tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117674282011-11-28T06:36:50.709+05:30Maintain the RhythmYogesh Ranadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558327986468764054noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767428.post-4425019044919325812010-07-09T06:39:00.001+05:302010-07-09T06:39:48.677+05:30

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While researching on the net for more information about the workings of the stock market and in-general for my personal knowhow came across some sites which I think would be useful for all…Do NOTE these are mentioned in no particular order…rather in the order I managed to find them. Blogs:- http://www.blog.happionaire.com/: The Happionaire Blog by Yogesh Chabria, author of “Invest The

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Here are some interesting books that are currently on my flipkart shopping cart. The Intelligent Investor: A Book Of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig Crossing The Chasm: Marketing And Selling Disruptive Products To Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore Inside The Tornado: Strategies For Developing, Leveraging, And Surviving Hypergrowth Markets by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Came to know about http://www.lifemojo.com from the BBC mailing list. One of the founders of this site is a member here and had mentioned about it in one of his emails. Decided to check it out, and overall I think it’s pretty decent. It stores all the walks, runs, bike rides along with the daily diet (haven’t used this as yet) and provides graphical results. I have been maintaining my records

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Was reading through an interesting write up on cycling (was recommended by a BBC member on the BBC newsgroup. The article is here http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/other/iitk/cycle.txt Found the article to be an amazing piece of writing, and seeing that it was hosted on IIT Kanpur’s servers, found that it was a personal site by Amitabha Mukerjee. Decided to dig around and was amazed at the works

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Part 1 and Part 2 of the series can be found here. Before retiring for the night, we decided that we did not want this trip to become hectic. Mrs. Seetha mentioned that Kuruva Island had been shut down due to the rains. So we decided to head out to Lakkidi Viewpoint, Pookote Lake  and then try and make it to Soochipara Waterfalls the next day. Three of us had a pleasant sleep and got up

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For the earlier post refer here While on our way from Edakkal Caves to Ente Veedu we decided to do some shopping on the way. Ente Veedu essentially is located at about 3/5 kms from Panamarama which is about 35km drive towards from the Sultan Bathery to Kalpetta (State ?) highway.  We were told by Vivek that there were Gandhigram stores spread across Wayanad from where we could purchase local

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Yeah, this one was long overdue. Last month on the 25/26/27th of July we decided to go off on a family vacation. Sawani’s birthday falls on the 27th of July and we have decided to spend time away from home every year on her birthday. So about a week before, we started scouting for nearby places of interest. Typically being a weekend getaway, we didn’t want the place to be beyond 300kms of

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Have been able to maintain my cycling routine through the first couple of weeks of July…4days in the week (6th to 10th) and 5 days in this week. Also managed a 15 km loop last Sunday (11th) - about 200kms of riding to bring my total to Total Distance Covered on Merida: 1629 Kms  approximately Total Distance Covered on Cycle: 2199 Kms approximately Need to get a helmet and a cyclo-computer.

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Continued my regular cycling to work schedule in the last 2 weeks of June. Cycled for 4 days a week to bring my total tally by June end to:- Total Distance Covered on Merida: 1429 Kms  approximately Total Distance Covered on Cycle: 1999 Kms approximately Have pedaled 2000 kms, which if covered in a car that does 10 kms/litre amounts to saving up 200 litres of petrol, which in turn amounts

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If any of you are into cycling in around Pune region, you can register at the following groups...folks go out on cycling excursions... http://groups.google.com/group/pune-cycle-pratishthan and http://groups.google.com/group/pune-cycling-enthusiasts Cheers, Yogesh Ranade

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My blogging has taken a big time hit. Just don’t seem motivated to sit and write down…don’t know why, have I hit the writer’s block….or is it just the fact that I don’t find the daily happenings interesting anymore to pen them. Oh well, no point brooding over it, have decided to just jot down what & when I feel like it. In any case, it’s not like I have a ton of readers subscribed to the blog and

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May has turned out to be pretty hectic this year. Unfortunately my cycling has taken a big hit. I have not been able to cycle as much as I would have liked in these 2 weeks gone by. I might have cycled maybe only a couple of times so I  guess there’s no point recording those details. It’s been a month since Sawani and Arjun left for Pune and I guess my forced bachelorhood is coming to a close.

