Moving on

Today is my last working day in Novell. 

What next? The Wedding.

New members in the Family

She is tall, lean and not as heavy as me. She looks beautiful on the outset. :) She will be a new member in my family.

I'm excited to get my Tripod for my Canon Powershot. This is one thing, I had been craving for a long time. Now I need not worry about low light shots or fireworks photography. Needn search for a place to keep my camera when trying my timer. :) No more shake! I detail review later.

One more new member, My sleak and black dell is also shipped. :) Its fast and neat. In fact my first post using it. Yeah, helping the economy by spending...

A big thanks to my friend for bringing it. :)

Newyear Resolutions patch 0.1

[root@term root]# diff -Naur oldresol.txt newresol.txt
--- oldresol.txt Mon Jan 01 11:44:26 2009
+++ newresol.txt Mon Jan 12 11:53:14 2009
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Resolution: dict said.. a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner; Usage: "he always wrote down his New Year's resolutions"
- * No coffee and tea for this year. I know that's unrealistic. So its 2 per month.
+ * Little coffee and tea here and there for this year. After all the whole purpose of why I want to avoid them is done now. :-P
* Do not use the office lift. Take the steps. (My Tech Lead and Evolution hacker would be happy)
* Try to go out with BWS.
* Less vacation. Going home is not a vacation.
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@
* Will talk more.
* Make 2009 a bigger and better year for my lens. 2008 was sensational.
* Maintain my blog, cubicle and cupboard well.
- * Despite 2008 being a fabulous year, I will not be looking back into it. Its all written down "unnamed" and safely boxed. Photos, Videos, Blog Post, Conversations, phone calls, sms, drives and what so ever can be tagged as 2008.
+ * Despite 2008 being a fabulous year. I guess its just another year. I might reconsider this.
* Hit the gym occasionally.
* Spend some time for me!
+ * Monitor my spending well. (Its recession now)

Well, I will also add an exception clause for the above. I may not follow any of the above based on Bangalore traffic and the number of idlies I eat. Already over ruled by tagging this post 'Personal'.

Remembering Diwali

Its festival time again. Diwali is around the corner. This year its beautifully placed at the beginning of the week so that the vacation can be clubbed along with the weekend. Thankful to my class Raji and Susila who booked tickets for me for the travel. I again the missed the dates 3 months before. I almost dozed on watching the list of programs that's are lined up in the local channels. Humm, I wish I have electricity in Tamilnadu to enjoy these programs.

What else, I need to say "hi" to all my relatives, else I would get a phone call the week after that why you din visit our place. I remember those childhood days where I had to get up very early and burst crackers. Then distribute sweets to all the neighbouring homes. I din have the liberty of delegating these boring and embarrassing job to my younger siblings. Then I can eat lot of sweets (life is short, live it) and should not remember to take the bitter guard juice on the last day to bring back glucose content normal in my blood (Like I had been always).

Also I will not be wasting time with bursting crackers. Even by school days I used to complete all crackers in one shot (I love tying all the atom bombs and lakshmi crackers to a 5000 wala). Also should be alert when driving in road not be surprised with a sudden burst under my tyre, they are very common when too many kids are around. Kids play safe with crackers. Parents/Brother/Sisters/Uncles/Aunts keep an eye on them when they are on field. Esp those crazy rockets in the lighting the night sky. One funny thing, don wait to wish all your friends at the stroke of midnight for Diwali, All mobile networks will go haywire (Already BSNL is experiencing occasional down because of the recent heavy rains)

Long time pending photo shoot for a Diwali. Will try to capture some, absolutely not sure of how it would come. I don have a tripod or expert in shooting fireworks. :)

Btw, a school time friend (arun) flew down from UK for this Diwali. Should try to meet him. Also should be meeting Mr. Unstable (scorcee) and who bunch of friends. Also without fail should for to "sasi panipoori stall" for some mushroom fry, I missed them so much. They were my best dose before sitting down for a long night of studying. Should meet Karthi/Bharath parents that place is the next best place for me to go after my home. What else, planning to clean up all the pending draft blogs and make some update to ScribblinG. Its been long since I did something I like.

A box of dry fruits have arrived as Diwali gifts from my Employer. I say "Thank You". Enough of this blabber! God bless all. Amen...

System Update 2.0

After the major release its time for some System Update. Here is one of them. Though it does not carry all the bug fixes, I intend to sent a few that suffice the purpose. I thought I would put this here so that I don end up saying, my work keeps me busy. :P

1) With sudden change of plans of not going to Hyderabad (sorry DK, you will with all the greatest hearts forgive us.), I ended up making a flying trip to Cbe. It was two days trip of which I ended sleeping the first and eating the second. Though I had time to meet Bharath, scorcee, bharath's & karthi's parents. (They are all doing great guys...)

2) The tap is broken and its pouring down here in Bangalore. So, I end up spending my life in home->office cab->office->office cab->home. Which means we manage our cooking at home. My chief cook Santy has been rocking along side with my juniors and making it a cooking festival at home. Just in the last week or so we did Onion sambar, Potato fry, Mango & Drumstick sambar, tomato gujju, dosa, rice/tomato vaadaam and egg buriji. Many Thanks to my Mom, Satya and Raji for helping us with some tips.

3) I ended up facing the music for the second time in train after my friend forgot to bring the original ID card for the e-ticket. :) After some trails and acting managed to get that TTR convince that we will not repeat it again. (One piece of advice: If you are booking in 3 months advance, try booking i-ticket. E-ticket sucks just for its rules with ID proof.)

4) The 2008-09 season of English Premier League has started. ManU had a poor start last week with a draw, never mind. But we are frankly an underdogs this time just because of our team composition. We are just missing a fresh leg in the midfield after Ronaldo decided to move out. Chelsea are most spoken favorites and Arsenal are also a good side to give a tough race for the title. Liverpool will again be playing for Champions league place. This will keep me busy on all the evenings in weekend. :)

5) I'm reverse engineering on a something called "facility" oh boy. Its a hard nut to crack. Eh yeah, Its Fire fighting.

Note: You can file all the bugs on this update here and not bugzilla.