Refreshing time 4 some hcu stories....

It's always refresh the old memories; beautiful or not so beautiful.... i was missing all those hcu fun except for the occasional visit to hyd... and couple of visits by friends here over few days... it was fun talking about 'those days'....

For over a month, i was out of touch with all 'hyderabadies'... then came chaitanya's invite for a lunch at his place... Chaitanya was my colleague during phd... and he is in chennai with his wife now... Talked endlessly about the old and new department stories... those troubled times of research and a bit of fun inbetween.... i always say i miss the fun days... but i do miss those tension-some days in my Phd too... the troubles with ur colleagues, bosses and all... those will also be memorable...

When u say u enjoy life; it include the bitter side too... 'cos its that bitterness that makes the better times 'better or best'....

Well, the point to underline is lunch was awesome... enjoyed a telugu meal after a long time... and for me, it was a nice break from my 'home-lab schedule'...

Trouble days... fun days... sick days... a month just passed by...

A month away from blogging... it was a busy month indeed.... started all even b4 with my NOVA breaking down completely and had to abandon it finally for a new activa... jet black bike again... never wanted to buy a bike in chennai, but had no other option... walking/going by auto in chennai is indeed risy/costly... u can risk ur life walking on road... drivers are reckless at this side of the world... so do autowallahs, ur one month salary will go down in their pockets if u rely on them... so decided to get a new one... my NOVA is still @ home, dont know yet what to do with it.... most probable thing is give it off to some mechanic and cancel the registration... sigh...

inbetween, had a blast in hyderbad... went to have a get together with my buddies sushilji sampy... and ofcourse jacob... shopped day after day... dined with misfits and had lots of biriyani... fun week-end... never wanted to end...

all these followed by sick days... i dont like to fall sick... especially cold... it just sucks... thank god for a couple of days Vitso was in chennai to give me company... finally, i got to hit the chennai beach with her... i went ther with some cold and fever, even in sickness, had fun...

well, with all these around, had a handful of work too... APP had given me a load to finish in a week... just finished a calculation... wherever u go, APP and channeling wil always follow me...

and yesterday i celebrated one year anniversary of my phd viva... one yr since i became Dr... i'm chennai, no chance i partyd... just another sunday @ home...

back to work... well and good... it will be october soon.. time flies... none can stop that....

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pic above : my new activa....

Spammers' pleasures...

Wondered anytime who are the ones following you in twitter or sending facebook invites... or in past orkut invites???? all we know that there are some online junkies, jobless who creates fake ids and enter into everybody's friendslist and all... but the real question is why??? If the pleasure is to interact with more people, why 1000s in ur list....

I was watching the crime series 'criminal minds' for the past few weeks, so whenever i get a 'follow' request from an acc, i tend to consider them as criminals, who sneak into our lives and our friends, read our blogs and they get more ideas for more fake acc... they learn our personal lives... thatz weird... and we r not the only ones they are following... cant just understand the logic... 'why'....

Even now, when i took a glance to my twitter page, some1 started following me... glad there is something called 'report spam' in the online world...

Was reading an article in IBNlive regarding the hackers and crackers... their worst fears and all... hackers and crackers are mostly interested in 'big stuffs' like govt/company websites... stealing credit card details... but what about spammers... disturbing personal pages in social networking and all... what they earn.... only a spammer can answer that Q...

When I looked up...

Last few days in chennai it was rain all over... Nobody expected a july/august shower in the city... i was told by some colleagues that rain in chennai will b november or december... unexpected climate chane; but i was excited...

But the excitement is when i am in my home and no more humidity disturbing my sleep... You go outside, its not a good feeling at all... dirty roads, water clogging... its not a good feeling... even when you are riding, u need to be careful enough to miss the craters in the roads and all... when i ride i try to avoid even the other vehicles, i dont want to get a splash from the dirty water.... so you have to focus ur attention to the road only when u ride here... And when you look down and ride; yeah yeah... all dirt... hmm...

But last day was diff, i was coming home a bit early... it was not heavy rain... traffic was less... i was scanning the road and riding slowly... when i felt no more danger from water, i looked up, to have some fresh air.... i had just turned to the Lake side, man... the beautiful sky i have ever seen in chennai... cloudy still... gray strokes on a blue sky.... it was like a piece of work.... couldnt help slow down and enjoy the scene....

