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2007-02-05T20:57:00.000-08:00

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The immortal combo of Illayaraja and Vairamuthu..

2006-11-19T16:11:00.000-08:00

I started going to gym quite regular these days.. although I have always hated to do the tread mill monotonously... I am pretty much in a bad shape now.. I really really need to loose weight. I have gained 20Kgs (yes not pounds!) after I came to US.

I decided that some interesting business/tech magazine and music could go along very well to make the arduous task of trend mill or elliptical much more interesting. I loaded my humble 512MB sony MP3 player with some nice melodies of 80's and early 90's mostly illayarajas...

I couldn't believe for myself that I enjoyed the songs soo much. They were just spectacular.. Each of these songs were so unique and so melodious.. so soothing.. I began to wonder how Illayaraja was able to create so many distinct, unique and classic piece of masterpiece. When I listened more closely.. I couldn't distinguish more than 5 or 6 instruments that he used for all these songs!!

Mirudhangam was the base in almost all of his scores.. flute plays a major role as well.. violin another strong score .. other than these there were very less intruments being used. Mostly it was voice modulation!!

To this master ragams...and thalams, the genius vairamuthu adds the exquisite sauce of lyrics. His heavenly imagination can only be matched by the beautiful might of his lyrics. As if this wasn't enough, K.J.Yesudhas and SPBB garnish it giving it a divine life! A piece of Immortal music which, I am sure will last for years, much more than any of A.R.Rehmans and Harris Jeyaraj's or Yuvan's.

I wouldn't dare to say ARR , HJ or Yuvan are any less talented folks..but I think there is some clear distinction between them and Illayaraja. ARR, HJ and Yuvan live and excel in the present time. Illayaraja is undoubtebly a shining landmark in the vast space of eternity!!

Ice Age Meltdown

2006-04-04T11:06:00.000-07:00

aah..what a relaxation u get after a hearty laugh for 90min.. sweeeet...!!

we had been to the ice age.. last friday when it released.. and it was simply..suuperb.. not perhaps quite on the ranks of its original version but..still on par with any other animation movie.. which, needless to say anymore, .. are the most that I enjoy... I recently saw Madagascar as well.. which was also a great movie..

common guys.. be fair.. think of the creativity and professional excellence these movies portray..with the standard default movies types of Vijay.. within 10min of movies start you are sure to witness a introduction song with a introduction fight sequence for no reasons what so ever..
there isn't one film where vijay is not right and not victorious in the end.. hez the god of all thathuvams and all rule n ethics of love/love marriage.. he shud prb go n start something like "love dharbhar" like our visu's "arattai arangam" ..!! ok.. nothing hard on "arattai arangam" plz.. i appreciate the effort although not fully appreciate of the program..well thats my personnel take..lets leave it there..

coming to movies.. I hate to say.. but our indian movies are still in the 19th century.. with very little improvements.. we might have perhaps improved technically but.. alas nothing creatively....

what a pity..!!

No wonder American's are STUPID!!

2006-03-29T11:48:00.000-08:00

Just came across this news clip..
"after extensive and elaborate reasearch which spanned many years.. american reasearch study has found that.. "Loneliness could be hazardous to health" !!!!!!!!!! especially in old adults who are above 50years have high blood pressure and depression.. !!!

can you just imagine that they are doing such kind of silly research.. i thgt it was obvious for indians like 500 or more yrs ago itself.. that.. loneliness is bad..!!!

and these guys are only understanding that now..hahaa

I had come across another research..wherein they did extensive reaserch and found out that.. if you keep drinking beer then it makes the opposite sex more attractive.. that is u get to feel that the gal in mini skirt over there in the bar is more attractive than when you would have thgt when u were not drunk..!!!!

what a reasearch..illa..!! :)

ithukkellam oru research..!! hhehe

mappula irundha.. kaludha kooda..figure madiri theriyum.. just like koundamani says in 16vayadinile.. "16 vayasula kazhuda koodathaan azhaga irukkum..!! " .. :)

438/9: Choke on this, Aussies!!!

