Bourne identity

I liked it very much...i cudnt stop in between..i started..completed...
much much much better than Da vinci code.

Bourne identity

Extremely good...i cudnt stop reading in between...i started the book ..i completed the book...it was the same case with Da vinci code...But Bourne identity is much much much better than Da vinci code..

My next author

Since I have almost completed most of the books by Michael Crichton and Dan Brown ... I have chosen Robert Ludlum as my next target ...

I am currently into the 'Bourne' Series ... already completed two of his books ...
1. The Bourne Identity
2. The Bourne Supremacy

...Da Vinci code

Actually, I consider this as a Very Good book ... For the records, my favourite author is also 'Mike' ...

How can we say that the book is not good when there is so much following ... that is the proof that this is infact a good book and is much better than the reviews you gave :))

But recently, Mike books are not impressive ... the State of Fear was a total flop for me ...

Happy holi

About the IIM Article.....

Yeah... I read the article in Hindu 1 or 2 days back....
Was very happy to go thru it....

Ofcourse India is now providing the best Opportunities.... Actually they were wise enough (They have to be .... after all they are in IIM).....

No use in going abroad and earning thousands of dollars ..... Surely we can never enjoy this sort of life anywhere out of India :)

...Da Vinci code

Viji... Me too have the same thought ....

It's a good book but not the best..... It din't impress me that much .....to justify all the hype associated with it.. But it was great courage to take a topic like that... and make a convincing novel....... I was impressed by his research on those topics...

When it comes to innovation, variety, or depth of knowledge, Michael Crichton is my Favourite.... He writes about extreme topics like Science, History, Society, Environment, Office Politics etc.... all with great excellence .....

Actually for me, Dan Brown's "pre"quel, "Angels and Demons" was more captivating.....though the end was not that convincing...

But SURELY......this book has got appreciation and attention MORE than what it deserves... Mainly because of the power and importance of Christianity in the Western World !!!

Making the Day

After a Very long day, I just thought would catch some updates about the first day's play of the Bangalore Test.

I came across this article & this made my day. There are lots of people who believe in India & wanna stay here to help it in it's journey to greatness, unlike a lot others.

Da vinci code

By this time all of u must have read this book...I recently read this book...
I heard a lot of hype about this book. But i didnt find it that great.
Though it was an interesting read..it was not great...

Swades

I felt Swades was a bit lengthy , not continuous, lot of bits and pieces... For the first time in a shah rukh movie, i was waiting for the intermission.

I liked the ending. Shah rukh completed his work successfully as a NASA scientist and then returned back to India.

I loved the songs..too good.

I still liked the movie..much better than any other recent hindi movie...excluding BLACK...

Bist ECE 1998-2002

Sea life fotos - too good


Hi Gaurav,

fotos r really great . Especially i liked those penguin foto and a last foto ( small waterfall like ) .

All different species are maintained i believe. See the water purity . Its so clean and clear.

Weekend

The last weekend I saw 3 movies. Maayaavi, Swades & Finding Neverland.

Maayaavi : - This movie is full length masala & is a money spinner only 'cause of surya's presence.

Finding Neverland :- Johny Depp proves again why he's one of the best in the business. I think kate winslet also performs too well, we wonder if she was the same lady who worked in Titanic.

Swades :- This is the best movie I have ever watched. I think this is the only non-romantic movie which is in my all time favs list (except for The Matrix). ShahRukh excels & showcases his acting abilities. I recommend you all to see this movie.

Per the movie's female protagonist, NRI - NON RETURNING INDIANS.... very true.

Photos from Sea Life Park

Hi guys,

I went to a Sea Life Park last Sunday and had a great time.
Its a huge museum of Sea Life from all over the world including,
Sharks, Penguins, crabs, squids etc.

I have shared the pics at http://photos.yahoo.com/mailgauravr/

will post the rest in detail later

bye

Gaurav

Appu Ghar

This weekend we went to a nearby theme park called Appu Ghar. We had a nice time with the 'Dashing Car'. Even we convinced Vaishu for a ride and in the end she did enjoy it.

Bist ECE 1998-2002

Bist ECE 1998-2002


Hey vaish ur cooking photos are great . Mouth watering to see puries .

Manoj , by the way who is that guy in red T- shirt ?? Looking ok . Place seems to be sunny. Is it so ?

Para Sailing ...

