"....DDubbughhhhhhuuu........."

Hi, How r u doing.
Back after a long hibernation.
Fine this time I just wanted to scribble about baby's talk.



Think of a baby, you will forget all other things in the world.
If a baby starts speaking, nothing would compete to it in the universe.
Baby's infantile behaviour and talk will enthral anyone in the earth.
Even Stonyhearted are no exceptions to it.

I was totally captivated by my daughter's speech. She started speaking two months ago and there seems to be a remarkable improvement in her speech. Heard that normaly girl baby grasps in a fast pace than boy baby. Experienced the same with my daughter who is one yr and 9 months old.

My entire family got totally excited when she started calling everybody by their relation.
Every parent should be thankful to THE ALMIGHTY for have plied such a wonderful parentage. I attained the cause of nascence by hearing my daughter calling me 'AAAppppppppppaaaaaaaaa.....'

My daughter also calls me with the other word which makes me totally astounding.
She calls along with an expression of mirth and that most surpassingly amazing word goes here..

"....DDubbughhhhhhuuu........."

Switch Over II

"Ha Ha Ha... vaadi vaa... adichaanaa aandavan aaappuuu ... You should have stayed in your prev organization where you lead a happy life.. Its okay, its your decision, live with that and suffer with that" - conscience
...Got totally trapped in an ongoing project. Though aware of the fact that getting into an ongoing project is comparitively tough than a new project,I took it since I was not left with any other options. Just travelled to bangalore to get the feel of the project.
To my surprise, I found the project in a very bad shape with goofups in estimations involving emerging technologies with team of deficit skillsets. No one would show interest in taking that crap along with the location change as another hurdle. I put forth my dissidence and blatantly exposed that I can never handle the project from Bangalore.
Fate - an indelible friend made me stick to the project by bringing down the team to chennai.
I really had a tiresome time in my career that I have ever had. Each and every day my slog reminds me my wonderful relaxed life at prev company.
One point of time, I made up my mind to put my shoes down to finish up the assignment. Who in the earth leads a felicitous life without hardwork? who in the earth stays away becoming a participant in the race of outgrowth? If you wannu be chosen to get more benifits , you dare be prepared for that.
At the end of the day one should deserve what he desires for. Am I right ? These things might appear for you as a "No other go" man's thought. Yes I m right I had no other go and took the burden on my shoulder.
Is this happening to me alone or for any one who shifts. Dare to give a response to this ? My conscience comes for rescue again "Everybody should cross a long way in his/her life to grow and undergo several scenarios.The one who tolerates and overcomes the obstacles is considered to be an achiever. Dont be dejected, its very part of life? Go ahead try, do it and the fruit of success will definitely be reaped by you at the end"
Struggled, toiled for 4 months and at last finished the project successfully and got a pile of appreciation mails from my superiors. All the pains and annoyances vanished by the appreciations.
Yes every body passes the same bridge while shifting. Initially one has to undergo interim pressures and hiccups to establish himself/herself in the new organization which would really be a mammoth task.
Make up your mind to face anything (boldy or pretend to be boldy) before you think for a switch over.

Switch Over

Gone are the days people glued to the organization...!
Gone are the terms seniors & juniors in a concern...!
The boom in the market (IT) has made one to go for numerous job shifts.
Of late, no surprise finding the years of experience and the number of companies almost coincides in resumes.
Okay lemme break the ice.. I m not here to discuss about why this happens, being me the victim for the same its not advicable to debate an eye opening session on the topic and dont wannu be too smart too.. but just wannu share my personal experience about my recent shift.
September 2006:
Thought to go for a change.
" what change?
Do you really feel the work as boring ?
Are you taking a overlook that you reached a saturation level at ur job ?
Do you think you have delivered the 100% on what you are expected to do ?
Is the company unable to quench your thirst of workaholism you have ?
tell me whats the reason behind your thought " - asked my conscience.
"No Its not that way , but u know... u know ..? Things should not be fixed and rigid all the time ?", I replied.
"Hey Arent you moving out of your place.. I dont see you sitting at your place for more than 10 to 15 minutes altogether..? " - conscience.
"Okay okay I want a change just because I want a change thats it. I may not be able to give you a clear cut reason on this" - Me.
" I will tell you what u run behind. You r running behind money. Its all the basic calculation that any average IT guy would do on shifting to other company 20% to 30% of what you draw now.. and ofcourse you dont want to travel abroad due to family constraint... right ?" - conscience.
"Yes.. you are absolutely right ?" - Me.
"Ada che idhu oru pozhappu.. how long will you keep jumping companies for money you moron.. Havent you got a good recognition , acquired emerging technical knowledge here. I bet this is the same that you gonna get in the other company too. " - Inner conscience.
"I am no more gonna listen you. All I want is 20% hike and quiet stay in my home town with my family..."- Me.
"Okay No one can change your fate.. go ahead " - conscious.
Done with the exit interview with the current company.

