Sky Watch

Multitasking

2008-05-21T22:18:00.002+05:30

Multitasking might be a great way of executing many applications at once offering a sense of freedom to the user but from my personal experience about life till now, it does not work at all; yes I've said it.

After two years of trying to achieve a couple things simultaneously, I've come to realize that doing one thing at a time is the way to go. I will write another blog after a while about this alternate approach as a proof of my achievement, or will have an alternate theory ready with me. Never say die.

"Intent" and Frame-of-Mind

2007-05-22T22:19:00.000+05:30

Marriage!!!

2007-05-20T23:10:00.000+05:30

Leh Trip booked

2007-05-18T23:04:00.000+05:30

Kreeda!!

2007-05-06T08:02:00.000+05:30

MC++ for CougarIO

2007-05-05T23:50:00.000+05:30

SealedMedia Final Team Lunch

2007-05-02T23:40:00.000+05:30

KMan -> UK

2007-05-01T22:40:00.000+05:30

Auto Unit Tst Gen/Imp Contd...

2007-04-28T16:19:00.000+05:30

Sunset

2007-04-23T19:08:00.000+05:30

Naruto

2007-04-22T18:07:00.000+05:30

It so happens that you come across something (movie, novel, person, anime) at some point in life that inspires you and gives you strength to achieve your dreams. I recently started watching this series "Naruto" and would rate it as the best anime ever seen. Be the plot, music or characters every thing has been potrayed beautifully. Must have to admit the Japanese are good at whatever they do and i've become a fan of this anime. Though i'm watching a subbed versions, i've started learning Japanese so that at some point in time it would be possible for me to understand the real thing (don't want to loose anything in translation).

Global Warming

2007-04-20T19:48:00.000+05:30

A serious problem that escalated with only a few people noticing. The very fact has been properly presented in The Inconvenient Truth perhaps with a hint of politics but agreeable 99 percent of the time. You will find interesting trvia following the above link, don't know why Jessica Alba's pic was present in the gallery. Not sure where exactly where i read but it seems that these frequently visible high flying silvery clouds are a result of global warming. Technological sites like Scientific American and New Scientist constantly publish articles related to global warming apart from other interesting articles.

No Comments

2007-04-19T13:14:00.000+05:30

Sumimasen

2007-04-18T17:42:00.000+05:30

The heading is "excuse me" in Japanese, and this was supposed to be the last of the languages for me to pick up. Tried learning Spanish earlier but stopped in between for no particular reason. Spanish sounded more exotic with more of Hola's and Senorita's. I noticed one thing that we Indians could pick any language and speak it fluently with accent, may be due to the large number of native letters allowing us to pronunciate almost all phonems. I chose to learn Japanse was because of Naruto, eventhough i'm not there yet but still am able to pick very few words while watching the episodes. It's been great till now, let's see how much ground can be covered this time. Till then sumimasen....

Pranayam and Meditation

2007-04-16T12:36:00.000+05:30

Last friday Bharat was talking to me about Pranayam and the change he felt after starting it. A state of activating the seven chakra's when you know everything and anything is the ultimate goal. This might sound spiritual but the fact that just by working on your breathing technique, you start observing things which never came onto the radar. Putting your words in the observer mode, you could even control the responses with otherwise would be expressed spontaneously. The best part is that my friend is noticing cool side effects of it already. His Table Tennis game has improved like anything and it seems his suave opponents are unable to retain that very property. For this to manifest effectively you will have to give up non-veg stuff as a part of "shudhi" cleansing process which is totally voluntary. Anyway i'll certainly write about my experience (especially the lucrative side effects) once i start doing it.

Automatic Unit Tests Generation and Implementation

2007-04-11T15:25:00.000+05:30

This post is about generating tests automatically which would test the api's written by a developer with it's very first build. The idea is to generate tests which would run with the build process and report errors with subsequent changes to the code. This methodology makes sure that each and every api would be tested with all the basic negative tests that could be generated for the arguments used by the API. This could help the developer find bugs based on the permutations of inputs to the api, something tools like "AllPairs" do.

The other advantage of using it is that a properly compiled document about the API and tests cleared could be generated out of it. Another subtle usefulness of it could be making a standard way for developers to document their api's which would be useful to their successors and client programmers. Later white box testers could include their tests which would be listed in the help document created with every build.

Disclaimer - This methodology does not guarantee generation of tests covering 100% functionality of the API in question but would generate and implement code automatically.

Requirements:
Any scripting language (perl, tcl ...) for generating/implementing tests, invokable in Visual Studio or any prefered IDE.
Unit Test framework (JUnit, CppUnit, NUnit ...) for running the tests and reporting the results back.
Updation of three xml files namely "Api.xml", "Types.xml", "Minimalobjects.xml" and "TestsCollection.xml".

