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I was relaxing at home last night, listening to Michael Bublé's new Christmas album when the recollection of a past incident brought a smile to my face. Now when I say past, it seriously was a long time ago, so you'll have to stay with me for a bit while I take you back in time. Yup, fifteen years ago, all the way back to 1996. I was a twelve-year old kid (I know, the years have totally flown by!

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It's been one year since I've blogged seriously, but there are certain situations where life just surprises you, or rather frustrates you. In these cases you can't help but vent, and today's post is about one such incident that took place today afternoon.I was on my way downtown for an interview today and just like the past few days, Toronto was as hot as an open furnace. Imagine me sitting in a

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: New Product Introduction: iPad 2View more presentations from staneymv.

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Hey guys, check out this preso from my Social Media class today, led by Rob Kozinets. Let me know in case of any questions or comments! Social Media Metrics - part 2 Platforms and ToolsView more presentations from staneymv.

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Wow, it's been 3 months since I posted anything! As always, that isn't my fault - I blame my grueling 1st MBA term for robbing me of all my spare time! I'm serious - when you have watched just one movie (and that too at a Malayalee association movie night) in three months, you definitely know that something has changed. Especially for a person like me who's average movies/week ratio used to be

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Hi there folks! I know this may come as a surprise - since I myself expected my next post would be from Toronto. However, it is not! This post comes to you from Springfield, Illinois...yeah, that's right - home of the Simpsons, or not.How, When, Why, What? Easy, patience is key here. I mean, a lot of stuff has happened in the past 10 days or so since I landed, but I'll try to touch on everything

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I remember a timeMy frail, virgin mindwatched the crimson sunriseImagined what it might findLife was filled with wonderI felt the warm wind blowI must explore the boundariesTranscend the depth of winter's snow........Yes, that pretty much sums up my thoughts right now. Change is inevitable for all, and I feel like I'm on life's rocky highway, just about to head into a hairpin curve, not knowing

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Wow, it's been exactly 3 months since my last post! Seriously, that long? Time has flown by indeed.On the personal front, nothing's much changed. New project, new football season (wait, that's not personal!), same old job, pretty much the same pay scale too (even with the salary revisions we had last month). Oh yeah, we've got a new dog at home now - a labrador pup and he's a cutey! :) Also, my

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Last week, my aunt checked their letter-box like she usually does every morning and found a neatly folded piece of paper. She opened it and found it was a letter, addressed to her and uncle. The first line went like this -"Njan athmahatya cheyyan pova. Ningal kaaranam.""I'm going to commit suicide, and it's because of you."----------Two weeks earlier----------My uncle and aunt stay just a few

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Yeah, I know..I'm ten days late to rant n boast about this, but I at least have an excuse that I've been celebrating the win all these days. ManUtd beat Chelski 6-5 on penalties, in a gripping match that had me nerve-wrangled at the end of it. Very emotional too, may I add.Penalty-shootouts are easily the most twisted and sick way to decide the winner in a football match, but it's the most

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I returned from the US on the 11th, the last day of the league season. It had been a long journey back (24+ hours, three flights) and boy, was I tired. But within me, a mix of excitement and tension was building to it's climax. This was the D-day, the day when hopes would be dashed or dreams fulfilled. The day that would earn bragging rights for another year or a post-season of despair. The last

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It's not often that I put up a post on music, though it runs through my blood. However, some things just beg for whole-hearted appreciation, there's no denying that. This post is solely dedicated to one such endeavor.A couple of weeks before, I was asked to take a look at the site blackstratblues. It's a website put up by a bloke named Warren Mendonsa, whom many of you having interest in music/

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Most people have never had the thrill of randomly sighting a celebrity. It's just too rare an experience, unless you live in Hollywood which ofcourse multiplies your chances by a factor of seven. (Again, a very random number chosen by me.) When I say random, I guess "by chance" would be the more meaningful term. That wouldn't include going for a cricket match and seeing Sachin. Or going to a film

