Cruising with Life

One of my friend send this joke to me on my cellphone: Whenever Rajesh used to go to a neighbourhood shop, his friend Deepak's home was in the way. He always used to hear laughing voices from their house. One fine day, he met Deepak in a Mall. Rajesh asked Deepak : " How come I always hear laughing voices from your house. What is the secret of your happiness?" Deepak replied: "My wife throws shoes or sandals when she is angry. If those shoes or sandals hit me, she laughs a lot. If they miss me, I am the one laughing! " How did you find this one? myLot User Profile

This post is from my Helium article on Billing and Resourcing hassles in IT Projects. Sometimes,I used to wonder as to why Projects in IT companies face a situation where two employees are doing the work equivalent to that of four for the company's client.This was the case even when that company had many people on "Bench".The term "Bench" is used for those employees who are employed by the company, yet not working for any Client or "Account". Why is it so . Here is what I found out after discussing with some of my colleagues and some seniors : 1) The company says to the client : we would have 4 people billing for this Project A , 5 for Project B , 10 for Project C . 2) The client approves this . 3) A situation arises wherein some extra work comes in for Project A . However,Project C has 10 people,yet not that much work . Logically,one can just pick some people from Project C and put them on Project A . However,they woul...

Living in a big city has many advantages.We can buy good cars, can have good homes.We have a plenty of clothes ,electronics items and what not .We do have some things which are problematic like traffic, noise and many a times crime. Still, people do like to live there.Many even feel egoistic about it.I would like to term this as "Big City Ego" ! What is it? This is a word I did not read from anywhere, even though such a term might be existing.This is the feeling that many of my fellow urbanites have of feeling superior because they happen to live in; or born in a big city. They even make others feel inferior or worse, try to humiliate them. I was born in New Delhi, bought up, educated and for major part of my career, worked here.Yet; it does not make me feel something extra special. It does not give me "license" to make others feel inferior or brag about myself. Yet; there are some friends as well as relatives of mine who take extreme pride in being born or ...

Hi , I am writing a new blog post after quite some time. In between, I was writing on a few other sites. So, Here I am with a new post. I posted this on another site: Mypage5. Do tell me if you like this one : I have a strong liking for seeing patterns in things,or with numbers.No,I am not a genius mathematician;even though my maths had been average to good in different mathematical topics.One pattern which I have been observing is with respect to the dates on which Hindu religion's major festival :"Deepavali" - the festival of lights (also called as 'Diwali" ) has been over past 9 years -starting from the year 2000. Now,this might be due to some well known astrological or astronomical cycle,which I am unaware of ;yet most of you know about.Still,I would like to share this with all of you : 1) In the years 2000,2003,2006 and 2009 , Deepavali was on or before 25 October. This year it has been the earliest as far as I recall-on 17th October !! . 2)Years...

Well; this is an Article I published on Helium - an Online forum for publishing your articles . This deals with the challenges the Asian countries face in this year 2009 . Here we go : Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) . It is also home to 60 % of World's population (approx 4 Billion) . Now, how would one define Asia ? If you are from UK you might call someone from South Asia - India,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Sri Lanka , Nepal or Bhutan as Asian . People in USA generally call Japanese ,Chinese and Korean as Asians . The people from middle-east or West Asia with Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,Israel ,Jordan etc are normally considered as separate in terms of their different History and Political scenario . The Central Asia covering former Soviet Unions such as Kazakhsthan , Turkmenistan etc are geographically in Asia .Yet ;these are considered closer to Europe due to integration of er...