Taare Zameen Par

Yesterday I watched the movie Taare Zameen Par, which I was tring to watch for more than a week. Even last weekend I planned to watch it on comp, but I am happy I couldn't. Some movies have much greater effect on theaters than when watched on small screen.
It's really a very nice concept saying "Every Child is Special", and showing what it means to take care of a child.

Mangalore Trip

Last (longer) weekend, I went for 3 days trip to mangalore and near-by places with my room mates Ahish and Nitin.

mangalore trip

It was very enjoying and refreshing trip. First day we went to arabi falls near ujare. We spent night at dharmashtala, which has popular Manujunath Temple, which we visited next day morning.
Then We went to mangalore, and ullal beach from there. It was a great fun there.
The third day was even more exciting. We went to malpe beach, very nice and beautiful beach. We had ride of a water bike also there. Evening was for St. Merry Island. Very nice small island.
It was different experience spending an evening at such a nice island.

Jab we met

Yesterday night I watched a wonderful movie called Jab we Met.
I guess, it's one of very few movies in which kareena got a good role. The concept itself is amazing. The character geet is one of the most inspiring characters I have ever seen. Very, very optimistic, doesn't think much of future worries. There are problems in her life, she looks them very lightly and solves them in no time. Just go where the heart says.
I have learned very much from this movie, and decided to change my life like Geet. It's really wonderful, you will get whatever you like, if you actually like it. As SRK told in OSO,

तुझे पाने की इतनी कोशिश की है,
कि हर जर्रे ने तुझे मुझसे मिलाने कि साजिश की है.
Well that is called optimism. Jab we met, reminded me the Carpe Diem concept, which I learned from another fandu movie "Dead Poet Society".
I like the way shahid kapoor address his company, by saying that the company is already at it's worst stage, so whatever happens next, it will good only.
Now I am going to listen my heart, and going to take each problem lightly.

Back to India

Well, it doesn't matter how much you enjoy the foreign land, you will allways miss your MotherLand. I wished, I could be in US for few more days, but at the same time I wanted to come back also.
We started at 31st oct eve, and reached back at 1st Nov (no it's not 2 days, it was only 22 hours), via paris airport. Oh man the paris airport (charles de gua or some thing like that), is too big, that from our landing port, we took bus to terminal 2E, then we took train from their to 2E (76-96), then from there we took one more bus to 2E(86).
When the plane lands on Bangalore, that itself started giving good feel, because you are back. I know I have to wait in queues for the luggage, there will be chose outside, auto-ricksha guy will ask for 100Rs for 2KM, but that's OK, ultimately I am back.
Well I am more happy because, I am goning my home town for Diwali. I can't afford to miss diwali at my home, where all of my cousin brothers and sisters and nephews etc, we all will have a great time together. So going home is increasing my feel good factor exponentially.

So we will meet, after Diwali.
दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।

Trip to Niagara Falls

Last weekend we went to thousand islands and niagara falls.
Lots of fun and adventure from the starting of the trip itself. We allmost missed the bus, as we were totally lost in boston. We had reach the starting point at 6:45, and we were allmost there at 6:15. But since we had to park our car, a guy told us that you can park at south station and he showed the way, but I guess we misunderstood the way, we reached somewhere else, and then onwards we were just going here and there, but our destination. We went to a tunnel, after paying $3 (Rs120), from there we reached to north of boston again. It was allready 6:50. Now time was slipping from our hands. Bus had to start at 7. I decided to somehow reach the I93 highway again, from there we knew the way. Somehow we reached to beach road, where we found parking lot. I parked my car, in a smal passage, as a inch left or right, and car will get good look. When I parked, I found that, I cant open the door. Somehow I tried to come out from wondow. Then I pushed the button to close the window, and rapidely got my hand out of it. It was 7:15, and the guide was waiting for us eagerly.
So, बाल बाल बच gaye.
More about the trip later sometime।
Here are the pix

My trip to Mount Washington

Well, fall has started here, so it's time to go out somewhere in new hampshire. Now we heard that, there is a white mountain seriese, which is good to visit in NH. Then our coleague told that there is mount washington there which has nice view but the weather there is unstable. He told you can drive till up, or you can take the train.
But I and my friend Bharat decided to go to the top by trakking. We started early at around 6-7. But since we didn't know the rout, reached on the base at around 1;15. Now the lady at informatin centre told us that, we won't be able to make it, as it's 8 hour round trip. But we started with full josh, and reached till allmost top, at 3:15. Since I had no experiance of driving at night, I wanted to go down early, so we can finish our half journey to home before dark. We spent around 15 minutes at that local maxima, and started to came back.
The overall trip was a great fun. Very nice weather, nice landscapes in journey. It was tiring also. I realized that my stemina has decreased so much that, I was fully tired in the middle itself.

Here are the snaps.

Next day when I checked my weight, I had lost 3 KG, wow I was very happy, but one day later I checked and saw 1kg came back.

Me in U.S.

