When She's not talking to me....

She was always in my hand...wakes me up,talks to me,plays me some wonderful music,keeps me always in touch with the world...she had everything I could imagine in her....slim,beautiful & amazingly innovative...she can make the world turn back to me.I've always carried her with pride...never felt she had any limitations...I've always felt lucky having her...she takes me to a different world every time I listen to her...I just loved the way everything went her until yesterday...:-(

Yesterday early morning she me woke up...& while on way to work I felt she was behaving slightly abnormal..I thought she'll be alright & proceeded to office....to my shock,her bottom half totally stopped working..I couldn't believe my heart...she was paralized & had very less energy too...I was hell bound..I just had to react every single way I could think of to recover her...I tried and tried...called up many people,Googled!! & tried everything I could think of & nothing went in my favor...and finally she lost all her power & went to sleep..I also fought all possible ways to revive her,but I failed every single attempt I made...:-(

Yes, My iPhone stopped working...it's home button & charging aren't working now...& so it drained & got switched off :-(...Every time I lost a gadget I always felt, something better can replace it..but this one is very special..I just cannot think of a better gadget although there are 100's around in the market...I wish I repair it or will have to get a new one....no matter wat the cost is..it really sucks to see your favorite thing getting screwed...it might sound silly..but when I walk on roads I find the music with me missing every single inch on my heart.....

Date:July19th,2010
It's been a week I'm missing my iPhone & I never wanted to publish this blog till I wake her up...& thanks God for all the prayers...I found a guy with Midas touch to fix up the problem & here I'm back with my iPhone proud again in my hands & in love with all that she has to offer me... :-)..Yea she's now talking to me....

Sometimes somethings in life looks silly...but silly things makes life, all that beautiful....

nothing...just nothing!!

Sometimes,we wonder how good life would be if there is nothing,just nothing to do...life is just like that nowadays...I often browse through the address bars of the internet explorer on which website to visit next...I can now understand the retired,the old & prisoners..ofcourse me too a prisoner between 9-5.30 LOL...

Sometimes all this sounds like fun..but the reality is, its not all that fun to stay doing nothing....seeing facebook updates more frequently than the updates done by other similar class of people...every now and then opening Stock market although you very well know nothing much would have happened in the stocks you own...listening to the same set of songs again & again although you're really not listening to them more often...finding every chance to talk or discuss/argue on every topic around just to pass time doing nothing..checking gmail,e-mail for new mails...scanning through yahoo photos of bollywood,behindwoods for kollywood & Bangalore times for hollywood actresses...scanning every corner of facebook walls to find the funny videos & share it just expecting some funny comments....every now and then staring the clock to push it to 5.20 as fast as possible!!

Again an accident,but something i really wanted to experience....Bench!!Well, whether empty brain breed devil or not, breeds sleep in office..Now tell me how u pass your nothing time :P

iPhone = Innovation

I got a iPhone3G from my brother last month when he returned from the US. I was waiting for it for almost 3months..he bought it in November :P.
I dreamt about it in numerous ways and read a lot about it...positive & negative...when I actually got it..except for the looks other things did not actually excite me much...iPhone was almost similar to other touch phones which I have worked and used to a large extent..I felt things quite the same in many many ways... I had a better audio player from Sony which I feel better than iPod in terms of audio quality...
Slowly I started using the internet on the iPhone's Safari browser..the experience was nice and pleasant..iPhone's Safari is as good as any other PC browser & opens almost every other site which normally WAP browsers struggle...It has inbuilt flash & Java support, so no more half loaded pages in WAP.:D
Thanks to Airtel's Mobile internet recharge which allows us to download upto 2G for a decent price. :J
I started exploring the Apps Store to check for applications and other useful things around...Apps Store is amazing in every way..people create applications..if they feel sellable..they sell it or leave it for free..we can find almost any application which you can possibly imagine in Apps Store. Google(Includes Orkut),FaceBook,IMDB,WiKi are few free applications I really love using in iPhone..
Youtube streaming is the next best interesting thing I would appreciate Apple. With Edge GPRS network, Youtube cannot be fast..but iPhone gives better user experience starting the video after some sufficient amount of download so the Video does not stop every now and then,while streaming..:P
iPhone makes your internet experience new in every possible way...the effects they provide,the usability of the application is amazing in every sense we can imagine...The multi touch feature is exploited in every way by application developers more than apple themselves...it is as good as PC, we can rename it as PMC(Portable Mobile Computer:P) though iPhone sounds better :P.
It's realy a commendable achievement in the way Apple guys have turned the way Mobile Phones can be imagined to work...it's different from the word go..iPhone.
Will update this blog if I find better things in iPhone :-)

Sachin strikes...still India cries...

Yesterday was quite a rare feeling every Indian Cricket lover would have felt for Indian team & Sachin...being an ardent fan of cricket I went home following the score all the way from office...I felt since it is crucial encounter Sachin might have bogged down to pressure & got out...

