Me : Hello buddy, how are you?
My Alter-ego : I am fine man. Long time, no see?
Me : Hmmm, I was kind of out of my mind for sometime now.
My Alter-ego : Oh I see. What’s that you want from me today?
Me : What’s the difference between a businessman, carpenter, a dancer, a doctor, a driver and an IT(Information Technology) professional?
My Alter-ego : Only way is by the skills required by the profession. No one person in particular is superior or inferior.
Me : If so, why is there a huge difference in the individual salary or money these people make? Why is that people degrade others based on profession?
My Alter-ego : Tough questions to answer. I don’t know. May be you can ask people about it.
Me : Do you know why?
My sister and my cute little niece will be here by the second week of march. This in itself thrills me and makes me to feel very nice. It’s been two years since my sister left us after her marriage. Thanks to Skype, we never felt that she is miles away from us.
After the entry of Aanya, the scene changed a lot with all of us shifting our attention towards her. 
My dad makes it a point to ask me or Balaji if Gayu was on Skype. He checks his emails daily to see if there are any new photos of Aanya uploaded. Weekend never passes by without him logging in to Skype at least once in three hours to see if Gayu was on. The news of my sister’s itinerary brought excitement to us all. Mom is really happy to have the young one back in India. Balaji as always is calm, composed. But he hinted that he will take Aanya out to railway station to show her train. One of our uncles did that to Balaji. Dad is sure to tend the visiting ladies with utmost care and warmth.
What am I doing amidst all these? I am thrilled as everyone is. I was even thinking of what to do if my niece started walking when she visits us. I was thinking of buying her anklet (kolusu) so that we can enjoy the jill… jill… sound when she walks around the home. Also, I am planning to take a week long vacation in March just to ensure that I am with my cute little niece.
Excitement to be continued…..
Update Sis and niece did not turn up due to some unavoidable reasons 
Balaji, Susheel and I were off to Ottapalam, Kerala for Umesh’s wedding. It was a good journey an opportunity to meet new people. I got new friends in Nicky and Vinu (Umesh’s cousins) and Susheel. We met Shikha (our blog friend) and her mom. Umesh’s family was loving and greeted and treated us well. More about the trip in a separate post.
Captured some moments of our trip with my Canon SD camera. Here is a Flickr slideshow of our travel and Umesh’s wedding.
My wishes to Umesh and Tejasi for a wonderful life ahead.
Although I am not a motor enthusiast, I am thrilled to see how the mch hyped, awaited , Tata’s one lakh rupees car is going to be. Buzz is that Tata has plans to unveil the one lakh rupees car in New Delhi Auto expo which is to be held between january 10 and January 18 2008.
The car is expected on road by the latter part of 2008. As with every new product, there are both optimistic and pessimistic views on the car. Lot of emails have been floating around with pictures of the car flooding the corporate mail exchange servers, but the integrity of it cannot be believed until we see it for ourselves.
The pessimistic views are from the competitors and other motor companies in India who speculate that Tata motors has to compromise on quality and safety standards by offering at such a price. Socialists criticize that such cars are not necessary in the already congested Indian roads. Imagine a city like Bangalore or Chennai, which is already struggling to breathe amidst heavy traffic and high pollution levels. But Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata group is much confident by brushing aside all these remarks. He says that the new car will be a milestone in Indian car industry and it will abide by the safety standards. This reminds us of the mobile revolution created by Reliance some years ago. When Reliance communications spoke about mobile phones within Rs.1000, none of them believed it. Reliance emerged as a winner and is one of the fastest growing mobile service providers in the Indian market. Let’s see how the Tata group handles this challenge.
I thought of buying a car before a year but I am very much happy to use the public transport system now. Considering the fact that I am spending 4 hours of my daily life commuting to office, I am not sure if I can handle Chennai’s traffic with a car. Also the price of fuel kept increasing which made me to drop the idea of buying a car. Let me see if Tata’s new car induces me into the idea again. I also need to think on the terms that neither the traffic nor the fuel cost is going to go down because of this new entrant. Let me see how it goes. Let me wait till the Auto Expo. At least this makes me thrilled and curious. 
P.S.:- What will the Tata motors name this car? Is it already out and have I missed it? If not any guesses?
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Here is a little guide to configure NetGear ADSL DG834G router with BSNL broadband internet connection. I have done it and also setup a Wireless AP at home to hook my new HP Pavilion Laptop.
After a fully loaded day at office, came back home tired to find that there was curd rice sans side dish for dinner. Was searching the entire kitchen for something or the other to make up for the missing side dish. Unfortunately, there was not any available. Frustrated, opened the refridgerator to fetch a bottle of cold water. That’s when I found out a box full of Thirunelveli Halwa. Tried using halwa as a side dish for the curd rice. It tasted yummy. Eureka! That’s when the curd rice combo with sweets was born. I tested this combo with every sweet under the sun. Every test produced good results. If not, I will not be in a position to write this story.
Shared this with a friend and he said this is the most weird food habit he has ever heard of.
I don’t think it is so weird or Am I the only one in this league?
If you have a food habit like this, you may consider this as a tag and write about it.
Happy new year all!
Sundar, Saravanan, Selva, Diwakar are my neighbourhood buddies. We hang out almost all weekends either in Rakki theatre or our favourite children’s park (only park in our neighbourhood). We started this year’s outing at the park. We were trying to shoot some mobile cam pics (Courtesy : Sundar’s Sony Ericsson Mobile). Selva has gone to US and was missing today.
Here are a few pics….
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Jagan a.k.a Jillu, my colleague has become an ex-colleague now. Thinking about it makes me sad since he was a good and special colleague to me for the last 24 months.
He is wonderful person who stood by me all the time, pointed out my mistakes, very understanding etc;etc; A very calm person who gets really provoked at times but does not show it out easily. A easy going guy who can befriend anyone he meets. All my outings with him are to be cherished.
He has moved out of our work place for a career break. Through this post, I wish him all the very best of both the professional and personal life.
P.S.:-
Hey Jillu!
I am gonna miss you. But I hope I can cope up with it sooner or later. Do keep in touch.
