Life Reloaded!!!

Today, I would like to talk about my company. Most of my friends don't know much about my company. So it will be helpful for them to understand my work. I wont go into the history of the company, you can as well search Netcore on Google for that. It is basically into 2 major fields: Mail and mobile related services. I am working on the later part of it, so I will talk about the same service. In the mobile part also we have some variety. It includes the mobile portal (mytoday.com), the group SMS service(MOBs), SMS chat service, a platform for SMS competitions, polls and the most important of all, SMS dailies. Our site, mytoday.com is particularly designed for GPRS viewing and hence you might feel a bit weird when you will visit the site. A site without flash, even not many many colors, black white in appearance in the days on Web 2.0 is strange. But as I said the site is mainly designed for mobile viewing. Due to lack of flash content, the site loads very fast. This is very impor...

Damn it. Using computer for too long takes its own toll. Whenever you are solving a Reading comprehension problem, you wish you could have Ctrl + F to search the particular sentence in the paragraph. The habit of using Netbeans has made press Ctrl + space whenever I want to correct a wrong spelling. Whenever I am writing something and make a mistake I wish I had a delete/backspace button to remove the stuff(too lazy to use eraser). Of course, how can I forget copy-paste operation while writing assignments....

Adversity causes some people to break... and others to break records.                                                                                                                - William Ward

Two weeks ago I watched the latets Batman flik, i.e. The Dark Knight. Not the best of movies I have seen, but certainly one of the darkest movies I had ever seen. Most of the characters were protrayed with darkest possible way, especially the Joker.  I always liked the Batman-Joker rivalry, one too serious and the other so funny. In the earlier version of Batman where Joker was played by Jack Nicolson which was more of a "laughing Buddha" than the ever smart and brutal Heath Ledger's Joker. The amount of wreckage caused by him is unimaginable... the chase sequence... the bombs in the boats carrying people... bombing the city hospital... its just too much for any criminal. And why does he do it? money? Well, lets just say that money is nothing for this guy as he burns millions of dollars with Gasoline... He simply crazy!!! I also liked the movie for the importance given to the strong characters shown in film. Each of the protagonists have been portrayed with some dark s...

Some good articles on why India has not been able to win as many medals as it should have: 1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/25/india.olympicgames2008 2. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080813202631AAFWAsJ 3. http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/why-does-india.html Source: Marginal Revolution blog. My take on this whole issue is that it is related to Indian people psyche. I have expereinced with my own parents and my friends will also agree. People dont consider sports as a career option for their kids exception may be cricket. Not many parents want their child to be Swimming champion or a runner than an engineer or a doctor. That is where it start going wrong. The system obviusly plays a role, but since people really dont belive in sports, think it as TP or a school comtetion activity, we never excel. Just imagine, how can we expect our swimmers or runners to win if their personal bests are way below the wrold record. Yeste...

Looking at my current DI form this should not have happened... After I started the paper in such superb fashion.... After I was convinced that I had solved enough in QA to clear the cutoff.... After I attempted 19 questions in VA... After all RCs attempted for the first time .... How could I break down at the last moment with DI? Just 4 questions attempted that too with 50-50 surety! This isn't a good sign Sid, you need to get back to practice. After all, the more I practice, the luckier I get...

Sorry everyone, I didn't tell you all. I changed my job again. I left my job in Citi Technology Services six months ago. 25th January was my last day at Citi. Next day I went for trip with my school friends and didn't tell them either. I feared that I would be termed as a quitter. So finally, I am telling you all that I have joined Netcore Solutions. I joined this company on 29th of Jan this year. I got confirmed on 29th July and got the confirmation letter on this Monday. So I thought it is about time I tell you all this news. In last six moths I just realized how difficult and painful it is to lie to your friends...

That's how I will describe my CAT campaign this year. This year I made one change in my tactics. I joined TIME test series this year. It has more number of papers than IMS and different style of papers. I thought it was about time to change my strategy when I failing to make the final strike for past 2 years. Till now I have given 6 AIMCATs and my performance has been all but inconsistent. I started on high this time around with 99.2 percentile. But after that I have not been able to continue this start. My percentiles in the next 5 AIMCATs have been 92.6, 99.7, 97.7, 96.8, 93.6. I have been surprised by my last AIMCATs performance. I expected a better percentile than 93. I knew that I had an average Verbal Section but expected DI and QA to propel my percentile to 95+. It didn't happen that way. Talking about the studies for CAT, well, I cant really talk about it as I have not done any. I know I have to work harder now, that I dont have much time for studies because of work. ...

I wanted to publish this since long time, but always postponed it, waiting for the right time. Well actually it is not a dialogue, since only one person is speaking.  This dialogue is from my favorite Cartoon serial DragonballZ and is spoken by my favorite character Vegeta . The scene is in the climax of the serial, in one of the final episodes. To give you an idea why I like it, let me give you some idea about DragonballZ . The characters Goku and Vegeta are one of the most important characters in the series. Goku, the protagonist, who is actually an alien from a planet called Vegeta and is one of the last of his race Saiyan . But unlike the Saiyans who are naturally aggressive, fight-loving, brutal, strongest warriors in the world, he is very calm, naive. He hates to be a Saiyan, when he realizes that he belongs to such a killing race. According to his blood line and roots on planet Vegeta, he is a third grade soldier in the Saiyan Army. On the contrary, Vegeta is the Prince o...

I know, I know, I am posting too many quotes these days. But cant help it when I find something like this: "We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision" - Garry Collins

"There's a time to let things happen & a time to make things happen"

Diye jalte hain, Phool khilte hain Diye jalte hain, Phool khilte hain Badi mushkil se magar, Duniya mein dost milte hain..... Diye jalte hain... Jab jis waqt kisi ka, Pyar juda hota hai, Kuch na poochho, Yaron dil ka, Haal bura hota hai Jab jis waqt kisi ka, Pyar juda hota hai, Kuch na poochho, Yaron dil ka, Haal bura hota hai Dil pe yadon ke jaise, Teer chalte hain Diye jalte hain, Phool khilte hain, Diye jalte hain..... Is rang roop pe dekho, Hargiz naaz na karna, Jaan bhi mange, Yaar to dede na, Naraz na karna, Rang ud jate hain, Roop dhalte hain,  Diye jalte hain, Phool khilte hain, Diye jalte hain..... Daulat aur jawani, Ek din kho jaati hain, Sach kehta hoon, Saari duniya, Dushman ho jaati hai Umrabhar dost lekin saath chalte Diye jalte hain, Phool khilte hain, Badi mushkil se, magar, Duniya mein dost milte hain Diye jalte hain..........