Its almost 4 weeks, since the last time I had visited the disco. In these 4 weeks, I really had out done myself with the work, felt too much stress. So had to find a way out to destress. As I wrote in my previous post, a leave on a working day was denied to me, so had to do something on this weekend.
Friday night was one such occasion, where I stayed late, was roaming around little India, sat @ Hookers for about an hour and half, then came back home at 2:30 am in the morning.
But Saturday was a bit different, went to the disco this time the one with Indian music. Before that, went to Orchard road to look out for Christmas decorations and some performances happening over there.
Then went to Clarke Quay where in me and my friend sat for sometime having a drink and felt hungry so we went to Boat Quay to have food.
So it was around 1am in the morning when we were done with food, took some photos and then ended up at Clarke Quay. Decided to go to the Rupee room and danced from 1 30 am till 5 am in the morning.
Took the first train home and have been sleeping all day.
So tomorrow all set for office.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Leave or no leave..
After days and days of working, I finally did some release to the QA, hoping I would get a day off after the release. I was overjoyed thinking of a one day leave during the week.
I thought everyone would agree that I had worked quite hard since last few weeks including Saturday and Sunday too and give me a day off.
So went and told my manager that I wanted to take a leave on December 24 2010. But sadly my manager refused to grant me leave and told me to take leave only on the next friday since QA work is going on, I need to be there.
Now even though my mind refused to think, to code, I still had to manage a day ie today and I did it.
Gosh. finally its weekend.
Hoping to dump my stress and frustration over the weekend..
Cheers,
I thought everyone would agree that I had worked quite hard since last few weeks including Saturday and Sunday too and give me a day off.
So went and told my manager that I wanted to take a leave on December 24 2010. But sadly my manager refused to grant me leave and told me to take leave only on the next friday since QA work is going on, I need to be there.
Now even though my mind refused to think, to code, I still had to manage a day ie today and I did it.
Gosh. finally its weekend.
Hoping to dump my stress and frustration over the weekend..
Cheers,
Some relief finally
After days and days of coding, finally did a kind of release to the QA team. There are lots of missing functionality in the code and lots of things are buggy, but still at the end of the day, my back feels a bit lighter.
Now I can look at some other stuffs. Moreover I can enjoy on this weekend. No need to think about work. But still two more days to go before the weekend comes up.
I still feel a bit nervous about the missing functionality in the code and about the bugs which shall be reported tomorrow onwards. But yes, something has finally gone for testing.
When I told my friend Nageswara Rao, he told to party, celebrate..
Incidentally, my other room mate gave jamoons, celebrating birth of his niece back in India...
So..... having jamoon, today feeling a bit lighter too.
Thanks a ton God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Now I can look at some other stuffs. Moreover I can enjoy on this weekend. No need to think about work. But still two more days to go before the weekend comes up.
I still feel a bit nervous about the missing functionality in the code and about the bugs which shall be reported tomorrow onwards. But yes, something has finally gone for testing.
When I told my friend Nageswara Rao, he told to party, celebrate..
Incidentally, my other room mate gave jamoons, celebrating birth of his niece back in India...
So..... having jamoon, today feeling a bit lighter too.
Thanks a ton God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Listening to music...
This week, I took some time out, to catch up with some of my old favorite songs.
Though these days, I am not actively listening to any english music, I adore the songs of yesteryears.
I love many bands. One such band is The Beatles. I knew nothing about the Beatles till 1993. On one fine day, my father took me to Brigade road, to get the Beatles tapes. I still remember that day. Coming home I started listening to the Beatles.
I love the song Sha la la la , baby its you.. I liked many other songs.. though I do not remember all of them.
So here is my post remembering the day when I go to know about the Beatles for the first time. Yep its 17 years back. But I still remember the day very well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Though these days, I am not actively listening to any english music, I adore the songs of yesteryears.
I love many bands. One such band is The Beatles. I knew nothing about the Beatles till 1993. On one fine day, my father took me to Brigade road, to get the Beatles tapes. I still remember that day. Coming home I started listening to the Beatles.
I love the song Sha la la la , baby its you.. I liked many other songs.. though I do not remember all of them.
So here is my post remembering the day when I go to know about the Beatles for the first time. Yep its 17 years back. But I still remember the day very well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
One such strange day...
Today was one such strange day where in I had taken leave from work,. but still ended up at workplace.
Yes, Monday blues had caught up with me. I had headache and was in no mood to go to the office. So woke up an hour late and called my manager saying that I wont be coming to work. Then again I dozed off.
But I was up in an hour's time. This time I was wondering what would I do sitting at home. My headache had calmed down a bit. So decided to go to workplace and ended up at work. So took my colleagues and manager by surprise.
I still remember one such instance, were I had previously been, in which I told my manager that, I would not be coming to office but still ended up at work.
Yes, it was during one of my earlier companies. I had told my manager I will not be coming to the office, instead I was planning to attend a walk-in interview.
So when I went for the interview, it was called off and I had nothing to do for the day. My workplace was close to the place where the walk-in was happening and as a result, I ended up going back to the office. Strange is it.
Yes, today was one such day (but I was not attending any interviews) and the other day is dated about 5 years back.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Yes, Monday blues had caught up with me. I had headache and was in no mood to go to the office. So woke up an hour late and called my manager saying that I wont be coming to work. Then again I dozed off.
But I was up in an hour's time. This time I was wondering what would I do sitting at home. My headache had calmed down a bit. So decided to go to workplace and ended up at work. So took my colleagues and manager by surprise.
I still remember one such instance, were I had previously been, in which I told my manager that, I would not be coming to office but still ended up at work.
Yes, it was during one of my earlier companies. I had told my manager I will not be coming to the office, instead I was planning to attend a walk-in interview.
So when I went for the interview, it was called off and I had nothing to do for the day. My workplace was close to the place where the walk-in was happening and as a result, I ended up going back to the office. Strange is it.
Yes, today was one such day (but I was not attending any interviews) and the other day is dated about 5 years back.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Spoke to a friend after a long time
To my surprise, I got a response from a friend, whom I was trying to contact since many days. Over the last 5 years, I have met many wonderful people at work. So this person incidentally happened to be one of my friends from my first work place.
Yes, its been almost 3 years, since I had last spoken to him, though we did kept in touch with mail.
So feeling kind a good speaking to someone after a period of 3 years. Incidentally he is in UK since one year.
Loads of things we talked about and unknowingly we ended up speaking for more than an hour.
You never know how time flies when we are speaking to interesting people. Yep..
Janardhan you are one such brilliant person. All the best in your future endeavors. Surely we shall meet in India.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Yes, its been almost 3 years, since I had last spoken to him, though we did kept in touch with mail.
So feeling kind a good speaking to someone after a period of 3 years. Incidentally he is in UK since one year.
Loads of things we talked about and unknowingly we ended up speaking for more than an hour.
You never know how time flies when we are speaking to interesting people. Yep..
Janardhan you are one such brilliant person. All the best in your future endeavors. Surely we shall meet in India.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Some inspiration from Pravs world
10 steps to Success.. not sure how many do I follow religiously.. but surely worth a mention..
1. Self-Belief:
Success is begins in the mind. One has to be a believer, first, if one wishes to be an achiever. Never under-estimate yourself. You have no idea how often can you surprise yourself. So to begin with, let's get in the belief, "I Can."
2. Clarity of Vision:
There is no point running around without knowing where one wants to reach. you must get your job cut out. Greatest achievers in the world have been visionaries. Know exactly what you are best at and give it your best shot.
3. Setting the Right Goals:
The goals should be realistic .The goals should be achievable ,and yet challenging enough - neither too easy nor too difficult -something in the middle.
4. Be focused:
If the sun's rays are focused on a piece of paper with a lens, the intensity of the concentrated energy burns the paper. Focus on your objective will enhance the intensity of the effects of your efforts.
5. No Short Cuts to Success:
There are no short cuts to success. Divide your overall goals into smaller targets. Divide your monthly plans into weekly and weekly plans into daily plans and see how simple can things be.
6. Take Risks:
Without any risk no progress is possible. Life comes to a stable standstill. People who take chances are the people who get ahead in life. The only way to reduce risk is to take risks.
7. Take the Initiative:
People who take the initiative make the most of their lives. Proactive people do not wait for success to happen; rather they make it happen. As they say, 'JUST DO IT'.
8. Never Hesitate to Struggle:
No one has ever climbed a mountain just by looking at it. Struggle, hard struggle, is a key to success.
9. Own Responsibility:
Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. People, who own complete responsibility of their lives, are the people who make the most of it.
10. Never Give Up:
Many people who failed in life, where those who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Success demands extra-ordinary amount of perseverance. Never, never, give up.
Cheers,
Sandeep
1. Self-Belief:
Success is begins in the mind. One has to be a believer, first, if one wishes to be an achiever. Never under-estimate yourself. You have no idea how often can you surprise yourself. So to begin with, let's get in the belief, "I Can."
2. Clarity of Vision:
There is no point running around without knowing where one wants to reach. you must get your job cut out. Greatest achievers in the world have been visionaries. Know exactly what you are best at and give it your best shot.
3. Setting the Right Goals:
The goals should be realistic .The goals should be achievable ,and yet challenging enough - neither too easy nor too difficult -something in the middle.
4. Be focused:
If the sun's rays are focused on a piece of paper with a lens, the intensity of the concentrated energy burns the paper. Focus on your objective will enhance the intensity of the effects of your efforts.
5. No Short Cuts to Success:
There are no short cuts to success. Divide your overall goals into smaller targets. Divide your monthly plans into weekly and weekly plans into daily plans and see how simple can things be.
6. Take Risks:
Without any risk no progress is possible. Life comes to a stable standstill. People who take chances are the people who get ahead in life. The only way to reduce risk is to take risks.
7. Take the Initiative:
People who take the initiative make the most of their lives. Proactive people do not wait for success to happen; rather they make it happen. As they say, 'JUST DO IT'.
8. Never Hesitate to Struggle:
No one has ever climbed a mountain just by looking at it. Struggle, hard struggle, is a key to success.
9. Own Responsibility:
Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. People, who own complete responsibility of their lives, are the people who make the most of it.
10. Never Give Up:
Many people who failed in life, where those who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Success demands extra-ordinary amount of perseverance. Never, never, give up.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Changing blog template...
Well, not sure its a ritual or what. I end up changing my blog template once in a year, or may be in the beginning of the year.
But this time I am doing it before the new year itself. Not sure why.
Also I have loads to write about my experiences in Singapore.
How it all started and how it all is shaping. But frankly speaking, I am not good at writing stuffs, as and when it happens. I love to write my memories out.
So hopefully I can recollect many such instances which I have encountered in the past 6 months and blog about them in the coming days.
Also till now I have never used the set date option while posting. Hopefully I shall use this time to make sure I write about stuffs which happened in appropriate months. (and also increase my post count for the year ;P)
Cheers,
But this time I am doing it before the new year itself. Not sure why.
Also I have loads to write about my experiences in Singapore.
How it all started and how it all is shaping. But frankly speaking, I am not good at writing stuffs, as and when it happens. I love to write my memories out.
So hopefully I can recollect many such instances which I have encountered in the past 6 months and blog about them in the coming days.
Also till now I have never used the set date option while posting. Hopefully I shall use this time to make sure I write about stuffs which happened in appropriate months. (and also increase my post count for the year ;P)
Cheers,
Watched all episodes of Tintin
Well, well well, I finished with all the episodes of Tintin. Yup thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes. My favorites include TinTin and the Picarros, flight 714, 7 crystal balls and prisoner of sun.
But all in all relived many many childhood memories.
Cheers,
But all in all relived many many childhood memories.
Cheers,
Tintin...
Yes, I got hold of all the episodes. Feels good to relive those childhood days, which I spent reading Tintin comics..
Cheers
Sandeep
Cheers
Sandeep
Feeling better :)-
So many days, I have not blogged.. I feel I forgotten about many topics which I wanted to write. Never mind. But I am back at it again. I am happy for that.
So for the last couple of months was busy swimming, swimming, in fact so much focused on the swimming side that I totally forgot to catch up with a friend over here.
By doing this I was feeling a lot lonely. Even at work, you catch up with lots of people, at the end of day, you need to speak something apart from work too.
Finally when I decided to meet my friend, he was off to India, for a week, so could not meet him.
Now a slight pain in my back forced me to take a break from swimming for few days, and whoa I feel a lot better. I got loads of time for myself, I can now listen so songs, watch stuff, do load more things. It was swimming which was holding me back or stressing me up everyday.
Morning, I get up go to office, work, come back in the evening, run to the pool, come back sleep and yes, its morning again. Weekend as usual I used to swim in the evening, could not meet up with my friend, and me spending loads of time all alone was taking a toll on me.
So yesterday, finally met my friend spoke a lot, we sat in the park till night 2.30. It was good, to know that lot of other people in the city are awake too at that point of time. And yes, little India was awake too.
Cheers, feeling better,
Sandeep
So for the last couple of months was busy swimming, swimming, in fact so much focused on the swimming side that I totally forgot to catch up with a friend over here.
By doing this I was feeling a lot lonely. Even at work, you catch up with lots of people, at the end of day, you need to speak something apart from work too.
Finally when I decided to meet my friend, he was off to India, for a week, so could not meet him.
Now a slight pain in my back forced me to take a break from swimming for few days, and whoa I feel a lot better. I got loads of time for myself, I can now listen so songs, watch stuff, do load more things. It was swimming which was holding me back or stressing me up everyday.
Morning, I get up go to office, work, come back in the evening, run to the pool, come back sleep and yes, its morning again. Weekend as usual I used to swim in the evening, could not meet up with my friend, and me spending loads of time all alone was taking a toll on me.
So yesterday, finally met my friend spoke a lot, we sat in the park till night 2.30. It was good, to know that lot of other people in the city are awake too at that point of time. And yes, little India was awake too.
Cheers, feeling better,
Sandeep
Cousin's marriage
I have been out of India for over 5 months now. One of my cousin is getting married in Pune on 14 Nov 2010. But sadly I am not able to attend the wedding. I have been to Dharwad and Hyderabad for my cousins' wedding, but did not want to miss this one too.
Yes, sometimes to win something you have to loose something.
Cheers,
PS: I better learn free style swimming perfectly, I have already let down many people's expectations.
Yes, sometimes to win something you have to loose something.
Cheers,
PS: I better learn free style swimming perfectly, I have already let down many people's expectations.
Lessons to learn
Its been a quiet 2 months. I have not written much. I have stopped reading books since 3 weeks. The only two things which I am focusing right now is work and trying to learn swimming.
