Aren't problems amazing? I usually write only when there is something thats really bothering me. In the last 1 year... not much. Touch wood, I have no commitments, responsibilities or liabilities, have a good enuf $balance. Thats a problem. With nothing at all to worry about, I obsessively try to answer the whats next question.
The funny thing about problems is that u are aware of only one and it bothers you the most. So can you be coolly happy by just controlling whats your top problem? Im trying that... a jolt from everything going on peacefully to a change in place/a pay cut/a totally new direction to life promises to make me happier. And im shit scared...
The advice part : forget to pay ur utilities bill and worry about it for a while, life will be awesome.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Saturday, May 16, 2009
The loser
Steve was an intelligent student. He did fail once in his 1st std, but ever since its been pretty good scores. over his first 15 years of schooling, there was this subconscious liking that he developed, become an engineer, in particular electronics was his passion. His dad and mom were great inspirations, and like everyone else in his country, it was awesome to join the engineering school. he did, went to one of the best schools in his country, his passions became more focused. and as it was the best, this school helped him identify what he loved and gave him an opportunity to pursue it. Still as a student, he traveled abroad, interned for a year made a lot of money... was an instant success story in his family and the small community that his parents knew.
right after graduation, he makes a job, spends a couple years doing what he likes and starts thinking... he is extremely satisfied with his job, has established himself pretty well, can do whatever he wants and relatively in his field is paid pretty okay. but where has society placed him? hes a nerd, a geek, a good friend to have but definitely not a cool boyfriend. he earns peanuts compared all other professions. on the bigger picture he feels like a loser. looks at people who he went to school with, realises the jackass who repeated second year in college twice is on-site in Sydney working for a lame software company earning much more, having a great life.
the whole world caters to the people who form the middle part of the bell shaped gaussian curve. that talented 5 percent who form the tail struggle... a handful achieve, get a 2 Oscars after 40 years of a painful life. others just try convincing themselves that its personal goals that matter. is that it?
Steve is sad. he now believes the average ones are the luckiest. he was stupid all along, his ego is hurt.
-- Inspired by a colleague
right after graduation, he makes a job, spends a couple years doing what he likes and starts thinking... he is extremely satisfied with his job, has established himself pretty well, can do whatever he wants and relatively in his field is paid pretty okay. but where has society placed him? hes a nerd, a geek, a good friend to have but definitely not a cool boyfriend. he earns peanuts compared all other professions. on the bigger picture he feels like a loser. looks at people who he went to school with, realises the jackass who repeated second year in college twice is on-site in Sydney working for a lame software company earning much more, having a great life.
the whole world caters to the people who form the middle part of the bell shaped gaussian curve. that talented 5 percent who form the tail struggle... a handful achieve, get a 2 Oscars after 40 years of a painful life. others just try convincing themselves that its personal goals that matter. is that it?
Steve is sad. he now believes the average ones are the luckiest. he was stupid all along, his ego is hurt.
-- Inspired by a colleague
Monday, January 12, 2009
The problem with the brain
The throughput of a system cannot be more than the arrival rate. And people hate the idle state. We become interested in stuff... to keep us occupied. force the brain to do some work (the anti-bore state). over time, we realise our IQ, what we are good at and more importantly what we suck at. The problems that we can just solve, the problems that are close to the border line of our intelligence/capacity begin to interest us.
here comes the catch. the problems at this level need to exist. else we create them (for ex., some people get married :) ). over the last week, I suddenly realised I had nothing to think about, a neat solution that I was working on was patented by a jackass and I went blank. In my problem pursuit, i started looking at what other people do (in the process pissed off my roommates), came to this simple conclusion : A person's intelligence / capacity / capability can be directly measured by the problems they approach.
Now, the usual argument that intelligence is measured/seen by behavior might be... might be wrong, I believe intelligence is how well we can predict things. (obviously the bankers are stupid :) )
PS : the word problem has a very negative connotation. its otherwise here...
here comes the catch. the problems at this level need to exist. else we create them (for ex., some people get married :) ). over the last week, I suddenly realised I had nothing to think about, a neat solution that I was working on was patented by a jackass and I went blank. In my problem pursuit, i started looking at what other people do (in the process pissed off my roommates), came to this simple conclusion : A person's intelligence / capacity / capability can be directly measured by the problems they approach.
Now, the usual argument that intelligence is measured/seen by behavior might be... might be wrong, I believe intelligence is how well we can predict things. (obviously the bankers are stupid :) )
PS : the word problem has a very negative connotation. its otherwise here...
Monday, August 25, 2008
She
She was cute.
