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| Jun. 21st, 2009 01:04 am One More Round Done Glowing Old is Mandatory, Growing up is Not
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One more circle around the sun completes today..
I am not growing older, This is just another anniversary of me turning 18.. :P lol
Its been a good year.. Couple of my missions were accomplished..
Some failed, some crashed too, but overall - a good year..
Not many things framed for this coming year yet, but learning to swim is in the top of the list.
Another thing is to register myself to "Donating my Eyes", So that when I die, someone gets a chance to see how beautiful this world is.. :)
Btw, did you know that today is the longest day of the year [ Day is longer than the night ],
So - effectively mine is the longest Birth"Day".. Yay! :)
Current Location: Home
Current Mood:  good
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| Jun. 8th, 2009 03:01 pm Inside the Womb The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together,
billions of decisions have been made.
A thing like that has to come from entropy
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Yesterday watched this 1 hour documentary called "In the Womb". A program from NatGeo but I had got a copy of it from SS.
I am not a biology student so do not know much about it. Just the basics which I could grab before 10th std !
I cant believe the number of intricate steps that happen inside this once Unknown World.
Cannot believe that it all starts from a Single Cell.. So much of programming that goes within the mother's body. Tweaking her immune system to not reject this extra growth ,adjusting chemicals inside her to crave for food which provide essential vitamins to the baby. etc etc & so many more surprising activities.
It was shocking to know that the heart comes out first which would beat on its own rhythm until the brain comes into picture to take charge of it.
Finally the fluid from the lungs which marks a signal that the baby's body is all set to enter the real - which would trigger labor.
The complete process is Really Really Amazing.
All I can say is:
Dear God,
Great Job !!
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: surprised
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| May. 28th, 2009 10:07 pm Gone Bonkers !! I was refraining from posting this, but being extremely pressurized to..
Well, I did some research to find that I am not the only one suffering from it.
( Wonder what it is, read on ) Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: chipper
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| May. 20th, 2009 06:45 pm Do not give up !
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat
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Have you ever got into a situation where you are trying to set things right over & over again, but something or the other goes wrong every time..??
( Faced one such situation )
Current Location: Bangalore
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| May. 17th, 2009 11:14 pm Setting Record Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records
---------------------------------------- During the last 36 hours - I have slept only for like 2.5 hours..
That's a record in my life & a shocker to me.
And I really hope & pray that I never get any chance in the future to ever break this record !! Not even come anywhere close to it..
Gah!! All Groggy, dizzy & tipsy now... More than what I was last night when I was ----------------------------
Goodnight All...
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz..
Current Location: my bed
Current Mood:  sleepy
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| May. 8th, 2009 02:56 pm Rain, Rain - Go Away
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain
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Went home for a good 4 day long vacation.. If you ask "what did u do going back home", I'd say "Nothing". No, really..
I do absolutely nothing.. [ hey, I am not denying being a lazy bum ]. So much, that out of the 4 days, I was out of home only for 2 hours, that too to a restaurant which is 20 steps away from my home, to meet up with some friends..
Anyways, Like all good things come to an end, so did my trip. Started back to Bangalore on Monday night [ cos the buses wont be that crowded, like during the weekends ]. Like always, I had booked the non-window (aisle) seat, cos I have had countless bad experiences of sitting in the window seat. U can find all worst possible windows, the lose, the leaky & sometimes the missing ones too..
So, this 70 year old citizen is sitting at the window & picked up some conversation during which I got to know that he was in the educational department when he was in service. I had a bunch of bad stuff to tell him as my feedback towards the system, but kept quite since I knew it was of no use.
After a while it starts to drizzle & chilly wind gushes in, even through the closed windows. This elderly gentleman requests me to swap the seats. I was soo not willing to - but I could not deny him. Sometimes you know that you are digging your grave, but still cant help it.. I was in one such situation. Also at the back of my mind - had the unbreakable confidence on the climate of Bellary that the drizzling would stop in no time & it 'll get warm again.
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Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood:  annoyed
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| Apr. 28th, 2009 02:22 pm What do you think ? A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into
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It was a picture taken exactly four years ago. Me, Ask & SJN were on a major picture taking spree during the last few days of Engineering College days. An attempt to capture those wonderful moments forever.
This has been on my cupboard in my hostel room during my B.E days.
Don't know from how long its been there, but sure from quite a few years.
You may wanna enlarge it to read what it says..
( Have a Look )
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Parineeta - Raat Hamari To
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| Apr. 24th, 2009 02:23 pm Movie Updates A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Some of the movies I recently saw recently..
