Office & around

Here is the night view of the hockey stadium with a match ON, this is just behind my office


Adjacent to the above is this ground where we play cricket sometimes in evening


Here is how the place where I work look from ground floor


And here is how it looks from 5th floor(total of 8 floors)

Bug in FileExplorer of GoSymbian

Okay couldn't resist publishing this bug from FileExplorer software from GoSymbian
Have a look at my following screenshot of 3650

While on my fone, I have only one side contacts and other camera
Now I myself wonder, how this is possible...

Any gmail takers ?

From over 2 months I have 2 gmail invitations with me
Any takers of it? FIFO Algo will be used.

Japanese are crazy

Last nite after coming back around 2am from a movie(HulChul, really hilarious, I liked) I decided to switch on the TV and there was going this discovery show Xtreme engineering and there they was showing about construction about a building in Tokyo named "Sky City" which they guys are planning to make whooping double the size of current worlds tallest Taipei 101(Chinese Taipei ? ;) )
It is really unbelievable to have such a high concrete structure and that also in place where you get frequent earth quake, but those guys are prepared for all, And they represented no. of mind blowing figures and most exactly which I remember is, that this building construction will require still of worth 1.5Billion USD that is literally crazy
If you want more figures go surf this
http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/skycity/interactive/interactive.html
And if this don't help, google it out more
Anways, Now I know why Laxmi Mittal(Steel Tycoon) is so rich.

Friday dec 10 shots

On friday dec 10 I got free really early around 4.30pm and at 5 was at home, so though of decided to go for a jog and lazily reached for jog only at 5.45, At that time Sun was just about to go down so I thought to run near water body and take this shot, but when I reach there, Mr quicky was already down


And while on the way back I see this tree, completely piled up with flowers, it was looking astonishing in the dim light.


Than at midnite me and one of my friend decided to go watch a movie in a near by multiplex(PVR), which they claim is India's biggest multiplex, around 11 screens and If you calculate no. of people in those 11 screens it comes around 500 X 11 = 5500 and all that on one floor, anyways, we didn't got the ticket for that show so took the one for next days show and while coming back my friend wanted to call his friend in MIT, so we stopped at Sify cyber cafe, from there you can make REALLY cheap international calls, and it is really cheap, around 5 INR a min, Sify is one of the company which brought real revolution in India in case of ISD calls, though much before Sify Reliance brought a revolution in mobile in India and which literally compelled all GSM operators to not only make outgoing calls more and more cheap but incoming calls absolutely FREE.
Here is one of hoarding of the Sify in there shop

Toy on my colleagues desk

They show the traditional Indian people look

Back from Vacations

Okay it was more than great time and never wanted to come back, and was really having a good time seeing my old friends, neighbours and visiting relatives.
Travelled lot of places this time and in complete holidays of more than 20 days I was hardly 5 days at home and rest of the time on the road, travelling.

One of the flower pic in my back home garden(In back you can see new range of apartments coming up).

Starting my long vacation ...

Its being more than 10 months when I went last time for vacations and indeed my manager feel it really right for me to go for vacations. And here the day comes, my last day in office bfore a really long vacations I had in years, I am going from tomorrow 6/11 to 29/11
So no company emails to checks ... but when I return I will have 80*23 i.e. 1840 emails to go thru in my company a/c, fucking hell and hardly 1% will be junk, so can't do mass deletion too, anyways I can do anything for vacations.

Typical b'lore engineer excuse ...

Was passing by and heard software engineering saying project manager
Sotware Engineer: "It will work always, Only thing is ... when ... it will not and rather it will ..."
Project manager: umm ... I don't know.

Just missed a chance to be millionaire

Why didn't any1 informed me about this
http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/01game.htm

I am not bad either in playing with my nokia 3650.

Search your hard disk using google

Ahaa
Google suddenly releases google desktop
Now you can search your hard disk using this, I just tried it, and again like all google stuffs, it is LIGHTNING fast, darn even if u have html ready it takes this much long and u get it as soon as you do search over it,
I am impressed, now i know why did they rejected my CV for job in google, sadly but true, I don't mind, Never give up.
Anways, most surprising thing is, With the speed they are working and using there existing infrastructure, Surely seems as good time ahead for them.
Looking forward to get GBrowser one day from them :)

It is pouring outside ...

