Beware of MLM guys at shopping MALS

You will be shopping alone or with your family at a famous shopping MAL and most of the time discuss with your family in your mother tongue (TAMIL). All of a sudden, somebody coming into that aisle, will smile at you and start talking to you.
I am just translating the experience I had at one of the Indian Grocery store at California.
MLM guy: Oh you are Tamil? isit?
I : yeah I am from Chennai.
MLM guy: Which part of Chennai? Next question follows.
I: I am from Manapakkam.
MLM guy: Oh really? I am from Guindy! See how close we are?
MLM guy: When did you come to US?
I: I came here on January.
MLM guy: Where are you staying now? Here in SunnyVale.
I: Oh no, I am in San Roman.
MLM guy: Oh is it? I am going to San Roman now to meet my friend, Come let me give a ride to your home.
I: Oh Thank you sir, (I am happy, no need to go by bus right?)
MLM guy: Give me your contact number. I will add to my contact list.
I: Oh sure (I gave me number).

(Note that guy is not allowing me to talk and think, and keep on asking subsequent questions. Thats their skill)

He drops me at home and went, some days later, called me and said we are having a business meeting at San Roman this week Saturday at 6.30pm, can you join us? It will be helpful to you and your family.
I did not attend that meeting. The next day he called me and said we have been waiting for you and went to the meeting late. Its okay no problem, will let you know the next meeting schedule; please try to attend that, without fail. He keeps on disturbing me like that and I end up changing my mobile contract.
So beware of people, who are talking voluntarily to you at any Shopping mall, they are talking to you with some hidden agenda. They are trying to add you into their MLM network. They will force you even if you are not interested and keep on wasting you valuable time.

We can forgive people who have stolen our money but not the one trying to steel our TIME.

Traveling is a journey not only outer!

Moving from one place to another for work gives us lot many trouble like packing, shifting and arranging, for these reason most of us do not want to shift from our comfort home. On the contrary, moving from one place to another teaches lot more lessons then one expect.

The place we just moved in would be entirely new to us, we are forced to meet new people, new challenges, we need to understand their culture, we have to learn the local language. Migration gives us fresh air to breath, new places to see and above all it attacks our ego at its very root.

When i first moved from my home town to Bangalore (High tech city), there was a huge difference in life style, work culture, calling seniors by name everything was new to me.

Now, when i move from my home Country to another country, everything is absolutely new. Right from my work to the community i live. Everyday there are new challenges, in those challenging situation i turn my attention towards GOD, towards my internal self, there would be an absolute surrender to the divine self, this surrender to the Self, gives the internal guidance and ability to face the challenges, and increases my faith in the divine self.

I feel traveling helps a person to evolve, make him versatile and above all shatters his ego and makes the person more humble, gives him an opportunity to remember and surrender to GOD, reinforces the connection between him and his divine Self.

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Mobile phones

It was a bright Saturday morning around 8 am, Shinkansen - bullet train started from Shinagawa station to Mishima, 4 stations before Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan. Shinkansen is full, as usual we are travelling on Unreserved compartment, no place to sit, most of us are standing, no mobile phone rings with latest hit song tunes, no louder laughs, no fellow passenger is talking in a louder voice, yet most of the passengers are having mobile on their hands sending SMS or playing games on it, all the mobiles are in silent mode, its a wonder. Some of the passengers are working on their Vaio (Laptop), some of the passengers are chatting, smiling to each other but there is no disturbance to the fellow passengers.

On each compartment there are four priority seats meant for physically challenged passengers, carrying mothers, mothers accompanying small children and for elderly passengers, near the priority seats the mobile phones must be in silent mode, passengers by themselves refrain from talking on their mobiles inside the train. Not a single passenger is talking on his mobile inside the train. Its unbelievable.

How to drive a Car on the road?

Usually human beings has to wait on the side of the road to allow the speeding car to pass by.

But here the opposite is happening, the car is waiting on the side of the Zebra crossing until the human beings cross the road. Then i realized the driver of the car is a human being, values human more than his car or his own ego.

Filth of pets.

Pets are most common among Japanese, especially Dog, may be because the reverse of DOG is GOD, the God we worship ;) Usually the owners of the Dog take it for a morning walk, the owner will have a carry back with him with some old papers, tissue papers, i wondered why every person walking with the Dog has a carry bag with some papers. It is for collecting the excreta of the Dog. We usually take out our Pets for leaving its excreta on the Streets, but here it is different. Nowhere we can find the excreta of the Pets or Humans on the streets.

