a mARTIAN dIARY

A old forward that somehow (dont know whether to blame fate or the abyssal storage space of gmail) escaped my trashbin that I dug up now since it seems to be very relevant now and to the post I am wrting now

Author Unknown 

It’s been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It’s a rule.

Said in another words:1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies the NASA.

Nowadays, there’s a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

This no-rush attitude doesn’t represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the “now”, present and concrete, versus the “global”, undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans’ essential values, the simplicity of living.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there’s a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, “I can’t, my boyfriend will be here any minute now”. To which Al responds, “A life is lived in an instant”. Then they dance to a tango.

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized world.

Conventional success often kills unconventional genius so sometimes failure is the best thing that can happen to you.

Keep in mind that only the battles are won and lost…the war never gets over.

Just swing your sword with a clear mind every time you go to battle knowing that it might be the night that suits you.

You feel really sad about something….and something else comes up and in the process of doing that you forget what your sad about….then once the other thing is over, you get a moment of peace and as your try to savor that moment, your soul feels heavy since there is still that sadness lingering in you, but your cant excatly remember what your sad about….

and now your sad and frustrated since you cant even remember what your sad about in the first place…..

Hmm…now it actually sounds funny in a sad way…

Why do I have to pay more to call from one network to another?

Most of the tariff’s we see in for mobiles/fixed lines are with different costs to call “with-in” the network, outside network mobiles and then fixed land line.

This is because of a charge called the termination charge. Since we follow the “Calling Party Pays” principle, every time we connect from our operator A to a operator say H, A needs to pay H some part of the charge levied from us for the call, as rights to use a part of H’s network to access phone in H’s network. This is a strictly regulated charge since if it were a free market, very un-ethical strategies can be employed. Even now, the part of the cost that is passed on to the customer has only an upper limit and interesting strategies can be employed

This charge exists in VOIP also, as the termination charge paid to the non-VOIP network that forms that last part of the chain though which the data is routed and this is why VOIP is not as cheap as it seems to be.

Go to a Domino’s pizza place on a Friday evening, especially when you have been working from 8AM on a stupid problem and the traffic till there has been murder AND your hungry enough to eat a HORSE….

Apparently “30 mi*ute’s nahi too fr*e” is applicable only for home deliveries…not for the eat-out….for that it’s more like "300 minutes and THEN let’s see…”

Now…you wouldn’t have seen that coming on a **fine** friday morning now would you?