Another Tag

Mon Tag!!!

First of all, I would like to apologize to smilegirl for being so late to reply to the tag. I was occupied from head till heels on a sily project(not so silly mind u). It was finished yesterday, and here I am now. Gonna bug u all from now onwards, beware!!!!!!

ok..lets see...this is the new format(!!!!) rite

10 yrs ago :-
Well...i was a moronic 11 yr old guy, waz in my 6th standard. Man, waz i a book worm at tat time. Was so finicky abt first ranks u knw, and i did get it. I still have my report card for 6th, 7 1st ranks outta 8,...hmm not bad! (Stopped collecting the report cards after 8th...he he!!). Apart from studies, I didnt do anything at all! Man..did i waste some time!

5 Yrs ago:-
Ok...now we are talking abt something! Was exactly opposite to what i was 10 yrs ago. First crush, first heartbreak, inhouse fighting, ogling at girls, tutions!!! one-movie-a-day, bikes!!! wow, the most purple hrs of my life. And till now, my best buddies are almost those with whom i did my schooling! Was really crushed when i had to finish my 12th. Thankfully, inspite of all the fooling around, i managed to get some decent grades.

Last year:-
Last year?...same time, was pissed like hell! Two things, one my college had one of the suckiest placement facilities. Was broke to see when others with relatively poor percentage got into cool comp just because they were in a much decent college. Second, it was my last sem in engineering and we had to finish a project. We gave that to a independent project consultant and he was beginning to screw us by not doing anything on it. Later(14 days b4 project submission) he told he wasnt able to do the project.
p.s, both sorted out perfectly, I got into my dream company during an off-campus and the self-project we did me gave me a 99% for it. Hard work does pay off!!!

yesterday:-
hey x-mas day!!!! Heavy treat. But yeah, many of my friends were occupied and I surrendered before my comp to finish the project.

Tagged

SEVEN(or more) THINGS I DREAM ABOUT

1.Play for Manchester United...(i strictly stick to dreaming...coz if i play for real...they will loose 50-nil for sure)

2.To drive a bike at more than 150 km/hr..(u might wonder why its a dream ...i am damn afraid of speeds...courtesy to six near death accidents) (Updated: Current Max Speed is 103 Km/hr)

3.To be able to sing properly(for those who have heard me singing...u know better!!..he he)

4.Own a Mercedes, a two-seater. I think I can do it...but till this point...its a dream.

7.Sky diving...a dream again coz I am damn afraid of heights!!!

8.Just one time...not much ...a nobel prize ...and damn the department...just give me one...may be u ud consider the best moron in this world...

10.Well...as i am very business minded...so a customary feature in time magazine cover ...


SEVEN (OR MORE) THINGS I CAN DO...

1. Get loads and loads of money...and spend it like hell...no savings etc

2. Just be lazy...


3. Give some of the silliest replies you would ever hear

4. Bore you to death! (I bet some of you are already are at this point. See...I told you na!)

5. Hog nicely


6. Lend an helping hand, when asked, and when not.

7. Day dream, non-stop!

SEVEN (OR MORE) THINGS I CAN'T DO

1. Tell a lie...not strictly...I really try to refrain from doing so...I dun tell 99.9%...but when I tell...it will be damn smooth


2. Get back my word once i get committed

3. Leave a thing haphazard...I'm kinda perfectionist

4. Stand to hear some one say bad about Manchester United

5. Miss my daily dose of music...now way dude..definitely not...


6. Kiss someone's ass...figuratively that is

7. To come back to a non-pissed state easily after getting pissed


SEVEN (OR MORE) CELEBRITY CRUSHES( i dunno if i ud be able to make seven...will try)

1.President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam( I am dying to meet him...i virtually cry when someone tells he had met him)

2.Madhuri Dixit

3.Emma Watson


4. Mika Hakkinen

5. Mohammed Azharuddin(I just love his style)

6. Ryan Giggs

7. Horror#2 (Celebrity in my eye)

SEVEN MOST DISTRESSING AND/OR EMBARASSING MOMENTS

1. When I had to turn down an MBA admission from one of best schools in US due to lack of funds.


2. When I failed in Polaris final interview...(however things haven't turned out pretty bad after all :-) )


3. When me and my dad met with an accident...my dad got multiple fractures in fingers and knees...where i escaped with no scratch. My dad bore the grunt of the vehicle. I dun remember I cried as much as on any other day as I did on that day...

4. Last day of my school...I miss my school much more than my college...

5. When my friend proposed to my crush...and had the guts to tell me...

6. When we lost 4-0 to Anna university in hockey inter-zonals.

7. When our project consultant screwed us 10 days before final submission...(its college final year project...and we started and completed the project in 9 days flat...the best period of high stress i ever had in my life so far)


SEVEN MOST HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE

Actually i am happy all the time when i am not distressed...but some of the most happiest moments include

1. When my first newspaper article was published.

2. When I got selected into my job...best feeling!!!...I felt so independent and confident. Feeling perpetuates till now.


3. When I got distinction in my engineering...!!!...didn't expect it ...given my hrs per subject statistics!

4. Winning hockey zonal gold medal. Officially became an athlete!

5. Any moment shared with my friends at beach, Fruit Shop or at anywhere. Yaar bina chain kahan re!

6. I feel happy when it rains...dunno why...

7. Somethings are just way too personal to share ;-)

SEVEN(OR MORE) WORDS PHRASES I USE THE MOST

1. omala...(a south indian slang...almost a bad word)

2. aaah man!!!( jonny bravo style)

3. crap...(all the time)

4. Freeya vidu ..(leave it freely in english..)

5. Ok I'll do it....

6. I tell u na...

7. ass...


8. See that's why u should always listen to me...

9 . Yea yea...and u can fly(implies you=pig...sleek huh)

(Updated on 4th June 2010)

A novel experience....

Nowadays...i dun have much time to devote to novels as i had before. Too many things to do in just 24 hrs!..too bad...but since i was before computer most of the time...i thought i cud read a electronic version of a novel. I always wanted to read hitchiker's guide to the galaxy. And it was...and i must admit people...the story starts somewhere...heads somewhere else...and ends at the somewhere...which is in the middle of th nowhere. But the most interesting and notable aspect of the book is that...it has numerous pithy sayings. To taste...lemme give one from it..."When we think that nuthing can get worse than this, it does!"...i like this one a lot...and the buk on the whole is a total crap for any information...but its totally enjoyable if u wanna have a lite time. I must admit people...the buk is damn infectious...i finished the buk in two sittings. The buk has been written by douglas,adam and u can find it in any store. In mah opinion...the buk is a must-read. U know...now i am thinking abt devoting some time to the novels!...thinking of alchemist...and yeah...for all the dan brown fans(the da vinci code fame)...the sequel to the Da vinci code is gonna hit the shelves soon...its called the solomon key!...du buk in advance...And seeing my blog title...u thought i had a new experience????

Missing the omnipresents for a small time

I got lotta time to ponder abt life in the past one week. I was bed-ridden the whole week coz of viral fever. I was confined to to my room, my t.v, my music system and my books. Hmmm...doesnt sound different...does it! But yeah, this time around there was a huge difference. Apart from my sleep I wasnt able to enjoy anything at all. Infact, even at sleep i had lotta discomfort. I was thinking at that time...a best thing anyone could have is a healthy life. Really i gave a lotta thought abt it...money, luxury et al are of no use when some one is not healthy at all. So took a lotta oaths to take care of my diet and health!

