What m i doing these days ?

A big question to answer. Seriously, when i say i m busy enough not to blog, what m i really doing these days.

Well, since i have come back from india after mom passed away, things have been a bit different then they were before, as expected. But still, what m i doing these days that i m so busy.

Everytime i post something, i promise myself that i will sincerely have my next post coming up ina couple of days, but that has not worked with me till date. But here i m again making this promise to all the readers that i ll have more post coming soon. There r so many things i need to talk about, so many thing i need to tell everyone of u. But well, lets wait for that day to come, and i want it to happen everyday.

Anyways, these days i m simply busy with work. As 30th June is the financial year end here in australia, audit is in full swing. And will stay like this untill end of October, i believe. So, mon-fri, 9am-5pm, work. And now a days its been upto as late as 9pm sometimes, due to workload.

On weekends, shopping for weekly grocery, laundry etc etc. Time just flies.

And i also moved my apartment on the 27th July 2008. So was super busy with all the shifting, packing, unpacking, shelving ....... no end to this list.

My new house is much more better and bigger than the old one. Very spacious and also has an internal laundry, so i dont have to dedicate weekend to do laundry, i can do it anyday at my convinience.

I ll definately post some pics of my new home once its completely set in a few more days.So i ll try to keep my promise of posts more often.

Have a good day guys,

Cheers!

Another year passed away and added most valuable moments in my life which i will cherish the rest of my life. Yes ppl, i grew one more year older today.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank god for giving me this life and taking care of me for so many years and i pray to him that he gives me many more years to contribute to the beautiful world he created.

I also want to thank my family for standing by me in all my decisions and supporting me in everything i always wanted to do.

Thanks to all the co bloggers who have stayed along me and made me feel homely in this space.

Have a good day everybody
Cheers!

The Expansionist Meme....

I have been tagged by reema and waked up by lollypop, thanks dear

One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read:
The Quran...Just curious to know what it really preaches.

One music video–that you like–from your “least likely to listen to’ genre:
Instant karma! My least likely to listen gerne is Remixes, but that song is kinda cute.

A book from a genre you almost never read, that you have read, or you will read (promise!):
It would be "Power of your subconcious mind", thats something that will teach you to find the best in the worst. A typical psychological book.

Somewhere you’d never thought to go on holiday/vacation, and why it might be fun to go there?
South Africa would be it, and if i ever make it, i would like to ride the safaris and most important witness a kill inthe wild.

A sport or game you really hate, or haven’t tried yet, but are willing to give one more go:
Game i hate is an Oz game called footy, i think its stupid, coz its a game that lies between rugby and soccer. Actually they play soccer but throw and pass the ball around with hands insted of legs and just kick the goal by ur foot, and u cannot tackle the opponent. Its kinda really stupid. Anyways....!

A style of dance you probably won’t try (we won’t make you promise on this one):
Not a dance person anyways, but i probably wont try Salsa!

A career job you don’t feel you’re suited for, and why:
Telephone sales operator, justcant do that upselling .....!

An item that’s “thinking out of the box’ for this meme that hadn’t been included:
Whats that one thing you will anyways do even after knowing that its incorrect?

It’s there’s one thing in life you wanted to do, and will do because of this meme, what will it be?
I think i ll probably look out of the window and try some things in life, that i havent so far.

I tag Mumbai Guy, Priyanka, Mayur, Anu & Vani

Cheers!

So the long weekend is finally over and i m back with 9-5 schedule. It wes a very good weekend overall.

Woke up early morning on Saturday and went to the temple at Helensburg. Its a hour and half drive on the princess highway and carrying onto the freeway, beautiful place, high up on the hill with stud farms around. It was all green and grazy as it is raining for past week. Cool breeze soon had me look for my jumper and wear it. My mind was in holy spirit and just felt the closeness to a spiritual force during the darshan. Then i headed for the canteen to have prasad. They provide with idli, wada, masala dosa, pulao, paratha etc .... That was pretty much my lunch. Just awesome.

