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Analyse this .....

2008-08-09T06:52:00.000-07:00

I keep thinking sometime that ,
Why do we have to earn just 3 to 4 lakhs per annum putting our brains to work , when some people earn it in few days/months in show buisness ???
Why do we have to work so hard but then just end up living normal life when some people live luxuriously?
Why should people invent /achieve something when its just gonna be forgotten in few days and doesnt get enough lime light , whereas in the showbiz people get publicity even if they sneeze.
Why should we study so hard to get good engineering/MBBS degrees when people who have not even passed 10th grade earn so much?
Who is superior? who is considered to be smart ? who is intelligent ? who gets the fame ? who is more successfull? who gets to live a luxurious life?
Does the degree which we hold and nature of work we do bring us / give us any added advantage than the ones in the show buisness?

I just wish that the world would start giving importance and throw more light to people who really deserve the fame and publicity , I mean a life saving doctor , a scientist and his research , an engineer and his invention , an extra smart student who has accomplished something in academics, a philosopher with his work , a successfull enterpreneur,
rather than the film stars and their break ups and link ups news and all such crap.

Film stars and show buisness are just for entertaining us and entertainment is just a small part of our life , if you are gonna miss a movie/ tv show your life is not gonna end .

If not the world i just wish that Indians atleast show least importance and curiosity to show buisness news and start appreciating other fellow citizens who excel in their work and bring them to light , so that our future generation can have good icons to inspire them .

I just wish that every child is given enough freedom to choose and grow in whichever field he/she wants to and become an expert in that .
By this India would have real talented and smart individuals who are experts in their respective chosen field in future.

Wassup bloggers!!!

2008-08-07T08:40:00.000-07:00

I know i know where the hell have u been would be one of the questions running in your minds :) when you see my post.
feels like it has been zillions of years since i blogged, couldnt post anything from a long time, blogspot being blocked in office is one of the main reason :) .
have a lot of reading and catching up to do of my other favourite bloggers and their blogs :).
cya around

Gyan Time : Plans always get you into things, use your ability to make a way out of it .

Happy Happy Bday

2008-01-17T21:33:00.000-08:00

Had a peaceful Bday this year….
The gifts I receive are getting expensive year after year, may be am turning precious year after year to my closed ones …..
Got an Ipod Shuffle, Watch set with 20 straps and what not….
My friends@ work had thrown me a surprise bday bash on dec 31st itself, Planned and executed by Ashwini . Others were Saranya, Sreyashi,Swati,Balesh I must say these gals are such lovely gifts themselves for me from the year 2007.
Got to cut 3 cakes this time…hee he…

Time just runs so fast, hope it takes a break, I don’t want to grow old soon ……..hee hee…

My wish/wants list for this year is quite long :
My wishes this year conjures up to make a point of- what I want out of me more than what I want from others.

I want to -stay fit (this tops my list as usual).
I want to -be more patient.
I want to - learn to respect people, everyone is not my family / boyfriend to boss around….hee hee
I want to – stop being a spoilt brat.
I want to – avoid my mood swings and try to be happy.
I want to - stop getting irritated for stupid jokes from stupid people.
I want to - learn cooking.
I want to – learn driving and own a car.
I want to – stop gorging on fast food.
I want to –stop fumbling with the opportunities given and to strike the Iron when it’s hot.
I want to – become smarter.
I want to – do good thing to others.

Women's Day Out

2007-12-27T02:51:00.000-08:00

Acc has a lot of GPTW (Great Place To Work) clubs - "Vaahini" is an all women's club ,dedicated exclusively to all the ">" ladies .
In one of its mailer , the club had announced a Contest and 160 gals to mail back would be taken to a resort, and i was one among them .
Nov 24 th was the date fixed. Saranya bagged the last minute seat as one of my other colleague dropped out , and u know what i had told her before when she dint get the Ticket that hey just wait anything might happen ..and waalaaaaa she got it :) some times i do predict things well hee hee.

We both along with 100 of other gals had a blast in the "Royal Orchid Resort - Doddi" .
Its a nice place, to relax and enjoy . There were games organsied which were very interesting , 'Misguided Missiles' tats we called our team .hee hee
There was Mehendi ,Nail coloring etc etc
We had a rocking time, in the Disco tech with DJ being dominated by us and our requests for fav numbers.
Day ended with good food and music :)

Ethnic Day @ work-2

2007-12-01T02:09:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Ethnic day recently, we were thrilled to be draped in sari's yet again.. This is the second Ethnic day in my office since i joined.
Though we managed to convince the whole team to be in Ethnic wear, u know some ppl dont hearrrrr u!!!!!!!
We had a blast as usual, having Ramp walks and then again Photo shoots ,Cakes ,Choclates what not.
Me wrapped in Green,Ash was dashing in Pink,Saranya shining in Cream and name a colour you would find them.
I just hope next Ethnic Day would be on a day far off from now as we dont want to loose that charm by having it very often :) .

Friends@Work

2007-11-06T20:22:00.000-08:00

Our project brought in some fresher’s and don’t ask me work life is changed since then …. Now there are huge amounts of masti at work place too….
The only issue is am not able to allocate much time as them cos am a year senior and have lil more responsibilities and work.
But that doesn’t stop us from having fun .
Sreyashi,Ashwini,Saranya, Pavithra are the new joiners.
Swati and I have got lots of company now. We try to make our day as much lively and fun as possible by pulling each others legs and jokes.
Nadeem has got lot of gals in his proj to keep him company now.. hee hee….

GyanTime: "Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you!"

Hungama @ Fun World

2007-11-04T03:17:00.000-08:00

Me,Praveen,Sowmya,Nadeem and suman (my collegemates) had been to Fun World in the first weekend of Nov.
We broke our bones in some of the rides, Fun World aint so safe.
Its high time the Fun World owners take some interest and do arrange some more safety measures .
But then we had good time there.
sowmya is posted in Hyderabad permanently so she comes once in a while and we dint want to miss out the chance.
We were dangerously hanging in many rides, with me screaming all the while Nadeem was big time ragging me .
Praveen was a good observer that day and suman our camera man hee hee .
One interesting aspect of Suman is he was so scared of heights tat he dint accompany us in many rides but u know wat u can find his snap in each and every ride which was taken when the machines were stopped :) hee hee

These were the few videos taken ,
In the First video, i tried explaining Nadeem to turn the camera but he dint..u know ...nads...
but that turned out to be funny .......... they zooming on me while eating and all is lil scary ..watch out be carefull :)

In the 2nd video -u can see them ragging me :) royally..........
They just irritated me to hell.... It just boils down to the fact that evrybody wants to be treated well,, but they left me screaming..Excuse me Excuse me :( ,which happens to be my dialog now and then,when happy,sad, angry and wat not :)

Gyan Time : The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with never say a word, and then walk away with a feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

World Cyber Games City Champion………………..

2007-09-02T09:07:00.000-07:00

It started with TV Games -> Computer Games -> Sony Play station 2 and now Xbox 360 , this has been the gaming history of my brother Sunil so far…..
Gaming has been one of his fav hobby since his high school although cant say tat he was a total game freak.
I used to wonder why I always lose to him in games J ,so did his friends , little did we know tat he had such good gaming talent tat one day he would be a City Champion for the Gaming competition held by World Cyber Games http://wcgindia.com/.
& http://wcgindia.com/CityFinailsts_WorldChamp.html

He is headed for the National finals at Mumbai, hoping that he wins the Nationals finals too and then the International Finals.

What’s on your mind?

2007-08-29T14:45:00.000-07:00

What’s running in your mind constantly is one question you need to check upon with yourself, the more negative you think about yourself and situations, the outcomes would be the same.

I have heard a lot about disasters occurring to people who lack patience in their lives, hoping that I never end up in such kind of disaster.

