How True...
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Sunday, June 11, 2006
An Innovation called NetDisaster!
Recently came across this very innovative concept called NetDisaster which can overlay loads of effects externally over a webpage... check the screenshot below and try this link to see what i am saying...
Day 4 - Evening - Arrival at bangalore and to home
Arrived back at the bangalore Airport at around 5:30 PM on 4th June. The return journey was rather long compared to the first one due to the stop at Trivandrum. Had good time getting back to home in an auto rickshaw from the Airport. To conclude, the trip was awesome, at one of the most beautiful and natural places i have ever been to. :)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Day 2 - Evening...Night - Awards Ceremony with Ashley Powell, Music with DJ Night and Dinner
After the end of the days official presentations and mad-ad videos we headed back to our rooms, to freshen up and come back for the events in the evening. It was a very cool evening and our stage for the evening was on a dock against the backwaters of kumarakom. The party space was attached to the dock itself and the seating arrangements were made all over the dock in groups of 6 chairs forming semicircle. We had a special MC pronounced emcee(Master of Ceremonies : the person who hosts a ceremony) for the evenings Awards Distribution Ceremony.
This guy was a professional emcee named Ashley Powell, he took on the ceremony well, started with a sing along song written about the company and the company's one team one goal principle. Then came along the welcome not for foreign guests and of course all of us following which was the "Awards Ceremony" which everyone had been eagerly waiting for. The restaurant staff had already started serving snacks to the places where people were seated and it had started drizzling a bit in between and stopped after a few seconds. Finally the awards ceremony started after a couple of minutes with Ashley giving an introduction on what the awards were, the award categories and what it takes to be the one receiving an award in each of the categories.
He paused for a brief moment after this and started of the first category "Award for Excellence in Execution of Work", first he explained a bit more about the category and then his talk went on like this to announce the very first award, "This award goes to a person from the Synergy Development Team who has mastered the product and contributed highly in a very short span of time showing excellence in execution of whatever he does, any guesses?" There was silence for a moment and with sudden urge someone from the crowd shouted "Ranga" and many similar shouts followed!
Ashley continued saying "yes, you are right, this award goes to Ranganath Prasannakumar!".
I was in a surge of both sudden shock and excitement for a while since me and my teammates had started working just about 5 months back and these were the annual awards being given and we had no clues that anyone from our team would even get it since there were people from other teams who had worked over the whole of previous year!
It was a great feeling to be called upon the first and given an award, recognition of work gives me the utmost job satisfaction, believe me, it's better than pay ;)
After this the other awards were given out, finally all the awardees had a photo session and then Ashley concluded the awards ceremony and handed over the stage to the DJ at the club house of the resort, the DJ introduced hi8mself as DJ Night!
This is definitely and will forever be a nostalgic moment for me.
Day 2 - Noon - Lunch, post lunch sessions, and the Funniest moments
We broke for lunch at scheduled time and it had started to drizzle again, we had a great menu to choose from loads of different mouth watering cuisines from kerala were being served at Ettukettu, the dining hall at Kumarakom Lake Resort. We had some more business sessions post lunch and in the end of those, we played a bunch of small Mad-Ad type of movies :) The crowd broke out laughing and enjoying the ads we had made. I had acted as showman at the office in one of the ads which was very funny since it talked about version control and configuration management for maintaining girl friends!
Some flicks from the ad:
Day 2 - Morning - The Official Presentation sessions...
After breakfast, we continued with the business presentations that are supposed to be part of any business kickoff meet. Had coffee break as usual at scheduled time. It had started drizzling outside and the view was great from the balcony of the conference hall and we were all sweating heavily in spite of the rain outside due to the high humidity levels at Kumarakom. Nothing much to say about the presentations since they were official.
Day 1 - Night - A Movie and then Dinner
In the end of all the official talks for the evening, we played a wacky movie which we filmed at office with lot of effort... It had some concept related to international peace! I played the role of the "National Security Adviser" in the movie ;)
The movie was a good hit among the crowd, and got accolades from all the audience... After this, we had lunch at the resort's dining hall called *Ettukettu*(In malayalam it means a house with two courtyards...)
It was a tiresome day due to the journey, and more due to sitting for a couple of hours at the conference hall so headed back to the room and hit the sack! and did not open eyes till the next morning ;)
Some stills from the movie:
Day 1 - Evening - Begining of the Official Kickoff Meet...
It was a very boring evening!
We had not much time to rest after getting into the rooms since we had to head back to the conference hall. Freshened up myself and headed to the conference hall with my roommate. On the way we had coffee and snacks at the coffee bar of the resort.
Somehow managed to delay 5 mins before we got into the conference hall ;)
The next couple of hours were full of official presentations, related to my company's future plans and ideas, some of which were interesting.
Had a tough time managing myself silent for 2 hours ;)
Day 1 - Noon - Landing at Kochi Airport, to Kumarakom by bus
Reached Cochin airport by 3.40PM...
