What would happen if i had to start all over ?? Tmrw

Funny this thot occured and haunted me for some time as i was walkin home from office ...

What would happen if i had to start all over my life again...Tomorrow.

I wud be the same person eventually. won;t i...the basic DNA is same !

I will be like ive always been... a little confused a little ambitious a little conspicous

Sometimes they say love or lack of love change ppl.

I think needs that special someone to go some extra distance in life. Same with me ... (I happen to be waiting for that special someone though)

Regd the "Let Me Live" feeling, i mean thats what keeps us all ticking doesn;t it ??

As a person I might be a bit sarcastic, I might be a bit outrageous....But i am always nice to people and i htink that quality can never be taken out of me.

I am a spendthrift yes! but then without money I can adjust to the situation and still end up having a goood time.
I feel I cannot be caught up by situations...I want to catch situations and turn them around :_)
Wealth brings lot of problems honey,
heard of anybody wealthy and happy ??

I think one can b happy or one can be wealthy :)

This is the small world i live in...a small social life thats about it for me. Thats the INBOX,

and I don;t give a damn about the OUTBOX { the world at large} as long as the SENT ITEMS has some happiness i can give to people.
Sometimes i sound so morbid thatz bcoz sometimes i feel morbid inside me .... but like my name spells happiness I make people happy...I bring smile on sour faces that is the important thing for me.

I don't intend to sound comically brilliant if it ain't dead serious a matter .....

I was happy 2 souls benefited from me today

I could tell you But that'll have to wait for another time n Blog!

~P

Sleep perchance 2 Dream (:-:)

Itz Friday night...

It was one hell of a bus ride for me today.

left office @ 8pm and reached home at 10:30ish - take that 2 n a half hrs in a bus.

Was so exhausted in teh end that could not even dine properly.

Right now i feel like that old spice ad which showed a White water Surfer being engulfed by a huge wave of water.

I feel I am surfing the net and suddenly there is this huge wave of sleep coming over me.( See this video for the original old spice ad )

am gonna succumb any moment now :)

The best thing about my daily sleep is that i never ever remember the dreams.

I know i do get some vivid dreams but i can never recollect what why and wheres of them.

Boon or Bane.. I don;t know....

If you read Sigmund Freud, "Interpretation of Dreams" - Dreams are the signals of whats in store of us in the very near future.

Well... to say the least I am kind of future blind that way....but of what use can dreams be if wats gonna happen is gonan happen anyway ???

It would be better not to know about some things ...:) that way the suspense stays in life !

wat say ? any comments ?

This time itz a Huge wave yaar....I am faling apart with sleep. I am being hammered now !

~Guten Nacht

e chal e shaane..hawa aane de

bhai ab mere blogs aisey hi hotey hain padh lena fursat main....

bole to "i am like this only"

This is my all in a weeks time post!

I am down with chronic fever [ doc says typhoid :( ] and i am unable to do the usual chores(Office work yaar) Dimaag ka dahi ho gayela hain!

so basically taking rest @ home sweet home

Regd the Twenty20 match ... Australia still finds T20 a 'Son of a bitch'

watched the Federer vs Nalbandian match....man what a match..it waz...

Dil mein Tennis khelneki tamannah jagrut hogayi.

[chal e chal Hawa aan de chal...mereko Tennis khelna kidhar ata hain :) ]

....now about some Little Tasks of mine !!! U know i have some things i always planned to finish(from past 5 years now) but have been pending...aah. aargh! procrastination ??

Nope....its not what ur thinking....just never got the time to do some chota mota things as other things got important :(

Finally ...managed to get one pending thing off my head with Dad;s help....without his help I could not finish most of the Domestic chores

btw in office there was Ehtnic Day on last Friday

As soon as i got into the Company bus the ethnicity started inkling in...all the women were clad in sarees.. all the guyz were like jaws popping out n saying
Is route ki "Saree" liney mast hain !!! (ROTFL).

Bein a Workaholic has its shades of grey. When the Blues get to me...I find ways to un-wind. Sometimes I relax by playing TT But nowadays there is no damn Pardner for TT ( this is 2 much TT used to have quite a following in Samsung bangalore)

the guy whu used to play TT wid me got committed(engaged) last month and now he is always on the fone with his Fiancee[chak de beedu].

