if u want Lok Paritran to win!!

if u have read my previous posts you would have known on an average only 50% of the votes are polled. of these regular voters u can use ur influence on a small % of people and make them vote to LP. plus u will get the people who will be willing to work for LP in this 50%.

now coming to the next 50 - the non-voters. these guys are mostly educated, high profile and wealthy. Educated guys have the attitude that their vote wont make a difference. even if they vote one of the political parties is going to win, and the rest are as usual. High profile (judges, doc's, enggr's) get their job done thru their contacts they don't take the trouble to go to a govt office to get their work done, so they neglect the elections. wealthy guys, they play with money to get their things done, so irrespective of who comes to power, their money will speak, thus they don't vote.

LP can win, if this 50% come to vote for them. These ppl are not influenced by political parties, they don't vote for money/briyani/thanni. for LP candidate it will be easy to canvas these people than the normal 50% who expect something or the other from the candidate.

Of ths 50% even if 30% come and votes for LP, LP's candidate will win with a handsome margin.

Guys ur educated theoretically, politician's are very practical. their knowledge abt the area and its people are immense. u can get the exact meaning of tactics only from a politician. use ur economics, and science to gather votes.

everything is possible!

ur vote - how much dose ur single vote matters

In tn, total population is arnd 6 crore. the 2 biggies dmk/admk have arnd 1 crore members each. normal voting percentage here is around 50% on a average. so in real sense only 1 crore people decide the elections.

when it comes to your constituency, the same rule applies in a smaller scale. to keep the numbers really low, lets take the ward elections. depending upon the size, a ward in Chennai has around 12k voters. of this 50% don't vote, so it is a matter of 6k votes. of this dmk and admk account for 2k vote each. this is their vote bank. so the actual deciders r 2000 people of whom u know at least 100 persons personally. which is 5% of the deciding voters. If u convince this 100 people u can make a candidate to win or loose the election.

when u live in a town u gain more power as the number of voters decrease but the number of people whom u know will remain constant.

so- do exercise ur vote, and ask people u know to vote. u can make a difference in a very personal manner to your area.

political parties and their cadress

I found a interesting aspect about about the so called party men of the political parties in TN.
i know a person in my area who will fight with you if u say something wrong about dmk. he'll argue with u till u give up. this person earns abt 3k per month. he lives in a slum nearby. his son, abt 12 years old has taken the brush in his hands already. worst part is he'll die one day in this same position, let it be 5 years or 15 years from this day.
if u r working for another party or person who is contesting elections against dmk, he wont support u. even if u give one thousand rupees per day for 10 days of campaign. he lives by his party.
in the same sense im working in a mnc, earn arnd 30k per month. Im looking for a better company to work for in the immediate future if i get a better pay packet.
y is this so, y they r so loyal to their parties, i couldn't find answers for these questions. yes he is illiterate, but after living for 45 years in the place he knows what is good and what is bad, still he is with his party.

these guys amuse me....

how much to spend for a election

as per SEC-state election commission, for the councilor election which was recently held, a candidate should not spend more than 35k!! every candidate would have elapsed this rule...
some simple facts::
one must have seen autos being used for the election campaign, per day details on that..
Auto + Driver rent - 350 to 500
petrol - 180
announcer's bata in auto - 200
food - 200
sound speaker rent - 400 to 700
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totals to - 1330 to 1780
for 10 days - 13k to 17k
some guys run more than one auto!!
Amount spent by each candidate runs into lakhs very easily, if he is part of dmk/admk then the budget seems to cross 10L.

2 people can raise this as an issue,
1st and the most unlikeliest - SEC
2nd media, these guys are colour blinded for many unknown reasons
Blogs help to an extent, but their reach is not sufficient, for example this blog!!

SOLUTION ?? everybody should exercise their vote compulsorily and choose a worthy person. Instead of depending one 2 unknown people to change our state of living, every one should do his part, one can start by casting his vote early in the morning!

election -- part 2

seems justice dept is the only one to keep our democracy afloat, but only to an extent though.
latest news is counting as been postponed for the chennai corporation, and SEC will analyze further into the issue! as a result number of booths for re-polling will be increased, but to what extent is again a question. lets wait and see...

chennai corporataion elections - f..k.n democracy

last 10 were really hectic due to the election work, kkd contested as a independent candidate - yeah thats a comedy, but hey, he is my dad!
10 day, 20 hrs each day was spoiled by dmk rowdies in 1 hour today. 83 rd ward has 11 boots in total, all of them were captured between 8.45 to 10 am.
both common ppl and politicians - except dmk were dragged out by rowdies and policemen, yes u read it correct, policemen.
ill eloborate on this latter as im too tierd now..
fact is - democracy has again! been f...ed to death in chennai.

