tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368740332024-03-12T21:35:04.667-07:00Mature WineIts getting better everyday..Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-12935847506966848692012-08-23T05:53:00.001-07:002012-08-23T05:53:33.511-07:00Recent movies watched - 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1) just go with it - adam sandler, Jenifer Aniston ( copy of Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya)<br />
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2) chaalis chaurasi : Naseer Bhai, KK bhai, Ravi Kishan and the crime reporter of Page 3. parallel cinema<br />
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3) The dictator: Must watch racial comedy of Sacha ( the bruno guy)<br />
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4) Bol Bachchan: time pass. Can watch one time if you have been watching serious cinema for some time.<br />
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5) UP : must watch animation movie<br />
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Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-60596940585669289592012-05-13T23:34:00.000-07:002012-05-13T23:34:06.598-07:00Movie Review -- Vicky Donor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Different !!, Out of league !!, "hat ke " are some of the words that come inside my mind when I think of this movie, 12 hrs after I watched it. If there is one guy you would keep looking for after watching this movie, it has to be director of the movie. Of course apart from the Stalwart Anu Kapoor who proved that you can take out the actor from bollwood but you can't take out the acting from the actor.<br />
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Vicky Donor is easily one of the best movies you will have seen in 2012. Very well directed and scripted. Despite the issue handled in the movie being " not so comfortable" you'd forget the issue as you watch the movie and your attention would be totally towards something else. That's what we call direction. When the audience are more concerned about reality than the depicted vulgarity.<br />
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VD is all about D'ing. Donating. The protagonist, Vicky is a typical happy go lucky chill pill punjabi guy who proverbially takes life as it comes each day. Least concerned about whats going on around him and just making enough for the day to venture the next day. Not independent by any standards, he helps his mom( very rarely as shown) in the beauty parlour that runs right below their house. Accompanied by his Mother and Grand Mother, he is shown to have brought up in that utensil breaking argument atmosphere.<br />
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Dr. Chaddha ( anu kapoor) watches him a day and predicts with all uncertainty in his mind that Vicky will be a money churner for their business, which was all about arranging sperms from able enough people for the disabled to have kid customers. It was all about arranging happiness in a small bottle that could result in incremented member in the customer's family.<br />
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Dr chases, pursues and cajoles in his tactical way to make Vicky agree to donate sperm for his clientele and in turn shows him the easy life that is waiting for Vicky to be enjoyed. Professionally and diplomatically Dr advises Vicky to avoid every activity that would waste sperms count which in turn might reduce the scope of business. But what happened had to happen. The cupid had to struck. Vicky falls in love with an employee of bank and genuinely plans his life with her.<br />
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How does that reduce the scope of business and increases the problem for Dr? Who would take precedence , the doctor or the beloved ? How does the beloved react to Vicky's profession ? Did they continue living happily ever after or did they part their ways ? Did the doctor come to any use for Vicky apart from giving him money for sperms is something movie answers for you.<br />
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The movie has some touching moments which would almost make you touch that corner of your eye for a drop of tear. Like vise, the movie has numerous laughter moments and some moments which would almost make your spouse look at you with embarrassment. But that is essential for the topic undertaken. Specially in Indian Scenario.The songs are very well sung and apt in the place and after watching the beautifully shot Rum whisky song one tends to think of " Monsoon Wedding ", the Mira Nair Flick.<br />
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The shown Bong-Punjabi cultural disconnect is something we have to appreciate , independent of our caste. I remember seeing the same disconnect in a sony tv family soap " Kya Hua Tera Vaada". A different way to attach suitable adjectives like "complicated sperm" instantly makes you understand the lying subtlety.<br />
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All in All, a must watch and outstandingly true cinema that should potentially shake that social issue person inside you and would make you hymn those songs and remember the moments long after you watched.<br />
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I am stationed at a government office these days. Dont ask me where? , as I am not supposed to name our client openly. Not at least in a public place like a blog. In the last 8 days, I have realized one of the reasons why India is behind in executional issues ? Why do Indians crave about government jobs ? Why do people bribe government servants for getting a work done ( however small it may be ) ? and for that matter, Why didnt CWG finished its work in the stipulated timelines? I have realized why there are so less policeman at places required. Who would be there when all of them are here. Yes, right here.<br />
