AN INSIGHT INTO THE THINKING, OPNIONS, VIEWS OF A NORMAL GUY... ;). WELL WHERE DO YOU GET NORMAL STUFF THESE DAYS?
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Stanford teaches iPhone app development as a course http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/
I had asked Chirag to help me / share links on learning to develop applications on the iPhone.
He responded by saying that he learnt it from a Stanford course. Look at this http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/ Stanford is now teaching iPhone programming as a part of its CS curriculum. I guess Apple must have sponsored this course. :-D . Will Android for Google / Bada OS & apps for Samsung / Symbian for Nokia phones course come in next?
He responded by saying that he learnt it from a Stanford course. Look at this http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/ Stanford is now teaching iPhone programming as a part of its CS curriculum. I guess Apple must have sponsored this course. :-D . Will Android for Google / Bada OS & apps for Samsung / Symbian for Nokia phones course come in next?
Saturday, April 17, 2010
I am in the office on a Saturday!!! #FML plus H/w issues
Seems to me that there is a bug in the hardware. A pulse that should by default is not coming.
Hope this bug is caught and fixed asap. Btw due to lack of equipment (LA) I am unable to proceed further in my analysis.
It is terrible the amount of time it takes to get an LA down here.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Volcano beneath a Glacier
My mom in the office on the day she is supposed to be in Europe.
Stupid Stupid volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier!
Read this for more info..http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano
Stupid Stupid volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier!
Read this for more info..http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano
Eurotrip started but fly found in first sip!
My mom and dad were supposed to be in Doha at the time of writing
this. Instead they are at home. Their flight to london has been
cancelled in view of the ash spouting unpronouncable named volcano in
Iceland. Now Mother Nature joins politicians in effing up holiday
plans.
this. Instead they are at home. Their flight to london has been
cancelled in view of the ash spouting unpronouncable named volcano in
Iceland. Now Mother Nature joins politicians in effing up holiday
plans.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Avinash plays the guitar!!!
Today I was pleasantly surprised when Avinash pinged me on gtalk and asked me to see a video of him playing "Papa Kehte hain".
The boxer is strumming & whistling people!!!
The boxer is strumming & whistling people!!!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Jobs at STEricsson
Linux Developers are required at ST Ericsson.
Role:
Linux Developers (2 to 6yrs of experience): 6 positions Device driver & other low layer software development and unit test
Domain Experience required:
Real time, Multi-processor, Multi-threaded systems knowledge
ARM based platform work experience & good debug skills with Lauterbach
Emebdded Linux (and/or other OS like OSE) experience is required
Agile & multi-site development experience
Please forward this among your friends who are interested and ask them to email me at dexkid at gmail dot com
Role:
Linux Developers (2 to 6yrs of experience): 6 positions Device driver & other low layer software development and unit test
Domain Experience required:
Real time, Multi-processor, Multi-threaded systems knowledge
ARM based platform work experience & good debug skills with Lauterbach
Emebdded Linux (and/or other OS like OSE) experience is required
Agile & multi-site development experience
Please forward this among your friends who are interested and ask them to email me at dexkid at gmail dot com
Friday, September 04, 2009
Swine flu v/s YSR related deaths
This is interesting.
Swine flu till date has caused 111 deaths in India starting from Aug 4 i.e in 24 x 30 = 720 hours. (Source)
Rate of death = 111/720 = 0.154 deaths/hour
60 YSR fans have died out of shock / committed suicide just within 48 hours of his death.(Source)
Rate of death = 60/48 = 1.2 deaths/hour
No of people affected by swine flu = 4,364. (Source)
No of people affected by YSR's death should definitely be greater.
YSR's death is indeed a deadly calamity. Who is going to curb it?
Swine flu till date has caused 111 deaths in India starting from Aug 4 i.e in 24 x 30 = 720 hours. (Source)
Rate of death = 111/720 = 0.154 deaths/hour
60 YSR fans have died out of shock / committed suicide just within 48 hours of his death.(Source)
Rate of death = 60/48 = 1.2 deaths/hour
No of people affected by swine flu = 4,364. (Source)
No of people affected by YSR's death should definitely be greater.
YSR's death is indeed a deadly calamity. Who is going to curb it?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Jobs at STMicroelectronics
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Why oh Why!!!
I used to love this song before the video killed my enthusiasm of 4 years in under 2 mins. Teri Meri by Shonali Vajpayee feat Cheshire Cat. The Cheshire Cat looks so Riddikulus! :) Check it out here.
P.S. I always thought Shreya Ghoshal had sung this song! Shonali sounds so much like her in this one.
P.S. I always thought Shreya Ghoshal had sung this song! Shonali sounds so much like her in this one.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
100 yen = 54 INR
Well the week was going kinda good. My MSP was running good in loopback mode (although MSP1 has an issue), was enjoying the "baniya" jokes from the "brahmin" from HP, didn't have to use Palladium, etc.
To begin with, Natasha came back from Chandigarh this weekend. I had picked her up from the Delhi Station. For this I had woken up early after seeing Little Miss Sunshine late Friday night. On my way to the station, I decided to refuel and lo behold, I saw the price of petrol was around Rs 44. I was happy. So I just got Rs 500 worth petrol in the car from Greater Noida and filled up the rest on my way back from the railway station. Btw till date I have been receiving extra care and attention from my wife as I hadn't been to office on Saturday and Sunday. Plus I did some household chores and bought a nice Nilkamal plastic table for us. She is happy and I got to eat pav bhaji and bread pakodas. Yummmy!!!