Notice board on a Government Apartment.

Neighbourhood of mine use to talk in a louder voice, not only during daytime but on late nights to his parents on India. He was talking inside his room with all the doors closed, on that day there was a inspection from the Apartment management, they noticed the noise coming out of his room, the very next day they put noise attention on the notice board. Please have a look at it on the below picture.

On the Lift

I am working on the 19Th floor of our office, whenever i want to go down to 1st floor or basement through the lift, i will press the lift button and wait for the lift to stop on 19Th floor once it is stopped, manage to get in with a grim face, avoiding the people inside the lift, but the people inside look at my face and smile, expecting a smile in return, but i do not have the courtesy to smile back, i will stand tight lipped. Once the lift stops at 1st floor, i will try to get out of the lift first as if i am the VIP, somebody got into the lift on 20Th or 21st floor will still stand on the corner of the lift pressing the open (lift) door button on the lift, until everybody get out of the lift carefully without hurting themselves on the closing doors. Time and again i was doing like that very recently i also started looking at the face of the people inside the lift and started smiling at them, and now i am pressing the open button on the lift so that everybody get out of the lift first and i come out of the lift at last. Like an old English adage goes I comes last...

Metaframe

Metaframe is a thin client architecture for windows terminal services.

We can deploy and publish our application on Metaframe servers, the users can access the application through URL, the application instead of running on the User PC runs on the Metaframe server. So, what is the advantage of using Metaframes. The performance of the application will increase.

How the performance increases?

Network latency can decrease the performance of an application, for example user access the database residing on a server at India, from his Office at Japan through an application running on his PC, the time taken for the network packets to reach the server at India and back to Japan will impact the performance of the application.

One way to increase the performance of the application running on the user PC is by increasing the network packet size, but there is limitation on the size of the Packet, we cannot increase the packet size beyond a certain limit.

Whereas If we deploy our application on a Metaframe server which is located at India, this application will run on the Metaframe server instead of running on the User PC, user access the database via Metaframe servers located at India. In this scenario the network latency is very minimal, the user can get a better performance on metaframes.

Load balancing

We may have more than one Metaframe servers, if we deploy our application on all the servers, it will automatically identify and allocate the load on the server with less CPU utilization and balance the load on the servers.

Backup

We can deploy our application on more than one Metaframe servers. Unfortunately, if a server crashes, we don't need to worry, the user can access the application from other servers without any outage.

Real time challenges

• While deploying our application on Metaframe servers we have to take care of the other applications which are already deployed on the server.
• The shared folders, network drives, common shared files, library files, ActiveX components should not be changed, if changed or removed it may affect the co-existence of other applications.
• If we are using batch scripts for publishing the application, it should be a common or a single script for all the servers, suppose we are having three different scripts for three different Metaframe servers, maintenance of these files would be difficult.

We faced a performance issue on one of our application and after implementing our application on Metaframes, we are getting better performance now :)

Compare and Contrast

Famous highly crowded railway station at Chennai - Mambalam station and its passengers.

Not equally famous oimachi station at Tokyo



Video of Unmanned train (driver less train)



Why such a polarization? We have everything, IT super power, Second largest democracy, yet our citizens are suffering like this.

The sad fact is that most of the software used here for automatic ticket vending machines and the ticket checking machines are coded by Indian software professionals. The same software professional when he lands on Menambakkam airport from Tokyo, wants to reach Mambalam has to wait on the Queue to purchase the EMU ticket at Trisulam station.

I think the railways has to do something for its Passengers and for their safety. Railways should be for Passengers not the other way around.

Tokyo Toys

All children born with same qualities but the way they brought up and the environment they grow plays a vital role in shaping their future.

Children at Tokyo are playing with Computers and Robots. In some schools children are creating small Robot toys for their summer vacation projects. At their very young age they are getting introduced to sensors, micro-controllers, flash memory etc. They are designing toys using their creativity. What a creative society it is?

Video of Kids playing with Robot Dog.

Even though our Indian children has the potential to create, design and innovate such things we are not in a position to afford them the cutting edge technology and innovation to our children of our nation.

When this situation will change in our country? At 2020 ...