Its been almost above 5 weeks. That I started to swim. But the sad part is I have not been able to do free style swimming properly. There is no such thing called perfection when it comes to me swimming. I think this thing is taking a toll on me.
I am not able to swim correctly even after so many days. This fact keeps coming back to me again and again. I have made a very good friend a localite a Singaporean who is helping me out with my swimming, free of cost.
He wants me to learn free style swimming. But what to do. Each and everyday I keep on doing mistakes. The next day I correct one mistake and then its altogether a new mistake.
I am very upset over this whole issue. While learning driving too I was very frustrated, and that too easily. But at a later stages, I was quite comfortable driving.
But when it comes to swimming nothing is really working out. My swimming is getting as bad as it can get.
Yesterday was one of the worst days in the pool. I have been doing all my mistakes while swimming in the bigger pool. But yesterday another gentleman who also happens to be a professional swimmer told me that, I was unfit for the bigger pool.
He told me to correct my basic stuffs. He also told me that, I was not floating on water but instead sinking. Hence was turning my head too quickly to breathe. But he appreciated my enthusiasm that, I used to come everyday and was trying.
Its quite embarassing to hear those words. But yes, that is true I have been on the receiving end of these words yesterday. So today I am back to the baby pool, trying to work on my kicking.
It took me more than two months to drive confidently. I hope after 2 months or more I can swim as confidently as I can drive.
I just pray to god to help me.
I have no other option, but to learn free style swimming or just drown in the pool once for all. Yes I am serious, I never want to give up midway, learning. Its going to be now or never.
I guess this is what is stopping me from blogging, breaking my concentration at work etc etc. Its a huge huge embarassment.
Doing swimming with a correct technique is really a dream for me.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its been almost above 5 weeks. That I started to swim. But the sad part is I have not been able to do free style swimming properly. There is no such thing called perfection when it comes to me swimming. I think this thing is taking a toll on me.
I am not able to swim correctly even after so many days. This fact keeps coming back to me again and again. I have made a very good friend a localite a Singaporean who is helping me out with my swimming, free of cost.
He wants me to learn free style swimming. But what to do. Each and everyday I keep on doing mistakes. The next day I correct one mistake and then its altogether a new mistake.
I am very upset over this whole issue. While learning driving too I was very frustrated, and that too easily. But at a later stages, I was quite comfortable driving.
But when it comes to swimming nothing is really working out. My swimming is getting as bad as it can get.
Yesterday was one of the worst days in the pool. I have been doing all my mistakes while swimming in the bigger pool. But yesterday another gentleman who also happens to be a professional swimmer told me that, I was unfit for the bigger pool.
He told me to correct my basic stuffs. He also told me that, I was not floating on water but instead sinking. Hence was turning my head too quickly to breathe. But he appreciated my enthusiasm that, I used to come everyday and was trying.
Its quite embarassing to hear those words. But yes, that is true I have been on the receiving end of these words yesterday. So today I am back to the baby pool, trying to work on my kicking.
It took me more than two months to drive confidently. I hope after 2 months or more I can swim as confidently as I can drive.
I just pray to god to help me.
I have no other option, but to learn free style swimming or just drown in the pool once for all. Yes I am serious, I never want to give up midway, learning. Its going to be now or never.
I guess this is what is stopping me from blogging, breaking my concentration at work etc etc. Its a huge huge embarassment.
Doing swimming with a correct technique is really a dream for me.
Cheers,
Sandeep
If I could write more
Time and again, I tend to take so much breaks.. Am i busy.. or am I stressed or am I out of topics.. I am really not sure. But swimming on a daily basis surely keeps me occupied. Not that I have learnt free style swimming, but for sure I am trying.
I once thought of writing about the memories which I have about my engineering days. But yet again, ran short of time, words etc etc and its still unfinished. Given the time, I just end up hooking onto the internet, chatting. But do I really get enough time on weekdays to chat, surf etc etc. Yeh may be a hour and a half or so.. apart from office I mean..
Wish I could write few more things.
I once thought of writing about the memories which I have about my engineering days. But yet again, ran short of time, words etc etc and its still unfinished. Given the time, I just end up hooking onto the internet, chatting. But do I really get enough time on weekdays to chat, surf etc etc. Yeh may be a hour and a half or so.. apart from office I mean..
Wish I could write few more things.
Back to blogging...
Not sure how many times, I have written such a kind of post. But yep, yet again, after 20 days of break, I am back, writing an entry.
Had been to Johor Bahru, Malaysia today. Was kind of good day.
Will post something in a day or two. May be some pics of Johor Bahru and Sentosa as well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Had been to Johor Bahru, Malaysia today. Was kind of good day.
Will post something in a day or two. May be some pics of Johor Bahru and Sentosa as well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Finally able to prepare Rajma dal in a proper way
I started cooking on my own, only after coming over here. Before this, never had even thought of making something on my own. Because, my mother always fed me with good food. Now that the need for me to cook had arised, I too joined the bandwagon.
In the last 3 months, I have learnt to cook rice, chapathi, dal. I cook semiya too, but in a different way. I assume not many people would agree with my way of cooking semiya.
Though I could cook few stuffs, cooking other things was literally eluding me. Like making vegetable curry. I was too lazy to cut onions and tomatoes, boil the vegetables and then mix them with other ingredients to make a curry.
Even after repeated suggestions from Kapil and family, I was still reluctant to go by the normal approach. I was not interested in deep frying onions in oil. But as I realized, it was the only way to make proper curry.
So yesterday, made up plans to cook Rajma dal. Thought I could do it in the same way as Toor Dal.
But I was advised to soak Rajma for 3-4 hrs before steaming it in a pressure cooker. So I did soak some Rajma yesterday. Since I went to swimming 2 times yesterday, I could not prepare Rajma yesterday.
Today I had to prepare Rajma in the morning. I tried my normal way of preparing Rajma, steaming it, then heating oil in a pan and then adding mustard and then Rajma and then water plus salt.
This did not work out. The water and Rajma did not mix very well. So when I spoke to Kapil, they again advised me to go with making masala by deep frying onions and then adding tomatoes, coriander powder. After which I needed to whip the solution.
So I thought, let me do in this way and try it. Believe me or not. It actually worked. The Rajma mixed quite well with the paste prepared out of Onions and tomatoes. Now I have invited my friend to have some Rajma for dinner, let me see what his feedback actually is.
I hope its proper. In that case, I can try out the same way for different vegetables as well.
+2 lessons learnt.
Lesson 1.. To cook Rajma.
Lesson 2.. Never be reluctant to come out of ur shell and try something different, by listening to friends' advice.
Cheers,
Sandeep
In the last 3 months, I have learnt to cook rice, chapathi, dal. I cook semiya too, but in a different way. I assume not many people would agree with my way of cooking semiya.
Though I could cook few stuffs, cooking other things was literally eluding me. Like making vegetable curry. I was too lazy to cut onions and tomatoes, boil the vegetables and then mix them with other ingredients to make a curry.
Even after repeated suggestions from Kapil and family, I was still reluctant to go by the normal approach. I was not interested in deep frying onions in oil. But as I realized, it was the only way to make proper curry.
So yesterday, made up plans to cook Rajma dal. Thought I could do it in the same way as Toor Dal.
But I was advised to soak Rajma for 3-4 hrs before steaming it in a pressure cooker. So I did soak some Rajma yesterday. Since I went to swimming 2 times yesterday, I could not prepare Rajma yesterday.
Today I had to prepare Rajma in the morning. I tried my normal way of preparing Rajma, steaming it, then heating oil in a pan and then adding mustard and then Rajma and then water plus salt.
This did not work out. The water and Rajma did not mix very well. So when I spoke to Kapil, they again advised me to go with making masala by deep frying onions and then adding tomatoes, coriander powder. After which I needed to whip the solution.
So I thought, let me do in this way and try it. Believe me or not. It actually worked. The Rajma mixed quite well with the paste prepared out of Onions and tomatoes. Now I have invited my friend to have some Rajma for dinner, let me see what his feedback actually is.
I hope its proper. In that case, I can try out the same way for different vegetables as well.
+2 lessons learnt.
Lesson 1.. To cook Rajma.
Lesson 2.. Never be reluctant to come out of ur shell and try something different, by listening to friends' advice.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Time to post something
These days, I am getting lazy. I end up posting nothing for days together. So a few days back, I joined a nearby swimming center, not that I know how to swim, but to learn infact. So after two weeks, I can say that, I am satisfied with my progress.
Apart from that made new friends at the swimming pool, One person turned out from the same organization where I work, he sits in the same building as I do. So these days, he gives me company at the swimming pool. Unwinding after a stressful day seems to be so much fun. Each day, I just wait to run from work, rite across to hit the pool. Wow. Something to look forward, That makes me happy.
I can recall the song by Sheryl Crow " If it makes you happy :)- ", what a cute song.
Met two new people at the pool. Nice !!
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You may think I have eaten few words in this post.. Yep.. Time for my dinner :)-
Apart from that made new friends at the swimming pool, One person turned out from the same organization where I work, he sits in the same building as I do. So these days, he gives me company at the swimming pool. Unwinding after a stressful day seems to be so much fun. Each day, I just wait to run from work, rite across to hit the pool. Wow. Something to look forward, That makes me happy.
I can recall the song by Sheryl Crow " If it makes you happy :)- ", what a cute song.
Met two new people at the pool. Nice !!
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You may think I have eaten few words in this post.. Yep.. Time for my dinner :)-
Its been a while :)
Its almost 2 weeks since I have posted. Not that I am too busy to post, but a pinch of laziness here and there. So finally after 26 years, I started with swimming classes. Its almost 12 years since I last entered the pool. So this time, spent around 3 hours at the swimming complex which is at 5 mins walk from my place.
Had the first day's session, and tried practicing whatever the trainer had taught. It has resulted in tremendous amounts of pain. Shoulders, arms, triceps, thighs, chest, now everything's in pain :)-
But yes, kinda good feeling, I am getting to learn swimming :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
Had the first day's session, and tried practicing whatever the trainer had taught. It has resulted in tremendous amounts of pain. Shoulders, arms, triceps, thighs, chest, now everything's in pain :)-
But yes, kinda good feeling, I am getting to learn swimming :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
Nice way to end a weekend :)
First let me write about my previous post. About me missing Bangalore, India. Yes it happens. Sometimes my mind starts to ponder over a lot of things. Ok. Now let me now tell you how it all started.
Firstly I read a lot of blogs. Here and there, I remember quite a few blog url's, ( apart from the one's I have fed into my reader. I do not use at office because it reduces productivity ). So this Friday, after lunch, found quite sometime to open some blogs and I started reading. As I was reading came across various posts where the bloggers had travelled here and there, over Karnataka and lot other places. So this made me feel that, I was seriously missing something.
But let me tell you, the same evening, I spoke to my ex-lead Kishor, and finally after a bit of advice I was back myself. The feeling of missing on lots of things, just had calmed down.
So here I am trying to post enthusiastically about something, that happend, today evening. As usual, me and my friend went to Little India and had a pizza at the City Square Mall. And I went to do some shopping at Mustafa as usual. But today we had started a bit early may be an hour or so.
So we got loads of additional time, where in we could sit in the park. And to my surprise, there was a live band or orchestra or whatever, performing just opposite to the park.
Here we were, with some drinks in our hand, our tummy full sitting in the park and listening to some music. Could not understand an inch of the language, in which the songs were being sung, you can guess the language by the way. But the music was soothing.
We could also see some kids playing LOCK and KEY in the park. I was able visualise my good old childhood days when I used to play lock n key, hide n seek etc etc. It was kinda fun.
So all in all, a nice way to end the weekend.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Firstly I read a lot of blogs. Here and there, I remember quite a few blog url's, ( apart from the one's I have fed into my reader. I do not use at office because it reduces productivity ). So this Friday, after lunch, found quite sometime to open some blogs and I started reading. As I was reading came across various posts where the bloggers had travelled here and there, over Karnataka and lot other places. So this made me feel that, I was seriously missing something.
But let me tell you, the same evening, I spoke to my ex-lead Kishor, and finally after a bit of advice I was back myself. The feeling of missing on lots of things, just had calmed down.
So here I am trying to post enthusiastically about something, that happend, today evening. As usual, me and my friend went to Little India and had a pizza at the City Square Mall. And I went to do some shopping at Mustafa as usual. But today we had started a bit early may be an hour or so.
So we got loads of additional time, where in we could sit in the park. And to my surprise, there was a live band or orchestra or whatever, performing just opposite to the park.
Here we were, with some drinks in our hand, our tummy full sitting in the park and listening to some music. Could not understand an inch of the language, in which the songs were being sung, you can guess the language by the way. But the music was soothing.
We could also see some kids playing LOCK and KEY in the park. I was able visualise my good old childhood days when I used to play lock n key, hide n seek etc etc. It was kinda fun.
So all in all, a nice way to end the weekend.
Cheers,
Sandeep
I miss something :)
After coming over here, I have never let my mind ponder over few things. But today, I do not know why, I am kind of missing Bangalore, my parents, relatives, friends, I am missing my car, the highway runs I had in the last few months.
It was fun. I even miss out the outings or trips which I used to go out with my cousins atleast once in 6 months. Today, I was feeling as though I was missing out on the fun and action happening back in Bangalore. I was wondering, if I was in Bangalore, I could have visited loads of places by this time. With cousins, with parents, with friends, with other people etc etc.
But back in my mind there was the other thought. What have I seen in the past 26 years of my existance? Where all have I been. What have I done. What difference would it make on weekends? I would be as lazy as usual.
Anyways, why am I putting up this kind of off the beat post? I was trying for many days to travel, to look out for opportunities, now when I have got the opportunity, why am I cribbing that I am missing Bangalore. I really do not know.
That is why, people usually say, " The grass is always greener on the other side ". Hmmmm.
Cheers,
Sandeep
It was fun. I even miss out the outings or trips which I used to go out with my cousins atleast once in 6 months. Today, I was feeling as though I was missing out on the fun and action happening back in Bangalore. I was wondering, if I was in Bangalore, I could have visited loads of places by this time. With cousins, with parents, with friends, with other people etc etc.
But back in my mind there was the other thought. What have I seen in the past 26 years of my existance? Where all have I been. What have I done. What difference would it make on weekends? I would be as lazy as usual.
Anyways, why am I putting up this kind of off the beat post? I was trying for many days to travel, to look out for opportunities, now when I have got the opportunity, why am I cribbing that I am missing Bangalore. I really do not know.