Also I left my thoughts to wander off tangentially. A cliched saying came to my mind... we never miss anything r anyone when it is with us, only when it leaves us we miss them a lot. How true! Just because I didnt have a 50 paise extra for the bus fare, I had to wait for 3 hrs at central bus station to board a white-board bus! May sound silly, but thats how it is. I never knew how beautiful and awesome chennai is until I went to madurai. I never knew how great my school mates were until I came to college. I never knew how great my college people were until I came outta college. I never knew how much I loved manutd until they began to loose games! I never knew the value of studying hard until i got my first arrear. I never knew the value of hard work until i got my distinction. All these things didnt happen over night anyway...its just a culmination of process over a long period of time the climax being an capricious outcome. I have decided that I would strive to enjoy my life to the fullest hereafter and wont be bothered abt stupid people and decisions. Yeah..i know...sooo predictable.

Actually its soo hard to be that way...at some point or other in our life..we will be so damn pissed by someone r some person. How we wished that thing or that person could have stayed outta our life. Infact I am beginning to understand that its because of these things and people we come across...we really know how cool and important the others are! So much to think huh! Thats how philosophers are made i guess...lotta time and nuthing to do.

Ladies and Gentlemen...This is Emma watson.
Riaz...

man! ... !!!!
Riaz...

isnt she "wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"....
Riaz...

what to say....

Today i saw cinderalla man. The movie was...is there any better adjective that awesome...than use that word. I tell u...it was one of the best...superb..marvellous..stupendous..i was entranced...even the qubbling ramkumar liked it very much. We , the sree theatre, gave a standing ovation at the end of the film. Did u hear that u ajith,vijay,simbu,dhanush,rajni,vijayakanth....standing ovation...when will u will ever come out of ur stardom and hype and will ever give us one quality movie, atleast one quality movie. Without any mumtaj dance, without any rape scenes, without any flying around, no mother sentiment, without a customary gana song....will u ever will be able to give atleast ONE movie like that. That day i will watch ur movie in a balcony ticket. Till then...even watching in cd is not worth for u ppl.

My infosys Experience

I gave my infosys exam today morning, that is on 18th. There was a good crowd, around 1000+ at the St.Micheal's academy. The school was too good. I felt like everyone except me was having a last time revision. My exam started at 10. First paper ws the puzzle one. I didnt prepare well at all for infosys. I never concentrated on puzzles and such descriptive questions as they were different from the CAT format. And i didnt prepare well in the past five week either. Those who had gone through the previous papers of infosys would have been selected.And I think they were in the 108 infy selected for the HR interview. I didnt make it through...feeling really bad and let down...I relly dunno why...I have an offer from a better company...but u know...still...infosys has been dream company...ever since i knew anything abt software..it was infosys...like a mentor...i thought i ud clear it...fuck shit..i shud have prepared really well..the questions were from different domain...like...critical reasoning and analytical reasoning...descriptive answers...cat format is different...i didnt finish the three books(unofficial infosys text books!) completely. I didnt go thrugh the previous question papers comprehensively...and yes...luck didnt happen coz I wasnt prepared when the opportunity came. too bad na..and yeah...it was not His wish too.
Anyway, its not that I am never gonna get into infosys...as a fresher...no I wont...but definitely one day...in a better position...I would get through...


"I have not failed, I have just found out 17000 ways in which it wont work" - Thomas Alva Edison

Sunday at marina...

It was decided peremptorily that the get-together was on sunday 9th. I didn't give much thought about the day, after all its just an another sunday. It happend to be that the sunday wasn't just a normal. Vinayakar idols was supposed to be taken on that day for immersion. I have my reasons to worry friends. I witnessed riots during the prcession during the previous years, two times exactly at Ramkumar's home and once near my home! I think most of you would not have known that the route was changed after those incidents and its only in the last two years, the route has been reverted. So much for sunday!

Anyway, let's come the gettogether. It was indeed a pleasant experience to see the faces of friends. I just can't belive that its been already three months since our college got over. Man!...time flies. I had a great hardship to find the place, which according to many, was ostentatiously visible. My foot! Even though I have been at ice house near marina for 21 years, I never expected to be near that landmark! Yeah it was fine in the end. But definitely not a good place for the love birds. I wonder why we have never been to that place!

I really expected a good count, atleast a decent count. I would say, not many turned up. Of course, no get together is same without mutharasu and rangasayee...who sadly are having great time at Arizona and Kansas respectively. Damn u ppl! But yeah, I think only 15 turned up and only three girls. I think still there is demarcation between boys and girls. You know what, I expected those who were free would turn up in great numbers. Actually it was other way around. I find most of us who had turned up had been going to office.

This may not be a good advice, but I would like you people to have a little time for the past too. We would never back our college days albeit wasn't soo "college." Nevertheless, we have to cherish these moments. I really dunno how man people will turn up the next time when we have one like this, if we could even have one! I just hope that I am with u all to do "total damage"

Not to end this blog on sad note...after the beach me, kanagaraj,cd, bv,suman,kaks & laks went to planet ymm at spencer plaza. And...needless to say...we had a blast...if any police was around that time, i wont have been able to write this blog today! And yeah, I wish all the best for kannan and kanagraj in advance for their sojourn at USA. Dun be like muthu and sayee dudes. Find a girl IMMEDIATELY when u go there!

My team!!!...red devils...hey check out the new blog below this one! ...cheers....
Riaz...

Yahhooooo.....

I was on cloud number nine when i heard that dulcet! "Congratulations Riaz, Yo have been selected, welcome to TCS." I have run out of adjectives to describe the feeling hence I resorted to the above idiom. I indeed shared my experience about the recruitment process in the previous blog. This one is different. I cannot describe my feelings when I got my first offer letter. Well, its not my actual first offer letter the first one was the "coveted" Net vision.But realllly i dun regard that as my offer(not meant to offend others, this is purely my perspective). In my arrogant opinion, I am not supposed to end up at call centre, that too out-bound....please!!

I posted how I felt, what I should have to do, and what indeed happened, in my previous blogs. Now, today I got the result of my medical examination and I am declared fit, to be in TCS, physically. I dunno what to say now!...i am like..I cant express this feeling. Those who already have got the job, may be you will understand my feeling. I feel my hard work has paid off, and to get into the stature of TCS is awesome. Many feel that this TCS process was very simple and lotts (1112) got into it. I am glad that I am among that 1112 and not the rest who didnt make it.

Now the real test starts. What I do in the first two to three years will define my future. I have great, great and very great aspirations for my future. Unlike previous times, let me achieve that AND THEN share it with you. I really dunno how to take this transition, I am clueless. But yeah, I know, I will "evolve" to adapt to the "environment." This blog may not sound coherent to u, not at all. Infact I have not prepared anything, what ur seeing my thought flow described in words. I promise my next blog to be meaningful and based on some issue! So please please please bear(my happiness) with me. So till next time..

A few puzzles ...

Dear friends, all the previous blogs have been on my experience, my observation, my comments on anything that I have come across. Pondering upon what I can write in this post, I thought why not present you with simple but crazy problems to wreck your brain. I hope it would be a good change compared to the previous posts. Since I am also going to CAT classes i came across few of the manyyyy "cool" problems. So here you go...

