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Took this quiz "Which Superhero are you?" and surprise.. surprise.. ;-)


Your results:

You are Superman

Superman 75% Iron Man 60% Supergirl 55% Green Lantern 50% Robin 47% Spider-Man 45% Catwoman 45% The Flash 45% Wonder Woman 40% Batman 35% Hulk 30%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

FOSS dot IN

Isn't it lovely when you are sent by your organization to various conferences and expos. Memories of the IndLinux developers meet are still fresh in my head. Close on its heels is the latest one on Free and Open Source Sofware, in Bangalore, called FOSS.IN.

FOSS.IN was a four day event with techinical lectures, turorials, philosophical talks, talks on open source, Open source and India, X and Open source, Y and Open source, Localization, Birds of a Feather, and so on and so forth... (See here fore schedules)

Day 1

Reached Bangalore at around 8am. After convincing the pesky auto-wala that three guys and a girl with all their luggages will not fit into an auto and asking him to leave us alone, we caught a taxi to our appartment, Diamond district (company sponsored ofcourse ;-)

If you think traffic in Bangalore is bad, then you are mistaken. Its horrible. Let me illustrate, our taxi ``reached'' our appartment by around 9am. Well... actually we were in the opposite side of the road and had to take a U-turn to reach our appartment. And thats what we did. Unfortunately, it took us more than 45mins to do that!!!

While on the road I saw some guy sitting in his car reading a novel... whats wrong with it, u ask? Well, HE WAS IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT!!!

We finally reached our appartment, got freshened up and left for the event. It was almost 12 noon when we reached Bangalore Palace, the place where the conference was held. Actually, it was held in the Palace GROUNDS and the palace itself is not... well, a typical palace. Atleast not like the one I had in mind. Anyway, I was glad to see a lot of familiar faces in the conference.

We split up as we can attend more sessions that way. I attended one on Google and Open Source... Not a very interesting one I should say. A lady was speaking about what Google has done for open source. Most part of her speech was on Google's "Summer of code" project. Next, I turned up for a couple of sessions on Debian by Jalder Vyas. A fair, Indian-looking guy with a western accent. I saw him at the IndLinux stall before the session and thought he must be a malayalee. I dunno why but that was my first guess. May be it was his short pony tail or the ''pattai'' in his fore-head. Anyway, I was wrong. He is a Gujrati, a hindu priest by profession, a big techie and a Debian Linux freak (aren't all Debian users freaks?)

After the conference we went for some bowling @ Amoeba in that famous road of B'lore and munched some burgers before that. Later, we had dinner at a resturant which had Amitabachan film posters all over it and a dummy Well (yes the one you take water from) dead center of the restaurant, all in the name of ``ambience''.

Reached the appartment late and the four of us decided to paly some cards. This went on till about 1am the next day before we decided to crash in to our beds.

Day 2

The most productive day. Attended a couple of sessions by Rasmous Lerdorf (hope I got that right!) of Yahoo!. He is the creator of the PHP scripting language. Both his sessions were really very good, though he was unable to best present his first lecture due to lack of a network connection in a presentation that dearly needs Internet.

The day drifted with some window shopping at Forums and munching burgers (again!) at McDonald's. The night was again dedicated to cards... only now it was almost 2 am before we called it quits.

Day 3

Spent most of the time at IndLinux stall giving a demo or working on the Google quiz.. oops.. I almost forgot. The people at Google gave us a puzzle paper and the winner will get a iPod nano among other prizes. I got the form on the first day and was doing it in parts whenever I found the time. But today was the last day and I had one big problem outta 5 that I was tuck with... after a breaking my head and finally asking the help of my frens (who had already solved it, somehow), I still couldn;t finish it. Whathaheck... I just submitted it.

Attended a few sessiosn.. nothing interesting for moi. The best part of the day however was the Fedora BoF (Birds of a Feather). The great Alan Cox, one of the lead developers of the Linux Kernel and currently working in Redhat, was there. And some of the people I already knew from Redhat India were also there. Had a good discussion with the group and got my self snapped with the big guy himself!!! (@karunakar: Where is my photo???)

Our next stop was Leela palace. It was a seven star hotel but still had a very bad traffic system inside it!!! Sheez. We went for some bowling and pool at Amoeba inside it. After the game (I had a horrible one) we left for dinner (to another palace... what is with these Bangaloreans... everything is a Palace!)

