Saturday Brunch ...

Its was a warm saturday morning when Dr.shivaprasad kotagiri woke up and said that he would cook the idli.I was more then happy hearing those words and earger to help him out as a assistant. Let me brief you about out my room Dr.This guy is not a doctor by proffession, but a Phd guy in information theroy. A lazy fellow who has an immense enthu to cook food. He isn't my roommate but a gud frnd of my roommate, often vists us on wknds. Ok enough of his introduction.
We had brought a batter from Desi Store the last night and coconut was already there in our room(which i broght from by car pooja). Amaresh(My Roomie) had brought the utensils for prepering idli while coming from India. Our head cook fried some Jeera, mustured, some dal and some other stuff. Took the grinder and put the sliced coconut and preaped the Chutney.
He used the batter and started the steaming process for idlies.
After abt 45 minutes the first set of idlies were ready to be attacked on. Me & My Roomie started. Awesome IDLIS. Trirupati Bheemas also would not have served such once.

Hats Off to our Dr. !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the idlis man.

-: The Second Hunting :-

After finishing my bachelors i had the first phase of hunting. The Hunting for a job which pays me for my bread & butter. After some years down the line, the Second and most important phase of Hunting started. The hunting for a SoulMate. Probably the most important HUNT of life time.
i would to talk about some of the most embarrassing moments of both the hunting phases.
I went for a interview with some XYZ company and cleared some 2 rounds of technical interview and was about to be hired by the company. To complete the formality a Manger should interview me. The HR was very keen to give me a offer and don't wanted to waste Time and there were no Mangers on saturday. I was seated in a meeting room where the HR told, he would give me a offer letter after a formal interview with some Manger. I was much happier that moment. He came back in some 10 minutes and said the CEO of the company is the only guy available and i need to talk to him for a while. He insisted that it would be totally a formality. I went and sat for the interview, and when the CEO started, i was feeling like "Oh God ....when will this guy leave me to go out, i don't want any offer or anything, please leave me !!!!! i will go and survive in some remote part of the world on air and water." His questions were more of why you wanna join my company only (non-technical)? what u wanna be after 5 years from now ? For which i told a big story(infact i used to have a pre-prepared answers for most of the HR question) and he did start asking 101 questions back. In the back of my mind i was feeling like, "Hey dude, i want some job to fill my stomach". Sadly i was screwed. I didn't get the offer too [:(]
Now coming on to the interview for the second hunt. I went to see a girl at her residence with my family(bro,sis,bro-in-law & sis-in-law). Totally 5 of us like Pancha Pandavas. We were received by the Girls family. It was so nice to be received like that. My bro introduced everyone to the girls family & the girls father introduced himself and his family members to us. I was made to sit aside on a different chair away from the other 4 of my family(like bali ka bakra). Then they called the girls who sat on a chair oppsoite to mine(though her father was sitting beside her). The girls Father asked me when did i come back from US and what my Dad & Mom are upto? My bro-in-law asked the girl about her education and some formal questions which we knew from her bio-data already. Her father asked me to talk to his her if i have any question. I was very much nervous that time,i had a eye contact with the girl just for the first time she came into the hall. After that i never raised my head to see her again[:(]. Poor guy don't have any experience talking to girl(especially when my family members were with me, I thank god at least i didn't go with my MOM & DAD, it would have been much more tougher than being with my siblings). I was quite for a while then the girls father asked me if i want to go alone with the girl and talk(he felt like i was shy to talk infront of everyone). I wasn't knowing what to talk and what not to ???
I just asked her where her office is?
she said ITPL.
That's it, my blood pressure went upto 200mm and settled down to 140~150 mm. i could feel my heart beat changes. Even in that hot room i felt the coldness of my feet(My feet was ICE Cold). After a bit of silence i looked at my bro and signed him to finish the conversation. My bro asked the girl to ask me question if she has any?
She started.....

