Jallikattu - #SaveIndigenousBreed

390g hit a huge bump in the road and lots have changed since my last post everything is for Good!!!.

The topic this time is Jallikattu (#Jallikattu). which is an age-old traditional bull-taming sport conducted every year during the Pongal festival time... In simple words, it is a thanksgiving for the farmers and livestock. several animal welfare organization want to stop and ban this in the name of animal cruelty. A lot of talks that is not the only reason they want to stop the sport and it is directly related to the geo-economic conspiracy to stop the A2 milk production and sell artificial insemination for cows. I don't know about all those... But I Support Jallikattu( #ISupportJallikattu )  and the reason is simple Save Indigenous Breed.





I started supporting Jallikattu to show my support to save the very reason and thought, that protects the indigenous cattle breed #SaveIndigenousBreed. In case you were wondering we have so many recognized cattle breed just in Tamilnadu alone to name a few - pulikulam, bargur, thenni malai , kangayam… etc and there are few other, not named and not recognized country breeds. Stopping the very practice that encourages the people for the careful breeding of this livestock will endanger the breed. I Know some MORONS!!! will think this is cooked up reasons to start the protest for #Jallikattu… for those who don’t know and ignorant ( including me up until a few years ago…)… THIS HAPPENED BEFORE….!!!

Just in Tamilnadu alone we have and had so many dog breeds like Kombai, Rajapalayam, Kanni, Chippiparai, Ramnadu Dog, Alangu Mastiff … few( Kanni, Chippiparai, Rajapalayam ) of them are revived from extinct by the enthusiast and supporters… Alangu Mastiff is extinct… Ramnadu Dog the numbers are very few and It is impossible to find a Kombai with original traits… they are few revive foundation and social networking group started by the breed enthusiast to get the Kombai breed back… My Respect and Support for them #Salute…!!!.

One of the reasons that Kombai breed is endangered … of-course the import and introduction of dog breeds from other country which got lots of gravity from the people… but the reason that stopped the careful breeding is the ban for hunting in the late 80’s . do I support for the ban of hunting absolutely!!!... but what is getting affect by that and how do we stop that…? I am very sure lot of people might have raised their voice back then…thanks to social media we are hearing those voices for jallikattu now and have a chance to act!! … Back in the day, the hunters camp ground was the available chance for the careful breeding of Kombai with different bloodlines…so when the hunting is stopped…the Kombai owners did not have the opportunity to get the dog from different bloodline…and we are talking about 80’s here; reaching out and traveling was not easy !!!…So the motivation and opportunity for the careful breeding of the Kombai is faded away and lots of in-line the breeding spoiled the breed… Thank God!!! we don’t have slaughter house for dogs in India and neither exporting the dog meet. So though in-line breeding spoiled the breed there is hope that it can be revived….but when it comes to the cattle that’s not the case…. When you ban the practice that motivates the people to have the best possible Bulls … two decades from now KISS a Big Good F*** Good-Bye to the indigenous cattle breed #SaveIndigenousBreed …

I hate to see this happen ….do jallikattu needs to be regulated with rule??? … Yes!!! But can’t be stopped …. I Support Jallikattu!!!…#ISupportJallikattu

Umbrella Cart

Today 9.00 AM IST, August 13th, 2010; Chennai, India. "My turn in line" again; queue got changed to line probably after living in USA for 5 years. Every time I stand on this line near the big wall. I obtain something to keep my 390G busy. So let's start...

I heard this from many people.

"Slow and steady always wins the race".

Lame statement!!! Are you serious? Are you telling this from your experience or passing on what you heard .Whatever, but I cannot accept. I always had a contradictory opinion for this statement. My thought is

"Slow and Steady can finish the race but cannot win the race. Only Strategy, Fast and Calculative Risk can win the race".

Let me stop my philosophy. I am not good in that either. My point is simple - you got to get your F**** *N timing right to get anything; grade, job, money, girl friend & What NOT!

Today morning; I woke up @ 5.30 AM and I got the timing right for interview @ 9.30 AM. It was pouring outside; huuh!!! Rainy day in Chennai and my plan is to wear lounge suit for the interview; I told myself 00ps!!!, good luck. The cab was on time and the driver managed to tackle and swerve through the morning traffic and brought me to the consulate well before the time I should join the line. It was heal of a ride from Velacherry to Anna fly over; Chennai road on a rainy day! You got to have special skills to handle.

