No-Nonsense Reflections on Life, Leadership, and the World at Large. From global politics to personal growth, management insights—expect candid thoughts and unfiltered takes. Political correctness? Still not on the menu. Dive in for real talk with depth, Wit, and a sharp perspective on what truly matters." 555 Posts in 20 years, Boy Didn't time just fly!!! Mama-Mia!!!
#251 Housekeeping:- 1) I am back in Twitter after 100 days absence, I was amazed to see in the 100 days I was away Twitter has added many features which filters info and keeps you away from trolls. While this is 7 years late, it is better late than never.
2) Radhu did a super job of setting things for the Tamil new year, Friday. She puts her mind, it is marvel!
It was amazing to hear the experience of 117 year old lady! (She is same age as my late grandfather) World was very different. She says she used to see 1 car in entire district back then and she is puzzled by the traffic jams at Nairobi!
Move Over Russian Roulette the art of taking one life!! Extreme selfie norms to take risk and be lose it is the norm in Russia!!
Angela Nikolau, the Russian Daredevil Girl Who Climbs Most Dangerous Places to Take a Selfie
I am a huge Robert De Niro watcher, but my movie watching has taken a back seat with fewer than movie a year at most over the last dozen years( I think, 6 in 17 perhaps!). However, I am booking my time to watch the "WIZARD OF LIES" RDN, playing the role of Bernie Madoff! Got to watch how a man can manipulate 50BN$....??
I am leaving with Image that came in whatsapp, Freebees are making lazy as well as becoming expectations..... Sad part is this getting across the country!
Take it easy, take care, Stay Safe God bless!!! Karthik.
Housekeeping:- 1) CamScan a cool scanner app, Son showed me how to work that!! 2) Smart device cooler good phone app to reset overused background apps and cool phone.
As Indicated, this is my 250th BLOG POST. I started blogging NOV 2005 and was practically done with for good 4 years. I thought with Face book, Twitter peaking, that blog posts would vanish! How wrong I was? With lot of abuse, Hijacking by Political goons and their monkey followers, many sane people feel Blog posts are the way to go and is a right way to express without abusive trolls.
So in this post, I look back at my 249 posts and choose the top 10. I am sure that I put the time, effort,dig deep to post each one of them so all posts are equally favorite. But these 10, I can say are first amongst Equals.
Exit Monsanto, Enter Honeywell, Aug 2006. Great 12 year International HSE corporate career & Global exposure. Pleasure to work with such team,colleagues.I can not think of a single instance, where my colleagues, team or my boss let down each other or failed on deliverable.....
All my overseas trips were special in the 20 years,this one extra special hitting 190Km speed on drive between Frankfurt to Hamburg 2006.
My first flight,was at age of 30,(Long after marriage) and overseas visit at 32!hahha!Radhu managed her visits, a lot lot early at 14. Her US scholarship visit a key highlight and changed her outlook of life......
Aug 2007, Baby India at 60, my 44 thoughts, ( I was 44 then), for me 1971 war greatest memory to cherish and carry.Would I even care to post adding 10 more, come Aug 2017, No chance!! Country has gone to dogs, especially in the last 3 years,beyond redemption!!
I rightly predicted OBAMA would land as POTUS , Jan 2008! His presidency mediocre, but Trump circus makes you feel he did a super job!
Spousal Jealousy; jealous of working spouse!! interesting!! 2009! I am aghast at people carrying relationship beyond workplace!! How the hell they do that, Man u got to be kidding ???
2010, Global Economic Crisis, my FURLOUGH days!! Man I tell you! That gave me the confidence to go my own! Its been tough sail, but OK!
My 100th Post, Knowing my nature of not sticking to things other than Indian Wife, 50,100,150, 200, now 250!! some achivement!!! I plan and promise to post #500 before 2020!!
I leave you with the picture that captivated me!! hahah!!! So true!! ( I have posted this in BLOG can't seem to find the link in 249!!)
And the Video, that I almost died laughing even after 12 years!!! Those days 2005 when this floated, no BLOG to link videos!! Now I can!!! hahahahhahahahhahahahhah!!!!HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH! BOY!!! #Deepavali_Petronas_Tamil !!!!
