6th August; it was one of those days which you will remember for whole life.
On 6th I got a screw inserted in my left knee. It was an old ligament tear problem i had been ignoring for quite some time. Finally getting it rectified.
A 9x35 mm thread like screw is planted in left knee in a 75 minute long operation.
Its a biodegradable screew so need be taken out.
I should be on both of my legs after 23rd. till then I am enjoying my bed rest.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Vihaan's Disctionary after 25 months
1. Papa, munje domisos pijja khana hai
2. Papa, munje phone chahiye. balloon khelo hoon
3. Dil to baccha hai...hhmmmm
4. Aley baap le, takkal maal diya
5. Hum bonjaai jalu hoon
6. JCB dekhoo hoon
7. Papa: "lunch mein kya bana rahi ho"
Vihi: "Papa, aaloo, roti, chabal, nimti, domisos"
8. Mein tigal hoon. kati kati ...gggrrrrr
2. Papa, munje phone chahiye. balloon khelo hoon
3. Dil to baccha hai...hhmmmm
4. Aley baap le, takkal maal diya
5. Hum bonjaai jalu hoon
6. JCB dekhoo hoon
7. Papa: "lunch mein kya bana rahi ho"
Vihi: "Papa, aaloo, roti, chabal, nimti, domisos"
8. Mein tigal hoon. kati kati ...gggrrrrr
Saturday, March 06, 2010
First 10 day long family vacation
Unlike other occasions, this time I had decided to plan a family vacation (wife and 1.5 year old son). And this time it was our third wedding anniversary. Had to make it special and also compensate for last 3 years. There were two product releases to be done by 5th of Feb. So it was kind of right time, given that the we could complete the release on time with no major issues. And so it happened.
5th Feb, Friday night, Pune, Sleeper Bus, 10 hour journey
I booked two seats of sleeper bus on 4th night. That was risky as Neeta and other good transports were already full. I should have done it at least 2-3 days in advance. But anyway the trip was excellent. It comfortable. The transport was from Raj Travels.
We boarded the bus at 9 but it did not leave before 10 pm. We reached Mapusa at 7 AM. The bus ticket costed INR 650 per ticket.
6th Feb, Saturday morning, Goa
Took a taxi INR 180 from Mapusa bus stand to Calungate, our hotel Villa Goesa.
Villa Goesa is almost 200 Mtrs off the calungate beach reachable via baga beach road. Its a 3 start and the location is almost perfect. From the hotel you can walk upto beach, there is a nice trail upto the beach with greenary on both the sides.
After breakfast we went to the calungate beach. Went for Dolphin search for INR 500. I was not aware that there are so many dolphins so close to the beach. We then came back to hotel and had lunch. Food was not so great at resort. Especially in the
whole trip I never got good seafood on calungate and baga beach. Did not like kingfish at all.
6th Feb, Saturday Evening, Goa
We took a scooty and went to see beach Anjuna. Its a rocky beach and the tides were strong so we just spent some time at the table top restaurants. Hot tea with mix veg pakoras and the view. amazing! Of course if Vihaan could sit at one place and we
could enjoy. :)
Btw, I wanted to go to beach Aksha but I could not recall the name of the beach that time. It was the beach I had visited last time I was in Goa with Akshu and other colleagues.
Saturday market
We then moved to Saturday market on the way back to Calungate. There are two big saturday markets. When coming back from Anjun beach, the bigger and famous one is on left hand side. The other one is right hand side but not sure how far from this
one. I had visited this market last time also so I knew how it was gonna be. Crowded. We reached the market at around 6. It was getting dark. The crowd was building up. The lower level is mostly indian shops with typical indian stuff. My wife got stuck at a
wooden item shop and had to shell out INR 3500 for few wooden things which looked like utensils but I dont feel that can be used for that.
Note: We had only 5000 cash and we were left with 1500. So we actually had to spend very cautiosly as it would not be possible to go out, find an ATM at night and get more cash.
The upper level was mostly shops by foreigners. Not sure how it was setup but it seemed like we are in some other country as there were hardly any indian shops but even more less indian buyers.
We spent almost 2-3 hours almost done with all cash and finally came out at around 9. That was the crowd then. The entrace and parking were jam packed.
Finally we reached the resort and headed for dinner on the beach. Dinner was ok. Surely depressed me with the seafood.