A set of wishes, wants, requirements which would typically flow when you ask me what kind of a girl i want, i think id waive most of them for her. it was when i realised that when u see someone across the hall and and for a second ur mind goes blank, that feeling redefines everything. Ive had that feeling twice so far (hopefully atleast once after this :) ).
Earlier this year, i saw her. the hypothesis was set. she could be the one. i smiled for a second and moved on with a silent prayer that we should have a common class. that happened, awesome! we met...
over time each word, each minute that i spent was thoroughly enjoyable, though in the background i was doing : +10 awesome background, -10 not tamil, +10 loves to travel, +5 likes the same TV serials, -10 total non-vegetarian wtf +100 cute smile.
She eventually had to leave, the goodbye meeting happened. back of my mind the -10s i knew were atrociously undervalued (they were hard requirements not fulfilled) and at the end of the day it was just a crush. i do though still hope it went somewhere.
A set of wishes, wants, requirements which would typically flow when you ask me what kind of a girl i want, i think id waive most of them for her. it was when i realised that when u see someone across the hall and and for a second ur mind goes blank, that feeling redefines everything. Ive had that feeling twice so far (hopefully atleast once after this :) ).
Earlier this year, i saw her. the hypothesis was set. she could be the one. i smiled for a second and moved on with a silent prayer that we should have a common class. that happened, awesome! we met...
over time each word, each minute that i spent was thoroughly enjoyable, though in the background i was doing : +10 awesome background, -10 not tamil, +10 loves to travel, +5 likes the same TV serials, -10 total non-vegetarian wtf +100 cute smile.
She eventually had to leave, the goodbye meeting happened. back of my mind the -10s i knew were atrociously undervalued (they were hard requirements not fulfilled) and at the end of the day it was just a crush. i do though still hope it went somewhere.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
the airplane ride across cultures
The cultural shock that people get when they cross boundaries is actually happening in daily life in India right now. There is this modern perspective, life enjoyment theory lifestyle and the conservative style that coexist in families. But what I realised over a lunch conversation with an uncle-friend was that at his time (when he was 24) he was confronted with the exact same confusion. At a certain age u have to make a choice, no more drinking with friends in college and doing poojas at home / a secret love outside and absolute milk face at home (im not typecasting, just giving out a few biased examples).
the biggest problem when u are out of India trying to fit into a new culture is that you are expected to change. a quick fix solution to this as mastered by many here is pretension. (i hate it when a few people i know here are eternally pretentious). A friend's job requires that he drinks (socially) in parties, he tells me that he does tell them he lived 4 years of his college life in the bar, an important lie. how well he switches between the Singaporean office mode and Raghu's friend mode amazes me (MBA skill!).
In discussing this we eventually concluded that most guys fall back to the time tested conservative life, atleast those of us. what say you?
the biggest problem when u are out of India trying to fit into a new culture is that you are expected to change. a quick fix solution to this as mastered by many here is pretension. (i hate it when a few people i know here are eternally pretentious). A friend's job requires that he drinks (socially) in parties, he tells me that he does tell them he lived 4 years of his college life in the bar, an important lie. how well he switches between the Singaporean office mode and Raghu's friend mode amazes me (MBA skill!).
In discussing this we eventually concluded that most guys fall back to the time tested conservative life, atleast those of us. what say you?
Monday, May 19, 2008
The whats next question
Ive always had an idea of whats to happen next in life. 12th std, next was college, 4th year, PS at Munich, then was a job, off to Singapore. Dont get me wrong, there has always been the uncertainty and ive always enjoyed that. [look at this post long back]. But there was a clear direction. And now im lost. Im into this job for almost 2 years now. I crib about the pay, playback the conversation i want to have with my boss over and over again in my brain, do stuff absolutely for the sake of killing time (my masters). There is this excruciating restlessness for wanting to do something. any ideas?
Friday, May 02, 2008
The old times
The last 2 days have been weird.
It all started with a colleague's wife talking about 8 years ago. got me thinking.
Later the day i went out with a couple of friends from NUS for dinner and the conversation turned into me recounting BITS days (this friend's an exchange student from the IIT, still has a year of college to go). It did feel awesome thinking about it, the silly things that we did (which accelerated mental maturity), the long latchaa sessions and the group as such.
A good college helps u identify what u are interested in, a great college creates a future in that line. BITS is great (the greatest actually), a result : a group of 25 in 20 different places across the world. Brings us to the concept of distance. We will come to that in a while.
