310709

Nothing much to write. I am trying to sleep early for the last two days. I am successful in that but total number of sleeping hours has increased drastically.

Looking forward to the weekend ahead.

For the days :
Song - 'Aahu aahu aahu' - Love Aaj Kal
NEWS - 'IAF aircraft crash kills 2 in Andhra'
Comment - 'Keeping slim friends help you stay trim'
Mail - Touching moments sent my madhav which ends in an unusual situation where two frnds meet after 30 yrs yet they cant hug each other. Why? the pic @ the end shows that they both are pot-bellied. :)
Decision - Early to bed and early to rise...
Quote - 'The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience...not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.' - Leo Tolstoy

290709

The day before yesterday had one speciality. It happened for the first time that I was not feeling hungry! I had watermelon adn 'naspatti' for my 'dinner'. And to my surprise, I didn't feel hungry till 2 o'clock when I went to bed. I got my sleep early too.


I went to RPS office for lunch (I had to take the residential proof too). In the evening, we were discussing about the sun-signs - ha ha ha.

After having Gobi Manchuriyan rice and allu chokha for dinner, I got mood to have DBC. Off we went to Corner House. Yummm.... I love it....!

Have your dreams ever come true? Well, not for me too. But yesterday night, I saw a dream of a funeral. There was nothing much I remember other than the fading scene of the sight. Today morning, I got the news that one of my aunts died yesterday for infection after jaundice operation.

Chinu is declining to take the net connection @home. Well, that means now we may or maynot take it. To be decided tonight.

For the days :
Song - 'Dhan te nan' - Kaminey
NEWS - 'FIR against Rakhi for her swayamvar'
Memory - The sudden death (and intimated by dream)
Award - MS and Yahoo for the partnership . Lets see Google's next step.
Comment - 'Himesh - now with 2 voices'. Well, everything about this person is mysterous for me. I don't know why public gave so much respect to his nose exhalings! Now, it seems that he too knows that nose cant substitute mouth. Hope, the new voice brings some value.
Mail - 'Its not love' - an old one but good
Humor - Sardar jee
AND
How to handle bad news....
At dawn the telephone rings. "Hello, Master Carlos? This is Arnaldo your country house caretaker"
"Ah yes, Mr. Arnaldo. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"
"Um, I am just calling to advise you, sir, that your parrot died"
"My parrot? Dead? The one that won the competition?"
"That's the one."
"Darn! That's such a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. Oh well...what did he die from?"
"From eating rotten meat."
"Rotten meat? Who was so mean as to give him meat?"
"Nobody. He ate the meat of one of the dead horses."
"Dead horse? What dead horse Mr. Arnaldo?"
"Why, those pure breed ones that you had, sir. They died from all that work pulling the water cart."
"Are you insane? What water cart?"
"The one we used to put out the fire."
"Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?"
"The one at your house! A candle fell and then the curtain caught on fire."
"What the.....!!! But theres electricity at the house!!!!
What was the candle for???"
"For the funeral."
"WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL???!!!!!"
"Your mother's! She showed up one night out of the blue and I thought she was a thief, so I shot her."
Decision - Have to decide about the net tonight.
Quote - 'A cigarette shortens one's life by 2 minutes; A beer shortens one's life by 5 minutes; A working day shortens one's life by 8 hours'

270709

I wanted to write a few things about this weekend, but I didn't get enough time. Ya, I am really very busy.

This weekend was a mixed one. friday was a regular 'extended' night. The other two mornings converted to nights. I had a small walk in the Saturday evening and watched a couple of regular movies at night. Sunday evening, I went to mini forest alongwith Chinu and then walked back from there. Night was reserved for cooking :P

Today, I went to home for lunch and cooked aalu-patal sabji, alongwith chokha and rice. It seems that I am gonna be a full-fledged cook.

Nothing much in the office today except work. Finally, I'll be applying for broadband tomorrow with the documents. Hopefully, we'll have it in a couple of days.

Have to leave now.

