Forgot to mentioned for the 19 post, actually met one more friend who is in US
He is in India for a vacation.
We really discussed how India is different from US.
So following are the points that we came up to
1. Infrastructure
2. Mindset
Thursday, December 20, 2007
the lesson of 19th
the lessons of 16 dec
So here i am discussing some important lessons i derived from some chat with my friends.
1. Decide on how to life before hand.
2. Once decided dont get influenced by others style.
3. Decide that you will live a flexible life, not deciding anything, just like water.
4. Always try to push your limits
5. Unless and until you work rigorously you will not excel.
6. Do not limit your self under your comfort zone atleast for your professional life, if not for the whole person.
th 19th
nothing as such.
got some bad news about the sponsors.
but still we have hope.
learning a lot.
how to negotiate, how to strike a deal etc...
most important how to manage time.......
just had a discussion with my friend on how to prioritize things.
not able to add any value, so how to work out things.
how to manage to read a book per week.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
the 18
Went to NEN for planning an event.
had a good experience there.
Out there its pretty fast and agile, no time to waste
Monday, December 17, 2007
the 17th
Still fighting out with our events.
Roaming here and there around the college.
Tired too much
Sunday, December 16, 2007
The 16th
So it was a big day.
we had a NGO exhibition named Prerna '07.
GOt to learn a lot of things.
FIrst of all the best experience about marketing and customer interaction.
But other than that it was the best day of my life.
Had a very fantastic discussion with my friends.
Derived some good lessons.
will talk about it later.
Got to go to college
Saturday, December 15, 2007
long lomg time
Hey guys u all might have even forgotten me.
but i am back with a bang.....
hopefully this time i will blog on daily basis.
Lot of things to cover
my first semester is over.
I am still not able to believe m doing an MMBBAAAAAAAAA.
The thing dreamed of, though only from IIMs :))
SO lots of management concepts learned.
Well almost every concept can be related with real life.
lets see how i can write it.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
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Sun Startup Essentials
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Sun's Startup essentials program in India
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Qualities of one Above
1 - Fast Reading and Understanding and Believing
2 - Good Articulation
3 - Strong Memory
4 - Applicative
5 - Aggressive at thoughts
6 - Patient in Nature
7 - Good communicator
8 - Low at Ego
9 -
updated as when i get points
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Defining success
Success, Success, Success, Success, is the key word. We always die for success. This is the only word that influence us towards many personalities. Unless ans until they attain success we do not recognize them. Be it Dhirubhai, Bill Gates, or Einstein.
So what exactly is success? The question is open and i am also trying to find some answer.
Feel free to comment.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Decide on the balance
Well this is going in my mind for a long long time. How do you maintain the balance between social and professional life. Is it too hard. Or it is not possible at all. We are being told from the start of our management course that please get used to work for at least 12 hours a day. Sacrifice on your sleep, focus only on work, your ambition. But what about our parents, our friends, our spouses. Is it not our duty to spend some time with them, we also need them and vice versa. What a dilemma?
But then when we read about this famous personalities we come to know that they were quite engrossed in their professional lives. Of course we have to be in continuous sync with our ambition than and then only we will give our best shot. So if we are too much into it we start enjoying it and we forget about anything else. Just imagine a situation where you are playing your favorite computer game, say NFS, and you like driving in real life too. You will not be able to make out how did you spent 4-5 hours in playing and not even anything around it. Also you are not bored and even not tired.
The same kind of passion is needed when you wok or run you r own business. That is true, but what about others. Will stop on this questioning note and make a conclusion that.
IT IS UP TO US TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE LINES OF PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL LIFE BEFOREHAND.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
SAP tutorials - part 03 - Tools
SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. It is best known for its SAP ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
SAP was founded in the year 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development") by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus E. Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther). At the time they left IBM, the ex-employees were quite senior engineers in IBM Germany rather than founding engineers in the sense of Hewlett-Packard's founders.
