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Mata Devi Darshan ! Alas ! Finally paid a visit to Mata. Me and my Dad started off in the late evening and reached the top by late midnight hours. Well its was little tough uphill but we managed to reach the top by covering the distance of 12 Kms by feet but while returning we could only travelled half a distance on the feet an d the other half distance on the back horse. All together it was full 10 Hours of hardship just to see a glimse of Mata which lasted for only few seconds ! Lovely scenic beauties (both of a kind) were observed throughout the planned journey up/down the hill; Hopefully Mata's aashribad will make rest of my journey a memorable one !

iMpressive India ! Still a lot more to improve.... I got back to india a few weeks back, and the picture back then and now is somewhat impressive for any indian coming back to the roots. Though i still have a week to visit the country's capital and hoping to have a similar experience. I actually made few back-n-forth trips to mumbai and this time as well i did take the domestic flight from mumbai to my hometown ; the city of temples "bhubaneswar" and it has definately made me realise i have missed those 2 years of constant infrastructure developement that india has underwent during my absence. Well from the limited places i have visited like the Domestic Airports here in Mumbai to Latest Shopping Arcades, it's definately right to say that we have done some progress in the infrastructure field which has been in the main disscussion for quite a long time..but i will still say that we have lot more to improve on this. Well that was the picture of the Urban india, apart...

Lost & Amazed ! It's been more than 2 years that i have set my foot in the L&T Infotech Vashi centre; surprisingly when actually i did it the pictures were completely different than i could have imagined of. The new landscapes were constructed, the look of the whole office was somewhat modified, as for me most of the things were completely new and different. But thanks to Rakesh, who accompained me and kept on explaining me about the concrete landscapes and the BU allocations around the blocks. The second blow came in when i entered the 4th floor, all new faces around me,i was kind of lost in between the crowd but finally could see few of the fimiliar faces whom i could know because i have worked earlier with them in japan.Once after meeting the Managers up here in my BU, i decided to meet my colleagues who were sitting @ 6th Floor with whom I have worked earlier. Really felt happy after meeting those people doing well and still going very smooth ahead in the life. During m...

Last Day in Office Well it was my very last @ office where i have been working for more than 2 years; still couldn't figured it out how the time passed by. It's been a fabulous experience working with people from different locations and in same time maintaining a balance between them all. I came empty handed but i am sure i going back with handful of experience and the unforgettable memories spent during my brief stay up here. I would like to thanks all of you for making my stay here an memorable one ! "Mina san, osewa ni narimasta". Wish you people the very best in the life and wish you have a wonderful life ahead. Mina san, dozo o-genki de ! Sayonara, Bips

Free Calls to Anywhere : Bug in Skype ! Well one of my friend just created a new SKYPE id, by mistake he dialed his home number back in India and withing next few seconds he could talk to his family complete free of cost...once the call got over he along with my bro rushed to my place asking if skype does provides free calls to PSTN numbers...wish it could cozi always buy skype credits to call PSTN numbers :-( OOOOOO.....Well just wondering when did skype started providing free PSTN calls... Ohh...after a little analysis we could figure out that once a new Skype id is created (with new email id for verification) and the first call made to any PSTN number(made calls to india), user gets to talk free of cost......Still Wondering if its a Bug or not !!!

Jordan des yo ! Stalin's ghost appears to putin in a dream, and Putin asks for his help in running the country.Stalin says," Round up and shoot up all the democrats and then paint the inside of the kremlin blue " " Why blue " Putin asks. " Ha " says Stalin. I knew you wouldn't ask me the first part.

