Accident Proneness!!! Seat Belts!! It's all Happening!! DJT!!!

As a Safety Professional, I dont belive in people being Accident Prone, despite evidence being contrary many times that same people injure or expose themselves to an unsafe environment and pay a price!! But when it happens at home you wonder!! Son has sprained his knee cap badly yesterday, while playing football at company Event(!!!!!!) and now his knee is strapped for 3 weeks!!!! 

This is his 3rd major injury (Fracture, fall from bike are previous incidents) in 9 years where the consequence was very high but recoverable! (me none not one so far in 54 years was I less exposed???? !!)  hahahahah! I didn't help him soothe his pain by comparing his injury proneness to unpredictability of Trump Presidency!

I was puzzled when car driver at Cochin said to me that there is no need for me to buckle my seat belt !! This too was at front seat! Goes to show how people take vehicle safety very lightly and are ignorant of High risk that high speed driving pose!!! I choose MERU Cabs for all my trip for very purpose that their vehicles seat belt working conidition is 100% in my 8 years ride to and fro for Bangalore Airport. Having seen 2 vehicle fatalities at work and worked a global level program to reduce road fatalities due to driving over last 20 years, I find intriguing that nothing has changed in people attitude!! I was reminded to post also when Lalitha sent this video over whatsapp a couple of days back!

Today is 80th Birthday of all time great Bill Lawry!!

Greig, Taylor, Richie, Ian Chappal, Bill Lawry what a team !!! pleasure!!! 

What a complete Cricketer cum TV commentator! Pleasure to hear him "It's all Happening" Lawry was the last captain to win a series in India 1969, until Gilchrist did in 2003!!! not again so far!! Happy Birthday to a great Victorian!!! 

3 weeks in to Presidency, a statue for Donald Trump? Coming up in Italy!! Cant believe??? heheh!! 

I also believe that if it doesn't get printed in WSJ or Economist, means it doesn't matter or not worth knowing!! So When Economist mentions TN political mess, means it is a serious happening to take note!!!!!!!! 

I leave with funny news that tourism ads in Lithuania shows places that are not in the country and fake !! I think our Indian crooks would be no different!!! ehehhehe!
Take it easy, take care, stay safe, God bless!

Karthik.
11/2/17 0850am! 

PSM, Responsible Father!!! Foregin!!! 3-0 !!!

I am Back from Business travel from Cochin this afternoon. I had been there facilitating 2 day session on "Process Safety Management"! A concept in safety that came in to operation post Bhopal gas tragedy. This is a regulatory framework in USA/Europe since 1992. 25 yrs on, still no sign of this standard becoming Mandatory in India, where Bhopal is situated,as no one cares, neither Industrial agencies nor Legislators. Thus, very few companies here go towards implementing this on a voluntary basis.......

It was so much satisfying to hear from my cab driver in my visit ensuring that all his 3 Children are qualified Engineers and well settled in life. His 2 daughters passed IT/software and Civil Engineering. Son is in to Mechanical Engineering or so!! Kids for their part got merit scholarship to reduce fee burden to parents!! I wish that the Government makes Education free for Girl Children entering Engineering say at least for top 1000 rank holders or so!! 

I was surprised to hear from him, that "FOREIGN" concept is back in Engineering academic. It existed during my college days! If you fail in the same paper on 3rd attempt, you would be sent home for one year (Foreign!!! hahahah) and come back after 12 months and take the exam!so one year study lost!Makes you put effort to pass the subject within 3 attempts!! Good aspect to make Engineering education more serious!! With 1000s of colleges, I guess 10s of  1000s of students would go foreign!!! 

So Hillary breaks her silence after ages; what a tweet!!! But I like the way Trump trying to break Status Quo!! Win or lose, You cant blame the man for trying to shake a few things!If only our Stupid மூதேவி MODI tried even 10% of this guts and go hammer and tongs to sweep the system!! !!!! 

See you, Take it easy take care, stay safe!!
Karthik
10.2.17 1515 Hrs.

Baggage Tag, Superbowl!!

This is short post as I am at Airport on way for Business Travel.

Baggage tag is back!! hahahahh! I am told it didnt work after weeks of trial!! hahahah! I tell you!! Cunning like Chinese, Crooked like Indians! looks like folks tried circumvent!! hehehe !! Security staff says no risk!!

One thing I never understood in America! Superbowl!! Sat thro one in TV at Salt Lake City few years back with my Friend Bob at  a bar!! Never got the game!! So Trump got one right!! His 8 point prediction close than 6 the final outcome! I think NEW ENGLAND Patriots lost when I watched!! (2008 I think)

Take care, stay safe

Karthik

7/2/17, 0735am!!!