This was one hell of an adventure we had @ Mahabaleshwar ...

We were harnessed to the Parachute and a Jeep pulled us along with the Chute.

In a few seconds we were lifted to a height of about 100-150 feet




If you guys have a chance to do it, go for it ... In the air, on your own is one hell of an experience, you surely got to have

The Pro @ Work

Vaishu ...Cooking ...


More Photos here ...

Ansh ...

This little Guy is called Ansh ...


He is Mr. Ramnath's Son ... This little buddy is full of energy that he never gets tired ... want more pics of him ... Go here

More Photos - Trip to Mahabaleshwar

Find some time to browse through our Trip to Mahabaleshwar photos last weekend (Mar 12 - 13, 2005).

We(a group of 7) hired a Tempo Traveller and had lot of fun.

Hope we could make such a trip when you guys come to Pune

More Photos - Trip to Mahabaleshwar

Find some time to browse through our Trip to Mahabaleshwar last weekend (Mar 12 - 13, 2005).

We(a group of 7) hired a Tempo Traveller and had lot of fun.

Hope we could make such a trip when you guys come to Pune

Alexander - The Great ?

The past few days have been really hectic, I'm just unable to find time for replying to mails, returning calls et all. I have conf call tomorrow morning & gotta sleep early but just before I hit the sack, I thought I would post a few thoughts.

A couple of weeks back I saw the movie Alexander (rather pathetic in its own right) with a friend of mine. I told my friend that I don't believe that Alexander was that great a guy (leave alone an Emperor). My friend just humbly reminded me that there are just 2 men who are called 'The Great'. One's the guy in question Alexander & our own Asoka.

Before talking about Aleaxander we just need to spare a couple of moments to Asoka. Asoka was one of the greatest Emperors in the Indian History. It's a historical fact that Asoka is one of the greatest warriors & was one of the very few to have defeated Kalinga. Kalinga has always been a very brave kingdoms & almost every war over Kalinga has resulted in enormous Man & Material damage to both the sides.

It's well known that Asoka transformed in to something more than a normal man or an Emperor after the Kalinga war. It's mainly for this tranformation & his efforts to in serving the humanity that he's known as Asoka The Great. Asoka & his son Mahendra (or Mahinda as known in SriLanka) spread Buddhism & followed the principles to the best possible extent. These gentlemen were one of the very first to spread buddhism in Srilanka, where currently Buddhism is one of the predominant religions.

Alexander, born to an greek Emperor, (I know bits & pieces of greek mythology) had most of the world known to men under his control in his early 20's. Thats a cool thing, but we need to give a few thoughts to this. As per the myth once he started on the conquests, he never returned back to his homeland. I really doubt if he made it to India in the first place, leave alone capturing babylon, persia et all. Even if we assume that he had captured all these countries & made it to India, he would have waged war with few kingdoms in the North western part of India (if he came via Hindkush). If my memory serves me correctly he won a war against King Purushotamma (PORUS), Porus demanded that he be treated as a king & Alexander did treat him as one. These are common history stuff in India.

Emperor is someone who has everything under his control. If Alexander was busy going on errands to capture kindoms, who'll make sure that everything is under control for him ? Man has been a horrible creature from the time he walked on the surface of mother earth. Alexander would have made more enemies than friends, for killing so many (if there had been wars) on both his side & the opposite. I feel Alexander was lucky that he was born such a long time back, had he been present during the days of Mauryas, Moguls or Lodis he would have been sent home packing.

Is it really correct to call a man great 'cause he rode through barren lands & fought with a few cities or towns with a larger than life force ? Other question is India, back then India was bigger than what it is today. just fighting with some tribes somewhere doesn't make anybody great or make him the Emperor for India.

I wanna say few more things, but am feeling too sleepy to state them now :-)

Re: India.....

I agree that every person should exercise their right to vote; but what if there is not a single candidate worthy of the vote ...

Faced with such a situation and willingness to vote will lead to vote for the favorite Party even if the candidate is an absolute 'Brat' ...

Maybe if they introduce 'Negative Voting', the percentage of people voting will increase ...

India.....

I'm pretty amazed that You all are still good at essay writing :)

My opinion is that there is nothing wrong in comparing our country with more developed countries and improve ours. Only the way in which we put in our thoughts decide the result.

Ofcourse our country is improving a very lot, But for these Politicians we would be in much more heights... Even more than that People are to blame.

