Olympic Medal Rankings - 2008

India has got 1 gold and 2 bronze medals in Olympics - 2008 with 50th rank. It got 51st rank by the no.of medals. swivel has come up with the rank based on GDP and Population. Instead of saying who got maximum no.of medals etc., it calculated rank based on no.of medals per million population, and medals per billion dollar GDP.

Rank	Country	Medals per 10 million population
1	Bahamas	65.05101626
2	Jamaica	39.22502756
3	Iceland	31.62035339
4	Slovenia	24.64268112
5	Australia	21.50104497
6	Cuba	21.29925453
7	New Zealand	21.05361654
8	Norway	20.92706916
9	Armenia	19.98667555
10	Belarus	19.60784314
78	Venezuela	0.357734384
79	Iran	0.283704917
80	Mexico	0.281208258
81	Nigeria	0.270100545
82	Sudan	0.2593361
83	Indonesia	0.215864299
84	South Africa	0.208983359
85	Egypt	0.132945134
86	Vietnam	0.114449213
87	India	0.026386129

Top 10 and Bottom 10 ranks by population

Rank	Country	Medals per 10 billion dollar GDP
1	Zimbabwe	11.7028
2	Mongolia	10.2722
3	Jamaica	10.2430
4	Armenia	6.5381
5	Georgia	5.8962
6	Kyrgyzstan	5.7061
7	Tajikistan	5.3879
8	Kenya	4.7443
9	Cuba	4.6958
10	Belarus	4.2438
78	Singapore	0.0620
79	Israel	0.0618
80	Chile	0.0610
81	Japan	0.0571
82	Malaysia	0.0553
83	Belgium	0.0446
84	Venezuela	0.0438
85	South Africa	0.0360
86	Mexico	0.0336
87	India	0.0256

Top 10 and Bottom 10 ranks by GDP

Appraisal and Resignation

Comparative study : Appraisal and Resignation

In appraisal meeting they will speak only about your weakness, errors and failures.
In resignation meeting they will speak only about your strengths, past achievements and success.


In appraisal you may need to cry and beg for even 10% hike.
In resignation you can easily demand (or get even without asking) more than 50-60% hike.


During appraisal, they will deny promotion saying you didn't meet the expectation, you don't have leadership qualities, and you had several drawbacks in our objective/goal.

During resignation, they will say you are the core member of team; you are the vision of the company how can you go, you have to take the project in shoulder and lead your juniors to success.


There is 90% chance for not getting any significant incentives after appraisal.
There is 90% chance of getting immediate hike after you put the resignation.

So If you want an appraisal submit your resignation immediately!

Got it as forward.

BSNL and Indian Postal Service

I applied for BSNL broadband internet connection in June. While entering the data, the data entry operator did not enter correct communication address. When I asked to correct it, she told me that, system cannot allow to change the address once entered. She told me that, I can give address change request only after generating the first bill. i.e., I can give only after July 10th. I went to BSNL office after july 10th, and gave the request for address change. Next month, I did not receive the bill. I went to office again and told them that, I have not received the bill. I expected reply like, we will send a duplicate bill or Let me check the address. But, the reply was, Ask your postman. I again checked my address, and removed few extra spaces in the company name, and gave a new request to change the address again. I waited for two months. But, I did not get bill. I stopped bothering about the bill. Today, I received a bill from BSNL. I was very happy that, at last I started getting bills from BSNL. After that, I saw the issue date, and it was 7-Aug-2008.

I don't know when will our government offices change.

Quote of the day

One Narayana Murthy probably has done more for India's prestige and honour than thousands of petitions, articles, forums, and speeches in the UN etc.

No Smoking in Public and Private places

Anbumani Ramadoss brought a new policy from Oct 2nd, 2008, that nobody should smoke in public and private places. Those who want to smoke, has to smoke at their house or on roads. Nobody is allowed to even smoke in their offices.

Ramadoss is notorious for bringing policies which appear as good, but actually very bad.

My personal experience is, in the last couple of years, I was never worried about passive smoking. I was almost never effected by passive smoking. But, in the last one month, I was more effected by passive smoking.

Till Oct 1st, My company and other companies in the surrounding area used to provide smoking areas in the office. Most of the time, Non-smokers never bother about going to that side. So, almost nobody effected by passive smoking.

With the new rule, all the companies removed the smoking areas, and mentioned that, entire office is no-smoking area. Those whoever wants to smoke, they have to go out and smoke on the road. Everyday, I walk from auto stand to my office gate in the morning, and from office gate to auto stand in the evening. While walking, I see many people who smoke on the road, and I am effected by passive smoking because of that. Previously, all of them used to smoke in the smoking area in their respective companies. Because of this stupid rule, they are smoking on the roads, and the pedestrians are effected by that.

The smoking is not allowed in small hotels. In big restaurants, it is allowed only if the restaurant provides a special smoking area. But, many small restaurants do not follow any rules. So, they allow smoking. For the last one month, smoking in small restaurants has increased, because, there are restrictions in all the companies, and in many private places. So, smokers are smoking in the small hotels. Because of this also, I am more effected by passive smoking.

At the end, people like me are more effected by this stupid rule.

If they want to change smokers, then they should do it in such a way that, non-smokers are not effected at all. I seriously doubt, whether Ramadoss can ever imagine/come up/approve one good idea/policy/rule in his life.