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That's right! One helloffaa Road Trip is what you get.I'm pretty sleepy already so I'll be sadly making this post short. We (Shrek + me) rented a car and drove all the way up north to Pittsburgh this weekend. We had friends who are currently at the Carnegie Mellon University, so accomodation was no problemo. I've never been to CMU before so just visiting the place was an experience itself. It

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Warning: This post was written well past midnight, while waiting for my laundry to finish up. So please excuse the pissed-off nature of this post...I just couldn't help it given my helpless situation.Well, I guess the title should say it all. If not, let me explain a lil more.I'm back in the US of A for again. I'll be here for the next two months, so it's the not the shortest trip. Arrived here

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One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,Seven great football stalwarts conceded victory,Seven men will never play again who met destruction there,The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester Matt Busby’s boys were flying, returning from Belgrade,This great United family, all masters of their trade,The pilot of the aircraft and the skipper Captain Thain,Three times they tried

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But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do,When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do,And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through.........Here I am...on the road again...My sentiments exactly. Here I am - in Dulles, the Gate B31 lounge, waiting for my flight to Newark..and not surprisingly, it's delayed! But somehow I'm not the

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Well, let me get this news out of the way first.It's regarding my all-time favorite driver, the one, the only, Michael Schumacher, and I just read it on an article titled 'Schumacher turns taxi driver' on a F1 site. Well, it seems the Schumacher family was on holiday in southern Germany, got delayed and were in danger of missing their flight back home. So what does our man do? He hails down a

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Pictures from a fun filled day of playing in the snow...my first official snowy day! It was just awesome I tell ya...and the scenery was just breathtaking..will be posting more to my flickr pblog later!The meltdownJust outside officeThy name shall be written in snow...brrrrr...Starbucks!Iced tea? :)

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Holla everyone, I just passed my first weekend of being alone here, and boy, was it fun! (Last weekend didn't qualify since I'd been to NJ). Me, Shrini and Charles had been to Bugaboos (my fav steakhouse) on Friday night and after I'd come home I finished off the last few episodes of Friends season 10, something I'd been stuck on, for believe it or not, 2+ years!Got up pretty late, around 11am,

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Well, I guess the title says it all. I've come back to Rockville again :) this time it's only till end of the year, which feels kinda nice, cos I've come alone and stayin alone sucks! My trip didn't start off too well, with both the Indian flights getting delayed. This resulted in me missing my connecting flight to DC from Newark, with my baggage going prior. Anways, that was how bad it got

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Is it a co-incidence or is it not? I'd like to think not.How is it that barely a month after the release of 'Chak De India', a film about national fervour and pride (albeit via the not-frequently-visited path of Indian sport), there has been three major achievements for Indian sport in real life?The first was on August 29th - when India defeated Syria 1-0 to win the ONGC Nehru Cup. Football. The

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Well, I've been waiting for it ever since the now-famous Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld in January. I've seen loads of pictures, videos, feature tours but I've never got tired. And finally, today, June 29th, the iPhone had it's world premiere at 6pm. Seriously, I'd been practically waiting for days for this. Me, Charles, Wonderkid and Spandi made it to the Apple store at Montgomery Mall by 9pm,

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Everyone's talking about it. Everyone's complaining that everyone else is talking about it. But sadly, no one can stop talking about it too. The radio, the television, the web, the paper have only one thing on their minds - Paris Hilton. Yeah, hate her or love her, you just can't get rid of her. My client and me were speaking over dinner at Silver Diner's about this today. He mentioned something

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Came across this video on the net, and found it simply amazing. Due to two reasons. Firstly, the song (if you didn't guess it already) is Gnarls Barkley's Crazy (and if you haven't listened to already :) should do so as soon as possible). Well, I could have just posted the link to the song, if I wanted you to hear it, but that's isn't my intention. Which brings me to my second reason. This video

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Alright, apologies first.It's been 108 days since my last post.Whoa..a pretty long time, but no excuses mama, I somehow managed to not post for this long. I just wanted to write this post for the sake of getting my blogging life back on track, and I'm glad I'm managing to do it atleast now.Updates? YES!!! Lots! Soo mannyyy....ok so let's get started!ManUtd won the League in May!! yeaaaah!!!!!umm.

