ILP!

I never imagined everything I am about to write get over this soon. Expectations and hopes were high. The end result - it exceeded! I went through all the *emotions that life could offer in the space of 3 months. Even death came to a striking distance on 2 occasions! Under the current circumstance all I wish is that the past 4 months of my life can be re-lived at some point of my life but thats mission impossible!

The 36 hr train journey looked as though it was 36 mins. That was one experience which I will never ever forget. Myself, water, sombu, ganesh, parthu and both aswins along with all my college girls occupied almost three fourth the compartment. The great Water had everything to fill our stomach for the entire journey thanks to his ‘caring’ nature. Infact he had packed food that was enough for everyone in the entire train. ----------fast forward---------. Card game…. Truth or dare at 12 midnite….early morning peeking out the train session…chit chats. The best though was the parthu-sombu incident when he actually tried to lift himself from the middle berth after sombu had given a jerk and the chain came off..:D

For the first time in my life I’ve actually gone to a place that is outside south India. Excitement grew as we all took a cab to Gandhi Nagar. We were soon welcomed by a sight, near the studio apartment giving us all kinds of hope which myself and water had discussed before the TCS call. But we never had time to get into that as we were more worried about getting the same room in the apartment. All efforts carried out for that went in vein as we were all separated but it was not as bad as how it could’ve gone as we were all put in same block except for Koushik, Abinanth, Azeez and Master who actually came by flight later.

First day of ILP - We were all gathered in the auditorium and there was some kind of tension but certainly the excitement overshadowed it. I desperately wanted to experience whatever that was going to happen, the challenges I am about to face and the fun I am going to have. The batch listing came and the first thing which I looked on it was whether if anyone else from my college was there with me. To my *disappointment there wasn’t any and all kind of thoughts came as on how am I going to manage in this batch for my entire first phase without any of my close friends. Although I knew I am capable of getting along with anyone, I was still expecting to be in my comfort zone. I consoled myself and started identifying new faces of my batch. Those who know me well will know how choosy I am in selecting who I want to talk, build a relation and just get along with. I identified someone who i met in class earlier in 'Cool Point' and with all good intention I went and spoke to her and got to know her. After some struggle, :D I managed to get going with her but not that much initially but to a good level later on. While all these were happening on one side, my performance in the batch meetings were too good. :D My accumulated score in the first four batch meetings was 9 (9/400) and I was really proud of it. There is a famous saying that if all wants to become a doctor who’ll be the patient??! If you can read the relevance fine otherwise chuck it!

A-87 batch - All my complaints on having no college mates in my batch drained off very soon as I realized I got into the best batch of AHD 23 (Some might disagree). It took a little time but once we got settled in there, nothing stopped us. The life skill sessions were the time we look forward to daily as that’s when we play plenty of games. We went for our first batch outing to science city and the lake. Eventhough the place was not that good, the time which we all spent together was really worth.

Then it was all projects and tests and thankfully I cleared the first phase and it was time for posting. All I had hoped for was a location where I wont be put alone. But the person above had other ideas and thanks to his generous attitude, I got Mumbai and guess what? For all my questions and hopes, answers were obvious which actually brought me thought on whether if I am being cursed!

My second phase batch was also announced and even in that I was the only one from my college and this time even from my previous batch. Little did I know at that time that I am going to enjoy more with this batch. Anyway, I didn’t have luck with my stream as well as location. But life moved on….

Call to heaven 1 - I decided to forget all those as we were given a four day break. There were talks about my college people not knowing how to have fun which only gave us good laughter as we all gathered in one of our rooms to discuss our plan to diu/somnath/gir forest trip. Thanks to the efforts of Kaushik we went on one of the most memorable trips that I would ever have, not for good reasons though but still. Apart from the breathtaking views of the beach and some ancient sites, nothing is worth mentioning from that tour. However, I should say I had one of the the most adventurous bus journey from diu to Somnath that anyone can even imagine of! The driver of the bus got drunk and was driving the bus like a formula 1 racer! If we had not stopped him, we would all have been either like Filippe Massa in hospital bed or even might have been in history books :D! It was really adventurous though.. :P

JavaB - For the second consecutive time, I was put on a batch where I am the only guy from my college and in addition to that, this time I was the only one from my previous batch as well! While I was just thinking on how I am going to manage, entered and I made her sit with me not realizing that she’s going to be my eventual ‘enemy’. ;) But it was really nice of her to give good company as I sailed through my ILP journey with ease. The javaB national anthem, endless teasing sessions, hotseat were all part and parcel of our day to day activities in class and these clubbed together made my life in this batch very enjoyable!