On Monday morning, I had decided to test the MSP. So I was to use only the DE3 board. And what a relief that is. God Palladium is soooo slow!!! Dunno how does Cadence even make money out of such a product! It was announced in office that Carlo Bozotti, CEO ST, would be giving his annual speech on Wednesday via a satellite link. The "scientist" was excited looking at the freq and the satellite being used. It reminded him of his days at "Indian Space Research Organization, Ahemadabad".
For once I was excited that I would be hearing the CEO. I had expected him to be enthusiastic and full of energy like Jensen Huang (CEO, Nvidia) where I used to work earlier. Jensen used to walk around the stage, make a story and use funny phrases to inspire us to give more to the company. But here the story was different. All I got to see were 2 gentlemen seated and answering questions from a sheet of paper. It seemed Carlo's and Alan's answers were rehearsed. None of the answers talked specifically about something. It was so booring!!! All I could do was take a tiny nap. :)
I was hoping to take Natasha for a vacation in Japan. I fervently checked for the air fares. Thai Air was the cheapest on makemytrip.com for Rs 66000/- for both of us, RETURN. I was so excited. So I began to check for the currency exchange rate so that we could have some money to spend around in Japan. I saw this on xe.com. 100 JPY = 54 INR. I was shell shocked! God damn it. The rate is too high. I am cancelling the trip.
I am reserving the brahmin and baniya jokes for another post. Till then I astalavista and I hope tomorrow my MSP works well in external loopback mode too and the Palladium issue is resolved.
Dreaming to have a kid like Simba... Good night!
To begin with, Natasha came back from Chandigarh this weekend. I had picked her up from the Delhi Station. For this I had woken up early after seeing Little Miss Sunshine late Friday night. On my way to the station, I decided to refuel and lo behold, I saw the price of petrol was around Rs 44. I was happy. So I just got Rs 500 worth petrol in the car from Greater Noida and filled up the rest on my way back from the railway station. Btw till date I have been receiving extra care and attention from my wife as I hadn't been to office on Saturday and Sunday. Plus I did some household chores and bought a nice Nilkamal plastic table for us. She is happy and I got to eat pav bhaji and bread pakodas. Yummmy!!!
On Monday morning, I had decided to test the MSP. So I was to use only the DE3 board. And what a relief that is. God Palladium is soooo slow!!! Dunno how does Cadence even make money out of such a product! It was announced in office that Carlo Bozotti, CEO ST, would be giving his annual speech on Wednesday via a satellite link. The "scientist" was excited looking at the freq and the satellite being used. It reminded him of his days at "Indian Space Research Organization, Ahemadabad".
For once I was excited that I would be hearing the CEO. I had expected him to be enthusiastic and full of energy like Jensen Huang (CEO, Nvidia) where I used to work earlier. Jensen used to walk around the stage, make a story and use funny phrases to inspire us to give more to the company. But here the story was different. All I got to see were 2 gentlemen seated and answering questions from a sheet of paper. It seemed Carlo's and Alan's answers were rehearsed. None of the answers talked specifically about something. It was so booring!!! All I could do was take a tiny nap. :)
I was hoping to take Natasha for a vacation in Japan. I fervently checked for the air fares. Thai Air was the cheapest on makemytrip.com for Rs 66000/- for both of us, RETURN. I was so excited. So I began to check for the currency exchange rate so that we could have some money to spend around in Japan. I saw this on xe.com. 100 JPY = 54 INR. I was shell shocked! God damn it. The rate is too high. I am cancelling the trip.
I am reserving the brahmin and baniya jokes for another post. Till then I astalavista and I hope tomorrow my MSP works well in external loopback mode too and the Palladium issue is resolved.
Dreaming to have a kid like Simba... Good night!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Starting afresh...
Lot has changed since the last time I blogged. I have been married for an year, lost a job, lost money in the stock market (the losses are unaccounted), gave interviews like crazy, fell in love with baby Simba and Ruhi, have been to Hyderabad and moved from Pune to Greater Noida after joining STMicroelectronics.
Well 2008 has indeed been a rocking year and a year of self discovery to an extent. I have learnt to an extent what I my stable characteristics are. "Humans are the most fickle creations of God!" says Papa. I know that now. Well for starters I have decided on some things to be done with in my life.
Especially about my physique. Currently I weigh over 95 kgs and my waist measures 39 inches. I am able to run at full speed for less than 200 m at a stretch.
I have decided to change that. I will be blogging my changes every weekend. I intend to lose at least 10 kgs in the next 3 months and 2 inches from my waist.
Current plans are
1> Aerobics (30 minutes a day)
2> Usage of Isabgol
3> Lemon and honey in warm water everyday (even if it causes heat)
Secondly I intend to save money. Monthly target currently is Rs10,000 and reduction in eating out expenses. I will be regularly using Buxfer.
Thirdly stocks. I have decided to teach Natasha how to invest in stocks and keep a track of the portfolio every other week. My passive behavior towards the markets has led to my position being weakened.
Lastly I intend to work with Suman and keep in touch with all my friends for the same.
I will use tools like Buxfer, Remember the Milk, etc to do such things. Fridays will be days for movies and relaxation. Sunday 1 hour in the morning for car wash and house work.
Let me see how this works out!
Well 2008 has indeed been a rocking year and a year of self discovery to an extent. I have learnt to an extent what I my stable characteristics are. "Humans are the most fickle creations of God!" says Papa. I know that now. Well for starters I have decided on some things to be done with in my life.
