How many times do you log in to check your e-mail?

So you have a PC and an internet plugged in. Most importantly when you don't have much work. What do you do? Sign out of your official e-mail account and sign in after every one hour. Do you have a limit for the number of times to sign out and in ? No.

We don't have our e-mail configured to Outlook or Inlook. Network guys say that Outlook is injecting lot of spam into the network. Yeah, WTF. So no Outlook for us. Hence we follow logging out and logging in to our company's mail id quite religiously.


Nothing more than that you do in your miserable life. And what will be the difference between the last time you logged in and now? There will be no e-mail in your Inbox.

You think why don't I get any e-mails. Later you will be forced to console yourself thinking, "Ok he doesn't get many mails either". The common point between you two chaps? Both look very busy in the office doing this activity. Not that you would get many mails when your check them at your home PC.

Once that religious activity is done diligently, the next thing is to check your Gmail, Fmail and personal mail accounts (to whatever webmails you have access). And you are not done yet. You remember suddenly that you have got multiple mail id's even though you struggle to remember the passwords.

Bug fix

If you are looking for a help on software bug fix in here, you can re-read it till you find a bug in this post. Essentially there are two types of bugs present in the system.

1. Software bug - The bug that you create yourself in your code, which you can only find it after head banging on to the monitor. This is present in the computer system. This can be eliminated by anyone who has worked extensively and the technical term given to the one who bugs, bugs out of the system is called debugger. Delete bugs and add bugs is the motto for software developers. More bugs = more money. Go figure.

2. Hardware bugs - No, not present in the ARM boards or your processors. These are present in the hardware system called your body, or to be precise - in your mind. No special mantra to fix these ones. It's all in your mind motto should solve the bug fix to an extent. This bug can lie dormant when you are asleep and things are going well but would suddenly rise like a phoenix from the Ashes, the moment things go haywire. Loss inflicted: Can range from robbing mental peace to psychiatric disorder. And a lot more which you already know and are scared to read if I write in here.

Heavy inflow of negative news like recession, job cuts, losses or dangerous thoughts about marriage, will increase the area covered by the bug in your system. So the option is to shun these news and make your mind impervious to the happenings around you. If you could do that on a regular basis, you are on course to become a Sadhu. Not that I would like you to convert to a Sadhu, wearing orange robes with long locks, but try to keep away those irritating things getting into your mind as much as possible.

"Try to stay away from being bugged by things that are not to your liking".

There is one bug in my room and one bug in my system. Either I have to fix the bug or I have to stay calm by ignoring it. For the latter type of fix, I am practicing yoga sitting cross legged, by suspending myself from the ceiling with transparent ropes. We deal in hardware bugs here. Visitors are encouraged only in the nights to catch a glimpse of the world class feat.

Perfect leap

This is the regular leap that you see in equestrian sport.


I haven't come across a perfect leap than the one seen below. The hands, the legs, the upward movement everything is picture perfect. It is more interesting because it came from a player whom I support in every tournament. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is Novak Djokovic.

After winning a point against Nikolay Davydenko in the Masters Cup at Shanghai, 2008

I still admire the photographer who captured this shot at a perfect time. Remember the guy does not stay in the air for 30 minutes to pose for the cameras. The last time I leaped something like that ? When a girl whose call I was waiting for, called me. That time I was in my shorts to get that excited.

Ento...means what oo ?

Ento was the subject line to the mail to my friend today morning. If you don't know the meaning of it, read and re-read the subject line with a for loop counter less than or equal to 'Till I Understand'. Till I Understand can be defined as a Macro which can be assigned an integer value that can be changed easily based on your retarding capability. That much is my entire C language expertise which I revealed just now to the world. No, Google search of 'Ento' is not going to help one bit.

'It is getting very difficult yaar to get up early in the morning', was once person's agony while there is in an other one, who rushes early to the office even before the morning watchman wore his duty clothes. I don't belong to either extremes. I am dot on time to the freaking office when it hardly matters.

As a news update who aspires to work for a news channel, not really, Djokovic won his first Masters Cup title, India won their second one day match against England at Indore and my maid's 10 year old son lost his game of marbles to his arch-rival.