Headed back straight to the weekly grocery shopping spree. After returning home watched Bhootnath, good movies, teaches a lot of lesson to small kids and even grown ups. Had pomfret fish for dinner. Ummm yummiee.

Couldnt open my eye till 10:00 am on sunday morning. Had some lazy breakfast (garlic bread), heard the weekly hindi radio for a while, checked some mails, chatted with a few friends and prepared chicken biryani for lunch. With some wine, biryani tasted even better. With my stomach full, caught up a lil nap. Had some tea in the evening and headed staright to park for an hour walk, with all this fatty stuff in me for past 2 days, i felt a walk is necessary.

Was bored of cooking time consuming food, but wanted to eat something that could tickle my taste buds, so thought of a dinner outside. So me and my roomie headed to the spot, a place where u have all cusines in a walk lane of 50 metres. While driving we decided to eat at a greek restaurant, but it was closed for renovation, so we went to Thai Riffic, a thai cusine. I tried the chef's special, Yellow curry .... hhhmm, delicious and my friend had Stir fry noodles with chicken. I had a bite, and i must say, it was fantastic. Too tired and lazy, i could barely manage to change clothes and get under my blanket.

Monday was a, getting in mode day, with lot of household work pending due to rains. I had a early start at 8:30. Too all my washing loads to the laundry at 9 am. I had to do 4 loads of 5 kg each, just imagine how much this rain has disturbed the schedule. It took me 3 hours to fininsh with all my laundry. But finally it was over and i was proud of myself. Had the left over biryani for lunch and headed to the theatres to watch Sarkar Raj. A good movie overall, with some unwanted drama, not so important scenes. Whatever, overall a good movie. After coming home late, i could only manage to make some alloo parathas and fill my stomach.

Thinking of the week ahead, i pumped myself up to the week.

Long Weekend....

Queen's Birthday, which means long weekend. This is the long weekend everyone has been waiting for.

Had a lot of things planned, but its not the ideal weekend in sydney due to weather.

It was planned with a drive away to Nelsons Bay, 2 night stay, whale watch, sand dunes surf.

But now has changed to, a visit to the temple on satuday morning. A movie in the evening.

Sea food lunch on sunday. Catch up with some friends on sunday evening. Rest completely on monday. Back to work on tuesday.

Have a good weekend guys!

Rains....

Rain Rain Pouring Rain ...... Thats what is sydney like from past a week now. Havent seen the sun in past week, day is hardly 9 hours long. Its lashing and swashing all around. High winds and high swell tides rolling down the coast. Its fun, makes u feel like staying home all day long, sipping on hot tea and eating onion pakodas. Zhakas !

I hope there would be just enough rain in all the parts of the world and no natural calamities occour. Have a nice week end ppl. Take care.

Let me know how the weather is in all other parts of the world, and ur experience about rain.

Decaannaa ..... Mind it !

These r some of the hoardings you would find all across Hyderabad end of last year, courtesy Deccan Chronicle.

If u r wondering whats the Deccan Chronicle, its a news paper in circulation in Hyderabad. Over the past few days commuters notice such hoardings published by the newspaper.

Dont know the exact reason as to y have they come up with something sleazy actually. Isint it sleazy ? With sleazy captions on the t-shirts these hot models r wearing. The one here says, "GET BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY". Excuse me, whats does that exactly mean. Dont every other newspaper provide u with the real pirture of any news or is it sleazy enough for people to understand what they really mean by what they have written and where they have written, which ironicaaly ends with "For Young Minds" at the bottom of each hoarding. And to add to it they also mention the number of copies in AP ? Is this just the reason y u selling so many copies ?

