Another Run!

Another year .. Another 10k ... I wish I could run 10k without stopping !
Yeah that requires a lot of practice and discipline .Lots of hope and thoughts ...and pain while running ! But  was determined to complete it and did it .

There were a  few thoughts on how the event organizers could do a better job ...They need to raise the bar on organizing marathon events especially when there is so many enthusiastic people to Run.

-Dustbins to create the culture of throwing used bottles etc into the dustbin
-Easy availability of medical supplies
-Increase the number of counters for distribution of food supplies
-Separate counters for Medals/Certificates
-Do not stop the run to entertain VIP traffic! --Stop it only for medical emergency or other emergency
-Somewhere the theme of the run gets lost!

The most important part ....As important the start is to the 10k ....make finishing too very important !

“Life goes on with you and without you”

Its been a long time..back here again!! what brings me here !!
Death ---the end of life ;the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. I may have said this before that the tragedy of death is not life ....but what we let die inside of us when we live! In life we come across many people who are part of our lives ...
some to care for ;
some to love ;
some to understand ;
......
......
......
some to complicate; :)

But its a very few that truly inspires!
If I were to describe her in 1 word "Dedicated" !
Dedicated to education and Balvikas ;
Many of us are a reflection of her "Good Qualities " We love you Always!
Miss you ... May her soul rest in peace!

“Life goes on with me and without me”

GIST OF THE GITA

Whatever has happened is for GOOD
Whatever is happening is going on WELL
Whatever will happen that will also be GOOD

Why you are repenting for whatever you have LOST
Have you brought anything with you which you have LOST?

Have you produced anything that is DRESTROYED
Whatever you have gained you obtained from HERE
Whatever you gave you have given HERE
whatever belongs today yesterday belonged to SOMEONE
It may belong to someone DAYAFTER

CHANGE IS THE RULE OF NATURE

You Can!

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can!
so what you can is what you can till you have explored it!
Its amazing how these little secrets can make a difference especially when you are surrounded by lot of clouds,dust and dirt!

The ability to see clearly when surrounded by lot of clouds,dust and dirt is an ART...get it used it! A Moving thought!

Another Session on REBT

REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) has been popular with various organizations. I gave the presentation & session on REBT to my office folks, for me it was refresher and for many in the office it was thought provoking!

Started off ...like the way nobody expected.. In the session talked about ABC theory.
Actions ->Consequences ...A causes C. But A causes C only with the Help of Beliefs.

Situations in the world do not disturb us It is our view that makes it so
-Epictetus

How do we acquire Beliefs-> Inborn Intelligence,Acquired Experience,& we create beliefs

Harmful Beliefs
I must do everything well and get appreciation from all, or else I am worthless

Others must be kind and just to me, otherwise they are worthless

Everything in the world must be easy for me; or else nothing is worth doing in the world

The first category belief makes us anxious and guilty
The second category belief makes us non-tolerant and less flexible
The third category belief makes us vulnerable and prone to Low Frustration Tolerance L-F-T)

Its important to challenge and get rid of the musts..

Live in the world as it is NOT In a world as it ought to be

Its important to Dispute the beliefs with Rational..Thus leading to Effective Attitude

Unconditional self-acceptance:

I am a fallible human being; I have my good points and my bad points.
There is no reason why I must not have flaws.
Despite my good points and my bad points, I am no more worthy and no less worthy than any other human being.

Unconditional other-acceptance:

Other people will treat me unfairly from time to time.
There is no reason why they must treat me fairly.
The people who treat me unfairly are no more worthy and no less worthy than any other human being.

Unconditional life-acceptance:

Life doesn't always work out the way that I'd like it to.
There is no reason why life must go the way I want it to
Life is not necessarily pleasant but it is never awful and it is nearly always bearable.

Finally Thanking Dr Albert Ellis and the person who got it my attention way back!

How to Let go!

You cannot control everything in LIFE ...so no point thinking and breaking your head or heart on what you can't control

Its important to be able to move on and not hold onto it.

So what are the ways to let go

1)Learn to Accept as the past cannot be changed
2)Be aware of your thoughts..come to the present
3)Start something new get involved in a new hobby or something involving
4)Its important to share and vent your pain and sadness with your partner or friend
5)Go back talk to the people involved if possible
6)Apologize and ask forgiveness if there is a need
7)Take a break...go for a vacation
8)Write...like they way I try to do to let go!


For me 1-8 work ...sometimes 9 & 10 too :)

Lesson learnt : People will still stab from the back! but you still be Honest Harmless and Happy the way you always are!

Ran the Open 10km RUN-31st May 2009

Not for the pride nor for the pain I ran the Sunfeast World 10K Run in Bangalore
Completed the 10k run ....lastly but not the least I did it!
Not a fitness freak but I believed I could do it and I just did it!
Its important not only to believe in oneself but many a time proving to oneself that one can do the impossible. Anyway hoping that the run gives all the people whatever they look forward to from the run!

Whats in a Name??

You may ask whats in a Name??
You would recive a zillion replies!
Anyway we chose "Siddharth"

Relationships

Some thoughtful points:

1. Accept people as they are. You can't change them until they want to!

2. Don't expect people will do things for you. Well if they do ...good for you!

3. Be sensitive on what you say ...Its easy to hurt people! Sometimes hold yourself back!

4. Comparisons will always be there ....Avoid people who do it!

5. It takes 2 to tick ..Stretch your hand ...but don't hurt yourself..take your time don't hurry!

Dec 9th 2008

Enter a special day in my life....
yet another stage in Life!
Being a Father!
09-12-2008
time 12:42 pm!

"My son was born"

Welcome Son!!

