Oh lord, News Channels!!!

On a fine Tuesday morning,
After a KM long jogging.
With a glass of milk in my hand,
I turned on my TV of Samsung brand!

Leeeet's watch some news bulletin now,
Thinking this I switched to zee news, dunno how?
They were reporting on Arushi's case,
Got disappointed with the content, they made!

"This was the IMDI number of her mobile",
"This was the tower number that caught the signal, alright!"
Flashing, it was, all over the screen for a while!
Made me wonder if we need to know this with a smile!

Welcome to Indian News world, I told myself,
I'll never watch these craps, I promised myself!
In the end, I am watching MTV currently,
Atleast they admit that they show crap honestly! :)

Got a new iPhone!

Finally! Finally I have got my iPhone 3G with me. :)

After a long wait and thought over which phone to go for, it was an iPhone that stuct my mind and I just couldn't turn my face from it. And so I finally bought it. This is my first post from it and I can finally say that I am truly online 24x7. ;)

Signing out
Arun

New Month, New Work!!!

Hey Friends,

There are quite a few updates over the last one month.

Life hasn't been that bad or lonely since Saurabh left Hyderabad. Not that I don't miss him but it actually helped me in taking my lazy self off my bed and do something constructive.

Firstly, I found myself a km long new jogging track very near to my house. It's BHEL ground that is about 3-3.5 kms from my residence, full of greenery and a skating track. Nice atomosphere!!!


Other than this, I found an indoor baddy court just 300 m from my house. It's good and really good exercise. Hopefully with all these and a gym at my office, I'd be able to reduce a bulky 5 KG off my body soon. :)

BTW, I just can't believe that I missed these awesome sites for the last 3 years!! :O Anyways, better late than never. ;)

Secondly, I won't be wrong in saying that the month of July was a movie month for me. I saw close to 25 movies!!! Man, that's too much for me! I completed the whole Rocky and Rambo series of Sylvester Stallone, every single movie released in the hall, BBC documentaries from Osama Bin Laden to the Creation of the Universe and god know what :P. We had two back to back team outings in the last week. Everytime it was a dinner and a movie. Night at the museum part 2 was fun. I loved the way that Kapoochee monkey slaps Larry. Coming back from it, I downloaded part 1 and saw the same night :D. Our second movie in the outing was Love Aaj Kal. I just couldn't understand what its producers had in their mind while making this movie. This movie is a crap, total waste of money, time and energy. Watch Tom & Jerry instead. It'll be more fun!! ;)

Lastly, my bro started Maple Graph some time back. Thinking, if it's the right time for me to pitch in. :-? There is a lot of work at company. I think the time has come to prioritize stuff and keep moving forward.

Signing Out
Arun

A Great Friend - Saurabh Bhardwaj

I am writing this post with a very heavy heart as just about 20 minutes ago I have said good bye to one of my best friend, Saurabh Bhardwaj. It is only when the time comes to actually say good-bye, you realize how good has someone been your friend.

Saurabh is a very dynamic personality, full of only and only positive energy with a lots of ideas cooking in his mind all the time. Last two years of our association has been really great and looking back to those days I can clearly see that I wouldn't have done the amount of social initiatives that I did had he not been there. Together, we founded Sankalp Foundation, completed the course of CSIM and worked on many projects ranging from some work in the stocks market to planting as many as 133 trees in a single day! He is truly an awesome personality with a very focussed mind.

Now that today is his last day in Hyderabad, I don't want to make it too sentimental and I just wish that Saurabh, my friend, may you achieve what you have destined yourself to achieve and may you get success in all your new and future endeavors. Lastly, he said that it was a great association he had with me for two years and hope this association continues later as well. Trust me friend, I also wish the same!

Fir Milenge
Arun

Health is Wealth

Hey Friends,

I am back on blogging! :)

First of all, I'd like to thank Sakshi whom I didn't know a day ago but she somehow has revived my motivation to blog again. :) I don't know her except the normal hello-hi kind of chat on the net but she seems to have the similar interest in fitness as I do (and she is probably doing something for her fitness but I seem to lag here a lot :P).

