This is a very well written journal for a 16 year old.

Hurray. I am going to New Zealand this month end. 25th to be precise and be back on the 10th. Have to join my new job after that. But its so exciting to think i will be there. And Uma will be so happy too. But with the little money we have i wonder if i will be able to go and explore the place. I hope so. Lets see.

Last days at this Place
These are the last three days at this place. I got to give my seat and computer to someone more needy tomorrow. And wander around? Well i got to remember to clear all my files. Delete all the unwanted files and mails and give it clean. Then the papers on the desk and stuff. Also got to meet the HR and start my exit process. Have to finish the entire stuff in two days.

Blogging
Really like the blogs some people have. I really have to make a list and visit them regularly. Some are creative, some are moody ramblings, some are informative....i guess i learn a lot about human nature. Will sure analyse some and put it up out here soon.

After a long time
Met my classmates of RIT Jamshedpur Lambu mani and Vuthu Suresh and had a couple of coffee's in Mocha. Mocha is turning out to be my Mecca. Will be missing the Mumbai get-together the guys are planning to have ;)

One Word
This seems to be a nice idea : One word. One minute. Write what you feel about it.

Talking about communication gap
Something wrong with my mails? or with whom i mail. I dont seem to get an immediate response like i used to every day. Coud the mail servers be slow? i dont know. Or is it because we send too many long mails on either side that the time taken is a bit long.
Comunication gap happens when there is a problem with the transmitter the reciever or the medium or two of these or all of these. It get more complicated if you use a modulator and demodulator and also add to it a encrypter and decrypter. How to solve the problem. I guess, if you are the transmitter what you can can do is to strengthen the signals and send a clear transmission and if you are a receiver try to remove all inherent signals and just listen for the exact signals you get. And both transmitter and receiver have to to cut the modulations and the encryptions and do some plain talking making sure the media doesnt distort your transmissions. Ha its not science alone. For the layman, Cut the crap and talk straight is what it means.

How to navigate in the traffic in chennai (or as for that matter any city in india)
>>This is meant for those who plan to ride/drive/cycle even walk in india for the first time or after a long time (yeah you american desis)<<
1. Before you start from home do some warm up to flex those muscles that you will be needing soon
2. Wear Knee/ Elbow pads any other protective clothing.the more you look like a hockey goalie the safer you are.
3. You can miss the stupid so called safety gears like helmets. You will be considered a sissy if you wear one. Moreover these are only in the market to make the helmet manufactureres rich. They dont have any purpose. The same goes for the seat belts. You just have to put it around you and not buckle it. This is just to fool the cop who may be lurking to get that 50 bucks for his pocket money(they have deep pockets by the way mind you)
4. Remember to wear some deo when you start. Ina short time you will be driving so close to other riders that you can smell their armpits if not over them.... dont you think you should do your duty and be inoffensive. If everyone is like this we can make this a sweet(smelling) world.
5. When you start off check your horn is working. It should be higher than the safe human hearing limit. It doesnt matter if your lights and your brakes dont work. Also the louder your horn the hormier you are.
6. Start off with a nice ripping 0-60 in 4 seconds. Doesnt matter if your neighbours kid is playing cricket in the middle of the road. First of all he is not supposed to be there. And he anyhow has enough brothers and sisters. Noone will miss him. Also his dad had emptied his garbage in the front of your house...remember?? Also you know the local MP while he knows just the MLA. You can get out in no time if you run over him.
7. You have the right of the road. Always!! We live in a democratic country. We can take a turn and cross the road and stop whenever and wherever we want. And yeah you also have paid the road tax.
8. There is the signal. I have 15 seconds to reach it.Its changing red. I still can cross. After all the traffic from the other side will take 20 seconds to reach where i will be. Hmm..havent you heard of heisenberg's uncertainity principle? No two bodies can share the same location or something like that. Anyhow i made it in the nick of time. the car crossing the road just snapped a little of my rear indicator.
9. Hmm..i love playing this game. We have pedestrians crossing the road. They dont look at you and you try not to look at them. After all you cant look at everything. You got to look at the pot holes on the road and the babes on the sidewalk.(well i know..there are none..but some pretend babes at least?). The game is that you weave through them like the skiers in the alps weave through the flag. you dont reduce the speed...you cant anyhow since your brakes are gone. You dont let them cross.... you just make them jump a step backward. Kids and Women no exception. Try to sing" its my way... on the highway" while you do this.You can honk though and the louder you honk the more points you get. If you are playing the role of pedastrian your role is to placve yourself at an impossible situation that the guy coming has an option of crashing on the oncoming traffic or screecing to a halt or crashing into you.
10. If you hit someone, which will happen inevitably, get off the ground and start shouting at him. The louder one shouts the better the chance of getting away.
11. Watch out for cops. Try to avoid them at all "costs".They dont get a pay. They have to earn their living from ou offenders. You can be stopped and made to wait like a pety criminal in the side of the road as he stops more vehicles. If you have all your papers or fakes great...anything that looks genuine will do... Else no problem. Look at his rank... Rs 50 should do the trick if its a constable...Rs 100 for a head constable and Rs 150 for an SI. The inspector and above wont do such corrupt things. They anyhow get a cut from the minions
12. Special cases: watch out for public transport buses, government vehicles and vehicles of politicians and actors. They dont have to follow the road rules at all.
If you reach home safe after this thank god and prepare for the next outing.