Especially about my physique. Currently I weigh over 95 kgs and my waist measures 39 inches. I am able to run at full speed for less than 200 m at a stretch.
I have decided to change that. I will be blogging my changes every weekend. I intend to lose at least 10 kgs in the next 3 months and 2 inches from my waist.
Current plans are
1> Aerobics (30 minutes a day)
2> Usage of Isabgol
3> Lemon and honey in warm water everyday (even if it causes heat)
Secondly I intend to save money. Monthly target currently is Rs10,000 and reduction in eating out expenses. I will be regularly using Buxfer.
Thirdly stocks. I have decided to teach Natasha how to invest in stocks and keep a track of the portfolio every other week. My passive behavior towards the markets has led to my position being weakened.
Lastly I intend to work with Suman and keep in touch with all my friends for the same.
I will use tools like Buxfer, Remember the Milk, etc to do such things. Fridays will be days for movies and relaxation. Sunday 1 hour in the morning for car wash and house work.
Let me see how this works out!
Monday, December 03, 2007
One of the better and worse weekends of my life
This week I had to go to Bombay (I prefer Bombay to Mumbai) as I had a few unfinished businesses to complete. It was an eventful week with the SAM and watching Dwight swing to Indian tunes while I held my glass of "Teacher's". It was one of those good times. I wanted to attend Sripathy's farewell party and get sloshed out again. My wife likes me when I am drunk coz I am a bit sober and funnier then.
Anyways making the long story short, I took a Metrolink bus to Bombay at 7 am (with the Mrs). Having just cozied myself, I saw this huge blob infront of me. It was Srips and his two henchmen, Vasanth and Devesh, who were carrying Srips 4 bags. I thought of it as an Act of Faith by the Almighty and all of us traveled happily to Bombay. Srips promised to meet us for dinner at a place called Spice Tree in Bandra on Hill Road.
Natasha and I went to Chembur to finalise our wedding reception album and DVD. Natasha wanted to buy a pair of earrings for her friends in Japan. But because of some unfortunate talks we didn't buy those. Came back and slept like a log till 8:30 pm.
Srips called up asking when would we be meeting him. We decided to meet up at 10 pm at SpiceTree. But FATE had a different plan for us. By the time we reached Bandra Srips managed to reach Lucky's (another famous restaurant of Bandra). We went together to Spicetree.
Spice Tree is a wonderful restaurant. It looked very similar to Angelo Mio restaurant that I had been to at Santa Clara with Dilnaz and Joe albeit the expensive chandelier and glass cutlery. There were a mix of hip youngsters and goras. We settled into a table at a corner of the restaurant. Srips, me and Natasha had a wonderful time over there. Me and Sripathy had 3 Cobras each and Natasha had her first taste of a Screwdriver. This was accompanied by different starters.

I was drunk that day and did some crazy things. I asked Sripathy to take a snap of us while I hugged Natasha tight.

After that we headed to Naturals across the street but Srips pushed off to do some more "important" work. We had strawberry ice cream and coffee walnut ice cream. I had to take a leak and went to Cafe Mocha. I saw this guy there.
Razak Khan
After this we took a rick, picked up Srips from his friend Abhijeet's house and headed to Bandstand where we had a nice long walk and discussed about Jeevesh Terrace and other important things in life.
Later we headed to Cafe Coffee Day and had cold coffee. This was the parting pic of the night.

On Sunday we were invited to ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton by Natasha's cousin Charul who works there. We reached the grand hotel at around quarter past 2. We were damn hungry and this place turned out to be one of the most poshest places I have ever been to. We were invited for lunch at the Pan Asian restaurant. For starters we had Tom Tom and sweet corn soup with some momos. This was accompanied with white sparkling wine for me and orange juice for the lady. Later we had some of the best Chinese food we ever have had in our lives. There was some Tofu preparation which was simply great. In between we were served a shot of Screwdriver. Natasha had it and was "jhooming" for some time. LOL. Later we had excellent desserts.
Charul played the perfect host and turned this to a perfect afternoon.

As a souvenir of this day I kept a pair of chopsticks.
Later in the night we returned to Pune not before arguing on somethings which makes me realise my current situation and the responsibilities associated with it. Well I have decided to do something and take charge of my life from now on. If everything goes well with the blessings of the Almighty, I would turn into a very learned person. I just to plan well and execute it.
Anyways making the long story short, I took a Metrolink bus to Bombay at 7 am (with the Mrs). Having just cozied myself, I saw this huge blob infront of me. It was Srips and his two henchmen, Vasanth and Devesh, who were carrying Srips 4 bags. I thought of it as an Act of Faith by the Almighty and all of us traveled happily to Bombay. Srips promised to meet us for dinner at a place called Spice Tree in Bandra on Hill Road.
Natasha and I went to Chembur to finalise our wedding reception album and DVD. Natasha wanted to buy a pair of earrings for her friends in Japan. But because of some unfortunate talks we didn't buy those. Came back and slept like a log till 8:30 pm.
Srips called up asking when would we be meeting him. We decided to meet up at 10 pm at SpiceTree. But FATE had a different plan for us. By the time we reached Bandra Srips managed to reach Lucky's (another famous restaurant of Bandra). We went together to Spicetree.
Spice Tree is a wonderful restaurant. It looked very similar to Angelo Mio restaurant that I had been to at Santa Clara with Dilnaz and Joe albeit the expensive chandelier and glass cutlery. There were a mix of hip youngsters and goras. We settled into a table at a corner of the restaurant. Srips, me and Natasha had a wonderful time over there. Me and Sripathy had 3 Cobras each and Natasha had her first taste of a Screwdriver. This was accompanied by different starters.

