I seriously don't have any idea as to what the title of this post will be. Really nothing much has changed since I last posted here. Same office, same celebrations (we celebrate work), same stupid time pass work. Not going to stand this much longer. I am going to leave soon.
Oh yeah I completed 1 yr @ office ...so I am now officially an experienced guy lolzz.
Gave GRE in march and got a decent score of 1510. Giving a shot at CAT as well. Let's see what happens.........
Met Beasthu, Zaphod,Jingichiki,AJ,Ooru,Rocky few weeks back, We had lunch and I was obliged to come to Runway 9. :P Had a good time over there.
What else..What else...been doing some reading nowadays. From Paulo Coelho to Douglas Adams to Ruskin Bond. The most recent one happens to be a book called "The Sinking of INS Khukri" by Ian Cordozo. Ohh yeah read a book called "Who moved my cheese". I think its a booklet, it has only 40 odd pages, but the content was good. Not like your average self-help book.
That's it from my end for now. Would like to know what Hijake and Vizgoth are doing.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Our Kerala trip
Reached Hyderabad on the 15th of May. Met a few (Ajay, Varmamoo, Vanka, Harinath, Bombo, Moddhu, Ooru Pradeep to be precise) of our classmates before we (Me with family) left for Kerala. Was nice to see them after such a long time.
Kochi was the first place on our list. Reached there by air and stayed there for a night. Kochi is a nice place with a nice climate (somewhat hot, humid. I like such a climate unlike most). Kerala is a nice place in a lot of different ways. A lot of greenery spread through out the state, very hospitable people, no beggars (not even in front of temples!), etc. Visited a few places there like the Cochin shipyard etc.
The next morning we started for Munnar and reached there by afternoon. The journey was awesome with some breathtaking views enroute. The next 2 days we stayed at Munnar and visited places in and around Munnar. I did a great job of forgetting to charge the batteries in the digicam one day. So we couldnt take any pics the day when we visited the best place near Munnar - The Eravikulam National Park, the home of the extremely rare Nilgiri tahr, a type of goat. Its a terrific place. Must visit I would say. You get a view of the highest peak in South India - Anai Mudi, from this place. Theres a 3D, 2N trekking programme to the top of that peak. Would be a great one to do with friends I am sure.
After Munnar, we went to Thekkady, another supposedly good place to visit in Kerala. It has the Periyar Tiger Reserve and a few other places to visit. Theres a 2 hour boat ride in the Periyar lake which is in the middle of the jungle. You get to see some animals - elephants, tigers, deer, etc in the wild. We, unfortunately didnt see too much. Got to see some elephants from very far and nothing much worth noting.
We then went to Kumarakom where we took a house boat to Aleppuzha. Was a really cool experience sailing in the backwaters of Kerala for a full day including a stay on the boat for the night.
Overall, Kerala rox. Munnar super rox. Everything is very expensive at all these places though - food, water, you name it. Heavily commercialized, sadly.
Back at home now. Uploaded some pics too.
http://picasaweb.google.com/abhirama/MunnarTripSelectedPics
Met the super busy Josh boy yesterday. Had a really nice time.
Others, please post more frequently!
Kochi was the first place on our list. Reached there by air and stayed there for a night. Kochi is a nice place with a nice climate (somewhat hot, humid. I like such a climate unlike most). Kerala is a nice place in a lot of different ways. A lot of greenery spread through out the state, very hospitable people, no beggars (not even in front of temples!), etc. Visited a few places there like the Cochin shipyard etc.
The next morning we started for Munnar and reached there by afternoon. The journey was awesome with some breathtaking views enroute. The next 2 days we stayed at Munnar and visited places in and around Munnar. I did a great job of forgetting to charge the batteries in the digicam one day. So we couldnt take any pics the day when we visited the best place near Munnar - The Eravikulam National Park, the home of the extremely rare Nilgiri tahr, a type of goat. Its a terrific place. Must visit I would say. You get a view of the highest peak in South India - Anai Mudi, from this place. Theres a 3D, 2N trekking programme to the top of that peak. Would be a great one to do with friends I am sure.
