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Dewdrops on a rainy day, CGC, Tennozu isle.

Fate of tamilnadu

Tamilnadu is eagerly waiting for the poll results for April 2011 elections... Though people want a good governing party, there is no option other than either DMK or AIADMK. Any third front is completely destroyed by this 2 parties... Let us wait till May 13,2011... 13 is usually unlucky number in european countries... Let us watch for which party it is unlucky number... :-)

NCS Kathir punches - Recent Update

1) Last week, when Kathir and Dhana were debugging the mega-giga-script written for EBBS file transfer.

Dhana: Path copy pannunga Kathir ….

Kathir: “Paaathu” dhan da copy panren !!!!

2) Kathir was trying to teach me a few facts/truth of life …

Kathir: Vazhkai la Adhirshtam oru dhadava dhan kadhava thattum …. Anaaa ….. Dhur-Adhirshtam kadhavu thorakara varaikkum thattikiteeee irukkum !!!!!!!

3) Two days back, Kathir asked jumbo regarding something in charges.

Vinay was furious and shouted at him – ‘how can you discuss about charges without me? I am the module Lead’

Kathir responded the below:

Module ah pathi pesina

Moonavathu Maadi la irunthu thalli vitruven!

4) Today, the below conversation between Balaji and Kathir as follows,

Balaji: ‘Vinnai Thandi Varuvaaya’ varingala, 5 ticket iruku.

Kathir: 5 ticket kaga avlo thooram lam thaandi vara mudiyaathunga, neengale poitu vanga.

Balaji: (tearing the ticket into pieces)Naan movie eh polanga! Aala vidunga..

PS: Please dail Kathir and hear his caller tune(Vetri Nichayam Song - from Rajni's Annamalai film). He told he had dedicated that song for Vasanth(Not sure whyJ)

Funny definition for Role from IT Organization

1) Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver  a baby in One month. 

  

 2) Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby. 

  

 3) Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month. 

  

 4) Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby. 

  

 5) Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver  a baby even if no man and woman are available. 

  

 6) Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or  woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources. 

  

 7) Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child  is delivered, they'll just document 9 months. 

  

 8) Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the  PROCESS to produce a baby.   

  

  And lastly...... ......... .. 

  

9) Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the Right baby 

Earth hour 2009: Vote Earth!

Switch off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Visit http://www.earthhour.in/earth-hour-india.aspx And, Support Earth!

Switch off your lights. Save the planet!

The Concept:

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008, the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. This is a call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing every day.

What you can do:

-> Switch off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour, Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm. 

-> Tell A Friend. 

-> Blog about it.

-> SMS your friends.

Interest to read.... Flash Dance

Came in ET today. (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2657001.cms)

Flash Dance

With over five lakh engineers qualifying from the 1500-plus engineering colleges in the country, there seems to be no dearth of qualified engineers. If there is still some resource gap, you can look at the approximately 2.6 million graduates produced annually in this country.

The few Indian IT companies that have come out detailing the impact of the subprime crisis have put the fall in the revenue numbers at a few million dollars. Inflation? It seems to be down to the lower single digits (unless you want to buy vegetables in Mumbai ). And on the flights to Bengaluru, you need to search for the elusive middle class Indian who doesn’t have a laptop.

The threat from China doesn’t exist — its evident that the Chinese will never learn English. No IT major in India has an attrition that is more than 15%. There is no question of a profit warning because of the appreciating rupee — it will be counter-acted by raising the utilisation by few percentage points. So it seems a great growth picture. NASSCOM itself indicates that the IT offshoring support from India will grow at 17% annually, touching 60 billion dollars by 2010. The party just seems to have begun.

Well, one of my childhood friends once told me that the eyes cannot see what the mind does not know. One needs to look beyond : at the ‘real’ number of people on the bench, the last-minute postponements in the joining dates of campus offers, the endless interviews before one gets accepted onto a project, the larger number of hours one is expected to work, the lower variable pay doled out to a wet-behind-the-ears programmer, the opening of a sales office in a remote country, and the Da Vinci-esque creativity shown in inventing reasons for letting go excessive capacity created in anticipation of business. And then these speak of a different reality.

You can continue to have a 15% impact on payroll to retain the best of talent and attack the problem of profitability by increasing the intake of fresh graduates. But, by definition, these young minds need to go through at least three months of training. Remember, the bulk of the talent that comes into industry is from engineering colleges that have faculty that passed out from the same college the previous year and wasn’t employed in IT. Putting them onto a job by cutting corners on training can lead to severe quality issues and hence loss of customers. You can still avoid margin pressures by placing them onto so-called ‘non-critical’ engagements that do not need years of experience. But all you would have done is solved the margin problem for the next quarter.

