Varun's Journey- A daily life

India and Test Cricket

2012-01-16T04:05:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-27T04:23:00.000-08:00

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

2010-07-12T04:00:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-30T09:08:00.000-07:00

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

2010-02-05T02:54:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-04T18:35:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-04T04:51:00.001-08:00

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

My Guru's presentation about Social media networking

2009-12-01T21:52:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

Please find the slide deck of Saba's presentation at the bombay chamber of commerce on social media for marketing. I bet this presentation has met its objective and it is not self explanatory.

Find it here : http://bit.ly/4qnl1u

(or)

http://www.djargon.com/blog/social-media-for-marketing-and-corporate-communication.html

Thanks,

Varun

dayavarun@gmail.com

Attractive SaaS question

2009-08-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

When I was googling for saas related articles, this question attracted me. "What happens to my data if my SaaS service provider/remote hosting service/other outsourced service fails as a business and is forced to close?". I will post the answer in my next post. Meanwhile, if you know the answer for this question, please add a comment in my post.

Thanks,

Varun

Usain Bolt

2009-08-17T03:18:00.000-07:00

Usain Bolt - The man you could ever imagine. Rediff has pointed correctly as "Mind blowing bolt". He has achieved the newer mile stone by beating his own record 9.74 to 9.58. It is now a world record for the 100m race and he has finished with his own style. Now the media has started comparing Bolt and Jesse Owens and not only for the record but also the character, temperament and the style. The response from this dynamic personality for the new world record " I was thinking 9.40 but happy for 9.58". That means his journey is not over as yet. So wish him for the next world record. BTW, Dravid is back.

Thanks,

Varun

Sridhar Vembu - The new charisma in the software world

2009-08-14T03:24:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

It is a healthy morning today despite Swine flu fears. I have seen a banner rather a poster behind a car saying "Zoho - your online office". A name has certainly changed the name of the company, focus and new energy to the total software industry. This company with the former name "Adventnet" has renamed themselves as "Zoho" and you have to really appreciate their Branding and promotional activities. They are competing with Google docs and infact they have won a big deal with GE. Zoho CRM, word, excel - what else and what not. It is very easy to get your login ID password with the help of your yahoo and gmail ID. It is not Sridhar's entire work and he hasn' t believed this concept will work for "Adventnet" (Referred from his blog: http://blogs.adventnet.com/svembu/). Folks, He has the right to slam Microsoft and he has done it in a beautiful way. (Again refer his blog). It is the new beginning and they have done decently well to cope up with Micrsoft and Google's standards. For more visit www.zoho.com.

Thanks,

Varun

Tata Nano

2009-07-17T00:35:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Today is the remarkable day for car users especially for middle class and lower middle class community. Tata has planned to handover Nano car's fist key to a mumbaikar. They believe that they can give all 100000 cars by the end of q,2010. This is due to production contraints and they can advance the production to supply more nano cars. Though the car looks nano or even i can say Micro, it is ok for the Middle class and lower middle class audience. A car with the price of 1 lakh and people can easily compare prices with Pulsar or Unicorn, which have the price of 65k and 60k respectively. But nano's performance???? we should wait and see.

Thanks,

Varun

Budget and Sensex

2009-07-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Budget and sensex are the two dissimilar characters but one's plus may become the onus of the other's. I came across an interesting article in Hindu about Budget and commonsense. Everyone knew that the sensex had crashed 800 points during budget session. The reason was straightforward " didnt meet the expectation". But anybody understood the important factor like: Presented in budget vs layman's understanding towards the budget. Post budget discussion wont help you in future with this volatile market. Citizens of India should be educated during the budget session itself on what is there for the common man. Will it possible. Yes it should be right..Government should release the parallel budget explanation document or the other choice would be "stop the trading for a day".
After a long time, I have come up with this post but what I did during this time
1. Mourned Michies death
2. Hailed the determination of Fedex
3. Hailed Andy Roddick
4. Became the fan of Zoho.com and Sridhar Vembu
5. Admired cricket in pakistan and pakistan's cricket
Thanks,
Varun

Sensex and it is very sensitive index

2009-05-20T21:20:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
It was a hot and race session in Mumbai for the past 3 days. In the history of sensex, This was the first time where the sensex closed due to high volatile purchase. Sensex zoomed 2000 points in few hours of trading and market was shut down for the full working day. The reason was the elections where Singhji has formed a stable government for the next five years. Will this trend reduce the slowness in Indian market and especially in the IT industry? My answer is may be. Since the companies have got enough cash inflow for the past 2 days, they may try to invest more in their recent initiatives. But who knows? Any way let us welcome this trend and it will be a good start for Indian future.

