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...

This is just shocking

I can't believe it even now......I always thought, Mr.Kannan, to be a very cool man....never imagined, he had hypertension or blood pressure......More than a good proffesor, he was a great man, with so much of patience......I've myself tested his patience a lot many times.....Remember, he was writing all his degrees once on the blackboard....I'm never going to meet such a mastermind, again, in my life.....May his heavenly spirit, rest in peace.....

It all happens in life....

Hey, I talked to Sam and Vinothkumar, s Kannan Sir is no more, On sunday (28th Sep 2k3) morning after feeling pain in his chest, he got up and went to wash his face... there he couldn't manage the pain and fell down near the door, Michael found him and called TTS physician, they suggested to take him to Grace kennet... they routed to Appollo but they opened their hands, Thereafter he was cremated in Thatchanery near his sister's home by 12:00 pm on the same day... His soul should rest in peace....Hope he had high BP as well hypertension. Yeah coming to 2 hours at Rini's home.... really she is Best cook for Tomato rice, Rosemilk, Raitha and Green chutney... Rest, yet to test particularly Bisibelabhath... Rgds

Diwali fever and Music ...........

Hei what, what all of u r doing? Diwali is nearing and what u people are going to buy? I have bought two new chudi's this weekend. and will be getting a set of sarees too from my parents and my in laws. hope this diwali is going to be grand for me with many new dresses from all sides. And ya during pooja hols, we are planning for a small trip u know... Ya we are planning for a visit to chennai on Oct 2nd & 3rd and then a trip to Pondicherry on 4th & 5th. This weekend Ramgopal & Kishore had been to my house and we had a nice time. Hei wait i forgot to tell u, they gave me ..Best cook.. award after tasting my delicious Tomato rice and Rosemilk. Others wait please........ I know all of u r eager to have their turn, but then dont worry i wont miss anyone. Vijay u met sachina? hmmmm must have felt so happy. but then Shuttle thavira Crickettum theriyuma? And ya here is a small article on the Carnatic Music Trinity. Hope u all to enjoy reading it! *********************************************************************** It is rarely that a phenomenon takes place in the world. An epoch-making event of far-reaching consequence that would change the course of history. The advent of sages, saints, great men of science, sacred men of art, have all heralded new beginnings in their respective realms. In the world of Indian art music, the advent of Shyama Sastri, Thyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar changed the course and perception of music. The harbingers of a new age in classical music, the threesome are reverentially referred to as the Trinity of Carnatic music. Not without reason, the foremost of which was their being born in the same town and being contemporaries. But this was not the only reason. Their pioneering work was such that after their times, Carnatic music was never the same again. Looking at their works, one finds a unity of purpose behind them. This unity of purpose is reflected in the fact that the Trinity refined the medium of the kriti and made it into a wholesome entity. They also brought into vogue several ragas that had fallen into oblivion. That they adopted almost the same methods and utilised the same tools speaks volumes about this unity of purpose. All the more reason why, they are hailed as incarnations whose specific task was to elevate the art form into a true rasAnubhavA. The art form as an experience that would ennoble the heart and lift the soul of man to greater heights. The purpose of an incarnation is to transcend and transform. Shyama Sastri, Thyagaraja, and Muthuswami Dikshitar transcended the mundane and transformed the way music was handled. The Trinity proved to the world through their music and through their exemplary lives, that the sole purpose of music was to make man perfect and help him realise his unity with God. *********************************************************************** (Jax: Since i got this interesting info thru mail and dont know from where its taken, i have pasted the entire article and so couldnt have link alone) A very good introduction on Muthuswami Dikshitar compostions is available in a semi classical-fusion album Panchabuthams featuring carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashree, it contains compositions themed on the five elements. L. Vaidyanathan has composed the music with contemporary orchestration, while the rendition of the krithis is purely carnatic. I happened to listen to this Casette. Hei do u people know that its brought by "Dinamalar" paper? Ya really surprised and indeed felt happy to see that such good music albums are supported and Canvassed by one of the popular daily. Supera irukku indha casette. U people need not know carnatic to listen to such songs, but then any good listener could see the beauty in each rendition. Its about 5 elelments of Nature. There are five songs , one each for Agni - Fire, Akash -Space, Vayu- Air, Anila-Water, Prtihvi -Earth and each song, preceeded by a hymn from rig veda. Actually its sung in praise of the Lord siva, who is represented in the form of five elements at five different temples in TamilNadu. A descriptive back cover helps us to learn more about the renditions. So hope u people to plunge urself into some good and different music in days to come. Till then its bye !

