Off late, I have been listening to a song again and again. I am trying to figure out what the song has to say. But I haven't yet. Again its a classic of the 1980's. The song is " You can do magic " by a band called "America". They performed live in Bangalore, sometime in Dec 2007.
Some backdrop ::: [ I am a huge fan of this song, thinking it is a very inspirational song. People always criticize me for being a fan of western music, esp rock. They indirectly ask me " Are u angrez key aulaad?". (Well whatever, who cares, btw?). But the truth is, whenever I listen to some super cool english songs, they just pep me up, to do better, to go an extra mile. ]
When I first listened to the song, I felt it is a inspirational song, but when I checked out the lyrics, I found a mushy edge to it as well. Whatever may be the case, it occupies #3 position in my all time favorite list of inspirational songs.
Well, if you want to know, which songs top the list of my all time favorite inspirational songs ...... here it goes...
#1 and #2 no doubt belongs to U2.
#1 Stuck in a moment - U2
#2 Walk On. - U2
#3 You can do magic. - America
#4 Welcome to wherever you are - Bon Jovi
One of my TODO s for the year 2009 include read as many books as possible. Technical books, I do read, but I am especially particular about fiction, autobiography, travelogues and books like these.
I think during the year 2008, I started to read a lot of unwanted books (mostly non technical). In the middle or the last part, of some of the books , I totally lost interest in the book. I do not know why. But somehow, it all went wayward.
Now in the last month of the year, I thought let me read a bit more. And all of a sudden I found two new books within my reach.
They were.
1. Dollar Bahu by Sudha Murthy
2. Nandan Nilekani 's book
I thought, lemme read one first. So went ahead and read Dollar Bahu.
Now I am thinking of reading one more book before 2009. Let me see, how it goes.
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Cheers
Incidentally, I happened to receive a new testimonial. It was from my honeywell friend/colleague, Muthukumaran.
I had written a testimonial for him around 4 months back. One of my friends who visited his profile immediately asked, is it barter system? I really do not think so. But it is to the outside world. What can I do?
So the testimonial had an important point which I would like to highlight of blog about. My friend says, " I have a good sense of humor ". I agree with it, but at the same time I also disagree with it.
How?
I have a good sense of humor, only when my going is good. When my going gets tough, my sense of humor just vanishes. I tend to lose patience / temper, if not often, but atleast sometimes atleast. [Gimme a break guys, I am a human after all, I tend to make mistakes, lose patience. Its all in the game].
After reading the book by Robin Sharma 9 times, I still could not come up with a way where in I could exhibit, " Grace Under Pressure ". Forget, exhibiting " Humor under Pressure". Its totally difficult. The guy who does it is a " REAL DUDE ".
One of my key goals in the year 2009 would be to improve myself on this whole issue. I do tend to lose humor, patience, under pressure. I wish I could handle pressure in a better way. So that I can get more out of that situation as well.
PS: Why am I writing about this topic is, I recently lost patience, and it took me a little while to be back, doing what I love to do the most.
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Cheers
Can't imagine about this one.. 100 posts for the year 2008.. In the month of December.. I openly admit 2008 has just gone by. God has been graceful in giving me loads of things. But I have not been up to the mark, when it comes to growing with age. It is something which I will take up seriously in the new year.
But 100 posts, when I look back, how on earth did I manage to write about 100 bakwaas topics. [I feel some of them are repeated , may be 5-6]. But overall nice feat... Pat on my back..
I had many takeaways' this year ...
--> cousin's marriage, met loads(mark my words) , loads of relatives.
--> new company, new colleagues.
--> different schedule altogether.(less travelling)
--> continued going to the gym for most part of the year.
--> went on a trip with my cousins to Ooty, which was the best of them all.
--> Read lots of books ( may be 12-15 overall, small in number, apart from technical ones)
--> Wrote loads of code in 2008.
--> Tried to learn lots of things in the last quarter of 2008. (have infact overburdened myself).
--> Got a little bit more health concious.
--> Kept blogging btw...
--> Found solace in loads of inspirational books and writing..
--> Last but not the least, laughed my heart out, many a number of times, more, than in 2007.
I have a list of things which I could not do or did moderately.. In other words.. somethings which I regret.
--> Not regularly listening to the radio. Lesser radio play during 2008.
--> Could not meet Nitin or Kranti many a times during the year 2008, for whatever may be the reasons.
--> Less books read... I need to read more..
I would like to thank god, for keeping me alive and kicking all through the year 2008.
One more thing worth mentioning:::
My first post for the year 2008 was a song by Simply Red::::
You make me feel brand new... Wow.. I dint notice till today. What an amazing song it is.
What a way to begin a new year blogging calendar.. Whacko !!!
~~ Cheers
I was listening to a song by ABBA today. ABBA happens to be one of my all time favorite bands. I think its a 4 piece outfit. I have grown listening to ABBA. Even as a child who dint know English correctly, I used to sing " Fernando ". (Aint that awesome).
I thought let me put a lyrics of a song which is so meaningful and also thanks something in the most beautiful way. I think this song is more than 24 yrs old.
The song is " Thank you for the music". The lyrics goes... [Incomplete though]
If I tell a joke, youve probably heard it before
But I have a talent, a wonderful thing
cause everyone listens when I start to sing
Im so grateful and proud
All I want is to sing it out loud
So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs Im singing
Thanks for all the joy theyre bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
Two days ago, I received a official mail saying, a new year gift is waiting for all the employees of the organization. And this would be a shirt (in case of gents).
So this is the December surprise. Not sure whether I am happy or not, I need to figure that out..
~~~ Cheers
It just happened around a week back and I came to know about it today. Incidentally there was a snake bite, which happened close to my house, (same road I feel) around 8pm in the night.
Not sure venomous or non venomous, but one thing's for sure. There s this new apparent threat while walking in the dark. And considering power cuts do tend to happen, I better keep both my eyes open.
Not much blogging in the month of November.
Well...literally littered around for the whole month reading a single book - Straight from the Gut, by Jack and what I can say is, I cant remember or recollect so many facts / figures / dates / people / companies that the book churns out. Its been difficult to digest. Thats the truth.
Not sure which book I will read next.
Well... I always admire the group pravsworld for their amazing work. They just pep me up everytime, with their wonderful inspirational emails.
Got this one a day before. I kept on wondering whether to agree with this or not.
" People know you by what you do".. I just kept on thinking..
Let me interpret this from professional perspective (by means of work/job).
If I lose my job, how will people know me?
I do not know the answer.. I feel, if I lose my job and incapable to find another job, I think most people would distance away from me. The only 2 places where I would be welcomed would be :
1. House.
2. Gym.
I think @ these two places people know me not by what I do.. Yes. At gym, no one knows whats my profession is (apart from the trainer)...
By the way let me stop being so negative and inconclusive about job security.. Its not gonna take me anywhere after all... Apart from this nothing much to post about...
Cheers...
On Nov 10 , 2008, I had been to Arvind's wedding. The wedding was rocking.. Arvind s a lucky guy. Here 's wishing him all the best..
The wedding was the prime thing. But apart from that, I did meet a lot of my Wipro and Target friends. The list was huge. 20 odd guys with whom I had worked with, meeting them after 7 or 8 odd months was kind of a good feeling.
Rare are such occasions.. But I was lucky to spot one of them and cash in.. Let me post a pic of me over there, in the coming days..
Cheers..
I made a comeback @ the gym today, almost a month after I had left going to the gym owing to some stupid reasons. Due to the power cuts, now I have to time my entry and exit to the gym properly.
Whatever may be the case, I can say, a donkey (issue) is off my back.. [Weird way of putting it.]
Whats so special about today? Generally I do plan such comebacks esp on Saturday. I do owe a lot, to Lord Shani, so thought Saturday is the best day.
It happened so, I celebrated my 25 yrs of existence, sometime during last month end. Generally I used to keep a low profile about my birthday, if not my age, at almost all my workplaces (4 workplaces to be more precise).