7th Feb
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Breakfast was complimentry but has few choices limited to bread butter and jam. Dont forget to order tea if you done like ready-mix tea. Again to the beach. the beach was excellent. Very clean. Just relaxed on the beach shacks. On repeated request from a massage wala had a full body massage with coconut oil which was almost money waste.
Evening we went to baga beach. I had a choose a good shack as I had planned to celebrate my wedding anniversary on baga beach which was 4-5 hours from then. The people on shack were very helpful and friendly. They managed Vihaan all the time. In fact he got mixed so much with the people that I decided to spent whole evening on this shack. at 9 pm we decided to come back to resort, freshenup and come back to same resort. I requested the shack manager to arrange a cake. Of course Anju never knew about my plans.
We were back on the beahc by 10 pm( Anju went shopping on the way). As expected baga beach is more of young crowd. Less of old retired foreginers uncle and aunties. lots of water sports. I would recommend to stay on Baga beach rather than Calungate beach.
at 11.59 pm the cake was ready on the beach next to bonefire. Anju had never expected that I had been carrying gifts for her all the way from Pune and there were 2 gifts. We enjoyed the evening at lot and finally the day came to an end and a new year in our married life started.
8th Feb
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Day to checkout. The plan was to checkout of hotel , go around places in Goa for whole day, go to a south goa beach and then take a train to Mangalore at 12 midnight. Train ticket was already booked so least the train part was decided.
I really wanted to go to Panolem beach in south goa. Its almost the last goa beach andis near Karnataka border. This is supposed to be the most beautiful beach in Goa. But considering several factors we decided following plan.
We decided to go to St. Xaiours church in old goa, followed by Mangesh temple followed by Spice garden ( all three in old goa going towards east ). Then we could have gone to Panolem beach (extremem south of goa) or Colva beach (again back to west side but center of the coast line of goa). Colva beach is the closest beach to Madgaon from where we had to board our train at midnight. So we choose Colva beach to avoid too much late night travel and several other factors as I said.
If you are going to Goa, know that there is not only beaches to see in Goa. And the one thing that you must see is St. Xaviers church where the dead body of St. Francis Xavier is kept. To know the history follow these URLs
http://chronicleofameanderingtraveller.blogspot.com/2006/01/st-francis-xavier-history-of-his.html
To know about St. Francis Xavier, follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier
Mangesh temple is another famous place. Linked to the mangeshkar family, the temple is simple but worth going once.
Very close to Mangesh temple is Spice garden. Its a spice plantation area and they offer nice lunch for INR 300 per person. The food was excellent with right amount of fresh spices. Many foreigners. Must go place.
It was around 5 pm by then and we started going south-west towards Madgaon-Colva beach. Kept the luggage at Cloak room on madgaon railway station and then headed for the beach. The taxi guy dropped and we paid him INR 1800 for the day long trip.
Colva beach is mostly an indian beach, Meaning 90% indian and local crowd and 10% foreigners. there were not more than 6-7 shacks. Good no. of water sports activity though. and they rightly say that south goa beaches are much better than north goa beaches. The sand is completely white. We did not go into water as Vihaan already had cold. Tonight it was going to be more fun though the crowd disappeared after 7 pm when water sports were closed. So it was mostly non-goa crowd now who came to the beach for dinner.
The food had much better choices here. I was so bored with Kingfish that I could eat any living-on-sea-dead-on-land creature. here I got Tiger prawns , pomphrate and lobsters and crab. But they did not knew how to cook Crabs in tandoor. So I had to limit myself to Tiger prawns and some fish with red-wine.
There was bone-fire and crackers and so it was a long and enjoyable dinner for us.
We then took a rikshaw back to station and bought some port wine on the way.
I dont recall the name of the wine but the name started with C. The bottle costed me just INR 300 and it was very good. It tasted as good as Sula wine. We had it in coorg.
the train was on time and the train had good enough seats. It was 2 AC but I expected the cabin to be better. We left goa on 9th 00.30 AM to Mangalore where the next part of the trip was to be started.
Resort
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Villa Goesa, standard room INR 2950 for the room per day. Room was ok but it was good enough for the trip. Breakfast complimantry. Service was good. Staff was ok. Crowd? excellent. Seemed the resort was quite famous amongst germans. Strangly
the resort did not appear on any of the travel and trip organizer web sites.