1. 9 different coins are to be divied into 4 identical bags such that the sum of the coins in 3 bags is 7 and no bag remaining empty. Find the number of ways of partitioning the coins.(IMS SIMCAT1 - 2005)

a.12852 b.17892 c.12012 d.24204



2.Mr Desai has a wife and three children. Mrs. desai is 3 years younger to Mr.desai. The ages of the three children, being in Arithmetic Progression, add up to 6/5 times that of Mr.Desai's age. While the youngets child of Mr.Desai is a female, the sum of the ages of the three males in the family is 85 years.( All ages are integers only)
(IMS SIMCAT1 - 2005)

2.a the age of the second son can be
a.22 yrs b.19 c.18 d.14

2.b Find the sum of the ages of the females in desai family
a.40 b.56 c. option a or option b 4.None of these


3.Let f(n)= 1!+2!+3!+...n!
for how many values of n will f(n) be a perfect square?
a.2 b.3 c.1 d.infinite



4. In a car race, A and B started with certain speeds from the same point. After 6 hrs, A's car developed some problem and so he had to slow down to 2/3rd of his initial speed. At the same time, B increased his speed by 2 km/hr. Then he overtook A after 15 hrs. Now, to finish the race B too 5 hrs and A took 6 more hrs. Find the difference between their initial speeds.
a.0 b.3 c.7 d.5



5. If the letters of the word "COLLOQUIAL" are rearranged, then what is the probability that the letter 'L' is between two 'O's?
a. 1/7 b. 1/6 c. 1/15 d.1/630



6. After selling a watch, Shyam found that he had made a loss of 10%. he also found that had he sold it for Rs.27 more, he would have made a profit of 5%. The initail loss was..
a.2.70 b.16.65 c. 18.00 d.Data insufficient


7. A doctor, a businessman, a broker and an MBA all lived in the same building. Their names were Tom, herry, mark and frank, not necessarily in the same order
a. Tom and the MBA were not friends with mark
b.jerry and the broker were friends
c.mark and the doctor lived on the same floor.
d.The businessman was friends with Frank and the broker

7a. what was mark's profession
7b.who was the MBA
7c.Who was the businessman
7d.what was tom's profession


8. A B C
* B C
------
B 8 A
A A 2 8 0
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A Q 2 6 A
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8a. what is the value of(A+Q)
8b. what is the value of C^2


9. A sprinter starts running on a circular path of radius r meters. her average speed (in metres/minte) is pi*r during the first 30 second, pi*r/2 during next one minute,pi*r/4 during next 2 minutes and so on. What is the ratio of the time taken for the nth round to that of the previous round?(CAT 2004 - 2 mark sum)
(pi = 22/7)

a.4 b.8 c.16 d.32




10. Two trains move around a concentric set of tracks. the radii of the tracks are 6 km and 8 km. The trains are 400 and 500 meters in length. The two trains start from line A. If the speed of the 400 metre trainis 4km.hr and it travels on the 6km track and the 500 metre train travels along 8 km track at 6km/hr, after how much time will the front ends of the two rains meet each other for the third time at the starting point.(pi = 22/7)
a.864*pi hrs b.72*pi hrs c. pi hrs d.cannot be determined


Answers.

1.b
2a.c
2b.c
3.a
4.d
5.option c
6.option c
7a. broker
7b. frank
7c. jerry
7d. doctor
8a.OPTION B
8b.OPTION A
9.ans is option a
10.ans is option b.


-If you want to know the explanations just drop the question numbers in the comment-

If you think all this is too much and i am simply fooling around, please feel free to comment to avoid any more postings like this. But variety is the spice of life rite, so spice up ur thoughts just for a few moments and till next blog, c ya...

Does Islam sponsor "terrorism" ?

Many of my friends had asked me why Islam is alleged of supporting terrorism, and its recalcitrant attitude in the present world even though people around my friends are not exactly what the western countries have been portraying. They have asked me on numerous occasions about their doubts and every time i try my best to clear it. I thought why not I put a general view of Islam on my blog so that its easy for my friends to comprehend.

Being a muslim, its really distressing for me to see the various ways in which the Islam is being portrayed in the present world. The muslims are look upon with contempt and "feared" in many parts of the world. I, with the very little knowledge I have, will try to clear any doubts that you might have it in ur mind, for its my utmost responsibilty to do that.

Today Islam is being treated synonymous with terrorism. What does Islam say?. Islam means peace, yes, it literally means peace. It is derived from the word salaam, which is peace. So when we say "Asalamallaikum" in arabic, what me are saying is "let peace be upon you" translated in english. Now you tell me friends, is there a better way to wish someone than wishing him peace. Better than any wishes we can think of. We call our God as Allah, Allah is the God of muslims. Well, again the meaning of Allah is "The God". Yup, Allah means God in arabic. Its not a name of the God , but its literally "God". Al = the Lah =God. Now what ambiguity can arise from this. Isnt this the most neutral aspect?

I tell you, Islam prohibits fighting severly. Yes, it does and i can quote many verses from the Holy Quran as proofs. Now, why there are sooo many things going around dealing with the so called "Islamic terrorism" where muslims are considered belligerent. As far as i know, in Islam fighting is very strictly prohibited expect when a probelm arises to the Islam itself. Yes, when a muslim is not able to do his duties to the religion, he is commanded to fight. And that too he is prohibited fighting in four months, can be breached only on the utmost necessity. Isnt this a breach of a secularism if a person is not allowed to follow his religion?. As most of u have heard there are five imperative duties bestowed upon a muslim, praying five time a day is one among them. One needs to be in a place where he can perform to do this. If he is prevented, as Americans did waging war during the month of fasting and prior to that, does any one have any choice. But ofcourse I can give many proofs that Bush and his counterparts' sole intention was not to capture Osama but the rich oil fields, again , lets not get into that.

Problem happens when people read the Holy Quran literally. So the hardliners when they interpret Quran they would always find this present world contradicting to the prescribed mode of living. I tell you some of the things are prohibited to us. First, pork meat. I can give umpteen number of examples why pork is harfmul to our health but lets not go into it. Second one is usury. The worst from of dwindlig a man's livelyhood. And it forms the crux of the western banking system, albeit in a milder way. Thirdly, exploitation of women. We turn to the tv today, we see women beiong exploted unnecessarily. Freedom of expression is one thing but can you watch a hindi channel now with your parents around. You throw money and (most)women will do anything. Does it sound chord with someother thing?. Doesnt a woman need self respect. Is she always have to portrayed as a trade doll. What does a woman mean in a cricket match commentating or a watch ad! Sleazy movies, songs only pollute the minds of the people. Having said that, it is generally held in misconception that Islam suppresses woman's right. NO!, it doesnt. Infact as far as i know, woman enjoy every right in decision making, ownership rights, wills, business and commerce. Only thing, they have to be modest. We will always like to see women in sleazy clothes but if its our own sister or mother, would we allow it?, the one thing Islam hates is hypocrisy.

I can give many more clarifications but the blog ud not be sufficient. In my humble opinion, as far as I know, Islam is very tolerant and strictly avoids any fighting. We are prohibited from lying, we are prohibited from touching( you know what i mean!) other woman than our wife, we are prohibited in putting interest on money while payback, we are prohibited to have liquor as it imbalances a soul,we are ordered to be on fast for a month to practice self-denial, and so many things. All these only adds value to the human life. I dun see any thing wrong with Islam. Infact seeing its attributes I am proud of it that i belong to it. So as the few elemets try to portray it, Islam doesnt sponsor any kind of terrorism. Its only an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. What u do is what u get back.

