Emotions over Brain?

I am not very sure whether the statement “Emotions over Mind is unhealthy” is debatable or not. But certainly, I had always thought about it and nearly concluded that, “Yes, it is”. When something has become a part of your life and you are confused with that then I think that it that one thing that is worthwhile of your time to settle it at the earliest. Particularly for me “Uncertainty is certainly a big mess”.

Now back to the issue, a bit of background of why it was haunting me for quite a long time. Me and my beautiful wife use to have arguments sometimes. And the funny part is that most of them are unnecessary ones and certainly unhealthy for the family collectively. The funniest part being that we don’t conclude that for very long time! There were many occasions when I felt that it is going to rattle my married life and worst I ever thought that, “This is my last day with her” and of course vice versa from her part.

Our argument (on most of the occasions) normally starts with very silly things and easily gets blown up very fast. I slowly started to realize that situation gets out of control when either one of us is teased until to a point where we get emotional. Can I call that as “emotional breakeven point”? It is the same as definition of tensile strength of plastic materials in physics. When you pull a rubber band apart (Applied Stress) holding both the ends in your hands, it expands (Shear rate) and as soon as it is released, it regains it original length (length that was at its normal state). But when you continue to pull the rubber band you would realize that after a certain point even after you release the tension, it doesn’t get back to its original state. And that point at which this starts to happen is the breakeven point or the elasticity point. Below this point the rubber band acts as a normal rubber with its original characters and after this point it loses its original character and the behavior becomes unpredictable from its original state. We can draw similarities from here to our emotional breakeven point. When someone’s emotions are put up for a toss, he or she would be in her normal behavior until this point, which when crossed then he or she loses their identity and their behaviors become highly unpredictable.

It is then like an uncontrolled chain reaction. It would stop only when all its reactants are used off or something that is necessary to sustain the reaction for a prolonged time is withdrawn. Here it might be compared to stop teasing and remain silent. Let the other party to ease off by themselves, nothing can stop that emotional breakout. Worst is when you try to stop that forcefully. It might be advisable to pour water over a fire, to put it off, when the fire is still in the primitive stage. Once it has become a forest fire then, I don’t think that one can put off that fire with the same amount of water one has. Lets admit it, the fire has gone out of control, let it burn out. Worst, on some conditions the water even acts as an additional fuel to the fire isn’t it?

The mind (or the brain) is the one that should always have a control over the functioning of the body mechanism. When you start to think intelligently, your actions are optimized and you thus save lots of energy for the next set of actions. Very importantly you save troubles! But once emotions take the control over the brain, the intelligence is lost forever and thus you invite troubles.

Kindly don’t ever let your emotions take over the control from your mind.

इंद वस पक २न्द् वन डे मैच

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Real Estate Business witness the down trend in Bangalore !

After growing by leaps and bounds, Indian real estate is witnessing a downfall. Coupled with soaring interest rates on home loans and unaffordable property prices, potential buyers and investors are putting themselves off the market.

Now the developers are following a different strategy in whooing the business. This seems to be more selfish on thier side as it is very clear that they are desperate in getting back the most that they have dumped in this business. One such interesting developer in Bangalore is Orange Properties, the ‘ideas company’ along with the Magnolia Group presents ‘Magnolia Blossom’ on Hosur Road, in the posh locale of Electronic city in Bangalore.

The company is offering fully furnished flats with all the necessities fulfilled. Furnishings include refrigerator, television, microwave oven, kitchen cabinet, four-burner gas stove, dining table, sofa set, artifacts, centre table and a double bed. To add to it, one has the option of customizing all of these to suit one’s taste. For example, one has the option to choose the colour and the make of the refrigerator. A Maruti 800 comes free with your home! The only thing remaining to complete the picture is you and your family! All the luxuries and amenities coming absolutely free with the flat, actually saves you more than Rs 6 lacs. Unbelievable, when all these are at Rs 1999 per sq ft. Also, to show how the new home will look like during delivery, Orange Properties has created a sample flat. Orange Properties will send their own car to your home to pick you up for a free onsite visit. All you have to do is call 4123 4500.

