No Advice only Suggestions

Valli, I thought of wishing your Anniversary 2 days b4 the exact date, but forgot on the correct date.... Gud you had a great day.... By way Red river gorge album is currently empty, have u uploaded and given permissions.... Rini, On that day I called u na..... I met you from the bus, yourself and srini are about to cross in Jeevan Bheema Nagar Main road near mirranda school, Kodihalli, Yeah, comming to Vijay's request.... In the name of juniors u r trying to get advice na, no probs.. and Gr8 strategy... anyway I wont let mine until u let yours.... Cheers

My advice to our juniors

I would like to say just one thing to our juniors. It is… “Learn From Your Mistakes…� Having made a great mistake by joining M.S. (IT&M) and after spending more than a year in this course, it’s not the time to feel bad abt your mistakes…ha ha…so think accordingly and try to find a good Koli who can offer a job for us…(just kidding…but this is the fact too…oooh!huh!) BTW...I wish u all a "Happpy Ganesh Chaturthi". May Lord Ganesh Bless u all.

Kavitha Natarajan says...

Hi All, How are you doing? We have one code delivery next week.So I am packed with work.Now-a-days I used to leave office only at 11 or 12 midnight. But it's interesting. Then valli..read your blog. My very belated wishes to your wedding day de!. Hey valli.Enna samaiyalla Expert ayitte pola irukku..I haven't seen all the snaps too. I have to. Congrats Rajesh! No calls from you.. It's been long since I heard from ganesh too.I planned to join yoga class here in infy from sep 15th It's for 14 days. (Kicha: I too will be back soon)

new plan for the blog

Hi all, I have modified the blog to use an external stylesheet. The advantage is that now everyone can choose the type of layout they like. The blog will be displayed in the layout they want. Currently, I am trying to design a couple of layouts. I'll let you know when they are ready. Bye, Rajesh: I deleted the extra post of yours.

to juniors

I will tell "Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. " gandhi

Reply to Vijay

Wonderful of you to bing out a topic for discussion. The question looks simple, but the answer isn't that simple. The more I get to think about your question, the more complex the situation becomes. As I had quipped yesterday, if I had the chance to speak to our juniors, I would have stressed upon:

• Know your core competencies - You have to concentrate on what you do best or like doing best. Some might be interested in moving up in the IT segment and some in management.
• Improve them - Once you have identified your competencies, try to orient yourself towards it. Learn more about the areas where you would be best suited to.
• Prepare a resume in line with your competencies - Most people try coping a resume format from others. Break away from that line of thinking. Sit down and think of the job you are applying for. Write down what aspects of that job you are suited to. Prepare a resume that tells the employer that you are the best person to do the jo the job

More on this later.

Issued in public interest

I hereby strongly condemn Mrs.Valliyammai for misleading the bloggers by using the words " beautiful young girl" for herself. I also condemn the attitude of imposing a non-real and impossible thing(valliammai can never become a beautiful girl ,which the whole world knows) into the general public who are using the blogger.I also warn her not to involve herself in any such activities in future,which on violation would be met legally. G.Rajesh Prabu B.E.,M.S(IT&M).,M.L

thanx

Manny, thanx for the ids.....muluchikko, olunga velaya paaru...... Xavier, yeah, that's one way i shld have got the IDs....Anyway....i got 'em now... Had my first fall session yesterday.....know what....there are two other Indian ladies, with me in my Java class.....but they are all "Good looking middle aged women" & so i'm the only "Beautiful young gal"( in Rajesh's words)..... Vijay, i don't think i'll able to give any sugeestions to our juniors....i can just advise them, not to marry an NRI immidaitely after graduation, that too if she's very particular abt her career in IT. U cannot become a programmer here, unless u have experience or that country's education. Maybe i can give some inputs to our HOD.....ways to improve the standard of education given....& more particularly, how to get the best out of the students.....from a student's point of view..... I won't say our standard was bad.....it was actually very good....that too for our batch, with the best faculties & subjects.....but we could have done even more better...guess, u all will agree with me.... that's it vijay....nee varuva, aedhavadhu public news vaasipa, oodiduva.....tell us something abt ur work, interesting & crazy stuffs u've been doing lately....atleast how many times u played shuttle cock, yesterday...something like that........else, i wud have to rename ur nickname from Roja Babu to Bulletien Board Babu (BBB)...nalla irukku illa!!!..... need to prepare some yummy dishes for our brothers....i may not blog for one week from now...... bye.

my points

dear Vijay, actually what you said would have happened to me last Monday when I was at the dept. Kannan wanted me to give a speech to the juniors (current first years). But due to Chitra mam's intervention, I was unable to do so. I'll tell what I wanted to say to them tomorrow as I'm going home now. Bye,

everyone must participate

hi, hope everyone in our blogger family is doing well. sorry for didnt post msg for long time. i dont want to tell any reason for that. because, entrepreneurs dont find reasons for not doing things. - Jayaraman (i dont know the actual person who said it. i only know the person who told this one to us) i hav an interesting topic to discuss. we completed our course almost 1.5yrs ago. now everyone is having industrial experience(few has higher studies experience). assume that one fine day our HOD invite us to give a speech on career guidance to our juniors. what ll u say? what could be the core of ur speech? while preparing for it, u hav to keep one thing in mind, ie., the dilemma we had till the last day of our couse. whether to select IT or mgmt? people who forgot those days, pls go through the following incident. one year before, while everyone begin to search for their first job, one guy from IT profession asked one of our classmate that what is his/her specialization? for that our classmate responded as still I havnt decided between IT and Management. that guy now asked tell atleast in which area u did ur projects, because of our unique features, our classmate told that i did projects both in IT and Management. now that guy got angry(because he is a poor IT guy, he dont know anything more than that) and told, hey I am not at all asking abt Management, hav u did any IT projects or not, if so then in which platform u did it, what technology u interested? Microsoft or Java? Likewise he is going on adding questions related to S/W field, that we hardly knew. now this is the situation, we passed through those hard times and learned a lot in this 1.5 yrs of time. what ll u say now? i expect everyone to participate and post their speech. feelings:- ---------- class munnadi vanthu ninnu pesi yevvalavu nazh achchu. neenga pesinathu yellam innum kan(eye) munnadi nikkuthu. innoru santharpam kidaikkiradhu romba kastam, so atleast bloglaiyavathu post pannunga, atha en karpanaila neenga classla pesura mathiri ninaichchukkuven. (hmmmm sentiment work out ahhu thannu paarpom) expecting everyone's participation, vijay

Valid point

Dear bloggers and Valli, Everyone faces some problem with the net. regarding your suggestion of including the mail ids of all the blogers was implemented but only for a few minutes, I took it off again. That can be done when I find a way to put the bios of the bloggers. I have got a great idea now. But as it uses advanced CSS techniques, which IE does not support. If you use either Mozilla or Firebird, then the bios would be visible. Do not try it today, try tomorrow or the day after. Kicha, the use of marquee tag causes problems in the blog layout as expressed by Ranjini and Rajesh. So it would be nice if you could avoid using tags not supported by XHTML. This site would give you some idea of what I mean. BTW: If you are viewing this site in Firebird, you would notice a lot of nice things and also you would not have any layout problems. Valli, you can get the mail ids from Yahoo! Groups. Ranjini has put in her work in creating a database of our classmates. You can refer it anytime online. Hey, did I tell you, my application for MCJ has been accepted. I have also paid the fees. I'll be receiving my study materials soon. So you can expect a lot of jounalistic entries in the blog from me soon. Did I mention that Firebird and Mozilla allow tabbed browsing? A wonderful feature that you all must try out. Here are more reasons for trying out Firebird. Bye for now,

IDs

Hi valli and all, My ID is: mahendrapallavan@yahoo.com... and ajayan's: ungalajayan@yahoo.com (if not, try out ungalajayan@yahoo.co.in also) And BTW How do u do dear bloggers... Entha nerathla sindhu anubavi rasa anubavinnu sonnalo therila...i became totally sick with my work...dubukku sindhu see now the time is 1.30 and i am still working...in my office... ok guys and gals...atleast i wish u all a good sleep... Mahen.

bloggers mail IDs

Rajesh, adhu enna "Beautiful young gal", Good looking middle aged women", "elderly gentleman"???......verum girl, women nnu sonna pathaadha???....i thought the hook would be some where there...... we watched "Whistle" yesterday...it was more or less like "i know what u did last summer"....with a few changes here 'n there...... yes Xavier, i was trying to upload the photos in my album today....but i'm facing some probs....i cud'nt figure out what went wrong....i'm in a hurry today....i'll do it sometime next week......BTW, is there a way, we can add the e-mail id of our members somewhere in the layout??.....I was trying to give permission to all the bloggers....& oops!!! i was not sure of manny & Ajayan's IDs......& my souvineir's also misplaced somewhere...... can somebody help me out with their IDs????

layout is confusing

the layout of blogger is confusing there is a big gap in before the first msg in the blog ,Jax take care

interesting

Rajesh, It was really an interesting puzzle. But as Ganesh had noted, in real life the driver would have been punished. I'm waiting to see the photos of Valli, Sindhu and Ranjini. Where are they? BTW, where is Vijay? Never heard from him for a long time.

