All in the game...

By now, its not a news anymore. It only throws up ripples of thoughts, of our days at our 'famed' campus. 2nd trimester... when we first had a glimpse of this "mystery man" who didn't marry a punjabi girl and who did MCA, all just because his mother had asked him to do so... and who stacked up a series of degrees next to his name... all just because he "felt like" studying them. It really amazed us when he allocated topics for our seminar in the field that we were interested in. Be it electrical, mechanical, electronics, political science or even biology, he was up there with no dearth of knowledge. We knew him in the campus as someone who would ask his students to study Software Engineering book in 3 days, or teach the 25+ chapters in ERP or e-com book in less than a month... but off the campus, we know the kiddish side of him too... someone who would sneak into Rajesh/Ganesh's room in TTS to play a game of RoadRash or pick up a CD and sit down watching movies... or get tangled up with some frivolous conversation with our guys there... that made a lot of sense to him... but was just another pastime for we people. And who could forget the adventure of "looking for a girl" to get him married... or the day when we took him out for dinner to make him postpone our internal... Now, he is not there amidst us. May be, his only unfulfilled wish was probably that he didn't get married... But looking back, I feel, its good that he didn't get married... if you understand what I mean... From our side.. these are the things that peep in once in a while, reminding us of the harsh realities of life... Life could be so simple and yet so complex... There's a long way to go.. after all, we are hardly getting started with our lives... and miles to go before we too sleep...

Hi

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Kicha, you need forward messages sent to msitmmb to me. I have taken steps for the mails to reach me. Thanks for your help. Is it true that Kannan sir had passed away (via Sampath)? Update: Bala confirmed it (via Sriprasath). May he rest in peace.

Hi

Congrats Valli, on ur new assignment.. and yeah, u are right... this guy/gal is among us only... a little bit of research into the mail, makes a few points clear on who it is... after all, there aren't many people who would go to this extent... rini, it seems, is not able to access the blog too, coz of some problem with their server... Have nice weekend...

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news

Dear Kicha, Thanks for your response. And this is for everyone. Do you think you know scientists from serial killers? Find out. BTW, I have managed to change my preferences so that I receive all the group mails at my postmark id till the yahoo groups problem gets sorted out.

msitmmb update...!!

I've just sent the following mail to the groups... Hi All, As rini and jax are not able to access groups, I have communicated with jax, and have taken the following action on their behalf... Membership Type : Restricted (you approve all requests for membership) and raghu_boddu@hotmail.com is removed.. I'm Cc'ing this to the great boddu.. to let him know he'll not be able to receive the mails sent to msitmmb anymore... or send anything...!! Kicha

msitmmb

Kicha, as you should have known by now, Yahoo groups has been blocked by most of the Indian ISPs as per a GO. I tried to access msitmmb from several browsing centers yesterday, but to no avail. I'll send you my yahoo password. you try changing the group settings from my Yahoo id. OK. Reply soon.

After Aftermath...

Raghu Boddu strikes again..!! rini, jax... is his ID removed...?? I've sent the following mail to groups this morning... this is for those who can't access the groups... Hi, Boddu will be removed from msitmmb soon... but he seems to have found another way to work around.. He sends to the individual IDs... to stop receiving this stupid mail block his ID by clicking on the "Block" button... Latest in Raghu Boddu's hit list are these IDs... mvinitha@rediffmail.com, jxavierroy@yahoo.com, chatchander@yahoo.com, yourskganesh@yahoo.com, vallichidambaram@yahoo.com, tilaka666@yahoo.com, rini_1978@yahoo.com, funvijay@rediffmail.com, karthi_nov26@yahoo.com As u notice... He has put the subject as "Job Offer!" and sent the same nonsense... Please block this idiot... Kicha

Aftermath

Hi all, Rini: I have mailed you a reply. My postmark id is xavierroyATpostmark.net. You can do as Kishore said. But before that I really would like to know Raghu is. Damn the DSL guys. I'll go to net cafe today evening and go through the groups.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

Hi

What the hell is happening in the groups... Whatever the poll tells, moderators please remove that stupid Raghu boddu from the group and make it restricted.. jax, I've forwarded the mail to ur postmark ID... rini, as jax may not be able to access the groups, u please take immediate action... We should not allow this to repeat...

