What Why Where Who Which When How..
some questions i am trying to answer for myself...
thats it
no updates
take care people :)
Monday, October 30, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
a Forward!!!
One of my favourite forwards..
and i guess, no, i KNOW that any one related to this field would agree with this 100%
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Brand Extension!!!!
Warning: actually i started out to write something else.. but i dont knw what i really wrote.. so go ahead read at your own risk ;)
its one of the three dry days (i didnt know that such word existed till yesterday when B enlightened me). every intersection on the road would have his photo with a garland. all the patriotic songs would be played... all the TV channels would telecast movies like "sarfarosh", "Roja", "gandhi", etc, etc. All the news channels would have a review of what a great person he was and his contribution to our democratic ocuntry. and this year's added attraction is the Munnabhai "Gandhigiri" sequel. (confession time: i still didnt watch the movie.. shame shame to me). and last but not the least, all the news papers would debate on weather his statements and his actions are as relevant as they were 60 years ago... or weather peace is the solution.. blah blah........
I guess the news paper people now a days arent getting much of news to publish. i feel, what they do is - they just take a plain white paper and let their imagination run wilddddddddd... and then they publish that BULLS_ _ _ on the first page 8-). The other day one news paper, as usual didnt know what to publish to make that edition sell. So they came out with a survey..
Seems the result of the survey gave ceratin conclusions:
1. Seems that if Gandhiji was not in as many scenes as he was shown in Munnabhai sequel, the movie would have had more collections, than what it is having now..
the main theme of the movie being the so called "Gandhigiri", i just dont see how the movie would have been a bigger hit, if Circuit was given a Plumper role.
Agreed that may be a few of his principles may not have much of an impact today.. but may be we should consider the extension of his principles... which could be of high importance for us today..
Definitions have to be changed.. at the bottom level, may be peace is not our concern anymore... Not many of us are really bothered about peace and blah blah as long as all our loved ones are safe. as long as we have weekends to enjoy without a curfew or something like that...
Freedom, i guess has a completely different meaning now than what is was 60 years ago. We are no more fighting for freedom from a foreign enemy. i guess our definition of freedom is doing what we want to do.. the way we want to do.. no compromise is our defintion of living our life...
But because we are social animals and all that, we do have ceratin responsibility towards our society - which more or less is allowing us to have the kind of freedom we want.
i dont know about other cities in the country, but my beautiful city, Hyderabad, has to take up some of these responsibilities pretty soon.. else we are nearing the chaotic situation of High-pollution-major traffic jams, etc, etc.....
One of our major negligence is the way we behave at traffic lights... we cant even wait for 30 seconds for the light to turn green. One of my colleagues, who is from a different city, says, Red is just another colour here at Hyderabad.. looks like all of us have collectively bunked the class where they taught us that Red is for stop and Green is for go...
and the other major concern is our total disregard of cleanliness... Once we had gone to Nagarjun Sagar.. a beautifulllllllllllllllll place, dam actually... and we were standing in the queue waiting for our chance to purchase the tickets... One lady there, also bunked the class which said that standing in queue to purchase something is much more easier and quicker than joining the crowd in between and making a huuuuuugeeeeeeee scene about it. and she had the guts to talk about no one in India following the queue system.. and she goes on cribbing about the cleanliness factor... then we all got into the boat which would take us to a beautiful museum. and surprise suprise guess who was the only one who threw somewhre around 10 covers of lays chips into the water?
I guess rather than cribbing about all this i should start implementing these... because my defintion of peace and harmony has become "coming home without getting involved in encounter with the traffic police, or without getting involved in a major tarffic jam or not getting invovled in a freak road accident"
People may say that his ideals / principles have really lost value today.. but what i feel is, we gotta look at them from a different angle... because, we gotta give our future generation a chance to live as happily as we are...and that was what he had achieved, gave us a chance to live, dream and realise those dreams.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. (Albert Einsein.. talking about the Great Gandhi)
its one of the three dry days (i didnt know that such word existed till yesterday when B enlightened me). every intersection on the road would have his photo with a garland. all the patriotic songs would be played... all the TV channels would telecast movies like "sarfarosh", "Roja", "gandhi", etc, etc. All the news channels would have a review of what a great person he was and his contribution to our democratic ocuntry. and this year's added attraction is the Munnabhai "Gandhigiri" sequel. (confession time: i still didnt watch the movie.. shame shame to me). and last but not the least, all the news papers would debate on weather his statements and his actions are as relevant as they were 60 years ago... or weather peace is the solution.. blah blah........
I guess the news paper people now a days arent getting much of news to publish. i feel, what they do is - they just take a plain white paper and let their imagination run wilddddddddd... and then they publish that BULLS_ _ _ on the first page 8-). The other day one news paper, as usual didnt know what to publish to make that edition sell. So they came out with a survey..
Seems the result of the survey gave ceratin conclusions:
1. Seems that if Gandhiji was not in as many scenes as he was shown in Munnabhai sequel, the movie would have had more collections, than what it is having now..
the main theme of the movie being the so called "Gandhigiri", i just dont see how the movie would have been a bigger hit, if Circuit was given a Plumper role.
Agreed that may be a few of his principles may not have much of an impact today.. but may be we should consider the extension of his principles... which could be of high importance for us today..
Definitions have to be changed.. at the bottom level, may be peace is not our concern anymore... Not many of us are really bothered about peace and blah blah as long as all our loved ones are safe. as long as we have weekends to enjoy without a curfew or something like that...
Freedom, i guess has a completely different meaning now than what is was 60 years ago. We are no more fighting for freedom from a foreign enemy. i guess our definition of freedom is doing what we want to do.. the way we want to do.. no compromise is our defintion of living our life...
But because we are social animals and all that, we do have ceratin responsibility towards our society - which more or less is allowing us to have the kind of freedom we want.
i dont know about other cities in the country, but my beautiful city, Hyderabad, has to take up some of these responsibilities pretty soon.. else we are nearing the chaotic situation of High-pollution-major traffic jams, etc, etc.....
One of our major negligence is the way we behave at traffic lights... we cant even wait for 30 seconds for the light to turn green. One of my colleagues, who is from a different city, says, Red is just another colour here at Hyderabad.. looks like all of us have collectively bunked the class where they taught us that Red is for stop and Green is for go...
and the other major concern is our total disregard of cleanliness... Once we had gone to Nagarjun Sagar.. a beautifulllllllllllllllll place, dam actually... and we were standing in the queue waiting for our chance to purchase the tickets... One lady there, also bunked the class which said that standing in queue to purchase something is much more easier and quicker than joining the crowd in between and making a huuuuuugeeeeeeee scene about it. and she had the guts to talk about no one in India following the queue system.. and she goes on cribbing about the cleanliness factor... then we all got into the boat which would take us to a beautiful museum. and surprise suprise guess who was the only one who threw somewhre around 10 covers of lays chips into the water?
I guess rather than cribbing about all this i should start implementing these... because my defintion of peace and harmony has become "coming home without getting involved in encounter with the traffic police, or without getting involved in a major tarffic jam or not getting invovled in a freak road accident"
People may say that his ideals / principles have really lost value today.. but what i feel is, we gotta look at them from a different angle... because, we gotta give our future generation a chance to live as happily as we are...and that was what he had achieved, gave us a chance to live, dream and realise those dreams.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. (Albert Einsein.. talking about the Great Gandhi)
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Thank You!!
Padma Mam : the bestest teacher anyone can ever have... she was more a friend than a teacher :) when she retired almost the whole school got emotional..
Ravi Sir : my introducter (i know, there is no such word) to the world of maths... he made it all sound sooo easy
Subramanyam Sir : anyone who stays in my locality knows him.. if any one of us learnt maths and found it not-so-greeky, it was solely due to him.. when i used to come down to Hyderabad for my summer holidays, i used to go to him to learn maths...
if not for him i would never ever have learnt trigonometry
Sujatha Mam: she didnt teach me any subject.. she was my neighbour... and she was the one who encouraged me to take part in all the quiz competitions.. and also prepared me to face all the quizzes :)
Krishna Rao Sir: this sir had one artificial eye. he was our maths sir.. 9th class.. i really really hated all that maths in 9th class.. but thanks to him i did manage to get very very good marks
Subramanyam Sir: Maths again..tution teacher in Delhi.. he taught us the best and the easiest way to solve all those 10th class maths problems.. i got 93 :) YAYYYYY
Naresh Sir : Inter(+2 as some people call it) Lecturer. Chemistry. he made chemistry subject really really interesting even without Sushmita Sen (Main Hoo Na, remember?)
