My memories are fresh as i am on my way back home after a week long trip to london. I am penning down here the experience and opinion on london.
London is a very multi-ethinic city... my workplace had people from 7 different countries.. like one guy's gf is chinese and father from west-indies and mother from ireland. People can be seen wearing a huge variety of clothes. May also be due to presence of lot of travellers. but some office going crowd were also good at their dressing.. a wide variety of dresses by boyz or girls.. colorful and refreshing one to eyes. Intially I was uncomfortable with the short and revelaing clothes by ladies, but just got used to it in a few days.
100's of restaurants, i had some food varieties like mexican, japanese, arabic, thai, chinese, sushi, hungarian, itlaian. I did not try any indian food btw.One thing they all have adapted from british culture is wine. Wine has become an esential part of the dinner. i had an agenda to try all varieties of scotch ..but later settled in good old style wines and ciders(a type of beer).
What i did not like is the priority for wearing a suit. Lot of people were observed to judge people by their dressing style. A suit and a pair of formal shoes was always expected whenever i was dining in any good restaurant. Got convinced that "bread" is infact one of the top 10 inventions of modern world. Unless in india where bread is only available on packets, the western society has really experimented in bread and has come with a wide variety of foods related to bread. So they all love bread.
Lot of gardens in london, saw a lot of people either running or cycling to their workplace. infact some were wearing a suit, half pant and cycling.
Got really excited about world war 2. Till now it was just a 4 page short passage in my 9th class history book. Almost all of britain's monuments has their history related to the WW2. the war room, the military house, buckingham palace, the wesminster road to dedicate women's involvement in WW2, st paul's cathedral for american and brtish soldiers. One thing i am going to do is spend sometime to read about WW2 and churchill before i lose interest in them.
Little confusused about the so called "public display of affection" by young couples...smooching, pressing the butts. Do not consider this question as my desperation attempt to protest. But my german gave an opinion that, its just a part of an culture but...
Last but not the least the tube and the oyster card. A 20 pound card is perfect for a london traveller to go to any place. The condolsence meet at trafalgar suquare an Michael jackson's death was worth witnessing.
Bye bye london
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Warkaphilic
I am handling complex stuff..
In the early years of my job i.e the first 2 years, I used to believe its the energy that brings momentum in a work, Now I also think its the strategy that contributes more. I reached a place, where people are very proffessional about the work, they think they should do what they can, and then go home, chill out. I learnt, its about the sincerity to the work not the seriousness. The work needs to be the best , no compromise. I thank my mentor for made me realize that release of the product/ meeting deadline is a less priority , rather meeting quality and market expectation is a higher one. reward and recognistion just follows.
Today, I argue till I die to prove my point, when I am right I made the team agree to me. I dont tolerate a 15 minute delay in cricket score , when a match is going in between ind vs Sl.Any delay in showing a stale score is going to hamper my customer, the dev lead shouted at me to be so aggressive. But this aggressiveness is what my customer want from me.
Work is personal again. I am committed to beat google.
In aday to day job, I meet a lot of people who are diplomatic, less transparent in doing a task , and thinks its the manager whom they need to prove themselves. They write a doc in the proper format, arrange meetings to show the procedure is followed, attend meeting and put useless comments to show they are not sleeping. I dont attend such meetings where I am not going to understand it, I think my lead is going to support me , but otherwise also I am fine. I am seeing the new perspectives of my life, where I have to outperform the benchmark which I set for myself rather proving me against my manager.
The days are gone, I see making friends with collegues and try to impress them with my jokes. I now try to be a mentor for a task and not a teacher. I think my collegues understand me.
The bottomeline, work is fun and I am there to enjoy it.
In the early years of my job i.e the first 2 years, I used to believe its the energy that brings momentum in a work, Now I also think its the strategy that contributes more. I reached a place, where people are very proffessional about the work, they think they should do what they can, and then go home, chill out. I learnt, its about the sincerity to the work not the seriousness. The work needs to be the best , no compromise. I thank my mentor for made me realize that release of the product/ meeting deadline is a less priority , rather meeting quality and market expectation is a higher one. reward and recognistion just follows.
Today, I argue till I die to prove my point, when I am right I made the team agree to me. I dont tolerate a 15 minute delay in cricket score , when a match is going in between ind vs Sl.Any delay in showing a stale score is going to hamper my customer, the dev lead shouted at me to be so aggressive. But this aggressiveness is what my customer want from me.
Work is personal again. I am committed to beat google.
In aday to day job, I meet a lot of people who are diplomatic, less transparent in doing a task , and thinks its the manager whom they need to prove themselves. They write a doc in the proper format, arrange meetings to show the procedure is followed, attend meeting and put useless comments to show they are not sleeping. I dont attend such meetings where I am not going to understand it, I think my lead is going to support me , but otherwise also I am fine. I am seeing the new perspectives of my life, where I have to outperform the benchmark which I set for myself rather proving me against my manager.
