Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Marketing mentalities.



This is some thing that i observed in two of the best performers in my company, both talented in generating leads. Both were creative and capable people. One adopted a very broad based approach of reaching out to a larger base of clients to accomplish his targets. The other followed a limited approach were he focused on few clients at a time. Both were talented but only one was successful, only the one who went the extra mile to sell the products to his customer was effective in selling the products and produce fruitful ending. The product they sold was meetings and the end result was managers signing up deals with the companies.

The focused approach and the blind approach is effective in their own way. When both are combined to have a balanced approach then may be a balanced effective way might be formed.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Falling in love with

Love is on the air these days. Not the one for the humans, but for the electronics we use. The extraordinary evolution is taking place by being connected to all and around far far away the love for people is completely focused on one object. So for all the loneliest of hearts i guess you can find love now for a price. I for one am feeling the love for them already, the ones with the best always seems the best. I grew up in a time when i was not used to the lot. But when i grew up a lot changed and evolved around\d me with which  i didn't want to associate with but, men love for things around is beyond the possibility. i went around trying to figure out how much the love as spread, we are doing all the things that are favored by us through the devices that we forgot that our human touch is disappearing a lot. but we are too busy to notice the change and the change is becoming the norm not so good.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

We are not computers



 Disappearing are those days where we are being taught by intelligent humans in class rooms. Computers are fast becoming our teachers and students are becoming believers of machines than humans. We home works and assignments being done through laptops and palmtops. We can almost say we falling in love with our phones. We are starting feel pain when these devices are broken or lost. We are starting to develop emotions for these smart devices created by the smartest of men. Its more like men giving away part of their brains to the computers and computer is compilation different brains. But, yet they can never be us. We are now sitting in front of devices more and more we are starting to get hooked to them better and better addiction is bad but becoming part of your life is worse. We spend more time with this brain data base than with human beings these days the end result will be that we shall me smarter than the older generation but stronger may not be case. Coming to that in the end we are not computers to romanticize this time spent with computers. We are men and if we manage to reduce the human contact effectively we shall evolve to become just a database, where we learn everything from movies and pictures rather than the humans around us.  

Saturday, August 18, 2012

So called humans......




            WE are but animals, we have got civilized through culture, but we have decided to be animals by ignoring it.  We have forgotten that it’s these boring things that have kept our animals in cage and us civilized.

            We write about how women are attacked and killed, we talk about how there is so much hate existing between religions, The papers talk about how our society is degrading, they are talking about the best worst incidents happening around us, committed by other human as though a miracle as occurred. Only showing that they have forgotten that Hitler was also a human being, did we not read about him in history? Then again how many of us know that history is lesson from the past to teach humans what we are capable of. We Indian’s love Ramayana more, since the god king can take care of all evil. (But, wait a minute did he not go to rescue his wife, if not would Ram have vanquished Ravan?). So, in India even a god needs a selfish reason to remove evil from earth. Why blame a man then, why blame one person then. We always analyze the effect rather than the cause when was the last time we celebrated our festivals in the same way as we did I past, when was the last time we brought people together and done something nice to unite them, Celebrated together and cherished the goodness that is around. We are but animals when there is no beautiful culture around us, we cave into the animal self and engage in violence; go assault women to satisfy the animal need. Women don’t make it easy these days either, there freedom in dressing doesn’t help the men who have already caved into the animal self.

We are animals, who have no control on things, ruthlessly destroying everything around us. Only in our traditions I saw men, praying to the rain god, thanking the god for hard grown food, our ancestors were men. But, we go wild, party hard, waste food, go in cars and pollute this planet, don’t care of other who suffer, beware no one will care for us then. We are animals after all, many of which have gone extinct and many are disappearing in this planet. Why are we worrying for a single person in this billion, but are we really worrying. What are we doing to help the worrying go away, other than to just talk of it till we forget it. We care more of our self than we care for others. We have become selfish, which is again a part of an animal instinct.  We are animals after all.
No matter how hard we try we cannot ignore the animal inside us.  If we start giving into it, we will enjoy it, but you will only be an animal.  

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The positives of this IPL for CSk and Dhoni.



