Booking Tickets Online

I was just checking for tickets that can be booked online that is when I came across this site, this is basically an American site which I found was very useful. And if we can go ahead with such a design well everything will be easy through the Internet and u can just get everything on your browser itself.

They had it like statewise, games wise and also clubs wise also, which I felt was great and it will be lot more easy for people's to make their choice. The few things which I felt was really good were the Tickets for the LSU Tigers football game and  Tickets for the Michigan Wolverines football game.

The few other things which are really good are these given with the link Georgia Bulldogs Football game tickets and Nebraska Cornhuskers Football game tickets. If you remember in YES man Jim Carry will be cheering for neberaska only. So Lets say YES to change and take this initiative as a good example and lets all make things easy to access just like this. This will ensure that there is no more standing in queues to get tickets for games. They also give you the date and location fo the stadium and u can view the feature schedule also. this makes life easy for us. we can book tickets upto three months in advance.

Reliving the Past - Foot board travel

I know that I didn't blog for long time. I was going through tough times, my mind was wandering around and I never felt like I am alive for the past few months. There were many things which I wanted to write but later when the other things clogged my thoughts I forgot what I thought I wanted to write the moment I reach my office. These days that I came through recently were very different. And I was traveling to my hometown almost every weekend.

Initially I thought I was the only one having tough times, but everyone I spoke said the same thing like this year they are all going through tough times. I am kind of through with it or may be am near to the end of the tunnel. The thing was yesterday I was traveling from Central Silk Board to Banashankari, nothing special about that you may think. It was special, I was foot boarding. Its not often that you get chance to travel in foot board after you pass out from college, and that too not in Bangalore where there are automatic doors in every bus.

That journey yesterday bought me memories of my college days where I had to travel in the foot board for last three years. There used to be a minibus in which we used to travel and its like most of the people will be traveling in that. Everyday there will be a big fight for people to get a seat in the foot board. It got me those times where there used to be me and my friends at the foot board and we get down at each stop and get it again once the bus starts moving. I even once was scolded by the bus driver when I was traveling at the foot board. I felt so offended not because he scolded me, it was because I was foot boarding near to the front door of the bus where the girls usually stand :-( .

It was hard to think that these things happened three years back. Even I could believe that I am three years into my professional life. This month on June 11 I finished my three years of professional life. The one sentence that keeps me going these days is the following “ The darkest hour of the night is just before the dawn. ”. I hope this is my darkest hour and the dawn is not far away.

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANIZATIONS? Read it to know- absolute truth!!

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ?
- Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their manager .... the manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

" People leave managers not companies ," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

The First Step for the Journey of Thousand Miles …

                 Everyone would have heard the proverb that Even a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step. Now it’s my time to begin a journey of thousand miles and here I am taking my first step towards the same. I always wanted to be a teacher someone who can actually teach people not act like I am teaching. I always wanted to start an institution and help people get knowledge beyond the economic barriers. I strongly believed that only education can eradicate poverty and when the world has the provision to distribute education beyond the economic barriers then this world will be free of poverty. I may not be able to convince this principle mine to neither the World Bank nor the UNO. Even my own country will fail to understand this statement, let alone the country even my neighbor will look at me like a lunatic, when I say only education can eradicate poverty. So why prove them that this statement is a truth theoretically, I wanted to prove it practically. That’s what my dream was to start an educational institution and provide education beyond the economic barriers.
                 Finally I took my first step after a year of planning and proper execution, my first dream is getting delivered. As I type this here, there are people running there in TIRUCHENGODE to realize my dreams. January 22nd 2010 will be a memorable day as that’s when the Ganapathi homam is planned in my computer educational center in tiruchengode. It took exactly eleven months to get it to this condition lot of behind the screen action and that was the only thing happening so far. The first one to take place in front of the people and officially letting everyone know that we are starting one institution will happen in two days. Now I feel like, I am like a student who wrote the examination for the first time and waiting eagerly for the results. Curiosity is killing me and almost I can say I am half dead. I am attaching the official banner of the same with this post. Hope this goes a grand success and I can prove what I always wanted to prove.
                 I like to thank all those people who supported me morally and gave me suggestions and wished me both good luck and bad luck. Especially those who said All the best in front of me and said he will screw things up when I was not around. Even I am equally eager to know what the answer that Time is going to give to both of us. As of now all I can say is “Just wait… Lets see what unfolds!!!”

Long hours and Busy days...

I don't get time to blog these days... That’s surprising me… these days it’s all work and no fun. Spending most of my time in office, the whole week and all day am in office. Just because I say I love my work doesn’t mean that I don’t any other work to do. I also have many other things which I love other than my work also. The only thing which keeps me going through all this tough time is my love towards the work. Someday when I lose my love towards work I don’t know what’s going to happen. I feel like I am being pushed to my limits.

