Eclipse 3.3 is out...

June 29th, Eclipse has released its new version 3.3. I am not sure if you are aware, it has its own C/C++ IDE, Java IDE, PHP dev, SWT and lot more... 

      

First Visit to US

Its always a great feeling to visit the much hyped USA... I have seen so many people around me going and coming, atleast to me now it feels like going to HYD and coming back... Whatever it is the first visit to US is a real amazing for any indian individual. My friend described it as here - "It feels so great dude, Life looks so organized where ever it is starting from street lights, traffic, office timings, shopping places... what not.. Initially it feels like you have fast forwarded 100 years to see the drastic developments around you... It looks all HEP... The internet speed is 70Mbps @ home... Online movies get buffered just like that... Food is bad as i am a veggie... I started liking the BEER taste here... Its a Cosmo, so lots of babes around with short skirts and minis and oohh.. it definately feels real fast forwarded for sometime until you are used to it"... hmm... yes, looks so much true.. but its all part of life.. what the hell will you do paying more for a beer than water..  I havent had my visit as yet, but its all much hyped. Atleast to me its like joining a startup company and joining either microsoft or google... It all looks hep sometimes, i mean the building, office, cubes, telephone, your desk, your manager, your team members.. every one either look hep or you are initiallly so isolate.. take time and you will rock everything around... But reasons apart, First visit to US is a great feeling for everyone..

Yogesh Khatri...

This is the first time i am writing about a person. I am not sure whether i would write it proper but pardon me if my articulation goes annoyed. Yogesh is a member of my "Champion Team" (as avinash says)... He is from rajastan. If you say you are hard-working, given an opportunity he can beat you anywhere... Hez not from the mumbai convent schools to have the best of spoken english but you definately cant win to speak along with him for his hindi teasers. Studying hard to be @ No.1 - I could make out his zeal was just to be on the top among the students in his class. He was on the beat and he won it. He is clever but very cautious. He is very scary with his boss. Atleast, i havent seen any one as him who cannot even raise his voice to talk to his boss. I mean, you are not fighting with your boss.. While he stands before his boss, this "behind the scenes tiger" becomes a clear CAT.. to the extent of postphoning his leaves to go to home or waiting to get a yes for a 5 day PTO after the release of product.. ending up pay 2000Rs. more for his flight tickets !! He has a lot of zeal to do the best fit work... Deviations are everywhere... and this time, its a girl thing for him... A smile on his face and yes.. there is a girl around !! He claims to have won the Dashing-A-NewHire-Girl award as well ;) thanks to director team !!Oh yes, his secret alliance search is going on - and as lkaur says - "Eki Sada hua photo lagake" (see above)...I guess thats the best photo-studio in rajasthan during his Class 10 when he took this photo :) No wonder, i vaguely remember that his first encounter with the first alliance was a huge disappointment to our guy because he sent an email to the girl without even talking to her (well, he is still waiting for that emails reply)... On the otherside, he takes a lot of time to gel with people but once he gels, its hard for you to stop yourself from laughing for his bantering jokes. He has laid out his own road plan for his life.. i mean, Family.. brother... house... marriage.. noida.. car..kids... and so on...  A you tube savvy and a die-hard mouli freak, he struggles hard to make himself among the new people. I just wish he gets a wife who is as much a spend thrift as opposed to his planned cautious spendings.. Yes, as lkaur says.. he is the first guy wandering around you to give you back the 300 bucks you have spent on his behalf for a grub outside office.... He looks very innocent, so much to an extent that Amoeba, in bangalore is a restaurant for him so far... He has quite a few friends but ya.. they are "khatri type" again.. !! Ranga is a huge fan of him especially for his tremendous help during the loc schedules... To be frank, this guy was the only reason for our teams Jaipur trip... he took the initiative and invited all of us, he promised that he will be a good guide to show us "The Rajastan"... every one took him for granted and slept but khatri, susom were the only ones who brought us safe to jaipur when we opened eyes in the morning.. This small chap has lured everyone in the team... The chota betta - "jaake apna diaper change karlo" has clean bowled him :) that was sikander this time.. No doubt, the grey areas are always hidden but this guy is an amazing companion to be with...

New Manager...

