Return to blogging

After a long time I have re-activated this blog, I guess more than two years have passed since i posted on this forum. Now I am thinking of excercising some of my old gray cells which surely have decayed. During this period I have written sparingly, however recently, I have participated in a private mail group where we keep exchanging thoughts, apart from that my writings have been quite limited. Here is a recap of what has happened over this period:

To begin with there has been a change of job and change of house, the rest of it remains almost same :D. I have lost touch with most of my college friends during this period cause most of them have been busy in their pursuit of success. In terms of professional development I have not achieved much apart from a change of job which only time can tell is for development or otherwise :I.

My previous job experience was quite enriching learnt a lot about analysis financial statements (a little bit of accounting, where I have loads of doubts), modeling and structuring transactions, and was exposed to some prestigious projects. I was able to handle some of the transactions independently and made some good relations with colleagues and clients.

On personal front I have made a few friends some of them survived the test of time while a few have failed this test. The most notable change has been loss of hair :D and now my bald head is a lot more visible :D (suggesting signs of wisdom :P). I have become more aerodynamic and sharper :P. I am trying to venture into photography some of my pix could be seen here. These days i listen to a lot of ghazals which have nice lyrics. (mostly Ghulam Ali variety). I have developed a good network mostly through my relations with colleagues and of course orkut.

To sum it up my life has had a lateral movement, (and not vertical) and a lot of stagnation for sure :(. I hope that i will continue to blog a lot more frequently on this forum than I have been doing over the past (Past is never a good indicator of future events :P).

Current Mood: Feels good to blog again :)
Current Music: Itni Muddat Baad Mile Ho (Ghulam Ali) :">

Pl not have added some Y! smileys on my blog, i am trying to pick-up a little bit of XML to make myself a little more "IT literate" :D

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Sorry

Sorry is a word of ‘convenience’ invented by angrez, which can fit in any conversation and situation. I can say with some amount of confidence that this word is one of the most abused (and also most used) word in the angrezi language.

Can you imagine a day in your life when you have not used this word or rather made a conscious effort for not using this word? I believe you can become a better person if you do not use this word... wat say.

Current Mood: Definitely NOT apologetic

Current Muzik: Tujhse Naraz nahin jindagi ...

Aski "De Shourie" "De Casta"

Another One

Another article published in DNA on September 23, 2005. This one is again an edited (or I can also called it distorted) version of the actual article which was sent to the editor, who had conviniently made the changes to make it look critical which was not my intent. Nonetheless I have to accept it as it is as he needs to accomodate a large number of views apart from balancing commercial aspects as well.

Sudoku

Sudoku is a puzzle game which has become a craze at Mumbai, I find people of all ages scratching their heads to place nine sets of number 1 to 9 on a square of 81 cells. I also have got addicted to it so much so that I solve about 6-8 sudokus in a day and I must confess that I buy newspaper only to solve the sudoku in it, that too the one which has two sudokus in it. I went to the extent of buying a book full of sudokus which I solve in the night. The popularity of this game can be gauged from the fact that nowadays all newspaper carry atleast one sudoku everday (if not more :-) ) and the average sale of newspaper is dictated by the level of difficulty of sudoku (just kidding).

To give you an idea of my addiction here is the routine of my sudoku dose: I solve two sudokus in the train on the way to office, another two on the internet during lunch break and then I take two more print-outs of sudoku from here to solve it on my way back home. After dinner I start with the book of sudoku which I got and then solve 2-3 depending on the my level of tiredness (oh god if only I observed such discipline in other things I could have done a lot!!).

On the flip side it gives you a lot of headache when you are unable to crack and of course density of hair on your head decreases (so now you know the reason for my receding hairline :-( ). I have even heard of stories about people getting sleepless nights or even dreams of cracking soduko in under-5 minutes. Taking lesson from such stories, I have vowed to reduce my consumption of sudoku to two per day lets see how sucessful I can be!

You can find free sudokus here, some of other interesting facts about it could be found here and of course you can find a sudoku solver here in case you are unable to crack it.

Current Mood: I am getting a headache after a overdose of Sudoku
Current Muzik: Sarr Dard mein koi gana nahin sunta hai .... ka samje

Aski "De Sudokuist" "De Casta"