After Munnar, we went to Thekkady, another supposedly good place to visit in Kerala. It has the Periyar Tiger Reserve and a few other places to visit. Theres a 2 hour boat ride in the Periyar lake which is in the middle of the jungle. You get to see some animals - elephants, tigers, deer, etc in the wild. We, unfortunately didnt see too much. Got to see some elephants from very far and nothing much worth noting.
We then went to Kumarakom where we took a house boat to Aleppuzha. Was a really cool experience sailing in the backwaters of Kerala for a full day including a stay on the boat for the night.
Overall, Kerala rox. Munnar super rox. Everything is very expensive at all these places though - food, water, you name it. Heavily commercialized, sadly.
Back at home now. Uploaded some pics too.
http://picasaweb.google.com/abhirama/MunnarTripSelectedPics
Met the super busy Josh boy yesterday. Had a really nice time.
Others, please post more frequently!
Monday, May 5, 2008
A new page
In the book of life.
Been working at TCS for six months now. And that's six months too many.
Wrote my resignation letter last week. Hopefully I will be out of here by the end of the month.
Going to join a tiny start-up company in hyderabad called TigerTail Studios. I think it should really be fun working there except for the ride up and down. Hyd traffic is still a killer.
I'm planning to take a week or so off after TCS lets me go. To travel the ghats here. It isn't very hot here in pune, thankfully. So a bike ride in the western ghats should be a lot of fun.
Apart from this, things are pretty much same as ever.
Have hardly been playing Age these days. Playing some badminton.
And watching movies and southpark takes most of my free time.
I've had an awesome couple of weeks.
Took time off from TCS to go meet the company in hyd, which was fun.
Stayed home for a few days after I missed my train back to pune. :P
And I have gone to office only once(for 4 hours) since I came back.
So I should be back in Hyd sometime next month.
Thankfully, I'll miss the worst of the summer. The weather in Pune is really awesome for this time of the year. It does get a little hot, but the evenings are really pleasant. And since I know that Hyd is boiling at the moment, this weather seems amazing!
Hope everyone is alright.
-K.
Oh, Here's a little something I made.
One for each of us. Shouldn't be too hard to guess.
Been working at TCS for six months now. And that's six months too many.
Wrote my resignation letter last week. Hopefully I will be out of here by the end of the month.
Going to join a tiny start-up company in hyderabad called TigerTail Studios. I think it should really be fun working there except for the ride up and down. Hyd traffic is still a killer.
I'm planning to take a week or so off after TCS lets me go. To travel the ghats here. It isn't very hot here in pune, thankfully. So a bike ride in the western ghats should be a lot of fun.
Apart from this, things are pretty much same as ever.
Have hardly been playing Age these days. Playing some badminton.
And watching movies and southpark takes most of my free time.
I've had an awesome couple of weeks.
Took time off from TCS to go meet the company in hyd, which was fun.
Stayed home for a few days after I missed my train back to pune. :P
And I have gone to office only once(for 4 hours) since I came back.
So I should be back in Hyd sometime next month.
Thankfully, I'll miss the worst of the summer. The weather in Pune is really awesome for this time of the year. It does get a little hot, but the evenings are really pleasant. And since I know that Hyd is boiling at the moment, this weather seems amazing!
Hope everyone is alright.
-K.
Oh, Here's a little something I made.
One for each of us. Shouldn't be too hard to guess.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
desperation from within hesitation from without
The title is cool and ridiculous(which is good) but has nothing to do with what I am going to post.(but not really)
In my previous post I was talking about some weird stuff which I did in US, and people told me that I have changed after coming here.
Which is true in a way. For starters lets talk about my humility, now its vanished to the point where, being proud of ones fart and saying that its the best in the world seems like THE thing to do.(whatever). But without external stimuli things internal seldom change. So in a way , the people around me should be given partial credit for most things happening here.
