Hu Ha India, Aaja India

But eventually it is a game of cricket. - Sachin Tendulkar

Itz easy for him to say and ago ahead to throw a sunfeast biscuit at u in ur television. But what about the real billions who are in blue now ?

We all love cricket, won’t we. When the intensity fades in us, then there is media which rekindles the josh in you. We remember the few match dates like we remember our loved ones birthday. Literally the roads of Bangalore were choking at 5.00 pm when people were rushing out of their offices with only one mission, not to miss a single ball or run. Ironically Ganguly wasted more balls than the fans would have missed watching. The whole India was elevated when jayasuriya was dismissed cheaply but they feel deeply within few hours.

Yep. its just a game. We should not get disturbed. But if it just a game, then the players should not be given a demi-god status. they should not be hyped, worshipped, and elevated. they should not be in every other advertisements and every who -is who should not come and encourage the team to win the cup while they are not out there encouraging jaspal rana or anju bobby. Why the hell we didn’t bother about not winning much gold in commonwealth games or not winning at all in Olympics but cried in our pillows when india lost to srilanka. Two guys didn't die because anand lost a chess game on the same day. they died because india lost, not few individuals ....

Indian cricket fell to new low now and has to rise. Apart from blame games and sacking few who are remotely responsible, a serious thought should be given about the importance of the game itself in our lives.

Did u regret today ?

How many Ads are u thrown at every day?

I can't say a figure, but a minimum of 50 will be my guess. Say, In home - Newspaper, magazine, TV - On Road - the bill boards on either side of the road, RJ's of radio-city and In office - every website I visit have a pop-up and to top it all Google ads are there everywhere. This doesn’t include the covert advertising in the movies and the serials which we watch.

Point is not that. The point is how many bill board ads led u to open their webpage?

Till recently - none. Most often I forget them as soon as I cross the board except for real catchy ones like Fitness one which filled the city with boards having two good looking couple and lines with 'in-depth' meaning like - ”After a hard day's work, we can't wait to do it”. I was waiting to find out what those ads were for and was bit disappointed after knowing it is for a gym. But still, I didn't enroll myself to fitness - one though the ads made me smile whenever I look at them.

I hear to Radio City or Radio Indigo while riding to my office. Sadly from Jan end onwards these folks were just filling u with what u can do on every minute on ur valentine day with ur valentine. Buy this… buy that to her .. crap crap crap. They fill u too much to make u feel guilty for being alone. And then, on Feb. 13th, I saw a board on Marathahalli bridge which read, “Did u ever regret for not saying those three words?"

I was surprised to see this. The ad had that line with a link www.myregret.in below. Entire travel time to my office I was pondering over the purpose of this ad. I went to an extend of assuming it to be a Yet another Virtual social networking site for those who don't have it in real life.

The website repeated the same but this time it generalized the regretting factors and asked me to enter my regret reason and asked me to come back on 15^th for a surprise. I too entered my regret and entered my mail-id to register. Since the whole concept of valentine, partner, love vanished from radio city after feb 14^th , I forgot about this.

I remembered recently when I was regretting for some real thing. Since the site name is chosen such a way that its easy to remember, I opened and BANG, found out that it is actually an ad of kotak mutual fund!!!

Bit surprised but I liked the idea. Rightly timed with right words and made people (at least me) to visit the website. Good thinking. These ads make u smile when u remember them. One more such ad is ads based on munna and circuit. Lots of ads were created after lage raho munna bhai became a super hit. I probably enjoy them just because they remind me of the characters of the movie. But at the same time, not ads with celebrities are creative and appealing. Now-a- days I really hate ads in which multiple cricketers appear. For instance the recent Pepsi ad in which a boy runs away with a Pepsi bottle from sachin. Not sure why I hate it, but I do.

More and more innovative types of advertising need to come into existence as the advertising world matures. That leaves me with the questions. What if all of fifty ads are innovative? How many in those fifty ads have an affect/effect on you?

