Life or something like that !!

And we stand united!!

2008-11-29T22:57:00.002+05:30

In paying tribute to those who sacrificed their lives in fighting the Mumbai terror. We all deeply mourn the loss their families we as nation have suffered. This is heartening though to know there are still few who don't care for their lives even when they are at the line of fire when they are doing their duty. The India salutes you all. May your soul rest in peace.
Amen!!

What next !!

2008-11-29T12:20:00.004+05:30

Lets face it, our current government has been a complete failure in tackling the securities issues. And intelligence department,, huh,, is complete farce. I know a person working with IB , claiming that the department runs on paper clippings, news articles and its source of information are media coverages. Even if you take that with a pinch of a salt, that is like WTF?.We need complete revamp of intelligence system.Not to forget about change in help at home department. Some news paper rightly commented that Shivraj Patil is the most incompetent home minister ever. Home , foreign , defence and finance ministry all need some dynamic and aggressive leaders. Not to miss the prime minister. All these guys needs balls to take some decision above from party politics. Do they have in them to take some decision and stand by it , similar to testing nuke??

Thats for government , lets look inward at ourselves, we the people of India. Proud to be an Indian?? For what ?? The poverty , the backwardness, the petty politics, the vulnerable security. Huh!! We are no where near even China. The all this talk of being superpower is just bullshit. To be a superpower , a developed nation we have to rise above just armchair intelectualism . Now is the time to stop talking and start doing.Most importantly change in attitude of each and every citizen of India is required. Boss it is not somebody else problem. For God's sake ye nahi chalta hai. Change starts from within. Lets be the change neccessary to make India the superpower. Enough is enough.

I am scared!!

2008-11-28T22:21:00.005+05:30

Yes,I am scared about safety,my safety,safety of my family,safety of my neighbor.Who is responsible for our safety? I don't want to be another victim of a blast or a bullet. Who will ensure safety of each and every citizen of this country?

Its gross , its outrageous. Whatever happened in the Mumbai.

An event can change the whole course of life for somebody. Now is that time for India. Life will not be same again for us, Indians. We have to stop being indifferent, we were not being tolerant. We were indifferent. There is no Mumbai spirit. People were just indifferent. It didnt happen to me, thank God. Next day everything is normal. God damn it!! How can one ignore what happened in trains, and continue with one's daily life as if nothing had happened. That is not tolerance for God's sake. That is indifference to reality. As long as I am not directly affected that is fine. I dont care what happened yesterday and carry on with my own life. That is escapism. Turn back face the reality. If this time we dont do that , we , as nation, can never rise up. Enough is enough.

And that ain't you!!

2008-10-03T21:44:00.006+05:30

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Stumbled upon this quote from Rocky Balboa.

{(14 - 11) != 2} !!

2008-08-19T23:56:00.004+05:30

Nor (11-8 ) is equal to 2. Stupid!!

Whats your name sir ? !!

2008-06-23T17:30:00.003+05:30

"Hello sir, I am calling on behalf of Tata-AIG. Can I have few minutes of your time?"
"And that would be regarding?"
"About some products of ours".
"I am busy, please give me a call some time tomorrow."
"Okey sir. May I know your name sir??"

WTF?

So these tele-marketers just pick up any no. randomly and call up. Without even knowing the name of the person, forget about having other relevant information of the person they are calling up. Some time back I had registered my no. in NDNC Registry. Now it was time to make to complaint to my telecom service provider. I called the customer care and lodged a complaint against violation of NDNC service.
If you are constantly bugged by different companies for takeing credit cards/loans/insurance policies and what not , it is time to register your cellphone no. to NDNC Registry and putting an end to all unsolicited commercial communnication .

(Don’t) Be a Balti!!

2008-04-21T13:57:00.001+05:30

Kyunki jo balti nahi hote hain o chori karte hain.
Blatant plagiarism on Ibibo.Check out this link and now go through my old posts. This is bloody bull yaar !
I tried to contact the author of the post , but there is no way I can contact him without registering with the site and proving how big a balti I’m. I have sent my concern to the owner of the site using contact us link. Lets see what they have to say about the same.

Customer Care !!

2008-04-15T13:07:00.003+05:30

In continuation with previous post , I saw contrast in services provided by E-Zone (the seller) and Eureka Forbes , Whirlpool (the actual products). I assume that it was fault of E-Zone that they didn't inform Eureka Forbes of the our buy , and hence delay from their side. But once aware of purchase they immediately sent a person to install the purifier. And this guy did a great job. They even followed it up by calling and inquiring about installation and satisfaction of service. At the other end I also got call from Whirlpool for proper installation and working of refrigerator. They called me up quite some time to ask for my convenient time so that they can come down and demonstrate. That is how you create good feeling for your customer.
E-Zone , take a clue from them.

E-Zone Sucks !