48,000$, 308, 5, 0, 50 !!!!

It is no surprise that people have taken to streets for 6th night running in subzero temperature on the streets of Bucharest and other Romanian cities! This is more astonishing, that very people who elected the government just weeks back have poured out in Millions to demand roll back of 48,000$ corruption law which indicates that any bribe below that amount is not a jailable offence!! Government says it is to decongest prisons!! Having been to Romania, my personal interpretation was the country is as similar to our's with intellect people, passion and corruption no less!! (Indeed most Eastern Europe amongst equal with us in many aspects) Now people want this government to go as extreme dissatisfaction!! hahah! One way India is different, Indians thick skinned folks tolerate everything bastards Politician throw at us for over 70 years be it Congoon or Assholes BJP!!! We get the government we deserves!!! 

I am listening to great BBC Podcast #INCARNATION of 50 Indians that reshaped India over centuries!! Many names in that list like Malik Ambar (The Ethiopian Slave, Birsa Munda) the name heard for the first time. Some of the narratives too far different than what we assumed or told!! A must listen! I have gone thro 31 as of this morning..... BBC dishes out awesome stuff!!!

Intriguing to hear BBC Panorama that 1999 there was 0 yes 0 reported Type II diabetics in UK! Today the number is 4 Million cases with amputations as common as London Double Decker Bus on streets!! Many so amongst South Asian communities!! It was sad to see John Jameson the famous cricketer of Warwickshire/ENG 1971 in that list, undergoing Kidney ailment due to same!! Jameson  Run out (Bowler touching ball that gone to hit wkts at non striker end)  turned tide for India to win Oval test first time 1971!!

Willpower is often a topic that brings lot of debate! 5 aspects to work the same is well explained in this lecture by Kelly McGonigal and this animation !! Worth a listen! I agree feeling bad or guilt makes you do the same aspects more!! (smoking, craving sin etc etc)!!!! 1)Energy, 2)Sleep, 3)Good Nutritious Food, 4)Pre Frontal Cortex management and 5) Let Go attitude,are an essential aspects to sustain Willpower!! I agree!!

Astonishing, this week, back in 1975, Lance Gibbs Broke Fred Truman Record of 308 Wickets!! I recollect hearing on Radio 6th Test Melbourne!! Today at 800 wickets that record longgg longg way off!! But Cricket was class apart then!! Gibbs, Truman would be talked about 100 years down the lane than the successors!!! Incidentally it was to Lance Gibbs that a then a 21 yr man called Brian Lara said, one day I would break Gary Sobers Record of 365!! Boy Didn't he do TWICE??!!! hahahahh!!!

Take it easy,take care,stay Healthy GOD BLESS!!

Karthik

6.2.17 0830am! 

100 days, Elections!! Catholics& Jews!!!!

Lalitha is back from her 3 days travel, morning 5am! Thanks to Technology I could track when she would arrive when my sleep broke at 430 am!But in a larger sense shows uncertainty over events. I recollect days of post card/ telegram about arrival people and person would be there to receive you on dot!! It was good to hear she had great time on her father's 80th Birthday celebrations! She also visited Srirangam temple!!! (hahahha I even listen to her experience there shows how much I have mellowed over years hehehehhe) Interesting her most of her time went on visiting temples, shows richness of devotional spread around Trichy, Madurai (100Km radius) 

I was very intrigued by the elections in India spread over 35 days in 5 states, Oh Man, gimme a break!! I recollect 70s,80s  National elections done in 5-10 days and results declared in 24 hrs!.Even the tense national election,(Post Emergency) 1977 I remember Mrs Gandhi losing day after election was held!! Personally,I want BJP decimated and dont care who wins!! Let's see!!! 

So much lethargy, inefficiency crept in to system. Also bureaucrats passing the buck due to timidity, lack of confidence or authority to take decisions to go hammer and tongs!! 35 days election???  man,this is scandalous! Ass holes of bureaucrats, Govern us more like Yes Prime Minister!!! 

 Also, as indicated last year in my BBC Interview with Mathew Amroliwala, that how MODI would be undermined by these bureaucrats!! How Right, I was!!!! 

Amazing to hear US Media going all out to work views /swing on Trump presidency! While during election campaign they worked "UNITED States of Anxiety" (USA) Podcasts

to get Pro/anti views of Trump where indication for Trump winning was predicted in rural/rust belts!! They are now working a program through Phone in Monday -Tuesday, 8pm EST, in which 130 radio stations across USA hook up to a program "INDIVISIBLE" where people across spectrum phone in to express their views!! 

