GENRATION AND TIME

... Go hand in hand

LOVE, one of the most common words you will hear nowadays. Earlier, a guy and a girl walking on the road, made everyones' head turn, and now, holding hands and cuchipooing on the roads (no kona s required) are quite normal shows. ;)

Generation!!! is the answer if anyone has a question or debate with it..

Love is very simple. Parents, sibblings, friends and may be pets also. So, Love is quite simple with them, as i already told. Complication is when, it comes to your so-called boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife.

Why?

Answer is same "Generation".

What's your take?

-> Surprised? Smiling? Already knew? Or Not posible?

My take is yes, its Generation!!

Many of us would have fought with our parents saying that, you can't understand ME. Then it's generation gap. But soon the next thing (which i can say maximum number of) children would do is say sorry, as we remeber that they are elders and respect comes first. And then fight sorts out in max cases.

Here, in case of Love, between same gen people, we know our generation so well, that we always think in the lines the way we have seen the world around us and the best(or so to say the worst) part is always in the negative lines, leading to more problems.

Even if none of the two, are cheating on each other, there is always a streak of doubt.

But when its your parents, you don't doubt at all. Do you?

Thats because of TIME. Knowing a person for a long time is the only solution to the problem. We seldom tend to doubt on people whom we have known for quite a long time. Give sufficient time for your loved one, to have an unproblematic Love Life.. :) is the moral of the story!!!

So the problem of Generation, is Time itself. :)

Note: Please leave your comments. It will add on to the blog in my next post!

WHAT IS COGNOS ?

Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions. It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.

Cognos 8 BI ensures accurate reporting and handling of numeric data. The numbers have to add up in the day-to-day processes in a scope that Excel cannot cover.

Reporting is both open and transparent, which makes decision-making knowledge-based, facilitates data management, and transforms the ‘I think’ into ‘I know’ statements.

The main drawback is query performance, a highly normalized model will lead to dozens of tables in a single SQL statement, leading to large execution plans and potentially slow performance.

Relational data sources also pose a number of modelling challenges for the framework modeller to create predictable query results.

But then it can be solved by using a dimensionally modelled database for querying.

My Take :-

Very amazing and programmer friendly.

The code hardly needs any changes.

And as it is open reporting, any changes made at the code level, will not effect upgradations in anyways (unlike SAP etc)

UI can be made as catchy and presentable as possible.

A streak of THOUGHT!!!

If you don't match with the person yoou talk to,
best thing is smile and end the conversation....

Healthy for both parties!!!! [;)]

A RAY OF HOPE.....


Live through the time when everything hurts

Go through the agony, where everything thwarts

Let the deepest of heart, break to dishonesty

Fall in love, face all the atrocity

Believe yourself, and then believe others

Even if they are wrong, you will not pay the costs

Ooze the blood out, for something you believe in

Move forward, in the most righteous direction

Allow the hurdles, to test the flakes of time

Don’t give up easily, till you have a spine

Smile, to your enemy

Never do you know, whom you want when needy

Sail across the oceans, if achievement is the goal

In bad epoch, wait for the moment to just roll,

Decide on what is the best, and never change it,

Then you will surely find in you life, a bright new light!!!

- by ME

:)

The Shankar Mahadevan Concert rocked Bangalore!!

Unbelievable, Marvelous, Fantastic, would be some of my adjectives to the well-deserving Shankar Mahadevan Concert on Friday Night, 17th October. It would have been a sin to even think about the concert, to be boring. People who really watch the music reality shows like Sa re Ga Ma Pa will know it better, what Shankar Mahadevan is capable of.

I had a hectic day in the office, after which I thought I might not be able to enjoy the show. But then, I got freshened up in the office, from where we (few friends) directly left for Palace grounds. Fighting against all the odds, be it traffic jams or finding the venue we finally reached at the concert.

Then we were welcomed by a huge crowd of people, which was quite expected, as the tickets were free of cost distributed at Times of India Office, and some other places in Bangalore. After being on the roads for more than an hour and half, I was so very exhausted, but still trying to keep up my enthusiasm level. We stood in the line, and in no time, we showed our passes, and entered the concert. Oh God! We were so far away from the stage. I could hardly see anything on the stage, though there was not anything good that time. There was a barricade beyond which we were standing as we had the “Normal” passes. That’s what the watchman told us when we showed our passes. “Oh Normal hai?” But I was more worried about, not getting to see anything on the stage, which worsens because of my height restrictions. :). We waited for the show to start. It was already time. But then the delay too, was expected. As we waited, we were talking about general stuff, when we got distracted twice or more by the false alarm of the hooting, signifying the arrival of the Man of the day! After not much waiting, he finally arrived! May be we did not realize the wait. He started with a very melodious song, depicting the various activities of social welfare undertaken by Times of India.

