Japan's Calamity

Well 11th March 2011 was a dramatic, rather unfortunate day in the history one of the most self sufficient country in the world. This is when the deadly earth quake stuck the Japanese coastline, which in turn triggered a Tsunami. Well since then you switch on to any International news channel and the only thing you see are the images of destruction.

Yesterday when I was watching one such news item in BBC there was an interesting thing shared by the correspondent. In the video footage they showed people standing outside a super market where in hundreds had queued outside the supermarket and there was this guy from the supermarket who was announcing that they had very limited stocks and one of the waiting consumers told the correspondent that in near by vicinity this is the only super market which has something with itself. Inspite of all these the interesting aspect was that there was no chaos at all. People were patiently standing outside in the sun in the queue in an orderly fashion waiting for their turn to come. Which as rightly mentioned by the reporter was a typical sign of Japanese culture of patience and forgiveness.

Further the reporter went on to say that most of the houses or shops were open since their walls had collapsed and lot of things were lying in the open, but still there was not a single incident of loot that was reported from anywhere. Quite an inspiring culture I must say.

Rumblings from my Job

Probably this is what an MBA does to you: I mean post my MBA I think I have become a lot more judgmental about people. Each time I meet somebody I try to fit in or her into a certain category. Anyways, my current role/profile has been quite instrumental or helpful in developing this attribute. Mainly because I spend a good amount of my time taking interviews, trying to judge people as best as I could in the shortest available time and also try to resolve different people conflict issues within the team. Not that these are not good things to do, but over the last 2 months I have kind of limited myself to these. Eagerly looking forward to times to come, probably I could get chance to do more challenging things which probably make me stretch my skill set as well.

Nokia E63

Nokia E63, I bought this phone almost 14 months back and to be honest it’s been quite a phone and I have found lot of its features useul. Its my first business phone and I found it quite useful. Though at times I used to see some issues like screen hanging, slow performance etc and off late automatic restart. Initially I used to think this to be a bug in my own piece and owing to time constraints I didn’t visit Nokia care.

Today the situation has become worse, my phone has hanged completely. The phone switches on but it does not respond to any keypad functions. Now when I conducted an extensive search on the internet I found that all these problems that I was facing are a known bug in E63 L and had been known to Nokia since long. I am completely stumped I am surprised how come a corporate like Nokia not solve this issue in its phone.. or may be it has already solved via some patch which I am yet to find.. will search more.

Never Give up: An inspiring Video

This ones a real inspiring video which i came across through one f my friends on Facebook.

Update's

Considering that i didn't post for long there are lotsssssssss... of updates.. Will try to be more regular on this blog so that could post the happenings then and there .. because as u can see it becomes really difficult to put them across in one go.. but anyways sparing a few almost all of the udpates have been a pleasant one..work wise its being a bit challenging, learning but yet pleasant time.

On personal note took couple of days off form office went to mumbai ( that was abt 2 weeks back)had some real nice time with my nephew and niece [miss them after coming to chennai :-(] , made a quick visit to kerala as well as my aunt took ill.. Apart frm that there there is somethings more to add hopefully should be able to post more about the same in coming weeks :-D

Chennai: Food Review..

This is my first post in almost three months. Current schedule of work is a bit uncompromising hence this irregularity in posting.. :-( But its good to be busy and continue learning specially in these market conditions ;-) ..

Well if u are somebody who know me, then u are aware of my dislikes for this city ;-).. but anyways won't use this post to crib.

Rather this might act as a insight for people who are new to Chennai.. In last 4 months I have eaten out at quite a few restaurants around. But this post I would use to review just three of them, Green Park in Vadapalani, The Residency in T Nagar and Savera in R K Salai. Among these i have went multiple times to Green park. Once opted for buffet and the next time for Al a Carte. This was one of the sumptous buffets i have had in recent times.. specially the deserts section had so much ..hmmmwahh.. :-) . For the al-a-carte it was just about ok.. nothing great..

The Resiency (old) T Nagar was a huge place as in the case of green park, even these people had multiple restaurants, each serving a different cuisine. Here the starters were awesome infact we were almost full by the time we finished all our starters. The main course though was quite disappointing and we had it just for the namesake..

Savera in Cathedral Road/ R K Salai... stood apart from either of the above restaurants because..they had a roof top restaurant.. the fact that this place is close to the beach .. made the roof top restaurant experience worth it. We had a very strong breeze blowing through out. But one disadvantage of this breeze was that, whatever was served became cool pretty quickly. That may be one of the reasons why I didn't like the starters. But the main course and the deserts(one among the better rasmalai's i have ever had in Chennai) were quite good. Another bad observation was the service. Though initially when there weren't many people the service was good, but once the crowd built up, there was absolute no service at times..We ended up asking for a bottle of water to almost 5 waiters before it actually arrived at our table. Having said all this I would say this is one among the very few places in Chennai where you should come, incase you are asking out somebody for a date in Chennai. The roof top experience is simply remarkable.

Price wise i found more or less all three of them to be pretty much on the same scale.. So i guess depending on which part of the 4 course meal you are interested in and with whom you are going out you may pick ur choice!! :-)