[An]2d

Big question

2009-01-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

Welcome back, I know some of you might have found my post little boring, would have thought what am I up to?, well I promise that there is nothing wrong with me….. he he he, coz this post will crush your head.

Let’s assume Mr. God appears tomorrow and asks you to select one of the three choices,

Question
GOD: Here are the three options, select one and send me an SMS – Your wish will be granted. (The SMS is the funny part of me)
1. You can live only one day as a king, but at the end of the day you will have to leave the world. You will live by your own words for that day and you will close your eyes as a satisfied individual.
2. You can live 100 years but you cannot take control of your life, you can try to change your self to suit the given life.
3. You can live 100 years as a slave.

What will you select, to add some spice to the whole question theory I’m adding my definition.

If you select the first option, then you are an independent individual, you believe you are solely responsible for your life. You want to take control of your life; you live every second of your life that leaves a mark on this world. You will live and die as a king. You will swim against the tide.

If you select the second option you are not so independent, but you are positive. You accept defeats, try to change yourself. You are not in control of your life. You would like to live and die as a king (only like to). You try to swim against the tides.

If you select the third option, then you accept things happening in your life, you believe in fate and you strongly believe that you are chosen to go through this part of life and learn certain things. You will stick to your duty; you are basically a person who loves living a life no matter how it is. You will swim along with the tides
I will select the first option.

Till i post a new topic...
its bye from Anand.
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You are allowed to play your life game, its just that others roll your dice.
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An Interesting day...

2009-01-23T09:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome back, today I’m drafting this post after thinking what a common man will do with the current price raise in the markets – be it daily consumables, Medical facilities, housing rentals, Transportation.

I was returning from US consulate – I stopped an auto and got in, the auto driver asked me a simple question which I liked the most of all the questions that he asked later.
He asked me “I don’t know something, Can I ask you a about that?”

I liked two important things that about his question, First he was straight forward to admit that he didn’t know about something and second he asked permission.

I allowed him to ask the question, the question was quite interesting one and it was “In the current Market condition, people say that 3 American Banks have closed down due to financial meltdown, more and more people are coming back to India from foreign countries, how come you are applying for a visa?”

I was really surprised to hear such a question from him. I gave him a generalized answer. He pulled another very important question which I’m still trying find an appropriate answer and the question is“.. with the increasing prices how do you think you a common can manage a family?, in my case (auto driver) – I didn’t not study well, started drinking in my early age and got confused finally now driving an auto.”. He also gave me a common man’s example, If a person is working in a company and earning 8000/- and after all pf and other deductions (office food, travel) if he gets 5000 which he allocates 5000 for rent + food + basic necessities + provision stuffs for a month, with the given trend of increase if the same person is asked to pay 6000 in place of 5000 what will he do, the worst case is he will lend the remaining amount from outside. If that happens for 4 months, the fifth month will he pay try to repay or will he manage his expenses?….. It was a valid one. I did not have any answer for his question; I told him that the person should cut down his expenses. He came back with a very strong question – What can we do, (this time it was direct, I could sense that the example he quoted was directly related to him) we can’t stop eating since the price of rice has gone up, we can’t stop taking bath as the price of bathing soap has gone up, we can’t stop the hair from growing – we need to get it trimmed, we cannot stop going to the nursing home/ hospital and buy medicines when we fall sick. The examples that he quoted hit me hard, very hard. I replied with a simple answer, if such is the case the person should not get married – he even had an answer for that. “I’m not married Sir”. That was the end my answers, I had no more left. I was completely taken black, for one moment he literally dragged me from the world where I live to the real world where he lives. He made me realize the gap between the income and saving is extending more and more when it comes to the lower, lower middle class. What can be done to improve their situation?

On the other hand we the next generation people who landed up in some IT/ITES/BPO company with nothing less than a 5 digit salary getting credited every month to our bank account, enjoying the life for the first three weeks and then cursing the Manager and the Company on the last week of the month (Manager for rating you less in year end appraisal, Company for paying you less). We always live in our world; think that no one in this world has bigger problems than ours, the reality is completely different from what we think.

Back to the auto driver story, I finally reached my destination (we had agreed on the travel fare as Rs 60/-). I handed him a hundred rupee note, he came back with the constant answer that most of the auto drivers deliver. “No Change sir”. I asked him to give me what ever he had and he gave me Rs 20/- back. Though I paid Rs 20/- more than what we agreed, That 20 rupees taught me a great lesson and gave me an insight of a common man’s life and the problems that he faces and more important – It made him smile and it made me think.

Now it’s your turn, yes. Sitting on a cushion chair, carrying a fancy mobile, zooming on a motor bikes, hanging out Friday night and partying hard on weekend and thinking how to increase our pay package, dreaming about the next onsite opportunity…….I ask you onse simple question and you don’t have to answer it.
– “What will be your answer for the question posted by the auto driver?”

Thanks for your time,
Until we meet again…..

Anand

My Identity

2008-11-30T05:08:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,
Poeple say that i take good shots and they often ask me where did i take these shots. Well its surprising, Most of my shots are taken in Bangalore where I have been living for the last 4+ years . I keep eyes open and try to see the world in different note. The credit goes to few of my good friends who often provide their comments.
Most interesting from my collection :

The most recent from my collection

Until my next post... keep smiling,
life every day as there is no tomorrow.
The following lines from a cartoon movie will change your day.... when ever you read it.
"Nothing is impossible"
"one often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it"
"There are no accidents"
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that is why it is called present."

Hurricane...

2008-11-21T01:38:00.000-08:00

Welcome back...

Have you ever felt a sweet breeze in life that turned into an hurricane ripped through, left you alone - right its the first time for me and I'm recovering from the post effect. It thought me a good lesson, do not build castle on clouds, in addition to that it also thought me "you will get what is meant for you, if its not for you - no matter how hard you try it will slip away from your grasp." All I can say is that, it was a sweet experience that made me stronger from inside.

Me - getting back on track. Racing - Photography - Music. I'm can see the real Birumanand coming back from the den.

That's so much for the CRAP.

So - As a reader, how do you feel reading my blog, If you are willing to provide me your feed back. Please send in your comments to Birumanand@yahoo.com (please don't forget to mark my blogname on the subject line)

Thought of the day - well actually there are two...
1. "There is a small gap between success and hardwork, its called LUCK"
2. "Punctuality is an art of Judging how late others can be"
The above lines were not copied from any website nor from a book. It happend to get its birth from my brain (i'm proud i have one... ha ha ha ha)
Until my next meaning less post...
keep thinking and be active
Birumanand.

what we dont see

2008-10-13T04:02:00.000-07:00

Welcome back, The world is a beautiful place to live in/on. The reason i'm saying this is, we often miss out on the special things that remain close to us, me who had nothing to do over the weekend started exploring with my camera and got few good shots. I always envy-d my neighbours garden... "its always the neighours flower that looks better than your garden flower". I could not resist the natures invitation to capture the beauty on my camera.... here's the result.

Now, i leave you to rate the above picture....
as a part of my photoshoot i managed to capture few more shots... here they are...
The ray

Angry Couples

Lunch Time

Friends

Till my next post...

Enjoy every day as there is no tomorrow...

Birumanand.

Teri Deewani

2008-10-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome Back,

I know for the fact that its been some time since i made my mark here, my blog. I'm sorry I will try to visit my virtual space often. If you are one of those readers who had already visited my space in the past, then you would have got an idea how crazy am i when it comes to music. Yes, I'm that kind of person - when i like a song i listen to it for days together... i do, its hard to believe but i'm that kind. The reason i'm digging about my behavior is that, recently i got hooked to a number from the movie Notting hill - "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone", that crossed over in two weeks. This time its "Teri Deewani/Diwani" from Kailash Kher that drove me crazy and still driving me crazy for the last 2 + weeks, I have created a playlist out of that song and listening to it all night. As you all know that i'm a kind of person who prefer to follow the lyrics more than the music, i recommend number. Its a slow number, but after 20+ seconds that song takes a turn and make you dissolve in lyrics. There is one particular line i love it, "haste haste aashiq suli chadh jaaye". I know would be thinking what's wrong with this person to fall in love with this song, especially after reading the above line, the answer is - I Just can't help it.

My second life, the one with my camera is quite interesting. I managed to capture some moments that people think its not important and from an artist's prespective its very important. The other day i was getting ready to office, i saw two kids on the road (brother and sister). I really feel sorry for those kids coz i made them stand under the hot sun and i requested them to wait for a minute. I ran in, grabbed my camera, fixed my Tamron lens, i was out in a flash. I was surprised to see those kinds standing out. It normally doesn't happen when you ask kids to wait so that you can go in an grab your camera to take a shot, i guess i was lucky. I managed to pull one good shot of 4 i did that day. I took some 5 shots, and showed one of them to the kinds and asked whether they like it or not,(i always to that to see their reaction). The result was positive, they smiled immediately. That's the one below.

I guess i should have tried my hands on photography when i got my first camera. People always ask me what do i shoot with, The images out of your camera looks good - I always blast those people. Photography is an art, and you can take better pictures with a mobile phone too. I was once advised by a wise man called srini when i was searching for a camera. When i wanted to buy a D-SLR i asked him whether to go for a Canon 400D or Nikon D80. I got one shocking response from him, "All you younger generation people always run after the technology and the gadgets, its not the camera that captures the image its the person behind the camera that does the work" and he suggested me to go for Canon 400D as it was fitting my requirement and my bank account. I didn't take his advise seriously then but i respect his advise now and i give the same when some one approach me asking which camera to buy. Most of them are interested in going for a D-SLR.

Here are few important questions things that you should answer

1. Are you planning to become a hardcore photographer?

2. What is your budget?

3. How often are you going to use your camera?

4. Are you more concerned about the size of the camera?

5. What do you look in for a camera?- Good zoom, picture quality, easy to use something like that.

well - If you are not a hardcore photographer then i would suggest you to go for a simple point and shoot camera. The budget is not a big thing to discuss, thanks to Korean and Japanese technology. You can get hold of a good 6 or 8 mp camera with decent optical zoom for less than 7ooo rs. Many people think that having a bigger camera is a matter of pride and they will be in a position to capture good shots - That's rubbish, with the technology advancing day by day you get things in a pocket size camera that you used to get in a big box camera few years back.

Here are few things that you have to look in to a camera..

1. The Sensor and the Megapixel - Any thing over 6 is good. You really can't find the difference on a picture (6x4 printed one) between a 6 mp and a 10+mp camera. I guess you will be wasting your money if you want to go for a camera above 6mp.

2. The Optical Zoom, there are cameras that offer you big DIGITAL zoom - They are good for nothing. Select a camera with 5X optical zoom, if you are really lucky you can get your hands on to a Kodak Zoom camera which comes with 8+X optical zoom.

3. The Battery life and the type of the battery - Do not go for a camera that uses AA / AAA batteries, agree they are cheap to replace, the pain of charging them is the flipside and you cannot get more than 100 shots with flash on. Go for a camera that provides you 300+ shots of battery life.

4. The comfort level - If you lift a camera, your index finger should reach the push button, your thumb should be in a position to Zoom in and out.

5. Brand - Its is important but this should not be the major driving factor. If you are satisfied with a camera with all the above features from a Kodak/Samsung and you have the same product in Sony. I would recommend you to go for a sony only if the price difference is less than 2000. Other wise it doesn't make sense going for a good brand.

With the above points - I believe i have managed to confuse you more, but it make sense only after you purchase a camera.

until my next post...

Keep smiling,

Birumanand.

