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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Paramathma - The movie could have been better

Today I had been to the movie "Paramathma". I was eagerly waiting to watch this movie from quite sometime. I am great fan of Yograj Bhat from the time I saw Mungarumale and then Pancharangi made me his die hard fan.

The story of Paramathma basically revolves around a guy and  his friends. The hero of the movie has a pure heart and he follows his heart. The hero falls in love with a Gal and follows her everywhere even to her native. This is where most part of the movie is shot. Among the hero's friends one gal likes him a lot and she tries to convince the hero also to like her.But Punit marries his love and then they have a baby, 1 year after baby the heroine dies. Even after her death hero feels that she is alive and lives his life with her memories.To show that hero follows his heart Bhatru has shown many things like hero climbing Mt.Everest , doing several Business , Learning Kum Fu at China , goes in search of God and then finally taking up agriculture.

Let me start with good things in the movie, the strong point of the movie are its songs, the songs are brilliantly choreographed  the lyrics are great , the music is very catchy and Punit has danced awesomely. In most of Yogaraj Bhat's movie songs are really good (lyrics and music) so is the case with Paramathma . The dialogues are funny ,witty and meaningful . The movie is picturized in beautiful places , mostly in and around  South Canara.

The weakness of the movie is its story , it looks quite messed up.Director has tried to show too many things. In many places the story does not seem to be complete,many situations remain unanswered. Two fight sequences (kumfu and betting fight ) were completey unnecessary. I think director has tried to to show too many concepts like: following ones heart , love, friendship, death of a loved one,emotion of a dad towards his son , emotion of a dad towards his daughter , differences between culture of people from South Canara and Bangalore , education system etc.... and this is the thing which has messed up the movie. Even the "Life Estene" movie which was one of the outcome of Yograj production , seemed to be quite messy .

I truly feel this movie could have been definitely better with a better filtered script .For me both Life Estene and Paramathma were disappointing . This is because of the expectations I have with Yograj  Bhat's movie and the above two movies were below my expectations. 

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Aarakshan - Reservation



After Rajneethi, Prakash Jha as tried to direct another catchy, fast paced, political, dialogue centered, and character oriented movie. The first half of the movie is great, the dialogues are superb, particularly the dialogues delivered by Saif Ali Khan. I should say Saif has acted brilliantly; it seems that he is made for the role he plays.

The movie revolves around two important concepts, reservation in education system and money minting tuition business. First half of the movie talks about reservation and second half concentrates on tuition. This is one of the weak points of the movie, it would be better if the director had to concentrate only on the first concept of reservation. The main character of the movie is played by Amitabh Bachan, who has given a solid performance. He is the principal of one of the leading institutes of the city and he is poor pro, who believes in inclusive growth of the society. Saif, who is from the backward community is one of Amitabh’s favorite student and is also the topper of the university. Some of the scenes and songs in which Saif’s and Deepika’s affection is shown are brilliantly shot, so is the friendship between Saif, Deepika and Prateek shown.

The film takes turn when reservation system is introduced, due to Manadal commission report and Supreme courts approval for the same. There starts the rift between Saif, Amitabh and Prateek. Circumstances force Amitabh to resign from the college he built, and Manoj Bajpai who is full time into tuition business becomes the principal. Manoj Bajpai has the support of some of the dishonest members in the College Board as well as some culprit ministers. Due to unforeseen circumstances Amitabh is forced to stay out of his own house, which will be in procession of Manaoj Bajpai. To get back the house as well as to teach the tuition mafia a lesson Amitabh starts a free tuition class in a cow shed just opposite to Bajpai’s class. Here starts the showdown between Amitabh and Bajpyee. The film gets little boring here, may be for another half an hour. Finally the film ends happily, with Amitabh’s tuition class surpassing the results of Bajpai’s expensive tuition class and he is made the principal of the college again.

