WELCOME 2010!!

Happy New year to all my blog readers!!

It gives me immense pleasure to write this blog post. This is my NUMERO UNO post for this year.I had been wanting to write this from Jan 1st 2010 and finally today I was lucky enough to find some time, rather a very appropriate time for such a post. By appropriate I mean a relaxed afternoon time ,after a nice lunch of rice ,dal and fresh veggies cooked "by MEEE", neither very heavy, nor too light , just the right quantity that will not put you to sleep and helps in thinking.In addition to this a cosy couch and an air conditioned living room with the temperature just suitable for me(neither too cold nor very hot- a warm 24 degrees).A calm environment which helps to completely unwind, relax and introspect and no one to disturb the flow of thoughts.Ahhhh.. Is this what you call ultimate luxury!!??Atleast to me it is!!Not always shopping, partying, travelling is enjoyable. Sometimes being in your home sweet home is blissful. No wonder in the fast paced, materialistic life that we are leading, this space and time for oneself, to relax,unwind and introspect has become a rare commodity,a great luxury.I'm happy that I got it and it is a very welcome change from the routine.
Another special thing about this blog post is that I'm writing it from a new geographic location and time zone!! But it is not anywhere from the west..I'm in the eastern parts of the world and time is two and a half hours ahead of India.Yeah.. I'm in one of the most beautiful south east ASian countries with lots of tourist destinations, islands and beaches. Am in Malaysiaaaaa......truly Asia!!
It is my first trip to a foreign country and I am pretty much excited about it... courtesy, my husband.He is on an onsite assignment in Malaysia and I have accompanied him.Though we are not here on vacation, we did get some time during the weekends to look around Kuala Lumpur,the city where we are living now and a few important places in and around this city.
KL looked very well planned and is more technologically advanced when compared to India, though not as advanced as our western counterparts. Their express train service from KL Intrenational airport into the city is amazingly fast.Unlike our trains these are very clean.It takes you into the city in just 25 mins.Our place of stay is about 5 mins walk from KL Central.Even the roads and footpaths in this place were quite clean.SO we could easily take our trolley suit cases and reach our apartment(condominium as it is called here).And yet another place where technology is being used is the security systems.For entry into the apartment we need to swipe in our keys in front of the entrance door for it to open.Hope this system is brought in India also which would help in improving the secutirity facility in the flats.
The tall buildings and the hi-tech trains here,just make me wonder when will India attain such technological advancement. Will it be possible within this 21st century?How did a small island nation like Malaysia achieve faster economic and infrastructural development than India? What is the reason for our lack of development? Is it the population explosion or political parties or lack of skilled human resources? May be all the reasons are responsible for India to lag behind the other countries.I don't want to think about it now. This a separate topic by itself and deserves a separate post.;)

I was lucky enough to have come here during christmas and new year. I could see all the decorations in the shopping malls and restaurants and also watch the beautiful musical fountain and fireworks near KL tower and Petronas.

And that's how my new year has taken off with a big bang with this new Malaysian experience. Hope you all have also had a great blast on new year's day and are hoping for many more great days to come in this year.
So with this new year let us put all our past bagages behind and start a fresh life with hope and confidence to achieve our dreams.With this sweet message I'm signing off. Will soon write some more posts on the various places visited in Malaysia and other interesting things seen in this country.
Hoping to write many more interesting blog posts this year.
Take care and have a great year ahead!!

Just a thought?!

You might be wondering why such a post all of a sudden. A post just to talk about thoughts!?
I just wanted to write something and break the hiatus from writing. So just wrote whatever struck my mind at that moment.In other words just translated my thoughts into words or action.And now I feel good.. I feel accomplished!! I now understand the importance of nurturing good thoughts and converting them into actions.

Thoughts!!

As I write this post, lots of thoughts are fluttering in my mind.Some thoughts just randomly come and go about the various happenings around me. Some thoughts about the next work at hand,thoughts about what to cook for dinner, weekend plan and so on.Some thoughts about incidents that happened way back in my childhood and other thoughts going to the other extreme of the timeline,thoughts about parents ,husband and about me growing old and having kids and me becoming a grandmother(Life is a cycle!!).Amidst all these thoughts about personal life, thoughts about my profession also peeps in and brings a host of other thoughts related to it in my mind....Ahh what a mind boggling machine this human brain is!! It is capable of generating so many thoughts in a fraction of a second, remember past, plan for future and take decisions and also be responsive to current happenings. The most wonderful of God's creation!! Isn't it?? Till now no technology is able to equal the human mind.May be one day our human brain will be able to make such robots that can think and act like us. I am jus getting reminded of the sci-fi movie Artificial Intelligence made by Steven Spielberg in which the scientists create a boy robot who can show unconditional love to his mother.The robot behaves exactly like a human boy. Unlike the robot's behaviour, it's the mother who is not able to accept the love of a robot and she trashes it in an electronic garbage yard. Years pass by ,the mother dies but the robot boy lives forever and still loves his mom(This is just a gist of the story). Can such a thing happen in reality in some distant future??Hmmmm..I'm still wondering if I can accept such technological advancements....certain things are best left to nature, right??!!

