News 'Forever'

These news were floating for last one year and I believe it will continue for next 2-3 years.

• Sania Mirza lost in the first round (sometimes in the second round)
• Stories about Aishwarya Rai's new boyfriend
• Pesticides found in Coke & Pepsi... Aamir and Sharukh denies it.
• Sachin Tendulkar is Injured
• Oracle acquires another company (Or company which was acquired by Oracle acquires another company OR the company which recently acquired other company is now acquired by oracle)
• Bomb blast in one of the major cities in India and Intial investigation reveals that plot was written in Hyderabad
• Bangalore Infrastructure is very poor .. says CEO of 'XYZ' company.
• HDFC increased house loan interest rates by 0.5%
• Duel between Ambani brothers
• TOI conducts Survery on 'Sex before marriage' topic
• Harsha Bhogle hosts 'Kabaddi'(or any other sport except Cricket) on E.S.P.N
• T.R.S. puts deadline on Telangana to congress party.
• Federar wins All Grandslams except French open (It's reserved for Nadal)
• Land rates increased in Hyderabad
• Kareena Kapoor continues to remain at #1 spot ,without any hit.
• Cricket continues to be Gentlemen game (but the meaning of gentlemen varies)
• Bill Gates is the richest person in the world
• I lost my mobile :(

Feel Free to add in comments section ,if you have any......

Contd..

"Any surprises during the week?" was one of the question in the final wrap-up meeting.. S.H. says " Here is one guy ,who is never out of Hyderabad for work.." Every one else in the room surprised as well and me too surprised as I never realized this news about me will be a surprise..

"What are the challenges ?" was the another question.Working hours is the biggest challenge to me.I personally prefer working in 7-4 or 8-5 timings ,but I have to work from 12-8 when the client is in Europe and 2-10 ,when the client goes back to U.S.

Went out to 'Run way 9' , had Biryanis and Pizzas at Lunch , 4-5 hr discussions per day, they were impressed with the hospitality, I'm impressed with S.H's patience ,
I'm surprised to know that T.H. liked Hyderabani Biryani ,very much.. we had it couple
This project is very different from many of the consulting projects. Very rarely, clients visit to give requirements but It really worked out well as we got most of the things clarified. Zain deserves the credit for it.

Went out to Runway9 and had fun.. we divided into four teams 'SCM Team', 'Fin Team', Tech & DBA Team' and 'Sales Team' and played Go-carting, archery,shooting etc..

This client has a very strange business model. They sell the same product with three different brands. It's like making easy things very complex . (May be they need Oracle ERP just becoz of their complex business model and ). To the best of my knowledge ,only Oracle makes Salespeople life difficult by offering similar services with different brands ,but they have a reason as they acquired all other ERP Vendors (Except SAP)

Whatz your surprise Sudhakar , asked Z.A.
Your business model it self
What do you mean??
Why would you sell the same product with three different brands?
Didn't get a clear answer, but I personally felt, these guys made a simple business to complex and eventually complex ERP like Oracle can support this

P.S: This was completely un edited text and simply posted for the heck of doing it,instead of keepint it as draft.

Client Visit

Karuvu tharuvatha Thufanu (Cyclone after drought) was exactly my situation at work for last ten days.. After about two months on bench, I was assigned to this project and just after a week after this project got kicked -off , client visited us. W.J & K.S came from U.K. and Z.A,S.H, T.H& V.R. came from U.S and couple of our sales folks were with them.

Good mix of people ,I'll tell you.. we had people from Business, I.T. ,sales, Tech consultants, Functional consultants (SCM,OPM & Finance) and average experience of people in the room was more than 10 years . Most of things were too technical to write here ,but last 10 days were full of fun and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Here is the entire team picture




Supply chain team . (K.B,V.S,me,J.S. and S.H)

Cricket Contoversies

It's all about Cricket .. Team A starts batting first and when the Team A is all-out, Team B comes to bat and they wait for Team A players to take the field but none of Team A turns up just becoz their batting was over ..This is precisely the same reason ,why the toss-winning captain prefer batting first . This always happens in my village.

What surprised me most was similar thing happened at Oval ( for different reasons ,though) during Pakistan Vs England match. English batsmen were ready to bat, but none of the Pakistani players turned up..They waited for sometime ,unlike in our village, pakistan players were turned up ,but umpires were not there..(This never happened in my village as we don't really play with Umpires)

Pakistan was accused of ball-tampering and awarded five-run penalty to England .Frustated Inzamam didn't let his team members take the field after Tea break .Meanwhile English batsmen and Umpires waited on the field for 15 minutes, awarded match to England as per rule 2.12 of ICC rule book .Suddenly Pakistan changed their mind and decide to take the filed ,but the umpires were not interested... Read more about this here.

Umpires didn't have any proper proof to suppor their decision .. None of 26 cameras around the ground caught the Pakistan players doing any tampering ,they didn't consult with captain either ,before taking the decision.. This is absolutely ridiculous. Yet another incident of racial discrimination against sub-continet players.. Not long ago, Sachin Tendulkar and entire Indian team accused of Ball-tampering in South Africa ,Murali was always the victim of chucking though ICC cleared his action.

These were many other incidents of this sort and it never happens in my village :)

UPDATE: Adi's post has more views on the very same issue

Accident

"Where on earth have you been?"
"I have been visiting hospitals :("
"Why? did you fall in love with doctor Jaspreet there?"
"No stupid, I had an accident!"
"Yet again... Why / how on earth did that happen?"

"All cause of that damaged road near Lingampally railway station.. It was around 9:30 in the evening ,riding on my purlsar at 40 kmph ,thinking about what to write in the next post, suddenly big hole on the road ,stepped into it, managed to come out ,sand next to it.. got skid .. "

"Any injuiries to bike ,road and you?"