The days are gone, I see making friends with collegues and try to impress them with my jokes. I now try to be a mentor for a task and not a teacher. I think my collegues understand me.
The bottomeline, work is fun and I am there to enjoy it.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thought Repeation
Yesterday, I had an idea. Idea that seems to me cool. It was on peer to peer video distribution network. As i thought deeply, i got more and more excited with in myself. It seemed to me truly original and new.
Then I called my friend, to find out how good he thinks it is. He listened to it patiently and then said, dude, its already out in the market and working. I tried to add many new things to make him rethink and to convince him that my thoughts are original.
Then, I did a google search and I am in shock. Its done same to same as I thought. The question that came to mind was "Have I read it already and trying to lie myself now saying the idea as my orginal thought ?".
I have not read about this idea anywhere and it just came to mind when i was waiting for my mp3 to get downloaded and same time watching a discovery documentry that I downloaded from torrents after 3 days from starting it, called "Download: The true story of internet". There was this cool story of how napster brought people power to the internet playground.
Finally, I was wondering how the first person would have got this thought as I got it today. Would he have just got it randomly as I did. Actullay, these ideas never come in random, there is a correlation matrix s/w that runs in background in our mind. This tiny s/w actually corelate two independent set of information, observation and experiene of the human and deduce these kind of interesting ideas out of the need.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Trip Planning
I do some trekking. The last day of any trek make our group cherish all our experience. The instances we suffered most and the variety of experiences.
We also discuss another interesting topic. Where to go next? This make us figure out the places, that will be more interesting than all the collective expereience of the current one. A good strategy, I think !
The palces we shortlisted after our ladakh trip are Kenya, Andaman, Scotland or Arunachal.
I have been to many jungles in india. They are national sanctuary where wild animals get safe habitat and live on human mercy.They are scared of humans and that is not the way mighty Lion want to spend his whole life. I never felt any fear deep in my heart though I was in the biggest tiger sanctury of india once. I think, Lion is the king of the jungle and anyone entering into its kingdom should be scared of his life. This will come, once you enter the national Sanctuary in Kenya. The Lions, the elephants with those big ears, zebras, rhinos , chitas … man awesome… keep your eyes open. Jungle is not to drink beer and chill out. You are in mercy of the King Lion, respect him. [ I think like this after watching discovery and internet]
Andaman has a nice underwater sea diving facility. Giganctic himalayan ranges ihas the mightiness. The same way an island in the mid of an ocean will give us an experience of adventure feel, then the calmness I used to enjoy.
Scotland brings the experience of beautiful europe. Along with that the scotch and the Scottish skirt calls to go to Scotland.
I loved Himalayas, the zanskar range in ladakh where K2 rules, the garwal ranges in Uttaranchal where nandadevi and everest rules ,the eastern ranges in Sikkim with Kanchenjunga. One thing is missing, how will it be the where the mighty himalaya has lost its strength and surrennders in front of the great brahmaputra. Where Brahmaputra is able to cross Himalayas and flows in Assam. That will be Arunachal, deep valleys and a chill climate.
So lets see which is going to happen this time, deadline – Sept 2009
I have been to many jungles in india. They are national sanctuary where wild animals get safe habitat and live on human mercy.They are scared of humans and that is not the way mighty Lion want to spend his whole life. I never felt any fear deep in my heart though I was in the biggest tiger sanctury of india once. I think, Lion is the king of the jungle and anyone entering into its kingdom should be scared of his life. This will come, once you enter the national Sanctuary in Kenya. The Lions, the elephants with those big ears, zebras, rhinos , chitas … man awesome… keep your eyes open. Jungle is not to drink beer and chill out. You are in mercy of the King Lion, respect him. [ I think like this after watching discovery and internet]
Andaman has a nice underwater sea diving facility. Giganctic himalayan ranges ihas the mightiness. The same way an island in the mid of an ocean will give us an experience of adventure feel, then the calmness I used to enjoy.
Scotland brings the experience of beautiful europe. Along with that the scotch and the Scottish skirt calls to go to Scotland.
I loved Himalayas, the zanskar range in ladakh where K2 rules, the garwal ranges in Uttaranchal where nandadevi and everest rules ,the eastern ranges in Sikkim with Kanchenjunga. One thing is missing, how will it be the where the mighty himalaya has lost its strength and surrennders in front of the great brahmaputra. Where Brahmaputra is able to cross Himalayas and flows in Assam. That will be Arunachal, deep valleys and a chill climate.
So lets see which is going to happen this time, deadline – Sept 2009
Sunday, November 02, 2008
House for shelter
My GrnadFather was a farmer.He had acres of agriculture land.In the village, he had a house and a big garden behind it with lots of coconut,mango trees, a pond with fishin it all. It was beautiful.The house he used to stay was bult by his father, with 3 rooms, a kitchen and a big balcony infront of the main bedroom for playing cards, village discussions.I liked the whole combo perfect for staying. But this seems not enough for my grandpa, since he had 3 kids[ my father, my uncle and aunt]. He thought about the need of more living space for his kids, since theny will grow up and will get married oneday. Also the rooms were all old styled though they had lovely stone pillar and heavy teak doors.
