New Beginning !!!

(The below excerpt is a day's experience in one of the training program i attended in Infosys 😃 )

Wood's are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And I have miles to go before I sleep. 
- Robert Frost

Waking up from the deep caverns of slumbering sleep.. I just realized that I'm on my last day of this exciting learning journey, raring to go to my new old self tomorrow more ready than ever before. It "almost" felt like a dream.... that too a Fabulous one. 10 days of intensive training where you are pitted against the best infoscions across DC's and they rightly called it as emerging leaders management program.

There's a general belief that fun would dampen learning if mixed together, but i definitely realized after #elmp that learning with more fun is the most effective way of learning. We had too much fun and loads and loads of learning.

I'm no Gautama, but the self realization started when I was asked to be on the running track before 6:00 am everyday which was followed by a game of volleyball/basketball or yoga/aerobics. It didn't take me more than a day to realize that my body got so used to the materialistic world that it doesn't want Baba Ramdev to come any closer to it. 

After bidding adieu to Baba's followers, let me tell you how I learnt time management. We just had 1 bathroom, 2 people and 30 minutes to get ready including the time taken to walk from one building to another. For someone who always enjoyed the therapeutic hot streams running from head to toe relaxing all the muscles it touched, less than 5 minutes to bath was a shocker.
I hear you all !!! but that's how I was.
I'm sure that even Mark Hurst or David Allen couldn't have conveyed a better lesson on Time management than this cause ...I was always on time to the classes beating the time monster with my unending nerves of steel...!!!

In all the other things that I learnt, I should definitely mention patience and endurance in this post. I'm a patient guy, people who know me will agree to it. But classroom session from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm was a little unnerving even for my nerves of steel. I suddenly felt like a guy who cant swim and got lost in the sea of patience. What kept me and everyone else in the class going is the learning's/values that we learnt at the end of each day. It helped us like the light house that helps the mariners, showed us patience and endurance to withstand. Patience is a virtue, if you don't have it... then think of the value that you'll get if you remain patient - Voila!!! isn't it ?

When the day ended, we were tired, exhausted but there was this unseen energy that took over me and others which kept us awake till 12 in the night, chatting, singing, playing flute or even dancing at times. Now, recollecting all those things that i learnt i realized again that its just the tip of an iceberg, a mere beginning, a sacrificial altar upon which i'm going to shape my professional career in Infosys. As Frost rightly said, "I have miles to go before i sleep".

This post is again just a beginning, as i'll be sitting down in tranquility to recollect all the learning/concepts/theories from the #ELMP session ranging from Strategic thinking to Emotional Quotient.
So stay tuned !!!

Ye Udhadugale

ye udhadugale....

Pugaikamal karuththai.. naan dravidan enru unarthuvadharku..

Naavidhazhai unn kuviyalodu punara chedhai..
Kanni thamizhin 'zha'garamum.. 'la'garamum
naan pizhayinri suvaipadharku..

ul ninra en parkalai avva pothu veli kaatinaai...
Ennalum sirikka mudiyum enru unarthuvadharku..

Inro..
Nee kuvindhal.. kaatru koodu vega maaga vara marukkiradhe..

Navidhazhum unnodu punara marukkindradhe..

Metha paditha nee vaarthaigalai veli konara methanam kaatuvadhu yen...

Yaar veitha saabam...uyir irundhum
ikkural mei vittu odiyadhe...

Unakkuma..pharyngitis... !!!!

Gago's chronicle

Gago's chronicle

Black Mamba - King of Snakes

The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is the longest venomous snake in Africa, averaging around 2.5 meters (8.2 ft), and sometimes growing up to 4.3 meters (14 ft). Its name is derived from the black coloration inside the mouth; the actual color of the skin varies, from dull yellowish-green to a gun-metal gray. It is the fastest snake in the world, capable of moving at 4.5 to 5.4 metres per second (16–20 km/h, 10–12 mph.

Of all the African snakes the Black Mamba is the most feared and is known for being aggressive when agitated or confronted and will strike with deadly precision. The outer colour varies between a pale grey-green to a gunmetal blue. The head is also distinctive in being narrowly shaped and having round eyes with round pupils. The snake being neurotoxic causes respiratory failure and leaves the pray paralysed which causes death in 7-15 hours.

The average length of the snake varies between 2 to 2.5 metres but an exceptional case was recorded of 4.5 metres. This snake has quite a large distribution stretching from Senegal (West Africa) to Somalia in the East down to Pondoland (Port St Johns) including Namibia and Angola. They are absent from Equatorial forests and desert areas. They prefer more open Bushveld / Savanna with an altitude not exceeding 1500 metres.

A batch of 12 to 17 eggs are usually laid but can be as few as 9 or 10 and are oval shaped hatching between 80-90 days. The young are usually dark in colour and measures between 40 to 60 cm in length.

