Golden memories

School days r most memorable and enjoyable period in everyone of our lives... though we wud have fussed a lot during those childhood days about exams, studies, school, teachers, princi etc., now when we recollect all of them, we feel elited and cherished... 

When we were kids, we wud have thot, we had lot of things to do, school, class work, notes, home work, assignments, tuitions and above all exams every quarter, answer papers... they gave us home work and assignments even in holidays...haa! bt deep inside the heart, all of us wud have enjoyed doing each and every thing.. without which, we wud have felt the whole life boring... 

As a child, we dont want a stable, stagnant life.. Life has to have all these thrills for us to be enthusiastic.. 

Just recollecting those days, the small small achievements ( it might even sound very simple to others), but for that age, they surely are achievements.. Even taking away the concession for age, I wud say, they are achievements,. Because that is the age, we wud have been fearless.. I feel, atleast in my case, my fear increased proportional to my age... As I grew, I am expected to be more responsible and well organized... This increased the pressure on me, which made me less confident in doing any task...

I cannot believe now.. I participated in light music competition till my VIIIth grade... how stupid I was to do so.. Today, I dont even sing chumma before a lot of 10 people...  bt this shows my courage to get to stage though I am a bad singer... 

Was having a groupchat discussion with my school friends.. All of us talked abt our school times, the silly things we did.. we r discussing it for more than a month now (touch wood)... it gives a fresh feel, brings back the confidence I lost in my school... Just churning those memories every now and then, it reflected into this post..

Dont ask me, where I am heading.. jus thot I will scribble something to keep my blog alive... thts it...

KnowledgeDrain

Information Technology (IT) is one of the boons to India.. I am personally one of the benefitters and strongly feel it has risen the status of many middle class families across the country.

IT has lot of advantages to India, such as rise in economy, employment rate, quality of life.. to name a few.. There are few cons because of this necessary evil.. The prominent one is the rise in price of almost everything which is not affordable for the non-IT population... Though it hasnot denied the basic amenities to anyone, it has made the so-called sofisticated life - an unreachable fruit to many..

I could see one another drawback to this - Knowledge Drain.. Yeah, Loss of Knowledge...
nowadays, Engineering has become just a gateway to IT field, no matter which is your major. Few years back, if someone joins Civil engineering, for the four full years he will study the basics and concepts of Civil engineering... As rightly said, Nothing is complete when you are not practically working. what you read is mostly theory in your under graduation. He will join work in his respective technical field, say in this case, a Civil engineering job. He will first work as an assistant to a well experienced Boss. He will practically see the concepts working, the practical difficulties, and solutions to overcome them... Thus in few years, he will be well equiped to design his own plan.. His core expertise helps him in fixing everything related to civil not only at his office, but also at his home, surroundings...

A Complete Engineer is one who knows the basics of all Engineering subjects.. That is the reason, we are asked to learn the basics of all engineering subjects in the first year of an Engineering curriculum. Even at work, different departments got to work/interfact on each other and appreciate their work for executing their task...An electrical engineer will have to interact with mechanical engineer and vise-versa and its the same for any other engineer.. Thus when you are at a technical industry, u become a complete engineer, thanks to the various technical industries which keeps multiple brains employed.


This practical knowledge helps that person to innovate, fix, remodel anything if he has any need at home.. He can build his own burglar-alarm system, clocks, and tiny tiny day to day needs..
My father is an electical engineer. When we were kids, he used to fix any kind of small problems at home - not limited to Electrical Engineering alone but related to almost anything that we see/use in our day to day life... I used to be surprised at his skills... He is a complete engineer and this knowledge comes out of his experience.

But these days, whatever we Engineers study as a major, most of us are into IT. The subjects we read during the entire 4 year Engineering carrer, the knowledge our professors transferred to us, all of them just go away as we dont use them at work or in day to day life.. Is this not Knowledge drain??

It is not just enough that an Engineer be an expert in everything related to computers. Writing complex software/Assembling a computer is not all in this world.World is not just computers. There are many other things in this world that a common should know. Not just rely on others even to fix the very basic/minor problems at home/elsewhere.

An ideal Engineer is one who puts into work, what all he has learnt and this will lead to innovations in technical industries which will also help in booming our Economy. Today from soaps, pastes, cool drinks, to TV, bikes, cars, we import from foreign countries and it is a prestige to have them.. We have to change this situation atleast in fear of losing the knowledge. For the future generations we have to give them more than what we actually learnt. If this situation continues, we would end up giving them very less, which would one day be of no use.

