Colorful moment

I am missing my cam :(

Taken with my little w810i

I am part of this :))

First cricket match

Never thought in my past that I will watch a live cricket in stadium. Thanks to IPL and T20 format game. I used to be one of the few Indians who doesn't like cricket.. of course, not any more.. As they say, "change is the changeless".. my "cricket quotient" changed from -ve... zero.. to a +ve number over a period of time. I hardly played any cricket in my school days and even never watched TV matches till college. Now enjoying matches in TV and finally a live match in stadium. Ramanan, Sridhar & I booked tickets for IPL match between Deccan Chargers (DC) Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Being a Gulti, I supported Hyderabd team and the other two supported Bangalore. I never thought watching a match in a stadium can be so enjoying... with all the crowd shouting slogans, making Mexican wave.. dancing like cheer leaders when there is a Four or Six even for a wicket :). In fact both the teams made it more interesting by making it a very close match. DC needed 18 out of 4 balls. The hopes came alive when the batsman hit 2 sixes in Kumble bowling. But they couldn't score 6 more runs in last 2 balls. It was a little disappointment that DC lost but ultimately Cricket won for me.

Spot light

Back to blogs after long time..
Usually, I don't like to forward mails unless it is very important. Everybody must read this. Donno whether Kalam has actually posted this or not. But it is very useful information.

To all those who do not TURN OFF their PC's before Leaving OFFICE
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam



NOTE: THIS IS NOT TO HURT ANYONE.


Most of us in the IT field, do one thing before leaving for the day from office,
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+ Del and leaving to home happily.

One normal PC in the sleeping mode (Hibernation) will consume 35 watts/hr.
Based on this we will do a small calculation.
For one week 24 * 7 = 168 Hrs
Of this if we consider that we are working for 68 hours, then the PC is in sleeping mode for 100 Hrs a week.

For one month 4 * 100 = 400 Hrs
In a normal IT office, if we assume approximately 250 PCs are there,
250 * 400 = 1,00,000 Hrs (Sleeping Mode)

So the power wasted in an office per month is about,
100000 * 35 = 3500 KWH or units.

If the charge per unit is Rs.6, then totally the wastage value is
approximately 21000 Indian rupees.

Here the sad thing is not the money loss to the company but the power loss to the country. (No company is bothering about this procedure of keeping the system in sleeping mode)

Apart from the loss to the country we need to think of the efforts of the people for producing the power in the Mines, Thermal Stations, Hydro electric Stations, etc. If this continues, the cost of an unit power will go up & at one stage we will not get power even if we are ready to pay at any cost.

So before leaving office take some time to shut down the PC and do some favour to the country and the organisation.

If you feel that this point is to be considered, forward this to all your friends.

*** Do it once it will become a Habit... Good Habit...be a good citizen of India .....


By Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

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.

Music & Melodies

I am not fond of much music & songs. Sorry I should say I "was". Donno how it happened ? but suddenly, started listening to good songs & appreciate them. I used to ask the question to my dear ones like why do they like musik ? And what drives them & what joy do they get ? Now time has arrived to question myself. I started feeling the hidden melodies in tracks.. May be I ignored them before.. But ultimately.. some refreshment to mind. Can be much more than that.. need to discover that treasure. I was deeply disappointed after knowing that Sainikudu was a flop at box office. This is the first movie i guess, I downloaded the audio songs & enjoyed the most. The Audio is superb.

Back to blogs!!!

Its been a long time since I left IIT and my blogs. Life changed a lot in this span. My continuous long student journey got a break. I hope its just a break but not an end. I joined Sarnoff on September 4th as a Software Engineer. Bangalore is a nice City. The climate is superb but traffic is worst. After a good amount of search for house, Sridhar Cheruku found one in Indiranagar. Cheruku, Srihari I are staying in a 2BHK house. Slowly I adapted myself to professional life. Office resembles our SPANN lab in IIT. All colleagues are very friendly. Learning new things.. Thats all for now..

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Finally I uploaded it!

Thnq video.google..

Watch the video prepared by my friends on the occasion of valedictory function. for more info, refer this posting

don't forget to switch on your speakers :).

If you want to watch the larger resolution video, visit this url

Save trees!

Dont think that I am goin to write about saving trees again like previous post.. This is all about my b'day on 25th June.. Most memorable one, celebrated by my friends.. Then you might wonder why did I titled it as Save trees.. and what is the relation with my b'day.. Coming to the point, I planted a mango tree today.. sorry Its not only me.. Sridhar, Namita also helped me.. so it become friendship tree. Only after doin this, I thought of posting blog about my b'day.. I had enough bumps on the day.. was very painful.. but the moments and happiness cured that pain.. Sridhar never gave bumps to anyone as far as I can remember.. but I became exceptional.. The most surprise thing on this b'day is a phone call from my dad at night 12:00. He never wished me at 12:00 for my b'day before. I felt very happy for that. Many friends have called and wished me. I got good gifts.. incidentally or accidentally, got 3 watch gifts. As this is goin to be final treat that I am giving to comm group, I thought of a big one. Utsav became the vennue for that.. apart from our comm group, Deepthi, Radha, Raghavendra were also present.. thats it for now.. It is already late.. time to go bed.. have enough work to do tomorrow..

Save Trees!

A picture is worth more than 1000 words.. It is not just the tress will help you in this kind of situations.. but this is just to remind you that grow plants. Think about our mother nature some times.. Plantation doesn't mean that you need huge space around your home.. a small growing plant in a pot outside your carridor will help in eco friendly nature. Atleast grow a plant on your b'day, once in a year.. the immediate result is "satisfaction". Try this out from next b'day :-).