Google ka chamatkar

The news will spread faster than this post of mine.

Google continues to surprise and delight it's users with it's new iGoogle feature. I found it 3 days back and I am a little too excited about this.

I open my browser and and on the tray I have, latest news, fitness tips, finance tips, quotes, new words for the day to help me in vocabulary building and what not. Some kind of ' Karlo Duniya Mutti me'. The various gadgets/ features can be moved anywhere in the window and made suit you style. And to give you a personal feel, you can select theme and the theme will change depending on if it s day or night at your place. The rest I think I should leave for the readers to experience on their own,hence better left unsaid.

I recently read a book by C.K.Prahlad, named ' Future Of Competetion'. The author talks about a UNIQUE PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE, which means the kind of experience I will get by using the product, is going to be entirely different in terms of time, age, place, situation. So all the products I use, if they want to satisfy/delight me, should be tailored completely to my tastes and preferences. The book talks at length about achieving the same through various strategies...The value creation of any object has to be CENTERED around me.

Unfortunately i am not able to show how the igoogle setting looks on my browser. But I am sure, you ll be in for surprises :-)

Meanwhile I also read something about Linear growth. Infy/ Wipros or TCSs have this kind of growth where greater the number of people, greater are the revenues. So the profit the company makes is so inextricably connected to the headcount. But here we are talking about a company, which has less than 3000 employees and is a part of our daily lives. It has won hearts and will continue to.

Moorthy ji

I worked under him for 1 and a half years. I also got a chance to meet him in person and sit next to him for half n hour. This man has been a hero to all my collegues and my own self. All his statements/intentions have not been politically correct, but still he has many followers, many youngsters who want to walk on the same path as him. He is in demand to be leader of the country. He has been an Indian Ambassador and has given a new ray of hope, definitely to last. He plays a dual role of a capitalist and a socialist. A compassionate capitalism is what he proposes.

Watch him being interviewed on ibnlive here.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/exclusive-chat-narayana-murthy/30575-3-single.html



Wish u all a very happy Independence Day.

This year, we have reasons to smile. Although there are many areas which need to be worked on ( Equality, Infrastructure, Power etc), we have become the centre of planet earth. A very happening country which holds huge promises. Every single indian, whether or not he/she believes it, is curious to know what lays ahead. We have projected a positive picture on world arena and have created a model which works for us.

Jai Hind

Chintu, Chooey and Chopsy - My only companions home

Chintu our male betta fish was all alone. I felt it needs a partner. A forced celibacy is not right :-)..

So we got a female red and black betta fish and dropped it in the same tank after confirming that she will not be killed and that they can actually mate. The female betta had to get the name starting with "ch". So Chooey seemed close.
Alas, it was disappointing till we went to sleep. No REACTION. What s wrong with Chintu ?

Morning I came running to see them. What we saw was a chase by Chintu. He s behind / madly behind Chooey. It is a small round bowl and they were casing each other fast. We left them to enjoy..

But.....Sadly Chooey is immobile now. Dont know what happened. She s alive, but not moving.

Meanwhile, Chopsey, another male betta fish is in a small bowl. I have kept the two bowls together. They know each other s presence, but if put together, they might kill each other. So just watching them react being in two seperate bowls.

The first photo has Chopsey and Chooey, on left and right respectively. In the next photo, the orange fish is our Chintu, the bad boy.

Some of my youtube favs

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63BcIDNnxkw

Watched this video 5 times today. He s so damn charismatic...I think he fits the role perfectly.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuBxOmgHeUE

This one just makes you get up and dance dandiya. Waiting to go for one.

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxhWwcFxweY

And that s my all time favourite..One and only Surya. Cute and tough. Quite an interesting combination. In fact throughout the movie, he impresses girls ;-)

4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbG4QxNsGHY

And here comes my another one. Abhishek at his best..

Enjoy the videos.

Scabies - They love me, Story me Twist

Of scabies and more ---

Of course I am not going to write a blog on what scabies are, coz there are lot many other pages on the net to give you the details, in case u need.

I look like half blood princess, thanks to the red dots all over my hands , feet and face, making me look like an alien creature. If only I could get them, the scabies, I will kill them to death. The itching has spread and would not let me sleep or relax.

The doc has given me a mild cream which I am afraid would not even serve as a moisturizer. Thankfully I am at home and nto at work.

The culprit – A coat unused for a long time . The scabies were blood starved waiting for someone to wear it and the victim was the proud me. They I think have started laying eggs starting to build a colony on my arms and feet. And they are so strong that even concentrated HCL acid is not going to move them here in near future atleast till I become a full blood princess ..( bad one eh ?.. I am sorry )..

Aaah they love me so much….

It was two weeks later that we discover that they are nto scabies and mere allergic reaction to eating something here in US. Interesting and the doc is too sure this time. What I am sure about is that, I am a guinea pig.

The new me

Self realization is something that happens throughout our lives. And some milestones and important incidents change the whole of what makes 'you'. This is the right occasion I start logging the events
1) as someone who is undergoing this "irreversible" change
2) as someone who is vetti ( translates to 'bored to death')

It was a bold step and like every other person who will undergo this at one point of time, I ll be taking wedding vows in less than a week's time.

Suddenly the road ahead which was hazy all this while, the same road which I never bothered to see in my life so far is getting clear, the clouds recede trying to show me the purpose of my birth . Suddenly my life seems to be a getting a new meaning and new dimension. It also has an effect of " hey wake up from dreams, here s something calling your attention, someone needs you". The role is getting bigger reversing the very manner I would see myself. I cannot afford to be what I was and I can't wait to see what I want to be.

Situations mould you, they make you tougher, they leave you with an impact and greater the impact greater the role it 'll play in the "making of you".
There is one point of time when we realize that "you cannot afford to be a leaf on a stream of water, to follow it wherever it goes". U have to gear it yourself, to the extent that you can control the very direction of stream. This applies to every moment we spend building ourselves. Having said that again another realization goes like "you cannot afford to be a droplet of water on lotus plant". I got reminded of this only bcoz of the leaf and water analogy, but it fits here well. Doesnt it ?


BTW if, as someone unmarried, u thought, does so much realisation go into marriage ?, then my answer would be, maybe maybe not, but it sure does excite you, atleast the changes you think it ll bring in your life.