It's been 36 hours or so since Muammar Gaddafi was gunned and brutally killed by his own country men. American TV and Indian TV cloning the American news channels flood the news on the death of hard lined dictator. It was 7am or so for me watching the news saying Gaddafi was captured alive and in 15 minutes news quotes he is killed. Today morning while checking the videos I soon realise the brutality with which he was killed. Hiding after a air attack in his home town, Gaddafi crawled back into rain drain hole under the road. Only to be discovered and pulled out and shot in his legs to prevent him from running. As it wasn't sufficient, he gets paraded in his home town for almost an hour on a truck with fighters round him. After a while an already exhausted ex-leader is pulled down and executed by a shot in the head.
American government publicly announces this and appalling the fighters and claiming Libya is liberated. Today morning I woke up to search who Gaddafi was and why was he such a criminal in eyes of Western nations that they choose to train guns on him.
Born in 1942 trained in the Libyan military he rose ranks to lead the uprising against the monarchy and the King of Libya in 1969. What followed was a military rule of Socialist nature, nationalising most of the oil companies and threatening others in the process. He also closed the British, American and French military bases in Libya. During the last 40 years what has been recorded economically is far more surprising than many Westerners will even want to believe. In the Sub-Saharan African continent where there are civil wars, War lords, blood diamonds and no leader ever cared for the welfare of the people. This small country maintained and achieved 100% education, had a per capita GDP of 16,000 USD, while the rest of Africa had an average of 1,000 USD; the next closest I believe is small country of Botswana which had 6000 USD. Mandela after being liberated is seen meeting and thanking Gaddafi for his support.
If this is the legend of a this person why was he a rogue. Just because he had guts to sniff out the capitalists long term intent of plundering the nation's resources and being exploited ? He sure had balls to stand out strong against the capitalist interest, and resist being enslaved and being turned into another pawn of NATO.
I don't know what the acquisitions against him are. A bombing in German bar, blowing up of a Pan America flight, a British person killed in its embassy. I don't know what the proofs linked him to direct atrocities cited above. When I look at the biggest and strongest US Anti-Terror Ally Pakistan, their government through ISI has infinite links with various militant organisations all over, who have kidnapped, captured and killed American soldiers and civilians equally. But still because Pakistan is an ally USA turns a blind eye. Pakistan doesn't have resources but is strategic against China or India or even the middle east, so it can get away with it. More so Pakistan has been under dictatorship which sold / leaked WMD and small arms to many rogue nations.
Gaddafi was seen at the UN and I was shocked at his daring speech, which spoke more truth than lies, he was shaking hands with Tony Blair and may western diplomats. I mean why didn't the nations arrest him for the crimes he was accused when he came out. His son was seen meeting Hilary Clinton to improve the relations with the USA, but they turned their backs against him supporting and sponsoring an uprising by some rebels in the country.
What did the countries like USA, UK and France sponsor and mingle in affairs outside their own sovereignty. The unrest ensured Gaddafi and his government take a hard stance against the rebels. You don't expect the government to fight armed rebellion to be put down by a Taser Gun or a shock Baton. The suppression of the rebels to culture peace is opposed by the Western Allies by accusing them of suppressing freedom and human rights violation. (I couldn't find any report of violations before 2009) they through the UN impose a No Fly zone against the Libyan sovereign government. While NATO and US using the drones bombed the front lines killings soldiers and civilians alike weakening the Government forces. NATO never cared about Civil rights violations in Rwanda, Congo or Somalia coz there is nothing to plunder, but for Libya Syria, Yemen, Iran and Iraq there is no escape from the greedy capitalist western world. CIA, under cover operatives do the same things as the Pakistan ISI and its militant outfits try to do bring political instability, and bring down governments to their knees. Enslave them without the physical brutality of it. What these countries end up once they are done with their oil reserves is desert and lots of closed American fast food chains and products in their country which again would have eaten into the consumer taste locally. Strange vicious cycle, you export oil at cheap rate to the US, get back tons of Americans to establish shop on pretext of globalisation (now does one needs coke or McD to be healthy is another debate or even get an Apple iPhone) consume and reap consumerism wave, make profits and take back the same (oil)money back home. All the way its clear who is the winner, and who the looser is. Gaddafi never had nothing to gain from this.
On the flip side if the sentiment against him was so bad, he should have atleast tried to trigger a democratic process and tried to get the sense of what the ground reality was. As a smart ruler he should have sniffed out what ever was best in the long term interest of the country and taken constructive steps in the that direction.
May be its also time that the democratic regime of the world realise that democracy is not always the solution, but more of money-wasting force where the power rotates between a select few who through corrupt means loot and increase the gap between the rich and poor. Every time a new group comes to power their main intent is to maximize their motive of filling in their pockets and of their well wishers who sponsored their elections. The cycle of looting goes unabated, relentlessly pushing the economies to brink of collapse with a elite few controlling the maximum of funds. Be it India, or be it the USA this is happening if one agrees or choice to turn a blind eye to it.
On the flip side if the sentiment against him was so bad, he should have atleast tried to trigger a democratic process and tried to get the sense of what the ground reality was. As a smart ruler he should have sniffed out what ever was best in the long term interest of the country and taken constructive steps in the that direction.
I wonder when the capitalist greed would come to an end, I wonder when would one country stop poking its nose into affairs of sovereign republics, I wish there is a better solution and better place of all this.
Last words of Gaddafi pleading to his tormentors " What you are doing is wrong.... Do you know right from wrong?" and the voice was silenced for ever!!! No more gutsy speeches in the UN no more nightmares for capitalist barons. Do we know the real evil that is happening driven by this baseless greed on natural resources of an alien country. Bizarre!!!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Successful Telangana Agitiation
As I write this blog the "Sakala Janula Samme" or "The All People Agitiation" successfully completes it 1 month. No where you would here that an agitation of this proportions has entered 1 month and the Government choosing not to act on it while it waits for the agitation to wane out and fatigue out.
The Present Congress government is to be blamed for all of these short comings starting in 2001 when YSR agreed with then TRS leader to bifurcate the state and later in the December of 2009 where Chidambaram followed up with his midnight act of declaring the initiation of the process. Gross mishandling of the movement has brought in unprecedented sequence of events and circumstances which will prove to be more of a migraine than a headache that can be easily be done away with.
In the current times where world over hoards of public agony and frustration is pouring out against governments and world leaders around the world, our own government in power is trying to pretend that it is infact ruling the country. The ever mounting corruption charges being unearthed every day, the CAG reports, the Anna Hazare agitations, and battle against inflationary micro economics and ever looming threat in the fragile world economy has got all the possible daggers against it.
