Found solace in a new book...

I turned pro in 2005 and ever since then I end up cribbing over and over again. Infact this cribbing about monetary and other issues has taken me to 3 different workplaces in less than 3 of turning a pro.

Looking at this, once my parents told me, " You are unfit for any industry, where ever you go you feel dissatisfied, about one thing or the other ".

This thing was hard to digest. The impact of this dialog haunts my mind even to this day and to be honest haunts my resume as well.

I am now reading the autobiography of Jack Welch, so kinda, found a solace in the book. The book churns up some great insights into GE in the 70's and 80's. ( may be even 90's I ve not read it completely as of now.. My Bad)

Conclusion : I now feel cribbing is not bad afterall.

Does the conclusion justify the post ??? : You have to read the book for yourself and find out how it justifies or coincides...

PS::: I forgot to mention a line which I read in FountainHead -> " Man's ego is the fountain head of human progress ". As of now I am not getting any clues , regarding how to infuse this great line into this post or into a new post. I will do that, may be someday later. Thanks Abhijit for reminding me...

My Lil Poem

Incidentally I happened to chat with one of my friends on GTALK. It was kind of boring chat session. I used to get the reply from that person a bit late, infact very very late.

So this is the small poem which I said to that person..

" U reply so late
i just cant wait
i feel like a bait
tats not my trait ".

I hope I get a reply soon henceforth from the other side..

My new acquisition...

Its been a rocking Sunday. I was upto a lot of things today. I did acquire something new. Yes, it is a 2X2 soft board. I always wanted to have a softboard in my room, may be since ages. So since these days, I was planning to have one in my about to be completed study room, I just went to one stationery store.

To my surprise he did have 2 flavors, 2X2 and a 3X3 one. I wanted to go for 3X3 piece. Each feet cost me Rs 75. But the 3X3 piece was kind a huuuuge one.. I thought I would buy it for my study room atop. For my current room, I just got a 2X2 one. Its about Rs 300.

Awesome. I am excited. Now its time to put into practice, some of the stuff which I read or will read from the book " Getting Things Done " by David Allen.

Also forgot to mention in my list of incompleted books. It also includes " GTD" by David Allen.

Cheers,

Felt like posting

I felt like writing something, but unfortunately I have nothing to write.

But since my last 3 or odd posts have something to say about the books which I have been reading, I thought let me make a list of books which I have left uncompleted after I started to read them. Here it goes. The list is not that long. But I feel like kicking myself, since I just could not complete them.

They are:
1. Tough times never last, tough people do. - Robert Schuller
2. Biography of Rahul Dravid. - Vedam Jaishankar
3. The Life of Pi. - Not remembering the author.
4. Inheritance of Loss. - Kiran Desai
5. Agatha Christie - Partners in Crime.
6. Getting Things Done - David Allen


Hopefully I finish reading the Art of Bike Maintenance before the book just runs out of my hand

A New " Book for the week."

Its true. I just picked up a new title to read. I have not finished reading " The Art of Bike maintenance ". I was looking out for a particular book as I mentioned in the previous posts. But could not find it. Looks like " The Strand Book Festival " is where I will be able to find it.

But instead of it, I brought another book, " Straight from the Gut" by Jack Welch.

Now I need to quickly finish reading the book#1, which I am finding little difficulty in.

Also I somehow landed with two DVD's for the weekend. " Dil Chahta Hai" which I watched today, with lots of breaks, and " Andaaz Apna Apna" which I will watch tomorrow hopefully.

Cheers,

A new book altogether...

I have completed reading the book, " The Case for India".

I have picked up a new book " Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ". I am sure gonna take sometime before I finish this book. By the way this book dates back to 1974.

Hopefully my next book would be : " The Story of My Experiments with truth". I will surely write about it, if I get a copy this Saturday.

Cheers.

Excerpt from the book " The Case For India "

Disclaimer - The below mentioned content is an excerpt from the book " The Case For India " by Will Durant.

I have been reading the book " The Case for India " for a couple of days now.

There is some awesome writing about Mahatma Gandhi.

I better get going in my usual ways, I mean the software engineer way ie Copy Paste aka Ctrl C , Ctrl V.

So here it goes... Its dated to a few years before the book was written, may be early 1920's.

Its actually what Rabindranath Tagore said about Mahatma Gandhi:

" Content removed "

Sometimes reading books about India before 1947 just makes you feel so proud. Btw it also provides a much needed break from the so called " FALSE TECHNOLOGY " which we tend to live in and boast about.

Cheers,

I am reading a book

I have started reading a new book, " The Case for India ".. It was written in the year 1930. Looks like its a supercool book. But I am finding little difficulty in reading the same. Ask me why I will tell you..

I had an idea of finishing the book today itself by late evening, but found a good friend over the internet, so time just flew by chatting and chatting...