Oneday he decided a new house and part of the garden was vicitmised in the plan of the house. A concrete house in place of the outfashioned mud house. Now we have all 9 rooms in the village. 3 were already there, 3 more bedrooms for kids, one store room for agricultural goods, a bigger kitchen and one welcome hall. With the time, my aunt got married and lives happily in another village and come sometimes to visit her father's place. My father was educated enough not to take agriculture as profession and was also ambitious. He moved to the city soon with his wife. My grandfather is no more with us. My only uncle still lives in the village with his businees and family. We dont have any production from farming now. Last time I went to village, we all were using total 3 rooms for all of our needs. Most of the rooms were either have unused furnitures or were dusty.
My father liked the city a lot and with all his savings he bought a new house. It used to have 2 rooms , a kithcen and a hall. it was not big, but enough to accomdate a small family. We had a small garden. 15 years back I used to love it a lot, since it was all beautiful with papaya trees, rose plantations, grassy surface and mom used to grow small tomato plants in them.
One bright sunny day, labourers and contractors dig all our garden. It was a shock to me, but learnt sooner that it is all for us. When we will grow up, we will need more space for living and my father is just enabling that for us. I was happy next day in thought of a bigger house with 4 rooms, 1 hall, 1 kitchen, > 1 toilets. With all of his small savings, it took 9 years for my father to built this 2 storey house. Next year I left bhubaneswar for my engg studies and could not attend the gruha pravesh puja. It never happened since then I stayed in this house for more than 15 days.
Last time I went home, I cleaned all my books and sold them. Since I better like to sleep on floor, I could not use the new cot my father has installed in my room. Mom wants to build 2 more rooms on 2nd floor, since the space will be less once I get married. Also with plane flooring and no distemper paint, they look old fashioned.
On my back journey, I was thinking,
What makes a father build a room, that suffers the absense of his son for ever ?
Why no father has yet learnt the needlessness of more living space, since there is laready abundant unutilized rooms ?
Why hope of a person never gets convinced ?
Oneday he decided a new house and part of the garden was vicitmised in the plan of the house. A concrete house in place of the outfashioned mud house. Now we have all 9 rooms in the village. 3 were already there, 3 more bedrooms for kids, one store room for agricultural goods, a bigger kitchen and one welcome hall. With the time, my aunt got married and lives happily in another village and come sometimes to visit her father's place. My father was educated enough not to take agriculture as profession and was also ambitious. He moved to the city soon with his wife. My grandfather is no more with us. My only uncle still lives in the village with his businees and family. We dont have any production from farming now. Last time I went to village, we all were using total 3 rooms for all of our needs. Most of the rooms were either have unused furnitures or were dusty.
My father liked the city a lot and with all his savings he bought a new house. It used to have 2 rooms , a kithcen and a hall. it was not big, but enough to accomdate a small family. We had a small garden. 15 years back I used to love it a lot, since it was all beautiful with papaya trees, rose plantations, grassy surface and mom used to grow small tomato plants in them.
One bright sunny day, labourers and contractors dig all our garden. It was a shock to me, but learnt sooner that it is all for us. When we will grow up, we will need more space for living and my father is just enabling that for us. I was happy next day in thought of a bigger house with 4 rooms, 1 hall, 1 kitchen, > 1 toilets. With all of his small savings, it took 9 years for my father to built this 2 storey house. Next year I left bhubaneswar for my engg studies and could not attend the gruha pravesh puja. It never happened since then I stayed in this house for more than 15 days.
Last time I went home, I cleaned all my books and sold them. Since I better like to sleep on floor, I could not use the new cot my father has installed in my room. Mom wants to build 2 more rooms on 2nd floor, since the space will be less once I get married. Also with plane flooring and no distemper paint, they look old fashioned.
On my back journey, I was thinking,
What makes a father build a room, that suffers the absense of his son for ever ?
Why no father has yet learnt the needlessness of more living space, since there is laready abundant unutilized rooms ?
Why hope of a person never gets convinced ?
Monday, October 13, 2008
My Handwriting
Today I was writing a doc and found a new font "MS Gothic". Font that was invented by Apple, I think one is a very creative inventions in the field of document writing.
If I recollect my school days, My odiya teacher used to say, the cow dung looks more beautiful than my handwriting. Then she used put a pen between my index and fore finger and press the fingers till I cry in pain. Was it really the fault of those fingers !!
My english teacher used to say, a beautiful english letter must look like seeds of vegetable brinzal. Guys do use your imagination here. Never achieved that though, but she always used to cut some of my marks in exam in the hope I will be better oneday.
If they all had the slightest idea, oneday I will promise to go paperless and use these "font" for all beauty of writing, I would not have suffered then.
Any teachers, please do not punish the kids for this any more.
If I recollect my school days, My odiya teacher used to say, the cow dung looks more beautiful than my handwriting. Then she used put a pen between my index and fore finger and press the fingers till I cry in pain. Was it really the fault of those fingers !!