Housekeeping:- 1) Lalitha has updated her professional LINKEDIN profile to hit steam on her Math coaching. Please feel free to invite her to connect your professional network if you are a fellow teacher, Coach,parent looking for coaching etc. 2) My Next post would be 250th BLOG POST commissioned in NOV 2005,it has been dozen years. I plan to mark the magical number with the top pick of post I shared. I might work this out soon. World has even changed a lot in these dozen years, the 45 I remember just mind boggling. 3) My Professional HSE BLOG is taking great shape.It gives me good to chance to think and apply practical aspects of safety. Nearing 2000 Hits! So a shout out here for propagation. Looks like the only issue which the solution seem to have been arrived in spite of inept, inefficient, incompetent Modi government has found road block. I am not surprised that RAM MANDIR case is gone on go slow mode as it appears now. This was one of a very few hope/ reason I voted MODI government but knowing BJP buggers,I should have known better!! Their lobbying to influence thinking is next to nothing!! As Lalitha has a favourite saying" மேல் மாடி காலி" No Indian news media covered this!! Now the state government in UP more focused on baning mutton, chicken and who elopes with whom, u can forget development there too!!
Hahhahah! COOL MEME !!! The lovers on bike in YOGI UP was super!!!
It was interesting to see Richness of Trump Cabinet? Amazing to see a Man who ran campaign on draining the Washington swamp, has selected people whose net worth would beat top 50 poor countries!? I wonder how poor/Average /middle class Americans who voted Trump would feel?
Stunning to hear a 98 year old gentleman speaking to BBC about his experience of being the public prosecutor at Nuremberg trials that hunted NAZI Killers!! I cant even comprehend how 22 Einsatzgruppen killing 1 Million people. What was also interesting was he played major part in rescue efforts in WW II and later took to law to hunt the criminals.
Ben Ferencz, Left!
It was intriguing to say the least to read this article that Dogs can sniff Breast Cancer! Correlations going ballistic??
With just six months of training, a pair of German Shepherds became 100-percent accurate in their new role as breast cancer spotters, the Kdog team said. The technique is simple, non-invasive and cheap, and may revolutionise cancer detection
I leave you with the top most dangerous cities! Thankfully ASIA at low scale! Like Sanjayaa we are safe. Also count our lucky star,that, 7 years of Middle east Arab Spring uprising, with all hell holes created, we are in far far safer better place! Thank Almighty! But challenge is would this sustain,may be ok in our life time!! With Hindu fundamentalism on the rise, I am not sure my grandson who would be born, say 2022, wd feel so?? (I am strong believer that if a party like BJP goons got us freedom in 1947,the buggers would have terrozied us (like IS, AQ do now) to shove food through our anus and defecate thro mouth; -bastards) Remember the secular open outlook Afghan,Iraq 45 years back that even I remember???
Ok, Take it easy, take care, stay safe, God bless! Karthik 2/4/17. 0900 Hrs.
Housekeeping:- 1) I have spruced up the blog page with new theme. U can also now subscribe to my blog in Email (See widget by the side). If you subscribe, I would send out great collection of books,articles,I have treasured over last 20 years,say once in 3 months, so that you don't feel I spam you!! This morning I had sent out such to my Safety BLOG subscribers!. 2) People wonder, why I use this color of text in my posts, (I also use this for all my default email communication). While I keep beard, modelling my boss 86-88, this font is picked up from my another Indian boss to whom I was administratively reporting. I felt this font/colour gives the impact!! So stuck to it over the last 15+++ years or so!! OK, Man Technology going awesome, 4 year boy calls emergency saves mom's life. I have also read Amazon Echo being used for murder investigation. It was interesting to read that SIRI voice was a person
Karen, Jon, Susan (R) is voice many hears!!
who failed singing audition and was told to read documents for hours!!
Here is Susan, speaking about her SIRI experience,
It has been 57, years since the first woman leader took office!! Ever since it has been a uphill struggle for them. I was listening to BOSS FILES last night and it was mentioned that value women create at work is equal to GDP of CHINA!! Amazing stat that!! I also wonder is woman gender equality going anywhere??? I wonder where India stands??
Can't believe can you?? so much impact! I was glad I read the book first back in 1979, before watching the movie in my teens to appreciate the movie! Mario Puzo, what an author to dish out such a class and Marlon Brando /Al Pacino/Robert Dual fit superb, to create flesh to the character!!