How did I find this resort? I spent almost 2 full days searched for best deals on websites like yatra.com, makemytrip.com, tripadvisor.com, hotels.com ... and prepared a short list of most popular resorts on calungate and baga beaches. Then I researched
about these resorts on the moustshut.com and google maps . Mouthshut.com provided useful insights about wrong information flashed by different websites about resorts like their just-on-the-beach location, services, ambience. Real people reported more
accurate information. Google maps gave a better idea of the location of the resorts in terms of distance and view.
Interestingly I found one resort reported as the hot pick on all websites. It was Estelo de mar. not sure if I spelled it correctly. But I was getting this hotel at around INR 1800 per day kind of rate which was almost 30% less than the reported rate. It is the only
beach resort available on calungate beach as reported by all the websites. I had almost booked it but then I read more reviews on Mouthshut.com about it and then choose to drop this resort. The reason there was a cremation ground next to it and people
reported real bad service. I rather choose to book a costlier resort rather than taking any risk with the stay.
Not getting a good resort near beach I went to google maps and found a new feature on google maps. People can upload photos and put them on maps along with the description. I started looking for such markups on the calungate beach and found several
good resorts on the beach. Villa Goesa was one of them.
I would recommend to stay on Baga beach rather than Calungate beach. baga beach is more of young crowd. Less of old retired foreginers uncle and aunties. Lots of water sports, foodaries and shopping areas.
5th Feb, Friday night, Pune, Sleeper Bus, 10 hour journey
I booked two seats of sleeper bus on 4th night. That was risky as Neeta and other good transports were already full. I should have done it at least 2-3 days in advance. But anyway the trip was excellent. It comfortable. The transport was from Raj Travels.
We boarded the bus at 9 but it did not leave before 10 pm. We reached Mapusa at 7 AM. The bus ticket costed INR 650 per ticket.
6th Feb, Saturday morning, Goa
Took a taxi INR 180 from Mapusa bus stand to Calungate, our hotel Villa Goesa.
Villa Goesa is almost 200 Mtrs off the calungate beach reachable via baga beach road. Its a 3 start and the location is almost perfect. From the hotel you can walk upto beach, there is a nice trail upto the beach with greenary on both the sides.
After breakfast we went to the calungate beach. Went for Dolphin search for INR 500. I was not aware that there are so many dolphins so close to the beach. We then came back to hotel and had lunch. Food was not so great at resort. Especially in the
whole trip I never got good seafood on calungate and baga beach. Did not like kingfish at all.
6th Feb, Saturday Evening, Goa
We took a scooty and went to see beach Anjuna. Its a rocky beach and the tides were strong so we just spent some time at the table top restaurants. Hot tea with mix veg pakoras and the view. amazing! Of course if Vihaan could sit at one place and we
could enjoy. :)
Btw, I wanted to go to beach Aksha but I could not recall the name of the beach that time. It was the beach I had visited last time I was in Goa with Akshu and other colleagues.
Saturday market
We then moved to Saturday market on the way back to Calungate. There are two big saturday markets. When coming back from Anjun beach, the bigger and famous one is on left hand side. The other one is right hand side but not sure how far from this
one. I had visited this market last time also so I knew how it was gonna be. Crowded. We reached the market at around 6. It was getting dark. The crowd was building up. The lower level is mostly indian shops with typical indian stuff. My wife got stuck at a
wooden item shop and had to shell out INR 3500 for few wooden things which looked like utensils but I dont feel that can be used for that.
Note: We had only 5000 cash and we were left with 1500. So we actually had to spend very cautiosly as it would not be possible to go out, find an ATM at night and get more cash.
The upper level was mostly shops by foreigners. Not sure how it was setup but it seemed like we are in some other country as there were hardly any indian shops but even more less indian buyers.
We spent almost 2-3 hours almost done with all cash and finally came out at around 9. That was the crowd then. The entrace and parking were jam packed.
Finally we reached the resort and headed for dinner on the beach. Dinner was ok. Surely depressed me with the seafood.
7th Feb
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Breakfast was complimentry but has few choices limited to bread butter and jam. Dont forget to order tea if you done like ready-mix tea. Again to the beach. the beach was excellent. Very clean. Just relaxed on the beach shacks. On repeated request from a massage wala had a full body massage with coconut oil which was almost money waste.