Every problem will have a way out, and as they say “A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”

As some of us are leading our lives in the corporate world which involves lot of hassles, we end up hurting our dear ones cos of the tensions involved at work or due to suppressed anger of someone in office.
This is very much true in my case so am planning to think few good things done by the same person who does / causes tension, this might cool my temper... hee hee …

Having lots of expectations on anyone/anything would only lead to misery and disappointment. Instead of waiting for something to happen, what I feel is … its better to start working towards it slowly and consistently and make it happen …..

All we youngsters have so much to achieve in our life , instead of changing everything around us the way we want its better to give time and think of the bigger goal which we have always dreamt upon and work towards it day by day …..

By nourishing our mind everyday with self motive thoughts and good values about our family and work atmosphere. I guess we can achieve big things in life,
I have tried this and I feel its working and am feeling even more confident and using my day more productively.

Gyan Time: If we feed our body with junk food and our mind with bad thoughts, we will have both a sick body and mind. We need to feed our mind with the pure and the positive to stay on track.
Through constant practice and exposure, we can learn the principles that make a person
Successful.

Lalbagh adorned to commemorate 60th year of India's Independence

2007-08-20T03:20:00.000-07:00

Lalbagh – Decorated to mark the 60 th Year of Independence Day celebration

Lalbagh is known for its famous “Flower show” every year .
The Annual Flower Show at LalBagh is always a delight for flower and Photography enthusiasts.

I got to visit lalbagh with my cousin and just loved it .

The Glass house was the centre of the attraction.
Cos it was filled with over 100,000 roses of different varieties, besides orchids and sunflowers.

The Taj Mahal, created with red and white roses, was one of the major attractions , over 60,000 roses have been used to create this Taj Mahal miniature.
Two types of roses were used which included the 'Grand Gala' (red) and the white rose have been extensively used in this creation.

Was gazing at it for more than half an hour , trying my best to capture the best shot .

There was a flower miniature of the 'launching of a space shuttle - SPUTNIK', which is made of more than 26,000 roses. This miniature reflects the success of development in India.

You can see that below:

Miniature of this (below) Floral pair added some more charisma in the air.

Digital Dreams

2007-07-25T05:08:00.000-07:00

Oh Yeah … One of the very first things that I wanted to do after I got into a job was to buy a Digital camera .
Unfortunately it took many days for me .. My friend Nadeem informed abt a good offer and now am a proud owner of Sony Cyber Shot DSC S650 , 7.2 MegaPixel.

This was one of my very first shot taken in my camera which I personally liked.
There are some snaps uploaded in my picasa album which were taken by my digi cam quite complacent about them.
Started to learn some tips and tricks of digital photography .

Gyaan Time :
"It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good.

Painting Bangalore Green :

2007-06-07T05:16:00.000-07:00

It was “World Environment Day “ yesterday ..

Bangalore has lost its charm which it used to have earlier .
One could experience cool shade beneath the tress planted all across the streets.
But now more and more buildings are being constructed, roads widened which results in uprooting the trees .

It’s up to the civilians of the cities to keep their cities clean and green, We cant just sit back and keep blaming the government for everything, start by keeping your surroundings near your home clean and grow plants as much as possible.
Avoid using plastic as they take millions of years for degradation.

I loovvvvvvvveeeeeee Plants ,Flowers,greenery …. There was a Plant exhibition in my office today, its nice to know that our company is coming up with such initiatives which would definitely help in contributing to a Greener Bangalore , this is the plant which i bought ,,simple yet beautiful

This is my Garden at home ,

Pink Rose plant :
Velvette Plant :

Button Roses :

Yellow roses :

Pink Rose :

@ Work :
There’s a plan about an outing this month, me and Swati are waiting for the same.

And by the way got my certification results for CSTE and have secured a good score of 89%. Quite more than I had expected….

Before I can reach to an end of this post, wanted to talk about Success and happiness which every person in this world seeks for:

Success and happiness go hand in hand. Success is getting what you want and
Happiness is wanting what you get!

Existence alone is not success! It is a lot more!
Do more than exist -- live
Do more than touch -- feel
Do more than look -- observe
Do more than read -- absorb
Do more than hear -- listen
Do more than listen – understand

Kurumgad Island -Karwar Trip

2007-05-11T03:45:00.000-07:00

After being exhausted and bored with our monotonous work , and since we believe in this slogan – “Work Hard , Party Harder” .
Our Team decided to go for a trip again this time for an island….. yeah sounds cool ryt….

It turned out to be one hell of an exhilarating trip I have ever gone for …..

We decided to go to KurumGad Island ,a 45 mins ferry ride from Karwar near Mangalore , which is a port town on the banks of Kali Nadi River .

This is the site…
http://www.thegreatoutdoorsindia.com/

Altogether we were 70 of them, and were split into 4 groups of 15 each and the rest 10 were Team building team.
The four teams had one lead each leading them , and I was the Lead for my team hee hee...

It was great being a Lead to several big shots in my team . I was a Team leader for 2 days.

The 4 teams were – Island Brigadiers, Tremendous 12, C-Rockers, DNA(Do Not Ask ),

Our Team name was DNA ….. Do Not Ask us why we opted that name……

Our points were calculated based on how each team assembled , collaborated, participated, mingled each and everything.

We took off on Friday evening @7.30 PM in 2 luxurious buses carrying 35 ppl on board each.
After lots of shor and hungama for 2 hours in bus we reached A1 Plaza which was Reliance Group’s restaurant had good dinner and started again.

It was a long drive to Karwar , it was supposed to take 10 hrs but we took almost 14 hrs cos of the small breaks which we took in between , had nice time in bus .singing aloud and stuff. Whoever dared to sleep were disturbed with whistles and slogans J

I however managed to fall asleep when I woke up the next day I cudnt believe my eyes the sight was splendid , we were going down a hill …. Covered with lush green trees and bushes , it was a marvelous site .

I woke up everybody next to me all were wonder struck ………..
Few mins from then we cud see the mangalore beach , we reached karwar in other 1.5 hours . we reached at 10 AM on the Karwar Port .

We took a ferry and reached Kurumgad island , we could see the meeting place of Kali nadi and Arabian sea , ( blue-green mix) it was too good.

We reached the island, at about 11 AM were very tired. Just barged in to our tents and cottages and took a quick shower and assembled back again to celebrate one of our seniors Bday party. It was a surpise for him we had made arrangements and had decorated his cottage as well where he was gonna spend a day with his wife …hmmm how romantic.

We then had our breakfast and started off with lotsof games like..Queen of Sheeba – where the “Most Demanding Queen “ on this earth would demand for all weird things and all our 4 teams shud set out and get her demands.

Some of her demands were like – 5 diffrnt kind of flowers, blue,pink,white rings, 4 LG Mobiles and stuff…..

And the other game was PonyTail competition , where the first round was gals tying pony tails to boys and the second round was vice versa.

We then played the Baloon-Blow until it bursts competition ….it was very funny…..

Then we were asked to pick a chit each for the late nyt Bonfire party now itself so that we get time to practice…

Team A- picked up Group Song, Team B – Skit ,Team C- fashion Show , Team D – Group Dance (J my team).

We all then changed to our Beach attire cos we were gonna hit the beach in some time.
We then reached the beach wow wat a splendind sight again the view from cliffs and other places which we have captured in our shots are extremely breath taking .

In the beach I cudnt stop myself from playing in the beach , and now u wont believe me being a lead I was being controlled by my team mates J … cos I was refusing to come out of the beach J

U know……I cudnt help It was tat good…. It was like that Cast Away movie island so clear and so good .

We then played Tug Of Wars which was real fun , at the end of all
the Team A,B,C,D competition we had a round where Gals Vs Boys was held….

Guess who won…………..

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa not boys it was we the simplest and sweetest creations of God - Gals who won the Tug Of War’s…..

