Friday, December 29, 2006
Yet another New Year
Wishing every one a very very happy, prosperous, colorful, and grand new year. Lets welcome 2007, may it bring glory to our cricket team (atleast this yr's world cup title, did I sound toooo optimistic/idiotic?, nothing is impossible), may our country's GDP achive double digit growth, may the sensex cross 17K, may ....
Finally may my dreams come true (for this I should stop dreaming and start executing the plans).
With next January, my blog completes 1 yr.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Value-cost averaging (VCA) -
- Systematic investment plans (SIPs) concentrate on cost.
- Value-cost averaging (VCA) is sophisticated version of the SIP, which concentrates on value rather than cost
- All you do is set a monthly portfolio value target. Then you buy or sell the requisite amount of units to meet that target. For example, say you set a portfolio value target of Rs 1,000 growth per month. In month one, your chosen instrument is trading at Rs 13. So, you buy 77 units. Next month, the price is down to Rs 12. Your portfolio value is Rs 924. You buy Rs 1,076 worth of units -- that's 90 units. You now own 167 units. Month three, the price jumps to Rs 20. Your portfolio is now worth Rs 3,340. Since this exceeds your target, you sell Rs 340 worth or 17 units at Rs 20. And so on.
- One difference in the mechanics between an SIP and a VCA is that a VCA incorporates an automatic method of booking profits at high prices as well as a system for buying more units at low prices. The profit-booking can boost returns by a massive degree.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Is Dada back?
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Wish I had this PC
The Best PC Money Can Buy
Monday, November 20, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Response time
Interestingly I also upgraded my mobile (Nokia) to Sony Ericsson (W810i), whose response time as expected is a bit more.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
tag: links
Too good, MIT Sketch
Too good, Super Cool Pic
Wanna be an Entrepreneur?
Auto Start, by Guy Kawasaki
Yahoo Time Capsule
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Big disappointment
The theme (or point) was not dealt properly, so the mv lacked the gradual built-up as to elevate the heroism at the end. Villain(s) were shown as powerless & spineless (being a home minister ;-) ).
While coming out of the theatre, I couldn't resist bustling with laughter at the ppl's comments abt the mv (prathi okkaru 3riki cheppandi, eee mv choododdani :-) ).
This mv might do business, but many will concur, its one of the worst. I think "Jai Chiranjeeva" is 50 times better than this.
Next time, probably I shouldn't jump at the first day chance.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
tag: links
25 More Top Technologies
Good one, abt how/when to make choice of quitting the job.
Six Good Reasons to Jump Ship
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Software Testing is must !!!
In March 1992, a man living in Newtown near Boston, Massachusetts, received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away.
In April, he received another and threw that one away too.
The following month, the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 by return of post. He called them and talked to them; they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.
The following month, our hero decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament. However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases, he found that his card had been cancelled.
He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer error once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue. Assuming that, having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day, the latest bill was yet another mistake, he ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out.
The next month, he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.
Finally giving in, he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a cheque for $0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.
A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a cheque for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation, the bank replied that the $0.00 cheque had caused their cheque processing software to fail.
The bank could now not process ANY cheques from ANY of their customers that day because the cheque for $0.00 was causing the bank's computer to crash.
The following month, the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his cheque had bounced and that he now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a cheque by return of post them would be taking steps to recover the debt.
The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Lageraho Bollywood
There is something common I found with Munnabai part 2 and Rang De Basanti. In both of them, Radio is used as the mode for spreading message; and both tried to remind us some forgotten (not interesting for many) aspects of our history.
Good bits from this mv are
1. Due to Chemical Locha, Gandhiji cannot answer a few questions related to his own life.
2. Janvi's Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud morning Mumbai voice :-)
3. Lageraho Munnabai song
4. Circuit's adoption.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Wonderful Cars
Before the start of the mv, there was a small hilarious clip (two road side music players vie for a penny from a little girl).
The stand-out characters are the Lightning McQueen (the rookie who had a chance to win the Priston Cup), little Porsche (too cute, tells the story of Radiator Springs a tiny town located off of the legendary Route 66).
