Weekend

This weekend happened to be a full fledged roaming weekend to me. Saw a couple of movies & got a few dvd's. Apart from them I found a few things about programming.

This weekend I had hoped to write the code to blank out a cd-rw using libburn/nautilus-cd-burn. Finally they created all sorts of problems that I had no other option but to spend my time analysing a lot about those 2 libraries. It seems basically nautilus-cd-burn uses cdrecord for burning, it's more like a wrapper library with a good amount of advanced functions. As for Libburn it's the perfect library but the development is very slow. I think a C# wrapper to it would be real nice. Thats would make lots of things easy for me. There are 2 roads b4 me now...... 1. Either use cdrecord (which somehow I'm not comfortable with) 2. Libburn - This lacks a lot of features, but it's a library. To use this, I have to concentrate on creating a wrapper to libburn; to make things simple for me. Before choosing one of the ways, I have decided to understand/learn all theoretical concepts related to optical media burning. Few days of reading is something which lies b4 me.

Meanwhile I have to improve the gui for this. Lots of work to be done......

Manoj, one small request..... I think it would be better if you post a general link to things like budget & the job fair. I understand the nobleness behind ur act :-)

Uploaded our Marriage & Reception photos

Uploaded our Marriage & Reception photos into my Yahoo Photos.

Next On Line

Hey! Nirai!! Wait a minute!!! That was only one part of the chat.

Guys, (Some of you might me already knowing this) Nirai has told her Mom about her to be Son-in-law.

VJ & Nirai have decided to get married on or before Jan 2006 ... So thats some news.

Thanks Nirai, I managed to convince Vaishu about the Washing Machine after Ur Support and got a LG semi-automatic.

Running a family...........

Hey Me and Vijay spoke to our lovely pair Vaishu and Manoj after a long time......
We were so happy to see the way they were running their family ... full of fun ....

Actually Manoj was sleeping when we called and Vaishu dear was washing clothes....
Then Vaishu certified ...Manoj-um romba poruppaam :)

Actually Manoj paavam....Vaishu is too poruppu than I thought,
she was fighting with Manoj that they should not get a Washing machine
for just two people, the poor guy was arguing that why should we pain ourselves
washing clothes.....Then finally Vaishu somehow got convinced to get a Washing machine :)

'twas nice chatting with You people :)

Have a Nice time always :)

Wayanad

People

I have uploaded the Wayanad snaps here


VJ in action...



Vijay I had to edit the post to put the url in background as it was disturbing the page layout. - Gokul

Re: too bad

Sorry about that Gaurav ... We didnt realise that ...

Anyways, welcome to the game ... What is the whereabouts of Nithu ... Doesnt she have 'Net' Access ... why isnt she sending any mails ...

Congrats on the news about your Sis's marriage ...

Re: Sleepless Days

Its good that you are focussing your work on something. Well, even I wanted to do something and in the end cud not decide what that 'thing' could be.

If you want, i cud be your 'Beta' tester :o).

Sleepless Days

After a very long time, I'm back to my routine of sleeping less in the nights & more in the daytime. For almost couple of weeks I'm sleeping at 1.30 - 2.00 in the morning. For the past 3 days the reason I stay awake is valid, IMHO. Y'day I did the samething that I have been doing for the 2 nights b4 that. I redesigned the basic window for my app using GTK.ActionEntry. Man, Gtk is so cool. That to with the C# wrapper it's too simple to code (IMHO). The Window is ready now, I have to think about the rest.

Now, that I'm atleast doing what I intended to, I can tell what this app of mine is gonna do. I'm planning to develop a Gtk based CD burning app. But the probs that I face now is how to go about this. K3B is the best CD curning app available for Linux, IMHO. It uses cdrecord & other cdrtools. I dunno whether to use this or libburn (the development for this is very slow) or libnautilus-burn (this might be a good choice). For now I'm just gonna use libburn to erase the CD, this I hope to finish over the weekend. Then, I have to learn a lot about libnautilus-burn & see if it's fine to use that.

This is the big picture, It's gonna take lots of time & ofcourse, hardwork to get something done. I hope I can get this done.

What are u trying to Program?

What are u trying to Program, Gokul?

too bad

Gokul.... padupaavi......

didn't know such a thing existed till now...

thanks to Nirai's mail which had my correct mail id

Coorg photos........

