Life Reloaded!!!

I ordered following 2 books today -  Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Vyakti Ani Valli by P. L. Deshpande The first one was suggested by Shekhar, and the latter one I have already read once, but would like to have a copy of the same. Recently, I had started reading "Animal Spirits" by George Akerlof & Robert Shiller . It has been written on a very well thought out concept, but I felt it was a bit boring. So I never reached beyond 30 pages, after which I simply returned the book to SEBI library. Before that I completed Steve Jobs's biography - "Stever Jobs" by Walter Isaacson . I will write a separate post to discuss the book.

With Aditya " Deo "rukhkar "Secret Diary" - Thank you for the Gift!!!

I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Michael O'Neill: Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just...  Julianne Potter: Passes you by.  Michael O'Neill: Passes you by. Yeah.

What an interesting turn of events in the Series!!! First, it was shown the main antagonist, Tobi , is not who he was claiming to be. We all thought he was Madara Uchiha , but instead we found that Kabuto called back Madara Uchiha from the Deads using the Impure Blodd Resurrection Justu . Another interesting thing at that point was that Madara knew who this impostor is. Most of the people including myself thought, Tobi was Madara's brother, Izuna . Then came Naruto 599, where it was finally revealed who Tobi actually is. It was none other than Obito Uchiha . Kakashi's former teammate, who gave Kakashi his left Sharingan eye as a gift for becoming a Jounin. Everyone thought he had died during that battle during the Third Shinobi war. It will be interesting to know how he survived and how he met Madara . As the series is reaches its climax there are going to be lot of explanations.

I read this on 9gag today - The Greatest Inspiration is the Deadline ...

I am just going through few of my past blog posts about NITIE. I can't beleive we performed skits to these topics - Andheri Raat mein, Diya tere Hath Mein  Hath Hata Waha Se Do Boond Zindagi ki Ek Rupye Mein do Ki Lo Phati Chhatri Hua Dhamaka Dheeru Bhai Ka sapana, Sab ke Hath Mein Apana Karo Lekin Dhyan Se Doodh Piyo Mast Jiyo Karo Jyada Ka irada Jahan Teri Yeh Nazar Hai, Waha sab ki Nazar hai Maal Asli Hai Ek Tupakati Bund aapki zindagi badal sakti hai Aadmi Hun Admi Se Pyar Karata Hoon Paro…. Main aa Raha Hoon Tu hut, Main Lagoon Ganda hai par dhanda hai yeh Din Mein Dangal, Raat Mein Mangal Ek ke Sath do do, ek hame bhi de do Original Link - http://sidh299.blogspot.in/2009/06/life-nitie-day-9.html

Why does every other scam have to be postfixed with a "gate". I understand after the Watergate Scandal made this postfixing famous. Now, it seems so lame! I wonder how sales of Coalgate Palmolive Ltd. migth be affected with the latest Coal scam being termed as "Coalgate" scandal.

I would be running in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marahon 2013. I will be taking part in the Half Marathon (21km) and will be hoping that I better my preivous performance. I had taken 4 hours and 20 min to complete the race (which is pathetic by any standards) in 2009. This time my aim is to complete the race in 3 hours. Is any of you running in the Half Marathon next year?

I saw 3 movies over the last 5 days. First I watched " Four Weddings and a Funeral " & " The Bucket List " over the weekend. Yesterday, I saw " My Best Friend's Wedding " which I had already seen in parts on TV many times. Any movie suggestions for the next weekend? I might watch Marathi remake of "No Entry".

One of the best things about using Gmail is the Keyboard shortcuts it provides. So when I shifted base from Gmail to Outlook, it became a little boring to keep using mouse for navigating through the mails. However, today when I was hovering mouse pointer over the compose button, I found that it had a hover tip of "Ctrl + N". After searching on web, I found that the outlook has its own set of keyboard shortcuts. But the best part is that it has settings which allow one to use same set of shortcuts as used in Gmail/Yahoo Mail. I just swicthed my shortcuts to Gmail mode and I am back to being a "Power" email user :)

Matheran 2012 - Alexander Point The recent most Matheran trip was planned by Viraj and Anand and all the credit goes to them. As Aditya and Anand had some work in the morning, they were going to join us in the evening. Like earlier trips, this also started with a confusion. When we boarded the train at CST, we told our friend who was going to join us at Dadar that we were in the compartment after the last First class compartment. But we were partially wrong. The compartment was having 2 sections, one First class and another Second class. We were in the second class part of it. Due to this, our friend got into the next compartment and then had rush into our compartment at Kurla. Fortunately, everything went well afterwards, as we reached the Matheran gate by 9.15AM. From there on we had to walk till Matheran market which took us almost an hour. We had taken a different route in earlier trips, but due to rain and the mud we had to walk parallel to the tracks, till we reached the mar...

Matheran 2010 - Taking some rest on route to Neral Before I begin with the events of the latest Matheran trip, I will first talk about how Matheran has been a memorable location for me. First thing I remember is the journey returning from Matheran to Neral. I don't know how and why we decided to walk all the way from Matheran market to Neral station. It started all well, with singing "Break up Ke Bad" song. But as the time went by, we realized how stupid we had been. Of course, the stupidest among us were Aditya and myself, who actually walked till we reached the bottom of the hill where Neral starts. Our dear friends - Susmit and Viraj, got a rickshaw in between and met us when we were resting at the bottom. Second trip was full of confusion. Day before the trip, I informed Viraj that I was not well, so I would join them in the afternoon and they could go ahead in the morning. As Viraj was having office, he decided that he would join me in the afternoon, leaving...

I just realized that because of office notes, I have got into a habit of using "justified" formatting even while blogging. Earlier, I never used those settings, in fact I never noticed that they exist. Anyway, coming back to the last 6 months, we had multiple night outs, with one of them at my home for the first time ever. We, meaning my school friends and myself, went for 3 trips since the Lonavala trip in January. First, we went to Pune and stayed at Jeetu's house in the Camp area. It was nice to stroll around in the night in that area and discuss about various things with Jeetu.  In July, we planned a trip to Mahabaleshwar where we had earlier gone in 2009. There was an amazing weather with intermittent rains and a lot of fog. As we had seen most of the "Points" during our last visit, we decided to visit Pratapgad this time. As it was an off season period, the direct bus to Pratapgad was not available. We had to board another bus and get down at a pl...

Few movies I watched recently - Rowdy Rathore Gangs of Wasseypur I & II Ek Tha Tiger The Dark Knight Rises P. S. I love you Four Weddings & Funeral Next on the list - My Best Friend's Wedding The Bucket List

As its been more than 6 months since I made any significant posts on this blog, let me rewind back and think about all the important things that happened during this period. As, it is hard to remember things in the chronological order, I will try to put down the memories as they come up. First, latest and the biggest is that my brother just landed in US few hours ago. He will be studying Industrial Engineering at University of Washington for next 2 years.  Next in the list is receiving my Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Management. On 21st August, 2012, we the student of Industrial Management batch for 2009-11 (Batch XVI) received their degrees. A big surprise came on the previous day when during the first rehearsal my name was announced for the Second Best student in my batch. As I was 3rd in the batch during my first year and had a very bad Final year project viva, I was not expecting this award. My mother and brother both were present during the convocation ceremony wh...

The best way to restart the blog would be to follow my previous post of Lonavala 2012 photo with photos from Mahabaleshwar & Matheran trips -  At Mahabaleshwar Bus Station At Neral Railway Station I will follow this up with some great memories at these places :)

I am thinking of restarting blogging....