  At the occasion of his eighty fifth birthday, I wish to to recognize the
crucial role that my advisor, Professor Ayalam Balachandran, played in enabling
me to evolve from engineering to physics. So many years later, this student
presents his latest efforts: the importance of asymmetry in the Yukawa
matrices. We start with a purely phenomenological approach with Tri-Bi-Maximal
mixing as input: it predicts the value of the CP-violating angle with the three
mixing angles within one sigma of their pdf values. To ensure as much
naturalness as possible, a model which starts from $SU_5$ and extends to $E_6$
is discussed, in the context of finite family groups which are subgroups $G_2$.
