Mixed Bag

Here i am and this is me and no where esle to write...la la la...

I have lot of things to write about right from being part of the biggest release i have seen so far to finally applying for a credit card and planning for trips and accomplishing my first financial goal and successfully completing 2 years in my professional career and feeling good about playing cricket and Obama becoming president as if i care..he he..and lots more..

Now i started new year with luck on my side,friends gathered and we kept playing uno and with luck on my side and using a bit of smartness was really playing good..Deprived of sleep and being hungry reached home at 6 to get bisi bisi dosas from mom...yummy and then slpet till 12 45 till i got a call from my friend who wanted me to be with her for the day..so got up got fresh and went to pizza hut and then to new megamart at Devegowda petrol bunk...i must admit it is better than brand factory and has real good collection..day passed by..i would call it a good begining..

The biggest thing that has happened so far in my professioanl career has been the last 2 months where i have had ample opportunity to learn and understand lot of things..i just can't explain how exciting journey it was but the result has been wonderful and really i feel elated to see Injoos.com now..let me just give u few snippets..i don't think ever in any company a founder sits next to you and suggests font colors,sizes and structure..we literally designed and developed a corporate site in not more than 3 days..then u have a senior who just estimates the effiency before u even complete ur question..then the CEO hust keeps giving lot of valuable information and feedback..He is certainly a welath of valuable knowledge..In brief i am enjoying my professional life..

Then i shaved my head at Tirupathi and happy with my new hairdo...he he..have no clue why i did it but it feels good..

On 11 jan i completed my 2 years in my career and feels good..Finally i applied for credit card..Got an HSBC bank savings account..

I have always wanted to visit certain places and never have been able to go there yet..the first one is Coorg..i have decided on this place for as many as 5 times and never been there..Hampi is one more place i want to visit but have never planned for it..Goa!!!!No comments..

Let me see i am hoping to see atleast one of these places this year..

Going to Wonderla for sure this year..come what may.. 

Too bored to blog..Ciao..Sorry for a bad blog post

Another year passed by...

A good saturday..getting up late cos i slept at five in the morning..getting up to a call from a friend telling Dravid is on 96 made me just forget sleep and rush to the tv and getting mesmerized by his strokes had breakfast and lazily lying on the bed watching 2 absorbing test matches..finally i washed my vehicle, had shave and got ready finally at 4..went to brand factory and did a bit of shopping..hogged and came back..watched half of Jaane tu.. movie with parents..love this time i spend with my parents..i wish i could stay and be more with my parents..ah now i just look back at the year 2008..not sure about an adjective the year..good,bad and ugly..seen it all..Given an option i wouldn't wish for this kind of an year..Now let me just hit some chip on my memory and jot down all major happenings month wise..

January...First month of the year..month to begin new things and make resoultions..nah..i don't believe in all this..every day is good to start something new or make some good resolution..was excited cos i would be completing my first year at work on january 11..oh ya Dravid's bday..little did i know that i wouldn't be completing my second year in the same company..nothing really exciting happened considering that my closest buddies are busy with their own life..anyway month just passed by with me enjoying work fixing some bugs and doing some chota mota enhancements..

February..month of love..again crap..there shouldn't be a month or day or time for love..it should be always there..ok stopping the non sense here..i donno why but i suddenly wanted to learn php just cos my manger told that i could be working on some php project..little did i know that php would land me in my present job..made my conscious efforts to study php but enthu lasted for 3 days :-) but i did make significant progress atleast i could code something in php..then one of our colleagues was getting married so i had to fill in for him and had to do QA on his behalf..it was fun..it was real fun finding bugs and fighting it out with the developers..celebrated couple of my friend's birthdays..some treats still pending..too bad this year has been..very few treats or outings..

March...this month alwyas reminds of 10th exams and India vs Australia,Kolkata tesr..anyway the php project did come and the cleint i was interacting was a genius in open source technologies..he did give me some gyaan about open source and all..seriously a gem of a guy..project went good with good amount of help from my good old friend..by this time i was feeling confident of being able to do any kind of work..couple of friends actually gave a treat but i don't even remember where and when..strange..

April..yay yay..birthday month..Its believed that people in this month are actually extra intelligent and make fool out of others..must be true!!!
bday was good but that is when i started hearing rumours about Epsilon India being shut down and all..but me being an eternal optimist or something i wasn't ready to hear all that..i guess it was me and one more guy who always kept some positive energy around among all freshers..A very important event took place..the girl whom i love(d) the most got married and damn i wasn't invited also..let it be..may she have a wonderful life..may be she will name her kid sanjay or sanjana..hopes!!!!