I was drunk that day and did some crazy things. I asked Sripathy to take a snap of us while I hugged Natasha tight.

After that we headed to Naturals across the street but Srips pushed off to do some more "important" work. We had strawberry ice cream and coffee walnut ice cream. I had to take a leak and went to Cafe Mocha. I saw this guy there.
Razak Khan
After this we took a rick, picked up Srips from his friend Abhijeet's house and headed to Bandstand where we had a nice long walk and discussed about Jeevesh Terrace and other important things in life.
Later we headed to Cafe Coffee Day and had cold coffee. This was the parting pic of the night.

On Sunday we were invited to ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton by Natasha's cousin Charul who works there. We reached the grand hotel at around quarter past 2. We were damn hungry and this place turned out to be one of the most poshest places I have ever been to. We were invited for lunch at the Pan Asian restaurant. For starters we had Tom Tom and sweet corn soup with some momos. This was accompanied with white sparkling wine for me and orange juice for the lady. Later we had some of the best Chinese food we ever have had in our lives. There was some Tofu preparation which was simply great. In between we were served a shot of Screwdriver. Natasha had it and was "jhooming" for some time. LOL. Later we had excellent desserts.
Charul played the perfect host and turned this to a perfect afternoon.

As a souvenir of this day I kept a pair of chopsticks.
Later in the night we returned to Pune not before arguing on somethings which makes me realise my current situation and the responsibilities associated with it. Well I have decided to do something and take charge of my life from now on. If everything goes well with the blessings of the Almighty, I would turn into a very learned person. I just to plan well and execute it.
Monday, November 26, 2007
30 and counting ..
0.083 year... 30 days ..720 hours ... 43200 minutes..
This is the amount of time I have been married.. And I can't believe the luxuries that I am enjoying. Someone once said "The grass is always greener on the other side...". I agree. The grass on this side islot greener than what I was having earlier. :D
Have a look at some pics from Leela Kovalam.
Having your best friend as yor wife gives you some of the most pleasurable moments of life. I am lucky to be one of those. I get good food everyday, my clothes are washed and hung for drying and nicely folded and kept into the cupboard.
Life was never so easy.
I feel like a king. But these 30 days have made aslob . Yes a slob.
Slob of the third order for those of you who are more mathematically inclined.
My attitude towards work has been something of this sort.

This graph shows my slobbiness level.

I realise that this one month I have lazed around more than I can remember. The last time I had lazed around like this was when I was less than 12 months old when there were only 3 states in my life eat/drink, sleep and poop in different permutation and combinations. Sometimes these states occured simultaneously too. Now at least they were different. But the fundamentals remain the same.
Life has come a full circle.
I get all I want. Literally :D. And I am happy. Truly happy.
Anyways I just wanted to record that the past month had been eventful.
I hope I can get my life on track again. The next two months are going to be crucial
professionally. My life will soon be at a Y junction where I have to decide whether I should take the blue pill or the red pill..
Hope I take the blue pill and discover myself and the real truth!
This is the amount of time I have been married.. And I can't believe the luxuries that I am enjoying. Someone once said "The grass is always greener on the other side...". I agree. The grass on this side is
Have a look at some pics from Leela Kovalam.
Having your best friend as yor wife gives you some of the most pleasurable moments of life. I am lucky to be one of those. I get good food everyday, my clothes are washed and hung for drying and nicely folded and kept into the cupboard.
Life was never so easy.
I feel like a king. But these 30 days have made a
Slob of the third order for those of you who are more mathematically inclined.
My attitude towards work has been something of this sort.
This graph shows my slobbiness level.
I realise that this one month I have lazed around more than I can remember. The last time I had lazed around like this was when I was less than 12 months old when there were only 3 states in my life eat/drink, sleep and poop in different permutation and combinations. Sometimes these states occured simultaneously too. Now at least they were different. But the fundamentals remain the same.
Life has come a full circle.
I get all I want. Literally :D. And I am happy. Truly happy.
Anyways I just wanted to record that the past month had been eventful.
- Got married.
- Pulled off the wedding reception successfully.
- Made my near and dear ones feel happy once again.
- Found great friends in Joe and Dilnaz (me and Natasha got to take them out to Vie Lounge).
- Got to meet Ruhi, the cutest baby till date.
- Had a great honeymoon (wink wink)
- Having a good time setting up our home. (I decided against calling our place a love nest and a house, the former having a touch of lust and sensuality, and the latter being too impersonal)
- Had some good conversations with Hemant, my future PWM (Personal Wealth Manager)
- Got a shit load of credit to take care now.
I hope I can get my life on track again. The next two months are going to be crucial
professionally. My life will soon be at a Y junction where I have to decide whether I should take the blue pill or the red pill..
Hope I take the blue pill and discover myself and the real truth!
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Rendzenvous with Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

Today was a real great day. I got to meet the great man himself, Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, in flesh and blood. This is the man who revolutionized the Graphics industry with his company NVIDIA for which I work proudly. My association with Nvidia products goes back to 2000 when I had persuaded my parents to buy a Rs 4000/- NVIDIA Riva Tnt 128 Mb card. I still remember what all I had to listen.
It was kind of completing the circle when I met Jen-Hsun Huang today.

To begin with he has a lot of energy and infectious enthusiasm. He single handedly gave his presentation and answered lot many questions. I found him very approachable and enthusiastically mixing around with the people. I had a fun chat with him while we were having a round of drinks.