I thought drivers drive the bus

Machan , i thought that the driver must be punished & why the hell the conductor must be punished must be the answer. But it turned out to be the other reason. Well u see . hehehehehe (Arasiyala Ethellam Sagajamappa) bye

puzzle for u

Once there was a conductor, of a bus, who was very rude to his passengers. One day a beautiful young girl, of around 18 years, tried to board the bus, but the conductor didn't stop the bus.Unfortunately the beautiful young girl came under the bus and died on the spot. Angry passengers took the conductor to the police station, who in turn took him to the court.The judge was not at all impressed with the conductor and gave him capital punishment, i.e. to be electrocuted. He was taken to the electrocution chamber. There was a single chair in the center of the room and a single banana peel at one corner of the room. The conductor was strapped to the chair and high current was given to him. But to everyone's amazement, he survived. The judge decided to set him free, and he returned to his profession. After a few months, this time, a good looking middle aged woman tried to board the bus but the conductor didn't stop the bus. Unfortunately, this time also, the good looking middle aged woman came under the bus and died on the spot. Again angry passengers took the conductor to the police station, who in turn took him to the court. The judge took a look at the conductor and gave him capital punishment. The conductor was taken to the same electrocution chamber where there was a single chair in the center of the room and a single banana peel at one corner of the room. He was strapped to the chair and high current was given to him. This time also to everyone's amazement, he survived. The judge decided to set him free, and he returned to his profession. A couple of months later, an elderly gentleman tried to board the bus. This time the conductor, remembering his earlier experiences, stopped the bus.Unfortunately the elderly gentleman slipped and came under the bus. He also died on the spot. The conductor was taken to the police station and then to the court, to the same judge. Though he hadn't done anything wrong, but considering his past record the judge decided to set an example and gave him capital punishment. The conductor was again taken to the same electrocution chamber where there was a single chair in the center of the room and a single banana peel at one corner of the room. He was strapped to the chair and high current was given to him. This time he died instantly. The question is why didn't he die the first two time but died instantly the third time ??? The answer is given below .... but try to solve the mystery yourself. This is pretty interesting and the answer is perfectly logical. If necessary read the puzzle twice.

Answer for puzzle

During the first two times, the conductor was a Bad Conductor, therefore electricity didn't pass through him. But during the third time, he was a Good Conductor, electricity passed through him freely and he died !!!!!!!!

No, I am not

Dear Ranjini, I am definitely not fidling with the layout as I don't have the time to do it today. I think it must be a problem at your end. If it exists on the morrow, blog it, I'll try to find a solution. Bye.

my excitements

Hi, Congrats Rajesh! & all the best. It seems as though, only a few days passed by, since Ganesh started holding my hands.....but, one year has has rolled by, in a wink.....Had great celebs last week....& returning back to the regular schedule today........ He gifted me a cool pair of diamond ear rings.....For my part, i threw out a grand dinner for him on the eve of our anniversery.....with all of his favourite dishes......here cakes are very cheezy & creamy. So i baked a pine apple cake myself with a whipped cream topping.....we called our parents, later that day & went to temple (nearby city)....when we came back, we had a surprise.......our friends, were waiting for us at our door step.....they had also bought a cake...made us cut it......it was, "my" dining room & "my" kitchen....& "they" were moving in & out busy arranging the snacks & stuffs....i was just watching them...I had the least idea of what was happening for quiet some time.... Saturday morning, as planned, we started out to a natural resort......It's called the red river gorge & the danial Boone forest.....we spent two wonderful days there, doing hiking & other stuffs.....we came back on sunday evening.....it's a deep forest....& we've to hike there....to see a natural bridge.....it's called so because, there's a bridge formed out of rocks connecting two mountains, naturally......we hiked for 1hr to reach that place....wow!! it was so wonderful....just a natural rock connecting two mountains.....no extra safety....we fall from there, we're gone!!!it was like walking on a wide board in the air......melae aagasam, Kelae Boomi, naduvulae naan......i had a real tuff time, controlling Ganesh, not to go to the ends..... will upload a few photos in my album today....& u can see them 'morrow.....Rini, indha photos aavadhu paaka try pannu di....... My excitement is still not over...This thursday, my anna & my bro-in-law are coming here...... waiting for their arrival......they wanted to have good home food .....they had a given me a list to be prepared...& guess what's the first item in the list...."Idly & sambaar"!!!! Fall semmester begins in a couple of days...will take an off when the guys are here..... need to clean my home now.....it's in a total mess after the week end.....

Hello friends!

Congrats Rajesh! good and All the best! Oh kootam seekureengala kovaila? Serunga, serunga. Enjoy guys! What? A day without blog? Actually my senior had returned from Training today and so we had to finish off the work on friday and so couldnt blog any. btw, this weekend bought a brand new Whirlpool fridge, 220litre, grey(almost looks like white) color, double door refrigerator. Need to learn to do ice creams. So bloggers, send me recipe of icecreams asap. And ya Ram had called me up, but couldnt even invite him to my place for my policy of planning to invite only when learnt cooking properly. So i am still under learning phase and dont want to trouble u guys with all those mishap cooks. Hei guys @ TN, throw some light on Rain water harvesting. I heard that our CM has put a strict order in all corporation bound areas to have RWH setup. Is it so? I really am feeling happy. good that atleast now she has taken steps before it becomes too late. I like this. Remember few blogs away we were talking about environmental protection and we wanted people to encourage rainwater harvesting and now its becoming real is something good! Ok then got some work and will get back to u all later

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Dei Rajesh

Ippa dhan Balavoda pesunaen. Sonnan, ellathaiyum sonnan. Sorry, I was busy for a few days. Since no one else had also posted, I didn't post anything informational. BTW you forgot Karthiga.

ur attention please

dear friends , after a long gap im blogging now.there are nice discussions going on through bloggs in a period of time and now its my turn .I have some good news and some bad news for us.Let me start with the good news and then end with the bad news. GOOD NEWS After a long struggle of nearly one year and with the blessings of all i had now started my career in godrej & boyce as sales&service engg in security equipments /storewell/office automation division. Im expecting my offer in the first week of September.The Package is good and they are posting me in coimbatore.I may be joining there in the second week of september. Bala had joined as sales coordinator in SIFY ,he is also posted in coimbatore.So i have a gang in coimbatore(our Dhadha xavier and sriprasath are already there) BAD NEWS Sangeetha's dog which is known as Dusty by us died on 23rd august.i dont know how to console her and so i have not even contacted her after that. then thats all from my side and some more good news are on the way... start blogging again bye raapi

hi jax

xavier ta irunthu blog ethuvum varalai ,!!!! SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what happened to regular bloggers jax,kicha,ram,rini and manny come on everybody raapi

hi

hi jax, Murtuza had mailed me to add his yahoo id(murtuza_im4u@yahoo.com) in our group. it seems his hotmail id does not receive mails since he did not check it for a while. then as for as me iam doing fine in vizag. vizag is nice & cool in this part of the year. it is situated between the eastern ghats mountain range and bay of bengal. so mountains on one side & sea on the other. i have not gone out much since iam alone here. thats all * bye

updates

Hi, Ram, I have updated the Blogrolling section. The search works fine now. Also you can now select if you want the offsite links in the blog to open in a new window. No need to press shift and click now.

just another test post

some good news is waiting

i have some good news waiting from my side.i will tell that in next week.until then its bye from raapi

a day sans blogs

You're right Rajesh. Seems everyone's busy.

a day without without any blogs

Updates to the blog

Hi everyone, I am planning to implement a search and other minor features to the blog. Testing things out now... Bye,

Got Fried in the Heat...

Hi, Ranjini....the marriage album is just 'tooo goood'. Both of you are looking charming and elegant. Jax, though its a closed chapter Iam suggesting it cos i typed this blog long back but didnt manage to publish it.....the layout looks alright. But I feel the fluroscent green is too bright. How about a lighter shade of green instead? Mahendra...ensoy panra pola??? anupavi rasa anupavi! Two weeks back we went to Warwick castle. The castle was built in 1900 and ranked number 2 in UK. There is so much hype abt this castle. The castle was beautiful. Since this was my first visit to a castle, I liked it. But Boomi didnt as he had been to many. The heat was so much getting into our system that we had to literally run for shadows. There were so many living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms, each with lavishing decorations and expensive furnitures. The one thing that caught my interest was ' The Dungeon and Torture chamber '- I was really shocked by the cruelity with which the English had treated the slaves and the soldiers captured during the war. Later came to know that there is one museum in London exclusively meant for Torture. In India there are so many temples and buildings around which are dating back to some hundreds or thousands of years but very poorly marketed. Here they blow the trumphets in such a way that we run packing our bags to find the same thing that we have round the corner in most of the villages and towns in India. As you all must be aware this year Uk has topped all the records this summer. The temp reached a record high of 38.1 degrees. Now the weather is slowly getting better. Ironically, France declared that the country is facing a crisis due to heat wave on the day the temp. started dropping down.... Coming weekend is long one for us. guess where we are going.......Scotland.....just desperately looking forward to this trip. It is believed to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. Most Hollywood films are shooted here. Let me see if Scotland meets my expectations. Will upload the snaps shortly. Take care Valli. Happy Weekend. Bye.

Answer..!!!

Answer to Jax question... "Uncopyrightable" and "Dermatoglyphics" are the longest isograms in English-language. Isograms are words with no repeated letters.

ur question.....

Hmmmm jax, i exactly couldnt figure out the uniqueness of both the words. But then i could see that "Uncopyrightable" has got all the vowels in it and dermatoglyphics, sorry i couldnt guess any thing about it. do give us the answers as i am eager to know about it. and Ganesh thanx for the recipe greeting. It was good to look, but wonder how would it be to cook. Yes friends, Ganesh had sent us all the married women an amul greeting having recipe for "Chilled Salad soup" a novel way of wishing! I liked it! and my parents are here and i am learning cooking now from my mom. With in 10 days i need to learn maximum no. of items, let me see how good i can. Ok then will blog u all later till then cares and shares Ranjini

hi

hi I also met Om when i was in madurai. he did not tell me that he was going to quit. since i was in a hurry i could not speak to him for long. i feel sad becoz he was one of our faculty other than Mr kannan who gave us a drinks party on his birthday(hehehehe). dai jax have a look at the database in our groups. i had added long before that packya was working in Kodai. when i was in madurai i spoke to her also. she is doing fine.then met saravana kumar there and was talking to him for a long time. could not meet sandil & vinoth since they were busy. as for as now iam in vizag and will be here till this month end. bye

hi

hi ,i just wanted to say that im not one among that ten... hehehehehehhe raapi

blogging

Hi all, we have over ten members and I find that a few of them have not even blogged once even though they have accepted the invitation to join us. This might be due several reasons, but atleast they could send us a 'hi' post. So if anyone is in touch with them, kindly ask them to post to the blog asap. Bye, P.S. What happened to my question?