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...

hi

Hi, I've got a part time job as a programmer intern.....will be joining work from next week....& I'm going to help my department as well, in their web site maintanence & get credit hours for that......kinda fully loaded myself, for this semmester...... Kicha good job done....but i have some strong strange feeling that, the guy/gal is one among us....He seems to know all of us.....Since he had the access to our groups, he shld have easily laid his hands on all 45 IDs...then why did he pick just a few IDs & send them that junk again??....What so ever, we've witnessed, one of the ugliest disadvantage of electronic mails....Hope this does not happen in the future.....

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Hi

" Poda neeyum unnoda velayum " - appdinnu yennoda boss kitta sollalam pola irukku.....itha kandippa solluven avan kitta...solla vendiya nerathulla! hope u guys get an idea of what im going thru in my office - reason for not blogging frequently...... looks like there are so many hot issues going around! last week out of the blue Ajayan called me...just cudnt believe....bcos he was chatting with me as if it was a local call...my blood pressure was shooting up with every extra second....u know he was talking to Boomi and me for about 40 minutes....ketta 'royal' nu solran! Last weekend I invited one of my boss and english accent tutor, Sophie for dinner. They wanted to try real indian hot and spicy food. so in the 'enthu' we put more spice than normal....u should have seen the way they were eatin...emptied my whole bunch of tissue rolls...waters from eyes, nose....had nice fun watching them.....Sophie has real passion for Saree and went on to try one of my saree and to my disgust amd Boomi's surprise it perfectly suited her!!! Busy looking for some job opportunities..... Vijay Babu nanga frequenta blog pannalennu ippadi yellam bayam puduthatha..... bye

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,

Microscopic & Macroscopic view of our universe!

Hi, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms into towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and so on and then when it finally reaches a large Oak tree leaf. But that is not all it zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers. Copy and paste the link below to your browser address bar to view this: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index. htm This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the Universe is and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the microscopic level.

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...

Hey Jax

Don't get excited Man.... Our Yahoo groups namely "MSITMMB" has got to its earlier stand.... Thanks to Rini, 2 B'day reminders namely Kicha & Ajayan.... Cheers

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).

Just

Valli kallaikita... poo... Chance yeah.. illla Gr8.... American school has taught u a lot.... gud... By way, I doubt whether u will accept the same kidding messages if it comes from others instead of vizbabu, ganesh, rajesh or some of us.... Note: This blog is to prove that I ought to post a lot but couldnt.... Cheers

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...

The "To-be" bloggers

Kicha, glad to know that u were also furious, watching those kinda programs.....& Vijay, that was a great news abt the IITs.. Xavier, the color scheme is a good idea.....it was nice too.....guess it would be better, if the post's font also changes to that color(with a slight variation in the shade....a darker shade).....I shld try one of those sofwares Xavier....thanx for the info......i'll surely disturb u, with all my inquistive(??!!) questions, when i try them........ & abt the new members....as u've mentioned earlier...any of our batchmates are invited......on one legitimate condition..... we are a group of "INFORMAL FRIENDS"......we, by all means, have all the rights, to tease, kid, josh, banter, fool around(ivvalavu dhaan enakku theriyum!!!) in a nutshell "play with each other"....... for instance, if i say that Vijay is a loose mental, Rajesh is an Aan asingam or even Ganesh is a maramandai, nobody is going to take that seriously.....anybody joining us has to accept this...hope u guys agree with me...... Hey Rini, saw ur photos .....u look gorgeous...... Vijay babu, nobody's going to critisize, abuse, upbraid, berate, revile, rail, grumble, dress down, reprimand me.....podhuma???(Xavier, plz don't try to find any fault in this....aedho oru enthu....dictionary.com la irundhu "cut, copy paste" pannitaen). BTW, do u have beef????.......what's that beef rice?..... yep Kavi, i know the whereabouts of Anitha, courtesy: a few of my UG friends......kishore, nee konjam late pa.....vacancy filled....nee olunga un kayathukku marundhu pottuko(ulkayam, velikayam ellam dhaan) bye

