I have been spending somewhat extra time with a colleague these days, talking about almost everything from poems to cheeses. She asked me if am on LinkedIn and added me. I added her back using my phone thinking wow, what an impressive profile. Didn't google her for a while, new for me, but when I did I found that each member of her family has a Wiki page for themselves. Hmmm..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Rossant

Missing me!

The sanguine of gulmohar and the zest of jacranda.. spell out charm
instead of picking the fallen ones ..I am missing me....
A desire of sliver of time.. With you near to me...
Now when you are even closer..Alas, I am missing me...

New morning

And today I'd get rid of doubt

     The day has arrived, to give me a breather!

            Leaving the last traces of confusion,

                    A new morning in this old summer!

A chant of mercy, a rhyme of kindness

        Came to me so subtly, a soft breeze of fresh air!

               Nailing a belief in me, instilling an impression,

                   A new morning in this old summer!

Apart from the mob, dire or affable

         A sense of indifference, a feel of venture!

                  Turning me away from the convention,

                       A new morning in this old summer.....

Office, people in office and rest of the world!

Being a software engineer means spending long working hours in office. Though there are options like work from home, but a person like me would always prefer to work in office and sit (or do one of the numerous things) at home!

There is so much flowing across in the organizations that I have worked for, that I would not have known even a tiny fraction of it. And thus get caught by the sheer complexity. Thus ignoring other intangible things like knowledge, feelings and try to run away from it. I prefer to be with people whom I am comfortable with. I'll try to take a stand this year and work a bit on my soft skills. I don't wish to shun from people who think differently. The first of all scripts or programs addresses entire World, saying "Hello", but my universe is tremendously restricted.

Your company defines you, yeah it does. But I have decided to make different kinds of friends (haven't decided the category or name of the circle as in G+ ) this year not only the people, I feel "awesome" or are in accordance with my views. I'll edit this weblog next year Jan to see if I succeed. 

Zomato's feedback!

Ah! Now is the feedback time.  

@Zomato: Gimme my pair of mugs, if not ipad. (Lemme see if I’ll get that promised “assured gift!”)
3 things I like are :

1.      Amazing Marketing

Zomato has this amazing marketing team. Trust me! You’ll find some creative ideas floating here and there and some repartee as well. Look at the company’s name, if in doubt. Isn’t it rhyming with this luscious tomato!

It’s great to get the feedback of end-user before doing a major re-vamp.

Screen-shot time:

   










2. Metros and other tier-1 cities captured

Zomato has this great presence and captures information regularly and update its database every 3 months (as mentioned by its official blog)

            Further classification is based for specific location within the city as well as alphabetical order! Look for yourself:

3.      Highly technophile

Everyone uses Facebook, Twitter to promote themselves; but definitely Zomato is doing it better. It’s having its own app in Chrome store as well for all major smart phone platforms and boasts of  free “The” Zomato API. Catches attention easily and holds it, in this ADD (for the benefit of the reader, it’s Attention Deficit Disorder) world! Kudos to the creative team @ Zomato!

Now it’s the time for the 3 points where improvement is required!

1.      Guess googly by google analytics

The page was certainly not in Malay!! It happened not once but repeatedly. 
And then there are some other technical glitches as well. So am expecting post upgrade this won’t be the case.

2.      Spread the wings to cover more cities
Zomato would be of great help if spread to further cities. Now am from Baroda, would be delighted to see Zomato creating a page for Vadodara! Am pretty sure this would be in pipeline and Zomato’s team would not want this as a feedback, but hey am pitching for Baroda, dint you notice J

                               Missing Baroda here!

3.      Cocktail section is an underachiever

Though cocktail recipes are not required here but if you're doing it, do it nicely. Should say it can accommodate a lot more, suffering from malnutrition, definitely. 

Only 6 cocktails are listed, leaving behind some of the trendiest. No wonder, no tweets. At least some other resources could have been added.

Wrongs of assumptions, and presumptions

Wrongs of assumptions and presumptions can not be undone. So when should we be doing profiling/ classification when not?
Give me pointers.

To be an MBA or not to be an MBA?!

Now I can say this is one of the most controversial and scandalous of all questions! And am a really poor mortal getting confused about the same. (Why do you think the blog is titled this way, huh)
MBA is lucrative but is it worth the "fees" is the question that haunts my mind forever.
I really don't have that kind of money and again am a vegetable with no spine to beg or to steal! Only borrow remains the option, and boy-oh-boy am telling you this is not-so-feasible an option!Just now was checking out http://bschool.nus.edu/TheNUSMBA/ProspectiveStudents/TheNUSMBA/Admission/FinancingyourMBA/FinancialAid/tabid/2280/default.aspx
Did you see that?! "The applicant must be a Singaporean or Singapore PR."
Hurts, isn't it.
So am waiting for that "am feeling lucky" kinda feeling and only then will delve into "doing" MBA. Till the time software engineering is my vocation.