Bros and Cons

Mr Mahajan fighting for his life....6th day into this ordeal....condition still critical says NDTV.com ...shot by his own younger brother....
A rare and shocking incident that sent a shiver down the spine of all who heard of it.....quite unimaginable in the recent times...and one that will go down in history...

Mystery, Family ties, Resentment,Money power...ring bells....and make some food for thought..

One of the best in his profession...only time will tell if things will be the same , like before saturday...

This is crazy!!!!!!!!

Some Out-Of-Office E-Mail Auto-Replies....by Dilbert! Undoubtedly the worlds best geek!

1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to
you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.

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am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have
received anything at all.

3. Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having
my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management.

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emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be
patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

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Any takers ????

Thnx ash for this mail!

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Bouncing back

Ahhh...feels nice to be back in the blogging arena after a long sabbatical (if I may call it that way).....hard to believe that its been more than a month since the last time I came up with something here...anyway...owe it all to my trip to Hyderabad, which ended 2 weeks later than the scheduled 1 week....and then bouncing back to the routine that I had left behind here...

A glimpse of hyderabad I managed to capture

City Awesome city!(Very neat , clean and beautiful)

Places I visitied Hussainsagar(massive and a beautiful lake , though it has awfully unclean on some parts!), Charminar(majestic , unbelievable architecture), AP Assembly House, The High Court.

Pearls Lots of them in different shapes and sizes (can get a good bargain, couldnt help but buy )

Bangles Laakh Bangles (embedded with glasses and stones in many colors)

Karachi Bakery Fruit Biscuits( Quite unique and authentic...made of dry fruits ..)

Favourite hangout place Hyderabad Central(much bigger than the Pune one).

The Best Dessert One of the best I've had...BullsEye at Ohris in HC ( A large piece of rich chocolate cake with a scoop of a vanilla ice-cream right in the middle of it...topped with chocolate sauce , mouthwatering....thnx to Bubun).

Biryani Paradise, Hyderabad House (Has branches in and around the city and is better than Paradise).

Rickshawalas Patented Indian Rickshawalas (Can take you on a joy ride!).

Jubilee Hills Home to the rich and famous of Hyderabad.

High-Tech City Home to the giants of the IT industry(interesting roads....get a F1 track illusion)

Salarjung Museum and the Golconda Fort are two things I missed out on..Hope to catch them on my next visit!

After slogging out almost 12-13 hours on weekdays, weekend expeditions in and around hyderabad got me this picture...

Now I am back to work , kind of relaxed lately(got back to office on monday), expecting some work to come along soon.

GoMgee

Happened to drop in at MG road to run an errand today....n had my first encounter with the "walking plaza"....n it was one nightmare that I'll remember for sometime..
It was a.k.a climbing a mountain...believe me....the turning near barista that leads to east street has been closed, so to find a parking is the first task...thats ur first summit...well done if ur successful(specially from 6-9PM)...soon after this u realise that your mile away from where you want to go(if your not in a window shopping mood)....so the place I wanted to go was at least 2 kms far...what do I do next...at a distance I saw a mini bus appraoching...what was that...?? the GoMgee joy ride bus...haha!! I am not travelling in that...convinced my legs to take me...After 10 mins of literally sprinting I managed to get on too east street...but omg! what was the whole mess abt???? What I got to see is a massive flock of people walking right in the center of east street....four generations matching their paces!....the place looked so different..with stalls.......loud chatter...the cloud of dust n human odour lying still...loud music on speakers spread over the entire stretch...n of course the GoMgee mascot doing its rounds...get past that bevy ...u have attained summit number two, or maybe 3...4...lost that count...whew!...the final summit now seems closer...finally after dodging thousands of people n saying sorry infinite times...I reached my destination...
On closer observation it seems to be yet another attempt that will go futile in the end...Shopkeepers on that end are the direct victims of this...they surely will have a run for their money if this is made a regular feature...n shopping no longer will be the same....the quiet n peace that the MG Road goers enjoyed while shopping will soon be alien....
The PMC sure thinks of it as an innovative idea to bring back the golden era that existed years back...but it only seems a paradise for the window shoppers...n the mindless wanderers...n kleptomaniacs....

A peek at the difference

Its not always you come across sites that look and feel different....get to see the work of some great minds...they are definitely worth a peek!...these are two of 'em that I came across today

This is AKAI's site ...very interesting the way it works...select the disk like things on their home page and watch, one of the marketing gals at my workplace passed it on http://www.akai.com/index.asp#

Qualcomm's home page....keep watching the page and move your mouse arnd...u'll find out...every page has something that makes browsing through exciting.
http://www.qualcomm.com/

Paraskevidekatriaphobia

It was yesterday when ashutosh ..my colleague..stopped me and mentioned "the date this friday is 13th" .... uoh!!!!thats the lst thing on earth i wanted.....cmon I have a demo to give this friday!!!
Paraskevidekatriaphobia(fear of 13th Friday) is what its called....named by Dr. Donald Dossey ...a morbid..irrational fear of this day..
The superstition associated with this day has early origins .... innumerable folklores narrate the evils omens, witchcraft, magic that can cause considerable uneasiness...many of us have used this day as an example to explain how bad the day is....I have seen people freak out on its very mention!!!
What is with these two factors that makes this day so dreadful and eerie...
Friday happens to be the 6th day of the week...which is apparently not a good day...friday rarely has been the day that has seen the advent of something good....
The aversion to number 13 is common...people prefer not numbering a 13th floor as such, of a tall building, till modern times houses have been numbered 121/2 instead of 13......no new ventures or journeys are embarked upon on 13th.....infact people go to the extreme of not venturing out of their houses on 13th....

