Reality check!

Its a rainy and windy weather today outside...reflecting my thoughts...Just now completed 9 years in corporate world...in normal situation, it could have been a time of jubilation for its an anniversary...but now a days normal situation doesn't exist. The day came and slowly went by on its own lethargic pace and dragged me along with itself. As IT is people intensive and people driven, the maximum problem comes from people...the one you mentored, shows eyes to you someday, the one you groomed from beginning, shows attitude to you...I think, and have started feeling, expectations are wrong as people have their own brains and sometimes some of the brains or rather most of the brains are not conditioned to be able to respect knowledge, capability or competitiveness, those taking stairs of success keep breaking the 'passed' stairs themselves, There is a sense of betrayal, this is the experience of the life, they say. But one thing is forever common...Don't get emotional in corporate world!...its more of a negative thing than positive feeling...Learning is forever and its ON...

Incompetence breeds Incompetence!

How many times have we heard from people around that we are doing something wrong...possibly a zillion times!...But the essence of 'Incompetence'  doesn't lie in doing things wrong, first time or second time rather it lies with the repetition of same mistake several times!. The most damaging situation, I think is, an incompetent person as a decision making authority- first it impacts all the logical senses required in a decision making process and further on, it will impact the 'right' people working under him/her...reason: an incompetent person or behaviour(if rewarded) can be identified easily but the subordinates and becomes a role model for the ones who wish to climb success ladder by following him. Hence the behaviour and patterns are replicated, repeated: as a result you see another incompetent idiot in making. The behavioural aspect doesn't end here. Incompetence can be bred by competent people as well. Here comes the concept of reinforcements!...Sample this: If a (wrong)subordinate(into the limelight kinda person) is praised by a competent boss, the behaviour gets a boost to hold on to the limelight and not to develop competence to scale up...overall, a general observation has been, an incompetent boss will have incompetent subordinates....but the same is not true for COMPETENCE! Competence doesn't breed Competence, it inspires but cant be replicated because of the sweat, blood and tears that goes into it so it comes to ONLY those who are game for it!

I'm Back!

Hi

Well, i am not Arnold nevertheless, I am back after a span of almost 2 years...A full circle of life is going by like a train passing through forests and trees leaving behind..
I am still in Amsterdam...in the meantime, a trip to India in Oct-Nov'14 happened...
The little one has become 18 months old with her own initial views of likes and dislikes now:)
Its amazing to see how human brain understands and adapts as per the need of times..
It has been quite a while that I have written a blog so wont keep it too long...
Meanwhile, the latest one was an India day celebration with Cricket in VRA, Amstelveen ground with 3 teams participating from Infosys v/s several other teams from different companies. Finally, Team 1 got the glory back with unbeaten record for winning all 4 matches on their way.
2015 is going to be an year of huge events for my life. Hope decisions made this year prove out to be right in long run- will keep this message cryptic for now:)
P.S: Recently Vivek pointed out on my missing blogs for some time so thought of re-starting again. Hope to continue.

Take care.

Week 22..delhi, ghaziabad, an indian wedding

The marriage to attend was scheduled in ghaziabad...on 26th eve...weather was unbearable...coolers and ACs were saving grace...stepping outside was all the more difficult...I was also wary of cold water and drinks...usually in our enthusiasm to combat heat, we tend to forget the impact the changing water temperature will have on throat...so from 26 th onwards I was just striking days out of my calendar...I survived 26th(checked)...so on so forth...the marriage happened with similar hoopla that indian marriages are popular for...everything happened peacefully, it was a good occasion for another reason as well, it gave me an opportunity to meet some of my relatives after a gap of almost 10 years. 4 days passed in a jiffy, Delhi by itself is going in reverse gear...there are townships, industries, rich and powerful but there are very limited trees...builders, governments and people, all seemed callous to the basic law of nature...the basic need of environment to have trees has been avoided completely...there is a constant cloud of smoke hanging in sky...it is visible from any corner of Delhi...but I think people have chosen to ignore it...power condition was good in Delhi but worrisome in Ghaziabad...there was a funny rumor...Ghaziabad's MLA is from BSP while UP govt is from SP so the power condition in Gbad was not good....going by the political situation, this could very well be true. :)...I did a lot of shopping in karawal nagar( one of the corner of Delhi)...took one ride in metro...it was good experience still...on a side note...the incoming stations indication inside the metro has been taken directly from Paris metros...thanks to Mr E srinivasan...delhi metros still looked and felt world class...  