Moving back
Need to locate a house in Bangalore when i shift in Jan mid. What do i want? Essentials: Some place near my office ...A Single Bedroom+ Hall+ Kitchen and a Bike parking and a little privacy (so that i dont have to worry coming home late). Value Adds: Telephone, Cot, Stove the works. I dont mind paying 3-4K for it I don't like paying the advance of 10 months. I dont even know how long i will be in bangalore before i am sent on a project. Maybe i should consider piling on with someone. Anyhow i get one week of free accomodation in bangalore from Digital. Maybe i should just shift in with some guys or into a PG. Well will think about it then.

Guess i should make it official now. I am shifting from TCS to Digital Global Software's E-solutions Business Unit. Thats my third job since i passed out in March2001. Need to conduct a poll on how many jobs the others in my batch have shited and why. Maybe i should wait till March 2003 for 3 years to be complete.
But why did i shift? I think the daily travelling of 3 hrs and the lack of any project in my line was reason enough. Lets see if i can do any better here....else?? i dont know.

Anyhow went to Mocha and we had a decent crowd. Nikhil, Richa, Sashi, Saket, Sunderesh, Sangeeta. Had a few coffees and moved on to the pub called sparx and had a good round of cocktails followed by a couple of pitchers of beer. Hope to meet these guys more often.check the snaps at here

I wonder how to post the pictures on the blog. Also how do i publish it to my webste in say geocities.com. Guess i will have to read the blogger help files.
Hmmm....for the images i need an FTP client and upload the images to the blogger and then HTML code it into the blog. Well lets see if it works.
For posting on another server: Again an FTP is needed and let me see if geocities lets you FTP into their server.

It was a very mixed day yesterday. Had managed to arrange a meet of the people from iim bangalore who are in chennai at my favorite joint Mocha in Amethyst. So off i went in my bike and i was in the front and took off when the green came. And there was this idiot lurking behind the traffic cirle in a scooter and decided to drive right in front of me. He had no right turn there and it was anyhow my signal and he didnt come around the circle. And damn he had no insurance papers. And my bike got a bent fork and a lot opf other assorted complains. I got rs 500 from him and he mustve paid the cop who was vulturing around a little more. Damn , the cop even wanted a bit from me. Gave the cop Rs 20 or so for not doing his duty and that fellow wanted more. Beggars in uniform.

I watched the first CD(now dont ask me how i got it) of eminem's 8 mile. Was a well made movie but i expected some more older popular eminem songs. Have to go and watch the other CD today or so.