We had to wait around 5 minutes for checkout. When we came out of the Airport, there were two volvo coaches ready to take us to kumarakom. It was a cool journey through some small villages and towns, which took almost two hours. We had a very good time in the bus singing and shouting.
We reached the resort by 5.30 PM, we had a warm welcome at the Resort, they garlanded all the men, and decorated all the ladies with garland and Kumkum. Then we headed to our rooms, which were very beautiful. The whole locality was a visual treat.
We had to rush to our rooms to freshen up since we had very less time to get ready and get back to the Conference hall for the kick off of the kick off meet ;)
Day 1 - Morning - The journey begins...
Started off from home at 11:00AM with my trekking bag, which i felt was far more comfortable to carry than those with trolleys! Took an Auto Rickshaw and blazed through the bangalore outer ring road towards the Airport.
It was one heck of a ride! I felt like i was on a roller coaster for the whole hour i spent in the auto! Reached airport by 12:20PM, the airport staff had already made an announcement that the flight would be delayed by an hour and half.
Somehow managed to check in the luggage early. The guy at the so called Tele Checkin counter uttered in an exciting voice, "You Have Got A Window Sir!", like windows were something great! (actually the word "window/s" irritates me when i think of Micra$haft!). Later, that is after the flight took off i realized why he greeted me that i had got a window which i will write later ;)
While waiting for the flight to arrive, to pass time, i loafed around the visitors lounge with my friends, got to eat some "part of the package" (which comes free with your boarding pass for the flight) sandwich and drank some coffee, both of which tasted bad and are not even worth mentioning.
Spent some more time talking to people till the flight finally arrived at around 2:30PM. Then we all went through the usual security check and such stuff, waited for five more minutes and then boarded the bus (which would take us till the place where the plane was parked) which seemed like an oven!
Finally got into the flight and took seats and lot of general instructions (which were not given only to me of course) and waited for the flight to take off...
Days at Kumarakom...
As i wrote in my previous post when i come back from Kumarakom, i will be writing the experience in a series of posts. I couldn't write the posts throughout the week since i was a lil busy with work at office...
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Back from Kerala...
Relaxing...Came back yesterday evening... The place(Kumarakom) was awesome... will write more on the trip and put up some snaps later...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
More on Sun's "Operating System Distributor License for Java," or "DLJ" for short
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So Sun's Java remains incompatible with any free Java implementations and, presumably, a fair amount of related code. How this term might affect the combination of Sun's Java and Eclipse is an interesting question.
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Read the complete article Here.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
On a Quizzing Spree...
I have lately been addicted to solving connect puzzles, like the ones featured on Inquizzitive by a Google employee named Suhel Banerjee and TreasureQuiz by one of my friends named Karthick Viswanathan. These connect puzzles are good ice-breakers in my daily work routine.
Given below is a snapshot of Todays scoreboard, The Latest Scoreboard can always be found here. Hope i stay on top for sometime ;)
Long time no posts...
Damn! I seem to have forgot that i have a blog where i used to post regularly... Off late i have been so lazy to post to this blog, it's been almost a month since i wrote in a post.
All these days, i was a bit loaded with work at office and also had a throat infection... maybe this is why i sometimes forgot that i had a blog!
Frankly not feeling like working today after the long weekend (i made it long myself, i was on vacation on 11th and 12th may 2006). Last Thursday and Friday i was roaming around in a place called "Bellary" which had hit very hot temperatures of 45°. I sweated like never before. One of my friends named Raghunandan Desai whose native is Bellary had messaged me...
The conversation :
He : How is Bellary?
Me : Hot...
He : Bcoz u r hot!
damn... i was suffering from the extreme temperatures and this guy was cracking jokes!
Started back from there on Friday night by bus... The journey was quite ok, but my throat infection had turned into severe cough by the time i reached home in the morning... courtesy of my neighbors in the bus who left their windows open throughout the journey, through which the cold winds managed to creep in!
Saturday and Sunday was utter turmoil. Spent most of Saturday and Sunday sleeping! Bunked my Carnatic Vocal classes on Saturday due to sleep! managed to attend classes on Sunday but again spent most time at home sleeping.
Saw 3 movies in the past 4 days. All 3 were Hindi movies. Aksar, which had a good plot and deserves viewing once at least, Gangster which was nothing different with same old story lines, and Taxi No.9211 which was a comedy, and also the best among all these movies i watched over this long weekend. Fortunately for me, a lover of music, all these movies had very good songs.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Google Calendar Launched!
Google has finally rolled out its much awaited calendar application which has already created lot of buzz and hype in the media!
It has got an Awesome User Interface, Looks great and also Works great! check it out here.
Screenshots below show both google and yahoo calendars!, Google Rulez!
Yahoo! Calendar.
Google Calendar.
Long weekend...
This is going to be a long post[literally due to its graphic nature ;) ]... I have not written for whole of past week... Had to write this entry for two reasons
- Since the long weekend ends...
- This is the one of those very few weekends where i have just lazed around...
- Death of Dr. Rajkumar + Good Friday + Normal Weekend
The only productive work i did during these 4 days is shown below...
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