Hunger for power make you to do whatever it takes

Jai Ho Indian Politics....rather any politics in the world.
Read the hot news about the Gowda son in the today's TOI where H.D.Kumarswamy is going to do padayatra to the flood affected North Karnataka.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Top-post-for-Yatnal-HDK/articleshow/5489723.cms

' Bastard, bastard, bhosidi maga’

Look at the video where our former Prime Minister touches a new low with his language. Awesome dude you rock being our former Prime Minister.

Luck by Chance

Last week i saw this movie "Luck by Change". Do watch this with complete patience & i bet you would love this movie. After a very long time, i see some GREAT ENGINEERING put into the dialogues of the movie.("GREAT ENGINEERING" - i mean to say, there cannot be something Perfect than this).

Hats off to the writer & directory Zoya Akhtar.

Lay-offs

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job” Quoted in Time, 22 Feb. 1954. Frequently attributed to Harry Truman, but the earliest evidence of Truman’s using it is later than 1954.
A quote copied from internet. which is 100% true.

I am hearing a lot of things like ... lay-off at this company ....so many people laid-off in that company.... X company to lay off Y number of people in z number of years and so on. All these were a NEWS items for me till last week, when i saw a lay-off at my company. I had a meeting with my program manger in the morning and life was going as usual. I went to the kitchen & got myself the coffee and was entering the lab when i saw my program manger being escorted with his Manager. I couldn't see the expression on his face.

For few minutes i felt so bad about him. This is the first layoff of this kind i am seeing(Earlier i have seen the layoff of my roommates, but then the scenario was different). When the economy is doing bad and when the no job in any company, this lay off would cost you more than ever imagined. All the weekend and throughout the week my mood was down. Thinking & Re-Thinking of whats happening around me. Some greedy buggers betting money on something have spoiled everything, literally everything. They have screwed up almost everyones life around the world. I feel only hard core communist countries are least affected by such things. The system has been systematically screwed up to an extent that it would require lots of lots of efforts to set it right.

With a Hope in my Heart that it would be alright after a while, i am moving on & Wish all the best for the people out there.

SATYAM

I am hearing the NEWS about SATYAM from few days now. Am bit worried about all my friends who are working there. More Tensed about the echo system surrounding SATYAM. Because its not only the engineers and their families but also the guys who enable the engineers to work seamlessly for 8Hrs a day. The guy preparing the Coffee/Tea/Juice, or the person managing the garden or the security personal or the guy who manges the office supplies and lot more. If you take a ratio of engineer to enablement staff then that would be 1 is to 2.5 or so. So the total ecosystem of SATYAM would not merely 53K engineers + their families but somewhere around 160K + Families.

Few Greedy management guys are responsible for all this mess. The creator has become a destroyer of SATYAM. I don't know, its the pressure on him which made him to do this or his GREED. In either case the echo system is hit badly and I pray GOD for a smooth transitioning of this company. May the echo system gets the extra energy to drive this company through this difficult phase and not let the hopes down.

SCHOOL DAYS

Its been a while i have not written anything in my blog. Many of my blog fans are complaining about that. I was little busy you know [;)].

I had a nice holiday time at the end of last year which i spent with my frnd's in COLD east coast. I would be starting to work from tomorrow. Am little tired of my vacation time and little NERVOUS that i need to go to work tomorrow. Not actually NERVOUS but SAD. Not SAD but a mixed felling which i am not sure of what to call it as? Am sure many of you will also be having such mixed feeling to go to office after a long holiday season.

Its good to be on vacation but worse to return back to normal routine. Suddenly i realized, i used to have the same kinda feeling to go back to school after our summer vacation. I still remember the two parts in me, 1st one wants to go to school and he is bored with the summer time and wants to learn more and grow older and the 2nd daemon wants to play in that MID DAY bright sunlight (Temp is often between 30~40 degree centigrades). At the end June 1st is all set to ROCK us with a new class room, new benches to scratch, new books to write, new pen and pencil, some new teachers, some old buddies and some new. But here in my case i will be having the same old stuff[:(]. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at my state now. Anyways its all what i can have for now & hope that would be the BEST i deserve. That's why i named this as "SCHOOL DAYS".

i wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR guys and have a nice time @ your SCHOOLS with some promotions in your personal & professional life [:)].