Even McKinsey Quarterly is charging money for reading articles on its site. Most of the articles there are now only for premium members and would cost about $150 a year. But the section on non-profit organizations is all free and saw this article on Mumbai there

I really dont like it but i have to buy a new phone. My friend Harsha (he has a Nokia 7650 and all the phones i owned till know have been used by him) points at a Nokia 6150. But i will miss my Nokia 7110. I still think Morpheus of Matrix uses that phone and so does the villian in swordfish.

Its been a long long time i been avoiding this like the plague
So i finally got myself to get in here
Here is something i read in this blog though i have seen versions of this elsewhere too:
38 Things You Want To Say At Work But Cant
1. I can see your point, but still think your full of crap.
2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
3. How about never, is never good for you?
4. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate your self in public.
5. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
6. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
7. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
8. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
9. It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
10. Ahhh, I see the fuck-up fairy has visited us again...
11. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
12. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
13. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't give a damn.
14. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
15. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
16. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
17. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
18. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
19. What am I? Flypaper for freaks?
20. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
21. It's a thankless job. But I've got a lot Karma to burn off.
22. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
23. And your cry-baby whiny-assed opinion would be?
24. Do I look like a people person?
25. This isn't an office, it's hell with florescent lighting.
26. I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.
27. Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
28. If I throw a stick, will you leave?
29. Errors have been made...others will be blamed.
30. Whatever kind if look you were going for, you missed.
31. I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.
32. A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
33. Can I trade this job for what's behind the door #1?
34. Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
35. Nice perfume, must you marinate in it?
36. Chaos, panic & disorder - my work is done here.
37. How do I set a laser pointer to stun?
38. I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Check out your IQ on high iq tests
50 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century
The International High IQ Society's list of the 50 greatest minds of the twentieth century.

1. Albert Einstein
2. Steven Hawking
3. Thomas Edison
4. Bill Gates
5. William James Sidis
6. Werner Heisenberg
7. Watson and Crick
8. Marie Curie
9. Pablo Picasso
10. John Nash
11. Nikola Tesla
12. Mahatma Ghandi
13. Kurt Godel
14. Srinivasa Ramanujan
15. Niels Bohr
16. Carl Jung
17. Winston Churchill
18. Bobby Fischer
19. Richard Feynman
20. Linus Pauling
21. Edwin Hubble
22. John von Neumann
23. Erwin Schrodinger
24. Robert Oppenheimer
25. Alexander Fleming
26. Garry Kasparov
27. Marilyn Vos Savant
28. Shockley
29. George Orwell
30. Steven Weinberg
31. Bertrand Russell
32. John Lennon
33. Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. Jonas Salk
35. Henry Ford
36. J. Maynard Keynes
37. Alan Turing
38. Max Planck
39. Enrico Fermi
40. Marconi
41. Tim Berners Lee
42. Chandrasekhar
43. Claude Shannon
44. Jean-Paul Sartre
45. Stanley Kubrick
46. Ernest Hemmingway
47. Umberto Eco
48. Gregory Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts
49. Martin Luther King, Jr.
50. Simone de Beauvoir

I have subscribed to The newspaper today TNT.
And they closed shop without refunding my money till now.

Whats with the indian tabloids? Outlook has an issue with "what women want" as a cover story. The week has an issue about "premarital sex". and the statistics seems to be really encouraging for the youth to go ahead and have fun.Some ways to increase readership.

I watched a movie Dil Vil Pyar Var last weekend. A OK movie with some good old hindi songs. A young cast but a weak story line.
I havbe started another blog for news.

MIT OpenCourseWare | Home MIT OpenCourseWare reflects the commitment of the MIT faculty to advancing education by increasing access to their academic materials through the Internet and the World Wide Web.There is some amazing stuff there in the open web. But most of it related to science. Not much of management there.

My nokia 7110 completely conked and refused to switch on. Have given it for repair. But i somehow i think i can manage without a mobile phone. Except that i dont have my addresses and phone numbers of friends handy.

I actually can book Indian Railway tickets on the internet. And it was delivered promptly at home. Wow! Only that one needs to book it earlier than 2 days from date of departure and it cost Rs 30 per ticket(even if i book at the same time - it should be per delivery or i should be able to book more than one ticket in one transaction).