Road already damaged ,so did my bike.. Some scratches added on bike dome, My right shoulder got injured at the same place, watch on left hand hit the road ,got damaged and saved my hand for sure.. (Raghu.. it's for you.. new watch please ) Helmet saved my head and jeans saved my leg from little inuires..

"So, what did you learn from it?"

Well, you need to clean with dettol first ,then take T.T ,some antiboitics ,pain killer and apply soframisin for 7-10 days.. Wait a minute, my roomie told to keep the wound dry to get cured quickly..(I was using Yk's hair dryer for that ..) but I read exactly the opposite in today's Eenadu Newspaper.. Will confirm you soon..

"Not that stupid, How do you want to stop yourself from a hatrick?"

Very simple.. drive in a true hyderabadi style.. change lanes ,whenever you see a obstacle in your lane..."

"What are the lessons for others?"

For god's sake, wear helmet ..please ... It saved me twice.. My love for Peppe jeans increased as it saved my legs ... and wear full sleeve shirts to save your shoulders... Having a watch on left hand is worth considerable option...

P.S: Accident happened on 10th of August.. and I almost recovered from it...
Inspired from Sandeep's post on Accident on Metblogs..

In Brief...

Well, so many things to write ,but busy with work.. Here are the latest happenings, in brief.. (Read with background music of N.D.T.V. Headlines )

• New look to my blog.. See sidebar
• Heavy rains in Andhra.. Don't worry, I'm safe..
• Drove all the way from Lingampally to Abids (In rain) to buy Sherwani type kurtha pizama..
• Prabodhan marriage went on well..
• No luck on Prabodhan Marriage either .. (All the marriages are over, have to look for another alternative.)
• Project kicked -off..
• Office timings are 12PM - 8 PM (need to co-ordinate with clients from U.S & Europe)
• Client visting us next week. Need to buy formal clothes
• Can access Orkut, gmail and Yahoo from Client network.
• Back to my favorite UID sjukanti ( after sudhakarj , jsudhaka & jukantis)
• Done with first deliverable.. Thanks to copy-paste
• Working on MS Word is not that bad
• Dad lost in Elections.. yet again..
• You might be interested in calling me ,next tuesday.

A 'Word' for a cause...

A week back, I went to our cafeteria for lunch and I decided to have Parata, over Thali & Fruit cuts . The conversation was something like this..

Me : Bhai saab, Ek parata, please...
Waiter: Which Parata Sir, Aalu or Spinache..
Me : Spinache ??? means what?
Waiter: (With a weird look ) It's Palak Sir...

Really ,I didn't know what Spinache meant at that time ... This reminds me about a word 'cafeteria' which I heard for the first time while preparing for G.R.E and now I use it almost everyday... So, I don't know some words ,which are being used by other people in their day to day life..

+++++++++++

In the last four years ,many people ,most of them were fresh from college ,were asking me about how to prepare for interview.. With my experience of attending as well taking interviews ,I suggest them to concentrate on following .. Atleast all nine rounds of my Oracle interview were based on these three aspects..

Communication Skills
C Language / SQL
Analytical skills /Aptitude

How to improve Communication skills?? Most of the people say that to improve English ,start speaking in English.. In reality , it's not easy.. then what is the best way ?? I personally feel , by improving vocabulary , simply becoz, good vocabulary improves your interest in reading ,becoz you'll complety understand what you are reading ... Atleast ,It worked for me..

With that Experience ,I had suggested many guys to learn one English word every day so that they can build up their vocabulary . I told it to 20 different people and none of them did it atleast for 20 days straight.. This drives me crazy ... why do people don't do something ,which is so important for buiding their carrer ?

I was thinking about compiling 500-600 English words, which will help these guys to improve their basic vocabulary but It didn't turn to reality for unknown reasons... I request all the readers of this post to write atleast one English word in the comments section ,which you feel is commonly used and People who study in non -English medium mayn't be knowing .. Eg: Words like Genuine, Ridiculous, Pleasure, or something like 'Whatz up? might help.

Please take it on serious note as I have the idea of building similar list to help students in Govt.. Telugu medium schools in and around my village...

Tagging

Last two days at work, I completely spent on reading other's blogs... Upon reading their blogs, I felt inferior .. Look at blogs of Shastry, Shruti, Deepa and Sudeep .. Man, very quality stuff.. Sometimes, I got a feeling like "Am I spoiling blogspot with my crap?".. Who cares ??? What else can you expect from a guy who started learning English at the age of 9 and stuided till class X in Telugu Medium?

One interesting thing I observed in their blogs is tagging... For more understanding , see this .I wish I had some friends who tag me ,but who in the world will stop me from doing it my self.

Here you go.. Five weird things about myself..

1)Prefer to clean teeth by hand than Brush. This is the reason why I don't carry brush for 2-3 day trips.
2)I rode bicycle at the age of 24, after learning riding bike.
3)Prefer teaching to someone who know something than others who don't know anything.
4)I'll start reading any magazine from the last page.. By default my hand goes to last page ..
5)Last ,but not the least ...Tagging my self .. Nothing in the world can be more weird than this. :)

Soooo weird .. Aren't they ?? I have many more.. but rule is rule.. I have to write only five.. As per the rule, I have to tag five others, but none of my friends blog .. (Really ,I'm desperately looking for blog friends ) You might be wondering ,Why I didn't tag myself five times ... Man, I'm not that crazy and I don't want to end up in loop ..

Disclamer: Apologies for Shastry,Shruthi,Deepa and Sudeep for using their names without their permission.