Time Pass

Not during free time... Time pass during office hours ;)


Gtalk:
What else… chat with friends… family… Every time the network guys put on a show blocking gtalk access, some guys will find a way to make it work… I’m not the one to find a way... I’m one of those privileged who get to use… :)

Market:
If you talk market… you will be respected in office for sure… There will be lot of guys who follow market and a good time pass too… Also none of the sites will be blocked in most offices as everyone does it.
What else… you can even arrange opening bell coffee break… closing bell break and so on

Stumbleupon:
Install Stumbleupon plug-in and start stumbling… you get to hit some really good sites… Have you ever stumbled upon the same site twice… I have… :)

e-books:
All hail the forwarders… Lot of e-book sites and lot of e-book mail forwards… I finished 3 Harry potter books sitting in office. And also it will look like you are going through some document from distance. ;)

Flash Games:
Form helicopter to drunken driving lot of fun games to time pass with.

Blogging:
This post was written in office only :)

Football:
I’m really mad about football... as it is 365 days a year game ,there’s lot of news/gossips/transfers to track... Starting with BBC, Mirror, Sun... to my favourite club website... hell a lot of sites to time pass

606:
BBC’s forum for football and others... Lots of banter and WUMming...

And of course.. sight seeing.. bird watching... napping... etc etc... :D

Whats yours???

Reflections…

It’s almost a year and half has passed since I reached Philippines… I always wanted to do something in my free time… learn some language … Japanese my favourite … or some new programming stuff in my laptop… or at least Blog... Something interesting... or at least finish my GTA game in which I’m only half way through...


Looking at things right now, the bookmark in my Jappu book has moved just 2 pages... and nothing installed in my pc to learn stuff... and I haven’t blogged for almost 4months... It wasnt that I didnt have any free time... but

all there is, is…





110 Beer caps… Couple of bottles… and a wine cap... :(

Thru My Pinhole

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Hard work…Perseverance…Patience…

Some said I can’t do it… Some asked me “WHY..?”… After two weeks of trying, I did it at last, dedicating my time at office as well as my leisure time to the cause.

“Luck kaal kilo Loss kaal kilo
Labour kaal kilo saethukko
bakthi kaal kilo Hope kaal kilo
Talent Kaal kilo
yellaam dhaan saerthu kattinaal
periya pottalam
Secret of success”… as the secret of success song goes

A brief overview of what I was upto is HERE
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Come-on guys, u know by now, that talent is ONE and HALF Kg in my case ;)


* Kaal kilo (1/4 kg) , periya pottalam (Big mixture)

Who was that Idiot…

Our module was supposed to go live after months of UAT… and of course, as usual, there were lot of last minute things to do. Meeting was called for. It was attended by heads of many teams from client side, project coordinator, senior manager and us.

I just happened to attend that meeting as it was a high level decision making meeting for GO Live. Various things came up and one that was the sticking point was the OAT. I swear I knew what is UAT and SIT but never heard about OAT. I just assumed it has to be Operations Acceptance Test.

Suddenly the senior manager shouted “Which Idiot Planned it”… “Who is that Idiot…? I want to Know”… No one answered her. No one seemed bothered. None got offended with the words she used. Just a passive look from every one of them.


My First Project Management Workshop…

EPL Fantasy Premier League...

I and my friends have created EPL fantasy league... Anyone want to join EPL fantasy league at Permier League...drop a comment over here with your mail id. we would be very happy to accommodate you :)

PS: Ur ID will only be moderated and wont be published here... So please don't mind about dropping ur ID in comments...

Naane Raja Naane Manthiri...

Ever wanted to see Captain in a role other than him speaking about truth, justice, statistics... or don a role not wearing police uniform...? and that movie to be good?? Then this is the one.

Captain Vijayakanth, in the role of stupid and equally arrogant rich village guy fits the bill perfectly. The major plus point of the movie is the comedy and the way Captain delivers the dialogues during comedy sequences is absolutely perfect. Captain and comedy carry the movie.

Radhika as an unemployed girl coming to work in Captian's house and falling in love with him, does the role good. Jeevitha as the Captain's lover doesn't have much to do. Senthil in Captains group and Goundamani made a scapegoat by Captain was good and different to watch.

Music by Ilayaraja...Mayanginen Solla Thayanginaen... is the pick of the songs...

Directed By Baluanandh and screenplay/Dialogue by R sundharrajan(This explains the good comedy in the movie).

But at times I felt like the movie had a Bhagyaraj touch in it. The hero doesn't change much (Becoming a saint in a single scene...blah blah blah)... It was more real. The climax tells it.

Except for the crass Thali sentiment in the end... It was nice to watch though.

My Hindi...

During my days in School, College and for that matter while at work in Bangalore, I was always surrounded by Tamil speaking friends... But after all these travelling... more often than not, most of my friends and colleagues speak Hindi and is always the common mode of communication. I, being a Pachai Tamizhan ;), never learned it in my school days, nor had the enthu to learn it later even though its always good to learn a new language.

Sometimes my friends start talking to me in Hindi and it'll take sometime for them to realize that I hardly get what they say... Even though I never felt handicapped, but at times I feel that I couldn't express myself freely.

Whenever someone asks me about my Hindi, I always reply
"Ek gaav me ek kissan ragu thatha..."

Snail Story...

It was raining the other day in Manila, and I and my friends were having coffee near the stairs where we usually use to drink... As it was raining, somehow a snail has crawled along the steps. We were looking at it with much curiosity as how it had climbed all the way over there... After sometime we returned to the same stairs for another round of coffee and found that it had climbed just two steps from where we saw it before... I was just wondering, was the Snail very slow or is it that I'm taking frequent breaks... :)

Unhappy person... Am I??

Recent study have found out that We Indians are one of the Unhappiest persons in the world... Ranked at 125 in the world, we are just 50 places above the least happiest nation (Burundi)...

Happiness Index

Just a crude check on the per capita income and the happiness index, one could easily note that its all related to money... Making a generalization one can say, the more wealthier u are the more happy u are... But exceptions are surely there...

GDP Per Capita

Comparing with our neighbor, Bhutan which ranks high above... Not so wealthy, they haven't had democracy for long, or even TV , new fashion or the video games, but surely happy... Its just a shame we are ranked so low...

How to Be Happy

Yes... Population is a big factor... Comparing it at the miniscule level...by just looking at myself.... Am I happy...? There are many of my friends earning 5 digit numbers every month... Are they happy...? Unhappy about Work, about pay... Umpteen reasons for it... Is it time that we stop worrying and start enjoying???