Suresh Sir: Physics Lecturer. i HATE physics.. all those laws... he was one cute lecturer... all the girls in the college were OOHHH AAAHHH over him...
in the introductory class itself, becuase i was chatting away to glory with my bench mate, he made me stand
SS: what is water?
Soumya the Great: H2O
SS: what is H2O
Soumya the Great : water
SS: dont try to act smart with me, i am going to throw you out of the window..
Soumya the great to self: i WILL NOT FIT IN THE WINDOW
till date i dont understand what was the correct answer i was supposed to give :(
Rajesh Sir: chemistry sir again.. i used to go for tutions when i was in my intermediate to a place called Tetrahedron. he used to take our first class (6:00 AM).. the class was one of the livliest classes ive attended till date.. the best part about him was the fact that all the students were comfortable with him... may be becuase he was only 5 or 6 years elder to us..
Chandrasekhar Sir: physics sir... i guess i owe my physics marks in inter (56 / 60) to him, him and only him.. but i still HATE Physics
KP Sir : ORGANIC Chemistry i LOVE the subject.. he had a knack of explaining this subject while many others found it very difficult to even explain the basic of the subject. it was like he treated all the carbon and hydrogen and oxygen molecules with reverance.. i dedicate my 58 / 60 amrks in chemistry to him :)
Parthasaradhy Sir : Integrated Circuits (IC) sir. he was the best lecturer in our engineering college. and he was one lecturer who posed questions out of the text book. and made us all design new circuits :)
Suresh Sir : MBA. he gave our class our first taste of one of the most beautiful subjects - marketing. He taught the entire subject in examples and case studies... and well, he divided our class into various groups - and thats how i met the most creative person ive come across till date :)A special thanks to Suresh sir :D
i thank each and every one of them who have taught me at various stages of life..
i am what i am majorly because of them..
thank you all for showing the RIGHT direction.
PS: actually this post was supposed to come out on Teacher's Day. me lazy me :(
Ravi Sir : my introducter (i know, there is no such word) to the world of maths... he made it all sound sooo easy
Subramanyam Sir : anyone who stays in my locality knows him.. if any one of us learnt maths and found it not-so-greeky, it was solely due to him.. when i used to come down to Hyderabad for my summer holidays, i used to go to him to learn maths...
if not for him i would never ever have learnt trigonometry
Sujatha Mam: she didnt teach me any subject.. she was my neighbour... and she was the one who encouraged me to take part in all the quiz competitions.. and also prepared me to face all the quizzes :)
Krishna Rao Sir: this sir had one artificial eye. he was our maths sir.. 9th class.. i really really hated all that maths in 9th class.. but thanks to him i did manage to get very very good marks
Subramanyam Sir: Maths again..tution teacher in Delhi.. he taught us the best and the easiest way to solve all those 10th class maths problems.. i got 93 :) YAYYYYY
Naresh Sir : Inter(+2 as some people call it) Lecturer. Chemistry. he made chemistry subject really really interesting even without Sushmita Sen (Main Hoo Na, remember?)
Suresh Sir: Physics Lecturer. i HATE physics.. all those laws... he was one cute lecturer... all the girls in the college were OOHHH AAAHHH over him...
in the introductory class itself, becuase i was chatting away to glory with my bench mate, he made me stand
SS: what is water?
Soumya the Great: H2O
SS: what is H2O
Soumya the Great : water
SS: dont try to act smart with me, i am going to throw you out of the window..
Soumya the great to self: i WILL NOT FIT IN THE WINDOW
till date i dont understand what was the correct answer i was supposed to give :(
Rajesh Sir: chemistry sir again.. i used to go for tutions when i was in my intermediate to a place called Tetrahedron. he used to take our first class (6:00 AM).. the class was one of the livliest classes ive attended till date.. the best part about him was the fact that all the students were comfortable with him... may be becuase he was only 5 or 6 years elder to us..
Chandrasekhar Sir: physics sir... i guess i owe my physics marks in inter (56 / 60) to him, him and only him.. but i still HATE Physics
KP Sir : ORGANIC Chemistry i LOVE the subject.. he had a knack of explaining this subject while many others found it very difficult to even explain the basic of the subject. it was like he treated all the carbon and hydrogen and oxygen molecules with reverance.. i dedicate my 58 / 60 amrks in chemistry to him :)
Parthasaradhy Sir : Integrated Circuits (IC) sir. he was the best lecturer in our engineering college. and he was one lecturer who posed questions out of the text book. and made us all design new circuits :)
Suresh Sir : MBA. he gave our class our first taste of one of the most beautiful subjects - marketing. He taught the entire subject in examples and case studies... and well, he divided our class into various groups - and thats how i met the most creative person ive come across till date :)A special thanks to Suresh sir :D
i thank each and every one of them who have taught me at various stages of life..
i am what i am majorly because of them..
thank you all for showing the RIGHT direction.
PS: actually this post was supposed to come out on Teacher's Day. me lazy me :(
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Continental, Chinese or Italian?
ok. this is not my food post. that is yet to come.
this is a post related to my profession. HR, that is. now as far as i remember, retention of employees is also a responsibilty of the HR. even though the employees, once they join, they just forget that there is a department called HR unless they want to crib about their salary.
From ESOP's (i know, i know they are out of fashion..) sponsoring higher education, what not the companies do to retain the employees. two of my friends got placed in a very good company.
i dont know if i can name the companies, so i am not taking any names... now this company pays for everything... from accomodation to food to travel.. but the best part is it also pays for their laundry.. heheheh. and that is mentioned in the offer letter booklet. i find it to be sooo funny.
according to any company's belief, the company cannot actually repay the employee for their contribution towards the growth of the organization. so all these i.e., salary, perks, bonus, etc, etc are just a way of repaying (though not completely) the employees.
one "one among the top ten IT companies in India" had come to our MBA school for campus placements. The HR was giving the Pre Placement Talk as usual. now he was showing us all the facilities which the company had. One of them was the Hitech-with-highly-trained-trainer-GYM. the HR guy said" like every other company, we have a gym. not that people really workout there.. when all the companies offer similar kind of perks,salaries, etc such unnecessary things would be the only distinguishing factors" is it really true??? have we got sooo much choice that we just fall for such things??
i know.. i know.... some people really make use of the gym. many in my company also do. but i have also observed that they go to the gym as long as their work schedule is relatively ok.. as in not at all hectic. when people are between projects.. how many people are really serious about working out?
have we observed our eating habits??? now basically most of the employees are not localites. most of them eat at the office cafeteria. the menu is always some Paneer-Non Veg stuff... daily. every day.
and the stupidity quotient of the companies keep increasing. One example i can think of is a very famous company - one of the dream company of many aspiring IT people. Guess what?? they occupy one floor in the building. and apart from the usual Barista, etc, they have their own kitchen. Apart from the usual lunch ( they have a chef who cooks continental, chinese, etc, etc daily) the following is a small list of the other items available
1. Kaju, and all the exotic Dry fruits...
2. sweets, sweets and more sweets.. full of ghee, and whatever
3. chocolates.. rich.. full of fat
4. badam milk
i dont know if SALAD is present...
is this is one way of retention? offering sooooo much of food to stuff yourself ? if yes, is it really healthy? are these companies setting good examples??
isnt it a paradox of sorts? we have a hitech-gym on one hand and such delicious fattening food (daily) on the other. the food is just arm's length away... where as we have to walk in order to go to the gym..
are all these facilities really important? how many people really choose a company because of such facilities?
what do you think?
this is a post related to my profession. HR, that is. now as far as i remember, retention of employees is also a responsibilty of the HR. even though the employees, once they join, they just forget that there is a department called HR unless they want to crib about their salary.