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I have tried to control my emotions at various instances in this set up. The minimum work to be done here is equivalent to putting camel through a needle's eye. No body is interested in working. Loads of people lying inside a office where they dont even know what they are doing or why they are there ? Add to that the point that if you ask them to do something, they wont be interested in doing unless their boss, who is also like them tells them to do so.<br />
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Though, yes, for getting an entry in this hallowed place you'll have to go through ordeals which start from making a temporary pass to a police check where a police man can ask you multiple questions of which he has no idea. To avoid daily checks we were being told to make a pass. We were being told to make a character certificate, an employer certificate and 2 PSPs. We gave everything and were told that the pass should be ready in 48 hrs. 48 hrs ? why ? to make 3 people sign ? does it take 48 hours ? yes, it takes. It takes when you are in Indian Government Set up. Set up where no body knows why there is no water to drink when there is no water to drink and why is the tank overflowing for last 4 hrs when there is less water available for the rest of India ? Why are 3 photocopy machines lying on a ground on which pigeons have made their "home sweet home " and why are there 4 UPS lying on the same ground when my machine goes off 4 times in a day without notice coz my PC doesnt have a UPS.<br />
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The Peon here takes pride in saying that he is in this set up and the PA to the undersecreatry behaves no less than the UnderSecy himself. Nothing less than the Undersecy himself can make her do the work and nothing more than 4:59 in the clock can make her stay in the office even if there is a matter of life and death. A mug in the toilet comes from the ministry and so does a chair to sit on desktop machine. <br />
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Government offices are places where things are planned, controlled and executed. If this is the pace with which a respectable office works , where is exactly India heading ? and why would somebody come here to do business for which he has to probably take a whole laundry list of signatures. Can there be an SLA just like the private sector ? Not sure ..time for me to leave..the Saahib who was supposed to come morning 10 am has just arrived and he'll leave in another half an hour..time for me to get some signatures..Hello..is some body listening ??<br />
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<br />Anna Hazare or Simply Anna is a new phenomenon, the latest disease that the young blood has caught. Not that the Indians before Anna didnt think of punishing the government. Its just that they found a medium to channelize their energy through. They needed a leader whom they could rely upon. They needed a person to whom they could appreciate even at his back. A leader who was ready to sacrifice his life for the Nation. Anna surprisingly had all of these. He was old, unambitious about coming to lime light and was as clean as morning dew drop. He had his agenda clear on his face. His only concern. Nation's uncalculated wealth that the politicians were holding under their teeth.
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<br />The first time, Anna sat on Raj ghat, on the grass with herds of people equidistant from him, watching him silently, the Nation's corrupt leader should have reckoned that a storm before the destruction is sitting silently. He was ready to catch the Ox by the horn. Ready to be hungry till the government passes a bill that makes corrupt officials accountable to law. They were doing corruption unabatedly. No longer. They didnt have fear of anything before Anna happened to India. No longer. They could pass each and every scam of theirs in the sheepish smile at every important juncture. No longer.
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<br />Anna was very fortunate to find his next level management in Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi. For Arvind, this movement was the next logical step to his RTI revolution. Kiran had similar experience when she couldnt make it to Commissioner , New Delhi. Arvind was well versed with firing silver bullet with his calm and composed Nature. With Indian Revenue Service experience in his tenure, he had all the views of constitutional working. With an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur, he could understand deep technical details without much problem. Kiran on the other hand could understand law per se Police Law being an IPS herself and Bhushan had read much of it in his tenure with the helm of law.
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<br />What amazes me though is the tenacity with which Anna sits. He is patient, ready to wait and if need be sacrifice his every drop of blood for setting the corruption arithmetic crystal clear. He is realistic. Knows that he could be forced any moment by law and that the law makers would be observing his movement under a microscope. He therefore made sure that none of the citizens, the followers violated the law.
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<br />The see saw between Anna and Congress would be good to end up soon. The last news I heard, Government was ready to present this under in the loksabha session. I certainly hope that sanity prevails there and Anna comes out as a victorious winner. Independent of anything two things are clear. Anna is the true son of the soil, arguably more than Mahatma Gandhi. And two, this movement has taught Indians that they can come together if need be for a cause and wake up any authority from their sleep at the wee hours of the night.
