We want to fly, to scale those heights, to excel in whatever we do, to do something for our parents, country and society. We know we will be able to face tomorrow with faith and hope, if we tackle today with enthusiasm, interest and enjoyment. We know we're the master of our own destiny. We are the CHANGE, we are L.O.C.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Falling in love with the game again !!
Cricket at its best. Number one team fighting against the number two. Passion and skills equally matched.
In my view, today's victory over the South Africa would be recorded as one of the greatest ever test victories of not only the Indian National Team but also in the cricketing history. Obviously the victory on the same venue against the Aussies was much above this one but , the fact remains the same that this would go very far in the minds of cricket freaks all across the country.
The importance increases all the more because of the impending danger of the extiction of the support for this form of the game. The crowd at the eden were the real winners, for their enthusiasm proved to be one of the decisive factors of the match.
One more important point that i think made this occasion special, and that being the need of such a performance from our national team to keep the interest of our generation into the game. With age and maturity we tend to loose focus over such seemingly trivial matters such as sports and our interest dies down. Being a big cricket fan myself, i was beginning to feel the pinch of keeping up the support to a cricketing nation whose wins seems to be luck by chance, but thats all history now.
For those who follow the game, the way South Africa executed their plans at Nagpur was mind blowing. Indians were completely taken aback. The crown of being the numero uno was at stake and yet they played into their hands like a novice. But the real character of the game became evident from the comeback at the Mecca of Indian cricket that is eden.
Congratulations to the Indian Cricket Team for such a wonderful feat, and to all cricket lovers across the globe for such an absorbing game.
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fate
One insult, one lie
One mark on my wings
And I am unable to fly
One more dream shattered
One less I have to achieve
Trapped I am in this darkness
My wings are broken
Look at what you did with cruel ease
One tear stained broken down girl
I am desperate to breathe
This cage you have imprisoned me in, is suffocating
You have taken my spirit to live
Now only doom and despair surrounds me
There is no way out of this death surrounds me
It’s been that way for weeks yet no one came
My heart frozen blue with tears
In this mournful silence
I know I have to take the bow
With nothing left to plead
I go down on my bullied knees
And surrender unwillingly to fate
With my blood stained wings…….
Sunday, February 14, 2010
A different evening, status : peaceful
Spent an evening with children at Karunya Mane, a shelter cum orphanage at Mysore, courtesy SOFTEN (Social Forum To Enable Needy,INFOSYS).
I went to a nearby worship place last Sunday and i can relate to the calmness i had on both these occasions.
The children were so innocent, so sweet and the language was never a barrier between us as i was speculating. The place is being kept up by a foreigner and she is doing a good job.
As i signed on the register as a 'volunteer' behind 3 other Infosions, i had a very little idea of what to expect once inside. But they never seemed like strangers to me, or rather me to them. Believe me you don't need language translators to talk to them, to understand what they meant. So much of mathematics questions, with which it started but as i sat on floor with them they were all over me. I sketched some of the funniest drawings i ever did, some matched to the standards of being recognizable. The mountains and the rivers and the balls and the fishes the ducks and houses, i was a M.F.Hussain in making...
As a child how everything seems to be so simple, how a child acts to get attention or to get what they want. I have read about this so many times, was very small to observe my own, but to see it happening so closely was a marvellous feat.
Mind you, don't interpret from my blog posts that life here is a cake walk. Nope. Its nowhere even close to it. Its a tough nut to crack, but moments like this are very rejuvenating. Of course for others stay tuned to my posts here.
But to feel for some who are not as fortunate as ourselves, who have issues sorting out methods to manage a meal, i owe this to INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED for this opportunity to walk the talk i used to do.
Some names i remember were Lata, tanmoy, arvinda, ... And i am looking forward to meet them again.
Status : peaceful
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Sachin! i guess1 is the same jolly good young fellow who never forgets to complement you when you give him a call.he wins your heart and you cut down the line feeling great and happy. But then you realise out of sorts that someone has lied and lied tremendously well for you to believe.Whatever, i don't mind. Niether sachin nor his complements.
See! these assholes have yet again managed to steal limelight as they did on numerous occasions in college.
But bits and pieces put together, we will atleast carve some niche for us.
PD! i guess is really content and happy and i am sure becoming creatively better.The singer, musician and the painter in him is enough to make girls drool over him.But then he remain inclined to grreener pastures(read whatever you like).
Ari!i am sure as of now, people would have started missing your power packed speeches, your flattering presence. A leader to core, you are made to lead people. My friend, go to infosys, carve out a place for yourself and lead people(read saurav) to the path of righteousness.
Last 7 months
As i took that bus out of the Imphal valley, with my mom waving to me,bading me good bye with concealed tears in her eyes,I had nothing but mixed feelings.I was looking forward to the days that were to follow as i was all set to explore a new horizon, a new way of life.Never the less i was scared ,bound by apprehensions.I had no idea how tough things were going to be because if nothing, iwas atleast suppose to earn the honour to put on that uniform and even more the stripes on it. And yes i never thought it was coming easily, but then who was scared of the word tough.
