Ruined public opinion!

This post is regarding 2 sided opnion made by people on same issue,which ultimately lead to no results.

Few days back bollywood bad man was in news for casting couch plot,though it was critsized a lot by media but i found most people of opinion that the media was infringing private space of people.No one was concern abt the reallity expose (may be everyone knows about filmi life or they consider media more danger to there own life, which ultimately means everyone is doing some secret crime work).I read a no of newspaper articles and blogs where people(in indirect sense) want the media to expose scams, following rules and regulation...hey are you joking..can that be done...no way!!!

And today i read a reverse opinion of people for media war blog ....a popular blog being asked to shut down as it was exposing reallity of biggies(particularly the name was of TOI).

People did'nt wanted the blog to be shut down becoz it was exposing big wholes of giant people..Now i have a question,Is the blog written according to rules and regulation..though it was run by journalist.
I dont know why people dont stick to one opinion(mostly people keep themself on safer side)... now guys reading this post will be thinking that i myself have a swirling opinion.

So here goes wht i accept...
Govt should make strict rules and regulation ofcourse in favour and better ment of people and make them to follow closely and if some one is found guilty breaking them..then punish them severly no matter whoever it is ,this will be lesson for everyone and people will surely think before commiting a crime.
Now everyone will think this is hard to follow...then you have to decide wht you want?exposer of bad people using wrong medium?then how we will categorise the people doing crime..one who commited or one who exposed using wrong medium..there should be no markation for big or small crime..crime is crime..if one does and other exposes using wrong way then both will be in same pool....else we will be always in a crime loop...which we have to break.

We need to apply this step by step ...no delay in court decision..no acceptance of mercy...though everyone in top heriarchy are themself drowned in corruption,they dont want all this ..but one has to start...hard to swallow and strict to follow but people have to raise the choice(govt. is for the people,by the people and of the people)...else everyone will have to remain quiet and keep watching.

I hope my opinion is only to make things better :-)

College canteen..

I read an article on college canteen from last week newspaper magzine.It was all about bangalore students view on college canteen food stuff and enviroment and finally a rating from them.That all reminded me of our college canteen..
Really most of the students enjoy and pass time in canteen rather then in classes or library.
In our college there was two canteens(one for students and other for college workers).Students canteen didnt had any good infrastructure and menu item consist of few eatables like cholla samosa,bread pakoda,tea etc.Most of the times we have to go to city market to have good food or to get our daily need stuff.
Just to avoid going a long way to market,me and my frnds use to have breakfast and probably lunch also in canteen as i luved the pakodas with a sip of hot tea.The owner of the canteen (popularly known as "sharmaji") was a nice person to us .We have asked him a couple of time why dont he include more things in menu?he used to say that students are not interesed in new things as he tried a number of times by including new eatables but mostly, ppl ingnored it and took the usual stuff.Other thing was that gals didnt come to canteen as it was some past trend and this made canteen environment more verse and indecent.Boys used to smoke around..i always thought if gals and professor also visited the canteen, then there would have been a lot of improvement..alas it never happened,anyways still i enjoyed bunking class in college days and be in canteen to fill up my empty stomach(used to get up late for college and then run for class..obiously miss my hostel breakfast).I would give rating as 4/10 to our college canteen

I heard from my juniors that college has improved a lot... number of new facilities are introduced and canteen has been upgraded with good menu ,new infrastucture and gals/professors too visit the place...really cool to hear all about it.

Now i am a blogging degree holder:-)

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Relaxing weekend..

Atlast got a long weekend to relax .. slept a lot,apart from that i have spent time with my sis,though could not make to cricket match.Also watched a couple of movies including million dollar baby(its a nice movie,slow but inspiring).
Went out for dinner/pub with my frnds.Got hand on my pending novels and read all last week newspaper..now dont start asking me all the previous week news:-).

Now back to office...with the same sick work but will try to make as many post as possible as it relaxes me a lot and make me feel happy.

*Happy Holi:Bringing colours to Life*

Take the basket of love,

fill in the colours of joy,

mix it with some shararat,

now splash in the colours on all your loved ones,

and here it becomes a memorable Holi

Enjoy the spirit of Holi.

Wishing You a very very happy Holi....

