A Holiday Well Deserved

A holiday well deserved is what one looks for after a long long time.

I seem to be heading of on a very important task.

Off to Hyderabad on 20'th August 2010.

Hope to meet old timers in Hyderabad before heading back.

Sohar, Oman

After being in Sohar for more than 18 days who would have thought you would receive a call from an old college batchmate - Udaya Nayak Chemical Engineering from the batch of 90 calls up from ORPC - Sohar - "Says Umasuthan - lets meet" I thought to myself bloody hell that is not who I am but guys - a call from a friend who says "I am here" means more than anything.

A picture of us together














Who would ever imagine greenery in its fullest in a desert, I was taken aback to see the fertility of soil and the abundance of greenery.

See pics for yourself below:

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SPECIFICATIONS FOR WASHERS

The absolute and final SPECIFICATION FOR WASHERS

• if it is split, then it is broken and must be replaced.
• if it is wavy, then it must be flattened until correctly shaped.
• if it has any sharp edges or serration's then it is a safety hazard and should be fenced off until safety dept can safely dispose of it.

Any washer holes found to be smaller than the bolt should be rejected immediately.

Any holes found to be bigger than the washer should be fillet welded until the washer stops dropping through.

A washer is not required if there is no nut and bolt, do not check for washers during compaction tests, megger tests, etc.

A washer is required if there is a nut and bolt, but only if the bolt is too small for the hole and keeps dropping through it.

Any holes found without a bolt through it should have a washer attached immediately, in case it is later used for a bolt hole.

  Fig 1 A washer
INSTRUCTIONS - read very carefully!!
All washers must be washer shaped,

Engineering Vocabulary

A CLARIFICATION
- To confuse the situation with facts.
A CONFERENCE
- Organised confusion during coffee break.
A MEETING
- Coffee break.
A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES ARE BEING TRIED
- We are still pissing in the wind.
A PROGRAM
- Any assignment that cannot be completed by one telephone call.
ALL NEW
- Parts not interchangeable with the previous design.
CHANNEL
- The trail of inter office memos.
CLOSE PROJECT CO-ORDINATION
- We know who to blame.
CONSULTANT (OR EXPERT)
- Any ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.
CO-ORDINATOR
- The guy with a desk between two expediters.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS ASSURED
- We are so far behind schedule the customer is happy to get it delivered.
ENERGY SAVING
- Achieved when the power switch is off.
EXPEDITE
- To confound confusion with commotion.
EXTENSIVE REPORT IS BEING PREPARED ON A FRESH APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM
- We just hired three kids fresh out of college.
GIVE US THE BENEFIT OF YOUR THINKING
- We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we've already done.
GIVE US YOUR INTERPRETATION
- I can't wait to hear this bull!
INFORMED SOURCE
- The guy who told the guy you just met.
IT IS IN THE PROCESS
- It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is about hopeless.
LET'S GET TOGETHER ON THIS
I'm assuming you are as confused as I am.
LIGHTWEIGHT
- Lighter than RUGGED.
LOW MAINTENANCE
- Impossible to fix if broken.
MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH
- It works OK, but looks very hi-tech.
PLEASE NOTE AND INITIAL
- Let's spread the responsibility for the screw up.
PRELIMINARY OPERATIONAL TESTS WERE INCONCLUSIVE
- The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.
RE ORIENTATION
- Two weeks after vacation.
RELIABLE SOURCE
- The guy you just met.
RUGGED
- Too damn heavy to lift!
SEE ME or LET'S DISCUSS
- Come into my office, I'm lonely.
TEST RESULTS WERE EXTREMELY GRATIFYING
- We are so surprised that the stupid thing works.
THE ENTIRE CONCEPT WILL HAVE TO BE ABANDONED
- The only person who understood the thing quit.
TO ACTIVATE
- Add more names to the memo.
TO GIVE SOMEONE THE PICTURE
A long confused and inaccurate statement to a newcomer.
TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM
- Increase overheads.
TO NEGOTIATE
- Meeting of minds without knocking together of heads.
UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION
- We are looking in the files for it.
UNDER CONSIDERATION
- Never heard of it.
UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCE
- The guy who started the rumour.
WE ARE MAKING A SURVEY
- We need more time to think of a answer
WE WILL LOOK INTO IT
- Forget it! We have enough problems for now.
WE WILL LOOK INTO IT
- We hope you will forget it too.
YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT
- One finally worked.

Government Pipe Specification

Very Interesting Piping Specification (Pun Intended)
Some very helpful information for Pipe Manufacturers

1. All pipe is to be made of a long hole, surrounded by metal or plastic centred around the hole.
2. All pipe is to be hollow throughout the entire length – do not use holes of different length than the pipe.
3. The I.D. (inside diameter) of all pipe must not exceed the O.D. (outside diameter) – otherwise the hole will be on the outside.
4. All pipe is to be supplied with nothing in the hole so that water, steam or other stuff can be put inside at a later date.
5. All pipe should be supplied without rust – this can be more readily applied at the job site. N.B. Some vendors are now able to supply pre-rusted pipe. If available in your area, this product is recommended as it will save a lot of time in the job site.
6. All pipe of over 500 feet (153 m) in length should have the words “long pipe”clearly painted on each end, so the contractor will know it is a long pipe.
7. Pipe over 2 miles (3.2km) in length must have the words “long pipe” painted in the middle, so the contractor will not have to walk the entire length of the pipe to determine whether or not it is a long pipe.
8. All pipe over 6” (152mm) in diameter must have the words “large pipe” painted on it, so the contractor will not mistake it for a small pipe.
9. Flanges must be used on all pipe. Flanges must have holes for bolts quite separate from the big hole in the middle.
10. When ordering 90 degrees, 45 degrees or 30 degrees elbow be sure to specify right hand or left hand; otherwise you will end up going the wrong way.
11. Be sure to specify to your vendor whether you want level, uphill or downhill pipe. If you use downhill pipe for going uphill, the water will flow the wrong way.
12. All couplings should have either right hand or left hand thread, but do not mix the threads – otherwise as the coupling is being screwed on one pipe, it is unscrewed from the other.
13. All pipes shorter than 1/8in (3mm) are very uneconomical in use, requiring many joints. They are generally known as washers.
14. Joints in pipes for water must be watertight. Those pipes for compressed air, however, need only be airtight.
15. Lengths of pipes may be welded or soldered together. This method is not recommended for concrete or earthenware pipes.
16. When shortening pipes, ensure to shorten the length. Shortening the height or width produces two troughs, which are open ended holes.
17. Other items are often confused with pipes. These include: Conduit, Tube, Tunnel, Duct, Culvert, Straw or Drain. Use only genuine pipes.

