crush

Everyone in their lives would have had crushes, and me too had my share of crushes. But, it didn't take much time for each of them to turn to crashes. None of my crushes took off, or probably they crashed even before they took off !! Today, when I look back, I cant manage but to have a laugh. My first crush was on Miss R. I was in my tenth then. We happened to speak only once. It was when I had offered her a coke. She refused to have it and the very next moment I gulped it down. I still cant forget the dumbstruck look on her face. A few days later, she started going around with one of my classmates. They used to go for wonderful evening walks, Miss R, my classmate and her doggy. Unfortunately(fortunately for me), the affair didn't last too long. On one such romantic walk of theirs, my classmate was bitten by the doggy. He brought up the question : Its me or the dog......she chose the dog !!! The news gave me sadistic pleasure. The next crush didn\'t take much time to happen. It was Miss S who walked in to class. I literally had my jaws hanging seeing her. We became good friends...but I never fancied my chances...given the Miss N experience. She was my Biology project partner....while she did the project...I concentrated on her biology ! Just as the boards got over, and as I was mustering enough courage to tell her, her dad got transferred. She changed the city. Next in engineering college, there was this hottie in my class. Boy....she was a babe...Miss G. She used to stand opposite to me in the EEE lab. I prayed for some EEE to happen between us. But I guess, she was much smarter than I was. Miss G realised that I used to mess up all my experiments coz I used to be looking at her and not the apparatus. I called her out ALONE on my b\'day. She turned up with her whole bunch of friends. The girls kept giggling and I looked for a place where I could go and bang my head.I steered clear of her for the rest of my engineering days. Moving on from here, it was a major success story. This time round, it took some time for things to crash....just a little longer..a bit more than five years. Everything seemed like a fairy tale when the crash factor took the better of me. By this time, I was in my job and I decided to use the term "interest" instead of crush. So , my interest grew in Miss L in office. I thought she was a very pretty lady. Thankfully, the growth of my interest stopped very soon, the moment I learnt that she was supposed to go on leave the next week for her marriage. She was to marry her long time boyfriend. Only one thought came to my mind....The good ones are always taken !!! Ha ha ha.....thankfully.....I have grown out of all these......no more CRUSHES.....so no chances of CRASHES......I live this way now.....hey...wait.....who is this girl ???? ;-)

one application

one application that does the following 1.acts as server(tcp) 2.acts as client(tcp) 3.acts as a tcp server and client (udp) 4.does muliticasting (udp) 5.does braodcasting (udp) all without user's interference, just by looking at the message format. looking at networks from this side (coding) is certainly making me go nuking futs!

XPE

Gosh XPE is a nightmare.... Steps that are involved to get a driver loaded along with the imgae. I had the need to load unibrain driver and this is the way i found best: Update about the Windows Embedded. The driver for the unibrain can be loaded in the following way. INF files that are need to be componentized: 1.ub1394.inf 2.ubfwnet.inf 3.ubsbp2.inf The above files can be found in the program file folder of the system in which it has already been installed. Lets take an example: ubsbp2.inf Once you build a .sld image in the component designer itself on the left pane click on .sld file 2.click windows xp embedded client 3.click on components 4.click on the driver file 5.click on resources On the right tab right click and say “add” 1.Add FBA Generic Command 2.Add FBA DLL\COM Register 3.Add FBA OC mgr request Import the component into the Database, using component database manager Do the above steps for all the files. Then in the target designer add all the components, there will more than 10 components, and build an image. This is just a trial and error method and it worked fine here. The catch is unibrain driver gets loaded but it will not get displayed in the Network connection. Though the driver does not show up in the network connection, it works. For that we need to do the old trick of adding hardware, this we are doing in windows xp pro as well, so this is a problem with Unibrain windows driver glitch. The above procedure doesnot require us to install unibrain driver for the card separately, it gets burned along with the Image. There is a glitch when the unbrain driver is installed, windows does not recognize and we have to do the “add hardware” to get it listed in the Network connection, but again without doing this also the 1394 card will be functioning. To see that type netsh Netsh>interface Netsh interface>show interface This will list the 1394 connection. I am planning to move all the tech stuff to a different blog... Latest update about my adventures.... got myself hurt once again.

1 year old

started blogging a year ago.... now that was quick

Loading XPE

I was told that Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1 resolves glitches discovered since Microsoft released the operating system last year and also adds new features to the product. XP embedded is a componentized version of windows XP wherein you can choose to add the necessary components for your image. The requirements for creating an image can be obtained from many web sites about this OS. The simplest way that I found for creating an image is as follows: 1.Load the following application from CD-1 and CD-2 (sp1) {you can also download the same from website, but you will need to register the application anyway} TOOLS and DATABASE. This in turn will create a will give applications like: 1. Target Designer 2. Component designer. 3. SDI Loader. 4. Component Database Manager. 5. Target Analyzer.(TAP.exe) 6. Target analyzer (TA.exe) Apart from the Target Analyzer the other things will only work if the database is already loaded and is running. 2.Next step is to create an image of the operating system, for any operating system to run at least the essential components and the dll’s need to be loaded. Instead we breaking our head and trying to load all the components, we can either use TA.exe or TAP.exe. 3.TAP or TA must be installed and run on the machine on which the IMAGE needs to be loaded. 4.Target analyzer Probe (TAP) will be in the following folder structure c:\ProgramFiles\WindowsEmbedded\Utilities5.It is always better to use TAP rather than TA, TAP finds a detailed lit of the drivers that are installed in the target machine. We can say that TA is a subset of TAP. 6.Once you click on the TAP.exe a console window opens up and it runs for a few seconds, and after that in the same directory you will see a file called devices.pmq 7.Rename the file to a more meaningful name {This is just optional but will be useful} 8.Open the component designer and import the .pmq file. 9.Once that is done it will give you one component that comprises of all the drivers that the TAP found. 10.Save this file. 11.Open the component database manager and import your own component into the database. The name of the component will be same as the name of the .pmq file. If you did not rename before. You might see a lot of components named “DEVICES” in the database over a period of time. 12.Now that your component is in the database you can now use it for future purposes. 13.Open the Target Designer and say NEW. 14.It will ask for a name for the configuration file , give a meaningful name. 15.There will be three panels in the Target Designer. 15.1 In the center panel click on settings 15.2 On the right most panel a list of settings will be displayed 15.3 Click on Target image settings and do this: 15.3 If you are planning for a DUAL boot, which is always advisable, change, the drive letter to the drive in which you have planned to load the image. For the boot.ini setting in that itself mention the partition number. Say you are going to load it in D:\ which is a primary partition then say in the partition(2) instead of (1) which means that it will look for the ntldr in second partition. 15.4 Leave it as it is if you are planning to load in the c:Note: BOOT file doesn’t recognize the CD partition, if your second primary partition is E: and your CD drive is D: then in the settings you will have to give the image partition as D: and not as E: 16.Now that the target designer is open you will be able to see your own component in the list. 17.Add that component and the components. 18.After you are finished with adding the components do a dependency check, this will give you a list of all the components that are needed for the components that you have added. 19.Once you resolve all the dependencies you can build the image. 20.The image will give you a folder structure consisting of. Documents and settings, program files, windows, boot.ini, ntldr. Ntloader and weruntime. copy all of these to another drive if you need to perform dual boot or copy to the target device and make the necessary changes in the c:\ boot.ini file in case of a dual boot. 21.Restart the system and it should work well. Note that first time FBA.exe will run and take a while. In the next blog I will talk about the problems that I faced with XPE and how to resolve them. Then also working with .net framework 1.1 applications on XPE.

heck!

Last week was definitely not my week, the start off was bad. Stomach upset from Sunday afternoon and for that reason had to take off on Monday, I swear I would have only shuttled between mens room and my place had I come to office. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were hectic. My manager called and asked me if I were interested in attending a win 32 API training, basically a windows programming course. I was in a fix coz we need that stuff and I din want to ruin my weekend attending that. I accepted it anyway. Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedule was given for training and timing reminded me of my SSN days. Friday night after attending the training while returning home near my grand mum’s place some home my pant got stuck and fell down. I looked at my pant it was in one piece I just dusted it and rode home. I realized reaching home that my right leg had too many scratches but I still was wavery about any airline cracks. Fortunately there was no swelling the next day so I just thanked god. Sunday was even worse, I was coming from Greams road office and was waiting at the saidapet signal. I could here a screeching sound and I looked at my rear mirror, I saw an auto coming and sound made it clear that it was not stopping. On my right was a tempo and on my left was a car, and obviously I couldn’t go ahead coz left to right the vehicles were crossing. I just held both the brakes tight and was waiting for a collision and as expected “bang”. I moved ahead a few inches and then I turned back only to see my new fiero’s tail light and the side plastic part broken. Before I could even speak to that mad screwed up driver… he started sir “ neenga yen sir brake potinga?” I turned and saw for the signal, the signal was still RED. I blasted out “ yo signal le brake podama ennaya pana solurae?”. For that coolly he said “ sir naanum brake potein ana pidikalae vidunga sir” I couldn’t control myself and argued with him and took him to a traffic police who was just standing on the other side. All the while I was thinking I would get some kind of a challan from the police that I could show it to the insurance ppl. The police was the best among the lot, after explaining him though he would have seen the whole stuff he said “vidunga sir unga vandiyum damage,auto vum damage, ippo pesi enna panuradhu?” I tried arguing but in vain. Damn! Every one is linked. The last hope for anyone would be a police personal and you expect him to behave anything but the way he did. ONE BAD DAY!

