Life is sine curve...

Heights of Birthday Celebration in a Company of Boss

2012-01-04T00:29:00.000-08:00

The other day I met one of friends, he was saying, there was a birthday celebration in another team in his office and the birthday boy was LEAD/BOSS to that team, so the height was the other team members were wearing his photo on there faces for his cake cutting. I was thinking is that needed, and because as he is team/boss those people should do that way...

Deja Vu

2012-01-01T23:46:00.000-08:00

I was reading the blog entry for developers which is too good 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012, and when I was about to write the comments...I saw that this had happened some time ago or it was due happening...I was reading comments and I remember that Kaushik came/called me up and Deepak was telling me something...and then something major happened...that I am not sure of what, anyways, the link which says "11 things" is a very good way for programmers, I hope I would do them all...

Last Post In The Year 2011

2011-12-31T05:25:00.000-08:00

This is my last post in year 2011, now the time is 18:57 IST 31 Dec 2011. This year has been great for me, I am DAD now :)
Hope 2012 and coming years would even be great...for all of us...

My Desk's Whiteboard Drawing

2011-12-30T23:46:00.000-08:00

Today I was going through my old collections (soft-copies) and I came accross my drawing which I had done on whiteboard in my desk in Intoto, I think I was trying out Kaushik's portrait, but it came as...not sure :), and you can see my fav sign which I would be using....guess....guess....ya your right "smiley" :)

New Life....Its Baby Boy

2011-11-11T07:58:00.000-08:00

On 11-11-11 at 3:04 Pm.....I became Dad....its baby boy....

Unborn kick

2011-07-07T18:08:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my unborn baby kicked me on my ears when I was trying to listen his/her heartbeat.

Changin my profile pic to TUX

2011-06-30T20:32:00.000-07:00

I have changed my profile photo to TUX...atleast I can have birds and ninja's pic over here without any once's like or dislike...

2011-06-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

Here I am nearly 6.5 yrs ago in my first company, well it was SeeBeyond (acquired by Sun Microsystems)

Other name of Corn

2011-06-30T10:55:00.001-07:00

3 years at service in Pramati

2011-04-18T01:56:00.000-07:00

On 15th Apr 2011 I completed by 3 years of service in Pramati, and this is the first time in my life that I have ever crossed 2 or 3 years in service in one company (does it mean I am not going forward in life or ...... not sure), but its time to celebrate :)

India beat Pakistan in World Cup Semi-Finals 2011

2011-03-30T12:51:00.000-07:00

India has won cricket world cup semi-final 2011 against pakistan, and here is how Hyderabad celebrated the win...

Unseen Politics In Cooperates

2010-06-18T20:03:00.000-07:00

This article is fictions

It was blur in front of my eyes and all of a sudden I saw my colleague before of me and he was having a talk with me while drinking tea. Then he started saying some thing. I heard him say "In my previous company" he said, and continued "I had worked for more then 2yrs and all of a sudden I came to know that they (previous company of his) never cared of people other then certain predefined groups", then there was a break and sudden darkness, again he appeared before me and said "you know man they had a group in that company where we are working for so long and that group is not a cooperate level but college level", yeah I to had group in previous companies but it would be like the group which were working for particular project or say group who are interested to play cricket but never heard a group which was formed form a college, that's not were he stopped he continued, "you know man I even came to know that there was a mail to this group saying there was requirement in our company, and they had to only refer to the guys from there college ##@@@ #$!$!@ !@#$@#%&&", I don't know what he was saying and then his voice cleared and I heard him saying again "I want guys from you college because you guys have great attitude!", and you know man he continued again "I even came to know that there is not just one group but regional group is too forming, its bad, if one or two guys from a particular college are good this doesn't mean that the whole college is good and that too from next batch too!, we too are employees and we too have the same right as of others, why grouping then?, this demotivates a lot man! now that s*cked over there", he was very upset and I could see his face and he said, "that's the reason I changed the previous company and I am with you now, hope this company will not let us down". Then there was a sudden silence and then it was dark and blur, and then I opened my eyes and I saw that I was on my bed and the time was around 4am, it was a dream. But then I started thinking about it, does it really happen in any cooperate, called grouping. Grouping like college or region, not sure of that, but if it does then that cooperate will go down soon.

accidental smile

2010-06-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

I was having tea and then all of a sudden observed an accidental smile

3 idiots

2010-06-08T19:11:00.000-07:00

Here are 3 idiots of my life....