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<br />Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-85177464934001846572010-11-14T06:10:00.000-08:002010-11-14T06:12:20.054-08:00UNSC fundaa unleashedFor people who want to understand the various issues behind UNSC -- United Nation Security Council.<br /><br />http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/entry/obama-has-given-india-a-ticket-to-mars<br /><br />Happy Reading !!Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-38414259926310092852010-10-31T10:14:00.000-07:002010-10-31T10:32:10.105-07:00PreganancyI was going today shopping with one of my friends when we were discussing the issue of pregnancy. The issue that couples sometimes have problems having kids and sometimes have kids by chance as they also call "happened by mistake". Though I dont really know on the lighter side, the brighter side is this idea that struck my head as we were travelling. What if pregnancy could be controlled ?? No...please I am not talking about protection. I aint talking about i-pills. I am talking about this..<br /><br />Say..a couple thinks they dont want to have baby till next 9 mths..or say next t time. They want to continue their normal life and gal doesnt want i-pills on daily or on "unwanted 72 hrs". What if their is a drug which could be injected to them. Then ?? What would/should happen is the drug decay by its own half life formula..or may be someother formula. Taking in consideration the body's metabolism rate or whatever rate which could consume the drug this drug should die down in 9 ths. If the drug is radioactive in nature it would be like this. N= N(t=0)* e ^(-lambda*t). Now if the threshold drug content which when acted would render the gal unpregnant is M then M= N(t=0)* e^(-lambda*t) and this t should be 9mths.<br /><br />This could save everybody's so many efforts. Of course the biggest requirement is it should not have unbearable side effects. It should be limited amount in nature and most important it should be negatable in nature. That is if I want to decrease after sometime the time to 4 mths , I should be able to do it..<br /><br />Imagine..can this be done ?? Tell me what do you think about this ?Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-12395263696773326912010-09-25T11:27:00.001-07:002010-09-25T12:06:40.596-07:00Dabangg - ReviewYahooo !!! hello brother !! Salman Khan is back..and back with a furore. Before jumping to the review, one thing. One thing is for sure. I see a deliberate attempt by the Khan brother to revive the career of Sallu Miyan. No harms in it. Win for the khan family. They save money for an item number, they save money given to the protagonist and they save money to be given to Arbaaz.<br /><br />Anyway..Dabangg is a tailor made movie for UP/Bihar crowd. It has all the masala ingredients which a Rural movie should have. It has unbelievable stunt, it has all the bhaiya ji language and it has all the average direction aspects. In most of the places you'll ask yourself "was it required " but as soon as the scene ends it leaves your mouth with a comic taste. Thats the way the movie is.<br /><br />Salman khan and Arbaz khan, the real love brothers are brothers in the movie as well. Arbaz , who seems all right is kinda taged "Mand buddhi ( a dumb ass )" and gets the better side of their father, Vinod Khanna. While Salman scales to the ranks of a police inspector, Arbaz isnt able to stand on his feet. This difference in status creates a disparity in the mind of their father which creates various family feuds.<br /><br />Circumstances create problems between the guys when their Mom dies a mysterious death.<br /><br />This and too long a village politics makes the whole plot.<br /><br />Now - the movie lacks so many things. One it leaves audience to assume too many things. That Vinod khanna is biased without any reason. That Salman is the only God of the village. I am surprised to see the village didnt have any bigger inspector who could lead Salman. Sonakshi is the least wanted and attended thing in the movie.She and her stupid father would roam the whole day aimlessly without any purpose. Mahesh Manjrekar should be seriously short of roles to attend this role. The aura of Salman khan is biasedly above a limit and disgustingly so. No body gets before him. No body. His Mom, His Dad ..?? No.<br /><br />I mean, I understand portraying a heavy personality. But this was larger than life. No, not unacceptable. In one place Sonakshi says "pyaar se dar lagta hai ". Their is no where in the movie any clue about why could she have said so ?? -- lack of direction or may be my observation if she whispered the secret some where. She is also unable to explain why her father calls her a "kalmuhi".<br /><br />There are many places where the scenes are least required and just been inserted to create a stronger tashan for Salman. The place where he slaps his brother after saying a sorry. No way..<br /><br />Still, the movie ends up tickling you with its raw comedy and absolutely rural touch. The movie ends up forcing you to hymn the song tunes so there are many ways people can appreciate it. The movie is more like a village ramayan where a hanuman, being god can swallow a sun and burn a lunka at his will. We have that Hanuman in Salman Khan.<br /><br />Go , leave your mind behind and share a laugh with Salman..He's back.Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-14523535898008130142010-08-31T11:27:00.000-07:002010-08-31T11:36:40.955-07:00Sanity RevisitedHi..are you one FBite, ORKUTian or a tweety-sweety ?? Hell ..then go and read the link below. To all of us who have been injected with the dope of Facebook, orkut..here's a good read to dilute the mindlessness. Dont miss this article..u gonna pay for it else.