Bored at work?

Here is the solution given by my colleague.

You got bored while working and want a quick relaxation with an entertainment.
No need to open orkut. No need to open youtube or what ever.
Just look at the faces of other people around you. and look at their expressions. It will be so funny. :) and so you will be relaxed. :)

Seems like today is all bad news day

Came across this link
and I actually started SIP and ULIP in 2006. :((

The most funniest/embarassing event happened today

I was chatting in parallel with my manager and another friend. During this, I typed a message to my manager thinking it is my friend's window. :((
It was in Telugu.

He couldn't understand even a single bit and he said "That's horrible.".

:(( :(( I don't know why I did this. :((

IITs soon may become other normal Govt colleges

came across this link recently. Really, it is a great job by government. Sooner, IITs become at par with other colleges (may be much less than that) and loose their value for sure.

Hurray!!!

Recently, when I went to metro. The security person at the entrance stopped me and said "Under 18 are not allowed". :))

I was so happy given people during marriage functions assuming me as a married girl with a kid.

No Smoking in public places: will it be strictly followed?

This news says, smoking is completely banned in workplaces. And, if some one violate this, the owner, proprietor, manager will be fined.

Now, coming to the reality, I remember seeing a "No Smoking" board in a BMTC bus where the driver was smoking. :))Now, whom should we report?

Again, when I went to a movie theatre in my home town. It was written at the outside of theater that "Smoking is prohibited inside theater and some other conditions". It was written by the town police and also said, if some one violates, they will be fined.
These people(Police) are very clever. They have written these rules but didn't give any contact number on which we can complain. So, when we went inside the theater, people were happily smoking and we had to bear that. :(

Plain Dosa Vs Sada Dosa

Yesterday, I went to a hotel in Bangalore and was giving my order. I said "One Sada Dosa". He promptly replied in Kannada saying "No. we don't have sada dosa. We have plain dosa, masala dosa, set dosa". :))

Google Aap ki bhasha mein

Google launched translator for Indian local languages(right now only for Hindi). You can check it out at
http://www.google.com/translate_t
It is simply awesome.

On lighter note, when I tried to use this over my blog, I found it funny. :)

Below was the conversation between my cousins. One has just finished his 2nd std and another finished his 10th std.

10th Std Cousin: ee roju chatrapati movie. but, nuvvu already chusesavu kada? (Today movie "Chatrapati" is showing in one of the channels. But, you watched it already. isn't it?

2nd Std Cousin: aa. Kani, nenu marchipoyintanu kada. (Ya. But, I might have forgotten right.)


Another conversation:
We all thought of going for a movie. So, I want to find out the timings for the show. So, I asked my 2nd std cousin who is a movie addict regarding show timings. So, my father had asked this boy "You frequently watch movies in theater right?". So, for this, this kid replies "Ledu. ippudu manesa. (No. I left it now.)".

Fruit Salad

Recipe:
Is there any need to tell? ;)

my photography

Few more songs added to my favorite list

Taare Zameen Par title song
Jhoke hawa ka aaj bhi from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

The Mistaken Identity

Scene -1:
There was a book exhibition in my office and my friend and I were browsing thru the books and I had few CDs in my hand. Then, one lady whom I knew came and asked me if there is any discount. I said "Yeah. it is 22% over books and 10% over CDs". There was another girl a little far from us and was listening to this. And now she repeated the same question to me. Though I don't know her, I replied her with the information that I knew about the discounts. Here one thing that should be noted is we were standing in one side of the table where books were displayed and these two girls were standing the other side.

We were still browsing thru the books. And the unknown lady who repeated the question came back to me with a Harry Potter book and asked me "Excuse me, what is the price of this book?".!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scene -2: I had gone to my cousin's marriage recently and was talking to one of my relative. There was another lady who was sitting beside her and observing me for a while. There was a kid of 5-6yrs just beside me. During a discussion, that lady who was sitting with my relative asked me whether that kid is my son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky- Our cute little warden of our home

Our cute lucky used to see both my brother and I going together to office and then coming home together. Some times, if one of us gets late and other reaches early, my sweet lucky asks where is other person just after one of us enter into the home. One day, it happened that I got late and my brother had to leave early, she didn't let my brother saying "Pinni also come with you. Don't go".

Today, I was getting ready to catch office shuttle and as usual I was in hurry during last moments. She was playing something and asked me to help for that. I said "Sorry dear. I am getting late to office". The next question she asked me is "Breakfast?". I said "No Dear. I will have it in office". Then she asks "How about Mama(my brother)?". Her question is whether even my brother also takes breakfast at office or what?.
I always tell my sister that we should start a PG for girls and your daughter is a perfect fit for managing it. :)

Moral of the story:
You forget all your sorrows when you speak to a child for a while. Even if you are mood off, you will be alright after looking at them.

Friday was forgetting day and monday?

It happened that, on Friday, when I got into office shuttle, I remembered n number of things which I forgot to take along with me. That too, I started realizing it one by one.

Now, Today, when I entered into the office, my office id card thread got split into two. I thought that is ok. Now, while coming down from stairs, I realized that my sandal too got broken. :( So, what Monday is called?

Amway

Just to clarify, I am not talking anything against or favor of Amway. :)

Scene-1:
Location: Bangalore
Few weeks back, one of my friend went to landmark in forum and was searching for some books. He saw another person who was also searching for some books. After a while, the other person started talking to my friend. After a while, the person asked my friend to give his contact number. My friend realized that this guy is from Amway and asked him directly whether he is from Amway. The guy didn't tell the truth but my friend understood that he is from Amway. :)

Scene-2:
Location: A village near my hometown
I met my father's friend who is very talkative. He was so much talkative that he will find some topic or the other and discuss on that. He says "I can't live without talking to others and smile at them when I realize that they are from our place".
He was talking about his visits to US where he figured out that young people try to avoid talking. He says "The foreigners smile at you and wish you but the people whom from their features you can recognize that they are from India, they try to avoid even smile when the other person smiles.". He continues "What is wrong with smiling? It costs nothing. Just because you smiled at me, I won't come to your home right?". He was discussing the same with his daughter-in-law and asked "Why our people in US don't talk nor even smile when we try to talk to them or smile at them?" She said "Uncle, here, if some one initiates the discussion then the other people think they are Amway agents"!!!!
I couldn't control my laugh when he said this and was continuously laughing after that. :)

Two more songs added to my favorite list

1. "ye ishq hain" from "Jab We Met"- A little fast beat song. Shreya Goshal sung with full enthusiasm and the music is also well composed. After watching movie, you will like it more for sure.
2. "Katrin Mozhiye" from "Mozhi" -a Tamil movie. I don't know about the meaning of this song but it is nice to hear and even for watching. It start slowly and then at some point it goes a little fast at a little high pitch and then comes down. And I love it more at that point and also love those simple steps that they do in the middle of song.
Video is here:

Things to make sure when you are leaving a company

Make sure you get your final settlement and most important is Income tax computation sheet or Form-16 from your previous company. Otherwise, it is slightly painful.

I feel my writing skills are becoming worse day by day :(

As per Eliza's order/request :)

It is been long time that I didn't write anything on my blog. So, I thought I should write something to just confirm that I am still alive. :)
Reasons for not writing might be:
1. I am too busy in some other works (preparing a video on my niece, too busy writing so many status updates :) )
2. I am lazy.
3. I was far from internet for a while.
4. Didn't get good topic or interesting topic to write.
5. Routine life made me bore to write same routine stuff.
6. I forgot my intention of starting this blog.