Forward stuff!

ONE BEDROOM FLAT... AN INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER'S LIFE... - A Bitter Reality

As the dream of most parents I had acquired a degree in Software
Engineer
and joined a company based in USA, the land of braves and opportunity.
When I arrived in the USA, it was as if a dream had come true.

Here at last I was in the place where I want to be. I decided I would
be staying in this country for about Five years in which time I would
have earned enough money to settle down in India.

My father was a government employee and after his retirement, the only
asset he could acquire was a decent one bedroom flat. I wanted to do
some thing more than him. I started feeling homesick and lonely as the
time
passed. I used to call home and speak to my parents every week using
cheap international phone cards. Two years passed, two years of
Burgers
at
McDonald's and pizzas and discos and 2 years watching the foreign
exchange rate getting happy whenever the Rupeevalue went down.

Finally I decided to get married. Told my parents that I have only 10
days of holidays and everything must be done within these 10 days. I
got my ticket booked in the cheapest flight. Was jubilant and was
actually
enjoying hopping for gifts for all my friends back home. If I miss
anyone then there will be talks. After reaching home I spent home one
week going through all the photographs of girls and as the time was
getting
shorter I was forced to select one candidate.
In-laws told me,to my surprise, that I would have to get married in 2-
3
days, as
I will not get anymore holidays. After the marriage, it was time to
return to USA, after giving some money to my parents and telling the
neighbors to look after them, we returned to USA.

My wife enjoyed this country for about two months and then she started
feeling lonely. The frequency of calling India increased to twice in a
week sometimes 3 times a week. Our savings started diminishing. After
two more years we started to have kids. Two lovely kids, a boy and a
girl,
were gifted to us by the almighty. Every time I spoke to my parents,
they
asked me to come to India so that they can see their grand-children.

Every year I decide to go to India. But part work part monetary
conditions
prevented it. Years went by and visiting India was a distant
dream. Then suddenly one day I got a message that my parents were
seriously sick.
I tried but I couldn't get any holidays and thus could not go to
India.
The next
message I got was my parents were passed away and as there was no one
to
do
the last rights the society members had done whatever they could. I
was
depressed. My parents were passed away without seeing their grand
children.

After couple more years passed away, much to my children's dislike and
my wife's joy we returned to India to settle down. I started to look
for a suitable property, but to my dismay my savings were short and
the
property prices had gone up during all these years. I had to return to
the USA.

My wife refused to come back with me and my children refused to stay
in India. My 2 children and I returned to USA after promising my wife
I
would be back for good after two years.

Time passed by, my daughter decided to get married to an American and
my son was happy living in USA. I decided that had enough and wound-up
every thing and returned to India. I had just enough money to buy a
decent 02 bedroom flat in a well-developed locality. Now I am 60 years
old and
the only time I go out of the flat is for the routine visit to the
nearby
temple. My faithful wife has also left me and gone to the holy abode.

Sometimes I wondered was it worth all this? My father, even after
staying in India, had a house to his name and I too have the same
nothing more.

I lost my parents and children for just ONE EXTRA BEDROOM.

Looking out from the window I see a lot of children dancing. This
damned cable TV has spoiled our new generation and these children are
losing their values and culture because of it. I get occasional cards
from my
children asking I am alright. Well at least they remember me. Now
perhaps after
I die it will be the neighbors again who will be performing my last
rights, God Bless them. But
the question still remains 'was all this worth it?'





I am still searching for an
answer................!!!!

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SECRET CRUSH: Time for a laugh!!!

HAVE YOU BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN
AGE AND THINKING, "SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD?"
I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST
APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULLNAME.
SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY
WITHTHE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS
SOME 40-ODD YEARS AGO.

COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN??

UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.

THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS
WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.
HMMM,...OR COULD HE???

AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.

"YES. YES, I DID. " HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.

"WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?" I ASKED.

HE ANSWERED, "IN 1957. WHY DO YOU ASK?"

"YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!" I EXCLAIMED.

HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY

THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, WRINKLED SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,
"WHAT DID YOU TEACH?"

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Heck time...

Its a long time i have made a post to my blog....reason ofcourse "LOT OF WORK".Last time i made a blog was on 8th march,after that i didnt even got a chance to see my blog again.

