Children’s Day

You might ask me, what’s so big about Children’s day? Why do you blog about this?

Well, there are some things that we do not know about Children’s day (for that matter, about anything )

We all know that Children’s Day is on November 14th…but is this celebrated worldwide? If not what are the other days in which they celebrate?

Here are the answers

• Universal Children’s Day – November 20
• International Children’s Day – June 1
• Argentina – Second Sunday of August
• Brazil – October 12
• Hong Kong – April 4
• Japan – May 5
• Mexico – April 30
• Nigeria – May 27
• Paraguay – August 16
• People’s Republic of China – June 1
• South Korea – May 5
• Singapore and Sri Lanka – October 1
• Thailand – Second Saturday of January
• Turkey – April 23
• Venezuela – Third Sunday of July

To know more about Children’s Day, check these links:

• Children’s Day – Wikipedia
• Children’s Day in India 
• To send Free Greetings

one night @ the call center – Book Review

• Book Name – One night @ the Call Center
• Author – Chetan Bhagat
• Pages – 289
• Publishers – Rupa & Co
• Price (India): Paperback Rs 95 (Indiatimes Shopping)
  

Well folks, one more book of Chetan Bhagat to tangle you with call center environment – One Night @ the Call Center (ON@CC) I do not work in a Call Center, though heard a lot about the happenings. So, it was fun to know what call center guys experience I read this book in just three hours, did not take a break…non-stop reading

The book is too good, like his previous book (Five Point Someone), written in a very simple english and in first-person narration.

Coming to the characters, there are six main characters (all in the same team) managed by a boss. Shyam the main character (storyteller ), Priyanka (his ex-girlfriend), Varun (speedracer), Esha (wannabe model), Radhika (married and good d-i-l), Miltary Uncle (elder) and finally Mr. Bakshi (Da Boss).

The interesting part in the story is that it captures all the events happening in one single night

Everybody have problems in life, but we need to know how to tackle/get rid of them asap…this book will help you to do that…believe me.

On the whole the book is good, only the GOD part was a bit sulky. But still was interesting .

Some info:

• I did not know that people take breaks and go to the nearby pubs to get a quick drink (of course, along with the gals)
• Picking up people is a very tough job and now I know why all Qualis drivers always honk at night in front of my apartment
• Now I can understand why all Bosses do not CC you on the mail that they send to the client/customer

Rohan Sippy has got the rights for producing a movie based on this book

This is a very nice cartoon, googled for it…

And Chetan Bhagat is busy writing screenplay for the movie based on Five Point Someone, which is coming in 2007

To read more about ON@CC book, check the following links:

• Synopsis
• Excerpt
• Q&A by Chetan Bhagat
• Rediff Interview