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 :(

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?

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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...

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i can only post.. i cant view my own post...

i will be back...

tata and take care all