Monday, May 28, 2007

Most satisfied theory paper attended!

Let me go back to my engineering days!

It was my first year of Engineering. Was in my second semester. Physics cycle. Had Mechanical workshop(theory n pracs), 'tricals, physics(theory n pracs), Mathematics =), Strength Of Materials, Engineering Graphics. These were my subjects. We had some amazing lecturers! Will dedicate a seperate post for all lecturers n teachers i've encountered! Lemme finish this post.

Mechanical was handled by Sudheendra a.k.a Terminatra for his actions being so close to the robot(Sometimes, drafter in the hand like a gun! Hehe!!). SOM was handled by Anilkumar(Was supposed to be handled by Jade Dattatri of KREC, but we missed it out.) Even he was cool! PHysics was takn by Hitha Shetty n the sleepy Jyothi ma'am! Oops! Feelin sleepy takin her name on a monday afternoon(Afta lunch!). Gosh, she was so, so, so boring! Never got a single word what she taught! They say she is a Gold medallist! Aah!

Tricals was handled by ever smiling Manjula Pai! She was just finishin her portions so fast n we were not upto her pace! We sometimes dint understand something at all! I still remember gettin a 11/25 for the first time(Neva got that low!) Was afraid of gettin 15 in Tricals. Graphics was handled one and only Srikant Prabhu! I was finding no problem with him, but he was finding a lot in all of us! He used to just stare at us like anything! I was never pin-pointed though! Well thats a different case alltogether!

Now comes the favorites of all! MATHEMATICS! Aah! I'd like more of it anytime! We had Laplace Transforms, Differential Equations, Beta-Gamma Functions, bit of Vector Calculus, Infinite series also i guess! I had read most of themin my first sem hols! Finished LT in a day, Differential Eqns was just a cakewalk! Beta Gamma functions was easy according to akka. I dint try to read it. Thought i'll read it later. Was not interested in Vector n dint concentrate on that most! Had books of my sister n was just goin thru all stuff from her book.

Our second semester started! My first sem results were out! I was dejected by that! Those were the days when i was expecting much! These are the days where i dont even expect anything! Change was since my second semester. I was unhappy with my second sem results n was always feelin alone! Meanwhile, manythings had happened n i was hardly speakin to say a few (2-6) people! Thats it! Was just enjoyin classes! No pranks!! Every second i was free, i was at library! Was takin the Hefty Kreizieg, n was just reading it! Not much went in, but i was passin time like anything reading that! Was readin about things we have in that book! He was givin where exactly those things were used! I liked that part of it! Was wondering where they were applyin such things all these days n was gettin a vague idea bout things!

Meanwhile, we were attending classes from the "DM" Dhananjaya Murthy(we called him 'thaamra'). A lecturer from Shivamogga! Used to just pass time solving the problems he gave! That was cool! Math classes were just fun enjoyin! ( I recollect one of my classmates in SVVK, getting jacked by his math lecturer just fo writing MATHS is FUN on his book! Dunno why he was screwed! ). Just solving problems! That was coooooool! =)

I was just doin maths all the semester! Sometimes was concentrating on SOM! Even that was cool!

Exams came. Maths was the second last subject. Everything went good! All papers were relatively easy! We finished four theories. Left are two! Maths n Graphics. Now, i was okay with graphics. We had 2 days to read about graphics. But before that we had maths wherein we had 5 days to prepare! I was wondering what to do for 5 days?? Hadnt touched Maths since 2 months. Last time i opened the book was in my second internals where i got my average to 25 out of 25. Dint even wrote the third sessional( It was including Vector Calculus, I thought, okay! Lemme skip it! I've got 25/25). I was not prepared for vector calculus.

We had five days! I thought, lemme finish a novel i had taken up way back in my II PUC holidays. It was Parva, by S.L.Bhairappa. That was his Mahabharatha. Really a good read. Had just read some 150 pages of 500. Thought i'll finish the book n then start reading maths. It was then i realised that i have gone slow in reading. I took 4 days to complete that book! All these days, I was just readin that novel n nothing else. The next day, i thought of reading. Unfortunately, my cousins had come home since 4-5 years n i had to spend time with them. Watched the movie "Upendra" for the first time at a stretch. That was the first telecast of the movie on small screen. How could i miss it?? Enjoyed with my cousins till 8. Had my dinner n then started to brush up things in a hurry! Had lots to do. Havent even checked a single letter since two months. Just recollected the methods to solve in Laplace. Tried out some problems in Differential Equations. Dint ever tried to check out beta gamma functions. Just went thru the formulas of Vector calculus. It was 11 n i went to sleep.

Was totally afraid about the exams. Was not even knowin the basic things fully. Just brushed up more while i commuted in route 2 bus (now route 5). Came to college. Just discussed my condition with my friends. Some of them were in my condition( Dunno whether if its true!!). 5 mins before exam n i dint knew how to get prepared for the exam. Was so afraid. Anyhow, in any of the exams, i was not afraid of failing. Not even in the exam when they failed me for the first time, Thats a different story! Will blog it soon. The one n only O.S, that post must be even interesting...). I had prepared myself something that i wouldnt fail.

Enter the exam hall. That was graphics room. We were lack of rooms. We were placed in the graphics hall. Well my handwriting was bad on a flat desk. It got worse on a slanted drawing board. Got the answer sheet. Filled it up. Beside me was Vinay Kumaran is all i remember. We were given the question paper n the questions were not as what i expected. Some new kinda question. Dint find it in any text i read. I took the first problem. Tried solving it. I wasted the first page solvin it but i found that the question was itself wrong. I wrote it on the paper scratching the whole page. "Question itself is wrong". Well thats arrogant.

