on the move..

It has been a month since I came to Chennai. I expected to roam around Chennai during the weekends. I was wrong. I had spent only one weekend in Chennai. Every weekend, I find myself spending the weekend out of town. I had been to Madurai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, and coming weekend, Bangalore again and then to Coimbatore next weekend. I wonder when I can get to visit the sights and sounds of Chennai other than commuting to work. Kicha, expecting a treat from you for getting a new mobile and Rini, expecting your birthday treat. My plans for a mobile are posted here. Leave your suggestions/comments for my mobile there.

Gmail account

Ram linked about it. So i got myself a Gmail account. Somehow Gmail seems to be associated with a lot of controversies recently, mostly privacy issues. Anyway, I am trying it out to see how it works. So kindly cc your mails to xavierroyatGMAILDOTCOM. I am at Coimbatore for the weekend. I'll be starting to Chennai tonight. More on monday.

A short visit

A couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Namma MTR foodchain. My cousin, his roomate, his roommate’s friend and me decided to go to a movie, Ghillie that afternoon. Since the show was scheduled to start only at 16:30, we had the afternoon to while away. We decided to visit Commercial Street. On an impulse, we chose to visit Namma MTR instead of Café Coffee Day. We were in for a surprise.

This summer, Namma MTR has launched an unlimited icecream buffet scheme. You pay 50 ruppees and you can eat as much icecream as you want. You can choose from various flavours, additional items like sauces, dry fruits. It was a good bargain to beat the summer heat. So those in Chennai and Bangalore, rush to the nearest Namma MTR outlet and enjoy this offer.

Rini, I tried calling your home. But no one picked up. I guess you had gone out to browse as I got your message on my mobile. Kicha, I called your office. You weren't there at your desk. Ram, sorry da, I didn't know your extension number. I tried to call Bala, but I could not reach him. Anyway the next time, I come to bangalore, I'll meet all of you. maybe we ca have a treat at namma MTR.

Billion dollar infynite...

It was a grand celebration of the billion dollar day.. All members of the board along with Don Liles, the first customer of infy, NS Raghavan, the first employee of infy with employee number 0001, Steve Pratt the CEO of Infosys Consulting Inc., and many many more dignitaries... The messages of the President, PM and CM of Karnataka were read out... Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik made the night colorful with their gracious voices... and to top it all there was a grand dinner...

I am back.

It is good to see atleast one get-together taking place. I think the experience was very rich on seeeing the number of dollar signs in Kicha's posts. As for me, this Easter went off well with my relatives, just like Christmas. I guess I've stopped celebrating festivals at home with family. I hope it is not the sign of things to come. I know I haven't been posting much here, unlike there. One reason is that most of my posts were either links to other sites I had come across during my browsing. But since I don't have that opportunity now, I find it difficult to post anyhting. BTW, there seems to be any discussion at all, both in the blog and the group. Any way here is one link I came across while watching television. Nowadays, it keeps me company during evenings. But due to the stupidity of the government (CAS), I cannot get any movie channels. I have to manage with music channels and news channels. Sri, nice to read your post. It kept me and Manny laughing for quite some time. Any way can you call me on my mobile (09840171578) asap.

The weekend...

It wa$ a wonderful weekend... though it could have been better in $ome a$pect$.. it wa$ very enjoyable neverthele$$... Rajesh and Vijay Babu had made it all the way to blore from their place$.. and Murtuza i$ al$o back in the city after having a time of hi$ life in Goa.. We had booked a room the previou$ night and the next morning we $tarted off to a re$ort at the far end of Bannerghatta... $pent the whole day having a lot of fun there... Murtuza had got a car $o moving here and there wa$n't all that difficult... we talked about pa$t, about all the per$on$ of our cla$$ and a lot lot more... an exciting and memorable weekend indeed...!! PS: Infy becomes a billion dollar company today...