In US, UK or Japan, a candidate cannot win, if all his wrong actions are known to people.
But here if you see, whether You like a person or not, just because you have favoured the party previously, You will continue doing that... I know a lot of people who don't even bother to cast their vote...

Only People are to change.. which means U and me :)

Only the phrase we living in the dirt, I feel could have been avoided.....
No offence please...

don't want to grind the same flour again

for your info.... we might have been rich in history....
but after independence till the green revoultion in the 60's and early 70's
India did not have sufficient supply of food grain and
huge quantities were imported every year.....

India - few more thougths

I love chocolates, I just can't let a day or two go without having some chocolate. But I know one fine day, I might wake up to find out that I have sugar. But then everything has side-effects.

Diversity that we have in India is pretty cool, something any country would just envy. Of course there really are some shortcomings with us. Castes is just one of them, Classes are a different topic. Politics is not bad, Politicians are. They capitalise on the power of their group of people, to come to power & do almost next to nothing.

Let's just think for a couple of minutes, in the past 10 years India has taken some major strides in all aspects. I chose ECE bacause my friend said he's gonna take it up. There were hardly any IT companies in chennai except for Infy (in Alexander Square), Wipro (just across Infy), HCL & a few others. I heard of CTS only when Arivu & Anand got in to that company, that was when the boom started. No looking back after that.

If we see in the big picture the growth rate has been pretty good in the past few years. But again the problem is simple we see what's obviously more visible.

Say we wake up a fine day, find that our road has been laid freshly & unfortunately there's a small ditch in front of our gate. What do we say? we don't see the stretch of the road which is pretty good, we just give a mouthful to the poor fellow (wherever he was) & question a lot about his working capabilties.

Improvements in BSNL or Registrars office are just a very few. Even then our ignorance is such that we brand the improvements of BSNL as due to competition due to Reliance & other private operators. we don't see the effort that should have gone in for this change.

we all are pessimists, we always think about the negative things that go around us. we never ever try to look at the positive things that happens around us.

Technological Advancements due to Britishers ? that's a really bold statement. Technology for Green Revolution might be affordable for Farmers who could afford. But for the majority getting a tractor is a big deal, it's their hard work that resulted in Green Revolution & not due to frigging technology.

India had self sufficiency long before the Europeans came along. Europeans came to India as traders, if India was not self sufficient how can it attract Europeans ?

There were Greeks, Turks & Arabs trading with India since the days of Karikal Peruvalathaan. Harshavardhana had trading relations with the chinese king, Cholas had trading relations with Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand, China & quite a few south east Asian countries. As a sign of good will an Indonesian King had built the famous Chudaamani Vihara in Nagapattinam for his traders & other people to worship. These are historical facts.

A little bit of even Tamil History would show how self sufficient we Indians were.
"Chozha Naadu Sorudaithu", "Pandy Naadu Muthudaithu".

India was the wealthiest country, before the Europeans came along.
Technologically India is a respectable power in space & in military, no thanks to any single country. The only country which has helped India is Russia, it has helped but not donated some technology.

USA, the only remaining superpower, used the voting machines that we have been using for the past 3-4 elections during the presidential elections in November. You should have seen the ads in US it said 'This Election Americans will vote using the latest technology in the world' They forgot to mention that it was Indians who invented & use it.

We all forget one major thing, when we criticise India we criticise ourselves. It's necessary for us to change.

Do you expect APJ Abdul Kalam & Manmohan singh to come & give a jist of what the constitution says? If you want to know the basic stuff there are 'n' number of abbr versions of our constitution available. we have to go get it & do with it what we want.
But unfortunately we hardly have any time to code programs, watch movie, whack our head off....... how to go spare time for these things.....

We need not know a single IPC to do right things, we just need balls to say no to the guy asking for bribe.

For us what's Election ? Going & casting vote to some guy & watch the debate on NDTV. Have we done anything at all other than this.

There's no point in just sitting & saying India is not improving & to quote Gaurav "my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt we live in ... in India"

The life in a country which is striving hard to make progress & break all the limitations that time has imposed on it is quite different & quite good.

If you expect some miracle & expect to wake up to a new India, then you are dreaming & yet to wake up. We all are here to do something towards the evolution of a new India.

