Rebooting the Blog

Its almost 2 years since i have written anything in this blog, and i can't even blame myself for this , lot of factors, first of all i went through some major irritating experience of life which prevented me from writing anything or doing any social networking activities, Now i think i have moved on , so starting off my old (probably best) practices :) .

Watched a few junk movies along the way, met some strange friends, learnt car driving, thought car driving to this guy. Went some places with my car and my friends car. Stayed with the same company for almost 3 years and regretting every single month why i am still there. 

As of now thoughts are just blank, But I am rebooting this blog and soon you can expect more , especially movie reviews, travel , more than anything definitely some Programming jokes (PJ).

-Srinivas

Happy New year 2013 !

I wish every one happy new year 2013 :).  Its been a rough journey for me in the year 2012. Last few days of 2012 were spent on getting treated for food poisoning caused because of eating food @ office canteen. So that will be big learning from 2012 is not to eat whatever comes in my way especially at public places.

So my REALISTIC goals for 2013 (i know it doesn't make any sense to share this here, but i usually use this blog to lol when i read it after few years from now... ;) )

* Eat healthy. Avoid spicy food.
* Talk less. (stop conversations when there is no point of it)
* Start reading books. ( My most ignored wish)
* Finish whatever i start ( for eg. Music classes/Gym/Keyboard lessons)
* Learn to swim (literally ,! also through problems of life ;) )

Thats all for this year. Even if i adopt/adapt 3 of the above throughout this year ! I will be happy :)


- Srinivas

December is here!

December is here and i can easily feel that i am going mad !!! I hope not to have this december syndrome next year. I hate december a lot. Every year one or the other hungama in life and this sucks! Another 20 days and i hope i won't lose my mind/brain/peace etc etc.
Enough.

Switching to a new OS ! Its fun and lots of irritation!

This is the post pending for almost a month, I have tried out many Operating Systems as a main Desktop OS. DOS was the first one and next was Windows 95, I must say Windows 95 was fun. I had a 32 MB Ram machine Intel Celeron machine and the boot up sound used to make me so happy!

During engineering had a chance to use Linux , oh! boy it was tough time to install Linux on a pc without disturbing Windows setup. That was the era of RED HAT linux 7.0. After goofing up many a times i finally managed to install on one of the machines, It used to be very slow installation process also we needed to choose the packages which we want to install, Initially i had spent time to understand packages but in the end gave it up.

Coming back to the post, Switching from Windows to Linux was a breeze, even though i dont have any technical explanation for the feeling , but i used to experience the internet was bit faster on linux compared to windows. One major advantage of Linux was no antivirus, so it used to let me use most of the 32 MB RAM :).

Its been more than 12 years , i have been using Windows and Linux . Recently bought an iMAC :) , When i told my friend i bought a MAC,  most of my friends asked me the question WHY you bought ?. I didn't wanted to explain everyone the reason, It used to make me little awkward when people say Why instead of saying cool! ;)

Oh Boy! Initial experience with MAC was awesome. Till now i never had a chance to play around MAC, apart from few occasions where i used to kill time on MAC in iStore of Mantri Mall.

iMAC's display rocks, UI is cool , but for a person who likes and loves Linux Gnome ( not Gnome 3) Its really difficult job to adjust to mac, Its all flashy and rocking only for first two days( thats the case with anything in life ) .

Mac is really cool if you want to record music, play around with garage band, or editing photos etc, I feel MAC is more suited for Artists and people who deal with music.
Coming to programming i feel it still needs a lot of improvements. Getting used to Magic Mouse and keyboard is the first hurdle. Getting used to Finder makes you cry! navigation using Finder is very difficult for any one from Linux/Windows background.

But Lastly it takes time to adjust yourself to MAC, but once you do you ll love it. I finally crossed the initial hurdles and now made myself liking it ( yeah! it takes a lot of effort). Many basic things mac lacks and thats the reason, many developers are making app and selling it.