As you recall I had portrait-ed this 2 idiots, mine is left off....not sure when I am going to do it, lets see...

Entered In New Year

2009-12-31T11:28:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year, it has been 59Min since new year....enjoy...wishing you all and ur family members a happy and prosperous new year...

Last Post In The Year 2009

2009-12-31T05:04:00.000-08:00

We all are about to say good bye to 2009 and sweet welcome to 2010, and hope it brings more happiness in all of our life's.

Personally in my life, I am waiting for few things to happen, hope those are blessed in this year and off course coming years too.

About paintings, this days its like I couldn't get time for sitting, but from now I will be more concentrating on color mixing like giving the subject correct color, tone of the color, intensity of the color and hue of the color.

Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year...

Drawing of Ganeshji

2009-11-14T02:06:00.000-08:00

I have done lots of drawings and water painting but the one still I have is the one of Lord Ganeshji which I have done when I was studing my degree may be around 1998-99.

Completed with Nandus Portrait

2009-11-09T07:07:00.000-08:00

Today I completed with Portrait of Nandu (yeah 2nd idiot).

Second idiots painting underway

2009-10-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

I think it will take 2 or 3 sittings more to complete Nandu's portrait. This was my 3rd sitting and it looks like this...

Second idiots painting underway

2009-10-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

Posting portrait of Nandu which is in progress.

My Barcode

2009-10-07T22:17:00.000-07:00

The web is buzzing with barcodes, so thought I too would be a part of it and get me a barCode of mine. I used "Barcode Label Printer - Free Online Barcode Generator" at this site http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php to generate my own barCode.

Second idiots painting underway

2009-10-02T11:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I start with portrait of Nandu, its underway. just wanted to post.

2009-08-01T19:52:00.000-07:00

I am working on portraits, trying to get tones. I am not up to there yet but yeah I have seen some improvement.

Finished with first idiots painting :)

2009-07-19T11:08:00.001-07:00

I am done with Sudhirs painting, its like just 2D effect as I was not able to give it the touch to be consider it as 3D, still to learn a lot. For the portraits I need to learn the color effects to bring the image as 3D, here I failed to do so, as such you can see that the face with no light is just as some what black, but actually should have been of dark brown (not exactly), anyways I will be working on the kid, mmm thinking of my sis to paint next, this one is not for any one but for me to learn.

Knife painting

2009-07-12T03:35:00.000-07:00

Just completed painting with knife, tried to get depthness but not upto the mark.

mid-way through painting of 1 of the idiots

2009-06-28T10:44:00.000-07:00

I started off with my life's first portrait, its of Sudhirs and I am almost there, a sort of mid-way. Took me nearly whole day to come up to there, but still I lack in giving it as a real picture, but yeah I know for sure I have learned things with this one and will be on to the next one, it will be of Nandu's, but his portrait will be in just blue, black and white shades.

My Unfinished Painting

2009-06-25T20:55:00.000-07:00

I started of with this paintings on 23Dec08, yeah they are not yet finished and are in the same state as of I left it then. I am not sure when it will be finished and as I am not a real artist like professionals, I do painting only when I get interest and so not sure when they will be finished :), mmmmm lets wait an see if I can finish with this one or not.

Recollecting my past painting which I used to do with water color, I have done birla temple painting in the past but then it was way back, I don't even remember to whom I have given the painting then, if its still there.