Hi

Hi, Vijay really you had a great day with ajayan it seems. Kishore pothum.... She is good looking.. But she is already engaged..So try to look someone in Electronic city itself... Rini..How are you? how is life going? Jax here I am getting the same old layout..Why???? Hope I will be in office this saturday and sunday.Nothing very spl. Good Night!!

Hai

Actually I have to post Praising mails to RamyaPriyadharshini, viz babu etc.... But What to do?????????? no time.... Extremely showing as very busy.... Ganesh, Note the TIME Plz.... Cheers Ram Note: - This blog is to prove that I am active....

"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...

Just to say Hi!!!

Hi All, How are you doing? I know I am not in the loop for more than a month. But I cudn't get away with all my work. We have one delivery next month starting . Till then I will be in office till night 1 or 2AM. My team is so nice..so I am not getting bugged of this. Hey..valli u know anitha got placed in DSL adn she will be moving to bangalore tomorrow. Bye!

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.

Hi, Great to see so many soothing words Yep Rini, i read that article, as soon as it was posted....The moral was really good....but the style, it was presented ...was a bit tuff....I lose the ultimate point to be grasped in such cases......The author is right....we are losing our spiritual & Cultural integrity......need to debug all those corruptions....... If i'm right, Ganesh is getting closer to stuffs offered in polytechnic schools. & his idea of "Work while u learn" is something very very very important, that has to be inculcated in our system......When students stand independently, they get the confidence to fulfil their dreams.....I really had that feel of personal satisfaction, when a group of us, worked in the Samsung exhibition..... wanted to share many more views with you.....but, i don't know...somehow it takes a long time for me to type ...Xavier do u know typing?..... I have my Dental appointment this evening (just the regural check-up & cleaning stuffs. It's just one of those attractive offers, our insurance company gives us). My dentist is a soft lady, who does her work so sincerely, that she flosses so hard inbetween my teeth & end up in making my gums bleed!!!

urgent _ganesh

dear ganesh this is bala and rajesh.where r u and what are u doing?call us in 9843336512 as soon as u see this mesg raapi

EDUCATION NEEDS CHANGES

Hi, Regarding valli's opinion, i think we should not care much about what is shown in foreign media. but there r a lot of things that have to be done here in India regarding education. I personally think that our education system needs a lot of changes. A lot of factors can be said regarding why poor people do not send their children to school. but that can be changed by bringing in few changes. This iam saying with those poor children in mind. my views on what can be changed are: 1. It is waste of time in having so many subjects in our syllabus. we study history & geography right from 1st to 10th standard. the same old wars, asoka, buddha, india, ocean, mountains etc. these subjects can be stopped in 5th standard. i think basic english, maths & science is more than enough. what importantly can be taught is other subjects related to work. for eg like carpentry, painting etc. there r so many in this world. this can be taught after say 12 years of age. by this he can also earn some money along with his education. but then we may hear a few voices which will say there should be no child labour. we think we should not care about it. if a child enjoys what he is doing then how can it be harmful to him. he will only gain more by expereince. this will not be a 12 hours job which some children go thru now. he will also get time to enjoy his youth. Goverment should play a important role in this. it is giving so many subsidies for so many unwanted things. those can be reduced or stopped and this kind of education should be encouraged. then only we will see a next generation which thinks logically, votes to select the leader he wants, which is not poor etc. See kicha, abdul kalam cannot come every where for everything. it is we who should do something. we r the present generation and it is in our hands to do something may be after another 5 years of time. We should be happy that these kind of issues r being discussed here. but it is also important that we play a role in implementing atleast some of them. bye

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.

