BMW Theory

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 marks, literally professors were god for them. If they able to convince professors,they literally scored pass mark and theory is just for formalities. As expected, everyone hates this, but no one can ask any questions, some students even worked for professors "other means" to get high scores. But i used to musing this system, why our educators promoted this model, why we are following such a stupid model, but the answers were fascinating, i was literally cried after cracked this model.Here are my finding when i was in college.

• Education system in Indian completely helping students, parents and potential employers an early alarm systems rather than concrete implementation of subjects.
• If a student is unable to get high marks from his/her professors but scores high in other exams, then he/she may be a showing 'leadership' skills. He/she bold in front of authority and he/she ask questions and challenge the status quo.Great for leadership,self-employment and driving force.
• If a student scores both low then he/she had some attitude as well as IQ issues.
• If both high then she/he more likely going to work for a company long time,excellent worker class.

Zeitgeist

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 their time and resource to grow further. One point of time they completely rely on other people who are not related to anything with company's startup but how come they work for the company to take it to next level? The most of answer is there at first paragraph,which is they make sure to create a spirit with in company and expecting most of us participate,explore,learn from it, in other words enjoys the spirit of time. Just imagine, can all the top level management officials can see each and everything of day by day activity or micromanage each one us, simply they can't do,that is highly impossible. But they set the tone, set the overall companies future from their mindset hoping we all participate,explore,learn from it.

Unfortunately, all of us aren't made from same mold, if one can't understand overall spirit or don't know how to enjoy,here are some points to consider without becoming dead weight but still contribute something,

1. Don't substitute yours own spirit to your team.Every one knows what company's and yours.
2. Don't understand how to participate, step aside but don't discourage who really enjoys it.
3. Don't expect more than your compensation to explore more to enjoy the spirit of time.
4. It is okay to not to learn anything but don't stop other's curiosity if it inline with spirit of time.

17th Hour

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 then you can exercise this kind of routines, we ordinary human doesn't need this. But we ordinary human definitely need this because we are living a very dynamic world where from president of country to average joe are in same boat. An Average Joe under pressure now because

a)easy money flow become history.no more free lunch.
b)people become very selfish(in a positive way),no one now has time to correct mistake of others.
c)world become flat and a common man now dine at New York,breakfast at Paris and Lunch at New Delhi.
d)technology become very sophisticated,start taking its toll to replace human's repeating job.
e)smart people now start talking about giving life to all things(internet of thing)

So the power of 15 mins thinking at 17th hour is become very crucial. If we do, the benefits are

a) The oil spill could be averted if someone from BP,just spent 15 mins of their 17th hour by thinking about the negative impact of an accident.
b) We don't discuss about Moody's AAA rating of mortgage based securities, if we spent 15 mins of our 17th hour by thinking the abstraction connection of 2000-2001 stock market collapse.
c) We don't need worry about today's things because it was already planned and already put some thought process last year at our 17th hour thinking.

We don't need to be a genius or thinking required any things or meditation or brain power, all we need is some time before diving into sleep.

Ethics-My 0.02

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 their sales man have to follow 100% ethics including telling lie is big unethical, but they can follow zero tolerance towards a sales man who stolen car parts. Just imagine, Bob joined car shop but he has ethics that he won't tell lie (assume the job paying good salary, he lives next to the car shop blah blah so he joined but one disadvantage is in car sales he have to tell lies). Here are some ideas to Bob to succeed in his career.

1. Identify the moments where a sales man have to lie more - Ask help from co- worker to fill up the gap. When customers ready to close the deal is, most anxious moment and they ask lot of "silly" questions which may need some lies, ask some one to answer those questions.

2. Frankly tell customers about your ethics principles, who knows most of the customers liked your honest and they want to work with a honest sales man.

3. Be with the flow, read more information about cars, some times you have to tell lie because you don't know the answers. Customers won't like the answers, "i will get back to you" or "i don't know". The information and depth to details is key to avoid unnecessary lies.

4. Join with likely minded co-workers even though it is hard to find 100% true speaking sales man, but the close you get is better you be friend with. The point is, never feel left alone.

Spill BP Spill

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 Capitalism, or other words private governed society. All the methods/systems has flaws, none of them are perfect, but the problem with U.S is, there is no one available to point them or direct them to right path. When communists were overdosed themselves, U.S started war against them, they are critic to several country's system, economic improvement, imposed tough rules who played the game wrongfully, everything analysed carefully as outsiders but who is outsider for U.S to make them to go right direction. No one as of now. Can internal readjustment tools operate to self-correct them? Possibly but not certainly unless some big push from all level.

The System - Issues
Current system in nutshell, Any one can start business, they can create any innovative products, they can sell it and make profit of it. For some businesses they have to get permission from government but those are only for papers. One company asking permission to drill at 5000 feet below sea level but they don't have a research and development group within their organization. They not even passes a basic eligibility to drill at high risk places. How come government allow them first place is basic question? When we try to get U.S.A immigration visa, there would be around 50-60 questions related to our background and educations and skills but once we reach here, want to drill something in gulf, no questions asked all we need is, some pipe and punch of drilling machine ( pun intended ).

The System - Future
We don't need a totalitarian government to govern all aspect of business now, if we do, our business openness glory would be endanger. All we need is,
1. some proactive findings about business's motive
2. possible risks awareness
3. challenge businesses consistently with their new innovation products.
4. create a risk mitigate plan with business.
5. promote sharing mentality with in business, for example, ExxonMobile has world class R&D team and solid technology to stop spills.
6. recognize players who plays based on rule and award them, possible tax breaks.

Scatter of Sun Rays

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 it divided into various complexities, and each one then flow through until it ends. We all are starting from a point, we are here at various places, with different career paths, at different locations, but our end is going to be same. Some of them are lucky enough to be born at good place, good education, and good life but not all of them have the same, during the flow of our life we have to cross borders, take risks, make some wild assumptions, make some mistakes, learn lessons and move on.