For the days :
Song - 'Kaash Mere Hote' from Kaash... Mere Hote!
NEWS - Economy slightly better
Inspiration - A lot of work done today
Award - Sania, for winning ITF Lexington
Mail - The PMs (deduced from PJ) of Saurabh Sugandh
Decision - Have to try to get a good night sleep :P
Quote - 'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other' - Arthur Conan Doyle

240709

Yesterday was supposed to be a big day. Nothing much happened. In office, it was a tiring day, had my lunch in Krishna Chinai with Chinu and went for dinner in a new restaurant. We got 'TheMaster'. I would not refer that to anyone. After dinner, me and Abhi went for a walk across Jayanagr 9th Block and continued our chat in the terrace till just before midnight.

We chatted about various aspects related to our childhood, school days (especially cricket), college days and the year after that. We talked about how immaturely we used to think about different stuffs and how we knew about the truth from our school and elders, how we learnt certain important stuffs,about a few teachers of our schools, about our batchmates (not much about girls - surprising), much about school cricket and 'cricketers', about a few school memories, some college specialities, a few college events, life during and after college, future plans and possibilities and many more. We also discussed about the 'Time Machine'.

Today was comparatively better. Its Friday, so leaving now.

For the days :
Song - 'Raat ke dhai baje' - Kaminey
NEWS - 'Mumbai waves'
Comment - 'Kargil made India to discuss Kashmir with Pak' - Its repeatable.
Mail - Story of traffic signs
Humor - Wife - "Suno ji, doctor ne muze 1 mahine aaram k liye kisi

Hill station pe jaane ko kaha hai, hum kaha jayenge?"

Husband - Dusre doctor ke pas.

Decision - I m not gonna loose this Weekend
Quote - 'A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education' - GB Shaw

220709

I didn't post yesterday intentionally. Now I'll be posting, probably, on Mondays, Wednessdays and Fridays (Sunday will be included once I get net connection @ home).

Monday night was a great one (dont make your mind think too much). Abhi came and we chatted, chatted, chatted, chatted.....

We had our dinner in Park View and then chatted in 'the Park'. Then we had a long walk round JPNagar 3rd phase before chatting more in our house.

Yester'day' was normal with not much events except a few discussions which I dont remember much.

Yesterday night I got an unexpected inportant call, because of which my chappaties got hardened and we ate papads instead of rotis - bad start for Abhi.

Sometimes, a call can change your life. And it did for me. I got to bed comparatively earlier, and guess what? I got sleep very quickly. Moreover, I had actually woke up @ 5:55 but just extended it to 8 intentionally. Today, I came to office early and was in a very good mood. :)

A word about Google Docs. Its a pretty nice stuff. We have got a very good idea recently about sharing our experiences with our Juniors exploting the google docs spreadsheets. Lets see, how it shapes up.

C ya in the next blog.

For the days :
Song - 'Kyu, foolon ke' - Kambakht ishq
NEWS - Pakistan, on kasab's confession
Memory - The unexpected call
Inspiration - Morning shows the day
Award - Myself???
Comment - Solar Eclipse - Is that so important? Aren't there more important stuffs in life?
Mail - Birthday reminder from google calender - well, it was actually not required, I dont forget those.
Humor - Flash News: A 2 seater plane crashed in a graveyard in punjab .
Local sardars have so far found 500 bodies and are still digging for
more..
Decision - Will be trying to wake up early, slow and steady.
Quote - 'Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.' - Charles de Gaulle

200709

This was one of the best weekends for me in Bangalore. Ya, my Big Bro was here for a short visit before joining HPCL in Ranchi. He reached at around half an hour after Friday midnight.

Saturday was primarily a rest day as we slept as ususal in the morning hours. BigB continued it till 5 in the evening. After that, we went to Forum where the Paper Dance organized by Scholl was was the centre of attraction for more than half an hour. The group which danced properly was the group which got eliminated just before the runner-ups did. And the winners were the worst dancers. Prize money - two scholl creams for each of the partner; worth Rs 50 for the runner-up and double that amount for the winners. It was followed by our dinner at Dominos. The girl at the counter made more than three attempts to count my sodexhos. I have to take back Rs 50 note and give her a change of Re 1 to convince her the correct count.

Sunday was the tour day. We went to Iskcon in the morning. Its a nice place to give a visit to. As usual, we cameras and mobile phones were not allowed inside the premises. The cool wind blowing around tried its best to stop us there. Finally, we overcame the temptation and went to Lalbagh in our way back. I had expected the botanical garden to be better maintained. The lack of water in the sprinklers and lotus pond did nothing to meet the expectation as did the Rose Garden. Had it not been due to the the pics in the map, we wouldn't have had any clue about the glass house, band stand and the dove cot. Atleast, it ended positively with the old tree fossil before the air breeze near the birdless lake almost stopped our feet to move. The moments of smile came when one of the monkeys drank thumpsup directly from a bottle and another gave a couple of nice poses when ts pics were taken.