Back at work

Hi all, I found out the reason why I was unable to access Yahoo! groups. Damn Dishnet DSL. Read why. I'll let you know about my tour later.

Held up..!!

Hi, Some problem with my system here.. it has been off the network since y'day morning.. am typing this from my teammate's system.. will be back once I get my system going...

a day with sachin

during last thursday and friday i thought that the sunday is going to be one of the worst sunday i had ever pass through. with the absence of ajayan(in kumbakonam) and senthil(in bangalore) i didnt know what to do. after analysed various possibilities, i decided to go to MAC statium to watch Irani cup. as i dont like going alone, i convinced one of my colleague(naren) and took him to "Rest of India" versus "Mumbai" match. i didnt believe my eyes, my favourite, all time star, cricket god (romba overa irukko) sachin is standing just few yards away from me. the scenario was like, ROI has to chase the target around 320, and they were 90/2 at that time and the greatwall of India(dravid) and the local boy(balaji) were at the crease. the other key players i hav seen were agarkar, kambli, laxman and salvi. around 12.15 they went for lunch. we too left for our lunch to naren's home. supppper sappadu. (chicken)biriyani, fish fry, white rice with fish kozhambu, rice with rasam, rice with moore,............. I really tired in this process, i was unable to get from the chair, so naren took me carefully to the wash basin... initially we planned to go back to the match. but naren's friends came to his house, they pulled him to the "Thiruda Thirudi" movie. so we started to that movie, we went to 3 theatres, but in all those 3 we didnt find the ticket(not even in black). so they started to beach, but i decided to go to my room as i hav to wash my clothes. so the remaining day went in washing the clothes. ram, dai venni yennada valliya orediya pugazhura. what u told??? "American school has taught u a lot". how can u say like that. in American school she has only very few things to learn but more things to teach. she ll teach there based on the knowledge and skill acquired from msitm(professors and classmates) da. valli, beef rice - in chennai, in the road side fast food hotels, they usually call the beef fried rice as beef rice. reg. new members - chance kidaicha pothumae, vanchi theerthuduviyae. but i havnt expected my name to be the first one in ur list. ranjini, un samaiyal mega serial enna achchu? jax, sorry for not answering for ur qns reg blog layout, bcos i m not at all interested in it. anything is ok for me. kicha, eppada formukku varuva. sindu,mahendran,ganesh,rajesh,kavi - ellam enga poiteenga, bcos of ur absence i m posting lot of msgs, it is not good for the health of our blog. so return soon. (actually the blog's heading should read "two hours with sachin")

Hello

Hi, Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I'm going to visit a few locations at a client place today. So there won't be any posts from me today. Rajesh is on tour. Today, he'll be at Nagercoil. Hope he blogs about his tour.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

Still unable to access the Yahoo Group!

Styles

Rini, That was really an interesting link on the universe. It was almost a revelation of the universe and its beauty. BTW I got no reply on the set of styles from anyone except Valli. Plese view the style sheets at "Quod scripsi, scripsi" also. I am planning to bring them to this blog. Still not able to access Yahoo groups. Rini, as one of the moderators, can you tell me the result of the poll? Have a nice weekend,

Take a look at these

Hi, I might be busy today as I've got quite a lot of work scheduled for today and tomorrow. I guess everyone would have harboured a thought of being a scientist at least once in thier life, wearing white lab coats, working with microscopes and other scientific equipment. Take a look at some really interesting jobs in the world of science. Tell me which job you like.