Call to heaven2 – Auto incident! I don’t want to go too much detail into this but the whole day was perfect except this, yet it was really adventurous, adventure-ahm part 2! Guess it goes like this, more than me loving adventure, adventure loves me!:P I lost one of my favorite slippers thanks to all concerned. Only myself and the person who was with me knows the seriousness of that particular incident. It all happened too quickly that before I could even react everything was over and the first major relief I got was that, more than me, the person with me was fine. That was one BIG relief! Still I was really feeling guilty for few days but realized that even if it had been anyone else in my shoes he/she couldn’t have avoided this and also it wasn’t my fault at all no matter what anyone thinks or tells. But I will never ever forget and forgive the comments made by the so called left-hand or right-hand of that person and that was really really irritating!!! But when god had 100 reasons to pull me down, I had 1000 reasons to smile as I decided to get on with life..;)

Finally the end came and emotions were running high among all of us. The thought of us parting in few days was really a hard pill to swallow but memory remains while the journey continues in MUMBAI...

Win Your Products: Win Bids

One of my favorite activities is bidding and I’d love to share with you about unique auction site called bidhere.com. The instant I saw the site, I was extremely impressed with the unique features of it. I was amazed to see that brand new products such as Nintendo wii's, digital cameras, LCD TV’s and other brand new electronic items that comes to the auction everyday at such a low cost that could be imagined only in our wildest dreams. Yes, what I say is absolutely true. The prices are very cheap that it is available in the bargain rates. The basic principle behind the bidhere.com auction is the American style auction style and it is ensured that all the kind of auctions is being conducted in a proper manner.

One of the major reasons for the uniqueness of bidhere.com is that it offer brand new products at a very attractive price and the bidding can be started from cents. The other reasons for the success of bidhere.com are
1. At the time of registration, we are entitled with 5 free bids and after then we need to invest just $0.60(US) per bid. Moreover, if we place 100 bids then we can get 10 free bids. It is to be noted that not in many sites we are given such a privilege.
2. Moreover, for every bid placed, it increases the product price by $.02 per bid which creates a win all situations for both buyers and sellers.
3. An exciting factor is the timer countdown for the bids we place. Every auction has a countdown timer between 3 minutes to 15 seconds and when the timer reaches zero, the highest bidder wins the deal.
4. If we want to sell our product, we can create our own auction which enables us to sell the products which we wish and in turn buy the products which we desire.
5. The payment option is guaranteed and 100% secure. It is also to be mentioned that no one looses their money.
I was extremely benefitted by this site and I suggest the readers of my blog to visit the site and get benefitted.

Movie Gala

It was last Friday night we all had planned for a movie the same night. It was cold outside and the ride in bike was really pleasant. We had tickets ready and the show was scheduled at 22:00 hours. We reached the theater well on time (in fact a few minutes ahead) and my friend and I were waiting for the arrival of other friends whom we were destined to meet that day. Everyone turned out as expected and by the time we entered the cinema hall the movie has started, but we did not miss a lot because we were late just a few minutes. But still I wonder that were we late for the show or the show was put up early.

Movie started and after a long time gap we all had met. So this was really fun time and movie had a lot of aspect which can be made fun off. It was totally an enjoyment time. The movie was bore but actually the time which we spent together that night out of home enjoying every minute was real fun which enabled us come back to normal schedule the next day without which we all would have been sluggish for watching that movie at least for a week.

The camera angle, songs, dance (choreography), performance of the hero, work and efforts of hero, sets used, and way of picturing… are positive aspects of the movie. Negative being its screen play and story (not at all conveying what the movie was about to convey). In plain the Tamil movie which we saw after a long time here had wasted the efforts and ayiram (1000 in Tamil) hard works of the hero Surya. The movie is Varanam Ayiram which is worth a watch just because of Surya performance and for the songs.