Today Abhishek is coming home. Looking forward to have a great chat.

For the days :
Song - 'Aahu Aahu' - Love Aaj Kal
NEWS - 'Kasab confesses'
Memory - Big B
Inspiration - England defeated Australia in Lords after 75 years
Award - Kasab
Mail - 'OnHealth' telling about migrain and excercises
Humor - A beautiful "Mallu" female( from the heart of Kerala) went for a job interview for the post of a SECRETARY and also said she is good at english. When the manager saw the Mallu's colorful attire, gold, well oiled uncombed jet black hair, his mind was screaming "NOT THIS WOMAN".
Nevertheless, he still had to entertain the Mallu. So he told her "If you could form a sentence using the words that I give you, then maybe I will give you a chance! The words are GREEN, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, PURPLE and BLACK".
The enthusiastic Mallu lady thought for a while and said :
"I hear the phone GREEN GREEN GREEN, then I go and PINK up the phone, I say YELLOW....BLUE'S that? WHITE did you say? Aiye, wrong number....Don't PURPLELY disturb people and don't call BLACK, ok? Thank You."
The Manager fainted........
Decision - Will drink water before brushing tomorrow (inspired by Madhav's mail)
Quote - Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population

170709

Yesterday around midnight, I came to the ATM and Chinnu went for RPS. Before that he had to refill petrol in his bike. But his tank was empty just before he reached the petrol pump. Worse, the pump was closed. He called me up and I went towards the Petrol pump, walking. I was about to reach there, but I couldn't see Chinnu. I rang him up. he said that the bike was in main, so he still had 1 ltr of petrol left in the tank. I had a good walk. :)

Today, we discussed about desktop wallpapers which went into the direction of space (thanks to my wallpaper) and ended on the documentary which proves US mission to moon as faulty.

Its Friday and my BigB is coming. So, I m gonna njy my weekend.

For the days :
Song - 'Aye Saaye Mere' - New York
NEWS - 'Twin Blasts in Jakarta'
Comment - Political war between Maya and Congress - lets see how much the common man looses.
Mail - 'Pair of old shoes'
Humor - A guy took his girlfriend to her first football game. Afterward he asked her how she liked the game.
“I liked it, but I couldn’t understand why they were killing each other for 25 cents, ” she said.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“Well, everyone kept yelling, ‘Get the quarter back!’”
Decision -
Quote - 'Efficiency is intelligent laziness' - David Dunham

160709

Nothing extra to add. It seems to be quite monotonous nowadays. Its better to decrease the frequency of blogging.

A few snapshots for today : Ganguly Honoured; Kat's birthday; TataNano officially on road

This is really rude ...(refer Award of the day) "Dev's continued links with the unofficial league prompted the BCCI to keep him away from the unveiling of the 2011 World Cup logo in Mumbai on Tuesday."

This is really nice :(See inspiration of the day) Why are these qualities so rare in the public sector? Because, for most of the public sector, the chiefs are chosen for political consideration or some other consideration. And the moment he goes there, the agenda is to please the political masters instead of doing what is good for the organisation.

For the days :
Song - 'Guzarish' - Ghajini
NEWS - Politics Zindabad
Memory - Dhosa...
Inspiration - Sreedharan's Interview
Award - Kapil Dev
Comment - Sab kuch Mazaak hai....
Mail - 'Kerala Airways, Coming Soon'
Humor - After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day.
What do you think it means?"
"You'll know tonight," he said.
That evening, the man came home with a package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it - to find a book entitled,
"The meaning of dreams"
Decision - WIll b decreasing the frequency of blogging now.
Quote - We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese

150709

Today is BigB's birthday, my BigB's.

