2005++

After celebrating Jesus Jayanthi, I switched back to my day to day works. Started working from Tuesday and my boss assigned me enough work before he started for vacation :-((.

And now its time to plan for New Year. After enough thought on this, I decided to go germany for New Year. Wow, doesnt it sounds interesting? Couple of my friends started asking about the ticket fare, Visa details etc... Stop, stop, I made it clear to them that I have planned to roam only in German Airport for 6 hrs, after that flying back to homeland. Yes, my trip is getting over and 'm excited to go back to mother India... Is US ma kinda place, huh? US is the best place to freak out for short trips. no more comments on this...

And couple of friends asked me about new year resolutions. Ellarukkum onnu solla virumburan, "kicha does not wait for New year to take resolutions ;-)", (ithukku mattum korachchal illai).. and as a matter of fact, I do so.

But I have some cool tips for others, who can take some of these resolutions on new year:(namma makkal michavangalukku "tips" kuduthae olinjuruvaanga...)

for net freaks: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not login in invisible mode on YM
b) not use BUZZ (ctrl+G) button on YM
c) not do re-search in google (see my earlier definition of "research")
d) not do ego-surfing

for soft engineers: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not do regression testing for www.indiabulls.com during office hours
b) not use Office VoIP phones for making personal inter-nation calls (saving dollars..)
c) not to listen online songs during office hours (saving bandwidth)
d) not expect more than 20 percent salary hike
e) not play online games during office hours (this is applicable to me, but I have not decided yet on it ;-) )
f) not spend more than 60 minutes in office cafteria, per day (i have not decided on this also ;-))
g) not send more than one fwded mails, per week (I am sure that this will pull down the growth of inter-networking technologies)
h) not use "copy+paste" for more than once an hour

for NRIs returning India: (read "From this new year, in India I will"...)

a) not use "Jesus christ....", "Actually in US...", kind of phrases... ;-) (First of all, I have to control myself from saying these in Bang, hahaha)

b) not use the word "Desi" (folks, whenever I hear "Desi" I remember the infamous desibaba.com....)

for bloggers: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not tag any other fellow-bloggers

Enough kiddings!! I wish everyone a prosperous new year 2006. 2005 is the worst year in my life (Lots of losses :-(( ), hope 2006 will be a memorable one.

Disclaimer: The only disclaimer that I have is with the Title. If you try to use 2005++ in C, 2005 will NOT become 2006, but the compiler will generate an error message, "LValue required"....

Happy blogging!

Snow Storm

Last last weekend there was a heavy snow, before I started to Boston to meet my pals. Upto 10 inches of snow piled up on that day. It was nice to walk in snow, on the slippery land...



this is one of the fotos captured by my colleague, and it looks great!!

I was looking at the foto and got involved too much in it..Later my favorites lines stroke my consciousness and got back to work :-).

The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert frost

King Kong dies

One of the most expected movies of the season is out. King Kong! Yesterday, me and my friend went to the Regal cinemas, at Newington to watch it. (There is a "regal cinema" in madurai, which always plays English movies, and also it is notorious ;-)). We got the ticket for matinee show, crowd was less. One thing that surpised me was, there were no seat numbers and anyone can sit anywhere. Wow, it reminded me my golden days at mdurai theatraes. And more surprisingly, first few rows were getting occupied faster than the last rows.. I agree that in first few rows you can see bigger king kong than last rowers, but I did not find any other reason for contention of first rows.

This is the first King Kong movie I've watched. I have heard a lot about the pre-quels of this movie and had my expectations high. Was bit disappointed when I watched it. In the first hour they hardly showed the beast. few comedies were good, but it was dragging. All of sudden, some tribals appeared on the screen and they never turned back during the last minutes. After the Kong came to the screen, it was interesting and fast moving! Every beast has a weakness. It gets soft-minded for the heroin, and saves her from the enemies (dinosaurs, bats,...) (engayo kaetta story?). It gets trapped to the anti-villains of the movie and they bring it to the city for money. The last hour was very much boring... The movie ran for 3 Hrs, and I went there, knowingly. (I can hear u saying that unakku ithuvum venum innamum venum...). the movie is OK, overall, but does not worth for 3 hrs.



The above fight was like the one between our MGR and nambhiyar. Atlast, MGR saves J.lalitha. LoL....

Oops, forgot to tell about the message. After the King Kong was killed (actually, it was a suicide, but no one noticed it), one of our anti-villains appeared in the screen and said, "it is not the aeroplane which killed it, but, the beauty killed the beast". But no doubt that anyone will fall for Naomi Watts. So, the message is, "Beauty can kill any beast", ;-). Actually, I was expecting some message like "anbae jesus", juz kiddin'.. but,..

It looks like the Chinese have started protesting against the movie since the name sounds like their(?) prestigious city(?), Hong Kong. I know you are searching for some thing to beat me up, but this is the impact of reading many "kadi jokes" mails..., and after all, this sounds like our old "border movie and Allan border" kadi Joke, happy blogging!

