It is a typical December morning and it is cold as hell. Pandavs cursed the day they came to Michigan. They never thought they would live to experience temparature of -25 degree centigrade! Actually Pandavs were tired of the uncomfortable, bumpy and slow moving raths, so wanted a new vehicle. It was Lord Krishna who told them that Michigan has a Dodge Challenger model that is just great. So with the hopes of owning a Dodge Challenger, Pandavs had set base in Michigan from early July.
Their journey was quite uneventful. They got business seats in direct New Delhi to New York flight courtesy of Pavanputra Hanuman. After roaming around in NYC for a couple of days, they finally arrived in Detroit. The Pittsburg avtaar of Lord Krishna were present for their welcome. All was hunky and dory till they realized that Challenger was currently out of production! Lord Krishna apologized for the outdated information and advised Pandavs to go back. But whole India knew about the Pandavs journey to the west, so it would have had been embarassing if they returned without the dream car. Plus they were on banvaas, so they decided to make something happen! And thus the journey began!!
Yudhishtir wrote a letter to Dr Z (Daimler Chrysler chairman). He explained how they loved the car and wanted to own one. Dr Z was thrilled to get a letter from Indian heroes and ordered his marketing team to check if Challenger could be brought back to production!! Things were on a roll. After great success in the Detroit Autoshow and good marked response it was decided that Challenger could indeed be produced again!! But it still wont be till late 2007 before it would come out. UAW (union) negotiations and loss in general were compounding the problems.
to be continued...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
Marriage in India @ CMM Level 1
Just yesterday Uppi gave us a treat on his promotion. Well I also got promoted, but looks like Uppi has a fat wallet and a bigger heart :-). Three cheers to him!
The main theme that ran across the party was "again" the overdiscussed marriage topic. Just an year back I was not spending anytime discussing this topic, but for the past year this is the only topic that is being discussed! I had no option than to get sucked in. I have now discussed this topic with my bachelor friends, recently married friends, parents, and with friends who got married long back. Each one has something different to say about it. Most of the time I have discussed and joked about it with my bachelor friends who are looking for a girl. We even discussed the merits of Walmart's 90 day return guarantee :-)
I still find it strange how risky marrying is in India! It is indeed a BIG leap of faith!! I find it even more strange that overwhelming number of marriages succeed. Does it mean that any guy is right for any girl, or that Indians in general are too good at adapting? Whatever the end result is, it's the initial process that scares me. Parents find a girl that they think might be right for you. All you know about her is - her name, age and educational background. You might have seen the photo but who knows what she might look like in the real life?! Same holds true for girl. If anything I guess it's more scary for the girl, because she would be leaving her support system (her parents) behind after marriage.
So my question is - is this an ideal setting to get married? Or are we compromising more than we should, before taking supposedly the biggest decision of our life? There are a few cases where people fall in love and then marry. Even this is frowned upon by parents in our dear nation. Love marriage usually happens after long courtship and both guy and girl know each other pretty well, so this is better than the first scenario. But still, as per me even love marriage is not an ideal scenario. I believe that you come to know a person ONLY when you live with him/her. Only when you stay with a person you realize how good or bad he is. There are so many small things that you might drive you crazy! Not to go too far, take the case of your snoring roommate!!
This is where I love US :-). The process here is pretty mature. You first meet the girl, if you see a spark you meet her again. If after an year or so it is still going strong then you move in together. If you pass this final phase then you marry! People would point out that still the divorce rate in US is higher than in India. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the process is at fault. It just as simply mean that the people are way too independent here. They believe that it's better to stay apart and be happy than stay together and crib. Afterall you have got just one life! We can argue to death the pros-cons of all this, but if you are meeting the girl for the first time to see if she is right for you all I have to say is "All the best dude and I will ask you after 2 years if you made the right choice!"
The main theme that ran across the party was "again" the overdiscussed marriage topic. Just an year back I was not spending anytime discussing this topic, but for the past year this is the only topic that is being discussed! I had no option than to get sucked in. I have now discussed this topic with my bachelor friends, recently married friends, parents, and with friends who got married long back. Each one has something different to say about it. Most of the time I have discussed and joked about it with my bachelor friends who are looking for a girl. We even discussed the merits of Walmart's 90 day return guarantee :-)
I still find it strange how risky marrying is in India! It is indeed a BIG leap of faith!! I find it even more strange that overwhelming number of marriages succeed. Does it mean that any guy is right for any girl, or that Indians in general are too good at adapting? Whatever the end result is, it's the initial process that scares me. Parents find a girl that they think might be right for you. All you know about her is - her name, age and educational background. You might have seen the photo but who knows what she might look like in the real life?! Same holds true for girl. If anything I guess it's more scary for the girl, because she would be leaving her support system (her parents) behind after marriage.
So my question is - is this an ideal setting to get married? Or are we compromising more than we should, before taking supposedly the biggest decision of our life? There are a few cases where people fall in love and then marry. Even this is frowned upon by parents in our dear nation. Love marriage usually happens after long courtship and both guy and girl know each other pretty well, so this is better than the first scenario. But still, as per me even love marriage is not an ideal scenario. I believe that you come to know a person ONLY when you live with him/her. Only when you stay with a person you realize how good or bad he is. There are so many small things that you might drive you crazy! Not to go too far, take the case of your snoring roommate!!
This is where I love US :-). The process here is pretty mature. You first meet the girl, if you see a spark you meet her again. If after an year or so it is still going strong then you move in together. If you pass this final phase then you marry! People would point out that still the divorce rate in US is higher than in India. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the process is at fault. It just as simply mean that the people are way too independent here. They believe that it's better to stay apart and be happy than stay together and crib. Afterall you have got just one life! We can argue to death the pros-cons of all this, but if you are meeting the girl for the first time to see if she is right for you all I have to say is "All the best dude and I will ask you after 2 years if you made the right choice!"
Sunday, October 08, 2006
The day I wore a blazer
It all began with a simple mail from Party organizers. The occasion was Infosys completing 25 years. So a grand party was to be organized! The organizers invited all Infoscions through a mail. Somewhere in the mail they mentioned that the dresscode was to be ethnic. Now I dont have any ethnic dress with me, but I did have my blazer. I had bought it 2 years back, but had never worn it even once! I decided that today was the day. And so it started :-)
On the day of the event I was getting ready. I did have second thoughts on whether I should wear the blazer. I was afraid of being the odd man out. It was at this time I got call from Shash. He too had bought a blazer a long time back, but never got to wear it. And he too like me wanted to wear it for the occasion :-). So we finalized that we were finally gonna wear it!! We got ready and even got a few pics for memory sake. You know we dont wear it every day!! In the party I got a lot of positive comments :-).. It felt real good ;-). That was then, and now the blazer is all packed again. Lets see when it gets in oper air again :-)
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