A friend our ours joined us. Her car was parked inside the hotel's parking lot, which by the way is huge.. something like that of Spencers. But unlike Spencers where to exit you bring the car form the top floor to the ground floor, here it is the other way around. As I had said, the traffic was horrible even within the hotel's parking lot. Cars were inching slowly and that too in many palces with a inclination. Now the fun (really funny!) part!

Our car broke down. There were many cars before us in the narrow one-vehicle lane of the parking lot and lotsa cars behind us. And... and... the road was inclined upwards!!! We let our friend be in the wheel and pushed this battered Maruti 800 against the inclined road. After some effor and realising that it is a long way to go before we can find any flat surface, we called for help. One of the driver from the cars behind us offered some help. Still we had to push the car but the cars behind us were asked to wait. Once we covered enuf distance , we let go of the car as it rolled back the driver tried to start the car. After a few tries and exhausting pushes the car roared and left Leela Palace

Had dinner at another palace... went to the appartment... played cards... crashed.

Day 4

Attended a sesion of Indic tools and Javascript IME, something that is used by the application build be me and Vignesh. We had taken that tool, customised it heavily and used it in our translation tool. Another session was from a guy from Germany, who was telling how to hack a Motorola mobile with Linux on it.

We left a little early... did not attend the Rock show that was going to be held. Packed our stuff and left for the good, ole H.Y and D.

G S 2 - 4 7

I wanted to post this long back but I was unable to do so coz of lack of the t-factor. Just thought that if am gonna post it, then it is either now or never.

Warning : If Mathematics makes you puke the this post is NOT for you!


What is GS2-47?

Well, it is a special number, mathematically and otherwise.

2 4 7

2 + 4 + 7 = 13.
13 is a very special number as it is sum of squares of two consecutive numbers, 2 and 3.
13 = 2² + 3²

And I have derived tens of other mathematical combinations for 2,4,7 and G,S,2,4,7. But I think I will spare the readers and list only a few here in me blog.


247 stands for hard work and dedication. Why?
247 => 24 x 7 => Twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. It is a representation of work that is not time-bound, work that is dedicated and free of distractions.


In the list of alphabets in English, A...Z, the middle alphabet is 'M', in the 13th place.

The alphabets 'G' and 'S' are equi-distant from the central alphabet 'M'.
13 - 6 = 7. The alphabet at 7^th position is 'G'
13 + 6 = 19. The alphabet at 19^th position is 'S'


2² + 4² + 7² = 69 ;-)
Yes folks, it is 69 the symbol of Khader, the "69er". It is there in my blog (khader69.blogspot.com), my email (khader69@...) and a whole array of stuffs. It is after all the gift of my birth, it is my Zodiac symbol. Confused?

This 69er is a Cancerian, born under the moon sign, which has a symbol that resembles a tilted "69".


Now for the best one...

The number 247 (Two hundred and forty seven) is the product of sum of its individual digits and the sum of the mirror reflection on the last digit of its individual digits.

Wanna break your head? Jus hold on a second. This is what it means,

247 = (2 + 4 + 7) * (2 + 4 + 7 + 4 + 2)

Voilà... Damn I love maths!

Now you may ask, "why 247 or GS247 or whatever crap?".

Well, when I first joined my office at Hyderabad, I was allocated a cubicle but was told that it wud take a few days for me to get a comp. In the mean time I thought I wud sharpen my skills and started reading some books on Linux and stuff. But it wasn't intellectually challenging especially since I did not have a Linux box to try the stuffs I kept learning. So I started doing some excercise to keep both sides of my brain active. This was one.

My cubicle number was GS2-47. Ground floor, South petal, 2nd block, cubicle 47.

I always had this tendency to play around with numbers, trying to compute, in split second, the recursive sum of the numbers in number plates of different vehicles while travelling. My inspiration was the great Ramanujam himself. I once read in a book that Ramanujam disputed with some one who said that 13 was not a ``good'' number. He argued that 13 was a rather a peculiar number which was the sum of two consecutive numbers 2 and 3!

As my tribute the this great man my number-play with 2,4,7 begins with what inspired me when I was just a school-goer. 13 = 2² + 3²

Life is full of changes. A few weeks back I lost GS2-47. Not the number and its special nature but just the cubicle. I got a new cubicle, a new number GS2-44.