My Vaio - Under attack

2008-09-18T03:56:00.000-07:00

Welcome back,

I'm Happy now, after head cracking laptop problem now my Vaion is clean. I tried to crack for Photoshop cs3 and downloaded a zip file, My bad luck was pushing me too hard, that my symantec autoprotect shield which was ON, failed to detect the virusand when i opened the ZIP file i failed to do the normal process, that's right - Right click and scan for Virus. I was under that assumption that who is going to plant a virus in my system through a crack file. When i opened the file, ka boom - a shocking surprise was waiting for me. I guess i was worng, most of the virus/worms/trojons/malware softwares are planted through the crack files. My Vaio gave a blue screen and shut itself. This wonderful incident happened on saturday night at half past 2, the whole weekend i was trying to find a fix but my laptop didn't allow me to, you know why....
My yahoo mail was blocked, Google search was blocked, Microsoft update sites were blocked and so the other Virus scan sites. As you always know the power of a evil brain is unlimited, I spent three days trying to fix the issue but nothing happened. I went to the stage of restoring my OS to an earlier date backup and uninstalling the Symantec and Installing AVG anti virus, a ray of hope appeared - My AVG identified the infected files but failed to identify the file that was causing the infection.
The power of evil brain - I logged on to the third party proxy websites that would allow me to do Google, but then i was not sure what to search for, coz my problem was , I was not able to log on to Yahoo mail, unable to perform google search, unable to access microsoft sites........ and so on. Ting - "The sound of mind bulb glowing", I have seen in MSconfig that one particular process which keeps running every time i shut down and restart my Vaio, even after i remove it from Msconfig start, it appeared again and again and again.... I deleted the DLL file which had the name "bgvx..... .Dll" from system32 directory , I logged on to another users account that does not have the permission to wtire data to C:/windows/System32 directory. I got an error message, unable to find the dll file. Then it struck me that it was the Virus file (wait for the twist in the post). I was able to perform google search, access my yahoo mails i was on track. I copied the process name that use to run in MSconfig, googled with the name, Bang - got the results. It was some crap virus with XML extenstion that creates the DLL files and hijacks information from your comp. I was half way through, I found the problem but yet to find a solution, then came the rescue.... It seems i was one among the infected people who had the same problem. A series of discussion that lead me to two tools "HiJack This" and "ComboFix".
Solution
I went with ComboFix, I managed to download the file, Its a simple exe file, 2.5 mb in size, but it did the job which Major Antivirus software's failed to do - Symantec, AVG.... It took me 20 minutes to clean my Vaio, the process was sooo simple... double click the tool and it does the rest for you, does a series of 25 scans , deletes the infected files and restarts. Finally it also prepares you a status report.... Cool, the virus was an XML file which caused the whole event, recreated the dll files and made an entry in Msconfig - Startup directory, can you believe it. I will have the log files uploaded to my blog soon.

This was an interesting incident, the whole incident reminded me of a saying that goes like this "Often big things come is small packages...." - A 2.5 mega bytes file did the trick.

until my next post ...

Enjoy every day of your life...

Birumanand.

Weekend

2008-09-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

Welcome back to a brand new post. Today - I was feeling alright, nothing special. Had a great breakfast at the local Dosa shop, washing etc., Apart from that I had an opportunity to watch the movie called "Flavors", This was is sooo cool in American terms.

What is Flavors....The answer lies hidden in the question, what comes to your mind when you think of flavors. Please don't think on Ice cream, Candy.....

Well its time to open the secret. Its a mix of Indian's who live in America, Its a desi Comedy. You get to see a lot of IBCA's (its the reverse of ABCD - American Born Confused Desi, got to know this one from Name sake and the reverse of this is Indian Born Confused American).

You have a variety of characters in this movie,

A S/W eng who was let go by his company and other two guys who ends up in America and starts busting their $'s in beer and pizza,
Candy - Man of the house,
Nikhil and Gita - A sweet couple, unfortunately Nikhil loses his job thanks to his team leader who is known as MIB.
Nikhil's friend who's gonna get married in a weeks time to an american girl,
Nikhil's parents who come to US to attend their son's marriage.
The highlight is the three characters whom i'm gonna introduce now...
Rachna - A normal desi girl who works over in the west cost and has a good friend in east cost, who call's her every now and then, but these calls are not kind of good chit chat calls.
Kartik - The friend from East cost - His character is the best and kind of interesting in the whole movie.
Ramana kotha..... (sorry mate) - he's kind of a puzzle to understand, who ends up on a blind meeting with Rachna set up by Rachna's aunt.

The best scene in the movie, you gues.......

Its the beginning of the movie, where Kartik runs with his jacket which makes a strange noice, the phone that rests in on of the Jacket pocket, he runs fast and picks up his jacket and quickly runs towards the garden and searches for this phone..... trust me you got to see it to believe it.

I have seen this movie back in 2005, but its one of the movies that i would love to watch again and again and again.....

That's off for the movies.

Music..., Yes i also happen to download "The Polar Express" album from the net, gosh - The zipped version of 14 songs was around 85 megabytes and it took more than 45 minutes to download. I enjoyed that movie too, more than the movie i enjoyed the theme and the music.
Now i have the theme music as my mobile ring tone.

One more thing before i close this post. Have you seen the movie Notting Hill movie - that romantic comedy. If you have not seen the movie yet then i would strongly recommend you to watch that movie first (next weekend).

The sound tracks are too good, right from the starting title to the ending titles. There is one scene in the movie where Hugh Grant gets seperated from Julia roberts and starts walking down the market, one year fly's off in minutes and you tend to accept the fact that's shown in the movie, all because of the track that runs on the background and that's .....

enjoy the music,

with happy smile - Birumanand

2008-09-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

Welcome back....
Its me again to bore you, for this time not only with words but also with my so called photography, I will discuss this later. I have few things to list out now and ask few ?'s.
Why are so many people getting retirement from bachelors life, what could be the reason. Am i the only one who is out standing out or I'm wise, decided to retire after couple of years. Actually I have another friend of mine giving company - Its Mr.RamaKrishnan (Vijayakanth version 1.1).
here comes few things that happened between my last postings and will happen in the near future.
1. Having written a post called 25 not out, i want to call my self now as 26 not out (my god , its better than many Indian batsman did in Srilanka and more than the runs given by Mendis in his single innings).
2. NEW entries ----- (I would like to club the two news into one heading coz of two things (What's that now?), Its regarding the promotions in real life from married mens to Dad's, yes couple of my close friends (Niranjan and Krishant) were promoted to that position on the same day (cool). 3. My old time friend and present room-mate took retirement from Bachelors life - Sathish Menon.
4. My boring classes are going on, the surprising part is that when I joined the course the class strength was close to 15 not its down to 5 combining two different batches.
5. My rides to chennai got cancelled, unconditionally!! on account of serious warning message from my mom and dad..... (not good to hear, they don't allow me to do what i want to. Though its a 6 hours ride from Bangalore to Chennai and another 6 hours from Chennai to Bangalore with the total distance of 750+ kms adding up and down trips - I did it twice and loved it)
6. My vaio is getting slower and slower day by day.... I guess i have to increase the RAM, Mr chidambaram, please turn your tax benifit shine towards me....It will be very help ful.
7. My paralell life of looking the world through my camera is interesting and I'm learning new tricks with Photoshop that keeps me busy after my office life which has kind of taken a back seat for the moment, no magical tricks happening there. Here is the link to spend some time on the photos that i clicked. www.flickr.com/Birumanand or www.picasaweb.google.com/Birumanand
8. I some how manage to complete the book "Made in America" and now living through the pages of Namesake, the movie which i loved and watched more than 3 times. I ready to see it for n times, for simple reason. The story is not too complicated and no hi 5 star cast, no hero-ism, no political message, no jing bang dance sequence. The whole movie goes as a gentle evening breeze. I would recommend all you ppl to watch this movie, before that make yourself comfortable - when i say comfortable > Choose a rainy day to watch that movie.... > Prepare a lot of coffee and sit by the window side > Then play the movie.
The movie starts very slow just like another american made hollywood movie, but if you are an Indian or a fan of Indian culture then the events that occur in the movie will make you glue'd to you seat. Mr & Mrs Ganguli, Sonia, Gogal alies Nikhil, the Calcutta trip, Getting back to work all will be just like another story happening to a family next door. You will be in for a joy ride with a mix of humor and romance, occasionally you will realise that you will have to wipe out the tear. The book is equally good, normally people say books are better then the movies out of it. In my case i have seen the movie first, and started reading the book(the other way around).
9. My next book - I'm little confused and not sure what to start with. I have "The Kiterunner", Hitler - mein kampf, Winning - Jack Welsh, Angels and Demons - Darren Brown, Icon - Steve Jobs , Datawarehousing toolkit - Ralph kimball (out of blueeeeee).
10. My next Camera and lens..... (That's interesting), Of all the googling and reading different blogs - I have selected one camera A) Canon mark III 1DS (isn't a good choice) Lens - Canon 70 - 200 F/2.8L, Canon 400 F/4L, canon 50 mm f/1.8, Canon 28-200 IS, and Canon 180 F/2.8 Macro, that's all
Now i'm going to ask you more question....
When are you going to gift the Camera and the lens's mentioned above....

Thanks for reading these lines.....

Enjoy the rest of the day.

Trying to be Active

2008-05-19T06:25:00.001-07:00

Welcome back,

Please Xcuse me, i should have posted few more posts than what i did, but time did not permit more than than my Laptop did not permit. Yes I want to play the blame game and this time its my Vaio and wLAN with frequent connection drops. I'll try to fix that one and shall promise to visit and update my blog more often ( ah... one more promise)

What to post is the question?....
If my post is about life then you might think that i'm a Philosopher (loser)...
If my post is about the my $£€ then you might think that i'm a money minded person (no brain)
If my post is about my friends then you might think that i have nothing else to write
If my post is about my bike then you might think of hacking my blog
If my post is about my day to day activities then you might think I'm a disturbed person.
If my post is about my upcoming project ah ha.... its time to let you people know about new project that i'm involved in [Its not an official project]. I'm trying to go by my inner voice which spoke loud enough to wake me from the normal [sleeping] life.

Hints about the upcoming project :
It involves my Kit (not cricket kit)
Its a creative project (not creative MP3 player)
Black and white (not a television)
That's it i'm not going to give any more clues...

Till its time to uncover.... I'm closing it for now.

Keep watching: if you don't see anything in the next one month...
Mail me (there is a possibility that I'm back to my normal [sleeping] life)

Keep Dreaming (please wake up after that....) ,
Anand

The Creator is a true genious

2008-02-22T12:04:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,
I have one good news for all my friends (who visit my page once in a while). I'm travelling back to my home country, sounds happy, Yep after 1 full year i'm going to see my parents, home food, friends, no more rushing to catch the tube, no more burgers. I guess things are alright back in India and hoping that I'm not in for a surprise.For those who know what kind of a person am i... the following lines will not make a big difference. To collapse things in short - I'm a SONGS freak person (you should be wondering what is the difference between music and song). I go by lyrics not by the music. I must say the following lyrics is one of a kind that impressed me. I cannot stop listening to this song, i have this one in my creative and playing this song in Loop. This is one song that changes my mood completely.

The first time i heard this song, it was another catchy melody number till i got hold of the lyrics. I have seen people cry when things go really bad or really good. I thought it was crazy. I normally close my eyes while listening to my collection of songs, after listening to this song I felt lite and the ending lyrics brought tears out of my eye. Well you call it as another person's crazy act or you have experienced one like this....I leave it up to you.

This post goes to those people who are in search of the lyrics. To be honest, i was searching for the lyrics and
i found it in a website with english translation - Jackpot.

Hindi version....
(maula mere, maula mere, maula mere, maula mere -4)
aankhein teri(2), kitni haseen
ki inkaa aashiq, mein ban gayaa hoon
mujhako basaa le, inme tu

(ishq hai
maula mere, maula mere maula mere, maula mere - 2) - 3
ki inkaa aashiq, mein ban gayaa hoon
mujhako basaa le, inme tu

mujhse yeh har ghadi, meraa dil kahe
tum hi ho usaki aarzoo
mujhse yeh har ghadi, mere lab kahe
teri hi ho sab guftagoo
baatein teri itni haseen, main yaad inko jab kartaa hoon
phoolon si aaye, khushaboo

rakh loon chhupaa ke main kahin tujhako
saayaa bhi teraa naa main doon
rakh loon banaa ke kahin ghar, main tujhe
saath tere, main hi rahoon
zulfein teri, itni ghani
dekh ke inko, yeh sochataa hoon
saaye me, inake main jiyoon

(ishq hai maula mere, maula mere maula mere, maula mere - 2) - 3
(meraa dil yahi bolaa, meraa dil yahi bola,
yaara raaz yeh usne hai mujh par kholaa
ki hai ishq mohabbat, jiske dil mein
usko pasand karta hai maulaa) – 3

English Version....

My God, My God, My God, My God
Your eyes, how beautiful
That I have become their lover
Captivate me in them

(It is love
My God, My God, My God, My God
That I have become their lover
My heart says, captivate me in them

My heart tells me all the time
You are its desire
My lips tells me all the time
You are all it talks about
Your speech is so enchanting, that when I remember them
A scent of flowers prevails

Let me hide you somewhere
Where your shadow can not reach
Let me keep you in a house
I will be there with you
Your hair is so rich
I think when I look at it
To live in them like a shadow

(It is love
My God, My God, My God, My God)
My heart told me, my heart told me
Friend, this secret has been opened up to me
That love is in the heart of
Whoever God loves

Be happy...
Anand
Don't just Chase your Dreams, Live it...

