My manager was asking me - Prem when you will post a new article on your blog Tweaky Thoughts? so my friends asked me - man your blog is good but you are not a frequenter these days. Yes it reminded me of these busy schedules and stuff.... I have been at SiRF when I used to write the blog and I am now at Infotech. So there was some change in place and also some cheanges across to make me busy never like before and these days was out of windows and err bogs. Blogs are nothing to do with win or linux but I have windows on my personal laptop thats it....!
Difficult to write so many blogs. People ask me - man you write on from technical to spiritual and why do you maintain so many blogs? Can't you have all posts in one place? I say - flavor of audience matters. Those who wanted to read technical articles donot want to read about Dev - D movie summary when he wants to know about signals and systems. Those who want to know about what it takes to serve a person - about spirituality and service (my another blog is started recently. Find it yourself! It is about my spiritual quotient) donot want to know what is a analog and digital signal. Hence these many bifercations. And I intend to keep different concepts at different lengths so as to catch wavelengths of the audience. But enjoy writing. May be not too frequent to update all blogs but yes I do write them. Find out how many blogs I have created for yourself. What is the fun if I give links of all the sites?
Today is nice day ever spent. why? is it because I returned as a blogger. Hey! let me tell you that I am blogging almost daily on different topic these days but have been prominent there and not on this personal one. and oh! ya!! I will from now scribble something like this so as to make you read something like this. I know many of you are following this blog. Let me put my heart like a sheet of chart and paint my imagination with different colors of thought with no concept in mind and you can be the judge or reciptent who may read my faculty and decide what kind of person I am. he hehehe
!Again today is nice day ever spent. Spent two hrs afternoon making deep fry of Alu curry with Basin and basically finished it before taking a snap to make a blog but alaas I fnished totally forgetting it. Also these days I am cooking so much that I always remind to give some free tips to Bachelors who cook themselves. After deep fry alu curry I felt that I shoudl try it again with someone else as the audience for my curry. today it was only me who ate it. Also evening I spent some quality time at Vasavi temple (which I go every week) at Bhajans and felt it very enchanting. From then I spent some quality time for myself on laptop downloading something which is importnat. Rather today is actual sunday after many days where I spent the way I wanted to different to the way it has been nice. Hopefully I may write an article like this in continuation in my upcoming blogs.
Right chalo then....
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
recession times
Companies have been doing well at good times and at bad times. Recession - the common word heard today is the lean period that companies are facing doe to macro economic situation. Every engineer when he enters a company wishes that he would have a tremendous career in and out with the employer giving him a way to design his roadmap towards building a stable career. But due to recession many engineers have been facing the hard time either to face a pink slip or to have an ambiguous time where companies take some crucial decisions and employees fall prey to these situations.
It is not fault of the ordinary engineer who puts his full-fledged effort to get a product into the market. Stiff competition between products has resulted in early time to market situation between companies. Today the tier-1 companies face this early-time-to-market situation in cycles to beat the competitors to reach the end your to lure him to by the product for company success. However during recession time it is to be noted that the end use would be not much interested to buy the product for all the buying capacity itself has been hit to a low. As the sales of a perticular product decrease, it hugely effects the revenue of the quarter for the particular tier-1 company resulting it not to give a project or a design contract to its vendors thus resulting in loss of the market for tier-2 companies. This cycle continues till the service providers and reaches finally to the job market where the jobs being either freezed or the companies going to the way to show pink slips like the referree of a football match to its football players.
However the engineers who face pink slips have to face a tough situation - reaon? they donot have a immediate job in hand or they cannot decide what to do next. Engineers having joined as freshers are at tremendous confusion today as they are at start of building a wall with bricks. However the persons over 2 years to 5 years experience who are building their career at earlier stages have a chance to take up a career or to go to a higher education. It is seen that 90% of this category is continuing to try for a new job during recession. It is easy for them to change the career path since a person takes atleast 5 to 6 years to capture a proper skillset and dmain. The employers today assess the engineers as Software Ready or Domain Ready or Program Ready based on requirements. and all these 2 to 5 year esperience category fall in the line of Software Ready category and it easy for them to change their path during this time. Engineers above 6 years till 8 to 9 years are expected to be specialists taking a lead role for one or multiple categories. This category needs to be extremely careful if they intend to change their career since they are now domain ready specialists, companies would expect them to be expert in one or more domains. Additional responsibility of leading a team or technically helping a team is being considered as a added advantage. Engineers above 9 years of experience till 15 years are in the category of managers or architects who are the persons most affected by this recession. Since the oppurtunities are very lean for this category, there is a wait time demanded for each of this category to be choosy to find a oppurtunity in the current situation. Whatever experience level may be it depends on what kind of career path the engineer takes and what decision he intends to take during the recession.
