Wanna have a Sandwitch ?? Happens only in India... :-)

Too much of Democracy....

The recent political conditions in India have made it clear that too much of democracy is good for nothing. When the communists and republics are making sky high progress aren't the democrats supposed to make more fruits out of the world’s best governing practice?

It is so disheartening that some of the best policies put forth by the ruling party get dug deep into the soil just because the opposition does not favor it, although a majority of people are in its favor. Poor people of the country believe that the elected representatives would think wise but on the contrary most of the important decisions made are made either due to political rivalry or by keeping in mind the forth coming elections.

The opposition keeps fooling people by highlighting only the risks of such policies and never planning to favor the country and its people. They make sure that the people always believe that their party’s only job is to safe guard the country, thereby trying to gain popularity. Compiling a list of misleading facts and insisting the same so that the next elections can be won- this is what every opposition party aims at irrespective of whichever party it is.

Considering the fact that the world’s successful countries are not hard core democracies, we will have to definitely visit the golden rules that have made them successful. Although it is not easy to change the governing structure in any country, certain secrets of success can be copied or cloned according to our structure, after all it is managing the same Tom, Dick and Harry with the same senses.

When policies such as the FDI that have seen success stories in many countries are brought to India, it is so pathetic to see the opposition commenting negatively on it in every possible direction. None of our over qualified politicians who oppose this have kept in their minds that FDI has brought in great laurels and improved economic standards in many countries. Or even if they are aware of the facts, god only knows if they would erase off them from their minds or just do in justice to themselves by speaking something only from the mouth and not from their minds.

I certainly feel that all our politicians must to subjected to brain storming classes in the parliament at least once in a year so that we will come to know if they are only teach-and-speak speakers or they have the real capabilities of thinking.

When these kind of cultured fight scenes happen in the center the state’s political condition is even worse. One government pours in the people’s money to build fortresses and palaces and the other government figures out the best possible way to ditch these so that they get defamed at the earliest.

The meaning of the word ‘Opposition party’ in India has to be revisited. India will only grow if all of our politicians join hands in ruling the country constructively rather than trying to find fault and aiming at grabbing the power from one party to the other. More the democratic freedom, more interference and hence more destruction to the country.

I saved 9 30 hours!!!!

Time waits for no man, time doesn't come back.......do you think these proverbs stil hold good? gone are those days...

My flight started at 9 pm from chennai airport, i was done with my dinner.

The flight landed at Dubai 9 30 pm(time diff 2 30 hrs and travel time 3 hrs). Dinner time again!

Left for London at 10 30 pm from Dubai and reached at 1 30 am next day(time diff 3 hrs and travel 6 hrs). Dinner twice and no sleep.

Finally left from London at 2 30 am and reached New york 4 30 am (time diff 4 hours and travel time 6 hrs). Its Dawn! But supposedly my afternoon :-)

15 hours of travel and 2 hours of halting between 9 pm and 4 30 am....17 hours of travel in just 7 30 hours???? Ist'nt that a fishy calcuation?.

The biggest comdey would happen if the flight carriers between destinations happen to be different(in case of a same carrier they would keep in mind the source's food time intervals) .

The regular cycle of break fast - lunch- dinner would become Dinner-Dinner and break fast or some times Lunch-Lunch and Dinner....Eating twice is atleast bearable but the sleep time ??? Gone :-)

If travelling across half the globe earns 9 30 hours, flying across times zones for a short duration can earn at least 10 minutes, as long as we dont return to the source location... watches would have been obsolete ones if they did not have their adjusting capabilities..else our mind clocks would have to be put to work each time we gaze at them..thanks to the great brains who thought of adjustable watches..

The day light saving is another advantageous things in a way that you can sleep till 10 30 in the morning and it would still be 9 30 :-)

Time can be won by by brains and what else can not be won??

How does it feel when a piece of your work gets HEARD?


'Work' is a thing that may not sound much interesting to many of us. But the truth is that we spend a large number of hours on something that is not so close to our hearts. The only reason being our lives are purely driven by money.

But what drives a person work almost 30 years on an average in his/her life time? Apart from money, it is only recognition or anything equivalent of that kind that can bring contentment. Recognition ofcourse has become a crappy thing as too many managers spoil the broth or sometimes one would be capabale enough of doing the job right.

