tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61837752011-12-22T21:31:49.129+05:30My journal of diary entries, personal experiences and hobbies, till I turned 27.Aslanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049266073181850129noreply@blogger.comBlogger5921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183775.post-64751841824805978442008-08-15T23:59:00.002+05:302008-08-15T23:59:00.915+05:30

Celebrated a nice birthday, begun and ended with wishes from the wife. Got my gluteal region attacked by scores of feet (some in football boots fresh from the inter-hostel tournament in progress) and a certain cricket bat wielded in turn by Sravan and Laxman (who will rue the night when they are assaulted with a vengeance, the next opportunity I get to kick their asses). The effect was somewhat

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Communication objective: Sometimes, this boils down to merely keeping the audience awake, as Prof. Neelam Kinra often finds out. If the prospect of watching ads sounds interesting, come count the lolling heads in the Promotional Strategy class at IIML.A friend's ad project talks of twins separated after birth, finding each other after decades. A minor glitch: one is twice the size of the other.

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Today's F1 GP was the first race I'm watching completely this season. I'm glad too. Chechi observed that the last seven races here have featured seven different champions. If I'd put my money on a race ticket, I'd buy it for Hungaroring to be guaranteed its worth. It was a very interesting race indeed. Massa raced into the lead at the first corner, overtaking both the McLarens. Even with a light

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Arena (known to self and others) adaptable, happy, reflective, spontaneous Blind Spot (known only to others) bold, caring, cheerful, clever, complex, confident, dependable, energetic, extroverted, friendly, helpful, independent, intelligent, introverted, knowledgeable, logical, powerful, self-assertive, self-conscious, sentimental, silly, sympathetic, witty Façade (known only to self) brave,

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Was in Cochin for a week, to attend my engagement, Sami's wedding and his reception. I had a great time. Even Federer's loss at Wimbledon did nothing to dampen my spirits. I missed the F1 race completely. Priorities change.. and this blog will not survive either.

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India's top 10 B-Schools: 5. IIM LThat's me sitting next to Benjamin, in my now- famous 'diet pepsi' t-shirt which Neerada gave me :) Ha, my first photo in print, and I didn't expect BT to be it.

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My warped sense of humor kicked in bigtime today, when I thought of how these punny headlines are better. F1 needs to hit F1, I say!1. Kovalainen cleared to race in Turkey : Heikki to turn key at Turkey2. Massa chasing Turkish hat-trick : Felipe wants a fillip3. Smaller teams used like servants : Aguri augurs bad4. Incorrect paint job to blame for Heikki's crash : Matte finish next time for

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I'm at the Jet terminal in Bombay again. This time, the flight is delayed by an hour and a half, so I have all the time to use the Free Internet from Airtel, which my manager told me about last time. However, as luck would have it, it is not loading the default page from which I am to login. I tried everything with the network settings and so did my manager, but no go.So I shall just blog as

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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le CarreEver since fall 2003, Bangalore has been home away from home. It's the only city other than Cochin where I've spent years. Trichy doesn't count. Even if it does, I've spent more time in

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..is a poor excuse for not having the good sense to be lazyI've really had it with all the travelling. Yesterday, I had a terrible time finding my way to the Head Office thanks to the ignorant cabbie. What's worse, folks on the road need to be told "Akashvani" instead of "All India Radio", and "Amdab Nivas" (or some such thing) instead of MLA Hostel, to understand where one wants to go. To make

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Arriving an hour early for the flight, I had a lot of time to kill at the airport, so I took videos with the intent to moblog. Hearing the words “Kripya kursi ki pethi ko baandh rakhiye” along with preceding and following instructions is fast becoming my most loathed experience. I’m in Bombay again for two days and today was a real bad hair day. Maybe it had to do with my hair cut yesterday, but

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Contrary to my earlier claim, I do NOT have more time to blog. In fact, I am even busier. On Wednesday, I caught the 0650 KF flight and visited the branch, which is in Navi Mumbai, after which I met Shaavi over dinner at Tea Center. He put me on a train back to the guest house, which is at Santacruz. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, even though it wasn’t crowded. Yesterday, I went to the

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Did all above-mentioned activities and now am focussed on tasks, corporate-ishtyle. I was accommodated at this fantastic guest house off Airport Road on 8th and 9th and have now shifted to Sunil's (he's my cousin) place in Doddanekundi, a place near Marthahalli. I'm getting fleeced by autos, so I thought I'd stay as close as possible. I reached Bombay on 5th night and stayed over at Deepu's. Woke