I have decided to give 2 more modules of the CPIM exam conducted by the APICS this December 7th. The exams will be on Detailed Scheduling and Planning and Strategic Management of Resources. I hope I can figure out how to prepare for this. Also I need to know what happened to the last 2 exams I gave.

I bought a cordless phone yesterday. GE make. Guess what? Its made in China. According to the FEER(Far Eastern Economic Review) "From General Electric to Samsung Electronics to Toshiba, as well as thousands of Chinese companies, manufacturers are finding that using China as an export base is often more profitable--and almost always far easier--than selling goods inside the country. The result is that China, once viewed by wide-eyed executives as the market of future riches, is instead becoming the world's factory floor. China's often-devastating competitiveness is helping to redraw the global corporate landscape, forcing companies around the world to scrap old business strategies — and some businesses altogether — and to come up with new ways to compete.
One upshot of China's emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse: It's becoming an increasingly powerful global deflationary force. China's manufacturing prowess is pushing down prices on a growing range of industrial, consumer and even agricultural products that it sells around the world" Anyhow, i hope it works.

Am back to Chennai. The city looks horrible with the worst roads possible. Inteviewed for an automobile client who seemed to have some totally different requirement.
I hate Chennai. Now am getting up at 7:00 and reach office at 9:00. And back by the 6:30 bus.
Plan to do some work on an approach on SAP APO solutions for automobile. Have to get to fill my SCM blog.
Also got to try to get some work in Oz or NZ.

I am not much of a cricket fan except for hearing snippets from the news.My old pal A.Satish from RIT days is a die hard cricket fan. Check this article "Bowlers of quality key to overcoming overseas mirage". And this " A week after the historic win, 'hangover' still stays". Watch out for more articles on cricket by Satish here.

Been a long time since i blogged. I am through with my stint with HP in Bangalore. Am going back to chennai to see off my brother Girish who is going on some project to Stamford, Connecticut.

Bangalore is becoming a hub for global IT majors, drawing 38 percent of the 112 IT- related foreign direct investment ventures India attracted in manufacturing and services between January 2001 and May 2002.

Do you ever read any of your spam mails? Jonathan Land even replies to every one of them. The spam letters are an interesting read.

I want to learn the guitar. So i asked Amit, friend of mine about it and this is what his reply was (edited). I am starting a new weblog on Guitaring: A Beginners to Guitaring.

Have to start working on the Demand Planning module. Its been a long time since i touched the APO system. So i need to think up about my Career Path. I am going to be in the Supply Chain Management Consulting area. Also i will Specially focus on the Demand Planning functions and Forecasting will be my special interest. In the Industry vertical I will have special focus on the Auto Industry. In addition i will also have basic knowledge of the supplimentary fields such as CRM, PLM etc.

My CPIM exam went on "OK". Recuperated over the weekend. Not that i was tired or anything.
Watched some nice movies on telly last week. Ronin, The Thomas Crown Affair, Mixed Nuts are some i remember.

Its a bandh here in bangalore tomorrow. Some caurey issue ans veerapan issue. Hope to stay home and study for the exam on saturday.

Its the Anniversary of the Sept11 attack.

Yesterday there was a Bad train accident. The Rajdhani Express went off a bridge over the It was really painful to see the bodies lying around. Why cant we get atleast some decent safety assured. I think we do pay a decent amount as train fare. Also i am sure a huge chunk of my tax is going for the Railways. And if an accident happens why cant they have a decent rescue effort? To top it all the Railway Minister calls this a sabotage attempt. Am sure he wants a repeat of Gujarat.

Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers has credibility issues, but provides rousing entertainment. There are many other previous versions of this novel.1921, 1915, 1929, 1939, 1977(TV) .

Today is the festival for Ganesha, the elephant headed god. Its a grand occasion in the western part of the country and is celeberated quite a deal in the other parts of the country.

