tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78573072011-04-21T19:03:07.055-04:00"A glamor to life, a completeness, a perfection, a symmetry; like Carnatic Music"రాకేశ్వర రావుnoreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857307.post-8194312158130900982007-04-02T18:11:00.000-04:002007-04-02T18:29:47.579-04:00

Hi,I am his resume. I have been getting almost everyday now. For that matter, I have been getting edited every hour of the last three years, roughly the time I got christened or corporated should we say?Sometimes entire parts of me get deleted, to be replaced by something completely new. Sometimes I run for up to five pages. But right now after all the things he did, I am only four fifths of

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There is this definition of cowardice:"The past is for cowards. You live in the past, you die in the past"At least thats what Coach Ditka says in a Coors' Light advertisement.There are a lot of famous cowards that fit this definition. Like a lot of southerners in the American Classic "Gone with the Wind". People who sink into themselves and slowly implode unable to adapt to a new world, that is

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Well the age old comparison goes on.. and I do not want to add my drop of fuel to that fire.Here is a quick ironic snapshot of THE comparisionFirstly you will be surprised to see that the comparision between the big I and the big C is one of the most popular in the world. Rubbing shoulders with other great 'rivalries' likexbox - ps3 - wiichristianity - islam (unfortunately)Intel - AMDpointers -

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Well I decided I include the word 'women' in all the titles of my posts, may be that way i will get some readership.prolouge: I was talking to this very knowledgeable friend of mine a few days ago; the kind that has read everything there is to read about philosophy from Socrates to Jung from Sankaracharya to Tagore. Who gave me the analogy of the cloud (with respect to what I do not remember

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Was going trough the previous post. Or poem should we say? "Not bad" I think in retrospect "especially for a bunch of short lines that sound like a nursery rhyme".Right now I am in Chicago. Pretty darn good here. The snow and all. Something always told me that snow would be beautiful but I did not know it would be so beautiful. Its the kind of thing that can make you say "Thats all honey, you,

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Show me the SnowShow me the SnowShow me the skatesShow me the skisShow me the flakesDropping from the skiesShow me the mountain topShow me the pristine white slopeLet me on the snow-boardAnd let me slideGive me the gravityGive me the velocityGive me the pullDown the hill as I rollSpare me the ManSpare me the MachineSpare me for the WeekendLemme free my mindSpare me the CO2Spare me the hornSpare

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1) I am not after all as funny as I think I am or, or not as funny as I used to be ! This I realized after reading some other people's blogs. I am too obsessed with serious things these days to be of any real good with humor.2) I wonder what the point of this blog is. Except that it contributes to my typing speed, and that it keep a friend of mine updated, there is nothing else. Basically

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What is the most important thing in life?Beauty.And once again; a glamor to life, a completeness, a symmetry, a perfection; like Carnatic Music.

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The fucking problem with me is that I think I am a really great person. I think I am the saviour; that I am here to make a difference in the lives of all those around me. I am here to live the lives of a hundred men, when all I do is stare at screen coated with phosphoric material which illuminate when an electron hits it.I think, I am here to save a whole bunch of pathetic losers from themselves

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Here are the qualifications required for a job I was looking at on a 'good' company's website. My status on each of the requirement is in red.Qualifications B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent required. MS preferredMS in EE from great school with great GPA. Cool Three or more years of C programming and DSP assembly language programming

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One of the most embarassing situations can be when you forget the name of someone who remembers yours (or at least who you are afraid remembers yours).There is this guy who I meet regularly in college who comes and talks to me I never remember getting introduced to him, and the first time I remember talking to him, he was all so jovial as if he knew me from a long time. May be he mistook some

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These days it pisses me off to read some 'great' person's life story that begins 'Ever since my childhood I always wanted to be an X', where the X happens to be the 'great' thing they are now.Well how do people who do not know the difference between beer and lager know what in the big wide world they want to end up as? Come on, spare me the loose talk. When has being nerdishly mono-minded

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Well I have ditched four drafts in the last as many days. So I thought I will write some of it today.As my friend Smitha was saying in one of her earlier blogs, in those good old days when she had less work at office and more time to contribute to the literature of the blogdom, blogging could be an addictive thing. Once you start a blog of your own, your thought process gets a new nagger.