So Black Coffee it is for me then !!!

its such a Sedative that gives me an instant high,

Agreed caffeine is bad But then when Life is such a Travelling Circus you need such aritificial props now and then yaar...
basically Profession ke side effects :(

Me waz thinking of havin a Sadak chaap Dosa!!

[can't afford it now though...me munching tablets currently :(]

Thot of watching a movie...but the Damn channels are showing movies of the Guns n Roses types...

I need something on the lines of "Eyes Wide Shut" ... A little spooky...a little weird which can wire me to the TV (for at least 2 hrs).

u know my sombre mood is now more of Kalti maar types ...I wanna sleep like a child ...

[ n Care a Damn abt the World at large....]

~zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Phone Call into the Future

For some the Telecommunication revolution was the best thing to happen.

It bridged the HUGE lurking gap in the Human Communication frontier giving way to the famous adage "World is a small place".

Like the Connectivity modes had evolved with air travel the IT advances have been path breaking.

But then Air travel itself had reached its Focal point.

Comparetively IT industry still matures every now and then and at a fairly acceptable rate.

Recent IT technical advances seem to be more in the Hardware space. Mainly phenomenal increases in storage capacity on NAND and other chips.

For the Telecom industry its bit hazy, it stands at the same cross road where the Airline industry is stuck.

3G technology which was hailed as the Next Revolution in Communications till date remains a aircraft trying make its maiden flight across the Pacific or Atlantic.

European Companies invested heavily in 3G little realising that the Market for 3G was simply not there.

Economy Riders in Technology advances:
As with any country Economy only blooms when political stability exists.

In case of Europe there was a decent lull in political instability. The third world was and is going through a rough patch in terms of Political Stability.

So in short Markets of such third world countries are what any banker would describe as "Volatile Markets".

Investing in a volatile market has its ups and downs. While you would need to keenly watch the progress.

There can be a total loss of Revenues and bad debts can occur within a span of days. China is one such market where volatility exists even though political stability persists.

[ Side note:) : Communist regimes never had it so good. It remains a mystery to the Americans and the World @ large. Militist regimes have never been this successful ]

The Chinese markets are mainly dependent on the variables in its Economy growth. They are Automobiles, Cosmetics, Housing & Entertainment. Some market research claims that

you can never gauge the average chinese pulse. The preferences keep changing with American and European style influences.

The Demand for such foreign products bring out cheaper imitations which satisy the market supply demands.

In India volatile markets are due to unrealistic investments across sectors.

Buying capacities vary cities and the densities of cities add to such varying buying models. The Real Indian market has shifted from the Rural india to the Urban india.

In india, Foreign Direct Investment fuels growth in some areas such as chemical industry,Pharma sector, IT industry etc.

The opportunities are seldom equal across sectors. The imbalance causes the markets to fluctuate between the stable variables and the unstable ones.

India is mainly in the Value bracket where most FDI create value by investing in research and developments which are a fraction of the cost of that in Developed countries. Where China is all about cheap imitation jewellery, India is more about the development of Value and sustaining the same.

What works in China though is state sponsored infrastructure investments. In India there are way too many riders for growth. While Chinese CEOs might be helped by Financial reforms, Indian CEOs need to wine and dine the political class to its sanity.

In such a volatile political environment many missed opportunities exist or perish.

Take the case of Start-ups. I have always read about Chinese and Israeli start-ups creating a stir.

In India this rarely happens !!!

Not surprising that India is a democracy and China and Israel are more Militist states.

So nurturing value and sustainance is an unheard of thingy in india. Its all about the next square meal in India. Myopic viewpoints of the political & bureaucracy cancel the Missed Calls which india receives in Innovation space.

So MNC job is any day stable because it can survive Market crash in India and US and elsewhere.

Innovation space hardly has any takers.

my oft-quoted line for Innovation

- "Innovation is a continous process....But then it has to start somewhere first ;-)"

Though similar initiatives like iPhone were undertaken at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. They never took off. Why and Wherefores are not hard to imagine.

Golden initiatives also need some brilliant intuitive Timing, Manufacturing and Magnitude adjustments. Where iPhones are such a Phenomenon across all Markets. Volatility factors in India are a severe hindrance to such Valued growth.