Nothing much today. Had a KT, went to Park View for Aalu Paratha and npw leaving :)

For the days :
Song - 'Khudaya Khair' - Billu Barber
NEWS - 'Threat to Mumbai again'
Memory - OnMobile shares today jumped 13.15% to 516, after reaching a high of 536
Inspiration - BigB
Comment - Dravid and Waugh wants Test Championship. Well, we are going to have a really long tournament. What are the alternate games to be played at that time?
Mail - 'Apna Sapna Hasi Hasi'
Humor - Angry boss: Tumne kabhi Ullu dekha hai?
Executive (sar jhukate hue): Nahin sir.
Boss: Niche kya dekh rahe ho ? Meri taraf dekho.
Decision -
Quote - 'The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.' - Hellen keller

140709

I didn't sleep early yesterday. Watched RDB late night.

According to a an article in siliconindia, China will attack India by 2012. Though its highly unlikely, the possibility cant be ruled out. And India is not prepared for a war against any other country expect Pakistan.

Sometimes it is too much.

In cricket, Bangladesh triumphed over WI, only second time joy for them and SL crushed Pakistan.

For the days -
Song - 'Kaash Mere Hote' from Kaash, Mere hote...
NEWS - SL beat Pakistan. From 285/1, Pakistan went all out at 320. Ths's whr it seems that India and Pakistan are twin sisters.
Memory -
Inspiration - Microsoft and Google Competition going ahead
Award - Bangladesh's second Test Victory
Comment - 'Mumbai Rains' - Its an annual affair now
Mail - 'Why some men have dogs' which compares between a wife and a dog; sent by bachcha
Humor - A man calls into the police station and says, “My wife is missing.”
The officer asks, “How long has she been gone?"
“A month.“
“Why did you wait so long to report it?”
“Well, until yesterday I thought it was just a dream, then I realized I didn’t have any clean clothes to wear.”
Decision - Will wakeup early tomorrow
Quote - 'One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives' - Mark Twain

130709

This weekend was PB'end. Didn't get it? Oh, k. It was Prison Break Weekend. I watched more than half of the episodes in the first season and first few in the last. I liked it.

The weekend in Marathalli also saw us enjoying. In the evening, we went to Dominos and at night we had chicken and lots of fun. I couldn't sleep well that night, God knows the reason. Sunday was comparatively less eventful, as I was watching PB and we cooked at home only.

I came back today morning only. By then, chinnu had returned from his home. Nice to see him back again.

Today afternoon, we went for Transformers. Its a movie to be seen in a hall - don't give it a miss.

My BigB is coming this weekend. I just got the tickets. C Ya tomorrow. :)

Song of the day - 'Masakkali' from Delhi6
NEWS of the day - '@Delhi Metro'
Memory of the day - Transformers
Inspiration of the day - Pakistan - they bounced back in the Test Match
Bravery Award of the day - Metro chief, E. Sreedharan for having the guts to accept his responsibility.
Comment of the day - I dont know why timesofindia changed its website layout following NDTV. The changed layouts are more informative and user friendly, but by looks they really request not to use the site...!
Mail of the day - 'Women and rules' sent by Madhav
Humor of the day - Read it here.
Decision of the day - Have to sleep early tonight.
Quote of the day - 'People with goals succeed because they know where they're going' - Earl Nightingale

100709

Today, in the first half I was busy regarding filling of Tax Returns. Nothing much later in the day. We did had a short discussion on movies and clothes and marriage. :)

I came through a couple of links....
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/8-new-features-in-vlc-10-that-will-make-you-rejoice/
http://arunstechcorner.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-free-sms-from-your-im-client-like.html?utm_campaign=BackType&utm_content=backtype-tweetcount&utm_medium=bt.io-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com

Its friday today. So, enjoy ur weekends.

For the Days:
Song - 'Soniyo' from Raaz, The mistery continues....
NEWS - Three extra passengers for AI
Memory - Chatted with chirpy_pirky
Comment - 'Again Buchanan. He advised Ganguly to retire from T20' I think he wants to make himself famous. He has already been successful in that.
Mail - 'Little Jhonny' sent by Arbind
Humor - An Idea can change ur life... But a girl can change that idea and hence ur life....
Decision - Have to wash my clothes tomorrow
Quote - "I never invest in someone who says they're going to do something; I invest in people who say they're already doing something and just want funding" - John Doerr

