Wednesday, October 7, 2009

One Line Flirt

Last Sunday I was going through the times life style column which was about the impressive lines for which girls fall for. The article was quite interesting for the flirty minds. It was all about how to make a girl to remember you by a single line statement. One of the all time popular statement which worked went like this "Apart from being beautiful, what do you do for living ?" and the another went like "Do you have the map ? I might get lost in your eyes".

I am sure the guy who made these statements is not software engineer :((. It is not fair to expect too. In case even if tries it out, I feel the following would come from his mouth.

# Do you have lenovo T60 charger, I can't afford to take my eyes off from your blue top wallpaper.

#Would you like to be my first instruction in my main() function of marriage ?

#Apart from being beautiful, do you write code too ??

#I want my daughter to inherit your beauty. Will you marry me ?

#I would like to include you as necessary header file in my life.c. Do you give the rights ?

# I need you by my side to share and care whenever I get "Segmentation Fault".

#Nothings in this universe gonna change my love for you, except my customer late night calls.

#Love is just not staring at each other but is looking at the same direction, I am ready to quit my job and join your company.

#You are my destiny, my desire. Let's live happily forever once this project gets over.


Poor guys..!

Friday, May 8, 2009

ITಯ ಅಂಬಾರಿ

ಆಧಾರ ನೀನೆ ನೀಡೊಂದು JOBuuu
ಬಂತೀಗಾ Recession ಗಾಳಿ
ಕಂಗಾಲು ಆದೆ, ಕೊಡಿಸೊಂದು ಕೆಲಸ
ಕನಸಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಡು ದಾರಿ
ಕೊಟ್ಟಂತ ಕೆಲಸಾ, Fevicoliನಂತೆ
ಎಂದೂ ಜೊತೆಗಿರಲಿ .... ITಯ ಅಂಬಾರಿ

Thursday, April 2, 2009

ನಗಿಸಿ ನಗಿಸಿ ಇಡ್ತಾರೆ

ಸರೋಜಾ : ಏನ್ರಿ ಕಮಲಾ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಯಜಮಾನರು ತುಂಬಾ ನಗಿಸಿ ನಗಿಸಿ ಇಡ್ತಾರೆ.
ಕಮಲಾ : ಹೌದ .. ನನ್ನ ಇವತ್ತಿನ್ ವರೆಗೂ ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಕೂಡ ನಗಿಸಿ ನಗಿಸಿ ಇಟ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ ಕಣ್ರೀ
-- ಶೇಂಗಾ ಗ್ರೂಪ್

ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಪಾಡು

ಕಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ : ಏನಪಾ ಮಲ್ಲ್ಯ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಗಾ ಏನ್ ಮಾಡಾತಾನು ?
ಮಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ : ಏನ್ ಹೇಳೋದು ಲೇ ಊರಾಗ ಕಾಲಿ ಅದನೂ. ಹಂದಿಗೆ ಕಲ್ಲ ಎಸಿಕೊಂತ ತಿರಗ್ತಾನು.
ಕಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ : ಅಯ್ಯೋ ಪಾಪ . ಹೆಂಗ್ ಪಾ ಮತ್ತ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಪಾಡ ?
ಮಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ : ನಾ ಇನ್ನ ದುಡಿತೆನು ಅಲ್ಲಪಾ ...
ಕಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ : ನಿಂದ ಅಲ್ಲ ಪಾ .. ಪಾಪ ಆ ಹಂದಿ ಗೊಲದು ...
-- ಗುಂಡಪಿ ಚ.ಅ.

Monday, August 11, 2008

The Bug and the Weekend

How can miss a chance to put a little blade, when I have opened this blog to scrub some crap, like always I do. Well.. Saturday morning I woke up at sharp 7.. trust me I did. I was in office at sharp 8:30 to look into some customer found bug. Started my as usual weekday life on week end too by logging in to gmail and Microsoft outlook. Opened the bug page. Stared the monitor with forcefully widened eyes and found that, the status of the bug was same. Nothing is been updated. I stared my code from different angels, it did not understand neither my feelings nor my emotions.

