Bad Tooth Ache :(

Got a bad toothache today. Again I was not able to blog for a long time because I had lot of work. Also got a award from my company for contributing to improving team competency. Will sure blog everyday from today :)

Couldn't Blog for a long time

I was not able to blog for a long time because of lot of work at office. We had some critical releases because of which I had to do many night outs at office. Will continue blogging again :)

Started my new Blog

Today I started a new blog here on Blog spot "Techie Techie". I will be posting there about technical stuffs that I learn everyday.

Cooking Experiments

Yesterday we wanted to do some experiments on cooking. So we decided to make "jagar ka halwa". We bought 750 grams of carrot, one liter of full cream milk, 500 grams of sugar and some cardamom, We washed and shredded the carrots first, then poured one liter of milk in a cooker and added the carrot to it ans started boiling with regular stirring, slowly as the mixture started getting think, we added the sugar and cardamom powder and then stirred continuously for half and hour. We kept stirring till the mixture became very thick with no milk left over. We had enough halwa to serve at least 20 people.


In addition to halwa, we also made rotis and Paneer butter masala.

How To Be Creative

Yesterday I was just reading through this book "How to be creative" by MacLeod. Thought I have not finished reading that book, I would say that it is worth reading. It not just talks about being creative, But more about things that prevent you from doing so and the things that frustrate you in your daily life.
While reading that book, I felt that many things that I feel are part of everyone 's life. When I first joined my company, I was very enthusiastic, I used to take up more and more challenging things and do it my own way - "I was Creative". But as time went on, my way of thinking changed, I want to do things the way others will accept it. I refrain from doing things that are drastically different from the normal. Now I am not creative, I just want to do things the way others think. I was frustrated about it. The book gave me the encouragement to do things my own way.
This is an excerpt from the book

"It was so liberating not to have to be thinking about all
that, for a change.
It was so liberating to be doing something that didnʼt have to impress anybody, for a change.
It was so liberating to have something that belonged just to me and no one else, for a
change.
It was so liberating to feel complete sovereignty, for a change. To feel complete freedom, for
a change.
And of course, it was then, and only then, that the outside world started paying attention."

Happy Reading.....

Same old weekend, Do i have Dejavu??

It was the same old weekend that I used to have 6 months back. Got to spend some quality time with by best friends. Also, started the habit of reading books. On Saturday I had to go to office for a while to prepare for the knowledge transfer of one module as now I have been assigned to a new research project for two weeks. Today, we were planning to go to wonder la, but unfortunately, that plan had to be canceled. I also watched a movie called "Hitman" it was nice. Finally, ended the weekend with a nice long walk with my room mates.

pHew

Busy days are just beginning. I had been home for the weekend. Developed a small "Tower Of Hanoi" game. It took less than one hour to develop the game and it took around 3 hours to play and complete it.
Reached Bangalore back on Monday. Had lot of work at office as we have a release on Wednesday.
Today, I got a hair cut in the morning , did some exercises and went to office. Had lot of work, and reached back home at only 9:45.

After almost a week

Its almost a week since i blogged last. Got quite caught up this week. The entire week was busy and nice, I was able to follow my new routine of getting up early, doing exercise, having healthy breakfast and be active in office, gong for a long walk with my best friend every evening.

I also developed a mobile Tic Tac Toe game one day with a very dumb AI that the challenge is to make the comp win.

Lazy Sunday

It was a Lazy Sunday, Though I got up early, Didn't do much things today. Prepared "Idiappam" in the morning, then worked on my new hobby. We also prepared "Paripu Vada" in the evening. Played some ball games in the evening. Thats all.. :-(

A Busy Saturday

It was a busy day today. Got up little late and went to Temple with my roommate. Came home and did some work on My new Hobbies. and in the evening went for a Hi-Speed ride on outer-ring road. We went to the new Total Mall on sarjapur road, It was very spacious and nice. Did some shopping, and when returning, my senses were caught by the sweet vioce of the girl singing on the stage. She was a very beautiful, blond foreigner singing Lovely English songs. We listened to the songs and came back room. Then we went out for dinner at clay pot.

A good day with a surprise

Well again, had a nice day,m got up little late at 7:30 reached did exercise, skipping etc... and reached office at 9:15, morning session went productive. Went to a friends house for lunch, in the afternoon, all things were well, and suddenly i got a shocking news, the requirement that I had been working on for the past two days has changed considerably. Now need to start again from the prototype :-(. But I was happy because a very good friend decided to please me with some sweet words after a long time. reached home at 7:30 made popcorn, and went for walk with my room mate. Reached home at around 9, ate lots of suppota fruits and started blogging ;-).
Now I have to go and prepare dinner. bye

Break Out Flopped in the begining

Compared to my first open source project The Jacrobat which received around 1000 hits in the first day, the break out game received only 5 hits and one download. So, I have added some screen shots of the game for marketing it

A Completely Ful Filled Day

Today was an ideal day for me. I got up at 6:30 in the morning, pressed my clothes, did skipping and some exercise, then the morning stuff, a healthy break fast and reached office at around 8:30.
At office was able to do one day's work in the morning half itself and then came home to have lunch.
We made Rotis and potato for lunch, had chocolate, tang, watched half a episode of SmallVille , then went back to office fresh and again did one more day's of work in the afternoon and returned home at 6:30. After reaching home, me and my room mate went for a walk and and returned after an hour and make paneer butter masala and rotis for dinner. Had stomach full of paneer and rotis.