The other noticeable characters are Hudson Hornet (Doc), and a truck used clear the traffic (what's the name?)
The scenes I liked are
1. Lightning McQueen, ends the first race by equaling with other 2 cars. It uses it's tongue to do this feet.
2. Story of Radiator Springs.
3. Drive along the waterfall.
4. Pit-stop scene during the tie-race.
5. Tie-race finishing scene.
6. At the end, Schumi comes to the new famous Radiator Springs (for changing his Ferrari tyres).
7. The moral of the story.
Till the end, I never felt bored. I am sure one will involve in it fully.
On a quick search I figured out that, it is the first CGI creation.
Worth a repeat - * * * * *.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Life's Little Instruction Book
2. Look people in the eye.
3. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
4. Keep secrets.
5. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
6. Always accept an outstretched hand.
7. Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
8. Avoid sarcastic remarks.
9. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90% fall your happiness or misery.
10. Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.
11. Lend only those books you never care to see again.
12. Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.
13. When playing games with children, let them win.
14. Give people a second chance, but not a third.
15. Be romantic.
16. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
17. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
18. Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for your convenience, not the caller's.
19. Be a good loser.
20. Be a good winner.
21. When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
22. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
23. Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
24. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
25. Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets
26. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the one's you did.
27. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
28. Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
29. Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
30. Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.
31. Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, 'Someone who thinks you're terrific.'
32. Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
33. Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.
34. Marry only for love.
35. Count your blessings.
36. Compliment the meal when you're a guest in someone's home.
37. Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your
ability to deal with people.
38. Don't expect life to be fair.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Go KISS the WORLD
Long but worth your time spent on this. Simple and very clear, I liked it.
Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer,
MindTree Consulting to the Class of 2006 at the
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore defining success. July 2nd 2004
IT IS A REAL GREAT PIECE. IT RELATES THE NUANCES OF MANAGEMENT WITH A STORY OF LIFE. ONE DAY WE ALL WILL GO TO OUR ROOTS WHEREVER AND WHATEVER WE ARE NOW. MAY GOD BLESS YOUR DAY.
I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of Five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa.
It was and remains as back of Beyond as you canimagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was home-schooled.
My father used to get transferred every year. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep - so the family moved from place to place and, without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she married my Father.
My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system which makes me what I am today and largely defines what success means to me today.
As District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the government. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked in our house. My father refused to use it to commute to the office. He told us that the jeep is an expensive resource given by the government - he reiterated to us that it was not 'his jeep' but the government's jeep. Insisting that he would use it only to tour the interiors, he would walk to his office on normal days. He also made sure that we never sat in the government jeep -we could sit in it only when it was stationary.
That was our early childhood lesson in governance - a lesson that corporate Managers learn the hard way, some never do.
The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father's office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix 'dada' whenever we were to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed
- I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, 'Raju Uncle’? Very different from many of their friends who refer to their family drivers as 'my driver'. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe.
To me, the lesson was significant - you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.
Our day used to start with the family huddling around my Mother's chulha - an earthen fire place she would build at each place of posting where she
would cook for the family. There was no gas, nor electrical stoves. The morning routine started with tea. As the brew was served, Father would ask us to read aloud the editorial page of The Statesman's 'muffosil' edition - delivered one day late. We did not understand much of what we were reading.
But the ritual was meant for us to know that the world was larger than Koraput district and the English I speak today, despite having studied in an
Oriya medium school, has to do with that routine. After reading the newspaper aloud, we were told to fold it neatly.
Father taught us a simple lesson. He used to say, "You should leave your newspaper and your toilet, the way you expect to find it”. That lesson was about showing consideration to others. Business begins and ends with that simple precept. Being small children, we were always enamored with advertisements in the newspaper for transistor radios - we did not have one. We saw other people having radios in their homes and each time there was an advertisement of Philips, Murphy or Bush radios, we would ask Father when we could get one. Each time, my Father would reply that we did not need one because he already had five radios - alluding to his five sons. We also did not have a house
Of our own and would occasionally ask Father as to when, like others, we would live in our own house. He would give a similar reply, "We do not need a house of our own. I already own five houses". His replies did not gladden our hearts in that instant. Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to measure personal success and sense of well being through material possessions.