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The following post is a "time-lapse" view of one of the most inspiring and memorable incidents of my life - Roger Water's Dark Side of the Moon Live concert, that was held at Mumbai on 18th Feb 2007.Fri-16/02 8:17pmNaveen and I board the Udyan Express from Cantonment Station, Bangalore. Felt Stuffy. Crowded. But nothing could curb our enthusiasm. The excitement had been building up in me ever

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It's been awhile since my last post. And the reasons? Most prominently, the lack of time, and other things...well, excuses none the less. But the last month's been fun too, lots of things happening at a pace that does not make me sit n brood that life is boring. But life is crazy I should say, and gives you twists and turns when you least expect it. If life was a crazy stage drama, that would

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Fergalicious definition make them boys go locoThey want my treasure so they get their pleasures from my photoYou can see me, you can't squeeze meI ain't easy, I ain't sleazyI got reasons why I tease 'emBoys just come and go like seasons...Ding-Dong!!!Mesdames et messieurs, nous entrons dans maintenant un secteur de turbulence. Tous les passagers sont priés de retourner à leurs sièges et

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The year is almost at its end, and I was just wondering what would be my highest highs and lowest lows of the year.......its past 3:35am on this Friday night, and I've just been thru 3 buds, so my thoughts are a bit muddled, but let me try anywayz......High #1My sister's marriage in January. Had a whale of a 2 weeks, since it included my cuz bro's marriage too. Great start to the year. Low

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It's something I've been thinkin about lately. More related with the way I think personally, but its also something that anyone goes through, sometime in his life, sooner or later. Am I sounding too serious, or philosophical now? Apologies mates, cos what I'm speaking about is basically just the conversion of the root of all evil, Money.It's something I went through on my last visit here, and its

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For those with eye problems, the words in the pic are,Unhandled Error Error Details Could not allocate space for object 'DNN1_EventLog' in database 'DNN_chrisckemp' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is fullTotally unrelated to the pic..........This week has been pretty relaxing after the gruelling last month. Since our main deadline was completed last Monday, work pressure has reduced quite a bit.

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Ok. This is AWESOME. To do this right, scroll down so that you see the three video-boxes below in the same page. [This may not be possible, so try centering the middle video so that you get 75% of the other two. This is good enough]. The idea here is that you have to press play on the following videos (in vertical order) so that they all stream to you at the same time. You may need to adjust the

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I'm just back after four days of heaven...atleast four days that felt like it. After the rigorous 3 weeks of work here, I badly needed a break, and Thanksgiving (this last Thursday) and its associated hols couldn't have come at a better time. By the way, Thanksgiving is officially the start of the holiday season here - I can feel X'Mas in the air already! Anyway, coming back, I knew it was the

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Yeah, Happyness, not Happiness.(Blame americanized English, not me!)I watched the new Bond movie, 'Casino Royale' yesterday. Well, it was different and...no, that is not what I wanted to write about. The good thing about watching movies in the US, is that you get to see atleast 7-8 trailers of upcoming movies before the actual movie you paid 10$ for actually starts. Well, one such trailer caught

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Microsoft did a pretty huge release less than 24 hours ago, and with all the jazz that they could muster including concerts in 6 states in the US with bands such as TI, RHCP etc, they have officially brought out "zune", the biggest competitor to the iPod since....well, since the iPod mini came out some years ago. Now all eyes are fixed on this product, having a similar capacity and pricing as the

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Well..first of all....Apologies! My dear friends and brothers and sisters and other living things that read my blog! I know I have been kinda slow in putting up posts on this blog in recent times (one post in more than one month? That's a friggin understatement you friggin stan_da_man!!) Well, my follies have been realized, hopefully by me, and I have decided to kickstart my blogosphere-life

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/*just an update on myself for the sake of it*/Nevermind the title...It isn't going to make sense to any except a select few. But it summarizes my world right now.Anywayz, I haven't got the time to blog ever since I left DC around 20 days ago. Caught a flight to Newark, stayed for a day with relatives and had a good time, and then headed for Bombay via Air-India, quite a sad experience, with