And still be doing, never done.- Samuel Butler , Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204)

I have also added a couple of stylesheets in "Quod scripsi, scripsi". Check out the styles and let me know which ones you like to have in "All in a day's work!". I'll be updating "Quod scripsi, scripsi" soon. Rajesh and Bala are finally entrenched at Coimbatore. They are staying at a mansion here, just a few right and left turns and a couple of S-bends from my house. Rajesh has got a cell now. He'll be posting his number soon.

Hi

On to another weekend... am yet to be released from this project... its just the warranty period for maintenance (for 1 month)... not much work to do, but still they are hesitant... my PL wants me to time-share and begin work here also, but that project's PL is telling I shouldn't do anything until I'm released... I told this to my PL, he says, if he tells that the next time, ask him to talk to me... am getting sandwiched between the two... Reminds me of how we had a similar situation tackling the two extremes of RT Swamy and Balaji during our placement activities... Though it didn't achieve anything atleast now I'm not finding myself in an unfamiliar situation...

Yahoo problem

Hey I'm unable to get into Yahoo groups at all. Any messages there. Someone please forward the recent messages to my postmark id (xavierroy@postmark.net).

On new bloggers

Hi, The reason why I had asked you all about inclusion of new members was because everyone was included in a similar fashion, if you can remember. I was just asking for the sake of it. Nothing else. But as Valli and Kicha have noted, things said to a person should be treated as it would be if the person is in front of them. Things intended in the light sense should be taken lightly. Maybe we can have some rough guidelines to follow in the team, not rules but simple guidelines or a sort of docs and donates. They could be related to the interactions between the members. For example, we mostly do not discuss political issues in the blog. I hope you understand what I amtrying to convey. Such a guideline would be helpful to newbies. BTW, I cannot access the Yahoo groups for the past two days. Kicha, can you forward the recent mails to my postmark id? Don't send it to my office id da. Valli, that was a lot of synonyms that you used. I have put up the stylesheet at my yahoo id. So if Yahoo fails, then you must have to view the blog sans styles. I am still working on them. Maybe soon. Thanks for your suggestion on the fonts. Kavi, there is a "Switch Styles" heading on the right side. Click on any of the links to change the style of the blog. If it doesn't work, try clearing your system's cache. And if it still doesn't work, send me the browser details and the exact problem you are facing. Note: Please do not use the quotation marks in the title of the post. It creates Javascript errors. If you want to use quotation marks, please use the following tags to indicate a quotation. "example ". It would be displayed as "example ". It is good to have a discussion about the inclusion of people. Ideally I would be really happy if there were 45 members in the blog.

If we had no faults, we should not take such pleasure in calling attention to other people’s. - Francois La Rochefoucauld

Hi

I support valli's point... that "play with each other" point... it has been there in college days and continues in the blogger... and it has to be that way to maintain this cheer in the interaction... Today I got a mail from (name censored) who told me in his/her own way that I'm trying to act smart by that last mail that I sent to msitmmb and that nobody else kidded like that. Oh...Boy..!! Has our people lost a sense of humour... or rather, lost a sense of differentiation between humour and something else... I've mailed a one-liner reply to that person saying "But I thought you had sense of humour." If that person gets to read this post of mine and that of valli's (I wish he/she does), he/she will get to know, the very informal and cheerful culture prevailing among us... if that person doesn't like this, then we can't help it...

"Mind reads what it wants" & to xavier

Two gentlemen from a bglr based mgt training institute, conducted a workshop for us at the end of our 5th semester. In that workshop they mentioned "Mind reads what it wants", and they explained that with few examples. The following one is somewhat similar to that. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. to Xavier, xavy there is no point in asking whether to add someone from our msitmmb group to blogger or not. bcos u clearly mentioned in ur mails to msitmmb as, "If you want to become a member, the only requisite is 'active' participation." "The blogger group is not a form of elite group where only a few are welcome. If the bloggers have made the other msitmmb members feel unwelcome, I apologize." so after said all this, u cant avoid someone based on existing bloggers view.

IITans

IITan1 IITan2

answer to any developed country reg quality of our edu.