Anger ... Agony ...& Fear is what is left in my Heart

After a weeks of NEWS about Mumbai terror attach.... my heart is crying. I am having mixed emotions of Anger ... Agony ... & Fear. I don't know whom to blame to or whom to trust onto now. Few trained people created such a chaos, whole of Billion ppl saw the scene.

Few question arise in my mind
Q. Who is responsible for all these ?
A. We the people. Our love to nation has decreased over a period of time and every one is behind his own life think what he would get out of it. Definitely if there is something called PQ(patriotic quotient) just like IQ & EQ, which can be measured then we will get to know that the PQ among us is reduced over the period of 60 years. Large population and struggle for basic necessities in life have put my fellow countrymen in such a big web that, he comes out of one web to find himself trapped in another bigger.


Q. why this all happened in a FREE & DEMOCRATIC Country like mine?
A. Lousy Politics & political leaders, Greedy security officers & a number of nations who wants to be on top by depressing the developing once and above all OUR Dear Loving brotherly Neighbours.

Q. what does terrorist want to prove from this incident ?
A. They want to spread the terror in the eye of people like me.

Q. Are terrorist successful ?
A. YES.

Q. How does this end ?
A. Sadly i don't see any end to such incidents in my country.

When there was an attack on 9/11, President of United States(Mr. Bush) said that he would get the culprits to justice("Guilty will be punished" were his words). Though he was not 100% successful in getting the culprits to justice he did gave out a strong message to the culprits that if you attempt to do such thing, you will be terrorised by us so badly that you need to live in caves for the rest of your life hiding from us for your life. When such thing happen in INDIA we look after the F**King United Nations to put pressure on the countries sponsoring these event. It's like we have lost the battle and looking upto some stronger than us for help. I was more ashamed of, when Indian PARLIAMENT was attached and no action was taken. I wish a strong leader like Shastrigi or Indira were the PM at this moment or when parliament was attacked to take a bold step forward to end this once for all.

Though i say that these kind of terror attacks won't stop. I have a ray of hope wherein my country will tackle this issue with PEACE.

OCT 2nd

Today is Mahatma Gandhi's day of birth. The only saint of modern times.

As a average Indian i am grown up learning about BAPU's non-violence stories which i have never been able to understand and appreciate, i believe there are million of people like me who never understood this while they were growing up. It needs immense strength to follow non-violence, & Bapu proved himself against all odds.

I am born in a free INDIA and don't know how it feels like to be a slave. I owe my freedom to Bapu & all the freedom fighters of India from the 1st war of independence to 1947.

Jai Hind.

Smoking ban comes into effect

Nice to see "Smoking ban comes into effect".
May not be good for ITC, but well many non-smokers are spared by this law. Not only non-smoker but smoker too. As they would be buying less of rolled tobacco, b'coz they can't just smoke in any place they want. So in a way saving the some bucks in their pocket as well as the most important thing "Their Health".

I love to see Govt. stand by this law as strictly as it can.

Lazy Weekends

As a wise man said "Change is the only constant thing in the world. Rest all are Changing."

God Damn it !!!
i looked at my mobile for the time and its 2.30PM & i am about to get up not after a short NAP in the afternoon but from the night sleep.


My weekends are changing from the time i adapted to the weekend culture. I used to wait for the Mondays(As Sundays were only 1/2 day holiday & Mondays were the weekly holiday for me during my school day, though i used to hate it as i missed all the FUN FILLED Sunday Serials). As i grew up and started going to college it was much fun as i never attended all the classes of the day completely(College time was like full time weekend time). When started working in some crappy software company i hated the afternoons(I got used to having nice NAP, in fact a 2 hrs sleep in the afternoon, while in college) which i can't enjoy while working. But i was gradually stacking up the 2hrs NAP Period of the week to the weekend.