2 Idiots portraits

2009-06-25T20:42:00.000-07:00

I have been given task by two idiots (off-course Sudhir and Nandu) to have there portraits been done. I have started off with Sudhir as I have a good pic of him, but Nandus mmmm still waiting for his good pic, I am not an portrait artist but trying out this will be a great experience. I have done the outline with pencil on 15" X 22" inch of Sudhirs. Will be starting on Nandu's when he will provide me with a good pic :)

Will be starting on giving it color, just thinking on how to give it!, I mean should I give it as usual skin color or should I go with a sort of creativity to give it a single color...it all depends on my mode when I start on it, until then...wait and see :)

DOS/MAC to Liunx/Unix text file converter

2009-06-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

This is a common problem if you work on linux/unix flavors and when you check out you find an shell script which is just an ascii file is not working, when you try to run it says "bash: ./mk.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

Simple solution is to convert the text file (shell script) which is in DOS/MAC into LINUX/UNIX text format using "dos2unix" command. Need to run as "dos2unix "

Learning steps with "Jack Kolber"

2009-06-16T19:53:00.000-07:00

Just completed with "Jack Kolber" tutorial, I am still learning things told by Jack and need to do a lot of work, thanks to him once again.

Learning steps with "Jack Kolber"

2009-06-15T08:26:00.000-07:00

I was searching youtube for learning the technique used by the professional painters, who are real artists, I found one video at Oil Painting Lesson with Jack Kolber - Summer At The Lake its by "Jack Kolber".

I have started on it, its not yet complete and you can see the preview of my first layer of the painting.

This painting is dedicated to "Jack Kolber", Thanks Jack.

Printing "Hello World" with three different threads

2009-03-03T20:07:00.000-08:00

Written a Java program which prints "Hello World" with three different threads ie first thread should print "Hello", second one " " (a space) and the third one should print "World". This three threads can start at any point but our program makes sure that the output is constant.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
* Program which prints "Hello World", "Hello", " ", and "World" are printed by different threads
* but should be in sequence of "Hello World"
*
* @author mpujari
*/
public class ThreadHelloWorld {

private static final int COUNT = 1000;

private static final String[] STRING_OUT = new String[] { "Hello", " ", "World" };

private static final List stringOutList = new ArrayList(COUNT);

private static class SimpleCountLock {
private int count;

SimpleCountLock(int count) {
this.count = count;
}

public int getCount() {
return count;
}

public void setCount(int count) {
this.count = count;
}

public void incrementCount() {
count++;
}
}

private static class PrinterThread implements Runnable {

private String msg;
private int priority;
private SimpleCountLock lockObj;

public PrinterThread(String msg, int priority, SimpleCountLock lockObj) {
this.msg = msg;
this.priority = priority;
this.lockObj = lockObj;
}

public void run() {
synchronized (lockObj) {
while (true) {
if (this.priority == lockObj.getCount()) {
// System.out.print(msg);
stringOutList.add(msg);

lockObj.incrementCount();
lockObj.notifyAll();
return;
}
try {
lockObj.wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
}

public void doTest() {
SimpleCountLock lock = new SimpleCountLock(1);
for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
lock.setCount(1);
Thread hello = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[0], 1, lock));
Thread space = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[1], 2, lock));
Thread world = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[2], 3, lock));
Thread[] threads = new Thread[] { space, hello, world};
for (Thread thread : threads) {
thread.start();
}
for (Thread thread : threads) {
try {
thread.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
ThreadHelloWorld helloWorld = new ThreadHelloWorld();
helloWorld.doTest();
// test the output
int count = 0;
for (String out : stringOutList) {
int mod = count++ % 3;
if (!STRING_OUT[mod].equals(out)) {
System.out.println("STRING_OUT[mod]:" + STRING_OUT[mod] + ", " + out);
throw new RuntimeException("Test failed");
}
}

System.out.println("Test was successfull");
}

}

Final touches to Boat in the dark

2009-02-23T21:54:00.000-08:00

After 3 months of doing my "Boat in the dark" painting, yesterday I have given it a final touches ie I had varnished it :), looks great with a new layer of shine....
Need to varnish "The lazy puppy" and the "Sunshine".