And then we played another game which was so tiring, “Filling the Bottle with water” …not as simple as it sounds so….

The bottle was placed few mts away from beach, 10 ppl standing alternatively for each team.
The person near the beach should collect water in his palm and pass it to the next it continues and the person near the bottle should pour the contents in to the bottle…. By the time the water is passed from each and every ones hand it wud spill and hence took lot of time….
We then played “Art of Entangling “ , each team would be in a big knot formed by holding left hand of one person to right hand of the third person .
We were supposed to entangle and form one big circle without leaving of our hands.

Tat was fun too….

We returned back to our Tents and Cottages and had a quick shower, had lunch
and started of with our respective rehearsals for the group activity.
Our Team selected – Sajjna Di Vaari vaari of Honey Moon Travels for our Group dance.

It’s a good catchy song with nice beats. We practiced for sometime and then were just chilling out exploring all the places and views …

We had some Bday celebrations and Award function, we gathered up on dance floor and the events began again.

After the award ceremony we started up with the group performances the entire group did well… Our team danced well I guess after 4 years I danced forgetting every other thing on earthJ

Had extreme fun dancing. we then had dinner and started off with dancing again . I was one among the ppl who danced the whole night … don’t ask me how I managed but I did….along with swathi my friend….

We did tribal dance J near the Bonfire later at midnyt …and then from then on I cudnt ..
was all tired so returned back to my tent….

Some ppl were still partying out…

The next day morning we all assembled again after breakfast for the announcement of the winning group.

The –Tremendous 12 group won in most of the games so they were the winners… and my Team won the “Triumphant Group” prize….. For the zeal and passion we showed by dancing all nyt J

We then set out and left the island in the ferry , the buses were waiting for us at the port and we took off to Blore . It was a good Funfilled trip.

Charismatic Billy

2007-02-05T23:01:00.000-08:00

Bill Gates has always been a inspiration to me... not cos of the money he makes but for the "Never ending success" he makes...

Microsoft has always had a soft corner in my heart .

It's been 3 years since i joined the student community and my best part of student life was me being a student champ .

The weekend session's , bi-annual events were really best time of my life.

In one of those days i got to witness the most unforgettable event which i missed out to blog abt.

he was in Bangalore on Dec 9 2005 . We got to see him in the "Ready to Rock tour " presentation one of the privileges i enjoyed being a student champ cum ambassador. lucky me...

"The very moment Bill Gates made his entry on stage .... all of us just stood and were speechless... dont know why....

It was dream come true for some .... his simplicty, patience, the way he thinks before and answers for a question shot at him was really good.

Can never forget the day....

my friend shreenath's entry

http://ubshreenath.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6447FDAF06658642!173.entry

Birthday gal!!!

2007-01-04T02:07:00.000-08:00

Well the Birthday gal was obviously me ……….. I celebrated my birthday on jan 1 this week ...ya i was born on a new year day...

And this Birthday is so much different than the rest which I celebrated cos this year
“ I am an Independent Gal “ …….. Hmmm feels nice to say so… cos I had longed from a long time to call myself a Independent gal…. hee hee

My B’day date has its own pros and cons …well let me just tell the ‘Cons’ in this post (cos thinking positive is one of my resolution hee hee) Nobody forgets my birthday … I get wishes pooling in from several friends right from my friends at school to my College mates and work friends…. And the whole world celebrates my birthday.

Had a good time got a couple of good gifts from my sweetest friends , can never forget those wishes which was said to me on 12 AM on jan 1. Must be lucky to have such good friends.
Well this Bday am lil upset at some of my old close friends for not meeting me… issues are not sorted out still …. Well if u know me from years u will know wat are the consequences of making me angry hee hee…..

Apart from my B’day I welcomed this New Year with high hopes…….. 2006 was a great year for all of us in my family…right from mom getting her Dream house, me getting my Dream job, Sunny getting his promotion, and Dad ‘s recovering health condition and finding some peace in his job which was hectic all these years.

As years go by I can say that I take something or the other from the previous year,
And tat ‘something’ can be experience, memorable moments ,leaving behind the sorrows of my prev years…..

But I have noticed tat as I am growing up I feel tat life is getting more complicated, handling relationships… creating new friends and maintaining the old ones….phew….

As I am no more a student this year and have started working I feel more responsible of everything now….
Careful and cautious in everything ryt from the words I speak and their possible interpretations by others.
Conscious of the expenses I make and stuff… (not really hee hee).

But then I am loving the new Sense Of Responsibilty flowing inside me …………..

Christmas Celebrations ……..

2006-12-21T03:37:00.000-08:00

On behalf of Christmas our project members came up with an idea of Secret Friend….
The concept is pick one chit among all the chits which had the entire team members name and get them a gift.

We weren’t supposed to spill the beans about who our secret friend is…
Every one were curious to find out secret friends of the other few succeeded few did not.

The idea was to get a gift in such a way that the person must know who would have given it to them….

We had the celebration on 20 th … we are lucky enough to get christmas gifts much before the Christmas…

I got a beautifull bag from Gopi dint expect a guy would purchase something so sweet for a gal.. .. And my Secret friend was Sunil I gifted him a Archies Mug…

We enjoyed he fullest … with Dumbsharads and Secret Santa Games spicing up our day…

Music For The Mind …………….

2006-12-21T01:34:00.000-08:00

For all those who thought music is just for entertainment ……. Think again cos u r wrong….

Certain sounds aren’t just music for your ears but even to your mind. For they don’t merely please your senses but can also rejuvenate your health if used correctly.
That’s the premise of Music Therapy.

I read abt this therapy in the papers and got to learn more abt it . It is said that this therapy has its beginnings in the fact that everyone responds to music it helps speed up the recovery process especially after surgery. It’s also been effective in conditions such as stress, insomnia, depression and for pregnant women.

So the next time you return home after a stressful day, try tuning off your worries by turning on your music players…..
Some soothing music just might spare you a trip to the doctor much later….

SchoolMates - Re-Union

2006-12-13T03:41:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday we had a Small Re-Union of few of our old schoolmates.
The feeling of meeting our old friends whom we haven’t met for quite sometime was quite interesting .
We decided to meet at the Gokul’s in CMH Road. Nothing particular abt the spot but it was a good restaurant..
Even though few of them dint make it to the Re-union, we had a good time.
Was surprised to see the quite ones turned naughty, and the mischievous ones turned very serious in life…. :)
And the short ones grown up long and thin ones gone lil fat… :)
In our long 4 hour meet we discussed various things, the most interesting part was finding out wat happened to the school crushes which is going on or off ……. And then abt our principal , teachers and stuff…. Gossips abt them…..

It was quite good . we had a great time. We all remembered writing down and telling our ambitions in class .. like I wanna be this I wanna be that when I grow up … we were just verifying abt everyone. Its sad that few cudnt attain their ambitions, and few did. Am happy tat I managed to achieve my ambition but then still long way to go… as my ambitions never end…

Well that’s life accng to me ,we need to keep on running and running as time and tide waits for none and we have to leave our mark in this world before we die .

Hope to meet everybody soon again.

Oooh La La Wonder La ..........

2006-11-29T21:33:00.000-08:00

What a week it was………….. My first week work experience in Accenture was too good…. I must say I started my work with a big bang………….. Whole of our DU had been to Wonder La on 25 th …. Wonder la is a huge fantasy park which has got heart-pounding Dry rides and water rides …. Its widely spread across a huge area…

We started our Action Packed Wonder La adventure with one of the deadliest Dry ride of all – “The Maverick”.

It seemed like we were seated in the claws of a monster whose main intention was to drop us from the tallest position…….
We were upside down for a moment…. Felt like screaming like hell..and tat ‘s wat i had been doing the whole day………….. we were left hanging in Maverick for couple of seconds… hee hee………

We did some Net walking , everybody were trying our best to climb faster than the other…. One look underneath u will be dead scared….. All my ancestors came in to my mind…. I was so scared hee hee .........