Together the Last time It's been a amazing yet facinating stay here in nihon with so much intellectual people around you and making your very day a special day all together. Its been a year later after landing in Japan that i decided for the taking a japanese class. With no idea how to start with it, i along with one of my friends decided to go for TAC and within the next week we decided to meet Takahashi-san, the gentleman behind the whole show. Its was then that we started our first japanese class and till the end it continued with few more others friends joined in as we moved on ahead. This whole thing started just as an hobby but as we gradually learned a little bit of japanese, we developed great thirst for the japanese culture to quench. In this whole process Takahashi-san & Yamamoto-san has really made a lot of difference. Well in other sense i can put it in this way that they were the Doors to the Japanese culture and traditions. We were not only learning japanese but ...

Last day of my Spalding ! So finally today i handed over my Spalding to one of my mates @ LnT ! Its been a nice company for me during my stay up here in Japan. Well i'm gonna miss the environmental friendly 6 gears bike :-)

People change managers not company ! With my 3.5 years of experience in IT field , i had seen severals new faces appearing from no where and some old known faces disappearing in the ever growing IT crowd. If you have observed that within the last few years the attrition rate is kind of growing and lots of people are moving in and out within different companies with new expectation and hope that they will get new opportunities, new work style, new things/technologies to learn that will help them grow on the professional level. We have heard a lot regarding this topic and have come through several pros and cons but ultimately I still haven't figured it out whether the attrition rates being high or low really matters for a company ? Little confused, i guess i should be even the big guns sometimes feel the same way if they face really dilemma tic situation. But I guess no matter what company you are working for the policies remain the same everywhere but the only thing that...

The Top 10 G.E.E.K.S Quotes 1. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d. 2. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." 3. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. 4. If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0 5. I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly. 6. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. 7. The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be. 8. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. 9. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. 10. My pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Dar...

Miss my little sis :-( This morning when i was commuting in the Tozai Metro i saw 2 kids dressed up in the green school uniform with the hats, might be going to participate in some kind of sports meet which these Japanese schools usually organize during the Saturdays.The little girl with a heavy specs resting on her nose was constantly teasing her elder brother with her umbrella, the brother did resisted the constant teasing effort by his sis, but the little sis was really not in a mood to stop...she kept on repeating the teasing.. ha ha.. it was kind of moment which actually reminded me of those golden moments when me and my lil-sis used to fight/tease each other. But every time we have these fights it would hardly last few minutes and right after we would behave as if nothing ever happened...Really miss those past moments, sometimes i do really wish to go back to that phase of life with no worries and tensions totally unaware of the materialistic world and fill...

A shaky tremor in tokyo Just like any other ordinary night, i thought this one would be a similar one until i felt a strong threshold of the shake underneath me back to back ;WOW 2 heavy quake in just a quater of hours; though this is quite natural in a place like japan which experiences 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes every year but this was rather something i would have never imagined to have experienced in my lifetime during my stay and still breathing like a normal human being as i used to do beforehand :-) Well i will say its was a scintillating and exciting yet despairing moment for me to have felt the quake of 6.7 richter scale, still can't forget the moment when every damn thing from hanging light to my bed was shaking in the horrible pendulum motion around and around. Later i was joined by few friends who were norturnal humans just similar to me and we were just communicating each other about our encounter with the shaky feeling about the tremors and we dec...

Finally it's out ! Telecom operator Vodafone will offer the much awaited iPhone in India. The telecom giant has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe.Later this year, Vodafone customers in India, Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network. Press Release [Vodafone]

Refreshing !!! Our body which is actually made up of billions of tiny cells and as we grow older they also tend to grow and during this long process some of these cells die and a new one regenerates but the brain cells are rarest of them all which has the longest life span and it actually remains almost indestructible till the end. So its advisable to keep your brain cells complete out of stress and presumable relaxed when the body is in rest ! So relax and listen to this amazing tune....

Virtual Scent Major telecommunications company NTT Communications Corp. has unveiled a way of devising user to buy the Perfumes online and that to actually user being able to feel the fragrance sitting right in the den. Currently this systems is under the testing, which is similar to earlier program launched in 2005 allowing users to download different programs to emit smells. How does this Work ? Scent play lists can be downloaded from "i-mode" mobile Web site run by the company's affiliate, NTT DoCoMo. The service uses a handset's infrared port to transfer the "fragrance data" to a dedicated device similar to a plug-in air freshener that is loaded with a cartridge of base fragrances. The device then mixes them to create the chosen smell, which it then wafts out. Hmmm..Amazing... isn't ?