Not sure. But I know one thing. At least a catchy subject line (borrowed from yahoo) brought u till the end of this post!!!

Happy Valentine’s day.

A very happy Valentine’s Day for all those folks who are celebrating today.

It’s a yet another day for me. Actually these are the few days in a year I regret being single. And it is made worse thanks to radio city and television which floods you with ads on V day and makes you feel terrible. Buy this for ur valentine, buy that for ur heart, this offer, mega offer.. total crap#$#. The best of this is the ad for Mantri Home, Give ur valentine that will never go out of fashion - A Mantri Home. What the hell. Here I am struggling almost two months to get a flat in my range, people are thinking of gifting a Mantri home for Vday!!!. Grrr.

Whatever it is I am happy as of now, except for days like this where I feel little odd! mm that’s ok.Ok Guys. Happy Vday for my married friends, Engaged chaps, Guys who are in love, and those who send their photos yesterday for Pellichupulu!!!

And for Guys, who are single like me, Get back to work and apply for mindtree IPO!!!
 

17 ways to kill a sentence

Actually this is an fwd from chax. I kinda liked it .
So bringing out to an broader audience ;)

Jack and Jill climbed up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Use weak verbs:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail of water.

Use unfamiliar words:
Jack and Jill climbed up the hill to fetch a ewer of water.

Put introductory phrases at the beginning to push the subject back:
To fetch a pail of water, Jack and Jill climbed up the hill.

Keep the subject and the verb as far apart as possible:
Jack and Jill, to fetch a pail of water, climbed up the hill.

Put the action at the end of the sentence:
Jack and Jill, to fetch a pail of water, climbed up the hill.

Keep modifiers as far as possible from the words they modify:
Jack and Jill climbed to fetch a pail of water up the hill.

Use passive voice:
The hill was climbed by Jack and Jill so that a pail of water could be fetched.

Put the doer at the end of the sentence:
To fetch a pail of water, the hill was climbed by Jack and Jill.

Introduce false subjects:
It was Jack and Jill that climbed up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Pile on the gobbledygook:
Jack and Jill ascended the acclivity to retrieve a vessel of Adam's ale.

Turn verbs into nouns:
Jack and Jill did the hill climb for the purpose of water retrieval.

Use unnecessary technical jargon:
Jack and Jill traversed the gradient to fetch an alembic of H2O.

Feature inappropriate precision:
John Q. Wembley and Jillian Fitzgerald climbed 1.6093 kilometers to fetch 3.785 liters of water.
Add wordy phrases:
Jack in the company of Jill climbed their way up the hill for the purpose of fetching water in the approximate amount of a pail's full.

Multiply redundant words:
Both Jack and Jill climbed all the way up to the top of the hill's summit to fetch a pail filled to its capacity with water.

Throw in clichés indiscriminately:
Jack and Jill, who need no introduction, climbed up the hill by leaps and bounds to fetch through their good offices a pail of water by hook or by crook

String lots of nouns together to form the subject:
The Jack and Jill water retrieval hill climb was achieved.

Put all 17 together:
It was the Jack and Jill H2O retrieval in an alembic vessel that was achieved via the ascent of the acclivity up to its summit in leaps and bounds through the good offices of John Q. Wembley and Jillian Fitzgerald who need no introduction.

Dinner @ Bob's

Last Saturday we met bond. No no . Not J.Bond, this was my friend - bond. He came down from Mumbai to spend his spare time which he is getting between job shifts. (How lucky?) It was nice meeting him. Actually it was nice meeting lot of guys, some of them whom I met after a year or so even though we are living in the same city.

We went for dinner at 10.30 to a place called Bob's near indira nagar. It is a small one but quite well lit. More an eat-out than a restaurant. But the greatest part was quality. The roti and parattas were really good and so were the curry. It was almost as good as Lalita's parota in Dickenson rd, but the prices were decent enough. It is not just your main course that satisfies you but the side items too should be good. In that way Bobs was really satisfactory because of buttermilk. I never had one like that before. Even the guys who usually never have buttermilk had two glasses of them.

