Plah is pictures + blah  … since addition is commutative … a+b = b+a .. so pictures + blah = blah+ pictures :D … blah first .. pictures next ..

Blah 1: Thanks to IIITH .. i have learnt that Lark is a bird :D.

Blah 2 : I didn’t know that .. the “school chale hum” song was composed by Shankar Ehsan Loy .. Good to know that  :) . [ Ref : http://kpowerinfinity.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EEA9A8ECBFC1B50B!271.entry ]

Blah 3 : Did some research on Battle of Diu sometime back .. it was a battle fought in 1509 .. Portugese vs (A joint fleet from Gujarat + Turkey + Egypt + Calicut + Venice + Croatia_) .. That sounds like a mini world war ;) . [ Ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diu_(1509) ]

Blah 4 : Was reading an article in outlook business [ I read 1-2 such magazines whenever i make a train trip to hyd :)] by S.Gurumurthy .. the madhavan in the real life Guru ;) … in which he mentions an article by william dalrymple .. which says .. in 1600 .. India was the No.2 economy in the world with a 22% share in world GDP .. China was No.1 .. and that except in 1500 and 1600 .. India had always been the No.1 economy in the world for 1700 yrs [Before a tragedy called East india company struck ;)] … Hmm .. interesting facts :) .

Blah 5 : Paruthi veeran is a good film :) .. The role of priyamani in that film is so uniquely written that .. any actress doing that will end up with a national award ;) . Ofcourse u need to bear with the rurallllllllllll tamilnadu effect in the film :) .

Blah 6: And finally in his last trip to hyderabad .. the author makes it to .. A A Hussain & Co …. Ref : http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/locations/125/2 … Is this the oldest bookstore in Hyderabad ??

Pic 1 :

A couple of weeks back the author had been to the heart of rayalaseema .. Kurnool District .. where he spent 10yrs of his childhood .. to attend a marriage .. on the way he stopped at mantralayam .. where he found this scene ….

Lungee clad ppl .. speaking seema language :) .. and he felt nostalgic ;) … i still remember this cocunut water seller .. when samarasimha reddy film released …. “anna .. balayya cinema choosinra ? “.. “ledu .. bagunda” … “em dialoguelu anna … iragadisindu balayya ” ;) … Refer to Plah5 for more balayya ;).

And mantralayam seems to have too many kannadigas .. i had some idli-vada and asked that guy for the bill amount . he said .. “hanneradu” … i interpreted it as .. “hundredu” .. and gave this shock cum disbelief look to the hotel guy … soon he said .. hanneradu in kannada = pannendu in telugu and twelve in english :) .

Pic 2 :

It rained in pune sometime back .. though not as heavy as hyd rains .. was a good rain .. am glad that they stopped ;) … and the author stays amidst hills .. and the hills never looked more greener than this … :)

Pic 3 :

Looks like this particular variety of chaha [chai / tea] has got a history similar to the irani chai in hyderabad :) . Another rainy day pic :) .

Pic 4 :

Found this motor driving school van somewhere in aundh , pune … Why would someone want to learn that :D … looks like an antique mortuary van :D

Pic 5 :

Ah and the kurnool trip reminded the author of his prev trip in Feb 2007 … this time i saw .. some posters where balakrishna fans go ga-ga over “Okka magadu” … ‘Okka magadu’ of all films !!! … This was a pic taken in Feb2007 .. which proves that balakrishna still has hardcore fans in Rayalaseema :) …

Surplus Blah :

It is not mandatory to read this stuff .. But it is for those loyal readers who have this … Yeh dil maange more .. feeling :D

Surplus Blah 1 :

Was talking to this friend from a services company … No i cant reveal names  ;) … it seems some team from china was coming to learn the nuances of his project which is largely managed by an indian team … And this fellow got strict instructions from his upper management that … Dont reveal any details .. confuse them as much as possible .. Otherwise they will understand the full project and since chinese are more hardworking than us indians …  slowly the project will be sent to china and we will become jobless :D … How very indian :P .. And seeing the beijing olympics hugama .. i shud say … how very chinese :D [no not referring to samskaras .. western imitation .. how american is china etc etc :D ... Simple appreciation of all the hardwork :) ].