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A date that will be etched in my mind forever, 28th March is the day the last exam (MIS) was done for two lucky sections, one of which is 'A', i.e. mine. And just like in class, I have Sandeep sitting next to me now on the Shatabdi Express to Delhi, where I'm spending a day with AKutty, before I catch the flight to land in South India after a solid 9 months away.The exams were fairly good (there

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'Tis bloody strange that a country with a population of just five million and a landscape dominated by lakes and forests has been so prominent in F1's recent history.Kimi won and Heikki was third. I'm glad Massa spun out. Hopefully, my dream of McLaren winning WCC will come true this year. Shifted to Hostel #13 yesterday and we have a widescreen TV here to watch F1 on. :) The mosquitoes are

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I've chosen my electives for the next year and will specialize in Marketing. I gotta get through FM this term first. The other subjects are plain sailing. As for the internship, I've to report in Mumbai on 7th April, so I'll get to spend a week at home before that. It'll be the first time I'm going home since I left in June last year, to join. Chechi and vava will be there.There's familiarization

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Too busy to write subjectively, so writing in points only:1. Got my first 'F' at IIML. Flunked Management Accounting II. No D's or C-'s otherwise and got a TGPA of 3.6, which brought my CGPA to 4.4 and disqualified me from standing for Council elections or going on Student Exchange. Not too bothered about either! One more F and I'm screwed, as in, I'll be kicked out. The other eventuality that

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.. do as the North Indians don't do. :) Hehe.. I'm talking about baths. Didn't step into the shower for a week during the exams. It's just too cold here in Lucknow. I remember being asked this question during my HLL interview, when I was told to list their products and mentioned soap, but didn't classify it a seasonal product. By the way, they've sent me a gift hamper with soap, shampoo, face

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Finally done with another term of MBA. I think I will make it through this time too, albeit not unscatheD. The sadists want us back here on campus to register on December 31st. Imagine that! So I’ll be climbing onto my flight from Singapore on 30th to reach Delhi and catch the Lucknow Mail, in time to attend the ‘New Year Party’ at IIML. Free booze. Yay!Planning to visit Sujith at KL (did get a

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..at a time.This one's going to be about projects, remedials and studies.The next one will be full of exams interspersed with studies.And then a week at Singapore with family though without home.After which I'll get back to enjoy a week with zero tensions.2008, here I hope I come, alive and kicking. Welcome me..!I cannot wait to be unqualified an (MBA/3), My Major Milestone.

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Starring me as this Placement Committee member who swears at batch meetings. We came third in the inter-section skit competition conducted by Abhivyakti, the drama society here.

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Slot 1It all started with the TAS shortlist. I never expected to be considered by a company in the top five of my personal rank list. Their system of GD’s is excellent, and though it occupied the whole of Saturday, with each group of 7 going through 7 rounds, each with a different person acting as Chairman, it afforded everyone a chance to speak. Only two were selected for the interview round

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I found this amazing review of Snapshots from Hell (it's what our photo catalog is called) and identified greatly with this part and felt it applies precisely to the scenario here:National Review, Sept 12, 1994 by Neal B. FreemanThe first year is a series of 18-hour days devoted to the study of Decision Making under Uncertainty, Computer Modeling, Financial Accounting, Organizational Behavior,

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Started on Matrix Reloaded and went to sleep at about 5, after emulating the ab crunch routine I found on YouTube until I got cramps. Overslept and bunked the very first class of the post mid term. Biological clock readjustment problem. Attended the next though, which was MAN AC. AK47 has given way to Vipul, who's an awesome prof. Went for the Johnson & Johnson Consumer PPT n' accompanied Sugam

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One month hiatus in posting and all.. but don't misunderstand as rigor taking its toll on my blogging capability. It was only the wrist and leg in casts that hindered me. Now they're both free and in crepe bandage. How did it happen? 'Twas an insti party mishap where I twisted my knee whilst I was dancing and afterward fell on my wrist, fracturing it. :(Bunked all classes today 'cuz I slept late