Front to Back, Left to Right :- Rajib, Jaya, Parag, Jen-Hsun, me. Shazia, Surath, Bibhuti, Kali, Karthik, Sachin. (Missing - Bhaskar and Meduri) Here are some of the points that I noted while I was attending his presentation.
- Be in a "sustainable" industry some place where there is potential for growth.
- The field should have very few competitors.
- The solution provided by you should help a lot of people.
- Always do something that is worthy to do.
- Create a brand name minus the hoopla of advertisement. Nvidia hasn't spent a lot on money on advertising. It is only by word of mouth that the brand has been built.
- Create an ecosystem around the product to advance in the future. Create something that initiates something more. In Nvidia's case it is the CUDA technology that is doing that.
- Create demos to shock /awe / inspire people.
- Focus on the needs of the next generation.No one in the 90's ever thought that their cell phones would have music on them, could capture videos,etc.The next generation can't live without these on their cell phones.
- The leader has a self deprecating sense of humor. Jen Hsun has a great sense of humor. He laughs at himself and makes us laugh too. There was this instance where he answered a question with something that was totally not what was asked. Dwight had to correct him. So Jen Hsun said that he was afraid he was turning into an old senile man. :D
- Focusing on your competitor is not a good strategy. People always kept on asking him " Why don't you compete with Intel / ATI ? ". He says that you need to focus on your strengths and keep creating innovative stuff so that your competition has to catch up with you all the time. Don't spend time in thinking how can I dodge / attack my competitor.
- Put in funny incidents in your speech. While speaking to us, I observed that he used to put in stories and make them interesting. This story telling ability with a sense of humor is a potent combination.
- Build on your competencies by age 30. This is something that I concluded from the talks that I had with him. Develop your armoury, your skills by the age of 30 to see that you can develop something really fruitful in your life.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
The Homosapien thought..
Today I was having this weird thought.
Why are we humans named as "homosapiens"? Didn't the nomenclaturist / the person, who is supposed to give names to the human species, think of something before naming our spieces ? From homo habilus to homo erectus, all the known evolutionary species associated with humans starts with a "homo". Dont take me to homo erectus. Will write about that some other time.
This raises a huge question in my find. Are we all born "homos" and we get conditioned to become "hetero" so that there might be that one lucky couple which gives rise to the "heterosapiens"? So in the future we may have a movie aptly titled "Planet of the Homos".
I seriously wonder what happens when we meet aliens. When they ask us "What is the name of your species?", are we going to reply back to them saying we are HOMO sapiens.
Or have we already been visited by aliens ?
I guess we have already been visited by aliens. No, I am not supporting the Seed of Life on Earth theory but just randomly guessing that this naming issue is the work of those bast#$d aliens. They might have camoflouged themselves as the group of people working on choosing a name for the human species. And they have chosen it as homosapiens.
At the end of it I don't know why the martians or the dumbass scientist named us homos. But I do know for sure I am straight as a "ganna" (sugarcane for those who can't ...).
Why are we humans named as "homosapiens"? Didn't the nomenclaturist / the person, who is supposed to give names to the human species, think of something before naming our spieces ? From homo habilus to homo erectus, all the known evolutionary species associated with humans starts with a "homo". Dont take me to homo erectus. Will write about that some other time.
This raises a huge question in my find. Are we all born "homos" and we get conditioned to become "hetero" so that there might be that one lucky couple which gives rise to the "heterosapiens"? So in the future we may have a movie aptly titled "Planet of the Homos".
I seriously wonder what happens when we meet aliens. When they ask us "What is the name of your species?", are we going to reply back to them saying we are HOMO sapiens.
Or have we already been visited by aliens ?
I guess we have already been visited by aliens. No, I am not supporting the Seed of Life on Earth theory but just randomly guessing that this naming issue is the work of those bast#$d aliens. They might have camoflouged themselves as the group of people working on choosing a name for the human species. And they have chosen it as homosapiens.
At the end of it I don't know why the martians or the dumbass scientist named us homos. But I do know for sure I am straight as a "ganna" (sugarcane for those who can't ...).
Thursday, May 17, 2007
10 years down the line ....
I was having a discussion with Suman (my partner in crime and business) as to what will be the scenario of companies like TCS, Infosys and Wipro. The rate at which these companies are recruiting people and training them in "IT", I guess we will be able to match the strength of Indian Army. From what I observe, year after year, WITS (Wipro Infosys, TCS and Satyam) has been recruiting a record number of graduates. Wipro kicked off with its campus initiative called WASE. Infosys is tying up engineering colleges. This has become a boom for the engineering colleges as the tie up will ensure that the engineers are "employable" when they graduate. But what I see is the loss of quality. I believe that in quality and timeliness of work lies customer satisfaction. A streak of innovativeness goes a long way in building a good relationship with the client. But with the kind of work these companies are taking onto themselves, I sometimes pity the engineer who is supposed to work on them. From what I see, standard maintenance projects for banks and billing and network maintenance projects from telecom companies is the main source of revenue for the IT companies.
WITS is now claiming to provide end to end solutions. They say that they are a partner in business of the client and understand what the client needs exactly. I agree to a certain extent with this view but these companies have no clue at large. There are managers in the system who take a project and execute a project in any manner. These companies claim to be SEI CMM - 5 and a 6 sigma certification. But from what we have seen from the inside, its all a hogwash. There are too many processess and very less of actual engineering. Engineers are meant to solve engineering problems and provide better solutions each time for the same problem. Here I see there are very few real engineers at work in these companies. Freshers who get recruited from engineering colleges are promised some work and are put in something else. I cannot understand how can a person from electrical department of a REC get into embedded software system group and how does a person interested in Operating systems end up doing SAP. But some how the managers are able to execute a project and deliver "production quality code" to a client. I pity the client too.
