Hmm…

So, my cousin & I went to a restaurant that won the best restaurant in the city award in year 2007. Now, the folks at restaurant have come up with a good idea - which I won’t tell you. It’s got something to do with keeping your food (especially kabab) warm on the dinning table itself. The name of the restaurant has something to do with the idea. Anyway.

I couldn’t really guess why this restaurant won the ‘Best Restaurant’ award. I didn’t see anything ’special’ as such and very honestly, the food didn’t taste better than it would at any other good restaurant.

So, the guy who takes the order arrived at our table [I won’t call him ‘waiter’ or ‘captain’]

“Good noon, sir!”

“Would you like to have regular water or mineral water, sir?”

Me: “Meh! Mineral Water”

“Sir, would you prefer it chilled or normal?”

Me: “Bah! Hmmm, Chilled”

“Sir, Aquafina or Kinley?”

Me: “Gaaaaaaaa!!!!!”

“Aquafina”

“Sir…”

“Sir, buffet or a-la-carte?”

Oh!

-The Big K-

I have decided to share my experiences and tips that will help you reach the top of Sinhagad. [For the clueless, Sinhagad is one of the forts of Shri. Shivaji Maharaj (king), located at about 22 kilometers from the city of Pune]. The road that takes you to Sinhagad is obviously called as ‘Sinhagad Road’ (useless information, eh?).

So, my friend Gautam phoned me at 11:30 pm yesterday and asked if I’d be interested in trekking @ Sinhagad. I thought for a second and said “Yep”. He asked me to be ready by 4:30 am and he’d come to pick me up at my place.

I guess the oldies in Pune love the Sinhagad trek. Gautam informed me that by the time we start our trek, we’d see people coming back from the trek. 60% of the crowd I spotted on my way to the top (of Sinhagad) was 40-45+. Now here are few tips for the first timers -

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One thing I really don’t like is that people come and ‘TOUCH THE LCD SCREEN‘ while pointing out stuff on it. Why the heck leave your fingerprints everywhere?

People touch my 21″ wide-screen monitor.

People touch my 12″ Dell Laptop Screen.

People touch my Motorazr Screen.

Blah!

I hate all those finger prints! Yukk!

-The Big K-

You think making money is hard? Especially in a business? So, I remember someone had said, “Three most important things in running a food business are “1.Location”, “2.Location” & “3.Location”.

Think again!

Today my colleague & I went to  a nearby restaurant [both of us are (still) strangers in this city & therefore, we spend weekends in office]. This restaurant, is least accessible from the main road. There’s no board that shows you the location of this restaurant. This restaurant is actually in a flat on the ground floor of a building!

We went inside and we couldn’t find a place to sit! All seats were occupied and few of the people were standing . What a business! The owner (I judged him from his attire) was busy serving. There was no counter, no computers, no bills - nothing! Just benches to sit & people serving the food. That’s it!

Simple, profitable business!

We had to pay Rs. 50/- for a simple meal. I bet that guy is earning Rs. 35/- profit on the cost of Rs. 15/- .  That’s a HUGE profit!

…and while I’m typing this, that fellow must have earned about Rs. 1200/- [within 1 hour] , or even more.

and here I am, happy with my software engineering job.

-The Big K-

Here I am in front of 21″ wide-screen monitor and it feels good. I’m in this new city and I don’t like it (still!). Friends told me I’ll change my opinion and start loving this city and will want to live in this city forever. All I know is - I know what to do and I’ll do it.

This is a strange city. Crowded & polluted. The people are strange and the auto-wallas are arrogant. I hate them. People cheat you and you can’t do anything about it.

Btw, I met an English Speaking Begger yesterday, can you believe that?

I’ll be back, <my beloved city>.

-The Big K-

Today, I’m going to tell you tales of two interesting people (software engineers) who surround me here.

The guy on my right cares a damn about work. His policy is “Come late, Go Early”. He comes to office an hour before the Lunch time and leaves the office by 6. His goals are clear - he doesn’t want to work as long as he’s getting paid. There’s nothing more than to him that I can write here.

The guy on my left is an interesting person. Today, I had a 30 minute chat with him and he seemed to like to talk about himself.Our discussion kicked off with my simple question to him about why he left <the rival company> and joined here. He naratted his story to me and since he doesn’t know that its going to be put here, I’ll tell it to you.

