Man proposes God disposes …..

    Today September 28^th 2012 is my appa’s 59^th birthday celebration in Thirukadaiyur. I never expected I will be writing a blog sitting here in USA on this day. That is the uncertainty we had to deal in the modern era. I feel so perturbed which I cannot even articulate in words. Writing is something which mitigates my pain so I wanted to pen my thoughts.

    One had to pay the price of being in a foreign land many times. It so happened that I got to change jobs exactly at the wrong time. Because I am in the process of transitioning my visa to a new employer I had to stay in the country. I felt so bad when I realized I will be missing the function. I wanted to cry but somehow age stopped me doing so. I had to live on reality getting to know every minute details about the function over the phone.  I am the sort of person who enjoys even a cup of tea standing in the balcony and silently expressing my thanks to almighty..Basically I enjoy every small slice of life.

   One question which I keep asking myself time and again is “What am I doing in this country?” this question is basically going over the loop and am still trying to come up with an answer. Well basically commitment has been made from personal perspective. We have invested time, money and energy over education according to the US system and suddenly to come out of it would sound selfish from my side.

  When lot of thoughts have been running over my mind in the last few days I also happen to listen to some of the cases my wife is seeing on every day to day basis in her Intern. Single parent, sexual misuse, diseases to tender kids, torment at an early stage etc., when I listen to all of these I have no other option other than to show gratitude to almighty and request to bless the whole world.

  All I can say is ..I love you amma and appa. I feel bad not coming to the function but it is mere circumstances I couldn’t make it. I am sure everything happens for a reason. I always believe in Karma and am sure my good deeds will earn me a good place. 

More Automation ….less Human intervention ….

      Recently I was inside my car on a traffic light gazing at the construction work going on outside…I don’t think I can precisely put it in words of what I witnessed but all I can say is a heavy construction piece worth few thousand pounds was lifted just like that my a machine …worker was inculcating on the exact location the piece has to be moved so the guy who controls the machine just got to adjusts the controls as per the instructions. I am sure abundance of time will be saved and more importantly safety of the workers is the primary motive in employing machines.

      Look at software Industry ….one of the key metrics in most of the software projects is to automate the process by that way there is less human intervention. The sponsor of the IT projects will definitely underscore reduction in time by so much percentage in the power point slides.

    Look at the postal services …machine scans the address and if the label is not properly aligned (From and To addresses) there is a good chance the parcel may return back to the sender since the system thought that is where the parcel is supposed to go. GPS example can be funny …the final destination might be just on your left hand side but since ‘U-turn’ is not allowed at that Traffic light GPS may direct you to take ‘n’ number of steps before arriving at the same place you came a while back.

   I always marvel how does the software work during competitive exams? They have several algorithms in which the system picks up a question based on how the previous question was answered. I am very curious to know the logic behind how system picks the next question and how the system evaluates the score.

    One thing for sure …as we march into the coming years we are going to see more and more automation in our day to day life. Automation is good but one should not forget whether it’s a machine or a system or anything for that matter which automates is invented by Human beings. Human brain is much more powerful and capable and should be given due respect.

Professions with a difference

Well every profession is divine and it earns our living through which we do everything. But some professions are bit service oriented which in turn gives back to society right away. Let me open with three such Professions .... 

Teaching community: According to me this profession is one of the most service oriented one. A teacher teaches a kid who may finally end up in a very reputable position; teachers always feel so happy to see their kids shine in future. They take a lot of pride into it when a kid turns up in future to thank him/her. Teachers/professors also help in research and development which in turns becomes a big commercial viability for money makers but the thought and idea always come from the lab, classroom kind of atmosphere. Teachers play a big role in shaping up the next generation as their see the talent in the first place and groom before it becomes a hot property in future.

Priest: How many of us actually know personal life of temple priests; They bless us time and again every single calendar day (not business day). Whether its thanksgiving, Christmas, diwali or long weekend it is always same for them. They lead a humble life and get lots of happiness to serve god and temple. With cost of living shooting high up in the sky it is quite obvious some misuse but most people are true. When we visit India our appathas/ayyas used to inform the temple priest well in advance to come and open the temple for us to worship. So just think about temple priest for a while and their noble gestures.

Doctors: Though this one is in similar lines with the first two unfortunately due to the money factor this one is overlooked many times. It is an open secret doctors earn lot of money but everything comes with a price. Very few realize what goes into the making with this profession and irrespective of the country (USA/UK/Australia/India) the going is always tough but a very satisfying career for the soul. On one side we have R&D coming up with new inventions and on other side look at the number of fast food chains …It is always doing to be a tricky balance between career and family life for people belonging to this profession. 

Just my personal observations with these professions ....