Distantly closer

Some places at distant are closer than than they appear.

If you are going across town, you may be very specific, for example, ‘Street no:12, Ashok Nagar, nearer to Milk booth’

On a different story, if you go on vacation, you tell people, “I’m going to Delhi” or “I’m going to Bangkok”, but you will not tell like “we’re going to 8th street Kalkaji” And if you’re going even farther than that, you skip the city and country altogether and just say, “we’re going to Europe.”

But if you go on vacation and tell people, “We’re going to Kerala” – you may receive a response from them like ” Oh.. to Munnar?”

So, I believe some places like Munnar are just around the corner but not on another planet…. Guess same theory applies to some people as well….

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, 2013!!

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Vedic way

Got one vedic maths book by one of my colleagues, last week. It is been written by his father, Sri Khandavalli Appala RamaMoorthy. It is amazing! You can tell the answer in a matter of seconds for the ones you need to take some minutes using the usual way. For the huge numbers involving multiplication, division, square roots etc. Really cool.

Used to consume some time while doing calculations during the competitive examns like Engineering entrance (EAMCET). If I knew this kind of vedic maths, I might have gotten one of the top ten ranks instead of my rank, three hundred. No doubt about it.

Ha..Ha..Hadoop

I was figuring out the much publicized Hadoop and it’s MapReduce framework capabilty on an equity stock to deduce how often it’s last price is been changed by a particulr percentage. It is amazing.

It happenned to read a short story, Nine Billion names of God by Arthur C. Clarke, today. It is a scientific fiction where a Tibetian Lama assigns the Software Company owner with a task to arrive the nine billion names of God. Those names should have nine letter combinations from a specialized alphabet. The Lamas were trying to derive these names for the past three centuries, thinking it would take still more 15 thousand years to finish this task, if manually!! So they wanted to hire a software engineers to finish the task in a matter of three months using a mainframe computer. Dont ask me why the Lama wanted those names, that is not the point here.

But Point is – if Arthur knew about Hadoop at that time, the story might have become different…….

I still remember

“…So you sent out your grand ma in a grand manner..How old she?”
“Um. Some 85 to 90 years..”
“Hey man..long way she has gone through..forget it…i’m sorry for your loss too.. Dont mind me saying, its good that she is gone…and…”
“No..no..it’s fine…”

It was a small but informal conversation between me and my team mate when he came back to office after his grandma’s funeral.

It brought back my memories with my grand mother. I dont know if I was affectionate with my grandma but I can surely say that she was very affectionate with me. She was a farmer’s wife and herself a farmer managing both home affairs as well as helping my grand father at the farms. We used to go over there to our village, Mandavalli in Krishna district every summer and had fun. She always paid special attention to me when compared to my three sisters. May be it could be because i’m the only grandson or they put my name derived from her husband’s name, Gangayya or I used to help her during harvesting seasons or male dominant society at that time or I dont know. Special attention occurred in so many ways like – she used to give only one egg to my sisters but two for me; Allowed me only to go and get mangoes from our farms; Used to come to the school during interval every day, when i was studying first standard in my village and to feed me with omlets; She used to go by walk for five kilometers to make my dresses stitched; and this list grows and this post will go beyond the limits if I keep on telling.
And you know, she never lost her temper with me. In fact, i was a very tough and spoilt brat during my childhood.

She did so many good things for me. But I did fail to fulfill her wish. Her wish was to see me married before she dies. So sorry for her.

Hmm.

I still remember her excitement when she took a ride with me on my first motor bike.
I still remember the taste of her mango avakaya pickle and Ariselu
I still remember how she served me when I was affected with chicken-pox
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and

I still remember the way she ran her fingers through my hair.
I still remember. I still remember.

Bet your paycheck

“Wanna develop my dream product…the cloud based e-commerce one..”
“Great!!”
“You know any company with top class development services?”
“You should get it from AnnaTi Tech… My full recommendations!”
“Why?”
“Smart employees and management.”
“Really? Will you bet your paycheck on AnnaTi?”
“Well, I am not a betting guy at all. But looks like I can start now, there’s always a first time for everything!!”

There are some chances like-  the smart guys will give their best, no doubt about it but as they learn more, they realize that they need to learn more. They learn some more and they realize they need to learn some more. In this journey, they don’t get a chance to share their knowledge. My point is NOT that they are selfish or they don’t have time or they don’t have any incentive to do it.
What they forget is that most of the knowledge/skill-set that they already have is either becoming “known” to them or going into their “unknown thinking.” Becoming known means that there is nothing special about it. Becoming their unknown thinking means that they don’t even realize that it’s knowledge. It becomes part of them.
For example think about  like we learned alphabets in our childhood. Or the multiplication tables. It is in our unknown thinking and we don’t think about that as knowledge.

But any way, there will be smart managements too.