After seeing the movie, I felt the reservation system for economically backward people is required. May be I had this thought earlier itself but I never bothered to ponder about it. It is definitely not easy for a student from poor family background to match the scores of students who come from sound families. They have so many issues to face and problems to sort out rather than just studying. They do not have anyone to look up-to for guidance. The reservation system if utilized properly for bringing up social justice is one of the best things that can happen. After all our country cannot become developed nation because of only rich people, it will happen only if inclusive growth takes place , and for this to happen we need to give special support for students who come from difficult backgrounds and have an urge to do something in life.

In one liner this movie is definitely one time watchable, but may not be as good as Rajneethi. For me the movie gave a concept to think about and made my thoughts a bit clear on reservation system.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

ICFAI - Part Time MBA



This Picture is taken from ICFAI webpage

ICFAI University Tripura is one of the universities in India that provides Distance/Part-Time MBA.  Large numbers of students from all over India enroll to this part time MBA program. I seriously doubt if at-least 50% of the students enrolled clear the first phase of the MBA (Diploma in Business in Management, now this is second stage I guess first stage being Certificate in Business Management). And I do not think even 25% students enrolled complete their MBA.

I joined the ICFAI part time MBA course in January 2008 and I completed my PG Diploma in Business Management recently in July 2011. I could not take some quarterly exams due to my onsite trips and due to office commitments. The ICFAI university guys advertise saying one can complete the MBA in 2 or 2.5 years, according to me this is not at all possible. One requires atleast 3 years to 4 years to complete this MBA. The subjects are really vast, and all papers till PG diploma in business management are objective and most of the answers look very similar. Most the subjects in MBA are theoretical, and this makes life more difficult as we need to remember many things to answer objective questions correctly.

If one is ready to spend somewhere around 15 hours per week then he/she will be able to clear all the papers with good marks and some understanding of management subjects. But I am very sure if one goes to exams without any preparation then he will flunk, particularly in the objective papers.

ICFAI University is very regular in sending of the text books, study guides and work books. Each subject will have a text book, a study guide and work book. If one revises the study guide or text book once or twice and is confident about the questions in work book then, he can be sure of clearing the papers. Only thing I want to say is "one cannot take the exams of ICFAI very lightly".

ICFAI MBA is suited for people looking for extra MBA degree with some understanding of management topics. The ICFAI MBA degree is not so easy to obtain so it has some value in industry, particularly it is useful if one wants to move up the ladder in one existing organization. It is definitely of no use if a person wishes to make a career change from one domain to another. Also MBA is all about study of case studies and class room discussions; definitely ICFAI part time MBA lacks all of these.

According to me there are several other good certifications that one can take up to get some basic understanding of management topics like CBM , ABM from APBM organization or PMP, CAPM from PMI institute, then we have Management Development Programs which run from 3-4 days at reputed B schools like IIM's, ISB and XLRI . Even IISC and IIT's have some very good training programs for Project management in IT industry.

Also there are part time MBA programs offered by IIM-B, IIM-K, IIM-C which are definitely more worth also more helpful to understand the intricacy of management topics.

I d'nt think ICFAI part time MBA is a bad option but I would definitely say there are many other good options to get sound knowledge of management topics. One needs to analyze all options available and get to know their pros and cons before joining any part time MBA program. Also we should join part time MBA programs only if we are serious about it and we are sure of devoting at-least 15-20 hours every week, else it would be very difficult to complete the course also it will be mere waste of valuable money.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

SISO Times


Tomorrow is July 14th 2011. It was exactly four years back that I entered the corporate world fresh from the college life. My software engineer's life started at SISO. So I thought I will pen my memories about it.


It was February of 2007; three more months were left for my graduation. I wanted to get into networking companies. I was interested to get into Cisco, and no one other company sounded interesting to me then, so I had let go many opportunities. Cisco was one of the last companies to visit PESIT in the Tier 3 slot, and when it came I could not clear the written test. Only consoling thing was that all my close friends at PESIT were also in the same state, and we use to crib about not getting into the product company now and then.