I just wanted to mention something about the books which I read. More often, I have found a liking towards book written during 1910, 1920, 1930's or even earlier, rather than the latter ones' of the century. I do like the recent ones'. But somehow I feel, I just adore the classics.

Here are few of them

--> Diary of Anne Frank
--> Gone With the Wind.
--> Agatha Christie books
--> FountainHead (not read completely though).
--> Sherlock Holmes adventures... (huge fan of it,, next to Diary of Anne Frank)

and many more..

As of now I am looking forward towards reading " The Story of My Experiments with Truth".

Cheers for now..

So many Visitors on the blog ???

Phew.. I am quite surprised.. So many visitors on my blog.. I have no clues what so ever..
I better remove one of the photos which I have posted over here.. I do not know.. Whats happening ??

Well.. I did try to edit one of the Wiki Pages, without an account. Hence IP might have got exposed. But how on the world, did they figure out my blog? Some one please tell me.. how??

Awesome Find !!!

I have two of the most wonderful pics, I have taken in recent times... These two pics depict something really wonderful..

You will be wondering.. " What are these pics about? what do they depict ?? ".. It literally depicts independence, being independent.

As you all know, my parents are constructing a house atop my current house. These pics are from that very house. All the plastering is through. I was lucky to find these pics as they were from the bathroom, which was not plastered but would be tiled.

Generally people who do plastering write up their names.(most commonly). I saw something, which literally left my eyes moist and btw I was moved.

First of all you can understand, people involved in construction work, I mean laborers, are either uneducated or partly educated. They might not even know when is Independence day. But a carving on wet cement like this..

Hats off man.. U guys really rock.. In some days, this area will make way for some tiles. So i thought I would capture them and put it on my blog.. So that I remind myself every year, year after year, Yes Independence day means a lot to me.

I also sadly have to say, some of my friends, did have a great time on Aug 15 and Oct 2. They did booze (drink) a lot and unarguably made lot of merry. (Some sad state of things to come... by the way)

So here I end this post, saying.. Happy Independence day.

India Rocks !! Indians Rule !!!

Way to go PravsWorld

Received this one from Pravs world yesterday, on behalf of Gandhi Jayanthi.
Mahtma Gandhi.. Inspired generations and inspiring generations to come..

And Pravsworld.. hats off to U...

Here it is.. Superb one..

Its high time, I start reading " The Story of My Experiments with Truth ".

EverGreen Hero turns 85

Yes. September 26 was the birthday of Dev Anand. He turned 85.

To be frank and honest, if you ask me.. who is your favorite Bollywood star, its got to be Dev Anand. I have not just liked, enjoyed but loved his movies as well.

Last saw his movie few years back. But everything about Dev Anand movies, according to me, is just awesomely great.

Here s wishing him a very happy birthday..

Air Supply-Goodbye

Classic By Air Supply... Dont know whether I ve added it earlier as well..

Tremendous song.. Tremendous video as well...

Gandhi Jayanthi

As we approach, October 2, I wish to write about something which I recently saw on one of the social networking sites.

October 2 happens to be the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Yes, he is the father of our nation.

What I observed on orkut, was that, there was a Community called " I HATE MAHATMA GANDHI ". Well, I was kind of surprised and sad looking at this. Yes, its after all some individuals opinion. No can argue with that.

But, for a person who dedicated almost his entire life, to see, his people free, I thought this was a little bit unanticipated.

In these days, people do not have even a single day to do Community Service. Yes, take my example. I have backed off on one occasion, when provided an opportunity. I feel these days, money takes the driver seat. Forget sacrificing entire life. Its a rare feat achieved by a few only.

Even Mahatma Gandhi was highly educated. But why did he chose to do something for the people of this country? Some trademarks of people who are really great leaders, visionaries.

I can salute and say, it is because of Mahatma Gandhi and many other freedom fighters that we are free today and can think about other stuffs like, ya, exceeding in so called technology.

So is it right to say " I hate Gandhi ".

I don't think so. Every Indian must be proud that a leader like Mahatma Gandhi was born in India..

That is what I can say.

Manned Elevators

I have been working out of Kalyani Magnum campus for over a month now. It is located @ JP Nagar 3 Phase.

I noticed something, in the recent times... which I found different.

The elevators here are manned. I haven't seen elevators with operators @ many places. Not atleast @ places where I have worked.

Do let me know, @ any places where you have seen manned elevators. (In IT companies I mean). It really does not make a bit difference to me, whether its manned or unmanned.

But if you see, the better part of it, its generating a fair bit of employment well. And I am happy for that.

3 Cheers...

3 Day weekend... Yet again !!!

The day is 25 September 2008. The day is Thursday. Its weekend time for me. Tomorrow there is a team outing, sponsored by the company. But I am not going to be a part of it. I have good reasons, not to attend it. But, yes, some of my friends were terribly disappointed @ my attitude towards the whole event.