The lessons from the past to the investors, the innocent public, is to HOLD THE HORSE GENTLEMEN and WATCH THE MARKET BEFORE YOU DUMP YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY......

Future Cup - Live Video Streaming

Enjoy the free live streaming at Sopcast. I had been enjoying the live streaming for the last two matches and the Twenty20 matches as well. The quality is very good but there are distractions in between. Think people wont mind it.

Thai Manae Vanakkam - Happy Independence Day AMMA !!

Dear Fellow Indians, I join the billions in wishing a very happy independence day to the greatest Democratic Nation in the globe - INDIA. Vande Mataram.

For the past 6yrs i am staying away from the motherland and i do miss the celebrations. A celebration honouring the freedom fighters, rejoicing the sanity of democracy and praying for a peaceful and prosperous future.

Today morning i was browsing "The Times of India" online and was not surprised to read an article on a survey conducted to test the patriotism of every indian. It goes like this..."Given a choice, the majority of Indians wish to be reborn in their motherland, even though the booming economy is yet to be translated into a better quality of life". It has clearly reflected everyone's inner feeling even though most of us were not a part of the survey.

I would like to share something that i read from "Anju's Blog" today morning....

"Well success has different interpretations. For me India breaking out of the shackles and becoming a free economy is success, that we are the fastest growing economies in the World is success, that we have become an important factor in the IT revolution is success, that some of the richest people are Indians is success, that we have had the most beautiful women in the Miss World and Universe competitions is success, that we are moving towards an unmanned mission to the moon is success. I could keep going on and on and yet there would still be many more things we need to do.

For instance the economic success of a few has created a wide disparity between the middle class and lower class. There is a growing need for clean water, afforestation, newer medicines and vaccines, breakthroughs in Science, good education, upliftment of the poor, and cutting the red tape and bureaucracy which is still prevalent in India. I think these issues almost always take a back seat and we need to keep them in mind."

But for today let us first bask in the glory of the nation that we love dearly-India. India, the cradle of civilization and culture.

Useful links for crazy Indians!!

1. President's Address to the Nation

2. Maa Tujhe Salam - A.R.Rahman's own rendition of the song

4. Video on Indian History

Neeraj first day at school

My favourite NEERAJ started to attend school on 25th June. He joined the PLAYGROUP at BERIS KINTERGARDEN, YEW TEE. I was told by chitra that he was absolutely comfortable on the first day and just got into the classroom and started playing with the toys. Following two days he was on MC !! A bit of fever and hence couldnt attend classes but was back from Thursday onwards.

I was told that he is tallest kid in his class. To me he was always a baby and couldnt believe when his principal says that he is more involved inthe class activities and very excited with his new friends ! Pray and Wish Him that he reaches greatest heights in his life.

The past three weeks in three passage

On 2nd of June Sharad invited us for a dinner at Makaan Mumbai near Raffles Place. It was cool place and has different mumbai varities. In the picture below is Myself, Sharad, Charles and Naveen. Naveen, Sharad and Myself belong to same wing at Yokogawa.


Bought a surfing car for the kids. They were quite happy and they love it so much. In fact i also like to surf on this car! Some moments makes us forget our worries and takes us back in time, to those good old days that we enjoyed in the comfort of our parents.


Last week Murali and his family shifted to Japan. They packed all thier belongings and left to Japan. Murali had a good offer at Japan. They were at our home for a dinner on last sunday. He has two kids Harshini and Rithan. We had a good time at home.

Its My Birthday !!

Birthday ! Used to be a magic word that would make me spin like a whirl wind and is no more ! Things have changed. Not exactly, The way that i see things have changed completely nowadays - This would be more appropriate. As we grow older, our mind gets more matured and starts to evaluate things based on many aspects and guess what, most of the time it dumps them with a conclusion that these are not necessary !!! Not many would like it, even me ! but its a fact that no one could deny.

