Monday, July 5, 2010

A dawn to remember

The 5th of July 2010 may go down in India's history as "Bharat Bandh" or the so called day of "awakening of the common man", but to me, it was just another day. Nothing special except coming down from Adipur to Mundra at 5:30 am in the morning, at a time when the weatherman would have called it a rainy day.
It all began with a wrong decision, a mis-timing, a haphazard plan of relying on Govt. buses the previous night and the horrible service to a village like Mundra. How can all people expect to live in cities and neglect any development in villages. Anyway, whatever happened , happened and there was no better way things could have happened.
Coming to the so called "Awakening"

According to an article by Rediff, the Orissa state exchequer lost 120 crores to this bandh, Bengal state lost a whopping 500 crores and even a state like Jharkhand lost 110 crores. This apart from other indirect costs such as, distrust by foreign investors and weakening of the common man who is already at his weakest.
The website link is attached for reference : http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/apr/27/slide-show-1-bharat-bandh-which-state-loses-how-much.htm#contentTop

How many people would actually be affected if the prices go up is the question to ask. Not, how many times the Govt. has increased the rates or by how much percent. But, our politicians are busy throwing dung at each other's face and waiting for someone to lick it off. Does it come to our mind even in the faintest of thoughts that all the protesters shown on TV are actually bought for Rs. 100-150 per hour and such people always wait for opportunities like these (elections, rallies, protests etc) even if the 'burning issue' doesn't concern them. Do you really think, these people are fighting for their rights? Are they even aware of their rights? Do they even serve an iota of purpose by having a strike?

So here we are, in a sick poor country, a mess of sorts, complex web of situations still battling for survival because for the common man of this country

"Survival of the fittest" is the only thing on his mind.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Quotable quotes

After a series of recruitment related posts and stuff which angered me, I decided to do something sweet. Give the world some memorable all time favorite quotes from famous Hollywood movies. Some would really shake you off, boil your blood or ignite something beautiful out of you, so read through.

Countdown

At no. 10 is a dialogue from "The Dark Knight" by 'Lucius Fox', character who plays a good samaritarian in the movie by helping Batman. This one is for all the Blackmailers out there:

Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.


At no. 9 is a quote from "Spiderman" by Peter Parker's Uncle (Ben). It is a favorite and most mocked at sentence

With great power comes great responsibility


At no. 8 is a dialogue from "The Matrix" by 'Agent Smith'. I like this one because it degrades Humans to the lowest point. A very bold dialogue.

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.


At no. 7 we have something again from the movie "The Dark Knight" by the Batman. It gives out the simple secret of how heroes turn into villians. Here it goes

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

At no. 6 we have the movie "Shrek" and the quote by 'Donkey' who knows the meaning of wasteful efforts.

Okay, let me get this straight: you gonna go fight a dragon and rescue a princess just so Farquaad'll give you back your swamp, which you only don't have 'cos he filled it full of freaks in the first place, is that about right?


At no. 5, a quote from "Ratatouille" by the character 'Collete' who reminds us about Bosses and Bossing around

No! You waste energy and time! You think cooking is a cute job, eh? Like Mommy in the kitchen? Well, Mommy never had to face the dinner rush while the orders come flooding in, and every dish is different and none are simple, and all different cooking time, but must arrive at the customer's table at exactly the same time, hot and perfect! Every second counts and you CANNOT be MOMMY!


At no. 4, the most voracious dialogue I've ever heard, this tongue twister is from the movie "V for Vendetta" and the dialogue is by the character who calls himself 'V'. Why does he call himself V: here's why

VoilĂ ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".


At no. 3, is a quote again from "V for Vendetta" and again by 'V'. One of the favorite quotes which causes fury and blood boiling and should never be uttered.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

At no. 2, a quote by Spiderman in the movie "Spiderman", this quote tries to bring out the real you, possibly an answer to the toughest question in the world. Here it goes

Who am I? Are you sure you want to know? If someone told you I was just your average ordinary guy without a care in the world, somebody lied. Truth is it wasn't always like this. There was a time when life was a lot less complicated.