Vaishu, Manoj

U both look too good in Coorg snaps :) I liked 18th picture in that order (the one in boat) very much :)

Enna ippa dhaan censor panni mudichu photos-a release pandreengala :)

The Day that was Y'day

It's really good to see this Blog active.

Viji u look really good in saree..... Same applies to Vaishu. Vaishu u look wonderful in saree, but in Salwar u look like the same old LOOSE. I'll upload the few wayanad photos that were taken in my cam today. I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2, in a 2 player co-op mode with my sis. It's really easy to handle big Villians in a 2 player mode. I think I'll run out of games by March-end. should get few more titles through friends who come down from u.s.

Incase some of u wanna refresh your past memories have a look at the photos in here. I'll scan & upload the photos from our ooty trip. Is there anyone here who has photos from our college times ? If yes, let me know & we'll scan & upload them.

Coorg Photos

Hi Guys
I have uploaded our 'Coorg' trip Photos into Yahoo photos. See them at leisure.

Hi Viji

You look good in Saree :) But you have become more lean daa :(

Load in more photos.... it's pretty nice to SEE how You look like after a long time :)
[Lastly, I saw you during our Convocation :(]

Re: Some random pics

I can see the pics.
Viji, photola yaarayo pathu orae jollu ...

Hi

Hi everybody,

I know i'm a bit late in posting ..... I like this concept of Blog very much.... sounds interesting....

Some random pics

I uploaded some random pics in flickr...
Check them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mes_images/

Mono, Glade & Me....

Atlast I surprised myself. I successfully downloaded Mono 1.1.4 & installed the same on my slack. Then I sat with Glade to design the thing (I don't wanna say what app I'm planning) that I had in mind. That was when I realized that I forgot the little bit about GTK that I had learned a while back. But anyway that's not a probs. I'm sure I can get back to pace in a short while. The good thing is that I have started something seriously. If I can get a basic working model, then I wud feel good.

Y'day was a real bad day, too much of work. Today I plan to give a read thru the GTK+ tutorial that I printed long ago (I have to find out where it is in the mess, that I call my room). Then I question myself what I wanna do ? I'm somehow not content with what I, already, am. Should do something different..... But the question is WHAT?

This weekend was one of those rare ones, when I miss catching a movie. I was feeling tired & desired to fiddle with my comp & get some sleep. But I ended up playing games with PS2.

Incase some of you wonder what Mono/Glade/GTK means....

Mono - An opensource implementation of MS .NET for Linux, OSX (MAC) & Windows. A gem of a programming platform.
GTK+ - It's a toolkit to build anything. GNOME is an amazing example.
Glade - A GUI designer for GTK. Speeds up ur Application Development time.

Firefox Rocks

It is light, Pages load real fast. The Feature i liked most was the creation of 'Tabs' folder. You can open more than one tab on the same window & you can view different pages in different tabs and navigate by 'Tabbing'. And the cool thing is you can save these tabs as a Folder, so the next time you want all the pages to open as tabs, you just open the folder. Cool Huh??

My first shot at the blog

Hi all

At last VJ is also into action.....

Ajanta & Ellora Snaps

Ajanta in the Background
Originally uploaded by Manoj Online.

Some photos from my trip to the Aurangabad with my colleagues.

We toured the Caves, Ajanta (famous for its Paintings) & Ellora (famous for its Sculptures).

We also visited the Aurangazeb's Tomb, 'Mini' Tajmahal & the Daulatabad Fort.

fotos...??

Manoj,
Post the full set of fotos...

Life @ Pune

Well, You can consider this as a continuation to my previous three Posts. I'll date this one also...

10-02-2005 Thursday
We took the Mumbai Express from Chennai Central (11:45 AM). And this trip didnt turn out to be like one of those boring trips alone to Pune. I had company and I enjoyed it. The surprising fact was that Our Parents got along very well. Myself & Vaishu shared a Side Upper/Side Lower seat.

11-02-2005 Friday
Reached Pune by 10:00 AM. Our Cab was already waiting, i had booked it earlier with the help of my friends (Ram & Venu) at Pune. All the others liked our new Rented home very much.