And then i come back watch the latest episode of Boston Legal ends with "i wake up in the morning with the hope of meeting her, wondering how her smile would look like... and end up sleeping with the promise of tomorrow"
And then something wonderful happened. A really close friend (the best friend status, for those who know me really well, thats like 5 people who can predict my thoughts) was online. I decided to buzz him, he had like 10 minutes, we have a conversation (text) for like half hour. Over the conversation i got this feeling hes going thru something, my shoulder could have helped. i remembered the dinner when i gave him my entire sad :) "story". the point is, he was there. i wished i was there with him now. People spend a lifetime caring about others. It takes a best friend to confront you with "have you thought about you? what u want to do?" and it got me thinking.
Its one of these guys :
So that was at 3AM. I had a very disturbed sleep for like 3 hours. 8AM i was off to work.
So i go to work, half asleep, still deep in thoughts, totally confused, with all the short term pleasure/goals looking worthless, found myself staring into the computer. Woman : they have this power of analysis, the sensibility, the reading between the lines and they speak right words at the right time. so i called up a BITSian senior who works with me, asked her if she wanted to go for a walk... i told her the story, and there was more... she started talking about the scrap books (ive never had one, but i collect farewell bills with everyone's sign on the back) and i got psentier :(
Pushed me deeper into the silence mode.
Later in the day, i decide to get some food, usually its this new restaurant thats in Singapore (Murugan Idly Kadai), but today i wanted to have the THE 14 idly and iddiappam from Saravana Bhavan. walk in there and there of all songs, he decides to play this one song (guesses?). end of story. i still cant figure out whats happening around me.
effectively ive redefined my wants/wishes: all that i want to this other wizard in my life to come to Singapore (he actually has a job here waiting, but bloody financial markets!), and want to meet the closest from the top photo. step 0) i met Kaushik last weekend (after a year) step 1) im going to Hong Kong next weekend :)
It all started with a colleague's wife talking about 8 years ago. got me thinking.
Later the day i went out with a couple of friends from NUS for dinner and the conversation turned into me recounting BITS days (this friend's an exchange student from the IIT, still has a year of college to go). It did feel awesome thinking about it, the silly things that we did (which accelerated mental maturity), the long latchaa sessions and the group as such.
A good college helps u identify what u are interested in, a great college creates a future in that line. BITS is great (the greatest actually), a result : a group of 25 in 20 different places across the world. Brings us to the concept of distance. We will come to that in a while.
And then i come back watch the latest episode of Boston Legal ends with "i wake up in the morning with the hope of meeting her, wondering how her smile would look like... and end up sleeping with the promise of tomorrow"
And then something wonderful happened. A really close friend (the best friend status, for those who know me really well, thats like 5 people who can predict my thoughts) was online. I decided to buzz him, he had like 10 minutes, we have a conversation (text) for like half hour. Over the conversation i got this feeling hes going thru something, my shoulder could have helped. i remembered the dinner when i gave him my entire sad :) "story". the point is, he was there. i wished i was there with him now. People spend a lifetime caring about others. It takes a best friend to confront you with "have you thought about you? what u want to do?" and it got me thinking.
Its one of these guys :
So that was at 3AM. I had a very disturbed sleep for like 3 hours. 8AM i was off to work.
So i go to work, half asleep, still deep in thoughts, totally confused, with all the short term pleasure/goals looking worthless, found myself staring into the computer. Woman : they have this power of analysis, the sensibility, the reading between the lines and they speak right words at the right time. so i called up a BITSian senior who works with me, asked her if she wanted to go for a walk... i told her the story, and there was more... she started talking about the scrap books (ive never had one, but i collect farewell bills with everyone's sign on the back) and i got psentier :(
Pushed me deeper into the silence mode.
Later in the day, i decide to get some food, usually its this new restaurant thats in Singapore (Murugan Idly Kadai), but today i wanted to have the THE 14 idly and iddiappam from Saravana Bhavan. walk in there and there of all songs, he decides to play this one song (guesses?). end of story. i still cant figure out whats happening around me.
effectively ive redefined my wants/wishes: all that i want to this other wizard in my life to come to Singapore (he actually has a job here waiting, but bloody financial markets!), and want to meet the closest from the top photo. step 0) i met Kaushik last weekend (after a year) step 1) im going to Hong Kong next weekend :)
Sunday, March 09, 2008
blah blah
PJ : ...blah blah...
You may read this till then
http://hyderabadunplug.com/index.htm
(just some random website asking people to switch off lights in Hyd for a while)
BR : crap.