That, in essence, is my fear. In the quest to meet high margin expectations and market images, the IT industry may continue to spend too much on direct costs and avoid any serious investments in R&D that could yield breakthroughs in productivity. This in turn could lead to a spiral of a high-volume-low-end-mediocre-work . For those who think it is far-fetched , just turn the clock back by two decades. The brightest graduates (including engineers) joined the most glamorised job of 1970s — a Probationary Officer in a nationalised bank. With the wave of nationalisation euphoria wearing-off , and successive administrations reducing the job to the most mundane set of activities, a job in a nationalised bank has significantly eroded its appeal to an ambitious individual today.

So what is the conclusion? First, get some reality into the lives of ‘any college any engineer with three years experience’ . Prepare him for a single digit increment. Second, take money out and invest in a real product; or a true productivity framework, preferably both. Third, stop floating the maintenance programmer of retail banking system as a banking domain expert and start investing a little more money in building and gaining real domain experience.

Most important, for a country that has excelled on its labour cost arbitrage and has not seen a real bad market in its life cycle, this almost habitual, unguarded optimism is dangerous. Do not get me wrong — I find the outlook reasonably bright in the long run but, we need to remember it is certainly not a given. The winners are likely to be the prudent investors in the mutual funds, not the flyby-night day traders. Greed is one thing, but the industry and its investors need to realise that a 15 to 20% operating margin in a service industry is not bad either.


The author is CEO, Capgemini

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Save IT People from Debts

Nice one :) Forward to your friends and just we will do a try for the given period only. Shall we?

No Sathyam Cinemas, No coffee day, No Barista, No Anjepar hotel, No Ponnusamy hotel, No Mayajaal... (You know where to go and where not to go after reading this mail...) between 16-Dec-2007 and 15-Jan-2008.
Its not just a forward. How many of you are ready to follow this?
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(Below email "Save the IT People from Debts" was wonderful and we should go through it and also forward to all our friends)

Real Estate price hike is known open robbery from IT guys by brokers / whoever it is and it's not only Flats / Real Estate, IT guys undergo open robbery from all rich shop owners / a person who wanted to become rich as fast as possible...

The salary whatever we get, it's our hard-earned money, most of the times sitting in the night, away from family functions, friends, etc...but all our money or most of the money are going to someone who just takes advantage of our stressful life (both mentally and physically) and our new western life style.

I do not find anything wrong in having a US / UK life style, but many open thieves (starting from Ministers to our local Restaurant owner) just swindling all our "legal money" and as we do not have any other choice becoming poor / debtor day by day.

Well most of the price hikes are just unbelievable and there is absolutely no justification (few examples given below).

Chicken Biriyani (Karaikudi 3 weeks back) - Rs. 65

Today (since last 2 weeks) same Karaikudi Chicken Biriyani (believe me, there is absolutely no change) - Rs. 78, there is no justification for such a big increase.

Pop Corn (Sathyam Complex) previously (month and half back) - Rs. 20

Today (almost the same quantity) - Rs. 30 (again, i do not find any justification)

Corn in Garuda Mall previously (month back) - Rs20 Small, Rs 30 Medium and Rs 40 High

Now, No "actual" small and real small has become 35 now and 45 for high... [Are they the farmers who have given their blood to grow this ]

(In Sathyam complex, many price hikes are really too much for no reason...)

Chips packet (Gangotree) previously (three months back) - Rs. 15

Since last two Months the same packet costs - Rs. 20 (again, I do not find any justification)

Room Clean (just once) - Rs. 200, that's bcos they cleaned IT guys room.

(The moment you say that you are from Software company, the price automatically increases...)

We guys already pays big taxes from our salaries and goes on paying other taxes too (starting from Hotel Sangeetha "Vadai" to Scotch in a bar), it's time to think and pledge ourselves that we stop spending just for one month...

Reason(s) why we should stop spending alteast for a month:

1. 70% of the IT guys occupies the restaurants.

2. 80-90% of the IT guys goes to coffee shop, hang around places, bakeries, etc.

3. Most of the IT guys goes to Sathyam complex, Movies

If we stop going / spending just for a month, their business automatically goes down and they would have no other choice except to bring down the price, that's what happened when IT industry was down three years back.

Somehow directly or indirectly we are responsible for this unjust price hike and now, only we could prevent this open robberies, please add your comments or experiences and keep forwarding this email to all your known people, I am sure even if 25% of us realizes and acts accordingly, it could and would make lot of difference to us.

(let's try and prevent unjust price hike)

Save the IT People from Debts

* Property market in Year 2001 -2004 was quiet Ok , People were able to buy Flats in reasonable rates ..

*Year 2005 -2006 , Some of the well known builders started the rates boom , flat which was at the cost of Rs.900 Sq Ft now became 2200 to 2800

Q: Are there any additional facilities ?

