The voice within

My favorite tea time snack is Butter Gulkhand Sandwich. It's so easy and quick to make that I can eat it everyday :) It provides a lot of energy and is good for health... It's my super snack. Here's how you make it: Ingredients: Wheat bread -------- 4 slices Butter----------------2 table spoon Gulkhand-----------2 table spoon Method: Cut the sides of the bread. Spread generous amount of butter on one side of each slice Spread two table spoonful of gulkhand on one slice cover the butter spread slice on top of the gulkhand spread slice Cut the sandwich into half diagonally and enjoy the delicious snack :)

Three years ago, I didn't know about  International Day of People with Disability. Slowly I started to get to know more about people with disabilities. IDPwD is a United Nations sanctioned day that is celebrated internationally. It aims to increase public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability and celebrate the achievements and contributions of people with disability. -  http://www.idpwd.com.au/about/ Each year there is a theme for IDPwD. I'm writing a few points here about making cities inclusive and accessible for all.  It is very difficult to climb stairs for many of us. Walking on slopes will be helpful. A special parking allotment for the disabled at banks and other Government and Private Offices will help us to park our vehicles without any hassles. For people with disabilities working in IT companies if facilities such as an elevator, canteen within the campus, bathrooms, emergency wheelchairs are provided , one can work fre...

image source: google images Jenny was walking on the footpath towards her office. A woman double her size with long open hair dressed in blue jeans and a yellow top with a jacket hugging her body and a tattoo on her right hand brushed her shoulder and walked quickly into the office.“Wow she has strong legs to walk that fast” Jenny thought. Jenny was strictly on time to office because of the strangest and weirdest comment she received from her manager for being late to office by 5 minutes. “I don’t think you have grown up in a disciplined family” he had said.  She could not apply for leave that day as she had just joined the company. She was suffering from leg pain due to post surgery injury and it was very difficult for her to climb each step and reach the second floor of the office. The same day Jenny’s husband was undergoing a kidney stone surgery. That’s why she asked her parents and uncle to be with her husband in the hospital. It was lunch time and Jenny carried ...

Oracle Reports Builder is a tool used for report processing. You can create simple data reports using this tool. I found the installation of this tool a little tedious. Both design time and runtime components have to be installed. If they both are not installed you won't be able to run and test the reports. After the installation of the Oracle Developer Suite, go to Oracle Database 10g Express Edition and start the database. When you open reports builder, there are three options to build a report: using the report wizard, build a new report manually and open an existing report. For any of the options that is chosen, you can see tools such as Object Navigator, Object properties, Data model editor, Property Palette, Layout editor and Parameter form editor.In the Layout Editor there are three layout options available to generate reports: create both web and paper layout, create web layout and create paper layout. There are five report styles such as tabular, group above, group le...

Everybody face problems at their workplace but tend to remain hush about it. Mobbing is spreading widely in almost all work places in the world but the topic is hidden because no one wants to experience any kind of loss at their work place. “Mobbing” is a term started by Duffy and Len Sperry which means “nonsexual harassment of a coworker by a group.”   It is defined as: "MOBBING IS...EMOTIONAL ABUSE in the workplace. "Ganging up" by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone out of the workplace through rumor, innuendo, intimidation, humiliation, discrediting, and isolation. Malicious, nonsexual, nonracial, general harassment. Other expressions for MOBBING are: Bullying, psychological terror or aggression, hostile behaviors at work, workplace trauma, incivility or emotional violence. We consider MOBBING an emotional injury that impacts a target's mental and physical health. MOBBING is a workplace safety and health issue." N. Zanolli Davenpo...

Sometimes, no matter how much we try to blend with the materialistic world, we do capitulate to feelings and emotions. After-all, we are humans and not machines. Reading and music is therapeutic at times. well, at-least for me, it is. It is peaceful.  I like to read short stories, vaudeville, fiction, fantasy and so on. I grew up counting the fan mails my mom would receive for each and every article/story/poem she wrote. I always read articles/blogs that my mom has written and somehow I like them so much that I keep reading them again and again.  Recently I came across a haiku and it was very meaningful. So much of thought has been put into it. It is called a slaking song . I also noticed that some writers keep writing about death a lot. Every story ends in death. Writing that she shot him, he shot her, she committed suicide, he fell off a tower, he/she had cancer and making others around you die, little do these people think about their own death, they never think about...

Living in the IT world of Bengaluru we generally forget to reduce the impact on environment caused by us.The more the carbon is being let out into our atmosphere, the more it contributes to global warming. Even though we are educated and are working in the IT industry we do not care much about measuring our carbon footprint. By measuring the amount of carbon we release in each of our activities, we can cut down and reduce the carbon amount we leave into the atmosphere by taking some effective initiatives. Our city is known for its IT hub. The infrastructure of the various MNCs are very huge. Each building can go green by including some very useful and effective green measures such as rain water harvesting system, solar heaters, eco-friendly air coolers, minimising the usage of plastic, usage of solar buggy, cycles, usage of low energy consuming lights and daylight sensors. More initiatives can be taken if  each and every employees carbon footprint is measured every day in each...