The month till now has had it's ups and downs. Tractor sales were great last month and we are on target this month too. However the piaggio basket is still not half filled up yet. And now with us entering the last 2 weks of 2006, I don't see much progress. But yes, we're still keeping our market share. ODS seems up and down at times. Sona & Suyu are hard at it though. I was in B'lore to meet uip with Harsha and seek his expertise on the project. We are in touch with him now on a regular ba...

The week that went by had it's share of fun and 'heartburns' too. Sales is happening as planned and both the baskets (JD & Piaggio) are filling up satisfactorily. Nanda from PVPL was here and both of went through the usual Chikmagalur assertions and denials. In the end as I expected & hoped, nothing came of it. However he has some interesting ideas as a sales guy, and let me see, how he could be of help to us. A number of D810 vehicles arived with the engines in bad shape. That was the dif...

Well, I was supposed to talk to Scully today but it seems he couldn't keep the appointment. Will have to reschedule the telecon. The website is up & running. We delivered 2 tractors today. Good show from the team. 3-wheeler sales are also looking up. Will have the lucky draw pamphlets tomorrow. The main priority now is to add members to the sales team. Saddam has been indicted today and will hang. The Americans and their allies in Iraq were to give him his just desserts anyway. No big surp...

I was at Sagar the whole day today. I was there to relieve Poornima and check out how she was handing over her duties to the new incharge there Suneetha. Poornima has done a great job while she was at Sagar and I let her know that too. Sales is picking up there and the new sales guy there, Samad is kicking ass too. On the whole all looks ok. Orange Data website is up today. Need to check out on the mail boxes tomorow with Satyan. No reply from Kiran yet. Maybe our RFI is a wee bit ha...

I started off today comparing our spares order with the spares despatch packing list. Had Moorthy look up the short supplied spares & order them again. Guru from Kappanahalli came down and I explained Venkaiah's accounts to him He left satisfied. Kiran called me saying that he would be interested in the call center we are looking out for. Sent him an RFI. Plan to go to Sagar tomorrow. Have a RT meeting in the morning tomorrow too.

Finally came down to fixing a lucky draw scheme for my customers this Nov-Dec season. I do not want to hear 'New Model' excuses from my sales team. Weve decided to award a 21'' color tv to the winner, 3 runner-ups take 3 DVD players home. 10 others take consolation prizes of nice wristwatches. Everyone else get a surprise gift. The total budhet is about 30k. The boys understand that unless we do 90 we lose out. They and I are confident that we can do it. My bet is that we will touch 100 ...

Sunday was uneventful except for the fact that I managed to pull myself out of bed at 8:30 A.M. Way to go! Went to the new church for the first time. I stepped in just as the congregation was leaving the church. Met the priest though and spoke to him. He knows our family in Thottakkad. Promised to be regular to church from next time. After that it was a visit to the lawyer to show him some documents related to the properties I am looking to buy for the company. He was not happy with t...

Oh a post after many months now. A record? Is it? Anyway what's been happening in between now and my last post. Nothing much except for the fact that 1. I topped Madras University (I.D.E.) - 1st Rank for B.A. History 1st year. 2. I will be a father coming January. 3. No fun in Bombay and am looking toward moving to Bangalore. 4. Sona left for Qatar. 5. Manju has joined me here and am bootstrapping him. 6. Balaji left to join IBM, B'lore and is now in North Carolina. ...

Yes, the Pepper Chicken did turn out well. Now what did I do-I ground the ginger, garlic, cashew(put cashew in at the wrong time,though), cut onions and tomatoes, fried them and cooked the chicken. But Smitha and me thought that we should have added some more pepper. Maybe the pepper we put in was not REAL pepper-conspiracy theory. Anyway nothing else here at work..we spoke with Scott yesterday and RCI work will be in May 2nd week. Scott though is hoping Balaji can run the show in my ab...

Well, today passed off uneventfully as all the other days over the past month. Of course Adithan is no longer with the team here. I and Balaji (poor fellow) are still hanging around. I come down to the office around noon nowaday and browse till lunch at 2. I've literally become a walking news junkie. From falluja to Gush Katif, Sonia Gandhi to Richard Desmond ask me I'll tell. Rockwell Collins verification starts around May 2nd week. I have started preps for the B .A. papers too. Need ...