How childhood cartoons influenced Work Ethics and Good Nature in you!

 Its been over 2 decades since we watched the Dexter's Laboratory TV Show on Cartoon Network as kids but some things just stay with you forever and mold you to the person you are today.

My brother and I were talking about the random office things and he brought up the episode of Dexter's laboratory called "Repairanoid" where an electrician comes in to his lab and starts fixing things without asking.

Watch the short 7 minutes episode here. The main part we were talking about is at about 4:19 minute marker.

This scenario is very common is every job every industry. You start working with a new member and underestimate his/her skills without giving them a chance. Until, they do something great and you realize getting help from someone helps you do your work even better and you stand corrected.

Watching this episode in the younger days gives you a perspective on people behavior and teaches you how to treat people and not presume something about them.

Give them a benefit of the doubt.

Job Market:

This is also something you can see in the current Job market where you are being dismissed for various reason after going through multiple rounds of interview and doing good in all of them but still not getting the job. Lot of big companies have been doing this for years and now more than ever.

It also has been happening in scenarios where ATS is dismissing your resume because you don't have the right keywords but have the experience. (AI will eventually get there too, on par with human emotions regarding this :))

Code Review of Pull Requests: 

When someone provides a review and blocks you pull request you should not be in a hurry to merge your PR due to deadline but listen and have a discussion to better your code if it makes sense. You shouldn't be thinking that "oh this person is going to stop me from merging my code in time". Keeping a good attitude will get you to the next level in your career, from just writing non-standardized code to write code with best practices and become an architect, eventually. You should be open to listen to feedback.

All this is from the intake perspective, on the other end you should also be a good constructive feedback provider and that will come only from practice and experience. There were lot of tv shows and movies as kids that unknowingly added these good values in us and has helped us become who we are today.

What do you see and learn from the above episode of Dexter's Laboratory? Share your comments

 

The long search for a song ends after over 10 years

How it began:

Me and my lil bro got interest in music around the year 1997-1998. Before then we didn't have any specific interest in songs. Our dad used to play his collection (Michael Jackson, Boney M, Geroge Michael, Bee Gees) and we used to just listen to it.

First Level: Music System

Our first audio cassette album that we bought was "Aqua - Aquarium" (Rs.125) and first Audio CD was "Michael Jackson's - Blood on the dance floor" (Rs.599). Those were very expensive back then but well worth it!

Next Level : Channel [V] and MTv

We used to watch some awesome music shows on Channel V and MTV. Our favorite show on [V] was "Turn on t[V]" and on MTv was "Non-Stop Hits". Back then it was all English songs, no Hindi songs in India. Me and my bro used to sit in front of the TV and connect the TV with our music system to listen to our favorite songs out loud.

We had a lot of favorite songs. We used to buy the cassettes with the hits in it (Now 5, Max 4 etc.). We started remembering artists and their songs. We got so used to listening songs that we could tell the artist by just listening to the songs or voices in the songs.

Lost in time:

There were a few songs though which we heard once and loved but never got a chance to hear again. These were the songs whose tunes were stuck in our head for years together and we couldn't figure out 'who the artist was' or 'what the song name was' or 'what the lyrics was'.

New Generation of search:

As the years went by, new technologies and websites like Youtube emerged, in which we were able to find some of the songs from our list of "tunes in the head" by just entering some of the words from the song.

For example: one of the words from a song stuck in my head was "....Smashing...." so I searched for it and found "smashing pumpkins" but wasn't sure if it was the one I was looking for. I heard each and every song of theirs' to find the one I wanted and I found it. And realized that the song had no lyrics with the word "smashing" in it anywhere. The word in the song which I was thinking to be "smashing" was actually "perfect", LOL.

But one song was still creeping in our heads... what was it? :

Slowly as the years went by further, we found most of them. BUT there was one music video which was stuck scene by scene in our head and we knew just two words from the songs which sounded like "...Paaale Paramu..." (doesn't even make sense, right?) . The video had two kids travelling all over the world on a Magic carpet like the one in Aladdin. We tried the same type of search for this song too. i.e. searched for the keywords and we even tried magic carpet ride etc but no luck :(.

Its been 13 years since we first saw that video and that video and tune is still stuck in our head.

How did I come across it:

Since a past few years with the upcoming of online radio, I have started listening to songs 24x7. I Work, eat, and even sleep with music on the radio.

THE DAY! - April 7th 2010 (almost 13 years after first hearing the song)

Today I was listening to one of the electronica station on iTunes and I came across a remix song which seemed to have the tune which I have been looking for all these years. I noted down the name of that song and did a youtube search and found the original song with DVD video quality and there it was!!!!.

I was getting chills and a great sense of accomplishment when I found this music video after 13 years of looking for it. Now I feel like one of my biggest tasks in life has been done. :P I cant even think of any other song which I have been looking for and haven't found.

There was a question in my mind as soon as found it.

"What next...?"