Week 22, India trip..amsterdam, istanbul, delhi

An india trip on 24th may was planned for last two months. This was the first time Puja was not travelling with me. Thanks to her group here that I could go comfortably and she could manage on her own.
Friday,24th, flight was scheduled from amsterdam to istanbul at 12:00  pm, temperature outside was 6 degrees, so i had a light sweater with me. On reaching Schiphol, i came to know that flight was delayed by half an hour. No worries though, my companion was 'Oath of vayuputras' on this trip. So kept on killing my time on the airport. At around 11:45, turkish airlines announced on boarding. By arrangement standards, i found turkish airlines pretty slow and sluggish in its approach. Boarded flight and landed in turkey half an hour late but due to cushion of 3 and half hours in between, i was safe even after loosing half an hour from it. Turkey had temperature running at around 25 degrees so the light sweater was off. Air port was too crowded, and without any seat available, i sat down on floor, and i was not alone...after killing two hours, dozing off and on, i started for the terminal to board delhi flight. On reaching terminal number 215, i realized, airlines are indeed running in a loss as three flights were combined to take passengers together..other ones were canada and air india...after boarding this airbus, i inconveniently found that there wont be support of any screen to watch movie on the way(a thought stuck: is it only applicable for India bound flights? decided to confirm on the way back)...in the flight, i saw a person who seemed remotely familiar..after thinking for long and still failing to recall the name..i decided to take my chances and asked him if his native was Darbhanga...and he politely declined...he had always been in Delhi...i explained to him the context and thought behind my enquiry..on board food was ok ok and after missing television, i had become too arrogant to acknowledge anything good for on board services...6 and half hours later, at 5 am in the Indian time, we landed at Indira gandhi international airport, Delhi...and landed with us, another big craft carrying passengers from Dubai...resulting in a massive queue on immigration check counter..another hour delayed...at around 6:30 am i could collect my luggage and move out of the air port...temperature in delhi was around 38...in one day i had moved from 6 degrees to 38 degrees..welcome to Delhi

Spot fixing IPL, long weekend and my tablet_wk21

This week was roller coaster ride...as mentioned in my last note, i ordered for samsung 10.1 tab2 from amazon and was waiting for it to arrive, it came with its cover(not free!!) on saturday..dot on the date amazon has promised..hence i became owner of samsung P5110 tab2 10.1 tablet, officially:)...it was a long weekend as monday, 20th is the final holiday before christmas this year..its usual lazy day with lots of rain out there...last week, one more thing happened, my decision not to follow cricket became all the more strong, the last time i watched a match was unforgettable ICC world cup final...but good that i am not following IPL and various other tournaments these days...there are much better things to do in this world, o galib, than just sitting and munching popcorn and watching cricket..with due respect to galib saheb..by the way i firmly believe that tournaments like IPL are needed to bolster the prospect of domestic cricket..looking at cricket history where only heroes are remembered and not so popular ones are lost forever...its good that there is a platform away normal playing 11 country team, where people can slug it out and make some money(in legal ways!!) but then things like spot fixing will continue to happen as well, after all its business and some one has to make money, very few people choose to do that in legal ways...meanwhile, our kerala hero sreesanth has been caught here and god knows if he will be forgiven or not...but to assume that its only bad that happens to defaulter is not right...dear readers!!, mohd azharuddin(most successful captain of India till Ganguly arrived on the scene) was caught in match fixing scandal and where is he now..exactly at the right place, parliament..member of our own indian national congress party...heaven to the wretched souls:)...
coming back to where i started, tablet is working good, i have to find a way to read amazon books and to arrange to read 'Harvard business review' subscribed...that is this year's agenda...to start HBR and make efforts to read through the 10 editions of this magazine in the year...rest is good..this week would be hectic and coming week too, there is a marriage at home to attend:)

Week20_2013

Few days went by...sometimes i am surprised by the speed of time..just few days back we were struggling with project problems in January and it seems like the matter was discussed ages ago...Life is on the run...today i ordered my first tablet on amazon...samsung won the research war:)...actually there is a tale behind it...i and vivek were investigating and discussing for a good e-reader...the e-reader war is already won by kindle...so after discussing like hours over few weeks, i zeroed in on Kindle fire HD 8.9 and vivek decided on kindle e-reader...between the decision and day of ordering, vivek got other thoughts and decided for kindle fire hd 7...so now we both were on same page...still we were contemplating and debate was in a settling stage..suddenly vivek found that samsung tab 7" was available in 9999 on flipkart...now the scale tilted towards samsung tablet..another round of discussion ensued...somehow we both agreed that its not a good choice and we should stick to kindle one...so came 12-may, we decided to order kindle fire hd...first it was supposed to be ordered for vivek...so we filled the order form etc and reached to the final order page...and guess what!!...kindle fire hd cant be delivered in netherlands:)..we both were pissed off but still decided to give kindle one more chance, and went to international page, hehe...why did we even bother to try..kindle doesn't deliver to netherlands even through international website...hence we left at that and 12th ended with a sad feeling that we were so close to the tab and still were far from it...now another round of research started..i reached on samsung tablet P5110 and vivek reached on the same tablet through his independent research...this was awesome...finally vivek's first tablet was bought yesterday from media markt and i decided to order it from amazon...hence, i am yet to lay my hands on my first tablet...but happy that i have ordered it already now:)...project work is going well, nothing much on that front, SEPA program is another story to be told separately...in the meantime, watched 'Go goa gone' : one time watch...good performances and decent comedy...planning to watch 'shootout at wadala' this weekend...lets see...majak majak main june 13 aa gaya:)