Three Idiots - A wonderful Movie

Last week me and Geeta went for a afternoon show of Three Idiots. Like other two movies of Rajkumar Hirani, This also touched our hearts.

I cried a lot, laughed at few scenes and overall enjoyed the few hours at AUDI 4 at  SPICE MALL, Noida with Geeta. During intermission we had large pack of popcorn.

Few things in our life matched with the movie characters.

Upasana  switched to Post Graduation in Psychology after completing her graduation in Electronics. She is the only one in her class with no prior experience while all other students studied Psychology for 3 to 5 years (3 years in graduation and few students also studied Psychology in +2) and is rank holder.

Geeta had gone thru a difficult phase in life and then she re-started her life with full energy.

I lost every penny, did not give up and after a bad financial phase lasting for four years, again started earning profits.

Be it movie or our life or life of so many other people that we know of, one thing is common

FORTUNE  FAVORS THE BRAVE

will be celebrating 25 years of marriage this year

I will be completing 25th marriage anniversary this year. Just wanted to share some of the photographs and my views.

I got married at the age of 24 years and was working with DCM Data Products . Geeta was 23 years old and was working as Maths teacher at Manav Stahli School.

I had ideas of low cost, no dowry marriage,. However Geeta's family wanted a normal conventional marriage.

Result was what you can see in the enclosed photographs, I was in normal clothes, no coat or tie, borrowed shoes from Vijay, there was no loud music from a band, no decorative lights at our home,  day marriage on a  sunday afternoon, no religious ceremonies at our home.

While Geeta was dressed like a bride and their family followed all religious ceremonies in their family.

After marriage we were literally a text book example from MAN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS.

However over last 25 years, we have learned the art of understanding the difference between people from mars and venus.

I have a question

We go thru pre-school, school and college and do lot of professional courses and learn every thing like English, Maths, Electronics, Engineering, Medicines, why not have formal class room training on personal relations and how to handle marriage?

National Animal of India - Tiger or Mouse

Let me share a small even that happened around 16 years back.

It was a sunday afternoon in the month of November in Delhi. Me, Geeta and Upasana were going to Pragati Maidan in a auto-rickshaw. We were enjoying the  chilly winter after noon with a warm Sun and a pollution free area of Delhi Cantt.  All of us were looking forward to fun and care free enjoyment at Pragati Maidan.

And then we saw a bicycle rider suddenly turning to right and a fast moving truck applying brakes.  Truck had hit the bicycle rider and then hit a tree on central verge. Both truck driver and cycle driver were badly hurt but conscious.

People stopped and watched the accident scene but no body offered any help to the accident victims. I with the help of auto-rickshaw driver moved them to the vehicle we were traveling in  (that is auto-rickshaw) and asked Geeta to move to Pragati Maidan along with Upasana and we went to near by army base hospital.

After some time,  Geeta and Upasana also reached Base Hospital courtesy another good samaritan. We moved out after giving our name and address and feeling happy.

Few days later, an army major visited us to thank us as the bicycle rider was a army jawan.


Almost every one with whom we shared this incident advised me not to help accident victims. The logic of well-wishers was simple - it is a bad world, your daughter and wife need protection and care.


My logic was also simple - I want my daughter to be a TIGER and not a MOUSE. And they only way is to be TIGER myself. 


Since then, every time I see an accident victim, I stop and help to best of my resources. My well wishers keep telling me not to do it.


So What has been your experience. Do you find people around you take the role of TIGER or MOUSE when faced with a crisis. Share your views.

Rcoket Singh - A good story from Director of "CHAK DE INDIA"

On Tuesday Dec 15th,2009, all seven team members of GVC-NOIDA  went for a morning show for  Rocket Singh - Salesman of the year at Spice Mall, Noida and then a quick lunch at food court.

Rocket Singh is a movie based on IT office and performance of average people with ordinary skills and creating extraordinary results.



We choose Rocket Singh for various reasons including the fact that it was from the director of CHAK DE INDIA and it conveyed that doing sales is not a rocket science.

My visit to Indian Agriculture Research Institute and Agri-mach 2009

Today I visited IARI, met Dr Pramod, Dr Saxena and Mr Sharma from IARI. They are setting up an incubator at IARI, Pusa premises.

It is really nice that Govt organisation are now realising that wealth and business and development can be created only by entrepreneurs who take risk and also that entrepreneurs need to be supported.

IARI is now looking for few entrepreneurs who can set up their office within IARI premises, get all support like admin staff, fax, furniture, electricity, power back up, parking place, a good library, access to students and qualified and competent faculty and a good networking opportunities and then a nice place next to a metro station.

Checkout their website inviting entrepreneurs

http://66.36.248.186:8080/IARIBPDM/index.jsp 


I also visited the exhibition at IARI premises. There were so many foreign companies who were selling expenses instruments for farms and field. Electronics is widely used in all developed countries to boost their agriculture output.

Now we are also looking to be a part of growing field of agri-electronics.

Will be meeting IARI people again on 15th December.

First Impact of Brain Science Program

During the seminar, I learned that our future actions are based on results of past actions.

I could see that in the past I managed to get results even when I was not punctual or did not do complete work in my office. The reason is that almost all of people in our life do not confront when we lie. (popularly known as diplomacy).

This results in poor efficiency / productivity as we also tend to accept their lies.

So our seminar leader gave us some exercises (home work) and result was that I managed to double up the work last week. My team (and one customer) was really impressed.

Stay tuned. I will be posting more results from this seminar.

Brain Science and its importance in our life

I have joined a 10 week long seminar talking about brain science and design of our life. I have already attended sessions for 2 weeks and 8 more are to go.

During the seminar, we are taught about AMYGDALA, a part of the brain that hijacks your body when you face a threatening situation. (read  more on wikipedia). Fox example when you touch a hot surface or some one comes in front of your car while driving, this parts ensures you take quick action.


NEURONS, there are billions of them and they are ones who perform complex job like looking at face of some one and identifying his as your old buddy or even looking at small child and quickly identifying with some one know to you.

This knowledge is used by psychologist and psychiatrists / doctors for treatment of patients.

For me (and other 80 persons who are with me in this group) this seminar is to increase knowledge and create more fun, efficiency, productivity and health  in life.

Stay tuned and I will be sharing some benefits on this blog.

Who is a coach - watch this video to know

A coach is some one who asks you to do some thing that you do not want to do so that you can be what you want to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpp_jHfykpY&feature=player_embedded

Write back your comments about what you learned from this movie clip and why you love or hate this clip.

GVC at ET NOW

On Oct 20th, ET Now covered GVC Systems products and a small interview with me in its program called STARTING UP.

click on you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS342UyZIA

Meeting scientists from Agriculture Institute

Yesterday two scientists from IARI visited our incubator from IARI.

Mr J P Saxena, principal scientist and incharge for Institute Technology Management Unit and Dr Pramod Kumar ,Senior Scientist and PI(Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning and Developement Unit).

They saw the various products designed by GVC related to Delhi Metro, Traffic Lights, Home white goods and security products. We also discussed with them about a design started by GVC for agriculture irrigation.

We also discussed about our interest in developing electronic controllers for Agriculture Field and a visit to IARI was fixed for next week beginning.

So very soon, you will see a GVC designed products in farms and villages.

So stay tuned and keep observing what's new at GVC