Time Runs Fast

2008-02-17T07:11:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

Its nice to see me (Anand) back in action, yep. Not after a long time i'm back for the second posting of this month. YAPPEEE.

You must be wondering what is wrong with me (Anand). Coz all the posting have wierd titles that makes no sense. For your information i'm normal and for your action pls don't call the mental hospital.

I wanted to do this posting on 15 or 16 but due to un aviodable technical issues with the internet connection i'm forced to do this post of 17th Feb, never mind.

This week reminds me of two important things...
1. The Number of years i have completed in TCS. My last working day in e-Serve international was on 14th Feb 2004, I Joined TCS on 16th Feb 2004. It has been one thrilling* ride since then.

* if you want to know more about thrilling ride.. please get in touch with me, i will arrange for a bike ride on Airport road -Bangalore, breath taking 105kmph turnings... ha ha ha

2. James and Anusha left UK on 17th Feb 2007. I cannot imagine how i made the trip back from Heathrow.

till my next interesting post...

best regards,
Anand...
chase your dreams

Week end Break

2008-02-04T13:03:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

I know i should have visited here more often. Well all human's can be excused why not me.... well forget about it.

This (past) week end we travelled to Zurich, one of my Dream which came true. It was an excellent experience. I must say i was frozen for some time,if you don't believe me take a look at the below shots....

Zurich City

ZURICH - CITY TOUR

Mount Titlis.

Mt. Titlis

I guess this fill up all the days i have not visited my blog. I waited a long time for a post like this and it was worth waiting.

Till my next post,
Keep smiling.
Anand
Chase your Dreams.....

25 not out.... FRIENDS

2007-08-03T18:41:00.000-07:00

Welcome back.... its time that i scribbled my blog, frankly its one year. Its surprising that one day in your life changes your age.... not the 364/363 days. yes right i was pointing the birthday.

Mine was on 1st aug, now its 25 and not out.... this has been a joy ride with bumby tracks and pleasent memories. The important thing about this b'day - my first day outside India and it went off just like another day.

......... pls note any text with in [ ] brackets is my expection of what the readers will think , and { } my reply (just to have fun)

There is a whole list of people whom i would like to thank.... [Sentimental....] , { Pls read the whole posting, one good reason why i did this post on 4ht Aug}

My Mom , Dad and Sis - [ c'mon - its a known fact, move on to the next set] - { yes plzz}.

My best school friends - from LKG to class 5, the days where i thought USA, UK and all the other countries are part of India and India is the only country in the world [innocent / ignorance] {what ever you call it... now i know where is UK.. ha ha ha}

My very good friends from PS main school

> DasaPrakash - He's the main person why i cleared class X - Thanks mate.
> Sripadman Alies Pandu - Great friend whom i happen to meet after 5 years, i was there at Appollo sinduri for my medical test [ WHAT MEDICAL TEST, WHAT's WRONG with you!!!!! ] , { its a condition from TCS that all the employees should under go a medical test, Joining formalities }.
>Kumar Alies Bunty - he's known as the fastest eater - [ WHY ], { when he's having his lunch, he will not chat with any one - even if you offer XYZ amount of money }

> Balaji Alies Pappa - Mr strong
> Shafeeku - My friend who leaves me from school to my place and i cannot forget 16th April 1997, class X last exam last day and the part at his place, first in my life time.
>Kirubalini - what can i say about him, its just easy to be simple which i found in him.

These days were like smooth as placing a hot knife on butter, until we got out class X marks.... where i took a u turn - joined Santhome school. One good thing happened in my new school - A LOT OF FRIENDS
Krishant - he is still one of my best friend and will continue to be so... with so many conflicts between me and him and we managed a long sail in friendSHIP for almost 10 years now. I can say that he's the only person who knows about me COMPLETELY [ move on ] , { yes please }
here comes the whole list for my Santhome Gang....

Balai alies Poly,
Philips Jayakar Alies DR.Bongo,
Raja N Alies Indian Thatta,
Balakumar Alies BalaKU,
Kali Purusuoth Alies Appa,
Karthick,
Siva Kumar,
Dominic Alies Doom,
Abhishek Alies Poonai (cat),
Vijay Mcenro,
Bencigar,
Edward Felix,
Jude,
Williams,
Willson Joseph,
Eslyn Alies Kullan,
Suneel Alies Shaggy (remember Scooby dooody do),
Vishwanathan ,
Vivek Alies MGR,
Dinesh Babu,
Prasanth,
Praveen,
Vivek Alies Malkani,
Divianand ,
Mohan Kumar,
Munaffar shah Alies Bai,
and All my school teachers [ tooo cheesy change the topic ]
... I know i have left 20+ names, well i give them a change to come back blasting me ;)

Life was as simple with interesting with daily 8-3 school and 4-6 tuition

My college friends..
Sageesh, Ramaswamy, Shailesh , Siraj, Saravanan, Hari Prasad, Karthick , Ragevandra rao , Dilip , Arun and others, lets say i enjoyed my school life more than my college...

My Aptech Friends...
Sathish Menon , Vikrama Narayanan , Srikanth, Sudharashan, Azees , Kumanan , Lt.col Shridar uttrawar, Lt.Col Moorthy , Anand Dixit, Senthil , Subramony , Vidhya shankar, Karthikeyan , Karthik Alies Batman, Nanditha, Raji, Anusha, Karthick Sir, Sriram Sir, Shri vidhya Mam, Sukumar Sir , Selva Pandiyan,

My First Job - Ramani and Ramani A/c firm where i worked for a month
Robin , Ramesh , Judy, Gayatri, Kruthika

My Second Job - e-Serve International,
Nagaraj, Ganesh kumar, Devi, Manju, Geetha, Divya, Prajith , Rajan , Kalyan, Krishnakumar, Vishwa, Reena, Iswarya, Balaji , Prasanna, Ramnath, Arun , G Arun Kumar alies MR Excel, L Arun, Vinod , Senthil , Charles, Ramanand, Aruna , Gopa kumar, Shailesh , Krupa, Nanak Pradeep, Gaurav, Murali , Shanker, Sriram, Mahendran , Nagaraj, Venki Kannan, Abirami, Dhivya subbukutty , Shobanna..... and the list goes on [ what ? , the list goes on .... ] , { a safe way to put it in words when you remember only the face and not then name}

My Third Job - TCS
Ramya , Prabu , Pankaj, Maaliek, Venkatesh, James, Anusha, Hari, Shailesh , Tara, Rudesh, Vineeta, Balaji, Manjunath, Chandru, Prettina , Olinda, Suvarna, Shivdeep, Delvin, Anuradha , Ajay, Dev Abhishek gupta, Guru, Bops, Vikas, Manoj, Santhosh , Sajjad, Sweetha, Devaiah , Gireesh , Abilash .... and others.... what to say my friends drive is full and i have to create a new drive my mind (hard disk).

My Bangalore room mates...
Rishi , Gurpreet, Ganesh , Mahesh , Sriram , Prateek.

My UK friends....
Arun, Kadhir, Adam, John and others....

You must be wondering what am i upto, instead i could have put one simple line... " I really thank my friends"... well the reason is 4th August - Today is "Friendship day" and i want others to know how rich am i. Each one of the above list and those whom i missed is more precious than a diamond. The Journey in life train has so far been Interesting with 25 stations and hoping many more to go..... with new set of passengers at every station.

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY - THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND..... ;)
"All the very best and Wishing you smiles ahead" - My own creation.

Till my next post,
Keep Smiling,
Anand....
Chase your DREAMS...

F5 - ing day in life...

2007-07-14T16:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome back,

Life is moving, on its own way dragging me every where. Last week Life and my friend Guru dragged me to Wimbledon, Guru thought we could watch a match in centre court..... huh - CAME TRUE that day.

As usual we were late in deciding where to go and when to go.... Guru called me at half past one, I made it to Wimbledon part half past 3 and it was a good 20 - 30 mins walk up/down the hill... finally we reached wimbledon. We reached wimebledon after what ?

checked with the security person for entry tickets... Excellent person he showed us the way and also told that the chances of getting in is 10%... cos there were already 200 people standing for the ticket, we waited for one hour. The time half past 5, it was our turn for the security checks... well after that we were IN. It was all about a 100 mts race from the secutiry checks place to the tickets counter, often i had to wait and take breaks - coz MR Guru and Mr Mouli were busy in taking snaps. As we got in after 5 pm the ticket prices were reduced to £3(first bonus). I had a veggie pasty which was horrible ( I didn't like it, my taste budes were/are always after Idly,Dosa....you know!), after the pasty --- checked with few officials for the resale ticket counter.... BUSSSSS no tickets were available for Fedrer vs Nadal Match, watched the match in the big screen, with all the tennis freaks.

It was a 75 - 25 support for Fedrer and Nadal, as crowd saw fedrer lifting the trophy for 5th time in a row. ME and Guru wanted to stay back and watch doubles final, and Mr.Mouli left us in search of Fedrer. We noticed the centre court was half empty for mixed doubles, shoook shoook shook - ran from one end to another to get our tickets from resale counter. We were lucky, the line was not toooooooooooooo big,we waited for 45 mins we got our tickets for centre court - mixed doubles final - Wimbeldon for £5. It was a great experince going to wimbledon with no intention of watching a match live, finally watching a match in centre court.

We were in centre court and here comes the best part ---- we didn't know who were playing and which country they represnt.... we were the only neutral supporters, booing and clappings hands for every point - funny. After the match got over, we came to know one of the player in the winning pair is a BRIT. Took some 600 snaps - good fest for my canon 400d, I featured in a photo touching centre court and pointing my left hand index finger towards the sky.... coz that was the first ever live match. On our way back we met an interesting person Dr. Kiram, he stays in Belfast, and specially travelled from Northern Ireland to London to watch wimbledon. He's a Kannadiga person, so good company for Guru - from wimbledon i came all the way back to Eastham just to have good dinner at half past 11. That was the end for last weeks activity as Guru went right side, i took 474 back from Eastham to Galleons lock and Kiran took the district line and i believe he reached gatwick on time coz his Belfast flight at early morning the next day.

This week ...... 5 days of doing the same work, thanks to the official feeds issue, i had few sleep less nights....
Sat - day.... thx to Citv 0 they played Unnale unnale tamil movie, typical story of this generation explaining what is happening with the youth. I would rate the move 4/5 coz the story moves very smoothly, with no big star cast appearance the movie creates an interest on what is going to happen the next scene... i would call the movie as a gentle evening breeze when you are sitting in a park/garden. The music part is good, after a long time i heard some good songs in a Tamil movie.

I will have this movie in my collection.... and here i'm searching for words as its already qtr to 1 AM and my eyes are half shut and half open, so if you ( as in - readers of this post/my blog) find any spelling mistake.... Xcuse me, thx mate... xcuse is to move on with the next line, thx is for not reporting it to me he he he he he

untill i come across any normal incident (my next post)....

keep smiling,
Chase your dremz...
Anand.

Stranger - yet from the same place

2007-06-30T14:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome back .... yet another interesting opening... the following characters feature in this real comedy story...
A - Anand
M - Manjunath
G - Guru
S - Sheshadri alies Maapu

P - ? [ u have to wait for some more time/ read the whole story]...

... as it happened

S was coming from India, and luck was driving hims too hard from India.... TCS booked BA business class (jus kidding). A [me] , M , G were to pick him from Airport. Asusual with bachelors we started late from M's place, from Eastham one side of London to another end of London Zone 3 to Zone 6 (3-2-1-2-3-4-5-6) excellent tube jouney for 2 hours and theso called incident happened....

Mr.A that's ME.... a gadget freak as usual was playing with my mobile phone and was tempted to check how many people inside the tube had their bluetooth switched ON, no luck no open connection, one asian girl got into the tube and was sitting opposite to us and me asusual searching for any open connection.
Bingo... got one, two, three.... but connection ONE was the interesting part. Coz it was an Indian name. Mr A (me), passed on my phone to G, and M. The reason was my mobile picked up one open bluetooth connection, and the phone name was P******* -- suspense. M and G asusual stated chatting in Kannada, passing comments about every one in our tube.

SHUK SHUK SHUK SHUK SHUK --- Background music... Thes is the most important part.
P******* asked M and G "Are you kannadiga?", toooshhhhh - that was the best shock of their (M,A,G) life... A didn't knew what to do, M and G where in shock as P was sitting opposite to them and was hearing all the comments they passed, after 10 mins of chatting, they started xchanging ?'s -

M's question include "are you gowdar, are you married, where do you work, when are you getting married" ,

G's ? include "where do you stay, why are you here, when are you going back, what do you do in the weekends, have you been to all places in UK".

