Work imitates Life

You come across a beautiful good girl either from friends or friends' friends or at work.

You come across a potential good client either from friends in other industries or by understanding your clients' clients.

You see an oppurtunity in her.

You see an oppurtunity in them.

You go ahead, ask your friends about her, background verification.

You go ahead, find out what they are doing, background verification.

You approach her, analyze for some time, understand her requirements.

You approach them, set up meetings, understand their requirements.

You identify the risks - parents, family, any ex-boy friend, etc.

You identify the risks - project risk, stakeholder risks, etc.

You prepare an estimate - costs that you can afford to gift her, take her out, etc.

You prepare an estimate - project costs, margins, revenues, etc.

If everything suits you, you propose her.

If everything suits you, you prepare a proposal & submit.

She might agree or disagree. If she disagrees, you re-propose after an increased estimate.

They might agree or disagree. If they disagree, you resubmit your proposal after a reduction in estimate.

Consider she agrees. You plan & work - design your world, build relationships, test it.

Consider they agree. You plan & work - design documents, build code and testing.

After sometime in relationship, you decide to marry her. You mark your worthiness to her family and prove that you are stable.

After sometime in project (after all testing phases), they decide to go live. You prove that no defects exist and code is stable.

You get married and everyone's happy. You are satisfied with your efforts. You throw a party to all.

The project is implemented and gone live and everone's happy. You are satisfied with your work. You go for a project party.

Ādi Chunchungiri Trip

Yesterday, taking a break from my routine schedule, I'd arranged a small outing to Ādi Chunchungiri hills, to see our Home God (mane devru) - Sri Kālabhairaveshwara Swami. Just the 3 of us - myself & my parents. We started at around 8 AM and boarded a Hassan bound bus from Majestic. We were to get down at Bellur Cross and from there take a rick or something to reach the temple, as this was the info given to us by some relatives and also some websites.

It took us nearly 3hrs to reach Bellur Cross and landed there at 1145. Immediately, we caught a rick (seat auto - 10 bucks pp, as many people) and reached the foothill of Ādi Chunchungiri at around 12. On the way, we saw a big Kalyani. A huge number of steps (200, to be precise) and a big arc at the top was awaiting to be climbed.

We reached the top (first level) and a magnificient temple was there in front of us. We directly entered the temple thru one of its side doors. There wasn't much rush, as I had expected initially. There were small dieties of God all over on the pillars. When asked someone, he said there were a total of 64 Bhairavas around the interiors, 8 Bhairavas in the centre & 1 Main idol of the Lord in Garbhagudi. Probably, photos can explain it better..

Needless to mention, the dog is the vehicle (vahana) of this Lord and he's there right in front of Him.

The main Garbhagudi was made of black stone while the rest of the temple was of white stone. We had a view of entire temple, did Archana there and left the temple. Adjacent to the temple was a 27 foot, single stone carved idol of Shiva - Sri Nagalingeshwara.

Beside this, there was a board which read - Way to Gangadeshwara, Kattale Someshwara and Chola Stambha. This again were to be climbed. At another 150 steps was the Gangadeshwara temple, which looked as if it was in a cave. Very small with little light around. Further up the hill was the Kattale Someshwara, but mom stayed behind and me & dad only went up (lil adventurous). After 200 steps (each step was approx 1 ft high), we came across a small cave with entire darkness. We had to use the light in our mobile to get in thru it and saw the Kattale Someshwara idol. (Kattale = dark). We further wanted to go up and see the Chola Stambha, but as people over there said that we had to do some rock climbing, we rejected the idea.

We then came back to the place where mom was resting and decided to have lunch there, which was packed and got from home. But, to our dismay, some monkeys attacked us and made us leave the place. So, we had to discontinue our lunch and hurriedly packed everything and came down. On the way down, we saw Swamiji's Kuteera and resting place. Back near the temple, we saw Sri Annapoorneshwari Prasada Nilaya and just went in. To our surprise, they were serving lunch as Prasada ! Immediately we got in and had the Prasada. Thanks monkeys ! They didn't want us to have home food & have the Prasada !

