A new life partner ?

 

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Well its good to be loyal to your spouse, but is it good if you are loyal to your company? When I say company, it means two things  both the organisation where you work, or the company of friends which you keep!!

You are loyal to your organisation but organisation needs someone who is having the expertise in latest technology, Then organisation wouldn’t mind breaking strings with you and tie another knot with another more valid and skilled employee! Isn’t it? Then why should we be loyal to the company?

And now lets talk about the company of friends. Over the years we see that our way of thinking is going tremendous change. A person who considered love marriage to be sin, might now see that its other way round! She might think arranged marriage is sin and love marriage is the most divine thing. But her friend who supported her old idea might not support her new idea.

When your way of thinking changes and the company you keep no longer accept it, then what is the fun in keeping such company? Rather such company becomes pain in the neck. But why am I telling all these?

Because I feel we often get addicted our gadgets in the same way as we get addicted to our company. Not bothering to know there are other better things out there. I have my computer ie desktop which I bought in 2000!, I have laptop which my husband gifted me in 2009! I have a tablet which I bought because of some indiblogger coupon I got . But in-spite of all these both my personal and professional life are lagging behind because of the inefficiency of these gadgets!!

The laptop suddenly started giving problems from past few months. I didn’t want to reformat it because there are few programs installed in it, I dont know if that could be copied to other system, as the program said for one system only when I bought it. It is some education software for my daughter

 and it has courses from pre-primary till grade 4 and she is still in grade 2. Losing it now will mean losing two years interactive chapters.

My fun book is of no use to me as it does not have Microsoft office in it. Also the more the memory is used the slower it becomes.

I cannot even use my husband’s office laptop as it has Lotus in it and not Microsoft office!!

Oh god, life has really become hell depending on all these losers!!

This is when I got ASUS, it was like dream come true. I could start working on all the pending work I had. I could start participate in all blog contests J

I could make presentations for my Training sessions.

There was no need to be always plugged in as it gives 11 hours battery life. Hence I could easily keep it in hand and continue my working while sleeping beside my daughter.

So the life wont stop with Asus.. your new partner for life…

 

 

 

Good bye Andhrapradesh…

Goodbye Andhrapradesh..

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With a heavy heart I am saying goodbye to the state in which I am living from five years. Henceforth I will be living in Telangana and not Andhrapradesh.

 

In a country where great poets like Kuvempu and Rabindranath Tagore talked about being a global citizens rather than limiting ourselves to our caste, creed or Language, the people of Andhrapradesh have decided to divide further thus increasing the pieces of India. I am afraid how many such more surgeries our mother India has to undergo!

 

In a time when cities like Mumbai and Bangalooru have become cosmopolitan and not only people from allover India but also people from all over the globe are residing in such places, here we are dividing a state which has one major language Telugu to two parts and looking at the identity of a person by his place of origin and not by his qualification or character.

 

I always wondered when it does not make any difference for a Hyderabadi to find job in Bengalooru and work there, and a bengaloorean to work in Hyderabad how is it going to make any difference by dividing state to two or three parts??

 

But local people do understand the issue and hope that bifurcation will solve their problems. Now that Chandrababu Naidu will be the chief minister for the residual state of Andhrapradesh, even I am under the feeling that Hyderabad should have been a part of that state. Looking at the irresponsible comments KCR makes I wonder how can he ever do justice to the people.

 

So now even though we continue to stay in the same house my address will be changed. Now onwards I need to scroll down to select my state of domicile!!

 

As they say ‘what ever happens, happens for good’ Lets still be optimistic and hope Telangana prospers like never before and all those people who sacrificed their lives voluntarily or by force will rest in peace.

Andhrapradesh Sports School

Today I came across a news titled ‘Hyderabad boy including Five other Indian sprinters got a unique opportunity to get trained with ex- Olympic Coach ‘ and I was curious to know the school of Hyderabad boy as we are staying in Hyderabad and my daughter is interested in sports.

When I found the name of the school, I was really surprised as I did not know such a school existed. The boy Harikrishna is from ‘Andhrapradesh Sports School’. The school is founded by Government of Andhrapradesh. I really do not know if such Government sports school exist in all states!

The entry to this school happens at the age of 8-9 years for IV Grade. The students will undergo different physical trainings from basics to advanced as they advance to next classes.

The students and alumni have won various gold and other medals at number of international events.

To know more you can visit their website.

 

 

Telangana Elections 2014

Today was the election day in Telangana for MLA and MP selections.

It was good to see enough number of helpers with laptops sitting in almost every street and helping voters.

We had noted our polling booth as booth number 83 from internet and the map referred to government school near our house. But we did not find our booth there.

When we asked these people who were guiding voters we came to know our booths are located in different school.

Even though it was mentioned mobile phones are not allowed, everybody carried mobile phone and no security checking was there.

I am sure the lady who had to loudly announce the electoral number of voters would get throat pain today! I do not know whether they will rotate their turns or same person has to read aloud the number and name for the whole day.

There were 31 candidates in the list. I hardly knew most of them. I had tried to know about candidates from ceoandhra.nic.in website but did not find details.

Finally voted for the party of my choice.

My first vote in Telangana. and it applies to everybody here now 🙂

How much does a Teacher earn in Your kid’s School?

All parents do enquire about the fee structure while searching for the right shool for the kid, but how many of us ask them about the pay package of their staff?

