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Hell and Heaven - A Theory

2010-05-01T09:09:00.001+05:30

I am a male chauvinist, I guess, from my childhood. I don't deny it but I am not proud of it either. So, all my theories revolve around the concept of male species being dominant over the other. My recent theory regarding Hell and Heaven is also a similar story.

I believe in Nature. I also believe that, she takes care of balancing everything; Seasons, predator-prey life cycles, and Gender ratio. By now, you must have understood why there are girls in heaven in the form of ANGELs. If not, let me tell you why. Because, all men from earth go to heaven, she needs to take care of the Gender ratio in heaven. In similar lines, Hell is full of male devils. And again, you may ask me -- why should there be ANGELs in heaven rather than normal girls? Oh c'mon -- this is pretty simple again and it also is a balancing act of Nature. She wants us to experience the side of the female gender, (gentle, caring, beautiful, cheerful), which we(male humans) wouldn't have seen in Earth! And similarly, she created devils with characteristics that are not found in male gender living in Earth!

:)

iPod Touch GiveAway by GadgetLite

2009-11-10T12:03:00.003+05:30

Everyone who wants to get an iPod Touch for this Christmas season, checkout this awesome giveaway by generous GadgetLite team!
http://www.gadgetlite.com/2009/11/09/free-gadget-giveaway-win-32gb/

EGO - Good or Bad?

2009-07-23T18:02:00.001+05:30

Everyone I know, sound this word as if it's got a negative connotation. But, I would argue that EGO is a word everyone should look at positively and if possible, respect the people who have this in abundance ala Noble people. What EGO, to me anyway, a way to let your identity take course of the action and speak it's attitude out to the whole world. EGO is respecting yourself beyond the courtesy and fear of consequences. Lesser people (who have less EGO :)) speak courteously and obey the commands of higher people(who have more Ego) because they fear the consequences and fear that they are inferior. But, really what they are inferior is in their Ego Quotient (EQ). Because, there are more lesser-people in this world than the higher-people, they brandished the word ego to mean a negative implication. But seriously, if you are not self centered and egoistic, you are not really doing anything worth your stay on Earth!

Relationship Conundrums!

2009-07-16T11:23:00.002+05:30

I have never been good at relationships and I don't think I ever will be! Doesn't matter though as long as I am able to enjoy my solitary attitude! But, with the limited experience of looking at people around me living in this relationships, I view it as a conundrum!

Now, I know a pair who are in this so called amazing relationship for a few years and yet don't take it forward and I know another set of people who, though spent very little time together, are ready to take the plunge and are ready to take the relationship to the next level.I do not, yet, understand on what basis, do they take this decision to stick where they are or take that leap forward!

Coming to the first case; they miss each other, they make the other person smile, laugh, enjoy the company, make fun of each other, they look like destined to be together (atleast for me though!) and yet they choose not to take the relationship forward. I wonder whether they remain just the same when one of them gets married and not regret the decision they have taken to be "Just Friends!". I wonder, after a couple of years, when they look back at the time spent together, would they ever think, "Oh no, I should have taken the leap forward!".

And with regards to the second set, though they know each other for a very short while (long distant relationship), they were ready to get married and spend the rest of their lives together.I always wonder on what basis have they chosen to take the decision to commit to the other person! They have spent very little time together, they might not know everything about the other person, they might not have had as many quarrels with each other to better understand how one reacts when they are aroused(;)). I hope, with utmost sincerity, that they stick together and have a great life together!

And there is another set of people, like me, who have developed so much phobia towards relationships that they cannot commit to someone and stick to that person for long. They live in their own rat holes and think that they are so happy alone and stay that way! :-)

I hope, someday, I would be able to solve this labyrinthine conundrum!

Career Directions Since BITS - 2

2009-05-15T18:50:00.000+05:30

My mental state in the third year has been utter mayhem. Chaos surrounded my every action. Didn't know which course to take. Didn't know which direction to follow. First Medicinal Chemistry, then Pharmaceutics, then Computer Science, then again Medicinal Chemistry, then Instrumental Methods of Analysis... Uff. I didn't want my life to be like this. I don't even know how I wanted my life to be. But I know that this is not what I wanted. I finished the third year with so much confusion though my cgpa improved like hell without much assistance from my side, I am still spoilt for choice.

Then came the fourth year and first crushing blow in my life. I think it's the only crushing blow in my life. Everything seemed hard and everyone looked ugly. I lacked self confidence, I lacked morale. That was the worst phase of my life. And through it, I have decided to drop that M.Pharm vertical transfer, thus becoming the first (and may be only) candidate to reject the vertical transfer(that is conferred to me after my first year).

Wow. Good or bad, a decision has been taken. A big step from indecisiveness. Final semester of my BITSian life. First job offer. Not much joy though. A thesis under Computer Science professor, known to be a good man. some vetti thrill. got close to some. got away from more. within no time, time has come to say adios. tears flowed down the cheeks, heart wished to stay, mind numbing feeling. say whatever you want, the time you have to leave the place which taught you so much is the unforgettable moment. Packed everything. got into the bus with my eyes moist and my journey into no-dreams land started.

---to be continued!

Career Directions Since BITS - 1

2009-05-11T16:41:00.000+05:30

I joined BITS with absolutely no plans and no ideas of what I would end up doing after four years. I joined BITS with that untarnished innocence, village intelligence and little understanding of world-outside. Suddenly, everything looked strange; girls wearing jeans and t-shirts, students operating computer like a TV remote, TT table inside a hostel. Started the first year with the only goal of getting a good C.G. and moving to a better discipline without really realising how difficult it is. At the end of the first year, gradually transformed into someone ambitious, a bit more likeable and amicable. At the end of that year I learnt what attitude is all about, found friendships that will last the life time, understood what career is. But, what it couldn't show me was the direction my career had to take. I was still the same ignorant self, the way I started it. When I got the chance to finish Masters in 5years along with the undergrad, I applied for it, little knowing that it would be another course of direction my career would take.
After two years of Bachelors, I was pursuing a course that was introduced for the first time, was going no where and still unsure about what I should be doing once I am out of BITS. I was with people who are as intelligent as I am, if not more, making career decisions, progressing towards making their life more meaningful and achieving their set goals. I was left to ponder my thoughts of setting dreams and going after them. Then came Practice School and left me wondering which kind of station should I be looking for. Unsure of where I should be heading towards, I followed the herd and went to HDL. Though, turned out to be a great learning experience of my life, it would have been great had I 'decided' to take that decision rather than 'taking' that decision. These 2 months changed the way I was thinking at that time, making me look beyond grades and c.g., forcing me to look at life larger than what I had seen until then. After those 2 months, I compared myself with what I had been at the beginning of my journey, the day I joined BITS; realized that I became a far better person but with the same no-goals scenario.

---to be continued!

Awesome Aesthetics!

2009-05-06T21:03:00.000+05:30

I have never seen browsers being beautiful. Only safari came close to visually appealing the consumers. But, Google developed its browser not only powerful but aesthetically wonderful. To make it more colourful, I decided to tweak my bookmarks bar and here's the end result! Ah, it looks amazing!

About Myself!

2009-04-27T13:40:00.002+05:30

When you become what you are, you will do what you can do!

After a hailstorm!

2009-04-22T15:51:00.001+05:30

There are very few scenes that can match the beauty of a lush green park with beautiful buildings on the back drop after a hailstorm! Such was the beauty that it compelled me to take a fag! ahhh..wonderful smell of nicotin!

To my left -- The beauty through a thick glass!

To my right -- Me enjoying the nicotin!

This weekend

2009-04-20T16:05:00.000+05:30

This weekend was kinda different to what I face the other weekends!