Hope to have nice time with Mac. I have one comment on MAC hardware, MAC Rocks! Its design simplicity makes me feel its ok i spent extra money but worth it!

OS X Mountain Lion Has network issues!

I want to.....

I have lost touch, of blogging , cribbing or even writing something worth posting here. I am not sure what to tell.., With the introduction of twitter/buzz/facebook wall , what all you feel u can just put it there and you can release your anger/criticisms/cribbing or whatever, so I don't see much of blogging activity from my side in this place.

This post is all about I want to.....

I want to learn python (long time wish)

I want to blog regularly here so that i have some bookmarks of my life here which i can visit later.

I want to spend sometime about fitness.

I want to stop eating junk food.

I want to buy a MAC (weird but want to)

I want to find a new job!!!

I want to sleep .... ( Its been a long time since i had a nice sleep. I am not sure somehow i don't get to have sound sleep in recent times with all these crappy things going on in my brain)

That's all i can think as of now, this post is just to get myself back into the habit of blogging.

I use this blog mainly to put my thoughts and come back later in life and laugh about how silly i have written things here. I have already read few of my old posts and did a ROFL. ;) gives me happiness. :) .

Year End!

Hi ,

As usual i don't understand what it takes to regularly write something here, but most of the time its laziness, and probably i have forgotten the art of transferring thoughts to words, anyways 2010 end is nearing and 2011 is about to begin. Whats the difference ?

After 5 yrs in Software industry, i have already got used to year end bashes, valentine day celebrations , diwali gifts(sweet boxes) etc etc. But somewhere all the josh is missing in each and every occasion as its all looking like routine for me.

Time is passing so fast that , i clearly remember the last tow Ganesha Chaturthi's and even went on to think why do we have to do the same thing again and again ??? like decorating house etc etc .. I mean it was boring for me this year to celebrate any festival for that matter (i need a break i guess). So with this i can conclude either i am not taking breaks or i am thinking too much on a simple issue ;) . Whatever ... its once again routine to even think like this :).

I would like to tell about a jinx which started 4 yrs ago and hopefully its not happening this year. It goes like this, "Every year December has been the most horrible month of the year for me from past 4 years". I sometimes even get scared that December has arrived.

December 2006: It all started 4 yrs back i traveled to Korea on December 8th 2006, Boom!!!!! The Journey started with josh excitement but only it stayed for 1 week , afterwards i could not adjust to that country, cold, ppl work environment etc etc. lost 9 kgs in 3 weeks time , finally came back by cutting the trip short. ( in a sad mood/mode).

December 2007 : I was asked to work for one of our companies client place. I was the only one in that place and it was kind of struggling experience to work with few stupid bozo's out there in that company. they even asked me to work on 31st of December and later when i went to office they said you could have taken off. It was kind of most horrible times i had spent in that job.

December 2008: I was once again posted to work for one of the client place and everything was decent enough, but on 28th of Dec they told project is closed and sent us back on Jan 4th . Actually that bad mode/mood continued in 2009. I hated the year 2009.

December 2009: I was once again posted to work for one of the client place and what shall i say it was the worst nightmares.

December 2010: Till now nothing has happened but you never know still its not the end of the year .

Moral of the story Avoid working for a technology consulting company which will relocate you to customer's place with the tag "outsourcing" or "technology outsourcing" actually end up doing "body shopping"

So i wish everyone a very happy prosperous new year filled with joy, happiness and all your wishes come true.

signing off 2 days before end of 2010. For me 2010 will be mostly remembered for the maximum amount of uncertainty,pain, and stupidity :) . Hope it wont repeat in 2011.

Moral police!!! :P

Hi all,

I wish everyone Happy new year 2010. I am always this lazy to wish people :P.

Few updates from my side,
1) I resigned from my previous job(which was driving me crazy from last one year).
2) Currently i am unemployed(kind of liking it .. only till Monday)
3) In this new year my resolution of "Not spending money on stupid movies" has been successful till date (yesssssss!)

