A Crazy Idea

Like any other day, my thoughts were wandering aimlessly across the cosmos....Then out of no where ,an idea struck me....My mind immediately shrugged it off saying..forget it dude...after all you tought it..it has all the more reasons to be useless and cranky..

How do I care,what my mind says...I have the liberty to write, whatever I like here....So the idea is...to create a web portal that helps in Ideation....'Ideation"...you heard it right....I know for sure that I am not the lone soul in this world who has an wandering mind, thinking about a lot of issues/problems / concerns/suggestions/improvement ..etc....

So this portal intends to tap on this ever unstable erratic mind process of ideation..I am sure that you did not understand anything that has been written thus far....Please dont skip reading..Lemme explain..

When I was riding my Activa on a busy saturday evening, I found numerous cars on the road, everything but 800 and Alto looked different and appealing to me. I had a thought ,why not Maruthi scrap both 800 and Alto and come up with a newly and innovatively designed sub compact car priced between 800 and alto...Well it might be a bad idea....but Idea is still an idea...and can be proven wrong only after market test..

Imagine the scene at the Cheif Strategist office in many large organizations, they need to constantly think on improving their products and where will they get the ideas from. They do a lof of these market research to find out customers requirements....and then R&D to develop a prototype and then market testing followed by launch...the leadership of the organization has to focus on all these activities...Ideas that evolve from this environment cannot be Greatly different..So instead of a pull strategy , why not use a push strategy...Let your customers tell you what you should be doing...

I am sure all of us, would have been happier with our products being a little different than the way it is now. How will an organization effectively know this, or how sure can they bank on their think tanks to come up with mind blowing Ideas every quarter...Well not impossible but not very effective though..

So one solution can be ..a place where commoners can discuss about making products better...be it commercial items like car, soap, apparel,drinks or, governmental like infrastructure/ bribe/crime...or civic such as global warming, pollution control and disease awareness program...Hear the people..they might have some real good ideas.....

Okies....Why this post...there can be an idea like this later and I am going to demand royalty or sue the company for copyrights infringement.....ha ha....just kidding...its just another instance of my frenzied thought process....

Embracing my own Idea...I welcome thoughts and suggestions....

Bitten by Socializing Bug

I do not know the reason why , when many asked me if I am in facebook, I replied a BOLD no casually, I did not get the thought to register. People even said grow up, orkut is no more fun, only then I realised that I was not frequenting Orkut as well. Last week, a friend of mine , was talking to me about twitter.

OMG, why dont people be happy with themselves or simply be quiet..Why is everybody highly addicted to chat and talk....We have become extremely dependent on people/machines... Anyways I decided to "follow the crowd", using same mantra which was preached right from childhood. So After a long long time, I register with facebook and twitter. If not for socializing, atleast I can take part in a discussion on them and be happy that I added two cents . However, I should accept that Linkedin was purely my choice, I thought it is good to be seen on a professional networking site.

Having said that, I have added everyone as my friend, technology has greatly improved, mass invitations are now possible, so One click , and I am connected to all my friends, even if I happen to miss someone, I am sure they will find me. This is the advantage you have, when reach first or last...You will never be forgotten......

So Happy Facebooking, Twitting, Linkedining...or Whatever ;-)

UPO – Must Watch

I wanted to see A Wednesday but missed it. I guess it was a blessing in disguise. I got to watch UPO in my own language and ethnicity. The film has my favourite star Kamal as a protagonist and another actor I greatly admire Mohan Lal complementing him. I still cant beleive that I had actually seen these two guys on the same screen. But the beauty is that the story and screenplay eclipses their glitzy performances. Hats off to the script writer.
I can boldly say that this film is flawless. I also agree that Kamal used the film to vent out his social anger in some scenes which could have been avoided, like Voter id, religious bias and other democratic issues. Well its his film and he can do that.
The star cast was immaculate; Mohan Lal fits and delivers to a T. Lakshmi does her job very candidly. The two police officers were brilliant and of course handsome (I did not like that though..but its ok). Anuja Iyer, though I don’t greatly like her, did her job very well. The surprise element was Sreeman as a popular actor portraying Vijay effortlessly was a treat to watch.
Dialogues in the film were awesome, I am not surprised as it is Kamal’s film, many dialogues were too sensational. Be it the face off between Mohan lal and lakshmi, Karunanidhi’s situation handling dialogue or Mohan lal’s dialogue to Anuja Iyer (“ I like that order”) and many more were truly outstanding.
Background score was impressive. Thank God there are no songs, however Kamal can stop lending his voice – you are grown old sir, at least your voice. Cinematography was extraordinary, beautiful angles, normal and yet appealing color treatment, picturesque wide angle shots. After a long time it is surprising to see Kamal taking a back seat as an actor, he has comparatively less screen time. But as they say, it’s not the quantity but quality that matters.