But for the last 3 years not many people knew when's my birthday. But this time @ Honeywell, the lid just blew off. Yes. On my birthday, in fact my name was put up on the display board at the reception. So this had to happen. I ended up cutting a cake.
Yes, I did cut a cake today, 4 November, but more than cutting the cake and eating it, I enjoyed something more, which happened in one of our meeting rooms. I was not the only one about to cut the cake, but Devender also. But the occasion/session had a special twist.
Mr Aneesh, my team member came up with the idea of writing Happy Birthday on the glass board in one of the meeting rooms. Along with it he sketched my friend and me. Me with my trademark mustache and hairdo.
It did not stop there, from there on he went ahead to sketch different stuffs which were characteristic of that person. Finally every other person in the meeting room, started drawing caricatures on the board. And also added a baseline / punchline to each caricature..
[ Mine - the punchline read - " I want to go home ". Along with it there was another pic which depicted a bed. It had a punchline " Relaxation Room "].
Awesome, sometimes you may be at the recieving end of a comedy/ gimmick, but it indeed feels great. [To know what other people really think of you].
It was just the right dose of fun. I will surely put up few pics of it, once I go to the office tomorrow.
PS ::: Thank you guys, it indeed was, very very very special...
PPS:: Thanks god, for keeping me alive and kicking for 25 years, not sure how many b'days will i celebrate in future... (keeping my fingers crossed.)
Its true.. I am really bad at something, which is an integral part of my day to day routine. That thing is " Googling ". Yes using search engine is an art in itself. Like the art of bike maintenance.
I am bad at both infact. I feel in todays world, a search engine can add lot of values to a programmer . Some of the stuff which have not been covered out in some of the best selling titles can be unearthed using a search engine.
I am really in a state of shock. I am unable to use google as a precision instrument in finding answers. Well, I am lucky, @ honeywell atleast, I have Mr Muthu who comes to my rescue time and again, showing the world or in fact me at least, " The Way to Google".
Yes googling for answers is an art in itself. Some people end up doing research on using Google, infact I am bad at it. I openly admit it. I have no clues how to better myself at it (as of now). But with little guidance from Muthu and a little Hands On, I feel I can better myself at it by early 2009. Let me see.
Conclusion::: What I can say is, " A person well versed with using a search engine, can see a solution to a problem and can bail himself out, when most others hang up their boots."
There are always two sides of the story. What Muthu has to say is " You better appreciate and use others code, or better get that thing ready in no time ( In other words, get expertise at it)."
That really sums it up. Its up to you to decide !!!
I turned pro in 2005 and ever since then I end up cribbing over and over again. Infact this cribbing about monetary and other issues has taken me to 3 different workplaces in less than 3 of turning a pro.
Looking at this, once my parents told me, " You are unfit for any industry, where ever you go you feel dissatisfied, about one thing or the other ".
This thing was hard to digest. The impact of this dialog haunts my mind even to this day and to be honest haunts my resume as well.
I am now reading the autobiography of Jack Welch, so kinda, found a solace in the book. The book churns up some great insights into GE in the 70's and 80's. ( may be even 90's I ve not read it completely as of now.. My Bad)
Conclusion : I now feel cribbing is not bad afterall.
Does the conclusion justify the post ??? : You have to read the book for yourself and find out how it justifies or coincides...
PS::: I forgot to mention a line which I read in FountainHead -> " Man's ego is the fountain head of human progress ". As of now I am not getting any clues , regarding how to infuse this great line into this post or into a new post. I will do that, may be someday later. Thanks Abhijit for reminding me...
Incidentally I happened to chat with one of my friends on GTALK. It was kind of boring chat session. I used to get the reply from that person a bit late, infact very very late.
So this is the small poem which I said to that person..
" U reply so late
i just cant wait
i feel like a bait
tats not my trait ".
I hope I get a reply soon henceforth from the other side..
Its been a rocking Sunday. I was upto a lot of things today. I did acquire something new. Yes, it is a 2X2 soft board. I always wanted to have a softboard in my room, may be since ages. So since these days, I was planning to have one in my about to be completed study room, I just went to one stationery store.
To my surprise he did have 2 flavors, 2X2 and a 3X3 one. I wanted to go for 3X3 piece. Each feet cost me Rs 75. But the 3X3 piece was kind a huuuuge one.. I thought I would buy it for my study room atop. For my current room, I just got a 2X2 one. Its about Rs 300.
Awesome. I am excited. Now its time to put into practice, some of the stuff which I read or will read from the book " Getting Things Done " by David Allen.
Also forgot to mention in my list of incompleted books. It also includes " GTD" by David Allen.
Cheers,
I felt like writing something, but unfortunately I have nothing to write.
But since my last 3 or odd posts have something to say about the books which I have been reading, I thought let me make a list of books which I have left uncompleted after I started to read them. Here it goes. The list is not that long. But I feel like kicking myself, since I just could not complete them.
They are:
1. Tough times never last, tough people do. - Robert Schuller
2. Biography of Rahul Dravid. - Vedam Jaishankar
3. The Life of Pi. - Not remembering the author.
4. Inheritance of Loss. - Kiran Desai
5. Agatha Christie - Partners in Crime.
6. Getting Things Done - David Allen
Hopefully I finish reading the Art of Bike Maintenance before the book just runs out of my hand
Its true. I just picked up a new title to read. I have not finished reading " The Art of Bike maintenance ". I was looking out for a particular book as I mentioned in the previous posts. But could not find it. Looks like " The Strand Book Festival " is where I will be able to find it.
But instead of it, I brought another book, " Straight from the Gut" by Jack Welch.
Now I need to quickly finish reading the book#1, which I am finding little difficulty in.
Also I somehow landed with two DVD's for the weekend. " Dil Chahta Hai" which I watched today, with lots of breaks, and " Andaaz Apna Apna" which I will watch tomorrow hopefully.
Cheers,
I have completed reading the book, " The Case for India".
I have picked up a new book " Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ". I am sure gonna take sometime before I finish this book. By the way this book dates back to 1974.
Hopefully my next book would be : " The Story of My Experiments with truth". I will surely write about it, if I get a copy this Saturday.
Cheers.
Disclaimer - The below mentioned content is an excerpt from the book " The Case For India " by Will Durant.
I have been reading the book " The Case for India " for a couple of days now.
There is some awesome writing about Mahatma Gandhi.
I better get going in my usual ways, I mean the software engineer way ie Copy Paste aka Ctrl C , Ctrl V.
So here it goes... Its dated to a few years before the book was written, may be early 1920's.
Its actually what Rabindranath Tagore said about Mahatma Gandhi:
" Content removed "
Sometimes reading books about India before 1947 just makes you feel so proud. Btw it also provides a much needed break from the so called " FALSE TECHNOLOGY " which we tend to live in and boast about.
Cheers,
I have started reading a new book, " The Case for India ".. It was written in the year 1930. Looks like its a supercool book. But I am finding little difficulty in reading the same. Ask me why I will tell you..
I had an idea of finishing the book today itself by late evening, but found a good friend over the internet, so time just flew by chatting and chatting...
I just wanted to mention something about the books which I read. More often, I have found a liking towards book written during 1910, 1920, 1930's or even earlier, rather than the latter ones' of the century. I do like the recent ones'. But somehow I feel, I just adore the classics.
Here are few of them
--> Diary of Anne Frank
--> Gone With the Wind.
--> Agatha Christie books
--> FountainHead (not read completely though).
--> Sherlock Holmes adventures... (huge fan of it,, next to Diary of Anne Frank)
and many more..
As of now I am looking forward towards reading " The Story of My Experiments with Truth".
Cheers for now..
Phew.. I am quite surprised.. So many visitors on my blog.. I have no clues what so ever..
I better remove one of the photos which I have posted over here.. I do not know.. Whats happening ??