Not sure what is the specialty there as we went at 10.30 and not much option we had, but with that limited exp, I am very satisfied with Bobs'. Do drop there to check out yourself. It is off Indranagar 80 feet road, you need to take left from the road which leads to jeevan bhima nagar.
 

My Hyd Trip

Last weekend I was in Hyderabad for my friend's wedding. It was on thursday night so i was forced to go by air so that i can save one day of leave. Not sure why these andhra people keep marriages in night! . Nevertheless we started on Thursday evening spicejet to Hyd. Met my old buddies in the marriage. It is really nice to meet ur old friends. And my friend had arranged a qualis and guest room for two of us. Otherwise we would have struggled that night.



Actually when I boarded that flight I was not sure of two things. 1. What gift our group will be able to giving to our friend. 2. What will I be doing in hyd for next two days? This was my most unplanned trip as till the last moment I was busy with work and got free only on the last day.

But it turned out to be the most happening / fun filled trip thanx to my friends Sco P , vishnu, rp and babai who took care of my stay in Hyd.

We went to snowworld, had Hyderabad darsan at midnight which included charminar to IT corridor of Hyd, first day - first show of salame-e-ishq in prasad's IMax, XBOX Gaming and loads of fun. All in two days. I was real fun .



Hyderabad was nice in some sense. First, roads are wider in the IT corridor. That means, the roads which are newly constructed are 3 to 6 lanes on either side which means even in future, the traffic flow is taken care. But Bangalore outer ring road already sucks.

Second : the way airport is organized and amenities. It was a mess when i boarded spicejet from blr and I felt very happy to see some space for myself in hyd airport .

third: we went to chai shop in charminar and had irani chai, roti – curry at 2.00 AM. Wow! amazing chai. Actually hyd has lot of good chai shops. I miss that life in bangalore. May be i am unaware of such places in bangalore.

But there is one thing we must know. Bangalore roads may be bad but Bangalore traffic is more sensible and more organized than Hyds :)

When the flight took off I was a bit heavy hearted that the vacation and the fun was over, but when I landed I was feeling fine to be back to home.
 

Bye Bye GrandMa

Give me a reason to believe that you're gone
I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay
They took you away from me but ...

It was a bright Tuesday morning when I stepped out of my train in Salem to board a bus to my native village, Vellur. It’s my Grandmother’s village where major part of my mid-school summer vacations was spent. The first time I went to that village was when I was four and for my grandfathers funeral. Due to some Family infighting, I was never there and I never saw any of them till then. I was told that while performing some ritual of dropping some flowers and rice over the Grandfathers dead body and I was screaming when I was taken around him.

This time I went for my grandmother’s funeral and I am sure this will be my last visit to that village. Definitely I was not screaming nor was I crying outside, yet some sort of sadness taken in to me. I am still in that state.

KMS Rajammal is the most affectionate and sweetest person I have ever seen. There are people who love you and you love some, but she is one person who shows affection to everyone. As far as I can remember, at any point of time, there will always be some outsider sitting and talking to the inmates as if they are one of them. "samii, kannu, vada eppada vende .." is the words I keep hearing from her whenever someone enters the house. She loved every one and all were very close to her. And these words were ringing inside my ears when I was doing my share of rituals over her dead body...

She really meant much more to me. She is the only relative in whose presence I was always absolutely comfort. I am never myself when I am with my relatives except for her. I still remember the days in my childhood when I got chicken pox, the care she and the other elders showed it to me. Will I ever get something like that again? I bet, never.

And she always stood by her grandchildren. I still remember the day when my father beat me for the last time. It was my 9th std winter holidays and I made a grave mistake in his eyes and as usual I felt I was right. I am sure any body in my situation would have done that. After getting exhausted from arguments and beatings from my father, I was crying in my bed, I felt the caring hands of her on my head. She pulled me out of my bed and was consoling me. I was defending myself saying I was right and even others were doing the same and my defense stopped there as I had nothing more to say. After I stopped crying, she looked into my eyes and said softly - “why do you think you are right just because u are doing what others are doing? Why do you think what you really wanted to do was wrong just because you will be the only guy doing that“. I had no answer that time. But these words got locked up in my heart till date, and influence my decisions. I definitely miss her, but she has given me what I needed to live alone.