I have seen many people on the bench, wasting away like vegetables. Instead of that, if these guys are allowed to work on some projects of their own choice and are allowed to interact with professors from IITs and IISc, they can develop something new. Who knows the next Google can come from Infy bench.
Looking 10 years down the line, I see a lot of people having the same exact skillset and balance of power tilting to organizations in the demand and supply game. I believe that every engineer has to read up and get to know about the latest developments in his / her field of interest. 10 years down the line, if you are not distinguishable then you will be a nobody. This article I guess will help you more to understand about the importance of stuff 10 years down the line ..
--Vishal
WITS is now claiming to provide end to end solutions. They say that they are a partner in business of the client and understand what the client needs exactly. I agree to a certain extent with this view but these companies have no clue at large. There are managers in the system who take a project and execute a project in any manner. These companies claim to be SEI CMM - 5 and a 6 sigma certification. But from what we have seen from the inside, its all a hogwash. There are too many processess and very less of actual engineering. Engineers are meant to solve engineering problems and provide better solutions each time for the same problem. Here I see there are very few real engineers at work in these companies. Freshers who get recruited from engineering colleges are promised some work and are put in something else. I cannot understand how can a person from electrical department of a REC get into embedded software system group and how does a person interested in Operating systems end up doing SAP. But some how the managers are able to execute a project and deliver "production quality code" to a client. I pity the client too.
I have seen many people on the bench, wasting away like vegetables. Instead of that, if these guys are allowed to work on some projects of their own choice and are allowed to interact with professors from IITs and IISc, they can develop something new. Who knows the next Google can come from Infy bench.
Looking 10 years down the line, I see a lot of people having the same exact skillset and balance of power tilting to organizations in the demand and supply game. I believe that every engineer has to read up and get to know about the latest developments in his / her field of interest. 10 years down the line, if you are not distinguishable then you will be a nobody. This article I guess will help you more to understand about the importance of stuff 10 years down the line ..
--Vishal
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Restart Blogging
After a long time, I have finally decided to start writing my blog. I have been reading up blogs by Himanshu Bhat Sheth, Guy kawasaki, Scott Adams and Rashmi Bansal. It seems to be interesting. So let me see as to what all can I think and blog about from now on.
Currently I have diverse topics to write on that vary from my personal life, tesch stuff, my readings on the net and about my work life.
I am not able to decide as to what should be the first topic on which I should be writing.
Hey I can write a film review. It shouldn't be that tough. So let me see.. umm...I saw Tararumpum and Namastey London last week with my girl at E-square.
So here it goes.
1> Namastey London : Unforgettable movie (Big pun intended). Plot revolves around discipling a young girl whose thinks she is British by nature. She hates everything that is Indian. Her dad tricks her to India where he gets her married to a Punjabi guy. The girl is unhappy and goes back to UK with her parents and her husband the night of the marriage. The girls parents are happily deciding to hold a grand reception for the newly weds when the girl throws the bomb.
She declares her marriage to be null as there are no legal documents to support it. The guy is devasted. The girl feels sorry for the guy and tells him that she is love with a British guy. And the guy tells her that he will wait till she gets married to this guy. Many incidents happen, the girl and the guy get close to each other. And finally when the girl is at the altar to get married to her prince charming, she realises that her true love is in fact the Indian guy.
Apart from the song "Ye veeraniyan" there was nothing good about the movie. Although the movie experience was great (My girl was sitting close to me arm-in-arm and smiling all the time :) ). Although the movie had some funny scenes like
i> A prospective groom is extremely influenced by "saas bahu" serials and repeats major pharases thrice and turns his head each time he says it.
ii> Vir Das, a standup comedian, (also a prospective groom) tries to make use of statistics to find compatibility between him and the girl.
iii> Rest were not that great but good for one time laugh.
So finally I can say that this was a passable movie. So if you haven't seen this flick, don't worry.
2> Tararumpum : My girl is a Saif and Rani freak. And if the two are there in the same movie, I have to watch it no matter if I was having a heart attack. The movie tickets were booked for the 1215 hrs show. So I woke up at 11 pm (Actually she came and whipped my ass and asked me to get my lazy bum into the bathroom). We reached the theatre at 1205 hrs. Lo behold. The parking was full at the theatre. I managed to find a small parking lot nearby, parked my vehicle and rushed back before her temper got better of me.
We managed to enter the theater in the nick of time. It was the silhoutte of Saif on the screen. The sound was loud. And all the girls were going "OOOOOohh ..Saiff". Even my girl goes weak in the knees for Saif. I wonder if he is actually that good. And so began an ordeal that lasted for 3 hours. Its funny feeling. I usually see Hollywood flicks which don't usually cross the 130 min barrier. But Bollywood!!! They need 180 mins to tell us that one should plan for the future but enjoy the present too. Are we fools or what ? By the time it was intermission, I had the feeling one has when he is drowning and can't swim back. His only hope is that someone pulls him out to safety or the water level recedes before he dies. The movie ended with fianlly and I was happy.
There is nothing more... Oh yes I lost 240 bucks watching this movie।
Useless I say !
Currently I have diverse topics to write on that vary from my personal life, tesch stuff, my readings on the net and about my work life.
I am not able to decide as to what should be the first topic on which I should be writing.