Things went very smooth today. I got a fantastic greeting card from my mom two days back. She has mentioned that i am the best son that a mother could have ! I offered prayers to my dad and god this morning and seeked thier blessings to me and my family. Went to NUS, to collect some supporting documents from Central Library for my current research work at Yokogawa. My sister VIJI and her kids PRIYANKA , NIVEDHITA called me and wished me good luck. Had a good food at NUS canteen - pepper rice, vada, kesari, Keerai Poriyal, nookal kootu and Carrot thokku !! That was quite a heavy lunch. Then went to my office inthe noon. Had few preparatory works for next week TECH FAIR and USER CONFERENCE at our new office building. MM Lee would be dedicating the new 12storey building on behalf of Yokogawa on 3rd July next week. Things are quite hectic these days.

Tornado in Singapore !

On 25th at Changi Airport, i witnessed for the first time in my life the phenomenon, Tornado, which i thought is common in America's. I was on my way back from Thailand and was approaching the customs check at Changi Airport Terminal 2 when i noticed people gathered in large numbers and gazing outside through the glass window panels. First my thought was that, there is something wrong with one of those planes parked outside. But i didnt find anything abnormal until i saw this...


"Should i take a taxi to home now or wait ?" was the only question that flashed in my mind. I quickly grabbed my camera and took these pictures. Further the fear of something worse to follow these really troubled me a lot.

Initially i thought that these are tornados until i heard in the news that they are not tornados but are Water Spouts. It has appread in the east coast sea. The ministry said these are common in singapore and occurs once or twice in a year. Hopefully things stops here and dosent worsen further !!

As things gain pace .....

Seems like it has become an habit to skip updating the blog since i joined Yokogawa. It neither carries any wrong message about my previous stop, Nanyang Polytechnic nor does it carry any unusual and strange message at my new stop, Yokogawa. Rather i am trying to get along with my new responsibilities and roles by burning extra gas!

To let u know about the team, Business Solution Development (BSD) at Singapore Development Centre of Yokogawa.... My boss Mr.Joseph Lee (Singaporean) is very understanding person. Then we have three executives, Mr.Sharad(Singaporean), Mr.Naveen(Indian) and me. We have a senior engineer Ms.Emileen (from Venezuela) and the rest are Developers (1 from China, 3 from India, 1 from Indonesia and 1 singaporean).

(Myself. Mr.Jasbir Sing, Mr.Kumar, Emelin and others from Yokogawa, Singapore at Saraburi Inn, Saraburi)

Well things are fine so far and had quite few sharing sessions. Last week i was visiting one of our customers, Thai Acrylic Fibre (TFA) located at Saraburi, Thailand. I was there since monday (21st May) until friday the 27th May. I am into developing some diagnostic tools for some unit operations and went there to collect data for my research and development. Myself and Emelin represented SGDC and there were two other gentlemen from SVO team of Yokogawa. We had a nice stay at Saraburi Inn, Saraburi. Mr.Jasbir Singh (GM -E&I, TAF) and Mr.Kumar (Mgr-Textile,TAF) took care of us during our stay. Mr.Singh was very keen in preparing some tools for TAF through us. He is very energetic and readily participated in all the sharing sessions during our stay. Mr.Kumar on the other hand is very reserved but equally willing to support us during our stay. Unfortunately few problems in the plant, during our stay, kept him focused on the resolving issues and hence could'nt mingle with us.

We enjoyed shopping at LOTUS hypermarket, Thai food at the company guest house, Saraburi Restaurant, Hospitality of Thai people. That was a great experience. The garments price were really very cheap. Also got a chance to talk to one of my good old friend, Balaji (Mgr-Aditya Birla Company, Rayon). We spend thursday evening together at the Saraburi Inn. It was a nice chance to talk about personal things apart from normal plant details. The Swarnabhubi Airport, Thailand, is really a classic one. Very good architecture but poor maintenance. I had taken some pictures inside the airport.

As i take a new path in my journey.....

Last friday (27th April) was yet another important day in my professional life. I step on a different path in my journey. Looking back my 11yrs of professional life... i started off as an chemical engineer (exploring the process, production and commissioning areas ) in a petrochemical plant and continued for nearly 9yrs....then went in to teaching profession as a lecturer for nearly 2yrs ... and now stepped into a specialized area, process controls, in process industries. I am happy that all throughout my career i had picked up skills that allowed me to explore the different functionalities without much difficulty. I am grateful to my parents and teachers who had disciplined and moulded me into what i am now.

