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 into sharpreader (google reader) so that, the next time, I keep track of them and also can access them elsewhere.

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

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

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

Few more good shots :P

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

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

Train - Cab

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

Lessons learnt on Ugadi...

Well, learnt two important lessons on Ugadi day.

First being how to replace a flat car tyre. Good learning.
Second one being an embarassing one. I went out in a car to a store, without carrying a mobile and ended up calling home from Re 1 coin booth.

Yes, I headed to a store in my car, as I had some work. In midway, not only I had to call the store owner, also my house. Without a mobile I did not have much choice, ended up calling from a coin booth. Felt a bit embarassing. But yes, such is life. Time and again you ought to remember where you are coming from.

Wrt to a flat tyre, I had a puncture just opposite to my house. I was lucky it happend in front of my house, since it was the first time. Sadly found out a crack on the side of the tyre. Not sure how it has happened. Hopefully I can replace it at the showroom with a new one for minimal cost, if its a manufacturing defect.
But also learnt how to replace a car tyre. Did it within 25 mins. A feat in itself, considering the fact that, I did it all alone reading from the manual and it being the very first time.

Now on I can do it even quicker. Hopefully no more flats, here's praying to GOD.

Cheers,
Sandeep

Dire Straits / Mark Knopfler - So far away

Me being a huge fan of Mark Knopfler, could not resist posting this video. Love this song.

New Seat covers @ Ceralli Automotive

Finally after few months, I thought about going in for a seat covers for my car. Choices were lot. I had heard about some cheap seat covers costing Rs 1500 and some good seat covers, at the showroom for Rs 5000. I even thought it would be the same else where.

So had noted down an advertisement in the newspaper about a shop which does seat covers.

When I went there, saw two types of seat covers. Pure leather, costing Rs 20K. And seat covers which are non leather, not sure about the material, will write about it soon. Pure leather costed Rs 20K and the other one Rs 8.5 K for my car.

And yes there were loads of customers. I had gone with 5K worth seat covers in my mind, now 8.5K was the minimum Somehow I did not think twice. I gave and advance of 1K and the color being beige and ash. I am bad at remembering suffs, Will surely edit this post once I recollect the color combination and the material.

Alongside seat covers also ordered for a arm rest worth 1.5K. Thought it would be helpful on highway drives. Frankly speaking, its worth for highway driving only. City driving needs so much of gear change, there is no scope for resting your left arm on that.

[ Moreover, my gearshift is not that buttery that I can move around with a finger. I need to use a lil bit force (lil bit mind u ). at least to shift to first and second gears, rest gears I can manage with palm with minimal force. ]

The good part is that its attached to the passenger seat, and is foldable. And yes, it adds very much comfort to the passenger in the front.

So overall a pretty nice experience.

The showroom being Supreme Overseas Leather Garments. (Ceralli).
The shop is located at BSK II nd stage, near Upahara Sagar.

Will put up pics sometime soon.

Cheers,
Sandeep

How important is it to read instruction manual ?

Frankly speaking, I am a kind of lazy person. In real life I come across many devices and stuffs many of which have instruction manuals. So just wanted to write about Instruction manuals of those devices. Unfortunately I do not read instruction manuals. Even if I read, I do not remember most of the instructions on how to operate and blah blah blah.

Unfortunately not reading instruction manual is a big big drawback. Reading and forgetting is like a sin. I have installed Central locking / Keyless entry onto my car. The key chain has 3 buttons. Two of which are to arm / lock and disarm / unlock.

When you either try to arm or disarm there is a siren which beeps twice before the door gets armed / disarmed. Since few days, I found out that, there was no siren, but the door was getting armed / disarmed properly. Even the buzzar while taking reverse was not effective.

I thought and thought and decided that I shall visit the showroom today and check if there is a fault. Minutes before leaving for the showroom, I had to gather the warrantly form for the central locking thing. It came alongside the instruction manual.

To my surprise there were lots of permutations and combinations with 3 buttons as such.

And when I went through the instruction set, I found

 " Pressing ARM and DISARM buttons simontaneously would turn off the siren ". In other words its meant for silent ARM and DISARM.

 So pressed the same two buttons in the same fashion and yes, the siren was up and running.

 Phew saved some fuel and time for me and yes, some grace as well. Else people at showroom would have thought " Ohh this guy seems to be an illiterate ?? "...

 Hmm, whatever...

 Cheers,
Sandeep

Blogger Wishlist

A few days back, I removed one of my posts from the blog, since a search using my current company name, ie my workplace, yielded my blog post as result.

I just wondered for a moment, was there a way to make specific posts obscure from search engines. Its possible to make an entire blog post entries to be unfound on a search engine. But can it be applied post by post. Not sure, but just a wish :)-

Cheers,
Sandeep