TV is 75 The 75th Anniversary of the Invention of Television on Sept 7th

Manisha in body double row The screening of Hindi film Ek Chhoti Si Love Story (A Small Love Story) has been postponed after the leading lady Manisha Koirala claimed a body double was used without her permission.

India allows postal advertising India's postal service, the world's largest, has been opened up to private sector advertising to raise money for modernisation

A Crucial Call for Indian Telecom For just about anybody involved in India's telecom industry, Sept. 6 will be the most important day of the year. The country's Supreme Court is about to determine if the fledgling wireless industry will be opened up to competition.

Fuller Life had written to me with the possible treks taking place this week and about guitar classes.Waiting to hear about the photography classes too.

With the ongoing mobile war everywhere...this is my mobile rate now All Incoming and Outgoing Calls from 11.00 pm to 7:00 am free!! The normal rates from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm is Rs 2 per call of 30 secs.First 200 SMS per month free! Subsequent SMS charged @ just 50p (to all networks) .First 10 Minutes Talk Time free every month! Free Insurance cover for Rs. 50,000 from Tata AIG. All Incoming calls to from any Spice phone will be free till 30th Sep '02! *
Free Home delivery of Spice Uth Card and Currency (call 6650 from Spice phone) in Bangalore city

Operational Excellence in Supply Chain Management implies Operational Excellence within each of the individual processes and in the way the supply chain operates as a whole.

Big Bees : OutLookIndia.com Outlook-Cfore Survey of top B-schools -- more than rankings, the figures reveal that all is not quite well in MBA land. IIMB comes second in the list

Lotsa People complain that the blog is not opening. Maybe i should shift the whole thing to geocities instead of hosting it in blospot.

My weekend
Spent the last three days doing nothing except washing my clothes and drinking every night. rum on friday, whisky and beer on saturday and beer on sunday night. 30ml Whisky with 200 ml beer....gives a real high. Also i washed my bike. Tried to watch the movie Signs (i slept off midway). Met some old engg college juniors on sunday evening at india coffee house. Washed my bike. Thats all . And what i didnt do was study for the CPIM exam i am supposed to give on 14th. That too i have taken up 2 exams. Should i postpone one of it??

God knows why Hindustan Lever put some money into my account. What does one do in such a case? Hope they are not stashing away their money in innumerable accounts and will ask me for it later :)

Coca-Cola and Pepsi, are under fire in India for colorful advertisements that were painted onto rocks in the ecologically fragile Himalayas.Read the National Geographic report.

At a time when the technology sector is in the doldrums, business-process outsourcing (BPO) is going strong. By one estimate, the global market for BPO in 2001 was $123.6 billion and it could grow to reach $178.5 billion by 2005.Is BPO indias new wave?

An Indian software engineer has been arrested for trying to illegally sell software code worth $70 million.The furore is the he is from an IIT. I personaly am saddened by the fact he tried to sell it for just $250,000:) Cant we think big!!?

Girish (my brother) updated this new blog called CatMath that i was thinking of for folks writing CAT. Its based on the Yahoo groups that discusses quantitative questions.

Fuller life.This seems to be an interesting concept. Lets see if they respond. In the course list i will like to do :
Creative arts: Photography, Sketching, Watercolors, Painting
Sports and Outdoors: Treks, Swimming
Languages: French, German
Music: Western, Guitar
Miscellaneous: Magic, Graphology, Aero-modeling

I use a India Telephone Card This prepaid card enables you to make local, STD or ISD calls even from a STD/ISD barred telephone.

I have become a trend setter with 521 ratings that i have given on the Yahoo LAUNHcast ratings. and 479 away to the next level thats a fanatic. Check my LAUNHcast station

Watched Minority Report over the weekend. It really could'nt retain my attention. The things that the guys do in the air seeing slides or whatever makes me think in the future thats how people get their excercise. Anyhow was glad i did'nt go and watch in the cinema hall.

Guess i have to look at some more blogs to decide what direction this blog is to be heading. It can be some random thoughts and experience of mine (i really can count on the fingers of my left hand the number of people who will be interested in it) or i can write about stuff of general interest with a lot of links. I think the ideal would be to mix both these like i have been doing but probably make it more funny like this Julius Sharpe . I also need to write more on the SCM and CAT blogs. Lets see how things go....