We are all think the same way that's human nature, but some of them think like the scatter of Sun rays, they are scholars, think tanks and extraordinary humans. Some problems can be solved by human, most of the people in this world. Most of the problems should be solved by those extraordinary humans, in other words, who thinks like scatter of sun rays, multi-dimensional thinkers, able to generate millions of possibilities, apply the solutions based on the interest of others. The immigration issues now in Arizona clearly a problem to be solved by them, who think like scatter of sun rays, not by people of Arizona who think like direct light from sun.

Return on Subscription

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 that there is big clock on the side of high productive employees side, so he decides to buy a clock at other side also.

He wrote an email to top management to ask permission to buy a clock which costs approximately Rs 1000/- ($20). But the decision maker asked him what are the ROI points to spend money for a clock now? All he knows is, there is something with the clock that makes the difference but he doesn't know the reasons. So he dropped the plan but he hired a contractor to monitor carefully on both side of the employees. He set a date to submit the report stragery. Finally the contractor submitted the report, which has many knee jerk reaction findings. intitution

1. Most of the employees of the firm are young and they don't have habit of wearing a watch.
2. All PCs in the firm are set as U.S Eastern time,hence the employees rely on the clock to find local Indian time.
3. The low productive side employees since they don't have a clock at their side, they always uses their mobile to check the time.
4. When they check the time,they are also noticing some text messages and some missed calls.
5. They are spending some time with texting back and call back to missed calls before getting to work.

The divisional manager was happy that his intuition was perfect but he spent Rs 10,000 (~$200) to find out reasons for Return on Investment.Now he sent the email with his ROI points to buy the clock, within 5 mins he got the permission to buy the clock.

The above story is the reality that we are facing nowadays, if we want to know ROI for each and everything,we might end up spending more. But business world is not going to change any time soon. Now we are at level 3 of Return on Investment, that is Return on Subscription. What is ROS? I subscribed for WSJ for last 5 years, how do i measure my return on my subscription? Is it valid for me to find return on a service? I googled the term ROS and Return on Subscription but none were returned useful information. I thought then ROS is already measured within ROI so ROS is a nut idea.But after several thinking and reading i think i'm right, we have to measure our return of our subscription.

For example, i'm a big fan of Quicken Software , I spend yearly $70 to upgrade to next version. How do i measure my ROS for this? My thinking is, i carefully review Quicken software's feature sets, Are they providing me more and more features on each upgrade? When i bought my first Quicken on 2002 it doesn't support online transaction download, now it provides it since i feel very satisfied with my upgrades. But they didn't change anything core within software. The service and purpose remains the same but more and more features on each release made me justify my subscription. What if they didn't provide any features on each release, because Quicken 2002 is more than enough to manage my home,personal expense, why they bother about spending their resource to upgrade Quicken on every release. As i said, Return on Subscription is real, customers always checks it and if there is no upgrade, there is no sale, no profit.

Morrison Estate

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 his masters while in service, after completing army service, he became professor at local college. He is an honest man, after retirement he decided to spend most of his time in estate home, which was built by Morrison, a beautiful castle styled home. Even though his family insisted him to stay in town, he refused to do so. One of the main reasons is town pollution, unbearable noise, law and order. Kurien always want to be with his wife and relatives, friends but his compulsive straightforwardness keeps him away from town.

Kurien was right because the town is ridden by ideology driven politicians. Some times there were as many as 5 meetings at same location, the sound from loud speaker are unbearable to any one living in the town. Irony is, same ideology but different flavors also yell at each other and fight with each other. For example, at the national level a right ideology driven party decided to split their party for better management, they created a small fraction for students, one for labors, and one for hardcore religious. But Kurien’s town people didn’t know the management’s intention but fought with each other, even though they are all belong to one party technically but politically not, then just imagine, the situation between different ideologies. Kurien knows it all very well, sometimes he himself stops some party meeting to ask this kind of questions, obviously they don’t like and Kurien gets into some troubles later.

Kurien’s schedule was very well planned, he left home at early morning on Monday to estate, stayed there until Friday. Friday evening he starts from estate to home. His Saturday mainly with account settling, deposit money in banking, his Sunday with Church going. Kurien’s wife happy by seeing his peaceful mind after his stay away from home, but her only worrisome is forest animals. Kurien’s human interaction in estate is local indigenous people who are still decided to live in forest. They have some special respect to Kurien because he is the first one to introduce them the "Indian constitution’s affirmation policy for indigenous people". Many people from the indigenous group benefited from those affirmation actions. Most of them left the forest to settle down in town since they got good education and job. But for some, they don’t want to leave the forest since they emotionally attached and they think that they belong to forest. Most of the indigenous people now employees for the estate, but now due to depopulation, Kurien and other local estate owners employ people from town. The farming business is not much popular as before. Kurien decided to cut the farming land by at least 50% because of rising labor cost and other logistical issues.

The work week for Kurien started as usual, he bought many items from town for indigenous people. They always give a list of items required from town with Kurien, he buys all of them. Sathaiappan showed up around noon, Sathaiappan is leader of the local indigenous people.

“Good Afternoon, Professor, How are you? “ Sathaiappan started with his usual greeting.

“Afternoon, Sathaiappan, I’m fine” Professor replied.

“Sir, be careful, I heard from my boys that 2 leopard on loose in this area, double check the estate gate before dusk”, Sathaiappan showed up whenever there is a news like this and Kurien knows it. Kurien acknowledged it. But Sathaiappan’s visit has more intention than his usual warning messages.

