Moving the Audience

Speeches from industry topguns.. Motivational moments... Sentimental seconds... Awe inspiring movies... Goosebump causing books... Epic tale of a majestic king... Reality show touching moments... of all these, u know one thing that is common to all of them!!! Well its not a very tough nutshell to crack. It is basically the underlying essence in them that move the audience and make them feel that they have seen something that is truely possible and torches the brighter side in u which aims for an all new level of confidence.


There could have been several such moments in ur life. I have got those enlightening feelings many a times. It may even come up when u see a cheetah hunt a hyena with a strategy and brutality. The line of approach need not necessarily be conventional where u find the usual story of truth, justice and the good triumph. Tell me this, all of you would have watched the movie Nayagan, and the morphing of Karna-Duryodhana friendship into Thalapathy. Did any of us feel the pinch that these guys are all involved in anti-social activities and they are fundamentally criminals???? No, not at all. All of us felt that glorious feeling and emotional touch when we saw that on screen. Similarly when a Lion hunts down its prey and its shown in discovery channel, we all are amazed by the Lion's tactics and muscle.


So its all basically the wrapping of the gift that matters and the way the story is narrated. Ravana is depicted as evil and demon in our culture. But all of us know that Ravana is a lot more than the devil he is highlighted to be. His intellectual ability, powerful leadership and his seasoned talent in music and singing are some to be highlighted. Ithu mathiri niraya sambavangal irukirathu, i.e. our own beliefs in human race and psychological definition of the right and the wrong can be overriden at times and we ourselves will not feel the shift of paradigm in it and we would unknowingly even support the invasion of our own ideologies.

Here comes the main reason behind me bringing thiss post up..... The movie Avatar is no different from all the points that i touched above. Ultimately, this movie is also talking about our race of people trying to fight some aliens living in Neverland!! and expand our kingdom. But, but, ipdi sonaal ellarum yena adika thaan varuvinga.. Whyyy?? Bcuz we felt that the Na'vis are on the appealing end and our law court within declared them as having the fairplay creed and integrity. Athey story ah, humans trying to kill aliens and weird creatures of the 3rd world and triumph against them endru kaamichurunthaal wouldnt we have still enjoyed it?! Well, think about it guys... Thats the case with every exhilirating and mind stirring story.... Alexander, Napoleon Bonaparte, India Pakistan cricket matches..........!

There goes 2009, the year of events

We are nearing the end of a very eventful year. What a wonderful year it was for all of us. Most of us got the taste of what the actual world is this year only. Till last year we were students and this year we stand as responsible people. Lot of expectations from our parents and well wishers and of course from our managers :). And not to forget a big thing, we became graduates this year. For every person the year which takes them to an independant state with respect to earning for themselves has a lot of significance does it not?

So many firsts for us this year: 1st degree, 1st company, 1st salary and so many like that. I thought it wud be interesting if we all get to know what we did with our first salary :).

With my first salary I got an ipod for my dad and a mobile for my mom :) It gave so much happiness to get something for parents out of first salary :) :)

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Welcoming 2010 with joy :)

Bye bye 2009...

Rlaely Azaimng

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid

I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanighuh?
sitll tarainwg toughrw minblgo

Some of you would have already come across this peculiar finding from the Cambridge university. But its still worth putting down in here as i found it as a chat status of one of my senior system analysts sitting at UK. Romba naala itha paathu amaze aayiruken. Now the turn is urs ppl.

Avatar - a must watch movie

Hats off to James Cameron... What a classic movie!! I have never watched Titanic in theatre and beleive it or not I myself want to watch Avarar more than once in theatre which suprises myself coz of the interest that I show on movies... I must say I was blessed to watch the movie in IMAX on the second day itself :).

The technology in it makes you feel wowww... The movie has so much in it for every minute that you hardly take your eyes off the screen unless your eye hurts of course :P It had proper mix of emotion, action, fiction and message.

The most lovely thing was even though it was purely fictional they conveyed a practical message which should make every human being think of the harm that is being created because of him/her.

Love, pain, action, views, natural fiction everything was simply awesome....

DONT MISS TO WATCH IT ON 3D SCREEN

PS: I am going to watch it for second time tomorrow :P

Comedies :) (I donno how to name this :P)

No intentions to hurt ppl...... Jus t to laugh at old times again :)


Dear students...

Please note the following instructions on the graduation day...

