I want to blog more often but then I am (happily) keeping myself busy with so many other things that blogging is almost not getting its deserved time. Now I have 5 minutes to blog post :). I am going to write about my magical wallet. It is finally dead and replaced with another lower range (hopefully more organized) wallet.

(My dead magical wallet)

Why magical?
It’s rather funny but true. If the first search says you have 0 Rs inside then search again to find other 100 Rs (in folded notes, hidden coins) and so on. Search once more and you might find some money for one time meal (applicable only in Kolkata). It was so messed up that coins used to hide inside notes and notes behind coins.

The last words from my magical wallet
I (wallet) played my role well but you (Aji) did not take care of me. I wish you didn’t have put following things inside me:

1. Two bunch of keys.
2. All bills folded.
3. Your class notes.
4. Orbits.
5. Identity cards from your school days.
6. Other plastic cards. (Why the hell you need so many membership??)
7. Over 50 Coins sometimes (Do you remember how you paid 50 rs using coins only?)
8. Comb (Yuk!!!! your comb used to enter inside me sometimes)
9. Small pen (I don’t know who invented it but certainly I would have killed that Chinese guy? Chinese is just a guess as behind such innovation u see Chinese only :).)

You killed me Aji
The last but the most important point, you sat on almost everyday. I was full with almost all craps and moreover YOU SAT ON ME. I survived for 5 years but finally I am dead, thanks to you Aji.

Stop laughing
It was a woodland (soft leather) wallet worth 1,200 Rs (5 years back) and very comfortable. I shifted to a relatively cheaper one this time. You can wish it best of luck

Happy new week!
(Btw I will keep myself busy reading books and implementing some of the theories.)

I was going through Abhirupa’s post titled “Some say love is“, so thought of writing this valentine post. (btw I love the whole song collection, check this out “Love can build a bridge“).

Last Sunday was quite special, it was a pre-valentine day (and next Sunday is “what after valentine”) and the speaker talked about “Valentine day” (You can also read the chapter talking about Love and the whole book by Solomon). So what is it all about? Love? Gifts? Proposing? Expectations? or just a buzzyy?? Who careesssssss, let no other person defines what it means to you but you, you alone.

Where is love :)?

When I wrote “Oh valentine! Oh love! Oh you lover”, I wanted to write about what love is. Here I am talking about love between an Adam and an Eve. The love between adams and eves are special as it is one which comes with a lot of choices when compared to parental or sibling love with one option. You are free to choose your lover (oh really!). You build a lot of expectation around this love line and almost make it over fictionalized. Still it is a special one, gifted to you by chance but it is your responsibly to work it out well till the end, so here I go:

Love is

1. is a feeling: You can’t always express it in words, it is something you feel. “Are you in love?” is sometimes the most difficult question thrown at you. Verbal communication is also important but not a must (esp for Indian culture). The eyes says it all. The touch communicates it deeper and the separation(explained deep missing) explains all. You can take this valentine’s day and say it in your special way, “I love you! I really do“.
2. is always one sided: When you love someone, it starts as one sided only. All the FOSLA members can redefine their clubs.
3. is a little deeper than liking: I may start linking something about a person but to love that person it goes a little deeper. Love sometimes (most of the times) starts by getting attracted to something you like but it doesn’t stop there. It was just a beginning of something wonderful.
4. is a COMMITMENT: Oh this is my favorite one. Love can start by chance but you cant stay in love by chance, it has to be, by choice, by commitment. Love is very strong but the lovers need to reach closer to true love with every moment, every step. Every fight makes it stronger, every dinner together renews it.
5. is selfless: I don’t matter in love, it is more about your love and then we.
6. is great understanding: It stands on understanding. I like this quote, “Sometimes love ain’t nothing but a misunderstanding between two well understood fools”.
7. is strength: It gives you a lot of strength and IT IS TRUTH. When you are in love, don’t be afraid, just stand firm and say I am in love.
8. is change: It brings a lot of changes in you. You start changing yourself to make the feeling grow and stay.
9. is sacrificial: I don’t want to use the word sacrifice, I still want to say the word commitment and responsibility. You leave something, you change something but all is for good. You can still leave everything to make your love happy.
10. is not for intelligent people: They can never understand these feelings, its ROI and the whole purpose of it. So never ever try to explain an intelligent person what love is and probably you wont have to explain it to a fool who ever been in love as he/she will understand through your eyes.
11. is NOT COMPETITIVE: hell with those who says, see what his lover did or her lover did. You don’t want to buy a gift so that others can see and your social points for being a lover increases. I will choose to be a fool in front of the society to be the smartest guy for my love.
12. is Open: There is nothing that one need to hide. You can feel very comfortable is saying, “Honey! I messed it up, Sorry”. Don’t lie but accept the faults :).

