Should I live for myself or for the society???


After coming from Ooty I’ve posted snaps of me drinking & dancing with friends. I got request from my well wishers to remove them. The reason they gave me is that I’m a CEO & people will not respect if I engage on such things. Thought of posting my views on going public on my acts.

  • First I don’t want to Justify the act of Drinking.
  • Also I’m not endorsing something.
  • I drink occasionally & I want to enjoy the occasion.
  • My personal & professional lives are apart and I don’t want to hide something for the sake of another.
  • I feel by hiding / filtering my personal experience for the sake of Professional respect is again like Cheating people.
  • I want my Brand Identity & Brand Image to be the same.
  • I’m convinced in what I’m doing because; My Virtual Mentors like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson & Larry Ellison have all lived a life which were public & still they were respected.

So, according to me I must be respected Professionally for the work I do & not by seeing my personal life. I know it is a matter of debate, but i believe in what I’m doing and I feel proud to be a open person.

Excited with Challenges


It is a Challenge everywhere & it is so much fun having a Challenge. Last couple of week it has been issues of;

  • Delivery Delays
  • Shrinking Profits
  • Server Issues
  • Productivity Leaks
  • Escalating Costs

And can add more to the list. After reviewing the situation the findings are wonderful and after cracking the problem and working on the solution is always the best thing to do. Now I’ve a aggressive plans & programs to improve our performance on all aspects and move up the value chain quickly and effectively.

Nights are Boring


I’ve been a night bird for more than 13 years now. This practice has changed my metabolism & I’m unable to change this cycle. If i sleep by 9 or 10 PM I wake up at 2 AM or I goto bed only by 4 or 5 AM.

But that is not the problem. Problem is my style of working. I use to call or chat with friends while working & by this way I see to it that the work load doesn’t take a toll on my performance.

But these day nights are a nightmare to me. When I want to take a brea don’t k I have anyone to talk with or to chat. Spending those 4 – 5 hours at night looks like crossing a decade in life.

For long i’ve been suffering from this lonely-mania at nights and still haven’t found a solution. The best possible solution will be to develop a team at night and spend time with them.

Ooty Experience


I’ve travelled to many places and to Ooty for couple of times. Ooty was the first place i’ve travelled alone & that too with my friends and that memory still lives fresh in my mind. Like many memorable trips this one also has special moments and experience;
  • For the first time we cooked ourselves. Roasted Chicken, Mochai & Carrot Sambar & Steamed rice were some of the special items.
  • After a long time I travelled in a Bike.
  • Went to Badaga hamlets & experienced their life style.
  • Sipped cold coffee at Barista & same Coffee sipped in Chennai tastes totally different.
  • Went into woods which were totally deserted and stayed there till dawn.
  • For the first time enjoyed drinking Hot Tea.
  • Walked on the streets of Charing Cross & enjoyed eating hot bondas, chilli bujji’s & chilled seeing hot babes. Memories took me a decade back where I use to hand around Brigade Road.
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Experience with Nature


Really enjoying posting this blog from my BlackBerry wordpress tool. What can I be with the power of technology coupled with lust green farms, mist ridden mountains.

The experience I’m having today is once in a life time opportunity. After waking up by afternoon we thought why shouldn’t we cook our self by picking Vegetables in the farm.

We picked Carrot, Motchai & we got country egg. With all that we cocked a delicious lunch & just finished my lunch & came to do this nature blogging before packing the bags.

Here are some snaps taken from my mobile;

Drove to Ooty


After reaching Coimbatore went to my uncles house to got ready and proceeded to Ndot.

After finishing some official work with Ndot CEO Mr. Nanda it was time to Drive to Ooty.

Here is the synopsis of the trip;

– Nanda, Subbu (host, chef & guide), Vignesh & me are the famous four folks for the trip.
– I had to do some shopping & we broke the group into two & decided to meet at Mettupalayam. – Nanda & me went to R.S.Puram & I brought a wind cheater & a cap from Reebok. Then we got a set of Sunglass & went to Seasons to cool our body with some fresh Juice & eyes with some beauties at seasons.
– Then we started to drive to Mettupalayam, but we met other folks even before Mettupalayam.
– From Mettupalayam we took Kothagiri road instead of Connur road.
– Then we came to a guest house 17 KM away from ooty. No house near by & it is surrounded by Vegetable fields.
– It is a serviced guest house with 3 bed room, a attached loo & bathroom, a kitchen, a hall with TV. All this for just Rs.1000/- per day.