From ESOP's (i know, i know they are out of fashion..) sponsoring higher education, what not the companies do to retain the employees. two of my friends got placed in a very good company.
i dont know if i can name the companies, so i am not taking any names... now this company pays for everything... from accomodation to food to travel.. but the best part is it also pays for their laundry.. heheheh. and that is mentioned in the offer letter booklet. i find it to be sooo funny.
according to any company's belief, the company cannot actually repay the employee for their contribution towards the growth of the organization. so all these i.e., salary, perks, bonus, etc, etc are just a way of repaying (though not completely) the employees.
one "one among the top ten IT companies in India" had come to our MBA school for campus placements. The HR was giving the Pre Placement Talk as usual. now he was showing us all the facilities which the company had. One of them was the Hitech-with-highly-trained-trainer-GYM. the HR guy said" like every other company, we have a gym. not that people really workout there.. when all the companies offer similar kind of perks,salaries, etc such unnecessary things would be the only distinguishing factors" is it really true??? have we got sooo much choice that we just fall for such things??
i know.. i know.... some people really make use of the gym. many in my company also do. but i have also observed that they go to the gym as long as their work schedule is relatively ok.. as in not at all hectic. when people are between projects.. how many people are really serious about working out?
have we observed our eating habits??? now basically most of the employees are not localites. most of them eat at the office cafeteria. the menu is always some Paneer-Non Veg stuff... daily. every day.
and the stupidity quotient of the companies keep increasing. One example i can think of is a very famous company - one of the dream company of many aspiring IT people. Guess what?? they occupy one floor in the building. and apart from the usual Barista, etc, they have their own kitchen. Apart from the usual lunch ( they have a chef who cooks continental, chinese, etc, etc daily) the following is a small list of the other items available
1. Kaju, and all the exotic Dry fruits...
2. sweets, sweets and more sweets.. full of ghee, and whatever
3. chocolates.. rich.. full of fat
4. badam milk
i dont know if SALAD is present...
is this is one way of retention? offering sooooo much of food to stuff yourself ? if yes, is it really healthy? are these companies setting good examples??
isnt it a paradox of sorts? we have a hitech-gym on one hand and such delicious fattening food (daily) on the other. the food is just arm's length away... where as we have to walk in order to go to the gym..
are all these facilities really important? how many people really choose a company because of such facilities?
what do you think?
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
NOooooooooooooooooo
noooooooooo... i cant access any blog.. neither from home nor from office :D
i thought i was lucky that when the whole world was complaining about blocking the blogspot, i could access it..
now i cant... :( after alllll the hungama is over and everyone can access...
nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
i can only post.. i cant view my own post...
i will be back...
tata and take care all
i thought i was lucky that when the whole world was complaining about blocking the blogspot, i could access it..
now i cant... :( after alllll the hungama is over and everyone can access...
nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
i can only post.. i cant view my own post...
i will be back...
tata and take care all
Friday, July 07, 2006
Random thought
Soumya's opinion on the "what goes up - comes down" theory
as we have observed, almost everything on EARTH obeys this principle...
but guess what tada tadaaaaaa
there is one thing which generally (99% of times) doesnt obey this principle... SALARY
the only thing on Earth (i can think of only this) which always goes up...and never comes down...
what do you think???
PS: this was/is/and will be my shortest post ever.
as we have observed, almost everything on EARTH obeys this principle...
but guess what tada tadaaaaaa
there is one thing which generally (99% of times) doesnt obey this principle... SALARY
the only thing on Earth (i can think of only this) which always goes up...and never comes down...
what do you think???
PS: this was/is/and will be my shortest post ever.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
So very true!!!
"Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident.”
Dan Brown. i guess most of the readers of his books likes what he writes. recently (ok.. shame shame to me that i read it sooo late) i read his book "Angels & Demons". that is one of the best books i've read till date. a science VS religion fiction. The above paragraph is taken from the same novel. i loved the para. it is sooooo nicely put.
i mean imagine that you are looking at a huuuuuuuugggggggeeeeeeee mountain. beautiful. surrounded by clouds. ice capped. and imagine a beautiful blue sky in the back ground. imagine some small waterfall emerging from it... wonderful, isnt it?
and now imagine the same mountain as a cluster of molecules and atoms with beautiful protons and electrons and neutrons. imagine the water as individual molecules of H2O
doesnt have the same effect, right??
that it. small post. actually i want to write a lot more about it but i am not getting the exact words.
Dan Brown. i guess most of the readers of his books likes what he writes. recently (ok.. shame shame to me that i read it sooo late) i read his book "Angels & Demons". that is one of the best books i've read till date. a science VS religion fiction. The above paragraph is taken from the same novel. i loved the para. it is sooooo nicely put.
i mean imagine that you are looking at a huuuuuuuugggggggeeeeeeee mountain. beautiful. surrounded by clouds. ice capped. and imagine a beautiful blue sky in the back ground. imagine some small waterfall emerging from it... wonderful, isnt it?
and now imagine the same mountain as a cluster of molecules and atoms with beautiful protons and electrons and neutrons. imagine the water as individual molecules of H2O
doesnt have the same effect, right??
that it. small post. actually i want to write a lot more about it but i am not getting the exact words.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
where do you see yourself five years down the lane?
Warning: i am in a very very very "crib-about-everything-especially-my-job-mood"..
and i am feeling hungry and sleepy... so i may not have the same opnion once these basic, bottom of the Pyramid Maslow's needs are satisfied...
i really dont know what i am doing these days.. life hs become sort of mundane.. nothing wrong with it actually.. it is my belief that our life's biggest challenge is to make this mundane life as exciting as possible... getting up in the morning and deciding how to face the day is up to us...
but suddenly the last one week is making me think if all that is BullS_ _ _.
i feel like life is just passing by daily and i am just a spectator in my own life.. like some distant third person who is watching life and me go by... (exact feeling: remember dil ke raaste mein kaise thokar mai ne .. from Dil Chahta Hai?? Remember Aamir Khan with hands in his pockets standing on the pavement and all the traffic just zooming by him?? ditto feeling.. )
i am in a job (or rather occupation) which i am beginning not to like (hate would be a very strong word and i dont think i hate it yet). somewhere during the last one month it suddenly ceased to be exciting any more... and i dont have the guts to just say "to hell with it" and get the hell out of it before i get more and more depressed... so many risks (or rather uncertainities ..(yep..there is a huuuuge difference between both)).. am i ready to bear the consequences if something goes wrong??
actually i dont have a vision statement.. or a goal ( dont ask me the difference).. no goal as to where do i want to be four years down the lane?? (one year is already over so 5 minus 1 is 4) is it true that unless we have a goal we cant really achieve anything??? cant i really enjoy the route and not bother about my final destination??
one of my friend V, did his engineering at REC (or NIT).. and seems there was a guy in his class. he was the topper. and he got into MS BITS PILANI (i think.. V is it correct??).. but the guy knew that his heart was really not into it. he had a good voice and he loved singing songs.. so he chose singing as his career. i dont know how many of us would have been able to do that if we were in his place (not me atleast)..
