random musings...

2011 will be one of splendid year for all of us for sure. There is no way that we are going to see downward in this New Year. All set for growth and more growth all over the world.For me personally I don’t have any specific resolutions to set for 2011, part of the reason is, my current lifestyle drives (force) me to do certain things, which are, anyway my area of improvement. Since I and wife both are working same Chicago Downtown area, we are spending more quality time in commute. No need to set time for one on one. Due to the same busy schedule, time management is now precisely to seconds because if I start from home 7Hr 22mm 30ss I can beat the 3mins wait left signal to Rt 59. Almost daily swimming routine with my 7yrs old gives me the much needed refreshment and great satisfaction that I’m teaching something good to my son. Write at least 1 blog per week. I have to adjust time to write more blogs on this New Year. 2010 Flashback Visited Orlando for almost 10 days, had lot of fu

Most of times, I want a stop clock kind of tool to measure all of my activities and notify me to stop because it is too much. But in reality we can’t have that kind of clock. We are living like racing imagery highway where everyone tries to beat others to win the race. So we don’t know when to apply brake or hit speed bump. In a perfect world, we want to live with our family quietly. But again reality, we can’t do it, even we are perfectly fine, there are several elements makes our life jeopardy and again we have to hit the racing highway. Sometimes we think that, we have all but sometimes we reverse that thought. I always wonder why the same thought process which gave us the real satisfaction of life now reversing. Why and when this can happen? Based on many researches, our brain is excellent auto pilot but why it is not setting a persistent satisfaction with our life, with our current progress, with the way we are now. There are several elements possibly making us to urge for more

Most of us, when we expecting our baby, one of the main shopping is “Baby on Board” sign and we stick it before we first time on board our new born. This is different than our other bummer sticker, those are for express our Patriotism, Sports Affiliation,Religious and Our Son's/Daughter's honor announcement. I was wondered earlier why we have to announce everyone that “Baby On Board”, which is different than others, I presumed couple of reasons, essentially for child safety. Giving an extra alertness to other drivers especially who behind us. Announcing other drivers that the car might be slower than speed limit. But I was wrong, the main purpose of “Baby on Board” is as follows    “alert the emergency services to the presence of an infant in the event of a crash small children are known to sometimes become trapped in foot-wells or even thrown from the vehicle in the event of crashes” “ Baby on Board” is not an announcement to other drivers to slow down or stay aw

Finding commonalities among two different groups/country/state people is an interesting theory forming. For example, I try to find commonalities for some Indians (mainly from Mumbai) with Americans (mainly from New York). Here are my reasoning’s to relate, Both them are financial capital of respective countries. So Mumbaikars and New Yorkers has some pride about themselves. Highly populated with brilliant metro systems. So both of them are organized. Geographically both of the cities built on bay. So both of them are beach lovers. All those reasoning become invalid after i visited San Francisco or Boston. Because those are common stereotypes of metro cities, there is nothing special relation between Mumbai and New York.But 10 years ago I only knew about Mumbai and New York’s lifestyle since i formed the wrong perception.I had a thought of relate people of Kerala and West Bengal, two different states in India, different culture, different language and both of them are thousand mil

I’m getting excited when ever India (or any other country) celebrates Independence day because i do care about individual freedom, freedom of thoughts and freedom of everything. I started writing this blog with in my mind to compare India 1947 to India 2010. But I'm not going to do it because India grown mammoth levels in many fronts, comparing with olden times gives us frisson and repletion. When my generation(current leading generation) were kids, studying in school we didn’t imagined this much growth, that giving me nervous about how we(current generation) going to handle this unexpected or unprepared growth of India. Indian constitution was designed to bring every one in to main stream, in other words equality and education to all and social justice, very basic socialism point of view. As far i know, the spirit of Indian constitution is not supported or instrumented for India’s growth which we are enjoying last decade. Now we need to connect the dots, that is one side an ign

We are living some where in starting to mid-point of technology revolution, still a long way to reach ‘apogee’. But the effect of technology is enormous, from fast food ordering system to NASA Space Shuttle orbiter maneuvering controlled by technology.Every-where and  every-one depends on technology in one way or other. Just look back a decade ago, the nightmare we faced during Y2K era, we were thought world going to be standstill. But thanks to ‘Sang-Froid Debuggers’ emerges from various part of world to make our life easy by providing timely solutions.  Whether we like it or not, since technology is immature, no bible like guide to develop code, no process (if we have one, people tend to hide behind it) the systems we develop comes with some risks. One of the main risk involves are A)Manual intervention to avoid some possible bugs B)code issues hence system acting weird when some conditions met. The risk (A) can be mitigated easily but what about (B), to make things worse, most of

