AP people extend support to Congress again

This is not like regular election. The battle was not one side or the battle was not between 2 traditional parties. 2 new parties emerged, Praja Rajyam and Lok Satta.

The founder of Prajarajyam being Dr Chiranjeevi, it started and emerged with lot of hype. Party president and family took the rein of the party and slowly at the end, it was completely a family party. Party president being crowd puller attracted many people to attend road shows but failed drastically to turn them into voters. Party was open to leaders from other parties. In this process, it concentrated less of cadre formation at ground level. At the end, Allu Aravind became the sole decision maker and Chiranjeevi was inaccessible for many people to receive and review any complaints. Both Chiranjeevi and Aravind were on high dreaming bigger picture and failing to capture reality. Party was a disaster with its president losing to gain confidence of voters in his own constituency.

The founder of Loksatta being Dr Jayaprakash Narayanan (Ex IAS), it emerged as more technical party and bagged lot of youth following. Dr JP with his powerful speeches attracted many young people and turned them into voters. Being an IAS officer, his speeches were little technical, motivating and attractive. But JP's words some time doesn't match his action. JP always try to forecast himself as a different guy in arena and avoids doing few things which people really need. There is no other known leader in Lok Satta party apart from JP.

TDP, a traditional party has left no stone unturned. It uses film stars from nandamuri family to the max and it joined hands with other parties like TRS, CPI and CPM. This alliance and the publicity attracted few voters and party performed better compared to previous term.

Congress, with its various schemes reached the borders. Waiving loans, Free cure in private hospitals, Houses to poor etc schemes has made congress single largest party. In addition, party will act very soft towards corruption or terrorism which bagged them lot of votes. Pure vote bank politics worked out in Andhra Pradesh and India. Ofcourse, other parties failed in doing vote bank politics as well. Congress looked like a better party compared to other 3 parties and voters decided to extend support.

All the best Congress and All the best Andhra Pradesh.

Back in Hyderabad

To Continue my last post, i got the passport in the same week (Friday). I have made my arrangements to return to India on Saturday. My Company's travel desk ppl were kind enough to execute my short notices. On Friday evening, i made some quick shopping to buy few things for my nephew and niece. Return journey was good as i was reaching my home. This time Lufthansa did some favor to me in the form of personalized seat monitor and set of movies to watch from Frankfurt to Hyderabad.

The days passed, My father came to visit me on Tuesday and i had plans to visit Pune that week end to meet rest of my family members. At the same time, i was supposed to travel to UK that week end. UK trip was uncertain and this resulted in cancellation of my Pune trip. Then UK trip got postponed. My inside asks me, when i will be good at taking decisions during uncertain times? I would say, soon, may be after 5 more such incidents. Anyway, i could not meet my family that week.

I think that week was destined to meet my friends. In the middle of the week, i had very good time with an old new friend. I have invited my friends to visit Hyderabad during the week end and they did it. Saturday being the D-day for our state (Elections results are going to be announced on that day) and the sun is right on our head, we did not plan anything out side. We started partying inside and we were eager about election results. Election results were little unexpected and disappointing. But the party didn't stop. The 20-20 match between Deccan Chargers and Kolkatta Knight riders was like a thriller added to our party. We partied till the morning recollecting the incidents in the past. Without sun, it would have been far batter, but take it as it comes.

UK trip is yet undecided....

Monday Morning

I was eager and was expecting something to happen last week when Monday started. I was waiting for my passport to come back. It was on 30th April (Thursday), my stay was getting expired and British embassy was still holding my passport(from 15 days) for Business visa processing. I know, i have a valid reason but am worried about remark on passport that i am staying longer than i was legally allowed to.

To brief something about process, it will take 5-15 working days for British embassy (Los Angeles) to process any travel visa. But they opened my packet after 10 days on receiving my application and they started calculating 5-15 days from the day they opened. We have asked them to cancel my application and send the passport back immediately, they didn't respond even to that. Looks like they have SLA of 20 days to respond to faxes. This sounds obnoxious, but will have to bare them.

Now we applied for extension on my stay for 1 more month. This Monday is quite good, fresh, no expectations, no nervous feeling.....Bare with boring stay for few more days for my passport and few bucks....Now uncertainty is all over, don't know the next day.

Paper Media on its way?