In Bangaluru i used to get up at 7.30~8.00, to eat my favourite Paddu at Nalapak or some fast food center on the way to Basaveshwar Nagar(Sorry i don't remember its name [:(]). Its not because i love to get up and have my breakfast but we won't get the Paddu after 9.30. A while after i moved here, i got used to get up at 9-9.30, jess to cook either Upittu/Avalakki/or some new Dish as Breakfast. Time passed on i kept on changing with loosing the enthu to cook some favourite breakfast and started BRUNCH culture. After a while got bored with that and stared looking out for restaurants for BRUNCH(as restaurants open at 11-11.30AM in the morning). Now i don't even get up to have the BRUNCH of the weekend. If i have nothing planned for the weekend then i get up only late afternoon(2-3 PM) not because i am bored by sleeping but because my damn Hunger has gone to such a peak that i could even EAT A HORSE.

Do i really love to sleep so much ??????
i guess NO.
Why do i sleep so much till late afternoon????
i guess i have become a LAZY ASS.
How do i change this????
Keep my busy during the weekends....which i am not able to do until now. [:(]

The Great "C Ashwath"

Ashwath pulling the crowd to madness by his songs at the Kannadotsava-2008 organised by KKNC(Kannada Kutta of North California). The picture quality are low as i have taken them with cell phone.

It may be B'lore Palace grounds or some auditorium at any city/town/village.....Ashwath is a ROCKING Star.

Morya re !

It's Ganesh Chaturthi, the birthday of Lord Ganesh, this September 3.

Ganesha, the lord of success and the destroyer of obstacles, is brought home and honoured with prayers, sweets... and lots of love. Found this interesting picture of my favorite GOD which many MANGERS use for their presentation about team work & stuff.


Ganapati Bappa Morya Pudchya Varshi Lavkar Yaa !!!

Viewing Globalization

I got this link from a frnd. Thanx Sarath for this link.

Think & Re-Think about this. Please be patient and watch the video completely.

Sarah Palin.....The Hottie from cold country

Following the American primaries '08 was a huge fun for me.  After the primaries the '08 election colors faded till the entry of a HOT PIE from a cold country. I don't know how much this hottie would help Republicans, but i will be happy to see her performance in the elections. Lets wait & watch will she boost the McCain campaign like her first entry or will take the campaign to a different path itself.

Usain Bolt Rockzzzz...

Watching the '08 Olympics is more Fun than ever, as India has won more than one individual medals and am expecting one more at least. Watching Phelps breaking a record after another was a starting part of it. After the history created by Phelps comes the new lighting by name "Usain Bolt" nicknamed as "Lighting Bolt". A 22 yrs guy rocking from a tiny island called Jamaica in Caribbean, who broke the record of both 100mts and 200mts. I felt like this guy is walking the race and all the other ppl are struggling hard to reach the end.



A truly amazing guy with so much of strength.



I congratulate both Phelps and Bolt for their amazing performance.

Perfect Gift for 61st B'Day

Indian sport had been crying all these years(except Cricket). Specially at Olympics, a billion ppl country hasn't won a single medal since 28 yrs(India hasn't won a single Gold medal in an individual event since its started playing for Olympics in 1900), when the history is created by Mr. Abhinav Bindra winning the first ever individual Gold Medal as a gift to Mother India.

A perfect gift for Mother India for her 61st B'day.

Thanks Abhinav for such a great gift.


Hope to see few more medals in this Olympics.

Jai Hind.

08.08.08

The greatest sporting event on the earth started today. I am very eager to see the opening ceremony. I love to see the 7~8 years of hard work which china has put to make this an un-forgettable event.

I also LOVE to see some YELLOW metal won by my country sports person. It's been 3 decades since we had a Gold Medal for our country. After becoming some what economically stable, hope parents would advise there kids to look for some sports as a career instead of Engg & Doc.

i am keeping my figures crossed to see this.

Here is the link of India's win/loose in Olympics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_Olympics

Singh is Kinng

I am not talking about upcoming akki & hot babe katrina's movie. Though i copied the name from that movie title itself which has an extra n in "Kinng"(all numerology & not logic behind it).


I am talking about the person whom today's Indian owe more than anyone on this earth. i am talking about the person because of whom we are enjoying a nice livelihood. A nice car/bike to ride to office, sitting in AC at office & having a chill time in the evening. (Note: All this may not be 100% true for ppl in Bangaluru as they spend 1/6th of their time in commuting.) I am talking about our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. An amazing person, a truly economic reformer of today's India, a foreseer who belived in some reforms which are giving the fruits after 10~15 years of proper harvesting. If Dr. Singh hasn't started those reforms so many years ago, i may not have been writing this blog.

