Bridge under water

Everyday commute to office, we cross a 10 meter bridge constructed across a sewer canal. The bridge submerged in water last friday due to heavy rains in Bangalore. The water had gone more than a meter above the bridge.

More scary was the flooding of a small canal in our campus. The entire food court was sorrounded by water and the scene was terrific. This reminded me of the mighty Brahmaputra flooding every year in Nazira, Asssam

Project deadline for Archana

This world revolves on deadlines...be it anything.
Even God has got deadlines :)

My college friend Archana has her own deadline of delivering a baby by 19th November this year.
My best wishes for her successful delivery of her project named 'Baby' and I express my hearty congratulations to both Archana as well as Lijesh in advance.

'~Day' for Origami

‘~ Day’…We have special days to associate with almost everything. Few years from now, all 365 slots will be filled; we will then have a day for remembering all days and probably add more days to the year to satisfy our quest for special days, the ‘~Days’. Leave aside the future; scanning the present calendar of ‘~Days’, two days are marked for Origami「折り紙」. Let’s not envy origami for snatching two days in the calendar, let’s ponder the reason.
U.S. and U.K. calendars allocate October-24 for Origami. It marks the birth of Lillian Oppenheimer, who popularized origami in the west. She pioneered in spreading the art and science involved in origami starting from 1950.
In Japan, the story is different. Japanese consider origami to be one of the highest forms of art and celebrate November-11 for origami 「折り紙の日」spelt as ‘Origami no hi’, which is also the ‘Veteran’s day’ or ‘Remembrance day’ for them. This was the day when ‘World War-1’ ceased and the peace treaty was signed. It is referred to as ‘Sekai Heiwa Kinenbi’ 「世界平和記念日」meaning ‘World Peace Memorial Day’. Apart from these 2 x 24 hours, there are special origami seasons spanning from four days to one month followed throughout the world.

The above is yet to be published. It is written for our internal Japanese magazine

Best Wishes Prasanna

It is one year since we had started learning Japanese, and already two of our peers left the company...Today was the third person quitting. Prasanna leaving us, makes the 'Mapu' gang(The nickname for gang of 3 persons in the class) with just one lone person. Well I wish Prasanna-san all the best for his masters degree in Italy.

Faces of River Cauvery at Shivanasamudram

We witnessed the two faces of River Cauvery at Shivanasamudram on Saturday. Both equally beautiful, equally furious and equally powerful. Yes, Gaganachukki and Barachukki are the two places where the river expresses herself.We could reach closer to the waterfall at Barachukki, but we could only have a far glimpse of her at Gaganachukki. I bowed myself to their mightier spirit and quenched my thirst. The water soothed my throat straight from the water fall; yes, I kissed them perhaps.

This is Gagana-chukki falls in ful might

Close view of one of the twin falls at Gagana-chukki

This is Barachukki taken at a closer angle

Kudos to Monish.I.M for these pictures

Energy of Pure Devotion

I experienced the energy of pure devotion at the Melkote temple. Mesmerised by the rich voice of a person, I stood motionless. I could feel a gush of energy trying to conquer my consciousness. Amongst people who sing for the sake of singing, than for the real inner peace, the person who sang the song was a real gem. May his prayers come true.

The song made more impact on me as it was sung in my own mother tongue Tamil.

Real price of food is happiness

The real price paid for the food at any shopping mall, is to see a lot of kids at the place. Though disgusted at the quality of food at the food-mall-BSK 3rd stage-Bangalore, I felt a ray of happiness seeing cute kids, wearing colorful dresses and looking at the bright lights with their huge eyes wide open.

Good to Great...

Last week, I and my team-mate visited the newly constructed floor on phase-2 of our company at Global Village Tech park. Dedicated just for the campus minds, The floor comprises large lecture halls and three big informal-meeting areas. Amazed by the way the floor was furnished, we entered a small room where some newly joined minds were expressing themselves with some crayons on paper. The height of comedy shot us when we saw books like 'Who says Elephants can't fly' and 'Good to Great' there. More worse is when these young kids read the books, understand them totally in their own perspective and impose them on the way we work. I have seen many people, who read all sort of these books, and speak a lot as if they run the company. In fact, they just try to cook their appraisal. The more funny part is when a person actually applying the facts to their day-day activities are complained by their managers that they do not speak like this...

Work More, Indian IT industry...!

I am amused by the Indian IT company’s decision to increase the working hours per day and also include Saturday as a half-working day, just to counter the increasing rupee. Everybody wants themselves to prosper and not the nation as a whole, that’s the reason, why India is still a developing nation. Click on this link to see what one of the leading newspaper has to say <Work more>. By the way did the companies let us relax when the Rupee was depreciating?

P.S. Many big names in the industry, allocates the work of 1 person to 10 person, thereby diluting the work, but billing them, so as to increase their revenue. Also, the fresh Indian minds out of college want money to spend but not work!

Project, but no scope of develpment :(

It is one month since I have updated my blog :(
Project work, what else...
whenever I get free time, I used to blog then, but now it has changed
This new project has no scope of career development at all...
i am hoping that the scenario would change...