Great Expectations

I remember my col senior advising me during "interaction" sessions - 'Never expect from any one and never let anyone expect from you'. And I should say now, 6 years hence that day, I still haven't 100% followed that advice. Anyways this blog is not about my expectations or any philosophy regarding expectations. As the title says its about the book I just finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

I had picked up this book at the start of first sem of my masters. Busy as I was, I read it just now in my sem break. The reason I bought this book was, a friend of mine rather a literary friend of mine used to go on and on about Charles Dickens and I, haven't read even a single work of his (expect school curriculum) used to be at loss of words ( and I don't like that). The author is really famous and well known for the fact that most of his works are first person narrative. When you read the book, its a story about you, one can always be pip and live thru the novel. This makes one more involved in the novel and of course adds to the pleasure of reading, specially when you are reading to get away from the pending projects and assignments.

As all the classics I have read, there are few really strong characters in the book Miss Havisham and Magwitch being my favorites, and definitely I like Joe. The story has nothing special to offer. A lady left at the altar by a guy who plots against her with her brother for money. A convict who repays by trying to get a kid from slums to castles. A blacksmith so innocent and pure who gets offended by no one. A lady who destroys everything for someone else's revenge. A lawyer so strict of rules that he hides millions of secrets. A person so kind to one but ungrateful to other. In the end the justice is served, convict is hanged, old villain is sent to jail, good people are married, struggler's reach somewhere in business, and pip gets the lady he always loved. And they meet never to be parted. The language is something I really appreciate. Love to read a book thats so pure and filled with emotions, strongly expressed emotions they were.

The story is about pip who journeys from a naive kid to a man of honor (may be too strong a word). The transition is neatly expressed and clearly justified. When he realizes his benefactor is a convict he does resist initially but lately tries to do everything to make things right, even illegally, even at the stake of losing everything, which means a lot for a kid who was ashamed of his poor uncle. Also the love he had for the lady which lasted even after her beauty was gone and she was divorced, made him worthy to have her. Plus the way secrets are hidden and people are entangled, is quiet a treat.

Every man ought to know his own business best - A line from the book which I want to remember always.

PS - I saw a movie Crash today, a must watch it is. The only movie which shows good part as well as bad part in every person. There is good and little bit bad in each one of us.

PAUL McCARTNEY - Maybe I m amazed

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you


Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won't you help me understand


Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song
You right me when I'm wrong
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you

---Beautiful lyrics

The Gift by Cecelia Ahern

Whoever has ever read or heard about ‘PS I Love you’ would have definitely noticed ‘The Gift’ by the same author. I had got the book some 2 years back. I loved the former book by the author, a guy who knew his end was near pre-arranges small surprises for his beloved for a year (after his death), to help her cope up with the loss. Lovely romance it was, beautifully written and so I had to get the next book in the series. But I never could find time to read the book. Some or the other reason, time or some exam or some other novel, and funnily I never came across any motive to read it. There were no reviews about the book anywhere; moreover none of my friends had read it, to encourage me to read it. But finally I read the book (thanks to my new laid rule – not to buy any more books till I finish all that I already have) and decided to write about it.

As story, love romance family it’s beautiful. The main jist being appreciate and love your family, lovely work by the author. But there are so many unanswered questions (waise that goes for PS I love you also) but this book has too much fantasy to be accepted. You can’t accept the concept of pills to clone a person so he can be at two places at the same time. I agree people in this era are dying to do everything at once, everyone wants to be at 2/3 places at a time. I won’t blame them, the life in this century demands that, u want to succeed u need to do work of two at a time , but seriously it would be a lovely movie like “Just Like heaven” or “If Only” and many more. I feel a novel should tie all loose ends; u cannot say something and leave it to the reader’s fantasies. Anything out of ordinary in Harry Potter is accepted it’s a different world but not everywhere.

What she wants to say (from both the books I have read) is so true, u have just 24 hours and you cannot get more (unless some miracle) use them properly, value things, prioritize things properly. You can always earn money you can never earn time. You can always keep running to finish all chores, to get all deals but you really need to appreciate the family and friends you have, who stand by you when you are running

Not review exactly!

Long time since I wrote few reviews on this space. After finishing my exams for 1^st sem I m enjoying my time watching movies and reading a novel, so thought will write about them.

First “eat pray love”, too much of hype. The story is good and after really long time I m reading a novel which is based on true life story and feels that it is a true life story (loads of fantasies I have read – based on true life story). I actually m not gonna read the sequel by the author. No offense but too many details, frankly if I do want to learn or understand meditation I will look for a book about it, wont read a novel for it. A personal opinion – I read novel to see world from other person’s eyes, sometime I love the perspective (harry potter) sometimes I don’t (lately have read too many to name one). I am a big fan of classics, fav – pride and prejudice by Jane Austen. Love the story Love the characters Love the presentation Love the language. And I am not at all able to relate to these latest modern authors, really boring; may be cause it is so much related to the real world that my eyes see nothing interesting in them.

Next movies –

Due Date – a strict no no, really needed a break from my hectic col schedule thought it is from the director of hangover should be nice but damn it was crap but worked well to get my head off studies.

Harry Potter – the best in the series after the first and the second. Hated the fifth and sixth part. Loved getting back to the beautiful world of magic where things go right in the end always.

Before Sunrise/Before Sunset – two movies, one sequel for other. A kind of movie which I would have loved to read. A novel of these would have been my favourites but not the movie. But still a must watch, love can still be beautiful

Jhootha hi sahi – fun to watch on the laptop in a lonely train journey, would have hated in the theaters

Anjaana Anjaani – full entertainment, Ranbir is becoming my next fav. Hrithik can never be beaten

Break Ke baad – some people copy the story, some copy the jist, some copy everything. One person told me its like Love aaj Kal, story ya may be but the movie nope not at all, doesn’t have any logic only this movie is too much

Action Replayy – I just watched this movie cause it was there in my laptop, a horrible disastrous remake of “back to the future II”. But the movie did make me laugh.

I m off to watch golmal 3 and salt and knight and day and A team……many more in the queue

Have to watch Narnia 3 alsooooooo

I also tried to watch Khichidi – talkin of untolerable movies, I couldn’t watch even for half an hour, deleted it.

Thanks

Yesterday I was watching “Saajan” (yup on tv, I m back home enjoying tata sky), one of those block buster hits of old times. Guess what was the most striking thing about the movie, it was that skinny handsome salman khan (of course Madhuri is there but she looks exactly same even now).This reminded me of a sms – as days pass by u see no change, but when u look back at your life lots of things change. So much has changed since I passed +2, in me and around. The only thing constant in life is change, so true.

