Chaos Buddha

Oh Sunshine...

2010-09-16T15:07:00.001+05:30

(Something i had written sometime ago which i forgot to post...)

Oh sunshine oh sunshine,

were have thy gone.
your warmth is but for,
what made me come along.

your morning was bright,
beautiful and white
and guide you did me,
through to the light.

and just when i though,
that you would care,
in noon you sneered,
a bold beware.

i treaded and tottered,
and followed thy path,
believing that i managed
to thaw thy wrath.

but alas,the night,
it drew so near,
and finaly you smiled
and ever disappeared.

oh sun, you left me,
stranded in dark,

but your presence i feel,

will always leave a mark.

oh sunshine, in dark,

i tread, in walk,

wishing for ever,

there was never this balk.

i look , at to the east,

and wonder about the morrow,

hoping that it will ease,

and remove the sorrow.

oh sunshine, i am ,

but a hopeless mortal,

thy happiness i cannot control.

but to me, oh sunshine, you are but all,

and to move on .. i do not know.

Nasscom Emerge Out

2010-04-30T22:44:00.000+05:30

Had been to Nasscom emerge out today. was a good say met with Vijay, Kiruba, Shalin, Revs and a lot of other friends attended 2 sessions and a keynote. spent an equal time outside talking to the gang. Loved the presentation of Jessie Paul on "Frugal marketting for startups". would do a mindmap of the talk and post it soon.

the 10 things to remember

2010-03-30T00:07:00.001+05:30

There was a time in 2007 when i lost complete sense of everything that was happening to me. Depression was at an all time high and i never thought i would ever get out of it. during this time i had a chat with a friend. a dear friend, which would change my life for ever:
am quoting the 10 points she put on the chat, that changed my perspective towards life. i found enlightenment in these texts. as i find a lot of my friends going through a similar phase i though i would share it with you guys:

1) don't care abt ppl who can't care for u
2) stop analysing life. the already complicated life just gets more complicated
3) everybody gets busier, more depressed and lonely by the day. So if they haven't called u/msgd u/buzzed u, it need not NECESSARILY mean that they hate u or are havin problems wid u. It might simply mean that they have something so much more important
4) just bcos u are not top priority in someone's list, it doesNOT mean u are NO priority
5) find your happiness WITHIN yourself. happiness may just mean listening to ur favourite song ONCE a day. it's always better not to depend on other ppl for ur smiles
6) trust no one except your parents. then siblings. the rest of the world will surely ditch you someday. your parents will NEVER intentionally hurt u. your siblings will atleast try not to!
7) no matter what, trust in god. everything happens for a reason. it may be good or bad. but it always turns out that u learn
8) make sure you spread some cheer. Everyone's fighting their own battles
9) fight life. tell yourself you have more strength than you can imagine. it turns out that you DO have more strength than u can imagine.
10) Life IS beautiful. make sure you realise it.

thank you dreamydryad. my eternal sunshine. to have shown me the way.

The Proto.in TimeLine Vs Blood Pressure for an Organizer

2010-02-01T16:59:00.001+05:30

Stop the BS, Stop “Networking”

2010-01-16T23:37:00.000+05:30

The following is a copy of the guest post i did at http://cloud10.in the E-Cell of KCG engineering College. You can find the original article here.
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When I was asked to guest post on the blog of this newly formed E Cell, I was wondering. Wondering, what would that one thing be that would make sense to the next generation of entrepreneurs. I was randomly looking through similar posts and then the topic dawned on me. Please be forewarned that the following piece is highly opinionated, and might not make sense to some while it might make complete sense to others.

Coming from a technology background when ever some one mentions networking, I can only think of the tech support hooking up several servers, routers and gateways with miles of wiring to create a masterpiece that is hard to visualize and a pain to troubleshoot. I cant even figure out how this term that epitomizes such a multi dimensional complexity ever came into becoming a soft skill that all the entrepreneurs now have started practicing. Probably some smart kid from the ivy league found a connect between the complexities of hardware engineering and the simplicity of human interaction. Or more likely that it was because of one of those hi tech startup geeks, the homo logicus, from the valley who personally found human interaction as complicated as system networking. What ever be the case, its a shame that the high potentials of human interaction has been reduced in stature to a mere computer “HELO” “ELHO” routine.

This new found meet and greet routine, in all its shallowness does not address the depths of the human soul, removes the warmth involved, and manifests itself in the coldness that can only be associated with machines. Networking for the sake of networking is a blatant waste of time. Its surprising how people get into conferences network with dozens of people, come out and completely forget about most if not all of the people they meet. Think about it, similar conversion rates, one in a dozen, while tracking any other parameter in a deterministic environment would cause an immediate red alert. Why is it that, when such conversion rates are frowned upon in other situations, people just accept it as the end result of “hardcore networking”, and move on without giving it a second though what so ever? Would you not want to do something better? If you are the extrovert type(most of the entrepreneurs are), why not, figure out a way to engage in a rewarding relationship with, if not all, most of the interesting people you meet at a conference.

Its time that people forget the 'N' word and start making good friends. When ever you go to a conference don't think about meeting as many people as possible, It seldom helps you. You meet, greet, exchange cards and move on. A month down the lane, in most of the cases you will not even be able to put a face behind the card pile that you accumulated. A better thing to do probably will be to look around and try to make friends with only a few. That way you will get to spend more time with each of these individuals, find common likes and dislikes and generally plant the seeds of a friendship that will last. Most of the friends I have today are people I bumped into in one conference or the other. The conversation which started then is still in progress. And these friends have vouched for me, helped me, recommended me, why even gave me employment :-)

I think the key differentiator that differentiates cold hearted networking from a warm meeting is the amount of genuine interest you show on the other person. Guy Kawasaki in his recent book “Reality Check”, put it in a very nice way. He says that the best networking individual is one who shows genuine interest on others problem, finds common likes and dislikes, offers to help and strikes a friendship. If you are merely looking for help and have nothing to offer, then networking is not the best option. Showing genuine interest would open new doors, on the other hand a lack of interest will only put you as a contender amongst the fools who are in a rat race to collect the maximum number of business cards possible.

Being a young E Cell you will soon be hearing the 'N' word pretty often, promising magic to happen. Beware its a double edged sword. What matters is not the number of cards you collect or the number of High Profiled Individuals you meet, but the number of genuine friends you make who will be able to help you in your course of entrepreneurship.

Age of Low Cost Mobile Connectivity ??

2009-12-17T00:20:00.001+05:30

I have been noticing a steady pattern off late (atleast in TN where i live). Starting with Tata Docomo entering the market a few months ago, the telecom industry has is slowly seeing categorization. And surprisingly it is much similar to how Air Deccan came into mainstream with its concept of a Low Cost -No Frills services.
First there is the big 4, Vodafone, Airtel Aircel and BSNL forming what could be analogous to the premium service providers like Jet, and AI(if you call it premium that is). They come with good connectivity and a bundle of VAS that most technology addicts like me have become completely dependent to.
And then there is Idea, Docomo, MTS and the new kid in the block Uninor. surprising how on an average a local call cost offered by this group of service providers is somewhere near the 40 paisa mark and STDs in the 80 paisa mark. Compare this to the Vodafones and Airtels which usually will cost you between INR 1 and 1.50 a minute. Some people may argue about rate cutters, bonus recharges etc, but the point is, in its most element form, Uninor's Full tariff is lesser than a rate cut vodafone.

No surprise thus, that uninor does not have any special perks, no frills, no VAS. it does not even offer GPRS. but who cares, if you want a phone to talk, and you usually talk a lot then this might just be the thing for you. If you however want something more than just a key and call phone, in other words if you want mobile internet, then you will have to stick with the biggies.

What however completely confuses me is, why is it that airtel and vodafone are jumping into the bill per second mode. Are they feeling threatened by the DoCoMos ?? if so why? arent their target group completely exculsive of the target group that the DoCoMos and Uninors look at? If they are only worried about the new ones eating into their market share, shouldnt they be doing something in the VAS segment to hold on to their customers rather than joining the party and changing their billing scheme?? weird.

Quick Web Roundups

2009-12-09T22:37:00.001+05:30

Whoa Whats happening Suddenly Everyone is in a release mode:
IN the last few days:

Google Chrome Launched its first official beta for linux and mac.
Google Chrome Made its extensions Gallery Public.
Mozilla ThunderBird Launched version 3.0 which seems to be faster and dare i say a little cleaner.
Selenium Announced its first 2.0 alpha Launch in the next 2 weeks.

Now did i miss something ??

Python Quick Tips

2009-12-08T19:36:00.001+05:30

Ever been struck in a situation when you wanted to get a users password information at the command line and realized that raw_input() would simply show away the password to all onlookers? I was . a little bit of digging found me the solution for it. In python there is this less talked, yet awesome library called get_pass that will do the trick. so how to use it ??

>>> import getpass
>>>a = getpass.getpass("please enter password")
please enter password
>>>a = "the password you typed"

Love the batteries loaded concept of python. if this were anyother language i would have to have been figuring out input and output streams instead of concentrating on the problem at hand.

TEDxChennai - Lessons learnt

2009-12-02T09:20:00.001+05:30

i have been part and parcel of more than 18 events over the past three
years, organizing an event to me has now become a simple predictable
thing. There is a sequence of steps you should take, if all these steps
are done well, you WILL have a successful event. the sequence has
worked thus far, but strangely after blogcamp and the first few
proto.in's the happiness and euphoria involved in organizing events has
completely disappeared. After a long while i feel the happiness once
again after TEDxChennai, a little introspection later, here i present
to you the things that in my opinion would make any event click.

1. HAPPY TEAM LEADS TO HAPPY EVENTS
Team.
This is the beautiful word that we often forget while organizing. THe
team is that one vital thing that could make or break an event. If the
team is happy and are having fun then the event is happy and WILL be
fun.

2. PROFESSIONALISM
This is something i observed
indirectly. All along after the first few events that we organized we
kept talking about being professional. we used the right word, we had
to be professional, only we missed the point completely. The team has
to be professional in the work they do and not necessarily in the way
they conduct themselves with other team members. in fact it would be
better for the event that with the team behaves casually, like chums.
To put it short the number of "macha" in any team conversation is
directly proportional to the successs of the event. An informal team
will motivate internally aiming for higher standards of work execution,
the event thus will become professional. A formal team on the other
hand will think up of a code of conduct, wait for disasters to happen.

3. Bloopers
There
cannot be an event without any bloopers. the trick is to catch them
early, laugh over it, and then amend the mistakes as soon as possible.
Never wait for a team member to completely sink in his mistake and then
come in as a rescure measure. catch early watch out and fix things then
and there. If a mistake is caught early people laugh over it and fix it
quickly, if you wait for the mistake to happen then people will laugh
over the person and not over the mistake. that honestly hurts, the
induvidual, as well as the team spirit.

4. Autonomy is the best policy
TedxChennai.
i rest the case. Each team member was given autonomy to figure out the
best way to do his task. he was given options and all resources
available to get things done. and boy did they get it done well. with
autonomy comes responsibilty. and responsibility is a very good thing.
if you do not give autonomy the team looks for a leader, follows his
exact words and if the leader missed something then the event goes down
the drain. if there is autonomy you are your own leader. you WILL
figure out the best way to get things done. you will not have anyone
breathing down your neck to get things done.

5. Talk, Talk, Talk
A
fellow Proto.in team member said that organizing meets are a waste of
time. i was of the same opinion after all there is nothing constructive
done in any one of them. Before TEDx i would have happily quashed all
these organizing meets, but now i look at it differently. Organizing
meets have a value add. It assures you that there are like minded
people who want to do the same thing as you, it assures you to that you
are not alone and will not go down alone. its also a motivating factor
to give more, commit more and above all that have a laugh and enjoy the
cafe latte.

6. Keep'em Mailing list active
An active
mailing list means an active event. a mailing list that is active will
be your idea pool. THe mailing list will also be your time tracker,
instant notifier and resource manager. THe mailing list will ensure
that you keep up your committment, that you know whats happening with
the others and that others know what you are doing. a silent mailing
list means that people are direct mailing , there is no transparency of
information and that the event is doomed.

7. Acknowledge
Acknowledge
contribution of volunteers. How ever big or small, acknowledge work
done, this is the least incentive a volunteer gets. Remember that
however big the event is and however hard it takes to become a
volunteer, the act of volunteering alone cannot be an incentive. work
HAS to be acknowledged. that one minute on stage is what makes or
breaks a happy team. That one minute on stage will make me proudly go
and say that i am a TEDxChennai organizer. now how many times have my
contribution for other events gone an recognized :P. 6 editions of
Proto.in later, the people who regularly attend proto.in still do not
know me. but i am sure every TEDxChennai attendee knows kausikram
krishnasayee.

8. Meet Pre Event And Huddle Post Event
Make
sure the entire team meets pre event. that will help in averting last
minute disasters, and possibly give murphy a break. And also make sure
you huddle post event. For thats when the actual fun begins. the huddle
post event is what will give a push to the events sequel if you just
walk out and say Tata then the next event will never be as much fun as
the previous one.

9. Become Friends With Your Team
i am quoting Benny on this:
".....To
me it was the fact that we were complete strangers to one another and
the bonding happened at the right time Our focus was on knowing one
another, work was incidental but important ..."
cannot be put in a more apt way. work WILL happen if there is a good rapport.

Announcing http://blog.kausikram.net

2009-11-24T23:19:00.001+05:30

Yes ladies and gentlement its true i am moving to a new blog. @ http://blog.kausikram.net catch all the action there.

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This site will be left as is for a couple of days and will be slowly phased out. all previous posts have been left copied to the new blog. Hope to be more regular there :)

Thanks for Following chaosbudha.

@kausikram

After well over a year

2009-10-16T22:11:00.001+05:30

Its been well over a year. and my blog has remained more or less dormant. at various points of time i had been saying that it was because 1. i dont find blogging interesting anymore. 2. i am in an eternal block and 3. points 1 & 2 rephrased in manners that i myself cannot fathom.
Anyways there was always an underlying point 0. I did not have broadband internet. But now things have changed. I bleddy have a connection finally. Eeeeha!! i can finally type my mind out and hit the 'publish this' button and feel good about ranting out all the things that are in my mind. I have finally come to the real world again as one of my tech savvy ubber geek friends put it. And what a sigh of relief it is!! feels good. Extremely good.
And guess what chaos budha is celebrating its fourth birthday. its been one roller coaster of a four years. and its taught me a lot of lessons. its taught me about expressing myself, voicing my opinion by typing it out, and finally taught me how not to make a fool of myself by using that one amazing tool created for people like me - the spell check.

Heres to more of such bitching / ranting / general gyan that the illusive / ellusive readers of mine enjoy. Blogging shall never die. Indians can after all never express thier opinions in less than 140 chars.