And were Ready to be dropped at the “Drop Zone” ………… we then dashed each other Cars in the Dashing Cars……

After couple of such rides we had our lunch , I was lil disappointed over losing my fav long earing……

We then proceeded to Water Rides , started of with a cool swimming pool which had all these tunnels to slide and stuff….

We then proceeded to Wave Pool…. Bangalore is such a wonderfull city and name anything u want and u will find it except for an ocean …and poor bangaloreans don’t get to enjoy the ocean waves….. thanx to WonderLa for making tat wish come true too though not tat comparable with Ocean Waves.. the artificially created waves in Waves Pool was too good…..

We stayed in the Wave Pool for long time… clinging on to a Rope which is provided for support or else I wud have sunk…..

“Rain Disco” was the latest new attraction in Wonder la … it was awesome…. Cool songs played by DJ and Water Sprinklers all over with circulating colorful disco lights ……. All of our dancing skills came out tat moment…..
Couple of Couples :) were lost in their own worlds…..

We then got lazy in the “Lazy Pool”, with our PM’s daughter Anaga a cute kid leading us…… It’s a slow moving pool thru which we are supposed to float in those Life saving tubes or whatever….

We then made our way to “Twisters” which is a long closed and open two tunnel rides from 3 rd floor height….. the closed was lil scary which seemed like a never ending tunnel…..

“Water Pendulum’ ride was good too…. We then moved too the most famous and joy ride of all “Splash” tat was a good one……

Next and last Stop was “Musical Fountain” tat was good too…. Which was continued by good “ CineMagic” animated video……

It was a great experience overall…. More snaps are added in my album and recent snaps section……

My Very First Work Project and Team......

2006-11-24T02:54:00.000-08:00

Its been four days after joining my Project team at Accenture, Iam in Bang4 now which is situated in Sarjapur Road...
Knowledge Transfer sessions has begun and small work assignments started pooling in.... Its good, FirstOnsite Conference call , sweet team mates and many more incidents spiced up my first week of work...
Have a great Tl, who can never say "NO" for anything..... Lucky gal.....

Yesterday we had the October release party whose highlight was the BlackForest Cake with cute cream roses on top..... my teammates also received landmark gift coupons wirth 500/- ..

More snaps of this party canbe found in the Recent snaps section....
And the most exciting part is we are gonna have DU outing tomorrow to "Wonderla"........
More info abt it in the upcoming posts.........

Training completed.....................

2006-11-20T21:20:00.000-08:00

Finally I am done with my Green Field Training, we finished our exams on nov 20 th, and it also happened to be the same day am supposed to report to my allocated project.

I finished my exam in Bang3 and came to Bang4, I happen to be the only JSE allocated to our proj.

I was initially nervous cos this happens to be the first day of my work. Met everybody in my team everybody were cool.

Hoping to have fun and learn too……….

IScan Tensions……………….

2006-11-17T06:27:00.001-08:00

IScan is the name of the Software given to our Online Tests s/w.
We had some problems with it initially so we had offline test all these days…..

Today we had online test…. We were so nervous from yesterday cos the consequence of failing 2 tests was we being thrown “Out Of Accenture”.

Hmmm all 4 of us me, divya, sandhya and reenu had planned of so many strategies for writing tests….

I stayed back yesterday until 8.30 pm with Remya quizzing me ,Monappa,Tushaar and Gebin.

We prepared well but then too we were nervous cos the other batch people failed miserably and had received warning mails and stuff….

Finally the moment arrived and at 5pm after some initial hungama we took up the test….
Me and my friends cleared the tests with very good marks……

We are gonna have our final exit test Monday…….

Hope we do tat well too….

Training Batch Outing……………..

2006-11-17T00:48:00.000-08:00

Its been almost a month and we even got our first salary in hands and had a feel of our Corporate life……. And our new trainer Sachin who trains us in java ,very sweet person who always used to play games like dumbsharads and stuff with us during breaks , he came up with an idea for a trip.

We planned abt the same for a week or so, and we finally decided to goto “Bluff Falls”,
i.e shivanasamudram and Talakad river basin.

Our friend Reenu dint make it for the trip , but we 3 divya ,me & Sandhya Dinesh were ready to go. We started for the trip on 29oct Saturday…….
Our friend Tushaar ditched us at the last moment by not coming......

We 13-14 of us hired a Tempo Traveller for the same, our journey to the place was a lil long……

we had good fun..with Ramya , sherin and Gebin singing out loud……
We three, me ,Divya and sandhya dinesh were happily engaged in a game called “Ano” … me and sandhya were confused initially abt the rules ,after so much efforts divya was successful in explaining it to us.

We reached Bluff falls …it was a lovely sight…..... Awesome place.....
We took a couple of snaps there and then we again rode back to the other side of Bluff falls where we were nearby the falls and we could play in the water……

Sachin started off by splashing water on everybody…. Everybody were wet except Monappa who was busy taking our snaps.

Abhishek , sunil and Puneet were trying to pose over a large boulder in middle of our falls…. Sunil swam for a while too….

We started from there and reached Talkad…. It was a good place too…
We went in a Row boat which was circular in shape….
The boat men even gave a spin to our boat it was awesome…..
we 3 were staying away from water…but then sachin,jebin and sherin pulled us into the water….

Everybody were busy playing in water…..
Pullling each other pushing each other into the water….. and wat not....

We had a great time……..Can never forget them..............

Hyderabad Trip…..

2006-11-17T00:47:00.000-08:00

Microsoft All India Student Partner meet was held in Hyderabad this year……
It was for three days Sep 30, Oct1 and 2…..

All of my Student Champ close friends like Garima,shreenath,abhinav,sabarish,Ghana,sharath,sunil and my junior Gautam were with me.

We left for Hyderabad on sep 29th around 7pm..it was a total hungama finding each other in majestic at the Volvo stop….

Me and Garima had made big plans for the trip,… I joined her directly from my training…. I was scared cos this was my first long trip away from my parents..

But then I dint allow anybody to guess that cos I know the consequences…

We reached Hyderabad on 30th… we had 2 Innovas and 1 Qualis waiting for us ….
Special treatment for all of us by Microsoft…

We reached our respective Guest houses… On the whole we were all divided to 3 guest houses….

My friend Bhaskar is working in MS now..So we were gonna meet him there too…

Our room was too good…I was staying with Garima for all the 3 days…
We left for the Microsoft IDC at Gacheboli… It was too good……

MS IDc at Hyderabad has such a huge campus with Football ground, Tennis ,
Basket Ball court and wat not……

We enjoyed a lot there…not to forget we had good sessions given by Kevin and Prathibha .

Ajay (new ADE) and Reza took over the show on the second day….

We had a good time…
And our Community won the “Best Technical User Group” …

We set out to visit Charminar…. Can never forget the exp with the Hyderabadi auto guy
Who took us to Hi-tech city Charminar(look alike of char..) and said this is Charminar…..

Abhinav started speaking in his hyderabadi accent…. And Garima full fledged.. kya bhayya…. Dialogs…… I was enjoying it….

We finally reached and had fun….
We then went to Imax.. saw “Super Man’ movie …It was a 3D movie..we were given goggles and stuff….
We then left for Hussain Sagar lake..which was a good one….
Abhinav later took us to Eat Street …with Sab groaning and calling abhinav…….’Jerk’… a 100 times….cant help he had recently broken his leg….

Our day was not over yet…. We went to ‘Touch’ Lounge at ‘Banjara Hills’ and spent few hours…. It was one awesome place…..

We got to witness sab and Shreenath doing a Duet dance…..

It was one ‘hell of a Experience’.