And finally at NO.1 , the most outrageous and mind twisting dialogue between 'Morpheus' and 'Neo' from "THE MATRIX" which compells everyone to think.

Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?


THINK HARD

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Lazy recruiter

After placement hoaxes comes the turn of some 'lazy recruiters'. The term used here can be defined as follows : A recruiter who wants to hire top notch performers but doesn't want to spend time, money or any other resource. Instead uses someone else's hard work to achieve its goal of hiring top graduates.

There are many such recruiters, God knows the exact number. But, one of them surfaced recently.

The name is Bosch, Robert Bosch !!!


Check out this ad they placed in freshers world.
Source: http://freshersworld.com/jobs/displayjob.asp?fwid=13835

BE/ B.Tech (ECE/ EEE/ IT/ Telecom/ Instrmn/ Medical Electronics) www.freshersworld.com
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited
Recruitment of Software Engineer
Experience : Fresher
Location : Bangalore
Industry Type : IT-Software/ Software Services
Functional Area : Embedded/EDA /VLSI/ASIC/Chip Design.
Eligibility Criteria:-
• 2009 Batch BE / B.Tech (Electrical Communication Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, Telecom Engineering, Medical Electronics)
• Aggregate 68% and Above in UG.
Note: This is open to candidates who have Offer Letters from other reputed companies in the past 6 months. They should be able to produce the same when they come for the interview.

Freshers without the Offer Letters will not be entertained.

Last Date for Receipt of Application is : 12th (Monday) April, 2010 (12 PM)
Note: Recruitments through Freshersworld.com only. This is NOT a direct walk-in.


What does the recruiter want to convey from this ad? Does the company deserve any regards from the general public at all? Does the general public have any opinion at all?

Disgusting piece of crap loaded shithead faced HR managers of such companies should jump in an empty well and their dead corpes should be fed to the vultures!!

Placement Hoaxes

This post is dedicated to all the jobless engineers who dream to 'cut the cake' one fine day and sit in an A/c cooled office. The dream leads to 'need' and 'want' and 'desire'. But, these guys seem to have forgotten Buddha's teachings
"Desire is the root cause of misery"

Well, the misery comes in from the fact that people out there are waiting for opportunities to pounce upon. A simple fact like this can be used to churn out money if one can think spontaneously like a fox. This gives rise to scam and 'hoax'.

One such hoax was the 'Mega job fair'. The website details are given below
http://jobs.oneindia.in/bangalore/it-jobs/mega-job-fair-truevision-technosoft.html

Mega Job Fair By Truevision Technosoft On 3,4 April 2010
software/networking - developer/programmer/trainee - 0 to 2 - TRUEVISION TECHNOSOFT PVT LTD
Posted on: Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 09:29 AM

Key skills: SOFTWARE,NETWORKING , TECH SUPPORT,MARKETING
No. of vacancies: 10+
Education: B.E/B.Tech/MBA
Posted by: company
Contact person: h.r
Website: www.truevisiontechnosoft.com


Mega Job Fair
3rd & 4th April 2010
IF YOU, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS LOOKING FOR A JOB,
LETS MEET!



True Vision Technosoft Pvt. Ltd. is one of the top Employability consultants in India. Towards our consistent endeavor to bring more job opportunities to the fresher’s , we are organizing a Career and Job fair, the details of which are as given below.


Venue : EAST POINT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
No.2, Bidarahalli, Kithakanoor Road, Virgonagar Post, Bangalore- 560 049
Timings :10:00 A.M to 6:00 P.M
Registration Fees : Rs. 500 /-
MORE THAN 3000+OPENINGS

Registration(s) At:

 East Point Institute of Technology,Bangalore
 AMC College of Engineering,Bangalore
 Dayanand Sagar college og Engineering, Bangalore
 Vemana Institute of Technology,Kormangala, Bangalore
 New Horizon College of Engineering,Bangalor



Eligibility Criteria : B.E / B.TECH / BCA / BBA / MBA / MCA or any Graduate.
Companies Participating : Infosys, Wipro, FIC, Bajaj Alliance, First Source, Nirvana,
Aegis, Ea Sport, Alliance Telecom, Malnad technologies, Aetetia, Quest, Maintech, Symmtech, Dreamajax, Enaviya,
Tranwork, Vee Technologies, Aevus, Call n Solve, Sitel, Techtrend, Qkon, and Many more…..