<br /><br />http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/31193718/Take-a-break-before-you-burn-o.html?h=C<br /><br />Happy Reading !!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S : The last two points in this article have been nearly incorporated in my last 2 last blog..( idea by chance ). Happy to see someone in livemint.com posting a similar view. A good word you learn from this --- " <span style="font-style: italic;">A Digital Disturbance</span> "</span>Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-42996356420190213582010-08-22T00:18:00.000-07:002010-08-22T00:20:13.243-07:00Good one..This one's too cute..all dedicated to the siblings we have in our life. Worth a glance.<br /><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/19210807/The-guy-you-can-sneer-at-and-l.html">http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/19210807/The-guy-you-can-sneer-at-and-l.html</a><br />Happy Reading !!Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-10769440610055692602010-07-30T11:35:00.000-07:002010-07-30T11:54:58.862-07:00Idea by chanceThe weekend has already started and I was as usual sitting at my laptop while reading some routine pages. This time mint. Some body pinged me and when we were done with the discussion I was staring at my gtalk window. I realized that out of several punters that I am watching live on gtalk there are many with whom I never chat ( incidently). Many who just say me "ayush i am bzee right now" and still many to whom I dont reply or say "will get back to you" only to sit silently and feel relaxed when I receive their ok. Dont get me wrong..we all do this..ask yourself ??<br /><br />What if google does it for you ? I mean its so simple. You dont chat with someone. Rather..you have not chatted with someone for years..why doesnt google asks us " are you sure you want to keep this guy/gal shining in your inbox " with his stupid status messages like " I said No to Yahoo..!! they were not paying me good "..wtf ?? such bragging should be absolutely prohibited in the first place. Ok Ok..we have a way. Imagine an application which keeps track of your chat people and based on the rule set by the user goes and deletes it..ofcourse it asks you "are u sure " for formality.<br /><br />I think it makes lot of sense to do so..I mean why see that guy when you dont want to see. Why to bear the cost. Dont get me wrong again..we have an inherent cost and risk associated with those guys...pain in mind is a risk and a cost both . Ok..one soother..I am not just becoming sadist. Here is a corollary. The application also keeps record of the last time you chatted with the person and if you chat with a person ...say once in 3 days roughly..give you a pop up saying " you havent chatted with Tom since last 4 days "..Good way of maintaining relationship with people you see..you see this pop up and ping that person...relationship intact. What better than technology doing what your wife is supposed to do ?? What if you are deliberately doing this ?? I mean what if you are deliberately increasing the gap from your friend ?? simple it will see the trend..1 day, 3 day, 5 day ..what next ?? yes..remind you after 7 days. Cute naa ?? Got to be..my idea.<br /><br />In a nutshell the analytics in me thinks of this as another way of understanding your customer...his likes..( with whom his chat ) and his dislikes ( opposite ) and suggest him actions.<br />All it takes is keeping some tracking of data.<br /><br />Any suggestions ?? improvements ?? Please comment.Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-35555360529882771122010-07-22T11:31:00.000-07:002010-07-22T11:57:12.043-07:00Just like that...Its 12 at night. The day has already ended and I need to go to office. Rehna tu...from dilli 6 has been running in my laptop since last 10 minutes and I am endlessly and aimlessly surfing the net..yes internet. What has happened to human life that people are just not ready to leave the laptop, pc or their other technology variants ( palm top, notepad etc..) . If I tell you my basic time table : I come from office and simply go and switch on the cooler while unwearing my shoes and socks. I dont even wait for half an hour and my hands automatically go to my desk and take out my laptop. I switch it on and start surfing the same sites. Wondering if any body has updated something in the facebook or any fuc**** other site. Aimlessly. I dont say that I always do this but most of the time my first 2 sites are either facebook and timesofindia.com .<br /><br />I wonder if I will be like this for the rest of the life ?? bloody I see the same machine the whole day in my office and here I start seeing the same thing again.. No sports..no swimming learning..and thanks to my worthless roomies, no updates from them either. There was a time in India when PCs ( yes when no laptop was there ) were the forte of either schools or colleges or so called affluent section of the society who looked esteemedly high in their eyes with that start of the art PC. And here you are..my cook has a laptop. Yes seriously..what ?? dont believe me ?? he tells me and many times asks me whether I am part of this networking site and that networking site. He socializes probably more than me..yes..all in internet and yes, he knows google maps and he can locate his village in Uttarakhand in no time . Most importantly he behaves as normally after knowing this as I behave after knowing less known statistical techniques imperative for my job. This at times makes me feel insecure because now I am not the only so called tech savvy self proclaimed workaholic.