Poem - Waqt Nahi

Har khushi Hai Logon Ke Daman Mein,
Par Ek Hansi Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.
Din Raat Daudti Duniya Mein,
Zindagi Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Maa Ki Loree Ka Ehsaas To Hai,
Par Maa Ko Maa Kehne Ka Waqt Nahi.
Saare Rishton Ko To Hum Maar Chuke,
Ab Unhe Dafnane Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Saare Naam Mobile Mein Hain,
Par Dosti Ke Lye Waqt Nahi.
Gairon Ki Kya Baat Karen,
Jab Apno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Aankhon Me Hai Neend Badee,
Par Sone Ka Waqt Nahi.
Dil Hai Ghamon Se Bhara Hua,
Par Rone Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Paison ki Daud Me Aise Daude,
Ki Thakne ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paraye Ehsason Ki Kya Kadr Karein,
Jab Apane Sapno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Tu Hi Bata E Zindagi,
Iss Zindagi Ka Kya Hoga,
Ki Har Pal Marne Walon Ko,
Jeene Ke Liye Bhi Waqt Nahi...

090709

Yesterday, just after publishing my post I read Rajesh kalra's blog - We are useless sporting nation. I have some comments. Do visit My Views for it.

When I went home, I saw our kitchen floor was full of water and it was flowing through the hall to my room. Oops. Some pipe leakage somewhere which I couldn't find out.

Ritesh called me up yesterday and asked me to come to meet him in Mathikere. Lets see whether I can make it.

From now on, I'll be removing a few 'of the day's.

Song of the day - 'Tere Naina' from CC2C
NEWS of the day - 'SC in...'
Memory of the day - Abhishek(Fodu)'s car pic... I saw it today only
Comment of the day - John Buchanan says - Tendulkar is unfit for T20. I would like him to rewatch few matches.
Mail of the day - 'Ek Murgi ki kahani' sent by Madhav :)
Humor of the day - Question to Santa: Marte hue aadmi ko kya dena chahiye?
Banta : Birla Cement
Santa : Kyon ?
Banta : Kyonki is cement mein jaan hai
Quote of the day - "I do not fear failure. I only fear the 'slowing up' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, 'keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?'." - George Patton

080709

Nothing much today. I got to know about a link where we can file our grievances regarding any government office. Here is the link. I have not verified it. If its correct link and the people related to it are responsible enough, I guess we have a good tool in our hands.

In the cubicle, we discussed about actual height and effective height due to body shape and structure. Then we proceeded towards the body built and the hardness of my palm. :)

I don't know whether vikash knows about the 'RT' option in twitter. If he does, I m sure he doesn't like to use it for obvious reasons. Today I tweeted a link of Google Chrome OS. he did the same thing. All twitter users, please learn to use 'RT'.

Hmmm, dada is interested to administer cricket. I don't know whether its a good NEWS or bad. But one thing is sure, if he takes charge of an important place, others maynot apply their minds - they just need to do what dada says and cricket will be administered automatically. I wish u all the best Ganguly (my one time fav).

Chinu is going home today, will be coming on Monday. So, I am alone for a few days :). I have to leave now - for dinner. C ya

Song of the day - 'Chaayi Madhoshiyan' from Jumbo
NEWS of the day - 'Cyber attack on US gvt websites'
Memory of the day - MJ's farewell
Inspiration of the day - Dada, for no good reason.
Award of the day - Zardari, for accepting the truth
Comment of the day - At last Pakistan agreed that terrorists are there in its soil. Letus hope that it can reverse its image.
Mail of the day - Images of Preikestol
Humor of the day - A 45 -yr. old woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.
While on the operating table she had a near death experience.

Seeing God she asked "Is my time up?"
God said, "No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital
to have a face-lift, liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck.
She even had someone come in and change her hair colour and brighten her teeth!
Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.
After her last operation, she was released from the hospital.
While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.
Arriving in front of God, she demanded,
"I thought you said I had another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days
Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?"
God : "didn't recognize you at that time"
Decision of the day - Wake up early tomorrow morning.
Quote of the day - 'Privacy is always one of the hardest values to define philosophically, and that's why it's hard to protect politically' - Jeffrey Rosen

070709

Many many happy returns of the day Mahi.... He's got a nice birthday gift from Anu Bhambhani, Times of India...

As per today's reactions to yesterday's budget, this article tried to say the fact in the first half - Its more of a political budget than national budget. As per the comments of Narayan Murthy, it seems that FM has taken the shield of recession in a better way. It may be true for the corporate world.