My english teacher used to say, a beautiful english letter must look like seeds of vegetable brinzal. Guys do use your imagination here. Never achieved that though, but she always used to cut some of my marks in exam in the hope I will be better oneday.
If they all had the slightest idea, oneday I will promise to go paperless and use these "font" for all beauty of writing, I would not have suffered then.
Any teachers, please do not punish the kids for this any more.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
naye log..nayi batein
On my trip to Leh, met many interesting people..
Sitting in front of my comp I stare at the .NET object.
Looking back to my trip, I recollect those interesting people
Person 1: A guy was my field director ( no name swamy), a guy someone like Dr Asthana from Munnabhai MBBS. A person who has followed certain rules for a good part of life and beleives discpline and rules is the essential way to lead a life. The guy did not agree to allow us to go out for exploring any place for first 4 days. I requested, explained that I dont have much time, I fougt and I hinted I could have broken the rule and not doing yet. He still was firm.I broke the rule, went for rafting, went to monastries , went to leh city seeing. He got angry, complained.
Person 2: Met a girl from germany. Young, beautiful, calm, student of anthropology on a trip to Leh with her hunt. She dont feel the cold rather enjoyed it.My first international crush.
Person 3: A Naval officer from Indian Navy, Middle aged, handsome, highly energetic. Completed the 6 days cycle trip on leh. An army guys view of the country, his NDA days, how he impressed her lady for the ball game during NDA days. And his current disatisfaction over the army. to bring the context, years back I was qualified in the NDA exam, but did not go for the SSB interview.
Nice experience... It makes me think
Sitting in front of my comp I stare at the .NET object.
Looking back to my trip, I recollect those interesting people
Person 1: A guy was my field director ( no name swamy), a guy someone like Dr Asthana from Munnabhai MBBS. A person who has followed certain rules for a good part of life and beleives discpline and rules is the essential way to lead a life. The guy did not agree to allow us to go out for exploring any place for first 4 days. I requested, explained that I dont have much time, I fougt and I hinted I could have broken the rule and not doing yet. He still was firm.I broke the rule, went for rafting, went to monastries , went to leh city seeing. He got angry, complained.
Person 2: Met a girl from germany. Young, beautiful, calm, student of anthropology on a trip to Leh with her hunt. She dont feel the cold rather enjoyed it.My first international crush.
Person 3: A Naval officer from Indian Navy, Middle aged, handsome, highly energetic. Completed the 6 days cycle trip on leh. An army guys view of the country, his NDA days, how he impressed her lady for the ball game during NDA days. And his current disatisfaction over the army. to bring the context, years back I was qualified in the NDA exam, but did not go for the SSB interview.
Nice experience... It makes me think
Monday, September 22, 2008
22 sitambar
Its ma bday... a nice day ...day I feel lucky, I feel special
I guess this year, it will be the most boring
I dont know why but I feel, its night 12, day is yet to come
time is the killer... it shows so many things..
I wish I were a child, i would get up early, get new dress from dad, go to the temple with mom, blessings from God for a bright future
nice narayana puja for me, priest will bless me infront of the sacred fire, mom would make lot of sweets and tasty dishes at home. I would distribute choclates to friends.
My sister love me more, make me feel special.Noone would complain when I change the TV channel.
My younger brither would get himself out deliberately on my slow offspin balls, just to make me happy.
Dad could not scold us for playing cricket for playing cricket on roof top, since its my bday.
back to the summer of 69
I am going to sleep, hope to see you tommorow.
I guess this year, it will be the most boring
I dont know why but I feel, its night 12, day is yet to come
time is the killer... it shows so many things..
I wish I were a child, i would get up early, get new dress from dad, go to the temple with mom, blessings from God for a bright future
nice narayana puja for me, priest will bless me infront of the sacred fire, mom would make lot of sweets and tasty dishes at home. I would distribute choclates to friends.
My sister love me more, make me feel special.Noone would complain when I change the TV channel.
My younger brither would get himself out deliberately on my slow offspin balls, just to make me happy.
Dad could not scold us for playing cricket for playing cricket on roof top, since its my bday.
back to the summer of 69
I am going to sleep, hope to see you tommorow.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Month of August
Yes, Finally month of August has ended.
I attended all those farewell parties... friends left me again.. in order to follow their career goals.. as the song pap kehte hain echos... they want to do an MS, some MBA.
but standing here, outside my cafetaria hall, i now ask maself, whom should I call from today for lunch with me. Why friends have to leave? When will the hunger of a good career end inside we all. I am no different from all these though I am cribbing now.
I value friendship a little more than avg and give enugh care to nurture it. I think for them, I sit with them, make them smile. Then also it becomes a disaster.
I promise myself, I will build only friendship that align to me so that I can hold them for longer time. Hope this happens.