Hey I can write a film review. It shouldn't be that tough. So let me see.. umm...I saw Tararumpum and Namastey London last week with my girl at E-square.
So here it goes.
1> Namastey London : Unforgettable movie (Big pun intended). Plot revolves around discipling a young girl whose thinks she is British by nature. She hates everything that is Indian. Her dad tricks her to India where he gets her married to a Punjabi guy. The girl is unhappy and goes back to UK with her parents and her husband the night of the marriage. The girls parents are happily deciding to hold a grand reception for the newly weds when the girl throws the bomb.
She declares her marriage to be null as there are no legal documents to support it. The guy is devasted. The girl feels sorry for the guy and tells him that she is love with a British guy. And the guy tells her that he will wait till she gets married to this guy. Many incidents happen, the girl and the guy get close to each other. And finally when the girl is at the altar to get married to her prince charming, she realises that her true love is in fact the Indian guy.
Apart from the song "Ye veeraniyan" there was nothing good about the movie. Although the movie experience was great (My girl was sitting close to me arm-in-arm and smiling all the time :) ). Although the movie had some funny scenes like
i> A prospective groom is extremely influenced by "saas bahu" serials and repeats major pharases thrice and turns his head each time he says it.
ii> Vir Das, a standup comedian, (also a prospective groom) tries to make use of statistics to find compatibility between him and the girl.
iii> Rest were not that great but good for one time laugh.
So finally I can say that this was a passable movie. So if you haven't seen this flick, don't worry.
2> Tararumpum : My girl is a Saif and Rani freak. And if the two are there in the same movie, I have to watch it no matter if I was having a heart attack. The movie tickets were booked for the 1215 hrs show. So I woke up at 11 pm (Actually she came and whipped my ass and asked me to get my lazy bum into the bathroom). We reached the theatre at 1205 hrs. Lo behold. The parking was full at the theatre. I managed to find a small parking lot nearby, parked my vehicle and rushed back before her temper got better of me.
We managed to enter the theater in the nick of time. It was the silhoutte of Saif on the screen. The sound was loud. And all the girls were going "OOOOOohh ..Saiff". Even my girl goes weak in the knees for Saif. I wonder if he is actually that good. And so began an ordeal that lasted for 3 hours. Its funny feeling. I usually see Hollywood flicks which don't usually cross the 130 min barrier. But Bollywood!!! They need 180 mins to tell us that one should plan for the future but enjoy the present too. Are we fools or what ? By the time it was intermission, I had the feeling one has when he is drowning and can't swim back. His only hope is that someone pulls him out to safety or the water level recedes before he dies. The movie ended with fianlly and I was happy.
There is nothing more... Oh yes I lost 240 bucks watching this movie।
Useless I say !
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Gym at Office
Yesterday I was pondering over how I utilise / waste my 86400 seconds everyday. After an analysis of the same, I found out that I was not able to do any fruitful activity after I went to the office Gym. So I decided to move its time slot in the morning. I told my girl that I will come and pick her up in the morning sharp at 7:15 am and then we shall both start gymming at 7:30 am.
Cock a doodle doo...Waaah waaaah...Cock a doodle doo... Cock a doodle doo...Cock a doodle doooooooooooooooooooooooo....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh..
The alternating crescendos between a hen/cock and the wails of a child in the hutments below woke me up. My Tommy watch told me its already 7:30. (I sometimes wear my watch while I sleep... no need to open my eyes very wide to check on time .. anyways who cares.. its my way of sleeping .with a wrist watch).
I got up and immediately my stomach started the Royal Rumble. Knew it was time to make the 10 m dash to the main door, pick up the newspaper (if present) and dash dash back to the Throne! I picked up my copy and settled myself well on the throne. Read the main page to learn that Bush and Blair's conversation had been picked up by a very powerful microphone. Bush was giving his highly intellectual opnions about the Hezbollahs to Mr. Blair, who as always the British have done for the past 55 years, was licking the arse of him master. Anyways after throne time, it was the time to take a bath. Had a nice hot water bath while I was singing "Burn it up". Man was that heavenly.
Suddenly I realised the time was 7:45 am and I called up my gal who told that she wouldnt be joining me to the Gym but I can come and pick her up. So I took off on my noble Japanese steed (A honda 150 Cc) and raced to pick up my gal and headed straight for office. The early morning breeze was great but I could the grey skies looming ahead. I was just about 4 mins away from my destination when it started to drizzle...30 secs later it poured and another 10 secs later I was wet..as wet as a fish in a pond.
Anyways I reached the Gym. saw my other two buddies "Batboy" and "Rajiv Sharma 1" jogging and cycling away to glory. I changed my clothes and got ready to "Burn it up". Early morning the gym had a enthu crowd and the guy to gal ratio was nearly 1 which is good. I looked around ...No one to inspire me..no one to see my muscles (actually my fat) flexed and all .... I said to myself "In times of depression only is your character tested". So after rotating my neck as if there was no spine and a small warm up routine i had lernt dfuring my school days while i played football, i started off with the Jogger machine. To my immediate left was Batboy, jogging and running as if he had screwed something up and Batman was catching him up to kick ass.
I looked over to his calorie meter. It read 250 cals. Thoguht to myself "Come dickhead, u can do better than that" And so started another gruelling test of my mind v/s my body. In my mind I was running like Mr Powell or Mr Lewis.. but when I kept seeing myself in the mirror, it just a blob going up and down and up and down. After 5 mins I started to make it tougher for myself. Increased the incline. Had a look at Batboy's calorie meter again showed 300 calories burnt. "What the fcuk!!!!" was being repeated in my mind for the next 60 odd secs. Then I started to jog really hard. I tried to motivate my self by thinking about the following things
1> Imagine there is J Lo or Angelina Jo jsut ahead and she is calling you to come near her..