Shifting the team is like joining a new company... Product is new, your domain is new, your manager is new, people around you are new... To mix and gel with them, ahh.. you will have to take a lot of time... I havent moved yet though... I met my new manager today to block my new cube.. luckily i am not on the aisle :) Her name is Jyoti. Very cool and down to earth person who can just talk to you and understand the problems - "Very Chill and cool" (Double-quoted) No strict rules @ team... Issues, concerns, anything anytime.. just walk-in... I will have to talk to Suresh to see what machines i can carry along with me... may be arunmac as well.. provided i give the databackup to others in the team... and my desktop as well... not sure about the imac that i got on my name in CT Team.. ;) lets wait and watch whats in the cup for me...

Unburdening...

           Two years... you started the race where every one was into some sort of the work or the other. My interests on coldfusion and the opportunities then and my past exp working intensely on dbs helped me move quick those days making all the charts, apps, presos... Now its time to unburden my responsibilities as a part of KT (Knwoledge transfer) or TOI (Transfer of information)... Firstly, its hard... You ran the race all along... I started learning CF or whatever other thing from scratch looking at the help, looking at sample apps etc. Now to teach someone from scratch is like running back to your life faster and faster and recalling how it was when you learnt... i took 3 months to learn the basics of CF and got it up and working... ofcourse not full-time.. now i have targets to finish transitioning to other people making sure i dont Rush things landing them into trouble.. on the other side, some of my code was over-written to a large extent.. i mean if i sit with it, may be i will take a day or two to completely understand it myself... hopefully, i dont disappoint any one whom i was told to transition my knowledge on.. hopefully, they get what i wanted to convey and what i had learnt till today patiently. I just hope the transition goes smooth... Let all know what its all these days in CT meant for me.. Anyways, i am just looking forward to next week for a better morning and a better sunrise for me fresh product... lets see how that goes...

Sun MicroSystems, Secret project !!

I Went and met my friends today afternoon in koramangala... One of them works for Sun Micro here.. He told me, Sun is planning to fight with Adobe on RIA stream... Looks like their Java FX annoucement release in Sun One Conf. recently has had a delayed response.. They want to compete in RIA's technology with Adobe Flex. Flex has a beautiful code editor which was amazingly made out of Eclipse... Definately that was a lot of work, ignoring the known issues... which every product has... now Sun wants to have its own editor for writing Java FX... they want to build an editor on top of the popular "Net Beans IDE"... The funny thing is - their internal Code name for the project is "FLEX KILLER"... haha... Also heard that they estimated a lot of work and postponed the plans on the relese part of it... but i really appreciate the mark Adobe has already made in RIAs with Flex. Now with the release of Apollo, i am sure it will add more base to its existing market... To catch up the race and boost their motivation levels, Sun's code name atleast looks real funny to me...

Lift under test

Have you ever been in the lift when the power goes off and the lift stops all of a sudden?? While you are starting from -1 floor to 3rd floor... hmm.. looks like a pokiri movie scene but happened to me today morning while i just got into the lift... irony is there is no illeana in the lift and no body who can make sure i have the pokiri fun in the lift :) haha... jokes apart, it was the first time in my life that i am in a lift and power went off. Shocked. Scared. Everything looks dark. There is no light for some 10 seconds. You are in the middle of some hanging thing... ahh, now relaxed... there is an emergency one small light that glows now after 10 seconds or so.. yeah. now i can see switches in the lift.. Now i am scared whether the lift will free-fall ?? where will it go ?? 2-3 minutes, i felt like.. oh my god what is going to happen next ?? generator is up now... oh yeah.. all lights in the lift started glowing now... but still the floor indicator doesnt show anything.. it shows "--".. now what the hell.. what next... standing in the lift, with the indicator showing "--", you cant even feel whether lift is moving down or moving up... it opened the door suddenly... ahh.. a bunch of people... And i am in floor "Zero"... now the lift indicator starts working.. now i press floor "3" with a bunch of other people... ahh... well-done.. lift is properly kept to test with me inside it :)

Time to Contribute

Yes its time to contribute. Adobe Contribute, a product for which i worked so passionately for past two years tells me to give it back something... Giving up my interest itself is a big challenge but after seeing the crests and troughs, very less would want to talk about it now. I gave a lot to contribute... i learnt it, i answered queries to customers, i certified it for releases, i use it even now... so much i took from it till now, i never gave back anything to it... This time, i have to give away my 17" inch, Macbookpro which avinash and me got it for our CPS UI dev work initially.  No doubt, the day i made my decision, i told everyone that i will return this cutie lappy but again, i never thought it would be so early... This might be my last post from my cutie lappy for long...  I was the first to try out the install of win on mactel in macromedia india.. it spread and every one had it then.. This lappy has definately given a lot of motivation to watch movies in the big screen... Am starting to take the data backup in this and return this to Sam, EM on either monday or tuesday... My cutie lappy, i will miss you... Thanks to the initiators for the small-time rewards...