Happy Diwali everyone and Happy B'day chaos budha. Break a leg. Have fun. Eat a lot of sweets, pollute the air with the firecrackers and then go into copenhagen with remorse. Amen.

Chaos Budha Is Alive

2009-09-09T13:26:00.000+05:30

And will be here very soon. Mind it.

Dont Die For Your Customer..... Kill for him if required.

2009-08-14T12:43:00.001+05:30

A good person doing sales will do anything for his customer, would even die for him. But a smart one, would ideally not be generous enough to sacrifice himself, he would rather kill for him. That way he saves his life as well as keeps his client happy. However stupid it might sound, i believe in this.

You will only be knowing too well if you have been doing enterprise sales that, the customer requirements in most of the cases are varied, diverse and would initially make it look as if you might have to change your entire product code base. For those who freshly entered the domain of enterprise sales, the temptation to go ahead perform this rather suicidal move to change the product, in dire need to satisfy and gain at least one customer would sound lucrative. At times the move might have won them the customers confidence and at times it might have broken the the entire product. In either ways the move leads only to a loss loss situation. if it was the former case it would lead to a situation in which the product would have attained a highly customized state and would require several weeks if not months of roll back in order to get back to a generic state with which you could approach the next customer. If it was the latter then well, you did not even manage to get that one customer and because of the amount of work you already put in to customize it and then the amount of work required to roll back, what you essentially did is dig a long pit in which you voluntarily jumped and buried yourself.

So do i mean to say that we should never think about customization to client requirements? Nope, no customization, means we will not get even potential clients. Customization to client requirements is essential. After all, the guy will only be interested in a product that solves his problem.

Recently i attended a conference in which the speaker came up with an interesting point. i think that answers this dilemma. Know when to say "no". When ever you go in for a pitch always have a list of things in your mind that you will never accept to. If you are a die hard sales guy then get this input from your tech team. Make an effort to know when a particular customization / feature request would throw your product in the doldrums. Productizing is a complex subject altogether. Do not complicate things further by accepting unreasonable things that will throw your product into a turmoil. In other words do not martyr yourself and your company in order to win a client.

Now if you are really smart then try to find the root issue the client is trying to solve by requesting such an unreasonable feature. Then try to find a workaround for this unreasonable request, that will not affect your core product drastically and that will at the same time solve the clients problems. In other words look at plugins, connectors, integrators, extension packs and if possible a child product / parent wrapper product that will address the situation aptly and elegantly. If you have a product whose primary and only scope is to sends emails to individuals, and a client wants to send bulk emails through it, then don't bother to touch your base product. Write a plugin wrapper that will do bulk emails.

Most of the time when we start on a product we have a clear vision on what common minimum denominator it tries to address. The trick is to remember this common denominator when ever we go to a client. A Smart sales person will do a Steve jobs act. He will preach to the client what they really require, this will definitely be addressed by the common denominator(If it does not then you have an incomplete product.) Then he will sell the sizzler in the form of extensions / plugins that will not affect the integrity of the base product but then , will solve the clients requirements. I see this as the only sane and scalable way in which we can sell to clients having varied requirements, and at the same time maintain a complete base product that is stable and unbiased to any particular client's special needs.

Back from an amazing vacation

2009-07-02T22:36:00.001+05:30

Am back from the vacation which i was soo looking forward to, and it did help definitely. Went there with three objectives: to see the monsoon clouds sweeping in, to grab a photo of a nilgiri thar and a malabar hornbill.
On the second day i managed to catch a photo of a Nilgiri Thar, roaming wild, in a place and time least expected. I quickly managed to get hold of my camera and grab a photo of it.(will post the photo here soon) wonderful.
We had been just a little late. We could not see the clouds sweep into the valley. But we managed to take photos of the clouds showering a thick almost completely opaque screen of rain, that completely covered the lush green mountains.
As far as the hornbill is concerned. curses! i do not have a nice camera that can do a good zoom. i was positive that i spotted a hornbill, but my camera with its 3x zoom could only max zoom it from a spec to the size of a bee. to the natural eye it was quite clear, but the camera at max zoom could not compromise the shake. wish i had an SLR. in fact my dad and i have been planning for one for a long time now its about time that we indulged in one.
A picture tour will soon be put up havent got the time to do it yet. And those who followed me in twitter @kausikram you would have seen the number of times i kept mentioning that the road was fabulous. in fact fabulous is an understatement. you have to be there and drive to actually discern what i am talking about here. next time you are anywhere near munnar or thekady take the road that links them both.

munnar, thekady, travel india

Back To where it all starts

2009-06-24T00:48:00.000+05:30

I am back. or rather i will be , in a few days time. i am taking a vacation, a much needed one at that, in which i hope to hit the restart button. I badly wanted to get away from the routine, wanted to break it for a while, clean up my mind and the restart with a new vigor.
There are many things that i hope to do and there are many new plans in mind. Am thinking about a completely different marketing/branding strategy about which i am already excited. Am thinking about a complete personal makeover about which i am, if not entirely, at least guardedly excited. But all these cannot happen right away, there must be a break. Sadly real life is not kaizen enough. A jump is mandatory, a drastic change is required, only then will things get better. One more change that i promised myself is to keep updating this blog as regularly as possible.
This blog has been instrumental in a lot of positive things that have happened to me and leaving it to rot away into a dilapidated state is grossly unfair.
So here is to new beginnings!

Random Ramblings #(lost count)

2009-05-27T17:15:00.001+05:30

Blogging is not the in thing any longer. i hate to admit it, but its not giving me the high that it usually used to. i am in probably the longest ever block that a blogger could possibly fall into and the fact that i STILL do not have a broadband connection at home is not helping me a wee bit.

There are so many things that i want to write about, but i simply do not find the urge to open my system type it down and post it. Its surprising how over the past three years i have matured from an amateur blogger, writing on controversial topics for the shear pleasure of starting a comments war, to what i am today: a seldom blogging, if so, less than 100 words entry writing blogger. from a compulsive blogger to a person compelling himself to write because he does not want to break the chain by not posting for this month.

Time which used to be a plenty, few years ago has become so dear. and the entire creativity that used to exist, has now given way to a deep sense of logic. i am turning laconic by the day and find the 140 characters that twitter offers me more than enough to express my thoughts. In fact i am seriously thinking of displaying my twitter feed in my blog.

The past few months have had a great impact on me. It has helped resolve a lot; i mean A LOT of my confusions and has positively shown me a way. the early twenty crisis i guess is solved for me and i haven't been more resolute than ever on what i want to do / be in the future. I am blessed with an amazing job and an equally amazing boss, and not a single day in these past months have i ever resented on my decision to not join TCS.

Had the chance of meeting my jigree dhost gumbal again and this time after coffee when each one of us lifted our wallets i could see a certain amount of pride in everyone of us there. it was our money. money that we earned! the transition from the college going kid to the young adult is complete, i guess. Among the things that have changed is not only the monetary freedom, but the amount of responsibility that has crept into each one of us. The happy-go-luck college days are long gone and probably will never come back. but we are not complaining. We like the new roles we have dawned, we have transcended into it with an elegance that is surprising even to us.

My faith in democracy is slowly going down. i would prefer a real life B.D.F.L to take charge of India.

Am hooked to abba more than ever. i would die to hear them sing Fernanado and Super Trouper. I competely forgot all the rock / metal music i used to hear. I cant remember more than four lines of metallica "turn the page". Enigma comes a close second but i am absolutely hooked to Abba. I want to listen to chandrakatha's theme music now. that tunes is sitting in my head and i cant find a link to it anywhere.

Agile Chennai : and we are back

2009-04-23T14:46:00.001+05:30

Sliver Stripe Software Sponsored the first agile chennai meet for the year and man! was it a hit. I was told that Venkat Subramanium was a good speaker, after the two hour speech that kept everyone captivated, i should say the word "good" is a gross understatement. He is probably one of the greatest speakers of agile development. And it was amazing that we started the agile Chennai initiative with his talk.

Venkat, Sid and Me at the end of the session.

Venkat stressed on the need for having local user groups, for agile practitioners to help each other out. Silver Stripe the company and its employees personally will do all they can to support such a community. we already have had some positive external support as well. Syed Bhai , who is also a certified scrum master himself, has been all enthusiastic and has helped us from day one. And so have Balaji of Spritle and the entire ThoughtWorks Chennai gang. Hats off to you guys.

And yes finally if you are agile and are from chennai then do make it a point to track chennaiagile.pbwiki.com for all things agile happening in our city.

you can find the slides from the session here.

Agile Chennai - Venkat Subramanium on fallacies of agile development

2009-04-19T10:32:00.000+05:30

Lots of things to be excited about. tomorrow we will be restarting agile Chennai. this was a user group meant for agile developers which was informally started two years ago, by junta doing agile development in chennai. Somewhere in the middle of last year the meets faded away and thinks became silent. Anyway siddhi, me and a couple of guys got together and decided that its high time we restart the meetups as more people than ever are moving towards agile methodologies. And there cant be a better way to restart the initiative than a talk by Dr. Venkat Subramanium on the fallacies of agile development. So if you are doing agile/ want to do agile or have done agile before then make it a point to attend the talk tomorrow at the Gandhi Nagar club at 6:00 P.M.
register before hand at http://chennaiagile.pbwiki.com we only have place for 40 people.

Captcha - Reveals Reality

2009-04-11T00:32:00.001+05:30

This was a recent Captcha i got while commenting at vani's blog.

reality bites.

Farewell one more friend

2009-03-22T16:49:00.001+05:30

The last of the farewell series happened yesterday. ash is leaving to bangalore. her tedious training process starts tomorrow. I feel a bit low. there are certain times when i wish that we never grew up, we were perpetually doing final year college or better still, we never finished tenth. I have written many things about ash, about how she could deflate a tyre, how she could break a bicycle or beat guys in basket ball. i almost made her sound like a tomboy, when in reality she is far from that.there are somethings that i have never told about her, was going through my previous blog posts and realize that.
Ash has been a soul mate. a person whom i could lean towards anytime of the day, anyday in the year. She has seen me through some of my toughest times. she has been an accomplice an angelic devil's advocate and above all a good ~~little~~ older(older by 20 days) sister.

stragely have never called her a 'sister' till date. Ash was a genuine "friend". am not talking about the sort friendship that you find in the lot of coffee outlets around town, but one that is poetical. emotional. she can gossip like the aunty next door and deck up like the babe down the lane. she can also be the chammathu kovil going girl if needed, or end up in a pub. (no she does not drink though)
She is the epitome of the cliched "friend , philosopher and guide" . We guys would have become nervous wrecks without her.

A gang of three guys and a girl always has its odd moments, once in a while there is always a middle aged old hog staring at you or an old aunty frowning at what according to her is 'deterring society'. some people in this can never accept the fact that guys and girls can be good decent friends.

Now we did not have such situations a lot of times. because we never really used to meet so often. we all had our social life, our priorities and studies. There were quiet a few times that the lot of us, me ara, ash and sri went on with our lives for months on together even without talking over the phone. but whenever we did meet it will seem as if we did not miss a day in life. i dont know about the rest, but if you ask me the thing that made me go on with life, was because of my mind which always resonated that i had an amazing set of friends who will do anything for me irrespective of the screwup.

Now then the fact that ash is moving to a new city does make me a little disappointed, we cannot i guess meet up in an hours notice. but then its okay. we will get along well. we are all still there for each other. aravind is in mysore(and i actually went there to meet him once ;) ) and bangalore is only 5 hours away. 3 hours till whitefield actually where she is setting camp. for all you know we might just go to bangalore someday. guess the only thing we would actually miss is bessi beach but i heard bangalore has some awesome pubs and some really hawt girls (i can already here ash go "one rupee coin keela ozhundiduchu").

alright i let my mind flow and i just dont know what point of narration i was in just now. anyways i guess its only me and S right now (and we are know to be out going :P ). but then ash you will be missed! there will be no one to stop us ogling at ....well ...you know ....no one to give us long lectures on etiquette. but dont you worry every time we go to java green we will get a "death by chocolate" and call you and positively burn your stomach. miss you loads get back soon. and all the best.

The Pig and the Chicken

2009-03-02T16:05:00.001+05:30

(via implementingscrum.com)

This joke (lame to many) is what is responsible for changing the way software is developed and delivered across the globe.

Welcome to the world of agile

And i am back after....i dont know how long

2009-02-14T23:52:00.001+05:30

its been ages since i wrote and i want to write now.about what i dont know. its not a typical bloggers block that happens to regular bloggers and exists for exactly one week. and that makes the commenters type "i miss you ....please come back". for start i dont see many people missing me ..and i sure did not miss budha (oh yeah with the single 'd') these past few months. so what kept me from writing? laze? no sir i was too busy to be lazy. busy? busily lazing around in the domain of technology. i have basically been writing tons of code. i am not cribbing about it because i love what i write and the lines are not a meaningless piece of algorithm (for that matter none of the algorithms are meaning less. in fact thats what makes them an algorithm) but the voice of my soul (written in python white space formatted 1 tab = 4 spaces).

So what am i going to write about ? not technology. everything i know is already in google. (for that matter everything i dont know as well) and i dont want to be rhetoric about it. not about the society i am in. not elaborately atleast. now then since i started this topic here is a twitter style writeup on the society i live in.

This is vijaynagar signal. this is a busy traffic junction. look at the bus bellow. nothnig weird right? take a closer look. the driver is missing and the bus is in the middle of the signal. Sigh!! Mera bharath mahan! no more comments.

So what have i been doing offlate? apart from coding? well a lot of things. for start i am becoming a great gardner. my garden has roses ...yeah right roses ...thats right in chennai's heat.

i have started taking care of blackie or is it the other way around. for those who don't know blackie well its the dog that adopted me.

the only books i have been reading are on software design, agile, python and javascript. i loved them all. i managed to read the white tiger.i whole heatedly loved the witty language but hated the entire book.

There that feels better i typed :) i wrote ...hope to be regular from now on .

Belated Valentines day. guys go spend your months salary, girls make cute gifts. and hallmark make a helluva profit :)
jai sri ram ... may all the bars rest in pieces ...err ... i mean peace.

Proto.in 5 : Bangalore

2009-01-19T23:35:00.001+05:30

5 editions down the line and i still cant come to terms with the fact thatwhat merely started as a discussion over coffee turned out to be such a big event. what is more its probably the only event thats been steadily growing.
Coming friday proto.in comes to bangalore. the startup event goes to the startup city. great things are going to happen and i am delighted that i am part of it. If you are in bangalore or anywhere near it then hurry up and register, for history is going tobe rewritten this friday and saturday.

http://proto.in/register/

SilverCatalyst is out !!