I’ve no words to explain the experience. Have shot a lot of snaps which I’ll publish on Monday. For now enjoy the snaps taken from my blackberry.

Struggled to reach Coimbatore


Yesterday was a hectic & frustrating day;

– Slept long & reached to board meeting by 12.30
– Then had a nice board meeting.
– Then thought of video blogging & got free installation & integration of VBlog from Contus Support.
– Thought of publishing my first video blog but was unable do it in hurry.
– Rains spoiled the road & made it unwalkable.
– Caught a rick to board the bus.
– From there the nightmare started.
– The bus took a long route to Coimbatore.
– The route was full of pits and we were thrown up & down. Until we reached Erode we had a bumpy ride & was unable to sleep.

Though I enjoy such unexpected experiences. I was in a bad mood to enjoy it this time. But finally reached Coimbatore & started planning to chill out the bad mood.

Sleep delayed the day


It was a drowsy start for the day. Had slept early to wake-up early for the Board Meeting. As usual got-up mid night and was in no mood to work and my brain was full time thinking about the ways to improve the productivity in the organization and ways to improve the sales.

By the time it was early in the morning and I thought i need a short nap to stay fresh for the meeting. But I slept long that I got up only by 11:15 AM & the meeting was by 11 AM… Other two directors made up on time and I had to call them and I made it to meeting by 12:30 noon with a awkward smile. My other directors were lenient enough to forgive me.

Then we started the meeting and we had effective meetings and many decisions were taken. Now it is time to work on the decisions and implement them quickly.

After the meeting it was time to call everyone who kept calling me form the morning.  After that decided to go for a Video Blog which i was planning to do it for long time. I pinged my fellow CEO at Contus Support Interactive & he was generous enough to install the plugin immediately. For now i don’t have time to test it. Probably I might do it from Ndot.in tomorrow.

Now it is time to get back home, pack my bags and proceed to board my bus as there is only 2 hours left from now.

Wish me Happy Journey!!!!!

Feeling Guilty & Confused….


Every human has a lot of dreams when it comes to their professional & personal life. Always we there is a problem in balancing between personal & professional life balance. As a big dreamer I’ve strongly decided to run behind my dream. Last 10 years I’ve not spent much time with my parents & sister. Though I feel guilty at times I’ve not felt that bad as I’ve spent almost 2 decades with them.

But new entering a new phase in my life where I’ve to share my life with a better half. It has been 2 weeks since I’ve attended calls or called back the special person. Also not sure if I can for next month or so.

For the first time I’m feeling guilty. When I shared this with my closed ones I was asked to balance my personal life. But people who are professionally connected to me know the responsibility I carry and the difficulty I’ve in balancing time.

I’m trying to meet very successful people who have made it big from Rags and want to know if they are really successful in balancing personal & professional life. How did they balance in their early stage when they were in their pursuit of becoming successful.

SaLt Review


Watched SALT last weekend and enjoyed the movie a lot. Though I’m not a Fan of Angelina Jolie I went ahead and watched the movie because of the the Buzz created by the Trailers & I loved the trailers and I was waiting for long for the release of the movie.

A Small Synopsis

Russian Spy Agency trains a bunch of Kids (between the age of 10 – 12) & immigrate them to US and make them join different American security Agencies. One of the SPY is Evelyn SALT(Angelina Jolie) & her boss is also a Russian Agent which is revealed only in the climax.

SALT completes her accomplished task and on going back she reaches a place where she finds all her childhood friends who were trained along with her. There she finds her husband being killed. She retaliates by killing everyone there.

Then she is taken to Kill the American President & when she nears to the President her American Agency Boss kills everyone & that is when he explains how he pushed for SALT to kill the president & other Russian Agents so that he can get a good name.

Finally Salt Kills her boss & gets arrested. While air-lifting her she explains things to FBI agent and he releases her hand cuffs & allows her to jump from the helicopter asking her to clean other agents too. Then we see SALT running through the woods & there ends the movie.

Movie has a good screenplay with lots of suspense & it is action packed. I’d give a thumbs up for the movie.