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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Friday, May 20, 2005
Why blogging is the next gen communication?
I was thinking about this in the morning and I couldnt find a good reason for it being so. Is it because it allows a different kind of journalism where nobody restricts what you want to write. You can write what you want to write. Or is it the bulk of people you can move the information to. May be it is a mixture of both. Or it is something totally unknown to me - if that is the case, someone please give some inputs.
Blogging must be important - because Google and Microsoft wouldnt have begun it if it was not. But I dont get an insight into the business model behind blogging. Will it generate revenue at some point of time or is it just a branding effort?
Blogging must be important - because Google and Microsoft wouldnt have begun it if it was not. But I dont get an insight into the business model behind blogging. Will it generate revenue at some point of time or is it just a branding effort?
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Hurray - my blog is first one on google !!!
I have been waiting for this since past couple of weeks. The day when Google crawls my blog and the day has come. Search for "anurag vyas" and you'll get it as the first result.
Google rocks.
Google rocks.
The Sawantdurg Trip - It was not meant to be !!!
We had planned to go to Sawantdurg today. It was Anupam, Debo, Jaat, Ali, Jha and me. We planned to meet at the railway station at 6.15 in the morning. Anupam and Debo must have reached there on time - I'm quite sure. But the other four had no clues about what time it is till it was eleven in the morning when Jha woke up - yup, he is an early riser. When I woke up, I saw 6 missed calls from Anupam - I'm surely going to get a big bashing from him on Monday. I hope they had good time climbing the big rock.
On the other hand, four of us and Nilesh(another batchmate of mine, I'll write about him some time) had lunch at Jaat's place. The food was nice - tasty dal. We decided to go for a movie - Kingdom of Heaven topped the list. We went to Innovative for the 2.30 show. I went with Jaat and Jha came with Ali. Nilesh, as always, was not much interested for the movie. Ohh yes, I forgot to mention that I met my old old wing senior in the college, Santo. He had come with his wife to watch Kaal. But he couldnt get the tickets and so they decided to go for Jo Bole So Nihaal. I took his cell number and then we went for the movie.
The movie was ok - none of us found it very good. Then Jaat and I stopped at the Maratahalli factory outlets. I got new trousers. Jaat never buys anything - atleast never with me. Jha and Ali went to get a duplicate key for their flat's lock. Another thing - my watch fell down and the 6,9 and 12 hours digits got broken. You must be wondering why the digit 3 missed out - actually there is no digit 3 in my watch. Why? Guess.... I dont like this watch anyways, so I'll go bare-wrist till I get a new watch. Nothing more to add.
On the other hand, four of us and Nilesh(another batchmate of mine, I'll write about him some time) had lunch at Jaat's place. The food was nice - tasty dal. We decided to go for a movie - Kingdom of Heaven topped the list. We went to Innovative for the 2.30 show. I went with Jaat and Jha came with Ali. Nilesh, as always, was not much interested for the movie. Ohh yes, I forgot to mention that I met my old old wing senior in the college, Santo. He had come with his wife to watch Kaal. But he couldnt get the tickets and so they decided to go for Jo Bole So Nihaal. I took his cell number and then we went for the movie.
The movie was ok - none of us found it very good. Then Jaat and I stopped at the Maratahalli factory outlets. I got new trousers. Jaat never buys anything - atleast never with me. Jha and Ali went to get a duplicate key for their flat's lock. Another thing - my watch fell down and the 6,9 and 12 hours digits got broken. You must be wondering why the digit 3 missed out - actually there is no digit 3 in my watch. Why? Guess.... I dont like this watch anyways, so I'll go bare-wrist till I get a new watch. Nothing more to add.
Monday, May 09, 2005
Some more random stuff
After joining the swimming pool near MG road, I have been less frequent in writing these days. Believe me, swimming is too tiring. On thursday, I was promoted to start swimming the lengths but I was too scared to leave the pole on the sides. I spend all thursday without swimming even 100 mts. The next day I felt a bit feverish and I didnt go for swimming. On saturday, Jaat, Jha, Nandu and I went to watch "Kya cool hain hum" - nice timepass movie. A lot of college kind of jokes - so its overall fun watching the movie. The acting is good. Ohh yes, Isha Koppikar looks cool in the role of a policewoman - it reminded me of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality. I missed swimming again :(. Sunday is official off - so three days in a row.
