To my friends in Bangalore (February 2009)

Dear Joseph, Firoz, Amjad, Vineeth, Karthik & Deepu,

I am in Malaysia related to work, sorry couldnt update any one.
Here flexible working hours, was a stressful startup, i think was a capability test for me.
Ok now, leads are a very young group, they seems good and understanding.
Only two Japanese guys (they are the Operations Controllers here), rest are a mix.
Not very strict time lines, as the requirements are all impossibles :).
I think whatever impossibles in market comes straight from Pan japan to Research centre in here.
This facility is completely devoted for communication systems.
You can see some funny Japanese names like Akiro, Ashimoto, Shikoku, Konshu, Matsushita etc in all mails :).
Humid whether here similar to SG, and no need for moisturising creams and oils, feels like Trivandrum.

Happenings
1, Felt honoured before seeing the requirements :).
2, Felt nervous (worse than rocket science) after talking to the leads the second day.
3, Wanted to Run and Escape after seeing the product (Presence Server and PABX of Panasonic)
4, Regained confidence when all these Guys went for Chinese New year vacation last week, talking to my mom and my special friend gave me a moral boost and support :).
5, Had a demo today -about what can be done to improve existing stuff and porting issues to new platforms, it went fine, thanks to Ansaris & Firoz's contributions about Japanese companies and work cuture :).
4, Now after 2 weeks started taking breaks and same old story -Engineers can make puttu, dosa, fly rockets, make coffee without using coffee powder & work without monitor etc. ha ha.

History
Remembering -2006, Senega Company (Vineeth,Firoz,Joseph,Me,

Amjad,Karthik etc), Mr. Sonu (CEO without funds) , No fan, No salary, My day time college classes, Working whole nights without pay, No money for dinner at koramangala Siji's mess, All of us Joining MMP(Our life turning point), Firozs marriage, Josephs marriage, First Holland trip along with Jose and Firoz etc ...
We should not forget our roots.
I think the above factors makes us what we are and distinguishes us in the crowd where ever we go

Joseph
I will go to KL the coming week then i will ask abt Sony Camcorder.
I assume price is almost same as Singapore, should be less than Europe!!
I am staying in Cyber Jaya near to office. Its a green, silent and calm place and not having electronics malls.
Nearest city is KL Central (a transit junction ). And its a crowded place and can get anything.
We dont go there much.
How is chechi and next gen?

Amjad
You crook, dont chat much instead do some useful work, you will need money man.
Family wala banna uthna aasan nahi, OK :)
Tell regards to family and your wouldbe

Mamachi(Firoz)
You were right abt Yapanese(sorry, still dutch is coming when i am out, buha ha)
But most of the workers are local Malaysian chinese and Malaysian Indians.
One guy's name was Vishnu Monn, found his great grandpa sailed in a row boat from Trivandrum to KL.
He looks like Suppandi & not much ideas abt Kerala other than the sailing history.
Found a great soup for you -Ask Ansari Ok. Its called Buddha jumps over the wall click the below link to see.
Buddha jumps over the wall , very traditional(Kings in Qin dynasty) and costly. Served only on special occasions here. Its available in some Singapore restaurants.

I will elope and come to your castle if things dont work on both sides of the kingdom, i hope you got it :)
Regards to Sumi chechi, my apprentice (junior) how is he doing. Started moving :)?

Vini Anna
How is recruitment (frozen)?, every where firing left and right, what you think its going to be?
Then how is your family, regards to her.

Gods grace -amidst deepening recession i have found l.Job & a good job, i say thanks to all who prayed and lended support.

05/March/09
Syam.Sathyan
R&D Engineer,
Communication Development Centre
Malaysia
Aka: Achachen,Gun,Syamannen,Monoottan etc

Singapore Trip

Again Client Sponsored trip,

I had a hope to find a date, but the trip turned out from a general code merge to a complete tragedy as the deliverables i was carrying was totally below the clients expectations.

So the trip became a requirements collection and rest is history,

1, Communicated the new reqs to our team in India
2, The team manager and the programmers spends the whole week in office (every day 12+ hours including sunday).
4, I spend the whole trip(including sunday) inside the Maxwell office center in TanjongPagar, collaborating with our team in India, no holiday mood!!!!!
5, I flew back on the day before the d-day, to be part of the delivery.
6, Finished the clients expectations and delivered at the last moment of the d-day(deadline).

All this within 10 days flat.....

What i missed is a great mixed culture, and couldnt get a closer look at peoples life.
Got many JOB offers from multiple companies, but denied them due to ethics(we indians cant ditch our employers). Even then had a great deal of foods from -Japanese,Chinese,Malay,Burmese,Thai,Korean,Singaporean,Hayanese etc etc.

My trip Sponsor(Project Consultant) was a great man, he took me every day for food outside.
And helped me to get photos of all the food we had out there, here they are ......