For Samsung itself the lull in the markets is a time for serious Introspection. Cutting Costs, Excess baggage, improving products should be done on a war footing if it has to survive in the FMCG space.

Chinese companies and Japanese companies are watching the Segments Samsung addresses. This time they are not going to produce cheap imitations. Their directed Research and Development revenues are controlled and monitored closely for Tangible output.

So Volatility of markets in India might be a boon for MNCs which can Funnel their growth via India in a cost effective and sustained way.

A peek into the future and weighted averages should help companies bring out Products and beat the Volatility in the Markets.

4G is supposed to be the next Big thing in the Telecom protocol arena.

Sadly the Technology is so complex and has so many private entities that standardising and commercialising it seem to be a 4 year curse at a minimum.

EndGame : Sometimes a bad taste (militist regimes) in the mouth may be a good thing after all.

Maybe sometimes democracy should take a back seat ???

Maybe my diagnosis may be wrong, what with India booming like anything. But then i am wishing India to be a Tech Super Power, a one-stop shop for any technical consulting.

Well there is no cure for my hypermetropia ;-)

~P

Jog of Life

I was born in Mumbai city & from then on lived all my life in the cities called Bombay and Bangalore.Spent close to 2 years in Europe, was stationed or camped at Frankfurt.
My behaviour and to some extent my language has markers of these events. They intercept and intersect me often.
My life has seen the world as a gallery so to speak. Bottled emotions exist which i vent out in vintage style at my blog.There are days when i unwind with Led Zeppelin and fascinate in poignant moments about the Music/Moods that keep me going.I sometimes think we all fake life...yeah...Matrix might be for real ?Sometimes the being alive feeling appears so very artificial and cosmetic @ best.The gallery of evidence transcends the signs we keep seeing daily.Shackles all around, thirst for comfort is endless...no i am not living out of a comfort zone.These days i live in a discomfort zonebut then the wise man said...No Pain No gain....din he ?Quasi persistance it is in this urbane existence. Maybe this is the Entrance Fee we pay for entering Life.
Hey don't shout i am myopic ... I am all of 27.10 years old now and I feel I have seen enoughI am not asking God for an Software upgrade in my life. I want a hardware upgrade now.
I see opportunity looms large outside the City Limits. No its not a day dream couch.Visit your ancestral folks in any village you will feel enriched with its innocence and rustic feel.The fresh breath of air... now if you say these are intangibles ...damn you

Sometimes I feel a peasants life might be one damn good thing to happen. Ive seen some villagers in bangalore.MeThinks being called "Out of Towners" has its own advantages.
You are not supposed to behave in a structured/polished way. in short u can do ur own thingy n get away with it. City streets and Life is a passing phenomenon and going back to the fields and nature is certainty. No urbane hassles! whatsoever !

Sometimes "Reverse Californication". While @ work we might be submitted to X-rays to scan our integrity. A village life has pure unadulterated sunlight on offer.You can never miss it.
Indian villages suffer from poor Electricity,Medicine and Transport facilitiesOnce basic amenities are provided at least i would prefer a rural existence any day.
Corruption levels are very low in villages and people still happen to know each other on first name basis.Where one can satisfy his wander lust.
But alas there are no U-Turns in life

PS: All the while i wrote this cynical account I was drowned in Oasis-WOnderwall and the Decibels Usually run high what wid so music in me :) its not that hard to imagine isn;t it ?

Life time of Symmetry

Its that time of my life when I have to steal time to catch a wink...when was the last time i slept peacefully ?

I seem to forget :(

In the course of today i felt like going outside the office building & gazing up in the sky...but could not..

Soemtimes time passes by so fast indeed...no camera can ever ensure the stillness of time.

Though a Camera may capture a moment. There is no Camera which can stop time in its tracks.

Well i was wondering about life and how Life can never be still !

I c that nature is all about symmetry , we also try to achieve the same during our lifetime.

Except of course our wants and have nots create the imbalance and we try and balance them to the extent possible.

Acheiving the much yearned Symmetry in the process ...

For instance you might find a cut apple perfectly symmetric.

