2008 12 02

Hmm ..
Missed the bus to Hyderabad..
Dunno why ..
But seems I am getting lazier by the day ..
Is that good bad or plain me ..
Thats the eternal question ..aint it ?

Ghetla .. Lagla .. Padlo

Hmm ...
I took one more gruelling two nd half hour workout ..
And like always before I thought I left with something less ... (unfortunately not my paunch :D)
Meri pahunch aaj kal bahut badti jaa rahi hai ..
And no I am not proud of it ..

09-10-2008

The story so far ...
Seems that the essay into writing failed...
Trying to follow a few time management principles.
Does help me save some time ..
But I realized what I knew earlier
'Its the human element that matters ..'
All that matters is that you be aware of what you want and what you are doing ..
Don't be a Zombie and probably you will make your way to where you want to be ..

But with the human element comes intuition ..which usually fails me ,when I am under pressure ..

On a personal note the Spartan says exercise is the cure to all illnesses ..
But I am too ill to exercise ;)

25 08 08

Bangalore ..
That's the last place I had been to ..
My partial observation
1. Lots of chinkis
2. The Yediappas don't know much of English but still want to use it ..
eg : "Baby, I care of you no ,that is why I getting parcel for you to home no .. but I will have to give company to my friends no .."
3. A lot of Mias around ..didn't notice many of them on my last trip ( 10 years back)
4. No SALE signs around ..
This is the one that shocks me ..
Seems the depression or its fear hasn't hit the city yet ...
Wonder why ?

18 08 08

Now or Later seems to be the eternal question :)

14 8 08

hmm ..
Another task to be taken up
Got to essay into getting motivated :)

12-08-08

So finally after so long we do have another Indian Olympic gold medalist.
I suppose googling him today might get you atleast 10,000 results ..
Three cheers to India .. and Abhinav Bindra !!!!
Will we win one more ..
There is Rathore ..
The old pair of boots .. might run faster and hit harder.
Saina might end up with a medal ..
Maybe the boxers get some more glory ..

BTW .. Tendlya is once again out of the Indian team due to an elbow injury ..
And MSD is still riding on his luck ..

GHEUN TAKK!!!!!

The first time I came across the term "Taking the Test" from an old Caesar from 840 BC. ,who albeit his Roman outlook is quite candid about italicizing his English swears ( and even reducing their font size) I kinda felt awkward about it.
Somehow it didn't sound right ... Like the sentences "It was I who did it " and "Whom did she ask out for a date?" I chose to ignore this irregular sounding "TAKE".
I was again corrected for the same phrase/idiom/irregularity/mistake by a lot of people like "The one on the net" , "the speed demon who defeats sound" and "the Bossssss".
Finally when I TOOK the test .. I found that I was taking nothing away ...
Bloody hell ... I would have done bally well to say I say took good scores or the score sheet .. but what do you take in a test ..
I firmly believe you give a test .. Because at the end of each test you know that you have left a bit of you in the test that will be evaluated electronically or otherwise .
Its like saying I took life imprisonment.
So after appearing for this test, all I have to say is "Gheun Takk"
BTW .. If you are wondering what's Gheun Tak ....
Check this out .... "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HXadehySU"

08-08-08(2)

On a lighter note ...
The Olympics begin today ..
888 has 6 circles instead of 5 olympic rings ..
I know where the sixth one ... came from ...
Its India's medal tally ...
India's best hope is a pair divorced and remarried so many times that they resemble a torn shoe :)
So enjoy ...
If India end up adding one more ring to make it 8 i will be on cloud 9 but I know thats not possible ..

And the IITs have done it again ..
They have found new lows :) ( from the so called lower strata of the society )

08-08-08

Back after a long hiatus .
A few updates ..
The elusive lappy was finally caught napping ..
The bugger ate biscuits worth 730 dollars.
I gave the test ...Yes you read it right .. I said I GAVE the test ..
I dont take test ..
I can take / accept gifts ..
But taking a test .. Its like buying tickets for a train you wont travel in ..
Got to go..
More rants on TAKING ... in the next post ..
GHEUN TAKK ...