Break Out Released

Today, I finally gave the first alpha release of my mobile game "Break Out" on source forge.
Need to improve the game to make it more fun to play. and need to support many other popular phone models.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/breakout

Change is needed

I think I need some change, because I have got bored of my self. What about a change in hair style or change in fashion. I have decided to make most of my life, so from next will go to gym in the morning, then reach office early, finish work by 5 then learn some new technologies, and then have dinner early, also go for swimming and playing badminton in the weekends.

After a long time

I am blogging today after a long time, Yesterday I was in Kerala on some personal purpose.I started my return journey alone in the afternoon reached Bangalore in the night, but I didn't get bored because I was chatting with all my friends by mail on the train.
Today was just another normal day, got up as usual, had a healthy break fast with apples, corn flakes and complan, want to office, had a productive morning session and came to room for lunch. We prepared and had curd rice, Beetroot and omlet. The afternoon session was a little boring and spent most of my time in discussions. Got strong headache by the evening so returned home back early which is 7:00 pm by the way. Then went for a walk with my friend, had ice cream, came back to room and then had dinner - Fish, Curd Rice, and beet root.

Best Friends

What is the difference between friends and best friends? Well, both are friends but what differentiates friends and best friends is that best friends will always be with you no matter what happens. Now matter what you say, a best friends knows exactly what you feel. Freinds come and go in one's life but best friends remain. A best friend will always forgive all your mistakes and will never feel bad even if you get angry and say something bad because a best friend knows that you never meant all the wrong things that you said.

Interesting Day

Today I had to attend the marriage of one of my colleauge, got up early, had breakfast stated my journey at 12:30, It was hard to find the venue and some how we managed to reach the place. Had lunch there itself. It was 4'O clock by the time I reached back home. Then had a little nap and then my old school friends called. When to garuda mall to see them and then in the evening we went to pub world. There I had fruit flavoured beers and clicken. Then came back home tired and started blogging

Slow Weekend

Today was a slow day, Got up late in the morning thinking that I got up early. I was mistaken by the dark weather outside. Decided to publish a few posts on my blogs. Went to a best friends house along with my room mate for lunch. Then went to office directly to fix some defects.
Reached back home at 6:30, then we went to the new shopping mall that was opened last week

Friendship

When it comes to friend ship, a strange thing that happens with me is that, people whom I like in the beginning never become good friends and the people whom i don't like in the beginning become my best friends and later become the people whom I like the most.
Is it like that for every body or is it that I am bad at recognizing good people?
Actually, It may be that we don't select our friends, friendship just happens.

Feeeeee Ideaaassss

A few weeks back I had started a blog for writing down crazy ideas that come into my mind.
http://freeideeeas.blogspot.com/
For the past few days my mind was stagnant and no crazy ideas came, so just thought today that I have to do some thing about it.

Down with fever

Sad to be down with cold and fever. Came back from home today, reached at 4:30 in the modning sleepy as I has not slept properly in the train due to cold and fever.
Reached office late and came back in the afternoon. Had lunch and slept till the evening, then wend out for a walk, came back had tea and slept again.

Jacrobat

Jacrobat is an open source project started by me and my room mate, which was getting around 10000 hist a day in the initial days. Its now years since we had a look at that project, but it still gets around 20 hits a day.
We had now decided to take up that project again and so we have moved it to a new location
http://javaguru.itgo.com/jacrobat/
Have a look at this site, and download the software when you want

A Normal Day

Today was a perfectly normal day, reached office comparatively late at 10:00 and started the routine work. Had lunch at a friends place.
The afternoon hours were slightly boring, so decide to check out new softwares that can help improve productivity. I found some good softwares and shared them.
Came home back early.

A Tuff Day

Today was a very tuff day. I planned to go to office early and come back early and also to submit my tax documents.
Reached office at around 9:45 and started my day with configuring the build machines to make static code reports only for the modified code, Discussing about SRS changes other requirements requirements.
Then I came home for lunch, me and my friend prepared coconut rice.
Back in office the build for today's release was ready for testing. And I found to my shock that the my module is not working as expected. Then I hurried up to fix the problems and was over by 3. Then again started discussing about other requirements and the day went on. Interviewed a 7+ year experienced guy in the evening. Then came a call from an un-expected person to change my mood. It took a lot of strains to overcome those sadness. Finally reached home very late to find my room mate crying but not revealing the reason.

A Well Ended Day

Though today started as dull, It ended well. Thanks to my best friends to helping me cheer up.
In the evening I ate up more gulab jamoons, then went for a walk with my room mate, then had a chat with friends.
In the night, We cooked Eggroast and Chappathi's.

A dull day

Today, I had planned to go to the temple, but got up late and then eat yesterday's left over chicken biriyani. So, I had to drop my temple plans.
Me and my roommate then decided to develop a bomber man game for mobile phones. We started off with the high level design, then realized that our internet link was down. I asked my roommate to go to the Airtel office to checkout the outstanding bill while i decided to take bath.

It was afternoon by then, and we needed to eat something. So we decided to make tomato rice and gulab jamoons. The lunch was ready by 2.
After having lunch we had nothing to do because the electricity had gone. So I gobbled up some more gulab jamoons and took a nap.

The electricity had come back by around 4:30 and i was upset that my day has gone wasted. I wanted to do something different today. So I started this blog.

I ate around 20 gulab jamoons today till now.