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Prolouge: This post is a letter I wrote to six of my friends a while ago. The six of us joined the same company after college three years ago. We had a blast in the initial training days, which lasted for 10 weeks. Now we are scattered all over the globe! We were a great gang except for things like only one person read my mail! etc. I would blame the self-centred-blog nature of the mail instead

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Along the path of life, there come milestones.Well it is beaten-to-death sentences like the above that make me hate metaphors. Well but then for every million attempts of mankind at metaphor, there comes one that makes all the mediocre oft repeated crap worth it. Well I should not be complaining about metaphors, my name is one after all. Thanks to the ingenuity of the Sanskrith language at

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About me: I used to grab life by the horns.First things first, I am not in requited Love or on Marijuana, so I am not the best qualified person to speak about Bliss; but then when has 'not being qualified' started being a reason not to do things? George Bush for example.Right from the day my birth was complete five years ago, I wanted to excel. My birth started about eight years ago, when I was

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Client machines Sita and Gita are suspected of killing their patron Raka.Raka, a 6 year exp programmer from C-Land has been found dead in code at the return of function dbgLog(). Raka uses this function frequently in his code while working on computers Sita and Gita. "But in that Run of the unfortunate program, it was not mandatory for Raka to be single stepping trough dbgLog", friends lament. "

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Well not very much, but I do like the game (it should be sport actually) a lot. For those people still in the dark, "I love this game" is the tag line of NBA. They also use this ultra cool quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson in their ads: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".For the 100th time, I miss life in India a lot; but there are some

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Well it is one of those childish titles. All I mean to do is blog about my four to five days in Chicago. There are only a couple of things I will write about . This is the first one; the second will be about basketball.I went Ice skating. Well I came to Chicago promising myself that I will go to ice skating every other day. It was not a promise well kept. I had my limitations, transportation,

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When Joe ceases to be Average.He ceases to be himself.The suspense is over. Average Joe is dead! Wait! Is he really dead or is he just laying dormant to strike back with vengance. No! That is too scary a thought to contemplate the possibility of. He better be gone for good. This is not an obituary! It is more like an opposite to an obituary. Yes, given the life of Average Joe, the things he did

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I have promised in a couple of posts ago that I will be blogging on a couple of things. Like any movie-director worth his salt, me the aspiring movie-maker is keeping my promises in the increasing order of the interest it can generate in the audience, well readers, ok reader, ok ok (what the heck lets face it) me, the only reader.Now I thought I will post on the way we love changes over the

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I thought I will write a small post on good things that happen in my life. Trust me, though for the most part of it my blog sounds cynical, I have what most people would call a very successful life. However, remeber that most people are wrong most of the times about things that matter the most to you.I had this interview for a summer internship today. It was telephonic, within two hours of the

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If there is one thing that needs to be mentioned in a blog titled 'anything passion anything', it is the olympics. The winter olympics just got over and I feeling like a kid who is weeping when the prosession is over. I am not sure if it is the NBC coverage or just the love for the sport, but I miss the olympics a lot.Passion is a word that is used very loosely. Ambitious marketers just throw it

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Regulars at this blog know that the lines they read are from the finger tips of this very talented software engineer who hates technology and hence computers and hence software. A lot of people say that I am very difficult to understand. A 'successful' person who is dissatisfied. A tech-hater at one of the world's best tech schools.Neway, software giant Microsoft thought I am in computer science

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A lot of thoughts come to you when you are on the road, or when you are in the shower. You will think to your self, Hmmm.. I need to blog these. But by the time, you can pull your self to the nearest computer and get yourself to logon to blogger, the wave of thought ebbs away. But sometimes when a computer is at hand, and you get a thought, (well, it is highly improbable that you get a good

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There are a couple of things I need to write about, but I am not finding time for. So let me list them down, before they are lost down the abyss of my memory.First, how being in grad school makes you dumb among other things that can achieve the same.Second, how the way your love grows, changes over the years.Ofcourse there is this third thing that I will have to write about'Passion lost pasion

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How much can you tell about someone in the first few seconds of seeing her?I live off campus. Wherever I want to go on campus, I go to the nearest point (to my house) on campus and catch the internally run campus bus there. The bus goes trough the under graduate dorms picking up gals(and I guess guys also, who are busy staring at the gals, the moment they step on) along the way. Its a treat to

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This sounds very similar to the famous movie title "Everyone says I love you", I have not seen the movie, hence no intended parallels.The phrase "We have a lot in common" actually means "well I have feelings for him/her, I think I love him/her, but then, I can not admit such a fact before anybody, (not even my own self), because if (s)he does not respond positively, I will be branded a loser. So

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I am scared of visitng my blog!I was told a long time ago, that if one begins his speech with some striking words like the above, she will more often than not have a good speech(The use of 'she' was to be politically correct). I never quite believed in such tricks, striking them off as desperate attempts of someone trying to capture the attention of the respectable audience (after all they are