Sathaiappan continued “Sir, my son’s marriage scheduled at town on next month. I’m planning to take all of our people to there. What do you think? “Kurien little shocked because some of them are in forest since their birth, they can not manage in town for even one day. Sathaiappan said “Sir, as you know my son now working in town, he is going to marry town based girl, they are very adamant to keep the marriage in town, I got some worries that how my people can manage out there? How can town people behave to us? I’m kind of confused”.

Kurien also thinking in same way as Sathaiappan, but Kurien encouraged him “Sathaiappan, your people have to come out of forest to join with our main stream, why don’t you take this as chance to introduce town life style to your people, may be they encourage their kids to go school and may some more people even adopt town life style”. Even though Kurien encouraged Sathaiappan to take all of his people to town, he is little hesitant and doubtful, Kurien sees lot of risks like their clothes, food and other habits might trigger friction between them and town people. In order to mitigate the risk, Kurien advised Sathaiappan that “Sathaiappan, please ask your people to dress like town people, ask them to learn town style, some haircut also okay, learn some basic town style language, I can help you, no issues”

Sathaiappan is very happy with Kurien’s advice, he left the place. But Kurien instinct tells something wrong with the plan. Kurien called his home to inquire about whether any meeting or procession planned on the day when Sathaiappan’s son marriage date, his wife confirmed that there are 36 meetings and 15 procession planned already but still 30 more days to go.Kurien now has moral obligation to train indigenous people to get to know about town life style as much as possible. They all also willing to learn some basics.

Sathaiappan’s son marriage date came, all people from forest ready to go town to attend the marriage. Kurien’s plan is to take all of them in two buses. Sathaiappan very thankful to Kurien. The journey would take 3 hours from estate to town,Kurien followed the bus in his jeep. Since it is early morning, the travel is fast and they reached marriage hall on time. After marriage all are ready to go back to forest, now this time town is busy with meetings and processions are getting ready. The bus struck in traffic, people started noticing some unfamiliar and different faces in bus. Kurien prayed god to clear traffic to move fast. By the time there was a big party’s procession coming towards them, police getting ready to control them. Some one from procession start throwing stone towards police. The place became war zone within 20-25 minutes. People starting to scatter from the fight between police and party men which grown out of control. The innocent indigenous people also coming out of bus to save their life. The mob set fire on first bus but no body is in there. Some one from mob shouted to indigenous people that "hey, kill this guys they never vote for us". Even though the indigenous people looking like a town people, the political party mob identified them. The mob got some indigenous people and start beating them. Kurien used his force to separate the innocent people from mob, by the time some one from mob stab Kurien from back. Kurien looks back and noticed he is his ex student.

After all violence, police rescued all indigenous people and took them to forest safely. But 3 of them died in violence. Kurien is admitted in the hospital but his health deteriorates day by day, as wound is not the problem, his mental pain creates more damage, after 5 days in hospital Kurien dies.

Adventures of a Genius Boy from 3rd world country

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 Bachelor degree in Physics, he went to Madras to pursue his masters and Ph.D. He took very complex "how to experiment Bose-Einstein condensate theory" for his research. Now his thesis was liked by Harvard so they sent the invitation for him to continue the research and experiments. Krishnan took some time to think about it, and finally he accepted the offer. The voyage to U.S.A was tough at those times. First Krishnan had to travel Madras to Calcutta by train and Calcutta to London by ship and finally trans Atlantic from London to New York. Krishnan started his journey to Calcutta.

Srirangam,1958
The letter came as thunder to Nammalwar (Nam-mal-War) family, they came to know about Krishnan's U.S.A travel only by his final letter from Madras, which he posted just before starting to Calcutta. Krishnan did not inform his family about his U.S.A travel because he knew that getting consensus from them was really cumbersome. Those days who are bound to U.S.A from India, especially from Southern States was considered as death. Because India was a 3rd world country, no telephone, no communication and letters were took 6 months to reach those places. Basically once they left country, there will not be any short of communications.

Nammalwar shocked and sat on floor as he holding the letter and screamed "Meenal, we lost our son...oh my god what can i do now?". Meenal joined with him and other kids also joined. Their cry rattled the street, everyone from street were in front of Naammalwar's home. The major worrisome of Nammalwar was about the marriage between Krishnan and his Sister's daughter Vasantha. His plan was to make Krishnan a professor at local college and stay with in his reach, he want to see his grand children and so on. But man proposed god deposed.

Vasantha's mom and dad also joined with Nammalwar to console the family with many other relatives and friends.Parthasarathi a close friend of Nammalwar started "Alwar, be strong, the 3rd street Gopal's son also went to foreign country, see how they are managing". Vasantha quickly interrupted "Uncle, he went to Bombay which is part of India". Vasantha internally happy with latest developments, because she was not ready for marriage, her age was only 16 and she want to study more like Krishnan. Moreover she sees Krishnan as role model not husband. Vasantha's mom yelled at her "Vasantha. please go inside, don't interrupt grown man's discussions". Nammalwar said "Partha, I'm much worried about Vasantha, who is going to marry her, we started telling about Vasantha for Krishnan since her birth". The state of Krishnan's home was not good, everyone offered some opinions and their experiences with same situation at distant relatives or close friend's sons.

En route to London,1958
Krishnan took his second class cabin from Calcutta, after initial sea sick and motion sickness, the voyage was smooth. The ship was filled with Doctors, Engineers, mass migrates and some research fellow like Krishnan. All were en route to U.S.A or various European countries after reaching London. Their major mistake was they were born as super intelligent in a 3rd world country hence they have to travel far away places to fulfill their dreams or to just work in their mastered field.