May..nothing great happened except character set enhancement and rumours on Epsilon being closed down..we had been to a nice camp called 'Doddamakli'..had a very relaxing holiday..wish to go on such holidays..all wishes won't come true..

June..i got into a project which involved html,css,photoshop(tool which i havent learnt completely yet)..it was too much stress man..used to work from morning 11 to 2 and sometimes 3..this is the time when my team lead taught me a lot of tricks and those have helped me a lot..the perfection he seeks..hmm..admirable..
One more friend celebrated his bday without a treat..Oh Ya two of my friends got engaged and to each other..

July..project continued and nothing else happened as there was no time.. news got confirmed that Epsilon India was certainly going to close down..ok..time to prepare resume and attended 3 interviews..first one was total crap at cricinfo..totally unprofessional..second one was screwing..after the interview i just felt like going back to school..third one interview only didn't take place cos the consultant had messed it up and they were not using technolgies i had know..but can be called a dream company for me..i just wished i would get a job there someday..the feeling went away when i joined Injoos :-)..my team lead got a job and couple of other guys closed in their offers..i was getting panicky until i found this nice consultant who is still a friend to me ..she scheduled 7 interviews in a week and i attended 3 and got into the first company..and cleared one more as well..was more than happy..so it was time to bid good bye to all my colleagues with whom i had fun for one and half years..

August..one by one colleagues were leaving and that was my last month at the company too..so all we used to do was go to office at 12.. have lunch at 1..tea at 3..roam around comm street at 4 and head back home at 8..was good fun until last week i was stuck up at some project..in fact last 2 days were screwing..underwent a minor surgery mid of the month..

September..i joined Injoos with my friend who has been with me since my first pu..its strange but true we have landed up in the same pu college..engg college..first comapany and second comapany also same..sometimes its nice to have someone whom u know from a long time around..atleast someone has been stuck with me for this long donno if it is by choice or by chance:-)..but he is good company speaks non stop,full of energy and excitement..most ppl say its difficult to stay with him but i have always felt comfortable and ahppy being with him cos he is simple,straight forward..oh oh ok no testimonials here...orkut is the place for that..new workplace but its just too good..love everything from office palce to food and cool drinks there..more importantly people over there..everyone are passionate about work and that is what makes a good and successful workplace..i woud anyday argue that hardwork with passion always bears sweet fruits atleast after my engineering i strongly believe in this..so got too engrossed in work and i love it..i released my first code as well just wondered if i had joined some big company how long it would have taken for me to submit my first code..

October..month of marriages..my friends got married and to each other :-)..my brothers got married but not to each other..so thre marriages all in all..i lost my grandpa..this was the first death i saw and it has had a very huge imapct on my life..i loved my grandpa a lot..he was an introvert but he always had storeis about his life to tell me..i don't think anyone else knows so much about him as i know..i probably am the only grand child of him who has been fortunate to get chocolates and stuff from him..past three years the things he used to do was sleep or fight with me but most of the times for fun..at the age of 88 his sharpness of words was unmatched for..i was fortnate to have grown up with my parents and grandparents so i have been brought up with lot of pampering and the best of 2 generations..i am what i am cos of them..all i can say is he is no more with us and wish that he would be happy whereever he is..great loss..

novemeber..all my grandpa's ceremonies were taking place..i would say that more than losing a person doing and following all rituals and procedures hurt more..
Release kept happening at work..one of my friends got engaged..

Decemeber..Injoos getting ready for beta release..am excited and happy..had an opportunity to design our corporate website and it was like a dream come true as i always wanted to develop a site all on my own..i loved it and felt real happy when i got good ratings from my ex team lead and a good friend..the comments from my friend was overwhelming.. he certainly deserves a mango juice for it..going to Tirupati..the next best place to home in this world for me..Coming back and expecting a better year..

Would call this year a losing year for me..
Lost my first job(i was not kicked out i resigned before company shut down)
Lost my grandpa..
Dravid had a bad year..has probably lost his position in ODI forever..
Kumble retired..so lost some spice in cricket..
Lost lots of fun cos friends are busy..supporting this with statistics on an average we used to have about 6 treats but this reduced to one this year..
we are 3 friends who have been meeting each other on an average of 7 times a month to once in 2 months..smses or calls have reduced to single digits this year..not sure what else to say..