Ganguly

I am no big or rather no fan of cricket. I thought this information might cool downa few souls, Of late we all have been hearing stories about ganguly.... here is what my friend Shyam prasad has to say about Ganguly.... the statistics speak for themselves. I would like to share some of his Records now,Just to tell you how good he is.Total Test MatchesIndiaPlayed 385 (from 1932 - Till Date) Won 82 Lost 127 Drawn 175 Tie 1 Win % 39.04% Matches won under Ganguly 18 Total Test Matches IndiaPlayedOutside India(Away) 184 won 23 Lost 81 Win % 22.11% matches won Under Ganguly's captaincy(outside India) 9

So all other 27 captains (!!!!!!!!!!) managed only 14 wins outside Indiain 72 Years, surprisingly. Herez India's captains & results & their records:(complete up to and including 2nd Test v Bangladesh, Dec 2004) Tenure Tests Won Lost Dra

C.K. Nayudu 1932-34 4 0 3 1

*Dr Vijay Anand 1936 3 0 2 1

I.A.K. Pataudi 1946 3 0 1 2

L. Amarnath 1947-53 15 2 6 7

V.S. Hazare 1951-53 14 1 5 8

M.H. Mankad 1953-59 6 0 1 5

Ghulam Ahmad 1955-59 3 0 2 1

P.R. Umrigar 1955-59 8 2 2 4

H.R. Adhikari 1958-59 1 0 0 1

D.K. Gaekwad 1959 4 0 4 0

Pankaj Roy 1959 1 0 1 0

G.S. Ramchand 1959-60 5 1 2 2

N.J. Contractor 1960-62 12 2 2 8

M.A.K. Pataudi 1961-75 40 9 19 12

C.G. Borde 1967-68 1 0 1 0

A.L. Wadekar 1970-74 16 4 4 8

S. Venkataraghavan 1975-79 5 0 2 3

S.M. Gavaskar 1975-85 47 9 8 30

B.S. Bedi 1975-78 22 6 11 5

G.R. Viswanath 1979-80 2 0 1 1

KapilDev 1982-87 34 4 7 22

D.B. Vengsarkar 1987-89 10 2 5 3

R.J. Shastri 1987-88 1 1 0 0

K. Srikkanth 1989-90 4 0 0 4

M. Azharuddin 1989-99 47 14 14 19

S.R. Tendulkar 1996-2000 25 4 9 12

S.C. Ganguly 2000-date 44 18 12 14

R. Dravid 2003-04 5 2 2 1

Despite his current poor bating performance, He just need 55 runs to reach 10000 runs milestone.Only two other batsmen's in the world managed to cross this milestone, Little Master Sachin and Inzi. Sachin took 15 years to reach this landmark(10000 runs), but ganguly just in 9 years is on the edge of crossing this landmark.(just 55 to go)He's the best captain India Ever had. He changed the Way we use to play cricket. Tried many youngsters like Shewag, yuvaraj, Bhaji kaif and succeeded with them. Anger, Aggressiveness, Combativeness, Guts to try new things... its all ganguly's chic. So guyz and girls please know the fact b4 criticizing some one. It's easy to forget things but hard to remember the past. Stop criticizing some one when they're in Bad times. Instead try encouraging them. After all National team is not just a FUN. It's our pride. And Ganguly is leading our pride. He's is our Only hope left. And captaincy is a lot more than about getting batting orders, field placings and bowling changes right......... and scoring. "There's a battle he must win, and it's in his mind and HE WILL WIN " Sorry for the crapy alignment! hey guys i am once again giving you the link to the guest map just follow it up.... thanks http://wonderlife.blogspot.com/2005/04/guest-map.html

Guest map

I was looking at a blog and i found this guest map, it looks preety cute. So how does it work and where is it? it is on this page and on the right SIDE BAR. Just below 'i power blogger button'. There are two buttons, click on the left oneI know there are'nt many visitors to my site, but all those who happen to visit please oblige me with your posting in there.

links again

Mainly contain Papers 1. http://www.vvasan.net/ 2. http://arivu.8k.com/tcs2.htm 3. http://freshersworld.com/ 4. http://members.rediff.com/manux/others/placement/ 5. http://www21.brinkster.com/farzan/papers/index.asp 6. http://www.geocities.com/tejusmanjrekar/papers/papers.html 7. http://www.vyomworld.com/placementpapers/index.asp Mathematical Puzzles 1. http://thinks.com/webguide/mathpuzzles.htm 2. http://www.syvum.com/teasers/ 3. http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/ 4. http://www.brainbashers.com/ 5. http://barryispuzzled.com/ 6. http://www.braingle.com/ Interview questions 1. http://www.softcorp.demon.co.uk/c++2.htm 2. http://www.onesmartclick.com/interviews/interviews-programming.html 3. http://www.cpuniverse.com/newsite/archives/1999/mar/c++.html 4. http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/sam/interview.html 5. http://www.acetheinterview.com/cgi-bin/qanda.cgi?action=topics&number=5 6. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3027/work/ interviewQuestions.html 7. http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs/cpp_5.htm 8. http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs/java_1.htm 9. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~scheib/work/questions/ 10. http://www.cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis307/assessment/interviews.html 11. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/1512/cpuz_l1.html 12. http://halcyon.usc.edu/~kiran/msqs.html 13. http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ASPscripts/PrintPage.asp?REF=/ webtech/012700-1.shtml 14. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?content =question.htm 15 http://www.acetheinterview.com/qanda/microsoft_interview.html 16 http://bbs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/BBS0an?/groups/GROUP_3/JobHunting/Interview 17 http://www.bucketobits.com/chris/programmerinterviewquestions.html C/c++ Tutes and notes 1. http://leepoint.net/notes/cpp/ 2. http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ Puzzles: 1. http://www.techinterview.org/archive/ 2. http://puzzle.dse.nl/index_us.html 3. http://www.chlond.demon.co.uk/academic/puzzles.html 4. http://pub13.ezboard.com/fvisualbasicexplorerfrm44 Operating Systems Notes: 1. http://williamstallings.com/Extras/OS-Notes/notes.html 2. http://www.ibilce.unesp.br/courseware/opsys/ostart.htm 3. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~solomon/cs537/notes.html 4. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/537/lecturenotes/titlepage.html Win32 Tutorials: 1. http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ 2. http://www.gajits.com/win32.asp Data Structure Notes: 1. http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/ds_ToC.html 2. http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs2321.rp/www/lectures/cs2321lectures.htm Software Testing Notes: 1. http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/se1/testing-notes/testing.htm 2. http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/343/Lectures/testing.html 3 http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~air/se4/ 4. http://www.darkshire.org/~jhkim/programming/process/testing.html Some of the links may not work.... these guys keep changing the URL every now and then, so it is a good idea to download the stuff you need, if the link is alive.

Indians....

Bharathi sent this mail ... Telugu Guy: "Hello, May I know your name please?" James Bond: "My name is Bond" Continuing in hisinimitable style,"......James Bond." Then Bond asks: " And you?" Telugu Guy: "My name is Rao... Siva Rao... Samba Siva Rao... Venkata Samba Siva Rao.. .Yarlagadda Venkata Samba Siva Rao... Rajasekhara Yarlagadda Venkata Samba Siva Rao.. .Sitaramanjaneyula Rajasekhara Yarlagadda VenkataSamba Siva Rao... Vijayawada Sitaramanjaneyula Rajasekhara YarlagaddaVenkata Samba Siva Rao..." Since then when anyone asks Bond his name he simplysays "James Bond" I was imme. reminded of my friend SHAHUL HAMEED SHANAWAZ ISMATH BATCHA.