Olympia water park!

A new water park has been opened in Chennai exclusively for IT flocks of companies who work in the promoters Tech park with the same name.

Another interesting news about this park is it woks only when it rains in Chennai!! but when it happens.. u can enjoy like anything, new thrill rides like bike skidding, drive thru in a feet of water.. and get drenched - by ur colleague's bike/car have been introduced here. biggest of all these rides are free if u work in the tech park!

fire alarms in our offices..

it seems a joke has been cracked for the whole office in one single shot, yes the fire alarm is
screaming at it best!

This is the kind'a situation that is prevailing in my office today, at least once a month a false alarm goes on..
if the trail continues, even if there is a real alarm, people will stay put, till something bad happens.

the funniest part .. once it is known that it is a false alarm .. a voice .. will crack thru the loud speaker system to inform "No fire, false alarm only. System got problem, no need to panic" ! plus his tone and his accent make it pure fun for the employees.

but i can sense someone crying in the near future for ignoring the alarm for some precious seconds.. as the school teachers did in kumbakonam.....

iPod / Zune

first damn cts for givin away 18k ipods!! which totals to 540 TB of disk space! to get filled with songs, photos and movies.
but, thx to it as it made me to handle a ipod for the first time. Incredible device!

Zune! it looks great to me - atleast on picture. ms has been labeled as a copier at its best, they r not harming their reputation with zune. negative aspects - from ms, bigger, battery. positive points WiFi enabled, so that u can share ur songs with ur friend.

my doubts - will we need to be in a hotspot to transfer our content, if yes options in chennai are very limited as of now we can use abhirami mall - yes it is a hotspot.

anyway im not goin to buy them in the near future, so y bother!

BMW's Indian woes!!

i read an article on ET about a peculiar problem which BMW is facin here. to put it short, run-flat tyre -- this technology is used by bmw to build tyre's for their cars. these tyres can run for 200km at 80kmph even if they r punctured. so, bmw never supplies a car with a spare-wheel!
but by indian law every car manufacture shuld provide a spare-wheel with the car..

avan avanuku ennanamo kashtam irruku ivungaluku!
article link - BMW's Indian plan faces peculiar roadblock

Anjali

a kids movie for parents!!

i dont remember the exact circumstance of watching the movie.
it was aired today on ktv. kudo's to mr.Maniratnam.

For me this is his second best ceation(so far!) my first choice is Aayitha Ezhuthu, one heck of a movie.

my dream job is to assist him in a film! will i?!

L1-B

finaly panju used some of the papers in her passport!
hope she gets her travel plan soon..

we had a bet between us - who will board a plan first..

she is ontrack to win it hands down, but hey there is deccan for me to win.
anyway congrats to her.

how wuld it feel up there.. some 30,000 feet above from here, in a aluminium cylinder welded with fins!

waiting to post my experience of it

but hey - the issue is not to win but to compete..!!

my blog !i

im in a mood to write today, after a toiling day with cachemanager let me unwind here..

i dont know how to go abt my blog, what to write into it and what not to.
shall i share my personal thoughts here, but they wont be personal anymore!

so y a blog?

to talk abt general stuff, somthing intresting, some techi stuff
all? may be..

might get a ans after few posts.. till then let me continue..

but hey -- shuld i post this?!

ru a miser? many feel i'm

talk less..(dont care abt the second part this post is not abt that)

i dont belive in talkin a lot. but ppl arnd me always feel v.bad abt this attitude.
dont know y. i couldnt find a reason for that.

startin from my girl to my friend till my dad everyone think that im a quite person.
but thousands of thoughts revolve in my mind at anytime, i dont have a definitive bracket for my mind to evolve arnd.

may be i havent see a quiter person so far, ill be hpy to meet him!

i got into this habbit durin my 'ic' years in asan. im hppy with this style, but have to change for her..though i dont like changes

lusasi - what?!

this is the pwd of bala's email id, my best friend.
(Ba)lusasi!
after a jam of 4 years sasi's family showed the green signal to bala's.
v.happy for him.

ennaka.. ?? dhaya-dad- kitta than kekkanum

!first post!

this is a tricky one to write.

What to write?
many but nothing fits into the pic when i need them the most.
for a partial intro abt me u can visit my orkutprofile.

Y blog?
jst to make note of the spills from my brain

Jst now i realised im doin nothing to make a note of..
ok, at least from now on ill do something useful for the sake of blogging!