creations can only adapt to the environment, 
But we can Create Our own Environment.

Because, of all the 8.7 million species only we are blessed with ABILITY TO DREAM.

If you use it properly YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT,
If you don't YOU WILL ADAPT TO THE EXISTING ENVIRONMENT.

Choice is yours DREAM BIG :)


- A Gist from my old CC.