Is there any other thing that boosts up our morale other than money or recognition? Of course yes, how else can we imagine several lakhs of ppl still working in each IT company..

It was the season of festival of lights and none of my team members could spare their precious Diwali time for a production release, the ony option left was to choose me for the weekend delivery, quoting that I was the only city dweller and all others had to fly to their hometowns. I worked 14 hours a day single handedly on coding testing client calls and everything, I felt like cursing each one of them for being so much irresponsible, the cursing boosted me up.

At the end of two days i did it at last, not of course with the fullest satisfaction, but then came the real picture. The moment came when i realized what i had struggled for had reached thousands customers and for one good thing - served the purpose it was built for.

Similar days in may career kept following, long hours of toil, the outcome of which reached thousands. After losing so much of precious personal time, the only thing that was left was the satisfaction and pride the piece of work gave me.

Every developer would have been through this kind of a situation where the target would require hours and hours of toils to be conquered. End of the day we all get driven by the awe of the work that went live. If one would want to experience every kind of happiness on earth, this is one of a kind that would give happiness out of satisfaction, like a dish that tasted like heaven after hours of cooking.

How not to be a manager….

It was Monday morning, stepped into my cubicle quite reluctantly (as it usually happens)..Checked mails, account balance, ndtv updates and finally decided to work. Forwarded mail chains from my manager kept pouring in. The contents of these mails would look like ‘can you look over this issue?’ , ‘can you provide an update on this asap?’, ‘I don’t understand this req. please explain.’ And so on…even before I could take a look over all the issues, a meeting invite would pop up on my calendar. Team meeting is the biggest of all useless things done at office : plan everything ;but execute nothing.

My manager would say, since the team is not all that occupied, shall we engage ourselves in some learning and dev activities? Our team is working on this tech and we do not have a presentation specific to us on this. Divya can you prepare one?

A silent nod from my side.

The next question would be Can you tell me the ETA on this? As if I am going to run away from the team the same day...Wednesday evening? Why asking me the question when you have the answer yourself?

Work work and only work till the clock shows 8..

To my friend : bye ya…im leaving..you??

Her : No ya, this stupid deployment…

Mr.M : Divya can you show me the screen you had developed?

Me : Yesss..but its time already..

Mr M. : No just show me, ill look into it…

8:05 Me : Is it fine? Shall I leave now?

Mr M.: Fine, but can you change this layout, intend font size..bla bla bla…

Me : but this screen is already approved..

Mr M.: So what, we will send it for approval again…(as if I don’t have any other damn work on earth and the designer is also jobless…crap work…)

8:7 Me : Can I do it tomorrow?

No no make it as soon as possible.. (he will never even know the screen is a part of which delivery and even its tentative schedule….).. we are already left with no time for completion of this development(as if he is going to write the code…not even a semicolon will happen)

I would somehow manage to do some gimmick in five minutes…

8:12 Me : done, but shall I show you the complete working screen tomorrow?

Mr M.: keeps thinking…(maaaannnn…im sitting here from 10 in the morning….you dropped in only at 2…my bus will start at 8:15 sharp)

8:14 : ya fine, 10’o clock shift hmm…think you can leave…will you manage to get a seat if you get into your bus now?

I smiled and left..I wanted to yell saying I don’t even know if I will be able to catch my bus…seat is only next….

Typical managerial attitude….i don’t know if ppl climb into the shoes of a manager the next day they are born..their philosophy would be ‘suck till the last blood of the person working under you in the name of fullest utilization of resources..if it happens to be a fresher straight from training, they will surely get the maximum pleasure of using the tissue paper to the fulest….

Dump all work on her head and keep pestering her for updates every one hour irrespective of the deadline…make her work on all weekends…make her stay till 12 at times for useless deployments without even caring about how safely the girl would reach home…give her the work of coding, testing, design, documentation, attending client calls and what not in the name of offering maximum exposure…bend the rod till it breaks and finally give a glue…broken glass is always broken…..

After all this….give the person the least recognition in the team saying you are still a fresher….a shout back will never be heard…yell in front of everyone…they look at you and admire and finally say with a smile on their face to hide their guilt…’your communication skills are good’ …don’t know if ppl become dumb after becoming managers or only dumb ppl are given the chair….manager mania??

Give ppl space to work, motivate them-they are your asserts, a project can run even without a manager but not without a developer….ask their wish at least once on a while…make them comfortable to work under you…not one out of every ten managers would do all these..