V says there are very very very few people in this world who have what it takes to pursue their passion and convert it into their career. for all those poeple who did / are doing that i would say only one thing.. U are the most luckiest people of all...
is this a loser's way of dealing with the situation?? i dont knw.. i am still confused....
i have to get out of this attitude...
mummmyyy is the dinner ready???
and i am feeling hungry and sleepy... so i may not have the same opnion once these basic, bottom of the Pyramid Maslow's needs are satisfied...
i really dont know what i am doing these days.. life hs become sort of mundane.. nothing wrong with it actually.. it is my belief that our life's biggest challenge is to make this mundane life as exciting as possible... getting up in the morning and deciding how to face the day is up to us...
but suddenly the last one week is making me think if all that is BullS_ _ _.
i feel like life is just passing by daily and i am just a spectator in my own life.. like some distant third person who is watching life and me go by... (exact feeling: remember dil ke raaste mein kaise thokar mai ne .. from Dil Chahta Hai?? Remember Aamir Khan with hands in his pockets standing on the pavement and all the traffic just zooming by him?? ditto feeling.. )
i am in a job (or rather occupation) which i am beginning not to like (hate would be a very strong word and i dont think i hate it yet). somewhere during the last one month it suddenly ceased to be exciting any more... and i dont have the guts to just say "to hell with it" and get the hell out of it before i get more and more depressed... so many risks (or rather uncertainities ..(yep..there is a huuuuge difference between both)).. am i ready to bear the consequences if something goes wrong??
actually i dont have a vision statement.. or a goal ( dont ask me the difference).. no goal as to where do i want to be four years down the lane?? (one year is already over so 5 minus 1 is 4) is it true that unless we have a goal we cant really achieve anything??? cant i really enjoy the route and not bother about my final destination??
one of my friend V, did his engineering at REC (or NIT).. and seems there was a guy in his class. he was the topper. and he got into MS BITS PILANI (i think.. V is it correct??).. but the guy knew that his heart was really not into it. he had a good voice and he loved singing songs.. so he chose singing as his career. i dont know how many of us would have been able to do that if we were in his place (not me atleast)..
V says there are very very very few people in this world who have what it takes to pursue their passion and convert it into their career. for all those poeple who did / are doing that i would say only one thing.. U are the most luckiest people of all...
is this a loser's way of dealing with the situation?? i dont knw.. i am still confused....
i have to get out of this attitude...
mummmyyy is the dinner ready???
Sunday, June 11, 2006
IMPACT!!!
hmmm. i am feeling guilty. a LOT guilty. its been over two weeks since my last post. not that i was busy riding a rickshaw throughout the nights to earn enough money to complete my education... its just that i was plain lazy and i was not at home for most of the weekend. so no posts.
last saturday, all of us (friends) went to Nagarjun Sagar, some 140km from Hyderabad. we had LOTS and LOTS of fun. strange that though all of us have been in Hyderabad for the past 3 years, only one of us visited the place in recent past... One of my friends bought a new car and so that was our mode of transport for the day..
we went on a boat ride to an island (forgot its name)..this island has a BEAUTIFUL museum.. consisting of all the treasure of artifacts that would have been washed away when the dam was built in that place. everyone needs to take a vacation atleast once in two months.. it does a loooottt of good. most of us were actually looking forward to going to the offfice.. can you believe it?
this saturday was our company's Corporate Social Responsibility day. its called Impact Day. the activities ranged from thanking the traffic police and MCH (Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad) to going to old age homes and Juvenile homes. its done every year.
my thread was called Street to Smart. there were about 110 members in this thread. and we went to three schools. Divya Disha (http://www.divyadisha.org/), Nav Jeevan and FFSC, a foster home for juvenile kids.
i went to Divya Disha. this is a school which provides education, food and shelter to kids. the age group of the kids is from 7 to 18 years. the kids who come here are from two backgrounds -- one who are lost / missing from homes and the other who are sold off by their parents / relatives. the whole point is to provide education to these kids. it is up to the kids to stay there and continue studying or just run away from there. almost 70% of the kids have stayed back to study, but the rest have run away from here.
i dont know how many of you have visited such schools. most of us who have visited these schools have a unanimous opinion. these kids are very very bright. all they need is for some one to show the RIGHT direction. i think the kids are very bright because they are street smart.... literally. they must have faced so many tough situations earlier (before joining the school), that they can tackle any kind of situation.
but i have also observed one thing. its each to their own here. i mean if my friend gets hurt or is unwell, i would be concerned. i would help her out. but these kids dont have this sense of belongingness.. may be because of their past or may be because of some other unknown reason. i really felt bad. deep down in their hearts they are still scared.. scared as to when they have to leave the place and move away in search of some work so as to feed their family. may be we are addressing only one half of the situation.. we need to instill the sense of togetherness among them.
i may be right, i may be wrong, but that was what i felt.
last saturday, all of us (friends) went to Nagarjun Sagar, some 140km from Hyderabad. we had LOTS and LOTS of fun. strange that though all of us have been in Hyderabad for the past 3 years, only one of us visited the place in recent past... One of my friends bought a new car and so that was our mode of transport for the day..
we went on a boat ride to an island (forgot its name)..this island has a BEAUTIFUL museum.. consisting of all the treasure of artifacts that would have been washed away when the dam was built in that place. everyone needs to take a vacation atleast once in two months.. it does a loooottt of good. most of us were actually looking forward to going to the offfice.. can you believe it?
this saturday was our company's Corporate Social Responsibility day. its called Impact Day. the activities ranged from thanking the traffic police and MCH (Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad) to going to old age homes and Juvenile homes. its done every year.
my thread was called Street to Smart. there were about 110 members in this thread. and we went to three schools. Divya Disha (http://www.divyadisha.org/), Nav Jeevan and FFSC, a foster home for juvenile kids.
i went to Divya Disha. this is a school which provides education, food and shelter to kids. the age group of the kids is from 7 to 18 years. the kids who come here are from two backgrounds -- one who are lost / missing from homes and the other who are sold off by their parents / relatives. the whole point is to provide education to these kids. it is up to the kids to stay there and continue studying or just run away from there. almost 70% of the kids have stayed back to study, but the rest have run away from here.
i dont know how many of you have visited such schools. most of us who have visited these schools have a unanimous opinion. these kids are very very bright. all they need is for some one to show the RIGHT direction. i think the kids are very bright because they are street smart.... literally. they must have faced so many tough situations earlier (before joining the school), that they can tackle any kind of situation.
but i have also observed one thing. its each to their own here. i mean if my friend gets hurt or is unwell, i would be concerned. i would help her out. but these kids dont have this sense of belongingness.. may be because of their past or may be because of some other unknown reason. i really felt bad. deep down in their hearts they are still scared.. scared as to when they have to leave the place and move away in search of some work so as to feed their family. may be we are addressing only one half of the situation.. we need to instill the sense of togetherness among them.
i may be right, i may be wrong, but that was what i felt.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Iqbal...
aashaayen khile dil ki...
ummeedein hase dil ki..
ab mushkil nahi kutch bhi ...nahi kutch bhi
kutch paane ki ho aas aas
kutch armaan ho jo khaas khaas
har koshish mein ho waar waar
kare dariyao ko aar paar
toofano ko chir ke manzilo ko chin le
aashayeen khile dil ki.....
ok. i dont live in some God Forbidden land with only Doooordrashan. but yesterday was the first time i heard this song. and saw the movie. actually the song has to be good. becuase KK sang it. after a looooooooooooooonnnnnggggggggg time i saw one good movie yesterday. such a nice movie.
and i have observed that every blog contains two posts... for sure... one on cricket and one on marriage.
today is my cricket post day.
after seeing the movie, i felt that almost all our cricket team is full of Iqbal's. Zaheer Khan, Dhoni, Md Kaif, etc, etc are a few examples. but then all our selectors and the so called current "coach" are exactly the same as the character of Girsh Karnad in the movie.
The India VS West Indies fourth one day was a beautiful proof for that. the team work was nil. zero.3 minus 5. all of them played because they had to play. thats it. no team work. some how i feel the "coach" is to blamed for all that. i feel that the players are losing the teamspirit. ok. agreed that cricket is no as much as a team game as football.
i am no Ganguly fan. but he does deserve some credit. he was not a bad captain either. Sachin was much worse as a captain (Sachin is my favourite cricket player).
but the very fact that the "coach" behaved so unprofessionally on the issue related to Ganguly, shows that he doesnt have what it takes to train, motivate and encourage a team. no matter how bad the captain is, his removal from the team would lead to an all round loss of confidence and morale. same case any where. the fall of a leader (no matter how good or bad he is) always is a huge demotivating factor. it should have been handled with a looooootttt of delicacy. every one has their ups and downs in life. that doesnt mean that the "coach" should broadcast about the team member's personal problems.
i hate the Indian cricket "coach". he is bad as a motivator, he is bad as a trainer. the only thing he is good in is to get involved in unnecessary controversies. and get the whole team invovled.
and our team has not performed any better after his taking over as the "coach".
unless the environment in the team is good, there would be absolutely no progress. may be its time for the "coach" to just quit.
ummeedein hase dil ki..
ab mushkil nahi kutch bhi ...nahi kutch bhi
kutch paane ki ho aas aas
kutch armaan ho jo khaas khaas
har koshish mein ho waar waar
kare dariyao ko aar paar
toofano ko chir ke manzilo ko chin le
aashayeen khile dil ki.....
ok. i dont live in some God Forbidden land with only Doooordrashan. but yesterday was the first time i heard this song. and saw the movie. actually the song has to be good. becuase KK sang it. after a looooooooooooooonnnnnggggggggg time i saw one good movie yesterday. such a nice movie.
and i have observed that every blog contains two posts... for sure... one on cricket and one on marriage.
today is my cricket post day.
after seeing the movie, i felt that almost all our cricket team is full of Iqbal's. Zaheer Khan, Dhoni, Md Kaif, etc, etc are a few examples. but then all our selectors and the so called current "coach" are exactly the same as the character of Girsh Karnad in the movie.