Good links

There is one site that gives a list of newspapers country wise - afganistan to zimbabawe http://thepaperboy.com/welcome.html and there is this site which tell about ailments and much more http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Rest or Respect

I am no big fan of cricket or any cricketer. I was in trichy last weekend and went to a saloon to have a haircut. It was sunday the 4th day of the test, the barber was watching the TV and doing my hair and he asked me some questions like... 'will India win?' i had no idea as i dint even know it was the 4th day and i dint know what target we were chasing. I asked him what was the target? the guy stopped for a while and stared at me, i knew what he was thinking. I know hailing from a place where cricket is a religion it is hard to find people like me, somehow the game does'nt intrest me,instead i might watch F1 or tennis. anyway this what my friend had to say about Ganguly: Ganguly needs...rest or respect ? OOPS !!! What a disastrous effect the loss by India is gonna have on Ganguly.. Itz true that DADA has to be punished for his not being in the so called FORM.. But is it at the cost of Captaincy....No No No way shud Dada be removed from the Position.. I am not a hard core fan of Dada, but I respect him as a Captain... The Most succesful Indian Captain on the soil so far.. No Indian Captain has the charm and flamboyance as He has.. Hez ' The One '..We all see his batting skills getting sore, his bowling naive.. Think of such a person who is not in form on Field, but is Captain handling all the so called Pressures.. Buddy, Itz Ind Vs pak Match...Things have happened like this...And will happen.. Didn't we route Pak 4-1 in the Sahara ODI Canadian Series ..And when he Earned 'Man with the Golden Arm'.. (Though Dada was not the captained at that time ) We must remember how Sachin crumbled under pressure of Captining !!! Didn't we route Pak in the Test on their Soil.. All through the Ind vs Pak matches so far, Dada's period as Captain in both froms of Cricket has Saved the face of India in the head to head records.... The Post Dada period has more intrinsic victroies in the Head to Head record againt most Nations, than the ..Pre Dada period...I feel thatz Heart Warming.. U must remember that more Pak Players, who have not performed anywhere have tonned against India.. This was bf4 Dada arrived.. He united the players and built team Strength, and India learnt and started to play as a Team, whereby he has lost his place as an Individual Performer.. Thatz the only thing he has to get back..And he WILL.... As far my earlier statement of Dada being punished, he must be awarded the position of Non Playing Captain, from the Playing Captain.. This may, no will prove hilarious and ridiculous..This is not against the rules of Cricket.. England had done that earlier in the more famous Ashes Series... Thou shall lead the team and tatz DADA... and shall be awarded both Rest and Respect.. -courtesy shyam prasad

tring tring...

The calls that a person gets in India at times irritates and at times amuses. I got these 2 calls.One was from the ICICI bank and another was from HUTCH. ...... A guy calls me from ICICI bank and says that he wants to talk about the credit limit of the ICICI credit card. Having refused a lot of similiar calls, i thought i will talk to this guy and find out what he had to offer. he:Sir, i need to talk about the credit limit of ICICI credit card. Me: fine, go ahead he:Sir you have exceeded your credit limit and payment is due now. Me: what? i dont own a ICICI credit card...! and i am senthil natarajan, just in case if you got the wrong person. he: but sir you have exceeded the allowed limit of your card. Me: I told you i dont own a ICICI credit card, and for your info i dont even have ICICI debit card....!( actually i have a ICICI debit card) he: but i am pretty sure that you have crossed the credit limit( now this guy was adamant) Me: hey, when i dont have a credit card then how will I excced its limit? can you give me the card number that you are talking about? he: Sir, as part of our privace policy we donot disclose the card numbers over the phone. Me: Now we need to put an end to this discussion, just prove me that i own a card. he: Sir can you please tell me the last two transactions that you did with your credit card??? Me: Transactions thru' credit card........! damn! i hung up . Just to make sure that i indeed got a call from ICICI i returned the call to the same number after 15 mins. It was ICICI .....! god save ICICI bank from these guys. .... and this call i got last month from HUTCH. I used to get calls from BPL mobile while i was using it, and they usually called to ask if i was intrested to change to Post-paid connection. I was attending a training session when i got this call. lady: sir we are calling from Hutch.... me: i am sorry can you call me after sometime i am busy at the moment and i hung up after say 20-30 secs i got a call again but with a different number lady: sir i am calling from HUTCH..... me:sorry i said i am busy now ....and i abruptly hung up irritated now then there was no call for 2-3 mins and again a number flashed, i was pissed off but din want to hang up, as i din know the number and moreover i was waiting a call from my trainee incharge in HCL.So i answered the phone lady: sir sir sir your due date to pay your bill is over and tomm. we will disconnect your line. me:oops!and hung up gosh! all the while she was trying to tell me that....and i was thinking she was trying to promote some crapy new scheme.

Network Magazine

i was reading a magazine in our office library and it was quite good, guys in US can get it free https://www.subscribenw.com/subscribe/index.jsp

I found this site while browsing through The age http://www.johnhowardlies.com/

Rose!

A guy (lets call him A) was waiting for a girl (lets call her B) whom he had never seen but knew her heart. She would be wearing a rose today at a crowded station. Almost a year ago A was in a public library browsing for a book. He found it and removed it from the shelf and started reading it. Along the margins he found that someone scribbled something in pencil. He read those lines and was immediately impressed. On the last page he found that only one person had borrowed the book, it was B. Somehow he managed to find out the address of B from the librarian. He wrote a letter to B admiring and appreciating her feelings from what he read. B replied and both of them were corresponding through letters for almost a year. In between A asked for B’s photo to which B always denied saying true love should never be based on how a person looks. They both agreed on a date and time and decided to meet at a station, and B said that she would wear a rose on her. A was eagerly waiting to see her; just then a beautiful girl wearing a green saree strode towards him. A smiled at her and she reciprocated and walked quickly. Just as she walked quickly across him, he noticed a woman well in her 40’s with a rose on her standing just opposite to him. A wanted to follow B and speak to her and at the same there was this wonderful woman to whom he corresponded for almost a year. He made his mind and turned towards B and said “ are you B?” “yes” “Shall we go to a restaurant and talk” the women said “what is with you son?, a girl in a green saree came to me and handed over this rose and said if a person comes asking for you then till him that I am waiting in the restaurant on the other side of the road” A giggled and made his way towards the restaurant. If you love a person for what he looks is LUST If you love a person for what he is –is LOVE

Trichy

I am in trichy... came here today morning by Rockfort Express. Hey! i donated blood today... grandmom here is not doing well and as her and my blood group are the same. It feels good when you do something like this. I was told it is actually good for health if you donate once in a while!. I always thought that www was US's invention until i read this article http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/ Achievements/Achievements-en.html http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/ Achievements/WorldWideWeb/WWW-en.html and this is one hell of a site! i can't belive there is a site like this ... at first i thought it is crap.. but this site is genuine. http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/

all in a days work

My office is at vadapalani and commuting is a pain in the a** , the buses are just horrible... i dont even feel like getting into one in the morning peak hours. So this is what i do, i live at adambakkam which is near to St.Thomas Mount Station. 1.I take a share Auto from Adambakkam to Guindy, mind you this is not the big share auto it is a normal auto where at times i even sit along with the driver. This wonderful ride usually costs me Rs.5 2. Then i cross the Guindy railway track[overbridge] and cross the MountRoad [subway] and go into the Guindy Industrail Estate and take another Share auto(these autos are big ones) to Udayam and this cramped ride cost me Rs. 3 ( missing connex trains and yarra trams) 3. From udayam i take another share auto to Vadapalani which cost Rs.5 today was in a way a nice day to say, so this is what happened : Step 1. As usual i took a share auto from adambakkam and i was the first one to hop into the auto so i made it a point to ask the driver whether it was on a sharing basis to which he said 'yes'.A little ahead i saw a girl standing ( beautiful) i was just wondering if she was looking for a share auto, just then she waved her hand and said that she wanted to go to DMS. To my surprise the driver accepted.She sat next to me.... o gosh! i wanted to look at her but then i couldnt turn my face 90 degrees to left and blush. With all the hard earned intelligence i looked thru the mirror, just then she also looked at it... so even that idea went into the drain. A little ahead someone else also hopped in so she came even closer. Damn me! i felt like talking but ........ Then came the climax of step one, she took out her nokia and started talking in English" Hey da wazzup and where are you? have you done the job that you were supposed to do...." she was talking something and all and then suddenly in tamil she said "payyan a marakama kulipatidungo...!" was she married ? god no I got down at Guindy and went inside the industrial estate...Today there was no share auto there... i found out that those guys were on a strike.. i was wondering what to do... going by bus was just out of question, too crowded. I saw a good looking girl standing next to me. I presumed that she was also waiting for a share auto, i thought i will ask her and if she agrees we might take an ordinary auto and share. Me: Are you waiting for share auto? She: Yes! Me:I guess these guys are on a strike...! She: oh! btw where are you going? Me:Vadapalani and where are you going? She: I am going till ekatuthangal... if you don't mind we will take an auto and share! Me: You are just going half the way i don't that will work out (scenu actually i was willing to!)She: Oh thats not a problem! i will give my share you can give it to him when u get down! Me: Hmm... ok! We took an auto and the driver asked Rs.40 till vadapalani and we agreed on that. ( I was under the impression that we would share equally although she never mentioned that and not fair either)On the way not wasting any time i just asked one thing " are you working?" for which in a rather abrupt way she replied "yes"I din talk much as ekatuthangal is not very far from guindy. As she was about to get down she gave me Rs.10 and asked the driver to stop, and told him "avaru kita vaangikongo"O shit! she dint even bother to ask me as to how much she would share.... my fate the journey which normally would have costed just 8 costed my 30 and all that coz of a girl..... I am not worried about the money.... but all this coz of a girl .... hee hee feel like laughing at myself. i guess a long post after a long time thats it for .... going to tricy tomm. eve

All in a days work

O dear laloo

This one i read in a magazine If Hema[MALINI] is my fan then i am her air-conditioner

damn me!