Forgot the format of the paper. I tried the 5 mark questions first n then went on for the 10 marks. to my surprise, i was applying techniques of Laplace Transforms in Beta Gamma functions. I had never read Beta gamma functions n i found the similarity between them, I solved all problems of Beta Gamma functions using laplace transforms. On the whole i solved problems of Laplace transforms, Differential equations, and the infinite series. Surprisingly, i had coveredfor 110 marks. I still had an hour to go n dint knew what to do. I had left out all problems in vector calculus. Had some 10 pages remaining in the answer sheet. As I have done for 100 marks, i thought of getting up n going but i dint do that. Lemme try even these problems, i thought n i tried solving them. I just applied the formulae i had read thru yesterday n voila!! I got the solution. Took 15 minutes for each vector related problem. There were 5 or 6 i guess. Attempted most. With the time i got, i was able to try only 4 i guess. I was trying the fifth n the bell rang. Supervisor just grabbed the paper.

People were going out saying that the paper was tough, but i found it so easy that i had attempted atleast for 144 marks. I had never got such satisfaction attending a paper. Just came out. I saw my friends n they said that they had done for 110-115. I had gone crazy n bluffed to all my friends that i could attempt only for 75-80 marks. They said that they found the paper was so easy! I explained that i wasnt prepared n i wasted my time like anything.

It was over. We headed for the bus. I just told srikanth, the only person i was close in those days that the paper was good n if i dont get a minimum of 85, the evaluator doesnt know how to correct.

Graphics exam got over. I found it pretty difficult. Now came the holidays. We enjoyed a months' vacation. Then came third semester. 1st September, 2002. We had planned that we will boycott the uniform in the college! (uniforms in college??? Nah!!). I purposefully was not wearing uniform, i thought that everybody will not wear uniforms. But for my surprize, except three(including me) everybody were wearing uniforms. No unity. We went to college n our than princi, Anthony Thomas, Professor @ IISc, was unhappy with us. He threw us out for the day warning us that we should wear uniforms. I started for home cursing all my classmates n collegemates who promised of not wearing uniforms.

The next day, 2nd of September, 2002(dunno how these dates remain in my mind! They are just in some location in my mind n the de-allocator is not called on those locations hehe!!), I came to college wearing the uniform tucking out as a protest against wearing uniforms. Was climbing the stairs n DM asked me about how i did in my maths exams?? I said, okay! not bad! It was okay! "I had attended for say 120" I said. Then i asked why?? He said "No no! Leave it!" and he went.

I was indifferent. Went to class to find that the results are getting announced on that day. I knew that it would be a repetition of the first sem results. By that time, i had attained nirvana about marks. I was not expecting anything. Guess it was third period. Principal, HOD of CS Dept, Hemavathi ma'am, n our SOM lecturer Anil Kumar came to our room with the results sheet. They were about to announce. They were pretty happy with our results. They said there is a special attraction in the results of our class and they'll let us know about it later. First they announced the leaders. I stood nowhere in the top 5 i guess. I dint feel anything. Then, Ma'am announced that somebody in our class has got 100 out of 100 in our class and that is Sandesh Karanth. Hehe! I was not at all expecting that. Everyone was so surprised about that!! Ours was the first batch in the college n i was the first person to get a 100 in any subject in the history of our college. I couldnt believe it! Just couldnt believe it! I was congratulated by one n all for that n i felt happy! Just recollecting that moment. Still makes me feel so happy about that.

I was greeted by people whom i didnt knew! Those who had ego problems with me. I was surprised by such things. Some people who knew me(from other class) came to my class asking who is sandesh karanth?? they knew me without knowing my name! hehe! It all happened! I was not that happier even when i stood first in my third semester. They said that in the whole university, only 8 had got 100/100 n i was one among them! I felt "Coooooooooool"!!!

Still if i recollect those things, i feel so happy! That gave me a seperate recognition in the college. Even now, if i go to college, people treat me remembering that incident.

This remains the dream paper attended by me! I value it so much not becoz i scored a hundred in that! Its 'coz i attended a paper without any preparation and got the satisfaction of attending an exam. This will remain THE PAPER in my life.

Just thought of sharing this in blog!

As always, do post yo comments. Will blog more frequently making time fo it!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A terrible day to blog about...

Hey All!

Well, I could have given a better title to this post but am not able to think of one! It comes under many categories! I've already given some 4-5 titles and am not satisfied! Dunno whether i'll change it further! Lets see!

Meanwhile, if you are tryin to find some posts in my Kannada blog, you can't find any( Its still waiting for its 100th post to be completed! Have many things to blog in that! Dunno what to chose for the 100th post! Its not as a milestone as such, but still, dunno why i'm delayin a post in that blog!). Will blog something interesting in that as soon as possible.

Had got some amazing replies for my previous post in this blog(Both as comments as well as personal opinions outside blog)! Really feel happy about it! It was a nice incident. Do keep commenting.

Dont blame about this Loooooooooooooooooong post! It gets interesting by the end!

Lemme tell ya about the incident on which i'm bloggin now! It was a sunday evening, 4-5 weeks ago, at around 9:30 pm. It was another sunday where i was wondering what to do?? Those were the days where i was not interested in reading, blogging, doing some creative work(Nah!)! You couldnt find me @ home, even if you did, you'd probably seen me messaging, messagin n messaging! Those were the days i was totally behind messaging forwards,( My record is say 1827 messages a day, which i havent thought of breaking yet! Will do it in the near future! =) ). All my friends were busy! Some were at their office( poor guys), some had some function to attend, some had to get prepared fo some interviews! They had their own reasons! I was even fed up of messaging that day, i had messaged some 1200 messages that day, got bored n thought that i'll just roam around somewhere ( unknown destination) for sometime!

I had my lunch, set myself ready for the destination! Had met an orkut friend who was forcing me to meet ( dunno why?? that was the first as well as last time i met that person!) Forget about that! Thats anotha long story! Will post it some other day with a different title n a label!