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The following paragraphs are some of my random musings on life here and other memorable elements of the past 3 months...they will seem very unstructured and un-important I guess to some..but you gotta bear with it! :PPeopleOne notion that I had and that I will accept was wrong (something you will NOT see me doing often) is a certain mental picture I had of the people here. I don't know why, and

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Alright...this is the last post about my visits to DC's major tourist places...nothing much to say about it too. We next went to the 'most loved' American's house...yea..I am tellin ya, he is sooooo loved by his fellow Americans, it is untrue. Not a day goes by without me seeing a joke about him either on the net or on television...they have a public comic scapegoat, and they make sure they don't

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Okay a quiz question first....Think Hollywood...Think long rows of white headstones...Hear any bells ringing? ( I mean in your head, not in the church across the road!)think........ think......... ok time's up!The Arlington National Cemetery is the answer.Now, the Arlington National Cemetery is the other place that I was looking forward to visiting (like the Capitol), and I'd been pestering my

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The SmithsoniansThe Smithsonian Museums are among the most famous in the world. They are situated at different locations around the National Mall, and are a total of seven in number...or eight? or maybe even more! hehe..I'm not sure actually...let me list them down --1. National Museum of American History2. National Museum of Natural History3. National Gallery of Art4. National Muesum of the

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has Begun.My trip out here has come down to its last 7 days.And so I've decided, as much as I can, to write a post everyday, describing and reflecting on my travels and experiences in this foreign land, until the day I take my flight. Hmmm...so where do I start? Right here..Right now.DC Travel Logs-ISince I hadn't written anything on my local travels here in DC (except the post about the weird

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Well...my two-week long hiatus from blogging has been ended with this post I hope, if I get around to posting it. You see, the time is well past 3:00am on a Friday night, and you can't be blamed if the question popped up in your mind, "Why break the silence in the dead of the night?" Well, I have my reasons. And quite a few of them too. First of all, I'm in a slightly foul mood - for the most

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Thank God for the US-Open! I atleast have sumthing to watch on TV while the storm rages on outside.This is my favourite ad on TV right now....It is "pretty" funny and Sharapova (as always) looks "pretty" pretty also.Check it out!

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boyHadBeenWaitinForLongWeekend.Damn Ernesto.boyHadPlannedNiagaraFallsTrip.Damn Ernesto.boyGotTotallyDrenchedYesterday.Damn Ernesto.boy'sUmbrellaWasSavegelyDamagedByTheWind.Damn Ernesto.boyIsStuckInHotelRoom.Damn Ernesto.boySawAgassi'sEmotionalFarewellCosBoyWasStuckInRoom.Damn Ern...errr...no, Damn B.Becker~!

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Was delivered via UPS today at 1:14pm...Weighs a healthy 8.1 lbs :PAaah, zeee wait is finally over...Waiting to be opened...Halfway out....Voila!awwwwwwwww..........likey! :)

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...I came to taking a picture of the Pentagon.Yeaah Yeaah Yeaah..that's right..I managed to take a pic of the freaaaakin Pentagon Metro Station board!! I mean..it was crazy..there were signs and pictures almost every 10m to make even the most retarded person get it - NO PHOTOGRAPHY. What are they so freakin scared of that they don't even allow you to take pictures in the subway station! I walked

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Haha...this is outrageous...check it out - "In My Cubicle", a take-off from James Blunt's You're Beautiful song. And it especially relates to people who live their lives sitting in a cubicle...That means almost ALL OF YOU MY FRIENDS!!Thanks Ravi! :P

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Wooohoooo!!!!ManUtd beat Fulham 5-1 in the season opener at OT (with a record attendance of 75k+) and are now top of the league..I know the season has just begun, but there's no better way to start!!!That's all I wanted to rant about now.Nope wait - One more thing.I just want to state that I love the technology we have today and I love ManUtd fans too!!Reading live text-commentary instead of

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Grrrrrrrr.......I got tagged by pangu boy sometime in the last 24 hours, and I'm forcing myself to pen some answers down. 50 Questions. Why bother wasting time, let me get my hands dirty right now!1. Were you named after anyone?Yeah. But I've sometimes wondered if my parents actually named me after some arbit "Stanley" but got the spelling wrong. But, no worries, I've even questioned them about