Surplus blah 2 :

I had this ‘what an idea sirji’ moment .. when i got this idea to start a company .. before i realised .. starting such a company is illegal and i can be sent to prison if at all i start such a company .. no i am not getting into details … who knows .. tmmrw u start such a company and when u r caught .. u say .. halley gave me this idea :D .

Surplus Blah 3 :

Was reading … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandamuri_Taraka_Rama_Rao .. when i came across .. this line … “== Politics ==if you require contact rama rao xxxxxxxxxx ” … for once i cursed wiki :D .. some vella fella tampered the article and wrote the fone number of a real life ramarao in that article .. so i promptly called up this ramarao and told him .. someone putup ur fone number on wikipedia .. take care :) … Would you call it .. One good deed for the day or the summit of joblessness :D ? .

PS : Quite a longggggggg post … and i end with chanting “raja .. raja dhi raja dhi raja ” … discovered more of ilayaraja … courtesy .. esnips.com … ilayaraja continues to consistently amaze me with his compositions :) .. the latest one being a bhajan .. written by Gandhi .. sung by Bhimsen Joshi and composed by Ilayaraja …

If you read every word till this line … Please acknowledge with a comment … You might get some appreciation :D

Had been to hampi on Sat and Sun .. Pune-hospet is a 12hr bus journey [Included the dinner/breakfast breaks :)] .. Hampi-hospet is 10km . Hyderabad-hospet is about 8.5hrs :) .. More on Hampi from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi . Some of my colleagues here thought hampi was near harappa :D .

This post is mainly about why i found this place special …

Like the guide repeated again and again .. down south .. this was the last of the large hindu empires .. and krishnadevaraya’s reign is quite famous . So there is that i-want-to-see-vijayanagara-kingdom curiosity that would pull one to this place.

I was surprised to see the level of globalisation in this place .. Ppl here say this is post the UNESCO-world heritage site status . Every other restaurant here has some weird items on the menu … Israeli , French , Italian , Korean , Tibetan items :) .. Attaching a pic for reference ;) .

And i even found some boards in an unknown script .. anyone who can help me trace that script will be rewarded :p

This pic below also shows something i have never seen in other tourist places :) … A general coin seller .. with a nameplate proudly proclaiming .. Smt Thimmakka Numismatist Hampi … Obv to lure foreign tourists .. who else would like to buy 1970 10paise coins :D.

Crossing the tungabhadra river on those coracles fully loaded with 6 bicycles (Went with 5 other friends) was fun .

Cycling was good too .. Though too much of cycling caused acute pain in the palm and legs … i can still feel the pain in the palm .. Also experienced what PITA (pain in the ….) actually is .. owing to those seats on the bicycle :). The person on the left here is the good samaritan who actually saved some 4-5kms of extra cycling for us … though we thought he was planning to kidnap all of us :p … by leading us into the woods .. there were other such speculations .. like the kill-all-6ppl-with-6bullets-in-a-loaded-revolver school of thought .. and maybe-he- is-a-naxal-school-of-thought :D.

And we thought we got lost … left side was tungabhadra waters .. right side was this never ending banana plantain .. and there was fading light .. and the threat of night looming large :) .

And ofcourse saw lots of ruins like this ….

Also saw some strange places like .. Sugriva’s cave .. and the place which had some 1000+ small shivlings ..and the rock with dasavatharam-ish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasavatharam] pic.

Not to forget some of these green green fields ….. “paccha pacchani panta polalu” ;)

And the trip ended with drinking hot hot tea in Pune at 5:30AM on a monday morning :)….

PS : Off to kurnool in another day … one day trip .. to attend schoolmate’s marriage

PS1 :  Will in hyderabad for three full days .. soon :) ..