Another year starts

2009-01-01T21:04:00.000-08:00

We are in to new year & hope this year brings happiness to all of us (hopefully). for me things are going on well work as well as hobby wise, right now 3 paintings r in progress from that one is hyderabad's birla temple (one of the icons of hyderabad) . Will be posting soon once completed :)

My new path

2008-12-17T02:06:00.000-08:00

At last I started on my own path, still need to learn and do a lot. The first one a puppy is for Kaushik (As I told him, he would get my first painting) :) and its like the first painting as I had no exp in oil paint...anyways lots of complaints from him for that but a promise is a promise so I will not be correcting that painting even if I know its not tht much good...

The second one is for my wife...yeah my life I started realizing about oil painting...yeah its not that easy, this painting is copy right of a guy (I don't remember this id to be given over here) so I tried to do it as he has done but yeah he is a professional one n mine seems just a child started one, mmmm thats k for me....I have learned lots of details from this person's painting (thanks to him, sorry realy I haven't saved from where I have taken this painting).

The third is for Sudhir...my lungoti yaar....yeah he seems very impressed but frm my heart I know its just eye illussion if this painting is seen by any real artist he will defentliy kick me..for the mistakes I have done, but yeah I will b improving on that.

ORA-01005: null password given; logon denied

2008-10-30T23:06:00.000-07:00

I was doing a simple POC of JDBC.
My system configuration is

Operating System : Windows XP
OS Architecture : x86
OS Version : 5.1
Database Version : Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Beta
Java Version : 1.5.0_16
JDBC Jar File : OJDBC5.jar

When I tried to run the program I was getting "null password given; logon denied", yeah I know the reason :) I cross checked that I have missed giving password but NO wait...I have given it correctly, but still I was getting "null password given; logon denied".

I searched net for any issues related to it, and found one blog where it says change the language settings, I tried it but had no success. So I went and saw was I using correct ojdbc5.jar file, looked like I was using correct jar and that too with correct version of JAVA but still I got the error. after struggling for 3 days I just thought to use the jar provided by ORACLE XE in %ORACLE_HOME%/lib, it contained ojdbc1.4.jar and ojdbc1_g.jar it says to use this jar with JDK1.4 but I was using 1.5 but still wanted to test it. so I went ahead and used 1.4 drivers instead of 5.jar, it just worked out...... :) but still have to figure out why I was getting "null password given; logon denied" when I was using ojdbc5.jar which should be used with JAVA 1.5.

Back reference in Hibernate

2008-09-30T06:55:00.000-07:00

I was working on a bug (enhancement) in my project, where in I had to enhance one functionality which is purely written in JSF (some JS) to use the projects metadata framework. First I want to tell what this framework looks like (at high level).

Metadata framework (MTDFRM) its some thing like replicating or showing in UI form to the user for doing addition/editing/deletion of an row in DB (database).

Coming to the problem where it all started, below is the hibernate mapping of a table which I had move it to MTDFRM from conventional JSF:

<hibernate-mapping>
<class lazy="true" update="true" insert="true" table="HOLDER" name="Holder">
.......
.......
<set lazy="true" cascade="all" name="ParamsValues">
<key column="PARAMS_VALUES_SEQNO" null="true">
<one-to-many class="ParamsValue">
</one-to-many>
</key>
</set>
.......
</hbm>

There were 10 properties (including collections) but when I was running the project JSF was complaining about a property not found which was named as _paramsValuesBackref ("_" and "Backref" where appended to paramsValues, as I am like a new bee to the project I spent around 6hours finding which code modified the properties of the table mapping but I never serached in hibernate code, my mistake :(, but some how at last I was able to trace to a file which was appending one extra property to the metadata, it was org.hibernate.cfg.HbmBinder.

