Mourn, my friend!
I can give no comfort
As I mourn with you

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal
Death leaves an empty space which no one call fill
It leaves behind memories
sometime as fresh as nothing is past
It stops all the clocks
And Roars all the thoughts

Mourn, my friend!
I can give no comfort
As I mourn with you

What! You too weird? I thought I was the only one.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 
‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ - C.S. Lewis

And I have a few good friends to whom I have said 
"OMG.. you too this weird.. hehehe.. come on Gimme Company" 

Cheers to all my weird friends from all over.. coz I know we respect each other's nonsense. 

Dear Friends .. I hate you

Many would say that if tomorrow is the end of the world, tell people how much you love them.

But I would say, tell people how much you hated them, coz you have lived all your life acting to be nice to them and dealing with them everyday. Before we die we deserve to have that peace of mind which comes from yelling at someone. 

So here is my list  .. My Hate list

Dear Sasikala , 3rd Std B section, Stealing my pencil with rubber head was not good. Pinching me and making me sit at the end of the table while you occupied the whole seat were barbaric acts. I hate you. 

Dear Chandrasekar , 5th Std A section, telling my cousin brother that I cried in the class (for the reason I don't remember now) was very uncool. you broke all laws of friendship. I hate you.

Dear Nandini and Nirmala , 7th std x section, asking "When did Gandhiji kick the bucket?" in the class history quiz was cheating and was against rules. Your father may have been an English professor but you cannot expect the whole class to understand "kick the bucket". 

My team lost because of this question. I hate you. 

Dear Pavithra , 8th Std A section, you were my best friend when I joined Boston. your grey big eyes were always questioning me.. but i don't remember those questions now. you were quite intimidating . don't know why. still we sat together in all classes for one whole year!! 

Dear Mahalakshmi Ma'am , beating me with scale for scoring 99 for losing 100 by one mark, coz Karthik from 12B was able to score 100, was an atrocity. I suffered from performance anxiety for long time. 

Dear Priya and Pragan (9th std to 12th std) and Kavitha (4yrs BE) 

you girls were and are beautiful. I was always with you girls during school and college. The ugly duckling in me was sad sometimes as you all hogged all the limelight all the time. 

Dear AP@#*&^* , you are a bitch. 

Dear ex-colleagues, taking me for granted that I will work late hours coz you missed the requiremenmts of that module and dumping the work on me .. was WRONG. You will be fried in hell day after tomorrow.

Dear Santhosh .. Stop reading my FB posts and blog posts for finding grammatical errors.  :P 

Dear All my FB friends.. When I say I broke my leg.. stop "like"ing it. 

Dear  everyone who called me as "Preeth" or "Preethey".. Mt. everest will come rolling and fall on your head if tomorrow is the doomsday. 

Dear Husband. "HMMM" is not the reply I expect when I complain of bursting head ache. 

Dear Preethe.. Yeah you. Get a life. Snap out of the anger . Stop writing crap and start living. 

HAAAA.. such a relief. I can rest in peace now. 

Good bye friends for now. See you after doomsday.

I am going to get so drunk tomorrow that I would know that the world ended when I meet you all in HELL. 

Lets go paint Hell red. 

Girls... Kavitha, Priya.. I love you both.. you both still rock!

Sometimes...

Sometimes we wish to go back in the memory lane.
Sometimes we wish to stare at the vacant plane.

Sometimes all we need is a hug to reassure.
Sometimes we need a kick to push us out of remorse. 

Sometimes we need a company to refurbish the broken role
Sometimes we need a soul to polish our sunken soul.

Sometimes we aren't strong to stand up by self
At times we need that friend to find ourself. 

Happy Birthday Sri

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
- Unknown

Happy Happy Birthday Sri

Ennoda phokatttimes blogayum oru bloga madhichchu comment pannara Sri oda Birthday..
Thanks Sri..

Middle age is the only time when we have all five senses at its best performance.
When we are younger, we are slaves to dreams.
And when we are above 60 we are old servants of regrets.

So Sri.. be glad that the candles cost more than the cake..
We are living our dream :)

Happy Friendship Day

Thanks friends .. For raining happiness in my life..
Happy Friendshipday to all ..

Happy Birthday Rajesh!!

Wish you a very long and Happy Happy life dear Rajesh!!

edukku theriyuma??

1. "Ruthlessness" Virtue or Vice maadhiri serious posta commedy pannuven .. adhukkum salikkama reply panna

2. Phone panna edukkama enkitta thittu vaangi sanda poda

3. Totally unexpecteduh neeyum madhuvum Chennai vandhu ennoda veetukku vandhu, Raghavkku piece piece vaangi thara :)

4. Boodham maadhiri OT dressla photo eduththu anuppa

5. Ennoda stupid jokeskku sirinnu sonnapaprama kazhtappattu sirikkka

6. Naan Datawarehousing paththi explain pannappram .. BI toolna ennannu .. Seethaikku Raaman chiththappava questions ketkka..