That is why, people usually say, " The grass is always greener on the other side ". Hmmmm.
Cheers,
Sandeep
A thing which I haven't done for many days now :)
I was pondering over few things, which I was really missing over here. Also I found out something, which I have not done, in the past couple of months. I have not had a hearty laugh. Whilst I was in my previous company, I had few friends, with whom I had got accustomed in a few months time. It is with these people I used to have a hearty laugh, looking at people doing crazy things, my friends even used to make fun of me and I even used to laugh at myself at times.
Then one after the other, my friends' started to quit, then it was my turn.
Now I am all for myself. I do laugh few times a day. But this laugh is very much different compared to the laughing out loud which I remember doing.
Yes, life goes on. I am not upset about my current situtation, I am upset that, I am missing quite a lot of people at workplace, who used to propel each day of mine into a memorable one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Then one after the other, my friends' started to quit, then it was my turn.
Now I am all for myself. I do laugh few times a day. But this laugh is very much different compared to the laughing out loud which I remember doing.
Yes, life goes on. I am not upset about my current situtation, I am upset that, I am missing quite a lot of people at workplace, who used to propel each day of mine into a memorable one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Pet Shop Boys - Home And Dry.
Here goes another gem from the PET SHOP BOYS.. This was early 2002 I guess. The first time, I heard it was on Radio City 91FM.. (now its 91.1 :P).
Gem of a song..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Pet Shop Boys - Can you forgive her?
One of my favorite songs of the 1990's. How can I ever forget The Pet Shop Boys. Just found a high quality video on youtube. So here it goes into my blog. Just love the song.
Still remember the days, when I used to watch the video of this,, Go West and Liberation on MTV.
Good old childhood days. Reminds me of loads of things.
Cheers,
Sandeep
100 for the year 2010
Its 4 am in the morning, as I write this post.
I am so happy, its 100th one for the year, in the 8th month.
So quuiiick..
Here s shouting out loud , Happy Independence Day People !!!!
Cheers,
Sandeep
I am so happy, its 100th one for the year, in the 8th month.
So quuiiick..
Here s shouting out loud , Happy Independence Day People !!!!
Cheers,
Sandeep
Hyderabad Memoirs Part 2
I had been to Hyderabad, to attend my cousin's marriage. So we went by train. It was an amazing ride. No second thoughts on that. We arrived at the Kachigudda station early morning. Bride's relatives had come to the station to collect us.
I was carrying my Tourister travel bag, which was rather huge and heavy. It had clothes of me and my father and let me tell you, it contained nothing that expensive items.
So when we landed up at this station, people were waiting to collect all our suitcases and load it into the pickup van. But I was quite reluctant to give my luggage. I wanted carry my own luggage, I did not want any helper to load and unload my luggage. That was my point.
But since we, being from the groom's side, are well in for a royal treatment. We were not supposed to lift our luggages but instead come like kings and queens or whatever, which did not looked apt to me. You can imagine the scenario, me reluctant to let my luggage go, at the same time, the bride's relatives not letting me lift my luggage.
My cousin's thought it was comedy and started laughing. Infact they made fun of me even whilst returning from Hyderabad.
Apart from this, two other things happend which I can recollect.
I was trying for a cross domain transfer in my current company itself, so a friend of mine who was leading a team called me whilst I was in Hyderabad telling me to come for a one on one meeting with his manager. I was all set to resign from the company, but since I was in Hyderabad, told him, I would be back to Bangalore and then discuss upon it.
Also, during the time of the marriage, I think it was Saturday afternoon, precisely, I got a call from Bangalore from an anonymous company. Never heard of that company before. Somehow I said yes to the HR guy that I am ready to take up an interview over the internet, via gtalk.
So when I came back to Bangalore, I was kicking myself for saying yes to a company which I did not want to join, and after having two offers on hand. Somehow reluctantly I took interview over Gtalk and then was interviewed by two Italian people and ended up liking the idea of joining that company. It was located on the other side of the town. But I did not mind though. My profile was later dropped. I feel the salary may be the reason.
Cheers,
Sandeep
I was carrying my Tourister travel bag, which was rather huge and heavy. It had clothes of me and my father and let me tell you, it contained nothing that expensive items.
So when we landed up at this station, people were waiting to collect all our suitcases and load it into the pickup van. But I was quite reluctant to give my luggage. I wanted carry my own luggage, I did not want any helper to load and unload my luggage. That was my point.
But since we, being from the groom's side, are well in for a royal treatment. We were not supposed to lift our luggages but instead come like kings and queens or whatever, which did not looked apt to me. You can imagine the scenario, me reluctant to let my luggage go, at the same time, the bride's relatives not letting me lift my luggage.
My cousin's thought it was comedy and started laughing. Infact they made fun of me even whilst returning from Hyderabad.
Apart from this, two other things happend which I can recollect.
I was trying for a cross domain transfer in my current company itself, so a friend of mine who was leading a team called me whilst I was in Hyderabad telling me to come for a one on one meeting with his manager. I was all set to resign from the company, but since I was in Hyderabad, told him, I would be back to Bangalore and then discuss upon it.
Also, during the time of the marriage, I think it was Saturday afternoon, precisely, I got a call from Bangalore from an anonymous company. Never heard of that company before. Somehow I said yes to the HR guy that I am ready to take up an interview over the internet, via gtalk.
So when I came back to Bangalore, I was kicking myself for saying yes to a company which I did not want to join, and after having two offers on hand. Somehow reluctantly I took interview over Gtalk and then was interviewed by two Italian people and ended up liking the idea of joining that company. It was located on the other side of the town. But I did not mind though. My profile was later dropped. I feel the salary may be the reason.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Hyderabad Memoirs Part 1
Time and again, I tend to recollect few instances which are close to my heart. One such incident is my cousin's marriage at Hyderabad during the month of November, the year being 2009.
This whole 3-4 days I spent at Hyderabad, was the best. I am not sure why I fell in love with Hyderabad instantaneously. May be because of the following few things.
> Salar Jung museum
Amazing museum, unfortunate that I could spend only half a day over there. I wanted to see loads of things over there, but my parents kept on telling me to hurry. :)-
> Birla Mandir
Superb, Neat is what I can say.
> Chowmahalla Palace.
Ultimate, took me back to the times of the Nawab, awesome collection, loads of stuffs to see in there. I mean, how can I really say, you have to be there to experience it.
> Charminar.
Nice, and the chudi bazaar next to it.. Amazing..
> Karachi bakery
Awesome biscuits btw.
> Ramoji Film City.
OMG, what an experience it was.. I did not want to come out of it..
Above all, I enjoyed the company of my cousins and relatives some of whom I had met after one and half years, yes, they stay in Mumbai and Pune fyi.
So here ending part 1.
Part 2 will have some funny incidents that happend during my stay over there :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
This whole 3-4 days I spent at Hyderabad, was the best. I am not sure why I fell in love with Hyderabad instantaneously. May be because of the following few things.
> Salar Jung museum
Amazing museum, unfortunate that I could spend only half a day over there. I wanted to see loads of things over there, but my parents kept on telling me to hurry. :)-
> Birla Mandir
Superb, Neat is what I can say.
> Chowmahalla Palace.
Ultimate, took me back to the times of the Nawab, awesome collection, loads of stuffs to see in there. I mean, how can I really say, you have to be there to experience it.
> Charminar.
Nice, and the chudi bazaar next to it.. Amazing..
> Karachi bakery
Awesome biscuits btw.
> Ramoji Film City.
OMG, what an experience it was.. I did not want to come out of it..
Above all, I enjoyed the company of my cousins and relatives some of whom I had met after one and half years, yes, they stay in Mumbai and Pune fyi.
So here ending part 1.
Part 2 will have some funny incidents that happend during my stay over there :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
Voila, what a co-incidence :)-
Disclaimer: This post is based on a real life incident, which I have been a part of. Its been kept as abstract as possible. None of the content in this post can be assumed as fictious.
Let me write few lines, before I actually go into the co-incidence part of the post. My finger tips are itching very badly, to type something continously. :)- By the way, I am not kidding...
There have been many highlights of the year 2010, and also the last 2 months of the year 2009. You can take it as November and December.
November 2009, was the month when I attended my cousin's marriage at Hyderabad. Not sure why, but I fell in love with Hyderabad, may be the reasons I shall put across in another post (Yeh remember 100 posts by today itself :P ).
So by the time, I applied leave at office to attend marriage, I already had two offers in hand. One the company which I would join and the other, the company which I would end up rejecting, leading to this voila coincidence, thus leading to this voila - co-incidence post over here.
Ok, let me tell you something, whilst I was attending interviews for other companies, I had secretly also requested a cross domain transfer. One of my friend who was leading a team over there, called up whilst I was in Hyderabad, to have a one on one discusson. I did not tell him that I was resigning, but told him, will come back to Bangalore and then discuss on the same.
So the day after which I came back from Hyderabad, I had to resign and yes I think, I did. Let me also tell you about some funny incidents that happend at Hyderabad, and some of my other recollections over there, which made me really, really to fall in love with the place. Yes, but in the next post of course.
So now coming back to the original post, did I drift away too much, never mind.. I have loads to tell, half of which tends to remain in my head itself, what if I write too much in one or the other posts??
Ok... here it goes.. So out of the two offers, I ended up rejecting one of them and silently joined a new organization on 4th Jan 2010.
And after few months of travelling to ITPL, I was not enjoying my current stint, so thought of attending interviews yet again. And yes, there were few partners in crime for me, who were constantly inspiring me to attend interviews, who themselves had 8-10 offers between them. So I joined the bandwagon, only 3 months after joining the new organization.
Would you believe thats a short period, a very very short period. So short that, your previous interviewer would not have forgotten your name in those 3 months. If you bump into them they can easily recognize you, thats the honest fact.
So again, I landed up with an offer from a company. I had to go and collect the offer from their office, located at ........... well, I wont write that give away clue by the way. When I collected the offer letter from HR, the lady asked me, "Did you ever have an offer from XYZ company few months before?"
I said " Yes, that is true, but how do you know it?", I requestioned.
She said " I was the one who mailed you the offer ".
Then she asked " Why you rejected the offer? " to which I gave some answer which seemed to be OK with the HR lady.
Then she asked one more question " What is the guarantee, that we are gonna see you in one month's time?".
I said " I have no other offers as of how, so I am surely gonna join this organization".
To which she said " You have the offer from company XYZ rite?".
I was shocked. I never knew an offer can last that long. 2 + 3 = 5 months and that too after rejecting it.. What kind of a question was that, I was wondering..
I replied " That was few months back not now and went out ".
If you want to know what happend next, let me tell you, I ended up rejecting that company offer as well. I had to return the hard copy of the offer letter.
Never mind, there was a DTDC branch at ITPL, few minutes job.
So this was the Voila - HR - What a co-incidence episode. If you are wondering, how could I not know that she belonged to the XYZ company in the first instance itself, let ne tell you, I had been hired by a recruiter who reported to her. The HR lady had then mailed me the offer.
My partners in crime, wanted me to ask one question to the HR Lady which I could not. They wanted to know, why she left the XYZ organization.??? Never mind, I thought..
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: And yes, one of my partner in crime in my previous organization, went on to join Microsoft. Congrats for both and the other person joined a startup. Both are very happy and I would like to thank them for bucket loads of inspiration.
Let me write few lines, before I actually go into the co-incidence part of the post. My finger tips are itching very badly, to type something continously. :)- By the way, I am not kidding...
There have been many highlights of the year 2010, and also the last 2 months of the year 2009. You can take it as November and December.
November 2009, was the month when I attended my cousin's marriage at Hyderabad. Not sure why, but I fell in love with Hyderabad, may be the reasons I shall put across in another post (Yeh remember 100 posts by today itself :P ).
So by the time, I applied leave at office to attend marriage, I already had two offers in hand. One the company which I would join and the other, the company which I would end up rejecting, leading to this voila coincidence, thus leading to this voila - co-incidence post over here.
Ok, let me tell you something, whilst I was attending interviews for other companies, I had secretly also requested a cross domain transfer. One of my friend who was leading a team over there, called up whilst I was in Hyderabad, to have a one on one discusson. I did not tell him that I was resigning, but told him, will come back to Bangalore and then discuss on the same.
So the day after which I came back from Hyderabad, I had to resign and yes I think, I did. Let me also tell you about some funny incidents that happend at Hyderabad, and some of my other recollections over there, which made me really, really to fall in love with the place. Yes, but in the next post of course.
So now coming back to the original post, did I drift away too much, never mind.. I have loads to tell, half of which tends to remain in my head itself, what if I write too much in one or the other posts??
Ok... here it goes.. So out of the two offers, I ended up rejecting one of them and silently joined a new organization on 4th Jan 2010.
And after few months of travelling to ITPL, I was not enjoying my current stint, so thought of attending interviews yet again. And yes, there were few partners in crime for me, who were constantly inspiring me to attend interviews, who themselves had 8-10 offers between them. So I joined the bandwagon, only 3 months after joining the new organization.
Would you believe thats a short period, a very very short period. So short that, your previous interviewer would not have forgotten your name in those 3 months. If you bump into them they can easily recognize you, thats the honest fact.
So again, I landed up with an offer from a company. I had to go and collect the offer from their office, located at ........... well, I wont write that give away clue by the way. When I collected the offer letter from HR, the lady asked me, "Did you ever have an offer from XYZ company few months before?"
I said " Yes, that is true, but how do you know it?", I requestioned.
She said " I was the one who mailed you the offer ".
Then she asked " Why you rejected the offer? " to which I gave some answer which seemed to be OK with the HR lady.
Then she asked one more question " What is the guarantee, that we are gonna see you in one month's time?".
I said " I have no other offers as of how, so I am surely gonna join this organization".
To which she said " You have the offer from company XYZ rite?".
I was shocked. I never knew an offer can last that long. 2 + 3 = 5 months and that too after rejecting it.. What kind of a question was that, I was wondering..
I replied " That was few months back not now and went out ".
If you want to know what happend next, let me tell you, I ended up rejecting that company offer as well. I had to return the hard copy of the offer letter.
Never mind, there was a DTDC branch at ITPL, few minutes job.
So this was the Voila - HR - What a co-incidence episode. If you are wondering, how could I not know that she belonged to the XYZ company in the first instance itself, let ne tell you, I had been hired by a recruiter who reported to her. The HR lady had then mailed me the offer.
My partners in crime, wanted me to ask one question to the HR Lady which I could not. They wanted to know, why she left the XYZ organization.??? Never mind, I thought..