My best and ever lasting scene is from PART-II Robert De Nero- RENT Scene!! below, ahahahahhahhahahh! வெளு !!!! Having Italian American colleagues, the story they tell of real events just stuns you!!! Puzo didn't write FICTION!!!
hahahah!! Many Indian cricket followers would have heard CHINAMAN first time yesterday!! Such a shallow following, I am seeing 10s of articles on what/ who / How Chinaman type of Bowling over the hoopla some kid in town!!(கேன பயலுவ) I go back 45 Years!
Here is the famous Delivery from Sir Gary!
Incidentally,25 years back today, Pakistan won the world cup! what a lucky jail escape at Adelaide and then won !! for me the world cup was this delivery memorable
Like Lee CHILD in 2002,
where I stumbled on Reacher, I found another great author in TOM WOOD!! English authors' fiction is pure Class! Tom's works around an Assassin called Victor,I am in to #1 halfway I find it very intriguing and a page turner with so many finer details of military intelligence! I am told so far 8 books are out or so!! Take care, stay safe, god bless! Subscribe to my blog. Karthik. 26/3/17.
Housekeeping:- Lalitha is getting calls from friends and relatives on my lull in Face book and Twitter!! hahahah!!! I am off 100 days. Back in April in Twitter and June in FB! I post my blog link and would respond to any professional posts (Safety etc in Face book) Glad to know people bother about me!!Makes feel good!! Thanks.
It is beyond shock to read that a Marati MP has trashed the Air India duty officer at Delhi airport!! No surprise in a larger sense! This comes at the same time as Tobias Ellwood,British MP, who is a war veteran, tried to save the life of Police constable stabbed by the terrorist! No wonder Churchill said, Indians cant govern and crooks of first order!! What a shame, disgrace to have such folks governing us!! God save this country! I am glad that the Airlines have taken a tough stand!!! (Bloody hell, Ted Kennedy was on no fly list!! so this idiot MP should be grounded for life) I hope they stick it it and don't yield!
Hotel Rwanda was a grim tragedy!!I am now glad a new chapter is worked with Cricket taking up the healing and reconciliation in this tribal strife torn country. Paul Kagame is a leader who has better plans for the country. I hope it works out......
hahahha! WMD = NO not Weapons of mass destruction!! Give a listen Awesome! Some women don't get recognised!! intriguing!! (WMD widespread, mysterious and destructive algorithms)
I am astonished at the pessimistic outlook of Indian think tank over future of Europe! I agree BREXIT was jerk out of blue! But I am sure, the course correction has begun with expected course in Holland, (No one knew who was Dutch PM- Mark Rutte is until Geert Wilders came to limelight) I am very positive with all scandals breaking out over Russian meddling in US elections. France and Germany would use common sense and keep out the LePens and Deutsch, Right wing AfD away. I am positive Merkel would get 4th term like her mentor, Helmut Kohl did. Take care, stay safe, god bless Karthik 26/3/17 1550 Hrs.
Just heard the passing away of Martin McGuinness! His life a picture of violent beginning from IRA and embraced peace through First Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland!What a swift end,weeks back he was diagnosed a rare condition of Cancer of Vital Organs and game over Phew!!!!!
The man who was accused of blood in hand for the Brighton bombing,1984,(33 years,Man???)which almost knocked Maggie and the assassination of Lord Mountbatten 1979, few years earlier, embraced Peace and worked Good Friday Peace agreement with Tony Blair few decades later!! How much life changes??? hmmmmm!!!
Queen with Martin McGuinness, IRA was responsible for murdering her Cousin Lord Mountbatten!
His death has sparked mixed reactions as usual in Britain..... Love Britts to speak so frank!! I recollect celebrations when Maggie died!!Can't blame people for wearing heart at sleeve?? Can you????
One of those days where I woke up at 3am!! (I was Hungry perhaps!!) Wonder why!! So all things done, so time to post the blog Monday.. I stumbled on PERISCOPE a good Mobile tool to post live events. I need to have practised situations and go live in coming weeks.
I recommend my Twitter follower @karikadaiboyblog post for sports updates besides generic coverage like I do !! Guy does super dissection of events! This is power of SM! I interact with him! But no idea who he is what he does! (except he is in Madras in his 30s I assume, and hates Garlic as much I love love like Tons I can have in 1 sitting hahaahh)
During morning walk, I was listening to Stanford Lecture on +ve Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine and found very interesting on Saboteurs that hide within us for success. So I took my profile and no surprise at least at things that influence me!!! ahhahah! No wonder I can't put GOOJA Jaalraa!!!! Say F**K off easily like breathing!!! ahhahhhahh!!!!
