The Long wait comes to a happy end

It was long time back I wrote my last blog but not without a reason. My wife delivered our first baby boy on 09th of August.

Though the expected delivery date was August 17, the doctor confirmed that there is no posibility of normal delivery because of the wrong position of the baby inside.It would be a mental presure for all, Hema in particular, to wait for such a long time knowing that she is going to be operated. We decided to operate and deliver the baby at the earliest.

August 09th was the date decided for the operation. Hema was admitted on 08th evening to prepare herself. Earlier we both decided not to know the sex of the baby in advance, otherwise there is no much excitement in waiting.

It was about 10:25 in the morning when she was taken to the operation theatre. The anxious wait was for about 20 mins. At exactly about 10:48, we heared the sweat voice of our baby. Five mins later a nurse came out of the room and told us that it was a baby boy and went back in. I wanted to know how was hema doing but no one was there to tell me that. I left the crowd and cried. I was not able to control my emotion. She was unconsious when I saw her after the operation.

The 9 month long wait looks shorter than the 20 mins in front of the operation room.

Ads made easy....

If you think news papers, brouchers, ad flims are the ways to advertise your books and movies or any other products for that matter, then you might need to upgrade yourself....

How many of you know that you don't even need to invest any money for these advertisement?

It just need to take a controversial topics to discuss or analysis in your books/movies. The news media will take care of the publicity. Here are the real time examples.

1) "A Call for Honor" is one of the top 10 best sellers. The controversial topics discussed on this book and the coverage by the news media made it all for the publicity.

2) The Indian launch of "Indian Summer" by John Wright is scheduled for October. But the publishers are expecting a big sales.

3) The sales of the edit verison of "Da Vinci Code" is raised in recent times because of the controversies that it created in the movie verison. Also, the movie was a box office hit.

4) The sales of the edit verison of "Othello" is raising in recent times because of the Hindi movie "Omkara". The story of Othello was the base for Omkara.

You just need to sit and think out of box to attract the news media. Just simple. Isn't it?

Do you read the message right?

People here used to blame the quality of Tamil Movies. General complaints that they used to make are, they are more glamour oriented, sentimental, violence, no message to the society, misleading youths and etc...

Ironically, no-one bothers to appreciate a good movies. To name few of the quality, message oriented movies in the recent times

Indian
Gentleman
Ramana
Samurai
Anniyan
Muthalvan
....

All these movies suggest changes to the society to bring out the humanitarian in each of us. All these movies were big hit at box-office, still there is no big change in the society.

The messages are conveyed correctly, but the individuals are not ready to accept it because they don't want to change themself and/or the society.

Can the producers/directors be happy for the money that they earn in making such movies? Or should they worry about not passing the message correctly that the movies intended to? The first one gives the status in society and the second gives the satisfaction in one's self.

The real success of these movies depend on how many people read the message correctly. Even if it is one, that is a success. To me, if anyone changed their mind on reading this blog, it was a success to me.

After seeing Anniyan, I stopped violating traffic rules and small small mistake that I used to. If I can, why can't you?

Everyone expects Miracle to happen...

Can anyone of you name a company that has a 100% happy and satisfied workforce in this part of the world? At least, workforce without complaints?

Every employee has a range of complaints that they used raise during chit chats and when they are part of a mass. The complaints varies between the kind of work/technology he is put in and his pay package. If you wake-up anybody and ask him "what is wrong with your company?". He can give a big list.

I do live with a group of employees with the same mindset. I used to wonder whether these complaines have ever been raised, if not addressed. They usually say that they were not given an oppurtunity to raise these issues.

Given an oppurtunity, will they address? If you ask me, I would say that they are using lack of oppurtunity as an excuse for their lack of courage.

For example, no one turned up to a meeting with our HR in my company to raise any issues they might be having. I was wondering whether all my colleagues became happy on one sudden day? All their concerns were addressed even before they are raised?

Still people used to raise their concerns in mass. The worst part of this is that they all know they are raising their issues to the wrong audience.

If you wait for oppurtunity to knock your doors, you will get one or two in your life time. If you go out and search for oppurtunity, you will get enough to miss one or two.

How secured is your life....

Everybody is talking about the IT boom in India. Every state government is working on inviting foriegn companys to start venture in their state.

Student are happy to get a job imm. after graduation, to earn their own packet money. Parent are happy to know that their son/daughter are earning more than what they have earned during retirement.

When you see this industry from outside, it will blossom with light breeze. It is decorated with bright colors & fancy glasses and you love to be with this for a long time. But when you are in, you are like an elephant that got in a trap hole.

How many of us have a courage to look into the dark side of this Industry? Let me try to list few
1) You are earning more than what you expect from day one. Probability of you developing bad habits are high because of your stress in office and your earning power. Staying away from home also adds fuel to fire.

2) Your expense habit increase because of usage of credit cards. Now-a-days, all banks offer you credit card with attractive limit and free for life time. It means, you are also be trapped by banks.

3) Not only credit cards, banks are offering glamours rates on loans for Houses, Cars, Personal Loan. It all pulls you deep into the sea so that you wont come out with flesh.

4) Because of late night work, you travel back home at hard hours. No matter whehter you are a male or a female, it sends invitation for robbery and all other anti-social activities.

Still, this industry is attractive and have the same glamour as before. It is up to each individual to decide on what they want to be.