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: And yes, one of my partner in crime in my previous organization, went on to join Microsoft. Congrats for both and the other person joined a startup. Both are very happy and I would like to thank them for bucket loads of inspiration.
Trying to complete 100 posts today itself..
Well, I am trying to complete 100 posts by today itself, Let me see if I can do it.. Here goes the 96th one..
Happy Independence Day people :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
Happy Independence Day people :)-
Cheers,
Sandeep
Was watching a movie, reminded me of my engineering days.
Late in the evening, I was planning to watch a movie, the movie being Lakshya. I was very happy that the movie was available on youtube, the only drawback being it was put up in n number of parts. I thought never mind, let me atleast watch the same.
As I finished two parts, and moved to the third one, I got a message saying, this video cannot be viewed in the country of your residence. So I could not go ahead and watch the movie completely. But on the other hand, I could remember, the first time when I watched this movie.
It was way back in 2004, when UKN, Kranti and myself had rented out a DVD and watched the movie at Kranti's house. Good old days, we thought, then after which as usual we went for an evening walk, ate Bhel Puri, Masala Puri, whatever, was available, and then returned home.
Those days, we were utterly jobless. Our engineering days was coming to an end. Everyother guy in another college was getting placed one after the other, and we were not so lucky in getting a job on hand before graduating, alteast me and Kranti.
Yes, now recollecting the same, after 6 years time, that day seems to be as fresh as it can be, the same sunset, the same RR Nagar, the same, Bhel puri, the same double road but yes, we have grown 6 years older and yes, we have been working for the last 5 years.
Phew.. will those days ever come again with UKN being in US for the past 2 years and me being over here. I can hardly imagine, those golden days coming over again. And yes, with so much of added responsibilities, can we ever be so carefree and utterly jobless... Nopes is the answer.
Cheers,
Sandeep
As I finished two parts, and moved to the third one, I got a message saying, this video cannot be viewed in the country of your residence. So I could not go ahead and watch the movie completely. But on the other hand, I could remember, the first time when I watched this movie.
It was way back in 2004, when UKN, Kranti and myself had rented out a DVD and watched the movie at Kranti's house. Good old days, we thought, then after which as usual we went for an evening walk, ate Bhel Puri, Masala Puri, whatever, was available, and then returned home.
Those days, we were utterly jobless. Our engineering days was coming to an end. Everyother guy in another college was getting placed one after the other, and we were not so lucky in getting a job on hand before graduating, alteast me and Kranti.
Yes, now recollecting the same, after 6 years time, that day seems to be as fresh as it can be, the same sunset, the same RR Nagar, the same, Bhel puri, the same double road but yes, we have grown 6 years older and yes, we have been working for the last 5 years.
Phew.. will those days ever come again with UKN being in US for the past 2 years and me being over here. I can hardly imagine, those golden days coming over again. And yes, with so much of added responsibilities, can we ever be so carefree and utterly jobless... Nopes is the answer.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Kind a happy today :)-
Yes, today I am happy, I got an account on Safaribooksonline.com. So now, I can read loads of books. Any book which is not available in the library, I shall search it over here and vice versa.
I have a new book to start for this weekend, apart from the one by Stephen King which I am reading.
Let me see, how much I can read over the weekend.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Donated 10$ towards Pakistan Flood Relief Campaign.. Jee, there goes my good deed for the day :)-
I have a new book to start for this weekend, apart from the one by Stephen King which I am reading.
Let me see, how much I can read over the weekend.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Donated 10$ towards Pakistan Flood Relief Campaign.. Jee, there goes my good deed for the day :)-
A cartoon character which I liked :)-
I grew up watching cartoons, even to this day, I love watching cartoons. There are some cartoons which I really like and admire.
They are.
1. Looney toons show (fav being Bugs Bunny,)
2. Richie Rich,
3. TinTin.
4. Thomas And Friends.
5. Popeye the sailor
But my favorite cartoon character of all is none other than " ONION ".
Onion is one of the villain's assistant in the Richie Rich cartoon series.
I particularly like the way he keeps on eating onions. :)-
And the first time I saw Richie Rich cartoon was in N's house way back in 1993-94 may be.
Cheers,
Sandeep
They are.
1. Looney toons show (fav being Bugs Bunny,)
2. Richie Rich,
3. TinTin.
4. Thomas And Friends.
5. Popeye the sailor
But my favorite cartoon character of all is none other than " ONION ".
Onion is one of the villain's assistant in the Richie Rich cartoon series.
I particularly like the way he keeps on eating onions. :)-
And the first time I saw Richie Rich cartoon was in N's house way back in 1993-94 may be.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Looong weekend comes to an end :)-
Its has been a gorgeous weekend. One pleasant one, of course. I had been to the Night Safari on Saturday and today, it was Singapore National Day celebrations. Had been to City Hall, for the parade and stuffs and ended up watching the fireworks and after that, headed to an Andhra restaurant, @ Little India, had nice Andhra food.
I shall add a few photos later. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
I shall add a few photos later. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
My admission into engineering college.
After writing few posts about my childhood memories, I would like to also, write about my engineering days. Some glorious moments I have spent with Kranti, Nitin in the areas like Uttarahalli, RRNagar, Kengeri Satellite Town and surrounding places and not to forget SJBIT.
2001, was the year I got myself admitted into an engineering college. It was none other than SJBIT, close to my house, just 4.5 kms away.
I can remember, the first year of our college, there was no proper connectivity roads from the Kengeri road to college, It was recently laid out mud road, and there was no sign of asphalting.
Our first semester, was in the month of September or October. I can recollect, how our vehicles's wheels spun and spun as we tried to negotiate the incline. It was a big exercise. And above all it rained heavily.
After months and months of being at home, finally I was out and made few new friends, two of whom I have already mentioned, few others I shall write about if possible like Veeresh, Narayan and Vasim.
It was fun, I felt after few years, I too could work in some MNC's. At the same time, Radio City 91.1 FM had just started its operations in Bangalore. Believe it or not. I rediscovered my lost interest in rock music because of 91.1 FM. Thank you guys.
And the next four years, were like a roller coaster ride for me. And after 5 years of graduation, I have never been back to my alma mater (since 2005) even once, yep, thats my bad. Hopefully sometime in future will make it.
So here I am remembering those golden moments, those windy days, those rainy days, trying to blog about them, trying to relive them yet again.
Hopefully I can write few more interesting stuffs which I went through during the year 2001-2005.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: As I write this post its 12 30 in the night and Kapil has just started towards Mustafa, to purchase groceries..
PPS:: You may find a similar post if you dig a bit deep into my blog. But I dont mind, writing about it again.. Do I??
2001, was the year I got myself admitted into an engineering college. It was none other than SJBIT, close to my house, just 4.5 kms away.
I can remember, the first year of our college, there was no proper connectivity roads from the Kengeri road to college, It was recently laid out mud road, and there was no sign of asphalting.
Our first semester, was in the month of September or October. I can recollect, how our vehicles's wheels spun and spun as we tried to negotiate the incline. It was a big exercise. And above all it rained heavily.
After months and months of being at home, finally I was out and made few new friends, two of whom I have already mentioned, few others I shall write about if possible like Veeresh, Narayan and Vasim.
It was fun, I felt after few years, I too could work in some MNC's. At the same time, Radio City 91.1 FM had just started its operations in Bangalore. Believe it or not. I rediscovered my lost interest in rock music because of 91.1 FM. Thank you guys.
And the next four years, were like a roller coaster ride for me. And after 5 years of graduation, I have never been back to my alma mater (since 2005) even once, yep, thats my bad. Hopefully sometime in future will make it.
So here I am remembering those golden moments, those windy days, those rainy days, trying to blog about them, trying to relive them yet again.
Hopefully I can write few more interesting stuffs which I went through during the year 2001-2005.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: As I write this post its 12 30 in the night and Kapil has just started towards Mustafa, to purchase groceries..
PPS:: You may find a similar post if you dig a bit deep into my blog. But I dont mind, writing about it again.. Do I??
2010 Mid year...
2010 started out well, pretty well. Starting with a new job, I began to travel a lot more. At office met few old friends and also made few new friends. By the end of sixth month, I joined a new organization.
Exactly two months into the new organization, I am writing this post. Its been a good year on the personal side. I feel I have grown up a bit. Staying away from parents for the first time.
When it comes to my learning curve, it still remains the same. I think its up to me to up my tempo, so that rest of the year remains equally exciting for me. Lets see,
Also, lately I have been putting across a lot of posts. Some of them are about my childhood memories, some of them are general posts. Every now and then, when I sit in front of laptop, I end up writing something or the other. But its good. So hitting the century mark by the 8 th month itself. Feat in itself. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Exactly two months into the new organization, I am writing this post. Its been a good year on the personal side. I feel I have grown up a bit. Staying away from parents for the first time.
When it comes to my learning curve, it still remains the same. I think its up to me to up my tempo, so that rest of the year remains equally exciting for me. Lets see,
Also, lately I have been putting across a lot of posts. Some of them are about my childhood memories, some of them are general posts. Every now and then, when I sit in front of laptop, I end up writing something or the other. But its good. So hitting the century mark by the 8 th month itself. Feat in itself. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Huge weekend :)
Its one huge weekend coming up. Yes, its a 3 day weekend. 9 August, is National day. So Monday is off. Its been a long long time, since I have had a extended weekend. So after none of my plans have materialized I am writing this post, throwing up my hands in despair, that I could not pounce upon this 3 day leave.
I had a few plans but nothing has really worked out as of today, as I write this post. Let me see, if tomorrow holds something in store for me.
I have got my Malaysian Visa stamped, but no tickets booked to Malaysia as of now.
Have plans to go to Indonesia as well, but no company.
Also have plans to go to night safari tomorrow. Let me see if this atleast works out. Can have something to tell on Tuesday to my colleagues. Else its a shame, sitting all the days at home.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Sitting at home, means, I get loads of time to work on some pet project.
I had a few plans but nothing has really worked out as of today, as I write this post. Let me see, if tomorrow holds something in store for me.
I have got my Malaysian Visa stamped, but no tickets booked to Malaysia as of now.
Have plans to go to Indonesia as well, but no company.
Also have plans to go to night safari tomorrow. Let me see if this atleast works out. Can have something to tell on Tuesday to my colleagues. Else its a shame, sitting all the days at home.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Sitting at home, means, I get loads of time to work on some pet project.
Work while you work, play while you play....
After working for 5 years in the IT industry, I have learnt few valuable lessons. Two of them I want to share over here and how they play a prominent role in our day to day worklife.
1. Work while you work, play while you play,
2. A bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
You might be wondering, what the fuck I am talking about. It might make no sense to you initially, but as I elaborate upon my story, I would like to tell, how these two above quotes, fall into place.
While working in the IT industry, sometimes the learning curve is high. You may need to learn a few new things every now and then. But sometimes, people want to learn a few extra or additional things or work on stuffs simontaneously. Like working on pet projects, learning new technology which may be of no use when it comes to actual work. So what I would like to tell is that, its better to get involved in actual work at office totally. Learning new technologies which are of little use at work is absolutely a rubbish idea, after all we are not being paid to learn stuffs which we dont really use.
Infact, if we cannot keep up with latest technology its our problem. We need to work our asses off at some place other than workplace to learn new things. Yes, office time needs to be dedicated to office work only.
There were times, when infact, I actually had the itch to work on something in parallel, learn a new technology in parallel. But though most of the times, I have resisted the temptation, few times are there when though I have not worked on pet projects, I have got myself lost among loads of blogs which are available on the internet.
The end result of trying to learn new things at office just leads to more and more distraction. It also leads to boredom while doing the work allocated to us. Its like trying to catch two rabbits at the end of the day we are having none.. Not happy with office work, not happy with personal learning curve.
Infact, sometimes, I feel like taking an oath, saying, I would never read blogs at workplace. I would never think about learning new things at workplace unless they are actually required.
But yes, we need a break after all, thinking this, I just open another blog, and phew there goes an hour of productivity.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: I feel somewhere there is a balance between these two. May be an organization which has an open culture, to do what love to do the most at the same time, get the office work done as well.
1. Work while you work, play while you play,
2. A bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
You might be wondering, what the fuck I am talking about. It might make no sense to you initially, but as I elaborate upon my story, I would like to tell, how these two above quotes, fall into place.
While working in the IT industry, sometimes the learning curve is high. You may need to learn a few new things every now and then. But sometimes, people want to learn a few extra or additional things or work on stuffs simontaneously. Like working on pet projects, learning new technology which may be of no use when it comes to actual work. So what I would like to tell is that, its better to get involved in actual work at office totally. Learning new technologies which are of little use at work is absolutely a rubbish idea, after all we are not being paid to learn stuffs which we dont really use.
Infact, if we cannot keep up with latest technology its our problem. We need to work our asses off at some place other than workplace to learn new things. Yes, office time needs to be dedicated to office work only.
There were times, when infact, I actually had the itch to work on something in parallel, learn a new technology in parallel. But though most of the times, I have resisted the temptation, few times are there when though I have not worked on pet projects, I have got myself lost among loads of blogs which are available on the internet.
The end result of trying to learn new things at office just leads to more and more distraction. It also leads to boredom while doing the work allocated to us. Its like trying to catch two rabbits at the end of the day we are having none.. Not happy with office work, not happy with personal learning curve.
Infact, sometimes, I feel like taking an oath, saying, I would never read blogs at workplace. I would never think about learning new things at workplace unless they are actually required.
But yes, we need a break after all, thinking this, I just open another blog, and phew there goes an hour of productivity.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: I feel somewhere there is a balance between these two. May be an organization which has an open culture, to do what love to do the most at the same time, get the office work done as well.
Home food after 2 months..
After two months of eating here and there, I have been treated to some home food today courtesy Kapil and family. Yep, one more golden moment, found time to blog it over here..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Cheers,
Sandeep
Itching to buy a smart phone :)
Well, I have lately been impressed by the new gadgets available over here. Everybody over here has an IPhone.. Loads of other smart phones are also available in the market.
I still have a Nokia 1100 phone, am not sure, whether its embarassing or not. But most of the time, I do not get any calls over here.
Well, to get a Iphone or any other costly phone over here, I either have to buy it out for close to 900SD or opt for a 2 year contract.
I am not confident of going for either of them. I have to be in Singapore for 2 years or shell out 900SD and additional for usage.
But sometimes, looking at how people use their smart phones, even I get tempted to get one. Its been two months I have resisted the temptation. Having a smart phone with an internet, will allow me to blog, whatever comes to my mind, as and when it comes, apart from that, can tweet. These two things come instantly when I think about smart phone. I think this carries a lot of weight, since, my previous post has been out on the golden moments while engineering.