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I took this 'Politics and Economics outlook' personality test on OK cupid. It was kind of cool, taking a personality test after a long time. Took quite a few of them, during job hunting back in India and in the amazing TCS training sessions.Over the years I have and am happy to have grown into a person who can take these tests honestly, because if you are good intentioned, you can afford to be

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Prologue : My friend I were having a pointless conversation, on which we were copying a third friend of ours. The third guy was silent all the time and finally replied saying that it was a nice conversation, which the conversation was far from. This was my reply. "Nice conversation" One thing about talking to girls for long hours is that (or is it about being in B schools), one tends to

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I needed to be at that great Grad school doing MS in my field of interest. Why? There are a lot of reasons, I still can not figure out why exactly.To give you the back ground, I am at Georgia Tech, the fourth best institute in the world for Engineering. I mean the fourth best. In mobile robotics, apparently my field of interest, it is still better. It was not an easy thing coming here. I do not

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Introduction: This is a mail that I sent to almost all of my friends, it received rave reviews, at least by my standards. Hence it graduated to a blog. This post will also get the credit for making my blog public! A mile stone indeed. Till now, only one person in all those who know me, knew my blog. It was ok, because we used to rarely meet outside the cyberspace, and she kind of understood. It

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Intro : This blog is my first long mail from the USA. It is named after Jane Austen's book Pride and Prejudice, which was initially named First Impressions. Though I would expect and hope this story's ending to be anything far less melodramic. My apologies for doing injustice to that great novel. From : RATo : RD, SO, PS, SM, MS, SV, RPHi guys,I was just wondering if I pestered you with an

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Part I - Summer, Storms, Medals and Night RidesWhen I started blogging (if you noticed, this is how my last blog started too :-) I swore that I will not bother my readers with my personal musings, but only write some of my 'quality' perspectives on aspects (mostly beautiful) of life. Like this predecessor, this blog also breaks one of my blog resolutions. After all, it is better to state facts

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Right from my childhood...I swore when I started blogging, that I would never begin a blog with those four words. The main intention behind blogging was to have a healthier look at life. To do that we all know, one should live in the present and enjoy every moment. And for that one should not live in the past nor should one live for the future. The latter I never do, but sometimes I experience

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Apologies! for the title is none of what I promised in my last blog. I was going through some blog and stumbled up on this thought I want to blog now. Things that make great blogging stuff are things of the moment, rather than a list of those less fortunate thoughts that cross the brain in the absence of a computer; but then most thoughts come to you on travel when you do not have a blogger at

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It has been really really long since I blogged. Yes two and a half months is a long peroid for any blog. Especially when those two and a half months are very happening. Ironically, the very fact that the last two months were very happening is the reason for the absence of any blogs. In a nut shell, I had two dance peformances on stage, (taking the total number of stage performances I gave in my

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Last Monday we, (my friend and I) played football in the National Games Village football ground in Koramangala, Bangalore. He had been asking me, where I went for playing. Though I went there only once, I suggested this ground to him. For once, in all those times we went to the game together, I was the star ! Yes. There were compliments from one guy, who recognized me from my last game, in spite

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To: AG, AR, MS, PS, RV, RFP, RD, SO, SM, SV Hi All, It’s exactly 52 weeks since I have left my job at tcs, in the pursuit of some dreams, though the term dreams is no longer relevant. No, there aren't any regrets, there weren't any ever. After all the choice has already been made, I just had to execute it! After one year, its an inverse situation now, it was sampling two extremes of the

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I went to college last Monday. That is exactly one week ago. It was to pave way into another college. Serendipity smiled on me, in the form of two of my friends. One a colleague and junior and the other a classmate. The journey to, was very enjoyable, exchanging ideas and information. The usual ecstacy in going to the "God's own country" was absent that day, may be because of the weight of the

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It was almost a disappointment. I was not expecting to see ordinary looking people there; and beautiful looking people, not at all! At India's premier most institute, I expected people to have atleast a horn on their heads. But that was not the case. Previous to last weekend, I went to the Indian Institute of Sciences, also called the Tata Institute, considered to be the most

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I have strongly resolved that I am not going to be just another techie in this over techni-fied city of Bangalore! Yes, my office life is quiet demanding! I work for a Hi-tech Hi-slog company, where I fight a lonely and slowly losing battle against the hi-slog part of it. There is one good thing in all this, even though I slog, which I not so rarely do, its for an Indian company working for

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Hello Blogger, This is my first blog, hence you may find it not very much in line with the usual style of writing a blog. My blog is named so because, my name means moon in sanskrit and my initials mean sun in egyptian. I guess, this is enough, more will come after I see some other blogs, and what people write there. - ra

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