Evening we went to baga beach. I had a choose a good shack as I had planned to celebrate my wedding anniversary on baga beach which was 4-5 hours from then. The people on shack were very helpful and friendly. They managed Vihaan all the time. In fact he got mixed so much with the people that I decided to spent whole evening on this shack. at 9 pm we decided to come back to resort, freshenup and come back to same resort. I requested the shack manager to arrange a cake. Of course Anju never knew about my plans.
We were back on the beahc by 10 pm( Anju went shopping on the way). As expected baga beach is more of young crowd. Less of old retired foreginers uncle and aunties. lots of water sports. I would recommend to stay on Baga beach rather than Calungate beach.
at 11.59 pm the cake was ready on the beach next to bonefire. Anju had never expected that I had been carrying gifts for her all the way from Pune and there were 2 gifts. We enjoyed the evening at lot and finally the day came to an end and a new year in our married life started.
8th Feb
----------
Day to checkout. The plan was to checkout of hotel , go around places in Goa for whole day, go to a south goa beach and then take a train to Mangalore at 12 midnight. Train ticket was already booked so least the train part was decided.
I really wanted to go to Panolem beach in south goa. Its almost the last goa beach andis near Karnataka border. This is supposed to be the most beautiful beach in Goa. But considering several factors we decided following plan.
We decided to go to St. Xaiours church in old goa, followed by Mangesh temple followed by Spice garden ( all three in old goa going towards east ). Then we could have gone to Panolem beach (extremem south of goa) or Colva beach (again back to west side but center of the coast line of goa). Colva beach is the closest beach to Madgaon from where we had to board our train at midnight. So we choose Colva beach to avoid too much late night travel and several other factors as I said.
If you are going to Goa, know that there is not only beaches to see in Goa. And the one thing that you must see is St. Xaviers church where the dead body of St. Francis Xavier is kept. To know the history follow these URLs
http://chronicleofameanderingtraveller.blogspot.com/2006/01/st-francis-xavier-history-of-his.html
To know about St. Francis Xavier, follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier
Mangesh temple is another famous place. Linked to the mangeshkar family, the temple is simple but worth going once.
Very close to Mangesh temple is Spice garden. Its a spice plantation area and they offer nice lunch for INR 300 per person. The food was excellent with right amount of fresh spices. Many foreigners. Must go place.
It was around 5 pm by then and we started going south-west towards Madgaon-Colva beach. Kept the luggage at Cloak room on madgaon railway station and then headed for the beach. The taxi guy dropped and we paid him INR 1800 for the day long trip.
Colva beach is mostly an indian beach, Meaning 90% indian and local crowd and 10% foreigners. there were not more than 6-7 shacks. Good no. of water sports activity though. and they rightly say that south goa beaches are much better than north goa beaches. The sand is completely white. We did not go into water as Vihaan already had cold. Tonight it was going to be more fun though the crowd disappeared after 7 pm when water sports were closed. So it was mostly non-goa crowd now who came to the beach for dinner.
The food had much better choices here. I was so bored with Kingfish that I could eat any living-on-sea-dead-on-land creature. here I got Tiger prawns , pomphrate and lobsters and crab. But they did not knew how to cook Crabs in tandoor. So I had to limit myself to Tiger prawns and some fish with red-wine.
There was bone-fire and crackers and so it was a long and enjoyable dinner for us.
We then took a rikshaw back to station and bought some port wine on the way.
I dont recall the name of the wine but the name started with C. The bottle costed me just INR 300 and it was very good. It tasted as good as Sula wine. We had it in coorg.
the train was on time and the train had good enough seats. It was 2 AC but I expected the cabin to be better. We left goa on 9th 00.30 AM to Mangalore where the next part of the trip was to be started.
Resort
----------
Villa Goesa, standard room INR 2950 for the room per day. Room was ok but it was good enough for the trip. Breakfast complimantry. Service was good. Staff was ok. Crowd? excellent. Seemed the resort was quite famous amongst germans. Strangly
the resort did not appear on any of the travel and trip organizer web sites.
How did I find this resort? I spent almost 2 full days searched for best deals on websites like yatra.com, makemytrip.com, tripadvisor.com, hotels.com ... and prepared a short list of most popular resorts on calungate and baga beaches. Then I researched
about these resorts on the moustshut.com and google maps . Mouthshut.com provided useful insights about wrong information flashed by different websites about resorts like their just-on-the-beach location, services, ambience. Real people reported more
accurate information. Google maps gave a better idea of the location of the resorts in terms of distance and view.