So, just to be back in form. I thought, I will write about "Taare Zameen Par" that every one giving good rating. But I still didn't watch this movie.

I thought I will write about the recent cricket match between Australia and India. I know that it is bad game played by Australian team and the umpires. But then I remember the quote "jo jeeta wahi sikhandar". But isn't it the approach to win the game should be given higher priority? Every one knows that umpires showed favor to Australia and Australian team were very much desperate to have the world record and so went thru all possible (wrong) ways to win the game. If a person found guilty in doping in Olympics, the award will be taken out from the person.So, won't that be applied here and nullify their win?

Quote of the day

Doing good to a person who does not do good to you is difficult but not impossible. :)

Tiruvannamalai Temple

Random Thoughts - i++

Life is so unpredictable. You think something, something else happens. You think things are going fine. Suddenly you see there is some change. You start satisfying with something then suddenly some big boon come near to you.

There is another reason behind sadness is when you fail to achieve what you have targeted for. Then, in order to avoid it, then we shouldn't have any targets. if there is no such target then we can't reach higher positions?
Thinking whether setting up goals comes when you start comparing yourself with others? I think yes. Then there is only one reason for sadness is that when you start comparing yourself with others. :)

I don't know. Seems I am thinking more. :)

Quote of the day

Sadness comes to one's life only when the person start comparing himself/herself with others.

Though it is the good old one. But it is so true.

using tab as field separator while using sort command in bash shell

It was some what strange to me when I experienced that tab as field separator is not supported (not exactly supported. but didn't make it easy to use) in sort command in bash shell. Probably it depends on sort version. But, some how it didn't work in my machine.

The error that I got when I included tab as field separator is:
sort: multi-character tab '\t'

So, after doing search over the above error,here is one of the solutions that worked for me:
TAB=$(printf "\t")
and then using sort -t "$TAB".
For ex:
sort -t "$TAB" -k2,2 -n entries.txt

Tuna Sandwich - A veggie?

I went to attend a conference recently where I asked the serving person whether there is any vegetarian item available there. Here is the conversation that went on.
Serving Person: You have aloo salad to eat.
Me: Is there anything else to eat?
Serving Person: You have Tuna Sandwich which is a vegitarian.
Me: Are you sure? Does it contain meat?
Serving Person: No. It doesn't contain meat.
Me: Does it contain Egg?
Serving Person: Probably it may contain but no meat for sure.
So, I grabbed a Tuna Sandwich to eat and while I was about to eat, I saw a pure vegetarian person sitting beside me. I asked him whether he is not having this sandwich. Then he said it contains fish. So, the other lady who was sitting with us said "here, they don't consider fish as meat"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny.. :))
Moral of the story: Don't assume that non-veg item means meat. You should explicitly ask the serving people whether it contains fish, meat or what not!!!!

Gmail limits forward filters

I had created some filters in my gmail which forwards mails to different accounts internally. Now, today, while I was creating a filter to forward it to some specific account, I got the below error
"Could not create a filter. Too many forward addresses" :)

The limit that google allowing is only 21. I am wondering about this magic number? why 21??

worse politics

When I went to my home town this time, I heard that there were orders came from the government saying that the homes which are on the road have to demolish part of theirs in the plan of expanding roads and it was also said that if the owners of the home/shops demolish then the amount of destruction or loss of property is less than the amount or loss if the government do. Initially, I thought, it is the mistake of the owners who occupied the public property. But I heard that it was not the case but no one has argued over it.

At the same time, politicians have filled their pockets very well with the money from big people who bribed them for not demolishing their buildings. So, all those poor fellows who couldn't give enough money had to demolish their buildings and rich people left happily. How sad it is. Why such kind of differences. Who will bring this issue to the top authority. Media/News Paper?
No. I doubt it. As, I can see a lot of news channels or papers are biased to one or other political party. Every politician or a celebrity started their own channel/paper and started broadcasting about any news favor to them.

Other news that made me feel sad was using cast ism as a weapon in politics to grow faster. Few examples that gave in paper were Morarji Desai and Chiranjeevi.

For all the above information, I don't know whether it is true or not. These are just my thoughts and felt as the reasons for India not growing fast.

Random thoughts

Things are so unpredictable in day to day life. You think, things are going fine but at some fine day, it gets drastically changed. some times, you think you try to compromise with the things you have, but some sudden boon come near to you. Life is so unpredictable.

People curse bad people when they are alive but consider them as good and show sympathy when they die.
People don't accept few things when a person who is alive wish for. But, they may accept when they see the person is no more.

This is how a typical human being thoughts goes.

some how I disagree on this fwded message

Hii.............38% of doctors in USA are INDIANS. 12% scientists in USA are INDIANS. 36% of NASA scientists are INDIANS. 34% of microsoft employees are INDIANS. 17% of INTEL employees are INDIANS. 28% of IBM employees are INDIANS. INDIA is great but indians are not .If all of these brainfull fools had worked for india we would have raced USA in days............. Fwd this to the youth of INDIA. Plz don't think it's waste of time. BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN



I got the above forwarded message. I some how couldn't agree with such statement though I am not interested in moving to US.

confidence+bicycle riding = two wheeler driving

I am learning two wheeler and found that if we know how to ride bicycle and have self confidence, it is very easy to learn. I was able to drive alone without any support on the first day in few minutes. :)

CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

Found it from here.
Will update more on this soon:
Few words that touched me are:
1. Wait long enough to find good in people:
wait long enough, people will surprise and impress you.. if u r pissed off and get angry, it means u didn't give enough time.
2. When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.
3. (If I got correctly)Let give freedom to children to write on their room walls which improves their creativity. Don't worry about resale value.

There are no words coming out of my mouth after listening his talk and reading the blog, except some sad feeling that how much we are loosing in our life.

Shame politicians and Shame rioters

Some how, I didn't like the statements made by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidh over existence of God Rama. One shouldn't have hurt other religion statements just because you have freedom to speak. Who is he to say about existence of Rama? What the hell happened to him. He just want to say some statement and outrage people to do more riots or what.
Finally, at the end, it is the innocent people who are loosing their lives because of these stupid politicians' nonsense talk.

I don't understand why the hell they brought the issue of existence of Rama just to start a project. If there is any advantage that you are achieving because of building a bridge, you should focus more on that and convince people by letting them know the advantages and the problems that can get rid of because of the bridge. Rather, these useless politicians adding religion color to it(by trying to prove the non-existence of God Rama) and so letting more racism.


Some of his own words:
Condemning the attack on his daughter’s house in Bangalore, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said this act has proved “Ram devotees’ culture.”

“By this act, Ram's devotees have proved their culture. What is wrong with my comment on Ram?” he said.

-----
Really sick. Irrespective of which ever religion you are, you should never condemn other religion. If some one says something wrong about Christianity, I oppose that too.
It is the shameless rioters who took lives of two people. But, the source is the nonsense statements made by M.Karunanidhi. So, both rioters and M.Karunanidhi (because of his nonsense statements) are responsible for this.

King Fisher Airlines

I missed my flight to Bangalore recently due to traffic jam in the other place. I had been informed by the people there that it takes 1/2 hour to reach report but it had happened that it took 1 1/2 hour to reach the airport because of traffic jam and the airlines people refused to give the ticket for the flight which is going to start in 10 minutes. But, they told that if I want, they can book the ticket for the next flight which is going to start after 3 hours. As something is better than nothing, I accepted that one. I liked the way kingfisher airlines care their customers. The person would have just rejected rather saying sorry to me that he can't help in this situation but can book ticket for the next scheduled flight.