Inspite of all this there is negligible amount of crisis handling or even a light will to tackle these scenarios. At best Congress is trying its level best to be alive and ensure it makes a comeback in 2014 elections.
While the Telangana agitation continues to cripple lives of crores of people not just across the state but also in the neighbouring states. Farmers and daily wage labourers are sure suffering along with common man who struggles to go to work and who is as well unable to send their kids to schools which are shut down. It makes one wonder whether this is a justified cause with people in all walks of life suffering. Government neither moves against or infavor and continues its diplomacy and trying to mend the situation in a pro-congress mode than pro-people mode.
The Telangana agitation has been successful if not hugely successful in camflauging and diverting the huge huge short comings in the governance and corruption that has been happening by the same Telengana leaders who have for years turned a blind eye and piled up huge cash reserves. If it was not for the local leaders and if it was not for their continued coldness there would have been enough of voices and concerns being raised initially and corrective improvements taken up. Instead after all the plunder they realise that their is a way to regather public sympathy and lost trust on a whole and sole agenda of separation. This incidentally has to be fuelled by provocative and hatred entrenched stories and words. In a country which thrives on "Unity in diversity " these politician are successful enough in sewing a thick fabric of regional difference and divide to differentiate and diversify themselves. If this is the way we want to be lead to we are still being ignorant and foolish enough to be lead into the same traps which we always have been.
What surprises me is that the main political party which is leading this agitation has got most of its family members in its political cadre to run the activities, while the leader claims he will be a watch dog to the CM seat; but he will be a watch dog preventing any other one from taking over the seat as well. While he makes ridiculous statements of making a Dalit as a CM, he doesn't have even one Dalit leader either at a District level or at a Mandal level, so it is to be seen where that Dalit puppet candidate will be picked from.
Secondly they where indications to give two districts of Rayalaseema to Telengana. I say why only two; lets give Telangana all the districts in the state, make Hyderabad its capital. So they get Telangana and as a bonus they also get other districts of the state and not just 2 districts.
Jai Telangana !!!
The Present Congress government is to be blamed for all of these short comings starting in 2001 when YSR agreed with then TRS leader to bifurcate the state and later in the December of 2009 where Chidambaram followed up with his midnight act of declaring the initiation of the process. Gross mishandling of the movement has brought in unprecedented sequence of events and circumstances which will prove to be more of a migraine than a headache that can be easily be done away with.
In the current times where world over hoards of public agony and frustration is pouring out against governments and world leaders around the world, our own government in power is trying to pretend that it is infact ruling the country. The ever mounting corruption charges being unearthed every day, the CAG reports, the Anna Hazare agitations, and battle against inflationary micro economics and ever looming threat in the fragile world economy has got all the possible daggers against it.
Inspite of all this there is negligible amount of crisis handling or even a light will to tackle these scenarios. At best Congress is trying its level best to be alive and ensure it makes a comeback in 2014 elections.
While the Telangana agitation continues to cripple lives of crores of people not just across the state but also in the neighbouring states. Farmers and daily wage labourers are sure suffering along with common man who struggles to go to work and who is as well unable to send their kids to schools which are shut down. It makes one wonder whether this is a justified cause with people in all walks of life suffering. Government neither moves against or infavor and continues its diplomacy and trying to mend the situation in a pro-congress mode than pro-people mode.
The Telangana agitation has been successful if not hugely successful in camflauging and diverting the huge huge short comings in the governance and corruption that has been happening by the same Telengana leaders who have for years turned a blind eye and piled up huge cash reserves. If it was not for the local leaders and if it was not for their continued coldness there would have been enough of voices and concerns being raised initially and corrective improvements taken up. Instead after all the plunder they realise that their is a way to regather public sympathy and lost trust on a whole and sole agenda of separation. This incidentally has to be fuelled by provocative and hatred entrenched stories and words. In a country which thrives on "Unity in diversity " these politician are successful enough in sewing a thick fabric of regional difference and divide to differentiate and diversify themselves. If this is the way we want to be lead to we are still being ignorant and foolish enough to be lead into the same traps which we always have been.
What surprises me is that the main political party which is leading this agitation has got most of its family members in its political cadre to run the activities, while the leader claims he will be a watch dog to the CM seat; but he will be a watch dog preventing any other one from taking over the seat as well. While he makes ridiculous statements of making a Dalit as a CM, he doesn't have even one Dalit leader either at a District level or at a Mandal level, so it is to be seen where that Dalit puppet candidate will be picked from.
Secondly they where indications to give two districts of Rayalaseema to Telengana. I say why only two; lets give Telangana all the districts in the state, make Hyderabad its capital. So they get Telangana and as a bonus they also get other districts of the state and not just 2 districts.
Jai Telangana !!!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Problem of Excess Consumption
In today's era and today capitalistic period we are seeing times of unprecedented growth, development happening at neck breaking pace that if one is to take a short nap they miss a whole lot and are viewed as backward and sometimes pre-historic.
Evolution on this earth has always been a slow and a continuous process. But rapid changes and dynamism is something which has never been tested and is bound to have unrealistically harsh repercussions.
For example simple things which come to my mind is over consumption. Yes things like obesity means we are over eating calories and piling on aditional reserve calories with no intent of ever getting to use them. With over eating comes growing demand for food (crops, farming, animals etc). With ever growing consumption comes ever gorwing need to produce more, increase acerage or yields. So comes the use of chemical fertilisers which are again based on fossil fuels which are so limited in quantity. We have more fossil fuels in one century than what Earth has taken to build this reserve. We are over using the resources to the brink of self extinction.
No with greater population also comes need of additonal water for purpose of drinking or otherwise, then arise need of quality breathable air and hygenic places to live. With ever growing demand and pressure on limited resources we are squeezing our world to the max.
Do we require that many disposable, use and throw stuff ?
Do we require ourselves to replace stuff because they look out of fashion every season (US has 4 seasons are we expected to keep building and remodelling the closet every Quarter) ?
Can't we be content with what we have and not be greedy of more and more ?
Can't we all slow down, take a break, look back and appreicate what nature offers and work for sustainance and preservation ?
Can't we give out those extra pounds of food containing tons of calories to those who can't even manage one decent meal a day ?
Never even stopping a minute to think of the future and whats to happen of the future generations. Am sure the future generation will have a lots to think and lot more to curse their ancestors for senslessness with which they abused the mother nature and exploited it as there was no tomorrow and rode on a way of consumerism driven by capitalism, virtual cash, imaginary wealth, while in reality everyone plundering the future generations of a comfortable life.
