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Monday, February 26, 2007

A cute baby laugh :-)

Friday, February 23, 2007

Ad: Teeth whitening chewing-gum



Ad of a teeth whitener chewing gum. Excellent creativity. :-)

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Trailer of Munnabhi Part -III, Munnabhai Chale America




After great success of Munnabhai part I and II, V V Chopra is back with part three. The trailer looks promising. :-)

Grievance forum from Government of India



Can you imagine this happening in INDIA?

Government of India has an online Grievance forum at
http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/

The government wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc etc.

This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the ' System' in India. Invite your friends to contribute for many such happenings.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Excellent Map Kormangala, Bangalore

Here is an excellent map of Kormangala, Bangalore. It has address details and contact info also of most of the ameneties.

http://www.koramangala.com/gokora/default.asp

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs at IIMB April 16 to May 30, 2007


I got this info from one of my colleague. Thought it might be useful for ppl.

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs 2007

In an effort to encourage, empower and educate women entrepreneurs to create business enterprises, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) in association with the Nadathur S. Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) will conduct a Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs at the IIMB campus from April 16 to May 30, 2007, coordinated by IIMB faculty. This unique program held every summer since
2004 requires participants to prepare a business plan for their proposed enterprise. Many participants of previous programs have taken their business plan forward and started new enterprises or have enabled the growth of their ongoing enterprise. This program is specifically designed for women entrepreneurs who are interested in starting their first business enterprise and focuses on enabling them to identify viable business opportunities and develop a business plan for their proposed enterprise. All participants who attend a minimum of 90% of the scheduled program sessions, present their Business Plan in class, and submit a copy of their Business Plan, will receive a certificate of program completion from IIMB. Prizes will also be awarded for the best business plans presented.

The Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs 2007 will be inaugurated on Monday April 16, 2007 at 10.00 a.m. Classes will be held from 9.45 a.m. to 4.45 p.m. from April 16 to May 4 and again from May 21 to May 30 on Mondays to Fridays. Each participant will work on her Business Plan during the period May 5-20 for presenting in class during the last week of the program. The program will have 85 sessions covering all management subjects of relevance to women entrepreneurs including Economics, Industry Analysis, Business Planning, Business Strategy, Product Development, Marketing, Sales, Accounting, Costing, Pricing, Finance, Banking, Budgeting, Managing People, Law, Taxation, Decision Analysis, Communication, Negotiation, Networking as well as two field trips.

The program fee that covers all program materials, refreshments and lunch on all program days and local field visits (optional) is Rs.15,000
(non-residential) or Rs.20,000 (residential) per person. Residential participants will be provided single room student hostel accommodation on IIMB campus with breakfast and dinner for 31 days during April 15 - May 5 and May 20 - 31, 2007. Limited air-conditioned accommodation is also available on campus at substantially higher rates.

Applicants must have a good working knowledge of English and must have completed any college/professional level degree or diploma or certificate program. Registrations for the limited seats in the program will be for eligible applicants on a first-come-first-served basis only on full payment of the non-refundable program fee of Rs.15,000
(non-residential) or Rs.20,000 (residential) per participant either by local cheque or by demand draft payable at Bangalore in the name of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, along with a one-page resume stating their work experience and academic record. IIMB reserves the right to reject applications (with fee refund) if they are found unsuitable for the program. Please send resumes with payment to Mr. Gyanoba Rao HV, NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560076. Email: gyanoba@iimb.ernet.in Please call on 26993710 for any queries on the program.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Science: It's just not fair By Dave Barry

(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published March 22, 1998.)

TODAY'S TOPIC FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IS:
How To Do A School Science Fair Project.

So your school is having a science fair! Great!
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you. Ha-ha! No, seriously, although a science fair can seem like a big "pain," it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia, which states: "A body at rest will remain at rest until 8:45 p.m. the night before the science fair project is due, at which point the body will come rushing to the body's parents, who are already in their pajamas, and shout, `I JUST REMEMBERED THE SCIENCE FAIR IS TOMORROW AND WE GOTTA GO TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW!' "

Being driven to the store by pajama-wearing parents at the last minute is the most important part of any science fair project, because your project, to be legal, must have an Official Science Fair Display Board. This is a big white board that you fold into three sections, thus giving it the stability that it needs to collapse instantly when approached by humans. The international scientific community does not recognize any scientific discovery that does not have an Official Science Fair Display Board teetering behind it; many top scientists fail to win the Nobel Prize for exactly this reason.

