Two news item

1.Plane's window seat raises blood clot risk.

Reasearchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands have found that sitting by the window on a plane can double a persons risk of a potentially deadly blood clot, the British Journal of Haemotology repots. ------- Times of India, Jan 28.

2. Eating less helps elderly keep their brains sharp.

Eating less can help older adults improve their memory and prevent or delay the onset of Azheimer's,suggets a new study.  ------- Times of India, Jan 28.

Deatils are in Times of India. I have no comments to make.

Bias towards Cricket ??

Yesterday India bet Sri Lanka in the first ODI in Cricket. Government people say is biased towards cricket players. Padma awards are not given to Olympic Bronze Medal winners. Why??
No one can give a convincing answer. Now

I am reminded of the cricketing days we had at Cuddalore, especially after reading the comments of Girivasan and Iyer. I forgot .........., From day one of the starting of the cricket team I was the Captain of the team. (no.1??) Infact no one opted to and hence I was the defacto captain. Self appointed as I took the initiative and started the team.

I had to litrally fight with the then Factory Manager and GM, way back in 1988, to get the money sanctioned to buy kits (bat, ball, pads, glouse, u.guards,etc) for the team. somehow I manged to pool in a team of members who were really interested in the game but were not v.good players. I could convince the management that it will improve the relations between the engineers and workmen.

It really did wonders for the relationship. The cricket team was given a boost after Mr.PKK and Iyer joined us. Both even participated in the game. Iyer, from Bombay, the Mecca of cricket in India, was a very good bowler and Murthy was a hitter like David Boon. We had another cricketer Girivasan from Triplicane, which is a synonym to cricket in Chennai. I still remember,Giri used to come all the way from Chennai for the matches at Cuddalore. Such was the interest he had in the game.

We had very good players later on, like Saikrishnan, Venkatachalam, Ravikumar, Rajendran etc. I might have forgot some good guys name, excuse me for that. Actuall we are all very good players as we went usually directly for the matches without any practice earlier, but still could win some matches. We played lot of matches at cuddalore, Neyveli, Nellikkuppam, etc and had lots of Fun.

I got my career best haul of 8 wickets in the SIPCOT tournament.

Now, with my non my participation due to advanced age and retirement , the cricket team in Penta, also had a natural death.

The No 2.

Today Our Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh is recovering after the successful second bypass surgery. The Government has not officially designated anyone as the acting Prime Minister,although Mr.Pranab Mukherjee is holding fort and is doing the routine daily chores of the Prime Minister. Why? Because he is not favoured by the Top Management of the Party, due to his earlier utterances after Mrs.Indra Gandhi's death.

Mr.Gulzarilal Nanda ,though he was twice the acting Prim Minister, never became the Prime Minister. You remember Mr.Nedunchezhian? He was the Deputy Chief Minister under Karunanidhi and under MGR. Never could become the chief Minister.

This brings to my mind some analogy. (in comparison to me, though retired now)

During my tenure of about 20 years in Penta, Cuddalore I have seen six Factory Managers/Plant Managers. In almost most of the cases I have taken care of the Pant for about 4 to 5 months till the next Factory Manager takes over. Which means I have always been the No 2.

Why? What is the point now? Is this a self analysis? Is it going to bring you any good? I am asking these questions myself. May be this is only to pour my heart out, I console myself. During my profession we have done the so called SWOT analysis, many times. I have tried to reduce the weaknesses and harness the strengths. Still the No 2 spot was always mine.

Have you seen the Tamil Movie "Mannan" of superstar Rajini? There he explains how the No2 is bigger than the No1. But in reality what? People clamour for the
No1 spot. Raffa has pushed Federer to No2 and etc.

They say in HR , is this Murphy's Law?, that everyone rises up to the level of their incompetence. May be True.

Though I did my PG in Chemical Engineering sometimes I do feel sometimes that I have been educated more. Actually I did my PG because I could get the stipend and did not get a job in time.

In any case I have now become a Plants Manager as I manage/attend to the plants I have at home.

whats in a title?

I have been thinking of creating a blog for long and is kindled more by iyer's blogspot. what title i should keep, that was the question which was pondering for long. Finally I had arrived at at my first name. yes,my initial T stands for Thinniam,which is a remote village in Lalgudi and nearer to Anbil. (heard of anbil Dharmalingam) There is nothing connected to us there now except our Temple, which we visit every year. The Subramanian Swamy Temple is very famous in Trichy District. But Thinniam is also notorious for the communal clashes. (search google - u can see).

Thats for the day, The day when Slum dog Millioanaire is nominated for Oscar award.