Anyways, they say that you need to earn only one thing in your life, health. Rest all the other things will follow automatically. True it is that health is wealth and you should never compromise on that. So, what should we do to have a healthy living? The answer is simple:

1. Sleep: You can never achieve a healthy body without a relaxed and healthy mind. Your mind, just like any other part of your body, needs some rest to revive its strength. You can never feel fresh after working for 20 hours a day with 7 days a week. So, plan out a complete 8 hours (minimum 7 hours) of sleep a day. It would be good to have it in one stretch. This will give your mind enough time to cool down itself and will make you feel fresh while waking up.

2. Early to bed and early to rise: makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. The old sayings haven't lost their lusture yet. You should plan your sleep at around 11 PM in the night. Make it a habit!

3. Eat: You should not intake fat, fried or oily stuff. Say no to rice. Eat healthy and nutritious food only. Best is to take an appointment from the doctor and have a balanced diet chart. Never ever go for dieting. Instead eat healthy and nutritious food only. No alcohol or cigs dude! Why to pay for something that is killing you slowly? Instead, save some money and take cyanide!!!

4. Exercise: Do have a daily exercise schedule. It wouldn't take much but will give your body a strength to live for 100 years :). Ideally, an hour to two a day is must. Focus on cardio. Elderly people can go for morning/evening walks whereas the software professionals such as me should definitely hit the gym or even better should go out and play some sports. It soothes your mind, relax your body and is a nice little outing on the daily basis. Believe me, it won't take that much time. Just the determination!!!

In total you need to give 10-11 hours a day (including sleep) to your body and it'll take care of you for the rest of your life!!! :)

One last point, don't hide yourself behind the wall of excuse that your job doesn't allow you to spend time for your health. Just notice how much time do you waste eating at cafeteria in the afternoon and evening. Why not do something productive then? :)

For those of us who are so pathatically disowned by the goddess of health, it would be worth mentioning that Anil Ambani goes for a daily jogging of whopping 10 KMs. If a guy at such a level can spend so much amount of time on his health, why can't we?



Signing Out
A

Life (sometime) doesn't go the way you want it...

It isn't quite uncommon for a new age Homo Sapien to curse his life for it not align to what he wants. People are frustrated with their loved ones, their grades at school / college, their boss, their job, their private or professional life, with everything. In their act of cursing someone or something, often they look at only one side of the coin while totally ignoring what is there on the other side. One should realize that the question isn't why it happened the way it happened but what steps did I take to make it end like this?

There are some things that aren't in your hand and you really can't do much about it. But for others, there is always a second choice. They say, 10% of your life isn't under your control but the remaining 90% is the outcome of what choice did you make. Life always gives you a second chance and a second choice and if you don't have it, the show isn't over yet.

In the last one week, I have met several people who really don't know from where are they going to get their next meal. They are all over the streets of Delhi and no matter how much I try to help that someone on a traffic signal, the situation doesn't get any better. Everytime it's a new face, a new life begging for a Rs 5 note from your wallet. I am not talking charity here but my point is that think about those people who don't even have that much control on the things happening aorund them. Now, is it good for you to curse yourself or your luck or whatever? God has blessed you with an option to make a choice. Don't insult that gift.

I always believe that whatever happens, happens for good. If it had to end this way, probably it was best for you. Probably the other side could have been even worse that you might not even stand by that.

I wish that things go really well in your life and I hope that you make the right choice at the right time.

God Bless You
Arun

India tour to Australia: A game of shame?

There is no point for me writing a post to point how dirty did Australia played the second test match as one can see that the entire world is against them on this. But still somehow I am not able to resist myself in writing some of the points I observed.

While doing the aftermath of the match, when someone asked Ricky Ponting about his views on some of the controvertial decisions and catches (including his huge appeal for an incomplete catch), here is what he had to say:

"... In my opinion umpires are also human and are subject to make errors and in Ganguly's decision, the umpire (Mark Benson) was looking for me (captain) to ask if the catch was complete. I asked Clarke about the catch and he was confident that he had taken the catch and so I confirmed the umpire about the catch and said that Ganguly was out and this is the way I think the cricket should be played...".

No Mr. Ponting, the game SHOULDN'T be played this way. As a rule and also quoted by Sunil Gavaskar when talking about these controvertial decisions, it is stated that in case of a doubt the umpire has to consult the leg umpire (and not Ricky Ponting, opposition team's captain) to clarify his doubt and if the leg umpire is also not sure about it then the third umpire is reffered to for the decision. In case of the third umpire also not sure about the issue, the benefit of doubt is given to the batsman which was clearly not the thing in Ganguly's case. Though I wonder, how good would it have been asking the third umpire on this as he himself gave some wrong decision when he got the liberty to use technology and see the replay multiple times.