I have this theory the end is always beautiful, it’s the journey that matters. The small beautiful moments are the things that I remember about my life most; the time I spent with my friends, the horrible movies I have seen with my mates in theatres, the time when my dad came to Nagpur to make sure I got into the correct train. In this so called “modern world” we just keep running to achieve goals, goals keep changing but running never stops and the result we might achieve everything we ever dreamed of but still something is missing; no one knows what that thing is cause we passed through it way back in our life.

Today I actually look back at my life and remember – how I used to fight with my bro (l remember when he shot the gun at me, n that plastic bullet stuck right in my glasses), I remember I never went to drop my bro to station cause I couldn’t see him off, now I scam him nicely for gifts J , I remember my mom cooking so many things just the day before I leave for hostel cause I should have home made food in hostel, I remember my dad dropping me at the school bus stop, my dad was my first jogging partner, I remember my awesome school days – those teachers day celebrations, there were inter house competitions, feels awesome when one of my school mate catches up on face book or orkut, I remember col hostel life – my first out of home experience, I remember chennai beaches, I remember fun in office training, everyday non veg jokes, I remember my first few days in masters, many more will come. My life is made up of all these moments along with many others. One day suddenly I get reminded of something and it makes my day, sometime I even feel sad. But then I remember one of the lines by my friend’s mom - don’t ever regret a decision which u had taken, at that moment at that instant you thought it was right and so it is. I used to be a person who panicked full time but all great friends of mine made me realize life is too short for regrets and panics, enjoy the beautiful thing called life

Thanks to all those people who ever came in my life and will come J

Lehrein: Aisha - Lyrics

khoyi khoyi si hoon main
kyun ye dil ka haal hai
dhundhle saare khaab hain
uljha har khayaal hai
saari kaliyaan murjha gayin
rang unke yaadon mein reh gaye
saare gharonde ret ke,
lehrein aayin lehron mein beh gaye.

raah mein kal kitne charaag the,
saamne kal phoolon ke baag the
kis se kahun kaun hai jo sune,
kaante hi kyun maine hain chune
sapne mere kyun hain kho gaye
jaage hain kyun dil mein gham naye
saari kaliyaan murjha gayin
rang unke yaadon mein reh gaye
saare gharonde ret ke,
lehrein aayin lehron mein beh gaye.
Na na na na na na..
Na na na na na na…
Kya kahun kyun ye dil udaas hai
ab koi door hai na paas hai
chhoo le to dil wo baatein ab kahan
wo din kahan raatein ab kahan
jo beeta kal hai ab khwab sa
ab dil mera hai betaab sa
saari kaliyaan murjha gayin
rang unke yaadon mein reh gaye
saare gharonde ret ke,
lehrein aayin lehron mein beh gaye..

A typical day at Col.....

You get up in the morning thinking you just have an extra class, today you will catch up with few of the pending works like - pending assignment or study for a test that is coming up in two days or start the sem project that is due in next two months or implement some new logic of an old assignment or write a program just for fun or my favorite, read a novel.But never did you know none of this is possible.You have your breakfast, go to the first class and boom a new assignment is up in the forum, guess what last time sir wanted us to deal with 10^8 data in less than 5 mins and today he wants to process 10^10 with 1GB RAM.And the day proceeds, some or the other meeting and you do not get to go to the hostel(which is hardly 100 m from col). In the next class, you know you have a test for it coming up but hard to concentrate, sir's frequency is too high and he uses to many technical terms, and so its more difficult to catch up. After the mind - stack overflow session, you have another meeting in next hour, and so you just while away the time relaxing with friends.After all this you finally go to the room, wash your face check your mails(to find next set of meetings or session scheduled) and its dinner time. And you suddenly remembered you had a doubt in an assignment few days back, you contacted you mentor for it, you have to meet up with him after dinner.Actually after getting that error you never had time to look back at the code so had slipped off your mind.By the time you come back from dinner and have cleared your query with the mentor(dont't know when you will implement it), you have done nothing and already you are sleepy or have severe headache.By the time you manage to write a function and sleep, you are looking forward to two-different project meeting with the mentor tomm(to show them the progress) plus 3 tests(along with the one you knew 2 more added for the subsequent days) plus another assignment and you always have a stack overflowing with self study or self relaxing things to do.

PS - this blog was to be written yesterday but slept off had sever headache

First impression is not actually the last impression

"First impression is the last impression", I have heard this line so much that I used to believe it. And lately I realized its not true. Not a bulb glowing realization but an experience makes you learn kind of realization.
One of the situation would be, not everyone that I was talking to on the first week of college is still in touch with me in the same way. Initially it was a crowd of new people slowly you get to know some of them, you start talking to many. The irony is a person having an awesome impression on you at first can later be discovered as a jerk.And similarly a person sounding rude at initial instance can actually be a shy person who takes time to open up.
So impressions are made as and when things happen, there is a possibility that a horrible impression once made leads to wrong and negativity in future but there are always another ways of influencing persons opinion.
A persons opinion is affected not only by first hand experience but also by someone else's influence. May be it is wrong to form/change an opinion on basis of a third persons eye but it does affects.
In an interview, people dress their best as well as present themselves perfectly but in the interviewer's head their is some predefined notion about the short listed candidates cause of his/her portfolio/resume. So its never just the first hand impression and definitely its never a last impression.
Be careful some words at times hurt by ruining life long good impressions!!!!

Que Sera, Sera

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.


Love the song, Love the lyrics but havent followed it.

I am a person who keeps analyzing the future. In my life it is always about "what next". I am never in present, never enjoying the moment, just deciding the path for future.Lately a friend of mine made me realize future is dynamic.Future keeps changing our wishes keep changing, we can always try for better tomorrow but alongside we should always live today

The best example is my present surroundings - People here tried day and night to reach here. Most of them knew what they were signing for, many of them knew they had to go thru this to reach their ultimate goal. Everyone cribs I want a day off, too many tests n assignments even I keep complaining very hectic schedule. When in company I did everything to get out of that place and now I am actually closer to what I want. This struggle will lead me to a place where I will love to work, where I wil work on what I want to work on. But currently its about how to get out of this and be somewhere else, when I reach somewhere else I will start for somewhere else.Life is never ending journey the day we start enjoying the scenes in the path, reaching the destination will be secondary.