2006-03-14T02:05:00.000-08:00

Well, I am sure this is talk of town, talk of the worl of cricket overshadowing our kin Indian test victory.

When I heard about this from shiva, when I had called him over this weekend, I could only say..
"What the hec..how could this ever be possible!! "

yes.. I still can't believe how this could be ever possible..!! first of all hitting anything >300 is itslef a big score. anything above 400 has been discarded unthinkable, unimaginable thus far..

well...when one starts to admire at aussies for setting this score.. we are left with nothing but amazment as the floor sweeps under you and now south africa reciprocates in style.

Just think.. Aussies wud have been in seventh or perhaps seventieth skies waking to dressing room pompous and big-headed over their own feat...only to plummet from South African thrashings

While I can atleast imagine the plight of Aussies.. I cannot even imagine the grit and attitude of south african's who even had the miniscule thought of ...fucking.. giving a shot!!!

I did not see the match.. just reading through the news by itself hair raising experience for me.. It would have been no less that absolute relish for those watched the match..

2006-02-17T13:03:00.000-08:00

Singara Seattle..!! :)
Yo folks..this is seattle.. and the tallest building u see there.. that is where I don't work ...!!

madipakkam to kelambakkam again..!!!

2006-01-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

its was nostalgic...

It was my second day to office in downtown seattle from Bellevue, the new apt i have move to so that I can be close to Preethi..:), and i had to catch the 7:50am bus to go to office. It quickly remembered me abt the old days when I used to wake so early and get ready so early to catch my 7:50am morning college bus from madipakkam to our famous ssn college. The only difference was that it is Amazon.com corporate office ;)

It was nice to get up early, woke up at 6am!!, and get ready to office. i am not sure how long i am gonna like this.. but so far its good.. not that tough.. lets see howz it goes..!!

Welcoming the New Year 2006!!

2006-01-03T15:55:00.000-08:00

well obviously you can see from the title itself that i have tried something different, instead of the usual "Happy New Year 2006" .. i am trying to welcome the new year. And be it as a hint i am going to be trying different things the year..

well ennada Senthil, "ayyo idhukku melayum differenta!!" appdadinnu yosukkialam.. but i am to be different to the different that is.... be normal..hehe!!

i am trying to become a normal person this year..

yes.. just a normal person..

lets see how it goes..

GV's heading for Italy

2005-12-23T14:33:00.000-08:00

namma thalaivar GV is heading for GV on a vacation. trip.!!! ooo!!

it was really nice to hear from GV that he was going on a trip to Italy for the chritmas vacation.. kind of happy to see all friends settled and happily enjoying life..::)

Pradeep is also going to places for this winter vacations.. voow..awesome..!!

cool..guys.. enjoy..
have fun,..!

Ever wondered of a Zoo in the middle of the city..!!

2005-12-21T04:56:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we had nice time spending out as the day was pleasant and bright sunny day. Initially we had all sorts of plans to go hiking on one of the many peaks that we have in seattle, but then we had to start early Sunday morning..which never happened. We woke up pretty late by 11 and hiking seemed far fetched as we had plans for few other misc stuff by 4pm. so, we decided on visiting our Seattle Zoo.

It was really cool. The zoo is not that big and doesn't that much time to walk around like our Vandalur zoo.!! When I went to vandalur zoo during my 6 or 7th std, I couldn't walk the entire stretch nor could my mama and athai.. we had wind up without seeing all the animals in vandalur zoo and this kind of created a nostaligic imagine on my mind that vandalur zoo is like a big..big..town or something.. and I was expecting somethign similart with seattle zoo too..