The first three documents are updated by the developers and the last one is modified/updated by the script and whitebox testers. Now lets look at the structure of the "Api.xml" file, this structure might not be adequate for everyone but could be modified to suit the requirements.
click on the image to see the content clearly

Now lets examine what the above xml means and how would it be useful to us. This xml file is a store of Api's written used in the solution. This would contain all the api's written along with the relevent information as described below:

"name" and "author" attributes are for denoting the name of the Api and the author, more attributes such as "module => shading / filling", "excutes (remote/local)" for clarity in documentation.

"Description" is for describing the functionality of the Api.

"Arguments" contains all the arguments the api takes. This could be processed recursively and test generated accordingly.

In arguments "type" attribute describes the type of argument. "Description" is the info about that argument. Print value and help link are purely for Documentation purpose and can be extended accordingly.

Summer Rains

2007-04-11T15:23:00.001+05:30

5.1 Surround System

2007-04-09T12:56:00.001+05:30

Applabs Vs Raiders

2007-03-26T18:38:00.000+05:30

This pic was shot yesterday at Vijay Anand Grounds, Rajendra Nagar. Don't know the reason but these days i'm getting really cool shots of the sky with lots of silver lining. Anyway you can see part of the pavilion in the picture. The place is pretty good for a turf wicket and maintained well enough.
By the way we won the match against Raiders (Satyam) and are playing against Wipro in the semi's on 31/03/2007.

AntiThief

2007-03-14T21:24:00.000+05:30

Full Screen Caller

2007-01-31T15:00:00.000+05:30

Recently I got addicted to mobile phone softwares. There are many links which list softwares, games, skins and so on. This one Full Screen Caller is an interesting addition to my phone.

Once installed you could browse your phone book and set picture of the person via a
picture saved in your phone or you could take a picture and that one would flash full
screen whenever you are calling or the other person is calling you.

It's a freeware and you can download FSCaller from gallery.mobile9.com

Aakruthi 2007

2007-01-03T18:35:00.000+05:30

Team Lunch

2006-12-22T13:04:00.000+05:30

Pre BSF Raising Day

2006-12-11T17:17:00.000+05:30

C++ Fest

2006-11-29T17:03:00.000+05:30

CppUnit Framework

2006-11-28T17:06:00.000+05:30

RipStop Nylon

2006-11-27T16:00:00.000+05:30

The Departed

2006-11-22T12:12:00.000+05:30

CaveMan's Terrace

2006-11-20T12:18:00.000+05:30

Hello Bangalore

2006-11-19T12:05:00.000+05:30

Pizza Hut

2006-11-17T11:28:00.000+05:30

I liked the following at pizza hut, may be you could try it sometime:

Chicken Hawaiian.

Interesting Technology links

2006-11-16T15:30:00.000+05:30

Came across this interesting blog when i finished posting my previous blog and signed out. Any blogger would notice a 3 line fader which displays the blogs being posted. Well i clicked on this one "Girls Girls Girls" and obviously it turned a dotnet type of a blog. Fearing the office surrounding i immediately closed it and thought of searching more about black holes and came across this link:

This link contains content not only about space but genetics and many interesting topics:
http://scienceandreason.blogspot.com.

Particularly this one was pretty interesting, a bacteria which could repair it's damaged DNA structure and can spring back to life after being radiated by Gamma in huge proportions.

SQL

2006-11-15T11:59:00.000+05:30

Hi,

As promised earlier, this is my first post containing link and things learnt/noticed today:

While searching for SQL help, i came across this link: http://www.w3schools.com/sql. This seems to be a nice place to start coz it has very less of mumbo jumbo with a simplistic approach.
You will find tutorials about other technologies as well.

Noticed a few interesting things in Query Analyzer:

1. Under Common Objects subtree, all sorts of utility function such as datetime, configuration, math, Security function are listed with their arguments. If in doubt this could be refered anytime.

2. The other thing is that the Template tab contains templates for almost all the things done in SQL. Templates for database creation, triggers, statistics and cursors along with others could be used as Verbatim.

Cricket Tomorrow

2006-11-10T12:25:00.000+05:30

MMTS Journey

2006-11-09T13:33:00.000+05:30

SkyWatch Reloaded

2006-11-08T14:16:00.000+05:30

Hi All,

It's been around 2 months since my last post and this time i've decided to tweak the idea a lil bit. This time it won't be me myself but the useful links which i've been through out the day and a small note about it.

Sky Pic as Usual.

PS: my diary will continue on Watch Me.

II Om Shri Ganeshaya Namaha II

2006-08-27T20:46:00.000+05:30

Party!!