I would say Islam has been a scapegoat for the western politics. Bush waged war on Iraq to caputure the Weapons of mass destruction(WMD) but we get the news time in and time again that there was not even an iota of proof available to Bush. In my opinion, he wanted to do where his father has failed, George Bush senior. GB Sr tried invading Iraq but it was futile. I would not take the side of Saddam Husseien coz he is no good than bush. But why do you use religion for ur personal use. Americans are always known to kindle the cradle. They talk abt liasing peace between India and pakistan, but they sell f-4 figter jets to pakistan and submarines to India. For me, Bush is just a downright hypocrite. So please do not lend your ears to what this man has to say, and also to the fundamentalists and the hardliners.

I know this is a very contentious issue, I would appreciate any comments or clarifications on whatever u have in ur mind abt this blog. I would try my level best to give you a most suitable reply. I have written this blog from the most neutral point of view and I need not mean to hurt any one. If inadvertently i have done that, please forgive me because Islam doesnt allow that too.

Rising crude oil prices

Its high time for our goverment of India to do something about the rising global oil prices. The oil barrel is hovering around 69$ per barrel in the market. Lets see why such a fuss is made over the crude oil prices in India and around the world.

As you all know, Indian economy is currently in a robust mode. The manufacturing sector has recorded a growth of 11.06% in the FY-05 compared to FY-04 at the same time. Now certainly, how do we drive the growth in this manufacturing sector not mentioning the agriculture and the IT sector. Of course, the input is needed to sustain these markets. The major input to any process is of course power. In india unfortunately more than 70% of the power generated is thermal. This has its toll on Indian reserves. Also crude oil is need for our ever growing population of the vechiles, the pharma industry, the burgeoning beauty and cosmetics industry and of course to the domestic in the form of kerosene and LPG.

Now we come to the worse part, India has to import 3/4ths of its oil requiremnt. Just imagine the rise in this commodity relate to the pricing. Currently due to the pressure from the left parties i.e the CPI CPM et al, the goverment has not increased the oil prices, meaning the oil companies which import these commodities like IOC ONGC BPCL HPCL wagera wagera have to bear upon the costs. For the first time IOC profits has ended in the red for the last quarter. The under-earnings have increased about 25000 crore rupees from 15000 to 40000 crore rupees in this current year. Why all this nonsense is happening. Lets consider a hypothetical situation. If the profit on one barrel of oil is 2$ i.e selling price - cost price = 2$, we if we import one million barrel per day, the profit is 2 million dollars to the oil companies. This figure is actually very small. Lets assume that the C.P of an oil barrel is 54$. So the giverment sells its at 56$. Now the prices of the oil have risen to 68$/barrel. Now the loss is 14$/barrel. Hence the overall loss is 14 million dollars. Instead of earing two million we loose 14 million just because of this rising crude oil prices. Now why not we just increase the price of the oil in India and compensate it?Lets see the argument of the left. The left says that 57% of the price is in tax. Now why don't the goverment cut the excise duty on the crude oil ergo reducing the oil prices. Why the goverment always wants to pass it on to the aam-junta?

Point well taken, problem in India has always been the implementation. The taxing in the India is in concurrent list, that is both the state and the centre can impose taxes. With the absence of proper implementation of VAT( about which i have mentioned in an earlier blog- please refer to archives) it is impossible to have a concurrent pricing in the states at this time. The goverment erstwhile has planned to divest stakes at the navaratna companies but again due to left assholes, it has to be shelved. Now instead of having a bull-run in the market, these healthy oil units are turning sick due to mindless propositions of our left friends.

We have the best leaders to rule our country at this time, Mr. Manmohan Singh who brought the revolutionary reform in 1991, Mr. Chidambaram and Mr. Montek singh Ahuliwalia. They are the pioneers when it comes to Indian economy. Now i really dunno what the left see that these people dun see. Its really high time for the so called lefts to molt their fake coats and really support the prime minister to take his decision. Just because one is a communist it doesnt mean that he should always hinder the development process. The current buzz word is market capitilization. Tell me, are we more communist than China or Russia? Look at the growth of these economies. India can very well over take the growth of these ecnomies if the architects of our Indian econom are allowed to carry on their work. For atleast one time, let the stupid politics need not interfere with the executive decisions.

Renaissance...

"The only time you must not fail is the last time you try"(I have no idea who said this is...read in a book!)

I have always wanted to be an MBA...as most of you who are regular to my blog will know. Since my second year I have worked hard to earn that, and it didn't happen the first time. I didnt make it at CAT 2004. After that, eigth sem came, I was so engrossed with the project. And the college got over and I was trying for some jobs at suitable organizations. Even when I was doing all these things, my mind has always been with MBA only. Now I got an offer, I was thinking how to spend my time in a useful way. I have already bought the CAT form for 2005, I want to take another shot.

But you know people, I am bit rusty now. I am not the same when I was in my seventh sem, my peak. But yet, there is this desire burning in my heart to go for it. I tried reading at home, didnt go well so far. Lagging way behind in wordlists, my aptitude has gone really bad(Even though I have never failed in any aptitude tests in any inteviews so far...)...I think my CAT form has gone down. But something happened today has turned everything.

I am currently undergoing selection process at aptech e-learning services which none of you would have known(pay scale is really good...). I thought its not such a big deal so I didnt tell this to anyone. Anyway, I cleared couple of rounds and today I was called for a group discussion. There, there was this HR lady who told today is not GD but we called u up to let u people know how the GD will be and the further selection process. She asked if any of us had sat for a GD before. I and few others shook the hand. Then unexpectedly, she asked me to whether I can share what i know with others. It was like...old college days, the days I used to give extempores on various topics before you all. I was indeed very happy. I tell you, I never felt that comfortable in any interview, save TCS. At first I was a bit rusty, no practise...but as I went on I got tuned. And after I finished, I got a good applause and the HR appreciated. She said she has nothing to add coz I have told everything clearly.

At that time I knew it, I cannot be anything other than an MBA. I always want to get connected with people, I want to talk before crowds, I want to make presentations, I want to teach, I want to lead, I want to be responsible and above all, I want to learn more. Now it does not matter to me what I will be in the short term, a software engineer in a reputed company or some other unexpected job which may come, I know now where I want to end up...right at the top. And with this, and only 95 days to go for the CAT I start from square one. I went to Ims, my ex-coaching centre to enroll in simcat series. My course which I did last year was CAT catapult..a full length course spanned over 13 months...I paid 15000 rs for that. But I know I cannot afford to pay that much now. But, by His grace and only by His grace, they offered 50% off for ex-class room students. The 8 month regular course which is a 3 month fast track course which costs 11000...they offered me for 5500 rupees.