However, this one was not very far from downtown at all.. its just right nearby where Preethi works, so was curious how they managed to conquer a huge space such as vandalur, which was what my idea and imagination of a zoo was, in the middle of the city!!

well, Americans don't like to waste and like to make money out of every bit. This was relatively a small zoo in area and perimeter, but far rich n wealthy in animal population. I was really surprised to see the many species varieties they had in that small zoo. It was also very well designed in the sense that they had themes for each area of the zoo, such as "Tropical Africa", "Austrialian lands", "The Savannahs" , "The EverGreen Forest" and so forth. They had wild animals, birds, snakes, frogs, monkey, reptiles..and all sorts of species around there. It was really wonderfull.

the most impressive section were off Lions,Gorillas and Tigers. There were like 2 lions and 4 tigers. They were all relatively closeby and easily reachable to my SLR 28-105 camera/lenses. the Gorillas were awesome.. it was really like seeing King Kong live. . which motivated us to watch King Kong later the same day.. (next)

All together it was a wonderful trip. I'll have these snaps soon in my flickr.

Back again...!!

2005-12-16T21:06:00.000-08:00

vooow..!!
I am back again.. :))

after a long long time.. I have finally found sometime to write something on my blog..!!

man all these days.... were def ..definitely hectic.. ooo..! phewww!!

well.. i had a lot of fun stuff..too..well..preethi is here..and had really nice time.. :))

so finally I hope... I hope.. I am back to normal schedule.. and probably will be writing often..!1

well..lets hope for the best..

rest..next..

Bombaywala "Meals Ready"

2005-10-20T23:47:00.000-07:00

I was talking to Preethi today abt a bunch stuff ... and we hit upon the topic of Amazon vs TCS and stuff like that. I started boasting, as usual and as expected, about Amazon and its great innovations and all...

well ok this is a fact.. Amazon was awarded for 2 consecutive years for the best design and implementation of intelligent and most effecient supply chain/inventory management system.
Our fullfilment center is amongst or the top in the US. The only other for us being Dell , aslo for its effecient inventory management/supply chain management system.

well..apart from..this.. we also started talking abt this wonderfull such system ..perphaps so far the best.. nowhere but in our very "Mumbai hai mere jaan!!"...

I learnt from from X-roomie before that there was this "bombaywala lunch delivery" system.. wherein their task or business was to deliver home made lunch meals. Please note that.. they are not like our Saravana Bhavan hotels.. they actually collect lunch from individual houses (yeah that's right they come to your door desk... "scheduled picked" as FedEx or DHL calls) .. and deliver it to their respective husband at office or children at work...(and yeah ofcourse the same day...within few hours...basically..!!)

It seems they have been doing this for more than 20 or 30 years...now.. and guess what.. record.. not even once have they failed!! not even once they have mis-matched the food and delivered to the wrong food parcel to the wrong person.. !!!

Mumbai hai mere jaaan.!!!

also heard that the owner.. now a bigshot also recieved great recognition ..even from queen elizebeth it seems .. donno if thats true.. but I think this by itself..is a great achievement

one more lovely weekend passed by..

2005-10-10T20:51:00.000-07:00

another wonderfull weekend passed by..
preethi..was here and it was really wonderfull.. shez going to be moving to seattle in a few weeks .. then it will be much more fun.. :-))
appuram avalavudha.. no work..haha!! already I am not doing much of stuff..and its going to be total crazy after that ..hehe..!! but anyway who cares..

Preethi is comign to Seattle...

2005-09-22T00:35:00.000-07:00

Preethi..is finally coming to Seattle..for good.. for another atleast 1yr..
ooohooooooooo!!!!

great.. this has finally happened.. after a long wait.. ooohoo.!!

google is offering free Wifi in bay area...coool..

2005-09-21T07:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/12701277.htm

this is really coool.. google is offering free wifi... in bay area..

seven things....

2005-09-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

ok.. due to popular demand.. (shaan my dear..friends thanks for this..!!) here I go..

"I got tagged!!" (donno wat the hell is this..!!)

Seven things that I dream and wish for:
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1) Fly out to space.. and for few minutes.. look down at earth..that would be the most spectacular sight .. i guess.... wish that would happen..

2) I wish there is no poverty and inequality in this world..everyone is equal and there is much more peace in this world.. no terrorism and no killing people for the sake of money..

3) I dream and wish that before I die.. I am able to witness India as a well developed and economically well established gloabl power.. n banish all those mean, filthy, heartless, incorrigibly insane idiotic Indian politicians..