IDE and tools

How much ease do IDEs and automatic tools provide?
How justified is the use of such "ease in programming" tools at post graduaation level?
If your concepts are clear does it really matter wht IDE you use?
And if you are still at learning phase do tools help?
Dont you become slave of intellisense when you use Visual studio?
Dont you forget the proper syntaxes when you use Eclipse?
But ofcourse for simulation of traffic on a network, you need a tool.....

Hmmm these are few questions that I keep thinking about.Some say it helps avoiding syntax errors other say it helps avoiding unnecessary works(like placing brackets...) others justify the use as it saves time. But are these reasons enough, shoudnt we being at post graduation level be sure that our syntaxes will be perfect. Time is a very important factor, did Einstein use calculators to ease his calculations?
I am actually not such a big fan of IDEs. I always thought Visul studio c#.net was lazy people language, the biggest irony is we use all inbuilt methods to implement the logic. I just have a feeling that if the small small pieces of program are coded by using existing libraries then how is the logic innovtive. IDEs are made to ease programming but how far becoming a slave of IDE improves someones knowledge.

How do you measure knowledge?- time, logic, innovation, creativity........
agreed if one can code perfectly, he/she can use an IDE but then the practice gets lost and so is the perfectness :-p

Choices

I recently attended a seminar that was on how choices help you to succeed or rather how choices make you happy/satisfied. Many people say I make a better choice when I have lot of options available others say I prefer no choices, they distract me. But do we actually look at the choices available? Even after we consider so many available options do we take the one which we want? or do external factors affect our choices?

In school there are wide streams to choose from, but 90% choose computers.And 95% of the people choose engineering as stream, how many of these 95% wanted to be engineer since ever? how many choose it cause of their parents or siblings or friends? how many just went with the flow?After engineering people go for MBA easiest and safest option. I don't say it easy to become an engineer or qualify CAT, what I want to say here is they see MBA as the only option. These days youngsters actually follow a straight path, their visibility is hindered. I have a feeling they don't explore all the available options, they know what to do without considering what to do.

But this is case in India only, here external factors like - what he is doing, or what will they say, or will I earn enough, affect a person's decision. Whereas in places outside India people don't bother much they look at the available options, they understand their interest, they respect what ever a job is, they don't bother what he/she is doing.

There are options, there are great minds also but just because mass thinks that path has sharp stones or rather that path is too flowery, people don't opt for it.

Ice cream

I used to love dark chocolate ice cream in baskin robins. In this long while, I realized it is degrading my tonsils. Slowly it was affecting the soft spot and then one day my throat got infected horribly. It went to an awful extent of throat infection. So now as per the constraints I stopped having ice creams, but yes I still tasted lot of different flavors. For some point of time I loved mango flavor but it died in next few weeks. Now lately I really like vanilla ice cream but if I have it, my tonsils is gonna get affected and if I don't have it I am missing something.....

how strange life is !!!!!!!!

Describe a computer

Its second week of my post graduation course and one of the most talented professors here gives us 10 mins, saying "Describe a computer". The irony is we all know a stereotype answer for the question but no one out of 16o Mtech students was confident or satisfied with the answer he/she proposed. It is truly said(mentioned by another awesome prof here)

'when you think you know everything,you get bachelor's degree;

when you realize there is more to it,you get master's degree;

and when you say you know nothing,you get a phd' :-)

I always wanted to go for higher studies but I had a misconception, I used to think you learn 'a b c' in Btech and you learn 'cab' in Mtech. My life used to revolved a lot around studies and grades. It was studies that shaped my life in past. That one question by my prof about describing a computer suddenly opened new gates. Its not about knowing stuffs as written in a book, its about relating to it : feeling the science within.

I asked lot of students here why you are here and got the most obvious answer higher salary, even when I say out loud that I am here to learn more, I sound phony. hahaha. Every step you take in your life has a motive, some say when this motive is money it ruins the essence of job. Money or otherwise, if the driving factor is strong enough to make you follow the full path that you stepped on, then I guess its good enough.

I don't know where I am heading on with the above said, but I know one thing : strong determination is enough to achieve the goal, this goal can be money as well as knowledge.I am off to figure out a computer : -) still.

New Phase of my life - Bangalore

For some Banglore is the city of lakes, for few it is Silicon Valley of India, city of night life but for me it is the place for my post graduation.This post is more like my diary entry for the day I came to Bengaluru city.

I had came to banglore only twice before and that to just for a day or two for interview or test so when I arrived with l my luggage on banglore city station it was a new city for me. As usual it was an eventful day. I came with my parents, we tried carrying luggage but then one of the coolies came and we agreed to let him take the luggage on the stairs. Now it began, first of all we noticed he was drunk and even when we tried to get his hands off our luggage he was being stubborn to carry it. Then he started walking in opposite direction to what others were walking, we were just wondering what’s going on when one of the bags that he was holding on top on his head went straight down on the railway track. We shouted at him but another guy helped him to get bag back on his head again. We were still shouting only when all our bags fell down, as the handle he was hold for support broke off, it was full chaos. Everyone started shouting at him even people around us; we were able to get his hands off all our luggage as he now got scared of so many people around. Now we see there is a subway lift to carry luggage hahaha, only if we would have seen it earlier. Somehow we got off the station got some okay types hotel and settled.

Then it was routine college stuff – registration – hostel allotment. Luckily I reached late for registration and got a double sharing executive room than a single room. One beautiful thing happened, I did not know who my partner would be, when I went to check my room I found a note by my would be roomy (who had checked out the room before) saying who she is and when she will be shifting. And thus I made my first friend in the college.

About College life I need not say much its very typical hostel life : we keep running for classes – even when hostels are so near we end up reaching late – food is edible – classes are good – specially the C professor is awesome – made many new friends – had senior interactions – even have classes at 10 at night – have music club, literary club, cycling trips, social service will try to make it for as many as possible .

I will say Banglore is the beginning of new era of my life, which has academics plus all other things I want to enjoy before its becomes too late.

Chennai

This post was supposed to be written way back, just never had nerves to say goodbye to the city where all started.Chennai is the city where my life was shaped, the two most important phases of my life started her.First time i left my parents abode to seek out my future I landed in chennai.At that time it was the AIEEE counselling that laid the path.Second time it was CTS my first cooperate world.

I still remember I was so damn tensed worried scared, to my mom I was the most confident person "I can survive anywhere" but truly I was apprehensive.It went really well, I made friends at the very instant I stepped in the college and then hostel helped me a lot.I had the best days of my life in that Sathyabhama hostel and the taste of freedom was delicious.Hostel life made me strong enough to survive and I was always guided,may be that is the reason I am scared of solitude.I made mistakes-learnt from them-some I corrected-some I am living with.The best was the way me and my mates used to conspire against our hostel rules,it was fun to break each and every one of it.

