Trust Hyundai to screw up!

Hyundai had one, yes, just one decent design - that is of Accent. That was a car well thought of, a decent design (dated, it might be), looked nice, and then came Verna (in India, Accent replacement is called Verna and Accent, the old model continues as a low end sedan!). This one again, had all the sneering face typical of Hyundai, the designers there must be really out of their minds! All of their cars to date, except Accent, have had a really dirty face and a back! (well, I can't say that for the old Sonata which was a copy of Jaguar!!!!!, but they had to screw it up eventually!).

Okay, they are not bad with their I10 and I20 and the soon to be launched I45, they look good! But, why in the bloody hell would someone want to screw up a decent looking car. Look at old Accent (for my European and American friends) and the new Verna (accent still for European and American friends and Verna for my Indian Friends). The bloody thing, again has a sneery face (just like Atos or in India we call it Santro). and has a chopped back! just does not fit in! Horrible looking cars, except the old Accent.

Anyway, all said and done, a man always treats his car like his ideal lovely wife. Well, the real one complains, moans, makes hue and cry about silly things and he is in love with his car where he can get away from the devil. And, you have the audacity to make cars which remind us, men folk of the pain that these elements inflict on us, no sir, no way, I will not buy your @#$%^ car, Wake up! Do something better!


All this is my personal opinion, and I don't want to know what you think of it! This is my opinion and I rest  my case! Just look at those ugly cars! give me a break.

Adios Hyundai, I will never, ever, buy a car however great you make them, unless, you make them look good to me.


Bye for now.

A debate on Astrology on Suvarna Channel

Yesterday, there was a debate on Astrology on Suvarna Channel. The panel comprised of non-believers and some astrologers. It was all about fake astrologers taking people for a ride and making money. Some of the panelists made scathing remarks on couple of people who were not present in the discussion.

One of the persons targeted was earlier hosting a program in the channel. The channel spokesman and some of the panelists went hammers and tongs at him, calling his bluff and ridiculing him. As a matter of fact, those panelists who made these comments are the ones who are cheating people. In fact, one of them is a self proclaimed Guru, by profession he is an ayurvedic doctor and astrology also has become a profession for him. He has read some horoscopes and has predicted really absurd things which has hurt the people who went to him seeking an answer. What he told them and what really happened are totally way off. So to speak, these kind of self proclaimed Gurus, making people wait for hours, not even listening to them properly and giving wrong advices should be banned. The irony is he was proclaiming the others were wrong and he means well, hmm. what a stupid hypocrite.

The person these guys including the self proclaimed Guru were targeting hosts a program in another channel. Yes, sometimes he goes overboard in getting his point across to people but he has never mae any false promises to anyone. He does not take money from anyone to study their horoscope and give them the correct inputs. He is not cheating people like this self styled Guruji does.

The other person, these people were targeting, is a famous astrologer. They took a dig at him saying he is a A/C room astrologer. Well, he can afford it, what's your b***y problem? These guys also sit in A/C rooms! People go to this astrologer and he is not going to them. Most of his predictions are fairly accurate and he takes pains to explain clearly the basis for his predictions, unlike these jokers who just got on the TV for the sake of publicity.

No names, here, but you want to know who am referring to, be my guest :).

Largesse by state governments to Cricket Players for winning world cup!

This is really crazy. The Indian cricket team won the cricket world cup. Quite a few of the state governments went and announced huge sums of money to the team for winning the cup. Now, to come to think of it, all these players make millions in salaries, endorsements and many more ways. Yes, winning the world cup was a great achievement, no doubt, but there are many more equally deserving athletes/players, if not more, from many other fields too! All these governments have not done a dime to encourage any of those. There are athletes/players who have won in Olympics and world events. Cricket is played only by some 10-12 countries in comparison to the sports others participate. Don't get me wrong. I used to be a cricket player and even to date I am a great fan of many of the past and current players, but, my view is give a fair share to all. Don't corner everything yourself. And our governments, wake up, there are many poor, downtrodden and suffering people - use this money to help them, not make the ones who are already rich, richer.

All about good old days!

An interesting reading that one of my friends passed on to me. Here it is. 'Why Our Great-Grandparents Had Fond Memories Of Their Youth...'  (I'm surprised they remember anything!!)  A bottle of Bayer's 'Heroin'. Between 1890 & 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children suffering with a strong cough. Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment. Mariani Wine Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of its time. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal. Maltine Maltine Coca Wine was produced by the Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York ... It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should only take half a glass.  Opium for Asthma At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet, It didn't cure you, but you didn't care... Cocaine Tablets (1900) All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to 'smooth' the voice. Cocaine drops for toothache Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy! Opium for newborns I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but also 46% alcohol)! It's no wonder they were called, 'The Good Old Days'!! From cradle to grave... Everyone Was Stoned!!

Local Search is getting more popular! Here is how!

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Reality Check - Content Creation - Outsourcing to USA

When you are a start up and trying to do multiple things you are also watching the money draining out of your pocket. I decided that I will create the company website. Spent some time and had a basic website up and running as everyone you talk to, will say, what is your website, can I see? We had put together some sparse content in a hurry and launched the site.

A few months passed by and I realized that we need to revamp our website. Spoke to quite a few local companies (here in India) and it took some time to realize that all these are going to be expensive (well, at least for me) and something that I cannot afford at that point of time.

Someone would say, a design would cost you 1000$ to 1500$, then content would cost you 50$ a page so on so forth. Our website of some 20 pages would cost me around 4000-5000$. I said thank you but no thank you.

We now have a redesign of the website done at about 500$. All the 20 pages of content I got it done for about $250 and may be another 100$ for images/flash .....

I could do that by outsourcing my content writing to writers in USA.

Is there a message here? Yes, my fellow IT services and consulting companies, stop being greedy, start being realistic and focus on providing good services at affordable costs to customers.

Does anyone know of a recall from any Indian Automobile Manufacturers?

Yes, we know Toyota, General Motors, Honda, ...... all of them have had to recall and fix the defective component free of cost?

The question is, has any of the Indian automobile manufacturer recalled their cars and had to do something similar? Not that I know of?

There are two messages here! One, none of them care about the customer or we have such high levels of dependency, reliability and precision in manufacturing in comparison to rest of the world. That is unbelievable.



Comments/suggestions are welcome :)


Regards

CV