After the Cisco episode I had learnt my lesson and I had decided that I will give some serious tries to get into one good product company. At this point, the savior “Samsung India Software Operations” came into the picture. SISO had come for campus placements at PESIT for the first and last time (as they believe no other college other than IIT, NIT and BITS is good enough for their campus placements).The presentation given by HR and the work at SISO seemed to be interesting. The salary was another attractive point. So with one written test, one tech interview and one HR round I got into SISO. The best thing was my very good friends, Raghu, Dada and Mohan also got through. Half of my bench was in SISO now. For me this is how the life at SISO started on July 14th 2007.

First three months at SISO was fun, this consisted of 1 week training at Royal Orchid, 1 month C and C++ training and then another 2 months networking domain ramp up as I had chosen Telecom and Networks division at SISO. From the time I joined SISO until I left, I have worked at Telecom and Networks division itself , in various projects in Wireless and Core networks.

Samsung Electronics is a very diverse company, working on TV, Ovens , Mobiles, Printers, Memory Chips to System LSI chips. You name a electronic gadget and Samsung will have its presence. SISO being Samsung Electronics largest overseas R&D centre works on all these products except for home appliances and digital cameras. According to me the best division in SISO is SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute Technology) Labs or ATD, now even Telecom and Networks is part of this group. This is because ATD generally works on advanced technologies and standardization, where the scope for research is more. Work life balance is quite high in this division.

Mobile division in SISO is huge, it is the largest group in SISO with almost 75% of employees working in this division. Mobile division at SISO is very dynamic, where change is the only thing which is certain. There is generally little more pressure in this division compared to any other divisions at SISO. This division mainly concentrates on commercialization, which brings in lot of revenue, so one can expect lot of onsite and better hikes at this division. There is also large amount of politics that needs to be faced in bigger teams at mobile division; it is one of the toughest parts at SISO. Some teams in mobile divisions are actually very badly managed, where the average working hours is the only thing that is counted. But yes there are some very good awesome teams also present in the same division.

SISO's advantages are in its pay, onsite, cutting edge technologies in consumer electronics domain and job security. SISO also provides lot of freebees like free breakfast, lunch, dinner, cab facility, annual gifts, and discount sales. As a fresher if one joins SISO, there are lot of things to learn and also lot of opportunities to go onsite in a short span. Also one can get involved in many of extracurricular activities like Casa-Fete, Football , Cricket , Chess , Rajyostava celebrations , Dandya Nights , Singing, Short Story , painting, Floor decoration etc...

As every coin has two sides, even SISO has. It has a very strict security policy; one has to go through metal detector every day. A person cannot work from home at any cost. A person cannot be flexible in his work timings. Employee should be in office for 9 works irrespective the amount of work one has. The organization is bit of autocratic type, where everything is decided by our higher authorities and we need to just follow them. Taking leaves is not that easy, particularly if it is for more than 3 days, even though the amount of work one has is less. One thing is for sure, according to business requirements one can be moved from one domain to other in a short time , and we should be ready for the continuous change that takes place. Some teams in SISO work very hard , going for night outs continuously for months together, particularly when employees are at Korea or USA for mobile commercialization work.

I at SISO had a good time. The job was cool, not much hectic mostly into R&D of wireless networks. Going to Korea twice a year for the demo of our prototypes making patents and writing papers was definitely special to me. I made life time friends at SISO like Arjun , Dhinesh, Somu, Aman , Manju, Sunil, Sharath , Suresh , and Jithu. Being with friends was the best part at SISO; I had lot of fun with them at the office as well as out of office.

But yes I was not happy with everything at SISO, particularly the now and then change of projects being done now and then, the timing policy during 2010, the strict security policy, the lack of value for employees feedback, the rigid rules and lack of confidence in employees ability and skills all made me to think for change . And out of box, from nowhere I got a very good opportunity at HP to work for processors, that also for one of their leading servers, with a decent hike. I never gave a second thought before taking up this opportunity because from my engineering days the two subjects I liked a lot were Microcontrollers and Networks. I had worked in the networks already for 3 year and 6 months and now the second most interesting thing was beckoning me , and I just sent the acknowledgement ..........