Release deadline,previous release fixes and new superboss strategy,all has made me to work minimum 12 hrs a day like a mule....i dont know how the days have past from last three weeks.Only weekends give me a break.
Now my routine is get up late in the morning,then run for office and then slog whole day in office till late night...by the time i am back my head is crashing and dont feel like talking much to any one and reading any stuff,just have my dinner and get to bed.
Result of pressure:
1.Have missed my daily breakfast and gym routine.
2.Dont even get a glance of newspaper or novels.In previous days if i miss reading newspaper then i used to read news on net thru google news.
3.Dont have time to meet my sister..she yells at me by sending sms that she is upset as now days i dont have time for her.
4.Feeling bad for my papa as he is suffering from joundis and could not make a attempt to go back home and see him..though just try to call up atleast thrice a week to ask abt his health...GOD bless him and make him well soon.
5.Didnt mailed/called up my frnds and many more...:-(

Last week my cousin came down to stay with me for a week and due to this heck time i didnt gota chance to enjoy and talk to him properly except last weekend....who should i blame:to work/bosses/me/luck?...anyways things have to move on and i have to make some adjustments and bring life back to normal state.But i am sure this routine wil countinue for atleast one more month..God save me.
Coming weekend is a long one as i have a off on friday...will try to go out with my sister..hopefully for a match as 3rd test cricket match b/w pakistan and india going on in bangalore and she wants to see it and i have still not got the tickets....my cousin will also leave by this weekend...hope he dont feel too bad as i showed much devotion to my work then him.

So today i thought to make as many post i can....lets see when i wil be back on my blog again..will try to read all mails and fwds as they are cluttering up in my mailbox and will fully refresh myself this weekend...definetly will complete my todays office work also...wish me gud luck:-)

Weekend movie synopsis..

Fight Club:

Fight Club is a masterpiece . It stars an all star cast including Brad Pitt , Edward Norton , Helena Carter.

Edward Norton plays an unamed insomniac that finds refuge and consolidation in the suffering of others as he goes from anonymous meeting to anonymous meeting. It is here he meets Carter, a fellow insomniac whose appearance makes it almost impossible for him to find any gratification from other people's misery. He needs an answer, and this is found in Tyler Durden (Pitt), a soap salesman and part time convicter of indecent exposure in cinema reels whose philosophy is that you don't know anything about yourself unless you have been in a fight.

Together they set up Fight Club, an underground secret club that involves the pounding of its members, governed by only eight rules. Tyler's need for destruction gets out of hand, however as he plans to destroy a series of banks unknown, apparently, to Norton's character until his real life comes crashing down upon him.

Edward Norton is brilliant, and is supported by the amazing talents of both Pitt and Carter.

It's not until it has been watched a second time that you will see its superb cleverness and confusion, the ending is truly unexpected, but afterwards painfully obvious.

Get this film!

Hitch:

A delightful romantic comedy movie, Will Smith stars as Alex, an urban "date doctor" who helps the wall flower man woo the woman of his dreams.

Hitch will use any means necessary--dance lessons, back waxing--to instill romantic confidence in his clientele. Why? He was once a lonely wallflower himself, who learned about love and heartbreak the hard way.

His latest project, Albert, just may be his most difficult. Albert, a junior accountant prone to clumsiness, has fallen head-over-heels for one of his clients, Allegra, a well-known celebrity.

Complicating things further, Hitch's dating dogma is shaken when he meets and falls for a beautiful gossip columnist, Sara, whose sharp wit easily pierces his cool facade.

Conflict arises when Sara uncovers Hitch's true profession and blames him for her best friend being dumped.
But later Alex is able to convince Sara abt her postive and true work(Sara too feel sorry for her act) and film ends by finding a companion for sara's best friend.

No communication protocol needed....