Shoot Out @ Lokhandwala

       Its not worth watching even once.. well thats my opinion. I would love to watch a real life stories that have a message that helps you move on in life.. What do these shoot-out movies with AK-47s and bloody shootings convey you? Do you want us to get inspired of this and participate in it? Do you want us to be aware of gundaism in the community? Do you want to scare the rest of the Junta ? Now what the hell. If there is a gunda or an under-world idiot, he will fight with another idiot... Or he will get into arguments with a richiest of the rich who makes only black-money... Otherwise how will these guys talk in terms of 70 crores terms ?? You kill him because he is in that gang and i kill you because you are in a different gang... And the worst part is you kill my family and i kill you and before i kill you, the movie director will turn it into a guilty state.. he will show all Sorrow by showing their parents and the mafia himself wanting to become a common man.. well that might have happened somewhere, but atleast to me thats of very least significance. You know what? i can create 100 such stories to increase crime awareness and generate a lot of scary faces among you... What do the real police men think about all this amitabs and sanjaydutts action movies ?? kill kill kill... well, they want to make movies that are not routine so they make this... couldnt watch it after a while, total bakwaas.

Prepare Rice in a vessel in 15 minutes

               Welcome to all those guys who dont know cooking... Herez starting you with a starter guide to prepare rice. Well, if your wife or mom is not in town and you dont like eating out and you feel like eating your own food.. start with rice... Its for a novice. Its very simple. If you have a Rice Cooker which can automatically prepare rice for you - all you have to do is, take a small glass, Take Half a glass of Raw rice into a bowl, Wash rice with water so that the dust goes off. Dont over-wash... you can wash it twice with water. Throw away the water. Now in the washed rice, pour water which is double the size of the raw rice that you kept. Since you kept half a glass of raw rice, pour one (full) glass of water. Put it in the cooker vessel, close the vessel and switch on the light. Go and Watch TV and come after 20 mins, your rice is done..

                Most of the time, its very easy to cook in a small vessel directly than a Rice cooker.. No problem, if you dont have a rice cooker, you can prepare rice in a normal vessel bowl. Its again the same formula but you need to be little cautious this time because if you are not cautious, you might throw away the cooked rice after your experiment.. All those lazy bums, bachelors can try this as a MUST. Its as simple as doing one of your Electronics lab exam with all diodes and resistors... or your LATHE machine cuttings...

• Take half a glass of raw rice, put it in the vessel
• Wash the raw rice with water and throw away the water
• Now measure and pour Water into the vessel containing the washed rice, Quantity of water should be double the quantity of the raw rice kept.
• Light your gas stove (Preferably the smaller burner :))
• Put the flame in FULL-burning mode (knob pointing 90 degrees)
• Now keep the Vessel with Rice + Double Water poured into on the litted stove. Dont forget to close the vessel with a lid (a small plate)
• Wait for 3-5 mins, until you see that the water in the rice is boiling and pushing off the lid (Small plate) kept on top of the vessel. You can see that, the water pushes off the plate if you wait for more time..
• Immediately you gotta Put the Gas Stove in SIM (Lowest Possible FLAME).... Open the Lid (small plate covering the vessel) little (Dont remove the plate completely, cover it say 3/4th, keeping 1/4th open.. roughly). NEVER put the flame high after this point till the end of it...
• Now go and relax watch TV for say 10-15 minutes.
• Its good to come in between and have a look at it every 5 minutes but dont put your hand inside and try experimenting... Dont Stir the rice+water mix at any point of time since the start till the end.. ITS not required. If you try doing it, you will end up making a paste. Also, you might have seen your mom taking off the water from the rice bowl in the middle of the preparation sometime, You dont bother about it. You dont Do it.. NOT required.
• After the time is elapsed, you can make out the rice is actually done... So how do you confirm? Well, there shouldn't be any water left out either on the top or at the bottom... Take a small spoon and put it inside the rice vessel to see if the bottom portion of the rice is not containing water. It so happens that the top 50% of portion of vessel containing rice is done but the lower portion is still having water.. i.e., rice is still being made.. leave it for some more time.. until you feel - OK no water is in at the bottom now..
• Thats it your rice is done. Switch off the Gas stove. Wait for 5 mins and start eating...