My visit to Madurai

Ok, here it begin, my one day visit to Madurai. Morning: As usual, I caught an auto to the dept. Enroute, I saw Vinodh Kumar. He was coming down from Sangeeth Lodge for tea. Thought about seeing him later, but couldn't. Came to know that I was the first person in our batch to be applying for a provisional certificate. Most of our batchmates had got thier degree certificates, so they don't require a provisional certificate. Our certificates have not been recieved by the dept. So I was asked to go to the univ. to apply and collect it. Met Omprakash - yesterday was his last day at the dept. He's off to Mumbai in search of a job. Rajadurai was on leave yesterday. Met Kannan and Chitra Ma'm. Kannan is taking almost all the classes at the dept. We were the last batch to have a lot of external faculties. After us, the external faculties have stopped coming at all except one or two. The trimester system has been scrapped in favour of a semester system. It seems that quality of education has dropped considerably. I spoke to Chitra ma'm. Rini, she said she did not get the invi to your marrriage. She had marked it in her diary, but as she didn't get an invi she forgot about it. Valli and Sindu, Ma'm asked if there was any good news from both of you. Afternoon: Made my way to the univ. went around the univ with my aunt to get things on track. I was told that I would be receiving my PC only on Wed, as Tues. is a holiday for Krishna Jayanthi. Skipped lunch. It was 4 pm when everything got over. My aunt said she'll look after things. Evening: Had a late lunch, watched TV and got ready to leave for Coimbatore. Left home around 7:00 pm to catch the bus. Coming to the bus stand, I thought of paying Shana and Philo a visit as they were staying nearby only. Went to their apartment around 7:30. Only Philo and her younger sis were at home. Spoke about things for some time. I came to know that Shana was working in ICICI bank nearby only. Waited till 8:30 to meet her. It seems she got her first salary yesterday only. Exchanged notes about our classmates and life in general for a long time. On their insistence, I had a couple of chappathis for dinner there. Left around 9:45 and caught a bus to Coimbatore at 10 pm. Reached Coimbatore around 3 am today. Valli, Philo wanted to know why you are continuing your studies and Sindu, everyone are suprised to know that you were in a marketing job. I heard that Bulb is working as a lecturer in Mother Teresa Univ. @ Kodaikanal.

I-day, we missed the celebs!!!

Hi, I was not feeling well last week......fever & head ache......the usual head ache, but it was more severe this time......My doctor said i was anaemic, & has prescribed iron tablets........Ganesh worries too much abt this, & stuffs me with fruits, veggie salads & lot more....he wants my haemoglobin to increase in a single day......he refuses to understand that it's a periodic process.....now i'm ok, other than the anaemic part...... So actually we missed the I-day celebs.......it was scheduled on saturday & hosted by the Indian students association of UK......we just called our friends here & wished them.....On friday, i watched & recorded the pattimandram alone, so that Ganesh can see it later......... I have got an "A" grade in my exams..... Yeah Mahen, i know you are very much interested in networking...but i did'nt know that you are preparing for the CCNA exam.....great!!! All the best...i'll surely help you with the best of my knowledge.....But i doubt my future interests in networking.....Networking is a great field.....But i won't be suitable for the field, i guess....i cannot crawl under the office floors to look out for outlet boxes & cables, nor can i climb up a ladder rack to reach out to the top most switch or hub for connections......I'm not that confident about my physique.....But i'm sure CCNA ceritified network engineers have great value......They can march amidst the entire lot with heads high!!! CCNA pannavae naan indha paadu paduraen......idhula, Ganesh wants me to complete CCNP & CCIE also in the future...... Rini, looking ahead for ur mom's arrival???.....kuduthu vaechava di!!!!

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My native visit....

After a long gap, I met most of my friends and relatives.... how the entire 3 days went, I am not very sure... It gone in such a tremendous speed.... already I reached 2 hours late due to one way problem and heavy downpour in most parts of t'nadu till Mdu... and ought to leave home by 3.30 pm on sunday to catch bus, so as to reach office on time.... I visited all the prominent temples... Had a nice time with my family, friends and relatives.... My mom, wants me to eat, this that etc... etc... continuous suggesstions and what else??? My sister is doing fine in her +1..... guided her in +1 Maths.... to test her cycling meatle we ( in 2 separate cycles ) went for 8 kms cycling in the busy hours in high traffic area.... she does well... certified her to my mother for her daily schooling thru cycle..... found numerous changes in the native place... remembering memories back to b'lore....

Me weekend...

Well, nothing very special apart from spending 3 days in the warmth of my home. And after a gruelling, sleepless and tiresome bus journey that made me reach office much later than usual, am still feeling sleepy... Y..A..W..N..

My trip to Madikeri!

Oh is it! Convey my regards to all out there esp chitra mam! what hasnt anybody asked u to breif our juniors? Ok now, back to my tale section of this weekend.... I enjoyed the three days like anything. Superb it was to be with his friends. Not even one minute did i spend my time idle. Ore aattam paattam kondattam thaan. We played pattukku paatu, Dumb charades, etc. All the films which srini enacted, i was the one to find out first. We went to Ranganthittu bird sanctuary, but no birds to see except crows caw caw..... but the place was good with bamboo trees & rattt tatttt sound. Have u heard those sounds of bamboo ya? Then in the evening we went to Balamuri falls. we went in parisal u know. first time in that. Supera irundhathu. Naan pant shirt potta naala i could not bath in falls, else ore ragalai panni iruppen. then we went straight to Madikeri. Next day our adventure started with a trip to Iruppu falls. Wow the way was so slippery and watery. Should keep ur foot firm, illai keela vilunthu mandai odachikka vendiyathu thaan. The falls was so remote and beautiful. Only few were taking bath and i was the only female to take bath there. Ha evvalavu periya veeranganai. Infact srini never let his hands holding mine. illa thanni adikira adikku, avvalavuthaan, naan nera andha thanniyilaye bangalore poi iruppen. Poor srini! i never let him be with his friends, but then because of all the settais i was doing, he ought to be with me, coz i was climbing on slippery rocks, trodding on wet logs, moving towards force waters and what not....... Finally he managed to throw me out of water as it was becoming cold and i started shivering. Then we went to Nagerhole - Rajiv Gandhi national park. They said, Elephant ride and all is there, but nay coz of dusshera, all elephants had gone to Mysore itseems. Enna panna :-<< appuram we went in our van only and saw so many spotted deer(pulli maan), two baby elephants playing and its mother and nothing more. The next day we went to Abbi falls where also i had a nice kuliyal at one of the dangerous places. There also i was the only girl among four of us who had been there taking bath. Not even some of his guys were ready to take bath and i was shivering like anything as it was very cold and early in the morning 7 o clock. Good that srini always comes with me, though he wasnt interested. Really before going only he was telling, i m not interested in taking bath, but then coz of me he had to and we enjoyed like anything. Then we went to a place called Raja's seat where from we had a majestic valley view. So beautiful, with lush green fields, some in parrot green, some leaf green, some in brown color as the field was ready to get planted, some in golden yellow with water stagnant on it and mist then and there, wow superb it was u know. We then went to a place called nisargadhama where in we played shuttle cork and all his friends played volley ball till the last moment of sweat. On our way back from Nisarga we had ice creams drenching ourselves in rain. It was a beautiful place full of Bamboo trees and very cool on all sides surrounded by cauvery water, just like an island. So nice it was. Then we also went to a near by Tibetian monastery where in we saw some exotic and most beautiful sculpture and architectural work of Tibetian culture. Then we returned home merrily and totally exhaust! Photos eduthirukken, u all can have a look when scanned. Tomorrow my parents are coming and i am waiting for them to turn up. From tomorrow onwards i will get proper breakfast. Enga amma panni kuduppaangale. Ok then will blog later

hi

Iam blogging now from our Dept. lab. Will tell about it later.

Have a nice weekend

Google now has got a calculator feature. I wanted to blog it on Friday itself but forgot. Anyway you can try it out. Take a look at the features it has got. I'm leaving for Madurai tomorrow afternoon. So I won't be blogging for the next two days. BTW, someone try to figure out the uniqueness of these two words, uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics. Answers on Tuesday, when I get back to work. See you all on Tuesday.

Reg. blog

Sorry, Manny, a change much earlier than expected. From now on, offsite links will open in a new window. Thank you for your clarification, I forgot the 'yes' part.

its an SME

Yes jax… an SME…it is an “Yes Yem yee” hope you get it…it is spelt as “Yes Yem Yee” (SME)…that’s y that "an" comes there…jax

SME queries

Hi Manny, Good to hear that you are now a an SME . Now I can ask you any questions related to networking. BTW are you working on Solaris platform, heard it was a wonderful piece of OS. Good to hear that you are also working on Windows installations. As a SME in that area, I can help you in any doubts in that arena. Feel free to ask. reg. the layout, consider the issue closed for now. I will rake up the matter when I make any changes to the layout. (which will be sometime around two weeks from now) I am hoping to hear from our NRI's about I-Day in their localities.

I am an SME

Hi all, Back again… Happy Independence Day buddies… But this is the first Independence Day wherein my independence was lost… Yes…My job sucks my time… I have to work even tomorrow. That’s the sad news… And This is for Ranjini, Rini, Believe it or not (But u have to…ha ha)…I am now working as an SME (Subject matter Expert for all networking related projects) and am now working in preparing an e-book on Network File System Implementation In Solaris 9 OE. Also in another project in which I am preparing a course material for troubleshooting Dual Boot Installation For All the Windows Family of Operating Systems. Said enough abt my role, I hope. But I am not that much excited with this kind of theoretical work yaar…I am looking for some concrete hard core networking job and may be I will get one soon. Valli, BTW I am also preparing (of course I am preparing for the past 1 year or so) and still preparing for taking up the CCNA yaar. Let me see when I will be able to take up the exam…but for sure, I will get it soon. Glad to know that u also belong to my category, I mean the networking part of computers… Will get back to you once I get certified for knowing more abt the networking Industry in US. Hope I can expect ur inputs later…can I???!!! And nothing more yaar. And one final question… When will this layout issue be settled? I suspect jax, that he wants this issue to be unsolved just like the Ayodhya issue, to increase the interactions of the group…ha ha. Bye bye Mahen.