My snaps...

Hei they are in 2003 folder of our group photos album. Hei have u subscribed to our groups thru yahoo id? Only then u can access these, else u cant. Hope u have. Regarding education portrayal, the scenario is going to change ma. Slowly there is an awareness in people about this. U r also an example of it. the anger in u is an example that u deny the fact that the education that what we get in India is not as low as whats been portrayed. But then its obviously low when compared to the intellectual property possessed by our forerunners. Similarly in most of the fields we are depicted with low values which we have never cared to give enough attention and we let it go astray. But then now people are realising that its not the case. And i think in forth coming days, we will surely try to behave more refined and prove them that, the notion which others carry, about our nation is not true. To make this happen it needs proper understanding of our culture and live as an execution of it to them. If u read the article which i had posted a few days ago about Education in India, it will help u understand the underlying facts that obviously we are far to go in certain things. Yes to set right things which were made wrong by british is a mamoth task, but then there is always a hope in me that it will happen. What u speak about here is the external facts of the current education system. To be frank it seems, its the poverty that made u feel anger and by the peripheral things we cant judge the education system. Read that article once again to have more light on current system of education and how britishers were higly successful in achieving what he needed. Yes, he wanted us to become a foreigner in our own land and here we are good example of it. He could wisely cut us off from all the treasured knowledge and let us squander thru all the nasty meanders of the dark part of life and let us not think but only work as said. How tragic its to imagine the once so rich nation, not so long ago, probably around 250 years ago whose % in world trade was 25% of the world trade is now having just 0.5% as its share in world trade. But USA whose history dates not so long back, and which dint exist few hundred years ago is now doing 25% of the world trade. How we have left all our riches to drain....... Got some work now, will continue in next blog Ranjini

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...

Rini, Reply needed immidiately

hey Rini, un photos enga dhaan vaechirukka????........groups la, naan thaedaadha link illa...........

hi Xavier, I understand that, the literacy rate is not 100% & that there are villages which have'nt even got a pre-school...... irundhaalum aethukka mudiyala.......U had mentioned that majority of us are poor....are'nt the majority of us in middle class?.....I thought it to be so..... we'll hope for the best in the future.....hope that our President, who knows the real value of education takes some serious measures to cultivate literacy on all nook 'n corners of our nation...... what else is projected in a way, not so appealing, Xavier? I see some difference in the composing screen......what's happening?......seems to be good......

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...

Abt Indian education , as shown in a channel here

hey, yesterday evening, while having dinner, i was just switching over channels looking out for any game shows or talk shows. I ended up in one of the state local channels, which concentrates on kids.....they telecast kids shows & try to teach them something evrytime......yesterday, they were telecasting a documentary with the topic "Education in other countries"....for the rest of the post, just imagine the reels u used to watch in theatres before the actual movie being played...... First came a poor Japenese kid (10 yrs).....wakes up in the morning, has their kind of breakfast (inbetween he talks to the camera, which is being translated for us)Japan seems to be very clean, his outfits are really good, his classroom is very tidy, he comes back home & relaxes himself in a bath tub(remember he's poor).....Then a poor girl from Benin was shown (same 10 yrs).....has two sisters & two brothers(she too talks the same way to the camera, describing their life style).....her mother lost her job when the last baby was born......she's wearing torn out clothes, her bros were with shorts.......If the kids go to school their mom will get a stypend of $15/month & a packet of food everyday.....her class room is just a small hut, with 60 other kids in her class....they are asked to practise writing alphabets & numbers on the walls.....In the evning, they cook somehting, thta looks like porridge & everybody has that for dinner.....then came an poor Indian girl, named Neeraj.....from a village in Rajasthan......she did'nt know her age correctly.....she's going for school only for the past one yr....that too, night school, where only girls learn....she's already engaged to a guy, & will get married in another 5 to 6 yrs.....the whole morning, she works in her in-law's home.....evening she goes to school....but the guys, they go to the morning school.....her granny says education is a waste for her grand daughter.....only life'll teach her.....they cook in mud stoves (three stones on three corners, firewood in between)the place around is not tidy at all......they have roti for dinner( which was told as dry bread here)......& then came a Rumanian kid, then a brazilian kid & one another kid from south Africa....... Finally their conclusion was, the kids from Japan & Rumania....their education is safe it seems, & hence thier lives too,....but for kids form the other developing nations, their education is not so promising, it seems.....So, when a kid here, watches this show, u know how he picturasizes India in his mind. I was really wondering.....are Kids like Neeraj, the majority in India....Shld this how, India be picturarised?.....I do agree that, there are kids who can'y afford to go to school in India.....but to give a true picture of India & Indian kids(any country for that matter), they shld have taken a kid from a middle class family (Which is the majority of our country)....ennavo oru inam puriyaadha kovam.....is my anger worthy enough????guys, need ur inputs on this.......