This program would work for First 100 days of Trump Presidency. So you can get to feel how things shape!! Classic example of people expressing views and you get an ear to the ground!!! It was a surprise to hear all current 8 #SCOTUS Judges now are Catholics and Jews!! If a guy wakes up from Grave of 1920s and gets an update, he would feel creepy, given the fact that first and only Catholic President was elected not far back!!!!  hahahahhah!!!! Things change and nothing is permanent except, Change! Embrace it!!! 

Hhahaha! On a personal side, Radhu/Shravan had their day!! They persuaded me to have ordered dinner!! Amazing, I recollect my good friend, Ashutosh's 85 year father saying, in our days, "we ate what was cooked inside the house and defecated outside! Now a days generation,eat  what is cooked outside and defaecate inside house,thus root cause of issues"!! I wonder is there some truth in it indirectly!! The craving for outside food just beats me!!! 

Take it easy, take care, stay safe, God bless

Karthik
5th Feb 2017 0830am! 

35 yrs on still missing Karen! memory lingers!!!

4th February 1983,Karen Carpenter passed away at very young age of 32. I still recollect the moment I heard the news during my college days at Madurai! Karen died due to a condition less known that time, now very very common in woman(!!) of eating disorder!!

Along with her brother,Richard, she dished out so many songs which still feel fresh. I am told she was a great drummer too!!!Growing up listening to Carpenters music (more so those days in 70s, 80s u had only radio stations to listen, may be an hour at most/day) the impact she left behind is phenomenal. I am sure her music would be around,come 2117 AD!!!. I still miss her soul touching music and I wonder how much great musical magic she would have delivered but for god's other plans!!! 

All her songs are treat for me! but still my best picks not in any order of her Baker's Half Dozen!!!!

1) Jambalaya ( If I got to pick only1,then this)
2) Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.
3) Please Mr Postman (I recollect my days 1990 waiting for that stimulating mail from Lalitha during courtship days, ahhahah) 
4) Top of the world (Class apart)
5) Good bye to love (Endnote is so awesome)
6) Only Yesterday 
7) I wont last a day without you!! (hahahhaha)


Thanks to my Classmate PK Sridhar who introduced her music to me 1978!!! 

Karthik
4th FEB 2017 1100 Hrs. 

Ready made Roti!! Sleep!!!Obama-Bin-Biden!!!

With Laltiha away and as a person who loves cooking( another matter she doesnt allow me to try out /help her hahahha) I tried some new dish last night. This website Vachef  I found awesome and simple way to work through. I worked the Sweet Potato curry and Tomato Dal Fry Rajastan Gujju style. Came out very well and children (25,22 if can be called kids) loved it! As Roti making is not my virtue, never attempted one! I am sure, I would be hopeless and as like American drivers who never ask for directions, I explored super market Hypercity near home and found KAWAN ROTI /Paratha awesome. The job of heating up the roti delegated to Son at 2000 Hrs who did a super job. Daughter did great help / favour eating them coming from work 2200 Hrs. (Cant blame her can I after a long long drawl day!!)

As much as food is essential as is sleep! so much is being discussed these days! I recollect reading decade back HBR Article managing energy not time in which Sleep is critical to to energetic positive day. I also watched Ariana Huffington video on her book Sleeping Revolution. I don't disagree with her in her prediction that companies would soon have a Sleeping POD for people to nap/refresh just like today they have conference rooms. Sleep many people misjudge! (I too was once a proponent for Sleep when you die, not any more!!) 

I stumbled on once again on UBL tapes a documentary by BBC on my podcast!! It was intriguing to hear he preaching the Gandhian way of Boycott and social chaos as ways to work against Infedels as late as late 1980s! I am to assume the boots landing on Saudi Arabia by west made him take violence! It is also fascinating to hear Osama indicating Shia, Kurds, Communists, atheists posed far far danger to Sunni Islam than West or others! I have an sneeky suscipion/ feeling that Ayman-Al-Zawahri played a very very key part in guiding him to extreme views as the book explains!!

When you talk Osama on a serious note you have to take on a hearty laughter note term coined on election night 2008 November, Obama-Bin-Biden. What a combination they were! U may not like both as Republican, but together they formed one of the best example of team work complementing each other!! Joe Biden was to sell his house for son's cancer treatment, but Obama persuaded him not to do so! That is what is friendship and that's what friends are for as Diane Warwick sang 1980s!!!

See you, Have a great day. Cooking awaits and big arguement ongoing for going out for dinner with daughter, I never like hotel food, I am tiered 15 years outside eating practically every working day!!! 

Karthik.
4th FEB 2017.