I am not sure if its any kind of spoof, but going by this I am hopelessly right brained 
Are you right brained, or left brained? Some guys report they can change directions at will!!!
BTW, some folks have wasted days just looking at this, which you wouldn’t do if you have any brains at all!
Did not go to work today. Throat infection and mild fever were good enough excuses, but excuses nevertheless.
Been up and reading for the most part of the day sitting at home.
I wish this was written and I’d read this when I was in high school. I feel jealous that today’s high school kids can read this.
As much as I feel jealous I want all the high school kids I know to read it anyway.
I am seen as the angry young man of my team. Actually, I do a remarkable job of containing my rage when people without even the most rudimentary knowledge on a topic go on and on for ever during official meetings as if they’d written a paper on it. Sadly, the Indian IT industry is infested with people who just can’t say, ‘I don’t know’.
It would be appropriate if someone can identify the jalli parties aka jallipaedias and make them write “I am sorry, I don’t know” 108 times as imposition, just like the school days. Most of the times they open their mouths when they don’t have to!
I don’t care if someone starts a blog and write whatever crap they want like me but bullshitting on work related stuff in official meetings is sacrilege to me. Invariably, these jallipaedias also develop critical soft skills like back biting, getting inputs from others and projecting as if they’d known since their childhood - right in front of the person who first provided the information.
I was cribbing about this to my friend yesterday and my only consolation was that I am not alone. My friend was recounting his days with the world’s biggest software company’s Hyderabad office - not exactly pleasant memories for him. That was his dream company and yet he quit in six months.
He also gave a parting gyaan. ‘In any Indian IT company, the chances of finding a genuine, open minded, clear thinking person in a team is five percent. If your team has more, consider yourself lucky.” I thought about my team and could count six (including me) out of a possible twenty one. Whoa, maybe I should not get too angry. Lucky me!
The 460V hyper enthu kuttipriya tagged me for mnemonics. I seriously want to see the person who gave her this idea for tagging.
I hope she is not naïve enough to think I would’ve employed mnemonics at school. The first and last one I used in school was VIBGYOR. Even that I didn’t quite like the sound of it - VIBGYOR when you call it loud sounds like some one related to MGR..
It’s an entirely different world at work. There is absolutely no need for mnemonics – you just bloody google it. You can even afford to get the spelling wrong for the stuff you search.
However, there is another technique to remember stuff - by weird visuals and associations. Obviously this is not my original idea. Someone (I think it was Harry Lorraine) had written about this earlier.
Our mind always associates one stuff with the other. Remember how it works in a typical classroom? You will be in organic chemistry class looking at the structure of benzene (C6H6). Suddenly it will strike you that the teacher looks like Trisha at an angle – hormonal chemistry at work here. The ever inquisitive mind will in parallel run a search for the latest movies of Trisha. Kuruvi will flash in no time. See how we associate and traverse from benzene to chemistry teacher to Trisha to Kuruvi?? The adventure seeking part of your brain might even induce you to watch that movie in theater. Now you have associated with disaster as well.
The traditional linear note taking method is to draw the structure of benzene (six sided figure) and continue to dream about Trisha (or the teacher whoever was better). Instead if only you can imagine six Trishas standing at an angle mimicking benzene shape, do you think you would ever forget the shape of benzene in your life?
One other example – try visualizing this.
Kamal with the word PHYSICAL in his back is chained to a desktop which runs reams of 010101001 DATA which again is linked to NETWORK of computers which is chained to a Metropolitan TRANSPORT Corp bus which is chained to a judge sitting with the word SESSIONS court on his forehead who is seeing a web INTERFACE form in a linux APPLICATION.
It might sound like Dasavadharam trailer when reading but feel free to come up with your own weird utterly illogical image associations. In the above example, all the words in upper case are essentially layer names in OSI reference model – a topic in computer networks. It’s important that you make your own bizarre sequence. The weirder the better. You are less likely to forget this image sequence than reading through your own linear notes six months later.
The disadvantages of this system – coming up with unusual images and associations in sync. with the subject content takes time. Nevertheless, its worth trying because life is all about Trishas err… associations.
Check out
http://vandana.smugmug.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/visithra/
Just mind blowing!
I came to know Kumudam Reporter has apparently stolen Visithra’s photograph.
Maanam ketta pasanga!!
In all these seven years I have been a designer, i have been known for the following in the work place…
- the guy who can write content on demand.
- the guy who can draft that critical mail to anybody.