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My desires (the predictions weren't too much off mark either) for 2007 have both come true in reality. Even if McLaren did earn max constructors' points, they were stripped of them. Five years I have waited for this day.. Ferrari made it possible. I cannot but love them now. It's a miracle. Kimi is the 2007 WDC :`) My wrist is still in the cast it was put in a month ago, but I couldn't resist

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I don't think I'll ever regret having spent my entire term break at MDI Gurgaon. A whole week of pure booze, movies and sleep. I watched 'Remember the Titans' (Denzel fits a template now), 'In the name of the Father' (thoughtful movie and Danny Day Lewis is soo attractive!), 'Love Actually', 'The Illusionist' (more Edward Norton genius), 'Inside Man' (Clive Owen is decidedly sweet), and '12 Angry

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McLaren out of Constructors, but drivers safeNow my only hope is for Kimi to win the WDC, which he won't because the drivers aren't being docked points and will continue racing..With the horrid Economics paper today, this is definitely not a good day.What stark contrast to the previous post! Oh, woe is me! :`-(

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Poor Djokovic. Poor Nadal. Poor Ferrari. Poor Massa. Poor losers of the world. Jai Roger! Jai McLaren! Hail the winners! :))A couple of excellent articles by Davies and Gill here:1. Italian GP: Winners and Losers2. A Few Conclusions From The Italian GPAnother lovely one about Fabulous Federer!The day continued on a similar rewarding note, with a great MAN AC paper.

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Slept at 6 a.m. today after studying OM. Happened to push in the drawer which had the mobile phone on which I set the alarms. So I overslept today, and no-one woke me up either. After a horrible nightmare involving the MAN AC prof, I woke up at 9.10 (by which time the quiz had started) and didn't even want to go to class.Finally decided to pull on my pants and run without brushing my teeth even.

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Three quizzes tomorrow. OM, QAM, IT concepts. Haven't started studying 'cuz we had classes all day and the last MAN AC assignment submission. Slept in the evening after the meeting for CCAP (Creative Content And Publishing)- text for the brochure. Quite productive, but not as much as the ECO remedial session I just got back from, now. Finally understood graphs for production in cases of monopoly,

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One can bunk 20% classes before suffering a grade drop. By mid term, I'd bunked only 1 MAN AC class. n' till the end of last week, I'd bunked only 2 more MAN ACs (I was thrown out in one of those for not reading the case and got my attendance struck off- but never fear, that is usual practice here :) Our profs are very accommodating, you see.This week however, has been very busy. I contributed to

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Well, they let me play the first doubles match after all, in the semi finals. Dhruv and I won in straight sets, although we did face strong opposition in singles from Sood, who beat PD and almost beat Shantanu too. Shantanu thrashed Bansal in the third singles though, and we had Dhruv and PD on the sidelines who'd have won the last doubles, just in case.. I was never as happy to be mistaken as I

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We had the insti party y'day. I stayed only for an hour or so, but partook of the generous offering of scotch. Yes, you read that right! Scotch for an insti party! Haig is low-priced, but really very smooth and I absolutely loved it. It's been so long since the last time!Badminton has commenced, for Sikandar. Even though H11 doesn't have the best players, we definitely do have the best depth. I'm

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Threw back five pegs of White Mischief with Real Orange at 11 p.m. and just in time to inure my bum. The effects of the birthday bumps didn't tell until I woke up the next day. I did the assignment and studied a bit for the MAN AC quiz and watched 'As Good As It Gets'. Nicholson is now one of my favorite actors. I always did love Helen Hunt. This did nothing to change that. We beat 3/4 in the

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The basketball tournament is over. The first match wasn't too easy for the team and I was panting heavily at the end of the first quarter. Abhinav substituted me in the next, but I got into the groove in the third quarter. The new FILA shoes are working their magic. So are Abhinav Goel called 'Goa', affectionately by our team, and hatefully by others :) Ani(bhav), my stud classmate and Ralph, who

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I didn't make it to Oculus, very surprisingly indeed. I don't know what to attribute it to, anyhow. I'm disappointed, but that was more than compensated for, when the college band declared the list of their new members which includes me! Mathew also got ditched by P.Com but is in 3.4 too of course. In the final semester at RECT, Dejice borrowed the prayer cell's guitar and together, we learnt

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Oh well! There WAS an insti party that night, after all. Though I was alright after playing baddy (and thrashing the below-mentioned someone). I did the usual Smirnoff-Real Orange mix (as they don't have Vonamor here). I also went to Kapurthala to give my racket for gutting. It's obviously not the district in Punjab I'm talking about. Bought a small cushion for the laptop as well, in the

