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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

B R E A K I N G N E W S ...

At least 12 feared killed in 4 blasts in Mumbai At least twelve persons were feared killed in four blasts in south Mumbai -- one near the Gateway, one near Zaveri Bazaar, one near Pydhonie and a fourth at a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation office at Marine Lines -- today afternoon. Read full-story

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.

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.

a day sans blogs

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

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,

Answer..!!!

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

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.

Whoa...!!!

Research paper rubbishes astrology Extensive scientific research over more than 40 years has finally confirmed what many always believed: that astrology is rubbish, and that it is based on the principle of deception. The research began in London 1958, and has just been published in the current edition of the respected Journal of Consciousness Studies. It is hailed as the most thorough scientific study ever made into the subject. Read full-story

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..

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?

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.

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.

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...

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Valli u r wrong

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...?

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... ;-))

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.

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.