Same way our mind, at any point in time strives for synergy and symmetry

finally its upto us to define and attain the Symmetry

Don't think i am hallucinating! I am not drunk either

nor did i have a bad day @ work...

its just the fatigue of 3 night outs which is comin out this way :) he he he...

Cheers!

[QOTM] Oktober

"Then, there is this syndrome about Bangalore. Outsiders come to it noncommittal, curious maybe, but nothing more. Then as they get to know the place, they fall in love with it. And over time the ardent commitment turns them into crusaders, ready to risk being misunderstood, if only to do one’s bit to keep alive what’s good in the city."

- Subir Roy

Currently all over India for Engineering and other graduates, it seems all roads lead to bangalore!
But Once in Bangalore all roads are full of potholes ;-), The place is getting crowded day by day....But who could afford to miss the Beauty or the experience called Bangalore ??

After the Metro is done the JAMS will be gone and BANGALORE will emerge like Delhi
A Little less poluted ... A little less jammed ...a little beautiful than before ;-)
Frends, That wud be my Bangalore!!!
~P

September Gazette !

Folks !

It's been a busy but exciting September and I've woken up from ma blog slumber!!

~So let me start the chronicling of this September in the order as i c it...

1. Hutch became Vodafone...
so what the heck the Hutchison network still sucks. Vodafone it appears wants to make it big with the growing indian mobile users segment. Elsewhere its revenues are dwindling...India seems to be a safe bet for Vodafone for now.

2. UTI bank became Axis Bank...
so whats in it for me ????Spare me the re-naming for chrissake which was done for a global audience in the first place. The repeated ads were getting on my nerves and it seemed Axis Bank was euphoric apparently for no rhyme or reason. The ads featured Twins of different ages. While i was elated to see Twins getting attention(being a Twin myself, and coming from a family of twins) I felt the advertisers went overboard about the ad. There was nothing amazing about the ad and repeated broadcasts cud harm than Help the Axis Bank image.

3. Ram setu is being made a target of political vendetta or upmanship.
The congress and DMK governments claim that it will be profitable for the port of Cochin. Sadly this is a white lie as the proposed bridge will not be in same league as the Suez canal and cannot generate the same kind of revenue. In fact it will be costlier for the ships to traverse the route. Also since the land mass is narrow there will be damage to flora and fauna.The study by the government is one-sided and does not involve the srilankan side. Thus it is partisan and too early to decide on one report. But what the heck this government is bent upon taking one-sided decisions. The Nuclear deal is one such example. Noclear decisions seem to be the order of the day with this government.

4. India still remains @

"No Power no Water No Infrastructure Total Network "
Irony in the advertisement had me zapped.

Reliance seems to think ignorance is Bliss for india. Its ad featured a catch line which does not augur well for india. call it old world advertising or mixing of sublime rural pictures with the Gizmos of today.It sadly does paint a bad picture of the times.

While the delivery and content play on human emotions. The content can be termed Paradoxic @ bestFault is not the person who conceived it but the status india exists @ present.

Both rural and urbane i mean.
Saala achar daalogey kya network ka...jab potholes or Traffic jams se bura haal hain !

To draw a distant and distinct parallel...
Truly Total Network has come to mean like the Nokia catch line..."Connecting People" .....except of course its nothing short of "Disconnecting Families"

My Life@Mumbai...where we did not have any Telephone or Mobile service [I hear ppl sayin Not Again! ]was damn peaceful...

Only 1 shop closeby had a Telephone line for a population close to 1 lakh .... and yet everyone was Happy [;-)]

Post cards were the order of the day and people used to wait for their relatives letters.
Thats why neighbours meant so much more those days....So people used to connect to Neighbours and have good platonic friendships.

But what we might see in todays metropolis is some kind of high funda snobbing.
People are used to just talking to their Family members only...I am sure many might not know their third door neighbour by name or face.
So the ad "Total Network" is in some sense introducing hurdles to potent healthy human relations.I hate to say this as I work for Mobile phones....but they are (unknowingly) snuffing away the lives of people.

BOTTOMLINE : Technology progresses @ the cost of human relations. We really need infrastructure before we use technology for the greater good.

