A Breakfast with Stranger

Few days back when I was having breakfast at my ELNET Software City office cafeteria, I was surprised by a stranger sitting across the table I chose to sit.

That stranger didn't ordered for any food

That stranger didn't had any cash

That stranger didn't entered through proper gate. It actually gatecrashed into cafeteria.

That stranger didn't dressed nicely

That stranger didn't showed any courtesy

That stranger didn't cared to speak the language I know

That stranger didn't allowed me eat. whenever I go for a piece of meal, that stranger interrupts me from having it

Totally an unfriendly guest....

Out of anger and anguish I decided to expose this stranger so that anybody spots this guy, can be beware of characteristics and keep away...

Oops.... how stubbornly it shares your table even if you dislike it
(backdrop is the entrance area of TIDEL park)



no remorse for any indecent things... just stays on...



height of irresponsibility.... stares straight at me...

Kuppuraj & Deepa Birthday Celeb @ Sify

Kuppu Birthday Celeb on 29th Oct,

A very happy birthday to Kuppuraj


There is a Gang of Four pattern, but this gang doesn't have any achievements to say.. but any case its worth knowing their names.
From L to R: Jayesh Rathod, Pachaiappan, upcoming hollywood director Vellore Suresh, Nagarcoil Tamilselvan, Tanjore Senthil, Loyola Ajay and Singapore Ramesh


Here is the birthday baby Kuppuraj





Birthday baby having his share of cake

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Deepa Birthday Celeb on 5th Nov,

3 candles doesn't mean this birthday baby is just aged 3... true to software engineer's instinct... each candle assigned a value of 10... now add and find out the age...
candle is kind of variable... because the height varies in direct proportion to the time it burns.... so its variable right.. and its right to assign a value to variable right?



here comes the birthday girl Deepa in extreme left...


then comes a legend to add more value to the whole event...
yes you guessed it right... Its me...
From L to R: Gujarat Jayesh, Raghav, Karthik(Me), Pachai, Kannan and Tamil


which legend was accepted without confrontation and criticism???
Galileo was severely criticized by Roman Catholic fraternity
And here the legend in making Karthik is being singled out for no reason by Jayesh...




Our key campaign manager to conduct all our events...
Yamini
and together Vidya


Here comes the greatest friendship that Sify has ever seen..
Yamini and Deepa


Getting into action... Cake tastes good... Some said...




Deepa and her external soul & skin Janani


Our campaign manager in action...


You can guess the power of our campaign manager now...


inner soul and external soul... celestial meeting...


A thoughtful gift sivakamiyin sapatham... what an idea sir ji...

PSR Engineering College Alumini Album

Hope this rekindles someone's memories... Straight to point.. No blahs blahs.... ;) I can see many relieved faces... beware you have mines inside...

Photos of 2003 batch,

Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE)



Computer Science Engineering(CSE)



Information Technology(IT)



Photos of 2004 batch,

Computer Science Engineering(CSE)


Face I remember
In fourth row, Jaipaul, Ganesh, Ashok, Jaison, Tito
In second row, Ganesh, Ramesh, Prassana moorthy
In third row, (I wont disclose any names as people standing are girls and if I disclose it, I would probably stand in line to be fined)
In first row, Prassna venkatesh, mari muthu

Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE) - I


Face I remember,
In fourth row, Srinivasan
In third row, Parthasarathy

Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE) - II


In third row, Babu

Information Technology(IT) - I


my department, no identification here... even though classes we belong are different, I know almost all the names. but wondering how long I would keep remembering. I have to turn the pages in my slam book to know these friends.

Information Technology(IT) - II


there stands at last row(over bench) 4th from right the beacon of hope, intelligence, compassion and all good things, you guessed it right.... It's none other than Me - Karthikeyan Ramchel.

You can notice, when everybody else in my class sporting in casual dress, I was the only one wearing the bullet proof jacket(uniform, but its just more opt to call jacket - credits to its all weather four year survival rate without even a pin hole opening) provided by college(point here: not for free. we paid for it)... I think I was sick the day before this photo shoot and it was informed to all that tomorrow they have group photo shoot.. The next day except me everyone else has got their casual wear on their back even though we had practical classes(by the way why in the hell we were made to wear that bullet proof jacket to sit before computers and do programs??? probably I guess decision making people there wrongly understood computer virus as deadly human infectious killer and can stop spreading to people by wearing 5in thick uniforms.. hmmm... I still see my college fellows wears uniforms, no awareness till this point)... I would have stood more handsomely had I known this photo shoot early with my designer made clothes(yes made by tailor at EMAR jowli store, main road, kovilpatti ;) )...