4) I really want to become a film star.. just for the hec of it..for all its glamor and also for the thrill of it..

5)

(hm..maybe I don't that many big dreams..hehe!)

Seven things that I want to do:
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1) Become the Chief minister of tamil nadu first .. and then become prime minister of India.. to achieve my dreams..

2) Travel all over the world, Europe, Hawai, Australia, Amazon, all many more.. all islands..all beaches.. and all resorts. I am not mad abt going to antartica though..for some reason..

3) Start a school/college/univ and hospital in India.. for doing pioneering things.. becoz this is the foundation of any welfare..

4) I want to be more less emotional and more flexible in accepting people..and trying to understand them.. I am getting there actualy.. these past few days have been good..with Preethi making me realize and understand a lot of things..

5) I want to be more soft when I am angry.. I get really hard on people when I am angry. This single aspect of mine has played a vital role in my family in ways how they intepret me and how they understand me.. and now more than anybody Preethi is getting hurt and its bad treatment to give for my love whose gonna live with me forever..

6) I want to be really fit..and maintain my body, health in good shape..

7) I want to really learn dance..
7a) I want to learn Samurai Fighting (inspired from the movie "Last Samurai")
7b) I want to learn rockclimbing.. (inspirtations from my American roomie..)
7c) I want to learn gymnasm.. (inspirations from "spiderman" movie..)

Seven Sexy Actresses:
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1) Aishwarya Rai ... shez my all time angel.. she simply is awesome..

2) Manish Koirala.. just got crazy on her after bombay and Indian.. (songs of her jogging in both films)

3) Salma Heik (pardon me for the spelling..!) .. aah..she soo cute in "wild wild west" and one other "matter" movie ;-) ..!!

4) Angelina Jolie.... irreverant Shan.. her looks.. aah.. sexy..sexy..

5) Kajol --- again her..eyes.. awesome.. If there is one actress I go crazy for expressions.. that is Kajol. Her expressions are way too awesome.. I simply love.. that.. well more than.. the many "best actress" awards that she has won. shez definitely made a mark in the film industry and will be remembered as an angel..

6) Asin...she simply very cute.. malabar mami.. suuupper..

7) Simran, Sneha, Isha Gopikar (she has wonderfull smile and eyes..)...

seven films that I love are: (well I am just ball parking..)
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1) Devar magan -- I can give oscar award just for that 10min sceene between Kamal ad the great Shivaji Ganesan. To be honest he beat Kamal by 10times in acting in just that one scene.

2) Matrix -- The things that you can do are only limited by your mental powers.. this concept has seeped into me and I love this movie just for this concept..

3) Independence Day -- First and a class apart movie..on Alienation.. very stylish.. and very brilliant movie..

4) Titanic -- Wonderfull Love story..

5) Rajini Movies (Badsha, Thalapathi, Annamalai, the film where he comes as "Alex Pandian" police) -- just for hec of his style ...suuper starna suuper star thaan..

6) Minnale --- Madhavan was amazin in this movie..and it was classic style..

7) Dil Chahta Hai --- One of the best hindi movie I have ever seen.. Simply suuperb..
7a) DDLJ -- SRK and Kajol...
7b) KKHH -- SRK and Kajol ... their magic is never ending..

Seven things that attract mosy in opposite sex:
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1) Eyes -- by all means they just simple get me crazy..

2) Lips and smile -- This is the almost the firs that gets me offgaurd...

3) boobs -- hehe ... naughty me...

4) bublly ass -- hehe ..again naughty me..

5) Hair -- long and silky hair are symblolism of angel..

6) madipamsa.. ...:-)

7) fingers and hands .. I simply love..when Preethi toches me..her soft cute fingers.. alofts me to heaven...

seven things that I cannot do:
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1) Cannot stop dreaming

2) Cannot stop doing thing untill the last minute and cannot stop planning so horribly bad that I end up doing everything only in the last minute.. (courtesy Preethi..for pointing this out..very blatantly..)

3) Cannot stop eating...