They kill their time by exchanging books between them, each one become good friends and shared about their experiences. One morning, Krishnan started feeling pain and became very tried. His temperature went high, as per ship policy they have to quarantine high fever persons from general passengers if he/she from 3rd world country since malaria fear. Since Krishnan's fever didn't come down in a specified time, hence the ship guards rushed to his cabin. "Sir, we afraid that we have to quarantine since your temperature is high". Krishnan replied "can i ask a n board doctor to check my vital signs before we proceed". The same guard said "No sir, here we don't have any doctors or lab facility, since you are from 3rd world country we have to do this procedure". Krishnan got angry and shouted "what is going on here? are we human or what? i need a doctor and lab test to confirm my malaria? then only i would go to quarantine room...". The guards left the place since co-passengers also agreed with Krishnan. After some time, more guards showed up with some one who appeared higher official, the official said "Mister, this is our ship policy, you have to co-operate with us, otherwise we have to arrest you". This time Krishnan had no other way but go to a separate room.

The room was 8X8 small cabin, food and all other necessities would be provided on time, but Krishnan should not come out of the room until it reaches London. There a doctor would come to the ship and test him, after doctor gives his clearance certificate, Krishnan can come out of ship. The voyage still had 1 month to go, even though Krishnan's fever had gone and he was completely normal, he had to stay at the small room due to the 100 years old policy. Those olden 19th century times doctors were rare, since they did not employ one at ship, but what about now at this 1958, Krishnan started thinking about all those things.

Harvard, 1960
Krishnan completed his thesis with his fellow scientist Tracy, they decided to marry to start their family life. Krishnan got a job at GE but he refused it since he want to stay with educational. He took a professor job at University of Texas. Tracy happily backed him, they both started working at University of Texas. In the mean time, Krishnan exchanged 3 letters with his family back in India. Nammalwar's last letter was a bitter one since he decided to marry an American. Nammalwar wrote that they forgot a son they had in this life. Krishnan had no other choice to take it lightly, but he thought they would be fine after some time.

Houston, 1973
Now Krishnan had 2 kids, one boy and girl. He was very much settled in U.S.A. He became part of many million immigrates who represented the great nation of India. This doctors, engineers and scientists were main reason for demolishing the negative stereotypes of India as well as many other 3rd world countries. Krishnan didn't go to India since he left in 1958. Because he didn't want to go through the ship voyage, moreover he did not want to take 1 year vacation, which includes 6 months of travel. But Tracy insisted him to made a trip to India, because now there was a flight service started from London to Bombay, which was well affordable. After nearly 13 years, Krishnan wrote a letter to his father.


Srirangam,1973
Nammalwar received the letter with detailed travel plan from Krishnan, even though he was angry with him, he always remembered him time to time. After some point of time, Nammalwar realized that we have to go towards opportunities, the opportunities will not come towards to you. Nammalwar family was jubilant with Krishnan's home coming after nearly 15 years. They started all the planning and ordered new cloths, repaint home. But they realized that their daughter in law was an American, so how to readjust for her. So they decided to change home, installed western toilets and many more things.

The day came for Krishnan's plane landing at Madras, all were expecting, how Krishnan must have forgotten Tamil and Indian culture and his wife might not like them. But Krishnan and Tracy landed wearing traditional dhoti & saree and Krishnan opens his mouth with pure Tamil "Appa(father), Amma(mother)".

OMG,You Screwed Up

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 water. After drinking water God continued "Anyway you begged me, I’m here to help you but some string attached". Marion was very happy with God’s encomium, he is now expecting something bigger from God. God said "Son, I will give you a suitcase which is filled with diamonds, each one costs more than 1 million,total worth of all the diamonds is more than 1 billion but you have to satisfy one condition for me, if you do, you can take all the diamonds".

Marion became very tensed, God continued " the condition is, you have to give this suitcase to someone you know, they have to keep the suitcase for 3 days in their possession, if they try to open or steal it the deal breaks, whenever they try to open or steal it you will get text message, only opening has no issues but stealing is unacceptable, you then take the suitcase from them and give to other, you can rotate to 3 persons, if all 3 persons do fail, you won’t get this suitcase, when giving to them you have to disclose all the details about this suitcase but you should not tell that I gave you, and you should not give the suitcase to person who’s age is below 18" Marion is very happy that this is the dumbest condition, he thinks that he can satisfy God’s condition very easily.

God took his mobile number and suddenly become invisible. Marion is very happy that he is going to own 1 billion very soon.

Swami(Priest) Shakalakalavallavan(Shak)

Marion knows Shak for more than 25 years. Shak lives in a hut and eats only raw vegetable. Shak claims that God directly speaks with him daily.He offered many solutions to some of his followers. Marion was one of his hardcore followers. As soon as, God told all conditions, Marion starts thinking about Shak. Because Shak is a priest, he has no wife, kids, no bad habits, he even didn’t get money from followers for his spiritual services. He even doesn’t know how a 100 dollar bill looks like. Marion decided to give the suitcase to Shak. Marion meets Shak and said "Swamiji, I have something for you to keep, it is a suitcase full of diamonds, worth more than 1 billion, I want you to keep this for 3 days. Shak opens his eyes said "Kid, I don’t know what you meant by 1 billion, is it weight of the diamonds? You can keep it in my personal room, I will take care for you,pukka". Marion is very happy and left the suitcase in Swamiji’s room.

First 2 days no text messages, Marion started thinking about how he wants to spend that 1 billion dollar. He wants to buy a shoe immediately since his shoe become very old, want to buy a house in Hawaii, Florida and buy a diamond nickels for his wife. His day dreaming stopped when he got text that suitcase was open, and then followed by stealing text. Marion was shocked and rushed to Swamiji’s hut.

As per design, whenever someone try to open the suitcase and touches the diamond, they become paralyzed, they can’t move until they see Marion. Swami’s hand is stuck in suitcase until Marion showed up in his room. Marion asked "Swamiji, you try to steal the diamonds, why swamiji, why?". Swamiji cried that "sorry my son, I was little disturbed with huge money, how many more days I’m going to spend in this hut, I also want to buy a private island to mediate peacefully". Marion took the suitcase and left the place.