That was in Barista, Church Street! It got over by 5:30. After that, i headed myself towards Shivajinagar bus stand wondering where to go! Came to Shivajinagar! I had seen in the newspaper that there is a concert by Hamsalekha in National College Ground! Thought i'll go there! Just saw a bus with a board to Jayanagar n boarded that!

Alas! For my bad luck, no buses were going via Indian Express but were taking a different route ( via Commercial Street), reason being a procession from the muslims on behalf of some festival. They were having a procession in all major roads of Bangalore! I thought okay! Since long I hadnt been to commercial street, will have a beat around it! anyhow, the concert was supposed to get started by 6, there would be stupid speeches from some idiotic politician!! I'll go late so that i'll be in time for the concert!

The bus crossed Commercial street, i thought it'll take a turn towards Ulsoor but it took exactly the opposite direction! I was wondering why would a Jayanagar bus go via that road?? Its totally in the opposite direction! He passed Kamaraja road( where i saw more Kaat(tamilian) sayings, something about thiruvalluvar, his works n crap! What has it gotta do in Bangalore?? Huh! Will write more about it in my Kannada blog! I thought it would take a different route ( preferably a shorter one, hehe! which i dont know =( ).

Meanwhile, things had gone wrong! We were affected by procession on our way, delayin things, along with two filthy passengers havin a hot chat with the conductor regarding ticket, They were drunk by 5:45! phew! Dunno where these people come from! They had one pass and were arguin with conductorto allow them both! Conductor was new n was unable to handle the situation so were the people around as they were not ready to make their hands dirty with the drunk ( Including me, i was in a different mood, thinking about the stupid kaat writing!) They were cursin like anythin! Conductor asked them to get down but they refused! This went on and on and on.......

This went on till we reached B.R.Ambedkar Road, Frazer Town. I was wondering why the heck was this bus goin towards Frazer Town when i realised that this stupid conductor had changed the board! Yappa! That was a bus to Kammanahalli i guess! Now i was cursin my bad luck when these drunken monkeys started smoking and lying down in the back seat! Got Irritated with things goin around n got down in the next stop! It was somewhere in the ambedkar road in filthy frazer town! A narrow road breadin a vomitin smell! Had to get outa that place asap! Just crossed the road, boarded a bus to shivajinagar on spot, thanks to traffic created by the procession! Was headin to Shivajinagar! He went via Kamaraja Road, Coles park, Queens Road and Indian Express!

Got down @ Indian Express! Meanwhile, the procession had moved away from Indian Express! I dropped my plan to Jayanagar, thought i'll watch some movie in Majestic! Was waiting for a bus! Dint get a bus to Majestic or Market! Got one after 15 minutes! To market! Thought i'll get down in Corporation n head towards Majestic!

Got down @ Corporation! Saw a huge procession near Nrupatunga Road, heading towards Majestic! Thought i'd betta change my plans! It was 6:45! I made up my mind not to go to Majestic! Got a bus to Market! Thought i'll go to the concert again! Took the bus! My bad luck continued! There was a procession near Town Hall Circle (Huh!) DAMN THIS PROCESSION!!! Somehow reached Market by 7:15!

Thought there'd be no procession near Basavanagudi n nearby area! Took a bus to Banashankari n got down at Chamarajpete! Thought i'll walk my way till National College Grounds). Went there by 7:45! It was a huge crowd! The speech was still goin on! Dunno when the program would start! Waited there for some 15 minutes! There were no signs of the concert to start! Forget it! I'll head home! I thought that way and started myself towards Ramakrishna Ashrama.

Now a thought came to me, why shouldnt i call Seena n just meet him?? Well thats a good idea! Called him up! First time for the day, for my good luck, he was just in Basavanagudi, just a few streets ahead of me! We decided upon a place n met! Went to Vishweshwarapura's Food Street, had some junk, strolled a bit in Sajjan Rao Circle, chatted all the way( obviously! ) n headed back to basavanagudi! I went to Ramakrishna Ashrama while he headed towards Channammanakere Achchukattu!

Now comes the interesting part of the story!

Just took a bus to market! Was messaging all my way! The bus was vacant! Nobody was sitting beside me! I was happy about that! Now, a person boarded a bus in Chamarajapete! Sat next to me! I continued messaging while he was starin @ me doin that. Big Deal! I kept on messaging! We were about to reach market! Near Kote Maidana (Fort ground), he started a chat with me n there started another irritation for me! Conversation goes....(Ofcourse, translated from Kannada to English)

He asked "New mobile or what?? Looks pretty attractive!"

"Nope, its almost 1.75 years old!"

"Oh yeah! Good maintainence"

"Thanks!"

"BTW, what are you doing??"

I got irritated, controlled myself n answered " Am a software engineer, working at Subex Azure"

"Cool! Since when??"

"one and a half years! what are you doing??"

"Am working as a lineman in doddaballapura!"

"Okay! Good to meet you! I'll get down, have to take a different route!"

"Where do you stay??"

"Byatarayanapura, near yelahanka!"

When all this happened, i hadnt observed him much! He was more of a villager! Working in a town! Thought he's not a guy who tries to cheat or do harm! No harm in talkin to him! He got down along with me n we started walkin towards Market from Vanivilas! when suddenly he asked - "Are you a gangadaki gowda??"

(Dunno whether its gangadaki or somethin else, sounds similar)

I was astonished! How can anyone ask such a question to a perfect stranger! I excused him once more and answered "No! We are Brahmanas"

"Oh! Okay! do you know anyone who belong to that community??"

I desperately wanted to escape from this person! Damn him and his questions! "Nope! I dont know anyone one! In fact, i havent heard of that community and you are the first person of that community i'm speakin with!"

"No, the matter is i'm planning to get married and am searching for a gangadaki female, so, if you know anyone of that cast, you may tell me as well so that i can go ahead!"

CRAP!! Am i a marriage broker?? Do i look like one?? What does he think of me?? "No boss! I dont know anyone of that community n its gettin late! I have to go! Bye"

"Hello, just wait a second, listen to me, first of all, tell me yo name".