<br /><br />Yes..this is good..but I think when we go ahead in life we tend to regress towards past and feel bad that why this has happened. We were this in past and that in past..Teachers of our school and profs of college take a centre stage of our discussion. I know I can be a pain now but going deep I think we tend to think proud that we passed those days successfully and standing at par with the world. 15 years before consulting firms like Mckinsey projected that every home will have PC in India. People laughed at 'em and today every body has laptop..pooh..PC is a passe and after some time laptop 'll be a passe. Dont be surprised if tommorow Micromax collabarates with Dell to make a PC which has a standing time of 15 hrs...sighs !!!! nothing..carry on with your work...I'll carry with my facebook gibbering here and there..<br /><br />By the way.." 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Frankly speaking I dont even know who will take the world cup. The line above is just my gut feeling keeping in mind the basic analytics of the spain game so far. I am not doing this. Its still 11:30 India time and we have some more time for the game to start. This post is just my heartfelt for what does it mean for the FIFA to end ? Dig yourself. Is it a just another competition culminating ? Fomme No. I am getting constant goosebumps inside the guts. Something similar to what happened when the T20 cup ended. Another time it happened when I was a kid and ganesha festival was about to end when me and my elder brother went to the near by lake to drown the idol of lord ganesha. We cried after it. Reason ?? We were missing Ganesha ji and we could not believe the 11 day fest is ending. It was like cremating some dear one of yours. Nothing to look forward to now when you come back from school. That time worshiping ganesha was the order of the day. My brother used to take the lead and I followed suit.<br /><br />I can feel similar. Just that the God is replaced by football Gods. No more follow ups. No more prediction now and no more looking forward to the emotional melodrama that happens when a person gets an unexpected yellow card. No more will I see young dudes in Gurgaon endorsing Brazil, Argentina and Spain with their T shirts. For the shops it means no more keeping a football T shirt and for the kids in my park which I see from the balcony of my second floored flat, no more practising the dribble to emulate Messi , Kaka and Mueller. No more going to the office now and discussing with my colleagues the toe pass which lead spain to hit the gigantic decided goal and confidentially ( no more mails from the foreign clients expressing their sorrows, happyness ). Some times I feel that the emotional content that comes inside you with the event is directly proportional to the emotions exhibited in the venue. For football - in the field.<br /><br />Truly, football is one game that teases people who get up for a toilet break in the hope that nothings gonna happen in this time only to come back and regret their lack of control for the waste that made 'em waste the goal that just happened. Such is the unpredictibility of the game that anything happens in 30 seconds. You cant ignore the nth corner coz the n-1 th corner didn't produce a goal. No. The law of mathematical induction doesnt apply here. As a general rule emotions are bound to grow higher where you cant predict with a mathematical equation. Where you can predict the equation the emotions tend to adjust themselves so as to produce the lowest decibel equivalent. No surprise then that in Football people start crying as soon as they loose. Confessing : I almost cried when Argentina lost to Germany. People expected Arg to win. When they conceeded the first goal people said ( including me ) thats it. Now no more goals..when the result was out it was 4-0.<br /><br />It prooves the point..football shall always have the last laugh..Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-23051209818862502992010-06-24T09:51:00.000-07:002010-06-24T10:22:29.555-07:00Life made easy..No..No..No..It isnt any technological break through making some leap beyond some routing mundane task . Come one we guys !! every time some body talks of making some one's life easy we tend to think in our mind about the technology it could be associated with. This is something different. Really <span style="font-weight: bold;">flirtatiously </span>different.<br /> After term like core competence coined by late C K Prahlad, we have another beautiful term. What ?? for the people who flirt day in and out here is the helpline. " consensual flirtatious " relationship. Nothing extraordinary..you just need to know the meaning of two words for this. Consensual, which intuitively is derived from consensus , a plural noun form of consent. So this essentially means a relationship in which both the parties ( or more than that for complex relationships ) flirt with each other in consensus. So ?? Do they take each other's consent ? No ways. Please !!Do you take consent from the person you flirt with. It just happens. Right ? Right. <br /> This term is coined by none other than David Davidar. For those who dont know him ( and I've heard of him ), he was ( yes was ) the CEO of penguin. This Harvard grad has very intelligently played wordsmith by coining this term which is a simple marriage of psychology and english. Flirting is not an easy task. One one hand it asks you to be on your toes everytime the person opposite speaks anything and on the other hand it asks you to be psychologically strong to read and not to hurt the other person. As far as I understand, this term is as good a blunt slap on the face of people who flirt as helpful it is to people who want to ride the success lader of flirting.