Then after long wait I got date of joining for CTS, once again I was the only one.But this time I already had my architect friend there and I knew the city very well so I was not worried but excited.CTS training was awesome I met people so pure at heart that friendship was not a question.We roamed on the beaches, went for movies, had module exams, had fun during classes, it was just like extended college days with no worries plus we were earning.After training we got different posting but we still remained in touch with occasional outings and I am very sure I made life long friends in ASV academy.The ooty trip will always be the most special trip with my buddies.

Whatever I write here is less I love beaches in chennai,I love murugan idli shop,I love satyam multiplex,I met great people there,I made best of relations there.That is one city where I will never be lonely ever.

Now I am going to a new place moving one step ahead on my career ladder.I am apprehensive again and I am very sure this will be another great leap in my life.I will always love chennai, it has the most beautiful memories for me.I will miss chennai till I am not back there :-)

Raavan

It is always said any hyped movie in bollywood is always a disaster, sometimes because you expect so much and other times it’s actually nothing. As Om saanthi Om falls in second category Raavan actually falls in first. I was in Chennai when the movie promos were out; I wanted to see it in Tamil as well as in Hindi. Lucky Vikram who plays both the roles, Ram as well as Raavan. But I quit Chennai before it was released and ended up watching only the Hindi version at home, that to when I had already got reviews from others.

Story – yes it’s a Mani Ratanam Ramayana inspired by Valmiki’s Ramayana. There was Ram Sita Laxman Raavan Supranakha Hanuman. Though there was no actual nose cutting but Laxman-Supranakha- Nose scene was there, Supranakha-liking-wrong guy was there, then Raavan-Sita-wooing was there, Laxman-almost-dead scene was there, Hanuman-Sita-Ram’s Informer scene was there, Hanuman-Raavan-Settling was there, Ram-doubting-Sita, Raavan-Ram fighting in air was there, and nicely it was timed to 14 days, in all it was Ramayana. The end was his own, still story wise it was a thumps up. No way like Mahabharata by Ekta Kapoor hehehehe.

Acting – Abhishek couldn’t pull the bad man role properly, his build also not at all adding to his character but in Tamil version where Vikram plays Raavan, he is awesome look wise as well as acting wise. Others are fine, it’s a Mani Ratanam movie he makes people act how much ever duffer they are. I guess if there was no Tamil version to compare from may be it wasn’t that big disaster for Abhishek, may be that it.

If I am not wrong it is shot in Kerala, nothing can beat the beauty of the location. About camera I am sorry but I hate it when camera moves a lot rapidly. In few scenes the camera is shaken a lot even it rotates and it gives me headache. Some people appreciate it, it adds to the emotions in the scene but I don’t like it. There is one particular scene when Ashwarya is falling down the cliff it is beautiful shown, but again its Mani Ratanam you remember Roja and Dil se right . I will say watch it once may be you will like it.

Channel V

The number of reality shows is touching the skyline in India. I remember initially it was fun to watch Indian Idol or saregamapa or boogie woogie, but these days every other show is a dance or music competition, its become boring with same judge politics and fake smses. If not these competition then they have come up with cooking challenge. To add to all the fun they lock up group of people in a farmhouse or something and capture them on cameras – Big boss or splitvilla are two of those kinds. I liked Roadies but with every successive season it’s become politics crap, rather than the challenges it was famous for.
I am not talking about these shows, if I do start talking about these my blog will be flooded plus I do not watch them to write much, I just want to mention few which I came across recently on V Channel. Initially they used to have a show where they will make two strangers go on a date and have few challenges for them, it was fun and in the end they decide weather they want to stick on or move on. Now they have modified it by making it gross, they insult people in that. As an add-on they have started this new thing of making people who chat online meet – Love Net. Firstly guys when you want to meet your orkut friend in person do you really want the whole world to see how much disappointed you are plus what is the problem with the parents or roommates, they let strange people in to their house and also allow them to go through a person’s personal stuff in his/her absence. These people show all that on national television YUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK. Then there was that Emotional Atayachar on Bindaas – Girls and Guys a fact- if Kareena/Hrithik seducesyour spouse you can’t actually expect them to take an autograph and say I am committed, those kinds of models only try to woe your partner in that show and you fall for that? I have a doubt weather they are people who get dumped or the viewers of the show get fooled here!! Now to top that V has come up with Axe ur Ex – If someone got ditched and wants to take a revenge then they can make their ex’s life hell for a day and give national TV humiliation as a gift to him/her. Sick! you people are out of their minds just because someone said something you humiliate a person on TV saying either you are doing loyalty test or teaching him\her a lesson for their past mistakes(And what you people are saints). When I haven’t yet seen the show but the popularity it has gained makes me write so much for it, imagine who and all these people are fooling just to get TRPs. If they actually do this stuff they make a person go to hell and then make him\her suffer there forever and if they have scripted shows then they are ditching their viewers for TRP. GREAT SONGS IS WHAT THE CHANNEL WAS FOR
One more U R Fired, people we understand you got job now where else that’s why you are on that crap show. You act stupid third class a**h***s to get fired, try getting actually fired from your acting also and sit at home, then we will see that smile that you flash on TV. Why the hell play with young minds. All these series are B*******. And I wrote this blog to reach out to people and tell them don’t ruin yourselves with this crap.

That thing called Love – By Tuhin Sinha

Like the twin towers Mumbai monsoon is also a great back drop for many movies. “That thing called Love” is a novel where Mumbai monsoon is the hero. Recently I have read lot of novels; I got some 8 Indian writer’s books just for light reading. And the only one which I liked among them was the one I read in last and it was this one. About the story I actually appreciate the writer very good work, It is true-story of a normal person- doesn’t seem phony-does not revolve around crap like the other young writers.I have one complain against this writer, the vocab he has used is too much. Looks like he was preparing for CAT or TOFEL when he wrote the book. It is more of show off than the proper usage of good words.

It is about three guy: Firstly a guy who marries his love but she still hasn’t got over her first love, secondly a love marriage that is about to break as the honeymoon period of marriage and courtship is over and lastly a guy trying to forget his long lost love gets comfort in dating a married woman. In the present era when a relationships break or people grow apart it is so easy to find comfort in other people; not a single person is wrong or unethical here, it’s the situation. As this is not the age where you can try gandhiri or ahinsa (i.e. if someone slaps on right cheek put you left cheek in front) and so this is not the time where “if you love someone set her/him free she/he comes back to you she/he is yours or she/he never was”. If you like the person- tell them how important they are, make them feel special or they will find what you can’t give in someone else. Everybody wants to be happy when it is lacking here they are independent enough to walk off and find it somewhere else. And another important thing once married doesn’t mean you are together for ever, you need to keep the charm alive-keep the romance alive- if you want to live happily ever after. And it requires lot of effort from both the ends. You need both the hand be it for clapping or for mourning.