PS2 : Planning on going somewhere thsi month-end ;) .. Too much of travelling .. Isn’t it ;) ?

PS3 : I am not big athletics fan .. But this link .. is awesome .. some really amazing stories :)

PS4 : These are general random pics from a 2MP cell phone camera .. the proper good pics are there with ‘the others’ :)

EDIT1 : If you are here because of G.Raja’s publicity : Go to My last post :D . If you are generally jobless .. need something to read … go on :).

This one is one of those .. disconnected BC posts ..

Coke :

These days i am addicted to minute maid (pulpy orange). Whenever i buy a bottle i check the bottling company . Invariably most of the times it reads .. lakshmi balaji bottling company .. kapugunneri .. chittor district .. on behalf of hindustan cocacola haryana on behalf of cocacola atlanta USA [Samples taken in and around my locality in diff supermarkets :)] .

Why is this bottle imported all the way from Chittor to Pune .. Does this mean that maharashtra doesnt have a single cocacola bottling unit :o

Joke(s) : [These might not qualify as real ROFL-able jokes .. but neverthless worth a smile] :) ]

So i was in mahabaleshwar some week back . Apart from the fact that i saw ad-boards that read .. XYZ English medium School ..’Pure Vegetarian’ .. i found something else funny too … there was this fellow selling carrots .. you will find many such ppl selling carrots in mahabaleshwar . I found that weird and asked this guy : “What is soo special about these carrots” … ” Sir .. aankhon ke liye accha hain . It has vitamin A . This that” .. I suddenly went blank .. didnt even know what to say .. then asked him again .. “What is so special about THESE carrots” … then he said.. “Kuch nahin hain ” .. after realising that he can’t market his carrots like that .. he added .. “they are sweeter than normal carrots” .. I finally bought some and left :) . I found it funny :).

This one is more like a .. Humor in uniform thing … Was in this meeting when ppl were discussing some I18N issues .. my manager then said .. Simplified chinese is one of the most complicated languages .. everyone else in the room nodded their heads .. suddenly i started giggling .. my manager stares at me and asks why are you laughing … i say .. didnt you notice .. you actually called .. “SIMPLIFIED” chinese as the most COMPLICATED language :) .

Nothing can be more entertaining than listening to this one christian preacher on TV9 . I know little about what he actually says .. all i can understand is he gets too emotional.. yesterday .. he had his son along with him .. he said some blah blah blah about congress govt .. then suddenly he pulled his son into the focus .. and said “ee na koduku ni adagandi kavalante” … little did he know .. “ee na koduku” has an entirely different usage in telugu :D.

I was in this meeting .. .. So i got so bored .. and snatched the laptop from a colleague sitting beside me .. and typed .. “This is soo soo damn damn boringgg” .. that being a phone call with US counterparts i didnt want to disturb the silence .. so typed this on laptop and showed it to my colleague .. he started giggling .. i didnt realise why .. and a couple of my teammates gave me weird stares … only then did i realise that the laptop is connected to a projector screen .. and infact the whole team (except my manager thankfully :) ) .. saw me type that on big screen :) .

The Pic :

I dont like ridiculing/mocking iiit.ac.in . My last post .. did get a lot of attention .. but the goal was not to mock iiit website/management :) . Infact i did that way back in 2006 too ;) . For that matter if you want to read the 2006 Letter to UG1 students … right now the only place on internet is my blog .. as that iiit.ac.in link is now dead :D .

Okie .. coming back to the subject of this paragraph … i dont hate IIIT :) .. may be somewhere deep inside my thoughts .. i actually care for iiith :) .. but the way i express my concerns is debatable :D . When i see such pics … i feel like posting them on my blog .. and ppl will start thinking .. okie .. this fellow doesnt have any other work other than mocking his institute :) …

My friend (A banker ;) ) asked me .. Who are the students in that pic .. i have no clue .. do you have any idea :D ?

Last found on http://iiit.ac.in/lectureship/ :) .