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.

i cant access net ....

Hi guys, as our mail server had some problem, we couldnt access net for the past two days and so i had a tough time working all the work hours. Anyway it helped me do a lot of things which were pending and gear up my way of work. Hei one more news guys, really speaking i have joined carnatic vocal classes from last week and hope to continue. Not only that, i have also joined Classical dance class too. Adha mattum yen viduvanennu thaan. But ya its for my sake i am learning and not for entertaining others. So people dont worry, i wont test u to hear all my songs. Innum kathukkave aarambikkala adhukkula ippadi oru padam pottutu irukken. both are tough and i wish to manage it atleast for a year or so. Wish me u all please! Hei thanx for ur response to RWH, though i couldnt read much due to net problem. Once its set right i will read and post back my opinion to our cm rajesh. Jax that article was sent by srini and i dont know where from he had picked it up. It ofcourse was a controversial article in his group and thought such discussion would be triggered in our group too and posted it and i could see no response. Its ok, it happens. Valli where r u photos? Have u made me eligible to access? If so send me the link. Ok. by the way i have uploaded my snaps on to our group , there are few which i dint send to u people. so check out for those in our group. Ganesh "Midnight walking" made me feel that u r going to review some english movie. Never thought u were the hero of that movie. Thrilling it would have been..... Hei i forgot to tell u guys .... cha blunder of my life! Ofcourse, u people know that i am not interested in watching movies and for the first time, srini was successful in convincing me to go to a movie. He told , the movie choice was mine. I am totally untouuhed by any movie these days and i know only those which my colleagues or friends talk about, or the one whose critic or review i read. Other than that i was totally cut from movie world. Dint know which movie to go..... But then remembered that "Koi Mil gaya" got released and read about it in some magazine and heard one of my colleague telling about the demand for the movie tickets and many hye stories about the movie and opted for that. So we along with 2 of his friends decided to go for the movie and started..... Kadavule padam poi utkaarntha illa theriyuthu, namma oor Jagan mohinila varra alavukku kooda maayajaalam illatha uppu chappu illatha Kolanthainga padam. I was bugged up totally. Such a nasty acting by Hrithik and very weak story line. I had a good headache when i came out of the theatre u know. Dhath......... But then he had to get me Pineapple papaya ice cream @ Baskin robbins to get rid of that nasty feeling of having watched a kothu movie. Adhu supera irundathu. It was hyped in a way that i imagined it to be full of graphics, special effects and my disappointment was deeper than Mariana's trench. Cha inime padame nee paarkaama irukarthu thaan nallathunnu srini feel panra alavukku aaiyi pochu en nilamai. Really my hope on movies got lost like anything. The worst part was, the two friends who accompanied us knew that the movie was not that good and still they made way, since i had opted for. Really it was sick saturday evening this weekend. Ok then will blog more about my weekend tales in my next blog if my n/w is set right. till then bye

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.