Economic times posted an article on Googlies of budget 2009-10. I have listed just three of them here
*Here, it says 'Fringe Benefit Tax stands abolished, but a tad too late. India Inc has paid the first installment of FBT. Further, rules will be introduced to determine the perquisite value that should be taxable in the employees’ hands. You thought that a tax was abolished? It is just transfer of the onus of paying tax from the employer to the employee. ESOPs, employers contribution to superannuation and much much more will also be a perquisite, taxable in your hands and mine.' Well, is this what our new government is supposed to do? A few other articles do suggest that we will now be 'taking home' less than we used too, yes, even after considering the increase in the minimum limit from 1.5 to 1.6.
*Donations to electoral trusts allowed 100% deduction. Ha ha ha ha. Its just another way to get the funds for the elections. This is called politics.
*Tax deduction at 20%, if Pan Card not available. My cousin Shivprakash has applied for PAN card so many times. Once the agent cheated and got himself Ctrl+Alt+Deleted from the scene; other times, he didn't get any response from the authorities. What is he supposed to do?

In the fourth day Pakistan-SL test match, today morning I saw the 3rd day's end score - Pak 71/2 needing just 97 to win with 8 wickets in hand and 2 days to go. They were all out @ 117..!

Song of the day - 'Arambh hai prachand' - Gulaal
NEWS of the day - Air India to be updated - It should be done in all government controlled companies
Memory of the day - Dhoni's birthday
Inspiration of the day - sensex may touch 18K by April next year. I guess, it should be earlier.
Award of the day - Dhoni, as a birthday gift to him
Comment of the day - Post-Budget analysis shows that the needy things are going to be costlier and the rest will be cheaper. Wow.... hats off to the budget...!
Mail of the day - 'They speak for themselves' - amazing pics which don't need any words
Humor of the day - One cold day in the middle of winter, Mr. and Mrs. Ross decided to fly to Florida for a vacation.
Mrs. Ross packed their summer clothes very carefully the night before their departure, and the next
morning they got up early and drove directly to the airport.
While they were waiting at the check-in counter, Mr. Ross began to question his wife about the things
she had packed.
" Did you remember my red bathing suit? " he asked.
" Of course," she answered.
" You didn't forget our tennis shoes, did you? " he asked.
" Of course not," she replied. Suddenly there was a long silence.
" Murray, what's wrong? " said Mrs. Ross. " You look worried."
" I'll bet you didn't bring the piano," he replied.
" The piano? " she said. " Why on earth would I bring the piano? "
" Because," he said sheepishly, " I left our plane tickets on top of it."
Decision of the day - Am gonna sleep early tonight
Quote of the day - The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers

060709

This weekend was one of the good ones. I had gone to my seniors home in Kodihalli(Airport Road, near Domlur Flyover). From there, we went to SP Road on Saturday. Ravi Sir bought a desktop and Mrityunjay sir a LCD Monitor. We went to Corner House after the dinner.

I woke up late, then had chicken in the lunch and returned in the evening and just roamed in the BTM 100 ft road. Nothing much @ night.

Today is the budget day. I need not comment as the Sensex gave a much matured response. I came through a very interesting, and actually true, blog by Anand Soondas related to budget. Read here. It really says the true stuff. Whatever happens, everything is got to be costlier. During the recession, we heard the figues like negative something for the inflation. Well, where did that negative stuff went? I still buy all the stuffs either at the same price or at higher price. Does those parameters has anything to do with the common man (PLU, People Like Us as per Anand Soondas) ?

The blog by Anoop Kohli (Internet chat between our PM and Obama) was also nice and humorous.

Tomorrow is Dhoni's birthday. Happy birthday in advance.

