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       What do you match a coffee with..? Milk, Sugar…what else. Well, this time we’ve match it with ‘Dance’. Its not a puzzle. Read on..
       The 3rd August is a Sunday this year.But unlike the usual sundays, this is not a day to log Z’s. Coz you’ve to rock the floor on this friendship day at Cafe Coffee Day in Ginger. Arun’s holidays, a private initiative, is organizing DJ party on 3rd August to mark friendship day this year in Cafe coffee Day. You can’t degrade it to a normal DJ since something more is happening there. Along with the disc numbers from DJ Charlez, there are some contests ;’best friends’, ‘best dressed guy n’ gal’, ‘talent hunt’, to name a few. To add some more coffee, there is a coffee tasting session and a coffee quiz (dealing with CCD, obviously).

                                            
       The tickets are available at Cafe Coffee Day in Ginger @ Rs199/- per entry. This includes a food hamper from Cafe Coffee Day. They assure a seperate dance floor for ladies upon request.
       It feels like there are some ripples in and around, the once called, ‘non-happening’ TVM. Lets wait and watch how TVM cope with Cochin when it rises from its hibernate mode.

This is an Email that I received. I really want to know your comments.

Hi Admin,
You have been a major part of our technopark life. Hope you will not ignore this mail too, please have a look at the following.Did you come to know that the technopark rear gate(gate opens to California) will be open only from 7am to 7pm?. This is made in accordance with the new security arrangements. A wall paper proclaiming this wise decision has been placed the rear gate.

Please spare a moment to think logically. There are hundreds of people who leave their offices after 7 and make use of this gate to go to Kazhakkuttom, Ambalathinkara etc.There are many people having their accommodations in these areas. If the gate is closed they will have to get out either through the main gate or rear gate near Bhavani!!. Another option is to hire auto, but we already had many bitter experiences with auto drivers and are highly afraid of the night auto fares. People having their own vehicles can still sit not bothered about this. But there are poor people who cannot afford to have his/her own vehicles. Many techies sits up to 10pm if they have to finish urgent works, so there is an active traffic through this gate up to 10 normally everyday. For a majority this gate was quite convenient than the main gate (think of the robberies happening in the bypass road. The road from rear gate to kazhakkuttom is far better).

After all technopark is a 24 hr working place. So just think of, it is simply a bad idea to put people in trouble. There are hundreds of security men in technopark, few of them are placed in rear gate also, if they can’t assure the security then what are they meant for? This simply shows their incapability. The police are always ready to provide security for technopark, they are just a phone call away.

Any idea for how long this rule will be in effect??, if this is going to be permanent then we will have to protest against this.Atleast can we get the gate open upto 10pm..?

Please give necessary consideration to this problem from your side. We are helpless because we the technoparkians doesn’t have anybody to represent us or to fight for our rights. Are the technopark authorites not meant for ensuring the comfort of employees??

Vineesh Kumar N.V
Software Engineer
Ushus Technologies,
(A Division of Accel Transmatic Ltd.)
311, Nila, Technopark Campus,
Thiruvananthapuram 695 581, Kerala, India.

The restaurant Buraq is one of the two main restaurants situated in the top floor of Bhavani building in Technopark. The building equips around 3000 techies in it, the majority relying on these restaurants to satisfy their bellies. No doubt they supply junk food, which the busy techies don’t complain against or are worried about, but sometimes they try inedible integredents too.

Its the second appearence of Buraq on the primer in last 2 months. Unfortunately its the same notorious issue again,’Food adulteration’, but this time with a new ‘recipe’. This time its an iron nail that they gave to test the digestive power of our belly. Luckily the guy who bought the dish noted the nail in his food, to extend his healthy days of his life. I don’t think i’d have to explain the ‘wonders’ that can occur by the consumption of a rusty iron piece.

Sometimes it feels like we could’ve compared the food consumption from these restaurants to some adventure reality shows on TV. Our ‘hunger-execution’ lies in our luck of getting neat food. Sometimes ’someting more than food’ might kill our hunger, as like in this case. Hope some day the AXN crew would vist them to telecast these in their ‘Guinness world record show’, if this goes on un-noticed by the authorities. Lets hope they blacklist these restaurants before that.

Its the time of monsoon in Kerala. The months of June and July are the times of heavy downpour. But, this year it feels like that monsoon doesn’t want to keep its name even.Well, there is something else showing a sharp downturn.Its the time for appraisals and salary increments in various IT companies. Here it is heard that the condition is worse than the monsoon. Even the high profile companies in Technopark showed a steady decrease in salary increments this year. In some of them there has been a decrease of up to 50% this year in salary increments compared to that of last year and 100% decrease in some others. This doesn’t mean any decrease in amount of work, but the performance watch is being made strict too.

The company managements say that the decrease should be read along with the increase in fuel prices and the ugly face of world economy today. But it feels like some of the companies are taking these reasons for granted and excusing themselves to reduce increments or to completely put it off.Meanwhile, there is something else showing an increse. The attrition rate. The employees are forced to join new assignments with a better payslip. The experienced ones plays it well.

Though this is a bad situation for the employees, we can console ourselves of hardly any job cut-offs in Technopark companies, like in the stories from our friends in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Or is it coming over here too…?

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