Contact us for any further queries:
09739034483
080-41538514 ,65460225 , 64464561 , 65832742


People who turned up at the college were disappointed not to see Infosys, Wipro and etc big shots. Alternatively, some companies like Malnad Technologies were present. Ultimately, the crowd demanded their 'registration fee of Rs 500' back and were disgusted at the treatment by the organising committee. Police had to intervene and finally Rs 300 was refunded to each student who attended the job fair.

Why only 300? Coz, apparently the organiser ran away with the money after fooling around 10,000 students.

Hope this is an eye opener for poor students who want to dream like they never dreamt before.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Topic of Brainlessness elaborated

Was reading some news on Yahoo and found this interesting piece of 'happening' news about the IPL. Like all creative money makers , Lalit Modi found an alternative to the 10 minute strategic break time per innings. Instead, it has been reduced it to 5 mins a side and the time out can be taken between 5 to 8 ovs in fielding side etc etc.. (crappy rules these are eh!)

I would normally have just closed the website but my eye caught something even more interesting, the COMMENTS:

Take a look, you may be interested too!

Strategic break periods spelt out in IPLPTI, 04 March 2010
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smuzaffar1987 said on March 6, 2010, 7:47 am
as ipl is cash rich tournament another policy of time has been added to it so that they can benefit from advertisement. this time out slows down the speed of the game and thus it should be opposed.

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d.dipanjan@rocketmail.com said on March 6, 2010, 7:47 am
nt in favour of d brk..........once in an intrview bajji brought it 4wrd dat this strategy diverts the players nd hampers their rhythm.......


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pankaj8k said on March 5, 2010, 5:02 pm
This time out is for more advert on TV. I wonder if there is any regulation in India for bombarding the viewers with adverts. Why there is no regulation about showing advers on tv . It is a great pleasure when you are watch cricket abroad, sometime adverts pop up in 30 minuts or so. See our news or any tv programme its the programme we watch or the advert. Its looks very ugly when same advert repeated 7 times in 1 minutes.That is why nobody supports hockey or football, no free time for adverts. These people only care about money and nothing to do with sports.I hope our Tv has a dooms day very soon.

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mitanshu_mk_007 said on March 5, 2010, 4:32 pmgd 1

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johnybhaimbbs said on March 4, 2010, 10:40 pm
sachin is no doubt a great player but a bharatharatna to be awarded to contrbutions of nation building,people of vision and cotributions to alleviate the problems of the common man like sir M VISWESWARIAH


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manishanant said on March 4, 2010, 6:22 pm
sachin is sachin

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Only one guy hit the jackpot relating to the topic. (Pankaj8k)
All the others seemed to just comment for the sake of commenting!!
One guy wanted to share his views about what Thakeray uncle said yesterday regarding Bharat Ratna and Sachin Tendulkar. But, someone please remind this guy that - he just posted the comment in the wrong place. Whoever declared that Sachin was going to get a Bharat Ratna. Does he even know that the Prime minister can be reached by ordinary post by just writing the address as "Prime Minister's office, New Delhi-1". Like sure, Sachin didn't help the common man! who helped the common man, Nobody!!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

1410 & the brainless Youth brigade

Got to know last week that the number of tigers in India reduced by one and the new magic number is 1410, courtesy : http://churumuri.wordpress.com
Briefly about churumuri (alias bhel puri, a local delicacy): A hot and happening blog, churumuri as the name suggests has all the spice to attract readers especially those from Bangalore / Mysore and in my opinion, the author has found exceptional joy in creating humour from daily routine news.