PJ : What is crap?? Why I am finding you increasingly cynical and hence annoying this includes the phone conversation of ours
BR : i am cynical about the unplug thing. i dont think its going to change anything, the concepts of awareness, conservation dont get to me as anything except for political drama or a time pass talk. the bigger picture is, percentage-wise the world population has always kept doubling over years and adjustment to change is natural, so will be the use of fossil fuel, the conservation of energy and the things that follow. The process is called evolution :)
as far as the conversation goes : i dont know... i am extremely pessimistic these days over a few things... life, getting married, the office project/politics, the thalai thing, NUS... u know the feeling... and i know, conversations in the office with people who cant think in my frequency, egotistic about crap stuff, have turned whiny. personally i am trying to get of being this, and u can help.:)
dont be sad, things happen when they will, and the headache is gone!
be good,
raghu
PJ : Well I do agree to an extent about evolution. But you know a concentrated effort from everyone’s end would do less harm. See something as simple as transportation. People travel distances and distance in one fat big car, to just satisfy the ego aspect?? How about being a lil conscious and using public transport. See another simple thing is saving electricity and water, ppl switch on lights and don’t attend to leaking taps etc… and we are talking about billions around the world. And again you would save so much. So all the awareness “crap” is only and only to inculcate a responsible feeling. To make people a lil more sensitive and conscious. Another example, we have pollution control mechanisms , but do you see the exhaust pipes of most bikes,, YIKES!!! See again its an attitude problem.
And about pessimistic thingie.. See get married, find that miss. Perfect. I know you were very close to it with ***** but you know there are a lot of ppl like her. MY headache Is still there
BR : okay, im positive from now on, ill stop using my ... no cannot!
the thing is... weak law of large numbers is wrong in most cases. 3 billion people stop using plastic in no way means use of plastic is reduced by half. and seriously, elephants in Sahara die because i use plastic in Singapore? its just the fear of sounding uncompassionate that drives people to pretending that they actually care.
its called the network effect. things dont change that easily.
as far as me: the change is today, the hunt is on, no more cynical-ism.
get lost u bloody headache!
raghu
PS : i think i should blog this conversation :D
...and i did...
You may read this till then
http://hyderabadunplug.com/index.htm
(just some random website asking people to switch off lights in Hyd for a while)
BR : crap.
PJ : What is crap?? Why I am finding you increasingly cynical and hence annoying this includes the phone conversation of ours
BR : i am cynical about the unplug thing. i dont think its going to change anything, the concepts of awareness, conservation dont get to me as anything except for political drama or a time pass talk. the bigger picture is, percentage-wise the world population has always kept doubling over years and adjustment to change is natural, so will be the use of fossil fuel, the conservation of energy and the things that follow. The process is called evolution :)
as far as the conversation goes : i dont know... i am extremely pessimistic these days over a few things... life, getting married, the office project/politics, the thalai thing, NUS... u know the feeling... and i know, conversations in the office with people who cant think in my frequency, egotistic about crap stuff, have turned whiny. personally i am trying to get of being this, and u can help.:)
dont be sad, things happen when they will, and the headache is gone!
be good,
raghu
PJ : Well I do agree to an extent about evolution. But you know a concentrated effort from everyone’s end would do less harm. See something as simple as transportation. People travel distances and distance in one fat big car, to just satisfy the ego aspect?? How about being a lil conscious and using public transport. See another simple thing is saving electricity and water, ppl switch on lights and don’t attend to leaking taps etc… and we are talking about billions around the world. And again you would save so much. So all the awareness “crap” is only and only to inculcate a responsible feeling. To make people a lil more sensitive and conscious. Another example, we have pollution control mechanisms , but do you see the exhaust pipes of most bikes,, YIKES!!! See again its an attitude problem.
And about pessimistic thingie.. See get married, find that miss. Perfect. I know you were very close to it with ***** but you know there are a lot of ppl like her. MY headache Is still there
BR : okay, im positive from now on, ill stop using my ... no cannot!
the thing is... weak law of large numbers is wrong in most cases. 3 billion people stop using plastic in no way means use of plastic is reduced by half. and seriously, elephants in Sahara die because i use plastic in Singapore? its just the fear of sounding uncompassionate that drives people to pretending that they actually care.
its called the network effect. things dont change that easily.
as far as me: the change is today, the hunt is on, no more cynical-ism.
get lost u bloody headache!
raghu
PS : i think i should blog this conversation :D
...and i did...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Common Sense
We legislate our morality, our beings with this code of reason and common sense and respectable restraint. And it leaves no room for passion! It leaves Jack a very dull boy and Jill thoroughly unsatisfied.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Soft Skills
The usual Indian parentage forces and obsessive compulsive disorder in a kid's mind to be the first in class. Its true that admissions, scholarships are given to the top runners, but in the long run is it correct to strive hard to be the first in class?