The India VS West Indies fourth one day was a beautiful proof for that. the team work was nil. zero.3 minus 5. all of them played because they had to play. thats it. no team work. some how i feel the "coach" is to blamed for all that. i feel that the players are losing the teamspirit. ok. agreed that cricket is no as much as a team game as football.
i am no Ganguly fan. but he does deserve some credit. he was not a bad captain either. Sachin was much worse as a captain (Sachin is my favourite cricket player).
but the very fact that the "coach" behaved so unprofessionally on the issue related to Ganguly, shows that he doesnt have what it takes to train, motivate and encourage a team. no matter how bad the captain is, his removal from the team would lead to an all round loss of confidence and morale. same case any where. the fall of a leader (no matter how good or bad he is) always is a huge demotivating factor. it should have been handled with a looooootttt of delicacy. every one has their ups and downs in life. that doesnt mean that the "coach" should broadcast about the team member's personal problems.
i hate the Indian cricket "coach". he is bad as a motivator, he is bad as a trainer. the only thing he is good in is to get involved in unnecessary controversies. and get the whole team invovled.
and our team has not performed any better after his taking over as the "coach".
unless the environment in the team is good, there would be absolutely no progress. may be its time for the "coach" to just quit.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
discountssssssssssssss
now a days we are on a total shopping spree. its like come saturday and sunday and all of us (my friends and me) are either at Lifestyle or shoppers stop or Hyderabad Central or some other shopping plaza. last saturday we were at one of these so called shopping plazas / malls / whatever-they-are-called. the main purpose was to buy a pair of goggles.
now first of all in case goggles are the main product the first and foremost thing required is a mirror. no make it atleast five mirrors. big size. equal to the size of our ego. but the strangest thing was in the entire goggle section there was only one mirror. now picture this.. its summer.. people want to buy goggles. its saturday. people want to spend money. its hot. poeple are generally irritated. so with one mirror 1000 varieties of goggles, there was a literal stampede.. that is stamping legs. big way. i stamped a guy's leg and poor guy shouted and just ran out of the section. sorry.
finally after trying all the goggles available (after which the sales guy was literally in tears..), we managed to literally grab one beautiful piece. GRAB is the operational word because of teh queue (remember the sequence summer-saturday-money-blah-blah). its a very competitive world. survival of the fittest.
so finally while purchasing my friend remembers that he is a member of some club / group/ watever of that shop. so you get some points every time you make a purchase. we bought stuff worth 4500 and he gets some 35 points. (and there was some free gift voucher worth 500 on purchase of Rs2000. so we got TWO vouchers.). but that was not the STUPIDITY. the thing was there was a BUMPER LUCKY DRAW. for people who has more than 1000 points THEY GET 100 RUPESS DISCOUNT on any purchase. WHAT A JOKE...
after shopping for some RS 10,000 all you get is a discount of Rs 100.
thats the story. and all this is supposed to be customer focus BULLS_ _ _.
and till recently one of the malls used to charge Rs10 for parking in case you DONT make any purchase. BULLS_ _ _ again.
and one of the best part of Hyderabad is our very own Hussain Sagar. Lovely.
and we have a beautiful place to hang out. its called eat street. and poeple go there mostly to enjoy the beautiful weather. FULL STOP. bcoz imagine all the mosquitoes
which fall in food. but what they have done is, bcoz the revenues are like 3 minus 5, they have decided to put up a restaurant on the first floor. PATHETICEST idea. no lights. poeple really dont knw wat they are eating. and people are not allowed to go up unless you want to eat there. atleast even if they put an entrance ticket of Rs 5, poeple are ready to buy. but food is a bad idea.inspite of all these stupid ideas, all tehse malls / hangout areas are still reeling under losses. didnt still get over their break even point. (do i sound all-knowing-MBA professional??)
i think i cribbed enough. thats enough of cribbing.
In other news Himesh WHOEVER was here in Hdyerabad for a concert. God knows whoooooooo ooooooo oooooooooo went.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
thanda matlab....
koka kola, right? may be.. for the company, for Aamir Khan and for Prasoon Joshi.. and may be for the kids...
but if you really ask people in the age group of 30(ok i am being optimistic) to some 60 years, they are most likely to say "toilet cleaner" (in India that is.). this punch line was coined by none other than "Ramdev Maharaj".
i dont know how many have heard of him. but he is a big hit. he teaches YOGA. very simple man. and he goes to all the cities from the so called tier I cities to the rest of India and conducts classes at each of these cities for one week. and there is a special kids day too. this program is telecasted live on Aastha channel daily twice -- morning 5:30 to 6:30 and a repeat telecast in the evening from 8:30 to 9:30. these excersises are simple, dont require a lot of time ( half an hour is all that is required, he says) and really help.
and no he is not like the umpteen number of poeple who preach about spirituality, about giving up everything for which we have worked hard like hell, about inner peace,blah, blah. and like Brayam Adams concerts, his tickets are sold out may be one month before the program commences. he is witty and keeps his audience active and alert. "burger pijja khaoge tho burger ki tarah ho jaoge.." or something to that extent.
he has two main targets.. one to comment on the paepsi (he pronounces it like that) and cocacola and the other to comment on how the MNC's are spoiling the quality of life we live.
this i feel is the ultimate example of marketing a brand. the brand being Yoga and he being the brand ambassador. the word of mouth is excellent in this case. these courses are conducted in huge grounds, where atleast 50,000 people can be accomodated. and he makes everyone try out the brand. and give their opinion about it. that is one thing which may be no other brand can afford. and the reach of the particular brand is huge. every week he is touring.. making people from different parts of the country try out the brand.. right from Hamirpur (in Himachal Pradesh with a very meagre population .. most of them would be the REC gang) to Hyderabad, to Delhi, he has travelled every where. and for those people who would not be able to make it to these programs, the live TV program is always there. and one of the best things i have observed is that he tries to learn some few important words of the local language and use them in his programs.. talk about customization..
and people are always speaking out in this course as to how they reduced 8 kgs in two weeks.. or gained 5 kgs in one month or getting rid of some disease or the other. positive testimonials... brand satisfaction.. which lead to more and more people trying out the brand... and yes there is brand extension also.. he has built some hospital in Haridwar with all the latest facilities ,,blah lah.. it would be difficult to find any other brand ambassador as passionate as "Ramdev ji Maharaj", while talking about the brand. and the punch line is way too good... "thanda matlab toilet cleaner" funny and very easy to remember..
last month there was a health check up conducted for our entire organization.. can you guess the number of people having High Blood Pressure? and you dont even want to know the cholestrol levels of most of them. and the average age of our organization is somewhere around 28.
what is the use of earning in all the various possible currencies in the world when all of that would most probably go to our medical bill???
its not like i suddenly became some elderly person preaching about health and all that. and its not that i have been promised huge undisclosed amount to write about Yoga and exercise in general... but as i sit in the same seat for somewhere around 40 hours a week with absolutely no exercise and atleast twice a week having pijja burger/ butter naan / paneer butter masala .. i really wonder if i would have what it takes to lead a healthy life.. atleast not becoming a burden on somebody else when i come to the age of writing my final will.