Except few exceptions where in a talented married woman might prefer to work in neighborhood school for less salary to keep herself engaged, most people do join jobs to earn money, to make a better living. And they would demand more salary if they are more talented. Organisations have to pay more to attract the best talents. So it is clear that if a school needs best teachers it has to pay them more.

These days we are paying minimum one lakh per annum for the best schools in cities. It can be Hyderabad, Bangaloe, Mumbai or Pune. If the class strength is 20 students, then those students are bringing 20 lakh per annum to the school. Out of this, how much is going to Teacher as Salary? In most of the cases not even 2 lakhs!! Can you believe it? Thus the quality of teacher is nowhere matching our expectations. Not only teachers, most of the events, activities, attitudes everything makes us feel shocked rather than surprised!!

So next time you choose a school, be doubly sure of the salary the teacher gets, that will tell us how qualified and efficient he/she is and inturn we can understand what to expect from the school!

what do you say?

Best Surgeon for Hernia Problem

Dr.Mohan Das of Raghavendra Nursing Home, Shimoga, Karnataka, India is the best surgeon I have seen for hernia related problems.

From our past experience we were quite disappointed with major hospitals both in Bangalore and Mysore. Hence even though my mother was diagnosed with Hernia almost six months back we were hesitating to go for surgery. This is when my sister’s sister in law underwent Hernia surgery at Raghavendra Nursing home in Shimoga. We found the doctor to be very efficient and also could see how fast our relative recovered.

Hence without any second thought we decided we should go to Dr.Mohan das. Dr. Mohan Das might be having more than 30 years of experience in surgery. He is not soft spoken, hence many patients might get fooled by his rough and tough behavior. But we took every thing positives as we were informed of his talking styles before hand. First of all he scolded my mom for postponing the surgery for so long. He said had she come earlier the Hernia growth would have been smaller and could have gone for laproscopic surgery. Now it was big and major surgery was needed.  We got more worried. But nevertheless there was no other option.

We got her admitted on November 28th and to my astonishment I realized that the Nursing home did not have elevator. Stair case on one side and sliding path on other side to move patients in stretcher. Even though the hospital is not very posh we could see that it was neatly maintained. The corridors and all the rooms were cleaned almost thrice a day. Daily bathrooms and sink were washed. I could never smell any bad odor in the hospital premises.

29th was the Surgery and I was more tensed, my mother kept herself cool and said she was not tensed. Surgery was over by 11.30am, and she was moved to the ICU, the anesthesia effect was there hence she could not feel the pain, she spoke to all of us and I was so relieved. She told me that she kept talking with doctors when surgery was going on and it was lively. Also she was carefully shifted to other bed after surgery. She did not have any problem when she was shifted from OT to ICU.

I could remember that my experience when I was shifted from OT to Ward during my C section was not so smooth, so was my sister’s experience in Fortis Bangalore.

The good thing with this hospital is doctor came daily twice even after surgery to check the health of patient, in big hospitals the surgeon hardly visits the patient after the surgery is over. He delegates all the work to juniors. We have to keep running behind the doctors and nurses.

The nursing staff was very good and efficient, they always ensured that Patient is not hurt while giving injections, and other related procedures.

As the doctor accepts only one or two surgery per day he gives his full attention and time to patients. Also there is no hurry in discharging the patients. My mother was discharged after one week. She needs somebody’s help to get up from bed because of age factor and also her knee pain. Otherwise I definitely felt the recovery speed was better compared to previous surgeries she had.

I would suggest you go for Dr.Mohan das irrespective of your place of domicile. Shimoga is not very costly your relatives can stay in a nearby lodge and can take care of you.

The total fee was INR 60,200/- which included Surgery, all the medicines and special ward stay.

The Address of the Nursing home is

Sri Raghavendra Nursing Home
Laproscopy surgical center
G.A.Complex
JPN Road,First cross
Shimoga
Karnataka
India
Pin code – 577201

+91- 08182-224340

 

 

State of India’s Media

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A documentary about the state of our media. Be it the elections, the Indian Premier League (IPL), stock markets, mutual funds, entertainment, or the daily news bulletin.  Can we hold a mirror to the glass buildings and ivory towers?

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Jungle the Restaurant Nizampet

Aug 9th, 2013

Hi,

We visited Jungle the Restaurant at Nizampet Village yesterday at 10 PM.

The food was good. We had ordered Tandoori Roti and Paneer Kofta.

They took some 15- 20 minutes.

We had ordered to make it less spicy and the instruction was followed.

The ambiance was good with artificial forest around. Kids love it. I did not like it much, as it did not have much lighting. Or I do not like the pub like environment in family hotels.

But what annoyed us was constant shoutings from Kitchen. Since the ordered food and till the time we left, the quarrel among employees was going on in Kitchen and it was so audible that all of us could hear in the Dining area.

We just felt like leaving after main course and did not want to order anything more.

Price was reasonable for 5 Roti and one Paneer kofta the bill amount was 220/-.

Aug 14th, 2013

Second time we visited there were more negative experience.

We ordered less spicy, without green chilli Paneer, but we got spicy, with green chilly curry.

In first visit we had asked for finger bowl and we were asked to use wash basin. We thought its ok, as it was already 10.45 pm and looked like the restaurant was about close.

But second time we visited at afternoon, and saw finger bowl being given to other customer, so after our lunch asked for finger bowl, he said use wash basin! Then we asked why? Then another person intervened and asked him to give finger bowl. But he gave finger bowl with cold water!!

Why people invest so much if they cannot monitor and guide the employees?