2006-08-24T20:32:00.000+05:30

New Specs

2006-08-23T20:30:00.000+05:30

Weird Experience

2006-08-23T10:35:00.000+05:30

Cyber Tower

2006-08-21T10:34:00.000+05:30

Convincing Victory

2006-08-21T10:33:00.000+05:30

Sweaty Saturday

2006-08-20T10:30:00.000+05:30

HiTech Here I Come

2006-08-19T10:29:00.000+05:30

Casual Thursday

2006-08-17T17:59:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Finally caught up with what I missed this monday and finished the task given to me. Tomorrow i'll be giving a small presentation about using NUnit and writing test cases. My day started as usual without much activity apart from checking the download status. One of drive seems to have caught up bad sectors and I had to format the entire partition to keep it from hanging everytime MyComputer was stated. Didn't get much time to go online in google for some chat with Gullu and KMan. Bhallu called up and we talked about ways to capture both audio and video as well but seperately. He was having some problem with his PC. Now you must be wondering about the title of todays blog, that's coz from today on everyone at office will see me in semi casuals on thursdays. I thought that our QA guys are allowed in casuals all week and we're supposed to use it only on friday, so why not be free one more day. Todays pic was shot before snack time and it looked amazing with the clouds opening up for a while just enought to see the blue sky. We had to stay back till 9:30 to finish the task at hand and start afresh with new work tomorrow. It's official now coz we received the much awaited email about our new ID collection and us reporting to our new office in Hitech city. I thought of meeting Bhallu for capturing the video shot with my cam but had to stay back for work. We'll see it tomorrow.

Path to Heaven

2006-08-16T17:34:00.000+05:30

Hi,
This picture is indeed a beautiful one with rays seeping thru the clouds as if heavens were opening up. I was confused about the selection of the best one among the ones shot today coz all of the were equally appealing. This wierd feeling was creeping in my stomach. I was away from office since 4 days and it felt like a lot must have changed and it would be hard for me catching up but things didn't change much except work assignment. Nowadays the work is so interesting and engrossing that I hardly remember playing pool. Always thought that reflection in .Net was good but never realized that they were extensively flexible. Gullu was online and we had some chat about his Pune visit. He seems to have enjoyed this visit a lot, being around new people and away from computers. It was interesting and I wanted to meet him in person and talk more so we decided to meet in the evening without me realizing the scheduled client call at 8:00. Bhallu and Mamu were out strolling after watching "The Angrez" again with Gullu when I called after the meeting. Reached home by 10:30 and now it's 11:30. That's it for today.

Independence Day

2006-08-15T22:40:00.000+05:30

Hi,
It's independence day and the first thing I saw was the parade with my blurry eyes. My memories came back when we used to get up early for school. No Classes for that day and we used to return with fruits and sweets and B.S.F celebrates the day as "Bada Khana" Day ( Big Feast). Each and every year we clebrated this special day with pride. Today mom was cooking a special curry for us and I was hoping to gorge it after playing cricket as planned. Tillu left today morning and Mamu had to visit office to fix some problem in his project, Gullu is still at Pune and will be setting out today. So it was me and Bhallu, we didn't play at all and finished it by using fruit juices and talked about a lot of things. Woke up late around 6:30 with Bhallu's call, he mentioned about this new card which he got from Mr. Raju. I wanted to capture all my videos from tape to Disk with my DVD but it was late already. Finally it was decided that i would pass my Cam with tapes to him the next morning.

Holiday

2006-08-15T11:43:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today i was supposed to go office but had to cancel at the last moment. Some unavoidable circumstances came up. Called up my team and informed them about my unavailablity. Anyway my work was finished by afternoon and i spent sometime talking to Bhallu and Tillu over the phone. Tillu had to leave for Karnool today evening and was not available for shopping. This shopping words seems overused but what can i say, the lowers and t-shirts were still on the list. Bhallu agreed to shop with me and we met around 7:30. I wanted to finish this thing asap coz i'm missing the gym a lot. Mamu too joined us and we were done by 9:00 with no sign of lowers at an affordable price. After shopping it was Tea time and remember this, whenever you are in Hyderabad and drinking tea at any Cafe do not forget to order Usmania/Osmania (not sure about the spelling), a tasty biscuit sort of thing. Back at home around 10:30 rajma was waiting in my plate ready to be devoured. It was finger licking tasty and i literally wiped the pan clean. I'm done for the day.