Businessman Boughut

Marion’s one of close friend is Boughut, he is one of the top world’s richest person. As per latest Forbes, his rank is 10th. Marion now thinks that if he gives the suitcase to richest man, his suitcase will be safe because Boughut already owns 300 billion dollars, he will not try to steal from this suitcase. Marion got the appointment to meet Bought, he explained all to Boughut. Boughut said "See Marion, I don’t have time to open this suitcase, I travel all over world, I might forget this conversation because I have so much to do, so little time, I will keep this for you 3 days, 1 billion is like 100 dollars for me,you know" Marion again becomes confident that he will own the suitcase.

As soon as Marion came out of the meeting he enters bathroom, he just opened his pants zip he got first text that the suitcase was opened, even before he completes pee, he got second message that diamond are about to be stolen. Marion ran to Boughut office. Boughut explained that "see Marion, the difference between me and my next richest man is only 50 million, you see my company stock also dent now, to make those 50 million I try to steal 50 diamonds, sorry, You know slipping from 10th rank to 11th rank is soo hard". Marion now very saddened, Boughut's greediness bollixed up the deal between him and God.He takes the suitcase and left Boughut’s office.

Prof. Paratha

Prof Paratha is Marion’s classmate and roommate. Both of them are thickest friends. Prof. Paratha dedicated his entire life to researching Aliens and UFOs. One time Prof. Paratha absconded from University and claimed that he was abducted by Aliens. But he went to Arizona desert to hide under bunkers because he got a credible message from outer space that aliens preparing to attack human immediately.

Marion now thinks that Prof. Paratha is the only resort to keep the suitcase because academics would not follow money like spiritual or businessman. Marion meets Prof. Paratha explains all about suitcase and diamonds. Prof. Paratha said, "Marion, don’t worry, I will not even touch the suitcase, you can keep it in my lab".

Marion comes out the university campus with renewed hope that he will own all diamonds. This time Marion didn’t get text messages 2 days. Marion starts ordering his shoe, his wife’s necklace, and some emails to Hawaii realtor. 3rd day came and time passes by, Marion is holding his breath. But he got first open text message and followed by steal message. Prof. Paratha disappointed he couldn’t even see Marion eye to eye, but he insisted that "I didn’t steal any diamonds, but I was very curious to see whether this diamonds came from other space, usually earth based diamonds won’t weigh this much you know".

The suitcase became invisible with in seconds, and a text message come from God to Marion which simply stated "OMG, you screwed up".

The dance of Cobra

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 Mitch died on the way to hospital. Sajo became mentally disturbed after the incident, she simple could not forget the love with Mitch. She became monomaniac with Mitch’s death. She thinks that Mitch died because of financial strain caused by his other 3 partners. There was no evident to that, but she strongly believes that. Because she checked his bank balance it was very low, no balance in business, investment account either. She went to his partners, and they simply showed empty hand, they claimed that Mitch took all of his money and profits. They said he had to pay back some money to firm which he took as loan.Sajo abstruse to Mitch’s intention of more money. Sajo decided to take revenge, she has a plan to do it also. Her first target is Shamu.

Dance at Old Tavern
Shamu usually drinks at Old Tavern. He usually goes there at 9.00PM on all Fridays. Tavern reserved a table, he usually drinks 2 cocktails. His cocktail would be ready by 8.00PM and placed it in table. The cocktail he drinks is “Fireoneverest”. The special cocktail is only available at some tavern in city. The cocktail first filled with ice water, vodka, whisky, mango juice and then orange juice. After one hour all drinks separated based on density, first mango juice, whisky, orange juice, vodka and then ice water. The drinks give a different taste and hotness based on which one drinks. Shamu likes it. Sajo knows it. Sajo enters at tavern exactly at 7.30PM, her plan was, sit in front of Shamu’s reserved table, talk with Shamu for sometime, after he finishes first drink, he usually goes to bathroom, at that time poison the second one and leave the place. Shamu arrived at tavern exactly 8:55PM.

Shamu scanned all around the place and noticed Sajo. He smiled at her and waved her. Sajo went to his table.

“Hello, Shamu, how you been?” Sajo asked,

“Fine, how you been? And how are you holding up with Mitch’s loss?” he replied. Sajo said “going on good, holding up but his death unforgettable for me”.

Shamu noticed that she is about to cry, he try to provide some solace her “if you want to work for our firm, you are always welcome to, you know some change may help to forget Mitch and to start new life”.

Sajo grudges inside that “you want me to die also, you sucker!!! You’re life also going to end very end”. Shamu completes his first drinks and excuse himself for man’s room break. By the time, Sajo added the poison. Shamu comes back and started drinks the second one. Sajo inside started her revenge dance. Shamu completes his mango and then whisky and then slowly towards poison. Sajo left the place as more virago.

Dance at City Gym
Sajo knows that Andy usually goes to City gym at very late after work. The gym is located near to his workplace. Her plan was to enter bath room when Andy takes shower to shot him. She knows that entering the gym is walk in the park but how to enter inside men’s bath room. She decided to wear man’s costume, mustache and a cap. She enters the gym and directly whisks to men’s bath room, but no one is there other than janitor.

Janitor looks at her doubtfully “Sir, can I help you?”, she said “no, thanks”. She comes out of bath room. Where is Andy? She looks around and finds Andy at gym, he was busy with talking with some one. She thinks that to abort the plan and come back later. But she doesn’t want to, she want to kill Andy now with out delay, her revenge minds take over her thoughts, and she is impulsive. Andy completed his conversation and took his bag. Sajo knows that he is going to enter bath room. She again rushed to bath room, this time no one was there. Andy enters inside and Sajo take her gun and shot him. Andy died on the spot. Sajo ran away from the place with more rancor.