In all, it was a bad day for the Indian side watching the australian team, the umpires, the third umpire and the match referee all against India and giving the wrong decisions all the times. Some of the controvertial decisions that I remember are:

1) Symonds not given out twice (finally hitting 150+) was a major blow to the Indian side.

2) Ganguly's decision - Clarke grounded the ball.

3) Dravid's caught behind decision - Dravid never touched the ball by his bat.

4) Jaffer's decision - Brett Lee did a no ball but umpires were kind enough to Lee not to see that.

5) Third umpire decision of stumping etc.

On the top of this, the Harbhajan-Symonds controversy where the match referee (Mike Procter) found Harbhajan guilty on the plea of just two Australian player when none of the umpire heard the comment. Sachin, who was in the crease when the incident happened, was also not considered worthy enough to listen to. Harbhajan being banned for 3 matches is a big enough punishment anyone can give to a player (that too when the charges weren't proved) considering the maximum punishment was 4 matches ban. Anyways, history knows how the same person banned 5-6 Indian players for some matches sometime back even when they didn't do anything that should make someone ban them for some matches.

In my opinion, Indians should just boycott the series as the Australian team and their allies have forgotten even the basics of the sportsmanship which says that it doesn't matter who wins or loses the game, what matters is how the game is played.

Related articles:

'Bitter' Australia-India Test leaves sour taste - media

Aussies rally behind Harbhajan

Team India c Benson b Bucknor

Rotten from first day to the last

Indian team stays on in Sydney to push ban appeal

Three former captains slam Ponting on racial issue

Kumble questions Australia's spirit

We will fight the false slur against our player: BCCI

Found a banana pile on road? What NOT to do to avoid skidding over it!

For a long time I admired the camouflage effect behind encryption algorithms for they work so well in hiding what they actually carry and misdirect the possible hacking attempt leaving the original content save, secure and in restricted hands only.

Life is going pretty fast and every hour passes as if it had never begun. A milestone is approaching very fast and to some it might seem like a cat approaching a rope tied rat. One suggestion that might do the trick for the rat is that don't panic and be a brat and kick the cat ;). Victory will be yours dear rat ;).

With the best wishes to all those rats I would like to finish this crap (this post :) ).

ArUn TaNgRi

India will emerge among top 3 economic powers in 25 years ?

Watching my nation grow at such a fast pace and also being a part of it is really a great feeling. What adds the flavor to this sweet dish is the global recognition that India is getting. Take for an example the words by Mr Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation, "If India continues to grow at over eight per cent, once can do the maths and see how long it takes for India to come in the top three economies worldwide. Countries like India and China will have faster rate of growth than the developed nations. Depending on how you do the maths it is inevitable, in 20-25 years".

Quite impressive!!! Undoubtedly, India is heading towards topping the list of the countries with the largest man power but

What bothers me:

• Is that it also tops the list of the countries with the largest IDLE man power with a very huge percentage of people sitting on the "bench" waiting to realize their potential. As quoted by anonymous, "I work very hard to get some work to do in the busiest company of the world".

• Is that a country, which is proud to have an ex-prez in the form of a teacher, a learned professor & missile man, Dr. APZ Abdul Kalam, the person who is so much dedicated towards teaching and motivational for entrepreneurial skills, is lacking the basic infrastructure to provide the children of the country with even the basic and elementary education.

• Is that a country so rich in its knowledge and culture is so poor when it comes to provide the higher education to its citizen.

• Is that a country which should aim to make the IITs, the institution resembling the excellence in engineering education in the country at graduation level, the institutions providing only the higher education and focusing more on R&D has been indulged in the dirty vote bank game and is taking so much time in establishing new IITs / upgrading the institutes to that level. Are we even clear about our air with respect to these institutions?

• Is that a person really in need of some help from the government for his / her uplifting in the society kept on waiting till he dies because he is from so-called higher class while a person who has already availed this benefit from the government not just once or twice or thrice but even more than that is still getting those benefits not only for him but all of his wards and relatives as well for he being a member of so-called lower class. What even more bothers me is that the situation is getting better but in the negative side.

• Is the scarcity of the teachers in the educational institutions and the absence of students in the classrooms.