The recession alltime is hitting the market, there are companies today which inspite of this lean period are hiring. It is to no one’s suprise that today most of the companies are very much careful to choose a person for a particular job. Be it a Multimedia engineer or be it a Linux developer, there is a stiff competition among the crowd to appear for a particular interview. Not to blame the consultants, they always do their job right when a job oppurtunity is opened, each consultant is ready and right up rolling his sleeves to capture the finest brains of the industry to his client and is like a feilder on a cricket ground. Today’s consultants remind me of the feilders like Jhonty Rhodes of SA and Md Azaruddin of India who have been best feilders of cricket times. Once you upload your CV on a premium job portal, wait and watch until atleast 8 to 10 consultants reach you with openings for same post for the same client. The tag-lines like “your CV is now shortlisted” may lure you to read the content until you finally notice after reading the content of the mail, the mail has been sent to a list (hige and fat) of so called un-disclosed-receiptents. You are now prey to these emails. One good thing is that whatever the tagline may be, the requirement reaches you on a First-Come-First-Serve basis based on which consultant would have made a contract first with his client. Now so as our job market is getting close by a niche group of engineers, so the market is also getting feilded by a niche group of consultants. For them it is a business and for us it is a job requirement.
In India, I can surely say that the recession has minimal impact on the job requests. For a set of keywords on the internet for a domain, you can find atleast 10 to 12 requirement descriptions making you realize all roads lead to rome - for the same requirement with only one company. However since several companies have been hiring, it is OK to see that you have so many requirements on the place. But it is quite important for one to hold his compass and map at this time of journey in turbulent wheather. The person with right skillset is always chosen for a right job but a kind of patience and restrain is required at these difficult times. As many companies are hiring in this season, we can hope that persons having seen pink slips would surely succeed the search of jobs in this time. Again sticking on the same career path of his expertise gives him more value during recession than changing a careerpath at the time of recession due to fear or assuming the grass on other side is greener.
It is not fault of the ordinary engineer who puts his full-fledged effort to get a product into the market. Stiff competition between products has resulted in early time to market situation between companies. Today the tier-1 companies face this early-time-to-market situation in cycles to beat the competitors to reach the end your to lure him to by the product for company success. However during recession time it is to be noted that the end use would be not much interested to buy the product for all the buying capacity itself has been hit to a low. As the sales of a perticular product decrease, it hugely effects the revenue of the quarter for the particular tier-1 company resulting it not to give a project or a design contract to its vendors thus resulting in loss of the market for tier-2 companies. This cycle continues till the service providers and reaches finally to the job market where the jobs being either freezed or the companies going to the way to show pink slips like the referree of a football match to its football players.
However the engineers who face pink slips have to face a tough situation - reaon? they donot have a immediate job in hand or they cannot decide what to do next. Engineers having joined as freshers are at tremendous confusion today as they are at start of building a wall with bricks. However the persons over 2 years to 5 years experience who are building their career at earlier stages have a chance to take up a career or to go to a higher education. It is seen that 90% of this category is continuing to try for a new job during recession. It is easy for them to change the career path since a person takes atleast 5 to 6 years to capture a proper skillset and dmain. The employers today assess the engineers as Software Ready or Domain Ready or Program Ready based on requirements. and all these 2 to 5 year esperience category fall in the line of Software Ready category and it easy for them to change their path during this time. Engineers above 6 years till 8 to 9 years are expected to be specialists taking a lead role for one or multiple categories. This category needs to be extremely careful if they intend to change their career since they are now domain ready specialists, companies would expect them to be expert in one or more domains. Additional responsibility of leading a team or technically helping a team is being considered as a added advantage. Engineers above 9 years of experience till 15 years are in the category of managers or architects who are the persons most affected by this recession. Since the oppurtunities are very lean for this category, there is a wait time demanded for each of this category to be choosy to find a oppurtunity in the current situation. Whatever experience level may be it depends on what kind of career path the engineer takes and what decision he intends to take during the recession.