P's questions include " where are you working, Where are you from, what do you do, how long you have are here, when did you reach London, have you seen all the places in London".M asked "are you PR*******". P was shocked and was wondering how come these guys knew her name.

Here comes the another best part - A's entry. A said "your bluetooth is switched on... and that's how we found your name".

What ever happened in the span of 20 - 25 mins... thought us a lesson - Never go by looks, the person sitting opposite/next to you might be knowing/speaking your mother tongue as it happened in this case.

I can't go without mentioning about S - who was the root cause of all these happenings as he was travelling and we went to pick him from heathrow...if it was not for his travel we would have "cut SOME vegetables , put SOME vegetables and prepared SOME curry" - SOME is the important word as people from platinum who were in London knew the significane about it.

Any guess on PR****** - Jumbled world - PBIHATAR - if you can find out the name... please keep it with yourself and for others mail me - will let you know her name

till my next post...

keep smiling,

Anand.

chase your DREAMZ..

Birmingham Balaji

2007-06-22T17:03:00.000-07:00

Welcome Back....

Apologies for all the readers, i was sleeping all these days - away from bloggers world. I guess this is high time i update my blog., i know that i won't be updating it on a daily basis, atleast once a week.... i will try.

My trip to Birmingham... to visit Balaji temple and i tried to act like a professional photographer.. i tried and i tried.... the full photo shoot link --> Birmingham - Balaji,

First photo of the day...

I shot this at Marylebone, a flower shop. Thanks to the flower merchant, who allowed me to take this shot. After an interesting journey of 2:40 mins by train from London, finally we arrived at Birmingham.

The best part about this trip was our good friend Mr. Guruprasad had only the address in mind not on paper... Dudley road, Balaji Temple and bus number 87 ... where in Birmingham we search for bus stop for 87 bus?????? this was not a difficult task , as we just walked out of the Train station, the confusion started after reaching the bus station/stop. Instead of taking bus number 87 we took 129 with went to Dudley, but the but took the straight route, Bus 87 takes the round about route which goes through Dudley road. we reached Dudley, didn't know where to go..... finally a bus driver helped me to reach dudley road - temple way.

Finally we reached the Temple, thewas shot just from the entrance...

a typical black and white shot... we spent 3 to 4 hours inside the temple, not to forget the excellent lunch we had... it was too good, they call it Prasadham/Annadhanam but for us it was a treat, by then we had come to a situation where quality comes first not the quantity. After 4 hours we took 87 and almost 1 hour journey back to Bull stree/Market.

Small round of shopping in Birmingham and my photography session...

The ballon man....

Father and daughter...

the last shot for the day....

End of Birmingham.... don't forget to check the web album PICASAWEB

Till the next post....

keep smiling,

Anand...

Chase your dreamz ;)

After a long time - II

2007-05-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Yes .... I have every reason to be blasted left right and center , but its not going to make a big difference coz I work in TCS... Jus kidding.

After hell raising session in office with SQL , Excel and hard hitting keys on my keyboard. I'm hungry.... Oye.... not for work, for FOOOOOD (Good food). The thing that keeps me alive is food and dhal/sambar (coz we only know once we taste it, there has been several instances where i tried and cooked dhal and turned out since it was very liquid.... added couple few spoons of sambar powder... voila - we got our Sambar ready, the other instance it went the other way when i tried making sambar and added too much of dhal, we had excellent dhal - back to the topic). I love cooking and i would love to stop with cooking and eating, i hate to do the rest cleaning the Container's.... shx i hate it.

What's D news....

Nothing special - started learning photography and must admit, its sure is interesting... I read the following lines in some post (poor hard disk can't remember - My mind !"£$^$^*^(&(*)*)
"A photographer is not satisfied with his photos,"
I believe the human economics plays a vital role... as i rewind my memories to 1997 -1999 (*^£$$&"£$^!"£ - Sorry guys my brian is over loaded its taking long..... huh got it), XI - E, Economics class - "Human wanted are unlimited, and no individual is satisfied with what he gets." !!! what am i saying... I can put it in another words,
I'm never satisfied with my pay, when i get pay increase - i compare it with industry standard... i use to have sleepless nights. The human menatlity is so wierd and sooo complex it requires more more an more Gandhi's smile (inr notes) to build a smile when a person stays in India.

Back to the topic.... yes i was discussing about photography... after a lot of research, as every human being does (selecting a wrong decision...) bought a canon 400d. I would love to own a Nikon D80 and Canon 1D mark III waiting for someone to gift it to me... (atleast in my wild dreams). Canon 400d is good and cost effective that was the only reason, the other... well My bank account pushed me towards canon though my mind was always present on Nikon D80. As finance matters, I had to go with my Bank account. Now i'm a proud owner of canon 400D.

Back to the topic.... yes i was discussing about photography...the pain with the Dslr is you need to carry it around all the times, you never know when is the right moment to take a snap. To tell you the truth , pictures taken by chance looks better than pictures taken on special occassion.

All begins well ends well.... wonder what this bit doing here,
I don't have anything to write...bye for now..

Anand.
Keep smiling,
Chase your dreams...

After a long time...

2007-03-18T02:53:00.000-07:00

Welcome back,

well its been a long time since i have updated my blog... today suday 8th march, bright and sunny day and don't know how long its going to lost.

If you had gone through my previous posts, you would have come to a conclusion that i'm a total music freak. I must say that the songs that are dominated by music more than the lyrics, the lyrics and the picturisation is taken for granted, however that's not the case for this song from the moive Anwar. The song looks promising with excellnet lyrics and the way this song was shot i fell in love with this song. Bollywood still has some excellent musicians, techicians and lyricist. I hope you enjoy this song ... do leave your comments and recommendations..

Till my next post,
Keep smiling,
Anand...
Chase your dreams...

Its white and white

2007-02-09T04:11:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

take a deep breath, start scolding... will tell you Y.

....... [flash back],

8 yers back - May month, second sunday.... after noon 3:00 clock, Bright and sunny 42 + degrees. We had a cricket match. Our brilliant captain opted to field thinking that we could reduce the opponent less than 100 (it was 20 over match). We fielded for 1 1/2 hour and fried , roasted and toased. After 20 overs it was our turn to bat, I was 6th down and was thinking will i ever be in a place where the temperature always stays below 10...

....... [present],

Yesterday, I realised "There is GOD", otherwise we wouldn't have had snowfall, that too on a weekday (working day), that too between 4am till 11 am office timings (considering the fact that we bachelors wake up only at 7 am and rush to office at the last moment) and create this wonderful artwork, which i could capture through a small device and help me viewing it on my office pc, finally posting an entry in my blog...."Cut the crap". yes we had snowfall yesterday, it was damn cold and i was already late to office , was in a mixed mood all the way (to take leave or not), took the longer root to the DLR station, WOW - I had a chance to look at the artwork... it was white everywhere,

Quick grag - Took my phone out... Click , Click , Click , Click , Click , Click , Click ,Click , Click , Click , Click . Took 11 snaps and ran to catch the train.

Well today, i feel happy of those 11 clicks, want to know Y.....

scroll down - you will know Y

Click 1

Click 2

Click 3

Click 4

Click 5

Click 6

Click 7

Click 8

Click 9

Click 10

Click 11

The reason y i wanted to scold : I thinking will i be ever in a place where the temperature will be 20+ and less than 25.

till my next post

White is peaceful

2007-01-25T11:49:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

After a long time........ an update :)

Now i'm away from home, at clients place.... here i'm facing rough weather.

Well now can i call my self as a good photographer.

Till my next post..

Keep smiling,

Anand...

chase your dreams

The NEW new year

2007-01-01T02:55:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

All the very best and wishing you smiles ahead. [This is one of my own creation, not copied from any card].

Well we all have seen the "TIDE" add, the person holding one rupee coin and asking what will i get for one rupee and Tide cleans up one portion of the shirt.

The add is good, did anyone manage to pick the goof up in the advertisement.

The goof-up. If its a white shirt it should be clean, the full shirt should be white. How good is it to wear a white shirt which is white only one portion.

Well - if i buy a tide packet for one rupee, i will be able to clean up only one portion of the shirt.

My advise = Please stop sending SMS for all the reality programmes. Spend it wisely.

Be happy and let others live happy.

with Smiles,
Anand

Chase your dreams

Re Union

2006-12-27T04:30:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

After Christmas and loooong holidays, I have noooo mood of working today.

After the long day journey from Chennai - Blr, intersting one... My battery is running in low power.

The Reunion - On Monday, 25th Dec. we 4 guys (XI and XII std students) deceided to meet at Besant Nagar beach. Reunion of old friends, it was really a superB exp. Especially one after another pull up a moment from our past life and discuss.

ME + Krishant + Suneel and Vijay Mecnro, our next meeting - Donno when is that going to happen, and how many people are going be a part of that reunion.....

Till my next post,

Chase your dreams,

Anand...

Big loss...

2006-12-14T07:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

Nothing special, was going through few news sites.....
and came to know that Raymond's grumpy father died on 12 th dec.
... more about Frank (Peter Boyle)
May his soul rest in peace.....

Anand..,
Chase your dreams

Bug Bug Bug Bug Bug Bug Bug

2006-11-30T09:12:00.000-08:00

Welcome back...

This is how a blog will look like, when a blogger does not have anything to post.

I want to be bugged

well - Enjoy bugging/de-bugging.

rgds,
Anand
chase your dreams.

Smile a mile...

2006-11-23T01:22:00.000-08:00

Welcome back,

I got an excellent mail from one of my friend.... I couldn't stop my self from uploading that image on to my blog, next moment I did it. The Student (Master) peice is here....,

There are few people in this world, who are satisfied only by their own work.

Keep Smiling,
Anand
Chase your dreams...

Be happy...

2006-11-21T09:31:00.000-08:00

Welcome back....

Finally we have one news to lift up our sholder and say "I'm proud to be an Indian YOUTH"...

BE HAPPY

If you are a close observer of my blog, by this time you would have figured it out. "BE happy - Keep smiling"'.

Keep Smiling..

Chase your dreams,
Anand.

Database in life

2006-11-16T09:10:00.000-08:00

Welcome back....

As a coin has two sides a day can be worst or best.
Me - Till now the day is on the W side....as my db is dead slow and i have done some better things today... found an exact match for database. Its our life.... and i was clever enough to do the microsoft act... (yes, stealing without the owners knowledge).

The creator of this JPG (author of the following script) has experienced worst things in in Life ( and Oracle database).

I wanted you to smile after reading the following lines....

Till my next post... Chase your dreams microsoft act...

Anand

Knowledge sharing SQL

2006-11-15T10:19:00.000-08:00

Welcome back...

Hope you have saved your money.....

ME - Doing some small program's in SQL server.

Round about way of doing things...
To find all the table in a database....

Select * from Sysobjects where type like 'u' -- U stands for Table.

To find the row counts for a table (consider the table is huuuuuge)
Select count(*) from 'table_name'

Shortcut

Exec SP_MSforeachtable @command = "Print '?' " -- This will give you all the table names

To find the row count for a given table...

Exec SP_Spaceused Table_name
the result you get is ..

Table name, Number of rows, size reserved for the table, Size of the data, Size of the Index, Unused Size

Hope this would have helped you... as it did me. I got used to these proc's couple of days back.

Don't forget to check to SP_who2, SP_locks

We will discuss the findings tomorrow...

until then....chase your dreams
Anand
keep smiling

Yes or No

2006-11-08T02:15:00.000-08:00

Welcome back....

This time i'm gonna shout about the real things that are happing in Brass Industry.

Your Yes or No SMS message is one day earning for a child working in Brass industry, Please go through this article
Child's cry

Still willing to send SMS to all those non sense reality shows. Please think twice.

You can change the a childs future...

Last night - There was a talk show in NDTV. The topic was something like "Do Aussie respect the elder people", They also had a SMS poll. "Does ponting owe an apology to Powar"....

If i have the power, i will immediately pass an act to stop all the SMS poll's.

There is another famous SMS poll on TEN sports. "Will india will the South African tour",

I'm sure in the next few months there will be an SMS contest, "Will it rain in Bangalore today"...

Wake up... its not too late, stop sending SMS.

"Every thing that has a beginning , has an end " - I wish this applies to all the Reality shows , SMS opinion, SMS context.

Back to reality show - Well, there are a whole lot of shows copied from the west, But can India accept "Wife swap" ?