Next day we visited few other places..like Paradise hotel cos Prateek and Garima was so obsessed abt tasting Hyderabad Biryani….

We reached back…and then went to MS IDC …and then left for Bangalore…..

It was a great t rip… I enjoyed each and every second of it………

B3-06

2006-11-16T22:30:00.000-08:00

This is the number of my shuttle in which I travel to Bang3 situated in Banergatta road near Forum Mall.

It is a huge White and blue bus with Arrow symbol > in the glasses . Our company doesn’t use its name in most of the places , except for the symbol “>” .

The name and symbol signifies “Accent Towards Future”.

I got introduced to a friend called Abhishek in one of the Orkut communities for Accenture even before I joined .
sweet person used to give me all the information of what is happening in training and stuff, and he introduced me to Shantha Jyothi….

Shanta hmmmmm a calm gal with cute smile 24*7 , she stays near my home she accompanies me in bus.. We always make fun of some silly songs being played in our radio.

We have a couple of friends in Bus whom we haven’t spoken to until today but just notice each other and give a smile……

It s a long journey to office abt 2 hours …thanks for the Bangalore traffic or else it wud have been just a 45 mins journey…………..

Bangalore is getting overpouplated each and every day........................

"Gal Gang"

2006-11-15T03:49:00.000-08:00

Ya we are a gang now…. Sandhya (me), Divya HD, Sandhya Dinesh ,Reenu Gupta -> gang members .

We should be awarded for saving the life of a guy who was trapped in Tower c lift one day….. we called the security ppl and they worked out a plan to help him out, but we were never thanked…..

Tats ok….. good deeds have to be done without any expectations………….

We spend most of our breaks in Rest Rooms and break out areas…. I don’t know why we gals love mirrors……

Most of the time we explore our huge office, we were lost many of times too….
Can never forget the experience of walking down all 13 floors after seeing the Hellipad……

Three cheers to our gang……….

Bang1….Bang2….Bang3……Bang4…..

2006-11-15T03:32:00.000-08:00

Sounds like Gun shots ryt? Hee hee……
But these are the names given to our offices in Bangalore. I am in Bang 3 at present which is the largest IDC of Accenture in World.

It’s a huge office with Tower A,B and C inter connected on the top most floor.
The special attraction of Bang3 is the “Hellipad” at the 13 th floor.

We explored that place too…it was Awesome.

Bang3 is one “heaven” for many…..atleast for me and my friends .

We are currently in Green Field Training and our first 20 days on Foundation Training was held in SanIT solutions nearby Bang3 itself…..
After the training we were split in groups for stream based training, sad part is there was
no VS. Net allocated for our batch and we are currently in Testing stream.

We are having a ball of time here…especially out training room being in 7th floor near cafeteria.

“My First Day at Accenture”

2006-11-15T03:20:00.000-08:00

Finally the day arrived……. And it was my Brother Sunny’s birthday too.
Our Induction Program was organized in “Gold Flinch” Hotel.

The day went well we had a great time, there were lot of presentations related to Accenture overview, Core Values, Life and safety, JSE Experience.

The lunch was great too. And I forgot to mention tat my friend Divya who was my classmate in SCTIT was with me in the same batch.

Harappa and Mohenjadaro’s city plan were much better…………………….

2006-11-15T03:18:00.000-08:00

I don’t know why I remember my history lessons when I come across Kalkere Main Road in RM Nagar.

Even though the Main road has various shop outlets and many Bus stops ,there is a large sewage Gutter uncovered, I feel H & M’s city plan were much better….

It’s disgusting to start our day by passing through that road which happens to be the main road, Thank god there is no such things near my home………….

I am thinking of mailing to the Times Of India people abt the same…lets seee……

Relocation blues…………..

2006-11-15T02:58:00.001-08:00

I got a mail from my HR Rep stating that I have been posted to Pune and my joining date is sep 6.

Don’t know what happened to me for a second when I was reading that mail, I couldn’t speak for some time, then slowly I turned towards to my mom and said her the news she was shocked too.

We were happy about the Job but never expected that I will be relocated to other city cos we had full hopes on being posted here. Had a tough time getting over the issue and gathering guts to move to a new city.

I have never been alone in my life far from my parents I guess tat’s the reason I was so depressed, I cudnt stay without my brother sunny too. I cudnt afford to loose my close friends… all these were diriving me mad…. But then I made up my mind that iam going to Pune.

My friends Sowmya, Nadeem and Divya were also recruited for Accenture.
Sowmya was posted to Hyderabad, Nadeem to Mumbai, and Divya still waiting……

My flight tickets were booked all set and then suddenly I get a mail from DeeptiRaj tat iam posted to Bangalore office ,she was my HR dept representative , doesn’t matter who she is cos at that moment she was my Goddess.

There was some problem in the Pune office so it was postponed and we were posted to Bangalore and our joining date was extended to sep 18.

I was really so very happy tat day……. Was jumping around calling all my loved ones telling them tat iam gonna torcher their lives by not living Bangalore.

Mom’s Dream House

2006-11-15T02:40:00.000-08:00

Mom’s Dream House

After a long wait , mom’s dream came true, we moved into the new house at Sir MV Nagar, Rammurthynagar.
The House warming ceremony was held on 27 August on Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
It’s a beautiful house, with 2 bedrooms and a Guest room on top of our house,
Iam thrilled with the small area of grass lawn and many flowering plants at the front of our house.

It’s a calm place, except for the fact that its little bit interior from the city’s centre than our old house which was at GM Palya near BEML.

Had a tough time leaving my old place but then life goes on…. Will miss my old place where I spent 8 years of my life, and all my important academic period (10,12,and engg) was spent there .

I am loving my new house, will post snaps of it very soon.

My Dream Job

2006-11-14T01:17:00.000-08:00

Ya this is wat I call it. After so much hustles and disappointments of losing out my second last final round of Adobe interview , I was actually a bit gloomy… but then The Adobe experience was awesome, there were totally 7 rounds, one written test and six technical interviews. I cleared written test + 4 rounds and lost n 5 th round.
Anyways it was a good experience cant forget Ravi Kiran and Praveen of Adobe who were my interviewers in technical rounds , who screwed me royally and made me realize my limitations. Which are gonna be taken care in near future .

Now coming to the good part, I got a notification mail from VTRACU, this was a
Placement Program which was a joint venture between our VTU university and Meritrac ,
Which is a leading Placement agency.

I had written the Meritrac test 2 months back during my 8th sem itself, never knew tat it wud be so benfecial.
The Meritrac test itself was a long process , 2 written tests verbal + quantitative, HR round and GD(which turned out to be speak abt a topic ).

The mail suggested us to set preferences to the companies which are tied up with the VTRACU program.
The companies were Accenture,Mindtree,TCS,TESCO, Subexetc…..

My preference was 1.Accenture 2. Mindtree 3.TCS ….

After a week I got a mail saying tat july 30 is my interview process and Accenture interview time was scheduled.

It was at RNSIT college which I knew quite well , I waited a long time before the first round cud start, and then the time came when my name was called out.

The GD topic was “ Should the mobile phones be banned in colleges?”
Bingo…….. cos first of all I speak a lot and this topic was pretty interesting even though I hate mobiles being banned cos am addicted, I spoke “for” the topic that is “should be banned” .
I cleared the round I spoke well J

My next round was technical round, a strict young guy was my interviewer he somehow managed to greet me with a smile, and he said gimme a minute to go thru your resume, and then he asked abt my MS acticivites, final year proj and then he started shooting questions abt oops,c,c++, and abt Ajax,and .NET which normally they wudnt ask but he started may be cos of my proj.

After a while he said “ya u r done”, I asked him “have I cleared?” cos each and every round was a elimination round, and since he never smiled or nodded I never knew whether i was ryt or wrong.
He gave a smile and said “don’t worry” , you will be notified.