SHE : how long have i been working?
ME : X years
SHE : which company am i working for?
ME : XYZ company
SHE : which are the other companies worked for earlier?
ME : ...
SHE : where was my company in Bangalore?
ME : XYZ area........ i rembembered my first interview of my life.

i felt like "Oh God please ask her to stop" i used to answer the Q in one or two word without a eyecontact with her. After a lots of question i was feeling like this Girl is better than me in talking. Atleast she wsn't that hesitant to aks whatever she had in her mind. Propbaly she had meet some 1~2 guys before me meeting her, so somewhat more experienced than me(basically i conviencied myself [:D]).
After coming out of their home, all my bro's & sis's were teasing me like, u shld changed the roles(The girl taking the placeof me and me taking the place of her) Till that day there were under the impression that i was candid and outspoken as i awlays do at home. i rembembered the popular Hindi quote "Har Kutta apne gali mai sher hota hai".
My Hunt is still on. Destiny would have written something for me. Hope that would come soon. [:)]

Mr. P Sainath

I was introduced to this great personality by a colleague of mine, he always used to talk about this guy. Usually i do "wiki" on person/place/action/word about any new stuff i hear from people. But sadly i wasn't that fast to wiki about this person [:(]. After doing a google about this guys name i found this wonderfull video. Please takeout some time of yours and see what this guy has to talk about "Global Inequality".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9078987899127917834

Hats off to this guy for such a great knowledge base !!!

Can there be a unbiased media ???

I used to be a big fan of all the Indian NEWS channels(Aaj tak, Star, NDTV, IBN..etc). I simply loved the news channels more than regular Movie/Music Channels because we get a lots of advertisement inbetween NEWS (sorry it should be NEWS inbetween Adds) and i love to see Adds then Movie/Music/News. With such a less time to show off their talent, Add Master should make MOST out of it. I used to scold all the cheap Tabloids on all these News channel. But the reality was most of the NEWS channels where Owned/Funded by Politicians. So you can't expect it to be unbiased.

My experience with the NPR(National Public Radio, a non-profit membership media organization) was great till today, though i missed those lovely mind blowing Adds. I used to hear the News during my afternoon drive to a neraby restaurant for all these days. I used to feel good about different topics discussed in there. Today there was an interview which caught hold of all my senses. The interview was with a person who was a Prisoner of War (POW)(He was POW in Middle East for about 2 years) & a Phyciatrist. The POW was explaining the painful part of torture section of his 2 years life as a POW & the Physciatrist was explaining his mental state at that time. I was feeling so bad and the interviewer was digging...digging & digging....It looked like a never ending story, i simply couldn't withstand that so changed the channel.

I asked myself, is this news channel which i am hearing from almost 6 moths is "UNBIASED" ???
Sadly the answer is NO [:(].

I never heard an interview with pesron who had been a victim of Gulf/Iraq/Vietnam war or a Iraqi/Russian POW. who had been undergone the same state as the POW of todays interview. Media in any corner of the world should be biased as there is an individual person reporting the NEWS and we as a viewers/hearers need to see/hear through his eyes/mouth. Only thing we should look at media is some what less unbiased stuff, that's it.

The bright Saturday Morning.

It's a bright saturday Morning 5th of April 2008(just to show-off my writting skills, i am decorating the sentence), i woke up from a California King size Bed( ;) Cali King size is a term which is a comforter layed on the floor) scuolding the Brighter SUN hitting my eye passing through the window blinds.

Oh Shit!!! it was 11.45AM in the morning just 15 minutes to go for the Afternoon, i need to rush to the office to finish off some work so that i can show something in my status report 2 my manger the coming monday. It was almost a year and half i haven't seen how an office looks like on a Weekend ? Ate the delecious Brunch cooked by myself afresh and dropped into my office, just to swtich on all the cubical & lab ligths and start working. My Office looked like a big CAVE where nobody has entered for ages, till i put on the lights. Seeing the darkness at the office, I remembered the Song "On a dark deserted Highway by Eagles"

Prepared a Cup of coffee before breaking my head on to why the code is crashing. After a tiresome battle with the code, i gave up. It was 10PM, the time i came back Home with no result out of the Bright Saturday :(. On a regular week day i wouldn't have burnt myself so much compared to this day. I pray to god, please don't shower such Bright Saturday Morning's anymore in my life.

~*~ Of Late ~*~

I created this blog id a long time ago, when i had a lots of time & little bit enthu to start blogging. But it never happened to be one of my interests till lately, one of my good old friend suggested me to go ahead with. I am thankful to Mr. Kulkarni who suggested some better things which eventually invoked the zest in me to start blogging [:)]. Don't know till what state i would go with this, but eventually starting off is a great thing.

Thanks Buddy.

I have put a pix of mine just for ppl to see who am i.