Thanks,

Varun

The Elections 2009

2009-05-19T01:44:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
It was been quite long time to cope up with personal and office works to write a small post. Though this reason looks childish I am unable to find any other reason. Things apart, we all had election and IPL fever (still continuing) this month. Elections - This was the first time in Tamilnadu where we had 70+ percentage of polling and the results outplayed or outsmarted predictions and it was awesome. People voted not for party not for slogan and they voted for reality and they voted for the individual performance. Examples P.Chidambaram and R.Velu. Doing everything for India and Tamilnadu alone was not enough rather you should do something for your own constituency. Another example is TR Balu and another is Vaiko. So democracy is still very much alive and the power is still with a common village person.

Thanks,

Varun

Sathyam and Rubber Stamp

2009-01-26T17:36:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
After a long long time, I came up with a post that too with the recent so called" Sathyam Saha".....Whenever you win in the race, every one will praise you...When you start loosing the game,every one will start blame you.....That is what exactly happened in Sathyam's case....I heard one road shop fellow comment "One computer shop sathyam is in cheating case"......Gentleman it is not a computer shop or an ordinary store....It was an Era....It was an effort from a village man's son....It was a company which has 185 fortune 500 clients.....What a sudden failure...where the mistake is .....I read an excellent article from outlook business.....It is a comparative study.....I liked one of former cricketer Attapattu's comments about Srilankan cricket board " Full of puppets headed by a Joker".....It is not the same but It happened....Sathyam was all about Top down approach......Board of members were acted as a rubber stamp rather they forced to...Mytas acquisition was the last effort to make sathyam in road...But it was a failure attempt and the big man is now in Jail....I discussed with one of my friend" why all these problems if he sold Sathyam to IBM two months back" ..The answer I got is "Raju's vision was to create Sathyam like IBM".....If he did wrong or not, we need to accept his brave heart on his confession that too from the position of CEO of Sathyam.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Blogs worthy to watch

2008-12-29T01:48:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
Please go through some of my friend's blogs which are informative and useful.
To know more about English and some spicy
http://scribbles-blacksnow.blogspot.com/
To know some heart touching
http://panjaram.blogspot.com/
To know about attitude
http://baranee-perception.blogspot.com/
To know some interesting thoughts (No recent posts though)
http://www.ramz-thoughts.blogspot.com/
To know more about your "autograph" days
http://learn-through-life.blogspot.com/
Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Go Green concept

2008-12-29T01:41:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
Go Green is the recent Buzz word for Indian economy and especially with IT companies. The idea is termed as one of the key differentiator for the IT companies in competitive market. US companies want to work with the companies which are environment friendly. Hope you all had the possibility to view IBM's recent advertisement on "Go Green " concept. So what is that "Go Green".. Simple...Environment friendly and saving power or energy..U want detail???Here it is.........For companies, 'going green' means taking several steps such as using machines with power-saving mode, using natural light in offices during day time, increasing employee awareness on energy conservation, re-cycling/reusing of packaging material, avoiding use of polythene, reducing consumption of stationery and following LEED norms for construction purpose. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-INDIA) Green Building Rating System is a globally approved benchmark for green buildings.....So Make ur organization as "Go Green" by taking responsible for the above mentioned activities.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Rewind - year 2008