1. The registration started on 9.00 pm and end with 1.00pm.The registration held in our department library.Students couldnot make registration after the time limit.It includes seatno, mess token.Accourding to the given seat no students are seated in the quarangle.

2. you can get the robe at hall A121.The amount is Rs.150 for Deposit and Rs.50 for rent.Total Rs.180/- . Inside the quadrangle candidate should seated with the robe without wearing the robe students should not be permitted.

3. Candidates can take photographs with robe in Hall A119 & A120. The time is at 9.00am to 3.00pm and after ceremony upto 9.00pm. Individual/ personal photography is strictly prohibited in the Quadrangle.

4.No candidate will be permitted into the Quadrangle after 4.00pm.


Regards

M.Alamelu
(Tutor)

Dear students...

Those who have not send the confirmation letter for the participation of graduation ceremony,please send it on or before 1.6.2009.



Regarding

M.Alamelu
(Tutor)

Dear students..

Their some changes on previous send mail.The date for students who are doing projects in banglore is on 19th and 20th as beacause 21st is an saturday.

mail you for further details..


Regards...

M.Alamelu

Dear students...

1.The second review date is fixed for college projects. The confirmed date is on April 3rd and 4th.

2. Please prepare the reports (coomon to all) .In the Report add the logo page, upto what you have done for the second review.Before submitting ur report get signature from ur Internal guide.

3. The date is fixed for Banglore projects its on - March 20th and 21st. Please inform with your company guides befor it self.

4.The students who are doing proj in new delhi and secandrabad have no On-site review.
Instead of that they will reviewd on third or final review. The clear Infor. will conveyed u latter.


Regards

M.Alamelu (Tutor)

Dear students...
This is a kind information for students who are doing projects in thecompany. The second review has decided to conduct on end of this month, before that weneed your clear details about your company, so for it is helpful for on-site membersto reach the correct location at correct time.
//second review has decided by itself to conduct itself
//our clear details
// why do the oinsite members need the address they r doin project there itself
// So.. you people, send your full & correct address of your comapny, with yourproject title and your mobile number, regarding your Industry guide name also.Ineach batch every member has to give your contact number it is necessary.Immediatly Sendthese information in a word document on today or tommorow it self.
On-site Members :
Banglore : Mr.B.Magesh , Dr.K.R.Chandran //poor man !!! his name is V.Mahesh
Chennai : Dr.T.Hamsapriya
Madurai : Mr.R.Sowndarrajan // darr -like tearing of cloth soundarrajan
Date to be visit on : // kya english hai
Banglore : may be on 20th march (confirmed tommorow it-self)
Chennai : On 20.3.2009 (confirmed)
Madurai : On 28.3.2009 (confirmed)
Courtesy : Jeff :P

i dont understand who is better, Alamelu or sharmi.. :P

THE FIRST AND THE LAST

I hope tis ll b 1 more typical post of mine.. :) Many of us don't know the importance of first and last.. Scholars said.. t words first and last are always special and imp in tis world and in our life.. There s a famous quote, "the first breath of a man is his birth.. and the last breath is his death.. " depicting their imporatnce.. In day to day life, we see ppl remembering 1ly t first and last person of any act, no matter how many times t same got achieved again and again in between.. v don remember t second person who reached Everest as ppl always pin point to Tenzing when talked abt tat peak.. so, regardless of wat we do.. its really interesting to know its first and last occurence.. tis post is to dig all those firsts ans lasts.. but i want to narrow down t hunt 1ly to our college life.. Down s a template of first and lasts that we came across in our college.. Pl use the template below and everyone do comment.. If u cant recollect, leave it as blank.. Start to remember those in ur future..

SPAN : From first day to last day of college.

NOTE : If you find some more interesting firsts and lasts, pl free to add up yourself.. I limit myself for these 10+1.. so, pl don't ignore these..

TEMPLATE:

NAME :

GUY YOU TALKED (in our class)
First:
Last:

GAL YOU TALKED (in our class)
First:
Last:

FRIEND (in order)
First:
Last:

FOUGHT WITH (person)
First:
Last:

SPEECH (in front of class)
First:
Last:

MOBILE NO
First:
Last:

MOBILE MODEL
First:
Last:

RESTAURANT
First:
Last:

FILM SEEN
First:
Last:

GAME (OUTDOOR)
First:
Last:

LOVE (optional)
First:
Last:

Proud to be a Citrite

Hey people :) Long since I even dropped into this URL :( But I must confess, I got to read only Senthil's. Now I understood why he has sent such a desparate mail!! -> This would have applied if I had posted this a week back when I intended to :P

The actual reason of not being able to drop in was increase in number of travels back and forth and helping new joinee's training[people do note this point just helping :)] adding on to existing work pressure. Wish one day was free at office as Senthil says!! I get up on every non-Tuesday/Friday hoping that the day will be little free and that I will be able to do some of my long-pending personal works. But damn it!! Somewhere or the other work jumps from say heaven :). These exceptional Tuesday's and Friday's are days on which we get weekly builds and bless them I hardly get time to eat on these days!