4) Cannot stop ogling at every other boobs that passes by...:-D

5) Cannot stop thinking abt India

6) Cannot stop getting excited when listening to good music.. (ah..well.this is for getting the numbers..)

7) Cannot stop thinking my preethi.. :-D

Seven People that I admire n Salute:
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1) Albert Einstein -- My All time hero and god

2) Gandhiji -- My all time hero for devouting his life.. for the single cause of uplifting others..

3) Abraham Lincoln -- Just heard abt him ..not read abt him much..but that has said enough..

4) ...

5) ...

6) Preethi -- maybe this is what everyother guys says abt her girl friend.. shez different.. ah..well..everyone has their own reasons for choosing his girl.. and I am sure in every case.. she has made a difference in his life..and perhaps that is why he ended up loving her for life.. and thatz the same with me too..

7) My DAD -- Last but not the least.. and the most..influencial.. has been my dad.. I have revered him, admired him for a countless number fo things.. I have also hated some of his personalities. but still he has been my guidance.. n my philosophical reference. I have grown from the morals that he has nourished in to me, which when I think introspectively, form my core personality as man now.

Seven Inventions and Discoveries that I think are absolutely remarkable:
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1) The Discovery n Understanding of Space: By far the most remarkable and awe inspiring discovery has been that of indentifying earth as yet another peice of mass in this boundless Universe. Every step towards understanding this is unique and remarkable becoz it is something that is limited only by imagination and mental abilities..

2) Telephone -- not bcoz I owe to Graham Bell for providing me a means to communicate to my love...:-) but.. truly this has been the most influenctial invention of our present day civilization -- connecting people..

3) Aeroplanes -- kudos to wright brothers.. it is not something that is not utterly required or not something that has changed or influenced civilization.. but I think it is one of the greatest inventions.. becoz.. we are conquering the air .. the simplest thought of flying.. sparks awe ...

4) Electromagnetism -- I some how have a great fascination for this .. its soo cool... it has influenced soo much of our lives.. wireless communications, satellites, and much more..

5) ....

6) ...

7) ...

ah..well i'll fill the rest of the stuff...when I think of it..:-)

IPOD nano... Sleeek!!

2005-09-12T14:24:00.000-07:00

These guys rock..man..!!
Introducing IPOD Nano.... cool..

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/12/scitech/pcanswer/main834003.shtml

The iPod nano, Apple's newest and smallest music player, measures 3.5 by 1.6 by .27 inches, and weighs 1.5 ounces. (Apple Computer Inc.) --- Isn;t this amazing..

kudos...

double whammy..!!

2005-09-07T21:00:00.000-07:00

After a really long time.. when all our resources had been drained to the last drop (practically the refrigerator was empty..!!) my great roomie and myself pulled ourself together, after several reschedules n postponment due our so called extremely tight schedule, to go to super market and buy groceries..

we were soo enthusiasitic.. to be said sarcastically ... that we ended up buying each and every item twice..!! we only had one shopping cart, both of us were dumping all that we wanted, naturally a big list.. , and it happened that both of us were dumping in the same set of items..

what we ended up with..

2 sets of tomotto purree..

2 sets of califlower.

4 sets of TIDE (turned out to be 4 in the end as each bought 2!!)

2 sets of roti

2 sets of tomotoes

2 sets of salt

2 sets of *.*... basically..!!

the funniest part is that.. in the end my roomie was in cash register paying the bills.. and the bill came to $220/- when it could have been well below $150/-!! and he did pay the bill.. without even noticing that everything was being billed twice..!!

my roomie..challenging n on par with me on carelessnes...:-)).. !!

Katrina Vs Mumbai...!

2005-09-06T22:41:00.000-07:00

Couldn't stop myself from making this comparison..

