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Clieked it on the way to Hyderabad on some railway station.

Touched by CUPA

I with a few colleagues were on a regular walk after the lunch around the office building when we saw a juvenile Koyel(Cuckoo) on the ground struggling and screaming. I approached it to check if the bird is hurt and it tried to escape & ran a little distance and then collapsed up side down. I tried picking it up to examine but it opened its beak wide open with a scary sound as if it was warning me to stay away, I pulled myself back. The bird was in immense pain & I wanted to help that creature rather than leaving it in its plight.

While we were thinking what could be done, I recalled that once I read in an article about an organization which serves birds & that I saved the contact in my phonebook, I searched the contact and called them, they directed me to take the bird to the veterinary hospital in Hebbal, which is near to my work place.

Finally I picked the bird to examine and tried to find if it was wounded but could not find any wound and we decided that we will make the bird to the hospital. A friend of mine joined me and we drove to the hospital.

While I was driving I was thinking about how good and proactive will be a veterinary hospital/doctors in India where people don't even care about the human life and where the focus of the medical institutions is to make money at any cost. I know you may attribute this thought of mine to being prejudice, but this is the truth.

We reached the hospital and before entering it I made a strong prejudice openion about the doctors, staff and the hospital. I went to the front desk and explaind the situation he asked me to register and pay Rs. 10/-. I completed the formalities and he directed me to go to OPD.

I went as he directed me and entered the OPD, a few patients (a german shepherd, a cow and the hutch dog - where ever you go our network follows) were in the queue. I was asked to wait, on my turn the doctor asked where is the patient and I took the bird out of the cover and kept it on the table (by this time I was handling the bird properly). The expression on the doctor's face on seeing the bird gave me the background of his experience with the birds. It was very clear that the doctor never attended a bird before, he was scared more than me of the bird. I don't know what to do, he thought for some time and asked me :

Doc: Is this your bird.

I: Nope, found it on the way.

Doc: You leave it here we will take care.

I: What are you going to do with it?

Doc: See if some one owns a bird they keep it in home, and if it is a stray bird in 90% cases it dies of hunger.

I: No I don't wanna leave it hear, you treat it first.

Doc: I think it is affected by virus and will die (with out even examining it)

I: What can we do?

Doc: (His bulb glue) On the rear side of this building CUPA is there, you give it to them they will take care.

I: CUPA ?

Doc: Yeah CUPA.

I: What is CUPA?

Doc: Asked the compounder what is CUPA?

Compounder: ????????

Doc: They are NGO and help animals.

I: (Ohh help animals, NGO - bullshit) Dejected with a thought that this bird is gonna die took his word and left.

We were walking towards the CUPA building again with the same and even more intense thought and picture in front of me about the NGOs.

Entered the gate and yet again one more front desk executive with a long form to fill. The room was filled with many dogs a few were handicapped but all were friendly, was then asked to go to some room. Inside the room 2 men were discussing (some property matter was audible even outside) went directly to them and took the bird out, before I could say some thing on of the guy said - "oh its a bird take it to Dr. Roopa" (I thought bullshit as if they had experts in all the fields)

Anyways I went to the room as directed by them on they way I saw a horse calf countless dogs most of them lost there limbs.

I entered the room a lady was sitting in sari named Roop.

I : Hi, (taking the bird out of the cover) This bird is hurt and found it on the road.

Dr. Roopa: Ohh, (immediately took the bird in her lap) its a female Cuckoo and started treating the bird as a human being talking to it and consoling its pain. She took it to the next room where already prepared food was available for birds and she started feeding it.

As she was feeding the bird, it was spilling it out of its beak and she was pushing it in.

I : It dont want to eat don't push it.

for that there was no verbal answer to the question from her rather a strong stare at me as if asking me to shut up. I kept quite for some time, and in no time the bird started eating.

And then she stared back again for the acknowledgement and I acknowledged by nodding my head.

Dr. Roopa: First it should eat some thing, don't know from how many days it didn't. BTW was there a nest near by from where you picked it?

I: Nope

Dr. Roopa : Any mother birsd near by ?

I: Nope

she was examining the bird (its legs, feather n all) while it was eating

Dr. Roopa: Okay, the bird is not able to walk, we have to take an X-ray and see.

I: So now what can I do?

Dr. Roopa: You can leave now.

I: Ohh!!!, BTW I am Suneel.

Dr. Roopa: I am Dr. Roopa, I am a volunteer working full time for CUPA.

I: What will you do with the bird now.

Dr. Roopa : We will treat it and send it to Bhennerghata where we have a sister NGO which takes care of birds and after a recovery we will do a test flight and then release it.

I : Ohhh!!! thats great. Well then thank you very much, I shall leave now.

I knew the bird is in safe hands and left with a completely new meaning for the term NGO.

Came back to the desk and googled about CUPA (Compassion unlimited plus action) http://www.cupabangalore.org/, and thought they are living what they say, found that they are very active and successful group in Bangalore. Catch them @ Bloggers Bark where they blog regularly about the available animals for adoption and the activities they are undertaking.