I attended the marriage of my wingee and a feather in our small B(M)Pharm shuttle, Mayur's wedding reception!
Travelled to Hyderabad after a long time!
Met Haritha, my friend and another feature in that so called shuttle (see above), for the first time after her marriage.
Met this cousin of my friend, priya, who supposedly likes my blogs for whatsoever reason!
Caughtup with my intermediate college friends and had some timepass!
Went to a movie in Andhra Pradesh after so long!
Was able to overhear(and understand!) so many people talking about their personal life ;)
Entertained thoughts about marriage, life after marriage!
More thoughts about marriage! :D
Experienced life in a PG after 3 years! (Though, I would say, my current life is way better and ofcourse way heavier on my pocket also!)
Most importantly, talked to Sudha, who lives in his own world unless you ruffle him to bring back to our world! ;)
Have seen a recently married young and beautiful couple coochy-cooing in the A/C train! (different because, I am used to seeing unmarried couple doing this!)
Stumbled into my one time BITS- seniors on my journey back to Bangalore!
Travelled with people I know, I spent my four years of life with!
Didn't play squash! :O (This is the first time I havent played squash on a weekend since I started playing...)
I am in some place other than in my own world! I moved out of my comfort zone and am glad that I did so!

Gmail in Telugu

2009-04-12T18:08:00.001+05:30

ఇప్పుడు మీరు జిమెయిల్ తెలుగు లో రాయచ్చు. ఎంత బాగుందో కదా!

Set Theory in Life!

2009-03-20T16:21:00.000+05:30

Whenever I think of relationship, be it friendship, marriage or anything for that matter, I always think of Set Theory! Let me explain. If I call myself set A and the other person set B, there's an intersection area between both of us. There is A-B and there is B-A. There's also U - (AUB) space. Fortunately, I have found some very good friends who realized there's a space A-B and never tried to make A a subset of B and didn't even try to decrease the size of A-B space.

I have a fear that, there comes a time, when I may have to share my life with a person who might not understand my set theory and try to behave like either A is a subset of B or B is a subset of A or even worse, A=B! Yeah, I know, I am little crazy, but I'm never wrong! :)

What the?

2009-03-14T23:23:00.000+05:30

I am confused! As always... I find it hard to concentrate on one thing. I have no goal, no target, no ambition! But I know only one thing. I should live 'happyly'! In this pursuit of happyness, I am torn between doing what I love to do or rather what I want to do at that spur of moment and doing what my parents would approve and throw me a good cash at the end/start of every month! I always wanted to quit the job and wander for a while without any bother about the 'responsibilities!'.

Being pulled by two legs of the 'Y' has never been a new thing for me! I have always been like that! May be, I will always be! Whenever I see a beggar, I want to give him/her a change. But, somewhere it tells me that I should not as they are not really that needy and whatever I donate may not really serve the real purpose(Blame Mathur Bhandarkar!). Trepidity has always been my weakness. I am afraid of failure. Even though how hard I try not to be. I am brought up like that. What to do? I am brought up with the notion that unless I succeed in every attempt I make, I don't deserve a place in the society. Now, what does this society mean to me? Bollocks. Or so I want to think! I want to live with my own ideas and ideals. I don't give a damn about what you think of me! But, at some place in mind and heart, it is a so deep rooted thought that I am to be accepted by my fellow friends! Oh the holy fuck! I can go on and on... By the way... I don't remember why I started to write all this fuck! Get back to what ever you r doing!

Times have Changed - 2

2009-02-10T12:28:00.004+05:30

It hasn’t been long since I blogged about how times have changed. Now, the time has come for me to throw in yet another real life incident. This is a letter written to me by my friend Swathi, today morning regarding her son, Kashyap’s admission to Dilhi Private Paathasala (DPP). I am reproducing the letter here as it is.

Hi Ravi,

How are you? I am fine and Pavan and Kashyap are also doing great. I know it’s been long since we spoke to each other. How are things going at your end and how are your preparations going for GD and PI? Why don’t you come for lunch this Saturday? I am sure we can catch up on lot many things.

By the way, this weekend has been one of the most eventful days of my life since Kashyap was born. You know, how I have always dreamt of sending Kashyap to a World Class - International School like DPP. This Saturday, Kashyap and I went to DPP to write the entrance test for 1^st Class admissions. Though Kashyap is well prepared and of course very intelligent, I couldn’t hold my nerves and am feeling very nervous. When we reached DPP, I saw more than 150 mothers gathered there with their children. The scene itself is daunting. Most of them I spoke to are housewives and are taking best care and attention for their children. Since the exam is yet to start, all of them referring to notes they bought with them and revising the course syllabus. But, I didn’t bring any notes with me and couldn’t let Kashyap revise any of the lessons I taught him. The bell rang and I sent Kashyap in wishing him all the best. While Kashyap is writing the exam, everyone is talking about how well prepared their children are. When I heard all that, tears streamed rolling down my cheeks as I felt I have done injustice to Kashyap by not taking enough attention for his entrance test in DPP. As both Pavan and I are working, I though we spent less time with Kashyap than the mothers that have come here. I felt like I am a bad mother for Kashyap as I couldn’t prepare him at par with his fellow test takers. That 2.5 hrs of test duration were one of the most tensed moments of life. I thought about so many things raging from how bad a mother I am, from how difficult the test is, from how Pavan would react when I tell him what all transpired here at DPP to how well Kashyap is feeling inside the test room. Finally, after the exam is over, Kashyap came running to me feeling little exhausted and enthusiastic. From his face, I could make out that he wrote the test well. But, Ravi, you know that these are the days when good is not good enough. We have to be best to be good. After half an hour, a well dressed lady came to us and addressed the parents briefing the admission process post written test. She said that they would announce the results on Sunday evening on their website www.dpp.edu/admissions.

While driving back to our home from DPP, I asked Kashyap about the questions that are asked in the entrance exam. He said the exam is tough, but he could write well. You know, the questions that are asked in the examination are not what I have expected. Some of the questions are what is 13*12, Explain your father’s profession. My God, Ravi, I don’t know what DPP expects from their students. Pavan was sitting at our apartment balcony waiting for us and I narrated him the entire drama.

Next day, we logged in to their website and waiting for the results anxiously. Pavan is pacing in and out of living room, not able to contain his anxiety and I am refreshing the page every 2 minutes. Kashyap went to swimming class and Tennis coaching. At around 8 25PM, the results were out and I started searching for Kashyap’s name frantically all through. I scrolled the entire page and couldn’t find it. By this time, I am almost sobbing while hugging Pavan. Pavan took the laptop from me and scrolled carefully searching for Kashyap’s name. I could see his fingers shivering slightly while scrolling down. And then, all of a sudden he screamed loudly and started to dance. He highlighted Kashyap’s name using his mouse and started dancing again. We screamed with joy and happiness and distributed sweets in our neighborhood. I was so happy that I started dancing too. Kashyap made me proud. Real proud. I never felt as happy as I did on that day. May be, that’s an overstatement. But yeah, it feels so true. Couple of hours later, we received an email from the Head Mistress of DPP congratulating Kashyap and us for his achievement and asking us to be present for an interview, today evening. Now, Pavan is of course elated but slightly more tensed that we might put Kashyap’s future in jeopardy. Both of us have taken day off today and trying to stay as calm as possible and putting our best foot forward for today’s interview. To relieve my pressure, I thought of telling you everything!

I am sure you wish us all the best for what seems to be one of the most important interviews of our life. I am hoping they wouldn’t ask us questions like State Euler’s theory, Define Anachronism, what is the meaning of Asphyxiation. I will write to you tomorrow on what happened today. Got to go now. I am yet to iron Pavan’s suit for today’s interview. Catch you later. Have a good day!

Cheers,

Swathi.

