I cannot fool him anymore!!!!!

Raghav is already showing the symptoms that he will prove to be a good Project Manager coz he likes to paint using MS Paint and create PPTs with clip arts.

He is 2 yrs and 5 months old and he knows all the parts of a PC.

I was checking my mails and Raghav was still asleep.
Around 7 AM , he showed symptoms of waking up. So I just switched off the PC monitor.
He woke up and came running seeing me sitting near the PC. I told him that he cannot use the PC now as I have swtiched it off. He said ..
"Illa Amma.. CPU is on.."

I understood
1. I cannot fool him anymore.
2. I need to update my skill set to handle raghav

Dear GOD give me more new ideas,.. plsss
Or should I google for more HELP???








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

Life

If this is Life, then I am ailve..

GOOGLE

GOOGLE is GOD

Random Quotes

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
~Henry David Thoreau

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
~ Marquis de Vauvenargues

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
~ PJ Plauger

Tu hai, mein hu, bass..

Tu bole glass aadha khali,
mein bolu aadha bhara,
Mein bolu kitna saara,
tu bole, zara zara..
Mein bolu din hai to,
tu bole raat nahi..

Baat to wahi hai naa,
Bass wahi baat nahi..

Baat to hai bass yahi ki,
Meri baat bass..

Tu soche yeh zindagi hai,
yeh naa badlegi kabhi,
Mein sochu sab badalta hai,
Kyu naa badlegi kabhi..

Mein sochu tu hi tu,
Mera koi aur nahi,
Tu soche, mein hu tera,
Bass tera koi aur nahi..
Koi aur ho ya naa ho,
Tu hai, mein hu, bass..

Jaane tu..jaane tu ya jaane naa,
Maane tu..maane tu ya maane naa

Thanks Javed Saab

150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty

Picked up this tag while blog hopping.
Those points which are bold are done ...

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theatre
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo (with mehandhi)
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on a television news program as an “expert”
83. Gotten flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Passed out cold
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking with the windows open
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a TV game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet ( I have touched a snake)
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. States
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi ( but Love Japanese Sake)
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair (had a vedic mathematics booth at a college fair in Bhopal)
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head ( when I was a kid)
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life


I am tagging
Ones and zeros - Kiran
Girl walking on the cloud - Goush
Kavikuil - Bhuvi

Relationship Rules By Dr. John C. Maxwell

1.Get along with yourself
The one relationship you will have until you die is yourself.

2.Value people
You cannot make another person feel important if you secretly feel that he or she is a nobody.

3.Make the effort to form relationships
The result of a person who has never served others? Loneliness.

4.Understand the Reciprocity Rule
Over time, people come to share reciprocal, similar attitudes toward each other.

5.Follow the Golden Rule
The timeless principle: treat others the way you want to be treated.

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

Congrats and all the best Dear Friend !!!

Hari .. My very good friend is getting engaged this month..
And I am very happy for this fellow ...

Hi Hari

May you always find joy in each other!
May your dreams get fullfiled in each other!

Happy Birthday Raghav

We are celebrating Raghav's birthday tomorrow...


Its seems like yesterday when I posted
" Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

He is already 2 yrs now !!!!

I guess I read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes comic strip durin my pregnency ..
Raghav seems to be having a many traits of Calvin ..
I just wish he doesnot grow more notorious

A few things which Raghav does are more like these comic strips !!!
Life is not the breath you take. Its the momemts that take your breath away.

School Reunion

One of the best things about memories of school life was the freedom to try
out many new things, stay in touch with friends and having load of fun
talking and gossiping about everyone around even though there was cut
throat competition among friends. This sense of freedom is never possible
while working when our mind is clouded with coding and appraisal tensions
Amidst all these hassles, I do still manage to be in touch with a few of my
school and college friends.

I met up with some of my school friends last Saturday and I should say
that it was a wonderful evening.
One of my school mate Manick is my colleague. He sensed that
I don’t have much work. So dumped the responsibility of organizing
this get-together.So here starts all the adventure..
First I had to call up all the guys and inform them about meeting
on Saturday. Convince them that it is going to be worthwhile sending
some time with us.Second decide on the venue and time.
The second task was easier, as all guys voted for Citi Center
unanimously..Reason being "Lots of birds to watch there".

Out of the initial 13 guys, only 9 turned up on Saturday.

Harish ,Imran , Palani , Vinci .. these guys agreed to come
immediately when contacted.

Vasantha who is the sweet heart of our group..
who is that one member who enthusiastically attends all such
meetings and marriage receptions, could not come as she had to attend
another friend's wedding reception.

Archana who is going to be a bride on 16th of this month ..
agreed to come for distributing the cards, inspite of her hectic
card distribution schedule.