Cricket

2006-08-13T23:56:00.000+05:30

Hi,

The first thing i did after waking was calling up on Tillu's temporary number about his arrival. His friend told me that he was supposed to reach by 5:30 early morning but didn't reach yet. Now it was 7:30 and after calling Bhallu, we decided to meet at around 9:00. I reached Mamu's place by 9:15 and found him rinsing his jeans, a very painstaking job for him doing for the first time. He had spent last night at Bhallu's place watching movies and returned home today morning. He took off on Bhallu's scooter which he used to return home. I strolled around for a while and took this Sudoku puzzle and after some head scratching finally found out the way to solve it. I stood at the gate checking out the chicks passing by after my small discovery and noticed Tillu walking toward me. We shook hands and around the same time Mamu returned with Bhallu. We shot a few pics using Mamu's new 2.0 Mpix phone N71. These pics came out great and i've included one in my Orkut album. Vidhya was just in time beating my theory on his departure from cricket. We took our cricket bag and reached the ground to find only a few kids playing. We were all set to play the six over lineup in the following order: Tillu, Vidhya, Me, Bhallu and Mamu. Tillu played all his six over playing slightly out of form. Vidhya played 5 overs, thrasing Mamu and Bhallu with his great shots finally giving up his wicket to me after Mamu caught him in a reflexer. My bowling was moving body line with little space for the batsman to play the shots coz the ball sped towards the ribs quickly. Mamu got bold, Bhallu was out in his first over in two consecutive bowls with a reflexer c & b and a slow ball played on. Mamu claimed my wicket with his slow delivery forcing me to play the royal flush. We were at Maradugu around 12:30 and this time it was all fruit juice. Our planning for the evening was, Movie The Angrez, Shopping and Subway. Only two things happened, the movie and eat out at "Cafe Alsaba". I could go on writing about this hilarious movie which everyone should watch, maybe i'll point the link some other time with description. I was finally back at 10:00 and slept a bit late after starting my system for the scheduled downloads.

Shopping Saturday

2006-08-12T23:00:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Woke up late and kept archiving the reviews and some orkuting as well. Around 6:00 in the eveing I found out that Bhallu was out for a stroll with Mamu and Phalgun. I joined them at the park and we walked for a while and Mamu got me this rechargable battery which we ordered from Amazon. We did shop a few t-shirts for my gym and Mamu promise me about coming with me for the rest of shopping tomorrow. After returning I called up on the temporary number which Tillu gave me and found out that he will reach tomorrow morning around 5:30. Vidhya will certainly not come tomorrow and i'm guessing that his cricket days are almost over. Tomorrow we have to play cricket and i've to go to bed early. Todays pic was shot around 5:00 after a fresh shower with chunks of clouds sprinkled all over the sky and the sun shining. That's it for today.

Happy Weekend

2006-08-11T20:45:00.000+05:30

Hi,
The cloud in the pic looks to me like a cow fish. A chunk of cloud floating with a small tail and nothing around it. Today morning was as usual and had less work compared to regular day. It a regular occurence and on fridays everyone are in a happy mood coz weekend is almost there. Our lunch sucks and cakes vendor doesn't accept Sodexho's. Played pool after a long long time and i enjoyed it aswell. It took me a while to get back in form. Once back, all the shots seemed easy and 3 hours passed before leaving office. Almost all of the employees have planned for the connecting holidays and have applied for leave on monday making it 4 days. I think office strength will be half coming monday. I recently got this book "microsoft sql server 2000 weekend crash course", went thru a few pages and felt that it is a good one. It's a good start for someone who who needs to learn SQL Server 2000 fast and do not know where to start. These people have just the right mix of basic technical knowledge and curiosity, and need to feel comfortable using SQL Server. Tillu called up and gave me a temporary number for tomorrow. He will reach Hyderabad on sunday morning and we are planning to play cricket from 7:30 onwards. It's already 12:30 and i'll leave my system for the scheduled stuff.
Bye

Silver Lining

2006-08-10T18:31:00.000+05:30

Hi,
This is my first silver line sky shot after all these days, my friend Bharat is documenting his great collection of silver linings worth watching. My learning continued as usual but this time my speed has improved. Nothing much about morning except my downloader seemed to have problems maintaining connection, somehow it was not working. Anyway i turned it off and went back to bed. Talked to Gullu and KMan over Google Chat and coincidentally Gullu said to me the same thing that i wrote in yesterday's blog. I went upstairs around 5:20 to get the pic of the day and found this silver lining. My work was over by 8:30 and it took me 2 hours to reach home. Traffic cops were no where to be seen and regular guys were managing traffic. Now it's 12:30 and i'm waiting for spybot to finish scanning. That's it for today.

Learning Unlimited

2006-08-09T20:07:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today I've learnt a lot in web programming, specifically the html part and damn!!, it is indeed different from our regular windows approach. To create a single screen it took me almost around 4 hours (learning part included). The other interesting thing that happened today is that I saw blue clouds (yes it's not a typo) and included it in this post as proof. All you have to do is look on the right top of the picture. It was unbelievable and amazing to see part of the clouds in blue and part in muddy. My day started as usual (now not going to gym has become normal!!) with me hurrying to office as usual. Played pool after lunch and raced down to finish the remaining work. We were done by 6:30 and I stayed back for a while to upload the pic shot from our office Cafeteria. No shopping today either, Bhallu had his sister visiting today evening for Rakhi and it's been quite sometime since i talked to Gullu. Now it's final, KMan is not visiting us this time and hopefully I might get a chance to visit him. Almost forgot to mention about my friend Rakesh, one of my buddies from Diploma came in touch thru Orkut and now we are catching up thru scraps. Dude!! this Orkut thing is cool and i'd definitely suggest it to everyone. Now it's 11:49pm and i'm done for today.
Bye.