Happy Independence day

Wishing all bloggers a very happy Independence Day. Question for the day? Are we still free?

Interesting article on our president!

hi guys look into his one year presidency ........ Salaam Kalam

Thin lines.......

The layout is now looking refined as u have polished those thick lines into fine thin lines. good ya Ok can do it later too and it looks ok now with the Archives link format and still the problem persists with the recent posts i believe. Check it out. Hei guys, yesterday i was in full shopping spree. Actually it was unplanned and all of a sudden, we decided to go for shopping to one of the malls where they had put curtains for sale. I bought some 4 curtains for two windows and on our way back, we crossed allen solly womens wear showroom. I was in pant-shirt formals. So when srini just asked, hei u had been planning to buy some pants for the past few days, how about trying now?, i said "yes". All these days i had been saying no, since i cant give a try when i am in other outfits, but then yesterday i thought let me. So went in and started selecting. Meanwhile, the lady there, said, there is an offer like, one garment free with every two we buy. So srini decided to get me two. Great! I took sky blue jean color, a bit elephant grey and dark blue mix color, a bit dark sandal color. Threee pants! I have given it for alteration and will be getting them back today evening. And ya tomorrow morning we and his friends will be going to a near by Hill station in coorg (in tamil its kudagu malai) called Madikeri and i am going to try all my new dresses on this trip. Oh yesterday i had a nice time removing hefty load from srini's pockets! Then we had dinner @ Shiv sagar. One tasty tasty vegetable dosa and a Gudbud ice cream. Bangaloreans, those who visit the Shiv sagar hotel in commercial can give a try at Vegetable dosa. It was very tasty and costed only 20Rs. ICe cream was ok, when compared to the all time tasty fig&Honey ice creamw hich srini had. Then came home merrily and so does my shopping story ends for the day! Ok then see u all later Ranjini

archives

I have made a change in the display, but what you want requires a little bit of JavaScript. I didn't want the blog to load slow due to usage of Javascript. I'll out something when I have some free time to jump into the depths of scripting. I'll be going to Madurai on Sunday afternoon and be back at Coimbatore by Monday night. My visit is related to my MCJ course. I can't make head or tail about our university's prospectus. On one page they say I need not send the tution fees, but on the form, they want me to send the tution fees with the application form. Got to straighten out things in person there.

Archive format

Jax, i think the month in the Archive section contains the entire name, but i would suggest it to be in first three character format so that when its listed in Archive section it would look good and uniform unlike now. and i think let the year be 2003 instead of '03. Coz there can be some problem in that single quote. If it doesnt occur, then no probs, just '03 is enough. For eg. 10 Aug '03 will do. What do u say? and now after few days the blog is looking good once we start aclimatising it. and that Bach CD is a collection titled Unforgetteble Classics. So there is any particular thing mentioned on CD cover regarding compilation. Two weeks holidays for u valli? Enjoy well. will catch u all later Ranjini

Note to Ram

Ram, it was a very long post indeed. but please don't post the entire html code into the blog. If you notice, I had removed all the formatting that you had specified. Sorry to do it. I had to do it because the blog started to display junk. Hope you don't mind me editing your post before someone starts complaining. It would be better if you could post using valid XHTML. Any queries regarding this can be directed to me.

Very Huge Blog

Thank You Valli.. Will get one gift for u... when v meet next... Already have purchased a gift for my sister so that I can handover during my native visit (Aug 15 - 17)... Numerous ideas to discuss, from the excerpts of the day 2 day news in 2day's world scenario.... torcher ur brain................. Dear All, Mail might be lengthy but worthy I believe. Don't circulate beyond the limit since it contains sensitive issues. Where, the world leads you ?? ONGC Mumbai - copter crash - Employees demanded the "step down" of it's CEO. Cause of accident, safety negligence or technical snag, enquiry on it's own way. India MPs ( including Laloo, has to surrender his passport on Aug 18 in Patna court after his return) visited Pakistan. Indian Govt not in a position to believe the Musaraff words due to previous experience. Confident level where are we. Balbir Singh looks like one MP whisked the security of Parliament and roamed inside like Hero. Security system under lapse. Pepsi & Coke - May close to BAN due to over level of Pesticides. Will it be a election stunt like Bisleri water. Are you soft to these drinks. Frequent MiG 27 crash. Disheartened family members of expired Pilot given request to our first citizen, who is always down to earth, to take care of the AIR safety level. Hope you all guess. Yes it is Kalam. You know the statement released by them over a Press meet. "We should avoid our people killed by our own machines than the enemies". 81 people hurt in pile up, series vehicle crash at Bangalore Hosur road. Incident occur after the two wheeler rider lost his control and hit a road divider. Foreign delegates felt comparatively, Bangalore is better than Delhi. Road safety is big task. British troops under threat in Basra, IRAQ. Supersonic Flight service dropped. A boy around 15 years old intruded into India border from Pakistan twice. Ofcourse he has sent back to his country by Delhi -Lahore  "Dosti" bus service because of the peace initiative started by PM. Man from Kerala struggled for living with his family due to Pakistan citizenship which he got many years back under the wrong assumption that, with this he can enter India easily. Reinstating Govt employee in TN. Still some people future is under dark. Multimode train (MMTS) derailed at AndraPradesh after a day it was inaugurated.

A baby (Noor) from Pakistan got operated at Bangalore hospital. Beyond border issue. David Kelly- weapons expert to Iraq suicide. Tony Blair - UK is cornered. Bush is out of focus. Liberian President steps down. Isrel denied to release the Palestinian militants after the recent suicide attack. E- tickets (for Air Travel) introduced in India too. First ticket issued to Mr. Ramadorai CEO of TCS. Can we "check in" without any hassle? Let him talk after his first experience. If I'll elect for next term, I will make AP like Singapore. AP-CM Naidu Where as Mayawathi - MP-CM , I'll construct RAM Temple. Feel the vision focus. Arnold nominated for California Mayor election. Thanks & Regards Ramgopal C Garden City

News for Sachin fans

Veteran South African cricketer Pat Symcox has lauded Sachin Tendulkar for leading a quite, controversy-free life while achieving international fame, unlike some other international cricketers. more..

My head-banging continues here... I would have loved it if I were doing it for some kinda rock stuff... Tomorrow am going home.. and will be back on monday morning... tuesday is a holiday for us for Krishna Janmashtami... My blogging frequency has come down, but just for a month or so more... then I'll be back to my original. And one more thing. I want to know what is Enterprise Collaboration. If u get any links to knowing this send them to me...

Hi

Rini, if u had not told anything abt ur boss's absense, we would have guessed it by this time.......the frequency of ur posts usually says how busy u are....Have a great time buddy......yeah i was also wearing (infact, made to wear) the nothy style saree on the evening of my wedding....but somehow, i don't feel as comfortable as our traditional style.....since there was'nt any full size photos, i mistook it to be madisar.....but u look great in this too..... Yep Mahen, Networking, CCNA paper I is over....I will most probably, be getting an "A" grade, i guess.....'coz i've been maintaining a consistent percentage in all my tests......yet to know the results......I told u, right?....theory part is not that bad....but the practical part, i found it very difficult......it needs lots of physical power....the worst part, is the termination of UTP cables.....God, it sucks!!!!....That's why, i made up my mind, not to take CCNA Paper II next semmester...... Lot of issues going on abt music.....namakkum sangeethathukkum romba dhooram........ guess i'll give regular attendance for the next two weeks.......till i go back to school........ Happy Rakshabandan Ram........need to call my anna too.......else i'll have to miss some nice gift...... ok see u guys, bye.

hi

hi all, blogging after a very long time.i read each one of ur blog almost daily. so i did not miss anything. got to write reg thamizh, education in india, auto problem etc. i will write them all one by one. then rini saw ur pps show. it was nice. iam in madurai now for 1 week of CP training. went to dept today & saw om sir,kannan sir & chitra mam.i felt very lonely yesterday here but now iam ok. tomorrow i will blog some of the issues as said earlier. bye

Good job done!

ya i do remember now, But tell us what we should do to rectify the error now? And still i dont find the recent posts links working. y? I dont exactly know which composition of Bach its, coz we had bought on sunday and he played it yesterday only. I just listened and was impressed. will tell u tomorrow.

Error identified

Rini, the reason why IE throws up an error is: The "Recent Posts" index uses JavaScript to get the titles of the posts. if you can recall our JavaScript classes (which I don't), the single quote mark is a delimiter character. When a single quote is being used in a post like "Rini's blog", the script generates an error, which is what you can see in your browser. Moral of the Story: Never, ever use a single quote in the title of your post. As for Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), I like his motets very much. Bach also wrote some of most beautiful pieces of music for a wide range of instruments. Most of his work were religious in nature, but his compositions were all easy to learn. Bach came from a musical family. Rini, what compositions of Bach have you bought?

Adnan sami...

No jax its not working. Check out once again. Mahen, nowadays, i am focussed very much on Classical music, so i do find time listen to light music or indi pop only when i keep fm. Preference towards music differs based on the individual. Ya will surely give a try to listen to it too when time permits! Which project r u now into mahendran? Ya talking about the music, i want to come out with a small question which i read in a book yesterday! What is the difference between Indian Music and Western music? What is the cause of the difference whether its origin or expression? All can come out with your differences on it!