The answer is with you ...

till my next post...
Anand.
[Chase your Dreams]...

Reality - Sucks

2006-11-06T09:11:00.000-08:00

Welcome back....

This time i'm here to give my shout on all the reality program's being telecasted on Sony, ZEE and all other TV's.

I still wonder how people can spend money just like that, make media and GSM/CDMA service provider richer.

Let me quote an example...

SaReGaMa prog in Zee , the three finalist got more than 100,00,000 crore votes.
Lets to simple maths...
Say 30% from Airtel, 30%hutch and 30% reliance who charges 1,2,3 respectively.
100,00,000 *.3*1 + 100,00,000 * .3 * 2 + 100,00,000 * .3 * 3 =
30,00,000 + 60,00,000 + 90,00,000 = 1,80,00,000.
This is only count for the three. If i calculate the money spent on SMS for this reality prog, it will cross more than 5,00,00,000.

Lets say there is a 50% cut for the mobile service providers 90,00,000 goes to the Zee telefilims and say all the three finalist get 30,00,000. Which makes 60,00,000 profit. This is excluding all the advertisement income. So in short the moeny we sms that goes from our mobile - "is money from our pocket"

More over the reality prog's that are increasing day by day... The latest on is Big Boss on Sony. This is a rip off from Big brother from BBC 4 (UK). I watched this prog 3 years back.

I admit that fact that those kids are really talented in SaReGaMa, but i don't watch any reality show (one of my room mate likes them) back to the topic... Those kids are really gifed and have an excellent voice, but sending SMS after SMS and making them win... i don't think this is the right way.

There should be a ban on all the prog's that induce the public to send SMS for votes. Let divert out money for some developmental prog's. Help the poor, provide food for those who need it, donate school fees for poor children... You will be the happiest person if you do so......

well i hope this post makes 2 % of impact and change those people who send SMS.

till my next post...
Keep smiling,
Anand.
[Chase your dreams]

Midtown Madness....

2006-10-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

Welcome back....

After a day of work (doing absolutely nothing) riding back home on my black panther (bike), sans(with out) peat pooja. Wanted to have dinner at 11:20 pm. Back from Cubbon part, kasturiba road and took a deviation to Shivaji Nagar Empire. Got stuck in Bangalore Signal. The interesting part is about to begin.....

Me - always follow traffic rules. Always move on Green signal. I was doing the same thing, some @%Q^#$^@^ auto guy started honking when it changed from red to Orange. I refused to move. After 3 seconds it chagned again to Green. I moved on with my bike. The auto fellow overtook me and gave me gaali's. I didn't waste time. Honked twice and gave 10x what he gave me and insulted him on the road. I pointed out what was wrong on his side, but dumb auto fellow was not in a mood to accept this mistakes, we had exchanged some hot @%#$^@6 words.

Here comes the rescue....
couple of guys from Empire came to support me, the auto driver got pi$$ed off didn't know what to do, started his auto and moved away from the place.

This was a clear case of violation of traffic rules...... and when i pointed out the auto drivers mistake... in exchange i got some sweet words from him.

This is the current situation in Bangalore....... the list doesn't end with auto dirver, right from Bikers to KSRTC bus. Who is responsible...? I leave the answer to you....

Live and let others live....

Till my next post...
Keep smiling
Anand
Chase your dreams

Change is constant.

2006-10-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Welcome back, Well every one goes through this phase , i guess!!!

Yes - I went to my home town this weekend. I went around those places where i played, roamed, spent most of my childhood days. I was shocked to see, the place was changed, completely...!, Small houses and mini colony's were missing, they all were replaced by huge appartments.

Two things could have gone wrong ....
1. I got stuck with my work here in Bangalore and not aware of the changes in my home town.
2. It happened soooo fast that no one could beleive it.

Chennai is also turning out to become a hot property market, as the land prices are shooting up day/day. Things are changing every hour....

Well, My trip was nice, After 3 months went home and most important thing - Had home food for two days.

Had an opportunity to meet some of my friends there in Chennai.

Till my next post....
Anand...
[Chase your dreams...]

Laugh

2006-08-24T02:10:00.000-07:00

Welcome back

I wanted to upload all the Tamil play's that i have in my pc. This is the first release with 25 play's free 4 DOWNLOADING.

One of my Favorite cine comedy artist - S V shekar.

He is one of my favorite cine artist. He's known for his Timing and his dialogue delivery. I'm proud to have most his play's in this page. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Kattula Mazhai.mp3

2. NaaiMelVeruppu.mp3

3. Madhu-Seenu.mp3

4. Nam Kudumbam Part - I.mp3

5. VediUppu.mp3

6. MamaThirudan.mp3

7. ManagerVarugai.mp3

8. Manaivigal Jakirathai.mp3

9. Periappa.mp3

10. Periyathambi.mp3

11. Pottiku Potti.mp3

12. RoomOndru.mp3

13. Sirippu_Ungal_Choice.mp3

14. Taxi_Taxi.mp3

15. ThambiSaamiyar.mp3

16. Vaal Payan.mp3

17. Yamirukka.mp3

18. Americavil Arukkani.mp3

19. MaaduVaanguthal.mp3

20. Vizil.mp3

21. Adhirstakaran.mp3

22. Alva.mp3

23. Yaar Paiyan (Taxi Taxi Part II).mp3

24. Andrum Indrum.mp3

25. Annamma Ponnamma.mp3

26. Anubhavam.mp3

27. Athai Varango (Nam Kudumbam Part II).mp3

28. ChinnaMaapillai.mp3

29. CrazyTheives1.mp3

30. CrazyTheives2.mp3

31. DubaiYematru.mp3

32. EliMarnunthu.mp3

33. Ellame-Part1.mp3

34. Ellame-Part2.mp3

35. HindiTuition.mp3

36. Jodi_Porutham.mp3

37. Jodi_Sendachu.mp3

38. KaathulaPoo1.mp3

39. KaathulaPoo2.mp3

40. KalyanaYematru.mp3

41. AayiramUthai.mp3

42. Thatthuppillai.mp3

Back to Main

Chennai_special

2006-08-22T00:49:00.000-07:00

Welcome back...

Money - Every one in this present world is after this one thing.......

This is how its wasted ... Our money .. tax payers money

News paper - What is the cost involved in publishing an advertisement for one full page in any news paper's sunday edition. DMK celebrated their acheivements of first 100 days in POWER on sunday - 20th August , result full 4 page add in Times of India , that too in Bangalore edition.

? - Who the hell is he to spend our TAX money.

Hoardings -
What is the cost of normal size of 4x4 banner/Hoarding....?.
Hoardings all around the place showcasing their acheivements. Its quite common in Chennai. People are now used to it. Hoardings on Mount road, sometimes you can't see the building behind the Hoardings. You never know when it will fall and where....

? - Who asked for those flashing Hoardings.

Birthday celebrations - Few days back it was Mr.Karunanidhi who celebrated his birthday. The Beach road traffic was completely blocked for a public function. I would suggest them to have all the programmes after 11:00 PM in the night, after the city goes to sleep. Its the same case when AIADMK was ruling.

I'm not supporting any political party.

Please make use of the comments.

Till my next post,
Keep Smiling,

Anand

Chase your dreams...

Boost up...

2006-08-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

Welcome back .......

If you are a music lover, language is not a barrier. I love all kind on music from carnatic , classical ,Hindustani ,Rock , Alt. Rock, Metal the list goes on....

If you have an Ipod or a mp3 player. These are the two songs that you must have....

1. In the end - Linkin Park

2. Numb - Linkin Park.

I leave it to these two songs to take you out of this world...

till my next post...

Keep smiling,
Anand...
Chase your dreams...

Let us celebrate INDEPENDENCE Day.

2006-08-15T03:36:00.000-07:00

Independence day wishes to all,

Still a long way to go.....

Till my next post

Keep smiling,

Anand

Chase your dreams...

Kishore 4Ever

2006-08-08T06:33:00.000-07:00

For all those great fans of Kishore da', i have uploaded 21 greatest hits of Kishore.

Here is a small gift....

Kishore da the best

1. Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhagi Si

2. Yeh Laal Rang / Kabhi tu Nazar [Remix version]

3. Meri Bheegi Bheegi si

4. Sagar Jaise Ankhon wali

5. Tera Bina Zindagi se

6. O sathi Re

7. Raat Kali Ek

8. Oh Hansini

9. Chingari Koi Bhadke

10. Kabhi Palkon Pe Aansoo

11. Koi hota Jisko

12. Mera Jeevan Kora Kagaz

13. Zindagi Ek Safar Hai

14. Dil Aisa Kisi Ne

15. Pal Pal Dil Ke

16. Haan Pheli Baar

17. Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai

18. Mera Dil Main Aaj

19. Zaroorat Hai Zaroorat Hai

20. Neele Neele Ambar

21. Omere Di

Enjoy the music.....

Till my next post ....

Keep smiling,

Anand

Chase your dreams...

Friends 4Ever.

2006-08-05T23:14:00.000-07:00

Happy Friendship day to all.....
Not every one get an opportunity to celebrate their birthday along with friendship day, which i had couple of years back. I would like to share that exp toady. It was fun and it was also raining gifts ;{)

1st August 2004, Sunday - My B'day and also my Friendship day, I travelled all the way from Bangalore to Chennai to celebrate my B'day.

Well I'm not going to tell what i did on my B'day, coz the pictures will tell it.

That's the B'day cake....

That's me Cutting the cake....

That's me with the special Birthday makeup...

The Gang....

from there to Coffee day.....

From left to Right - Shejoy, Nanditha, Sathish and Sukumar Sir.

I was lucky on that day, Every one was celebrating my Birthday.

Till my next Post

Keep Smiling...

Anand

[Chase your dreams..]

Break the Rulz!

2006-08-05T03:12:00.000-07:00

Can you access yahoo mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo messenger from Office....

The answer is - NO.

Hey - There is a big loop hole.... you can access even if these sites are blocked.

Thanks to the advancement of techonogy.... mobile phones, I not talking about accessing your mails from mobile phones, instead you can access the sites using the wap address. If you are interested in mail, not the attachments. There are few websites to access....

1. Yahoo mail -

a. try this address cn.mail.yahoo.com If that is also blocked
c. Final website http://wap.oa.yahoo.com

2. Hotmail. If you access www.hotmail.com, your proxy might @#$^#$%&# you.

a. try logging on the Msn.co.in then follow the hotmail link, If that i blocked
b. Try this http://groups.msn.com/ sign in from there and access your mails.

3.Gmail Sorry there is only one alternative...

a.http://gmail.asware.net/ this should help....

4. For yahoo messenger you can use www4.meebo.com, infact the same can be used for Yahoo,Gtalk, MSN, ICQ.
4b you can also try www.e-messenger.net , incase meebo is blocked.

You can also do a NSLOOKUP in your cmd [NSLookup http://www.youtube.com/ ] this will give you the IP address of the website. Worst case - if all the websites that i mentioned above and NSLOOKUP are blocked then you can access the website using the IP address..... there are few website address that provide you the IP address search.
1. http://www.mse.co.jp/ip_domain/index_e.shtml
2345 - you can find out using Google

Enjoy browsing....

till my next post

Keep smiling

Anand

[Chase your Dreams...]

My shout

2006-08-04T03:00:00.000-07:00

I have seen many people doing mistakes with/without their knowledge. I would like to point out few of those , so that people who read my blog might have a chance correct themselves/others.

questions

1. Bangalore is polluted - Why? is it Govts mistake ?
2. Traffic in Bangalore is bad - Why ? Do we have to blame govt for these issues ?

How about having a small check list.

1. Bangalore is polluted....

a. How many times we have seen people throwing the Cigarette, once they finish their holy smoke.
b. How many times we have seen people throwing the eatables on the road.
c. How many times we have seen people spitting on the road after having paan.
d. If a building is under construction, have we ever noticed where they take the power from [street lights], they dump all the raw materials on the road [mud, bircks, cement blocks] and also the rubbish.
e. Worst of all, How many times you have been sprinked by holy water from a bus or an Auto.

for all the above question, we have a great answer - Keep our mouth shut and rush to work.

2. Traffic in Bangalore....
I would like to stress on this point, people in Bangalore know how to drive but they don't know how not to drive and indirectly we support people who often break traffic rules.

a. This one is for all the Call center, BPO, S/W people who travel by cab. How many times you have noticed that your cab driver obeying the signals. Cab drivers way of understanding the signal in order of the lights

Green - 50 KMPS
Yellow - 40 KMPS
Red - 60+KMPS

Its thrill for the driver but its a thriller for every one, except the cab driver. Not every time when a cab driver jumps a signal, hits a bike or another cab. It happens once in 1000 incidents, but its another person who gets the punishment for his mistake. Just imagine the other person as your friend......