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Well...the smell atleast. Cos I'm not sure if I can get a taste of it here in the USA.Of what???????FOOTBALL - THE EPL. The Community Shield just got over and Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1, Crouch heading home the winner. This is (surprisingly) what the (usually bitter) Jose had to say post-match, "They are a very difficult team to beat. When you play them you can win, lose or draw."DUUHHHH????? As

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Last weekend, we decided to "put" a short Road Trip again...a very very short Road Trip to be precise..a visit to the Baltimore National Aquarium which is just a lil more than a hour's drive from our place. We'd heard quite a bit about it from people here, and boy! we weren't disappointed. We reached the place at around 11am, but could get an entry ticket for only 1:45pm. Entrees are allowed

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Tom Who?Tom as in Tom Cruise? NO.Tom as in Tom Bombadil? NO.Tom as in Thomas L Friedman? YES!!!Well, I got the opportunity last week actually. He's a close friend of Dan Simpkins, the CEO of HillCrest Labs - the client we are working for. Dan had invited him over for a one-hour talk with us. I was under the impression he was kinda free or something, so he was doing his friend a favour. It was

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Nothing much more to write about, except that we reached our hotel only past 4am on both nights and crashed. Saw a lot of the New York nightlife in those two nights that we spent out. Was surprised to see our Desi 'seedhi-saadhi ladkies' doing a lot of not-so-innocent stuff too. Haha..not kiddin. India is truly globalized my friends. Rejoice! :)Anywayz, we left New York around evening the next

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"On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?" -- Paul Merton*Excerpt from NYC Trip:Part-I* You do not fool around in subways, else you'll seriously regret it. (As luck you have it, I would find out exactly why later that day)Well, after all the sightseeing was done, we decided to take a break, go

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I did not mention a certain place yesterday because I wanted to dedicate a whole post to it.The IX/XI Story.Ground Zero.Its just a few blocks from South Ferry. So we walked past Wall Street and reached the spot,following sign boards that gave us directions to the site. The whole construction site has been secured. But there were many tourists and locals at the place.Well, what i witnessed there

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If you haven't read Part-1, go here. Or just scroll down.So where were we?Well....after getting back onshore after going to the Statue of Liberty...we decided to walk and go sightseeing. In fact, that's the best option in New York if you don't wanna use the metro. It isn't easy at first to understand the city's complex road planning. We were almost cursing it the night we arrived cos we were

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'It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.' -- Agatha Christie/* Room 201, The Grant Hotel, W 94th st, Manhattan */What a day. Our weekend trip to New York City is underway! We leftDC at around 6:00pm. Our mode of transport - Road - in our rentedChevy Impala. 7 hours later and 231 wrong turns later, we reached our destination. The Big

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/*beware - extreme Mallu chalu humour*/kilometres from Washington DC to Miami Beach?Laletan: ha!ha!ha! I am the answer...I am the answer...Kilometres and kilometres in these days of degenerating decency of Washington DC to Miyami beach when diplomacy and n supercity become interchangeable from complicated America to America!!Well, even after years of hearing this answer...it still hasn't

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Watch the crazy brothers do Axel-F - The Crazy Frog Dance. LMAO!!!

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Well..work has begun. The office is good and the people are very friendly.Had an introductory session to all the employees yesterday and a mock "raggin" session. Was fun though! Today was the 2nd day at office...its just 5 mins from where we live and a morning walk can do wonders i say! Some of my second impressions and first observations are...* The news channels are crazzy! The only things I

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crasssshhhhhhh...na,juz kiddin - just another plane on the busy runway.Over Mumbai - cold and wet after the drench.viva France! looks sparsely populated from up here.Yours truly n Shanmugam - thank God i had company!Immigration at Newark - phew! had to stand in that long queue for 30min, after the 20 hr flight!Hotel room:view1,my home sweet home!Hotel room: view2, yea we've got a 6ft kitchen!