"Sandesh Karanth. Yours??"

"Giridhar! Gimme yo mobile number"

Now that was not the thing i expected from a stranger! But he has seen me with my cell! It would be nice not to give my number n i asked for his number.

"Its 9......... Gimme a missed call!" (Will disclose it at the end! If you know any gangadaki gowdas, you can give the details to that number!)

Unwillingly i gave a missed call! He got it!

Then he started to chat like anything! He was new to Bangalore, he told me about his job, he is a mysorean, spent most of his education in Mangalore! He knows Tulu! He recollected my name( caught Karanth) and asked you are from Mangalore?? I said no, I'm from Kota, Kundapura!

"Oh! You know Tulu?? I know Tulu very well! Yaan mangalooralle odiddu! ( Tulu mixed with Kannada )"

"Nope! You cant find tulu in Kundapura! Its a different accent of Kannada spoken over there!"

He gave me more details about him! He studied in Mangalore where he got a true blue friend (Rohit i guess is his name), he spoke abt Rohit n his family! His good deeds, They were close friends. They would share everything n all crap! Rohit is a rich guy! They have an estate! But the good part is all members of his family are unegoistic! He told me all crap about his friend n stuff! He's got a brother n he's finished his reading n is posted somewhere else! Both of them are under electricity dept! His parents are poor n he had to take control of the family n lead!

I now had a soft corner for this guy! We reached bus stand by now and were waiting for a bus towards Yelahanka! He had to go to Upparpete police station and talk to his uncle! He would go to his house in Jayanagara and the next morning to work! He didnt knew which bus to take as he was new to Bangalore!

I said fine! I'll tell you the route! Its on my way! Get down at majestic and i'll tell you the route!

We waited in the bus stand! Now comes the turning point! He said,

"You see, i am not well versed in operating a mobile! could you please store you number in my mobile??"

Now, the cunning fox inside me came into picture! I got his cell! Checked the called list! Went to Missed calls list! Checked that mine was the first number! I was simultaneously speaking to him, pretending to store my number! Just deleted my number from missed call list! Next number was also not stored! I stored that number in my name in his cell and gave it back to him! Pooooof! I felt a sudden loss of weight from my head! Was happy at that instant doin that!

He went on chatting with me! We got a bus now, he chatted all the way! He asked about my details. I had given him wrong details purposefully! He then discussed about his plans in work, his future goals n stuff like that! He used to say some tulu dialogs in between( i dint understand even a single bit of it). He was trying to impress me that he was close to my culture! He thought that even Kundapura people spoke Tulu! I waved my head to his tunes! At last after 1/2 an hour, (thanks to Traffic Jams in K.G.Road) we reached majestic! He asked me to keep in contact! Be my friend!

I was laughing inside and said "Okay! Bye..."

Once he left, I was feelin happy for what i did! Reached home! Discussed 'bout this with my dad n laughed out loud! But after sometime, i felt the guilt inside me rising! I shouldnt have done that! He believed in me! I had cheated his trust!

After this, i was feeling like have i started to fool around people??

Have similar incidents of foolin people n will post about that soon!

Hope this post kept you busy fo sometime! Sorry for the yawnin lengthy post!

See you till i post one again!

=)

Monday, April 23, 2007

Just can't forget this!

Long time! no blog!

Though i had many topics to blog on, i even encountered many problems also! Unfortunately i couldnt give prominence to blog, n had to concentrate on work! Cant help it!

Here I am, once again, to blog with a topic which has made me to blog even though i have lots to do at office! I am so waiting to blog it out! Cant keep it any longer within me!

Had been to mysore last friday once again! Though i had promised that i would blog my first trip to mysore, i couldnt coz of the same reasons!

I wouldnt blog on my whole trip to mysore! It would be a huge post! ( Will blog it as soon as possible, making time ), These days i'm not blogging much frequently! Just posting once in a month which i feel is very bad! I had some mails n scraps from my friends asking me to blog! I would reply that i will blog and never made up my mind to blog! But not today! I am waiting to blog! Just chuck the thing outa my mind! Dunno how you take it but here it goes... Do post comments if you have any!

As I had said previously, had been to mysore bunking office! ( At last! Feelin happy like a baby fo that! ) That was one of the trip i'll never forget! Though many of my friends couldnt make it, me, Raghu n Prashanth went to mysore to meet Sucheet! Will blog more about it! Had loads of fun!

Coming to the bloggin topic, we had been to Kalidasa rasthe(K.D.Road) near gokula! Thats equivalent to brigades of Bangalore according to many mysoreans! Its just an adda for many young teenagers n students! We went there just to pass time till 9 as we had planned to go to Chamundi betta after that! (Everytime i stayed in mysore, i never missed a beat to chamundi hills during night! Its really awesome at that time! Try it out to get a feel for it! Thanks to Sucheet n all the members of Kopple gang! (Shukla, Pavan, Preetham, Prashant, Santosh, et al) Though the bad thing is i have never been to the temple atop! :-( ) Its hardly a kilometer away from Sucheet's room!

Just got down after parking the car in front of HSBC bank! The tradition in our gang is to just watch babes ( as they call it! ) though i was not interested in such things! Its not that our gang was bad! They had no bad intentions n were just coming to pass time! We were just strollin ( just some 10 - 20 stepsahead of the parkin lot! ). Dusk! Around 6:30! All we saw were the faded images in the setting sun and the dim street lights just lightened up! Now, we saw a female walkin with her mom! Decent, elegant, un-egoistic, well dressed! Add on as many adjectives as you want! ( I hardly use such adjectives as they are relative! You might not see me using them, but i dont know, i somehow feel like using it! ) I somehow got interested as others and just looked at her! Everybodywere just watching her! Now comes the best part! She saw us staring at her! She just looked at me n just smiled! A plain, pure, friendly smile! Now that was not even the last thing I expected from her! I smiled back in same fashion! she walked away n I took my way!