Watch UPO, its worth your every single pie.

Advanced Maths – Making Life dizzy

I am happy with simple addition -> this month salary + Next Month salary = Two month salary
Progression is raising my expectations, be it arithmetic or geometric or biometric whatever
I am happy with simple subtraction -> salary – expenses = savings
Again Progression is giving me creeps, be it AP, GP... UP, HP, it only shoots my BP
I am happy with simple multiplication -> after marriage = income and expenses double
Rate of change of variables and algebraic equation makes my head spin
I am happy with simple division -> My wife earns = expenses halved
Squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, nth root, power of n, OMG please
I am happy with simple averages -> (investment 1 + investment 2) / 2 = average Investment
CAGR, NPV, IRR makes you believe you can be a millionaire in next ten years
Then you have permutations and combinations, from the day I learnt it, my decision making elapsed time has gone from bad to worse
Probability – makes it worse saying be it whatever you decide, the chances have the final say.
Differential and Integral calculus, tends to zero, tends to infinity, laws, rules...Ay ! its meant only for Einsteins and Newtons
Finally Trigonometry, Its a SIN to have learnt it COS for every SEC I have wasted on it, I could happily slept in my COT instead have become TAN going to tuitions.

Ninaithale Kasakum

My friend after a long hiatus came back to blog with Kandasamy review. After hearing its mass review, I now realize what made him write that one. It was very kind of him to give us a heads up to stay away from the theatre vicinity where it was aired. There is a popular saying ; Tell me about your friend and I will tell about you. Now it’s my turn to stop you from watching another such hyped stupid movie.
Well time and again I am being proved on the existence of Murphy’s Law. It was a beautiful Sunday evening, I happily had a nap for 2 hours in the afternoon after a heavy sumptuous Saravana Bhavan lunch. Struggling to gather myself up for an annoying cell phone call from one of my friends (I always wonder how friends can call exactly the time you don’t want them to....), he wanted me to accompany him for his Ramzan shopping ( No points for guessing this one). Had a quick face wash and zoomed to City centre and I was pretending to help him choose some clothes.
If a guy says he went to city centre to help his friend buy clothes, I am sure even the dumbest idiot wont believe it. I don’t wanna lie here..After he shopping and me bird watching, we decided to go for dinner and then a movie. I then call up one of my most intelligent friend, asking him his choice, I always believe in democracy, always ask for people’s opinion and do what you like at the end. He told me book for anything but Kandasamy, I think he got hold of my friend’s blog. So we go to the counter and as usual, Complex full was the reply.
That was the last chance of escape. But persistent problem mongers go behind problems or it somehow comes to them. There was one guy, who wanted to return exactly the no. Of tickets I wanted. Gosh God we bought the tickets and got ourselves parked in the theatre hall. My Intelligent friend praised me for getting this movie ticket, as the movie has got 3.5 star rating somewhere, If I only get hold of that *******..
The movie starts with a cliché narration, cliché song and a cliché fight....I am not going to go into details, because they are n’t any. It will also make this already boring blog more boring...I will stop with some comments to justify the blog title. Prthiviraj..for heaven’s sake ..please speak Tamil, else ask someone to dub for you.. Priya mani , this role is not something cut out for you, you added no value..sorry...second heroine of the movie..my god,..of all people why her? Sakthi was the only saving grace of the film.
Screenplay was so slow and boring and clichéd, it happens only in cinema when your friend’s dad after a game’s half time can give you a one line advice, and you emerge victorious, having flopped all these years..likewise many more such stupid instances....Music was way too ordinary, two songs were kind of ok, sexy lady and mulla song..rest were crap. I wonder how this film was a super hit in Malayalam..I am not going to decipher that..I have better work to do...