5. T20 : vanquishing the Ozzies...
comin back to the Fine performance by india in the T20 World cup...I am short of words...
just cannot verbalize the euphoria and rush of blood to the head i cud feel after the match.
It was a Kodak moment to cherish - Dhoni &Co. with the Trophy.
It made my dream of India beating Pak in a WC final Reality.
One Ericsson Engineer working wid me asked me why i was in such a mad hurry to get home, I told him it is IndiaVsPak in Final buddy and I wud not miss it for my life, impossible!!!He said is it like Life n Death ??? situation....
I told him he was talking out of his depths...its more than that.
In a Life n Death situation one wud try to save his life...An India Pak contest is a Full Fledged War!And we play to win and not just to survive ...
anyways he got enuff vibes that he shud leave me alone :) ROTFL
The match was a total mind game and India Aced the T20 World Series in the end. Righlty So!
Aside to this fact there is one n only lament ... ESPN the broadcaster made 122 crores revenues out of this.

Imagine all the ad money going out of india !!!!What the bloody hell was BCCI doing ???

Indian advertisers must have spent a fortune and now all the Indian money lands in the ESPN basket.

Is there really a way out of this ?

how to stem such revenue outflows ?

A little Contemplative!
-Prasanna.

downed by a Trojan Virus 1st time in ma Desktop life

Yesterday a cosuin of mine came home with a Pen Drive. He wanted soem videos etc.
As soon as i inserted the USB mcAfee cribbed about a Trojan Generic.ep.

I found that this Trojan had messed up a lot of my windows n Registry settings.
The Ordeal...is as below..

If you get hit by Generic.ep virus
Install Norton / AVG / mcAfee AV programs.
This virus infects ur windows systems folders.Every directory u then browse has a directory of the same name with a .exe extension. The afore mentioned AV sw shud help u in weeding this out.

But you will find that Task Manager will be disabled.Fire "GPEDIT.msc" from Windows->RUN
Under Administrative template -> System categoryCtrl+alt+del options can be disabled. This will enable ur Task Manager to be launched.

Registry editing also can be enabled back by using this script ...


'Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools'© Doug Knox - rev 12/06/99
Option Explicit
'Declare variablesDim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, t, mustboot, errnum, versDim enab, disab, jobfunc, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\"p = p & "DisableRegistryTools"itemtype = "REG_DWORD"mustboot = "Log off and back on, or restart your pc to" & vbCR & "effect the changes"enab = "ENABLED"disab = "DISABLED"jobfunc = "Registry Editing Tools are now "
'This section tries to read the registry key value. If not present an 'error is generated. Normal error return should be 0 if value is 'presentt = "Confirmation"Err.ClearOn Error Resume Nextn = WSHShell.RegRead (p)On Error Goto 0errnum = Err.Number
if errnum <> 0 then'Create the registry key value for DisableRegistryTools with value 0 WSHShell.RegWrite p, 0, itemtypeEnd If
'If the key is present, or was created, it is toggled'Confirmations can be disabled by commenting out 'the two MyBox lines below
If n = 0 Then n = 1WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtypeMybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & disab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)ElseIf n = 1 then n = 0WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtypeMybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & enab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)End If


~P

Humming Bird

Lately....I've picked up this habit of humming my fav songs in the company bus while on my way to and back from office. I usually play MP3s from my Mobile fone.

I feel Super lightweight after hearing and humming the songs

I wonder during the course of my humming " what really is a song .. its just not a set of words strewn for some poetic measure...

Its a

• Bunch of emotions
• Bunch of things ur heart wanted to say that day and could not...
• Bunch of TODOs which cud have been accomplished.

I feel Clear & Open rendition of songs frees the mind of the pangs which lurk in the corners of the heart.

So my suggestion dear reader....think out loud, sing out loud...for it rids ur mind of the many cravings life imposes on you and you could not fulfill maybe !

When I croon in the Company bus there are some curious glances....But I am like "Don't stop me now....coz I am having a good time :) "

I am very much reminded of the VH1 ad "If i were a Song" :))

~P

Dahi handi ki yaadein

Story goes a long way back...We were kids then and Gokulastmi was the day we eagerly used to wait.

I used to feel the rush like that of the Drum Beats from a Heavy Metal song which pumps my adrenaline. Dahi Handi used to get me up all excited.