As per comments in the file of HbmBinder it says "for non-inverse one-to-many, with a not-null fk, add a backref!", which was perfect fit for the above properties which I had in my mapping file, so I had to add inverse="true" which made the backref no more to be added as extra properties in the metadata, as we know it also helps in telling hibernate that we should not propagate chances made at this collection end ie at ParamsValues end.

This blog doesn't say much about the usage of BackRef by hibernate, as I need to investigate the usage as how hibernate uses this property. Will be posting the finding (need to google or debug) in the next blog to come....

The mistakes I do & repeat it even if I know :)

2008-09-21T21:10:00.000-07:00

I am a human :) (wow at last I think I am a human) in my job I do one big mistake, which I know about, I may be doing even more mistakes but I need to hunt them down someday.
So about this mistake, I don't know what technical word is given to this habit, its like this say I am working on a problem (off-course its about my job) and as usual I don't know anything about it, I try to hunt it down as soon as possible but when I am stuck the usual thing normal people do is take help from a person who already knows about it but me me....I don't do this but instead I hunt around and this goes like a circle, few problems yeah I do get solutions, its not gr8 because already ppl know about this and me just discovered, but my inner feeling is like "wow I did some thing gr8" this feeling is a evil in disguises to me as for other problems I hunt and I can't get the solution on time but to get this gr8 feeling I try and try but at the end it like, the problem which can be solved by a person how knows things better can do it in say some 16hour I spent the whole week :( ie 8hours * 5 (40 hours) but still I am now where.......
This is my biggest mistake, I do all over then I release but then latter when I am into problems I forget or negelate my mistake and I am allover again doing the same old mistake :)
The other mistake I do is like, when I am looking for solution for problem 'A' I hunt it down, but during this period if I see other things like 'B', 'C'.....I get involved in tooking into it for getting knowledge about them and I just get deviated from problem 'A'.
I need to over come this things, hope I do and soon as I am getting nearer to 4years of work exp I need to be more smart and more control on my self taking in to account of any problem (technically).

Dos and Don'ts

2008-08-21T23:52:00.000-07:00

This is much for myself & if it helps others its good :

Code to interface, mmmm still need to get habituated with this.
Write test cases.
Never mutate the object passed by the parameter ie when we get list as an method parameter do not alter the list in that method , and when we need too then just make a local copy of it and work on the locally created object.
When wrapping up the exception do wrap with cause ie try {} catch (SomeException e) { throw new WrapException(e.getMessage()) {}...never do this, we are eating up the actual cause but instead do "throw new WrapException(e)" in the catch.
Avoid String splitting for business logic flow. like String str1 = getSomeText(); if("Target".equals(choice.split("-")[0].trim()) { //do this....} else {// do that...}

Some other things I want to remember and I forget all the time

Apache Tomcat is servlet container, it implements java servlet & jsp spec and provides pure java HTTP web servlet environment.
'Apache Web Server' is C-Lang based HTTP web server.

technical blog by my collegues

2008-06-26T07:52:00.000-07:00

My colleagues blog at http://pitfalls.wordpress.com which is a good stuff to go through...this ppl r technical gurus... :) gr8 to have thm as my colleagues...

sw architecture links

2008-06-15T18:56:00.000-07:00

Nowadays I am going through Hibernate, JSF, Springs and functional requirements of my current project. Going through this stuff all at a time is not good....this I got to know after doing it :)

Today I got a good links on Software Architecture, this link is of an google group http://groups.google.com/group/codingthearchitecture?lnk=srg and this one by Markus Voelter http://voelterblog.blogspot.com/

Good article in to JVM internals

2008-05-29T23:07:00.000-07:00

This link provides good information about JVM internals.

http://www.artima.com/java/

2008-05-12T23:49:00.000-07:00

Books to read:

Extreme Programming explained by Emrace Change
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
Design Patterns by the Gang of Four
Concurrent Programming in Java by Doug Lea
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Brue A. Tate & Justin Gehtland
Java Threads by Scott Oaks, Henry Wong

and still to come.....