Times have changed

2009-01-12T11:42:00.000+05:30

When I got the snail mail saying that I have been admitted to BITS Pilani, I told my friends that I have 'secured' an admission to one of the most prestigious colleges in India. I definitely felt elated by the prospect of joining a very good university with lot of intelligent students coming in and competing among themselves.

After a couple of years, when I passed out of BITS, my friends have emailed me saying that they have 'secured' an admission to Stanford/MIT/TAMU/LSE. They must have felt on cloud 9 too, because they are about to join some of the world's best colleges. But now, I have come across an email from a friend who said '...One of my colleagues has 'secured' an admission into XXX school for his daughter...'. I started to wonder how times have changed drastically and what the phrase 'securing' an admission has transformed in meaning!

In my childhood, there is nothing that I have heard of 'securing an admission' to join a school, of course unless it is THE best school in the country! But now, I have seen so many parents trying hard and paying hefty donations to get their children admitted to 'International' schools with world class facilities and able teachers. A couple of months ago, I have read an article in MINT (my personal favorite) which mentioned about the difficulties NRIs face to get their children admitted to a very good school. As soon as the school administration staff comes to know that the parents are NRIs, they charge heavy fees and ask for more donations! And these days, I have seen schools conducting written tests for parents! (:O)! How ridiculous can it be? May be, by the time I get married and have kids, I might have to join TIME or something of that sort and prepare for these written tests with the same vigor and dedication as I did for CAT and GMAT! I hope, I can secure admission to IIM - A level school when I give that entrance examination for my kid! :)

The way of the world!

2009-01-10T13:53:00.000+05:30

Unjust it were to bid the World be just
And blame her not: She ne'er was made for justice:
Take what she gives thee, leave all grief aside,
For now to fair and then to foul, her lust is!

CAT 2008 Results

2009-01-08T16:28:00.002+05:30

Hello all,

I am the first on net to report that IIMs have officially published the key in pdf format. click here to find it! The results are out here from tomorrow morning.

Note: As of now, the link is broken. Will let you all know, once it is alive.

Update1: The Key is now available. But not the results yet!

Update2: The results are also out and I made it to Shillong and Lucknow

Unbridled Emotions!

2008-12-08T18:41:00.004+05:30

Last week, when I went for that oh so adventurous night-trek to Scanda Giri, due to my poor nocturnal eye-sight, I went straight through bushes. After a couple of minutes, when I got a breather to check how affected my calf muscles are after the incident, I spotted two dots spaced exactly by some distance to throw an impression of snake-bite. Being a timid and a faint-hearted guy I am, I was scared to death and felt that those would be my last minutes. Even the well experienced guide's could not assuade me to think positively. After half an hour, I started to feel dizzy and though it has got nothing to do with the thorny-snake bite, I felt for sure those are my final few breaths. Instead of panicking(Oh, a very good situation handler I am - though I am scared to death), I thought out what to do in those final few minutes. How much ever I focussed, only ONE thing came to my mind. That stark revelation was just the kind of thing I wanted in my life. It told me how much I really take those things for granted, that I should never have ignored in the first place. It told me how much I take my father's love for granted!

Imagine the struggle a father goes through when he sends his son for higher studies to far off places just so that the son gets what he wanted, even though the father can't leave the son. The father thinks 24X7 about how to enrich his son's life and the son doesn't even care to call him once a week! If in case, the son has a girl friend(fortunately or unfortunately, that's a different story), the amount of time he devotes to his dad would be around 2-5% of the time he devotes to his career and girl friend put together. Everytime, the father sees an article in the newspaper talking about recession in IT industry in a remote country like Sumatra, he starts to get worried about his son's career being threatened. This is the kind of unconditional love that the fathers have for their sons. But still, sons show their irritation when fathers show that extra amount of care that they think their sons deserve.

I am not arguing that sons do not have love towards their father. What I am saying is, they do not express it and put their father son relationship in jeopardy! What I am saying is, tell your dad how much you love him before it's too late! Tell him everything that you always wanted to tell but could never tell because of one or ther other reason! Let nothing come in between! May be after a couple of decades when you are in your dad's position, don't let a situation come, where you regret for treating your father the way your son is treating you now!

Note: If you don't agree with what I have written here, either you are the one true son every father wants to have or you don't have the guts to accept what you are.

That little extra effort

2008-11-23T13:37:00.004+05:30

It is yet another saturday afternoon and after playing an hour of tennis, we are tired and chitchatting about our normal routine life. One of the topics that came up during the discussion is about the efforts men put up to score a beautiful girl. Conclusion? well... Whatever men do, either intentionally or unintentionally can be related to their efforts in having that wonderful sex with a beautiful girl.

Any little extra effort they put up to get a better life, more money, better life style is all in a bid to ensure that, that beautiful girl picks him ahead of others. Come to think of it, Chiranjeevi mentioned in one of his party meetings that, handloom industry is suffering from lack of interest from the youth and one of the reasons Youth's disinterest towards handloom industry is because, they are not getting married. At the end of the day, every one wants to get married and everyone wants to come home and relax in the lap of their wonderful wife! Nowadays, everyone wants to be a software engineer (that's the main reason I became a software engineer ;)) and earn the respect of girls' parents and in turn girls'. Oh my God, I am just one of them! Even my attempts to get that better life can inturn be applied to having that wonderful sex with a beautiful girl!

courtesy: pnv srikanth, Joker in the Pack novel, Sathipandu. :)

Chat right inside Orkut

2008-11-21T09:51:00.004+05:30

Oh my God, I love Google. Every time, I feel they are not bending their backs in improving their apps, they come up with another new feature. Yesterday, I have blogged about new Themes features in GMail. Now, its the turn for Talk application right inside Orkut. You can see who is online and just click on the bubble next to their name and you can use the same experience as GTalk in GMail. Awesome, isn't it!

Themes in GMail!

2008-11-20T11:25:00.001+05:30

So far, to spice up the GMail, I had to use the BetterGmail extension in firefox. But now, GMail has started rolling out a new feature which will enable to choose a theme that already exists and also create our own custom theme! Sounds fantastic. Also, GMail blog mentions that they have tweaked the default theme a little bit to make it look even better, though I couldn't notice that!

Anyway, which one do you like the most?

Bhuvan to beat Google Earth?

2008-11-19T17:37:00.003+05:30

I am sure everyone of you must be aware of the GoogleEarth and might have used it one time or the other. But consider this. ISRO after successfully launching Chandrayaan is all set to unveil its ambitious project 'Bhuvan', which is direct competitor to GoogleEarth and is supposed to offer better clarity and visual details than GoogleEarth. And more over, Bhuvan will use only Indian Satellites to gather the Earth's information and the maps will be updated/refreshed on an annual basis, far superior to GoogleEarth, which currently refreshes its data every four years.

If ISRO successfully launches this application, this will surely propel India into never-before-seen heights in technology and Innovation space.

Introducing T-Mobile G1 with Google

2008-09-23T20:45:00.001+05:30

You can catch the live video announcement of T-Mobile's G1 here

http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/

Papa Roach - Last Resort

2008-09-22T17:35:00.001+05:30

Yeah, I wasn't able to update my ASAD during the weekend, so here it is for today! This is a very special song from Papa Roach's Infest album, Last Resort!

Listen it here!

About the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Roach

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/thelastresort.html

50 Cent - Candy Shop

2008-09-18T19:20:00.001+05:30

Last 3 days I presented pop/soft-rock kinda songs, but now let me switch gears and show you a hip-hop song from 50 Cent and that would be Candy shop from his album Massacre!

Listen it here

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/50cent/candyshop.html

About the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent

Jack Johnson - Better Together : ASAD

2008-09-17T14:30:00.001+05:30

As today's ASAD, I present to you one of my favourite songs of this year; Jack Johnson's Better Together from his album In Between Dreams.