As part of the Xerox exit strategy from the computer industry, Xerox retained IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM acquired the SDS/SAPE software, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000. The SAPE software was given by IBM to the founding ex-IBM employees in exchange for founding stock provided to IBM, reportedly 8%. ICI was SAP's first ever customer in 1972.
The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing").
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Monday, August 27, 2007
SAP tutorials - part 02 - Architecture
SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. It is best known for its SAP ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
SAP was founded in the year 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development") by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus E. Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther). At the time they left IBM, the ex-employees were quite senior engineers in IBM Germany rather than founding engineers in the sense of Hewlett-Packard's founders.
As part of the Xerox exit strategy from the computer industry, Xerox retained IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM acquired the SDS/SAPE software, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000. The SAPE software was given by IBM to the founding ex-IBM employees in exchange for founding stock provided to IBM, reportedly 8%. ICI was SAP's first ever customer in 1972.
The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing").
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
SAP tutorials - part 01 - basics
SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. It is best known for its SAP ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
SAP was founded in the year 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development") by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus E. Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther). At the time they left IBM, the ex-employees were quite senior engineers in IBM Germany rather than founding engineers in the sense of Hewlett-Packard's founders.
As part of the Xerox exit strategy from the computer industry, Xerox retained IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM acquired the SDS/SAPE software, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000. The SAPE software was given by IBM to the founding ex-IBM employees in exchange for founding stock provided to IBM, reportedly 8%. ICI was SAP's first ever customer in 1972.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
People and Time Management
Its all most a month and above. Lots of gyan was received by our minds. But what exactly can we learn from it. As most of our professors told us educating is to make students inform about the topics so that they can take learnings from it.
So we had all this different types of management subjects. But only thing common in all this is the Time and People Management qualities. No matter what subject you learn or what technicalities you earn end of the day, this are used only for some amount. Rest all is what we call managing as far as MBA is concerned.
Also in his book Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam "Wings of Fire" he tells management is nothing but managing people. So its how we manage people within that time constraint using all the learnings we get in life and in our own field that helps to become a successful manager.
The one step ahead is a LEADER. Will cover it later.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Satisfaction vs Complacency
Can you find a difference between Complacency and Satisfaction. Well as far as i am concerned there is a very thin line between them, but surely there is a difference.
Satisfaction is the one which is required for sure. You know each and everyone now a days say that satisfaction avoids tension and creates more of a fighting spirit. Hard to believe right? but its true. If you are not satisfied with what you do you will never move ahead. Once you are sure of what you do and are content with it you will never regret on it or look behind on it.
Hence Complacency is one step ahead of satisfaction. If a person is complacent then he will not think of future. He will be content with what he is and feel he has achieved everything or rather he do not need to achieve anything more. In that score he will vegetate. He will not wiling to change. And face great consequences
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
communication and quantitative skills
so these qualities struck me suddenly...... during my preparations for MBA i came to know that Communication and Quantitative skills are the most imporatant skills a person should have.
It not on helps in corporate world but also in our normal life.... As i have learned till date communication skills solve most of the problems.....this is because most of the problems ocurs due to misscommunication..... most problems can be choked out by talks as they say is very much true.
So start building these skills
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
education most important
So once again i and one of my friend started a discussion and ended with the concensus that the main problem of india is EDUCATION......the solution for each and every problem is education.
Imagine(a SAMSUNG tagline) when each and every indian is educated. Atleast we will not face a problem of indifference. People will not get fooled very often. Specifically from the western world.
Apart from, that today we had Production Management and MIS lecture. It was quite good. So the thing is Education is mot important.... lets see where we can take this thought too.
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Monday, August 06, 2007
Monday morning
So finally the day has come.
Now on i have decided no matter what i'll do blogging on daily basis.
lets see...... i have stared on a fine rainy monday morning.
Its raining cats and dogs here.... ooops sorry as our ma'am says "cats and dogs" is a cliche.
It was pouring heavily today.
Unfortunately i am still not feeling well and cant go to college.