For starters Dahi handi is the festival in Maharashtra/Mumbai. It is an event marking the birth of Lord Krishna(Janmashtami) where a Pot with Curd and some money is tied between two tall rise buildings. It then has to be reached and broken.

The Money Factor goes up the higher the Handi is tied. though it not at all about the money. Just the achivement of being done that!!!

Our building boys were not the enterprising types. Dahi handi actually means forming a human chain of people standing one over another. It is the ultimate test of balance patience perseverance.

Unfortunately it also means a bad fall ;-).

Our building boyz used to tie the Dahi handi alright ... but never managed to break the pot by climbing in a formation.

But best part they tried it every time.

We kiddos used to have a different kind of Fun. Any rival groups which used to come to our lanes to break our handi were the prime targets. We used to fill water in baloons and throw it from behind crowds :) on them so as to give them a bad fall.

Yeah...that was rather Naive and Silly me...but it was a source of Fun for boys my age as we were not big enough to climb and the elders just would not let us.

Still it was a nerve wracking experience just observing the Other Teams across the street achieve the Feat.

Itz an experience which can only be experienced by being there.

yet again my heart yearns for the glimpses of Mumbai that built me. I wish I could start over again in the bylanes of Bombay.

Sometimes Time is such a mean thing...u can;t say roll over time.

So much for the Gheun Tak feeling yeah!
Amchi mumbai it remains....Kai sangu the nostalgic moments just get over me....!

Let me get back to my Black Sabbath Crazy Train!

~P

[Qotm] September !

" It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong. "

-Chris Torek [my Guru for C Programming]

Here comes september and i am not yet ready for it. I mean Sorry September never felt this way for you.

But somehow it seems you could have taken ur own sweet time. But then Time never waits for any1.

Guyz wake me up when september ends. From past 2 months now. I have lost track of day and night and immersed in Work@Office !

~P

The Original Eight :)

Stumbled on these while reading an e-book :)

~P

Terrorism Version 2.0.0.7

Terrorism in 2007 has turned a new leaf.
Terrorists no longer carry suicide mechanisms. No Cyanide capsules. They are a more educated lot these days. They hire Smart lawyers, Feign ignorance.

The Human Rights Laws of some countries give them so blatant rights that they no longer need to end their life if caught in the act. All they should have is

A Good Dumb Lawyer ( Peter Russo ;-) )
Financial backing
Wife or Family who can manipulate the media and sensationalize the case.

for now all Islamic Terrorists say goodbye to Cyanide.
Its more live life kingsize for them.

~P

[QOTM] Judicial Activism Vs Judicial Absenteeism

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity."

Ralph Nader, Former Green Party Candidate for U.S. President (2000).

This seems so apt in Sanjay Dutt;s case that the importance of that statement cannot be more emphasized.
The HC Judge set a precedent by saying he was doing his duty.

It goes Without saying the kind of pressure the High court judge must be under after all Sanjay Dutt was a reigning Movie star and progreny of a stalwart actor and CONGRESSMAN.
It also made a bold statement. If the HC Judge found the facts or prima facie evidence and pronounced a verdict of 6 years. It meant the that it was a total honest and upright judgement.

If the star still goes to the Highest Echelon(Supreme Court) the judge may actually give a bigger sentence but i feel it cannot be less than 6 yrs RI certainly.

If at all the sentence is reduced It would mean the judge
maybe pressurised by the CONGRESS government and that a lesser sentence is nothing short of Judicial Absenteeism.

~P

[Muzings] Culture of Accountability

@ Samsung i see what prolly no other handset maker might have(I presume).
Self-Started individuals.
Well maybe not all the people but some people(abt 40%) committed to get better bigger and eclectic products. When I mean products its just not about products such as iPhone or a Discman. Engineers try to refine the existing products to a T !.
It can be a CD player. Innovation and Better Engineering go hand in hand.

Thats why ;
Not just any other Semi conductor company can be Samsung;

Its people who execute without excuses who drive the wheels@SamsungIndia.

Though it happens to be a simple tried and tested Business Model.
The Marketing and Sales make sure the Engineers have enough on their hands.
The Engineers on their part make sure the end user has no blues and likens the product.