Freaknomics discussions cover on headwinds tailwinds!! People always crib headwinds to failures, do they credit success to tailwinds? Also they are always ungrateful & unhappy?? I agree!! I consider luck plays a huge part as Tailwind and must be given credit. I was indicating the same to a client Saturday over lunch. My success 80% great leaders /organisations to nurture me,mold me to trajectory,18% my Prespiration, 2% luck to be at the right place at right time!! Gratitude takes you a lot further!!! May you appreciate the wind when it’s at your back – and when it’s not, deal with it a little less resentfully.”
I was astounded last night when I heard this! Wailing woman of Ireland! Similar to our ladies at TN!! ஒப்பாரி Amazing cultures are so similar so far far away!!!
And funny side to OPPARI!!!
I close with the Redmond Resurgence and finding path! Microsoft going ahead with open culture innovation, moving from Windows & Office to Cloud!! Would they go all the way! I would think so!! I always have soft corner for them ever since my visit to their facility in 2001 as well as Gate's gesture to give away wealth to charities and work on Malaria, drinking water etc!!! It is another matter, I post this blog from my MAC!! hahahahh!! Ok, Take care, stay safe, God bless!
I got an email link from an Indian American friend on Modi's performance!! It got me worked up!! hahahh! I share my thoughts. "Modi can do what he want!! As I wrote in my FB POST below, South India will not even allow 10% seats! Tamil Nadu and Kerala BJP cant even win deposit in 1 of 234 in TN and 130 in Kerala next 50 years let along win a seat! South more intelligent to "me my own" rather than allowing cultural invasion which is what they see in BJP of North and core Hindu values which well never sell. As famous national poet Subramanya Bharati wrote in 1900s, "There may be 1000 castes but who are outsiders to interfere!! Modi & cronies, would always be seen an outsiders here"
Modi a very good CM no doubt given limitation of Gujarat but as PM long long long way to go!! As Saying goes, "if the road to Delhi wont go through Madras, such journey would never succeed". Sad reality again! As we personally joke in family circles, if BJP and gang had got freedom for us in 1947,first thing they would have imbibed to us is dont eat through mouth (use other hole) and schools would have taught us drink urine! Chant god name 108 times when body temperature is 104F (Angels and Demons) !!! Such a nomadic thinking clan! Corrupt, they no less!!! What better example to see in our Karnatka, 3 Cheif Minister in 5 years!! hmmmmmm! I can go on and on! I would bet anything even with Majority in both houses, this government would go nowhere on reforms!! (Governance is a Trait)!!!
Modi may win elections again and again! But he can never win people hearts to be a national leader cherished by people like Mrs Gandhi who was the "Only Male in cabinet". (Only PM ever in Indian history to win a war) For that to happen, he need to let go fundamental elements, work a cabinet that is inclusive (Trump doing a great job) unfortunately his ego and stubborness and an absence of woman to guide him (What a curse, all 3 BJP PMs, all bachellor Bastards as I say!!) wont happen. As I type, I see a Hindu MONK made CM??? Can you Imagine???? hmmmmmm!!! Another sad aspect is the clapping going gagaa on these ass hole leaders would be done by those who never lived in India and faces day to day harassment, corruption, traffic like the Wharton & other by so so called Elites who wont know ground reality here! (Lalitha and I heard choicest abuse on MODI yesterday by an Auto Driver, Kannada Guy, who took us evening shopping!! he says If Modi is corrupt crony ok the diary entries not valid, but not Siddaramaiah name in diary makes him corrupt !! hahahhah!!!!
hahhahah! F**K Modi, Fu** politician Bastrodic Ass holes, Thats how I call all these Vermins!!! move on!!
I have always had a Soft Corner for Non Western Cardinals who became Pope. Karol Jozef Wjotylafrom Krakow, (who our stupid Hindu Indians would blame as father of conversion of Hindus!!How stupid logic, u convert for your wants, needs and when denied self respect and dignity which Hindu Saffron Goonics never understood and blame an outsider!!) and Jorge Mario BergoglioNo wonder, the Italian / western cronies are fighting tooth and nail to the liberal order that Pope Francis is trying to bring in! Add the Notorious Steve Banon in to it!! haah!! Disaster on hand!! How many Saffron Scoundrels of saints would visit a high tech exhibiting to work the SM, tech update to religious aspects!! that triggered this peice!
