Monday, December 24, 2007

Weekend at Tiger caves and Dhakshin Chitra

Yesterday we planned to visit tiger caves. It was decided at 9:00 am and started at 10:30 am. Ramu, Pappi, Mama and Guna annan joined. Last min. Pavi and Vachu also joined us.

Athai prepared lunch for us. We first went to Tiger caves and Ramu started taking photos. Kids were running around the place and were enjoying by climbing the rocks. The place was neatly maintained. Fully of grass and in between some small rocks. It was a hot sunny day and mama took a small nap after reaching there.

I went to the beach and there is no place to take lunch. We requested the guard and took lunch there.

Later we went to beach. We went to the beach through the trees. It was little risky. Every one enjoyed. We played cricket for some time. Mama and Guna Annan also played. Sai Ram scored the max. runs. Snega and Guru played the throw ball. We spend some time on the beach.

We then went to Dhakshin Chitra. It was a wonderful calm place. Full of greenery and you wont feel the heat. They have created heritages of four southern states, of which two fully completed. We were enjoying the TN heritages.

The Sathanur house looks like our Manalmedu/ Thalainayiru house. We were telling SaiRam, Gowtham and Krithi about the old houses. Pappi was explaining Vachu about the Sashtiyapthapoorty photo.

It was wonderful recollection of our village house memories. Kerala houses also very good. We took snaps all over the places. We need atleast four hours to visit completely. Spent only two hours. Had bajji, vadai and coffee there in Arusuvai Arasu before leaving.

It was a nice surprise enjoyable picnic.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Slow and Steady

Last few days I am in great confusion on doing things fast and give a temporary solution & later work on the improvements. Some people will spend more time in design and get the things completed perefetly by doing once.

I have a personal experience. I was trying to get the customer conversion for our downloads for the past few months. I did not get perfect result till now(of course it is difficult to get 100% accurate results). But I saw one of our managers is able to get the results to some extent. I wanted to compare the results to get the perfection.

He was using a AU student to do this work for his product alone. I was trying it with a Er. Trainee. He is planning from the step one and designing it from the downloads/access and proceeding. I am trying it with the log data we have.

There is a big difference in both approaches. He is doing smart so that today he will not get the result but once he gets the result, he can get all the levels(coversion, lead time, source, etc.) In my case I may get the result for the source, but to get the other results, I have to put in more effort.

His approach is smarter and mine is working hard and get the result fast(but not accurate). The result was not even to the expectation. The difference is I will be getting the results for all the products, where as we have to run different instances for different products. The other difference is if he fails the effort put in will be less compared to mine. In both the cases we will not get the result for all the customers but the accuracy will be good for him.