Give second or a minute think, reconcile life is there not to be put on a fast track and rip every other thing apart, but it is for slowly savouring and enjoying the pleasures of life while also ensuring that we all share the same with others especially the future generations.
Evolution on this earth has always been a slow and a continuous process. But rapid changes and dynamism is something which has never been tested and is bound to have unrealistically harsh repercussions.
For example simple things which come to my mind is over consumption. Yes things like obesity means we are over eating calories and piling on aditional reserve calories with no intent of ever getting to use them. With over eating comes growing demand for food (crops, farming, animals etc). With ever growing consumption comes ever gorwing need to produce more, increase acerage or yields. So comes the use of chemical fertilisers which are again based on fossil fuels which are so limited in quantity. We have more fossil fuels in one century than what Earth has taken to build this reserve. We are over using the resources to the brink of self extinction.
No with greater population also comes need of additonal water for purpose of drinking or otherwise, then arise need of quality breathable air and hygenic places to live. With ever growing demand and pressure on limited resources we are squeezing our world to the max.
Do we require that many disposable, use and throw stuff ?
Do we require ourselves to replace stuff because they look out of fashion every season (US has 4 seasons are we expected to keep building and remodelling the closet every Quarter) ?
Can't we be content with what we have and not be greedy of more and more ?
Can't we all slow down, take a break, look back and appreicate what nature offers and work for sustainance and preservation ?
Can't we give out those extra pounds of food containing tons of calories to those who can't even manage one decent meal a day ?
Never even stopping a minute to think of the future and whats to happen of the future generations. Am sure the future generation will have a lots to think and lot more to curse their ancestors for senslessness with which they abused the mother nature and exploited it as there was no tomorrow and rode on a way of consumerism driven by capitalism, virtual cash, imaginary wealth, while in reality everyone plundering the future generations of a comfortable life.
Give second or a minute think, reconcile life is there not to be put on a fast track and rip every other thing apart, but it is for slowly savouring and enjoying the pleasures of life while also ensuring that we all share the same with others especially the future generations.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tryst with Fitness
Not that I got time after turning off Travian, which was a big addiction, I got back to concentrating a bit on my own fitness levels. Though I feel am still a kid at heart and mind, it's official am now in my thirty's. Amazing but yes.
sitting in my office I was thinking and recollecting my experiments with fitness and then goals. Hugely inspired my cousin Balaji who started bulking up after an pillage incident on him. Guess for me it was early engineering so 1999-2000 was when I started borrowing a few equipment like weights to start my exercises before hitting the Gym in middle of my 1st year and 2nd year 1st and 2nd term. During this time I used to do my routines at Power Junction Gym in Ashoknagar. I was following the guide and Apprehentice schedule of Bob Paris's "Flawless: The 10-week method fpr transforming your physique" which was to a lot of discomfort of the Gym owner cum coach. When I briefly stopped and came back after my term exercises in the 2nd year, I ended up injuring myself. I had a severe tendon tear in my right shoulder (Rotator Cuff - especially infraspinatus & Supraspinatus). This injury happened on back of heavy bench pressing with low warm-ups after a long break from strength training. The implication where far severe I was immobilised for over 2 years with little to no lifting of weights (not just the regular but household stuff). The resulting injury was so severe that I had problems while breathing and even while writing my exams. Till 2003 I was away and other priorities in life took over.
It was in mid-2002 I joined Art of living classes Level 1. Had a very good enriching experience but after 6-months or so gave it up as well. In 2003-04 while I was preparing for my CAT for a few months I managed 30min early morning jog at Necklace road Naveen accompanied me then. While I was in the IIM I tried sometimes for a Jog and occasional gym or Sudershan Kriya workout but not a regime that I could sustain for long.
Back at home I had a failed attempt of trying to get back the morning Jogs in but it sooned failed after the scooter I used to drive to Necklace road was robbed. This was mid-2006.
Oct 2007 to Dec 2007 while I was on verge of getting married for a breif 3 month period I joined Reign Gym in Nallakunta. But soon dropped out after overwhelming personal pressures.
Thereafter the focus on fitness was more sporadic, after the move to Pune it was more of stepping machine than any thing else. Then Travian and the virtual world and married life took over. By and large during the post 2008 period the focus has been on eating habits inspired by the naturopathy of Manthena Satyanarayana Raju, which even today I follow in some form or other.
In 2011 while I move and relocate in the USA, its been hard struggle to find healthy yet budgetary cheap food options, I seemed to have put on weight and was falling into a pre-hyper tension band. That triggered another emotional burst in the summer of 2011 to restart and rediscover all over.
First it started with small jogs and Manthena's 1 hour yoga in the evening and add some bit of summer sports like volley ball and cricket. These routines where soon replaced by infomercial inspired Turbo Fire workouts. I have been into these for 2 months in the prep schedule. End of this week I want to decide on whats the next step...
choose between
1. Turbo Fire - 20 week workout
2. P90x - 12 week
3. Insanity - 8 week workout
I'm planning to take the fitness tests this Sunday and weigh it against the equipment and weather conditions before I go ahead.
sitting in my office I was thinking and recollecting my experiments with fitness and then goals. Hugely inspired my cousin Balaji who started bulking up after an pillage incident on him. Guess for me it was early engineering so 1999-2000 was when I started borrowing a few equipment like weights to start my exercises before hitting the Gym in middle of my 1st year and 2nd year 1st and 2nd term. During this time I used to do my routines at Power Junction Gym in Ashoknagar. I was following the guide and Apprehentice schedule of Bob Paris's "Flawless: The 10-week method fpr transforming your physique" which was to a lot of discomfort of the Gym owner cum coach. When I briefly stopped and came back after my term exercises in the 2nd year, I ended up injuring myself. I had a severe tendon tear in my right shoulder (Rotator Cuff - especially infraspinatus & Supraspinatus). This injury happened on back of heavy bench pressing with low warm-ups after a long break from strength training. The implication where far severe I was immobilised for over 2 years with little to no lifting of weights (not just the regular but household stuff). The resulting injury was so severe that I had problems while breathing and even while writing my exams. Till 2003 I was away and other priorities in life took over.
It was in mid-2002 I joined Art of living classes Level 1. Had a very good enriching experience but after 6-months or so gave it up as well. In 2003-04 while I was preparing for my CAT for a few months I managed 30min early morning jog at Necklace road Naveen accompanied me then. While I was in the IIM I tried sometimes for a Jog and occasional gym or Sudershan Kriya workout but not a regime that I could sustain for long.
Back at home I had a failed attempt of trying to get back the morning Jogs in but it sooned failed after the scooter I used to drive to Necklace road was robbed. This was mid-2006.