Shutter
The Thai horror Movie with English subtitles ( Not too many dialogues anyway).. Me, MM & CS Watched at home in the small screen with an additionally attached woofer surround sound system [lights off by the way].. Was nice fun watching the expressions on the faces of these two[which was vaguely visible from the light coming from the screen], more than the movie..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440803/
A good movie, no wonder they are re-doing the same movie in English http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482599/
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Devil Wears Prada
I wanted to watch "Gods Must Be Crazy", but had to give in when my roommate forced for this one.. I started with a tinge of disinterest, which vanished after a very short while.
I liked the movie, more so because of the message it passed.. Some people do not realize what they want in life. Some do realize but do not opt for it due to whatever reason. Only a few do realize & act upon it. Those who believe that nothing is worth more than peace of mind..
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X-Men (latest)
Was in Mysore & my friend had the unrated version of the same in DVD quality, watched a few scenes & got totally disgusted with the unprofessional picturization. One could see that the animation is hopeless, we can actually see the ropes tied to the actors when there is a scene that deals with the actor falling off the height.. Gah! We decided not to continue watching it.
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Fast & the Furious
Well, haven't watched it completely. Saw the first scene with the same friend in Mysore in his laptop & decided that we will watch it in big screen sometime.. lol.
Current Location: office, friday noon
Current Mood: sleepy
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| Apr. 19th, 2009 05:11 pm Illusion Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one
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After a lot of reluctance, I wore this T-Shirt after a long time.
I had got it 2.5 years ago in Finland & used to wear it only in closed circuits for the obvious reason.
( Read more... )Current Location: Jayanagar; Bangalore
Current Mood:  blah
Current Music: Gudgudee
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| Apr. 13th, 2009 03:05 pm Falling in Love
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
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It was early August last year.
I had come to India on a 2 weeks business trip. My Team Lead in San Diego had asked me to get some Indian Artifact to him.
Cauvery Emporium was the first one to come to mind - to buy any such stuff. Been there and after choosing for a while, bought some hand made silk wall poster.
The lady at the cash counter took her own sweet time to finish billing.
When I was walking out, my eyes fell on the 3 feet idol standing on my right side facing the glass panel & looking at the MG Road. I could not help but to come back & take a closer look.
It was a beautiful idol of MahaVishnu [ Hindu God ] made of PanchaLoha [ alloy of Five metals ].
I just fell in love with it. It looked so Majestic that I couldn't get my eyes off it, until I saw the price tag.. lol..
The reason to post about it now is my last night's dream where I saw the same idol. But for some reason it was placed in my college hostel room which I have left 4 years ago.. Tah !
Couldn't find anything in the net which looked exactly like that. The one I saw was atleast a 100 times more beautiful & elegant than the one attached here.
Err, the title of the post was chosen deliberately.. :)
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: calm
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| Apr. 3rd, 2009 02:12 pm It Started !! Its a gory atmosphere around me.
My cubicle is right in front of the Site-Head/ Director, next to which are a couple of meeting rooms.
After last week's transfer of some employees to Radware, we did know the news that there will be some layoffs today.
Saw our HR working extensively yesterday till late evening, preparing the exit letters in on of the nearest meeting rooms in front of me.
What was unknown was the exact list of people who would leave.
Its not a good scene to see people being taken to the Director's room or one of the meeting rooms by the HR.
Not good !!
Well, No one knows whose number will be coming next and when.
Blah! No point worrying about something which I don't have a control upon.
Best wishes to the ones departing.. Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood:  crappy
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| Mar. 13th, 2009 12:22 pm 13 B Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why some don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule
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A good friend of mine "CS" is going through a thin phase of life. To while away his loneliness & to get him out of his depressing thoughts, we [CS, MM & me] thought to meet up for a movie..
I wanted to watch 13B but the timing of the show was 6:40pm which was supposedly tough for the other two to make it. So, we finally fixed up to watch "Milk" at 7:30pm.. Tickets were not booked but planned to book it on the spot.
The plan:- MM was supposed to pick me up & CS to book it at Garuda-Inox..
Fate had a different plan. Exactly the time when we wanted to start, it started raining out of nowhere.. So, the plan had to be (sort of) canceled.
However, we asked CS to come home rather than getting back home & get bored. By the time he came home it was 8ish. After a decent
dinner, we thought to watch some movie at the other INOX in Jayanagar.
Went over there, booked the tickets for the 10pm show. 13 B was the better option of the other movies, [ though the other two were reluctant ] Well, we were 45 min early to the show. The plan to while away the time roaming around the mall was a failure since they were all set to shut down.
It was sort of drizzling & CS came up with the thought of having Chai (tea) !
Went out to the street in search of a tea stall. After walking a distance we did find one teeny-tiny place, serving hot tea !