So many people want to create PDF file from DOC file."pdf995" is a FREE utility, window based. It creates PDF file from many
other file format. you can also download from tucows

was listening to indiafm for a change today. Though the live radio wont work("unavailable at the moment") the juke box sounds good. Also tried playing it along with yahoo launch. sounds good fun. My own mixing!!

Lotsa discussions about the sexual harassment scene in india. Business Today has run a cover on it. Guess it is rife cos of the Phaneesh murthy of infosys incident.Guess its better for infosys to be losing him this way than losing him to a direct competitor

My bike went for a major operation including a plastic surgery. Looks neat now. Was a expensive job but at least it will mean less trouble now. I also have brought my toolkit from home this time. The other things i got are some 'money'plant. some new bedsheets and lot of chips.

Was home for the weekend. Cancelled the trip home for Onam. Nothing remarkable in the trip except that i ate a lot.

Watched The Bourne Identity. Its a boiled down version of the Robert Ludlum novel.
Movies to watch(new) : XXX, Signs, Austin Power's Goldmember;
(Old) : The Shawshank Redemption and the list thats on july 24th post

Got a couple mails into the alumni mailing list with an attachment Psecure20x-cgi- install.version.6.01.bin.hx.com.

Shifted by workplace today.
Got my contact lenses.

Mukul sharmas Mindsport which was much famous in the Illustrated Weekly has a new avatar on the web: Mindsportal. Maybe i shold try to pick a few questions for my IMS classes.

Can uyou believe it? You can book tickets on the net for Indian Railways ( guess its only for delhi now). Pay by credit card and get the tickets delivered home... guess a lotta travel agents should start using this so there goes a lotta jobs and the extra income that some of the reservation clerks get.

What happens when a cold person catches cold?? He becomes supercooled. Cold Kills. achhhooooo

Saw a lot of movies yesterday night on Star Movies when i had gone to wash my clothes. Enemy of the state , Murder in the first, The Assignment..... the TV channels are showing a lotta good movies nowadays.

Visited Anands webpage after a long time. Its interesting and concise as usual. The blog on Dr.Adbdul Kalam is very interesting.

I started this Blog called CAT blog for the people interested in CAT.

You can use this nice utility to check the performance of your computers. Stop at the PC PIT STOP

Bought a pair of vizucci sun glasses and a pair of metal frame glasses with plain glasses and got a pair of soft contact lenses for 2K. Also had a hair cut a couple of days ago. The hair falling over my ears is a bit too irritating.

Tag-Board Message Board aka TagBoard Tag boards are a new means of communication on the Internet. They are not a replacement for high-end message boards or forums, but rather they have far different uses. Got to check this out. Have added on one here on the RHS. Maybe a add on to the CAT blog i am thinking of.

See right on top. I added a new user- friendly feature to the Blog: It opens new Windows if you check the Box.

Addictive from the album Truthfully Speaking has a Hindi Track on the background!!

Think i should have added this yesterday. Makes good sense to add a To Do/ Wish List on the first day of the week.
The Work List (should go on the SCM Blog actually)
1) ReLearn Demand Planning
2) Learn IPPE
3) TCS perdiem: fight for it ;)
4) Check out the resources for the APICS exam

The Personal List
Things i need to do: 1) Repair my bike 2) Watch some good classic movies 3) Make some MP3 CDs 4) Book ticket for Bend It Like Beckham
Things i need to buy: 1) Collapsible Rack 2) Filament Stove 3) Pan (yeah rite feel like cooking some Maggi/Tea etc in the room) 4) Bedsheet Set
Things still on hold : 1) Buy a new pair of glasses?/ Evaluate contact Lenses (Cost Benefit Analysis)?? 2) Make a visit to Hyderabad to meet sam? 3) Ride down to some place this weekend