Thursday, March 24, 2011

List of Best B Schools Providing Full Time Executive MBA in India

One year Full time Executive MBA caught my attention some time back and I conducted an extensive research on them. Executive MBA is generally for professionals with prior work experience, there are two types in this, part time executive MBA’s and Full time 1 year MBA’s. Full time Executive MBA’s will help to bring considerable change in one’s career like change in roles, responsibilities, and in some cases change his domain itself like software development to finance, where as part time MBA’s will mostly help to move up the ladder in one’s organization however they may not help to give a break as full time MBA’s can provide.

I personally prefer Executive MBA provided by best B schools in India rather than International B schools, because of the reasons given below

  • In India one can get very good Management education (from B schools like IIM, ISB, Great Lakes, XLRI, and SP Jain) in par with very good international institutes at very affordable prices (compared to MBA cost in UK and USA). In India one year full time MBA may cost 20 lakhs INR where as one has shell out 35-40 lakhs INR to do MBA in reputed B school in Europe or USA.
  • If one would like to work in India after MBA then the top B schools in India are the best bets to get challenging and quality roles and responsibilities in very good companies in India rather than International B schools which can provide very good opportunity in their respective nations.
  • The Business education provided by Indian schools will be more relevant to Indian business scenario than International B schools.
  • Also to get into best Indian B School one has to put huge amount of efforts which will definitely boost one’s confidence.

I will give the list of colleges which provide 1 year full time MBA in India along with some relevant information like Fees, prior work experience required, specialization and placement. All schools look for the good GMAT scores and most of them expect GMAT scores to be 700 or above. I will list the colleges, in the order of Best to Better (in my opinion), remember all these B schools are really good and definitely worth pursuing. One has to take up these programmes for the career change they offer rather than taking it up only for the sake of fat salary package.

1. ISB Hyderabad provides one year full time Post Graduate Programme in Management. ISB has been ranked 12th in the world by financial times and this is huge achievement for any Indian B school. This programme requires minimum of 2 years of work experience average work experience being 5 years. The average GMAT score is above 700 and the fees for the programme is around 22 Lakhs INR including accommodation, tuition fees, books etc. The average salary offered is 16 lakhs.

2. IIM-A and IIM-B are next two B schools which provide 1 year Executive MBA’s at a cost of around 20 lakhs INR. Their average GMAT score is also almost 700. This programme is only for people with 7+ years of work experience and average work experience of the class is above 10 years. The average salary offered is 20 LPA INR in case of IIM- A.

3. IIM-C also offers 1 year Executive MBA’s at a cost of around 14 lakhs INR. They need an average GMAT score of 700 and above with at least 5 years of work experience. They offer very good career change and average salary is 18 Lakhs INR. The average work experience of class is 8.9 years.

4. XLRI provides General Management programme for people with 5 years of work exp. The average work exp of class is above 6 years and the cost of programme is 14 Lakhs INR. The average GMAT score of the class is 700 and average salary offered is 15 LPA INR.

5. IIM Indore provides 1 year Executive MBA’s at a cost of around 18 lakhs INR and work exp required is 5 years. The average work exp is around 6 years. The average salary offered should be decent but as of now it is not updated on their web page. The average GMAT score requires is 700 +.

6. SP Jain provides three different programmes for people with 3 and more years of experience. One of them is Global MBA; other one is Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) and the third programme is Post Graduate Certificate in International Management (PGCIM). All have varied GMAT requirements and different fees. All three are good depending upon the student’s interests. The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) is offered at the SPJIMR itself where as SP Jain Global MBA is provided at their global campus and Post Graduate Certificate in International Management (PGCIM) which is the latest programme is provided with some part in India and rest of the part in Germany.