While it has been a month i heard about Chicago Sun times from www.hmm-m.blogspot.com, its now Source Interlink the magazine distributor and Publisher filing chapter 11 and going private.

Source also increased its magazine rates recently. Are people really giving a glance at the articles on tables? In my experience, NO in recent days.

If Honda releases a new car, a review of a magazine by source interlink after a month will be useless while internet world would have circulated lot many things about that car.

Paper media is not an easy thing to be wiped out, but it surely will become more or less like mails through post card.

http://www.foliomag.com/2009/source-interlink-files-bankruptcy-goes-private

Source is still in Business anyway, all the best for them :-)

Google unveils India Election Center

Wave of elections touched technology resulting in few innovations..A very good place to explore your constituency for naive followers

Flogged in Pakistan and Marital rape legalised in Afghanisthan

Barbarianism is growing in few Islamic nations. Women are considered as from another planet and there is no good reason for survival of women in these nations other than Love & Lust.

Afghanistan law details - http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSL2330877

Pakistan girl flogging - http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/04/stories/2009040454421500.htm

Why do you flog a women, if she goes out with her father-in-law?

Why do you allow marital rape, when she doesn't like it? Are you some kind of animals?

Is Pakistan still the country where Lady Bhutto was Prime Minister? I doubt. Why don't these male animals who flogged a 17 year girl hang them self as they were ruled by a lady prime minister few years ago?

I sincerely hope some change and revolution in these countries soon...

Varun vows to cut heads, Rahul defends tytler..

While Varun, a well educated young politician who seemed to be future potential leader made fundamentalist remarks on a community , Rahul Gandhi with same qualification shared stage with Tytler. Rahul completely forgot the statement made by him last year on Anti Sikh riots, "the riots in 1984 against Sikh Community were absolutely wrong and the perpetrators should be brought to justice" and shared stage with Tytler.

Varun made it straight while Rahul approached it politically. What so ever, these two Nehru-Gandhi descendants are being shaped out as traditional politicians by their parties and doesn't seem promising.

Bloody dream is almost true

It started playing with me....I didn't get the fruit of it but it started depressing me....

Hiking Mission Peak

Is Hiking completely new to me? Not completely. I use to take over 3000 steps and covering little over 8 Miles to the reach out the famous temple of Tirumala. Well i shouldn't call it hiking because the better terminology is pilgrim walk.

Alright, last week end i joined 2 other friends Phani and Chandu to reach out the peak of Mission Peak regional preserve. Being Sunday, parking lot was occupied and extra mile is added as we parked our vehicle little away from parking lot.

Coming to Mission Peak, A steeply curved mountain about less than 3 miles. Weather was cloudy and encouraging. We started moving through the grassy hills. All you can see is green hills, cattle and few hikers (with their pets). So you will be rewarded only with a view of bay area and few lost calories when you reach peak. It was warmer till the end of second mile. As we started approaching peak, wind started hitting us hard and our hands almost paralyzed. We soon decided to head back down. we completed 2 water bottles and less than 10 snaps by now. We took 150 minutes to reach the peak. The path was steady many times making it little easier to beginner. Our return didn't take much time. We made it in 30 minutes completing our 6 miles trip in 3 Hours.

Altogether it was a good trip with a good view of Bay area, Green hills and Cattle.

Approach during any operation - My experiences and suggestions

Approach for any operation lacking financial funds

Few of my friends thought, it would be useful if i post the knowledge on hospitals and financial adjustments for operations i gained so far. Alright here are they -

Hospitals you can approach -

Most of the institutions take care of heart surgery - If any kid is suffering from heart problems, they can contact Sri Sathya Sai Hospitals for free treatment, Find the address and email below -

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences
(A Unit of Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust)
EPIP Area, Whitefield,
Bangalore-560 066
INDIA

Email: adminblr@sssihms.org.in
Tel: +91 80 28411500
Fax: +91 80 28411502

This hospital is always crowded and it is tough for you to get appointment, this free treatment requires lot of efforts. You may call them or you may email them with latest reports to get some information before you go. All they will say is to come there, but stress on availability because you cannot go all the way to bangalore and hear somethink like "It will take some time to get your turn". Now if you cannot get a bed at Sathya Sai, direct towards Narayana Hrudayalaya, here is the address -

Narayana Hrudayalaya,
No. 258/A,
Bommasandra Industrial Area,
Anekal Taluk,
Bangalore – 560 099.
Mail: hrudayalaya@sify.com or devishetty@hrudayalaya.com .

