Aladdin Factor

Book is interesting. Authored by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. There are many things to learn from the book. A sudden awakening, that most of us don't know, is what to ask in life. The barriers in asking are discuss in detail with lots of samples.

Systematically analyzed fear and tips are provided to overcome. That part is very useful. The narration in the book is definitely positive and will help anyone to bring themselves up. Handling change, the beginner's difficulty are discussed well.

Lots of cartoons, quotes, life incidents all over the book made the reading live, easy and comfortable. However, the Aladdin story didn't stick together with the topic. Also I felt the later part of the book kind of redundant (the chapter from 'Ask at Home'). There are many narration from salespersons' diary. Talks about how they cracked some of the difficult deal or situation. Many seemed to be 'yuck' and beyond normal people; may be that is the extra skill acquired by salesmanship and the author suggest others to learn.


Can be read once.

Demystified the other road

Yesterday I went through the 'other road'. It was thrilling experience to go through it as I had created such a curiosity and hype in me. The other road had a big electrical transformer!

New place

I felt working from home causing some side effects. Wanted to have a office setup and worked towards it. Got it done after running around for office space, net, electrical equipments were challengeful tasks of their own. In spite of things going smooth, running around was stressful.

Felt wonderful once things were set and to relax comfortably.

Medical file

Branded, hi-fi, multi-functional corporate hospitals use file system. It is the physical file cover which holds all the patient records, results, observations. If a patient request for a treatment, his/her file is retrieved from the record storage room and passed to concerned dept. Depending on many factors, this process of moving the file takes a happy 30mins to 60mins. Sometimes the staff have a happy hours of playing 'treasure hunt' in order to trace the file.

The patient need to wait in a lengthy queue in the dept for some doctor to analyze. Then n number of tests are expected. Each test will be greeted by a lengthy queue again .. no, ur relative cannot reserve a seat for you in the next test room. If the number of tests tend towards one, then there is a hope for getting treated on the same day.

The big, posh hospitals that charge $$$ follow a different process. They create a five star environment for their A-class patients and take care well.

However, the branded hospital handling middle and lower group of people adapt the same process of file system we saw earlier. I was puzzled to notice the same process in these hospitals. The real surprise was that, why is that a hospital never learn from the bottle necks observed in another hospital system? Atleast the later hospitals could have written smart software to handle the crowd and manage better. Why they didn't?

Suddenly it struck! .. the sales guys!!

This could have been the conversation between the hospital management and sales guys from a software company.

HM: we would like to have an efficient system that would smoothen the process. It should help us keep track of records and refer back easily in a secure manner.
SG: Sure, sir. We will be able to do that. It would take 8 months to develop (and hospital wil have test it), and cost approx 2 million rupees. On the other hand, we have an industry tested solution, which costs 0.3M and can be installed within 2 weeks.
HM: oh, I guess we will go for your solution.



Such primitive system not only punishes the patients who are in the last rung of the ladder; but also the staff, the doctors and the management. Instead of having a smooth process and channeling the crowd thru time management, the current system opens the gate for chaos.

Overcoming Monday blues

It is Sunday early morning. I feel energetic and fresh. Going through the task list for Sunday, which will have special assignments like riding to scenic places.

I feel if we don't laze on Sunday, we will have a fresh Monday morning. See Sunday as any other day, Monday will also be like any other day.

System crash

Ever heard about a person fainting immediately after passing urine? You would hear water flushing and a thud sound of the person falling down. This case has a funny medical name too .. Micturition syncope

Till now I thought only windows os does things like this.

optimal teeth

Is the material by which our teeth are made is the right choice? They seem to corrode easily. Doesn't seem to regrow as it ought to have. Are there any alternative that nature could have tried out?

Could the corrosiveness be aggravated due to modern eating habits?