OK now whats the buzz .. Sriram sene/shiva sene/ monkey sene / !@#$@# sene. I really don't understand why these things are in place and trying to behave as if they are protecting Indian culture. OK i want make it clear that i am neither supporting the celebration of Valentines day or the release of "My name is Khan" , but when i browse through TV channels and see/hear news about these monkeys protesting and burning posters and trying to impose "BANDH" i cannot stop myself thinking ... WTH.

I read a statement from the leader of "monkey sene" "Whatever happens we will not allow people of Karnataka to celebrate Valentine's day " , i just have one question for him "Who the hell are u to decide". Its completely left to the people of INDIA/Karnataka to celebrate something , in fact its each and every individual right (perception). If some non-sensical idiot decides something is there any rule that we follow ? I am sure this year also Mr.Mutalik gets thousands of Pink under wears , He can become rich by selling those than trying to impose things on people. How about Mutalik under wears ??? :P

Now shiva sena I have never heard of anything good these people done to the people of mumbai ? Ok there might be examples but these people are more famous of doing wrong-things in Mumbai and trying to act as if Mumbai is owned by them.

Yesterday because of the fact that "My name is Khan " is being released thousands of police were in place to maintain peace in the city and avoid these monkeys from doing harm to "aaam Junta" . What a shame !!!! People (police) who are actually employed to save the city from criminals and maintain peace in the city are guarding a film's release. Do we really needs these things. We already have enough reasons to get scared to live in Metro's because of the terrorist attacks and stuff now these kind of "sene"s are making it worse.

I feel the government should ban all these "sene"s and their registration and arrest these groups permanently to maintain peace in the city. Big "namaskara" to moral policing. We are sensible enough to handle ourselves and Indian culture , We don't need goondas to protect us.

By saying that ending this post (First post of the year). Pls feel free to post your comments. Hoping to blog soon.

- Srinivas

Goodbye 2009!

Yes i am bidding goodbye to 2009 1 month ahead of time. I am bugged of this year. Yeah i agree there is no connection b/w whats happening and the year 2009, but somehow this year is the worst of all. Nothing positive happened this year. No achievements, no happiness...

I work for a consulting company, and this year began by a closure of a project which brought me back to parent company, from there all the bad things started happening... Spending day/night to debug an issue where i didn't have any idea of what i was doing... And then i spent some 4-5 months working on things which are of least interest to me . From then i was asked to move to another company as a contractor. And currently i am staying there from past 6 months, doing something which is of no use to my CV or my knowledge or any thing. Here we are supposed to work on every weekend apart from spending more than 12+ hrs everyday.

Some how i am not frustrated with all these but neither i am happy. But feeling these are the years where i am supposed to work on something which i like .. something which makes sense.. something where i can put a lot of my thinking and improve my skills. Apart from putting some prints here and there and taking binary dumps at few places.. I didn't do much of coding..

Somehow i want to escape all this boredom , and get-in some place where i can strengthen my skills. Improve lifestyle, have some peace of mind... Struggling to get out of this contractorgiri.
Its been almost 2.8 yrs i have been working as a contract employee in 3 different firms, 3 different technologies/domains.. Feeling like getting settled in something and start rediscovering myself. Also i lost in 2-3 interviews this year (few of them were very close one's),which added to my agony.

Apart from sad stories, this year i have watched a lot of movies, lot of suspense,thriller,horror movies. Lot of movies i watched in theater as well, needless to say by spending 200+ for a movie. Learnt to play better TT.

So now itself i want say goodbye to YEAR 2009. If something good happens in one month. I feel my life came to nearly balance state in this year 2009. Otherwise, bye bye 2009. Hoping for a better life in 2010

Happy Deepavali!!

Hi All,

I wish every one Happy Deepavali and a Prosperous new year. When compared to this deepavali from last one, life has become more boring ... :P. I think year after year things are becoming routine and i am constantly losing enthusiasm in everything. Today i felt happy bursting crackers after a long time.... I had dropped the idea of bursting crackers since 4-5 years.