I dunno if any of you watched the tamil Movie 'IVANN', Parthiban makes quite a few excellent points in that. to just tell one 'You can't expect a hero to come & solve your problems. You have to solve it yourself.'

Time to quit cribbing & post about what we can do to make a difference. Even ONE could make a difference, after all The ONE bent the Matrix to his will :-)

Solution ?? - not exactly

I'm not telling that India is not improving or I don't like living here.

You are looking in a very wrong perspective

just getting ur phone connection easily or seeing a easy-going traffic police
is not exactly what I'm talking about....

my view is that our diversity is being used by politicians
to divide us..... and that our constitution is unsuitable....
and that we need some basic awareness of the law...

why do u end up giving a bribe to the police??
bcos u don't know the procedures and rules to
overcome that.... bcos the policeman can easily
trouble u knowing that u r ignorant of any law...

I'm not saying we are not to blame.... I'm
just saying that we need drastic changes in the
political structure and constitution to bring any
significant improvement

without the British rule we would have not got
any technological advancement.... atleast not so
fast....
and without technological advancements u wouldnt
have had the green revolution and industrialisation....
and without that India would never had achieved
self sufficiency and many would be starving to
death....

India is too much divided and ignorant to select a proper
Govt. in one voice

'Problem' - explained

Hi ppl, I smell something ... good for the blog ...

let me start with Gaurav's first blog ' Diversity - for the good or bad ??'.
I think Gaurav has a point ... even my neighbours in Kerala have called me 'Pandi'. Infact they address every tamilian as 'Pandi. Although the technical reason may be because the Pandyas ruled us, their context is to tease me and it is derogatory.
Just take this example ... Can you imagine a addressing localite from Kasimedu as 'Local' ... i think you won't come out with all your limbs ... if you have your head, you are lucky, though you addressed him as 'Native' to that place...
Policitics is a 'Koovam' and I mean it, so will many others ...
Many great people have indeed praised the Diversity and the Unity in Diversity, but there are problems and I guess Gaurav has just mentioned one that has happened to him ...

Comparison of India with US / Japan.
Many have indeed have praised the patriotism the Japanese show towards their languages. They just reject any atttempt to invade that very outrightly... However India doesn't have that cusion ... How will we get the Outsourced jobs if we have that kind of attitude ... Infact I think the 'Tamil' campaign that is sometimes carried by the TamilNadu govt. is bull shit.

If not all the IPC's, I think we should know some of the essentials. I am afraid, i dont know any ... True that the procedures at the places like Registrar's Office, Telephone exchange have improved ...
I guess the improvement with the Telephone Exchanges maybe because of stiff competition from providers like Reliance, Tata Indicom ...

The Issue is 'We' the educated have discussed this 'Corruption' issue too many times, but haven't done anything ...

Not so obvious solutions to the Problems in India

Now to the second post by Gaurav, this is really an interesting one. Infact many people I know, used to ask me the differences between US & India. I would just give a brief answer, that I usually give to others.

US is a very good place to go, visit & have fun. People are very good at following rules there, the roads are very good, the technology is very good, there are no buffalos in the road.

But you can't stay there forever 'cause you are an alien there. It's not your home, I feel better here in Chennai amongst the people who have fun by running in the middle of the GST Road at the peak hour traffic. I feel better waiting to let a buffalo pass b4 continuing on my bike.

The comparison between India & Somalia is worse, with or without English Indians survive. Just think, how many Indians know English. India is so diversified, you just can't think about having a single common language. That's the reason why there are so many official Languages.

I remember there used to be a mail from Abdul Kalam, that used to circulate between us. He would have stated that Indians going abroad behave very well, which they don't do in India. We don't put wastages in the Road, we don't run across the road when we are abroad but in India are we doing the same ?

Noone needs to know all the IPC's in Indian Law. We all know what's right & what's wrong. Say a police fellow catches you for a mistake that you made & asks you to pay fine. What'll you do? you'll just try to pay him off with a bribe of Rs.50/-, but you won't pay a fine of Rs.100/-. The damn problem is with us, we encourage these things.

I don't know if any of you have been to Sub-Registrar's office. I have been there twice, the first time was almost 4 years agao to get an Encumbrance certificate. Back then you had to fill a form give it to a guy outside (& pay him ofcourse). that Guy will say when to come & collect, he's not a government servant, but a broker kinda fellow. You just can't expect to fill a form & get the work done by yourself back then.