Couldn't stop myself from putting this in my blog..

inches of rain in new orleans due to hurricane katrina... 18
inches of rain in mumbai (July 27th).... 37.1

population of new orleans... 484,674
population of mumbai.... 12,622,500

deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of katrina...100
deaths in mumbai within 48hours of rain.. 37

number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city..wohh
number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000

Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE

Time taken for US army to reach new orleans... 48hours
Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai...12hours

status 48hours later...new orleans is still waiting for relief, army and electricty
status 48hours later..mumbai is back on its feet and is business is as usual

USA...world's most developed nation
India...third world country..

oops...i sure got the the last fact wrong!!!

JAI HIND..!!

India has time and again proved that it can no longer be called as a "third world coutry". I hope this sinks deep into the hearts of all Indians who live in India becoz it is imperative that they actually realize this; only and only then can India come out of all shackles to become the "WORLD LEADER"

funny aspect of airhosts

2005-09-03T21:38:00.000-07:00

actually I just noticied an interesting and funny thing that happened when I was flying from Seattle to Washington D.C... well actually have been noticing this for a while but..it just striked me.. this time..

it is so funny that almost 99% of the time I do not wear my seat belts during flight take off and landing.. just that I didn' t like..nothing more than that.. basically... eveytime the airhostess would come by each and every row to check if the passengers have their seatbelts fastened.. and everytime they cross my aile too.. checking on my aile too.. but never..except for just once.. (was actually happy since I got to talk with this awesome sexy airhostes.. :-)!! have they caught me not wearing the sealt belts..

its just funny becoz..it happens again n again..n again..:-) and I always keep escaping..:-)

hm..ironic title??!!

2005-09-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

hm..ironic title for my blog..too..isn't it..?!!!

well i just noticed actually after..soo much whining and crying..
hm..well ...will be posting..the happier part of life..from now..:-))

one more crazy weekk.. :-((

2005-09-02T19:30:00.000-07:00

well..its defintely not whining..guys.. you got to take sympathy on me..

this week was again..crazy.. monday morning.. ,frustated was I already from a horrible weekend.. turned horrible as I was working and doing some stupid build/deployment stuff for a project lauch.. which was a disaster for no mistake of mine.. ,

I go into work and literally the entire day was spent in meetings n planning ..on.and on.. well i can't blame, perhaps only this time, that the meeting were as usual worthless, as we indeed come with a plan for getting things done..which in fact turned out to work for us..

but still the entire day..in meetings..phew.!! I quite often feel that I am doing more of a managerial job..like a TPM (technical project manager) in Amazonian terms...when I actually want to be a SDE (Software Development Engineer).. organizing, co-ordinating and delegating works has been my main job...!!!

call it irony, fate or perphaps fortune to be nicer.. I have been playing this role for a long time.. !! Seriously..not at work.. but during my college days.. I never used technically sound.. ok..not in normal terms.. from software coding and programming perspective I never used to be good at it ..even during college days.. I used to be good in ideas..and logic..but never good at actually implementing it.. and this the same role I am playing now also..

I have been extremely good in organizing and managing projects (touchwood..!!) ..playing a leadership role.. but have never been managed.. in the sense that I want to be doing stuff..not asking some one to do a stuff.. I want to be self reliant and not be depending on someone.. I know that;s what managers do.. :-) ..but I don't want to be one..

well its definitely irony of life i guess..

another crazy week at work!

2005-08-29T00:06:00.000-07:00

hm.. well I don't mean to start of whining abt my job..but still.. this entire week was soo hectic and demanding.. that it even creeped... no screechingly intruded, messed up my weekend also.. It was histerical that my boss, in the middle of all this confusion and mayhem went to Dublin..!!!

I donno if its just amazon or in most of the companies.. it such a mess inside the company. I am really surprised how everything hasn't fallen off the roofs... how everything is still surviving without breaking.. we have soo many systems .. so many software packages, code that can very well break and go hayward.. well its really surprising and interesting..too..

preethi..had come here this weekend and i was hoping to spend my sweet entire time with her.. but damn.. these guys bug me soo much.. people from work were callign asking for help.. and I had to wrk for quite a lot of error during this weekend.. the interesting things is that ever directors n senior managers were online ..working with me at wees hours of 1am in the morning.. just like any other softwre engineer... it funny, at one end and pathetic too..

well..if they have to work n weekends and late nighsts.. how am I excused..!!!