- the guy who can be trusted to get a particular info somewhere somehow.
- the guy who can keep a tab on the industry happenings and spot the trend.
- the guy who can give some original input / gyaan on any design/decision review.
- the guy who can speak his mind anytime he wants [and sometimes even rather brutally].
But I don’t think anyone has said ‘Oh PK is an awesome designer’. The one tag I’m yearning for. Not yet.
I guess my designs have always been from passable to good.. otherwise I would not have survived this far… But yeah nothing earth shattering about my design work so far..
There is a possibility that the Industry needs more of ‘jack of all’ than ‘master of one’ folks…Maybe I would not have truly survived in this corporate coolie dom if i were a great designer..they just need somebody with adequate skills.. not someone who can be really disruptive in their skills.
Anyway, the conclusion is
Either,
a) Me being okay in written communication sort of distracts from my core skills, OR
b) I am just plain not so great in design. Meaning not really talented and all.
The litmus test will be on the days to come..
What if it was more the latter than the former?? Will I become a useless fellow?
Nah. I will become a project manager!
I am not sure if its just that i am feeling really low about my skills since its been sometime I’d worked on a project individually or its just a case of reality hitting me.
http://www.scholarshipsinindia.com/agriculture.html
The above URL gives the supposedly complete list of Agricultural colleges/universities in India. It’s less than hundred as one can see.
This is the maximum possible educated manpower that is provided to a sector that feeds approximately 50% of this country’s population. I say maximum possible because, of these, a substantial number of these students might probably end up doing Phd, some would enter the civil services, some might take up jobs with titles like Agri-marketing where slowly the Agri- part would vanish and the guy will be selling soaps by Hindustan Unilever in rural areas. And i am not even talking about sectors like software. I know at least one Agri graduate who is into software.
In contrast, Tamil Nadu alone has above two hundred engineering colleges.
I get the point that there are so many engineering colleges because of the demand from the Industry. But what have we done to stoke productivity in Agriculture? Loan waivers are actually detrimental to the development of the sector in the long run. I think the government should build an ecosystem where know how, access to capital and entrepreneurship can flourish. We need someone with an eye on economics rather than elections.
I am just thinking out loud here,
What if the govt announced tax holidays for special purpose vehicles instituted for people willing to enter farming with a corporate setup, and they can join hands with some sort of a VC willing to invest capital. The farmers can give the land on lease (not outright sell) to the SPV for compensation which includes a fixed as well as variable component (share on profits). Schemes such as these obviates the need for loan dispensing and then waiving it off. The farmer does not lose his shirt even if the venture fails. He is basically entering into a lease deal with some experts.
If there can be so many players in sectors as chronically bleak as civil aviation, I don’t see why this can’t work out.
Sometime back, Keerthi and I had a telephone conversation about the changes in film business - notably the entry of ADAG, PVR, Pyramid Saimira and the types. Keerthi had an intriguing proposition.. “Adhellam irukattum PK, as a movie buff, I am disgusted with the kind of films dished out.. Naan enakku venungra padathai eppo epdi parkuradhu.?
To be precise, his idea of a movie project is a Kamal Haasan, Mani Ratnam combo, with music by A R Rahman, produced by Avyukta Talkies and funded by all the movie buffs of this planet… or something similar.
Well, I don’t see that happening in the immediate future. Even if it does, that movie can turn out to be very different from Keerthi’s expectations because its not entirely in his control.
This morning whilst in bathroom I had this thought.
It’s very well known that bloggers can be musicians (blogswara), what if some bloggers turned to digital film making? At least the animation movies, if not the full fledged films.
Probably Keerthi can script it, can assemble a crew of amateur 2/3d animators, artists, compositors, modelers to make a cool animation movie that he likes with the script he loves. For once, this can be made at one’s free time and at absolutely zero or very negligible cost. Only stuff required is abundance of back-breaking effort and loads of passion. Of course, Avyukta Talkies can produce this film and premiere it via You Tube to the entire world.
Even if Keerthi gets busy, I guess this is something worth checking out by bloggers in general, if not done already. Instead of saying all Kodambakkam movies are crap, why don’t we do something about it during our free time?
PS: How come I get all these original idea only when I am in the bathroom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZ8qDYQLQQ
My friends at work strongly recommended this as I have not seen ‘Kadhal’.
LOL stuff 
I wanted to test drive my newly acquired Gorillapod.
I am thrilled with the results. Shots like these would not have been possible in traditional tripods. I had the camera at like 2-3 inches from the ground for this.