Bites from Black Mambas to humans are rare, but they are very deadly. A single bite can have enough venom to kill anywhere from 20-40 grown men. They tend to become extremely aggressive and will readily attack, especially if they can not escape. Many snake experts have cited the black mamba as the world's most aggressive snake, being actively aggressive and attacking without provocation. If confronted by a large threat, such as a human, the Black Mamba will aggressively defend its territory. When in the striking position, the mamba flattens its neck, hisses very loudly and displays its inky black mouth and deadly fangs. It can rear up around one-third of its body from the ground which puts it at about four feet high. When warding off a threat, the black mamba delivers multiple strikes, injecting large amounts of potent neuro- and cardiotoxin with each strike, often landing bites on the body or head, unlike other snakes.

If left undisturbed, Black Mambas tend to live in their lairs for long periods of time, which are often vacated insect mounds or hollow trees. Black mambas are diurnal snakes that hunt prey actively day or night. When hunting small animals, the Black Mamba delivers a single deadly bite and backs off, waiting for the neurotoxin in its venom to paralyze the prey. When killing a bird, however, the Black Mamba will cling to its prey, preventing it from flying away.

Behaviour

Venom

Black mambas are among the ten most venomous snakes in the world. With an LD50 of 0.25-0.32 mg/kg, the black mamba is more than 3 times as venomous as the Cape Cobra, over 5 times as venomous as the King cobra and about 40 times as venomous as the Gaboon viper. Black mamba venom contains powerful, rapid-acting neurotoxins and cardiotoxins. Its bite delivers about 100-120 mg of venom on average, however it can deliver up to 400 mg of venom; 10 to 15 mg is deadly to a human adult. The initial symptom of the bite is local pain in the bite area, although not as severe as snakes with hemotoxins. The victim then experiences a tingling sensation in the extremities, drooping eyelids (eyelid ptosis), tunnel vision, sweating, excessive salivation, and lack of muscle control (specifically the mouth and tongue). If the victim does not receive medical attention, symptoms rapidly progress to nausea, shortness of breath, confusion, and paralysis. Eventually, the victim experiences convulsions, respiratory failure, and coma, and dies due to suffocation resulting from paralysis of the muscles used for breathing. Without treatment the mortality rate is 100%, the highest among all venomous snakes in the world.

Lifestyle

Black mambas live primarily in scrubland and, though not considered an arboreal species, can live in bushes and small trees. Its diet consists mainly of small birds and rodents and, despite the negative reputation, it plays a crucial role in regulating pests.

Breeding

Breeding usually takes place in late spring or early summer. After mating the male will return back to its own home. The female will then lay between 10 and 25 eggs. The offspring are independent as soon as they are born and can capture prey the size of a rat

Moon and its effect.

I've been thinking lately about how the moon and magnetic fields of the Earth could effect the brain.

Could it be possible, since the moon was so close to us so long ago, that humans could've actually possessed awesome mind power? Is it reasonable to say that Atlantis used this to become a technological marvel? Since magnetism and electricity are closely related could the effect produce a faster neural speed?

Two thirds of the human body is water. Water is an essential component involved in every function of the body. It helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells. It is necessary for all digestive, absorption, circulatory and excretory functions, and for the maintenance of proper body temperature.

The moon has such a dramatic effect on the Earth's oceans, then could it have a similar relationship with our bodies,as water is such a large part of our make up? The theory argues that a mini tidal effect, especially in the liquid surrounding the brain, must have consequences on us. However, it may not due to the scale . Whilst there is a marked and visible effect on the oceans and seas, which give us tides, the moon's gravitational pull is interacting with vast volumes of water. The same rise and fall as in the oceons is not seen in a glass of water or even a container filled with the same amount of water as in the human body. The general scientific consensus therefore seems to be that the moon's tidal effect on a human body is negligible or non-existent. Although the pull from the moon does not seem to affect us directly in this way, it does have a profound effect on the Earth and on numerous biological events - and these certainly do affect us.

CHUPACABRA

A myth....? or A legend....?

All we know is that it strikes in the night and has a weakness for blood. Put away the goats, and any other household pets, cause the Chupacabra may be coming to a barn near YOU. Find out more about Puerto Rico's version of the Yeti, the infamous Chupacabra.

Speculation has placed the Chupacabra as a resident of another galaxy, or a half-man, half-beast vampire who roams the countryside terrorizing farm animals. Others say that the Chupacabra hops like a kangaroo and leaves a sulfur-like stench. Still others say that the Chupacabra is a panther-like creature with red eyes and a long snake-like tongue.

Chupacabra, which translates into "goat-sucker", has not attacked humans, although no one can say for certain that this will not happen in the future. The origin of its name comes from its earliest attacks, where goats were found with their blood drained and with two peculiar puncture marks on their necks. There have been reports alleging that particular organs were missing from some of the victim's bodies, without any visible way for those organs to have been removed.

A Mystery... will this be unraveled or will it remain a mystery for ever....

http://www.princeton.edu/~accion/ccabra.jpg

Anger

Anger anger everywhere,
making her angry.....???
just don't dare.....