2009-01-07T23:19:00.000+05:30

Hippy!! my first project at work got released:) actually got released five days ago. we are into beta and the response has been amazing already :)

gives me great happiness to see that my codes run on it.

For the uninitiated silver catalyst, is an agile project management tool. our latest version is SaaS and is available at toolsforagile.com do visit the site if you are into agile, would appreciate your feedback.

on a personal note this is a great mile stone, nothing more exciting than entering a new year with a product release.

Advanced New Year Wishes!!

2008-12-31T00:42:00.001+05:30

As the bushman clear yankee land,
as obamania strikes the entire world,
as billions pour into automotive bailouts,
as water gets dearer and oil, cheaper,
as the dollar falls to 48,
here is wishing you all a very happy newyear !!

may there be no more guns, may there be lots of more money and may there be dignity in every human being's life.

Browser Wars

2008-12-17T20:30:00.001+05:30

A good software is one that runs on all platforms. for web juntha like us a good web app is one that runs on all browsers. we write software that atleaset most of the times runs on all browsers. we also dutifully test the code we write in all browsers. Today i indulged in a small research study, which is the fastest browser that executes four test routines. the competitors were chrome, firefox, opera and yeah i-explorer. the testing environment that we used to run these functional tests was good old selenium.

well here are the results:

Chrome = 45.872 seconds
Opera = 46.245 seconds

Firefox = 54.324 seconds.

(i cooked up the last two digits but the first three are correct)

and yeah for all those of you who are eagerly waiting and already planning on the witty comment about how internet explorer and microsoft in general sucks well ladies and gentlemen, i want to shock you, the test ran within 5 seconds.
shocked, well, thats because all the tests failed and them command.com failed. ha! now you are happy!! there you can go cuss i explorer now. but on a more serious note this was not what shocked me, what really shocked me was that firefox was the last amongst all eligible competitors. it worries me that may be firefox will go down the same way netscape (its mother) did.

they better get firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey, up and running ASAP. Mozilla are you listening?

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Random Notes (some number)

2008-12-06T23:37:00.002+05:30

i have not really got into a block. its only that i am using a datacard and it has very limited credit. i am working at a place having a high speed internet, but am too excited with work. so it comes back to the same thing. no internet.

I had to bid aravind bye today. he is leaving for mysore, for a 6 month long training. All the best to him. i could not help but notice that he was slightly agitated. on asking, he told me that he was worried on how he will fair in the IT industry. being a mechi like me, entering Infosys with all those programming languages is naturally stressful on him. but i am sure he will fair pretty well.

i notice that a lot of my batch junta are getting worked up on becoming a programmer and entering the industry. a little insight and i came up with this theory.

i believe computer programmers can be classified into three different groups. the first set of people are the ones who think that the computer in all of its manifestation is above their head, nevertheless they are put at the mercy of the system, the computer has become their feudal overlord, it throws an error if it wants to, it runs the way it wants to and crashes as and when it likes. These people force themselves to accept this supposedly rogue behavior of the computer and put up with all the tantrums. sadly one day it gets too stressful and they have to quit.

The second bunch of people are the moderates, they are a step ahead of the survivors, theycan atlesate predict when a computer might turn rogue, without knowing the actual reason. they have learnt the ability to master the system to an extent, of opening commandlines and typing codes that they memorized during thier training program. They however know perfectly well that they cant master the system. they treat the computer as a peer at times and at other times in a manner similar to how we treat our political leaders. they fawn the systems knowing perfectly well that it will not help them a bit. They atlest are better of than the previous class who get desperate at every error or exception.

The third type i think is the other extreme, they need not necessarily be a lead committer to an open source project, nor do they need to be kickar#e hackkers, but they nevertheless know what they are doing. they have learnt the art of treating the computer as their slave. they know that like feudalism the computer has no option to disobey. it can only have an option of making a mistake, which again most of the time is because of one or more (mis)directives issued by the overlord himself. they have all the time to correct thier mistake. they know to order the computer around and even keep it happy by feeding doughnuts, where as they do not know how to panic when the computer bluescreens. they know that behind the bluescreen there must have been some piece of code that went wrong and even more importantly something that can be corrected.

the computer is a remarkable system it can be an obedient slave when it has to, and when it lacks a master it starts getting bossy. i believe that coding is not a science of logic, rather it is an art that is developed with practice, only some people found out their artistic talent much earlier than the others.
the best cake is baked by a set of hands that knows how to beat the dough in order to make the cake soft.
so to all my techie friends getting worried , dont let the computer intimidate you, instead intimidate it with some daring lines of code and life will become great!!

One more good bye soon

2008-12-03T14:38:00.000+05:30

The day is soon approachig when i will have to say good bye to another best friend of mine. my alter ego, my soul mate and my partner in crime and my all time favorite bakra target is going to leave for mysore for a 6 month training period with infosys. i dont know how i am going to say good bye. more so, i dont know how i am goingto be after he leaves, bro aravind, was used to have the perfect shoulder to cry on, and used to be a delight to laugh with, his absense is going to make life placid.
i have been wanting to visit coorg for a long while now, heard that is a tibetian monestary there. Am sure i will start visiting mysore every second week. partly because i can go hikking and partly because i am sure aravind would have made many new friends there. friends you know just friends ( :P as he puts it ).meanwhile our man is also going to put in a conscientious effort to start learning kannada. Hes got reasons for it ;).
on other stories srikanth who, still has not forgotten the word that rhymes with utah, says that there are a lot of birds there. most i believe are from asia and have long legs. now i am still not sure what sort of long legged birds migrate away from asia to america. anyway he says he is tired of white storks and could do with an indian raven. i am fascinated by his sudden interest in ornithology, the last time i remember he could not differentiate a crow from a dove. and no he did not have chicks for dinner , (or after it [YET!!]), i am sure if he tries to play Mr, macho, those six-footer classmates of his will give him a knuckle sandwich for dinner.

Terebethia

2008-11-17T13:24:00.001+05:30

Curse the indian distributors of the film the brifge across terabithia. it was probably the worst thing to promote it as narnia 2. today when i finally saw the movie, i could not help but shed a drop of tear. it takes more than a super cool cast and an amzing director to make a good movie. it takes even more than that to make a piece of art. what i saw today was a piece of art.
it reminded me of my own school days and how i went without a person to call a friend until much later on. Today as i see and appreciate the movie i am thankful to god that i have been blessed with such great friends.
the bridge across terabithia is the story of a lonely boy, who meets this other lonely girl. together they share their imaginations and create their ow world of fantasy, of gentle trolls and dangerous squirrels. A world in which they are the rulers, the king and queen. though the film would hav bombed big time at the box office (not sure about elsewhere but darn sure about it back home in india), it sure had a single unifying continuity that puts a tear on your eyes and a bitter smile on your face reminding you of what all you went through when you were like it.
i am no good critic of a movie, what i call a good movie is one which puts you in the shoe of the protagnist and makes you go through everything that happens on screen as if it was happening to you , ever so subttly, without you even realizing it. Its really hard to portray a real life character on screen within 120 mins. the director has to invariable make compromises, compromises that could make or break the movie altogether. our man seems to have made the right compromises by limiting the charecter sketch of the family of jess and lessie.(something which a seasoned movie buff will call awkward shallowness. a good movie is one in which, you emote with the actor, cry when he cries and laugh when he laughs, all the time being aware that its just a story and nothing else. thats why i call movies such as finding john Christmas excellent.
today i saw a good movie. one of the best i have ever seen. i salute the director who had the patience of seeing through the eyes of a child and creating a world out of it. i salute to the power of imagination, to the power of every human being who has been ruling his or her own terabithia.

(Posting this a-sync from ascendas with battery very low no time for proof reading so adjust :P )

University Rank

2008-11-10T11:23:00.001+05:30

so i got a university rank. so what??? can i get that E51 because of that.

Happy B'day Chaos Budha and 30 days no post!!

2008-10-31T16:40:00.001+05:30

its been such a long time since i posted!! the biggest reason is because i ~~am moving~~ to our new house that is somewhere between proper madipakkam and proper velacherry. these twenty days have proved how depressing itcan be without the internet. for starts the computer used to remain in adyar and i travelled there everyday to work. but after we asked for a shift of telephone line the internet was gone and so we brought the computer here.
Mention about BSNL is a must here. within minutes of us submitting the shift of telephone line form our number was disconnected and all services removed and a recorded message saying that the number was being shifted was played. i was greatly surprised that BSNL was so fast and was better than most of the companies in the private sector. but alas the sad truth of realty came out when we called our local exchange. "Saaar, no cable sir only WLL we can give cable line only after three months ...WLL line after one week only saar ....." yeah.... yeah.... the all too familiar voice of customer service .And yeah its been ten days so far after i called and no response as yet.

so how am i posting this post?? am i in one of those shaddy internet parlours where people are watching things in bits and pieces??? no, i am posting from my laptop.:). yeah thats right i got myself a new DELL INSPIRON 1525, its got wifi, blue tooth, and yeah, windows vista.the first thing i did was, i dual booted it to Ubuntu.

After living for over twenty years in adyar (i am twenty one) its rather strange to move in to a new locality and even more strange to live in an induvidual house. we have employed a series of high security doors guarded by Navtal 9 levers lock, that make getting into/out of the house an affair similar to entering the pentagon. what, with me having the key for the door, my sister that for the grilled door and my mom has the key for the main gate and my dad has the key for all the rooms.

Reliance Big experience has finally happened to us we ordered our big Tv a week ago registered five days ago got a call from a person saying he would be there 5:30 sharp and its been three days since that call. its one Big experience alright.

and on other notes a dog adopted us. thats right he ...no no ...its a she ..decided that we were the perfect hosts. so she walked into our house one day got fed by mom with some thaiyr saadam walked in at the night and guarded the house till morning, decided that it will do night shifts in our place and after a week decided that it will do day shifts as well. and it really does not care if the gates are locked or not, its a great athlet and scales 6 feet high walls. so dinesh, revs you all better get ready i am going to join the gang of "people who blog about dogs which adopeted them".:P(yeah i will write a series of post).

barcamp chennai happened. was fun. and i took my laptop :P with nothing installed in it. anyways will write a whole new post about it later on.

now to the point the reason why i am rambling so much is because, this october chaos budha with a single 'd' enters its third year. at this jucture i would like to thak all its past readers who are not reading it anymore and all its present readers who have found nothing to read of late. i would also like to welcome all its future readers who will find profound wisdoms of chaos budhism (again with a single 'd') from rants such as these. Deepti and paddy if you girls are still reading this then please upate your blogs, you were my inspiration you know.

Ten days and no post

2008-10-10T15:01:00.000+05:30

its almost ten days since the month started and i have still not posted a post thats because:
1) i was eating shundal
2) i changed houses
3) i am depressed because i am not an adyarvaasi any longer. i am going to miss subbiya, odyssey and every street here. am moving to an independent house at madipakkam with enough space to do every goddamn thing i have been wanting to do since iwas a kid. and yeah found a person who does good bajjis :)
but what ever said and done home is where the heart is and you know where mine is ;)

Chennai is actually two cities

2008-09-28T00:18:00.001+05:30

i was at parrys today. no not the french capital, this is the other one in chennai, where everything other than fellow human beings can be bought for a price.
this is probably the third or fourth time i have been there, (and the first time in the night) and i felt as if i was in a different city altogether. the entire area gave me an eerie feeling. it was nowhere near the chennai that i know.
for those who have not been to parrys, relate it to an extended ranganathan street, extended atleast by a few kilometers, the roads are a typical indian bazaar, with hawkers yelling at the top of their voices, customers negotiating even louder and above all policemen appearing once in a while using their lathi on an occasional hawker's cart and generally doing what they do best.
but this was not like a ranganathan street experience, for one the shoves from fellow passerbys were much stronger, more like pushing, the curses were much louder and there was an eternal fear that some one behind is going to pick your pocket.
something just does not feel right. there was a constant voice in my mind that was telling me that i was not in madras anymore. these are not the same vociferous people i know and love. i was only way too pleased when i jumped into the car rolled up the glasses and left thankful that nothing was broken and nothing was was lost.
the feeling was profound and lasted much after i left the place for good. on telling about this to a friend who resides in north chennai, he simply said dude, you finally understood it, chennai is not one, its two cities put together. one is below the cooum and the other, above it. he further told me that the feeling was mutual and exactly similar to what he experiences when i take him to subbaiyas.
is it really that way??
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Barcamp Chennai 2

2008-09-17T13:40:00.001+05:30

Announcing the second Edition of barcamp chennai!!! its been a very long wait!! but finally we are very happy to announce barcamp chennai 2. tentatively we have placed it on the 18th and 19th of October.
Barcamp is an unconference and that means that if you want to be there, you have to help us ;)
you can join us and help us by volunteering, blogging, speaking, or as shyamk puts it generally creating chaos to keep us all active.

Personally i am feeling very happy because this is going to be the first barcamp in chennai that i am attending, (the previous barcamps that i attended were all in bangalore, which btb just wrapped up its 7th edition)

For those who desire to read a much more bigger explanation about the concept of barcamp chech the barcamp website, or its wikipedia entry here. even more info ?? JFGI.

to know more join the BCC mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/BarCampChennai

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Rock On!!!

2008-09-05T14:09:00.001+05:30

aravind, ash and me went to rock on yesterday!! it was
oh sooooooooooooo rocking!!

Felt Good. Review coming soon :)

Technorati Tags: rock on!!, hiindi, movie,

Chrome somebody??

2008-09-02T23:06:00.001+05:30

quoting someone "google is entering the browser war 2" with chrome.
the gates will open for public beta 12 midnight, today, across hundred odd countries.
a lot of interesting questions pop up..
is this the first step towards a google OS?
is this going to sink firefox??
is this going to flop miserably??
waiting for it eagerly

p.s:
this is browser war 2. war one was between netscape and microsoft where netscape was shown the finger.

someone got the rest ??

2008-08-27T01:19:00.001+05:30

A Time to Kill (1989),
The Firm (1991)
The Pelican Brief (1992),
The Client (1993),
The Chamber (1994),
The Rainmaker (1995),
The Runaway Jury (1996),
The Partner (1997),
The Street Lawyer (1998),
The Testament (1999),
The Brethren (2000),
The Summons (2002),
The King of Torts (2003),
The Last Juror (2004),
The Broker (2005),
The Appeal (2008),
The Associate (January 27, 2009),

i have read the ones that are struck. i think i have runaway jury and the street lawyer. anyone got the rest ??