The recession alltime is hitting the market, there are companies today which inspite of this lean period are hiring. It is to no one’s suprise that today most of the companies are very much careful to choose a person for a particular job. Be it a Multimedia engineer or be it a Linux developer, there is a stiff competition among the crowd to appear for a particular interview. Not to blame the consultants, they always do their job right when a job oppurtunity is opened, each consultant is ready and right up rolling his sleeves to capture the finest brains of the industry to his client and is like a feilder on a cricket ground. Today’s consultants remind me of the feilders like Jhonty Rhodes of SA and Md Azaruddin of India who have been best feilders of cricket times. Once you upload your CV on a premium job portal, wait and watch until atleast 8 to 10 consultants reach you with openings for same post for the same client. The tag-lines like “your CV is now shortlisted” may lure you to read the content until you finally notice after reading the content of the mail, the mail has been sent to a list (hige and fat) of so called un-disclosed-receiptents. You are now prey to these emails. One good thing is that whatever the tagline may be, the requirement reaches you on a First-Come-First-Serve basis based on which consultant would have made a contract first with his client. Now so as our job market is getting close by a niche group of engineers, so the market is also getting feilded by a niche group of consultants. For them it is a business and for us it is a job requirement.
In India, I can surely say that the recession has minimal impact on the job requests. For a set of keywords on the internet for a domain, you can find atleast 10 to 12 requirement descriptions making you realize all roads lead to rome - for the same requirement with only one company. However since several companies have been hiring, it is OK to see that you have so many requirements on the place. But it is quite important for one to hold his compass and map at this time of journey in turbulent wheather. The person with right skillset is always chosen for a right job but a kind of patience and restrain is required at these difficult times. As many companies are hiring in this season, we can hope that persons having seen pink slips would surely succeed the search of jobs in this time. Again sticking on the same career path of his expertise gives him more value during recession than changing a careerpath at the time of recession due to fear or assuming the grass on other side is greener.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Dev - D a movie - The Vodka Content
I saw Abay Deol - the younger brother of Sunny Deol or I can say the third son of Dharmendra, Abhay showed up his muscle all along in the film. I donot mean he had not worn his shirt instead I mean to say I had drunk gallons of Vodka through out the movie. A newbie Mahi gill was Paro in the Film and the newbie Kalki Koechlin is the Chanda in the film. Does not it bring something on your mind?
Equation:
Theorem: Modern devdaas coefficients:
Equation taker : Anurag Kashyap
Dev -> Abhay Deol
Paro -> Mahi Gill
Chanda -> Kalki Koechlin
Dev + Paro = Love
Dev - Paro = Vodka
--------------------------
2 * Dev = Love + Vodka = Gallons of Vodka out of frustation
--------------------------
Chanda X Dev = Perfect Vodka - Water combination
Dev + Chanda - Paro = Dil maange more Vodka
Finally
Dev + Chanda = End of film
I remember the singer Harivamsh Rai's song the famous Madhushaala - was a smash hit in those days. Through out the time, many people came up with themes on drinks but this movie mostly put it through Vodka statement in a modern fashon adding a little drug content to it. The taking and making of the film was far more than excellent showing what does it take to make and break a relationship....
Dev starts his love with Paro. Dev from London and Paro from Punjab. Paro wants Dev to try her (I am not wrong. She acts Hot) A miscreant spoils the game between Dev and Paro. Now a widower wants Paro to marry him and consequently we know that the marriage happens. Dev come to know the truth that Paro's father plans the spoil sport between them and then instead of asking Paro to come over or confessing he starts drinking Vodka. There is this Paro's sister in law who is after Dev trying to ask him to try her but anyways that is a different quotient. Dev leaves to Delhi from Punjab. Director is generous giving Dev's dad chance to Pump money into Dev's pocket like air into a bike's tyre. Dev is all now a free bird in a hotel trying out something else - This time not women but drugs and drinks (his fav Vodka).