but if you really ask people in the age group of 30(ok i am being optimistic) to some 60 years, they are most likely to say "toilet cleaner" (in India that is.). this punch line was coined by none other than "Ramdev Maharaj".
i dont know how many have heard of him. but he is a big hit. he teaches YOGA. very simple man. and he goes to all the cities from the so called tier I cities to the rest of India and conducts classes at each of these cities for one week. and there is a special kids day too. this program is telecasted live on Aastha channel daily twice -- morning 5:30 to 6:30 and a repeat telecast in the evening from 8:30 to 9:30. these excersises are simple, dont require a lot of time ( half an hour is all that is required, he says) and really help.
and no he is not like the umpteen number of poeple who preach about spirituality, about giving up everything for which we have worked hard like hell, about inner peace,blah, blah. and like Brayam Adams concerts, his tickets are sold out may be one month before the program commences. he is witty and keeps his audience active and alert. "burger pijja khaoge tho burger ki tarah ho jaoge.." or something to that extent.
he has two main targets.. one to comment on the paepsi (he pronounces it like that) and cocacola and the other to comment on how the MNC's are spoiling the quality of life we live.
this i feel is the ultimate example of marketing a brand. the brand being Yoga and he being the brand ambassador. the word of mouth is excellent in this case. these courses are conducted in huge grounds, where atleast 50,000 people can be accomodated. and he makes everyone try out the brand. and give their opinion about it. that is one thing which may be no other brand can afford. and the reach of the particular brand is huge. every week he is touring.. making people from different parts of the country try out the brand.. right from Hamirpur (in Himachal Pradesh with a very meagre population .. most of them would be the REC gang) to Hyderabad, to Delhi, he has travelled every where. and for those people who would not be able to make it to these programs, the live TV program is always there. and one of the best things i have observed is that he tries to learn some few important words of the local language and use them in his programs.. talk about customization..
and people are always speaking out in this course as to how they reduced 8 kgs in two weeks.. or gained 5 kgs in one month or getting rid of some disease or the other. positive testimonials... brand satisfaction.. which lead to more and more people trying out the brand... and yes there is brand extension also.. he has built some hospital in Haridwar with all the latest facilities ,,blah lah.. it would be difficult to find any other brand ambassador as passionate as "Ramdev ji Maharaj", while talking about the brand. and the punch line is way too good... "thanda matlab toilet cleaner" funny and very easy to remember..
last month there was a health check up conducted for our entire organization.. can you guess the number of people having High Blood Pressure? and you dont even want to know the cholestrol levels of most of them. and the average age of our organization is somewhere around 28.
what is the use of earning in all the various possible currencies in the world when all of that would most probably go to our medical bill???
its not like i suddenly became some elderly person preaching about health and all that. and its not that i have been promised huge undisclosed amount to write about Yoga and exercise in general... but as i sit in the same seat for somewhere around 40 hours a week with absolutely no exercise and atleast twice a week having pijja burger/ butter naan / paneer butter masala .. i really wonder if i would have what it takes to lead a healthy life.. atleast not becoming a burden on somebody else when i come to the age of writing my final will.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
yahoooo.... i am gonna be rich
i really dont mean to offend anyone by this post. i am really sorry if any one gets offended.
SCENARIO 1 :
...and the winner is Miss Timbactoo... (thunderous applause in the auditorium and all around the world..)
Miss Timbactoo's speech: i thank my parents, my friends, my dogs, my cats, neighbors, teachers, my co-contestants, their cats and dogs, all my supporters, the host, the hostess, blah, blah, blah. i would also like to add a special thanks to "no grey cells required (NGCR) series", without whom it would have been impossible for me to win this beauty contest. i would especially like to thank Soumya for getting this brilliant idea of introducing a question bank book for the beauty contests. She has done the world a lot of good. (CLAP CLAP in the auditorium and around the universe.the C channel of our colony has reached Mars also... )
SCENARIO 2:
overheard in the neighbors house..what?? the dhobi hasnt come?? again??.. oh noooooo i am ruined... what am i supposed to do???(getting tensed..) ok let me call "we-give-life saving-suggestions" channel and find out the solution...
tring tring...
Miss / Mr I-get-paid-for-giving-useless-suggestions : hello Good Morning welcome to the "we-give-life saving-suggestions" channel
what would be the life threatening challenge you are faced with today???"
Neighbor: my dhobi hasn't come... what should i do?? i have tried reaching him on the cell.. but he has activated his Call Divert option... what do i do now???
Miss / Mr I-get-paid-for-giving-useless-suggestions :tada tada.. dont worry... please call "crisp consultants at 53456767 " they are the best in the world.. they are the leading Dhobi's in the world with almost 54.6% market share. Also the entire world salutes Soumya for coming up with such a brilliant idea which has reduced the anxiety levels in the people by almost 75.99%.
these are my alternate career options. i knw i am going to be stinking rich if i put up either one of them.
methinks the first one is a very novel idea and it would not take a lot of time to set up. bcoz the time required for me to do all the research would be very less. the questions have to be easiest and the answers have to be the most irrelevant. i mean, cmon, if a question like "who is your role model, who is still alive" and if the winning answer is "Mother Teresa", when she was already seeing the show live from heaven (yes, thats the reach of our cable channels") doesnt require a lot of research and soul-searching, right??
so thats wat i decided. i am gonna publish my own NGCR series.. and i am gonna be rich. i mean imagine the sales i am gonna generate. (count your eggs (or is it chicken) before they hatch..hahahah)
right from my seventh class,till my 10th, i have been ironing my school uniform daily. also my dad's shirts and trousers. (the dhobi problem is wide spread in all the parts of the world). so the second option of setting up a laundry service. and methinks i have becom an expert in it. i dont have a good experience in ironing sarees, though. so i will OUTSOURCE it...
and it really relieves stress levels.. i mean imagine you getting up late in the morning and then realizing that you dont have a crisp shirt / trouser / dress to wear. just pick up the phone and dial "Crisp Consultants" (now a days if the word CONSULTANT is absent, poeple may not take your profession seriously.. there is a health CONSULTANT, there is an auto repair CONSULTANT, there is a Chef CONSULTANT, and of course my favourite, the saaaaftware CONSULTANT")
lo and behold all your tensions would vanish into thin air... in a jiffy....
these are my sure shot ways of getting rich... i am sure of it...bcoz the target customer base is HUGE and i have very less competition, because i have the first mover advantage. (woooow i still remember the MBA talk)
right now these are two of my ideas. i have a lot more... but my mom is giving those "are you already in front of the computer at 7 in the morning" looks. so i will continue this post some othertime.
i am still searching for more entrepreneurial ideas (yeah, i am not sure about the spelling). Contributions are welcome. but they have to be very novel and which would rationalize the way the world thinks... (what is the use of me having an MBA degree and not using all the MBA jargon???)
SCENARIO 1 :
...and the winner is Miss Timbactoo... (thunderous applause in the auditorium and all around the world..)
Miss Timbactoo's speech: i thank my parents, my friends, my dogs, my cats, neighbors, teachers, my co-contestants, their cats and dogs, all my supporters, the host, the hostess, blah, blah, blah. i would also like to add a special thanks to "no grey cells required (NGCR) series", without whom it would have been impossible for me to win this beauty contest. i would especially like to thank Soumya for getting this brilliant idea of introducing a question bank book for the beauty contests. She has done the world a lot of good. (CLAP CLAP in the auditorium and around the universe.the C channel of our colony has reached Mars also... )
SCENARIO 2:
overheard in the neighbors house..what?? the dhobi hasnt come?? again??.. oh noooooo i am ruined... what am i supposed to do???(getting tensed..) ok let me call "we-give-life saving-suggestions" channel and find out the solution...
tring tring...
Miss / Mr I-get-paid-for-giving-useless-suggestions : hello Good Morning welcome to the "we-give-life saving-suggestions" channel
what would be the life threatening challenge you are faced with today???"