Almost all the cabs in Bangalore have a sticker on the back on the vechicle which states , "..irresponsible/ rash driving, please report at #########", but how many of us actually call and report.

b. How many times your cab has entered a No entry lane/ street/ road ?, and what do we do, as most of us work late UK, US shift, are in a hurry to go home so we never mind the driver entering a No entry lane/street/Road. Just wait for a second and imagine that your brother is travelling from the other end of the street/road on his new bike..........

c. Indicator - People in Bangalore take extraordinary care while driving, I would like to share an incident which happened on Airport road couple of months back. I noticed a traffic police riding his pulsar, on the middle of the road with his left indicator on. I chased the cop and informed him that his indicator was on.

d. Mobile phones - The usage of mobile phone has increased by 100% in bangalore, thanks to all the invention. Lets limit the usage of mobile phones, most of the accidents occur because of careless driving. So Next time when you see your cab driver attending a call while driving, please ask him to stop the vehicle.

e. Ambulance , No its my way i won't let you go past me - This one is the worst of all kind, y'day i was on my way to office, Busy traffic at MG road, an ambulance van was in a hurry to rush to hospital. No one seems to understand the importance of a human life.

I'm not harsh on the cab drivers, the same applies to two wheelers also.

Lets obey traffic rules and make bangalore a better place for living.

My comments page is open for all your suggestions, and @#$@#$%@#$% also.

Till my next post....
Anand
[Chase your Dreams.... not a CAB :)]

The day next to B....B....B...Big day!

2006-08-03T03:50:00.000-07:00

I'm Happy, Just for a change i want to start this post with a happy note.

Why am i happy ?
a) y'day - 02nd Aug, it was my friends [Devandra Kumar] Birthday and today its Mache's [Guru prasad] Birthday.

b) I downloaded an album using Bitcomet y'day and i got one of my favorite songs that i was searching for, more than a year. Its ...

Samay Tu Jaldi Jaldi Chal
Hindi Movie/Album Name: Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle

However , I will be even more happy if i get "Samay tu Dhree Dhree Chal......"

(samay tu dheere dheere chal) -2 saari duniyaa chhoD ke peechhe
aage jaaooN nikal, main to aage jaaooN nikal pal pal, ho pal pal) -2
(samay tu dheere dheere chal) -2 ye rut aur ye pyaaraa samaa
saaraa jeevan Thahre yahaaN pyaar ki raahon mein khoyee rahooN
teri baahon mein soyee rahooN
aaj kaa din meri muTThi mein hai kisne dekhaa kal, arrey
kisne dekhaa kal pal pal, ho pal pal (samay tu dheere dheere chal)
ruk jaayen ghaDiyaaN ruk jaayen chhin
raat ki zulfon mein bandh jaayen din
na main main rahooN na tum tum
ik dooje mein ho jaayen gum ban ke shamaa parvaanaa
donon pyaar mein jaayen jal, ham to pyaar
mein jaayen jal pal pal, ho pal pal ki: (samay tu dheere dheere chal) -2
saari duniyaa chhoD ke peechhe aage jaaooN nikal, main to aage
jaaooN nikal pal pal, ho pal pal) -2 (samay tu dheere dheere chal) -2
chhoTaa saa ho apnaa ghar na kuchh fikren na koi Dar hardam aisaa
vaqt rahe aaNkhon se na aaNsoo bahe dharti parvat hil sakte hainapni
preet aTal, dekho apni preet aTal pal pal, ho pal pal) -2 (samay tu dheere dheere Chal) -2 both: saari duniyaa chhoD ke Peechhe aage jaaooN nikal,
main to aage jaaooN nikal pal pal, ho pal pal) -2 (samay tu dheere dheere chal) -3

I'll try to find out a place where this song can be donwloaded. Its a lovely song, with golden voice of Kishore da and Asha ji. If any one can find a link where this can be downloaded, please post a comment. I would really appreciate it.

Its surprising, if you search for any hindi song with the title in Google, you will get more than 10000 results. But if you search for "Samay tu dhree dhree chal" you get only 9 results, The great musical websites like Raaga.com and Musicindiaonline doesn't seem to have this song (Movie : Karm) in their database.

Till my next post...Keep smiling

Best regards - Anand.

[Chase your dreams....]

B...B....B.....Big day.!

2006-08-01T03:31:00.000-07:00

Yep, today is my B'day and its just another day.... with few interesting things.

First i was testing my Sandwich toaster, with 4 slices of bread and butter. It was a successful result, but the final outcome was different from what i expected. I normally leave the slices of bread not more than 3 minutes. Today i waited for the green light to glow, it did, I opened the toaster.... Boom it was Black. Yes i burnt my breakfast.

Moral of the story - Never play with your food....., Never test your old toaster.

Good thing

Some amount donated to Blind school.....

I got few birthday calls at 12 last night........ for a change i sent out some good messages back to those people who called me....

go back to sleep, you can dream only when you are sleeping, you will have to
wake up tomorrow morning to make your dreams come true

F3 my PC

I didn't know i had most of the Golden hits of Kishore, Mukesh, Rafi, Lata. Today i found them & transferred to my player, unfortunately my player stopped responding. Its 20 gigs and i have just filled 5.5 gigs. I have most of the diamond numbers that i searched for a long time...... I'm happy......Yep. However i'm still after few hindi numbers..

1. Samay Tu Dheere Dheere Chal - Karm
2. Hariyala Banna aaya re - Razia Sultan
3. Khali haath shaam - Ijaazat
4. Yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar....

Ye Tera Ghar Ye Mera Ghar Kisi Ko Dekhna Ho GarTo Pehle Aake Maang Le Meri Nazar
Teri NazarYe Tera Ghar Ye Mera Ghar Ye Ghar Bahut Haseen HaiYe Ghar Bahut Haseen
Hai Ye Ghar Bahut Haseen HaiNa Baadlon Ke Chhaon Mein Na Chandni Ke Gaaon MeinNa
Phool Jaise Raaste Bane Hain Iske Vaaste Magar Ye Ghar Ajeeb Hai Zameen Ke
Kareeb HaiYe Eent-Pattharon Ka Ghar Hamaari Hasraton Ka GharYe Tera Ghar...Jo
Chaandni Nahin To Kya Ye Roshni Hai Pyaar KiDilon Ke Phool Khil Gaye To Fikr Kya
Bahaar Ki Hamaare Ghar Na Aayegi Kabhi Khushi Udhaar KiHamaari Raahaton Ka Ghar
Hamaari Chaahaton Ka GharYe Tera Ghar...Yahan Mahak Wafaaon Ki Mohabbaton Ka
Rang HaiYe Ghar Tumhara Khwaab Hai Ye Ghar Meri Umang HaiNa Aarzoo Pe Qaid Hai
Na Hausle Pe Jung HaiHamaare Hauslon Ka Ghar Hamaari Himmaton Ka GharYe Tera
Ghar... [ Sorry anusha - I copied this from your blog :-) ]

5. En Aankhon ke masti - Umrao Jaan

The list is goes on..... but these are the few songs that i'm searching for, a long time NOW.

My play list....

1. Oh hansini,
2. Kabhi Palko Pe Aansoo,
3. Raat kali meri,
4. Chingari koi,
5. Yeh laal rang kab,
6. Mera dil mein aaj kya hai,
7. Bheegi bheegi se,
8. Ek ladki bheegi,
9. Musafir hoon yaaro,
10. Dil aisa kisi ne,
11. Aanewala Pal Jaanewala Hai,
12. Chalte Chalte Mere.

BTW.. to know more about Kishore da,
You can download his songs from ... http://www.rajeevtiwari.com/songs.html , http://www.ganguly.de/kishore/hindi/

Till the next post....
Be Happy and keep smiling,
Anand.
[Chase your Dreams...]

Change in Life....

2006-07-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

Hi....

A week back, My room mate moved out of Bangalore and he's going to US for Higher studies. Now he is in Bombay and flying to US on 10th August.

I got a new room mate - he is Prateek, working in Lucent, its little strange coz he is in TCS Lucent project but he doesn't have a Lucent id card but has a TCS id card!.....

Jul 22 - I got my Annual compensation letter from TCS and must admit that the pay increase that i got was peanuts for the effort that i put in my work for one whole year. HR is looking into the issue , and i'm waiting for a new(revised) compensation letter. Its little strange, HR dept is totally irresponsible in TCS they just don't know how important the compensation related issues. Any mail to HR individual, the reply will be lightning fast with text "We need some time, as corporate is looking into the issue......".

To give some examples:
1. I got an incorrect confirmation letter from TCS, that too signed by TCS HR head..... they say its a printing mistake.
2. We waited 1 extra month for our compensation letter, The letter that we got was a #$#%&^!*)_@ letter.
They are reworking on the same now....

[Please share your exp..... if you want to!]

Jul 27 - Impt date, Three guys celebreated their birthday

1. My cousin - R S Balaji,
2. My Team Manager - Bops,
3. My Friend - Adam Keene.

I wonder how one single day will have an effect on your age..... Huh I'm against the birthday Celeb.

Funny & interesting Facts :
Morarji Desai - who lived only for 25 years and died, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai
he was born on 29th Feb 1896.

Till the next post Keep smiling,
Anand.
[Chase your Dreams!]

A specail day.....

2006-07-17T03:41:00.000-07:00

Its been a long time, since i opened blogspot.com, I have not updated my blog for a long time.... I don't know y. But things are not soo good here as they use to be. I'm just lying on the life bed, waiting for the fate to take me to a new dimension.

Sometimes i seem to be happy, and sometimes i feel like i'm left alone in the whole world. Is it bcoz i'm staying away from my family/friends - donno ?. But one thing that keeps me going daily 5 days a week, thats my bike.

I cleared off my educational loan, yes. I'm happy that i have not gone back to my parents asking them to fund for my higher education. I'm happy that way. Bangalore is a nice place to stay (Only with family), Food over here in Bangalore is very Bad. I'm from Chennai and its my third year in Bangalore, I can say that apart from a handful of restaurents in Bangalore, all the other serve bad food.

I'm planning to create a list of restaurants that server good food in Bangalore.... Sure i will share them

Till the next post....

Keep searching for a better restaurent....

Anand.

Eserve

2006-05-19T07:48:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

I'm back with a new post..... to tell you more about my friends.

To start with the Interview call that i had in 2002(WOOO WOOO WOOO WOOO WOOO - that's the flash back sound.!)

I was preparing for my CA exams, I got a call from Raghav from Eserve asking me to Join Eserve. I checked with my friends and relatives and they wanted me to Join Eserve and i did. My life took a complete Turn (U Turn).

Medical Test

Dec 26 , 2002. I reached Apollo Sinduri , I thought i was going who came with Eserve letter. There i met three more
1) Nagaraj
2) Ganesh Kumar
3) Manju
We waited from 7 am till 11 am.

Joining Date

Jan 02, 2003. I got my offer letter and i joined. On that day 5 people joined.
# are as follows.
1) Nagaraj
2)Me
3)Geetha
4)Manju
5)Ramani Kannan

Raghav - The most hated person in Eserve (HR) took us to 2nd floor, and introduced us to MR DJ (Deepak Jain). Except for Ramani kannan all 4 were allocated to RCU (Regional charge back Unit).

The Training

The Training that we had in Eserve was tooooo good. We were asked to read Visa/Mastercard manuals [Dispute resolution] for one week. We had training classes from Managers/Exec's.
We were trained by :
1) Senthil Kumar - His memory is faster than a computer search.
2) Charles - Mr.Management.
3) Vishwa - Mr.Perfect
We had one full week of Training session. We infact wrote tests for 4 days.
We were also given on the Job training, Thanks to :
1) Prithiv - 1st partner in Crime
2) Gopa Kumar - 2nd partner in Crime
3) Prithiv - 3rd partner in Crime
4) Aruna
5) Brinda

Time to Train the new Joinees

Right after one week - Jan - 08. Two more joined our team.
1) Ganesh Kumar - The same guy whom i met in Appollo when i had gone for medical test.
2) Devi.
We were asked to train (do KT) to the new people.
I used/still use to call Ganesh kumar as Iyera. He ate my head in the Training session. Some times his question would be very silly..... like who starts the batch run proces, totally unrelated to the process. I was the unfortunate one , by that time Nagaraj and Manju had moved to Accounting Team and Geetha was training Devi.