2008-12-26T02:53:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
I would like to recollect some of the events/incidents/happened things in the year 2008.
1. India's controversial lose in Sydney-cricket and a memorable win in perth..the ground which is termed as Ponting's backyard and the way ishant bowled to the big man and got him out with a glorious delivery........
2. Abinav's Gold from Shooting...which is his own effort by having one foreign coach with the lack of indian standards and full credit to him. India can only proud of him because he is an Indian.
3. Mystery spinning by Ajantha Mendis----Mendis code-The seniors were unable to crack it and Dhoni and co has done it with an emphatic style.....
4. Need a better teacher to start violence- Ask Raj thakarae and co and learn a lot from them...
5. How to convert a losing department to a revenue generating one---Ask Lallu...He and his collegues will teach you a lot in what is meant by innovative ideas.....
6. Economy slow down- Impacted heavily in Indian economy and see- saw market with zig-zag sensex points on a day to day basis....
7. Got red handed in cheating---It is Sathyam and the world bank Saha
8. Bravery - The indian NSG commandos police from bombay. The way they tackled the issues in Mumbai....Kudos to them...
9. Deepika padukone- What is beauty meant for 2008.
I will continue to summarize the major events in my next post also...

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Single Step

2008-12-18T17:49:00.001-08:00

Hello All,
Again one quote " The great journey starts with the single step"....Yes when you want to go upwards in your life you have to take a step forward to do that....I have one classic example of my friend of not doing that.....He wanted to write his own blog 4 months back......One week he repeatedly told me his interest...I asked him "why dont you start right away" and i got one answer " you are writing for fun but I have lots of concerns and parameters to start a blog...My blog should be creative,informative, useful, should cover all the areas below the sky and alll...Yes, we need to agree that he has some specific reason for blogging ...but he started blogging?????Answer is no....your interest should impress you first and then it should attract others.....There comes the picture of single step...You need to start with a post as a single step so that it can be a great journey in blogging.... And the important thing is single step should continue and it cant stop for whatever reason.....

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

The speed

2008-12-18T17:38:00.000-08:00

Hello all,
After a long time this is a new post rather new quote from me. " lose some time in traveling and save sometime in your life". It is not my own quote but the message is clear - Avoid rash driving...then people will come back to me and ask " are you driving slowly??? Do you follow traffic rules??? This time also I have the answers..Yes I am driving slowly mainly because of my CT100 byke with that i cant go more than 60....Yes i am following traffic rules and it was one of my new year resolution and it was successfully done ....but yes life is all about speed...moving faster, learning faster and riding faster. But while driving the speed will bother other persons as well...Nothing wrong in starting 5 to 10 minutes early.....Chennai's riding life is terrible for now....But you have to ride or drive carefully to avoid accidents and your own personal safety.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

House rental increase and IT people

2008-11-30T05:45:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
I am just sharing my recent experience in train journey. One co passenger has explained his problem with the house rent. He said that he is paying around 12k for a double bed room flat in Anna nagar and he blamed the IT persons are responsible for the rental increase. I thought that he is working in a manufacturing industry and earning around 3 lac per year and had a pity on him since he has a child (which is one non stop naughty adament all the time and also crying all the time which is a different story altogether)...And he blasted IT guys like anything...In the next morning he distributed his visiting card and it said that he is working as a PL in CSC and his wife in HCL. Shocked..man....For a programmer with 5 years experience in CSC worth 6 lac per year....An earning family of 12-15 lac is bothering to spend 12000 means what????How the people working in MF industry or low salaried people in IT can afford????Folks pls...Dont always blame IT people for all and as a part of IT org. dont blame your own industry persons......Yes we need to agree that the increase is because of IT growth..But now the market is sort of slow down and do u think the owners will decrease the rental because of the slow down..they have different set of audiences like students, bachelors, peoples from other industries who can afford such rents and you cannot always blame IT people for the increase in pencil rate...