Non-IT industries has to do something to attract the brains.When young engineers get to work in technical/non-IT industries, it will lead to lot more innovations/inventions as they had their basics trained in their Engineering. He can explore and experiment everything. In future, mabe far future, this would ultimately lead to new inventions, better products, and more friendly utilities.

We should stop exporting brains and start exporting the products of these brains, so that still its we, the India who owns the brains...

Richness

Richness doesnot depend on what u earn, but on how u spend.

Bravest in the world

Have you ever thought who is the bravest person in the world... I was jus thinking about it when I saw this person... man, he is very brave....

he is neither the Gold medalalist in the Boxing... nor in WWF....
any more guesses.. I can bet no one else....

guess maadi
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All the people who r less than 3 months old, yes baba.. the new born babies.. they r the bravest...
though they have the least strength.. they r brave enuf to oppose us...
my little baby, on seeing us, though we r 20 times bigger than him, though our hands r like huge logs for him, he used to stop our hands with his tiny little hands when we come near him...... whenever the nurse hurt him with the vaccination, he used to defend her with his cute little hands and legs....

In my dictionary, One who doesnt think about the result and struggle to the fullest is the bravest. Because he is not worried about the result, he will bravely face the situation and I have seen that only in these cute sweety pies....

Plants in my Balcony

Today we purchased 3 beautiful plants (there are no flowers now)... Plants in themselves r beautiful, aren't they?? it is very plesant to see them standing in my balcony... I am waiting to see the most beautiful part, the flowers in them.. watering those plants makes me feel as though I am feeding someone and it gives immense pleasure to watch them grow....

Nature has given many ways to feel good..... I feel this is one of them... Few others in my opinion

1. Watching the sea roar with plenty of milk in the form of foam when we go for an evening or an early morning walk in the seashore.

2. To listen the birds chirp all over our head in the evenings when we relax in a park.

3. A long drive with up hills and down hills in the roads...

4. Rowing a boat in a silent river..

5. Watching small kids playing...

6. water falls

The list goes on and on... and I am sure each one will have their own list which mite run to pages....
Whenever we feel tensed or feel as if we r out of mood, the best way to relax ourselves instead of showing it on others is to enjoy one of the nature gifts... These do not cost us anything, but gives us many pleasant things....

Hurray, its vacation time

First of all, I have found for myself, my passion is not into writing... else I would have updated something or the other in these days in my blog...... If I am void of doing anything else in this world, only then I think of my blog :)neways, let me see how long I take this journey of writing ;)... I am quite pessimistic abt it...

Coming to the topic, How nostalgic it is, when we think abt our vacations in school. I badly miss my vacations....... I donot remember what I used to do, but I can recollect the nice feel I have when there is vacation coming ahead....

Colleges do gave this vacation in the form of study holidays and sem holidays....bt where is this vacation at work?..

Atleast in US, people take 2 weeks off and enjoy their vacation whenever they get time..... But we poor Indians think abt vacation only if it is our sibling;s or our own marriage and work for the marriage....

think about a week's vacation and doing nothing other than eating and relaxing..... tht is ecstasy..... Few rich people do that going to a lovely resort and spend their money along with time...

But, we normal humans, never think abt this relaxation which can be bought at home..
whenever the work load is less (during thanks giving weekend, or during christmas vacation at onsite) or when a project just went Live, how nice it will be if everyone in the project, get a break for a couple of weeks....

or as an individual we can plan for ourselves, instead of blaming others for not giving us what we want....
let allof us do this.... Take minimum 2 weeks of vacation a year and do whatever u think of, the whole time.. I am sure u wud love that.....

Independence of thought

Doing useless stuffs.... staying alone...... 24hrs online.... most of the times thinking about what to do........ yeah, I am one of the lakhs of Indian software professionals...( disclaimer: there is another set of lakhs of Indian software professionals who do many useful things.. u mite be one among them!)... had thought about writing a blog manytimes... bt haven't tried.. my debut is here on this 60th Indian independence day... yeah, celebrating my independence to scribble anything and everything under the sun.... The quote which caught my eyes Independence is the freedom to have free thoughts.... mm, idhu illa... mabe naalaikku ezhudharen..... actually excited about writing a blog....bt its gonna make no difference unless it falls into some one's eyes... Even if some one sees this, will make no difference as the reader would not know it is mee... so kind of excited and at the same time safe....