I have changed a lot! first i was lazy writing blogs and now i dont even reply to mails. I have to change myself. Atlast i will be assigned to project on monday, not that i was eagerly waiting for that moment but just feeling as much excited. Asusual i am down with cold and fever, damn these two things like me a lot... resistance power is nill i guess. i was trying to list my college friends as to where they are and what they are doing so here it goes as on 26 feb 2005 Arvind raja- US ( doing MS) Arun- Madurai( i am not sure but heard he is doing ME there) Arul deva-UK(MS) Bharathi-working in amazon (US) Daniel-HCL( chennai) Deepak-working (US) Dinesh- Infosys( B'lore) DP-IIT( Chennai doing MS) Ghuru-working is US Ghurukarthik- No idea Karthikeyan-HCL chennai Pradeep-HCL chennai Pandian-No idea Radha-Canada(MS) Rajesh-Canada(Phd) Saravanan.r- working in blore Sarvanan.t-CTS Chennai Senthil.n -(MYSELF in hcl chennai) Senthil.r-HCL chennai Nawaz- Australia DSS-US( doing MS) Shiva-Infosys chennai Suresh-CTS chennai Thiyaga-working in chennai Venkatesh-Phd Sydney Vetri-TCS Mumbai GV-TCS Mumbai Sasi-Working in Sydney Selva-MS in Australia Naresh- TCS chennai KarthikRamesh-No idea Bharati-Working in Blore chitra-No idea chitraBharathi-TCS chennai Thirumathi-working in US Kavitha-working in US Satyasri-TCS chennai Maithrayee-Tcs Mumbai Ponpriya-Wipro Blore Nalini-NoIdea Brinda-No idea Shruthi-No idea Padma-no idea saraswati-working in chennai not in alphabetical order and i think i havent missed any one! hey and btw i saw this dialog from the movie Devadhayai kandean..... Kadal ku thevai alai Odumbu ky thevai thalai..... .. Oruti pota adhu bonda thati pota adhu vadai ...... aiyoo tamil cinema....

Gone are those days!

A friend of mine sent me this.... for a moment i was in my school days. Gone are the days........but not the memories ... Gone are the daysWhen the school reopened in June, And we settled in our new desks and benches. ... Gone are the daysWhen we queued up in book depot, And got our new books and notes. ... Gone are the daysWhen we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yetManaged to line up daily for the morning prayers. ... Gone are the daysWhen we chased one another in the corridors in Intervals, And returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat. ... Gone are the daysWhen we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,Playgrounds, under the trees and even in cycle sheds. .. Gone are the daysWhen a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table, Was awaited moreeagerly than the monsoons. ... Gone are the daysOf fights but no conspiracies,Of Competitions but seldom jealousy. .. Gone are the daysWhen we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks. .. Gone are the daysWhen few rushed at 5:30 to"Conquer" window seats in our School bus. ... Gone are the daysOf Sports Day, and the annual School Day,And the one-month long preparations for them. ... Gone are the daysOf the stressful Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annual Exams,And the most enjoyed holidays after them. ... Gone are the daysWe learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost, We laughed, we cried,we fought, we thought. ... Gone are the daysWith so much fun in them, so many friends,So much experience, all this and more. ... Gone are the daysBut not the memories, which will beLingering in our hearts for ever and ever andEver and ever and Ever. .. I hope you went back to your Golden Olden days.......... For a while..........as I DID!! Didnt u????

Online

There are a lot of technical ppl in india and still technology wise we are backward. I have been using netbanking for almost 3 years now, thanks to common wealth bank. Now in India i tried using it, it doesnt match what common wealth offered me 3 years back. Guys all said and done we are lagging a lot behind the westerners. A good example would be the motor bikes there and here, the best bike here will look like a moped there. check these two sites http://www.dancewithshadows.com/honda_unicorn_photo.asp http://www.yamaha-motor.com.au/motor/index.htm?motor.asp The first one is decent good looking bike in India and the next one is normal bike in Australia, the latter looks like a dream bike here. Though i knowthat those bikes are just too much for indian roads, still why are lagging so much. With all the population to capitalise Indian government s doing nothing. No point bragging too much I got some details about the hi- end bikes in inda http://www.dancewithshadows.com/honda_unicorn_specs.asp Thats it for now gtg i am at vadapalani office, and i am done for the day.

Physics

I read this intresting article... http://www.blachford.info/quantum/gravity.html beware it is a big one to read... comments invited.

Old post of mine

This is the mail that I sent to the groups couple of years back...this mail was in response to the mails which wished me b'day. I thought that it should be in my blog.... so here it comes Hi guys and girls, Thanks a lot for your wishes. I had a nice birthday here with selva and nawaz.Its been a long time that i wrote something in the groups. i have been forwarding a lot of mails. I thought I will write something and I am writing about the small happenings in my lil life. I was feeling a little nostalgic on my b’day. and was thinking of school I remember right from school days. School days now seem so far away. I remember a weary-eyed me, queuing up when they sang the national anthem everyday. Fearful we were, then, of the dangerous future. Of the pressure of frightening educational goals like writing the alphabet in a straight line on those books that smelt so awesome. wowee life was so simple.... at least not at the so-young age of 19, when I watched them walk past, they looked pathetic and tried to fix their sight on every possible place other than humans. The first years had arrived. I felt really very happy from deep within myself, and felt my thoughts run away from the realities of the present to that day one year ago when…I entered the college as a fresher. There was a sudden change from 12 when I walked without any fear, I was self-assured of the fact that I was a member of the top class of the school. I Walked silently to the ED hall where our dear principal gave out a speech which was no doubt good enough, but I had a very bad habit which I guess I still have of sleeping without being tired and without any reason to sleep. Principal ended his speech by saying that classes would start the next day. Next day I went to the stop where the college bus would pick my up. There was a staff waiting for the bus, and there were few other students waiting for the bus. One guy approached me and asked which college? I hesitated but he said he was also a fresher and studied in SRM and asked about the college, I din say much but I said that from the principals speech there was no ragging in my college. The bus came and guess what he got into the bus; he was a third year guy happily getting into the back door. I tried to sit next to the lecturer, but he sent me back to where I was sure the seniors were awaiting my arrival, by tersely informing me that this seat was reserved for the staff. I placed myself gingerly on the seat near the person to whom I spoke in the bus stand, he did not smile. I gulped. He asked me my name in a tone that seemed almost like a bark. I answered in a low voice. He knew my name already but asked. The first thing he asked was tell me the names of girls from A –Z . The ordeal of thinking up names within a short interval was very strenuous, and for my intellect it was definitely hard and could not make it ahead of ‘I’. Those were the days I will never forget. Then came the last day of first year. The day I wrote the last exam I hoped the present first years would find their first years as 'lovable' as I did... (Evil grin). I read this and thought that it was really good Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."Richard Bach Coming to the final year, I am not very good in goodbyes. I am really terrified of them and even now. My goodbyes typically begin with a dismal attempt at not crying, followed by fairly violent hugs. College day is an exquisite example of chain reaction. One person started weeping and I remember a whole bunch crying at the end. I now think about the reason for this affliction. I mean, most times, the people leaving are not going to be totally out of touch. A very small percentage of them are actually going to disappear somewhere, but most of them will be email able, callable, some even meet able. Still, goodbyes hurt. I think that its because no matter how accessible the person is, things will never be the same again. I’LL never see them in the environment I saw them once. Those lovely days of going to a movie planned at the last moment dragging ppl like selva to Hindi movies and having fun there, or may it be celebrating friends birthday, it was fun and I miss it. Every person, especially a close friend, makes everyday life what it is. And I am really happy for the fact I am with two lovely guys here. And as the saying goes if good things lasted forever would we appreciate how precious they are? I miss you all. regards senthil natarajan

you long for the weekends... and they come and go in a blink of an eye. I always think of the lovely friday evening, i dont do anything great but still friday evenings are the best. Last week i was in ambattur attending OOAD programing. Coming week i will be going to greams road again. I bet going to greams road is lot more easier. All said and done chennai roads suck, with all the new cars and bikes , the roads are unbearable... can't help it anyway probably the roads are chennai's trademark. My parents are coming from Mumbai this week, eagerly waiting to see them...but then they will be here for only 3 days. I will probably buy a bike by the time they come here. Planning to buy Fiero F2. They bike looks decent with decent mileage and comfort. Haven't decided on it. I thought i will start writing intresting sms again here comes one:

Inky Pinky Ponky

Sms Padikidhu Donkey

Donkey smiles

cellPhone cries

Inky Pinky Ponky

One more

Our Friendship has become

a HABIT.