First day at Yokogawa was pretty relaxing bcos of two reasons, one it was a friday !! and the other that my boss was on a business trip to Japan!!! Had ample of time to get settled. Gifted to have a wonderful buddy, Ms.Emilen. She is a venezualian, a chemical engineer with experience in safety systems. I think that she used to work in Honeywell's R&D centre prior to this.

Today was my second day. My boss and few of my colleagues were back from their trips. Had good time introducing ourselves and briefing about our section's goal/target and my roles and responsibilities. I would be the process expert in the team and helping to understand the customers need, suggest solutions and prepare specifications for the rest of the team to develope the software package for the customer. Our's is basically the Business Solution Development Centre and it is the only other centre other than the one in japan.

Although the workplace environment seem to ease out for me, the travelling is what that is really killing. I hate the PIE traffic jam in the morning and also in the evening. Friday was being the worst ! i started to drive from Yew Tee at 0735hrs and reached office at 0835hrs. The actual distance is 25kms and doesnt take more than 30mins during normal hours. In the evening i gave up after cannot tolerate the slow traffic anymore, took diversion into the CTE and thought i am clever. I cursed myself for doing so later. CTE jam was much more worse. So today i started at 0720hrs in the morning and reached office at 0755hrs!!!! That was fantastic. You start 10mins earlier and you save 35mins!!! But the fact that you would be at office by 30mins early might be too much.... I REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS NEWS IN ONE OF THE CHANNEL THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT FLOATING CARS WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO RESCUE PEOPLE FROM HIGH RAISED BUILDINGS DURING EMERGENCIES !!! Just wondering when such thing would be available for common man!!!

Happy May Day Wishes to everyone

Farewell Note to all my friends at NYP

Today was a day of mixed feelings.... My last day at NYP ! Having gained the momentum from NYP, now i prepared to take the challenge at Yokogawa, this friday. Since the day i tendered my resignation i feel a bit strange response from both the students and the staffs, probably the same but i felt a change. I spent nearly 2hrs in the morning to draft my "Farewell note" to my friends at NYP. Afternoon i had a good lunch session followed by a surprise tea invitation from Mr.David Soo, Mgr-SEG(M). Wow, i was moved by the down to earth attitude of David. He did everything that would make me feel comfortable. It reminded me of yesterday's tea session with Ms.Chung Yin Wah, Mgr-SEG. They both are terriffic. I was associated with both of them for a brief project and they valued my contribution so much that they decided to spent thier valuable hours with me.

Most of the afternoon was spent by a few quick photo session with the rest of the friends. Felicia, Christina, Bee bee and Hui Leng were at their best. I realise that i didnt communicate what my heart wanted, to a few. Mr.Yow Kum Pang was in a rush but had time to say goodbye.

In all, it was a busy day with lots of hearts exchanging good lucks and wishes. I have extracted my farewell note below...
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Dear all,

Today, as I take a different train and continue with my journey (where it ends? i don't know!), I would like to thank everyone of you sincerely for your noble and selfless guidance. The guidance, that has strengthened my character, my knowledge and certainly widened my experience, all through out the two years of journey together. The guidance, that has helped me to accomplish all my tasks at NYP. I have no doubt that NYP has made an important contribution to the development of true professionals in almost all spheres of Singapore's economic drive and I am also sure that this will continue in the years to come. Good luck.

NYP has been a place which taught me quite a lot of things and had sharpened me intellectually. The campus is such a vibrant place that it would even transform a dumb into powerful orator. I'd ever be indebted to this organization and each one of you with whom I interacted in at various times. Although an Hindu, I was encouraged by a verse in the book of Philippians (Chapter 2, verse 3) which said 'Consider others better than yourself.' Every person I interacted with in NYP has strengthened this paradigm and enabled me to appreciate the beauty of God's creation - the brain of man. Truly this is an organization powered by intellect and driven by values. Working with the organization would remain one of the most memorable phases of my life.