Just

Hei Jax, Your quote is superb.... By way, It seems MSITMMB groups is in Hight Spirit... Cheers

Tips for marketing job

hi, yesterday i had said that a mgmt skill is necessary. For example if a person is an extrovert he may be suitable for marketing etc. so for identifying that the workshop would be helpful and most important is with a professor like Mr Raja Govindaswamy. I will suggest the following tips for persons who wish to get into marketing. First choose a city where u think there r more oppurtunities for marketing . for eg chennai, bangalore etc. U should know the local language of that particular city like tamil or kannada.this is a must because without local language u cannot go & speak to a local customer. Have a definition of marketing and the difference between marketing & sales always in ur purse.becoz as a fresher these r the two definite questions they will ask in an interview if u go as a fresher.(Questions out pannitenna hehehe) I always keep one & still i have it with me.(i know u r all laughing because i used to bit adichify in exams & it continues even in interviews) Second delete all the IT projects & packages u know from ur resume. u can include at the most Ms office.( padichethalleam waste aaa ) Third after joining in a job the same evening post ur resume in all the job websites & keep applying for all the jobs u see. If u r in a company which is big (say for eg Reliance ) u will definitely get atleat 5 calls for interview in a week. If u get a good offer with a hike in salary go for that job. this process can go on till u settle down into a good company where u think there will be growth and where there is good salary. These r the tips i can give with my expereince so far in marketing and sales. Bye

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...

Here is it.....

By kidding Vijay Babu, I have heared advices / suggestions from most of you people, Thanks, Thanks again..... Yeah coming to mine...... What we lacked (I Certainly see & feel in my job career) is v r not aware of the exact things going on in the business world while v r doing our studies..... V had a wonderfull opportunity for spending 1 month of First year vacation in a company.... But most of us didnt used it properly.... But I am not frustrated with my current job (my first job) coz we should accept whatever we get and tune overself towards what we can provide in this job; side by side sharpenning our saw (i.e, core competancy, or ur life aim whatever you put) than to get sulk over the issues arrising out of the current job.... What I have mentioned above is for tuning yourself for a long term career..... I go with Vijay's suggestion for an immediate get thru for a job after studies.... To succeed in life.... The same thing "THINK WIN - u r sure to win" Thinking any one can do... But u should feel u r winning.... crossing a pebble over the expeditition towards Everest is also a situation where u have won.... Believe u can do with full cofidence not even a nanocm less that that... then u have achieved. yeah, rest personally.... Cheers Ram

our Family Re-Union

Hi, Getting back to my routine, after a good Family Re-Union(??!! that's what they call it here )......they were here for five days.......had so much fun....toured around places.....cooked good food for them.....& now, i'm all alone......the same sulking lonliness......getting used to it again..... I've uploaded my photos to the album "Red River Gorge". All the bloggers can see them at photos Has snaps of the past two weeks.......i've just added a few for now.....maybe i'll add a few more in the weeks to come....since, i hook up to the net using my phone, it takes hours to upload photos...... As usual, we had our Java class yesterday & obviously, i was the only beautiful young gal.......Rajesh, eppo meet panna poroem, legalaa????...... dharmam, niyaayam ellam en pakkam......what does that M.L stands for after ur name man??? fraud fraud 420...... Rini, where exactly, are your photos in the groups??....i was searching under the photos & files link...but could'nt find it...... Nice discussions going around.....I missed all the posts for a week..... now got to speed up & streamline with u guys.......

Hi

Hi, I am giving my views on what juniors could do : 1) I think when doing our course itself they should be adept in IT & any one of the mgmt side also(may be marketing or hr or finance which ever they r good in) To fine out in which they r good in i think our workshop on mgnt skills will be of great help. because if u see 50 % of the people today the work they r doing will be irrelevant to their education. so i do not think in todays job market they should restrict themselves to IT alone. more on this tomorrow. bye