The other change in me is, now I am an awesome cook!, well not really, but at least I can pretend to be one! Then the other thing is probably my dressing style(pathetic according to some here) but I have at least managed to shift from the normal formals!
But then, the thing which has changed the most is probably the way I speak to girls. Now I use F words on them like as if I am doing them a favour(and am proud of it). Then there is this incident where I called a girl 'lesbian' and then she made a big issue out of it. The result- I was banned in desi circles here. which is irrelevant. But the thing to note here is: now I don't shy away from things, and I have become so much more shameless and idiotic. For instance, once I asked a guy if he wasn't waiting for 'that other girl', when he was with some other girl. The result - well forget this part.
But its not just my social life which is screwed. My student life is messed up as well. But I will talk about that and more in my next post.
So until then, fuck those bloody citizens and kill those illegal immigrants.
In my previous post I was talking about some weird stuff which I did in US, and people told me that I have changed after coming here.
Which is true in a way. For starters lets talk about my humility, now its vanished to the point where, being proud of ones fart and saying that its the best in the world seems like THE thing to do.(whatever). But without external stimuli things internal seldom change. So in a way , the people around me should be given partial credit for most things happening here.
The other change in me is, now I am an awesome cook!, well not really, but at least I can pretend to be one! Then the other thing is probably my dressing style(pathetic according to some here) but I have at least managed to shift from the normal formals!
But then, the thing which has changed the most is probably the way I speak to girls. Now I use F words on them like as if I am doing them a favour(and am proud of it). Then there is this incident where I called a girl 'lesbian' and then she made a big issue out of it. The result- I was banned in desi circles here. which is irrelevant. But the thing to note here is: now I don't shy away from things, and I have become so much more shameless and idiotic. For instance, once I asked a guy if he wasn't waiting for 'that other girl', when he was with some other girl. The result - well forget this part.
But its not just my social life which is screwed. My student life is messed up as well. But I will talk about that and more in my next post.
So until then, fuck those bloody citizens and kill those illegal immigrants.
Monday, March 31, 2008
More Time to kill
I went back home for the weekend.
And when I was in the train, the night got me thinking(as always) about lots of stuff.
Anyway, I wrote some stuff on the train. Will post that here.
[paste]
I miss everyone.
I miss the times we had.
I can't stand work. Will do some more college stuff.
MS, MTech, MBA, MCom, MA, anything. Just have to do something else.
This shit is absolutely pointless.
I miss, most of all, having time for myself.
Time to do whatever the fuck I feel like doing.
Time to go out for no reason, time to play AoC for endless hours without stopping for sleep.
Time to go to Abhi's place and talk about players and games and arbit topics and crib about college.
Time to go to Dhaval's place and hang out in weird places, eat weird things and talk about anything under the sun.
Time to cycle over to Jeet's home and play noob CS, watch dumbass movies and tease each other for no apparent reason.
Time to go to Neeru's house and play with Snoopy, watch crazy videos and laugh like mad for hours (and invariably eat breakfast or lunch or dinner)
Time to cycle super long distances.
Time to stare at people when no one can think of what to talk about.
Time to spend online chatting with ten people at a time, and mixing up conversations often.
Time to play football and basketball on the weekends.
Time to spam on the Indus forums with the gang.
Time to play with Kefa.
Where, oh where has all the time gone.
[/paste]
Pink Floyd's "Time" has such amazing lyrics.
"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. "
I need to be able to blame someone for all the shit I'm in.
I can't blame myself, you know. :P
So I figure there must be a god, if only to put the blame on!
or as Calvin replies to Hobbes question : "So you think there is a god?"
"Well, someone's out to get me!"
And when I was in the train, the night got me thinking(as always) about lots of stuff.
Anyway, I wrote some stuff on the train. Will post that here.
[paste]
I miss everyone.
I miss the times we had.
I can't stand work. Will do some more college stuff.
MS, MTech, MBA, MCom, MA, anything. Just have to do something else.
This shit is absolutely pointless.
I miss, most of all, having time for myself.