I just noticed the small Ad stating that I can shift to the Beta version of Yahoo mail. So I shifted. Looks good. Has Calendar and Address book incorporated into the mail. Lets see how useful it is......as long as they still give it free :)

Found all this info for Nokia 7110 in a site called mobile.box

*#06# for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
*#0000# To view Software Version.
*#3370# - Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) activation. It will automatically restart.
*#3370* - Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) deactivation. It will automatically restart.
*#4720# - Half Rate Codec activation. It will automatically restart
*#4720* - Half Rate Codec deactivation. It will automatically restart
*#746025625# - Sim clock allowed status.
*#92702689# [*#war0anty#] - takes you to a secret menu with 6 choices:

1. Displays Serial Number.
2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture (0997)
3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)
4. Displays the date of the last repairment - if found (0000)
5. makes you capebel of transferring user data if you have the gear for it
6. shows how many hours the phone has been on
But the half rate codec doesnt work. thats sad cos i have heavy battery depletion.

Paid the Examination fees for the CPIM (Certificate in Production and Inventory Management) exam conducted by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society ). This exam is held four times a year and is conducted in India by IMRMI. It has five subjects: Basics of Supply Chain Management, Master Planning of Resources, Detailed Planning and Scheduling, Execution and Control of Operations, Strategic Management of Resources. The exam I am appearing for is the first two in the list on the 14th of Sept. (Gotta prepare a lot cos it needs 300-330 for a pass outta 330)

I also bought some plants for the room. Need to get some money plant too from home.
Planning to go home to Chennai next month for Onam festival. Check out these Onam Recipes.

Bought a CD Player. Some make called KAWA. Its got some good features . Its a Mp3, Radio, CD, VCD player and has some game mode also. The Radio is not all that good but it works.Has an inbuilt amplifier in it.
Saw Shallow Hal. Not a great movie. Quite average. Its a comedy about how shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
The new movies i want to see are Bend it like Beckham, The Road to Peridition, MIB II, .......
I would like to see the following older movies sometime: The Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, Seven....any more suggestions??

This is a Great Excel Resource.
Microsoft Excel Formulas Tips Tricks and Spreadsheets . You will find here lots of tips, tricks, formulas, functions and many other useful aspects of Excel. Some of the most popular pages are Handy Hints for Excel (Data Validation and Conditional Formatting), Excel Tips and Tricks, Array Formulas and Dynamic Ranges. There are also some free Workbook examples that you can download at your leisure if you wish.

Do you know how it feels to be to be from Indias best B school. IIM Bangalore is the India's Best B-School according to Business today. But then IIMA did not participate (because of the gujarat violence). Anyhow, we bet IIMC.
and IIMKozikode has made into the top league. Surprisingly IIM Indore is the countries highest average pay earner?? and IIMC got the highest number of students placed internationally.

I was searching for the Good Bad and Ugly ringtones. And found some noice tones here....
Free James Bond Nokia Ringtones The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Tempo 45) here are the keystrokes...
1888*, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 58**#, 6#, 49, 08, 1888*, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 58**#, 6#, 29*#, 08, 1888, 0, 2#, 4999, 588#, 08, 5, 08, 48, 0, 2999#, 08, 1888, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 68**#, 49
Check out the James Bond Cars, James Bond Gadgets, James Bond Posters, James Bond Villians
Also there was this page with the dossiers of the complete list of James Bond Women that looks interesting. And this page on James Bond Sound Tracks
the best is the JB time line

I was visiting the Far Eastern Economic Review site and found this nice music composing applet. I was'nt able to load it here. Click here and compose your own music and listen to it.

Remembered this wonderful tool called puzzlex i used to use to Solve Crosswords, Anagrams, Scrabble (tm), Countdown, and other Word Puzzles. Actually yahoo games seems to be an interesting site for a lotta games. But I think I cant access it behind a firewall.

guess what? I heard some really bad news on the net about myself. You know what Harish means? Behind the name says this:-
HARISH m Indian:: "lord of monkeys" from Sanskrit hari "monkey" and is a "lord". This is another name of the Hindu god Vishnu.
HARI m Indian:: "brown, green" or "lion" or "monkey" (Sanskrit). This was another name of both the Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna. It was also borne by the son of the Garuda, the bird-like mount of Vishnu.