You can have pickles, Curd, Egg curry or curries from outside and have with it...  Caution: While preparing in vessel make sure you dont watch TV for long time while you kept gas stove in FULL-burning mode, Water boils and pushes off the lid and spills water outside. Once it spills water outside, you need to pour more water, but if your measurement is wrong and you keep pouring more and more water, prepare yourself for a RICE-PASTA... Gud luck..

Going Bankrupt...

          Its self-explanatory... an year ago, while i joined my new company in Bangalore, i never had any big-time investment options... so most of my salary would be either my personal expences and the remaining will be my savings lying in my account... that gets accumulated over a period... you feel yes, you are rich now.. you can get the brand new cargos for 1700 bucks... with 0% discount on SF or levis... You can buy whatever you want because you feel you have enough bank balance to back you up... All of us know that money is never permanent.. well, most of us agree to that statement but most of us have not yet encountered the situation from being a good balance holder to a close to Zero balance and the close to zero balance state remains on and on till sometime period.. i know there are a few who have encountered it as well... I liked the movie Tara-Rum-Pum, well thats my opinion but i liked the message in the movie. None of us will have all the luxuries that we are having now, coz we are earning decently good...Close your eyes, imagine a state where your parents are not backing you up...  You lost all your education certificates... you cant get duplicates..neither you have a chance..  you have responsibilities that dont wait for long time and they keep asking you for money money money money....  Well - its simple, you will definately go mad though u can handle things.. Dont always try to live to the luxurious gang... Learnt to live hard sometimes though you have bank balance.. You never know what your balance will be tomorrow ??  Do you have the real friends among the group whom you spend quality time to go and ask - i want xxxxx amount of money, can you lend me ?? And do they actually lend you (if they have managable amounts but not so low amounts as well...)... count them in to your true listings... they helped you...  but thats not the only reason.. When you were richy, if you were on the otherside... you too are removed from their listing...  its vice-versa, simple..  Nobody wants to become bank-rupt wantedly.. but the NEED for huge money for something will drag you and fall-in to the trap... fortunately you have everything to plan and play the game... But the Saif and Rani have done well in acting the niche areas of the movie that really impressed me... Parepare to live hard, it helps in your future.. filthy luxury makes you lazy or makes you mad..

Eclipse Eurpoa is coming..

21 Projects... One gathering... Eclipse Europa... One of the huge Annual release is happening 16 days from now.. Adobe released its Suite of products, Oracle is planning on its Fusion release and Eclipse is bringing up 21 Projects to all of us.. So whats the difference ? Quality remains same in all but Eclipse is all free for us, I love the Eclipse IDE (Platform)... I have used it for the last one and half years. I used it in coding/Junit-testing/Plugin-dev for my java related projects. I love it because first thing, Its Free.. its powerful.. and very easy to use and an Amazing community and support. I am an ardent fan of the short-cuts keys in eclipse IDE and my favourite being Cntrl+Shift+R to open any resource file.. I also love the draggable window trims from the top to bottom.. Thanks to the CVS integration enhancements, i must say that was really helpful. The Compare with history option is very handy and regularly used. The Project tree view structure is really really good. If there is an error in one of the package, i can clearly navigate to it from my tree structure.. This was really helpful for me. No doubt the grouping of errors and warnings also helped a lot. The Cntrl+Click on a method call to navigate to the implementation is my all-time favourite.

