Aayirathil Oruvan – Music review!!

G.V Prakash Kumar, the music director. Nephew of A R Rahman. Thats his only qualification. No idea why he is still in this field. He lacks imagination majorly. He may be a perfect DJ, remixing songs but not a composer of sort. Even I can straight away map to the origin of the songs, i.e. where it is copied from.

The pathetic part is that, he copied the Govinda Govinda Song that blares from almost most of the speakers in Tirumala. Damn! Dude even if you have to copy you can make it like audible.

May be he needs some break and some more learning on MUSIC. Compared to A R Rahman, he is lacking even the simple things from him. ARR is a real Mozart. GVPK is just a shadow. Not much worth yet!

This is Nice!!!

Now a days, I am getting back into the spree of blogging. Really! Many at times I get bored and think what to do, and now a days my blog is the first thing that comes to my mind. Of course that is the purpose of blogging.

A nice time pass, and a wonderful way to document/pen down my experiences in the day to day life. I like writing, and now that I am getting a hold to it, I am liking it even more.

My days as a test architect and a manager is one that made me even more interested on writing stuff. Many at times I had heard people saying that they hate documentation work. I remember that I had also said the same some time before. But now I like it. The entire process of writing is an art. You have to be imaginative, thinking, and the result should be simple. It should be as simple to explain your thoughts to a lay man. This is the challenge.

Writing experiences, and writing a technical document is not that different from one another. Many people say that you cant read a technical document as a novel. I would say, many people don't write it in that way. I like writing it in that way, a technical doc in a novel way. It will be fun to write and read. Whatever the message will be conveyed.

Earnestness!!!

I bet that all fellow Indians will laugh at this post, and call it pathetic, or a waste of time or to the heights of being stupid. I cant help that, I am being earnest in the things what I am trying to do. Before I start:

Earnestness: An earnest and sincere feeling (Courtesy: Dictionary)

What do I want to post here is nothing but my own experiences in the past few weeks as being an SME and a Manager for a few projects, and also being a joker and a pure dumb-ass for some more projects. I don't know where exactly things started going wrong, but it is all wrong.

There was a time, just a week back in my project, where in I am supposed to assign some work to my team. I had been in meeting all day and all night in some escalation, and could not send the mail out with the work. Actually I spent 3 hours the previous night in deciding and allocating the work. I later knew that I was just being stupid.

The next 2 days my team members came to office, and just left with no intention to even contact me. When I got some time to breath I saw that I hadn't sent this mail out, and 2 days are wasted and I am pissed. At me, at my team members, and at my fellow Indians in general.

I had found that it is always very difficult to define my very own people with some human values, where the very word sounds terrible to them. I don't know, how they would feel, during the moment, when they take their food in their hand and look into it, don't they feel, “damn today I just wasted time, I am not supposed to be paid for today, I was not sincere in what I was doing?”

Ha, May be that's why India is still that way!!!

The major comedy that happened during my discussions as a SME in automation with the team over the proposed design for some new work, was this:

I started explaining the entire facts and advantages and how this needs to be done, and what will be achieved in this, and this is what is actually expected as a team. But, the response that I got from the team was a straight no, and all bullshit reasons, when I asked for, and when I started pushing them for proving me wrong, I started getting cold shoulders. The reasons proved that they don't want to work.

All these guys say is this: “I will not work, what ever happens. I will follow whatever this means – Simply sitting, monthly getting!”

Learning to Say

Learning to say No is one thing that many of my friends advice me, at almost all times. This is one thing that I am trying to but I am not able to do it!

I accept work only if I am able to do it, and of course, I face a lot of difficulty from personal time i.e. the so called Work-Life balance. I feel like I don't have that second half of it. The life part. But the solution is to learn to say NO. I know that that is the solution.

Can I ask someone to teach me how to say a NO? What if they start practicing it right then?

I recently took up an additional responsibility of managing a project, that makes me a Project manager, the only one in the world that will work for that kind of high pressure work for a token payment of 5.12 L INR per annum.

I am learning many things day by day, I can see all colours of people. They are like, you are the manager, so it is your work, not mine, you cook the rice, you make sambhar, you make the curry and you mix them and put it in a bowl, and spoon feed me, only then I will eat, at the same time crib saying that the manager is worthless.

I remember me doing a similar thing like 6 years before, when I was new to the company, but eventually I dint do it, why is it coming to me now? The solution is to intimidate them of being a manager. Never talk to them in a friendly way, after all they do not expect that. All they will ever say is that I don't get paid.

Man this calls for another post in itself. The next one probably.