-Sun

The collection

I used to collect unique and different match box wrappers in a journal when I was 5 that habit turned into stamp collection when I turned 6 and collected thousands of it and the journal grew from few pages to a big register(lost somewhere now :-( ), developed a habit of painting when I was 7+ years and continued that till quite some time, during this period I used to wait for holidays and vacation, not for hanging out some where but to paint, initially pained with water colors and sketch pens slowly changed that into pencil sketches, collected them also, still have them but forgot about that habit of mine long back (will start that once again), At some where when I was 8-9 years old I developed a habit of making models of airplanes with soft bamboo like wood, but was not able to collect and maintain them for long, they were very fragile, as I grew that habit turned into making models of houses and other civil constructions like a model of hydro-electric plant which supports irrigation, aquaculture, tourism apart from its main cause i.e. generating electricity, during this time I built a small working model of manual projector also which displays pictures when a film is fed to it. I presented these two models in a science exhibition though didn’t fetched me any place there.  From this I started collecting electronic boards, registers, capacitors, chips etc. from broken toys, old house appliances and watches, used to design premature n amateur circuits like a battery operated gizmo lights, a turning wheel…..

 So did you figure out the head fake in this ?                                                                              From all this it seems like I developed quite a few habits and one after the other I kept moving on leaving them behind as a memory and carried the learning with me, but some thing kept following me and that is - The collection 

And I am still collecting some thing or the other, intentionally or unintentionally. Wanna have a look at my latest collection, check out : 

My Gtalk status messages collection :-) : 

1) Beer: Making women look better since … 

2) You still have moments left with you, when you didn’t get what u wanted… and some times you can live with them      

3) The hurdles are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out; they are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. They are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. – Randy Pausch

4) What is the use of the wings; if u couldn’t feel the wind on your face? 

 5) Life means uncertainties; and few things can’t be ensured 

6) I am searching myself… 

7) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Thoreau, Henry David 

8) "I went up to him today and told him how sorry I was, and he said, 'Sir, we are going to beat this. We are going to build this Taj back into what it was'." - Ratan Tata & Karambir Kang(lost his whole family) 

9) Logged out Infy :( 

10) If  you can't change the world, change your world 

11) Hold ur new year bash by 1 extra sec, year 2008 is prolonged by 1 sec- source - http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE4BR1DC20081229 

12) Mugger hit my house last night... I hit him back... he escaped... went to police station...  New year is quite event full :) 

13) What is not recyclable ? 

14) All materialistic things loose influence, n all non-materialistic continue to… 

15) Cooking for self... 

16) Egg burgi rocked today | Cooking for self 

17) rajesh.ankareddy: Wondering what your next caption would be :   Back from Goa, Alive! 

18) Creative thoughts :  Counter display on the cooker to count the number of whistles  | Cooking for self 

19) wanna be  everywhere, with everyone n in everything  

20) 3 weeks into kitchen and Tips 4 amateur cooks :-) : 1.  No matter wht u cook ; gonna be gr8 so never loose hope ;)  2. Never put ur hand on ur face while in kitchen; gonna hurt u :-)  3. Any thing which is hot will tend to be hot for some time; be patient, u may starve whole night 4.  On a serious note; don’t forget to double check that u turned down the gas knob. Rest in next session, keep looking for updates :-) 

21) 45 mins for changing into a cute killing look, 30 mins ride, 10 mins walk around the pool with champagne, 1 hr under the candle light, 2 hrs dinner.... n a lifelong remembrance. 

-Sun

See u again

Hi All,

This is my last day at Infosys. Though my journey at Infosys is going to end in few more hours, I am confident that my following journey will be led to the next level, just because of what I have attained from my Infosys years.
I'd like to take this opportunity to express my deepest thanks to all who have supported, led, coached, mentored, friends and Infosys as a whole.
I will be delightful and still be part of Infosys family when ever I see all the good news about Infosys and you breaking through this tough season and becoming the best company in the world and for the world.
Some part for me is refraining me from saying good-bye to you, but I will definitely say “See you again” rather that saying “Good bye”.
As I unveil a new chapter in my life, I wish you all the very best, and please do keep in touch with me and write/call me anytime at the below E-mail/Ph. number, more than you I would be happy to listen from you.

sun.1601@gmail.com
+91 9008066442

Regards,
Suneel Kumar Mekala
Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. SAVE TREES 

Well that was my bye bye mail on the last day (12th Dec 2008) when few hours were left to quit Infosys, joined a company which is about a half the size of Infy. Immediate post resigning effects were not really great on me till some time back, missed Infy at every tiniest possible situation one could think of. Though I still miss Infy but now I am slowly settling with new n a lot more responsibilities on me and I am taking on each one of them quite confidently which is only possible because of what I attained at Infy. Yes it’s a great company to work with I miss you.  

EMTA 3.0

EMTA - Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter.

 This is second product after CMTS (check earlier post on CMTS) which I worked on. I would say this is the project during which my learning curve was the steepest if I plot a graph. Working on this was a pleasure because of many reasons, One the competency of team with which I worked, Two the manager, with excellent managing and technical competencies, Three the deadlines (which the customer himself used to feel very aggressive) to meet were very exciting, short and challenging though never found then exhaustive and unachievable and ofcourse the pleasure of working on a technology which is yet to hit the market for next few years can't be imagined. And yes it yielded me the best CRR cycle(performance measure at Infosys) for me.

 About EMTA :

EMTA is a CPE equipment which is  a slave device controlled/configured by the head end device called CMTS. It is a hardware that interfaces with the IP (Internet Protocol) network and the cable network placed at the subscriber’s premises. In other words it is a Cable Modem with voice capabilities i.e. it enables cable television operators to offer subscribers IP based telephony and high-speed data services.