This was indeed a great news for me. Now I can enrol for the regualar full length course in the weekdays. And now, I will try to put much effort than what I did last time around. I didn't get through last time, I may or may not get through this time. But with His help I will definitely get thru some day. May be I will do my MBA at a much bigger institute than IIMs. The quote which is at the start for this post, I think, I most suited for this occasion. I just want to share with u all that, if you have the desire and faith to do your job sincerely you will definitely get help from all means. And rightly, as I have learned in the past two months after college, "luck happens when preparation meets opportunity"

When I was at college, there was onus on me to perform in both academics and CAT. I wasn't at any job so it was a must-do situation for me. But now its completely different for me. Now I have an offer, I feel secure. I am free now with no commitments. And above all I am relaxed. I am much confident now. And its definitely not a must-do now...may be a want-to-do situation. I belive, this mindset of mine would help me to achieve what more than what I did last year.

I cannot measure how much I owe to Anitha for her help when I was really poor in talking in english. She gave me tips on how to present for my first paper presentation. For me Anitha has been the biggest inspiration when it comes to presentation. Thank you so much Anitha for helping me knowingly and unknowingly. And , those who have prayed forme last time for me to get in to CAT, comtinue the prayers...
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed."
(This one, I think its FD Roosevolt(Ex-US president).

Should Engineers head to call centres

First of all, i would like to thank you for respecting my word and being here. Well thanks anyway even though u dun respect my word;)...and i would like to have ur opinions abt it too...I would like dedicate this blog to my very good friend vasanth who is working in verizon right now.

Perception differs, of course, and thats how humans are. Ever since we finished our degree, there has been a mad rush to get in to the most coveted jobs. Ofcourse due to the herd mentality, we started to look out for the software jobs...including me. But if you had remembered, we had a very bad time in our college during the start of our final year regarding campus placements. We have seen our friends from other colleges getting into the best industries, and we have not. The only reason was being at the wrong place(thats our college) at the right time. How many times have we met the principal, dean and all other useless fellows who have never gave a damn to our feelings. So we were really pushed to the wall to find ANY job...some how.

First placement was polaris, and you all know what happend in that. After that there was only bpo's...and a few even took them...including me...since i have mentioned his name before...vasanth too. He got into sutherland and i got into Netvision. Even cd got into some off-beat job...laser words. It was a mere desperation on our side, coz we were not able to take that we are left out of this job hunt. I wanted something to scrap out of this college. And after that came the revolutionary anna university placements. Hoards of our class members began to get placed at the best...and i dare say...i belive the elite of our class have got what they have deserved.

The biggest mistake i ever did in my opinion was choosing this college, second was choosing net vision. And because of that, i had to sit out of all the remaining placements. But, seeing all that now...i dun regret it coz He has thought of a different plan and has helped me out, the Exalted and Wise. But nevertheless the point is, why we shoudl go for a bpo when they dun deserve to have us. I tell u, any tom dick and hairy can get into a bpo, all they need is a tenth certificate. For God's sake we are engineers, we are ECE, the most coveted branch in India at this very moment. And we head for call centres. Yes i know it is not easy for u. I know how it felt just to sit idle and see others going to jobs and training. But i would always say to myself that i dun deserve this and i dun wanna end up here. So i strictly refused my call center offer. Hats off to vasanth, he has taken a very bold move at the earliest and now he deserves to be where he is now.

But i tell you people, if money is the most important thing at this point of ur life ok..yeah u can. But if you have a little time with u and if ur parents are willing to go that extra for u...and if u have the desire, i think why u shud go opt for a call centre than tryin for the jobs that suit to our taste. Just for record, TCS selected 1112 in this off campus program. Thats ut of 3016 of the shortlisted. Look at the ratio! CTS off campus at ANNA UNIV - they shortlisted 350...infact they shortlisted 800, but ANNA UNIV people didnt allow them to take that many students. Their reason, "if you take all the students, what will happen to the companies coming after you." This can be verified with manimekalai ma'am who is in ANNA univ right now. Muthu gave this info to me. See people, this i how the demand is, and i belive we are the most luckiest batch. Coz the experts belive that next year the recruitment may not be this crazy. Its not a problem if u work for part time at call centre. But bonds like 15 months, depositing some money...and all that...only deprives us from the opporunity we are bound to get. So people, please think and decide...and feel free to post ur comments.

p.s: once again, this blog is intented only to those who are interested. Those who dun give a damn why do u bother!!!!!

p.s 1: Never ever make that mistake again nirmala. Dun ever give ur work to others. This is the best opportunity u have missed i ud say. But need not worry too much for that, just dun repeat it the next time...

Life is beautiful
Riaz...

A new leaf...

Life has changed so drastically in the past few
months. This transition period from college to not-in-college-
anymore, as sayee put it, is making the lump getting bigger. Its the
responsibilty to be serious about our life is giving the creeps. So
much have happened since we finished the college. But the great
feeling is, none of one has changed at his/her heart. This is what
true friendship is all about where we would remain the same no
matter how we are.

Sayee is going to fly on 8th. We really miss u
sayee...i personally do, coz...i hope u remember..u are the first
friend i made in the college..(thanks to man utd and hakkinen). I
wont forget the days when we had a gala time going to symposiums
along with muthu...all those ad zaps...cool days na. You are really
bright(literally) and i felt you were one person whom i could turn
to ask any help. And i know everyone does. You really deserve in
being at what u are now, coz you are really harworking and in my
opinion hard work pays off...and it does really well.

Well as for muthu , he is one person whom i admire a
lot...i dont know how to explain. He is THE coolest guy i have ever
met. So calm, i have never seen him get angry and he always seem to
the have situation under control. And of course, in my humble
opinion he has the luck rivalling that of harry potter.
If i go on writing about each and everyone among
you, well...i wont be able to finish the mail. At this time almost
all of us have laid plans for the future and some people have
already found it. Nirmala, shankar, charu ...are the one to name a
few. Congrats to all those who have got themselves job through
various means, and all the very best to those who are already going.
(prathiba, vasanth, shankar, kanakambika,
geetha,rajesh,narendran,swaroopa,rajesh...dunno who else..and
ofcourse our great MBA manoj).

But not all of us are happy and satistifed at this
time. For a few, the college seems to haunt again. For those, i am
not able to find any words for consolation coz...i know how hard it
is for u people to take it. But just dont let this feeling to take
control over you, i have had this feeling loads of time. Not of your
calibre but...i would just like u to tell that, belive in God and he
perseveres patiently. Now, just do your work promptly and be
regular, and just hope the tide turns.
I request all of you to please keep in touch coz
the life we had at coll cant be replaced or refilled. ofcourse we
had a few hard times, i too had some..lot infact, but the happy
moments over rides all of it. I would like you all to keep us
connected. However trivial may the news be, what ever the incidents
are, feel free to share coz we are always here to hear.

Does money matters.....?

Hello friends. Having to think about what to tell in this new post, i liek to share and know whats the role of money in your current world. As we all know, we are in the transient stage from college to professional life. In this scenario, the only think which we find hard to realise is money. I am not talking about the money which our parents give us to spend and they spend on us for various reasons. This money is about our money. I cannot tell how elated i felt when i earned my first wage for a part time job. The first thing i did was to eat on that wage. And boy! i was surely wonderful. Now I have got to know about the value of money. many says that money do not matter for true happiness. May be true, money is not everything but its surely something. You may find that im kiddish bantering over this topic. Mind you, its not as kiddish as it sounds. Especially for me, who has been toiling without a job, so near on few occasions yet so far, this is really important to wonder about.

