Indianness!

Didn't want to post it again on the internet! So the link!

http://kuttiraj.blogspot.com/2008/12/indianness.html

Do you focus on Problems or Solutions ???

Case 1 

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When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that 

the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing 

surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. 

They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C. 

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil. 

Case 2 

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One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly! line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. 

Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with 

high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes 

that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, 

they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so. 

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the 

same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but 

instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial 

electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, 

and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of 

the line. 

Moral: 

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Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible 

solution that solves the problems. Always focus on solutions & not on 

problems. So the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE 

LOOKS INTO THE PROBLEM and Resolve early. 

C Siva (EEE) has posted our Decade Meet videos in YouTube.
Enjoy..!!!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUMt-LpRJg
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSFjJ7V3Zg
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrnM9cQYsY
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=GsvKgRTw9gs
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=lzdu9RxWAOo
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=JZoApjY2BCQ
Thanks a ton Siva!
94EM13

What a Country INDIA, 2 Shooter [Enough is Enough]

An Olympic shooter wins Gold (Only a game) & Government gives him 3 Crores



Another Shooter dies, fighting with terrorists (Saving our country and our life) & government pays his family 5 lakhs.

Happy Blogging !!!

Traffic Signals of Future

Who knows this is the reality of the future !!!

Regards,

Happy Blogging...

Love and Sigh!!!!

We get so many forward emails in a day. One an email every friday from my colleague is "Weekend Reading", I got the following link which came as a forward email to him, Since it is a nice one to share with you all I am posting it here.

www.mychurch.org/blog/214007/puppy-sized

When I completed reading It just reminded me the Decade Meet we had where I could remember seeing bigger sighs at everyone's face. :)

Nano Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer

I thought this is a good article that gives an idea of where solar power is leading to.

Who knows, we may be getting a solar shirt that can charge our cellphones/cameras pretty soon. For India this can be a pretty revolutionary invention, with the way the power demand vs consumption is at the moment, but a million dollar question.

Can our Govt. act to get these technologies into our market soon?

A nice article here -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/29/solarpower.renewableenergy/print
Regards,

Sakthi k

What Toyota Knows That GM Does Not

A Very interesting comparison of the work culture difference between the two major Automobile companies Toyota and GM. In This difficult times, where there is Job cuts every where Toyota has a special cultre, deep- rooted values, and respect for their workforce.

Toyota’s tradition is to NOT lay off employees during hard times. This tradition hasn’t really been put to the test until now. And Toyota has stuck to its guns and its values. Hope our Company do follow such policies...

Read a very interesting article from the blog -

http://edgehopper.com/what-toyota-knows-that-gm-doesnt/

Regards,

Goudhaman

Riding the Rough Waves

Its been a month till we started the blogging. Though not a compromising start at least we have made a step forward. Lots of suggestions have been taken and being processed. Hope to improve better day by day.

- Alumni



It is the most difficult times of our generation, worst than
the Y2K, we were just out of college during the 2k dot com bust.
This is the time we need to be mentally tough to
face the rough waters of life and this point of time
we need to look back for our contacts and reniew it.
Who know's there is a saving angel for us among us.

Happy blogging

Giving back to Mother Nature!

The below is something that I have thought to write about for a long time. Infact, I have been writing this article for a long time too. I don’t intend to preach, but I want to share a few things that even if a few of us start following would make a change! Let’s save the Mother Nature. I would say that I follow 80% of it except the alternative fuel part. It might be a long one, but am sure definitely worh it! Happy reading!


As Always,
Rajkumar K.


GREEN

When you construct a new building be it a house or a multiplex, please ensure that you consult an architect and ensure that your building is GREEN in terms of energy consumption! There are quiet a lot factors like more walls less glass to retain heat, meaning good insulation.

• Start using them to at least heat water for bathing. These instruments have matured and probably a bit cheaper than earlier.
• Green Energy: Wind Energy, Nuclear energy etc., try to start using it! Of course we need to generate. Nuclear Energy rests with the Government. At least for the wind energy, if you have the financial capacity and the will, please do so. You are saving not just your children, but future of the humans as well!

