Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Baggage Tag, Superbowl!!

This is short post as I am at Airport on way for Business Travel.

Baggage tag is back!! hahahahh! I am told it didnt work after weeks of trial!! hahahah! I tell you!! Cunning like Chinese, Crooked like Indians! looks like folks tried circumvent!! hehehe !! Security staff says no risk!!

One thing I never understood in America! Superbowl!! Sat thro one in TV at Salt Lake City few years back with my Friend Bob at  a bar!! Never got the game!! So Trump got one right!! His 8 point prediction close than 6 the final outcome! I think NEW ENGLAND Patriots lost when I watched!! (2008 I think)

Take care, stay safe

Karthik
7/2/17, 0735am!!!

Monday, February 06, 2017

48,000$, 308, 5, 0, 50 !!!!


It is no surprise that people have taken to streets for 6th night running in subzero temperature on the streets of Bucharest and other Romanian cities! This is more astonishing, that very people who elected the government just weeks back have poured out in Millions to demand roll back of 48,000$ corruption law which indicates that any bribe below that amount is not a jailable offence!! Government says it is to decongest prisons!! Having been to Romania, my personal interpretation was the country is as similar to our's with intellect people, passion and corruption no less!! (Indeed most Eastern Europe amongst equal with us in many aspects) Now people want this government to go as extreme dissatisfaction!! hahah! One way India is different, Indians thick skinned folks tolerate everything bastards Politician throw at us for over 70 years be it Congoon or Assholes BJP!!! We get the government we deserves!!! 

I am listening to great BBC Podcast #INCARNATION of 50 Indians that reshaped India over centuries!! Many names in that list like Malik Ambar (The Ethiopian Slave, Birsa Munda) the name heard for the first time. Some of the narratives too far different than what we assumed or told!! A must listen! I have gone thro 31 as of this morning..... BBC dishes out awesome stuff!!!

Intriguing to hear BBC Panorama that 1999 there was 0 yes 0 reported Type II diabetics in UK! Today the number is 4 Million cases with amputations as common as London Double Decker Bus on streets!! Many so amongst South Asian communities!! It was sad to see John Jameson the famous cricketer of Warwickshire/ENG 1971 in that list, undergoing Kidney ailment due to same!! Jameson  Run out (Bowler touching ball that gone to hit wkts at non striker end)  turned tide for India to win Oval test first time 1971!!

Willpower is often a topic that brings lot of debate! 5 aspects to work the same is well explained in this lecture by Kelly McGonigal and this animation !! Worth a listen! I agree feeling bad or guilt makes you do the same aspects more!! (smoking, craving sin etc etc)!!!! 1)Energy, 2)Sleep, 3)Good Nutritious Food, 4)Pre Frontal Cortex management and 5) Let Go attitude,are an essential aspects to sustain Willpower!! I agree!!

Astonishing, this week, back in 1975, Lance Gibbs Broke Fred Truman Record of 308 Wickets!! I recollect hearing on Radio 6th Test Melbourne!! Today at 800 wickets that record longgg longg way off!! But Cricket was class apart then!! Gibbs, Truman would be talked about 100 years down the lane than the successors!!! Incidentally it was to Lance Gibbs that a then a 21 yr man called Brian Lara said, one day I would break Gary Sobers Record of 365!! Boy Didn't he do TWICE??!!! hahahahh!!!
Take it easy,take care,stay Healthy GOD BLESS!!

Karthik
6.2.17 0830am! 

Sunday, February 05, 2017

100 days, Elections!! Catholics& Jews!!!!

Lalitha is back from her 3 days travel, morning 5am! Thanks to Technology I could track when she would arrive when my sleep broke at 430 am!But in a larger sense shows uncertainty over events. I recollect days of post card/ telegram about arrival people and person would be there to receive you on dot!! It was good to hear she had great time on her father's 80th Birthday celebrations! She also visited Srirangam temple!!! (hahahha I even listen to her experience there shows how much I have mellowed over years hehehehhe) Interesting her most of her time went on visiting temples, shows richness of devotional spread around Trichy, Madurai (100Km radius) 

I was very intrigued by the elections in India spread over 35 days in 5 states, Oh Man, gimme a break!! I recollect 70s,80s  National elections done in 5-10 days and results declared in 24 hrs!.Even the tense national election,(Post Emergency) 1977 I remember Mrs Gandhi losing day after election was held!! Personally,I want BJP decimated and dont care who wins!! Let's see!!! 