Once you have returned home and gotten your display board folded into three sections (allow about six hours for this), it's time to start thinking about what kind of project to do. The prize-winning projects are the ones that clearly yet imaginatively demonstrate an interesting scientific principle.

So you can forget about winning a prize. What you need is a project that can be done at 1 a.m. using materials found in your house. Ideally, it should also involve a minimum of property damage or death, which is why, on the advice of this newspapers legal counsel, we are not going to discuss some of our popular project topics from previous years, such as "What Is Inside Plumbing?"
and "Flame-Proofing Your Cat." Whatever topic you select, your project should be divided into three parts:
(1) The Hypothesis,
(2) The Part That Goes After The Hypothesis and
(3) The Conclusion (this should always be the same as
the Hypothesis).

The hypothesis -- which comes from the Greek words "hypot," meaning "word," and "hesis," meaning "that I am looking up in the dictionary right now" -- is defined as "An unproved theory, proposition, supposition, etc., tentatively accepted to explain certain facts." For example, a good hypothesis for your science fair project might be: "There is a lot of gravity around."
You could prove this via an experiment in which you pick up various household items such as underwear, small appliances, siblings, etc., and observe what happens when you let go of them. Your conclusion would, of course, be:
"There is a lot of gravity around." This would be dramatically illustrated in your science fair exhibit by the fact that your Official Science Fair Display Board was lying face down on the floor.

If that project sounds like too much effort, you might consider duplicating the one that my wife swears she did in the 7th grade late on the night before the science fair. It was called "Waves," and it consisted entirely of a baking pan filled with water, and a pencil.
"You swished the pencil around in the water, and it made waves," my wife explained.

I asked her what scientific principle this project demonstrated, and, after thinking about it for a moment, she answered: "The movement of the water."

Impossible though it may sound, I did a project in 6th grade that was even lamer than that. It was called "Phases of the Moon," and it consisted of a small rubber ball that I had darkened half of by scribbling on it with a pen. You were supposed to rotate the ball, thus demonstrating scientifically that the phases of the moon were caused by, I don't know, ink.

The total elapsed time involved in conceiving of and constructing this project was maybe 10 minutes, of which at least nine were devoted to scribbling. But it still might have been a success had it not been for the fact that some of my fellow students found it amusing to snatch up the moon and throw it, so that it became sort of a gypsy exhibit, traveling around the Harold C. Crittenden Junior High School gymnasium, landing in and becoming part of other projects, helping to demonstrate magnetism, photosynthesis, etc. So my project ended up being just a sign saying "PHASES OF THE MOON"
sitting on an otherwise bare naked table, the scientific implication being that the moon is a very moody celestial body that sometimes gets in a phase where it just takes off without telling anybody.

Of course, if you want to get a good grade, you have to do a project that will impress your teachers. Here's a proven
winner:

"HYPOTHESIS -- That (Name of Teacher) and (Name of Another
Teacher) would prefer that I not distribute the photo I took of them when they were `chaperoning' our class trip to Epcot Center and they ducked behind the cottage-cheese exhibit in the Amazing World Of Curds." Depending on the quality of your research, you might get more than a good grade from your
teachers: You might get actual money! Yes, science truly can be rewarding. So why wait until the last minute to start your science fair project? Why not get started immediately on exploring the amazing world of science, without which we would not have modern technology. Television, for example.

Let's turn it on right now.

Friday, February 16, 2007

Bill gates visits Apple

Thursday, February 15, 2007

CISCO Telepresense

Pros and Cons of single ID

As India struggles with the need for a single ID system like the SSN in the US, look at what the US is grappling with today !

His arguments are very interesting !

~Rajesh

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Real-ID: Costs and Benefits
-Bruce Schneier


The argument was so obvious it hardly needed repeating. Some thought we would all be safer -- ­from terrorism, from crime, even from inconvenience -- ­if we had a better ID card. A good, hard-to-forge national ID is a no-brainer (or so the argument goes), and it's ridiculous that a modern country like the United States doesn't have one.

Still, most Americans have been and continue to be opposed to a national ID card. Even just after 9/11, polls showed a bare majority (51%) in favor -- and that quickly became a minority opinion again. As such, both political parties came out against the card, which meant that the only way it could become law was to sneak it through.