Conclusions from the story are:
1. The chant behind success is good customer care.
2. Traffic jam is there in every big cities. Just don't think that it is only in Bangalore. :)

PS: Once, I went to airport 2 hours early, then the flight was delayed by 2 hours. This time, I missed the flight because, I reached late and so had to wait for 3 hours. Coincidence is that, in both cases, it was kingfisher airlines. :)

I love this song

Aankhon mein Sapna, Sapnoin mein Aasha.. Aasha hain jindagi.. Aasha hain jindagi.

Hats off to SC

Recently, I am hearing a lot of good news from supreme court.
1. Saying no to OBC quota again.
2. Asking all those politicians/ officers to vacate the guest house/quarters if they are using it even after their term expired.

I am really surprised and hats off to all those brave people there in supreme court.

Aah..Yet Finally : Password less login for SSH

I was trying for a password less login since yesterday. Some how, it didn't workout for me. Finally, it is working now.

Commands to follow to have a password less login from your system to remote host:
At your host:
1.ssh-keygen -t dsa
give empty for all options it asks (just enter enter)
and make sure that your ssh folder is read and writable by only you. chmod -R 700 .ssh
2.now, copy id_dsa.pub file from your machine to remote host.
3.ssh to remote host
check whether .ssh file is existing. If not create one and should have only read and write option.
and copy id_dsa.pub file contents to .ssh/authorized_keys file.
and chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
4. exit from remote host
now, try to ssh to remote host. It should login without asking for any password.

If it is not working,
then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. make sure you uncomment Protocol2,1 options and comment Protocol2 option as shown below:
Protocol 2,1
#Protocol 2

and also make sure the following lines are present:
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

If present, uncomment them.

And restart your ssh daemon in your machine.

It should work now.

The Best Match that I have ever seen

Recently, every one at home (including my mom) addicted to watching Tennis sports (Thanks to my brother who constantly watch this and made others to get addicted to it). We watched French open and also Wimbledon. I was fan of Federer though I didn't watch much of his matches but thru what ever I read in news. During French Open, I came across Raftal Nadal and found him as a good competitor. But, I didn't find the final of French open that interesting compared to Wimbledon. May be for couple of reasons.

Wimbledon final was the best match. Here, I was expecting Nadal to compete with Federer in the final and then Federer should win as Nadal had already won in French open. But, the final wasn't that easy as the way I was expecting. After the match, I impressed so much at the way Nadal is playing, that I became fan of him too. I felt happy that Federer won but at the same time, I felt bad that Nadal lost. He was covering his court pretty well. At one point, he fell down while hitting the ball but he quickly stood and ran to the other end in seconds. It is simply amazing to watch.

vote for Tajmahal- Is it authentic?

These days, I am getting many forwarded mails, saying "Vote for taj" thru this site(http://www.new7wonders.com , http://votefortaj.com/ etc) or SMS to this number to include our TajMahal in new seven wonders. Some how, I didn't wish to do. I don't know the exact reason but I am not interested to do. May be, I was thinking that it is not authentic. May be, the way they are saying (Here is the chance you can do something for your dear nation) didn't give any impression that it is authentic. One feeling I had is, there are many other issues on which we can fight (poverty, casteism). But, I had a small doubt some where, whether I am lazy to do so that I am giving all these reasons for not voting. But, seems, I am not. Here is one link that I got which says that it is all marketing strategy that these people came up with.

Tips to interviewer

1. Rather giving problem and expecting optimal answer at the first time. Try to analyze how the person is solving the problem.

2. Give enough time to the person while solving a problem rather telling "Oh. I am already running out of time. Can you please do it soon." "Can you please explain this in 2 minutes in detail as I don't have much time".

3. Don't keep something in your mind and expect the person to think in the same way.Remember, it is very rare that a person thinks/understands in the same way as you do.

If none of them are satisfied, I call that the person is not fit for interviewing.

ICICI Pathetic: I am not the only person

I was thinking that I am the only person who is facing issues with ICICI. But, while doing some googling, I got many links. One of it is this. Am I sensing something wrong here? As many of them are recently posted and I am also facing similar issue for the past three months and still I didn't get my courier. :(

Another Story

It was my Intermediate days, and results are out for first year. Everyone were very eager to know whether we are passed or failed. I was not that much because I had a firm belief that I don't fail at least. OK. We were looking in the news paper to see whether we are passed or failed. We looked thoroughly and found my number is not there. Our lecturer was there around, when one person said "Hey Girl, your number is not there. So, you are failed". Sir said, "How is that possible? She is one of toppers in our college". OK, finally, from the paper, it is clear that my number is not there. So, I am failed. I used to cry day and night and was wondering how can this happen. Only possibility that I thought is "May be, I haven't tied papers tightly with thread. So, they might have dispersed and lost. So, they might have evaluated for one paper where the marks are less than passing marks".

One of our college person went to Hyderabad to get marks from the board (His position was like head for conducting exams at district level, so was able to). He called me up and said "I will be announcing your marks. Don't get afraid" and finally, he said "You got 3 marks in Maths and so you are in failed category where as I got more than distinction in all other subjects". I started laughing. Now, my theory failed here. If the thread is not tied properly, there will be one paper, where It is impossible to have 3 marks for that. Then, If they give one mark for each paper, I had taken 3 additionals, then I should get 4 marks at least.

I told my father that I want to fight with the state board in court as I don't see any way that I can fail with 3 marks in Maths at least. But, He was little reluctant and said "See, you got very good marks in other subjects and if you anyway have to write for this Maths paper where you can easily score very good marks and you will be easily like reaching more than 400 out of 470.Then, why should we worry much" I said "I don't want to get asked by many people like "Oh, I heard that you are failed" I just can't tolerate ".

My father and another sir from our college went to Hyderabad and initially talked to one of the person in State Board to see like, whether it is possible to review my paper. He asked a bribe of 4k just to show the paper. So, my father decided to file a case against them in court. And it was a petition to allow me for betterment exams. Because, If a person fails in one subject, she/he can't go for a betterment exams. She/He can write only those ones in which they are failed.

Finally, I got the good news just two days before to my betterment exams that I got 72 out of 75 in Maths-1 paper and Court allowed me to appear for betterment. I was too happy for the reason that I didn't fail and another bonus is that I was topper in my town.

Moral of the story: Just be brave and have self-confidence when situations are against you. Who knows, may be something better is coming in your path.

Lesson -1

Simple tips to follow for bug-free, easy maintainable code:

1. Never copy a single line in your code. Better use a method even it is just one line. (prone to bugs, if you don't follow)
For Example:
int value1 = obj.getValue1() > 10 ? 10 : obj.getValue1();
int value2 = obj.getValue2() > 10 ? 10 : obj.getValue2();

Better way of writing above code is:
int value1 = getActualValue(obj.getValue1());
int value2 = getActualValue(obj.getValue2());

int getActualValue(int value)
{
return value > 10 ? 10 : value;
}


2. Never hardcode anything. Always assign values to constants and use that in the place where you want to use those values. This makes life simpler, when you want to change that value in all locations wherever it is used. This is very simple to say. But many people don't follow it.


more to come soon.

Not a good day or different day?

Today seems like, things are not going to be in smooth way.
1. Vehicle gave trouble in the middle and had to wait for a long time to get another one.
2. Most of my todo list, which I was able to finish yesterday created more issues and have to look into them again.
Good day or different day??
Wait and see..