This is all that happened! But I couldnt keep quiet! I kept on analysing it! Of all the anonymous females i've seen, that too of my age none of them had smiled at me for the first time! A girl with her mom beside, givin a smile of contention to an anon male of her own age is not something I had ever seen and expected! I was impressed by the way things happened! Hats off to her parents n the way they brought her up! Throwing a smile for a smile! What a good way to communicate! ( may be I'm elaborating too much here, but I'm feelin like writing more n more about it! ). Every female i accidentally stare while walking, commuting in bus, or whatever, used to just curse, take a different route or take scope ( in local slang! hehe!! ), feel shy (orthodox females) or do something other than smiling back! This was probably the first such incident with an anonymous female! That might be the reason for my happiness! I had many such experiences with males (now one of my best friends).

Though we had communicated just less than 5 seconds, she had left an un-erasable impression on me! (Not the ugly thought what you are thinking! I liked her attitude! I consider her one of my good n best friend from whom i learnt a very good part of life! ). I dont know her name, neither any details about her!
( I dont care to know! ) but I feel so elated just by thinking about her! You feel so good! You need to experience such a thing by yourself to get the feel for it! I just cant come outa it! She had given me something I'll never forget!

My friends, if they look at this post will add on another name into their teasing list! Hehe! Big deal! Let them! I always liked them teasing me! I dont know what name they give! Some have already started teasing( looking at my gmail caption)!

I just ask one question to all of them! "Cant there be any other relationship between a male n a female other than love???" This is just one such relationship which i consider is pure, unselfish friendship!

No matter what, this will be one of the things I'll ever remember in my life! This post is dedicated to her!

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Travelled in Volvo fo the first tyme!

Hehe! These days i'm able to make time for blogging more frequently! Came home a bit early!

Yesterday, Jagga hadnt finished his work completely n hence he asked me whether we can leave fo office early the next day! I was not willing to go that early! I asked him to leave early! I'll not be joining him! "By chance if i get ready early tomorrow, i'll be coming with you, or else, you leave early! I'll come late by bus!"

He said okay and left! I came home! Had my food n was feeling sleepy! Aaah! Such a nice nap! I woke up by 8 when my parents had arrived attending a upanayana in Kota! I then remembered that i need to go by bus! I got ready by 8:45! Was at the bus stand by 8:50!

I was planning to take a daily pass as i usually do when i travel by bus! By looking at Volvo, I decided that lemme try volvo atleast for once! So i dropped the idea of taking a daily pass! Boarded the volvo! It had been 2 weeks since volvo had been introduced in our route! (Majestic - Yelahanka). One thing! The tickets are costlier! They cost you thrice the amount as in a normal BMTC bus! I just sat in the bus! Was enjoyin the cosy environment! By the time i reached Kodigehalli gate, the conductor had come, i took a ticket for Majestic! It costs me 30 bucks! ( 3 x 9 = 27, three rupees more than the usual fare in red- board!)

There were hardly 12 people! I took my usual window seat at the back! It was awesome! On full AC(Though i prefer normal temperature, i liked the AC in the bus!). Radio in the background! The bus mostly vacant for the whole journey, and a book in hand (Few are grumbling! Why does this guy takes a book wherever he goes??) I was happy for that! Enjoyed my full journey! Boarded the bus at 9:00 AM and enjoyed the travel like anything! Was at Majestic by 9:35! (Wow!! Thats cool! It would have been atleast 9:45 - 10:00 if i had taken a normal bus)!! I thought cool!

Though the fare is way too costly, the feel it gives is much more satisfying! Its good to commute in a volvo bus atleast once getting that facility! The ride is really awesome! You wont feel any discomfort! I bet you'll surely enjoy the ride! Even if you are standing!

Had just heard of the comfort in a volvo! Experienced it for the first time! Go for it when you feel like! Dont care for the money! Paying it for once is worth!

Monday, February 26, 2007

The dream that i cant forget!

I'm sittin on the scooter in front of my house riding! My friend, Ashoka on the pillion seat as a traveller! We are playing a game where i'm the bus driver and he is the passenger! After a round, i'll be the pillion rider and he'll be the rider! Simple game!

Ours was a Gang of Six during sundays! Me, my sister(Shubha), My cousins Chaitanya n Chinmaya and our neighbours Deepak a.k.a deepu and Ashok casually called ashoka! Once sunday comes we used to meet n play things like cricket, lock n key, Eye Spies(previously mis-understood as ice pies! Hehe! =D ) or some other game! We used to have pure, genuine fun every week! (gone are those days in midst of this corporate Shit). Cant help it! You need to pass all stages!

It was a gang of four on the days we had school! My cousins were stayin @ Hebbal n were meeting us only during holidays! Me, Akka, Deepu n Ashoka! We were finishing our homework as early as possible and were off to play! Somedays where we had a more of homework, we used to play first and then do our homework! Will blog more on my childhood days more often!

That day when ashoka n i were playin, akka hadnt come from school yet! She had an extra class to attend and Deepu wasnt home yet! Dunno why??!!

So, myself n ashoka started to play "Bus aata". I was riding the parked scooter making sounds "Brum brum burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" and was involved in the play when suddenly a gurkha from nowhere entered! All these days, gurkhas were just roaming here n there just to maintain things n i was wondering why he entered our house??

While i was thinking this, he came to us and clutched our neck! He grabbed my neck while he was about to catch ashoka's neck, he just escaped from it by a fraction of a second! He started running! But i was still gasping! He had a perfect grip on my neck! I was not able to move! Forget moving, i was not able to take my breath! I was struggling like hell! Was tryin to scream but couldnt! Even though my instincts took control of my body, it was of no use!