Song of the day - 'Roshan Har Dil' - EMI
NEWS of the day - Budget
Memory of the day - It was a busy day.
Inspiration of the day - Jodi tor daak sune kew na aase, tobe ekla cholo re.
Bravery Award of the day - Anand Soondas (I was thinking, it would go to our finance minister today ! No competetion)
Comment of the day - Pakistan in pre-partition debt
Mail of the day - pics with subject line - why boys need parents with strict father
Humor of the day - When Albert Einstein died, he met three New Zealanders in the queue outside the Pearly Gates. To paas time he asked what were their IQs. The first replied 190. "Wonderful," exclaimed Einstein. "We can discuss the contribution made by Ernest Rutherford to atomic physics and my theory of general relativity". The second answered 150. "Good," said Einstein. "I look forward to discussing the role of New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation in the quest for world peace". The third New Zealander mumbled 50. Einstein paused, and then asked, "So what is your forecast for the budget deficit next year?"
Decision of the day - Will come early to the office tomorrow
Quote of the day - You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough - Joseph E. Levine

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Today is the Railway budget day. Mamta bannerji presented a 'just above average' looking budget. Nothing much for Jharkhand. Ranchi has been mentioned at a couple of places, but no Dhanbad or Tatanagar ! Hats off to the monthly paases and availability of tickets in the postoffices.

I had applied for Airtel's internet connection on Monday. Someone from Airtel called me up and told that she'll be sending a person to my address - that day or the next day. When nobody called me in the next two days, I applied again. This time nobody responded. Today I applied again and also twittered that. Lets see whether the kiruba incident was ''one of the incidents' or 'the incident'. I am sure, its the later.

Sara Gable, associate professor of human development and family studies, Missouri University (MU) "Overweight is widely considered a stigmatising condition and overweight individuals are typically blamed for their situation. The experience of being stigmatised often leads to negative feelings, even in children," . This was what I wanted to convey by my blog Health. Overweight people shouldn't be blamed just because they are obese. They can fair better in many areas of life.

Last but not least, TGIF. So, enjoy your weekend :)

Song of the day - 'Kaash Mere Hote' from Kaash... Mere Hote
NEWS of the day - Railway Budget
Memory of the day - Chatting with OmPrakash
Inspiration of the day - 'Friday' is enough
Award of the day - Mamta for her budget.
Comment of the day - Kaash mai bhi kiruba hota...!
Mail of the day - Notice from "Center for disease control and prevention"
The Centre for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT!
This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK, you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest LCBO and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

You should immediately forward this medical alert to ten friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.
Humor of the day - A customer arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up their car, They were told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it.
He went to the service department and found a mechanic, Mr Santa working feverishly to unlock the driver`s side door.
As the customer watched from the passenger`s side, he instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open.
"Hey," he announced to the technician, "It`s open!"
"I know," answered Santa.- "I already got that side."
Decision of the day - Am gonna call airtel customer care.
Quote of the day - You can't shake hands with a clenched fist - MK Gandhi

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While coming back from lunch, I saw a small child in a (school) bus. The combination of his look and his posture on the seat resembled quite a matured guy and that made him look too cute.

Song of the day - 'Tu Muskura' - Yuvraaj
NEWS of the day - Delhi High Court
Memory of the day - The cute child in the bus
Inspiration of the day - Exercise
Comment of the day - Pakistan's name should be changed to blastistan
Mail of the day - When you have a 'I hate my job' day which shows a few horrible jobs
Humor of the day -A customer arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up their car, They were told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it.
He went to the service department and found a mechanic, Mr Santa working feverishly to unlock the driver`s side door.
As the customer watched from the passenger`s side, he instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open.
"Hey," he announced to the technician, "It`s open!"
"I know," answered Santa.- "I already got that side."
Decision of the day - Will try out the 'Task' section og gmail
Quote of the day - What people say, what people do and what people say they do are entirely different things.

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Today is the 1st anniversary of our professional life. Exactly one year back, we had joined OnMobile. This journey was quite smooth as OnMobile takes care of its freshers so as to let them adjust in the changed environment giving them ample time and opportunities to do so.

Nowadays I am a bit busy. So these posts are smaller. Hope that the Airtel guy will contact me soon for the broadband connection @ home.

Song of the day - 'Paayaliya' from DevD
NEWS of the day - Petrol price hiked by Rs 4 and diesel by Rs 2
Memory of the day - First Anniversary of my job
Inspiration of the day - 1st July - Joining date
Bravery Award of the day - The constructors of the Bandra sea link
Comment of the day - {NEWS} Well, we should first make a list of the MPs who should be slapped.
Mail of the day - A man's pic (doing something standing and having his back towards the camera) in the early morning on the Bandra sea-link bridge
Quote of the day - Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Anon