Sometimes people don’t understand that all the motivation one needs is just acknowledgement of his hard work and not appreciation or awards… When people don’t understand this simple fact life simply seems like you are carrying a heavy burden. Every day seems like a thousand years together.

The only good thing that happened in the recent time was that I was being promoted. A long waited letter, that finally came through two and a half years and then finally there I get the door to next level opening for a new adventure. Waiting for my promotion letter was like waiting for my graduation card in my school days and exam results in my collage days. The curiosity and thrill were the same. Another thing that happened was the team outing, to be frank I wanted to write a whole post on it and elaborate it. I remember last year it was two post about the outing but work has kept me occupied so couldn’t write a lot about it.

The outing was to Mysore, like last time there was no dancing in bus and all because we went by train. It was altogether a different experience. We enjoyed a lot; as usual the team in which I was put finally came out as the winners. There were two persons with the team, who were from France. The main thing to mention was the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE that we had on the first day evening after disco. We reached Mysore in the afternoon, right after the lunch the team building activities started. It was fun and there were lot of controversies involved or I should say politics. Then after the team building was the DISCO, we had lot of fun and of course lot of sweating also as there was no AC in the DISCO Hall.

After DISCO was the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE, as most of the people were drunk and since I was the once who never drinks I was speaking to people who were drunk and making them speak and as you all know how drunk people will speak it was a fun to watch. Actually I was doing it in small scale within our gang. When suddenly one friend of mine, who was drunk bumped into a conversation with one of the French guys and he fired questions to that guy asking how French handled Hitler’s attack during Second World War and went into history. Luckily the other guy, who is French was also equally drunk to and was answering him patiently. The ultimate fun was when the French guy asked my friend about India’s History, he asked him from when he wanted to know was it from 1860 or 1940 or after independence. That’s when I realized people remember history even when they are drunk. A

After that was the kick start of the drunkard’s conference as the other people also came for dinner and then it started off. This went till 12 AM the next day, at the end of the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE, everyone was sure of one thing that I was the biggest DRUNKARD around. That’s the way I am even without drinking I speak like a DRUNKARD, some day when I learn to drink I don’t know how big disaster it will be. The next day was quite boring and so we bunked out few of the activities and tried to play tennis for sometime. Then we checked out and came back. That’s all about the outing, the resort was Wind Flower, Mysore which I forgot to mention it was a lovely one. Hope I go there some other day but not with guys.

The Dashing Diwali Part - Two…

               I know promises are always hard to keep… that too when it is time bound it’s really difficult. I wanted to finish off with this second post but it took more than what I thought this will take. Last post I wrote till I reached home. Nothing much that night or I should say morning as I reached at 2 A.M. Just dozed off and woke up for diwali has bath and was waiting for the whole family to reach home. Then we offered prayers to god and that was the time to wear new dress, I should say I had a surprise. Last two years I didn’t celebrate diwali and this year diwali didn’t want me to celebrate it. The pant which I bought for diwali, had the zip broken so I was unable to wear it. I thought at least I will wear the shirt but to my surprise it was too short. I thought I just wanted a short shirt but all I got was a shirt which was too short. Then I was left celebrating the diwali in old dress only. I had great time with my brothers and sisters. It was a nice family get-together. Then I returned to Erode on Sunday evening. I had to return since I had a get-together with my schoolmates that evening. Myself, Vijayan (SPL), Venkatesh Mani, Subash, Sokkumuthu, Gokula Krishnan and Murugaraj, this was the list of people who was there. Ragavendran missed out as he had to go to Karur.

               We met at Sokkumuthu’s house, and then decided to go to a restaurant. We went to Padmam, one of the good restaurants in the town. It was good look wise and I felt the atmosphere like it was candle light dinner effect. The lighting was dim and was good. Then we went on ordering and chatting about the good old times and the old stories. The lighting had a small impact on food. Venkatesh who mistook salt instead of pepper added more and more and his soup tasted like hot sea water… thanks to the lighting. Then came the climax when we finished our dinner and the bill came. Venkatesh who wanted to pay it by card and the waiter said “No Sir. We don’t accept cards…” Now people looked at me as though I am Nostradamus since I said “Let’s check whether they accept cards” just at the time we were entering the restaurant. Luckily we had some cash left and also the bill was not much we paid and went out to our homes. Then Tuesday I took left and boarded the train in the evening and came back to Bangalore at 8 P.M. It was a nice journey and I had lot of time to spend with friends and people whom I was waiting to see.