Even if you take out 'H'

' a bit' remains.

Take out 'a'

'bit' remains.

Take out 'B'

'it' remains.....

From ambattur

This blog is from training room in ambattur.... ofcourse after the training session. I actually dont have access to the net before 6 and i usually start from here before 6. I do realise that my blogs are decreasing by the day, till the time that i get used to this office schedule i believe that it will be like that. by the way i found this site quite usefull... may be to me even some day... need to download these books when i get some time. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/

HCL

Training in HCL has been good so far and for a week was in vadapalani coz i din have training in between. Din have much work though...it was fun sitting there. Next week i have to go to ambattur for training in OOAD and ATL. will be back in vadapalani only by march 8. Till then i have some training. i dont have much to write now. will write sometime later.

Republic day

Being in india has advantages like... you get many Govt. holidays and today was one of them... i will enjoy these hoilidays atleast till is start my work( still training). The day was a normal one. will write a lot more over the weekend...

Greams rOAD

honestly i dont have access to the internet... i was irregular at writing blogs and now i have just got an excuse. its been 2 weeks that i have started working... well exactly i am just undergoing training and i havent started the real work yet, being in chennai reminds me of the good old ssn days. One thing that irritates me is the pollution. wanted to write few more things but will update nextweek, browsing center is gonna close.

Bye bye 2004

I always thought that Year 2004 was not at all a happening year for me, but this year was the most devastating year in Peace times. The most celebrated week of a year around the world would definitely be the last week. Starting from Christmas to New year day. 2004's boxing day will be remembered for Natures fury. I have heard of Tsunami before, but never imagined that it would even visit India. It has left a lasting impression to those who have survived. As in the words of Collin powell "I haven't seen a battle field like this in my whole life" after seeing Banda Aceh. Those who want to do something about this just have a look at this site http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ With all the modern technology and all the latest western Medicines we are still helpless to Mother Nature. Help is coming from all over the world, Nations are already pledging record amounts to those who are affected. The only concern now is how does all the money and relief material reach the actual affected people. People in Europe observed 3 mins silence and in India, media is just trying to politicize this issue. i keep seeing movie which say that india will become vallarsu(super power), i just hope in years to come india becomes nallarusu(good government). You dont have to be citizen to realise, one has to be a human. I am in mumbai and i bet half the people wont even know what is happening down south .... sick

This is an amazing bird!

Doesn't it look professional? Taken by appa at Butterfly park-S'pore

kolumbu

Vetri and gv came here saturday night, i made potato gravy for the night as vetri came with chicken and chips. Watched TV and slept early that day. Sunday was fun, gv made his so called vatha kolombu, vetri made vendakaai poriyal and i just helped them. Though vatha kolumbu was not what it meant to be, but it was nice. We played shuttle in the evening and then went outside to have dinner. Vetri got us some sweets as he has become 'mama'. Gv left late evening and vetri stayed. Monday morning parents returned from s'pore. Yesterday whole day i was just talking to them asking about the place and looking at thier shopping. Thats the reason no blogs for two days. Today i spoke with deepak trehan, my DAV school mate after almost 2 years. He is in haridwar now working for BHEL and said that he is going to banglore this month end and might meet me on the way. If i meet him it will be more than 8 years since we last met each other. Once he came to chennai and was on his way to kerala. He was with his college friends on a college tour, but i missed him by mins. I hope this time i make it in time. sms time:

If I were to be anything in this world….

I’d be ur tears!!!…

So, I can be conceived in ur heart

born in ur eyes

live on ur cheeks & die on ur lips!!!!!

pul arikira madhiri onu :

It takes half our life to find

true friends & half of it keeping them.

I am lucky to have spent less than half

my life finding you & wish

to spend the rest keeping you.

sms of the day:

Yes, God made you first,

but there is always a rough draft before the final copy

Thats all i have for the day, hopefully will get more intresting ones tomm. and with that i am signing off for the day.

Weird things happen to my computer, and today it behaved very badly. It automatically got connected to some stupid connection and loads only one page - some messenger page, it does not access any other site. I cleared the cache and still it loads whenever i open the browser. I cant see any icon on my task bar. The phone line becomes busy and i dont know how to stop it. The only solution was to reboot. After rebooting it automatically got connected. I just got fed up and turned it off. Now i started it and it is working properly! hmmm..... i need to consult my expert -google. Nawaz called me today, he is coming in 10 days and obviously he is excited about the trip. Selva asusual is very busy it seems. No idea what alex is doing, i guess he must be bit upset that is not going to make it this christmas. Vetri and gv are coming and hopefully i will cook something for them. I spoke with shyam yesterday, he is in bangalore now and learning J2EE. Spoke to him after a very long time, he is still same... warm and welcoming. I might go to bangalore next month and might see him. No news from bharathi and i have no idea what he is doing. Ok guys its sms time

Could u fax me ur photo

very very urgently ?

Mind u - it's really very

very urgent, damn serious

and very imp ..... I'm playing

cards and we've misplaced

the JOKER.

Another one that i got today:

Maine puchha chand se

"dekha hai kahin mere yaar sa hasin",

chand ne kaha

"saale itni upar se dikhta hai kya"

And the best for one of the day:

Dark were those days,

without your sight.

When I was in darkness,

you gave me light.

You gave me strength 2

make life bright.

Thank you so much

PHILIPS TUBELIGHT .

They are better when scroll and read them on your mobile.Ok guys thats all for the day time to say goodbye.

SmS

It was a beautiful day to start, it was cold in the morning and then it was very pleasant. Washed my clothes had a good shower and i am just enjoying the day. It is evening now, studied very little. I get distracted very easily now a days. Dinner is alomost ready, i dunno if GV is coming home! he said that he will call me. It was fun last three days. Vetri said that he cannot make it today as he has loads of work in the office. Parents called me, dads training is over and they are coming back on monday. They are just left with saturday and sunday to look around , but i was told thats enough to see s'pore.

sms of the day:

You are the best heart

surgeon in the world

coz you made a place in

my heart without cutting

and spilling blood. I am lucky

to have a lovely friend like you...

These sms are short and sweet. Coming back to computer problems, i have a new problem. Remember the error that i was telling: c:\Windows\System32\Autoexec.nt The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

This is weird problem, i have the patch for this problem, which is nothing but a proper autoexec.nt file that i have to save in the systems32 folder. Once i do that the 16-bit DOS appliction works, the trouble starts whenever i reboot the system. I get the same error message. I have to once again repatch it, what could be the problem? could be because of system restore? i have no idea but i am doing it again and again without knowing the reason.

Any idea?

Another day

One more boring day, nothing interesting happened today as though something always happens. Not much progress as far as the Job hunt is concerned. Same mails I get everyday about the openings but hell some shit happens after I mail them back. Still fingers crossed Cheer up da ( to myself), I got this good SMS which goes like this:

you know why god created

gap between the fingers?

So that some day the one

who is made for you,comes

and fill those gaps by holding

your hand forever.....

Good one isn't it? I am going to get a very heavy Mobile Bill. I cant help it, I talk a lot over the phone. I am trying to control but I dunno when i will.

I saw punch dialogue of Big B :

mard ho tho dard nahi hota

He says this in his typical style(kudos!), thinking of punch dialogoues i cant resist kollywood

Simbu says:

modhalae first yaar poranu mukiyam illa

Last le First yaar varanu mukiyam

varen......

Vijakanth says:

puyal adichu thupichaven irukaan

ana indha thavasi adichu pulaichavanae kidaiyadhu!

naan oru dharam soluvein, orae dharam dhaan soluvein!

There are many more but i dont remember now. Some of them are just too much. If anyone remembers some dubakoor punch dialogues then leave them as comment.

I am signing-off for the day.