OK, I don't want to bother you all anymore. I'm sure you guys have tonnes of other better things to do rather than read this pathetic email. If you are still reading this at this point I thank you for your time and effort. I appreciate it...really. Feel free to leave me a note at shanshu75@hotmail.com or message me at (65)81576147 but kindly ignore comments about my horrendous grammar and spelling!

With no regrets about my contributions but regrets about leaving NYP, a wonderful place that has given me an opportunity to associate with u all, I continue with my journey.....

I will go on.....

S A N K A R. S
Lecturer - Process Instrumentation & Control
School of Chemical & Life Sciences (Chemical)
Nanyang Polytechnic. Singapore - 569830.

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Rows of Celebrations and Farewell Lunches !

During the last weekend and early of this week we had lots of lunch-out and dinner-out sessions. It was a kind of farewell hosted by several groups of my NYP friends.

Taken during NYPs 15 B'day celebrations at Swiss Stamford Convention Hall at Raffles Centre. Sitting from left: Sze Ern, Chian Hwey Miin, Adeline Ler, Alvin Chee and Dennis Lim. Standing from left: Felicia, Quek Chin Joo, Myself, E Cherng Ming and Ng Wai Hong.

Taken during NYPs 15 B'day celebrations at Swiss Stamford Convention Hall at Raffles Centre. Sitting from left: Charlie Tan and his wife, SEG(M) staff, Kallen Chong, Myself and Hui Leng

Felicia, Myself and Christina

Farewell Lunch at Apollo Banana Leaf Restaurant, Serangoon on 10th April. From Left: Hui Leng, Chirstof Luda, Myself, Chua Hui Mei and Christina

Farewell lunch at a Chinese Restaurant at Lower Pierce Reservoir on 11th April. These are my Secondary Pharma Project mates. From Left: Mr.Cheok, Mr.Wong Poh Seng, Kallen, Myself, Eric Siew and Charlie.

The new cub in the Tiger's Den!

On 3rd April'07 yet another member was added to our family ! A Honda Civic ESI 1.6M. The 1991 Honda model still looked in a pretty good condition. Since then i bought the second hand car from a dealer, i had to travel back to him for few minor problems. Otherwise the new tiger is doing well. Haven't started to actually check on the fuel consumption but looks like the cub is bit thirsty. Oops... need to tame it soon !!

Tejas was particularly excited about the new toy. When called back india, he loaded me with hell a lot of questions. Mostly centered around to confirm that he no need to take MRT or BUS or TAXI rides anymore!!! (My God... seems that i need to look for a better paying job soon !!!). Chitra was equally excited. Neeraj seems to have misunderstood or the mother never gave him a clear picture. He thought that it was an actual toy and kept asking me whether i would share the toy with him to play !!!

Hope and Pray that this new member would bring us good luck and happiness.

Farewell Lunch at Riverwalk - Bye Bye Sankar & Sze Ern

Last Friday's lunch happened to be a memorable one for me and Sze Ern. All our friends at NYP took a break from the normal office life and drove us for a farewell lunch at RIVERWALK TANDOORI RESTAURANT, Boat Quay. Had a nice lunch and a stroll by the singapore river. My Special thanks to Mr.Yow Kum Pang (DD, SCL), Mr.Tan Beng San (Mgr-SCL) and Mr.Wong Poh Seng (Mgr-SCL) for honouring us with thier presence. The best part about these guys is that they dont make u feel, at any point of time, that they are your bosses. Never ever, they move around as a person among you and i really salute them for bonding and guiding the team-scl. I have trust in them that they would guide the team to newer heights.

On our way back, Quek took me, sze ern, chian hwey miin and adeline to an italian pastry shop by the river side. We had another round of cakes, pastries and coffee. Thanks Chin Joo and that was so nice of you. I respect Chin Joo for his commitment and dedication towards his work. He keeps his team members on board and shares important management decisions with them.

Thanks to you, all my friends, for your time.

NYP Graduating Students D&D

Last Saturday night we had another party. And we had a good reason to party out until midnight 1pm!! It was a party arranged to congratulate this year's graduating students.

Lots of fun. Enjoyed the way the lecturers served the students table, dressed up like a chef! That was something that nobody would have ever thought of. The body massage to Allen by the students and Adeline was good! He was blindfolded and asked to judge which person is the best massager. Hope he enjoyed it. The dance performance by Youyu was spectacular. We had lots of other activites for the night. Enjoyed the evening with the students.