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Six exams over in six days starting Monday. Another five weeks to go before end-terms. Three terms thus and first year shall be done, by which time if I have accumulated 2 F's or 4 D's or 2 D's and an F, I shall have to repeat the entire year or leave. Things look pretty dull at this stage. Grading goes like this: A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D, F from 10 to 1.1. Management Accounting (

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Playing Inkball in the QAM class on Sandeep's super HP Pavilion dv6353cl, I wish I owned a more portable laptop. The Dell Latitude D630s which were ordered by everyone as part of the bulk deal have come and NFS Carbon is doing the rounds. I'd ordered one too, for Chechi, but it's only coming in the second batch, by which time Amma and Achan would already have flown to London. So Achan's giving

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The QAM quiz on statistics and probability was quite OK today. I'm also sort of prepared for the BIO quiz tomorrow. The COMM surprise quiz papers were returned today and I've 8 on 15, 1 mark less than the class average, which isn't bad again. My stuff (bike, guitar, etc.) is to arrive within the hour, but I can barely keep my eyes open, hence this post.I'm listening to Storm by Lifehouse. It's

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The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black ComedyIn your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh.You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum.Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American PsychoIf Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

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1. Courtesy Sameer's design, I shifted the desk and chair toward the window to maximize the effect of the desert cooler, and turned the bed around to place it directly under the ceiling fan. Now the free space is consolidated and the general layout is indeed very pleasing. 2. Scored 2/6 on the quiz, which isn't bad considering there were five people who got 0 in my section. For those who aren't

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Things are going good. QAM is getting unimaginably obstruse. LAM has begun to frustrate. OB is soporific beyond belief. ECO is getting increasingly mathematical. MANagement ACcounting is captivating; although faculty isn't exactly forgiving, his clarity of speech is a welcome change. A submission today, a quiz tomorrow.The weekend was packed. Committees in excess of a score made presentations

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The last few days have been good. The "induction" concluded with an insti party, the effects of which wore off only yesterday afternoon. We went to the city afterward, Mathew, Anoop, Sameer, Althaf, Vinayak and I (which is the entire mallu population of PGP23 except Febin and Divya). The insti bus dropped us off at Puranya Chola (Aliganj), from where we caught a phut-phut (which was just right

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At the end of my first (loong) day at IIM Lucknow, the lasting impression is the most recent, of the hundreds of hissing, whizzing, hopping, darting insects, amphibians, bugs and what other genera of animals I know not.. in every nook, cranny, doorway, balcony, corridor and bathroom of the hostel. Praised be the Lord, for the unfathomable diversity of his creations!Some are huddled in groups, as

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Achan and Amma dropped me off on Saturday at 5 a.m. at Nedumbassery, where I boarded the Air Sahara flight to New Delhi. I checked in 40kg of luggage at no extra cost! Arrived an hour late at 11, thanks to some dog which chose the right moment to inspect the runway. The attendant said the temperature outside was 'chaubees degrees'. I thought I'd forgotten my Hindi, but it was actually cool

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I'll be reaching New Delhi tomorrow morning, and spending almost four days there before boarding the train to Lucknow on 19th night. It's going to be really hot there, but I'm looking forward to meeting Gaurav, AKutty and Rahul there. Also, India confirms the F1 deal, so I am elated because I know I'll be well-placed to watch the first race, to be held in 2009.

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When Alonso signed with McLaren, I thought I'd begin to mellow towards him and only hate one Spaniard, viz. Nadal. I couldn't have been wronger. In spite of his two c'ships, Alonso has always made occasional errors, unlike any of the other great drivers I respect in F1. He drove into the Wall of Champions last year at Canada. He went off the track four times y'day. Basically, he drove like a

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Discovered this very "Comfortably Numb"-like song by Queensryche and others, on friend's reco. The few weeks away from tennis brought complementary development on the guitaring front. I learnt intros for a couple of AMOLAD songs on the acoustic, following which, I was tempted to try the same on my electric guitar. I took it out yesterday and dusted it. The strings were rusted, so I sandpapered

