Have been busy trying to settle down in life for a while.. but poor me, I never get the logic behind that thing.. "settling down".. as if I am unsettled.
Its been sometime since I wrote anything here on my blog. Here are quick updates.
> I got financially broke, this time around I found up some interesting job for myself in Bangalore and worked there in a company called craftsilicon.
>Yes, I am no more an independent consultant, though I have now quit this bangalore company to join another..
>Yes, you read it right, I quit that company already, I joined in august, and quit recently now in december, because I guess I can't work the way people want me to : "inside the box, strictly"... without doing anything out-of-the-box, innovative, and importantly without thinking big.
> What I observed working with craftsilicon, a product-based company with a few microfinance and banking products, is the product space in India is in a state which has all symptoms and can be easily called the nascent stage of a "boom". Indian companies have grown up to the idea of buying Indian software.. "Didn't they always do that?" you ask, and yes, there was always a market for indian software, but only for the cheapest and the basic most applications, not for something like an enterprise application. Yes there were these 'Financle' kind of products which are big for a long time, but not many products like that... and if I remember right, Finacle had its first indian customer also only after many foreign customers.
> So, that is something very interesting.. the product space growing simply means, Indians are now seen more mature in software development space...importantly by Indians itself. As a whole country, we always were considered one which lacks attitude and self-confidence. Now the tables are changing.
> Soon we can expect more software products, servers, who knows even operating systems churned out of India.
(Isn't this supposed to be a brief update... yes yes I remember)
> Then, I am now going to work in chennai .. back home. and I guess I found myself a very very interesting project in a new company. I can't share more details, but briefly, it is a home automation system, with your TV, and a few other equipments going IP way, and pushing service delivery say some 10% into the futuristic dreams we have seen in movies like wallE, where people sit in their couch and do a lot of things over the screen and touchpad, and probably get fat at the end of day.
> And then,
And then, I might be getting married soon. Ms. Right though can't still believe she has decided to marry me, and things are going that way for now, with 50% of my earnings going to telephone bills... and if I even ponder slightly towards that angle of discussion on the phone, the call gets cut with a bye only to provide for a longer call to make up for the fight with her.
> Who is she? .. the name is Triveni.
> Got very disturbed atleast a few times, a few minutes about what happened recently in Bombay, talking about the terror shootings which lasted "3 days" in a so-called "transforming" country, killing many, and with politicians still failing to understand/attach any serious thought to it, except for making new arrangements to win state elections shortly happening or already completed in a few states.
> The world media ripped Indian police system / intelligence system / security system inside out, going on to mention that Indian police still use the world war II extinct .33 pistol for their major operations.
> The ruling politicians just took to a 'sorry', 'we learnt our lesson', 'it will be better next time', etc., thoughts instead of keeping just quiet and show that they are badly embarrassed that they did just "Nothing" so far, that can't even give basic protection to people, and that too in places in bombay which are known as high-security zone.
> Everytime you switch on TV, still, you see some politician carelessly answering 'yes we couldn't do anything.. we have learnt our lesson'.
> Yet again, and still still still for so many years, so many times, Indian governance systems want an accident or problem to know when to change things.. The governance system, the police system, or any public system here in India, goes not by a process...but only by events that happen... that's the "if it happens, we will see what to do" attitude.
> While I felt bad even bombay wasn't secured to freak shooting, that too for 3 days, the 4th day, it was revealed it happened even after repeated security and intelligence warnings from many many numerous intelligence agencies around the world and from the country's own intelligence systems. It simply showed that people who received the warnings ignored it amidst the movies they wanted to see that day, or the election preparations they wanted to do, or just lazily thought they are just warnings 'if it happens we will see'.
Horrible..
I decided I am not going to vote here on.. I guess there is a new system in the electorate system in India, where one is going to be allowed to go mark their name on the electorate on the voting day, and just return without voting which will then become a 'no vote' and add to a 'no vote' count... instead of voting for any existing party which has ever been in power atleast once so far and couldn't use their opportunity when they were in power to fix anything...just anything.
That we are still having to be so dumb a country, not addressing anything that is required to help us grow. And probably here on I am going to see what best I can do directly to my environment and country rather than voting for some idiot or the other and expecting them all to deliver even one of their promises that means upgrading the lifestyle, rather than giving something free to make votes and degrading the lifestyle with freebies and freebies and freebies.
In a different perception, those movies can make you tougher if you relate yourself in to the characters of the students rather than the teacher characters I related myself to in both the films.
When the movies got over.. I was amazed at the presentation of them, and what changes such great movies could bring if they were shown to children and teachers all around the globe... 