I stepped out of the car to join the line my 9.00 AM, no matter what; Women’s are really good in planning for a travel. They go well equipped. Though I noticed the rain outside this morning, nothing strikes me to carry an umbrella, when I walk out of my home. My mom was my savior. She handed me an umbrella when I stepped out of the car. I joined the line and my luck was not totally cool. Thought I got a beautiful young girl in front of me in the line. Her objective was very clear and cool. She pulled a conversation with me just to find out how things work here like; what time they let you inside the building; blah, blah, blah…, she was there for student visa to pursue her MBA.

So my conversation with that woman was not so cool and long. So involved myself in “people watching” believe me it is really a cool pass time. I noticed all kind in that line; tension face, praying God every 2 seconds, very focused by not talking to others, deep thought…..dot! While wandering my eyes I noticed like only 6 or 7 including me holding an umbrella out of 50 plus in the line. Most of them half drenched out of drizzle.

My mind was like common guys it would take like RS 15,000 ( $350) to install a retractable shed in the walk by were the line is formed. We are still considered as techno prostitutes and no respect more than that.

While I was thinking like that I saw a blue cart pulled by two men. The stuff inside the cart was covered with a water resistance sheet. So no idea what’s inside? They parked the cart in a decent distance from line. One walked close to crowd and started selling (shouting) umbrella and other man un-wrapped the sheet. After hearing that person; I was like, seriously!? Do you really have to wrap the umbrella pile with WATER RESSITANCE sheet? I was telling myself; stupid guys.

But within a minute my opinion got changed.

They are smart and got the TIMING right. They sold the umbrella for RS 100 each; within 10 minutes after he started shouting. He sold more than 20 umbrella. The count did not stop and everybody started buying umbrella.

They demanded that price and not ready to bargain even a single penny. They made proper use of time.

• Nobody in that line wants to attend the interview with drenched dress.
• Nobody wants get their certificate wet.

So everybody who bought the umbrella paid the money that was demanded. I was totally shocked with their smartness and business mind.

I did a little math in my mind; like, In normal days he would sell that umbrella for Rs 60 and if you are good bargainer (Mandatory skill set to live in India) you can buy that for probably Rs 50.

If you say like 20% profit margin for that; He would make like Rs 10 profit for each umbrella. But today he is making Rs 60 profit for each umbrella which is close to 60% profit.

Well this is called Business!!!

They made the proper use of demand. They were at right place, at right time, with right product.

In simple term they got their TIMING right.

In this weather people love to have "Masala tea and Mirchi bajji" or "Wishkey and Rasam Vada". Nobody in the line would buy "Masala tea" when he is drenching in the rain. Even if they buy I bet he cannot make 60% profit out of it.

What they doing today is the classy act of business man. This may be outrageous business. But the end goal in business is making the maximum profit.

This is probably what, you might learn from B-school. I want to tell this to the lady in front me. Who is waiting in the line to pursue her higher education, to learn from the practical lesson to make money instead wasting your time here by standing in the line.

Suddenly I realize she would definitely ask me repeat the same statement if front of the mirror. Hmmmm….dot!

Fortune Cookies and Me…

Today March 25, 2010 4.30 PM EST and I am on my way to Dallas, flight took off like 20mins back from Orlando Intl Airport. Right now I am dangling somewhere “Up in the Air”. Awesome!!! Nice location to update my blog with “Fortune Cookies and Me…”

Why Fortune Cookies? What made me to write this?

Simple, Moron sitting next to me occupied quarter of my seat with his fat hand and I cannot able go to sleep which I normally do in the flight. So the writer in me woke up………….and here my experience starts...

I don’t know if it is myth or co-incident… or may be something I cannot understand. The quotes in the little paper inside the fortune cookies alway mean something to me. I can easily correlate that to something that happens around me. This is true most of the times. Let me share few of my experience….

Experience 1:-

The first time I say Fortune Cookie was like 4 years back. When I came to this country my manger took me to a restaurant where they gave Fortune Cookie with the meal check. That was my first time I saw and tasted Fortune Cookie because in India no restaurant will serve Fortune Cookie. This update is 4 years old I am not aware of current situation….Anyways

My manager took the tab and I broke the Fortune Cookie and read the Quote, really loud.

“Soon you will meet great love of your life”

Honestly!!! That was boosting words for me at that time. Because.

• I was new to this country
• I have no friends and family here
• I have no one to talk too
• First time I was out my habitat that I belong to for 23 years… J.

I felt like I was in total solitary life………totally F***ed up time. Those words in Fortune Cookie solaced me. I don’t know if I am going to find someone for real but it was a boosting word.