Hmm... 2-4-4 recursively add to numnero uno! wow!!! (here I go again!)

What Me Likes

Inspired by the 'back-bencher-for-life', a4avaiz, I thought I wud let everyone have a sneek-peek in to moi favorite activities.

So here are my top 10 favorite activitiezzzzz.... (in no particular order)

1. Go out with friends... movies, bowling, pool, or simply drive around and/or hang out...
2. Have fun and make others laugh out loud
3. Put a smile on my parents face :-)
4. Eat out with frens... birthday parties, new year parties, long-time-no-see parties, etc.
5. Shop for some nice clothes.
6. Read a mystery novel... in solitude
7. Solve some puzzles. Damn. Its been eons since I did that. Now don't remind me of So-Do-Ku. Its monotonous and at times boring.
8. Watch horror movies and sit-coms (both make me laugh)
9. I love to learn a lot of things... but its just that I have a lazy ass. But still I enjoy the thrill of doing something new.
10. Experience nature at its best.

Google's Next Center!

Google is hiring people crazy!!!

Not suprised! Then you have company.

Google has plans to build a massive center in the very near future. Based on a working model constructed by Google co-founder Larry Page from Lego® Mindstorms™, the facility features compact living quarters and a state of the art server farm that are co-mingled to maintain a delicate bio-technical balance. The design and location itself would represent Google's reach in the search engine industry.

The complex will house 35 engineers, 27,000 low cost web servers, 2 massage therapists and a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson.

Google says "This center will provide a unique platform from which Google will leapfrog current terrestrial-based technologies and bring information access to new heights of utility."

The Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) is a fully integrated research, development and technology facility at which Google will be conducting experiments in entropized information filtering, high-density high-delivery hosting (HiDeHiDeHo).

Inside sources reveal "Once the facility is built, the real work begins. Google will be exploring a number of exciting research projects that have the potential to advance search science to a new frontier."

The good news for all of us is that Google Copernicus Center is hiring! and they are hiring crazy. So you may very well be the next person that Google has ``found''.

Now for those of you who are wondering as to where this new center is and how should I apply for it here are the details.

Regarding the location, all I can say it is not a strange location. I'm sure you must have already seen the place atleast once. No... it is not our very own India but some place we were transported as a little kid while having "nelachoru" every night. If you still have not guessed it then you are not fit to work in Google's new center in the Moon! Thats right 'The Moon'.



Google says it is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at its lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. It later added that this unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen.

With the establishment of the Copernicus Center, Google's mission has grown beyond "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful." Google says its new goal is to "organize all the useful information in the universe and serve it to you on a lightly salted cracker." Isin't that wonderful news for us Earthlings.

With this step we can clearly say that "Google has gone where no search engine has gone before". We wish Google the very best of luck.

FULL STORY

A year that was

This day, last year was my first day at office.

It was a wonderful experience to know and feel that a part of you has grown up, that you are no more a ``KiD'', that you carry responsibilities now and that you have entered the next stage of life.

The journey till date has been amazing! The two-month training at Trivandrum is definitely a highlight. Had loads of fun there... every body did. Nicknamed "paid-vacation", some called it a "paid-honeymoon", the training was more like college than corporate. If songs, dances, mid-night birthday bashes dominated the weekday programme, it was vacation time every weekend. Munnar, kovalam, Kanya Kumari (Cape Comarin) are some of the places we have been to. Classes and tutorials were more often "who is gonna sing next" sessions. The excitement of a first job was written in every face I saw and in every mirror I saw.

It was followed by a dream project with an amazing scope to learn and grow. What more can a fresher ask for? Office was not as fun-filled as during the training but I still enjoyed it. With many hurdles in the path and equal number of people to lend me a helping hand I knew I can only move up! My biggest achievement was when I gave a presentation to the CEO of my organization.

With one year passing by, I stand reflecting the many memories I have had. Some unforgettable, some otherwise but all equally enlighting.

Thank you God for everything you have given. Thank you for everything.

Mumbai Xpress to Baba

Warning : This is not a movie review nor does it have anything to so with cine actors!

For those who are not aware, my work for the past ten months is on Indian Language Computing. We (moi team) develop tools to facilitate computing in Indic languages with primary focus on Telugu. There are many such teams all over the world that are working to provide computing support for their language and all are bound by the common passion... Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS).