Amazing Clouds

2006-08-08T19:19:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Looking at this shot you will notice a trail of clouds across the sky with a hyperbolic curve. Today the sky was mostly blue with a few clouds sprinkled all over the sunny sky. I reached office as usual and we spent all day making estimates about the current project. No pool/TT today for the first time after getting addicted to it since the time they arrived at our office. We had this open house meeting where "Certificate of Excelence" were distributed and we returned back for the client call to end the day around 9:30pm. I called up Bhallu to cancel today's shopping plan but he was unavailable. Anyway while returning from office, i tried his number again but still the same status. I slept late after booting my pc for the scheduled downloads.

New Day

2006-08-07T18:02:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Finally the sky is opening up with sun visible during day but the clouds are catching up with the approaching evening. Yesterday it got late while copying Bhallu's reviews for studying some other time. Woke up early, turned off the phone and slept. Jessica Alba's pics were done by the time i woke up. These pics are different from the once with me. Anyway reached office to find nothing much to work on. Found a site with interesting articles including web.config details and Class browser. Radhika, our team lead came to office after returning from US. We had a team meeting where she detailed out the existing application and the proposed one as well. After some brain storming about the architecture we finally decided not to talk about until client gives out the details. Talked to Sagar after long time about playing problem of media files in a linux distribution named as Ubuntu. Gullu gave me some pointer which i would try this weekend along with a few changes in batting as well. It's 7:04pm and i'm thinking of playing some pool, get a few shots for my post in pool diving and if possible go to shopping with Bhallu. Well Bhallu had light headache and he too wanted to buy stuff so we decided to make it happen tomorrow. I just returned after a few games of pool and TT, totally exhausted. That's it for today.

Friendship Day

2006-08-06T20:52:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Woke up early around 5:30 and couldn't sleep yesterday either, don't know why. I received this "Friendship Day" message from Sasidhar, felt good and replied him back. Sent friendship greeting SMS to many friends and almost all of them replied back. Logged in Orkut and found out Sithal had already wished me, so i wished him in his scrap book and all my friends in Orkut. Keshav wanted to send an SMS to Sirisha too, i thought why the hassle and called up instead. It was all calls and messages today morning. I wished to call a special friend of mine but due to un availibility of number, i couldn't. I could have obtained the number thru other channels but it's better to take permission before adding someone's number to u'r phone book. Anyway not sure of cricket, i called up Gullu/Bhallu and after a long time Bhallu picked with his sleepy voice. Somehow i felt that he was not interested in playing but just to make sure i asked him and he said that we would meet by 10:00. I was there in time and found mamu at home checking out the pic quality shot by his new Nokia N71; yes Mamu finally bought a mobile. It seemed that low light pic shot was not good either and i knew that an outside shot would be superb with my experience of Nokia 3230; The banana tree shot came out very crisp. Gullu finally arrived after being stuck in his lift for a while, all alone. I guess not everyone is lucky like me to get stuck in a lift with a hot chick ;-). Anyway we made our way to the ground and found out the same uncle guys occupying and asking us not to play with a cork ball. Bhallu arrived and we did some catch practice and with some football. Mamu shot video of Gullu batting stance and approch for Gullu's blog on batting. We were back to our usual hangout with a few chicks here and there. After snacking I got these movie reviews from Bhallu and returned home. After lunch i went thru a few of them. Now it's 10:45 and i'm almost done with this. Coming to the shot of the day, got a crow flying this time.

Catching Up

2006-08-05T20:24:00.000+05:30

Hi,
It's now 8:36pm and i'm totally refreshed after sleeping for around 8 hours. I was totally exhausted after late nights over the whole week due to the dotnet fest. Now totally awake with all the catching up done and ready for some serious action. It seems rains had the same plan, continiously slashing since 3 days and finally opening up. It's not raining now and if it stays the same then we might get to play cricket tomorrow. I went thru this new Asp.net book and it's been ok till now, didn't try any new example yet. I'll finish the pending movie review writes left by end of day. Since 2 days i was unable to get online due to connection failure in the phone box which we fixed today sometime back. Dad decided to do some cleaning up of our book shelf which turned out to be good decision coz rats were all over the place. Kman called us and he might make up his mind to come here for next weekend. It seems that he's playing a lot of snooker these days and i'm too thinking about playing it coz snooker forces u to play with a concious intent of developing the next shot while playing current one. Anyway my pool days are almost over with us shifting to our new building in HiTech City, may be this is a precursor for me to pickup a new game/skill.

Rainy Day

2006-08-04T18:33:00.000+05:30

Hi,

It's been raining since yesterday evening and I was soaked both ways to and from office. If you look at this picture, u'll notice a lot of grain in full size. This problem could be seen almost in all evening and shady pics shot by Nokia 3230. Bhallu called up and we talked about a lot of things including the plane pics mailed by him. It seemed that aunty was cooking something special and Gullu was helping her. Today Kman was busy with some meeting so nothing from his front. I looked into a few examples at asp.net quick start tutorial. Tillu sent this funny mail about chemistry paper and we started chatting thru mail. Went thru gullu's Cricket Blog and wrote a comment about clarifying my doubt. We had this photo session for the new swipe card to be used at our office in HiTech city. Nothing much happened today morning either except visiting temple. It's 7:12pm now and I'm listening to pokiri songs and thinking what else to write. Thats it for today.