7. Great Lakes Institute of Management the brain child of Prof. Bala V. Balachandran is one of the very good institutes with less branding. Great Lakes Institute of Management offers Post Graduate Program in Management for people with at least two years of work experience. The average GMAT score of the class is 690 and average work exp of the batch is 46 months. The programme fees is 13 Lakhs INR and the average salary offered is 8.7 LPA INR.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Maruti Suzuki Joins the Elite Club


Maruti Suzuki rolled out its 10th millionth car (1 Crore Cars) on March 15th 2011 and joined the select club of automobile manufacturers like Toyota , Honda, GM , Suzuki , Ford, Renault and Volkswagen . Maruti is the first Indian company to achieve this feat.

Maruti which started its operations in 1983 with Maruti 800 and rolled out Wagon R Vxi as its 10th million car. May be 90% of these 10 million cars are below the range of 5 lakhs , Maruti may be the first car manufacturer in the world to sell this large quantity of small cars which made made cars very affordable to we Indians.

Maruti sold its 1 millionth car in 1994 and 5 millionth car in 1997. So it took 24 years to sell million cars where as next 5 million cars were sold in just 13 years. This ca be one of the indicators of India's economic growth story.

The reference for this article is Economic Times and Times Auto.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Seven Sins - Samsung - Kaleidos - Fashion Show

On February 4th of 2011 DMCIG was crowned the "Champions of the Samsung Fashion World". It is one of the most memorable events for me. The theme of our fashion show was "Seven Sins" .Herculean efforts by almost 60 energetic people got us this superb result. I will share some of the pictures related to this theme in this article.I will upload the actual fashion show pictures and write about it may be some time later.

All these pictures have been searched and found from Google ,so all due respects to their actual creators.




Seven Sin Glasses are shown below















Keep watching for this space :) for more pictures ........

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Top Ten Highest Grossing Bollywood Movies of 2010


I was interested in knowing the hit movies of 2010 and top grosser's of 2010, so I explored for the same and got it in Box Office India website.

According to Bollywood Box Office, the top ten highest grosser's for 2010 are as below.

These are based on the total collections of each individual movie.

1. Dabangg
2. Golmaal 3
3. Rajneeti
4. My Name is Khan
5. Housefull
6. Tees Maar Khan
7. Once Upon A Time in Mumbai
8. Kites
9. I hate Luv Storys
10. Anjaana Anjaani

The movies listed below are among top hits of 2010, one should note that all top earners are not declared as hit because the box office considers the investment that gone into the movie as well.

1. Dabangg
2. Golmaal 3
3. Rajneeti
4. My Name is Khan
5. Housefull
6.Once Upon A Time in Mumbai
7.I hate Luv Storys

Source : http://www.boxofficeindia.com/

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Bryan Adams Concert @ Bangalore - A Superb Performance by the Legend


I was planning for our Valentine’s Day celebrations, it was then I came to know about Bryan’s show at Palace grounds Bangalore. Bryan Adams was coming back to Bangalore after a gap of 4 years. Honestly I was not a great fan of Bryan but he is one of Shweta’s all time favorite singer, so I thought the Bryan’s live performance will be the best way to start Valentine’s day as the show was on Feb 13th night.

The tickets were quiet expensive, the silver class was 1500 per ticket and Gold class was 3500 INR and VIP Lounge was 8000 bugs. I managed to get two tickets in Silver class. The show was supposed to start at 7PM. I and Shweta were in the Palace grounds at 3.30 PM itself, so that we can stand at the front row of silver class; but to our surprise almost 500 people were already present in the waiting line to get into the venue. It was too hot there was nothing much available other than water near the waiting line. The gates were opened at 5 PM, so we had to stand almost for 1 hour 30 minutes before entering the venue on a hot sunny day, and the worst thing was gals and boys were supposed to stand in separate queue. The best part is we managed to get second row in silver class after 90 minutes wait.