Indic Developers Meet
A meet of the FLOSS developers from India was held at the Homi Baba Center for Scientific Education (HBCSE), Mumbai from the 12th to 15th September. A couple of my team mates and I were scheduled to attend the conference to share our experience and learn from the experiences of others.

The Journey
My organization was sponsoring our travel expenses and so gave us our train tickets for the journey. We were scheduled to leave Hyderabad on Sunday 11th afternoon to reach Mumbai the next day. But things did not go as it was planned. To cut the long story short, let me just say there was a lot of miscommunication and as a result we missed our train to Mumbai. This despite the fact that we reached the railway station more than an hour before the time of departure! But what's the point being early if the train is not gonna stop in that station!!!

We later managed to get a partial refund of our tickets and booked a "Volvo Semi-sleeper A/C" bus to Mumbai leaving that evening. It's not the same as a A/C Sleeper in a Train but we did not complain too much... well not until we saw our seats!

While booking our tickets the agent listed all the features of the bus... "Its Volvo saar... semi-sleeper with A/C saar... this is the bus saar (pointing to a picture of the bus; like we give a damn of how it looks from the outside)". But at the end he added something like a fine print "Its the last row saar". Hey, as long as the bus has all the features you (the agent) say it has then last row will not be an issue, we felt. It was only when we saw our seats we realized that we were cheated. It was a Volvo-Semi-sleeper-A/C bus alright, all of it but for our seats. The seats lacked almost everything that the others had, no leg rest, very little push back and little leg space. On picking up an argument with the agent, we were told that it is "common knowledge" that last row seats are always like so. When things looked like it will not calm down he offered a Rs.50 refund per ticket and we felt we have had enough for one day and called things off.

The Meet
The 4-day meet saw a confluence of minds. People from Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi and Telugu (represented by my team) localization teams were there. There was also a team for Nepal representing Nepali language. The entire group was a mixture of students (one or two), free software enthusiasts and professionals from TCS, IBM, Redhat, Novell, CDAC, HBCSE, Sarai-IndLinux and so on.

Full-size with names

I think I will skip the technical details in this blog but I must say it was a wonderful experience to share knowledge with some ``freaks''. The only sad point was that the meet extended well past 8pm every day and since we were quite far from the central Mumbai, we did not get an opportunity to go for ''site-seeing''. Still we managed to go out one day, about seven of us went to a restaurant-cum-bar close by and while everyone had beer I settled for a Sprite!
Hey.. Free Software is more about philosophy and so is my abstinence, I argued.

I must definitely compliment the facilities at HBCSE. Good accommodation, great food and wonderful facilities made us feel at home. We concluded the meet with a roadmap for the future.

It was time to say good-bye and after all the formalities we made sure we were at the right place (read railway station) at the right time.

Mumbai Trains
I have heard before about the sub-urban trains in Mumbai but seeing is believing, trust me. I boarded a sub-urban train form HBCSE to Mumbai Coastal. The train was packed but nothing new for a guy who has been in tighter spots (read Chennai city busses). It was only when the train stopped at one of its major stop that warning about these trains flashed before me. People around me warned that the crowds would literally carry you in or our of the train and that's what happened. When the train was about to stop (but still moving though) one could hear screams of tens of people. The screams grew louder as the trains speed dropped slowly like a omen foretelling what is to come. And all of a sudden the entire crowd started moving out of the train like water exiting fire-man's hose. They had to. The train stopped only for a few seconds and more than half of the train's passengers had to exit. I was happy that this was not my stop; it would have been very difficult especially with all the luggage.

Home Sweet Home
Though I miss Mumbai a lot, I am happy to be back in Hyderabad. A lot of work that was started or discussed in the meet now must be completed. With renewed enthusiasm I begin my work here.. but not before writing me blog ;-)

My Date with the CEO !

It was by far one of the biggest achievements for me in my short career so far. On Saturday 3rd September 2005, I had the opportunity and the privilege to meet the people in the top most rung of the corporate ladder.

When I got the news that the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of my organization, Tata Consultancy Services, Mr. S. Ramadorai was going to visit my office and my department (Advanced Technology Center, ATC) in particular, I was very excited. My team was informed by my PL that our project has 30 minutes with the CEO and we should make the best use of it. A CEO does not go around checking on every project in his company, especially if its as big as mine. So naturally we were upbeat.

