serious? naah!!

It was time for client meeting - telecon as we would call. Once our updates are over, we have to go mute to listen mode. Today, we had a football session and an art session. Once our end was done with all that we had to provide, 2 of us disappeared. The other 2 decided on a little football session with an empty water bottle. We kicked it all around the conference room with 2 ends of the rooms as goal posts. I lost 3 to 1.
I decided on a some art (should I call that?) for myself with white board marker and the white board. (we use the white board marker on almost anything). I drew something that didnt make any sense. But the passers by had a good time looking at this random act of insanity. And that during client meeting.

shoppers STOP!!

This is from a shopping trip that took place 2 days back. We were looking for bags and footwear. They had to be one of the high end ones like adidas and stuff. Well, what I found was that the hip-hop and rap culture has invaded the bangalore youth. And it becomes evident in these stores that sell above 1k products which I think are worth lesser, and aim only the youngsters with above 1k pocket money. They invariably play either hip hop or rap music, english or hindi. Now these guys think its cool to rock their bodies on the hip hop tunes and so do the those working in these stores. One of the stores had this song playing - "I'm a sexy, naughty, bitch"...One could call one self sexy - accepted, naughty - accepted, but bitch? Who would proclaim oneself as a "bitch"? Jeez.

2:58 am and working

2:58 in the morning. Drowsy. Hungry. Clumsy. And I'm stuck here for I spent most of my day either blogging or doing nothing. Oh yeah, I had lots of tea. And yesterday (today has become the next day), of all days, came to office at 8:30am. Anyway, there wont be any power at home. Thats an excuse. And I'll have the saturday to sleep.

Found a blog of oh-no-not-a-friend. One blog was quite disturbing to me, I'm just afraid if its me. Anyway, I keep my distance for untold reasons.

Will (not try to) leave at 5am catch the cab so I dont spend money and later get it reimbursed. That money is like stuck in ERA account.

Dark ages

Bangalore, by the way, has electricity. I mean, every house is connected to power lines, charged every month, you can use it as much you want and pay up. So did we. Except for the paying part. We delayed it by a little less than 3 months. But we did pay. We used citibank to pay our electricity bills, which apparently hasn't reached the electricity board for whatever reasons that we havent explore. Thus leading to disconnection of power lines and leading us to the dark ages quite literally - we havent had electricity at home for little over a week. This said, I have proactively paid the same bill again, in cash, desperately hoping get back electricity. This only to stay part of civilasation, not exactly to get some light at night.
This also means there's no television running which I miss a lot. I get all impatient without it. Solution - spend more time at office. I reach home at 1 am after work, and wake up at 9am, only to reach office by 12pm. Thats my changed schedule to reduce the impact of the "dark".
I called up the electricity board to get the connection back. The person answering quite rudely asks me for the address and vaguely says it will be done today. I have no hope of that. Means I reach home only at 1am again. The connection is quite simple. I just need a knife (or anythig sharp that can cut plastic on a wire), and a screwdriver to fix it. But lets just call it laziness.

Although there's no hot water geyser running, I still manage to take a hot water bath.

yeah, another dream!!

check this article out.

http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302781

It quite reinforces my dream of taking up FPGA design. You know, like a embedded system design alrounder. It should be quite an advantage to know all pieces of the embedded puzzle. And all this means spending time on learning something new, means having to drop some of existing work, and some of the leftover life. Its all sounds right in my head. And the dream is a little too colurful too. But for some reason, I fear from persuing it. Maybe an inhibition, fear of change, I don't know.

But a good starting step would be FPGAs.

http://kalyanvarma.net/

wildlife and politics

Well, we the wild life loving sensibles would like to take some humane steps on conservation. Lets see how politics comes in. Lions, in India, are found only in the Gir jungles. They are 300 or so. So the conservationists want some of them transfered to a different part of India so a calamity struck at one place dosent wipe the populations away. Now comes Mr Narender Modi, chief minister, Gujarat. He says lions are pride of Gujarat and will not be given to any other state. The lions, who must have nothing to do with politics, and humans, are at risk of being wiped because of the politicians. I'm sure the politicians have nothing to do with the lions, the conservation or with the pride.

a few blogs from guys from my college

httpp://freakwency.blogspot.com/

http://rit97.blogspot.com/

http://www.vivekprabhu.blogspot.com/

http://nishantjha.blogspot.com

http://vimalav.blogspot.com/