My Manger disturbed my feel good mood with a question.

Manager: Do you know how to read Fortune Cookie? With a sarcastic smile.

Me: I wanted to say. Moron! What’s your problem? Can’t you understand English? But I am helpless because of performance review. So politely; I said, I think I read it right. There is nothing more in there to read.

Manager: Nothing more? There is some Chinese word in the back and Lucky numbers are there.

Me: Very Funny(Loud) and F**K you (in my mind)........... actually i don't like him.

Manager: Add IN BED, you should add IN BED to the quote that you get in fortune cookie.

Me:

“Soon you will meet great love of your life IN BED”

I wish I would……. and I laughed!!! because it was a joke from Manager.

Experience 2:-

Another hectic day at customer site. Stepped out for lunch with my co-workers the topic of our discussion till the point we reach the restaurant was, what else could be? Everybody was mad about how customer is bitching about our products UI and no capability to customize in the current version. Hot discussion was going on and everybody was upset; including me……….finally we reach the restaurant were you get Fortune Cookie

I broke my cookie and the Quote I got was

“The value of Art cannot be measured form its defect”

Me: probably we should give this to customer by replacing the Art with our product name and we did that!!!.

Experience Today:-

It happened for me to go to lunch alone today. So I went to Pei Wei restaurant and I was in line to order my meal. I noticed a good looking college gal with few thin books in her hand just before me in line. I was surprised to see her alone because in this country you cannot see a college gal coming to restaurant alone to have food.

So the debate started in my mind. Is she alone? Or she came first and her boyfriend or friends will join her later? 5 more mins passed and I confirmed she is alone. Ok can I ask her to have lunch with me? What if she say no? While I was debating in mind I read the title of the book she was holding.

“Genetics Research Laboratory Report”

My Mind: Whoa!!! She is a biology student and doing some research in Genetics? Must be a geek ………you know how good you were in biology in 10^th grad. that was last time probably you would have took that subject book in your hand. So stay away and do what you come here to do.

I ordered my meal and took a seat. In my next table in noticed a beautiful Desi gal with tan skin and black loose hair and she was wearing mini skirt with bare shoulders only the elastic around the chest is holding that dress. There was a Desi guy having food with her.

Me: lucky bastard she is cute and hot……….screw my mind I should have ask that biology student to have lunch with me, ”Its always better to have try and fail”. Now I am alone in this table ………….and I broke Fortune Cookie!!!

The Quote I got today was………….

“The simplest answer is to act”

Yeah right!!! I know I should have acted……….screw you. What!!! you are trying to preach me now…………let me go get one more of you and will see what message you got for me.

I went and picked one more Fortune Cookie…………the one you are seeing in the picture.

The message I got was…

“Someone in your life needs letter from you”

That reminds me I forgot to call my Mom today.

=II= Smartness!!!

2009 was not a clean sweep for my 390g. Thanks a lot; at least I was able to think about a topic, SMARTNESS!!!.

Actually it's a question

What is Smartness? if you ask me this question, I don't know what practical answer I would give. This was the question I was asking myself and finally; I am convinced with a answer.

Answers:-

Smartness doesn't mean you are Brilliant, it's a myth.

if you can impress someone with your knowledge about something that you learnt then you are Smart.

This doesn't mean that, the person you impressed is DUM A*S!!!. He can very well refer some place and learn about the same topic and gain more knowledge than you, later. You are smart here because you got the Timing Right!!!

let me share my experience with you

1. I met this guy in Airport coffee shop early in the morning. he surprised the ____ out of me with , Daily News. He was giving me updates about every hot news of that period, form "Medical Bill", "Housing Market" to "NFL". He was not talking about something that I cannot learn. I am speechless because, I did not follow the news for the last one week. He got the Timing Right!!! & I was DUM! there.

2. I went to Lunch with my co-worker. he surprised me with the updates about, day's stock prices and with profit; he made by selling BOA & RIM stocks. I do have those stocks, that he was discussing about; but I was not able to talk about the rate, profit and loss of that day. simple I did not follow the market. He got the Timing Right!!! & I was DUM! there.

3. I joined this sales guy for dinner. we went to a good Italian Restaurant. he surprised the ____ out of me with his knowledge about the wine variety, taste and the grapes it was prepared from. He wasn't just listing the wine names like Marlot, Shiraz, Zinfandel , Muscato.....etc. which I can very well do. He was explaining me the difference in the wine prepared from the grapes; grown on the east side of the Northern Californian Mountains to the grapes grown on the west side, towards the Ocean. I bet he spent fairly substantial amount of time to learn about wine. He got the Timing Right!!! & I was DUM! there.