I was one of them, actually not that much. i did have a competition, a cold war with a cousin, but i dont think my dad forced me that much. 12th std, i wrote atleast 7 entrance exams and actually flunked all of them, had a good score, BITS Pilani, pretty ok life. but that was because i was second in school... but... BUT... there is a good chance i missed out a lot of important things on the way. I did feel the force of having to "achieve".
Soft skills, the things that take u past that final HR interview, the team integration effort, the way people talk, the way people behave, the way people express, the politics... ive come to know... matter... they matter a lot. that makes the difference between an engineer and a manager. how long can u just stay an engineer?
"Knowledge is rendered useless by google and wikipedia" says a Wharton professor. i would not totally agree, but eventually it will turn true.
So what should u be doing?
I was one of them, actually not that much. i did have a competition, a cold war with a cousin, but i dont think my dad forced me that much. 12th std, i wrote atleast 7 entrance exams and actually flunked all of them, had a good score, BITS Pilani, pretty ok life. but that was because i was second in school... but... BUT... there is a good chance i missed out a lot of important things on the way. I did feel the force of having to "achieve".
Soft skills, the things that take u past that final HR interview, the team integration effort, the way people talk, the way people behave, the way people express, the politics... ive come to know... matter... they matter a lot. that makes the difference between an engineer and a manager. how long can u just stay an engineer?
"Knowledge is rendered useless by google and wikipedia" says a Wharton professor. i would not totally agree, but eventually it will turn true.
So what should u be doing?
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Twitching of the left eye
Apparently it brings great luck. So i choose to believe in superstition once again . so whats happening. im putting in an entry after half a year. the last half year saw me cribbing for something to happen in life and eventually too many things happening and now im back to phase 0 where i relax and get back to blogging.
And what got me started again was a friend who started reading the junk which i wrote 2 years back and started questioning me. You should start blogging! it gives u mukthi when u realise how ur thought process has changed over years.
so whats been happening? : been to India for 3 weeks : Snaps here : Mom and sister came over here : friends came a week later : enrolled for an MS : Started the MSc part time in NUS : moved to a new house.
Now getting back to the great luck charm : no i didnt meet a figure in the last 3 days, nor has my bank account gone up 300% in the last 3 days. but i did come across 2 things im growing in love with... 1> Ubuntu : a free distribution on Linux and 2> Python : a scripting language both prove how intelligent humans can be. im using Ubuntu right now and python to post this blog post, notice that there the < > have replaced the parantheses cause i dont know how use escape characters in python!
And what got me started again was a friend who started reading the junk which i wrote 2 years back and started questioning me. You should start blogging! it gives u mukthi when u realise how ur thought process has changed over years.
so whats been happening? : been to India for 3 weeks : Snaps here : Mom and sister came over here : friends came a week later : enrolled for an MS : Started the MSc part time in NUS : moved to a new house.
Now getting back to the great luck charm : no i didnt meet a figure in the last 3 days, nor has my bank account gone up 300% in the last 3 days. but i did come across 2 things im growing in love with... 1> Ubuntu : a free distribution on Linux and 2> Python : a scripting language both prove how intelligent humans can be. im using Ubuntu right now and python to post this blog post, notice that there the < > have replaced the parantheses cause i dont know how use escape characters in python!
Friday, November 17, 2006
The Media
3 year old Ananth was kidnapped Monday. thankfully hes safe and is back into Noida and now Adobe will mostly be thinking of investing anything more in India. And the media made huge money out of it, amplifying all the trauma the family had. ofcourse there was competition in who published the news first, who covered more tears. ofcourse Indians love to share grief, the very reason the million mega serials run for a million days.
but what is the media upto and whats its power? as long as there are stupid people (Dilbert's princile : men are stupid 70% of the time, they sleep the other 30, women are always stupid), the media can play with minds to make money. an example was the panic created for bird flu. Discovery channel says 1.5 million children under 5 die every year cause of diarrhea just because there are not enuf toilets. Bird flu claimed 178 lives so far.
Think!
but what is the media upto and whats its power? as long as there are stupid people (Dilbert's princile : men are stupid 70% of the time, they sleep the other 30, women are always stupid), the media can play with minds to make money. an example was the panic created for bird flu. Discovery channel says 1.5 million children under 5 die every year cause of diarrhea just because there are not enuf toilets. Bird flu claimed 178 lives so far.
Think!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Happy Deepawali!