During our childhood days i remember we used to wait for deepavali a lot. Its only because of crackers , the fun the joy of bursting crackers was amazing. I remember every time after bursting crackers i used to feel very sad. Don't know why but i remember i used to feel very sad and lonely after bursting crackers , but this time its reverse i felt happy and i was sad before bursting crackers.

Coming to life ... Everything is same as usual. It has become boring life .. no enthu, no trekking, no trips. Its just bugs/ solving things.. interviews... nowadays only thing i enjoy is HBO/Star movies. Whenever i get time i am addicted to movie watching. I feel i have reached a stage of life where everything seems boring...

I need a change a drastic change.... Waiting for that one. Once again i wish everyone happy deepavali.

- Srinivas

Happy New Year 2009!!! & Laziness...!!!

As usual i was lazy to post something here. Lazy enough to crib about something or other thing. The word laziness has been attached to my body and soul ever since my birth i feel. For the people around me i might sound/look like a person with lots of energy levels/enthu and stuff. But actually i am dead slow/ lazy person.

Its already April, before becoming fool i felt i will write something here,at least i will wish all a Happy New year, which is actually according to our Hindu calendar Ugadi. So life is like moving on like a roller coaster ride. Everything is changing every one are changing including myself.

I am totally bugged up of work/code/fun@office or software or framework or people giving lectures on how to handle things. Even i am bugged up of giving people funda's about work/life/music or what so ever. Basically its the time where i am feeling like relaxing in life. June 01.2005 was the date when we got our Final semester results, ever since that time i am feeling like i am on a marathon race.

No time for that no time for this. Dont do that , dont do this. You have to spend time here there.... Arre yaar chodona types. I used to dream inside classes or rather i can say dreaming about future started in 7th semester itself about the wonderful job and heavy salary, cool HR's ;) ;) Fundoo PC's work atmosphere etc etc etc etc.

As the saying "The Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence " or the kannda version Doorad Betta Nunnage.... types ella kade adhe golu adhe scene. Characters change aste. ( i am feeling lazy to translate whatever i have written as well).

Probably i missed out the enjoyment in college. Probably i missed out enjoyment in my first year of JOB. or rather Second year was coool. Or else now is it fine??. same feeling are repeating. As there is a saying if u try to run behind a butterly it just goes away and it comes back and sits on you only when you sit at one place and wait .... types...

So finally i am thinking of relaxing in life. But Now the RECESSION. The word recession economic slowdown. I am bugged of hearing this news. Everywhere the same thing. I can say this is the most discussed word in 2008-2009 i feel.

So if i just grep my 3.5 years of software engg life. i get these words

:> grep -r "is there anything useful" .

(where . is my brains home directory)

2005-2006 ------> Multimedia Framework / QT
2006-2007 -------> APOXI/WMA/KOREA I LOVE U (Fun enjoy DC ROLAKUTTY SHANDE KE KARNAME)
2007-2008--------> DSHOW/ FRAMEWORK ABSTRACTION blah blah blah
2008-2009(till date)----> RECESSION / NIGHTOUT( and all the crap blah blah)

I have missed out some words due to the fact that i cannot disclose them here ;)

So i am totally bugged up , I don't even need a change. I just want CONSTANT(something like PI). I hope its not the word RECESSION. Hoping to fill this new year with lots of words like (JOY ENJOY FUN MASTI )
Let me see what happens.

For all the people i wish Happy New year, have a new and prosperous year.Enjoy have fun make sure when u grep the whole year next time you try to get all good words and lesser bad words.

One more thing the last post JUNK PEOPLE was a decent attempt to take out my frustration but i feel this is not the place and that was written for a person in my last company who still acts the same way ;) all the best for that person

Hamm... what else...
My friend Sandy gave a cool T-Shirt [Kannada one for 140 Rs] there exists a short story i ll try posting it some time here. Raghu sandy susheem and myself visited Mysore and Ooty and Bison Vally. So this year(according to English calendar) started off well with lots of energy.

- Regards,
Srinivas

Some Junk ppl!

