Hyderabad nostalgia...

Well, after 2.5 years in hyd, this is what all I would miss about Hyderabad!

1. Jogging in KBR Park.

2. Cream stone's icecreams.

3. My good old room on the top floor.

4. The good friends I made here.

5. Hyderabad Biryani and Ohri's awesome food.

6. My good old work station with Win 7 which everyone envied :D

7. Having icecream immediately after getting down from the cab! lol

8. Coming home super duper late after partying almost every weekend.

9. Last but not the least, Hyderabad's indegineous transport system - Shared autos! lol

From now on its a new life, new office, new people. As they say change is the only constant I agree!

Super things in life

Some of the things which I feel is super! - Just a few random ones, some general, the others out of my experiences.

1. Bengaluru's weather - particularly the rains - the smell of soil and the chill winters.

2. Eating hot bajji and bonda on a cold evening. Added kai(coconut) chatni - awesome!

3. Long walk on a cool evening in Bangalore university or the KBR National park (Hyd) particularly with the human species of the kind female. lol

4. Tuttu anna particularly sitting outside in the garden of my home; added with moon light - awesome. Super tasteful if served by my granny - Not sure if it has to do with the experienced hands!.

5. High speed drive along the Mysore Road late after sunset - looking at the star filled sky after the outskirts of Bangalore. Sipping coffee at CCD at Ramanagar or Maddur CCD at mid night! The colder the weather the better.

6. Moms food after a long time of having self-made experimental food.

7. Maggi at 2am - only when mom's food isn't available

8. Sitting in the midnight figuring out what you like to do and making a list of stuff like the above!

FYI:

Bajji Bonda : Bajji, Bonda

Tuttu anna : A mix of rice and sambar/rasam/curd made into a ball and served directly onto the hand. anna-rice, tuttu-ball of rice served onto the hand.

IMs and Life

Last week was msn messenger’s 10th birthday. Life has changed so much so because of a messenger! I remember coordinating my project in college YM, No doubt I do that in Office Communicator today too!

Some good experiences about messenger – Meeting old friends, Keeping in touch with some one who is Continents apart or just pinging anyone on a morning and saying Good Morning. Even seen cases of people falling in love on a messenger! – Cupid lives in messengers too!!

What started as a bug fix to keep track of a person on MS Net meeting started off this revolution (Source : http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!41264.entry?sa=427562354). Also its grown just from sending text messages to Voice, Video chats, Online collaboration, Instant file/photo sharing etc.

Messenger has become so much so a part of life and changed life so much, be it as a Windows app or a Web app or even a Mobile app. I can easily say I cant live without pinging someone on the web each day in my life!

Coming to some facts and impact on environment :

Imagine if a single-page letter was mailed for every one of the 1.6 billion Messenger sessions that happen every day. The individual pages lined up one after another would stack up to the moon within a day! The weight would weigh 33 times more than the Endeavor Space Shuttle (with boosters and tank).

And by the way, using Messenger instead saves 2.8 million trees every day.  :-)

Long live the Messenger Phenomenon!

IsLifeBecomingSad() //update!

Had a great weekend! Met friends, went out, caught up with the world. Waiting for the coming weekend, Sure it’ll be much better!

Function is returning false for now!

yay!

IsLifeBecomingSad()

Haven’t had time to catch up with life, world, family, friends, books, blogs etc in the last 3 weeks :(

Sure the function above returns true when I pass the above parameters to it

Am I becoming a workaholic??

The year that was….

2008 was a mixture of good and bad as usual. But it has changed my life considerably.

Some of the stuff in 2008 were

My entry into the corporate life

Staying away from home! : Now I too am in the group who crave to go home now and then! lol.. Apart from this responsibility, making independent decisions are a part of life now.

Meeting new people, travelling places! : Away from home means friends are god and goddesses! Anyways I have made many good friends in this year. Every time a re-shuffle happens I have missed lots of people and got adjusted and realized that Change is a part of life, you can’t ignore it! But some of them have influenced me a lot.

Waiting for weekends : I too wait for a weekend starting Monday! Wish weekdays were weekends :P

A longing to get back to Student life : One thing a college pass-out  longs is getting back to student life! I too have got this from a long time and trying my best to get back! All you guys in college and wanting to get out of it please note this!

Lost my pet, she was like a sister to me!(Ref prev blog)

With hopes of a better year, as always!

Srinidhi!

9 Years of awesome association

It was the 30th of June 1999, when we got a pet home. She a terrier x pom. From initial apprehensions it was a great journey into the years that came.

She became famous among our family, friends and neighbours. She was/is a daughter for my parents, a sis to me and a grandchild for my grandparents. She even had Uncles and aunts! Such was the attachment we shared! I remember a family friend who still says I'm an uncle for the doggy!

Months passed and years too.. She was the babe of the family and we too were of that opinion. Companionship, acceptance, emotional support, and unconditional love were highly noticed.

I remember her taking only the front seat of the car! Never used to sit in any other seat! She used to jump from the back seats into the front. Dad was her fav and when he's around she acted like a queen in the house!(She was 1 anyway).

Memory takes me to all pranks she used to play. Now its all just memories to remember, cherish and ponder about. The morning licking, the walks, the long drives, her naughtiness while we gave her a bath, the birthday celebrations, the gifts she received, all as a movie seen.

It was a great life lived! I donno if she made it happen on us, or the otherwise, or was it both ways? The last one seems to be the correct one.!

On this day as she is laid to peace with due respects in the grounds of People for Animals, I salute the charm and the attachment we shared.


Hats off to you Sonu/Boshi/Puttu/SaNNi!
Miss Yaaa...
Remember you always..
God bless,
Srinidhi