Corrected

The § symbol is the location of that particular post. It is also called as a permalink. I have also slightly toned downed the colors of the blog, particularly the orange and brightened the whites. The links in "Recent Posts" should work now.

regarding recent posts

Jax do there exist a link in the recent post to take us to the post? If so is it working? i dont think its. Or u are planning to have? And what is that small $ like symbol near that top arrow? And the error still persists. Not only for blogs but for other windows too. so it must be some problem with my IE. So u need not worry.

its Techloggix...

u r right rini, it shud have been mis-spelt in the database. My firm's name is Vannet Techloggix. And this is the first day wherein i stayed in the office yaar... as i got to do my work and finish it within deadlines i ought to sit around this week to complete my task. thats it... and hey... did u hear Adnan Sami's new album..."Tera Chehra"... its nice yaar...if possible, but one and hear the songs... bye Mahen.

More on Music!!!!!

Friends, We bought some more casettes and CDs as we have music system now. A brand new Sony music system. I got MS Subbu lakshmi Annamacharya Kirtans. Kshetra Tirupathi by TM krishna, and srini got Scorpions, one of his favourite band in those days, then one western classical CD by Bach. Its a thing u know. Excellent its to listen. I listened to it for the first time and it gives u the feeling of ascending a beautiful hill as the volume and intensity of music surges and it leaves u atop. Bach is a German musician and he is one of the Maestros like Beethoven in music. U all should listen to it ya. Just beautiful. I dont know much about this musician, may be jax might help us to drill about him a bit and throw light on it. As usual annamachrya kirtans are too irresistible , that too in MS voice it is damn good. Especially Sriman Narayana song. So calm really making u have a feel of total surrender at god's foot u know when she spells, "Sri paadame saranam". The flop of that day's pick was TM krishna's Kshetra Tirupathi. Actually there is a series of casettes released by CDW casettes. Its like compilation of songs on one particular sacred place or Kshetram. Till now five have come out, which include our Madurai(Singer-Nithyasree Mahadevan), Chidambaram(Sanjay Subramaniyan), Srirangam (Aruna Sairam), Tirupathi (T.M.Krishna), Kancheepuram(dont know). The best of it was Kshetra Srirangam by Aruna Sairam. Naan nenaikiran, she is a vaishnavite or one who worships perumal. ya she could pronounce the devotion towards the lord so profoundly in music that u simply cant remain in ur existing state. I havent heard to any of her other songs, but this. They say, only selective listening is recommended incase of Aruna, and this happens to be one of the best pick. We got almost all the Kshetra series except Kancheepuram. Ya Kshetra Tirupathi is by TM krishna, not the CM of Karnataka, but an upcomining vocalist. But we were impressed neither by songs, nor by his voice. May be since we dint listen to it many times, we arent much into it. Need to listen it few more times, to acquaint ourselves with it. Mahen&Valli thanx for ur comments on our album. Expecting feedback from other dormant bloggers too! What kavi, no goodmornings also nowadays. Where is vijay babu who said who will post atleast Good morning or good evening? Mahen whats that technologgix in ur co. name? is it misspelt in our database or its so with some significance? And y do u work late night and whats it that u are working on like this? Jax thanx for u correction on word Procs! I just messed it up. sorry....... Bye for now

Reg. error

Rini, I viewed the blog in IE5.5, Mozilla 1.3 and Firebird 0.6.1. I don't get any errors as you've noted. Maybe someone else has got a error, inform me.

None.

yes rini...mostly i will be online...and yesterday i was staying in my office for the whole night and still working...so i was posting then and then... thats all... apram valli...Data Communication and Networks epdi poikittu irukku?

Error in blog?

Hei jax, i am getting an error, which goes like this Error in line 456 expected";" Do u wish to debug? but still i can view the blog, if i clik no to debug. And yesterday i got an error message regarding archives, the error message which i failed to notice properly. do have a check. Soem thing like that of insufficient memeory in archives section of last week. Do others get the same error or its the problem with my IE alone? guys online please check out and tell me. And ya mahen seems to be online always now. Guys u know what today is the flowering day of my plants i beleive. Ya Hibiscus have given two flowers and Sangu poo has given 4 blossoms. And yellow rose has given three buds, which will be blossoming soon. Today is the day where in i got maximum no, of flowers in my pot plants. wow i am so happy. Sangu poo supera valaruthu. And ya i bought 4 more plants last weekend. Actually i bought two plants and since i dint have change for 100rs, (two plants costed 50rs), i bought two more. This time, two croatans and two flowering plants whose name, i am yet to find out as they look different. One read flowering plant and the other gives a butterfly type pale pink with yellow center flowers. Really beautiful to look at. Its leaves are also so good, curly curly and in brownish green color. Its also giving lots of flowers these days. Ok then Will catch u all later Ranjini

Don't worry

Rini, I'm never far away from the blog. I make it a point to check it every hour. Regarding my postings, I was trying to see how this interactions could be improved. Still no posts from many of us, but can't expect them to post as often as a few of us do. I was also try to get some of my work completed by this weekend. Clearing backlogs, you can say. BTW, the name is made much bigger, as for the line, it is not a dashed line, but a dotted line. If you are using IE, you'll see only a dashed line, not a dotted line. Blame Microsoft for it. Get a Gecko based browser like Firebird, it's quick and has a lot of additional features. As your boss is not in town, can we see a lot of interesting posts from you? Bye.

Flash blogs!!!!

What Mahen, will be online always? Flash comes ur reply!!?? How come. btw guys, y dont u put ur current address which might be ur office address or current residential address updates on to our database. I could see some empty columns. I am planning to add one more column to the existing database with the column name, Office address. so do update that also to make the database look complete. Hei guys, one good news, my immediate boss is out of town, for two weeks and i will be free till Aug 22. Not exactly free, but wont have much pressure though he has given me my schedule. You know guys, i am supposed to be in Hyderabad for a training in my working domain - Railway signal Engineering @ IRSET. But then since i had to go for a trip with Srini and his friends on 15,16,17, i have decided to forego. Even my division head is not ready to send me as i am the only female candidate. So he has promised to send me next year when i would have got more acquaintances and knowledge update too. And jax, y no blogs from u for the past two days? What happened? Layout pottu pottu onju poittiya, illa color combination paathu paathu theynju poitiya? And regarding the solution to autorickshaw problem, i havent yet given a second thought, so will update on it later till then bye

Nice bit of postings

Hi, it is good to see a lot of posts after nothing for a few days. I am yet to see the photos. I won't be able to view them today, maybe tomorrow. Rini, a small correction in your post about Wordstar and Word. They are not text editors, they are word processors. Notepad is a text editor. Jify. About Layout, later...

PPS

Yes ranjini...i saw that... really nice... u look gorgeous...maami Mahen.

Wedding album........

Hei ram, after wedding snaps ellam set panni eduthathu thaan. Those taken during our wedding are only taken by his friend. He can take wedding snaps, but cant be after us once the wedding is over na. Those which u feel like we have given pose are taken specially by a still photographer and we got it printed soon and brought it with us to Bangalore for our friends to have a look. but big album in which the entire event is covered is still @ Madurai. Valli........ Madisar illa, just NorthIndian style. I like to drape my favourite outfit in this style. Coz it gives a rich look to the Silk sarees. Very often i tie sarees like this and it would make u look good, infact grand with very few jewels on you. So its a secret to reduce the weight of all those jewels but still look trendy and grand. U too can give a try. Its just the same as tieing ordinary saree but for paloo in the front. Mahen did u see the snaps now? Ranjini

Valli u r wrong

valli...u r wrong valli...there are three ha ha in my post...... ha ha h ahhahah...

good layout

Hi all, Xavier, layout seems good now.......Is this orange ur favourite color?....adha mattum maathavae maataengura??.......If possible try some other shades of orange.....Green is good now.......Do we need the dotted horizontal line after every title?......As Rini, said, it would be nice, if the font size is increased......Other than these minor differences, i find the layout appealing.......good job done man!!!! Good job done by Mahen also.......such a big post from him, for the first time, with only one "Ha ha"......his trademark sirippu......Nice to hear a plastic bag free beach...... Hey Rini, Great photos di........Especially, the couples photo after the marriage looks elegant.....Are u wearing a Madisaar style saree or the ordinary one?.........awaiting to see more of yours........Pallavarukku nalladhoru uvamai koduthu puriya vaithu vittai......sabaash Thozhi.......(just kidding Mahendran!!) About the case study, trying to put myself in the autorickshaw man's shoes, it's quiet nominal to charge Rs.300 or Rs.400, 'coz of the constraints, lesser accomadation, petrol fuel etc......now, getting into the parents shoes, i'll surely try to go in for the cheaper commutation......The part where the autorickshaw association goes wrong, from my view, is "They have no rights to demand.....not the least one to order or force the parents to use autos".......so according to my observation, the change has to take place from the autoriskshaw man's side.......Their association, instead of demanding, has to do some attractive changes, that'll pull back the customers. Or if they try to do this, The customers will have no other way, rather than to get the corps. So my solution is (provided this same situation exists), to go for the SECOND CHOICE..... Saturday, we were invited by an aunty for Varalakshmi pooja.....happened to meet a lot of tamil families....got new contacts...... poittu vaaaraen...... valli.

I cant believe it....

Because, some of the photo seems to be like posed... for eg. Rini after marriage... Srini after marriage... I think u ofcourse know that he took photo after taking it.... or he didnt used flash also... k will blog later... rAm

My wedding album, Mahendra pallava.........