The second one here says, "RETAIL FDI BOOM OR BUST"..... wow, now isint that what people of really wanna read. Can u even make a realistic guess of all the people reading this hoarding, how many would even understand the meaning of Retail FDI ? But they would definately understand what the rest of the caption says, isint it? Now is this some campaign that Deccan has introduced to boost up their sales and targeting the younger generation to spend some money to buy their newspaper and hope to find something sleazy inside as up on the hoarding. Value for money is so diminishing in the mind of the publishers that they have adopted such sleazy marketing strategy.

And again the number of copies in AP and for younger minds. Indicating it to the older, experienced genration to stay outta this and buy something else, coz we r now trying to capture the yonger people with our sleazy practices.

And here is the third one that says, "INSTITUTE RELEASES VITAL STATISTICS". OMG, now what institue r they talking about and which vital stats r they mentioning. No doubt, everyone knows and expects them to release the vital body stats of those hot models. Now is this cheap marketing strategy ? Definately not for the publishers and they must have spent enough to get these hoardings up.

Now the question is, would they increase their bottom line by these sleazy techniques ? They probably would at the end of the day acheive their sales target, but by what means? Will their self respect hurt a lil bit when they sleep or is it just too hillarious to look at and turn ur face around.

Mind is knocking on one more reason, It also could have been the strategy to earn more money simply because they sponsored the IPL team, in which they have put in crores of rupees. R they making it up for it ????
Deccaannaa ...... Mind it !

A Silver is never Won, its the Gold that is Lost ....

I remember that day when i heard this statement for the first time in my life, and since then always believedin it and respected it in all phases and aspects of life.

It was the day in office as usual, tensed, as we were nearing the end of our Quarterly Based Review (QBR), a few weeks away to be the best performing site throughout the world, competing against the best. This quarter has been one of the best our site has performed so far. A couple of more safe weeks and we r the Numero Uno throughout the world. The Emperor of this world.

Our Big Boss conducted a Managers meeting and we all, around 25 of us stepped in the conference room thinking that we've gonna have our butts kicked again.But so was not the case this time. It was a session that we all will remember throughout our lives. Some things we will cherish in all the good and the bad that we do, thereon.

So there was it, the results of the QBR, which our Big Boss had just brought back along with him from US of A. This was the first time when all the Site Leads were invited to US of A for the QBR (every other quarter, its only video conferenced).We all were so exited to be there and to know if we had kicked some ass or is our ass getting kicked again. After a few good words and a few if and buts and so on and so forth, we heard that we ranked second across the globe.

All of us were so happy and satisfied by the result, as it was the first time out Mumbai site had been in the Top 5. It was cheer and claps and congratulation to each other and gala time to have a party on. All fair and all happy moments, something to feel proud of.
That went on for a few minutes and then our Big Boss proceeded to wrap up the meeting with his final words of wisdom. Here is what he said (not exactly, but the meaning remains the same).

"Congratulation's on the second ranking through the globe. This has been the best ever out site has performed. By the pace and position we were in a few days ago, i thought we would be through this time on the top position, but to what so ever reason, we were given a silver medal.Not that we acheived it, or we earned it (at this moment all we thought was, why the hell is he saying that we were given and we did not earn it, we all knew how hard we had worked to reach that position), but someone has given it to us. Because, "A Silver is never Won, its the Gold that is Lost".

Very true as we realised what he meant. We never compete in a race to be second, we always wanna win. We never rank second coz we finish second, but coz we dont win the first place.

P.S. - No doubt we had all the grand celebrations across the whole site, but that one statement always mades me do whatever it takes to be Numero Uno.

This song had been on my mind for a few days now, many things rushing through my mind and too many things to do with so less options in life.
Dont know if this is just the reason or something else is hurting me deep down. I always liked this song, heard it quite often, but today i m deeply sinking into this drakness, and i need to shout out loud to my self as my subconsious is taking over and telling me to just hang on.
This song is truly inspirational as its carrying me along and asking me to just hold on and hang in there in life, as life has something better to offer, something good is coming ur way.
Now m i really asking too much or i should just have to put my foot down and just stand still and go with the flow.
Suddenly unexpected, this day today, i need to just hang in, things will change and i know change is constant.
Everybody hurts .....

