Old Is Gold...

I happened to visit an antique Car Show on a beautiful Sunday afternoon...On display were some of the best models. How the car evolved is truly interesting. The designs, the colors, the comfort.. We have certainly come a long way...

This pretty one was real neat and well maintained.. Reminded me of the classic movies.. Royal!

Red is beauty.. Small is cool.. Just the one to cruise the country side on a wet evening.. Has little or no clearance... May be speed bumps were not introduced at its time...

I have seen this one in many movies.. Guess the same is used in Marriages [mappillai ayuppu]...

I think I have seen this one in the movie, Mummy...These were pretty powerful ones for their times.

True classic piece from FORD...Wooden wheels...

I simply fell in love with this one... Could not take my eyes off it,.. Any vacation would be great on this Small Beauty.. The concept of two colors on Cars is something I love

A VolksWagen... Saroja .. saman nikalao... This one was furnished with all necessary things for a family to travel, including a dining table and Fridge..

Mustang... Power Ever...

National Museum: US Air Force Part 2.

Well the museum also houses some of the latest aircrafts and those of the Cold war era.

The famous BlackBird.,,, Known for its stelth mode and supersonic capability.

Drones... Unmanned Vehicles

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Fortress,,,

Rockets!!!!

National Museum: US Air Force

Well as the picture says, I took some time to visit the National Museum.. It was a wonderful experience. The museum houses some of the best both old and new air crafts. It also serves as a historical museum to aviation. It houses some of the artifacts of the Wright Brothers. Shown below is one the Cycles made at the Wrights' shop. 

Dayton is the place where Wrights brother's built the innovation. So Ohio is called the BirthPlace of Aviation. The Musuem has three gallery. Early Years,Cold War and Modern Air. More details could be had at http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

The Early Years Gallery has the collections of flights which were the prototypes to the first flights and the first set of flights thereon. 

They were more towards getting things into the air and about flying for a longer time.. The other things that were obviously worked on were Speed and arming it.. The early flights were armed with more engines to make them powerful and had more broader wing span to float. The engines were generic engines and not the Jet ones :) . The control of the wings were done through pulley mechanism.. A mechanical engineer would have better understood the working... 

The second gallery is about the Cold war and WW collections.. It was a wonderful sight.. The Speed, the Arms and the Jet were the obvious things seen in these flights.. 

Coincidently on the day of my visit, the Museum was celebrating the Tokyo Raiders [Refer the Pearl Harbour Movie] The Brave Gentlemen who took part in the attack were in the museum were present and it was a honor to see them and get their autographs... 

A Japanese Flight...

Contd.....

Project: Myths Vs Facts

Myth: A Project has a Start Date and End Date
Fact:  The definitions of Start Date and End Date are Pretty unclear when it comes to Project. They should not be taken literally but should be viewed as non-mandatory attributes of the entity Project. A leader projects the date of the Project as start and end. But  the project might never kick off.. On the other hand, the bioscope of the Project combined with the missing attribute of Quality will ensure that the Project goes on for ever..in which case End Date is a ever stretching milestone....


Myth: Start Date comes before the End Date.
Fact: Only in reverse alphabetical order..

Myth: We start on a Start Date.
Fact: Whenever we start that Day becomes Start Date.

Myth: We end on a End Date
Fact:  End Date reaches us.

Myth: Tasks are Delayed
Fact: Tasks are poorly laid or derailed.

Myth: PM Tools helps to track the projects
Fact: PM Tools are good expense

Friends Chat...Missing the Call...

Friend 1: Life Loves me...
Friend 2: What makes you say that...
Friend 1: Death has not called me...
Friend 2: Are you sure..
Friend 1: Well, Probably I missed his call.. Nice to have missed calls..
Friend 2: Well Did you check your voice mail... He might  have left you one...
Friend 1: Oops...
Friend 2: Did you have one...
Friend 1: No I did not have one... I had a call forward to your number set...

Do.................Synergy

Voodoo: Charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
I do: Charm scientifically believed to embody individual powers
We do: Charm globally believed to embody synergistic powers

Synergism, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently. Team is the best thing and makes anything possible.

Marriage in a sticky note...

Pre-Marriage Days
                TODO : Get Married

On the Marriage Day
                I DO... (Got Married)

After Marriage

                DO and Dont'

After Children

               Honey Can you DO.....

You can DO it....

Life Aint EASY

Life Aint easy
When body coldly lazy
When actionable thoughts hazy
When books read browsy
When peers sound noisy
When sickness makes one drowsy
When whole thing seems lousy

Cycle.... Wright Bros

This Cycle was sold for $63. This was one of the few that was made by Wright Brothers. It is interesting to know how the early concepts of Flights  took off.. I was at the US Air Force Museum. Will Share details of the Same in the next few days. Wrights' contribution to this world is amazing. "I believe I can fly"...