A researcher at UC Berkeley estimated that fully 20 per cent of start-ups in Silicon Valley are IITian-owned. Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has described the Indian IITian as a "world treasure." Bill Gates says the computer industry has benefited greatly from them. read..

Hi

just came from the doc.. she cleaned up the wound and applied ointment... it was soo painful... when she was cleaning the wound with a cotton I just danced on the bed... then asked me if I fell on a muddy ground or road or somewhere else... I told on a road.. then she gave a TT injection also... now, my hand is also paining... and prescribed some tablets and asked to continue applying soframycin...

Hi

Good to see a long post about Ajayan and Vijay. It's been a long time since Sindhu blogged. Hope she isn't too busy. No news about the colors yet. Ram and Kavi, don't send your replies to my office id. Either blog it or send it to my postmark id.

Hi

Hi, I was a bit over-enthusiastic this sunday... and played cricket with my house-mates with some extra energy... and got badly hurt in the right leg... don't want to to describe the injury... but its bad... am literally walking on one leg... and didn't have a good sleep for the last 2 days because of the pain... going to see the doc today afternoon...

Ajayan's dress purchase & Muttukkadu

Yesterday it went really nice. Myself, Ajayan and Senthil(my friend) left our home around 12pm in two bikes for purchasing dresses for ajayan. i think everyone know ajayan's another name, ie., Royal. if anyone doesnt know, then dont worry at the end of this blog u ll come to know it. First we went to Nungambakkam High Road and get into "Cavin Kellys" show room, after commenting abt all the dresses present there, atlast ajayan selected a trouser, fortunately for his size that model was not available. i said fortunately bcos we wanted to escape from there without buying anything, so now we got a reason for that and escaped from there. Then we went to the "Basics" showroom which is also present in the same road. Ajayan only showed interest in seeing all the dress, but hasnt interested in buy one. but this time i didnt want him to escape from there, so i thought of kozhi pudichifying him, senthil too helped me, so senthil and myself ran here and there and selected some shirts and one of us told ajayan this one was really superb, then other one opposed, no da this one suits u better. but after putting all those efforts ajayan told in a very cool manner, ok i select this shirt but we hav enough time, so why dont we go to some other show rooms and come back in the evening and take this shirt. but somehow senthil convinced him and made him to buy a shirt. so he took almost 2 hours to buy a single shirt, then we had our lunch at Ceylon hotel. We continued our purchasing, because there is no more show rooms at Nungambakkam High Road, we went to Pondy Bazaar. There we went to "Derby" show room. Here Ajayan selected a trouser immediately, bcos that trouser matched very well to the shirt we bought earlier. Ajayan told come on we can continue our purchasing, bcos he needs to buy one more pair. but senthil told we can go some where else. Muttukkadu ---------- So we started to Muttukadu, it is famous for its backwater and boating. it is 30kms away from our place and it lies in ECR(East Coast Roadways). it was a very nice experience to drive in this road, the people who travelled in this road know y i m saying like this, bcos it is difficult to find such a road in our Tamilnadu. After rasichifying the crowd for sometime, we decided to take a boat along with a helper. once our boat moved little bit, ajayan got the oar from the helper and he begin to row the boat. initially he struggled, but after that he did well. asai yaarai vittathu? so i too tried, the helper patiently told me how to ride 3 to 4 times, but even after that i havnt did well, so he took incharge. after that we walked to the centre of the bridge present over that backwater and stand there and viewed the sea from there, it was amazing to see the sea from that view. then we started from there to our place(T.Nagar). Continued purchasing --------- ---------- After returned to our home from muttukkadu, ajayan again started saying abt purchasing, so avan thondharavu thanga mudiyama, we started from our place. but it was almost 7.30 at that time, still we went to Madura Garments factory outlet, which is present in Velachery. we reached there by 7.45, but the security told they closed it 7pm itself. I was too hungry, so I thought of having some snacks, so we went to a Food World present in Velachery. We only entered to buy something to korichifying, but ended with a Rs.800 bill, bcos senthil and ajayan potti pottu kittu bought axe effect,this effect and that effect. i silently watched all these things and when we came out it was 8.30, but ajayan was still strong in his points, said that we hav to buy dress now itself. so we went back to our home, left the vehicles there and ran to Jeyachandran textiles. There he bought a Van Heusen shirt and Sparky trouser. Appada, oru vazhiya ajayan dress eduthu mudithan. Have u now understand what Royal means? To wind up the day we had our usual beef rice and special milk and we went to bed. Note:- ------- If i bored u with this blog, then u can very well scold valli, bcos she only mentioned that if i continuously send msgs in general then she ll rename my name. so who is going to take the honor of scolding her first? a kind request, i dont know to use a better word in place of scolding, i searched in online dictionaries, even i had come up with lot of words, i dont know whether i can use them in this place or not, so pls post some synonyms for scolding with examples of where & how to use it. this is the nice opportunity for everyone, bcos in the examples u can use the name of the person whom u like(?) most. it is default that u all like(?) me most, so dont use my name, use some others name.