Error While logging in to gmail

I got below error when I tried to login to gmail. Does any one face the same issue?

Undefined variable. Variable: opt_initialName. Node: {name opt_initialName} at ./cs/caribouroot/java/com/google/caribou/ui/pinto/modules/navpane/label.js line 313:

// Ask user for label name
var label = prompt(pinto.navpane.Label.LABEL_NEW_LABEL_PROMPT,
opt_initialName ? opt_initialName : '');
while (label != null) {
Undefined variable. Variable: opt_initialName. Node: {name opt_initialName} at ./cs/caribouroot/java/com/google/caribou/ui/pinto/modules/navpane/label.js line 313:

// Ask user for label name
var label = prompt(pinto.navpane.Label.LABEL_NEW_LABEL_PROMPT,
opt_initialName ? opt_initialName : '');
while (label != null) {

Surprisingly, it happened only with one account. Why so?? How is that possible?
Did they deploy different builds on different servers? So, my another account has correct build, so it didn't give any error where as my other account has wrong build, so giving this error?


Updates:
Some issue at google end. It works fine with non-JS link, http://mail.google.com/gmail/h/

V.P Singh comments over Supreme Court Verdict against OBC Reservation

I hate these political people.

Especially V.P.Singh comment here,over reservation saying OBC Reservation is unanimously selected by people all over India as M.Ps represent people.
Reservation was an issue concerning democracy and the unanimous decision of Parliament reflected the will of the people. Hence, the "people's will should be respected." Parliament and the Supreme Court were one on the issue, he said.

Shame on all these political people who tries to use "Divide and Rule" over people just for their political reasons to earn money.

I am happy to hear Supreme court's Verdict and I hope most of the students are happy for this.

Half Mobile Continued

I am finally able to get my outgoing calls activated one week back. After one week of my activation, I got below mail from Reliance. :)

Dear Customer,

With reference to your mail regarding restoration of services, please note that your request is logged as Request ID XXXX We are working on the same and will respond to you in next 4 working days.

Yours sincerely,
Customer Care
Reliance Communications

The information provided is based on prevailing terms and conditions of the company, which, are subject to change without prior notice.

This electronic message transmission contains information from Reliance Infocomm & is confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, beware that any disclosure, copy distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received the electronic transmission in error please notify us immediately.

At the end, it doesn't matter

We people think everything is permanant and we some how believe in that. And when time passes, you actually see the reality.

Tributes to my relative:
I remember one of my relative who was very good. We named him as WaterMelon uncle when we were small. Because, he used to bring water melon to our home when ever he come. Irrespective of what ever time it is, when he is passing my home, he used to stop at our home and talk to us and then go. He worked hard to grow up his children and passed away recently. When my father met him last time, he was afraid of his health and was asking my father how he can afford his son studies. My father assured him to not to worry. Me and my brother also assured my father that we can afford money for his studies. When we visit his home last time, Uncle wasn't there at his home and Aunt and his daughter were there. That time, she told us that these days uncle is worrying a lot about his health. That time, we never knew that he will be leaving us soon and thought he is taking tension unnecessarily.

We don't know what happens at what time. But, we still think, everything is permanant and live in that world. We know everything, but we won't be able to control over what ever we know.
I fought with some people in my schooling and didn't like some people company. Now, I found it silly when I look back that why I thought about them somuch when they are not at all important in my life.
Sometimes, It is better to ignore few things. It will be always good to talk about good factors of some one rather bad and be good always. But, it is not an easy job. But, I think, one can do by practice.

Poor Customer Satisfaction with Reliance Service

I heard that no service take more than one day to activate outgoing calls. So, I called up Reliance customer care and asked them how long it takes to activate my outgoing calls. They said "with in 72hrs". I don't understand which is true "5 days, previously told by the person" or "3 days, the one that other person informed".

I don't know who is wrong here. The customer or the service provider.
I strongly feel, it is service provider's mistake to not to inform customer clearly. Simply by sending a message, I didn't understand what all that is and by the time, I am about to submit documents, they blocked outgoing calls.
In this, I like Airtel Broadband service. They treat customers well. Any problem with the connection will be solved as soon as possible.

Another surprising thing is, the cell wasn't on my name and I told them that it is not on my name, so do they need any relevant documents from the concerned person saying he is fine to change it on my name. They said "nothing. You write your name. That's it". I was wondering, then any one can steal cell and get it on their name. No issues at all. :)

Bad Incident :( I am half mobile

"Dear customer, We haven't received your application form. Please submit your form immediately to avoid barring of services."

I got this message again and again and didn't understand what does that mean. Finally, one fine day, I got a call saying I need to submit an address proof for changed address. I said "it takes some time to me". Finally, one fine day, they blocked my outgoing calls. Neither I can make a call (even customer care call) nor a message.
I went to their office to submit all relevant documents. I forgot to take a xerox of my address proof and id-proof (My mistake here). They don't have a xerox machine and asked me to go to some other place for that. I have to cross two traffic signals for that. I said, " I can't go there". (I am afraid of crossing roads and try to avoid that). Finally, he sent his boy there to bring a copy of it. And, he gave good (/bad) news so calmly that it takes 5 working days to activate my cell.

Moral of the story: Never ignore even a single message from your customer care. It means a lot. :(

Funny Incident

I got into Volvo bus which was packed with people already. I tried to find out a place where I can safely stand. There was one but had occupied with luggage. So, I tried to stand in the remaining place left there but, as there was no support, I was about to fall. So, I moved one of the luggage on top of other one. while doing that, the below luggage bent down. I ignored it. After a while, I came to know that there is a bottle which is not closed properly in the luggage which was lied down and started leaking water. After seeing that, I kept that bottle straight. But by that time, 1/2 litre of water is already leaked out of the bottle. There was a guy who sat in front of me. He stood and came to me and said "You did a very good job." . I said "I am sorry. I didn't see bottle there". He said " No problem. We also do sometimes". I said " I didn't do it intentionally". He said " I didn't say that". Finally, he started asking me "where I am working. What I am doing. Where do I stay..etc..etc.." I had to answer it because the water fell out of the bottle because of my mistake. He started giving his introduction saying "this is the first time he came to Bangalore to join a company and his cell is out of charge..etc.etc. and his friend said he will come to the bus stop to pick him". So, I asked him whether he want to make a call to his friend. His bus stop and my bus stop are same so I asked whether he needs my help for moving his luggage. And finally, I ran away from that place as soon as possible.

Moral of the story: It is better to stand in the place which is left. :)

There is always something to learn from everyone

I just felt I am learning a lot from my colleagues and lot to learn.

Quote of the day

Never forward a mail before reading it fully.
-A mapping of old one: Never suggest others before you practice. :)

Our great Politicians

I just hate these fellows:
A tourist bus stoned in Agra in protest against Saddam Execution
Why can't these fellows do a single good thing which makes atleast few people happy.

Thoughts

I am seeing beggars these days with a small child in their hands. If they come to me and ask for money, I don't give money and I just get angry on that. Sometimes, I feel whether we can take all these children and keep them in an orphanage so that atleast they have basic education so that they can stand on their own feet rather becoming robbers or beggars or what ever anti social persons. I feel it is better to give food or education to a person than contributing that money in poojas and all. After all telugu quote says "Manava seve Madhava seva" (Serving to people is serving to God).