Some Crazy Noodles which was too powerful


Fish Fry, in Tomato Sauce(i doubt its cantonese way)


Spinach and Cabbage in Great a sauce


Cruchy Spinaches(or something similar) in light oil


A restaurant on the Belmoral Road , opposite to the Hotel i stayed(Garden ).


A Construction Site Truck(Take out the place, the truck looks like one of OUR's!!!)


Parking Lot of the Hotel i stayed.


Dont know which car, looks classy!!!


The Famous Chicken Rice of singapore!!!!


Dp having Noodles, he changed to forks (maybe for me), otherwise chopsticks!!!


Crunchy Japanese Prawn Tempora ....great and healthy


This water fall is inside Changi Airport

Changi Airport inside the Checkin.



The same waterfall in Full length(three or four Floors!!!)


Me!!! ,an Indonesian Guy took this snap.



Yeah this is called SkyTrain, it interconnects two Terminals of Changi Aiport.


Singapor'es population is mostly consisting of Chinese,Malay,Korean,Indonesians & Indians.


Outside view from the SkyTrain(was testing my Rollei-db10 Camera)


Another View from SkyTrain.


Not taking picture of the Excalator, she had good shape!!!


Then i saw these two small men trying to take out their Camera???
Oh, they are also trying to take a snap of the Excalator & not hers :)
Found all men are same ................


Dont know which station(on the way to Changi maybe Lavender)
But i wanted to show how they MAINTAIN this crowded Railway Station to All Indians.


Tanjong Pagar (That Building is Hotel Amara).


Tanjong Pagar Street View, on the way to my office in Maxwell Centre.


Roads are better than Holland,,,,,,,, and uncomparable to any thing in Asia.


Ohhhhhhhh Maan, Finally Found an Indian Restaurent(thank u Mr.Khan).
We might praise other cultures and their food, but finally we get bored end up in some CURRY!!!


At Mr Khans food outlet this is what i got for 3$(sing), Mutton curry and Rice.


DP having South Indian Meals, Surprising isnt it ?????
Last Day i called him to a SouthIndian restaurent and ordered a BanaLeaf lunch!!!


On the Way to china Town, this Buddhinst Temple is supposed to have a tooth of Mr.Buddha.


China Town, u can get chinese artifacts here for cheap..




The Lantern Festival in China Town...

Finally my linux laptop(compaq-nx625) WIFI working

Hoooooooo, an year of configuration!! came to an end.
Finally and I won this battle of conquering.
Let me explain the woe i had in detail.


I bought this lap(compaq-nx625) in fluke when i found the price very attractive in Germany last year.The German visit happened while i was at the client side in Amsterdam, which i posted in the prev blog.
Then came my mishaps in configuring this machine to work with linux,tried Fedora Core 6 and found that the acpi is to be enabled to get the colling fans running all time(or machine heats up and switches off)

Broadcom wifi chip was always a trouble to power up in linux until i found ndiswrapper.

Now the wifi+Compiz+Laptop soft switches + Sound + WebCam ... all are working.

Firoz, see in this brutal Microsoft led IT world its tough to stand apart and announce that i am a Linux techie. Because linux is all about lack of support,drivers,documentation etc etc.

Me in Holland

I was looking forward for the Amsterdam visit sponsored by the client.
I was expecting a voluptuos fest of lust, love and some international technology hype. My guess was correct upto 90%, except for love.

No One seemed to have time for Romace in their lives in Amsterdam and also nearby town where we lived called HoofdDorp. But i guess people in that part of Europe except the Dutch are completely mechanical.

In Germany the situation was more interesting, they talk much about their long forgotten relationships in colleges etc, but they agrees to the fact that no one is interested in marriage or keeping a relationship for more than an year. Internationally an year lasting relation is pretty long. But as a man from a good cultural background, i think a life time is not enough to study our partner.

Some Snaps from my Holland Trip

The Best Beer was pion, cheap and best(30 cents a can)

Most of the service appartments in Hoofddorp were near to a waterbody(peaceful and romantic)

This is the back side of our house in Egholm near Bornholm

See the Road and the Bus stop, can u find any human!!!
Its different from our continent, where it will be always crowded!!!!!

A View from the Bus stop

View from Hoofddorp Bus station Bridge

I was sleeping after a couple of burgers, but photo has a drunken look!!

a village play ground near our house

Street sight

With the Russian Mafia at Office in Holland Office Centre.

Our Office is inside this building in Kruizweg.

Night View of a Beach Resort at Denhag.

Some Place which was not so interesting to go inside!!!!!
Took a snap from outside and left immediately to Denhag beach.

Me in denhag, looking for a decent corner.

Finally Amsterdam BoatRide!!!!.
what u see is a Boat house.

Another view from Boat in a Canal in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Port.