New Colour Schemes

Hi everyone, I have added a few more color schemes to the block. You can select it through Switch Styles option. Hope you like the colour schemes.

Anitha in Bangalore...!!

Hmmmm... ding..ding...ding... my bells are ringing.. The "good looking" Anitha is coming to Bangalore... jax, am open to invite any of our people.. so long as they are participating its good for all...

new member requests

Hi all, I have got requests from Kurinji and Sriprasath to join us. Shall i invite them? bye for now,

My views...

Hi, Now on to my views... Its been kinda fancy in some channels to project countries like India and its poverty in the most "pathetic" ever way possible... A few programmes I could recollect... AXN - there was some travel program where India's railway stations and a typical sleeper class coach was shown to be "dirty and stinky"... they showed a beggar begging in the platform and the program host was emotional and said "this is poverty for u"... Naional Geographic.. a quiz program was on... and the question was "What does an Indian style toilet comprise?" and the answer "A hole in the ground".. imagine some non-Indian hearing this... what would he imagine of a "hole in the ground" being used as a toilet... and in one program in BBC there was an interview with some guy (an Indian), I forgot who... he was talking about how India is perceived by other nations.. and what he told was "Some people still think India is a country of kings and demons... while there are others too, who understand India as an intellectual capital.." But my question is, does America stand any differnt... In fact, the so-called Americans do not even belong there... the native Americans (also known as Indians or red-Indians) are the actual natives who were overthrown by the British/European settlers... the native Americans live in ridges and valleys and most are not even aware that something called electricity exists... they are still a century behind in development... who is to be blamed.. the so-called Americans... (this part is courtesy: Oprah Winfrey show)... But still we are left at the mercy of being projected in whatever way the world likes to see us.. We do have shortcomings... we are poor compared to other developed nations... education levels are lesser.. no doubt... but are the other countries spotless...??? Its only that, we are still dependant on the heftier nations... and they wouldn't hesitate to pass such actions... after all, they call the shots... But its only a question of time... it could be a few decades... and India might well be seen atleast much better positioned than what it is now...

Typing

Sure Valli, I know what typing is, but I don't know how to type. I'm more of a four-finger typist. I use two fingers of each hand to type. But interestingly, a couple of days ago, I got to a site where I found a software to help type pout text faster on the screen. It is really an innovative piece of software. It is titled Dasher. It sure looks good. I am trying it out right now. The s/w is very small in size (about 580 kb). Try it out. Valli, why don't you try voice recognition s/w. It is available in Office Xp. All you need is a good microphone and some time to spare. Once you get the voice recognition trained to recognize your voice, you can reduce your typing to a great extent. Any help in this regard, contact me. Will get back to the discussion later. I've got an interesting question for all of you.

Style switcher included

Hi all, I have included a stylesheet switcher. As of now I have included only one style sheet. You can now choose either a black based stylesheet or a white and gray based style sheet. The option is available just above the search blog option. Try it out. Your comments are welcome.