The meritrac volunteer came upto me after few minutes and said u can go for the “HR Round “ ,phew….. it was such a relief.

I went in for the HR round there was a sweet lady with cute smile, I forgot to mention she was damn cute ,young and beautilfull J .

She started with few qs abt my family and then my schooling, and then she asked why did I give Accenture had first preference and stuff.

Some qs regarding company and then she asked bat MS activities and whether I had other job offers I told her abt UST .

And then she went on for a while, and said ok “you are done”.

I went out was waiting with my fingers crossed to hear the Good news, I was a bit confident by then tat I wud clear.

After some time I was called and sent to a room where I had to sign my Offer letter, I cudnt control my excitement, by the time they were getting the papers ready, I messaged my parents and close friends abt it.

After few minutes I signed the offer letter. And was officially now employed to my company J

Can never forget the day….. -"Go On,Be A Tiger"

"my second job offer"

2006-11-05T21:06:00.000-08:00

My Close friend Ratish ia a great guy… he helped me a lot in many ways by referring me to his other IT friends and giving me constant support when needed.

His cousin brother used to work in a company called Comcreation in JP Nagar few years back. He referred me for an interview.

I reached there and underwent some 4 rounds of interview again…. Aptitude test , .Net technical test , Technical interview, Hr round.

It went well but I was not satisfied with the one year bond and pay below 10k. so I decided not to take the job.

Was confused a bit thinking whether should I go for UST or Comcreation…one is good pay but far from home and the other was viceversa

Weekend passed with my mind thinking about all the possibilities…… but then I decided am not gonna take the offer of comcreation .. .. my friend karthick and sunny were also against it.

"First job offer"

2006-10-14T03:19:00.000-07:00

Thought of just putting down my memories of certain incidents and changes in my life.

Job searching/hunting or even jobs collecting was fun and in the same time very stressfull…..

Since there were no campus placements in my college I just waited for my final sem exams to get over. And then I started searching.

It wud have been just a week after my exams tat we had an opportunity to write for “US Technologies “ .

We had tied up with Offcampus pool program with Saptagiri college and HKBK college .
So whenever the criteria matches i.e 65% above candidates or some similar criteria we wud get a call from the placement officers of tat college.

US Technologies placement was held on 19 and 20 th of june…. We just finished our project exam on june 13 and were relaxing and stuff ….

When we heard abt this placement with great difficulties we tried to read RS Aggarwal and other aptitude books.

The day arrived… I made friends with students from different branches of engg to in my college. Got close to Sowmya & Nadeem of EC.
And since my last sem class was combined with CS . we IS students got to make friends with CS ppl too…

Some of my close friends in CS were Praveen Srivastava, Divya Lok Suman,Wishi Aggarwal. And in IS , prathibha.

We usually meet up in shivajinagar at 8 am and then go together for the respective college.

We reached saptagiri college around 9 am and then waited for so long until the US.T ppl arrived.
Their flight reached ontime, but the banglore traffic delayed them .
They came around 2 pm. And started with intro an stuff.

We had our written Aptitude test that day which consisted of RS Aggarwal kind of qs it was pretty interesting and tricky….

After much delay we got to know tat we were selected and were supposed to come the next day i.e 20 th for the Group discuusion.

We leftthe college around 8 tat day and were asked to report in the morning 9 am next day… we hardly had time to relax…

Our GD started and sowmya went first has she was in group 2 . she dint make it….

Then next I went and I got thru it was fun… we had two topics it was fun…
Praveen got thru too….

Tehn we were sent to HR + tech round my HR was a lady…. She asked few tech qs.
She gave me two puzzles to solve it was fun..

She was dazed abt my other activities of MS and she was asking abt it a lot….

And then at 6 pm we got to know tat I was thru….

This was my First placement or Job .

Was quite happy abt it,, apart from the fact tat I had to goto Trivandrum for the job.

From my college it was me, Praveen, amit, aatif, and few more totally 7 i guess.

UST was a good company CMM level 5 company but I had to leave Bangalore which was very tuff for me…….

This was my First job offer. :)

Magical Mystery Of Life

2006-03-27T18:13:00.000-08:00

Life has its own unique blend of everything ...

You might be just thinking that
this is the way its gonna be ...
this is how iam gonna live...

but you know what ......Sometimes its just not so..............

Few days from now i might just laugh reading at my own blog...

but then... you know i guess i am growing up each

and every day and gaining loads of experience in life.

Some are sweet some are sour...
Some are shocking but still amazing....

The best part of life is we get Gifts everyday....

Rather than being nostalgic and cribbing over things

which i usually do iam learning to just keep moving on and on in life and

learning to take life as it comes without any regrets..

Our Life is just a mere reflection of what we believe,understand and accept .

Being a Gal

2006-03-26T21:23:00.000-08:00

Ya being a gal is one of the nicest thing in life according to me atleast....

One of of my friend who happens to be well experienced in life wrote a poem

about gals....

usually we hear from boys that gals are so tough to be understood... but then

here is what my friend has to say ....

When a GIRL is quiet, Millions of things are running in her mind.
When a GIRL is not arguing, She is thinking deeply.
When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions, She is wondering how long you will be around.
When a GIRL answers "i'm fine" after a few seconds, She is not at all fine.
When a GIRL stares at you, She is wondering why you are lying.
When a GIRL says I love you, She means it.
When a GIRL says "i miss you",
No one in this world can miss you more than her.

2006-02-26T07:38:00.000-08:00

Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions

Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Case 2 One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly! line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.
Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line. Moral : Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems

Always Focus on solutions & not on problems
So at the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE LOOKS INTO THE PROBLEM, mere perceptions can solve the tough probs...

Style of Decision making.........

2006-02-21T09:28:00.000-08:00

Each of us tends to have a certain style of decision-making.

Take a glance at the list below, and see where you fit in:

Impulsive – you go for the first choice presented to you.

Fatalistic – if something's meant to happen it will, it's fate.

Compliant – you go along with the crowd or someone else's opinion.

Delaying – you need more time, or you'll think about it later.

Agonizing – you feel overwhelmed, and can't make up your mind.

Balancing – you weigh all the factors, and then go ahead.

Of course, the ideal method is the last, "Balancing."

And a very simple tool to help you do just that is something

called "Benjamin Franklin's Balance Sheet."

And yes, it's something good old Ben came up with to

help himself make decisions. It's very simple.

Simply take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.

On one side, put the pros for the option you are considering and on the

other, put the cons.
You can then refine it and assign each entry a "weight"

according to importance of +0 to +10 points for the pro side

and -0 to -10 points for the cons, and add them up.

You'll quickly see the benefits of either side, and your decision will then

almost make itself.

So here's to better decision making to set you on the road to success!

Ajax

2006-02-17T11:04:00.000-08:00

The word "Ajax" is the latest Buzzword everywhere.

Ajax is a technology that runs in your browser . It uses asynchronous data transfer

between the browser and the webserver , allowing webpages to request small bits of

information from the server instead of whole pages.

It is a Webbrowser tecnology independent of webserver software.

If we start wondering abt What makes Ajax differnt ?

Well , an Ajaz application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of

interacting on the web by introducing - an Ajax engine- between the

user and the server .

Instead of loading a webpage , at the start of the session ,the browser loads an

Ajax engine - wriiten in javascript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame.

This engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and

communicating with the server on the users behalf.

By the way AJAX stands for : "Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml"

All the new major products launched by GOOGLE use Ajax technology,

Gmail,Google groups, Google Suggests, Google Maps. etc.

Republic Day - 26th jan

2006-01-25T12:12:00.000-08:00

****** HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY******

India is a place for everything.

Every happening from sun rise to sun set Every Morning ...

Every Work...

Every color ...

Every Fashion and Style ...

For Every foot Step...