DJ Akbar played some music for next one and half hour, the music was not very good or great it was just average. Slowly people had started accumulating behind us, by 7 PM almost 5000 people were behind us, it was jam packed and there was no chances anyone going to drink water or even to rest room. Shiamak Davar and his troop gave 3-4 dance performances for may be 15-20 minutes, these performances were very boring. We had to wait for another 30 minutes before Bryan arrived.

Around 7.45PM Bryan arrived and from that moment to 11PM it was just awesome. Bryan stared with There will never be another tonight and played almost 20 plus songs. Three solo songs at the end were played by him using mouth organ and guitar. Bryan was singing nonstop almost taking no breaks in between. He belted out superb songs like Summer of 69, Run to you, There will never be another tonight, everyone needs somebody, let’s make this night to remember, Everything I do I do it for you, Back to U, Fastest Fingers, Please forgive me and The only thing that looks good on me is U. It was very nice of Bryan that he asked one of the gals from the audience to accompany him for one song. I and Shweta were dancing non-stop to all his songs, those 3 hours with Bryan were just superb and I felt the four hours of wait was worth it. I am now a huge fan of his husky yet mellow voice and I felt the lyrics of his songs are just incredible.

To summarize it was a very memorable and very enjoyable performance by Bryan Adams.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

India Positive - Believe In India

I believe that India has a great future and I have lot of belief in its growth and its capability. I see every day how my fellow colleagues in IT industry put in lot of efforts to build a solid future to themselves and in turn make India successful as a whole. Yes I agree there are so many problems to be resolved yet,but these kind of initial hiccups are bound to exist in such a large nation with such a huge diversity in almost everything.

I am truly proud of India , its diversity , its life , its people and its energy. I see India as strong competitor at world level in years to come. I would love to see all the best talents produced in India to be in India and be part of its success story.

I read an interesting article in DNA's cover page on India positive and I am uploading the same article in this blog. I liked it a lot and I hope everyone else feels the same.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Chevrolet Spark is Value for Money



I had enough options to choose from (within 4.5 Lakh Rupees) like Alto , Wagon R, Santro, Palio , i10- Era and Spark.

I decided to buy Spark because I got fully loaded car with music system, four power windows, fog lamps , defogger , wind shields , seat covers, car cover,tubeless tyres and wireless locking system at a price of 4.20 Lakhs. I do not think any car with 1000CC engine comes with all these features at this price. Also Spark comes with three years free maintenance package. I have not spent a penny for my car services in last 15 months. I also liked the styling of the Car ,it has the look and the color of the car "misty lake blue" is very nice. I was very much impressed by the car's engine ,one can never make out if the engine is switched on or not it is that silent. The beige interiors of the car is of good attractive and has quality. I also liked the central cockpit control system which is very unique to Spark. The market rep of Sundram motors was very interested in selling unlike other leading car vendors where they act as if they are doing social service.

Now let me explain a few things about my experience , I have driven Spark for some where around 7500 KMs and till date I have never faced any major issues as such. I have taken car to my native Honnavar which is some where around 450 KM from Bangalore with four people and the journey was a smooth and comfortable one.I have driven car in heavy traffic of Bangalore , in highways and in ghat sections in all cases I am satisfied owner of Spark. The car service is pretty good in Bangalore , the service outside Bangalore may not be that great though. The showroom guys call regularly and take the customers feedback, remind us about the pending service , provide pick up and drop service at reasonable price of 250 rupees. I get a mileage around 13 to 15 which is not very bad in Bangalore traffic. The car is as much spacious as Santro and Wagon R, from outside one feels Spark is small but that is not the case, easily four people can travel in it. It is best car for small family within four members. Parking in city is not difficult with this car.

Some drawbacks with Spark are in the smoothness of the gear , it is pretty hard compared to i-10 , particularly the reverse gear. The central locking of the car does not include the dicky. One feels the car is underpowered if 5 people are in the car and the AC is switched on. The service outside Bangalore may not be that great as showrooms and service centers may be very less.