I am impressed by this writer cause he nicely showed emotions by adding beautiful shayaries here and there. Here are few of my favorites:

Kabhi kissi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta,

Kahin zameen to kahin aasman nahin milta

Tere jahan mein aisa nahin ke pyar na ho,

Jahan umeed ho utana wahan nahin milta.##

Taruf(feelings) rog ho jaye to usko bhulana behtar,

Taluk(relationship) bojh ban jaye to usko todna acha

Who afasana jise anjam tak lana na ho mumkin,

Usse ek khubsurat mod dekar chodna acha ##

And the classic, for every girl next door

Tumhe bhi yaad nahi aur main bhi bhool gaya,

Who lanha kitna haseen tha, magar fuzool gaya!!!!

Michael Jackson - I'll Be There

You and I must make a pact
We must bring salvation back
Where there is love, I'll be there

I'll reach out my hand to you,
I'll have faith in all you do
Just call my name and I'll be there

Chorus:
And oh - I'll be there to comfort you,
Build my world of dreams around you
I'm so glad that I found you
I'll be there with a love that's strong
I'll be your strength, I'll keep holding on
Yes I will, yes I will

Let me fill your heart with joy and laughter
Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be there to protect you
With an unselfish love I respect you
Just call my name and I'll be there

(Chorus)

If you should ever find someone new
I know he'd better be good to you
'Cos if he doesn't, I'll be there

Don't you know, baby, yeah yeah
I'll be there, I'll be there, just call my name, I'll be there

(Just look over your shoulders, honey - ooh)

I'll be there, I'll be there, whenever you need me, I'll be there

Don't you know, baby, yeah yeah
I'll be there, I'll be there, just call my name, I'll be there...

I had never heard this song until last night.I was watching "This is it" and I fell in love with the song and the singer.This guy is the most soft spoken star I can think of, he was so cute to the crew and it was so clear in the way people were respecting him during those practice session, how in the world can someone kill this guy. The best star ever. "Beat it" is one of the songs I liked but after listening to yesterdays concert I know he has given some really sweet romantic songs.My god he is the greatest superstar :-)

And here is the youtube link for three most beautiful performances for the same song :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABdp1m3a0E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcN-oxpV-Sw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT-H5eSQ-1U

Deception Point

I haven’t read The Last symbol of Dan brown, among the rest of books I will rate Deception Point 2^nd next to only The Da Vinci code. Da Vinci Code is a classic, it is really awesome. The facts in a Dan brown novel are true and when you google regarding that you get the proofs in front of your eyes. Actually the best part about his novels is the knowledge, your scope of thinking widens if the writer is good but hats off to this guy for the research he does. I never bothered to look at the paintings The Last Supper or the Mona Lisa but if you read the Da Vinci, at least once you will try to check the authencity of what writer is saying. Many controversies were raised by this novel, but it is worth a read. About Deception point apart from Nasa tales and awesome election campaigns, the suspense is damn good. I have read so many suspense novels and this adds to my favorites. In the novel he so clearly explains structural and chemical composure of a meteorite, and how they are formed in space and can be formed on Earth. His novels at times give a lot of details but the facts and figures are amazing and interesting. I will read the last novel after some time, I have heard it is good and I want to read it when I got time, will enjoy and relish it

3 movies in a weekend-Kites, How to train your dragon, badmaash company Rajneeti

This (May 22nd- 23rd) weekend was movie weekend for me. I watched 3 movies, I wanted to watch 2 more but didn’t get tickets or show was only late night. This Friday Kites got released it was the most awaited movie. I love hrithik and this movie was his comeback in knph role, I had to see it plus Barbara had created so much hype how one can miss the movie. In Chennai to get weekend tickets in Satyam, we need to book on Tuesday night itself otherwise it is difficult to get. I made my friend stay up till midnight on Tuesday to get the tickets. Even my office friends wanted to go for a movie (not kites at all) so I also got tickets booked for how to train your dragon the same day. Now it’s Saturday morning and I am excited for kites, I checked reviews it’s a horrible but its hrithik roshan so I don’t care. About movie I will say- a lady after the movie said what a waste of Saturday morning; I guess I need not add more. The story was predictable, only 2 good songs but the locations were exotic and Hrithik could give shivers to any of those Hollywood actors, his dance I have no words to describe it. But I will say it’s worth watch at least for hrithik, may be I am biased but watch it. About how to train your dragon, it was a nice 3d kiddie movie. Fun to watch and relax; had a good time with friends. The next day i.e. Sunday I had only lunch plans with my friends suddenly we saw tickets for Badmaash Company were available. I heard it was a fun movie so thought will watch it. The movie as my friend said was glamorous version of Rocket Singh; just add-on that in this the hero becomes distracted and later when he losses everything, he realizes his mistake. All in all nice movie fun to watch humor is good shahid is cute songs are lively.
Rajneeti – Once in long time a movie like this comes. It is a movie that revolves around death plots, people keep dying. It has little humor but good one. The story is not as we thought it would be no way related to congress or Sonia Gandhi, but the story wasn’t new either, quiet a resemblance to Mahabharata. The songs are really nice my personal fav is More Piya. Ranbeer proved he is not only a fun actor but also really good in serious cinema. Katrina looks pretty. It is worth a watch and a must watch.