I attended all those farewell parties... friends left me again.. in order to follow their career goals.. as the song pap kehte hain echos... they want to do an MS, some MBA.
but standing here, outside my cafetaria hall, i now ask maself, whom should I call from today for lunch with me. Why friends have to leave? When will the hunger of a good career end inside we all. I am no different from all these though I am cribbing now.
I value friendship a little more than avg and give enugh care to nurture it. I think for them, I sit with them, make them smile. Then also it becomes a disaster.
I promise myself, I will build only friendship that align to me so that I can hold them for longer time. Hope this happens.
Friday, August 15, 2008
When My mom outsmarted me
Last Feb, I had been to my hometown bhubaneswar. It was a time of rising oil prices, falling stock markets and rising inflation. I was discovering a new investment opportunity that was gold. I was just reading more and more to get convinced of gold trading in market.Gold seemes to be pretty attractive in the coming days to beat inflation and to make gains.
One day, my mother was preparing pan (bettle leaf) and she told me that she wanted money to buy gold. As I was just getting to know more about gold, I answered back that how can she buy gold at this moment as it is so expensive. She told me, its just feb and she is not interested now, However, she wants the money in August.In August the price will be the lowest.
I just moked my mom's superstition, how she is ignorant of the gold price fluctuations in the NYMEX and how big MBA dudes spend nights to predict the price for their clients. And Sitting with her pan dabba, how can she give such a big statement of decline in gold price after 6 months, when all are saying it will go north-wards.
I came back from home, and bought gold at 13K per 10 grams using my trading account. It was mid march. I was pretty convinced at rising of oil prices to 200$ barrel and gold price to 15K. I had a theory of myself to believe in it and lot of expert views and analysis to back it.
I started checking the price everyday as it was moving up.In July it reached 13800. I was excited with the gains from my investment.
Then the unexpected happened. The month of August arrived.Some pulled the price down before I can react to it. If I would have known why, I should have surely written here. As I write this post, gold is trading at 10800 per gram today. Among 12.5% inflation, all my analyst don't have the answer why it went down all over the world.
My Mom called today, as she want money to buy gold now. I had no words to tell "NO" to her, How badly she has beaten and outsmarted me. I just told my father to withdraw two times the money she asked me, from my account and give her to buy gold jeweleries for her and in a sense to say sorry for belittling my mother's experience.
One day, my mother was preparing pan (bettle leaf) and she told me that she wanted money to buy gold. As I was just getting to know more about gold, I answered back that how can she buy gold at this moment as it is so expensive. She told me, its just feb and she is not interested now, However, she wants the money in August.In August the price will be the lowest.
I just moked my mom's superstition, how she is ignorant of the gold price fluctuations in the NYMEX and how big MBA dudes spend nights to predict the price for their clients. And Sitting with her pan dabba, how can she give such a big statement of decline in gold price after 6 months, when all are saying it will go north-wards.
I came back from home, and bought gold at 13K per 10 grams using my trading account. It was mid march. I was pretty convinced at rising of oil prices to 200$ barrel and gold price to 15K. I had a theory of myself to believe in it and lot of expert views and analysis to back it.
I started checking the price everyday as it was moving up.In July it reached 13800. I was excited with the gains from my investment.
Then the unexpected happened. The month of August arrived.Some pulled the price down before I can react to it. If I would have known why, I should have surely written here. As I write this post, gold is trading at 10800 per gram today. Among 12.5% inflation, all my analyst don't have the answer why it went down all over the world.
My Mom called today, as she want money to buy gold now. I had no words to tell "NO" to her, How badly she has beaten and outsmarted me. I just told my father to withdraw two times the money she asked me, from my account and give her to buy gold jeweleries for her and in a sense to say sorry for belittling my mother's experience.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Kuch to change chahiye
What made us such a coward ?
I keep on searching, why we lack the guts ...
The guts,I see when I see those 25 year freaks in youtube starting companies like 37signals,netvibes,facebook...
An american population of mere 200 million produce so many start-uppers and we have a 1 billion population.
We keep ourself happy generating wealth for big companies and stay satisfied.
We keep our dreams inside ourselves till we die. What stop us in making them big ?
I see so many minds in my day to day life, the question keeps popping inside me.
Everyday i come back to work with the feeling, i will get an convincing answer today.
Is that only fear of loss !!
But why we indians are so afraid ?
We were not when it was 12th century ,we were so smart with maths, science, art, architecture. I don't need to prove this line to neone.
Sometimes I think, these mugals and britishers killed changed our genes.Their atrocity killed all our creativity. We turned into just a bunch of sycophants and money lovers.The 300 years of barbarity is the major reason,why we are such a coward today.
Please, correct me if I am wrong [ this line is always present in all my outgoing emails :) ]
I keep on searching, why we lack the guts ...
The guts,I see when I see those 25 year freaks in youtube starting companies like 37signals,netvibes,facebook...
An american population of mere 200 million produce so many start-uppers and we have a 1 billion population.
We keep ourself happy generating wealth for big companies and stay satisfied.
We keep our dreams inside ourselves till we die. What stop us in making them big ?
I see so many minds in my day to day life, the question keeps popping inside me.