<br /> This term definitely had the coiner to go inside the mind of the person, read it impeccably, quote it in the least complex word ...ex consent, form an adjective form of it because you need an adjective to describe a relationship. Consensual. And for people who feel offended by naming CKP here , let me assure you : this term will have as many buyers in the high class society ( or so do I see 'em ) as there are in management fraternity. If you dont believe me..wait a while before Shobha ( shobha de ) writes something or before Bachi ( karkaria ) narrates another erratica. On a lighter side, I also assure you that David wont have had much problem coining this term , being himself a controversy's child. The beauty of the term lies in the point that generally relationships which are flirtatious know , of course after some amount of introspection that this is consensual. But for those kid souls who cant read their own mind this term is a huge aid..<br /><br />Long live David..you have helped..many a people..!!Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-7694276056517400212010-06-08T10:12:00.000-07:002010-06-08T10:17:32.556-07:00A good read - 23Tremendous..a must read for anyone who has a spiritual/religious quotient > 0. Before reading this I never thought these things. My favourite line in this --- " In India , God may be inattentive so we present ourselves with the clang of a bell. " . Have we ever thought why in India we clang the bell . Yes, I think one of the purpose is to let the temple know we are there . Enjoy this one..<br /><br />http://www.livemint.com/2010/06/03210236/How-we-talk-to-God-and-what-it.html<br /><br />Happy Reading !!Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-21471451865576449402010-05-15T10:13:00.000-07:002010-05-15T10:31:40.044-07:00A good read - 22This one's preety captivating..for people who have even an iota of interest in processor technology. Gives you a great update on whats the big shots are doing.<br /><br />http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16103910&source=hptextfeature<br /><br />Happy Reading !Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-69363097672060127422010-05-02T01:13:00.000-07:002010-05-02T01:46:10.342-07:00Orkut pics, Movie promo and Metadata.Movie watching is "ambience dependent ". Sounds arbitrary ? Yeah thats made to sound random.I mean whenever I watch a movie the way my brain works depends on whom I am sitting with..It would be happening with most of us. The kind of things I would think when I am sitting with my best buddy while watching a scene would be antipodes to what'd be gyrating inside my mind while I would be sitting with my parents. Thats the way our mind ( read my mind) works. I had thought a lot to write a blog on the theme " promo making ". Promo making ( of a movie) in my view is one of the most creative works present in the world. It can stand on par with creative pursuits like photography, art, craft and even poetry. All of these are about depicting something with the angle you want, to the audience, which is actually your own angle. The piquant thing about promo making is that it is a commercial activity. Technically its a meta data. Data about data. The other three are simple data. Another meta data would be the title of the poem. But I have seen that in poems, meta data doesnt have much relevance to the actual data ( or so do I think/perceive). A poet can write about Kargil war but he can write the title as "Maa ke aansoon ( tears of a mother)". Thats what he perceives it.<br /> Anyway, coming back to promo making , promo making ( as I see it ) is about attracting audience. Showing the best scenes of the movie to make the audience that there is much more to this. The audience also have this thing inside their mind. After a hectic weekend they just need a ray of hope to visit their near by PVR to watch the movie. The scenes that'll be shown will be full of instances that the audience got to enjoy and discuss with near by people. Putting the brand names of directors, music director and other members we are made to believe that this would be yet another stuff from the hit director. The small small instances of comedy and may be in a hollywood movie, a miniature shot of the impending kissing scene. These are all the ways to capture the nerve of the junta. To make their BP curve go asymptotically high , which would make them come the next weekend as well.<br /> Similar is the case I think with orkut pics. Say a person attaches 35 pics about his Ranthambhor trip. What would the orkut do ? It can really attach only 7 pics as the meta data. That is where the intelligence should lie. I have observed that the orkut much like promo makers tries to do a promo making of the pics. It just like the promo maker selects few pics which would be the ( potentially best) of the lot and has that glue factor in it. The person goes and watches those pics and comes back thinking ( many a times) that the rest were not as good.<br /> It could be that my assumption is totally wrong but it could also be write. The simplest algo I can think of while deciding the pics could be " select the pic which has maximum data " ..example..a pic with only sea in it will have less data then a mountain with lots of trees and 5 people posing in it. There can be then much more sophistication to this. But this is again a very interesting thing to do if somebody wants to write a program.<br /><br />BTW, the title of this blog is a right "meta data ".Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-48962303317535550512010-05-01T06:42:00.000-07:002010-05-01T06:45:40.121-07:00Interesting readThis one's fairly thought provoking..force you to align your business sense. Suitable for people having interest in consumer insights, marketing.<br /><br />http://www.livemint.com/2010/02/05212657/The-Indian-shopper8217s-cha.html<br /><br />Happy Reading !!Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-29041330188172646542010-05-01T02:27:00.000-07:002010-05-01T02:29:35.636-07:00Satire.This one's a blood burner. Dont laugh after you have read it. Get into the skin of the character and realize his pain.<br /><br />http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/randomaccess/entry/passport-office-doesn-t-accept<br /><br />Happy Reading..Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-81860862075552693652010-04-17T18:31:00.000-07:002010-04-17T18:39:52.010-07:00Straight from the heartI would generally not tag these kind of links in my blog but this one's real good. The article from Shobha de is straight gut vomit. Immaculate that she is in puting her words artistically, she has once again done the mud slinging job perfectly. The phrase or whatever you call ( <span class="description">Shashibaba and the Chaalis Chor ) is simply worth $64k. Click on this to enjoy.<br /><br />http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politically-incorrect/entry/a-su-shi-tale-of<br /><br />Happy Reading !!<br /><br /></span>Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-76075083665223173092010-04-10T00:35:00.000-07:002010-04-10T01:03:59.348-07:00Flash in the mind..I was just going through this article in the economist ( http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15868024&source=hptextfeature) when this wierd idea struck my mind. Please note that it is not something radical and some cousin of this idea would already be operational in Indian scenario. We always keep hearing about govt debts and foreign investments. We also know that such indicators and their values around some XYZ value ( which is of course derived from hard core finance fundaes) impact our life through things like inflation, deflation, GDP/debt ratio and many more financial indicators like these. Since it is we who get some time benefited through the value of these indicators and it is sometime the govt who gets benefited through these, why doesnt govt form a policy which directly deducts some amount from the tax payers bank account to cut its debts. Yes, we have something called govt bonds but they say something like "Obligatory Govt bonds ". The use ? when the citizens of the country would pay the money that at times even a foreign nation pays, a nation will be independent to design its public and foreign policy without getting bothered ( regulations not withstanding).<br /><br />Of course in return the govt has to ensure that the tax payer is happy with what he gives which would be a kind of loan to govt , by some thing like low inflation and likes. The government would of course pay back the loan when it is financially stable and ready to shed some money. This can have huge financial implications. Once the money reaches the govt's pockets it can use it for so many purposes. The challenge though is corruption.<br /><br />Not sure how can this function in detail..any idea ??Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-38560341094676409852010-03-31T06:18:00.000-07:002010-03-31T06:19:54.159-07:00Financial productsThis one is for people who have an enthu about finance. I am one of 'em. The article, though old, is written very lucidly. A sheer excellence from Ajay shah.<br /><a href="http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/MEDIA/1997/spiral.html">http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/MEDIA/1997/spiral.html</a><br /><br />Happy Reading.Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-63175873228116269882010-03-22T15:50:00.000-07:002010-03-22T16:12:37.567-07:00Traffic problem - a mild soln.Yes..This is one of the biggest problem in Delhi ( read NCR) . Since I have travelled for around 10 days to Noida in my bad time ( which may come again any time) , I know it very well. Travel any day from Gurgaon delhi highway or DND ( delhi noida direct) and you shall note the number of cars that occupy the roads. I say this to the extent that Raipur and Delhi are same in the traffic ( just replace the cycles and two wheelers by car in delhi) .<br /><br />Now, the thing..a thought just came to my mind which I would like to jot down, lest I forget the same. I was reading economics basics while timepassing today when I read about the concept of " Relatively Inelastic Demand ". For people who want to know, a commodity is said to have a relative Inelastic demand when the quantity demanded doesnt changes much with the change in price ( read price rise ). Ex..Gas, petrol. What would people do when the price of petrol rises by say 20 % ( quite a big one huh !!!) ..would you not go to office. Of course these delhi people would. Just that you'd like some trick to make you sail those tough days when prices are soaring big time. So ?? what do do ? As a part of CSR ( corporate social responsibility) companies can tie up with the govt of india to do this : Identify people who travel daily from car from one place to another..say GGN to Noida or the other way as well. Say them to travel daily in one car instead of using 4 cars separately to inflate their egos. Now, where does govt come into the scene. Ask govt to keep a check post where people would come and show their respective car RC Books. To do what ? to show to the check post that see..we had 4 cars and now we are travelling by 