Friday, August 20, 2010

The Money Exchange @ Chandigarh

I am in my final days of my preparations for leaving to Germany, for the same I went to Chandigarh for money exchange to euros! Here's a anecdote for that--
My mamaji had been very much involved with my career details and he supports me with whatever he can, He is the one who is telling me from beginning not to settle abroad.
My mamaji went with me for money exchange yesterday and i had a incident worth sharing!,(read mamaji's lines in a punjabi accent)
We were riding on an activa with mamaji continuously speaking wid me.
Mamaji - "Shunty Beta bahut bahut mubarakaan, mehnat saffal hogi teri te tere papa mummy di
me - Haan ji mamaji, dekhte hain kya banta hain.
Mamaji - haan puttar waqt balwaan hain te rabb da nam lette raheen.
me- Ji
Mamaji - Ik gal palle band le bahr settle hon ni naan sochein - thoda kamaa leaayengaa but waapis aana apne desh ..ch hi hega ( he might have told me ~ 50 times since last six months :-) )
me - Ji"
We reached Sec 32, and went to a currency exchange outlet, and asked for 500 Euros, he said please pay 30K rupees, I had 70 notes of `500/- first I counted then mamaji and we paid him that bunch of ~ 5-8 cms tall rupee notes! 
He went inside, came after 5 mins with few(mind here FEW) papers rolled in his hand, and handed me 7 notes of different denominations. These were 500 euros. 
(Holding those 7 notes in my hand instead of 5 cms thick 500 notes, i first time experienced and realized the difference in economy so closely) 
Mamaji with an amused gesture took Euro notes from me and had a deep look at those notes, asked him - "kamm ho gyaaa", i replied haan ji!
We came out and he said, "Shunty bass ee satt note dete hain isne, aiye hi 500 euros", I nodded
We walked till our activa in a silence, 
Upon reaching there he had a grin on his face, he returned me the Euro notes, 
and said "Shunty koi madi gal bhi ni haegi agar ttu Ik saal foreign laga bhi aaanda hai to"


I looked at him and we both burst into laughter!!!!!  

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Change

I also wondered where did I disappeared after promising that i would "AIRTEL", today i realized i was lost in the CHANGE.
I m out of my first phase of professional life and suddenly found myself back to the same place I was 7 years ago, helping my parents in their individual capacity. I loved doing that earlier and a change tht came due to my Engineering and then a job i lost touch. After so many years today, i found myself doin tht stuff again.
We manufacture and distribute Boxes in which sweets are packed and sold to customers, we supply the empty boxes (fully manufactured at our end) to halwaiisss! 
Nw next is vry interstin what is wanted to share, I was helpin my parents with this DABBA MAKIN earlier also! but today when i did the same work after spending my 3 years in a Manufacturing industry, i derived a analogy. 
What we have here is a Manufacturing Unit (Fully fledged)

  • Dabba wala kamra (jahaan dabbe banate hain) - Manufacturing Unit
  • Name of the above - pradhaan ji ka kiraaye waala kamra - Bansal Sweet Boxes Ltd.
  • Maal aa gaya gaadi main - Supply Chain (raw material from vendors)
  • Rakhi season ki demand - The Manufacturing schedule for August Month
  • All my Family members, buaa ji,Mira Aunty, babloo and all seasonal helpers - Company's Employees
  • Gupta sweets ne special cover maanga hai - 'Customer Specific' approach in business.
  • dabbe bhand ke uppar kamre main rakh do - Extra Storage Warehouse
  • ek list bana le shunty dabbon ki - Inventory Management
  • Dabbe rakhi se teen din paehale jaayenge - Despatch Schedule from 'Sales Yard
...to be continued with photos

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Welcome - The 'NAME' Mystery

Dear Readers!
Before I begin, I want to share the mystery of 'title' and 'and 'URL link' of  my blog. I was thinking of starting to post from quite a some time but as always we find some excuses to cover up our laziness i have come up with this one :-)
Whenever I had happened to browse any blogging site, i find people giving extraordinary names to their blogs, only dictionary gave me the meaning of the title. My earlier attempts to register @ blogspot always terminated on the webpage when the website asked me to give blog a name :-)
People who know me can acknowledge that I hadn't been a writer or some extrovert personality, hence i wanted to give my blog a 'WORD' that meant "expressing or sharing one's thoughts and feelings", hence started my journey :-) 
Of course i couldn't find a word for my sentence, but in the journey to find that word, I browsed through many websites, dictionaries, thesaurus and learnt quite different words and meanings :-) and now i believe more in the saying 
"It's journey which gives you joy, not the destination" :-)
Finally, it caught me that why can't i used the message conveyed by the below logo!

AIRTEL as we all know has been one of the most successful branding campaigner, and I want to share my thoughts with you all, hence AIRTEL, and i m sure now you'll know what is www.lriate.blogspot.com airtel was not available to register :-( , hence LRIATE, an anagram.
Dears using this blog i wanted to share my thoughts, opinions with you, expect this blog to be technical too as my passion drives me, My passion, which is my interest in Automobile, Engines and Mechanical Engineering will also take major posts, besides I contain variety of opinions in me always open for discussion.
Enjoy Reading