Wonderful Mementos and Celebrations

This week was full of travel and Mementos in view of my moving out.

The Bellary Seeds site in south India which was the first Monsanto site I worked on to set up ESH systems in 2000. I was out there for the Global safety award celebrations that the site had won this year (Only site in Asia Pacific and one of 18 sites to have won the global award from 150 sites). My boss Jolanta Paull, flew in from Melbourne for this memorable occaions.She was the guest of Honor.
After the ceremony and special Lunch, there was my farewell celebrations as I would have made my last visit to the site. I got a memorable Memento of Lord GANESH(Pic). This is an apt one as I feel that I need his blessings to take new challenges and responsibility.
There was more surprise in store, I got my long term service award, (5years), this was due in 2005 and I thought Monsanto Had missed the event, So it was a pleasant surprise to receive the Titan watch. It was great feeling.
More, today I had a farewell Lunch with Jolanta, back in Bangalore, and the climax was complete When she handed me A CITIZEN ECO DRIVE WATCH. My wife always wanted to get me one on Birthdays/ wedding day, and I refused. So it was great feeling that the Two cancerian women in my life (Lalitha and Jolanta in Photos) planned and fulfilled it. The only sad part the 3rd cancerian women in Michelle couldnt make it. We all Missed you Michelle.
It couldn't have been a better week in my life, The feeling is great.


Karthik.

Ostrich and My move out of Monsanto.

This week Was very eventful for some things to happen.

My announcement about Moving out of Monsanto was released. It was a tough decision I tell you, in my 21 year career. Seven years just went by, the fact that I will be out of Monsanto in about 4 weeks time in sinking in. Ofcourse, as I will continue to be based in Bangalore for the Honeywell Transportation systems Assignment as Global HSE Manager, without affecting the family interest is a sense of satisfaction that you can go without compromising the needs of the dear and near.

This week, I happen to see live "Ostrich" moving around in the restaurant I had lunch while traveling from Aurangabad to Pune. This place is 20 Kms after Ahmednagar (95 Kms from Pune)and the Place is called "Smile Stone". The food was also very good and so the time to see and feed Ostrich. It relaxes you a lot esply on a long highway journey. See the photos.

See the Profile of the man who downed Brasil. Henry (pronounced Aannrie) master tactician who rose to the demanding occasion. For him,This would also heal some wounds after the European championship final, were Arsenal were given a raw deal by the refree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Henry
Also go thro Erin Pavlina website lot of good information.

www.erinpavlina.com

Have a good week ahead.
Regards
Karthik

Good websites

Ok, good to be back again,Some intersting websites.

• A good article on Mentoring and coaching, I feel this is critical to develop people who work with you.
• http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=110055&d=789&h=788&f=785
• Today in History, (Today Rajeev Gandhi was assassinated, So I was curious to know what else happened today).
• http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=leadstory
  
• Google has come out with Google Suggest, as you type letters it will guess as to what you are typing and come out with results
• http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
• Gmail is with 2 GB storage space, ofcourse, you need invitation to open an account, I can send you if you wish.
• https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&ltmpl=yj_blanco&ltmplcache=2
• Download offline Dictinory Sage, you can refer to anyword without connected to internet
• http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html#download
• Finally from Steve Pavlina, Overcoming fear, 40 minutes of absorbing speech.
• http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/stevepavlinacom-podcast-008-overcoming-fear/

So Have a great week ahead take care and Take it easy.

Karthik.

karaikudy@gmail.com.

Chennai Trip

This week I had been to Chennai for a Upanayanam of my Sandoz colleague Vijay's Son, Kailash. Vijay and me commenced our professional careers around the same time in the late 80s. We got married , children and moved out Ankleshwar around the same time. Vijay moved to Bombay with Sandoz Pharma finance, I moved to Astra Zenecca for I wanted to relocate to South. Vijay came all the way for my Son's Thread ceremony at my home town last year.

The event gave me an opportunity to meet Sandoz colleagues as well as other Friends who had come for the event and we caught up on happenings. Some of them I met after 12 years. The discussions lead to some astounding results. This was also confirmed when I met guys from other cos who were present.

• Come what may, You need to be in the inner circle in the organizations to get fast track growth.
• You need to Manage perception too along with performance, to have career progression.
• Long term employments are becoming thing of the past. Every one wants fast track growth and rewards that show external signs of growth and prosperity.
• People at very senior levels are capable to project that " after Me its deluge" and enhance their importance.

I think you all will agree with this, I guess.

By the way, Madras hot and humid and the family managed it. The kids got a feel for the Shatabdi train experience, they liked it; thought the train was 1 Hr late.

Have a great week ahead and enjoy the Mother' day. I fulfilled a long time dream to get something for my mother as Mother's day gift, when she is around and managed to get some jewelry for her. My wife made the selection.

Karthik

Hotel Gururaj, Adoni.

Yesterday, Saturday, I took my mother to Mantralayam, the sage town of Raghavendra swamy. She had not been to that place, and I combined the visit with my plant trip to Bellary.(120 Kms from Mantralayam).
We had a good darshan and she was satisfied. We are back in Bangalore this morning.
I must though, let you know about Hotel Gururaj at Adoni. You may think that this a star hotel or a great outfit. You will be disappointed, it is a thatched roof structure run by a family. The breakfast they serve is as good as the home stuff. The idli, vada, Dosa, Upma and Puri are delicious stuff. The Chutney and sambar will go in gallons. This makes you feel that you don't have be great cities to get great stuff.
The bill Rs 54 for 4 of us (Myself, mother, my daughter and driver). I, of course stumbled up on this hotel last year when I visited Mantralayam last year with family. This time I had forgotten the name of the hotel, and remembered the route so managed to find the way. Hence the blog so that I wont forget.
The hotel is located after crossing the flyover bridge near the Railway crossing as you come from Bellary on the Alur road, take the first right after Railway level crossing, and go inside about 300 mts, and ask for Hotel Gururaja. I am sure you will enjoy the food and will have a great trip to Mantralayam.

Story of Sudha Murthy on How infosys was born:-

http://www.vijayv.org/wwwvijayvorg/Articles/HowInfoSysWasBorn.php


Have a great week
Karthik.

Steve Pavlina

Hi there,
Nice to be back on blog almost after 5 months,

Great Sites on Personal development

http://www.managementhelp.org/prsn_dev/assess.htm

http://www.soulbusiness.com/101.htm

Steve Pavlina's site is a fantastic site, you may do contribution in the form of donation too to the author, it is all stuff for free. Too good I feel this is a best site and is in top 500 Blogs out of millions.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/


This is also a grat site,
http://www.nightingale.com/twww_main_uk.asp

Listen to Earl Nightingale on the talk on positive attitude, this is too good this talk sold Million copies and was the only golden disk on non music cassette.

http://www.markvictorhansen.com/strangest_secret.php


Something on History: (Pearl Harbour)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/18arizona/18facts1.htm

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/18arizona/18visual2.htm

Have a good time and have a great week.
Karthik.

Shravan, Karthik, Lalitha and Radha in 2005