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April 26th: Went for a longish bicycle ride. Rode from Brookefields-Whitefield-Sai-Baba Ashram – Old Madras Road – Pai Layout – IndiraNagar 80 ft road – Manipal Hospital – HAL – Marathahalli and back home. For some reason mapmyride is not loading the Bangalore map. In any case considering this ride was an extension ride from the April 23rd ride which was about 35 kms and considering this time

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Came across a post by David Chambers on the ThinkFemtoCell blog that talks of a company trying to develop a GSM based femto cell on a USB stick. David has written an amazing post, introducing the company and their current device, their aim of extending this device into a femtocell device on a USB. He then goes further and explains the possible issues which need to be taken into consideration

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I realized looking at the blog archive that I haven’t written much in the month of April. I guess it was due to quite a bit of activities happening..but that should have actually resulted in more blogs. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out to log onto the computer and then type and post a blog. I wish there was something more simpler to post blogs…I wish it could be done via the mobile phone. I

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Phew, what a last couple of weeks. Hectic, busy at work all alone back in the home. My wife Sawani and my little one Arjun left for Pune to be at home. Arjun was just waiting for his summer holidays to start so that he could visit Pune and be with his grand-parents (both paternal and maternal). They left on April 14th so it’s been like 2 weeks (almost) since they have gone and I can’t tell how

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On 7th April 2009, about a week back from today, 3GPP in conjunction with Femto Forum and Broadband Forum officially published the first femtocell standard. More details at http://www.3gpp.org/World-s-first-femtocell-standard and http://www.femtoforum.org/femto/pressreleases.php All the related specs are available on the above mentioned links. These are extremely interesting times, since

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March 25th and 26th: 20 kms each March 27th: Gudi Padwa holiday and Arjun’s 5th birthday. So no cycling March 28th and 29th: Break from cycling March 30th to April 3rd: 20 kms each April 4th and 5th: Did not cycle on the weekend as well, since had caught a stomach bug late Friday night. Came home as usual and immediately after, rather while having my dinner my stomach seemed to give

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Why don’t you mind map ? I think it’s an amazing concept. A graphical representation of your mind in front of you, let me tell you, may jolt you at first, but as you get the hang of it, I would think it would be an extremely useful productivity tool. Want to know more ? What is a mind map ? Find it  here (Mind Map) Want to know the various mind mapping software ? Find it here (The List)

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Want to have a desktop makeover ? Hop over to BumpTop and see for yourself. Started by an Indian Origin Canadian Anand Agarawala, this is a real piece of interesting stuff. Came to know about this at http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/07/bumptop-gives-windows-desktop-a-much-needed-makeover/ Cheers, Yogesh Ranade

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Received a regular email from the i-mint program and noticed a promotion of a site called http://www.buzzintown.com Hopped across to that site and found quite a bit of interesting city specific events happening. I think this is a good concept that was very much needed, a consolidated view of all the happening events across various cities. Now what would help is really an event calendar across the

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One of my colleagues at office pointed me to the site www.ted.com, a macro site for talks (essentially videos) by the world’s leading thinkers and doers. Do check it out. Seems extremely interesting Cheers, Yogesh Technorati Tags: TED,Talks,Videos

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On the auspicious occasion  of Gudi Padwa, the Hindu New Year, on 27th March 2009, my son Arjun turned 5 years old. His growth has been nothing less than phenomenal for both Sawani and I and we have cherished every moment of it. It has been an absolute blessing and both of us thank the almighty profusely for giving us Arjun in our life. This year on the 27th March, we celebrated Gudi Padwa in

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Oh boy, it’s been a while since I posted. My cycling though hasn’t been as intermittent as my blogging. So here are the cycling updates:- March 16th through 20th: 20kms to and fro each day March 23rd and 24th: 20kms each Total Distance Covered on Merida: 584 Kms Total Distance Covered on Cycle: 1154 Kms My Merida is due for servicing. Oh and btw: March 22nd marked a month since I

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http://selfmadescholar.com/b/self-education-resource-list/ An excellent resource for self education. Great to review some of your basics as well. Cheers, YVR

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Embarked on my longest bicycle ride today. I decided to go from my house in Brookefields to Bangalore International Airport and back. I had no clue of the actual distance, but knew it would take 4 hrs minimum. I thought that I would keep going till I hit 2 hrs on my clock and head back. With this in mind, I woke up early at around 5:45 and was on the road by about 6:15am. Had a back pack in which

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Extremely interesting… Came across this @ http://static0.blip.pl/user_generated/update_pictures/198204.jpg?1232704996 Cheers, YVR

