Travelogue

Hi hi hi hi all,

After a brief Malaysian sojourn, nothing like setting foot on my homeland! Extensive exclusive brief later this week, but its been fabulous so far. Im in the city of lakes now (for god's sake, its got only two lakes and they name it city of lakes...chennai got like wht.. porur, chemperambakkam) Maybe chennai shud be named city of rivers, with coovum and adyar rivers and the innumerable rivers running in the erstwhile streets. Damn am I eager to set foot there! 5 days in Blore will end in a week of bliss in Singara Chennai. Waiting to meet all ya guys soon. For all the lazy bums who havent bothered to contact me or leave their contact nos, do so RIGHT NOW (love the Van Halen song, but dont mistake me for a Peter). It was nice meeting Filter and Ferrari and exchanging some high rev thot exchanges. Apart from a Ferrari helmet, nothing to suggest hes a hardened fan, though a coupla Schumi references and the smallest bottle of vodka (even the sprite bottle was bigger) I have seen so far cooled me down a bit. Atleast it was a Smirnoff :P

Thaai Mannae Vanakkam!!!

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Mismatch and Miss Match - Its all in the game!

Sometimes its hard to make the right decision..and even worse is communicating the decision. I have been flummoxed with hard times, stressing myself to my limits and beyond at times. In a way, the job I am in has let me know how much I can take it. In other ways, it has really made me lose everything else I had (aka time). I am not the freakout guy whoz missing the bar hops, but the normal guy who needs his quota of 4 hrs sleep. And when I look back, the number of days in the last 4 months when I have enjoyed this simple pleasure tends to zero.

Stress leads to friction, which converts into heat and burns a few people's hearts. The more the stress, the more the impact on people. A spark somewhere in the world creates a World War. Likewise, you know you dont belong when you get a letter from your director asking you to come to office on the day of your exam. The last 20 days was spent in working out a nice way out and today, I am relieved.

A lot of people always think I have lost out on better deals, but even in the above scenario, I have won. I made a smart move to coax the company to relieve me, instead of submitting my resignation letter, so that I can still get something. Oh btw, let me officially announce the biggest news :D:D:D

I AM FLYING TO INDIA FOR A VACATION !!!

Wow, looks so great to finally have that smile on my face! I havent had time to even think about it, nor cherish the last few days here. I have to pack and buy stuff as well. OK, the route seems to be a bit circuitous. Following a Malaysian trip (company work - yeah I know!), I will be landing in the "Silicon Valley" to a rousing welcome by Filter, followed by the endearment and home food cooked none other than J. Hopefully can also get to stroke my bat a bit (cricket bat for the uninitiated losers). Once I am done with the Valley, I am going to the River, aka Chennai. Brings a smile to my face just typing that word. Hope it still remains when I land there! A week long escapade will result in my 6 year wish. Getting my parents to Singapore for a visit. Only one thing is my mind now when I think of that. Culture Shock! With my grandmother planning to visit, it might just be a psyching out-of-the-world experience for her! But I cant decide if its her or her daughter whos going to be perplexed more :)

Anywayz, lotsa enjoyment followed my lotsa expenditure this month. So getting prepared for a really wild ride through time!

I would juz love to meet up with all u ppl when Im there. So, if u r in Chennai or Blore, do mail me ur contact no! Gonna miss a few dear friends out here who aint in those two cities, so a heartfelt sorry for u, but frankly, I am in the holiday mood now, so yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I will try to update once in a few days, so it wont be all high and dry in this blog! Will keep u updated with an NRI perspective of the resurgent India! (sounds more like a MBA talk huh?). To all the bloggers out there who drop in here, Adios!

Signing off to a Bon Voyage with a Bon Crete :P

Meanwhile, keep praying for this poor soul who is destined by fate to fly Indian Airlines.. *gulp*. You can refer to Dinx's blog for an obituary if you dont find any post here for a whole month :P

Wishing all u fellow bloggers whose birthday falls in December, a very Happy Birthday !!! (seems like self appraisal, but anywayz). Especially Visithra, who strenuously keeps track and wishes all her fellow bloggers!

Gonna miss u guys!