The second time I went was 6 months back, again to get an E.C. This time I just filled the form there was a counter & I just went gave it. The fellow there asked me to come back in a couple of days, I got it promptly. There were brokers but there are not the only way to get things done. India is improving whether you are aware of it or not.

Far away pastures always looks green, 'cause they are far away. We all are educated, so how many times did a chance occur where we can get the work done by saying no to 'Corruption'. A few months back i got a dedicated internet telephone line for my home. I remember the time, when we got our primary phone line (almost 8 yrs back). The line-men just demanded 500/- so that they'll activate it. This time around things had changed, I had informed my mom to not give any money to them.

As usual they installed the phone & demanded money saying that they have toiled blah blah. My Mom seeing that there were 5 guys, decided to give 50/-. The lead kinda guy for the group said this is not enuf & started arguing. My Mom said 'you can remove the connection & go away. we'll do what needs to be done & no money for u guys'. They said nothing & just went off. Nothing happened, the phone got activated in a couple of hours. I got a Broadband connection from BSNL a few days back. Men came installed went off, they never opened their mouth about money.

India is changing, the problem is not all people are aware of it. Some of us went to Mahabs a few months back, back then my insurance for the vehicle had expired & I never renewed it. We got stopped at a check-post, that guy asked for all our papers. Checked mine & said that my insurance had expired. I said I'll be renewing it in a couple of days. That Guy said fine & just gave me my papers back & we went on with our journey. Not everybody is bad here.

We all talked a lot about Tsunami, but do you know that India denied any international assistance. we took care of the problems we faced during that time. Moreover we sent a fleet of our ships to SriLanka to help people there & India made a financial contribution to the relief efforts there. India was part of the Global Four countries which started relief actions inspite of it being an affected country.

The difference between India & Japan (or US) is simple. You go to your colleagues house, his dad might be a drunkard, his brother might be a thief & so on. But when you are in their home they'll make sure you have a good time there.

The difference, IMHO, whatever may be India's shortcomings It's my Home. We all try to solve the problems in our home (in any little way possible) don't we?

clarification

My point was.... that there is discrimination
and Indian democracy runs on caste and regional discrimnation.....

for example, using caste to win votes..... happens everywhere...
using inter-State disputes eg. kaveri water to get political mileage....

decades back the big parties in T.N. all came to power.....
by going against Hindi.... and asking for separtate autonomy....

ppl like us in cities and IT may not feel it....
but thats what decides who comes to power
politicians have divided India to keep there
interests....

Madraasi - The word Explained

It's a good day to start the week. I have lots of work to be done by COB today, but a couple of blogs by one of my friends prompted me to set everything aside.

Now let us see the first probs that Gaurav has mentioned.... Who's really a Madraasi ? Now Since India is a vast country geographically it was know as North, South, East & West India. But the people in all these parts are INDIANS. The people in northern part of India, identify those in their southern counterpart by Madras (The State), In the days of Britishers Madras was the state which comprised the whole of south india back then. In those days it was known as Madras Presidency. Hence the name Madraasi, it's not something to be ashamed off, after all we all are brothers & sisters (except beautiful gals). So basically all varieties of people living here are people who speak a variety of languages, so we classify thoset c groups by their languages.

This all to it, nothing to do with we eating rice & they eating Wheat......

Now to the British policy of Divide & Rule, they just capitalised on the diversity. But then we all united to drive them out, didn't we?

To quote Bharati " Seppu Mozhi Pathinettudaiyaal, Eninum Sinthai Ondrudaiyaal"

obvious problems in India compared to Japan

English - is the undisputable and only gift that British rule has
given to us....

sans that our country would now be divided and our economy
reeling in doldrums like Somalia....

when we were chatting away in a party.... one should she
the awe in the face of the Japanese manager, when he heard
about the number of languages in India and the fact that many
of us need to speak in English to communicate in btwn us....

99% of the ppl there don't know English.... believe me....
luckily I'm in a U.S. company.... so I get to talk some
broken English with the ppl here....

So, how did they overcome this??
every technical document has a Japanese version.... in fact
we need to make special requests to get English docs....
the reason - they have modified their language and have
some script to read and write foreign langauges in Japanese...
so who needs to learn English literals...
Japanese is used for all levels of education

corruption in Japan is nearly nill.....
the reason I can understand till now is that the law here is
strict and upto the changing times.... ppl are educated and
have a clear, uniform say....

