Back to blogging again ( as rightly said "History repeats" ) !!!

First of all "Wish you happy Engineer's Day"

Let me keep this post short - As rightly said " History repeats" I am back to blogging again.

Rest let my blogs which come in the future speak with a hope that "History  will not repeat again"

Return of Thiru to blogging

“Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”

As rightly said by Titus Maccius Plautus, I had hoped to be regular to blogging but eventually ended up without a blog for more than a year. When I look back or think about it, I silently lament for not writing more than a year. Mummyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............ I want to be regular to blogging.

From the time I last blogged multifarious things has transpired out of which the three important one’s were

1.       An angel’s ( daughter ) entry in my life which has changed my perception towards life

2.       Moved out of Aditi and soon joining Siemens which will give me more time to spend with my daughter and work on the future plans

3.       Had an accident ending in a fractured leg which gave me three weeks to spend at home with my daughter.

Rest of the things that happened has no much importance or significance that needs any mention over here.

For the future I have chalked out a plan for the next three years and started working on it. Hope that I will continue working on it and make it a success as planned

To end with, will be committed to write more and more this year and you all can expect more blogs from me J

Back to blogging on “Republic day”

First and foremost, on the eve of this 62nd Republic day I wish you all, "Happy republic day".

It’s more than a year since I had last blogged. Marriage, franticly hectic work schedules at office and many more things kept me away from this blogging.

Helluva lot of things has happened in the last year. Joined a new company, got married (expecting a baby in March), promotion at work, got shifted to own house, tried to start a business (could not start it because of the lack of the right resource)..........

Blogging was one thing which I could not do last year but the urge to come back to blogging was always there. This urge has made me write again.

Hope that I will be regular again.....

Good to have friends !!!

Again it’s more than a month I have blogged. Helluva lot of things and moments have transpired in my life over this period, more important than what I am writing now. Still, a small chat with my friend a day back made me write this first :)

A friend of mine had got an offer from a big MNC ( far far better with the company he is presently working ) and had put down his papers. The company retained him with a hike in his salary and my friend gave a commitment in return to continue.

After he informed his decision to stay in his current company to the HR of the MNC, the HR revised the offer to very much higher salary along with a long-term onsite opportunity.
Being myself into recruitment previously, the kind of company, the technology he was to work with and the revised offer what he had got, barely anyone would not have picked this. (The revised offer was more like a dream kind of offer for his experience)

Just for the commitment and the words he had given to his present company, he has rejected the offer from the MNC.

People might say thousand things for not picking up the offer. They might chide him. They might call him an emotional fool.

Whatever people say, I personally felt very good about his decision. Very very few people stick to their commitments and values now a days, particularly when it comes to a career opportunity and I am enthralled to have a friend who values his words and commitments more than the opportunity lying in front of him.

Hope in my journey of this life, I get more friends like him :)

A happenning month !!!

Almost a month outran from my last post. A month filled with helluva lot of happenings.

Work, Work, Work. Ubiquitous, out of nowhere work for a continuous 2 weeks at office without any breaks other than sleep and food. No weekends and holidays. Because of this I missed a carefully well in advance planned trip with my family members and relatives and in the end all I got to see was the photos of the trip :(

Got a new job and the new company wanted me to join in a month. Again a lot of discussions happened for revising the joining date to first week of January as I have 3 months notice period to serve and meanwhile lost the hopes of getting it done. Nevertheless finally succeeded :)

Resigned from my current company and almost got relieved just before Diwali but again management played a big game and finally its decided for the last week of December. Anyway a lesson learnt - Never believe your Management until and unless it’s a written one.

Turned 30 on Oct 18. Getting older sucks and you feel it superfluous when you have just fallen to the zone of 30 Plus. But that’s what life is and we need to move on. A kind of insecurity creeps in the moment you think you are thirty. You tend to think more. Damn it I am already 30 now. A feeling which cannot be expressed but can only be felt :(
But still enjoyed the day as there was a surprise party organized by my sister at her house with all the family members and also a few of my friends. A good memorable one :)

Because of the lack of time, three books that needs to be read for this month got postponed to next month and now I have six books ( still making a list ) to read for the next month :(

To end with 3 days of diwali holidays- Hurray!! Hurray!! enjoyed thoroughly :)

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

I had heard a lot about this book when it was published. Friends and many bloggers extollingly recommended to read it. Many had even told me that reading this book will make the reader believe in God. The yearn to read this book finally ended this month, thanks to the self imposed ediction of reading atleast 3 books a month.
The recommendations and suggestions had made me keep high expectations about the book though was disappointed a bit as I read through it.

"Life of Pi" written by the Canadian Author Yann Martel is the story of an Indian, Piscine Molitor Patel aka "Pi" and his venturesome journey on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean
The entire novel is sundered into three parts but somehow felt that the story of the first part never got connected to the second part.

Part one is about the early life of Piscine Patel and his experiences with zoo, animals and spirituality. Some of the details mentioned like Pi at the age of 14 practicing the three religions ( Hinduism, Islam and Christianity )at the same time creates an interest and makes reader feel that there is something more to it but never finds its germaneness with the later parts of the story
Pi's father will be running a zoo and due to political actions in the country, the entire family decides to move to Canada closing down the zoo and selling majority of its animals to America. The family gets loaded on the ship with the animals to go to Canada.

