A Hectic Week

Sunset at Mettur Dam

Today we were shifting our office from T Nagar to Mahalingapuram. The entire activity is being planned and executed by the team. Empowerment at work!

Today (Saturday August 18, 2007) was spent monitoring the movement and also in addressing budding CAs who are doing articleship training. One of the participants was a vivacious young girl who is a fan of director Shankar. She did not agree with ny comments about Sivaji! Told her to read my Blog on this and react. Let us continue the debate on the Blog!


The afternoon was spent delivering a seminar on Information Systems Security for Management Study Centre to a mixed group of corporate executives. Had a nostalgic conversation with Ms. Sumathi from Turbo Energy about our experiences as Audit Managers with Price Waterhouse. (when it had no Coopers tagged on to it!)

The week was hectic. After a relaxing Sunday ( August 12, 2007) with my wife Kala and my children, I left for Mettur to conduct a programme on Personality Development through Transaction Analysis for the Madras Aluminium Company (MALCO) belonging to the Vedanta group.

I reached Mettur at 6:30 AM and after freshening up at a comfortable room in guesthouse no. 5, went to the training hall.
There were about 25 participants. As MALCO was acquired by the Vedanta group, the employee demography has a wide range from people who have bee with company from the age of sixteen, to freshers who have just joined.
The participants were quite interactive and we discovereed different approaches to work related issues using the Transactional Analysis Paradigm.

In the evening I accompanied Mr. R Kandasamy AGM (HR) of MALCO to the Mettur dam which was nearby. The Kaveri was in full flow and the water poured out in mad torrential rush from the dam.Mettur town could be seen in the distance. Westward, behind the dam, the setting sun made a glorious sight as it sank down behind the mountains.