All I can say, is cheer up guys, there is always a next time.

So now I have an uphill task for the weekend. Do not know, how much do I accomplish.

But surely, a 3 day weekend has lit up my eyes.

Looking forward to post some more stuffs( hopefully meaningful) over here.

Till then.. Cheers.

QUEEN: Who Wants To Live Forever

September 5, was the birthday, of Freddie Mercury. One of my favorite singers, of all time. Could not post anything on that day. So here I am trying to add a song which I love. Its " Who wants to live forever " by Queen.

Freddie Mercury, Brian May at their very best.

Recieving End.....

I was at the receiving end, after partly reading one of the books which I had. The result. My whole Saturday went awry. Yes, its true, sometimes, some books can literally turn your day upside down.

You have to be very careful when you choose books to read. I did make a huge mistake. When I told it to my brother, he too said, he made a big mistake bringing the book home.

He is quite wiser than me.. He had stopped reading the book, just after 55 pages. It just took me 95 pages, to realize that, I had to stop reading that stuff.

Regarding the book, I dont want to reveal it. And if you think, I am spreading hatred by means of this post. No. " One man's food is other man's poison ". Some people may end up liking the book. I have nothing against it. Just that, my day went wrong after reading 95 pages.

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

If you have seen my blog yesterday and today, you might notice a good deal of change. I sometime read, Canara Bank, baseline, saying, " We change, for the one's we love". Do not know whether its 100% the same wordings or not. But it looked the same.

If you could recollect, I had written a post about me being pissed off, with Canara Bank Uttarahalli, the truth is, I ended up opening a FD @ Canara Bank Uttarahalli itself, coz the only reason being it was close to my house. Well, after that, I have never been to that bank, not even to get an entry in my passbook. Don't know whether the interest amount of the FD has landed in my account or not.

By the way, why did I change my blog a bit. Just like that. I felt, it needed a change. Poor chap ( I am talking about my blog). It had to bear my goofy like pic for more than a year now. So I thought, let it make way for something else.

But what will come over there.? Another Blog Feed / Comment Feed / Photo Slide Show??

Naaa Re Naa...

I have been reading many blogs off lately. Though I use SharpReader to a good extent, many times, I end up visiting blogs of people. So by clicking and clicking, I came across a common thing in many blog. Either to the right or left bottom/top side of the blog, there used to a map, with title, most commonly, visitors from different parts of the globe.

I know my blog has least visitors. Though you may think, 1500+ visitors, is still a good number, I would like to openly admit, 300+ out of them, might be, coz of me refreshing and refreshing.

So while the whole exercise took me 15 mins to complete, it also incremented visitor count by almost 10 numbers. (considering I was beating around the bush , I registered a different blog, and tried to modify their code, to point to this blog. It refused saying, an error, the user/blog is not registered, so had to go back and forth for almost 6 times.)

It was quite simple adding it. Lemme see tomorrow what shows up.

Cheers,

And forgot to tell something..

A little bit of this and little bit of that ?... I think the title matched with the post, if not completely, atleast 40%.

Btw, its a bit of lyrics from a song by Michelle Branch, where she collaborated with Carlos Santana. Its up to you to guess the song.

Good Programmer or not ???

Disclaimer (Yet again) :

The post which I read from the internet is authored by a well known software personality. I do not want to take any credit from his post. I would definitely disclose the URL of it, provided you let me know who are you? Else you can do a search and end up @ it as well..

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Hmmm... (Sigh).. As I read a post.. on the website of a software person. The problem is, I am sad after reading that post. I did show it up to some of my colleagues at work place.

The post was about how to screen and shortlist good programmers, and also talked about who are good programmers. It said, good programmers start young, very young. They are so much fascinated about the way things work, that they end up tweaking, tweaking, almost everything (i am talking about software related stuff) . So when about to graduate, they would have programmed in a variety of environments, (open source, closed source).


Why I am feeling sad is, I started programming @ literally 17 yrs of age, First year of Engineering. I did not tweak around with anything, doing what was needed the syllabi (my bad), (not so keep it a secret), to save my *&^. That qualifies me as an average programmer.

I always want to be seen as a little more than avg programmer. But after reading this post, not sure whether I will make it there.

But when it comes to blogging, I am happy that, I have made a start atleast, at a very young age.
I am 24 as I write this post and I started one year back, meaning I was 23 then. Though I am far away from giving gyaan (intellectual posts), I manage to write some crappy stuffs over here. I am happy for that. Going ahead, I may and want to better myself.

And regarding being a better programmer, Hmmmm....(sigh), I can only pray ...god give me more strength to make it up there ..

Btw, there is a sloppy bit of writing on this post. Do let me know.. if you find it...

Cheers,

Thanks God.