Neighbor: my dhobi hasn't come... what should i do?? i have tried reaching him on the cell.. but he has activated his Call Divert option... what do i do now???
Miss / Mr I-get-paid-for-giving-useless-suggestions :tada tada.. dont worry... please call "crisp consultants at 53456767 " they are the best in the world.. they are the leading Dhobi's in the world with almost 54.6% market share. Also the entire world salutes Soumya for coming up with such a brilliant idea which has reduced the anxiety levels in the people by almost 75.99%.
these are my alternate career options. i knw i am going to be stinking rich if i put up either one of them.
methinks the first one is a very novel idea and it would not take a lot of time to set up. bcoz the time required for me to do all the research would be very less. the questions have to be easiest and the answers have to be the most irrelevant. i mean, cmon, if a question like "who is your role model, who is still alive" and if the winning answer is "Mother Teresa", when she was already seeing the show live from heaven (yes, thats the reach of our cable channels") doesnt require a lot of research and soul-searching, right??
so thats wat i decided. i am gonna publish my own NGCR series.. and i am gonna be rich. i mean imagine the sales i am gonna generate. (count your eggs (or is it chicken) before they hatch..hahahah)
right from my seventh class,till my 10th, i have been ironing my school uniform daily. also my dad's shirts and trousers. (the dhobi problem is wide spread in all the parts of the world). so the second option of setting up a laundry service. and methinks i have becom an expert in it. i dont have a good experience in ironing sarees, though. so i will OUTSOURCE it...
and it really relieves stress levels.. i mean imagine you getting up late in the morning and then realizing that you dont have a crisp shirt / trouser / dress to wear. just pick up the phone and dial "Crisp Consultants" (now a days if the word CONSULTANT is absent, poeple may not take your profession seriously.. there is a health CONSULTANT, there is an auto repair CONSULTANT, there is a Chef CONSULTANT, and of course my favourite, the saaaaftware CONSULTANT")
lo and behold all your tensions would vanish into thin air... in a jiffy....
these are my sure shot ways of getting rich... i am sure of it...bcoz the target customer base is HUGE and i have very less competition, because i have the first mover advantage. (woooow i still remember the MBA talk)
right now these are two of my ideas. i have a lot more... but my mom is giving those "are you already in front of the computer at 7 in the morning" looks. so i will continue this post some othertime.
i am still searching for more entrepreneurial ideas (yeah, i am not sure about the spelling). Contributions are welcome. but they have to be very novel and which would rationalize the way the world thinks... (what is the use of me having an MBA degree and not using all the MBA jargon???)
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
why me????
CAUTION: i observed that my sense of humour is bad in the mornings. i rewrote this post in the morning.
Post starts....
my parents work in banks. both of them. so transfers were as common as sardi (common cold). so i was happily living life in Hyderabad, when we got transferred to Delhi. wen i was in sixth class. then i enjoyed four glorious years there. i would have been there even a little longer, but my brother (aunt's son) and my mom were adamant abt me pursuing my further eductaion in Hyderabad and becoming a suucessful Saaaaftware engineer staying the in VOOO.S.A.
sorry everyone. i am neither a saftware engineer nor at Vooooyesa.
so every summer we used to visit all my relatives in Hyderabad, so that my mom would not have any tension of "what-the-kids-are-doing-at-home-all-alone-by-themselves" for the two months of the holidays.
everytime and i mean each and everytime there were three types of co-passengers:
Post starts....
my parents work in banks. both of them. so transfers were as common as sardi (common cold). so i was happily living life in Hyderabad, when we got transferred to Delhi. wen i was in sixth class. then i enjoyed four glorious years there. i would have been there even a little longer, but my brother (aunt's son) and my mom were adamant abt me pursuing my further eductaion in Hyderabad and becoming a suucessful Saaaaftware engineer staying the in VOOO.S.A.
sorry everyone. i am neither a saftware engineer nor at Vooooyesa.
so every summer we used to visit all my relatives in Hyderabad, so that my mom would not have any tension of "what-the-kids-are-doing-at-home-all-alone-by-themselves" for the two months of the holidays.
everytime and i mean each and everytime there were three types of co-passengers:
- Uncle's and aunty's whose Son's were at the US
- couples with kids aged between 3 months and 5 years.
- people who start taking out anything and everything which can be classified as "EDIBLE"
SCENE ONE : kids are cute. really. i love them and want to have atleast two of my own may be two / three years down the lane... but picture this situation... it is summer.. second class.. too many people.. tooo much suffocation... everyone is haggling about the seats... all the vendors shouting...aa caffeeeyyaaa ... aaa chhhaayyyeee... buttermilk.... ice creammmmmmmm... idli..vada..dosa
pooor kids... wat else can they do??? every one is crying.. running noses....all the kids want to have ice creams and tiger biscuits.
SCENE TWO : we used to travel in AP express. so, many people know telugu and we get talking... maa abbayi vooosu lo unnadu (my son is in the voo.S) (what is he doing there??? no they dont want to talk abt it...) nooooooooooooooooooooooo.... why dont you go?? what are your future plans?? (my future plan at that time was to successfully get down the train without shouting at any one, or give some rude answer and be treated as an outlaw...) thank God i was not pursuing my engg.. they would have forced me to apply for MS.
SCENE THREE : the third type are the ones who get in with an extra gunny bag of eatables... moongphali, being the most commonly carried eatable. the one with the outer cover... so even before the train starts, the train floor is full of chilke (methinks they are called chilke.) and then comes out the popcorn and chips..they are dutifully offered to everyone around the 100km radius. not that i hate food. i love food. sometimes i wonder if i eat to live or live to eat... but my appetite is dead.
SCENE ONE +SCENE TWO+ SCENE THREE == curtain raiser for the summer holidays...
its been sooooo long since i travelled in a train. inspite of all the hungama, i am missing it. really.
PS: Voo.S.A == U.S.A
Monday, April 24, 2006
Soumya's theory of vada...
Vada as in the eatable..------------------------->
the round one. CIRCULAR...methinks everything happening in the world is coming back to the point where it more or less started. as in it ends where it started.
Picture this...
in the stone age.. people didnt know how to communicate. they didnt have a common language. they didnt have a language at all. so they used sounds to communicate with each other.... then they slowly learnt the sign language... and then slowly various languages.. then they tried to communicate in a common language.
then Alexandar Graham Bell was born.. and therefore the telephone. so people started communicating long distance... then came the computer... internet... and wat not.....
if we observe.. intially even the companies had registers and most of the people who were uneducated put their finger prints. then came signatures.... then the swipe cards.. then the digital ID cards...
but now if we observe, the direction has changed and we are covering the second half of the circle.
now we are using retina scan, finger print to access higly classified areas / data. we are back... to fingerprinting digitally....
then we hardly have time to speak.. no time at all... all of us stopped communicating... its only some strange short text messages.. (KISS: Keep It Short and Simple it seems). no time for talking face to face... no time to see all the hilarious expressions... only some smileys...not that they are bad..but its that we are imagining smileys instead of the actual person....
we are losing all the actual contact with all of our loved ones...that is the most saddest thing...
its been about six months since i met my best friend. we just send some mails, some fwds and the usual "Happy New Year", Happy Birthday cards....
thats the thing. its all ending in the same place where it began....
Million Dollar Question: how many time did i use the word "then" in this article....
winners get a free all paid trip to Bermuda Triangle....
Rush in your entries....
