Funny Ponders

While I was traveling between pune and chennai, few thoughts were flowing in my mind. Here it goes… We were traveling at around 36,000 ft and we just rely on the machines designed by a human. Those machines were supposed to work with zero error. Any minute glitch will cause the devastation. I was just wondering how can anyone design such machines with utmost perfection. If it is a train, car, or bus…nothing will happen and the vehicle comes to halt. But imagine what will happen to a flight which is traveling at an altitude of thousands of feets. I guess designing zero error machines  will be taught in aeronautical engineering course . Thats really fantastic to learn abt them. When I am discussing with my friends, the thing that came up is that each flight will be operated by two machines to make it redundant. But I still wonder how the fail over takes when one machine fails. How are the uncertain things will be taken care by the pilot while traveling is still a mystery to me. Hopefully I will catch a guy who has roots in it and get more information regarding it.  I wish I would have been a pilot to experience or an engineer to design those kind of machines.

This post I was supposed to write on Father’s day but got delayed till today. I have seen much things happening on TV etc on mothers day but could not notice them on father’s day. I dunno whether I missed them or it has really happened. COming to point…I want to write a little about my father here. I don’t have an opportunity to  express my regards for bringing me to the state whatever I am in today.  He is very disciplined (which is inherited from my grandfather) and perfect in doing things. I can say he is the best manager of my family. Also he has lot of sense of humor which I inherited the most from him. Me and my sister were so scared of my father. I f my mother asks us to do something we used to take it casually, but if father says and we dont do it, we cannot imagine the repercussions. He started his job with salary of Rs. 250 a month. Can you believe it? Yes it is the truth. Later he got married and by the time my parents has me his salary was still less than thousand. I cannot imagine how he managed his parents, me and my mother with that little amount. After working for more than 25 years in the same company his salary is less than quarter of what I am getting. With that he could made his two children study and met all the expenses we require and finally he helped us in safely reaching the shore. After working for one year, I felt so much bored and I cannot imagine how I have to carryon working till so many years from now.  Father, how did u manage to work for 27 years and still working??

He has control over every rupee he is spending, he knows how to effectively spend the money. Even now if i give money and asked him to spend, he wont to do it because he got habituated to whatever he is doing since 3 decades. I say to him that his life is spend 3/4th working hard and atleast enjoy your days from now. He is not in a position to listen and carries on with his own beliefs.  So much to say about him but I got to go now and will write later by taking right opportunity. I express my heartfelt thanks for him thru this blog on father’s day for being my father.

Yes, its to time to move on when things really dont work for you. At least those things supposed to happen if not the things you desire. If your damn waiting for the thing to happen and if it tests your patience? what to do? . Sometimes I feel it is the stupidity of me in handling the things. What I feel is philosophy is very nice to listen and help us getting up if you are fallen. But the fact is you cannot follow the same philosophy when you are put under test to the same situation. Sometimes I suspect whether philosophy has real meaning to it if it is not implemented properly. Forgetting about the philosophy for a while now, lets discuss about moving on. If you program your mind to something and the input is in such a fashion that it cannot be handled, just imagine what happens to a software program..it simply dumps. Similar thing happens to our mind if programmed. But how to program the mind in such a fashion that every situation is handled in switch case. We should make sure there shuld not be any while or for loops which makes you busy but end up doing nothing. if presence of them is inevitable dont forget to put a break statement till the program moves smoothly to exit. The policy I am following is to divert mind in different directions. Call a friend, chat with a friend…read some article, watch some pics. When I do these things literally I don’t feel that I am frustrated. When I tell my frustration or disappointment to someone..i fell relaxed after sometime. If I keep it to myself it gets more inside and starts hurting. No other way … its time to move.

It seems that people working at google has no work except innovation. What are the products they are coming up with? Everyday I an finding one or the other google product which escaped my attention. I just came across Google health which is a huge repository of human diseases. Go there and you will find all the details about the disease. They have given facility to upload your medical reports and the idea is to keep your fragmented health records centralized. Its no wonder to say that google is a web leader now. They are doing what all can be done on the web. They have a business crawler too which is occupying the whole web industry. Recently they have come up with idea where we can integrate your personal web page with social networking. They have done everything for the user. We just need to configure and make it working. It is sure that user experience is going to be fantastic soon with google’s innovative stuff. The products that they are recently coming up with are for the users who have a limited internet connectivity. I mean user will be connected internet for few minutes. Assuming this, they are coming up with the solutions which a user can work even offline similar to an online user. One of them is google gears.  They want to provide a browser integrated office tools where a user can work even there is no internet connectivity. He will upload whenever he connects to the internet for a short while. These are my personal opinions and understanding on whatever I read. Just keep watching what google will launch in coming days. It going to be fantastic in future. Keep an eye….

Past 45 days, evenings were spent by watching IPL matches. By the time I though it was too much of cricket I got used to it. But yesterday was the closing ceremony and am damn sure I will feel bored after going home. It was a fantastic business idea which fetched them crores. I have read in somewhere that the business strategy and IPL is going be taught in one of the top business schools. Not only the IPL, the ads which comes between overs are too creative. Vodafone doggy’s ad is the one I liked the most. Even this ad invoked controversies where animal protection society has filed a case saying that dog has been tortured. There were so many creative ads which I dont remember at the moment, but captured attention even they were played for few seconds between those nerve breaking overs. IPL proved so many points about the planning, the play and the execution. Some teams whose players are individually strong but failed as a team. Some teams who has started like a bang ended up losing even without reaching semi finals. Some teams whose players are not individually the best but as a team they proved something. Even though lot of cricket involved in IPL there exists business side as an undercurrent. It involves controversies too starting from bhajji slapping to vijay malya’s furore to cheer leaders presence on the ground. Half of the Hollywood that has involved in IPL made  it much more attractive. Finally..kisi ko man of the match mila, kisi ko heroine mila..phir appko kya mila…