Money Bags
July 2011 This year, July has 5 Fridays 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays.
This apparently happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags.
Mar 29, 2011
Mar 22, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
Indian Employees
Here are some stats about the Indian employees..
Most common grievances reported by employees:
* Long hours (34%)
* Unusual hours (18%)
* Living away from home (18%)
* Multiple jobs (14%)
* Excessive travel (13%)
Mar 20, 2011
Chocolate Room
Chocolate room in Banjara Hills is a good place to spend time, nice stuffs to eat & chit chat… But in the evenings, they seem to be a bit shabby with so much of mosquitoes around the tables put on the outside…
On the road...
One of the hot spots of Hyderabad is in Banjara Hills, Road #1 – Near all those Taj Hotels, but the reality is the roads nearby & in front of these hotels are so bad. Ahhh!!! They are really not pedestrian friendly because people have made it a habit to urinate a lot on those walls daily… The disgusting side of India!
Election Manifesto...
DMK’s election promises are usually kept as said… The promises for the upcoming one seem a bit more.
Mar 19, 2011
Mar 17, 2011
Mar 16, 2011
TODAY'S QUOTE
Today’s quote:
“ People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” |
- Theodore Roosevelt
Today’s Picture:
Inspirational Leader
http://inspirationkingdom.com/how-leaders-manage-failure/
(Former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum , Philadelphia , March 22,2008)
Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?
APJ Abdul Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India ‘s satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India ‘s “Rohini” satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources — but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
By 1979 — I think the month was August — we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts — I had four or five of them with me — told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference — where journalists from around the world were present — was at 7:45 am at ISRO’s satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure — he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite — and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, “You conduct the press conference today.”
I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience
Mar 15, 2011
Good day...
Today’s quote:
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” |
- Henry Ford
Today’s Picture:
Mar 14, 2011
Good Info
1. If you see children Begging anywhere in INDIA, please contact:
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3.Engineering Students can register in www.campuscouncil.com to attend Off Campus for 40 Companies.
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"Helping Hands are Better than Praying Lips"
6. If you find any important documents like Driving license, Ration card, Passport, Bank Pass Book, etc., missed by someone, simply put them into any near by Post Boxes. They will automatically reach the owner and Fine will be collected from them.
7. By the next 10 months, our earth will become 4 degrees hotter than what it is now. Our Himalayan glaciers are melting at rapid rate. So let all of us lend our hands to fight GLOBAL WARMING.
-Plant more Trees.
-Don't waste Water & Electricity.
-Don't use or burn Plastics
8. It costs 38 Trillion dollars to create OXYGEN for 6 months for all Human beings on earth.
"TREES DO IT FOR FREE"
"Respect them and Save them"
9. Special phone number for Eye bank and Eye donation: 04428281919 and 04428271616 (Sankara Nethralaya Eye Bank). For More information about how to donate eyes plz visit these sites. http://ruraleye.org/
10. Heart Surgery free of cost for children (0-10 yr) Sri Valli Baba Institute Banglore. 10.
Contact : 9916737471
11. Medicine for Blood Cancer!!!!
'Imitinef Mercilet' is a medicine which cures blood cancer. Its available free of cost at "Adyar Cancer Institute in Chennai". Create Awareness. It might help someone.
Cancer Institute in Adyar, Chennai
Category: Cancer
Address:
East Canal Bank Road, Gandhi Nagar
Adyar
Chennai -600020
Landmark: Near Michael School
Phone: 044-24910754 044-24910754 , 044-24911526 044-24911526 , 044-22350241 044-22350241
If you have a function/party at your home in India and food gets wasted, don't hesitate to call 1098 (only in India ) - Its not a Joke, This is the number of Child helpline.
They will come and collect the food. Please circulate this message which can help feed many children.
AND LETS TRY TO HELP INDIA BE A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN
Please Save Our Mother Nature for
"OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS"
Mar 13, 2011
Heart of Gold
An article worth a note…
“I realised as so many times before while writing this column, that more than money, you really need a heart of gold to serve others.”
Share Everything
The old man placed an order for one hamburger, French fries and a drink.
He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife.
He then carefully counted out the French fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.
He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them . As he began to eat his few bites of hamburger, the people around them were looking over and whispering.
Obviously they were thinking, 'That poor old couple - all they can afford is one meal for the two of them.'
As the man began to eat his fries a young man came to the table and politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple. The old man said, they were just fine - they were used to sharing everything
People closer to the table noticed the little old lady hadn't eaten a bite. She sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink.
Again, the young man came over and begged them to let him buy another meal for them.
This time the old woman said 'No, thank you, we are used to sharing everything.'
Finally, as the old man finished and was wiping his face neatly with the napkin, the young man again came over to the little old lady who had yet to eat a single bite of food and asked 'What is it you are waiting for?'
She answered --
'THE TEETH.'
Kashmir
An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly that made the world community smile.
A representative from India began : 'Before beginning my speech I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. When he struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath.'
He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water.
When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished.. A Pakistani had stolen them.'
The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren't there then.'
The Indian representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.
'And they say Kashmir belongs to them"
Crazy...
At one end, if Ashish’s last over had worked & India had won, people would have really been very happy & praised whatever… Now, people blast Dhoni, Ashish. Crazy enough!
Smart Indian
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House..
One from Bangladesh, another from India and the third from China..
