In an effort to save my beloved

Today was the hectic day.
Tring tring: A phone call conveying that the electronic board is hung.
In-situ explanation by the team member: “I heard a spark and I turned off the system”
Immediate conclusion: Power – Ground short
I suspected capacitor damage surge current / ESD
I wanted to restore the small cute baby to life: I de-soldered the capacitors.
Hope this would bring her back to life.
Nope :o(
Still EEPROM was in system: It was healthy
My cute girl’s processor is gone.
Indeed very sad to admit that she was not given the basic ESD care.
Hope this is the first and last of such errors.

Right Handed :o)

Being right handed means skilled...but being only right handed practically means you are disabled. I thought of this while dressing up for office yesterday using the right hand alone since I burnt my left hand touching the silencer of Bullet-thunderbird. If my hands would have been modular then I would have just removed and kept it aside. Now I am feeling better.

Pictures, pictures and more pictures

I never knew that I could take good picture using a camera. I really loved capturing the moments of nature. Today I spent uploading them in flickr and tagging them, so that I can share the same in my blog http://www.flickr.com/photos/12072181@N00/

The road to Satyavas…the beach resort

Early morning the entire team was busy making preparation for our stay in the beach resort which is an hour drive from our place. Mom and two others planned for the grocery items. My sis was busy packing our dresses; I was packing my things :0) . Later we went out to buy those. I helped them pack the grocery in a compact way. We all loaded the items including our extra beddings onto our Toyota – Qualis. We lunched at the dhabha-express restaurant. We went to the resort along with Satish and Lakshmi who are volunteers of Vasantha memorial trust at Chennai. It was a pleasant drive then.

(Un?)educated Crowd

Last week Saturday, I was in Chennai along with volunteers of Vasantha Memorial Trust (http://www.vasantha.org/) for what else other than helping in arrangements for a concert rendered by Visaka Hari. The average age of viewers exceeded 50. And believe me, managing them was a huge task. My sister was at the token counter and had a very busy time. Educated people coming for concert behaving like this leaves me thinking about a situation where I need to manage a mixed crowd; I suppose that would be much easier. I got to hear the vocal concert too. It was nice.

Some more pictures...

These are some more pictures taken on last Friday 14/09...

These are near the food court

a more closer shot to get a feel of the flowing water

Bridge under water

Everyday commute to office, we cross a 10 meter bridge constructed across a sewer canal. The bridge submerged in water last friday due to heavy rains in Bangalore. The water had gone more than a meter above the bridge.

More scary was the flooding of a small canal in our campus. The entire food court was sorrounded by water and the scene was terrific. This reminded me of the mighty Brahmaputra flooding every year in Nazira, Asssam

Project deadline for Archana

This world revolves on deadlines...be it anything.
Even God has got deadlines :)

My college friend Archana has her own deadline of delivering a baby by 19th November this year.
My best wishes for her successful delivery of her project named 'Baby' and I express my hearty congratulations to both Archana as well as Lijesh in advance.

'~Day' for Origami

‘~ Day’…We have special days to associate with almost everything. Few years from now, all 365 slots will be filled; we will then have a day for remembering all days and probably add more days to the year to satisfy our quest for special days, the ‘~Days’. Leave aside the future; scanning the present calendar of ‘~Days’, two days are marked for Origami「折り紙」. Let’s not envy origami for snatching two days in the calendar, let’s ponder the reason.
U.S. and U.K. calendars allocate October-24 for Origami. It marks the birth of Lillian Oppenheimer, who popularized origami in the west. She pioneered in spreading the art and science involved in origami starting from 1950.
In Japan, the story is different. Japanese consider origami to be one of the highest forms of art and celebrate November-11 for origami 「折り紙の日」spelt as ‘Origami no hi’, which is also the ‘Veteran’s day’ or ‘Remembrance day’ for them. This was the day when ‘World War-1’ ceased and the peace treaty was signed. It is referred to as ‘Sekai Heiwa Kinenbi’ 「世界平和記念日」meaning ‘World Peace Memorial Day’. Apart from these 2 x 24 hours, there are special origami seasons spanning from four days to one month followed throughout the world.

The above is yet to be published. It is written for our internal Japanese magazine

Best Wishes Prasanna

It is one year since we had started learning Japanese, and already two of our peers left the company...Today was the third person quitting. Prasanna leaving us, makes the 'Mapu' gang(The nickname for gang of 3 persons in the class) with just one lone person. Well I wish Prasanna-san all the best for his masters degree in Italy.