Interestingly I found one resort reported as the hot pick on all websites. It was Estelo de mar. not sure if I spelled it correctly. But I was getting this hotel at around INR 1800 per day kind of rate which was almost 30% less than the reported rate. It is the only
beach resort available on calungate beach as reported by all the websites. I had almost booked it but then I read more reviews on Mouthshut.com about it and then choose to drop this resort. The reason there was a cremation ground next to it and people
reported real bad service. I rather choose to book a costlier resort rather than taking any risk with the stay.
Not getting a good resort near beach I went to google maps and found a new feature on google maps. People can upload photos and put them on maps along with the description. I started looking for such markups on the calungate beach and found several
good resorts on the beach. Villa Goesa was one of them.
I would recommend to stay on Baga beach rather than Calungate beach. baga beach is more of young crowd. Less of old retired foreginers uncle and aunties. Lots of water sports, foodaries and shopping areas.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
My Old Blogs
Here are some of my old blogs...
I read them now and couple of them are real funny ... btw "Prani" is not "Pranav"
http://blogsbyvij.rediffblogs.com/
I read them now and couple of them are real funny ... btw "Prani" is not "Pranav"
http://blogsbyvij.rediffblogs.com/
Sunday, January 28, 2007
I am alive!
I am dead. I am still at the site. I can see blood, blood and blood everywhere. Seems I am fine. I could remember I was talking to Anju's little cousin Anisha. She thinks she lives in Tamilnadu. I had asked Anju to look at TV about the latest NEWS. Electricity had just came and she was trying to get the remote from Anisha to change the channel to NDTV. She said there is some NEWS on NDTV. Suddenly my soon-to-be mother-in-law came from outside. She loudly asked me to get off the train. I and Anju were in light mood as always. I told her it can happen anywhere, in train or plane. How should I come to delhi then. If I dont her family will have to find a new bridegroom for her. Anju was busy changing channels, I was on hold as usual. I thought I should talk to Papa. Called him up and he was asking me to buy cloths for Ajay and come to Village home on 30th. Something from inside was pinching me. Why I have not paid my life insurance premium till now. I am already 3 months late. If I dont and something happens to me all my saving for my family's future future will be gone.
Finally the train started moving slowly. And the thought of being dead has gone. People are talking in the other cabin that the bomb hoax (I hope so) is for the old Rajdhani EXp and not this train. This is Rajdhani Exp Special, and our train was at halt for 1 hour at Virar and not Borivali.I think I am still Alive and will be alive for whole life.
Finally the train started moving slowly. And the thought of being dead has gone. People are talking in the other cabin that the bomb hoax (I hope so) is for the old Rajdhani EXp and not this train. This is Rajdhani Exp Special, and our train was at halt for 1 hour at Virar and not Borivali.I think I am still Alive and will be alive for whole life.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Visa interviews are against human rights
You or your company has some plans for you. You don't have any plans to relocate abroad because of several very clear reasons. A short term visit will add lot of value to your business or your career.
But just because one creature sitting thousands kilometer away from home, locked for hours in a wooden box with headset always on ears, dont think that you are elidigble to go abroad. The creature will give you only 5-10 minutes to put your point. But I think thy decision maker can decide by looking at your face if you should be allowed to visit their country or not.
This is stupid and against human rights.
But just because one creature sitting thousands kilometer away from home, locked for hours in a wooden box with headset always on ears, dont think that you are elidigble to go abroad. The creature will give you only 5-10 minutes to put your point. But I think thy decision maker can decide by looking at your face if you should be allowed to visit their country or not.
This is stupid and against human rights.
Monday, August 07, 2006
One night in Rajdhani with ONACC
My second book reading... 07th August 12:32 AM
After almost 4 years, second time in my life I completed reading a book. and that too in straight 7 hours. The first one was 'The Alchiemist' and this one was 'One night at call center'. It happened only twice that the book was out of my hands when I went to loo. I am on my way to delhi for a long holiday. For me 'long' means 10-15 days, although I have applied for 3 weeks vacation. I just finished readin the book and it was amazing. Although the man is back to his machine, but he did not miss his machine in last 7 hours. Reading the book was an amzing experience. If I am not wrong everyone who has read this book must have felt a shyam inside them and I am no different. At times, the sweet love story touched. Well the best part of the book starts at the end. Believe it or not, the story of the book was just little different than what I am experiencing these days.So I was excited about the end of the story. I was expecting to get answers to my questions and doubts. And the end did not disappoint me. It was thrilling. The AC of Rajdhani Ex. is already chilly. The conversation beween god and the CC guys gave answers to all of my questions. I felt as if I am at Shyam's position. I feel alone, almost good-for-nothing and I know that if I don't do anything quick, I will loose self-confidence.