No Picture Day

2006-08-03T20:33:00.000+05:30

Hi,

It so happens that u go thru a phase when we have this immense hunger for dotnet, resulting which u wake up late; the next day. This phase thing doesn't last long but usually happens in cycles as other things. Anyway today i didn't get a shot coz it started raining and forgot to take in around 4:00. Same routine as usual with pool and TT. Friends from my previous project visited our office and it was a lot of fun catching up. Now it's 8:44 and i'm still in office with Prasanna sitting beside me and mailing the project status. He plans for gym every eveing but ends up entangled with the project stuff. Gullu suggested this great idea about writing random articles and posting in one place with a picture not sky but random. Talked to Kman for a while and did some catching up coz i was almost offline for two days busy with the project work. I'll add a few reviews in my download client and will try to get out of the cycle i mentioned earlier.

Lone Bird

2006-08-02T20:21:00.000+05:30

Hi,

Today the sky had a flat shade and the clouds were no where to be seen. Thinking a sky shot with out even a single cloud would look like a doctored picture. I kept waiting for something to appear and voila this eagle came out of no where and now it will stay in my shot forever. The day started as usual with no hope of going to the gym and above that reached late. Had an interesting session on web services around 2:00 after lunch and pool. Joined my friends for evening snacks and bacame a victim of their prank. They hid my phone and unfortunately the phone was in silent mode, with no hope asked a few guys around; no use. Finally they returned it back and our game continued. I called up Bhallu and met him at his place around 8:00 and Mamu joined us after a while. I was back by 10:00 and was fast asleep after switching on my system for downloads and watching some dotnet till 12:30.

Boring Day

2006-08-01T19:36:00.000+05:30

Hi,
This shot was taken from our Cafeteria, u can see the picture is a bit tilted. It seems that all the shots posted are evening ones with more clouds accumulating. There are a ones taken in the morning but very few. Well the day started as usual, no comments this time and after reaching office checked the feeds from wikipedia and another site with some SQL stuff. We had a mockup session, kinda preperation for the client call. Slept late around 12:00.

Cloudy Day

2006-08-01T11:36:00.000+05:30

Hi,
I woke up early and slept again finally getting off the bed around 7:30. I'm really pissed coz it's been a week since i did my workout. I forgot to start the download client and around 600 mb of download was lost adding insult to my injury. Finally left for office around 9:00. We didn't have much to do except understanding the existing system and document doubts for clarification. Played pool as usual after lunch and was back to work. Took this shot around 6:00 and it seemed like clouds were ready to dump everything in their belly but it didn't happen at all. I bought a book on ASP.Net, Wrox publication priced at 350 after a discount of 30%. Tillu sent this funny mail about the uses of the world's most popular word "fu**". We replied each other a couple of times sharing weekend events. Tillu might be free this 15'th of August, another ocassion for some masti. That's it for today.
Bye.

Cool Sunday

2006-07-31T11:00:00.000+05:30

Hi,

I woke up late not expecting anyone to play cricket today and didn't do much; just sat watching tv. I noticed a missed call from Gullu, me still unsure of cricket. While ammusing "could it be that everyone has already reached ground", my phone rang up, it was Bhallu and we decided that we'll assemble in ground by 10:00. As usual i started out around 10:00 fearing of being the last one to bat. Finally reached mamu's house to find Prabhakar waving and Bhallu trying to pump air into the football. I stayed back to surprise bhallu, but it took them a full 10 minutes to pump it up and by the time all my enthu was over. Found out that some guys have occupied the ground and won't be leaving soon so after reaching the ground we played football for a while and waited for them to finish off. Meanwhile Prabhakar tried a vain attempt to return home but failed and Mirza finally made it after having a long tea with his friend.
We started our game around 11:40 and decided to play match by dividing ourself into teams. Me, Bhallu, Mirza and Prabhakar were facing Gullu, Mamu, Murali and this new guy. After some thinking Gullu's team decided to bat based on the conclusion that they were good at defending. Mirza decimated half of their team and Mamu's attempts to put up a good total went futile when he got out with his trademark square-shot™. A target of 13 runs in 12 overs was easy for us and we won. The second match was a bit different with scale tilting on both sides. We chose to bat this time and Prabhakar thrashed them all around the park setting up a target of 37 which looked good compared to their previous score. Murali saved the day for them by hanging in there and scoring runs regularly, luck did favour him thrice. Result: we lost and Murali became man of the match ;-) and according to our team tradition; man of the match pays for the treat at maradugu. Freshened up, took lunch and slept after returning from play at 3:30. Nothing special in the evening; slept early.