PS 1 : Hancock was horrible

PS 2 : Kungfu panda is awesome .. Did i say tat already somewhere :-s

PS 3 : Money can make ppl feel more responsible .. Money can also make ppl feel guilty :)

PS4 : Reading this book on arts of india .. another one of those books you can find only in libraries .. this time it is british library .. f.c.road .. pune :)

PS5 : Also started salman rushdie’s midnight’s children .. Till date i always shoo-ed away that book .. reason .. i dont like the face of salman rushdie :D .. but with all the booker booker booker [won it thrice i think :D] thing .. i think i should pardon the author and start reading it :) .

Found this on iiit.ac.in .. I do random iiit.ac.in browsing generally (No i am not responsible for the hacker attack :D ) ..

I scored 11+ … I knew it .. I knew it all along …

If you are jobless go through the form below .. get enlightened :D… Jokes apart .. it is an interesting experiment .. though i think it should be done during AIEEE counselling ;) . Please post your scores ..

Is this self-evaluation form thing .. a very old thing ? .. i dont remember doing it when i joined :-s .. if this form thing is more than 2-3 yrs old .. hmm . then i think i need to rethink about my iiit.ac.in browsing frequency ;) .. Anyways .. post your scores .. have fun :)

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Was walking off M.G.Road (not M.G.Road exactly :D ) in Pune and saw this synagogue ..The ohel david synagogue… it seems it is Asia’s largest synagogue (outside Israel), … Also i read that daler Mahendi did his ‘Ho Gayi Tu Balle Balle’ Video near this synagogue … Hmmm Interesting :)

Also found some hostels exclusively meant for zorastrians .. saw some parsee houses .. old antique buildings .. Interesting sights all this .. they talk a lot about the character of the city :) ..

Whichever place i go to i always love those random walks staring at buildings (old and new) .. come back and read about their history :) … I read N number of books on hyderabad to date and i am still game to read more ;). Is there anyone like Narendra Luther or William Darlymple or Lokeshwar for Pune too ?? .. (Ppl who wrote some good books on Hyderabad or Hyderabadi culture in general) .. If anyone knows please feel free to drop a comment …

Also saw this international barbell club … dumb as it might sound .. i didnt know the meaning of barbell until i went back home and checked wordweb ;)

All this was in search of a sony ericsson service center … Was surprising to see that those guys still use windows 98 !! (Found in a PC In the reception) .. Long time since i saw Windows98 :) . If my memory doesnt fail me yet again .. then Windows98 was the first OS that i saw/used …

Fooled ! :

For the last 7-8 months whicever book shop i went to i used to find this book .. “The secret” .. it looked like the da vinci code genre of books … added to this a sr.manager here recommended that book .. as in .. read “the secret” it is a fantastic book … i bought that book expecting some racy thriller … (pirated :D .. one of those few pirated books i buy .. post-job i am anti-piracy as far as books are concerned :) ) Sadly enuf .. it turned to be yet another personality developement book :( … as a rule i hate personality developement books .. as i always see them as packaged common sense :) … and this book was no different .. Good packaging though ;) ..
For once i was totally totally fooled :)

Sonia bashing on orkut :
Was surprised to see that some fellas were caught for sonia gandhi bashing on orkut … some hyderabadi from pune ( btw hyderabadi from pune is a interesting term :D) i guess .. for once i was afraid too .. i did write one post referring to sonia gandhi .. not as derogotary as the guy who got caught .. but you never know .. thankfully that post is sleeping in my blog .. away from public viewing ;).

Dasavataram :
Was good… better than most films i see these days .. amazing in parts :) .. Waiting eagerly for marmayogi now :)

Sarkar raj :
Was good too .. i generally like most RGV movies … Eg : I liked Nishabd … Okie .. don’t look at me like thatttttttt :D . I didnt see RGV’s Aag .. so no idea how bad it was … Otherwise this one is a good comeback movie by RGV

21 :
Saw this one yday .. which makes it three films in three days .. :) .. I liked this one too … not a pathbreaking astounding film ;) .. but general okie-okie timepass film :).