Well.. I did try to edit one of the Wiki Pages, without an account. Hence IP might have got exposed. But how on the world, did they figure out my blog? Some one please tell me.. how??
I have two of the most wonderful pics, I have taken in recent times... These two pics depict something really wonderful..
You will be wondering.. " What are these pics about? what do they depict ?? ".. It literally depicts independence, being independent.
As you all know, my parents are constructing a house atop my current house. These pics are from that very house. All the plastering is through. I was lucky to find these pics as they were from the bathroom, which was not plastered but would be tiled.
Generally people who do plastering write up their names.(most commonly). I saw something, which literally left my eyes moist and btw I was moved.
First of all you can understand, people involved in construction work, I mean laborers, are either uneducated or partly educated. They might not even know when is Independence day. But a carving on wet cement like this..
Hats off man.. U guys really rock.. In some days, this area will make way for some tiles. So i thought I would capture them and put it on my blog.. So that I remind myself every year, year after year, Yes Independence day means a lot to me.
I also sadly have to say, some of my friends, did have a great time on Aug 15 and Oct 2. They did booze (drink) a lot and unarguably made lot of merry. (Some sad state of things to come... by the way)
So here I end this post, saying.. Happy Independence day.
India Rocks !! Indians Rule !!!
Received this one from Pravs world yesterday, on behalf of Gandhi Jayanthi.
Mahtma Gandhi.. Inspired generations and inspiring generations to come..
And Pravsworld.. hats off to U...
Here it is.. Superb one..
Its high time, I start reading " The Story of My Experiments with Truth ".
Yes. September 26 was the birthday of Dev Anand. He turned 85.
To be frank and honest, if you ask me.. who is your favorite Bollywood star, its got to be Dev Anand. I have not just liked, enjoyed but loved his movies as well.
Last saw his movie few years back. But everything about Dev Anand movies, according to me, is just awesomely great.
Here s wishing him a very happy birthday..
Classic By Air Supply... Dont know whether I ve added it earlier as well..
Tremendous song.. Tremendous video as well...
As we approach, October 2, I wish to write about something which I recently saw on one of the social networking sites.
October 2 happens to be the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Yes, he is the father of our nation.
What I observed on orkut, was that, there was a Community called " I HATE MAHATMA GANDHI ". Well, I was kind of surprised and sad looking at this. Yes, its after all some individuals opinion. No can argue with that.
But, for a person who dedicated almost his entire life, to see, his people free, I thought this was a little bit unanticipated.
In these days, people do not have even a single day to do Community Service. Yes, take my example. I have backed off on one occasion, when provided an opportunity. I feel these days, money takes the driver seat. Forget sacrificing entire life. Its a rare feat achieved by a few only.
Even Mahatma Gandhi was highly educated. But why did he chose to do something for the people of this country? Some trademarks of people who are really great leaders, visionaries.
I can salute and say, it is because of Mahatma Gandhi and many other freedom fighters that we are free today and can think about other stuffs like, ya, exceeding in so called technology.
So is it right to say " I hate Gandhi ".
I don't think so. Every Indian must be proud that a leader like Mahatma Gandhi was born in India..
That is what I can say.
I have been working out of Kalyani Magnum campus for over a month now. It is located @ JP Nagar 3 Phase.
I noticed something, in the recent times... which I found different.
The elevators here are manned. I haven't seen elevators with operators @ many places. Not atleast @ places where I have worked.
Do let me know, @ any places where you have seen manned elevators. (In IT companies I mean). It really does not make a bit difference to me, whether its manned or unmanned.
But if you see, the better part of it, its generating a fair bit of employment well. And I am happy for that.
3 Cheers...
The day is 25 September 2008. The day is Thursday. Its weekend time for me. Tomorrow there is a team outing, sponsored by the company. But I am not going to be a part of it. I have good reasons, not to attend it. But, yes, some of my friends were terribly disappointed @ my attitude towards the whole event.
All I can say, is cheer up guys, there is always a next time.
So now I have an uphill task for the weekend. Do not know, how much do I accomplish.
But surely, a 3 day weekend has lit up my eyes.
Looking forward to post some more stuffs( hopefully meaningful) over here.
Till then.. Cheers.
September 5, was the birthday, of Freddie Mercury. One of my favorite singers, of all time. Could not post anything on that day. So here I am trying to add a song which I love. Its " Who wants to live forever " by Queen.
Freddie Mercury, Brian May at their very best.
I was at the receiving end, after partly reading one of the books which I had. The result. My whole Saturday went awry. Yes, its true, sometimes, some books can literally turn your day upside down.
You have to be very careful when you choose books to read. I did make a huge mistake. When I told it to my brother, he too said, he made a big mistake bringing the book home.
He is quite wiser than me.. He had stopped reading the book, just after 55 pages. It just took me 95 pages, to realize that, I had to stop reading that stuff.
Regarding the book, I dont want to reveal it. And if you think, I am spreading hatred by means of this post. No. " One man's food is other man's poison ". Some people may end up liking the book. I have nothing against it. Just that, my day went wrong after reading 95 pages.
If you have seen my blog yesterday and today, you might notice a good deal of change. I sometime read, Canara Bank, baseline, saying, " We change, for the one's we love". Do not know whether its 100% the same wordings or not. But it looked the same.
If you could recollect, I had written a post about me being pissed off, with Canara Bank Uttarahalli, the truth is, I ended up opening a FD @ Canara Bank Uttarahalli itself, coz the only reason being it was close to my house. Well, after that, I have never been to that bank, not even to get an entry in my passbook. Don't know whether the interest amount of the FD has landed in my account or not.
By the way, why did I change my blog a bit. Just like that. I felt, it needed a change. Poor chap ( I am talking about my blog). It had to bear my goofy like pic for more than a year now. So I thought, let it make way for something else.
But what will come over there.? Another Blog Feed / Comment Feed / Photo Slide Show??
Naaa Re Naa...
I have been reading many blogs off lately. Though I use SharpReader to a good extent, many times, I end up visiting blogs of people. So by clicking and clicking, I came across a common thing in many blog. Either to the right or left bottom/top side of the blog, there used to a map, with title, most commonly, visitors from different parts of the globe.
I know my blog has least visitors. Though you may think, 1500+ visitors, is still a good number, I would like to openly admit, 300+ out of them, might be, coz of me refreshing and refreshing.
So while the whole exercise took me 15 mins to complete, it also incremented visitor count by almost 10 numbers. (considering I was beating around the bush , I registered a different blog, and tried to modify their code, to point to this blog. It refused saying, an error, the user/blog is not registered, so had to go back and forth for almost 6 times.)
It was quite simple adding it. Lemme see tomorrow what shows up.
Cheers,
And forgot to tell something..
A little bit of this and little bit of that ?... I think the title matched with the post, if not completely, atleast 40%.
Btw, its a bit of lyrics from a song by Michelle Branch, where she collaborated with Carlos Santana. Its up to you to guess the song.
Disclaimer (Yet again) :
The post which I read from the internet is authored by a well known software personality. I do not want to take any credit from his post. I would definitely disclose the URL of it, provided you let me know who are you? Else you can do a search and end up @ it as well..
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Hmmm... (Sigh).. As I read a post.. on the website of a software person. The problem is, I am sad after reading that post. I did show it up to some of my colleagues at work place.
The post was about how to screen and shortlist good programmers, and also talked about who are good programmers. It said, good programmers start young, very young. They are so much fascinated about the way things work, that they end up tweaking, tweaking, almost everything (i am talking about software related stuff) . So when about to graduate, they would have programmed in a variety of environments, (open source, closed source).
Why I am feeling sad is, I started programming @ literally 17 yrs of age, First year of Engineering. I did not tweak around with anything, doing what was needed the syllabi (my bad), (not so keep it a secret), to save my *&^. That qualifies me as an average programmer.