Is it really worth it, can I hold back the temptation? Is it really worth to up the tempo of blogging. I really do not know. Apart from these two things like blogging and tweeting, I really do not find much any other uses. May be I can click photos on the go and upload simontaneously, but, is it really necessary for me to go trumpetting about the photos which I have clicked. I dont think so.
Its easy to get a phone over contract like its around 50SD per month for a period of 2 years, along with the data plan.
So rite now thinking over. By the way, if I get a HTC windows enabled phone for a good price, I am planning to buy it out. Lemme see.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: As I write this post, I have been invited by Kapil and family for dinner tomorrow night..
I still have a Nokia 1100 phone, am not sure, whether its embarassing or not. But most of the time, I do not get any calls over here.
Well, to get a Iphone or any other costly phone over here, I either have to buy it out for close to 900SD or opt for a 2 year contract.
I am not confident of going for either of them. I have to be in Singapore for 2 years or shell out 900SD and additional for usage.
But sometimes, looking at how people use their smart phones, even I get tempted to get one. Its been two months I have resisted the temptation. Having a smart phone with an internet, will allow me to blog, whatever comes to my mind, as and when it comes, apart from that, can tweet. These two things come instantly when I think about smart phone. I think this carries a lot of weight, since, my previous post has been out on the golden moments while engineering.
Is it really worth it, can I hold back the temptation? Is it really worth to up the tempo of blogging. I really do not know. Apart from these two things like blogging and tweeting, I really do not find much any other uses. May be I can click photos on the go and upload simontaneously, but, is it really necessary for me to go trumpetting about the photos which I have clicked. I dont think so.
Its easy to get a phone over contract like its around 50SD per month for a period of 2 years, along with the data plan.
So rite now thinking over. By the way, if I get a HTC windows enabled phone for a good price, I am planning to buy it out. Lemme see.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: As I write this post, I have been invited by Kapil and family for dinner tomorrow night..
Wish I had :)
Well, had a little spare time over the weekend. Spoke to a lot of people, infact on Saturday slept at 4am in the morning. Heavy rainfall, had me awake by 6am, but managed to catch some sleep till 9 am.
Watched a couple of movies. Infact I read through the blog a person, after which I ended like kicking myself. That blogger had started blogging since the year 2004. He had loads of entries, of his college days.
I too had few great years at college. SJBIT was a great great college. No wonder, I am what I am today, because of SJBIT. If I had started writing in a blog back in the yaer 2004, I would have a handful of entries.
My stay at the college, above all, my friends Vikram and Nitin, how we roamed around in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, eating roadside Bhel Puri. It was fun. The turn of events.
Not sure what was in store for us at the end of engineering, but we walked, talked, played cricket. I only wish I had a blog at that time.
Hopefully I can recollect few incidents and write it down over here. But yes, some of the golden moments have just gone by..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Watched a couple of movies. Infact I read through the blog a person, after which I ended like kicking myself. That blogger had started blogging since the year 2004. He had loads of entries, of his college days.
I too had few great years at college. SJBIT was a great great college. No wonder, I am what I am today, because of SJBIT. If I had started writing in a blog back in the yaer 2004, I would have a handful of entries.
My stay at the college, above all, my friends Vikram and Nitin, how we roamed around in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, eating roadside Bhel Puri. It was fun. The turn of events.
Not sure what was in store for us at the end of engineering, but we walked, talked, played cricket. I only wish I had a blog at that time.
Hopefully I can recollect few incidents and write it down over here. But yes, some of the golden moments have just gone by..
Cheers,
Sandeep
My travel dreams
Well I have loads of dreams with respect to travelling. Infact, if you are thinking, that I am talking about travelling abroad. Nopes, I am talking about, my travel in and around Karnataka.
There are loads of places which I love to visit along with my cousins.
> Yana, Sirsi Marikamba temple, Murudeshwar, Karwar
> Ooty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud,
> Chickmaglur, Kemmangundi, Kudremukh.
> Baba Budangiri, Mulayangiri, Kumaraparvata.
> Coorg,
> Mangalore, Udupi, Malpe
> Kerala, (bottom part - Cochin, Center part- wayanad, thrissur,munnar, Top part - Bekal, Kannor)
> Pondicherry.
> Goa
As of now, I can only dream of going out with my cousins. Not sure when they materialize. By the time they materialize people would have spread out. Lesser time for each other, no holidays. :(
I feel I just had the last best trip before coming over here. It was to Yercaud. Had a blast over a couple of days.
Cheers,
Sandeep
There are loads of places which I love to visit along with my cousins.
> Yana, Sirsi Marikamba temple, Murudeshwar, Karwar
> Ooty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud,
> Chickmaglur, Kemmangundi, Kudremukh.
> Baba Budangiri, Mulayangiri, Kumaraparvata.
> Coorg,
> Mangalore, Udupi, Malpe
> Kerala, (bottom part - Cochin, Center part- wayanad, thrissur,munnar, Top part - Bekal, Kannor)
> Pondicherry.
> Goa
As of now, I can only dream of going out with my cousins. Not sure when they materialize. By the time they materialize people would have spread out. Lesser time for each other, no holidays. :(
I feel I just had the last best trip before coming over here. It was to Yercaud. Had a blast over a couple of days.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Past two weekends
Last two weekends have been kind of lazy. Last sunday went to Khansama for dinner with Kapil and family and Shreyas. Infact it was a treat from my side for my salary.
The day before, had been to a temple in Little India. It was Gurupurnima on Sunday and hence been to the temple to pray.
The week prior to this it was Shreays' treat. Had been to Malgudi, a restaurant, just opposite to Mustafa. So weekend's going in this fashion. Apart from that, have not travelled a lot on weekends.
Spoke to Sushant, who is currently in Malaysia.
This week, I head to library to drop the borrowed books :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
The day before, had been to a temple in Little India. It was Gurupurnima on Sunday and hence been to the temple to pray.
The week prior to this it was Shreays' treat. Had been to Malgudi, a restaurant, just opposite to Mustafa. So weekend's going in this fashion. Apart from that, have not travelled a lot on weekends.
Spoke to Sushant, who is currently in Malaysia.
This week, I head to library to drop the borrowed books :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Books I am reading
Currently I am reading Night Shift from Stephen King. Finished reading From a Buick 8 from the same author. Will start with the Cell by Stephen King shortly. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Cheers,
Sandeep
Friends Circulating Library
Of all the things I liked in Subramanyanagar, the best was Venkateshwara Bakery and the next best thing was infact, the store next to it. It was none other than Friends Cirulating Library. I never was a big time reader, until this happened. Infact my mother enrolled my brother as a member of the library. I think the year was 1993-94.
So from that year, I started reading comics, Chacha Choudhry, Tintin and Mandrake, and many more. But I enjoyed reading Famous Five apart from all other books. I did not like Secret Seven that much though. so by the year 1999, when I was supposed to relocate to South of Bangalore, I had read many books of Hardy boys, Nancy drew and many many more..
Infact there were days, when I used to read two books per day, morning- afternoon - hardy boys, afternoon - late evening, Nancy Drew. (During holidays I meant). Loved reading them along side listening to MLTR, (Paint my love).
So finally in 1999, said goodbye to Friend's circulating library and transferred my account membership to my friend Abijit.
But since 1999, I have found it difficult to find a library in South of Bangalore. These days, I get books from Strand book stall / festival or from Avenue road.
Lately I heard, Friends Circulating Library ceases to exist and its given way to a browsing center. I have never been to Subramanyanagar after 1999. Sad to hear this update.
After coming over here, I have found Bugis National Library a metro station away, and have become its member. Its been 3 weeks since I ve been a member, and I ve almost read 4 books by Stephen King.
Wow, I could manage only 1 per month whilst I was in Bangalore, thanks to my travelling and the IDIOT box.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Yes even after 11 years, I can still remember my account number, It is infact 374 .
Long live the legacy of Friends Ciculating Library
So from that year, I started reading comics, Chacha Choudhry, Tintin and Mandrake, and many more. But I enjoyed reading Famous Five apart from all other books. I did not like Secret Seven that much though. so by the year 1999, when I was supposed to relocate to South of Bangalore, I had read many books of Hardy boys, Nancy drew and many many more..
Infact there were days, when I used to read two books per day, morning- afternoon - hardy boys, afternoon - late evening, Nancy Drew. (During holidays I meant). Loved reading them along side listening to MLTR, (Paint my love).
So finally in 1999, said goodbye to Friend's circulating library and transferred my account membership to my friend Abijit.
But since 1999, I have found it difficult to find a library in South of Bangalore. These days, I get books from Strand book stall / festival or from Avenue road.
Lately I heard, Friends Circulating Library ceases to exist and its given way to a browsing center. I have never been to Subramanyanagar after 1999. Sad to hear this update.
After coming over here, I have found Bugis National Library a metro station away, and have become its member. Its been 3 weeks since I ve been a member, and I ve almost read 4 books by Stephen King.
Wow, I could manage only 1 per month whilst I was in Bangalore, thanks to my travelling and the IDIOT box.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Yes even after 11 years, I can still remember my account number, It is infact 374 .
Long live the legacy of Friends Ciculating Library
As a child, I was afraid of my teachers :)-
I just recollected about this, a day after Gurupurnima. As a kid, I was afraid of my teachers. There is nothing wrong in admitting. I was extremely afraid.
Taking beatings with a wooden scale, teachers, squeezing our ears, even using bamboo stick, seemed to be very embarassing and even more in front of entire class.
Once, I had forgotten to bring a notebook to the class. We had the concept of classwork and homework, notebooks, one for classroom writing and one for writing exercises at home. I had not brought one of the book. I was so scared, that I will be made to stand out of the class, that I wasted two hours pondering over it and when the class was over, I can recollect, the book was never needed. What a waste of time.
This might be the reason, I ended up carrying bucket loads of books to school, out of fear. (Might be, I am not sure, I cannot prove it, because I have forgotten about it).
As I approached high school, I can recollect, it became an obsession to carry lesser and lesser books to the class. Infact, we used to show each others' bags just to see whose carried more books. The fear just gradually came down and down as I grew with age.
One more instance I can recollect, I literally forgot to complete my homework on time, and was about to get a signed letter from my parents, saying I was out of town and was not able to complete homework on time. But luckily, I stayed back at home for some more time and completed the same.
I still wonder, why I was so afraid of my teachers. May be it brought discipline in me. But I feel, fear results in lesser self confidence.
And in my case, it might have resulted in losing bucket loads of time. May be I could have read another TinTin comic or a Famous Five book or something else,
And as I grew up, as the fear gradually came down and after which what happened, well.. thats another story.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Taking beatings with a wooden scale, teachers, squeezing our ears, even using bamboo stick, seemed to be very embarassing and even more in front of entire class.
Once, I had forgotten to bring a notebook to the class. We had the concept of classwork and homework, notebooks, one for classroom writing and one for writing exercises at home. I had not brought one of the book. I was so scared, that I will be made to stand out of the class, that I wasted two hours pondering over it and when the class was over, I can recollect, the book was never needed. What a waste of time.
This might be the reason, I ended up carrying bucket loads of books to school, out of fear. (Might be, I am not sure, I cannot prove it, because I have forgotten about it).
As I approached high school, I can recollect, it became an obsession to carry lesser and lesser books to the class. Infact, we used to show each others' bags just to see whose carried more books. The fear just gradually came down and down as I grew with age.
One more instance I can recollect, I literally forgot to complete my homework on time, and was about to get a signed letter from my parents, saying I was out of town and was not able to complete homework on time. But luckily, I stayed back at home for some more time and completed the same.
I still wonder, why I was so afraid of my teachers. May be it brought discipline in me. But I feel, fear results in lesser self confidence.
And in my case, it might have resulted in losing bucket loads of time. May be I could have read another TinTin comic or a Famous Five book or something else,
And as I grew up, as the fear gradually came down and after which what happened, well.. thats another story.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Walking on the railway tracks in the hot sun :)
Some of the most memorable childhood memories, I have, is, about growing up, in the area called Malleshwaram. It was an awesome area. Loads of good people, loads of places to hang out, lots of options.
As a kid, we used to have summer holidays, infact, we had 2-3 months of holidays in a continous stretch. It was awesome. There we so many things which we got to do, during such holidays. One such thing, which might sound not so good, is walking on the railway tracks during afternoon time.
There are many such occasions, I can recollect, when after having afternoon lunch, sleep was difficult to come by, and, it being holiday time, I was always, wanting to play. So when I got bored of playing cricket, hide and seek, reading books or finishing my summer holiday homeworks, I used to walk along the railway tracks.
Yes, it might sound bizzare, but yes, doing bizzare things, gives me happiness, (not sure about you), like walking along railway tracks, and recollecting about them, writing about them, may be 15+ years later.
There is a railway line which passes close to Malleshwaram, which then goes to Yeshwantpur railway station and then to Tumkur etc etc.
So when nothing was left to do, me and my friend used to walk along the railway tracks. Dont worry, its not on the railway tracks, it is alongside railway track, at a safe distance from where trains used to go.
It was loads of fun, watching different trains go by. Meanwhile in between, all the train services were suspended, not sure if I am correct, because there was a conversion of railway line from meter gauge to broad gauge.
So there I was spending almost many afternoons, in the hot sun, after lunch, watching the workers as they laid new tracks.
It was fun, doing these kind of things over holidays. Sometimes, I feel, I am lucky. Even though, I did not have computer, internet or cable TV those days, still we had a great time, doing things, which people only can imagine doing.
One such thing was walking along railway tracks. I am sure, not many people would have grown up doing this.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Please note, I have always maintained a safe distance from trains and I have never walked on the railway tracks.
As a kid, we used to have summer holidays, infact, we had 2-3 months of holidays in a continous stretch. It was awesome. There we so many things which we got to do, during such holidays. One such thing, which might sound not so good, is walking on the railway tracks during afternoon time.
There are many such occasions, I can recollect, when after having afternoon lunch, sleep was difficult to come by, and, it being holiday time, I was always, wanting to play. So when I got bored of playing cricket, hide and seek, reading books or finishing my summer holiday homeworks, I used to walk along the railway tracks.
Yes, it might sound bizzare, but yes, doing bizzare things, gives me happiness, (not sure about you), like walking along railway tracks, and recollecting about them, writing about them, may be 15+ years later.
There is a railway line which passes close to Malleshwaram, which then goes to Yeshwantpur railway station and then to Tumkur etc etc.