I dont know what was his purpose! To my surprise nobody is there in the vicinity! None of my family members were there! Even this ashoka dint come to me or bring in anyone! I was feeling that i would die! Was studying first standard i guess! Couldn't think of any such thing at that stage! I was literally gasping for breath!

It was 6:30 a.m! Appa and amma were already awake and were watchin me holdin my throat and tryin to scream! They were not knowin what was happening to their kid! I was struggling to take my breath on bed! Suddenly Appa just shook me off and i was outa my dream!

Aaah! What a sigh of relief! It was just a dream! But still i was horrified by that! Appa amma started asking questions as to what happed to me?? Why was i so scared?? I explained them the whole thing and they consoled me! "Lo! Eno neenu?? Kansigella heeg hedrkotheeyallo?? Hedrpukla!" (For english readers, Hey! Why do you get so scared of dreams??) was the reply from my sister! Finally i was alright!

That was the only dream i remember having and couldnt ever forget! I wrote reading a post on Shruthi's blog!

Now for the tagging part! I ask these people to write on dreams!

1.Shrinidhi, as his views are good to read!
2.Donald, for his wierd dreams!
3.Srinivas, dunno why! Tagging just for the purpose of tagging
4.Tejus, he is a dreamer!
5.Akshay, for his sarcastic views!

Though all dream while sleeping, i wont get any dream(rather i dont remember or whatever!). It might be because i wont compromise my sleep with my engagement! I sleep to the fullest! Let us see who all will continue this tagging thing!

Sso long till i post on another topic!

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Stupid Days!

Dont worry! this post is not related to my work! This is regarding the new culture upcoming in India which is finding its way more deeply in the past 4-5 years!

I'm talkin abt those stupid days like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Fathers Day Friendship Day et al., Such a stupid celebration! These Americans n the Europeans started this stupid culture n we are blindly following it! In the urge to celebrate such things we are forgetting our culture which has festivals with a meaningful cause!

Its like those idiots lacked festivals n they started it! Why the heck should we fllow it?? Isnt it a shame on us to blinly follow such meaningless things!

Yesterday was the so called Valentine's Day! In the morning while we were heading to the office, we used to see many pairs just walkin close all our way!

But, while returning back, we might have seen atleast some 200 couples, some in the same fashion as of morning, while others where holding hands, some were holding hips! (Dont they know public manners!!??) Few couples goin by two wheelers, the back seater embracing the driver, doing all sorts of wild, weird things( You want me to explain such things?? Think you better know it!)

In the mean time i also saw some dejected couples, the female crying! (I think she proposed n he dint agree! :( or they might have eloped from their houses??) I saw another hilarious couple (Dunno who proposed, but the guy was tryin to hold the gal's hand and she threw it getting irritated(probable reasons... 1, she dint knew he was in love with her 2, He dint satisfy her wish( May be getting a present! Huh!) I can give you hundred scenarios like that! But i'm in a hurry to my office now! Jagga may give a missed call anytime! Will list all those scenarios in the upcoming posts!

If you love(if you), do you need a day to celebrate yo love?? If you really care for your friend, you really respect your parents, do you need a day dedicated for them to make them happy?? Does it mean that on the other days you might make them disappoint??

If you really care, you dont need a day to celebrate! Respect that relationship and thats fair enough! Why celebration! This celebration is just FAKE!

Will blog on this in detail some other day!

Hope this brought some light in your mind! If you feel against this post, feel free to comment! Anytime i'm ready to express my views!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Anotha Nightout!

This must be one of the boring posts!

Posting @ this hour and that too a lousy topic like this! This is not a night out dont by force! I took the decision! Was assigned a task a week before! It gave me strange errors! ( Dunno why! Only I get such errors!) One good thing is my manager is cool! He is not taking this seriously! Good for me! Some DB related issue! I dunno who created this Database! I prefer flat files! I HATE DATABASES! Its nothing but pure fuss!

This issue had to be closed today n i'm still lagging! I should have come tomorrow as my PL told! I thought i'll complete it today n be happy for 3 more days as we've got an extra day leave on the occasion of Bundh! Think so its not possible!

Tryin something at code level! I'm gettin the legendary SEGFAULT! Memory is released n its tryin to access the same location after the release! I dunno how it was working all these days!! Huh!

These days i've reached the heights of Frustration! Hating everything in my way! Cursing people who come in my way! You should ask anybody who daily interacts with me! Its just Irritation, Frustration n hatred! I dunno where am i heading! Have to find a way out! I'll become an even bigger psycho if i leave it as it is!

Thought of takin a fresh checkout from the repository n giving it for a compilation! Meaningless at this point of time! Have to wait for another hour for it to finish compilation! Hence, chatting with my overseas cousin and surprisingly another cousin @ Hyderabad, Nidhi!

Huh! Its still compiling! Almost 45 minutes since i gave it for compilation! Listening to some Kannada songs and songs of Metallica, Linkin Park! Right now, somewhere i belong! How true are the lyrics for me at this point! I have the lyrics of Numb pasted in my cubicle! People who look at it laugh! Hehe ;^)

Okay! Its almost 4 now! Will try to finish it now! Or else, will go home by 6:30! Will come back at 10:30-11 and have to finish it off! One big question i have is how was it working all these days!! :( I dont have an answer! Hope i'll find one!

cya! Dunno what to wish! Too late for good night! Too early for Good morning! All i can say is "Why the hell are you awake at this point of time??" (Traces of Psycho!!!)

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Costly Things are costly to maintain!!!!




Hey Guys! Back with a post!!

Had less of work on Friday. Left the office early(By 7:45pm), and we headed home! Just stopped at the usual panipuri shop @ Church Street. We were having ma
sala puri when a call came from the office that there is a mob @ Shivajinagar, so avoid that! Wanna know the reason?? Saddam was hanged, and all the muslims here were arranging for a meet( Dunno why!!) Accidentally someone by mistake had torn one of the banner near Shivajinagar n this raised an issue among them! They started the fight throwing stones @ public n setting two wheelers ablaze! (Who knows why???). I was interested to go via the same route but Jagga refused.

