Making of an unproductive Indian

These days I have been traveling by local train, the MRTS in chennai, While I was returning home the other day, it was 7:30 PM. I saw a juvenile girl singing some weird language song, While her younger brother been collecting money in the compartment where my friend and myself being present. I was so pissed of with this activity of sending this girl to do the beggar job. I started scolding their parents and was telling my friend. So my friend asked me on an average day how much money will they be making. My friend has been traveling for years, I just started accompanying him for the last few months.

Can any one guess? The train had 9 compartments running time 45 Minutes. And frequency of this train on an average would be 10-15 Minutes during peak hours.

So I replied my friend saying a 100 Rupees a day. He just laughed at me and explained that they would have already obtained 100 or more Rupees on this trip alone. He went on explaining that an average Indian would give a 1 Rupee to these beggars. The regular travelers know these beggars. So they don’t give them money. It is floating population which falls for these people. Take a single compartment at least 10 to 15 people flick a one Rupee coin and by that 9 compartment of this train they make an average of over 100 Rupees. Imagine if they make around 8 or more trips a day.

I said to my friend, that I was not making that much money being a software professional after all the bloody useless taxes which I have been paying for the Indian Government.

He went on and said, that he had no clues on what happens to that money. But he said, that is one reason we see the parents encouraging their children to beg for money. So for generation they are in the Beggar Business. So now you known why Indians are being considered as Beggars by foreign nationals.

So what is the solution for an unproductive Indian?
While the middle class has been loaded with more and more taxes and the top class has been evading from tax and while the poor has no idea about What taxes were meant to be.

One possible thing which stuck my mind was that these beggars have to be in prison and asked to work on different trades, some thing like the co-operative societies do and be paid really less. It is some thing like saying if you beg you will make 10 Rupees a day. While you work outside you could earn more, So the choice is theirs. Well some one could make Indian roads to every place clean.

Next time you see any one begging on public places please don’t serve that Rupee you are in the process of making an unproductive Indian. Think twice please.

If you have any more ways to make them work do comment.

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Kung Fu Panda – A lesson for teachers

Kung Fu Panda

I had written a post long back A perfect Teacher, until recently I watched the movie Kung Fu Panda, my whole perception changed about teaching.
Lesson 1: What ever happens is not a mistake

Lesson 2: Believe in the person you want to teach

Lesson 3: Identify, what the candidate is interested on, find a new method and teach

Finally Lesson 4: There is no special ingredient.

The final lesson about the special ingredient is the most important one.

Imagine you are on the 100 meters dash, competing with a world record athlete , what is the difference or the distance between you and professional athlete while winning the race.

It can’t be 100 meters for sure, the difference is nothing but impact of lesson 3, and lesson 2

Lesson 3 is nothing but practice, dedication on what you want to achieve.

Practice makes a man perfect, that involves failures. Those are the stepping stone to success.

Lesson 2 is Believe in yourself first, and never give up, even when the whole world is totally against you. When you start believing in your self first, rest of the world will start believing in you.

No one can inject knowledge, Unless you wish to acquire them.

Lesson 1 may seemed incidental, but not true. Unless you wanted things to happen the way expected.

No one can stop your growth, unless you wanted to.

Singles Advertisements at its best

After a very long time I am seeing some funny advertisement which provoked me to go and look at what the site is all about.

Three simple advertisements as follows



really cool ads from neu.de
This site never said a word about dating or singles, just the intension of an idea person.

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Spinning girl, right or left brain perception(SFW)

The spinning girl image can let you know which part of your brain works for you and how you perceive thing normally.

Which way is she spinning for you?

Clockwise or Anti Clockwise

If clockwise you are using your right side of you brain. If anti clockwise you are using your left side of your brain. It is not that difficult to experience the anti clockwise or vice versa, all it takes is to move your eyes away from the image for few seconds and view the spinning girl again.

Well if you wanted to know more about the psychology studies related to the spinning girl find it right here. And countless thanks for my friend (Girish) who showed me the link.

LEAVE STEVE JOBS ALONE!

Just happened to stumble upon justine’s blog, an ardent apple fan . Her video remarked to be either sarcastic or she really felt for Steve Jobs.

The whole world knows when you buy new Gadgets or Status icon products, they are meant to be bit pricey and as time passes by, old models have to give way for the new model products and the prices have to be slashed in order to keep the old one in the market to meet the manufacturing cost of the production.

I bought my Nokia N70 in India, when the product was just launched it was 25000 INR (USD 500 approx.) and 6 months down the lane it was 15000 INR (USD 300 approx.). Does it mean, we all send mails to Nokia.

What a crap, There are still Iphone users who believe that they have premium product or atleast an usable product.

Well I love Apple for the WOW/usability products, being an ardent fan of the PC for years, I do have second hand Ipod mini Apple did replace the batteries free of cost after 1 yr and would love to possess the Iphone when it hits the Indian market.

Steve I am not complaining, just get us the Iphone to India, even if you hike and reduce the price, there will Indians Apple fan who love your products.

One thing I would like to say “Steve you have crazy Apple fan, who makes crappy videos out of your name”

Justine: No hard feeling, If you felt the post is in appropriate, let me know. ( I am away for this weekend, no computers, no cellphones. Will respond soon.)