Week that was and ahead

There was soemthing interesting that happened in the past week... As I was racing against time to finish some work.. valli came online.. and then jax and then ram came out of his invisibility and we started a conference... though I didn't take part much because of work.. I followed the talk.. and then sindhuja joined in too.. it was nice talking with all at one go... and then I felt a bit naughty... I asked sindhuja for her number and called her up from office... through VoIP... just the inspiration of making so many calls to UK everyday (my current client is in UK) made me that much naughty... I don't know if I'm allowed to reveal.. but still I do (I continue to be naughty)... Sindhuja is likely to land in India on May 3rd.. and go to Madurai etc., for a month before returning back to Bangalore... sindhu, would still like to hear this from ur mouth in this blog... And there is going to be a get-together of sorts this weekend... some of the guys will be in blore this weekend for a day's bash.. while some are not able to make it... we'll plan something bigger soon...

from RAJESH

Dear friends please note that this election is not going to do anything with TN.The results are noway going to influence our Honourable chief minister Dr.AMMA. this is parlimentary election and so dont fall inside the trap of thinking locally . If you are satisfied with the nadional democratic alliance and support all the hard steps taken by AIADMK government in ensuring financial stability and uniform growth among all sector of people ,if you want them to continue in power VOTE FOR BJP/AIADMK alliance(which is a natural alliance). if you are not satisfied with the performance of NDA and still believe that DMK and alliances who where with BJP till yesterday and blamming it as an religious party today,a party with a symbol of rising sun and with a policy of rising son and rising grand son ,a party which always beleive that acting against Hindu beliefs is called as secularism, can give better governance along with Mrs.Antoniyo meno of ITALY ,then kindly vote for thier alliance. always note that inspite of all critisism and blames Tamilnadu has almost reached the first position in all sectors as promised by our CM. also note that Majority can not be right always. ready for further discussion Note: Kicha : - can you please copy this mail and put it in blogger for me?

MicroSun Windows...

The 2 billion dollar conversation... Transcript of Press Conference Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Scott McNealy, Chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems April 2, 2004 San Francisco, California

FLASH NEWS: Rivals join hands...!!

A tech cold war comes to an end Calling a truce in one of the business world's loudest and longest-running rivalries, Sun Microsystems on Friday settled its legal feud with Microsoft in exchange for nearly $2 billion in payments and a 10-year cooperation agreement with its former nemesis. The two companies will collaborate over the next 10 years to make each other's products -- notably Sun's servers and Microsoft's dominant Windows PC operating system -- work together well. McNealy said the deal with Microsoft would make Sun's products more valuable because they will now be able to work smoothly with products running Microsoft's software. Read full-story.

internalisation without obligations???

Yeah, it was a kind of obligatory post I had to make because I liked this approach. Just in case you didn't know, many people I know read my blog. It keeps them in touch with me. I could've easily posted everything here and asked them to view it here but somehow I felt it wasn't the best solution. So when I have an alternative, why don't I redirect them there? As for my participation in this blog, don't feel that I am abadonning this blog for that. Each one serves its purpose and neither shall one replace the others. Obligation is not to taken as 'something you do because you are indebted to it'. And I also feel that obligation is a first step towards internalisation. So unless and until I start fulfilling my obligations, do they become closer to me and as a result, internalisation occurs. That's all from me for now.

Rumination

Its been a while since I posted something substantial.. not that I don't have time.. but that I don't know what to post.. I do get my so-called "breaking news"... but a series of that would be just posting something for the heck of it... jax, even though u told some days back in reply to my "post-jax era" post etc., that u would always be around.. its kind of going to be hard for u now.. understandable.. but as rini pointed out, it would have been more heartening for all of us if u had kept a fraction of that gusto to this blog too... all we got was something that u yourself acknowledge as an "obligatory" post... that was the saddest part of it all... I was just fearing this... posting in this blog need not be an obligation.. but it must be an internalised exertion.. obligation is the last thing anyone would want... Anyways... rini.. keep pondering about the question.. I too will... some riddles (if I may call my question one) are difficult to be solved... but riddles need not be solved to be enjoyed..!!

obligatory post

This is just an obligatory post to make known that I keep in touch with the blog. More details about my job, read QSS