The guy on my left is from Bangalore. He did his engineering & didn’t like to work as a ‘typical software engineer’. He knew that ‘marketing’ was God’s gift to him [Ref: He told me stories of how big brand companies hired him to do the marketing for them]. He always wanted to do his own stuff (meaning: Running his own business).

But then one day, his mother cried to him and said “Why did you do engineering? Why don’t you look for a job?”. The guy on my left said he can get a job anytime [and then got a job day after, with <a big microprocessor manufacturer>]. He spent about 4 years with that company, occupied a big house near to Chiranjivi’s (South Indian Movie Star) house, traveled almost all of India (except Kolkata) and then left the city to join here.

“What’s your plan now?” I asked. “This is going to be my last company. You see, I don’t own anything here. I want to start my own business. I am a marketing guy. I can do anything. There are lots of ways for me to go into business.”.”But then, you could have done everything in your home town. Why did you come over here?”, I added. “There are several factors. I am here for stability. I got huge salary hike and I want to get married. I want my wife to do be in the job so that I can start my own business.You see…you can come here, do something and you get paid after 30 days. But that doesn’t happen in business. Electronics market is all about few months …from Ganesh festival to 1 January…”

“Hmmm”

Each one has his/her story. But I’m pleased to know that the guy on my left knows what he’s doing and he’s got a plan. That’s so unlike software engineers, right?

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Most of my close friends are in USA. They left to study, for jobs, onsite opportunities etc. None of them wants to come back.

…and why should they?

One of them said, “K, its amazing here! Feels like you’re in heaven!”.

Its exciting there. I know. I don’t deny that. Who wouldn’t want cleanest roads, beautiful buildings, good customer service, posh work environment, posh cars et. all? Most of my friends bought second hand luxury cars - the cars that only rich people can buy here; for they are available for only few thousand dollars there. Plus, when you’re working in the USA, you can send money back home and book flats in Pune.

Posh Flat, Posh Car, Posh Lifestyle - what else does one need? USA gives it all, for little effort.

Then why should anyone bother to come back to India? Umm, because you’re ’still an Indian’? Or maybe, because you are still the ’second citizen’ there? Whatever.

Who’s going to take all the pains of creating a better place here? Who’s going to clean the mess?

Don’t worry India. You can count on me. I’m not leaving you. I hope I’m not alone. Or, am I?

-The Big K-

I sometimes wonder why India lacks creative people. I was driving behind a Red Bus (no, not the ‘STAR’ bus) and wondering if the people who designed the Red Bus were drunk.

First of all, the Red Bus looks ugly. I hope you will agree with me on this. Second, its painted “Red-Yellow” from the outside and dark “Green” from the inside! Disgusting! Third, cushion-less green/blue seats? What the heck! Fourth - who thought that painting the windows with ‘green’ oil paint would look great? Fifth - the paint is of low quality and allows lovers to leave impressions of their ever-lasting love on the back side of seats and on the green windows. You must have noticed those signatures from “Pramod” or “Prakash loves Seema” messages. Damnit!

Sixth - no provision for physically handicapped or old people. To get into the bus, you have to lift you feet at least 3 feet above the ground! Hell!

Seventh: The emergency exit door/window is at the back and I doubt if anyone can cross it in case of emergency.

Oh, someone stop me!

-The Big K-

I was invited to be the judge at VNIT Personality Contest. Let me share an interesting experience with you from the contest. One of the contestants, a wannabe entrepreneur, said that he wanted to go abroad for higher studies and then come back to India to setup his own enterprise. Naturally, he was grilled on why he thought it was best to leave India and study abroad and then come back. While he was right in his argument, I guess I’ve something to say to people who think that they don’t have any future in their own country. Some of us even think we don’t have enough opportunities.

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, in some remote part of the world, there lived people who had never seen the shoes. They’d roam bare feet and were pretty happy about it.

Two shoe manufacturing companies sent their sales men to see the business potential. Both of them roamed around and did a survey. Sales man of company A called back his office and said, “People here don’t know about shoes! We can’t do business here!”

Sales man of company B called back his office and said, “People here don’t know about shoes! Let’s begin with 10,000 pairs”

Simple story. great learning!