IPod Patent goes to Microsoft!!!

2005-08-15T13:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1847959,00.asp

I just cannot believe this.. how does Microsoft survive like this..scavenging on others inventions.. I have heard that microsoft is an epitome example of American supermacy and race for power.

Yeah, IPod has not become to owned by microsoft..just the music library listing has been patented.. but even then..it is def Apple's share to own this patent..and Microsoft uses all its political n economic power to win this patent...just sounds soo wrong..

Back to Square one

2005-07-21T22:46:00.000-07:00

hm.. well its back to square one.. will have to start working again after a wonderfull time with my parents n family. I was feeling really very bad..almost in tears.. when my dad started off to leave me from seattle. He was going to Elango's house and from there he is heading to India for a month and then back to Riyadh. Trinka left earlier today afternoon to chennai for a month vacation. Elango n Radhika had left Washington D.C yesterday night....oh..too much dynamic quick changes.. !!

Things are happening n changing at blitzering speed at present now for me.. the past two weeks have been soo busy n erractic for me... in the begining I had a great tension to finish a project at my work which kep on dragging.. for no good reason.. my manager kind of got pissed off and conveyed to me that he wouldn't be able to give me my vacation time, which I had asked to spend with my parents, as agreed earlier if I falter to finish the project before I leave vacation.

After slogging my ass day n night for 3 or 4 days was able to bring the project to a decent state where by it can be delegated to others if need be..

I was sooo happy when I was done with this..project.. by the End of the Day (EOD) I was even more happy that I could take my vacations as planned and spend the entire time with my parents.

Had a wonderfull time with my parents.. I was at the top of excitement and happiness.. then these guys started to leave..and I am feeling soo bad now.. very sober and very unstable right now.. the greatest this is that atleas my mom is there with me now.. and will spending some more time..

hm..other than that..well its back to square one..

hmm..maybe that's life..!!

Spectacular Ranier Mountains

2005-07-17T00:23:00.000-07:00

we visited the infamous Rainier mountains. It was simply spectacular. Awesome! It was such a huge ice capped mountain, standing 10,000 Feet tall, this is easily visible from my wonderful rooftop itself on a clear sky. Well then we were looking at the mountain 100 miles away and now we go to see it just few meters away. It was awesome. We were also very lucky to get some clear view of the snow cap as the clounds cleared away, giving way to the mountain peak sparkling with ice from the sunshine. I finished quite a few film rolls on this trip will soon upload them..

hm..well..I am tired now..gtg to bed..

Had an Awesome time showing around Seattle Downtown to my parents

2005-07-14T22:34:00.000-07:00

voow...! it was really wonderful showing around Seattle downtown to my parents. My dad had come today early afternoon via United airline to seattle. We made it to our apts sometime aorund 1pm. I hurried all of them directly to my awesome roof top.

machi..'s seriously da.. our roof tops is one of the best views you can get to see downtown seattle. It is simply suuuperb.. I'll try to attach the photos maybe later.. and morover you can also view the pacific ocean..

the funny part is.. we were are all supposes to go on a ferry ride to a small island and hand out for few hours.. the last ride to the ferry was at 4:30pm and this ride returns back at 9pm. As usual n expected we missed it..haah! we all slept until 4pm and then hurried to the ferry only to see it on its way..haha!! but it turned to be a blessing in disguise.. I had this opputunity to show my parent downtown seattle...

I seriously think people should def visit Seattle at least once and live here for sometime. This is an awesome place to live in. Seattle is a very beautiful, very aethetic and very artistic place to live. It is very much laid back..people are not soo madly busy and hectic as is the case in the east coast. I def want to write a separate issue on Seattle and its charming beauty.

having great time with parents in my new apt

2005-07-10T17:47:00.000-07:00

I just moved to a new apt last week from my dingy, frat house apt. Well I shoudn't probably be complaning abt my earlier apt as I did have some wonderfull time there with all my totally n typically american roomies.. perhaps the best part was that all of them were anti-bush and had great dreams of coming in INDIA.

