Rain Struck Family

Guys ..

Go thru this blog post http://sridharmachani.blogspot.com/2005/10/oct-23-27-of-2005-days-of-insanity.html

Sridhar is my good friend and we were BE classmates.. I feeling very bad for mental trauma he and his family are facing..

Bombe habba..

Bombe habba..
Originally uploaded by Karthik C S.

Dassera, a.k.a Navaraatri is celebrated across India in different way. Kolkatta and rest of Bengal is famous for Durga pooja. Whole state does not work for entire 9-10 days. Software companies not aparted.

In Mysore its a grand feast. Lots of programs are arranged during Navaratri. The last day procession which is famous as Dussera Procession of Mysore is world famous. Mysore Urs (kings) had this great custom built and our State Govt is following the same.

In most part of Karnataka and some part of Tamilnadu we celebrate Dussera as Bombe habba. Bombe means Dolls. Habba means festival. So it can be translated as Festival of dolls. Each and every house is decorated and dolls of differnt kinds which tell of many tales of Hindu Mythology. Most of these dolls will be in sets. Like Rama-seeta-Lakshman-Hanuman, Dashavatara, Set of dolls which tell customs of Marriage, Some fancy dolls etc..

This is our first Navaratri for me after marriage. We bought some new dolls and you can see them all :)

Rains in Bangalore

I have never seen such a pathetic state of Bangalore in recent past. Rains have ruined my sweet Bangalore. Roads have become streams ways.. Offices have become lakes. There is no distinction between pothole and a manhole and normal road. Its dangerous to walk on road, ride on road and even to drive on roads.


Yester years Karnataka suffered from drought and now its floods. Sunday we had been to Vegitable Market. To my astonishment all vegitable rates have reached sky. Can you imagine beens to reach 40/- and Onion almost 30/- .. They say vegitables have been rotten because of heavy rains. They anticipate more hikes. Last month petrol rate was hiked and now its vegitables turn.. When comes my salary'e turn .. I am bothered ..

Kids have great plans to celebrate Deepavali with great crackers and lovely lamps.. Seems they all would be disappointed. Rains are expected till december, according to some article in news paper. Many dams are flooding and people near dam are dying. Dam gates are getting damaged. I was wondering, man is having nothing in his hand. Just a week of rains kill the whole civilization..

Among all the bad news.. we have got a sweet news that India have beaten Srilank in the Cricket match with a huge gap .. Congrtas guys.. keep it up ..!!

Page Hits

I have started a Statcounter for this blog from Aug 11. The Blog Hits graph is shown in this pic..

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You can see the hits are coming down gradually.. .Last month this time there was huge hits to my blog..
I can see some days page hits was reaching 100 and Unique Visitors are around 40 ...

Huge Hump on Unique visitors and First time visitors can be seen during Last week of Sept.. What did have in blog during those days ..

Hmmm I had these 2 posts... which had pulled too many Visitors...
IBM Rocks
Weekend

I need to study more on this analytics. ... hehhe

Peer to Peer Network

I wanted to transfer some 20 GB of data from my laptop to PC at home.. I wanted to take the back-up since long time .. This one really got catalytic acceleration when Chandra's laptop got crashed last week. I just dint hvae any alternatives other than loosing all my precious data.

I knew that peer to peer networking is possible by using cross over n/w cable. I googles about it and found more info about it. This link really helped me
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/peer.htm..

I went to SP road and bought the 2 mtr cross over network cable for 45/- RS and with Sowmya's help I could configure peer to peer network.. Amazing.. I was really happy.. I could around 10 GB yesterday.. Today I will copy the rest..

Aquarium

Aquarium
Originally uploaded by Karthik C S.

This is the aquarium at one of my friends' place.. Did u observe another aqurium inside it? He says the fish was very ferocious, so he jailed it this way

Mallige Moggu

Mallige Moggu
Originally uploaded by Karthik C S.

We had been to Hosur last week. I took this shot there ...


Howz this ?

SAP TechED 05, Certified Consultant :)

Last week I attended SAP TechED 05 here in Bangalore. It was very big event conducted by SAP. They started Tech ED from Last year and continuing. Whole purpose of the event is to introduce SAP Practitioners to the new technical roadmap SAP has built and moving. It was amazing !! I was impressed by the ingauration part of the event. They had Karnataka's folk dance called 'DoLLu kuNita' to welcome the guests to the stage. We had key notes from SAP AG Directors, who had come from different part of globe. There were about 2500 SAP Practitioners from all over India. It was a three day event.