Have a happy new year..

Show terror to terrorists

I don't watch tv much but from past 4 days i have been glued to tv to know what has been happening in Mumbai,i still can't believe that anyone can enter my country with loads of guns and grenades and attack my countrymen,is the security so bad!!!But its happened and let us make sure it doesn't happen.

On wednesday night around 11 in the night terrorists just drove in the roads of Mumbai firing their guns at people and then they enter Taj ,Oberoi,Narimaan house and hold captives and kill many people inside.Some policemen tried their best to fight the terrorists but ashamed to say that terrorists were well equipped than our policemen and due to such incapable equpments many of the able policemen had to sacrifice their own lives.In India NSG(National Security Guards) are all at one city,i still wonder the reasoning behind that,is it to save accomodation and training costs?if so it is at the cost of many innocent Indian lives.In India everything right from declaring birth of a baby to cremate a body needs permission or authorisation from the government and so orders were needed from some politician for the NSG to be drafted to work at Mumbai..Man!!!Give me a break why the hell should NSG wait for orders for some politician who wouldn't even know what NSG is meant for.Yes its midnight and the minister is sleeping and it takes time for the order to be issued and finally when such an order is made there is delay in getting transport for these guys.Fine all said and done they reach there and the hotels don't even have the construction plan,yes that is quite obvious in India,construction plan is needed only to get approval to construct a building and all the official does is take money based on the amount of violation on the plan and construction is done,so there is no concrete construction plan.So now with no clue as to what is in store for them inside and they can't even strategically plan their attack nor can they speculate the movements of terrorists and they enter to save people.The operations are being carried out.

Just spare a thought for the people who are inside stuck and for the families of those who are stuck in there,they would feel so helpless and people inside aren't sure whether they would come out alive or not.Then come the politicians..why on earth do they want to come to the scene of terror as Harsha Bhogle rightly asked "How many terrorists would a politicain kill if he comes there?Is he of any help or just a nuisance out there?"I think the second option suits the action.I hear so many people talking about movements and strikes and stuff but is anything being done about it.People forget about it after a week,in India i see more people in the category of "Baaton ka raja kaamon ka koja".Come on people and media just stop talking,do if u can or just stop talking.All should understand that its the people in power who can do something and not the normal man so make sure you put the right ppl there but if you feel there is no worthy person to be there take an intiative or identify an able person and try to get him into power.
its very easy to talk and point fingers but its difficult to put it into action.

From all this my personal experience is i am hurt and very sad,i can't stop crying looking at the scenes on tv and my blood boils but i am helpless,i can't do a thing and that hurts.All i can do is hope that people who are suppossed to do something about this will work and do something.
As a normal man i would prefer not be afraid of terrorism and be scared to go out or something,the motive of terrorists is to scare the normal man so don't let their motive succeed.NDTV made a big epsiode saying BigB has written a blog where he has written that he had kept a gun below his pillow and felt insecure,i don't feel anything right about it.
I hate the name gievn to them,we should never be terrified by their actions but we should make sure they get terrified for what they have done.

A word for terrorists:I heard a conversation of an involved terrorist with one of the journalists and i donno if its genuine or not,in it the terrorist was saying that muslims are being ill treated in India but i don't know how much educated these people are,i would just like to mention that India has progressed not only because of Hindus but cos of Indians and our ex President Abdul Kalam is a muslim,we have nearly 5 muslims in Indian cricket team,our highest paid and popular actor is a muslim SRK and we have top entraupauners who are muslims Azim Premiji.So i donno who have mind fucked these kids who are just 18 -22 years.And these people talk about being brave,yes i agree they don't care about their lives and attack but if they were really brave they wouldn't have attacked innocent people,they would have declared a war and fought.
Hey cowards my middle finger to you.

Conclusion:I salute to people who have sacrificed their lives to save the people and my heart feels for people who lost their near and dear ones.
I don't want any martyrs for my conutry,i want my country to be safe.

Journey called Life.

I know that the title sounds too heavy but all i want to write about now is some aspects of my life which has constantly changed.

By reading most of my posts you would have by now realized that am a narcissist and should tell you that a proud one as well.

Let me just trace back my life right from my school days and try to figure out the confidence quotient of mine.

