Semester 7, Exam 1 - Total Quality Management
1 AM, today.
Text messages between me and Sundar.
Me: Dude, what are the seven tools of quality?
Sundar: Beyond all care. Am into the maneater of malgudi. don distb.
Me: You have no arrears and can afford to be carefree. You probably finished studying everything yesterday.
Sundar: F*** off
Me: Oh so I was right. You did finish studying already.
No reply from Sundar. He must have been revising or something.
7.15 AM
The day started off with me missing the college bus and ending up getting to college by bike. Good thing the exam is at 10 AM.
TQM. This subject can be best summed up by this sentence I found in my textbook:
FMEA uses occurrence and detection probability criteria in conjunction with severity criteria to develop risk prioritisation numbers for prioritization of corrective action considerations.
See Karthik’s adventures with a ‘local author’ textbook for the subject: Link
Later on in the day I ended up paying Rs. 240 as a fine for returning a library book that I was supposed to have returned on February 4, 2006. What happened was I had left the book at Ragha’s place back then and totally forgot about it.
I was returning from college in the afternoon with Vijayalayan riding pillion and we found this Maruthi Swift standing on the opposite side of the road.
Looks unfinished but I’ll give points for the attempt. No custom wheel rims though. Too bad.
Here’s a shot of one of the air conditioned buses with the large LED route boards (like in Bangalore) that is sometimes spotted on L.B. Road.
November 16th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Those buses are nice as a substitute for an auto or taxi. They’re like nice ferries. No normal bus traveller would take them though, they’re too expensive.
No wonder you have arrears, messaging people instead of studying.
November 16th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Two customized cars, one a Honda city and this Maruti Swift roam in and around Gandhi Nagar often. Their vrooming sound and the way they kick up the dust on the road you feel nothing but pure envy.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
did sundar actually self censor his reply or have you done it for the benefit of your readers?
those buses are cool. haven’t traveled in them though. what are the fares like?
November 16th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I have even seen Cars that attempt a Neons look in Besant Nagar. With blue lights under the car. I hate the swift though!! Looks like a car thats pregnant or something.
As for the library fine, bastards!! most times they don’t even have the books in there. (meaning they don’t purchase them and not someone withdrew it). You should have fought for every non-working day!! or asked for a concession atleast….Better still bought a second hand book form some place.
Also if it’s due from Feb, how did u escape last sem ?
November 16th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Dai you only irritated me with that message in the middle of the night. I’d given up TQM and opened that novel.
I saw that car once at Thiruvanmiyur. I dont think the guy driving was the owner. He looked like a hired driver.
That bus, I’d like to go once, but they let people in only when the bus is about to start, an I was in a hurry that time, so I gave it a miss.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
No, I didn’t censor. And I wonder why Marc did. This was because he once claimed people needn’t restrain themselves with “effing” because this wasn’t a kids website.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
That Honda City came to my college during some management seminar of some sort. Or I think that’d be the one you are talking about… It had that cool tail wing or whatever you call it too… I only got to see it from afar. The vrooming was excellent yeah.
Half of the occupants were more distracting than the car.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Sundar, which half exactly ?
Hey you know the old Honda City Vtec looks much better than the new ones. The new ones looks like toys!!
November 16th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
George, I was in fact asking something related to the subject this once.
We don’t even have a proper public transport system and they go and introduce luxury buses with air conditioning. The people who can afford that will probably have their own vehicles anyway so what’s the point? The normal buses are overloaded and they should go and increase the number and frequency of those.
Arun, you simply have to go by the OMR then. The roads are so bad everything kicks up dust. Even pedestrians.
Suren, fares for those buses starting from Rs. 20 I think. I’ve never gone by them either simply because they operate them on only select routes and there are only a few of them. People have taken to calling the drivers of these buses ‘pilots’ due to the unusual spectacle of people working for the government wearing uniforms and driving something that wasn’t manufactured during Indira Gandhi’s time.
Karthik, why don’t you capitalise your name?
Most attempts at neons I have seen around here are total flops. They usually end up sticking these under the car, usually in such a way that they are clearly visible, inviting ridicule from anyone who knows how neon is supposed to look like.
I’ve somehow been escaping the library guys. Once I ignored them and another time my name wasn’t on the list. I was just glad to get the whole thing over with.
Sundar, it was still no reason to use abusive language. My feelings were hurt. I was trying to study and all.
And doesn’t that bus stop anywhere until the destination? Seems rather pointless to me.
Suren and Sundar, Suren, I censored it. Already I’m getting indexed for weird stuff. Moving into adult content is not something I would prefer at this time. I still don’t ask people to restrain themselves. Overusing terms makes them lose their effect and I would rather prefer to use them when the situation warrants.
Sundar, it’s called a spoiler. Did it look like this?
Karthik, the new Honda city model is only less uglier than the Indigo and the Esteem. The old model looked somewhat plain but still much better than most other car models at that time.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:25 am
dei, library is not for you.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:31 am
If I had to actually learn something instead of memorise random passages from textbook according to the whims of Anna Univeristy, then I’d find some use for the library.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Thats the word I was looking for. Yeah it looked like this, but lot cooler.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:38 am
I was trying to relax. You bugged me then. I was doing something more important than you. Serves you right.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Oh and the photos above are from my cell phone’s VGA camera (640×480 pixels). Acceptable performance provided there’s a lot of light.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:41 am
And as Vinod says “Poda domer!”
November 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
What does domer mean?
November 17th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I have absolutely no idea. You’ll have to ask him.