After that the stage was set on fire with all the beats of his famous songs. None of them could escape his charisma. Everyone was tapping there feet, clapping to the beats, singing with the singer himself, dancing to the peppy dance numbers. It was like a party time in Bangalore, where they say the night life has worsened. Who said that? :) At least on that day, anyone could prove that it’s not that bad at all. :). This will surely change once the concert was overJ. We enjoyed ourselves a lot, in spite of other factors like, all day hectic work of office, or the traffic, or no water available. Who cared? I never did. :). All latest bollywood songs were covered. None were missed. The music, the song, the enjoyment was all in the air. He was interacting with the crowd so well that, it all seemed as if he had cast a magical spell on all of us.


I tried to get a quick glance of the Man of the Concert, on the stage, although there was a projector on which he could be seen clearly. But I see him on the TV. I was successful most of the times to get an inch long view of him. Yes, he was that far!
There was mainly all young crowd surrounding us. But there were a lot of parents and grand parents also who accompanied their children, which proves that the charm of Shankar is all around. “Age no bar”! :)

Finally the show ended at 10:00 with all of us heading towards the gate as we were carrying with us, the few most enjoyable moments of our life. We can never forget it, or say I can never forget, my first concert, which had been so very memorable that, I will never ever forget that in my life!

Whats Happening with the EDUCATION sytem in India???

Nowadays, students have a lot of free time, to keep a track of the changing policies in education, wait for the day to come when these changing decisions will favor them and fulfill their dreams. I guess that is what the government assumes.

First, the whole commotion was created with the reservation of the OBC seats in the reputed institutions of the country and now, Round-N of the drama. There are vacant seats from the OBC quota seats, on which the government is having proceedings to decide on the way to allot these vacant seats.

First of all, is there a need for a proceeding to decide on that? Common sense says that, it has to be redirected to whosoever is eligible for the same. But that doesn’t happen in India! They will take their own sweet time to analyze something which is obvious, arguments follow and then the decision. And of course, please assume it’s not a quick job of three steps in three minutes or three days, it’s almost three months now. Today, that is 15th October, 2008; they announced that the remaining seats will be redirected to General Quota

A student, who has missed his admission by say few decimal points, will surely get admission in other colleges, which also is amongst the reputed colleges of India. Although they would wish to get into the prestigious IIMs, but they compromise for their life and career. What should they do? They don’t have any options. Already the year’s payment has been done, which is huge enough, not to magnetize them to what their dream was which they might get now, due to the vacancy. Though eligible, but they have to compromise with their dreams

Now, my question is why so late to decide on such a trivial issue?

It’s a much known fact, that there is a cut throat competition for these reputed B schools. You have to check only the magic numbers after the decimal, which will make your dream, come true! Government says that they can’t “dilute the level of merit” which they are implementing with a minus of 5% compared to the general candidates. Either there is ignorance of the facts of the entrance exams or there is a dearth of experienced people in the government.

With all these facts and figures, I would like to put my point of view, that government should remove the caste based distinctions in the society all together, or at least as a stepping stone, in the education of India. This is one of the most important reasons, why students prefer studying abroad with a loan of a huge amount than in India, where the policies change every now and then. Also, reservation of the seats should be there, for a developing country, but based on the financial status of the student’s family and not based on his/her caste.

COLECCION

What is Coleccion???

Its a Spanish name for collection. For me, its a collection of my thoughts.... The flow of my thoughts in day to day life. My take on them. Completely My point of view. I don't think i need to give a disclaimer for this ;). Comments are always welcome!! And they, will be taken into consideration, with due respect for their opinion!

(Its getting boring to write this now!! :).So Sorry! This was PUBLIC DEMAND!! Soon keep waiting for some more interesting updates in the Blog!!)

Spices of life

“Life doesn’t come with a guarantee that people who are there with you now, will always be there with you forever”, a very good friend, told me last night. Yes, nothing comes with a guarantee. True! But when we buy Anything new, we expect it to serve us long. How long? As long as we live, of course. That’s the expectation. Yes, we don’t want anything to get spoilt. But it’s natural that they are subjected to wear and tear. We keep the best of our hopes and continue to buy, still. Even if a thing doesn’t last long, we buy new things, as we go on. Or also as the technology improves we buy new things discarding the old ones, even if they are ready to serve you for few more years.

Same with our friends!! Add adequate and correct spices of friends, and enjoy the best taste of your life.

