For the Past 3 year kadantha moonu varushangala ...

Today marks a rather unique milestone.3 years ago the same
day I joined this company(EFI) as a fresher from college.
I have made some great friends here, quite a few for life.
I have learnt a lot, personally and professionally, and
would forever be grateful to all my friends who have taught
me everything.

Wish me all guys :)

LTTE Srilankan Issue as i see

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as they are popularly called
as LTTE founded by Velupillai Prabhakar, is a tamil rebels
organisation that was mainly started coz of the discrimination
of sinhalese dominated srilankan government against minority
tamil community.when the LTTE became influential militarily,
they developed greed assuming that they have established Tamil
Eelam in the North and East of Sri Lanka.After acheiving this
they shud have challenged Sri Lankan government thru politics
too . But they never showed interest in political front nd
they were mislead by their Single dominant leader.His arrogance
has cost lives of lakhs of people. Of course India too has to
share the blame by supporting them initially.We paid the price
by loosing Rajiv.This civil war btwn sinhalese govn and ltte
is goin on for the last 30 years.

Recently there is an intense war goin with the srilankan govt
taking a vow to completely eliminate LTTE from their soil.
Numerous human lifes has gone down.

Srilankan Governtments Point of view:

War is something which LTTE forced the Sri Lankan government
to take that extreme step and was unavoidable.They point out
that the LTTE has assassinated more Tamil leaders than the
SriLankan army has, leaders such as Amrithalingam, Yogeswaran,
Neelam Tiruchelvam, and even militants such as Sri Sabaratnam.
Srilankan Govt says it is the failure of the Tamil leadership
to allow the likes of Prabhakaran to get away with murder and
mayhem.LTTE forcibly kept civilians and innocent in the war
area using them as humanshields forcibly and shoot them if
they tried to escape.LTTE deliberately placed its heavy weaponry
close to civilian installations and fired at government forces.
Young boys and girls, children of poor parents are forcibly
recruited by the LTTE and sent to the battle front without much
trainings.The LTTE suicide bombers have been killing a lot of
innocent people almost on a regular basis.

LTTE's point of view:

LTTE believes sternly that the Sri Lankan government will only
be happy when every last Tamilian have been killed by the force of
violence.LTTE accuses the Sri Lankan government unilaterally
withdrew from the Norwegian-brokered ceasefire a year go which
provoked the current war.The lives of hundreds of hostages
(including children) were sacrificed in the process of killing the
so called terrorists.LTTE complain the innocent people are being
bombarded with heavy artillery by government forces,coz of
which there are huge casualties and the most of these traumatised
people have been jailed in camps where they are separated from
loved ones, facilities are minimal, and allegations that women
have been raped and killed

Indian Governments stand:

Indian govt says The Sri Lankan Tamil Issue is an internal issue
of Sri Lanka.But the TN politicians are playing a cheap voting
games to try to earn popularity in TN and the latest is fasting
to death. But on the real no steps are been taken and they dont
fucking care abt the people dying there and all they want is
cheap publicity.


The Harsh Truth :

But the real truth that no one can deny is thousands of
innocent people are being killed every day in the murderous
conflict between LTTE and Sri Lnakan government.Both Srilankan
govt and LTTE are killer forces that do not give a damn to
death of innocents. What sin the srilankan people especially
the tamilians there have committed to experience this agony
all these years,and how long do they need to go thru this?If
they are in the war zone they get bombarded by the army. If
they are wounded and go to hospital they get bombed.If they
somehow manage to escape they would end up in the Nazi like
detention camps. Civilians are suffering injuries and dying
because both the Tigers and the government troops are violating
international humanitarian law

The war’s sheer brutality has created new realities.Tamils all
over the world are boiling in anger.they seem to seem to surpass
the Muslim anger over the dragging middle-east wars.

I also feel that this war would not be the end of the Tamil
struggle for independence.Clearly, it marks the beginning of
the Tamil Era which is in the making, and the signs are that
the next chapter is going to be even more destructive than the
LTTE.If the Srilankan Governments target was to save the
country from splitting into two, this war has sown seeds to
bring the exact opposite result.

I personally feel that by supporting the LTTE’s cause we don’t
do anything for ourselves not do we do anything for the misplaced
Tamils.They still live in refugee camps and are no better than
our own poor whereas the top LTTE leaders are still living a
cosy life somewhere in canada or else where.

Am left out being helpless all i can do is pray to the almighty.
Hope he brings a positive change sooner

The R word is ruling(ruining) everywhere(everyone)

R word -- Recession. This word is been uttered almost everywhere.
Whatever happens around u am sure at the end of day it will be hookep
up to this word.

These are some of the ways the recession has affected me I keep hearing
from my company how they're cutting back on payments, I'm hearing rumors
of people getting cut, etc. It's already affected me pay wise(Both hike and
bonus has been freezed till Mar-10) and I'm just hoping that I won't get cut
all together. For now, I still have my job and I'm grateful.