PS:Hey, jus now I noticed that my blog is also named as brainfaktory and this post would give a fitting explanation as to how the name originated.Simple... the brain is a like a factory generating millions of thoughts and ideas in our daily life and since this space is dedicated for sharing them , it' s called brainfaktory!!

Push-to -Talk!!

It was an usual Monday morning and I was finding it hard to keep my eyes open.I was trying
to read a book ,had put my earphones on and at the same time sleeping....wondering how I'm
doing all in the same time!!ahem.. life has its own lessons to teach,especially when you
are pressed for time and when you have to travel quite lonnnnnng distance on a daily basis
to reach your "work place"(you should look at my face as i write this line),:-( is not
enough to describe the sadness on my face.But there is also a positive side to travelling
across the city.We get to see some nice things on the way.One thing that I love to watch while travelling to work is
the advertisement bill boards.They are really colourful,eye catching and also informative
sometimes(If you really want to keep pace with the current trends in the city).
Stop commuting,start sport biking!!Any guesses as to which bike has this tag line??It is
Yamaha's Gladiator. It is really good to watch such bill boards, which make you atleast
feel that commuting to work is not after all,that bad,and such cool ads drive our
imagination and make the journey less tiring.One more interesting ad that I came acroos is that of PROCALL...heard of it?? Atleast I've
never heard of it before.It said "India's first digital PTT service".Now the next question
came to my mind..what is that PTT service?I was really curious to know about it as it was
showing some mobile phones and a "Let's team up tag line". So as soon as I reached office I
googled it out and came to know PTT refers to "PUSH -TO-TALK".Let me just give you a sneak peek of this technology...some excerpts from economic times.
It's a next generation digital wireless (radio) solution featuring Motorola's Integrated
Digital Enhanced Network technology,making it the first digital PTT service in India.
PTT communiction (also called dispatch) on radio frequency allows unlimited number of users
in a closed user group communicate with team members for unlimited time at a fixed monthly
charge.
It has some really interesting applications:)
Users can talk with one or many or all members in the group instantly at the push of a
button. This would help business houses working in teams or those involved in BPO services,
airlines, hospitals, taxi or transport fleet management, call centres, courier services to
keep constantly in touch with their employees and monitor them even on field.
Using just one pocket-size digital handset, the services combines the capabilities of a
digital wireless phone, two-way radio with instant group talk features, integrated A-GPS,
advanced messaging services. The pro tracker facility enables to track a team member's
exact location.
The users would be able to receive traffic alerts, receive or send local advertisements and
have supervisors to monitor employees taking a break(what a killer app it is!!) with a
wireless punch card. Internet browsing, database access, wireless payment gateway, job
dispatches and swipe cards are other features
Ahhh.... Is this technical stuff too much for your brain to assimilate..then relax..
chill..it's after all a technology ,created by man,for mankind.And like all the
technologies,it has it's positive and negative sides.Hehe... you must be knowing why I'm
saying this.If it is allowing your boss to track where you are isn't it a BAD TECHNOLOGY??
That's really bad news for us guys...:-(
Then one more eye catching ad is that of Slice's AAMSUTRA(Kudos to their advertising
creativity).I've become a fan of these bill boards off late...they take me to a different
world and I enjoy that.As a child I've always been fascinated by advertisements while
watching TV and to become a creative director was a childhood dream too.Don't know if this
childhood dream will ever get fulfilled as my life has taken many different turns and am a
computer engineer now.Don't know if Advertising was the right field for me,but still have a
liking towards that.Now i've started contemplating as to what is the right choice for
me.Have I made a wrong choice by taking engineering or is that the right one for me and so
on...sudden rush of thoughts..ahhhh.. i want to stop them...I'm trying to bring myself
under control and calm my mind.Will I be able to come to a conclusion on this???Life is now going in a certain direction ,let me see if I can fulfill my childhood dream in
some way.
I'm sure many would have had such childhood dreams like me.Did somone fulfill their dream
or atleast close to fulfiling it??Or following such dreams is not at all possible or not
worth pursuing in the present day world??Or you didnt have any dream at all(Then you are really lucky)??Looking
forward to hear your comments.Do share your dreams and thoughts here:)