Oct 2007 to Dec 2007 while I was on verge of getting married for a breif 3 month period I joined Reign Gym in Nallakunta. But soon dropped out after overwhelming personal pressures.
Thereafter the focus on fitness was more sporadic, after the move to Pune it was more of stepping machine than any thing else. Then Travian and the virtual world and married life took over. By and large during the post 2008 period the focus has been on eating habits inspired by the naturopathy of Manthena Satyanarayana Raju, which even today I follow in some form or other.
In 2011 while I move and relocate in the USA, its been hard struggle to find healthy yet budgetary cheap food options, I seemed to have put on weight and was falling into a pre-hyper tension band. That triggered another emotional burst in the summer of 2011 to restart and rediscover all over.
First it started with small jogs and Manthena's 1 hour yoga in the evening and add some bit of summer sports like volley ball and cricket. These routines where soon replaced by infomercial inspired Turbo Fire workouts. I have been into these for 2 months in the prep schedule. End of this week I want to decide on whats the next step...
choose between
1. Turbo Fire - 20 week workout
2. P90x - 12 week
3. Insanity - 8 week workout
I'm planning to take the fitness tests this Sunday and weigh it against the equipment and weather conditions before I go ahead.
Thursday, September 01, 2011
The Fairer Sex ??
From an old abstract
" Numerous behavioral studies have found women to be more trust-worthy and public-spirited than men. These results suggest that women should be particularly be effective in promoting honest government. Consistent with this we find rising women representation and relatively lesser corruption charges"
While India today is swaying to Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, things seem to be unnoticingly are getting worse. Women who be it selective were getting into administration and politics where considered genuine and trustworthy seem to be loosing that tag sooner than later.
Why ? What the heck ?
Yes in today's contemporary world the way of life is growth in a highly competitive environment. Women who get into competitive spheres are under more pressure particularly to outsmart their male counterparts and hog limelights. Women are definitely more competitive and focused and treat their tasks with lots of dedication. With immense expectation the natural outcome is win by any means. Definitely at some time this realisation dawns and the will to succeed supersedes any other thing. this makes them a easy prey to the dark side of life. Compared to percentage of men who take this path the percentage of women in relative terms is quite high.
Women are dedicated and trust worthy. Hell yeah !! but men are too, its just what women does goes unnoticed and overseen most of the times. Men can't hide their actions the same way women can't hide their emotions. So what ? May be it's not always right to blame a man - well yes barbarism is bad !! But still what the heck ? Well in every species the purpose of male is to fight, survive and bear fruits to a stronger next generation. I mean this is the way to ensure future generations are born fitter and stronger(stronger gene pool get propagated weaker perish). In today's world physically incapable men, mentally instable men mange to propagate their genes and grow weaker future generation. Well nature of men is to win and survive over competition to propagate their offspring. Interestingly with all talks of equality women either for the fun of it or for more sub-conscious want of bearing a child to a much healthy or stronger man go out. Ex. Arnold and his secret mistress affair
Corruption is a word alien to women. Women can be equally corrupt if not more than men. Why ? Yes women are naturally born seducers and the imbalance in the society teaches them right from the childhood that they can do better by their charm and feminity. Ok what is this ?? Back in school or college aren't there any cases of teachers being partial towards women...Wake up women knew they where treated differently for being a female being, and knew that they can take this to their advantage right from childhood. For men they have to earn that edge but possession of power. For this reason women are naturally born to fall prey to temptation of dishonesty and corruption if offered; may be more so than a man.
Everyone knows and says men are violent. Well agreed, but in most cases than lesser aren't they perpetrated by women. What the heck you may say ? Well I don't know how many men would troll over a young hot lingerie model over a young mother Theresa. Men run for their lust but its always driven by feminism. I don't want to sound extremist or Islamic, but isn't it not that men don't loose any opportunity to sway away from beautiful women with some skin or hair on the veil. Well if it wasn't for the temptress and mind of men loosing control and focus there wouldn't be a strong reason why women are ordered to cover themselves including hair in most religions (nuns cover themselves in Catholics, Persis, Muslims, even Hindu women cover themselves while in temples or like in Rajasthan they avoid stranger male sighting) There were reasons then , there are the same reasons why there is rise in crime today.
All the feminist and human rights activist protect the rights of women, but in most of the situation the women are victimised by these organisation and there is biased justice based on fairer sex and never ever the sensitivity on the role of women in the whole ordeal is ever played out.
Anyways there are lots of points which can argumentatively contested, but the zest is, that Women are not a fairer sex and with the term of equality and rights floating around, its not in best long term interest of humanity to boost special status to women. Women and men are born different and have their own purpose in humanity. As long as we recognise this and go about with contemporary way of life and avoid special stature to women it should all be good. Well there are cases of exploitation but my topic is beyond the times of exploitation. As long as there are confrontations between the two sexes their would victims. It's to be carefully chosen on the boundaries and also establish an unbiased society and mindset with neutral attitude towards the sexes.
It would be really be interesting to see this happen, but if its not we need to ensure we all maintain the harmony and understand each other limitations and capabilities and not just be unconventional and theoretical about the progress of humanity.
" Numerous behavioral studies have found women to be more trust-worthy and public-spirited than men. These results suggest that women should be particularly be effective in promoting honest government. Consistent with this we find rising women representation and relatively lesser corruption charges"
While India today is swaying to Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, things seem to be unnoticingly are getting worse. Women who be it selective were getting into administration and politics where considered genuine and trustworthy seem to be loosing that tag sooner than later.
Why ? What the heck ?
Yes in today's contemporary world the way of life is growth in a highly competitive environment. Women who get into competitive spheres are under more pressure particularly to outsmart their male counterparts and hog limelights. Women are definitely more competitive and focused and treat their tasks with lots of dedication. With immense expectation the natural outcome is win by any means. Definitely at some time this realisation dawns and the will to succeed supersedes any other thing. this makes them a easy prey to the dark side of life. Compared to percentage of men who take this path the percentage of women in relative terms is quite high.
Women are dedicated and trust worthy. Hell yeah !! but men are too, its just what women does goes unnoticed and overseen most of the times. Men can't hide their actions the same way women can't hide their emotions. So what ? May be it's not always right to blame a man - well yes barbarism is bad !! But still what the heck ? Well in every species the purpose of male is to fight, survive and bear fruits to a stronger next generation. I mean this is the way to ensure future generations are born fitter and stronger(stronger gene pool get propagated weaker perish). In today's world physically incapable men, mentally instable men mange to propagate their genes and grow weaker future generation. Well nature of men is to win and survive over competition to propagate their offspring. Interestingly with all talks of equality women either for the fun of it or for more sub-conscious want of bearing a child to a much healthy or stronger man go out. Ex. Arnold and his secret mistress affair
Corruption is a word alien to women. Women can be equally corrupt if not more than men. Why ? Yes women are naturally born seducers and the imbalance in the society teaches them right from the childhood that they can do better by their charm and feminity. Ok what is this ?? Back in school or college aren't there any cases of teachers being partial towards women...Wake up women knew they where treated differently for being a female being, and knew that they can take this to their advantage right from childhood. For men they have to earn that edge but possession of power. For this reason women are naturally born to fall prey to temptation of dishonesty and corruption if offered; may be more so than a man.