I’m very interested to explore how our brain works. Actually it was all started because i wanted to learn more about me. At the end of day, as many other mediocre mind,i too failed. No one knows what we capable of do and wants to become. The main reason for this stagnant is our state of mind. Our brain is excellent auto-pilot and once some state is set,there is very slim chance to recover from it. Here are some points to prove it. 1. A couple came from India to visit U.S.A,mainly to spent time with their grandson who was 1 year old. They used to tell him “you have to study well, you have to go foreign countries like U.S.A to make lot of money”. Actually India most of grandparents used to tell this to their grandchildren as a soap box. But the context is here(U.S.A) but their State of Mind still not changed. 2. There are more and more research suggest that the state of mind of a debt collectors are some kind of addiction.They want to chase people left and right to

Kurkure(a hindi word for  crunchy )  is hot and spicy Indian snack similar to Cheeto, my son picked up its taste when we went to india last time. The same kurkure now available in local Naperville Indian shops, so whenever he comes with me or my wife for Indian shopping,he buys it. But we noticed that he usually buys it for his sister also,he always pick up two packs to give to me or my wife whenever we are ready to check out. As usual today i went to buy some Indian spices,he accompanied with me, as usual i was ready to check out, he gave me the two kurkure packs to check out. But this time shop owner, noticed this pattern and he asked him why he always giving two packs of kurkure to me. He replied that one is for him and other one is for his sister. The shop owner praised that he said to me "see, this is very good nature, he is buying for him and his sister, very good boy,unselfish". A person who was next to me to check out expressed his opinion "he doesn't want to

A long time ago,during a fall month, a co-worker of mine parked his new 7-series BMW car under a maple tree.While we working his car made noise due to fallen leaves from the tree. It was annoying and my friend had go out several times to remove the leaves. The theory of BMW designer is, the 7-series had expensive paint coating since some bulk of fallen leaves may damage the paint coating,hence they made the alarm system very powerful and sensitive.This is exactly BMW's model, which is think ahead and set up early alarm systems. During my school days, India we had a 'assessment system' which was partially controlled by professors who taught us the subject. The system is, 50% of assessment completely determined by professors based on several factors,open ended. Out of 100,one have to write theory for 50 marks and other 50 would be determined by professor and in order to get pass,one have to score 45. So most of students have to please professors to get good mar

Usually i don't watch NHL games, mainly i used to watch football and some baseball and some basketball. Before this Stanley cup final series, i hardly watched 10-15 NHL games,thats it. But why now i and many others are watching and supporting Chicago Blackhawks to win? Why families across Chicago land in front of TV at game time? Why we are discussing with spouse/friends/co-workers about hockey? It is called "Spirit of time".Even-though something not internally related to us but externally related to the place we live or related to our friends or related to our co-workers makes some excitement within us, just to cheer up, just to participate,just to explore,just to learn more. This seems to us a small thing but it is how we grow as good human being from our first day at earth to still now. We make history,we make some marvelous things all because of the unique nature of good human being,that is,enjoys spirit of time. The companies started by human like us, they invested

The most important hour in our daily life is the 17th hour,which is, when we close our eye,of course for sleep(assume our biological clock starts as soon as we wake up). We all work hard for 8 hours per day and other 8 hours for eating,commutes,family time,TV,reading, so 17th hour is our first very private hour(most of the days). The 17th hour should be used for something productive, something creative and something to remember. When i was kid one of my school teacher told us to use the hour to run through your day abstractly to find what went wrong and what went right to improve our day by day life. I couldn't practice it consistently because it was easy to tell but hard to implement.But i believe that was a wonderful idea and great tool for self improvement and improve better decision making, moreover improves our abstract thinking. Actually i told this same topic to a friend of mine 3-4 years ago, he argued that if you are president of country or prime minister t