Listen to the song here

About the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson

Lyrics: http://tinyurl.com/24tgoy

Hope, you like this as well!

Rihanna - Unfaithful : ASAD

2008-09-16T13:53:00.001+05:30

Today's A song A day is from the voice of Rihanna from her album A Girl Like Me, Unfaithful.

Listen to it

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rihanna/unfaithful.html

About the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna

Presenting to you ASAD!

2008-09-15T16:02:00.001+05:30

What is the most oft spoken language, least understood language, most studied language (no proof though), oldest language and wonder filled language? Thinking of Chinese, Arabic, Greek or Hindi? Think again, it's Music.

Music has no barriers, that's why we listen to Michael Jackson's songs and tap our feet in applause. Like so many people in the world, I am one of the avid music listeners and would want to share with my fellow friends (i.e. who ever visit my blog regularly) a song a day that they can listen to all day long and still want to listen to it! And I named, yes-you guessed it right, A Song A Day.

As today's song, I present to you KT Tunstall's Suddenly I see from her Eye to the Telescope album.

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kttunstall/suddenlyisee.html

About the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Tunstall

Listen to this song till I come up with another of my favourites! ;)

So, what's with me?

2008-09-15T13:31:00.001+05:30

I started blogging a couple of years ago, when it was in its (not so) nascent stage, but discontinued the habit owing partly to the creative vacuum that has filled me and partly to the more interesting ventures that I have dived into, not the least is my passion of following startups and latest technological advances! Oh yeah, it yielded to my recent tech blog. Follow this link to reach it!

Off-late my friends kept asking me - "what's keeping you busy these days, huh?". So, I tried to answer that question as properly as possible. Here's one more go! Well, one of the main reasons is my vigorous training schedule to crack the GMAT, which is on 29th September. Understandably and to my frustration, it is not heading towards the right direction. One other thing is my increased passion towards playing tennis and squash. Though I made little headway in learning these games, these are the best sports in the sporting history, apart from boxing of course, to relieve some of the work and GMAT stress! ;) So, why this solitary behaviour? This is something that I cannot explain for the obvious reason being, I myself don't know! :)

But, from now on, I have resolved to take some time off from my busy life style to post what's happening in and around my personal life on a regular basis! To add to my determination, Srikanth has added my blog to his links list which in itself is a huge motivating factor for any aspiring blogger! I try not to let him down and repay the faith he has reposed on my blogging abilities! :D

Yet another video content viewer

2008-07-18T11:16:00.003+05:30

Hey folks,

Here's the review of yet another video content viewer on web2.0 isofa.tv! Best part is, you could just search for your genre and a list of videos keep playing till you get tired. With a very easy to use interface and the tag BETA around it, it can only head one way - even better service. Right now, it has nive video collection, though of limited quality, let's hope it gets better day by day!

Enjoy the videos!

I always wanted to tell you...

2008-03-18T18:34:00.001+05:30

I always wanted to tell you...

How much I love you!

But, never had I, the courage

When I was with you!

I wanted to tell you…

When we went to the movie,

When we danced to the tunes of Bryan Adams,

When we took a solitary walk with our hands clasped,

When you cried your eyes out when I am leaving,

How much I like you!

I wanted to tell you…

When I saw the brightness in your eyes,

When I saw the blush in your cheeks,

When I saw the broad smile on your face,

When I felt your hand on mine,

How much I love you!

I wanted to tell you…

When we spent hours together without having to speak a word,

When we spent days without worry or sorrow

When we spent years together as if we never have to part

When we enjoyed each others company

How much I care for you!

I wanted to tell you…

When I knew I can no longer be with you…

When I knew you can never be mine again…

When I knew I threw my final opportunity away…

When I knew I can never tell you again…

How much you mean to me!

I always wanted to tell you...

How much I love you!

But, never had I, the courage

When I was with you!

Dethroning season!

2008-01-25T16:55:00.000+05:30

Well, this year looks like more of causing tremors under the seats of reigning champions. First it's for Australian Cricket Team who have been largely untroubled by any other Cricket team lost a Test match comprehensively by India, and then it's Rafa being comprehensively beaten by display of sheer power and skill by Tsonga and now, Roger Federer takes the heat.

Considering the case of Australia, they have dominated the last decade or so not only in the Test Matches but in all forms of cricket. Four year back, India showed lot of heart by drawing a series in Australia. Now, they have built on that platform to rock back the Australians this year again by beating them in Perth, supposedly Australia's happy hunting ground! Though it is too early, we can say that Indians are turning the tables very fast to become one of the best test teams in the world usurping the number one position from hands of Australia in their own DEN!

Not far away from the cricketing action where dethroning ceremony has started, its waves have passed on to Melbourne where Australian Open is being held. Initially, it is Tipsarevic who gave a slight shudder to Federer who is lucky to have come safe after that match, couldn't find his form in the just finished semi finals and lost it in straight sets. Novak Djokovic has always believed and preached the whole preceding week that Federer is beatable and has proved it himself. In a display of brute skill and power, he outplayed Federer in all the sets and has given himself a very good chance of winning a grand slam!

No one has given, Tsonga any chance of winning against Nadal in an Australian Open semi finals. But, as it is dethroning season, Tsonga came up with a performance that none can match to upset Nadal to set up a title clash with Djokovic. It's been so long since either Federer or Nadal hasn't been in the finals of a Grand Slam, that I dont recall a scenario happening after Federer won his first grand slam! But it's time for the monarchs and champions to be brought down and this season proves just the same. Wait for the finals of Australian Open to see whether Tsonga continues his prime form to bring up an yet another upset win to win his first Grand Slam title and let the time tell whether Indians can pull off an another victory over Australia at Adelaide to level the series!

Yahoo! Mail

2007-12-12T14:17:00.000+05:30

To All those Yahoo Mail users, pay attention to what I am about to reveal. Yahoo Mail is so intuitive, intelligent and predictive that it can send you mails that you would otherwise receive in future. Yes, it's true. Yesterday, i.e., 11-12-2007, I got a mail, that was sent on 13-12-2007. I thought it's a moment worth sharing and please pass this word on so that your friends would like to use their Yahoo mail. :P

Project - GYM

2007-12-03T15:51:00.000+05:30

Web has become bigger than the universe and at times we need to search the entire web to find what we want. Thanks to Google, we get, almost all the time, what we want in a couple of mouse clicks and keypad strokes. What if Google is unable to give us what we want?If you dont know, Google is not the only search engine in the market. We have Yahoo Search, Microsoft Live and of course our very own, old horse, AltaVista. This project tries to get you all the search results in a tab based window, one for each search engine. Click on your favorite Search Engine link and voila, you have your results!

This is to make your life easier.

Why the name GYM? Google, Yahoo, Microsoft gave their initials to me to name this project as GYM!
What are you waiting for...c'mon test this and report me your comments and suggestions.Happy Searching...

Update: Major update has been rolled out today for my Project - GYM which is support for Mozilla Firefox(which is a pain in **** to have implemented).

special GRE

2007-08-09T19:59:00.001+05:30

Hey...

I know..I know.. I haven't blogged for so long and I have been waiting for an impressive feat to write something about... Did you ever imagine revising the GRE words that you have studied while browsing? Did you ever think how cool it would be? Yeah... I have... So, here's the Firefox plugin for you which will just do that. So, what will do that for you? It will highlight all the words that are identified as GRE words and if you hover your mouse over the word, it will display the meaning as a tool tip! How cool... So, what do you need to do in order to have that? OK. Here's the three step detail to install the plugin.

1. Click Download specialGRE
2. Download it to your local hard disk or directly open it using FF to install it. If you did download it to hard disk, drag and drop the file to any of the FF tabs.
3. Restart firefox... You are ready to go! As simple as that...

