Here you have link to a video on You Tube.

One of the vessel Built by our Yard- Vessel, Named, W G Tasman.

Commissioned by your old friend.

Design was done by Ulstein from Norway.

You might observe it to be little different as the it has X-Bow and not a conventional

flared bow.(Bow=Forward part).

You can watch it in action....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3nyavoDJHI

Here it is seen doing Maneuvers

These kind of maneuvers are possible with Tug Support only for an average Cargo Ship.

(Tugs =Smaller but powerful vessels used for pushing a bigger vessel while coming in or going out of a berth)

These particular types are used for Oil and Gas exploration in Offshore regions.

(They were the ones who found gas on India's east coast for Reliance and ONGC).

Now this vessel is doing Seismic Data Acquisition at Brazil.

Some Pictures from Trials last year.

1.Early Morning prior going for Trials.

2.At Sea!

3.View from Vessel and Burj Khalifa in Backdrop.

4.A Compass On Bridge Wing

Sunset

Do not have pictures of Very Bad Weather we faced later with Very Strong Winds

A wedding and Funeral

This was second editorial i wrote in Sept- Nov edition, it makes light of the efforts with customers we make
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Mr Honcho head of the Big corporate growled at us, he could have very well afforded to be smug in discovery of his own greatness, we were three Mr. Biz manager, Mr. Marketing manager and poor me the account manager and we bowed deferentially almost grovelling like typical south asian parents out for ‘match making’ for their ward, this was the exact time of the year when everyone in our company goes groom hunting…….aka…. customer meetings.
Mr. Honcho looked at us enquiringly Kennedy like “Ask not what your customer can do for you…” we agreed vehemently nodding in agreement frantically, and than he thundered Martin luther style “ I have a dream” we knew start of a nightmare but in obamasque way we declared “Yes we can”!!
Marriage was done! Customer was ours!
In negotiation handing out so much and losing almost everything except the clothes we wore! we trooped out triumphantly celebrating our own funeral procession, humming like nursery kids
Jack and Jill
When in Cargill
Went up the hill to fetch a customer !!!
Hurtling they came down
Albeit With a broken crown
But you bet the customer came tumbling after !!!

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What's in a name anyways !!

This was the first editorial in wrote in june-August edition of quarterly newsletter, my brief is simple, it has to be about work we do , about cargill and poking fun at whatever we do very seriuosly, this one was about pains we went to search for the name of the newsletter

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As we went hunting a appropriate title for this letter, the onorous task gave yours truly the first ‘ block’ a pulp writer can face and than i shrugged
What’s in a name?...anyways !!
Yes sir..that what it comes to these days, and our folks went to all trouble to find the funkiest name in town for you(Gawd….what’s funkiest).
Paul newman the legendary actor of Hollywood really must be turning in his grave with having to share the name with Octopus..and that too forecasting octopus..as if he did not have too much of same in his lifetime with another ‘legendary’ and ahem...’forecasting’ trader sitting at Singapore.
Well what’s in a name sir..anyways
Until..of course, the day a vernacular language paper in India was rueing the fact that farmers these days remember ‘Cargill’ more than ‘Kargil’..later being defense outpost one of highest in the world.That set me thinking overtime isn’t it a vibrant world where economics takes precedence, nationalist pride is in growth and Cargill signifies everything, so much so that Monsanto still has to sell the corn seed in backwaters of India terming it as ‘Cargill’ seed.
Do we again say..what’s in a name sir!
And said so we with the pleasure as we readily named this newletter ‘GOSCA marketing rolling out this first edition,idea is to share the good news, cheer the significant leaps and be happy together…. Collaborate ! Create ! Suceed……………………………..”

Editor in Chief

With the sucess of HOOPLA TIMES some how the news reached our singapore office and suddenly an idea came about in Top honchos mind of a quartely newsletter for Asia pacific listing marketing news and achievements and yours truly was entrusted to edit, design and get it printed in India, i cannot share the magazine since its internal publication but i will certainly share the one standard article i am carrying which is 'Editor's folly' and cartoon corner ' Out of frame' which again is taken up by me.

This newsletter is called soberly 'Quarterly marketing' and has set articles, all the titles are given by me but written by all top Asia pacific managers, so now i share space with our asia pac head.

Phas gaye rawat saab- Mosaic Plasty in Medanta

I was a early riser and went jogging/walking like an early bird but forgot birds and humans are not alike and in process deteiorated some injured cartilage which might have happened in teenage years.
As I found out :
Mosaicplasty is a technique of creating an osteochondral autograft by harvesting and transplanting many small osteochondral plugs from less weight bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defectice sections of the cartilage .
Simply put my cartilage was to be taken from some place in leg and transplanted in place of broken cartilage, the name of surgery i only learned on day of surgery when i went to insurers for covering the expenses.
Dr Rajagopal is world famous surgeon and heads the department in MEDANTA a world class institute in Gurgaon, my contact was Dr Rana but surgery was performed in presence of Dr Rajagopal, they claimed its perfect ly done after 2.5 hrs., it will take time to heal.

Now for 5 weeks i have to walk like this :


I plan to buy crutches monday onwards and emply a driver to attend office.