October 2006:
Joined the other company , Done with induction and awaiting for project allotment.
"Akilan , we want you to take Technical Architect role in this project.." - Supervisor.
I thought that as a good chance , well settled with the expected hike and a good technology oriented project".
"You may have to travel to bangalore since the team sits in bangalore..." - The next statement from supervisor totally switched off my power.
"Adapaavame idhukku pazhaya companylayae US poi irukalaamae...?" - my mind boggled.
"Ha Ha Ha... vaadi vaa... adichaanaa aandavan aaappuuu ... You should have stayed in your prev organization where you led a happy life.. Its okay, its your decision, live with that and suffer with that" - conscience

to be continued...!

Expedition

Once in a year we used to plan and execute an outing. One such an outing to Gudalur and masinagudi, theppakaadu goes here with narration.
Thiags – the hero of the trip initiated and made all arrangements for the trip. It was really an awesome trip he arranged at the same time I shouldn’t go without saying the “sodhapals” he made on booking the train tickets to the location. He booked the ticket on friday morning 7:15 AM instead friday evening 7:15 PM. Somehow we got it cancelled and started the journey through bus. The Crew was 14 in number and Aru (our Ex colleague) joined us in bangalore with tempo traveler. Landed on the spot (masinagudi) at 8:30 AM unveiling our enthusiastic penchant towards the nature.

Got a good accommodation with the help of Aru’s friends and refreshed ourselves to go for the first spot – Maravakandy dam. We were described about the generation of electric power from the water stored in the tank by workmen over there.

It was really a good view we clicked on top of the dam. Enjoyed there about 30 minutes and passed on to take a look at Winch. We are not allowed to take snaps but as usual our defaulters clicked some of the snaps presented here.
We went to a distance view of waterfalls and immersed ourselves in the free flow of river which carried ice flowing as water.
Then we had our heavy lunch where Aru arranged specially for us which consists of 3 kgs of chicken with a good meal including sambar, rasam and two porials. That really filled our stomach served hot and mirchi prepared in log house at masinagudi. The gourmet group includes Durairaj, Rajkumar, Aru and me.
We then ended up in elephant camp where we saw a peculiar mammal.
Magna - Elephant neither a male nor a female (50/50) known for its ruthless amok. The pachyderm has killed 14 members at its demonic behavior, but now got tamed by the camp.
We were then taken to safari in the woods. That was quiet interesting and an event at the ride was breathtaking. We were looking at wild elephants there. The driver under the eager or showing him off raised the accelerator without releasing clutch to irritate the elephant. At one point the furious elephant started chasing our van. We had a great escape and then heard that was the strategy the driver follows to cover the safari riders every time.
We also watched some of the animals such as bison, and deers. We were taken to view Mayur falls amidst the dense woods.
We ended up on the most important event in the evening – nothing other than boozing. Our guys enjoyed the drink and dishes provided by the resort people. Being a teetotaler (at present) I was put to judge a lots and lots of usual unreasonable altercations. It was nice to be a non drinker among drunkards.
The next day morning we went for trekking for a Murugan (deity of beauty and tamil language) temple. There were shrubs and herbs on the both sides of the path forming a fence. We guys spent there around an hour enjoying the hot vadai’s and samosa’s (sponsored by Ganapathy).
We finished our breakfast with good food items which we had long back when we suffered from fever. Yes it’s nothing other than bun and tea. It simply gives a good reminiscence. We then went to falls. We took a nice bath there for an hour and heard by a volunteer that bathing is prohibited since the water is used for drinking purpose.
The team started to Gudalur and finished our lunch (again with chicken biriyani and fish fry). The climate got totally changed. It was raining and our van moved amidst the drizzling. Some of our guys wanted to take a ride on motorbike and they got a chance too
We went to a famous view point where we need to walk a while to reach the same. We guys stepped for a 10 minutes walk where the leaches sticked and climbed on our legs without our knowledge. We enjoyed the view point and botanical gardens, and glass house that hold some plants of medicinal value.
We returned from there towards bangalore to catch up our train to Chennai. In the mid we noticed blood oozing out o Aru’s feet. We stopped the van and made Aru to check for the mishap. For our surprise we came to know that’s due to parasite which sucked the blood without any pain to the host. The issue got revved up and all are expelled from van to check for the leach.
Everyone had their own shares of leaches on their body sucking the blood. We revealed atleast two to three leaches from everybody’s body. The leach was sticking to the thigh of my brother who fell victim to the parasite joining us in the tour.
After separating leaches from us we started our travel. All in the van had the thought of leaches crawling all over our body till we get down at bangalore station. We had our dinner there opposite to the station and entrained leaving Aru and tempo traveler on the spot.
We reached Chennai the next day morning with usual blues about office and work.