Note: This plugin works only in FF1.5.x! FF 2.x doesn't support this plug-in.

Update: This is made working in FF 2.x as well... :)

Happy GREing... ;)

Note: For those who doubt my coding abilities, a special mention that I developed this plugin, thanks to ChickenFoot, XML Programming using Java and Eclipse!

Update: The download link has been updated. Enjoy!

Number's Number

2007-05-22T11:03:00.000+05:30

Hmm... It's been so long, since I blogged. There is more than a good reason for this prolonged absence. A couple of them are my interest shift from prose to poetry , no interesting topics for me to log a blog and so on...

In one of my previous blogs, I have posted some questions which I though would help people preparing for Campus Interviews! Now, in this blog I am posting such a question which will definitely not be asked in any of the interviews for it's complexity and uniqueness. Try to solve the puzzle or question or riddle or whatever you may want to call it.

HINT: Don't waste your time GOOGLing, as you most probably than not would not find a solution on web. Because, I created this question and I don't think the probability of you stumbling upon such a question as this, is more than 0.000001.

Here goes the question!

Suppose, there is a number made up of a series of ascending order numbers(with a maximum limit), find a way to retrieve the numbers hidden in the number ;). I am positive, you didn't understand a thing what I said! O.K. let me give an example! Suppose, there is a number such as 12123 and max limit is 30. Then the solution to the problem is: this number is made up of 1, 21 and 23 and not 1,2,12 and 3 or 12 and 123. I want an effective algorithm which takes pretty little time and can give at least one solution (in case more than one solution exists!)

Disclaimer:If, still, you didn't understand the question, you are not eligible to solve this. Because, I don't want big time DUMBO's breaking their heads to solve this.

One More HINT: You can use Computers or JAVA program or C program to solve this.

Happy Solving ;)

FUP in 24

2007-04-06T11:55:00.001+05:30

The following incidents take place from x a.m. to y a.m.

These are a few phrases that are most frequently used in my favourite TV show '24'.

Frequently Used Phrases:

Roger that
This is Jack Bauer , Federal Agent. - Jack
I can't go back to LA - Kim
I want you to listen to me carefully - Jack
Trust me - Jack
I'm on it - CTU personnel.
Beat It - Again CTU
You have a right to remain silent - Police.
Fair Enough
Yes, Mr. President
David, I am trying to help you - Sherry Palmer
Where's the bomb? - Jack
I appreciate it. - David Palmer

Do you have some more?

Kalam visited BITS Pilani

2007-03-30T20:38:00.001+05:30

Hi,
Every good thing seems to happen exactly when I don't have a chance to be a part of it! Yeah, you guessed it right. Recently, Honl. President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam visited the most wonderful place of my life, BITS Pilani and I wasn't there to catch the action. What a pity? I have been told by a couple of my friends and juniors, who are lucky enough to get a seat reserved in Audi, that the session was amazing, particularly the Q&A. For your and everyone's convenience, I am giving the link here where you can read his address and transcripts of the Q&A session.

http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/eventslatest1.jsp?id=1483

I missed it bro, missed it.

Shattered Dreams

2007-03-28T16:11:00.001+05:30

Dreams were shattered

Hopes were murdered

So brutally, I left

wondering at my fate.

Fate seems to forget

Time and again...

My hope is a

Phoenix type...

Rises from sheer nothing

Though I know, I can do nothing!

Dead or alive...

My hope makes me live.

Goals were set

No looking back now.

For I am a champion,

I never do so!

Nothing can stop me

Not least the poverty!

Riding high on hopes.

I still HOPE my wings were not cut brutally.

Is this my fault?

Asks my heart...

Do you have an answer...

I say a clear No!

WC Party without King! :(

2007-03-14T13:54:00.000+05:30

I remember that day, very clearly, when my brother and I were watching 1979 World Cup semifinals and final highlights. I think that was 1996 summer. I didn't know much about cricket back then except for the fact that I loved the game more than my acads! This black fellow, chewing the gum, is hitting the ball all around the park much to the amusement of us. I always felt that he wanted to crush the bowlers under his teeth, like he did to chewing gum in his mouth. The fear-less attitude struck instant chord with both of us. And, we started adoring and admiring him. Whenever I play cricket I still try to bat, bowl and field like he did in that WC edition. Oh my God, what a player he is. His presence in the ground is electrifying and stimulating enough for the other players! He is THE King of Cricket! He is Sir Vivian Alexander Richards.

How can the Windies repay for what he has done for them! Hailing from the little island, Antigua, he rose to unattainable heights and went on to become inspiration for new era heroes like Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Charles Lara. So, what did WI do to him during this edition of world cup, when WI are hosting the WC for the first time and that too at that point of time when something serious must be done to raise the interests in WI population who are swiftly moving towards soccer and NBA. Do you know what they did to Viv? They didn't invite Sir Viv Richards to the inaug ceremony. Oh my God... Oh my God... please teach Windies how they should treat people who have evolved to become bigger than the Game itself! Whoever is responsible for this mistake(?) should resign their post with immediate effect and show some respect to that cricketing Gaint! Whatever you do to him, he is still THE King of Cricket! My KING of Cricket!

click here to read Dileep Premachandran's story about this!

New Lows...

2007-02-20T16:04:00.000+05:30

I am just wondering what actually is happening to the Australians of-late. The consecutive losses to New Zealand, which includes a 10-wicket loss and the inability to defend 330+scores twice in a row, tell how much they miss those super stars. I don't know how many of you agree with me, if I say, Australians' fortunes have turned because of their poor bench strength which I have empasized in one of my previous posts when Damy, Glenn and Shane retired from Test Cricket. The absence of Punter, Simmo and Gilly did the magic. Their recent performances made them look so ordinary and speaks little of the talent. Though, Hussey proved to be the most prolific run getter, he showed signs of weakness when it comes to leading the international side which requires lots of commonsense, confidence and strategic mind.

The first match in this series showed their low confidence levels when they batted show defensively to the likes of Shane Bond and Franklin. They played on back foot when they had to come forward and counter the swing and seam. Though, they've learnt from their mistakes and came out well in their second outing, Ross Taylor played gem of an innings and spoiled their party. McMillan did well again in the death and confirmed the series to his home country. The third ODI shows what determination can do in ones life. McMillan, having copped lotsa criticism for his ways of giving away his wicket recklessly gave a stunning performance and ofcourse reminded me of the Gibbs' onslaught and lack of mercy towards bowlers. Though, the ground is a small one, credit goes to McMillan, McCullum and Fulton for showing what it takes to repeat a stunning win. It might be easy to chase down 330+target. But, to do it twice is indeed remarkable.

From this win, New Zealand takes immense confidence and Australia a sheer nothing. Without Gilly and Symonds, and injury threats looming over Haydos and Brett, don't be surprised if they come out of the World Cup from the very first stage. Kudos to Ross and McMillan. You have showed the whole world how to play ODI Cricket!

A Story that is true !

2007-01-18T11:36:00.000+05:30

Friend: Happy birthday!
She : Haan...tha......nk yo....u...was just getting up from the bed.

Friend : Oh! That means I am the first to wish you!
She : Naa! He has already wished me at 12 in the night.

Friend : Who???
She : Come on, who else, Nitin.

Friend : Oh, ok. So, what's the plan for today?
She : Nitin told me that he has a surprise gift for me for my Birthday. And also we are going to Flower Show today. I am excited! I have never seen the flower show that happens in Lal Baug. Actually that itself is the most wonderful gift for me.

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Friend : "Did you go to Palace grounds all the way from Basavanagudi, to see Bryan Adam's show!!! Who accompanied you?"
She : Nitin

Friend : By the way, who referred your CV in SoCrates? I mean you don't know anyone there, right?
She : No, he forwarded my CV to one of his friends there.