"Everybody Hurts"

When your day is long

And the night

The night is yours alone

When you're sure you've had enough of this life

Well hang on

Don't let yourself go

Cause everybody cries

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong

Now it's time to sing along

(When your day is night alone)

Hold on, hold on

(If you feel like letting go)

Hold on

If you think you've had too much of this life

Well hang on

Cause everybody hurts

Take comfort in your friends

Everybody hurts

Don't throw your hand

Oh, no

Don't throw your hand

When you feel like you're alone

No, no, no, you're not alone

If you're on your own

In this life

The days and nights are long

When you think you've had too much

Of this life

To hang on

Well, everybody hurts

Sometimes, everybody cries

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

And everybody hurts

Sometimes

So, hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

Hold on, hold on

(Everybody hurts

You are not alone)

I miss u Aai, I miss u so much ............

01.06.1947 - 15.04.2008

Is it just a bad dream that i m living or a horrified night that will soon have a cheerfull morning. Not that i dont understand the reality, but just that i m too naive to cope up with it. I miss u

You are always in my mind and my heart, always with me in all that i do. I always feel u holding me close to u, when i need, as u always did. I miss u

I pray u get all the peace u deserve. I miss u

P.S.

Hi everybody,I was away for a long while now, in which many good things of my life happened, but there was one thing that i never expected.

My mom left this world and left us all last month. Please pray for her peaceful journey.

Thank you.

Bikaneri......

Bikaneri Lunch Home, was the name of that place where i had lunch today. Occasion was Raksha Bandhan and thought i should try out something new during the lunch time today. So me and my 2 friends managed to plan this.Was a bit far away from my office but still managed to get there quickly. It was my first time at Bikaneri (as it is well known for).

Menu : Was very similar to the other indian sweets lunch restaurants, but had some more dishes than most of them, and also had the complete menu available, as in rest of them its on a daily special basis, which i hate, coz i cant eat something when i desperately want to eat it. But anyways, menu was outstanding
Rating : 5/5

Service : Was a bit slow, or may be they were a bit short staffed, or may be it was more than expected for them. It wasnt the warmest of the greeting as i have received in some other indian restaurants over the counter. Not very pleasant, but ok.
Rating : 3/5

Ambience : Very traditional. Had some sculptures including a Ganesh idol craved out of rock. Had a small stage in a corner with sitar, tabla and peti on it. May be they have some musical night once a week. Indian music filled in the taste as well. Just that the sitting arrangement was not very planned. May be needs a bit redesigning.
Rating : 4/5

Food : Delicious. Hhmm, the best indian taste i ever had. I ordered Dhokla just to start with, and then chole bhatura, and my friends ordered allo kulcha and gujarathi thali. My taste buds r still tingling. I really felt homely with regards to food. We tasted everything form each other's thalis.
Rating : 5/5

Overall had a nice time out there and enjoyed the food to the fullest.
Cheers!!

A cushion.... LOST ..!

Yeah, i lost a cushion today. It was my manager's last day. She got promoted (good on her). I m happy for her success and wish her all my good wishes in her future role. Nice lady, and i truly mean it. As a manager and just as a person. Kind enough to understand things and better of getting the best out of us all. A true champion of her own style.
I know it happens to all of us and it has happened with me many a times before, but this one is just very overwhelming. In an unknown country when u loose someone who understood u so well professionally. Yes andi must admit, that i lost a cushion. A cushion that i can rely upon, someone that i can trust at work, someone as a guide and someone as a mentor, someone who knows what i want and want i need to do at situations no one even expect to be in, someone who accomodates and respect every word u speak and set u freedom within correct boundaries to let u learn ur way and earn ur knowledge .....
I could say pages about her and small incidents that run through my mind right now. But i must pass on it. Its very emotionally to me now. It was very emotional when we had r final goodbyes today evening.
I know i ll wake up tomorrow morning as a usual sunday, and life will go on .... but i just had to vent myself. I ll miss her so much at work and things will change definately .....Good night guys, i need to be my own cushion tonight....
Cheers!