I don't know why our beloved politicians never think of this. And they want to exploit the cast-ism. None of the parties gave any statement against reservation in IITs or IIMs. And now, suddenly, BJP president L.K.Advani says they are still thinking of building RAM Temple in Ayodhya. And our beloved PM says they want to do something for Muslims and he feels they should be allowed to first claim on resources. My suggestion to a Muslim or a Hindu is only one. Don't go blindly with these politicians. They know British rule very well which is "Divide and Rule" and so they are implementing that on us. I don't mind much about whether to have a masjid or temple in Ayodhya.

Some thing that we can do:

Respect each other
Give basic education to your children. If not able to, don't give birth to them.

And the quote I have seen today:
Help ever, Hurt never
Love all, Serve all
- Sai Baba

now, I know

While browsing for something else, I got this. Now, I know, why I am getting all PSAs in my blog. :(

Funny code

Some time back, I had to write a program where I need to have a thread which continuously looks for some status and does some work in background.
So, I started off like this.
Class MyThread implements Runnable
{
public void run()
{
//Something here

}

}


Class MyClass
{
public void function1()
{
MyThread thread = new MyThread();
thread.run(); // assuming thread runs in background
//do my work here
}
}

And I was wondering, why my program is taking so much time. And then, I figured out, that thread is running and my program is exiting only after thread finishes its work. :)
Later, my teammate asked me "Did you find out where you are wrong? " and explained where I was wrong. :)
Some times, we do such silly mistakes for which we waste hours and hours. :)

Happy Happy

I won a game which I have been playing in my leisure time since many days.

Beware of fraud calls from Citibank

I got a call from a lady saying she is a Citibank employee(Shyla) and whether I am interested in Citibank life time credit card. I was getting these calls many times and every time, I told them I am not interested. This time, she told me that they are giving credit card and DVD player as diwali gift and they want to know my address. I talked to many people regarding this, and they said "Go on and get it. Later you can cancel the card". I thought, it might be possible as I have seen some "get a watch by applying for credit card" in Citibank online site. So, I said "Yes". Now, recently, I got a courier for Citibank credit card and I didn't get the gift that she promised!!. I called her up (Fortunately, I had her number with me) and asked her regarding this. She said " It is in pending status. I will let you know after checking why it is in pending status". I still thought she is telling truth. Next day, when I called her up, now she started acting. She said "It is a wrong number. She is not the one whom I called". I thought "May be, her number might have changed. (Though it is less probable as I just spoke to her one day before)". I made a call to her thru my friend and confirmed her number hasn't changed. Now, I called up Citibank and told them this is what happened. Finally, it took so much time for me to cancel this card.

Moral of the story: Beware of such fraud calls rather wasting time and money later.

My Friend's quote

Never say you don't like a person. It is one/some of the quality/qualities that you don't like in a person not that person in whole. You should always take(and learn) good things in them and leave bad things.

I had to meet some of my classmates yesterday. I was in dilemma whether to go or not. Because, there is one person who hurt me once. But, I remembered my friend's quote and went there and talked with every one happily.

I like it

there is a lot of hardwork that is behind www.like.com. People were doing night outs to finish the work soon. Some people started working in US timings. Some started working in both timings. :)
Just after my joining, Riya launched Riya 1.0. Then, I can see people happiness in their faces. That is showing something like "We did it". My manager asked me "How are you feeling". I said "I wish I would have joined Riya 1 year back". He said "Don't worry. It is still a beginning. Lot to go.". Now, the time came. Riya launched Riya2.0. I felt happy. We were very happy. After the launch, we took a little break in reading articles on Riya. And now continuing our work.

A story

I read a story in news paper, which goes like this.
There is a old lady in a home and she want to join a oldage home. She stays with her younger son. So, elder son and younger son tries to convince her asking that Why she is thinking so even they are taking care of her somuch. Her daughter-in-law also never said anything which hurts her. And, she also take care of her. So, then the story tells how her day starts. She wakes up in the morning and do pooja for some time. And, then she tries to switch on TV to watch some spiritual programs. She tries to change the channel. But, as her eye sight is not very good and her hands are shaking, she increases volume in the attempt of changing channel. Her grand son comes with disturbed mood and says "Why you are keeping so much volume and disturbing my sleep" and then he keeps the channel which she wants and go back to sleep. She watches that one and then she goes to balcony and sit beside her son and says "Do you know how Krishna born. This program is explaining it very well..etc..". Then, her son says "Mom, let me read news paper please". Then, her daughter-in-law come and give coffee to her, then she tries to tell the samething to her. Then, her daughter-in-law says "I don't have time to listen all these now. I have to prepare breakfast and lunch. And, your grand son is not up yet. I have to wake him up and make him get ready.". Then, her grand daughter comes and ask her to do some thing for her. Then, this old lady asks the same thing to her. Then she says "Yeah. I know Him. I heard that He born in jail. Too sad. ". Then, her mom comes and tell her to get ready soon and go to school, otherwise, it gets late. In this way, every one is busy in her home and she don't have any one to share her feelings, her memories, etc. She has everything. But, her children are so busy that they didn't have time to talk to her and spend time with her.

A very true situation. I used to think that one shouldn't bring office work to home and vice versa. But, in s/w engineering life, It is very difficult to achieve.

common in bangalore??

These days, I am hearing news of thefts from many known people. I felt like, is theft common in bangalore??. I started listening to thefts when there was a theft in my sister's home few months back(in the afternoon). The thief came and kept all those things which he don't want on dining table and took all costlier ones. A report is made to police. They said "You dont need to worry. It may take 1 week, 1 month or 1 year or more. But, at the end, your belongings will be found and we will give it to you". Days passed by. Now, Police came with a notice saying "Your belongings can not be found. And we are closing your case". (!!!,Does it mean, they failed to find the belongings??).

Later, I heard there was a theft in my cousin's home. Then I heard a theft in my friend's home and then in my colleague's home and in my brother's friend's home and many more. Every where, the plan is same. The thief is coming in the night, and tries to open the bolt and take all valuable ones like watch, cell phone. In one of the incident, he removed the plug of TV, But he didn't take it. I generally think the news about theft in news paper is common. But now, when you are hearing from the persons whom you know. It is fearful. May be, after some time, if some one says there is a theft in some one's place, I may say "oh. it is common these days. ". :)

But, what police is doing here. In many places, when people planned to complain, police themselves are saying "what is the point. Leave it." or they will say "You are a s/w engineer. You are earning so much then why are you worrying. Just leave it." Then, why police are here. What is their duty then??

Random thoughts

Many times, I started writing a blog to burst my anger or sadness because of the mistakes that some other people do. But, later I think, what will I get by scolding the person. Then, I will think about all the advantages or goodness that happened to me because of that incident. And, I started writing about that incident. It is true. What will one get by scolding a person. Rather if you praise a person who helped you. You will feel happy. Your mind don't think negatively. And other person, whom you praised will feel happy and it makes a good impression on you. :) What not. Be Happy and Think positive. :)

lots of things to write and happening

Not getting time to write.
So, in brief.
unsafe bangalore. police are thieves in khakhi suit. They support theft rather preventing or avoiding it.
a regional telugu news paper, which was very popular. Now became the worst paper that I ever read. Because, they wrote everything against ruling party and show things very bag than actual.