Friend : I heard that the HR round interview went on till 8pm in the night. I think you faced difficulty in returning to your room.
She : No, he had come to pick me up. He came from his office, dropped me to my room and he returned to his room at around 11pm. He didn't have dinner also. I asked him to have at my room. Poor Nitin.
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Friend : If you are supposed to go home tomorrow itself then what about reservation?
She : I have told him, he will go to Majestic and would get it done, and he told he has some work in Majestic. That's why I am relaxed a bit.
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Friend : How was your written test in Philips?
She : I failed yaar. The day before the test I had prepared perfectly. Nitin had come to our room. He taught me the basics of embedded programming concepts. I was very confident only because of him. But something else was in store for me.

Friend : Then, what did you do on Sunday?
She : We had gone to see "Lakshya". He doesn't see Hindi movies. But as I was upset after failing in the Philips written test, he took me for movie. I was very happy and surprised that he himself decided for a Hindi movie, and he was very happy that I enjoyed the movie. And you know; we had dinner in Pizza hut. It was his belated B'day treat!

Friend : And, what was your belated gift
She : Gift!! I had given the gift on his B'day itself. I was the first to call him at 12 in the night, he was busy throughout the day, and somehow we could meet in the evening and I gifted him with a cute time piece with a nice quote on it. He doesn't have time sense, so my time piece must always remind him of this. That day he didn't give me any treat as he had to go back to office. Yesterday I had a fight over this, you know! Poor kid.
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Friend : Hello...what about our sari shopping program in Malleshwaram?
She : Listen, I will call you later.

Friend : You didn't call me back in the morning, so I called now.
She : Yeah, when you called I was in Koramangala, with Nitin. He was very upset in the morning. He had a fight with his elder brother. So, it wouldn't have been fair on my part to leave him alone. If I am with him in such situation very soon he comes back to normalcy. So I postponed the Malleshwaram program.
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Friend : Hey! What happened? You seem to be very happy today.
She : Why not? You know today is one of the most happiest days for me. Nitin got an onsite assignment in UK , for 6 months! That's why I am very happy. All of his hard work paid today. He had been waiting for this opportunity since long. He'll be leaving next month.

Friend : You will miss him.
She : Badly. I am so much dependent on him. I must thank Sanju, through him only I got to know Nitin. Without Nitin it would have been very difficult for me to stay in this alien city with no friends, relatives and on top of all, no job. He has been so caring friend all through my tough times in this city, he is so mature, so understanding, so trustworthy...a true friend.

Friend : He loves you yaar.
She : I know.

Friend : And you? Don't you love him?
She : I don't want to.

Friend : Don't tell me. You also feel for him.
She : I know yaar. He has everything that I expect in my dream-life-partner. I know I can never get a true life partner like him. But I don't want to commit.

Friend : What is stopping you? I really don't understand. When Miya-beevi are razi kya karega kazi ?
She : Please...don't say like that. I never told him that I love him or something like that.

Friend : Is he a fool not to understand your feelings which are so clear from outside only? Poor fellow, don't leave him alone.
She : I have told him everything about my family. He knows how orthodox my parents are. They can never expect me marrying a guy from a different caste. They trust me. Come what may, I will not hurt my parent's feelings. I cannot imagine also. Now they are happily searching a guy for me in my native place.

Friend : Hmm, I don't understand at all.
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She : This Saturday I have to go home, a guy is coming to see me.
Friend : Oh! Is it? Good news yaar. Your first interview! Wish you all the best.

Friend : Any guesses, who is he?
She : Please yaar. I am least bothered and least interested. For the sake of my parents' happiness I have agreed for this.
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Friend : What about the interview, I was expecting your call actually?
She : Nothing so special. I didn't like the guy's attitude. I told my parents clearly. My parents are very understanding and so they too told me that they won't go ahead with this matter.

Friend : But still you should have analyzed properly.
She : I shared my views with Nitin. He had called me the next day. He didn't suggest me anything. He didn't tell me to say "yes" or "no", he didn't preach what is right or what is wrong. But after talking to him I was satisfied that whatever decision I took was right.
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Friend : Yesterday your mobile was engaged for more than half an hour. I kept trying, but I slept after 11pm.
She : Yeah, I was talking to Nitin. He is very much worried about my marriage. He is concerned whether I would get a guy of my choice or not, whether I would be happy with him or not. I was very sad to know this. But I am helpless. I pacified him and convinced that whatever my parents do, that will be the best for me, so no need to worry.

Friend : How Nitin will feel after you get married? Will he not be upset all the time?
She : Time will change everything. He will start living again. Was he not leading a normal life before I came into his life? It's all matter of time. Even I can't do anything other than pacifying him and myself with these philosophical statements.
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Finally " She " got engaged with a guy of her parent's choice (with her "yes" of course). She is in touch with both Nitin and the new " him " regularly through chatting in Yahoo Messenger.

Finally " She " got happily married to " him ", very soon converting Nitin into memories, but deleting the memories was slow and almost impossible for Nitin.
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Why do girls do like this?

She needs him when she is new to the city.
She needs his help in finding out a PG or hostel for her
She makes him prepare a good-format-CV for her
She needs him to drop her to the venue of a walk-in interview
She expects him to collect all the consultants' mail ids
She needs him while preparing for the interviews
She needs his help in identifying HER skill sets, strengths and weakness!
She wants him to conduct a mock-interview for her!
She gives her yahoo mail id password so that he can forward her CV to consultants through internet in his office (in office hours!)
She needs him for boosting her confidence when she fails in the 1 st written test in her life
She wants him to take her to M.G Road , Brigade Road, Forum and Big bazaar
She needs his company while visiting all the temples in Malleshwaram on Vijayadashami, though he is not a believer of God.
She asks his opinions on importance of marriage
She wants him to be a shoulder to cry when her parents force her for marriage
She needs his help in preparing her mind for the first interview with a guy
She needs his help in deciding about the marriage proposal
She loves to share her happiness with him when she gets engaged
She expects him to attend her marriage (Come on guys, he is a true friend of her!)

The guy does all this honestly, without saying a single "No".

He loves her.
He cares for her.
Whatever he is today; it is only because of her entry in to his life.
He treats her as his life.
She changed him.
It is only because of her, he is smiling.
It is only because of her, he has forgotten the past bitter experiences.
She is the first person in his life to influence him so much.
He was the " bhatka hua musafir " and she came as his " manzil ".
He threw the cigarette in the dust-bin because of her.
He has cultivated a positive attitude towards marriage and family because of her.
She is the perfect Indian woman he has ever seen.
He keeps a photo of Lord Krishna in his purse now; only because of her (also it is her favorite deity!).
Weekends come and go without his notice; it is only because of her.
He stopped going to office on Weekends; it is only because of her.
Onsite project was his dream; he puts all his efforts now, not to get an onsite assignment but to get a job for her in Bangalore .

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The girl depends on the guy as if she never lived and can never live without him. Guy behaves as if he has taken birth on this earth only to care for that lady. She treats him as a shoulder to cry and he treats her as a puppy in a rain storm. She loves to depend and he loves to take care, finally they fall in so called "love", ultimately adding an unnecessary trauma to life. Girls want a perfect life partner but they don't want to hurt their parents' feelings, guys know that they can't get her but still they want to care for her(because they want her to be happy wherever she is and with whoever she is).Great! Or shall I say crap !

Or I think no need to be so serious about it.

She gets engaged, life goes on...
Long lasting phone calls become short and sweet, life goes on...
A heart which was used to "Good morning" SMSs learns to be happy with just the "Happy weekend" SMSs, life goes on...
No more "Unread messages" in the yahoo mail, life goes on...
No one to share coffee at "Barista" at the end of a tiring working day, life goes on...
No more consultants' calls to be diverted and life goes on...
He starts smoking again, life goes on...
He is still living in flashback, and no looking back for her, but life goes on...
He gets promoted, he is a manager, she is mother of two kids, and life goes on...
He is in his late twenties, happily married to a beautiful, understanding, mature, caring, broad minded wife! Anyway life goes on...