More friends

To start with the very simple work, Filing.... we made a mess, thanks to the mess we got some more friends. By this time Gopa kumar (Gopa), Prithiv, Ramnath were very friendly to move.
My friends list grew......
1) Vinod
2) G.Arun Kumar - Member of Anti mouse association
3) L.Arun Kumar
4) US cards Arun - Indha Punaiym Beer Kudikuma!
5) Balaji

G. Arun Kumar - He is my inspiration, he is my first master in Excel and in Short cut keys. He wanted to prove a point that working with Keyboard and short cut keys is faster than working with Key board and Mouse.

Vinod - He had a short business trip to Poland and bought a bottle of perfume......, He use to have it in his draw. Any argument - he will take his perfume and start sprying. It had an unique smell, which could knock off a man slowly.

Balaji - Who damaged Senthil's teeth with his choclates that he brought from Poland.

Moved to New Team - New Project.

Our Training in RCU got over in a months time. One fine day we were introduced to Vamsi, who was from India Business. We three (Myself, Nagaraj, Ganesh) moved to ECA (European Cards Acceptance.) where Vishwa was our Team lead. We did paralell testing for 20 days. We (Me and Nagaraj) cracked the Recon logic and tallyed the recon sheet which was never done in the history of ECA business.

New members introduction in our project.

Our Team size started growing day/day. First it was Divya, then came Kalyan and Krishna, then Prajith.

Set to go Live.
Feb 24, 2002 - We came to office on Sunday - To design the MIS.
Nagaraj (Nagu) got Recon process, Ganesh got IB rejects , Divya got EB rejects, I got Association rejects, Prajith got Payments, Kalyan and Krishna got Letter generation.

Mar 03, 2002 - Go live..... The day i met with an accident on my way to office. First day in live system made us crazy.... we faced new issues with systems, and we had only 4 systems to work on.

The Great Edit Package

Well all the visa rejects are to be corrected only using Edit package, and i handle 4 countries visa rejects. Surprise we had only one Exit package configured for Poland. Me and Kalyan some how managed to build the entire system with out knowing what the s/w does and i had the Administrator access. Some how managed to clear one months reject in three days.

Rajan's entry with Macros.
Till Rajan joined our team, there was only one guy in eserve who was good in Automation. That changed, Rajan was a s/w faculty and guru in Systems. We had the right mix in the project, and its was like having a perfect combination in the Team. We had the right interest and explored system and slowly learnt Macros and started to automate things. Every one became a specialist in their own area. I was good in Shortcut keys and Keybord operations, Ganesh was good in Macros and Excel, Divya was good in Excel and VBA, Rajan was good in Access, Prajith was our Marketing Manager became an Excel expert tooo.

Reena's Entry , First month salary Treat.
It was time for Vishwa to move out from our team and move to another team. Vishwa was replaced by Reena. Vamsi wanted us to give a treat for Joining Eserve. That was the beginning of the treat funda - I still can't stop it. We had a Treat in Hotel Residency, two buildings next to Eserve. We explored ECA rejects process upto that extent, that we got a call from Germany asking us to stop uploading the corrected files as the same had crashed the batch run processes.

Two more joined the project on Apr 01, 2002.- Iswarya and Nanak.

More to continue...

My London Friends

2006-05-08T12:42:00.000-07:00

Yep, My last posting was with my TCS friends. I was deputed to London from TCS for a period of 6 Months (5 Months and 24 days to be exact).

We had some interesting people there at Cosy cote. That's the name of the place where i stayed.
~ No1, Chester Street, Forest Gate, London E78QS.
My First trip was in June - July 04,
and the second trip followed in a short while, it was in Oct 04 to Mar 05 [Peak winter].

Well back to the topic

Niranjan Guru alies Niranjan.

He's Techie, He's from Mysore. During my stay of 28 days, we became very close friends. Not to mention that house was occupied by 11 people. Out of that 11, 8 were from my project and Niranjan and two more people. He use to leave from cosy cote exactly by 7:30 and reaches TCS office before 8:30 and wuring week ends Saturday and Sunday, We [Me, James, Niranjan, Vikas, Punkaj, Guru Prasad, Prabu, Dev, Ajay, Manoj, Shivdeep] start at 9:00 am roam London , we come back only by 9:00 pm. Thanks to the climate, its was summer. Niranjan was staying there for two months so he was out tourist guide. He had a very organised person, going to bed before 10:30 and waking before 6:00. He use to plan his and our weekends perfectly. His favoutire time pass was Photography. Even now we are in touch, thanks to the tech-no-logy [email]. He's one of those people who takes time to got on, but once he becomes close, he will make sure that you are not in trouble. I believe the photo that i have uploaded, will make his proud.

Favorite songs : Old Hindi Songs.

Favorite Food : Any Veg food.

Gajanan Bhutt alies Bhutty alies Thorny

Well He's one of those people who look simple and live simple, but he means business. He was the only person who came to london with all winter clothing. We use to call him Bhutty. We had fun, fun, fun and only fun there in Cosy cote. You won't find many people in this world, who is gifted with a great humor sense. No one in our gang can forget the way we watched the Matrix.

Favorite songs : Old Hindi collection.

Favorite food : Any Veg food

Amithab Singh alies Sutta Singh

No one in this world can match is timing, and his sense of humor. He is the only sard, who likes to crack sard jokes. He's a man full of character. He is a great cook. I have not seen any one trying Chicken vodka and beer chicken, Delhi omelette. We all were surprised including Sutta Singh after having vodka chicken [it was sweet]. He was Mr.Dependable when it comes to food. He's a specialist in Non veg items, especially Chicken. When he cooks, he will make sure that every on in the house is satisfied with the food. I was 70 + when i left India, Normally any person who stays away from home tends to put down weight, but i was the exception who gained weight, When i came back to India, i was 90+, Thanks to Sutta Singh. I must mention this, he has a unique taste when it comes to movies, He rented Pakistan munna bhai MBBS and watched the whole movie and he was happy with that movie . His time pass was watching movies, cooking, and getting lost in London. He use to rent DVD's every week end, finally the DVD shop owner became a good friend and there is a rule that if the DVD lender fails to return the DVD with in 2 days the shop keeper charges 1 £ extra and cuts it from the Deposit. It never happend in our case, once again thanks to sutta singh. We watched Dhoom, Kisna, Aaitraz, Musafir, Pakistan Munna bhai MBBS and many more movies. He is a regular member in Venks and Bops gang with it comes to 3 cards.We had an excellent New year party, loud music, Dance , Dinner at Alex's place . On December 31st 2004, he came back from a new year party and i was playing music, he pulled every one in the house and made us dance. He is a great dancer , his dance moves are really fast, typical punjabi style. We all were getting bored with Mc donalds burger and noodles, he was our saviour. I advised him to quit CMC and start a restaurent there in London..... In my life i have not seen a guy cook like him. He's a great flute artist, and a big player when it comes to sparkling water.

Favorite songs : All Hindi songs,

Favorite Food : Give him any thing, he will finish it in a flash :)

Anil Manuka or Anil

That's Bops and Anil in Wales.

He is a very silent person who likes to stay alone He likes to do his things on his own. But we changed him completely. He had an excellent room mate, who use to sleep with the room lights on!. He badly wanted to change the room for that reason. He joined out gang after a month, then we changed him completely. His story was typical, and a great lesson for those who don't want to get married. He wanted to get married only by 26+, but his dad was tooo clever, his dad never stood against his decision, but instead he had different plan. Anil's engagement got over in feb -2003, and guess what, he was married in April 2003.

Favorite songs : 80's and 90's telegu, Hindi and Tamil.

Favorite food : Amitabh's Dal fry and Rice, Chennai Dosa's Combo meal.

Our Gang in London.....

[Bhutty, Sutta Singh, Sheakea, Jamie with roti and Allo gravy - Thanks to Amitabh and Abhishek]

[Anil, Bhutty, Sutta Shingh, Bops, Venks, Jamie in Lake side]

[New Year in London with Anil, Sutta Singh , Me, Ausha, Bops, James, Bhutty]

[Anil, Venks, Anuhsa, James, Bops, Sutta Singh, Bhutty]

thanks for reading,

Chase your Dreams

Birumanand.

Friends.

2006-05-04T12:08:00.000-07:00

Friends - For me Friends share more than half in my life.

Let me start with TCS....

Anusha alies Cheache (belong to the Great mallu association.)

She is an interesting character, who hates to work - i mean, Starting trouble. Once she's on the job, we have to keep reminding her that its time to sign out. She always praises her computer and an Antique peice (mobile phone) that she carries. I have not seen any one showing off their mobile phone as much as she does! :)

Favorite food - Albadar Biryani,Mc donalds burger, Dixy Chicken wings, Loads and loads of french fries....

Favorite songs - Old Hindi , Aadat, Gangster ( all songs)

James alies Jamie boy.

He's Mr.Perfect, Does all the things in an organised manner, He's known for his remix.... the famous remix that he has done till date is "YEH DOSTI Dithicku Dithicku Dithicku Dithicku HUM HANI Dithicku Dithicku Dithicku Dithicku ........", this was way back in 2004 which earned him and Praveen the name "Dithicku Partners". We had some interesting time in London back in 2004-05, It was an very interesting patch of 5 months there. We learnt how to make "Kothu Parotta", "Omelette".... many more things.

Favorite food - Albadar Biryani, Subway food, Fried chicken

Favorite Song - Mallu Rap

Praveen alies Master Ji....

In the whole world, you cannot get a crazy person like him. But when it comes to work, man he works like maniac. Master in mixing songs from one language to another language. Now he's in US.... but constantly keeps in touch with our gang, Brainy smart chap... "Mate I know you!". Very few people know about the following picture, Its better i keep it a secret.

Favorite food - Hyderabad biryani, Red hot food [including red and green chili]

Favorite songs - Hit Telegu nos, and mid age hindi songs.

Vikas Rao alies Vikas....

Now he's with an Investment bank in Mumbai, We had two years of fun in TCS. He is Mr.Reliable, you can call him for any problem he will be there to help you....Works like as if the whole project is dependent of him. Off work, he's the only person who spends his time mostly on his bed - Likes to sleep. He's a flute Artist.... "we only know what that flute stands for....". The above photo was taken after Greenwich journey [which includes 2 hours of continuous walking].

Favorite food - Ghee Rice Chciken Kabab [Only from Empire] with some Sparkling water[Optional]

Favorite Songs - Any Fast Dance number English / Hindi

Manoj or reddma [That's his nt login.]

I must agree to this fact, Mr.God has been rough to him. He was the only person to lose his bag in London, and guess what - His passport, Return tickets, company ID card, Travellers Cheque and some more items were there in his bag ;). This is the first thing comes to my mind when i hear his name. (Now back to positive things) He's an great teacher and has excellent knowledge in Finance and Insurance industry.He was our time pass, when ever India plays cricket against any counrty, he's our primary target, He's a true sachin fan. I can compare his memory to cricketnext website. Name a cricket match and he will come up with scores and man of the match for that game.

Favorite songs - All songs from Dil chata hai, and Super dooper hits of Amir Khan.

Favorite food - Any Veg food with out Greens and Vegetables. [Big Game player]

Sudarshan alies Sudhi or Anansd [His NT id...]

He's a serious person and a dedicated student. He's doing his CA [All the best mate for your Exams]. He's Favorite person is Laura ;). His interests include installing and uninstalling S/W and H/W. He does a routine installation and deletion every week. He's a member of our Anti Sachin Gang. My kind advice, Mate work for one day, not more than that. He has a strong knowledge in Finance and Trades , borrowing in buying 3 to 4 hours from the next day and continues working. He's mad about F1 racing.

Favorite songs - Linkin park, Zinda, Strings...

Favorite food - All Veg food.

Bopaiah alies Bops.

He's our Team manager, a great flute artist ["again we only know what that flute stands for"]. He's a party kind of a guy. His Favorite time pass.... Playing three cards , but for a change betting only in £. Yep, That was his time pass in London. He's a big Tyre and alloys freak. Loves to drive, he's a typical coorgie with little french beard.He is mad about hard rock and loves to party in Chandru's farm house [right in center of Bannargetta zoo]. Loves sparkling water. I must quote this example, when he was there in London, he wanted to see wales, so he joined Venks, Sandeep and another colleague - rented a car, went safely to wales and came back half the way. The best part is yet to start, he had the fog lights on in his car and he didn't know about it. A cop followed him and stopped him and gave him a ticket for having fog lights on. He had to pay a fine of 30£ for having fog lights on[The above picture was taken with the fine ticket]....that 2,400/- Rs.