After the POKHRAN Nuclear test, India has been isolated from the world nuclear community for a long while now. Dr. Singh stepped into yet another reform to make India truly Nuclear dependent nation by signing a Nuclear deal with the world. The Left as usual threatened kick the Govt. out of power. Dr. Singh accepting the challenge proved his majority without thinking of his govt. which had left out with 8 more months. He stood by his values yet again and i believe, the fruits of this BOLDEST Decision would be seen after another 20~30 yrs down the line. Singh is Kinng movie may be a HIT or FLOP at the box office, i believe Dr. Singh would be a HIT many years down the line.

Dr.Singh is the Real King.

911

911......hmmmmmmmmm......the magic number in a country of 300 Million and almost 100% of the people believing in this magic number. what happens when u get a Busy Tone on this number ????
You may not have thought this or A big question to answer.

I can tell you my story of what happens in such a situiation. Its not long ago, i moved to the Golden State of USA. I was very much happy to be in this state basically for the following reasons:
1. The temperature doesn't suck.
2. You get to hang around with lots of old buddies.
3. Their are a lots of Indian food restaurants which serves you delicious food, as if you were in India sort, unlike the restaurants in other state which will have 6~8 curries but the gravy used in them would be the same.
4. You can get many things from India as there are more frequent flyer's to this place.
to name a few.

I landed @ SJC airport(San Jose.......which is pronounced as San Hoosee) and drove to my company's guest house in the morning and i had planned to catch up a friend of mine who lived in SFO in somewhere mid way between Milpitas and SFO in the afternoon. As i was a fresh driver and don't wanted to drive in SFO downtown. I meet my good old buddy near some train station where he took me to Walmart and some India store to buy some essential things to live for a couple of weeks in the Guest House. I dropped my friend at a train station which would take him back to SFO and while returning to my town, i got to know that my Cell-phone was with him while i dropped him off @ the train station. Cell phone has become a virtual part of my body. From Phone Call.... to.... Reminders.... to..... Alarm..... to.... Time.....i use my cell phone. I can't imagine to live without my cell phone at least for 2 hrs. I was thinking like if by chance i miss the exit to my guest house how would i go back as i wasn't having cell phone to call anyone. Some how i made it to my guest house and called up my cell phone to let my frnd know that he has my cell and i would pick it up some time in the weekday. He suggested that he would send that with his office colleague the next day after office, and i can pick it up from her home at 7.30~8

The next day at around 7PM i called up his colleague and told that i would come to their home in another 30~40 minutes time. It was the start of winter season and there was a little bit of drizzling that day. The sun had gone down already and the street light were well lit with the light. I took the maps and started from my guest house. I was supposed to take a right turn in the next signal, when all of a sudden a Lexus 350 moved from the left lane into my lane. I didn't see his lane changing signal neither i realised that this car has come just few feet's from mine. i was happily seeing the maps to check whether i was on the right road to take a right turn. In the fraction of second i realised that i am moving faster than the speed needed to control myself and i pushed my brakes harder to stop. My Car instead of stopping started to skid. At the same time the Lexus guy started pressing his breaks harder and harder which was narrowing the safe distance between the cars. I pulled my legs off my brake paddle just to see how my car bangs the Lexus.

BANG..........Ultimately i hit the Lexus. My head moved forward and came back to stand still. My eyes where blank for a moment. I realised that i meet with an accident i pressed the emergency lights of my vehicle and thought of getting out of the car before some one hits my car from back. I was trying to open the car door. i couldn't open it, it has jammed. I jumped to the other side and came out of my car. The guy from Lexus came out of his car and said,
He: dude didn't you see that i was slowing down.
Me: I saw but i couldn't put the breaks as faster as i should have been to avoid an accident"
He: Can you call the cops ?
Me: I can, but i don't have a cell phone.

