Doing Nothing

Nothing...

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing"

Really, is there anything called doing nothing? I was of the opinion nothing means "not doing what you are supposed to do", like doing nothing could mean not working at the time of work. But I was wrong.

Nothing actually means doing some activity which reduces your capacity to perform as good as you could before in tasks.

Let me explain, you are working, may be a programmer, and you are fairly good at it. But if you do not improve yourself over time by means of training etc, there is a good chance you will become used to only a particular type of programming and little change or upgrade will make you less efficient in your work. This is feel is doing nothing in your free time.

But doing nothing is the most easy thing to do, you just do things you are comfortable in and keep taking in the money, but sooner or later there will come a point in time when doing nothing will be regretted. As always there are exceptions to the rules, doing nothing is one of the most profitable ways of working for our public sector / Govt. offices.

So, a final advice to the people who are starting their career or stuck in a rut, start something its better than doing nothing.

Importance of Updated Technology

Hi,

I bought a new phone lately...a Samsung Galaxy S3!!

(those who are not envious, mail me...i will send u in detail reasons why should be)

So coming back to the topic, I want to stress the importance of keeping in line with technology. for this let me explain with 3 examples -

a) Toaster:

Now technology for making your bread crusty has been there since ages (def of ages: before I was born), this has not changed much over the years or you could say has been perfected that not many changes are made. So even if you are using your 20 year old toaster (if it works in pristine condition) the quality of toast and mine from a new toaster will not be too far away.

b) Television:

Technology in T.V has been changing a lot, you can see almost a cycle of 7-10 years in T.V making any thing older than that look like prehistoric sets. Its not that the older sets will not work, you will still get channels from the antenna. But the difference in the quality of transmission in 20 year old CRT TV and a new full HD and blah blah blah LED TV will be unmistakable.

c) Mobile Phones:

I guess all of us might remember the first mobile phones when they were launched. Huge bulky thing looking like walky talkies. It might seem ages before but they are hardly 10 years before. Technology for mobile phones is updating it self every 6 months and in a of year your new mobile will feel slow and in a couple it will just be unacceptable.

My point is for a toaster like things you do not need a new one(unless the old one gets conked up), for a thing like T.V u need to update it once a while, while things like mobile phones you need to keep buying away.

This brings to my view you need to buy the best technology available for categories b) and c). And the reason for this is even if the best might be expensive than the one u might buy, it will keep u feeling on top o the world till the next cycle. It becomes 'Neighbor's Envy and Owner's Pride'. A practical reason is that you will be in the top of the replacement cycle, that means you may need to update a bit later consequently get a better product in the next cycle.

Disclaimer: I tried writing this post as much boring as possible. :D

Ridiculous Movies

Disclosure: I am a movie fan and can appreciate most kind of movies. 

I watch a movie in theater almost every week and may be few in my laptop or TV. Just to be clear if my boss reads this, I have never watched a movie in office / at work (excluding my time I was stand-by at offshore). My point of this blog is that most of the movies I have seen range from average to downright disgusting. This is not about me being in a mood of serious cinema watch a cheap humour flick and say it’s a bad movie. No. I usually watch a movie with no expectation with just one aim, I have to be entertained. I should be able to laugh / cry / stunned / surprised / shocked anything, but should be entertained by the time the final credits roll. But this simple requirement is not so simple. Most of the movies or I say movie makers loose the plot in the middle of the movie. Most of them start kinda in a fun way but then end as a dampener. Don’t people watch movies before releasing them?? Or is it like we are already spending so much money lets release it and let the poor bastard suffer! Let me give some statistics (a la Aamir Khan) to explain what I mean to say –

 

It is evident that stupid movie folk have no idea about the movies they make, let keep making it year on year.

Maybe its people like me who are stupid enough to watch a movie every week

The One Ahead

Hi,

Been long since I have posted. Its not like I have been super busy or anything, but just plain old lazy.I want to share something which has been irritating me lot.

Whenever, you are just walking..

On the street...
In the station...
In the mall...
Just about anywhere..

