Garam Masala - IPL3

Wanted to write about IPL3 from the first match but its been eluding till date. So decided to do the honours early in the morning.

There are critics who say IPL3 is more commercialized, cheer leaders are no more good,in next IPL the dress colour of the player wont be visible and the dress will look like like paper advertisement,zoo zoo is not that great,oongli cricket ads are boring and so on.... but everything being said  the nail biting finish that this chotta form brings is a real paisa vasool . Though personally for me the fortunes are nt that good since  both chennai (my city - பொறந்த வீடு )  / Hyderabad (current city - புகுந்த வீடு ) are not having good season this time and are way below in the rankings. But whoever wins the funny moments,mangoose bat,the huge sixes and fours , one word punch comments on the big screen, the IPL tune (what do u call the one played by DJ suddenly out of the blue to cheer the crowd) all make IPL a huge success atleast to me.

Just a sample catch of yesterday . Tell me now if its a crowd puller or not !!!!!!
Courtesy: you tube


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How to act to be busy in office?

Ever wondered if you had to do this? Yes. Definitely. If  anyone  says that  they do work full time @ office or even have work for whole day on all the days they come to office  , I am not to believe them . (நம்ம கிட்டயேவா ? நாம எவ்வளோ பாத்துருப்போம்)

The following tips are relevant in both good and bad times . But lets see  how they come in handy in both situations?

1. In bad times: companies look for the best opportunity to get rid of so called "not so key resources" that are considered to perform under the standards or rather who dont trumpet around that they are busy. . If you want to keep your job in times like these,you do need  to appear busy at the office even if you don't have a lot to do at the moment.


2. In good times: Well market is good. Every company wants to give hike . So even if you dont have much to do., invent some work and show yourself busy. let people assume you have lot to do and you slog , so that you get rewarded better. An addl % will always help :-)

I saw a nice article by a guy which I will reproduce after putting my own ideas:

Some work ethics to be followed to show yourself busy:

--Never pick the phone in first ring
-- If its boss calling, just ask for a second and pretend to talk over another line and talk about project related stuff for few minutes and then get back to the boss.
-- Never walk slowly . Always walk faster and look to be engrossed in something.. (Even better if you seem to look  as though you are to solve a major international crisis and waiting to meet Oabama to talk about the plan . )
-- Have seperate people to chit-chat away from cubicle locations. Other building is better . You can slip away have your chat/coffee and come back and pose busy as usual.
-- Always carry a notepad/paper in hand .
-- Never go for lunch during regular lunch hours. People should wonder when you actually eat.
-- Arrive to meetings atleast 2-3 mins late or join conference calls a 2 mins later than everyone has joined.
-- Its a blessing in disguise  if there is a Technical mailing list in the company. Either ask a very difficult technical question or spend time /search for answer to answer someone's difficult question.
--There will be some bakra juniors or people who try to get into the technology which you already  fortunately know. Make a case for a group training . Book a room . Keep lectuing about the subject. You may even score some brownie points with your manager.
-- Never accept any work given by boss (addl work) easily. Say that you are already tightly held with multiple xyz activities but tell him you will put some extra time and complete. No one knows what you do anyway.
 
NOTE: All the above are required to be followed with caution and based on need. Doing all/multiple to a large extent could harm your credibility. Also usual disclaimers apply. May not work for all people in all situations.

Now coming to the professional advice that I found on internet:
 
Step 1  Be sure to look all the time at your monitor. If you maintain the outer appearance of concentration, nobody will notice that you are writing a post on your blog, playing a game, or checking the latest sports results. Try not to be very sociable with your co-workers when sitting at the computer, in order to maintain the impression of hard and concentrated work.


Step 2  Secondly, keep your desk untidy. This will be a hint for everyone that you are too busy to clean your desk. Try to have pens, spreadsheets and other printed papers on your desk all the time. You can even have glasses and cups on the desk as a sign you are too busy to clean them up.


Step 3  You should eat at your desk. It doesn't matter you have just eaten out. Try to have some food on the desk and leave it there for as long as possible to create the impression you had no time to deal with things like cleaning the work area. This will be a sign that you are a keeper as well as a player. Don't go overboard and leave your desk a pigsty, but take a little longer to clear your food away.