For people who go for work, i think by this time they would have realised the value of money. For the rest, they will as the time passes. Money matters and it depends on its degree on the perception of the person. Its only one question, "by how much?" tp be asked. I belive that as we have moved into a different league money management is very important. If you have any thoughts or comments or opinions about this post please feel free to post it or mail me.

Note: Uninterested people need not bother about this blog and need not ask why i started to blog in the first place. I am blogging just to drain my thoughts. If anyone is having problem with that, I have just two words to say...

Life After College....

No more alarms at 7:00 a.m in the morning(now u know why i turn out late everyday!), now more rushing to the train station; no more plans for bunking in the train; no more movie discussions, no more blue books. Dudes the college is over. And i cant belive it coz it just feels like, i have joined it! This college was really sour for me when i joined in the first year. The atmosphere was completely different from the school. Co-ed for the first time! Did go well thought. Infact i found a few friends from the opposite sex too. Hmmm...since this blog is about the life After college, i should tell you, its really really different. Now i taste resposibilty and i tell you people, it really sucks.

For those who have got the job, their resposibilty is to perform. For those who havent, the onus is on them to get one. Now we can feel the heat and the competition among the other graduates. I never gave a damn until i saw the turn out for verizon. 16000 plus! and they selected some 1200 for the second round. Cool ratio huh! Thats one thing people. The one aspect i really miss is that, we are not students anymore. We dont belong to that elite category. That dun-give-a-damn attitude! That protection, that respect. I certainly miss that. And i belive, almost all of us would miss that. Life will be never same for us.

I just want to conclude by quoting an age old adage, "the only thing that is constant is change." We certainly can't get back our school or college days and we certainly can't hope that life would be as smooth as it was. Now we are professionals and we have lots of responsibilities. Now for us and for our parents, later for our spouses and kids and later on, probably for the society we owe our work. So people, memoirs are for cherish, that will be always there. But reality bites, so get on with your life. You turn, you show your back to the future!

How to be odd man out (or woman)

One day my friend said that, "Riaz, i tell u...you cannot get into IIM...coz u cant match the IITans and other "dudes". I asked why i cant. He said that "look riaz...each finger in our hand is not same, there are huge differences. The same applies with man, you cannot try to be like someone else...coz that cant happen. I told to him, "look da, yeah ur correct...all the five fingers are not same, but God has given the same five fingers in a hand to every person in the world. You see the fingers, I see the hand." That was two years before when I started my ride to the CAT. Since then, i have stuck to my thinking even if i know that i wont be able to do something. When you take someone as an example, it would just wont work out. You compare your attributes with that person. First you must understand that these things are not comparable or even measurable. You just have it in you. Its how you bring it out. Each and every person has these things. Its just that how much effort they put to bring these attributes out of them.
Nothing is easy in this world. I had to fight hard for everything what i have now. Only few are gifted with the "Midas Touch." The point i just want to make is don't compare your attributes with others, coz it just wont help you out. You yourself try to cultivate new things, however trivial it may be, how ever silly it may be to others. But these little things will help you to achieve want you want to be.
To be unique, you need to be different. You should be different in you style, your approach, your perception of a situation, your perception of the result and your style of implementation. To put long matter simple, you need guts to venture out in the untopgraphed zone. Have that, be different, but dun be silly. I think at this age we have came to know the difference of being silly and being different. Just see what happens when you go out on teh street with that little bit of guts to be unique....

My (sour) project experience...

It had started during the last exam of our seventh sem. Two guys came to the college giving the maverick info system visiting card telling that they could be approached for the project. I think from that time on, sani(saturn) began to dance bharatnatyyam at the top(uchi-in tamil). We were really complacent from december till february about the project. Only during the late feb we have begun to got some doubts. Those guys didnt understand what we wanted for project. They said they will do something, which, at that point of time, we thought was good because we dunno the concept. We really didnt belive them so we began to make a separate code. If you ud have read the previous blogs u would know abt this. Even at that point of time, we were depending on their project and our code was just a module. But at match, things began to look bleak. They said it would be hard and all that sort of things. Exactly at that time, pratheeba, vasanth and other told their experience with their consultant too. Coincidence!
Around late march, something around 20th, we have began to get the picture. We were going to the project consultant every other day about the project. Guys, the pinnacle was readned on march 24th, when they said they we wont be able to show the demo in the college! Can u belive that...no demo. We were pissed to hell. The very next day, without no hope we went to college. We went and talked with pushpalatha maam. She guided us to Mr. Vijayabaskaran. We went and talked with him. He understood what we want and he showed some demo in the lab. It was then we began to get some hope. Still we had no idea about linux. The very day i installed linux and studied a crash course! Only after learning the shell script, me and kannan got some hope. Then kannan separately began to code and we began to code. I never knew kanna had this much talent. Beautiful algorithm guys, i will post that once the code gets over. Then days passed by and four days before the project guys said that they werent able to do our project. Now, we know, we had no back up. We brought surendran's computer to my home and began to work simultaneously day and night. We progressed but we ran to a wall. That didnt sort out till 12 am today morning. Now, according to kannan we have some 30% of the code left to do, which i belive can be done coz the difficult part have been almost finished. I sincerely thank ramkumar for his help and many guys whom u udnt know who have been backing us since we ventured out of the consultant. Thank you balaji and vikram...if you would ever read thsi blog, think that i am deeply indebted to you...so guys i have to sign off...work to do. And hey, i have posted my slam blog below. Do check that out too...i ud definitely appreciate comments. Take care. And guys one more thing, not many ud have got this, but we have got almost full refund of our project from the mavericks.

My memoirs.....

Anitha has asked me a question when we were going to tha railway station on a day. "Riaz, will you miss the college or any person in particular." I had remembered saying that, "no anitha, i dun think I would." i dunno what she has thought about me after that answer, may be im not sentimental or something. But the reason is, this is not my first parting. The same has happened in school, and it was really bad. That is because, i have been studying there for 12 years. So compared to that this i hope would be mild. But in this past four years i have had the experience of my life in the college. Started the very first day when i had to fight with a few girls to get the most coveted back bench in the class. Getting caught with christopher, our ex-h.o.d, bennet are a few experiences worth mentioning. I just know ramkumar when i came to the college. The very first friends i have made in the college were surendran, kannan, pratheeba and christina. The subsequently my friends circle widened. But unfortunately, that was not in our class. I had some bad experiences with few people in the class, which , by God's grace have been sorted out.
In the second year, i think, i had a very wonderful time. the frequent IV's and hangouts were really wonderful. Guys, do u remember the episode that happened during the industrial visit at ambattur. Where aravind had been total damaged...cool...wanst that...well sorry aravind...im just like that. When i went thru my slam book, almost all the people have written that i speak a lot and when will i close my mouth. I tell you people, the one thing i hate is TO BE ALONE. I really really hate that experience and most of you ud agree how painful that experience is. My first thought when i meet anyone is to talk with him/her and make friends. This attitide had bought me lotta teasings when i tried to talk with girls. I was wondering once, will ever the boys will talk with girls. Unfortunately, it has taken almost 3 years for that to happen but eventually it did. Cool. I just wanted to be friendly with whoever i be with. Thats why i crack something, joke r not. Some like it and some dont. First i used to feel bad that why some people dont like it. But the lessons i had learned had taught me that i had to be happy for those who have liked it and not about those who dont like it.
Only this mindset has made me to be cheerful all these days. I know few people who feel for the wrong reasons. I dont want to mention their names, but if they read this blog they wil understand. Why bother for those who dont care what you do, be for those who like you and dont make them feel bad because of a few. In this last days at our college I hava had the most memorable experience of my life. Again, I feel that i havent been able to mingle with you closely in the third year. And that is due to the CAT. But i dont feel for that, because for once i have had known a lotta people who were in the same league. Manoj, kumar, pratheeba, archana, saravana, bala, pradeep, vasanth...et al. We didnt study anything at the college at that time. If you have listen keenly, you ud have listened a humming sound from the last bench. Thats nothing guys, its just that me, kannan, kanagaraj and cd mugging up the wordlist.
This whole blog may not be coherent coz i have been typing the things that are coming to my mind. Right now, i am seeing who are really feeling for leaving the college. I just want to tell them one thing. Get on with your life. If you want, just take a look at the past, but never, never ever walk into the past. It would ruin you. I am telling this for manoj. Manoj, i tell you, you are one of the best guys i have ever met. Wherever u go, friends will follow da. You need not worry about being alone. Just dont change. The same applies for every one of you. Each and every one among are u is unique. Dont try to imitate the character or qualities which you dont have. Some may not like you, but why do u bother about that "some" when there are many to like you. This is the only this i can think of telling you people, coz i never realised how much you people will miss the college. Me either...