So much lethargy, inefficiency crept in to system. Also bureaucrats passing the buck due to timidity, lack of confidence or authority to take decisions to go hammer and tongs!! 35 days election???  man,this is scandalous! Ass holes of bureaucrats, Govern us more like Yes Prime Minister!!! 
 Also, as indicated last year in my BBC Interview with Mathew Amroliwala, that how MODI would be undermined by these bureaucrats!! How Right, I was!!!! 


Amazing to hear US Media going all out to work views /swing on Trump presidency! While during election campaign they worked "UNITED States of Anxiety" (USA) Podcasts
to get Pro/anti views of Trump where indication for Trump winning was predicted in rural/rust belts!! They are now working a program through Phone in Monday -Tuesday, 8pm EST, in which 130 radio stations across USA hook up to a program "INDIVISIBLE" where people across spectrum phone in to express their views!! 
This program would work for First 100 days of Trump Presidency. So you can get to feel how things shape!! Classic example of people expressing views and you get an ear to the ground!!! It was a surprise to hear all current 8 #SCOTUS Judges now are Catholics and Jews!! If a guy wakes up from Grave of 1920s and gets an update, he would feel creepy, given the fact that first and only Catholic President was elected not far back!!!!  hahahahhah!!!! Things change and nothing is permanent except, Change! Embrace it!!! 


Hhahaha! On a personal side, Radhu/Shravan had their day!! They persuaded me to have ordered dinner!! Amazing, I recollect my good friend, Ashutosh's 85 year father saying, in our days, "we ate what was cooked inside the house and defecated outside! Now a days generation,eat  what is cooked outside and defaecate inside house,thus root cause of issues"!! I wonder is there some truth in it indirectly!! The craving for outside food just beats me!!! 

Take it easy, take care, stay safe, God bless

Karthik
5th Feb 2017 0830am! 


Saturday, February 04, 2017

35 yrs on still missing Karen! memory lingers!!!



4th February 1983,Karen Carpenter passed away at very young age of 32. I still recollect the moment I heard the news during my college days at Madurai! Karen died due to a condition less known that time, now very very common in woman(!!) of eating disorder!!

Along with her brother,Richard, she dished out so many songs which still feel fresh. I am told she was a great drummer too!!!Growing up listening to Carpenters music (more so those days in 70s, 80s u had only radio stations to listen, may be an hour at most/day) the impact she left behind is phenomenal. I am sure her music would be around,come 2117 AD!!!. I still miss her soul touching music and I wonder how much great musical magic she would have delivered but for god's other plans!!! 

All her songs are treat for me! but still my best picks not in any order of her Baker's Half Dozen!!!!

1) Jambalaya ( If I got to pick only1,then this)
2) Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.
3) Please Mr Postman (I recollect my days 1990 waiting for that stimulating mail from Lalitha during courtship days, ahhahah) 
4) Top of the world (Class apart)
5) Good bye to love (Endnote is so awesome)
6) Only Yesterday 
7) I wont last a day without you!! (hahahhaha)


Thanks to my Classmate PK Sridhar who introduced her music to me 1978!!! 

Karthik
4th FEB 2017 1100 Hrs. 


Ready made Roti!! Sleep!!!Obama-Bin-Biden!!!

With Laltiha away and as a person who loves cooking( another matter she doesnt allow me to try out /help her hahahha) I tried some new dish last night. This website Vachef  I found awesome and simple way to work through. I worked the Sweet Potato curry and Tomato Dal Fry Rajastan Gujju style. Came out very well and children (25,22 if can be called kids) loved it! As Roti making is not my virtue, never attempted one! I am sure, I would be hopeless and as like American drivers who never ask for directions, I explored super market Hypercity near home and found KAWAN ROTI /Paratha awesome. The job of heating up the roti delegated to Son at 2000 Hrs who did a super job. Daughter did great help / favour eating them coming from work 2200 Hrs. (Cant blame her can I after a long long drawl day!!)





As much as food is essential as is sleep! so much is being discussed these days! I recollect reading decade back HBR Article managing energy not time in which Sleep is critical to to energetic positive day. I also watched Ariana Huffington video on her book Sleeping Revolution. I don't disagree with her in her prediction that companies would soon have a Sleeping POD for people to nap/refresh just like today they have conference rooms. Sleep many people misjudge! (I too was once a proponent for Sleep when you die, not any more!!) 