Everyone one is getting married this Nov 22. Sounds like a good muhurtam is available that day. They probably don't realise that better muhurtams are available in the month of February. Ladies, I will tell you what to do if you don't know what muhurtam is. Gents, you can go watch that three starred gay Dostana flick.

Something more useful news to you, you are dying for? Shop a cheap Transcend 4GB pen drive at http://shop.in.com/ for Rs 487 only. I am not marketing for it. I am suggesting it coz I bought it. Delivery was very early than suggested. Product is sleek, fine and working so far. I bought it quite ages back, something like 4 days ago. Most importantly you can laugh at blokes who bought USB drives for 800 - 1000 rupees for 1 or 2 GB capacity. Now you owe me a treat? No, you don't coz I know your cheap lifestyle.

"Ento, anni telisinatte maatladestunnanu", is the tag line for any subject titled 'Ento'.

I am going from the office to have a hot piping cheap Dominoes Shellots pizza costing Rs.39 only. You have to post a comment on the quote for further clarity or visit me in person (only for ladies) for better understanding.

Thanks not giving

Because it is not Nov 27 which is the official thanks giving day in the US. Sounds like I got a bit wiser in stocks. Meaning, instead of making heavy losses I waited patiently to bail out of some trouble. It's still a loss but you will learn things with experience. How much experience is needed? I dream of becoming big one day in stocks, just to show Daddy that I made it big. Demystifying day-trading in stocks is my top priority. My gut instincts should predict something approximately close to accuracy with the assistance of global cues, that's when I think I solved the mystery. I don't have the charts to look like the ones present at financial and securities firms and hence instincts is my only tool. Hold on. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, AIG, Warner Brothers, Ram Babu productions and Good Friends movies all had charts only for display to their investors and make them a fool.


An MBA market researcher/fund manager/wealth manager/financial planning manager - to me all those designations are the same no matter what you've written as answers for those in your MBA examinations - can fall on the floor and laugh with my 'instinct' tool. So do I at your stupid ECG charts. One common thing to the bloke looking at the chart and advising his clients to buy and sell the stocks at some value and me is, we both know nobody is sure which is the right price to sell, hold or buy a particular share. Atleast I am following my gut feeling with little experience and I have a sense of satisfaction that my money is my hands rather than letting a moron who is thousand times moroner than me to play with it. This duffer will be managing hundreds of crores of rupees and will be having elite clients in his network. Ok, I agree you too are qualified MBA graduates from premiere B schools.

Again. What sort of a definition is a fund manager who manages your funds? Do you think he does it without any business motive? Why should you let someone to manage your assets where you need to disclose all your loans, properties, age, sex (that he can make out) including your grandfathers name? He would use a stupid tool to input all these data that you reveal and estimate that you need to have this many crores if you are living for this much amount of time . He would then advise you to buy a policy worth some duration which will not suffice your expenses totally but may partly fulfill your need and your wife, if incase you expire suddenly, God forbid. If you don't buy after listening to his crap for one hour, he would say, 'Sir, what is the problem. I suggested the best policy available and you yourself has given me the inputs'.

End result. A guy like me will be obliged and the one like you will not be. Yeah, I obliged. So no thanks giving to him.

Good news to you freaks after every country's economy is tumbling like nine pins. Latest to face the music is Germany. G20 summit is there for our rescue at Washington in the weekend where all the world leaders will be assembled on one stage to bail the world out of the economic crisis which has been the worst since World War -II, with universal interest cut rates and yeah, stuff like that. Once they scale the top of the summit they would then know that there is a free slope extending from the top to the interiors of the Antarctica.They can take polar bears then as advisors to their next global meet.

Layoff's

That's the news that is making rounds all over the IT sector in India. It is not as gloomy as projected to be but the news is slowly trickling as did the financial firms bankruptcy. People are keeping their ass tight and holding on to their chair at any cost even if his neighbour is asking the chair to sit on it for a minute. Insecurity about their job whether you are fresher, 2-3yrs experienced or 10-15 yrs experienced is seen. Under performers will now seriously be on the radar of service based companies especially.


I normally do not talk things so negatively, but it is time to raise the second warning signal out of five. Acquisitions in electronic product (Panasonic - Sanyo) based companies, mergers in the IT sector, GM - Ford losses in the automobile sector and then there is always the Google - Microsoft battle to go one up over the other for survival are always on the cards. Google business news is all about job cuts, mergers and quarterly reported losses. When the big dogs are fighting hard to earn their bread, imagine how many start up's and financially half supported companies would be facing the music.