So if you get to met any smart guy in future, you don't have to feel bad about your ignorance. He got the timing right. Just say Lucky You!!! and do not ignore him. Try to get some knowledge by yourself about the topic that he was talking.

My philosophy about smartness may look absurd. but this is what I experienced :)

Baggage Claim

Today July 2, 2008 1:30 PM Pacific time I am at Seattle Tacoma Airport waiting to board Dallas flight. Waiting is the last thing I like. But this waiting in SEA helps me to keep my 390G busy.

Baggage Claim, I am writing this post after my eyes clicked the airport direction board @ SEA airport. many, would have seen this word @ Airport direction board.

This takes me back to my sweet old memories which happened like three years back at Pittsburgh airport. I flew from Chicago-> Pittsburgh. that day I didn't check in any baggage. The journey was cool though no teenage gal was next to me everything was perfect and the flight was on time. but after I got out of airplane at Pittsburgh airport. I struggled like anything to find Airport EXIT door. Finally the person who was cleaning the floor gave me the direction which the direction board doesn't.

MAN, that was the moment I laughed at myself, was like what the heck!!! I could able to come all the way from Peoria to Pittsburgh but I don't know how to go out of Pittsburgh airport.

FUNNY! But True. I struggled like 15 to 20 mins. to find my way out. You ppl can think what an Idiot I am; I should have seen the direction board to find my way. I did see direction board but I didn't see enough information that I needed. Yes, the information I saw in the board was

Terminal A, B, C etc
Restrooms
Baggage Claim
Gate 17 to 18 etc

But I didn't see a word EXIT on the board. if I had my baggage checked in I would have just followed the baggage claim and wouldn't have faced any problem to exit the airport. But I had only cabin luggage which lead me to have interesting experience :). Even though it is interesting, I never shared this to anyone, till date. For some reason I felt this as a most Embarrassing moment of my life. The reason I am telling this now is becoz one of my close friend also faced the same problem at Minneapolis airport last month. Now I feel like I am not the only stupid in this world. hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :~)

Information is wealth. This information is from Experience. But why I am telling this experience from SEA airport.
Simple! I didn't find the word EXIT on the SEA airport direction board also.
So when you want to go out of airport for a change don't look for EXIT in the direction board. Just follow the Baggage Claim you will find the EXIT door near the Baggage Claim conveyor.

59th Republic Day

Jan 26th 2008, 1.39 AM CST. Today is India's 59th Republic. I am writing this post soon after the program that I saw in CNN IBN which made my eyes to water after a long time. It’s an interview with 3 soldier’s family who lost their life while serving for the country.

I really don’t know what made me cry. Whether the tears of the mother who lost her Son. Or the discrepant end of the Hero’s at the age of 21, 22.

one has to watch the program to feel what I am trying to write here............but one thing I can see with a clarity is that ...Fate, Responsibilities, Technology....and what not. Can take anyone out of India, But it cannot take India out of One.

cOcoNuT

Thengaai in my Mother Tongue

I want to write one post on this topic for long time but I doesn't come through. and off course 390G was sleeping all these days <:~) What’s Coconut? It's very good terminology used in India against the people who is returning home from the country in which I live now. Just to make fun of behavioral change.

why coconut for that? Lets skip that I can't write that here

Am I a coconut? Donno,
Does my accent Got Changed => slightly
Am I started planning for Vacation which is coming after 5 month => Yes
Am I started buying thing in deal => yes
Contd...

Does this mean that I am Coconut nope...... I would say this as Street Smart. I have 2 change like this to live in this Street or Cross this Street Whatever.

How can I prove that I still have our traditional behavior which can't be changed even I change myself to mingle in different crowd were ever I go.

Simple Example

1) I-39 N Toll Plaza. I am in queue to pay the toll ($1). all the cars in front of me paid the toll and started smoothly. But when my chance came to pay my toll amount, I slightly lost the control of the car.

I didn’t understand what went wrong and why I lost the control. later I found out I used my Right hand to pay my toll. if I use my right hand I have 2 stretch a lot to reach the person in the Toll booth.

Why I didn't use my left hand to pay the tool
I my place if we give anything to any one we use only right hand. If we use left hand its kind of disrespecting them.

List continues...........I am not in a gud mood to write further.....lemme FULL STOP HERE.