Anyways see you tomorrow
Saturday, August 04, 2007
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Social Entrepreneurship Lecture
On 29 July we had a privilege to attend a lecture one Social Entrepreneurship from a great man. His name is P.N.Deverajan. Here is his background : Chemical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, with experience as Group President (Corporate Planning & Development), Reliance Industries Ltd., as Director in RBI & Bank of Baroda, Member of Planning board, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Chairman & Managing Director of IDPL & Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd. He is one of the Board of Directors of Dr. Reddys Laboratories
After spending much of his life time in earning and corporate life he decided to give something to society. So he took a path of social entrepreneurship. But instead of starting of his own brain child to serve the society he had a different thought. He thought of creating a social entrepreneur from each of the Indian citizen. Indirectly it will create a whole lot of employment opportunities. So in this way he is contributing as a social entrepreneur.
Hence it started Center for Initiative and Management, a Learning Center for potential social entrepreneurs. It is nothing but a institute that will teach people on Social Entrepreneurship. It was first started in Chennai in 2000, then in Hyderabad in 2002 . Fortunately as a part of establishing it in Mumbai it approached SIES college in Nerul. And there he started a Post Graduate course on Social Entrepreneurship [PGSEM]. It is basically a 1 year course.
This is the background information. Now what i learned from the lecture is as follows. Actually i will be giving the understanding of what Mr. Deverajan has conceived. The FIRST step is the whole Idea and the Intention. The SECOND Part is how to make a model out of it. THIRD is how to manage the FINANCE.
FIRST :
So he started of with defining what is Entrepreneur and Social Entrepreneur. He stated the basic qualities of Entrepreneurship are as follows A person who is a VISIONARY, who has some domain specific SKILL, has a good IDENTIFICATION OF AN AREA or a GAP, and the most important IMPLEMENT that idea in an INNOVATIVE way with future SUSTAINABILITY.
Now what differentiates a SOCIAL entrepreneur. All the things above mentioned are same only the GAP here has a SOCIAL NON PROFIT aspect. His/Her entire intention is to solve that problem occurred from the gap, and see to it that it REPLICATES as fast as possible. So the basic difference between a Business Entrepreneur and a Social Entrepreneur is that the later wants his idea to be copied and replicated and he/she do not copyright or patent it. Hence in term of Deverajan he is a Manager of the DIVIDE. Hence SE is slight different from Social Worker, Social Worker do not make the use of professional management skills and qualities.
The most quality that he focused is Leadership. He termed it Servant Leadership. He explained us that normal leadership is Power Leadership, it means it comes out of power and designation. A social entrepreneur should be a servant leader, he/she should serve people and make leaders out of themselves.
So summing it up following are the qualities
1 – INNOVATIVE
2 – SHARING abilities/ NETWORKING capabilities
3 – BEST PRACTICES [documentation]
4 – CHANGE MANAGER
5 – RISK TAKER
6 – A LEADER, A EXCELLENT COMMUNICATOR.
Then suddenly one of our students gave an excellent definition of entrepreneur, He/She is the person who converts threat in an opportunity.
SECOND:
Second step he focused how to manage the institute that one creates in this process. He was very clear about it. He had an idea of a MICRO FIRM. It meant that the firm should not have the size of more than 10 people. Everywhere you go you should be able to create a Micro-Firm for that area, which should run independently.
THIRD:
Finally comes the most important part FINANCE. How to manage finance.
He stated that funds can be raised from DONATIONS, FEES, GRANTS and VENTURE PHILANTHROPISTS. We should treat them as our customers or SHARE holders. We should get funds from them regularly and also get some new clients. Following is how the Balance Sheet can be maintained.
TopLine : INCOME : donations, fees, grants, Vps.
Income Generating Activity
TOTAL INCOME.
Expenditure: service provided, teachers, etc..
Bottom Line – 1 : NET SAVINGS/ SURPLUS
Bottom Line – 2: MEASUREMENT OF WORK IN Percent of Achievement of GOALS
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The best sites for Open Source
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IT industry part -03
Welcome back.