India misrepresented

Hi Valli, The other things like social conditions, plight of women and also working conditions at times project our nation in a bad light. I would agree that a few portions are true. But generalisation of the conditions as Indian is unacceptable. Blogger has changed a few of its services. Expect a lot more of these changes in the future. A spell check option is also available.

Project delivery today...

Hi, Today is my project's delivery.. please pray that my modules do not throw up any defect at this stage... Let the delivery go on peacefully... (uh, feels just like a mother waiting to deliver her baby)... Irrespective of whether I'll be released from the project or retained for the 1 month warranty period, atleast the work pressure should reduce, hopefully... so that I can be back to my old form... Got a lot of things to tell about Valli's query... will post them peacufully next week...

Angry? Why?

It is true that India is being projected as such in foreign televisions. I can understand your anger. But you would have to admit that it is the truth. A large percentage of our population live in rural areas where education per se has no value at all. There is an ad going around in Indian TV channels showing a young girl (a Rajasthani or Gujarati girl) going for an eye checkup. The doctor (a lady) asks her to read the eyechart. The girl remains silent. The doctor once agains asks her to read. Yet the girl is silent. Then the girl's father says softly she cannot read. My first reaction on seeing the ad for the first time was rage (on the girl's father for not sending his daughter to the school.) The next couple of times I saw the ad, I noticed the dresses and the condition of the girl and her parents. They were poor people. The truth hit me. They do want to send thier daughter to school but they cannot afford it. You can see it in their eyes. Then my anger turned to pity. I can recall a similar incident told by my aunt. This happenned in Madurai, just opposite our MK University. My aunt, working in MKU school, says that she finds it difficult to get children to come to school from the nearby areas. A parent told this to her she asked him why he was not sending his son to school.

"I am a stone breaker. I get around x ruppees every day. My son if he works with will also earn around some x ruppees. We can use this money for our daily gruel. If my son goes to study, we will have to forgo a certain amount of money every day which we cannot. Additionally, we might also have to bear the education costs. So I will send my son to study if I am somehow assured of getting the same amount of money that my son will earn if he works."

How would you answer this question? The problem is that a majority of the people in India are poor. It is a truth that we Indians should accept first. Secondly, the cost of education is high, as you might have known. Thirdly, the cost of educating a student is also high. A government has to spend a lot in terms of infrastructure, salaries and other things. So what can be done? You cannot blame the people; you cannot blame the government. The least you can do is wring your hands in despair. Yet all is not lost. We can change things through several ways. How you can change things is best left to the individual to decide. But things have to be changed. Indian education is not the only thing that is shown in a bad light in foreign media. So what can be done on that? your thoughts... Here are a couple of quotes on education.

To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. -- H. Spenser.

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Which of the above is more true? You decide...

Full story of news...

Forgot to add the link... Read full-story about the Telstra project here.

B R E A K I N G N E W S ...

B R E A K I N G    N E W S ... Infosys bags $50 mn contract from Telstra Indian software major Infosys has signed a five-year $50 million contract with Australian telecom and information systems giant Telstra for software development and maintenance and is planning to open a development centre down under. Infosys will be taking over the work, which was earlier carried out by IBM Global Services Australia, formerly a joint venture between Telstra, IBM and Land Lease. Infosys is also looking at office space for a development centre in Australia for which it plans to hire 250 employees.