Thanks a lot guys :) you made the day special

2008-08-26T00:25:00.001+05:30

have never been happier than this. this is the first time in 21 birthdays that i was wished by a lot and i mean a loooooooooot of people. starting from the 12 o clock call from ash and followed by another sweetheart, the calls kept coming in and man was i happy :).
there were many times that i came to the depressing conclusion that people have forgotten me. i secretly blamed myself for the aloofness that i often show in RL, which i reasoned was responsible for so less a people remembering me, but suddenly those thoughts of loonliness have gone.
this birthday was remarkably different form all my previous ones, for starts i had atleast a 100 scraps coming in at orkut (compare this to the 60 scraps ipeople wrote to me over the last 6 months) and each one of those 100 were special!! they were not a generic happy birthay long live message, but words they meant.
the other thing that changed was at home! usually mom and my sister secretly go kurta hunting for me. i am mad about kadhi kurtas and sherwanis and they alway used to surprise me with something super cool looking. this time around i wanted to buy something for my family, afterall this was the first birthday since i started working and getting paid! i managed to sneak out to kumaran silks and ended up purchasing some garments secretly without anyon knowing it. The fact that i prepetually have a bed filled with all sorts of weirdities in which i can safely hide a huge elephant leave alone two bag full of garments helped!! and man were my parents happy! there were a few tears shred and i was treated to a super dupper grub session.
the birthday has been a plesant one generally!! i usually get depressed during my birthday week, i get so depressed that i would beat 10 to 1 that now-what -was-his-name chinese athlet who limped away from the tracks event, because he sprained his toes. but unusually this time there was no such feelings, i was even super cool to my sister who woke me up in the morning wished me for a sec and asked me to help out on a solid mechanics problem that i patentlly explained for the next 15 mins.
the only thing i missed this year was that i did not get to do the "i demand a wish" routine, something that i loved to do, and make my best chums squirm and extract guilty pleasure out of it :).
Overall it was a very happy birthday indeed and it gave me a good optimistic headstart. i needed it most, as i will be taking a lot of vital decissions pretty soon thats going to affect my life.
Thanks a lot to all my bloggie buddies, to all you wonderful people :), and to the guys at kumaran silks who helped me with the colours :D (will post about this experience later on .. )

P.S my friend reminds me that i am now 21, and have offically croseed the age limit to 1) view porn and 2) get mharried officially by indian law.
P.P.S in both the above said cases 1) i am not interested and 2) i am not looking :D
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Happy B'day to mee!!

2008-08-21T12:10:00.001+05:30

Arright ye guys, start wishing me happy birthday..

hmm... on second thoughts...its been 21 long years ...

Random Thoughts

2008-08-18T22:34:00.001+05:30

its been two weeks again since i posted. had some work going on and i could not find time to put in a proper post, a placeholder post is a definite no no. Srikanth has reached Utah and has settled down, and thank goodness his accent has not changed yet, also the fact that he uses a colloquial tamil term that sounds similar to the place he landed up, makes it clear that he will not change into a 'peter' anytime soon. Good.

One baby face 'bindra' shot the bulls eye. Now every self respecting Ad agency is waiting to shoot him on every commercial Ad. The amount of Bindra fan communities in orkut is burgeoning at an alarming rate. I got 25 invites on my mailbox and i made sure i flagged all 25 of them, ah the pleasure of flagging them :), but nope nothing can be done about it orkut says, they do not have a clause on content being "Incomplete, irrelavent or irrational". reminds me of perry masson and hamilton burger.

Atleast one thing for sure, we know who will carry the flag at London.

Talking about flags, on independence day adayar was a sight, there were flags of all colours decorating the street and in the process endangering us scooterists [ ;) ] but i was surprised to see that there was not a single tri colour. Also the traditional page five photo of the BSF receiving sweets at Wagh was missing. something is really wrong.

Rakshabandan also went, i am surprised not a single girl sent me a rakhi, no i am not the irresistable hunk you might think i am , i am more like the ubbergeek who no one will want as a bro.
reminds me of the days in school when i bunked every rakshabandan citing avani aveetam as the reason. :P

am suddely feeling weird..... awkward... dont know why... everything around me is either super perfect or complete choas... i am ranting now ... ok signing out ..

Miss you like hell buddy!! but then have fun!

2008-08-08T22:57:00.003+05:30

Srikanth,

I so miss you already buddy! even though you might not even have reached delhi yet, leave alone Utah. Its going to be hard for me. and i know its going to be even harder for you.
I am going to miss those long conversations that we used to have, those conversations in which you rattled @ 200 words a second and i tried to squeeze in a yeah every ten mins. I am going to miss those long intellectual talks that we had over coffee. I am going to miss those long energetic walks that we took on the beach. i am going to miss you for not being there to ask me to walk walk and continue to walk, till i either faint or break my legs. i am going to miss your, "hey i displaced a bone", "i scratched a hand".

though partially me, ash and ara agree to the fact that our ears will finally get some rest that it deserved for the past ten years, we do agree that without listening to you, the world will suddenly sound dumb.

Vivid pictures of our long friendship come to my mind, i still remember the day you stamped on my face in eight standard after a fight and how you tore my comic book into 100 pieces exactly, and i also remember how you had stood by me in school final when everyone else hated the sight of me. you are probably one of the best things that had happened to me. And you will for ever be a source of inspiration.

That said, i do not want to make you cry ones more after reading this post. Buddy you are pursuing your dreams!! thats the best and we are very happy for you. we might miss you but we will never forget you. as ash said we are probably the only three who can listen to you go on and on and still manage to see the light of the next day. we are probably the only three to be blessed (or cursed) with your V.D. and as with every other curse its for a lifetime. we know we might not see you for two years atleast and who knows it might be longer, but goddamnit!! we will stay in touch!! we cannot think of ourselves with out you. deep within us , with every smile that we simle , every laugh that we laugh, and with every tear that we shed we know that you will be there, for us, for three other disparate souls, with whose support we will all be nobodies.
God speed my boy!! have a great time in the U.S.of A, enjoy the sights [;)] and sounds of the place. teach those firangi's how to speak tamil :P have a bash. Study, if the situation demands and make hay! {notice how i never asked you to remember us?? thats probably because i am dead sure you can never forget us as much as we can never forget you} lets toast a lassi for this new endeavour in your life, and yeah just remember dont loose your temper.

P.S: The lassi is on you , we are NOT going dutch :P.

(Ash, Ara Sri and Me, BBQ nation, 2 aug 2008, the first time when we burnt 1000 bucks of sri's pocket )

And Today in Economic Times

2008-08-01T22:09:00.001+05:30

Economic times carried an article on freshers joining startups, and i was mentioned in it too. Many thanks to my friend Ravi Teja Sharma from the economic times.
Do read it, its a good read.

Link

Note
@revz : stopped reading pirated books started reading ebooks...errr...pirated ebooks.
@thala priya:guess you will have to wait for the illavarasi story :P

@ Edu Plus

2008-07-29T23:42:00.001+05:30

working in a startup is fun, it has its own set of goddies :)

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/edu/2008/07/21/stories/2008072150170900.htm

yours truly was quoted in the hindu educational plus last week.

read its continuation on this weeks paper, where my boss shares his experience.
(will post link soon)

Of BACK messages and Empty petrol bunks

2008-07-28T21:42:00.001+05:30

before you start reading, there is a disclaimer, if you are trying to find a correlation between the two parts of my blogpost title then be warned you will not find what you are looking for.
if you are reading this then it means you are neither Sherlock Holmes nor stephen dubner, you are probably one more vetti blogger like me,out there in blogsville lamenting about the day to day happenings.
the title of this blogpost was inspired from what i went through yesterday. In the morning it was the tirade of forwards from my friends who had themselves got it from their friends and who in their turn recieved it from their friends friend. the message says that there was more than a simple corelation between the "we are back" email message that was recieved by autorites minutes before the bombs went of in ahmedabad . aparently the bombings were in the sequence that followed the letters in the word BACK. Bangalore , Ahmedabad and so on. this part of the text message was interesting the following part is what made it an entire farce. Aparently C stood for chennai. the smartguy who started off this message muct probably be having an IQ similar to that of a drunken monkey, i for one, could name atleast 3 cities / towns that have their name starting from C and given sometime i can come up with many more. What ever made him choose chennai? may be he is from bangalore and hates chennai for its conservatism.[he hates the fact that we are always 'right']
The chennai police have to be lauded for the fact that they immediately got hold of the message chain and countered it with an offical message release that told everyone in no uncertain terms "DON'T PANIC".
this did not panic me at all,what really did, was the fact that all the petrol bunks in the city , or atleast near my place seemed to have run out of diesel again. we on panic mode decided to get our car filled up forecasting one more stint of the "chennai goes fuel dry" episode.
the last time around the blame was actually put on the "sloppy management" of barath petroleum that miscalculated their stock/supply. Aparently one of the mammoth oil tankers from the gulf, that carried crude, got a 'little' late.(just by 15 days). Next time dont blame the indian railways for not being punctual.
This time around i guess, it should again be another tanker that got lost in the sea.The situation should ease pretty soon. But a time will come when all the oil wells go dry and we will be fighting and even bombing to get every drop of oil we can get our hands on. its mighty depressing that there is simply not enough research being carried out in the fields of alternate fuel propelled vehicles. the once in a while release of a civic hybrid by honda is encouraging but is not in anyway near being justified as an earnest effort to move towards alternative vehicles. in the two wheeler domain i see quite a few scooty like vehicles zipping past silently on batteries. what i would like to see is a monster of a motorcycle matching a pulsar 220 and running on batteries. I would give anything to get hold of a vehicle like that.
Gosh, i am getting way OT. what i really wanted to say is that chennai is getting into very desperate times and we guys should probably get ready to face the situation. for starts go get your vehicle tanks filled up before petrol runs out.

Proto.in 2008se wraps up

2008-07-21T14:07:00.001+05:30

twenty days have passed and there was not a single post this month. the twenty days were not easy either. For the first time in many years i have been wishing that there were more than just 24 hours in a day. too many dead lines to catch, to many things to do... proto.in was a mammoth this time around and we tried our best to make it a grand success. 500 people , a land whose native tongue only three of us knew to speak and a city so big and different that you keep thinking that you are in a different country all together. Top to the list a set of todos that sounded easy, but turned out to be otherwise. Still we struck to gether and pulled out an an even which could be defined as the defining moment of the indian entrepreneurial revolution.
This proto.in was a learning experience. i learnt a lot of things the hard way
and the lessons will not be forgotte for a long time. Through out the month there were quiet some times when the hard question kept striking me ever so often making me rethink about the moves i had made and paths i have trodden. But today everything seems so clear. i love what i am doing and i will never move away from it, even if it means walking on a path of fire. today somehow feels like a new sunrise after a year of darkness, i feel nice. wish this feeling will last forever.

I am alive. Proto.in is happening.

2008-07-14T23:51:00.001+05:30

This is a micro blog to remind you all that i am still alive. Proto.in is appening in delhi this friday and saturday. see you there :)

Google Bungles

2008-06-28T22:04:00.001+05:30

The developer in me smiled after a long time.
Nice to see that the geeks inside google are human too and are not meangreen coding machines:
Check this page out
http://www.google.com/support/faqs/bin/blogsearch/about_pinging.html/

The sad thing is these guys dont know that the universal test code is "hello,World!!" and not "test123" :P

Technorati Tags: google, google error, google bloopers

Grisham \m/

2008-06-20T00:31:00.001+05:30

one thing i noticed in grisham's books are that the good guys know who the bad guys are and the bad guys know who the good guys are , well ahead, in the initial pages itself. Suits my taste better, far better than a sheldon book in which he saves it for the last few pages all the while making us endure 400 pages of absolute MOKKAI.
just finished reading 'the pelican breif' and my admiration for grisham just grew larger.

Dont call yourself a chennai vaasi

2008-06-16T00:40:00.001+05:30

(in no particular order:)
1) if you havent been to the eliots beach, and spent hours on together looking to ogle over that ever elusive beauty who always leaves when you come or who always comes when you leave.
2) been aimlessly walking over the floors of spencer plaza to buy a gift for hundred rupeess after spending a good 200 on parking charges.
3) if you havent been to ranganathan street to buy your deepavali clothes well aware that even if you do get a life time guarantee on your purchased garment you will not have any guarantee that you might return whom alive without being crushed to death.
4) if you havent driven in the ECR irrespective of the fact that the vehicle you drive may be a TVS 50 which any wizened old pantaloon would overtake by walk.
5) if you havent burst crackers at 4 in the morning on deepavali day even though you are perfectly aware that you are breaking the law by bursting it before 6.
6) you have made tons of pongal on mattu pongal and havent found any cow to feed it.
7) you discussed core C programming at parthasarathy koil kalyanautsavam and discuused ramayana over pizza and still manged to insist upon the fact that sita for all you know might have been rama's brother daughter.
8) you have ordered for hot degree coffee and before that ordered for the hindu to be ported to your room irrespective of which ever place in the world you travel to.
9) if you havent commented on the political scenario even though your only previous experience in commenting lies in those anonymous comments that you made on blogs of narcissistic egomaniacs.

now here is the catch you may be forgiven and may even be accepted as a chennai vaasi without doing any o the above deeds but you surely will not be taken on as a chennai resident had you not

10) had mulaga bajji at subbaiya's.

P.S i am not subbiya's online marketing agent. Nevertheless i like his bajji's.

Technorati Tags: chennai, bajji, life,

Gmail Labs - in love with it already

2008-06-06T23:31:00.001+05:30

So did you check out Gmail Labs? If you havent already then its high time that you do so. All of gmails experimental features are now open for testing by the end users.

I am already in love with it, most of the features which are out there seem to be great even snakey the good old snake game that we can play once in a while if we really get bugged looking at gmail. There is even a take a break feature for gmail addicts which would make your inbox invisible , sign you out of the google talk widget and add a test that reads something like "take a break for 15 mins. Go on a walk. go get a life" :P

But the feature that i am madly in love with right now is the superstars that let you add different star icons to your emails. starring, threaded conversations and labeling were one of the primary reasons that made me move from yahoo to gmail. But off late i realized that i have been staring a lot of emails and sorting through the starred emails in itself makes it tough. What if you keep receiving a dozen mails an hour almost all of them important and requiring trackback after a few days time.

Gmail continues to surprise users. The gmail labs feature comes barely a week after gmail underwent a cleanup that made it load faster. There has suddenly been an up spring in the rate at which new features are coming out of gmail. Surely means that google is getting all the more aggressive to obtain market dominance in the email services, something similar to the dominance that its search engine enjoys.

Ok, no time i am off to play old snakey in gmail Tata!!