THE CODE

Due to mass repurcussions among the group on the copyrights of the code, the code which was in disply in this blog has been removed. After due legal procedures, it will be posted later. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can very well share our project experience in the below blog. Thank you

Adaptive Spam Filter

We made a promise and we render it. This was how we felt after finishing the crucial module in our much-hyped project on Network spam filter. After getting the project code from the consultant, we felt as if we have been screwed, front and back. Then we decided, enough is enough and things should be taken in our own hands. And we started desperately, with no feasibility studies, no time, no assistanship, but with a lot of determination and will power. Be it when chief-programmer Kannan was making demoralising comments about the project feasibilty or when the stupid C language didnt understand our language we tried and tried again. And eventually when I almost made the module work i was escalated that it would be done. But when minutes after, Kannan called me and said that he had indeed finished the module, I , no no, we felt as if we have given birth to a child. Metaphors apart, we felt really really happy and confident. Now the majot module has be done, the state-of-the-art adaptive spam filter, we are confident we could do anything in C. But a major problem still poses for us in linking this module with the existing code, getting the mails from the buffer and making a front end interface with the Linux machine. Nevertheless, we know we can do it, no matter what is required of us. This episode has given a great confidence us and made us belive to belive in ourselves. And indeed, I agree with the speech, no no, sermon given my pratheeba during the first review sessions. She too has been screwed by her project consultant and she too is venturing into self project. Well, with the arsenal she has in her group, it would be a piece of cake eventually. And I would also like to make a point here guys, do your own project just for the heck of it. As Mr. Arummozhi sir said..."guys you know whats the best part of the project is, when you do ur project, u learn a lot. You just wreck ur brain to get the answers. When u do dun it, u miss the fun of it". It is guys it is. We had a gala time doing our project together thanks to the hospitality of Kannan. Its still early to talk abt our project though but its really essential to understand the underlying principle, "dun allow others to keep in ur wife and project". Well thats too much anyway, but thats how it is.

VAT - whats there for the consumers?

This is the latest buzz word in the Indian business scenario. VAT stands for value added tax. I would like to throw some light on what is VAT. The VAT payable on an asset is usually determined by the first use of that asset. The VAT Capital Goods Scheme adjusts the VAT due in some circumstances if the use of an asset changes. All these taxes viz, entry tax, purchase tax and turnover tax is burdened on the consumers. But because of VAT, now each and every member in the supply chain has to pay their corresponding tax based on their output. This ensures that the tax is equally shared by all the members in the supply chain. So VAT is a tax levied on a firm as a percentage of its value added, to avoid the multiplying effect of taxes as the product passes through different stages of production. The tax is based on the difference between the value of the output and the value of the inputs used to produce it. The aim is to tax a firm only for the value added by it to the inputs it is using for manufacturing its output. In principle, although the tax is levied on the value added at each stage of production, it is intended to tax only the final consumer. For producers, the VAT they pay on the inputs they buy from other companies is recouped when they sell their own output. I hope you are cleared about how VAT works. Now what we have to see is that whether the VAT system will work in India.
VAT basically replaces state taxes in the forms of sales tax, entry tax,purchase tax and turnover tax. The basic difference being that sales tax has a single-point levy, while VAT has a multiple-point entry. While sales tax is origin-based (sellers pay tax), in VAT consumers pay tax. Sales tax does not offer input tax credit, VAT facilitates input tax credit, meaning you can credit the tax paid on purchase of raw material as it would be offset against other taxes one is liable to pay. In sales tax, assessment is book-based that will be checked by tax officials; in VAT it is self-assessment and the dealer's self-assessment would be audited. While there are incentive schemes in sales tax, VAT has no incentive schemes. In this multiple system of taxation, the tax is passed on from the manufacturer to the wholesalers who then transfer it to retailers and then finally to customers. Businesses will not bear the burden as it is finally transferred to the customers. Exports are also zero-rated; goods for export will not be taxed. There could be losses initially. The Centre has said that the state governments would be compensated if found incurring losses. Under VAT, the government must also ensure that false invoices are not made by the traders as this could lead to a major scam. This is very much pronounced in India where the retail market is largely unorganised and also the attitude of the consumers who do not press for a bill on their product. VAT has been implemented in 130 countries around the world. It was first implemented in 1954. It is a proven system that is globally accepted. Australia also joined the VAT regime last year. All these countries have proved that VAT pays off in the long run.
Retailers are against VAT because till now they could evade tax as there were loopholes in the system. In the new system, there is no way they can evade tax. But I believe that retailers should think about it in the larger perspective, that their businesses will grow and sooner or later they too will join the big league of traders. It will turn out to be beneficial to them in the long run. The input tax credit, which forms the core of VAT, enables dealers to claim credit of the tax paid or payable on the purchase of any goods made from a dealer registered in the state.
The input tax credit can also be carried forward to the next year. The manufacturing sector will benefit the most from VAT especially the auto industry because it depends on various ancillary units for spare parts. But we have to keep one thing in our mind. Whatever may be the negative results of the VAT at the adolescent stage, it should be given a long run and the traders and the consumers should give a chance to the VAT to prove its full potential, in India ofcourse.

The Spirit Of Sacrifice

Today being the Holy day of the Bakrid, I feel that its a apt time to tell something on it. People think the fest is a barbaric activity which kills animals for the feast. I would like to clarify that with the little informations i know.First a bit history. This occasion is celebrated on the day when Ibrahim sa-al-was ready to sacrifice his only son. To witness this holy sacrifice Allah has made the sacrifice of a goat, cow or a camel on this day. This is to prove that His followers are ready to sacrifice for Him. It is not a barbaric activity as it being told around. The basic rule of Islam is the man is ruler of this world. Everything in this world is created by Him is to assist the mankind. Yes its quite contradictory to all the scientific belives but cience cannot prove everything and there is a great power behind every creation and thats Him. And this sacrifice is to make man remind that he is obliged to the God. And to share it with the others and to give it to needy people. It just promotes peace, harmony and understanding unlike what "others" say about it.

Is there a mean job?