There were 2 incidents, which i won't forget my rest of life from my school days. 1) My stunt of dropout from 3rd grade to favor of work in a cattle (just kidding) 2) one of my classmate burnt my other classmate's books in order to beat him to get top rank. The class rooms across india were literally considered next to religious places, there was no 'drought' of ethics preach, even then my classmate acted unethical way to beat competition. I wondering sometimes why some become unethical but some follows ethical even though they all came from similar society set up and same level schooling etc. The rewards and recognitions also some times shows soft corner to some one plays unethical way, for example, the classmate who burnt other's book did manage to get top rank. I think ethics is blanket term, we can't expect one have to follow open ended ethics rather we have to define ethics based on context and business success. For example, a car shop may not expect thei

The System As an immigrate from socialist dominate country, U.S's capitalist system is blessing for us. There won't be any regulations or permission to start business in this country, all you need is bright idea and investment. The world class businesses were started by trailblazers in U.S, who otherwise feel shy or hate to ask permission for each and everything from government or impatient with bureaucracy. For example, in India very well educated bright college graduates immigrates to U.S for the same reason, learn, start business and prosper more and more, which was nearly impossible in India or China and most of far eastern countries. The system worked very well until 2000 after that we had several issues and now U.S government running manufacturing companies to financial companies to now providing brain to stop the spill which caused by an oil giant who made $14 Billion profit last year. The System - Overdosed I think fundamentally we are having an overdose of Capital

There are millions or may be billions of things happening when Sun rays enters atmosphere, mainly scattering of rays. The scatter producing band of colors and so on. I'm not going to concentrate on physics involving scattering, reflection and radiation from Sun here. But i started thinking about what it teaches us, why scattering, why various color formed, what nature is trying to tell us? why can't sun rays directly comes to earth...but all these happenings is to teach us something, we have to understand the nature. The nature is the best source to induce our curiosity to thrive, to learn more. When we start thinking of something, our thought process should scatter like sun rays, we have to cut across various corners. There is definitely no one solution for one problem and one problem can't be solved by one solution either. We do flow chart to solve complicated business solutions, can i compare it with scatter of sun rays? I think, yes i can, a starting point and then i

Return on investment is most obsessive term in business world. Everyone and every where business managers develops return on investment strategy to win their ideas from top management. It make lot of sense for decision makers,venture capitalists and investment gurus, they need to know what they are investing, how much, what are their return and so on. Here is an interesting story,a divisional manager at India's well known BPO organization,they are working for a famous telemarketing company based on U.S. Their main job is to call as many as U.S customers to tell them about various new products. Their performance is measured by how many calls they made for any given day. The manager noticed that one side(West facing) of office employes making more phone call than other side(East facing). Both the sides has same level of people, their skills and everything matched but East facing side of employes make less call than West facing side. After several rounds of research, my friend found t

Morrison Estate is a beautiful, southern Western Ghats mountainous based, 199 acres estate. The estate is in 2500 ft above sea level, and it was developed by an Englishman James Morrison when Britain ruled India. After India's independence, James sold the estate to Verghese Kurien, a local entrepreneur, since then Kurien family solely owned the estate. All the Southern estates are same, home of tea, rubber plants and some rare spices like cinnamon. But Morrison estate was pioneer to all other estates, Morrison taught all “how tos” to local farmers including special irrigation techniques and how to sell it through various markets. So the locals always has gratitude to Morrison even though they sold the estate 50 years ago. They named the road after Morrison which leads to estate from town. The current owner of Morrison estate is Sebastian Kurien, grandson of Verghese Kurien, who is retired professor and ex serviceman. He started his career with Indian Army as solider and studied hi

Chennai, 1958 The Harvard University's invitation letter was placed on University Of Madras's Dean's room table, where dean Senthinathan and Krishnan sitting facing each other. Dean started "See Krishnan, I submitted your thesis paper to Harvard university because i thought your research well deserved to be continue, it is not a easy one to experimentally prove Bose-Einstein condensate theory. You have done a marvelous job here. I want you to continue the experiment at Harvard". Dean looked at Krishnan's face, he noticed some hesitant from his face. Dean continued "You are only 4th person from our university to pursue research in Harvard with full scholarship. Don't waste this golden opportunity". Krishnan was a genius guy, he was brought up in Srirangam, which is about 300 KM south from Madras. Until his age 10, he was home schooled, after 10 he got admitted to direct 9th grade as he was a bright and super intelligent boy. After completing his