2006-07-29T18:29:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today i was supposed to play cricket but had to come office early for JKC Drive and two interesting things happened. One i broke my own record of reaching office by making it at 8:15 and next our visit. We started out around 8:45 and for the first time saw Golkonda from another side, it was a good view. Finally we made it to the campus by 10:00, five minutes here and there. Working with our HR team is fun specially being around Prasad, Karuna, Aarthi, Praveena and Seema. I sat and listened them talking and i was all laughing. Anyway we were in our designated rooms for the written exam. I was given the task of explaining the rules to the students, got help from Praveena and Prasad. Anyway we were done by 3:00 with all the work and to our surprise, lunch was being prepared again for us. My head felt heavy by the time we finished lunch and on top of that we had to wait another 2 hours before reached back to office. While waiting for the college staff to type the names and publishing the results. We strolled around for a while checking out chicks. While chatting with Prasad, i found out that he played state level cricket as an opening batsman. I enjoyed the recruitment drive so much that i requested him to invite me everytime they go out. After returning i stayed back for a while and composed this blog and left around 8:00.

Murky Clouds

2006-07-28T19:38:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today's shot looks interesting coz i get this feeling of being under murky water and looking up. It's been like that all day and rain showered around 5:00. My day started as usual with no hope of going to gym but i disliked the feeling so much so that i went ahead and did 2 sets of pushups just to feel the pump; it was heaven. Quality Day finally arrived and Applabs was full of activity with Quality buzz going all around. I didn't like one thing, the surprise gifts part where in only the QA guys were quizzed at random and we developers were left out kinda unfair. Quality lunch was good compared to the usual and it seems new section opened up for cakes and pastries. No sports today, i do wonder why we were not allowed coz all the tables were in place not an inch moved. It's now 9:00 and we're still at office finalizing the use case document and got listed for JKC Drive; head hunting for our company. Tomorrow i have to be here at office by 8:30 am, only god knows the outcome ;-).

Gloomy Day

2006-07-27T19:26:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today had no hope of going to the gym, coz running drenched in the rain gave me cramps. It was the heaviest rainfall for this monsoon and looking at yesterday's pic, it's a childs guess. Today it took me a lot of time to figure out what to put on and finally got out my old pair of shoes with huge soles. I had packed them safely for the rainy season but thought these might never come out but lo i had my totally sogged formal shoes and these came to the rescue. Use Cases were mailed back to us with modification and we had to make a few changes in the old format. Lunch as usual and some pool playing afterwards. We've been receiving mail about Quality Day being held here at Applabs Technologies with all sorts of quizes and white paper presentation, food and so on. A recent mail stated that our Gym and Recreation area will be used for the purpose, that meant no play for 2 days. Anyway went outside to take this snap and found clouds covering up the sun almost completely and gloomy everywhere kinda looking like a moonlit night.

Cloud Blanket

2006-07-26T18:49:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today woke up around 7:00 after switching off the alarm at 5:30 as usual. Checked out the download stats and upgraded the client with a newer version. Refreshed myself and moved out early to reach office in time. Fortunately the telecon was posponed for some reason and i was there when the meeting happened. Tried to use my phone as a digital voice recorded and to my surprise the recording time went up from 9 minutes to 30 minutes after covering the camera lens. The recorded voice is good enough to make out the conversation. I'm thinking of using it to record the upcoming debugging techniques workshop and share among friends. Lunch was uneventful as ever and somehow i seem to lose in TT when i'm playing Pool well and vice versa.

Looming Monsterous Clouds

2006-07-24T19:03:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Was not sure if i would make it to the gym so no alarm, woke up late around 7:00, checked out the download status and tried a few previews. Got up freshened and mailed the pics shot yesterday to everyone and prepared for my shave. Don't know why but i always end up moving out late no matter if i goto the gym. Anyway reached office and had this small meeting about the approach and temporary tasks delegation. Got these very helpful ASP.NET videos from Varma and went thru them. Played pool after lunch lost twice and won thrice, came back to continue with the videos. Left back for some pool, but played TT instead. Got thrashed by 2-7 (i'm not telling his name) but got to learn a lot. All sweaty sat 4 a while and moved for some snacks. Remembered the dayily sky shot and took this one with dark clouds converging. I'll stay back 4 a while and update a few more blogs.