There is this lennie girl who got tried by a boy and is a spoil sport in Delhi. After getting her vieeo tapes out, she decides to run along for life running away from her mad classmates, relatives, parents who keep embrassing her about the incident. BTW the director shows his muscle here like the girl is just in teens and is out of school. It is quite natural and now she turns to become a kind of err.... profession in the evenings and joins a college in the mornings to continue her studies. She renames herself as Chandramukhi or Chanda short to seduce men. Dev falls prey to her. Director is generous again showing Dev commitment towards Paro. This time he continues drinks as Chanda's refugee. Chanda truely falls in love with Dev.
What a pity - Dev wants Paro and Paro's sister-in-law wants Dev. There is a conversation over phone between Dev and Paro's hubby for mutual agreement for Paro and Paro's sister-in-law. Confused? Let me explain. Paro's hubby Mr. H wants Dev to marry his sis. Dev in turn asks him to send Paro. However Paro teaches Dev the essence of getting married and now since she is a variable in some other equation, she cannot attempt to seduce or get seduced. Dev gets struck in in confusion and frustated Devdrinks gallons of more Vodka. Eventually the final eqution - Dev & Chanda exchange their thoughts and experiences - eventually learn both are in mutual love. Story ends both living together thereafter.....
There is a nice picturisation in the film. The director has emphasized the Devdas story fitting it to the straight line curve of modern day relationships. It was so natural and one cannot guess what next moment would be, the audience were taken round the time frame of three hours with a new hatke kind of showbiz for old story. The Chanda role and story were perfect with the modern day faults and double faults occuring to teenagers. Director wanted to show that understanding and faith is more important to build a relation than a mere physical attachment. Though there is a kind of witty dosage of this concept in a different manner, it was more than awesome to see Abhay doing his best to fit into the Dev's role.
However, after all the film needs a complete sense of maturity to follow the whole subject till the last scene. It does fit to current trend but there is a danger of mis-guidance if it is interpreted wrongly.
Equation:
Theorem: Modern devdaas coefficients:
Equation taker : Anurag Kashyap
Dev -> Abhay Deol
Paro -> Mahi Gill
Chanda -> Kalki Koechlin
Dev + Paro = Love
Dev - Paro = Vodka
--------------------------
2 * Dev = Love + Vodka = Gallons of Vodka out of frustation
--------------------------
Chanda X Dev = Perfect Vodka - Water combination
Dev + Chanda - Paro = Dil maange more Vodka
Finally
Dev + Chanda = End of film
I remember the singer Harivamsh Rai's song the famous Madhushaala - was a smash hit in those days. Through out the time, many people came up with themes on drinks but this movie mostly put it through Vodka statement in a modern fashon adding a little drug content to it. The taking and making of the film was far more than excellent showing what does it take to make and break a relationship....
Dev starts his love with Paro. Dev from London and Paro from Punjab. Paro wants Dev to try her (I am not wrong. She acts Hot) A miscreant spoils the game between Dev and Paro. Now a widower wants Paro to marry him and consequently we know that the marriage happens. Dev come to know the truth that Paro's father plans the spoil sport between them and then instead of asking Paro to come over or confessing he starts drinking Vodka. There is this Paro's sister in law who is after Dev trying to ask him to try her but anyways that is a different quotient. Dev leaves to Delhi from Punjab. Director is generous giving Dev's dad chance to Pump money into Dev's pocket like air into a bike's tyre. Dev is all now a free bird in a hotel trying out something else - This time not women but drugs and drinks (his fav Vodka).
There is this lennie girl who got tried by a boy and is a spoil sport in Delhi. After getting her vieeo tapes out, she decides to run along for life running away from her mad classmates, relatives, parents who keep embrassing her about the incident. BTW the director shows his muscle here like the girl is just in teens and is out of school. It is quite natural and now she turns to become a kind of err.... profession in the evenings and joins a college in the mornings to continue her studies. She renames herself as Chandramukhi or Chanda short to seduce men. Dev falls prey to her. Director is generous again showing Dev commitment towards Paro. This time he continues drinks as Chanda's refugee. Chanda truely falls in love with Dev.