Anyways, but despite of all these points I am sure that we'll be amongst the top 3 economic powers of the world in the next 25 years. Right Mr. Barrett? :)

Guys, we are doing great!! Really good!! What's your problem anyways? Don't you like the system up and running as we have in here? I have given it enough thoughts, now its your turn.

The comments are author's personal comments and are not subject to any legal issues. The author reserve the right to take them back as and when required :)

Last Post on the blog

Hi All,

It's the last post on this blog. I am taking a break for sometime from blogging.

Catch you all guys later on.

Enjoy The Life
Arun

Chords

Guitar Chords !!! Ahh !!!

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

IF discovering music has been one of the invaluable accomplishments of mankind, inventing the guitar has certainly made it priceless. Surreal it was - lying there on the soft, moist grass with the clear sky above me and a guitar by my side.

WIth such a simple concept of resonance, a hollow piece of wood and a set of strings can do wonders. It has the power to give a gift of life to a dying person. Historically also the effect & impact of music is so huge that the greatest of the writers of their time liked talking something or the other on music or will use it to describe a situation.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

MAy it be a war place, work place or any other place; may you be alone sitting idle under a tree or with your soulmate; may you really want to scream hard or just keep quiet; music has every form of life in it & trust me, you'll find a music of your type in any state of your mind.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

IT happened to be a time when I was in my college's last year that this passion of guitar struck me like anything. I liked it very much but I am not sure about my peers :). I used to play it for the whole night desperately trying hard to learn 'how to play the damn thing?'.

www.IndianGuitarTabs.com proved to be very helpful to me for the initial learning and brushing up the basics. I learned to play many songs from there and I still refer to it. Second site that I happen to visit is www.FreeGuitarVideos.com.

Enjoy The Flamboyance of Music

ArUn TaNgRi

New Year Started With The New Bang

Hi All,

A very happy and prosperous new year to all of you though wishing a bit late but it's better late than never :).

Year 2006 was very eventful for me as:

1) Completed my graduation from IT-BHU.
2) Transitioned myself from financial dependence to financial self-dependence ;).
3) Saw the life with a different angle and I guess much more focussed for future as well.
4) Missed Delhi every bit of second I lived in last year :|.

Anyways, the last year ended quite peacefully and all my batchmates from college are settled for sometime atleast doing wonderful jobs at their workplaces. Wishing you all guys all the very best of your future endeavors.

Time to talk about the new year resolution? Well here are some:

1) Will learn talking in Punjabi.
2) Try to do justice with my job :).
3) NO TIME-WASTING (stretched goal though :D).
4) Will write atleast 2 blogs per month.
5) Early to bed and early to rise.
6) No More Misc Activity.

I guess you all must have made your new year resolution as well.
Hope you can complete them.

Enjoy
ArUn TaNgRi

Cricket: Sreesanth Swinging His Bat!!!

Cricket: This is Sreesanth, of India, responding to Andre (the Giant) Nel of South Africa by scoring a six and..... (more) For me India won the match then and there only ;)... But I would love if they win it completely... Great going Team India

Where can I find happiness?

Once the immortal part of me in my unconcious state met the divine power that rules the universe. It felt to me as if all the desires are fullfilled and that I don't need anything else in this world. I've already had more than sufficient and have already achieved more than I ever desired. The God then asked if I had some wish to make. I couldn't think of anything as I didn't want anything then. But suddenly my eyes stopped at one place and stared it for a minute. Puzzled in my own self I asked this innocent question from God,

"My Lord! I don't want anything from you but an answer that I couldn't figure out myself. That placed is my home (pointing at Earth) and I am unable to find even a single person who is happy out there. All of them are tensed, confused, puzzled about themselves and about their future. All of them are in a hurry. Poor are finding a way to earn some money for their living and rich ones are trying hard to catch some sleep at night spending many a times than a poor person can ever earn. Why is it so, God? Why can't I find even a single happy soul in that poor little planet?"

God gave a smile and as he started telling me as to why is it so, my unconciousness broke and I went back to this mortal world, to this Maaya. I wish I could hear the voice of the God.

Do you have any answer to this?