Eclipse Platform:

It contains all the above. Eclipse and Ant integration is really amazing feature and is no doubt one of my favorite. I can execute a ANT buildfiles from within the eclipse, provide ant tasks for eclipse, generate/dev ant build files on the fly.. Integrating CVS was a real must as a bunch of dev/testers will be working on one source files simultaneously.. Fancy thing thats highly useful for me is to do a remote-repository-browsing from within the ide. The proxy settings, multi-instance view management and the new UI features is what i like.. I still miss the Chatting with my peer logged in CVS users from within the IDE but that could be an enhancement for an IDE as such. I also like the WebDAV integration where a file checked out will be having a webDAV lock on the file until its of use for the other user. The greatest advantage of eclipse is the way it is written - "It is highly extendable for any one".. Adobe Flex Builder is a customized version of eclipse where the "Editor, View, Debugger, Workspace, Project, Resource, File" are all extended, customized... Thanks for the amazing work for giving us such a wonderful, a easy use product.

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Re-invent yourself...

Most of us try to achieve something in life.. we set ourselves a GOAL and we try to achieve it. Most of us are born and brought up with the term "Discipline" in life.. Parents play an important role in getting us disciplined. What the hell is the meaning of discipline? its simple, its like behaving like an educated... now thats a complex answer... okay.. most of us come up in life initially with one GOAL, study hard and get good marks and get a good job and settle down. How do we talk to others? are we sensible? do you really appeal to them or do you sound nonsense? Are you talking to the occassion or are you going out of context and not matching with others? do you respect every other individual and their thoughts? if some one does some mistake, can you be cool and help them correct themselves? Can you be soft to others rather than harsh? Do you show your anger at some one? How do you talk when you are in angry-mood? How do you walk? how do you smile? How do you dress? How do you work? How do you move with people? Can you make friends? - Answer for all this is discipline.. Some of the discipline is taught in the school.. we tend to talk to other students, we make friends, we study, we compete.. We learn to conduct ourselves. Matter of fact, lot of things which i havent listed here are "Learnt" by us while we walk in life. For example, you look at the working style of a person and you get inspired.. you feel yeah thats the right thing to do.. i will also follow it... thats it, you have learnt something from the other person. You look at the hair style and dressing style of some other person and you try to learn from him.. There are a lot of things which we learn as we go along in life.. Its good that we should realise that we must have our learning experience going and start adding to our good learnings list. It definately will re-invent you to be more happy person than what you were before.. "Inspiration" is not available in the market. A collection of the best quotes to the point of your interest, reading them will inspire you more... Learn.. Re-invent yourself...

One of the difference b/w Men 'n Women

            

      I observed in couple of men and women recently... i know there are lots of differences but i found this to be a major difference. Women are more inclined to be "Soft" at heart... They are a lot more patient than men (Leave alone the exceptions). Take an example of a begger coming to you (say while you are in a train before the train starts or in a theater along with your family) and asking you for money, a male says NO. The begger doesnt leave you, and begs again... immediately your reaction would be "Scold him", or "Shout" at him... to throw him away... a women would try to convey the begger even the second time that i dont have change, please go ahead or somewhere... Say a phone call.. when they keep the phone, they give a big smile and say sweet bye... and imagine a male saying the same.. my god i cant imagine myself being sweet :) haha.. for a few male, the term sweet itself doesnt apply making them completely in-eligible... The smile, patience, ease takes women a step over a typical men... Truly, this is just my observation and i havent got any data to prove it correct or not.. Think about your mom and they have all in them. This small difference to be "Sweet" to every one gives them a better edge giving them the Movie Title - "Soft hearted" women...

Hi-tech Paper-Boy..

Gone are those days when people used to say - "I used to work so hard during those days of my studies, while i used to manage so many things.. Go and drop paper in each house, distribute milk packets, study late nights only under the street lamps"... well i know sounds like filmi dialogs but some of them are real true. Paper boys had cycles to drop papers in each houses. No doubt, if you take your home town other than bangalore, may be u will find many places where the paper boy still owns a cycle to do his duty rather than a - "Hero Honda Splendor" as you see on your right. Yes, the paper boy you see on your right drops paper near around my area - Jayanagar 9th Block. He is more educated, can speak a fluent english, so crisp and neat... He knocks each door to collect monthly rental amounts, he is very fast in calculations, his is pretty quick in dropping papers. He takes real advantage of his bike by moving fast between places.. I guess.. the paper distribution owners are ready to pay the Petrol bills (allowance!) to drop paper and ease work provided you own your own vehicle.. which is better in saving time (?), remove false claims saying paper boy needs to be like this and that... !    On your right you will see that the "Milk Man" has not changed his mode of transport as yet. He stil looks like a milk man, with the same old cycle and a bag containing those milk packets. Why is there a huge difference between these two jobs when once they were almost similar? These are the photos taken on the same street of mine.. No wonder, planning to grow faster always helps people... If some one would have given this milk-wala a moped, and if some one was ready to sponser him petrol, may be he would have also advanced. No doubt even in some parts of the biggie milk-business men go on scooters and bikes to carry huge milk-vans but no doubt they are definately not among the milk-packet-dropping pupil..

