What an ID(K)EA!!!!

Yesterday, happened to visit IKEA store in Dubai. For those who are not aware IKEA is a furniture retailing company based in Sweden and having shops all around the globe. It's kind of a self servicing furniture shop where you can select from the vast range of various household furnishing (both soft and hard) items. The company believes in selling affordable and good quality of furniture. To make the items more affordable, you would see that there are no formal sales people in the store. All the items have been displayed in the store by sections i.e. living room, kitchen, bedroom and so on and so forth. All one has to do is roam around the store and look at the furniture and buy it. Except for big items all the other items are to be picked up and assembled by the buyer himself/herself. Thus by company saving employee costs and passing on the benefit to the end users.

The first thing you would notice here is the simplicity and easiness in assembling the items bought from here. This is so simple that a person with no experience in carpentry can also easily do it. The phrase that the beauty lies in simplicity is quite visible here.

The second and the most noticeable thing is the attention to details given by the company while manufacturing the items. These are regular day to day usable items but are so very finely designed and made that each and every problems faced commonly, using a particular item, has been paid attention to while designing the same. All the items which are to be self assembled are supplied with correct numbers and correct sizes of nuts and bolts. On the top of that the items are supplied with detailed diagrams with gives pictorial instructions on assembling. Any question on assembling, even before it arises in your mind, will be answered in the instruction manual. I have heard many times that 'the God lies in detail' and this is the place where you would really see it.

The store here in Dubai is a huge one with two levels and I guess the accumulated size is of almost more than 4 football stadiums. The store is also as uniquely designed as the items sold in the store. The store has a nice workable canteen where they serve quite yummy and nice food. I guess this is really needed considering the amount of walking involved while roaming around the store. I am sure anybody who is interested in home/office interiors would spend not less than 3-4 hours roaming around the store. Every time I land there, I literally have to drag myself out of the store. This is kind of a paradise for all those people who love their houses. Really I must say 'What an id(K)ea sirji!!!!

Uncertainty

There are certain incidents in life which really make you feel that everything in life is so temporary. Heard about some one loosing his job. Till yesterday he was a king of that place and today he has been shown the door!!! This really makes me wonder is their anything in life which is certain?? Then why do people live their lives thinking that their is no end to it? I guess the person whom I am referring would have understood the temporary nature of the things in life.

I guess we should ask what is uncertainty to a person who just met up with a fatal accident, to a soldier who just was shot down by a bullet, to a guy who lost his fortune in a gamble, to a person who just has been shown the door on a job....And then we should think that if the life is so uncertain then why do we keep clinging to our egos and our differences? why cant we forgive and forget? why can't we settle our differences? Guess if we can realize and answer these questions then the world would be a real peaceful place...

Snooze......

This word is known to most of us. And if we think for a second we would realise how important thing this is. Imagine the sweet sleep we normally have between two snoozes. It is such a nice thing that we can actually postpone the current event for few minutes without much disturbance. It is like holding the precious time in our hand with out letting it slip by..

If we stretch our imagination further and just think what if we can apply this principle to all the other things in life!!! Just think how nice it would be to remain child for just a little while longer. How beautiful it would be to extend the first date for a little bit longer. How joyful it would have been to play with our kids once again before they grow up and get lost in this busy world. The joy that we would have got would be much sweeter than the morning sleep between two snoozes. Isn't it??

But life does not have a snooze button. Now thats why I feel what the stalwarts say holds such a truth of life. We need to cherish each and every moment of our lives with out much worrying about future and with out regretting our past as today is a gift that is why it is called 'present'...

May be....

Maybe. . we were supposed to meet the
wrong people before meeting the right
one so that, when we finally meet the
right person, we will know how to be
grateful for that gift.

Maybe . . . it is true that we don't
know what we have until we lose it,
but it is also true that we don't know
what we have been missing until it
arrives.

Maybe . . . the brightest future will
always be based on a forgotten past;
after all, you can't go on
successfully in life until you let go
of your past mistakes, failures and
heartaches.

Maybe . . you should hope for enough
happiness to make you sweet, enough
trials to make you strong, enough
sorrow to keep you human, and enough
hope to make you happy.

Maybe . . . the happiest of people
don't necessarily have the best of
everything; they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.

Maybe .. . . the best kind of friend is
the kind you can sit on a porch and
swing with, never say a word, and then
walk away feeling like it was the best
conversation you've ever had.

Maybe . . . happiness waits for all
those who cry, all those who hurt, all
those who have searched, and all those
who have tried, for only they can
appreciate the importance of all the
people who have touched their lives.

May be . . you should do something nice
for someone every single day, even if
it is simply to leave them alone.

Maybe . . . there are moments in life
when you miss someone -- a parent, a
spouse, a friend, a child -- so much
that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real, so
that once they are around you
appreciate them more.

Maybe giving someone all your love
is never an assurance that they will
love you back. Don't expect love in
return; just wait for it to grow in
their heart; but, if it doesn't, be
content that it grew in yours.

Maybe .. . . you should dream what you
want to dream; go where you want to
go, be what you want to be, because
you have only one life and one chance
to do all the things you dream of, and
want to do.

P.S. : This is taken from a mail I received recently.

First day at the school

Finally!!! started blogging...While I was creating my profile I really felt the same kind of excitement and thrill as a student would notice on his first day at school. Among the entire process of creating your blog, the best part was naming my blog. As rest of the things are like pick and choose. I really had to scratch my brains a little to come up with the name of the blog. Finally thought of this name. The first part of name came from one of my attribute i.e. inquisitiveness and second from the movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) I guess as I am also a big movie buff. Once I got the name the rest was pretty simple as it was choosing from the platter. .