Hi ,

Life is all about meeting new ppl, interacting with them. Few ppl leave a long lasting impression on you .. Positively/Negetively. Few ppl think that u are not so good or u do only wrong things and crib about you.. but few really like u and accpet the things done by you. And later this initial interaction might make you some one as FRIEND. Yes so in some sense when ppl become too close to you and when u like them... a new Friendship starts. 

No matter they are good or bad. you dont know about them in the inital phase and later you will definitly come to know about the person and so u can decide about him. 

In my life i have met lots and lots of ppl and many of them are really nice ppl and they are so nice that they like what i do and what i speak. Also many a times there are ppl who think i am not so good or whatever blah blah.. so they tend to avoid me .. Thats perfectly fine for me :) after all you cant be good for every one or you cant be smart enough to handle all the ppl . you are living for yourself and not for others ..... 

But now to the title of this post. JUNK ppl. Very rarely met few ppl who are so stupid and pathetic when u look into their heart or brain. These are the ppl who lived with u for some time i mean they had some interactions with you in one or the other sense, but still they didnt understood you. But even after that instead of being normal they tend to act like as if they know you and they enact that they are very nice to you ... 

But meanwhile they actually hate you from inside the heart. Which means all the good things they said towards you are just for the SAKE. and infact they dont like you [ but its ok i dont expect ppl to be nice to me everytime] but.... when they dont like you why cant they say directly to you.... they just go and meet other ppl [may be your friends] .. and say all kind of bad things about you.... 

when u actually come to know about that person through other ppl its so cheap .... :| . So today i have come across one such entity of life [ i cant even call that person as PERSON because of so cheap menatlity] . Eventhough i know about this person's menatlity , i just greeted hi how are you and stuf... But that person didnt even bother to reply...   

So why i am thinking so much about that idiotic behaviour..... ??? Even i dont know but somewhere you feel pity for them.. WTH the same person who acted like they know you and stuff... forgot everything and dont have the common sense of replying to your Hi BYE or whatever..... 

Moral : Be Nice to ppl no matter they are good or bad. Try to be humble and try to atleast reply when they try to talk/chat with u... instead of being silent[where u have not gained anything]. 

- Srini

UBUNTU 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade problem!!!!

Hi ,

This post dedicated to all the ppl who are facing problems with the latest ubuntu update. I started using UBUNTU from past one month. The version which i downloaded was 8.04. I installed it using a CD . For the first time in my life, all my hardware devices worked for me without any problem. The moment i installed ubuntu, i was like..... Awesome man... ohhhh aaaaaaaaaaah stuff. Sound ,Video, X , Ethernet, Internet everything works. UBUNTU ppl have nailed linux Desktop :).

Now recenltly i tried to upgrade to 8.10 version. Upgrade went smoothly.But once i restarted the machine after upgrade. The user interface Hangs, fortunately my Failsafe Gnome option worked well for me. Through which i was able to browse the net for help. After one hour searching and trying 2-3 alternatives , in one of the forums i found that , During login you need to specifically choose the GNOME option, and this worked for me as well. ( Eventhough your default option was GNOME before upgrade ]

I thought of posting this. By default the option to login will be in Running X Script option . So change it to GNOME and hopefullly if you dont have any other issues, you can easily login and use the latest version of UBUNTU.


---- UBUNTU ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Srini

Windows REFRESH syndrome!!!!

Hi ,

Recently i was waiting for one of the movie torrents to finish off. So i was not browsing anything or not even reading anything on my desktop. I suddenly noticed that i was doing something on my desktop, In fact without my notice my right hand used to right-click and press refresh on the desktop. I was surprised, by this action. This is the most common behavior of all [at least most of them] to press refresh menu repeatedly when they dont have anything to do.

According to me, this is a syndrome. Its a general misconception that by pressing refresh menu you can boostup or speedup machine. According to my technical knowledge pressing refresh will refresh the screen or infact it redraws the screen and windows on the desktop. Apart from these things i dont see any connection to refresh the system memory or ram cleanup or something of that sort. But this general misconception has made ppl mad behind this refresh menu. Apart from StatMenu button , probably this refresh menu is the most used menu in windows environment till date i feel ;).