It is a 2-Bedroom Flat (you'll wonder why - ofcourse it is for you guys when u come to visit us) with lot of sunlight. Its one the first floor and the Owner stays in the ground floor. We had our Brunch at a nearby place called Pradosha Pooja Association where we get good South Indian food.

Rested for sometime and then started unpacking the stuff and setting up the house. We got a Steel Almirah that day itself.

12-02-2005 Saturday
Some more setting up of the house. We (Myself & Vaishu) got a gas connection and our Parents went shopping to the City. In the evening we went to a nearby 'Kerala' style Krishnan Temple.

13-02-2005 Sunday
We got ourself a Fridge. Also we travelled to a place called Narayanpur where there is a 'Tirupathi' like Perumal temple. Its a really good temple.

Who next

Maybe U ... ;)

Who next

Whos getting married next from our group...??

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pic4
Originally uploaded by sujathagillu.

What Manoj, No reply for my posting???
:):).....My collegue is again upset with coorg posting...Nothing Hot she feels , even i feel .
Just kidding.
It was nice to read ur posting. It really took us to those places of coorg.
Convey vaish my warm wishes.

I hope this gets posted

My Married Life - contd ... Our Trip to Coorg

04-02-2005
We took the train (Mysore Express) to Mysore. This was our first trip together on our own. Vaishu's Sis, Nithya gave us some books to read. But who was going to read books? :))

05-02-2005
We reached Mysore at about 11:00 AM, the train was an our late. The pick from Orange County Resort was ready and we took our 2 1/2 hour journey to the beautiful Coorg.

We were warmly welcomed by the receptionist. We enjoyed the Welcome drink (Sugar Cane Juice). We were elaborated on our Stay Package and given the key to Cottage:602.

Our luggage was already checked in and it was a beautiful room, with a pleasant Window-view. River Cauvery was at a walkable distance.

We took the lunch amidst a very hospitable restaurant staff. By the way, the restaurant was named, "The Granary".

We spent the time walking around the Resort area, their activity center "The Pulper" and a little shop.

06-02-2005
We took to Cycling in the morning. We went to the Cauvery banks by cycle. I got Vaishu a wrap-around with a matching top and she got be a short Kurta. She tried it on & looked great.

We went to the Plantation trip, the guide giving us some interesting facts about the types of coffee grown there. The plantation was huge and they were growing three types of coffee 'Arabica', 'Robusta' & 'Liberia'. We came to know that the Coffee has to be grown in complete shade and there were numerous Silver - Oak trees to provide shade. Almost all the trees had 'Pepper' wines, which is a creeper plant.

They were also growing the Money Plant, 'Vannila'

07-02-2005
In the early mornings, we went to the Dubare Elephant Camp. It had many tamed Elephants, Indra, Prashantm, Harsha to name a few. We had cross a small river on a motor-boat to reach the place. We took photos of touching their tusks, feeding them etc. We also went on a Safari ride.

Next we went to a small park called Nisghardhama. Was similar to our Guindy Park.

Then we went to the 2nd largest Tibetian Settlement in India, The Golden Temple of Budha. Luckily, there was some ceremony going on with many Budhist monks dressed up colorfully.

08-02-2005
We took our cab back to Mysore. We went to the Mysore Palace, Museum and to the Brindhavan Gardens. By 8:00 pm in the night we took our train back to chennai. In the end it was an eventful journey.

Hope U enjoy it.

31-01-2004

We got back home in the evening.

01-02-2005

u started to narrate other uselessthings.
My collegue read all this. She is really upset abt the mid matter that happened b/w late evening and nex day morning.so pls elaborate the b/w VIP Matters.

My Married Life - contd...

30-01-2004
The Day of Our Reception. I still was not fully convinced that this was really happening. Spent the day at home doing some customs like giving dakshanai's to elders and getting their Ashirvads.

Left to the Kalyana Mandapam by 4:30 PM. Got the first glimpse of my 'to be' Wife. Spending some time there with our Friends, I was really worried that our friends took it very seriously that I had not called them up. I thought that i need not be that formal and I can expect this out of them. But understood some things have to be done Formally. We went to the Ramar Koil, where we ahd our Engagement Done.