Orkut allows theming

2008-06-03T12:43:00.001+05:30

In a last attempt to keep orkut spirit alive, orkut team india has recently launched custom themes for their profiles. Now users in India can change their profile team from the monotonous dull blue to one of the 12 vibrant themes.
If you are a girl, then listen up there is a there is a cuddly cuddly pink coloured theme with teddy bears and Barbies.
From a hard core geek perspective what i would really love to see is google making it possible for developers to build custom themes and upload it to a repo from which user can select their desired theme. Something similar to wordpress skins where people can browse and then add the theme they want. This would add more fun and definitely give a boost in activities especially from young amateur developers, those who either find open social too complicated or too boring.
Casual Developers, I am sure such a day will soon come. Until then enjoy what ever orkut theme orkut gives you. Beggars cannot be choosers. And yeah the 12 themes are as usual Sad. I love the original orkut theme that existed till august last. Sadly i bet most of them in orkut right now would not even have seen it.
Technorati Tags: orkut, developers, themes, creating themes, skins

Things i have been doing

2008-06-01T17:04:00.001+05:30

just to chronicle in the past one week i have,
* travelled across almost all the hill resorts in and around tamil nadu.
* lazed around in peper farms at a kilometer above sea level.
* went boating on a lake that was 'just' sixty feet deep.
* went white water rafting at hogenakal.
* went trekking on a half feet wide path that descended for 3 Kms at an almost 90 degree gradient without any climbing gear and with bare feet.
* went crawling into a cave 60 feet deep that would have either let a monkey walk through or a human crawl through in all fours again with a bare foot.
* had bathe in a virgin water fall that fell from a height of 300 feet along with a couple of deers and one very inquisitive snake.
* in the second part of the week starting friday i returned checked mails and then turned all devotional and went to a place near pondy.
* my week ended boating in marshlands full of herons, oysters, and snake living in an ever growing cluster of burgeoning mangroves.

Just realized that throughout this week i have travelled over 3000 kms. Of which atleast 600 were in ghat roads. I have been through atleast 70 hairpin bends and innumerable spirals. I have driven through atleast 400 kms of seaside roads and in the entirety the only thing that strikes my mind is this anecdote :

I was on top of one of the many pristine peaks of the sevarayan range about 2 kms above ground level. I was all elated with the "i am on top of the whole world" feeling. Just then i saw above me a pariah kite gliding and lazily diving in nonchalance.

there are somethings that are always above you. no matter how high a mountain you scale you will always realize that nature still ends up remaining a tad bit higher than your maximum reach. that moment of solemnity can seldom be matched to any thing else.

OR MAY BE IT CAN BE :

TRY THIS.

P.S This was a long and nice post ...but bleddy scribefire screwed up again and resulted in this abridged version.

Technorati Tags: yercaud, yelagiri, hogenakal, pody, boating, trekking, lying

IPL is fun

2008-05-22T00:18:00.001+05:30

Just saw Chennai Super kings Trashed by the Bangalore Royal Challengers. Seeing Rahul Dravid Actually doing a ganguly act of jumping and celebrating was really surprising. Just tells us to what extent IPL has changed indian Cricket.
there was an interesting poster by some unknown guy who had written that bangalore royal challengers were best only for their cheerleaders. All i can think of saying is "Dude!! i empathize with your feelings mate". But for this poor chaps two minutes of fame my concentration was all in cricket. it was really revealing to see fleming and parthiv patel play football.I have always maintained that chennai junta are multifaceted the fact that they played football, dodge ball, basket ball, and catch practice in the middle of a cricket match is proof enough.
i really admired royal challengers. their cheer leaders were amazing, and i am sure they would get sued soon. i am very happy for Mr. Vijay mallya, sad that he must have been sloshed up by the time Bangalore RC won.
Before you people go...whats wrong with you ...
Disclaimer: i am in a block. Especially so after i found that my previous 10 point review of santosh subu got deleted because firefox crashed. I hate firefox. I double hate Scribefire.
Technorati Tags: IPL, Chennai Super Kings, Vijay Mallya, RC, rants

Grisham is God

2008-05-16T12:53:00.001+05:30

Just finished "The firm" by John Grisham and am in love with his line of stories. My love for law fictions started and ended with Earl Stanley Gardner (perry mason). Never new it will have a rebirth in Grisham.

Unlike the 200 page crisp stories of Gardner, Grisham is longer on details and tends to be tad boring. but if you are really into the story then there is no stopping. (finished a 600 page story in 8 hours straight). He is similar to Aurthur Hailey, only far more interesting.

I had previously read two of his book, 'the last juror' and 'the king of trots' a while back, i remember it to have being a long read , but then that was the time when i did 7 perry masons a week :). Anyways "The Firm" and "The Broker" are good reads.

Can some one suggest me any other books ? And can someone lend me a perry mason? sudden urge to start reading them all over again :)

Technorati Tags: books, perry mason, grisham, stanley gardner, the firm, the broker

Observations

2008-05-11T00:11:00.001+05:30

Inflation is at an all time high..
proof?
subbaiya bajjis cost Rs 0.50 more from what it was previously ...

what can an average adyaritte do if essential commodities become dearer? and for all those who say try out McD's veggie McGrill well its like that queen (whose name i forgot) who asked her subjects to eat cake when they demanded bread.

Technorati Tags: bajji, adyar, chennai, eatout, inflation

Chennai Bloggers meet

2008-05-07T03:50:00.001+05:30

Sagaro had tweeted about a chennai bloggers meet happening on the 8th of this month. Apparently microsoft the software biggie is sponsoring it. Never heard till date of any bloggers meet being sponsored by microsoft. i have my strong hunches that it might be a pirated sponsor :P. Anyway if it is the genuine microsoft (with the hologram and a long keystring contianing a 32 bit meaning less key that took a year to develope and an hour to hack) then we should all probably go. Enjoy hot bhajjis (nope not harbajan) on microsoft and talk generality like, how microsoft is source hoarding and the world must go open source :P .

Talkking about microsoft, the most reported and sensational story for the week, after ofcourse the topper which was about how sreesanth had developed a bruised cheek after being cheeky is about microsoft walking out of the Yahoo deal.
The only thing that confuses me is on who showed the finger to whom whether it was yahoo to microsoft or microsoft to yahoo. but one thing is for sure, there is a KD monkey enjoying this cat fight.

P.S today i completed four taxing years of engineering education. Am as clueless about the subject as how i was four years ago, in the first day of calss.

Movies i have to watch out for

2008-04-30T23:56:00.000+05:30

more than just a blog post, this is a self-reminder that i have to make up for the four years of engineering, in which time i must have stepped into a cinema not more than half a dozen times. and the fact that one of those movies was veerasamy does not help at all.
Am waiting to get done with the last exam on may 6th

in my list of must watch are
1) santosh subramanium - been ages since i watched an urban romance pic, the last one was Ah AAh by S.J.Surya, i loved the story, pre-intermission. beyond that it was a failed mission.
2) Dasavataram - for kamal, and just to satisfy my curiosity on how the team is going to pull of a 10 role kamal script. something tells me this might just about become a nasty flop.
3) .. 305 il kadavul - want to see first hand how it is. Prakashraj sure seems to be alluring but santhanams quips sounded as Pjs in the teasers.
4) kuruvi. - to just get the feel of the theater. i want to see how a vijay movie is screened. Theevara vijay fan and classmate maheshwaran says that it will be fun, music and dance ....and ofcourse latthi charge.
Talking about latthi charge, i am still wondering what made kamal hasan bring in jackie chan for the audio release... he seemed like a sunil gavaskar in a T20 cricket..

Observations

2008-04-24T23:38:00.001+05:30

Observation of the day:

A good newspaper is one that reports all the news.
A better newspaper is one that reports all the new correctly.
The best newspaper is one that reports correct news without bias.

A sad newspaper is at times also called "The Hindu"

Chennai Super Kings?

2008-04-24T01:07:00.001+05:30

Wokay!!
after six whole years today i braved to see a cricket match, well the maggi noodles format of it, as TOI put it, And i must admit cricket aint boring after all :)
And i heard that betting is sort of legal with the IPL. So if that is true, then i would like to bet all my wealth (which includes two seven o clock razors, a tooth brush, a comb and nothing more) that atleast five octogenarians will conk out because of the sheer blood pressure rise.
We should probably suggest IPL to cross subsidize the union Health Department by making the emergency patients watch the last over of the match free of cost. I am sure it will make any heart beat over time ...err extra time ...whatever...
its slightly disappointing that we dont have many tamil speaking players in the team....but always Jacob can say "Oram Po".

de_dust 2

2008-04-10T18:56:00.001+05:30

wogay so after 4 years i have installed CS back on my comp. I owe it to a couple of my friends who kept asking me to dump html/css. so yours truly installed CS and is playing de_dust 2 ...been busting every terrorist bot as if i was terminator.
GTG now have a game running ;)
oopsy!!! yeah for the uninitiated... C.S stands for Counter Strike ....the greatest game EVER in the history of mankind.
Bang! Bang! storm the front!!!

8th Visha Parikshai - Fare well Velammal

2008-04-09T17:35:00.001+05:30

A lot has changed over thew past four years. Four years ago i entered college, a depressed soul, wishing all earnestly that time flies as fast as a hawk or even better a tomahawk missile, but it was not to be. And today i look back wishing that i had more time here.

i had till date blogged a lot of times on how passionately i H@te velammal. But for a change today i want to be different. Not that i have fallen in love with the college that gave me nightmares, but because i realized that velammal does not end with the 30 page yearbook rules alone, it is beyond that, it is the aspiration of a thousand students. Its the place where some of the most nicest human beings work as teachers.
in the good bye speech i told " when i joined coll, the first semester, i cried everyday...., the second semester i made it a point to hate each and everyone of you, the third semester i turned apathic and minded my own business,in the fourth i learned to have fun, even in this godforsaken place surrounded by a lake, a grave yard , a sewage treatment plant and a prison. Fifth semester, I.V ;) happened and from then on , nothing ever bothered me after that...nothing could...i had seen the world by then ..."

Vananvani groomed me into a man ...in a fashion i least liked, my ailment and all..it only saw my lows.. but velammal was not like that..there were the ups and the downs ...and yeah in more than one way, it completely changed my perspective of life. Today, i am not sad but am disappointed, disappointed that i did not have more time, just when velammal was changing ...
i could manage to set up an E Cell, Dinesh and i were also into starting the coll FOSS club and above all ..Oh god damn yeah,i screened a 2 hour movie in a coll where words like cinema are taboo. i am disappointed that chances are, the efforts that we put in might get buried under the next year book and the year books to come.

Today as i step out of class for probably the last time, i leave with the same uncertainty with which i entered college. My thoughts reminiscence in vivid pictures of how 40 fundamentally different and disparate people learnt to coexist, not by following the rules but by breaking them.
i remember the day when we all went and fought for the 100 Rs the college owed us, how we did a crew crop (dangerously close to torturing) when snakedad asked us to cut our hair,how we went on an industrial visit to a an industry which never existed.

i al so remember how the guys taunted me during the E Cell days, how i was birthday-bummed for no reason at all. How i was publicly humiliated by my own department guys.
Long and short of it, velammal and ye velammalians , i really did not find you amiable , and for a fact neither was i amicable. But i still will miss you, for reasons i cannot fathom. I will for a fact never forget how we all bumbed together through eight semesters of fun, frolic and inter department bashing.

'This is not the beginning of the end, it is the end of the beginning.'

- Pinched from Mr.Jaykumar asst prof VEC [who in turn pinched it from someone else]

Mech on VEC-Mech goes /root/mech

2008-04-01T19:44:00.001+05:30

VEC-MECH goes ubuntu.
Today has been a very happy day for me. Partly because the final review went off well with out any bloopers that i expected would creep in. And more than that , because i could actually convince my lab system admin and actually install ubuntu in a couple of the high end systems that we use for CAD designing.
The MECH on VEC-MECH the (CAD lab gateway systems)
has been as dear to all us mechies as a wife would be to a newly wed husband. And today my love affair just got all the more lovable. the spirit of FOSS/libre soft entered into the world of mechanical engineering. though the admins basically installed it to get rid of the virus problems that has been eternally bothering us..they soon realized that not only can the *nux systems be great licensing servers for the PROPRIETARY cad systems, they can also run some super duper cool FOSS-CAD software systems like Q-cad.
the system admins have also shown enthu to install and run the open cascade kernal. Promising. today i probably will be trying CAElinux. it seems to sound super cool. lets see how good it is.
hoping my coll pioneers in open source CAD amongst the local colls ...:) big hope..reachable though...

Proto Startup Lunch Starts Today

2008-03-27T13:27:00.001+05:30

Startup Lunch - Proto.in's Latest initiative starts today at New Delhi. Its been one big roller coster of a ride. the inititative was set in motion not more than a fortnight ago and we already have full house in most of the eight cities in which we are planning.
Team Delhi needs a special appreciation, they went about like there was no tomorrow and things fell in the right spot in such a short notice. we are very happy here and it seems to be more than a reassuaring sign that proto's ground work has been passed into safe hands.
Delhi, here we come!!!

Startuplunch Proto

Project Woes 2

2008-03-26T12:31:00.001+05:30

Me: "As the project submission day nears , your ability to type faster reduces"

Friend 1: "and the wish to play pro E increases...."

ONE MORE WEEK TO D DAY.....

BabyCamp?!! Sheesh give me a break

2008-03-23T12:40:00.001+05:30

Johnson and Johnson is planning to break into the world of unconferences . Their first initiative?
babycamp for mommy bloggers.

So if you are a mom and if you really dont give a damn about your kid and if you are only interested in blogging then you know where to be :)
the "you dont give a damn" clause above is because ..babies are not allowed in the conference
So what are you waiting for ..go to babycamp and discuss Diapers .meanwhile make sure your hubby knows how to feed the kid and change diapers, else things will get dirty...literally...

Courtesy Rob Scob

philosophy on an envelope cover

2008-03-22T16:14:00.001+05:30

This is something i wanted to blog about a long time ago. but sadly i could not get hold of the photo as i had lost it.
Anyways what you see below was taken in a philately exhibition. It is an inland cover that was in use aeons ago .by aeons i mean the time when your great grandfather was thinking of marrying your great grandmother.

Anyway the thing that caught my eyes was what was printed on top of the envelope.

It simply reads:

"THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE"

Project Woes

2008-03-19T00:46:00.001+05:30

Team Mate: Got to go home and get pro E running...
Me: I thought you said Pro Engineering would not install in your system
Team Mate: Yeah ...
Me: Then?
Team mate: I am talking about pro evolution soccer ....

15 more days to submit project report...