For more snaps browse to http://www.flickr.com/photos/27959298@N00/tags/gudalur/

Jumbled words

Hi pals....... How r u doing..

Came out of my own imagination to feel the nuances of the jumbled words in certian circumstances.....

In a footwear mart, Customer looks for a foot wear. Nevertheless less the amount customer pays he will never compramise with the quality.

Customer : Will it serve me ' life long '.
seller : Sorry Sir, I am not sure but will serve ' long life '.


A Project Manager enquiring about the team member to Project Leader

PM : Is he ' working hardly' ?
PL : Sorry , he 'hardly works'..

Customer complaining some calculation mistake in the bill to a Shop Keeper, The shop keeper questions his subordinate.

Shop Keeper : Hi is the ' Error calculated '?
Sub ordinate : No its again a ' Calculated Error'.


The engineers contrast between two blue prints.

Eng 1: Hey I figured out.. The ' Difference is same' ?
Eng 2: No its the ' Same Difference ' that you were observing, watch it again

Hope enjoyed....

Tax Planning

Hi All how r u doing...

Its quiet a long dormancy I have taken My apologies for that,
bit busy with work ( Its real thing Okay Okay... I could see a sarcastic grin at me on this stmt )..

Okay me back with the social awareness topic .. Yes its going to be an abstract on "Tax Planning" facilitated by my friend srikant.
Here it goes....

“Tax” the word creates a stir among salaried employees that too IT employees at the end of the financial years. The stress is given on IT employees because of inadequate knowledge about tax planning due to rapid growth in the package with in the stipulated period. The other sectors acquire a fair amount of information on tax planning due to the slow and steady growth and that is the fact too.

As Swami Vivekananda says “We are the makers of our own fate...We make our own destiny”.

So let us discuss some rudimentary artifacts of the budget 2006-07 in a way conducive enough to plan for our tax payment.

No major changes in personal income tax. If you are planning to buy a car (of length not exceeding 4,000 mm and with an engine capacity not exceeding 1,500 cc for diesel cars and not exceeding 1,200 cc for petrol cars) or if you are planning to eat packaged foods or if you are planning to quit smoking, you will get a remarkable gain.

The other things that come to our interest are, removal of the limit of Rs.10, 000 in respect of contribution to certain pension funds in section 80CCC, has also been proposed subject to the overall ceiling of Rs.1, 00,000. Investments in fixed deposits in scheduled banks for a term of not less than five years included in section 80C of the Income tax Act

The increase in service tax (from 10% to 12%) will affect most of us rather I would say all of us. If you trade shares you should think about the increase in Securities Transaction Tax.

As Roosevelt said, Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society, and some body said, I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. So be employed and be the member of the organized society but with a plan of not paying more than we have to.

Though the companies make ease the burden of tax payment by practicing a mandatory collection of TDS which effects in our pay slips, the deviation between the declaration and the actual proof makes the huge difference in salary in last two months of the financial year. Let us cultivate the strategy to bring down the high percentage of deviation which would enable us to breath free with the mundane expenses across the financial year.

Above all we do have few so-called ‘Brahaspathis’ who evades tax with a false conviction that they took an illegal waiver from the process, we have no say on those.