So when nothing was left to do, me and my friend used to walk along the railway tracks. Dont worry, its not on the railway tracks, it is alongside railway track, at a safe distance from where trains used to go.
It was loads of fun, watching different trains go by. Meanwhile in between, all the train services were suspended, not sure if I am correct, because there was a conversion of railway line from meter gauge to broad gauge.
So there I was spending almost many afternoons, in the hot sun, after lunch, watching the workers as they laid new tracks.
It was fun, doing these kind of things over holidays. Sometimes, I feel, I am lucky. Even though, I did not have computer, internet or cable TV those days, still we had a great time, doing things, which people only can imagine doing.
One such thing was walking along railway tracks. I am sure, not many people would have grown up doing this.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Please note, I have always maintained a safe distance from trains and I have never walked on the railway tracks.
On the eve of Guru Purnima
Tomorrow is Guru Purnima. Yes, I am not sure, whether I blogged about it, last year, same time. But this time, I surely want to write something.
One the eve of Guru Purnima I would like to thank all my teachers, who have put me on the right track.
Whatever I am today, its because of all the teachers, who have taught me, who have scolded me, thrashed me, for my wrong doing, who have inspired me. Yes, I would be a goner without you guys.
As I type these words, I can recollect many of my teachers, right from LKG to my engg days. I have had some great teachers during my study days.
And a special thanks going out to my teachers of SJBIT. SJBIT was my last official place of study. After which I have never been to any college for any degree. I have been taught by few people at office, but SJBIT was the last formal one.
SJBIT always occupies a special place, it was close to my house, in an area which was fun to learn. Going to college was such fun.
Also a big thank you to all people who have taught me .NET. CSK, Seth, Salil, Prashanth, Thank you so much guys.
Its because of all these wonderful people, I still have loads of enthusiasm to learn new things and apply them.
Happy Guru Purnima.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You might be wondering, why, every now and then I write a post thanking my teachers? Its true, whenever, I get something like a hike in salary or get some appreciaton for some good work, or clear a company interview, it always reminds me of my teachers, mentors, because of whom I could do it.
So time and again, I shall keep writing a post thanking my teachers.
One the eve of Guru Purnima I would like to thank all my teachers, who have put me on the right track.
Whatever I am today, its because of all the teachers, who have taught me, who have scolded me, thrashed me, for my wrong doing, who have inspired me. Yes, I would be a goner without you guys.
As I type these words, I can recollect many of my teachers, right from LKG to my engg days. I have had some great teachers during my study days.
And a special thanks going out to my teachers of SJBIT. SJBIT was my last official place of study. After which I have never been to any college for any degree. I have been taught by few people at office, but SJBIT was the last formal one.
SJBIT always occupies a special place, it was close to my house, in an area which was fun to learn. Going to college was such fun.
Also a big thank you to all people who have taught me .NET. CSK, Seth, Salil, Prashanth, Thank you so much guys.
Its because of all these wonderful people, I still have loads of enthusiasm to learn new things and apply them.
Happy Guru Purnima.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You might be wondering, why, every now and then I write a post thanking my teachers? Its true, whenever, I get something like a hike in salary or get some appreciaton for some good work, or clear a company interview, it always reminds me of my teachers, mentors, because of whom I could do it.
So time and again, I shall keep writing a post thanking my teachers.
First trip to Chickmaglur in 1996
My first trip to Chikmaglur was way back in 1996. I have been to many places before 1996, Hubli, Dharwad as usual, Mumbai, Goa, and some places back in and around Bangalore.
But I cannot recollect any instances of going to Chickmaglur before 1996. But this first trip to Chickmaglur was a memorable one. As memorable as it can get. I dont know how to put it, but it was magical.
I remember having summer holidays at school, during that time, my father along with the colleagues of his office had planned a trip to Chikmaglur, infact Koppa. Infact a relative of one of my father's friend had a estate in Koppa, so we were all invited.
Few collegues of my father along with their kids came along in a rented Matador, yes those days TT was considered to be expensive, since Matador was available and it could seat more people than TT.
Infact I remember catching cold a day before the trip. I was worried, how would I ever manage it. I somehow took some homeopathic medicine and started on the trip. Would you believe or not, my cold just vanished as I left Bangalore and reached out other places.
I still remember, we passed through Kunigal then to Holenarasipura, where the driver of the rented vehicle had his house. We stopped at his place, where he loaded a 25 kilo jowar sack into the back of the vehicle, so we had to keep our luggage in the seating area.
Then we had lunch at Hassan, yes, we proceeded towards Koppa. It was 8 45 pm in the evening when we reached over there. Next day, we proceeded to Shringeri, then in the evening to Agumbe to watch the sunset.
Yes these are my memories of my first trip to Chickmaglur, way back in 1996. Yes, it was as beautiful as it is today. I can write more about the places I visited. But i do not want to. You can get that information anywhere on the internet.
I can also recollect having bath in the pond which used to run across in the backyard of the estate.
I have been to Chickmaglur after this few other times, but never been to the estate, yet again. May be someday, I shall get another invite.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But I cannot recollect any instances of going to Chickmaglur before 1996. But this first trip to Chickmaglur was a memorable one. As memorable as it can get. I dont know how to put it, but it was magical.
I remember having summer holidays at school, during that time, my father along with the colleagues of his office had planned a trip to Chikmaglur, infact Koppa. Infact a relative of one of my father's friend had a estate in Koppa, so we were all invited.
Few collegues of my father along with their kids came along in a rented Matador, yes those days TT was considered to be expensive, since Matador was available and it could seat more people than TT.
Infact I remember catching cold a day before the trip. I was worried, how would I ever manage it. I somehow took some homeopathic medicine and started on the trip. Would you believe or not, my cold just vanished as I left Bangalore and reached out other places.
I still remember, we passed through Kunigal then to Holenarasipura, where the driver of the rented vehicle had his house. We stopped at his place, where he loaded a 25 kilo jowar sack into the back of the vehicle, so we had to keep our luggage in the seating area.
Then we had lunch at Hassan, yes, we proceeded towards Koppa. It was 8 45 pm in the evening when we reached over there. Next day, we proceeded to Shringeri, then in the evening to Agumbe to watch the sunset.
Yes these are my memories of my first trip to Chickmaglur, way back in 1996. Yes, it was as beautiful as it is today. I can write more about the places I visited. But i do not want to. You can get that information anywhere on the internet.
I can also recollect having bath in the pond which used to run across in the backyard of the estate.
I have been to Chickmaglur after this few other times, but never been to the estate, yet again. May be someday, I shall get another invite.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Stationeries
DISCLAIMER - These are my childhood memories, some of the things which I liked, adored and some of the things which I did as a child. I know, when I recall those days, I feel, its absolutely ridiculous and even I feel absolutely embarassed as I am posting some of the thoughts over here. Yet I have made some courage to write over here, just to keep myself entertained, at same time, holding back these memories for many more years to come. Some of the memories dates back to mid and latter part of 1980's, when I was still writing in a four lines book, trying to improve my handwriting :). Yet I can recollect them, yes by God's grace.
As a child, I loved so many things. I cannot name them and I cannot remember many of them. Infact one thing which I can still remember is I love stationeries. [I somehow felt the smell of a brand new eraser to be very attractive.]. How do I remember it?
Answer is very simple. I still love stationeries. Everytime I went to the stationery, my eyes lit up. I wanted to buy so many things in a stationery shop. Initially, as a kid, love to buy pencils, erasers, stickers, labels of cricketers, cars. Yes I think everyone can recollect we used to have two books, One calle CW and the other called HW. [ Classwork and Homework]. We used to have labels on top of them identifying to whom it belongs to. I am referring to those labels over here.
After few years, when I was introduced to a fountain pen, I started liking Hero pen. I loved to write with a Hero pen. Everytime I went to a stationery shop, just wanted to buy a Hero pen. But yes. I could not.
Also I would like to share an occasion where I used to get stationeries for free. As kids, we all used to celebrate our birthday. So whenever there was a birthday, there used to a free distributiion of pencils, sharpners and erasers to all the kids of the class, by the birthday boy. And yes it was one of the most joyous moments I can ever recollect.
Though at the places where I have worked, over the years, we generally are provided free stationeries, the joy does not match up to the joy what we felt when we got free stationeries on someone's birthday. Not sure why.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Recently I had purchased a 400 page long unruled notebook, in India, to write something. Could not bring it over here. Also saw a drawing book @ Mustafa. I somehow feel like buying it..
As a child, I loved so many things. I cannot name them and I cannot remember many of them. Infact one thing which I can still remember is I love stationeries. [I somehow felt the smell of a brand new eraser to be very attractive.]. How do I remember it?
Answer is very simple. I still love stationeries. Everytime I went to the stationery, my eyes lit up. I wanted to buy so many things in a stationery shop. Initially, as a kid, love to buy pencils, erasers, stickers, labels of cricketers, cars. Yes I think everyone can recollect we used to have two books, One calle CW and the other called HW. [ Classwork and Homework]. We used to have labels on top of them identifying to whom it belongs to. I am referring to those labels over here.
After few years, when I was introduced to a fountain pen, I started liking Hero pen. I loved to write with a Hero pen. Everytime I went to a stationery shop, just wanted to buy a Hero pen. But yes. I could not.
Also I would like to share an occasion where I used to get stationeries for free. As kids, we all used to celebrate our birthday. So whenever there was a birthday, there used to a free distributiion of pencils, sharpners and erasers to all the kids of the class, by the birthday boy. And yes it was one of the most joyous moments I can ever recollect.
Though at the places where I have worked, over the years, we generally are provided free stationeries, the joy does not match up to the joy what we felt when we got free stationeries on someone's birthday. Not sure why.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Recently I had purchased a 400 page long unruled notebook, in India, to write something. Could not bring it over here. Also saw a drawing book @ Mustafa. I somehow feel like buying it..
A post out of nowhere...
Its been almost a month since I have been here. Its a different experience all together. So thought of writing my thoughts on how do I feel about the roads over here, driving experience etc etc.
I know its a bit weird kind of topic. But still, after having driven an Indica around for 4k kms in Bangalore, and seeing variety of cars over here, I could manage an opinion of my own.
Disclaimer - The thoughts written over here are completely of my own. I have to prove no one wrong. All my comparison done is by my own driving experience. People may completely disagree with my point of view.
I have driven my car in and around Bangalore. I have run through many rough roads, passed over many potholes, cross many humps, some of which I had to downshift to first gear and few other may be 2 or 3 where in the bottom part of my car touched the road (with 5 people on board).
But still I was very happy with Indica Vista Terra Tdi. It used to give me good mileage and it had bucket loads of space. But when I saw other cars, many a thing still eluded me. Like the initial pickup of a diesel hatch was very low. Every other petrol car used to overtake me when I slowed down and crossed a hump. It never bothered me. Since I was very much aware of it while buying the diesel hatch.
The problem of poor pickup once cropped up on the two lane Kanakapura road, where I had to overtake, a sand truck, when the driver gave me a handsignal to overtake, I dint have enough zip, rest of the time, there was on coming traffic. But in every other situation, it worked well, really well. Infact it was a gem.
Initially I used to think, what is the point in having a high end car sedan / SUV in India, you need good roads to touch great speeds. Its a waste of money. But after seeing loads of cars over here, I feel, owning a sedan in India and driving it on pothole and hump laden roads of Bangalore is the bestest thing.
Why?? Check out below.
There are no roadhumps over here, absolutely no potholes. the only hump I could see is in my office within the campus, where there is a deviation to the basement parking.
Diff - How will you test your car's shock absorbers on a flat well laid out road.?? Even an entry level hatch can match the comfort of a sedan on this road. (might be the leg room and AC etc mite come into picture but apart from this, I feel rest is the same).
In India, if you have a high end car, you can put it to thorough test and then find out whats the real comfort in the highly paid car.
Most cars over here I see are automatic geared.
The real fun comes with gears, without gears it more like driving a F1 car in a computer game, where you want to compete with people but with less pain. Or you can imagine driving a ungeared two wheeler.
I feel its with humps and potholes which determine that, its an awesome feel to own a huge high end car in India, coz its there where you can literally outperform the smaller cars. Yes I had to slow down at every pothole whilst the bigger SUV s with 15 inch + wheels just glided over them
And regarding high speeds which comes into picture. There are superb roads in and around Bangalore, so you can put it to test there.
If I am given an option to choose between speed and manuverability, I would definitely choose the second one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
I know its a bit weird kind of topic. But still, after having driven an Indica around for 4k kms in Bangalore, and seeing variety of cars over here, I could manage an opinion of my own.
Disclaimer - The thoughts written over here are completely of my own. I have to prove no one wrong. All my comparison done is by my own driving experience. People may completely disagree with my point of view.
I have driven my car in and around Bangalore. I have run through many rough roads, passed over many potholes, cross many humps, some of which I had to downshift to first gear and few other may be 2 or 3 where in the bottom part of my car touched the road (with 5 people on board).
But still I was very happy with Indica Vista Terra Tdi. It used to give me good mileage and it had bucket loads of space. But when I saw other cars, many a thing still eluded me. Like the initial pickup of a diesel hatch was very low. Every other petrol car used to overtake me when I slowed down and crossed a hump. It never bothered me. Since I was very much aware of it while buying the diesel hatch.
The problem of poor pickup once cropped up on the two lane Kanakapura road, where I had to overtake, a sand truck, when the driver gave me a handsignal to overtake, I dint have enough zip, rest of the time, there was on coming traffic. But in every other situation, it worked well, really well. Infact it was a gem.
Initially I used to think, what is the point in having a high end car sedan / SUV in India, you need good roads to touch great speeds. Its a waste of money. But after seeing loads of cars over here, I feel, owning a sedan in India and driving it on pothole and hump laden roads of Bangalore is the bestest thing.
Why?? Check out below.
There are no roadhumps over here, absolutely no potholes. the only hump I could see is in my office within the campus, where there is a deviation to the basement parking.
Diff - How will you test your car's shock absorbers on a flat well laid out road.?? Even an entry level hatch can match the comfort of a sedan on this road. (might be the leg room and AC etc mite come into picture but apart from this, I feel rest is the same).
In India, if you have a high end car, you can put it to thorough test and then find out whats the real comfort in the highly paid car.
Most cars over here I see are automatic geared.
The real fun comes with gears, without gears it more like driving a F1 car in a computer game, where you want to compete with people but with less pain. Or you can imagine driving a ungeared two wheeler.