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

What is Virtualization in software testing

2008-11-25T07:42:00.000-08:00

Hello all,
I have recently come across a term called " Virtualization" and " Virtualization for Software Testing"..So for that I went through some of the article and one article from Redhat was very good in explaining these terminologies...."Virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single computer;it is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system. Each “guest” OS is managed by a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), also known as a hypervisor. Because the virtualization system sits between the guest and the hardware, it can control the guests’ use of CPU, memory, and storage, even allowing a guest OS to migrate from one machine to another"............This is the definition....tough to understand ......simple.....For ex...If u want to test a software product in operating systems like Windows XP, vista, Mac, Linux and Unix, then u have to get 5 systems and install an OS in a machine.....so the cost here is very high...for that in the organization, One person uses vista and other person uses Mac and another person uses Linux....U need to create a Guest login in each OS and maintain it from a single machine which will have one software called VMM (virtual machine monitor) with the help of internel network or even accessing with out side network.....with the help of VMM software u can control the memory of all 4 or 5 system and even u can migrate from one machine access to other.....so this is one of the emerging trends in IT across all industries.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Cricketing Shots

2008-11-20T22:27:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
This post is for Cricket lovers. I recently came across a shot called "Golf shot " from Yuvraj Singh. So i recollected some of the terms in cricket. Here it is.
1) sweep shot - Exclusively used initially by Mike Gating and reverse sweep also used by him on the initial days.
2) Paddle sweep - Sachin has identified this shot exclusively for Legendry Warne to attack the leg spin.
3) Pull Shot - Used well by Sunny Gavaskar and followed well by Brian Charles lara and now by Ricky ponting.
4) Classic Cover Drive - Sachin,Lara and Dravid are the best players in this shot.
5) Baseball shot - MS dhoni's perfect usage of this shot and entirely different style of batting.
6) Carrom ball grip - Ajantha Mendis has found out this term.
7) Doosra - Used well by Murali and Harbajan
8) Googly - Used well by Warne and Kumble
So please let me know if i missed some thing here.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

CRM Software- What is it and the current situation

2008-11-17T18:53:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
I had the possibility to read an article in deccan chronicle about the CRM software and current trends...First of all what is CRM software.....Simple example is ICICI bank...Whenever you swipe the card, you will get a message saying your current balance will be this much Rs....ICICI is one of the best example for CRM software not the best for CRM....Any way, the companies around the globe are more focussed towards maintaining the existing relationship with their customers and achieve the customer delight (MBA term).....Since the crisis is peak for now, this area has become one of the key areas for the IT companies to focus with....This is the time for the companies to maintain the existing customer base and get the bottomline business from them....On the other side, Cost cutting is also happening in this area in terms of reducing the licenses stuff and price negotiations...But we need to understand one thing here is for companies always customer is the King and focus should be there despite of crisis and cost cutting.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayvarun@gmail.com

Planning for Technical Journey

2008-11-16T23:14:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
I have to decided to go against my first post where I mentioned as "no technical stuff nothing". I come across different technical or management terms on a daily basis...So i just thought of providing you more information about technology advancements and latest trends which will help you all to know some little things in your life...This initiative will provide me immense satisfaction to share something which is interesting and very much usefull to the socitey....And I love to know, read and write particularly about the technical terms and knowledge...So thanks a lot to all of you for giving me lots of aspirations and inspirations to write more...Keep reading my posts and comments are always welcome...

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Bus driver and humanity

2008-11-15T05:12:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
When i was travelling from velachery to Tnagar,I happened to see a very good incident. One physically disabled guy asked the bus driver to stop the bus and he was standing on the other side of the road. Bus driver immediately stopped the bus and waited for 5 minutes for that guy and took the bus after the particular passenger boarded....In this fast world, you can't expect the people to have the necessary quality "Humanity"....How many times we have offered our seat to senior people in the bus????I have helped as far as i know...So I have the eligibility to ask the society....And I happened to see some times that the drivers concerned more about the college foot board students....Message -Humanity and helping others are the important factors for any person's life journey including varun's life journey as well.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

After Break

2008-11-13T18:27:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
Just after a small break due to tight schedule,I am back now. First of all, We need to congratulate the NASA people for the chandraayan and India's Win over Aussies.....It was an emphatic series and the guys fought very hard and came back to get the trophy ...And It was a great effort with respect to Chandrayaan and now people started dreaming about a plot or flat in the moon. And other important thing,Barrack obama has sworn in as the first "colored"(news papers described like this) President for US. It is a very good sign for the world of economy and not for outsourcing. But still we cant conclude bad for outsourcing. I had the possibility to see his presidential speech in CNN....I really admired his way of speech and putting things at front and the essential factor is the motivation "can we ?? yes we can..God bless you...God bless America" He is surely a magical man in delivering his speech but the execution part we need to wait and see...By the by, He gifted a ring to Our PM Dr.Manmohan Singh ...The ring is for establishing the bilateral ties it seems....I dont know....