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Gopi, Ambi (uncle n' aunt) and the kids went back to Chennai today after ten days' visit. I haven't found time to blog meanwhile. We had good fun with computer games. I played Spiderman with them. Got stuck at Level 13 in Spiderman 1, where I'm unable to "Catch Venom". The game doesn't relinquish control back to the player after an automated chase sequence through a building. Spiderman 2 is

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When Ferrari changed Kimi's chassis to adhere to his driving style, it looks like the engine followed suit, to suit his blowing style, to my utmost chagrin. Alonso made one of those rare errors again, to hand the championship leader position to Hamilton, who as usual, didn't squander the opportunity. Kimi's exit was more than compensated by the fact that McLaren have reinforced their position at

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An astounding thing happened yesterday. My friend Giri who stays here, typed this into the browser on the desktop (which is in my dad's consultation room):snkutty.blogpsot.com (Those of who use Firefox, please use IE for this)Afterward, he sprang out of the room with a murderous expression on his face (he was once very pro-Hindu) and asked me what's up with my blog! Teehee! :)

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I don't know if anyone makes money this way. I read in y'day's paper that the highest interest rate is the one charged from credit cards and that last year, banks made Rs.6000cr from customers. On the contrary, I always make it a point to pay my bills before due date and have incurred no charges yet on my ICICI HPCL card. What's more, today I got the eighteen Rs.50 fuel vouchers after redeeming

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Now that the results have come, I guess it is goodbye b'lore for the perceptible future. My decision to pack up my stuff and come off home before the results were declared didn't backfire thankfully. Aerosmith is performing on June 2 in B'lore, so I will probably attend, although I am not too keen to, after the Iron Maiden experience (it wasn't bad, but I don't want to spoil the aftertaste).The

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I took CAT 2006 the day I flew to the U.S. I got LICKed thereafter. The K gd/pi was on Feb 9th, before I got back and they couldn't reschedule it because their last session anywhere in India was on Feb 15th, by which time I hadn't landed. L was on Feb 15th, three days before I reached India, but they acquiesced to my request and shifted it to March 2nd in Mumbai, which is why I made that trip.

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If there is a problem almost every day with your broadband connection, your internet service provider could be Tata Indicom. Dialing customer care and holding for ten minutes is almost useless. I'm just waiting to go to IIM to avail free unlimited problem-free broadband internet, to start downloading movies and music.Got back at 1.20 a.m. yesterday after dinner n' booze and had to wake up less

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The results were finally out yesterday and I've converted L,I of C,L,I,K. I hadn't attended K. Slighted by C, but happy enough about L. The course starts in the latter half of June.I reached Cochin on Thursday after bidding a tearful adieu to Brigade Millennium at the end of a week in Bangalore spent packaging and sending a lot of stuff home. Boozed every day of that time. Hari taking leave on

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Another race so soon. Massa redeems himself. Kimi is back in the hunt, although he now has Hamilton also to contend with. Spain is sooo far away, but we will see a re-energised Alonso for sure. Strength to Kimi! Honor to McLaren! Speed to Quick Nick!I heard from my sister that Madhuraj (who was my senior in college) helped with some modifications of the Sepang track and is now involved at Sakhir

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Oh YEAH! After sooo many years of waiting, it looks like McLaren are in good shape to lift the Constructors' Title this year, with a heartening 1-2 at Sepang. Massa's immature driving seals Ferrari's fate (happily for me) and rookie star Hamilton's prowess at holding position will pervade his dreams no doubt. McLaren is most decidedly back!Kimi's engine wasn't at its best today but I'm sure with

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07.04.07 is turning out to be an eventful day. Slept late after all the 'Russell Ira Crowe' madness and woke up to take Amma to Cochin Port Trust, to get her pension things done. Missed qualifying at noon 'cuz it took twice as long as she expected (I always knew these govt things happened at snail's pace). We ate at the BTH coffee shop there and had to drop in to the hospital too to get her

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Coincidence! I watch Cinderella Man with Amma (after A Beautiful Mind yesterday) and we look up Russell Crowe on IMDB and find out it's his birthday today! ..and yesterday was Hari's b'day. Too bad I couldn't be with him, but it's good he's enjoying himself at home, like I am.. n' I was able to be with Amma on her b'day last week too! :)

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Besides school tuition which Giri started last year, he is now also coaching students for AIEEE and the Kerala CEE. I bought him a domain (look left) yesterday and made him a Geocities page also, to give in newspaper ads.Amol will be back tonight and we will resume tennis at R.S.C. tomorrow. He beat me 6-0 6-2 6-1 on Monday at my first full-length singles match and improvement was evident the