It was a good experience - sipping hot tea - standing in the not-so-reliable shelter of the tarpaulin, watching the rain drops.
Well, went back & got inside the multiplex only to find that there are hardly any people. So, we could sit in any seat which we preferred & in whatever pose.. :P
Movie was fine, not really scary. But it was great fun to see these two guys sitting next to me - getting scared at some scenes, to the extent of screaming.. ROFL..
It was close to 1am when we went back home. Had a nice time pulling their leg - about their incessant screaming..
Over all a nice evening, shared some laughs, grabbed a bite, talked our hearts out.. Was apparent that CS was surely feeling better.
Goes in as one of the memorable chapters in the book of my life..
Oh Btw, I loved one thing in the movie: The way, they make "13" out of everyone's name ( cast & crew of the movie) which is being displayed at the beginning of the movie )
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Mar jawa - Fashion
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| Mar. 6th, 2009 10:57 am Health Consciousness !?!
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained
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Last evening I had been to a provision store close to my home to buy some stuff.
There was a lady, in her mid thirties standing in front of me in the line & was yelling at the shop keeper at the top of her voice. So much so, that I could have probably heard her sitting back at office which is around 8 miles away.. :P
Her concern was that the ''baking soda'' bought by her the previous evening is near expiry.. The date of packaging was July 2008 & its written on the packet that "Its best before an year of Packing".
The shop keeper tried hard to convince her that therez still 4 months to go & its a substantially small packet to last beyond 4 months.
But in vain. Some people are born to win and some are destined to lose. She surely belonged to the first category.
I was a lil shocked now to see that people these days are so over consciousness about their health.
The shopkeeper had no way to win the argument, hence he went ahead to return the money.
This lady stops him and tells him "Instead of the money, give me RAJU SUPAARI for the equivalent amount"
I was all the more shocked now !! Health Consciousness - such a misconception !!
Current Location: office, Bangalore
Current Mood: shocked
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| Mar. 3rd, 2009 03:45 pm Weekend Updates
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world
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Had been home over the weekend [ Well, its been a little over 3 months since I am back to Bangalore & I was in Bangalore only for like 3 weekends ]
A few unwanted relatives were at home which motivated me to stay away from home to the maximum extent possible. Normally I wouldn't go home if any such relatives are visiting.
But this time there was no other go, since I had to attend a school friend's wedding on Friday..
Luckily a childhood friend of mine had also turned up & that saved me from getting bored to death.
We did roam around, met a few friends there, ate different styles of food. Amongst all - the Rajasthani ROTA's were completely new to me. Dint even know how to eat them.. Was trying to eat it like a Laddu, but damid - one is supposed to crush it into powder & the eat with the curry.. No wonder why that Marwadi uncle sitting in front of us was giggling so much.. :-|
Watched this Telugu movie "Arundhati".. An absolute fiction based movie which you are supposed to watch by turning off all the logic gates & circuits of your brain.. [ This holds good for all movies these days anyways ]
The cinematography & the graphics are good. Story though fictious - is somewhat enjoyable & the screenplay is extremely good & keeps you hooked..
The fact that I watched it in an Air Conditioned balcony seat by shedding only 40 Rs [ < 1USD ], made me like it more.. Lol..
Though the movie is supposed to be an absolute fiction, it was less fictious in comparision to the latest bollywood flick "Chandni Chowk to China" :p
Movie Review
Current Location: office
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Fashion Ka Jalwa
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| Feb. 26th, 2009 12:10 pm Change
Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.
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Its been a while since I stood inactive in LJ..
Wanted to jot down something but thought to try my hands on poetry (which had taken a loooong break too )
I notice that a lot of things around me have changed. People whom I thought I knew very well, Suddenly seem unfamiliar & even hard to gel, Of course not all, but a few, Some old; some, not so new. ------ Destination, back then seemed near; though the path was yet to get clearer, Now the path is right here; but the goal is not anymore dearer. Things seem dull; those which once, made me glee, Is it the world; or is the change, just in me. ------
Faith was strong, with hopes along, Now unsure of what is right; where I went wrong. Not to give up but to fight, is the option I choose, Worrying not – if ‘m born to win or destined to lose. ----------- Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: blank
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| Jan. 30th, 2009 05:00 pm Weekend Updates Weekends: A festival most of us celebrate regardless of our caste, creed and religion
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Haven't been able to update from a long time..
Lots of teenzy weenzy beautiful things did happen in life, but will update only the two very memorable ones..
Last Weekend:
I was home since it was a long weekend. 3 days of utter laziness, great home food and uninterrupted bombing in ClanBomber.
if you are wondering what "ClanBomber" is; its a small computer game which I am totally addicted to (these days)..