Power

• Switch of unwanted lights and fans or any other electrical equipment.
• Defrost your refrigerator twice a week.
• Start using the CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lamps). We all know it consumes only a 1/4th of the electricity and lasts longer.
• Check for the models from the manufacturers whose USP is energy efficiency. This will help reduce electricity consumption and reduce emission as well.
• Educate people on how to utilize the free electricity they get. Many rural areas in TN, Bihar etc.., receive it and it would good if they have good counseling on how to utilize it. For instance, stop the pump sets when required promptly. Usage of one min extra means loss of both water and power! Educate them on energy efficient pump sets rather than free TVs!
• Shutdown your computers; they consume a lot of energy during stand by mode (as much as 3 X 60 watts bulb). And most importantly switch off your monitors too!

WATER

• Use Drip irrigation for big cultivation lands and sprinklers for your own lawn.
• While applying soap on you or while shaving shut your taps.
• Use Dishwasher if possible!
• Improve ground water level; Water harvesting!
• Recycle water!

Fuel Efficiency

• Buy Fuel efficient cars. For every litre of Petrol burnt 4 kgs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere! So try to pool cars as well. You could end up saving your money and also fuel and also the environment. For shorter distances say up to 2 kms take a walk or even a bi cycle, so that petrol is saved. If your public transport system is too good, please take it.
• If you have to travel to some place for a meeting, try to close the meeting over a phone. This will save a lot of time and of course fuel as well. Imagine for a meeting for two days, travel from Shanghai to San Diego in Chile (an exaggerated statement though it happens in reality)! What a waste of time/money/fuel?
• All of us know that our tyre pressure directly linked to the performance of our vehicles. Constantly check the pressure and particularly after leaving you vehicles idle for more than 3 days.

Alternative Fuel
Create Alternative fuels. There are quiet a lot from bio diesel to ethanol.
Start looking at automotives that run on alternative fuels.


Save Nature

• Plant Trees: Let us allow nature to come back to what it was. Let’s not cut trees. Lets Plant trees! Imagine if every one of us will grow one tree each we would have planted 2.5 billion trees between the Chinese and the Indians.
• Plastic Bags: Well a lot has been said about this. We all know the environmental problems faced by this factor. Ground water to emission levels of those decaying bags!
• Paper: Stop wasting paper. Do not used them unless absolutely necessary. Even while printing a document, you can have print options set to “Print on both sides” and “print 2 pages in a sheet” It saves three sheets of paper for a document of four page size.

Be the first to make the change rather than questioning the system.

Bhajji in trouble Again

Angry bhajji Slams Gilli - Its more of drama & Spice than Sports.

For the indian viewers who has the chance to see sreeshanth, bhajji, dinesh karthik, akash chopra irfan pathan are in a realty show for dance and the judges are non other than sushmita sen & Akram. The guys perform well with the girls than the onfield performance...

God save other sports, we care a damn for Viswanathan Anand, pankaj Advani or our Sole olympic gold medal winner Abinav Bindra who are the king in their respective spors..

Its Festive Mood

Its diwali time - 

Lots of email and greetings moving across globe in a fraction of a second. 

At this moment i think of our good old days of sending a greeting card through post and not knowing if it has reached or not and even if it reaches was it on time. 

Our postal department was ever lethargic as always. I guess we need *** Lalu *** to take this department to turn things around. 

News & Events of this Week - 

We have a happy addition to this kongu family - Dhanasekar our mechanical engg department is blessed with a baby girl mom (Sankari) and baby is doing great... yeah the dad too is doing X'llent.

Vishnu - mechanical department had a wonderful birthday and i guess he is turning XX, not sure but yes he is getting old...

Guys - We like to share more of these updaes in the blog than in email and we certainly expect more of participation from all various department.  

Light Moments in Office

This post may not be true in true sense but its the reality !!!