I am in USA for about a month. I came here at 20th sept.
We landed at Boston. Well I was exited about this trip. First few things I noticed in USA which are different than India:

• Cars, cars and cars: It looks like there is no human here. Afteer coming out of airport. I hardly saw people. We went to our appartment nobody was there. We went to office nobody is there in building. On the roads nobody is there but cars.
• Everybody does all his work: Since there is lack of man power (looks like), everybody does all his work. When I told people here that, in India there is a maid for cleaning my room and washing the cloths, another for cooking and there are couple of security guards in the apartment, for them it was like a great luxuary. Here you have to clean your house by yourself, cook yourself, wash cloths yourself (well everyone has washing machine). So after living few days here, it looks like you are like King in India. In India, in petrol pump there would be a guy to fill the tank, one to take money from you may be one for putting oil on you scooter another one for air. Here you have to do all by yourself.
  
• Automation: Most of the things are automatic here, so you don't need human assistance. No wonder India is having more and more outsoeced projects.
• There is no lack of space: In Bangalore, there is high fight for space. You need to park your car in small corner of the building. All the houses are sticked to each other. Here atleast in andover which is a suburbe of Boston, there is lot of space. In our office, the parking space is double than total work space. In bangalore we have 2 floors of parking and 9 floors of work in single area. Here lot of space for parking, only 3 floors for office, and lots of greenery.
  

And the list doesn't stop here. Overall it looks completely different to be here.

LAYERED-X

I just saw a robo video in Robo-One 9: Robot Competition. The robot is amzing, it can change it's shape. It can become humoid from a spider, can convert it's arms to legs and vice versa.
It's balance is realy impresive.

India Shining

Here is a bharatbala production's video, which shows the shining part of India.

India is Shining

IE7 Commercial

Today I saw a commercial, giving good feelings. it's an IE7 commercial.

multi touch

Do you remember "Minority Report"?
I was very impressed about the user interface they used to use for watching the dream videos.

Now time has come to apply the same in reality.

Just check this multi touch interface

It's fandu research going on here

Graf.ndx

Graf.ndx is a cool list of different types of pages.

God's Debris

I found a BOOK. It's looking a nice book. It's free to down load. I am planning to read it.

cool quotes

http://www.vsg.edu.au/grafndx/thepages.htm

What you want

Do you know what you want from your life? What is your dream?
I am afraid I don't know.

My dreams:
around 16 yrs back, at 87-88 I used to tell to my mom, that I will become pilot. Whenever a plane flies from the sky, whatever I am doing, I ll be out of my home looking at sky to find out the plane. Once "Motilal Bora"(a politician) came to our cit y on a chopper, I went to the chopper at 4 km away from my home.
At 90-95s:
I decided sky is no longer the limit, I will become Astronaut. I have a great interest at space. If I see any article about space I can't leave it without reading it. I am trying to know how can I make my dream true. I came to know that Indian Space Agencies don't have any plan of having anything like astronaut, and I don't want to work for other countries.
At 1997:
I completed my 10th. Now I have to decide where to go. I have 3 interests, one is Physics, second is Maths and the last but not the least is Accounts. I hate Bio and chemistry.
I decided to go for commerce, but my father(the best advisor), advised me to go for Maths+Science. He told me that I could switch to commerce even later after 12th.
So I thought, thought and thought that I
(to be contineud)

my cloud

My search cloud is here

http://www.tagcloud.com/cloud/html/search/default/50

to home

It's wonderful morning today. It's raining little bit.
Yesterday my roommate Sachin left for hometown nagpur. I am leaving at 29.
I am eager to celebrate Diwali with my relatives. I am waiting for the Diwali desperately. I wisi I could be at my home now only, but I have to wait for 3-4 days. I ll be there at 31st Oct 2:30 am around.
I didn't celebrate diwali with my relatives for 2 years. Last one was at 2003. Rkhchha Bandhan's case is even worse My sister didn't bind rakhi on my wrist for three yrs :(

O.K.
Now just wait for 3.5 days u'll be in your house :)

monitor story cont...

Well as I told in my earlier post, I got a monitor and a new 6 gb 4(2HT)proc. m/c.
Today
Our admin told in morning that the monitor is not working and it's vast, so I gave up :) (I don't want to giveup on any cond, but here I know I am first in the Q for next new lcd monitor.)

Today I got one more 6 gb m/c. I exchanged my old 2gb m/c with 6gb of one of my friend :).

BUT
I couldn't get TKinter on python of either of the new m/c.
I tried to install new python, I came to know that there is no TK on those :)

At eve, admin came to tell me that monitor is working but he needed a connector to make it work for me.


So at the end I have monitor but without connector for 3 days.
I have 2 new m/c but none of them is working fine.

No Problem

Admin ll take care of monitor (I am not desparate abiut ut.)
I'll take care of TK and python stuffs of the new m/c.

lucky or unlucky

Sometimes I thinks whether I am lucky or unlucky.
Today was looking a lucky day for me.
I got a 6gb m/c, then I got a LCD monitor :)

But

The connector for monitor is not available so monitor is there on my desk but I am able to use it. I am thinking I should paste the poster of dennice (which I took today to office and pasted on my cubibcle) on the monitor.
The admin took 6gb m/c back for some times.

OK I got the m/c back.
but monitor is still unused here :(

But I know

I am not lucky or unlucky.
I am Monu

BLOG DRONE UNIT

BLOG DRONE UNIT is a text generator type of thing. You give some words it will generate some text.
But I didn't find it good, it was giving some irrelevant text like a random text generator.