I stumbled on once again on UBL tapes a documentary by BBC on my podcast!! It was intriguing to hear he preaching the Gandhian way of Boycott and social chaos as ways to work against Infedels as late as late 1980s! I am to assume the boots landing on Saudi Arabia by west made him take violence! It is also fascinating to hear Osama indicating Shia, Kurds, Communists, atheists posed far far danger to Sunni Islam than West or others! I have an sneeky suscipion/ feeling that Ayman-Al-Zawahri played a very very key part in guiding him to extreme views as the book explains!!


When you talk Osama on a serious note you have to take on a hearty laughter note term coined on election night 2008 November, Obama-Bin-Biden. What a combination they were! U may not like both as Republican, but together they formed one of the best example of team work complementing each other!! Joe Biden was to sell his house for son's cancer treatment, but Obama persuaded him not to do so! That is what is friendship and that's what friends are for as Diane Warwick sang 1980s!!!


See you, Have a great day. Cooking awaits and big arguement ongoing for going out for dinner with daughter, I never like hotel food, I am tiered 15 years outside eating practically every working day!!! 

Karthik.
4th FEB 2017.

Friday, February 03, 2017

31 years, 80 Years, 6 Years!!! TRUMP!!!!

This week marks completion of 31 years of my career. I started packing my bags for #ANKLESHWAR the day space shuttle Challenger exploded in air and setting back USA Space program by years!!(despite another setback thro #Columbia in 2003)While my career had no such hickups. It was great ride 1986-2012 with great people, great team, great organisations, before I felt enough is enough with corporate career, with me feeling I am going no where, in II half of 2012 in my last assignment that began April 2012!! While the next 5 years through my ESH consulting has been tough ride with safety, health still not a great value proposition in Indian entities, I plan to hang out as the saying goes"The Going gets tough, the tough gets going"!!!! 

Today (3rd Feb) is the beginning of 80th Year for Lalitha's father Mr K Sundarraman!! (hahahhahha!! My Father in(out) Law) I have immense respect for him. He took a courageous decision back in 1991,to give away his daughter to a person at #GUJARAT, the most dangerous place then on earth with violence,Hindu muslim riots a common occurrence as sunrise/sunset!! I am glad Lalitha and her elder sister Gauri made it to Trichy today for this simple event (81 planned in a grand manner). We are also planning my father's 80th year celebrations later in the year. Would keep details updated.

I am personally very happy with Aircell maxis verdict,while judgement is disappointing, I am glad it shows how poorly MODI government has prepared and worked in shobby way to prove criminal intent, the case is on for 6 years. Modi government worked on it for 3 years!!!  I keep saying, MODI is dumb egoistic person with "I, Me, Myself" egoistic attitude (Same as MGR) largely attributed to politicians from Gujarat! (remember Moraji Desai the stubborn guy,who is notorious for not listening to people with my way or the Highway)

Trump on other hand, going like bull in chinaware shop!! No one can blame him for not fulfilling his election promises!! Very clear action items, care a damm for what world would say,not a hint of respect for system that exist in place! very clear message to world!! "We have had enough, now we call shots"!!! If Modi had even 20% of this courage and did some of promises, I wont be cursing him with all such unprintable explicit in spite of voting for him in 2014! Not one promise done and going nowhere ! also Modi's team dumbest in Indian history with half ministers looking "PORUKKI" பிச்சைக்காரன் !!! 


Trump on the other hand has picked one of the best cabinet to support him in US modern history the best since in JFK in my view!!! Rex Tillerson, Mad Dog Mattis, Rick Perry, Dr Carlson are some of the best available and certainly wont nod head to Trump unlike our à®®ூதேவி ! exactly the way the team should be!!!
His pick for USA Supreme court nominee too just awesome! I don't think any one could have fitted better void left by Late Justice Antonin Scalia, than Justice,Neil Gorsuch,a conservative judge. Trump might get to pick 2 more judges!! Let's see!!!  Trump is on right track to do what he set to do! As I told my son, How world reacts, how America shapes up it is all up to people, U cant blame TRUMP come 2021!!!! ahahaha!!!! 

                                                                                 Take care, have a good day
Karthik
3/2/2017 0900hrs!!! 

Thursday, February 02, 2017

Back to BLOGGING!!

After 5 years of Lull, I have decided to be back in BLOGGING!! I think this is the best forum to express my thoughts. I find Twitter Abusive with bunch of Idiots with GOOJA JAALRA as we call in TAMIL (Nodding heads) ! Facebook too, politically correct world!!!

Looking forward to interactions here and I would start my posts from today !! Stay Tuned!!! 

God Bless!!

Karthik
2/2/17 !!!