What a pity - Dev wants Paro and Paro's sister-in-law wants Dev. There is a conversation over phone between Dev and Paro's hubby for mutual agreement for Paro and Paro's sister-in-law. Confused? Let me explain. Paro's hubby Mr. H wants Dev to marry his sis. Dev in turn asks him to send Paro. However Paro teaches Dev the essence of getting married and now since she is a variable in some other equation, she cannot attempt to seduce or get seduced. Dev gets struck in in confusion and frustated Devdrinks gallons of more Vodka. Eventually the final eqution - Dev & Chanda exchange their thoughts and experiences - eventually learn both are in mutual love. Story ends both living together thereafter.....
There is a nice picturisation in the film. The director has emphasized the Devdas story fitting it to the straight line curve of modern day relationships. It was so natural and one cannot guess what next moment would be, the audience were taken round the time frame of three hours with a new hatke kind of showbiz for old story. The Chanda role and story were perfect with the modern day faults and double faults occuring to teenagers. Director wanted to show that understanding and faith is more important to build a relation than a mere physical attachment. Though there is a kind of witty dosage of this concept in a different manner, it was more than awesome to see Abhay doing his best to fit into the Dev's role.
However, after all the film needs a complete sense of maturity to follow the whole subject till the last scene. It does fit to current trend but there is a danger of mis-guidance if it is interpreted wrongly.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Past is history.... Future is mystery
In the recent past we have seen so many things in life. Hmm! everything and anything that once occurs in history is always interesting. What is the history? To me past what ever is a hstory. Everyone of us have history as no one can exist without a past. interestingly how many are aware of the history of a person? It is my life and I am interested about it but knowing each other will require to know each other's past experiences. Strangely in this world one thing which happens without knowing other person's past is f-r-i-e-n-d-s-h-i-p which is greatest relationship in this world. I think even marriages happen with knowing past but only friendship happens without knowing one's past. No one will want to have a rule defining for his friendship like "I will first analyse this person's past and then make him a friend".
Future is something no one knows what happens tomorrow. If I can tell my future I would have been a great saint and I would be more philosophical. Only few people know their future. For a common man future lies as a mystery. What happens if we start knowing our future? life will turn tense right! you will probably do things which you donot want to do in life. Worse part will be you will get to know something bad is going to happen and good is going to happen and you will not have power to stop either of them. So better not know the future. Future thinking and planning is important but trying to know future is not needed. Of course, there is a big subject called parapsychology and astrology which deals with 'prediction' of the future. Prediction is something relative or abstract and you cannot garuntee that it will happen. But prediction of future increases hope and interest on one's life.
Most happy people donot worry either of past or future. These people come under the category called "PAST IS HISTORY AND FUTURE IS MYSTERY". They will consider past is history and it cannot be changed. They are not interested to think of their own past so how can they think to find out someone else's past? Right! now these people even donot worry about the future too as they see it mystifying... ! Now these people worry what is to be done in present. What to do at present and what is to happen in present. They are realistic folks....! They think about current happenings and live day by day happily and blissfully.Life is all full of suprises!
Donot worry about past or future and think from now past is history and future is mystery! Live today to the fullest!
Future is something no one knows what happens tomorrow. If I can tell my future I would have been a great saint and I would be more philosophical. Only few people know their future. For a common man future lies as a mystery. What happens if we start knowing our future? life will turn tense right! you will probably do things which you donot want to do in life. Worse part will be you will get to know something bad is going to happen and good is going to happen and you will not have power to stop either of them. So better not know the future. Future thinking and planning is important but trying to know future is not needed. Of course, there is a big subject called parapsychology and astrology which deals with 'prediction' of the future. Prediction is something relative or abstract and you cannot garuntee that it will happen. But prediction of future increases hope and interest on one's life.
Most happy people donot worry either of past or future. These people come under the category called "PAST IS HISTORY AND FUTURE IS MYSTERY". They will consider past is history and it cannot be changed. They are not interested to think of their own past so how can they think to find out someone else's past? Right! now these people even donot worry about the future too as they see it mystifying... ! Now these people worry what is to be done in present. What to do at present and what is to happen in present. They are realistic folks....! They think about current happenings and live day by day happily and blissfully.Life is all full of suprises!
Donot worry about past or future and think from now past is history and future is mystery! Live today to the fullest!
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