....Fair Governance

Corporates uses different sometimes unique strategies to ensure that they are successful...besides also having eye washers like vision mission and values.Yes there is no perfect world.

So what should one take?

Take each day as it comes .....Note Rome was not build in day
Stay focused with what one wants to do and do it.
Ensure you spend quality time with family and friends
Try to plan as much as you can.
Understand, be aware of your strengths and Use it.
Work on weakness ...
Discover new opportunities ,Be open to them
Finally there is risk in nearly everything ...
the point here is to mitigate them!

One needs to be aware in corporates white lies are told!.
People are manipulative ...everyone has his/her agenda.

As a part of Governance Corporates should ensure that they minimise white lies
hold people Accountable...Ensure Fair Governance!

GWT

Google Web too kit!!

Product Notes from Gooogle :Writing web apps today is a tedious and error-prone process. Developers can spend 90% of their time working around browser quirks. In addition, building, reusing,
and maintaining large JavaScript code bases and AJAX components can be difficult and fragile. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) eases this burden by allowing developers to quickly build and maintain complex yet highly performant JavaScript front-end applications in the Java programming language.

Here is the link...

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

It a good start since u don't need to know swings or awt etc!

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Don't Worry, Be Happy
From the Movie "Cocktails"
Performed by Bobby McFerrin

Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy......

Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The land lord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy
Lood at me I am happy
Don't worry, be happy
Here I give you my phone number
When you worry call me
I make you happy
Don't worry, be happy
Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got not girl to make you smile
But don't worry be happy
Cause when you worry
Your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
So don't worry, be happy (now).....

There is this little song I wrote
I hope you learn it note for note
Like good little children
Don't worry, be happy
Listen to what I say
In your life expect some trouble
But when you worry
You make it double
Don't worry, be happy......
Don't worry don't do it, be happy
Put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down like this
Don't worry, it will soon past
Whatever it is
Don't worry, be happy

What a MONDAY!

PWC consulting had changed its name to Monday way back in 2002 for whatever reasons.The name did not survive for long as it was taken over by IBM.Anyway ...Monday's for many may be just another day ,for some moody Mondays!!.There have been Black Monday's where the stock markets have crashed!..Blue Mondays being the depressing day of the year ....But what we have witnessed on 15/09/08 will go down in History as one of the most saddest days in WALL Street.

"Lehman Brothers claims Bankruptcy and Merrill bought over by Bank of America"

Say it with Flowers ......

Say it with Flowers ..
Flowers mean a whole a lot of different things to people
But for Onam its signifies a "WELCOME to King Mahabali".

Another Thought!

"Look at
the flowers
with critical insight.
How could
the flower evolve
unless there were
intelligence there?"
— Paramhansa Yogananda

Thought Today!!

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.

The New world for Attendance

Gone are the days where swiping in of id cards were necessary to track Attendance.
In this "Biometric era" most corporates use Biometrics System to Capture Attendance.
Initially most Employees were paranoid with idea of Biometrics with excuses like "going back to aunguta chap days","reduce flexibility like WFH, mutilple offices" etc etc.

With development of technologies Biometric Recording,Storage and Verification has become relatively easy.

Fingerprint Systems constitutes half of the available biometrics System simply because of the cost and uniqueness of the finger print pattern.

Biometric Systems Jargon's... Here are a few..
"Passport,Template,Reader,1:N Matching,FRR(False Rejection Rate),FAR(False Acceptance Rate),papillary pattern, "

But Bottom line is Biometrics is here too stay...Attendance is just one the applications uses of it.

Finally India Achieves a Gold

I never thought I'd live to see this ...

India's Abhinav Bindra has created history becoming the first-ever individual gold medal winner for India at the Olympics. Bindra won the gold medal in men's 10m air rifle event today morning.

Abhinav - Hats of to you !We are Proud of you !

Performance Engineering

How does one engineer "PERFORMANCE" ?

Performance Engineering is one of the niche areas today...with most corporates spending large amounts of money to achieve the required performance. So whats Performance Engineering?

Its the science related to performance in terms of both Software and Hardware.

So both Hardware and Software have performance requirements. In order to meet the performance requirements in a systematic ,quantitative approach which can also be cost effective. What constitutes a Hardware --The machine,Storage,Terminals. Software consists of Operating System,Database,Middle ware, Web/App servers ,S/W Applications etc.

Food for thought there are councils i.e determine the performance benchmarks (a point of reference)of Database,Web/App servers, Also it provides OS performance(provided by the OS vendor generally) with regard to hardware . In terms of Database benchmarks a site good to visit http://www.tpc.org/ ... for OS like Solaris http://www.sun.com/benchmarks/software/solaris.xml

What about custom developed applications??? For this need to first define the Non functional requirements of the application . We also need to have a performance objective. Now a days with use of profiler's ,simulators during construction of the application , we can try to ensure that application being constructed meets the performance objectives that is defined.

Other Links of interests related to performance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998537.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_law -- N=λT

N is the number users

λ (Think Time +Response Time)

T-Throughput

http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/performance.jsp -Java SE performance

http://www.perfeng.com/ - Software Performance !!

Be Nice

We all come across different people with various backgrounds in our lives.Some we choose to like some we don't. Anyway its a choice we make! From our childhood days our parents always mention to Be Nice . People tend to forget the good things people do for them once they move away to another place or move up the corporate ladder or in day to day lives. Most of them have their reasons for doing so ...some may just forget!
A thought " Do to others as you want them to do unto you"
.. Be nice to the people when you go up..(wherever that may be )...Since most of the time they will be nice to you when you come down!
Thoughts wonder should I be Good or should I be Nice.. they both are synonymous!
Be Nice to the people around no matter who they are ...remember they to do have a Heart!