This is not exactly and Eulogy or an ode to her. I came back to Bangalore this morning hoping that the last two days effect will vanish but it didn't. So in order to lighten up myself before starting my work, I decided to pour out my feelings to the one place I have in the recent past.

Ironically, today is my birthday and I am no mood to celebrate that. When people ring up and greet me, I don't want to show that I am down. Actually I am not exactly sad nor in the mood for celebration but in a vague feeling between them which according to my friend PV is called smashana vairagya!!!

Hope I will get over this soon. Any way…

Bye Bye grandmother. I will definitely miss you
in my good times and my bad times ...

Wondering what’s happening to me ??

Last few days/weeks /months have been really hectic. Loads of work with concrete deliverables is anyone’s nightmare and that’s what exactly I was going thru. Linux release is solely on me and considerable work on windows domain too along with a junk COO work, I clearly lost my work –life balance. Though I was realizing something was missing, only a few hrs back I realized what I was missing. I just stopped having a personal life. ? Believe me. I really stopped having that!

So what happened in my life since my last post?

1. Wanted to write a post on my diwali trip. My experiences in Shadapti first class and how I got the ticket.


2. Wanted to write a post on the first anniversary/birthday (?) of my dear bike. It really deserves a special post for that. I almost opened my blogger on that day, except that my boss sent a mail which required immediate attention. Sorry sweetie, I will surely write about you and put more photos. Wondering how my life would have been without you? Ps: My bike is also a male bike (Unicorn ;) ) and it is still virgin :( whereas some of my friends who bought some not-so-male-looking bikes(Yamaha’s) got Lucky. (He is enjoying in US now) .


3. Missed some of my good friends’ birthday. This is so unlikely of me. What the hell? I used to remind others reg my friend’s birthday and now I forgot some of my close friends birthday. What a shame, I really feel bad. Not just that, I didn’t eve n call some of them still ;( . I missed jrk’s , sivankar’s birthdays. I managed to wish them properly for last 5 years. I missed my elder sister’s birthday. OMG she will never forgive me. Somehow managed to give a belated wishes to my sister-in law. She was considerate enough in not killing me on that. I also missed my friend’s wedding day. Sorry lingu.

4. My brother got a daughter a month back and I am yet to see her. Hopefully I will see her in January. Wondering whether I can call her - my niece or is it only for sister’s daughter?


5. My granny fell sick. She was hospitalized and recovered, yet not in a healthy state. I want to meet her asap, but I can’t go alone to that place as I am not very close to my relatives. Wanted my mom to come there and the sync between our leave is failing.


6. I am hardly mailing in platform9 and never opened Orkut. If anyone has pronounced my death there, it would have been confirmed by now and they will be having my anniversary. Need to start again on that and more importantly, I need to start sending normal mails to p9 other than financial mails!!!


7. Eye on I: This one needs to be told in a separate post and I will definitely put one(how many promises I made till now in this post? Please don’t count). I joined the sai alumini- sevice activities and participating in them. Apart from organizing EyeonI, I even managed to organize the fund collection from our groups and doing them regularly. If it continues, planning to help other batches to do the same. Hopefully it works. At least I can get rid of some guilt that I am not doing anything for the society.

8. I am becoming fatter and getting balder. And the rate in which its happening is really high. Esp the hairfall. Actually till now I was having broad forehead, but now I am officially bald L. God save the world and my hair.


9. I bought a new mobile .Nokia N72. Not so great, yet manageable. Actually I was eyeing motorolla v3i , but I was told it needs to be handled delicately. Not my area.

That’s it I guess. Not able to think further. I need to post one today as I got a mail from a friend to update my blog. So did it.

