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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

Tags: chennai, Fun, movies, sunky monkey

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)..

Tags: bits, exams

My New Holiday Manager

Jan 19, 2010 Fun, General

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,

–

Mayank Bidawatka

Head-Marketing

redBus.in

Call us: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune on 394-12345.

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

Tags: Jokes and Fun, Travel Blogs

The correct SDLC

Jan 18, 2010 Fun

This was a funny extract that i found in some forwarded email

Tags: Jokes and Fun, Software Engineering

AND THERE IT COMES TO AN END… 2009

Dec 31, 2009 Fun, General

In a couple of hours from now, 2009 will be over. Again a new year will begin, but this year would have given me some of the most unforgettable moments of my life. If I had to summarize 2009 in a few words, I would say, it was a dream run for me. It helped me look at reality; it looks like it has possibly shown me a path of where I should be heading. I became fully qualified in this year, ZCE, did try my luck at java as well, and then I was able to get enrolled for my MS. It was all very good. Much of it should be credited to the support of my friends (most of them are ex-colleagues now), so 2009 will be remembered happily for all that.

I tried learning guitar, it was quite happy to see myself playing it well, but due to unexpected (But somehow all my friends guessed it beforehand) distractions, I couldn’t continue with it for too long. My travelling hit an unexpected all time low this year with just 3 or 4 noticeable trips for the whole year; this was a huge drop when compared to previous years. So If I wasn’t travelling a lot, I wasn’t obviously using my camera lot. I also had some fun at stock market and made some marginal profits out of my money; it did help me learn a lot on financial matters.

I did do a lot of stupid things in 2009, but just like every year, I would not regret for them (he he:) ), it’s a part of the package, which has some pluses and minuses; you don’t really have a choice but to bear with it. Nobody is perfect. I don’t want to be nobody…

So what are my plans for 2010?

• Study … Study… Study… If some of my engineering classmates looked at this… they will roll on the floor and laugh… but I have to do it, not too many choices here
• I should plan some trips and execute them!, travelling is one thing I missed a lot in 2009
• I technically don’t need any more gadgets/electronic devices… So I shouldn’t buy anything else this year, but save money (I was thinking about a Mac Book, an Android Phone, a Nikon D5000 SLR… and one more 23” Wide screen so that I get a dual screen setup at home, at the time of writing this…)
• Find someplace where they conduct Guitar classes during weekends near my residence (have already invested some money on the musical instrument, should try to get at least some ROI)
• I should blog more frequently, and start contributing lot more tech articles to Clickoffline.com, traffic influx has increased in the recent months.
• Anh! Well… Stock Market… yes

Why did I write this post? — Because of this inspirational article by my friend

Wish you a happy 2010 for all of you !

Stop Press update for geeks: I have just integrated the Picasa Web Albums into WordPress using GData API which is provided as a part of the Zend Framework (Sounds cool right). Checkout the Photography Link on the header, it uses ZF’s GData API to render the images by fetching them from Picasa Web Albums Site. I will blog about this in Clickoffline.com and will try to do some server side optimizations to improve the blog’s performance.

Tags: 2009, 2010, bits, Corporater, Fun, Guitar, zend