Step 4  Next, open several applications on your desktop that you are supposed to use for your work. Keep them running even if you don't use them all the time. You also need to make sure that the company is not monitoring the activity of the employees -- some employers run programs that monitor everything each employee does on the computer. Before browsing the Internet and chatting with your family and friends, learn the company's policy on the use of the Internet. Do not risk anything if you are not sure of the consequences.

Happy acting !!!!!

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Ladies and gentlemen

I was waiting in the morning 8.30 types to catch the office shuttle.. Strangely I happened to notice few of them ... They were wearing a scarf covering head,neck,ears,mouth , well leavinf only the eyes.. I was looking for a AK 47 in trhe hand and fortunately its missing .. Well they are our lady colleagues from IT or college students who dont want to let mortals like you see them ..... ஏன்மா இப்பிடி?

கஷ்ட பட்டு முன்னுரை எழுதியாச்சு ... Lets now see some of the irking stuff about them and of course the equivalent from our so called "Youth " guys..

Ladies (டகால்டி பொண்ணுங்க) :

1 . Came in lift today morning guys.. Still my head is spinning ...(தலை சுத்தல் , வாந்தி .....மசக்கை இல்ல நண்பர்களே .... ) Its a Lady's perfume..well ,opposite to the word  perfume u bet ....

2 . What a stamina sirji .. in work ? ... hey come on .. in talking non-stop 2-3 hours .. You 'd have guessed the person at other end ..A potential bakra ..

3 . For point 2., its ensured that they will give only missed call. Its for the guy at other end to call back. Not in ladies profile to pay for talking to guys you know?

4. They can see only Hindi movies or Hollywood biggies like Avtar., seeing a Tamil,Telugu movie is not In-Thing..

5.All of them wanted to marry Arvind samy earlier , later Hritik Roshan and now Ranbir Kapoor

6. They can eat only from  match box size Tiffin box. Nothing more.. (They do have separate routes for Ice creams,pizza,coke etc etc that can be consumed by OTMP method only.. OTMP ? - Please refer BOYZ movie .. ஓ (சி ? ) ... தின்னு மங்களம் பாடுவது ......)

Gentlemen (டுபுக்கு ஆண்கள்) :

1 . Out of 5 working days take bath on atleast 4 days :-)

2.ஜீன்ஸ் நடுவே  கிழிசல் இருக்கலாம் ஆனா  கிழிசல் நடுவே ஜீன்ஸ் இருக்க கூடாது ..

3. Please spend money on  boy friends also .. be magnanimous to spend on our movies,dinner,pre-dinner bills etc . Dont invent ways of getting OTMP .. Your friends are also poor like you.

4. You can look at face/eyes of girls and talk at times.

5. There is a world outside cricket,NBA,F1 also ... Potato chips and TV remote are not your birth right :-)

Well as a guy I dont find more faults with boys. May be I am biased or பசங்க நெஜமாவே பரவா இல்லையோ  ?

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Interviews

Well was about to write another useless blog but suddenly a flash came to me and I am starting to write on this impulsively . No pre thought, no plans - so expect some not so professional writing.

An Interview to we people happened may be at college final year in the name of Campus interveiws unlike now where for LKG , the kid,his mom and dad prepare day in and day out . (நான் எப்போ அபியும் நானும் பிரகாஷ்  ராஜ் மாதிரி புக்கும் கையுமா  சுத்த  போறேனோ ) ... During those days I used to imagine couple of cinema/drama interview scenes which were no where near funny , but shaped our thought processes leading us to expect any kind of question. Infact we were prepared for sensible questions unlike now .  Thanks to s/w. for a geunuine  "what languages you know" question,  people have started answering " C ,C++" instead of "Hindi,Tamil and English "

I guess its Nagesh in a movie who will turn a CUP unpside to mean that he passed PUC . In all movies interview will always happen in a first floor or second floor so that hero is ready with his answer : No of steps he climbed up. May be I guess 1980-late 1990s Interviews were bit funny but were sane like these.