Cricket ball rolling

2008-05-05T21:12:00.000-07:00

After all most 2years I was back with ball (cricket ball, 3rd Sat March 08) bowling in nets, I enjoyed every moment of it. SeeBeyond (Sun microsystems) was my first company and there I started playing cricket and then when I changed (joined Intoto) there was no such thing, just work!. now as I joined a new one (Pramati) things seems good over here...people love cricket and they play too.
After having the practice session we had team breakfast and there was another match scheduled on Sunday (4th). I felt great, but then I had pains (not that much), I thought it will go away. On the next day i.e. Sunday we played the match and off-course we won. I came back to home and went to sleep only to find myself in great pains when I woke up :(, I had to take leave on Monday.....my first leave in Pramati :)

Coming back after long time

2008-04-17T04:16:00.000-07:00

It has been very long time....since I have posted any, so long that I am working for 3rd company. Hope from now on I will consistent.

Gone are the days

2006-05-03T03:08:00.000-07:00

Gone are the days...
When the school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and benches.
When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books and notes.
When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
Managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
We learnt writing with slates and pencils, and
Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then micro tips.
We began drawing with crayons and evolved to
Colour pencils and finally sketch pens.
We started calculating first with tables and then with
Clarke's tables and advanced to calculators and computers.
When we chased one another in the corridors in
Intervals, and returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat.
When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,
Playgrounds, under the trees and even in cycle shed.
When all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays.
When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,
Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons.
When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,
And Neckties and socks rolled into balls.
When few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,
While others simply played "book cricket" in the confines of classroom.
Of fights but no conspiracies,
Of Competitions but seldom jealousy.
When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,
In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks.
When few rushed at 1:45 to "Conquer" window seats in our Schoolbus.
While few others had "Big Fun", "Chock-o-bar","kulfi ice" and "Pepsi" at 2:00 Clock.
Gone are the days Of Sports Day, and the annual School Day,
And the one-month long preparations for them.
Gone are the days Of the stressful Quarterly,
Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most enjoyed holidays after them.
Of tenth and twelfth standards,
when we Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests.
We learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost,
We laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought.
With so much fun in them, so many friends,
So much experience, all this and more.
Gone are the days when we used to talk for hours with our friends.
Now we don't have time to say a HI.
Gone are the days when we played games on the road.
Now we code on the road with laptop.
Gone are the days when we saw stars shining at night.
Now we see stars when our code doesn't work.
Gone are the days when we sat to chat with friends on grounds.
Now we chat in chat rooms.....
Gone are the days where we studied just to pass.
Now we study to save our job
Gone are the days where we had no money in our pockets
and fun filled on our hearts
Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart
Gone are the days where we shouted on the road.
Now we don t shout even at home
Gone are the days where we got lectures from all.
Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....
Gone are the days
But not the memories, which will be
Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and Ever and ever and
Ever.....
NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE,
DONT FORGET TO LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL EXISTS.
IT WONT BE THERE FOR EVER.

Believe in yourself

2006-05-02T02:18:00.000-07:00

Believe in yourself...
in the power you have
to control your own life
day by day.
Believe in the strength
that you have deep inside
and your faith will help
show you the way.
Believe in tomorrow
and what it will bring,
let a hopeful heart
carry you through
for things will work out
if you trust and believe
there's no limit
to what you can do!
By JD

life seems better :-)

2006-04-24T03:41:00.000-07:00

We got our salary reviews, & its a good news for me, hope this would continue........ :-) and wish I do have a good career path ahead (Technicaly)

looking forward for review letters

2006-04-20T22:04:00.000-07:00

This is the most tensed up moment, today most probabaly we will be getting our review letters and I can't wait to see whats there for me, just hoping the best :-)

job switching

2006-04-20T03:22:00.000-07:00

To day my boss forwarded me a mail which was forwareded by his boss (my boss boss :-)) and I found it so intresting that I wana post it.... the mail goes as below

Mr.Gopalakrishnan succeeds Mr.Ratan Tata as Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd.,the
holding company for many of the Tata Bluechips like Tata Steel, Tata
Motors,Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Voltas, etc., Possibly he is the first
non-Tata person to head the Tata Empire.