So going on to the actual content of the post, what Citrite signifies is a person working @ Citrix :) What makes me proud to be there is the fact that exactly one year before I was an apprehensive attendee of the session calling everybody in the vicinity a 'Sir'! Only a sir coz my team was all guys when I entered and beleive it or not now it has 7 girls including me, which is more the number of guys[6] :) Just one year past I am the host of the same session to my juniors. I must really accept that this company has the ability to shape people so well.

I took few sessions on basics of Perl and other product related sessions. If anybody is interested in learning Perl, I will share the presentation.

Hope all of you ppl already know this. Peria's joining has increased our batch size here to 3 :) max in any dual company I guess :) We beat our rivals RSA :)

Past few days went in breaking head for preparing few PPT's and updating few both for my work and for helping in training. And why is this helping coming into picture is because the new joinee's temporary mentor is quite close to me :) Called Gopal - he is a tamilian too :) Our team when spilt revolves on a single centre point on head of a Kannadiga - not equally balanced though. One side with 9 tamilians including the manager himself. And on the other 3 north Indians.

And well earned couple of hours for everyday were spent off the PC on a Jeffrey Archer's novel - The paths of Glory. Before starting the novel, not much aware of my mistake - wrongly referred Jeffrey's book to our beloved Jeffrey as "The glory of paths" :) A very good novel for anyone who has a bit of interest in climbing. I am still skeptical on the fact that it was Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first the set foot on Everest's summit, yes I do beleive George Mallory succeeded in his attempt. But poor him to die sadly. Overall a good realistic novel.

At last oru vaaram poradi draft ready panni post panni mudichuten :) :)

400 Days at Reckitt Benckiser

Its been quiet a journey and i request each one of u to do this bit and take us thru a virtual tour of ur stint at the firm that u re presently acquainted with for the tenure u have spent. I am sure, however good or bad, you guys surely would have something to recall and relish just like how dumb our class was, but still we managed to find the tiny portions of fun quotient in it.
It was November 27th, 10 days post the date on the offer letter I stepped into the Global Service Center of Reckitt Benckiser India Ltd. Since then there have been so many adventures and roller coaster rides. There have also been extremely boring days where i do nothing but toggle between my chat window and blog window and at times hindu.com ;) Tenure at Reckitt is of 2 forms: 1st as a Project Trainee and then as a Management Trainee currently. Its all been based out of Gurgaon/Delhi office. The office I work for is called as the GSC - Global Service Center, which is basically like a Infrastructure, application development and support team for the business guys who in turn use this application for buying and selling stuff. This is a very mundane definition. But, yes, this is what my office is meant to be - a back processing/IT center for the company.
The underlying fundamental in our work culture is - people drive technology and we are not Technocrats. Ithu thaan punchline. Atha revolve panni thaan work assignment and stuff. I was given a training on Technology X and Technology Y on the 1st two weeks. The 3rd week I was put into a Technology Z which is apparently the product of Big Bulls Firm ABC. I went in and came out thru many doors of that application and today i support it globally and administer it for all users. Around 2000 users and atha base panni support, troubleshooting and developments. Atha thavara intha journey la I was also put into another vertical D which is basically revolving around Technology S. Then athayum ukanthu from scratch oru Top Gun kooda work panen. Not much of contribution as he himself is a show stopper - so learning opportunities less.
Irunthalum i am part of that team also. Now that Top Gun has reported for his marriage and i have taken over the application and vertical for the interim and i am kind of messed up as i am not an SME like him in this. Paravala - still surviving thru doing back 2 back shifts and extremely impossible working hours. Naan sonaal yaarum namba maatinga. There would have been atleast a Quarter that I would have spent my nights in the office - meaning a 24 hour bombshell.. I walk in at 10 and walk out the next day morning 7.
And, not for a surprise, its not just me who does these things. There are a set of driven people whom i work with who do the same. Ippo after all these days i have been pulled into a 3rd technology JKLMNOPQRSTUV - the abstract abbreviation itself is so big as the application is the business critical Tier 1 app.:) atulayum konjam konjam kai vituruken. Lets see - athu thaan yen future endru predict panren. But who knows - its been a crazy journey with a particular fun fact - There has been not a hour of the day that I have not been in office. :)

