Archive for 2010

Sunky Monkey Merchandise

Mar 11, 2010 Fun

My brother has got hold of a Sunky Monkey key-chain recently ( Its not actually meant to be a Sunky Monkey one, but he flaunts it as one… :) )

This one is really cool, and it actually has close resemblances to  the real sunky monkey… he he :)

The Real Sunky Monkey

:: Screen credit.. some youtube video


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Bittu at BITS

Mar 1, 2010 Blogs, Fun

Last month I was giving my mid semester exams at BITS Exam Center in Chennai, This was in a school near Thiruvanmyuir

and when I was walking down from the exam hall after scribbling whatever my mind thought was relevant to the QP (just like every other exam that I give , I was unprepared for this one as well),

I found these chits on the floor.. Couldn’t resist to take some snaps.. Reminds me of college days…

I don’t know how other feel about it.. but this looked very funny to me.. I mean these guys are a bunch of professionals with lots of experience, and they use chits :0 ….

I guess I should start preparing for my finally exams (MicroXerox)..

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New Camera

Feb 11, 2010 Photography, Travel

Gifted myself with a new camera, a couple of weeks ago, so was busy researching on it. This is a Nikon 3000, it came with a 18-55mm Kit lens, Kit bag, 4 Gb mem card, etc.. .

The Camera as such is excellent with a wide range of enhancements, the zoom is the only thing that hurts. I certainly do know the metrics behind zoom lenses in SLR cameras, but having got used to a superzoom (FujiFilm S5700) for more than a year, I find this very hard to get used to. But if you go to a store and check the  price of those super zoom lenses for SLR’s you wont think about them.

Here are some of the snaps taken with the new camera

Drift wood on beach Coconut tree leaf Writing with Lights

Also see,  Snap from Kodaikanal trip Jan 2010, taken on my friend’s Sony A200 DSLR

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My New Holiday Manager

Jan 19, 2010 Fun, General

Hello all ,
I would like to introduce you to my new holiday and leave manager, meet Mayank Bidawatka, Head-Marketing, redBus.in.. Read the email below…..
from:         MAYANK BIDAWATKA <******@redbus.in>
reply-to:  ******@redbus.in
to:              ******@gmail.com
date:         Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM
subject:   Apply for leave on Jan 25
Dear Mr. Krishna Shasankar,
Upcoming holidays
Jan 26 (Tuesday) – Republic Day – Book bus tickets now
Feb 12 (Friday) – Mahashivratri – Book bus tickets now
We hope you’re planning to apply for leave for Jan 25, Monday. That will give you a 4-day long week-end starting Jan 22 till Jan 26. You can also start reservations for Feb 12 right away.
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Here’s wishing you great journeys ahead.
Best regards,
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Mayank Bidawatka
Head-Marketing
redBus.in
Call us: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune on 394-12345.
I got this email this morning on my gmail, and I found it quite funny….
“…. What the hell.. Why should you hope that I plan to apply for my leave at office, and why the hell do you think my boss will grant me leave if he gets to read a email like this. If I was the boss and if I happened to read this mail, I would have never granted any one leave on Jan 25th …. Please stop making public abuse of individual employee plans… and btw, did you send this email to your team at redbus.in, what will you do if all of them apply for a leave on 25th.. ???? (If all of them were granted leave … our holiday might go for a toss…. ha ha)”

I personally have nothing against Mayank or whomever. .. I certainly agree that people at marketing always find innovative ways to attract customers, this email was certainly attractive and eye catching, but telling me what I should do..  is a little bit too much..

And my dear peer software engineers & developers, never advice your Boss or TL to book tickets using the above mentioned site, it might affect your long term plans… he he :)

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The correct SDLC

Jan 18, 2010 Fun

This was a funny extract that i found in some forwarded email :-)
Software Development Life Cycle
  1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
  2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
  3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs.
  4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs.
  5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
  6. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
  7. Users find 137 new bugs.
  8. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
  9. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
  10. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji.
    Entire testing department quits. !!
  11. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
  12. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
  13. New Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.

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