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

First month Journey

2008-11-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

I would like to inform my blog's first month's celebration .....I have found some interesting statistics for u all. My blog had Unique Visitors -------82,First Time Visitors -----42,
Returning Visitors------40 and I had visitors from US ,Swiss and Singapore...So thanks a lot for the support and motivation which helps me to write more and more about my journey in future.

Regards,

Varun

dayavarun@gmail.com

Strategy and planning

2008-11-01T18:22:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Dont get afraid that the topic is like for Top Management Level discussion in software companies.....I had a chance to hear from an Army person in a train about his experience....He explained about three places like Kashmir,Punjab and Chattisgarh and specifically Naxals in Chattisgarh....They have the strategy like -They have 3 different groups to fight with Army people.....The first group of 100 people will go and attack the Army camp which has some 100 people......In first phase any way with weapons the Army will be in the upper hand and the remaining people in naxal will run away from that place.... with the human psychology Army start chasing them and then the next group of 500 people will attack from 1 km distance....And the third group is exclusively focussed on collecting the weapons from the Army Camp....And their main focus is to attack the land lords and wealthy people in Chattisgarh villages and take money from them....But they are not from robinhood category......So they are selfish and they have the motive to spoil the unity and peace of the country.....Hope you all aware of the Orissa riot started because these naxals killed one swami and created the hype as the christians killed this Hindu swamy......So with all computers super computers lap top ipod and i phone most of the times evil mind of a human being has the upper hand over the good principles....

Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Public common sense

2008-10-22T23:50:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Hope you all aware of all the following news: Bihar: Railways suffers Rs 5 crore loss in anti-MNS agitation.....Buses in mumbai tarched...Bogi of one train torched... We have come across the terms like - economic growth, Dollor value growth, Sensex point increase...But we need to get one term called common sense increase or common sense growth....it is not damaging about the public property it is like damaging ur own property.....u and ur family ur father mother are the one who pay the road tax,professional tax and wealth tax.....I dont know in computer age with people think about IT jobs , booking tickets online, Using debit card to take money, Using credit card for purchase, Pubs, cinema hall mall and still India is moving reverse to the negative age....where is the problem and what is the problem...For someone who is moving his life in Benz and a flat in mumbai area and assets worthy of Rs 500 crore, the other person are doing non sense activities......you cant put as additional qualifications in your resume as bus torching or glass window damage....these guys will understand in future when they face similar situation like this....or India is long way to go in common sense.....so message here is "It is not public it is you and your property"....at the back side of Govt bus in chennai, they mentioned as "this is your asset..Please handle it with care and dont damage"...for this dont go and claim that "this is my asset and park this bus in front of my home"......

Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

White Tiger and Black Tiger

2008-10-19T08:59:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Hope all of you came to know about Booker price for Aravind Adiga the author of the book White Tiger and it has won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize, worth $87,000.
At 33, Adiga is the second-youngest writer to win in the prize's 40-year history.
He is also the fourth debut novelist and fifth Indian writer to win. He was born in Singara Chennai and he studied at Columbia University and Oxford. And this book was the one among 115 books . He can very well say that I am the best one in hundred. I didnt have the chance to read that book but seems to be an interesting option than reading books like "Doomsday conspiracy and five point some one. (please be aware that i didnt read only these two books. I just pointed) ...On the other side book reading is an important habit for any one to improve the skills and knowledge. I had my target as one in a month but i slipped somehow. I need to start this again. Coming back to the topic, You wonder who is Black tiger. I saw this word from one of Vijayakanth' poster..."come on Black tiger..The next CM"....(Please understand that i am not belonging to any of the party)...But you should accept the courage this guy has and he promised for Clean TamilNadu....Not dust free it is corruption free... But let us watch how things will go...Any way i have the strong believe that he will remove the terrorists from India . Why???? He did this very well in his past films so he will do in the future films as well...Jokes apart, Courage and risk taking ability are the things which will take the human being to the next level....So take risk and see the film "kadhalil vilunthen" and improve ur courage.