Now days i am busy with my project work as the deadline is near and on the top i got a bug of previous release to fixup.Yesteday, i stayed with my boss till late night to resolve the issue...thanks god (i mean boss) it was done...really my boss is a cool chap,god bless him..will surely dedicate a special post for him...but when??..dont know..let me find a day when i will be in full flow to write.. and whts so special abt him???.. about his gr8 thoughts and brighter life style..though simplicity is the best thing in him(does that mean no darker side..have but in patches..that is not visible).
I have a number of post pending to write upon like on my frnd circle,team mates,roommates..etc etc...lets see,when they come up!!!
Oops..this is not what i want to write in todays post....its about the communication we have at our home with land lords(this is also a post which i was not able to write down though always busy,i have started hating this word busy :-) ).
The house in which i stay is big enough that there are total 4 tenants along with landlord family.There is bengali family(my frnds family),another is muslim family ,3rd one dont know exactly,as it keep swapping,i think mostly south indian ppl and last but not the least,WE(it consist of mixture of india, all are my college frnds-- one from AP, other from east, me from north and one is from middle india and we are looking for a guy from east(joking)..how abt a gal??..kidding)..actually 3 of us own the flat,4th one is here for job search.

Now our landlord is south indian,not able to communicate in hindi but i think they can understand it to very little extend..now guess how we communicate.Thats wonder man...i always see my frnds muma talking to landlord aunt in hindi with bengali tinge..and wht she gets in reply is telgu words..and they both keep chatting, but how come they understand,its strange for me.Same is the case with my uncle and landlord..uncle speaks english and landlord ofcourse replies back in telgu..somehow it goes all well.

For me,if i want to talk to my landlords i look for there childrens as they know english well..but if they are not there then i have to manage with face expressions,actions,broken words and pointing to objects in case if i need to refer to it in my speech...suprisingly that works gr8..And if any how i am not able to understand,then i have only option to grin and leave from there..or just node on wht ever they spoke(that can cause me in trouble some day)

Cannot hold back our experience with telgu cook...in intial stages we have really hard time to communicate to her wht we want in dinner...if we ask for egg fry she just boils the eggs and leave arnd..if we ask her to make dal and brinjal sabji then we will get a mixture of dal and brinjal instead of seperate integrents....and if u want to tell the counts of roti ..then our hindi counts never worked..we used fingers and tried the trick of bringing hands back and fourth to tell total counts in no of 10's...but it didnt worked and result was just 10 ..i got the bug..i should have raise my hands then bring them down and repeat it again..this works man....when ever we asked for less spicy food..we got more spicy each day..the only solution for us was,not to bring mirchi from market..if no mirchi,then wht she will put to make it spicy..we escaped...it became smoother after few weeks as she and we had developed a set of action and words to communicate our needs....but now days we miss her as she is on leave and gone home...we ourself cook food..thanks god i learn a lot of cooking though,the credit goes to my mother as she always taught me tits and bits of every thing..luv u mom.

Really language is not important..as it is man made stuff..but understanding counts a lot in life..really human mind is biggest creation of god..i mean the whole body it self.
One thing i will like to admit, that people in south are cool, co-operative and calm(leave the exceptions always..as bugs are always left..even in god creation).
The word bug remindeds me of a nice thing which my collegue told...if bugs are not created by us(development team) then wht abt QA and testing team, they will loose their job:-)

painless software management....

Article by Joel Spolsky

Maybe I should call this article "why I should stop reading Upside Magazine". I really have been trying to stop, but they send it to me for free, and I really needed bathroom reading material, so I grabbed it and found one of the most wrong-headed articles I've seen in a long time. Well, actually, there are wrong-headed articles all over Upside magazine, but this one was particularly irksome.

It's an article by Stephen James called "Lessons in Survival". (March 2000 Upside). Every month, I'm told, Mr James will share with us "some of the simple lessons [he's] learned from [his] own startups".

It includes lots of extremely useful advise that you would never figure out on your own, like, don't spend a lot of money on office space and try to find a neighborhood where you don't have to stand in line at the local restaurants. If you are starting a dot com, Mr James reminds us, "Get out of the house... Working at home sucks." And he points out that you should never pay more than $1.50 per square foot. Thanks, Mr James! It's extremely strange to me that you could expect the same price in every market. Maybe he just assumes that everyone in the world starts all companies in Silicon Valley.

"Forget the free coffee and drinks. Sure they're free at Microsoft... who wants to be like Microsoft?"

Hello? Is this a joke? Did Upside schedule their April issue for May?