hi, I didnt mean to post my last msg.....i was typing 1 or 2 lines inbetween my work.....dont know what i did...it's in blog!!! anyway...thank you Xavier, your link abt RWH cleared my head. Regarding Vijay Babu's question...as most of you said...i am not sure either....cos i want to change my job now..but dont know what field to choose....im in real limbo....in UK mgt job means sales and marketing.....the title may differ from company to company but the role is the same.....telemarketing!!!.....i dont want that sort of job....i want a mgt job in an IT company....this is what im doing right now! my current job profile is ok but not the company.....when i try to look out for a job there is not much scope for me.... all I can tell our juniors is.......be focussed in what you want.....develop your core competencies in the chosen field! All the plans for TN govt sounds promising....just waiting for the day we see the result! bcos all I do is compare the atmosphere in here with what we got in India......v really wonder many times...' when these dumb heads can have such sophisticated living, why not we, who are much more superior and advanced in technology? ' as far as im concerned....the core reason for what India is today is ' CORRUPTION '.....i dont say corruption doesnt exist here....it does....but not for petty things and more importantly when it comes to the question of people's welfare! bye

RWH

dear ranjini see these links also http://www.dinamalar.com/RWH/index.asp http://www.dinamalar.com/2003aug09/fpnews5.asp http://www.dinamalar.com/2003sep03/fpnews1.asp hope this would help you in getting a view about the real reason and seriousness behind the implementation of RWH in Tamilnadu raapi

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

To be honest, I simply dont understand what ' rainwater harvest pit ' is or how its being made....I will really appreciate if someone could explain me the logic behind it! Rajesh...all the plans sound interesting

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.

RWH

hi rini you can see the details and tips reg RWH in http://www.chennaimetrowater.com/rainwatermain.htm see this and post your views further raapi

RWH , Education.......

Good rajesh, it helped me to get a picture of what current TN govt. is planning. but then i would be happy to listen that all these plans have fruitified rather than a change of govt. left all these plans at the planning stage itself. I think, its not one of the election stunt which politicians usually do. Has there been any accomplished tasks by our govt. recently, apart from planning? And did all ur people have ur houses dug up with rain water harvest pits? Yes, its there at my place and also at my inlaws place. Hope these pits not to disappear in years time with all mud on road. Rajesh has our CM made any provision to insist that these pits should be left open or covered properly and not become waste in course of time? The sad thing is, most of them are trying to just make a pit and put some stone(jalli) and then let the water get into it rather than adopting the exact method of stuffing with charcoal, fine sand, coarse sand and things like that. Hei guys, can u come up with how the pit should be stuffed? If i am clear about how it should be, then i am interested in submitting a proposal of insisting to check the healthy condition of pits once in a year or insist that if not. And on to Vijay babu's ques, i like answering to it with a quote in general on the current Indian Education system . Here starts the quote............. (I have posted it onto our groups too) One of the most remarkable features of British rule in India has been the fact that the greatest injuries done to the people of India have taken the form of blessings. Of this, Education is a striking example; for no more crushing blows have ever been struck at the roots of Indian National evolution than those which have been struck, often with other, and the best intentions, in the name of Education.... The most crushing indictment of this Education is the fact that it destroys, in the great majority of those upon whom it is inflicted, all capacity for the appreciation of Indian culture. Speak to the ordinary graduate of an Indian University, or a student from Ceylon, of the ideals of the Mahabharata he will hasten to display his knowledge of Shakespeare; talk to him of religious philosophy you find that he is an atheist of the crude type common in Europe a generation ago, and that not only has he no religion, but he is as lacking in philosophy as the average Englishman; talk to him of Indian music he will produce a gramophone or a harmonium, and inflict upon you one or both; talk to him of Indian dress and jewellery he will tell you that they are uncivilized and barbaric; talk to him of Indian art it is news to him that such a thing exists; ask him to translate for you a letter written in his own mother-tongue he does not know it. He is indeed a stranger on his own land. It is hard to realize how completely the continuity of Indian life has been severed. A single generation of English education suffices to break the threads of tradition and to create a nondescript and superficial being deprived of all roots a sort of intellectual pariah who does not belong to the East or the West, the past or the future. The greatest danger for India is the loss of her spiritual integrity. Of all Indian problems the educational is the most difficult and most tragic. Ananda Coomaraswamy There is a need for change in the education ssytem as such and i dont know to comment on what we got in our Master's! I really wonder what we get in Universities and educational institution now a days is the true education! When i myself is not clear about it, i dont want to advice others and confuse them too. so leave them to decide on education for their choice. Adhayum choicela vidaama irundha sari!!!!!!!!!!