They visited the White House office to examine the fence..
The Bangladesh contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well", he says, "I figure the job will run about $900. ($400 for materials, $400 for my team and $100 profit for me)"
The Chinese contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700. ($300 for materials, $300 for my team and $100 profit for me)"
The Indian contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700.."
The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure..?"
The Indian contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from China to fix the fence.."
"Done!" replies the government official..
Pacific
The Pacific Seabed is becoming quite unstable… Why is it so? B’cos of the recent quake, earth’s rotation jumped up some milliseconds, it seems…
Success
The reason why only some people succeed is they are not willing to give up what they do the most for what they want at the moment
Mar 12, 2011
Mar 11, 2011
Mar 8, 2011
India's Pay Hike
Interesting that India’s pay hikes are going to be on top…
“Among the employee groups, junior manager/supervisor/ professional level employees are projected to see a hike of 13.3 per cent while top/senior management people are anticipated to get about 12.1 per cent rise this year.”
Mar 7, 2011
Terminologies
In a story about the successful ballistic missile test done by India, just check out the set of terminologies used within quotes.
No clue, why they all need special denotation…
Leadership
Taking ownership & complete responsibility for not only the good ones, but also for the bad ones is really the core of leadership.
Noodles
Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat.
This is the WRONG method of cooking the instant noodles.
By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder,normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structure of the MSG, causing it to be toxic.
The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have eaten the noodles.
CORRECT METHOD:
1. Boil the noodles in a pot of water.
2. Once the noodles are cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. Boil another pot of water, add the cooked noodles into the hot boiling water and then turn off the stove.
4. Only at this stage when the stove is off, and while the water is very hot, add the flavouring powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
5. However, if you need dry noodles, remove the noodles and add the flavouring powder and toss it to get dry noodles.
Dietician's Note:
If you buy plain hakka noodles which you make, you initially need to boil in water and discard the water. This will soften the noodles but to prevent it from sticking we need to add a tbsp of oil and also the noodles are deep fried partially to make them crunchy and then dusted with flour to prevent them from sticking while boiling. Hence when you buy the noodles they are already made unhealthy and this is the type we use to make stir fry noodles and the regular Maggie too is made the same way, plus they add MSG / Ajinomoto and other chemical preservatives.
Note - I don’t have a way to check the authenticity of the above info. But, definitely a healthy tip.
Mar 3, 2011
Others
Let's keep others happy around or atleast give them peace of mind or atleast take some steps for them which will make them feel the difference.
Wouldn't that eventually give you a positive energy & outlook?
Struggle
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body, Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand: The restricting cocoon and the struggle required by the butterfly to get through the opening was a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings so that it would be ready for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us. We will not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly.
The Brighter Side
Gus Grumplings was never happy with anything. He had lots of friends, and parents who loved him dearly, but all Gus could think about was what he didn't have, or things he did have which he was unhappy with. If someone gave him a car, it would be too big or too slow. If he went to the zoo, he'd come back disappointed because they hadn't let him feed the lions. If he played football with his friends, he would complain, saying there were too many of them for just one ball...
What caught Gus unawares was Chuckles the prankster cloud. One day, Chuckles was drifting past, and heard all of Gus's complaining. Chuckles wafted over to see. When the cloud was right above Gus, he started dropping heavy black rain on him. That was Chuckles' favorite trick to play on grumpy little kids.
Gus wasn't at all impressed by this new development; it just made him complain even more. He was even angrier after he realized that the cloud was following him.
Well, this carried on for almost a week. Gus couldn't get away from the cloud, and he got more and more infuriated.
Gladys took him to the swimming pool, and left him there until all the pool water was black. Then she went and got other kids. They came and played in the pool. The water being black meant they could play hide and seek! Grudgingly, Gus had to admit it had been a lot of fun, but what was even more fun was playing Wet the Cat.
Gus would find cats and run alongside them. When the cats felt themselves getting wet they would jump about in the craziest way, and run off at top speed, with funny looks on their faces. Before long, all the children in town had gathered around Gus, thinking up new games they could play using the cloud.
For the first time ever, Gus started to see the positive side of things; even things which, at first, had seemed so bad. Chuckles, the prankster cloud, thought that he could now leave; his work had been done. But, before leaving, he gave Gus two days of multicolored rain, with which the children invented the most fun games ever.
When Chuckles finally left, Gus didn't complain. Now he knew to focus on the good in life, and the good thing about Chuckles' departure was that no longer was Gus soaking wet all day. Now he could go and do dry things, and that's exactly what he did.
Everything has its good and bad side. We are the happiest when we look for the good in all things.
Why Not
You See Things and you say “Why?”. But I dream things that never were and I say “Why not?”
- George Bernard Shaw
Today
Life is too short to complain on….Regretting past’s sad days or missing past’s happy days or dreaming future happy days or being afraid of future’s obstacles…
Live the life as its last day… Njoy every moment - Coz if todayz gone then it would never come n later u’ll complain what u missed…
Irish Treat
Didn’t expect England to lose to Ireland in the World Cup match though! Guess, no one would have expected… Especially the fastest century.
Hmmm… India should better be ready.
Mar 2, 2011
Good day...
Today’s quote:
“I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't.”
- Unknown
Today’s Picture:
Mar 1, 2011
Good Day...
Today’s quote:
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
- Eva Burrows
Today’s Picture:
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