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/* Paris Charles de Gaulle Intl. Airport - onboard AI-191 seat74K/*Ohhkaayyy...Hi all, me right now sitting in the location given above, while our plane is being cleaned, refueled, and reloaded at the Paris Intl Airport.Local Time: 1:00pm, IST: 4:30pm.Ok..here's the update so far:My flight AI-261 BLR-BOM was delayed by an hour yesterday.We finally started off at 0445. God! i was so tired, had

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Whoa...It's been 2 weeks since my last post....Now let's see...what all has changed around me and in my life...... A LOT.Hmmm..for starters..England is out of the World Cup!!! (boo hoo! I rushed home to tvm via a rickety AirDeccan flight only to see them crash out.)Brazil is out too!! (Yeaaah!!!! Atlast those overhyped samba boys have been given a dose of reality.)Argentina is out!! (I feel

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The team I'm rooting for this World Cup.The players I watch every week and love.The coach I hate.It's either euphoria or despair whenever a team you support plays. This WC, even though England have won two matches and drawn one, it's been more despair than euphoria. Why? Ohhh my, I can go on and on and on. I'll try to make it short.If I could fit it in one line, I would say - "Why the hell didn't

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! DUNNIYYYAAAAAAA.........GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!!!!!whhohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!sniff..sniff...I can't bear it any longer!!! "DUNIYA GOAL HAI" must be the lousiest, most intelligence-insulting show that ESPN-STAR has ever done!!! How could they stoop to such low standards??? I would expect stupid

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A typical conversation between two friends, 'geek'(G) and 'stud'(S) at a certain Indian Institute,S: "Heeyy raa, how about goin for today's movie? I heard its max laughs daa."G: "Pack the movie man. What about tomorrow's exam?"S: "Heyyy leave it macha..we're gonna get thulped anyway.."G: "Stop farting. You get rodded if u wanna..I'm gonna put enthu and mug."S: "Fine, sucha despo. Do what u want!

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Hmmm...saw the most anticipated and controversial flick of the year this week @ PVR.Well, here's my in-depth but brief analysis -I'd give the movie a 6 out of 10. [6*/10]Well, reasons for the 6 stars are as given-1* -- Ron Howard : It wasn't easy to make a movie out of this book, but I think Ron has done a pretty good job. Obviously, a P.Jackson adaptation would have achieved atleast 3 stars here

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Well..the betting has begun.Not just for the bookies, but also for me and my friends here at MT.We're betting on each match right from the round-of-16 to the finals, with the stash value increasing every round.Here's my list.A lil bit of heart over mind, cos i want England to win. But I've included 3 dark horses - Ukraine (Shev's the man), Ecuador (Exc qual record) and Togo (like the name very

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I got an opportunity to attend an AMD DevCon (first time in India) the week before last. Since free-time is a resource that is very scarce nowadays, I couldn't blog about it. Anyway, I've got a few mins now..so here goes...it was held at the Taj, right at the end of MG Road. Me and *my blog-hacker* US got an invit and literally jumped at the oppt. And man! wasn't I glad i went!It was a pretty big

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Never make the same mistake twice.This hacker is a person who likes to quote --Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. - William James MayoNever make the same mistake twice or you'll never get around to all of them - UnknownSuccess does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time -

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Some people think its is a matter of life or death but it's far more important than that. - Bill ShankleyI can see it on the horizon....It's getting closer.

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The rains have decided to pay surprise visits to Bangalore again... Its been 2-3 days now. I've been regularly getting drenched, and it isn't helping the cold I caught just before leaving Trivandrum abt 5 days ago. (It seems I have a Tvm-cold&fever-jinx : I almost always get it, even if I go there for like 2 days!!)Anyways..thats not what I wanted to write about. I have to vent out my frustration

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....with England and metatarsals?This is the question that hit me, as soon as I heard the news that Rooney had fractured his 4th metatarsal in the collision with Paulo Ferreira during that horrible match when ManUtd were beaten 3-0 by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Now, mind you, 3-0 was a very wrong indication of how the match went along, the fact confirmed even by Jose Mourinho, who actually said