Sari sari oor suthinathu podhum. And thanx for ur words of appreciation too..... and jax regarding this layout, please increase the font size of the writer and also let it be a bit below the line without dashing the line. And kadaisila keela irukara that notice kooda romba brighta irukku. Can dim a bit. I have uploaded my wedding album in files section in the form of PPS, prepared by srini. FYI all the snaps in the presentation have been taken by one of srini's close friend who is learning photography and its been taken without our knowledge. So u can expect some surprising expressions on our album! As the official photographs are @ madurai, we have prepared this album, using only those snaps taken by his friend. So only his friends and not our friends are there in the album! Dont get disappointed. Will turn out with some more snaps with our friends on it soon. So wait for the next release..... Ok then will mail u all later Bye for now Ranjini

Bisibelabath

ranjini... chumma oru kindal thaan... but its really great to know that srini is blessed with a wife who can cook atleast sambar saatham and present it with the name of Bisibelabath...h aha nowadays it is a matter of pride to say that one's wife cooks in home... in that way i shud really appreciate u good luck and i wish u to be busy with ur bisibelabath... bye bye

Our Tour to Maamallapuram

Hi all… Hope everybody had a nice weekend. And for us, it was really one of the most exciting fun packed Sundays in the past few months. Yesterday we (Myself, bala, ajayan and one more friend by name senthil who is vijay’s friend) went to Mahabalipuram. It was a nice trip where we enjoyed each and every mile of our travel. Unfortunately ganesh was not able to join us as he had some work related to his departure to madurai for his training. We started at 8 in the morning from T nagar in two bikes. We filled the fuel for our travel…and then we went to ganesh’s house to get his camera from him. We continued our travel in East Coast Road from ganesh’ s house at 9. The ECR is one of the best roads to have a smooth ride enjoying the pleasant sceneries of the seashore and the backwaters…this trip reminded me of the tour we went to kodai in bikes during our MS… And on the way we finished our breakfast in a motel… We reached mahabs at 10.30 I suppose… We went to Mahishasuramardhini temple there…we visited the light house and we saw the five rathas of the pancha pandavas…it was my first trip to mahabs and I really enjoyed seeing those sculptures there… Then we planned to go to the Kovalam Beach. But on the way we entered a forest like area, where we found nobody was there…so, we drove our bikes towards the beach …it was a nice ride on the sands of the beach which we enjoyed a lot…we reached the shore of the sea…and it was a virgin shore…(!!!) I mean nobody was there and you cannot find even a footprint of men in the seashore…it was so beautiful to see such a shore…may be this was the first time we are visiting such a place… And here comes the main part of the trip…ha ha… Yes we had our drinks party in the sands of beach under the sun…It was our first experience to have such a drinks party in a totally litter free, pollution less, open space seashore, filled with the pleasant sounds made by the waves of the sea... We had a bath in the beach with our drinks in one hand and a cigarette on the other… We were lying on the beach sand for more than 2 hours or so…after enjoying the drink and the sea breeze we started back to our destination having some tea and snacks on the way… During our return, bala terrified me a lot with his terrific speed…in fact, I got his helmet from him and wore it on my head…I was really frightened by his way of driving because his driving reminded me of the accident we met when we went to kodai tour in bikes… Ajayan too adding to his enthusiasm was driving at a good speed…but his vehicle was not able to pick up to meet his speed so he slowed down a bit, but bala doesn’t seem to slow down anyway…once he sees a pair of couple going at a far distance he starts chasing them…ha ha…aana pakkathula pona than therinjuthu ellam dubukku couples…ha ha… Thus we reached ganesh’s house at adyar to return back his camera by around 6 in the evening. Thanks to ganesh for loading his camera with a film roll for us… And thus our trip went on this way and we were back to our room by 6.30. This is just a beginning and our plans are there to go to pondy and tirupathi in the near future after I also get a bike. Hope to see rajesh, ganesh and vijay to join our next trip. I will share the snaps we took during this trip soon so that you too can share our joyful moments. Of course this is just a small trip without any grand preparartion…but the fun we had was something which we had after a long time since we completed our degree…that’s it. C u guys and gals. Mahen.

Reg. Case study.... & Rini's blog

Enna Meraturiya.... Sambar sathathugu... Besibelabhath eduaugathu???.... Men & Women padichaye... yesterday from ToI.. Reg. Singleton APJAK.... Apuram... Kicha's kitchen lla... Smoke varudhuna... that means... his pan is frying not the content..... (ha ha ha ha aha ha) neerum da... unku ellam... BB illa irundhu cut, copy paste pannita... neee cook ayuruviya.... coming to case study.... I go with Rini's view, moreover... I think Share auto runs in Diesel and other autos run in Petrol.... that also to be considered for their high cost.. and patriotism towards the country in minimizing pollution.... More later... Cheers Ram

Layout, Bisibelebhath, my wedding snaps & Case study.....

Layout looks good Jax, more about color combinations in later blogs. But first let me talk to Mahen. Enna settaiya? Rendu perukkum, (Ram&Mahen)appuram naan bisibelebhath senju courier panniruven jaakrathai. What u say is true about it, but the way u prepare varies and taste is also not exactly same ok. Word starum oru text editor, Ms wordum oru text editor, adhukkaga, MS wordum, Word starum onna? they differ in the features right, though they serve the same functionality. Adhe maathiri thaan iduvum. Sari onakku enga puriya poguthu? Idhellam kalyanam aana puriyum. Onakkum thaan, coz now a days guys are fast 2 learning cooking. I could smell something smoking in Kicha's kitchen too. Now adays he sends me recipe's too. so guys be on his track and start learning. Naan vena some simple recipe's anuppi vakiren. friends i will be uploading my wedding snaps and vinitha's reception snaps soon onto our groups section by this evening. so watch out for that! Ok then, on to Rajesh case discussion.... Problem: Rajesh, U know in the world of FMCGs Customer is the king, similarly, here User is the king. He has the right to decide his own way of transport. Since the advent of share auto we could see that the same transport can be arranged at half the earlier price. There is no wonder if a person opts for cheap and best service. But its a subtle problem, coz, these autorickshawalas have to charge more as they can accomodate less people, where as share autos can charge less as they accomodate more people. So these auto walas will have to suffer, if they cut the cost to the extent of these share autos.... Solution: Need to think a bit, so will post it later Bye for now Ranjini

rajesh y is that u did not bother abt the opinions of sangee, ajayan and kathu regarding this case? ask them also to consider this serious case and come out with their opinions regarding this crucial issue... I am on my way to present my opinions sooner or later... ok ha ha haha h aha ha ha h bye da

case study

dear friend In Annanagar ,where i'm staying in chennai an interesting event took place.im putting it in the blog.you say your views about it.We have autorickshaws here to take school childrens to thier school.They were charging 400Rs per student till now to take them to a distance of 2 K.M nearly (to and fro).But after Share autos were introduced now a share auto person collects a minimum of 5 Rs for a person to cover that distance.So on calculating it takes 10 Rs per day for to and fro,which comes to 10 * 5 days/week = 50 Rs/week.so in total it becomes 200Rs/month which is almost 50%.On a concession he had agreed to get 150 Rs /month.But this auto persons who were on business till now are forming informal associations and threatening the share auto person not to do the job.They had also decreased the fare to 300 Rs which is still in expensive.due to the autocratic behaviour the school childrens are finding difficulties to go to school on time. Now the matter is before our appartments association.Now we have to choose from the below decisions. 1.We have to go by the autoRickshaw persons statements and pay them 300Rs/month. 2.We have to give a criminal complaint against the auto rickshaw GANG in police ,where they will be arrested and remanded.here they will be treated as criminals.(the shareauto person is ready for service whenever we are ready to give him a legal protection) so i want xavier,Mahendran,ramgopal.ranjini,kishore,valli,ganesh,sindu,vijaybabu to study the case and reply in this blog there opinion. bye and take care raapi

Not even a whisper...

What happened? I expected a few blogs by you. Nothing for the past couple of days. Seems everyone is busy. No posts from Rajesh, Vijay, Kavi and Ganesh for quite some time. No posts from Kathu, Ajayan and Sangee. Here are a few nice links to visit this weekend.

• A good joke
• To all thanni parties
• Resume of George W. Bush

What about the new layout, guys and gals?

yet another change...

Nothing to post but same message of new layout.

Hai

Mahendra, athu epadi da unnalla mattum... GR8.... ha ha ha haha.... Rini, Just Kiding... Then coming to blog layout.... It will be good, if you moved the block contents to the right side, no centering and all reqd.. it will solve all the issues.... nothing more, catch u later.... bye, hope, u all by now would have come to know about my native visit..... Cheers Ram

and for those who want to have white layout... try out this... go ot www.blogger.com and type your username and password there... and go to the all in a day's work link that will be in the right hand side. the layout is different try it out... bye

Bisibelabath is namma oor Sambar saatham...ha ha

Hey ranjini bisibelabath is called as Sambar Satham in tamil Nadu… I enquired some of my friends…I mean friends who cook…abt this… Bisibelabath is nothing but our Sambar Satham with more onions and ghee added to it… This is what they said to me. Sambar satham senjuttu…atha ennamo puthusa etho senja maathiri blog’la solriya…ha ha Atha vera valli ezhuthi vachikkanumnu oru suggestion veraya…ha ha… Nadathunga unga samayalai…good luck…

Regarding Layout...