Everyone knows and says men are violent. Well agreed, but in most cases than lesser aren't they perpetrated by women. What the heck you may say ? Well I don't know how many men would troll over a young hot lingerie model over a young mother Theresa. Men run for their lust but its always driven by feminism. I don't want to sound extremist or Islamic, but isn't it not that men don't loose any opportunity to sway away from beautiful women with some skin or hair on the veil. Well if it wasn't for the temptress and mind of men loosing control and focus there wouldn't be a strong reason why women are ordered to cover themselves including hair in most religions (nuns cover themselves in Catholics, Persis, Muslims, even Hindu women cover themselves while in temples or like in Rajasthan they avoid stranger male sighting) There were reasons then , there are the same reasons why there is rise in crime today.
All the feminist and human rights activist protect the rights of women, but in most of the situation the women are victimised by these organisation and there is biased justice based on fairer sex and never ever the sensitivity on the role of women in the whole ordeal is ever played out.
Anyways there are lots of points which can argumentatively contested, but the zest is, that Women are not a fairer sex and with the term of equality and rights floating around, its not in best long term interest of humanity to boost special status to women. Women and men are born different and have their own purpose in humanity. As long as we recognise this and go about with contemporary way of life and avoid special stature to women it should all be good. Well there are cases of exploitation but my topic is beyond the times of exploitation. As long as there are confrontations between the two sexes their would victims. It's to be carefully chosen on the boundaries and also establish an unbiased society and mindset with neutral attitude towards the sexes.
It would be really be interesting to see this happen, but if its not we need to ensure we all maintain the harmony and understand each other limitations and capabilities and not just be unconventional and theoretical about the progress of humanity.
Monday, August 15, 2011
What's Happening - What's keeping me busy ?
Yippee some majorly minor changes..
I moved to new place within the USA!! What's so great...Well this is my 4th residence in less than an year in the US. And am lovingly hating it for the reason that it hits my pocket big time and cripples career growth and social life. So thy word is " Philadelphia, PA to New London, CT to Wilmington, DE to Milwaukee, WI"
https://picasaweb.google.com/pswaroop/GreaterMilwaukeeUSA
Second major change - I have not been playing Travian for 2 months - Great deal ?? Yes for a Travian addict whose lived and breath it for over 15 hours a day for 2 years thats possible a big relief for a few people round me.
Third - Finally my photographic journey as a hobby seems to be taking off slowly with time freed from Travian. Few can explored from the link above.
Fourth - Trying to improve active lifestyle by being more self focused and participate in sports and exercises - Outcome I (my team) won runner's up trophy for Volleyball. Yippee !!
Fifth - I get to buy a car. After almost 5 years of working and 1 year on site(in the USA) that by many onlookers standard is an achievement. Well who cares I bought my house before many others had it. :)
Sixth - I got a Facebook Account now!! Great ?? Well my socially networking has been severely diminished thanks to Travian, Hi-5 my first social network was burried alive long back. Orkut is now falling apart with Google step motherly treatment with launch of Google +. And a few friendly requests did help me to finally plunge in the FB way in Aug 2011.
Seventh - I jumped off the my Vertical at my company. Finally I got off the Life sciences vertical which I have been clinging on to without much happening in my career. New vertical is Retail, hope it brings in new avenues of success and faster career progression and "Retirement".
Lastly - I blogged almost an year after my last post..So this is good...
I moved to new place within the USA!! What's so great...Well this is my 4th residence in less than an year in the US. And am lovingly hating it for the reason that it hits my pocket big time and cripples career growth and social life. So thy word is " Philadelphia, PA to New London, CT to Wilmington, DE to Milwaukee, WI"
https://picasaweb.google.com/pswaroop/GreaterMilwaukeeUSA
Second major change - I have not been playing Travian for 2 months - Great deal ?? Yes for a Travian addict whose lived and breath it for over 15 hours a day for 2 years thats possible a big relief for a few people round me.
Third - Finally my photographic journey as a hobby seems to be taking off slowly with time freed from Travian. Few can explored from the link above.
Fourth - Trying to improve active lifestyle by being more self focused and participate in sports and exercises - Outcome I (my team) won runner's up trophy for Volleyball. Yippee !!
Fifth - I get to buy a car. After almost 5 years of working and 1 year on site(in the USA) that by many onlookers standard is an achievement. Well who cares I bought my house before many others had it. :)
Sixth - I got a Facebook Account now!! Great ?? Well my socially networking has been severely diminished thanks to Travian, Hi-5 my first social network was burried alive long back. Orkut is now falling apart with Google step motherly treatment with launch of Google +. And a few friendly requests did help me to finally plunge in the FB way in Aug 2011.
Seventh - I jumped off the my Vertical at my company. Finally I got off the Life sciences vertical which I have been clinging on to without much happening in my career. New vertical is Retail, hope it brings in new avenues of success and faster career progression and "Retirement".
Lastly - I blogged almost an year after my last post..So this is good...
Tubofire - Intense Cardioworkouts
This summer I felt a need to get my body back to recondition. The relocation and eating all the Ready-to-eat high oil, sodium food did impact my health for the bad. Lots of sleeplessness, lack of focus, stamina, seemingly unmotivated lifestyle coupled with pre-hypertension indication with rising Blood pressure levels. I was shocked when I saw the BP meter turn up with 136 - 84 in the walmart.
So that's where I went to my old Manthena's Raw food regime. Being in the USA and now in this particular place am really starved of quality tummy filling lunch, that's where I went Raw food as a first step.
Second I started to fast every Saturday with just Water, honey and lemon. Occasionally Prasadam from temple breaks my fast in the evening.
Thirdly I continued my focus on fluid consumption and started adding vegetable juice(V8) for morning and any non-sugar based fruit juice in the evening. I am mixing some Whey Protein in the morning shake with some lemon and honey for extra energy as well.
