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Marriage... Men Vs Women.

Disclaimer : All the following text is not my opinion, neither did I utter them! Its just a reproduction of what I heard today :)

Well my client was telling something about his cat... " My cat comes to me only for two things.... one is for food and other is for warmth. When he is feeling cold, he will come and curl up on my lap. All the other time, he doesnt bother if I am there or not!". He continued, " Cats are like women. They want a warm, safe place to live comfortably. You know when I was young, someone told me ' when a boy decides to marry, he must buy a cat first! he will come to know what any girl will want. If a girl decides to marry, she must buy a dog. Its more like men, a bit messy and seemigly adventerous!' "

Ippothikku ivvalavuthan...!

Project Launch....

Last month our project went live..... and I noticed certain things that I feel is common to all the projects.......

• When there is enough time and when the bugs have not yet been reported, you feel that you did the best coding. The code is wonderul and it will be a great launch for you.
• When QA starts looking deeply and come up with more scenarios and as the bugs start showing up, "what can I do? with the given constraints, this is what I could have done." ; " the design ws not finalised till the end"; "SRS was not proper"; blah, blah, blah....
• When its almost launch time... say one week before.... " Oh... wish I had taken it more seriously during coding and done it well"; " QA is bringing in too many new scenarios that they didnt tell during design".....
• Two days before launch, " Well, Given the time frame, I think we can prioritize on what needs to be fixed now and what can be done after the launch...."
• Just a day before the launch...., "hope it works by some miracle....."
• The day after launch...., " thank goodness, its over now.... not much of a problem"... er still I have those other things to fix... but who cares, now the project is launched.... lets see later....
• One week after launch, " The project is live and everything is fine, there will be a cleanup project... they will fix the remaining issues"

Well... I guess everybody would have faced it at some point...!!!

ipoothikku abeet......

Sema bulb.... :(

Enna da post title e oru range a irukke nu paakareengala..... namma matter ku varuvom..... iniku "beauty and the geek" show TV le paathukitrunthen... Finals ku poga quiz one vechirunthanga.. It goes on as follows...

The "beauties" are answering now....

Question: if one inch were to represent 100 miles in a map, what will be the actual distance for 4.5 inches represented in the map?

"beauty 1" : mmmm..... 100.... 200.... 3000.... 400.... 450.... but 1 inch.. mmm... it can be 350....... but i will go with 450 miles.... (it took nearly 45 secs for her to tell this!.. i guess back there 2nd std student will tell in in 5 secs!)

Question : what is the expansion of GPS?

"beauty2": G must stand for ground or something...... P.... i am not sure.... S.... it must be service... Ground....P..... Service... i'll go with Ground Partolling Service....... (phew... i thit everyone knew it was Global positioning System

aana inga than enaku seriyana bulb... en kita ukanthu intha programme a paatha en friend oruthan.. GPs na enna da... ithuve enaku oru shock..... sari konjam help pannalam nu " ippo vara latest car le ellam ithu irukkum da" nu sonnen... avan appo... ethavathu engine le irukara part a nu kettan!!!... enaku sema bulba pochu!

naan beauty only doesnt go with brains nu nenachen... athu appadi ille nu prove pannittan!

ippothikku apeetu...

Smart work and Common Sense.

This was one incident that one of my faculty related to me ( and others) during my training period.... It was a soft skills session (if I remember right!) and there was some discussion going on about what was the difference between smart work and hard work. Well, the faculty had posed this question to us and most of us were eager to give some incident or the other to answer her. She gave this example to define smart work.

"In the 1950's and 60's, the USA and USSR were competing in various technology spheres with each other. Space technology was also one of them. The Astronauts in the US were facing a problem of how to write while in outer space, because of the lack of gravity. They spent some $1 million or so and came up with a pen that could write in the absence of gravity. They were really proud of their efforts. Well after some time someone in the team got a doubt. How did the Astronauts of USSR manage to do it? When they found the answer, they were flabbergasted. The Astronauts in USSR used carbon pencil...!"

Well this was really funny to me at that time...but coming to think of it, I feel that it doesnt matter if we are technically strong/trained to accomplish a task or not. All we require most of the time is to have a little bit of common sense and the courage to accept simple solutions can solve complex problems!