Anyway, not long before I could recuperate from the figure 1410, I happened to see something annoying, again on that "idiot box"
It was on some zee news channel and the host gathered a bunch of IT honchos to give their opinion about the budget launched on 26th Feb '10.

When asked about the reactions on the budget and whom it suits, a brainless buffalo looking chipmonk guy replied - "Man, I should have been a farmer. Atleast, I would get subsidies and all my loans would have been cleared due to Chidambaram's 60,000 crore farmer-loan-forget blockbuster budget.

Wat the hell was this, does this guy even know the meaning of being a farmer, who in India is the least paid labourer of all classes. A farmer who spends for 100 litres of water for growing a single kilo of rice, a farmer who is just paid Rs 100 per day under the hot sun as compared to some tech guy who earns in thousands sitting in an office enjoying air conditioned air.

The more I got glued to the remote, the more I got angry, now it was the turn of some gal to say something:

So, after this guy, a sissy, nasty looking toothless pea-hen nose watering chick replied " Petrol is so costly, I mean I should open one Petrol bunk and earn more".
To this, I must applaud the thinking and say this "Ya, chick. Go ahead, let's see who will allot you a Petrol bunk!!!"

And before I could change the channel, I heard one more ox-faced, peach flavored testes carrying brainless broncho saying this - " I heard, some funds are to be allocated to Goa for beautifying the beach, I feel, I should open up some hotel and make money in Goa instead of wasting my time in this industry"

I think, this guy doesn't know what is going on in Goa right now. To remind him - One rape and a few atrocities on foreigners has brought down the number of visitors to Goa drastically. The Government has to make the beach world class, just like the beach shown in "Baywatch" (channel-Star world) with mighty lifeguards and beach patrol protecting the interest of the citizens.

Wonder, what's wrong with today's youth brigade. Like they say in hindi - Sar mein bhusa bhara hua hai. The Bronchosaurus (a dinasaur) had a brain the size of a walnut. But, I have discovered some brainless bronchos, right here in India.

Let the chaos prevail!!

Friday, February 5, 2010

1411

So, what is 1411?

The latest ads on tv would have bugged you with this figure. With the jobless Baichung Bhutia vouching for a cause, a cause which his community could never understand. A cause which is worrying the nation at large. A cause which is worth dying for!!
To save the tiger

Although, statistically 1411 tigers roam in the jungles of India, nobody would like to know the true figure as it disturbs us. The true number is far more alarming and I just hope it is atleast a 3 digit number. But, some people just want to make money out of this fact, this time its Aircel.

The trend is not new, people always make money knowing some facts. The bald truth is that Aircel just wants to increase its popularity and side by side make money! I mean who would leave such a chance; tigers have always been fascinating the human kind and any enthusiast would jump into the movement, get in touch with aircel, have a chance to feel their products, get ads posted all over : "Save the tiger campaign - sponsored by Aircel"

Right now, nobody will believe me; but that's not the point. The proof will anyway be unfolded during the annual results when the sales figures would give indications of a steep rise.

I believe, blogs & campaigns are just not enough to save the tiger. Simply because, we can't expect a tiger to read blogs and replicate "Save me"

The problem has a solution but nobody has even gone close to it. The solution cannot be political interference, it has to be judicial. You and me are too smart to understand the judicial system here, it sucks!!

Individuals and I repeat only individuals can make a difference, not companies. Somebody has to understand the depth of the problem and then try to solve it with the existing support (which is negligible). No amount of blogging can replace this exercise.

Until such a man arises, I can safely post a challenge, "There won't be jungles by 2030 and if there are jungles, there won't be a single tiger in them"

Of course, I wont like it, I won't be able to answer my first love, Reeta who now resides behind a cage in Chamarajendra zoo, Mysore. But, I will give an idea to poachers about a tiger who is hidden in human skin, so that he can be hunted for the precious bones inside and sold for a booty.

Presenting, the big bad booty daddy!!