Everyday i come back to work with the feeling, i will get an convincing answer today.
Is that only fear of loss !!
But why we indians are so afraid ?
We were not when it was 12th century ,we were so smart with maths, science, art, architecture. I don't need to prove this line to neone.
Sometimes I think, these mugals and britishers killed changed our genes.Their atrocity killed all our creativity. We turned into just a bunch of sycophants and money lovers.The 300 years of barbarity is the major reason,why we are such a coward today.
Please, correct me if I am wrong [ this line is always present in all my outgoing emails :) ]
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Think Different
Here is to the crazy ones
the misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers
The round pegs in the square holes
The ones who see things differently
They are not fond of rules
And they have no respect for the status quo
You can quote them, disagree with them
glorify or vilify them
But the only thing you cant do...is ignore them
Because they change the things
They push the human race... forward
And while some may see them as the crazy ones...
we see genius
Because the ppl who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world...
are the ones who do.
Too Good..I just love the stuff written..
the misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers
The round pegs in the square holes
The ones who see things differently
They are not fond of rules
And they have no respect for the status quo
You can quote them, disagree with them
glorify or vilify them
But the only thing you cant do...is ignore them
Because they change the things
They push the human race... forward
And while some may see them as the crazy ones...
we see genius
Because the ppl who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world...
are the ones who do.
Too Good..I just love the stuff written..
Monday, March 03, 2008
I wanna tell u ...Smruti is a male
don't refer me as miss and feel sorry
Don't leave comment to my post, saying..Dear miss and blah blah
yahoo chat to haad hi hai... mera mail id login karte public fire karna chalu kar deti hai..
hi...then series of buzz
if I say I am a guy , they don't believe..I sumtimes talk making me as a female
Am I smruti, smriti or smruthi... outside orissa main pronounciation ka panga
Office wale bi marte hain.. humne socha ladki hai ..saala tu to ladka hai..
I am forced to use "Smruti Ranjan", with all the mail I sent out
hi Dad and Mom, I love my name, but agli waar aisa mat kariega plz
Don't leave comment to my post, saying..Dear miss and blah blah
yahoo chat to haad hi hai... mera mail id login karte public fire karna chalu kar deti hai..
hi...then series of buzz
if I say I am a guy , they don't believe..I sumtimes talk making me as a female
Am I smruti, smriti or smruthi... outside orissa main pronounciation ka panga
Office wale bi marte hain.. humne socha ladki hai ..saala tu to ladka hai..
I am forced to use "Smruti Ranjan", with all the mail I sent out
hi Dad and Mom, I love my name, but agli waar aisa mat kariega plz
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Data and Information.. who wins the fight
Difference:
Data does not get depreciated with time, but information does. A piece of information that seems to be very much in demand, might lose its value tomorrow like in newspapers.
A news is an balanced mix of information and data.Or I would rather say news is information, backed by relevant, reliable as well as credible data.
so today's world is so empowered with information, I am smarter than u , if I have the same information with me before you.
I don't advocate to tell what is more important, since companies of billion dollars run on just Data, and another billion dollar is earned from information.
I am psyched of these 2 terms, so practicing the difference, by writing down
Data does not get depreciated with time, but information does. A piece of information that seems to be very much in demand, might lose its value tomorrow like in newspapers.
A news is an balanced mix of information and data.Or I would rather say news is information, backed by relevant, reliable as well as credible data.
so today's world is so empowered with information, I am smarter than u , if I have the same information with me before you.
I don't advocate to tell what is more important, since companies of billion dollars run on just Data, and another billion dollar is earned from information.
I am psyched of these 2 terms, so practicing the difference, by writing down
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
google impressions on [the] line
Half of the world loves G (the recent ABC book teaches G for Google) and rest half are scared..
Google is our friend or foe ..the best of world's marketers still have their case studies incomplete.. They r not yet convinced to reach at any conclusion.
Working in a competitors company, every 3 sentence we discussed we say the word "google" once. its not me, even my search head from US who gave a talk recently,was observed doing the same. If google can, why cant we !!!
What I felt (1 year back) is, It empowers me, with its rich set of access to the information. Its a tool or moreover a service that converts user questions into search queries and maps it to the best result I wished. ( u say within, guru sab janta hai )
But using google no more only means, "extracting information from the internet labrynith", now for me its, revealing more of myself to google/to the internet world. Google knows each and every pattern of my behavior.
To pen down a few,
1. I search max on thursday( on an avg 67).
2. During a day between 11-12 ( max serach queries are fired )
3. It knows many more , what books, what places I search in map( Google knows I have kenya tiger safari in mind)
4. The trends made me stand still
5. It suggested me few keywords ,websites
CRACKED.com - WTF!?: The 8 Strangest Communities on the Web
I always used to believe on google, but never trust it. I hope we understand the difference.
Being a technical person, I never wish to make google to behave smarter with me.
Thats the reason, I dont click on google search results, never directly click on sponsored links.i think google watches each and every query in the world.
