Archive for October, 2007
Triumph Rocket
by Karthik on Oct.26, 2007, under Cool Stuff
Well guys, I really want to own this one. I need to know what I need to do to get this one. Any decent feeds? Oh boy, who am I asking? No guys… its OK I don’t need feeds, I know what you guys will flood my comments box with. I’ll figure it out
October 21st 2007 - A Day with few surprises
by Karthik on Oct.22, 2007, under Personal
8:20 AM - The door bell rings. and a guy asked for 10 bucks and said he will clean our bikes for it. Said he is doing this part time to pay his fees.
8:21 AM - I get a bucket of water and by then the guy is gone.
8:23 AM - I search for my mobile and its missing.
8:25 AM - Nafisa walks back from shop and finds that guy going with 3 other guys on bikes.
Result - The mobile is stolen and the guy escaped. 1st surprise!
Later that morning I try to figure out a way to trace the mobile, with my efforts in vain, we start off to MG road for shopping. It lasted till evening.
4:40 PM - We came back home and got down form auto.
4:50 PM - Anwin discovers that his $20 Zippo lighter is missing and its lost in the auto rickshaw that we came in.
2nd surprise!!
I go to the police station, and trying to lodge a complaint. A theft complaint. The police is reluctant to lodge an FIR. Told me that I have to come to court and follow it up properly. I agree, but still they prefer giving me a report but not FIR.
About…
5:30 PM - I call Airtel to confirm if they can track my mobile if I provide my mobile identification number. Earlier that morning a guy said he can if I send them a copy of FIR with IMEI number of mobile. Later they say they can’t do a jack to trace the mobile.
Surprise No. 3!!!
Well, now I have no way out. Looks like there is no way to track down that bastard. Aahhh….
So I just get the report form them and come back home. I start calling different house owners to find a house while Anwin and Nafisa were out searching for a tailor.
6:40 PM - Anwin calls me and tells my bikes petrol tank is dry and they are no where near a petrol bunk. The thing is I rode the bike in main and suddenly we discover that there is no more fuel to move. So now the bikes’ fuel indicator is gone.
Surprise no. 4!!!!
And then the day seemed little better with no significant activity after that. Should I call it quite a bad day???
Portable DVD player
by Karthik on Oct.20, 2007, under Cool Stuff, Miscellaneous, Tech
We’ve always wanted to watch movies on the go. That is always entertaining isn’t it? Now we have an amazing online electronic store that could provide this. You could buy your own portable 10 inch DVD player now from digitalframez. You have a variety of portable DVD player from 7 inch to 10 inch. You could get a 256 MB SD memory card with every 10 inch portable DVD player purchased! Now that’s an excellent deal.
Holidays are here and all of are looking forward for a great vacation and travel. There is no better time than now. We have Halloween, Christmas, then New year. Its holidays back to back. If we have a good player that could entertain you during your travel, on the go, that will be great entertainment. You could store movies, songs, videos, cartoons, pictures and lot more. The best part is that is plays Divx, and there are few that plays TV as well. Checkout their home page and if you use the promotional code, you could get an additional 5% discount. So no reason to wait. go ahead and grab your portable players!
Weekend cricket
by Karthik on Oct.20, 2007, under Sports
Seriously, playing cricket every weekend is awesome. We’ve got 2 sets of stumps and a new bat, bails, keeping gloves… and the game is on! Senthil somehow accomplished bringing 404 guys and others regularly to the ground to play the game. Few more matches and my company’s team should be good enough to kick any teams ass. OK that’s a little exaggeration… but the point is all of us are getting better. Some activity during the weekend is really good to keep fit. Lets keep this rolling guys…
Suttum vizhich chudardhaan kannammaa
by Karthik on Oct.12, 2007, under Cool Stuff, Entertainment
Earlier I had posted about 2 Bharathiyaar songs and about 1 or 2 other poems. And Google search of any of those Bharathi songs brings my blog as the 1st result… at least in the 1st page itself… so here goes another poem for Bharati lovers…
Suttum vizhich chudardhaan kannammaa sooriya chandhiraro
vattak kariyavizhi kannammaa vaanak karumai kollo
pattuk karuneelap pudavai padhitha nal vayiram
natta nadu nisiyil theriyum natchathirangaladi
(suttum)
soalai malaroliyoa unadhu sundharap punnagaidhaan
neelak kadalalaiyae unadhu nenjilalaigaladi
koalak kuyiloasai unadhu kuralininimaiyadi
vaalaik kumariyadi kannammaa maruvak kaadhal kondaen
(suttum)
saaththiram paesugiraay kannammaa saathiram aedhukkadi
aathiram kondavarkkae kannammaa saathiram undoadi
moothavar sammadhiyil vadhuvai muraigal pinbu seyvom
kaathiruppaenoadi idhu paar kannathu mutham onru
I’ve become a Father.
by Karthik on Oct.10, 2007, under Personal
OK, One of my close co-worker has become a father last week and he happily announced it to all of us immediately, by calling the office. Everybody congratulated him and all the usual stuff. But I have no mind to congratulate. I find no reason to be happy.
One more soul in the world that’s going to suffer… One more life in jeopardy… One more to increase the world population and consume his/her part of resource. OH… MY… GOD!!!!!!
It certainly looks awkward when every one greets him (who came to office later) for becoming a father and I alone sit at my place with no feeling for it. I did feel awkward, but who cares. I stand by my thought. If you really want a child, please…. please… adopt a child and teach him good culture. Give them orphans the life they deserve. That way the world population is not increased. A new soul is not brought into this world to go through all the sufferings that you had to. One more child gets support and you will be happy that you have become a father. Doesn’t that sound awesome? I don’t know… many of my friends will acknowledge this but will they follow it? - I don’t know. I can only hope. But I’m talking so much about this today… Will I stick to it? - Well, this I can answer. No one can predict future, but a strong will and ambition can always let you pursue what you want. That, future cannot stop. So, hoping that my will, will not let me down, I will follow this. I’d like to put it this way so that people don’t come up with statements “We’ll see you after 5 years”.
Octoberfest rocked.
by Karthik on Oct.08, 2007, under Bangalore, Cool Stuff, Entertainment
So, Anwin, Anoop, Nafisa, Sanjeeb and I went to Octoberfest this Saturday and it totally rocked! We all had about 2 liters of beer each… and munched few roles and pokodas as well. We were there for about 4 hours and the music was really good. the best part was the beers were draught beers caned and cold. The pricing was pretty cheap. A can of 500ml of beer was just 50 bucks! They had a nice Toyota F1 car on display. Along with it were 2 chicks. And a row of all vintage cars. It was a pretty good and organized well I should say. Towards the end a DJ came on the stage and started playing some trans kind’a music and we all started dancing. The dancing alone might have gone for like almost 1 hour. The next day was pretty bad though. Bad body aches… Still not completely recovered I should say.
October Fest is here!!!
by Karthik on Oct.05, 2007, under Bangalore, Cool Stuff
This weekend = Octoberfest;
Octoberfest = Celebration;
Celebration = Lots of beer!
I’ll post the rest after I’m high….
Song
by Karthik on Oct.02, 2007, under Cool Stuff
Was listening to a nice song and it had these lines in it. Simply nice and true!
….Udhattale kaadhal enum sollai
uraithale kooda varum thollai
Vazhum mattum, vizhigalin thookam kedum…
Meaning:
…. Even when you just say the word love
comes along the biggest trouble
Till you die, your eyes can’t sleep….
Good one…