Narayana Hrudayalaya is one of the best hospitals in India and a kind hearted heart hospital too. All you need to do is carry a letter from your surpunch (head of the village in some authenticated letter pad) or from your office or any minimum thing you can get to convince them on your financial inability. You can certainly expect atleast 50% of discount from this hospital.

I am not sure about other hospitals, but you may try this trick any where (By trick, i hope i am not sending any wrong signals).

Sources of Money:

Many of these apply for people living in Andhra and very few may be general -

-> Bring your position to the notice of any news editor so that this information is published in some news paper, wait for 20 days to get some positive signs from donors. Sticking the notice at internet centers will also be a good option. If not funds, get some moral support and contacts who might help you in one or other way.

-> If you are a white card holder in Andhra, get arogya sree card with all the information. You can visit near by Govt hospital and ask them to refer to some good hospital and good doctor (if they know). Once they refer you to any hospital in Hyderabad (Not necessarily Hyderabad, opt it only if you have no choice at district head quarters), Try to get some reference in Hospital through the media reporter in your place or any other resource (this becomes very much necessary because its not easy to get treatment through arogyasree). If you don't get arogya sree in time, do not hesitate to get the attention of hospitals using your ration card. get a letter of authentication from MRO or Collector.

-> If you are not a white card holder, still you require money. Reach out CM camp office with a petition requesting some donation. Reach out opposition party office with a petition to fund them.

The efforts you put will never go waste in maximum cases. Put a comment here, if you need my help as well :-).

To all others, form a group in your community to collect some money when ever you come across any such cases in news papers.If you have a group of 10, you can collect Rs 1000 easily to donate. So when ever you come across such incident, spread it and try to gather some funds.

I will keep it updated with all latest information. Please put a comment, if you want me to add something.

Interpretation of this dream..

This is that nightmare..

I am sitting at hospital. This girl colored white and bubbly look is busy with her work running around me. I turned my attention towards her. I want to grab her attention as well.

Here is a commercial break, i woke up for some reason.

It is not regular that dream continue after a break, but we are at pub dancing after this break. one more person joined, i don't know who this guy is. I took a break and they both started dancing. i went asleep. The next morning i wake up, no one is available. I am angry and scared now. i started moving home. Everyone at home (Including her family) were talking to each other. I am scared, whether to reveal the truth or not. I am scared, what happened to her? Where is she gone? Why wasn't i knocked while she is leaving? Is she in some danger? Lot of questions revolving. I am speaking to everyone half hearted. i am not sure, who is going to question me about her.

Suddenly she comes back with all bloodstains on her body. I am scared and happy. But everyone started happily suggesting without going much into details..there it ended.

Now whats in real life..

I am running after some opportunity, of course not a girl. That opportunity is not a piece of cake for me now. Am putting some good efforts to grab that opportunity. If i grab that opportunity, there will be one more problem i have to face. I have to face people and play hard game if required.

If dream interpretation is true, i should be grabbing that opportunity with all these pains.

Privacy not invaded

Not all the time you wish to freak out during the week end. Not all the time your week end will be called a good week end only if you freak out.

While having dinner on Thursday night, my room mate asked me if i can join him to San Fransisco this week end. I borrowed that night time to decide on it. I didn't want to go any where this week end. I wanted to sit at guest house and watch T.V and movies. I wanted to think in peace about something. Now its the end of the week end, i am not sure about what i thought but am fresh enough to start the week. For this reason, i happened to say NO to my room mate the next day morning.

On Friday, we had an event in the office (POT LUCK), I had some good lunch. From Friday evening till now, i have watched only 2-3 movies. I had very good sleep, very less phone calls and good idle time..

So have a nice week.

Dreams on fire...

You Are My Waking Dream, You’ re All Thats Real To Me
You Are The Magic In The World I See
You Are In The Prayer I Saying, You Are In My Two My Names
You Are The Faith That Make Me Belive
Dreams On Fire, Higher N Higher
Pasion Burning, Ride On The Path, Once For Forever Yours
In Me, All Your Heart, Dreams On Fire, Higher N Higher

You Are My Ocean Rage, You Are My Thought Each Day
You Are The Laughter From Childhood Games
You Are Things Further Down, You Are Where I Belong
You Are Make Me Feel In Every Songs
Dreams On Fire, Higher N Higher, Pasion Burning
Ride On The Path, Once For Forever Yours, In Me
All Your Heart, Dreams On Fire, Higher N Higher

So make your choice of YOU a good one...