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My life is on a rapid upswing. I'd left my Reebok tennis shoes in B'lore, so I bought another pair of Power shoes (this one is non-marking court shoes) to be able to play tennis with Amol, who plays it as often as I play baddy. The courts here beat those at Woodrose any day, although the same cannot be said about the weather. We played three sets today and I lost them all, each an embarrassing

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My first post with Microsoft Live Writer (Beta). The title is what our lunch group (MindTree) has lately been called, although the name was put after the fellowship was broken. Mishraji left for Sweden yesterday and Nikki, Hari and I went to the airport to see him off. We spent the latter half of the day together, drinking beer and making merry. I have not been working for a week now. Some of

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The first race result smacks of the possibility that my prediction for 2007 will be fulfilled. I was so tired after the concert that I couldn't wake up in time to catch the race, although I caught the award ceremony, the post-race press conference and of course, Chequered Flag.Also, net at home wasn't working, so I wasn't aware of the exact time the race would start and miscalculated by a crucial

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I went for the Maiden concert on Saturday. Arjun and Varun, my cousins from Chennai came with their gang. Some twenty school pals came, but I didn't meet anyone. I went with Hari and his friends and Rajiv also, at 2.30 p.m. after beer at Purple Haze and packing grub from Sweet Chariot Cafe nearby. We finished the last can of KF and stepped in.We sat around for a few hours and then some pals from

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Secret Agent SNK sprung into action when he hit the 15th Cross junction on Bruce and espied a black Pulsar-riding IBMer (identified with badge clipped to belt and logo on bag). This man didn't take a right on the ring road towards B.G. Road, thus SNK deduced that he didn't work at the EGL office or the one opposite Jal Bhavan near Dairy Circle.This led SNK to logically conclude that the IBMer

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Today's our first day at the new office. We've been shifting stuff here the last two days and my back's been screwed thanks to all the riding. Infantry Road to J. P. Nagar via Brigade Road and Koramangala in peak traffic is no joke. I'm going to try another way through Queen's Road, Lalbagh, Ashok Pillar, etc. today. All the sitting over the weekend didn't help either, viz. SpiceJet flight from

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The long weekend was fantastic. My SpiceJet flight landed at Bombay on Thursday at 8.30 p.m. Shaavi and Deepu were there at the airport and we caught a taxi south, while Shaavi gave me a guided tour. He showed me Cuffe Parade (where he stays and works), the Taj Business Hotel (where rooms are rented out at 18 lakhs a month), some famous temple, theater, etc. The cabs are all Premier Padminis. I

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I believe I owe an explanation to the folks out there who don't know about the new steps I've taken with my career. When I quit MindTree to join Ness, I did it after being interviewed by Chelsio and the project was a BOT (Build Operate Transfer) contract. I knew the transfer was imminent, but I didn't want to talk about it until it happened. That day is today, my first day as an employee of

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Although it may not be so for me, for my friends are all here, how I wish I was "Born in the U.S.A.". California, especially. The initial furore of being back in India has worn off. The effect of the permanent fixtures has taken over. Dust, pollution, traffic, and bad food. I was at the new office yesterday, and there was dust and paint lying all over the place. The Dolo and Cifran I had taken to

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The Bangalore shock was somewhat diluted by a visit home. Achan is very pleased with the laptop, and Amma with the new shuffle. I dispatched the other laptop with Arjun's dad to Chennai (the Ernakulam North station looks modern, with LED displays for coach position on platform, etc.), where it was safely collected.I haven't done a spot of work since I got back to India. Last week, I was caught up

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I would say the single greatest difference is Unpredictability (the dust comes a close second). It looms large everywhere, in the zigzagging traffic, the strange phone call, the wedding invite out of the blue, the surprise visit and the unexpected job treat.Singapore made it less of a rude shock than it might have been. I alighted at 11.45 p.m. and realized I had almost eight hours before my

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I'm flying tomorrow! Yahoo! I'm so happy to be going back to India. I've just about had it with the daily routine of waking up late (9), munching the same flakes with raisins n' milk n' Minute Maid orange juice for breakfast and going to work late after morning ablutions (11).Then I get back in an hour or two to poach eggs to have with rye bread for the same lunch, going back to office only to