thanks to xavier

yesterday i went to kumarapalayam to attend my colleague's marriage function. after that function was over i started to coimbatore to meet our friends there. from the moment i landed in coimabatore xavier took incharge of me. from there onwards i was totally under his control, he took me to a nice hotel(where we had our breakfast during our coimbatore-ooty tour) and ordered whatever he liked, sorry whatever I liked, vittah sappittu mudichathum kaiyila rupaayum kuduthiruppan. after lunch i waited in a browsing center for either xavier or bala or rajesh to come after finishing their work. xavier came back from the office and picked me, then we went to bala's office, he hasnt turned out from the field. so xavi took me to his house, there xavier provided me a nice bed to take rest, original home made coffee and kerala chips to refresh. bala and rajesh came there when i just started to see the movie "kakka kakka". imsainga vantha vudanae off pannittanuka. antha padathai theatrela poi than parkanumam, yenna avanukallukku theatrela ticket kidaikkalaiyam, so naanum athu mathiri kastappadanumam. rajesh told abt his first day exp, may be he ll post it. thank God, around 8.30pm they left xavier's house, i m waiting for that moment for long time. bcos, xavier's mom prepared idly for me. so once they left, xavier asked me to take idlies, but it was 8.45 at that time, actually that was the reporting time for my bus. my watch was showing only 8.30, then only i realized it has slowed down. i thought of skip the dinner and start from there, but xavier, his mom and dad havnt allowed me, they compelled me to eat idly. nice idlies but i took only 3 as i dont hav time, his mom alos prepared paayasam, wow it was really superb, but due to time constraint i had only 4 spoons. yenna tastu, unmaiyilaiyae supera irunthuchu. BTW, xavier called to KPN travels and informed that i m on the way and asked them to wait for me. i not even told his mom abt her samaiyal and left the place. xavier dropped me in KPN travels exactly when the bus was abt to start. omitting bala and rajesh from the scene, i had a very nice time in coimbatore. xavierukku romba nandri kadan pattirukken. this morning around 7.30am i reached chennai safely. intha kadhai ithudan mudinthathu. ithil kurappatta sambavangal anaithum unmaiyae. so ithu yaar manathaiyum punnakkinaal, marunthu poda kaasu kodukka pada maattathu.

Another day

Kicha, it's good to hear that your project is almost over. Looking forward for lots of posts on the difficulties you might have faced during your project. Ganja, what was it about you being a cowboy? Has the Tiruchi sun affected you? Valli, the photos were nice, Sindhu where are your photos of your UK roundings? Vijay, hope you reached Chennai safely? Manny and Kavi, how is Chennai now, hot or cold? Rini and Ram, any interesting news? Seems both of you are very busy for the past week.

Projectward Ho...

Hi, Its been a while and I've been tied up a lot with my stupid project. This weekend it will be delivered to the customer. Irrespctive of whether I'll be released from it or retained for the 1 month warranty, I hope the work pressure to come back to normal over the next week. Amidst all the hurdles I faced in the project - both attitude-wise and otherwise... a few things this has taught me - What it means to have a "work stress". I'm reminded of all the stress management workshops where we had skits and other performances on how to handle stress. It was such great fun doing all that stuff in college days.. but facing it is altogether a different matter. Its a test of nerves, as I see it. Another aspect I've learnt... my usual dept is the R&D unit (called SETLabs, as u might know)... where its only research that happens and very little interaction with the customers.. if at all we interact with customers, it would be for some requirement analysis or consulting and never for any kind of delivery work. But project is an entirely different thing. The moment u have someone called customer to deal with, it no longer remains the conventional 9-5 job. As we've learnt "Customer is King... (and blah..blah..)".. Now I know why he is the king... and how he has to be treated. Third point... Leadership... my PL at SETLabs is a person who takes utmost care of his words and would make sure, he get things done in the kindest possible way.. but still make it clear that he means business... But it was the other extreme in the project... I would rate the project's PL 4/10 on leadership qualities while rate my PL 8/10. And I learnt a lot of things here too... I remember a quote that I used in one of Mr.Raja G'swamy's class.. "If u want to be good, u have to know what is not good".. in similar lines, I learnt how just a little way of speaking demoralizes the entire team.. I learnt all about what a leader should not do.. coz I was the one suffering... Its been a really hard struggle for me over the last 2.5 months or so in this project.. its not over yet... but atleast not a very long way to go (hopefully)...