Fourth was to include sprouts, dates, lettuce for breakfast; lettuce, boiled egg, sweet corn, carrots with occasional pizza for lunch followed by 200-300gm of soaked dry fuits(Cashews, Almonds, Walnuts, Pista, Apricots and Figs) and fruits as usually before 7pm
Fifth - I started with a 15min jog/run in the park followed by 20min of Pranayama and 40 minutes essential yoga as suggested by Manthena.
After this schedule for a month, I felt I can go up a level. That's where I started looking out for more intense and disciplined workout. That's where I got into Turbofire. It had taken me a few weeks to get started with getting the kit and a mibook for viewing the videos while working out in the park for workouts which would shake the floor below my feet.
My first impression...after a week
They are really intense and well choreographed and am still struggling at times with the moves and calls.
The Camera movements sometimes pan out during the transitions of moves which pains me a lot as I miss the next move.
The first week am left with sore back, sore lat, sore shoulders and knees the left runners knees has worsened because of all the leg kicks and twists around the knee(supposed to be toe).
The disclaimer for all new adopters is " People with lower back pains, Sciatic nerve pains keep out" Lower back pains will intensify given the fact that lots of routine and stretches have forward curls or crunches which involved arching the back forward which is absolutely to be avoided for such people. I suggest relax when any move asks for crunching /arching the back backward. It will only aggravate an already bad case of hunched and sore lower back. My suggestion get back to 40min of Yoga poses especially the ones by Manthena targeting the back/lower back and neck pain, before even touching Turbofire's full range of crunch routines.
Having said that Turbofire does borrow a whole lot of Yoga poses and Suryanamaskaras in their Stretch 40 routines.
Lastly Turbofire and its supporters are bent upon on supporting Shakeology shake powder which is a 120$ worth product exclusively sold by beachbody who also franchise Turbofire. They have done very well marketing this wonder product and being sold through Multi-level marketing mode (aka Amway mode) through consumer/seller franchises called Coaches. My suggestion to stick to as much as natural foods as possible and be as low on the supplements as possible.
Turbofire's diet and exercises routine are amazing but has to be taken with extreme caution by people with lower back pains, knee problems, shoulder problems. Prevent aggravation of any current situation and evaluate and understand the body response to the routines before committing further time and risking a bigger injury.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Trips to the US through my eyes
Well a lot of Indians and especially from AP make it to the US to pursue their higher studies or start career. My trip to USA turned out to be a professional obligation backed by good amount of push from home as well. Well I have always stayed away from the US shores for the first thing on my trip to USA for the fear of unknown.
I started rather shaky trip in the midnight. I returned back from Pune having packed everything, the return trip to Hyderabad we had no train tickets, so in the last moment we had to travel by bus with all of the luggage, the bike was sent by train though. After arriving in Hyderabad a few hours went into retrieving the bike from the luggage and then so quick bank work back home which was anything from being called quick. Reached home in the evening to quickly put together the stuff and buy anything perceived missing, then mom chucked in a lot of home made food, which made me train for the next steps. All packed left for the airport with some tummy upsets. The first learning's starts here - having used to Indian way of getting to potty this was a fast undoing of the same. So within hours its all learning and customising to US way of life. The toilets where step one, using of toilet paper was step two :)
On the Emirates flight, which I was travelling are amazing, the hostess attire and veil was awesome and classy. I believe the service and flight itself was pretty good standard and overall a pretty nice experience given that I was flying for 26 hours including the stop overs. In India our mother tongue especially Telugu is most abused and under seen language, which in most likely a dying language as the current generation, patronised by the parents and supported by the local state government is loosing its support all across, but surprise surprise, where the nationalists left the language, the language found supporters else where. Aboard the Emirates flight the bathroom fittings and call signs had been represented in Telugu in addition to few other language. I was really proud of this, but felt sad when our own guys ignore the language so so much.
Once in the USA i was in the JFK airport, I found a few sparrows flying and chirping in the air terminals where the passengers where waiting for their flights. Found it funny and surprised as back home they almost have gone extinct.
I first food item I ate was the Muffins and yummy I fell in love it, Dunkin Donuts is the place where I had and they say America lives on Dunkin. The first person I spoke when I got off the flight in the USA was an NRI who was working at the airport, in assiting people at the trolleys. Awkward for me as I thought Indians work in salaried jobs and software. Well most of the Dunkin donuts, Subways, Walmarts had Indians in it. So I was wrong, it seems like quite a few people settled and became residents far before the IT generation moved in.
In USA everyone was saying Hi, and greeting and say How are you doing and move on. Extremely friendly and expressive. They also open and hold the doors for you, back home everyone is watching their own back, not others. I find it embarrassing when an American holds the door open for me and even more startled when an Indian guy whom I know does the same.
Then there are few things which I can't communicate to good on the phone, the way we pronounce letters is entirely different to what we are used to doing. They almost on most of the occasion cant catch the pronunciation of individual words.
When I was at shopping it occurred that a typical American refuses to go beyond or think beyond what he thinks is obvious. For example when I was talking about a Full sleeve shirt and was asking for the same, but they were so unwilling to think that a Full sleeve is nothing but a long sleeve. That I felt was height of lameness, and in my view inability to think.
American food is all high calorie junk food personified, back in India everyone cribs about junk food and calories even for 40gm of Lays, here everyone is hogging 250gm and family size packs of the same with tons of smoothies and cream. America seems to be more obese than what I had in mind of Indians. The wastage of food is more unlike ever seen.
Americans are not very Green conscious unlike what they claim with n number of fundraising events and global warming gyan they to world. On an average an amount of white paper that gets wasted at office is immense, most of them print and every bit of mail or reports just to discs while coming to meetings, while every has laptops they still pile up paper. Now add the toiletries and similar expenses, immense. The mailers I get which is all promotional content is too high, every week the mail man delivers a bunch of coupons and promotional material, trust me 99% of it goes directly to the thrash. Apart from this every office use so much of plastic and disposable thermocol cups, plates and spoons. I wonder where all this is getting processed. Yeah agreed India's waste management is not the best, but we don't produce this must waste either. I feel there is lots of open spaces around that the landfill just take in all of this with some amount of processing, but still it junk. Another aspect is the pollution, I love the cruiser bikes and big cars, but the impact on environment is pretty nasty. Noise levels of Harley's is too high in decibels. The Cars are big and powerful no one really cares about Fuel, its so cheap that they burn more than necessary. Its a cheap commodity. Americans hardly care if there is famine around the world or food prices soar, they don't mind if the UV rays hit them hard when the Ozone hole increases in size, they are not bothered if the world runs out of fossil fuels. I found that a bit strange.