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Varun
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Sachin-The master

2008-10-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

Hello all,
It was a very special day yesterday for cricket fans. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar one of the greatest batsman of all time has broken the final record of most run getters in test cricket. He has highest run getter in one day,most centuries in one day, most 90s in one day and all the repeat in test match as well. The man who born to break the records is Sachin Tendulkar. He has the habit of answering his critics by his bat. He was out of form in the Australian trip - came back with the career highest with 241. Not a match winner- hit an un beaten century in the first final vs Australia. The cover drive ,the hook, the pull, Playing the spin all the areas he is special. so he has lot to do and still more years to come for him to play cricket.

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Varun
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About Anger

2008-10-16T09:51:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Recently i saw one sentence at the back of Orchid chemicals employee bus "Anger is one word away from Danger"....I liked it so much..Yes Anger is a problem creator for any situation and one should know how to control the anger??? then u will ask me question...How can i control anger since it is purely situation based...I will ask you "why you are telling like this"..Then you will say like "I need to finish an urgent work in the government office...Will it be happen without bribe....then controlling anger????I went to the reservation counter the morning 6 and at 8.05 the railway booking officers told me that all the ticketes were booked through online ...then control????I expected the bus conductor to give me a respect...He didnt give even the balance money ....then control????I was riding my byke in a slow pace due to rain but the car fellow just like that made my dress ugly with his rash driving...then control??? yes..there is still more to tell..but we adjusted with this society and error is human as always....so the message here is "show the anger to someone when you are very sure that he wont hit you"

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Varun
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Better Blogging- Good example

2008-10-14T09:25:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
I am one of the regular visitor for the blog http://ramz-thoughts.blogspot.com/. I like this blog very much because of the way of narration, flow and analysis. The good thing for him is like he can tell things around the globe and in different topics. I always admire his way of telling or communicating things from Vivekam travels to online shopping....And he finished one year blogging with 50 odd posts and he can very well claim that he is doing quality blogging... All the best for his second year blogging.

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Varun
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Diwali booking to Pongal booking

2008-10-14T08:50:00.000-07:00

Hello all,
Still one more week to go for Diwali function. If you notice the traffic in these 3 days, you will better understand that Chennai doent have any origin or most of them are migrants from different places from Tamilnadu,Andhra and Kerala. But the total rush will be in egmore or central station to reach their respective native places. For that you need to book the train ticket 3 months back...In ur life if you want a challenge for 5 minutes come to me...Simple...I will ask you to book a ticket for pandian express to Madurai in 16th morning for Pongal....If you get a confirm ticket you are lucky and please go and check your astrology and you can proudly express your happiness to the society....Thanks to ananthapuri and Kanyakumari express trains,I booked myself for Diwali...But for now I have the challenge to book for Pongal....People should understand that 95% of the bookings were made through online and not by brokers......The traveling people are techies IT person and family(including me here) and Engineers in different industries......But how to clear the extra rush???......The answer you can get easily is increase more trains and increase more coaches.....If you take the chennai- Kanyakumari route alone some 15 (roughly) trains are moving on a daily basis and if you add 3 special trains then it will be like nearing 20....How much u can increase more.....you will end up in trains running one by one...so adding coaches.....20 coaches on a normal train..increase it by 30???? then we should have one more engine....So only feasible solution is to make it as a double track for to and fro and adding special trains .....But it is a vision and will take long long time......so lesson here is "please wake up early and book ur ticket"

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Varun
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Bus ticket Examiner - Useless guy