Photos of 2005 batch,

Computer Science Engineering(CSE)



Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE) - I



Information Technology(IT) - I



Information Technology(IT) - II



Teaching Staff


most of the staff are my favorites(diplomatic??? huh... But) I have special favorites too they are
Uma maheswari madam(4th from right, first row), I always remember your satellite communication class mdm, and especially for an one particular assignment you put mark 10 out of 10 for me.. still grateful for it ;)

Durai kannan sir(1st from left, first row), oops cannot forget your discrete mathematics classes and my feat of memorizing all those shit 100+ algorithms of one particular chapter... still I'm far away from repeating that success for my current studies in MS

Deepalakshmi madam(6th from left, second row), hard to forget name, right from second year first day to fourth year last day... complete three years you have fought with us... big thanks for making our days at college - even under those emergency era(not Indira Gandhi's 1972 but ours 2000-2004) - an ever remembering days... no equals for you...

apologies madam(5th from right, second row), I forget your name, but I always remember your microprocessor classes

apologies sir(6th from left, third row), I forgot your name, but I always remember your first year Mechanical classes esp. the different type of boilers chapter... this topic has immensely helped our guys to categorize girls into most deserving one(no offense meant, just for fun) and also the time traveled together in college bus... who can forget 2 hours daily bumpy ride through village roads for 4 years.. probably that has made the backbone stronger to beat the heat of software engineering job blows...

sincere apologies sir(3rd from left, third row), I forgot your name, I always remember your Engineering Drawing(special thanks to my colleague Kousalya for helping me in recalling this subject name, sorry sir the subject name just like the subject content is very hard to remember all this years) classes.. your dedication/commitment/spirit of teaching still lingers in my mind... I wish I should take a leaf or two from your life to follow...

apologies madam(3rd from right, first row), I forgot your name, I should never have forgot your name but unfortunately due to heavy usage of help documents, user manuals, bug reports, hard appraisals and hardly coming increments, peer diplomacy, electronic gadgets etc..etc.. has put the recalling sub-routines of my brain to ever unused state by concentrating only current affairs... I always remember your OOAD classes, which I guess you took up this as your specialization because of its plain text format almost right from first to last page without any complications... I still remember your house visit along with Dhanasekar. I guess you must have made good fortune by completing whole semester by just handwritten cramped paper notes taken from library books and not spending money to buy books...

apologies madam(4th from left, second row), I forgot your name, who can forget your software engineering classes mdm. you should stand proud for seeding those initial details of desert software engineering subject in all our minds which has brought all of your students to this state... I hope/wish you have good times at gulf state - that was the last place we know you settled after marriage...

hosimin siva sir(5th from left, third row), unforgettable personality. it doesn't matter whether you get plastic replica at Madame Tussaud or other places.. but you have cemented yourself in all your students hearts.... Hope/Wish you having good times at your IT career now... I always remember your C classes and practicals... Special thanks for letting us(I'm not sure whether you know it) play Age of Empires/Warcraft multi-player games in collage practical lab... Amazing experience... Till now haven't got that chance like that again...

apologies sir(8th from left, third row), I forgot your name but will never forget your Visual Programming classes, especially the standard variable 'handler' you use whenever you write programs dealing with MFC graphical programming.

Ist year teaching staff



CSE department teaching staff



ECE department teaching staff



Non teaching staff


Face I remember
First row, Durairaj... any person who has studied in my college will remember this name as long as they remember whom they are...

Software Industry Status - After Women's Emergence

It's been sometime since I wrote things other than me in this blog. Here is the one which is nothing to do with me(happy enemies??? you people had long gunning for this).

Okay now to the point....

My current sleep spoiler is - speedy project development to deliver quickly, no matter what hell happens anywhere/any form the quality should be top notch etc... etc... Why this all??? What are we losing/gaining by this way? many questions... no answers... to answer this, to analyze this, I was forced to turn on my deep reserve internal thought process engine. It has worked amazingly well and came with findings with equally amazing facts. The key to all issues are just one object(one object but unfortunately with multiple instances) 'Women'. Continued.

What are the impacts of women in Software Industry post their emergence in lead roles? I have been thinking a while(really brainstormed hard, you understand it while reading further) about this to understand why there is so much mad rush of delivering projects, unrealistic schedules, introducing "brand-new-world's-first" features which only testers use(developers seldom revisit the features, they are so scared that they happen to see bugs the moment they touch the feature. so close the application, be happy. god help users.).

Women was there in software industry for long time but those participation must have been limited to beautifying code(i.e. make up code... which they are excellent at - no arguments over this), cleaning up code repository before/after project start/end, and not but least organizing coffee/tea/snacks for team meetings etc... When their predominant job is such and such, there was no problems in the early days of software industry.
Proof to that point is look at the number of years people took to release patches/new products etc during the mid 19'th century. Men who worked at that time must have been enjoying life - done relaxed development, released projects as and when everybody is done with their work. That's correct model which closely matches with the human evolution history. Do things slowly, steadily, gradually. This is how it should be... It took so many million years for bunch of monkeys to become Men and Women(I still wonder whether there is still some kind of progress left for the later. God knows.).

Okay now you see the state of software industry. Men in their mid 20's and 30's lost their hair, nearly 50% Men would have been virtually branded as blind if there had been no eye power correction glasses/laser correction, Men who otherwise does social activities for the betterment of human race is thinking about what to cook for wife/mom/daughter etc... All this should be attributed to the rise of that One Object to the leading positions in software industry.