American consumerism is also a unique one. The Government and the people alike are high consumer driven. Increase spending means boost economy. When the economy was down the government infuses money to increase spending, while ideally I would prefer saving ahead for tough times. From my perspective there is considerable amount of import oriented products to US that having increased spending would somehow convert to increase in outflow of dollar, which could impact the country. Well it might not if they want to do it, by just printing and increase circulation through paper current which might end up devaluing the currency at a later part of the time. Tricky situation.
America is a amazing place, different culture, different experience, its as multi-cultural and multipolar as India is and probably more diverse atleast in places I have been to.
I started rather shaky trip in the midnight. I returned back from Pune having packed everything, the return trip to Hyderabad we had no train tickets, so in the last moment we had to travel by bus with all of the luggage, the bike was sent by train though. After arriving in Hyderabad a few hours went into retrieving the bike from the luggage and then so quick bank work back home which was anything from being called quick. Reached home in the evening to quickly put together the stuff and buy anything perceived missing, then mom chucked in a lot of home made food, which made me train for the next steps. All packed left for the airport with some tummy upsets. The first learning's starts here - having used to Indian way of getting to potty this was a fast undoing of the same. So within hours its all learning and customising to US way of life. The toilets where step one, using of toilet paper was step two :)
On the Emirates flight, which I was travelling are amazing, the hostess attire and veil was awesome and classy. I believe the service and flight itself was pretty good standard and overall a pretty nice experience given that I was flying for 26 hours including the stop overs. In India our mother tongue especially Telugu is most abused and under seen language, which in most likely a dying language as the current generation, patronised by the parents and supported by the local state government is loosing its support all across, but surprise surprise, where the nationalists left the language, the language found supporters else where. Aboard the Emirates flight the bathroom fittings and call signs had been represented in Telugu in addition to few other language. I was really proud of this, but felt sad when our own guys ignore the language so so much.
Once in the USA i was in the JFK airport, I found a few sparrows flying and chirping in the air terminals where the passengers where waiting for their flights. Found it funny and surprised as back home they almost have gone extinct.
I first food item I ate was the Muffins and yummy I fell in love it, Dunkin Donuts is the place where I had and they say America lives on Dunkin. The first person I spoke when I got off the flight in the USA was an NRI who was working at the airport, in assiting people at the trolleys. Awkward for me as I thought Indians work in salaried jobs and software. Well most of the Dunkin donuts, Subways, Walmarts had Indians in it. So I was wrong, it seems like quite a few people settled and became residents far before the IT generation moved in.
In USA everyone was saying Hi, and greeting and say How are you doing and move on. Extremely friendly and expressive. They also open and hold the doors for you, back home everyone is watching their own back, not others. I find it embarrassing when an American holds the door open for me and even more startled when an Indian guy whom I know does the same.
Then there are few things which I can't communicate to good on the phone, the way we pronounce letters is entirely different to what we are used to doing. They almost on most of the occasion cant catch the pronunciation of individual words.
When I was at shopping it occurred that a typical American refuses to go beyond or think beyond what he thinks is obvious. For example when I was talking about a Full sleeve shirt and was asking for the same, but they were so unwilling to think that a Full sleeve is nothing but a long sleeve. That I felt was height of lameness, and in my view inability to think.
American food is all high calorie junk food personified, back in India everyone cribs about junk food and calories even for 40gm of Lays, here everyone is hogging 250gm and family size packs of the same with tons of smoothies and cream. America seems to be more obese than what I had in mind of Indians. The wastage of food is more unlike ever seen.
Americans are not very Green conscious unlike what they claim with n number of fundraising events and global warming gyan they to world. On an average an amount of white paper that gets wasted at office is immense, most of them print and every bit of mail or reports just to discs while coming to meetings, while every has laptops they still pile up paper. Now add the toiletries and similar expenses, immense. The mailers I get which is all promotional content is too high, every week the mail man delivers a bunch of coupons and promotional material, trust me 99% of it goes directly to the thrash. Apart from this every office use so much of plastic and disposable thermocol cups, plates and spoons. I wonder where all this is getting processed. Yeah agreed India's waste management is not the best, but we don't produce this must waste either. I feel there is lots of open spaces around that the landfill just take in all of this with some amount of processing, but still it junk. Another aspect is the pollution, I love the cruiser bikes and big cars, but the impact on environment is pretty nasty. Noise levels of Harley's is too high in decibels. The Cars are big and powerful no one really cares about Fuel, its so cheap that they burn more than necessary. Its a cheap commodity. Americans hardly care if there is famine around the world or food prices soar, they don't mind if the UV rays hit them hard when the Ozone hole increases in size, they are not bothered if the world runs out of fossil fuels. I found that a bit strange.
American consumerism is also a unique one. The Government and the people alike are high consumer driven. Increase spending means boost economy. When the economy was down the government infuses money to increase spending, while ideally I would prefer saving ahead for tough times. From my perspective there is considerable amount of import oriented products to US that having increased spending would somehow convert to increase in outflow of dollar, which could impact the country. Well it might not if they want to do it, by just printing and increase circulation through paper current which might end up devaluing the currency at a later part of the time. Tricky situation.
America is a amazing place, different culture, different experience, its as multi-cultural and multipolar as India is and probably more diverse atleast in places I have been to.
Experiments with driving
Well today is practically day 4 for me when it comes to driving on the US roads, yes after a little over 2 months of staying on driving on the American roads.
My first car to drive was a Nissan Altima a 3.5lt engine automatic, black beast.
The current car is the new sporty 2009 Hyundai Elantra automatic, carbon black car. Its sportier and compact than the Altima, but its such a smooth operator.
Interiors are great, i can directly get to play an ipod on the music system without much hassles. Over the labor day weekend I drove over 120 miles in all. Cruising at over 65 miles (110kmph) is such a passe and one doesn't even realise that they have travelled that much. An enriching experience.
Yaa there was scary lining too..today on Day 4, I got my new 2009 maps GPS, its a sleek and new GPS navigation system with 5" LCD display and features like USB charge and Bluetooth support capabilities. Well I was so mad and excited at getting it, that I couldn't wait to test it out. Went out driving and found the navigation and maps awesome, the voice was a bit too much to my comfort, loved it so much that instead of concentrating on the road I started driving through the GPS. Then it so happens that I make a blind turn, not seeing further up of the incoming traffic. Had a real close shave, with the other driver whom I cut across coming to an abrupt sudden halt in the middle of the intersection and honking, yelling at me big time. Yaa such lapses of concentration are not a pretty thing and could prove a costly mistake.
So much for my state of art gizmo I put it aside at home promptly and came back without it :)
Now who says technology doesn't kill
My first car to drive was a Nissan Altima a 3.5lt engine automatic, black beast.