2> I am a wild alsation dog in the wild.
3> The police is on my back after I along with my friends have stolen a crate of Pepsi from a pepsi truck.
4> Thinking about my life in Japan and how slim i had become.
"Hufff ... Huff " ...My breaths were short and the first drop of sweat trickeld down my forehead. Suddenly there was surge in my adrenaline and I started to jog harder. "Butter chicken Butter chicken..paneer tikka paneer tikka.." that ad was being played in my head suddenly. I found a new surge of energy through my body.....nahhh just kidding.. I was huffing and puffing like the wolf who tried to huff and puff and blow his way into the 3 piggies house..
After this I started to row... man rowing is difficult. To my right i had some really pretty females...They were ski jogging...or watever that machine makes u do. Well After rowing for around 1000 virtual meters, my shoulder muscles gave in and dropped out of the machine. Still there were 15 mins more. so I thought of pulling down some weights to give shape to my upper body. I did all tht and left for the shower room. On the way I saw "Iqbal" doing yoga. The pose that he into made me think as if he was having fits. Hahahah.. had a nice laugh looking at his discomfiture. Sorry "Iqbal"..... ;)
Anyways on my way out .. I saw some really PYTs doing yoga...
Tomm I will do YOGA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Cock a doodle doo...Waaah waaaah...Cock a doodle doo... Cock a doodle doo...Cock a doodle doooooooooooooooooooooooo....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh..
The alternating crescendos between a hen/cock and the wails of a child in the hutments below woke me up. My Tommy watch told me its already 7:30. (I sometimes wear my watch while I sleep... no need to open my eyes very wide to check on time .. anyways who cares.. its my way of sleeping .with a wrist watch).
I got up and immediately my stomach started the Royal Rumble. Knew it was time to make the 10 m dash to the main door, pick up the newspaper (if present) and dash dash back to the Throne! I picked up my copy and settled myself well on the throne. Read the main page to learn that Bush and Blair's conversation had been picked up by a very powerful microphone. Bush was giving his highly intellectual opnions about the Hezbollahs to Mr. Blair, who as always the British have done for the past 55 years, was licking the arse of him master. Anyways after throne time, it was the time to take a bath. Had a nice hot water bath while I was singing "Burn it up". Man was that heavenly.
Suddenly I realised the time was 7:45 am and I called up my gal who told that she wouldnt be joining me to the Gym but I can come and pick her up. So I took off on my noble Japanese steed (A honda 150 Cc) and raced to pick up my gal and headed straight for office. The early morning breeze was great but I could the grey skies looming ahead. I was just about 4 mins away from my destination when it started to drizzle...30 secs later it poured and another 10 secs later I was wet..as wet as a fish in a pond.
Anyways I reached the Gym. saw my other two buddies "Batboy" and "Rajiv Sharma 1" jogging and cycling away to glory. I changed my clothes and got ready to "Burn it up". Early morning the gym had a enthu crowd and the guy to gal ratio was nearly 1 which is good. I looked around ...No one to inspire me..no one to see my muscles (actually my fat) flexed and all .... I said to myself "In times of depression only is your character tested". So after rotating my neck as if there was no spine and a small warm up routine i had lernt dfuring my school days while i played football, i started off with the Jogger machine. To my immediate left was Batboy, jogging and running as if he had screwed something up and Batman was catching him up to kick ass.
I looked over to his calorie meter. It read 250 cals. Thoguht to myself "Come dickhead, u can do better than that" And so started another gruelling test of my mind v/s my body. In my mind I was running like Mr Powell or Mr Lewis.. but when I kept seeing myself in the mirror, it just a blob going up and down and up and down. After 5 mins I started to make it tougher for myself. Increased the incline. Had a look at Batboy's calorie meter again showed 300 calories burnt. "What the fcuk!!!!" was being repeated in my mind for the next 60 odd secs. Then I started to jog really hard. I tried to motivate my self by thinking about the following things
1> Imagine there is J Lo or Angelina Jo jsut ahead and she is calling you to come near her..
2> I am a wild alsation dog in the wild.
3> The police is on my back after I along with my friends have stolen a crate of Pepsi from a pepsi truck.
4> Thinking about my life in Japan and how slim i had become.
"Hufff ... Huff " ...My breaths were short and the first drop of sweat trickeld down my forehead. Suddenly there was surge in my adrenaline and I started to jog harder. "Butter chicken Butter chicken..paneer tikka paneer tikka.." that ad was being played in my head suddenly. I found a new surge of energy through my body.....nahhh just kidding.. I was huffing and puffing like the wolf who tried to huff and puff and blow his way into the 3 piggies house..
After this I started to row... man rowing is difficult. To my right i had some really pretty females...They were ski jogging...or watever that machine makes u do. Well After rowing for around 1000 virtual meters, my shoulder muscles gave in and dropped out of the machine. Still there were 15 mins more. so I thought of pulling down some weights to give shape to my upper body. I did all tht and left for the shower room. On the way I saw "Iqbal" doing yoga. The pose that he into made me think as if he was having fits. Hahahah.. had a nice laugh looking at his discomfiture. Sorry "Iqbal"..... ;)
Anyways on my way out .. I saw some really PYTs doing yoga...
Tomm I will do YOGA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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