I should be writing about my unique ..cool.. experiences with my american roomies soon..but right now.. I am having a really good time with my mom in my new apt. I moved into this really cool 2 bedroom apt almost right in downtown Seattle. Although it is just few blocks away from downtown, it is quite neighbourhood and an awesome place to live.. there is a swimming pool and a half Gym.. (I say this as half Gym since it doesn't really have eveything..but just has few basic stuff..to warm ur muscles and freshenup urself..)

Mom has been with since last week and today Dad and trinka are also coming .. later this weekend Elango n radhika are also gonna come.. we are garthering up to celetbrate Dad's B'day (july 19th) ....

I still havne;t looked at a good place to take all these guys...:-(( .. as usual I guess..!!

Watch out Uncle Sam, the Indians and the Chinese are coming!!

2005-01-14T19:12:00.000-08:00

Watch out Uncle Sam, the Indians and the Chinese are coming!!

This was the headlines in most of the websites today..including timesofindia.com, googlenews and etc. Voow that was awesome.. to read..!!

This is indeed an old news headlines that came out..but still its about India and India becoming a super power..so..that always.. exciting news..

I just jumped off my seat for a sec..at the very thought that India in the near future (projections for 2020AD) would grow up to become a superpower.. and perhaps even more powerfull and dominant than the USA.. just made me proud..and more so ..was pure exhilaration..!!

Honestly..my brother and I have long talked about this possibility. It was more like inevitability to the world community to concede that India and China were growing in larger propotions..

so..its GREAT.. feeling PROUD to be an INDIAN!!

Am I a scifi..movie..hero..!!

2005-01-12T10:52:00.000-08:00

Well, What am I gonna do with this blog.. what am I trying to achieve with this blog.. I was just thinking about it..for a while.. hmm..interesting question..??

then came across a thought..that I shouldn't have even started this blog..if I did not know what I was going to do with this blog..hmm!!

hm.. is this is the case always in life..?? do we always have to know what we want..and what we don't want..?? or is it always like..we don't know what we want ..and just do whatever comes across our mind..our life..and then try to make the best out of it.. ?? or is it like.. we just hang on to something that we have done... and try to as much as possible to get the best out of it. ??

hmm... well..the last one is not a good option for 99% of the time... the others.."Depends" .. on circumstances..

I am surprised that I have come across all these people.... in many places, epochs, circumstances..
and maybe .. in the same person..at different epoch..at different cicrcumstances..!! voow..what a beauty...! or perhaps confusion..maybe..haha.!!

one of the strangest things that has happened ..and is happening...to me is that I have realiazed .. many times.. I think that I like ..this and this.. and don't like this and this.. a particular things looks many times..impossible for me.. when I put myself in that position..
but somehow..at a later stage..sometimes ..I am shocked to see myself .. right in the same scenario unknowingly and unconciously me..doing the same set of things..that I have previously contradicted..and maybe even derided upon.. doing the same set of things... that I would have never imagined that I would do ..when I have placed myself in that position from a safer haeven... but doing those things instead..when I am actually there..in real space and time..

sometimes..I visualize my life ..as a scifi..movie.. haha..!!

sometimes..it is for good..but unfortunately.. most of the times...it is painful..!!

hey..wait..I am not shooting for a sad ending....the best..part ..I have been glad to realize this fact..this reality and..that has made me.. enjoy those moments..also..haha..!! isn;t that..good..!!

hm..wait..a sec..

is it really happening..that way..!! or is it becoz I imagine like..this..I see things happening like this..??

I think this much is enough for now..:-) !!

Vanakkam

2005-01-10T19:42:00.000-08:00

Vanakkam Makkale..

This is the second blog ID that I have created..the first one was lost into wilderness of cyberspace.. (I forgot my login and password..!!)

So I think you guys would have got an idea...of how how might be maintaining this site.. I hope not to be so careless again..lets see..

so folks..check back..often..as I think it would be interesting to just keep bloggin without few feedback comments..

chao