Godavari

Godavari - It’s a beautiful feeling. After a long period, I saw a good movie, a movie which makes you happy for watching it, and after watching it. I just sat there and I really lost myself to it.

The story, the screenplay, the music, the dialogs, the actors, the camera, the boat, the river - everything is beautiful and sweet. Everything.

I am not going to tell the story. This is not a spoiler as, personally, I hate to listen to a story before I watch a movie. All I want to say is it is a great movie and every one who like good movies should watch it and it deserves a special recognition and a separate post from me ;)

Few things I liked in the movie (not in the order of my liking)

1. Location and Camera - the Cinematographer must be a highly talented guy to show a normal boat and plain river to look that good.

2. Animated characters: Amazing. Just too good. They come only for short period, yet in right places and make your life lighter. I especially liked the dialogs of the dog. Heard that it was voiced by the director. In a scene, a boy (whom the dog calls master) feeds a dosa and the dog says, “u r not a human, master - a Dog ,err sorry, a God!”. “I will be with you always, at the time of needy, (+ something)” Then to itself: “did I promise extra?? Hey leave it, lets see when time comes (something like that)”. The original telugu dialog is really fun to hear. I also liked the conversation between our dog and another well – breed Dog. And the exchanges between parrot and our dog. Really cool ones.

3. Dialogs (of humans ;) ). :: Short n sweet.

4. The expressions of the heroin (Kamalinee Mukherjee,) - cute

Apart from this, the movie has neither vulgar language or A-rated jokes nor obscene scenes. Not that I don't like them ;), yet nice to see a movie without them. Till now, this directer -Sekhar Kammula's previous movie ANAND was my all time favorite. My opinion is set to change.

Overall a good, decent, sweet and a must movie.

Thinnama, padukunama, thelarinda

I spent my weekend keeping the above line as motto. This line is from Pokiri, a telugu movie where a police officer comments on the general attitude of public. In fact, I can add to say Thinnama, chusama, padukunama, thelarinda - to be more apt.

Thinnama

Friday night:: 10.45 PM. After a busy meeting reg an upcoming program(some serious stuff), me and sriram are busy eating onion dosa, chitrannam, and one more type of dosa(does name matter?) + some juices in the kana bazaar somewhere in lalbagh area. We came to know such a road existed in Bangalore only that night as the rest of so-called decent hotels refused to allow us ‘that’ late in the night. The food was great compared to any good hotel except that u need to stand and eat which is definitely not an issue for me ;)

(Chusama ) Padukunama:

Reached home at 12.30 night and bhasa was wide awake surprisingly. So we decided to watch a movie, name of which I am unable to recollect! But I ended up sleeping around 3.30 ;)

Thelarinda:

So Saturday begin before even I slept for Friday!. Got up at 9.00 with a slight headache. Started my day with the only comforting fact that I got up before Bhasa. After breakfast, incidentally which was a version of Upma, experimented by myself, which includes successful convincing of bhasa to eat that, I settled for a movie. The movie is Godavari(telugu). Ha, one sweet movie. It deserves a separate post, so nothing here ;). mm .Then the gang(Sri, pv, chax, me , bhasa , kv, and babai) met at Bhagini for lunch, which was followed by some discussions on ‘Eye on I’.

Thinnama

Jaya joined us at out home at 6.00 and after some veti -veti talks, we decided to go for dinner at Golkonda chimney (treat from babai). Filled my stomach with some proteins ;) and tried hookah for the first time and returned home at 11.30 after a brief 45 minutes stop at corner house for a light dessert ;) .

(Chusama ) Padukunama:

I was desperate to watch OMKARA as I missed it in theater. Actually I was not very much interested when the movie was released, but later, after the feedback from my colleague was so good that I borrowed a original DVD(slight correction here- it is Piriginal) . So again a bit of convincing worked to get the majority to watch this movie. Yahoo!! , Movie show started at 12.00 and after regular breaks (thanks to sagar) , slept around 3.00.

Thelarinda.