Time to do whatever the fuck I feel like doing.
Time to go out for no reason, time to play AoC for endless hours without stopping for sleep.
Time to go to Abhi's place and talk about players and games and arbit topics and crib about college.
Time to go to Dhaval's place and hang out in weird places, eat weird things and talk about anything under the sun.
Time to cycle over to Jeet's home and play noob CS, watch dumbass movies and tease each other for no apparent reason.
Time to go to Neeru's house and play with Snoopy, watch crazy videos and laugh like mad for hours (and invariably eat breakfast or lunch or dinner)
Time to cycle super long distances.
Time to stare at people when no one can think of what to talk about.
Time to spend online chatting with ten people at a time, and mixing up conversations often.
Time to play football and basketball on the weekends.
Time to spam on the Indus forums with the gang.
Time to play with Kefa.
Where, oh where has all the time gone.
[/paste]
Pink Floyd's "Time" has such amazing lyrics.
"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. "
I need to be able to blame someone for all the shit I'm in.
I can't blame myself, you know. :P
So I figure there must be a god, if only to put the blame on!
or as Calvin replies to Hobbes question : "So you think there is a god?"
"Well, someone's out to get me!"
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Lover boys
The blog has been inactive for a while now. Thought of posting something but there's nothing much to post apart from me getting bored of studies. So I was bored and was going through the ooty trip pics. I found this one and before i knew it, I was rofl'ing.
Just look at both the faces. So happy in love!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Always with me always with you
I'm not sure what exactly is always with me and always with you,
but it seemed like a nice Title.
(It is also the name of the song I am listening to at the moment!)
SSB was last week. Both Dhaval and I didn't make it. So there go the airforce plans.
Back at pune for now. TCS didn't miss me, as expected.
The SSB was a great experience, we had a really nice time there in Mysore.
Loads of really fun tests like group tasks and the obstacle course where both of us surprised ourselves. It was 6 days I won't forget for a long time.
Stayed with Abhi for a couple of days after the SSB. Was nice to relax for a bit and just talk to someone. IISc is a wonderful place.
Like Abhi says, it'll be nice if all of us are able to catch up sometime. This summer maybe, when everyone might be in India.
I guess it is time for me to figure out what I am going to do in the near future. Maybe I'll shift jobs or something. Would like to go back to hyderabad actually. I wonder how things will work out.
I suppose a higher education is inevitable now. I definitely cannot continue on this B-tech we managed to fluke through for much longer.
Let me know if anyone has any ideas, because I seem to be running out of decent ones.
Thinking of game programming at the moment. Lets see how things work out regarding this.
Sadly, apart from all the boring work related stuff, I have nothing to report.
I really miss Kefa!
Oh well, that's the end of this super-boring update. More updates as events warrant.
but it seemed like a nice Title.
(It is also the name of the song I am listening to at the moment!)
SSB was last week. Both Dhaval and I didn't make it. So there go the airforce plans.
Back at pune for now. TCS didn't miss me, as expected.
The SSB was a great experience, we had a really nice time there in Mysore.
Loads of really fun tests like group tasks and the obstacle course where both of us surprised ourselves. It was 6 days I won't forget for a long time.
Stayed with Abhi for a couple of days after the SSB. Was nice to relax for a bit and just talk to someone. IISc is a wonderful place.
Like Abhi says, it'll be nice if all of us are able to catch up sometime. This summer maybe, when everyone might be in India.
I guess it is time for me to figure out what I am going to do in the near future. Maybe I'll shift jobs or something. Would like to go back to hyderabad actually. I wonder how things will work out.
I suppose a higher education is inevitable now. I definitely cannot continue on this B-tech we managed to fluke through for much longer.
Let me know if anyone has any ideas, because I seem to be running out of decent ones.
Thinking of game programming at the moment. Lets see how things work out regarding this.
Sadly, apart from all the boring work related stuff, I have nothing to report.
I really miss Kefa!
Oh well, that's the end of this super-boring update. More updates as events warrant.
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