I am just trying to forget that there is a refresh menu on the desktop to come out of this syndrome. Also i am using UBUNTU majorly these days for my day to day activities which eventually prevents me from REFRESH syndrome.

If you also have REFRESH SYNDROME pls share your experiences , comment.

- Srini

Google Chrome !!

Hi all,

Its been almost 4-5 days of Google's new browser Chrome's release. I was also exited to use Google product, as i really like the way google works, a simple user interface, cool technology and features. I was really eager to download and use . At the first place i really like the way they have designed the user interface. Just using it for 20 mins , I uninstalled Firefox which was my favorite browser. Everything went smooth for 2 days. I read the google book about how chrome is designed and how efficient it is in terms of handling the browser crashes. But somehow after i used it for few times i started facing problems, Yes the browser won't crash. But it hangs!!! ;) .

My very first observation was , I wanted to view the video of google developers explaining about google chrome. When i moved the mouse over the video , the video freezed for 2-3 seconds, I was initially surprized and then i moved the cursor once again to get the same results. Then i started experimenting it, I try to browser youtube, but i could not reproduce the issue. Then i thought the probelm exists when u embed a youtube video.

I usually watch a lot of video's , some times 3GP content , Instead of downloading i use QuickTime player which plays the content inside the browser itself. Initially it worked fine but i have seen many a times the browser hangs..

And whenever i have seen this hanging browser it will not allow me to click other tabs as well. So i need to minimize it and then try my luck. Its quite stable as it never crashed . But its still needs to be tested . After all its a beta.

Few of my friends were not able to use it as after installation somehow they are not able to browse the net. Also Few of my friends are not installing it as its not having features like Ad-block or no - script.

Even sometimes , when u scoll the gmail window. The chat windows behave crazy. So after facing all these problems. I just thought i will wait till google fixes all these bugs. So one again i had to install Firefox.

I really appreciate the effort to introduce new technology. Atleast its not that worth to use it unless you really want to use Google product. I liked the User Interface, Minimal UI approach. Even the browsing speed was excellent . But Nothing infront of "Hang" bug.

Thats what i thought about Chrome. :) Firefox rocks ;) . If you have faced any issues pls comment and share.

- Srini

Phoonk Rocks!!!

Hi All,
I saw Ram Gopal Verma's Phoonk , Its a thriller/horror movie. I saw the movie in a theatre near my house named Kamakya , It was a second show. I wanted to watch this movie on the first day of its release but somehow i could not find any company. But when i was just lying on bed on Sunday at 8:30 , I just got a weired idea of watching "Phoonk" in kamakya theatre. I went alone for the movie.

I really like scary/horror/thriller movies. This one was a treat for me as its been a long time I saw any of such kind movies. The last movie which i saw in theatre was "The Happening" I just felt scared only one time in the movie. And there was nothing to make u feel scared, in the movie. But this one is amazing experience. First of all nice Background score, The movie is hit only because of this. You cant deny the story, but for Indian's the story is very old. The concept of Black magic is narrated very simple manner.

I like horror movies if they don't contain dirty faces , or masks. I still remember "Zee Horror show" by Sham/Tulsi Ramsey. All they used to do is to shoot in a grave yard with dirty faces plus special sounds. My all time favorite movie in horror category is "The Sixth Sense" . It was a great example for a thriller movie. and also a best example to demonstrate how to scare ppl only with concept and sound effects.

Well coming to Phoonk . The story is very simple , its about Black magic done for the daughter of a Builder acted by Suddep [ Kannada Actor] , and how they get rid of this thing. Sudeep has really acted nicely , also proved the reason why Ramu chose him for the script.