I feel its with humps and potholes which determine that, its an awesome feel to own a huge high end car in India, coz its there where you can literally outperform the smaller cars. Yes I had to slow down at every pothole whilst the bigger SUV s with 15 inch + wheels just glided over them
And regarding high speeds which comes into picture. There are superb roads in and around Bangalore, so you can put it to test there.
If I am given an option to choose between speed and manuverability, I would definitely choose the second one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
First visit to Hubli, Dharwad
My first visit to Hubli, Dharwad was in the year 1992. I was there to attend the marriage of a close relative of mine.
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Why do I love a weekday holiday ??
I love the idea of having a holiday during the 5 working days of the week. Its something which makes me go GA GA, or you can say I feel like I am on moon, whenever there is a holiday on a weekday.
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Few posts which I have in my mind
Couple of weeks back, suddenly a thought came to my mind. How would it be, if I write about interesting days of my childhood and teenage days. Though most of them were as memorable as it can get, but I can recollect few of them very well. So here I am finally deciding to write about them.
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Books I am reading
I have not been able to read much during the year 2010. Main reasons being travel to ITPL, somehow lacking interest in reading, reading technical stuffs (trying to clear interviews) and unable to find good books. But, yes, I have been an avid reader of few blogs over the internet, some blogs I have gone to archives read and read and read loads of posts.
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Thoughts of offers turned down.
Finally I found some time, to write down few stuffs, which have been echoing in my head for the past few weeks. Today I am kind of confused, the ghosts of the turned down offers are haunting me badly than before. Why does the grass always look greener on the other side?
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Time to post something
Hey there.. After moving over here. I am not posting much.. Yes its true. I do not get to access internet a lot many times. So weekly once, when I decide to come to the browsing center, I make up my mind to post something. So today is one such day.
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Another week comes to an end..
Yet another week comes to an end.. Its been a fun week. Now weekend, spending some time at the browsing center, as well as Little India.. Kinda settled into the new environment. Workplace seems to be cool, I get going by early 7 30 am, and come back by 7 pm.
Travel is involved but nothing as compared to the one I did in Bangalore.
Cheers
Sandeep
Travel is involved but nothing as compared to the one I did in Bangalore.
Cheers
Sandeep
Bangalore is Bangalore
A week away from Bangalore, India, I realize Bangalore is Bangalore. There is nothing close to being at home and being at Bangalore. I used to hit the highways on weekends with pretty ease. I would drive a lot, infact lot, 100+ kms within half a day on Saturday. Now I am gonna miss all those things.
Yes for sure. But this is an altogether different experience. Sometime in my life I had to spend time out on my own. I have been with my parents for all these years, now was the time to stop thinking about luxury leisure etc etc and it was the right time to get some right exposure.
I see loads of cars in Singapore, all are of different makes. You name a make of car, there you have it in Singapore. I saw one Scorpio parked the other day over here. Apart from that, I can see lot of Swifts. Apart from that, I see Pulsar bikes here and there and also Yamaha Rx100.
So found a cyber center which is cheaper than the previous one with 1$ per hour. So am into it again.
Yesterday evening had been to Mustafa's center on Syed Alwi road, which is pretty close to where I reside. In the shopping center, I bumped into my friend, with whom I spent the next two hours. We were chatting, sitting in front of the shopping center, meanwhile his friends were busy shopping as they were leaving to India by Monday.
Finally, they could not find a cab on the busy Syed Alwi road and I decided to show them Lavender MRT.
To their chance, they spotted a cab and off they went.
Also had been to the Expo at Suntec City Mall. Found a laptop from acer for 1198$ i5 processor 4 GB RAM, loads of goodies with it. But I feel, it was too early for me to buy a laptop. Will wait for some more time.
So till next time..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Yes for sure. But this is an altogether different experience. Sometime in my life I had to spend time out on my own. I have been with my parents for all these years, now was the time to stop thinking about luxury leisure etc etc and it was the right time to get some right exposure.
I see loads of cars in Singapore, all are of different makes. You name a make of car, there you have it in Singapore. I saw one Scorpio parked the other day over here. Apart from that, I can see lot of Swifts. Apart from that, I see Pulsar bikes here and there and also Yamaha Rx100.
So found a cyber center which is cheaper than the previous one with 1$ per hour. So am into it again.
Yesterday evening had been to Mustafa's center on Syed Alwi road, which is pretty close to where I reside. In the shopping center, I bumped into my friend, with whom I spent the next two hours. We were chatting, sitting in front of the shopping center, meanwhile his friends were busy shopping as they were leaving to India by Monday.
Finally, they could not find a cab on the busy Syed Alwi road and I decided to show them Lavender MRT.
To their chance, they spotted a cab and off they went.
Also had been to the Expo at Suntec City Mall. Found a laptop from acer for 1198$ i5 processor 4 GB RAM, loads of goodies with it. But I feel, it was too early for me to buy a laptop. Will wait for some more time.
So till next time..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Reached on 5th June, started with work on 7th June
Yes.. I finally relocated to Singapore on 5th june 2010. And its been a week, now that I am kinda adjusted to this place and joined work as well, I have a now found a cyber center where in I could punch in few lines.
First of all, let me tell you something, in my 26 yrs of existance, I have never stayed away from my parents. Not even for a month's time etc etc. I have never travelled alone without my parents to other town ie away from Bangalore.
Now I was in a situation where in I had to relocate to a different country altogether, stay away from parents, relatives etc etc. But I accepted the offer, it is a good learning for me.
Thats it for today. I do not have a laptop to keep posting regularly.
Thanks God for this wonderful opportunity, to learn, to grow up. I would like to thank Goddess Mahalaxmi of Goravanahalli, my prayers are answered. Thanks God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
First of all, let me tell you something, in my 26 yrs of existance, I have never stayed away from my parents. Not even for a month's time etc etc. I have never travelled alone without my parents to other town ie away from Bangalore.
Now I was in a situation where in I had to relocate to a different country altogether, stay away from parents, relatives etc etc. But I accepted the offer, it is a good learning for me.
Thats it for today. I do not have a laptop to keep posting regularly.
Thanks God for this wonderful opportunity, to learn, to grow up. I would like to thank Goddess Mahalaxmi of Goravanahalli, my prayers are answered. Thanks God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
A special thanks going out to special people
I would like to thank God for whatever I am today. I had been to Goravanahalli Sri Laxmi Goddess temple in the month of February. I had written a previous post about the same, but I had not written as to what I had prayed for.
So here it goes..
I had prayed to Goddess to relieve me of my current job, ( which involved travelling to ITPL ) and also requested for some luck in finding a new job
Infact I would like to write that, my prayers have been answered. I now have a brand new, different workplace, to report to. Thank you Goddess for answering my prayers.
I also have loads of people to thank.
> My teachers.
> My parents
> My mentors who taught me .NET
> My friends at my ex organization Satish, Sharath and Naveen.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So here it goes..
I had prayed to Goddess to relieve me of my current job, ( which involved travelling to ITPL ) and also requested for some luck in finding a new job
Infact I would like to write that, my prayers have been answered. I now have a brand new, different workplace, to report to. Thank you Goddess for answering my prayers.
I also have loads of people to thank.
> My teachers.
> My parents
> My mentors who taught me .NET
> My friends at my ex organization Satish, Sharath and Naveen.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Out the blues.. finally...
Friday, 28 May 2010 , was my last day at my previous organization. Everything went really really well. Came home with kinda happy feeling. Next day, I had a house warming function to attend. Somehow made my mind, to attend the function and did the same. But my body was pulling me to one side.
Past one month had been a total drain out for me. I travel close to 70 kms per day. Apart from that, weekends also had loads of travel for me. So finally I gave up. Saturday evening, I realized I had bad flu coupled with throat infection.
Two days and I was completely on antibiotics. Since yesterday, I am on a little higher dose. Friday 4th being one of the important days of my life. Loads of things to look forward. Hoping the grass is greener on the other side.
If not also, I have no one to blame. If I succeed in doing whatever I have planned, I shall have another story to tell, else I surely have failure as an option. But I have tried.
So as of now, happy with my antibiotics and listening to Peter Frampton - Show me the way..
Apart from that, washing my clothes and getting ready for Friday.
One of my closest friends and mentors., Chandrashekar S K is getting married on 4th June. Here s wishing him a happy married life in advance. Its sad, I cannot attend his marriage nor reception. But yes, I am very very happy for him.
He is the one who taught me .NET. So thanks to him..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Past one month had been a total drain out for me. I travel close to 70 kms per day. Apart from that, weekends also had loads of travel for me. So finally I gave up. Saturday evening, I realized I had bad flu coupled with throat infection.
Two days and I was completely on antibiotics. Since yesterday, I am on a little higher dose. Friday 4th being one of the important days of my life. Loads of things to look forward. Hoping the grass is greener on the other side.
If not also, I have no one to blame. If I succeed in doing whatever I have planned, I shall have another story to tell, else I surely have failure as an option. But I have tried.
So as of now, happy with my antibiotics and listening to Peter Frampton - Show me the way..
Apart from that, washing my clothes and getting ready for Friday.
One of my closest friends and mentors., Chandrashekar S K is getting married on 4th June. Here s wishing him a happy married life in advance. Its sad, I cannot attend his marriage nor reception. But yes, I am very very happy for him.
He is the one who taught me .NET. So thanks to him..
Cheers,
Sandeep
GoodBye (current org) ... Hello.. .(next org)
Yesterday was my last day at my current organization. The day went pretty ordinary. Nothing really exciting.. But I was more than happy to tell myself, that I will no longer be travelling the roads to ITPL.
The day started with me wishing few people good bye.. Then after which I needed few documents to be completed, since the concerned person was on leave. It was none of my job, it all happens.
At the end of the day, I can say, I am smoothly relieved. I got the resignation acceptance letter. Will get relieving and experience letter in a few days.
So since my task is done, I would like to thank few of my friends namely...
Naveen, Sharath and Satish...
We have had some great discussions over great food at Kadamba (ITPL) on Friday's in particular.
Apart from that, we had loads of things to discuss at workplace.
I wish all these guys a very best for their future, and yes, here I am trying to get ready for the next organization,
Cheers,
Sandeep
The day started with me wishing few people good bye.. Then after which I needed few documents to be completed, since the concerned person was on leave. It was none of my job, it all happens.
At the end of the day, I can say, I am smoothly relieved. I got the resignation acceptance letter. Will get relieving and experience letter in a few days.
So since my task is done, I would like to thank few of my friends namely...
Naveen, Sharath and Satish...
We have had some great discussions over great food at Kadamba (ITPL) on Friday's in particular.
Apart from that, we had loads of things to discuss at workplace.
I wish all these guys a very best for their future, and yes, here I am trying to get ready for the next organization,
Cheers,
Sandeep
Short Story #2 :)-
Short Story:
Scene ::
Guy #1 : While travelling to ITPL in the so called cage (ITPL shuttle), in the morning, one guy was proudly boasting, " My new car touched 120 kmph easily on Hosur Road ".
Guy #2 & Guy #3 : " how can you drive your 1 week old car at that speed ? "
Guy #2 : Since the engine bore is new, it should be driven carefully at max speed of 80 - 90kmph.. for atleast a month..
Guy #1 :: Oh Thanks for the information.. I will take care hence forth.
Actors in the story::
Guy #1 :: Manager in a reputed IT Company. Has been driving cars for over 5 years. This new car being his second acquisition.
Guy #2 :: Looks like a mechanical engg by profession ::
Guy #3 :: By stander or a regular interupter in others' conversation. (and that too with a loud voice).
Things which surprised me::
On an average, Even an SSLC drop out owning a moped knows, not to drive the new vehicle at higher speeds, since there is a run-in period.
Why the fuck, the Guy #1, a manager in a reputed IT company with years of driving experience behind him, and with the power of internet (blackberry) behind him, not know about this. I mean how can he forget about the run-in period, that too being his second car ?
Neva mind, nothing drastically happend. But yes.. sometimes, makes me wonder, what do managers actually manage ???
Cheers,
Sandeep
Scene ::
Guy #1 : While travelling to ITPL in the so called cage (ITPL shuttle), in the morning, one guy was proudly boasting, " My new car touched 120 kmph easily on Hosur Road ".
Guy #2 & Guy #3 : " how can you drive your 1 week old car at that speed ? "
Guy #2 : Since the engine bore is new, it should be driven carefully at max speed of 80 - 90kmph.. for atleast a month..
Guy #1 :: Oh Thanks for the information.. I will take care hence forth.
Actors in the story::
Guy #1 :: Manager in a reputed IT Company. Has been driving cars for over 5 years. This new car being his second acquisition.
Guy #2 :: Looks like a mechanical engg by profession ::
Guy #3 :: By stander or a regular interupter in others' conversation. (and that too with a loud voice).
Things which surprised me::
On an average, Even an SSLC drop out owning a moped knows, not to drive the new vehicle at higher speeds, since there is a run-in period.
Why the fuck, the Guy #1, a manager in a reputed IT company with years of driving experience behind him, and with the power of internet (blackberry) behind him, not know about this. I mean how can he forget about the run-in period, that too being his second car ?
Neva mind, nothing drastically happend. But yes.. sometimes, makes me wonder, what do managers actually manage ???
Cheers,
Sandeep
Short Story #1 :)-
Short Story:
Scene :: While returing home from ITPL, in my so called cage (ITPL shuttle), I sat in front of a lady. The lady was accompanied by a guy (might be her friend) who also sat in the same seat.. I thought this guy was trying to impress her.. Never mind..My bad..
Result :: I ended up listening to whatever the lady spoke for a period of 1 hr 45 mins.. (I mean she spoke continously all through the journey with or without a lil break )... , and that too, 95% was all .... whatever...
Inference :: What a pathetic way to welcome, a well deserved weekend..
Question to be asked :: Why did that lady (or ladies) speak so much ??
To whomsoever it may concern :: Avoid sitting in front of ladies.. as long as the lady is unknown to you.. esp when you are travelling for such a long time..
Tips :: Try playing music a bit loud to distract her, or just get lost from your seat to somewhere else ... ( I should have tried this )
Jeee..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Scene :: While returing home from ITPL, in my so called cage (ITPL shuttle), I sat in front of a lady. The lady was accompanied by a guy (might be her friend) who also sat in the same seat.. I thought this guy was trying to impress her.. Never mind..My bad..
Result :: I ended up listening to whatever the lady spoke for a period of 1 hr 45 mins.. (I mean she spoke continously all through the journey with or without a lil break )... , and that too, 95% was all .... whatever...
Inference :: What a pathetic way to welcome, a well deserved weekend..
Question to be asked :: Why did that lady (or ladies) speak so much ??