Into kitchen

Being alone is boring. I am just bored of TV, all the TV serials have just one motto " cry cry and keep crying" at times its just sick. I wonder how the actors and actresses in these shows manage to cry everyday( glyserene may help but even then) . Vetri and gv stayed with me yesterday night, we were talking for sometime before we hit the bed.Spoke with Bharathi yesterday and today, i always knew that this guy was always confused but now i think even the people around him get confused. Poor fellow as usual is totally confused and i just hope that whatever happens to him, should be for his good. Still no sign of any interview or tests, i am keeping my fingers crossed. I spoke to vomshankar yesterday and he was asking my plans! this guy was my classmate in Swinburne, extremely hard working guy, he worked so hard that he cleared his MS loan debt by doing just part time. Shyam mailed me ( another classmate) he is doing J2EE course in bangalore. Been a while that i spoke with shyam. Vetri said that he will come today, no news from gv so i guess that he is not coming. Have to cook rice and potato side dish. Time to cook. catch up later

Home alone

Yesterday for once, my sleep pattern was like in Australia- sensitve and extremely cautious. I was alone and that could be the reason. Yesterday amma went to S'pore for a week, before she left she told me the list of people who come in the morning- Newspaper man,milk man,lady who brings flowers and and person who comes to clean car. All this happens everyday before 7, all these days i never heard the bell and never had i seen any of them. Today was testing time, i could even hear the person who comes and sweeps the road early in the morning. Do we naturally become alert when left alone or when we are with someone less cautious?i mean where you are with ppl like Nawaz who would sleep even if a truck went by his side ;-), thats definately God's gift but... I wanted to write something yesterday itself, but was helping amma with her packing. Spoke with a few people today-jk is goign to hyd to attend a test, susi in blore and vetri who woke me in the morning and now in the evening. Gv said that he will come tonight, but his plans keep changing so until he comes, i cant be sure about him. I dont have anything intresting to write today.

~nothing~

I am spending almost 2 hours everyday just fixing bugs in my computer. Connecting to the internet is like entering a battle field. Everytime i connect to the internet i find some new process running in task manager. I only can see the processes that show themselves in the task manager, but what about those which i cant detect. Atleast now i realise that even the latest ANTI-VIRUS cant help much coz new malwares and spywares are created every day. When i was i Australia nawaz and myself used to see a lot of unwanted processes running that always were responsible for unwanted pop-ups. We used to delete those processes and find them back the very next day. We actually only deleted the processes and never knew or thought of removing them from the registry(regedit). The latest malware or spyware i saw yesterday was salm.exe this one is a curious fello he has to be definately removed and also many others along with him. The information that i got from a website is as follows:180Search Assistant(salm.exe)is generally installed by some other piece of spyware. This not only displays ads but logs your browsing habits to send back to 180! If you have this you most likely have several other programs that you need to uninstall. This malware could have been the reason that i was getting popups like smiley central. I am not sure whether it was behind the mischief. There was one more process that i found in msconfig which called itself bgtit.exe. I could not find anything about this process, may be even this was a spyware or a malware, coz this is not a system process. In one site its written that if some process in the in WINDOWS directory and it is not a system process then there is a high possibility that it is a malware or a spyware. For the last two days i was not able to open any 16-bit DOS application and got an error as follows: c:\Windows\System32\Autoexec.nt The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. I found the solution in this site. Meanwhile my close friend whom i was talking about 2-3 days back is still gloomy and that makes me more worried. I was told that he is coming to his home country but i dont have any news about him. One blog that i would recommend to people who happen to read my blogs: site Well thats all from me for the moment i have much work to do. I have to go to JB nagar and photocopy a few things, then i have to study. Whenever i sit in front of the computer to study i start looking at the processes and start doing crapy things.

viRus viRus everywhere

Installing and running the latest Anti-virus cannot always assure you. I have Norton internet security 2004 installed and still i found my system has 159 infected files. I found this from Panda active security, this is an online scaning system. Since this is an online site where you can scan your computer for viruses, it might get updated everyday for new definitions. Yesterday another peculiar thing happened, i had to restart the computer because it was not responding. After a succesful restart i kept getting messages to connect to the internet and the message that it gave was"you(or a program)have requested information from xyz.com which connection do you want to choose?" and the sites that it wanted to access were sites like irc, angelfire and these sites i have never visited. I saw in the task manager a process called rasautou.exe was responsible for thisThis from google searches i found out was a system process and was Microsoft Remote Access Dialler. The description for this from a site was as follows: rasautou.exe is the Microsoft Remote Access Dialler process. It is used by the system or by third party applications to manage modem connections. This program is non-essential process to the running of the system, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.That is well understood but why is it trying to access the sites that i have never visted, of course it was trying to access yahoo site as well. As for the poxwx file, guess it is a malware and thats what people say in a forum which discusses the problem with XP. Yesterday that was what i did. i studied very little and most of the time i wasted. Got a call from thiru today and spoke to gv yesterday. Appa has gone to Singapore and amma will also join appa, amma is starting 7 night and will be back by 13 along with appa. This is first time amma is travelling outside india and i am excited more than her. Thats it for the day and hey i have added a process finder in the blog so that i will atleast get to know what kind of a process in running.

~~poxwx~~

How frustrated can a person be because of a girl? No, I am not talking about myself, i am talking about my very close friend. Never seen him so dull and gloomy. I never knew that he was all that serious about that girl! not that i would have changed his life had i known earler. Yesterday was that first time i saw him emotional and feeling guilty. I know that he will come out of this very soon but at the moment he is drained. No more comments on this issue, let me think what i did yesterday. I din study as i intended to after finishing blogging, i wasted my time. I was actually wondering what poxwx.exe is which i found in my task manager. I could not find anything conclusive about this .exe file from google searches. For the moment i have just disabled it from msconfigs' startup. XP i think is a nightmare OS to have with so many ports open to attack. while doing this i found a new search engine ixquick, seems to equally good. It calls itself meta search engine wonder what it is? and how different it is from the normal ones( if the normal ones are not meta search engines). Long back when i started blogging(just 3-4 months ago) i was introducing my friends. Here i continue with my next friend thiRumathi. A very good friend who used to be very sensitive has changed a lot still she is a bit sensitive. One person to whom you can polambify(hee hee) ,atleast she listens carefully. thats all for now will keep updating about my friends.

~~INDIA~~

Its already evening now, end of another day. As per schedule i should start to Melbourne tommorrow but i have postponed the ticket. I guess thats what the malaysian airlines people have done. I am not sure as to what they have done, i gave them the money and ticket and asked to postpone it, but after a week a got an envelope with the ticket and the money. one person says that its been done successfully, but there is nothing written over the ticket.I will have to wait for appa to come back and check it. I have a strange feeling that the transperency is absent in India. The companies are not at all bothered, atleast thats what i presume. I guess thats mainly because of the call centers. For any querries for any product we call the call center and most of them working in there do not know ins and out about the product. I call satyam for a problem in my internet connection(sify) and the girl does not understand the problem and just gives the basic solution. I still do not know why the problem occurs. If anyone reading this knows pls lemme know in the comments. I have a dial-up connection, when i connect to the internet it gets connected, i mean the server authenticates my username and password. The problem occurs when i try to browse any site, i see the message in status bar "FINDING SITE:WWW.XYZ.COM" and after 1-2 mins the browser displays PAGE NOT AVAILABLE. The problem which i think is i tried pinging the DNS server and i could not reach it. I have no reason why this thing happens. This does not happen always, i face this problem only at times and i usually solve this by doing a dumb thing either i reconnect or restart the system and it works most of the time. Does anyone know what is the real problem? and what could be the proper solution. Hope i get a solution for this problem very soon.The day so far was pretty cool, i have to study for the day. enough of blogging for the day.

---Not him----

The news for over a fortnight in Tamil Nadu is over the contrversial arrest of the seer of Kanchipuram. He was arrested for a murder case, Kanchi shankarachariyar is equalled with Pope and imam. His midnight arrest (dont think of karunanidhi) made first page news in all the news papers almost only month after veerappans encounter. The last thing to happen now is that seer has himself confessed that he ordered the murder in "a moment of weakness". Things like this can only happen in Tamil Nadu. My personal opinion is that, today even the media is causing a lot of damage to the society. One of the most respected News channel a week ago discussed about the seers' arrest in a programme called BIG FIGHT. The programme apart from discussing the arrest took a different turn and started concentrating on Brahmin-Non Brahmin problems in TN and congress' involvement in the arrest. These media people inorder to attract viewers instigate irrelevant problems, and this is not the only case and the only channel doing that. The ambani brothers household problem is now blown out of propotions, which i think would have been solved without the media intervention. We need media but at the same time we need it only to tell us the facts, with so many news channels around each channel wants to highlight some issue, which may be unnecessary. But then it is the survival of the fittest. Ok coming back to Mr.me, i did nothing usefull yesterday apart from taking rest and eating. Today has been pleasent so far and things are going fine. GV, vetri and thiru called me today. i want to set a deadline for my cisco but so far the preparation has been gloomy and very slow. Guess should start reading now enough of blogging today.

