Reminiscing sweet memories

I am hearing to the song clips that used to be telecasted in Doordarshan (The Govt owned TV channel in India) when we were young. The desh raag, Mile sur mera tumhara and many more... These have switched on the play button of the sweet memoir video :) Not only me, almost all my friends feel the same. It would have been more nice if I had got the video clips of the same

Life: fast forwarded...

Waking at 8:10 today morning, the entire life was fast forwarded ; The entire 1 hour starting from 7:15 to 8:15 was compressed in just 15 minutes. I was in the bus stop at 8:30. Though I missed my bus (route-20), I boarded another bus which came next. Really fast that I could not believe myself when I felt that I was going to office at 8:30

Kudos Srikanth.D.N...

There are people who do things differently...One such person is D.N.Srikanth about whom, I read in yesterday's newspaper. Financial situations forced him to take up the job of a bus driver in Bangalore City bus corporation (BMTC). Now he makes sure that his six trips a day from the city bus stand to Peenya Industrial Area is an intellectual experience for his passengers. He does so by having a small library in the bus, which comprises daily newspapers and some books. Also he makes sure that the water dispenser is filled every trip, so that his passengers need not worry about thirst parching their throats. I am really out of words in praise of him...All the best Srikanth for your future...

Provide oppurtunity for fishing, We do not want fish!

Any one born on this earth would want to move forward and at least want others to exclaim that they are forward in their thought or action. India is the only country where the reverse happens. The masses here want to move backward...backward in their thought and actions. The riots happening in the state of Rajasthan are a perfect example. People from a community have indulged in violence want themselves to be included in the backward classes of the society. The reason behind this can be attributed to the people, the politicians and the political system. Being recognized as backward in the society gives them a lot of reservation in schools, then in colleges, then in government jobs, then also in their successive promotions. People here want to move forward (moving forward in earning money, designation and fame) not by hard work, but by reservations. The government is giving them fish, rather than providing them the opportunities to fish, and that is what majority of the people want!

Unplanned Weekend

Friday evening, my friend Shravan called up and we planned to meet for breakfast on Saturday. Saturday I woke up at 10.00am and met my friend at the Barista at 11.00am. Later we were at a mobile-phone shop to buy a phone for him. He bought a Nokia-E61i.He called upon Srivatsav, CEO of his company as he knew the owner of the shop. We planned to call him, so that we get some considerable discount. Since Srivatsav was nearby, he dropped in; though not much of discount we could get, we got the phone on credit :o) We lunched at the Dominoes-Pizza house and went to meet Shravan's friend Raghav, who works for an American company as Sales manager. Daniel, who works for PVR-cinemas was also there. We had some clean fun then. Plans for Sunday's movie was spoiled as we could not get tickets for the movie we wanted to see. Later we opted for other movie which was screened. Well this weekend was unplanned, but turned out to be a good entertaining one.

Nazira, now and 16 years before...

Nazira is a small town in the Sibsagar district of Assam, India. This was the place where I spent four years of my childhood; in fact I studied till my second grade there. Now, 16 years later, my father is again extending his service in Assam…the district renamed to Shivsagar, is fully grown into a big city with lot of hotels and cars. My mom and sis are spending their summer holidays there. Today they had gone to my father’s workplace, an oil rig in the forests of Assam. They happened to pass by the town of Nazira. Now Nazira has a shopping complex and lot of big bungalows .Then it used to be a lifeless town, whose major population belonged to the ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation). Even now it is the case, but the local people had become rich now. The shore of the Brahmaputra’s tributary which once used to be deserted is now full of shops and crowd. I still remember the sight when the river used to flow brimful. This is gonna be a memorable visit for my sister, who was just a three year old kid then. I missed this trip due to some expected work in Bangalore :o(

Did you have a big cake in your mouth...Mr.TechLead?

People always want to save their own skin. I experienced this last Friday. Important issue, on which a decision was made along with the technical lead of the project last week, was not communicated to the project manager…and this lead to all problems. The mutual trust I had with my peers is shattered :o(We were closing the design phase on Friday. When my project manager darted with the issue, I came to know that the gap in communication. The technical lead was also present at the scene in the next PC terminal. Well Mr.Tech Lead, Did you have a big cake in your mouth then? From now on, I think even an issue of the size of mustard needs mail communication.

Brilliance...Burning Bright

After my usual visit to the temple last Saturday evening, I went to Jayanagar 4th block shopping complex. Of late I spend my Saturday evenings at this place because I like to see the bustling city life here, I love seeing huge crowds of people enjoying their weekend. I relished on ragi roti (pancakes made of certain variety of cereal), a local delicacy. In the fast food corner, I met my colleague Poornima who had come there accompanied by her husband Shyam Sundar. I proceeded to my favourite coffee shop nearby that served traditional South-Indian coffee. Sipping my coffee, I enjoyed the sight of wide variety of people bustling. Meanwhile I happened to notice two bright young boys enjoying their ice-cream. Later we got introduced…The two boys were amazingly brilliant; their brilliance shone in their eyes. I really like to see such people. Good luck boys Pratap and Santhosh. The return walk was a tiresome one perhaps.

Amusing human psychology - 1

There are people who would be friend only if you praise them…I am bewildered by such people. Since because a person has wealth, you can’t bend yourselves to their wishes or agree to what they say… this is another category of people which I am seeing right now in front of my eyes. Really amusing human psychology right! These people would do anything to show off their importance. You need to be careful with such people.

First Circuit designed in my career

The first circuit I designed in my career is something that I would never forget in life…The solitary moments in the company when I designed it, early morning around 6.00am…The beauty of the datasheet…the versatility of the design guide…the CAD notes…the intriguing decoupling caps and so on…and also the exclamations received from my peers on seeing the design. Though this happened some 5 months before, today was the day of the design closure and launch to the next stage of the product cycle, so I would be busy placing my designed circuit on the board :)