Co-operate journey

Hmmm as I in my account farewell I said- I came to cooperate world decided I should study and now leaving. I still remember the days I was waiting for joining, horrible days just wanted joining date somehow bas bola le company wale, I was placed in jun 07 finished col in apr 08 and got call only in mar 09. I had eventful academy training. I had the best as well as the worst time in ma life in academy. People say you don’t make friends in cooperate world and it is so damn true but I made really good friends in College to Cooperate transition. I got closer to my school and college friends as well as made really good friends in DN007. And I know those people will stay with me for as long as possible. Okay now about the actual cooperate world, as usual for no choice of my own – I was trained in dot net and then put in an account that dealt with PeopleSoft CRM. It’s so normal in these companies, in such a big organization they cannot understand everyone’s interests’ right plus they have to assign us any where for any technology: it’s recession time. Whatever crap? But initially we are so enthusiastic to learn we accept all challenges and perform our best without knowing the fact no one bothers about the caliber. When you join company fresh after college it is more of luck that defines your career. Not only me I know so many people who didn’t get a chance to prove themselves or even show what they can do. I know good coders put in support project, not even support and maintenance it is only support. And their careers are set that way even when they shift companies they have to stick to support, only escape go for studies. Best was when I was testing, we have job rotation here development testing we keep people shifting here. The big shots in the project are so damn busy that they forget their decisions affect people. I will say even when you assign the most hated work to a trainee they are ready to work for it with full interest but sometime you need to value them and their interests otherwise they won’t value you neither will they work with any efficiency. The life I had played such a great role in my Gate preparation. I scored 1.6 percentile more than last year, when I was at home and the fact stands that last yr 40 k ppl gave the exam and this year it crossed 2 lakh candidates. My cooperate journey was not a total disaster I learnt lot I had good time of trying my best not to be myself. If you keep your eyes open you earn a lot from other people’s actions. In the end I was like- get me out of here and my account manager did help me out in that 

Samosa day

So this was last weekend (16th May) – Sunday. I had a packet of maida in fridge since really long time, so had to use it or throw it (that’s my rule). I promised a friend of mine I will cook. That is different I said I will cook American choupsuey. Now I asked my mom how to make the dough n all for samosa. She told why are you cooking samosa, it’s so difficult, don’t try, better make something else. But it’s me I asked her how to make it and tried. So its Sunday evening plan, in afternoon me and my mate made the potato filling. We had sandwich of the same filling as lunch. Then we tried preparing the dough. Actually my mom had said making dough is most difficult but I made it as easy as poori dough so thought it was a success. Me and my roommate kept thinking why mumma said not to try, why did she say it’s hard. Then after nice card playing afternoon we started to kitchen. It is then we realized why mumma said it was difficult. We weren’t able to make flat thin chapatti of it, it was so brittle it was breaking; we weren’t able to make the crust of samosa. We used oil, used dry Atta somehow to make the crust, but no success. Whatever we try we weren’t able to cast it into semicircle to make the samosa exterior crust. Everyone tried their hands on the crust even who came to eat tried but no success. Then finally we gave up we made whatever shape it came and just covered the filling, whatever be the shape it will taste like samosa right. So then we just somehow made something that was like samosa. In the sense it had maida for crust and potato filling, it had weird shapes. We started to fry, we spoiled lot of oil as the filing was coming out of the crust and also it was taking unusually long time to cook so oil was burning too much. The outcome was some horrible looking, some samosa looking; and about taste – it tasted something like samosa. The filling was really nice but the crust was too hard  Anyways I conclude it still success, the outcome was equal to the agenda  The classic thing was when I told mom about my troubles she told probably the maid was spoiled, I got nice shock I was worried full night , thankfully my friends didn’t get sick. I realized all these should once be made in front of seniors, cooking requires lot of experience.

A must read

Finding and Keeping a Life partner

Golden rules for finding your life partner by Dov Heller, M.A.

When it comes to making the decision about choosing a life partner, no-one wants to make a mistake. Yet, with a divorce rate of close to 50%, it appears that many are making serious mistakes in their approach to finding Mr./Miss. Right!

If you ask most couples who are engaged why they're getting married, they'll say: "We're in love"; I believe this is the ...1 mistake people make when they date. Choosing a life partner should never be based on love. Though this may sound "not politically correct", there's a profound truth here.

Love is not the basis for getting married. Rather, love is the result of a good marriage. When the other ingredients are right, then the love will come. Let me say it again: "You can't build a lifetime relationship on love alone"; You need a lot more!!!

Here are five questions you must ask yourself if you're serious about finding and keeping a life partner.

QUESTION ..1: Do we share a common life purpose?

Why is this so important? Let me put it this way: If you're married for 20 or 30 years, that's a long time to live with someone. What do

you plan to do with each other all that time? Travel, eat and jog together? You need to share something deeper and more meaningful. You need a common life purpose.

Two things can happen in a marriage:

(1) You can grow together, or

(2) You can grow apart. 50% of the people out there are growing apart.

To make a marriage work, you need to know what you want out of life!

Bottom line; marry someone who wants the same thing.

QUESTION ..2: Do I feel safe expressing my feelings and thoughts with this person?

This question goes to the core of the quality of your relationship. Feeling safe means you can communicate openly with this person. The basis of having good communication is trust - i.e. trust that I won't get "punished"; or hurt for expressing my honest thoughts and feelings. A colleague of mine defines an abusive person as someone with whom you feel afraid to express your thoughts and feelings. Be honest with yourself on this one. Make sure you feel emotionally safe with the person you plan to marry.

QUESTION ..3: Is he/she a mensch?

A mensch is someone who is a refined and sensitive person. How can you test? Here are some suggestions. Do they work on personal growth on a regular basis? Are they serious about improving themselves? A teacher of mine defines a good person as "someone who is always striving to be good and do the right ";. So ask about your significant other: What do they do with their time? Is this person materialistic? Usually a materialistic person is not someone whose top priority is character refinement.

There are essentially two types of people in the world:

(1) People who are dedicated to personal growth and

(2) people who are dedicated to seeking comfort.

Someone whose goal in life is to be comfortable will put personal comfort ahead of doing the right thing. You need to know

that before walking down the aisle.

QUESTION ..4: How does he/she treat other people?

The one most important thing that makes any relationship work is the ability to give. By giving, we mean the ability to give another person pleasure.

Ask: Is this someone who enjoys giving pleasure to others or are they wrapped up in themselves and self- absorbed?

To measure this, think about the following: How do they treat people whom they do not have to be nice to, such as waiters, bus boys, taxi drivers, etc.. How do they treat their parents and siblings? Do they have gratitude and appreciation?

If they don't have gratitude for the people who have given them everything; can you do nearly as much for them? You can be sure that someone, who treats others poorly, will eventually treat you poorly as well.

QUESTION ..5: Is there anything I'm hoping to change about this person after we're married?

Too many people make the mistake of marrying someone with the intention of trying to "improve"; them after they're married. As a

colleague of mine puts it: "You can probably expect someone to change after marriage for the worse" If you cannot fully accept this person the way they are now, then you are not ready to marry them.

In conclusion, dating doesn't have to be difficult and treacherous. The key is to try leading a little more with your head and less with

your heart. It pays to be as objective as possible when you are dating; to be sure to ask questions that will help you get to the key

issues. Falling in love is a great feeling, but when you wake up with a ring on your finger, you don't want to find yourself trouble because you didn't do your homework.