For even the best focused men can fall down in the wrong places and go in the wrong directions to lose their cool and the focus that they had. I saw a great come back in this IPL and the greatest comeback of all is the one of the CSK, they were going down crashing at one stage and kept alive only with each player doing their part and playing their heroics at different stages of the game.  It was never a one man’s game; I for one got inspired by their unity and strength in dependence on each other. For in all this a single revival stands apart the rest of it all. An individual was coming back out of all the evils that were haunting him from the past, MS Dhoni is the man. I saw the face dull and down, with the past clearly haunting his game, decision and choice. The man truly needed a comeback, and he did regain his charm not by his own will but the spirit of the team that brought him back slowly but effectively. I for once focused more on this man than any part of the game, to be true the man whose face grew brighter with each miraculous win and his words more relaxed after every match a clear sign of the effect of team on the man (If people said it was fixed and if I were true I would rather think it to be false after seeing this alteration in a man in a season). If this can do to a man with the right team, the team I support will always be the Csk and the people in them. I am hopeful that this team can support itself to come back any number of times as long as it has its members. They just showed that a lost match, will not lead them to lose their spirit.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Drama’s in my life.



I was wondering how some stories of co incidence where utter nonsense not today in my life it wasn’t.

 Closing time for my MBA as arrived with a job in an hand I am few of the blessed with this gift. But, I was not to relish this joy easily. I was having an attendance lack in a subject and that might prevent me to graduate and going to the company to join is not possible then. Hmm, I was desperate I kept in control and finally one day I decided to go and clear this problem by talking to the people who can help. ( I was wrong) I went to the college at 1:30 pm; I went to the staff room to start the pleading process. The newly joined staff was reluctant to meddle with the system and so told me to go meet the HOD to resolve this. So I decided to enter the “ROOM”, to meet HOD “Help Of Day”. I went inside had to be all extra nice, politely asked “how are you sir” “how is running the college going”. He answered in one word “it’s all good”. ” Shoot I used up all the buttering and smoothening ammo in one go”. It was time I had to tell him the reason for my coming and the roar was never louder to me. “Karma” surely is not very kind all the mischief and bunking of classes was brought to my eyes by the HOD (Hell of day), His words bringing images back to my head better than the 3D movies I saw bunking the classes. It was one of the times when a staff in his all his rage shall bring upon all the mistakes your entire batch as made upon one person. This is was that time; I can no longer bare the suffering of this decided to create sympathy with HOD (Heart of Day). By mentioning how I cannot join job if I am not allowed to write exam because of attendance lack. Hmm, He paused for a second it was not for the best of reasons.
FLASH BACK: Going back to the past, not thinking it’s important to tell the Hod that I got placed I ignored telling him. 
A second Roar followed “you got placed and you didn’t even inform me and now you want me to help you to join the job, why should I care?”. I had to act fast and put down the fire. Worked the imaginative mind to save me, one good thing came up and I told two lies to save my day
1 “Sir I did not tell anyone about this” Why a lie? (As soon as I got the offer letter the only one who might not have known about it in the college about my placement is the HOD and may be the gate watch man who is far away from all the scene I created.)
2 “I waited to tell the news with sweets” Why a lie? (As soon as every soul started giving away sweets and ice cream to staff for getting placed after me, the only thing I did was grab their sweets and ice creams to eat)
Yes, roar subsided but the problem didn’t. I had nothing more against him anymore,  I had to take a break went to senior staff for further consultations and went back to the ROOM to meet HOD (Hope of Day) he finally took pity and relented. So, agreeing to edit my data and make absence as OD. When all is going fine and while he was about to enter it, I promise this was true “came running the mam on whose subject I have attendance lack saying” do not put attendance for that guy” the time struck 4.00 pm in the clock and all the time I spent doing a attendee job for HOD all the 3 hours staying in his ROOM just got wasted. My Jaw dropped, I was shocked and my brain went to coma stage unable to think. She started explaining and I heard nothing till she told me that I had more than required attendance and it was a system error. I literally shouted “God this is too much”. 

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sony Ericsson Txt or ck13i review


Sony Ericsson Txt Cost me 6050 Rs Or equal to 121 US $ with a discount in a Sony Ericsson show room in Chennai, this is one of the last of the Sony’s non touch phones. Being, not a huge fan of touch phones and looking for a budget phone, I needed no excuse to by this phone. The various complaints of phone getting stuck up, did stop me to think. But, due to lack of key pad based budget phones, I came back to this option.