Favorite Song - Linkin Park, MLTR, Bryan Adams....... it goes on!

Favorite food - See food :)

Pankaj Nangia alies Panku Daada

He was the first person, whom i met in my Project, My first day in ITPL [Explorer 9th floor - D'nets]. I was waiting for my GL (I haven't seen my GL by that time), I see a big guy making an entry and introduces him self - "HI I'm Pankaj, I work in Platinum. Welcome to platinum". I was taken by shock. He's now with an Investment bank in Bangalore. I like his guts [i couldn't follow it till date], he came back from London after 4 months, the very next day he gave his resignation. Who in this world has this level of confidence, to search a job while serving notice period. His favorite time pass is Sleeping. I shared a room with him for 2 1/2 months in London. He was really helpful and on the dot when it comes to timing. Every day morning, when i wake up, i use to hear a voice "Anand - Bye" at 7:00, that too in peak winter in London... whoooooo. It use to be less than 6 degrees outside, he heads to office with couple of bread slices with butter/Jam, on saturdays his regular routine was a) wake up early, apply oil b) have breakfast on time c) sleep till 12:00 d) wake up for Lunch e) Sleep after lunch.... [That was a tight schedule to maintain.]. The above photo was taken in Lakeside [essex]

Favorite songs - 90's Rock and old Hindi songs.

Favorite food - See food....

Venkatesh alies Venks

I must introduce him to you all, I did mention James a Mr.Perfect. I have not seen a person well organized like venks (as i use to call him.). He's a very silent person, with loads of knowledge and great sense of Humor. His speciality, he a great Market Analyst. Perfect Investment advisor and CFO. we all are CFO trained by Chirs marlow, Ben Richardson, Debbie bekx...., now what exactly is CFO--- Hold on its not Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Formatting Officer. Yes we bring all the major presentations to the Exact format that is requested by client. I like many things about venks, one among them is, It was his birthday celebration and he was just not willing to blow off the candle, he gave a very logical explanation for his act. "Light is truth , and i don't want to put off truth and don't want to bring darkness to this world." He was our cook in London back in 04-05, he use to operate as a cook under one condition, "No one should waste food!". He loves listening music in his Ipod. A great secret known to few of his friends, He hates attending conference calls, to keep in occupied in conference calls he starts playing games in his mobile - no one can play snake in Nokia mobile like him

Favorite songs - Old Hindi songs and Devotional songs.

Favorite food - Anna (rice) and Pure veggie.

Abishek alies Sheakkea

He's very popular in our Gang and he was the first one to have Chicken popcorns and made us spend 3 pounds daily for 1 1/2 months. He is an Excellent cook [I have tasted his food for 5-6 Sundays]. Specialist in preparing Kheer. This reminds me of an interesting incident that happened in London, Once he prepared keer and it was peak time in Winter. After the cooking part got over we all were waiting to taste home made food and entered the kitchen with great anticipation, the container was missing!. We searched for the container for almost 1/2 hour and finally asked him, he had kept the kheer outside for cooling. I still have a question for him, "Sheakkea, you kept the kheer outside ok, but why did you place the flower vase on the container?". Well he's Mr.clean, and his contribution towards my spendings was a mojor portion. He was the first person to go to Romford and he took us there, and primark. That was the starting point of my spending graph, it never came down instead every week i started spending 200 £. Thanks mate. We had only one hindi cassette there in London and he use to play the same cassatte every day morning, That use to be my wake up song for a long time. His working style was very different from others, when he agrees on a delivery date, He will have his eye drops next to his PC, Next day you might the job assigned to him is completed, with top quality.

Favorite words - "Bosss!"

Favorite songs - All Kishore kumar songs.

Favorite food - Chicken wings, Chicken pop corns and Rice with Veg curry at Albadar.

Finally the big fish....

Malieek alies Maal

I must admit, his knowledge base was tooooo big. An interesting thing about him is, he calls himself as a pure vegetarian but likes non veg gravy (Sorry maal). He was our Team manager until he quit, He was a great show man and an excellent motivator. His sense of humor mixed with his management abilities. His favourtie god is Lord Shiva. He's known for his dedication, i have not seen any person working like him (especially who has a family) . I don't know who copied it from whom first, was it sheakkea from maal or the other way around. They both use eye drops upto a great extent. I still remember, he use to carry an unique head set and listen to old hindi Songs. Manoj made his entry to our project and saw maal with his head on, well manoj's assumption was way beyond the reality, Manoj thought that its a HI5 project where Manager use to give trading tips to the client on line...., finally he came to know about maal's headset. Maal is abig time Trader...... any tips in Trading, you can approach him.

Favorite songs - Old hindi songs.

Favorite food - Rice with Chicken gravy (BTW he's a vegetarian)

My TCS friends list include

Dev,Ajay, Shivdeep, Prabu, Ramya Raman, Anuradha subramanian, Delvin Micheal, Manjunath, Devaiah, Chandru, Hari, Sweetha and many more....this was our one year completion celebration party photo.

Our Tirupathi Trip - in 2005.

Chase your Dreams,

Birumanand.

2006-04-28T05:37:00.000-07:00

one More seed off the tree....

Today is one of my friends [Manoj Reddy]last day in our project, he's moving out of the project and moving in to Banking practice. [Good for him!]. Its qutie usual now a days, I still remember what i did in my previous company. It was a big thing for me to digest. I was lucky enough to get a job after my grad., I was employed with E-Serve for a year from 2003 -04.

It was an interesting exp working there in E-Serve. When i joined E-Serve, i should admit - I didn't know how to do a filter in Excel, three years down the line. Now i'm a VBA developer and Excel Expert [That's what my freinds call me.!:)]. I knew a hand full of shortcut keys, now i prefer operating through key board. It was a great learning exp....

Now back to the main topic, too many people are leaving out Team/Project. It was another friends turn couple of months back, I could see few friends hugging, and were about the cry... I don't know why, but its a little strange, even i had the exp in my first job and after that i had become normal/usual.

list of people left the TEAM.

Pankaj Nangia - 15 months back
Maaliek - 7 months back
Abhished Gupta - 7 months back
Praveen Kadkol - 4 months back [moved to another project.]
Vikas Rao - 2 months back
Venkatesh - 1 1/2 months back
Manoj Reddy - TODAY

Its hard to believe that i'm the THIRD senior most person in the project now...... out project started in ITPL, way back in 2004. People moved in and moved out....., But we had one guy in our project whom we use to call as Mr.Elvis [not for his vocal, for his unique hair style....], he was in project for months time, but he served a notice period of Three months, God only knows what was in his mind when he put his papers and opted to serve 3 months, for this reason we named him Mr.AJEEB.

Its true that - "Life is a Journey and you meet lot of people during your Joruney, but few will be there till the end" - I guess they are called true friends.

Tomorrow - One of my friend is fyling to US, She got married on 12th April. We studied in Aptech - Cathedral road, chennai for two years. We were like free birds at that time. Never thought about the GREAT FUTURE. Now were are Scattered and settled......, but even now we keep in touch with each other, just sending a HI mail or a word over the phone. We had two Col's in our group

a) Lt.Col Shridar Uttarawar
b) Lt.Col Moorthy

They came back to chennai during their leave, they joined Aptech - I not sure what they gained by joining Aptech, But they earned a handful of some TRUE friends.

Srikanth, and Vikramanarayanan - They both are the close friends in Aptech [they were in our same batch] , We call Srikanth as Sheeka, and the other guy as Vikram. They both belong to my college - The New college, They were doing Bio-Technology.

Our faculty's - Sriram Sir, Karthick Sir, Sri vidhya Mam, Sukumar Sir, Jeyanthi Mam, MR.Java developer.

Sriram Sir - He was tooo good and a true Gem of a person, back to 1999----woo woo woo woo woo woo [flash back sound], he took class for 42 students, 9-11 batch in Aptech. Man he was a great person, I still don't know how he managed to handle so many people, we here find it difficult to give training for a bunch of 12 people.

Karthick Sir - Mr.Perfect, that what i call him. He was really close to with us, more than a faculty,he was a great friend. He's BSC comp sc, Grad from Vivekananda college - Chennai, He joined aptech for a computer brush up course there, secured A+ and joined Aptech as a Faculty there, then he moved to a S/W company, joined there as a S/W programmer, completed his MCA. Guess what - Now he's with CTS and in US.

Sri Vidhya Mam - She was an excellent faculty, on the dot. straight to point, she moved from Aptech to an Eng college as a full time faculty there.

Sukumar Sir - The most important person who broght us to gether, I still can recollect those days - we faught with our Centre head when the management wanted him to move from Cath road branch to Thriuvatroyir branch, We enjoed a lot in his class more than that we learnt a lot from him. He's a man with Big brains....he's now currently associated with Ramco systems,

Its has been a great journey so for, 24 years have gone.... I have earned a lot , LOT of friends......... keep checking for my post... Its going to be a special one, its going to be only about my friends..... sneak peak....

My school days, college days, computer class mates, Eserve friends, TCS friends and lots more....

My Eserve friends..... This was taken in 2003, using a camera phone - Nokia 7500

Bye for now......

CHASE your DREAMS!.

regards,
Anand. [Birumanand.]

2006-04-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

Good ones...

lets start the topic with photos...
HERE are some good snaps from my Kodak Dx 6490 - It has got amazing ZOOOOOm (10x of Optical and 3 x of Digital)...check this one for zooooooom...

here's one, to enjoy the beauty of 747 cargo... Its amazing how this machine manages to do a lift off from ground, considering its size - "MASSIVE"

From the back side, with two huge engines, "She's too good".

Look at the side on view....

how's that for size....!

I'm proud to say that i had travelled twice in 747

Enough about the Air-crafts...

have you ever compared the a pound with 5 rupees....check this out.

damn, i should have participated in photography competition... my friends say that i have taken some good snaps...

i have been told that a photo like this won the photo of the year award.. $#!^ - how did i miss it.!

these two were taken in Brighton...

Its time for me to show my face....

Finally - a treat for your eyes... i couldn't beleive my eyes when i took this snap.....

couple of my friends [Pankaj Nangia and Vikas rao]are present in this snap... find them if you can,

Chase your dreams....

[An]2d

2006-02-24T05:49:00.000-08:00

Photos....

One of my friend was here in Bangalore couple of weeks back ..... We had great time, Photography is one of my favourite time pass....

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Check the following snaps, I feel great... "A photographer is never happy with his photos, that keeps him hungry...!"

The place where i stay is very close to Airport, Jump a wall you will reach runway of
Bangalore Airport. I coulnd't sleep for the first two months and after that , I got used to the Aircraft sound. The only problem even now is the MIGs and the other fighter planes, Its really great to seet those planes take off and touch down. The sound they produce its tooooooo much.

I have taken some cool snaps from my place........

The Great Sunset

Ball of Fire....

2006-01-19T09:54:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

I'm Back....
I'd been to Chennai, y'day and back to B'lr on the same day!, I haven't done this till date. I have travelled in all modes of transport.Right from carts to Plane. But the best Journey that i had till date is my trip back from office to Home, I drive back home around 12+ some time its 3,4,5,6 in the morning. I never find Blr roads empty except those timings. I plugin my ear phones and listen to music while driving. I enjoy driving my ride back home and listening to the music that i like.

About my y'day Travel - I felt like a typical B-Man.

Had breakfast in Bangalore, Lunch - Wow Mom made home lunch, Dinner Street side shop in Bangalore. (By that time none of the restaurants were open).

The Train Jounery, It was every ones dream as a child. But mine was different. I always wanted to Travel by bus. I had my first Bus journey in my class 4. I have travelled in Train for a long time, Its quite obvious how people choose thier mode of transport when it is provided at free of cost. My dad works in Railway- I get free railway pass.! hee hee hee.

2006-01-17T10:47:00.000-08:00

Name : Birumanandan
Occupation : Working in a Dumb company (BPO)
Time pass : Music [I cannot live with out it]
Biggest asset in life : Friends
Biggest liability in life : Have to live another 70+ years
Aim in Life : I don't have any big things to acheive, I'm happy with what i have.

This is my first day,
I actually don't know what not to write.
I use to have the habit of Writing Diary, in my own way. When i get free time i just pass through those pages. When ever i open my Diary i feel like i'm going back to my past!.

Today, Jan 16 - My first Blog.

The Beginning,

I always feel that i'm unique when compared to others, always love to stay alone, get lost in my own world. Plug in those ear phones and live with music till the battery of my MP3 player goes empty. I love Music, Music is like magic. They can treat you from any mood. They have the power to heal the mind, which i guess meditation and Yoga can also do.