Still wondering what is the worst part? Well it isn't that worst actually. But it appears more to a fresher.
Let me explain. Now that most of us have spend time in the industry we understand that programming is not the only challenge. In fact there are many more problems which is at times crucial. But, the worst part I am talking is, nobody specifies it clearly. So the end result is people get frustrated and demotivated to work.
This whole article is from my point of view, nothing personal. The industry never try to be in sync with the education system neither do the education system. Now people have realized it. Still we are in a better place and chances are there to be the best. The problem is students are not aware of the exact industry scenario and the various kind of job profile. Its like our five fingers, no single finger is that important, but together they do miracle. So in the same way not development is important it is a part of the whole Software Development Lifecycle and Software Services.
Software, Applications or Services are just a product. But end of the day we have to generate revenues out of that product. Hence the various other processes that make this product profitable, for a company, is also that important. At times it is even more valuable then the product itself. Nobody come and tell these things to us. See every body on this earth is suitable for some kind of job. It is the duty of the industry to make aware of all this job profiles, so that students themselves can at least categorize themselves. The result, at least 50% will enjoy their job.
Ending this brief point of view, I am still thankful to this wonderful industry which created a gamut of employment opportunities for each and every kind of person on this green planet.
Please feel free to comment on this.
Any suggestions, updations.editions are welcomed.
Part - 01
Part - 02
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
IT Industry part 02
Here I am once again, continuing the post.
So I was telling what was the scenario then and now. During our diploma days we used feel that at least we will lend up with some job.
But as and when we got exposure to the industry and the curriculum we understood that everything is not that easy. We were fascinated with the challenge IT creates in any core industry. Also at the technical level everyone wants programming as their job profile. Everyone is excited about the different technologies coming up in the industry. Very often we here new versions coming out. And then we have this dream company or profile to work with. So in that motivation we clear our bachelor course.
During the final year we have our campus recruitment. Always the recruitment goes in top to bottom order. As in the pattern is the top10 guys gets recruited fast and then the rest follows. So we here big names of IT industry coming and placing them. Hnce all of us are excited that at least some of us have made it to the biggie wiggies. And then comes the worst part
next post guys. :))
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Part - 01
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Monday, May 07, 2007
Indian IT industry part - 01.
First of all I should thank the IT industry and its allies which helped many graduates like me to get a job without much hustle.
Actually i have done my engineering after Diploma in Computer Science. So the day I entered the college I started hearing these news, that IT industry has started to pick up. Hence we were a bit relaxed, as in we will lend up with at least some kind of job.
Once during our lectures, the professor seemed to be in a good mood. Suddenly he started discussing about this IT bubble. He was just telling how difficult it was to get job for a fresh graduate. Though it was not that competitive as today, but the openings were not that much. This was the case for computer science graduates as well.
So whom should we thank, the IT industry as a whole or the globalistion it brought? To be precise its the globalisation to which half the credit goes, as far as India is concern. India being a slight conservative country keeping in mind the age old politics would not have faced the current glory. But then what exactly is IT industry.
If we categorize briefly it boils down to IT and IT enabled Services [ITES]. So if we consider all the engineers (since i am an computer science engineer) IT industry is preferred more. This is because every engineer loves a basic challenging atmosphere which during his/her curriculum only finds in programming. Hence its obvious we always look for companies that provide us with this challenge.
So here comes the whole issue as to why I am writing this post. Will continue in the next post, as this will become to lengthy.
Part - 02
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Need Suggestions
Listen people, I have a problem.
I have this lots and lots of Floppies and CDs that are not working.
I am thinking of making something out of it, instead of just throwing them off.
Can you people suggest me something.
Cya and thanks in advance :)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
SAP Network: Re: differences **** DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ADDRESS ****
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https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=386786&messageID=3348229#3348229
Dear Friend,
Flexi Update : used for transactional and master data
(except hierarchy).
