Alone at hyd home

Nobody home. Muruga in team trip to Araku, Thyagy to a beach trip near vizag, Bala and Mahe to their real homes :)

You know what? Sometimes loneliness makes you sick like none other disease.

Though being alone for 2 nights and 1 day, it didn't make me though. 

With TV & laptop-broadband, you can survive some hrs.

Luckily i had my office badminton tourny, so the day just gone like a flash (though i went only till quarter finals and fought brave)

Watching Friends series is the main entertainment for me at nights. Also helped Bala to decide his laptop and paid the rent in the evening. Need to watch the good collection of movies in Thyagy's lapi.

What else, one more night to go...

oops, blogging is missing in the list :)

Run Sports

When someone in the team came up with an idea of conducting sports events, i was slightly reluctant but just gave my name for the events (carrom, chess, tt, snooker)

The task of organising the event was handed to a fresher girl and an experienced guy in automation team. They tried to mail the team everyday with the list of participants and dates of events, but eventually everyone forgot them after closing the mail box. This really turned to be a pain for them, they even failed to start the first game since participants are busy or not present.

Well, i thought the only way to solve this is to have a website where they can see the dates of their matches and comments on results. I also had a plan to put all participants pics in the site so they get some attention and responsibility.

I designed a brand new sports site for my team events, also a pretty decent one and launched it as a surprise. It really worked. Everyone got excited and attracted to the event.

I too liked the site and came up with more features like Scrolling team pics (flash), Blog roll, Image gallery(Ajax control) etc. to add more spice to the event.



Well, after a long time, i did something with passion and creativity

One day with One rupee

It was a day that i got up as usual late, relaxed, got ready, packed food and rushed to station to catch my 10'o clock train. My stomach grunned and reminded me that I had just one banana before leaving from home. Well, why not a have a tea meantime before the train reaches in a couple of mins.

But the surprisingly danger fact is, I had just 1rupee in my pocket. Just 1 Rupee to start the day, not even a tea costs that in Urban india (its 2.50 bucks minimum). The mmts train pass saved the day for me to reach office and i totally forgot about this dangerous fact. For lunch, i ate the food that i prepared and took in the box. In the evening, I went for a tea break with my friend (obviously he paid for me), that kept my 1 buck still in my purse :)

The thought that i should withdraw from ATM striked now and then but i never cared about it much as i was in a safer office zone. After a bit long client meeting in the evening i rushed to the train station where i was aware again that i have just 1 rupee in my pocket, this time it was a clear mistake.

Well, there is nothing else i could do except to spend it :) and get a few fried groundnuts for that 1 rupee from the poor farmer who sells it everyday at the station platform. The groundnuts tasted good in my train journey back home.

Atlast i felt good for spending the 1 Rupee worth it... and oops... now i got 0 bucks with me :)

time for an adventure...

What application would worth half a lakh?

well, i have applied one for it :)

Lets wait and see the result. 

If it is success, its time for an adventure...

360* TajMahal

Cool tech.,
I initally thought it is similar to PicLens (now Cooliris), but later found both give us totally new amazing experience

Karthi - the cook

Yeah, a record has been set by me not in olympics but in cooking.

I just did a solo performance and cooked for all my roomies which indeed is an achievement for me :)

Items: Potato+tomato kozhambu (Pulusu) & Potato fry.

Till yesterday i was helping Muruga in cooking but today I was not able to believe what happened. I am a cook officially :)
I am the last one to become a cook in our hyd gang of five - Mugunthan, Muruga, Mouly, Bala & me

hmmm.... wow, the food tastes really good, believe me or ask my roomies.

Splendid Rain

Its a rainy day, all day in hyd.

the trip to Kadapa

/* the pic story begins */

The scenic view is worth a first shot in any indian film for 'a remote town on the backdrop of mountains'. So as here in our story.

Location: near Thamatam's hometown (my colleague), galivedu, Cuddapah

The Dwarf Mountains of the Eastern ghats, not high enough to block the North East monsoon winds, but adds beauty to the space.

Thanks to the recent rainfall, the whole area we visited is filled with green, not showing any signs of the 8 years drought in recent past

The new irrigation project to counter-effect the failure of the monsoon is the latest addition to Kadapa

The legendary 'once in a lifetime' bike-trip in search of a 650 years old...

Driving nearly 50 kms(one-way), extending deep into the nature, crossing villages and districts (from kadapa to ananthapur), the search ends here

“Thimmamma Marrimanu”

a few words:

'the soil can be taken to the nearest center to find the potassium(ka) and nitrogen content which helps to grow crops specific to it' - Krishna

'not as fertile as lands in villages of Gangetic plains' - Navin

'better roads than in my village' - Srinivas

'3 primary schools and 1 high school in 50 km stretch, a good sign for village India' – Karthik

Thanks Thamatam, for inviting for your marriage

that’s a trip worth a day…

/* the pic story ends */

/* the google maps begins */

/* the google maps ends */

bomma manasu

nammaga thappani nisamaina
nuvviga raavani cheputhunna
enthugi vinadho naanathi ippudainaa...

evvaru edhurugo vasthunna
nuvvevo anukundunna
neerupam na chupulo nuthilanaa...

kannul karichae unnaa
nuvvu ninnati kalavae ayinaa
ippatikae akalalo nae unnaa...

high five...