One of the many reasons im now in Singapore is i wanted to go home atleast this deepawali. like all my other wishes, it didnt happen. and this post is based on a colleagues words "as far as managers go, we engineers are only resources". true. so i think again... is that all? is there any use whatsoever making x times what you make in India? at the end of the day i can not even spend deepawali at home. should i be Chandler Bing, resign my job and get back? or do the usual: look at people in Somalia and stay happy? (why go to Somalia? there are so many people in the US who have not been to home for months together :D ) or our dude investment bankers, who dont get to go home everyday.
i think i know the answer... its called the pygmalion effect. (wikipedia for a better explaination), its cause of the pressure from the society. Deepawali is just 1 day, but my mom keeps telling people that im a BITS product and work abroad everyday and seem to derive pleasure out of it. and afterall thats my "wish" as well. somehow i dont want to do what the others do : smile for the community, wait for an idiot to fall for it, marry his daughter. still cant figure out tho, how i can be different...
think!
i think i know the answer... its called the pygmalion effect. (wikipedia for a better explaination), its cause of the pressure from the society. Deepawali is just 1 day, but my mom keeps telling people that im a BITS product and work abroad everyday and seem to derive pleasure out of it. and afterall thats my "wish" as well. somehow i dont want to do what the others do : smile for the community, wait for an idiot to fall for it, marry his daughter. still cant figure out tho, how i can be different...
think!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Maruthi Zen
there comes another post after a long time... latest
updates, more friends migrating to the wonderland**
(married-OPM*/studing BLB*)
lets come straight to the stuff that gets lots of
opposition... its again about the fairer sex (if a guy gets
hit on in Europe he is either too rich or dark, so i dont
care) most my friends who are girls are married, and
there is this one very close friend of mine, i was talking
to., she is not working presently but she had a brilliant
job in Chennai... got her parents a car before she got
married, no money carried on... girls are now like limited
liability high returns (yeah ive been looking into stocks
recently). no dowry concept is perfectly agreed, but the
reverse seems to be happening now, whatever the guy saves
is gone... gone... mummy! :(( gone! -- looking at a few others i know who are single, they enjoy life.
i took a 2 day break here...
and continuing : lets think again, that fact is correct, after all the girl saves 4 lakhs before marriage, translates to a pathetic 8700USD, which i guess is afterall 2 months sal for the guy, might as well get that dream car for her parents. you win!
now for other stuff : work in India : i do have a few friends who are absolute genius (ofcourse only guys), they go to the US as well, they have a reason. its true that the Indian mentality lets us do crap work, keep cribbing about it (which we anyway do) and not revolt. and the guys from the wonderland use it : how is that their fault? get out guys, go to the US, get your dream jobs, get you life settled and ofcourse anything you get from India after that will be Export Quality.
quitting now and getting back to my RS Coding...
* - BLB : Bank Loan Beggars - atleast they give it back... - OPM : Other People's Money
** - well i call it the wonderland because a) there is no
ChickunGuinya which puts you off for like a week, and all
that you have to do to escape a bullet is to give the huge
guy $10.
updates, more friends migrating to the wonderland**
(married-OPM*/studing BLB*)
lets come straight to the stuff that gets lots of
opposition... its again about the fairer sex (if a guy gets
hit on in Europe he is either too rich or dark, so i dont
care) most my friends who are girls are married, and
there is this one very close friend of mine, i was talking
to., she is not working presently but she had a brilliant
job in Chennai... got her parents a car before she got
married, no money carried on... girls are now like limited
liability high returns (yeah ive been looking into stocks
recently). no dowry concept is perfectly agreed, but the
reverse seems to be happening now, whatever the guy saves
is gone... gone... mummy! :(( gone! -- looking at a few others i know who are single, they enjoy life.
i took a 2 day break here...
and continuing : lets think again, that fact is correct, after all the girl saves 4 lakhs before marriage, translates to a pathetic 8700USD, which i guess is afterall 2 months sal for the guy, might as well get that dream car for her parents. you win!
now for other stuff : work in India : i do have a few friends who are absolute genius (ofcourse only guys), they go to the US as well, they have a reason. its true that the Indian mentality lets us do crap work, keep cribbing about it (which we anyway do) and not revolt. and the guys from the wonderland use it : how is that their fault? get out guys, go to the US, get your dream jobs, get you life settled and ofcourse anything you get from India after that will be Export Quality.
quitting now and getting back to my RS Coding...
* - BLB : Bank Loan Beggars - atleast they give it back... - OPM : Other People's Money
** - well i call it the wonderland because a) there is no
ChickunGuinya which puts you off for like a week, and all
that you have to do to escape a bullet is to give the huge
guy $10.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
The Indian Adventure
Am i an NRI? Technically yes. actually NO!
This trip to India i just understood one new thing : Indians cirb.
