Toast to technology!

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U don't need to go away from ur laptop to celebrate the new yr...

HAPPY NEW YEAR

So the time has come to welcome a new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!!

2009 has so many things in store for all of us! A lot of repairs to be done, and hope its a wonderful year ahead!

After a good show at the EEE auditorium !

Cows - next to humans form an integral part of our NITT campus. A funny pic taken from the EEE dept.

Sitting next to a convict

I have been traveling a lot these holidays. The last of those journeys when i was coming
back from Ambalapuha to Trivandrum I was sharing my bench with a convict (handcuffed) and a policeman (with a gun which I strongly feel is .303).

Now this guy was being brought to the Police headquarters in Tvm. And I caught a few secret clicks of them.

I could not help but notice the way they both were sleeping! Like friends on a leisure trip!!

Good bye 2008!

2008 was really a year of ups and downs.

Terrorism was at its peak, financial debacle that left a lot of vacuum (and uncertainties for a lot of us), climatic changes and cyclones..there were all. On the good side, America did vote for change (better late than never), Indian cricket team is going strong, and on a parallel line the Australian supremacy in the game of cricket seems to die out for the rise of other playing countries.

Looking back, 2008 will be remembered as a sad year for the innumerable number of job cuts, coming-to-streets it has been a witness to. The good old American dream was shattered and people like us who are all set to enter into work have no clue of the scenario out there for us.

With a new American government, that has already managed to gain confidence and raise the hopes of the people, at the helm of affairs, CHANGE has to come. Otherwise shoe dealers will make profit as more no. of people show their anger and frustration ;-)

Come back home?!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23anand.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1

A good article on the children of those Indians who settled in other countries in search of better employment opportunities.

In a chat that followed this. I told my friend in Sngapore about what it was for India to welcome them back. The excerpts are below. Just for fun ;-)
i have deliberately deleted the sections containing his comments.

me: i mean...dogs must ive in kennels and lions must live in dens .. neither are suited otherwise..

u cant be brought up a lion and made to live in a kennel n vice versa

11:26 PM me: nri n ppl like u who study outside learn there... and come bac to spoil the job prospects f ppl in india

me: india has become watever it si now coz of half baked half roasted professionals like us...

who learn to adapt over innovate..

me: and o by the fundamental principles of survivability...

11:28 PM *go

11:29 PM me: while in the case wid ppl like u who hav stideied overseas the case is not so. ur like well manufactured defect less products straight out of sony or toshiba..

so half baked ppl lose preference over ompany products available at affordable cost for indian companies..

right?

11:30 PM

11:31 PM me: if u trace back this is wat happened in america years ago...they found talented (relatively indians then were far more talented than them an also trained at iits )ppl at low price.. n built their gr8 empire yet wid weak foundations only to fall at the sneeze of a financial debacle..

11:32 PM so.. in conclusion...

11:34 PM me: indians like me...who lost on the education (by studying in india) and now also on the opportunty of being the part of building india inc (because better personnel availae at lower price for the employers) .. wil be under serious threat if the article is prophetic..

all this if the finacnial conditions dont get better in two yrs ;-)

howzzat?

i feel that this will result in a pool of Indians affected by unemployment or lack of quality employment.

twenty 20

Twenty 20 ..No i am not talking of cricket filled with colours, glam gals, and all superstars under one banner. In fact I am telling about a malayalam movie Twenty 20 which has all stars, superstars, comedians etc etc who have been around this industry.

The movie has rightfully identified the best role for each one of them and hence the best they can deliver. Mammooty as the lawyer, Lal in his typical style (Narasimham, Devasuram etc..), Suresh Gopi as polica officer with his lavish English that knows no bound, Jayaram in his typical funny way, Dileep the best at timed comedy and Manoj K Jain (as the bad guy).

The major omissions were Urvashi, KPAC, Nedumudi Venu, Thilakan, Janardhanan, Murali...

Whatever, I was only surprised to see the crowd at the ticket counter on this Monday aftenoon when every other person is supposed to be at work!

Have a look at the pic I took outside a theater in Trivandrum!