On the lighter side-Movies-Thor: The Dark world (2013)-Liam Helmsworth

That hammer wielding hero is back in this excellent action packed sequel in which he teams up with his estranged brother to defend his homeland and avenge his father death against enemies. Must see movie. Highly Recommended

The ritual of evaluation

I know that for most people, evaluation time is almost done or finished and they are readying up either to get their bonuses or have received one based on their yearly evaluation. Most of the corporations do their yearly evaluation but now to keep their employees on edge some have started to do semi annually. I don’t know what will have happen in that short period of time that they had to do that kind of procedure but I don’t buy this evaluation process. If you are evaluation is just for evaluation sake and nothing concrete comes out of it like a higher raise or bonus then what good is that evaluation. And if you see that many people are getting either no raises or no bonus and still the evaluation goes on. Maybe the management wants to highlights your shortcomings but you already know what kind of it is but since you don’t have any incentive to improve it you are just doing the barest minimum only not to get laid off. In some companies they may have evaluation but have already decided before hand how much to give each employee based on their budget and the evaluation process is just a charade so as to tell the employees that they are being fair. But how would you know that since the employee compensation is treated like a top secret national security issue that is not revealed to all employees. So it is my humble opinion this annual (or semiannual) ritual should be done away with and just have an open discussion of what the employees and the employers feel about each other so there are no ill feelings and everything is out in the open.

Keeping up with your appearances

You know what I am talking about but maybe you don’t know it is all about how you have to groom yourself to look good in front of others. I mean I see every day women dressing up and coming to work in full blown makeup and if during the day their makeup wears off they put in back on. If you have ever checked women’s handbag, you will always find different sorts of make up in it just to make sure that they are not caught short handed or not ready for some occasion. I am not saying that women should not do, they have every right to make themselves presentable if they think that they are not or think that what other people will think if they do not put makeup on. It is just that society have put so much pressure on them that if they don’t put their makeup on they would feel less of themselves as beautiful. And if I am not wrong, you don’t see men carrying shaving creams and razors or even cologne with them wherever they go. They just put on their suits and comb their hair and away they go. Sometimes they can even go without saving and still look good but if the women don’t do that they are judged harshly even if the people don’t say anything. I know that this double standard is not going to stop no matter what but the women should be less pressurized to look glamorous with their make ups on and if they don’t put up on they should not feel any less beautiful next to the woman with full makeup.

Comfortable in your own language

I work in a foreign based financial institution and so I hear a lot of different languages. Although everybody speaks English when two different language speakers want to engage in a conversation but when two people of the same language team up, they try to speak the language of the native tongue. It is not that I am talking about just other people but it is I also that when I meet somebody of the same language that I speak I converse in that language. Although I am fluently conversant in both languages, but I feel that when I speak with the other person of the same language, they don’t want to have conversation in English language when they already know they can express themselves and be more comfortable in their native tongue. And no matter how conversant or fluent you are in another language, you always tend to gravitate to your own mother tongue. There was a study long time ago that when the language you are hearing or speaking or wants to speak is not your mother tongue if you hear it then you translate it first into your mother tongue and then say it in the non native tongue. And if you are like me you may have seen numerous instances where you get emails in English which are it seems translated literary from the Native tongue and it sounds sometimes funny and sometimes makes no sense. So next time you should notice this for yourself that if you meet someone from your own mother tongue you will naturally gravitate to speak in that language even if you know perfect well other languages since that is the most comfortable you feel in.