Every Mood of Life...

At Every Door Step..

Every time its a place to take rest.

Thanks to India

MOBILE SPREE & HOUSE HUNTING

2006-01-23T21:21:00.000-08:00

Iam currently changing n number of mobiles.........

ya i had a Tata Indicom mobile from 2 months and now an Airtel connection ....

Hope i dont change this now......

I kind of dislike all this Lifetime offer.... ppl are uneccessarily falling for it ,

without realising the increase of outgoing calls rate and the SMS hike.... well it depends....

We are desperately searching for a gud house to move in now...

well as of now we have liked a nearby apartment

i just hope we get in there , cos i love that place....

its beautifull and calm .....

i can atleast relax a bit over there...........

hmm now the sad part is iam gonna miss the home which iam staying

ryt now... though it is lil small it's something which i was in since my standard 8th...

all my important years of academic was spent here ..

This house has witnessed all my tuff times, fears, happiness evrything....

Well i had to leave it one day or the other..

I am taking away the beautifull memories of this neighbourhood.

Oh god iam gonna miss this home.......

New Year and a New beginning for me

2006-01-04T18:06:00.000-08:00

This year really marks a beginning for many things inmy life.....

First of all It was "My Birthday"...

had a great & sweetmoment cutting cake at 12 AM , with my parents and

brother beside...

Got many phone calls from all my frenz, with wishes pouring in....

And this year i must say.......

Iam blessed with the most precious thing which i wud never like to

loose forever.

To sum it up in 3 words --> "Iam very happy ".

Have loads of challenge ahead this year, ryt form choosing a good project

and finishing up my MSAPP proj, and most of all getting in to a good company.

Things have been delaying reg my Proj in HP, am hoping for the best but....

have lots of things to catch up soon after my exams, which is going on ryt now...

I just wish our country wud have a Wonderfull and great year 2006.

MSAPP - RSS READER

2005-11-27T06:11:00.000-08:00

I have decided to take up MSAPP project . i.e Microsoft student academic project .

iam planning to do RSS READER.

RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication used by (amongst other things) news websites and weblogs.

REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION

The technology of RSS allows Internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly. To use this technology, site owners create or obtain specialized software (such as a content management system) which, in the machine-readable XML format, presents new articles in a list, giving a line or two of each article and a link to the full article or post. Unlike subscriptions to many printed newspapers and magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free.
The RSS formats provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other meta-data. This information is delivered as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.

sandhya crowned as -MS AMBASSADOR

2005-11-17T04:36:00.000-08:00

Hmmmmmmm

looks like my dreams are coming true....

ya iam talking abt NOV13 sunday 2005 i was awarded as MS Ambassador.
this was something which was after i was recognised for my duties as SChamp and the sessions in .NET and stuff.

so i was really happy... a year ago i watched
Raghavan,Sabarish,deepthi,ghanshyam,sunil and sharath getting this award and i wished that i shud be the winner next year and I DID IT.

I was so happy, me,garima,bhaskar and shreenath got the awards.
Deepak and Kevin gave it away.

COMMUNUTTY-NITE (My first Award from MS)

2005-10-01T07:07:00.000-07:00

Date: sep 29

Venue: Hotel Grand Ashoka
Bangalore

Event: CommuNutty -Nite

Hmmm What a day it was????
Well there are various reasons for that......
but let me recollect the start of the event....

Oh ya the Event was conducted for an interaction between the studentchamps and JOE WILSON the man behind IMAGINE CUP contests of MS.

Sunil made a gr8 entrance by doing the "Steve Balmer- monket act", followed by Garima's M/C'ing.

We had to talk about our events and contests and works of our BDNS community,
which was called communutty that nyt.

I gave a speech on "DATE WITH DOTNET" event.
It turned out well ... the funniest part was garima introduced me to the crowd saying that i was gonna talk abt my first date..........

Oh gosh i was all blushing for a sec...
then was alryt......
Lollllllll

Hmm here comes the best part.
I was given an awrd ".NUT "award.
The goodies -> licensed SP2 and updates of XP and student kit, and INETA t-shirt, and.........
oh ya a MS time piece its so cute....
oh god... it was quite shocking....
the gr8 Joe wilson himself gave it to me...

Hmm well my friends shreenath,garima,abhinav,bhaskar were also given awards.

It was such a nice moment.

Our day ended with good chat with our alumni - champs -> sabarish and Ghanshyam...
They were pulling my leg asking abt my dates and bf's.
unfortunately we gals were caught redhanded discussing about Gf-Bf issues....

The look in Ghanshyams and Sab's face was so funny.
They have misunderstood us (gals) properly... ... well let them carry on....hahahahaha.............

We had a good dinner and took off..

This is one of the day which i cannot forget....

Busy Bee

2005-09-16T07:45:00.000-07:00

I guess hav to call myself one Busy Bee buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Ya have loads of work pending , well just stopped by to do some blogging...........

Oh Gosh by the way iam expecting my 6th sem results today,

God save our souls ......

My Mschamp activities are also turning out to be interesting, last week had a student champ training for us in MSRIT , it was awesome.

.NET is absolutely amazing.......
Iam all in love ith it, i end up spending nyts together trying to explore the powers of .NET.
Wow and that too ASP.NET , dont ask me iam completely gaga over it, its so interesting..

Well JAVA is turning out to be one of my fav subjects in my college. College is all the same...
Same Chairman and his same old rules.....

hmmm well on the other side...
Things are going on as planned by me , hahaha......
lemme check how much can sandhya listen to herself ...hehehehe.........

"WOW" is the only suitable word for this poem

2005-09-10T10:12:00.000-07:00

Run, boy, run!
Follow the voice that rings within, that’s it.
You haven’t got anything else to do in this world.

May they call you blind, May they call you mad,
May they throw you out of their little world,
Just listen to what it says, go on...

The Master is only One, and He is within you.
If you want Him to be there… He is there, above you...
Below you, Beside you, in each and every nook and corner you can look at.
No matter what...never ever...take your eye off the beacon.

Did they throw stones at you for no reason?
At you, who can’t even walk straight?
And you stand and blame destiny? No.
See clearly...just look in.
You would never have run on earth, hadn’t the stones flown at you.
You would never have run like the wind blew.

Now you look at your legs and then at the gash on your forehead,
And say to yourself, “Oh, My Jesus! I never knew You loved me this much”

Run, boy, run!

Some of them you met more often, they leave you...
They keep running on their own roads,
If you happen to meet them here or there,
Say a hi, say a word of love and mean it.
Say a bye and get back to your road.
But be there, always, for them.

Some of them slip off the stage, while you were still there.
Oh, what made a difference to you?
Your beacon is still there, since it’s within you.
They came so they have gone.
They wouldn’t have, hadn’t they come.

And some of them haven’t slipped off, they just slid down.
Oh, is it?
Just throw your hand into them.
They hold it? Just drag them up.
They didn’t see it? Shake it once or twice.
They saw, and yet they didn’t see?
Just draw your hand back and resume your run.

Run, boy, run!

And most of all, you might loose a part or two of what you called your body.
The question you ask yourself remains the same, ”So what?”
You are still what you are.

Don’t say this wasn’t your destiny.
For you wouldn’t call it destiny had it not happened.
Have Him in heart and if you did, let me tell you.
On the day you leave, you would look back only to see how glorious it was.

Run, boy, run!
Go on and on...on the wings of the Master!

My First Step In To The JAVA World

2005-09-06T00:41:00.000-07:00

"Java" has been one of the most-talked about languages from few years,

I cant blog about JAVA in my tech blog, cos it has a MS background .....LOL.......

Well first of all i wanted to know stuffs about JAVA , and here goes my first quest about JAVA.......

Java coffee is a coffee produced on the island of Java. (Hmm but iam not gonna talk about this.... )

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed primarily by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems.