Well that's all i can say , Don't miss this movie and try to watch it in big screen . You can easily get scared. It was a" paisa wasool" movie. I just payed Rs 60 for the movie ticket. and Phoonk is really worth a watch. Even after coming out of theatre my heart was beating twice its speed. I really got scared for 4-5 scenes which was a delight for me . I really enjoyed this one. :) good break from usual routine.

My Rating : 4/5 [ I wanted to give 5 but , there exists one scene where they show growing hands of a grand mother which was just funny ]

3 Years in Software Industry !!!! Phew.... ;)

Hi ,
I complete 3 years in Software Industry, On August 22nd 2005 was the day i Joined my first company. Even after these 3 years i still miss my college days, friends and fun. It was not a easy journy through these years, The first year was really tough finding out what kind of work i like. Its always the fact that what i like i could not get to work. I was the junior most in my team. So obviously used to miss friends. 2nd year was awesome as we were aquired by some big company got lots of friends and work wise no improvement , but i had nice time i enjoyed a lot played lots of carrom. Soon the fun went away as i left that job and joined a startup ... At that point of time i realized, its not just only good work which keeps you happy. In this company no fun only work all the 365 days. In my previous company i used to crib that i dont have any work or good work. In the present company i started cribbing as i had not much fun. Later realised that we wont get what we want. now in this 3rd year i have adjusted myself to this environment. So things are going fine.

Some wonderful memories. during these 3 years.
1. I was working on linux for the first year.
2. I met some good ppl ... Shreesh,Shande,Harish,Rolls, div/sug/ many more ... had nice time.
3. Phooljhadi .
4. Had been to Korea.
5. Few things i cant tell actually ;)

Thats all for this post.

- Srini

I Hate......

Hi ,
After a long time one post.....

Usual day at office and I am trying to explain something to my colleague .. some piece of code to the newcomer. The moment i am trying to tell the sequence of function calls... Mr. X opens a notepad and starts typing something.... i was like... oh! boy ... Fine some ppl have the habit of noting down all the things on paper ... Then after some time i saw him debugging some code .. where i wanted to change the argument of a function call... since the keyboard and mouse were nearby i was about to type ... and sudeenly mr X makes a dirty face and grabs mouse from my hand and says... What are you doing... wait... he firsts copies the line and paste's it back and comments it out... and says .. see this is the way...... I was like **** **** *** .

I dont understand this idiotic behaviour... i agree sometimes u are new to something.. u make a note of it... or take a backup... but just for one single line.. if u are thinking of taking a backup ... u better be at home with hunderets of .txt files or carbon sheets or whatever....

I HATE :
1. Some one grabbing mouse.
2. Someone not allowing me to speak.
3. Someone ignoring me ...

- Thats all for this post...
- Srini

Happy shivarathri :)

Hi ,
I wish u all a happy shivarathri :) May the lord shiva make all your dreams come true. Today is shivarathri a very special day. As the name suggests Shiva rathri is more famous for "Jagarane" , which means not sleeping whole night and praying shiva.


Shivarathri has always been a special festival at home. Now regarding jagarane i have some nice moments till date, thought of sharing them one by one....

As i dig through my memory ... when i was kid , i used to say to mom , with full josh that "this time i am going to do jagarane , so please dont force me to sleep ok". mom used to reply "let me see how long it goes ". and i used to think big deal one day i can easily skip sleeping.... now after dinner the next program is to sleep, since i have already declared about my jagarane, i was thinking what to do.. ok let me watch the movie. In those days Doordarshan was the only tv channel, and they used to play a devotional movie only after 1AM. So i used to wait for that, but i was never successful and used to sleep either just before the movie, or used to sleep after watching the initial titles of the movie, the next morning mom and dad used to tease me for not doing jagarane.

Then came an era where we friends used to discuss among ourselves the plan for jagarane. I think it was 8th standard , we decided to do jagarane at chummy's house. With all josh we entered sumanth's house played cricket / badminton under lights . and then what?? At 12 o clock sumanth's mother gave us payasam, and within half an hour ,all of us were in deep sleep. the next day sumanth' mother asked ... "aha aha jagarane anthe jagarane 12 o clock ella nidde..."
.... thats it same thing again happened in 9th standard , in chummy's house me and raghu , only difference is like i slept at 1'o clock. That day i was thinking simply to sleep i came here che....

