Economy, Education & Environment

Neither I am a Finance expert nor I am a Management guru. In fact I would be the last person from whom you would ever dare to take any financial advice. Also I have no interest what so ever in understanding these financial jargons like "Liquidity", "Capital", "Credit"....bla bla bla

I often hear people saying that Economy is plunging, Market is crashing, Banks are going bankrupt, Companies are laying of their employees and what not.

The big question here arises whom to blame? I know each one of you has their own set of rules and theories. Like ways I have my own. But don't worry I won't bore you. I would keep it short & simple. I will just tell you the root cause of the above mentioned crises and leave it to you to figure out the details.

There are only two reasons as far as India is concerned:

• Lack of quality education that can provide practical knowledge.
• Our ignorance towards environment.

I think education in India has lost it' s charm. Now it's more of a business. We just want to clear the exams, get a degree and then secure a job. We are least interested in applying our knowledge. To make the situation worst there is reservation category & quota system even for prestigious institutes like IIT. What it all leads to is that industry fall shorts of technically sound people and majority of us end up becoming managers. We have more people to monitor & manage the work of the people who actually work. Students these days miss that extra punch and the extra metal. When Jet laid of it's employees why did the employees took the situation to road and made scene out of it. The reason was that they didn't have the faith on their abilities. I still feel what Jet did was right.

Coming to my last point, over past few years we have gone just too ignorant about the environment. We cut trees, we waste water but we more worried about economy. As the old Indian saying goes: Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

So unless we act with more responsibility and try to save our nature neither can we save economy nor can we save ourselves.

Cheers,
Parag

First Powerless & then Powerful

It wasn't a great week for me. Starting from work it took hell lot of time to accomplish even smallest of small things. I spent more than 12 hours in office throughout this week but honestly speaking I am loving it because I am doing what I love. I must also add that I have throughly mastered FreeBSD (UNIX) because of my new project. BTW my first project is finally over.

Just when the week was about to end first MSEB declared that there will be power shutdowns for more than 8 hours that means we will have to spend many powerless hours. It's so difficult for a person like me who sits 18 hours in front of PC. This is one more reason I love spending my time in office. Unlike my friends (college) who don't like spending a single second extra in office, I just loved to work. It's perhaps because as I said earlier I am doing what I love. Coming back to load shedding issue, all I want to say it should take place uniformly across all parts of Maharashtra.

And just about the same time two of the major metros of India were rocked by series of powerful bombs. All I want to say that no one can achieve anything by killing someone. It was really sad. I never feel bad or rather I am unmoved when ever such event takes place but for the first time I felt uneasy or perhaps scared. BTW I am writing this article on Sunday morning & the weekend is not yet over. Who knows whats next.

Time for some alma-matter

As my first project got extended by few months I have been handling both the projects simultaneously from a long time now. Also my new project has started in full swing and it's very exciting. I have learnt many new things in a short span of time. Coming week will be perhaps my last week of first project but still I will always miss it. In my case first project has been like first love...very difficult to forget.......

Aakash (Azad) has turned up this week from Pune after a considerable long period of time. Both of us even went to college, took some snaps and revived our old memories. It was my first visit after I got job. I don't know why but I felt as if college was not in good shape. Nothing has changed. Neither the teachers...nor the students....Teachers are still being paid for off lectures and students are still getting IT jobs without making even slightest of struggle....OH BOY....BTW college is undergoing complete renovation and within few months you may see RKNEC in completely new clothes. But don't worry inside stuff would remain same. Its just old wine in a new glass.

Mom & Dad are back......feels like heaven

I had a good experience of spending a week alone without anyone. As I told you last week, my family went to Kerla on a vacation however I had to withdraw my leave due to professional reasons so couldn't accompany them.

I used to leave @ 6 AM and used to come back @ 7 PM (presently I am handling two projects hence such a hectic schedule). I used to take lunch @ office and used to take dinner in Kamat restaurant. I got bored going to restaurants. Actually you don't feel like going to restaurant after coming from office. Nothing can replace home food. I had a hard time managing clothes stock. I gave cloths to laundry and just washed my undergarments.

Home was at sixes & sevens and it took no time for MoM too make it spic & span. I am very lazy. You know what I have realized that I can't leave alone. I can either stay with my parents or I will have to get married.

I am looking forward to next week. I have made some plans. Lets see if I can execute them.

New Project on it's way.

I have started working on the new project assigned to me. Friday (6th June, 2008) was unofficially my last day of my previous project. It's such a remarkable coincidence. 6th September, 2007 was my first day at Persistent and also my first day of my previous project. You won't believe this: The first company where I got placed (On Campus) was Satyam. Bizarre correlation was present in that case as well. I was placed in Satyam on 6th Jan, 2007. In fact most of the important events of my life have take place on "6th" day of some or the other month. "6"has been a lucky number for me.

Forthrightly speaking people who are close to me or people who are special to me are associated with number "6" as well in some or the other way. Anyways neither do I believe in astrology nor do I have got any striking clairvoyance.

Abhishek & Sunil (my Persistent colleagues) gave a combined birthday party at Minerva Longue. We also went to Sarkar Raj. The movie was an ordinary paraphernalia. I just ordered chicken dishes. Starting with chicken manchow soup, moving ahead to kolhapuri chicken and ending it off with chicken biryani. I must say all the chicken dishes were really good and so as all the chicks in the restaurant. :D

Mom, Dad & Pawan has left for a trip & vacation to Kerla. I was also supposed to give them the company. In fact I had even apply for the leave from 9th June to 13th June, 2008 but I had to withdraw it since client of my new project is paying a visit this week. Mummy really felt bad when she came to know that I won't be able to join them. I utterly let down her. Forthrightly speaking I wasn't disappointed at all. I hate tiring train traveling. So here I am, all set to spend my week alone.

The coming week is a real challenge for me. I have to manage everything on my own: From new project, new work TO washing utensils TO washing underwear. :-)

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