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...