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.

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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.