7. Blog template maathittu.. check pannudi mail panna

8. Pondykku vandha malivu vilaila sarakku vaangi thara ;-P

Have a great life da!!!
We will grow old together ;-P (anyways .. I know you are already old.. enakkuinnum time irukku )

Ideal Life

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Good friends -- tick
Good books -- tick
Sleepy conscience -- working on it ..

Happy Birthday Hari!!

This Day .. That Year!

Chandra Gupta Maurya's period was India's Golden era, Patni days were mine!

I love Patni for...
The best friends it gave me, whom I would treasure for life
Every single moment I spent at work
Every single request I solved
Every single mail that I sent from the production support id
Every single chat line I typed on sametime
Every single call I made from the link line
Every single mapping, report and service I created
Every single saturday and sunday spent at work running those narrowcaster services
Working on four projects at a time and winning an award for the same
Every single night spent at work fire fighting for the project which was out of schedule
Every single night spent sleeping on the conference room's round table during the MSTR production move
Every single appreciation mail which I recieved from our onsite coordinators
Teasing Hari and Johnson and Fighting with Karthikeyan
Time spent on 11th floor cafeteria with Rajee, Jayanthi and Hari
"Comedy of Errors" and the "Lived Happily Ever After" story of Jayanthi and Anand
Mani anna's Coffee and hot bajjis
Lunches with hot jalebis at Dhaba Express
Fight with Hariharan on rumors regarding his marriage
My attitude towards Hariharan on his first day in Chennai
Dinner at Palki during Hariharan's visit and all the fun we had clicking photos
Dinner at The Park and the "Charles Angels" movie with Vincent and team.
Mumbai visit for project transition
Calling a project manager as "Phokat" over chat, who later took over our project in Mumbai after transition.
All those sweet stupid chats on sametime with Ankur.
Every single tear I shed when I decided to resign
Every single promise we made to keep in touch

I have had my worst days too.. But I still treasure them.. coz people around me always made me feel special. I was too lucky to have had such a great team.

What makes this day even more special is that I joined Patni on Sept 30th 2002 and left on Sept 30th 2004. And the memories of those two years will remain forever fresh....

Four years passed !! And I am still missing it .. and I am still loving it!!

Do you have Friends at work?

Like any good friendship, friendships at work take time, nurturing and effort on our part. It is quite easy to ignore them as someone being less important. We hear people saying " Oh!! She / He is just my colleague" . But are they really "Just work Friends"

We spend 8+ hours a day at work, which is more than many of us spend with parents / spouse or other friends. And while most os us actually spend most of our time working , on the job friendships are valuable for our mental well-being. They are the best stree busters.

A friendly pat when you are breaking your head with some coding, would really cheer up the moment.

A quick chat / gossip during the tea breaks does help to keep youself updated on the office politics.

An offline friendly discussion with your team lead or project manager the best way to communicate your aspirations without waiting for your appraisal. Appraisals feedback will be a cake if such discussions happen more often, coz your PM would know more about you rather than what you would reveal in that one hour feedback discussion.

Birthday parties and Family get togethers would add to the fun.

I had been always lucky enough to be a part of a very lively team. My present team is too enthusiastic. And our ODC gets too animated everyday after 5 PM, Have you ever seen a team of tecies hitting each other in Pokiri Vadivelu style, with long pipes. If no .. do come to our ODC after 5 PM, you will get to see all these spectaculat events.

There are two team members who usually become the centre of all our jokes and fun. And these two people are just too sportive to take all these jokes as just jokes.

I love all these activties at work. Enjoy all the leg pulling and also being pulled. They are Real ( yeah! real with capital R) good stress busters.

Words of advice: When you look for a job, don’t just concentrate on the money or health benefits. Make sure the people you interview with and meet are people that you can see yourself friends with, because in the end, that’s what will keep you sane.

Happy Birthday Rajesh!

Dear Rajesh(doc)

Throughout the years
That I have known you
You have been a true
Blessing in my life


Make a wish
Make it last your whole life through
Its a gift from the heart
Making all your dreams come true
As the light from the candles shine on your face
Take a chance
Today you can believe

Make a wish
Its your birthday
Happy birthday to you Rajesh!




Life is not the breath you take. Its the momemts that take your breath away.