Pukar, Bacardi Blast, Vengaboyz - My Music began..

            Its been pretty long the movie - PUKAR has been released now. I was in my first year of Engineering @ Bits in the H-Wing of Vyas Bhawan, Pilani. I was in Room no. 401 with subba and Sirish was in 404 with mruthyu. 403 had Srinivas and pros i believe (but i totally forgot now)... It was in 2000, those days this lovely filmy music was being played by Sirish in his Tape Recorder (i think biggie philips) that he got from his brothers friends who were in MAL bhavan (the then psenti semites bhavan.. i still continue to guess)... Those were the days of Pentium II processor or at max. a year before Pentium III 900MHz processor. IPC (Information processing center) @ Bits had only those black and white telnet machines which dont have the Windows key on them.. No computers in hostel rooms them. Listening to music was one of the favourite all time "Hobby" quoted to the seniors during the ragging sessions by most people... but what was the mode of listening to them those days was a Tape-recorder. I was in 404 and listening to Pukar music by A.R. Rahman has taken all of me to throw away my books and close my eyes, listen to the tunes... Rajasthan, its so hot in that summer... Finish our lunch, come to 404, listen to the pukar music... thats like a huge satisfaction atleast to me.. i hv become an all-time favourite since then. While, i moved to Shankar bhavan the sub-sequent year 2001, i bought a tape-recorder one for myself for Rs. 500/- (a local made, pilani brand) from the market. It was then i played pukar and the music just eased me off.. i feel so lite, walk along the lines of the lyrics.. its so nice... Especially after your lunch when its real hot outside, and you are in your room lying on your bed.. closed eyes... wanting to listen to nice music, while heading to sleep, ofcourse bunking the classes :) Days passed and i got more "Casettes" from sirish... While listening to songs in his room, i bought - Bacardi Blast casette from the Mittals shop in Cannaught place (shopping place)... I listend to both sides of the Cassette in my tape recorder playing the loud volumes - Disturbing my backiee (a jr.) That was the first album i listened to in english. I then bought Venga Boyz as it was a more pumping music that i heard in GYM @ Bits. I then bought a cassette from Subba @ New wing Vyas.. he was an ardent telugu songs picker... Preiminchukundam-Ra... was what i got from him then.. finally the end of my second year, i sold off my tape-recorder in second-hand to my loundry vala for 100 Rs after he insisted selling mine for him :) Later, music took a new dimension in me, with computers in the hostel rooms while i was in budh bhavan 3rd year with P-III and 40GB HDD... Even now, while i play on my Creative Zen, i still love to listen to the same old pukar songs...

Grilled Chicken - Kabab Magic

Kabab Magic, near East End... Bangalore... A very famous place for all Chicken lovers. They sell a lot in this variety. I like "The Executive Biryani" which contains Biryani rice, One Parota, one chicken leg piece, One pice of chicken 65, one boiled egg, and a cover full (atleast 2 glasses) of Grape juice... this is an amazing combination one can have to fill his very hungry stomach. You cannot definately have a regular eatings like any other place even here... but the crowd is a lot.. all the executive biryani will cost you is 55 Rs. Grilled chicken - for those who dont know about it, its a chicken burnt on fire... yeah, veggies wont read further but non-veggies will love this. Broasted chicken is another one, which i like too. On your right, you will see that i have captured how the person uses "Scissors" to cut a chicken.. "Half-Grilled Chicken" with masala. His hands just go to cut the chicken as if he is cutting a piece of cloth to stich it and wear it... see it yourself...

