Business Case = Neraya Poi

I am writing a business case to extend the contract of one of my team member. It needs to 'PASS' the first time itself. I have exaggerated the role. It has neraya poi, konjam unmai!

Thank you 2010. Welcome 2011!

Hellooooooww!  Wish you and yours a very happy and a prosperous new year!!

I am writing after really really long time.  2010 has been an exciting year.  It had more focus on my career than anything else.  It involved lot of travel, both business and personal.  Some decisions were made and some of them reversed!  Some targets achieved and some yet to be achieved.  Spent reasonable (good) time with family.  The last quarter of 2010 was very tiring due to work.

Hope the new year brings success and happiness to every one.  Have a great year ahead!

Note to the West!

I would like to draw the attention of westerners who outsource work to India, either to sleep peacefully or to make cost savings for their organizations or to go on holidays with their dear ones!

 The months, October and November are month of festivals in India.  Every week there will be lesser working hours than usual.  Sometimes the working hours are too less that people here do not find it worth travelling to work!  

So what is the message? The message is if you are planning your critical project activities in these months please do not do so.  Plan well and have them somewhat earlier in the months of August and September or have them after October. 

Well, it may sound weird, but you can try planning critical activities in these months to believe in what I just said!  The culture has changed everywhere, Indians also travel long distances to spend time with their families.  We also want to have holidays and festivals.  Good or bad, we copied this culture from you.

 

If you want to go with the tide, you are most welcome to celebrate Indian festivals with us like we celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving with you!!

East Vs West

Hellooow!  How are things?  I am writing after a very long time.  I am in India now and I work with customers from the western world.  We always contrast and compare the westerners culturally (perhaps they do it as well!).  I came across a website that was doing this contrasting between the east and west.  I have given some pictures ,that I liked, from the site.  These images do not represent my opinion though.

Blue is for Westerners and Red is for Asians.  Click on any of these images to visit the site and see the other pics. 

Punctuality

Waiting in Queue

Happy Virodhi Varusham

Happy Tamil New Year!  May this Virodhi varusham bring all happiness and prosperity to you. 

Well I just wanted to know how this new year is being celebrated by Tamils in other parts of the world. 

I came across this website which published its newsletter on the internet with almost all the details required to start a great new year!  I think this is the first one that I have seen to have the newsletter published on time and it carries enough details.  It is from Singapore and click here to access their newsletter.

I wish they publish this newsletter every month.  This has very interesting information.  It starts with a sacred utterance, calendar of events for the month, significance of the month with dates and the festivals in the month. 

Sivane Potri!

Kovakkai

After I came to India, today is the first time I happened to taste Kovakkai (a vegetable called ivy gourd).  But this has been classified as a fruit!  This vegetable(fruit) is famous especially in Chennai (perhaps I have not seen it anywhere in India).  I really like it and it goes well with any type of rice or chapathi.  It is sliced into small discs and deep fried in oil with spices and salt.  It resembles a Jalapeno in shape and it is red inside with tiny and soft seeds.  But it is not very hot and spicy like a Jalapeno.

I am not surprised when the poets in India compare it to the color of women’s lips.  Well atleast women ought to have lips in that color!

It has some medicinal uses also.  It is used in treating diabetes, skin eruptions among many others.  It is used as a herb in Thailand.  May be you can refer to wikipedia to know more.

Pets resemble their owners

A scientific research has concluded that most pets resemble their owners.  I could not believe until I could see these pictures.  See it to believe it.  Here you go…        

Picture courtesy: Google images