It had been a while since I went home last time ( close to 2 months [ It is long considering the fact that I visited home 3 a year when I was in US, once in 2 months is too long a time )
Was great to catch up with friends. [ Err, Some friends whom I never met after high school, whose name was wiped out of my very limited memory ( feel very miserable & ashamed when I cant remember them, but they are updated even to the point that I have quit Nokia) ]
Gah! Dear God, you either have to give me more memory & recollecting power or reduce that of my friends.. ;)
A weekend before that:
Had been to "Samarthanam", an organization for the physicaly challenged. [ They have a website too, which for some reason is not working now :( ]
It was a nice experience teaching the visually impaired kids over there. They wanted me to teach them Kannada Literature and that too some poetry.. I know to read & write Kannada, but explaining some poem - not my cup of tea.
Well, no looking back now.. So, asked them to get a guide [which has all the summary of the poem & the answers to the questions in the text book ] :)
Happily read it out for them, explained the things which I could understand, read out the questions & answers. They seemed to understand what I was able to convey & gave me the shock of my life, by asking me to visit more often to teach them some Poetrical-PLAY called Ekalavya.. I am seriously scared cos I am not good at decoding the hidden meanings & explanations in those really tricky lines.. :(
It was great fun though.
Sadly, haven't been able to visit them again. Should make some time over this weekend..
Ekalavya !! I am coming....
Have a nice weekend..
Current Location: office, Bangalore
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| Jan. 15th, 2009 02:36 pm The Fun of Economy Got this one as a forward:
Nice one..
2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street Jay Leno
3. The difference between a pigeon and a London investment banker . The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW
4. What's the difference between a guy who lost everything in Las Vegas and an investment banker ? A tie
5. The problem with investment bank balance sheet is that on the left side nothing's right and on the right side nothing's left.
6. I want to warn people from Nigeria who might be watching our show, if you get any e mails from Washington asking for money, it's a scam. Don't fall for it - Jay Leno
7. Bush was asked about the credit crunch. He said it was his favourite candy bar - Jay Leno
8. The rescue bill was about 450 pages. President Bush's copy is even thicker. They had to include pictures Jay Leno
9. President Bush's response was to meet some small business owners in San Antonio last week. The small business owners are General Motors, General Electric and Century 21. - Jay Leno
10. What worries me most about the credit crunch, is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped 'insufficient funds'. I won't know whether that refers to mine or the bank's.
NEW STOCK MARKET TERMS
CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry.
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
Current Location: Office, Bangalore
Current Mood: amused
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| Jan. 11th, 2009 10:51 am Happy Birthday
Wishing the lady (whom I love the most), a Very Happy Birthday & a Prosperous Year ahead..
Happendd to see a short note on Mother:
When I came drenched in the rain, my brother scolded "why dont you carry an umbrella with you"..
My sister yelled "why dint you wait till the rain stopped"
My dad angrily said "you will realize only after falling ill"
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My Mother, as she was drying my hair with her saree was shouting, not at me but the rain..
--Anonymous
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: good
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| Jan. 9th, 2009 04:47 pm Task Kill Been down with fever for 2 days after a good 600km long motorbike trip to Chikmaglur..
I know I am yet to update atleast 3 of my trips here, lot more journals which I have to read & reply..
Just thought to scribble down something quick while I am waiting for a colleague to go out for a coffee..
Of late I have realized that I forget to log-off GoogleTalk in my office desktop when I am leaving for the day. When I come the next day morning I could see quite a lot of offline messages from quite a many people.. By now they probably are of the opinion that I have quite a lot of headweight to not care about responding to them.. hehe..
Well, in my previous company we had an internal chat application from IBM, which was designed such that - if you log in from any machine, you would be automatically logged out of the other machine where u may have previously logged in. Sadly GoogleTalk lacks that feature..
The only way I could see to handle this is to write a trivial batch file to kill GoogleTalk process and schedule for the execution of this batch file every day at around the time when I leave office for the day..
The seemingly dumb solution seems to work great for me.. :) Current Location: Office, Bangalore
Current Mood: calm
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| Dec. 30th, 2008 04:03 pm SavanDurga - Christmas Day Trip..
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers :-)
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Now that some of our friends were busy & could not take off on the working Friday 26th Dec, we decided to start our planned trip on Friday evening. This meant that we had the whole Thursday - the 25th to do something else.
6 of us, with 3 two wheelers, hit on the road to SavanDurga, which is around 70km from Bangalore, to climb up the rocky hill.
We were supposed to start at 5:30am but ended up starting at 7:30..
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Current Location: 560001
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Taare Zameen Par
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