Trip to Tirupati

            

             From bangalore, Tirupati is Five and half hours journey via KSRTC, Airavat. I started to tirupati on Friday at 1:30 pm and i reached at 7 PM. Brother and mom arrived from hyderabad via KF airlines. Luckily brother got a room slot at "Srinivasam Nilayam/Complex". Once you get down from the Tirupati Bus-stand, you will see Lodgings/hotels which cost you high as well, The Mayura, The Grand hotel and others as well. Srinivasam Complex is ran by TTD (Thirumala Thirupati Devastanam). For those who dont know, Tirupati is place where you got down in the bus and Tirumala is a place seven hills up where Lord Venkateshwara temple is in. Commuting between Tirumala and Thirupati is easy. There are busses every 5 or 10 mins running and the distance between them is 24 kms. There are other modes of transport as well, say a private Jeep or a Cab. But Bus should be the safest to board in unless you have/book an own vehicle. There are two things that are very important. If you are planning to go, make sure you plan your itenary properly. TTDc run counters are present across the country in almost all major cities. Find your local TTDc run counters and go in person (along with your family members or all of them who are coming along with you to thirupati), Get everyone a Rs. 50/- Ticket for the Darshan by telling the counter person the time and date on which you would like to have darshan. This ticket is called "Sudharshan Ticket" or "50Rs. Ticket" or "Special Entrance Ticket". This is different from the VIP entrance where you will have to get a recommendation letter..There is another way called - "Free dharshan" or "Dharma Dharshan".. where you dont have to take any ticket, neither can you stand for 8 to 10 hours for having your darshan done. Strongly suggest get a VIP letter or must get 50/- Ticket.

   Climbing up the 7 hills by foot : People prey lord that if you get my wish done, i will climb your seven hills by bare foot. I thought i will give company to my brother who has preyed something similar. We started early at 8am after having breakfast... Climbing the stairs is so difficult because most of them are not inclined to 45 degree but are almost 60 degrees angled. So you can easily feel that your thighs are locked and they become so tight that you must take a break and sit beside. I must say this is a real BANE for all those old aged people, or women who do this after they have kids...For that matter, its difficult/hard even for a 30 year old male also. Its only then you will know how tough a wish you wished :) and how much it costed you. You will have to board a bus from Srinivasam Complex or bustand that will drop you till "ALIPIRI" a place from where people will start climbing. Its a 18Kms road stretch. By walk, its around 14Kms... I really have to thank the Per day 7 Crore revenue generator TTD for laying out such a neat and nice stairs which has a proper covering that prevents pilgrims from staying off the rain/sun.. Myself and brother have taken several breaks consuming plenty of water bottles, a cool drink... As we climb around 200 steps we were forced to sit and relax because ur legs wont allow you further...  After about 5 or 6 kms, it was around 10 am... you will now have a chance to walk on a plane road for about 4-5 kms. And finally we covered it in 3.5 hours which is bar far the best of whom i have compared with. Others take 5 hours a minimum because if you take a bus, it will be 1 hour journey a min. I strongly feel that TTD should have a security filtering process to make sure the people climbing up 7 hills by bare feet as Physically FIT to climb. TTD should stop allowing people to put kumkum and turmeric to each step by a few people. This will lead to severe back pains for sure. TTD also should stop people from climbing the 7 hills burning the campor on each step. Its tough. Imagine people also wish that they will climb with their knees all the 7 hills.. thats too much.

     Scenary: While walking along the way, there is something called "Green valley"... I have been to lonavala and kandala near by pune but i havent found it atleast even comparable to this "Green valley" which is a must watch. An awesome view spread across... definately some one jumping from there into the deep valley, cant find atleast a piece of himself... ;)... There is another place as well, from where you will be able to see entire tirupati with all buildings, bustand, roads everything.. it looks like a "Reality map" that you normally see in google maps :) amazing view.

     Roads: I was wondering how some one would have located lord venkateshwara 18kms up such a huge 7 hills place initially... how he made it so popular? how a trust was formed? How many people have actually worked on building such ROADS on such steep hills.. now a days construction is a difficult phase already in life and imagine which machinary would actually come along with you to construct so many bridges between the rocks and finally making it viable for Cars, jeeps, Busses to run through... I must salute all those men and women who toiled to make those beautiful curvy roads to make all the Tirumala happen.