Wake up India

Hi friends, Long time no see !!! Lots of things happening around here in singapore. But first of all i should vent out my feelings (polite word for "anger") about the performance of the indian team. Billions back in india wrote, sang, danced and what not.... "Lage Raho Chappel Bai!!". Don't know whom to blame exactly. The Players(for a consistent inconsistency in all most all the departments of the game) or the Board of Selection(for probably gambling on players who were not in form and yielding to pressures from higher ups), The coach(for being such a dumb and lame guy), The Media (who blew the trumphets so loud that even those who ignored the game started to watch the game) or we the idiots. We, the public, dont trust our near and dears but we trusted all these cowards. I dont know whether the team would learn something from such a shameful defeat but atleast we had a good lesson learnt from here - Dont support anyone blindly. And the media should be blamed for linking the game with patriotism. Like to strongly condemn them for making such a cheap publicity and make fun of patriotism in order to make cheap money......

Yesterday was watching "Extra Innings" on Sony Max before the South Africa and Srilanka match. I didnt exactly get the name of one of the gentleman from srilanka. He said something that the BCCI to consider carefully, "Why not we send some senior players from the glorious team that brought home the world cup rather than sponsoring someone who has no knowledge in cricket". Sounds logical and seems that this would definetly increase the morale and confidence level in the team.

Nothing is too late or too early. Wake up india (includes members of BCCI and Team-India, The Media and Public). Kuch tho karlo yar....

Would it be another Nightmare for Billions back at home ?

Is it a bad omen? My man.... the results are pretty clear already ! Luck is not on our side. Should i switch off the TV and go to bed? Dravid lost the crucial toss and pushed to bat on a humid pitch, humid ground and humid atmosphere.

Wondering whatz happening to all the boys back in the dressing room! The captain and the coach seems to be still experimenting and would continue to do so... but until when ? Cannot understand what they were doing so far ? more importantly what for they were experimenting? I, like all other back in home, was thinking that all these experiments are inline with the so called "preparation for this mega event"! But seems nothing happening in our favour...probably the cricket management dosent seem to understand when someone said, WHEN YOU ARE NOT CLEAR WHERE U ARE GOING, ANY ROAD WOULD TAKE U THERE...Replacing Harbajan with Kumble, Tendulkar open with Saurav and what not.....don't replace Shewag with Dinesh Karthik!!!!

If given a chance, i would like to blame the dark clouds of UNCERTAINITY that is glooming over indian cricket. If only the team has FAITH in them which the billions is having over the men in blue, they should definetly win this match.Wishing goodluck to the boys ahead of thier match against BERMUDA.

Would AP government's decision to push forward the UGADI festival bring some luck !!!! Strange one need to calculate all these silly things rather focusing on the match !

Lage Raho Chappel Bhai

I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now. We have been complaining about these group matches being predictable, well, I definitely got a surprise today. India, an experienced team, with record breaking players, beaten by....a bunch of kids. None of our players lived up to out expectations, apart from Sehwag. The only reason he did was because I never had any expectations from him to begin with!

Much to my despair, there seemed to have been a little trend in our innings - a wicket, then runs would trickle in, a wicket, then runs would trickle in, a wicket....where were the much needed partnerships? Only Ganguly, with his agonisingly slow 66 and Yuvraj with his cracking innings, managed to loosen the noose around our necks.A strong batting order ended up being a poor and pathetic list of victims for the Bangladeshi youngsters. Mortaza bowled Sehwag and trapped Uthappa. Razzak was like the cat that got the cream when he picked up Sachin in the 15th over.

What did they have? A 17 year old. What did we have? Sachin, a man with 17 years experience. The average age of the Bangladeshi players is equal to the number of centuries some of our team have! So where did it all go wrong?

Happy days at India

Had a wonderful stay at India with my family and relatives. It is always nice to meet people who raised you up and who are your well wishers,ever. The best of all is my Mother, Sister, Brother and Rajesh, one of my close friend. Very popular among our friends circle as "Puli Pee" Rajesh, probably he was wearing a tiger claw pendant. But when i met him this time, i found that it was missing.