Essentially while the culture in the industry seems to be 10% appraisals year on year.
@Samsung its all about "Value For Money" approach. or "Money for Value" ;-)

Engineer executes without excuses as he has to account for the Salaries given out to him.
These days when the average indian salary is 1$ a day. THe IT Engineer is at a overly Skewed luxury that way.Unless VFM approach is adopted its hard to sustain his salarys year on year.
Luckily for Samsung India, Engineers have in grained this as part of their culture.

Which in other companys maybe by the way of Key Performance Indicators tighly coupled to the appraisal process.

So while the MFV approach is there but its mainly not built into the HR process and is at a sublime process and something between the Employer Samsung and its employees.

~P

Cost of Bush!

The Iraq war costs American taxpayers $195 million per day
For the cost of fighting the war in Iraq one day,

HOMELAND SECURITY

i. One day in Iraq could provide 3.97 million households with an emergency readiness kit.

ii One day in Iraq could close the financing gap for interoperable communications in 41 small cities, 36 mid-sized cities, or 6 large cities so that federal, state and local first responders can talk to one another during an emergency.

iii One day in Iraq could purchase 780 fire trucks for improving local emergency response capabilities.

iv One day in Iraq could employ 4,919 fire fighters, 4,222 police patrol officers, or 7,052 paramedics and emergency medical technicians for one year each.

v One day in Iraq could double the federal budget for nuclear reactor safety and security inspections to ensure that these potential terrorist targets are adequately protected.

vi One day in Iraq could pay for 1,101 additional border patrol agents to better guard our borders against potential terrorists.

vii One day in Iraq could provide 9,750 port container inspection units to detect hazardous materials being trafficked into the country.

viii One day in Iraq could provide 1,332 explosive trace detection portals for airport screening of passengers, as recommended by the 9/11 Commission.

ix One day in Iraq could provide 6,290 local law enforcement agencies a bomb-detecting robot.

x One day in Iraq could provide 4,875 narcotics vapor and particle detectors.xi

EDUCATION

One day in Iraq could cover the full cost of attendance for one year at a public college for more than 17,100 students.

xii One day in Iraq could provide more than 79,000 needy college students with a Pell grant.

xiii One day in Iraq could enroll 27,000 more children in Head Start.xiv One day in Iraq could employ 4,269 elementary school teachers or 4,027 secondary school teachers for one year.

HEALTH CARE

xv One day in Iraq could provide health insurance coverage to 344,500 working Americans to give them a break from the rising cost of coverage.

xvi One day in Iraq could provide health insurance coverage for one year to 380,900 uninsured children in America.

xvii One day in Iraq could employ 3,597 additional registered nurses for one year.

xviii One day in Iraq could immunize every person over 65 in the U.S. against influenza 4.6 times over.

xix One day in Iraq could immunize every baby born in the U.S. last year against measles, mumps, and rubella 14.2 times.

xx LABOR One day in Iraq could provide unemployment benefits for almost 722,000 unemployed Americans for one week.

xxi One day in Iraq could fund Social Security retirement benefits for one day for over 6.75 million Americans.

xxii One day in Iraq could provide comprehensive safety and health training to 121,875 workers.xxiii One day in Iraq could pay for an increase of $3.34 per hour in the wages of every minimum wage worker in the country.xxiv One day in Iraq could provide paid sick leave to half a million workers for an entire year.

BASIC NEEDS

xxv One day in Iraq could buy 71.55 million gallons of unleaded regular gasoline.

xxvi One day in Iraq could pay for one year’s gasoline consumption for 97,500 Americans, even at today’s elevated prices.

xxvii One day in Iraq could buy 63.1 million gallons of fortified whole milk.

xxviii One day in Iraq could buy 166.6 million cartons of large Grade A Eggs sold by the dozen.

INTERNATIONAL

xxix One day in Iraq is equivalent to half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country of East Timor.

xxx One day in Iraq could feed all of the starving children in the world today almost four and a half times over.

xxxi One day in Iraq could vaccinate three-quarters of the children in Africa for measles and give millions a lifetime protection from the disease.

xxxii One day in Iraq could build 5,571 AIDS clinics in Africa.

xxxiii One day in Iraq could provide 650,000 women in Africa living with HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment for one year to extend their lives and improve the lives of their children.

xxxiv One day in Iraq could provide one third of the aid needed for earthquake relief for the four million people affected in South Asia.