Those Three Words

2008-03-14T23:00:00.004+05:30

Ah!! man !! finally it had happened! had been waiting for it , for i dont know how long. Now i understand what my seniors meant when they said that thsoe words changed their life around and in many ways made them complete...
Those three lovely remarkable words, that ever senior under grad would like to listen. Those words which have profound implications. The dream, of every engg undergrad, and the symbolic omen that all those dreams are going to be reality, and that too very soon.
I never expected that it will happen to me of all the people. i was struck, shocked, relieved, elated, delighted, happy, brought to tears , all at the same time, honestly had you seen me that second, you could have either empathized and felt those wonderful feelings or you could have called me mad. But all the same ladies and gentlemen , it has happened to me. I am very happy. words cannot describe the plethora of joy i am floating in.
And finally i wish that it happens to every undergrad engg stud. Ah life cannot get better than that. Those three lovely words told by the person who meant life or death to you for the last few months.

"WRITE THE REPORT"

AAha BLISS!! (Thanks go to my project guide, who has also donned the role of my deivam(god) of late)

In NEN editorial team

2008-03-01T23:43:00.003+05:30

I will be part of the NEN editorial advisory board for their new students site initiative. One of the main things that i always felt missing in NENonline were student microsites and NEN has started working on this. It would be great to work with the team, whom i personally know to be one of the most diverse and dynamic ever. Hope i learn something out of it and at the same time i could contribute to the teams success.

Sam AAndi and his Stepnee

2008-02-27T19:07:00.005+05:30

Vinesh called it the Bust of movies in all times, Poo expressed her strong appreciation and even suggested that murder would be easier, i however want to be different and admire young sam anderson (nope not the hollywood guy , this is logal boy )
Andy or rather Aandi is an inspiration to all the people who want to do a lead role in a movie. Andi has done a profound movie on all the implications of stepnee in yaaruku yarrow.a movie in which raghuvaran is put to shame after his commanding performance of saying 'i know ' and nothing but 'i know'. but the tragic fact is ...the movie in which raghuvaran did that was called puriyadha pudhir and in this case the reason why Andi acted in itself is a puriyuadha pudhir. You should listen to aandi recite the 'step nee' routine in the climax of the movie. You will either come out appreciating the linguistic master piece that the writer has penned down probably after 5 shots of vodka , or you would be to believe that half of Aam Junta has become his step nee.
Am youtubing the video for fun... do enjoy it ...

I Dare Sudie to write a review for this. I also dare Praveen to spoof it (provided he is not spoofed after watching the movie)

Open suggestion :: Chennai Cherri Bloggers Association ...this is the best sequel to Veerasamy..shall we guys?

Lets all push AANdi for oscars..i start fan club wanna join??

Velammal Makes It ...Honoured!!!

2008-02-17T21:33:00.003+05:30

Well news is officially out that we made it to the honour rolls of NEN. Ladies and gentlemen, amongst more than 300 colleges across india, Velammal engg made it to the honour rolls of NEN, we are amongst the top 33 colleges across india that did a kicka**e event for the E week. Sharing our rolls are S.S.N and 'The' Stella Marris, fact is that most of the colleges there had their E Cells running for well over two weeks. We scaled up to them in a mere two days time :)
This is for all those people who helped me through out E week 2008, i am very happy to have met you and to have worked with you.
This is for my senior Balaji (Babu), for my placement off Mr.Arun Ramaswami and my bestest soul buddies Adesh and Apprajith .
This is also to my juniors who were there through out the week. Just like you guys learnt lessons on entrepreneurship and leadership, so did i. it was an honour to have lead you to what it is. you showed the pessimist in me that things can be done and can be done superdupper great in coll.

Proof.

World Capitalism Day

2008-02-14T12:49:00.001+05:30

Today is the world capitalism day, the day when men buy everything under the sun to please their lady of interest. Today is when the millionaire oil trading playboy at texas gifts his lady a private aircraft and says "lets show that we texas guys are real wild" and today is the same day when the aborigine from the lumpalumpa tribe in tundaktu gifts his 'wild' girl friend a pink coloured boomerang and says in a gentle voice "hai kara hub..whats for grub?" (translation: this pretty looking lethal weapon is for you to catch my food)
today is the day when ATM's work over time and people actually realize that there are "somethings money cant buy and for everything else there is the boy friend". This is the time when Diner Club cards are used for lunches and when vehicular traffic becomes proportional to the number of hair strands in TR's body.

In short ladies and gentlemen it is the world consumerism day today. let u all celebrate.

P.S: People also tend to call it Valentine's Day.

P.P.S: St Valentines was a poor soul....His death made sure that every boy friend becomes POOR (period)

read my dig on V Day 2004 here.

Tonight Going to Anna Univ For the Shankar Mahadevan Concert with ara, ash, sri, S and Ma...hope to kalaichify atleast a few couples coo-chi- coo-ing :)
B.T.B this is an actual Shankar concert and not like my Bakra on Aravind.

E Week Ends

2008-02-09T19:55:00.000+05:30

The E Week in my college was a great success. Thanks goes to a lot of people around. First and Foremost A Big thanks to the Speakers. Vijay, Sid and Kiruba you guys ROCK!! it was mighty nice of you to accept the invite in such a short notice. Next thank you goes to Arun Ramaswamy Sir, Place ment Officer (VEC) . I was litterally a pain. Found odd hours to contact him for Equally Odd requests, but seriously though, if it was not him we would not have found a roof on top of us through out the week.Hes been magnanimous enough even to give away a few of his books as prizes. Err, we rather took it from him :).
Thanks goes to Adesh and Aparajith for being there, the only other final year students apart from your truly. Thank you NEN for helping us out. for showing the way and for being there behind us as we boldly ventured inot the initiative.

The events went of well and i am very happy that the third year students are really enthu about the E Cell. We have officially christened it The Dreamchaser's Lounge. I hope that the enthu remains through out the year.
Thank you all once again ....
will add the photos soon...

E- Week @ Velammal: Day 3

2008-02-05T20:11:00.000+05:30

Have been meaning to do it for a while now, but then organizing an event almost single handedly has become kind of very complicated. Anyways, here i go.
Today was day 3 of the celebration. the theme of the day was Business and Entrepreneurship. A lot of the guys in my college kept thinking that they required enormous capital / financial resources to start up. This is however not true in most of the cases. I hence requested fellow proto core team member and C.E.O of silver stripe software, Siddharta Govindaraj to come and address the students.Sid is bootstrapping his company, and who better to talk about bootstraping and starting with a lean budget, than a person who has been there and done that.
Sid gave an exceptional speech. He touched about the two approaches of sizing the company either through funding wherein you look at increasing market shares and user base or through bootstrapping where you take a more guarded approach by trying to sustain and increase customers and increasing operations through generated profits.
I owe one to sid. It was mighty nice of him to speak in common language that ensured that all the students sitting there understood what he spoke. Also i was happy that there were more questions today. I was sort of worried about the question answer sessions, velammal students have previously had the reputation to sit mum and make a complete mockery of our efforts. But today that was not to be. Adesh had to come in and force stop the questions in pour.
For the second day in continuation i took the stage for the last fifteen minutes and continued the brain storming sessions that i started yesterday. And boy! was i happy when the guys who promised help yesterday actually came up with solutions. proof enough that the sleepless nights put in was fruitful. The guys were responding.
We did the richard branson style , we said "screw it lets do it !!" and shortlisted a couple of names for the E-Cell. from what it seems its most probably going to be called " The Dreamchasers association"
Hope TDCA spreads like wild fire. and i hope the spirit is kindled in everyone of them.

P.S will back date and write about Day 1 and Day 2 Soon.

E Week is Nearing

2008-01-31T19:12:00.000+05:30

The entrepreneurship week is here, and this year i am coordinating my college's events. Its been a frantic week. I have been traveling atleast 50 kms a day. Have not slept for more than 4 hours in a while. But i am enjoying this.
I had previously written that i was a member of NEN, this year with a lot of lugging around i finally got permission to inaugurate the E Cell officially and guess what with a lot of pushing i even got permission to screen a movie.
We are planning to screen 'The October Sky' . I am personally looking forward to it. I had read the book previously and it was an amazing read, and i have a hunch that the movie will be as good as the book.
Sadly, the screening is only for my college guys. But we are planning to host a lot of competitions on thursday 7th february. Hope to see you all then!!!

VEC FOSS

2008-01-30T19:34:00.000+05:30

Lots of interesting things happening this week. I got a mail from fellow VECian Dinesh ,stating that he had started a FOSS User Group in my college. I was surprised, i thought that words such as FOSS and Linux were taboo . A quick instant messaging conversation later i was into it full swing. this happened day before yesterday. Today i and dinesh decided to go and address our juniors about it.
I was worried slightly, here i was a mechanical engineering student, with self taught knowledge of computers and i had to go address a whole class of computer science students. two mins into the presentation i got confident, fortunately for me and unfortunately for India our education system literally made cuckoo birds out of us and these students were blinking when i asked them what was meant by kernel. Computer Science 101.

So we started of and told them everything we knew about FOSS. and were they receptive or what. At the end of each presentation we went about collecting atleast a Rupee from each student, we have planned to burn Ubuntu CDs for all these people. We were previously planning to give it for free, but later realized that if we wanted to solidly advocate for something then we had to charge something. The atleast 1 Rs for Open source was a great hit and we actually managed to collect something like 200 Rs per class. a very good start. we are going to now talk to the management and set up a couple of freedom toasters around the college.

I believe that there is going to be a FOSS explosion soon in our country and i am glad that we are ahead in comparison to other self financing colleges in the city.

The E Cell of the college is also shaping up nicely more about it tomorrow.

Beating Retreat 2008 - Dazzling Spectacle (Again)

2008-01-29T13:17:00.000+05:30

Today was The 'Beating Retreat' ceremony at Delhi. A bit about it first. this event signifies the end of the republic day celebrations. The bands of the three forces join together and play for the president of india, and then the national flag is ceremonially lowered.
It all started in third standard i guess when i had my first rendezvous with the ceremony. i was a kid obviously and i asked my mom i believe "amma andha allu flag yethartuku badhula yerakaraan" , and that was when i was told what the ceremony was all about. Ok thought they explained in great detail i sure could not understand a thing, i was a kid. But what i liked to see was the way the jawans, marched, read notes and played at the same time all in sync. it was terrific, out of the world. It still is terrific. I just cant help gapping with a wide mouth at those army jawans who play . It must have taken decades of practice to come anywhere near the amount of perfection they show.Every step, every breath.
A particular favourite of mine is the hymn "Abide with me" written by monk, and one of Gandhijis favorite i was told. hearing the bands play that song of solemnity , would transfer you to a surreal world with high nationalistic feelings. Its so surprising to see that the song has no history with india, though when you hear the indian army play it, you are bound to believe that it was tailor made only for us.
The slow movind abide with me, followed by "saare jhan se aacha"(fast march) would transport you through an emotional catharsis, that words seldome define. I wish that atleast once i make it to the place in person to see this magical act of synergy.
Can someone find the link of the band playing abide with me for me? i sure wish i could link to it.

New days fly away

2008-01-27T22:26:00.000+05:30

i thought i might chronicle this, since i realized that i had not stored it anywhere else....

remember the time when i used to keep cribbing about how life had become so twisted that it put the worst manimuduchu to shame. well during those times of solitude i used to find solace in music. and that was when i stumbled upon the song called 'New Days' by Asher Lane.

Though the song on the superficial level seems to be penned by a poetic lover for his thimuru pudicha girlfriend. I could always decipher some ulterior meaning to those verses which would make jubilant an otherwise dejected soul drenched in melancholy.

To this day i cherish the song. Its my only other placebo during times of desperation, (the other one, well , you need not know.) Anyways do check it out over here.

Proto.in Approaching

2008-01-15T21:10:00.000+05:30

I think its high time that i officially chronicled the fact that this time i am handling the website for proto.in, for many reasons this edition of proto has meant a lot more to me than the previous two editions, for one i see my scripts running and two the message of proto seems to be more relevant than ever to me.This edition is also seeing a symbiotic relationship developing between Proto and N.E.N. i am part of the core team at Proto and a member of N.E.N through my college E-Cell(where i am in the core). one of the offshoots of this marriage is going to be the Startup alliance program which is going to try to place college students in startup companies. Being a firm believer of both the organizations i sure hope it is going to create the much needed entrepreneurial environment.

do drop by at http://proto.in to see the working codes that yours truly wrote.

Introductions

2008-01-11T19:50:00.000+05:30

blogsville is burgeoning with loads of new people i owe to introduce them all to the regular junta:

1. Srvidya Jayraman Sri is a vanavanian. she had surprised me once by asking if i was chaos budha, when most of the vanvanians had even forgotten my real name. I had told her then that blogsville could be a place she would love, and she has realized just that , A strong GRE score, and the sishya gethu still remains and can promise yourself an amazing read.

2. Harini Janakiraman another vanavanian and velammalian, with a sing song voice , gentle taste and a shull which houses an overactive and oversized brain. An agmark geek who plays the part of a normal girl flawlessly. Gentle she might sound, but compelling will be her argument, do check her out.

3. Bharatram Again fellow Vvian and fellow Velammalian, the dude of the EEE department, proof that tambrams are not always the regular thayirsaadham gang. Bhartram surely will be one of the people who you must look forward to reading.

More introductions will follow as and when i get time ..also i must take an oppertunity at this new blog that vishnu (Mechie @ VEC) and a few of his friends have started which tries to list down all the events taking place across the various college campuses in the country. This they hope will break the communication barrier across the campuses. Do check it out to know the current and happening events.

Rants And the New Year Resolution

2007-12-25T23:08:00.000+05:30

I am in a block. let me admit it, i have been in a block for the past so many months now, i seriously do not know how to get out of it.
may be because writing does not excite me anymore, may be my love for coding has had a renascence or may be i have just developed a hatred for the blogs. i wish it was the former but i am sure it is the latter.
this time last year i was thinking of a lot of things a lot of things that i thought was profound for my age, now even those so called 'profound' thoughts have been degraded to be mere aspects of naivety. life took a 180 degree u-turn then did a couple of lefts and rights and then did a 270 oblique and left me somewhere in the middle between the areas i mapped in my mind between the sahara and the arctic. these doldrums are not exactly welcome i can assure you. Its not that you don't have an option, but its the over abundance of it that matters.... two many options and i am still deciding, and from what it seems i am going to take my time (def mytime as eternity, for programing newbies thats a declaration that maps variable 'mytime' to class eternity)
.....HEY stop it ..its new year time ..lets not do the same old i am busy , sad and confused post one more time ..and really it has no point at all...the post will not change any of my conditions of being a)confused b) sad c) busy...there is an old buddhist saying which goes" If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good." Now since i am only a single 'd' ed budhist, i pinched this line from the movie seven years in tibet... i bet the script writer also pinched it else where so all is fair ...

Ok coming to the main point, before you read 2008s resolution please read the previous two years over here and over here and lighten up. its sort of an appetizer )

yeah so now then you have done it lets have a status check first...