Modern Art

Last monday, me and my friend went to Mac Donalds for snacks(or lunch?). Near to our seat there was a painting, hanging on the wall. I did not understand anything in that painting and told my friend that I did not get anything in that painting and asked him whether he gets anything. He said, "me too". happadaaa, enakku mattum thaan puriyalainnu nenachean. and he said," but that is modern art, you will not understand it". Stop, stop, stop.... I have been said the same thing alway about modern art. "if you dont understand some paintings, then it is called modern art". I got one good explanation from another friend who is very much interested in painting. He gave a definition of "modern art": a picture that conveys a message. Oh, thats the reason why everyone stare at some paintings and try to find what the artist is trying to convey. nammalakku straightaa sonnale sariya puriyathu.. ithule hidden message veraya, kilinjichchu!!

the following is one of such modern arts taken from an Aquarium centre, Boston.



seri, irunthaalum freeya vida manasu illai, I want to interpret atleast one modern art properly. For that I have to learn modern art. The best way to learn a language is to speak it. I thought the same should be applicable for modern art as well. Hence, I took my mspaint and broke my head to draw some picture which conveys some message. the result is:



Can you guess what the above picture conveys? If you are not patient enough for guess, then proceed further without guesses..





in Tamil:

"vaazhkaingurathu oru vattam,
athula jeykkuravan thoppan,
thoppavan jeyppan..."

in English;

Life is a circle(/cycle) of success and failure.

Hope I will able to interpret modern Arts in future.

enathu Laptop

It has been three years since I have used computers at home. I had a computer during college days. it was such a minimal configuration that the CPU becomes busy while running MP3 songs ;-). After my college days I refrained from computers during home hours. For the past few months I started feeling that a computer can make my life more comfortable. First I planned for desktops. Hmm, the rates have become so cheap that we can easily afford it. For frequent travellers like me a laptop would be better than a desktop. But it is bit costlier than desktops, but far cheaper than the PC that my father gifted me in Jan 2000.

My search for laptop started, and when I came to USoA, I felt that I could buy one. After a decent amount of research on Dell laptops, I decided to buy one model.
(Note: 'research' means searching for the same string in Google). Inspiron 600m is the model that I have chosen and I got it today. the following URL gives good description of it.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn&~tab=specstab#tabtop

Now just playing with the configs of the laptop...

CFC

yesterday I called up my mom, and she was saying that it is heavily raining in chennai and in fact, chennai is inundated with water. Bad news for everyone.

Why these days we frequently here about floods and storms? I was discussing about this with my friend in madurai, during "hurricane katrina" time. He was saying that it is closely related to the depletion of ozone layer. And heard the same from many others too. Why suddenly Ozone layer started depleting, why it did happen before 100 years..Its all because of chemicals that gets emitted from our vehicles, air-coolants, etc.. Out of this, chloro fluoro carbon(CFC) is the major contributor for the depletion of ozone. CFC gets emitted from our air-coolants (fridge, ACs..). CFC does not do any harm to our atmosphere,I mean, it does not pollute of atmosphere. But it gets accumulated over the top and depletes the ozone layer.

Is there any remedies to avoid ozone's depletion? We can stop using all of our modern day-to-day medias and go back to stone age, to live a healthier life. or we can create devices which emits new chemicals,say XYZ, which will not harm our atmosphere. But we cannot guarantee that it will not create some other problem.

Sometimes I think that we can fill up the holes that are made in ozone layer, with ozone manufactured from earth. Like use the following reaction(?) and generate ozone, take a Rocket and fill up the ozone and come back home.

O2 + O2 + O2 === catalyst ===> 2O3.

This may sound absurd or funny, but if we have something of this sort then we can re-fill the ozone layer with ozone and can continue our fun with fridges and ACs and also we can avoid "hurricane simran" in future.

Welcome to the Hotel California

Atlast, my dream trip to california happened during thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving is like our "kaanum pongal", meet relatives and friends and have fun. Landed in Los Angeles on thanksgiving day, and went to my sisters place. It was exciting to meet my sister, brother-in-law and my cute niece after a long time. Lots of old memories shared and I felt nostalgic.

On friday, we went to Universal Studios. Wow, thats the place for pure entertainment. Mummy ride, Jurasic park, Van helsing.. are quite a few to mention about. First time I watched 3D and 4D movies. Nice experience. It was crowded (heavily), hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend.

Saturday, we went to Sea World in San diego, first time I saw a dolphin show. Sea world was not so exciting, unlike Universal studios, still, quite a lot of interesting things to see. Actually, I planned to meet two of my friends on saturday, but due to some reasons that I cancelled it and went to San Diego.

On Sunday we went to Laguna Beach, near to my sister's house. Wonderful beach to see. Atlast, I saw pacific ocean and my ocean count has increased to 3. (see my previous post on Atlantic ocean). It is far better than the Hampton beach that I visited couple of weeks back in east coast. Also, laguna beach is crowded (but not like the crowd we see in marina beach). Have posted few of the fotos I have taken, hope you will enjoy it. Later part of the day, went for shopping and was roaming here and there.

















Actually, we planned to Disney land on monday. But we were too much tired and my niece was feverish, so monday was rest day and I started back to Boston.

Right from the first day, I was searching for the "Hotel california" on roads. But with no luck. I thought it would be similar to our "Hotel Tamilnadu"...But did not find any Hotel california,even the last time I did not find any...big disappointment.

The most exciting(?) part was on Tuesday. I went to office early by 11:00 AM and my boss called me "Mr.California". Later we had a long chat about California and showed good productivity on that day :-)

This weekend I am taking rest.("athu thaane week fulla pannittu irunthe"nu neenga ketkurathu enakku ketkuthu....). Next weekend the next exciting part of my trip is going to happen. I am going to meet few of my best friends in Boston.

Hope it will rock!

'E' is equal to MC square

hmm, this is the first photo I have ever seen with maximum number of scientists!!