Wanted to write a lot more .. will stop here ..

PS : Pune Mirror … sux .. totally totally x-( …. Referring to yesterday’s coverpage with lots of horrid pictures x-( .
PS1 : Oh and yes .. Sania mirza lost .. Sharapova lost .. @Wimbledon’08 .. Two days of national mourning for the former and two days of international mourning for the latter declared !!

The title of this post is a brave valiant effort to get some sort of a rhyme :D …

Shifted apartment this weekend .. we were paying an outrageous 16k for a scantily furnished 3BHK apartment .. the owner was asking for 18,500 for the coming financial year ;) .. so shifted to a smaller 15k per month 3BHK …

The prev. apartment had its own charm … as seen below :)

This is the Mt.Everest that i see enroute to office :)

The view from apartment complex

Ah hmm .. I miss them all .. here comes the view from New apartment ;) .. Pune rox :D

Okie .. and here’s the nickname pic (a pic for everything and anything is the motto for this post :D) .. the new nickname .. is KCL .. to know the expansion .. please click on the pic below :)

And now to end this post with a crib .. Pune is soo soo soo costly :D .. the melon in the pic below was some 40/- or something :( … in a general roadside shop .. for once i felt .. supermarkets are cheaper :D

Okie … Now for some gyaan .. Why curly hair sux :D

Curly hair sux becoz it protrudes out like ‘that’ .. and no matter what you do .. like a dog’s tail .. nothing can be done about it .. except haircut :)… for a dog .. it is a tailcut ;) .. anyone has any idea about which grows faster ?? .. dog’s tail or human hair :D

PS : The only real utility of a Camera phone is that you can click such random pics :D .

I had seen ‘Kumar ketkar’ live when he came to ISB for some conclave (I forgot the name :D) … From the manner (and content) in which he spoke i knew right away that this man was special .. Like mithun chakraborthy’s character in Guru ;) ..

Yday i heard what happened to him .. Today i read why (Could have read it yday had i known marathi :D) .. I am amazed … Journalism of courage indeed :)

All the problems have been solved . So , Lets build the statue : Kumar ketkar

PS : Strange … I seem to care about affairs in maharashtra :D … Slowly and steadily i guess i will join the marathi manoos :D

PS1 : This might help .. For asking why a shivaji statue , Loksatta editor’s home attacked.

Such a dumb title ! … that should also give a hint about the utter lack of creativity of this Post-Man (Blogger :D ) …

I have lost it totally i think .. lost that urge to blog … lost that urge to rant .. to crib .. to do BC .. to spam … to think .. to philosophise (i think i am using this word for the first time in my life :D ) … to criticise (rant crib are all different flavours of the same thing :) ) …

Have lost lot of such things :( … Industry has sapped a lot of me from me :( ..

May be i should blog .. blogging is good .. where was that link that Prof.PJN sent sometime back .. that was a good article on blogging …. If someone has that paste as a comment …

Partly to blame is Mozilla Firefox ( version 2.something.something) .. it crashes so so so often .. that atleast 5 posts i wrote in between got lost .. On a linux machine FC6 .. :( …

I end this post here … purposeless junk post .. i know .. good posts will surely come in the future .. this post was just to check .. hmm .. lets say .. the new wordpress interface .. wordpress has changed a lot .. the very fact i am noticing all this NOW .. shows how dull life has been all these months :) …

I end with this awesome quote … infact two ..

