India and Test Cricket

Great achievement for Team India. They have performed against all odds and predictions and made it to 0-3. In another weeks time, these results would be reversed to 0-4. Come on, have we ever forgotten how to win the matches in abroad. Did those cricketers ever notice the pre match hype in news papers - 2-1 or 3-0 or 4-0. Only once we crossed 300 mark that too when we followed on. Pathetic guys, do phase out or do post mortem whatever but all I can say is a golden opportunity missed. Also you underestimated the opponents. Kudos to team India and it will make a definite sense to have rankings as ICC Ranking for home matches, ICC ranking for away matches. ICC please think about it and you have the example here.

Thanks,
Varun

After an year gap

Well...I am back with a new post....It has been a long gap between by previous post and the current post.As usual, I had nothing useful to post and like a common IT guy, I didnt have the so called time to write in my own blog. My last post was about Spain's world cup win and now you could imagine my laziness here. Last four to five days, it has been raining like hell and roads have become bad worst and ugly for a common man like me. But that didnt even stop me in watching mayakkam enna movie. It was a classical one from Selva and special kudos to the camera man. Selva has cleverly understood the pulse of the young working adults and delivered a colorful film with the drama, comedy, love and more important the passion. I remembered one dialog "Since you like your job so much, you are crying because of the failure". Definitely, I would agree to that. I asked the same question within myself. Do I love my job or am I forced to love my job. Answer...slightly the combination of both. I was forced to move out of my passion (from sales) but at a later point of time I agreed myself that I was not a good material for sales and moved on. Now, I am thriving in marketing and definitely I have understood where my strength lies.

Spain - The world champions

Hi Everyone,
It was an above average finale, though we should not consider it as Grand finale or epic finale. Other than Robben's close moves, it was a boring match right from the beginning. Heck of yellow cards flew here and there with one red card which indicated clearly that both teams were in nervy mood. But you should applause the efforts of a man who did enormously well with his nature of duty "Iker casillas". He saved the best of Robben, penalty of Uruguay and Klose's long kick. He conceded only one goad and rightly deserved the Golden Glove award. Bravo man..Spain and Real Madrid should be proud of you.

Thanks,
Varun

Maoist attack

Hello all,
First, I should express my condolence for all, who died in the train mishap. Numbers are high this time and i frankly don't have any clue or what so ever on understanding on what these guys want? They have been claiming themselves as the saviors of the poor and rescuers of the poor from police. But the same folks executed the ruthless and arrogant train mishap which resulted 144+ killings. The government is bit sloppy by going into a defensive approach rather than into an attacking mode. You should have a proper strategy in place to control 20k maoists with 8K warriors. Mao has his words " your enemy decides on what kind of weapon you need to take". So now maoists decided to take the violent approach so.....

Thanks,
Varun

OMR Apartments

Last week, I visited OMR road to identify the flats for my friend. I got some thrilling on the other words stunning experience during this trip. We visited and enquired with all the builders and the standard rates have been pretty high at all times. I am publishing the appoximate rate structure average per sq.feet here.

Opaline Olympia - 3800+
Hiranandani - 4500+
TVH - 3800+
L&T EDEN - 4300+
Real Value promoters - 2700+ (They are yet to get the approval)
Puravankara - 2200+ (Resides on the outskirts of Kelambakkam -4 kms away)
Marg - 2200+
Dugar Gold city - 2700+
Chennai pattinam - 2100+
Lotus pond Vijaya Shanthi -2700+
Arihant - 2500+

The others like Akshaya were sold out. Due to home loan aggressive offers, Many are tend to purchase a flat and the reason might be the rental increase in the main areas like velachey and guindy and other reason would be the tangible asset come investment. I came to know that there were lesser recession effects for the builders. So visit OMR and get one flat.

Thanks,
Varun

Surf Excel - Common sense

Hope you folks have noticed Surf excel's advertisement commonsense. As a person from marketing department, I just wanted to be in common sense list by trying surf excel with my top loading washing machine. My wife and I had a lengthy argument about this and she doubted about the validity of this ad and it would be full of marketing jargon. At the end of the argument, I decided to purchase the top loading powder and experiment it. Obviously, I obtained the same results of 50% purity which was similar to the normal surf excel. After that I tried with Ariel and it produced say around 70% purity. So my advise is please have common sense.

Thanks,

Varun

New year 2010

Shutters down for 2009 and we have entered the new year 2010. Last year, I took a resolution to respect traffic signals. I ended up with the ratio of 70:30 with initial 7 months I respected and after that I didn't. But this time I have planned to carry forward this resolution and aimed to take another resolution as well. I would want to read at least 20 books for this full year which will roughly cost you 2 books per month types. I don't know even I might think that it would be like a target in sales which could be ever achieved. But let me see and at least make it 80:20. And another sub resolution is I need to read a new article on a day to day basis and 2 posts per month. I believe these activities will help me to bolster my thirst for knowledge initiative and hunger to improve my skills as well.

For this month, I have taken the famous book Winning from Jack Welch

Thanks,

Varun