Things that I have read on the net before buying Sony Ericsson Txt

1)    Absence of 3g connectivity.
2)    Phone battery charge hold is not that good.
3)    Key pad keys are very small.
4)    There is no option to mute the shutter sound of camera.
5)    Phone gets stuck frequently.
6)    Picture quality is not that great.
7)    Provision of unnecessary options. ( like “friends”, Apps like “You tube”, picasa” )

What I observed in Sony Ericsson Txt

1)    Camera sound can be muted by switching the phone to silent mode.
2)    Wi-Fi option though present drains the battery very fast, other than that the battery last’s better than expected.
3)    Key pad typing takes a while adjusting to but after some time it’s not that bigger deal.
4)    Phone gets stuck when movie is watched in it and games  are pushed little too much. 
5)    Camera picture quality is good for this price. But, the picture is still better when seen in computer.
6)    Speaker sound is really good and since the mobile display is very bright the battery life increases if darker picture is used as wall paper.



Problems I Felt, other than what i read

1)    The display is very bright even after the brightness is reduced to the least.
2)    Opening the phones back cover is sometimes a challenge.
3)    No short cut options to access the running application from the outside 

On the whole a good buy, if you can get over all the challenges it posses. If you are a person who wants to buy a product and enjoy it stay clear of Sony Ericsson Txt, last of its kind from the Sony Ericsson collection.  

Complaint to sony ericsson service center provided a good result after they updated the mobile software the phone speed is reasonably well and some options that were not working well started responding. After updating i can play some games by adjusting the game screen size. The software can also be updated through the Sony web page, the only problem is you need a data cable and its not provided with this Model   

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilephones/downloads/subject/updateservice/txt?cc=gb&lc=en 



Saturday, January 28, 2012

A week to remember 1


A week to remember 1
Summary: Life just took me through a roller coaster ride, 7 days back got my results, 4 days back attended my first interview, 3 days back lost my phone and almost missed a train to kerala, 2 days back had a superb party at my friends house and got to know that my lost phone was found and finally today i got the results of interview. Oh my god who said living cannot be exciting.
The story
There are days that are superb and worth remembering and yet people sometimes end up forgetting them. But what about an entire week to remember that which are so mixed up with so many things that forgetting is the only that is cruel to say about the week. It all started with me performing my semester very badly, bad enough to flunk one or two papers. From then the long wait for the results began. I have to think back from exactly today 27th jan 2012.
7 days before I got a message “ results came check it” my heart stopped for a sec and a minute worth of possibilities went through my head, none ver comforting. Nervousness set in and though this must be my 100 th result from my lower class the feeling never changed. Beginning to pray I finally typed the registration number and resumed the prayers. The suspense of getting the result is never made easy by the trraffic slowing down the connection  created by the huge number of similar enthusiastic students trying to know their fate. Finally the results where out and I need not start looking for partners who can accompany me in the next exam. A narrow escape an yes that day ended well for most of us.
4 days ago immediately after getting my results I had a chance to attend my placements my first in the Mba. Without any expectation or desires I went forward to attend the interview the coldest morning ever. a shivering ride to a very far destination around 25 kms from my house. (that was lot of shivering ) we reached at our destination in the morning 8.45 am. Hoping to leave after a aptitude test attende by 3 different colleges. Yes, it made sense for me but, hopping to know my future nemesis wen on to attend my first ever difficult aptitude exam for a job (in Mba). After a quick 30 mins of boom me along with 10 of my friend were selected for the next, not liking to see the left out friends alone, me being sure of a tough competition promised to follow them shortly. I might have done it little too soon, I got selected for the next. The clock ticked 10 Pm when we got the second result. Being the last few and still not hoping for any thing we waited to leave when our turn came we were not that keen to attend and get selected. Asking us to sell something in the middle of the night was not that very easy for us. When it was all over we left proudly saying that we came one day and left the other. But, not knowing the result a second result to wait so soon in a week.
3 days ago leaving the interview site tired and shivering again in the cold night I returned home. Sleepin like a rock waking up again in the morning was my last option. Time came for me to leave the city to visit a friends brother’s wedding in a distant place. 

Friday, January 20, 2012

Doctor + MBA = Business man


This is a story about my visit to a one of the chain of dental clinics under a single brand. Service with a smile is their way to serve. As soon as I entered all I felt was the feeling of goodness and safety. Beautiful men and women handling patients with a smile and care of a friend, I was starting to believe it was real. After minutes of getting used to that good feeling they called me into the dental room, from where i saw small group of young dentist running around to attend patience and collecting reports. From the group one fine gentle man came in to attend to me. he just looked around and started to examine me and after a few seconds ordered an X-ray. Well, he gave a good enough reason that he needed to be sure; I thought he is looking after me cool. Next showed the portrait of my imperfect teeth in his new flashy comp and asked me with a smile to take a seat near him. Wow, that was my longest 5 mins for me on that day. He made me convinced that my mouth had to be taken apart and fixed all over again, well if it was over with that I would have been happy, I could simply say yes or no and go back to the table. But, he used all possible medical knowledge that which he had learnt to scare me to the core. All the feeling of goodness disappeared I almost felt I was about to lose all my teeth and be done. Finally, after doing all the talking about everything else, other than the problem for I have come, The one that was really bothering me after that time was how to get out without undergoing all the costly treatments he said he wants to do. When he finally started the drilling process to fill the gap, the sense of security was no longer there. I saw a business man trying to drill my teeth to find some money.
Courtesy:  http://www.dentalblogs.com/