Sunday morning. Sunday usual breakfast of bun+ butter + puff with tea satisfied my stomach. Thanks to kv, who forced me to go out for shopping to marathahalli. Few purchases and back home, so that we can cook before the match will start.

Thinnama :

Sorry, the ‘we’ includes only KV as he is the chef and the others in ‘we’s – PV and bhasa helped him and the last of ‘we’- myself, just coordinated the event ;)

Chusama – watched the match till the end(till mandira said bye) . The day ended when I slept at 10.30 after a simple dinner at near by Bengali mess.

I am sure god won’t be this gracious on me ever. The point is I decided to stay at home this weekend as my computer at office witnessed me working late in the nights last week and I decided to give myself a much deserved rest. Yet, in spite of staying most part of the time at home, I was tired on Monday morning.

How Can

How can it be you're asking me to feel
the things you never show

Usually I won’t hear unknown / not previously heard songs when I am down or bothered.

Last Couple of days, I was bothered inside. It is usual for me to get troubled from inside, and during this time, I will go alone (literally) and do some analysis and introspection and eventually will try to change myself. This is a casual style of mine which was annoying my friends during my college days and they used to ask me reasons for my sudden silence or disappearance. But as months passed, they got used to it, I believe, for they stopped bothering me in such times, even though they recognize I am going thru something.

Currently I am in one such mood. It is kinda complex and a closer to heart situation involving people who matter in my life. But for the first time in my life, I am convinced that its not my fault and I should continue as I am. It is a great improvement in my life, for I always convince myself that it must be my fault. I always try to adjust to situations where all are comfortable. If I am in an argument, I always go an extra mile to see other person’s point of view and go extra extra mile to understand why the other person is making a mistake and try to justify his/her stand. But Now-a-days, I am changing. And I know it for sure.

One more aspect is my anger management. I usually won’t get angry or upset with someone as easily as I get with myself ;) But I do get angry at times and usually I get tongue-tied when angry and I will still be angry till the other person calms down. Also I usually try to reason out with the other person and convince him or her that the whole thing was just his or her mistake, if I believe that’s the case. But this fully exercise would have zapped me out and I will be mentally totally disturbed and my work-life balance would have gone for a task, that I will end of spending sometime alone to get composed. Also my first instinct will be to sever ties or maintain distance with someone when I am upset with them. I am improving in this aspect too. I stopped being emotional when angry and trying hard to be insensitive if a person makes mistake knowingly. But looks like this is a quality of Sagittarians and I need to live with it. :(

Oh, why this post? I wanted to tell this. Usually I won’t hear unknown / not previously heard songs when I am down or bothered. This is one aspect of mine where I need to change. There are few songs which I love to hear when I am down. BackStreetBoy’s ‘Show me the meaning’ is one such. This time after hearing the song B2B 8 times, I went crazy enough to hear this particular line repeatedly. With concise wordings, it meant more than what it was intended. So thought of posting /pasting them :)

G-Sheets

Past couple of days, all I am doing is maintaining spreadsheets.

In my office, the Linux work which I was doing went to QE and they found enough bugs. It’s a buggy life after all! My manger, before going on his vacation, told me to coordinate the fixes and delivering the fixed build to QE. From then on, I am coordinating with excel, :) with lot of color schemes, remarks, corrections, blah blah blah ..

On the other hand, p9 too needed some attention from me. Sri was telling me his idea about collective fund rising. But his initial idea of asking people to fill in exact-committed amount and getting them regularly didn't appeal to me much. So I proposed an alternative where a GSheet will be sent to the group every month and every one will fill in their contributions for that month. Since I proposed, I did that GSheet work.

GSheet is Google spreadsheet. Its pretty cool and very useful if you want to share among friends or groups so that multiple people can update simultaneously. Whereas an attached excel sheet fails if the group needs to update them simultaneously.

Also the sharing options are good. We can allow some people to edit and some people to read only. We can always pull back the options.

I kinda like the GSheets . Guess it is pretty useful if you want to keep some accounting information online.

