Archive of An Unknown

Folks, With no idea as to whom to crown this week as SHoW (Super Hero of the Week), was just going through the last week's mails. As the number of mails is getting multiplied day after day, it has become very difficult reading all of them then and there. Hence, thought of reserving a day for this activity alone. Full reservation spree... Today is one of such reserved days for reading the junk mails (I am really very sorry to use such an offensive word... but any good stuff that is overused (even the brain) or overproduced naturally becomes junk). When I was going through the mails, I could realize two things. 1. Even one full day is not enough to read all the mails received in the week. 2. Every 25th mail is received from someone other than Chris the great. So, YES... we have found our SHoW! Believe me, Chris sends unbelievable number of mails a day. When I just tried to count the number of mails he has sent in a day on a sample basis, on June 13th, in a span of one and a half hour...

Friends, SHoW (Super Hero of the Week) announcement is lil late this week. As we had a lot of new members joining the group, we were very busy inducting them into the system... (Typical management fundas:-)) Have you heard of MLM? Multi-Level Marketing? I am sure some of you would have already burnt your fingers with companies like Amway!!! I am a living example to have burnt fingers, hand and the whole body in that. If any of your friends or a stranger calls you to discuss about "an exciting and very important business opportunity", please pass on my number to him or his to me and ask him to meet me preferably on a Friday night. I will thrash him to death. But I could see a constructive MLM (I know MLM cannot be constructive... it's all about cheating 100 people to enrich 10) happening in our group this week. As a birthday gift, we presented Jobsy a lifetime free membership to the group. Immediately to compensate the benefits, he joined 3 other ex BCians in the group o...

Hey, who stole the SHoW? One mail is missing. It is Dhanya's. If any of you find it, please do not report it to the SHoW. Parcel it to me. I will post it up here...

Umesh, Then you are the SHoW! Congratulations... This is called instant SHoWing. For those of you who don't know Umesh - He was in the HumaNET / Microsoft team when I left. He is an ex class mate of Umashankar (Mr. Umma). I am really wondering what to name this instant SHoW... Umma!Please F1... I am really not able to write anything now... I have a meeting at 2:00 PM. Bye for now!!! Umma & GG! Continue from here... Cumulative Summary: 1. Raghuraman Kadambi (Mr. Heartthrob) 2. Padmanaban VP (Mr. Padhu Jackson) 3. Sri Gopal De Lalgudi (Mr. Business Magnet) 4. Arun Kumar Mishra (Mr. Great Wall of Microsoft) 5. Radhakrishna Da Magane (Mr. Mannina Maga) 6. Kinshuk Banerjee (Mr. Dada Boy) 7. Iqbal (Mr. Manjunath) 8. Bimalendu de De (Mr. Dumeel) 9. Vinod DB (Mr. RDBMS) 10. Rabijit (Mr. Cool) 11. Suresh Lakshmanan (Mr. Dance Dance) 12. Umashankar (Mr. Umma) 13. Suresh Ramaswamy (Mr. Noble) 14. Satyajit Kunjur (Mr. Simple) 15. Sateesh Kumar Ayyapu Setty (Mr. Okke Okkadu) 16. CM Gururaj ...

Brothers and Sisters (once again:-)), It has been long time since we had any birthdays. Tomorrow (if you are reading it tomorrow, then "today"), Akka is celebrating her birthday. It is long time since we heard from Akka also. I was actually planning to crown Akka instead of Vinayak for keeping quiet for long time. Since Akka's birthday was nearing, thought it would be better to give her on the birthday. Happy birthday Akka! Wish you hundred more happy returns of the day!!! Akka, as you all know, is one of the most active and energetic participant in all our events in BC. Be it debates, arguments, functions, initiatives for tours, fund collection for Kargil war victims or earth quake victims or for BEST. BTW - how many of you still remember the BEST (Blue Chips' Extended Sports Trust)? There is still Rs. 400 with DB. DB! What did you do with that money da? :-) Akka, why are you so silent for such a long time? Are you very upset about Amma's defeat in the el...

Dears, As we have talked enough on feminism while crowning Vidhya. Let's extend it little more. Let's talk about motherhood this time. This, I think, is the most relevant week to discuss about it because we are crowning our SHoW (Super Heroine of the Week) for being promoted as mother. Ambrose Bierce rewrote the meaning of Sweater in his dictionary as follows: Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Do we really have to discuss about motherhood any more? There cannot be better explanations about Sweater and Mother. That is not a single line, but an essay!!! Sobia - There is something that I am going to tell about you, which you may or may not have heard of. When I first saw you in BC, I said Venu that you looked like my mother. After that whenever I saw you I used to tell him "hey... she looks exactly like my mother". I think I have told Raghuraman also once. You just look like how my mother used to be in my childhood. BTW - I am not get...

Members, It's all about numbers. It's numbers game everywhere. Anything without numbers is not accepted as fact. There is nothing called "good" or "bad" in assessments. Be it in business, sports, performance appraisal, or quality. If you can't back with numbers, you are ridiculed and any good statement of yours is rejected upfront as non-sense. We very often tend to claim and have fights over things like "our company is doing well", "Ganguly is a better player than Tendulkar", "I have done a great job and I am the best resource in our project/ company" or "we have always delivered quality products to our customers". At the end of the day, it's only the numbers that tell the truth or believed upon. Every other statement without numbers is rubbished because they might be told out of vested interests or blind biases. Politics is the place where numbers are misused and cricket is where they are overused. No other g...