The week that was

To start with I met a person from TCS working on a project at Nokia and luckily he is staying in the same apartment block as mine… he is staying on the ground floor, and me on the first floor. He is Krushna, and he is a business consultant with the TCS. He is joined by 4 of his friends who also work for Nokia, and they too moved into our apartment block. So, we are having a good time during the weekends, as you know how these software guys work during the week… most of the days I do not know when they come home and when they go to work.

Well, on the office front, nothing much exciting happening other than many of the CSS are out either in client location or based out of another SC office, that I hardly get to meet these guys regularly. Nevertheless, it has been nice to work with them, and a couple of teams which are putting in real hard work all through the week to get things done.

On Friday night when these IT guys were back, we went out to see a film “Jumper” which I felt more comical than adventurous that the film claimed to be. However, here I should do a small comparison study between the cinema halls here in Finland and India (within Chennai and Trivandrum). To start with, the hall is actually less than half the size of a normal theatre in India… the total number of seats is around 350 and only one class. These are mostly multiplexes with a choice of around at least 10 films… and the seat costs about 10 EUR (650 Rs.) There was no interval during the film which lasted for ~100 minutes. The snacks that u get inside these multiplex are really of high cost – 2 liter box of popcorn costs around 3EUR (175 Rs.)

The seats are of ok type and were comfort enough for a couple of hours of sitting. One good thing I liked about the them are how the seats were arranged. The height difference between 2 rows are a pretty good – You are saved the effort to ask the person in the front to sit a bit more shallow allowing you an unobstructed view of the screen. That’s a big difference given the many local people being quite tall.