Part two talks about the sinking ship and a situation ending up with the Pi Patel, Zebra, Hyena, Orangutan & Bengal Tiger on a lifeboat as the survivors from the mishap. Necessity of food and survival of the fittest results in Pi Patel and the Tiger as the final two on the boat.The story continues with the journey of Pi and the Tiger for 227 days on a pacific ocean on a lifeboat.

The author gives a twist in the third part with the new perception to what would have happened during the journey and leaves it to the reader to make the choice of which one to believe.

A book you might like, if read without much expectation.

My Rating - 2.5 ( Between Average and Good )

Reading Books !!!!

As rightly said by William Feather - "Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can"

Any individual from the avid book readers community will immediately accede to the point without any contemplation that books are the life time best friends for any human being

Knowing the puissant thoughts and knowledge books can bring in, I have decided ( infact started) to read atleast three books a month .

For the month of September the books I have garnered from my library to read are

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
3. The Himalyan Blunder ( Kannada )
Original - John P Dalvi Translated to Kannada by Ravi Belagere

Suggestions are always welcome for the book which you feel good and needs to be read. You can mail me your choice to kstpkstp@gmail.com

A business sculpt at its crudest as of now ….

I cerebrate at times about - “An organization that asks its employees to do what that interests them and pays for them?”

I am a firm believer that every human on this Earth is special and will be possessing at least one, if not many adept dexterity/interest/ambitions.

Preponderantly it so happens that humans will not be able to identify this skill/interest in them and even if they identify it they would never pursue in it.

Lack of Opportunity, Financial Commitments, Fear of Failure, Improper Guidance, Family, Emotional, Funding, Ego, Recognition issues and many more such reasons make it difficult to live their dreams.

How it would be if there is a company in which you can define your own roles, responsibilities and targets??

How it would be if there is a company which will pay emoluments for doing what that interests you??

How it would be if there is a company which will share the profits earned because of you??

How it would be if there is a company which is totally employee centric??

I do comprehend that this idea is just in its pre-nascent stages and might create weird expressions on the face of people who read / listen about this, but my instincts says that this one will be a sure winner.

If everything goes as anticipated, I know about a company that will come to its existence in 2017 with the above said business model albeit a much matured one.

To end with, this ( as of now non existing) company already have a couple of people who are very much enthralled about this model and are willing to join as soon as the company comes to its existenceJ

The Google Story

Have you ever been dazed, astounded about Google and wished to know---

• How Google has grown so big within such short period of time just making people Search?
• What’s the secret behind Google success?
• What’s the Google Culture? .....

The answer for such kind of questions is the book named “The Google Story” written by David Vise (Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) and Mark Malseed

"The Google Story" is a neat and tidy memoir about the company Google founded by two Techy wizards Larry Page and Sergey Brin from its pre-inception till mid of 2005.

Preponderance times, companies were started by School / College dropouts in a garage and Google is no different. The author tells us about how and why the two Stanford students, who by choice dropped out of Stanford Univerisity ( left their PHD in middle ) to start Google in a garage.

The author also reveals many interesting facts like

• How the name Google originated which was the misspell of Googol
• Altavista , Yahoo and other companies discarded the offer made by Larry and Sergey to sell their Search technology ( page rank)
• The difficulties in the initial stages to arrange funds
• Bending WalStreet rules and doing the IPO Google Way
• Eric Schmidt reluctance just to meet the two founders and finally ended up to be the CEO of Google

and many such incidences…

The author talks about the great working culture and also about employees being proffered 20 % of their work time ( 1day of a week ) to work on the project that interests them. Because of this, products like Google News, Froogle( Now Google Products ), Orkut has come into existence

One complete chapter is dedicated to Charlie Ayers, the chef for Google, and how he got the employees hooked on free organic gourmet food offered at the Google Campus. ( A survey among Google employees reported 9 out of 10 people cited food as the reason to return to Office for work )

The author also mentions about the tough times during the IPO process and the controversies regarding privacy that surrounded during its Gmail launch, the legal battles and court / out of the court settlements.

At the end of the book you also have some good Google search tips, GLAT ( Google Labs Aptitude Test ) and Google’s Financial Scorecard.

After reading this book, what appeals Google the most is their values and their utmost adherence to the principle “Don’t be evil”. The best example for this is keeping their home page clean and simple without any ads and there by losing millions.

A chronically organized book in chapters to read if you are interested to know more about Google and its making and by any chance if you are thinking that you can know more about Google technical’s by reading this book you will be disenchanted and let down.

My Rating – 3 of 5 ( Good )

Proud to be an Indian

Never ever any words or expressions can be an account of the dauntless, courageous, heroic efforts and struggles of our freedom fighters and their immeasurable sacrifices.

With indebted gratitude thanks to their efforts, we all live in this independent India

But what hurts the most is though India has achieved its freedom, there is still a long way to turn their dreams into reality.

Reminiscing all the sacrifices and struggles, on the eve of 63rd Independence Day with a hope that we all will try our best to turn their dreams to reality, I Wish you all a Happy Independence Day.