Re Cap Decade 98

The following is especially for the people who couldn't make it to the meet unfortunately! We missed you!

We indeed did manage a great show! 140 Odd of us made it to the meet! It’s by far a record and we only could wish that some other batch breaks it some day!

It was a great feeling to meet everyone at one single place, at one single point in time and for one more time in life! Am sure everyone who made it to the meet will acknowledge this. It was exciting and fun to relive those wonderful carefree years! It was great to see that quiet a few folks flew down to India to be part of this event! It was heartening to see many of us being accompanied by their families. Such was the importance and our passion about this meet!

• It started of with all the alumni introducing ourselves. Then few of us shared our thoughts and experiences followed by the felicitations by the management!
• Then came the cultural events followed by our own entertainment! The respective department students and staff met our guys in a very brief knowledge sharing session!
• Then it was a small bye bye time for people who had to leave that Saturday itself rather who could not participate in the trip!

Trip to Cunnoor -

Two buses with roughly 100 odd people and 5 cars left for Cunnoor. There started the reliving again. It was as good as any of the IVs we would have gone during our college days or probably the return trip from TIES '97 from PSG Tech! To add to our excitement, few families also joined us and they too enjoyed it! 20th Evening/Night was simply an awesome experience!

The most important exercise was on the 20th around mid night, where many of us shared our experiences (success and failure). It was really great to realize what everyone has achieved in the past 10 years! A few doctorates, many entrepreneurs, few lecturers etc.,. It was such an enriching experience to meet them all under one roof rather around a camp fire. Achievement is a relative term and there is nothing like a small or a great achievement! So in general, every one of us are doing good!

Sunday morning was even more fun at a park. Sight ;) Seeing/Seven stones/Very own Kolai Kolaiyaa Mundirikka etc., It wasn't just that we were reliving the '94 - '98 days, but went a bit more down the memory lane! Though both the days were great experiences, the one we enjoyed the most was at the park!

At this juncture, I think we should thank quiet a few! I take the liberty to do so on behalf of all DONS! I hope I don't miss (m)any! If I do, its again unintentional!

Management, Volunteers:, Mr.Jayapathi, Nandha Kumar,Nirmal Kumar, Vijayakumar, Families, Pavithra

I'm consciously not thanking Ashok, Gomathy & Baskar. They are part of us :).

To everyone who was part of this, a big Thank you! Unfortunately, to express our at most gratitude, there is only one word in English and that is THANKS!
To Sum it all, it was fun/exciting/enriching/relaxing 2 days; a lot of contacts created/renewed. I hope these contacts create more opportunities for everyone!

Wish you all the very best. May our lives be filled with a lot more happiness, cheer, joy, success, peace and harmony!

As Always,
Rajkumar K.

In The Summer of 98

Dear Dons -

In the summer of 98, In the hot rocks of kongu we all started and today we have branched all over the world from east to west but rooted from our very own kongu. Though frankly I don't feel the college has really turned our lives but we all shared & lived very important period of our life there. After our decade alumni meet I truly felt there is immense talent & oppurtuities within us. This blog is the birth of the thought, all of us shared during the decade meet.

ALL NRI kongu98 alumni were missed in our decade meet and we like to hear from you all via this blog. Enterprenuer's, Software Engineers & other NRI's please open up there is wide group of our own which can help you or needs your help.

How do we blog - As you all know this is not like orkut or other social networking site where we can scrap, Any articel you like to post do send it to backdated98@gmail.com. It will be consolidated and posted. Currently there are few moderators among us who has time to admin this.

What do we blog - Anything we feel to be shared. It can be a wide horizon from sports, finance, entertainment or anything you think off..

Guys / Gals - we might individually contact to contribute to our blog to keep it live and interesting so its either you reach backdated98@gmail.com or it reaches you.

There is no need to register or login, no spam e-mails reaching your inbox, just book mark this site and enjoy our journey.

Be Connected,

Sivadinesh M