As if this wasn't enough rumours in the cubicle early morning that Cadence has laid of 14 % work force globally, Satyam has given pink slips to 500 people and an other MNC has stopped hiring people and not giving offer letters to people it recruited etc. This was in addition to job cuts reported by TCS, Wipro, Satyam in the last month. The pink slip count is increasing. While the authenticity of the news can be questioned with outright defiance, this piece of news would never be open for public debate. Companies will not release this data fearing that their business will be affected.


A topic on Leo's suddenly has turned my attention and has taken me away from the monitor for a while. Now the steam that was fuming out before I was distracted, is not gushing out. This is the news from the automobile sector.

New vehicle sales have tumbled to a level that, adjusted for population growth, hasn't been this low since just after World War II, an "unsustainably weak level," says Mike DiGiovanni, GM's executive director of global market and industry analysis.

Still, this chaos has come down all of a sudden because of this worst financial crisis that you and I are being part of and seeing it with wide eyed delusion. You would only know when that affects you and that time pinching yourself twice to check if that's a dream or a reality is not going to help.


Everyone has to face the axe. Perform or perish is taken seriously than before. It can be atleast a couple of years before the world can stage a comeback after this turmoil. So for the time being, the ones who are holding to their seats, put your head and foot down and eke your livelihood with minimum fuss at your work places. Any nusiance that you create in this hour will put you in the limelight outright. I still say the situation is not as glum as I am projecting it. But the sights of panick button which were once not visible from your cubicle, is now conspicuous and may just appear it to be getting closer to you with every passing day.

Back from home

Reading few blogs will always give you the kick to post a post at inordinate times and this one such daredevil attempt. I got a delayed kick 18 hrs after reading one Indian blog at labnol.org . They are people who write good stuff there and I am astonished at the quality of few writers there. Esoteric, is what to say the least. I always aspire not reallyto be one one of those bloggers with a best blog tag on my blog and in the process bag a Booker or a Cooker for my literary work.

With winter setting in, this time really, I am feeling it as compared to my previous two posts. So I am back to home after home from home after Diwali. I went to Chilukuru. Chilukuru draws the elite disciples. That you can make out from the way people dress there. They wear costly dresses and are yet ready to do 108 circumambulations. The tradition there is, people do 11 circulations and taking the blessing of Chilukuru Balaji. Once their wish is fulfilled they are supposed to do 108 circumambulations. Quite powerful God as they say.

I also went to IMax at Prasad's and saw a 3D movie called Space Station during my visit home. If you haven't seen any 3D in your miserable life, which I know most of you haven't, then you got to see one right away, right now to get a feel of it. It's amazing. For the retarded and everyone, you got to have the 3D glasses to see the movie. Without the glasses you can still see the picture on the screen but it appears blurred. You feel like you are seeing shadowed pieces of the video on the big screen without the glasses. Now you know why it is mandatory to put on those glasses. After reading this and you still haven't made up your mind to see the next 3D movie which is going to be released, then as Harbhajan commented on Gilchirst for calling Tendulkar not a good sports person after India lose, "Your head needs to be examined".


People even before they get on with work after the vacation, will immediately think of the next possible vacation on the cards. Most of them are feeling the negative vibes for their job security after the financial melt down, which I got it confirmed with my good friend. I am also feeling it. Are you too? Then let's all get together under one rug and sleep with face covered in this chill winter. Try that after you wake up in your half sleep at 6'o clock and you would sleep beyond the permissible time eventually getting delayed to wherever you have to go and whatever you have to do.

As a last note, Barack Obama has become the first black president of USA. Martin Luther King's dream has come true but what will happen to us (the world)? Can he mitigate the credit crisis? Can he produce more jobs in America by restricting outsourcing? Can he stop the abortion rate? Is he bringing back the troops from Afghanistan and Iraq? Can he make America secured from the intruders and the jehadis? Can he revive the economy? Can he....this? Can he ....that? But one thing that is common to both of us. We both share the same birthday. That's why Cheers to him with Mandapeta Martini.