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It’s Organic......... Everything is so huge in here (USA).I was hugely surprised to walk into a 'shop' selling vegetables and see all the onions the size of a watermelon and all small watermelon in the size of huge watermelons. Though I thought it is twice the worth of the money spent on the same, there is always a costlier section on the same vegetable with title "organic" on it, making you feel guilty of eating the inorganic ones. Even squirrels are not puny here, are they inorganic? Even milk is either organic or not organic here, though it comes from an organic cow. So essentially, any living or formally living and presently edible things are either organic and small or inorganic and huge. I feel being identified with an "organic" status to an already organic material, as a pathetic result of population expansion and development of technology to keep up with the population. But the irony is, India is a more populous country than USA, then I am not able t...

It hurts to be shrewd....At least for me "Reduce your tension" if you want to get rid of your jaw pain, head aches and other entourages associated with the same, was the prescription given by my doctor for my recurrent pains . I went for physiotherapy, had regular appointments with the orthodontist and mentally told myself to reduce my tension. In fact, when I had to move away from my family for a short duration (relatively short in terms of my probable life time) I promised to my dad that I will be calm and patient and won’t get tensed. Well, the underlying logic in this is, I get tensed when ever I think “otherwise”, in the sense I got tensed whenever I had other views than my peers and of course I never got tensed if I told my views to my friends who understand me, here also the catch is “who understand” me. I found it extremely to make them understand and in the process of making my point I got extremely tensed. Trust me I got so tensed that I got a XYZ pain syndrome, its...

I never seem to learn..... There is nothing wrong being part of an accident if you know how not to do certain things. Just 2 years ago, when I went for a Outbound training as part of an initial learning program in my company, I fell down in the most stupidest way, I fell down on my head from a log in which I was standing holding an untied rope. If only I didn’t concentrate on holding on to an unsupported freely hanging rope I would have fallen down on my legs which is much better than getting your head hurt. I was concentrating on the rules of the game (part of which is catching the rope) rather than apply my common sense. I had to give a finishing speech( actually you can say a finishing "speech" literally not a "literary" speech per say), in which I told the people ( that is my fellow participants) that I learnt how not to fall on that day and that it was a valuable lesson to take home and everyone laughed for that. But I really meant it. But the problem is I neve...

At last...some thoughts... Its been a very long time since i put my thoughts in writing.I think the main reason being laziness as well as blocking of Blogger.com @ work since thats where i get to have lots of "Free" time ! There were numerous things i want to write about but at present while coming to this place where i get access internet for free( My library), i saw a huge police force at work catching the "miscreants" without helmet on their heads and i found it immensenly funny cause i have never witnessed such an active traffic police at mount road in the past few years i am at this place. I think atleast all people in TN will be aware of the new rule of "must wear helmets" else pay a fine of Rs.100 .I am not against safety but there are limits to a rule.At busy times atleast on mount road , one gets barely to move a feet in one minute and the needle of the speedometer even crossing a maximum of 40 is very difficult, with this being the case i am not ...

For all IIM aspirants....... This is no opinion of mine...for a difference i wanted to inform to whoever happens to see this regarding a program called PGSEM from IIM-Banglore.... An open discussion and information regarding the program can be gathered for those who are interested in an Open House which will be held between 2.00 p.m and 5.00 p.m. on Sunday, January 7, 2007 at Hotel Green Park, No.183, NSK Salai, Vadapalani, Chennai 600 026 (Phone : 237575 75). This is a discussion forum where you will have first hand information about the Post Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management offered by IIM Bangalore. There will be presentations by faculty, alumni, and current students. There will be opportunities for one-to-one interactions before and after the formal presentations. In case interested do go through the details given the website( http://www.iimb.ernet.in/pgsem ) to avoid repetitive questions in Open House. Hope it was useful for some atleast !!!

There is nothing wrong with IT BUT................ I have been thinking of this for a loong time, finally thought not to procrastinate anymore. I have been in this booming industry for almost 2.5 years now and so find myself eligible to comment on the same without any hesitation (infact it seems that I am senior in my project,see that’s what IT does to experience). But before proceeding further, I just want to give a disclaimer that the situation is as I perceive it and with respect to India ,especially Indian companies and more with respect to maintenance and testing aspect of IT and not all are my personal experiences(some are). So now that I have made amends for possible back slashes and fight backs on the situation, I hope to write my feelings without guilt of hurting anyone. Imagine this situation, especially during appraisal time: " You can not be given more than this since 1.You didn’t do any value additions for the client... 2.You didnt do any 'more'certifications...

Is idle mind a devil’s workshop? Everybody knows or at least believes that they know what it means. But I feel it depends on what you think is idle. Some four months back I was literally jobless (I was getting paid after tax in my office for doing some mundane unmentionable stuffs) and I think that’s being idle (since it was mechanical and I think being mechanical is like a machine which doesn’t think and hence idle and not the figurative idleness of a machine which will rust without movement).Anyway ,the point being, I thought I was wasting my life and so started writing my thoughts on MSWord( since stationary is not provided in my office to help in cost cutting) and really felt happy after typing my thoughts and my mind was really working fine churning out ideas on all themes . So I concluded that being idle (with no innovation being done) helps you to think a lot and thus makes you creative. To be clear, being idle makes one want for more and thus end up being creative. But to steer...