Politicians who apparently do nothing... nonsence, many of my friends read this blog from in India. so shut up.
one crazy thing i noticed, i remember telling people the first time i landed in Munich about the "honour system" in trains, the way they come bang on time... the day i came back from Bangalore, i saw this board on the Park station, had times like 4:57 and yup the train was bang on time, that too that early in the morning... that doesnt happen in Munich! and yes, no one checked the tickets either, it is the honour system here as well, just that its so damn convinent, no one even realises it, and its just a 42.53 times cheaper.
Final realisation : India has everything, but will take another 50 years to develop, i cant wait. the country is still with the 60s generation, girls still listen to their parents :)
r
This trip to India i just understood one new thing : Indians cirb.
Politicians who apparently do nothing... nonsence, many of my friends read this blog from in India. so shut up.
one crazy thing i noticed, i remember telling people the first time i landed in Munich about the "honour system" in trains, the way they come bang on time... the day i came back from Bangalore, i saw this board on the Park station, had times like 4:57 and yup the train was bang on time, that too that early in the morning... that doesnt happen in Munich! and yes, no one checked the tickets either, it is the honour system here as well, just that its so damn convinent, no one even realises it, and its just a 42.53 times cheaper.
Final realisation : India has everything, but will take another 50 years to develop, i cant wait. the country is still with the 60s generation, girls still listen to their parents :)
r
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Raghu Reports... on the Daily show
NDTV News : June 22nd 2006 :
Article 1: Beans prices soar in Chennai
(And we need to pay 250USD to watch an article on this!)
"I've bought beet root, carrot and turnip. I didn't buy beans," said Keerthika, a housewife.
How many Kilos each? comon, these guys dont report NEWS properly...
"Share prices are coming down. Vegetable prices are coming down," said Murugan, a vegetable seller.
Well said Mr Murugan, Air Deccan shares are going down, Beans is part of their cargo, i see the connection...
Article 2: Chicken makes a comeback in Hyderabad
(Chickens can, Ganguly cant, aah thats life!)
"I have come here from Delhi. Just ate the famous Hyderabadi biryani. I am also going to carry the biryani to Delhi," said a chicken lover.
Im sorry we cant say what "chicken lover"'s actual name his, hes on a visit to his chinna veedu/keep in Hyd, but hes very loyal, hes taking the same biryani to Delhi to his wife.
"I missed eating chicken for so many months. But now I am back with it," said another visitor.
another visitor?! pretty lucrative lady!
Article 3: Rising vegetable prices hit common man
"Peas used to be Rs 25 per kilo now it has become Rs 25 rupees for half kilo," said Sunil Kumar, a shopper.
"Our budget and planning have gone haywire," said a Nisha Modi, another consumer.
Half kilo peas vangara daugslam conzumeran! God save India!
What do you get from these article (taken from Thalaivar's Arunachalam) : eat beda/junk food... but...
Article 4: Chennai schools crackdown on junk food
The move comes in the wake of a government circular, which says colas, fries, chips and chocolates should be taken off the school canteens.
Drop out!
Inspired by The Daily Show on Comedy Central!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
my big doubt!
Its a pretty common belief that women tend to use the left and more emotional side of the brain and men their right and more logical side of the brain... but is it really that cut and dry? it seems that when it comes to the fares of the heart, theres a battle between what we know and what we feel.
So what do you do when you find yourself in a situation that leaps back and forth between the left and the right side? when it comes to relationships is it smarter to follow your heart or your head?
So what do you do when you find yourself in a situation that leaps back and forth between the left and the right side? when it comes to relationships is it smarter to follow your heart or your head?
Saturday, June 10, 2006
There is 1 religion in Germany and its called Football...
a statium of 59416 obviously cant accomodate the world. With 1 million flying into Munich for the opening match, and a lager mad Munich crowd, screens are setup all over the place, the biggest in Olympia park. When we went it was 3:40 and we managed to fight in through 6 rounds of security by 5:30, after loading ourselves, found a 10cmX10cm place were we could rest our toes. and goal 1... 1:1 ooohs, 2:1 heys, 3:1, 3:2 and 4:2, i was tried, torn but still with full enthu. forturnately for me (i got lost), i met a cute woman who teaches Indian religion, was talking to her for quite sometime inbetween, having fun. later in the day, when i switched on CNN, i realised that there were more people in the pubs in Muncher Freiheit, im going to get killed there for the next Germany match!