Learning, Earning and Owning.

A job is something everyone takes up for a living. It is part of Career. It is a part of Life. But then I felt we take jobs just for materialistic reasons and soon start complaining. I have done that too.. So one day about an year back, I sat down and started to write down what exactly might keep me motivated in a job.. After much thought process, I realized that Learning, Earning and Owning are the things that kept me happy in a job.

Learning: The moment you stop learning new things, it is a downhill from that point. I always was interested in learning new stuff on the job. A challenge, an innovation,  a different approach etc have always excited me. What s the fun in doing things you know repeatedly. The excitement lies in doing it differently, better and in new way.. For this to happen, I always try to make sure I do on the job learning.. I do realize that everyday world does always demand "Difference" but in order to move to the next step, we need it.. In Short, Today you can't things of yesterday and expect to be in tomorrow. And Today becomes yesterday tomorrow and this means Learning is a continuous process.

Earning: Sadly there are is nothing like "Free Lunch". Need the big bucks for everything under the sun. Money to me is not only a way to satisfy my worldly desires but a measuring stick for how important the employer thinks I am to the organization, how dispensable I am.  I need this one to make sure that I can spend without second thoughts and thus save time in making decisions. Classy might not be always necessary but messy is not welcome too... I try to maintain a life of average organized person and thus require a earning to keep this going...

Owning: This is related to responsibilities and team work.. I would like that the component I am working on is owned by the team I work with.. I never liked to work alone and work on things that are responsibilities of others. The product, the component or feature is always I treat as my baby and make sure that it meets every angle of expectation. This adds meaning to the work you do.. You do it because it is yours..

I always will try to make sure I have these three things in my job!!!and gladly I do now!!!

Get used to it..

In my life, I have encountered situations with which I was not  comfortable.. They were against my principles and the decisions circled around those situations were wrong and based on faulty assumptions. Unfortunately I had no control on those decisions and they were just inflicted on me.  Decisions that would turn out to be loss for many. If it had been my way of doing things,  I would have reacted in a arguable  with the decision makers. I would have picked up an argument and struck to it. I would have tried to convince. I tried to analyse what could be best done in such cases.. When I talked to a  few good hearted, all came up with a statement "get used to it".  As long as things don't  concern you, it is not a fight you are expected to take up.. A thick skin to what others feel. a deaf ear to others' problem and heart frozen without sentiments... Just keep your eyes open and watch things as they happen.. I closed the episode saying "Get Used To It"..
A competitive world helps to bring the best in each. It brings out the best both in the winner and the loser. but an unethical and unhealthy competition is good for none. It produces results that are distorted, results that when incorporated makes things worse. The world views losers as people who have lost.. and thus people are forced to avoid losing and failing at all costs. They are forced to win every time and possibly the first time ., They are thus forced to take shortcuts, practice unethical means of doing things... Two things have to changes .. First the world  should view people who have lost as some one who have  not won this time around.. They will have their chance to win. It is a matter of time... and secondly people should not quit. One who quits is the one who.
We all need to think the bigger picture. We forget that the best skill in each should serve the society. At the end of the day, I know it is all about surviving, but then we are not so constrained that we cannot co-exist. The world is big but bigger is our ambition to be bigger than world. World belongs to the humanity as a whole. Competition should help one focus ones energy for the making a better world.

Cop Out

Saw this movie over the weekend. Was a good time pass and would recommend to watch once... It is a nice hillarious movie with a little action. Tracy Morgan has done well.. Willis has done his part well as a Cop Dad trying to make his daughters' wedding a success. Favourite part : Time with the Thug in the car

Computing devices and Field of Education.

The other day I visited a school as part of my Customer Interaction Program. The visit provided some good insights into the usage of the products I was working on. But one thing that fascinated me is the laptop and computer presence among the people. Computing devices have come a long way from the time they were introduced. They seem to be no more a way for computing alone rather a way to expedite your daily work and keep onself organized and informed. They are like the TV and Projectors in the school, a medium to disseminate information, a mode of delivery.. The more these devices are made userfriendly and reachable, the more they seem to impact the education domain. To the teachers, these are no more "A Device" in the computer field, but a device in their daily life. I am not able to gauge the postive impact it has on their productivity but it is significant. Just think about it, organize stuff, prepare teaching materials, share notes, handling evaluations, administering test, communicating etc all from a single device. The availability of good number of softwares is another boost for them to adapt. It is nice to see that at Grass root level, adoption of these devices is significant and is growing. Grad Schools and Colleges have adopted them as well.

Recipe: Chicken Curry

Required.