18-6-2008

Saw Dasavatharam ..
It is a movie in which Kamal wants to show all he has ..
His writing skills , his ideas,his ideologies,his acting (over), his singing ..
Maybe it was his effort to do all that he can..
Dont people try to do that when they reach the end ? ...
Maybe he has decide to retire from movies ...
Neways too many tongue in cheek jokes , out of place sleaze and foolish graphics make the movie a bit unbearable ..
Although Oscar changed to Aascar still the director has to show his face at the end of every movie
Life per se is pathetic ..but this friday I am going home ..
PS Lappy ne mujhe ullu banaya

15 - 6 - 08

There seems to be something absolutely wrong in my planning .
Not a single a timeline met ..
Life's in a mess ...
Btw I finally configured a comp ...but dont know how I am gonna get it ..
Lets see ... banking on some one i know and trust ...
It took me 1 whole year to decide on whether to buy a laptop or not ,...
The story after it was quite straight forward coz I knew what I needed ..
It had to be an HP ...
But on the sadder note it's a Vista ...
But if I really have the guts I might rip off the Vista and put XP ,.. or even one of those Linux GUI versions ..
Thats it for now ..
Unfortunately .. again in office today ...
Some time down the line I will write on the weekend experience ,,
Not like I loooove it or hate it ..
But there in the lies the fun ..

Birthday paradox ...

In probability theory, the birthday problem, or birthday paradox,[1] pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. In a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%, tending toward 100% as the pool of people grows
(Source Wiki)
But the paradox f0r me on this day was the birthday of many people including my friend was whether to be or not to be .. Meaning whether to be there or not to be there ..
Also it involved a home - coming so things would have been even more fun ..
But then I decided against being there as the Cosmos would miss me otherwise ..
On a lighter note :
They say that the tradition of birthdays started in Persia and spread throughout the Roman Empire ..
So no doubt that the able guys from Sparta would have been celebrating June 1st as Julius Caesar's bday ... There was no July before he decided so !!!But how about 1st September ..

21-5-08

Hmm
Back after two days of vacation .
Relived the days of college when you had to worry about nothing for 12 hours a day ...
Unlimited PJs ..
Still singing : "Judaa ho ke bhi ... Tu mujh me kahin baaki hai ..."
But for sure we did miss Santa Claus ..
I hope we have him as well for the next trip ..

16 May 2008

Hmm,
One more friday night in Pune !
Weekend surely in Mumbai ...
And two days of holidays in Matheran

Yep! that's a treat to myself ..
Obviously the operation was painful and the baby may not be perfect but I atleast got something to show for those endless days and horrible nights :D

I know on the other side of the vacation lies a painful week ... but still !!! its vacation time now ....

Weekend fun

Mixed feelings ..
One hand I feel like kicking myself for not knowing their plans
On the other hand I feel like kicking them for not telling me their plans ..

On one hand feel like kicking myself for being lazzzy for 2 weeks
On the other hand feel pity on myself ...

The story continues ..
Watch out for "Kya hua delivery kaa " :)

8-May-2008

Hmmm
saw 12 episodes of Season 1 back to back ...
Listening to Frank Sinatra melodies ..
They sound so good when you are stressed ..........
Like I said 2 more days of SLLLOGGING to go !!!!
Hope to see better days ahead :)

Power Extreme ! eme eme eme

In the near future,

Doc Terror, and his cyborg companion, Hacker,

unleash their forces to conquer earth.

Only one force can stop this evil: a handful of brave men;

in specially created exoframes they can be transported anywhere

to fuse with incredible assault weapon systems,

beamed down from the space station Skyvault,

becoming man and machine...

Power Xtreme!

3 episodes in one day .... a dream come true ...

Just remembered those days when you had to complete your homework before 3 pm ....

CARTOON NETWORK POWER ZONE and School days rock ..

Nostalgic memories once again ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5168yjG3Qw

BTW I just need a combo of Orbital Interceptor and Wild Weasel to get me outta here !!!!

Crystal ...

Todays update :
Need to work 3 days in a row to get things back on track..
All because of one f****ng call.
Moral of the story : The cake aint yours till you have eaten it

You need to leave the shore and swim for a long time without looking back .. thats only if you want to find new shores

Spontaneous

Had drafted this a few months back ...


Thodi si jo pili hai ,chori to nahi ki hai

Baki jo neeli hai , wahin pe rakhi hai

Awesome na........