Otherwise, some people like changes in friends, even if they don’t need to, just as the technology improves ;). Thats a cool thing, nowadays!! And some are subjected to wear and tear. So, then you have to replace them. So you should have the taste of everything. Southindian(as I am one :)), punjabi, rajasthani etc etc, and chance mila toh, why not Italian, Continental, Chinese… and let the list continue…

Well that's the variety which you will never get in any other place. That's one take of friendship!!! :) (On a lighter note).

A memorable train journey

I have always been very lucky to travel by trains. Yes, I consider train journeys better. Once I had traveled by air, which was very bad. I was pukish through out the whole journey. The reason may be, because I was empty stomach. But this doesn’t happen when I am in train. One thing I can bet on is that, the train journeys are much more adventurous for me. Every time something new and bizarre happens. Hence lucky!!

It was my semester break. I change two trains to reach my home town. There are no direct trains. I really hate traveling. But as if I had many options. After 5 months, I feel so homesick that the travel by train is worth all the troubles. Not that I have lots of troubles. But still. It is way too tiring to be in train for two full days, especially when you are alone. In India, the trains are horrible to be in for even 1 day.

I was keeping my bag below my berth, when I saw a man, just entered arranging his stuff. Then, he offered help to me. It was not very heavy, I could manage it. I just gave a phony smile, and thanked him for his offer. Yes, it’s good to be polite, when you are traveling alone, but not very friendly also. That’s the instructions which all parents give “Don’t talk to strangers” or “Don’t accept gifts or eatables from them”. But that was when we were kids. Now, we can break that rule, but a bit cautiously. Well, I always think that I can judge a person well. But then it’s never the case. J Or say I have been wrong most of the times. This time also I was wrong…

He was sitting opposite to me. I just gave a quick fleeting look at him, checking out what he was wearing. Clothes speak a lot about your nature also. He was normally groomed. Well, he looked decent. As the train whistled, and left the station, I gave a call to my mom, informing her that the train has left and I am safe. That should be done, especially for a girl. Very partial, but that was the usual routine. As soon as I cut the call, the guy introduced himself say for five minutes, and then looked at me with a glare expecting me to also do the same. This is what I don’t like about train journeys. But then, I just told my name and my destination, where I was going to. He asked “THEN”. What was that question supposed to mean? Obviously he wanted to know more about me. But then, I was not interested to talk anything. I just gave another phony smile, and appeared to be busy messaging. I thought he will get the indication that I AM NOT INTERESTED. And then did not look at him for quite sometime.

I am not usually very sleepy in trains. But the exams had made me very tired, and even before I could even realize that I am sleepy, I had slept off. The train was not very filled, though I was expecting that it will be crowded. Anyways, I was glad about the train not being crowded. After an hour or two, I got up from my slumber. To my surprise, I did not find that guy in front of me, but as I turned sideways, I saw him sitting just next to me. I could have almost screamed. But I was very shocked. The opposite seat was empty, then, what was his problem. I was very scared. He smiled at me. But I did not this time. I was scared. I thought that I should have never talked to him in the first place. But then I did not know what to do. I had almost started shivering. I checked my bag, and money, which I always keep in my jeans. He kept staring at me, as I did all this. I got even more conscious. I then, gave a very bad look at him as I stood. I asked him to sit in the opposite seat. He at once, got up and sat where I asked him to. This made me even more scared. Then I kept looking out of the window. But every time, I would steal a glance at him, he would be looking at me. I was very nervous. I barely could utter a word. I wanted to change my seat badly, but I was not able to see the Ticket Collector. Then, after a very long time, he said very softly, almost as if I could hear it as a whisper. I was bleeding from my cheeks. Then, I touched my left cheek, and I saw blood in my hand. But, how did it happen? I went to the wash, and saw a cut on my cheek in the mirror. I was so shocked, but then it did not pain at all for hours. Or I guess, I was very scared to think about it. I came to my seat and looked at him, with a weary smile. He told me that when I was asleep, I hit myself against the widow pane and that; he had been trying to tell that to me since a long time. He smiled, as he gave me cotton. I was a bit hesitant, to take help from him, after everything that had happened. But then, I took it and applied some cream. Then, he advised me to take an injection as soon as I reached my home. I smiled as I nodded my head.

After that, I was comfortable, in the journey. We had few very small talks in between, but very casually. I still wanted to follow the childhood advice of my parents. No chance to be taken. He too, was not very nosy. The next day, he got down at a station few stops before my destination. His journey was over, and so was mine in few more minutes. My parents saw the cut on my cheek in the station and directly took me a doc, without even letting me get fresh. It was not a big cut, but I was moved by the entire thing that happened in the journey. I kept thinking later, if I should have apologized to him or not. Well, as the days passed by, I forgot the whole incident, and so the guilt also. But I had learnt that I should not draw to conclusion without knowing anything, at the same time be careful !!!