Another perspective...

There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going anywhere relationships. Observe the relationships around you.

Pay attention...Which ones lift and which ones lean?

Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?

Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?

When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse?

Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know, or appreciate you?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

An African proverb states, "Before you get married, keep both eyes open, and after you marry, close one eye"; Before you get involved and make a commitment to someone, don't let lust, desperation, immaturity, ignorance, pressure from others or a low self-esteem make you blind to warning signs. Keep your eyes open, and don't fool yourself that you can change someone or that what you see as faults aren't really that important.

Do you bring out the best in each other?

Do you compliment and compromise with each other, or do you compete, compare and control?

What do you bring to the relationship?

Do you bring past relationships, past hurt, past mistrust, past pain?

You can't take someone to the altar to alter them. You can't make someone love you or make someone stay.

If you develop self-esteem, spiritual discernment, and "a life"; you won't find yourself making someone else responsible for your happiness or responsible for your pain. Seeking status, sex, and security are the wrong reasons to be in a relationship.

WHAT KEEPS A RELATIONSHIP STRONG IS:

1. TRUST

2. COMMUNICATION

3. INTIMACY

4. A SENSE OF HUMOR

5. SHARING TASKS

6. SOME GETAWAY TIME WITHOUT BUSINESS OR CHILDREN

7. DAILY EXCHANGES (meal, shared activity, hug, call, touch, notes, etc.)

8. SHARING COMMON GOALS AND INTERESTS

9. GIVING EACH OTHER SPACE TO GROW WITHOUT FEELING INSECURE

10. GIVING EACH OTHER A SENSE OF BELONGING AND ASSURANCES OF COMMITMENT

Satyam Murugan Avatar

Chennai has two VIP places (pakka there are many more I know only about these two). To book a Ticket in satyam you should plan your weekend before Wednesday. It’s easier to get a ticket in tatkal then booking a weekend show in satyam, even morning 8 o clock shows are houseful. About the movie Avatar – it’s a huge success as everyone knows but the 3D in satyam is running houseful till now even on weekdays. That movie got released in Dec and till March you need an advance booking to watch that movie “Heights”.

And about Murugan Idli shop to eat the delicious south Indian food idli dosa sambhar vada toh you should have your breakfast at 7 and dinner at 7 or after 11 am/pm. This place has its branches even outside India it is very famous and always crowded even on weekdays. Man Chennai has these joints which are always full and few signals which make you feel India is over populated and maximum people are settled in South India.

Back to college

I had to get the rank certificate from my college so I made a trip back to the place where I had best times of my life. Actually my college is outside city limits so it took nicely one hour to reach there. And it’s a deemed university so as usual they made me go here and there for one small work. I did meet the staff specially those who were concerned with my certificate. Finally I got to talk with the person who seemed will get my work done, anyways I will know tomorrow only. When I entered the college I felt at ease I knew I will be safe, I felt I never had left. The best part is nothing has changed there. Till now it’s one of the most beautiful places I have seen. Till date when you enter the premises there are separate registers for girls and guys to sign. And still guys walk up and down the alley to sight girls, saying stupid things trying to catch their attention. Strange thing was, I saw laptops near IT Tower but till now talking on mobile is not acceptable inside college premises (i.e within authority visible limits). Even today when girls and guys are talking they walk n talk or behave as if they are talking to themselves or thin air. In all it is the same old college where someone has to keep an eye for the squads if a guy and girl are talking and as soon as warden starts her rounds the cell phones are hidden in places that can’t be said out loud.

Mrs Khanna

Can you believe it I liked the movie Main aur Mrs Khanna.First of all that movie was still there on my laptop, its been so long that movie was released and I normally don't waste my systems memory on movies...Secondly its a Salman Khan movie and Thirdly its a Kareena Kapoor movie.Me watching that movie itself was a miracle and me liking it is a wonder.I was alone on Sunday afternoon and so I played this movie cause boring movies put me to sleep, but the story of the movie is so related to the current scenarios that I just couldn't doze off.The guy says for a relationship to work out there are many more things required other than love plus being "practical" he decides to start off alone to establish himself.So true in this practical world nowadays relationships are based on this practical stuff only,'you should understand its for our own future'(I still think this is crap but how does what I think matters).But the twist comes here his wife the perfect Indian Lovely wife waits for him,somehow works a way for herself to survive in pardesh.And is waiting for him with same love and affection in the same place where he left her.

In this practical world relationships don't break cause you started liking someone else or you fall out of love but because the partners choose different roads and mostly these roads are perpendicular.What I liked about the positiveness in the movie is whatever road you take in the end its the love that wins.You can be practical you can be modern in the end you are a lover.

The Blue Mug

Ever heard of a 4 D puppet show, there is one and I missed it even when I knew about the schedule before the tickets were sent out. Anyone saw Musical Mamma Mia the movie, can you imagine its theater performance by the Abba group itself. All these I wanted to go, but couldn’t make it. Finally The Blue Mug –Director Atul Kumar Production- The Company Theatre, Mumbai Performed and Devised By: Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Sheeba Chadha, Konkona Sen Sharma and Munish Bhardawaj. The names were so tempting it was hard to resist, I got tickets through a friend and you will not believe there were very few tickets left. Pay attention here its Chennai and it’s a Saturday evening (where the whole city will either be in a beach or a Mall or the great Sathyam) but still there are no tickets in Music Academy for a Hindi drama. Nice. I got the last few tickets and reached there in time to get centre seats. See it is like you don’t have any seat numbers, so on first come first served basis you get seat for yourself, the other way is to get those 1000 bucks tickets to get front rows but we reached in time to get centre balcony seats- good view and not near to speakers also. The show began and frankly speaking I was waiting for a story I expected a smooth drama with a moral. One by one each came and told an extract about their life I thought now the story will come now it will come but it continued. It was a play were everyone was describing one story of their life how they felt what they reacted. And the strangest thing was in those partially humorous partially serious partially ridiculous stories I could visualize myself. There was this part by vinay pathak where he says a poem telling there was a time he used to read millions of poems stories he used to remember those poems also not a single writer he had left but now even if he starts a book he somehow reads only few 15 pages and let it go – so very true for me. Another part about joint families by rajat kapoor, how those people spend all festivals and even non festival days together matched to a friend of mine who had accompanied me to the theatre. It was a beautiful play with awesome performance and lightings but surely what made it special is how it connected somewhere with our lives. And the blast was when in the end while leaving the Music Academy, when me and my friend went back in to attend nature’s call while our way out we saw the huge crowd around the artists and there they were I saw Konkane Sen, Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Ranbir Shorey right in front of me. We did try to take snaps took few also but incompatibility with new phone, lack of flash and excitement stood in our paths to final happiness. It was an awesome experience and definitely I am not gonna miss any opportunity related to these theatre performances here on.