I reached the swimming pool at 5:15 today. I got back to the basics again - and on the shallow side this time. Swam for around 90 minutes - a full football game. A lot of new people joined today - began with kicking for 30 minutes. That kid hasnt learnt to swim yet. He is too scared. His mom was very disappointed - I dont know why. People dont have patience at all. I think he'll be able to swim in a week or so. Its normal to be scared - some people are scared more than the others. But I believe they overcome the fear at some point of time. I hope he also does. Oops, its already 11, I have to take leave now.
I reached the swimming pool at 5:15 today. I got back to the basics again - and on the shallow side this time. Swam for around 90 minutes - a full football game. A lot of new people joined today - began with kicking for 30 minutes. That kid hasnt learnt to swim yet. He is too scared. His mom was very disappointed - I dont know why. People dont have patience at all. I think he'll be able to swim in a week or so. Its normal to be scared - some people are scared more than the others. But I believe they overcome the fear at some point of time. I hope he also does. Oops, its already 11, I have to take leave now.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Office party
We had a party in the office today. The food was nice. Normally being a vegetarian is always painful because you dont have much choice. But that was not the case today. The vegetarian cousine was good, infact pretty good. The only thing I could not taste was the spring rolls. The sweets were my favorite - rabri(flavoured thick milk) and maalpue(small round breads dipped in sugar syrup).
Swimming
Today I called up Rohit(another batchmate of mine) who began to go swimming about two weeks back and told him that I'll join him. I think I am generally impulsive in my decisions, but never mind. I reached his office at 5 in the evening. We went to the Commercial street and I bought swimming trunks. Then we reached the swimming pool near MG road. It was smaller than my college pool. I paid the money and got my membership for the pool.
I learned to float - holding the pipe with hands and flapping the legs to get the lift. The coach's first funda - "Every straight thing floats. But when you take your head out, thats when you have to learn to stay afloat". It was a good first lesson. I was asked to do the flapping for half an hour. But it was difficult - I stopped after every couple of minutes or may be less. Then there was an elderly lady who provided me with some fundaes and called me lazy for stopping every now and then - how can I explain her that it was difficult. Then she asked me to hold some rectangular thermocol object(I dont know what is it called, but it provided some support to keep me afloat) and try to "swim" the width of the pool on the shallow side. It was about 4.5 feet in depth. I swam 5 breadths and the coach said its enough for the day - I could come out. I felt the weight of my legs and couldnt walk for a moment. Rohit had already got out of the pool after completing his 13 length laps. Then we came back to our respective offices.
I learned to float - holding the pipe with hands and flapping the legs to get the lift. The coach's first funda - "Every straight thing floats. But when you take your head out, thats when you have to learn to stay afloat". It was a good first lesson. I was asked to do the flapping for half an hour. But it was difficult - I stopped after every couple of minutes or may be less. Then there was an elderly lady who provided me with some fundaes and called me lazy for stopping every now and then - how can I explain her that it was difficult. Then she asked me to hold some rectangular thermocol object(I dont know what is it called, but it provided some support to keep me afloat) and try to "swim" the width of the pool on the shallow side. It was about 4.5 feet in depth. I swam 5 breadths and the coach said its enough for the day - I could come out. I felt the weight of my legs and couldnt walk for a moment. Rohit had already got out of the pool after completing his 13 length laps. Then we came back to our respective offices.
A nice quote
"Dont let failure get to your heart and dont let success get to your head.". Heard it in Coffee with Karan(Star Plus) with Rishi Kapoor and Nitu Kapoor being the celebrities.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Trip to Nandi hills
All this began with Jaat having to put night out to finish off his office work. It was 4:30 in the morning when I got a call from him asking if I was coming to Nandi hills. I instantly agreed - I like hills and I like trekking. Jha was the third person with us. We met at the Meckri circle(I apologize if the spelling is wrong) where Jha and Jaat were waiting with Jaat being the driver of his black Pulsar. I was on my black Splendor. Meckri circle has an aeroplane at the centre elevated at about 60 degrees from the ground about to take off. My bike didnt have much petrol. So, I asked Jaat to stop at some petrol pump. We started the journey with Jaat wearing my -0.5 specs and my helmet adorned me. Jha was sitting on Jaat's bike.