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday, Rajesh and Bala had come over to Coimbatore to search for houses. Beofre embarking on thier search, they came to visit me and later on we went to see Karthiga. I promised them I will look at a few houses, which of course I did. They saw a few houses and didn't like them. I guess Rajesh will be posting about his house-hunt shortly. Today, Had a surprise. Vijay Babu was in town. After lunch, I left him at a browsing center to spend his time. More later.

Changes

Temporarily I have disabled Ajayan, Kathu and Sangee's accounts. I'll enable them as soon as I get an intimation from them.

To others

Hi all, I was on leave yesterday and I am on leave today also. So I didn't have the time to post any messages or respond to messages. So please wait till tomorrow for my messages. BTW, just now read a few messages posted in msitmmb. Interesting.

To Rajesh

This message is for Rajesh only. Other please disregard this post. dei Rajesh, here are the addresses: Sharma Transports, Tipu Sultan Road, Bangalore. Phone: 6708791 -> Coimbatore: City Travels SRE Travels, Albert Victor Road, Bangalore. Phone: 670608 -> Coimbatore: JeJe Travels I'm home today. Call me as soon as you read this message. Please call after 1:30 pm IST.

Oh yes!!! I forgot one valuable suggestion to our juniors…

Don’t show our degree certificate at any cost to the employer when you have cleared your written test and tech interview...ha ha…coz if you do so...you may have to regret for your blunder...

this is what i ll tell to our juniors

everyone responded very well for the topic "career guidance to our juniors". i assume that i know something more than what our juniors know abt job market and tell the following to them. for the people who interested in mgmt - many of u think of getting into a marketing job. no problem for u, as far as u dont consider the company & the product/service u r going to market. but if u want to get into a good company, prepare general apptitude well, bcos most of the companies r conducting written test as part of screening process. thorough with basic concepts of marketing, that ll be helpful to u in the interview. for the people who interested in IT - software development - u hav to be good in apptitude, C, C++(basics) & the technology in which u did the projects. definitely u can get into a good company. dont worry abt the companies which r not allowing M.Sc to take up the test, bcos only very few companies r like that. contacts r very important in IT field, so try to establish ur network, that ll get u the opportunities. people who interested in getting into technical field but not interested in software development - u have got plenty of other opportunities like software testing, Call centres providing technical support, Content Development, etc. in general dont give up at any point of time. u ll succeed. -vijay

On RWH and Education

On education: Rini, a very good use of an interesting article. I would like to know the source of the article. It seems familiar but I don't remember where I read it.

Universities are a fount of knowledge. Some come to drink, some just to gargle.

On RWH: You hit the nail on the head when you said that planning alone is not going to solve any problems. Execution is the other part (reference: our Principles of Management class). I had read an interesting article in the Sunday edition of Hindu a few years back. I don't know if it is available online. I hope, in addition to Rajesh's reference, you have the time to visit this link. It is wonderfully written with lots and lots of examples and diagrams. As you had said, everyone is forced to invest in a rainwater harvesting system without undestanding why it is required or how it should be implemented. I have never seen anything in the media in the recent past highlighting how RWh is to be implemented. All I had seen is our CM delivering a monologue on the benefits and reprecussions if you don't install RWH. Now every house has a RWH, but will it function as intended is to be seen in the days to come. I have also posted another post in "Quod scripsi, scripsi" for your perusal. I may not be updating it daily, but I'll inform you if I update it.

I wish

I really wish I had this.

A new start

I guess most of you might have known about the blog "Quod scripsi, scripsi" I had started a couple of months back. As that blog will be removed from Typepad in a few day's time, I am moving to Blogger. You can view it at Jax says. I have rehashed a lot of posts from "Quod scripsi, scripsi". I have also included a comments module, so that you all can leave your comments on the post. Bye, for now.

An interesting decision

Rajesh, that was really a thought provoking question and a very interesting solution too. Looking forward to more such philosophical insights. But don't give the answer immediately. Let us post our views first. At times this may also lead to very interesting solutions. Everyone is busy. Vijay, that i2i was very informative. Where were you all these days? Sindhu, No posts from you for quite some time, working hard or roaming around?