Spark is best option for people, who need smart looks, looking out for better mileage, who prefer smooth engine, frequent travelers within city , guys with small family, and who would like to get a fully loaded car with good interiors at best price.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Super Movie Not So Super After All.....



I am surprised because of the hype and good reviews Super movie has received. I have seen of many Upendra movies but this one let me down completely. This movie does not fit as an entertainer or as a serious genre movie. Super is boring particularly during first one hour. I went to this Upendra starer with lot of hopes, because of the good reviews it received in almost all articles, but for me personally this movie was not a good one.

Most of the scenes in the movie, like a person applying Indian soil to a wound and getting soothing effect where as when foreign soil is applied to same wound it causes burning is really very unrealistic, boring, very painful to watch. The concept of the movie that India will be become super power by 2030 is a good one but the way it happens in this movie is not at all near by to average movie standards also, I felt the approach presented for development was most unrealistic one.

I fail to understand how can a billionaire after returning back to his home country, start a company of goondas to develop the state? The movie tries to different aspects like corruption, Indian politics, love for a gal, love for nation, love for language etc etc but not even one aspect is portrayed properly, and everything together seems to be in mess in this movie.

Why should foreign nationals behave as uncivilized people if India or Karnataka develops? I do not understand why should only Kannada speaking person be considered as educated after India or Karnataka develops? I love Karnataka as well as Kannada but still I do not approve the concept in this movie that only Kannada speaking people are considered as educated where as all people who learn English are uneducated.

As a whole, this movie was complete let down for me. It has failed in all departments; it has a weak story, bad narration, no fun, does not have great music either. It looks like 30 minutes story has been dragged to make a 2 hour movie. Super was boring from start to end, I was just waiting for the movie to end. Only thing I liked in Super is about the chaddi brothers....

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Almost 125 Days in a Year is Off



I was interested to find out the exact number working days generally present in an year.I collected the data from my attendance at office in 2010 and found out that I had almost 125 days Off during this fiscal.This is not at all a bad number in private software company,I feel the number of leaves given are as good as number of leaves given by any government organization. The number of working days in each month was as shown below.

Jan – 19 days
Feb – 19 days
March – 22 days
April – 21 days
May – 20 days
June – 22 days
July – 21 days
August – 21 days
September - 20 days
October – 20 days
November – 20 days
December – 22 days

This turns out to be 20.6 working days on an average every month, which means (12*20.6) 247 working days in an year. To be precise I got 118 days off in 2010, which is 33% of the time I had off. And 247 days in an year were working days, which is 67% of the total number of days were working days.

One aspect every person should consider is,the best way to employ this free time (off) effectively. The free time (120 days per year) can be used to for various interesting and development activities like to learn a new subject or to pursue hobby projects or to do social service or to pursue some new course or certification or for physical training. We need to utilize the free time to spend with family and our loved ones. We can go to watch some movies or to some adventure park or to some new place along with our family and spend quality time with them. We need to keep in mind that the free time ( off days ) are provided to us so that we can utilize these vacations for our personal use( for our personal development and for our family ). Hence there is no point in spending these special moments at office without any genuine reasons.

We should always try to put in our best efforts to contribute towards employers goals during 67% of working days and the remaining 33% of Off days should be used for one's personal development and to spend quality time with the family.Only then I feel a person can have balanced work life.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

20 best mobile phones in the world today

The latest article by Tech Radar on best mobile phones is quite interesting. The list has changed considerably to what it was during August 2010, this shows the quick changes taking place in smart phone market and the stiff competition present in the smart phone market.

I observed that the Android Platform has been used in many of the best mobile phones .Eleven out of top 20 mobile phones use Android Platform, this shows growing clout of Android in Smart Phone Platforms. Apple's iOS , BlackBerry's Phone OS and Windows 7 are used in 2 phones each. Samsung's Bada has been used in one phone, similar is the case with Nokia's Symbian and Nokia's Maemo Platforms.The dominance of Android Platform based phones is strong among top 5 phones also this can be understood by the fact that best 4 phones in top 5 are based on Android and 1 of them is based on iOS.

