Monday, November 21, 2005

Metrology-Is it a science of Measurement or Just a Science of Predictions?

Metrology-Is it a science of Measurement or Just a Science of Prediction?

When i got up in the morning it was as as if just 6 in the morning.Later i realised it was almost 8.00 in the morning.It was raining heavily and it was dark in the morning.As usual i felt subways would be floating with water..But suddenly around 8.30 am rain almost stopped completely.As it was rainy day, i took electric train to Nungambakkam.On my way to Loyola College bus stop where i used to take a share auto to my office i was completely drenched with non stop rain for around 30 minutes.So decided to take off to office.Just called my office to inform lead reagrding my leave and returned back in train back to square.One or two friends of mine were just asking me whether did i really reach till Nungambakkam to take decision to come back home? They felt as if i am just bunking office.I wasn't.Hence it was a long week end for me.

Still i am not satisified with the way the Metrological Department is functioning in India..But definitely i should admit that its far better when compared to what used to be earlier. But still i am astonished at the way US Metrological Department's functioning.They are more accurate at their predictions. As most of my friends are now at US i am just posting this question to you?Is my perspective right? Dont we have the forecasting equipments/instruments to predict accurately as they do it in US?Is that the reason behind it?Or just we have to blame at the Government for not taking much initiatives in this respect? In US if they say Hurricane will hit this part at this time at so many kms/hr, its just happening Whereas Mr Ramanan, from chennai Metrlogical department always play safe saying

"We MAY expect a heavy to very heavy rainfall in ALMOST all parts of Tamilnadu".

So whats all your opinion on this?Do you have something else to say on this?

I feel Metrology is science of prediction for India and a science of measurement for US...Do you all agree with this on me? To conclude on this please dont tell me that its science of measurement supported by predictions.

But i pray god that atleast for tomorrow Mr Ramanan's Predictions turn out to be false...Because we have a one day international at Chepauk Stadium between India and SouthAfrica..But some times i even feel atleast let rain come so that both the teams will atleast share their points instead of SouthAfrican team taking over the points.But i still dont understand why do they Cricket assocications and BCCI plan up for a match in a place where monsoon is much effective at this point of time.Cant they plan it somewhere else?Or is it just because of the pressure put in by local state cricket associations they plan for a match out here?

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

BPO marching towards an end?

Business Process Outsourcing to India marching towards an end?This was going across in my mind for quite some time..But if you see the number of intakes into call centers and BPO's its tremendously increasing exponentially with time, you end up saying no atleast for 3-5 years, it has solid foundation laid.

I thought India will start losing the BPO segment due to the reason that recently in Delhi a BPO company gave out their client details for getting monetary benefits.Countries like US,UK insist much on confidentiality and integrity. I dont know how was the company able to tackle all these...I guess it was in news for a week when it came out...Now there is no trace of it if i am tracking it right...Again money has played a role here?

Just when i was reading this article from Economic times i got to know that BPO Companies at the initial few years of their operations get very little amount of money from their Client..The amount they receive increases gradually as the confidence level on the company raises...

Can this apply to Software Industry even?I dont think so..

Is that just because its outsourced to India? Will company operating in other countries accept such deals wherein they receive bulk payment after gaining confidence on their operations?I feel no ....Is that the reason other than Cheap workforce & Resource Availability they come to India?
I feel so..

Just have a look at the article from ET http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1290184,curpg-1.cms which throws some light on what are the various risks handled by both the client and BPO Organisation on executing a long term contract.

Come in with your views. Do any one of you have a third angle( I mean a different view) to this?

Monday, November 14, 2005

Ghajni a historical figure?

Ghajni a historical figure? May be...But the Ghajni that I am going to speak about is definitely not Mohammed Ghajni... I am weak in history (: .I am going to speak of Sanjay Ramasamy, a character put in by A.R.Murugadoss in his latest film. After getting hit by Oru Kalloriyin Kathai i decided not to go to a movie until i get good opinion on a movie..

I learnt from my friends circle that this is running good for quite some time...So why not take a chance?But this time it turned out to be a good one.This time i didnt feel anything for having spent Rs75/ per ticket for this movie..But still i am not convinved with name of the movie..I dont see any correlation between the Sanjay Ramasamy and Ghajni..So i did not get the significance of it...Except for the fact that even when he missed once to kill the villain, he doesnt lose hope and keeps trying(This character is what appears to me in resemblance to historical Ghajni)...But Mohammed Ghajni tried it 17 times if i remember it right...Someone good at history please correct me if i am wrong in this..

Oops!You all know onething...Satyam has made the queue dead by introducing Online Booking of tickets.Do visit
www.thecinema.in Me and my friend utilised this facility to book the tickets.But unfortunately when the movie started we were asked to vaccate as there was typical bug of giving same tickets to two different person in their online booking system....First we got tickets only in economy as the elite and premium were already booked...As a result of this problem which was their fault we were moved to Box(Elite)...It was good... and we were comfortable with it..even though we had to give out extras...I should say thanks to my friend who took me in car...

We decided to go to satyam even though it was running in some other theatres as i thought defintely movie should have a wider scope for BGM which i realised through Trailers.Defintely Haris Jayaraj has not disappointed me in this regard. But except for two songs, others are just mediocre...But "Suthum Vizhi Chudare" makes everyone hum this song..as well dance to the tunes of it.

Coming to the camera, its excellent....But i dont know how long are they going to repeat the similar pattern of giving effects to stunts. Except for that, it was good enough.. But the movie even demands an executive Sanjay Ramasamy to dance to the tunes and do stunts...I dont know how many executives of various companies really can do that...But no other go we had to live with that...If we start blaming like this then we will not be in a position to see a single movie coming nowadays. So no comments on that....

Surya has done a good job...Both as an executive as well as Short Term memory Loss patient..I was getting opinions from my friends that Murugadoss has shown Short Term Memory Loss Patient as Psycho...I would not agree with it after seeing this movie.His character is not a psycho...Rather he wants to take revenge on the people involved in killing his lover Kalpana.. But at the same time being hit in the head makes him suffer from Short Term Memory Loss.

So who is kalpana?..She is noble hearted woman as characterised by her character...Haseen has put in a good performance...Improved her performances from her previous movies.Particularly finding a character like kalpana in reality is quite difficult....But there are some in this world really interested in helping others...Good characterization...She is being attracted to a middle class man Manohar(the name by which Sanjay Ramasamy moves with her)...He stays as manohar till her death....

Applause to Murugadoss.

But Nayanthara who has been shown as "Adutha Veettu pen" so far in her earlier movies gives a shock...Probably she has to reduce her fat by being in diet like Ajith..(I should not say this because even i am fat...)Probably if she had been shown in Churidhars/Sarees definitely i would not have made such a comment.If she doesnt then she should avoid coming in glamorous roles...

I dont understand in the movie----Is everybody an athlete?Everyone keeps running....Be it Surya,Haseen,Nayanthara,Riaz khaan...

Villain's double act was unnecessary...It doesnt make any significant difference...Some fight sequences could have been avoided...Murder of haseen was a brutal one...Just being saved in train by military jawans is cinematic...Surya's costumes in the songs could have been better...He comes up with Red pants,Red shirts...Which is typically a telugu film heroes wear...

There is no separate track for comedy...I guess this is Murugadoss's regular pattern...This very well differentiates it from the rest... Editing was also good..So i guess Salem Chandrasekhar,producer of this movie should be happy as its doing good still in theaters

I hope i have not bored you all people much...Most of you would have seen this movie...But if you have not seen it you can afford to see this one...Its good.