Direct Update : only for Master data
Differences:
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Flexi Update. / Direct Update.
1. Manual Infosource creation / InfoObject itself
treats IS.
2. Update Rules are required / No Update rules.
3. BEx Reporting available / No BEx reporting.
4. Data Tragets required / Infoobjects itself
Data Targets.
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hi
for ETL
ETL: Extracting , transforming and loading is the process of reading (extracting) from heterogeneous sources and transform them so that discrete data from different sources gets integrated and then loading into the data warehouse.
Extracting: Reading and understanding the source data and copying the parts that are needed to the data staging area for further work.
Transforming: Data transformations are often the most complex and, in terms of processing time, the most costly part of the ETL process.
Loading: Discrete data from different sources gets integrated and then loading into the data warehouse
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/2059
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?threadID=356107
For ETTL
Besides the difference in designing the database, building a data warehouse involves a critical task that does not arise in building an OLTP system: to extract, transfer, transform, and load (ETTL) data from diverse data sources into the data
In data extraction, we move data out of source systems, such as an SAP R/3 system. The challenge during this step is to identify the right data. A good knowledge of the source systems is absolutely necessary to accomplish this task.
In data transfer, we move a large amount of data regularly from different source systems to the data warehouse. Here the challenges are to plan a realistic schedule and to have reliable and fast networks.
In data transformation, we format data so that it can be represented consistently in the data warehouse. For example, we might need to convert an entity with multiple names (such as AT&T, ATT, or Bell) into an entity with a single name (such as AT&T). The original data might reside in different databases using different data types, or in different file formats in different file systems. Some are case sensitive; others may be case insensitive.
In data loading, we load data into the fact tables correctly and quickly. The challenge at this step is to develop a robust error-handling procedure.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
training over
So finally the training is over.
Those who don't know, let me tell u guys.
I got a job on SAP.
The training was good.
The system is too vast.
Something i have understood in the training.
From Monday I'll be probably on a live project.
I have been assigned Production support.
So I'll sharing all the issues right out here.
Friday, April 13, 2007
training tobe or not tobe
the most boring part of joining a company.
as specially if the the trainer has a accented english. :))
Sunday, April 08, 2007
welcome again
Hello world.
Finally i got time to post to this blog of mine.
Its being a hell lot of work this days, but hopefully everything is scheduled so that i can post regularly.
ok then.
enjoy!!!
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
the social networking war.
hmmm what should i start with now. The thing is, there is something going on in my mind this days. There is THIS type of sites which help us to stay in touch with each others. I mean friends and relatives. And i swear it really helps. I really met some of my old friends, thnx to a web site which provides this kind of facility. Now this type of sites are called Social Networking WebSites. I am here not to favor any of them, but its a discussion of whats going in the web market.
Well i will not name the any of the Sites, but let me name the biggies who are behind this projects. Currently i am only focusing on the BIG THREE as i term them "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google".OK so it all started with the BLOG war. Google acquired Blogger.com. Yahoo started yahoo 360. Microsoft started spaces.microsoft.com. Well yahoo 360 is not a core blog concept, but currently lets assume it as a blog site. This is because yahoo doesn't have a site dedicated to WEB LOGGING(Blog) .
Oh Gosh!!!, let me be back on the topic, otherwise i will reach on to some other discussion. So after blogging came this image posting sites. Here yahoo was first to buy out Flickr, which is currently the best in this market. Of course there was images.yahoo.com, but nobody bothered to look at it. Fortunately Microsoft and Google doesnt need this kind of site, since their blogging counterpart already supports image posting.
All this and many other sites were acquired, to reach to a final goal of what I think is THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. Google was affiliated with Orkut. Yahoo acquired Del.icuo.us and there were also some contenders who probably pioneered this concept. Likewise we have Upcoming.org, Ringo, Birthday alarm, HI5 etc. Somehow these sites doesn't clicked. They were bulky, very very slow in operation. But the concept was awesome.