--> No Same Scheme/Area , Flat sold at 10 Lacks Now selling at 25 Lacks .

Q: Why Property increased so High ?

--> IT people competition to buy sweet home ..

Q: Who is going to Benfit from this Property Boom ?

--> Only Builders and some of the Politicians

Q: How is the Bank's support on Home Loans ?

--> Last Year , Bank gave the loan's at flexible mimimum rate,Now Banks has sufficient number of customers ,

(Trap) Slowly Banker's increasing interst at % 0.5 every month .

IT People Who bought house for 22 Lacks for 20 Yrs , Now became 23 Yrs with raise of 0.5 %

Q. How some IT people can face the problems in Future ?

--> Companies are Project Based , If Projects are not there then People will not be there .

Q. IT salaries are high in Market , How much actually IT-people getting in Hand ?

--> People, Who bought house of 22 Lacks to 40 Lacks They need to pay EMI

15,000 to 35,000 for 20 Yrs. If Bank keeps same interst rates .

Suppose Salary is 35- 40 K Per Month, 20K will be the EmI

Q. Is there any "Terms & Condition or Processes to increase rates" ?

--> No , Depends on Buiders Greediness . Every builder follows the different strategies

Builder sold one flat 1500 Per Sqft in Morning and 1800 Per Sqft in the Evening ,

There are no records maitained ..

Q. Who made builders smart & greedy ?

--> Greedy IT people ..

No body is asking , Flat was sold at 12 Lacks , Why now 24 Lacks ?

Q. Is Corporation water & MESB available to all schemes ?

--> Some of the area don't have the Corporation water at all , People surviving on Water Tankers.

** MESB .. Under Table ,can be managed easily .

Q. What will be the condition If We are not able to Clear the Loan ?

--> Depends on individual capabilities

Q. What wiil be the actual 'area of living' or carpet area if the builder proposes 1000 sft?

....> The actual carpet area will be 800-850 sft only. The common area is also included in the proposal.

If two flats are in the same floor, then the builder cheats both the residents by collecting

How do Builders cheat buyers? ... Let us see with a simple example

Builder XXXX proposes a flat in a decent residential area.

Rate ( Unit Price ) - Rs. 3500 sft.

Registration - Rs. 40 per sft.

EB and drainage - Rs. 50,000

Covered Car park - Rs. 1,25,000

Corpus fund - Rs. 50000.

For a 1000 sft flat ( 850 sft carpet area ), the approximate cost will be Rs.37,65,000. In the same plot area ( measuring 2 grounds) the builder would have constructed 8 or 10 flats.

Let us see how a builder earns his profit

Total sales for the builder - 37, 65,000 *10 = 3, 76, 50000 ( 3.76 crores)

Cost of the land - Rs. 40 laks per ground

1) Total cost of the land - 80 lakhs for two ground ------- A

Total builtup area for 10 flats - 10*1000 sft = 10,000 sft

Construction cost per sft ( for normal specification) = Rs. 900 per sft

2) Total construction cost - 10,000 * 900 = Rs. 90,00,000 -------------- B

3) Other expenses for the builder - Rs. 20 per sft = Rs. 2,00,000 .................C

Total expenses for the builder = A+ B+C

= Rs. 80,00,000 + Rs.90,00,000 + Rs. 2,00,00

= Rs. 1,72,00,000 ( 1.72 crores approx)

Total Sales = Rs. 3.76 crores - Rs. 1.72 crores

Total profit of the builder = Rs. 2.04 crores.

Let us see the share of each resident

1. Cost of land = Divided share among the other 10 residents

= Rs. 80,00,000 / 10

= Rs. 8,00,000

2. Construction cost = Rs. 900 * 1000

= Rs. 9,00,000

3. Other expenses = Rs. 2,00,000 ( approx)

Total = Rs. 19,00,000 ( Nineteen lakhs)

The total share for each resident is Rs. 19,00,000 ( Nineteen lakhs only )

but he pays Rs. 37.5 laks for the flat.

Q. How We can stop Builders -Property Boom ?

1) IT People should not think about buying flats for atleast next 1-2 Yrs .

2) Onces rates are reasonable , With some legal process get the Booking .

3) Check Facilities, Convince, Road Approach, schools & Mainly co-operation water

4) Ask Questions If I buy 1/2 BHK at 12 to 30 Lacks , Do I get reasale value in future?

5) Today you are capable for paying 1000 -3000 maintains per month ? Will it be the same case

after 20-30yrs after retirement .

6) In All, Don't stretch more to get the more & more loans other wise it will create unnecessary

pressure and tension.

7) Read the above mentioned calculation carefully, when you are about to buy a flat pls keep this in mind.

* Please read this carefully * Send it to all you know * Act quickly * Save them from debts.

* We can stop the inflation.

"That's Not my job"

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