Thursday, June 01, 2006
and i kept refreshing
A friend from our Singapore office says i should ask them 20% more time to complete an assignment to compensate the time i spend refreshing my orkut/gmail/yahoo windows. and today i find myself refreshing my blog as well, looking out for comments. its cause of the post below, if i were in India i think i would have had a wonderful verbal.
thanks to the internet my vetti times are even more vetti. now theyve basically boiled down to 6-10 sites of tabbed browsing, orkut, mails, deals2buy and i also keep looking at the rbi conversion rate (its 60 today and im not happy cause i have -(minus) 500EUR in my bank), ndtv/hindu. and its boring, news takes time to develop, i have too much of it. so ive jumped into thinking.
too much thinking these days has been replaced by Sex and the City, marital advices to a lot of people (basically mama velai), hoping for a return someday ;) and searching about a girl. studying in a rowdy school actually helps, 15 min after i told my friend i found a very cute female on Orkut, i knew where her dad was working, and unfortunately as ever for me where her fiancee was working as well. its all in the game.
and with my header checksum working fine, waiting for a call from Singapore, waiting for the rains to stop and waiting for my headache to stop im waiting for a break...
thanks to the internet my vetti times are even more vetti. now theyve basically boiled down to 6-10 sites of tabbed browsing, orkut, mails, deals2buy and i also keep looking at the rbi conversion rate (its 60 today and im not happy cause i have -(minus) 500EUR in my bank), ndtv/hindu. and its boring, news takes time to develop, i have too much of it. so ive jumped into thinking.
too much thinking these days has been replaced by Sex and the City, marital advices to a lot of people (basically mama velai), hoping for a return someday ;) and searching about a girl. studying in a rowdy school actually helps, 15 min after i told my friend i found a very cute female on Orkut, i knew where her dad was working, and unfortunately as ever for me where her fiancee was working as well. its all in the game.
and with my header checksum working fine, waiting for a call from Singapore, waiting for the rains to stop and waiting for my headache to stop im waiting for a break...
Friday, May 26, 2006
Reservations!
Whats wrong? why are there so many protests? claims that AIIMS student died cause of hunger (thank God, he was not yet a doctor!, he doesnot even know he has to eat to live)... whats wrong?
its the lack of Beer in India, people just want have fun. Every country has its own way of having fun, Beer in Germany, moking their own president in USofA, suicide bombings in Iraq, fighting in Srilanka and having sex in France.
Whats wrong? theres nothing wrong, its just expressions of 2 sides which differ. now comes the dude debate of which side to take... and im sure the people reading this are Indians who are either sitting outside India/planning to go in the very near future, contributing nothing but just joining the crap argument raising voices, why? cause there is no beer in India.
And with that general Indian mentality to believe what they hear first is true, its ture that NDTV first came up with the anti reservation news first, bingo that has to be the true picture. no its not. its just a bunch of people who think their "magic" brilliance will be lost to competition unfairly... lets see, the top notch, the most brilliant get into the IITs, how can a ST whos scored only 70% get it? what crap?! the crap is that our dude guy has had 2 years of rigorous coaching, thanks to his dad whos told him from when he was in LKG that IIT is the dude college and thanks to the fact that his father was the all rich guy, basically thanks to the fact that his "high class" dad got laid by the his "high class" mom.
Its all the cause of resistance to change... Chapter 9 in our Principles of Management book...
its simple, THINK. Indians have proven to be the best when you think, clear logic comes out. just that the though process is corrupted, influenced by mega serials, NDTV and ezhuthaveetu maami's ideas (ideas' of neighbours).
THINK!
its the lack of Beer in India, people just want have fun. Every country has its own way of having fun, Beer in Germany, moking their own president in USofA, suicide bombings in Iraq, fighting in Srilanka and having sex in France.
Whats wrong? theres nothing wrong, its just expressions of 2 sides which differ. now comes the dude debate of which side to take... and im sure the people reading this are Indians who are either sitting outside India/planning to go in the very near future, contributing nothing but just joining the crap argument raising voices, why? cause there is no beer in India.
And with that general Indian mentality to believe what they hear first is true, its ture that NDTV first came up with the anti reservation news first, bingo that has to be the true picture. no its not. its just a bunch of people who think their "magic" brilliance will be lost to competition unfairly... lets see, the top notch, the most brilliant get into the IITs, how can a ST whos scored only 70% get it? what crap?! the crap is that our dude guy has had 2 years of rigorous coaching, thanks to his dad whos told him from when he was in LKG that IIT is the dude college and thanks to the fact that his father was the all rich guy, basically thanks to the fact that his "high class" dad got laid by the his "high class" mom.
Its all the cause of resistance to change... Chapter 9 in our Principles of Management book...
its simple, THINK. Indians have proven to be the best when you think, clear logic comes out. just that the though process is corrupted, influenced by mega serials, NDTV and ezhuthaveetu maami's ideas (ideas' of neighbours).
THINK!
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