Till my class 8th i have no clue how i was studying,all i knew was my dad used to ask me questions..every question and every subject and i used to answer,never did i study or read on my own,i still wonder how i could answer..was i so attentive in class??I have no clue but this is how i was till 8th so i didn't even know what confidence actually was back then.

In my 9th standard is when i started to study on my own and believe me it was one of the worst nightmares of my life.During the study holidays i used to study from 6 in the morning to 12 in the night without any break or anything and that is easily the hardest i have worked and that resulted in my worst performance ever,i landed in higher 60's somewhere in 68% i guess but before that consistently i was in higher 80's,pretty close to 90..So my confidence was dented very badly and the same year i was about to give my 10th exams!!!What did i do???did i work harder!!No all i did was relax and took studies more lightly and i did do well.got my confidence and good marks as well i scored 91.52%,one of the highest of my performances till then .

I joined college and whole of 1 puc all i did was come back from college just have a glance of what was done on the day and studies became simple and easy.
Second puc i joined tuitions(one of the best in Bangalore) and the way coaching was being done and the intensity of the routine broke my confidence and i doubted myself about doing well in exams but this didn't last long,i had college from 10 - 3:30 and tuitions from 5:30 to 9:15 so i had no time to study but that is when i became nocturnal and used to study till 2 in the night.I did get good marks and did well in cet as well though i couldn't get within 1000 which haunts me forever.

Next when i came to engg,i was confident and at the same time hard and smart working but my results never show that,i have been an average student according to marks in BE but i always felt i was much better than that but never did the marks dampen my confidence but in fact it pushed me to work harder.

I joined work and attended training for about 15 days,i swear i understood nothing other than 3 data types in perl and theory of oracle and everything else was much beyond me but i learnt html and css to good extent but little did i knew then that i would be working in the Ui team,i am very grateful for getting opportunity in that field.For about 4 months did some internal projects and through that i learnt a bit and then our academic project had to be completed in 10 days and worked real hard and then is when i got good knowledge about db,emb perl and javascript,i felt i wasn't so bad in my technical skills. Once college got over and got into full time work,i was fed up and lost confidence since i didn't have any worthwhile work for nearly 5 months,i got restless and had lost confidence cos didn't farewell in evaluation test so thought of qutting but that is when my team lead explained about the industry and told that we can't expect work always in an IT industry,i stuck there and for the next 5 months from then got good amount of work,but next six months is when i shaped my career to where i am now,i had to work on a php project,so learnt basics of php and did that and then some good enhancements were handed over to me and then building couple of decent websites,i had to toil and work real hard to get the concepts and implement them as well.It helped to grow better.So confidence was back

Then i joined my current company,i loved the atmosphere and the kind of work i would be into but at the same time had the pressure to perform cos the 3 other developers were just too brilliant and i always consider myself an average guy and i think that is what pushes me to work hard and do good.I have been part of about 3 releases now and i should say i am pretty happy and confident about myself,i never knew that i could be so good technically and i am loving the job,i like the atmosphere here and the freedom,the releases are very aggressive but i still don't see any time constraint for myself,in fact i am loving my work so much that i have always been in front of my laptop working if not in front of my lappy my mind is thinking about solving an issue or something,

Got no clue again as to why i wrote this post..

Sanjay Ke Thande Funde

These are some witty lines which has come to my mind during conversations or while driving or reading or playing or surfing or bathing.I have put some of them here and this post will be getting updated.


*I am bad at English but others i know are badder

*Everyone are entitled to their opinion no matter how stupid they are or how stupid it may seem to others.

*When a friend calls you out,just cross check if his/her gf/bf is busy,their vehicle is broken down or there is a shortage of vehicle or there is a need from you then you will understand the depth of your friendship.

*He who owes you nothing will always remain your friend,so that he can owe from you anytime.

*In olden days bus stops provided shelter for many homeless and needy and it still does but now for the college guys.

*Life is a game so everyone plays but with others lives.

*If every girl finds her own guy as it is happening in cities now,social crimes like dowry and abortion rates will go down.

*If there isn't a stop on the growth of the number of mobile phones,Government will introduce tax on them too.

Absolutely Confused!!!!!!!!!