Beware, we are now at the start of the war between the BIG THREE on this concept. Orkut is currently leading the three. Orkut is the best of these. Though it was not a child of those Googlers, but the way it was made, is perfect to get affiliated with google. It has those characteristics of Google: Simplicity, Fantastic Interface and Navigational Facility that made it work. Also the site is very quick. Kudos to ORKUT, the guy who created this genius. But one thing you people can relate him is, he is also from Stanford, Gotch ya!!!. These Stanford people are going to rule the world in near future, hahaha!!!. Now is YAHOO's turn. It has integrated all of its acquisitions and sites to yahoo 360. Also the blog in yahoo 360 can be directly integrated to your geocities account. So all thing comes to a single point Yahoo 360. Now this have many features of a social networking site other then just blogging.Very nicely organized, of course its yahoo, the ppl who pioneered the INTERNET.
Hence comes the turn of the GIANT. Yes you people guessed it right. THE NAME IS "microsoft". How can it be left behind. Microsoft has way behind started a site named WALLOP.com. It was just a simple blogging site, but with some unique features of connecting with friends. This site was one of the best because it was totally on MACROMEDIA FLASH. The interface was mind blowing. But now after a long time when i went to this site, there was nothing. Only there is massage for the people, that they are getting ready for the war. JUST visit the website its FANTASTIC. Now only GOD can predict how will Microsoft will turn this whole concept into. WAIT and WATCH.
Above article is just my flow of thoughts on the topic. Its not supporting any side. The article its just my perception and assumptions. So some of the facts may be wrong or incomplete.
If you people have read this whole article completely, thank you very much for taking time to read it.Well the thank should be more for bearing my mistakes if any.
I will be very obliged to improve on your positive comments/suggestion. just fell Free to comment on any aspect, since this my first article of any type and of such a length. THANKS A LOT in advance.
the rickshawwala story
Ok guys i finally got time to complete this story.
There is nothing so special about this whole rickshawwala thing. I just thought to cover this story to highlight some of our day-to-day conversations with the rickshawwala. What all problems they have to face, and what all different circumstances they have to undergo. I am narrating one conversation which i feel needs attention.
Scene : I was going to Place X, as i was getting late i decided to catch a rickshaw. It was around 8:00 pm, I asked a richshawwala for the place X and he was ready to go. So now we were moving on the way, and suddenly i saw a tremendous long queue of this rickshawwala. I was shocked by the queue as it was very very long. Then as we moved further i noticed it was for a CNG gas filling station. I dont know how, but i just said to the driver "yeah itna bada line to pehli baar dekha hai maine". Unfortunately his rickshaw was CNG too and then the story started. I will name the rickshawwala Mr. Chandu
Chandu told me that this is not the 1st time, everytime they have to stand in such long tedious queues to fill gas. Now for those of them who do not know CNG works in same way for CNG rickshaw as petrol works for petrol rickshaw. Chandu told me in anger that as the filling station were very limited there is no option but to stand in this queues to source gas.
Now comes the worst part. As they cannot afford to stand in this queues during day time, as this duration is for their earning, they opt to get in the queue during night hours. Incidentally chandu was out of gas and I was his last passenger for the day. Chandu told in disgust that, now he will directly go home, have his dinner and then come back to the filling station to stand in the queue. You people will not believe of what he told next.
Chandu told me that it will take him the whole night in queue and probably his turn will come at say 7 O' clock in the morning. So i asked him excitedly, how will he complete is sleep during this event :)). He told that there is no way that he can complete his sleep. Because every five minutes he have to move his rickshaw forward in the queue. So by this time he can sleep in the rickshaw for a 5-5 minutes slot. And again when the day starts he has to run for his ROZI ROTI
He was very angry as in, from the time the municipality has compelled this people to convert rickshaws to CNG, their sleep is ruined. So the life of these people is not as simple as it looks from outside.
You people might have gone through such situation, feel free to share and comment on this article.
Monday, January 01, 2007
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