Dance at 14th floor City Hotel
Finally Sajo wants to kill John, but killing John is not an easy task. John is a Good Samaritan. He comes to office and return to home. It is rare to see him alone any where. Sajo plans several ways to take out John but she can’t find anything safe and sound. Only way to take out John is, book a room at city hotel next to John’s work place, and sniper shot from there. Because John clearly visible from there. Sajo executed brilliantly the plan and she killed John and she killed herself. Her revenge was completed.

But Sajo is completely wrong about those 3 partners. Mitch has some other extramarital affairs with other lady. She blackmailed him for money. Mitch doesn’t want to jeopardize his family life hence he paid money to her. She started again and again, but one point of time Mitch refused to give her any money. She murdered Mitch at his house by cutting his vein. Sajo missed all those things. She blindly targeted those innocent partners.

Unfinished Story

[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 here, Officer?” the officer answered immediately “No Sir.”. Jack now concentrates on his focus on body, the victim is on her late 20s, lying on bed with a single bullet wound on her forehead. The way bed looks to Jack, the crime happened when victim was asleep, the killer may be used silencer to shot her on forehead without any resistance from victim. No robbery, nothing was even touched. Jack now looks at the same officer and he promptly replied “Sir, her husband is on his official trip to New York, he is on the way back to LA”. The officer knows whenever detective looks to them after checking robbery and other things, next question would be about his/her spouse.

Now Jack’s job is little tough, husband was not there in L.A when the crime took place, and no robbery was motive, then what would be motive? Jack sees a photo on bed room, the victim and her husband with happy smiles in there. Jack guess that they are happily married couple, living in million dollar home,thinks that he got a challenging case after some years. Jack asked the officer to call him once the coroner office finished their duties.

Jack left the home to his office, on the way his mind started thinking about the case. He now got all the details. The victim name is Amanda, she is 28 years old, an ex-interior designer, and after marriage she stopped working. Her husband name is Zack, he is with real estate business. He has several office buildings and he is one of the wealthiest men in LA. They got married 3 years ago, and as per police report, no previous criminal records, no domestic disturbance. Everything is clean and all seems to go well with this young couple then what went wrong with them?

Jack reached his office and sat on his desk. He started drawing a flow chart. Most of the detectives don’t want to get into this kind of complicated murder case, because it drains their energy and need too much focus. If it becomes a cold case, the department put a black mark on detective’s career. But Jack always want to take tough cases like this because for him it is challenging.

Not Yet Named

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 over after late night or close to midnight. The girls naming ceremony would not be this much longer and it would be cut short because girls name is not important to Indian culture.

The astrologer stares at "Not Yet Named" parents and did some calculation, and he explains that "your son was born when Saturn looking directly to mercury at 5th house and mercury intersecting venues at 9th house so we shouldn’t name him now, the naming ceremony shall happen on his 34th birthday and his name shall be "Sadagopa Gopalla Govinda Govinda Govinda". He continued "if we name him now, his life time will be curtail and he will be die at his age 15th". The parents got scared, they determined not to name him until the age 34th. They used to call him "Muthaladhavan" (literally means first born son).

But when "not yet named" become school age the problem arise, because they have to give some name to school. The parents called his uncle who was rocket scientist at NASA in U.S.A. He is official brain for his family’s issues like this, he would offer a solution with in 10 nano seconds using his rocket science brain. But this issue was little different for him to handle, but he offered a solution that "we can give "not yet named" as name to school, because here in U.S.A also i used to give the same to social security when my son born after consulting our astrologer I changed to real name". So our hero got a name "not yet named" officially, his friends used to call him "nameless" like "seedless". His name appears strange in his certificates, one of high school diploma his name came as "not yet named why??", his parents spent lot of money to change it to "not yet named" after several explanation to high school data entry office.

The issue with Liechtenstein embassy is, they also named several possible terrorists "not yet named" because they have the photo or rough sketch but no name. Our hero name also matched with it, either he has to wait another 11 years to reapply or Liechtenstein embassy have to implement facial recognition software to clear his name.

China need Google or Google need China

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 going into each market, they have to have a solid plan and some expectation. Can anybody open a liquor shop at Saudi Arabia? or Can anybody sell beer in Sunday morning before noon here in Illinois(sometime I go crazy, especially foot ball season)? A law is a law, rule is a rule whether we like it or not, we have to obey it and change it accordingly.

Human right issue was highly politicalized term. Now this point of time, no can expect or preach a decent human right talk, since we are in the middle of 2 wars and tortured people at various secret locations. What will happen if 2 hackers from Russia hacked some Gmail account that belongs to notorious mafia, Google will disinvest from Russia or same with India? At same time, human right issue will tackled by citizen of each country, if there is violation in my town, my locality, I have to raise my voice. That’s the only way to stop human right issues. None of the governments or law enforcement officials can stop it over night.

As long as all are happy and no noise coming out of from the places, we can mind our own business. Some time we used to compare China/India labor salary in terms of dollars, which is highly wrong, because most of them in that country people know more than one job, they know how to make money for them as well as their family. Just think in terms of others, all the countries in this world aren’t rich, if the definition of rich is only point to money, all of them are rich if the definition slightly changed that people who are happily living are rich.

Hidden Truth

"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, Alice also very intelligent too. Tinen is very interested to find out who attacked human race, why our earth become this polluted and who is responsible for all those mess in earth. He did a extensive research and found that there are some mention about Star wars/terminators, where aliens came to earth and they fought with their ancestors and the aliens were responsible for all pollutions.

Paul a buddy of Tinen is so sure that the mystery spot near pacific ocean was the place where aliens first landed. Paul's dad was worked with government's, they has some footage of alien's fight with human race but all are classified information. Not only this kids, overall population believes that earth was polluted by aliens.