I wanted to write a lot about it but I need to reach office before the day starts shining really hard. I will conclude the part 1 of the series by calling LOVE A NON-SPREADSHEETAL. Love never keeps an account of bad things, it keeps erasing everything bad from your books/spreadsheets. “That day you said this”, “year and a half past since you said a sorry” and so on. Don’t keep an account of your love activities, let is flow smooth. Don’t define, don’t plan, don’t copy but just be honestly-committed-oneSidedly-selflessly in love.
HAPPY VALentine Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some relevant recent blog posts I read:

• 10 simple and frugal ideas to spend Valentine’s day - Good posts, spend wisely.

My Next post can be:
In love there is Honeymoon period and sometimes sun stoke periods too.

I generally don’t cover industry news on my blog but this is surely an exception, Sun Micro buying MySQL for $1 billion. I was reading Jonathan Schwartz (Chief Executive Officer and President, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), when I stumbled upon Helping Dolphins Fly, where he said, “we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you’re an industry insider, you’ll know what that means - we’re acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.”

This is good news! I just digged a little deeper into the happening at reuters.com, which says,

Forrester Research analyst Mike Gilpin said the acquisition was not so much about going head to head in the database market with Oracle Corp (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) or IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), but about strengthening its position in helping to run the Internet.

Btw, Oracle is the owner of the InnoDB database engine in MySQL (There are other storage engines, see falcon). I wonder how this might affect the global partnership between Sun and Oracle.

“This is Sun girding its loins for battle against Microsoft in terms of who’s going to run the Web,” he said.

Many of the top Internet sites like Facebook and youtube are running on Mysql.

I still wonder $1 billion?????? Isn’t it too much. Ebay paid a whooping $4.1 billion for skype and later regretted for it. I just hope that it doesn’t happen with Sun. Only 1% of mysql users pay for it. The only question that remains:

Will Sun tweak the license to milk its $1 billion?

Anyway a BIG News for the day!

Merry Christmas to everyone! May God bless everyone with His Riches this year! Christmas is a great season of love, sharing, caring and joy. We forget everything bad and wish everyone a Merry Christmas with all Joy.

Christmas is just not about Drinking or Eating,
Its not about just gifting and meeting,
Its is certainly not about forgetting the Bday Boy,
Its not all about the vanishing Joy,
Its about Life, Its about the purpose and Its about YOU.

This Season I want to introduce you the Greatest Gift that a Christmas offers. I am writing this as many don’t understand the true meaning of Christmas and why it is to be celebrated (I don’t feel sorry for the commercialization done by the companies but I feel sorry for unthematic acceptance by us). We all know that it is about the Birth of Jesus but may not understand the purpose of it. I will write it in simpler words:

• Jesus came to this world to give us a life through him. Every sinner needs to die says all the laws, so says the God too. Jesus came to die for us that we can get an eternal life through Him (Sometimes it is good to think what will happen to us after we die) John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal“. The Joy is the joy of getting a Life through the Saviour, so everyone celebrates it with such Great Joy.

So let this Christmas be a little more meaningful for all of us :). We celebrate it in a different way. “A family that prays together stays together“, we all fast this whole day and spend the whole day at Church praying, singing, dancing and thanking. It is a Great Day!

Merry Christmas to all!

If you have missed the cake do ping me before it is too late Some captured moments before my finish my post.

(Cake distribution at Office)

(Santa on all of our computers :), thanks to Hardeep for this)

Anyone who know me knows my passion towards ads. Here is an ad that is really touchy (may be a completely person opinion), very well made.

Here is a quote that I can very well gel with the theme of the ad, “Sometimes you need to take few steps all alone to see if there are others to follow….” (copyright on the quote, ask me before copying )

Well, I am planning to upload some videos using my not so old N95.

This is a sabbath month for my blogging .. SORRY … I don’t think I will be blogging till Oct 19, 2007. One complete month of sabbath, I wanted to take a break for

1. More books, more stories, more chats, more orkut, more emails.
2. More phone calls, more traveling, more driving.
3. I haven’t read a blog post from 17 sep from my blog reader account only source of info is eco times for 30 mins.

I will be back with a special story, “I met with an accident”, Don’t miss this one, I am yet to start it.

I have all reasons to push myself for this post at 1 am though I am feeling a little sleeping (but I am feeling much better now). Keeping it short with some images:

Scene #4 of Bday: Why am I feeling so successful … I managed to undo scene 3 here.