In about 15 minutes, we reached the palace grounds(I have been there for some cricket match). Going some more distance, I saw the most complex flyover structure that I have even seen in India. It reminded me of my Seattle trip. Jaat knew the way. But this complex flyover even perplexed him and we had to stop and ask a watchman of some building if this was the correct way. The building had a big banner saying "Walkin Interviews" and quite a few young guys were sitting on the staircase. When we went some more distance, the road ran parallel to a railway line and we came across a railway phatak(a Hindi word for gate). It had the most dangerous speed breakers on both the sides of track. I never notice the speed breakers and always jump as if horse riding whenever I encounter one. There were a lot of coconut trees spread on both the sides with a little more being on the right side - though I didnt count. Ohh yes, I forgot to mention that we stopped at a petrol pump, a HP one. But nobody bothered to come out for a mere bike. Then we stopped at another Indian Oil petrol pump and the guy came out after Jha made a lot of signals by waving his hands in all directions. As it was not the "Speed" petrol which my bike would have got used to, I got just enough petrol to reach there and come back. It was about 2.27 litres for 100 Rs. I thought it was a bit costly.
Moving ahead, we came across a tea/coffee shop on the right side of the road which was getting narrower and narrower. We decided to take a break, tea coffee and snacks. I had two cups(I wish I had a better name for the plastic Tequilla shot size cups) of tea, Jaat and Jha had two coffees each. Jaat got a 50-50 packet and Jha/I got a Parle G. I told Jaat that when I was a kid, I always wondered why the kid that shows in the Parle G biscuit pack is in such a strange state - seems the baby is wondering why he has been photographed. Then we came to a conclusion that the kid in the picture makes same actions as Hagga does. We laughed for about 10 minutes over this issue. The shop was quite cheap - only 16 rs. The walls of the shop were all covered with photos of Hindu Gods/Goddesses with an odd Bhoomika Chawla poster in between. The radio was playing I suppose Kannada Bhajans (as it was a morning time).
Theres a lot to add to this description - the sunrise, reaching the foothill, the ascent, the curves, the pavithra sarovara, antara ganges, hotel mayura, looking for Jaat, the breakfast, the descent and the fast, furious journey back to bangalore. I'll hopefully finish it tomorrow.
In about 15 minutes, we reached the palace grounds(I have been there for some cricket match). Going some more distance, I saw the most complex flyover structure that I have even seen in India. It reminded me of my Seattle trip. Jaat knew the way. But this complex flyover even perplexed him and we had to stop and ask a watchman of some building if this was the correct way. The building had a big banner saying "Walkin Interviews" and quite a few young guys were sitting on the staircase. When we went some more distance, the road ran parallel to a railway line and we came across a railway phatak(a Hindi word for gate). It had the most dangerous speed breakers on both the sides of track. I never notice the speed breakers and always jump as if horse riding whenever I encounter one. There were a lot of coconut trees spread on both the sides with a little more being on the right side - though I didnt count. Ohh yes, I forgot to mention that we stopped at a petrol pump, a HP one. But nobody bothered to come out for a mere bike. Then we stopped at another Indian Oil petrol pump and the guy came out after Jha made a lot of signals by waving his hands in all directions. As it was not the "Speed" petrol which my bike would have got used to, I got just enough petrol to reach there and come back. It was about 2.27 litres for 100 Rs. I thought it was a bit costly.
Moving ahead, we came across a tea/coffee shop on the right side of the road which was getting narrower and narrower. We decided to take a break, tea coffee and snacks. I had two cups(I wish I had a better name for the plastic Tequilla shot size cups) of tea, Jaat and Jha had two coffees each. Jaat got a 50-50 packet and Jha/I got a Parle G. I told Jaat that when I was a kid, I always wondered why the kid that shows in the Parle G biscuit pack is in such a strange state - seems the baby is wondering why he has been photographed. Then we came to a conclusion that the kid in the picture makes same actions as Hagga does. We laughed for about 10 minutes over this issue. The shop was quite cheap - only 16 rs. The walls of the shop were all covered with photos of Hindu Gods/Goddesses with an odd Bhoomika Chawla poster in between. The radio was playing I suppose Kannada Bhajans (as it was a morning time).
Theres a lot to add to this description - the sunrise, reaching the foothill, the ascent, the curves, the pavithra sarovara, antara ganges, hotel mayura, looking for Jaat, the breakfast, the descent and the fast, furious journey back to bangalore. I'll hopefully finish it tomorrow.
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