There is " She " in every wife and there is Nitin in every husband (most of the times!). There are dumb spectators like " Friend " who are puzzled to see the whole episode between " She " and Nitin and just ask themselves " WHAT IT IS ???" ..

My take on this story? hmm... well, I can't do anything but feel sorry for the person who created this in the first place, coz he must be going through a horrible phase of his life to have written this so beautifully! Kudos to you sir...

Campus Interview Questions

2007-01-11T11:30:00.000+05:30

These questions are collected and compiled solely by me. some of them are even created by me ;).
If you are bored doing RSAgarwals and Shakunthala Devi's(SD), then try solving these and it will be a good respite for you. If you haven't finished RS or SD, forget about this, go back and try solving them. Well, the following are the questions and I shall post the answers in a different blog, so that you can analyse your answers when ever you want! :)

Tell me the most efficient way of finding a square root of a perfect number.
Tell me the most efficient way of finding sum of all the factors of a number.
Most efficient way of multiplying vth 7 without using *.
Tell me the series where sum of any n numbers in the series is not equal to another number in the series. Eg: 4, 6, 10 can't be the required series; 2,3,4,9 can't be the required series.
If Ravi is as old as Kavi was when Ravi was one third older as that of Kavi is, then what are the ages now? (source: 7th class text book.)
If we have 80 coins out of which one weighs lesser than the rest, what is the minimum no of weighings required to find the counterfeit using normal balance?(SD, twisted a bit!)
Supposing we have 10 heaps of 10g coins out of which one heap has 9g coins. Tell me the way to find out the counter-feit coins heap weighing only once.(Assume you have electronic balance.) [Last year Oracle question.]
If + indicates *, - indicates /, * indicates - and / indicates +, what is the value of (2+3)*(4-2)/((2*1)+(4/3))? (My Creation!)
Tell me the easiest way of finding whether a double value is integer or not? Hint: Use Elementary Mathematics! (My creation!)
My favourite from SD: If a pendulum clock rings for 6 secs when the time is 6pm. How long does it ring when the time is 10pm?

Happy Solving ;). Answers in another blog!

Three Champions Retire...

2007-01-05T13:20:00.000+05:30

There can't be a more fitting farewell for three champions who made amazing contribution not only to the Australian cricket but to the game of Cricket as a whole. "Ashes cleansweep after 86 years". What a gift to give to Justin Langer, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. Most of the cricket fans agree GM and SW are cricketers of highest level and it is almost impossible to fill in the voids they create by leaving. Though, McGrath confirmed of no returns to test cricket, it's been a fantastic career for him to look back. SW, tormented by Indian batsmen in his first series, took revenge on the batsmen by conjuring an unplayable when it is most needed. When it comes to Justing Langer, he only reminds me of a true Australian,wearing "Never Give-up Attitude". It will be an injustice to "Cricket", if we don't recognise his efforts in giving fantastic starts to Australian innings time and again, at a fantastic strike-rate. I miss those typical SW deliveries and GM consistency... Time goes on and so do fantastic players.

Harry Potter 7

2006-12-22T17:11:00.000+05:30

Hey Junta...
Excellent and fantastic news for HP fans...sorry for the delany in updating though...Jo has revealed the name of the HP 7 book..(The last in the Series..)--

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

though she hasn't revealed much about anything else... As you know she has already told that two famous characters are going to die at the end of the book and the series eventually[:(] Speculations are high the HP is going to die but the readers' outcry might be of a concern for Jo if she plans to do so... You must be all aware of the fact that when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to end his much publicised character of "Sherlock Holmes", the outcry was so much that he eventually had to change the plot...What characters will be dying and what happens to the HP's search of ..."You know What???: (;))..She also mentions in her web site that she has been very busy writing the scenes that she has thought 10 years before. For further info, you can visit HP's US Publishers' web site : http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

Happy HPing...

Google Pages...

2006-12-21T13:30:00.000+05:30

Hello again!
My passion for Google products and BITS Pilani seem to grow every day. The other day when I started using one of the Google Lab's output : "Google Pages", I was so impressed with the way it worked. So, simple to use, yet so versatile. You can choose which profile you want and which layout you want. Everything can be done in a click's moment... Uploading a file is the only thing that took it more than a few seconds... [;)] Hey, forgot to tell ya... I uploaded my Resume and SOP to my online home(I call it so...) and you can go through them!

Click here to go my web site.

Happy Surfing!

My New Theory of Love...

2006-12-15T19:47:00.000+05:30

Hello All...
Welcome to my new theory of Love....
Well, to start off...
Lets start with an assumption. Heart and Mind always stay together..whaddo u say?
So, If you fall in LOVE, you are supposed to lose your heart!
so your mind also leaves with the heart
So, you are virtually without your mind...
So, you become mad...(because you have no mind!)
That means, when someone falls in love, he becomes mad!
So why do people love??? To become Mad! :P

So Ravi advises you not to go mad..in other words not to LOVE... :D

Miss u BITS...

2006-12-12T17:57:00.001+05:30

We can't help it but cry,
when we realise we will not come back to our BITS again
Cry and Cry till the eyes become dry.
Stare at the clock tower and at the temple, for we might not see them again.

Feel the cold, catch the dust,
We miss everything there.
The C-Lawns, the Anc, the C'not
the Oasis, the ShivG and the QT too.

No MB visits till late 11
No Gate calls from now on,
No more one night batting..
no more latcha sessions...

What a life this is..
without my wingies...
what a life this is...
without BITS...

Damien Martyn Retires..

2006-12-08T14:10:00.000+05:30

Oh Dear... One of my favourite Right handed batsmen has ended his saga. The most elegant and stylish(ofcourse next to Mark Waugh)batsman has declared his retirement today, owing to the relationship issues with the teammates. Click here to read on..

Lost my Mobile...

2006-12-07T14:22:00.000+05:30

Hmm Junta...
Today morning, after I woke up at 10 35 AM, i started searching for my mobile and later i realized that i lost it in an interesting fashion. A thief actually came into my room , in which i am sleeping and took the phone including the charger and my friend's wallet and his head phones. During the whole process, we are sleeping with the blankets on. Hmm..Before i take another mobile..u can cal me @ 080-41349371...

Sirivennela

2006-11-29T17:02:00.000+05:30

This blog is dedicated to all those Sirivennela SitaramSastry fans reading this. The following video has Mr.SSS himself describing the origin of "Jagamantha Kutumbam" song in Chakram. The most interesting fact is that, this movie is taken in order to incorporate the song and not the other way round. Mr.SSS has another incident like this to his credit, which is RGV's movie "Gayam" taken to incorporate one of the songs he has penned. This video critically explains why he has written this song and explains the intricacies and situations that led him to write this one. This is one of the most brilliant efforts by Mr.SSS. Hey, by the way, the interviewer is none other than another famous lyricist, supposed to be his favourite disciple, Mr.Chandra Bose
Njoy and Have fun...

The Link to Video...

Eragon

2006-11-24T15:15:00.000+05:30

Uhhhuuu..
The much awaited site for Eragon, the first part of the Trilogy of Inheritance, is up finally. Click Here to see it for yourself. For those unaware, this movie is based on the novel, "Eragon", written by Christopher Paolini, a budding author(of age around 20s). Though the novel came to an abrupt end and i didn't like much what it offered, I still am pretty much looking forward to the release of this movie. If you want the real experience in watching it, I would suggest you to read the book before you watch the movie! :)

Njoy maadi...