Republican Cong. F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin did just that. In February 2005, he attached the Real ID Act to a defense appropriations bill. No one was willing to risk not supporting the troops by holding up the bill, and it became law. No hearings. No floor debate. With nary a whisper, the United States had a national ID.

By forcing all states to conform to common and more stringent rules for issuing driver's licenses, the Real ID Act turns these licenses into a de facto national ID. It's a massive, unfunded mandate imposed on the states, and -- naturally -- the states have resisted. The detailed rules and timetables are still being worked out by the Department of Homeland Security, and it's the details that will determine exactly how expensive and onerous the program actually is.

It is against this backdrop that the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators together tried to estimate the cost of this initiative. "The Real ID Act: National Impact Analysis" is a methodical and detailed report, and everything after the executive summary is likely to bore anyone but the most dedicated bean counters.
But rigor is important because states want to use this document to influence both the technical details and timetable of Real ID. The estimates are conservative, leaving no room for problems, delays, or unforeseen costs, and yet the total cost is $11 billion over the first five years of the program.

If anything, it's surprisingly cheap: Only $37 each for an estimated 295 million people who would get a new ID under this program. But it's still an enormous amount of money. The question to ask is, of course: Is the security benefit we all get worth the $11 billion price tag? We have a cost estimate; all we need now is a security estimate.

I'm going to take a crack at it.

When most people think of ID cards, they think of a small plastic card with their name and photograph. This isn't wrong, but it's only a small piece of any ID program. What starts out as a seemingly simple security device -- a card that binds a photograph with a name -- becomes a complex security system.

It doesn't really matter how well a Real ID works when used by the hundreds of millions of honest people who would carry it. What matters is how the system might fail when used by someone intent on subverting that system: how it fails naturally, how it can be made to fail, and how failures might be exploited.

The first problem is the card itself. No matter how unforgeable we make it, it will be forged. We can raise the price of forgery, but we can't make it impossible. Real IDs will be forged.

Even worse, people will get legitimate cards in fraudulent names. Two of the 9/11 terrorists had valid Virginia driver's licenses in fake names.
And even if we could guarantee that everyone who issued national ID cards couldn't be bribed, cards are issued based on other identity documents -- all of which are easier to forge.

And we can't assume that everyone will always have a Real ID. Currently about 20% of all identity documents are lost per year. An entirely separate security system would have to be developed for people who lost their card, a system that itself would be susceptible to abuse.

Additionally, any ID system involves people: people who regularly make mistakes. We've all heard stories of bartenders falling for obviously fake IDs, or sloppy ID checks at airports and government buildings. It's not simply a matter of training; checking IDs is a mind-numbingly boring task, one that is guaranteed to have failures. Biometrics such as thumbprints could help, but bring with them their own set of exploitable failure modes.

All of these problems demonstrate that identification checks based on Real ID won't be nearly as secure as we might hope. But the main problem with any strong identification system is that it requires the existence of a database. In this case, it would have to be 50 linked databases of private and sensitive information on every American -- one widely and instantaneously accessible from airline check-in stations, police cars, schools, and so on.

The security risks of this database are enormous. It would be a kludge of existing databases that are incompatible, full of erroneous data, and unreliable. Computer scientists don't know how to keep a database of this magnitude secure, whether from outside hackers or the thousands of insiders authorized to access it.

But even if we could solve all these problems, and within the putative
$11 billion budget, we still wouldn't be getting very much security. A reliance on ID cards is based on a dangerous security myth, that if only we knew who everyone was, we could pick the bad guys out of the crowd.

In an ideal world, what we would want is some kind of ID that denoted intention. We'd want all terrorists to carry a card that said "evildoer"
and everyone else to carry a card that said "honest person who won't try to hijack or blow up anything." Then security would be easy. We could just look at people's IDs, and, if they were evildoers, we wouldn't let them on the airplane or into the building.

This is, of course, ridiculous; so we rely on identity as a substitute.
In theory, if we know who you are, and if we have enough information about you, we can somehow predict whether you're likely to be an evildoer. But that's almost as ridiculous.

Even worse, as soon as you divide people into two categories -- more trusted and less trusted people -- you create a third, and very dangerous, category: untrustworthy people whom we have no reason to mistrust. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; the Washington, DC, snipers; the London subway bombers; and many of the 9/11 terrorists had no previous links to terrorism. Evildoers can also steal the identity -- and profile -- of an honest person. Profiling can result in less security by giving certain people an easy way to skirt security.