to jax

jax give me your id to which i can send a document.just fill it and give it to me .it is urgent and also a step in my interview with amtex

email id of CM

You can also post your ideas to chiefministers cell by using the following id cmcell@tn.gov.in if you are doing so also send me a copy of it rajesh

our discussion reg environmental awareness

with reference to our discussion reg environment awareness we had on blogger a few months b4 here are some steps that are taken by tamilnadu government.Tell your views about this and if you have some suggestions kindly publish it here so that it can also be submitted to the government. The Tamil Nadu Government is turning a welcome shade of green with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announcing a series of measures to protect animals and the environment. From banning animal sacrifice and protecting elephants to cleaning Chennai's famed Marina Beach and enforcing rainwater systems in every house, Jayalalithaa is doing it all. And most of it has happened in the last fortnight alone. The immediate provocation for banning animal sacrifice came from a complaint about 500 buffaloes being "sacrificed to God" in a village in Tiruchirapalli district with senior police officials watching. "A ban is already in force under the Tamil Nadu Animals and Birds Prevention of Sacrifice Act of 1950. However, the provisions of the Act are often breached. Therefore, people should be educated not to do so," said a letter from the Chief Minister to district heads. She also ordered that the senior police official present at the spot be suspended. For political expediency or otherwise, Jayalalitha has supported the proposed federal legislation for a ban on cow slaughter. Responding to reports of a temple elephant running amok and injuring its mahout because it was "too stressed out" and another being forced to beg on Chennai streets, Jayalalitha took several corrective measures to "de-stress" captive pachyderms. Elephants used and kept in Tamil Nadu's temples have been granted a holiday for the first time in their lives. Moreover, the government has ordered that all temple elephants be kept in a camp for one month in a year. The one-month camp would not only be a holiday but also an occasion for an annual compulsory health check up. Jayalalitha has asked officials to ensure that all 41 temple elephants in Tamil Nadu temples, on government records, are taken to the rest camps. Besides, a coordination committee with representatives from the government and the temples have been entrusted with the task of identifying distressed elephants. And there is still more. To take tips on how to go about the job, a special team of experts has been formed to study protection and healthcare measures for elephants in Guruvayur temple in neighbouring Kerala. On another front, the Jayalalitha government's environment activism has resulted in a compulsory rainwater harvesting system in every building in Tamil Nadu. The deadline for implementation is August 31. If buildings don't comply, municipalities will enforce the system and cut fresh water connections from the corporations. The Marina beach in Chennai too has been cleaned up vigorously by the civic authorities, which even demolished all old structures on the beach last week. Enforcement agencies would keep a vigil to ensure that people don't litter the beach. The government has this week also come out with a notice to fishermen asking them to confine fishing only to specially demarcated areas. The department of fisheries held a meeting this week to give notice to the millions of fishermen working in the state's 1,000-km coastline through the Tamil Nadu Fishermen's Union. Besides, the government has been working at Tamil Nadu's largest vegetable wholesale market on the outskirts of Chennai to generate 5,000 units of power every day from bio-waste. To be set up at a cost of Rs 5 crore, the plant would supply power to the market itself. This bio-methanon plant would be supported by the ministry of non-conventional energy and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Another pet project is Enviro Vision 2005 set up to monitor the quality of air, water and land resource in Tamil Nadu as part of a 15-point agenda for development. A federal grant of Rs 492 crore is being used to clean up Chennai's five canals and rivers. When complete, the city river conservation project will help plug the 422 outlets into the waterways flowing through Chennai. A Rs 37 crore project to stop sewage flow into the Cauvery river is also being implemented. Many more plans are expected

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?

The right decision

A group of children are playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child is playing on the disused track,the rest on the operational track. The train comes, and you are just beside the track interchange. You could make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way? Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make. Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, I thought the same way initially because to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally.But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place? Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office,community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him. The friend who forwarded me the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.