But the most memorable shivarathri was when i was in 10th standard. This time it was just me and sumanth. It was just study holidays and we were having exams next to next week of shivarathri. I had firmly decided that i should do jagarane at any cost. And i had decided that i will read Biology subject completely whole night. so we started at 10 o clock and sumanth told me" seena plz just 2 mins i will get up my eyes are burning but i am sure i will get up after 2 mins" , thats it after half an hour i tried to wake him up but i could not . But since i had decided to read I went on and on and on and on... not even a single time i felt like sleeping . that too after sumanth slept i had wonderful concentration and i finished chapter by chapter . And exactly at 6 o clock in the morning , i turned the last page of biology book , sumanth's mom came and opened the door and she was shocked at the sight, and asked you were awake whole night, and i told her yes aunty I was so happy at that time , i was feeling like i had won a battle. i got up and went to my home and thats it.... jagarane was successul..... :)

I had read that subject so well that i never bothered to revise the day before exam. Poor chap chummy was in trouble as i was the one who used to plan the study time table there was not even a single day allocated for biology , somehow he managed to read by himself [sorry sumanth ;)].

Thats it till date , i never got that much determination to do jagarane. All my attempts to do jagarane just went unsuccessful. Many a times i had plannned for watching movies, tv, net ... once even tried learning c#/.net . but i could not do any of them.

Now today is shivarathri , and i have decided this time i will surely do jagarane. ITs 10:23 PM and i am still writing this lengthy post.... the next program is to visit Temple nearby [as it will be very less crowded ] . This time my jagarane program starts at 11:00 PM . Have something in mind . Let me see how far it goes.... I hope i will be successful this time atleast :) will tell you in my next post.

May all your dreams come true. Try celebrating shivarathri :)

PS: this time also when mom heard that i am going to do nightout she was like ... aha aha nodona antha.... I hope i will be successful this time.

- Seena

Non sense!

Hi there, me back with some junk [as usual]. Just have a look at the photo attached, yes its the same which we see daily and try to ignore, one fine day since i was stuck at some signal, I used my 6300 to take this one specially for this post.

Now whats wrong with these ppl, I have been thinking about this post or rather about this issue from past 3 months, never got time to write and i feel today its the right time. Daily on the road side we see such kind of vinyl banners, containing some 30 + photos embedded using photo shop spoiling the beauty of the city. You can see such photos every where , nowadays there is no reason left for them to affix all of their photos and just place it where ever they want.

The above photo is kept wishing birthday of some idiot, and his fan following. I have seen such kind of vinyl boardings just containing some 40+ photos and all of them placed tightly in a single frame. The reason for keeping such kind of boardings is as pathetic as the frame itself, some of the examples are wishing birthday, or wishing for the completion of one year in the party, or some group of idiots doing some poooja or some ppl for distribution of cloths to poor ppl.

The reason might be noble one , but my question is why do we need such big posters and that too containing so may photos. If you are trying to wish some one why cant you do it personally or even if you want to celebrate go and distribute sweet or whatever to poor ppl , but why to spend some thousands of money to spoil the nature. It looks so ugly and these posters lie there for months together even thought the occasion lasts for one day.

I have seen hell lot such boardings and every time i see them , i feel very much angry and my blood boils . Why the hell should i watch a big boarding containing photos of hundreds of idiots of different sizes and shapes, and that too at traffic signals, Nowadays I have controlled my anger as i cant do anything about , so thought i will crib here and i am done with it. If you are one among those hundred parties or group of ppl celebrating birthday of someone please try avoiding such a nonsense activity of placing a big vinyl banner with so many photos . Please we can do lot of things rather than wasting money on this and spoiling nature. :)


PS: All my anger got decreased even i was feeling happy when i was painting black on the faces :) . I pity the graphic designer who does this daily as a part of his job. poor chap .