Now people(irrespective of Man/Woman) started talking about delivery.. delivery.. delivery...(now you know why this terminology which was once originally used for sacred purpose now used very frequently in software industry?? Isn't because of that one object??).
They talk about on-time delivery(again see here its 'on time delivery', they expect software to be delivered just like that irrespective of what hell happens anywhere/any-form, deliver in 10 months. Post the improvements in medical field like cesarean, has made them to think that software should also be delivered quickly using close-to-cesarean-concepts like RAD[rapid application development], Incremental Development, etc... you see the whole problem??? because of that one object????).

If we keep on delivering things very quickly in contrast to human evolution history?? What's in store for future generation??

When C language was introduced, every kid from every corner started learning it(it happened even in my native Kovilpatti where computers was originally considered as replacement for television sets. those days televisions were all black/huge/non-digital etc.., so we thought this sleek/white/shiny/digital computer would enhance the TV watching experience. may be the one reason behind this is that crap DD 'vialum-volvum' program which never showed any colors even in color TVs.. always black sand, always white dhoti clad men.. just this black & white even in color TV sets).

Okay then after C when C++ was made popular just in short time, the same story, people ran behind whoever talks about computer(even if its computer peripheral salespeople), in hope that that person would be conducting courses in computer centers and can secure admission to 'Learn C, C++ in 10 Days'.

Then comes JAVA in no time, the same people rushed to study this too. When this same set of people study all this truly interesting language in record time, what would be left for future generations?? What job they have to invent/improve??

Imagine if our ancestor tribe uncle's have invented all items right from wooden wheels to Boeing aircraft wheels in their time itself, what would have been left for us to do now and earn?? Our tribe uncle's were intelligent(mainly because Women were running behind things which they should be and not about things that matter). They done things in their own pace. They developed few. Used it for their lifetime. Left the improvement to their future generations. Their future generations too followed the same principle. They developed some sort of bullock carts with wooden wheels and stopped there(they could have made Volvo's that time itself. Think if they could convince a Bull - just an animal - to run their vehicle, can't they make an engine which does what it's programmed for???).

But we because of that one object started to push things so fast so that, now people scared about global warming/emission/pollution/commission again advocating fellow people to use bicycle/just walk. Things are getting back to history. But software industry, not listening to any of this outrages, keeps on marching ahead. Deliver. Deliver. Deliver.

Where it will take us all??? What more Men has to lose? Where is the Change We Believe? Barack Obama does it successfully by stopping Hillary Clinton. What about other Men?? When can we develop things based on our ancestors principle rather than 'Rapid Application Development'? When can we get opportunity to enjoy Diwali for many weeks instead of 1 or 2 days???

Many more parts to come in. Keep watching.

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Rameshwaram Trip - Year '09

Its a second visit to Rameshwaram in two years. Though I'm kind of person who argues existence of God and myths crafted over the so called powers wielded by God, I joined my family to visit this one of the holiest peace of land in Hinduism - for the sake of having a good family moment - rather than the blessing of God - here in our case 'Lord' Siva.

Got to visit Rameshwaram. Though I dont believe in God, I have love for the temple architecture and one reason definitely my Dad who used to do lots of this temple construction design stuff at home for many many years.. some 15years of memory..

my dad worked as Engineer with TN govt's HR&CE dept for almost 2 decade and I had so many of visits to all major temples in South Tamilnadu...

And Rameshwaram was one of his duty point among others.. been there to temple with Dad and visiting the place again without Dad has so much world of difference... pay here and there.. stand in queue... wait for this and that.. hmmm... gone are the days....

An early morning Rameshwaram sea view.. Its coastal Bay of Bengal ocean.


A little brighter morning with fishermen yet to venture into sea


In western countries its common to see white Doves making rounds around people. In India - a land of billions - are no short of birds. You can see this Crows sharing the same happy moments of Dove. Whats in color. Be Happy.


Myself, Karthikeyan in all new different attire. South Indian esp Tamilnadu.


A view from the Indira Gandhi bridge popularly known as Paman Palam.


From Paman Palam


Here its, the Paman Palam itself. A two lane flyover constructed over sea connecting Rameshwaram to mainland India.


Myself.


These are two boats traveling in opposite direction. Guess which one goes what direction. Look at the water for clues.


The place we stayed in Rameshwaram. A sea faced cottage just a 2 mins walk from temple.
A beautiful place to sit in morning and evening for taking in the serene sea atmosphere.

Birthday '09

Last 19th June, my birthday, was made a memorable day by my friends at Sify. Had cheerful moment cutting cake along with Venki - another birthday buddy.

Here are few stills from the day,

From Left: Krishna, Ponniah, Sumathi, Bala, Logesh, Jude, Venki and Nanda


From Right: Jude, Venki, Nanda, Chithra and Myself


From Right: Deepa, Janani, Venki, Loga, Myself, and Selva








From Right: Selva, Suresh, Yamini, Rajeshwari, Arulkavi and Jyothsana


From Right: Venki, Myself and Ramki