Irregardless

I don't need you anymore
You left me feeling sore
But now that's no more
How I loved you with all my heart
Until we had to part
Oh how you broke my heart
Now I don't need you anymore
You left me feeling sore
But now that's no more
I used to wish that you would stay
Even just for another day
Now I'm glad you didn't stay
Cause I don't need you anymore
You left me feeling sore
But now that's no more
I have gotten over you
Now I can say that's true
I no longer love you
And I don't need you anymore
You left me feeling sore
But now that's no more
Yeah I don't need you anymore
You left me feeling sore
But now that's no more
No now that's no more

Artist: Harmony Lyrics

Onam - Pookkalam Competition

There was Pookkalam competition at our office as a part of Onam celebration. And our team won the second prize.. This was our pookkolam..

And the pookkolam which got the first prize was

Happy Onam to all!!!!

Finally!!

koi fariyaad

My husband plays this song in the car whenever he finds me in a very bad mood. And I happened to be in one such bad mood over this weekend. The moment the play button was pressed, flashback scenes came rushing to my head and I could see those tortoise mosquito coils going round and round.


We watched this movie on friendship day of our college final year. We loved the songs. I remember, the whole of our batch, sitting in one room, hearing to this song , over 100 times on one night.

koi fariyaad, tere dil mein, dabee ho jaise
tune aankhon, se koi baat, kahi ho jaise
jaagte jaagte, ik umr, katee ho jaise
jaan baki, hai magar saans, ruki ho jaise


(Priyanshu Chatterjee’s dialogue: jaanta hun, aapko sahare ki zarurat nahi, main sirf saatah dene aaya hun)

har mulaqat pe, mehsoos, yehi hota hai
mujhse kuch, teri nazar, pooch rahi ho jaise
raah chalte, hue aksar, ye gumaah hota hai
wo nazar chup ke, mujhe, dekh rahi ho jaise

ek lamhe, mein simat aaya, sadiyon ka safar
zindagi tez, bohat tez, chali ho jaise
iss tarah pehron tujhe, sochta rehta, hun main
meri har saans, tere naam, likhi ho, jaise

koi fariyaad, tere dil mein, dabee ho jaise
tune aankhon, se koi baat, kahi ho jaise
jaagte jaagte, ik umr, katee ho jaise
jaan baki, hai magar saans, ruki ho jaise

Kahlil Gibran on Marriage

Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, Master?
And he answered saying:You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.


I now understand why some people use Kahlil Gibran's poem as their marriage vow. This is one of the most wonderful poem on relationships, I have ever read.

हम बेखुदी में

हम उम्म्म हम हम हम हम आ आ आ चले गए
हम बेखुदी में तुम को पुकारे चले गए हम..
हम बेखुदी में तुम को पुकारे चले गए
सागर में ज़िन्दगी को उतारे चले गए हम॥

देखा की यह तुम्हे हम बनके दीवाना
उतरा हो नशा तो हम ने यह जाना
सारे वोह ज़िन्दगी के सहारे चले गए
हम बेखुदी में तुम को पुकारे चले गए हम॥

तुम तो न कहो हम ख़ुद ही से खेले
डूबे नहीं हमी यूँ नशे में अकेले
शीशे में आप को भी उतारे चले गए
हम बेखुदी में तुम को पुकारे चले गए
सागर में ज़िन्दगी को उतारे चले गए हम..

From the day I posted my bucketlist with the wish to visit Denmark , I have been getting some hits from a IP address registered at Denmark...

I wonder if it is atually someone browsing from Denmark, or some soul (troubled) sitting in some corner cubicle of one of the Indian IT companies and working for some European client.

Kangalal paarpadhum poi, kaadal ketpadhum poi, Theera visarippadhe mei..

Trivia:
The names of the three monkeys which pose for HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL are : Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru

An Update: Sep 5th 2008

Its nice to see my child go places

Happy Birthday Aapiser!!

Birthday’s are always time for us to celebrate and eat cakes and enjoy….
It has become a culture now to get a cake for the bday boy/girl ( To be read as BAKRA) … Also, Lot of discussions about choosing the venue for the treat.

So here comes the birthday of one of the key members of our group..
He is called as "AMBANI" by some and as "Aapiser" by most of us.

It is a unique experience working with him. He is a Perennial source of ideas.
We always send our work for review to him atleast two or three days before the actual delivery. Because he would for sure come up with the best logic with far better performance than what we had initially designed.

I was working on converting a code to ETL package and was breaking my head when the ouput of the code was different from that of the package I developed. I was literally brooding over that logic for more than 8 hours. And it took him exactly 10 minutes to crack the issue and to point out that I had missed to comment out a part of the ETL logic. I am forever indebted to him cause he helped me in realizing that I can also be the dumbest of the dumb and hence shattered my forever towering ego :P

So Here I am wishing our MS - Guru a very happy and a wonderful Birthday!!

Have a Blast "Aapiser"

My Bucketlist

Have my own personal library of books and CDs.

Visit my college with all my friends.

Spend a night in an African forest

Pose for a photo in front of the little mermaid in Denmark and spend the christmas eve at Tivoli

Vist all European Countries.

Work for some NGO

Stick a print out of a whacky Dilbert strip on my cubicle.