This is a post that i am doing to get blogchalked. So dont try to read something into it...
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, India, Bangalore, HP, Harish, Male, 26-30, SAP APO consultant, MBA IIM Bangalore, Engineering REC jamshedpur!

Felt like listening to some hindi songs on radio and got it at this site called dishant.com. Nice new Hindi songs but hope your connection is good or you get buffering pauses. The site also gives the addresses of some FTPservers to download desi music from. But the best music find of the day is letspops.com. The site has a huge collection of somgs thats streamed. Cant find out how to rip it with ripcast.

Have to set the navigation of my webpages right. Added a few more pics (mostly of myself) on the Yahoo album.

Before i was through for the day got this post from a unknown friend called "The Brahma" in my guest book.It asks where Bangalore is Unfortunately i dont know his mail id so let me poist it here hoping that he gets to see it when he visits sometime: Bangalore is a city in the South of India. Its called the Silicon Valley of India.

Things i want to do to the house am living in:
>> Get a rug for the room ( cant stand the sand that accumlates)
>> Get a stand to keep the things i generally pile up on the TV
>> Get a couple of potted plants inside to give a green room look :)
>> A flexible shower Hose? am Tired of washing from the Bucket

Things i want to do outside the house
>> Get my bike modified (a bit -stretch the budget) : Better-looking Headlights, Different Handle Bars, Change the Body??, Front wheel guard?? and Those small fancy blue lights.
>> Get a microwave over. But what can i cook in it? And will i get the time and patience to so something. What about washing the utensils?
>> Get a all CD player.something that can play MP3,VCD and AudioCds.

Things i want to do other than these
>> Travel to NewZealand
>> Travel to places in Karnataka: Hampi, Halebid, Ranganthitta....

Listening to a lot on the Alternative Rock station on yahoo.launch and am getting to like it.

Downloaded Age of Empires trial version. Dont think I will play much but still its something that I have always wanted to play in IIMB.

This is a cool site "sodaconstructor" which you can dabble if you have a lotta time in front of the comp and want to pretent to be busy.

Finally i got a look into my brother Girishs webpage.. Cant believe the things he has written about me.Anyhow its all incomplete and guess he is too busy to fill it up.

Am 28 and what have i done?? jeez look at these guy's accomplishment At age 28:
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr published his revolutionary theory of the atom.
French novelist George Sand published her first novel, Indiana.
Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof of Warsaw invented the artificial language Esperanto.
British physician Thomas Wakley began publishing The Lancet.
Jamaican reggae composer/performer Bob Marley recorded "I Shot the Sheriff."
Nuclear plant lab tech Karen Silkwood died in a car crash on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter and a union official to document her allegations about falsified quality control reports.
French naturalist Jean B. Lamarck coined the word biologyto encompass the studies of botany and zoology.
But its ok :)
you can enter your age and check accomplishments of people at that age here

Downloaded the myalarm and started using it. Pretty useful as a desktop alarm clock. just that you ahve to be around when the alarm pops up. Also there is a screenscape that is set as my screensaver. That too has a smart caledar. I love the Airpower screensavers

Blackmask is a site for some of the best books in electronic format

Check out this site if you want to get tullee. There is this very informative page about the pubs in bangalore.Also the recipes for the cocktails are a great resource.

Decided to change the design of the template i was using for this page. This is multicolored( a different color everytime) and gives the viewer the option of changing the color and the font sizes. Also have to link this to the previous logs

Listening to the Psychedelic 60s on Yahoo Launch today. Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Bob DylanPure Prairie League, The Lovin Spoonful, Neil Diamond. The Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors ... well thse are groups that made a impact in the 60s i guess.
Then shifted to the Super 70s (Marvin Gaye, The Eagles, ... )
and the Awsome 80's (Bon Jovi, Human League, ... )
and the Non-stop 90's (Nirvana, Backstreet Boys, ...)