Something beautiful for God...

Wise Advice
from Mother Teresa

( because it was never between you and them )

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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis
it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

-- Do something beautiful for God...

When friends lose their jobs...

Last few weeks have been tough...at work. Company laid off around 2000 employees. For the first time in my career I need to give a message to some of my team members that they need to go (its not really because of their bad performance). Luckily I don't need to send anybody same day. Thank God. 

When I went down to the war room to collect the letters for my team I could see Ram in the room talking to HR and completing his relieving formalities. Ram is my cab mate , Saturday morning table tennis partner at club , a father , a son , a husband..., a manager... He was there in the cab in the morning...I never expected that Ram will be in that unlucky list...Life is so unpredictable...I was thinking "what will he tell his wife once he reach home after loosing his job..." .I am glad he got another job close to his house within few weeks. God has better plans for all of us.

CEO's resume mistakes was another big news. CEOs resume has mentioned wrong qualifications...We got a mail on a Monday morning that Scott (CEO) left the company. Scott is also a father , a son , a husband...Everybody makes mistakes...Felt sorry about him...

Sunday Sermon Messages and Stories

The Wonderful Cracked Pot - 27 Mar 2011, Bangalore

Once there was a man who carried water every day from a stream to his house. He carried it in two large pots hung on each end of a pole slung across his neck. He called them his "wonderful pots."

One pot was perfect. It was always full of water at the end of the long walk from the stream.

The other pot was cracked. It leaked, and always arrived at the house only half full. One day by the stream it spoke to the man.

"I am ashamed of myself," it said.

"Why?" the man asked.

"Water leaks out the crack in my side all the way back to your house," the pot said. "Because I'm not perfect, you can't bring home two full pots of water. I'm a failure, just a cracked pot."

"You should not feel that way." the man said. "You are not a failure. You are a wonderful pot. And, you can prove it to yourself.

"As we return to the house today, look carefully alongside the path. When we get home, tell me what you saw."

All the way home, the cracked pot paid attention to everything he saw. At home the man asked, "What did you see?"

"Flowers," said the cracked pot. "I saw lots of flowers."

"Yes you did. Aren't they beautiful?"

"Yes," said the pot. "But, once again, half the water I was carrying leaked out. I'm sorry."

"There is no need to be sorry," said the man. "Tell me, did you notice where the flowers were growing?"

"Well, yes," he said, a little puzzled. "They were only on my side of the path, but not on the other side. Why is that?"

"For all these years," the man said, "I have planted flower seeds on your side of the path. Every day as we walked back from the stream..."

"Ohhhhhhhh!" the pot interrupted, shaking with excitement. "I watered the seeds through the crack in my side, and the seeds sprouted and the flowers bloomed, and..."

"Yesssss," said the man, who was as excited as the pot. "Because you are the way you are, everyone in the village can decorate their homes with beautiful flowers.

"Each of us is a cracked pot in one way or another." he said. "But there is still no limit to the beauty we can create."

From that day on, the cracked pot knew just how wonderful it really was.

Letters from Kunjunni Mash

My old Poems : as it is from my Diary Pages : 1992 - 2006

On a nostalgic May weekend I have opened some of my old diary pages ...a walk back to the memory lane...time losing its speed...the clock needles going back and forth through many years...Some of my memories (I don't know whether we can call them poems) I am publishing here...as it was written during that lonely evenings. Some of them are not that clear as these diary pages are very old. But the memories as fresh as the morning sun. I will try to rewrite them and make a better copy and publish later.

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1. City 

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2. When Dreams Dry out...  

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3. The Blind

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4. Summer Rain 

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5. Letters to God...  

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6. Life 

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7. Friend

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8.Remembering my Childhood Village

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Letters and advices from Kunjunni Mash

Structure of a white paper

If you are planning to write a technical white paper the following high level structure may be helpful.

Parts of a paper:

• Title (keep it short!)
• Authors (typically listed in alphabetical order unless some one’s contribution stands out)
• Abstract (shorter version of intro)
• Intro (here is where you do the selling – perhaps the most important section)
  • What is the problem?
  • Why is it important? What are the applications?
  • Why are existing solutions inadequate?
  • What are our key technical contributions?
  • Highlight of experimental results
• Related work (here you compare & differentiate with existing work, try to be comprehensive)
• Model & Problem definition (formal statement of the problem)
• Algo/solution for subproblem 1
• Algo/solution for subproblem 2
• Experimental evaluation
  • Data sets (preferably real-life)
  • Performance metrics (accuracy, execution time)
  • Algo/solutions compared
  • Experimentation platform
  • Performance graphs
• Conclusions
  • Recap of contributions, experimental results
  • Directions for future work
• References
• Appendix (here’s where you put details like proofs of theorems, non-critical but useful reference material) 

Try to fill all these in 10 pages.

We, "the players...."

Writing after a long time...on this blog.Lots of events to mention...

Visits to my teams in Singapore, Jordan. Taiwan and Sunnyvale visits.
Carol joined as our CEO
Ari , our Head of Engg left
Blake joined
PSR left
Org changes. Emerging Markets teams have moved to different teams after reorg. I am going to stay back with my VP heading the Quality Engineering for Yahoos new search strategy..mainly the vertical intent search team. I also need to lead the Locals and Listings Platform QE also. Need to set up a new team. First 90 days book again useful here. Another good news. I got promoted as Director - Quality Engineering.