Don’t know when I got fantasized by this mythical bird. I feel it symbolizes human’s fighting spirit. Phoenix and perseverance are inseparable. When you feel downward spiral in your spirits, remember there is nothing in the world called gain/loss, happiness/sadness, success/failure… Your mission and your life towards the mission is what determine your life.
I am getting older folks! These random posts and gyans are first sign of aging. These posts have single mission to say that I have an extensive work experience (funny freak!!)
If you don't get offended by vulgar dialogue and portrayals, here is one nice comedy flick "Borat - Cultural Learnings from America for the benefit of Kazakastan". This is a runaway hit movie on last year end. The hero is fictional TV journalist in Kazakastan. He goes to America as his country decided to learn good things from US and A. The mockumentary laughs at lot of popular incidents and stars, like Bush, american war of Iraq, gay pride show, Pameela Anderson and Bay watch, american slang, Kazaks life, Kazak peeps hatred towards jew, hookers...
In his own words, the moral of story is" If you have a dream and when you run behind it especially when it is one made up of plastic chest, you fail to notice the real beauty before your eyes" I hope you understand what was he referring to ;) There are lot of lawsuits pending on him because of this mockumentary. This movie is mother of all candid camera live shows.
Ran wrote about his movie marathon over the weekend. Guess I am eligible to compete with him in this regard. I watched these over the week (not on weekend only)
There are quite a few catchy ads rolling on television media. I am listing here the ads that caught my attention.
Hutch Eskimo Search.
The concept isn't something new. Technically feasible by any operator. Yet gets thumbs-up for creativity, humour, and a nice different jingle.
Nivea Care for Men Whitening
The background music scores high for this advertisment. Quality Ad. No bullshits. Clear Thumbs-up!
Colgate Tooth Paste with Active Salt
The highly competitive toothpaste market makes all advertisement makers invent and reinvent themselves and their products to increase the sales. Here is an another attempt. The concept didn't get conveyed with elegance. The sense of urgency in that girl's dialogues didn't give a positive impression about the advertisement. Thumbs down for the ad and not for the product- It can be sold nicely than this. This article about this toothpaste is very impressive indeed.
Last week, me and my team were working for a product's demo for our customer. In the mid of the week, we almost hit our target. But not yet there fully. I had an optimization change to the project, which theoratically will fill that target performance gap. I integrated the changes and made the code work without errors. The result was a big surprise, the performance were in same level as before. Hell! I couldn't crack the puzzle, the code looks same as in my standalone testing system. But the integrated product still run at the level below target.
Helluva lot of tests done, I roped in my team lead for a review. Went back to my testing system, searched for any loopholes there. Nothing was leading us to the end of the tunnel. I was sitting with irritation for the whole day.....bad, bad day ofcourse. I decided to scrap out the changes and planned to do it afresh on saturday morning and left for the day. On saturday morning, I entered my cube with fresh mind and motivation to nail down the error. I started reverting back my changes, and came to the project's makefile. Something caught up in eyes, it was a macro difference, literally MACRO difference. I was using a macro to configure my files and that macro wasn't consumed by the compiler at all! Alas! Silly little integration mistake..........
After nailing that stupid error, the demo crossed the target comfortably. OMG! this isn't the best experience to trace down those errors. Thought I caught up the tail of tiger that leads to big issue somewhere, but definitely an ironical end. Now we are laughing at this badly here!
Dunno whether I deserve this special mention. but this shows the depth of our frenship. Wondering what I am talking about...look here. Thanks honey! Hope it gives me more motivation to write more! happy blogging folks!
Last weekend, I was traveling in coffee country with my family. The Coorg is in southern part of Karnataka bordering kerala in one side. Coorgs needs no exaggeration. It is a serene weekend getaway near Bangalore. Out trip was a relaxing summer vacation. Climate was pleasant; it wasn't raining badly. We stayed in a home stay off Gonikoppa town in Coorg district. (Home stays are a novel concept popular in Coorg. We can chose to stay in home of a Coorg family. They will be our host, make our trip more interesting with their insights about coorgs and their lovely food). The Coorgis are known for their hospitality and our host in Hacienda are the best in the breed. Their friendly attitude and home food made our trip much more memorable.
We headed off to Coorg on Thursday early morning. It took nearly five and half hours to reach Balele town. And more than an hour to reach our home stay aka Prasad's Green lands coffee estate. Enquiries with local people about Hacienda didn't help us. Prasad’s Green Lands Estate was more popular among localities than Hacienda. Our mobile phones didn’t have signal (Can’t expect mobile phone companies to network Heavens!! ;)) Thankfully, lot of PCO booths are on the way and our hosts were waiting near the phone to help us all along.
Their home and coffee estate is amazing. Blissful Heaven. It has a small lake inside and a tributary of river Cauvery borders one end of the estate. After a refreshing break, we headed onto Nagerhole National Park. It was raining badly during the jungle safari inside the forest there. Nagerhole is supposed to house tigers, elephants (rogue tuskers) and host of wild animals. But, all we could spot were Sambar Deers, Bisons and Spotted Deers. Luckily on our way back from National Park, we crossed a tusker standing in the side of state highway. Wow! It was standing like a mighty king of jungle. We couldn’t slowdown our car because tuskers are known to be rogue in nature and may topple the vehicles on the road.
Life has a special meaning in serene atmosphere of coffee country. The lush green coffee plantation and the hill is still green in my memories. Our hosts houses lot of pets in their home, dogs, love birds and cute little fishes. The first thing I noticed when entering the estate was the deafening chirping sounds of birds there. Those little rhythms soothes the soul. The next day, we went to picturesque Talacauvery, birthplace of river cauvery and Dubare elephant camp. It was hectic travel on hills for the whole day. Coorg has lot of tourist spots, but almost all of them needs a length travel in hills. The best way to enjoy Coorg is to limit the number of places you want to visit in a day, travel to a spot and relax for the day before returning back to your stay.
Here is a new addition of gizmo in my house. Samsung Bordeaux 26" LCD TV and Sony Hometheatre system. :)
I am extending an invitation to all my dear blogger frens to come to my house when you are in Bangalore!
yep, this peppy song is for all those dear to me there in blogworld!