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Wildhogs – true essence of bikers

Dudes these guys rock, Yeah you guessed it right, it is about bikers. I am sure most of us have a group, right from childhood, If you have taken a road trip with your bunch of friends, you will surely love this movie. Most details of movie surely covered my road trips. I had been on road trips twice with my friends and planning for the third, coming week end.

Starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence & William H Macy

Why I love this movie?
It is the character William H Macy , a computer geek and not so great biker, making mistakes, At the end of the movie he wins what he wants. He seems to be the looser from the very start of the movie, but wins his hearts desire.

Bikers Attitude?
The essence of bikers is actually conveyed in this movie. You don’t have to be true bikers (macho, arrogant etc), all it needs is the love to go on a long drive and enjoy with friends.

Sure it did win my heart.

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Live Free or Die Hard 4

Are you a die hard fan, then don’t miss this movie. Live Free or Die Hard.

Why Live Free or Die Hard for director Len Wisemen?
The director of this movie Len Wisemen has seen this movie about 19 years before and has been making short films on his own with the die hard theme when he was young. So you can see his passion coming live in this movie Live Free or Die Hard.

My favorite hero John Mclane (Bruce Willis) is alive, cool headed, with life – head on attitude. The best part of John Mclane comes with his unusual situational dialogs with are actually kick ass.

The movie is still not released in India. Don’t watch Live Free ot Die Hard on a DVD, Please visit the theaters for some kick ass dialogs, movie stunts and a never give up Bruce Willis.

Check out the Live Free and Die Hard site for more

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Create StoryBoard/ presentation with toonDoo or Fix8

What is ToonDoo?
ToonDoo let you to create your own storyboard or presentation. Comic characters come to life with respect to your creativity. Well something like you don’t need a graphic artist or designer to create a cartoon character to tell the story of what you have in your mind.

So What is Fix8?
Well you can start expressing yourselves on your current mood or even tell stories with a live video. That is right, they have almost the similar type of avatars as ToonDoo.

So how does Fix8 work?
All you need is a web cam plugged in to your PC and with the help of their proprietary software installed on your PC.
The best part with Fix8, is that it comes with audio and 3D characters who can animate along with you, and you could record the animation and store it as digital video format. You could share it on youtube or myspace.

All you need is creativity and little bit of story boarding prior to creating still pictures or digital video.

With ToonDoo, you can express with still images
With Fix8 you can express through live videos and share it on youtube or myspace

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Management Lessons

I have see lot of email forwards and this is no bullshit story on management.

Lesson Number One

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A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.
A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?”
The crow answered “Sure, why not.”
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.
All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson:

To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
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Lesson Number Two
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A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson:

Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.
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Lesson Number Three
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When the body was first made, all the parts wanted to be Boss.

The Brain said, “I should be Boss because I control the whole body’s responses and functions.”

The feet said, “We should be Boss as we carry the brain about and get him to where he wants to go.”

The hands said, “We should be Boss because we do all the work and earn all the money.”

And so it went on and on with the heart, the lungs and the eyes until finally the asshole spoke up.

All the parts laughed at the idea of the asshole being the Boss. So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work.

Within a short time the eyes became crossed, the hands clenched, the Feet twitched, the heart and lungs began to panic and the brain fevered.

Eventually they all decided that asshole should be the Boss, so the motion was passed.

All the other parts did all the work while the Boss just sat and passed out the shit!

Management Lesson:

You don’t need brains to be a Boss – any asshole will do.

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Lesson Number Four
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A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field.

While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was.

The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung and promptly dug him out and ate him!

Management Lessons:

1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you’re in deep shit, keep your mouth shut!

courtesy:Kailash

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Gang of Girls – Movie Making tips for Bittu Jones’s Diary

Bittu Jones’s Diary – A captivating hoarding on the 100 feet road, chennai, Tamilnadu – India.

I had spoken about gang of girls a product or new venture of sunsilk to attract young girls/ women/ ladies to share their views and thought online, a social networking tool exclusively built for The women.

Now gangofgirls have launched a new idea in their portal for girls / women/ ladies who can make their own movies and share with like minded people.

To start of here are few tips to make short films. The budget is really low.

1. If you want to make your own movie. Have a concept, If you don’t have one choose one. With out which don’t even start of taking videos.
2. Research about the subject, search them online, talk to friends, so that you will know whether people like the idea.
   
3. If you have a Mobile Phone like the N-Series Nokia N70 the starting range or Sony Ericsson’s W850i which are decent enough ones to start of (decent quality digital video). The best part is they are already digital video, You don’t have the hassle of converting the mini DV cassette videos from your Handy cams to digital ones. There are digital Handy cams in the market, they are really costly and the media (DVD) for the ones are not cheap.
   
4. Test you movies, Choose grouper or revver to upload your movies to convert the video to flash viewable formats.  This is to check the quality of your video online.
   

So what are you ladies waiting for?
Make your own short movies, or full fledged ones. Photographers can now think of making their vision come true.
So Start, Camera, Action.

Hope Gangofgirls will have lots of new Directors. Wish you all ladies a “best of luck”

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