I guess you all must have got used to the white background for almost 4 months, so anything other than that would seem unsightly. Most of your suggestions has been to eliminate dark backgrounds. I feel that a contrasting background would be wonderful. Right now, I have got a black background with a near-white grey text. It really looks good. Valli, any help is welcome. That's what I've been telling all the time. The best way to check things out is to take a look at the page source. I have mentioned a lot of details to help you out. save the webpage to your computer. Play around with the styles. Any help in figuring things out, blog it. As for the menus, Kicha, I think the menus are on the top, just below the Title. Or are you talking of the sidebar. Please clarify. Rini, Tell me how to put the content in the center of a two column blog. I feel geometrically challenged. Can Ram help me out on this? BTW, can someone suggest me a good birthday gift for a nineteen year old guy? His birthday falls day after tomorrow (Aug 9). Got a busy few days ahead of me, can't say if I can blog or not? Luckily, I don't have a bang-bang project. I've got six like them. So it is bang-bang⁶.

hi all, I have my final exams for the summer semmester this week. I have the last one tommorrow. Had a very tuff time in my practicals, trying to terminate a twisted pair cable, with a connector & then setting up a LAN......somehow, finally i succeeded.....phoooo, stupid networking, takes so much of physical energy. Next semmester i'm going to just opt programming langs like JAVA, perl & SQL. Guess I would continue my Cisco certification, next year. My summer break starts from this weekend, & extends for the next 20days. Me & my friend, we are planning to do something in our hols......yet to decide.... Last saturday, i recieved greeting cards, one from my brother & one from my parents, for our anniversery(they posted it far ahead, giving allowance for postal delays). The cards were really fantastic, with so much of touching touching words, that i started crying. Ganesh had a really tuff time convincing me that day & finally he took me out, to stop my tears. That day we ended up in getting a brand new big wooden dining table(for which i had been pestering Ganesh for the past 6 or 7 months. All these days we just had a very small one, made out of steel, which Ganesh had got before marraige). Poor Ganesh, he wanted me to smile. But that can be done, only when he cries!!!! Xavier, that background color does'nt suit. Try avoiding dark colors for backgrounds. The green colored text seems to be even worse in this background. I understand that, basically, u need four colors for the blog. Maybe i can come out with a few suggestions, if u want. Rini, nice that you enjoy cooking. It takes time to pick up speed. i used to spend three hrs to prepare lunch, & three hrs to prepare dinner earlier. I purchased four books for cooking recipies on the day we boarded. Uma Devarajan, & Malliga Bhadrinath are the miracle angels who guided me throughout & ofcourse, my mom thru the weekend calls. I wud suggest u to get some good recipie books. It would help u a lot in the beginning.One more important tip i can give u is, record all ur recipies. Bisibelabath, u said u got it from ur friend....have u written it down?.....u might have to refer it atleast for the first four or five times, u prepare it. Only after that u get familiar. Have some burns oinment like burnol or silverex handy always. U might need them often in the beginning. will blog once my exam is over, bye.

The day that was...

jax, When I said "most of ur post" I meant most of "that particular post" and not other posts... in fact, I don't even remember u mentioning about Patsy(mcox) earlier... I too think the only drawback is the background... pretty dark... and we seem to be more used to having the menus in the left rather than right... that might be one more option... It was an awfully hectic day today. Some issues in my code made me bang my head against the table.... bang...bang... I went throughout the day... and it'll be more bang..bang... tomorrow. The better part in the day was, we moved to a new building. Actually not yet completely... I got mail asking to come immediately to my place (from my project place) and pack-up everything from our PMUs (Personal Mobile Unit alias drawers) into a big box that was given to everyone. Then they were taken by the facilities people and placed in the new building (No.33). There, the entire ground floor will be occupied by our team.. Cubicles have been "allocated"... we were asked to search for the cubicle that had our name written on the white-board (usually every one has a white-board next to him). We have to occupy that place only. We got new terminals too. Black... Flat screen monitors..!!!! Thin ones... The terminals are not ready yet. They told it'll be ready by tomorrow and we have to transfer all our files very soon as the old ones will be formatted. Later tomorrow, I'll try to make some time from this bang..bang.. project, to transfer all files from old one to the new one...

Regarding layout

Hei jax, Ennappa Background color idhu.... thoongi valiyudu. Adhukku yellow color was far better. Come one give a try with some other good combination. If u ask me, Other than White i dont find any good background color, but then i wont stop u from experimenting with colors. Happy coloring! and put the blog content in the center instead in the left. Like the white and grey layout. That really eases our reading. I am not satisfied with displaying blog content in one side, be it right or left. Right or left Center is the best! Others look ok to me. will get back to u later Ranjini

Change is continuous...

Hi everyone, Keeping in mind everyone's suggestions, behold the first set of changes to the blog layout. Now that it is done. What's your suggestions?

Hello

Kicha, I guess this was my second or third post about her since this blog began. You call that often. The reason I'm using names is that I am tired of saying 'my friend, who is ..." and "My friend said that...". I makes me feel like a hypocrite. No harm in using names though. Also the message is clear when you use names. Consider, "I am a member of a blog with several of my friends. We post what we can in the blog, one of the blogger got married recently. Yesterday that blogger friend of mine posted a very interesting post on her cooking experience. Another friend of mine recently posted her travels around the UK. Yet another friend of mine sadi how he had spent his weekend." Easy to understand who did what. BTW, She isn't my cousin, otherwise I would've mentioned it. Coming to the next set of choices... Anyway, I have a question regarding your question, 'Girl Friend/Friend who is a girl', what's the difference between the above. Literally, they are the same. Emotionally they differ. Let us say she's both two and three. Maybe she's not neither. Rini, That was really a very interesting post about your cooking experiences. Sindu, Continuing your tour of UK still... Yellorum Orua suthuvanga, nee nadu suthura. As Rini said, where are the photos? And Rini where are your wedding photos? Tired to read a novel and watch a movie (League of the Extraordinary Gentleman) at tha same time yesterday. Completed half a novel and half the movie. Planning to complete the rest today. more later,

Who is Patsy..?

jax, I'm reminded of Pat Symcox... So... Who is Patsy... Most of ur mail is about activities concerning her only... Cousin/Girl Friend/Friend who is a girl/ or what...

Happy Friendship Day!

Hei friends Happy friendship day! u know what i did all these days, here it comes! Friday I bunked my office to slide my hours from the monotonous work. In the afternoon I prepared Bisibelebhath. a new dish, which I listened from one of my colleague and tried out. It came out good only. Ellam naanthaan sollikiren, sollikka vendiyathu thaan. My cousin Suganya was my test subject and she gave pass mark...... I dint trouble srini this time. Next time, probably tomorrow, I will make him also to undergo the test. Full day I thought I would take rest, but then cleaning the house and arranging things ate up my entire day and so did the week end too go with work and work. Especially washing clothes and dish washing is the biggest time eater. Its becoz srini often gives me leave in cooking, I do get a bit of time to relax. As I am new to cooking, I do cook slowly and need to pace up. I would like to learn cooking North Indian Dishes as Srini loves it, (girls/ guys if u know any good north indian recipe kindly intimate to me especially paneer items, let me give a try) but then he insists on not spending much time in cooking. But cooking is my new venture, and as I see, that I am not such a worse cook, my interest in it doubles and I long to cook too. But srini toh, ties my hands, and I dont know, from whom to learn all those north Indian dishes. Anyway soon I will give a try at those too and surprise him. We bought a new Sony Music system yesterday. Its in Grey&Silver color chasis. we actually ordered for grinder too, but its yet to be delivered. So as such we have now started furnishing our home. Hope by this weekend all the most necessary amenities would have been taken care. Saturday srini invited his friends and i cooked tomato rice. It was also good and i am becoming an expert in preparing that u know. Sunday i cooked rice, sambar, meal maker fry, cabbage and carrot poriyal. Everything tasted good u know, especially mealmaker fry, srini loved it. Arey i cook so many new items and i have to drill this fellow to eat. but he never repents and abides. But still to learn so many. We dint go to any concert as planned before. I would have loved to go to Sanjay Subramanyan's concert on thursday, but as srini went to donate blood to one of his colleague's acquaintance, he couldnt take me and so i couldnt go. Yesterday evening we planned to go to Sudha Raghunathan's concert but then as it was raining so heavily, we couldnt. Anyway we had a nice time chatting with his friends, who are so humourous to the core. My god, what a bunch they are!!! Yesterday evening i went home late waiting for srini. But as he was busy, he couldnt pick me up and so i had to go by myself. How boring its to be alone at home. Thanx for the music system which we bought! Then i started cooking for three of us(Srini, myself and his friend). As i started cooking, i started receiving calls after calls and so i couldnt cook properly with full concentration. Illatti mattum romba olunga samikirennu nenappu. Finally with milk boiled over and onion and dal, fried a bit (all these happened as i was talking over phone) i presented a delicious dinner to the two. Poor them!! But the thing is, it was like, u can eat and the side dishes tasted really good inspite of some hiccups. What every body's mouth is watering to taste my samaiyal? Wait wait, avvalavu seekiram invite panna maaten. Still i need to learn some special varieties which i am planning to do once my mom comes for a vacation from 18th Aug! So after my coaching classes are over, Bangaloreans, keep ur tummies empty to fill up with my Sourashtra Cuisine! Sindu, nalla oor suthriya! Sari sari snaps aavathu anuppu enna. Nangalum nee kandukittatha kandukurome. Why so many people have gone for Hibernation? Wake up everybody. Otherwise i will come out with my tasty preparations to be tasted by u all soon! Hei other than Bangaloreans, u all have to wait till u get ur chance. With lots of hopes to cook for u all soon, its bye for now from Ranjini

Why 1.62 million?

Why is it an '1.62' million dollar question? I expected something much higher.

The 1.62 million dollar question...

Who is Patsy...?

My weekend(s) stories...

Hi, Hey Jax...really glad to see an uniform color for the entire blog...Thanx. Two weeks back we went to a place called Isle of Wight- an island near UK...its around 5 hrs drive from our home...for the first time we started really early in the morning, at 7.30....we reached southampton, a place in the south of UK....from there we took a car ferry...it was the most beautiful part of the trip....the ship had a capacity to carry around 80 - 100 cars. After parking the car we went to the upper part of ship...an open area...it was absolutely amazing....the feel of travelling in the middle of sea...it was one hr ferry...spent 2 days in the island...mainly known for its bays and needles like rocks...there were not many sand beaches....a place called alum bay is known for its variety of sands....it has sands in different colors.....then Boomi got a (Isle of Wight) original freash water pearl chain and bracelet...once again ripped him apart...poor Boomi. then we happened to see a GPS (Geographical positioning system) fitted in a HG vehicle. We were absolutely dumbstruck after seeing its sophisticated feautures and functionality. A small screen in front of drivers seat, guides him with a route to any place in UK. It keeps track of the direction of the vehicle as well. It has a voice recognition software as well. So for eg. when he reach a trafic signal, the software tells him which direction to take....out of earth advancement!!! Last wkend we saw ' The Hulk' in nearby Leicester. I didnt quite like the movie....the film was very lenght...went on for almost 2 1/2 hrs....But Boomi somehow liked it....dont know whether he said it genuinely or not....to shut my mouth from complaining about the movie he took me to a chinese restaurant for dinner...had good food! Apart from our usual farmers market strolling on sat, this weekend we saw ' Bruce Almighty ' downloaded from net. Have a good week ahead. bye

Yesterday...