I always want to be seen as a little more than avg programmer. But after reading this post, not sure whether I will make it there.
But when it comes to blogging, I am happy that, I have made a start atleast, at a very young age.
I am 24 as I write this post and I started one year back, meaning I was 23 then. Though I am far away from giving gyaan (intellectual posts), I manage to write some crappy stuffs over here. I am happy for that. Going ahead, I may and want to better myself.
And regarding being a better programmer, Hmmmm....(sigh), I can only pray ...god give me more strength to make it up there ..
Btw, there is a sloppy bit of writing on this post. Do let me know.. if you find it...
Cheers,
Thanks God.
After almost, over an year of blogging, I have written a disclaimer. Why? The reason being just felt like writing one, since many days. Today, the thought just came across my mind and there it goes.
By the way... how is it.. do let me know..
And Mr Kranti Vikram, if you are reading this.. the last thing what I want, is a comment from your side.. coz.. I know, you feel, there is a comic side to my blog as well.. :P
So.. in my previous posts, you would have figured it out that, I was looking for something to read apart from technical stuff.. I have finally found two books, written by two of the most wonderful, highly intellectual people. Here are they..
1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. ___________________________
So I abruptly end this post.. You know why.. I need to start reading them. Which one I begin with?? Any Guesses..
Its the first one.. And considering I need to catch a few people online tonight... I better hurry up..
And regarding my earlier mentioned book... " The Shalimar Clown " by Salman Rushdie.. Its with some of my friends.. Will take some time before actually I get to read that.. may be 1 week time...
Bye for now.
Cheers.
Today I installed SharpReader @ home. Something which I should have done , when I was a fresher. Well.. " Better late than later "..
I wanted to put a more detailed picture of my subscriptions. But, it may seem I am boasting. So I dont want to .
Regarding the highlighted thing, its my blog.. Keep on guessing, how did I subscribe it, since you dont find any subscription url at my site. Do let me know... if you figure it how...
Regarding so many unread entries.. 877... Its not that, I ve not read them.. But again its up to you to figure it out.... " y "???
I have not been to the office for almost a week now, owing to my fever. But one thing remained unfulfilled during these days. I wanted to read something, infact read some non technical book to be more precise.
I thought of reading The Shalimar Clown by Salman Rushdie. But somehow, you know, lazyness never has any bounds. I could not read anything. One more fear I have is that, if I start reading something non technical... it will go on and on.. I started reading about the Diary of Anne Frank in March, even though the book got over in less than 12 days, the hangover remained for almost a month after that, everyday I used to search in Google for more and more info,pictures of the Frank family, their house, their hideout etc etc. I end up doing reverse engineering.... So now you can imagine, why I am so tentative... !!!
I hope to start reading atleast from today. Lemme see.. I will post about it. I will start reading only after I get to know what the book is all about.
Other than that, I have unearthed a book on Yoga in my house. It seems to be around 20 years old. I always wanted to learn yoga and do it side by side along with regular gym. But till now I have not done that. But moving ahead, I hope to do so.
Anyways.. I will keep you updated on that.
Cheers for now..
There are several things which I learnt about after this typhoid fever.
1. Going to the gym reduces my immunity to a great extent.(Ask me how I will tell you, but at the same time, it is something which I will never stop going to, what so ever.)
2. Three plus years of working in the S/W industry has made me literally an asshole. Sitting under air conditioning, drinking bottled/packaged water have become some of my traits now, without which I may end up either heavily sweating (may be even at room temp) or as you know end up with typhoid (water problem). I am ashamed to say that I literally need these artificial systems to lead a healthy living.
3. I went in for a blood test. All WBC, RBC count everything seems to be fine. But my cholestrol levels are under severe scanner, so hence forth,, no no no oily foods whatsoever.
And for your information, I am not supposed to eat even bakery products. Forget Icecreams. The last time I remember eating ice cream was about 2 years back. So from now on, you can expect me to be back in shape very soon provided I follow this supreme strict diet regime.
Inference:::: Chasing false money I have literally ruined myself, my life.
Well the information industry has lots to offer in terms of technology, but, given an alternative, I would definitely think twice, coz health is wealth.
Lastly.. hats off to all the construction workers and other laborers, who inspite of drinking, tap water, working in hot sun, end up with smiles on their faces, at the end of each day.
And me??? You dont see me smiling in half of the snaps uploaded here... and in the rest.. it is me, claiming a false smile (pretending)... I wish I better myself sooooon....
First of all.. no write ups for the last 12 days.. Yes.. I happened to suffer from typhoid fever for a few days. Well, the truth is my immune system had gone down so badly, that I ended up with not just fever but typhoid fever.
I have taken a much needed break from office work for a week, now.
But at the same time all my activities have been thrown out of gear.
I have taken 10 injections(straight to the nerves) of Monocef to get rid of the typhae bacteria.
I can now say, I am all fine, but you never know, when that stupid bacteria will be back with you, within a month s time. So I am under precautionary scanner.
So now you know, why I did not post anything for almost 10 days.
I dont generally want to write about, updates from my side. But this time, I dont have anything else to write. Its been a great weekend. Met my friend Subba @ Jayanagar 4th block.. Did some shopping and had some good food.
Now looking for some good movies to make the most of the weekend. Not finding one.. Let me see.
[Photo removed due to unknown visitors on the blog. Please excuse.
Incidentally my cousin, happened to upload photos taken from his camera.
Here is one such precious one. If u think I am over weight. Well.. dont think too much about it. Its ===> TRUE <===
Its still under construction. Hopefully it turns out to be my study room and not any other utility room. (All the garbage in the garage might also end up there). It is quite big. Dont know the exact dimension.. But looks cool. I want to have a ladder and also some space between the tanks,. By the way I am also planning to buy one good binocular. Lemme see.
Cheers.
Well.. not sure how this is happening. Incidentally the visitor count on the blog, just got incremented from 1255 to 1292 within a timespan of 5 mins. Not sure, who is reading my blog from the other side. Or is there some mistake with the software?
If you are one of them, reading my blog, please do comment.. let me know who are u ? btw I ve disabled anonymous comment. :)-
I am off. Going to listen to some Kishore Kumar songs, btw.
Good night..
And one more thing. Enjoy your stay on my blog.. Do comment..
Cheers..
Yes its true. Its been a dream olympics. Congrats to one and all..
My way of saying thanks to God, for keeping me alive and kicking.
I hope your blessings are with us always.
Thanks Mom , Dad, Bro.
Incidentally August 2008, has churned out 17 posts (18 including this one) from my side.
It is in the second position after July 2007 (31 posts).
Btw if I recollect what was so special about the month of July 2007.
1. Live Earth Concert - 07/07/07.
Where I became a huge fan of the, then re-united band, The Police (1976-84) I think. Just found out that my father is a huge fan of the Police. (Ain't that incredible).
2. Never to forget outing.
On July 27, I had been on a team outing, went to a resort close to Nandi Hills. Can't believe its 1 year old. Thanks to all the people who made that event an awesome one.
Btw whats so special about August 2008.
1. Never to forget trip to Bandipur, Ooty and encounter with some wild animals.
2. Found some new audiences to this blog. Not to keep it a secret, they are my current company colleagues.
Cheers,,,
Can you guess... what the post will talk about??
Guess ... guess....
If you think, I am writing about my love, my crush, love @ first sight or something, you are absolutely wrong.. It must have been love is an awesome song by the band Roxette. OST from the movie "Pretty Woman".
Incidentally this is the song which I was listening to, today, @ the gym.
I almost forgot to tell what the post is all about. For the past 8-10 months, since I am going to the gym, I always used to hear the radio play. 91.9 FM Radio Indigo used be the chosen station.
It always felt weird to hear ad-breaks while exercising. In other words, to be frank, I just would feel like taking a nap in the gym itself, instead of exercising
Well, common, I love 91.9 FM but gym is not the ideal place to listen to the radio. I always wanted to hear some upbeat songs. Songs which would help you to increase your exercise repetition count. (And btw even without your knowledge).