36 Hours Birthday...

First of all, Happy Birthday to myself \flowers :-)..

As i am in time machine (i mean, i crossed time zones), my birthday will long for 36 Hours. Being a week end, i started celebrations from 12 AM India time :-). Every time it starts with couple of phone calls from my family and friends, this time i opened my eyes at that time. So i started celebrating my self, i didn't give exception to bath though it is a week end and i took some breakfast and then i started cooking my own delicious tomato rice (it turned out some thing else at the end, even then its name is tomato rice)..

What next...will make couple of phone calls and take wishes from loving ones :)...will keep updating this post...

So here is the next part..

Night 12 was unexpected, I called many people and i got many calls and received many wishes. It was almost 3 when i went to bed, morning 5 AM i got a call and it was to wish me. So i woke up very early again. Thought of doing lot on that day, but rains wash away my hope..But i have managed to go to LiverMore temple(Of course all the credit should go to phani, who took me even though it was raining). Afternoon browsing and evening spent watching oscars...

Initially the title was "Life at Fremont", but i changed it because it sounds weird that one understood whole about the city in a week.

The 4 working days and 3 Holidays, 4 working days passed like 4 weeks and 3 Holidays like 3 hours. what the hell...? why is the working day sooo long? The answer is.."i will have to wait for few more days to understand if it continues"..

I landed at SFO airport on sunday at 9 PM. At 9:30, i was waiting for a cab at taxi stand opposite to airport. There were bunch of cabs standing in a long Q and picking up passengers. I was asked to stand in the very front and look for an American cab and its body painted with Orange and White. After good amount of confusion, a punjabi came and picked me up. This guy started talking about Advani's babri masjid issue and told me that it is not good. I said, there is nothing to discuss, politics are like that. Then he started about Ramsena.. Soon i realized that he is pakistani and not Indian. I didn't avoid, but decided not to discuss about communal issues. We were on a no mans land, it was pretty dark and conversation was getting pretty hotter. Not about politics, but about pranksters this time. He told me an incident, where a gun was spotted upon his head and narrated that incident in a most beautiful dreadful way..and continued.."ye log ek dollar ke liye bhi maar dete"..i was not sure if he is talking about my future in 5 minutes...

In 5 minutes, i reached my destination..I have been through lot of sucking (this is the better word to describe flight journey) journey, i raced to bed. Regular story started, i woke up in the morning and went to office. My god, day was sooo long and i thought its because, its a first day. But consecutive 3 days were no exception. I am no different from a child waiting for final school bell.

Finally all the 4 days were so long and all the cab drivers i have seen are Afghans. Now i understood, why Fremont is also called Mini Kabul. But Fremont is very much a diversified place. It has got lot of Asian population and Non-Asians too. But diversified is a positive word and it has other side as well, this city is rich in gangs and gangsters. Fremont is supposed to have good climate, but it was raining from the day i came here..even then Fremont seems to be another hyderabad with its diversity except for the fact that Fremont has got much disciplined traffic and my office is 20 minutes away from where i stay :-)

and the next 3 days, it was very fast. Though i did nothing, it was fast. I was working from home for the first 2 days and last day i had a little glance of city. We had long drive for around 50-60 miles away from city and visited my friends company at Alameda island(I hope i typed it right) and then marched to mall and then to bowling again..

The first week end

On the way to train –

I had a discussion with my manager today and left the office at 4:15 PM. I took a taxi to my room at village road east. I was only thinking about my confused state of mind. I always wanted to be clear when I talk in meetings or at any personal discussions. I am not as good as I am while writing something. Now I am in that confounded zone. I knew that my mind will not work properly in this state, today I realized that many parts won’t work. I reached 303, village road east at 5:15 PM and realized that I don’t have that 46 dollars in my wallet to pay taxi. I asked taxi to move towards any nearest ATM. On the way I checked my wallet again and noticed that I have got 200$ in my purse. I couldn’t understand what was going on. Now I took out keys and tried to open the lock. It wasn’t opening. I didn’t make it organized and it was completely locked. I have to reach the station at least before 30 minutes as I had much baggage. I am trying to open it and I called other person to help me and he declared that lock is broken. I called my roomies and took guidance from them and tried and tried and finally opened the lock. It was very embarrassing for me to undergo all these things. It started with a thought of confusion and ended up in embarrassment. Now I am in train station, but sitting as a loser here.

