Anand Nataraj

Archive for November, 2008

It has been hectic schedule in business & also in personal commitments too. My present concerns are to make my new ventures a great success, to spend good time with my friends, be consistent in my blogging etc. But my mothers concerns are different, she is worried about my marriage and she wanted to do a Raghu Pooja in SriKalahastri. I didn’t want to disappoint my mother’s sentiments and I obliged to goto temple and perform the pooja…

We decided to goto SriKalahastri on Sunday(16th Nov 2008). Kalahastri is 120 KM from Chennai & is located in Chitoor district of Andra Pradesh. We planned to start from home by 1.30 PM so that we can reach temple by 4.30. Pooja must be performed between 4.30 PM – 6.00 PM because that is Ravugalam & pooja must be performed at that tim But we had an unexpected visit of a guest by 1.00 PM and we were able to start from home only by 3.30PM. We have two ways to route to reach Kalahastri from Chennai. We choose the shortest route redhills/tada route which is the shortest… Wonderful road and nice drive, but still we were late and reached temple by 6 o clock. So decided to have a normal prayer and again planned to make it on Tuesday(18th Nov 2008).

On return we took the renigunta road, which is little long in terms of KM & roads were also bad. We reached home little late by around 10 o clock in the night. Travel was of great experience, had nice discussion with my sister, it has been long since we had spent time for each other. Then saw a major accident near thiruvallur where a bus ran over a bike, road was flooded with blood, I wanted to take some snaps and wanted to share it in my blog but my mother did allow me to do it and she immediately wanted me to move from that place. I obliged to my mothers request and continued my drive. Then reached home slept & did normal work on Monday.

Again started on Tuesday to SriKalahastri, this time it Ravugalam was between 3.30PM – 5 PM. We started from home by 12 noon & this time decided to use redhills/tada route to & foe. This is a best route at present because of good roads, but we have a toll plaza near ponneri a kilometer before & after the toll gate roads are pathetic. Took some snaps to share it.

A person collecting toll

Toll tariff for different vehicles

Condition of road immediately after toll

Condition of roads immediately after toll, this road a junction which connects periyapalayam & tada road…

En route to SriKalahastri near Varadapalayam & you can see me in the picture…

Then reached the temple by 3.15 PM and got a ticket and had pooja done by 4 o clock, had good darshan & returned back to Chennai on the same tada/redhills road. SriKalahastri – Varadapalayam – Tada road was little narrow and had lots of narrow curves & speed breakers. Caught hold of a car, think the driver is a frequent driver in the route and he maintained good speed. Driver understood that we are following him to have a smooth drive & in the mean time maintain his speed and he helped me by giving appropriate signals. Without him I couldn’t have driven in that speed as it was pitch dark.

Then had a normal drive back home & it was yet another 300 KM drive. It was interesting to have driven 600 KM within 50 hours… It was a nice experience & I’m happy because my parents are happy & I made them happy by somehow sparing time for pooja. It was an happy ending & I headed to Madurai immediately after reaching Chennai.

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Like most other countries, Japan was hit badly by the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1938, Soichiro Honda was still in school, when he started a little workshop, developing the concept of the piston ring.

His plan was to sell the idea to Toyota. He labored night and day, even slept in the workshop, always believing he could perfect his design and produce a worthy product. He was married by now, and pawned his wife’s jewelry for working capital.

Finally, came the day he completed his piston ring and was able to take a working sample to Toyota, only to be told that the rings did not meet their standards! Soichiro went back to school and suffered ridicule when the engineers laughed at his design.

He refused to give up. Rather than focus on his failure, he continued working towards his goal. Then, after two more years of struggle and redesign, he won a contract with Toyota.

By now, the Japanese government was gearing up for war! With the contract in hand, Soichiro Honda needed to build a factory to supply Toyota, but building materials were in short supply. Still he would not quit! He invented a new concrete-making process that enabled him to build the factory.

With the factory now built, he was ready for production, but the factory was bombed twice and steel became unavailable, too. Was this the end of the road for Honda? No!

He started collecting surplus gasoline cans discarded by US fighters – “Gifts from President Truman,” he called them, which became the new raw materials for his rebuilt manufacturing process. Finally, an earthquake destroyed the factory.

After the war, an extreme gasoline shortage forced people to walk or use bicycles. Honda built a tiny engine and attached it to his bicycle. His neighbors wanted one, and although he tried, materials could not be found and he was unable to supply the demand.

