Remnants of an army, by Elizabeth Butler ..

Lone survivor - Elizabeth Butler ..

The painting of the sole survivor of the British army of 1842 AD consisting of 700 European soldiers, 3800 Indian sepoys and 14,000 civilian staff who fled Kabul, entering Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan was a grim scene to be captured by the artist Elizabeth Butler.

The British occupation of Afghanistan which started with great promise but ended in total disgrace is a grim reminder to the forces of the world that even though Afghanistan does offer feeble opposition to its occupation by the different powers of the world, the dogged resistance to foreign authority amongst the disaggregated small groups within Afghanistan has been famed, giving credence to the famous saying yet again : Empires go to Afghanistan to die ....

Alliance lawns ...

Tennis ball game, a good lean continuous improvement exercise..

http://leaninsider.productivitypress.com/2008/12/tennis-ball-exercise.html

When I played this game for the first time in the class, jan 2013 batch, it generated interest and a group of students who were really ingenious, came up with the rolling of the tennis ball making use of gravity to reach the minimum time of 1.3 seconds to roll the 3 balls among all the members of the team.

Was useful in spreading the idea of Kaizen or continuous improvement to the students. I just had to tell them what needed to be done and they did it in the shortest time..

Good work, students !!

Learnings from the game

ge

My new Huawei Ascend G600 phablet ..

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g600-review-50009044/

1.2 Ghz dual core ( upto 1.7 GHz) Qualcomm snapdragon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28system_on_chip%29 ) ARMv7 CPU chipset, working on 45 nm technology, this is the best in town at a great price of 15K on flipkart.

4.5" screen, 768MB RAM, 16GB memory, 2000 mAh battery, 8 MP rear camera and a .3 MP secondary front camera and Near field comm chip inbuilt, this is one of the best and cost effective smart phones around.

Even the iPhone 5 priced at Rs 43,000 in India has only 1.2 GHz dual core and 1 GB RAM with a 4" screen ..

Huawei is the world largest telecom eqpt manufacturer, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012. ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei .. Huawei's treatment of its workforce has received negative comments. Like how Apple phones being made in China by Foxconn had HR problems with its huge workforce in China.


A note for all fence sitters.

Why I went for this product is

1. Huawei is the world No. 1 company in Networking eqpt, having beaten the likes of Ericsson, Alcatel etc who are all history.. They would not stake their repute on this product.

2. The trend these days is to go for Chinese products, like 100% of Apple products is manufactured in China with Samsung Korea display and baseboard components. Be part of the Great China resurgence story ( as all Americans do..) !!

3. Huawei and Samsung are leading the race to ascertain Asia's dominance in the world electronics and networking eqpt esp mobile phones scene.

4. It is always a good feeling and exciting confidence to be with the leader ..

5. Cost innovation Huawei has brought about at just one third the cost of an equally comparable iPhone 5.

6. Value for money is what I would say finally..

george..

At bijuchayans house ..

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Pic of late Mathew Easaw, my elder bro ..

died on April 7 1978..

Old pic of CET ...

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