 I have also attached the few snaps that we took during the get-together. I feel great for finishing this post... I feel like as though I wrote an epic, every day, every minute and every second was thinking of writing and finishing it off but couldn't find time to do the same. Finally I have done it... So cheers, hope there are lot more to come like this in my life.

The Dashing Diwali Part - One…

I know I am writing this after so many days. I really wanted to write it on the very day I came back to Bangalore and Even I thought of writing it back in my Lappy and just post it as soon as I come back to my desk on Wednesday 21st of October. But as usual, I am just another lazy guy on this universe so this took me this long. So what’s so special about this diwali, when go back down the memory lane… this is the first diwali for me that I am celebrating after I joined my dream job. Last two years I didn’t go home so no celebrations that’s one important reason but that’s not the only reason I had a get together with my schoolmates though not will all of them but with few guys who were also around the same time and again that’s not just the reason they way I started home for diwali that itself was special. Because I was traveling with Vijayan and Ragavendran, my schoolmates so the journey was guaranteed to have fun.

Let me start it from the beginning, as we already planned we started on 16th October 2009 afternoon. Nagavara was our meeting spot, where we decided to get along. I and Ragavendran have agreed to come along with luggage to office so that we can leave from office directly. Vijayan had to come to Nagavara then we will join and go to Silk board then will board a Salem bus that was the plan. To tell about Vijayan, he is our SPL (School People Leader but actually School Poriki leader fits him most) and Ragavendran was our Budjet padmanaban…. Vijayan reached at the exact time and Ragaven too joined him on time but I was late (As usual J )… then on phone we decided that they will go to Ram Moorthy Nagar signal, where Ragavan will change to slippers from shoes… I had to agree since I had no other choice. Reason one I can get some more time to start from office and the main reason was I cant’ bear the dead rat’s smell or hydrogen sulphide odur from Ragavan’s socks. I started exactly after one hour from my exact time. They were there waiting for me I got many calls from Ragavan. He was sick of waiting for me and was in a verge to leave to silk board but when I spoke to Vijayan he struck a deal with me he said he will wait if I promise him two cigars I liked the deal and agreed to the same.

When I reached Ram Moorthy Nagar Signal where the other two were waiting I had another great laugh after hearing the story. Ragavan had packed his slippers at morning five so he had two different combinations which he kept along in the early morning. So he had to go to his room to find the exact pair of slippers. Then there was a dilemma between us whether to go to silk board or to majestic to catch a bus, we ran towards each bus stop for five minutes and there was another deal which ever has a Volvo we will board it. Ragavan proposed it and I agreed to the same. We found a Volvo coming our way in the outer ring road towards silk board, we boarded the same. Finally we reached silk board around 2.30 P.M. All the buses were crowded like hell so we decided to go to majestic to get a seat for ourselves, without wasting time we ate boiled corn in silk board. Got to the other side of the road, Vijiyan gave an awesome idea… or so he said that we will get into a salem bus and to satellite bus stand then from there to salem again so that we get seats for sure. But the conductors of the buses which came were dumb and they didn’t really appreciate our idea so boarded a ksrtc bus to satellite bus stand. We reached majestic at 4 P.M. My dad called me and asked where I was I said him that am going to Majestic. We started at 12 P.M and even after four hours we were still inside Bangalore. After Majestic there was a diversion route so the bus had to go half the way around Bangalore to reach satellite bus stand. We reached Satellite bus stand at 4.30 P.M. Then we had lunch and boarded a Salem bus at 5 P.M. To my surprise the bus stand was empty and there was no sign of crowd.

The bus started to move and it was crawling I should say, we reached silk board at 7 P.M the place which we left at 3 P.M. Finally when we crossed Bangalore border it was 7.30 P.M. The whole Hosur road was jammed like hell. After 12 hours journey, we finally reached Salem at 12 A.M of 17th October 2009 which was Diwali. We celebrated there together then had to split up. I had to go to Rasipuram and those two had to go to Erode. I boarded a bus at 12.10 A.M which started after one hour and I reached home at 2 A.M. The whole journey we had fun watched movie in my laptop, then had the old stories… the days were before our eyes the day when we planned to burn school, the day when we were caught for copying, the day when our tenth results came without all our numbers on the news papers and many more. We didn’t realize the 12 hours passed just like that. Thanks for the wise cracks by Vijayan and timely help from Ragavan.
Thanks for the wise cracks by Vijayan and timely help from Ragavan. Thanks to you guys for the company and fun. The diwali begun with a dash and it had it through out. Will tell the rest of the story in the next post…