Interesting fact: Tax collecting process will be foolproof.

The Departments of Income Tax and Customs and Central Excise to undergo Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Nationwide networks to connect 745 income tax offices in 510 cities and 550 customs and central excise offices in 245 cities, creating national databases.

Permanent Account Number (PAN) is the critical element in capturing incomes and expenditures. Scrutiny of Annual Information Returns (AIR) on high- value transactions reveals that 60 per cent of the transactions are without quoting PAN. In due course, more transactions to be notified for which quoting of PAN to be mandatory.

To culminate, be ware of tax planning, it is part of our life.

A Fabulous treat

Hi All,
At the outset,My New Year wishes to all...

" Personal rapport among team members is a must above official bondage"
Dont know how many of you put up ur red flag against it. I believe in the above stmt and so as my team.
We people use to chill out by organizing treats among ourselves. Normally we use to go out for a dinner that would cost around Rs.3000.This time one of our team member (Siva kumar) fell victim.
Unfortunately, two other pending treats of him also got added up.So the accumulated amount made us to plan for a stream out rather usual dinner. We decided to visit a theme park and the day also has come.
Since I am newly married, the team offered me to pair up with my wife. Fortunately the sponsor ( Siva Kumar ) also was allowed to pick up his family ( his wife and his cute daughter 'Tharunika"). Atleast let him get some breath by this offer.
Fortunately that was a sunny day and we stepped into QueensLand located 15 kms away from chennai.The sponsorer also arranged for a good meal over there for us. So kind(sad) of him. (Its all part of life...... what say ?)

<--- Our first participation was Free Fall game. The plate took us up slowly to height and pulled down in a great speed. Was really amazing... Next we stepped into an Octopus resembling wheel. Had a nice take off and withstood the rotation to some extend. The minute it started to move back and forth myself and TVS ( TV Sivakumar ) one of my team member who sat with me felt the giddiness. TVS has never joined me in the walk after that ride.May be he thought I would persuade him for other games too.But he was unknown that even I felt a sort of fear after getting into second game. I was filled with enthu and asked people to get involved in all games.I also kept my wife away from some of the game since she is conceived.
TVS & Durai ( two of my team members) though possesed audacious outfit, were totally away from other giant wheels.
<---The charisma of Tharunika ( Sivakumar's daughter ) carried me away and that made me to carry her all the way till end of the treat. Our next venture was cable car . A tranquil travel free from hectic traffic's....... Though the travel was calm, pairing with my wife has not made it so.... ----> ( jus kidding ) Thank God she should skip this line .
Followed by cable car we went for boating.
<--- We guys on water.... We went for Himalyan Ride, where we were put in giant tube floating in running waters. We were passing caves, and animal of yore ( Dinosaurs's ) and monkeys on the way Mean time Durai started " Akilan pasikudhu Akilan" the usual dialogue and we went for lunch. Finishing our lunch we took battery card drive.. and ended up in swimming pool to enjoy water sports.
we played there for more than two hours and
started from that place.
A group snap after a huge wave ------->
After having nice tea and samosa's we took a ride on go karting. One can even manage Tata Safari or Sumo.. its really tough to control karts.
We experienced Fun house, Dark Room and Glass house on the way and finally endded up in a giant wheel which does not lookl. There were nobody around it . Thinking that it would not be so dangerous we stepped into it.
The wheel started slowly and gradually increased its speed. We never expected that this would reach a high speed which we had not experienced in any of the giant wheels.
We were pulled by the centripetal force since the wheel rotated in a particular direction for a long time in high speed.
We could not even open our mouth or hands. I could not even raise my fingers to make a whistling sound.
Thank God we stepped out alive from the wheel and were unable to balance our weight for some time. That was really a terrible experience..
After a good rest we went into another giant wheel where we all had a welcome drink. That was quite simple and then we enjoyed battery car drive dashing each other.
Last but not the least we participated in folk dance for some "kuthu" songs played there and entrained in a small play train which took us to the outskirts of the park.
And that was the end of our fun. We came out of the park by giving our heart felt "Thanks" to the sponsorer and sharing new year wishes to one and all.

Hi Siva "THANKS ONCE AGAIN FOR THE FABULOUS TREAT" ......

Will scribble more
Akils

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