I guess Mr James lives in a funny la-la world where there are millions of programmers just dying to work at your startup. When you are the founder of a company, you want to skimp on frills; they seem like a waste of money to you. That's fine. But don't think that candidates interviewing at your company will have the same emotional attachment; they won't. They are looking for a nice place to work. Skimping on free soft drinks, a completely standard benefit at most high tech companies, is a great way to send your employees and potential employees the message that you just don't care about being an attractive workplace.

Everybody in Silicon Valley seems to be talking about Charlie, the gourmet cook at Google who used to work for Jerry Garcia. I can tell you, the food is spectacular even by Michelin standards, not just corporate cafeteria standards. Because the food in the company cafeteria is so good, people don't leave work to eat. They eat with their colleagues, which increases learning and communication. They get back to work within half an hour, making them more productive. They feel like Google cares about them, making them more loyal.

Meanwhile, "Build-outs are a bad idea," Stephen James tells us. "Don't build out your space with walls or partitions -- leave it open... If employees need an office with a door, let them go to law school or Apple."

Guess what? They will go to Apple! And replacing just one of them will cost on the order of $50,000 in recruiting and training. A friend of mine provides gorgeous private office space for his programmers in the most expensive real estate district in the USA, Manhattan, and it's probably costing about $6,000 per person per year. Not much in the scheme of things.

What's worse, Mr James seems to be completely ignorant of the documented productivity gains provided by giving knowledge workers space, quiet, and privacy. The classic software management book Peopleware documents these productivity benefits extensively. (To be fair, Mr James is not alone in his cluelessness. He's just reflecting the folk wisdom prevalent in the Valley).

Here's the trouble. We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into "flow", also known as being "in the zone", where they are fully concentrated on their work and fully tuned out of their environment. They lose track of time and produce great stuff through absolute concentration. This is when they get all of their productive work done. Writers, programmers, scientists, and even basketball players will tell you about being in the zone.

The trouble is, getting into "the zone" is not easy. When you try to measure it, it looks like it takes an average of 15 minutes to start working at maximum productivity. Sometimes, if you're tired or have already done a lot of creative work that day, you just can't get into the zone and you spend the rest of your work day fiddling around, reading the web, playing Tetris.

The other trouble is that it's so easy to get knocked out of the zone. Noise, phone calls, going out for lunch, having to drive 5 minutes to Starbucks for coffee, and interruptions by coworkers -- ESPECIALLY interruptions by coworkers -- all knock you out of the zone. If you take a 1 minute interruption by a coworker asking you a question, and this knocks out your concentration enough that it takes you half an hour to get productive again, your overall productivity is in serious trouble. If you're in a noisy bullpen environment like the type that caffinated dotcoms love to create, with marketing guys screaming on the phone next to programmers, your productivity will plunge as knowledge workers get interrupted time after time and never get into the zone.

With programmers, it's especially hard. Productivity depends on being able to juggle a lot of little details in short term memory all at once. Any kind of interruption can cause these details to come crashing down. When you resume work, you can't remember any of the details (like local variable names you were using, or where you were up to in implementing that search algorithm) and you have to keep looking these things up, which slows you down a lot until you get back up to speed.

Here's the simple algebra. Let's say (as the evidence seems to suggest) that if we interrupt a programmer, even for a minute, we're really blowing away 15 minutes of productivity. For this example, lets put two programmers, Jeff and Mutt, in open cubicles next to each other in a standard Dilbert veal-fattening farm. Mutt can't remember the name of the Unicode version of the strcpy function. He could look it up, which takes 30 seconds, or he could ask Jeff, which takes 15 seconds. Since he's sitting right next to Jeff, he asks Jeff. Jeff gets distracted and loses 15 minutes of productivity (to save Mutt 15 seconds).

Now let's move them into separate offices with walls and doors. Now when Mutt can't remember the name of that function, he could look it up, which still takes 30 seconds, or he could ask Jeff, which now takes 45 seconds and involves standing up (not an easy task given the average physical fitness of programmers!). So he looks it up. So now Mutt loses 30 seconds of productivity, but we save 15 minutes for Jeff.

Anyway, I fully expect that most of you, reading this, will write to say, "what the heck are you doing reading Upside anyway? You get what you deserve". How true. Serves me right.