Buy something (medicines exempted) for myself without feeling guilty about it.

Drive a car on a highway.

Slap someone whom I hate the most

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Adventure ( Horror!!!) at 00:15 Hrs

How would you feel when

You have to board a train at 00:15 Hrs.

You are travelling alone.

The train stops for just 5 minutes at this station.

You board the train to find your berth already occupied

The person sleeping in your berth also has a valid ticket

The ticket examinar tells you are carrying yesterday's ticket

You finally understand how you have messed by booking the ticket for 17th 00:15 hrs train while you are actually travelling on 18th 00:15 hrs. All this confusion because you were leaving home on 17th

You travel for 8 hours standing on one leg in an unreserved compartment, cursing yourself for all the mess.

Your train is running late by an hour.

You have to reach work soon as you are in a new project.

This is how you will look when you enter work

Raghav's Birthday!!

August 11th is my son's birthday. He turns a whopping ... 3 year old..

These three years went so fast.. amazingly fast.

Kind of sad to think that those days will never return. I am sure even if he could return them to us, he wouldn’t, because he is having a blast being the “Terrible 3?!!?!".

Needless to say though, amma is proud. Life is simple for now. I’m proud of just the fact that he’s growing up.

Copy Paste from my site

I picked this from my site . Posting it here . coz that made me nostalgic about my Patni days.

Just a few of the things that i cherish in life ....
Death by chocolates
A Cute teady Candle lights
Lavender water
The sound of my cell buzzing.
If it is buzzing it is someone i like!
Late night walks
The smell and sound of rain. also getting caught in them...
Crushed cottons
Pastels Holding hands in public
coffee
Bonfires on cold nights
Late night conversations
The crescent moon
A large stack of books
Whipped Cream and strawberries
Foamy cup of hot chocolate
The message that says: You've got mail.
Hand written letters

Things I miss .....
Hostel Life
All my College Friends
A Cute little dog .. A heartbeat at my feet
Hostel Birthday Parties
Mess Food
Doogy and Bruno

A new post on Denzel!

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He -She

Scene 1:

SHE 1: Hey "HE" .. Visa interview date enna?
HE : 23rd Wednesday!
SHE 2: ahaa.. Pon kadaithaalum bhudhan kadikaadhu .. Adhanalaa ..
annaikku ellarukkum falooda vaangi thaanga
HE : Bhudhan kadaikudhunga .. aana Ponnu dhan kadaikaa maatengudhu
(sporting a sorry face)
SHE 1: ayyo addhu Pon , Gold.. Ponnu illa.
HE : rendum onnu dhan
SHE 3: Indirecta dowry kekkariya? Dowry case ulla thallidu vaanga.
SHE 2: Dowry case illa .. Child marriage case-la ..
HE : (totally depressed) Phone vayaru arundhu moonu naal aachchu
(In Koundamani style -Suriyan movie)


Scene 2:

HE : coffe jaane tu??? ( effect of watching the movie "Jaane tu ya jaane na")
SHE : ennnaa???
HE : Coffee polama?
SHE : idhu enna adha eleventh floor "sangi mangi" kaagava?
HE : Hey ellarukkum eppadi theriyum?
SHE : pottu vanguvomla!!
HE : ayyo naane vaaya kuduththu maatikittenna?
SHE : Anda mupadhu naatkalil Hindi bookku kooda vaangitella?
HE : Narayana .. indha kosu tholla thaanga mudiyalappa
(In Koundamani style Suriyan movie)

Gems of Kavi Arasu

பரமசிவன் கழுத்திலிருந்து பாம்பு கேட்டது
கருடா சௌக்யமா யாரும்
இருக்குமிடத்தில் இருந்து கொண்டால்
எல்லாம் சௌக்யமே கருடன் சொன்னது
அதில் அர்த்தம் உள்ளது!

உயர்ந்த இடத்தில் இருக்கும் போது
உலகம் உன்னை மதிக்கும் உன்
நிலைமை கொஞ்சம் இறங்கி வந்தால்
நிழலும்கூட மிதிக்கும்!

மதியாதார் தலைவாசல் மிதிக்காதே என்று
மானமுள்ள மனிதனுக்கு ஒளவை சொன்னது
அதில் அர்த்தம் உள்ளது!

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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.

I am a dabbler!!

I dabbled in electronics during my undergrad. I joined MFM correspondence course . But later discontinued it as I did not want to end up counting the number of soaps sold in some remote part of India (:-P).

Patni (My first employer)taught me datawarehousing. I worked on ETL tool called Informatica and OLAP tool called Microstrategy. With the basic datawarehousing background I could work on any DW tool.

I worked on Power Builder at Keane India. I loved Unix Scripting. I like working on vi editor.

I preferred working on Informatica. So shifted back to Informatica when I worked at Wipro.

After joining HCL, I have been dabbling in various DW tools.
I enjoyed working on SSIS and SSRS. And my present project is on Cognos.

Well.. Why am Isaying all this now?
Coz I am now getting readyto dabble in another new ETL tool (Dta stage) .
I am now attending a classroom training..

:-(.. Bhuuuuuhhh
I hate these classrooms.
Please.. why dont they just give me the installables and two days to explore the tool.