It has been one year

It has been one year that me and my friend staying together. Now, it is the time to depart as she is getting married. It made me to recall the way that we started room hunt. Just like, things always happen for our goodness, my previous roommates told me to search for another house with a deadline of one month. Still, I can't forget that sleepless night that I had. I decided to vacate the room that day itself. Actually that happened for my goodness. That made me to reach my true friends again. I still cherish the days.. The shelter that is given in another friend's home temporarily till we get a home for us. And that short nice time that I spent with them. How I learnt, making phulkas and parathas there. :) The nice talking that we were having. watching movies in the night. I liked their cooperation in working together and I learnt that from them.
Finally, we got a home, my other friend found it for us. Every one gave full support and help when I decided to move out of my previous room mates' house. Those are real friends.
she taught me a lot. She gave comfort when I was in problems. She scolded sometimes, when I do something wrong. Today, I read in news paper that the person who can scold you when you are wrong and who can ask you apologies with out hesitation when they do mistake is a true friend. It happened for me. She asked for apologies when she mistakenly scolded me and she scolded me when I do any mistake. :) There are lots of things to learn from every person. And, I need to learn a lot from her too.

I am fortunate that I have good friends surrounding me. In IITK too, there were friends who helped me a lot. Who shared my sorrows and joys in my lab. And, now also, I have very good friends. But, now we need to depart. And we can be in touch with mails and some very few get-to-gethers as life is very busy.

Those were the best days of my life

Childhood days:
I want to be child again. Those days are missing now. :(
The days when we played a lot at school and do exercise in the evening. As a leader, requesting students to go to play ground to start exercise.
slapping to others who failed to answer the questions (as per teacher's order. :) ). Studying the meanings in hurry before teacher takes questioning session.
Listening to the stories told by Sir when the power goes off in the evening tuition. :)
Getting scolded by sis and father when watching t.v. or reading story book as nothing is audible to me in that time. (I used to say that is boon for me. My concentration. :) )
Writing the dialogues that is coming in TV while doing home work. :) And later rubbing it off and doing home work without TV. :)

Rush to home to get Soan-Papidi (sold by a seller who brings that in 4 wheeler) every day after school.
counting the number of greeting card that we got in new year.
Waiting for dussera holidays to receive my sis and brother. Playing with my brother and his friends.
Teaching my father (to not to tell children(my sister) that he'll give bi-cycle if my sis get these many marks in this class) by reading some info in news paper.
Going to grand parents village in the summer vacation and playing a lot in cradle by having three cradles for three of us.
Eating lot of laddus. :)
Singing in independence day and present folk dance by wearing the lambadi dress that I got. :)
Recording songs for all the dance programs (me and my sis as singers :)) )
Playing with colors on the occasion of Ganesh nimajjan and after that, washing clothes before mom sees. :)
Stealing tamarind and salt and zeera from home and eat at the outside with friends.
Lighting crackers during diwali even with a temperature of 102 degrees fever.:)
Bunking school and going to a competition in near by school and winning the prize.
sometimes, coming from school which is very far (around 5kms) by walk.
Counting "Good, very Good" written by teacher in the copy write.
competing with my competitor(Mahanandi)in my 7th standard. I can't forget the days where we used to quarrel with dusters and removing the cycle air caps. :)
Teaching maths to my neighbor.
Teaching 10th class maths to my relative. I tried a lot to teach him. But he was weak in maths so badly that I left their home the next day and reached my home.
Being happy to get first prize in maths quiz and crying for not getting first prize at second time. And that time, the other girl who won, came to me and told me to take the first prize that she got. :)
Finally by requesting, ordering, pleading (:) ) my mom a lot to get my hair decorated with flowers (actually called gazraa in Hindi. Don't know the word in English).
That enthusiasm, innocence, that tension free life as a free bird is missing now. :(

I am getting wisdom tooth. It is so painful. :(
Mistakenly wrote it as truth. :P

And again problem with tampered meter

Too bored to write again the same incident happened 2 months back. But, this time, I didn't argue with autowaala much (Afraid a little bit). Paid what ever he said but sent a mail to the transport. And here is their reply.
Dear Pallavi,

Your email has been forwarded to Karnataka State Legal Metrology
Department for needful.

Joint Commissioner for Transport,
Vigilance & Pollution,
Bangalore

Please visit our homepage http://rto.kar.nic.in

Regional Transport Office / RTO / Transport Department Call Centre (24 Hrs
- 7 Days a Week)Phone Number 91-80- 22108306
Hoping that they will take some action against these faulty meters.

For a change

I decided to spend today a little bit different rather routine. Something worth, something useful. So, I went to temple in the morning (around 11 :) ). Everybody asked me "Is there any special today?". And my sister asks me "Today is Sunday. So, you went to church? :))".
In the afternoon, I tried to learn scooty. Nice experience. First, I should say thanks to my teacher (and owner of Scooty) who is teaching me. :)
In the beginning, she told me what is what. And then she told me to sit and start accelerator. I started accelerating it continuously without stopping it. That is the first time that I afraid as it is going so fast and she is telling me to stop accelerating it, but I was not knowing what to do. :) Finally, some how, she made it to stop. Later it went on so smoothly. :)
More to do and update.

Many Things to write

1. Great job by Amod by avoiding bribe to traffic police and paying the fine in court for mistakenly breaking the signal. Really, I can't stop praising him for this. How many will be there who take pain to go court and pay the fine rather giving half the amount of fine as bribe to traffic police.

2. He even brought some auto complaint cards, which we can submit if the autowaala asks for more money or rejects to go to the place which we asked for or tampered meter or rash driving. What not!! :)

3. The surprise news is: When RK & his fiancee invited us to their marriage. No one guessed this and he didn't tell any one that he is getting married till yesterday, when he distributed his wedding card.

4. In the night, Anshu invited her cousin, Rupesh, Devanand (her brother's friend) to home to tie Rakhi. Nishit and Madhav told me that they are coming my home to get rakhi tied. Nishit came in hurry and left and Madhav had a conference call, so he couldn't come. We prepared aaloo parathas .Devanand brought Bengali Sandesh sweet. It was so tasty.

Time to change routine

Seems, some how, I am getting much more angry and it is getting increased day by day. I am showing anger only with my closed ones (Thank fully,not with all :-) ). Seems, it might be because of lots of stress and might be the reason that I was not giving time for myself.
So, I am planning to change my routine a little bit. Let see, how far I can go. :-)

Updation: Little bit progress now. Still more to change.:)

wanna buy

Barbie dolls and soft toys.. so cute :)




Remembering the days in B.Tech, when I told to my classmate that I will buy teddy bear and barbie dolls with my first salary. But didn't do yet.. :(

Think Big !!!

Few things that I learnt till now:
1. Consider problem as big and solve the problem simply
2. Look for all kinds of situations (especially when you are working with large dataset)
3. Use the appropriate objects at appropriate places
4. Use classes for the purpose that they are given for.
5. Try to bench mark the structures both in terms of time and memory required.

The above all is known to me more theoritically than practically. and now saw how effective they are, in practice. So simple sentences, but rule the whole development time.

And also, some other things that I learnt till now:
Team Work always help in solving the problems and also learning from others.

More is later.