     Laddoo: The tirupati laddoo is so popular prashad. So yummy and tasty...  Imagining the tremendous crowd visiting the place, the TTD has a machinery which makes laddoo. NO Extra laddoos are given unless you have a "Jugaad" (a person whom u know in person with in TTD committee or a VIP Pass).. For each 50/- Ticket holder, you will get two laddoos and i guess every free darshan holder will get one free laddoo (but not sure)..

    When to go: When to go to tirupati? I would strongly advise to go only in Off-season. I have experienced, 5 hours of Que while on the "Special Entrance" ticket... imagine the "Free Darshan" people who spend 8-10 hours in the que pushing you in and out, churning you into proper chutni.. So many small kids will be lost... women will be torn apart... old aged people doesnt have a separate line at all... they dont have energy to walk also. Neither the TTD security can control Over-flowing crowd. Lots of people face breathing problems, people start quarelling on the fly for pushing some of their relatives, picking up on fights... Its definately a NOT go place for all those who can think wise. Make your plans properly only in off-season where the crowd is not so much, otherwise prepare yourself to the battle... Please carry a few security guards that will protect you from the un-stoppable crowd that will push you in and out.

  What can improve: Scrutinize and qualify people looking at their physical fitness for climbing up the 7-hills, if they fail to qualify make sure you have 100 preachers preaching that - "if you have wished something and it came true and if you are in-eligible to be qualified to climb up then it means God has considered your-case and granted another wish NOT to climb bare foot"... No kumkum-turmeric on each step climbing, No knee climbing. Allow multiple lines (say 30-50 lines in parallel) for darshan which never mixes up and have "Single lined" ques. Increase the Security guards looking after atleast 10 steps distance to control the crowd to prevent them from getting injured or lost. If the same state continues while TTD earns 7 Crores per day, definately the Tirumala will become a BANE for many people.

       Overall, our darshan was good. My brother and me formed two security guards to protect mom from the thrashing crowd whom you cannot control in anyway. Our trip was successful besides all the hurdles...

Spring, after an Autumn

              There is a spring after every Autumn... Yes, after every season where the leaves fall from trees, there is a season of growth called spring. Life is also the same. I know its trivial. From a confused state, every one in the team are looking in much better state than how they were before. Every one seems to be happy with their decision whatsoever. Every one has seen the autumn a few days back and now they entered the sweetest of the spring. None have work @ office now a days until July. The team in CPS is moving to captivate except susoma moving to mobile (mo-bill as shantanu says).. Ronak and Mihirs plans strengthened when they filed patent in mobile which passed internal approval. They choose mobile and mihir will be EM. Sachin and Suresh Reddy are yet to make their decision whether mobile or Captivate or Contribute as they are being offered by a different options by the mgmt. I will be on to flex. lkaur will be moving to captivate along with suresh (top plans in place!). Manoj might be Mgr for a Shirnk-wrapped CT which will also contain dominic, shilpa. Yogesh - Moving to noida, processing already started. Ranga and Ganesh wants to be along with Sam where ever it is. Things are pretty clear to individuals now, every one started to cleanup the layer of confusion from their face on what will happen next. They brought back all smiles except a very few who are yet to decide on their best options. Well thats life and every one ought to be HAPPY at the end of the day.. some wants money, some wants growth, some wants position, some wants work, some wants relaxed work, some wants to play safe... at the end, i wont say money doesnt matter but what matters is the satisfaction with-in yourself on what you are doing is of your interest and you love doing it.. exploring it...

Life is tough sometimes...

                       I never thought i would write this post... i had plans of writing other posts but i just cant stop writing this post which has spoiled my brian and my thoughts since last two days... Thinking about a problem? Worried about something? Bothered about future? Forced into something that you dont like? Hating yourself for being pushed into hell? Mind is fully occupied with all these thoughts? You want to argue with someone who has been your coach till now? Completely disturbed with your regular routine because of an issue? In-experience in handling things smartly? Cant fight back as we dont have major other options? You come to work and you feel you are lost in something... you strategise with people around you on what to do next.. what is good for me... What if i do this and go against something? how will this affect me.. what are the other reasons stopping me to do this... what is happening around... nothing is concrete... what are your interests and do you have a choice now? Can you do anything to become normal... Its really tough... "Mental torture is more dangerous than Physical torture".. i believe, its my second experience though :) no wonder, we will have to wait and see whats next for me....