Conversations with a pizza!

"Pizza. Pizza. What have you got?"

"Cheese and Sauce" - did you have other thoughts?

"OH, but don't you have a base of dough?"

"Definitely yes! You are quite smart, WOW!"

"Why are your sauces mostly red? Don't you like other colour's as well, instead?"

"OH, I do get the occasional green - from leaves of basil, if you have seen?"

"What makes you tasty? Sugar or salt?"

"I need both - but at different time slots!"

"What makes the dough in you rise? Even if I wanted a thin crust type?"

"OH, that is so easy, you see!

I got something in me called yeast!

It feeds off the sugar and helps my dough rise,

And the cooking does it again, yet another time!"

A Birthday Party

In the blocks of hallowed Green Hollow Drive,

Where neighbours are like a family in their own right,

Birthday parties were usually held,

With cakes and/or dinner - one cannot tell!

One such birthday did come by,

In the month of February when cold rules high!

We all thought we had it right,

Until we were in for a surprise that night!

From the dawn of the day of nineteenth - you see,

Our neighbhour was wondering where we have all been!

For each one of us maintained a very strict mute,

With nary a greeting well past noon!

The confusion was only because,

The birthday was mentioned in the times of Santa Claus!

Somehow the nineteenth of February was unknown,

And everyone in the room had twenty - as the day to go!

Behind the scenes it was different though,

With preparations to celebrate that began a few weeks ago!

An "halwa" was imported from Tirunelveli town,

Traveling miles across oceans and continents that are found.

As everyone just walked into the house,

Close to midnight of twentieth they found,

The birthday was supposed to be on nineteenth it seems - 

But hey, it is jusy eleven forty five pm, 

So what's the big deal? :)

Spark Your Productivity- Book Review

Many readers familiar with Stephen Covey's *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* will find an interesting companion — and contrast — in Spark Your Productivity.  While Covey operates from a philosophical altitude, asking readers to undergo deep paradigm shifts in how they see themselves and the world, with a framework which is principle-centered and demands sustained intellectual engagement - it can also feel like homework.

Spark your productivity takes a different path. Where Covey asks *who do you want to become?*, it would ask *what can you do differently today?* The approach is more incremental and immediately actionable — less about rewiring your worldview and more about building momentum through small wins. As one endorser rightly puts it, the book is about nurturing your inner world and cultivating meaningful relationships, not just hitting external targets

That said, the two authors aren't in opposition. Think of Stephen Covey as the architect and Satish Rajamani as the contractor. Covey gives you the blueprint for an effective life; Rajamani hands you the tools and walks you through the build, one day at a time. If you've read Covey and felt inspired but unsure where to start, *Spark Your Productivity* is an excellent next step.

The concepts are universal, the tone is encouraging, and the exercises are genuinely usable in everyday life.

Satish Rajamani has written a book whose strength is simplicity in a genre crowded with lofty promises and complicated systems.

A must-read for anyone ready to stop planning to be productive and actually *become* productive.