The good news is that, my gym instructor has brought in an MP3 player and now no more radio plays.
You must be wondering, " this song by Roxette, is this a under groovy upbeat song what this dumb guy was looking for?" . No its an absolutely mushy song. But as long as I love it, do I care?
In the previous post, I had written about my experiences @ Bandipur, Madumalai forest @ 2 am in the morning. I wanted to tell about how I felt to see mother nature @ its very best.
So here it goes...
Well... the best part of this whole drive was that.. throughtout the entire route amidst the forest, there was total darkness [thats why its a forest , me dumbo :@ :( ] , with vehicles on the road, here and there [infact its true that we spotted more deer, in terms of count, than vehicles; again its a forest, me dumbo :)]. Some stretch of the road, was awfully bad, potholes covered with water. But it hardly mattered, since the excitement in the air was so much, I literally forgot about the road.
I just felt like going out of the vehicle and reaching out to mother nature. Just trees, trees and more trees. Total silence, total peace. Then here and there you come across herds of deer, grazing. It was just awesome. But I was not supposed to venture out of the vehicle all alone @ 2: am in the morning.
An experience which I cannot describe with words. All these days, I used to watch Animal Planet and wonder how it feels like being in a forest . It was now that I really; really experienced it. It was exciting, thrilling and worth a million. [ Atleast worth a sleepless night, waiting, waiting and waiting to enter the forest ]
I would love to go to Bandipur, Madumalai again and again. Let me see. If possible with my office colleagues.
Well... Its true. I had been to Ooty 3 weeks back, which according to me was a memorable trip.
I did forget to write about it. Though I will not write about the whole two day trip in a detailed post, I would like to write a small post about my encounter with some wild animals on the way to Ooty.
Well, the day was 25 July 2008, we left Bangalore @ 10:30pm in the night. We reached Bandipur area around 1:45 am in the morning. After a little slowdown, we entered the forest around 2:00 am in the morning.
You may not find much vehicular traffic during this time of the day. Although there were few trucks coming from the opposite direction we did not find any trucks in front or behind us. With every truck which came in the opposite direction we started thinking, " this guy would have sent all the wild animals back by honking ", but we were totally wrong. The deer, bison were all unperturbed.
We were lucky to spot lots of deers all along the way. On a whole we saw around 30-50 deers, happily grazing. We also could see 7-8 wild bison which were grazing at a very close distance to the road. Then there was a herd of wild elephants just about 1ft from the road. This was a very great encounter, it was just an awesome experience altogether. Watching these animals in circus or zoo is totally different. Finally after 1.5 hrs of driving slowly we were through the forest area.
As I earlier mentioned I was looking out for a book by Robin Sharma " Who will cry when you die ?". I did find the book and purchased it. I even read 30-40% of the book, but I did not find this book as interesting as " The Greatness Guide ". I felt a little bit disappointed. Either my reading skills have gone down or may be I did, really, not like the book. I don't know. Now I am feeling I should have read the " The Greatness Guide" for the 7th time in a row instead of buying this book.
Never mind.
I will try to concentrate a bit more, for the remainder of the book and see if I find it good.
Apart from this, I can say there s a half price sale @ Benetton Outlet @ Kathriguppe. Let me see if I can rope in 2-3 half sleeved shirts tomorrow. :)-
Well over an year ago, I was wondering whether to blog or not to blog. But I have carried my love for writing, for over an year now and hopefully would like to carry for many more years to come.
Here s an interesting comment posted by one of my buddies almost over an year ago, which makes a lot of meaning. I was just going back in time, to see what I actually had written over an year ago. I found this, hence posting a snap of this over here. I hope its crisp and full of meaning.
[ I am absolutely lying about why I went back in time to read my old posts. In other words I have found some new audiences of this blog and I wanted to absolutely make sure my employment is not under threat because of this blogging. Hence went back to re-check and re-edit any stuff which I have mistakenly written. To be honest, I dint edit even a single old post. So you can be rest assured, I ve not committed any offence !!!!]
Pls check out posts in the month of July 2007 to find out the context of this comment.
Here s wishing all the people , a very
Happy I N D E P E N D E N C E D A Y .
Well....looks like after a loooong time I am getting to see a 3 day weekend. Its independence day. Proud to be an Indian....
Its a 3 day weekend and I have 3+ reasons to celebrate. Yes, its true. Here are those:
1. Independence Day. ( Proud to be an Indian and here s a salute going out to all the people who have made me realize I am independent )
2. Gym is closed on August 15, in the evening. So my lazy bones, can remain lazy for the whole day.
3. Since Gym is closed in the evening, I get to see the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One, without any fuss. Usually I tend to get struck in the gym, unable to get home or settle down by 9pm. So, I hope tomorrow there wont be any hiccups.
4. Tomorrow is an auspicious day, considering that, there is a door frame laying ceremony early @ 8 am. Hopefully I capture some photos of it and also of my (would be) study room.
5. Lots of time to read about technical stuff, check out new books which have arrived on stands, (btw I have only Rs 1000 left). Hopefully I grab a copy of a Robin Sharma book, which I love and also some technical books.
6. Half Price Sale on Big Bazaar it seems, but I prefer National Market instead. (Avenue Road, Sapna Book stall on the way).
7. Hopefully I catch up with my friend on the weekend. (Thinking of having some Bhel puri etc etc).
8. Thinking of the movies which are on the offering this weekend.
9. Do lots of chatting on yahoo msgr and watch tonnes of videos on Youtube.
My Pick of the Week Song :
Band : MatchBox20
Song : Unwell.
Well.. above mentioned are the 3+ reasons to celebrate.
Cheers.
As you all know, there s lot of load shedding, happening in Bangalore, these days. Incidentally, when I was running on the treadmill, suddenly to my surprise the treadmill came to a abrupt halt, thanks to the powercut.
My gym does not have backup power, there is one emergency lantern. I could not continue running on the treadmill, but continued with other exercises. This scenario of working out in a poor or little lit area reminded me of my childhood days.
I grew up playing hide and seek. And the best part was I enjoyed hide and seek, the most when there was a powercut. We, a group of 12-14 people would play hide and seek in kind of dark or poor lit surroundings. We were kind of helped by headlights of passing by vehicles.
So as you can see, the situation today reminds of my childhood days.. Yup worth making a note. Some things are really close to my heart which I wont necessarily like to forget....
One of them is the childhood instance mentioned above.
Life s never gonna be the same. No worries of earning. Only playing, studying no tensions, no Form 16 s , no work related meetings. All for yourself. In other words its called A A W A A R A.
Cheers...
A new look and feel to my blog. After having the same template for over a year now. I am changing the template. (don't know why I took more than a year to do that)
Check it out....
I had been on a 2 day 2 nights trip to Ooty which I feel was a great change for me.
Visited Lots of places, saw a whole lot of wild animals and got some amazing awesome snaps.
Thanks god for making it happen.
Love your job, not your company,
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you.
I think these were the words of Mr N R Narayan Murthy, not sure though.. Hmm...
I just wanted to write about an incident that happened to me some months back. Not sure whether it relates to the above quote. But never the less, worth a read.. Of Course..
The day was 3 March 2008. It was my last day @ one of my workplaces. I was working out of [***** content supressed*****] Campus. I guess last day @ an office is always crucial.
You need to get relieving letter, experience letter and some info on Full and Final Settlement, and as usual Form 16.
So I was also trying my level best not to mess up things over there, since my joining date in the other company was [***Content Supressed****].
Well.. I was done with most of the necessary things . There was this point of time where in I needed to submit my ID card and access card back to the security. Here was where I messed up and landed myself in an embarrassing situation.
One of my friends who earlier had quit the job, had surrendered his ID card, taken a temporary employee badge and entered the building to say goodbye to others. I thought of following the same way.
