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| Nov. 26th, 2009 04:36 pm Youth kills himself over Google Wave
I know Google Wave is going to be bigger than anything else on internet. And being unable to understand its features fully, I feel like a loser and find myself unworthy of this life. I simply cannot show this miserable countenance to my friends and family. Thus I fully own the responsibility of ending my life and hope to be reborn with a brain fully compatible with Google Wave,” the note reads..
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Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood:  cold
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| Nov. 24th, 2009 03:00 pm A date to remember Its exactly been a year since I came back to India.
I have enjoyed every moment here thoroughly, not a single minuscule of repentance about my decision to come back by leaving a permanent job in the US.
This has been one of the fastest year in my life.
The previous year - a one year stint in the US made me realize the difference between LIVING & Surviving. It taught me how to value those teeny tiny things which adds more value to my life.
Making it more meaningful & enjoyable.
The post would be incomplete without mentioning some things in the US which I do miss:- The good wide roads, the smooth traffic, the high speed internet and the huge pacific ocean which was just 7 miles away from my apartment.
More later..
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood:  good
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| Oct. 27th, 2009 02:02 pm Rural BPO - Suggest a name Ok, the title says it all.. :)
Pls put down some suggestions here, for the name of a Rural BPO which will be set up in some village in Karnataka..
The winner MAY get a free lunch from my side.. :) Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood:  thoughtful
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| Oct. 21st, 2009 02:30 pm Hello Was away from LJ for quite some time now.
Been busy.
Life has been going smooth, got into quite a few activities.
Some to just kill time & some which will have a good positive impact on quite a few rural literates.
Will update more on this shortly.
Belated Diwali wishes to you all.
Cheers! Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: calm
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| Aug. 11th, 2009 12:52 pm Incredible India
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature,
to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
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Its nothing new that me & a couple of my friends talk about going abroad on a trip.
Most of my friends gang have seen some part of the foreign countries & still want to see more of it.
I guess most of us do, don't we ?
Just happened to watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWeBVBqo2c
Felt that a lot of India itself is unexplored by me, a lot to see, feel, celebrate & cherish.. :)
Cheeers !!
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: good
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| Aug. 9th, 2009 05:40 pm Got to change my weekend routine
“Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become”
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Have not been socializing much these days for "whatever" reasons.
Weekends I spend at home, watching TV, or some movie on the laptop and sleep a lot ofcourse.
Sleeping was a part of my weekends always, but evening & noons - I used to be more active..
Been a while since I met quite a lot of friends.
Got to change myself & my useless routine. Serves no point to anyone.
Change is definitely around the corner !! Current Location: India, Bangalore
Current Mood: bored
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| Aug. 7th, 2009 02:15 pm Something Special
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique
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Did you realize? 56 seconds past 12:34 pm today was special...
Try to guess the reason ! :-)
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: working
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| Jul. 31st, 2009 09:16 am Congratulations
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on
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Hearty Congratulations to the new mommy ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sdeepthi & her family..
Current Location: Bangalore
Current Mood: happy
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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.
( Read more... )
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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