Well to be frank, its not convenient .... its DAMN WELL AWESOME!!! Just awesome. I can do it anywhere, its always available, as soon as I step inside the door its all there connected and waiting for me, its at my beck and call 24/7 and the price is fixed once and for all - no negotiations ....its my WLAN connection which I finally was able to configure and get online today. It is for my 32mbps unlimited download / upload internet connection :D :D :D
I was successful at my 2nd attempt after blowing up one cable modem and being without telephone and internet for sometime. I tell you it was worth it. Previously I have been advised to have a good internet connection and get a WLAN router but I was just fine with my dial up but today I am much better than fine! I am very very fine! Yes I am a late entrant into the wired home concept but u bet I am gonna make up on lost time with a vengeance!
Media center or Airport?
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Where is peace?
Sitting outside home I look at the news of tragedies and blasts in India with a different perspective. Somehow being faced with these kind of incidents everyday had made me immune to them. Now that I am detached and can only read about these incidents on online newspaper reports, these incidents touch me in a different way.
Since July this year almost every week or 10 days there have been incidents of serial blasts. Initially we used to associate terrorism with Punjab or Kashmir with sporadic incidents in the rest of the country but off late no part of the nation seems to safe or peaceful. We are being attacked with impunity anytime, anywhere.
This time we have a homegrown group to blame for these acts and no foreign powers. What despairs me is the absolute helplessness we are faced with with respect to these acts. The government seems absolute powerless in ensuring security and peace.
On the International Non Violence Day we are forced to accept that we are inherently a violent race.
Since July this year almost every week or 10 days there have been incidents of serial blasts. Initially we used to associate terrorism with Punjab or Kashmir with sporadic incidents in the rest of the country but off late no part of the nation seems to safe or peaceful. We are being attacked with impunity anytime, anywhere.
This time we have a homegrown group to blame for these acts and no foreign powers. What despairs me is the absolute helplessness we are faced with with respect to these acts. The government seems absolute powerless in ensuring security and peace.
On the International Non Violence Day we are forced to accept that we are inherently a violent race.
Bunker crashing a golf course
Yep, you read it right. I bunker crashed a golf course today - crashed through a bush and right onto the biggest golf course in this part of the world - how and why is another story but what was surprising was that the course was empty, carts were empty, the club house was empty; everything was so dead and forelorn. Then it stuck me - the world economy is on the precipice.
It took its time coming but the storm has finally hit us big time. I mean I just do not understand how could bad debts be doled out to the tune which we are talking about - actually nobody seems to know the extent of the problem. The US Congress is squabbling over 700 billion dollars Wall Street bailout deal but what the "learned" congressmen do not understand is that it is not a Wall Street bailout package but a world economy support package. Not surprising when probably a chunk of them do not even know where Iraq is. However coming back to the problem at hand I am dumb founded to believe that the highly paid investment bankers of the world gave loans to people without any collateral or knowing that the person taking the loan would not be able to repay them. Ok, I can understand one or two such loans but the magnitude that it not just bankrupts an individual but threatens the whole world economy is beyond comprehension.
World is flat and this crisis proves that. Probably it also proves that lot more insights are required than pure capitalism to run a good business.
It took its time coming but the storm has finally hit us big time. I mean I just do not understand how could bad debts be doled out to the tune which we are talking about - actually nobody seems to know the extent of the problem. The US Congress is squabbling over 700 billion dollars Wall Street bailout deal but what the "learned" congressmen do not understand is that it is not a Wall Street bailout package but a world economy support package. Not surprising when probably a chunk of them do not even know where Iraq is. However coming back to the problem at hand I am dumb founded to believe that the highly paid investment bankers of the world gave loans to people without any collateral or knowing that the person taking the loan would not be able to repay them. Ok, I can understand one or two such loans but the magnitude that it not just bankrupts an individual but threatens the whole world economy is beyond comprehension.
World is flat and this crisis proves that. Probably it also proves that lot more insights are required than pure capitalism to run a good business.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Whats with the fahrt?
Every morning, I reach the parking lot and I enter through "Ëinfahrt".
Every evening I leave office and I am wished "Gute Fahrt".
I exit the parking lot through "Ausfahrt".
If this continue like this fahrt would become a fixation and the whole environment would stink..if you know what I mean.
This whole country is fahrting you know!
In the office the most common discussion topics are "who is fahrting what" or whether "i fahrt better than you" or whether "women are better fahrters than men" or "which navigation device allows one to fahrt better".
Today morning while coming to work I got lost while fahrting and I tell you it was not funny.
Every evening I leave office and I am wished "Gute Fahrt".
I exit the parking lot through "Ausfahrt".
If this continue like this fahrt would become a fixation and the whole environment would stink..if you know what I mean.
This whole country is fahrting you know!