Here s where the real story begins.
I left my baggage in office itself.
I surrendered my Id to the security guys and signed in the registry saying I am done with it. I asked for a temporary badge, to my utter display the security said, we have stopped issuing those kinds of badges and you need to get a visitor pass.
Though it was my last day @, I am still the employee the EOD, and I am being paid for that, you see. But naaa, the security guys would not budge. I assume they did not want to give me the Employee Badge.
Btw, How can I be a visitor when I am an employee ? Is there no differentiation between an employee and a visitor. If an employee forgets to bring his Id Card will he be granted Visitor Pass ?
This is #1, I feel it was utterly humiliating and disappointing.
Here starts part 2 of the story.
I said OK.. Let me get a visitor pass at least. I need to get my baggage back and I am out of here. When I entered the room where visitor passes are issued, I found a lady who was issuing passes. As usual, she asked me who are you, I said " Today is my last day @ [***********] and I have surrendered my Id card, I need a visitor pass to get in and bring my baggage out ".
Guess what the madam says, " Why can 't you bring out your baggage and then surrender your card, why did u leave it inside the office campus ? ". This shows your actual worth. Till yesterday, the company was ready to send late night cabs to your house. Within 5 mins of you surrendering the ID, you are not even allowed to enter the campus. You need to face embarrassing questions like " why you left your baggage inside?". And guess what for a visitor pass you need a person whom you are going to visit, right ? I needed a person who could come and say yes, this ex-employee is going to visit me. I called my friend, and everything was done , I joined the other company on [**************] and the rest is history.
But now you can recollect how true is the saying
" Love your job, not your company,
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you. "
( 5 mins after surrendering your Id card, on your last day, you are a visitor to the company).
I dont call it disrespect. Its there, since the security level is so so high. But still its embarassing, you have worked there for 1.5 years and all of a sudden you are in the middle of no where. Phew.
--> Love your job, not your company
--> My trip to Ooty, a detailed write up(if possible)
--> Some pics
Well today was not such a good day for me.... I am quite upset with my own behavior. It happened so, that, there was a session @ office and I was at my worst behavior. Some of my team members found me laughing, giggling very very much and even my lead observed it. I should not have exhibited such a behavior since one of my closest buddies was handling the session. I wish I could undo some or majority of my behavior. But its too late.. Here s hoping I would not repeat the same in future..
Wanted to post about a small topic yesterday. But could not due to the power failure factor in Bangalore. Hence trying to set up a reminder post ( from my office ) so that I come back and post it sometime in future, may be 4-5 days later.
I can post from office but..... I dont want to ...
Well.. since you all know, my parents are constructing a new house atop my current house. So there was a need to build a platform or some kind of structure to hold up two overhead tanks. My father said instead of building a supporting wall, lets go in for a room of height 7 ft above which two tanks can be placed.
I insisted I wanted a room with a little bit more height. To my utter disappointment he said "No". Today to my surprise he told me the room height will be 10 ft or so and the cost overhead will be less than 50K. I even asked for some place to sit atop this room between or to the side of two overhead tanks. Answer :" Granted "...!!!!!
I am damn happy. After so many years I can say I have a dedicated study room.
I dont study that much, but still a dedicated study room, where there s no comp, mobile , TV etc etc , just me and some book, looks an awesome picture to me. Life is so beautiful !!!!
Still 6 months to go before it turns into reality though!!!
Well.. its literally two weeks, since the laying of concrete for our new first floor house has been through. Just wanted to thank God for the same..
The Judgement day was 7th July. It was RCC time. I was really nervous. It was raining like anything, every alternate day. But this time the concrete work went awesome. Thanks to God. There was sunshine a plenty on that very day. Everything went well.
The RCC has been laid, can i say to perfection, yes. I really was very happy when I heard my father say 50% of the house construction work is completed.
The rest is little bit of monetary decisions here and there. I am proud of my parents !!! Any doubts.
I hope the almighty continues to support us in future as well.
Thanks Lord.
Cheers.
Boy O Boy!! Am i excited.. yes I am .. After literally 6 months, I get to go out of Bangalore one more time.. This time to Ooty. Yes the date I ve decided is 25th July night and coming back on 27 night. Hoping to spend some quality (priceless) time with my cousins , relatives etc etc. I would love to write more about it!!
But after one week !!!
Cheers...
Hello, hello, yes its midweek crisis... Aaaahh.... No clues what to do... I am back listening to the radio after a looong time. Radio Indigo 91.9 FM. The thing is I feel, Radio City 91.1FM has stopped playing English music. Thank god there is 91.9 FM.. Well, some cool songs over here Natalie Imbruglia, Def Leppard etc etc.... Btw can you hear BEP - Black Eyed Peas singing Dont Lie??? I can, awesome band, awesome song... Fergie, Will I am and gang..
Do you believe, I got a Moser Baer DVD of the movie Jab We Met.. courtesy my brother..I love movie, have watched it 3 times already. Love to watch it over and over again.... What say....
Cheers,
These days, I am not blogging regularly. don't know why.. whenever I do blog, I only write about my weekends... So here another one.. This weekend was kind of ordinary. Totally lazy, no work.. I did study a little bit. Watched Austin Steven's on Animal Planet, after that was lucky enough to find out that, The Chronicles of Narnia Part 1 was being shown on a disney channel. Well I wish I could have seen that fully. I did manage to see a bit of the movie , say 25%, but as my mom was scolding me for watching the television for so long,I had to give up. But one thing is for sure. I love the movie, esp Part I.
In the evening at dinner time, I also watched a part of the movie, Anaconda.
Well quite a ordinary as well as interesting weekend for me. So till next time..
Cheers,
Well... I did really watch a movie a few days back. The Chronicles of Narnia Part 2- Prince Caspian. Could not understand much, without the subtitles, the DVD being a pirated one( I am talking abt sound quality) and also considering the fact that I joined 25 mins late. But never the less nice time pass.
The speakers near the sofa set @ my place seem to be absolutely rotten, since these days, I end up watching movies over Pirated DVD, no 5 channel o/p. (No wonder)
I am all set to relocate to a new office. I am currently opposite to IIMB. Moving to JP Nagar 3rd phase, near Delmia.
Here s a list of my work locations over a period of 2 years 9 months.
-> Kundalahalli
-> Electronic City
-> MG Road.
-> Kormangala.
-> Embassy Golf Links
-> Bagmane Tech Park.
-> Sarjapur Road.
-> Bannerghatta Road.
-> JP Nagar 3rd phase.
And to be honest I ve met so many wonderful and awesome people in these three years.
[ Life is so beautiful, indeed !!!!!]
Its weekend time, I am looking for some books this time one by Robin Sharma and some technical books as well. Lets see, I need to read a lot...
Cheers,
After an year of blogging, I have set the " entry post time " to Indian Standard Time. Not sure, why it took me 1 year to do that.
Cheers, Its 8:10 in the morning.....
Not sure what will I do, if that happens, but at this very moment, only thing I can say is I have stopped buying/selling shares. Don't know what happened to my mutual fund. Sure, thats also under loss. How do I get back atleast what I invested? no clues as of now. Hoping the situation gets better. One of the companies in which I invested has closed. I am running under some loss. Want to bring the average loss down by investing some more, but I wont.
Well on the other hand, if I had some of that money, I would have bought an XBox (basic model) and would hopefully have had a great time playing games, esp GTA ViceCity.
Let's see whats in store. Inflation, steel sector, high prices, people getting fired from jobs, what else. What is the solution to this?
One of my friend told me, the simplest solution can be apply for H1, get out of India atleast for next 5-6 yrs. Earn a lot and come back.
I am not behind H1, nor doing Masters. I love to be in India , esp Bangalore.
Cheers,
I am pissed off totally today. Enough is enough. Here's what put me into total frustration. In order to invest Rupees One Lakh, I thought of fixed deposit in a nationalized bank. Hence I decided to open an account at the Canara Bank Uttarahalli Branch.