-Airport colony---mumbai---16:33---30/11/2004

Atlast found some time in my not so busy schedule to scribble something. I dont even remember when was the last i wrote something. I found that i remember blogs either when i am quite happy or very desparate. Well today... i am writing in a fit of desparation... y so? reason being very simple -i am going through the biggest problem than everyone faces ! getting a job. Today i was so irritated with the way things are happening, i have not attented even a single interview (one thing for sure is i have definately become lazy) i just hope that things change very soon, i am preparing for cisco and want to finish it soon, i know that this is the best time to take up certifications, but my mind is not determined i wanted to write one more paper in Microsoft and suddenly i have started preparing for cisco. I hope i get things right very soon! what else to say? Oh yes! i spoke with nawaz today i have called him only when i wanted some some work done there in Australia, how mean! but then it is expensive to call. Nawaz is fine, selva called the other day... by the sound of it he is working very hard which is good for him. Ghuru called me just now, he was awake till 5 in the morning poor chap has to finish his thesis. I have no idea what bharathi is upto ? he said that he will land in india before december but no news from him so far... i guess thats all from me hopefully will write something tommorrow.

south trip

came to chennai 15 of october, the main idea of coming here was to have good south trip, i mean trichy, namakal , cbe and salem. Hmmm... but my body conditions werent supportive though, i fell sick in chennai itself and fell sick again in trichy. Terrible stomach problem... i had to skip all the places other than trichy, had a nice time in trichy. I am planning to go back to mumbai b4 diwali. may be my next blog will be from mumbai.

Chennai

vandhavargalai vazhavekum chennaikku jai

Navarathiri

Navarathiri has started and we have GOLU in our house. I guess people will start coming may be from tomm. I am planning to go to chennai on saturday. I have a lot of work to do in chennai and lets see if i do them all. I have actually become very lazy, all i do whole day is apply for a few jobs then watch TV and browse. I have to come out of this schedule very soon. Yesterday i got myself Tshirt and its a bit small but then i like it. Okay guys thats all from me today.

Siddhi vinayagar

Time just flies...... its 9 october today and its like yesterday that i landed in india. I got up very early in the morning today 5:30, thats midnight by all means, actually appa woke me up, he wanted me to go along with him to the Siddhi vinayagar koil. This temple is VERY famous in Mumbai and very very powerful. I think it is in Dadar( i am not sure). You should see the ganesh there...too good......it has a site. Thats all the news that i have for today. catch you later

yipee

yipee i am in india now, well actually i came a month back, landed here on 4 of september and its just amazing to be back home after more than 2 years. and i want to say it the mc donalds way " I'm lovin it" i am in mumbai now and this place is another paradise.... y? not coz of the city just coz my parents are here. thats all for now...

sake of writing

I know, i din write for a long time... actually i am becoming really lazy and the laziness is in its peak. Arite let me start with what i did yesterday. Yesterday was a pretty good day to start with. Did a bit of cleaning and then washed my clothes after a long time. Then i had afternoon shift in 7-11 and did my shift till 11 in the night. Came home and German f1 was just starting. Nothing to see in it as schumi was there in the pole position and kimis' bad luck repeated. As usual shumi won the race. Today its afternoon now and i got up only 10 in the morning and a made a few phone calls and now i am browsing, so thats in brief what i did in 2 days i hope that i again start writing something atleast once in a week. lemme see how much my laziness has grown.  

looooooong time

its been a very long time that i wrote somethig. i was lazy in the beginin and kept postponing. i will try to write regularly from now on.

A long gap(GOR)

Hmmm.... a very long gap indeed. what was i doing all these days? Last i wrote was last Monday, I will start from last thursday and try to recollect as what i did. Thursday we ssn guys finalised that we will make it to Great ocean Road. I have actually been there once and i decided to go there again. 8 of of the ssn gang went there. Thursday we guys rented a tarago(8 seater) and we took the vehicle to jk's house. From there i came to my house again and along with nawaz went back to jk's house. By the time that myself and nawaz reached jk's house it was already half past 12. We met susi on the way. After reaching there i made some chicken gravy to take and jk kept rice. we slept around 2 in the night and got up at 7. Got ready and we were waiting for rolands to come. rolands came and now we were 8 of us(Myself,jk,susi,nawaz,prasana,arulmurugan,rolands and ranjith) we took the melway and learnt our way out of melbourne. Rolands was the first to drive, myself and jk telling him the route we were took the Geelong road and were on our way to great ocean. Soon we hit the Princess Freeway which will take us to Geelong. we started from Jk's house at 9:45 and we were in geelong by 10:40(Geelong is 60km from melbourne) We din stop at geelong and no snaps till then. 5 km from Geelond we saw the sign to go to great ocean road. hmmm.... we were very near to great ocean road. Our next stop Torquay. There was the first info center about GOR. This time i din want to miss the things that i missed the first time. So halted there and took our time knowing the attractions in that place and in the nearby places. Arul murugan was all the time hurrying as he din want to halt( myself and nawaz were prepared to halt for a night) From Torquay it was GOR. First beach was bells beach it was beautiful but we did not spend much time there coz of arul. Next we were heading to anglesea! we were told about a golf course were kangaroos were abundant. i wanted to kangaroos as only once before i had seen them in full two years(thats a shame :-( ). As we were a bit fast we missed the sign and arul was the first to say that we will see that in the next trip. Anglesea gone and now we were heading Lorne, a beautiful town. Lorne had a information center were we asked what to see there. They told to take a left next to the info center to go to Erskine Falls. So we deviated from GOR and went there. 10 km off GOR. By the time we reached that place it was heavily raining and we were inside the car for sometime. Then we started climbing down the stairs(abour100-150) and reached the foot of the falls( man believe me it was awesome) and then it was the usual foto sessiion for about 30 mins. After exhausting all the beautiful places we returned. It was already 2:45 by then. We had to come back to Lorne and then go to Apollo bay. Between Lorne and Apollo bay i found a sopt to eat( that was the exact place were we ate the last time 16 -17 months before), open place off the road with a water creek near by and sorrounded by hills on both the sides. Last time i missed my ring and got it after a long time( it was found by the great Alex). This time it was problem with car. All this time arul was in the car( he finished first) and was playing music with the head lights on..... hmmmmm....... car din start and as the car was automatic no use pushing it the indian style. Our Luck just after 5 mins of realising that the car was not starting an old couple passing by stopped and offered lift for 2 back to Lorne to get a mechanic. Prasana and rolands went and they came back with RACV mechanic in his car in 40 mins. It was a minor problem and as the car was a member of RACV we din have to pay anything. We all thanked the old couple in our heart and started again. We reached apollo bay by 6 and it dark and by that time arul also decided to halt and see the rest of the place the next day. mmmm....... i will continue the rest tomm. as i am late for the day. catch you tom.

Time pass...

i din write for last 2 days, mainly coz i couldnt find a computer to write. Selva is in front of the computer as if it is his wife. He has 3 more exams and till he finishes them he is not going to allow anyone use the computer;-) Today i came to browse in uni. Saturday was not very intresting day. i went with anand to holmesglen. Sunday was the same nothing eventful except for the night shift. As usual the night shift had all the troubles. Well that was two days in brief. Hey i picked up a fight with my roomie(alex), atleast this time i din start it;-) Time to introduce the next character. G____ k___________, my class mate in engineering. Fun loving guy at times very dificult to understand. He is in university of buffalo. I guess he is doing thesis at the moment. i spoke with him more in phone than in person. i dunno about his school life, but in college he had a crush on a girl and i think even now he has the same feeling for her. we guys now a days are in touch thru mails and sporadic phone calls. Time just flies, god bless messeneger and cheap phone calls, that we are still in touch. i dont have many characters in my life... just a few more and then in free time i think i will recall some cool moments that we guys had. thats it for today

Pleasant day

It was dull but very fresh today morning, well i got up only at 11.... courtesy alex(my roomie. I slept late and he got up early and woke me up with his kitchen skills. To be frank i just enjoyed the day, but again mood spoiled coz of another dumbo. The more an more you do... the more and more people take things for granted. Anyway i am not worried and may be ppl should realise. hmm...... so what did i do yesterday?, i went holmesglen a place in glenwaverly line to help a friend with web site. I guess only when u work with some 2-3 ppl you will find how weak or strong you are in a particular area. I hope i will get to learn a lot of things from them. My parents called me today, well one thing i know for sure is that they want to hear the good news very soon(pr) hee hee.... i have made up my mind that i am not going to be bothered at all, let that come whenever it is destined to. Went to Pizza hut today with selva and had a good lunch today. I got a call from Sinett corp(Sydney), the person spoke to me for about 30 mins and said that the main drawback in my resume was i din have any MCP or MCSA(Microsoft certs) and he said that if i did that(course and cert) which actually costs heaps, will almost guarantee and job. I am at the moment thinking of it and i dunno if it worth that money. I need to put in some hard work to clear the papers. Lemme think... any suggestions? i was thinking that its been a while that i introduced characters in my life. well after nawaz,bharathi,gv, vetri and dinesh. Time for the next person. Deepak trehan. Damn cool bloke, he was my schoolie in delhi. I still dunno how we guys become friends, but at the end we were almost in separable. He is in IIT assam. A brilliant boy with specs. he could understand you by just looking at you, this ability he had when he was in school. It been 6-7 years that we guys met each other, but we are in touch even now. I dunno where will we meet each other again. May be in a subway in Japan ;-) check this for melbourne transport