So, we took a deviation @ Anil Kumble circle @ M G Road! Went via the Circle near by Meuseum Road, Minsk Square! He said that we'll go via Raj Bhavan, but i insisted we go via Indian Express! I just wanted what were they fighting for!! Just took a right turn near the Capitol Hotel n we headed to Indian Express! There were a lot of policemen controlling the condition! I saw no fight over there but an Auto with a banner in Urdu, Kannada n English! They said Saddam is a friend of India( I dont know how!) n they protest hanging Saddam! It was also hoisting a black flag! Now what can they do for something that has happened?? It is an irreversible process! I'm not taking sides by saying what Bush did was wrong or what these people are doing is right?? What will happen if they fight?? Its totally of no use!

We didnt experience any disturbance on our way back home! I came home at around 9, had my food,spoke with some friends (Bhandary, Praveen, Yogesh n Hemanth!). Walked a bit n set myself on bed! I was ready to message!

I sent some 300 messages and was feeling sleepy! Thought i'll sleep and went to bed at around 1am!

Woke up by 9:00 in the morning! Finished my daily duties and was set to read the newspaper having my breakfast! Just browzed thru the paper! I am not reading newspaper as i was reading while i was at college! Dont have that patience to read everything (Dont want to spend more time reading a newspaper on a weekend! Cant make time during the weekdays!) tried Sudoku for 10 minutes! It said its hard and so it was! I couldnt finish more than some 15 squares! Thought i'll finish it later!

Took a bath! Was just wiling away my time! I dont know! I waste time like this! Wont spend it more fruitfully!! thought i'll read something n took a book in my hand! Dint even read 3 lines n i closed it! It has become boring to do anything these days! Gotta come outa this! (Hope so soon!) I thought of messaging! Sent some 600 messages and amma called mefor lunch! Had my lunch and i went to the local BSNL customer care office located at Sahakaranagara! We had applied for a Broadband connectin way back in November and we still havent ot the service. Went for a walk to that office with appa! Long time i had walked withhim! Was very much happy for that! We spoke of general things n i like to do that!

These people at government office are so adamant n they said that you'll get the service by March! We are laying ports and that'll take time till march! You wont get it till then! I was frustrated but what can we do?? We just set back! Came outa that office and had watermelon(Kallangadi) juice at Ganesh Fruit Juice Centre just next to this office! Came back to home! I thought i'll meet my friends and informed them! I was at majestic by 4:40 and one one turned up!Raghu, Susheema were busy! Hemu said that we'll meet up but he dint come! Yogi also dint come!

Okay! I thought i've come to majestic! Lemme take things i thought of taking since two weeks! Went to Burma Bazaar ( next to old Hajee Jana, Near Tribhuvantheatre), applied a new cover to the screen my S700i! Went to Alankar Pearl plaza! Stopped at Mysore Times and asked for a new strap for my Titan Edge!

I was totally shocked to hear the price! The same belt (same color) was priced Rs.525/- only! I couldn't blieve it! I asked once more! He said its 525! "Isit for another watch??" i asked! He laughed! "Sir! You've taken such a costly watch and now you are asking as if you dont know anything!! I was seriously shocked!!! You can take atleast 3 watches at burma bazaar or Hongkong bazaar or say National Market!! What the heck! 525 for a strap of leather???? I said doyou have any other varieties for this watch?? He showed me two three designs none cheaper than 250! I said i havent got that much money! I thought it wouldcost some 50 bucks or so and came outa that showroom!

I headed for another titan showroom near Menaka Theatre! Asked over there as to how much would a strap for Edge would cost! The personnel over there showedme the same kinda strap and said that it would cost me 360 bucks! I was once again shocked for the price but check out the difference! 525 - 360!! I thought i'll visit some more showrooms and get it done where i get it cheap! I dint take a strap for that day. Went to market! Gotta get something for home! Purchased them1 Took a bus and landed @ Byat!

It was 8! had some snacks! watched TV for some time and had my lunch! went to bed @ 10 o clock! sent some 500 messages and was asleep!

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A hilarious incident on December 25th

Hey all!

That mysore post is gettin delayed coz i haven't uploaded the pics yet! Meanwhile enjoy reading this post that happened to me on 22nd December 2006.

They were celebrating Christmas in our office (Though they dont celebrate Ugadi, Krishnashtami n other festivals), they were preparing for christmas like anything since a week, making arrangements for it! They planned to celebrate it on 22nd of December as we had a holiday on 25th.

Atlast December 22nd arrived n at around 5pm, a gang arrived to our floor singing hymns of christ (which i dint understand!!) singing Jingle bells n otha songs with a guitar! This went on for say 10 minutes n after that, one among them started saying something abt christ n his deeds for say 2 minutes! Cant recollect his words or else i wud have presented exactly the same! Finally he said "We are collecting money on this event! dont hesitate to donate! It'll fund an orphanage n you'll be helping many by donating!

I thought, i'll contribute! There was a Santa Claus in the midst! He was giving chocolates to all! With him was a female who was collecting money! Now comes the funniest part!

Me n Jagga were discussing how much to donate! Jagga hadn't bought any money that day as he had kept his purse @ home! I'll take mine everyday but unfortunately i just had a 500 rupee note! No 100s, 50s or even 10s except an old 20 rupee note which i hesitate to spend! Okay! I thought that let me donate 100 bucks from my account! Then Jagga came to me n explained his situation! We thought abt this n we decided that both of us together will donate 100 rupees! I'll put 500 in the box n get 400 back!

Meanwhile, Jagga had gone to one o my collegue n borrowed a 100 rupee note. Once the Santa Claus n the lady came to us, he had put that 100 bucks! Santa had given him two small chocolates!( Just like dairy -milk eclairs). I was confused!