Graduated ......

Hi Friends,
Its almost over 3 months now that i have been away from blogging. I misses it a lot and hope so u missed me at this corner.

When someone is away we always think that the person is busy, something very important must have come up and hence cannot give time to the thing, that we all love the most, blogging.

I had many of u ask me when is my next post coming and when is my blog getting updated, and i always kept saying, very soon ..... that very soon is today !

The only reason i was away from blogging was, bcoz i was studying my last semester and had to put some extra efforts as required by the course. Finally today i m proud to complete "Master of Professional Accounting". I graduated .....

So relaxed and revived. Feels like on cloud 9. Change of approach in every litte thing i do is slowly creeping in, and i must say that i m sensing it openly. Hhhmmm, what a feeling.

I know many of u must have had a similar experience, its not very new me as well, but away from home makes u feel it much more.

Anyways friends, i ll be around more often now and this corner of my life will be updated regularly. Thanks for staying by my side.

Cheers!

Is it really LUCK or RISK .....

Is luck opportunistic?

I don’t know if luck plays an important role in any act of human life or it is just the right time that matters to get things done. Basically I m confused, if luck really exist and if yes, how do u prove it?
Many people say that a person needs to be luck to get certain thing, eg: a particular high paid job or a good car or the best house etc. etc. Is it so that only if you r lucky u can get all that? Can 99% hard work and efforts be less important against that 1% so called luck?
So is luck opportunistic? Is it selfish enough to be with only rich and beautiful people? Does it really knows whom to favour n whom not to. Is it to blame or mental guts play a vital measure to understand if it really helped?
Again, I might be contradicting my own words or may be I might differ from the actual topic. But you know, these r all my wage thoughts. Because I m trying to replace luck with a bit of risk.
Am I correct when I say that Luck is nothing but a bit of Risk?
Because all the rich, famous and beautiful people whom we say to be lucky have taken some or the other risk in life. Probably they have taken the right risk at the right time, as a reason of which they r what they r, if that small amount of risk that they played with had gone the other way they would have not been what they r today. Do I make sense when I say that?
A candidate might get that highly paid dream job by just answering a single question correct, correct means as per expected. It might be a stupid answer but a risky one.
A player playing any game needs to take risk while playing a particular shot. If he misses he is gone but if connected right he is the hero.
All rich n famous people have taken very calculated risk at a particular point of time, which makes them what they r today. Bill gates bloomed his idea from a garage and once when in debts, had offered a supplier 15% of Microsoft shares, guess what? The supplier said I have no interest or confidence in your business, I don’t need your partnership, give me my money. Imagine 15% of Microsoft shares $$$$$$$. Would u call that supplier unlucky? I would say he did no have guts to take a positive risk.
I dont know if i made sense, but i dont believe in Luck. I would say, its a little bit of calculated RISK.
Post your thoughts.

PS: Above article is just a running thought that i scribbed during my way back home. Was thinking about a few planned things in my life and trying to find reason for the best and the lost things that happened. Anyways ......

Right to ask question ....

Sare jahan se accha, hindustan hamara .....