What Nobody Ever Told You

Finally I finished a novel after really long time. Ignoring the fact that it was 160 pages only, the name goes ‘What nobody ever told you’ by GaneshKumar. I never heard about it neither was it in news or popular in my friends, I just went to landmark was attracted by the title and something of it being a Second Edition print compelled me to buy it. I had recently finished all my exams and was reading ‘Devil wears parada’ I had plans to go home so I decided to read this new small novel on the way after my current book. I actually didn’t finish my current book moreover I just kept it at home and came. I got a magazine also in train ‘Frozen Thoughts’ (which I am dying to read since I heard about it). I read nothing in train not a single page or an article also. Anyways finally I was back in Chennai and as my project was over I had optimum free time. Tried to sleep a lot but can’t sleep so much. Tried to watch movies but multiplexes here are over booked and laptop is really boring. Was already bored of shopping so tried to summa roam around but too sunny for it. Finally settled for novel and as recently I m not reading novels at my regular pace I started with the smallest I had. This novel is not a story book neither is it a moral book it doesn’t promise to change your thinking it won’t guide you to a positive approach- It is a book to tell you people think differently. It has 12 small chapters each related to our everyday things like credit cards girlfriends chain forwards cricket smoking-attractive na.You will learn nothing from it but you might start seeing things differently. Frankly people I m very pessimistic person but somewhere in my head something was triggered after I finished the book I realized everything everyone around is not negative, not everything happens for my discomfort. I kept cribbing cause someone sometime told God didn’t give you this cause he reserved something better than this for you and I haven’t got anything better till now, but truly the not so better things according to me are best things in someone else’s eyes –this I realized only after reading this book. Funny part is nowhere in the book it says this I just realized it feels like the mind window opened- thinking out of the box. My suggestion would be read it once may be you actually like one of the Kuttappan’s strange ideas.

I want to quote something from the book here (not word by word but the gist) –

Past cannot be changed: Is it

A particular day I have great day in office I get incentive news and all. You ask me how was your day, my reply - Thank god I joined this company such an awesome company I m having great time.

Another day I had horrible time in office my boss doesn’t approve my leave. You ask me how was your day, my reply – Why the hell I joined this company so far from my house can’t even go home.

So can you change your past?????

You think about that I am going to read Frozen thoughts

Kurbaan Vs New York

I had seen the movie New York earlier and loved it. Then my friends saw Kurbaan and they became fan of it. I saw the movie later on just to see what was so great about it. Actually I never liked the songs so that movie never appealed to me. Finally one day I saw it and hated it. Maybe cause of my high expectations but I found nothing in that movie worth watching. New York on the other hand is an awesome movie story might not be so fresh but screenplay acting songs the actors make it worth the money, plus few scenes and dialogues in the movie are so touching you will never forget them. If you haven’t, go watch the movie now. Movies based on 9/11 are many but few only make it to the charts. One such movie is Khuda Ke liye I have no words to describe it. 9/11-jihad-muslims are all interlinked and shown so nicely. It is one of those movies which you shouldn’t miss. I am actually waiting for ‘My name is khan’ not for its story but for sharukh-kajol pair. Lets see how it goes.

Another movie in hype is Tum Mile. Watch it once but nothing so great about it. Songs are good as was expected story is also new but lacked something somewhere. Chemistry nil

Moviez Reviews

Now I am back on track, seen every watch-able movie in theatres.

Firstly about satyam tatkaal booking.Here the best multiplex is always houseful getting tickets on the weekends is impossible. To watch a movie on Sunday we need to make sure that the tickets are booked on Tuesday midnight cause booking opens on Wednesday and is full in an hours time.

Avatar is one big blockbuster I never was able to get tickets for it. Finally I saw the movie when my account people got tickets booked under cooperate booking.There are friends of mine still wanting to watch it but no tickets.The movie is worth watching in 3D, the world looks so fascinating. Nothing new in the story but effects make it fabulous specially the second half.

Then comes New Moon, after Twilight I was dying to see that movie and reviews were horrible but I really really loved it.The most romantic novel the most handsome hero and very beautiful story.Next is Sherlock Holmes, awesome dialogues good movie worth a watch. 3 Idiots has already gathered so much attention, with Sonu Nigam and Shaan the songs are simply irresistible. About Ranbir Kapoor Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani, he looked so cute he is that new romantic hero in the industry but Rocket Singh was an okay movie. I watched so many movies so in turn I experimented with many theatre. The conclusion is not all movies are good not all theatres are worth but in all on a weekend its a movie a popcorn bucket that really matters.:-)

My blog-My life

My life is actually divided. The first half of the weekdays no actually the first 12-14 hours of my day are spent in office. I learn and grow not only my technical knowledge but also my human mentality knowledge. Funny part is I still repeat same mistakes. About my rest of the day I strengthen my compatibility skills with my roomys. And for the weekends I have regular stuffs to do like ironin washin shoppin at times cookin, as late nights on weekdays don't allow any of that.

So life is busy, need to find time or very important event to write blog for.

Technically Strong rather than not so technically strong

Ha Ha Ha.....Corporate world-I will survive

This particular blog post is to describe one particular event in office. Apart from my regular tasks I had an internal tool to develop with 2 of my colleagues. I had regular deadlines plus I had review comments from seniors to implement, still I managed my time pretty well. One day we stayed really late to make sure the tool is functionally complete. Next day few experienced people who had recently joined the project took control of the tool from us, saying its better we concentrate on our project tasks and tool will be done by technically strong people rather than not so technically strong. I felt hurt; after functionality is done cosmetic changes are no big deal. But then my colleague consoled me saying “at least you learnt”. I calmed down but I felt the credit was taken from us, the fresher’s by those. I heard them laughing at the fact that the file is manually uploaded not automatic for the execution of the project. “Why is the coding this way - ask these developers who developed the code”. I still bared it somehow. I left office early because I was done staying late hours and not getting credit for any, rather being asked why she didn’t come on weekends. Anyways the rumour goes those experienced people couldn’t set up the file which was to be uploaded only. Sirjee manually or automatically first create the file in the proper way. And the solution those people found out was to use INSERT INTO statement to insert file through back-end.

These new developers who are not so technically strong are better than youuuuuu