If Necessity is the Mother of all Inventions...

This is what I got when I searched about it in Twitter :

People have quite a creative mind, mind you ... :D

A Day in Azure of Microsoft

Date: I guess It was 15th April..
"Microsoft: We offer products, it's your choice, if you use them or not"

It was a official visit to Microsoft Office at Domlur, Bangalore to attend Microsot Azure BootCamp. Microsoft has entered the Cloud Computing domain through their 'Azure' OS. It was a very informative conference to attend. But, don't worry in this post I am not going to explain the technicalities of the session. The day started with reaching the place and searching the Microsoft office in the web of offices with n number of roads inside that office city. Then finally finding the Microsoft office and particularly the conference room within the hug microsoft office. As usual we (me and my colleague) were an hour late. I rolled my eyes to find a place to put my ass and luckily got a seat in the last corner of the room. Then the introductory session about Microsoft Azure started with 3 biggies of Microsoft explaining the architects from different companies about this new product of MS. Most of the architect had more than 8-10 years of experience and had reached this level after doing a lot of coding using Microsoft Technologies but were reluctant to change the way they used to code to adopt the Azure way of coding for cloud. Hey! had I told you that this was a CTP, so microsofft invited us to provide some ideas what we need in the professional version of this product, what are we missing in the CTP version etc. Then after some interesting and boring debates about the way UI and Database is handled in Azure, the development, testing and deployment is done using Azure, etc. it was a relief as lunch time came to my rescue and I rushed for a quick smoke. And here came the thing I was shocked to note, I came out side in the reception block and found the doors locked and I didn't had the access, I waited ...waited...and waited....and then ..

The Infrequent Blogger...

Hi all,

May be you would be shocked to see my blog post after a long time, or might have forgotten me...So I thought of writing about this infrequent blogging by me....My blogger friends from Satyam or new ones might have been missing new updates from my blog(atleast I can hope so ;) )...so let me share few things about what was going through my blogging interest during this whole period of infrequency...

I haven't kept my pace of writing a blog post each weekend or even each month, I could have used microblogging to update my blog but I am using twitter for the same. There are a number of posts which are still in draft waiting for me to get a final touch...have a look...

I miss blogging a lot ...but I didn't want to write a blog post with title 'Random Thoughts' when no new topic is coming to my mind....and this work pressure has added a lot to this infrequency....weekend could have been a nice time to write but there is another post which I am writing that will explain why weekend goes in fly...

So friends, I will try to blog atleast once a week to keep my self updated rather than you all...ha ha ha...otherwise I will transform from a top 3 bloggers to infrequent to non-existent blogger...

Tschus...!!

Maahri hatheliya re bichh chhala padga maahra maaru ji...

It's a beautiful sunday morningat 1 PM and you are trying to come out of bed (still not willing to)...all of a sudden you realize that there is not even a single cloth washed and ironed except your towel. This is when you realize that it is not so beautiful sunday, as you have to wash your clothes now. With every shirt I washed, I remembered my mom, "hey mom, its not so easy as you told me". After 2 hours of continuous fight against my own clothes, finally I won by a little margin, as most of them were looking still the same even after i showed my talent of cloth wash. So, I compromised and let them dry. But to my surprise, the bucket was having something more for me, a whole new stock of unwashed clothes waiting...and that was the time, I surrendered and accepted defeated. "I can't !!!". So let them survive as dirty clothes for 6 more days. But the cloth wash was not that easy, as the battle demands blood, my palms were paying the price of cloth wash, as skin of my soft palms were off their place and I felt heavily wounded in war.
Still recovering from this huge wound in my hands and Getting ready for the next "War against Clothes : By wash" on next sunday. Padhna na bhuliyega, Tab tak ke liye aagiya dijiye, namaskar...

Not so Funny Observational Quotes

• When we are judging somebody, we are not defining him/her, actually we are defining ourselves...
• Two things people can't change about themselves, thinking and fooling around ...
• People spend most of their life thinking about their future life which they can only plan and can't execute...
• Be aware of Dogs, Salesmen and Advisors, they are here to stay but are not required...
• Games were supposed to be played for unity among groups but is doing the opposite...
• Getting married is one of the most important part of life, which brings happiness for a while and frustration for the rest of your life...
• When mirror breaks, it causes sound, when belief breaks, it falls as droplets from eyes.
• The funny part of any Group Discussion is that you pick one side first and then try to convince people that you are right. While it should be like, discuss first and then come to a conclusion that a particular point of view is better.
• Blogging is a new buzzword among professionals, but nobody knows why blogging. They do it  because others are doing it.
• Trees don't cry when we cut them, they smile and say, "Get well soon".