Then came twist in tale. Advent of IT companies. They need to hire 40-50 (bulk bookings) students in campus intvw. We used to ask those days whose lorry is this today ? TCS machi .. ஓ அப்போ 50 டிக்கெட் காலி ... ...CTS machi .. ஓ அப்போ ஒரு 10  டிக்கெட் காலி . ..... Poor recruitment guys from morning to night getting bored of asking technical questions used to ask valid and excellant qns as below:
"Do you guys see jump the main gate to watch movies? " , " Is the mosquito menace in Hostel very bad?", "which hotel is better ? Anna Purna or Gowri shankar ? ".....Well dont blame them . we continue the trend now ask sillier qns ..

Oh man.... have to work. ok will share an experience of me taking intvw of a Japanese Consultant recently.

This gentleman (Mr.%^&&$#) was called over to our office in Japan and the country manager(Mr.XYZ) from Japan looped me in to interview Mr.%^&&$# (Its a tongue twister anyway) , technically on consulting side.Since its remote location it was a telephonic interview that I had to conduct . 

 I did my normal consulting and product side questions for about half hour and called out my colleague ....."XYZ., I am done with my questions you want to take up about his Personal skills?" ... Instead of my colleague XYZ answering the person being interviewed Mr.%^&&$# started explaining to me his personal skills .. I had to listen to it for sometime..

I again interrupted and said ....."XYZ., I am done with my part . Do you wish to continue?" Well... to my shock again Mr.%^&&$# continued on his project management skills this time...

I slowly asked again Mr.%^&&$#   , if you are not on speaker phone can put you my colleague  Mr.XYZ  on the phone line,please ? ..

Mr.%^&&$#  replied saying that Mr.XYZ had left the room some 15 minutes back and he would go and fetch him. Well now I understood why he kept on replying :-) .........

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Working in bench - Part 2 .

Working in bench has evoked lots of interest in people. Well everyone has lived this experience atleast few days of their lives . (OB அடிக்காம வேலை பாத்த s /w  Engineer வாழ்க்கைல முன்னேறினதா சரித்திரமே இல்ல .... )

Continuing from where we left on the day in a Life of the bench man, the tricy part comes now. Its 12 PM. if he goes to Food court at 12 its usually not crowded , meaning he cant spend time on standing in queue for token , standing in queue to fetch food , waiting for seat etc etc. But if he goes at peak hour special 12.30 - 1.00 then he can spend a whale of time in Food court. so he starts gathering his frnds for food later say at 12.20 or so but goes and stands in Food court at 12.20 to take census of  female population.

Other version will be to go out for lunch at 12.00 and come back to 1.30 provided we get a Bakra who has just come from onsite/going to onsite/passed a certification (அந்த  கொடுமை  அப்புறம்  ) / Got engaged/got married /birthday/got a decent hike (அதிகம் இல்ல gentle  man  நமக்கு 4 % னா அண்ணனுக்கு 5 - 6 % அந்த வித்தியாசம் பில் கட்டினதும் காணாம போய்டும் ஹி ஹி ..... ). If  it slowly starts moving towards  Dutch Party  or vying your pocket juz escape from the scene.................Back to canteen option .,

12.20 - 12.30 Waiting for Friends in Food court .
12.30 - 1.15 or 1.30 - Lunch (Depending on topics of the day)
1.30  - 2.00 - Power nap  (ஹி ஹி .. ரொம்ப உழைச்சி களச்சவங்க மத்யானம் Power nap எடுத்தா அவங்க ரொம்ப நல்லா அதுக்கு அப்புறம் வேலை பாப்பாங்கன்னு ஒரு ஆராய்ச்சில கண்டு பிடிச்சிருகங்கம்மா .. )
2.00 - 3.00  Very busy time. ICICI Direct , that day uptodate news, Mailing list,chat friends wow.... getting tired.
3.00 - 3.30  Much needed coffee break. Make sure you put chat status as Busy or be right back.
3.30 - 4.00  Actively do a round of the campus between buildings,go to some inhouse store, go to ICICI ATM and see balance, go to some other building and meet a friend .
4.00 - 5.00  Repeat activities of  2.00 to 3.00 again.
5.00 - 6.00  Peak time again in Cafeteria . Much needed break after a day's hard work. Pakoda,samosa + coffee...
6.00 - 6.15 Pose like real hard day and delegate some work on scrappy paper/send mail to DM/answer some questions on forum ....
6.15    -- ready to vrooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...................... (அட அன்னிக்கி வெக்க வேண்டிய டைம் ஆச்சுப்பா )

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Working in bench

Working in bench - Wow whts this title? looks like a oxymoron .... For non-IT folks , Bench is the term used to define the employee who is on payroll but not used in any project. (மொத்தத்துல தண்ட சம்பளம் ) , Lets look at the day in a life of a Bench person.. esp in companies where you have a hard target lets say to keep 9-10 hrs of time clocked its real fun to watch that person.