Tinen replied to Alice "yes, i believe so, you know what, me and paul going to visit a mystery spot near pacific ocean, where aliens first landed". Alice is so excited that Tinen taking next steps to find the truth. Paul and Tinen get into terrafugia and set all command to reach mystery spot. Terrafugia fly Mac 3 to reach the place within 2 hours, they get down from machine, start analysis all.

The spot totally zero gravity and the theory was a black hole caused by alien transporter caused some damage of gravity force there. Paul whispered to Tinen's ears "see the tree, how it formed, a portion of it pent exactly 90 deg, no doubt aliens landed here and caused this, what do you think?". Tinen is very deep thought, his mind is full of wave of new possibilities, theories. Tinen not convinced with Paul's conclusion, his main concern was why in this place only? why the black hole not in other places?

They started Terrafugia to back home, Tinen updated Alice about his finding and she also not convinced. Tinen is thinking it is all myth, our human being always find ways to blame others, they won't take any responsibilities. Only way to debunk this myth is to see the footage of fighting between human and aliens, but that was highly classified and preserve in government museum which is, 4 floor below ground. Like anybody else, Tinen, Paul and Alice keep guessing who caused this? Aliens or humans?

Happy New Year - 2010

Happy New Year to everyone, we are end of a decade and start of new year, a new decade. 2000-2009 was the one of the worst decade as per my opinion. 2 recessions, 2 wars and more and more terrorist attacks. However, our life goes on and on, we had a great quality as human being, which is forget the past, and move on. The celebration's are the main source to motivate people, forget all and move on.

As oppose to everyone expectations, 2009 year was not a growth year rather it was stabilizing year. The stronger end of year holiday shopping lift some hope for 2010, but as per latest news holiday shopping in U.S.A mainly boosted by international travelers, many from euro zone, pacific rim, and Canada spent lot of money here. The trend is also now jeopardy since the strict international travel measure, thanks to the sole terrorist attack against U.S.A bound flight. U.S.A consumers are still in stingy mood, the money flow tighter than before and deteriorating labor market. The market pundits now speculating 2010 will be again a stabilizing year and 2011, 2012 will be growth year.

Even though the reality is little tough, i think 2010 will be a good year for everyone, if not great one. Labor market will improve, i foresee some new way of flowing money will be invent, new technology break through will happen and BRIC countries continue to develop faster than industrial nations. But i'm sure that we are not going to see any miracle happen overnight to change the overall economy condition of U.S.A and rest of the world.

Happy New Year 2010....

How to catch a rat?

On Christmas day, Here is one fun short story. I'm working on it for days...

Back home in India, we always had rat issue when i was kid. We used to have lengthy discussions, brainstorm and strategy session to go through how to catch rats. The issue was, the rats came only at night to spoil our food and other eatables. It was suggested that, to have cat at home to scare rats and have a dog also to scare cat, so cat would eat more rats. But one brilliant mind suggested that what if after all the rats gone, what to do with the cat and dog. Everybody agreed that point and scraped the whole cat/dog idea, we all went back to whiteboard.

I suggested one idea that i would wake up daily night for a week to analyze all rats and its behavior and then make an appropriate plan to catch all rats. Nobody seems to agree, because i was too young to wake up all night and my plan was a bit vague to them . First i was angry with all of them, but then realized that it was my bad to blame others because i didn't explain it properly, so i decided to cajole again this time with proper explanations.

I started my arguments, as per scientific researches that rats are like human, they use rat for any scientific test before use it on human. Like human each rat was different, we can't use one trick to catch all rats hence we need to profile our invaders first and then come up with different approach. I started looking everybody face, they were not quite convinced. I thought my scientific approach failed, what else i have, my heart bumped and mind started spinning to win the hearts and minds.

I didn't have any more cards, i got an idea on the spot, i started again my argument, this time i used a practical jargon, see, Mama(uncle) used to be scared of elephant but not his wife. Chittapa(uncle) used to be scared of his wife but not of bulls. That's the difference, we have to had a solid plan to catch the rat because like human they also have their own preference. Now everybody agreed and they said that they need some more time to discuss about this plan.

I pleaded with them , time was running out, already we lost enough food because of rats now monsoon season also started. They said don't worry, everything should be analyzed carefully before come to conclusion. By the time, harvest started sooner than usual because of early start of monsoon. All raw rice were stored in front of our house, rat issue became Brobdingnagian.

I was waiting for a decision from all of them. They came back after 1 week, with the decision i most disliked. They apparently went to temple priest to find out any remedy for rat issue religiously. The priest misguided them by offering a ritual which was not in entire Hinduism practice. One said that before applying my unproven scientific approach lets try this cheap one and see the results, he even added that it was proven and priest used this ritual to stop rats at sannathi(a street usually named which starts from in front of temple) street.

I was in dilemma, do i need to stop this nonsense? or let them try this, at end of it, i can use it as my card to persuade them further. I said okay lets try this ritual and made a stress on my point that if this fails, i would use my approach. The priest was very busy with harvest ritual at fields, he gave an appointment ,a week after today, by the time, i sneaked at night and started my surveillance. The main issue with my home was, there are so many holes that rats used to enter, i can't close all of them because some of them are used to drainage rain water but can be closed if it not raining.

The priest came and did his rituals, the smoke was inside home and i loved the smell which is not ordinary fire, the fire was started by ghee and main fuel was sandalwood. I loved the smell but i couldn't see anything for sometime, my eye started burning. I wondered how come the priest sitting in front of fire, he was very close to the fire and he always burn the fire the height above his head, the smoke really start from where the fire ends.

