Saturday, February 25, 2012

Domestic Problem in Indian IT

Some laws which govern behaviour of indian domestic customer for an IT services companies...
1. You can download any software for free from net or get for Rs 400 max from' 'market' so why buy licence or build custom sofwtare paying money to vendor.
2. Vendor and and his employees are your personal slaves now that you have paid some money to him
3. Vendor should spend his own money to make specifications of project and after that you have all rights to decide and discard the project. Everybody does this in sales you know....
4. Vendor personell have transport option like 'engergize' in Star trek serial and can report you anywhere anytime and it costs nothing for vendor
5. Final payment always needs discount as favour while blaming the software not working as expected by him even though he has signed and accepted features.
6.You need to negotiate with vendors saying 'I can develop same project using your graduate relative'
7. Vendor takes responbsibility of maintainng your desktops, O/s , network and webservers depending on type of software you develop.
8 You make your vendor followup for payment atleast thrice before you pay.

there are many more but above ones are very important if you need to be a good IT customer in India...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

New lessons in life

Every moment in life teaches you something. This knowledge is sometimes mistaken wrongly as experience. Experience is something you observe and feel. Lesson is something you use for future reference. Each moment gives you experience as well as teaches you new lesson. I used to strongly recommend hostel experience for each individual. Hostel life makes you independnat, gives you new perspective about life, undertsand diversity of opinions, thought proceses, capabilities. All the while your parents and families shield you from these useful experiences and lessons as well when they cocoon you in good intentions of proetcting you from big bad world.
Just as i feel hostel life is must, so is hospitalization.
Surprised, though there is saying in marathi that you wish such calamity should not befall even on your enemy, this hospitalization experience teaches you a lot.
lessons in brief:
1. Take nothing for granted in life : any silly thing can affect your health. you abuse body and body answers for sure. so hence forth follow best practices as much as possible while sitting, reading, working. esp for those in IT like me.
2. Hospitalization puts near ones in total disarray. more the people around you this chaos and load is divided. Thus value your near ones and dont take them from granted.3. Health insurance is comforting. insurance is must.
4. Some people comeout when they hear abt your plight and help you. these people surprise you . These people can be termed as near ones. while some whom you expect to help you keep distance.
5. you are bombarded with advice from all and sundry. Though sometimes irritable, it shows concern. But when you visit someone in hospital you should take care to not irritate someone. some people become emotional and irrational. so avoid being that.
6. it teaches you how to behave when someone else is hospitalized.
7. Doctors can be confusing and two opinions sometimes contradict. But second opinion is must. Decision is yours....
8. Music is only saviour to kill time. you can read but esp those with my plight, music was only saviour.
9. Sleep is only releif from pain.
10. Food can be entertainment.
You are welcome to add more points.