A couple of days after the news was delivered, I called for a team meet and discussed the plans with my team. I did not want to assume anything for the big day, I wanted clarifications from my project seniors about all aspects of the presentation that we were planning for Mr. Ramadorai.

We started our work the next day, preparing a complete PC to showcase our work in Indian Language Computing (my project). While we were working on that, we also had a discussion with our PL. That was when the important question came up, "Who is going to take the presentation?" I volunteered immediately; I was confident of doing it and the pressure did not affect me too much, well, at least not at that time anyway!

With that I started my preparation for the presentation cum demo. Starting a few days before the big day, I was giving a demo-presentation every day to everyone from a senior associate at ATC, my PL to the Executive Vice President, who heads my department ATC.

My preparation was in full gear, they also gave me a laptop (I will have to return it today :-( ) to prepare for the presentation. I had already given about two informal and one semi-formal demo-presentation before the big day, all this only increased my confidence level.

D-Day
Reached office early... well my PL was already there before me but 8.20am read early in my watch. While exchanging greetings and pleasantries with him, he told me that I will have to give another presentation before the actual one. This time it was to an Executive Vice President for Bombay who will be with the CEO.

I asked my team mate to start up the laptop and set it up, and while he was doing that I thought I might practice my presentation one last time but this time all alone. So I went into the men's room, stood in front of the giant mirror and began my speech a la "Mudalvan" (the movie) style.

The presentation with the EVP from Bombay stretched for a longish duration. Mostly because he was examing every inch of it and assessing every possible business potential in it. When that was over my PL and the whole team just relaxed ourselves with some coffee and a bit of humor.

The time I begin my presentation, 12 noon, was fast approaching. Only then I realized I had not had a proper break-fast. The trouble with me is that when I become hungry my ears get blocked and it would be really irritating for me, especially if I want to listen or speak to some one else. I had only 15 minutes left, ran hurriedly to the nearest snack bar only to find nothing was available, not even biscuits. Settled for a cup of coffee, which did not solve anything; but something was better than nothing.

The Presentation

Inside, the conference room was not very big. I was big enough to seat a dozen people (a lot more if the expensive furniture are removed). It had a huge V-shaped table with a screen a few feet from the edge of the "V". After setting up laptop, we were ready to go. My PL started off first with a short "Impress" (Powerpoint) presentation. His whole 10-minute presentation was split equally into two parts one before my demo-presentation and the other after. He completed the first part and enter Khader Abbeb.

The audience, apart from a three of my team members, consisted of the CEO and MD, Mr. Ramadorai and seven Executive Vice Presidents!!! Whew... This is the top-most, decision making and highly powerful people in TCS.

My presentation went great... It was fabul-o-awesome. During most of the presentation, I was looking directly at the CEO. All I can say is he is a careful listener. There were a few questions from the EVPs present and the whole presentation was quite interactive.

The whole presentation (my PL's and mine) finished on time. Checked my watch which showed the smaller hand past 12 and the longer one exactly vertical and pointing downwards. These guys value every minute and we did not want to piss them off.

From the body language of the audience, I can emphatically say that they were very impressed. And surely they were, as most of the EVPs came up to my team and said that the presentation was really good. One of the EVPs actually came to me and said "Your presentation was really good". I replied with a warm "Thank you, sir" and a smile but inside I was jumping around and pumping fists much like Brett Lee... "Yes, Yes, Yes!!!"

Coming out the conference room, team members and my PL said that my presentation was perfect and had a good flow. My PL then invited the whole team for lunch and we left office, all 6 of us including my PL, cramped into a small car to taste some special Hyderbadi Biriyani.

I was still tasting something else... "Yes, Yes, Yes!!!"

T-I-M-E O-U-T

Sorry folks for not updating but have been very busy and will be so for atleast another week. But there is some great news at the end of that and will let u guys know abt that pretty soon. Hope it turns out great as I hope it to be....

So I am taking a time out now, gtg

Chennai Damaka

It was an eventful week last week. I made a long trip to Chennai with a tightly packed schedule and had a lot of things in mind.... getting my Letter of Recommendation from my College professors and Transcripts from my University, meet family and frens, movies... to name a few. But smack down in the middle (literally) of my vacation was the main purpose of my trip, mein Geburtstag ("my Birthday" for the uninitiated).