India is divided into states..... states into regions and caste groups....
seeing national interest in an election takes a back seat when ppl
think about their regional problems....

how many of us are aware of our rights and what we should be
doing if we are in a legal problem.... or caught with a policeman
making wrong charges on u?? no one is aware of the law...

any pluses from our diversity??
let me think....

Diversity - for the good or bad ??

Hindi has not really been a problem for me....
but I have faced quiet a look of discrimination
whenever I go to my relatives's place.....

for the north Indians.... anyone from south and who
eats lots of rice is "Madraasi"....
person can be tamil, mallu, telugu.... he is still "Madraasi"

the baseline is.... there is a lot of diversity in our country....
100's of spoken dialects.... 25 official languages....
100's of cultures and following....

politicians in India very well follow the British - 'divide and rule'
policy still.... to keep their chairs....

our age old constitution has little potence between the huge loop holes....

my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt
we live in ... in India

we r proud of our diversity and culture.... but are we using it to
our advantage?? or what is the cost we are paying to get
whatever advantage we have??

will share my thoughts - when comparing with Japan next....

Dont join any course

Nirai

Dont join any course..
I did some private hindi courses when i was in school...
ppl would have laughed at me if i had told that i have done something equivalent to a degree in hindi some 2 yrs bac...i was not able to speak or understand then..all that i cud do was read...what is the use without understanding....

do watch all hindi movies...and talk...

all,
have a nice weekend

bye
Viji

My Hindi.....

"R u foreigners".... good comment....I also don't know much of Hindi.... too little... I can just understand decently when people speak (Courtesy Hindi films and Doordharshan)....

When I went to Hyderabad for a Quality Circle National convention during my Polytechnic days, we used to rehearse what and how we have to ask the Hotel servers, roomboys etc...

I am planning, planning, planning to learn Hindi for a quite a lot of years.... But my laziness overtakes my desire everytime... Hope I succeed in joining a course atleast this year :)

DB2 - Decisions

Couple of years back I was asking my friend some help to learn Java, I got this idea mainly 'cause IBM is a strong supporter of Java (& it's possible to do java programming in mainframes as well). It was a mail conversation & I told him my reason's behind my interest in Java. He just put a reply giving me the right pointers. He also mentioned there's no point in going on learning all the programming languages as there are N possible ways to present the data to the user, but very few ways to manage it.

To quote him "Every fool can Present Data,only few can Manage it.", thats when I really started thinking about the position I (& all similar application programmers) are in. I had got my first IBM DB2 certification the previous month & then I decided what I wanted to be. I got the next certification in another couple of months, now there's just 1 more thing for me to do to move away from application programming. Y'day I started with the preparation for the IBM DB2 DBA cert. I would get a chance to do the right things after that, who knows I might conquer my dream of presenting a paper on DB2 in the prestigious IBM DATA MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE.

Hindi.....

Today morning Viji had sent a one word reply (sahiii was the word) to one of the (fwded) mails I sent & that started a comical discussion of all our hindi talents...... As Manoj has mentioned, I learnt the hindi that I knew mostly due to watching Hindi movies. I never got the chance to use my hindi properly (other than singing when nobody's around:-)) until we went to Delhi, when my dad got the National Award from Abdul Kalam. We were in Fatehpur Sikhri, when we got swindled something around 1000/- by a old fella (who talked as if he was the direct descendant of Akbar). It was like there's a small tomb of a holy man & it's believed that it's good if offer a cloth in the tomb (u might have seen in movies where they put clothes over the tomb). My sister was busy saying 'achaa', samjaa' to this guy, finally he said take 4 clothes & the price was around 2k.... I got pissed of started my hindi & clearly told him we don't need any (I don't remember the hindi wrods I used).... Now, that guy started begging & I said we'll take 1, that guy said u shud take it as a pair & all kachraa.....

My hindi always starts with "Kyaa Baaisaab", the best comedy was in one of the markets Karolbaarg or somewhere.... we were just going around to get soome presents to friends & I was bargaining with all hindi words I knew "yeh kuch zhyaadha hai", "itna kaon dega" & all :-)

There was another incident on the way to Delhi (from Agra), A guy was sitting beside my dad..... That fella looked like a well educated guy & he started a conversation with my dad in hindi. My dad can understand but not talk, he was answering in English, suddenly that guy asked why r u not replying in hindi..... My dad said "I dunno Hindi" & immediately that guy asked "R u Foreigners?".... It was so comical.....