That is Tejas & Neeraj with my mother at Tirupattur. She is very strict and straight to face. Probably that is why she suits better with her Headmistress ina Junior College profile! But believe me she really likes to move with kids. Had gone through a very rough patch in her life. Hopefully things would change when she would accompany us, here in singapore, soon - early july 2007!


That is Navalan, my co-brother with Kabilesh, Tejas and Sneha at Bangalore. Very supportive and has got a very good and balanced family.


That is Shanmuga and family together with Senu at Tirupattur. He is my immediate senior at Don Bosco but you wont get it by the way he mingles. Very supportive and encourages new ideas. He is into his private business and equally exploring newer heights.


That is Rajesh and my family at Hosur. Rajesh, Myself and six other friends used to stay in a private hostel during our B.Tech days at Annamalai Univeristy. Very cheerful and easy going guy.


That is Bharathi and Family at Chennai. Bharathi used to work with me back in singapore. A good friend with high ambitions. He is currently running a multimedia training centre at AnnaNagar, supported by his wife.

Back to Home - a short trip to India

Tejas and Neeraj at Changi Terminal, Singapore

We are on a short trip to india from 28th onwards. Had a wonderful journey and are now staying in Bangalore. One would normally expect that Bangalore is a very cozy place and has got an excellent climate to relax. But i was totally shocked after landing at Bangalore. The climate was soo hot that it reminded me of chennai. Pollution and heavy traffic has become a part of life in Bangalore! Indeed of all these, i am happy that i am in india, my mother land!!!

At relatives house in Bangalore, India.

Time to say goodbye and move on

Thatz a wonderful team from School of Chemical & Life Sciences(Chemical) at Nanyang. (From left in the picture) Mr.Wong Poh Seng(Mgr-Pharmaceutical section), Myself, Mr.Yow Kum Pang(DD-SCL/C), Mr.Kevin Michael Roberts(Asst Mgr-Pharmaceutical Section), Ms.Kallen Chong, Mr.Christof Luda, Ms.Diong, Ms.Adeline Ler, Mr.E Cherng Ming and Ms.Lim Sze Ern

Having lectured for nearly 1.5yrs, i thought its time to continue my journey. I have tendered my resignation at Nanyang Polytechnic and would be soon joining Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore as Research Executive Engineer. Will be attached with the R&D section and leading a team to identify areas for improvement interms of process controls in a chemical process plant. Implementing MPC over APC. Sounds more challenging and promising and hence decided to leave Nanyang.

C'mon letz start it over again - but better this time!

What a way to end the year 2006 ! I am referring to the end of Saddam's saga!! OK.. i am not challenging the verdict, yes he deserves it, but isnt't a justice given in a haste! Myself and my wife were greatly moved watching the last video clips of Saddam. Poor guy, he couldnt believe himself in the gallows and before he could realise... he's gone. We could'nt control ourselves watching Saddam being placed in a noose and later his white-shrouded body. It is just another good example of someone accomplishing his own personal vegenance in the name of "war against terrorism". My question is that, "Is this the same way the Americans deliver Justice to everyone in thier home land if found guilty? If this is true, what they have done to Warren Anderson, Union Carbide's CEO at the time of the Bhopal disaster (2nd Dec, 1984, responsible for the death of thousands of innocent indians !"....and a lot more examples to list here. Kindly read the full story of this criminal and how he led his life later after this incident at http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html. It may not be a surprise if the dirty white's withdraw the troops anytime from now, for thier true mission has been accomplished!!

What we could learn from here is that....NO MATTER HOW GREATER POWERS YOU HOLD IN LIFE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE STILL A HUMAN AND NOT THE ALMIGHTY ! DONT EVER EVEN PRETEND TO BE A ONE 'COS YOU PROVE YOU ARE STUPID....

Wish and Pray that this new year, 2007, would bring happiness and prosperity across the globe that would wash away the sad memories of 2006.

Let's try to start over again....its high time to revise your elementary moral science, thirukkural, aathichudi.....PLEASE