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Retrieved my iPod this week and named it 'Seal' after the Afro-European musician by the same name, because it's black, a little disfigured at birth (though not due to lupus) and sings beautifully! Someday, I hope I will win my Heidi Klum like he did! :)Named Achan's laptop 'Diego' after Maradona, 'cuz like his favorite footballer, it's from America and it's past its heyday. Diego also reminds me

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Before this hiatus becomes too long, I'm posting to declare that I'm at the top of my spirits after quite a while. Things at the back of my mind have been brushed clean like cobwebs, before they've taken the chance to settle comfortably where they've assumed space since last month. My grateful thanks to the unknowing spider herself for not only taking me to it when I least expected it, but

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My Google Personalized Homepage has this small section which shows three latest news headlines. One said: US woman fights off lion with pen and I clicked it 'cuz it sounded interesting. Curiosity turned to shock when I realized that the incident had occurred in a place similar to the one where I'd gone hiking with Vijay last weekend. And to think that Vijay was walking some distance ahead and at

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Like I said in a previous post, I'm content enough just ogling at the cars here, but over the two months I've spent, I've had the good fortune to actually travel in a few. I'll list them in order of how much I'd like to own them, taking into consideration the amount it's also going to set me back by (it might look somewhat like a reverse of the Best Cars list):10. The Dodge Caliber that Vijay

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Vijay and I drove down to Big Basin Redwoods State Park last weekend. We had good fun hiking the Sequoia Trail and checking out the trickling Sempervirens Falls. Took a lot of photos as usual, but I haven't been able to transfer them yet. Update:- I just did!We lunched late on masala dosas at Spice Hut on the way back and went over to University Ave afterwards to dine with Ron and her friends. He

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I went to watch Paul and Kartik play (they're better than I am) and they taught me how to play this interesting game. You choose your set (Low 1-5, Middle 6-10 or High 11-15) and your aim is to keep your balls on the table and knock the others in. I didn't pot a single ball in the first game before Paul won. He n' I got knackered in the second before we could even choose our ranges, though we did

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Business as usual at the McLaren garage. News is that the MP4-22 lasted one lap before engine trouble struck. Haha, I hope it continues just enough for Alonso to lose to Kimi and realise the bad decision he made, to switch just for the bucks, though I do want the team to do well enough to win the WCC. Hamilton's being touted to work wonders!I was all fired up to watch the Aus Open only to

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if I could take leave on Mondayto drive south to Montereywith a friend from MindTree.is what I sent my boss, who acceeded to the request. What a lovely company! So I woke up today at 6 and called Vijay, who came over in an hour in his Dodge Caliber. We dropped in to office to print roadmaps and pack some snacks n' juice. Then we set off down 17-S and joined 1-S all the way to the Bay Aquarium at

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We ran out of stuff to have with rice, so we ordered pizzas y'day for dinner. I spent $15 on a chicken supreme and hogged all eight slices. I didn't want to blog about it until now, when I've worked it off with a marathon (for me) two hours at the gym. I still haven't resumed rowing and other back exercises after the ache I had a week ago.I shudder to think of what I'd have looked like if not for

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Another Spacey starrer, though I'd say it was Haley Joel Osment (the kid in Sixth Sense- which is another movie I watched only last month) who stole the show with a very inspiring performance. And I SOOO fancy Helen Hunt (WOW!!) who makes one think she's the perfect choice for the role. Jon Bon Jovi puts in a surprise appearance. I'll be watching 'Life of David Gale' tonight, if I have time after

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Yay! I had a meeting with the QA manager who's shifting me to Automation tomorrow. I think it's sparked by my 'performance'. Feedback from my "manager" (I didn't know he was) says that I've not been very 'proactive'. Oh how I loathe that word. "He does whatever he's told, but he needs to push for more work." What they don't know is that arbit people have been offloading bits n' pieces of their

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Planning to stick by this resolution at least until I get back to India, after which I will start another one, which involves abstinence. But these are hilarious! :)Woke up on Friday with a horrible ache in my upper back, thanks to excess crunches at the gym on Thursday. When I resume, I am sticking to abdominal exercises with back support. The ache subsided after noon, so I went to S.F. Hit the