“this is our world , although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top or ours . there is no top or bottom you see”…

Found this in an african fiction book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie .. “Half of a yellow sun” …

Also while reading Michael Atherton’s autobiography , there is a chapter titled ‘Cold and Timid souls’ in which he mentions this quote by theodore roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat”

PS : I still read blogs … if i stop that too .. i know whom to blame .. software industry :D … it drains off all the energy that i have on weekdays .. weekends just go waste in trying to recuperate all that you lost on weekdays :) … but the problem .. i need my daily wages .. so i continue to work … falling deeper and deeper into mediocrity … compromising on all the ideals on all the dreams .. on everything :) …

PS1 : How philosophical was the above PS .. especially the last 2-3 lines .. Rate on a scale of 10 :D

PS2 : Oh and yes .. I am alive …

Lohegaon Airport

Found this pic in pune airport .. and i was puzzled for sometime .. i didn’t know what the fellow meant :D. If you can decipher it please write a comment :p ( in computer science style this is RFC 2008 :D ) . I think to understand what he exactly means you need to use the prepaid postpaid facility .. anyways you can always guess ;)

Bus

I did a 19 hr long journey from pune to blore .. general time it takes on a bus is 15 hrs-ish .. but thanks to a schizophrenic in my bus it took so long .. i was reminded of meethi in a aparna sen film . i still think that that family shud have hired a private vehicle from pune instead of embarassing all the 30 passengers in the sleeper bus . (yes the only good part abt the bus journey was that the bus had a/c and i had a berth to sleep :) ) . imagine .. dozing off at 10:30 PM and then waking up with a start at 11:30 PM with shouts like .. “dei naan unne vidamatam da ” ( translation : i am not going to leave you .. correct my tamil if i am wrong) and wailings like “appa enne adikaadey” ( translated: father dont beat me) .. one on hand is the compassion element that builds some sympathy for the poor woman .. ofcourse not to forget the aparna sen hangover.. movies do help sometimes :) .. on the other hand there is this .. why shud i spoil my sleep .. i cant do this to me in a 16hr long journey .. In the end i guess the former won :) .. which means i am still Human :D ….

Barber
Actually thought of posting a halley@salon wallah pic here .. a couple of days back .. on saturday … a barber did something strange to my face :D . But then i thought posting that pic will be like an entry to “make fun of me” contest . hence i desist from posting that pic .. however as a reference i post a pic of the salon :D .

Work experience can do a lot to a person … It can make him/her pseudo-busy… i.e., he thinks he is busy but he actually is not . One of the consequences of this phenomenon is appallingly low posts on a once upon a time okie-ish blog (in terms of hits in terms of posts i.e., :) )

Here are some snippets .. this post is in accordance with the tradition of arbitness of this blog and the legacy of lengthy posts ..

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After a loongg deep waittt for south indian dinner in pune .. read as .. curry + dal+ sambhar + pickle+RICE+curd :D … we finally found a place near our home named reddy’s recipes . (No comments on the name entertained :p ) . it is soo balakrishna-ish that you will feel like shouting satti reddyyyyyyy the minute you go to the restaurant ..

There is this one fella who was speaking telugu … listening to telugu in a pune hotel is like music for our ears :D .. so we ask him where he is from .. he says nellore blah blah .. then there is one more a year or two younger than this guy .. and we ask him where he is from .. this fellow gives us a shock saying … no telugu please .. kannada hindi or marathi :D . With the little marathi i know i cannot even talk to a kindergarten marathi kid .. so we ask him something in hindi ;)) ..

After that there is the server who hums .. jinta ta jita jita jinta ta .. and shouts for another server .. “reyyy narsimha naidu ila raaa ” ..
We feel as if we are in apna homeland .. and feel like singing .. naa janmabhoomi (echo : bhoomi bhooomi bhoomi ) … so all in all we have a happy meal … all this shows how frustrated we were for that kind of a meal that we used to have for ages .. before we landed in pune ;) …

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PS1 : marathi can be very dangerous :D .. i misspelt / mispronounced a word .. and lo ! it changed from U certificate to A++++ :D .