After the filling was done and after making me to bite on cotton, He simply went to his comp and told me to get up as it is over and go home (only after going home i found the filling is not done properly and was coming out). The huge bill on the way out was not very comforting and all the happy feeling i thought i had was no more with me. After reaching home the first thing I told was “wow, I made it”. Then I was left wondering why I was so scared and left me thinking back.  It only reminded me of the old days when doctors used to ask about you to gain trust and make you feel comfortable and when they came close to us it made us feel better. They never showed the worst side of us to the core, as we are all imperfect and when told of all our imperfection on a single visit which was uncalled for even though I was going to visit him again as my treatment required. I realized that a doctor who is propelled by a business behind him is a business man more than a doctor, I saw a sales man rather than a doctor and the only thing my heart was telling me is to run from there alive.  On the mad rush to be a doctor I just pray that they think for a second about the things that they are handling is alive and even if they want to make money at least with little sensitivity.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Best way to buy a Phone.


Till recently buying a phone was no different than any other devices, it’s simply to talk and message. But, it’s fast becoming a battle of desire and wits. (Damn the guy’s who created those awesome smart phones and its apps). I usually always debated in favor of using a phone for the purpose of talking and then stay clear of it after, for me it made sense to have separate devices for all purpose if one is lost you at least have the rest to cheer about. But, with a smart phone it’s like losing your computer, your phone, a camera and worse than all this is the contacts. It’s almost like losing a body part; I can't imagine a day without it. But still all that scare of loosing brains cells is too scary. I don’t want to be dumber than I am, so decided to keep it less with me, by buying a less complicated phone and search began.  
My recent search for a phone led me to discovering a buying strategy that helped me to get one at a good rate. The following points helped me to buy a phone in Chennai, hope the situation is helpful for you too.
But, I did do a search to get a phone and the things I got to know is
1)    Decide the model before going to the dealer.
2)    Always go to the nearest exclusive stores Sony show room or Nokia original dealers.
3)    get the price of the phone through online purchase sites so that you do know that you’re not cheated.
Decide the phone model.
Before going for my first phone purchase I made sure that I know which to purchase first I used the help of online stores to know the rates of the devices, before going to the original shop. Online stores like flipkart are really helpful, I was able to argue with the on store dealer and he immediately reduced 200 Rs. But, even being informed will ot help if we are not sure of the model.
Always go to the nearest exclusive mobile brand retailers
Till recently I never knew how cheap its to buy with the dealers of a brand rather than from intermediary shops. The difference was huge almost 700 Rs, for just one model other I didn’t enquire and during new years and other festivals, they reduce their prices for real. But, still this is my own experience it may change from region to region and its better to check.
Get the price of the phone through online purchase sites so that you do know that you’re not cheated.
There is a small problem to this the prices are not always cheap in online stores some time the dealers of the devices are cheaper, which I found out only recently while buying a camera. The web pages only help knowing the idea of the price of the product and its not always the exact rate. But, the difference is never significant. 

Friday, January 6, 2012

Love is truly over rated




I was in love, it was my first and I never before thought of writing about it before, because I thought it was the worst thing that happened. But, it took me many years to see that i simply over rated love. It took me much time to realize that the girl who was simple, humble, shy, who loved to help and who loved me without expectation or any request would abandon me. Tears rolled when I thought about it before, But not anymore, just because it took many more experience to heal and years to move on not only that I understood that It failed because I expected a lot from the love which asked nothing from me but to love back. I was a jerk, it hit me hard, a terrible pain and a silence was all that left. No amount of soul searching or physical trauma can solve. She taught me how to love and she did it by leaving me for that i shall never forget her. It made me realize my world was different just because of her presence. It hurt but not anymore, because I know the reason and that is that love is over rated. We imagine a lot, expect too much and change once we think that we have got her and we have them for life, thinking once in love, she or he is in an enforced bond that either should or would not break. That could have been true if I was living in a dream. The best love, the lasting love, is the simplest one. For that reason I would never stop loving in my life.