Chief Got Well: Thanks to Gandhigiri

Arun Tangri
MS Correspondent
(Nov 12th, 2006 Sunday IST)

Hyderabad: "Get Well Soon, Chief!!!" was the word chief used to hear from a team of 7 drivers who used to come with a warm smile and a rose in their hands on regular intervals to chief's room. Prepared for gandhigiri completely this team decided to make a 'Nicotine Free Environment'. For those who don't know chief well, chief is a very intriguing personality working as a test lead of the author and his team at Microsoft IDC. He is a multi-talented personality with just one bad habit of smoking and thanks to the Gandhigiri, it no more bother him.

"I was pretty clean even after my college days got over. I remember those days back in America where I first started smoking. It used to be really cold out there and I was left with no other option other than smoking. I know that its not a good habit to inculcate but it just happened. I really wanted to quit it but couldn't. Thanx to the team and Gandhigiri that I am all right now." said Chief.

Here is what let the driver team drive this effort of Nicotine Free Tomorrow.

	Notice the cigarette butts lying on the ground in the enlarged image
(click on the image to enlarge it)

After watching such a condition of their lead the team decided to do something seriously about it and also in a non-violence mode (fearing for their jobs otherwise in any other mode :D) and so came in picture the Gandhigiri. Here is what the team did for their chief to quit smoking.

	The first ever poster made by the team for chief to quit smoking. It was his b'day on that day and that was the gift from the team.
Poster on his first day of non-smoking. Cigarette lost its one of the patron on that day.
	First non-smoking day poster.
First non-smoking day poster.

Not only this but the team gave him poster, rose and 'Get Well Soon' wishes in between the period while he was getting cured.

And after so much effort, today the driver team proudly boast of having 100% non-smokers in their team. Once again, thanks to Gandhigiri.

PS: Dear Readers, if you find Chief puffing up a cigarette butt again in the future then please feel free to give the bumps to him because doggy's tail never gets straighten :P.

Who Rule This Planet: A Human Or A Dog ???

Ashish Saxena, my batchmate in IT-BHU had this affinity towards 'Dogs' and used to have a profound altercation with Anoop Pandey on "who is better, a cow or a dog?". I am fed up with the concept of cow and tried to dig out something about this specie, Dog.

It is said that God created the Earth and felt the need of sending someone with wisdom to rule this poor little planet. Hence he made humans who used their thinking ability to create some tools to rule this planet. But as I see it today a big debating question lies on the floor which is:

WHO ACTUALLY RULES THIS PLANET ?

A Human ->

Or A Dog ?? ->

What ? Didn't you get it ? Okay lemme explain how...

The explanation can be manyfolds and the point of a dog ruling this planet can be backed in literally any angle. What is all that is needed to declare someone a ruler of any place? Hmm... let's jot down some points:

1) You gotta be strong and have a good self-defence / offense that could be used against your enemy at the right time.

Don't you think that Dogs have one ;)?

Well... sometime you need to fight too for what you deserve :)

2) You should be free enough to do whatever you wanna do and no body should dare interrupt you in between.

Now... Do you have that much courage in you to do THAT in public ;) ?

3) Okay okay... somewhat you gotta be handsome and a 'person in ques' among opposite sex too ;).

Dogs DO HAVE some real gud looking creatures amongst themself too. Look at this fellow.. he has just asked his bitch GF "YO BABY!!! How are you doooiiiiing ;)"

4) You gotta have some fear of yourself in the eyes of enemies.

Dogs aren't behind in making their repo in this area too.

Now based on above explanations I am confused whether who is ruling this planet... is it really a human or a DOG doing this?

Comments are welcome :).

Enjoy
ArUn TaNgRi

An Engineer's Life: Dilbert Way

Steve Job's Speech in Stanford Ceremony

This is an amazing speech by Steve Jobs in Stanford University's graduation ceremony!

Updates

Hi All,

FYI its already a month for me in this corporate world :P and i am kinda settled in here... the initial days in hyderabad and microsoft has gone well, the description of which you can see here.

All of us from ITBHU are enjoying the days here and soon our appartment will be so-called fully furnished after we take washing machine and fridge :). Apart from that I have joined the editing team of the chronicle, a monthly online mag of ITBHU... click here to see the magzine.

Chalo then keep enjoying your life
Bbye
ArUn TaNgRi

New Template

Hi All,

I have just switched to this new template today itself.... This template is a tribute to those gud old ITBHU's days (4 years) that I spent thr... it was a wonderful experience there. The picture you see at the background of the blog is on my last theory exam of B.Tech life :).

Bbye
ArUn TaNgRi