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I'm sure most of us watched the Indian Idol-2 finale episode last Saturday..plenty of drama..glitter..suspense. All the gossip and hullabaloo regarding Sandeep Acharya and Karunya, things like - who's the better singer, who's looks better, blah blah finally came to an end.(thankfully). And in the end, the usual melodrama over how the actual better singer (Karunya was the crowd favourite to win it

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I returned from Tvm yesterday...spent Easter at home.Went for a Rock Show at Nishagandhi with my bro, Beny, Jerrin etc...had a pretty good time...The Rock Show (held by SCT students) pretty much sucked and only one band actually stood out from the rest.. The band was 'Rage' and they played the usual Metallica numbers, including a superb rendition of 'One'.The other two bands, local 'Rubberband'

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"The object is round in shape. It lasts for 90 minutes. Everything else is just theory..."[Quoted from 'Run Lola Run']The Countdown has begun.

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"As the world shrinks, so our palate grows. As our lives become more complex, we crave simplicity. We are living through an eating revolution. Welcome to the Harbour Market."Well this weekend, My friends and I ( happy??? - to someone who's bent on showing me that "I" doesn't come first..lol ) decided to go and check out Mohanlal's new restuarant, named "Harbour Market", here in Bangalore.

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----------------------------*PART III: Thursday-Mar 30th-9:33am----------------------------The End....Green grassss...blue skieeesss...white clouds....pigs on the flyyyyyy...It was a beautiful summer day.I was feeling great as I settled into my Featherlite chair..expecting a pretty dull and no-work morning...smiling idiotically as I do when I know my lazy-persona is gonna be fully fed."beep--beep

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Ambigram craze....That's what it is! and that's what i'm crazy about right now!Must be cos of having read Angels&Demons recently.For the uninformed, here's a lil info.An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. [from Wiki]It seems there are different kinds of

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Sometime back, my friend Beni told me about a site -> mrpicassohead. Pretty simple actually, a place where you could create your own picasso-style art.Picasso Art is Weird yet Stylish.Best part is that you can sit in your cubicle and waste away time. If you want to. And if you have nothing better to do.Here are three I did...

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Phew...what a weekend!Had to go for my DeviceDrivers training program even on Sunday!Grr..in fact i'm again sitting here in this training session right now blogging.Want proof? take this.// {2ED8260D-0706-4656-AFF9-6FBD5278BDC2}DEFINE_GUID(GUID_SAMPLEIO_DEVICE_INTERFACE_CLASS,0x2ed8260d, 0x706, 0x4656, 0xaf, 0xf9, 0x6f, 0xbd, 0x52, 0x78, 0xbd, 0xc2);Hehe..sorry! that was supposed to be pasted in

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Like i mentioned before, I'm a Sports Freak. So i'm gonna stay with the same theme for this post too.Most of you must have heard about the Chaos Theory.In a scientific context, the word chaos has a slightly different meaning than it does in its general usage as a state of confusion, lacking any order. Chaos, with reference to Chaos Theory, refers to an apparent lack of order in a system that

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It's funny really.I've already read three blogs about the exact same topic.And i know I'm 3 days late too.But i have to post this. I confess openly - I'm a Sports Freak!What the hell am i saying? not makin sense? Read on plz.I got back to Bangalore 2 days ago.The only whole day i got in Tvm to spend time with my family n friends was Sunday.However, ironically, i ended up sitting glued to my TV

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Alrighttyy then! (dunno why i just said that, was it Ace Ventura's line? maybe) Anywayz me back home now in Trivandrum. I'm here just for the weekend. Initial observations:-Tvm is hot!!! (all u Blore peeps who complain abt d weather shut up!)-Ferrero Rocher tastes 10 times better when eaten after an year. ;-)But it feels good to be back home. My bro's back from the UK and my sis+hus has come down

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[The below material is the original creation of uSTANnochans Creations. It was written in conditions of extreme boredom in the LGfloor,MT-WC. All rights reserved. All characters mentioned in the peom below are fictional, and any resemblance to a real-life person is an impossible coincidence. Even though you will feel like killing the author after comprehending the poem's extreme senslessness,

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Today is March 6th. Today is David Gilmour's 60th Birthday. David Gilmour - The voice and guitar of Pink Floyd.And not by co-incidence surely, today is the release date of David's new solo album 'On an Island', which has been inspired by the Aegean Island of Kastellorizon. For more info, goto David's new offical site.Here's a photo tribute to David and his Fender Stratocaster.