In the office the most common discussion topics are "who is fahrting what" or whether "i fahrt better than you" or whether "women are better fahrters than men" or "which navigation device allows one to fahrt better".
Today morning while coming to work I got lost while fahrting and I tell you it was not funny.
Professional - to my surprise
I had a very pleasant experience with a local car dealer in Bangalore - Classic Automobiles. I sold my 2005 Honda City VTEC to them this month and they not only gave me a decent deal but also allowed me to keep the car for a week after the agreement was signed with them.
Payment was also promptly made and they were very proactive in pursuing the legal paperwork etc.
I would heartily recommend them to all.
Payment was also promptly made and they were very proactive in pursuing the legal paperwork etc.
I would heartily recommend them to all.
Intertial Displacement
Have you ever wondered why is it so difficult for most of the people to relocate? I have a reasoning around it and that is that humans being social animals are very good in growing "roots". The longer an individual stays in a location the stronger the roots become. Stronger the roots more difficult it is to uproot them and move on. In scientific terminology an object having more inertia would require more force to change its state.
I know any lame duck would understand where I am going with this. Well, yes I relocated lock, stock and barrel after spending 8 odd years in Bangalore. Over the past couple of days I am settling down in my new location and checking the soil to see how soon the new roots will grow.
Over the last weekend I spent time at the new apartment which will be my home for the next few years. It is so very beautiful. It is located quite close to the town center but is in a nice, quiet burrough. The place is comfortably large but not monstrous, has a covered parking, has nice ventilation and cheerful sunlight, warm colors, a green balcony and a private garden. Behind the apartment complex are huge expanses of wineyards where one can go running and mountain biking as there are small hills and rough terrain. It is quite a big change from the previous apartment I had and needless to say I love it.
By the way, I am celebrating "Indian summer" in the beginning of "European winter" as all my warm clothes are in the shipment which is somewhere in air and somewhere in sea. Waiting for bank account and credit cards to be available to make some purchases. Maybe its the start of new roots, eh?
I know any lame duck would understand where I am going with this. Well, yes I relocated lock, stock and barrel after spending 8 odd years in Bangalore. Over the past couple of days I am settling down in my new location and checking the soil to see how soon the new roots will grow.
Over the last weekend I spent time at the new apartment which will be my home for the next few years. It is so very beautiful. It is located quite close to the town center but is in a nice, quiet burrough. The place is comfortably large but not monstrous, has a covered parking, has nice ventilation and cheerful sunlight, warm colors, a green balcony and a private garden. Behind the apartment complex are huge expanses of wineyards where one can go running and mountain biking as there are small hills and rough terrain. It is quite a big change from the previous apartment I had and needless to say I love it.
By the way, I am celebrating "Indian summer" in the beginning of "European winter" as all my warm clothes are in the shipment which is somewhere in air and somewhere in sea. Waiting for bank account and credit cards to be available to make some purchases. Maybe its the start of new roots, eh?
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Right to life or Right to choice
In the past few days the question about Right to Life or Right to Choice has come up.
In Mumbai a couple's foetus has been diagnozied with a heart condition and they moved the court to allow aborting the same. The parent's plea was that knowing that the baby if born will face a life of constant struggle they want to spare themselves and the new born the pain. The court rejected the plea on the basis of medical reports which couldnt categorically state whether the child would be born with a defect or not and an archaic law which was drafted over 30 years ago.
If we really talk about Right to life my contention is whether it is the foetus' choice to be born even though when born it might not have a fruitful life. At what point of time does the child get the Right of Choice - when he/she is conceived, when he/she is born, when he/she is 5 years old, when he/she is older...when? If we disregard the moral dilemma and just concentrate on the facts then I find it weird that the decision was based on a law which was drafted 30 years ago. Since that time medical science has advanced so much that the basis on which the regulations were drafted would be defunct. Would it not make sense then to relook at the statutes of the Indian Penal Code instead of debating only the moral grounds of this question?
In Mumbai a couple's foetus has been diagnozied with a heart condition and they moved the court to allow aborting the same. The parent's plea was that knowing that the baby if born will face a life of constant struggle they want to spare themselves and the new born the pain. The court rejected the plea on the basis of medical reports which couldnt categorically state whether the child would be born with a defect or not and an archaic law which was drafted over 30 years ago.
If we really talk about Right to life my contention is whether it is the foetus' choice to be born even though when born it might not have a fruitful life. At what point of time does the child get the Right of Choice - when he/she is conceived, when he/she is born, when he/she is 5 years old, when he/she is older...when? If we disregard the moral dilemma and just concentrate on the facts then I find it weird that the decision was based on a law which was drafted 30 years ago. Since that time medical science has advanced so much that the basis on which the regulations were drafted would be defunct. Would it not make sense then to relook at the statutes of the Indian Penal Code instead of debating only the moral grounds of this question?
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