Democracy...................... I always fail to understand democracy, i read in my civil textbooks of yester years that its a system of government for the people,by the people and etc etc.I am not sure if they have changed any definitions as yet.When thousands and thousands of people(educated and necessay citizens of india at that), protesting against a proposal initiated to give admissions on higher learning centers by the caste into which they were born into, are not given any respect,how can we call ourselves democratic? Is the voice of one 'peoples representative' more final than the voice one million people affected by his voice? Shouldnt the original drafters of the constitution have considered the contigency of these representatives not passing any laws agaisnt themselves?If they can pass laws according to their whims and fancies, i feel we should take a referendum for important policy decisions to be voted by non-political ordinary citizens with intellegence.I know, he...

It’s not easy to say NO..... Its not wise to sit lazily when 'opportunity' is knocking at the door, its a good adage but it doesn’t take into account the fact that, what if opportunity is knocking at two or three different doors at different corners and you have just milli-seconds left to decide which door to proceed to before it stops knocking and goes away.... There lies the difficulty in predicting, what sharp turns can occur in your life, one is invariably confused regarding what lies behind which door and which knock should not be left unanswered.... Most of the time, we find ourselves bored stiff because of the mundane work(applies to those who think they are doing mundane stuffs) we are doing and apply for two or three things, thinking that even if one of them gets by your side ,we will feel happy and different. But the biggest problem which can occur is when these completely different chances knock in the name of opportunity at the same time and that is where the diffi...

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Reservation will defeat the Cause We want to defeat any good system prevalent, I think it is politically incorrect to have any system which is almost perfect or which is straight forward. Like any right minded, sane Indian I want my country to become great and a country most definitely doesn’t become great by claiming to be one. Promoting deserving students to better position by providing opportunities for them is one sure step to achieve a goal of being great. Till now, everyone around look up to a person passed out from IITs and IIMs. Its not just because they pass out from an institution named 'IIT' and 'IIM',it is because those institutes are known for their quality of training and student body and the public knowledge that only meritorious candidates after tough competition are selected to become a deserving candidate. If the government thinks they are going to pull the country to greater heights by bringing in 'Quotas' here too, I think it is a very bad mo...

Every Night @ the call centers....... I read in the Hindu that One night @ the call center by Chetan bhagat( I am not sure if the name is with or without an 'h') is selling hot like the latest pirated CDs. From the review I gather that the author is not for the call centers.....I completely agree to that line of thought. Its bad in the sense that too much of a mass exodus to call centers will eventually play havoc with the way the youth of the country think and act intellectually .Even those who are for the call centers will not deny to themselves that its not much of an intelligent exercise. Think alternating your way of life every second week.You get up in the 'Indian' morning some days thinking its the best thing that happened to you in the last one month,since before that you might have gone to office when everyone else in your home goes to sleep.Probably you might get some compensatory allowance for that, but I feel that is just peanuts for a starving traveler in a...

My School Teachers..... I think teachers,good dedicated teachers at that are the most wonderful people ever.... My teachers in D.A.V ,for instance ,were the best guides in my school life and of course that influences the life after school.I got the passion to read,write and think from them . Met my teacher Ms.Sumitra recently, who made Social Sciences as my favourite subject,when other students else where in the world ( atleast in India for sure)found it extremely tiring ,she made it refreshingly interesting. True, most of us don't pursue social science as a career,but you get to think of the pros and cons in everything you do ,from the mistakes made by the ancestors.Also, if students can like the 'dry' subjects , its even more good for them to deal with tougher subjects. Even if the student eventually goes into a lucrative field and earns more than his teacher,the confidence and the ability was necessarily nutured in the person by a good teacher. My teachers were no except...

Is Tamil Nadu over abudant in qualified engineers and doctors ??? First the TNPCEE was scraped; apparently it seems,it's a overburden for the children . Any thoughtful student would definitely disagree with it,as ,if they are deemed to be fragile to face competition in the form of entrance exams,how can the same set of people go on to study life saving sciences with a stress filled career. The ever-loving benefactors of the students, in the form of politicians, consider the young minds incapable of facing healthy competition in the form of the single point of evaluation which was hailed as a perfect system for almost the past one decade, which made doctors and engineers out of middle class families who before this system where cruelly left out of race for the reason of money, principally the reason for the introduction of TNPCEE. Well I think the betrayal will continue henceforth unhindered...... Another great feature of this 'quintessential' scrapping of the exams is, stud...

Hi.... People have opinions,but not all of us are able to air them and suppression of views is dangerous if you are passionate about them,since it will ruin your belief about your place in the cosmic game!!!!