2008-10-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
You may probably come across a guy called Ticket examiner in your bus travel. Thank god that i didnt get caught till now but I can surely tell that "Ticket Examiners are Jokers". They will be under the shadow of any tree and the bus will have to stop near to them if it is not a bus stop also. They wont come into the inside first and they will ask the people who are getting down. If they are not getting anyone then they will come inside to the bus and check. If you see these people and as a common man I have lots of questions......Why they do not come inside the bus and check the ticket in the peak hours??(Then only they will come to know the sufferings of the poor people who are traveling in peak hours) Why they want to check the people in peak hours time when a common man cant get a place in footboard to place his half foot???? How will they identify the person who is traveling without a ticket for a month or for that day alone???? Is there any mechanism to processize this?????Any suggestions pls????

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Varun
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Scintillating DADA

2008-10-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

Hope Cricket lovers are aware of this news- Sourav Ganguly will retire after Ind- Aus Tests. With all the controversies for me He is one of the best captains India has ever produced. He is the one guy who started the habit of winning the Test matches in Foreign Soil. Starting with West Indies then in England and after in Australia and in Pakistan, Sri lanka as well... He is known as the offside god for his enormous capabilities to hit a four when he has 6 fielders in that area....After Australia, He taught the Indian Team on what is aggression and what is Sledging....And the foot work against the spin and Straight six all these thing can still worthy to talk....We hope that he will finish the series in great style and I believe that he will do it....

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Varun
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Indian Overseas Bank or Indian Overhead Bank

2008-10-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
Since one of my previous post was with bank especially with Government Banks,I just thought of sharing this experience with you. Saturday morning I went to the IOB branch near velachery to with draw money for my mum and to transfer money as well. Bank was opened in the morning 9.15 itself. I got shocked and my hands were shivering that I had a feeling that I was in singapore or some foreign countries. So with all excitement and praising the authorities of IOB branch and went inside for money transaction....Then only I came to know that after series of holidays they opened the branch early and to close it early....I Searched the forms atleast 10 mins and I was unable to find the money transaction form... I asked one lady there...She just told me that go and get from the last counter....I asked which side..She again told me that "I told that go and check in the last counter".....So I thought of not asking again to her and create myself as Vadivelu actor...With some guess like, the last should be near to the cash counter and I asked one person and he diverted to one other lady and she provided me the form...I had a feeling of watching a Treasue Island film to get one form.....Then I saw the counters....There were 4 but as i expected one closed since the employee was not around....One counter was like "transactions above 15000 and remittance above 10000"..other 2 counters were like "transactions below 15000 and remittance below 10000"....That "above" counter was empty and other 2 counters were flooded with people.....I dont know what is the logic behind above and below 10000.....or what is wrong in sharing the workload of other 2 counters since they are telling like fully computerised.....and lots of shoutings which irritates all the customers...So i wondered when this will change....May be in 2020???? Any thoughts....

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Varun
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Rajasthan Stampede- 150 people killed

2008-10-01T04:20:00.000-07:00

This news is so sad to hear. But it raises lots of questions in my mind. From the period of 2003 to till now, these are the following major incidents related to stampede
August 27, 2003: 39 pilgrims killed, 125 injured when devotees who were waiting to bathe surged over a flimsy fence triggering a stampede at the Kumbh festival in Nasik, Maharashtra.
January 25, 2005: 340 devotees trampled to death during an annual pilgrimage at Mandhra Devi temple in Maharashtra.
March 7, 2006: 28 killed, 101 injured in two bombings across Varanasi. First blast at a Varanasi temple followed by another at Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station crowded with pilgrims.
August 3, 2008: 162 dead, 47 injured in a stampede triggered by rumours of a rockslide at Naina Devi Temple in Himachal Pradesh .
August 10, 2008: Two pilgrims died, 250 were left stranded after stairs leading to ancient Mahadeva temple in Kota district of north-western Rajasthan collapsed.