But It also shows what diversity really is, what India really is, My aim is to see most of the indian landscapes in my lifetime.....

Hindi and Me

Poor are we the people in TamilNadu, which I guess is the only state which doenst encourage the use of our National Language, 'Hindi'.

A tamilian would certainly struggle in the Central & Northern India where Hindi is the game and even knowing English would do very little good.

As expected, I was to struggle when i shifted to my new company based on Pune. But wait a minute, I was not the Average Tamilian(one who doesn't know Hindi ... I mean). Somewhere from deep within i was familiar with this language. Atlease I could understand this language well, that means it wont be a struggle after all.

Thanks to Doordharshan, those where the days when the modern Cable channels were a distant dream. And every Saturday/Sunday featured a classic Hindi Film. I guess I have link my familiarity with this language to these weekend starrers.

To spice it up, here is a list of Hindi words we (Me, Ramanathan & Venu) use commonly.

No.	Hindi	English Equivalent
1	Chalaegaa	Ok/Fine
2	Haan	Yes
3	Phir Milaengae	See You Soon
4	Koi Baath Nahi	No problems

hiii

I dont know what to write in the blog. Nothing significant to mention,share..
Just thought i will share something smart i did day before.

I went to ATM to withdraw money and forgot to collect the debit card. Never realised that i lost it until yesterday evening when i got a call from someone to collect my debit card.

Felt lucky...to have it bac without any trauma, after effect of loss ...with the same balance in my account....

Small things make me feel lucky...:-))

BSNL Rocks....

Atlast I got Broadband. I have been longing for this for ages...... There are lots of good things about BSNL's Dataone.

1. I easily clock between 35 - 40 kb/s, which's damn fast compared to dialup
2. The setup is quite simple. u just need an adsl modem & ann ethernet card.
3. IT WORKS OUT OF THE BOX FOR LINUX - This is what swept me off my feet :-)

till june usage is unlimited, I'm planning to make the best of it......

Re: logo4

Suja, Unnoda 'Intelligence'ukku oru alave illama poiduchu!!! ...

Anyways, thanks, me and my friends had a nice, hearty laugh ...

And the 'Suja Saga' continues

logo4

logo4
Originally uploaded by sujathagillu.

hi hi guys .

Usual reason, had some work here.

At My office:

To know my tax for the year , i went to

meet a person in my office. There he calculated my tax and showed it to me.
Then he gave a print out of the same and asked me to collect it.

That time two of my collegues were taking Xerox of some papers. So i wanted to join them. With my busy mind
i went to collect my printout ....waiting for bit long time.But i didnt get my print out.
I started prasing my office printer.

My collegues asked me what i am looking for????? I told for pintout.
Both started laughing loud.

I was standing before the Xerox machine,
for the o/p.

Great people carry many things in mind.
Its all in the game.

Happy Woman's day

Happy Woman's day

Pop-up in our blog site

I think it comes only with Firefox ... You can disble it there

Re: some photos from Tokyo

Nice photos da Gaurav ... Anaa ungala vida buildingsa thaan neraya eduthirukkae ...

Ennada ... vaanathae parthae nadanthuttu irukkiyaaa

Movie..........

This weekend I saw RAM. My friend & I went to Mayajaal in hope of some movie & there was no movie except this at the time we went. we decided to take the risk & catch the movie. I expected it to be really horrible, but it turned out to be better.
The first half is good & the second is usual masala, tried in a different angle.

Overall the movie is watchable. Raguman (Rahman ?) is very good & watchable. Literally he looks more the hero than Jeeva. Jeeva too has did his homework this time around. Kajala was very very good. I somehow didn't like her in her previous ventures, she looks ravishing in this. Maybe 'cause the usual cinema elements is not present in this.

Old wine in a refreshingly new bottle......

some photos from Tokyo

Hi guys,

I have shared some of my photos from Tokyo at http://community.webshots.com/user/mailgauravr


Gaurav

Family Day at our Office..........

Hi.........
Me too was busy with some release works.......

Without my active participation, I find the blog has not yet got the star status... Naturally :)

Last week, We had family day celebrations here at Visteon. 'twas great fun.... After our Meggidos, I've rarely had chance to celebrate and enjoy ... Here they divided the people into 4 teams... and each team had to perform a 15 minute talent show...