1)finish monte cristo.
i last touched it on jan 3 2006. ;)

2) better explained by this picture.
the picture tried to say nail the cat ...but what actually happened is explained by this picture.

3) Hopefully get placed in a big IT firm where, i do nothing but sit and type for 25ks per month.
Mission accomplished :)

4) do some good stuff for (to) coll. ( the term good stuff, can be interpreted in may ways, based on the situation)

good stuff done in all situations
situation one
situation two

5) quit using the internet for more than an hour a day.

time online = 1 hour
time programming = 20 hrs .
:(

6) start driving the car properly. (the last time i did this , there were a few dents in the car , and a lot of dents in my heart after my dad came to know of it )
kausikram krishnasayee drives at 90kmph on a highway in ~~his~~ his dad's car

7) stop praying the blogger god, to give me more comments. yeah you read that write. i dont give a damn on whether you comment or not, i used to give more than a damn, but nowadays...... nope, i dont care, i dont care if my readership goes down, i dont care about trackbacks, i dont care about blog rolls, i dont care about blog ratings, i dont care about any thing. reason? i read maddox, and bitchess :P
i stopped reading Maddox, now a days i dont care about blogs as such, leave alone blog comments, and one more new addition to the i dont care list "i dont care about the normal blogger antics, as far as i am concerned they are antiques now :) so if your 33ed tooth is hurting or if you are so busy with work that you wrote a whole thirty page blog entry, well i don't give a damn about you.

8)stop doing stuff that i cannot do naturally. in short stop getting intimidated by others.
i leave this one to you...if at all someone reads, and actually hit upon this line then comment on this one please.

RESOLUTION 2008

1) Give up on count of monte cristo.

2) Decide on something, even if it comes to deciding between special masala dosa or special sada, DECIDE. and move on (P.S. with vengaya getti chutney)

3) finish Project, report and finally finish Coll ( Yeah read that right!)

i am blank ...can some one help me with these please..i am so lost :|

Chaos Buddha in 3.o?

2007-12-06T12:32:00.000+05:30

GUESS WHAT ?!!!!

Bangaluru 1

2007-11-30T07:48:00.000+05:30

So it just happens that right in the middle of my end sem examinations i had to go to Bangalore to get some papers signed for my final year project. being the so 'very well organized guys' all the three of us kumaran, aprajith , and yours truly managed to get the return ticket alone.our sophisticated engineering knowledge refused to acknowledge the fact that in order to get back from there, we needed to first get there, and in order to get there, we needed to find appropriate means of transportation. A look at the prices at ixigo.com and confirmation with dad told me that in order to get into a flight i might sell myself to a dubai sheik and even then the probability of him taking me to bangalore would be very less. i should have guessed that things are changing, definetly what with air deccan giving away kinfishers (mineral water only!!) and go air hiring lakme india fashion week divas. the new deccan is also always on time i believe, vijay malya surely knows how to keep his crew busy ;). ok i am digressing here, th e fact is an airline was not worth it as i was sure with that money i could have bought a final year project, leave alone travel to bangalore to get documents signed. Train was also not possible as WL crossed hundred. I wonder why people even go for a wait listed ticket. So we decided to take a state express bus. Unlike the dingy bus we expected the new bus was good looking sported a new TV and a dvd player (which again was not working) and the seats were actually intact. But for the "om#$lye nayee, busa eduda " (tamil swear word followed by a request meaning , dog please start the bus), the usual cheer of an enthusiastic chennaiite, there was no indication that we were travelling in a state veraivu perundu(express bus) which takes 9 hours to reach bangalore.
so the bus finally started and we got rolling. i was pleased with the seat i got, reasonably decent, and clean, and so i reclined to drop into a slumber, the seat inclined and i could clearly seen the hear shaped pan mark right on top of me. Ha things dont change over night, i wondered, wondered how the pan (i guess it was a 420 beeda) defied gravity and went and stuck there on top of the head. i admired, admired at the work of the person who did that, he must have been an artist, maybe he was in love, it was a perfect heart. probably love showered out of his mouth rather than showering out of his heart. I wondered and fell asleep, only to be woken up by a cop checking all the people. May be the cop did not know that veerapan got shot dead two years ago, may be he was looking for someone smuggling a johnny walker,(he caught a guy, only this fellow was smuggling johnny walker in his tummy) or may be the cop was a sadist who wanted everyone to be awake, because he was. Anyways it all happened and our man woke me up and there went my sleep. so i plugged in and started listening to this amazing music that some dumbass stored in my mp3 it goes kokara kozhi koovara vela ('crocking cock crocking time[means morning] sung by modest eunuch), it could'nt have come in a better time Dead of the night, in a lonely deserted road. Oh GOD!!

part 2 will soon come..

The 3 11 Bakra

2007-11-03T16:33:00.000+05:30

While most of the people (including myself) did an earnest job in catching chennai at 3:11. there were a few who wanted to have a jolly time:

Read Description
Hi,

Name : XXX
Phone : 984133XXX
I have attached photos taken in park today 3:11 PM.
Please include our photos in your site.
Thanks and Regards
XXX

LOOK AT THE DATE IN THE RIGHT CORNER

LMAO

Found a treasure

2007-11-02T16:15:00.000+05:30

when i opened this window i wanted to start typing " so where have i been all these days.." but then now i decided not to. for one i simply cannot explain the hiatus, but i think its high time that i returned to my blog and started typing my mind out.
i found this great treasure that i simply cannot revel to anyone right now. It has revitalized what was once a departed soul rotting away, oh yeah, thats me. My new treasure has given me the strength and the abhorrences that i required most and has induced in me a spirit that i never knew existed. when i initially quit blogging a few months ago , i was actually very happy, now i am even more happy that i am returning, of course with a new purpose.
I am celebrating life like i never have, it has opened a door with vast possibilities and favorable opportunities that i am sure this is some form of a divine providence. i might sound different form what i used to be, but i like what i am now..i am happy that everything is going on as it is.

Chaos Budha is not half as chaotic as he used to be, he is more a golden budha now. and this return marks a new innings in what was other wise a mundane life.

Happy birthday bloggiji !!

2007-10-14T16:30:00.000+05:30

Om Budha yai Namaha!!

Celebrating today the second birthday of chaos budha, its been a long jounrney from a modest start with a typo in the first line to where i am today, will remember and relish every second of this wonderful journey.

I love you chaos budha, and i worship you!! for in chaos lies perfection.

Happy Birthday once Again !!!

Caught in a blunder

2007-09-06T20:37:00.000+05:30

K.Jeshi must have probably lost his girl friend over orkut to a cybergeek, thats probably one of the reasons why he has done the second best thing next to closing himself inside a room and crying; our man has written a cover story on the Metro Plus.
it is true that internet addiction has become a thing of concern of late, but the shabby and sordid way in which this particular article was written makes me go grab a knife. with liberal quotes from eminent personalities which include a vice-president of an unknown internet security company, a psychiatrist, and a sexaganerian who runs a cyber society, the article calls everyone who does long ours on the internet as internet junkies, and potential Script Kiddies (neologism for hackers, i think). So essentially, guys out there, we are all junkies, addicted.
The article further elucidates that (i am quoting here) "...they (internet junkies) lose their ability to grow as individuals and there’s a huge chance of them losing touch with reality. It doesn’t allow them to develop their personality traits..." it even goes to the extent of saying "For school and college-goers, the responsibility is studies. They don’t have to earn a livelihood, so they go online just to kill time. "
How nice, i come online to kill time, you come online to kill time, Ramanujam who comes online (And who recently made $50o through payperpost) comes online to kill time...Brutal generalization, the entire blogging scenario is just an activity to kill time ...
A self proclaimed evangelist even went to the extent of suggesting a positive remedy to the situation by educating the youngsters on the positive aspects of the internet. I am one of those die hard debaters with a stand that the internet in its entirety is completely positive with may be a few loopholes(read porno and phishing ), so when some one goes about saying "yeah you know the internet has a few positive aspects too.." i call that anachronism, incongruence or may be just simply out of place..anyway the suggestion was to '...to get data on topics such as diverse as nanotechnology...' boy, in my years of reading english (and constantly screwing it up all the same) i have never ever, (Stress on the word ever) heard such an expression as 'such as diverse as' ..too many as(s)es around...
Anyway the article suggests a few tips to come out of your addiction, here they go:

Plan activities outside the computer

point taken, what else?

Cultivate the reading habit

what do you think we are doing online, watching porno?

Take part in sports

what if i can run or swim or play cricket?

Listen to music

yeah where do i download music from? thin air?

Be focussed while surfing

WTF?

Dear Hindu,
the only reason why we are still buying you is because of met plus, your main paper sucks anyday and has literally become a political manifesto. if you decided that you want to bring your met plus section on par with your main paper, then i am double sure you are going to loose your readers...you cant even bank on the cartoons anymore ...DC comes with calvin and hobbes too :) make sure you dont get caught in a blunder anymore

DISCLAIMER
this is my personal opinion on my private blog where i can go about doing what i like, this is unlike the above case where an author screwed up an entire news paper with his well researched story. i guess the author himself did long hours on the internet and came up with this article because he was not 'focused'.

Strike theater festivAl :) and life..

2007-08-17T07:00:00.000+05:30

So what have i been doing this one month? well the title will throw some light into the matter. but since the title alone cannot qualify for a blog post here i go..
the hindu theater festivel was bigger than ever, and we got to see some classy plays that i would have imagined was played only in west end and broadway.i of course could not attend all the shows, given the fact that i still live out of my dad's money..but i did manage to watch a few. most appreciable of them were 'to the death of my own family'. Farah bala came up with a laudatory performance as an afghan american in detention . Other plays that i watched include, mashed bananas and butter, the immigrants, death and the maiden. one experiment that i watched : check point: three strangely normal plays..experiment successful, patient died.

oh i am diverging from the point, so what has been happening in my college campus of late? well read this:Cold blod.
i cannot further elucidate the fact, if you want to know more read your newspapers and watch sun tv news.

Finally!!

2007-08-02T06:17:00.000+05:30

Hello people!!
so finally i am back...its been the longest hiatus i have taken... and i dont regret it one vee bit. July has been a month that i will cherish...not for its flamboyance(not that it really had any)but for the work that i enjoyed doing, every bit, that gave a sense of completion that i have never experienced.
I had been to BCB4 and Proto, apart from the many small small meets that i attended, which were immensely successful in driving at one single message, you better work, work smart, and keep on working if you want to get anywhere at all.
Results happened..and it was a pleasant surprise. College has never drained so much blood out of me till now, but i am playing back, there is a return for ever aces they try to squeeze in. Deus Ex Machina 4 is on the cards and we are making it really big this time around.
There were testing times, when my computer conked and i had to meet deadlines, but then i somehow managed to pull through and here i am back to chaos budha (with a single 'd'). though i admit it does not feel home anymore, its more like an exile returning to his childhood home feeling..
At times you have to make a decision and i made one. i am not sure whether the decision was good or not, but atleast i am happy with what i am doing now and am enjoying it everybit...life cant be more pleasant.

hope to catch you all more regularly from now on.

PS:
1) Ash.Rao.Sid happy married life, you rock!!
2) Ash.Chid , happy birthday, you rock too!!
3)Honey,Bunch: you know i am not going to get addicted :)

Xavier sir replies

2007-06-16T13:50:00.000+05:30

Had been wanting to put this on the blog for a long time now, but either i would never get the time or i would be too vexed to put the post. but then i have finally found the time to reorganize. thanks to avronea, i have finally got the much needed push to 'monetise' my blog.(in essence i now have a reason to blog ;) and i can say to mom that its not unproductive work but money making buisness) chaos buddha - lights camera and frozen life(my photo blog) hence became my official bi@#h/ money making blog, chaos buddha - the darker side.

There are few things that give you comfort in a desperate situations.
1) Guiding star by colonial cousins.
2) The photo of aravind's niece, a proof that innocence coexists in a materialistic world.
3) this letter from xavier sir

Dear Kausik,

Thanks a lot for the nice words! I am ordinary and I
loved my students. Very happy to hear that you are
doing well. Keep it up Kausik. I am waiting to see
you.

Regards,

Xavier

thats my cup of coffee, i am in my own land, i decide on how fate has to treat me :)

P.S. sorry for the incoherent post (as if any of my previous posts were coherent enough) anyways i just realized that if i cannot get the cappuccino i wanted i might as well get an espresso and add some milk to it, there is always a remedy, and this time you can make the coffee as you like it :)
P.S 2 :i got a job on june 1st, treat at subbhaiya bhajji kadai, hundred percent hygienic, he uses triple refined oil.

?!?

2007-06-11T13:26:00.000+05:30

"And then again there are a few like Kaushik Krishnasayee (www.chaosbuddha. blogspot.com) who, inspired by friends, chose to ‘‘monetise’’ his blog. He’s still waiting for a cheque."
- The New India Express

I am kausikram krishnasayee
I write at chaosbudha.blogspot.com
I do not wish to moetise my blog,for the sake of it, but then making money is good :)

i am listening to "comfortably numb".

"...When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb."

bow bow!! here doggie

2007-06-10T00:19:00.000+05:30

There are two kind of people , the ones who claim they know everything, the ones who are outspoken and the ones who have an opinion on everything under the sun. They are the best at marketing themselves.
the other kind stay dumb, learn everything, get snubbed, stay shut in a hole thinking modesty is the best policy and that their work will gain them the much needed recognition they carve for.

ultimately the former ends up in the lime light and the latter ends up as a lightsman

There are also a third kind, the guys who go suck up to type A. You guys do not deserve suck a long mention. you simply suck. yeah, thanks for reading now go lick...err..comment i mean.

Personal note:
make sure you do everything under the sun, err like say white water rafting, bungee jumping, computer coding, boxing, guitar playing, turtle walking, music loving, symphony listening, film making, paper presenting and GFSMF for all you know. even if you dont do so make it look as if you are into everything.

P.S:
err the ones who lost their mobile: eat yourself you MFSOAWN
and the ones who forgot how to make 'friendship' you are one BGMFSOB.

Vetti and Back

2007-06-04T14:05:00.000+05:30

this is the proof that its not me alone its my friend as well who is vetti.
you will not understand a thing :)
its intended to be that way...our secrets...