If you see this report you can very well understand that all the incidents happened in North India. No such single thing happened in South India. Two weeks back I went to Tirupathi and Kalahasthi.....The way it was organized and the security are the two major things which i admired.....But it was not there in most of the North Indian Big functions....We cant give sorry excuses like the cave was narrow and the lock was like suit case lock ....That day alone 80000 people's presence which is like a daily count in Tirupathi....But questions like; why there is a security lapse...Why the stampeded looks common in North India....What are the understandings from this incident.....Is it something related to common sense where one by one only can go inside a small cave???? It is really a wake up call for the Government If it is State or central....The thought here is "Be organized and more sensible if it is Sathyam theater or Samudhra devi temple "

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Varun
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Bank Strike - Highest degree of torture

2008-09-30T05:03:00.000-07:00

It seems some two day vacation for all banks by today and tomorrow....And hope everyone knew that last week we had the bank strike...Whenever I come to know about the Bank strike I will get irritated like anything and especially with SBI....Yes we need to accept that they are doing goverment transactions ..But why they want strike is basically salary hike...I dont know how many of you has the experience as a customer in SBI.....work timing 10.00 to 4.00...but they will come to the seat at 10.30 and before that thet will talk some crap about relatives, politics, breakfast ...In the meantime there will be a large Q....sharp 10.45 they will press first letter of the fist person...and for one transaction they will take 5 minutes....If you ask check book they will feel like they are giving their personal check book and they will reject it.....And at 12.30 they will close the counter telling lunch break and 1.30 to 2.00 they will work and sharp 2.00 they will close the counter and telling that we need to close the day accounts as if some billion transactions happened over this time.....Probably what government can do is "one month conditional training in ICICI bank or HDFC bank..If you perform that much fast well we can give the increment....then these people will run away.....As far as my experience concerned with Governement bank,Corporation bank is better than the rest.

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Varun
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What is brand name according to local chennai???

2008-09-29T00:18:00.001-07:00

I hope you all know that with this blog i am going to share my day to day experinces in the society. It is not about Technology or office or alien jargons nothing...Just about my daily experience in singara chennai....How the brand name can sell by itself...Dont go and ask Infosys Narayanamoorthy or premji wipro...Just understand from directors of tamil movie.....they can very well explain that what is branding and and how it will sell.....recently i saw this film Saroja...very well narrated story with excellent screenplay....he mentioned as "A venkat prabhu movie"...yes he is different...and this was initiated by mani rathnam ...He used to give as " A manirathnam movie".....And it was well followed by selvaragavan..." A selvaragavan film"......so Brand is all about making famous and creating some thing different from the masses....Famous marketing thought is " you shoud sell the brand for sometime and the brand should sell itself....And you can confidently go and see " A radhamohan's film" or " A shankar's movie" than " A S.J.Surya's movie"....Hope you all agree with what i am saying.

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Varun
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My grandma's place

2008-09-29T00:07:00.000-07:00

Since my intro post is related to Grandma,I just thought of sharing this here. I am seeing a place called Kanchana paati- Grandma's place in velachery tharamani link road. It is a Pre KG kind of school and children's are having fun while learning it seems (I dont have any experience on that school since i dont have any kid) . I am just wondering if grandma's name can also be used as a brand name. So it is called city life ..Is it...I dont have any different thoughts about that school but i have some different opinions about the society.... Leaving grandma in old age home and allow your child to join in a place called ur grandma's place which will be a better comedy than vadivelu's....I dont know in future u can very well see in chennai that "your mum's place" and all. So thought here is Grandma is a divine person provided by god and I am afraid that The good wishes of Grandma's name will be faded away in future.

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Varun.
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My intro

2008-09-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

life is a journey...and u need to learn from day to day life.....Most of the big shots told this and famous people told this.......but my grandma used to tell me " Varun ovvoru naalum nee kathukkanum...vaalkaila munneranum"...for all or most, it is tough in the modern society to get a grandma with us and learn her experience and having the pleasure to chat with her.....Grandma's are valuable for anyone in the society and fortunately i got her with me till now...but i liked one advise of her "moothor sollum muthu nelliyum munne kasakkum pinne inikkum" ...Yes it is all about life and getting right advises from right people....With this good thing i will inagurate,start,initiate, aarathifying my new blog..so let us rock "my boss words"

Varun