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Friday, April 21, 2006
Identity Crisis........
its weekend again... bcoz right now, there are only a few malls here, come weekend and all the people in the city along with all their cats and dogs throng to these few malls. and the stamepede starts.. but then that is ok... no problem... we are used to pushing and shoving... bcoz we Indians are tolerant people...... the air is full of smell of corn (masala corn.. cheese corn.. God knows wat else..), popcorn, pizza, cakes, chocolates and what not...
still ok...
the only pathetic thing is most of the crowd in the age group of 20 - 45 (hopefully) are wearing their company ID cards.. for God's sake... the card is around our neck like a dog's chain from monday 8:00 am to friday 7 pm. ok agreed bcoz the company is paying for our bread and butter.. and bcoz we are loyal (hahahahah) or bcoz we will be fined if we dont put them around our neck.. we have to use them...
but really i feel all the people wearing them even on weekends are suffering from a major
identity crisis. me thinks they have this need to be noticed.. or some worse than that....
it has become a sort of status symbol.. Thank God and the companies for not mentioning teh designation on the cards.. i dont even want to imagine what would have been the size of the ID cards then...
the other day it was our new year (Ugadi).. so i went to say hi to God... lo and behold.. there is identity crisi at the place of God too.. there was this guy who had put on his ID card... God save all of us.....
most of them are from the service industry... and most of the are Saaaftware engineers...who are coding on Voracle and Jaaaava. ( i dont mean to offend any one.. in fact i work for one of the saaftware companies too...well sort of)...
i am unable to find a proper end to this blog. thats it.
still ok...
the only pathetic thing is most of the crowd in the age group of 20 - 45 (hopefully) are wearing their company ID cards.. for God's sake... the card is around our neck like a dog's chain from monday 8:00 am to friday 7 pm. ok agreed bcoz the company is paying for our bread and butter.. and bcoz we are loyal (hahahahah) or bcoz we will be fined if we dont put them around our neck.. we have to use them...
but really i feel all the people wearing them even on weekends are suffering from a major
identity crisis. me thinks they have this need to be noticed.. or some worse than that....
it has become a sort of status symbol.. Thank God and the companies for not mentioning teh designation on the cards.. i dont even want to imagine what would have been the size of the ID cards then...
the other day it was our new year (Ugadi).. so i went to say hi to God... lo and behold.. there is identity crisi at the place of God too.. there was this guy who had put on his ID card... God save all of us.....
most of them are from the service industry... and most of the are Saaaftware engineers...who are coding on Voracle and Jaaaava. ( i dont mean to offend any one.. in fact i work for one of the saaftware companies too...well sort of)...
i am unable to find a proper end to this blog. thats it.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
of jasmine phool and air coolers
its that time of the year again.. time for YUMMY mangoes... time for more and more ice creams... time for power cuts and aaaahhhhhhhh the cool evening breeze.... and the fragrance of jasmine.....
summer nights are heaven
unfortunately bcoz some of us were forced to grow up... no time for summer holidays......
my favourite memories of my summer holidays were at my aunt's place. and the best part was that my sis and me were treated specially bcoz we used to come from Delhi for the holidays...
they have an independent house... so all of us cousins used to sleep on the terrace... that was the best part....
though till midnight we all would be attacked left right and centre by the mosquitoes... but then the cool breeze starts... aaahhh... no cooler / AC can be as cool.... and then it was absolute heaven... till 6:30 in the morning...
we had a rule that all of us had to get up by 6:30am... and then get ready by 9:30.... all of us kids..
and then after having a delicious breakfast / lunch (watever)... it was time for indoor games...
carrom board was an all time favourite... follwed by ludo (if any one knows wat it is), snakes & ladders (anyone who doesnt knw this can die in a spoon of water)... all the games were played only in the room which had an air cooler.. no AC's at that time...
and then it would be time for hide and seek... with all the kids in the street.. wooow it was fun....
and then poor little chubby me grew up... came to the "very-important-intermediate (+2 for those who dnt understand intermediate)-which-can-make-your-life-if you-study-very-very-very-very-hard. and there is always that intelligent cousin / neighbor who is always the brightest student in the class and always getting first rank..
i never understand how people can get first rank always... cha life would be sooo dull... always getting first.. no change... no thrill of not knowing the answer and using God's gift of creativity... pooor kids...
all of my friends in my colony used to go for morning walk.. it was sposed to be a brisk one.. but we literally crawled...get up at 5:30 and go for the walk.. we used to come back after 2 hrs...of gossiping and gossiping again. and then came engineering and MBA ... hmm way too long to write in this blog....
now Soumya is a responsible girl, working for a good company... but no summer holidayssssssss...
mummyyy i want holidayssss
and hence i conclude that teaching is the best profession.. u get to atleast show a way to the future of the world.. admire their intelligence... learn a lot from them... come home by 5:30... and the best part is TEACHERS have summer holidaysssssssss ( apart from fun.. i think teaching is the most honest and the best profession.. no place for stupid cut throat competition.. and also the satisfaction after the day's work is incomparable)
summer nights are heaven
unfortunately bcoz some of us were forced to grow up... no time for summer holidays......
my favourite memories of my summer holidays were at my aunt's place. and the best part was that my sis and me were treated specially bcoz we used to come from Delhi for the holidays...
they have an independent house... so all of us cousins used to sleep on the terrace... that was the best part....
though till midnight we all would be attacked left right and centre by the mosquitoes... but then the cool breeze starts... aaahhh... no cooler / AC can be as cool.... and then it was absolute heaven... till 6:30 in the morning...
we had a rule that all of us had to get up by 6:30am... and then get ready by 9:30.... all of us kids..
and then after having a delicious breakfast / lunch (watever)... it was time for indoor games...
carrom board was an all time favourite... follwed by ludo (if any one knows wat it is), snakes & ladders (anyone who doesnt knw this can die in a spoon of water)... all the games were played only in the room which had an air cooler.. no AC's at that time...
and then it would be time for hide and seek... with all the kids in the street.. wooow it was fun....
and then poor little chubby me grew up... came to the "very-important-intermediate (+2 for those who dnt understand intermediate)-which-can-make-your-life-if you-study-very-very-very-very-hard. and there is always that intelligent cousin / neighbor who is always the brightest student in the class and always getting first rank..
i never understand how people can get first rank always... cha life would be sooo dull... always getting first.. no change... no thrill of not knowing the answer and using God's gift of creativity... pooor kids...
all of my friends in my colony used to go for morning walk.. it was sposed to be a brisk one.. but we literally crawled...get up at 5:30 and go for the walk.. we used to come back after 2 hrs...of gossiping and gossiping again. and then came engineering and MBA ... hmm way too long to write in this blog....
now Soumya is a responsible girl, working for a good company... but no summer holidayssssssss...
mummyyy i want holidayssss
and hence i conclude that teaching is the best profession.. u get to atleast show a way to the future of the world.. admire their intelligence... learn a lot from them... come home by 5:30... and the best part is TEACHERS have summer holidaysssssssss ( apart from fun.. i think teaching is the most honest and the best profession.. no place for stupid cut throat competition.. and also the satisfaction after the day's work is incomparable)
Saturday, April 15, 2006
finalllyyyyyy i tooo have a blog. but by now ever person on this planet and their cats and dogs already have a blog of their own. so may be it is not a big deal. but may be again it is-- for me.
methinks there is a prdestined moment for everygood thing to happen in life. and unless that time comes no matter how much i try, or cry i cant really get wat i want to, the way i want it.. may be most of the people i knw will consider it a loser's attitude.. leaving something to detiny means i am not working hard enouh to get what i want or that i am not ambitious enough.... may be they are right and may be they are wrong....
but if there is no unexplained and unexpected stuff happening in life, may be life wouldnt be as exciting. we would know wat would be the result of doing smething even before we do it. no excitement.. no awaiting... no elation... no happiness that we got what we wanted... because we already know the result... boring is what i feel....
so because my predestined moment of me having my blog has arrived.... i am writing this post now.
(hey bhagwaaaaaaaan i wrote so much of unconnected stuffffffff )
methinks there is a prdestined moment for everygood thing to happen in life. and unless that time comes no matter how much i try, or cry i cant really get wat i want to, the way i want it.. may be most of the people i knw will consider it a loser's attitude.. leaving something to detiny means i am not working hard enouh to get what i want or that i am not ambitious enough.... may be they are right and may be they are wrong....
but if there is no unexplained and unexpected stuff happening in life, may be life wouldnt be as exciting. we would know wat would be the result of doing smething even before we do it. no excitement.. no awaiting... no elation... no happiness that we got what we wanted... because we already know the result... boring is what i feel....
so because my predestined moment of me having my blog has arrived.... i am writing this post now.
(hey bhagwaaaaaaaan i wrote so much of unconnected stuffffffff )
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