Flying Alarm Clock

Flying alarm clock is a new technological invention.

In this digital clock if you set the alarm & when the alarm goes on, a rotor starts from the base (clock) and flies around the room, making a really annoying noise like a mosquito.

One must have to catch the rotor and keep it on the base again to switch off or to snooze the alarm. So there is no escaping from it by simply by pressing a button like in the conventional alarm clocks. There is a danger that you might lose the rotor if you keep the window open and if the rotor finds the way out.

It costs around $36. Check some more details here.

My friend Arasan had a very annoying habit during college days. He would keep his alarm on for 06:00 am almost everyday before he sleeps. When alarm goes on until someone else from adjacent rooms goes and switches off alarm would keep on making an annoying noise. Whereas he would be sleeping peacefully as if there is nothing happening around. I am not sure if this flying alarm clock would wake him up. I am sure that it would help people like me to get up.

What do you think about this gadget? Would it succeed in the market?

Medical Tourism

Location : Highway I-95, Providence, RI, USA
Day & Time: Saturday & 9:00 am

Mr. Adam Smith a 49 years old well built American, father of three teenagers, while driving back to home after his 18-hole game, felt uneasiness in his left arm. The uneasiness grew as he was driving further. He imagined that death is chasing him & stepped on the gas. He took the next exit and luckily got a hospital close by. Later he learnt that it was a very mild heart attack. He is out of danger. However, the physician said that he needs to go through a major heart surgery to keep his heart beating for few more decades, as the diagnosis revealed something else about his heart.

Mr. Smith has good bank balance but has planned everything for his teenagers’ college tuition fees in the very near future. Smith’s medical insurance doesn’t cover the entire expenses of his heart surgery. He needs to plan something for his surgery quickly.

At this situation, Smith comes to know about Medical Tourism from his Indian friend, Raj. Smith learns from Raj that medical tourism or medical tour is an act of traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and surgical care. The term was initially coined by travel agencies and the media as a catchall phrase to describe a rapidly growing industry where people travel to other countries to obtain medical care. Leisure aspect of traveling may be included on such a medical travel trip.

Raj mentions that because of the low cost and world class services, India is one of the hot destinations for medical tours. Other popular destinations for medical tourism are Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Columbia etc. He also mentions that there are plethora of travel agencies that offer medical tours to India from USA, UK and other high cost western countries.

Smith gets this site to learn more about medical tourism in India and the costs associated with various surgeries. He is very surprised to learn that for less than half of the price of his heart surgery in USA, he can go to India, get his surgery completed and visit the places like Taj Mahal he always wanted to visit. Voila..!!!

He goes to India, carries out his heart surgery and visits the exotic places like Taj Mahal, Jaipur and Manali.

Now Smith is very sound in health and is referring this table to his American friends and writes to New York Times on how he rejuvenated by taking up a medical tour to India and saved a fortune.

Note: Visit this to learn more about Medical Tourism and visit this or this or this for various options & packages for medical tours to India.

Kalaignar TV

An ugly family fight between TN Chief Minister Karunanidhi's family and Maran's family has resulted in a new TV channel. Kalaignar TV.

With the blessings of (and fundings from) Karunanidhi, Raj TV is going to announce the launch of new TV on 03-Jun when CM celebrates his 83rd birthday.

When I watch news from Sun TV, I would feel, 'okay great, in this DMK government people are happy, lot of good things are happening..!'.

When I watch news from Jaya TV, I would feel, 'oh God, looks like DMK government is pathetic, why don't they do some good things to public?'

As the telecast time of news in these two channels are one-after-another, by mistake(!) if I watch news from both the channels on the same day, I would feel frustrated.

Kalaignar TV, another channel, God save us.

Read the news from here.

INR vs USD

Rupee is appreciating day by day. In an effort to bring down the inflation to a desired figure (below 5%) Government is just watching the Rupee's appreciation with a mild smile.


Rupee has touched 9-year high against USD. Today Rupee closed at 40.15 against 1 USD.


While there is a straight forward benefit to the importers, experts say that there is indirect benefit to the exporters too. Still I am trying to figure that out. Still a novice, eh?

Trend of INR vs USD for different intervals is below:

Arase

Though I had written a harsh post on them, I have not stopped watching them. (please don't spit on my face). One improvement is I have stopped watching Kolangal and started watching Arase (actually Arasi, some numerology sentiment).

This post is to talk about the music of the serial Arase. I must tell that the background music of this serial is so good. Music is one strong reason that drives me to watch this serial (if not everyday at least on and off frequently).

Dividend Earnings

Mukesh Ambani - Rs 869 cr
Azim Premji - Rs 697 cr
Shiv Nadar - Rs 403 cr
Anil Ambani - Rs 87 cr
N.R.N. Murthy - Rs 33 cr
Nandan Nilekani - Rs 23 cr

This is dividend income of some of the big shots in India in year 2006-07.
Source: Business Today

What was yours?

Big Men

I have always observed that big fat guys have good sense of humor. I have seen many of my friends who are big having good sense of humor.

Is there any scientific reason behind this?

(It may sound absurd, both my weight and sense of humor are increasing steadily. There must be some relation between these two)

Crow-sin

A few months back, I was having a bad headache. I went to a pharmacist to get a Crocin for my headache. Suddenly a thought struck me that it's been really a very long time since I saw a crow. I tried hard to recall when was the last time I saw one. I couldn't really recall. I felt somewhat saddened. Because right from the childhood, crows are in my life in the form of stories (that old lady vada story) and superstitious beliefs (such as seeing a lone dark crow brings bad luck).

City has ruined birds' lives. This noise, this pollution are huge repellent to the biirds. I have read somewhere long time ago that the microwave frequencies (Barani - do you remember the MF Frequency range?) are affecting birds, making them to fly away from the areas where this waves are very intensive.

Few months back, I requested one of my colleagues who has a camera cell phone to take a snap of a crow whenever/wherever he sees it. So that I could use that pic in my blog to write about this sad story. Till date he has not got one.

Recently I saw a lonely crow outside my home. I caught that in my camera. Who knows, in a decades time I might have to go to zoo to take a picture of a crow.

May God bless crows.

My PMP Journey

I am writing a blog to log my experience in becoming a PMP.

Please visit http://becomingpmp.blogspot.com/.

Please do refer this site to anyone who is preparing for the PMP exam. I believe that this would be useful.