After rituals, 2-3 days there was no rats, all clear, everybody happy. There are some rats but those are manageable by "Tiger" the cat we used to raise to control rats but no dog yet. I was surprised that how come no rats, so the ritual helped?. I was too scare to go in front of all, they might start laughing at me. I was right, one by one came into my room and laughed and started mocking me, see we had controlled everything by a simple ritual, what happened to your science and theory?

I was ashamed and started thinking what went wrong with my thought process? I still smell the ghee mixed sandalwood fire burns. I slept with too many wounds in my heart and felt hurt. In my dreams, i started chasing rat with fire on my hands, some stupid dreams, hell no, wait!! i woke up and i realized that the smell made rats away from my home, once the smell go away the rats would come back. Am i right? I asked myself 1000 times yes, i'm right, before i announce this theory to others, i want to make sure everything was right. I took my bicycle went to library, search for book at chemistry side, fire chemistry, i checked it, fire releases light and energy, ghee and sandalwood accelerate the energy to reach all the places, the home was now trapped with the energy.The smell was still there so rats were away from my home as they don't like the smell. As per my theory, rats would come back after all the energy gone.

I went and told my findings, this time nobody was interested to listen me. They said rats issue was past, all are gone, you can go to your room and continue your studies. I went to my room and thinking yes, they have a point, the smell might live longer for a month or so, by the time harvest would be over, rice would go to mill and be sold, monsoon would become peak and rats won't come out . Even if the energy was completely gone, how much time it will take to re-do the ritual? I was satisfied with everything, and i slept quietly.

New Year Resolutions 2010

2009 was great year for me and i have achieved most of my self-assigned goals, very important milestone i achieved on 2009 is, bought the home at Naperville. It was great to set up some goals for next year and to work for it. Blogging, micro blogging are the great asset for this self-learning and self-improvement. 2009 was a mixed year for me and my family we together worked as team to fulfill most of the goals. Here are some notable achievements.

1. Home.
2. 2000+ Tweets, following 3500+ and 3500+ followers which is unbelievable.
   
3. 50 blogs and completed development of web 2.0 tool http://www.tamilscrap.com and uploaded 100+ contents.
4. Reduced weight to below 195 lbs.
5. Had a blast at summer, visited Pittsburgh,Niagara and spent great quality time with kids and family.

But as usual there are some left out and will be finished it this new year.

2010, will be again a same as 2009 for me and my family. Here are my resolutions and goals.

1. Learn a new speaking language.
2. Maintain same weight.
3. Weekly 1/2 blog and daily 2/3 micro blogs.
4. Continually improve tamilscrap site.
5. Visit to India.
6. Read more articles.
7. Work on reduce accent.
8. Last but not the least, spend quality time with family same as 2009.

Copenhagen – Best Vacation Spot

Last 1-2 weeks my blood started boil and my pressure shoots high, I was very disappointed with our politicians. They are not at all serious enough to handle the climate control summit at Copenhagen rather they are enjoying at Copenhagen like vacation. The main issue is, no body has ball to announce something positively and go back home to face their internal opposition politics. It is a final chance for all prime ministers, presidents, and kings to make pledge on future of humanity, if they miss this once in a life time chance, the whole human race will be evicted from earth Period.

I think the whole Climate control should be handled by intelligent think tanks, they know better than politicians. The “unpolitics” mind just think about real statistics and carefully draft the long term goals. Politicians can validate the recommendations and vote on the final terms and conditions, in other words gamble on entire humanity’s future. The threat is real and sea level raising day by day, climate is not same like before. Skin cancer, hurricane and irregular monsoon are evident for that, it doesn’t require a rocket scientist to figure that out. We are the final stage of, North Pole melting cycle, unless we control as much as possible CO2 emission, the ice melt will accelerate on 2020 and almost 5% of world land goes under water.

Now the blame game in Copenhagen is, as always a circus, between developed and developing nations. Everyone is very careful about what to promise, what to say, what to sign, and very picky about wording such as “Shall” “Should” “Must” etc. Please remember that we are not making a case against anyone, no need of attorney’s mind set here, we need some candid leaders come forward to pledge at least control 40-50% CO2 emission by 2020. Once they do, remaining countries would follow the same. It doesn’t matter whether CO2 emission comes from developed or developing or under developing countries, all are going to spoil our earth atmosphere. Don’t worry about remaining terms or future election, please do it for humanity for once for all.

Tiger Woods

Thanks to Tiger Woods, he indefinitely changed the definition of Golf, next summer if I say I’m going to play golf to my wife, she might reply sarcastically "really". [Pun Intended]. The point is Tiger Woods’s image is free falling, this media dominated society day by day adding salt to wound. As of now the total count of Tiger Woods’s mistress is staggering 16 and counting. There is no difference between 1 and 100 in terms of mistress, so media can leave this man alone to repair his marriage life to allow him to come back to Golf as soon as possible, rather than counting mistress like an election result or base ball score.

What is the real issue with Tiger Woods? He was a champion of Golf which was denied to minorities until 1960s. It was amazing that he become a master of a game which was never learned by his ancestors, further more he had stuttering problem. He is a great fighter and he will definitely come back and most of his followers and fans still believe him. We are all feeling pity for him but not angry with him.

What went wrong with him? I think like many other sportspersons and politicians and celebrities, Tiger’s case also "monomaniac" side effects. He was too much into Golf since young age and he doesn’t diversify his interested to other things, as a result he become addicted to something not agreeable to society. He can do several things to keep engaged on after Golf times which will be helpful for his profession also. For example. Fishing is also helps increase concentration, writing books (I bet his books would fly off from shelves like Harry Potter), spending quality time with family, there are many millions of million things available here for him to engage with his money. There are many monomaniac are in same path like Tigers such as Gambling, Drugs, and Girls, if we see the patterns, most of them are interested in only one thing since childhood.