I was thinking about this one when i got an offer from netvison cybertech. If you have been wondering what that company is, its a call center. And again if you are wondering why am i asking this question, im and engineering graduate in electronics and communication. People help me out, im in a quandary. Throughout my engineering life, I have always strived to be a techi. I was proud in being a techie. Now i have got a job, which doesnt belong to me. Well...why did i take it in the first place. It was the best offer my college could give to me at this point of time (no kidding guys!). Plus i tell why i chose ECE. It was in the year 2001...there was this software bust and ppl were beginning to lose their jobs. So I wanted o be secure and earn big bucks. Now i will begetting bucks...may not be big. They are offering me 16500+3000 rupees per month. Well, if u ask me to find a job better than that initial offer, i must admit it is hard to find. But there always will be that lingering thought why i havent chosen the technical field. The answer is...so far i havent gotr any oppurtunity. I had a couple...but screwed it up. I was chucked out of the techincal interview round at polaris software labs and i was mysteriously left out of the TVS electronics. Not much offer after that. Even now annauniversity is offering placements at CTS, TCS and wipro...but i dun have the eligibility. Im some cool 6 % short of teh cut off. Why its always at the climax that people learn. I have my own personal reasons to take that job. One simple thing is...i want to be secured. Second, i thought this oppurtunity to make some quck bucks while learning english! Am i wrong guys? But i tell u onething...i will always strive to be a techie.

Why Indian parents feel insecure about love marriage ?

When you are over 21 years old and when you love someone and when u happen to be in India...i hope you could understand this question. There have been umpteen number of incidents regarding this issue. I, being a teenager, happens to support "for". Well why is that? In my opinion parents come first, yeah accepted. They have taken care right from the kid, yeah accepted. They care a lot about us, yeah accepted. They know whats right and whats wrong for us...hmm...here where the problem arises. They see whats right and wrong in thier point of view. When they were teenagers...well majority of them would have experienced these incidents either personally or their friends might have. O.K...thats not a problem. When we take India into consideration, the whole picture of family is different. Here kids live with their parents, if situation permits, life long. This is unlike western countries where kids are told to make their own life some years after adolescence, atleast in majority of the families. Coming to the point, why the parents feel insecure. First, they see the consequences around them all the time. Teen age pregnencies, casual sex, partying stuffs, deviating from education et al. Doesnt a person who is matured at brain can't take his own decisions? The person in this context refers to both the father and the child. Looking from a parent point of view, yes what he is doing is perfectly correct. Well which parent will ill-do to this child? He has taken care of his child right from the birth. He has taken all the kid's decisions, can't he take this? Some might argue he is the best person to take the decision because he is the only person who is really concerned. Forget friends man! this is blood!! Well...really ask the person who loves. What would he say? They will say only one thing..."if you have ever loved really, trully, you will know how i feel"...i guess that will wound up.

why does love hurt

I have always wondered about this phenomenon which cannot be explained by neither physics nor chemistry. Also i'm sure that the logic king Aristotle or mathematics genius Gauss can explain this. But this is one of the most prevailing symptom in the world. Well, I myslef not an expert in this could offer any detailed explanation. But i would like to express my opinion...i think

feeling

would be a better word to use. Its known that when we miss someone dearly we feel bad. Now why do we feel bad? because we miss them. But is this feeling same towards all the people we know? There are some

special person(s)

for whom we rserve this feeling. Why does that happen. It is a human nature to be selective. We would like to have only the best tyhing possible, if we can get it. Now when we get something special which we have always wanted, we admire it, we treasure it, we take care of it and we boast about it. Now we cannot compare a thing with a person...but i belive these are the so called "basic qualifications". That thing ud have become a integral part of our life so that we expect that to be present everytime. In this scenario a business student might find fault with our process. He is sure to put the question..."where is plan B man??". Can't blame him, we dun have any plan B. The thing is it happens so unexpectedly that we never ever thought something could happen to our dear ones. And it is well known that the impact is more when we are unprepared for the situation, either happy or sorrow. Well, the problem is...we cannot be prepared. It is one of the few times where we show we are humans. Not in the literary sense though...when we miss pur dear ones...we "miss" them so much...that the place occupied by them will be hollow and it will seem that nuthing could fill that. Many are there, who like to put the next best thing in that hollow space to contend themselves, but there are few...who like to cherish that space...however big it may be ...how ever long it may be.

Culture checkmated?

Guys guys...im not a socialite as u think. But the recent episodes that has been happening around me made me to put my opinion. Me basically from India value this culture not to great extent...but i do have respect for it. But do we, i mean the teenagers really value this? I will point out the best example that has been on round. The delhi public school sex scandal, where two school kids having sexual act was captured and circulated. Infact i belive, almost half of the browsers in India would have got that clip. Whats happening yaar!...pornography...its okay...but this. Its too bad really! What has happened to the ethics. The million dollar question is, who the heck is responsible for this? The parents or the kids? If you ask me...i say its us. I have seen it loads of times. We Indians have this herd mentality where if someone does something,we do the same. Teenagers unable to distingush between fashion and fantasy get entangled with the so called "cool" stuff. That is why smoke, drugs, casual sex prevails vastly among the youth. Cool money easily made nowadays are spent on these luxury items. Millions way to connect...what more they want. But i say onething, teenagers like us wont like to be adviced. And parents thinkng that they are giving freedom to their kids doesnt keep track of them. It just takes one bad move from the youth to get a bad habit. I have seen it. It happens around me all the time. And it will keep on happenning. The incident i have given above is just a drop in the ocean. Unless otherwise people become responsible they wont realise the impact. Just imagine fellows, what will happen to the generation, when kids like the one i described get old and have kids of their own...would they learn from their mistakes...r will it just get worser!? Well bars, pubs and discoes...its okay...in my opinion coz in this fast moving world one doesnt get time to relax. But "having fun" gets misinterpreted in those places. We have one very bad habit. We seldom learn from our mistakes. It takes a real long time to realise what we have done and where it is going to take us. To cut the long story short, youth should get more responsible and be in control of what they do. And one more thing dudes and dudettes, dun interpret democracy in ur own way.

A date with tsunami.

Hi friends. I promised u ppl that i ud give my experience on the deadly sunday. I was awaken from my sleep by some sounds. I was like.."man these ppl wont let me sleep even on sunday". I dunno what the reason was. Then my brother came and told.."riaz riaz...sea water is coming to the main road da"...i was like.."yeah yeah"..but i happend to be true. First i thought the ppl was just making fuss of nunthing. So i started for my simxat test to be given. That was in stella maris college. So i had to head up the opposite way from the beach. All i saw was ppl running in and running out. I was even wondered when the news quickly spread to stella maris college. The exam was over by 12:30 pm and i was heading home. Only when i switched on the news channel i came to know the full scope of the diaster. Total Asia! Man! the impact was huge. The news was coming from all over the asia. 2000 dead in tamilnadu...atkeast 5000 from srilanka..atleast 700 fom thailand...the figures kept on increasing for every update. Without the knowledge of my parents i went to the beack. U ppl wont belive it but i live just 4 kms from the shore. The reason why chennai was saved is that the barriers along the coast. The roads, grills and al that stuff. The beach was a picture of mayhem. My beautiful marina...washed away! The once beautiful scenario was in mayhem now. And i know from that time on, it ud take a long time to heal...avery long time.