In my team, I was the leader :) I whistled for the song "Raasaathi Unna kaanadha nenju".... sung "Kaasu mela" and choreographed for the song "Saathikadi" from Sukran....we enjoyed it to the core...... the DJs organised the show well... we had dance almost the whole day....

Nirai's team also did well... She choreographed for the song "Kumbida pona Deivam" from Thirupachi... :)

Enna indha koothula 1 week fulla practise practisenu velaiyae seiyala :( So I had to double work till now... From Monday I hope I will resume normal work....

I will upload a few snaps in our dotphoto soooon.....

My feelings.....

HI friends,

I feel we should share more of our personal experiences like what special event has happened at our home or office or to our other collegemates etc.... I feel the main purpose of this blog should be to maintain our friendship and our knowledge about each other's life...

So don't please start blaming me for not being active in the blog..... I was a bit occupied as I had a release till Friday... I will try to be as active as possible henceforth.....

Suja... Starting-la superaa stills ellam anupina .... Romba naala Aalayae kaanom

Vaishu... U should plan to spend a few minutes for your dear friends from your busy schedule with Infy and Manoj !!!!!

Viji... U are peeking in once in a while.... Do that often....

Letz make this blog more and more interesting .............. :) :) :) :)

Freedom Atlast

Atlast I'm a bit free. The past 3-4 days have been a bit hectic in a long long time.

Gaurav.....

The programming stuff that I posted is not my work related, it's something that I'm doing out of interest (& is in no way related with my work). If you are doing something (for which u r not getting paid), pls let us know about that :-)

Despite my busy schedule (too much, right ?:-^)), I learnt about working with Linkedlists in C#. How easy without pointers, it is.

I may have to come to office tomorrow, depends on how well my miraculous program screws things by EOD. Anyway there's a movie in the cards for this weekend, although I haven't decided which to catch. Then should continue my adventures with PS2. My sis is doing great in the co-op mode of Dark Alliance-2. I'm proud to say that I'm pretty horrible when compared to my sis. But then she can't even finish POP, NFSU in her dreams..... My dad has been shouting at both of us for playing games in PS2.

I remember my parents telling me that I shud not play games & concentrate on my studies when I was a kid. But now, the question they pose to us in an amazing oxymoron. The q is "r u 2 still kids playing games?". What am I suppose to answer....

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...

Re: Re: GMail Login Error

True, my account is fine now

Re: GMail Login Error

Hey Manoj,

its happened a few times to me.....
since its a beta version they have some
problems at times....

it becomes fine after some hours / mins....


Gaurav

GMail Login Error

Hi Guys,

I am not able to log into my gmail account. It is giving me this error 'Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience'.

Seems like some of the accounts are working and some or not ...
Donno wat to do ...

Our Site is listed by the Google Search

Guys,

Try google search for 'Bist ECE 1998-2002' and press the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button.

Guess what, our Blog is shown ... Cool, Huh???

Hi there

Hey guys

though I'm not completely vetti now....
I'm feeling a bit home sick with the mechanical life here....
its so cold I haven't gone out for 2 months now during weekends....

nice that I have some posts to read now ....
since I'm on a Solaris workstation with Unix...
I have problems posting pics.... though I check mails every
hour....

and Gokul..... don't bore me with ur software stuff daa....
if its too specific which normal ppl can't understand, keep it
btwn u and Manoj.... apparum I'll start posting long
messages on Hardware and ASIC....


Gaurav

New Feature to our Blog

Hi Guys,

I have added a 'Tag Board'. It is something very similar an Online Chat . You will find it below the 'Polls' section.

Let me know your thoughts...

Efforts

I think we should applaud Manoj for all the efforts that he takes to make this blog interesting. Poll is just one such thing. well done machan..... I'm stacked with the quite a bit of work these days, hopefully it should change next week. I had got some materials on GPRS & gave it to my sis for a seminar. It seems that the material was very good (thanks to google & gokul :-)) that my sis's prof wants more of those so that she can take some seminar. I wonder how ppl can be so lazy/naive. Then what happened to Gaurav..... he's usually one of the best vetti's around, these days he's busy running behind geisha gals.... Hence he has no time to interact with us.......

Nice fotos

Nice fotos Manoj,Vijay...