The current car is the new sporty 2009 Hyundai Elantra automatic, carbon black car. Its sportier and compact than the Altima, but its such a smooth operator.
Interiors are great, i can directly get to play an ipod on the music system without much hassles. Over the labor day weekend I drove over 120 miles in all. Cruising at over 65 miles (110kmph) is such a passe and one doesn't even realise that they have travelled that much. An enriching experience.
Yaa there was scary lining too..today on Day 4, I got my new 2009 maps GPS, its a sleek and new GPS navigation system with 5" LCD display and features like USB charge and Bluetooth support capabilities. Well I was so mad and excited at getting it, that I couldn't wait to test it out. Went out driving and found the navigation and maps awesome, the voice was a bit too much to my comfort, loved it so much that instead of concentrating on the road I started driving through the GPS. Then it so happens that I make a blind turn, not seeing further up of the incoming traffic. Had a real close shave, with the other driver whom I cut across coming to an abrupt sudden halt in the middle of the intersection and honking, yelling at me big time. Yaa such lapses of concentration are not a pretty thing and could prove a costly mistake.
So much for my state of art gizmo I put it aside at home promptly and came back without it :)
Now who says technology doesn't kill
Saturday, August 07, 2010
The way to the USA
So finally the day of reckoning where the call to set sail to the shores of USA has been answered.
Set the ball rolling
My trip was kinda short tight squeezed setup up trip with a long term intent. I wanted to capture my to did list for others who are first time travellers like me.
1. Luggage 23kgs x 2 bags + 8 kgs check in luggage.
- Typically the baggage restriction is relaxable between +2 kgs. The carry baggage was not really weighed and typically allowed 2 pieces of carry luggage - I had carried a laptop and a back bag
- Suggest to pack the clothes and non-clothes in 2 different bags.
Basics to pack - Clothes, including a dozen pairs of inner wear (frenchie cut are not available in US), One skip a cooker as one could buy one here for 30-40$ here. Include essential leather items like belt, purse and may be a leather coat. Also include sufficient amount of Masala (Chole, Sambhar, Garam, Rajma, Kitchen King) if there is a specific brands one prefers. Carry a few 6 packs of Noodles like Maagi or Top Ramen, and may be instant Pasta. They will be handy for initial days.
Have passport and tickets and few foreign currency while one travels. Carry luggage can have 2 pairs of clothes, travel tooth brush and paste and soap as minimal.
http://happyschoolblog.com/list-of-things-to-carry-to-us-students
2. Airport Formalities
Rajiv Gandhi Airport, Hyderabad International Airport - Well lit and spacious and nicely maintained. One can get away with checking in 2 hrs before the departure time
- Pack the bag
- Visitors are not allowed beyond the entry gates of departures., but the glass panes allow enough in terms of communicating till you get pass the security
- After getting the boarding pass, one could proceed to immigration area for getting the passport stamped at the Airport immigration
- Security Check requires removing watches/ belts/ check in baggage and sometimes footwear as well. If enough care is taken care in packing the checking baggage it should be easy.
- Post the immigration clearance and security check-in. Its to the waiting lobby to board the flight.
3. Change Over Flights
- One needs to disembark and find the connecting flights by themselves. One could seek help of local airport authorities on the same
- One has to go through the same process of boarding check-in & security check-in at the connecting airport
- The luggage transfers of checked-in luggage is handled by the authorities
4. Final Flight / Port of Entry Forms -
- While still in flight one will be handed over the Homeland security forms I-94 immigration form and I-20 customs declaration form. Both of which will be handed over at immigration and Customs respectively on arrival.
5. On arrival - Retrieve the baggage, one might need to pay around 5$ for using a Trolley, the service is not free unlike India. Then quickly proceed to Immigration else there would be long queues. Wait for turn to be called then submit the I-94 form.
Proceed towards Customs and handover I-20 form and adhere to checks (if any) Exit for your domestic flight / airport exit.
Set the ball rolling
My trip was kinda short tight squeezed setup up trip with a long term intent. I wanted to capture my to did list for others who are first time travellers like me.
1. Luggage 23kgs x 2 bags + 8 kgs check in luggage.
- Typically the baggage restriction is relaxable between +2 kgs. The carry baggage was not really weighed and typically allowed 2 pieces of carry luggage - I had carried a laptop and a back bag
- Suggest to pack the clothes and non-clothes in 2 different bags.
Basics to pack - Clothes, including a dozen pairs of inner wear (frenchie cut are not available in US), One skip a cooker as one could buy one here for 30-40$ here. Include essential leather items like belt, purse and may be a leather coat. Also include sufficient amount of Masala (Chole, Sambhar, Garam, Rajma, Kitchen King) if there is a specific brands one prefers. Carry a few 6 packs of Noodles like Maagi or Top Ramen, and may be instant Pasta. They will be handy for initial days.
Have passport and tickets and few foreign currency while one travels. Carry luggage can have 2 pairs of clothes, travel tooth brush and paste and soap as minimal.
http://happyschoolblog.com/list-of-things-to-carry-to-us-students
2. Airport Formalities
Rajiv Gandhi Airport, Hyderabad International Airport - Well lit and spacious and nicely maintained. One can get away with checking in 2 hrs before the departure time
- Pack the bag
- Visitors are not allowed beyond the entry gates of departures., but the glass panes allow enough in terms of communicating till you get pass the security
- After getting the boarding pass, one could proceed to immigration area for getting the passport stamped at the Airport immigration
- Security Check requires removing watches/ belts/ check in baggage and sometimes footwear as well. If enough care is taken care in packing the checking baggage it should be easy.
- Post the immigration clearance and security check-in. Its to the waiting lobby to board the flight.
3. Change Over Flights
- One needs to disembark and find the connecting flights by themselves. One could seek help of local airport authorities on the same
- One has to go through the same process of boarding check-in & security check-in at the connecting airport
- The luggage transfers of checked-in luggage is handled by the authorities
4. Final Flight / Port of Entry Forms -
- While still in flight one will be handed over the Homeland security forms I-94 immigration form and I-20 customs declaration form. Both of which will be handed over at immigration and Customs respectively on arrival.
5. On arrival - Retrieve the baggage, one might need to pay around 5$ for using a Trolley, the service is not free unlike India. Then quickly proceed to Immigration else there would be long queues. Wait for turn to be called then submit the I-94 form.
Proceed towards Customs and handover I-20 form and adhere to checks (if any) Exit for your domestic flight / airport exit.
At the domestic terminal get the boarding pass, and wait for the flight. Once at destination one could either book a cab, get into a shuttle, use a public transport system or get someone to pick you up. Wallah !!
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