Observational Quotes

1. Enjoyment is subjected to market risk. Read the Offer Documents carefully before enjoying.
2. Balance in the Balance Sheet of Life is never Balanced at a given point in time but gets balanced at the end of particular period in years.
3. A licence agreement is a contract between the driver and the traffic policemen who grants driver the previlege for rash driving.
4. Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a negotiated agreement between two parties where one is the customer and the other is the blood sucker.
5. Sales Order is the Order generated for the employee to increase the sale of company product by 150%.
6. Defect Tracker tracks the defects created by the developer while being in holiday mood and these defects are fixed by the same developer in frustrated mood.
7. Smoking is injurious to health till a limit; after that health dies and smoking prevails.
8. Friendship is directly proportional to the number of years together, months together, days together, hours together, minutes together, seconds together. And indirectly proportional to the same too.
9. These enjoyments are performed by professionals. Do not attempt to re-create or duplicate these enjoyments. This may result in injuries in your simple life.
10. Being in an IT industry is like being in nowhere but a wild animal in cage where food and water is no problem but life is still not the same.

Bangalore : A City of Professionals

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

-Eric Hoffer

It is almost a week in Bangalore, and I am still adjusting in the city of gardens. Reason is not that I am completely unknown to city or it is drastically different from other cities but the reason is quite odd, the professional working here react unexpectedly on common situations. The essence of relationship is still well maintained but it is also having a potion of self oriented attitude and PR management attributes. And when asked about this unexpected and and unusual change, the response points toward "So-Called-Maturity".

I had been having rounds of drinks with different categories of friends; from childhood friends to ex-company colleagues, old friends with whom I shared almost 14 hours of my each day in school/college days to old flatmates. And one common thing which I found as a conclusion is that, in all the cases when I had drunk during the last few days, the reason for drinking is not at all the old one "Old friends get together" but more of a common reason for professionals; TGIF, weekend enjoyment. Because they usually kill their frustations of the whole working week with this stuff. I feel like anyone can just bumped into their usual routine and became the part of routine, nothing much effected them.

To get into the core of this more common still much unexpected attitude change, I tried to dig most of my friends' hearts about their current life (both personal and professional). And got much expected answer "Nothing much yaar, nothing interesting, same routine life". But change was visible and was written all over the wall.

Now just generalize the situation, people are getting so professional in their approach to everything including relations and life that they don't even realize, where they are using this logic, even if it doesn't fit in, they try to squeeze it in. I am not saying being professional is bad or not a good idea, it's just that professionalism should be in approach towards work and life but not in relations.

Sometimes, I find people getting frustrated from the situation they have created or they are in, and the only way out which they find is being changed to so-called-professional. I have no idea if it solves their problem or not, NO IDEA BOSS.

You want to think and say that you have everytning you need, but then you realize that something is missing, someone is missing... and once you think you've found it, it goes and disappears on you and you don't understand what to do or even where to start looking for that missing piece of the puzzle. You sit at home in lonely frustration and you just wait...wait...and wait. No where to look, no one to look for...

Situations make them believe that they cannot change anything, not even themselves, forget about changes others or bringing the change in society.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Update : It's been a long time in Bangalore now, this city has changed me a lot, I have seen a lot, learnt a lot, forgot a lot, lost a lot, been a lot now ...

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. -Leo Trotsky

I just forgot why I started this post and how the title is related to the content of the post, but this is what it is ...

No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible -George Grace

Transition through 2 cities or 2 different lifes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust

Traveling is one of the hobbies which I acquired after my college days. Not intentionally but job add a lot to it, because to find something interesting to spend time during weekend was the motive which helped me search new creative time spending ways.

I enjoyed a lot during most of my visits to different places in southern India. Reason why I enjoy such unplanned visits is well explained by this quote : "The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart".

Being in a city where people from northern India don't want to come (Chennai) for almost 2 years has being a great stay. Now with new year, I am in new city (Bangalore) where every north indian want to stay, but since 2 days I am not enjoying the place (don't know why). May be because I went into a comfort zone in chennai, each and every part of chennai was explored by me and Chennai was almost a second home to me. "Namma Chennai" was on our tongue every time. A bunch of friends who enjoyed each moment of chennai stay. Now new city-new aspirations, new flat-new flatmate, new job-new colleagues, new roads-new buses, new traffic- new traffic rules, new food-new restuarants.

I have entered this new city which absorb each and everyone who arrives here with open arms. But I am having an unwanted desire of going back home may be because of the swadesh song "Yeh jo desh hai tera, tujhko pukare".

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore

But I know, even if I want to go back, it is not in my hand. Let the journey continue and the voyage of vasco de gama to explore the world too continue. As I am learning a lot about cultures and different cities.

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
-Euripides

Re-Defining New Life with New Year

When time is going against you; there is always a new track to follow, rise on the surf board against the flow or swim along the flow. A new year, a new city, a new job, a new work schedule, new colleague, a new world altogether: lets see how good I will perform in 'new' life. I was traveling on 30th Dec from chennai to bangalore. New year celebrations on the 31st night with old n new friends. Now with day one of new year, I have to redefine my life...