Useless Myths

A Little bouncer in my page ......

A too much talked of matter in my gym recently. Number of women who dump their boys outnumber the boys who dump their gals. Gym is flanked with guys who suffer in their love relationship or who are dumped so badly. Two obvious reasons that show up this is from the choice of songs they flip-in and the amount of time (in evening) they spend in gym. Young lads had chosen the gym to shed off their anger and frustration with their bad taste in love.

Common theories that circulated on a sunday morning...

1) People coming to gym of two categories... Married men with little too big belly who want to escape from their "better-halves" and, obviously the final year college studs who want to impress their gfriends.

2) Anybody in relationship, the duration of it is ideally 3 years and it had not gone beyond it. It applies to even people who dont visit gym.

3) One should work out as much as possible and equally grab rest to the bones and muscles. Both of them are important equally to have a healthier body.

4) A gal or boy who is in first love with their partner finds it comparitively harder to leave the other !

5) People who come to gym in morning are of "weight loss" category and who come in evening are of "weight gaining" category.

6) Always, first few days of month has crowded gym with new enrollments and after 10 days, the crowd die down to have only regular visitors.

& Many more which I forgot !!!

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ???

Ofcourse, only solution is Love & Peace ! This is what Bono(U2) has got to say. Happenned to see the Rock show of U2 a week back on a Friday night on Vh1. Offlate, I pay more attention to lyrics than voice or music that I am scrapping off Tamil musics mostly.

If there is one song I like to hear everyday while I brush is (not the Suprabatham) the Beautiful Day. "All that You can't Leave Behind" is an awesome album and that made me to hear more of U2's earlier works. This has all the values to defeat Eminem's super hit album (Eminem Show) in Grammys then !

New pictures

It's my long weekend with surprisingly no weekend official commitments and unsurprisingly no plans with girlfriend. I've grabbed some time and updated my flickr with few of my favourite captures. I just realised, when it comes next to my job, I love photography ! Unfortunately, this part of world doesn't offer much to be shot and with a great memory which even forgets to carry mobile phone , can't carry camera everyday.

So, guys who come here..have a visit to my flickr and what else, have a happy viewing !!!

DB2 & UDB ????!!!????

Recently happenned to come across a really valuable blog site . Many might have known Craig Mullins and his expertise on database, DB2. I felt it is late I knew of this site.

Iam grabbing time then n there to go through all the possible posts he has made. One of which I read recently is on nomenclature on DB2. My mailbox is flooded with job notifications from consultants & HR professionals saying "both DB2 & UDB mandatory skills". I would like to stress DB2 or UDB is one and same. DB2 expands to DataBase 2 and UDB expands to Universal DataBase. So, DB2 & UDB are always together. IBM named its database as "DB2 UDB". But, there are variants of DB2 depending upon operating systems.

OF the DB2 family, DB2 base code (that are database functionalities) is one and same for all these variants (just like Lx or Lxi or Vxi of Maruti Cars, they all have same engine specs). The OS interface layer is customized depending on the OS and to leverage OS features. But, even among professionals, it is common to refer DB2 on Windows or Linux or Unix as "UDB" which really frustrates me , at times. Even on IBM's Zseries machines (S/390 too), the DB2 is UDB !

So, it is either DB2 UDB for LUW or DB2 UDB for Z/oS !!

Rather a Late wake up !

International Business Machines (IBM) , Accenture IT consulting and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) are direct competetitors in american IT consulting market and on global basis too, apart from facing competetition from Indian Cos on outsourcing. In the BPO war, Accenture is the late one to enter cheaper destination - India but, I would say it is the one who captivated on this earlier and faster ! As IBM saw Accenture growing in sub-continent, it too pulled up the sleeves. IBM has grown from mere 6,000 employees in 2001 to 43,000 employees now in 2006 which includes their bought out companies in the last two years (like Daksh).

EDS which is the one who started IT outsourcing much earlier than other two bigges, in the days when it was not even called outsourcing. Almost a decade now since EDS been in Indian soil and the employee headcount stand 2,500 at the beginning of 2006. What a difference ? Continuously posting lossess in revenue due to few wrong judgements with the contracts pushed EDS to a shell that it didn’t captivate on the offshoring benefit.

Now resurrecting slowly, EDS too jumped into increasing the headcount in India. But, indian IT market is more volatile (now !) than the melting ice or burning camphor that it couldn’t balance between hiring and attrition. And, to match up with fellow bigges who have mammoth difference in headcounts, definitely hiring over the weekedays + weekends not going to help.
Mphasis !!

EDS purchased 62% stake in the Indian Outsourcing company which has about 15,000 employees and initiated a merger involving EDS and Mphasis. Anything more on this deal or whats in store for employees of mphasis or EDS or what changes on corporate world… Wait for corporate release from EDS's Jeff Heller or Mike Jordan from the Plano (Texsas).

Such stuffs easily pick my eyes

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1982473.cms

In crisp :

UNEASY TRUTH

Average yearly salary of Dalit students is Rs 2 lakh less than general category students. These students have lesser work experience, are slowtrack and usually take three years to complete the two-year course IIMs have not carried out any path-breaking research despite the kind of money that is pumped into them

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu - A Kamal Movie ????????

Now that the TV channels have played all the key scenes and the songs of the movie, I dont find myself guilty to write review because, I am going to reveal story and suspense of the movie - vettaiyadu vilaiyadu. The movie's main attractions are the lead male actor Kamal hassan and the music which were chartbusters already. Kamal,as a cop nabbing psycho killers, has a "stupidest" mass hero punch dialogue entry which he has not done in the past 10 years or so but, the song showing a typical 'Gautham Menon's stylish cop' relieves the fans. Probably, this is the kamal film that has commercially super duper hit songs in the last 10 years or so. So, one could expect kamal songs on TV more often this year.

Kamal goes on, hunting for the psycho killers, with too feeble evidences and soon, director realises it is better to show off the killers in an unexpected bumpy scene just before Intermission. Soon after the interval, the cops reach to the killers and director felt he has to run the movie for one more hour. So, he lets the guys escape and intrude into India from Newyork, to save on few production cost too! Can't the NYPD freeze suspects' bank accounts or atleast trace it ? When NYPD could get immigration details of Indians, they could have atleast asked to watch for passports and that way, could have stopped suspects to leave a nation !

Screenplay of the movie is so pathetic that songs come to irritate on a supposed to be a thriller movie. Kamal's flashback sequences could have been placed somewhere when he narrates to Jyothika instead of where it is now. Investigation of a murder in NY is just same as what in Indian Village Keernoor and fails to get any interest for me. Kamal talks of confidential investigation details from a payphone on street. NYPD cops enter house without search warrant and one cop get killed and there seems to be no investigation on it at all to spare our Indian police hero back home ! That Kamal-jyothika episodes in second half drags so much to test viewer's patience. I was expecting a song when the duo hold hand and walk just befor climax. That lousy song 'Uyirilae' and a beach song (think, it was outsourced to Hindi Film Industry !) could have just been on audio. Jyothika is (emotionally) sick in this movie and doesnt fail to impart it on viewers whenever she appears !

Director again realises that the police finding out killers again would take another episode and makes the killer just hit with police to end the film. The cast, character names, crew all are almost same from Gautham's previous movie and it could have been avoided. Slick photography on NY landscapes and the music (though it reminds one of Backstreet Boys, Fat Boy Slim and his own ) receives accolades.