*** Original version:
I was anxious ,distressed, scared.Afterall i had to leave home and gosh! i have to become a soldier..My god! i loved other people wearing that uniform but did i ever wanted it.Yeah! of course, i guess,but then if it comes up easily.I just knew how to sink and then struggle in water and go there, i was suppose to clear a swimming test.
Life would test me to summit and i really have to be tough for that. But then i am really scared of the word tough.
For people:
Reach academy and get set for discipline.And tell you what, it might appear that being disciplined is easy. But i would urge you to have a rethink. Instilling this has been a challenge for which we have to pay price in gross sweat but nothing else.Yeah! sometimes though, it demanded blood in addition to perspiration.But tell you what when it did we oozed blood with fire.
Limbs ached and hurt no end making it tough to stand let alone walking and running.But then we were taught just one thing that as long as you sham , a pain is a pain.But when you decide to make that pain a way of life, you learn how to bear it and then to overcome it.No medicine could ever cure a pain,Pain is the only way you cure pains.And that is how i learn how to "take pain" .
Original version::
Aah! i can't walk. Forget walking, i can't even stand properly.Need to report sick.
How long would we bear this..My limbs are breaking.I am shamming now.i couldn't endure it anymore.
But there are no options, seniors won't let us do it.
so run for whatever resaon.Run to make yourself fittter. Atleast, when we go back, we could have couple of more girl friends courtesy that.
Anyway as things got over, as it has to...
I am in gujarat and the palce is jamnagar.And trust me it's a beautiful place and more so for people who loves birds. and yes, for people who love stags.
Unluckily! for people who love girls, there's very little opportunity.
My bad luck!!
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Friday, February 12, 2010
A walk to remember.
It began with a phone call at 10pm, ended with another at 05:30am.
And what happened in between is something which was the real 'Walk to Remember'. A dream walking date, but first let me confirm i can say that.
'Yes !' she says in agreement. And then the remarkable smile, bits and pieces of this and life seems very simple and i feel ready to fight again.
Back to the walk....
It was a night of discoveries, when i not only came in terms with the large part of the unexplored campus of Infosys, Mysore but also quite an untouched part of myself. You all must be wondering.....What am i upto?
It's nothing less than special, but nothing more than that...
Stop wondering and start sharing !
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Monday, February 8, 2010
CHAND JAISE MUKHDE PAR BINDIYA SITARA.......
indian institute of technology,ghy
dated-8th feb.,2010
hi once again
alcheringa is finally over...it was full three days of masti...only marred by thye last day chaos we had to go through...actually today was the due date for the assignment submission of statistical signal processing....so yesterday whole day went from the coding..report writing....and thanks to all this i missed the live performance by the Swiss band.....feedback is coming that it was a great perfromance....and i missed it....i missed it yaar....
rest is fine...classses have started full fledged.....semester is picking up its speed...
take care guys and girls....
will write soon again...
keep reading...keep writing...
keep blogging....
keep thinking...
keep doing....
and keep smiling....
Sunday, February 7, 2010
kal ho na ho
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
I know we all are very much bombarded by news and articles from all around but believe me very few of them make it into this blog page.
Have a look at this one, I found it amazing, and thought about sharing it with you all…
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast ...or.... be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
Aal Izz Well..Another Version...
Jab question paper ho out of control,
Answer sheet ko karke fold...
Answer sheet ko karke fold,
Aroplane banake bol...
I WILL FAIL…
Student kya jane uske result ka kya hoga,
Marks milegi ya zero pe tie hoga,
Koi na jane apne marks ka kya hoga,
Toh Girl friend Ghuma, paisa uda,
Paisa uda ke bol...
Daddy…
AAL IZZ WELL...
In the beginning of the 1970s, once tiger hunting had officially been banned in India, a tiger count was done across the entire country. This lead to the astonishing discovery that only 1800 specimens of this magnificent animal were left. This jolted the concerned authorities and some serious thought went into devising plans to save the tiger. The result was the launch of "Project Tiger" in 1972 at the Dhikala Forest Rest House in Corbett National Park. The main idea behind the project was to provide safe havens for tigers where they could flourish as a species and hopefully reverse the startling decline in their population. The project initially had 9 parks that were chosen for it's implementation. This number has slowly risen and a total of 19 parks are now attached to the project. The project was begun in association with and still receives its main funding from the WWF.
Although the experts affirm that the project has its shortcomings, the increase in the populations of the tiger is clearly evident to even the common man. Many experts had predicted that the tiger would be extinct by the turn of the century, but, whoever may be responsible, the tiger has proudly proved them wrong. Tiger population may not still be in thrilling numbers and poaching still may be quite rampant but a lot more effort is being put into saving this beautiful animal. This is good news for the entire natural treasure of the country because if the tiger flourishes, so will the jungle and vice-versa.