Hmm... couldnt take a pic of it... the traffic never slows down permanently.... Vehicles started pouring in... and i rode faster to home... but couldnt leave that picture from my mind....

Beautiful beautiful is this place around.... but u need to keep ur eyes off from the negative aspects of life to enjoy the goodness around.... Well, the recipe for happiness is simple; all you have to do is look away from the dark sides and look up to the bright sides; thatz what is called staying positive.... a lesson learned in rain...

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The pic above is downloaded from web, not my pic...

Enjoying this chatter patter....

Finally its raining... raining in chennai...

Good bye for a while to the humid days and nights... finally, finally could sleep in peace...

But its not a beautiful rain as i could feel in kerala or in the campus... rain in chennai means dirty and flooding rods, never keep ur feet down on the road... thatz chennai.... beware...

But whatever, clean campus... green trees... all fresh around... some cool weather.... thatz all i wanted...

Enjoying this chitter patter for the while... i know after sometime the humidity is back on track....

Cant just wait 4 a few seconds!!??

After riding through 'reckless' hyderabadi traffic for 3 years, in my memory i was never close to any kinds of accidents... or even 'close shaves'... even when people say hyderabadies are worst in obeying traffic rules... there were moments i had cursed some of the auto-wallahs or even pedestrians.... Now, after coming to chennai i feel, they were all saints...

The traffic in chennai... hell.... and the way people obey it worse than hell... every day atleast once i do feel, 'ok, i'm done'... close to too many accidents here.... mostly by the signal... people cant just wait for the signal to go green... i am surprised at the fact that most of the signal jumping are by the bus drivers... and other 4 wheelers... a bike sneaking through is common everywhere, but the big vehicles!!!! Nobody bothers to wait a few seconds, what are they hurrying upto; wondering any1 in their deathbeds, so that they can see their face for the one last time... i dont think so.... Its in the blood to break rules... or else none will risk their life for saving few seconds...

I had lost my cool many times at the drivers who bang their horn on me for not jumping and moving ahead of the signal.... Is it a common tendency in chennai to break the traffic rules... i never see a traffic policeman on my route to campus... and people make the most of it... we cant teach any1 a lesson in this case, but there should be a common sense and wisdom in drivers... or else.... they will end up learning a lesson all my themselves...

Random Scribbles : Tribute to the 64th Independence day...

63 years after independence... how many more years to go for real independence...

Aug 15 tomorrow, it will be our 64th independence day... 63 years after the midnight speech from Pandit Nehru, do we really feel we are free... do we really feel safe... do we really trust our leaders, the law enforcement, the judiciary... NO... i dont think anyone is 100% happy in this country...

Switch on the TV news channels in the morning... they start with scams and end with murders... that's the state of the nation for us... Did the freedom fighters ever imagine all their hard work and sacrifice one day lead to this...

Well, the truth is this is not just our story.... there are many countries struggle to cope with violence and corruption, we can just say we are far better.... But the thing to be remembered is we claim to be the biggest democracy and indeed we are the largest populated in the world (almost)... so whatever happen here is large... we cant compare our state to a corrupt small nation and claim we are better... the world expect a lot from us... and how are we keeping that expectation...

For example... the common wealth games, it turned out to b corrupt wealth games; we got a chance to show our capabilities, but got messed up... Look at the naxal woes in many states; some people have reasons to kill others and some other people have reason to support those killings.... And more worries on the language issues... why cant we stand our neighbour just because he or she speaks a different language.... The diversity of the country, once we were so proud, now is a reason for border fights... even language cant keep folks together... Andhra Pradesh gives us best examples... I think after 10 years the number of states in India will cross 50, considering the demands and activisms going on in many parts of the country....

Well, i can go on and on... listing out my own frustration on the system... but can I really think it will all be fixed... it will take a huge revolution to make a change in this country... a whole new freedom struggle... a freedom from the corrupt politicians... freedom from the silence we are forced to keep against the atrocities... And how long its gonna take for us to attain that freedom... only god knows... may be it will take a whole generation or generations... whatever time it takes, the struggle should start... should start from each of us... from today... may be tomorrow will b day we breath freely in this country...

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Random thoughts.... apologies on the lack of order....