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Happy new year to you all, folks. Looking back, 2006 was the best of my years. I got the job I'd always dreamt of since the day I began playing with PCs (waay back in the late 80's), in a Computer Hardware Product Company. Though when I was older, I wanted a programming job (which I achieved too), this gives me a bit of both! With a good salary too! Inconceivable!! Thank you, God!When I think

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The sun shone in through the fogBeckoning me for a morning jogI wore my shoes and tied the lacesThere lay before me so many pacesBriskly did I get me readiedWith cold water my sight was steadiedMy eyes wanted to be greeted withVisions that the gods saw fit I stepped into hazy sunlightGone were all traces of nightMy feet took me beyond the viewThat was offered by my windowI passed beside both

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My Orkut profile sayscareer skills: learning this and that.career interests: knowing this and that.This job is totally giving it to me. Today, I was supposed to test a driver and when it didn't work, this dev guy came to support. He asked me to get the "debugger" running. I rightly guessed he was talking about WinDbg (Windows Debugger) after wikinformation, installed it and rushed through an

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Chatted with Gaurav on Sat'day and decided to watch a few movies instead of idly thinking about unnecessarily disturbing things. So I downloaded this bittorrent client and got things going. Jagadish's friend came over after that and we went out to pick up his new laptop (HP dv6130us- it's pretty good, but quite expensive too). We dined at Spice Hut, where I partook of a yummy masala dosa with

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To commemorate my 501th post, I have migrated to the new version of Blogger. Thankfully, none of the precious archives are lost (even though I do have most of them saved somewhere!) and the page looks no different except the thin blue bar at the top. That's a relief, because when he says that I write well, "Kit's gotta point" (which is the newest link on my Blogroll ;) and I don't want to lose

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Train journeys in India are seldom a thing to look forward to, especially when they aren't travelled in airconditioned compartments, considering that I have mostly used trains for long distances, as opposed to the people here who can afford planes for such jaunts. Trains here are primarily used to cover medium distance, for which we use buses in India. Taxis here are exorbitantly expensive, but

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My desired order for 2007:1. Kimi Raikkonen (140 pts)2. Fernando Alonso (130 pts)3. Heikki Kovalainen (90 pts)4. Lewis Hamilton (85 pts)5. Felipe Massa (70 pts)6. Jensen Button (60 pts)7. Giancarlo Fisichella (52 pts)8. Jarno Trulli (48 pts)9. David Coulthard (38 pts)10. Mark Webber (32 pts)

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I'm drinking some raspberry juice,I think I've some weight I could lose,Crunches in the tub,Push-ups on the hub,It's time for that 'cisco Bay Cruise.

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1) P. F. Chang's China Bistro has amazing food and even more amazing cocktails. I tried an Appletini and their in-house specialty chicken fried rice, followed by another key lime martini I was too drunk to remember the name of.2) Whole Foods has a Whole lot of Food you can go absolutely crazy with, spading quantities of whatever you fancy (which is mostly everything) into bowls, which you can

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1. I'm learning a new sport. Some shots in squash really seem cheap, but I guess they aren't. Playing would ruin my tennis strokes and ball bounce prediction, but it's fun.2. I'm watching new movies. Well, not exactly new. I checked out The Pianist which stars one of the guys I like, viz. Adrien Brody. He's done a good job, but I didn't expect the movie to be about what it is, otherwise I

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The beginning to the weekend has been so beautiful, so joyful and so exhilarating that I don't have words for it. I can't forget it, so I don't have to blog it. :) Btw I got VPN and it's working so well! Folks are in the office today, but I'm not. We had an All Hands' Friday evening, where our CEO was at his riveting best. He's so motivating I wanted to get up right then n' run around the lab

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When Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister ran the four minute mile in 1954, he didn't think an unassuming young Californian his age would equal his time half a century later, running with three layers of warm clothing and Adidas b'ball shoes, listening to "Dirty Diana" on his iPod. Well, he didn't think wrong either :) I took all of ten minutes to run the mile from my inn to the Caltrain Sunnyvale station

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I was looking for a laptop to get for Achan and I happened to find the same deal online, that Rajeev got, thanks to 'Cyber Monday', so I also bought the Toshiba. I went to Stanford again y'day and we went to Frys, where I got another Belkin for Achan to use with the laptop. The laptop hasn't been delivered yet (I wonder what's taking Outpost so long) btw. I got VPN access, so once I get it, I can

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