Ofcourse it is Google ;)

Yahoo Beta!!!

I had heard about this from my friend. I wanted to get one but heard that it is only thru invitation. ! I was curious to know how yahoo is going to improvise its mail in order to beat gmail. There is no doubt that yahoo is the leader in that space, yet google is google;) . So I was desperately waiting to try yahoo beta. Then I saw it in techspot.


So do the following if you want to upgrade your yahoo!!! It worked for me and it may work for you too, though I saw some comments that it doesn't work for few. :(

1. Log in to your yahoo mail account
2. on the top left, besides "mail" button, there is one down arrow, click there..
3. Go to "option"
4. on the left panel, click on account information...
5. Click on "edit" under membership information
6. In the first panel, u will find "Preferred Content", click on it.
7. Select "English-United Kingdom"
8. Save changes
9. Go back to your mail window...
10., Now keep this window open, and in a new window, open www.mail.yahoo.com, and login...u'll get an invitation to join "yahoo mail beta version"!!!!

Looks good n cool. Similar to local web client (what we use in office) with scrollable inbox and other stuffs.
I am finding it bit slow when it loads (unlike yahoo!!!) but it is fine after sometime (ajaxified??)
Yet to use it properly, but first impression is good, though not that exiting!!!

Also not sure how many know abt this.
Click on ! of Yahoo! [www.yahoo.com] top left corner :)
Don't forget to keep your speakers on!!!

Yahoo Rocks!!!

Getting COO -ed

Not sure what coo-ed means (is there a word like that?) Too drained to google for that.
Past one week, I am doing a junk, boring and important work. On the day, when I joined back my office after a week's fever, my manager greets me with the info that there is a boring job waiting for me :). I knew it was coming, but didn't really want it.
Basically the work is this. The release for which I was working (Linux release) needs the Certificate Of Originality (COO). Guess every s/w produced will have this. So what is this COO ? COO tells that that particular software is our own original product and we list all the borrowed and bought codes and their licenses. That means, I need to sit and find out what are the third party softwares we are using, names of the individuals whose copyrighted files we are using, open source files, blah blah blah ....
Believe me, it is painful, pitiful, unrewarding, dangerous and an important work. Dangerous and imp because incase I make a mistake in finding out the complete info , say I miss out the info that we are using another company’s library or code and if found later, it will cost my job. Also the probability of that company suing mine is also there. So I need to find these info and we need to put these copyright info in the license doc or copyright info. That’s legal dept's headache. My job is reporting those company info and where we are using in our code and why???


I worked even on weekend and from Sunday, I am working late till 12.00 in the night.
Finally it is over and has to answer few more questions to the manager in US.
Phew......
For few days I forgot that I am a s/w engg :)

Wondering I can ever do a manager’s job. I mean non - technical work and which involves a lot of paper work!!!.

--saka

ADding Sense or ADding nonSense ?

Finally I too added nonsense to my blog. Nope, I am not talking abt my posts...

I am talking about AdSense. Google’s premier innovation, which is fast catching up among bloggers, caught me too. So I enrolled for it and added adSense code into my blog .

Two things I managed to do.

1. Google search bar, which is not aligned properly and not working at least on my firefox.

2. Advertisements at the end of the blog . From the time I added, only bharat matrimony ad is getting displayed. !! Is god sending me some msgs (or rather atleast google is doing)...

Ok. Lemme see how much I will earn ;) . My dear folks,do visit bharat matrimony or whatever is getting displayed, whenever u remember saka!!

Hail Google!! Hail AdSense...