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Join me in Welcoming...

This is the most hilarious phrase that I have found in emails in my new company...(old company, but new company ma...) I love reading the emails which are ditto copy pasted and just altered. Heard the original was sent my the CEO 13 yrs back, and given the "respect" for "command" here, I am not surprised the format has hardly changed! More about my new adventure in the acquisition venture soon...

OK, Now for the new additions to my coveted (:P) right hand side...

Caught me unawares and instigated my lazy soul to write this post after considerable delay, introducing the bold and the beautiful Witchy Angel. Whether the above description is pun or not, it sure is fun to raft through her spicy adventures while tickling your heart with sentis now and then. Masala padam, but a lot more entertaining!

Next in line is Mr. I have been all over India but never abroad. Soon to hear the words "Welcome aboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ 409" and yell his heart out, his recollections of his voyages bears little semblence of his build. But as they say, if u have the stuff where it matters (in his case, on the cricket field), nothing else matters!

Lastly, Ms. Vernacular, travelling her own bit inside south india, fluent in all the languages (means no one can spur a slang onto her and get away without her returning the "greeting", so be careful). Soft and gentle, it requires great temperment to get along with so many diverse ppl like she does...

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Perception of Life

Mathematical view
If life is an ECG and time is its X axis, wont our happiness resemble the curve it plots?

If you are in love, and y axis denotes the amount of happiness AND pain in your life's timeline denoted by x axis, life will trace e power x,always asymptotic to the limit that is parallel to the y axis!

Scientific view
Life has a standard formula for everyone. Its either we accept it or we dont.

Physics analogy
If you increase the volume of a closed container, the pressure will increase and it will burst out. If you put a hole, it will ooze out and lessen the pressure. At what depth you put the hole depends on the depth of the relationship.

Philosophical view
Science is what you think you know. Philosophy is what you think you dont know. But its often the other way around!

Chemical view
There is only an ionic bonding or covalent bonding between people isnt it? Ionic bonding leads to high energy of interactions, but its easy to break. Covalent bonding leads to more stable structures and is much harder to break. We have been made up of innumerous covalent bonds. Nowadays ironically, people ignore it!

Political view
Very less people see life as the means of bringing happiness to others. The rest just curse it till they die.

Social view
Lives, like people, come in different forms. You have to accept the difference and provide for it. Some say they are satisfied with how things are, but no one is ever contented.

Poetic view
Some have huge content
Others have subtle intent
People try to view the sky from a small tent
Life is juz your understanding to whatever extent!

Cosmological view
You always strive to find whats out there and whats inside, and there is no end for both.

Biological View
There are so many things in this life that most people choose to conveniently ignore it and only see superfically. It will be really humoungous if your entire life is viewed under the microscope!

There is birth and there is death. Its all about whats inbetween!

Statistical view
You are a coin tossed around by life innumerable times having happy and sad faces, but at the end of it, when you look at it, its 50-50

Judicial view
Think a lot of times, get a lot of adjournments before you decide. The decisions you make shape or destroy your and others' lives!

Practical view
Live life as it comes till it goes!

My view
When you are sick, you get more philosophical than usual.

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The Death of a Blogger

I was wondering about the analogy of death, in cyberspace. Blogging allows common people to express much more of themselves to a much wider audience (talking generally, I know mine aint worth a count) than any other medium. This means that the blogger is connected to a lot more people virtually. Though some of them take blogging as the starting point of a new relationship and take it to other traditional media like chatting n calling, most of the blogs you visit are the relationship themselves. In this context, how will a real/virtual death of a blogger impact on fellow readers? Will it be devoid of the usual "opparis" and mournings? Will it be like the night sky, where we admire the beauty of countless stars, but couldnt care less when one disappears? Will a blogger's absence be termed temporary, and as time progresses conveniently forgotten? From what I have seen so far, even a 2 week absence from the blogging scene (without prior intimation) of even popular bloggers is critical when it comes to the "popularity" of their blog. The number of comments per post reduces from an average of more than 30 to less than 10. So, it is only logical to presume that any supernova blogger who hasnt been blogging is dying a death of a white dwarf, fading away into insignificance. But what about the readers who really care? The worst fear, they say, is the fear of the unknown. "What happened to those people out there who havent written a line to outline their presence?" is a question that haunts the mind like a black hole. Ofcourse, time erodes the emotions and even the ardent blog-roller will agree that they ignore such dormant blogs during their daily scan. Worse still, what about real death? Will the readers even get to know about it? Relationships are built and broken in the real world. In the blogging scene, it just appears and disappears! Thus, cyberspace is a matter of convenience, even in death!