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Want to know the various 3GPP specification groups (TSG)? Visit http://www.3gpp.org/Specification-Groups Cheers, YVR Technorati Tags: 3GPP,TSG

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That’s the heading of a recent excellent post by Joel Spolsky at his Joel on Software blog. Here’s the link, read it, assimilate it and apply it. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/09.html Cheers, YVR

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11th March: 20 kms. The weather in Bangalore turned much cooler  due to the low pressure in the south of India. Felt awesome cycling with the cool breeze. While going back, the going got tough since had a heavy breeze going against. But I felt refreshed. 12th March: 20 kms. Weather continued to stay cool. Had my first flat (puncture) on the rear wheel of my Merida. While going down from

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Trying to get my tweeter and gtalk setup using Excla.im Have followed all the steps successfully and have added tweet@excla.in in my gtalk friends list. Waiting for it to accept my connection and test this thing out..Hope it works.. Cheers, YVR

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Recently setup my twitter account. Tried to setup such that I could update my tweets using my BSNL Cellone phone. Unfortunately, the activation code/number that tweeter provides, when I try to send a SMS to that number, it fails to reach. Looks like the BSNL SMSC doesn’t have a clue about the said number. That doesn’t help..since I would have loved to use Tweeter.. In any case, I tried plugging

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Here are some of the online cycle shops from where folks on the BBC have bought stuff. It seems these ship to India…No hitches and no glitches www.chainreactioncycles.com http://www.evanscycles.com Cheers, YVR Technorati Tags: Online Cycle Shops

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Went out on a longish ride on my bicycle last Sunday. I biked from my home in Brookefields-Varthur-Sarjapur-Bellandur-ORR-Marathahalli-Brookefields. Was not sure how much distance it would be, hence logged on to mapmyride.com and tried to draw a map of the loop. It reports around 33 kms. I think it maybe off by 1 or 2 kms, but overall it does seem accurate. Here’s the map embedded below.

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6th March, 2009:- My son Arjun, who will turn 5 years on 27th March, has won his first gold medal at his Annual Sports Meet for the academic year 2008-09 today. Hearty Congratulations my boy…we are all very very proud of you. He studies at Gopalan National School in Brookefields and is in Nursery A…Today was their Annual Sports Meet… More photos have been uploaded at http://

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6th March 2009:- My younger brother Girish and his wife Supriya both celebrate their birthday today. Yes both of them (husband and wife) actually share a birthday. Pretty neat eh..My younger brother holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne Australia and is currently a resident of Melbourne Australia. Supriya his wife is with him there and

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27th Feb: 20 kms 28th Feb and 1st March : Relax, didn’t go for any cycle runs 2nd March through 5th March: 20kms each. Went to the Gym on Monday and Wednesday. Total Distance Covered on Merida: 205 Kms Total Distance Covered on Cycle: 775 Kms My Merida TFS is holding up pretty well. Have noticed that 3(F) * 7(R) gear combination is resulting in chain slippage (doesn’t slip completely

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It’s been 4 days since I have been riding on my Merida TFS…for photos visit http://picasaweb.google.com/yranade/MeridaBike# and I am absolutely loving it. It’s an amazing cycle, excellent balance, excellent ride positioning, excellent saddle and awesome speed. It just lurches out of the blocks..there are so many fascinating items on the bike, I am discovering them every time I ride. I am not

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We all know that dedicated cycling lanes are provided in most if not all western countries. But this is an alien concept in India…well not to blame the system, but it’s difficult to actually implement them, which becomes obvious and apparent just by the magnitude of vehicles that ply on the city roads…2 wheelers whizzing around cutting lanes as though it’s nobody’s business, 3 wheelers ferrying

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Tata Motors it seems has recently launched it’s new SUV/Truck called XENON XT. The tag line being “FITS NO LABEL”…Sweet I must say..looks great and I think this will kindle interest among quite a folks who are looking for a decent ride as well as carry luggage. I for one am happy with the fact that it’s not too underpowered as others from Mahindra stable; it is equipped with a 2.2 L DICOR Engine,

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On account of Mahashivratri last Monday, our office was closed, as a result had a long weekend; effectively had 3 days off (Sat/Sun/Mon). We as a family, were thinking of heading out somewhere, but then the overpowering desire of buying a bicycle gripped me. My dear wife Sawani supported me to the hilt and my son Arjun, was way too excited…We decided we would go bicycle hunting on Saturday and do