It is sad state of affairs for our Indian Lorry Drivers who go length and breadth of this vast country and in these days of ever increasing costs and inflation, they have no other option but to cook their own food, live in shanty places in transit and paid meagre wages. I was thinking these must be condition only of Indian /Subcontinent folks, until I came across that most of Romanian/Eastern European drivers, who live in a similar harsh condition and go through a kind of hell!! What a sad way things are going downhill!
Remember my Post on Prof Kelly last week !! ahhahahhaha!!!! Going next step!! MARION FOR PRESIDENT!! heheheh!!! As a man who has strong opinion on Female leaders do a super job than dumb male idiots!! (Especially lousy bachelor bastards) ! why NOT???
Little star: Marion (centre) with her father Robert Kelly, mother Jung-a Kim and brother James
I had a busy day today on business travel so would post detailed blog Sunday! Last month, I purchased my medicines from Ganesh Medicals, they inadvertently billed me an excess amount of Rs. 600. It was never my habit to check bills /tally; just pay out! (Lalitha was away from Bangalore that time) She found that the excess amount when she checked the bill couple of days back. Today when we reached out during Shopping visit,we explained the situation. Raja,the owner of shop who just walked in, just didn't blink an eye and reimbursed the amount! Ofcourse,we have been buying medicines from the shop since 2009 every month,when we moved from Diamond District. It was not the amount that mattered, but his instant decision to trust our word made us feel so good!!!
Good folks do exist, good to see such act.
Ganesh Medicals! I got my monthly List of Medicines today (4/4/17) Update so took a picture!!
Karthik. PS: We didnt want the cash back,so picked Cadbury Silk!! hahah! Radhu loves it!!!
Tuesday night during walk, my mobile phone slipped from my hand and crashed on to concrete floor resulting in screen getting pulped and phone froze. So for 24 hours there was no phone and morning walk gave me plenty to ponder on test cricket. (Phone set right around 6pm Wed). 1) MY all time favourite XI. My selection considers players who stood and delivered and never failed when mattered unlike big names who are all gas !! 1) Roy Fredricks. 2) Dennis Amiss 3) Zaheer Abbas 4) Martin Crowe. 5) David Gower 6) Clive Lloyd (Captain) 7) Sir Ian Botham 8) Alan Knott (WK) 9) Joel Garner 10) Geoff Dymock 11) Erapalli Prasanna.
The place I stood and listened all 5 hrs at home BBC BUSH Baron Transistor 1984,!!
Hhahahh! Dad would scream!! Do you have no other work???? hahahahh! ( I was in final year Masters!!) Who cared study!? It would take care of itself! those were the days! Attend Professor classes, Drag on cigarettes night before exam all will be recollected and etched in brain to download on paper!! far different life then!!!! Take care, god bless! Good day Karthik 16/3/17 0910 Hrs.
140 years ago first test match played today at MCG!!! 2253 Tests later, Test Cricket health, is it good??? I wonder???
Except #ASHES, many rivalries have become stale or meaningless!! Tests going in to 5th day is now a rare event...
My first active test series followed was 1971 Tony Lewis tour of India. India won 2-1!! Spin magic, Tony Grieg cradling Vishy at Bombay!!
100 years on 1877, centenary test 1977 at MCG cracker, Rick McCosker Broken jaw Innings, Derek Randall played almost match winning 174!!! Same margin of loss 45 runs 100 years later!!
Test Cricket in my time not complete without mentioning Clive Lloyd the great leader!! Did they sledge, indulge in verbal duel etc? Just went on delivering results!!!! That's how the game is played!!
Test Cricket grace not complete without mentioning, David Gower, Lawrence Rowe, Kim Hughes, Martin Crowe!! What an entertainers!! Bowlers who terrorised batsman like, Holding, Croft, Lilee... Who can forget Imran, Kapil the fighters from ever underdogs of Asia. Also great commentators who described the game in Radio, Alan McGilvray, Tony Cozier, Jim Maxwell, CMJ, Johnners, Suresh Saraiya, V Ramamurthy IAS, etc!! It was a pleasure!!
I hope test cricket does turn around for good and health is better when 150 years of celebration is done! One thing I am sure even then is over hyped INDIA wouldn't have won a test series in Australia for sure (84 years and counting) and possibly not also in South Africa.
2) Radhu did a super job of setting things for the Tamil new year, Friday. She puts her mind, it is marvel! 