Sitting in office

I think I am gonna redefine staying late hours in office .
When you think of late hours you think of red eyes , tired minds , hungry tummys and a can or two of coke (beer if you are lucky ) making the rounds and yes its got to be a crowd .. People sitting to get work done and do the work the managers want done ... The continous keyboard clicks and the non stop chatter on the conference calls ....
All this is because you gotto collaborate.
My solution is to keep it clean and simple .. Define your work plans .. Collaborate in the day time .. thats the most relaxing work that you could do ,,, Then work non stop at night .. .
The server responds faster ... Linkin park sounds better and your eyes do not crave for that one that you might miss ( if you are sitting next to the corridor).
Its like RTsaid :
You reach a place where :
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

See for you to awake into such an atmosphere its gotto be 4 am in the morning or 1230 at night ....

So I for one have found what RT wanted for the country .. others gotto find their own ways :)

Sociology redefined

Any animal social or otherwise does fear incoming people. We talk about tigers marking their territories in the jungles and laugh about the dogs doing the same in cities/towns (in India at least) But look at what we are doing. Although we talk about Raj Thackeray being wrong about migrants coming into Maharashtra or about the West Bengal minister (I forgot his name) being wrong about the influx of Marwari into West Bengal. But these incidents are not an aberration. Look at the past ….
The prominent ones that I am reminded of are :
· The revolts in Paris against Algerians.
· The revolts in the US against Muslims
· The Darfur genocide
· The Serbia Kosovo conflictAll these incidents if analyzed deeply would have the same thing as the root cause.

I would like to put up a theory that once a friend of mine told me in a highly inebriated state. But as they say a lot of people make lot more sense when drunk than otherwise. He says:” each person has a shell around him”. This shell is what keeps him from easily interacting with people around him. Yeah! Blame the shell next time you are not able put up a conversation with the hot chick sitting next to you on your twenty minute journey from Kandivli to Santacruz (or you could blame the crowd as well). OK...OK I am sorry to digress from the topic. But actually its twenty minutes because she got into the train at Bandra. Yeah and then these shells have some kind of affinity to shells of a certain type and repulsive to shells of another kind. The affinity to a certain shell is directly proportional to the similarity to the shell and inversely proportional to the difference to other shells around you.Same goes to true for the repulsive nature. OK ..OK going on with the theory..These shells which have affinity towards each other end up building a larger shell. So when a new shell is introduced the larger shell tries to still assimilate this small shell but ends up repelling it to a small distance. What would happen if a large number of new shells of a different kind came near an already present large shell? Obvious my dear Watson (if Holmes didn’t use it I surely will) the repulsion force grows larger and larger. But stll there is some kind of equilibrium tht holds everything together. This is because although there is repulsion there is some amount of attraction due to similarity shared. And each case all that is required is the straw. Could be angry rantings of an author , illegal occupation of territory by a few , an proclamation made in an unacceptable way or such .
I might go one step ahead to the aim of the society has never been to bring together people .It has always been to differentiate ,to separate . To substantiate this I would like to bring up the example of language. The very purpose of language is not just to communicate it is to communicate to a certain set of people whereby alienating others. Had the very purpose of the language been communication evolution of language should not have led to specializations but to generalizations per se .. I mean Greek and Latin and Sanskrit and Pali and Tamil would have given way to something that everyone could understand .The human brain has the capability to communicate telepathically (I still don’t know whether telepathy uses language or not ) The languages should have developed to one in which thought could be easily translated and could have been deciphered by one and all. But instead of the development of one universal language what emerged is a plethora of languages each with its differences.





PS: Thanks Fa**an Mia for the original theory and the able guy from Sparta for the addendum at the end

2-0 to Destiny and yet I am happy

When prople talk about destiny and there is a GOD and the laws of nature that balance out I am the first one to be pissed off ...Not that I don't believe in it but I do believe that there is something more you can do about it than say 'aah its destiny' ... But isnt it true in my own case ...



Do I like it ..the answer is an emphatic 'YES' ...



But the uneasiness beneath the calmness still remains ...

Why ... dunno..

Maybe tomorrow (touchwood ) will bring the same kind of happiness that came along after the first goal ...

Right now it seems that its a temporary happiness that will leave behind a pain of ..'so close yet so far ' ..

Fingers crossed ....