Was he ready to give up now? No! Soichiro Honda wrote to 18,000 bicycles shop owners and, in an inspiring letter, asked them to help him revitalize Japan. 5,000 responded and advanced him what little money they could to build his tiny bicycle engines. Unfortunately, the first models were too bulky to work well, so he continued to develop and adapt, until finally, the small engine ‘The Super Cub’ became a reality and was a success. With success in Japan, Honda began exporting his bicycle engines to Europe and America.

End of story? No! In the 1970s there was another gas shortage, this time in America and automotive fashion turned to small cars. Honda was quick to pick up on the trend. Experts now in small engine design, the company started making tiny cars, smaller than anyone had seen before, and rode another wave of success.

Today, Honda Corporation employs over 100,000 people in the USA and Japan, and is one of the world’s largest automobile companies. Honda succeeded because one man made a truly committed decision, acted upon it, and made adjustments on a continuous basis. Failure was simply not considered a possibility.

A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York.

Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog.

He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl’s life.

A policeman who was watching the scene! walks over and says: “You are a hero, tomorrow you can read it in all the newspapers: “Brave New Yorker saves the life of little girl”.

The man says: “But I am not a New Yorker!”

Oh then it will say in newspapers in the morning: “Brave American saves life of little girl” the policeman answers.

“But I am not an American!” – says the man.

“Oh, what are you then?”

The man says: “I am a Pakistani!”

The next day the newspapers say: “A Terrorist Kills Innocent American Dog!”.

This is called the peak of boredom, this is a conversation between my friend AJITH(Who represents by name YOU) with his friend ABBAS(represented by Jeremy).

Jeremy: Welcome To SingleHop.com. My name is Jeremy how can I help you?
Jeremy: Hello
you: Hi.
Jeremy: How can I assist you?
you: Is this a bot or a real person please?
Jeremy: lol, this is a real person.
you: Who are the 2 candidates contesting e l e c t i o n today in U s ?
Jeremy: Obama, and McCain
you: ok.. A million apologies for that Jeremy… We just get bogged down by the tonnes of automated bots that claim to be live sales rep.
you: pl accept my apologies
you: We are looking forward to setting up an e comm store.. Are we contacting the right company?
Jeremy: Yes we have many e-commece sites setup on our network and would be glad to have you on board.
you: Could you please give clear instructions on which company we have to approach and whom we need to contact to setup an e commerce website?
Jeremy: Do you need the server for the site, or do you need the actuall website design?
you: both..
Jeremy: Well we can set you up with a server for your site, but cannot assist with the design.
you: we need someone who can take up the entire contract… we need to know the best price as we are running short of budget and are not willing to spend a penny more than 45k
you: We approached 2 companies who quoted over 100k..
Jeremy: All I can do is quote you for the server it would take to run it.
Jeremy: I cannot quote you on the scripting or site design.
Jeremy: What kind of site are you going to be running
you: an e commerce site… selling lingerie…
Jeremy: ok
you: We have stocked inventory that we plan to liquidate..
Jeremy: What kind of operating system?
Jeremy: Windows or Linux?
you: Sorry? I have windows Wista running on my mac
you: is that wat you wanted to know?
Jeremy: For the server, what OS would you need on it?
you: Sorry? u mean SOS? We need a website to be designed developed.. and e commerce portal.. selling apparel..
you: Im not too familiar with this computer jargon.. im a fashion designer..
Jeremy: I am sorry, you will probably need to speak with a programmer and then see what kind of language they will write it in. Then we can set you up with the server to host your site on.
you: If i have to choose between those two options, then i would go for windows…
you: Site will be hosted in US and EU. Hence, English language to start with. Later we plan to expand to France.. and will then design a french site as well..
you: Can you please connect me to the server now? We would like to talk to them..
Jeremy: I am sorry we do not do programming here. You would want to talk to a programmer first. We are a dedicated server company. Once you have your site designed and written you would then come to us to host your website.
you: Dedicated? You really do not seem to address our queries. I would not call your company dedicate.. Im sorry. if you could provide some contact to get the whole project done, then thanks in advance. If not, we shall call it quits!
you: Are you there?
Jeremy: Yes, I am trying to explain that we do not do programming or site design.
Jeremy: We only provide dedicated servers.
you: ok.. how many servers please?
you: we plan to host thousands of products.
Jeremy: You most likely would only need 1 with a large hard drive, and then a backup hard drive in case the first one fails.l
Jeremy: Let me get you a quote.
Jeremy: Do you have an e-mail address I can send a quote to you.
you: sure…
you: grrrr@googlemail.com
Jeremy: Ok I will, send a quote within the next 15 minutes.
you: thank you.
you: have a nice day madam..
Jeremy: Your welcome.