I was little lazy to check out the files and make changes and compile it and test. Frankly speaking I was not lazy, Instead I was told to think differently and also to fix the issue by thinking "out of the box". I tried a lot but neither my vi editor nor my VxWorks did not understand anything. Blamed linux for not having intelligence to understand the pain of the developer on Saturday. However made up mind to look at the code seriously to fix the issue. Started with entry point and traced the code till the exit, including all the functions. Everything looked fine. Traced again, still felt code should work. Felt that is why i am still a developer. Though of junking the bug, But tester had logs in which output was wrong. Junking option is ruled out.

The immediate thing flashed in my mind was " how about differing this bug" to next release. I felt happy as I got the best idea. I have a bad habit of taking coffee when I get such great ideas.. Went near coffee machine. To my surprise I met release manager and talked about this bug with her. After half an hour of discussion she convinced me that "It is a MUST FIX". All my dreams shattered. I felt like running away from this software. I cursed the tester for rising this bug on Friday evening.

Well it was 12:30, when I was back to my seat. Made a strong decision to trace the code line by line this time. To my surprise again all the lines looked perfectly fine. Felt testing the best job. Though of saying bye to this development job and saying Hi to testing job. But however I had to fix the issue, even if I decide to switch the job also. Went for lunch and on the way back to office after lunch made up my mind to at least put prints and see what is happening. When I came back and tried connecting to server, connection got timed out. Server was down for some migration. I cursed myself for wasting time from the morning. When I called up IT desk, I came to know that, servers will be down for 30 minutes. It was then I decided to do some "orkuting" and "youtubing". I lost myself in the world of little faces on the orkut and soccer videos of youtube. I only realized it was 5, when my friend called me to ask me whether I am joining to play cricket with them. I replied him that I am very very busy today as I have to fix some bug and I cant come. I went out for a coffee and returned at 5:45. Checked my mails again and had to leave for my marriage shopping and left the office.

I decided to come back to office on Sunday and work on it. Felt "Sunday and office" Naa!!!!!!!! Somehow I don't like this combination on Sunday morning. So started my day by skipping the breakfast and went to hotel straight for the lunch. It was a good day, though bug was running as a background process. With all this how can I resist myself "not to hate Monday morning"

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

One Night With Nature

"Feelings change But memories Don't ".

"One night with nature" is my first lazy outing I had so far. Well, even though it was a lazy outing I would say I cant forget this night. I would love to cherish those moments, probably when I sit with the same pals in some pub at my late forties.


Well, it was me, vinay(mamu), pradeep(reddy) and arif sipping a drought beer at Guzzler's Inn planned to go out of Blore on the coming week end. Guess what ! Four guys.. ....and discussion ended up with five destinations. We started with Jammu and ended up in Kanyakumari, still were not sure where to go. Couple of the days passed and guys remained silent as if nothing happened or discussed on the Friday evening. Somehow after forty odd mails got exchanged, we decided to gather to a common place and toss a coin to decide the destination :(. Later reddy's effort was enough to book the Home stay for us right in the middle of the thick forest and this decided our destination.

Alright, On saturday morning Vinay drove his OPTRA(magnum) all over the blore to pick everyone of us. It was 6:45 when we hit NICE road, the thrill started from here. Mamu made 2.0 engine to roar to point the needle on the speedometer to 188. It was an stunning experience for me. After the speed testing, we joined mysore road and were able to race it only up to 140 max on that road. However we managed to reach hotel Dasprakash in mysore for breakfast within two and half hours.

Trust me this is the best scrumptious, yummy breakfast I ever had while traveling. Reddy made sure that everybody had adequate quantity for their first meal of the day.

After everyone repleted, as usual arif started complaining about so called stomuch..... But this time looked like mamu was not much intersted to suggest him anything. It was the time to say bye to city of palaces. We maneuvered our car towards HUNSUR and at the deviation steered towards our left to reach GONIKOPPALU.This drive was awful as it was the gateway to the dense forest. From Gonikoppalu we drove to a village called T.Shettihalli. Even this drive was awesome as we had dense forest on both the side of the roads and AC was off in the car and windows were down. Mamu's car was driving him crazy and the cool breeze was driving all of crazy. When we just neared Rajiv Gandi National Park, the view of the lake between the bamboo trees made us half-baked. It was something like it looked as if it is very easy to reach the lake through the bamboo forest, But it was not that easy. Anyway we didn't get out of the car.