The day was perfect for Marion to meditate for million dollars from God as usual. Marion doing this ritual for last 50 years since he was 4 years old. He usually wakes up at 5.00 AM, after his usual matutinal duties, he sits in front of god to meditate for money. The mantra is "Please, God, come in front of me to give million dollars". As of today, he had meditated almost 3 billion times, God became impatient, God decided to show up in front of him. First Marion was surprised that God was very simple and clean shaved, god looks very young. God said "Son, I was watching and listening your mantra since you started 50 years ago, I was very impressed with your determination" and continued "do you know that you spent exactly 1,000,000 minutes for the meditation and if you use those time for other job like milk/paper distribution and invested in even municipal bonds, you would have made 1 million already". God was little tired, god asked some water, Marion gave

Sajo determined to take revenge on the 3 men who she believed the reason for her husband’s suicide. Sajo and Mitch loved each other very much. Mitch was overly ambitious man with countless of fantasy. He started many ventures but all went under water. Sajo was with him for all ups and downs, she encouraged him for all sad events and she completely, insanely love with him. Mitch turned his corner when he met 3 of his old friends, Shamu, Andy and John. The 3 men were successful with their joint business for last 3 years, they need one more partner to grow the business better. They need some money with mainly ambitious one. Mitch was the greatest fit for them. He had some money from his inheritance estate money and he obviously ambitious. Mitch joined with them and business boomed after his hard work and some invaluable advices. One morning Sajo found Mitch was lying down in bathroom with lot of blood,he was almost moribund. Apparently Mitch cut his vein himself, Sajo called ambulance but

[I started this story but unable to complete it, may be because i'm naive to crime short stories. But anyway i wrote so much so far, so i'm publishing it, the readers can decide the end of this story as they wish. Please if you don't want to spend time with this unfinished story, don't read it] The crime scene looks very familiar to Police Detective Jack, he is a veteran detective with LAPD. The crime scene provides endless clue for detectives, the nature of crime and investigation depends on the initial screening by detectives. Jack is among one of the few glorious detectives with in LAPD, he is now responding to a high profile murder case in the city. Jack enters in the upscale home, he directly went to 2nd floor bed room where the victim lying down on bed. The home is something extra ordinary, very organized. Jack thinks the people living in this home have spotless sense of interior design. Jack carefully scans the bed room and asked the officer “Is there any robbery

The letter from Liechtenstein embassy is not easy one for "Not Yet Named", it stated that his name matched with 1,349,927 possible terrorist names, so they are not granted visa for him to study in the University of Liechtenstein. Yes, the hero of this story’s name is "Not Yet Named". Here is small flash back, 23 years ago our hero born in India to an ultra orthodox family. They usually consult everything with astrologer before proceed. After our hero born, they went to astrologer for naming and naming ceremony date and times. In India, most of the communities naming ceremony are, big one like marriage, engagement. They usually name after consulting astrologer, the name starts with one of the god based on his birth star and followed by his great great grandfather to his father in descending order. The ceremony starts in the morning, with all relatives’ presence and each one have to say his name 3 times, after everyone finishes calling his name, the ceremony will be o

It is typical “chicken or egg comes first”. Both of them (China and Google) need each other. China is a booming economy, their business needs a highly robust, creative, solid platform like Google and Google need some solid income pipeline like booming economy China outside of U.S.A. My only concern is, Google latest threat to discontinue its operation is a “disinvestment” strategy which definitely creates a “panic shockwave” to all booming economy, mainly BRIC block (Brazil, Russia, India and China). The BRIC block countries took a huge effect to open their economy to outside companies, because all of them are somehow leftist presence country. The leftist always don’t want other companies to set up their shop in those countries. Each one of BRIC countries had bitter experience with previous attempt to open the market and the plot successfully failed after some companies “disinvestment” strategy. Google’s latest move, as per my opinion is immature and highly childish. Before

"So you believe that our race was attacked by aliens a long time ago", Tinen received the last message from Alice through his neuro-wireless-transmitter, neurosys. Alice living in a far away plant from earth called Fuchsia, a clean beautiful planet found by International Space Research Center for better replacement for earth, a 100 years ago. The plant earth become too polluted and not suitable for humans. Some people still living in earth, because they couldn't pay the money to Universal Transporter company for voyage from earth or emotionally attached to the planet earth. Almost all government in the plant earth announced free toxic gas purifier machine called "RegainO2", most of them installed those at home and terrafugia and their suit to live in earth. Tinen is still in earth because his family couldn't save enough money to pay for the voyage. Tinen is very intelligent kid, he is very curious too. He was last 6 months in contact with Alice from Fuchsia