Two Things

Today, in our office, fire alarm rang. And our admin told us to leave the office. But later Naveen said, "wait. There is no danger to us but to the bread.". What happened is ,recently, there is a toaster that came into our pantry and Naveen kept bread for toasting and it became black :) and that is the cause of fire alarm ringing. :) So, sandeep says "Good right. We are safe. Now, we practically saw that fire alarm rings when there is any fire" :)

There is an investment presentation given by RK. It is superb and excellent. But after that presentation, I can see that the savings that I have done are not much worth. :(
Now, I should be more careful in investing and saving too. :)

McAfee- The Worst Anti Virus

I installed McAfee anti virus in my laptop today. The worst part is it takes 99-100% CPU (May be in that way it is opposing any other viruses to come in as it itself acting as DOS attack :) ). So, I couldn't work at all and got irritated and finally uninstalled it. So, now the system is working fine. :)

A real story from my friend

Today, I called up one of my friend, and she gave me the below story of her best friend. Really sad. I didn't expect that this kind of things happens even now a days. :( Why such kind of things happen? Why parents don't understand their children?
This is what she explained to me:
I was calling my friend since long time but not able to reach her thru cell. And I forgot to send a mail to her because I was busy in my work. Today, I tried to call her best friend and find out that she left this place long back and she is with her parents in her native. Rather I can say that they had taken her forcibly to their place just for the reason that she is in love with a person of other caste. I never expected that the response will be so cruel from her family. She is such a nice girl. She was poor but she never let this to be known by any one in my college. She is determined and hard working. She never bought nice dresses for her even after she got job and used to buy new clothes for her siblings. She is so innocent and she is not bold. I am very sure that there will be no one who got hurt by her behavior even once (knowingly or unknowingly).
I am feeling sad to see that she is in such a bad situation right now. I don't know what to tell and how to tell. She was one of my best friend (I can say, my only best friend I had till now with whom I shared my views). Why the situation is so bad here even in this electronic era. At least, they should understand her situation and if you find that she is doing wrong then tell her and convince her. I can surely say that if she want to do any mistake, she would have done before. She would have eloped with her boy friend long back. But she didn't do then why her parents are so cruel to her.
I was surprising when I come to know about any people who do love marriages by eloping from their place. But, now after seeing such incident then I don't find any mistake in that too. The parents say "we would have let them marry atleast. Why should children leave." But when children trying to put their views and convince their parents then parents take such rude actions. Why? Why so?

Chocolate

Riya results for chocolate.. :)

cooking

yesterday, I prepared food even though I was having head ache and the taste was good. I don't know whether it is because I was feeling hungry. :)

Failure Story [comic]

Hmm..Today, Finally, I thought I should prepare something and take it to office. so, I decided to prepare Lemon Rice (Thinking that it is the easier and faster one to prepare). Ok. Everything is set. But, Anshu brought some vegetables and told me that I can use that. She cut them very nicely in the night itself. So, I decided to prepare some sabji with that. So, I started doing it. And anshu told me that I can use Micro oven to prepare it fast. Initially, I thought I will prepare it on stove itself but later I switched to micro-oven as it was taking long time.
So, I used a plastic vessel in which she used to keep the things in micro-wave to keep the vegetables. and switched on "Auto crisp". Thinking that it is the one that I should press.
After sometime, I opened oven and saw that plastic got expanded because of heat.!!. :) and ofcourse, you should not think about the status of sabji. :)

Moral of the story: Never put plastic vessel in auto crisp mode. :)

Want to write a blog

I am thinking of writing a blog when ever I am free. But, not getting time to think and decide a topic and then start writing on it. :)

When things are not working in the expected way

then what a person do?
I felt like singing a song loudly and remove the inside tension . Now, there is some problem some where some how in my code. and now my situation is like this. :)

Today went very badly

Morning, there was a theft outside my room. The thief has stolen the clothes which anshu kept outside..
and in the evening, the misbehavior of auto guy as I told him that the meter is not correct.

Auto Rickshaw Complaint Cell

Authorities in Bangalore have started a new drive to make auto travelling safer. They have set up cells to take complaints and have promised to do something about the complaints.

For complaints against misbehaving auto drivers in Bangalore Contact the following:

Bangalore Centre - Koramangala BDA complex - 25533525
Bangalore West - Rajajinagar Corporation Complex - 23324388
Bangalore East - Indiranagar BDA complex - 25253726
Bangalore North - Yeshwanthpur corporation Complex - 23376039
Bangalore South - Jayanagar Corporation Complex - 26630989
Alternatively you can email the authorities at transcom@kar.nic.in
http://rto.kar.nic.in/help.htm

When you call them / email them mention the auto registration no., Date, time and place where the problem occurred and the problem.

Dont know how effective the system is but its a start, do not hesitate to complain. Because if the system does work, travelling bangalore could be actually hassle free for everyone.

Source:from google got this
And we can send mail to even dcptrafficeast[at]gmail[dot]com.

Politicians in India

These people, they do everything for filling their vote banks.
These people are the source for any riots (muslim, hindu). They always follow divide and conquer.
Now they came up with OBC reservation. I think, right now, only students are in protest against reservations. Now, they need help from some famous people. Ofcourse, we can't get help from those who are in politics. But some great people or news papers can help.

Otherwise, no one should vote any politician who has "Reservation" in his/her agenda.

duniya bahut choti hain

Yester day, I saw it practically. Hmmm..For this, I need to tell the whole thing that happened y'day.. sis wasn't feeling well. So, I had to go to her home to take care of lucky till mom comes..In the evening, I had to go to majestic to pick mummy up. Unfortunately, the Volvo bus got late and I reached 15 mins late to the bus stand. And there the story started..:)
The bus had already arrived and mom wasn't there. I searched whole bus stand and asked the person who writes the bus number once it reaches and got confirmed that the bus had already came. hmm..Now what to do..Talking to jiju, sister and father..What to do..Then, I got a call from father that he got a missed call from a local number. I thought that it might be an std-booth phone no..I tried a lot to call to that number but it was engaged. Finally, sis told me that the number is from an std-booth from plat-form no:15. I went there, but there is no telephone-booth. hmm..Then from which place, it might be..I called that number again and came to know that it is platform no:15 in BMTC bus stop.. !!!!!!!!
Finally, I went there and confirmed with that telephone-booth person that mom called from that place only..Now, again the search started. But now, searching BMTC bus stop is not so easy. I searched two-three near by platforms..And then went to enquiry and requested him to announce..
He noted down the names and he said "I'll announce in Kannada.." :-) It was too funny..Neither me nor my mom knows Kannada..Then for whom, he is announcing.. Finally I requested and then he said "ok..You announce then.."... Finally, announced twice and thrice and finally gave my number too..:-)
Now, I am damn sure that mom won't be in the bus-stop..Then at that time, it was 9:30PM and jijaji reached at bus-stop and he got a call from a person saying that mom is in her house. She also came along with mom.. And now "Hum-Tum" line is here..
The person who helped mom by taking her to her home and helped mom in carrying luggage is the person whom my sister and father met once. That time, there was MCA counseling and sis didn't get seat and this lady brought less money assuming that they have to pay for MBA admission for their daughter..But fortunately, they got MCA admission and need to pay more.. At that time, Father helped them though he doesn't know them at all. :)

Humans or Blood sucking Cannibals??

When I read in the news paper today and in the news about new taliban's threat, I felt that they should release him. Suryanarayana who was an engineer working with bahrain based company abducted by talibans. I reminded the killing of Maniyappan before. But I felt that at least Suryanarayana should be alive. Suryanarayana took up that post in order to make their children's future to be much more better. I was watching TV in the afternoon and my papa told me to put on the news coming in another TV Channel. Before that, we saw a poll in another TV Channel where they were asking Indians whether they think that it is every Indian's responsibility to get Suryanarayana Back to home. And just after I switched to another channel where the news are coming, I shocked when I heard that taliban's killed before the deadline( They have given tonight 7 as the deadline for all Indians has to leave Afghanistan in order to not to kill Suryanarayana) and the reason is that Suryanarayana tried to escape.