To whomsoever it may concern :: Avoid sitting in front of ladies.. as long as the lady is unknown to you.. esp when you are travelling for such a long time..
Tips :: Try playing music a bit loud to distract her, or just get lost from your seat to somewhere else ... ( I should have tried this )
Jeee..
Cheers,
Sandeep
One last time from Reliance Connect @ ITPL :)
Its my last day, @ ITPL, at my current organization. Not sure how the relieving process is. Having loads of doubts whether I will get relieved today or not. But I am positive.
So as of now, I am posting this entry for one last time from Reliance Connect Cyber Center in the Creator building of ITPL. This cyber center has been helpful for many guys including me, who have no access to personal mails at office. I would like to thank my friend for his Reliance Connect ID " bornfrick ", the account which I did get recharged for a mere Rs 20 for half an hour. I would like to thank my friend who had enough patience to register himself as a user at the cyber center.
So here I am sending my last day mail from my personal ID to official ID so that I can send the same in the afternoon to my friends.
Thats it from me as of now. Will update the blog either tonight or tomorrow afternoon, hopefully I will get relieved by that time.
Jeee. Thanks Reliance Connect.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So as of now, I am posting this entry for one last time from Reliance Connect Cyber Center in the Creator building of ITPL. This cyber center has been helpful for many guys including me, who have no access to personal mails at office. I would like to thank my friend for his Reliance Connect ID " bornfrick ", the account which I did get recharged for a mere Rs 20 for half an hour. I would like to thank my friend who had enough patience to register himself as a user at the cyber center.
So here I am sending my last day mail from my personal ID to official ID so that I can send the same in the afternoon to my friends.
Thats it from me as of now. Will update the blog either tonight or tomorrow afternoon, hopefully I will get relieved by that time.
Jeee. Thanks Reliance Connect.
Cheers,
Sandeep
One of my all time favorite posts
Never knew such an inspirational post even existed. I have been reading Robin Sharma books a lot number of times, but this post just provided me the right kind of inspiration when I needed it most, that is now.
So here is the link to that post. Hope it inspires you too..
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/11/25/assrockets-and-opportunities-or-why-i-changed-jobs/
Cheers,
Sandeep
So here is the link to that post. Hope it inspires you too..
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/11/25/assrockets-and-opportunities-or-why-i-changed-jobs/
Cheers,
Sandeep
One of my favorite Bollywood superstar
Long time, since I have written about a movie I watched or something related to Bollywood. Incidentally I happend to watch Feroz Khan's Jaanbaaz on Friday Morning. Yes, I bunked office, even during my notice period. Can't help.
I have grown up seeing Feroz Khan's movies. ( I can remember watching Qurbani n number of times and Dharmatma. Apart from this I had seen Jaanbaaz, but only once.)
So watched the movie again. Yes, awesome movie, somehow I fall in love with movies of Dev Anand, Feroz Khan and few others. Will watch the movie again, if it comes up in future.
But here's a big salute going to the great man, for his unique style of film making and acting.
Hats off.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Love the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.... Listening to it over and over again :)
I have grown up seeing Feroz Khan's movies. ( I can remember watching Qurbani n number of times and Dharmatma. Apart from this I had seen Jaanbaaz, but only once.)
So watched the movie again. Yes, awesome movie, somehow I fall in love with movies of Dev Anand, Feroz Khan and few others. Will watch the movie again, if it comes up in future.
But here's a big salute going to the great man, for his unique style of film making and acting.
Hats off.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Love the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.... Listening to it over and over again :)
Nightmare of a weekend
It was one such weekends, where in loads of events were happening, but at the same time, instead of me being overjoyed, I was kind of dull..
There were loads of things happening around me.
1. Visit to Lord Venkateshwara and Godess Padmavathi temple in Tirupati.
2. Kranti's marriage over the weekend @ Tirumala.
3. Abhijit's engagement.
Infact, I would have cherished this weekend for years to come if not for one gloomy incident involving, AIR INDIA aeroplane. Its something which really shook me. Somethings are beyond our control. But still I am very very upset.
Here's praying to GOD to give more strength to all those people who are in need of it.
Cheers,
Sandeep
There were loads of things happening around me.
1. Visit to Lord Venkateshwara and Godess Padmavathi temple in Tirupati.
2. Kranti's marriage over the weekend @ Tirumala.
3. Abhijit's engagement.
Infact, I would have cherished this weekend for years to come if not for one gloomy incident involving, AIR INDIA aeroplane. Its something which really shook me. Somethings are beyond our control. But still I am very very upset.
Here's praying to GOD to give more strength to all those people who are in need of it.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Need to feed my reader with URL's
Its going to be one huge task for the coming days. Over a period of 5 months I have accumalated loads of blogs, many of whom I keep visiting atleast once a week. Now my aim is to put all of them in google reader.
Last time, I had a huge collection of blogs which I pumped into SharpReader and exported as .OPML file. But unfortunately, in my previous organization, they banned all freewares and had to uninstall SharpReader.
After which I have never been able to import my .opml file into google reader. Main reason being laziness. So this time, I am planning to store a whole bunch of blog urls intosharpreader (google reader) so that, the next time, I keep track of them and also can access them elsewhere.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Last time, I had a huge collection of blogs which I pumped into SharpReader and exported as .OPML file. But unfortunately, in my previous organization, they banned all freewares and had to uninstall SharpReader.
After which I have never been able to import my .opml file into google reader. Main reason being laziness. So this time, I am planning to store a whole bunch of blog urls into
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its strange, what people end up counting
Yes, its true, people end up counting whatever they can. They count hen, chicken, pigs whatever..
One fellow in my shuttle has counted how many road humps are there from Uttarahalli to ITPL.
Kudos to this gentleman. Nice feat.
According to his calculation there are 44 road humps from Uttarahalli to ITPL.
Jeee, thanks.
Cheers,
Sandeep
One fellow in my shuttle has counted how many road humps are there from Uttarahalli to ITPL.
Kudos to this gentleman. Nice feat.
According to his calculation there are 44 road humps from Uttarahalli to ITPL.
Jeee, thanks.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Bus puncture
It was second time in two weeks that, the ITPB bus in which I was travelling had a flat tyre. I mean, my travel in the evening takes 2 hours of time, amidst all this there is this flat. Infact it happened right in front of Brook Fields, Kundalahalli.
I have loads of memories with respect to Kundalahalli. Incidentally, the first company which I ever worked for was Sobha Renaissance IT, was few feet away from where this flat happened.
So remembered those good olden days, the period from July 2005, to Sep 2006, the people with whom I worked with etc etc. SRIT has given me loads, I will run short of words infact to tell how much I am indebted to this particular organization.
Anyways.. sometimes having a flat tyre is not so bad.
Cheers,
Sandeep
I have loads of memories with respect to Kundalahalli. Incidentally, the first company which I ever worked for was Sobha Renaissance IT, was few feet away from where this flat happened.
So remembered those good olden days, the period from July 2005, to Sep 2006, the people with whom I worked with etc etc. SRIT has given me loads, I will run short of words infact to tell how much I am indebted to this particular organization.
Anyways.. sometimes having a flat tyre is not so bad.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Yet another busy weekend.
Not sure why weekend's have become so busy these days. For the past few weeks, not able to anything on the weekend, forget weekdays.
This weekend was one such, loads of people coming in on both the days. Meeting them, chatting with them, time is just flying away.
Sunday evening was a very busy one indeed. Loads of relatives. Engrossed in a discussion about friend's marriage, other functions etc etc.
Now back to work tomorrow again.
Manic monday.
Cheers,
Sandeep
This weekend was one such, loads of people coming in on both the days. Meeting them, chatting with them, time is just flying away.
Sunday evening was a very busy one indeed. Loads of relatives. Engrossed in a discussion about friend's marriage, other functions etc etc.
Now back to work tomorrow again.
Manic monday.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Bringing the blog visibility ... back to public
Its been almost a month since I made my blog private. The main reason behind it was, I did not want someone to read it. (let me be more specific about it.. its a female). Now that the other people who read my blog (mostly the gentlement) are rest assured that its not them, I would like to iterate that, I had expressed extreme anger in my posts for this particular person. Hence thought of avoiding the posts going public.
Since I had no options, I ended up making the blog itself private. Now that one month has gone by, I have suddenly realized, I have not blogged lately. I feel, I need to write more. Just for the few posts where in I express anger over this particular person, I ve nothing else to hide.
So moved those posts into a new blog altogether, so that I did not lose track of those posts. Now back to blogging where everything is public.
Loads to write about, my recent trip to Yercaud Hogenekal.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Since I had no options, I ended up making the blog itself private. Now that one month has gone by, I have suddenly realized, I have not blogged lately. I feel, I need to write more. Just for the few posts where in I express anger over this particular person, I ve nothing else to hide.
So moved those posts into a new blog altogether, so that I did not lose track of those posts. Now back to blogging where everything is public.
Loads to write about, my recent trip to Yercaud Hogenekal.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Sample Resignation letter. :)
I would like to inform you that I am resigning from my position as Account Executive for the Smith Agency, effective August 1.
Thank you for the opportunities for professional and personal development that you have provided me during the last five years.
I have enjoyed working for the agency and appreciate the support provided me during my tenure with the company.
If I can be of any help during this transition, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Your Signature
Thank you for the opportunities for professional and personal development that you have provided me during the last five years.
I have enjoyed working for the agency and appreciate the support provided me during my tenure with the company.
If I can be of any help during this transition, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Your Signature
A reason not to post
For the past few days, I have not blogged anything. In the first four months of this year, I had lots to write about. Now all of a sudden I seem to have gone quiet.
Also, I have turned my blog private, with access only to a few people. Is that the reason not to blog. I feel its one of the reasons. The other reasons include,
> Lack of interest at workplace.
> My hatred towards travelling to ITPL.
> Not luck when it comes to finding new jobs.
So these are the reasons.
May 1st I am planning to go out of Bangalore, with my cousins. I feel the trip is confirmed. Waiting for May 1.
Hope to blog something before that.
Till then,
Cheers,
Sandeep
Also, I have turned my blog private, with access only to a few people. Is that the reason not to blog. I feel its one of the reasons. The other reasons include,
> Lack of interest at workplace.
> My hatred towards travelling to ITPL.
> Not luck when it comes to finding new jobs.
So these are the reasons.
May 1st I am planning to go out of Bangalore, with my cousins. I feel the trip is confirmed. Waiting for May 1.
Hope to blog something before that.
Till then,
Cheers,
Sandeep
Sony Music System.
After so many days of speculation, went ahead with a music system and speakers. It left me poorer by Rs 12850.
So here are the components.
> Sony Music system.
> Sony Speakers in the front.
> Plok Speakers in the back.
Hopefully I will enjoy my long drives hence forth.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So here are the components.
> Sony Music system.
> Sony Speakers in the front.
> Plok Speakers in the back.
Hopefully I will enjoy my long drives hence forth.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Going into a looong weekend. :)
It is going to be a looong weekend. We have a holiday for Good Friday. Tomorrow I am taking off on the occasion of Brahmopadesham of my cousin.
So all in all a 4 day extended weekend. Hoping to turnaround few things.
Lets see how it goes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So all in all a 4 day extended weekend. Hoping to turnaround few things.
Lets see how it goes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Came home late... :(
Today our ITPL bus Route 1A, managed to kiss an Innova near Nirmala Stores, BSK Ist stage. The bus was stopped after few metres. The innova driver was quite co-operative, after all it was his mistake, he came too close to the bus.
At the end re-realized, driving huge vehicles comes with loads of responsibility. I was telling everyone, that I love to drive a Bolero, but frankly speaking, it comes with loads of responsibilities.
Will sure try to drive better in near future.
Cheers,
At the end re-realized, driving huge vehicles comes with loads of responsibility. I was telling everyone, that I love to drive a Bolero, but frankly speaking, it comes with loads of responsibilities.
Will sure try to drive better in near future.
Cheers,
Joined Facebook
Met my cousin today, in one such conversations, he asked me whether I had an account on facebook. I have recieved facebook invites from loads of people, but never even thought about joining.
But today, I asked, him whats so good in Facebook. He said just join you shall come to know.
I joined Facebook, still exploring, but I am used to orkutting, this seems to be a new environment.
Lets see how it goes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But today, I asked, him whats so good in Facebook. He said just join you shall come to know.
I joined Facebook, still exploring, but I am used to orkutting, this seems to be a new environment.
Lets see how it goes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Tyre update
I had posted about my flat tyre two posts back. So thought of going to a tyre shop and all of a sudden yesterday, visited a tyre shop at Hosakerehalli. Asked about the damage and solution. Incidentally, the tyre had taken a hit while being run over a sharp stone / object and developed a tear.
Unfortunately, the tyre cannot be replaced, since it was not a manufacturing defect, is what, the guy at the shop told. So with no option, requested for a tyre repair. He told about some process or melting the tyre and fixing it, could not understand even an inch of what he said about the repair. The whole thing would cost about Rs 350 and so, just went for it.
I had one particular doubt, I have driven 1300 kms on my car, I did not expect a tear such early, for which he said, he had seen tyres which have taken a hit from a sharp object, on cars, which are not even registered. So I was indeed lucky.
Second thing I was lucky about was the puncture happening right in front of my house. Now I wonder, how would it be in the middle of nowhere, sweating it out, trying to replace a flat tyre. Yes, quite difficult.
Here's praying for no more flats.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Unfortunately, the tyre cannot be replaced, since it was not a manufacturing defect, is what, the guy at the shop told. So with no option, requested for a tyre repair. He told about some process or melting the tyre and fixing it, could not understand even an inch of what he said about the repair. The whole thing would cost about Rs 350 and so, just went for it.
I had one particular doubt, I have driven 1300 kms on my car, I did not expect a tear such early, for which he said, he had seen tyres which have taken a hit from a sharp object, on cars, which are not even registered. So I was indeed lucky.
Second thing I was lucky about was the puncture happening right in front of my house. Now I wonder, how would it be in the middle of nowhere, sweating it out, trying to replace a flat tyre. Yes, quite difficult.
Here's praying for no more flats.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Is watching IPL fun or boring ??
Was wondering about this question. IPL has moved back to India. Saw the scores of a couple of matches, being excess of 200. Just got a thought in my mind. The score of each match is becoming more and more predictable. Since there is no swing, seam nor spin, its a batters paradise. Adding to the misery, the dew factor pitches in.
Is it really worth watching or following it?
Not sure.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Is it really worth watching or following it?
Not sure.
Cheers,
Sandeep
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