My Life :: Post 9/3

Sunday 03/09 : 13:15 ::::: 98.6
Sunday 03/09 : 17:15 ::::: 99.6
Sunday 03/09 : 19:15 ::::: 103
Monday 04/09 : 09:30 ::::: 104
Monday 04/09 : 12:30 ::::: 104
Monday 04/09 : 17:30 ::::: 102
Monday 04/09 : 20:30 ::::: 103
Tuesday 05/09 : 09:30 ::::: 102
Tuesday 05/09 : 12:30 ::::: 100
Tuesday 05/09 : 15:30 ::::: 100
Tuesday 05/09 : 19:30 ::::: 100

These are not bus numbers or chart of a market value of a share.
These are my temperatures when I feel sick.
Yep, this week, my body temp touched 52 week high, (all time high, I guess, at least as far as I remember). Sunday afternoon, after having lunch in sagar's new home, I started experiencing wrist pain. I had plans of roaming in Indranagar that evening to buy a gift for my sis birthday, but all I managed to do was sleep on my bed and the fever caught me. Treated for chikun gunya in the local hospital and I was hardly recovering. Even on Wednesday, my stomach refused to accept anything solid, and promptly throws up even horlicks. That’s it. I decided to go to Chennai at any cost. And I did pay a heavy price, for the taxi to majestic ;) and a tatkal c/c ticket (which is usual).

The rest of the week, all I did was resting, resting and resting. And this resting process was broken occasionally to have juices, soups and idles... Wow. I really enjoyed. If not for my manager, I would have extended my 8 days leave, but, u know... I am always duty conscious!!!

Now I am back to take up my responsibilities in Bangalore, yet feeling home sick ;)

Got to gear up....

Ganesh Chathurthi

It is a big festival for all of us. But this year vinayaka chathurthi (as called in TN) is more special for me, for I am attending one after 10 years. Last time I was in home for this festival when I was in my 11th std ;) . So this time I was all geared up. With some escalations which popped up at last minute showed signs of my trip getting cancelled, I still managed to go, in spite of reaching the bus stand 15 late !!!. The festival was more filling than in one way. Three or four types of chundals, a lot of fruits, pori, kollukattai's... O my god... I never ate like that in the recent past. Suddenly I started longing to be in Chennai. Truely. All of a sudden I feel that being with family is also good, I mean.. Feels good. Took Monday off, spent some time with my sis, saw some movies , gave some serious gyan to parents to take care of their health. And had some real good quality sleep ;)

Basically, had a good time at home :)

--saka

Sudden Dullness.

Suddenly the world looked dull today.
All the people around me looked dull, hazy, as if they are unsure about something.
The vehicles in the road were going in a chaotic manner and the drivers are surprised with the sudden appearance of the vehicle. In office, the manager looked strangely as if someone didn’t reciprocate a smile when he expected. The monitor looks dull, the program crashes dumbly. The same chapathai kurma looks different, even though it tastes the same junk. I can keep going on like that …


How many times have you experienced this?
I do every two months.
Whenever I break my specs.

Going colorful..

The Blogger .com is in the process of upgradation. This morning I logged in to report the happenings of the last weekend and hardly knew I was in for surprise.

A beta version of the blogger is ready and I was asked the option of moving ahead.
For which of course, I will always be ready!!!.

Any case, here I am, typing my post, after successfully migrating to the beta version.

Lot of good things is in store. The look and feel has improved evidently, as the Dashboard looks different and definitely betterJ. Font color options, new and better layouts make it kinda cool. Best thing is u can upgrade ur existing theme without any hassle. Label is a new option provided by default, apart couple of other new things to put it on ur blog page. Another good thing is improved access control to have private blogs!!! . I definitely need one.

You need a gmail account to port urself to this beta version and eventually to the new blogger (I believe) and hereon ur gmail account will be ur login.
As such really happy about it and it really looks cool and atleast some change in my life ;). So decided to put a small post on that...

Google rocks!!!!

Tax Return

I successfully filled my tax returns today. :) I know, it will be kind of shocking to u folks that the saka, who does things wrt his to-do list, slipped away from his tax returns date. Sorry folks, No I was on my schedule. Actually my previous employers failed to send my Form16 on time. I got my form 16 only on Monday!!! And managed to file it by today!!!!

Since I have nothing to pay or nothing to get back, I can file anytime before March 31^st and so I am quite on time :) !!!