An open letter to the person whom i admire

2007-05-13T03:06:00.000+05:30

Dear Xavier Sir,

i read your comment on my blog and my eyes are moist. it is true that i did not have a great time in vanavani, but then there were few moments that i cherish and will cherish for aeons to come. had i survived through those two dreadful years when my health was in its most dilapidated state, it was only because of a few people like you who genuinely inspired me.
Even though i am doing mechanical engineering today, my interest for computer programing has not dwindled a bit, thanks only to those classes of yours. I am today a self taught rookie on linux, PHP, Javascript, Python, and MySql, none of which would have been possible had it not been for your basic java and VB lessons.
i feel proud that i was your student, that i helped you organize vanfest '04 after three long years, that i went about collecting sponsors and organizing events, and above all that i learnt the single most important thing in life from you: to stay patient, calm and composed in even the most disastrous situations.
I still regret only one thing, that i could not score the 200 that i wanted to score in comp sci, but then sir, i am sure i answered all the questions right, the evaluator probably did not understand java programing ;).

miss you loads sir. (collegeku vanda udane dhaan school teachers oda aruma teriyarathu)

yours
naughty but still obedient student
kausikram krishnasayee

P.S sorry could not come to the alumini meet as i was held out of station, i would definitely come and meet you after my sem exams get over. i have some thing similar to vvspirit in mind, but this time around it will be more profound than profane ;)

On Hiatus

2007-05-03T11:49:00.000+05:30

Taking a brief hiatus, sixth visha Parikshai, starts may 18. Tata peeps :) things have not changed much since: (Horror Scope created almost two years back :| )

Random Notes 4

2007-04-27T20:41:00.000+05:30

Has anyone ever wondered how it feels to be a cameraman when your movie becomes a big hit? ask me, i am no cameraman, but a mere backstage help in the theater called life. I like doing what i do best, sit in the backstage, hear the artists do the roles, help them out with their makeup, set the stage for the show, arrange the props and pray for everything to flow smoothly. At the end of the day i know that my name will not even be mentioned during the introduction of the cast, but then i know for a fact that without me the show would not have happened.
There are times when i sit back and wonder how good it would have been, had i been the protagonist. i would have got dropped in a limo, would have been dressed in full attire by a dozen odd people and i would have had the lime light all for myself. but nope my mind constantly keeps telling me that i am more the king maker than the king, the king would definitely respect me, but not the state.
Judge me by my work , i always say, and not by my appearance, but this gets paradoxical, because, as much as i do not show up in the stage , neither does my work get recognized. Not that i crib, because my work in itself is to make it look as if there was no work done? confusing right? that is how confused i am right now?
how i wish there was a ctrl + alt + delete combination in life, so that i can restart from the beginning, all over again...
i sit, contemplate on what kind of state my life is really in, when suddenly i get a call asking me to get prepared for the next play, all my thoughts vanish, this time around how can i dress up romeo when he proposes juliet, and should juliet wear that black dress at all? the ambivalence prevails when suddenly someone calls me and says "~~where~~ were you the guy who did the stage management for the play?, it sucked"
ha! someone at least knew that i existed.

Equally bizarre comments are welcome for this bizarre post.

Sixth visha parikshai starts may 18, so that means i am out of blogosphere for the next month or so. "June is going to be fun" , thats the mantra thats keeping me alive for the time being, lets see what happens, as i once upon wrote when i was new to blogging, time will tell....

P.S
special wishes to those who celebrate their anniversary this month, ~~esp around the third week, or is it the fourth!!~~
P.P.S
for all the people who strongly stand for a common blogger code of ethics, i say "what a decision" (in a super fast manner without a break between the 'what' and 'a' )

Random Notes 3

2007-04-14T23:57:00.000+05:30

Its almost been three weeks since i have posted anything. i am surely in the middle of a block, and i thought i would just type of some random things that has been happening to get rid of the block. First up what have i been doing? a lot of things actually, but basically it all adds up to the fact that i have done nothing completely. i got my hands involved in a lot of things at the same time that, i find it extremely difficult to balance my time between my diverse fields of interest. First up, two of my practicals are over, no comments on how the viva actually went. :| Then of course the final review of my mini project (we are the (un)lucky ones who get to do a project in the third year itself) got done, and i have my presentation slotted for monday, (peeps please pray for me , i need it )
Next up my interest in books and music in general has multiplied, thanks to some really special friends and an equally special mother who recently opened her little library for me. Now i have access to works of chekov and gorky (my favorite), but i have started off with a play called "pygmalion" by bernardshaw, in five acts, and i am loving it. As far as music goes, now i have learnt to find out hamsadwani (for dumbos like me, its the same raaga as the'let me see the love in your eyes" song by colonial cousins). I am still trying to figure out chakravaham, but it is really a case of romba kadinam aakum.
Among other things, i have started playing around with Ubuntu. i enjoy my Windows XP, with ObjectDock the best, i do miss the kernal, but then i dont remember all the codes by heart and it does not crash my system. I have also started working with PHP and MySql, lets see, and i have started loving a silly programing language called python. it is silly, but it is powerful. It was , as you must have guessed by now, named after monty python.
Next up, i need serious advice, Do i do MBA or MS? i am in a serious dilemma, all along i have been the talkative kind, i was trying to convince myself that i will be better at selling others products than developing my own, But two weeks at the lathe shop, and reality bit, i am the techie it seems. My very good friend says that i will be really bad at MBA because of my abstract (read crooked) thinking, he says that an MS with my speaking (err yapping) skills will be a hot favourite in the market. One more reason for this sudden change is because of a paper called principles of management that i am studying, after reading three chapters i learnt only one thing, that management cannot be taught, it is an art which one must develop, and i intend to learn it the hard way, I am sure, even the harward B school will not teach me anything as useful as what i learn through doing things hands on.
I am going to shoot a documentary.Because i cannot shoot those b!#%$@rds who cut down some 40 or 50 trees (each atleast 40 years old) along the sardar patel road. i am going to shoot a documentary on it, any help towards it is most welcome. At the end of it i will post the video on my blog, and those who wanted to help, but who could not can spit on it. Err, not on my docu, but on those filthy B@$%^%ds who cut down the trees as old as their own parents.
I finally caught up with mozhi, amazing movie. A cup of coffee, and not a shot of vodka, it does not give you a high spirit, but ends up giving you a nice flavor in your lip. My personal pick for the movie would be swarnamalya and pritviraj. (Jo slighta hear and there overacted.)
but yeah i spotted a hitch, there is a scene where jo drives a car...but i thought deaf and dumb people do not get driving license.
I am waiting for spider man three, i really can relate to peter parker. only in my case there is no mary jane, not even a loosu lane :).

Anyway above all

Happy Tamil New Year!!
vada payasam oda sappadu,
Ensoi maddi.

(for sandhya) Ensoi ~~maddi~~ pannu

Mark Isuak is back!!

2007-03-24T23:51:00.000+05:30

The Budha took a beating fell down and got hurt. He rose from the dust like the phoenix does from the ashes, he said, "kill them all, i am not buddha you know!!" and promptly rose back mark isuak the side of meme that i have tried to hide all along.
I realized that the phrase that i have most frequently used over the last week was "i realized" . its so freaking bad to realize anything after you take the beating. over the past three months i have been dumped at least four times, ditched at least a dozen times and cursed over a million times. leading my normal life in the cyber world i realized is next to impossible, at various times i have been called the guy who apes, the despo, the guy who thinks he is a big writer and the Bugger (a spoof on blogger, ha! what a joke) !!
Mark Isuak, the unknown guy sounds far better than my name now, i can finally swear at people, hate them openly, bitch about them and get away as one of those anons. I don't care, what the world thinks of me anymore, better still i have a clear idea of what the world is, in case you did not know, you guys are all big time losers, you spoiled my life.
Its not the name alone, a few more things are to change as well, no more carnatic and celtic music, not because the music is bad, but because i am freaking bad at it, give me metallica, lets pray judas priest, i am probably satan in disguise.
Next up, no more of token evangelisms, "I hate you" is the mantra, i have had enough of being good, to everyone, you guys take advantage of me. Whats wrong if i made a mistake once, can't you guys let me undo it? or at least wont you let me walk away from the deep pool of fecal matter i am into?
Next up, i am not a pathetic wimp anymore ( i never was), i do not, repeat, do not need you to show any sort of poignant interest in my messed up life, your apathy towards me is most welcome. You guys have successfully made me the most biggest introvert in the world, congratulations, you may now proceed to screw up the life of someone else. But do come back, i want to demonstrate how barking dogs can bite as well.
And above all, yeah, if i stuck up for you then its not because i wanted a favor from you but its because i liked you, now if it so happens that you do not like me, then please be specific, i dont want to waste my time either, may be i will try to find some new friends, as long as i am useful to someone else then i am sure i can make a few more friends.
And yeah just to prove that mark isuak has returned i quote him to the word "f#$k you morons!"

Tech: Three Column Templates

2007-03-24T18:11:00.000+05:30

From a time when i could not spell the word template, i have now come a long way and today i decided to share my gyan on hacking the new blogger templates to make it a three column one.
so what is required to make a three column template? well the answer is very simple to make a three column template you require:
a) a nice template (two columned)
b) common sense

so how to go about it ?

well follow the steps as given below and you will have a three column template in no time at all:

1) understand the css structure
this can be better understood by the following analogy. you have a main outer box (outer wrapper), then inside that you have three small boxes, the post box the header box and the sidebar box. now these boxes again have sub-boxes. simple right? well now thats exactly how CSS is used to present your blog, only a box here is specified by the div tag

now lets check how your CSS looks like
in the head section look for a something that looks like "body {" this structure tells you how to display your page as a whole ...remember the big box that encloses all the other boxes?
well you have jus got to the right CSS block...now keep going down..
you wqill find three div specifiers
#outer-wrapper {
#main-wrapper {
#sidebar-wrapper {

Now is where the actual hack starts. warning before you do anything backup your template.

2) in the outer wrapper look for the width ..it is usually specified in pixels. note the number.
now note the width of the other two wrappers as well
now what you have to do is basic math. divide the outer wrapper width into three parts ...two parts of equal but small size for the sidebars and a majo big chunk for the main post. :)
going fine? got the numbers?
now alter the width values. now if there are margin values that are specified take that into account while calculating as well.

3) now we edit the CSS to specify that we actually want two sidebars ...how ? first copy the sidebar structure complete
next past it underneath and change the name from
#sidebar-wrapper { to #sidebar-wrapper-new {
now alter the float property depending on whether you want it left or right...there is no center option, its left most(specified simply by left), left and right.

4) now we have to alter the body code. go to the body section:
depending on where you want to place the sidebar, place the following div tag after or before the main wrapper div tag.
with in angular brackets, div and id='sidebar-wrapper-new'.
now save the template.
now if your math is strong and your calculations where right, then viola, your three column template is ready. go to the page elements and customize your new sidebar.

Tag-O-Mani!!

2007-03-17T10:21:00.001+05:30

Ramya tagged me to list the ten things i hate about my college. Now this is a tricky tag, i cant swear at college cause , i hear sarman recetly learnt to do google search and guess whose blog lists first in google? :) Anyway, the point is, i really do not hate my college, you people for mistaken, as vadivel puts it. I love it ,here are the reasons why i do so...
1 Ever heard the term "cooked to kill'', well my college follows it literally, they have decided, that the taste buds are redundant for an engineering student so like the mafioso they 'decided to do them in, them taste buds".
2. Letters, ever heard of a college where an entire block is reserved for the letters that you have written? The saddest thing is all those letters are written to the admin guys, man those guys are lucky, to get stormed by so many letters. there have been times when i have given written explanations (nah i always give written explanation, college requires me to do so)on why i forgot to bring a pen to the class ...i have even written a letter , to explain why i did not write a letter previously.
3. Travel, people, were asking me why i put traveling as a hobby, and that too after i put attending engineering college as one. i said, "dudes you have to be a traveler". I travel to college and traveling to college if you miss the college bus is next to traveling in the amazons. how come? i use all modes of transportation. A PTC bus that sails through a maze of traffic, a share auto that flies across red lights, an auto that can be better described as a roller coaster did i miss something? yeah i did , natraja service, 5 kms of walk :)
4. Record, have you ever kept records of the experiments that went wrong? yes, then either you must be Einstein , or you must be from my college. Even Einstein noted it only a 99 times, but if you are the latter , sorry boss, there is nothing like 99, you either do a hundred or you fail, 99 is just 49 above pass mark :|
5. My Classic reply, i will put it in writing just once more :), have you ever heard of a serene place of education surrounded by a reservoir, a graveyard, a prison and a sewage treatment plant? well people, welcome to my college, do come in and have special dosa, ~~their taste sticks to your tongue~~ they stick to your tongue.

i stop here i cant do ten, all green green words flowing out of my mouth already.

so i jump to the next tag...this time it was kindred.
its the 50 longylong tag...so here we go :

1. Were you named after anyone?
My gothram.
2. Do you wish on stars?
I am already a star.
3. When did you last cry?
Pass.
4. Do you like your handwriting?
Yeah!! people call it kozhi kirukal, but then i am an amateur ornithologist, and i like chicken, ofcourse, not in my plate though.
5. What is your favourite meat?
the chennai bloggers meet (i call such answers mokkai)
6. What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf?
trhe one which has got a lots of embracing
7. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
depends.
8. Are you a daredevil?
i am a daring chicken, i crossed the road safely :)
9. How do you release anger?
Mridangam baby!!
10. Where is your second home?
Onnuke vazhiya kannum renda?
11. Do you trust others easily?
yeah :|
12. What was your favourite toy as a child?
no idea
13. What class in school/college do you think is totally useless?
second year EEE :)
14. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
yeah but most of them dont get it
15. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?
i have been to a rock music pit floor.
16.What do you look for in a gal(/guy)?
galz-dumbness :P
guyz- no comments
17. Would you bungee jump?
i do it everyday, from my bed.
18. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
i dont use a shoe that have laces, but i dont mind tying the knot on lasses.
19.what's your favourite ice cream?
butter scotch.
this is a test to see if you are reading this post at all, if you have reached here, say i was there in the comment box.
20. What are your favourite colours?
sepia
21. What are your least favourite things?
an empty comment box.
22. How many people do you have a crush on right now?
N(one)
23. What/who do you miss most right now?
an apple, i am dead hungry.
24. What are you listening to right now?
a pneumatic hammer next door.
25. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
inky pinky ponky pottu papom.

25 is enough i will only attend select questions from now on.... carry on just a little more.

29. Do you like the person who sent you this?
Yes , nice gal . (copy pasted :P, but seriously nice)
31. Favourite non alcoholic drink?
LMC, 1/2 at fruit shop.
34. Eye colour?
Brown . (did you guys know that there is nothing called black eyes? did you guys know that all eyes are brown, if you did then congratulations you ought to be a nerd at harvard right now)
36. Siblings?
yeah, a sweet sister.
40. Have you ever been too shy to ask someone out?
Nah, they have been too shy to come out with me.
44. Do you like your name?
yeah
49. Have you ever regretted breaking up with someone?
NO NO NO NO NO.
50. Most tiresome thing you’ve ever experienced/done?
college record.

Thanks for enduring the torture. You have been going through the worlds biggest mokkai :)

AND I TAG
anyone (at all!!) who reads my blog