Time to quit

The time has come to say bye-bye to CTS. I'm completely bored to death in this company. The project I'm in has no value addition to my career. Moreover, after going to London now I will have to work on ulrta crap technologies like Winrunner. I will be a part of regression testing. My great development skills wasted end to end :-).

The way I'm planning for it is like this. 8th Jan I am back to London. Before that I'm gonna prepare myself for a rock solid technical Java interview. As soon as I land in UK I'm gonna frantically search for a job.

In UK, when you are on a work permit, switching jobs is not as easy as its in the US. You need to find a company which is desperate enough to take you in and sponsor your work permit transfer. Finding such companies is difficult. However , I'm gonna try really hard this time. Hope it will work out.

Now, If this dosen't work out I'm NOT going to stick around. I'm coming back and switching the companies here in India itself. Fuck UK. I don't care a shit about the money there.

One thing which I have realised is, I can't see myself as a Senoir Associate or a APM or a Manager in this company. I constantly have this incling that I'm built for starting up on my own. Now, how I'm going to do that I know not, but till the time I can figure that out I can at least work in better company, meet different people, if not anything at least enjoy life.

So the winds of change have arrived and I'm flowing with them. This is the first time I've felt completely confident about quitting and I might as well do that.

The sad part.

I will have to format a parting mail when I resign and I'm really bad at writing senti stuff.

Meetro

Today I checked out this fantastic service called www.meetro.com.

The idea is to get people are in physical vicinity of each other to meet over IM. All major IM's are supported.

Imagine what this can do?

I wanna go home at 7 pm but the company bus is at 7-30pm. If entire IT park in Pune is on Meetro, I can search for all the Meetro'ers who are in 1/4 Km away from me. I can just post them that "I need a lift". This would save such a hell of my time.

There could be millions of other possibilities like my Mom instructing the Kiranawala to fetch milk over the internet !

Increased interest in politics!

Recently I've been increasinlgy following Indian Politics for some unknown freaking reason. 2 months before, I wouldn't even care a shit about what Laloo and Nitish are upto!

Back home in MH Shiv Sena's battle to integrate itself after Raj gave kalti is also getting interesting. The fall of Shiv Sena is good for MH coz' there are better leaders out there like Sharad Pawar et al.

Another startling fact I'm rising upto is, I'm having this faint inclination towards getting into politics myself ! Yup, totally absurd I know. Seedha Saadha guy like me will be eaten alive among those wolves. But then someone needs to come out to make the difference. What do you think? Will you vote for me? :-)

Cycle Keys - Found them!!

My frantic search yesterday night bought me success.
The keys were in one of my shorts! They fell down into the drum of our washing machine.
Our bai found it when she was picking out clothes from the washing machine !!!

Phew!! I didn't have to vreak the lock after all.

Lost my bi-cycle keys!

If you've been following my earlier posts you must be aware that I am now an avid cycler. I do most of the houseold chores on cycle.

Recently, I've lost my cycle keys and I've tried to hunt around the entire house with vain :-( . Its tyres have lost all the air and I'm suspecting a puncture. If I don't get the keys by this weekend I will need to break open the lock by banging it with a stone !! I hope I don't break any other parts of that thing.

Sad, but true.

SoonR - A neat startup

www.SoonR.com is a startup aimed at providing a service wherein you can browse your desktop computer from your very own mobile phone.

I got curious and wanted to know how it works. The plan is simple and neat. I like their technology.

You create an account with www.SoonR.com. On your desktop PC you need to install a SoonR agent software. The desktop needs to have internet connectivity.

On the end user side , all you do is point your mobile phone browser to www.soonr.com, enter your SoonR accounts user name and passwd and browse your desktop!!

If you want to share some files with your friends (mobile or PC) you can do so too!!

I like this man. I really like this! Innovation man Innovation !!

Tata infotech & TCS merging

Tata infotech and TCS are merging. The Board of Directors of both the companies have given the go ahead. The companies are now waiting to get the permission of the merger from their shareholders.

After the merger, 2 shares of Tata Infotech will be equal to 1 share of TCS.

If you have Tata Infotech stock, believe me you are in luck since TCS stock is a great performer.Retain it.

Continuing to save our environment

By this time I've become paranoid to make an effort to save the environment. I've also taken some steps for it. No. I am not going to give you theory. This is me, who leads with practise ;-)

1) I've started keeping a jute bag in the dicky of my car. Whenever we buy anything on the way, I always avoid taking plastic bags. I make use of my jute bag.