Things You Dont Want To Hear During Surgery

This was posted by gas man aka Doc aka Dr. Rajesh in his old blog on Sunday, 21 March 2004

- Wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what's that?
- Hand me that... uh... whatever it's called!
- Oh no! I just lost my watch.
- "Accept this sacrifice, O Great Lord of Darkness"
- Bo! Bo! Come back with that! Bad Dog!
- Better save that. We'll need it for the autopsy.
- Oops! Hey, has anyone ever survived 500 ml of this stuff before?
- There go the lights again...
- Ya' know... there's big money in kidneys... and this guy's got two of 'em.
- Everybody stand back! I lost my contact lens!
- Could you stop that thing from beating? It's throwing my concentration off.
- What's this doing here?
- I hate it when they're missing stuff in here.
- That's cool! Now can you make his leg twitch?!
- Well folks, this will be an experiment for all of us.
- You sure it wasn't this leg?
- OK, now take a picture from this angle. This is truly a freak of nature.
- Are his relatives waiting outside?
- Nurse, did this patient sign the organ donation card?
- Don't worry. I think it is sharp enough.
- What do you mean, "You want a divorce"!
- FIRE! FIRE! Everyone get out!
- This scissor looks rusted.
- Rats! Page 47 of the manual is missing!
- Isn't this the one with the really lousy insurance?
- Now from where did this spider come in from?

Doc!! I just realized that we have known each other for the past four years!
And the first time we met was on April 3rd 2004 .

I still remember that coffee day incident !!
Mrs. Doc .. I need to update you on the same. Lets meet up sometime

Story of Ultimate Hatred turned Friendship(??!!)

This is not another He-She story. It is a story of ultimate hatred. , revenge , ego clashes and a lot of negative feelings. This is not a short story. It went on for 4 years to come to more or less a happy ending.

He was her college mate for 4 years. She was one of the toppers in the first year and then He took over the position. This was surely not their issue because She knew He was brilliant. She admired His capabilities and his hard working nature. She appreciated the fact that a Hindi medium guy who wrote his first year Physics answer paper in Hindi worked his way up to being a college topper.

They were friends(??!!) for a few days. They even exchanged birthday cards. There were rumors that He had a soft corner for Her. But He hated to admit she was intelligent probably because he was the leader of the male chauvinist group of their college.

She wanted a partner for doing a technical paper presentation and she thought He would be the best option. But He never even considered Her request. But this did not stop her from winning the Paper presentation contest conducted at BITS.

She was one of first few students who got placed in a IT company through campus interviews. He commented saying that IT companies were for Losers. And He joined CDOT.

The best attempt from His side to tarnish her image was when He tried to cross question during Her project reviews to prove that the functionality She has tried to embed in her project is already existing. The Project Review hall turned into a ground for Fourth world War leaving other teams and professors frustrated.

Similar small incidents sparked the hatred between the two. Leaving just the two in one room, would have made sure one was dead, that is how much they hated each other by the end of third year.

After an year of leaving the college, He mailed her to her office id. She replied back calling him "A Male Chauvinistic PIG". He called her to tell her how sorry He was for all the things He did to her during the college days.

She is happily settled in India and He is pursuing his Masters Degree in France.

They are in touch again. They exchange scraps with not even a small trace of the previous enemity. Have they grown up? or Is it the effect of the new generation of Networking Sites?

Anyways !!! Thanks to Orkut and Hi5!

Miss those days!!

Life is not the breath you take. Its the momemts that take your breath away.

A grand Hurrahhh!!!!

Our Team attended a virtual training session conducted by Microsoft on SQL server 2008 and its new features. At the end of each session, an online quiz was conducted.
And our team won a LOTS of prizes !!!!!

Can you believe !!!
6 - 4GB pen drives and
3- MS- Press Books..

The sessions were very informative and pretty useful.
Hats off to Microsoft team for giving us this nice opportunity!!

check out www.VirtualTechDays.com for more details of the online sessions!

OUR TEAM ROCKS!!! As Always!!!!

To my friend

Do you remember the day when we boths started chatting over sametime? For years .. I kept checking my chat window to see if there were any messages from you. And you never started any conversation first.

I was amazed at all your abilities, including your way to make me feel good even when you were not satisfied with my work. you taught me all the mysteries of MSTR, including the parent child relationships. T9000_UNIT table became an integral part of my life.

Do you remember the time when you and I were discussing about how to reduce the job run times by increasing the number of threads in Narrowcastor .. Did you realize how fascinated I was talking to a technical wizard. Will you ever recall those days and tell your children about it?

If i meet you someday .. will you recognize me? Do I have to introduce myself and see you widen your eyes in surprise. Sometimes I feel that when we meet I would end up talking about how hot it is and how nice it was to meet you again, instead of telling you all about my life.

Disappointment!

Two of my best friends...
Did nothing but...
Send a SMS
To wish me, on my birthday!!

To quote someone

"Birthday .. is one day, when you expect your friend's wishes and their
presence."

I cannot demand for their presence.
But a single phone call...
Am i asking for too much ??????

Very Dispappointed

My college days -- made me too Nostalgic

Life is not the breath you take. Its the momemts that take your breath away.

Happy Birthday Friend

I wish you fortune
I wish you peace
I wish you pleasures beyond belief
I wish you success in all that you do
I wish you love - strong and true
I wish you that luck might come your way
Especially on this day
Happy Birthday Hari