And believe it or not, its one of the worst decisions of my life I have taken, probably the second, the first one being joining Honeywell instead of Sapient. I wish I could undo this one.
I approached Canara Bank Uttarahalli, on 24-May-2008, with a form to open an account. The time was around 10:30 am. To my utter disgust do you know what a person who was supposed to sign for my account approval say ???
" Please come on Monday and submit the form. Its already late and the bank is supposed to close now ". [ Is this the answer you give, the bank may close at 11 am but still there is plenty of time, is what I felt.]
Somehow I managed to get his signature and submit the form. I think he would have been embarrassed when he had to sign on my form. I never knew I would have to see the same person's face again and again.
Today [31-May-2008, a week later] I went to put across a cheque, from my salary account for the fixed deposit and also to collect my pass book and cheque book. I had to see this person's face again and also I had to get his sign for obtaining cheque book.
He refused to sign atleast for two times, pointing to some mistakes in my letter. But I felt the way he spoke was disgusting. This is absolutely not the way you treat your customers, atleast not me.
I now totally hate CANARA BANK UTTARAHALLI, BRANCH.
I have decided to open a FD at SBI, Billekahalli Branch. Let me see how people at SBI turn up.
But for the rest of you folks out there, I can only say one thing, better go for HDFC or SBI, pls pls pls think twice before you land up in a situation like mine.
Yes, this is what I realized today. Its really very difficult to make a comeback, in any field.
I made a comeback at the gym today. In other words I re-debuted. It had been almost a month since I had quit gym.
Owing to my total frustration at [content supressed], this summer heat and taking into account even my laziness too, I had distanced myself from the gym. I had decided to come back strong someday, hopefully the day has come, its today.
On the technical front, yes I have made a sort of comeback, with some inspiration from some of my friends. I have started reading, studying and coding a lot these days. I thank god for keeping me going all these days. I love to blog more here. Hopefully I started reading some fiction soon.
Also forgot to mention, today I almost ran continuously for about 15 mins without a break. Can you believe that. I had almost stopped running on the treadmill since 2 months. ( 1 month I was out of gym and the month prior to that the treadmill had broken down). I cant believe it myself.
I started running on a new treadmill in the gym and found it very good, infact great. Hoping to run more. I have changed my gym schedule. I would be going to the gym every evening from now on.
God give me more strength.
Cheers,
Hello Hello, yes I did watch a movie this weekend, well not @ the nearest theater, but at home. (I am an all time lazy guy, any doubts over that).
Before that, I would like to say, I have been out of touch with technology off late. Its almost a month, I am not at my best. I am not studying, nor doing side projects. I am only reading and forgetting things, to be honest, not at all coding these days. I don't know why.
On weekends too, spend lots of time sleeping, watching TV(which I should stop at once.)
Seems weird. Somehow I am regrouping myself. Hopefully I will be back with full swing May 1, onwards. I would love to have a copy of " Getting Things Done " by David Allen, and read through it. Someone please give me a copy.
This weekend I got to see Krazzy4. Well don't know how the movie is rated. But the movie did remind me of certain things which I used to do during my teenage days.
I definitely remember, during school days, when I used to pray before eating food and at the end of each day before leaving school, I used to stand up and sing the National Anthem of India. Wow those were the best days of my life. Wish I could live those days one more time.
Well after watching Krazzy 4, I can say one thing, The National Anthem of India, is so so beautiful. !!!!!!!
Proud to be an Indian .
On April 18 2008, one of my closest friend, also parted ways with Wipro. I met Subba Rao, on my first day at Wipro, Electronic City. He is one ex-Wipro-ite I knew from my first day at Wipro till my last day.
After completing induction @ Wipro, we were fortunate to be in the same team @ Wipro MG Road office. After completing close to 2 months at Wipro MG Road, I moved out to different company altogether(not out of Wipro), on Jan 16 2007, but Subba still continued at Wipro.
Finally in the month of May 2007, Subba moved to the same company. Its almost one year to that day, our learning curve was its all time best. Meeting some of the best people in the industry, I can proudly say 2007, was our year. Finally after a brief stint, we moved back to Wipro Sarjapur on Nov 11, 2007.
Since then it was thorough testing time for me. I was reading like anything, hoping to move out of Wipro soon. I did find some success in the form of offers from ********* ******** (content suppressd, looks like I am boasting about myself) . I moved out Wipro on 3 March 2008.
Subba Rao has been a great help to me all through my stay at Wipro. And especially on my last day, when I was struck with all kinds of problems. Thank you Subba.
Now its Subba 's turn, he s going to join a new company as well.
Here s wishing all the very best to him.
Its since quite sometime, that, I have not posted regularly. Well, life s going on as usual, but little more exciting after I left Wipro, coz the salary factory comes into picture..... He He He.
Above that, my planned trip with my cousins also got dropped. So no plans of going out of town. Only option left with me is to be more geeky, nerdy and techie.
There s loads of new things to learn these days, a lot more coding, and loads of time to study as well.
I wish to keep on posting more. Lemme see.
I am trying to bring in people for the trip. Lemme see, how much do I succeed, since its ELECTION time in Karnataka, so people are not ready, also some of my cousins are busy with studies/work.
By the way the places which I may look to visit are:
1. Kasargod
2. Coorg
3. Kukke Subrahmanya, Charmadi Ghat.
4. Hospet, Hampi.
5. Kalasa, Chickmaglur.
6. Yeracud.
7. Pondicherry.
It was last year (2007), around this time, I started to blog. It was none other than Arvind who encouraged me to write. And after reading The Diary of Anne Frank , quite recently, my love for blogging has just got doubled.
Here's congratulating myself on completing one complete year of blogging.
I wish to post more, also lots of photos from my DSC H7....
Cheers....
My recent updates include details about my new work place....
Yes Yes Yes, I quit Wipro on 3 March 2008 and I have joined Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab on 5 March 2008. I have gotten a single day off and to be honest, my back's breaking.... I need a break guys. Hopefully I go out on a trip on May 1, since its a holiday for me. I will definitely post some pics if I do go out. You can look out for that.
By the way I am badly missing some of my ex-colleagues. Mridul, Aru, Subbu, where are you guys!!!!!..
So far so good... Honeywell definitely rocks !!!!
Cheers
Well.. One more interesting post for the weekend. I hope you are done with enough comments on my previous post, (10 years of not doing something).
" Get the Message ", the title seems really eye catching. It is !! It was this week's flavor of the program on VH1. The program was VH1- The Big Weekend.
As soon as I saw the program, I thought of bringing in a post here. Why?? Wait, Wait, I will tell you. Before that, let me tell you, there were some awesome, supercool songs playing out there. If you are a western music enthusiast, you have missed a ton.
Plenty of good songs, but the motto was a " A song with a message was being played ". Here were some of the numbers.
1. Phil Collins - Another Day in paradise.
2. Sole Asylum - Runaway Train.
3. Micheal Jackson - Heal the World.
4. U2 & GreenDay - The Saints are coming.
5. Billy Joel - Piano Man
6. John Mayer - Waiting on the world to change.
7. John Mayer - Daughters.
etc etc.....
I have been heavily criticized for being a western music enthu. People generally pitch in saying " Angrez ke Aulaad "... They have forgotten that they studied in English medium school.
I would like to say, why I am a huge western music fan, I think every song has a clear cut message. Each song just peps me up to do better, to get motivated. The band U2, Bono, motivates me the most. There are no second thoughts on that.
Hence I generally prefer to listen to these songs, than those songs which only speak about, love, love breaks, marriage, marriage failure. I don't say I really hate all those . I even like some songs which are inspirational.
But about rest of the songs, which are mostly about LOVE , LOVE , LOVE , I really hate it. Enough guys, get something else, its been decades together of love songs.
