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Wish you and your family a Very Happy, Prosperous and Colorful New Year 2006!! Let all your dreams come true... Have a gr8 year ahead! ~ Deeps Light up the darkness in life. Enable blind to see this beautiful world, thru your eyes! For more info, visit: http://giftyoursight.blogspot.com/

My reading habits is going places...LOL :) Actually, this time i picked up a book thatz neither a Fiction nor any self-help books but this book is about my country, India! This book is written by the renowned BBC World India correspondent Sir Mark Tully and the title of the book goes like 'India in Slow Motion'!! Hmmm..As the name suggests, Sir Mark Tully speaks about the practices of India, where it stands, where it is heading to....His real life, 25-years of Indian experience, poured out in this book... I have started reading this and i am getting to know more about the real India we know! Yes, yesterday my brother asked me why r u reading this when v already know the true picture of how our country is for which, i think the answer is: We only know the tip of the iceburg but we dont know the real reasons/causes of this and how depth the iceburg is....So, to get this picture, better read it.... Happy Reading! :) [ This is bit ironical 'coz even though i love reading, i ...

Now a days, am caught up with this Sudoku puzzle madness!! I bought a book related to this, having lot of sudoku puzzles and am solving this...(trying 2) :)

Yesterday, as my mom wanted to pay the BSNL Mobile bill, I drove her to ‘Bangalore One’ center, near my house. This concept of giving a good customer service, all-in-one kind of service, initiated by the Government of Karnataka has been really wonderful! When you enter the Bangalore One center, you feel as though you are in a posh company office, with all tiled flooring, around 10-12 counters each having a state-of-the-art computer with a Bar code scanner and each counter provided with a printer. The counters are designed so that the computer monitors are below the table so that the customers can speak face to face with the counter representatives! These really impressed me and let me tell you, for the first time, I felt that the tax we pay is getting utilized to some extent, in the form of Bangalore One! Well done and keep it up, Karnataka government!

On the Friday afternoon, I wanted to go to ITPL (International Technology Park, home to many MNC software companies), which is around 4kms from my office, in Whitefield. The time was around 1205hrs when I came out of my office gate and went to an auto-rickshaw standing out there. I asked the driver to come to ITPL for which, he said ok. Then, when i was about to sit in the auto, that driver asked me to pay Rs 40/-! The normal fare from my office to ITPL is around Rs 20/- (with Meter) but this fellow asked me to pay double the amount, that too in the broad day light!! When I asked him why, he started to tell that the normal fare (with Meter) will be Rs 25/- (one lie here!) and Rs 15/- extra is for him because 'he doesn’t get any passengers to come back here'. When i told him that from ITPL, he can get people and also there is an auto-stand out there, that driver did not agree and told that 'we people are not supposed to stand there'!! So, I moved out of that auto and wen...

Yesterday (01-Dec-05), in our department, as part of the on-going 'Japan Week', there was a function that involved lot of games, skit and dance and some eating too!! :) The first game was to wrap a tall person from the team (there were many teams) with the toilet papers provided!! And, due to my height (am 6ft 2in), i was obviously one among the many involved in the wrapping... And my team did it to me...for 3 mins, i was wrapped continously with the paper and i was mummified!!!! Here is the snap of me in this 'avataar'...:)