I am waiting from past 3 hours now and hungry like anything, but don't see any sign of rain stopping or even getting slow, I guess it will be rather good idea to order food here only as I forsee cook must not had came today and no point going home and getting disappointed.
I am looking at yahoo weather for bangalore and it forecast rain for another 4 days too,
Surely weekend will be nothing more than sitting in front of 21 inch monitor and reading books, anyways not bad, Looking forward for it ...

Eclipse is getting better & better

I am a long time fan and user of Eclipse, Really nice effort by IBM, thanks IBM.
Just today only downloaded
Version: 3.0.1
Build id: 200409161125
And was really felt like saying thanks to IBM for giving this special feature, Now I can hide my long code by click of node, Just like we can do in browsers while showing XML documents,
Well apart from this
- Better search in help
- Nice effort in putting that first page
- Like always, Now window decorations is better than before, this is being a trend ...
- They played with buttons which run the application
Everything else looks same, I imported my same preference file, but still wondering, why not code formatter is removing those empty lines, must be some option included, I need to dig in its preferences I guess,
But thanks to IBM for putting peanuts from his billions to make it happen ... :-$

sick & tired of being sick & tired

This drama seems to have no end, In starting when I moved to Bangalore 24 august 2003 I thought I will overcome and will be doing fine, Though I was havig lil asthma problem and this town is hell for asthma patients...not only because of pollution, that you will get in any Indian towns apart from smaller ones but because of too much greenery and gardens here you tend to get pollens in the air almost all the time, thus making living hell for serious asthma patients.
Anyways, I did overcome that fear as I tried hard maintaing myself and yes I did well and did overcome that asthma stuff, But this town is like a real living hell, not only crowd(7.5 million people in this small area) but I have serious doubt whether I would be able to cope up with this sick whether, Its being 3 days now I am gettin wet daily and indeed most of the time more than one. It will rain every now and than and moreover, I don't remember when did I saw good sunlight last, I belong to the place where it use to rain least in country, And Once upon a time I really use to love the rains, But not anymore...how can one, I am sick of being sick & tired here.
And well this is only physical abuse, here is long list of mental too:
--> Roads are always choaked, Yes even in 11pm or midnite.
--> Traffic police will disturb you always.
--> High level of pollution.
--> No matter where you go, stay in queue, so what you going to pay high bill in rest. still before eating wait in queue.
--> High medical cost, yes though city is made to make u sick
--> 100 other reasons...

Well this all surely going to make you think it a voice of someone who is badly depressed in life, Though not really, But I guess sometimes I associate all the problems I have to one single source, But ain't this is right thing to do when you think your sorrounded by problems? If not than what is the right approach? Surely you can't hit all of them together than why not to take them one by one, Anyways I guess it is good to have problems else What a wonderful world it would be. How can we be sure that we will get where we dream to be? Why is it that until this very moment, I have always assumed that I would grow up, be successful at something I love to do, fall madly in love, live behind that white picket fence? You know what I'm talking about. When did my little voice in my head decide to turn pessimistic? I've always tried to look on the bright side, or I tell my self that I have. Maybe all along I have been fooling myself and don't really know who I am and maybe I try to hard to see what other people see. Thats a weird thought. What if you could see yourself the way that other people see you? It kind of sounds like one of those "be careful what you wish for" questions, but I hardly think it is unreasonable to view yourself from a different angle. But how accurate would that angle measure? Isn't it safe to assume that if we took an outside angle on our public view, we already infact actually know too much about ourselves to make objective observations? That brings me to my point. (Yes there is a point.) If we could take a step outside of ourselves and become a stranger to ourselves, how would we respond to the original form of ourselves? Stay tuned.

Indian hostages free'd after a long drama

Here rediff reports that Hostage Indians were freed after around 70 days long drama.
I wonder what the hell goverment has done for this, well you can it was almost nothing they did except from the fact that they publicize it alot and made good public statements and now offcourse like all good Indian politicians do, let that credit come-en, who did it? how it happend? go to hell, keep that credit come my way.
But for the matter of fact we must think how come indian hostages freed successful after all
well many reasons, Those guys knew these poor truckers will give nothing and after all they took alot more than they could expect after beheading those truckers, KGL steppin back really has given a good shock to US militry contractors and now I Believe there is only one more one left...But once again this drama has proved status of India, how much we respect of citizens, and well yes I don't deny, how we can respect citizens when there are so many citizens
- Every month more than dozen local train travellers die JUST in Mumbai
- East India, well media hardly can cover all those murders
- J&K, media is bored of covering all those 1-2 daily deaths, no more in media.
- Rest of India, why the hell we local news papers for, in national news let those credit come en.