When I saw this program on VH1, this weekend, I thought I was right in every aspect. Hence this post is here !!!!!!
By the way, March 30, is the birthday of a Rock n Roll, hall of fame 'r. Guess who ?? Its Mr. Eric Clapton. He was born on this day on March 30, 1945. I have been a huge fan of Mr Eric Clapton. So here's wishing him a very happy birthday!!!!.
By the way , Am I crazy, ?? Its up to you to figure it out...........
This April, will mark 10 years of not doing something!!!! You might be astonished to hear, what ?? you may also call me a loser, blah blah, blah, but to be honest, do I care?? Not even for a single second.
It was in the month of April, the year being 1998, I last went to a theater to watch a movie, can you believe it? Yes you have to believe it.
I somehow have managed it, thats the truth. But to be honest, I have not even an inch interest to beat the Bangalore traffic just to watch a 3 hr movie. People say, watching a movie at the theater, is altogether a different experience and quote you have missed the action.
What I say, is I don't care. I feel more comfortable watching a movie at my house, its what I have been doing all these days. But someday, I will have to go to a theater, though I am not interested, not for me but for someone else. Lets see. Till then, Cheers.
And by the way, you can call me a loser, no probs, since I don't care an inch ........ I am mine!!!
This weekend, I got to watch Taare Zameen Par. All I can say after watching the movie was that, " It was in a league of its own ". Chak De India, was also good, but TZP, was just too good. No wonder, it has bagged a handful of FILMFARE awards.
Also this weekend, I have fallen ill. I feel this week, was a memorable one, I had to say goodbye to lots of people and lots of places as well, I traveled a lot, worked a lot. I have some important updates, which I will be posting, hopefully next Saturday.
Till then Cheers.
Another weekend is here and I am as happy as ever. Loads of time for myself to unwind. How did I do that, well lots of sleep today along with loud snoring. I also got to watch a fabulous innings by Brendon McCullum who hit 6 "6's".
I gave the photo film for development and printing, recall, I did have a spare camera along with my digital camera, just for the that moment when I felt lazy enough to open and switch on my DSC H7. You would be wondering " How can this guy be as lazy as a sloth, having two cameras all because of laziness?? ". Yes its absolutely true, I do feel bit lazy to operate that big camera of mine, something which I was warned of before, but still I went for it. Well, its worth the money, no wonder.
Evening was as usual rocking, again in front of TV. This time I got to watch VH1- " Big Weekend" , guess what was the theme? , " I Love the 80's - HairDo's ". Basically there are different flavors to the " I love the 80's " theme.
1. I love the 80's - Rock
2. I love the 80's - Pop
3. I love the 80's - Movies
4. I love the 80's - HairDo's
Lots of songs of HairDo's, the one which I liked the most, was the one which I grew up listenting to, any guesses?
Yes, Maddonna, who else, and the song was " Like A Virgin ". What a video, what a song !!! worth the scoldings which I got for lazying around, the entire day.
By the way, I don't have any book to keep me occupied, looking for the following books:
-> Straight from the Gut -
-> Winning -
by - well you know who, I guess.......
Cheers,
This is an extract from my post at the corporate blog, available to me. Please don't ask me for more details.
Yesterday was Feb 14, valentine’s day. Love in the air !! While I was listening to the radio, today, on my way to office, I heard lots of people, who proposed.
One thing came to my mind instantaneously, why do so many people propose on Valentine’s day only, why not, on the rest of the days, of the year.
What I feel is, a guy has waited all these days, just for the valentine’s day, to sing his heart out, but on that very day, he finds that, she is with someone else, just because that lucky guy was wise enough not to wait till valentine’s day to speak his heart out.
What do you say, valentine or anti-Valentine?
The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.
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Cheers
Honestly speaking, JAB WE MET is one of the awesome movies I have watched in recent times. The story was spot on, the location was spot on , everything about the movie was just too good.
I watched in two parts. The first part was when it was shown on a popular television channel. I was watching the movie, when my cousin turned up, to invite my family to his house warming ceremony. I had already fallen in love with the movie, but this time could not help. I had to switch off the Television, but I dont regret it.
Then the coming week, I went to Dharwad to my cousin's marriage. Now too I could not watch the second part, the thought of which was really haunting me. Finally one fine weekend, I managed to watch the second part of the movie, and mark my words, it was worth the wait.
I ve learnt some lessons from the movie. Last time, I had put up a post about lessons learnt from Dil Chahta Hai. But it was an extract instead. But this time, its my learning curve. So here it goes. (Not many though)
1. Do things which make you happy and the things which you love the most.
Recollect, Aditya (Shahid) was fond of music, but finding no time due to his schedule. But after he met Geet(Kareena) , he re-realised his interest in music. btw what an awesome song, sung by....... I assume its by the Lead Singer of Silk Route. Correct me if I am wrong.
2. Balance personal as well as professional life.
I think its very mandatory to strike a chord between the two. Else you will forget to enjoy life while you chase your dreams and aspirations or you will forget your professional aspirations.
Recollect how Shahid performs @ his peak, after he returns from Manali.
3. To speak your heart out, listen to others' worries , speak about your worries.
Recollect, how Shahid feels when he flushes out the pic of his ex-girlfriend who married someone else. Well its really important to speak out to someone, tell your concerns, and at the same time listen to others worries as well.
4. To take a break, from work and travel.
After I watched the movie, I just felt the importance of taking a break from work. You can travel or do something creative.
5. To completely own your decisions.
This is one of the most awesome things which I came across watching the movie.
Recollect what Kareena tells when they are planning to make an elope from her house. To take decisions that your heart tells, and to own them completely and later, not to blame anyone for the decision.
Well, I want to re-iterate about #1.
1. Do things which make you happy and the things which you love the most.
The thing which I love to do the most, is to crack Jokes. The jokes which I utter is completely spontaneous and has nothing to do with any sorts of preparation. Above all, I do it most, when I meet cousins. But the saddest part is my brother absolutely hates it. He once said " Do you even remember that you are a Software Engineer, and work _ _ _ _ _ ". Well dont know what to make out of it. One thing's for sure, There's no stopping me when it comes to jokes, esp POOR JOKES !!!
Cheers, bye for now !!!
Funny post, no meaning though, but after all its MY BLOG baby !!!!.
Well for the first 15 years of my life, I resided at Malleshwaram. Then on I moved to Bangalore South.
My cousin resided for many years at Jayanagar 9th Block . Now he has moved to Nelamangala since .
This time around, when I visited my cousin's place (on the occasion of house warming ceremony of his new house), I decided to have a casual chat about how he travels to his work place and how I travel to my workplace. The thing which came to light was quite surprising.
He started telling me about my house which I resided in Malleshwaram and I started telling about the house in which he resided in Jayanagar.
Guess what, incidentally he travels to his workplace everyday passing by my house @ Malleshwaram and I travel to my workplace everyday, passing his house @ Jayanagar 9th block.
Aint that supercoooool !!!!!
Phenomenal song by the 3 piece outfit called GOO GOO Dolls, from the album " Gutter Flower" .
John Reznick Rocks!!!!
Well, wondering what it is ?? Yes its almost a decade, since I last visited the Vijaya Vittala temple @ Tumkur Road, close to Nelamangala. It was in 1997, I had been there. I just loved the place. The Gitopadesham, Vishnu Avataara, everything was just spot on. Mythology at its very best.
Since then I have traveled along Tumkur Road, a lot many times, but never found the opportunity to visit the temple. Now in 2008, I revisited the temple, just to find out, nothings' changed in the past 10 years.
I had been to my cousin's place @ Nelamangala. Incidentally it was the house warming ceremony of his new house. On my way back home, I headed to the Vijaya Vittala temple. The first thing I uttered in front of the Lord was " Thanks god for keeping me alive and kicking for 10 years. " . It just came automatically. So finally the decade long wait is over. I wish I visit the temple more frequently.
