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Its been 1 year in my new company today !! Wow! time is flying off like anything! :) Happy Anniversary!! :)

Hmmm...One more saturday eve came, was there, and went-off!! :) It was a nice saturday eve, where me and 2 of my buddies had planned for a movie in PVR, Forum shopping mall! So, there we were, at around 1615hrs in the Forum mall...man, what a crowd it was on that day!! I can roughly estimate around 1000+ people at that time! I strongly feel, if bangalore gets 10 more of these type of malls, you can find the same number of crowd in all the malls!! This is the craze of bangalore now...:) Coming back to my planned stuff, we could not get tickets to any movie over there (it was almost expected!)...every movie was booked for the whole day as well as for the next day, Sunday!! So, we 3 people, roamed in & around the mall for half-an-hour and then, when our legs [infact, it was mine! :)] got strained out, we decided to have a break and offer something for our stomach! So, we went to McDonalds (me, after a very long time!) and had a delicious ' Paneer Salsa Wrap '! Giving company ...

This weekend was good, where i got to go 2 Brigade Road and MG Road, after a long time!! I was feeling bored in my house, on saturday evening and planning to go out, somewhere near my house! But, god heard my woe{??} and a friend of mine called me @ 1800hrs asking me 2 come down 2 Brigade Road, in an hour! One more fellow friend was going 2 join us over there... So, i set out 2 Brigade's and man, what a crowd it was...sometimes, u find it very very jam-packed, like a fish-market...but sometimes, u feel...u can enjoy!! some feast for your eyes! :) We met at around 1900hrs and then we went on from one end of MGRoad to another end and back...one end of Brigade's 2 another end and back...Our legs were paining from this walking and hence we decided 2 go Pizza Hut for a gud pizza [my idea though..:)] and...and...we had !! The pizza was good, supported by Garlic Bread ( with Cheese though) and then by an Apple Pie with Ice-cream as the dessert iterm!! Finally, we walked out of Pizza ...

Till 10th June 2005, the past 1.5 months had been a ' wait-n-watch ' period for me, as i was supposed to travel to Europe!! But this stuff had kept on postponing by 2 days, a week, 2 weeks and then more than a month, finally ending up in nowhere!! :(( The proposed Europe project ran into rough weathers and hence it had to be cancelled, shattering my dreams of a short term visit, a good break and what all stuff. So, for the 1.5 months, i had been on ' a virtual tour ' to Europe, dreaming of when i will go there, how i will enjoy the place and other stuff... I still donot understand why god is targetting me at all instance of time! My dreams of going abroad was, is and will remain forever...but still, i donot get the chance of that...how sick is my luck! :( But one good thing is that i got the Visa's, UK Visa and Schengen Visa (for rest of Europe except UK) stamped in my passport, which are valid till the end of November this year! So, some small, corner-sitting hop...

This will never end...updating about the books being added in my cupboard! Here are two more to my list... Dan Brown's ' Angels and Demons ' - very exiting stuff.. Dale Carnegie's ' How to Win and Influence People ' - supposedly a very good 'self-help' book of yester years! Wanted to try hands on this... Am currently into the above two plus (Malcolm Gladwell's) ' Tipping Point '...all three going hand-in-hand! :)

Big Dads/Moms talking to their neighbour : u know, my son(daugther) called me today...s/he is doing fine u know...bought a car today, it cost him/her $20000..s/he has sent me the photo.. Friends in India to their peers : hey dude, my friend today is leaving to US macha..going to New york, on H1-B visa...long term!! seems in a short time, he will become rich macha... One can hear this type of conversation very often now...u go to any of your friends' house or a relatives' house..i bet, you are sure to hear that some X went/is in US...will come back after 1 year...is earning lot of money...blah..blah..blah... The point here is i am also one of the thousands of people who are waiting to be on the other side of this world...world called US of A!! I have been looking forward for some oppurtunity to visit this place...i am a very travel and aviation enthusiast! I love to travel around the world, provided somebody fund me and the trip!! :) I wanna someday checkout this craze...i dont...

It was a wonderful and anxious day for me, June 7th 2002.. It was the D-Day for me as i was scheduled to fly outside of my motherland, flying International for the very first time !!! [have flied domestic many times, courtesy - my dad! :)] The destination was ShenZhen city in China, on a project deputation (from my ex-employer) for almost 6 months! It was great day and the flight was scheduled to leave @ 0050hrs IST to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia and then from there, it was to Hong Kong! From HK, we had to take a bus (around 65kms), ride to the destination city... ShenZhen is the first entry point to Mainland China, from Hong Kong side. We (me and 2 of my friends) were flying Malaysian Airlines thru out our journey. It was an absolutely wonderful trip...the airports of KL and HK were just breath-takers!! These airports are amazing and i bet u, u cant simply take ur eyes off them!! :) Cut to 2005, June 7th: Today, its been 3 years since i flew outside...I came back to India on Nov 20th 2002...

On Saturday, i went to the Landmark, in the Forum shopping mall...Bangalore got this wonderful bookstore a year ago...its very huge, spread across 2 floors, approx 10000sqft each !! There, i purchased 2 books, one called ' Tipping Point ' by Malcolm Gladwell and other ' Teach yourself French ' by some good publishing company and author. But am yet to start with these books.... Rising Sun by Micheal Crichton is keeping me busy...this novel is not good (not that bad either) but ok to read once...am hoping and am looking fwd to complete this book ASAP !! :) Then i will take up the Tipping Point, which i have, from long time, wanted to read! In the meantime, i started off with Dan Brown's latest offering ' Angels and Demons ', an e-book !! Have read his ' The Da Vinci Code ' earlier and liked it a lot, liked the subject first, liked the way he takes off the subject and liked lotz about this... Coming back to his latest book, its bit on the same lines w...

Want to Win? Here's Some Practical Advice from Jack Welch Jack Welch, former chairman and chief executive of General Electric, loves to be heard. After retiring from GE four years ago and publishing an autobiography, he has now written a book on his management philosophy, titled Winning, which he is promoting through frequent speeches and media interviews. But, unlike most prodigious talkers, Welch is hardly boring. He advocates candor and practices it, strenuously. Last month Welch visited Wharton to speak to students about his book, co-authored with his wife Suzy. In a packed auditorium, he participated in a fireside chat with Knowledge@Wharton, followed by questions from the students. Here are a few samples of the 'Welchisms' heard during the session: · Distinctions between leadership and managing are "academic hogwash." · "Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision." · ...

This blog underwent a not-so-major (and not-so-minor too) revamp, in terms of its look-n-feel stuff!! congratulations! :) Earlier, for the last 5 months, i had a nice template which had dark blue background and with some funky dots-style....which made it look good...at the very first instant, i selected that... Now, yesterday, as i was browsing thru the new template section of this blogger, i got hold of this new one (which u r seeing now) and here it is...the very new look-n-feel for my very own personal-log !! How do ya feel? I know, its nice right !! :)

Today, its almost 2 months that i am put in ' paid-bench ' section, in my company, doing nothing much !! Expecting a good project soooon...hope, i will not be celebrating 3 months !! :)