I wanted to go back to B school but I am going to have to put that off for a
little longer. Most of my savings which i had invested in sharemarkets have
become a petty amount.Inspite of this i still invested more this year
considering market would recover and it would nullify my previous years
losses.(FACT everytime i started investing in the markets considering it
has reached its bottom, it managed to go even less & hope its not the
same this time around.)

The only positive thing i noticed coz of recession is People eat more
healthy foods in recession, drive less either as an economy measure
or because they are no longer commuting to their jobs.

What did this Recession teach us ?

The "ant principle" i.e If we worked hard and right during the "great" days,
we should have stored our goods for the winter (hard times). If we fail to
plan, we plan to fail. I would think that every generation goes through a
financial crisis. The key of living through this is planning and preparing for
them.

When i was writing this post i got a joke based on this recession.
Though its funny it could happen to u. It can happen!*

XYZ Office * A fire alarm rang at 6 PM when almost all shift employees
are in office(approx 5000). As usual entire office was evacuated within 3
mins & every employee gathered outside office. 10 mins passed............
5 more mins passed. Security Officer - Announcement started, "Dear
Employees - With melting heart I am making this announcement that for
many of you it will be a last evacuation drill, as we are laying off almost 80%
employee. While moving in whoever's ID card won't work are laid off & all
their belongings will be couriered to them tomorrow. We followed this
approach as we don't want to fill email box size with layoff mail in thousands
& also to avoid any fight inside office". Hope you have Nice career ahead.
Please move in & try your luck.

I guess in the last 2 - 3 weeks the global economy shows sign of recovery.
Whether its a complete recovery or just a spike in the downward moving
economy lets wait n c.

Microsoft fails yet another time

Microsoft's Calculator fails in following calculation.

Go to Start --> Run --> type Calc and Check the following...

2704/50 = 54.08 Works Fine

2704/51 = 53.01960784 Works Fine

2704/52 = ????? Try yourself Doesn't Work !!!

2704/53 = 51.01886792 Works Fine

2704/54 = 50.07407407 Works Fine

Microsoft Calculator Failed .. .. ..

Try it .... !!

Dairy Industry Harsh realities

I have heard a lot from so called animal lovers or environmentalists or vegeterians about the meat industry and how it brutually tortures animal.I accept these facts. But why dont these people always neglect or forgot the suffferings done by the dairy industry ? .I would say if they truly care about these animals then they wont consume milk related products either.If eating meat or egg is sin then i wud say consuming milk is also an equal sin.

We generally believe that cows produce milk ‘naturally’ and they cherish getting milked. Its really surprising for many to learn that the life of a dairy cow is characterised by years of physical and emotional suffering.Dairy industry is always projected as happy cows with bellies grazing happily through grasslands where in actual case they r not so.Dairy cows do not automatically produce milk as many of us believe.Like any other female species—cows have to give birth in order to produce milk.The newly born calves are seperated within few hours or even after just few minutes from their birth, so that we can consume the cow's milk.This is very very stressfull for the cow and insecure for the calf as it is on its own having seperated from its mother.Also these calves are slaughtered for meat and more specifically for a substance called rennet which is used as a coagulant of milk in the process of making cheese.Male calves are of little value to the dairy industry, so dairy farmers sell them to the notoriously cruel meat industry.Most of the calves in the meat industry are mainly from the dairy industry.A byproduct of the dairy industry is a calf per year per cow.

To produce enormous amounts of milk cows are genetically manipulated,provided with high
energy feeds as well as drugged which will result in a metabolic strain on the animal.Also the great weight of the animal it l also acuse frequnet tears of ligament and foot problems like laminitis.

With advancement in the technologies most of the dairy industry now use milking machines
which causes infection to the cows at their mammary glands.The front teats may be subjected
to vacuum pulsing for up to two minutes after the quarter has been emptied and while the hind teats are still yielding. This is believed to be painful for the cow, and may also weaken tissue. The nature of the vacuum milking process is known to increase the possibility of infection.

Across few dairy farms the tails of the cows and the horns are amputated coz the dairy farmer do not want the dirty tails of cows to be swished in their face or the horns to hurt them.This causes severe pain,infections as well as nerve damage which might result in a chronic pain.

As time passes on if either the cows ability to produce milk declines or if they find difficult getting pregnant or it has any other disease then they are slaughtered. There is huge amount of wastewater and manure produced on dairy farms that pollutes rivers and underground water.A study by the University of Florida estimated that 100 cows can produce over 100,000 gallons of wastewater each week!

While I was browsing across sites to gather information i read this at one site i was really surprised by this fact .It says "The most alarming figure is that it takes 4000 glasses of water to produce just one glass of milk! (source: Fred Pearce, science advisor to New Scientist Magazine). This figure includes the water used to irrigate the crops grown to feed the cows, the water consumed by each dairy cow, and cleaning of the machinery and milking facilities."

Dont have a misconception that these kind of cruelties happens only on abroad.
Please go thru this link http://www.milliondollaryack.com/meat/archives/290