9 AM :  He gets in (why 9 , why not later? coz otherwise he cant get out before 6-6.30 thanks to his min working hours rule)

9 AM - 9.30 AM : Check email through proxy,open meebo.com or ebuddy.com to bypass the IT  Ops and open the yahoo,gtalk,msn and what not... just to say hi to the list of frnds. Then make sure the status is set as Busy or be right back at 9.30

9.30 AM - 10 AM : if with one colleague or 10.15 if with 2 colleagues  - canteen for breakfast and coffee (?) - nope .. coffee not now. that is with different set of people and comes later in schedule. (ரூம் போட்டு யோசிப்பானுங்களோ ?)

10.15- 11.00 : Other important aspects of the job like ICICI Direct,TOI articles,Mailing list etc.., Additional responsibilities include starting a volatile  topic like ''Is Aamir's way of putting rolling credit correct?'' , ''should Sachin retire'', ''Is sachin the greatest of all players?'' , '' which film industry is bad and which is worse Bolywood,kollywood or Tollywood?'' . - I am not exaggerating but I know 2 colleagues - good friends started such a conversation on the mailing list just for the heck of it and after 2-3 exchanges bashing each other the others pitched in and the count on same subject went as high as 400+ mails ) .. What an idea sirji .......

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break with near seat colleagues + hot topic like price rise, recession,+ some negativity spreading.

11.30 - 12.00 :Catch up with friends to whom you said Hi in morning and put status as Busy .. So they all think you were busy from 9 - 11.30  (கடின உழைப்பு ) .

Post lunch session --- will continue----மாமா   busyபா ஹி ஹி ஹி ...

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Arakku Valley (sarakku valley ) Part 2 - தனக்கு வந்தா தான் தெரியும் !!!!!

ட்ரெயின்ல நல்லா   பொழுது போச்சு. எழுந்து பல் தேச்சி ஆவலா vizag போய் சேந்தோம் . இறங்கின உடனே அங்க ஒரு ஸ்டேஷன் ஹோட்டல்ல டிபன் சாப்ட்டுட்டு சும்மா இருக்காம மசாலா chai வேற .. அங்க ஆரம்பிச்சுது அடி வயிற்றில் ஒரு இன்ப வலி.


அவன்  அவன்  ஜாலியா  அடுத்த  destination கு  ரெடி ஆயிட்டான்  ... நான் போய் "டேய்   ரூம் எதுவும் போட வேணாமாடா?   குளியல் மத்ததுக்கு   எல்லாம்? '' (அந்த விஷயத்துல நான் கொழந்த மாதிரி )   உடனே பசங்க  ''குளியல் எல்லாம் எதுக்கு மாமா ., மத்தது எல்லாம் நாங்க ட்ரெயின்லையே  முடிச்சிடோமே .. நீங்க  போகலையா ?  ... அவுனுங்க கூட நம்மள மாதிரி பசங்க திருட  கூடாதுன்னு சங்கிலி எல்லாம் கட்டி mug வெச்சிருந்தானுங்க மாமா . வெரி comfortable  .. '' ( Comfortabla ???? என்னமோ 5  ஸ்டார் ஹோட்டல்ல ஒக்காந்த மாதிரி பெருமை வேற) அப்போ நான்தான் மாட்டினேனா ? ..டேய்ய்  இதெல்லாம்  மொதல்லையே  சொல்ல  மாட்டீங்களா? தூங்கினா என்னடா ..எழுப்ப வேண்டியதானே ?  .. சரி  வழில  பார்த்துக்கலாம்னு   முடிவு  பண்ணி  borra caves க்கு  ரெடி ஆனோம் !!!!

