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This sunday has been a wet sunday for namma bengalooru! Coz from noon, it is constantly raining with few minutes breaks in between! Clouds were moving rapidly and it was playing hide-n-seek game with the Sun :-) This remembers me of my flight from Japan, en route to Bangkok/Thailand on 6th Sept 2005. My flight was at 10 AM and since the Tokyo Narita International Airport is around 85kms from the city, I had to leave early, as early as 5.30AM! But rains started previous night and hadn't stopped in the morning also. Visibility was very low but as I had booked the taxi earlier, the cab had come at 5.15AM itself. Finally I reached airport and during take off time also, weather was very bad with all black clouds around and we faced lot of air turbulances during take-off itself. To my surprise, when the flight ascended 11000feet altitude, I could the flight totally covered by the thick black clouds and lot of turbulence. Suddenly from nowhere, we saw a tinge of blue sky emerging an...

One of our HP offices in Bangalore wanted to host the Eye Donation/Pledging Awareness Camp for 2nd session, as many people had shown interest for the 1st session but could not make it due to various reasons. So, yesterday (23-Sept-08) the Doctor from Prabha Eye Bank visited this office and we conducted this camp for nearly 3 hours ...and the response that we got was just awesome...above all expectations! We collected nearly 125 pledges from the interested employees and hitting this 3-digit number is really a milestone by itself! Again, Thanks to everyone who opted for this camp and I wish they will spread the word among their friends and families! Gift Your Sight :: Make It Your Wish! http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight

This week (Sep 8th to Sep 12th 2008) I organized an Awareness campaign on Eye Donation/Pledging in my company, HP India. The Week was celebrated across multiple locations in HP Bangalore offices with the co-operation of Prabha Eye Bank c/o Prabha Eye Clinic, one of the oldest eye clinic's of Bangalore. About the event, over the week the response was not so encouraging (better I will not speak about the numbers!) but Myself and the CSR club of HP did our best to get people aware of this noble cause. Thanks to everyone who opted for this camp and I wish they will spread the word among their friends and families! Gift Your Sight :: Make It Your Wish! http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight

Yesterday my brother-in-law left to New York, USA for pursuing his MS program. He was traveling international for the first time and our own Air India (AI) was the chosen carrier. In its recent route expansion, AI has added 2 new routes to its kitty - Delhi-New York non-stop and Mumbai-New York non-stop! My bro-in-law went in the Delhi-NY flight. I wanted to know the flight info of this flight and the AI website was hardly coming up to check the status. So I had one more super website accessible and the site is: www.flightstats.com This website gives the departure and arrival info (real time) of all the flights flying in this world! Especially if the flight is from/to USA, then it has a real-time map that shows the flight path and status information, once the flight reaches US/Canada airspace!! This is just awesome! Not only this, it gives the real-time map of the Airport traffic in US/Canada and we can track any flight that is bound to / departing from these 2 countries! For insta...

Its almost a month that I blogged about any interesting events in my day-2-day life! I wanted to blog but somehow 'diverted' my thought to some other work. Being a constant blogger, I feel that I miss something if I do not blog! :-) Back to typing my thoughts using this keyboard, the last 1 month just went by with some interesting things in my life. 1. My 1st interesting thing is: My better half (my life and wife!) got an interview call from a very well known Food maker of this country, the MTR Foods . MTR => Mavalli Tiffin Room , a small eatery joint (completely Vegetarian!) started in 1924 by the Maiyya family in Bangalore, is a very well known restaurant in South Bangalore and its foods are very popular all over the country. Even today we need to make reservation for lunch/dinner. The delicious and very famous Rava Idli was invented by MTR . Lot more about MTR can be told that brings proud to we Bangaloreans ! And its also pride that my better half got a Microbi...

Yesterday evening, me and my wife went out for walking. We had to buy milk packet for home and while walking, we entered the Spencer's Retail store near my home. I picked up the Heritage Double Toned Milk packet from the refridgerator and then went to billing. Back home, when my mom opened the packet, she was angry at me that I didn't bring milk that she asked for; instead I have got curd!! I thought she might be joking but when I actually saw and tasted it, it was curd!! Curd in Milk packet!! :-) So immediately I called up Heritage Customer care number where I lodged the complaint, for which they promised me to go to the retail store and pick up a new milk packet. They also said the complaint will be followed up but god knows what has happened! Again, we went to the Spencer's store and told them the problem. They too were bit surprised and thanks to them, promptly they gave another Milk packet, that contained Milk and not curd! :-) But tracing the cause of this, what I...

This is from my personal experience, which I have faced last year and now, I am facing it yet another time! When the word "Bangalore/Bengaluru" is popped up, the instant response that comes is the IT Capital / Silicon Valley of India. True, it has lived to this word and will continue to be the top IT destination in the country. But what about non-IT folks? Was this IT there when the city came on India map? How about job options for non-IT related people? The truth is, non-IT jobs are so less in this city that you have to struggle a lot to get one of them. In my case, the job I am searching is for my wife, who is a PG in Microbiology field, which puts her totally into Science field and no IT is involved! Last year, when she was fresher, finding job was so difficult for her that it took nearly 2 months to get into a Pharma company, that too with lot of struggle and with the help of a so-called 'Consultant'. The way those companies work is pathetic, just like our gover...