It did not feel that I am reading a book. The scenes runs like a movie in front of your eyes. Must be because of the simple and interactive language that I could understand easily without guessing what the word could mean.
Well I will give 5 stars to the book and I hope that I will follow what I have learned from the book.
I learned a lot, just to mention a few easily expressible ones.
Four things required to succeed:
--------------------------------
Medium amount of intelligence
bit of imagination
Self-confidence
Never be afraid of failure
About saving your life
----------------------
A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.If you have one for long enough, you are convincted something is wrong with you. Even if you know your boss is the real looser, you start doubting yourself.And that is when your confidence goes.
The 2X2 matrix.
----------------
Horizontal: Smart and Stupid
Vertical: Good and Evil
After almost 4 years, second time in my life I completed reading a book. and that too in straight 7 hours. The first one was 'The Alchiemist' and this one was 'One night at call center'. It happened only twice that the book was out of my hands when I went to loo. I am on my way to delhi for a long holiday. For me 'long' means 10-15 days, although I have applied for 3 weeks vacation. I just finished readin the book and it was amazing. Although the man is back to his machine, but he did not miss his machine in last 7 hours. Reading the book was an amzing experience. If I am not wrong everyone who has read this book must have felt a shyam inside them and I am no different. At times, the sweet love story touched. Well the best part of the book starts at the end. Believe it or not, the story of the book was just little different than what I am experiencing these days.So I was excited about the end of the story. I was expecting to get answers to my questions and doubts. And the end did not disappoint me. It was thrilling. The AC of Rajdhani Ex. is already chilly. The conversation beween god and the CC guys gave answers to all of my questions. I felt as if I am at Shyam's position. I feel alone, almost good-for-nothing and I know that if I don't do anything quick, I will loose self-confidence.
It did not feel that I am reading a book. The scenes runs like a movie in front of your eyes. Must be because of the simple and interactive language that I could understand easily without guessing what the word could mean.
Well I will give 5 stars to the book and I hope that I will follow what I have learned from the book.
I learned a lot, just to mention a few easily expressible ones.
Four things required to succeed:
--------------------------------
Medium amount of intelligence
bit of imagination
Self-confidence
Never be afraid of failure
About saving your life
----------------------
A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.If you have one for long enough, you are convincted something is wrong with you. Even if you know your boss is the real looser, you start doubting yourself.And that is when your confidence goes.
The 2X2 matrix.
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Horizontal: Smart and Stupid
Vertical: Good and Evil
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read this ...dated: July 23, 12.44 AM
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akshatj_2000: abe ur site is not openin up
akshatj_2000: chk it frm ur m/c
akshatj_2000: this is done by indina govt
akshatj_2000: n have put restriction on 8 other blog site
vijju: champak
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akshatj_2000: chk again.. i am getting some wierd page
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Few good quotes
CQ + PQ > IQ
Curiosity Quotient + Passion Quotient > Intelligence Quotient..
Starting a company is really, really easy…it’s the surviving and growing it that’s hard.
Curiosity Quotient + Passion Quotient > Intelligence Quotient..
Starting a company is really, really easy…it’s the surviving and growing it that’s hard.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Business Cafe
I had gone to pune on a sunday to meet couple of friends to talk about some tech stuff and do some brainstroming on future plans. When it came to deciding the meeting place, it was quite difficult to find one. We required a space where there is not much noise, nice ambience, preferably a cafe sort of place with internet facility. Strangely we could not locate any such place in pune. Finally we found one cafe, next to Pizza hut in pune (on 3rd floor, forgot the name of cafe). The cafe is quite spacious and nice ambience. the best part is no one comes there. So the cafe is all yours. Though I dont smoke, but my friends wanted to smoke during the meeting. Smoking was not allowed there.
On the way back to mumbai I was thinking that like our group there must be many more people who would be meeting regularly and would like to have a place where they can talk business with full privacy.
I think, Pune is going to be the next bangalore for the world. Pune has got all the right things to build next Silicon Valley.