Dam Dam Dee Dee eee... Just surfing around the web, suddenly a link popped up from somewhere and redirected me a mp3 site with this amazing song, which i used to hear when i was kid. Never ever heard it afterwards when i grew up old enough to hear some rock band... Well i admit that these pop-ups aren't bad always...they sometimes do take you the time you have fogotten !!!

Headphones for Music Lovers ! It's been a long time i had visited the Electronics town of Japan...Akihabara. And every time i pay a visit i lose few pennies definitely ! Well this time as well i lost a couple of thousands yens, yes i purchased one desktop charger for my VAIO and an amazing Sony IR Stereo headphones. When i actually thought of buying the headphones it didn't really had any high expectations of how its gonna perform and moreover since it works on IR how possibly it can work at my place...i mean my small kholli thats what they say in Mumbai..hmmm..lots of doubts..and here comes my but..i decided to buy it anyway and i will say i don't regret it at all after listening to some of the mesmerizing musical tracks on these headphones.I can only say that's its one the amazing headphones i have actually had my hands on after the Bose. It gives the true essence of musical effect with the SRS on and if you have turned on the Vibrations you can really feel what it li...

Ride in Ideon It's was normal day and the watch in the main entrance gate @ watertowers showed 4:42 pm. I had a meeting @ Ideon Alpha-2 which was little far off where i was assigned to sit during my biz trip. The meeting was going to start at 5 and i had no clue how to get there. Upon asking the lady @ the reception, she handed me over a MAP and next thing she told is you can take a bike as no shuttle services are available to get you there in time...sorryyy..B.I.K.E.i dont even have a valid licence to drive anything in Sweden neither in Japan as well..but later i found out that she meant BIKE as Cycle(ohh..what a relieve) not bad start though ! So my journey started off from Watertowers to Ideon Alpha-2, time was running by but i was told that taking the cycle is the fatest way to reach my destination incase you dont have any other option:-)With this belief i just rolled down the road cutting the chilling cold. Hmmm.. taking cycle on the road was little odd with map folded in one ...

Nordic Trip My very first Nordic trip began this Feb 2 starting from Narita taking a Austrian Airlines all the way to Vienna or you may call in Wien in the country's own language. But this is not the final destination that i was suppossed to go but i had to take another flight up here from Vienna to Copenhagen. The next thing i had to do is to take a train over the oresund brigde all the way to Lund Central. At the end of the day when i thought over about the time that took me to reach up here in Lund from Tokyo, it was close to 24 hours! Weather up here is not that chilling as it used to be in Tokyo but its little foggy something spooky with few people around, huge old building something that reminds me of a classics movie shot in 1940s!Well the only thing that different is that cars and buses have replaced the horses and horse-carts. Only thing that seeme to be still there is bicycles! I still have a sometime to move around the place and check some lovely places out here during m...

Relax dont do it ! With so much of work pressure and stress in this competative market, we hardly get any time to sleep or relax a bit totally forgetting the hardships that you have done for the whole day.But ultimately we end up gettings ourselves more stressful and So when i searched on the net on how to make myself less prone to stress and be relaxed, here are a bucket of lists of DO'S & DON'T ! - Reduce caffeine : Ahhhh..i can't..actually we all can't.its an energy drink for all of us.. - Restrict nicotine : i can do that.RESTRICT myself and others from having it ! - Avoid napping : I can do that but what about my fellow japs who doze off every now and then...its a awesome view..i enjoy every moment of it when they nap..hahaha NOTE : The bed should be used for sleep and sex only. If not, you can end up associating the bed with distracting activities that could make it difficult for you to fall asleep.