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Here are the latest cycling updates:- 19th Feb: 20 kms to and fro from office 20th Feb: 20 kms. My friend and colleague from office had got a camcorder (the 60GB HD capable Sony) and recorded some of our technical discussions at office. While on the way back, since we were leaving together and he stays close to my place in Brookefields, and since my bag was pretty heavy (week load of clothes

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Well if you are a motor biking enthusiast, here’s a site that should satiate your appetite…http://www.xbhp.com As for me I’m not really a true blue (motor) biking enthusiast, but xbhp is not a bad place to find out new trails and expeditions that you could do anyhow, on a cycle, on a (motor)bike, in a car…or maybe even a walk.. Cheers, YVR

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I have been having this innate desire to upgrade to a new cycle. Not that I have any specific complaints of My Hercules Ultima 6 speed…but considering my improved liking to cycling, I would like to now start covering more distances ..beyond the 30 kms and into the 50kms range per outing, so I think a better bike would help. So while researching on the internet; came across this wonderful site

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Found a very very good photo on Rohan Kini’s (he’s the co-owner of BOTS) live journal .. Links:- Innovate or Die; Rohan Kini’s Live Journal Cheers, YVR

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Here’s a link to a very nicely written article that encompasses quite a significant number of sites that provide useful information for the bike enthusiast. http://linuxandfriends.com/2008/10/17/useful-bicycle-related-help-sites/ Cheers, YVR

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16th Feb: Went to work in my car. Carried my clothes for the coming week. Didn’t do the basic cleaning of my cycle over the weekend. I decided to do the basic cleaning (Spray the chain with WD-40 and apply light thin oil…wipe clean the frame and the entire cycle) on Tuesday. 17th Feb: 20 kms For some reason wasn’t upto cleaning the bike. I had seen a decent looking cycle shop on my way to

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Here it is, after a long long delay…finally I have decided to continue the narration. My earlier post is available here. Some photos embedded…   Sawani and Arjun in the car… At Gokarna Beach As you cross Panji and head towards Miramar beach, the place leaves you with never to end sceneries and you beg for more, wanting it never to end. The beautiful tree lined roads, extremely well

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11th to 13th Feb: 20kms each day to and fro from office. Nothing major other than curt looks from motorcyclists and honking from the BMTC buses, particularly in certain places where the road narrows and there’s a climb where I don’t give them the space to overtake…well I try not to loose my momentum as much as possible 14th Feb: 30kms: 2 loops (each 15 kms) finished in 1:48 minutes. This time

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11th Feb: Had an interesting day at office. Lot’s of work, had to finish up defining the requirements for the Femto Controller product and also was engaged with Motorola for an hour long discussion regarding our next Diameter release that is lined up for them for March 31st. Things are hectic, confusing - considering the downturn and what it’s effect will be beyond the next 30-60 days, my cycling

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My cycling has continued pretty well. 5th Feb: 20 kms: No pain, no tiredness. Absolute fun 6th Feb: 20 kms 7th Feb: Saturday: Decided to take the day off… 8th Feb: 30kms in 1hr 40 minutes. Decided to test my endurance and time my run on the 15km loop near my house. Started at 9:40 am and felt pretty good. Carried with me a bottle of water and was off towards Kundalahalli gate onwards to

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Being back from Goa, I have continued my cycling regimen. Here are the updates:- 27th Jan: 20 kms to and fro from office 28th Jan: 20 kms 29th Jan: 20 kms 30th Jan: Break. Went to office by car since it was my turn to haul all the folks for the regular Friday lunch 31st Jan: 15 kms 1st Feb: Sunday off 2nd Feb: Off: Had to carry my laptop, so decided to go by car. Also took

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The title would have given an indication where I was this long weekend. Me and family along with some of my friends from engineering college decided to go to Goa. So here goes the story, but before that; a quick cycling update; 22nd Jan; 10 kms to office; work at office; 10 kms back home Total Distance Cycled So Far: 213 kms Ok so back to the story. Got back home on the 22nd and decided to

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15th Jan: 10 km ride to the office; No gym; At office; 10 km ride back home 16th Jan: No gym; 9.5 km ride to the office and 9.5 kms back home 17th, 18th Jan: Saturday and Sunday, decided to rest and let my muscles recover. Went and cleaned up my cycle. WD-40 sprayed, grime removed from the chains, lubricated with oil. The oil that I have seems a bit thick, I need to look for really thin oil,