Government houses seldom came with fences. Mother and I collected twigs and built a small fence. After lunch, my Mother would never sleep. She would take her kitchen utensils and with those she and I would dig the rocky, white ant infested surrounding. We planted flowering bushes. The white ants destroyed them. My mother brought ash from her chulha and mixed it in the earth and we planted the seedlings all over again. This time, they bloomed. At that time, my father's transfer order came. A few neighbors told my mother why she was taking so much pain to beautify a government house, why she was planting seeds that would only benefit the next occupant. My mother replied that it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in full bloom.
She said, "I have to create a bloom in a desert and whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than what I had inherited". That was my first lesson in success. It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.
My mother began developing a cataract in her eyes when I was very small. At that time, the eldest among my brothers got a teaching job at the University in Bhubaneswar and had to prepare for the civil services examination. So, it was decided that my Mother would move to cook for him and, as her appendage, I had to move too. For the first time in my life, I saw electricity in Homes and water coming out of a tap. It was around 1965 and the country was going to war with Pakistan. My mother was having problems reading and in any case, being Bengali, she did not know the Oriya script.
So, in addition to my daily chores, my job was to read her the local newspaper - end to end. That created in me a sense of connectedness with a larger world. I began taking interest in many different things. While reading out news about the war, I felt that I was fighting the war myself. She and I discussed the daily news and built a bond with the larger universe. In it, we became part of a larger reality. Till date, I measure my success in terms of that sense of larger connectedness.
Meanwhile, the war raged and India was fighting on both fronts. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minster, coined the term "Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan" and galvanized the nation in to patriotic fervor. Other than reading out the newspaper to my mother, I had no clue about how I could be part of the action. So, after reading her the newspaper, every day I would land up near the University's water tank, which served the community. I would spend hours under it, imagining that there could be spies who would come to poison the water and I had to watch for them. I would daydream about catching one and how the next day, I would be featured in the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, the spies at war ignored the sleepy town of Bhubaneswar and I never got a chance to catch one in action. Yet, that act unlocked my imagination. Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.
Over the next few years, my mother's eyesight dimmed but in me she created a larger vision, a vision with which I continue to see the world and, I sense, through my eyes, she was seeing too. As the next few years unfolded, her vision deteriorated and she was operated for cataract. I remember, when she returned after her operation and she saw my face clearly for the first time, she was astonished. She said, "Oh my God, I did not know you were so fair". I remain mighty pleased with that adulation even till date.
Within weeks of getting her sight back, she developed a corneal ulcer and, overnight, became blind in both eyes. That was 1969. She died in 2002. In all those 32 years of living with blindness, she never complained about her fate even once. Curious to know what she saw with blind eyes, I asked her once if she sees darkness. She replied, "No, I do not see darkness. I only see light even with my eyes closed". Until she was eighty years of age, she did her morning yoga everyday, swept her own room and washed her own clothes.
To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light. Over the many intervening years, I grew up, studied, joined the industry and began to carve my life's own journey. I began my life as a clerk in a government office, went on to become a Management Trainee with the DCM group and eventually found my life's calling with the IT industry when fourth generation computers came to India in 1981. Life took me places - I worked with outstanding people, challenging assignments and traveled all over the, world.
In 1992, while I was posted in the US, I learnt that my father, living a retired life with my eldest brother, had suffered a third degree burn injury and was admitted in the Safderjung Hospital in Delhi. I flew back to attend to him - he remained for a few days in critical stage, bandaged from neck to toe. The Safderjung Hospital is a cockroach infested, dirty, inhuman place. The overworked, under-resourced sisters in the burn ward are both victims and perpetrators of dehumanized life at its worst.