Lil Memoirs from Back Then

Not long since we all got together and settled in as a team. When this happened, there were apparently many sleepless nights and lots of heated discussions and discoveries of known stuff going on.. Reinventing the problem wheel and we were literally fuming furiously :) Thats where IT-R was born. The Rebellions. Well, its not as hasty as it sounds. Its just a small group of jugheads who sat together and came to an agreement that an enemy to an enemy is our friend. As simple as that.

But slowly we picked up pace amongst us and it before we could realise we gelled in as a proper final year set :). wah wat a pleasure to know that u can walk into class and not dream about when to get out of it. It seriously was a turn table for me as this was kind of reincarnation of a college life which almost dipped deep down misery lane.

But yes, on the brighter side we guys did some great internal work. We cracked all our stress (Dunno from where :)) through computer peripherals such as switch, hub, lan cables which enabled us hard core gaming... Almost every other nite to the snack bar as a big bunch of buffaloes for nite drench :)... Going out in time table order to Kaiyendhi bhavan / Ganapathy mess / Leiden / occasionally Boomerang & Arunachalas :) for dinner.. Eat like flood hit victims :)... Then the most unforgettable part was the sleepless nites we spent before internals where we would look at Meenakshi/Karthika's notes in complete awe and amazement :) That we did sit thru so many classes, yet grasp so little.

There was also one day that i would like to especially recall. This was a particular weekend where there was a sudden surge in the weather conditions and our star sportsmen changed their minds about the game that was gonna be played in the last minute. And before the champs could make up their mind, it started to drizzle.. Then all idiots locked their PCs and rolled out to the small ground with the FOOTBALL. Waah.. unforgettable. Us vs. Sandwich fellows who already were playing. Then we challenged them like Vadivelu as our head count was low. But who cares, "We are the unleashed tigers in hunt of its prey" was the attitude. And so was the attitude with Rain. It poured real hard on us and so did we up the tempo in the game. It was such a wet hot game :) We had Kini, Hari, Arun, Bharat, Arul and Jeffrey was with his books then I guess :)

P.S. Dont ask about the score or the end result. All i remember was my mobile phone was squirking water like a pump after the game.!

My Last day in Villa Angsana...Hopefully I negate this statement very soon

The last one week has been so beautiful and colorful that i indeed came out of all the office and personal trauma and drama which i was indulged in when i was back in delhi. Who knew this, when there is a 360degree fast forward in your life and u enter a completely different zone in this world.. so does ur mindset and thought process. Adengappa yena oru maayam, office la amarnthu mandayai pozhakum alavuku velai irukum bothellam ithu mathiri shift of paradigm kidaithal apadi thaan arumai aaga irukum..

Aayiram thaan irunthalum, yen veedu oru Islamic country il irukindrathu.. But the poor mind doesnt bother about the people, culture, language or surrounding when it comes to home. Home sweet home endru yen koorugirargal.. Veedu kaadil irunthalum athu oru athisaya poonga.. That's the neural network within us :) After all Malaysia is a country that u guys shld write down in ur wish list of places to visit. Apdi mudivu seithal yenaku oru phone podungal, i ll set up a royal carriage service and surprise for u :) yen endral ithu yen ooru yen veedu.. :)

There are several beginnings to this story. How did i land up here out of the blue? Wat were the athiradi actions that had taken place in between sitting in delhi and now sitting in my Kuala Lumpur house and drafting this post? Wat made this official trip the welcoming break i was waiting for? All beginnings lead to the same end.. A long story short.. I am here on a paid holiday endru sollalam :D but yen boss serupaala adipaar.. Athunaala i shall not commit that statement.

There are some thrilling stories behind this armageddon 7day trip. shall put them out in the coming posts. Coming back to the basics, the trip was extremely fabulous and above all i spent a quality time with my parents and bro who apparently have a very good point that its been 2yrs and 8months since i came home last :).. I return 2 my 2nd home happily today with all the items on my Bucket List checked :D. This is wat u call an ecstatic feeling. It was a one week crash course to reviving the Goodie Goodie senthil ;)