I desperately needed change for 500! So i went to the lady n asked for change! Then she said tell me how much are you donating! Seeing 500 bucks in my hand, Santa had given me a big BAR-ONE (Really big in size, dunno the quantity!). Then suddenly Jagga came in between n said that the 100 rupee note he gave is from both of our side!

That lady got so frustrated that she went staring at me! She was totally angry at me n walked off my cubicle! Even the so called Santa was staring at me like anything behind the mask! I dint understand the situation! But once she left, I couldnt stop laughing analysing the situation! How mean of them!

Even now if i think of that incident, i just cant stop laughing! Hope this brought a smile on yo face!

Enjoy! Leaving for the day! Wait for the mysore post!

Wait for a post on My Mysore Trip!

Hi there!

Back with a post today! Had been to mysore for the first time in my life! Hadn't taken a digital camera! Took some pics from my cell! Will post on it soon along with the pics! Wait until then!

Catchya soon!

Friday, January 12, 2007

Not goin for the New year bash!

Back after a long time!

Its really good to blog after such a long time. Have many things to write in mind but am boringly busy these days with my job. My weekly routine has been fixed! During weekdays, get up @ 8, get ready fo office, start @ 9, reach office @ 10, work out things here even if you dont understand a single thing here! Do some silly thing n make my PL angry, do some rubbish work, start for home @ 9-10, have food, go to sleep!

During the weekends, i'll have many ideas to implement though i dont plan, everything gets upside down! Thats why i wont plan anything! It just flies away! meet friends, hog like anything, enjoy n thats all! Life has becom boringly static for me! No change! Meanwhile, i forward message when i get time!

I'm blogging this freely today as my task is taking time n all my collegues have gone for the new year bash! Stupidity @ its best! Thought of blogging something but no ideas are hitting my brain!

Will blog something interesting soon! Catch up with you soon! ;-)

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Staying back @ office for the second time!

Got some change requests from the client n i'm lazy as usual to complete!

Had to finish the thing within tomorrow afternoon(Dunno how! )

My PL asked me to stay back! I agreed (Dunno what was my mood at that point of time!) n was analysin what to do! As usual, i was not interested in what i was doing but cant help it!

Even my PL knows abt this! We had dinner @ some hotel ( not used to such things! Had it to give company to him! ). I tool curdrice n he took some parota ( crushed one! Kaat style). We discussed abt how i felt being in the team! I openly expressed n he knew my point! I dint hide anything. He said that though you are not interested, you've gotta do the assigned work coz you are paid for it! You are one year expreienced now n cant ask doubts like a fresher! You should be in a position to guide freshers!

I said " I know! Problem lies in me! I was lazy in doing things! I concentrated only on my tasks n dint explore much on the whole project for which i'm now struggling to get a clear picture of the whole."

Striving to get that!

Meanwhile, we returned back n i again started thing i knew dint work! Streched myself till 1 n got a reason to report! He gave a solution n that took long! He said we'll wind up for today n continue tomorrow! Gotta get up by 6:30 n go home! Take a bath n come back with Jagga! Dunno whether i'll be able to do that! Its 1:20 at this instant!

Will check blog abt what happens tomorrow soon!

Good night forthose who are seeing it now n good morning for the wakers!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Decided to blog this in English!

Hi All!

As you know from the title, from today, i'll blog this in english! Its for those friends who say that they can't understand kanglish better! It goes for all you guys! But i may put in some kanglish sentences in between to express my feelings in a raw fashion!

Since three months, i hardly got opportunity to blog frequently! Have got some stupid work to do @ office, n am not making time to blog! Improper blogging was also affected by blocking of blogger in India as well as my office for some days.

Now, they've removed the restriction on blogger n have restricted sites like orkut, gazzag, mp3shits, etc.,

I cudnt even access sites for lyrics coz they had links to mp3s. Huh!

Got some time n blogging! Will post something soon! may be today itself! Wait for some time.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Innmele dina blogugalu!

Ellargu Kannada Rajyothsavada haardika shubhaashayagalu!

Sadhyadralle manege BSNL internet connection sigaththe! Sikkmele dina blog hodeetheeni! alli thanaka kaayri!

Monday, September 04, 2006

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naanu ee kelsakke serkondiddu september 9th 2005 ne dinaanka. Erad varsha bondu!

Adu yaavaga mugiyaththo antha kacheriyalliro nann ganakadalliro oracle tantramshadalli ee command kottu kottu sumne heege nodtha irtheeni! Eno samadhaana! Dina ondh ondh anki kammi aagaththalla antha!

Nanganthu illi kelsa bejaaraagbittide! Andre IT industry ne bejaarantha alla! Corporate environmente bejaaraagbittide.

Sumne heege ondh post bareebeku annisthu! barde.

Adu yaavaga sonne aagaththo antha nodona.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Enaadru kali!

Ee blogina eradane postige swagatha!

Monneyinda ondh hosa pustaka sikthu! adanna odhakke nodtha iddini! Thumba ishta aagtha ide adanna odhakke! Aadre eno goththilla, sariyaagi odhakkagtha illa! Odhtha iddre niddhe banda haagagtha ide! Kannu noyaththe! Iththeechege computer screen nodi nodi abhyaasa aagbittide! Kannu hechchaagi ureetha ide!

Adannu aadashtu bega kalthu asquarewholetheta dalli prakatisuththene.

Inn mele nann bagge ene bareyodiddru ee blogalli bareetheeni.

Inthi nimma,

Ko Vi Sandesha Karantha

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Nann blog deleted! Hosa blog created!

en nodtha iddira??

Ee blog naanu munchene create maadidde! settings alli eno kirikk kodtha iththu! Adakke aa blog delete maadi, idanna shuru maadide! Nodona! idralli en bareebekantha innu yochne maadilla! Kaaytha iri!