1. Chicken  - 1 Kg
2. Green Chillies  - 4
3. Onion  - 4 Medium
4. Ginger - 1 Small Piece
5. Garlic - 4 pieces.
6. Tomato - 2 Nos.
7. Coriander powder - 2 Tea Spoon
8. Chilli Powder - 1 TeaSpoon /Sambar powder - 2 Tea Spoon.
9. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
10. Cinnamon, Cloves, Pepper Powder.
11. Salt - 1.5 teaspoons
12. Oil - Half Cup.

Process

• Cut the chicken into small pieces. Slice 3 onion into very small pieces. Cut 1 tomato into very small pieces.
• Grind 1 onion and 1 tomato in a mixie/mixer.
• Chop Green Chillies, Ginger and Garlic. You are free to use the Ginger Garlic paste too.
• Heat Oil in a Kadai. Saute  the sliced Onion, chopped Ginger, Chilles and Garlic.
• When the onion starting turning goldern brown, add the sliced tomatoes.
• Keep stiring for a while 4-5 mins.
• Add the grinded onion and tomato.
• Keep stiring for a while 2-3 mins.
• Add Chicken pieces, corriander powder, chilli/sambar powder, turmeric, salt.
• Stir for while in oil and then add 1.5 cups of water.
• Stir well and allow it to cook under steam for 10 mins.
• When the chicken is cooked, sprinkle the powdered spices and remove from fire.

2012

An okay movie. I liked it just for the special effects and the way they had imagined things would fall out on the dooms day. Every scene seemed to be supported by scientific reasoning. But then one needs to digest the fact that a family gets to escape the whole trauma on a small flight. Noahs Ark like ships towards the climax was a different thought. The movie was fast paced trying to show too many happenings. Some of the scenes have been shown as being done in India and China too. The wide tidal waves splashing against the Himalayas is an good scene. My favourite was the Volcanic Eruption at Yellow Stone National Park.

The 2012 according to the Mayan Calander is when the end of world would occur. There have been theories around it though main stream scholars have not agreed to any of these. Read more about this at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

An iPhone App for everything

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Friendship: A matter of Time....

A sad side to any relationship, particularly friendship is when people have to stay away from one another geographically... It is painful and heart breaking.. It is as if you are parting away with part of yourself... It becomes even more distressing when it is uncertain as to when they would get to see one another gain... The advent of communication and technology has to some extent reduced this separation and allows friends to stay in touch... but then the physical presence has no perfect substitution....
In this world, staying together and meeting all the worldly needs is difficult and so one at various occasions has to mention BYE to his friends... Life cannot tick on friendship; They say it runs on money.... When trying to sooth someone, when parting, I always give this analogy to make light of things...

Consider a analog watch/clock with its minute and hour hands...The two hands stand for the two friends an the clock in entirety for their friendship... The two hands run around meeting each other at some points in time... They do not stay together... If they do stay together always, the clock is dysfunctional and so is their friendship... So they go around and around.. ensuring the a truly functioning relationship...Another notable point is, though the outer edges of the hands end up only meeting for a fraction of time at regular intervals; the inner edges of the hands are always together... translating to that they are always close to one another hearts always, No matter the miles separating them ...
So don't feel bad to say bye to your friends... It is all for the betterment of each other...

CopyCats in Indian Film Industry: Inspiration

Offlate we seem to get accustomed to this idea of lifting an Idea or a tune from different film in a new film that is being produced... Somehow music directors seem to be heading the list in their deperate act to provide entertainment.. They never do accept that they had indeed copied the tune or the lyrics, they simply put it as "I got the Inspiration"... Wow what a way to put it... By doing this cut copy paste, they save a lot of energy and are sure of the success of the tested tunes... One of my friend pointed out this link which tries to bring to light this sort of shameless plagriasim. I am deeply hurt to see the names of some the famous music directors....

http://www.itwofs.com/

As far as film industry is concerned, this sort of plagriasim is not limited to Music Field alone.. The opening lines of a famous Bachan Movie by a famous Dirctor Clearly Stated that "Like Anyone he was inspired by GodFather"... Govinda.. Govinda....Govinda...Desi Matrix with Akshay hitting 100, Vikram hitting 300 and Rajini hitting 1000 is releasing everyday...
With all these happening, the industry is sure falling short of a best delivery...

Seven Blunders of the World

I am not talking about the any Architectural Marvel.. The Seven blunder of the World are anti-priniciples that have been suggested by Mahatma Gandhi.. Some how these impressed me very much...

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle

The Eight one was added by his Grandson, "Rights Without Responsibilties"

Blogging Again

Hi, I did try blogging a couple of times but never continued for long time.. So here I am trying again to scribble down something... I will try and pull contents from my earlier blogs...