One morning, while attending to my Father, I realized that the blood bottle was empty and fearing that air would go into his vein, I asked the tending nurse to change it. She bluntly told me to do it myself. In that horrible theater of death, I was in pain and frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came, my Father opened his eyes and murmured to her, "Why have you not gone home yet?" Here was a man on his deathbed but more concerned about the overworked nurse than his own state. I was stunned at his stoic self. There I learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what is the limit of inclusion you can create. My father died the next day.
He was a man whose success was defined by his principles, his frugality, his universalism and his sense of inclusion. Above all, he taught me that success is your ability to rise above your discomfort, whatever may be your current state. You can, if you want, raise your consciousness above your immediate surroundings. Success is not about building material comforts - the transistor that he never could buy or the house that he never owned. His success was about the legacy he left, the memetic continuity of his ideals that grew beyond the smallness of a ill-paid, unrecognized government servant's world.
My father was a fervent believer in the British Raj. He sincerely doubted the capability of the post-independence Indian political parties to govern the country. To him, the lowering of the Union Jack was a sad event. My Mother was the exact opposite. When Subhash Bose quit the Indian National Congress and came to Dacca, my mother, then a schoolgirl, garlanded him. She learnt to spin khadi and joined an underground movement that trained her in using daggers and swords. Consequently, our household saw diversity in the political outlook of the two. On major issues concerning the world, the Old Man and the Old Lady had differing opinions.
In them, we learnt the power of disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in thinking. Success is not about the ability to create a definitive dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes, of dialogue and continuum.
Two years ago, at the age of eighty-two, Mother had a paralytic stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on. Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said, "Why are you kissing me, go kiss the world." Her river was nearing its journey, at the confluence of life and death, this woman who came to India as a refugee, raised by a widowed Mother, no more educated than high school, married to an anonymous government servant whose last salary was Rupees Three Hundred, robbed of her eyesight by fate and crowned by adversity - was telling me to go and kiss the world!
Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.
Thank you very much; I wish you good luck and Godspeed. Go, kiss the world.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Good End to the Mega Event
France shown their brilliance but failed to make it count. In my opinion coach's move to replace Henry, red card to Zidane caused their doom during the penalty shoot out. Over all its a great game, as one expects to see in a final. I also rate the semis between Italy and Germany at par with the final. These two are the best matches of this tournament.
Henry's game, kind of provoked hatred towards the French team (but liked Malouda and Zidane's game) . I somehow felt that, Henry is always on a look out for an easy goal, he seems to be a good actor, he knows how to get a penalty :-). Probably he might be the player against whom most number of off-sides are shown (at least in the last 3 games around 15 were shown).
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
VinciDa Code
Read it just under a weeks time. Fascinating and knowledge enriching. I astonished after learning about divine proportion. This is a great read, hats off to Dan Brown. Want more? http://www.danbrown.com/
After completing 60% of the novel, I correctly figured out the Teacher (considering a few lines)
It had a cooool and unexpected conclusion.
Rating: ***** (must read)
Monday, July 03, 2006
Shattered Dream
I also, amused at Italy players control over the ball and their agility. For me one of Italy or France are the favorites to win the title.
At this crucial juncture its our TV's turn to disappoint my roomies. Its remote and inbuilt buttons are not functing... :-(
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
My blood boils
Forbes says politician is the worlds best job (http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/20/cx_hc_06work_forever_jobs_slide.htmll ) and this job is almost constant with time. But for anyone to qualify for this job, one should have a strong muscle, records with police station (early in life), and a bit of money to start with.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Wayward Thoughts
Last 20 days had been a roller coaster as far as my thoughts were concerned, they were trying to figure out something or trying to sway towards (what?), in futile. I got frustrated with these wayward thoughts even sesnsed my head heating up... for nothing.
Last week, I had been to my home town (Warangal). It was a nice break, met R. Kiran (returned from London in the same week), and played with niece at home. Over all this trip worked well to cool my head.
During this time, completed 80% of the book 80 / 20 principle (by Richard. Koch). I liked this book because of its content (its more of real world behavior observation). Unlike mgmt book it rarely tried preaching something.
During my return journey from Warangal to Hyderabad, at one stretch (for 1 hr) the weather was fabulous with cool breeze, sky totally clouded (day turned to dark) and greenery every where... thought, no need to go anywhere to enjoy the nature.