When I say google, Its the machine , the computation algorithms.
It will not be very far when ppl will claim that, G knows them more than their spouse/ mother.
Also, may be guy's will go through their intended spouse's google search trends before going on their date.I think this will really help in understanding the character.
This is because, G will remain to contribute a large part into person's thinking/ shaping of the thoughts and that is where a person exists.
I still imagine, one day I will type www.google.com, and reply will be
I think you want search for the result of "_________", here are your answers
hey man not an impossible thing, google will give u the answer before u type the question
Google is our friend or foe ..the best of world's marketers still have their case studies incomplete.. They r not yet convinced to reach at any conclusion.
Working in a competitors company, every 3 sentence we discussed we say the word "google" once. its not me, even my search head from US who gave a talk recently,was observed doing the same. If google can, why cant we !!!
What I felt (1 year back) is, It empowers me, with its rich set of access to the information. Its a tool or moreover a service that converts user questions into search queries and maps it to the best result I wished. ( u say within, guru sab janta hai )
But using google no more only means, "extracting information from the internet labrynith", now for me its, revealing more of myself to google/to the internet world. Google knows each and every pattern of my behavior.
To pen down a few,
1. I search max on thursday( on an avg 67).
2. During a day between 11-12 ( max serach queries are fired )
3. It knows many more , what books, what places I search in map( Google knows I have kenya tiger safari in mind)
4. The trends made me stand still
5. It suggested me few keywords ,websites
CRACKED.com - WTF!?: The 8 Strangest Communities on the Web
I always used to believe on google, but never trust it. I hope we understand the difference.
Being a technical person, I never wish to make google to behave smarter with me.
Thats the reason, I dont click on google search results, never directly click on sponsored links.i think google watches each and every query in the world.
When I say google, Its the machine , the computation algorithms.
It will not be very far when ppl will claim that, G knows them more than their spouse/ mother.
Also, may be guy's will go through their intended spouse's google search trends before going on their date.I think this will really help in understanding the character.
This is because, G will remain to contribute a large part into person's thinking/ shaping of the thoughts and that is where a person exists.
I still imagine, one day I will type www.google.com, and reply will be
I think you want search for the result of "_________", here are your answers
hey man not an impossible thing, google will give u the answer before u type the question
Saturday, August 18, 2007
cooker story
I always loved and excited about cooking altogether..
The bad thing is..I burnt my hand yesterday while making dal.
It pained a lot before sleeping, but the brave man fought back..
and I made a personal record..for taking the least time to cook today..
I started at 12:47 PM and finished it at 1:23 PM
Now thats is exactly 36 minutes.
What I cooked, not very great but nevertheless less also for single person
-rice
-dal fry
-alu potal fry ( parwal in hind)
-egg omlette
-papad
-cucumber salad
Yah photo is taken..in my cell phone camera... will try to upload
But it was fun to do..and I thought 4 flames gas stove might might improve my record..
The cons of cooking is always..dishwashing after having food..
Thats why I was thinking, A dishwaher must be the most useful scientific invention for housewives.
Hope to buy one very soon..
happy cooking[:)]
The bad thing is..I burnt my hand yesterday while making dal.
It pained a lot before sleeping, but the brave man fought back..
and I made a personal record..for taking the least time to cook today..
I started at 12:47 PM and finished it at 1:23 PM
Now thats is exactly 36 minutes.
What I cooked, not very great but nevertheless less also for single person
-rice
-dal fry
-alu potal fry ( parwal in hind)
-egg omlette
-papad
-cucumber salad
Yah photo is taken..in my cell phone camera... will try to upload
But it was fun to do..and I thought 4 flames gas stove might might improve my record..
The cons of cooking is always..dishwashing after having food..
Thats why I was thinking, A dishwaher must be the most useful scientific invention for housewives.
Hope to buy one very soon..
happy cooking[:)]
Saturday, August 04, 2007
sorry.am committed
if [ committed ] not for you
An interesting lunch time discussion between me and my three other lunch partner R and N and A.btw A is committed, hence thinks it a nonsense.
why all girls in this world say they are committed.
N discovered this and also wanted our expert opinions.
He also convinced us, this can be an Analytical Writing essay Question in GMAT :)
So we have to give all fundamental reasoning and examples in the favor or against the issue.
before R put forth his theory, i must say R used to like physics some day.
R put up his theory something like this,
See N, every girl likes to be in state of equilibrium. But the external unidentified forces are the factors that makes its impossible.
N: what are the forces.
R: forces : lot of proposals, peer pressure or frequent orkut visit of boys to the girls profile can be taken as an example of such forces
N: So what happens then ?
R: So girls enter into a quasistatic state.This state is called girls are committed.
N was looking quite curious,But I was just laughing inside myself.
So, R continues: since,a quasistatic state is unbalanced in nature. It will always come back to the original state after certain time.
So that means ne girl who is committed now, will be soon or late will ook for sumone else.