4 years before, the day started for me

Joining IT for me is like Getting paid for eating sugarcane

Ya, I love working with computer and adding to the fact i am getting paid, its a exciting feel.

 

 

Today, I am entering my fifth year in IT industry.

Lunch Box

Something special today
I brought lunch to office, which i never done before in my 3.5 years of IT experience.

Thanks to muruga, who again started the spirit of cooking @ home and brought back my tastes with superb egg burji, aloo fry & kozhambu (pulusu) rice.

issssssssss... ippavae naaku ooruthae :)

I, me and a pair of glasses

I have now joined the club of Gandhi, Subash Chandra bose and my dad
and now i can see a the same old world, bit clearer :)


and thats the story of my new pair of eyes...

iPhone served its purpose :)

Botanical Garden, Pondicherry

I am in Pondy for a week break, got a chance to go to Botanical Garden (when we didnt get ticket for a movie and don't know where to spend the afternoon) :)

The garden was bit shaggy and clearly not in a good maintenance, but still the essence of the century years old trees remembered my sweet days i spent there in olden days.

I played cricket in the garden with my school friends and even studied there for my semester exams during my college. It is one of my favorite spot (which was in good shape in my school days)

Here's one thing i saw new in the garden, which is actually very old :)

Standing under the Oldest specimen of the country

Hope it regains its beauty very quick.

A Hindu article on it for u: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/05/28/stories/2005052800070100.htm

The Doomsday

In page 67 of the book "The Doomsday Conspiracy", Sidney Sheldon says

 

"Yes, They did an experiment at Temple Buell College in Denver where healthy flowers were put in three separate glass cases. Acid Rock music was piped into one case, soft East Indian Sitar music was piped into the second case, and the third has no music. A CBS camera crew recorded the experiment, using time-lapse photography. At the end of two weeks, the flowers exposed to the rock music were dead, the group with no music was growing normally, and the ones that heard the Sitar music had turned into beautiful blooms, with stems & flowers reaching toward the source of the music. Walter Cronkie ran the film on his news show. If you wish to check it, it was on October 26, 1970"

 

But why did he mention as East India rather just India. Probably if he had mentioned as 'Indian Sitar' music, the western world would think it is a music of american Red Indians. They even don’t know the name Red Indians was derived because of us. I think, the day Columbus landed in the west was the Doomsday where we not only lost our richness but also the richness of the word 'India'.

 

Anyway, experiment proves that our Sitar music is simply the best music even nature likes :)

a trip to Godavari delta

The weekend visit to East Andhra for my colleague's marriage made me to think 'why not a trip around India?'

The lush greenary on the banks of Godavari & the small canal that runs paralled to the road (with farm fields on both sides till the end of eyesight), quietly energises the soul & eyes.

 

the places I touched...

Kakinada - Kotaiyah's Kaja is a special sweet of the town (something like Pulla Reddy in Hyd & Adyar Anandha Bavan in Chennai),

Yanam - part of Pondicherry Government (thats my town)

Thratchapuram - one of Siva's triranga spot in Andhra, the other two are Srisailam & K

Andervedi - where Godavari merges with the Sea

Amalapuram

Also this is the first time I am attending a marriage that took place at night 10:30 PM.

Thanks to Sandeep for inviting for his marriage & Prashanth for persuading me to join the trip :)

Barcamp Hyd @ Google

An interesting incident happened this time

Thyagy & me reached the spot a bit late (as usual) and joined the queue at the Security gate to  get pass. Only when i said to Thyagy to get ready with the company ID card, i realised i didnt bring it (as usual). Luckily ADP gives a small card that i kept in my purse, so i took it and said 'hey heres' my ADP card'. I heard a voice from behind

X: Are you from ADP?

Me: Yes, how abt you?

X: No, I worked for ADP long back

Me: Oh, nice meeting you, so where do you work now?

X: I dont work...    I earn by blogging and live blogging

Me: Oh, so are you like Amit Agarwal? (wondering how many people started like Amit but the reply i heard was a little shock, probably now a simple guess for you)

X: I am Amit Agarwal

Me: (oh my god, am i speaking to Amit, the first professional Indian blogger) Nice meeting you Amit (at the road)

 

and thats a least way you expect to meet the celebrity of the day :)

Infact apart from getting goodies :) my interest to go to the camp lied in attending his presentation on 'how to blog with google adsense'

Amma Kolam

The best and the worst things happens so close to me with almost immediate in one following the other :)

Whats the best thing happened in the pongal holidays?

I took snaps of my mother's beautiful kolam , she drew on each day of pongal festival and uploaded in flickr

[ Kolam - is a decorative design drawn in a variety of sandpainting using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home. A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots.] (Plural: Kolangal)

She makes her best artistic vision in designing the kolam in notebook to making it real in roads.

and whats the worst followed.... my system @ home gone down, making her not to upload her latest ones :(

I just assembled it not even a year ago (The story of my sweet PC)

Nevertheless i am happy to see my mother's beautiful kolangal in the web :)