Surprise Surprise,
For the first time removed my moustache.. (NO its not going to be permanent) on day 1 looked ugly (to myself, anyway mirror won't lie), but from day 2 onwards felt NOT BAD. I have a snap but not daring to show it :-)
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Ponting tastes punch in test match too
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Plenty to Explore
http://beezone.com/edwardo/PeterM/peter_malakoff.html
http://www.pbase.com/digitalfestival/mystical_india
http://www.pbase.com/yardbird/indiadiaries
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Cup of Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Quotes
2) In every aspect of life unexpected is always expected.
3) For any product don't sell the features, sell the benefits.
4) Imagine a football game with no yard lines,end zones, goal posts, scoreboard, clock, or even clear-cut teams; just a bunch of players whose goal is to pass a football, run around, and collide. It might be fun to watch for a while, but not for long. The chaos would soon drive the fans out of the stadium. Shortly thereafter, the players, unmotivated and confused, would wander off the field. "Similarly tasks with out measurable goals, eats up ones time resulting in nothing in many ways".
5) Without accountability, goals melt away, forgotten, remain flexible;
6) Always add a 50% time to ur meeting time when ever there is one.
7) To not to skip any of the tasks, instead practice giving self appointments and respect them as the ones given to others.
8) Truman Capote once said, A Failure is the condiment thatgives success its flavor.
9) Franklin D. Roosevelt put it morefamously: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
10) Improvement always starts with I.
11) Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas A. Edison
12) Ability is what you're capable of doing... Motivation determines what you do... Attitude determines how well you do it.
13) One day LOVE asked FRIENDSHIP, "why are you in the world when i am here?" Friendship smiled & said "TO SPREAD SMILES WHERE YOU LEAVE TEARS...!"
14) The Shortest Distance Between A Problem And Its Solution Is The Distance Between Ur Knees And The Floor. The One Who Kneels To GOD Can Stand Before Anything...
15) "Often when you follow others footsteps you do not leave your footprints behind".
16) A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
17) Two Lovers plan to Suicide. Boy jumped first; Girl closed her eyes, and returns back saying Love is Blind. The Boy, in mid-air opened his parachute saying Love never Dies...... "Cheers"
18) If i would be a tear in u r eye I'll roll down on u r cheek and die in u r lap and if u would be a tear in my eye I'll never cry by a fear of losin YOU.
19) Life is complex - it has both real and imaginary parts.
20) WOMAN has MAN in it. SHE has HE in it. Mrs. has Mr. in it. LADY has LAD in it. MISTERESS has MISTER in it. MADAM has ADAM in it . HOSTESS has HOST in it. FEMALE has MALE in it..........and so on..... the list is unending SO NO need to be proud ....Girls are always incomplete without Boys.........ha..ha..ha...ha
21) Adam n Eve started to love...,Romeo n Juliet introduced it...,Devdas n Paro suffered 4 it....,Laila n Majnu died for it....,so my dear frnd beware of it.....Feb14 is ahead..!
22) Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves. -Homer Simpson
23) In difficult moments behave like a duck, be unruffled on surface but keep paddling crazy underneath.
24) My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way.-Henny Youngman
25) My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.-Rodney Dangerfield
26) A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. -Milton Berle
27) I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "Therewas water in the carburetor." I asked her , "Where's the car?" She replied,"In the lake." -Henny Youngman
28) The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -Henny Youngman
29) After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."
30) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
31) I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't like to Interrupt her.
32) My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got myself two girlfriends.
33) A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it since the thief was spending much less than his wife did.
34) Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
35) A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" The father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."
36) Young Son: Is it true, Dad, that in some parts of Africa a Man doesn't know his wife until he marries her? Dad: That happens in every country, son.
37) Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; then it was too late.
38) A man placed an ad in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same : "You can have mine."
39) A woman was telling her friend, "I made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend. "A billionaire." she replied,
40) Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
41) It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.
42) Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.
43) Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
44) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
45) Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery.