Top of Indian University, Good colleges, Best of software companies, good weather and most importantly people with right aptitude and attitude. I think Pune is the best place to start a new company.
Government has realized the potential of Pune and its people and have started infrastructure development for the next generation of software companies.
Thats how I started thinking about a new cafe. Its a business cafe. People come here to meet other like minded people and discuss business, their future plans and technical stuff.
I would like it to have two sections. One is an open air cafe with Wi-Fi connectivity. People will have option to bring their laptops and connect to Internet. Otherwise they can use the machines setup on each table.
The second section will have business facilities like audio and video conference calling. Even though all facilities are ment to be for business people, the enviroment is quite fresh and exciting. I see the conference room as a small room with translucent walls like a big phone booth. I dont want it to look like office conference room. The two sections are not totally segregated. The idea is not to replicate office enviroment. But mix office like facilities with a CCD like cafe.
I would like to have facility to book table or conference room via email/website or mobile. Definitely the cafe need to be till late in night.
On the way back to mumbai I was thinking that like our group there must be many more people who would be meeting regularly and would like to have a place where they can talk business with full privacy.
I think, Pune is going to be the next bangalore for the world. Pune has got all the right things to build next Silicon Valley.
Top of Indian University, Good colleges, Best of software companies, good weather and most importantly people with right aptitude and attitude. I think Pune is the best place to start a new company.
Government has realized the potential of Pune and its people and have started infrastructure development for the next generation of software companies.
Thats how I started thinking about a new cafe. Its a business cafe. People come here to meet other like minded people and discuss business, their future plans and technical stuff.
I would like it to have two sections. One is an open air cafe with Wi-Fi connectivity. People will have option to bring their laptops and connect to Internet. Otherwise they can use the machines setup on each table.
The second section will have business facilities like audio and video conference calling. Even though all facilities are ment to be for business people, the enviroment is quite fresh and exciting. I see the conference room as a small room with translucent walls like a big phone booth. I dont want it to look like office conference room. The two sections are not totally segregated. The idea is not to replicate office enviroment. But mix office like facilities with a CCD like cafe.
I would like to have facility to book table or conference room via email/website or mobile. Definitely the cafe need to be till late in night.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
why do people work so hard?
I know few people who face this question quite often ... "For what are you working so hard?...go get some life man..."
Today I was talking to John when I found something that I have never thought about.
Is it for money? I am sure, no. They are getting enough of it. They are not paid more than others because they work 14 hours a day. They get recognition and money because they fulfill the expectations and then they go beyong expectations. So do they work hard for recognition and fame? Some of them do. And it is good to work for that. Then what about rest of them?
The ones who are not working for money, fame or recognition , they are working to achieve their dreams. But if they dont dream to become rich and famous, What do they dream about? Surely a beautiful and smart life/parttime partner, but their hardwork within company premises wont help them get one . Then what do they dream about? Why do they work so hard?
How you would like to see your office to be? A nice car picks you up from home, it drops you at the gate of a nice office. You enter and see a lovely environment. You meet your colleagues have some fun and by 10 you are on your seat. You open your laptop and it tells you what you have to do today and how you can achieve required results. You find every required thing ready for you and you are amazed that everything is working so flawlessly. You have fun in your office with no work pressure. you know that your work will be done withine time and everything is working fine. You are assured about company growth and know that your future is secured. What company expects from you is sincere 8 hours of work.
Did I mention anything that you would not like to have....? I think most of you would say "no". But who will do all this for you?
Today I was talking to John when I found something that I have never thought about.
Is it for money? I am sure, no. They are getting enough of it. They are not paid more than others because they work 14 hours a day. They get recognition and money because they fulfill the expectations and then they go beyong expectations. So do they work hard for recognition and fame? Some of them do. And it is good to work for that. Then what about rest of them?
The ones who are not working for money, fame or recognition , they are working to achieve their dreams. But if they dont dream to become rich and famous, What do they dream about? Surely a beautiful and smart life/parttime partner, but their hardwork within company premises wont help them get one . Then what do they dream about? Why do they work so hard?
How you would like to see your office to be? A nice car picks you up from home, it drops you at the gate of a nice office. You enter and see a lovely environment. You meet your colleagues have some fun and by 10 you are on your seat. You open your laptop and it tells you what you have to do today and how you can achieve required results. You find every required thing ready for you and you are amazed that everything is working so flawlessly. You have fun in your office with no work pressure. you know that your work will be done withine time and everything is working fine. You are assured about company growth and know that your future is secured. What company expects from you is sincere 8 hours of work.
