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Time : 10.30 PM . Mood : Tired..Really tired after the days work. Just reached home. Cell vibrates , Message : "Hi wanna make 'frandship' with u. Interested ? " Response: I already had enough for the day. What else I do..Delete. 10 minutes late.. Cell vibrates , same message .. Response : "I'm a guy. U still want to make friendship ? "..Reply sent Deleted that too as capacity of Nokia 1100 is less.. No response till now.. i could sleep peacefully. Woes of desparate seeking souls and free sms packages.....Hmmm Ajith

Just saw one of the most inspiring and touchy video I've ever seen.. An organisation called Akshaya providing mid-day meal to about two lakh under privileged children every day. Never knew an organisation of such a huge operational scale existed in Social service sector in India. It made me think deep into the issues that they pointed out... Why our nation is still underdeveloped ? Indians don't lack intelligence. Neither do they lack self confidence. Many people say we dont have the right infrastructure.. But infrastructure is a part of development.. Just by making lots of roads and rails do not make a nation developed. Imagine we implement world class metro railway systems in all of our cities. Will there be enough people to use it ? No organisation, be it public or private can survive by making losses on and on. It needs to be self sufficient. Or in other words we need a vibrant economy. By the term 'vibrant economy', I dont mean lot of ppl doing white collar job...

A weird stuff from blogthings.. Try it out. Your EQ is 153 50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick! 51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese. 71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely. 91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that. 111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt. 131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin. 150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar. What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

I'm not a regular reader.From the childhood, I've preferred magazines and news papers over books. My old quizzing friends know, i sulk at the mention of literature round in quizzes, though my guesswork has helped me sometimes.I think I can count the books which I've read using my fingers.. Perhaps I'll be the only one who has stopped reading Da Vinci code midway, not because i didnt like it...but I didnt find it captivating enough...( I've the book and I hope to read it completely one day) Perhaps the only previous book which really captivated me was Chetan Bhagat's 'Five point someone'. That was really engrossing.. So, today i though I'll give the second one from the author a try. Bought 'One night at the call centre' and yeah, finished it in about6 hours..partly because I didnt want to come back to this book after some more days as the interest would be lost.. Now about the book.I cannot say that it is bad..But if you are expecting the same...

It has been about one year since i joined this bandwagon. Was initially a bit curious..But now,it has turned out to be an integral item in my browsing list. A conceptually , very brilliant idea. The origin of Social Networking Sites (SNS ) started from friendster,tribe.net etc. But orkut has taken it a step further through the ideas of scrapping and user defined communities. Created by a Turkish computer science student Orkut Büyükkökten and owned by Google, this has immediately caught the fancy of computer literate youth. Some interesting stats about this from wikipedia, The most number of users, i.e, a whopping 75 % or more are Brazilians. Estonia is the nation in which it is most popular .. 3% of its population has profiles in this. And, Brazil stands at 2.5% in this aspect The word 'orkut' in Turkish mean - The holy meeting place. Now, a little bit about the interesting features that it presents... Scrapping - Realistically, I dont li...

One of the most shocking murder tales in recent times.. The rape and murder of a BPO employee working in HP , shocked the corporate world. I've heard of IT employees returning late night being robbed at knife point..but this was beyond them all..Had the company helpdesk reacted quickly after the regular driver informed them, maybe this could have been avoided. Her family and relatives would have to live with this terrible incident for the rest of their lives. What makes this more worrying is that this happened to an employee of a reputed multi national firm which has the capacity to provide adequate security arrangements..Think about the situations in those numerous 'fly by night' BPOs. Had this incident happened in US/UK , the government would have punished the employer ... Telling BPOs not to put women at night shift is impractical. But, its high time that the companies provide adequate security arrangements to women.. Corporate world does not want trade unionis...

It has been about a month... All kinds of speculations going round..Tried almost all kinds of analysis.Almost on everyday,I come across some news either 'klang' or exciting. ..Finally , the outcome is going to be 'fingummy' ... bitter/sweet ,i don't know.. have to wait..no other go...It is indeed a dicey game... perhaps the greatest ever game in my life... ( Dont try too hard to decipher... only people in a similar situation will be able to make out..If u make out, dont put the straightforward answer/clues in comments ) Ajith

Yet another twist to the tale of the unsung hero... The man whose disappearance still remains unsolved..I wish the truth come out on some day. Read the latest report about him .

This guy seems to be well on the path to emulate indian politicians in uttering nonsense in public.. I think this has been the third 'quotable quote' from him in about one month.. Read the latest from Iranian president at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3184170,00.html Ajith

Well, After a long time, today I had to work really hard... My normal routine on any office day is like... 1. Reach office by about 10.30.. 2. Check mail .. not office mail , but yahoo and gmail,orkut and then office mail 3.Take all important news sites - google news,rediff,expressindia,indiatimes... open all the interesting news links in tab pages in firefox. 4. By then time would be 11.00-- all my team mates would have reached by then and we go for our first coffee session. If my PL is late, we almost invariably go for the next coffee session as soon as he comes... And,as usual the coffee session talk centres around the latest babes in oracle, ( as members of the fairer sex are low in our group, diversion to this topic is almost natural..can't really help it ) ,latest movies etc.. 5. Then I start my work. 11.15- 1.50 peak time in workI'm not commenting anything about the work..but I'd say that there are good as well as bad parts for that. 6. 1.50 ...

