A Link from my blogger friend

I found this link on Nermeen's blog and couldn't help including it on mine. A must visit if you care to stop or condemn the crime of Sex Trafficking.

http://www.kgxperiences.com/ruchira/traffick2.html

My Wordpress blog goes live

Hello friends, my blog on great music that remains anonymous went live today with my first review being posted this morning. This is my way of trying to make these great albums and songs less anonymous by spreading the news about them. The blog is called great-anonymous-music. I must confess that this blog is dearer to me than my personal or my music blog. Boy am I passionate about it! The fun part is I use WordPress, the blogging software for this blog. If you are considering serious and professional blogging you must take a look at this software. It is highly flexible and can be tweaked with some effort but the learning curve is very small. You can tweak themes to give your blog a professional look. If you have your own domain and are on a hosting plan, WordPress is the blogging software you need to be checking out. The best part is this. It’s free and has awesome documentation and support. There are currently over 600 WordPress themes and counting. Imagine the choices you have for your blog’s theme. To learn more about WordPress here is the link, www.wordpress.org.

Changes and some pics

We complete one month and a half of office work, play and dining together at the new office premises on Mt.Road. Our company bid goodbye to Tidel Park in February as we moved our office premises to the new location. The last day at Tidel saw much packing and photo sessions. Here's a pic that Sri took of me on the last day at Tidel Park.



Then there were the leavers. First "The Hulky" Joseph from our team. Joseph moves to pursue a career in Bangalore. Joseph and I have been together since 2003. The big guy will be missed. Here's an old pic taken with Rajeev's Nokia (then the costliest biggest and most versatile mobile phone in the company, Rajeev is in the background.)



And how can I forget John, the only guy who could do a fine impersonation of me (now poorly imitated by others). Here are some of John's pics on his final day.

Myself, John and Guhan


The guys with attitude pic. Prabhu, Muthu, John and Sri. Sri sporting a similar shirt on John's last day expressing his....


And of course Syed Mushahid, our hard working, skilled System Manager who also successfully oversaw our move to Mt.Road. He now leaves with his family to pursue a career in Dubai after some relaxing and holidaying of course. Here's me with Syed and his MVP of the month cup on his last day.


Others who left and will be remembered are Karthik, Ashok, Kshama and Annette. And of course Murali, biker David Ebenezer and his girlfriend Rejitha (I missed them in my original post).

Time and a Word

It was in February 1996 that I first left India's shores for a country abroad. The circuitous trip (to save travel fare of course) arranged by my company took me from Chennai to Bombay via the now defunct East West Airways. I will never forget how the full moon illumincated the clouds that night as we flew over the clouds. From the domestic airport in Bombay a shuttle took us to the international airport. From there Cathay Pacific took us to Thailand. How beautiful the airport looked in Bangkok and so different from our Indian counterparts. Even from the skies Thailand was simply stunning. Another Cathay Pacific flight took us to Singapore. It was like a dream for me. Time has flown ever since that day. So much has happened. So much pain and joy, trials and success. But a song that reminds me so much of "The Present" is this song from the second CD that I purchased in Singapore, my first of the band "Yes", called "Time and a word" from the Yes Highlights hits compilation CD. Here are the lyrics. Listen to this song if you ever get the chance.

Time And A Word
Anderson/Foster

In the morning when you rise,
Do you open up your eyes, see what I see?
Do you see the same things ev'ry day?

Do you think of a way to start the day
Getting things in proportion?
Spread the news and help the world go 'round.

Have you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near the word you'll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.

There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.

Have you heard of a time that will help get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near and the word you'll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.

There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.
There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.

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**© 1970 Ten East-Cotillion-Springalo Toones, BMI
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