If we see among Original Equipment Manufacturers HTC is leading with 6 mobile phones among top 20 , Samsung coming 2nd with 4 mobiles, Apple, BlackBerry and Nokia stand 3rd with 2 mobile phones each and LG , Motorola, Sony Ericson having one each. Apple and Samsung have one phone each among top 5 , where as HTC has three phones among top 5.

The list of top 20 mobiles phones in the world is given below.For details regarding these phones one can refer the link

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/20-best-mobile-phones-in-the-world-today-645440

20. Apple iPhone 3GS - iOS Platform



19. Nokia N900 - Linux Based Maemo Platform


18. Samsung Wave - Bada Platform


17. HTC Legend - Android Platform



16. BlackBerry Bold 9780 - BlackBerry Platform



15. Samsung Galaxy Europa - Android Platform



14. BlackBerry Torch - BlackBerry Platform



13. HTC WildFire - Android Platform



12. HTC HD7 - Windows 7 Platform



11. Motorola Milestone 2 - Android Platform


10. LG Optimus 7 - Windows 7



9. Orange San Francisco - Android Platform



8. Sony Ericson Xperia X10 Mini - Android Platform



7. Nokia N8 - Symbian Platform



6. HTC Desire Z - Android Platform



5. Google Nexus S by Samsung - Android Platform



4. Samsung Galaxy S - Android Platform


3. HTC Desire HD - Android Platform



2. Apple iPhone 4 - iOS Platform



1. HTC Desire - Android Platform

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Delhi - A Must Visit Place - Red Fort

I was longing to write this blog from quite some time. I and my family visited Delhi this August, We stayed there for 1 week, I should say I enjoyed every moment at Delhi. From my experience I felt it requires at least 15 days to see most prominent places in and around Delhi. Delhi is a wonderful place particularity for people who love to visit historical places, see museums, visit famous places of worship,see the parliament,Rashtrapati Bhavan and do lot of shopping. There is so much to write that I will not be able to cover everything in one article so I will just write about red fort in this article.

The Red fort is one of the must visit places in Delhi. Red fort encloses many prominent structures such as Diwan-i-Aam, this was the court of the Mughal Emperor where the Emperor and his ministers used to meet the common man. This is the place where the famous peacock throne was installed for Shah Jahan. However this throne was taken away by Nader Shah to Persia during later years, after the rule of Aurangazeb. The other well known buildings in Red Fort are, Moti Masjid built by Aurangazeb, Jal Mahal, Hava Mahal, Diwan-i-Khas, and Rang Mahal.Most of the buildings inside Red Fort are built from marble and are bright white .The fort is built on the banks of Yamuna , and there used to be facility in the fort to make the water stream flow into Rang Mahal from the Yamuna river. People say that many pillars of the Rang Mahal ,Diwan-i-Khas etc used to be studded with gold but today we can hardly find any.


Diwan-i-Aam at Red Fort


Canals where Yamuna river used to flow through Rang Mahal and Diwan-i-Khas


Shweta next to a very beautiful work on the pillars of Rang Mahal


Hava Mahal , one of the palaces built by Emperor Bahadur Shah


Shweta in front of Jal Mahal


Moti Masjid at Red Fort, Pic is downloaded from WiKi

Many parts of red fort are under the control of army and some palaces are closed for the visitors hence one cannot see whole of red fort,even then it will take at least half a day to enjoy the beauty of red fort. I will not mind spending days together at red fort. The laser show at red fort is worth watching.There is also a museum of the Mughal's present at red fort,one has to go early too see the museum, the museum closes by 5.30 PM I guess. However Red Fort remains open till 7.30 PM and after that the laser show starts. There is also big shopping area as one enters red fort where one can buy lot of traditional goods at affordable prices [ this depends on the bargaining power of the buyer :) ].


Night Vision of Red Fort, Pic is downloaded from WiKi