It was almost 1:30 when we finally hit our destination called "Mountain Mist Jungle Stay" located in KKR estate, which is right in the middle of the dense green forest.
One single house near the natural pond which is surrounded by the thick forest and around 35 km away from the place where one get see some people movement. It was a house totally detached from the world. Forget about mobile signal or TV , They did not even had a power connection.

Well all of us had a great lunch and admired nature by looking at the peak of the mountain located at the border of Karnataka and Kerala. Giving break for short period started playing the short pitch cricket. More often Reddy or Arif use to hit ball into the jungle and we spent more time in searching for ball rather in playing. Later we converted that short pitch into full pitch and started playing. This was the remarkable part of our outing. Boys played enough and sat

for round table conference in that small ground, the extended sides of which are encircled by forest. By the time coffee with bajji and sweets was served by aunt all of us were deep into the topic of "Improving Farmers life in India". The discussion ended up with the conclusion that "Retail is going to be biggest boom and hence invest".This is how we improved the life of farmers.

Finally the most awaited part of the outing took its charge as it was 8 o clock. Within no time everybody said "CHEERS" sitting in front of the camp fire arranged.
Though all our watches read the time as 8 o clock, it veritably was looking and feeling as if midnight is been passed already. I felt I am on top of heaven during this time. What else do u need ... Totally detached from the world, You are with the best pals, clear sky on your head, shuddery sounds from the forest, camp-fire, absence of your manager and most important "Chilled Beer" can in your hand. Spoke some nonsense for hours sipping the drought beer. Then realized the fact that its still 10 and we can not afford wait till breakfast. Hence headed for dinner.

After having delicious dinner, came back to the same spot and started arguing on "Software company Modeling and Policies". Poor engineers were not able to reach conclusion this time.
Hashed out about some crap for hours together and surrendered ourselves to sleep.

By the time I woke up in morning, Mamu, Arif and Reddy were enjoying the nature and Pranab was enjoying his sleep. Went for a walk in the jungle. When we went inside the smell of the decayed leaves with wet soils made us crazy. After a long walk boys returned to the nest and had a breakfast and drove back to mysore. We had our lunch in my house and headed to blore.

Overall it was a great experience, as we enjoyed every second of the trip.

The route
Bangalore <-> Mysore<->Hunsur Road <->GoniKoppal <-> T Shettigiri <->KKR Tea Estates
Contact to book the Estate : Ravi/Swathy
08274 317663 / 9449334801 / 9480556670

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Ronaldo: The True Devil


Cristiano Ronaldo "has the world in front of him". The red devil fans are very eager to know "Can Ronaldo beat Denis Law's total of 46 set in 1963-64?? ".
This season being the best for ronaldo already has 34 goals against him. Ronaldo has another 12 games left in the current season, if he plays every match and Manchester United reach the Champions League final. Considering a goal per match this red devil will write his name in golden pages of the old tarfford heroes.

Myself being die hard fan for portugal winger, I feel he can even touch magical 50 this season. He curse himself if he gives rest to his feets on the ground. Runs like a white horse when he is away. Cuts the ball like a true red devil in the home. Even though he has a dream to play to spain before he says bye bye to soccer, he will be MANU's bull for long time.

Look at the way Alex Ferguson glorifies my football hero !! I just love reading it again and again.

When George played as a winger I don't think he ever stayed still. He roamed from side to side - he played on the right, the left and through the middle," The Sun quoted Ferguson, as saying.
"I've looked at Best's goals and a lot of Cristiano's are similar. He starts from wide positions before cutting inside. The boy's in tremendous form right now,"
And Ferguson also feels there are similarities between Ronaldo and another world great footballer - Diego Maradona.
"His form is absolutely fantastic, there is no end to where we think he can go,"

Though Red Devils started the season with most of the goals against them, Now they are on the top of EPL with 76 points. The way they played this season was just awesome. Lets see who will snatch the cup??