Caves were very slippery. Full of stalactites( ஏன்  நடுல  பீட்டர் ?..அப்போ தான் அந்த எடத்துக்கு  மதிப்பு  ) . நம்ம பசங்க மானாவாரியா சில்லறை வாரினானுங்க (வழுக்கி  வழுக்கி  ) . சில பேர் 500 Rs .. சில பேர் 1000 Rs கு கூட ... ஒரே ஜாலி தான் ..

அங்க இன்னொரு சூப்பர் மேட்டர் என்னன்னா , ஒரு சின்ன ஓட்டை வழியா உள்ள போய் வெளிய வரணும் .. ரோட்டோரமா வித்தை  காட்டுவாங்க  இல்லை ? ( குட்டி வளையத்துக்குள்ள பொண்ணு போய்ட்டு வருமே  அந்த  மாதிரி) ..என்னோட நிலைமைல  ... அது தேவை இல்லைதான் .. இருந்தாலும் உடுவோமா ?..தம்ம் கட்டி  பூந்தாச்சு ....Avlodhaan  ராசா நீ Tom & Jerry ல  Tom தோல் உறிஞ்சிட்டு  வெளில   Tom வரா மாதிரி சட்டை கிழிஞ்சி தான் வரப்போறேன்னு நெனச்சேன் .. யாரு  செஞ்ச  புண்ணியமோ  அப்பிடி ஒண்ணும் ஆகல. யூத்  மாதிரி இருந்த சிலதுங்களுக்கு நெஜமாவே அது ஒரு ஆசிட் டெஸ்ட்தான் .பேசாம அங்க ஒரு போர்டு போட்டுருக்கலாம் . ''யூத்  இல்லாம  யூத்  மாதிரி நெனச்சிட்டு  இருக்கற   பெருசுங்க  not alllowed '' ன்னு ........

இது  நடுல  வயிறு செம  கலக்கல்  .. நமக்கு breaking பாயிண்ட்... . டேய்ய் நான் அதுக்கு போகணும் டா .. அவசரம்ன்னு சொன்னா  ... ..... பசங்க  chorus ஆ  நாம falls போறதுக்கு வண்டி ஏறுவோம் மாமா ....அங்க கண்டிப்பா இருக்கும்ன்னு  தைரியம் சொன்னாங்க   ... சரி போலாம் ன்னு சொல்லி போனோம் ஆனா  அங்க மட்டும் இல்லை  அவ்ளோதான்   ......

இந்த tourist spot ஜீப்லாம் வேற 70 - 80  speedல தான் போவானுங்க .. அதுவும் குண்டும் குழியும்னா 100 ல போவானுங்க .... பிரசவமே ஆயிடுமே டா பாவிங்களா  என் அவசரம் எனக்கு  தான் தெரியும்  !!!!!    சரி இன்னிக்கி ஜீப் நாற போகுது ....அதுக்கு நான் பொறுப்பு  இல்லை ...


பசங்க  , சந்தோசமா  மாமா அங்க பாருன்னானுங்க  ... வாவ் ''அது'' அங்க இருந்துது ... ரொம்ப மோசமான விஷயம் என்னன்னா ''அது''க்கு காசு கலெக்ட்  பண்றது தான் .. ஓ பக்கங்கள்ல ஞானி அழகா எழுதிருப்பார் .... "அது" மட்டும் free ஆ இருந்தா நம்ம ஊர் இன்னும் சுத்தமா இருந்திருக்கும்ன்னு..

அதோட கலெக்டர்  ''inka ivvandi ( இன்னும் சில்லறை எடுடான்ற   தொனில ) அப்பிடினான் ... இந்தாடா ன்னு இருந்த எட்டணா , ஒரு ருபாய் எல்லாத்தையும் குடுத்துட்டு ..விட்டா  போதும்னு  உள்ள  போய் கதவ  சாத்திட்டு  உக்காந்தேன் .....Rest is history!!!!-




Coming back to title : We did nt go to Arakku valley at all. It was not fitting in our timeline. so we went to a nearby falls and then it became only a  சரக்கு  valley and not Arakku Valley....

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