There's another, even more dangerous, failure mode for these systems:
honest people who fit the evildoer profile. Because evildoers are so rare, almost everyone who fits the profile will turn out to be a false alarm. Think of all the problems with the government's no-fly list. That list, which is what Real IDs will be checked against, not only wastes investigative resources that might be better spent elsewhere, but it also causes grave harm to those innocents who fit the profile.

Enough of terrorism; what about more mundane concerns like identity theft? Perversely, a hard-to-forge ID card can actually increase the risk of identity theft. A single ubiquitous ID card will be trusted more and used in more applications. Therefore, someone who does manage to forge one -- or get one issued in someone else's name -- can commit much more fraud with it. A centralized ID system is a far greater security risk than a decentralized one with various organizations issuing ID cards according to their own rules for their own purposes.

Security is always a trade-off; it must be balanced with the cost. We all do this intuitively. Few of us walk around wearing bulletproof vests. It's not because they're ineffective, it's because for most of us the trade-off isn't worth it. It's not worth the cost, the inconvenience, or the loss of fashion sense. If we were living in a war-torn country like Iraq, we might make a different trade-off.

Real ID is another lousy security trade-off. It'll cost the United States at least $11 billion, and we won't get much security in return.
The report suggests a variety of measures designed to ease the financial burden on the states: extend compliance deadlines, allow manual verification systems, and so on. But what it doesn't suggest is the simple change that would do the most good: scrap the Real ID program altogether. For the price, we're not getting anywhere near the security we should.

Fly with pride and care: Indian Airlines




I have travelled by almost all of the domestic airlines multiple times. Before starting, let me tell you, my journey 90% of the time is Bangalore <--> Delhi. I think Indian Airlines is the best among all the domestic airlineses.

Here are few data points, step by step:

Fare: People normally have misconception that IA is very costly, even I too had this perception. But, if you check the price a week before or 2-3 days beofore of your journey, you will find sometimes it has the least fare (even compared to low cost airlines like Air Deccan, SpiceJet). I have seen it myself many times. Here is the key: If you plan your travel much before your travel date or on the day when the booking opens for low-cost airlines you would definitely get the lowest fares, but if that is not the case IA is definitely a good option.

Check-In: You can feel the difference from here itself. On Delhi you have different terminus for IA. The one for all the others is pretty croweded. Rest all is same, but I personally don’t like Air Deccan Check-In.

Flight Attendents: If you give more weightage to the faces of flight attendants then KingFifher is the best. But if care is the one which you care most then this is the flight. I had a fracture is my right hand and they helped me a lot with delication and affection. But, I didn’ see the same thing in Jet Airways attendants.

Seating Space: If you are taking late morning or noon flights you will find more space, otherwise it is similar to others.

Punctuality: Not to say anything about, it is no doubt a very important aspect of flight, where IA beats everybody else except Jet Airways. Air Deccan, Air Sahara are pathetic.
Security and Reliability: This is more of self saticfaction and depends on your thinking. I feel a bit more secure in IA thinking that it’s crew is more experienced and thus can be trusted. I remember there was something in newspaper about a training which happened last year winter for Pilot and crew members for landing/taking-off during fog, the Air Deccan did not take it and then it was made mandatory by Government.

Overall it is a nice experience to fly with Indian Airlines.

No. of times flown on this Airlines: Between 7 - 10
Class flown most frequently: Economy Class

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Afzal's mercy plea !! What a shame for our country



We are still discussing about mercy for a traitor. It's really shameful for our country. Irrespecitve of religion, status, power and so forth of the criminal; the judgement should not be changed specially in cases like this much of seriousness and for any case in general.

I am not sure what problem will the mercy petition acceptance will solve. But for sure it is going to raise few more following incidents in future. Are we waiting for any more attacks to follow, or any more Kandhar incidents so that we can again release some top terrorists.

Absurd logics like this are being given: "
In civilise soceity, you can not punish an offender, but commiting the same offence against him. " Wow, what a generous thought. Let me ask a simple question, can anytime, anywhere any civilized society exist without security and integrity?

It's a question of national integrity and national prode. We can not just escape from here for political profit. Poloticians please don't do this, if not patriot, behave like a human atleast. Don't sell out mother nation for your vote bank and your psuedo secularism.