Hi, Yesterday was a very busy day. It was also a day filled with fun and lots and lots of nostalgia. So, this is going to be a very long post. As usual, morning church, after that, decided to go to a religious meeting at my alma mater. Though I was not that much involved in religion, my friend Patsy asked if I was also coming along. Two great singers had come to help us be one with God through music. I went for the music. Somehow, a few things they said also went inside my ears. Good to see my old school, places where I had studied, fought, played, and most importantly learnt quite a lot of things in Life. I had been to the school several times to play cricket on Sundays. But not inside the classrooms. A very nostalgic experience entwined with a refreshing religious awakenings. Unlike Kicha, I had to come to the office on Sunday to do a QA. Rushing from the school, I came to know that no one had started any work at the office. My boss said that I was not required to be present now but maybe later. He asked if I would have lunch. I said No and made my way back to the school for the rest of the session. Reaching there, I found that as soon as I had left, a lunch break had been announced and everyone had a hearty lunch. I had not had anything except a couple of coffees in the morning. Didn't know what to do. whether to ask if anything was left or go out to have lunch. I remembered a quotation, "Hunger is the best sauce for food." Then decided to bear it out. Evening, everything got over. I got a chance to listen to tips on growing spiritually. Walked back home and had a quick tiffin (my first meal of the day @ 5:45 pm). Then I had to go to a net cafe to help Patsy find a few things. Helped her clear her mailbox. God, I really cannot understand why people seem to collect mails as if they are treasures. Any way most of her mails were forwards from her cousin, my junior at school, working at CTS, Chennai. So I gave lecture on forwards, similar to the one I gave to the group some time ago. Her mailbox was full that even deleting mails didn't work. Rediff threw a error message saying that the trash can was full. I wondered so what. I never knew that Trash Cans also had a size limit like mailboxes. Spent time clearing the trashcan. After clearing that, went back to clearing the rest. But found a lot of interesting messages and images. I liked one message. Will post it to the group soon. We never found what we were searching for. So guys and gals out there, hope you can help me out. Tell me a few models for maths students that could be presented in an exhibition, something like say a thremocol model showing pathways, so that students can understand how to measure areas of pathways and so on. I recalled my schooldays when she said this. Another interesting thing, only Indians seem to be using the word 'thermocol'. A Google search on thermocol listed almost only Indian sites. I wonder what it is known as in other countries. Met Rajesh online. Had a nine-message conversation with him. I sent five messages, he sent four. He left. So I left. Late evening saw me return home. I picked up a novel that I had been reading for the past few days. After reading a few chapters, I got bored and had dinner (second meal of the day). Watched "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Went to sleep at 1:00 am.

my weekend...

Hi, Saturday I came to office… and went early by 3PM.. went out to buy some things in the evening witn ramgopal and got caught in heavy rain.. had a hard time protecting the things.. Sunday rested… it was a sunny morning when I washed all my clothes and put it for drying in the terrace… as I woke from a quick nap it was raining and the clothes became wet again… then brought them down and hung them in my room… a calm weekend... And Wish u all a HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY...

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Pillai illatha veetla Ganesh Thulli kuthikkaran...

Hi all, Ganesh lollu thaanga mudila... Pillai illatha veetla kilavan thulli Kuthikkira maathiri...kekka aal illannu avan thulli kuthichikittu irukkan... In fact, myself and rajesh planned to meet today evening… Nadula intha ganesh vanthu Kaaka Kaaka padathukku polamnnu solli ellorayum keduthuttan… Jothika jollu innum avan vidala… So, do something to bring him under control… Ganesh Vayasukku Thagutha maathiri nadanthukko da… Etho naanga youth boys…jothika padathukku ponalum parava illa… Un vayasukku…ithellam thevaya…ha ha. Dubukku… Makkale…Colgate Palmolivela velai kidachalum Kidachuthu…ganesh araajagam Thanga mudila chennaila…ha ha.

It was a relatively calm working on saturday. And thankfully, tomorrow am not coming to office. The PL of the project has not come today. If he had come then he would have made me to come tomorrow too. So, nice that I'll take an off tomorrow and sleep well and groom myself for the tougher days ahead in the project. Just talked to ramgopal. We are going to a bookshop (a huge one) to buy a coupla books - one for him and an encylopedia for me... we'll... not exactly for me... it is supposed to be sent to chennai for my cousin. And after that will start the countdown to pull up my bermudas for the day... and I'll keep it pulled up until monday morning... ;-))

Hi all, Lot of posts to read in a couple of days....... Hey Xavier, great job done.....cheers!!.....being one of the last bloggers to comment on the layout, i know it's all going to be a repitition...so, i just wanna emphasize on one thing....the color combinations!!!.....undoubtedly, it's far better than the previous layout......we need colors in life.......but, can we try out some other combination?.... The yellow background, with orange headers, they don't go well with each other.......& as others said, that green too.....the first impression i got seeing the layout was...it was more or less resembling our national flag....the same green & saphron.....If we can't avoid having a border for each of the boxes, can't we have a different style, instead of a plain black line?...something like....shaded borders??...Rest of my questions, u've already answered.......... Two weeks back, we were just roaming abt the farmers market on a saturday morning, to get some fresh veggies, rather than those preserved dolly decorative vegetables on those big temperature controlled stores. we were just crossing across a plant seller who was selling so many different plants....& something made me stop there......something which my eyes had been missing for the past 11 months......there was a small plant, just a stem, with two white flowers in it....i cud'nt believe my eyes....i went near the plant & sniffed the flowers......& jumped back "Ganesh malligai poo Ganesh, namma malligai poo"....both Ganesh & the shop keeper, freaked out for a second.....my happiness knew no bounds.....now that plant is in my living room, filling the air with it's freshness daily....making me happy everytime i see it....it gives me two or three flowers everyday....which decorates my swami shelf..... "Malligai....en mannan virumbhum, ponnaana malar allava"..... have fun with ur project Kicha..... happy weekend for the rest of us..... bye.

Kicha says...

Hi, Its been a very very very very strenuous week for me... and its going to be no different in the next 3 weeks. The work pressure is really gaining on me and this stupid project that i'm doing is driving me even more crazy... I haven't responded to majority of the mails that I've been receiving... its all there safe in my inbox (I think)... So, if I go into a hibernation in the next week or so like Ranjini does, then don't be surprised. I'm already half crazy with my project... and whats more... I'll have to come to office tomorrow and probably Sunday too.... :-((

Kavitha Natarajan says...

Hi, How are you? THis week I was a bit busy since I had training in SQL DTS and also had more work in my project. Then you know our senior vijaya kumar, He will be joining in my project from next wednesday. Today only we came to knew this. Then July 30th was my official B'day i.e which is in certificates.So I was greeted by my team and I got gifts.A beautiful leather purse & cassettes..I cudn't deny the treat. Today evening we are going for a party. That's all for now. Jax is doing a great work!! I will post my view about the layout soon..

Welcome to Kathu and Ajayan

So someone really had a very severe case of trisdekaphobia. Now the blog is grown to 14. When Bala joins, it will be fifteen. Good going. Let's keep the interactions going, personal differences apart and lots of informative discussions burning. Bye.

On education & strikes....

Reg. education, What I feel is Indian Govt. has taken gr8 efforts to eradicate illiteracy, One more joined effort can be taken is as I have mentioned earlier... Making Hindi as the National Language practically.... for free flow of information beyond culture, tradition and place of birth accross India... Coming to college education, I do agree that, mostly there is corruption going on in the name of education, even though those who have got the opportunity to have higher studies are not using their resource to the maximum extent they can......for example ours itself.. we were provided with ample faculty, library and resource..... the more we did is ample enjoyment... the reason behind is we are not serious about our future..... we are serious only we r infront of fire..till then no probs, "Let it come man we shall defeat it" After it has come, we have defeated it also.. but not with our full force and resource.. we havent stretched our mettle enough.... Most of u may disagree with the above points... but truth is that... (v have to accept it) Although we have come up in our life with the least effort in the max. resourse.... Just think what will be the outcome if we have put the effort more.... We enjoyed a lot for 2.5 months & stretched very lot for 0.5 months... vice versa would have given better results... Nothing to worry as of now.... Really speaking we had a splendid faculty and course subjects.... That has placed us in these positions.... Reg. Strikes......... This reminds the conductors strike, Nothing more to post.... bye, catch u later.... got to go.... Cheers Ram

Ajayan joined

at last ajayan got the invi and accepted... welcome ajayan...

New Member...

Hi, we've got a new addition. Kathu has accepted the invitation. The members has grown to thirteen. Hope no one has got triskaidekaphobia. Ajayan and Bala are yet to accept the invitations. I still don't know why Sangee isn't posting at all. Seems Ganesh is very busy at CP. Where is Rajesh? He said he'll be back. Still collecting details...?

More explanations...

Sindhu, Thanks for your suggestions. A list box would look better for the archives and also consume less space. The drawback is a dropdown box requires javascript. Nothing wrong in using javascript except that it may behave funny at times and also gobbles up the bandwidth. That is the major reason behind not having a dropdown box. Don't worry, when we reach 100 weeks which I guess would be roughly around Feb 2005, the blog layout would have changed to accomodate the links. I'll consider your suggestions for the background colours in the enhancement. - Fixed. Kicha, 70% would be too large. We've got people using resolutions from 800x600 to 1280x1024. If 70% of the screen is taken up by the blog content and supposing the blog post is mostly one or two lines only, think how it would look. The previous layout also had 50% only. Amazing, how a change in layout brings out a change of spatial viewpoints. Update: Blog content portion now has changed to 60%. As for the strikeouts, It means I have updated the blog. The striked out items have been completed. You can notice the corrections.