Did I mention anything that you would not like to have....? I think most of you would say "no". But who will do all this for you?
lucky ...
I have never regretted what I did in past or what I didn't. I think I have been lucky that I got into good college, then got great friends, got into a company I thought I will never join but finally I learned a lot in the company. Then when I left the company and join this one, I remember I did not give much time to research about the company. The only thing on my mind was to leave the company and join a new one. Had I been not so lucky, job-shift could have been a big mistake for me. but the new company had lots of good things for me.
I am not sure if I shall be lucky in future or not.
I sometimes think that every person in his life has to see downtime at some point in life. Just like I thought that every person meets an accident at least once and get admitted to hospital. for some people it could be just just fracture in leg..for some it could be a serious head injury.
I am happy that I am done with my share .... :) ..met with an accident in 1999 during first semester leaves...not many people from my batch know about this...it was just a shoulder dislocation.
I have not seen any downtime since I started my career. So i need to be prepared for the downtime of my life. I am just little worried that when will be that time. I wish that I dont have many dependent people around me at that time so that they dont get affected during that phase.
I am not sure if I shall be lucky in future or not.
I sometimes think that every person in his life has to see downtime at some point in life. Just like I thought that every person meets an accident at least once and get admitted to hospital. for some people it could be just just fracture in leg..for some it could be a serious head injury.
I am happy that I am done with my share .... :) ..met with an accident in 1999 during first semester leaves...not many people from my batch know about this...it was just a shoulder dislocation.
I have not seen any downtime since I started my career. So i need to be prepared for the downtime of my life. I am just little worried that when will be that time. I wish that I dont have many dependent people around me at that time so that they dont get affected during that phase.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Are you "you" ... authenticate to me...
Guys, Just last week I have finished my first technical paper. I am very proud to spend time writing my thoughts on paper. Read more on the tech blog page. Follow the link from right hand side panel
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Writing a software
Being an unfocused, unorganized and impatient person, I feel like as if I am still working on college assignments. Dont know what to start with and which one to finish first. I dont think software is developed the way I am developing. My work does not seem to have an end. Hopeless. Just putting in whole time and whole life into it and hoping that some day the work will finish.
Lets see what are my limits. but someday I will have to quit. I am trying and will keep trying to improve the things. But if they dont get better in near future.......I will try for some more time...but then quit.....to save my attitude, aptitude and life...
I know some people might say that I am running away from problems and I will find these problems everywhere. But guess if we wish, we can be at a place, in an environment which is created by us for ourselves.
Lets see.
Good luck to me and you all for life.
Vij
Lets see what are my limits. but someday I will have to quit. I am trying and will keep trying to improve the things. But if they dont get better in near future.......I will try for some more time...but then quit.....to save my attitude, aptitude and life...
I know some people might say that I am running away from problems and I will find these problems everywhere. But guess if we wish, we can be at a place, in an environment which is created by us for ourselves.
Lets see.
Good luck to me and you all for life.
Vij
Saturday, March 25, 2006
WTF?
Project definition for a BE project !
Integration of Business Process Models with Neural Agents
Description: The purpose of the research is to prove that there is a business case (i.e. an economical need) for integration of Business Process Management (BPM), Web Services (WSs) and intelligent agents (IA).
In order to make the integration intelligent develope a neural model of the BPM using Artificial Neural Networks ,to test the system feasibility develop a Mathematical model of E BPM and training sets and result sets for ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) derive using fuzzy logic The simulation results prove that an efficient constrain equations(for ANN inputs) which define the system and the rule extraction(for fuzzy logic ) will help in integrating the intelligence to the BPM .
Integration of Business Process Models with Neural Agents
Description: The purpose of the research is to prove that there is a business case (i.e. an economical need) for integration of Business Process Management (BPM), Web Services (WSs) and intelligent agents (IA).
In order to make the integration intelligent develope a neural model of the BPM using Artificial Neural Networks ,to test the system feasibility develop a Mathematical model of E BPM and training sets and result sets for ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) derive using fuzzy logic The simulation results prove that an efficient constrain equations(for ANN inputs) which define the system and the rule extraction(for fuzzy logic ) will help in integrating the intelligence to the BPM .
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