[Image source: http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm]

10 min drive - From Cantt Railway Station to Airport


Image 1: Airport Road














Image 2: Kormangala














Image 3: MG Road














Yesterday evening after the BANDH timings (around 6:45 PM) the roads were still empty. I along with my friend went from our flat (near Cantt reilway station) to Airport area on bike. No lights at all, it was great to drive bike that time. Here are few snaps which I took while my friend was driving with an average speed of 60KMPH.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

It's yet another BANDH in IT Capital of India, Bangalore



It's yet another BANDH in Bangalore today on Monday Feb 12, 2006. All the shops, schools, colleges, private and government offices would be closed. This time bandh is to protest against the decision of Cauvery Water decision, which came a few days back. There has been a little tension whole last week due to the same. Prohibitory orders are in place in Bangalore in view of the dawn to dusk bandh with Section 144, which was imposed in the city at midnight, and will continue for the next 24 hours. Whole karnataka is on high alert.

It's for sure not the first of it's kind BANDH, BANDHs have been part of Indian system for a long time now. Some places, we hardly need any reason to call for a BANDH, and to bring all the lives to a standstill. A huge productivity loss, it brings.

Does it help in any sense?
Do the BANDHs bebefit anyboy?

Probably YES, that's why they keep on coming, every time with a new cause and most of the time followed by voilence and trouble to some people in need. In most of the cases, people who take most of the chunk from the benefit are politicians, who simply use the agression of youth and emotions of the prople in general, to increase their vote bank. Somehow, I am not convinced with this concept itself and I feel it shows some kind of immaturity. Still, I agree that the cause and remedies differ from one case to other.

In this case, the commision was formed 17 years back. Either we should not believe in the capabilites of the people who were there in the commision at the first place or we should respect the decision. What if decision would have come in a little favour of Karnataka, the story would have reversed altogether. Then BANDHs would have been happening in TamilNadu. But does that help either? Does that solve something?

Comments are most welcome.

Friday, February 09, 2007

212 The Extra Degree


Two months ago a 3-minute movie titled: 212° was released ...The Extra Degree. The response to this simple, but powerful video has been overwhelming!!

If you haven't seen it, and you need a "shot of inspiration"
.

Monday, February 05, 2007

HSBC Bangalore BIRDRACE – 11th February 2007




The IndiaBirdRaces Supported by HSBC

HSBC Bangalore BIRDRACE 11th February 2007

The HSBC Bangalore BirdRace will take place on 11th, the second Sunday of February 2007. All interested birdwatchers and nature lovers are welcome to participate in it. The Bangalore BirdRace has been inspired by the India BirdRaces in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad-Gujarat, with slight modifications, keeping the logistics of travel and other factors into consideration. The Bangalore BirdRace will be a dawn to dusk events where teams of bird-watchers will spend the entire day birding in and within 50Km radius around Bangalore city. The participants will try and record as many species of birds as possible, learn about the finer points of bird-watching from the experts and the experienced, and then later in the evening, all teams will meet at a select venue over dinner and an interactive tête-à-tête.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

1. Every bird-lover is welcome to participate in the Bangalore BirdRace.
2. To participate in the BirdRace you MUST register your name/team with the organizers of Bangalore BirdRace.
3. To register yourself or your team, please send an e-mail to bangalore.birdrace@gmail.com and include your name, address, Telephone number(s), Mobile No., e-mail ID. Also, indicate if you are alone or part of a team. If you are part of a team, please send the details on all the team members, as indicated above. The Bangalore BirdRace team will get back to you.
4. Please indicate if you have a vehicl
e of your own and if you are using your car, indicate if you are willing to take others on the BirdRace.
5. The registration will begin from January 10th 2007 onwards .
6. Details on the Birdwatching sites in and around, and the venue for the evening function/get-together on February 11, 2007 will be made known to all the registered participants later.
7. Please visit the Bangalore page on www.indiabirdraces.com website for details.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Air Deccan's 10 rs tkt for March and April 2007

Air Deccan's 10 rs tkt have been launched for March and April 2007. Book early to get the bebefit. My friend booked 2 tkts for 10 rs each for BLR-Ahemdabad (ofcourse the taxes extra). Unfortunately I didn't find a cheap one for BLR-DEL or BLR-JPR.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

An Interesting Refelection: Slow down culture

This interesting and impressive article I received through email, as per the email, it was published in NY Times.

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule.

Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to posses a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

Said in another words:
1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.
2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.
3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.
4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies the NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, "Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot." To which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think? Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.


Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness" generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or the "quality of being". French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US's attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!".

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said,
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalize world. :-)

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