But this fear is not completely unexplained...its has rather compelling roots...
According to the Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki...he arranged the killing of the god of joy and gladness..the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day....
In ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Judas, who betrayed Christ was the 13th person to arrive for the the Last Supper....Jesus was crucified on Friday...its also believed the Great Flood started on a Friday
Numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus....
One extra that is 13 causes restlessness...
Also the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13....is attributed by 13
This sounds crazy!!!!!
And to add to all there are series of movies called "Friday the 13th" (with varaitions of course)... picturizing horrors ...
Today the the fear has much more to do with personal experience. Backed by such evidences people suppose that the day is bad and unlucky for whatever reason...Anything that happens abnormally on this day will probably stay for long.... But if you think about it, bad things, big and small, happen all the time. If you're looking for bad luck on Friday the 13th, you'll probably find it anyways!
As for me I guess its TGIF.....thats enough to make my day!!!!!! oh but this fridays a 13th...sigh!!!
courtesy
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

Maiden one of the New Year

Been thinking of posting this one since the new year started...little did I know my first day at office this new year will welcome me with a colossal pile of work...my PM just returned after a week long hiatus....that explains how I ended up with that much work...quite a start to the new year...
The week seemed pretty long coz of the work...we had a new HR guy joining us...n he has assumed the role of mailing all of us quote of the day...at 9 sharp...his first quote of the year
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence"
....lets see what he has in store for the remaining 360 days...maybe I'll come up with a list of them soon....
We have a "belated" new year party coming up this weekend at the company...looking foward to some fun....whether that happens is yet to be seen...

I guess I should end by hoping that this year will have all dreams coming true...n with a prayer to the lord almighty ..that this year should see less of human suffering....more of peace and laughter ...

BREWing

The maiden assignment given to me at my first job....my PM came over and said "soumya we got to start researching on bru"..... I was a fresher....but what the hell was "bru" ???...."ya..ok...." went my reply still recovering from the initial discomfiture....
I turned to my monitor .... opened www.google.com ... n slowly typed in bru...still unsure of what would appear....after a half hour ordeal and trying all possible permutations(brue, bru, brooo) that probably would help me in finding a "bru" SDK....I typed in Qualcomm bru.....bingo I had hit the nail....It was the BREW(Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) SDK.....brew eh??
Anyways still not too sure...I finally downloaded the SDK......now I have been working in BREW since the last 6 months....guess its as exciting as brewing a good pint of beer (though I havnt tried the latter!)
BREW is not known to many here in India.....in short it is a platform to develop mobile applications...can be programmed in C/C++/Java..but somehow I felt it is quite Cish....very exciting and gripping....the APIs give you freedom to program with quite some flexibility...
In my view its here to stay and will catch the wireless market..with 3G and CDMA being seen as the future of wireless technologies.....specially with the latest Brew SDK that offers many additional APIs....maybe after a while.....coz of limitations like... it being a proprietary of qualcomm..and very few developers working with it.....but if you wanna play around with the SDK ..which I feel will be worth the while....its available for free download on the Qualcomm site...
Here are some useful links...just in case....
http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/
http://www.developer.com/ws/brew/article.php/1478061
Meanwhile I am trying my best to brew some good useful code.....

"Busy"

I call the it the "busy" fever...could be a fad.....which has gripped most of my batchmates(most of 'em like me tasting the bitter sweet task of earning their bread n butter since very recently)....including me for that matter... our lives have supposedly zeroed down to being busy.... the entire lot now claim themselves to be "busy" having time only for work(I am kinda disputed on this particular word!).....the term "busy".... has got itself on the first position of the list of our new found corporate jargon...as u might call it....
A patent reply to the question" Hi hows u?"...now by this Im expecting a fine.. a good....but what I eventually see in reply.... a single word "busy"....too bad I recall using "busy" as a reply myself not very long ago.....
Lately I do think twice before pinging anybody on my messenger.....lest I get "busy" as a reply!
As for me...since "busy" sounds too cliched....if I am really too bogged down by work....I find myself opting out of using "busy".....

this is my debut

Hi!
I finally managed to get myself a place at the blogspot...wonder what took me so long......but they say better late than never! took quite a bit of inspiration....but afterall why have a blog of your own...maybe its a longing desire to be heard....maybe i just have nothing much worthwhile to do......in fact i was questioned by my frnd on this sudden hookup with blogging... maybe its exhibitionism......
Its quite a dull afternoon today.....its friday...last day of the week finally....the day seems to be longer.....I guess I should get back to finishing the piece of leftover code I have been working on.....
Hopefully many more of my writings will see the light of the day....till then adios...
Heres wishing happy writing to me....n reading to u guys!