The life of a sw engineer has become like the SDLC – fully phased. Its hard for all of us or may be some unwantedly sincere ones like me to realize that, work and accolades out of it alone is not an integral part life….

So take a lot of breaks, make friends, hang out with them, let your mind free, indulge in all pranks, speak over phone, celebrate birthdays, share sweets…….just finish your work on time…above all don’t expect the results….finally don’t work hard….for not every manager accredits it…even if they would want to, they become situationally crippled…

This is really outrageous.

Argentine teenager Pamela Villarruel poses with her seven children outside her parents' home in the town of Leones in Cordoba Province, northern Argentina, May 11, 2008. (Pics courtesy: AP)

Pamela, 17, bore all seven children in just three pregnancies, having her first boy in 2005 when she was 14 and the other six girls in two deliveries of triplets in the following two years.

Pamela and her children currently sleep in the living room of her mother Magdalena who supports them all by house cleaning.

The father of Pamela's first son abandoned them, the father of the first set of triplets was forced out of the house by the family for beating her, and Pamela refuses to identify the father of the more recent triplets.

Magdalena requested to have her daughter's fallopian tubes tied to avoid any further pregnancies, but was denied as Argentine law prohibits the procedure to be done on minors.

This Birthday…………

There are not many ways to say ‘Happy Birthday’ but each birthday differs…not in the way it is celebrated…..not in the context of gifts and presents….not in the number of people who wish….but what matters is the inner conscience …

This Birthday of mine of course with no pomp as it usually is….I don’t deem birthday to be One important day to show off as I am no actress :-). But I believe it is the one day of the year that reveals how many hearts reach out to you amidst routines….

This Birthday turned out to be different in its kind as there was neither a college or school atmosphere, as it usually was for the past twenty years…where I got mobbed by wishes all over…the whole day used to be frolicking fun as if I had achieved something great and I was on top of the world….just as a kid would do:-)…

On the contrary though this birthday flaunted with calls, messages and wishes, it seemingly revealed the reality that after all I have grown up and I have to live on my own…life has to go on whether it’s a Birthday or any day meant to be happy…no matter who cares to wish or not…

I went on to imagine some five years down the line….all of us will be busy with our personal and professional lives…should I expect my dear friend to call me up and wish?... guess not the answer…but it will always be nice to make it a point that we all renew our relationships and remind to our friends that we still exist on earth at least on this day…after all what is more surprising than to hear from a friend after so long on the occasion of your birthday?

Coming to the conscience, many emotions playing on the ground this birthday…where do I go from here?...I am not worth even a single pie to my parents even after turning 21…where is my life heading? What’s goanna happen next?....hope to get all answers before the next birthday along with few other newly cropping questions…for no woman lives with a stable mind :-)

Sourav DADA Ganguly – The ever inspiring Legend

This piece of writing is solely dedicated to the man who represents all courage,
will-power, confidence, perseverance and high spirits meant to achieve the thing which has nothing on earth has on par with it – Success. Indian cricket must have bid adieu to his sportsmanship but the trail he has left on the Indian cricket grounds and in the hearts of his fans will never fade away.

Dada, as named aptly represented all the aggression and craze to achieve nothing but the one and only Victory which is a true spirit that every true Indian has in his blood. All credits of taking India to the place where we stand now belongs to him and his captaincy that united all his team members to walk a track towards the victory stand. Tracing back to the pathetic past of Indian cricket, he taught the team India to fight the Aussies and triumph then on. Indian cricket was looked upon and grabbed attention only when we beat the world champions.

This story does not only belong to the world of Indian cricket but also correlates every victory story in it. The powerful ever inspiring story that Dada has authored has inspired and will continue to inspire not only his cricket fans but also every single youth of the country. He is a standing example as to how to face hardships in life and to face problems during decisive periods. Every aspiring leader in any specialization can follow his foot steps on how to deal with all the thorns to the pathway to reap success. There will be hundred Greg Chapels to hinder our progress but never mind all that was his saga.

If this is the extent to which he has inspired a not-an-all-time cricket watching person as that of me…its hard to imagine the kind of love, affection and respect that all his Bengali fans must have had on him!! Kudos Dada….the whole nation salutes you…for, you have contributed not only to the world cricket but also to the inspirational book entitled ‘The success story’ alongside the course of your journey…