Scene #3: Meine sab ko kitne pyar se lagya tha (sorry light problem, all are mobi pics).. Prabhat ne puri gardhan me laga di .. ears, eyes kuch nahi choda … still I can smell the cake .. it took me some good minutes to clean this up but was fun except the color … what color .. see scene 1

Scene #2: Sab kitne chup chap hai .. so nice … they were not so nice in scene # 3 …. Oh the color… see scene #1 for colorful view

Scene #1 Who bought this cake ???? with such hard colors … the red color cream was put on my head … some green color here and there … red color was really really really hard .. had to wash many times … now you know why I was feeling so successful at scene #4

Overall it was such a great great day ……………

Thanks to every one

Slept late at 1:30 after some calls. There was no one present for Bday bumps but I felt as if it was outsourced to Behala mosquitoes and they were doing there work wonderfully when I was on phone. Slept really deep (don’t even remember a single dream or mosquito bumps), got up when I got a call at 7:30 (I got to know her through this blog only, blogging is good I guess), this was a surprise call, heard her voice for the first time (Thanks, it was so nice of you). Mom, dad were happy as I got a good sleep. Some calls/mails/smses/scraps kept me smiling … Driver ji also gifted some flowers and cards (so nice of him) … and reached office very late … Got permission to use orkut at office … calls/mails/smses/scraps went on through out the day … then office party … and while coming back dropped at Sheere -Punjab for some diet-tandoori chicken .. at home dad bought some special fruit cake .. calls from cousins/relatives … India winning in style (uttapa/sachin kya khela hai) … End of the day I am burping and smiling .. thanks for making this day so wonderful … God bless all. Good night!

Thank You God

(pic separated by 21 years and 80 months )

8 days and 3 sleepless nights, not good at all. Its not because of time problem, it may be because of extra thinking or unwanted tension. I need to take care of myself. Need to go for a medical checkup soon. So avoiding regular blogging for few days.

I do eat a lot of fruits in the morning. Almost 30 mins - 1 hr of workout in early morning and an hr of ping-pong at eve. I need to drink a lot of water as well. After consulting my medical friends here are some advices for health:

• Before sleep don’t think too much, relax, watch TV or do something where you don’t have to think.
• Put some perfume on your bed. It helps in a sound sleep.
• Eat healthy, drink a lot of water too.
• Don’t worry such things happens to everyone just take care of yourself and keep the smile.
• Go for a medical checkup, BP check for sure. Keep working out.

I can’t afford to lose the ability to sleep 24 hrs a day. I want to be lazy again and sleep like one who have sold everything. So please don’t expect many post in the coming days .

After talking to few people about the need of another Gandhi i left for Aug 15 celebrations at Church, where we had different competitions and programs. It is a big story, keeping it short with some images. Enjoy!

Update: More pics at http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/15-aug-pics/

(Click on the images to enlarge it, I am waiting for more images)


speaking on "Never Never Never Quit"

Pic1: Bargaining for a land	Pic2: Business Man	Pic3: Taking an interview
Pic4: Desperately asking for a job	Pic5: Editing ….	Pic6: (Sur)Prize
Pic7: Bro, who is taller?	Pic8: My bro	Pic9: Lunch time - I am on diet but

Skit was more fun as we mixed up our dialogs and director was all shocked and we were all laughing and laughing …..
Pic2: I am left on stage without co-actors as they misplaced their costumes and I was asked to cookup some runtime dialogs.
Pic 4: He forgot the scene and was not falling on my feet and I kept on repeating the same dialog. We had to be reminded by the director.

Overall it was more fun that we thought, I enjoyed the day. The topic of the final speech was “How you can and should make a difference in the society”. There were few interesting stories with great morals. I will be writing it over all soon.

I see people more independent, more confident and ready to dream big. From being a third nation India is cruising with great self-believe. I have seen more entrepreneurs coming out of recent batches than ever before. In last 60 years we have achieved a lot and in recent few years even more.

Look at the sensex for last 2 years:

People are investing more with mutual funds(taking risks), starting more companies and so on and on. Keep going India and

“Happy Independence Day to all”

My message for the day
Take pride in what you do and excel in whatever you do. Do India need another Gandhi? Probably no but it certainly needs more Manjunaths, Capt Saurabh Kalias and more importantly you and me. Don’t forget to play your part in India’s growth. If you can work hard and create another job, do that. If you can bring smile on one more Indian face, do that, it doesn’t cost you a penny. You don’t need to sit on roads to show your involvement. Everyone of us is needed and wishing you a very responsible, independent, empowered, less selfish and happy Independence day-year.

My Plan for the day
We have many programs today, my fav is the community lunch next to skit. I am playing two small roles - “A real estate buyer” and “Business Man” (I still need to prepare the dialogs, we are already warned for extra improvisation like asking different question than the planned, sorry can’t remember all Malayalam lines) . Then I will be presenting a short-story and a speech. I will be back home by 7:00.

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