My GRE Experience

2006-09-22T18:59:00.000+05:30

Things do happen in a way you least imagine them to! This is absolutely true in case of GRE :(
{I am becoming too good in these One liners.. ;)}
Anyways...by the time I reached the prometric center at 3:45 pm, I cud hardly find anybody outside the test center. I waited for 5 mins and was watching the out comers face feelings and am trying to decipher how well or how bad their test might have gone! Buuuhh.. Some one from no where came to me and said Hi...I was shocked..it was my friend..TRG{trgowtham@gmail.com}!
We were pretty happy to see each other and were chit chatting about all the funny things we did during our BITSian years! By then it was 4 pm and chowki{This name reminds me of Great BITSian Days... :(} called us inside.. The prometric guy verified my Confirmation mail ka print out and let me in. The receptionist gave me some forms to fill in and then showed me the cup board where I am suposed to keep all my belongings including my PEN!{How crazy can they go?}After that I was allowed inside a room which is both video and audio taped! They checked for my Passport and asked to verify my details that are present on the screen! After I confirmed it, they took my Snap I was let go into the actual test area!{I was really cool in the snap! but they refused to gimme that! :(} I started off with taking tutorials on how to use your mouse and how to choose the answers! Then I have started giving my own TEST...
I was given two assays..and I chose... {People always assume that the problems they face rae more challenging and complex than their predecessors...}I started writing every BS I thot I can write and finished it in time. Next was the argument...I was given some topic which I cud make neither its head not its tail! U cud have guessed by now how well I woud have critiqued it! Then I took the break and went to loo...There I met again my old frend TRG and he was like My assay didnt go well man,... But he did his critique well!{We are definitely Poles apart}Then it was a random choice between Quant and Verbal...and to my bad lulck I got Quant...
The Questions in quant are far tougher by any means when compared to the tests so far I have taken! After that came my nightmarish part VERBAL...:( First one is OK..i knew it, so I felt confident of getting a good score...then started trouble!{One Question OK! Then startes Struggle.. ;)} First 10 questions I dint get the passage. then I realised something somewhere went wrong! Then came the first passage...75 lines long. What did I do?? Jus scrolled down and started going thru the question!{Sorry! i can;t write anymore! I dont want to recall those night marish verbal section again n again}All I can say is it was pathetic enough for me...
The last section! The one We all look forward to... {Scores... ;)}
Quantitative : 800
Verbal : 470
{PROCEED}

else can I do? I jus came out with a disappointed face and searching for my TRG! But i cud see him nowhere.. the log out time reported that he went 15 mins before and I didnt know how much he got! He is a one range fundoo..so he must have got somewhere around 1450.. {Where ever u go..Whatever u do we can't stop D*** others... ;)}Then I called up my frenz and told them my score..
Thatz how my GRE day lasted...

Mobi...

2006-08-31T10:59:00.000+05:30

The motorola's best phone ever is not my dream anymore. I can feel it. I can play with it. I can hold for hours together. The reason? I bought it with my first sal! See, how cute it is!

Made my Dad Feel...

2006-08-28T10:27:00.000+05:30

This saturday, my dad came down to bang to see how I was doing here... I spent the whole evening and night with him talking about my future plans and stuff... On sunday i took him to office and showed him my place and our campus. He was like...happy. And after that..i took him to "The World of Titan" and bought him a Gold pleated Wrist watch.. with my first month salary... That moment I cud see the smile on his face and I am sure he was proud to have me as his son. I know, he always is. But this is a real special occassion. I think, this is the only thing that I have ever done anything for my father. Infact, to my Father. He is the one I love the most, despite the fact he constantly misunderstands me, despite the fact that he is always worried whether i am doing fine or not... May be i am not the son every father wanted to have, but I am atleast not the one whom every father never wanted to have. I am happy... u know why? not because my father is happy, but coz I made my father happy. May be, I can never boast of doing anything great in the rest of my life. This is the moment, I always wanted to preserve in my life. This is the moment, every son would dream of. This is the moment, every father would want his son to possess. I can't write any more as my eyes are pouring down. Oh God... I have done something in my life. I made my Father feel...HAPPY n PROUD

Gre

2006-08-23T15:16:00.000+05:30

Oh man! The big thing... My life is gonna change based upon this test. I got too crack it out of shape to fulfill my dream...but alas...i have got hell lot of work to do...:(
if u have tips and tricks to succeed in this test...u can mail me @ innovativeravi@gmail.com

Comments are absolutely welcome

2006-08-22T18:44:00.000+05:30

Arey..Guyz...who ever are visiting..my blog site...are gratefully welcome to post comments...
and dont forget to click on the google ad link as well..lol

No Sympathies Please

2006-08-22T18:16:00.000+05:30

I know what has been happened has changed me alot. I blogged it just to vent my expressions and feelings to the world outside. I never wanted anybody to be moved and start getting a huge impression over me. Please do understand that. That has happened over an year ago and I know I had to move on. So I did. You can ask me..why the hell did I still keep it there..why dont u delete it then? I just wanted to recollect those sad memories and want to act in a bit more matured way! Hey man! I was really great in expressing my emotions. I never thought I was...anyways..
Got lotsa fucking Coding to do...bye 4 now...(Itz ur style!!!)

Pilani Days

2006-08-21T16:19:00.000+05:30


This wonderful..video depicts the life of bitsians..in a most hilarious manner...thanks Jai Natarajan

The Fountain Head

2006-08-01T12:18:00.000+05:30

Do you know what is the most difficult question to answer? To answer to our own self whether we are in love or the relationship is just a sweet friendship. There, always, lies a small and thin line between these two eternal relationships. I always tried to understand what is the difference between these two. But, I never was able to give myself a satisfactory answer. And I never can! But I understood one thing that, in this world, there is no such thing as unconditional Love! That doesn't exist! Love... This feeling arises only if the other person is of the other gender and ofcourse extremely beautiful(handsome). You never love the beauty that exists with the soul. We always fail to notice that beauty and crave for fleshy things. How big fools we are.
Attraction plays the major role in this current world. I always tend to consider myself as a person out of all these. I consider myself as some noble person and a true human being. Alas, I am one of the second hand men, that Ayn Rand has described. I work not for myself. But for some body else. I dress to impress others. I live for somebody else. I chose my career to suit somebody else. I act to be called a nice boy. I do nothing for myself. I am one of the second hand men. This is how I feel since I read Fountain Head. So, I advice you to read it but not to worry about it. Because, we call it is not practical to live like that. Please note, I said we call it. Ofcourse, it is absolutely difficult to avoid everyone else and live for one self. To protect ones self and ones soul. I ask myself to forget the fact that, so far I was just yet another second hand man to live in this world and follow what is being offered to us by the people who Lived. From now, I want to LIVE. Yes, I will Live from now onwards.

The Relentless Hope

2006-04-12T03:12:00.000+05:30

HOPE… it makes you do anything and everything. It makes you live till your last breath. It makes you fight with a hungry lion. It makes you go to every extreme. What if you have both LOVE and HOPE. It makes you think that you still are in the RACE when it’s all over. You have to believe certain things, especially when things happen just against your wish. As somebody said LIFE is full of uncertainties. You have to agree this fact and you should just move on. Life goes on and so does TIME. You just simply forget it and should make a move. Things don’t get better if you worry about the painful history. They say “There will always be someone in a RELATIONSHIP who loves more”. You should make sure that you are not THE ONE always. And if you are, make sure the relationship exists for ever. LOVE is a pain and so does HOPE. The HOPE will be relentless when the person that you LOVE the most drops you in the middle of the ocean. Unfortunately, You HOPE till your last breath that your LADY LOVE would come and help you swim the OCEAN. But that doesn’t happen. It’s all over. It’s all over. Just accept it’s all over. OVER… OVER… OVER.