Indians @ olympics

I am blogging after a long time now coz work has been really hectic. So this blog has been a long time due. I have always wondered why we as a nation perform very poorly in sports. When we can churn out good academicians, CEO's business magnates and actors(!!!odd though) we have not been able to produce world class athletes. It pains me to see a guy like phelps from US saying he is gunning for 8 golds this time whereas we are searching for medals from entire Indian Contigent. Thank heavens Abhinav Bindra won the first individual gold medal for the first time in the history of India at the olympics. Its shameful to say the least when we see the national game Hockey(many of us would have gone for cricket :)) did not even qualify for the olympics.
So here we are back to the same question? Why does India fare so badly at the olympics. First thing that comes to my mind is that we dont have an attitude towards sports which means, the kids are told to consider sports as a pass time activity and the thought that the Education only fetches jobs is drillend into the young kids minds.We need to change that and allow our children to continue with their sports when they reach 12th class or college. Here what happens is that when a student reaches 12th class, all the extra curricular activities comes to a stand still. We need to allow people to carry on with sports or else we will be losing a lot of talented youngsters this way.
Next reason that I feel why india is failing is because of the poor infrastructure given to sportpersons who play games other than cricket. Its a well known fact that the Cricket players in this country are treated as demi gods. Its the other sportspersons who are the neglected ones who suffer from poor accomodation and training facilities. At the most these sportpersons get a job in ONGC or any of the banks or in the Airlines. Many athletes suffer from poor facilities like ther have been cases where the shooters have run out of ammunition and use poor weapons while practicing. I am not sure if Abhinav Bindra would have fetched a Gold medal if not for his wealthy background. He got to train abroad with the support of his wealthy parents. We need to stop showering all the attention to cricket which has been hyped enough and its high time we turn towards other sports. Otherwise the rich haul of medals for India in the Olympics will remain an unfulfilled dream.

Effective working <> longer working hours

Friends,
It has been hectic work for the past 1 month. so have not been able to blog for a month or so.. So here I am back again with a new post. This post is about general what happens @professional environment. Those who are in Professional work environment especially IT, S/w etc would have come across these situations and are better relate to this. It always happens in most of the cases that the s/w companies are located far off from the city and it takes a hell a lot of time to travel to and fro home to office. Some people are lucky enough to have office near by their house. I am not that lucky enough though.. My office is a cool 60 km from the city and travelling takes up 1/6 th of the day. :(..
Since the offices are far off from the city , most of the people would want to finish off work early and head home @ the earliest atleast I prefer that... Thats where the problem creeps in. The general attitude is that the people who stay longer hours in office are supposed to be the most hardworking and those who finish their work and leave early are seen as "Non workers". But what happens is most of the people who stay late just surf the net and do less efective work....So when few lot who want to leave early are asked some questions like "so early?? or "jaldi jaa rahe ho?? or what are you gonna do after going home?? Personally I dont like such questions as what I am doing after leaving office is none of their business. Work is not the only thing in life... There are many other things exciting in life other than work,..Many of my friends have also faced these problems...I believe the only solution to such problem is to get your job done and leave early and even if someone asks anything just tell them that our work is done and tell them to mind their business...


I surely feel that many would have faced such problems . so please feel free to leave your comments behind....




cheers,
Raj.

blogging for the first time

Hi Friends,
I have been wanting to open my blog account but it has taken quite some time to take off but better late than never. Actually I wanted to start on my blogs early last year itself, but thanks to heavy workload (which includes a good number of saturdays) and an wonderful exam called "CAT". It has taken some time for me to come out of the CAT debacle. So here I am opening my blog account. I would like to introduce myself. I am Rajesh. I am employed in 1 of the big IT co's and belong to the so called "species" of Software Engineers. I referred to the breed as species because people react differently when you say you are a software professional. It happens everywhere. Just to cite a few example, s/w professionals are being viewed by people as people who earn hell a lot of money doing nothing but thats not the truth.Will take up these "issues" in the upcoming blogs.Finally its nice to have some virtual space on the net.

Ok so Please feel free to give your valuable comments.

cheers,
Raj