46) The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
47) First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive".
48) Skill is, successfully walking on a tight rope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is, not trying it.
49) Fate determines who comes into our lives.... heart determines who stays...
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Travelogues - Warangal
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Make your Life Colourful
For more info http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/
Today morning I found a beautiful Symantec bag with different colurs at my cubicle...
I thought I am safe, coz many ppl didn't come to office today, but with in mins, many of my colleagues coloured me with... so thought why should I spare any one, went straight to Kranthi and Suresh.. he he he.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Fairy Tale
While playing Stick Cricket, I used to think how it will be if it happens in real life, boundary almost every 2nd ball.... here goes the match. At the end of Aus innings, I truly believed such glorious records has stay unbroken for a long long time or tooooooooooo short.
During the lunch, I thought only Indian team might have tried making a good contest, given the recent performances. But South Africans for the first time have overcome the "chokers" tag and astonished many including my room mate Suresh. At one point he said that even 299 was more than enough for the Aussies to defend (though he believes in Australian team's strength, he has more belief in SA's chokers tag, they fail to perform in crucial situation, even if the total is dismal).
To be simple it was SA's day, during 1999 world cup, when Gibbs dropped Steven Vaugh's catch, commentator said, they lost the WC. Any yesterday, when Gibb's catch was dropped, I recalled those words and was sure Australia dropped the match. Some how, SA teams plan worked, Gibb's promotion to 1 down, and Van der Wath ahead of Telemachus ... etc.
Still I feel, these kind of matches can be imagined/played on a PC game (take EA's cricket 2003) but its hard to believe, such a match was really played.
Well everybody is saying around me, highlights for this match will be a full match :-)
If u missed it, don't worry just tune into ESPN or Start Sports, it will be aired many a times. But u won't get the same feel watching it live. I was one of those who enjoyed it live.
To add, my colleagues went for a marriage reception and and called me up for score updates, they were not able to enjoy the reception and I could hear the joy from the other end every time my update was positive.
Finally, would it had been India (instead of SA), the whole nation would have celebrated it at least for a week.
The Match 12th March 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Have u listen to this
Close ur eyes and listen to this song over the weekend :-) wonderful.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Score board 03rd March '06
Well to fill those ......, Sarat slipped in front of Nitin on the ground and in the end, got his finger dislocated.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Week End Cricket
Today got 4 wickets for my vicious spin :-) but couldn't save my team from defeat. They posted 59 in 9.2 overs. The figure could have much bigger if Nitin had stayed at the crease. Opposite team for the first time bowled a superb line and length (not even a single extra in the first 6 overs) and won the match convincingly .... we were short of 20 odd runs, I was the last man to get out in the last over (my score? - around 10).
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Sunday, February 19, 2006
SPTM: Operation Sunrise
I am an active member of this group. Pune's traffic is one of the worst in the country due to many reasons, bad roads (or traffic infrastructure), increasing influx of vehicles and irresponsible people. The movement is all about encouraging the like minded people to come together and to spread safe / proper commuting awareness to at least make a tiny difference.
Want to know more? : www.savepunetraffic.com/html/index.htm
Clean Bowled
Indian senior team is becoming strong by every game. Wonderful series (4 - 1), they outplayed PAK in all departments particularly fielding (its awesome, except in 3rd ODI) and bowling (Sreesanth and RP are very consistent as per Indian bowling stds). Way to go.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
R.D.B - best bolly movie
Wonderful Job RDB team. Hats off to you.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Refreshing Week-end
It was a nice refresing trip, styed overnight and enjoyed the food too :-)
Congratulations to Mallaiah on becoming the Father
Best welcome to the world, kid (baby boy).
Friday, January 13, 2006
Kite festival
These pics were from the last yr festival.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
I want my those days back
May be I am enjoying my work a lot (being +ve :-) ) or is there anything to do with memory power ;-)
I have become the world dominator
Its a cool game, when ever I feel bored, I play this, http://www.stickcricket.com/game.php .
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Way to GO ASKB
Hope I will update this blog frequestly.
HNY - 2006.