Life in Bangalore

Most of us are involved in projects, be it organizing the Housewarming ceremony or the Project at the office. A Project usually involved a myriad of things to do with many unknowns that can potentially derail the Project itself. David Allen of “Getting Things Done” lays a common sense approach to Project Planning & Control. Following are the key steps that David Allen recommends to develop a Project Plan: 1)       What is the outcome of the Project? ...Is it a report, product or just conducting the ceremony without an hitch? 2)       Be more Specific about the Outcome?... when is the ceremony? By what date the report has to go through? Can it be delivered in Phases? 3)       Brainstorm for all the activities?... Capture all the activities to be done on a piece of paper…Don’t worry about the sequences yet… 4)       Break the activities until they are small enough that you could add to your actions 5)       Create the sequence of actions 6)       Attach a timeline to

·           The mother-in-law in the Soap asks her daughter-in-law who is in ½ in thick make-up “to get ready” for the party ·          I find that reason for controversy in the Soap was because, daughter-in-law made a different side dish rather than the one told by the mother-in-law ·          Parents shed tears at the drop of the hat in the reality song show ·          They held a real engagement ceremony of an imaginary marriage happening in the Soap ·          All the judges start becoming critical on a particular day of the reality show ·          After months of judging by the “Judges”, the winner of the reality show is determined through the SMS votes by the viewers ·          They still continue to conduct the game show that had no contestant even crossing the half-way till date ·          They still use the same graphic title card in Doordarshan that I saw 20 years back ·          I remember the day when everyone in our family was happy because Chennai got

          Don’t treat things as either good or bad…treat it as just an experience           Life is a Countdown….Why do things that are not fun?           “A wise old owl lived in an oak       The more he saw, the less he spoke       The less he spoke, the more he heard       Why can't we all be like that bird? ”….. Anonymous           Before buying a thing off the shelf…use the 10-second rule to think “Do I really need it?”           Capturing   your   thoughts through the day will solve most of the issues that you face           Everyone needs to own the BMW…Body & Mind Wealth           The issue with my Multi-tasking habit is this…When I am on the floor playing with my      daughter my mind is thinking of reading the newspaper article           I love television as compared to the Internet …It does not demand as much Multi-tasking skills as much as the Internet           I struggle on what to browse for in the Internet after just 10 minutes into it

My note: This is a guest post by Amith Seshagiri on the benefits of Veganism.I admire Amith not only because he wrote this post for my blog but also because he is a person who knows truly well about what he speaks.He also walks the walk while talking the talk... There are no known sources of cholesterol in plant foods. Those that do, have a small, almost negligible amount of it (eg: Coconut). Coconut is one of the richest sources of Lauric Acid (another rich source is Human Breast Milk). It is a commonly held belief that Cashews have cholesterol. This is a false premise as cashews are naturally cholesterol free. Incidentally, both cashews and coconuts are loaded with Antioxidants, Minerals and other micro nutrients. Both increase HDL and decrease LDL (you want that). Another common qualm is that Vegans do not get enough Protein. The truth is that protein is found in many different foods. Some vegan sources which have all 9 Essential Amino Acids are Quinoa, Soy, Mushrooms and the s

“Surely you’re Joking  Mr. Feynman” is a semi-autobiographical book by the American Physicist Richard P.Feynman. Dick Feynman,as he is known ,was passionate about  Physics  and was widely popular for the “Feynman Lecture Series”  . Ok…while this is the introduction of Feynman,the scientist, the book ““Surely you’re Joking  Mr. Feynman” is certainly about the whacky side of the Physicist . Feynman describes his real life adventures ranging from his child hood experiments in his lab to his experiences in Brazil where he learnt to play the Samba music!!! Following is the one such adventure that we could least expect from any Nobel Prize winning physicist…Back in the the 1940’s when “The Bomb” was being developed in Los Alamos, every person involved in  the Secret Project were given a Safe so that the documents are protected. Feynman decided to prove the Military, which was doling out the safes, to be wrong. He found how the safe worked by ripping apart his own safe!!! And he started