The language, initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to replace C++, although the feature set better resembles that of Objective C. Java should not be confused with JavaScript, which shares only the name and a similar C-like syntax. Sun Microsystems currently maintains and updates Java regularly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

(Hmm Sun Microsystems is one of the big fishes which iam targetting on...)

A computer language that can be read by many different computer platforms without the need for programmers to laboriously port the program to each platform. Java programs are automatically downloaded and executed on the client side by the web browser.

Small Java applications are called Java applets and can be downloaded from a Web server and run on your computer by a Java-compatible Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Common Java applets used on Web pages include animation, calculators, and counters. JavaScript A scripting language developed by Netscape that interacts with HTML source code, allowing for interactive Web sites. JavaScript is used for things such as "rollover buttons" (graphics that change color when you run your mouse over them), rotating banners, MIDI jukeboxes, pop-up windows, etc. JPEG (or JPG) Joint Photographic Experts Group: a type of image

A programming language that is designed to be platform-independent. This is achieved by the use of "virtual machines" that allow Java programs to run on a particular operating system. One of the common uses of Java is to create Applets that run inside a web page.

( Googling abt JAVA.......)

A Short Story ->Secret Of Happiness

2005-09-05T09:19:00.000-07:00

Hmm this is a quite interesting story cos i belong to this category of "Donno how to have fun"
kind of girl. .....LOL.........

I just get lost and get highly committed to my responsibilites that i seldom forget to be happy...
Well this story just changed my idea.....
lets see how i am gonna do in future.

Once upon a time .........

A Boy went out in search of happiness , he was said by people that their was a wise man who knew everything about life and death.
So he decided to go to his place.

Rather than finding a saintly man in the mansion , he found all the riches of the world in the mansion, beautifull garden, the world’s best delicacies all ready and served, and good music and other things.

He finally found the wise man , after listening carefully to the boy’s purpose of visit.
The wise man said that he didn’t have time to give him a lecture , and then to explain the secret of happiness.
He suggested the boy to look around the place and return in 2 hours without spilling the 2 drops of oil frm the spoon which the wise man gave .

The boy went back and came after 2 hours.
When the wise man asked that did he notice the beautifull carvings in the mansion, and the garden which took ten years for the gardener to create, and the beautifull parchments in my library ?

The boy was embarrassed and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil which the old man had entrusted to him.

Then go back said the old man ,”you cannot trust a man if u don’t know his house”.

Relieved the boy went back and this time he carefully observed everything in and around the house. When he returned he related in detail everytng he had seen.

“but where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you ?” asked the wise man.

“looking down at he spoon he held, he boy saw that the oil was gone.”
The wise man said:
“well there is only one piece of advice I can give u “, said the wisest of all.

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

The Boy was amazed to listen to the wise guy words and went home happily to share his happiness....

Visit To Vemana

2005-09-02T03:13:00.000-07:00

My college just started yesterday and i already bunked the 2nd day actually it was a mass bunk, and i nodded my head cos i wanted to go to Vemana today.
I met my friend lakshmi there we both are planning to to take CPT organised by National Technology Foundation (NTF).
Hmm well its sounds very interesting cos they say its real tough .
We had a nice time later in a Complex nearby did some lil girl talking in their Parking lounge too.Have been to there college a year back to meet my friend cheeru there. Nice college .

Oh ya and the climate was too gud to make my day even more cheerfull.
It was drizzling and i just enjoy driving in that Intermediate Ring Road , how i wished that road wud never end cos it was too gud but later was cursing the Government and their road repair works who had stopped my drive by making me to take diversion cos som road work was going on hmmmmm.

Wow i just love rain, the climate and evrything of this season.
K i hav to do some googling and start preparing for CPT.

hmmm i wonder what i wud be doing the same day next year........
Me and My La-La land.....
Oh God....

My First Day Of Last Year In College

2005-09-01T07:43:00.000-07:00

Cant believe but it's true am a final year student now.
Hmmm It was a very gud today altogether .
Had both happy and shocking moments today.
Not bad for a first day.
Happiest moment was to flaunt away my "Nova" mobike (which was lost and found)
to my friends cos they r seeing it after a very long time.
I cant say howmuch i admire my bike. Well it got so used to me that it cudnt be without me, i guess "it made its way back to me".
Shocking there are many nav lost his eligibility and decided to quit B.E but he wont .
This VTU really changes ppl and their lives a lot.
Oh gosh If we are not lil aware abt the happenings even for a sec , we are finished.

Now comes the Best part
I had been to the St.josephs with my friends (RNPS) there was an event called "EQUIXON".
It was a very funfilled event with lots of songs,dances and Mad-ads.
They were simply superb.
We managed to get inside cos of my friend's bro who studies there.
We introduced ourselves as first year B.E students LOL......
Gr8 youngsters around 17 -18 yrs of age may be , they were so talented and full of energy.Was cheering them like anything.
Was just seeing them and admiring their talents.
I donno why but am really a gr8 admirer of evrything.

It was gr8 cos for few hours i really forgot evrything sat back and enjoyed my day!!!

"Final Year->>apart from enjoying my final year of students life , I hav to give the best for my future Career today".

A Cracked Pot

2005-08-26T01:06:00.000-07:00

You've just got to take each person for what they are,and look for the good in them.

This is one beautifull story which i always wanna be remembered of.

A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hungon the ends of a pole which he carried across hisneck..
One of the pots had a crack in it, while theother pot was perfect and always delivered a fullportion of water.
At the end of the long walk from thestream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only halffull.

For a full two years this went on daily, withthe bearer delivering only one and a half pots full ofwater to his house.

Of course, the perfect pot wasproud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it wasmade.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its ownimperfection, and miserable that it was able toaccomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitterfailure, it spoke tothe water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamedof myself, and because this crack in my side causeswater to leak out all the way back to your house.

"The bearer said to the pot,"Did you notice that there were flowers only on yourside of the path, but not on the other pot's side?That's because I have always known about your flaw,and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path,and every day while we walk back,you've watered them.For two years I have been able to pick these beautifulflowers todecorate the table.

Without you being just the way youare, there would not be this beauty to grace thehouse"

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're allcracked pots.But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that makeour lives together so very interesting and rewarding.You've just got to take each person for what they are,and look for the good in them.

My silent prayer

2005-08-26T00:38:00.000-07:00

I believe that for every heart that whispers at dark there is a ray of hope shining through.
Iam seeking the closest thing to heaven by seeking God.

Hav u Ever trusted someone so deeply? Knowing well that u wont be trusted instead.
How easy life wud be if there were only two answers for everything in this world "yes" or "no".
Hav u ever shed ur tears to someone whom u care the most without even expecting to be embraced by that person.
Well here iam a gal in her dream world, wandering around desperartely searching for various answers .
How easy life wud be if we can know everything what we want to know ..........

I hav gotta reason to startover new ,i found out a reason to change the way i used to be and the Reason is ............

Its amazing how God can still be with me and light up my darkness. And i hear what he dont say at all. I cant beleive but its true that we say things to each other without saying a thing.

Myself

2005-08-22T01:57:00.000-07:00

Travelling in this world as a traveller i believe there is a bright shiny path ahead of me.
I believe for the every door that is closing there is a new beginning somewhere.
I want to find the closest thing to heaven in this journey of life of mine.
With all my ambitions and dreams pulling me in one side and my untamed heart on the other side.
I believe for every heart that whispers at the dark there is a ray of light somewhere shining through.
I used to think that i had answers for everything but now i know that life doesnt always come my way, Feels like iam caught in the middle thats when i realise am not a girl not yet a woman,
all i need is time a moment that is mine while iam inbetween.
Lost in this crystal sky i keep wondering somtimes what am upto?
All things fall into place and my heart is here with me forever sharing every dark secrets of mine.