He pulled out his cell phone and told me that his battery is drying out and he need to call his wife also to tell about it. I suggested to call the Cops first and keep the personal business afterward. He tried the Magic Number and looked at me surprised!!! I asked him wats happening. He just gave me the cell & i heard ....peeep.....peeep.....peeep.......man is it a busy tone, i asked? He said Yes. He said i will call up my wife and then we can try this once again and started talking to his wife. I went near to my car to see how much damage has happened to it. I could see the front side part is almost broken in the middle. I wondered what might have happened to his car. There was a small dent on his car bumper. I praised the Lexus engineers for their car and started cursing the designers of Ford Focus(Car which i was driving). My mate has finished his call with his wife and came back to me and said he would try 911 once again. Because of some nervousness of what happened just few minutes back i sat on the footpath facing both the cars. In fact i was happy & thanking Lord Shiva that nothing happened to him or me. When all of a sudden an Indian guy and a girl stopped before me asking were you the person driving this Ford. I told yes & asked what do they need from me. The guy showed his hand to the corner where i was supposed to take a turn and said that VW beetle standing at the corner is ours and because of the accident the Lexus hit my car. WOW.......hehhehehehh................ i was laughing from inside, praising myself that i hit the Lexus so hard that it couldn't sustain the blow so it has offloaded something to Beetel. I was thinking for a second what if i hit the Beetel rather than Lexus. I came out of my thoughts all of a sudden and asked did they get hurt or was there any damage to their car. They said, they are safe and they is a small dent in the Beetel which i was expecting. My mate came back from his call telling there is a busy tone once again. This time he was more nervous than earlier. If i were not there, i believe he would have wept at this moment. He sat on the footpath as if he has run a marathon just now. He said that he tried some 10 times ..... i was also nervous but not because we aren't able to get thru 911. i asked the Indian guy his name.
He: XYZ
Me : were do you work
HE: some reputed Indian service based company(Which all the older ppl of my town want their kids to be in).
He: Where do i work? Do i live near the next signal(There were some couple of apartments)?
Me: i moved to CA just yesterday and now going to meet a frnd of mine. I asked him to try 911.
He: OK & he started trying.
I was thinking why the hell i am not having the cell phone. In fact i was in this situation because of the cell phone. I started talking to that girl. Are you XYZ's colleague, she said yes. i saw that she had one cell phone in her hand and asked her can i make a call to a frnd. She was happy to give her cell. I called up my SFO Buddy and explained all the situation and asked him if he can call up his colleague and ask her to come here and give me the cell. His colleague came after some 15 minutes and gave my cell back. In the mean time my mate and XYZ both enjoying the 911 busy tone. I could see clearly the frustration increasing in my mates eye. It was not frustration but helplessness what he might have been thinking off. I was feeling like he would faint in another minute or so. It was almost 1 hour by now and the same old busy tone was ringing on 911. I suggested my mate to ask his wife/frnd to go to a police station and explain about this accident(Indian style communication where in-person work more efficiently). As he was much more eager than me, he said OK and we started trying out 911 again. It was almost 2 hrs when cops came to the spot to inspect and wrote a report about the accident. They interviewed each one of us individually and then gave their visiting cards(To get the final report of accident).
Beetel & Lexus guys drove away & the Junk Ford was towed away. The Police offices asked me for a drop to my home. I said thanks as i was waiting for another frnd to pick me up.

So don't be surprised if you get a busy tone on 911 in USA. [:)]

Boolywood Number in "So You Think You Can Dance"

i came back from office at around three quarters past nine in the evening after a battle(in fact war) with the code crash, just to see that my favourite TV reality show was about to end. The TV show which i am talking about is "So You Think You Can Dance". Last 2 performance of the day were left out for me to see. I was more than happy to see both of them, i was thanking God at least i got a chance to see these two. Though i can watch all the other performances on net the next day. But it won't be that Fun to watch the performances on Laptop.

The Last performance was about to start by "Katee & Joshua" and i was damn sleepy and eager to sleep than to watching the show, when all of a sudden i saw these guys performing for a Bollywood song. My entu to see this performance increased by leaps and bonds and i sat on the couch with my eyes wide open waiting for their performance. They were choreographed by some Indian guy.


Here is the link you can watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilHBGLNsfvE
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6b5NVbyTA
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bow8NJlcIgc

[I am giving so many link of youtube as the videos in youtube won't be available all the time]


Both the performers did a 100% justice to the Dance. Hats off to these great dancers. Now i am trying to vote and getting the number busy [:(]