17th July Sunday : The vacation has jus started and I happy to meet some of my frens after quite some time. I also had to forcefully pull out some of them from their (MBA) classes and went straight for a movie, only to be bombed. "Sorry sir, no tickets" was what we got.
Big deal!, we thought, now we have some thing better to do, Foosball ! ! !. We drove straight to the our favorite (and only) Foosball hang out Du Bowl, only to be bombed once again "No Foosball sir, its not working". Having had enough of this we jus left for Cafe Coffee Day (formerly 'The' hang out place, but now it's losing its sheen). After some chit chat and some bird watching we headed to play some Pool at Pot Shot. The evening was brought to a close with the *famous* sandwich-around-the-corner.

18th July Monday : Spent most of the day at Madras University (it took more than 2 freaking hours to get a single D.D.). And after running helter-skelter from one block to the other I was finally able to submit my application for Transcripts. Phew!!! Talk about things being unorderly, talk about Madras University!

19th July Tuesday : Bought my mom a nice pair of earring and a saree. Did a little shopping for myself.

20th July Wednesday : My Birthday! - spent the day with family... with special breakfast, even more special lunch and I-had-enough-specials dinner. The day went by talking to and mailing frens, reading their wishes and spending quality time with meine Familie apart from a little shopping again. A Saturday night party with frens was also planned.

21st July Thursday : Nostalgia! Back to college. Spent the better part of the day there getting my recos, meeting professors and having a snack at the ole bunker..err... canteen! Nothing's changed here so I headed back home.

22nd July Friday : Met a lot of relatives, grandpa, grandma, aunty, uncle, cousin... etc... etc... After all that I needed some time to chill. It then dawned on me that one important intent of my visit was still unfinished! So I decided to call some of my frens and headed for Satyam theaters.... the movie - Anniyan.

It was nostalgia again... this time the fun of watching a movie with Avaiz (aka wtfdude). I almost forgot how he used to scream and joke during most of the movies I have seen with him, I clearly recall his antics during Matrix Revolution and it was fun. Every thing came back again when he started screaming ANNYIAAANNNNN now and then and I cudn't help but laugh. Of course I can't blame him, I made him watch a movie that he has already seen umpteen times!

23rd July Saturday : Another day another movie. This time it was the movie "Sarkar" with Ajay and Deepak (aka Alpha) at Mayajaal where I also met a very close school buddy of mine, Idhris. The movie was really good as wtfdude had said in his blog. It was really fast paced and deviating from the usual Indian masala movie it did not have any song-and-dance sequence. Another point is that unlike the usual movie plot where the first half is jus laying the foundation of the story and the second half is all drama, in "Sarkar" felt I like it did not have any typical first half. It was all action and drama right from the word go.

Next was party time.... at Mainland China. It was great to have a mini get-together of frens. It's been a long time overdue. Although I missed "Hog-king" Shafi, I was glad to see Zuber after a long time. And of course the long time contender for the "Hog-King" title, Avaiz was more than happy to fill Shafi's shoes. As the lone vegetarian in the group Deepak had some troubles. His "Veg-XYZ-ABC Noodles" was untouched by others, so was his vegetarian side dish which Ajay described to be a vegetable salad only a little wet! I tried it and concurred with Ajay. Tariq still dressed in formals (effects of Great Lakes institute) had his eyes riveted on the birds in the neighboring tables. As they say 'A bird in the bush is better than none in hand'. Jus kiddin Tariq ;-)

After a filling dinner I was surprised by the guys when they brought to the table a birthday sparkler and a cake! But there was another surprise awaiting me and it was truly the icing on the cake....literally. And the icing was me! This is when Avaiz shoved my face into the beautiful cake while I blew the candle. To add sweeteners over the icing, Ajay took eons to take a snap with the whole population at the restaurant laughing and gigling at yours truly!

I crashed into my bed well past midnight and by the next day my vacation will officially be over.

24th July Sunday : Relaxed for some time with the help of my idiot box and started packing off to the wet and windy H.Y.D. On the train there was this newly wed couple sitting straight opposite to me. I concluded them to be newly web based on inference of their behavior and nothing else. Dam... more often that not I jus wanted to shout at them "Get a room!!!" I tried to focus on the book I had and not be distracted but people shud know what is acceptable by the Indian public and more importantly what's not!

Anyway I am back to my office after a long break and got some new things on my hand right away. Catch u guys soon!