Night shift

Yesterday night shift started with a lot of problems. We guys have to two registers in the counter, the purpose of the second one is mainly to run parallel shifts if two ppl are working and when shift change over takes place. What we guys do is the person who is starting the shift will sign on and 2nd register and then the person who is going to finsh will sign off in the first reg. Yesterday my luck the secong register was not working. So the person who was to finish could not finish his shift....i thought of continuing his shift. Then i called my owner and said the problem, he said he was unaware of the solution. I called the customer service and they gave me some instructions which i followed, but in vain. Yesterday being tuesday all the night clubs were open, so there was pretty much crowd. When i could do nothing, i thought i will continue previuos persons shift anyway and lets see to it in the morning. In between the sandwich delivery came and that person was in no good mood. he was upset with the owner. Our owner always rearanges the whole cabinet set up by the delivery person. He argued about the owner and left the shop. God damn, this was happening with 7-8 ppl inside the shop. Next thing was the coffee machine was not working and ppl started complaining about it. i went and rectified it. It was only 45 mins that i started the shift. Next thing.... owner came and that fello was totally off his senses. i got so frustrated that i thought of walking out of the shop then and there. then he could not do anything with the register and he also left. My problems werent over, then came the great drunkers(night club open) some irritating and some doing funny things. like one dumbo kept and curd inside and microwave and left. After a while i could hear bursting sound, had to clean the microwave for 15 mins. one person fell into the garbage bin outside, and from that found a wrapper which had free chocolate, he came and gave it to me and got a chocolate free. crazy ppl.... hey guys my friends have put up a site check it out

Last 3 days

I din write anything for the last three days. Saturday the whole day i spent sleeping, i had finished night shift. I had planned to go to my uncle's house by saturday evening, that was the reason that i worked friday night instead of saturday. I called my uncle's house to find out if they wanted me to help them(They were having a small get to gether as his sister and bil had come from india), but patti said almost everything was done and so i could come the next morning. Sudarshan came from clayton. Susi(pet name) studied with me in india in the same college and he did Ece. A nice bloke who is leavin australia 21 this month. Next morning got up at 8:30 and went to my uncles house, i was the first to go there. helped them little bit and ate good indian food after a long time. Got to meet a lot of doctors there(My uncle is a doctor). I Started from their house late evening and reached house by 8. I brought with me parcel of all the foods.So i din have to cook for the night. After having my dinner, something went wrong with the stomach and it was irritating the whole night. Got up late and imm hurried to 7-11. My dear sham was waiting for me. He had finished night shift, i had to releive him. Worked there till 3 in the evening and then i thought i should check out dvd home theater deal that was going on in dicksmith. My bad luck the last piece had sold out and they said that i could check out the other branch just next street. I went there and my bad luck again. Then i saw another piece and it was good. Thought for sometime, called selva and asked him whether to go for it? then after cautious indian calculation purchased a dvd player and home theater. My parents will like it for sure. The whole evening we guys spent listening to music, we could not connect it to the TV as we have old tv which doesnt have enough sockets.hmm.... that was a brief note on what i did last three days. Tonight i am having that crazy night shift. what to do? the more i think of it the more i hate it. i guess thats pretty much of what i did.

Melbourne CBD

A pleasant day today unlike yesterday night.It was freezing it might have been less than 5c yesterday i bet. Today morning got up late in the morning and had my breakfast and then went to CBD(Central buisness district) along with Selva,alex and vom shankar. CBD the name looks hifi hee its nothing but city. Not that i live in country side, i live in a suburb. Selva wanted to update his mobile with Blue tooth and infra red and buy USB cable for his another mobile. Man this guy is one mobile maniac! will you believe he is going to buy his 5th mobile within a span of 1 year. Then we all went to Bismi- South Indian restaurant. KFC's Mc.donald's, Subway's dont appease u as much as an Indian rather south indian restaurant. We had one chicken briyani each. Finished that and then myself and vomshankar started first. Got a train in Melbourne central station. The trains inside the main city go underground and it is fascinating to see trains 3 levels below the ground. Amazing technology indeed. Came home and slept for an hour and suddenly got up to check mail. Tonight i have night shift, again one hell of a sick thing to do. If u guys have time then check out

Me and my phone

Its raining from morning and i havent gone out of the house from morning. Sitting inside and enjoying the rain. Australia is indeed beautiful. so what is my update ? ok after finishing writing the blog i went to make chicken... First time i purchased tandoori type and tried it, well i liked it! hmm.... which cook says that his dish was not palatable? The only thing in chicken is cutting it. Yesterday was a boring day nawaz and my other roommate alexander came back from night shift and were sleeping, so i could not do anything noisy....not even use the toilet. I know that it is difficult to sleep after a night shifht and very difficult when someone is hanging around. Guess what i did? well went to coles and bought brinjal and grapes and went to shams place. Know you must be thinking, this guy is crazy this guys half the time goes there and watches movies, Yesterday was no exception i did the same thing. Saw one hindi movie Hum tum, the comedy in the movie is good but as such it is crap. One boy one girl and all possible situations to fall in love. Hindi movies are day by day getting stupid. Today morning i called bharathi and spoke with him atlast, that fello was on his way home from school(thats what crazy americans call) so i gave him company exactly from school to his house. Techonology ha made common man life easier. Then i called my parents and spoke with them for a long time. Then i called dinesh. my college mate in india, after coming to australia i am calling for the second time and we spoke for sometime. Speaking on phone has never been new to me. I was known for this habbit in the college, what to do? after you get bored when you dont have any one of you age group to talk to! Its 2:30 in the afternoon i had planned to go outside today and have a look at the DVD players and come back but its raining now. Now i have people reading my blogs so i guess i need to do better formatting, i bet even i cant understand what i write:( In between i called my lawyer to check my PR status, he was not there, his assistant was there and he said that he has heard nothing from the immigration so far. I dunno what is taking them so much time? hey if anyone from immigration reading this, then give it to me soon ;-)

Day after tom....

Today is June1, 6th month in this year, time really flies. well writing a blog after 2 days. After finishing the blog on 29 i went for the night shift. As expected that night was busy and had to answer stupid questions by all the drunk ppl. Then came back from shift by 8:45 in the morning and i slept till afternoon. I got up at 1 and saw my mobile for a few missed calls(i keep it in silent mode when i got to sleep in the day time) and thought may be my parents were trying to call me. The i gave a call to them and spoke with them for a long time. had 2 packs of maggi for lunch and again i slept. got up in the evening coz of a call from my 7-11 owner, he called me to remind that i had work the next day. couldnt sleep after that. got up and had a bath and switched on the computer to write something, in between nawaz called me and said that he will come home and help me in cooking. so logged on to yahoo messenger and was chating for a while. nawaz came by 9 and in sometime i got a sms from my parents that my college mates in india had come to my house in india. So we both decided to call them and speak with them. Vetri and gv were there in our house. remember bharathi? these guys are also from the same place pulidhivakkam..... Gv.srikrishnan one hell of a confuser, the way he thinks at times will make you feel proud of him, but most of the times even he doesnt know what is going on in his mind. i always feel that these three(gv,bharathi and vetri were someway related to THREE Stooges. Next is vetri, basically and good boy has less boy friends than girl friends,there is nothing wrong in that but we used to tease him alot. never mind we werent teasing for something he was not responsible. Gv is a pet name and in college everyone knows him by this name, even he wouldnt turn if you called him srikrishnan. Now both these blokes are in TCS in mumbai. now thats about gv and vetri and thats what i did on Sunday. Yesterday was a better day, got up and ran for the job as i was late. workied till 3:30 and from there went to sham's place and from the we went to see Day after Tommorrow. the movie i should say is pretty ok, nothin big happenin in the movie except for the graphics. These americans think too much of themselves. today helped selva with the assignment so far and went to pizz hut (selva's treat) had 2 pizzas and three of us shared(nawaz, selva and myself) nothing more to add will introduce other characters in the next blog...