When I reached home...India were 200/4 and to my Surprise Sachin was still in the crease completing his Hundred & as energetic and focussed he was 20years back...Yesterday I felt like seeing a much younger Sachin with full of energy even after fighting for more than 2hours in the crease...He was focused,brave,encouraging players in the other end & he was playing like never before...I started praying to God that we should win this match & Sachin score the first 200 in the History of One day cricket.

India was cruishing towards Victory with 80odd runs to win with a decent required run rate..Sachin reached his 150 & he was as powerful when he opened the innings....Raina mistimed a Hook shot & he got out...There was little disappointment but it was Sachin whom everyone was watching at...

Then came the Young Jadeja...he was Sachin's experience old...20years..still I could see Sachin running faster and playing more energetic shots....we were cruishing very close to Victory and it was like we needed 22odd runs almost run a ball..the match was like we are gonna win...Fate struct India & Sachin as a mistimed shot proved very costly...Sachin misjudged a slow delivery & was caught in the Fine leg...and the rest is just History...We lost the match by 4runs...

Everytime India loses we either abuse our players for poor cricket or bad strategy...but this time I could not convince myself that we lost the match..it was out and out Sachin who brought this match to that level...and finally we could not speak a word..We all would have forgotten that it's just a game & only one can win.But the pain of losing a match when we dream about Victory is more painfull...

Sachin then came out for the presentation ceremony & when the Commentrator annonced his name for winning yet another man of the match...I couldn't see the little master walking down to collect with dignity....we all could never forget Sachin's words that he just love to play for the country & thats what carries him all the way...

This match was like losing a lover Sachin in the love of cricket....but the hero is always Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar..Cricket's God in action...

The Korean struggle...

After a long time I wanted to write a Blog Entry on my changing life & changing attitude on the influenza I caught after I got into this Korean Struggle..Every now & then we all dream from childhood to visit a Foreign country...On May 2nd 2009 I started off to Korea on a bussiness trip. I was excited,energetic & enthusiastic as ever.

As Soon as I came here, I got news that my boss dad passed away & he was in leave for a week. Life was little good during those days when I used to sit for 12-14hours a day. Simply doing some work here & there. I felt I was in a alien land with Bruce Lee & jackie chan's around..

Then the Lion came back & the struggle started.I was sitting in the office all the time & sat more in weekends & infact the week never ended. I felt tired all the time, drooping eyes & drowning mind with sorrowful faces around...we still laughed like begger's laughter...we still had fun with the will to live & push life harder as the tough keeps going.I ran & ran...I forgot that there is something called evenings in life..I can only see nights,mornings & lunch inbetween to greet the sun. Life ran so fast that I only felt am in a train.65days passed so fast & still am running it hard. I work for almost 16hours a day on a average & many times worked overnight also.Manydays,I used to count the hours left for me to go back to office & try to sleep as quickly as possible to feel the sleep..sometimes I missed it too.Life is little more a struggle than difficult. I pushed myself hard & felt locked up in a Korean Jail with permission to guest house for food & sleep.

Life's sounding like difficult,but the best part is I felt I missed small things which I never wondered I want in my life or maybe always there in my life. I missed my 8 hours sleep,Saturdays & Sundays, fresh mondays or mornings,Idly & Dosa though I had Indian food. I felt life is going to be very good from now as I'm going back to my mother nation & life cannot be tougher.But the stay extended as usual.

Everytime I feel am upset on my lifestyle, i used to think the days which were so normal those days sounding like a pleasant memory.The days I used to leave office on time,have fun in the friend's place.I was hardly able to think much as work was always loading me all the time & I really feel am lost in work. I could hardly see a world outside this diameter.Life is so very different.
It is 70odd days in this Foriegn country with one or two visits outside & 2days out of office. Maybe a struggle but it makes me think how much I've changed. I wanted a lot in life before,but now I cant count anything which I feel I need.I feel I have everything, still not using anything. I will not say I'm Sanyasi,but I would say I've realised the toughness of life.I've realised 100bucks is still energiser yet the pain is more!! I have the heart to face any struggle going forward, seeing myself more confident than ever.More optimistic & a will to win all the time.Maybe I dont wanna live like this as every struggle should end as it has always been & every struggle sows success seeds.Maybe, this is yet an another accident,rather this is yet another incident in life or a phase in life I could never forget.