2008-04-15T11:40:00.001+05:30

Visit E-Zone only to check out products of various brands and their prices. Once you have made up your mind based on the features you are looking for in a particular product, just get out the shop and visit regular old timers electronics shop to buy the stuff. Treat E-Zone only a place to compare features of a product and perhaps prices too. Coz , even if you save few bucks here they have pathetic after sales support as in delivery itself. Once the money is paid they think there part is done with. You will not receive the delivery of the goods as promised.
I bought a tv, refrigerator and a food processor from this place. Surprisingly they did deliver tv and refrigerator on time but missed to deliver food processor. Then started endless calls to ezone. With every call all I here is by tomorrow the stuff would be delivered. As they say, tomorrow never comes. I needed to go back and threaten them to get the delivery next day.
Once bitten twice shy!! In my case I repeated the mistake of going back to them for buying water purifier. They do have all available brands for the product and that’s where they stand out. But I wish they do take bit effort to service that as well. So I bought the water purifier and they promised that somebody would come within 48 working hours to install it. That day being Saturday 48 hours means coming Tuesday. Fair enough. It was only after three such Tuesdays and n numbers of calls to them the installation was done.
Buying a product does not stops with paying for it. The whole buying experience start with the visit to the store and not until you have started using it the involvement of the company ends. So having competitive price (I doubt if they are really competitive) is one part of it. Any company needs to ensure that they have support for customer till they start using the product and also after sale proper service. Only being cost effective does not suffice. You have to support it with equally good support and service. Unless E-Zone does that , my verdict is E-Zone sucks.

By the way we are almost done with setting up our home :)

You Are Invited!!

2007-12-25T00:30:00.000+05:30

It all started around seven months back, when our parents exchanged our phone numbers and then passed it on to us. Yes people , marriage was definetly on cards. As things would have it, early may this year Ruchi and I had our respective phone numbers.

We spoke couple of times over the phone before we decided to meet in person. And one fine day, around mid may, I landed to Pune to meet her. We spoke in length at Barista , and by the time it was time to say tata , both of us knew that we had found the one. Yes , we had found someone to grow old with , and share the set of artificial teeth when we are old.
Next six months were roller-coster ride for us. With all roothna-manana to sweet nothings. From our dreams to all our nightmares.All our similarities to differences. All success and failures.All apprehension and reassurance.Irritation and affection. We had it all. Amidst rising phone bill, late night phone calls and leg pulling of colleagues we got engaged on Aug 4th.
Come Jan 19th and high phone bills , long hours spend on phone and early morning spicejet flight to mumbai (enroute to Pune) , will be history.

That is the day Ruchi and I are tying nuptial knot at Ranchi. Haldi, Mandap (on 17th Jan) and Dhritdhari (on 18th Jan) preceeds main marriage ceremony and will at my residence in Jamshedpur.Join our celebration of beginning of our new life together.

Paris!!

2007-09-25T01:20:00.000+05:30

Dolfinarium,Harderwijk!!

2007-09-18T00:33:00.000+05:30

Putten!!

2007-09-18T00:31:00.000+05:30

Brussels !!

2007-09-15T03:23:00.000+05:30

Amsterdam!!

2007-09-15T03:22:00.001+05:30

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!!

2007-05-13T00:49:00.000+05:30

What a man Richard P Feynman, 1965 Physics Nobel laureate , was. As Hans Bethe, another Nobel laureate mentions " There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can habe no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician."

Few quotes from the book of same title as the title of this post:

Be explicit. You can not just hope that I've cought on by osmosis. :)

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.

Everybody needs help sometime!!

2007-05-05T00:12:00.000+05:30

Even Spiderman does. Spidey 3 turns out to be okeyish type. Watch if you are a fan of Spidey!!

Fighter!!

2007-04-30T11:02:00.000+05:30

Kyunki Fighter kabhi haar nahi manta!!

Taken from here.

Late Night Teleconference!!

2007-04-12T18:44:00.000+05:30

It was a long five way conf call with old friends from college. What a delight it was. Nadeem is in Bangalore, Nitesh in Kolkata, Sashi in Raighar and Rajesh in Mumbai. Call lasted 2.5 hours. Really had a good time pulling each others leg and going back to good ol college day. Nostalgic journey!!

I happens only on Orkut!!

2007-04-12T18:30:00.000+05:30

A sample friend request

Passionate about making new married felame friends ... (Still trying to explore the reason why?) If your persuasions matches with me .. add me as friend or message me ..

Wierd,huh!!

New Addition!!

2007-04-09T15:40:00.000+05:30

A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Surely You'r Joking, Mr. Feynman!

What a delight - (1)

2007-04-09T15:37:00.000+05:30

To watch Ghulam Ali performing. He was here in Hyderanad as part of TOI's Hyderabad Fetival!!

Vishy is no. one!!

2007-04-04T10:18:00.000+05:30

At last. For very long, as long as I have known Viswanathan Anand as Indian chess player at international level, he has been no. 2 player in international chess. Finally in the latest list of FIDE ranking he gains the title. Congartulations Vishy!!

Hyderabad gives a damn!!

2007-04-04T10:17:00.000+05:30

To the bandh called upon in support of reservation. Unlike Chennai where people supported the move (going by pictures of deserted road which otherwise used to witness traffic jams) here in Hyderabad traffic condition was as usual. Only thing missing from the road was rtc buses. One thing which I didn’t anticipate was police machinery doing their job. You can see traffic cops doing their usual duty despite the fact the bandh is backed by Congress, the ruling party at state as well at center.

Way to go Hyderabad.

Things To Do - (3)

2007-03-16T00:00:00.000+05:30

Watch Aurora australis/Aurora borealis.