1. Cousins of R.K.Pachauri. Give each of 'em a point like the I-Mint points. When you get some x I-Petrol points by travelling together give them 5 litres of petrol free ( just a number ..) . This is one big incentive which would raise employees motivation to travel together. Win win for every one. First the employee saved money by travelling with his peers( which otherwise his ego didnt allow him to ) and secondly all got some incentive for doing this. Take my bet, people would go jealous and form big time groups. Combine this with the award that your company gives..example..." Green employee of the year " or "eco frndly employee " of the year. Use some line like " get petrol by saving petrol " ..isnt it catchy ??. This model is applicable to allt the places..example...Metro. Go to office by metro carrying your RC book and get some points. This would increase traffic in Metro but would reduce pollution in the road by ( I think 20 % atleast ). That would help India reduce its Per capita carbon emission and give a blunt slap on the face of big shots like US.<br /><br />what do you say ?? Tell me..Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-19366368309772715102010-03-17T10:40:00.001-07:002010-03-17T11:09:27.725-07:00MBA - My disgustIts been long since the CAT result is announced. Go to any mba site ( my fav Pagalguy) and you'd find out plethora of links about each college giving their cut off candidates ( the gd pi list). Click on any list and you'd see thousands of comments. The comment typically reads : " Yippie..I made it to IIM xyz.." " first call of the season..I am coming IIM xyz " and with that you'd find comments like " shit..I couldnt make it ..had 99.xx with balanced sectionals ". The next question someone asks is "dude how were your acads " ? Poor comes back the answer. Thats it ? done ?? Poor acads and out ? Yes..terribly. When it comes to getting an IIM call the rules are more or less like this. The last post I pasted shows the disgust of a professor who is not done with the bad policy IIM A has taken this year. Since long time, they had a stringent requirement of balanced sectional and this time they have learn a lesson from the youngest one. 70 % in board. And if not then ?? Then get 100 % and get a reject.<br /><br />Now what is board exam ? class 10th ? class 12th ? No..both ? and extrapolating on this ? the next restriction will be on class 8th board. When I was in class 10th I was 15. Most of us are 15-16 when they are. Going by the present trend most of us apply when we have 2-3 yrs of work ex. So an average junta is 24-25. You see a lot of world, learn a lot many things and of course learn the most important thing that grades are not to be taken easily. Given a chance most of us would like to rectify the mistakes of life what we did ? Its really unfortunate that some policy maker is seating in a CAT office of IIM A and deciding people's fate for a small mistake they did in Class 10th. Come on Man !! grow up. Past is an indicator but not the only factor to decide somebody's entry or exit. That too for a GD PI ? I see. This to me is a gross<br />injustice to the students who didnt do well in the initial phase of their life but did good after that.<br /><br />It seems like IIM A is relying too much on the statistics to decide a binary value. Who has the guts to tell 'em that the logistic regression doesnt work this way in this field. Why cant they have advanced measures to calculate a person's capability. Why cant they invite even those who didnt do well in class 10th but did well in CAT. Does that mean that from next year in the CAT form a person who has less than 70 % need not apply to IIM A ? Gross harshness. Come on Man you are the shapers of the nation. Motivate the candidate to do well in life by selecting him. If that doesnt work, coax him to some extent. But dont debar him. Actually this is also a way to escape themselves from a pain. The pain of selecting a worthy but an average class 10th performer. Why to make them write essays and then analyze whether they have sufficient mettle. We have plenty of applicant. Who bothers about those 400 candidates.<br /><br />And the North east don ..IIM Shillong..Hilarious. 75 % in 1oth, 75 % in 12th. 80 % in BTech. Result. 70 % worthy candidates out. Their moto.." dont worry about CAT..CAT just measures your pressure handling capacity " class 10th measures much more than that. One IIT Bombay guy who had some 7.5 CG was shouting over a conventional university guy who had 85 % in BE.<br />IIM Shillong is not even fuzzy at this minimum level. By that equation an IIT degree is less important for admit to IIM S than class x board.<br /><br />And other IIMs are learning. This time IIM I gave 30 % weightage to acads and so I was out..<br /><br />IIM B is already the darling of X, XII toppers and the 4 pointers of the Institutes. Where is then CAT ?? CAT has gone from the major criteria to just one of the criteria..<br /><br />No ends to this injustice..fate will remain the fate. 2 pointers..earn well and live happily..Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36874033.post-90963461928719241542010-03-08T06:12:00.000-08:002010-03-08T06:15:17.637-08:00Cognizance at its best<a href="http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Outraged/entry/iim-ahmedabad-s-retrograde-move">http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Outraged/entry/iim-ahmedabad-s-retrograde-move</a><br /><br />--- This article from V Raghunathan is for some of the people in IIM A to read and think before doing gross injustice to students.Ayush Biyanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187556389898860862noreply@blogger.com0