This is a small piece of information from google sir for u all but only information will do nothing..we r not associated with any tiger project or national park so we'll ask ourself that what we can do to save tigers??we may not be connected directly to the tiger conservation but indirectly ..ofcourse we are...we r connected with energy saving in our everyday life...we are connected with cleanliness..we are connected with raising concerns in our fellow mates about the things connected with conservation of tigers,energy,other animals and the mother nature in all...so we can take a step forward and how to speak up,how to convince other people that each of us already knows..so think of sumthing guys n move on...hav fun n take care..life is beautiful...
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Save national heritage
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
NEVER mess with children..:P
5 reasons not
to mess with children
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a
human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was
very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a
human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.
The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'
The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.
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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the
dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had
several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette
head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of
your hairs white, Mom?'
Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and
make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.'
The little girl thought about his revelation for a while and then
said, 'Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?'
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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to
persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown
up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael,
He's a doctor.'
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the
teacher, she's dead.'
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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying
to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my
head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red
in the face.'
'Yes,' the class said.
'Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary
position the blood doesn't run into my feet?'
A little fellow shouted,
'Cause your feet ain't empty.'
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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary
school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.
The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
'Take only ONE . God is watching.'
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was
a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples.'
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Present Friends ! +1
sleeping for 5 hours daily,rest is fine...
Project works are like climbing the whole new mountain with a whole new load of equipments,rest is fine..
Facilities world class but deficit of time,rest is fine..
Here there are beautiful gardens,but only for maintenance not for us,walking uphill or even cycling is very tiring, rest is fine..
Saala machine ka chai,coffee pe pe ke life peeeeeeee(****) ho gaya hai,rest is fine..
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ATTENDANCE register !!
Maximum logo ki koi khabar hi nahi, Life is a continuous struggle so there is no point in taking a time out away from friends..
Just to let all of know how and where are you, please sign in by yourself...
AND NO PROXY PLEASE.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
INFOSYS: So far, So Good ! Actually its Great !
But with my share of experiences so far i would still go for the term Great.
Travelled from home city Patna to Mysore on a journey exactly 60 hours to reach to the cozy den of mine from where i am writing this piece.
The journey, which began by boarding the train SanghMitra Express on 3rd December 2009, was unique in many ways,
a. Papa got stuck with the parking lot problem and surprisingly I had mom to rescue for the first time visit to railway station to accompany me to my coach.
b. The train crossed over 7 states of India which was incredible,
Bihar(patna)
UP(allahabad)
MP(jabalpur)
Maharastra(nagpur)
AndhraPradesh(vijaywada)
Tamilnadu(chennai)
Karnataka(bengaluru).
On Sunday 6th december, we checked in, as instructed. The entry procedure was a very simple yet comprehensive.
More to follow...
Stay tuned...
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Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara.... Back to our roots....
Lets start an initiative "miss a meal or two & contribute to this noble cause".
I know we don't need to starve for donating, but the idea is to fail the pain many other indians r going through & feel the responsibility we have as a citizen of day..
What say ?
Ho jae !!!
And watched the new video release of "phir mile sur" this was euphoric..
I just missed the cricket stars !
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Continuing from where i left ...
But whenever its about organizing one, specially when noone is willing to, it comes naturally from inside.
This was one of those days when noone was sure about taking up responsibility of the group as a whole, because we hardly know each other yet. And believe me, its easier to control children than young professionals who have just recently got the tags of being gentlemen.
The destination was a wonderful water fall, as it turned out to be. And the group was an incredible bunch of gems.. We all just had everything right and to our pleasure. The water fall was tremendous and yup it was much more than risky at times.
Once i had a pulse of getting at the top to see the origin of the water, it was a risky trekking skill revisited which i have refined after coming from college. And i fell in love with heights again. Once i was midway it occurred to me that climbing up may have been adventurous but climbing down on wet and slippery rocks was a very bad idea. I was tired of the past 3 hours of playing in water and from the top the picture was not very bright.
There were moments when i was not in a position to appreciate the amount of pressure which gravity was applying on my body as well as on my mind, but i kept it simple and before others could sense the nervousness in my smile i got down safe and sound.
I touched a rainbow and helped 'someone' to get a taste of the thrust the natural shower has to offer when it falls right on you. And the person was really grateful for that amazing experience. No guys,relax, i was not flirting..
We as professionals are not supposed to :-):-):-):-)
The rainbow was a treat and i never realised that such a beautiful phenomena of science could happen so close to me as if it were our practical lab. Nature at its best.. I am definitely loving this.. Ta rum pum pum..
Monday sessions are as boring as they can be on any monday and i am looking forward to a good sleep on Tuesday, Republic day.
Hope you all are doing fine..
Have a nice day ahead..
Lots and lots of love,
Saurav.
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A Picnic after a long time !!
This is for the benefit or those who think that life at infosys is hectic like hell. Guys we went to picnic and the destination was a waterfall Shivnasamudra(85 km from Mysore).
It was great fun and my first experience of the thrust of the water falling from the mountains. The sound was amazingly soothing and our group was just perfect.:-)
I would come with detailed report soon..
Have fun.
Lots of love.
Saurav
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
somewhere...someday...someone...
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