Many thoughts in my mind.
How devil behavior that they have. How can any priest or God tell their followers that their religion is good and kill every other person who is not of their religion. I just don't believe in such caste/ religion feeling. Please, be a human being. Just think, what will be if you are in another religion. When you come, you don't have anything and when you leave you can't take anything with you. Live life like today is the last day and never tries to hurt any one. It is very easy to say. But still man, please don't hurt others.
and coming to what our great politicians reacted to it?? They said that they will try to save Suryanaraya but still continues to make Afghanistan better. Arre yaar. First try to give security to your people who are living there. I read in news paper, that why talibans are not abducting US Employees who are living there. It is because of the security that their country providing to their people living there. And our India failed twice in this and don't know about unofficial things. I am not saying to not to help Afghanistan. But if you are not able to secure your own people then avoid doing help to others or secure your people if you are determinant in giving help. I am just imagining what would be the situation if the person(Suryanarayana) is politically strong. Then they would have rushed to help him.

today is the most unforgettable day to me..

Thoughts roaming in my mind

Many things..But few things are:
1. Destroying is very easy than Construction: Example is the stupidity that people have done on Raj Kumar's death. If they are such a great fans to him, then they should have done something good where his name will be remembered forever but not destroying public property and forcing people to shutdown the shops. I have seen a person in front of my home who was distributing juice as they can't keep it for next day.
I was just wondering why they haven't done distributing money to the needy or something good for the nation..
If the IIM Pass out Manjunath (I hope I remembered the name) or the IITK pass out (Satyendra Dubey) who were working in public sector, killed by corrupted politicians then no one has done any thing for them. Nothing happened to Jessica Lal Murder case.
Why don't these people react for such things..

2. 50% reservations to OBC in IITs/ IIMs : Is it necessary?? I am not against OBC or SC or ST.. But what I think is to give necessary education ( in the sense, since +2) for free to them..But please give priority to merit. Without merit, one shouldn't allow any one to become engineer, medico or some other techie.. I read some where that Ambedkar has requested for reservation only for few years. I don't remember the exact year that he has specified but I am very sure that time is over already but still the reservations are continuing by politicians to attract minorities to grab votes..

PS: These are just my opinions.. I am not criticizing any one..But for better developed world, it is better to do a good thing than bad thing..

Back from home!!

I went home this weekend and had a trip to near by place on the occasion of lucky's haircut ceremony..Will write in detail about this if time permits .. :)

changing editors

Changing editors: Today I moved from netbeans to eclipse. Initially it reminded me my attempts in my childhood for changing my writing style where finally I ended up with no specific writing style of my own..:) But, eclipse is much more cool than netbeans..hmm.. I didn't take a wrong choice any way.. :)

Today's quote

Before looking for fault in others.. Just look at the faults in yourself..Then no one's fault won't be looked as big as it was before..:)

One more party

Yesterday, it was surya's turn to give b'day party. It looked like again the days of IITK came.. Even in such a busy schedule many people turned up..Few things are

• The most busiest person Ashish came for the b'day party of Surya. This is the first time that he came
• Gnana changed his hair cut.. Every one were making fun of him.:)
• The whole fun was made on Prashant's new business.. We were making as much fun as we can as Anshu wasn't there. ;) If both were present, then majority wins..;) so, we can't make fun of their business..At least I can't make.. :)
• birthday bumps were given to Surya and also Bharat. Because bharat made fool of everyone by saying that he is getting engaged with Shweta (a fictitious character)

boo hoo..boo hoo :((

I was writing a blog on friday before going to madaan's party. But that time jaya and anshu called me up. So, I rushed to the party without saving it. So, it got lost.. :(( boo hoo..boo hoo.. :)
but any way, party was good. Met one of our senior in IIT. I didn't recognize him till Rohan told me that he was our senior in IIT. :)

Maids and autowaalas

With the maids, you will get rid of physical work but you get more mental work. You have to look after them and see whether they are working properly or not..If you don't then the output is very bad where you have to spend more time in redoing things.. :)

The auto people: Every day, I pray God that I should reach home and office safely with out any mental tension.. The tampering of meter and the rash driving and waiting charges where the meter goes on increasing even the auto is waiting at the signal..what not.. uff.. I should write a book about these people.. But fortunately, there are very good auto people but very less..Till now, I just saw only 2 to 3 auto people who are good at driving and having genuine meters to their autos..

After all, these days I am getting more tension because of above two reasons.. :) Time to do some meditation or count the numbers from the end.. ;)

Simple yet powerful

Life is short :
Person learns from own experience and also other's experience. Learning everything from our own life is not possible since Life is short. :)

You have only one life:
Just one life that every one has. But people couldn't make it to the fullest that they can enjoy by thinking about what other people think.. Once in my B.Tech, me and my brother went for a movie. There we saw a child of 5 to 7 yrs dancing like no one is seeing him. He was living in his own world. Then my brother said how cool the life of a child is. He don't bother about any one. :)
I made fun of my brother by asking him that you want to dance like him. ;) that was a joke. But seriously, why can't we live our own life in the way that we want as long as we are not hurting any one. Why do we care about society much as long as we are not doing anything which is anti-social?? :)

Is this Pallavi, who is talking like this!!!?? :)

My cute lucky (aka Kruti)

I was playing whole day with my sweet niece when I went home. She is becoming smarter these days. She learnt that if she want something then she'll get it if she cries.. :) I am still surprised how children are learning.. How did they know that the way to get things is by crying...I am remembering those machine learning ways. But I don't think( or remember) that I saw this example any where.

Funny Thing

Today I tried of going by bus ( Don't want to get mood off in the early mornings by auto waalas..:) ).. So, I got into a bus where it is going to majestic.. And I thought it'll go on the way where my office is.. :D but it took a left turn just after where I got in and was going in a different direction!!!!.. Then I realized that it is not going to the place where I have to get down.. Then I got down at some bus stop and saw other bus going to shivaji nagar and again my stupid mind thought that it is going on the way where my office is.. Again got in.. :) and got down at next bus stop. This time fortunately it is near to my office but the other side which I didn't see before. Some how I found the way and reached safely. But I don't know why I didn't get angry or mood off for all stupid things that I did.. More over I felt happy for having such a visit to bangalore streets which I didn't see before in the early morning with less crowd on roads and even bus.. I liked the whole environment and was passing time by just watching outside thru the window.
Wish bangalore is like the way that I saw (Pollution free and less crowded) even after 9AM..

Random Thoughts :)

No human being is perfect and what a person has to do is to be like a swan. Take the good thing and leave bad thing.. :)

If every good dream comes true :)

Back from home with lots of enthu...
Read one thing in a paper. where he describes a village like a city like bangalore. I forgot everything which ever is there.. But remembered one thing which impressed me. There the author says that "at 11:55 PM , a farmer wakes up and checks his electric connection to his farm field thru internet and came to know that it is his turn to switch the motor for filling water and switches it on and then goes to sleep again..:) "
How cool the stuff something like above helps farmers in making their things simple. And also when I was a child, I used to think why people migrate from villages to towns and towns to cities. It is just because there are lots of facilities available which help their children to perceive good career. let it be either in sports or academic what ever they would like to.. Then I used to think, why don't we, the citizens provide such facilities available every where. So, people don't migrate from their work places and also it improves the quality in education every where. Teachers in government schools regularly go to schools and teach their children and so we can see our India as developed country..

If the quality of education is best then why will we be having corruption and polluted politics..etc..etc..