I am moving out of Chennai

Phew...what an hectic month..Project's gone live, got my kid sis married off and now am finally moving out of chennai back to Bangalore.A relief from the 35+ degree sweltering heat and dust to a more cooler, wetter place..But ss back to an ever irritating 10 km to & fro travel on Hosur road to ECity and back to BTM.Wish I had one those powers to get teleported as on scifi serials (called StarTrek) we used to watch on those good old days -every Sunday 9am on DD1..Sure wud have been cool..One of my other fantasy from this serial of having a flip phone has come true anyway..Indulged myself on a brand new MotoRazr V3i with a cool bluetooth headphone...Cost a heavy 15k but looks worth the expense..

The latest am reading these days is - "The World is Flat" by Tom Friedman, good book, ever insightful but felt he is getting all IndoMania..First 45 pages have all been abt Nandan, BLR, Call centers..etc etc..But quite a change from his older book - "Lexus and the Olive Tree" where all i could find abt India was an odd mention here and there.Felt quite let down then but realised I was too late in reading his books..Though I did catch up on his documentary on his trip down to Infy 't was on BBC if I am not wrong.BTW did i tell you I did get to finish reading "DaVinci Code",so queered was I by the hype surrounding the film, i did it in a marathon 6hrs 43 mins flat, last week(Was it slow,..not sure I know Sara sat on it for close to a month).Now am waiting to see the film if and Only if It gets released in India....

Sigh!! boss why do folks have to have a tiff over disclaimers..If you have decided its gonna be Mature audiences watching the film(not possible in these days of BitTorrents and BurmaBazaars(for pirated DVDs)) wouldn't they be mature enough to decide if its truth/fiction on the screen..Beats me..One thing am sure is, if its gonna be 2.5 hrs of pure dialogue and no action, forget it you wont need a disclaimer..Film will end up being a fiction unless someother director decides to make a sequel(ala Alexander ishtyle).But the news I read yesterday on the collections($225M) in 3 days tells a different tale though..

BTW did I tell I just started hunting for a girl...lets see where this goes!!Had funtime filling up the application form in a online matrimony site.. The best one was on the skin color..Fair, Wheat ..Wheatish Brown , Dark????!!!!! Eh isn't this a non racist country :) BTW I consulted 8 people before I checked that one :)

Finally its gone LIVE

After 6 months of struggle, uncertainity and "so called challenging times" when you finally see your Project going LIVE without any major issues, you get the immense satisfaction of having completed a quality Deliverable.On May 2nd, N&P went live in Sweden and Finland with huge data load of 200000 records sent in just a single day!! Have had my guys monitoring the loads in Shifts as per Finnish timings.If this goes smooth over this week, I will have some peaceful time @ home preparing for SP's marriage celebs..Have loads of work coming up and some extended days and nights till 11th May..

Know what the Election results come out on the same day, so am bit worried about general Law&Order around the Kalyan Mandapam, as its supposed to be in a busy area called Vadapalani!

Leaving these aside the hottest chat around the town these days is the new set of Parties and candidates for the local state elections in TN.My 2 cents is on JJ coming back, as probably she has not much of anti-incumbency factor, tripping her path.Excellent Tsunami work, tough approach to State Gov employees, better handling of Financial affairs and nack of blaming all ILLs on the Go(Group of TN)Ministers is coming handy to her.UPA has nothing much to show on this account, except for the new Kid on the block ,Mr.Dayanidhi Maran the rest dont have anythign worthwhile to show to the public..

One new factor I see is the emergence of groups like LOK PARITRAN which have probably the most saner manifesto among the crap'r one's I get to see among the other mainstream Parties in TN.Check it out from this Pdf link Manifest

Their Achilles heel are galore,
1) no "KNOWN faces" in the fora.
2) Lack of Proper Marketing of their Agenda and Reach.
3) Its doesn't even have a Tamil name to its party which makes it quite alien to the local populace.
4) Skewed Audience- educated Middle/Upper Middleclass - This is the "CULPRIT" GROUP which doesn't CARE to vote during elections!!

But whatever be the issue probably the very fact that this is a group of bright and educated individuals who have decided to spend their Time campaigning for a Cause - when they could have instead sat @ one of the numerous MNCs -consulting to earn some decent bucks, attracts one to their side.So no guesses on this, my sure VOTE is for them-luckily as I reside in one of the 5 constituencies where they plan to contest.

BTW forgot one thing, I just cleared Velociq couple of days back..it was a breeze..Didnt even prepare..25 questions - 7 mins flat..Wonder why i still get these pre exam cramps!!May be I should prepare for PMP..:) Well that wud be a nice challenge!!