What am i going through??Whats running on my mind??What am i feeling???Am i undergoing hormonal and enzyme changes..is it me going out of adolescence..or is it growing up..or becoming responsible..or taking up responsibility..or getting ready for personal commitment..or am i desperate..or is it just boredom..or am i finding new ways to spend money and while away time..or is it something more serious!!!as the title goes am totally absolutely soulfully and truthfully confused...

yes i confess that atleast once in a day i think about having a serious girlfriend(this with due respects to all my existing and historic girlfriends..he he) but whats that i need to do to have one...Crap!!whatever it is i am too lazy..let the right girl make her own way into my life..no no..i don't want to take chances.."This is my life and i am damn serious about it"..straight from RHTDM..absolutely baseless in this context...but sounded nice so added it..ok yeah that happens daily so what should i do..as far as i am concerned nothing..but i hope this isn't wrong..cos i have doubts whether its the right way to deal with it..lets come back to this later..first lets see the history behind this...

I have 2 very very close friends and baddi maklu..one is getting married and one has a gf since 3 years..has this company corrupted the innocent mind of me..may be..bad boys..ya getting a bit serious..yes i also think so that its nice to have female company especially when u msg ur friends for freaking out and they think twice..am not complaining..just writing my feelings out..

advantages:u get sweet smses always..frequent calls..ANYTIME company..kills boredom..ample care and concern..an able guide at times...constant encouragement and a permanent sure shot fan..confidence booster..

disadvantages:u get sweet smses always..frequent calls..always company..u get bored after a while..monotony..too much care and concern..too much bossy..too much interfernce..no space..CAN'T flirt..over expectation and the list just goes on..

it just depends on the way u look at things..

I am aimlessly going on typing here..why am i writing this post...huff..this is worse than "God tussi great ho" movie i guess...

ok...i think i got this thought cos of some parental pressure to get married and high quality boredom over some weekends..

On the more serious front..i think there is atleast an year to go before i get ready for the phase of my life..

On whether i would find a girl myself or not..mostly not..i would give my parents the deserved preivilage and i would approve if i like her..(i seriously donno till when this would be valid) i have loved one girl and she is happily married so i don't have any other choice i guess..

One thing is very sure..i am not looking for a girlfriend..if i find one i wouldn't ignore..

I have done all the things upto now at the right time and i would get this done at the perfect moment..

PS:Without having a "gf"..i experience the advantages and disadvantages i have mentioned thanks to my sweet friend...

after reading this post people may have hundred judgements about but who the hell cares..i write what i feel..i care to opinion or judgement of none..
Writing this post was really funny happy and felt real good..

Rules, Regulations and Laws in India

This is one of my favorite topics to debate on right from my school days.I guess i would have spoken about this to every relative who has spoken sense with me.

This topic came to my mind when one of my friends who was here from US was discussing about the accident he had and the compensation he received.The incident was like he was in his friend's car and a guy came and hit the car and ran away..within moments some 4 police cars arrived and one police car were checking on the guys in the car and other 3 went and got the guy and a case was filed and all the guys in the car got compensated..may be a wrong word cos none of them had any injury or loss but still compensated..Whatever but where as in India "hit n run" is a common scenario and forget about the person responsible for it getting caught the person injured won't even get help for hours in some cases.

There are 3 incidents that happened which are very serious and nothing has been done so far.
1.My friend's uncle was run down by a Charisse and he lost his life.Driver ran away and i guess the case is going on..donno when it will be closed.

2.My friend's car was hit by a private bus in one of the national highways and one of my friends is seriously injured and nothing has been done yet.I have heard from ppl there that private buses running down ppl is a very common scenario..Holy crap..

3.This is just too inhuman..one of my friends was driving his bike from Bangalore to Hassan and he was run down by some vehicle(none knows about the incident) and he was lying down there and rather than he getting some help he was hit on his head and robbed of his phone and other valuables..Wow..what a nice gesture.


I am not complaining about India or anything just wanting to know why law and order is not being maintained..Lack of people???

Ppl may argue saying US has less people so maintaing law and order is easy but y can't ppl understand that it is more necessary in India mainly cos of so much population.

And our constitution is so damn rotten old that a 16 year old can get a learner's liecence for a 50cc vehicle only.Can anyone tell me any existing 50cc vehicle...
Why can't ppl understand that everything has an expiry date..Politicians have been using Mercedes instead of ambassadors.Why can't constituion be altered based on need?

And corruption!!!!!I hate this bloody thing to the core..
I lost my mobile and early morning my dad went to lodge a complaint,the answer he gets is "Sir,early morning no business yet.."what does that mean???

If all these and such things are not taken care of India will be a developing nation forever with individual Indian swiss accounts being piled up..