He is an advert reader & a gifted orator.........

The below article written by him is really interesting!

The grass isn't always greener on the other side !!

Move from one job to another, but only for the right reasons.

It's yet another day at office. As I logged on to the marketing and
advertising sites for the latest updates, as usual, I found the
headlines dominated by 'who's moving from one company to another after
a short stint, and I wondered,why are so many people leaving one job for
another?

Is it passe now to work with just one company for a sufficiently long
period? Whenever I ask this question to people who leave a company, the
answers I get are: "Oh, I am getting a 200% hike in salary"; "Well, I am
jumping three levels in my designation"; "Well, they are going to send
me abroad in six months".

Then, I look around at all the people who are considered successful
today and who have reached the top - be it a media agency, an
advertising agency or a company. I find that most of these people are
the ones who have stuck to the company, ground their heels and worked
their way to the top. And, as I look around for people who changed their
jobs constantly, I find they have stagnated at some level, in obscurity!

In this absolutely ruthless, dynamic and competitive environment, there
are still no short cuts to success or to making money. The only thing
that continues to pay, as earlier, is loyalty and hard work. Yes, it
pays!

Sometimes, immediately, sometimes after a lot of time. But, it does pay.

Does this mean that one should stick to an organisation and wait for
that golden moment? Of course not. After a long stint, there always
comes a time for moving in most organisations, but it is important to
move for the right reasons, rather than superficial ones, like money,
designation or an overseas trip.

Remember, no company recruits for charity. More often than not, when you
are offered an unseemly hike in salary or designation that is
disproportionate to what that company offers it current employees, there
is always unseen bait attached.

The result? You will, in the long-term, have reached exactly the same
levels or maybe lower levels than what you would have in your Current
company.

A lot of people leave an organisation because they are "unhappy". What
is this so-called-unhappiness? I have been working for donkey's years
and there has never been a day when I am not unhappy about something in
my work environment-boss, rude colleague, fussy clients etc.

Unhappiness in a workplace, to a large extent, is transient. If you look
hard enough, there is always something to be unhappy about. But, more
importantly, do I come to work to be "happy" in the truest sense?

If I think hard, the answer is "No".
Happiness is something you find with family, friends, may be a close
circle of colleagues who have become friends.

What you come to work for is to earn, build a reputation, satisfy your
ambitions, be appreciated for your work ethics, face challenges and get
the job done. So, the next time you are tempted to move, ask yourself
why are you moving and what are you moving into?

Some questions are:
* Am I ready and capable of handling the new responsibility? If yes,
what could be the possible reasons my current company has not offered me
the same responsibility?
* Who are the people who currently handle this responsibility in the
current and new company? Am I as good as the best among them?
* As the new job offer has a different profile, why have I not given
the current company the option to offer me this profile?
* Why is the new company offering me the job? Do they want me for my
skills, or is there an ulterior motive?

An honest answer to these will eventually decide where you go in your
career- to the top of the pile in the long term (at the cost of
short-term blips) or to become another average employee who gets lost
with time In the wilderness?

"DESERVE BEFORE YOU DESIRE" -
Dr.Gopalkrishnan,
Chairman TATA Sons.
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To good to follow it right :-)

mind....unstable

2006-04-19T21:26:00.000-07:00

Don't know why but this days my mind is playing trick on me, things seems good at a moment and chances in the next.....as I am IT eng, I have so much yet learn but unable to concenrate, hope I can control myself & just be on my path :-)..........I am thinging of reading JBI (JSR 208) specifications atleast one chapter till this day ends........

thats me :-)

2006-04-19T05:06:00.000-07:00

My first gear....

2006-04-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

This is my first kickoff for bloging & more yet to come........ :-)