PS2: hyderabadi biryani both veg and nonveg varieties can taste extremely strange in pune .. this is my conclusion after 8 months of stay :) …

PS3: saw a lot of movies .. the best of the lot was definitely .. balakrishna’s okka magadu .. he is shock proof .. he jumps from a 15-16 floor building and doesnt have a single bruise .. he is a computer virus .. he is a samurai warrior . he is a freedom fighter even gandhi nehru bose know him .. it is one helluva film ;)) .. (Did i mention this in the last post ?? .. may it needs more attention than that :D ) .

PS4: also had the privilege to watch this genteelman called sam anderson act in a tamil film titled … yarukko yaaro ..read a review somewhere that ended with “chances are that you might never get to see something like this again in your life !!! ” .. i can’t agree more … here are some youtube dance videos from that film .. see it to believe it :D .

PS5 : Reading .. thousand splendid suns (actually i had written sons .. then corrected it after realising the typo .. now thinking even the former can be a good title say for a film like ‘300′ or something :D ) .. ideal movie script .. has got lots of punch dialogues and emotional scenes .. if this releases in telugu cinema it will be a sure shot hit .

PS6: Saw jodha akbar too .. i am reminded of tippu sultan .. chandrakanta .. the great maratha etc .. (yeah doordarshan rox :D )

PS7: Then hmm .. i redefined the height of impulsive shopping by buying a mobile first and then looking at its speciifcations .. brought a sony ericson mobile for 10k ;)) .. not that it is costly or it is too cheap or it is good or bad .. i am jus amazed at the manner in which i bought the fone .. was roaming around in a mall .. then suddenly something happens .. you go there look at all mobiles .. randomly pick one and take it .. little knowing abt its features :D . This is the single important reason why the retail sector .. the mall culture is thriving :D .

Longggg back Ravishankar of the XLRI kind told me .. Once you start earning you will do Impulsive shopping .. I now say .. How true how true :) .

PS8 : Work never seems to end .. IIIT was better .. atleast you never felt guilty for not working :D … here the minute i think of my pay-slip .. i feel guilty .. i cant rob the company fellas by taking money for free .. i will do SOME work ! :D .

PS9: In another month .. life is going to change :p … i expect a couple of things to happen .. if none of them happens then the very fact that they didnt happen will spring a change :D .. So it is a win-win situation.

PS10 : Was in hyderabad for 4 long days last week .. saw this film titled “Gamyam” . pretty good for a telugu film . I somehow thought this dialogue defined the fun element in the film … Character A : Nenu pulibiddani ra (I am the son of a tiger :D ) Character B : Mii amma adaviki vellinda leka puli mii intiki vachinda ( Did your mother go to the forest or did the tiger come to your house) . If you like this kind of humour go for the film . Yes it has got loads of philosophy .

PS11: Will be in bangalore this weekend .

PS12 : Reading “Everybody loves a good drought” by P.Sainath .. gem of a book !

PS13 : CB Series was very good . I liked what gilchrist said ” If other teams are catching up with australia then it is good for world cricket ” .

PS14 : Watched ratatouille again and again :) .

PS15 : Somehow the very thought of coming to IIITH scares me :D . In my last N visits to hyderabad i have deliberately avoided coming to IIITH .

PS16 : GAG called yesterday ;) .. was about some job openings in symantec . The placement committee thingie still haunts me .. You can run you can hide but you cant escape ( from _ _ _ )

PS17: IV had this status messg .. Hallieum Bellium something .. Before i could ask him to copy that message to me he signed off .. IV if you are reading this copy that status message to me .

PS18: I came to know about the ‘invisible’ mode in gchat just today :( .

PS19: I was happy to know that federer lost and australia lost too :D . Call it sadistic pleasure or supporting the underdogs :D

PS20: On the CB Series triumph .. Eenadu had this headline .. “Abba nee tiyani gabba” .. ( ala the super hit song of the 90s abba nii tiyani debba) . My hatred for the fellow who writes headlines in eenadu grew exponentially after this .

PS21 : I am still not very comfortable with the way things are going in my life .. it is more like storm before the calm for me :D

What is it with these longgg .. unstructured .. random .. lengthy posts .. i always seem to like them :D .