December - 7 ... 64 years ago this day changed the course of world history.. On Dec- 7 , 1941 Japanese launched what can be described as one of the most daring attacks in history on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawii islands.. Some years back it was brought back again to celluloid by the Ben-Affleck movie by the same name.. Its not a day of celebration. Its a day of remembrance. The message that America learned from this is "Never to neglect a strong nation on racial backgrounds".. True to its spirit, America recovered out of this catastrophe.. As admiral Yamamoto who led this attack said.." "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.".. Americans made Japanese learn this... Both of them carry very relevant messages to the world... Hope nothing like this happens in the nuclear age.... Ajith

Couldn't resist posting this.. TimesofIndia never had the reputation of being a family newspaper. You read the city supplement which comes with it..and see all sort of masala news, like who's the n'th girlfriend of bollywood heroes, who went for which party...The typical 'Page-3' image.. Keeping in with that tradition, i thought its the usual gossip about another MMS in circulation when i stumbled upon this .. But it proved to be too good .. Its worth a look :) Ajith

After Gangajal, another stellar performance from this class actor.. This movie really makes fun of law and order situation in Bihar.. Mafia dons running their crime syndicate from jail, the cunning politician cum kidnapping mastermind - Tabrez Alam - played by the mercurial Nana Patekar.. Really this flick is worth watching.. At times you wonder whether politician really stoop into such levels. Maybe, Prakash Jha ( he campaigned against Laloo in the recent Bihar elections ) has exaggerated a bit.. Or maybe these things do exist.. Either way, the movie portrays the degradation of the system in Bihar... Traders dont feel anything while paying ransom, beurocrats and politicians practicing bribes and corruption as their birthright , police colluding with the goons to orchester the kidnapping industry, and the people who want to be honest simply not able to do that due to prevailing circumstances... the movie captures all these images perfectly. .One dialog -- "Aaj ki zamaane me G...

Couldnt think of anything else after hours of aimless browsing... After weeks of CAT preparation which kept me busy, i'm sort of free now.. Infact, i'm feeling a kind of vacuum.. Not that I dont have anything to do..JMET is coming up next week.. But somehow, not in a mood to study after CAT... Now, a little bit of my thoughts... I'm looking back at my career now.. Can I call it a success ? Dont know... I began to look at my studies with an earnest mind only after 10th..Slogged throughout plus two for IIT.. Reached NITC..I cant really complain about that..Maybe, I was not that talented. Like this, my life has been full of near misses or I never really got what i wanted.. Now, i'm at the threshold of another turning point.. MBA..Can't really say at this moment whether I'll do it or not.. Perhaps , I would pose myself a question at this point..What made me take up this pursuit ? Well, every year people churn out numerous SOP's for applying to various institutes...

Yesterday night I watched Roger Federer virtually destroying Andy Roddick in Wimbledon men's singles final. Calm,composed,brilliant ... The Swiss master was at his best. I've been seeing the Grand Slam matches from the 90's .. I've watched great players like Edberg,Becker,Lendl,Courier,Sampras etc... But I dont really think any of those will come near this man... Federer has got perhaps the best alround skills. A good serve, great passing shots, winners, anticipation, great net play, good baseline play.... And above all,I hav'nt seen him losing his composure in play... Winning or losing, he's bound to have that cool and emotionless face on court...I can't help admiring this man...I was a bit surprised when he gave into tears after the victory. Maybe , he has elements of emotion in him..Or maybe, great victories or achievements can unnerve the greatest.. His domination over the other top ranked players on grass has been supreme.. Beating World No:2 and 3 in ...

I believe yes.. There is something called destiny. Often people ask the question - " If everything is ordained , then what is the meaning of all which we do in our life ? If I'm destined to become famous in Computer Science, then why should I study ? why should I work ? Afterall it is guaranteed that I'll be famous one day " The answer is a little bit complex.. The inner meaning of destiny is something different.. It does not mean that everything you do / receive is already decided somewhere.. It means that some chances will come your way. . It is your part to capitalise on that... Some say that Shah Rukh Khan was destined to become a superstar. I'll interpret it in a different way.. Shah Rukh came across some chances , in which destiny played a part...Infact many people would have had come across similar chances. But SRK capitalised on those opportunities...And ofcourse, fortune favours the brave.. Similarly at one point or other all of will come across...

Saw two movies in TV.... Pretty old ones. First one was Mani Ratnam's classic - Bombay ... This is a movie that every Indian must see. .Wonderful camerawork coupled by a touching storyline..The roots of communal divide existing in India...I really wonder if people are really this much sensitive to this kind of propaganda...Just by hearing somebody did something somewhere,they take arms and massacre their friends in the name of community. If education has not been able to remove this kind of a mindset, the it is utterly useless...Unless India improves in this sector, these kinds of incidents are bound to happen at one point or other... Part of the blame goes to the beurocratic setup/constitution ..When you take a child for admission in a school , religion is one of the mandatory fields...The divide starts there... Although I'm a Hindu, if ever there is an option to put your caste/religion as 'Independent' ,i would love to go with that... Religion is an individual's ...

It has been quite a long time since i registered here...A bit of uncertainity is always there in my mind whenever i tend to do anything like this which is visible to everyone..Anyway i'm venturing into this arena... It has been more than one year since i set my foot in this city...Hyderabad,the mystic city of Nizams and the ultra modern IT establishments....the city of delicious food and parties.. I still remember vividly the day when we got down at Begumpet Airport....And then , the next day we started exploring Hyd with a copy of city map....Oh..that was wonderful...And finally we managed to reach Hussain Sagar,...The atmosphere was totally new.... Last tuesday, i completed one year in Oracle.. .I cannot say that this tenure in great/excellent...but it has been certainly good..I feel i have had a good start to my professional career... I would say, the darkest spot for me in last year was Sajid's demise... Like all of us,he too came here...