Dependency

How much more rotten one would feel than, when lying in a remote corner of the world, and one has collected all the data lying in various nooks and corners into one single hard disk thinking that it can be stored carefully and all data is well preserved. And then one fine morning – Crasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The data of the hard disk goes boom boom boom. then it feels like all is lost. Well life should continue. Memorable pictures memories galore stored like there is no tomorrow. Various standards collected with time.

After all this the electronic world seems like a waste of space.

I guess we ought to be less dependant. Any way life does move on.

Jonty

An abrupt start,
Something one would never have imagined, Who was she may be before I wrote to her - this is what one can call - A bolt in the blue.

No schooling together, not from the same place, did not graduate from the same college, Never worked together - got in touch through some one else's web page -
I was an un-welcomed guest in her life - sort of barged into her life - and said yes I am so and so.

I started writing this post at about 15:15 Hrs and I am waiting for 16:00 Hrs when I will access face book where I would be able to down load the communications and paste it here. I can never ever forget the words "an excerpt of our communications" as below:

Jonty Rajagopalan
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Hey! Do I know you? Sorry but just can't recall having studied with you!

Jonty

Vadrevu Umasankar
16 April at 13:11
good reasoning and you do not know me.

Jonty Rajagopalan
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Ok..... so........??

Vadrevu Umasankar
16 April at 13:40
so.......... what......... cant two ppl get to know each other even if you have not studied together?
Well if you think no then this is it.
Call it off.

Jonty Rajagopalan
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That's too violent a reaction.... All I was asking was if there was some particular reason you got in touch with me... I do have a right to ask...and you could have replied in a straightforward way... anyway...

J

Vadrevu Umasankar18 April at 18:25
Jonty,
Life looks more appealing if one opens up but will be appalling if u doubt everything
Be positive in life.
Have a great day ahead.
Umesh


Jonty Rajagopalan
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Well....isn't it amazing how a simple question can get so complicated! Have a good week ahead, Umesh...

Jonty - thanks for the time and it has been a pleasure to have you in this team of
"Friends forever" A page I reckon, plan and hope to maintain for the rest of my life where I have been pouring all my savoured thoughts and experiences.

These are the pages I treasure.

God has his own sweet ways of telling people when, where and whom you need to meet.
The plan is all there written and scheduled to happen on time, every time. It is only for man or woman to treasure what was in store for them and to make it happen.
It is not always good that happens, sometimes bad also happens - it is for us to savour and spread the goodness and most important to keep away the bad.

As told by Richard Bach in one of his many books "Bad is not the worst that can happen to us, nothing is the worst that can happen to us".

So learning from this well I must say Jonty - Thanks for being there and thanks for letting me savour this feeling and also letting me share it with the world. In this part of the world there is no such thing as a downpour - the only downpour that occurs in my life while I am here are the words and thoughts of people around me.

Well life is always happenning around.

Oh! My First Time Machine

As usual after a long brain washing session at school, got home, freshened up and off we went to play cricket in the russian market ground. I removed the time machine from my hand and tied it up on a tree so it does not come in the way. Played for a long long time. Felt as if the day would never end. When I was bone tired and all my friends decided to call it quits. I left and went home, whilst the time machine still clung to the branches of the tree.

Beat everything the memory of the Time Machine wiped out that evening no one noticed the missing link. The following evening everyone started inquiring about it and then remembered the tree, but not all are good people and so it was lost for ever.

Italy and More

Unlike my official tours and trips which normally do not take me more than to the office and back this time while I was on a trip to Italy a place called Salice Terme – A place renowned for its famous sulphured hot water springs. Not that I have never been in one but I chose to stay out of the rotten smelly area’s. Well life has many other things in store.

While in Salice every weekend we Kees van-der Horst from PDO engineering and self used to go on long drives seeing most of Italy’s mountain sides and seas, we had the opportunity to even drive in the more famous alps. A once in a life time experience with all those meandering roads and the umpteen number of hairpin bends. Snow still blocking the mountain passes in May 2010.

The people of VI very warm and sociable, very little number of people knew or spoke in English. So if you are on your own with out a Tom Tom you are in the woods all lost. People give you blank eyed stares when you speak in English. They certainly will make you feel like an alien. The picturesque country side in Italy can be seen from the pictures below.

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During my stay in Italy I had the opportunity of meeting Eugenio from CTR who introduced me to the marvels of nature as in the Mumbai – Pune - Nasik sector unknown to me as an Indian apophylite crystals available freely in nature. I was awe struck when I have had the opportunity of seeing them in nature on one of my trips to Mumbai. This will come on in one of my later blog’s.

As I continued my stay in Italy post my Shimla trip from 27th May to the 1st June which shall follow purely by pictures and a few lines here.

Post my return to Italy due to the amount of work increase and presence required all along we were mostly in plant and chose to stay out of travel for the last month, but Italy calls.