Well, let me admit I haven't been 100% successful in this endaveour of mine. But I've got 70% hit rate. Not too bad for a starter I think.

2) I end up doing a lot of houseold chores during Saturday and Sunday. Earlier I used to do it by travelling on my car or my sis's scooter. I now use my bi-cycle. And let me tell you I have a 100% hit rate on this one.

Another blessing in disguise of (2) is my petrol costs have gone down from Rupees 2000 a month to 1600 Rupees.

I will make it a point to update every effort I take to this blog. Maybe, I will end up inspiring someone. :-)

Thought of the day

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others.
This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying
your very soul ? because each individual is unique,
and comparison is not possible.
I am just myself and you are just yourself.
There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

No. Not me. It's Osho Rajneesh!

Truth behind the Ramayana

We Indians have a deep rooted belief in the existance of Lord Ram and Lord Krishna. However, intellectuals have always been asking questions whether they really existed, or for that matter whether Ramayan and Mahabharat really happened.

Dr Ram Avtar has actually gone out and done instensive research for 15 years on finiding out the truth behind Ramayan. He has compiled a site which mentions his research in detail at www.shriramdarshan.org.

The site at first looks like a devotee's site. But have patience, click around a bit and you will be able to find what you actually came for on this site.

The reason I'm writing this piece on Dr. Ram Avtar is, Millions of people believe that Ram existed just because their forfathers have been saying it. Dr. Ram Avtar stands out among such blind believers. He actually went out to establish truth in his belief.

Believe me, 1 among a billion do that in real life !

Better Life!

So what am I doing lately with my health?
Every weekend, 3 beers, a quarter of Vodka. Sorry ass fatty punjabi food in restaurants. Where the hell am I going to go with this? 100 kg by the age of 30? Or dead by the weight of fats itself !!

Time to put an end to this misery. I am quitting all sorts of fatty foods (except beer. Aww c'mon I can't quit that!)

A jog in the morning.
Taking stairs wherever I go.

But, you'll say this is alright. everybody does it. What's new with it. Same old initial josh !!

As usual I am going to the extreme!! Life isn't fun without crooked thought, is it?

I am buying a bicycle! Anybody interested in selling it second hand?

But Why?

I keep frequenting to my friends' places who live in Kalyani Nagar. Morever, now-a-days going out of Kalyani Nagar is stupidity. We've got everything there. A multiplex, a shopping mall, several restaurants and the most important, A DECENT BAR! Unless you wanna go on a long trip outside Pune why will you go out?

Everytime I go to these nearby places I take out my car or the two wheeler wasting fuel and polluting the environment.

And as it is I need to shed that extra flab. Not that I'm fat, but I am 6 kg overweight as per the instructor of my last gym stint.

So, just like it was in school you are going to find me hanging around the neighbourhood on a bicycle! I'm saying no to polluting the environment. I'm saying no to a sedentry lifestyle.Enough is enough.

Most importantly, I care about my mother earth and wish that you guys start caring too.

So learn from me now. Go and buy a bi-cycle.

I am abandoning Plastics!

Its time we get rid of plastics.
1) It chokes innocent animals who think its paper and eat it (cows, buffaloes).
2) If you ever have a look at the garbage bins of our city which are overfull due to the neglect of Pune Municipal Corporation, you will notice that the reason it looks bad is due to the white/blue/black plastic bags which are flying around out of the garbage bins. Imagine the garbage bins without those bags and you will notice that the picture would be much better (of course, not perfect).
3) Plastic takes 300 years to disintegrate into the environment.

So from today I am going to try and avoid plastic as far as possible.

My two cents for protecting my environment!

India needs innovation. Here it is !

I respect innovation. In fact, I worship it. It is the only way we can establish us as powerful country. They say, its not the straight heads, but omlette heads that rule the world. We need to be those omelette heads.

India desperately needs innovation. And its on the track. Here is one proud story.

Chandrashekhar Vibhute, an official related to the farming industry has developed worlds first completely soluble fertiliser. It took him 15 years of research in Solapur and Delhi labs to come up with this.

Since the fertiliser is soluble, it has zero impact on environmental pollution and soil hardening. This also makes it the world's first environmentally friendly fertiliser.

Hat's off to Mr. Vibhute!

Currently Mr. Vibhute is in talks with a fertiliser manufacturing company for mass manufacturing of this new fertiliser. The targetted markets are of course India and China according to Times of India.