Yesterday was Sunday, and i would say the only day of the week when its possible to listen to some indian music and listen to some indian cultural, traditional and moral discussions.
I tunned in as a regular listener in the morning and soon they telecasted a Akashvani pre recorded show from Delhi. The topic was very interesting and a bit funier to me, it was, The law of "Right to ask question".
Wow, golden day in the Indian constitution, I must say, that now allows every commom man to ask legitimate questions to the government. Yes, government. I m not making any fancy laws here, but its true. As every member of the parliment has the right to ask certain questions that he/she may not be happy about, is now passed on to the common public. It was put in order from october 2005. An organisation called "Parivartan", has played a major role in making this law reach the common man through various medium including conducting workshops. The recent 4 day workshop produced a staggering 2000 applications, full of different set of questions that will be put forward to the government. That's an acheivement, i must say. 2000 complaints ? in 4 days ..... from just one part of the country ? What if, when it reached every person of India and hopefully there will be a similar workshop on every corner, just as a voting centre during elections? God help government then ......
A very important aspect that the speaker put forward was that, according to him this will bring a lot of transperancy in the system, as the government will have to answer every bit if any individual is no happy the way he is treated. He also supported his judgement by the 2 most intresting cases he reviewed.
Case # 01 : A lady from a local village applied for "Ration card". As usual days, weeks and months passed away, but the ration card was not in her hand. She waited double the normal waiting period, ie: instead of 3 months, 6 months passed, when she thought of finally making some inquiry about the ration card. She went a few times to the government office, but as usual, deep pockets, just tossed her from table to table. Poor lady finally landed up in the NGO, "Parivartan". They were more than happy to listen to her and suggested her to ask a question to the government, as to what happened with her application. The lady put down a few questions, like she wanted to know the status of her application or the name of the officer that was handling her file and whom can she go and meet regarding this issue. Two days later a Food Inspector knocked her door with her ration card himself, saying "Your card was ready since so many days, you did not come to pick it up, so i thought of delivering it myself". Can u believe this ......
Case # 02 : Just after elections one common things that every elected minister does is to make new roads. One man in a building just next to the road, noticed a pot hole right in the middle of the road just after a couple of first rains. Vehicles started bumping in and traffic jams caused more than kois and runied the happiness of the nearby residence. This man, under the same law, asked who the contractor was that won the tender to build the roads and why is it in such a state. Was he not paid enough by the govenrmnet to make good roads that can atleast last a complete season? Its said that, even before he received any reply from the government or the contractor himself, the road was repaired overnight.Amazing, isint it?
But as the speaker said that this will bring transperancy in the system, the secracy oath would really be a question.Anyways, i just want to make a point her, ie: what if each one of us has a question to the govenrment, and if every question is answered in a similar fashion, will it not take india to a different level ??
What will that day be when these small but high priority jobs would be willingly done as a responsibility and not as a mere requirement of duty.......

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

It was 1989, when my mom changed me from division C to division B as my class teacher was pregnant. So just that i dont have a mental study break in between the year, i was moved. I cried as i did not wanna seperate from my friends. But i thought who cared, but i was wrong, she only cared about my better.
Anyways, i was clubbed in with a few friends very quickly and some of us became very very good friends. We went to school together and came back together. Studied, played and fought as every other kid. I was in 2nd standard then. But my friends were my friends, and i was very proud of them.
Years went on and we went up higher and higher in grade. Started hanging out outside school, studies together, borrowed notebook when missed school, enjoyed school picnics etc etc. It was so nice to have all of them. But then in 1997, it was our SSC and soon we all realised that its time for us to bid good bye to a few forever. It was tough on everyone of us, as we were probably not prepared to take that challenege. We were still cushioned for each other, and emotions played a mjor part in everyones life. It showed how much we cared for each other, and how much we wanted to stay more in the same school. Together.
I had a few friends, but real good friends. Everyone enrolled in some or the other college for different streams and life changed suddenly. It was no more school. We could miss the lectures and still be ok. Life started playing its own turn now. It just reversed. Untill them life controlled us, but now on it felt as if we controlled life. Seriously, it was freedom.
I still made some new friends but my pool of school friends is still much stronger. We r in touch even today. Not many of us but really a few, and we meet regularly as much as we can.
Since in college, we kept in touch through phone calls and meetings as n when everyone was in town. Many of my friends went out of vasai for studies, but my best one was still there with me. And i made a few more best.
Life rolled and i finished graduation and then it was time to think and do something responsible. I found a well paid job and stuck to it for 3 years. It was such an amazing learning experience. I met so many big personalities of the market. Just amazing for a person of my calibre.After which i decided to think long term and came down to sydney for my further studies. Professional accounting was never going to be easy and away from house was just too much to handle in the beginnning. But life kept on teaching something new everyday and i just got used to this life very soon.
And today i m on the stage of just finishing my studies and i have started thinking of doing something responsible ahead. Many things, many responsibilities and many obligations. Life is all that we can take, and then i say to myself, "Bring em' on".
All this went so quickly with time, but all that kept it all together were my friends, very few, but my. I miss them just next to as much as i miss my family.
Many of my friends will be reading this and i m sure all this is related to our lives somehow. I m sure u ll try and find it and fix it.Just that i would like to mention a very small list of my friends .... but just scared that i might miss some .....