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We all celebrated Makar Sankranti on the 14th of Jan. We had a holiday at work, so was able to spend some quality time with my family at home.  I have so many fond memories from my childhood about this festival. When I was a kid, staying in CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai (New Bombay as it used to be called then), we had a kids gang of sorts, about 10-15 of us, used to play cricket-cricket, maybe

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11 Jan 11th being a Sunday was spent lazing around. Had a late brunch and decided to cook some delicious mutton (goat) curry myself in the afternoon, which would be ready to be devoured at night. I had to return the CD’s borrowed yesterday… So hopped on my bicycle and went across to the nearest ATM to get some cash. for some reason the ATM’s near my home just wouldn’t accept my ICICI card and

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Have finally decided to revive my Network Steering blog at blogger. It’s where I will post all things technical… Cheers, YVR

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Well I turned 34 on the 10th of Jan and hopefully will continue counting. Things are pretty good right now. Had a nice little family party and outing on the 10th. Got up early around 6:30 am, received a SMS from my dad and mom, wishing me a very happy birthday. Called up my parents and took their greetings and best wishes. Both of them are doing allright in Pune, mom said they wanted to come down

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Wow, time flies, I have been wanting to post on a daily basis, but for some reason, I just couldn't get the time to do it. So anyway, better late than never. Here's a snapshot of the week gone by, yes, I know it's still Friday morning, but hey guess what I am already in the weekend spirit ;) So what happened...well for starters I have been pretty regular with my exercise routine. Here's what I

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Had an interesting weekend. We just literally lazed around in the house.  Me, Sawani and Arjun. We had a nice quite time together after a long time. Arjun has become one talkative jimbo...i call him "pakapakya" which in Marathi (that's my mother tongue) means talkative. Got a call from my dad on Saturday, thought that they (my mom and dad) must also be relaxing on the weekend, but lo and behold,

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On the 2nd, felt much better, refreshed and relaxed than on the 1st. Was a usual day to begin with, was at the office by about 10/10:30 in the morning and was pretty tied up with the release delivery items that were lined up. Had a very productive first half of the day, and the performance reports of our stack were pretty good considering that most of the system testing is now nearing completion.

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Had a pretty wretched first day, thanks to myself for it though; was totally flushed out due to the party on the 31st. Am still in recovery. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, that's Newton's 3rd law and reactions from my wife (Sawani) were exactly equal to my 31st night actions. So now onwards for the year 2009, I have decided to stay off of hard liquor. Probably may continue to

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It's the first day of the year 2009, and I have finally decided to start posting some content out here. Well to start out with, here's wishing a very happy and prosperous new year ahead. Are there any new year resolutions that I have made for myself ? The answer is no, not really, since frankly I don't have a clue what I specifically would like to focus on...yes there are items on my plate, but I

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This is a copy over post from my wordpress blog. I have decided to make this a personal diary and the wordpress blog a technical blog. I had posted this on 5/5/2008 Guess what, went in for a long overdue hair-cut yesterday evening to a nearby (about 1.5 km one-way from my house) salon. Decided to go walking since had feasted on delicious mutton (goat) curry made by my wife…alongwith

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This is a copy over post from my wordpress blog. I have decided to make this a personal diary and the wordpress blog a technical blog. I had posted this on 5/5/2008 This thought to start blogging suddenly hits me…out of the blue. I google for a nice site where I could setup a blog or google to find some blogging software to download and install/setup a webserver at home to run my own

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Me with my sweetheart 

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Arjun & I at our home in Bangalore. 

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It has been quite some time since I last took time off from work. This time around planned my holidays such that could get 9 days off, by just taking a single leave. Decided to celebrate Diwali after a long time. We went to KodaiKanal a hillstation resort in TamilNadu, abt 500 Kms drive from Bangalore. Went there with my family (Arjun, Sawani, My Dad & Mom). Drove down to Kodai in my new Suzuki

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Yogi & Arjun That's me with my little son Arjun. Yeah I know it's an old picture of ours. Well both of us have grown a bit thinner. Arjun is now about 1 year and 6 months old. Will be posting some of his recent snaps soon.

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It's been quite sometime since I have created this account. In fact didn't even remember until tried to register with the same user name :) Well, now that I seriously feel that it's time I start writing about my thoughts, experiences and basically everything I feel needs to be shared, I hope to be a regular out here.

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