A MESS OF MY BIRTHDAY !!!

Hi Guys, My first post and the very reason for my blog, came from a very embarrassing situation of my life!! And yes, it wasmy Birthday celebration!!

I had got a very nice chocolate cake from my colleagues on 2nd September, 2008. Newly joined to office, or say working for the first time, I barely knew the work culture. In engineering colleges, especially if you are in a hostel, the scene is quite different. There is Birthday cake cut at 12:00 midnight, where all friends hog the cake and the left over cream is on the face. But now, out of college, I don't think there is any birthday bumps or creamed face. Good in one way. It pains a lot. ;). Although the fun was different and incomparable!

My so called Birthday cake was cut in a Conference Room! No howling, no phone calls, no teasing and it was all so peaceful, I gave a fake smile as i cut the cake! Oh God! Never have I celebrated my Birthday like this, in past 4 years. It was like some bunch of serious people who just sang the first line of the song trying hard not to see their laptops as they sang for me. :) . It came as a shock! But I was glad, that it was not my Birthday, that day. Yes it was not my Birthday on 2nd September. It’s on 2nd October.

That’s the twist. Yes, my parents had preponed my birthday by a month in my birth certificate to get me admitted in a school, which asked for students born before 1st October. Just a matter of two days, otherwise I had to wait for another year to get into school. So they decided to change the date. Earlier as I kid, it was like a boon to me, I wore new dress to school on 2nd September and celebrated at home again with another new dress and chocolates on 2nd October. I was very happy then.

But now, I had a big doubt. Could i tell my colleagues, that I have two birthdays? Of course not. It’s a kind of cheating! I can’t do that! And so, I did not! I tried to be as happy as possible as I cut the cake in the conference room in my old dress.

The day just passed by!

Now came the best or say unexpectedly the worst weeks of all. The week of 2008 which had 4 days holiday and my Birthdayday week !! 1st and 2nd October was a holiday and then Friday then the weekend! What a week!!

There are few of my college friends who also joined the company with me after college; of course it was campus placements. There will be some people from college also who got selected. But they were ignorant of the two Birthdays which existed for me! Now guess, what would have been the worst thing??

On 30th September, I was sitting in the cafeteria as usual with all my friends for breakfast. One of my friends was having her breakfast so slowly. I wondered, what's wrong with her? Then I just waited for her to finish eating. Then she again went to get a juice for herself. I was confused. Usually she never has so much food. But today?? I thought that something was really wrong with her. Finally after a long wait her juice also finished. Thank God! Then we headed towards our cubes. One of my friends had her cube on the other wing. But she told that she was getting bored in her cube, so she will be with us for sometime and then go back. Early in the morning and getting bored?? I concluded that she was now at all in her senses today. :). I just gave a smile and we moved towards our cube. As i entered into my lane, I could see something weird, then i saw both my friends coming to my cube only and as i reached the cube, my first reaction was - IT'S NOT MY CUBE !! . Oh My GOD!! They decorated the cube with balloons and crape paper, which was very beautiful, and there was a cake also!! I was happy, but confused. Trying my level best to smile, but could hardly do, as I was much tensed. I had already celebrated my Birthday on 2nd September. If my team comes to know that it was a false birthday, if they feel bad, and moreover that day was also not my birthday. Oh God, I was so confused!! What to do now? My friends just took me to a conference room. We cut the cake, and followed the usual tradition of icing my face. But thankfully no Birthday bumps! But my heart beat could be heard so clearly in the silence of the office. It was so hard for me to control it pulsating so fast. I told my friends, I have already celebrated my Birthday. But who is going to listen to me? They decorated everything themselves, so nicely that I felt bad to tell that also.

But now what? I could do nothing! Now one of my friends went and told one of my team mates the truth of my Birthday, also adding that i am shy to tell this to them because of the celebration that already happened. Oh God! Another round, of getting tensed for the embarrassment, which I am going to face. What the hell was happening? Why the hell was happening? I just wanted the day to get over as soon as possible. Then my manager came to the cube. I, very embarrassingly narrated the actual facts of my dreadful Birthday truth. He just smiled and was sweet enough to help me not think about it. But the bottom line is, it was very very embarrassing.

The day slowly came to an end with one or two more people whom i had to explain the verity of my Birthday, which was fine. I guess i got used to the embarrassment :). But the day got over. And as packed my laptop and headed towards my shuttle, I was thinking what a messed up Birthday it was! I celebrated it twice, even before it was my Birthday! I will never forget it through out my life!!!! :) :)