You will find there is always a person who just stands in the middle and does nothing. May be "stopper" has forgotten something or took the wrong turn or wondering she has kept the light on in her house or something, but she stops right in the middle on the road. A Full Stop! This is ok, if the entire pathway is empty and you can take evasive action without it affecting your rhythm, but I live in Mumbai. It one of the most populous city in the world! You just cannot stand in the middle in a busy pathway and do nothing, it becomes difficult to pass you! As most of us will be aware, we usually do not talk to the people in the pathway except for time or directions. Usually a simple whistle or look or "shhh" would suffice to make our way through the public. But for the stopper is in his own world! No amount of "shh" can budge her, either you have to change your direction or physically touch her to bring her back to reality, and this is not usually the persons you would like to touch, they usually sweaty aunties just blanked off. And I hate it most when there are children who suddenly realise they do not know where they are, you help them out to their parents and in gratitude they say, "Thank you, UNCLE"

Ridiculous Advertisements

Hey,

The advertising these days have become so unintelligent and idiotic that makes to throw stuff on the TV (apart from the reality shows, but that is another story)

Esp about the bad adverts which come to my mind is a hair colour advet, which is such a waste of money and time, just look at it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtVKpXYiKo

What were the people who thought, approved and gave money to this advert thing!!!!

These days more and more adverts come everywhere, and most of them get are a waste of money...most of them, just involves a hot girl to say something idiotic expect us to buy the thing or try to show random things and relate to your product whether its shampoo or cooking oil. What does an fighting at the border relates to selling cooking oil!!

Well, gotta go another Idea advert coming on... :P

B303

Hi again.

This new post is not about idle time at work, but about the innovative drinking (thinking) done at our place, B 303 (for the uninitiated, our flat no.)

Last night just after the usual session of drinking and merry making we thought to finish some of our leftovers in our fridge (alcohol, what else u expect?)

But before, let me give you a slight background of our refrigerator. Its compressor thinks that world is coming to an end and only was to save it is by freezing everything, irrespective its in freezer or not. So all our stuff gets frozen from black dog to old monk!!

So now back to the main article, we decided that we need some more merry making and raided the refrigerator. What we found was frozen beer and frozen old monk premixed with pepsi (leftovers!!!).

So, in a moment of divine intervention, we decided to mix the two like one mixes the golas you get on the streets. And the result was as divine as the angel who influenced it!!!!!! (don't ask about her)

So here is the recipe, you will need the following stuff which u can get from your
unfriendly neighborhood liquor shop.

1) Can of beer (preferably draught)
2) Any hard liquor which as strong flavour. (Our recommendation : Rum)
3) Our refrigerator or a normal freezer.

Now put all the alcohol in our refrigerator or your freezer and allow it to freeze (Varies from 30 to 300 min.)

Now in a plate, cut open the can from the middle as shown in the picture below.




















Now pour or place the frozen rum over the frozen beer and let it mix.

Now after the rum is liquid, pour it in a bowl.

This what u get is B303, you could say one of the best drinks I ever had.

Drink / eat using a spoon, or as I like it directly from the bowl.


I hope you all will like it as much as we did.

Acknowledgments:

My Refrigerator
My Roommates, Kutty & Vaishi.
The UB Group.

Offshore

Hi!!

Its been some time since I have written anything. The main and the only reason was I had no idle time......

I was sent to this hellish place to work....called 'Mumbai High'!!

Let me tell you first some facts about Mumbai High

1) Its a premium oil field in our country. It produces about 25% of our country's demand for Oil and about 80% of our country's oil output.

2) Its about 120 nm from Mumbai, in the sea (hence offshore)

Now let me tell you my work in Mumbai High and why I dont like it too much.

I work as an EPC contractor for our client (Mumbai High's owner and operator), so these people think we are the nobody for them!!!

I was my company's representative, so officially I was commanding over 180 persons and 2 vessels. That seems impressive, but when you actually have to deal with all the hugely inflated egos then it always seems that there should be someone you could ask the people to take their problems.

As I said earlier, I was an EPC contractor. And as the company's rep, I also had to take care of all the 'DEMANDS' of our client!!!!

Now these people are highly paid and highly skilled persons.....but their 'DEMANDS' makes them so damn disgusting!!!

Add to that, our base also gives us targets to achieve.....

But, Its not that gloomy..

Not all of our clients are 'DEMANDING', many of them are quite sensible and practical people. Also not all people under you are egoistic, most work very diligently and professionally. And our base is the most supportive when the time comes.

But its those rotten eggs which spoil all the fun working over there.

i will leave you on this note to ponder,
Namaste.