P.S : Above writing just was not on mind, but dont know y i just scribbled today. Pls understand ......

Happy New Year .... 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY .....

Have a prosperous and delightful new year.

May all your expectations be fulfilled as deserved and you have a safe year ahead.

Take care.

P.S : I know its a bit too late on the occassion but i hope u understand .....

Busy Busy ....

I m back ....

Hi guys,
I have been away from blogging for quite a while now. Actually just busy with work. Starting my day at 6 am and hoping in bed only by 10 pm. But managed some time today to get back to something that i miss doing the most. BLOGGING !!


Last month and half has really been soo very busy with work. And on my weekend i m left with all the bloody laundry from the whole week and calling up back home. Did not find any time where i could post something. Was reading all u guys blog on an off but never could dedicate any time to post anything. Time is just flying and i m simply trying to catch up with it.
Just not finding enough time to do all the desired things, So many things to do and such little time, is my cry always. A bit more mental than physical. As i m always ready to grab the opportunity.

Just enjoying that long weekend off, i have leave now for 5 days in a row (fri-tue). So finally made it to write something.
Had just been out for a office christmas party around the harbour, posting some pic of that cruise ride. Did not do anything special apart from work during this whole time.
As its summer holidays and christmas and new year just around the corner everyone is off on their holidays and work pressure is just building up, but thats a part of r job. Anyways ......

I m planning to go to Blue mountains this christmas. Nothing is planned yet but lets see how things work out. And then i have booked a ticket already for the second day of the final Ashes test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (3rd Jan 07). So dont forget to watch me live. Just kidding, he he he he, but more photos coming very soon.
Ok ppl, i ll head off now, but as i m back i ll being knocking on regularly as usual again. My mailbox is just flooding and i need to reply to some asap.

Keep reading.

!! Merry Christmas And HAPPY NEW YEAR To All My Readers !!

Is this TRUE ??

(Looks like very important information, received a mail today and thought of sharing with all u people)

PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS)

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin number in reverse.
For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.

PS: Has anyone heard of any such incident of faced it themselves ??

Hummaaaaaa .........

(Its a forward i received recently and thought of sharing, just take a read, i laughed my head off)

Laloo Prasad Yadav died. Rabri Devi (his wife) was very worried whether Laloo would be able to make it to heaven, so she decided to try & contact his spirit by having a séance. (Black magic used to contact the dead).
Sure enough, after the usual mumbo-jumbo of calling to the spirits, Laloo's> voice was heard answering, "Helloooooooo Rabri, this is meeee..." "Oh dear Lalooji," she answered. "I just need to know if you're happy there in your after-life. What's it like there?"
"Ooooooh, it's much more beautiful here than I ever imagined," Laloo answered. "The sky is bluer, the air is cleaner, and the pastures are much more lush and green than I ever expected ....
And, above all, there is no scam! And the only thing we do, all day long is eat and sleep, eat and sleep, over and over."
"Thank God, you reached heaven," his Rabri cried, wiping some tears.
"Heaven?" he answered. "What heaven? I'm reborn..... I'm a buffalo> in Switzerland."

PS: My apologies if any Laloo fan is offended.