A few guys who showed interest initially.. did not pick up the calls
when I tried to contact them again on Saturday. Most of my school
friends are in the part of the career graph that takes off ,
so I cannot blame them for not being available for the get-together.

The 9 who made it reunion are now in different phases of life
Archana - happy bride .. getting married to her love on 17th.
She and her fiancé are comfortably settled in CTS.

Harish - Without this fellow.. I doubt if I would have ever got in
touch with my school mates again. This handsome is happily
settled with a many girl friends in E-serve.

Palani - UK return :) Thanks to the servers in his office for
being down on Saturday .

Shanmugapriya and Suresh.. I dont never speaking to these
two guys during school. It was great to get to know them ..

Vinci - the drawer of the batch, I mean .. He works for a
advertising agency .. a creative head.. He was with ...that
" Kaala venneer oothina look "

Imran - the Hunk .. now looks pretty thin.
The reason could be that he is engaged.
And getting married in Nov.
He is a rocking the HR team in Infosys.

Manick .. a good friend .. and now we are colleagues.
He rocks with goatee ;-)

Yogesh ... This fellow was virtually present during the reunion.
Thanks to mobile technology.
This person is frustrated by the females of his office
who dont share a glass of tequila with him... All the best dude

so thats about the guys ..The memories of the school and college days
are to be cherished.. And such re unions provide us a chance to relive
those memories. A few years down the lane , when friends are married
and settled in different geographical locations, these memories
are the main traces of the friendship that we shared.

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

Vivah

This is one movie which I wanted to watch and I finally did.
And I loved it
The movie talks about the typical Inidan arranged marriages.
Having been through all those ritual, I could relate to the movie.
And I really liked it..

Finally!!

Remember this post?

Yes .. finally ..I started driving !!
:-)

Back to phoktai

Yes .. Back to phoktai..
After a brain racking project release work for the past 6 months ..
I am back to my natural state of being phokat
No work .. no users or clients' warning or escalation mails ..
Life is not always bad ..

Forgiving and punishing - S/W version

Forgiving or punishing
the terrorists
is left to God.
But,
fixing their appointment
with God
is our responsibility
- Indian Army

Updated statement for this in S/W Industry...
---------------------------------------------------------

Forgiving or punishing
the Developer
is left to Manager.
But,
fixing their appointment
with Manager
is our responsibility

-Tester

Forgiving or punishing
the Manager
is left to Client.
But,
fixing their appointment
with Client
is our responsibility

- Developer

Books Tag

Picked up this interesting tag fro another blog

One book that changed my life:
Fountain Head - The determination shown by the lead character Howard Roark influenced me so much , that I Started thinking like him in some situations.

The book you have read more than once:
1. The Pillars of Earth - Ken Follet
2. Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
3. Fountain Head - Ayn Rand
4. Fish and Fish for Life - Stephen Lundin and Harry paul
5. Acts of Faith - Erich Segal

One book you would want on dessert island:
Difficult to answer .. probably some book like
Idiots guide to learn camel riding

One book that made you laugh:
Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur
The Department of Denials - Anurag Mathur

One book that made me cry:
Abridged version of the classic - Mayor of Caterbridge - Thomas Hardy
We read this book as a part of school english sylabus.
I have cried every time I read the chapter where Henchard leaves dies leaving behind a will which says
that Elizabeth Jane should not be told about his death, that he not be buried in consecrated ground, that no one should mourn for him, and that no one should remember him

One book you wish you had written:
Ponniyin Selvan - By Kalki
This books depicts the life of the kings and queens during the Chola period.
I wish I could go back to that era.

One book that you wish had never been written:
1996 batch - 10th std History book. It was such a big book and we had to study that for two years.
I guess after our batch the sylabus was revised and the book was made half the original size.

One book you are currently reading:
Mistress - By Anita Nair

One book you have been meaning to read:
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit - By Ralph Kimball

Would like to tag
1. My Husband
2. Being Rajesh Prabhu - Rajesh
3. Think High -Prasanna

Raghav and Raghavi

This is my son Raghav










This is my daughter Raghavi

Acts of Life

I have been reading the book "ACTS OF LIFE " by Erich Segal.
Its one of the well written books I have ever read.
And I am reading this for the third time, sice the first time in 1996.
If anyone wants the PDF version of this book, leave a comment with your email address.

There are a few books which I can read even a thousand times, if time permits. Those books are
1. The Pillars of Earth - Ken Follet
2. Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
3. Fountain Head - Ayn Rand
4. Fish and Fish for Life - Stephen Lundin and Harry paul

Do read them .. they are worth spending some time.

Hilarious!!

Who said Nothing is Impossible.
I have been doing NOthing for so many years.
It is possible.



Father 2 his son :When i beat u, u never get annoyed.
How do u control ur anger
Son: I start cleaning the toilet seat
Father : How does that satisfy u
Son : i use ur tooth brush.