Jackpot

Manytimes in life I've felt I'm lucky.I get things right in the right time.But sometimes I used to wonder if my lucky life also would be luckier..than the right proportions of luck I get in life....And yes,it happened this week.12.5kbucks in less than half an hour...Can u believe it?Well,I will tell how? :-)

Tuesday morning I came back from Chennai & I was little tired....Soon as I came to office I logged into the stock trader terminal as usual & in a hurry I thought of the usual strategy(dumb) of bidding 40TCS for 450...in which I will gain around 800 if it clicks...this strategy I was trying for a week then without luck... :P

Then when I verified,to my surprise I saw the deal was completed at 490(Current Price)...I was blamming my fate & when I turned back to the price..it was shooting upto 497 in a second...I was thrilled & I did a Bid to sell at 510....to my surprise it crossed 510 within seconds..& I was happy to complete my deal with a profit of 800 in 10minutes...

The real story begins now...When I verified my account it was showing 410shares in the net holding..I was really surprised to see this...The current price went up to 515 & I was at 25Rs profit for every share I sell...God that's the jackpot....It was like luck riding me....I was really happy to see this & tried immedietly to sell....But luck again favoured me...I was not able to sell!!!

I tried to sell in many different ways & still the stock exchange was reject my plea. I was confused a lot,but happy that price was only up to my surprise.I spent some 10minutes to sell,then I decided to call up the customer care to sell the shares for me...By this time the share value shoot up to 520,30Rs profit per share....wowo....Soon as when some picked up...they were telling some procedures to do intraday trading & stuff...again my try was failing, so I called up the traders line to sell the shares.

Finally I sold 410shares at an average of 521....& I made a ransom of 12.8K in a short time of less than half an hour....Well,if at all the extra bit of luckier luck didn't hit me I would have never had the guts to buy such a bug volume & if at all I knew how to sell,I wouldn't have reached this big a profit...I made all that profit just because I did not know how to sell the shares I bought.Sometimes life gives you riches even if u didn't feel it....again a positive accident indeed....

On the Error-terror....

Date:27th,Nov,2008.Time:00.30AM,Mumbai
I was fast asleep and I got a call from my brother in America asking "There seems to be a blast in Mumbai,are you safe in Mumbai?". I said Yes and slept...soon one more call came from my friend stating the same message with more fear.I was little shaken and slept back again....The whole night I had something running in my mind..I was not able to distinguish whether it was my dream or truth....But fear was building up in my heart.I had a drowsy sleep till the morning dawned....

Very soon I got up...I switched on the TV and browsed through the News channels to find about the terror I heard in the night...Hell...I felt this was much more in intensity than the ones we saw in the past.They were telling that there is fight going on with the terrorists in the Taj,Oberai & the Nariman house.Down came the first call from my mom,with lot of fear she asked if I was safe.....I said "Yes".

Sooner or later all my friends called up....I felt like I was in grave and striving to get up...I was really sad about why all this should happen in this world with so much hatred.I felt the terrorist are not the humans we talk about.They are some cold blooded machines to Kill and getting destroyed.I can't see them like dying,but a machine getting damaged or exploded.I don't see any good reason for them to attack us and spoil the peace we all bestow in our lives.

The whole of Mumbai seemed to have been glued into the TV sets watching the Times,NDTV & other news channels.I saw Mumbai like never before in my 10days stay there.There was so much panic.I felt more heat when my company called up and asked me to move to Delhi.

Date:28th,Nov,2008,Mumbai
Finally my company HR decided it was safe to move out of Mumbai though I didn't feel like moving to Delhi,I need to push off to the Airport.I saw the streets almost empty,with most of the shops around closed and the sense of fear was well felt.

I felt everyone around was in loss from the guest house I lived(27 bookings got canceled for them in that one day) to the Cab I traveled(The driver hardly got any customers going out) & everything seemed more like a troubled occasion.

Sometimes fate is good to a few and bad to a few.I met a couple of good fated people who narrowly missed all this terror attacks.

1.My Cab driver drove past the Marine drive at 8.30PM with his Chinese customer having his dinner in the Chinese restaurant.He escaped in a matter of an hour to be precise as the attack was there around 9.30PM.
2.My co-passenger in the flight to Delhi was a Canadian who was supposed to stay in the Oberai and attend a meeting in the Taj.He came a day late which saved his life & also the people who accompanied him. Maybe one of the closest escapes.
3.There was also a attack in the other side of my office at Ville parle at around 10PM...I left that place by 7.30PM

I felt like this is one of the worst terror attack our mother nation has ever experienced.But we cannot stop our lifestyle.We should not abstain from anything because of these ruthless machines-Terrorists.We should never fear a machine we cannot repair, we need to be united,we need to fight the error,terror and destroy to core.This cannot happen if we fear and stay away.We need to prove them wrong by getting back to routine as soon as possible.We lost a lot in this attack,but we got a good opportunity to unite and live together & show to the rest of the world that India is Safe place to Live.

Last but not the least,I salute the martyrs who lost their lives,especially their families & friends.The only way to show our gratitude is to move freely without expressing our fears by showing our faith in our safeguard forces,let's live & not fear the terror.

Let us all join together,Sink our differences,Rise above our petty jealousies and rivalries and remain as one,strong,unified Indian.

JaiHind!