After the lunch, we checked into some exhibition cum shopping centre and looked for idols of Kālabhairaveshwara. But, none of them suited our requirements, so left the place without buying anything.

When we got down the 200 steps at 3 PM, a rick was already waiting for us and we barged into that. In 10 mins we were back at Bellur Cross and a bus too was waiting for us ! It all appeared like all ready ! We were back in Bangalore at around 630 PM.

There were no hindrances like rain or anything. The weather was also just too good. The Lord truely takes care of His devotees. Thanks Lord :)

Functions and Relatives

I recently had been to a marriage reception of one of my far relatives unwillingly, as I was forced to attend it by my parents. There I met quite some people, whom I’d never seen before and some other common relatives. I just jotted out what all they asked me. Here are a few.

Oh.. you have grown this big..! When I saw you that time, you were so small. Now, you are thiiiiis big !
Plastic smile .. Ya..
What do they expect, I shouldn’t grow?

You remember me?
No..
What the heck.. I’m just seeing for the first time..

Your brother is taller than you.. !
Another plastic smile.. Ya..
Big deal !

Oh.. Infosys..? You know Srinivas?
Naah..
He stays our next door only..
So what? There are more than 30k in Bangalore .. Do they want me to know everyone?

How do you commute?
Company bus
How long will it take?
3 hrs up and down
Oh.. that much ! It must be hectic na?
Ofcourse.. theres no other option..!
Traffic must be worse na?
Ya..
What would you expect? You only came an hour late !

Oh.. Infosys..? They must be paying you well na?
THE END

Have a blast !

Oops.. That was what my friend told me for the weekend. But Bangalore & Ahmedabad experienced some different kinds of blasts over this weekend :(

So.. watch out when you tell this again..!

PS: For b'days, I always tell... Many happy returns of the day ! Have a blast !

Kismat Konn?

After much hoopla (& my adulation of VB), I went to Kismat Konnection y'day at Cauvery second show with the same goa gang. Only thing after seeing this I want to say - Thank God, it got over for just 70 bucks! NCK was right, now we knew why we got the tickets. The story is absurd. I felt sleepy for sometime. Vidya has blown up like a baloon. Her shortened hair doesn' suit her. And again, she continues to be with oldies (didn't get better partners in life?). Shahid is ok, like always as his kiddish face. Hasina Juhi is wasted. Crap. Boman Irani..? A perfect man for ending of a hindi film. Songs are ok. And for all the sentis involved, it has miserably failed. Didn't get the purpose of shooting in Canada. Bombay has lots of old age homes, could have cut down on cost! I would say its a mix of LRMB & JWM. Ooph.. did I say more than Rajeev Masand? He was considerate enough to give a 2/5. I would have thrown an egg!

All I'm thinking of now is... when will my Kismat Konnect? ;-)

Chapter 7

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'What's up?' I said, more to improve communication than the sight of her smudged eyes.

'Nothing,' she said in a broken voice.

A girl's 'nothing' usually means 'a lot'. Actually, it meant 'a lot and don't get me started'. I thought of a suitable response to a fake 'nothing'.

...

...

'She told me last night she would SMS me in the morning. It is afternoon already, and she hasn't. She always does that.' She said.

'Why dont you SMS her instead?' I asked.

'I am not doing that. She said she would. And so she should, right?'

I looked at her blankly, unable to respond.

'She is in this hi-fi PR job, so she is too busy to type a line?'

I wished that woman would SMS her so we could start class.

'Next time I will tell her I have something really important to talk about and not call her for two days,' she said.

Some, I repeat only some girls, measure the strength of their friendship by the power of the emotionally manipulative games they could play with each other.

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Excerpts from Chetan Bhagats new - The 3 mistakes of my life.

I agree.

Frozen

You only see what your eyes want to see
How can life be what you want it to be
You're frozen
When your heart's not open

You're so consumed with how much you get
You waste your time with hate and regret
You're broken
When your heart's not open

True Madonna...