Cloudy with some Blue and Silvery

2006-07-24T18:27:00.000+05:30

Hi,
This was the most eventful day, starting with me calling up Gullu not sure of playing cricket but to my amazement he was ready and me expecting Gullu with Naren coming for the game. Interestingly on reaching Mamu's home, Prabhakar and Mirza came down to join the game and the unexpected part was Bhallu making up his mind to play irrespective of body pains. We had a lot of fun and i pushed myself to bowl a bit faster, not sure whether i succeded or not but did bowl out a few. After the game we moved over to Maradugu around 2:30; forget the chicks even the sabji walas were gone. Mamu announced his home coming party at "Mainland China". Now that we were supposed to meet at 6:30, everyone left after having the usual. Reached home by 3:30, refreshed myself, had lunch and slept upto 6:00. I Started out around 6:30 and noticed nice sunset, took a few shots and around the same time Bhallu called up about my arrival after confirmation i asked him to take a few pics of the sunset. Reached his place by 7:30 and we reached "Mainland China" at 8:30. After the "Nan king" incident i was not sure about Vidhya appreciating the food and truly speaking i wasn't sure of it either. The food turned out tasty and our peeking expectations were shallowed by the servings even though the guy tried to explain stuff which we didn't really care anyway coz we were expecting a Nat Geo episode style peeking duck roasted and served full right on the table with the chef slicing and serving. The party was over with the concluding deserts and we were out by 10:50. Finally gullu dropped me at home around 11:00 and i went to bed after booting my pc for the scheduled downloads.

Alternate Updates

2006-07-22T08:12:00.000+05:30

Hi,
It's boring to use same words over and over again for describing the day anyway i've decided to make this blog as my diary and keep posting the sky as usual. To start with i woke up late after silencing the alarm around 5:00. Remembered about cricket and called up Gullu/Bhallu and the game was to start around 9:30 but we were in the ground by 10:00. Recorded our bowling action after our regular play and moved out to our favourite hangout (Maradugu, K.K Tower). After cooldrinks/fruit juice returned back home and rested till late evening. Woke up with a heavy head, watched tv for a while; slept immediately after dinner. It was cloudy all day and rains poured down around mid night.

Dry and Sunny

2006-07-20T19:02:00.001+05:30

Well the day was average with a cool start in the morning. Stayed all day in office and now leaving our building around 7:00. This pic was shot today at 5:44; our snack/pool/TT time. Ocassionally i do go the gym to check my weight and chicks as well.

Good Sunny Day

2006-07-19T19:03:00.000+05:30

Well today the clouds don't seem to be in a raining mood, and the sky is mostly clear and the blue is as beautiful as ever. This was shot around 5:00 from our office terrace. Played a few matches, amazingly very satisfying coz we won all.

Cloudy and Humid

2006-07-18T11:52:00.000+05:30

Hi,

This pic was shot around the same time as the one shot yesterday, almost under the same circumstances. Heavy lunch, woke up late and ran towards the terrace and found clouds all over. It rained in the night and the power outage made me shutdown my pc scheduled for the regular downloads.

Sunny and Humid

2006-07-16T19:25:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Almost forgot to take the pic but managed to get a good one around 6:30. Playing cricket on such a day gave salt marks on our T's. The sweat was awful and cool drinks were good for the much needed relief. Hmm..., this seems to be another reason for chicks not coming out for shopping veggies near and around K.K Towers. May be someone of you might help me on this theory...

Partly Cloudy Sky

2006-07-15T20:22:00.000+05:30

Hi,
Today it was partly cloudy and partly sunny but on the whole it was an average day. The picture i shot came a bit differently and it's worth examining. I'm assuming that the lense caught up sun glare or something even though the sun was partly behind the clouds.

Bit Gloomy but Cool Day

2006-07-14T11:51:00.000+05:30

Hi,

Today it's cool and the heat isn't bothering much. Sitting in an AC room and working won't make u sweat anyway. A fair amout of Table Tennis might give u a wet shirt but apart from that the cool breeze flowing is a relief. Since the sun is behind the clouds, a stroll outside could be a nice idea.

Hyderabad SkyView

2006-07-13T14:44:00.000+05:30

Hi,

Today on i'll be uploading pictures of the hyderabad sky everyday and write a few comments about it. I'll shoot the pics using a 1.3 Mpix Nokia 3230 phone and let's hope the pics look good.

For a start i'm posting 2 pics out of which one of them were shot with a 2.0 Mpix Nokia 3250 phone from the Cafeteria of Applabs Technologies.

Shiny Day

1990-07-25T18:56:00.000+05:30

Hi,

Today day started by switching off the alarm around 5:30 and waking up around 7:00. Skipped gym coz i had a telecon at 9:30. Refreshed my self after checking the download stats and ran upstairs to take a few shots for todays blog. Came back, took break fast and left my place around 8:45. It took me an outrageous 1 hour and 15 minutes to reach office, guess what i have another theory formally denoted as "if you have a tendancy to get late then eventhough if you start early the universe will conspire to make sure that u are late" ;-). Finally made it to the telecon and took notes. Prepared a usecase and lunch time. Pool as usual with some TT and was back to my cube by 2:00. Completed work by 4:30 and was off again for some snacks and recreation. I returned home around 10:00 pm after visiting Gullu/Bhallu's home. I tried to upload this pic yesterday but the photo server was down. The sky is as good as it was in the morning but it rained a lot tonight.