So for those who havent put up anything of late (esp those in my Probational and Outdated lists), you better say "Present saar", atleast through a proxy :P

(Reminds me of a joke from some "Principal/PT Master": "Those who are absent, please stand up)

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Computers are Feminine...

This useless post triggered my usually useless mind to make use of my useless energy to generate even more useless facts...Trust me its useful to use this to bring a smile to someone's face :)

Computers are definitely feminine..

1. They get furiously hot when they are left unattended for a long time. Even a touch can burn you then.
2. Once u get to know them, all you do is repeat the same words (i love you/ ctrl alt del) and they misinterpret that you dont care for them anymore.
3. A simple trigger is enough to corrupt their memory (He: I juz got u 20GB of HDD space 2 months bak C: Where?/ He: I got you 2 new sarees only last month She: When?)
4. It is very difficult to end their malfunctioning processes. If want to end task their rubbish, they spawn sub threads to continue to the fight :P
5. They need lots of resources to work properly. If they get starved, they fight with u
6. Avathum computerale manushan azhivadhum computer aale ;)
7. Computer is my first love (and Im straight)
8. If its a fight between you and the computer, the computer always wins..ALWAYS
9. The only way to end the frustration is to shut down, but u juz cant be without the computer too, so u end up switching it on soon after, which invokes verbose profanities (windows was shut down unexpectedly, I know u did it, u r the culprit, accept it dammit!)
10. There can be unknown viruses that you arent aware of, which you beware, but never fully remove from the system (ex-bf, current gf, your ex-gf becoming a friend etc)
11. They are full of problems you dont want to get into, cos there is no end.
12. The outer appearance (desktop) of ur computer is always beautiful to you
13. It takes only 1 part in 1000 parts inside the computer for it to go completely haywire and it takes all of your weekend to try and resolve it. And mostly its a different problem to what you think (He: Why is she moody, I got her a present on her birthday today She: urrrr, he never got me anything for our wedding day this year)
14. When it shows you nothing, then you are in serious trouble. (He: Hey why are you sad - She: Nothing - He: Oh my god!)
15. At the end of a fight, the computer just hangs up on you and you are left to bang your heads
16. You know it doesnt serve any purpose but you end up pleading for the computer to do your work. (kadavule, pls work!)
17. When you want to rush for something is when it takes the longest to execute (Honey, hurry up its getting late for the party, pls dress faster)
18. We always joke with our friends and family that "you can have my computer if you want, its so painful", but inside, you dont feel like giving it up for anything in this world
19. When you buy, you always gape about the model and the make, just 2 yrs later, its just another computer.
20. You never know what their top floor contains (Does anyone know what F1-F12 stand for?)
21. You always think there is an easy way to escape (ESC) from any trouble but it hardly works!
22. Even your worst crap are kept safely in a thrashcan and can be revoked to your disadvantage at any time.
23. After all these trouble, still you pride that its your computer and its the best in the world.
24. Once you have had a taste of it, you never want to be away from it all your life.
25. You never really show that you care, but once you are away from it, you realise its true value.
26. The more you wait, the better you get, but you dont want to wait too long to get one.
27. If they are not "fixed", they are slim and sleek and trendy and are usually in your lap top, but if it has to stay at home, it becomes a desktop, a bit more bulky and usually has a lot more power.
28. You usually dont know where you have placed your things and your computer knows, but still if you want it to "search" for you, it will take ages!
29. A computer can multitask with ease (Hi, I am cooking, talking to u, watching sun tv and taking care of the baby)
30. Computers are really everything built into one. Enlightenment, Entertainment, Expressions all inside and still space for more.


Beat me!

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