I was taken back to the Mandapam on that Standard 'Mapillai Azhaipu' Car. Just before the Manadapam, it went down and Ppl had to push it till the Manadapam. They brought our 'Beautifully Dressed' Vaishu to me and we were invited onto the Stage. From then on it was Fun. We were the center of attraction and we get to see many of our Friends, Relatives.

Took to sleep very late that Night.

31-01-2004
Was woken earlyt by 3:30 AM, to undergo some customs. After that dressed up in the traditionals and again a long list of customs again. And finally Hurrah!! we got Married. We (Me, Vaishu, Gokul, Vijay, Nirai,Mohan & Suja) had a nice chat after our Break Fast. We got see ourselves in the Digi Cam of Nirai's.

At about 1:00 PM we went to the Registrar's and got our Marriage Registered. We returned home and spent the rest of the day there.

01-02-2005
It was my Sis's Wedding Anniversary. We went to her house, had a nice lunch and had a nice time Chatting. They (My Sis & Swami) really make great pair, Swami - Calm & Caring and My Sis - Sweet & Mischievous.

We got back home in the evening.

02-02-2005
We went to Vaishu's place and spent the day there and returned back home. The elders said that we were not supposed to stay at a place, where we went for 'Virundhu'

03-02-2005
We again went to Vaishu's place and this time we stayed there.

My Married Life

Okay! Okay !!
Because of the popular demand here it Comes.

25-01-2004
I took a Bus from Pune to B'lore.

26-01-2004
Reached B'lore by about 11:00 AM. Called up Thanigai, got his address and took an Auto to BTM Layout. We had Break Fast there.

We went to the 'Forum' for shopping. Bought a casual suit, A pair of Red Tape shoes, a Shirt. Had a nice Non-Veg lunch at 'Nandini'.

Returned to his room where we took a short stint of Amateur Bachelor's Cooking.

Took the Bus to Chennai at about 10:30 PM

27-01-2004
Reached my new Home, at Sabari Nagar. It was my first day at my new place. My Parents and My Sis where there. Had a nice Chat with them. Some relatives from Kerala where also there. Took to sleeping the whole day and had a phone chat with my then 'Would be Wife'.

28-01-2004
Spoke to almost all of my relatives. Spent almost the entire day in giving invitations to my Old X - class mates. Spent the entire night/next day early morning playing cards till my eyes went red with sleep.

29-01-2004
Went to Spencers along with my cousins, Sis and Mama (Swaminathan). Here I need to mention an interesting event.

We had Veg Dinner at Nandini at the Food Malls. I asked for Hot water as I had a sore throat. The waiter promptly said that it was too late and they have run out of Hot Water (Man, if they can give me cold water why not Hot water). I said fine and ordered a Hot Coffee. We were about to leave when I saw a Sign reading 'Suggesstions/Complaints Send SMS to some Number'.

I took my my mobile and typed in 'Let there be Hot water at all times' and was keying in the Mob number given in the banner. While I was a doing this a man came running to me and asked whether was any problems. I said no and that i was about to send in a suggestion. He asked what the issue was and I told him that I didnt get Hot water. He said please wait for a minute and I got my Hot water in less than 30 secs.

I was really amazed, though felt bad for the waiter who got a nice shower from the Manager.

surya1

surya1
Originally uploaded by sujathagillu.

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Arattai Topic

Manoj Machan..... u r the Married fellow here, let us know about your marriage life da......
Suja.... Let us know about ur useless unmarried life......

Here I come

I wanted to be the first guy to post some crap here, but Manoj manged to post the first blog. But then his post is quite good & not crap, hence I take the honours.

Folks, you can use W.Bloggar to post & publish the blogs, if you are using windows. Remember whenever you post a blog, you need to publish it as well. So choose Post & Publish. Incase you are using Linux (I know of no serious Linux user here except Yours Truly :-)) Let me know.

'No Matter how hard it is; We do it the ECE way' - Manoj do you remember this?

Aramba Arattai

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Favourite Quotes

Whacky:
You laugh at me because I am different; But I laugh at you because you are all the same (Courtesy: Gokul - It suited him very well and I think it suited me as well.

Techy:
There are 10 kinds of people; Those who know binary and those who dont.

Touchy:
All Power is within you; You can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak.
- Swami Vivekananda