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Brrr...whenever boredom sets in, it's time to have some run-time fun! So here I am blogging again, and I've decided to conduct my own awards ceremony, for the best movie dialogues (or rather, the best ones i like) based on random categories of my choice. (Ofcourse, only English movies count - Hindi and Mallu flicks will just have to wait.)Ok..let's start folks!!The Best Movie Dialogue in the

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Come on you Reds, Come on you Reds, Just drop the bottle and use your heads,For 90min we'll let them know, Who's ManUtd - here we go !!!And that's exactly what happened yesterday at the Millenium Stadium,Cardiff !! ManUtd won the Carling Cup Final against Wigan Athletic by a whopping margin : 4-0 !! with goals from Rooney(2), Saha(1) and Ronaldo(1) !!! It was an absolute battering for Wigan who

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wow....i just had to post this even though I'm late for football practice. I just got this piece of info from Google News.Ever heard of Mr. Alex Ostrovsky?(No??? Damn....Where have u been all these years?????)LoL..i'm just kiddin. He isn't anyone famous but he's just become very famous in the last 24hours.Well, you might ask - what did he do to suddenly become so famous?Ok. All he did was pay 99

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Working in an internal RnD project (we call it MIST here- MindTree Incubated Showcase Tech) has its advantages. You get to meet and interact with prospective clients or partners who are (or atleast seem) interested in adopting your techno. We've been demo-ing our Digital-PVR tech (I'm proud of it!) to people from Logitech, TI, AMD, etc. Today afternoon we had to show a demo to a team from Philips

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Roaming through Garuda Mall yesterday with my sis and bro-in-law, I couldn't help but notice so many couples walking around as usual. Hmmmm... .... ... ...(no! that was not a sigh due to the fact I'm single,) in fact, I made up my mind on the spot to categorize the various types of cupid-struck couples that i saw. Here's what i came up with -->1. The most common type - The "sensible" type ->

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Today's travel to office was a drag. It took approx. 2.5 hours! (Believe that!) Not suprising actually, considering i had to travel all the way from Marathahalli to R.V.Post. And change 3 BTC buses.Aaarrrgh! Anywayz, the journey was not without incident. I got to witness a Live accident right in front of me when I was standing at SilkBoard Bus-Stop. This taxi driver (Indica) smashed right into a

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It's been a few years now, i'm not really sure since when though, that I've been hearing the phrase - "The grass is always greener on the other side." Well, i'm sure all of you have heard it too. Hmm...however, (pushing my specs back up my nose bridge in slow motion) have you ever thought of how TRUE this rings in your life?Ever since your childhood days when you were a lil gal/boy and were

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Staney Boy went to a garden.Staney Boy ate a banana.Staney Boy drank milk.Staney Boy put on his bunny shoes.Staney Boy said "Is it"Staney Boy asked a girl "Is it."Staney Boy asked a boy "Is it"Staney Boy went both ways.This blog has been hacked.Staney Boy.[THIS AMAZINGLY STUPID AND SENSeLESS poem was posted by my project-mates Umang-poloolop-Saini and Rajat-Mr.SexyHair-Khanna, while i was away at

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The much-awaited footie tournament that me n my team-mates were looking forward to, ended in bitter dissapointment on day-2 itself. Instead of painfully recounting all the painful happenings..i've decided to post the toruney report itself that I made for the team. By the way, today is my sis's B'day too...so Happy B'day to ya chechi!!! :-) yea n yesterday was my dad's B'day actually, so happy

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wow....long time since i came here....its been like 3 months i guess. well, thats how i can be at times - partial state of hibernation or laziness in other words. ;-)Well, i've decided to b more loyal from now on...leeetssszz zzzzeeeee....Anywayz, d past 3 months have flown by pretty quickly... my sis got married last month. Had a whale of a time then..phew...2 weeeks @ tvm is a luxury yaar!!Hey,

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