These are Excerpts from a US Daily.

Apalling statistics if true...

~Prasanna.

7 wonders of the world ! eh what ?

Itz kind of funny there was a opinion poll to decide "Which are the Seven wonders of the world". Sometimes if u ask n noof people you get N opinions.

So that being the case opinion polls are sometimes a Farce.

But whats more startling is the world has a lot more to do than just vote on such meaningless polls. Taj mahal is a Marvel I agree but i don't need to tell someone its the best Monument I have seen. I know it in my heart. All this gimmick is for Tourism and 4 states which mainly survive on Tourism need to win in this game.

India need not !
Indians have been there done that....

From Vinod Khosla founded Sun Microsystems to Vinod Dhams Pentium Processor work.

All the good stuff these days has an indian hand though it might say "made in Xyz".

The only sad thing is dat Bangalore which accounts for a huge chunk of the export revenue and was the Catalyst for Economic revival in India is a mere badly wounded shadow of what it used to be.

Bangalore's name which is one of the recent wonders of the world in terms of technology has lost its sheen. Because of the terrorist incidents in UK.

I consider Bangalore home and some people have tarnished the image of it beyond repair.

chuck the poll, How to repair the image of bangalore is whats in my mind.

Well going by the people involved and how they managed to hoodwink authorities in getting fake driving license etc. I think India itself is not safe against its own people.

The BBC surpisingly has a strange stance on the Terror incidents.
On one hand it condemns moslems. On the other their talk shows are complete with people claiming moslems are a part of british culture and they are misled by foreigners.

This is an interesting view point. Because for one they cannot remove the entire moslem community from the UK. And on the other hand they cannot live with Terrorism. Their only hope lies in trying to make some understanding and try to contain the hatred.

I feel if the moslems in UK do gang up. We will have one more palestine and Israel cat fight on our hands. Only difference the agressors will be Moslems and Britain might lose its land.

Unless countries understand and reform their policies vis-a-vis terrorists and its supporters they cannot rest peacefully.

They need to stop this bowing to the pressure created by Terrorists and should not soften their stand. In India its a different and meaningless cause.
It is ruled by an Italian who has no sense of whats happening. The Reservations are increased to keep the Minority community voters happy.

Who cares about which bomb kills whom.
The italian Femme Fatale is out here to make a fast Buck and make hay while the sunshines.
The Country is really going to the dogs.

A Frustrated Bangalorean

~P

[QOTM] July

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

-- Anonymouse

Looks like some people are taking it a bit too seriously going by the events in the UK.

And it seems above is changed like " every word that comes from the pages of a Book"

World is Flat ? well almost !!!

The World is Flat ? well almost....

If not the Americans will flatten it for sure :)

hmm.....At least some part (if not the Europe and North America). Looking at the bloodbath and chaos that manifests Afghanistan and Iraq the world surely seems flat. I am not even talking of Vietnam yet :).Flattened by dead bodies, left over pieces of metal junk destroyed suicide bombs, buildings razed to ground by bombings.The world today is a different world for sure.

There might be a house/complex being bombed shelled and razed to ground this very minute. As I have had the good fortune of travelling Asia and Europe. I serenity calmness in the lives of Asians and Europeans. But the same might well be missing in Middle East,Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan. Is there a parallel somewhere ?I mean some common factor ??

The US has clearly divided the Iraqis, Afghanis and (the latest) palestinians such that they infight among themselves and never really pose a threat to the USA.

Where the Israeli and Indian students create the next generation Technology.Where the European nations deploy the latest technological advancementsWhen across the world summits and talks are held on Global Warming and avoiding environmental hazards by adopting safe guard approaches. Some parts of the world are polarized & paralyzed by conflict strife hunger and bloodshed.

The world is flat ! It is actually spherical but is being flattened by devious Designs.
And this part of the Ghory program is sponsored by
Platinum sponsors "America INC".Gold Sponsors " America Armament selling companies"Silver Sponsors "American Oil Consuming/Grabbing companies consortium"

~P