Don't get disheartned, tera bhi number aaega
So, A convinces N to keep trying :D
An interesting lunch time discussion between me and my three other lunch partner R and N and A.btw A is committed, hence thinks it a nonsense.
why all girls in this world say they are committed.
N discovered this and also wanted our expert opinions.
He also convinced us, this can be an Analytical Writing essay Question in GMAT :)
So we have to give all fundamental reasoning and examples in the favor or against the issue.
before R put forth his theory, i must say R used to like physics some day.
R put up his theory something like this,
See N, every girl likes to be in state of equilibrium. But the external unidentified forces are the factors that makes its impossible.
N: what are the forces.
R: forces : lot of proposals, peer pressure or frequent orkut visit of boys to the girls profile can be taken as an example of such forces
N: So what happens then ?
R: So girls enter into a quasistatic state.This state is called girls are committed.
N was looking quite curious,But I was just laughing inside myself.
So, R continues: since,a quasistatic state is unbalanced in nature. It will always come back to the original state after certain time.
So that means ne girl who is committed now, will be soon or late will ook for sumone else.
Don't get disheartned, tera bhi number aaega
So, A convinces N to keep trying :D
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Slides say it all
Some of the very interesting slideshows, I ve ever seen..
Just hav a look
Another on on Panipuri
I don't need to say anything..since the presentation says it all
Just hav a look
Another on on Panipuri
I don't need to say anything..since the presentation says it all
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Time to success..14 years..recent study
I am sure about it ..So, let me say it
It takes 14 years of hard work, and dedication to form any great company..
When I said any company, I meant anything..
like from a beedi factory to car factory
from a cricketer to a tennis player
A mountaineer to a entrepreneur
All We need to do is to work hard, to make our dreams come true..
The best thing that bring +ve energy in me is,
I start anything... that I'm passionate about
an give 14 years to it.. It is guaranteed I taste success [:)]
Don't get scared thinking 14 years, Its nothing in comparison the achievement or milestone U will set after 14 years..
just look at the below list
examples range from ppl and companies like
Roger Federer
Kishore Biyani and his big bazzar
Infosys
Lee Iacocca
Sony
Moser Baer
and many more..
exception: web service companies..they take only months..may be 14 months..I guess
U might not believe..Accept it as part of my cognizance and thoughtfulness
So what I am thinking now is,
If the total time is a constant.. why not to start as early as possible
It takes 14 years of hard work, and dedication to form any great company..
When I said any company, I meant anything..
like from a beedi factory to car factory
from a cricketer to a tennis player
A mountaineer to a entrepreneur
All We need to do is to work hard, to make our dreams come true..
The best thing that bring +ve energy in me is,
I start anything... that I'm passionate about
an give 14 years to it.. It is guaranteed I taste success [:)]
Don't get scared thinking 14 years, Its nothing in comparison the achievement or milestone U will set after 14 years..
just look at the below list
examples range from ppl and companies like
Roger Federer
Kishore Biyani and his big bazzar
Infosys
Lee Iacocca
Sony
Moser Baer
and many more..
exception: web service companies..they take only months..may be 14 months..I guess
U might not believe..Accept it as part of my cognizance and thoughtfulness
So what I am thinking now is,
If the total time is a constant.. why not to start as early as possible
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Redesign ??
A bunch of things are seen breaking or more not moving...
like my life, my thoughts, my dreams..
they are stagnant, they are dying of suffocations..
they need to come out..
someone has well said, All paid jobs in this world degrade one's intellectuality.
These are nonsense, because its me who decides what I want to be tomorrow and I chose my workplace and nothing else.
I am not working for last 2 weeks, some are done with hazar errs and some are not touched yet.
Few years back, I chose computer to be my better companion than neone else.
She showed me a whole diff world of creation , more than what I ever asked her to show me.
I accepted to make her a major part my life and we happily spent endless hours n dayz.
I bugged her so much, still she never complained.
But today I feels like I don't want her anymore.Again I am alone.
I don't feel her anymore, though she is still sitting right in front of me.
But I am helpless, I can't leave her anymore
I have to go back to her tomorrow.
Is the whole thing needs to be redesigned? Would it hav been better then.
Hey what crap I wrote down just now.
like my life, my thoughts, my dreams..
they are stagnant, they are dying of suffocations..
they need to come out..
someone has well said, All paid jobs in this world degrade one's intellectuality.
These are nonsense, because its me who decides what I want to be tomorrow and I chose my workplace and nothing else.
I am not working for last 2 weeks, some are done with hazar errs and some are not touched yet.
Few years back, I chose computer to be my better companion than neone else.
She showed me a whole diff world of creation , more than what I ever asked her to show me.
I accepted to make her a major part my life and we happily spent endless hours n dayz.
I bugged her so much, still she never complained.
But today I feels like I don't want her anymore.Again I am alone.
I don't feel her anymore, though she is still sitting right in front of me.
But I am helpless, I can't leave her anymore
I have to go back to her tomorrow.
Is the whole thing needs to be redesigned? Would it hav been better then.
Hey what crap I wrote down just now.
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