New Anthem..

What we fight for ?? What we don't ??

My friend Rammohan asked me to respond to this post on Ramsethu issue. Wanted to share in through my blog also.

we lack proper platform to protest. We need to clean our system first. The midset of people has to change. Only then we can progress better. There was an eenadu article that explains how bad we are at our civic sense. We don't clean our neighbourhood, we don't follow traffic rules.. lot more to mention.. I don't want to repeat them here. First we need to build our civic sense. Everyone of us want curruption free, developed india. But how many of us are actually thinking & trying for that ? We get inspired by the movies when we see them.. We get inpired when someone talks or forwards a mail about our India. But we forget after that. We need a constant source of inspiration. This thinking should be a continuous process. Speaking or writing words is very easy than implementation.

Our ancestors gave us incredible culture. Now it is very much diluted. Why are we running behind westren culture ? Are we thinking about yoga instead of joining gym for fitness ? Are we learning karnatic/hindustani music instead of westren music ? Why are we eating more and more pizzas, sandwitches though it is not suitable for us ? I was shocked to see an american in an arranged talk about Yoga in our company. He highlighted the importance of Yoga for physical and mental healthyness. This shows that time has already arived to learn our culture from foreigners.. Some of the quotes by famous personalities..

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. - Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. -French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. -Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )


I don't think those people will say the same thing if they see present India. Isn't this shame on us ?

Regarding the issue of Ramsethu, Yeah we should protest it but before that there are so many other things which we need to address first. They have highest priority.

Photo Madness

Slowly photography is becoming part of my life... I had a dream of seeing my picture in Flickr explore.. That came true.. 5 of my photos are in flickr. Now my goal is to take a picture which will come in front page of flickr. Here is the slideshow of my flickr explore photos.

Some useful links for Flickerites!!
To know your userid
To see all photos in a page
To embed flash slide show of flickr photos
For photogalleries in your webpage
To find your explore photos
Flickr toys

Finally I made it in flickr

Devbagh beach
Originally uploaded by plsssnraju.

I have been waiting for the day to see my photography work in flickr explore. With lots of expectations, uploaded a snap which I have taken recently. Donno whether this is going to be in explore but I am very happy to figure out that the above snap was in flickr explore on 21st May calender month page 36.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php?username=81863338@N00&mode=dropped

Thanks to Scout tool, which tells u the photos that were chosen to explore from your sets. But sad to know that my photo was recently dropped because of unknown reasons.. need to figure that out.

BTW, this is one of my best recent work. Add your comments in the flickr page

Computer Maniac

Am I going mad with computers ? Looks like there is nothing else except computers in life. Thanks to Ganesh. His questions made me to think about my lifestyle. After that first love with my project, I became computer maniac. Though traveling around every now and then, daily life seems to be nothing except computers. Waiting for the day to leave office at 5:30pm.

First love ??

Am I in love..? If you keep on thinking about something every moment of the day and you become isolated from the rest of the world but not from that something.. You like to be with that something.. You want that something.. isn't that something your lover ? And Are you not in love ? At least for me, it sounds like that. That something became my work. Yes I am not kidding.. Work became my first love. The project has become so interesting that I can't simply make my mind sleep without thinking about it. I don't hate leaving late from office any more.. Isn't this the sign of falling in love with work ?

I can't believe I am writing this at 1:00am after reaching home at 12:30am from office. Just this strange thought striked my mind to update blog at this time.. That picture & first sentence explains a lot about my way of life these days.. Office has become my home. Not that I am doing earth shattering work for the comapny.. but learning new things which are very interesting.. And actually, there is hardly anything else to pen down now.. The enthu to write here is over shadowed by my sleeping mind....... Hhhhhhhhh!!!! Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!..........

Have I posted this ?

China house

"China house".. sounds so funny.. Sridhar named our Corner House (Ice cream parlor) as China house few days back. It's been long time since china house treat happened. Sridhar & I were given confirmation letters by our PM as permanent employees of Sarnoff. On 05th March, we finished six months of probation period. We are successful in creating enough impression that, we can be permanent here :). Ramanan who always wants not to be a work freak, found this as a reason to jump out of office.. Sridhar & I are such icecreamhoars that we never say NO to it. And Ramanan catched our weekness. As it happens everytime, Sridhar and I've choosen the same ice cream with dry fruits. Raman always complains about our gayness in our tastes. Thanks to china house ppl for preparing such great ice creams.. For a moment I felt as if I am eating best icecream that's ever made.

I don't like it!!

I thought of my professional life differently and now leading it the way every other fresh graduate engineer leads.. I dreamed of leaving office early and engaging myself in some other activities when I was in IIT.. but now, the way I lead my life has become so monotonic.. though work is fun at office, I still don't like the point that I come very late in the evening. I feel like I became a computer maniac browsing net all the time. Thinking of joining some institute to learn flute. Now I got my digicam.. but still not getting time to get photographic skills except on weekends..

Started taking snaps..

Last week, I was pretty busy with my cam.. exploring new things. I was so eager to finish the manual to learn using my Canon S2 IS & its full capabilities. Apart from learning functionalities of cam, I read few tutorials available in websites like Canon, Kodak. Now I feel like I read enough of theory.. hence started experimenting with that. Check out these random snaps in my album. And dont forget to comment about them.

Random Snaps

New Year.. New Colors..

Back to office after a long vacation of 10days.. Wayanad became the destination to roam around during Christmas. Enjoyed that trip with my roommates and micro people batch. Went home after that to celebrate my brother's birthday. Was very nice. He enjoyed it. that is what I wanted. Although nothing so special celebrations for this new year, Naveen & I had great time. Roamed around in the city on his bike. I usually like to ride at night. That was awesome. Forgot to tell about the Colors.. It is all about my Digicam. The long waiting digicam is finally reached its destination on this new year. Planning to become a good photographer.. Donno how things are going to work.. But have lots of hopes and excitement. This is my first artistic pic that I am uploading.. Write your comments about it.