We also had an poertunity to take up the SAP Certification exam there. I appeared for 'SAP Netweaver Development Consultant Focus ABAP' and cleared it with 81% eeee.. Now I am Certified SAP Practitioner :) ..

More later .. BFN

IBM Rocks

It was on 28th Sept.. All were invited to take part in AMS Imprint, thats annual celebration of our AMS unit... We all went there by 3 PM. After a very short speach by our director, entertainment programs started..

First performace was by VIVA gals.. Anushka and Mahuwa.. It was not that great..
Then came Sanjay Kini, who has made his fame in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
At last .. guess who came .. It was The great, sweet Sonu Nigam.. It was a pleasant surprise to all of us. It was amazing experience. I was standing in the firts row and we danced, jumped exhausted ourselves.. Great it was ...

Weekend

Saturday:

Got up early ( 8AM) - Early for Sat na ?

Went to SLV to buy Break fast. Decided to not to put on stove :). Bought Masala Dosa, ( Without Red Chutney inside) and maddur vade. But It was too late for the movie. Could not have at home.

Went to Amrtha Dhare with Amma and Sowmya. It was 10:15 Show at Uma theatre. We went by 10:25.. Missed first scene.. which was title song :) Listent to it.. Super song :))

Had the Break fast what I had bought at the theatre itself .. hahaha..

After the superb movie, went to NMH VV Puram. Had a superb lunch and went back home and slept ...

Evening was again lazy.. dint go anywhere

Watched Ankhe in Star Gold in the night.. Had missed that .. so watched completely.

Sunday was good again .. Had been Sow's Aunt's house for lunch. Menu --> BBB (Bisi Bele Bath) , Koasambari, Curd Rice, Chips, Sweet Pongal. Yummyyy it was cool.

Evening: Shilpa had come.. Shilpa Sow and I had gone out for Tikki puri .. Then we had a small tutorial for Sowmya for riding two wheeler.. She was too scared. After riding she was lil confident. Shilpa rode my pulsar :) cool na !!

Thats all Folks

Yet Another Cloud

Yet Another Cloud
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

Thanks for liking those slides, which encouraged me to post another cloud pic :)

Clouds

Clouds
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

This is a shot taken when we had been to Waynad .. I love this one .. The

cloud formation, rocks wow !!!



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I live in Bangalore 2nd floor !!!

Just a though !! After seeying the even growing population, enumerable no. of vehicles, hectic traffic jams, raising value of land.. it came to my mind that some day we can also strat building a new city above our sweet bangalore. We have seen bangalore growing extending its outskirts, swallowing surrouning towns.. Bangalore's width has crossed about 40 KM radius.. It too much now.. Bangalore might start thinking growing tall as well.. We might start building a new city above our existing one. Which has its own people, schools, land(in air), houses, vehicles, roads, KPTCL (2nd floor), BWSSB (2nd floor), BMTC (2nd floor), BCC 2nd floor, separate corporators for Bangalore 2nd floor and what not. .

How far ( altitude ) should Bangalore 2nd floor be ? I think 300 - 500 mts is needed :)

Join me in building this new city called Bangalore 2nd Floor.. .

Lunch everyday

Rajesh, Pallavika, Lavanya and me have lunch together. Just wanted to show you how would be our menu ... This is a sample :)

Waynad Trip

Hi All,


Long time I had been here... Was very busy at home and at office.. We had been to Waynad Last to Last weekend. It was amazing .. Here are some snaps..

In Bus..



Near Falls...



Some Dam


Dinner


Whole troupe on the way to Edkal Caves

At Edkal Caves


Entrance of Edkal

Another Wild Pic

Another Wild Pic
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

This one is another wild pic.. Can you guess whats this ?



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Go Waynad

Hurray!!! Yet another outing ...

This has been in plan since 2 weeks. Now almost confirmed that we are going for a trip to Waynad, Kerala. You must be thinking which gang is it right?? Its IBM gang.. Planning to leave bangalore on Friday night and come back on Sunday night..

Thinking Wild

Thinking Wild
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

I took this shot last sept .. I was turning very wild and mad becos of

lonelyness.. Guess whats this ??

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Gowri Rangoli

Gowri Rangoli
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

I think most you know my niece Gowri. She had recently participated in a

rangoli competition conducted by ISKCON.. She got second prize for this

one..



Congrats Gowramma... Keep it up ..



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Yahoo with Voice

Hi Guys,

I installed Yahoo Messenger ver 7 with Voice.. Its really good.. Why dont you try too ..