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Cricket's Pro

Words elude me when it comes to describing the greatest phenomenon the game has witnessed so I won't bother with a futile attempt. Don belonged to Australia. May be he is the greatest batsman in the world. His average was 99.94 which can never be overtaken by others. He retired at an age of 48. He is the god of cricket.

Matches-Tests-52 FC-234
Runs scored-Tests- 6,996 FC-28,067
Batting average-Tests- 99.94 FC-95.14
100s/50s-tests-29/13 FC-117/69
Top score-Tests- 334 FC- 452*
Balls bowled-Tests- 160 FC- 2114
Wickets-Tests- 2 FC- 36
Bowling average-Tests- 36.00 FC- 37.97
Best bowling-Tests- 1/8 FC- 3/35
Catches/stumpings-Tests-32/– FC- 131/1

Sir Donald George Bradman AC (27 August 1908—25 February 2001), often called The Don, was an Australian cricketer, administrator and writer on the game, generally acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. He is one of Australia's most popular sporting heroes, and one of the most respected past players in other cricketing nations. His career Test batting average of 99.94 is by some measures the greatest statistical performance in any major sport.During his 20-year career, Bradman consistently scored at a level that made him "worth three batsmen to Australia". Committed to attacking, entertaining cricket, Bradman drew spectators in record numbers.

Directory to Direct

For the success of any business organisation we need to have a website, or having a website is mandatory to make your business reach a millions of people across the globe. In order to make your website popular and make it reach all the targeted people it needs to be added in a web directory.What actually your business needs is that your site has to be added to a business web directory to make it reach millions of people world wide.

Adding your site to web directory is an essential activity of the business world. There are many web directories available in market. For instance Yahoo directory is one such famous directory which is present and know to everyone. It is more important to design your site properly and even more important to make it reach the people who are our base.

There are few sites which provide directory listing for business for free. These free web directory providers are equally good if your business requirement is small , you can go in for them. On line directories help people search for what they want and in which site it is available. For instance DMOZ provide you with a lot of websites on their directory which are linked with one another very well. One other major advantage of having your content available on the web directory is that your site will be categorized.

Having said about how and why we need to add our sites in web directories , it proves to be one of the best and easy method of making our website popular. when a website becomes popular the number of visitors who comes to the website also increases, which in turn increases the business operations and leads to profit in business.

As said in post get your site listed in web directories and get traffic to directed to your website, A directory to direct.

Wait is Over!

The long wait ended and finally my project location was decided. After what I call a terrific and exciting experience, I somehow managed to reach Plano along with my wife.

The trip was awesome. Fortunately or unfortunately our flights were not delayed. The journey was pleasant. The only thing was that we reached Dallas at around 12 am. It took nearly 1 hour to reach the hotel in Plano. From the day we reached here, I was quite excited about the place. I thought I will be able to manage everything here. And actually I did!!

The Indian restaurants here are awesome! No words to describe. Both south Indian and north Indian were tasty... Yum!

The only problem has been the breakfast... How does it feel like to have bread butter jam, doughnut, cornflakes and banana every day... I mean EVERYDAY!?

Anyways I am enjoying the stay here in the hotel... Hope things turn out well after we move into our new home here... :)

Indus Valleys Civilization: As it Progressed

The world has seen more civilization coming up; each existed, developed and imprinted their foot mark on the mother earth.As known a palpable is the antidote for civilization. It can make a civilization to prove its strength. Indus Valley civilization is one of the most important civilizations in the world.

Indus Valley Civilization is the home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia and China. Most of its ruins, even its major cities, remain to be excavated. The ancient Indus Civilization script has not been deciphered yet. Harappa was a city in the Indus civilization that flourished around 2600 to 1700 BCE in the western part of South Asia.

The Harappa’s used the same size bricks and standardized weights as were used in other Indus cities such as Mohenjo-Daro and Dholavira. These cities had wide streets. It also had public and private well, drains, bathing platform and reservoirs. Their drain system was considered to be one of the well planned drain system.

There were other highly developed cultures in adjacent regions of Baluchistan, Central Asia and peninsular India which were also popular. Altogether Indus Valley Civilization is one of the best civilization which has existed.