The Train journey from Boston to New Jersey –

It was my first week end. I took a train from westwood station to Pen station and a connecting train from Pen to Metro station at New Jersey. I already made my brain think beyond its capacity, I no more want to do it. As soon as I got into train, I took a quick nap. I reached Penn station at 10:45 and I was given 10 minutes to catch the connecting train. Being a sharp guy, I travelled opposite to the tracks path. Ofcourse, I soon realized after 5 minutes. With a 23 KG’s baggage in one hand, another 8 KG’s one in another hand and a laptop bag on my back, it was no easy to catch a train. And atlast I was able to reach it. At 11:15 it took me to Metro station. I had my friends waiting there to pick me. We headed to Cheryl Street. I met many friends there but my eyes only on bed. I took some vodka and went to bed very soon.

The meet over the week end –

I hardly play games. Two reasons contribute for this behavior, one being the lazy ness and other being “people will notice that I am weak and how ever in other way my weak body doesn’t support games”. I use to play lot of chess and cricket during my childhood. I am a drop out. But I had no choice this time, we were the group of 9 and most of the people love games. We started with golf on Saturday and at the end I had this opportunity to learn “how to handle club”. Followed by bowling, again the first time, but I think this satisfied me better (I was bad but not worst). And then we planned a movie, which didn’t happen. The day ended with cards. Sunday, I can contribute only half day because I have to catch flight at 2:50 PM to Calif. We decided to play football near tennis court. During warm up, I was catching ball pretty well and this laid some impression to others that I can manage this game. I understood the game now and we were split into 2 teams each containing 3, again the same disappointing performance :-) . Barring performances, it was really good week end for me. I got promoted to front seat from audience seat. I wanted to convey hearty thanks to all my friends who were part of it. But my expressions in person will be very weak. It was altogether different week end for a person like me who hardly play games and would always enjoy his week end sitting behind computer/TV or participating in stupid discussions during week end. Again hearty thanks to all my friends (I am confident that one guy would read this blog). But no matter if no one reads it. So that is all for now, its Sudhie reporting from US airways on the way to Calif.

US - first impression

there was a post missing in the middle. It was about my visa processing day in chennai. After typing in detail, i thought it unnecessary and left it there in drafts.

My visa processing happened on 7th of January and i left hyderabad on Feb 1st early morning. It was my longest journey so far and more than interesting it was irritating many times. I got into flight at Hyderabad. after take off, crew supplied drinks and dinner. Took some red wine, food and nap. While landing, one guy started conversation and it was like this -
X - Is it your first time
me - first time to where (I do not want to reveal that it is my first travel. There is no offense, but there is no gain revealing truth as well :-))
X- To frankfurt
me - to franfurt, yea this is the first time to frankfurt
X- Oh this airport is so congested
me - ok ( I wanted to contain conversation here because his next question might be " which route you would take normally" :-))

then we exchanged tata good bye and i left to my terminal. Restrooms are so congested here and it can accomodate only one person at a time and there was long Q. I got my turn and refreshed myself by 10 AM. When i looked at the terminal gate, it was long Q. I rushed and got into Q taking out my passport and ticket. one black guy checked my passport and attested it and let me in. My ticket errored out when swiped, i was panic now. Airlines crew checked and informed me that this boarding Q is not for my flight :-(. It was little embarassing, but it was ok :-).

4 Hours in frankfurt was like staying there for whole day in terminal. I had this oppurtunity to sit at window side from Frankfurt to Boston. Sitting besides me was an European old day who does n't know good english. Everything was good except that she drank cheese again and again which was a bit difficult thing for me to digest. It was at the end i looked out my window,it was Atlantic Ocean followed by beautiful snow filled Boston. It was excellent view (At least for me, who is new to natural snow). Few moments later, Flight thundered on to runway. Later immigration, customs check went normal.

I took a bus from Logan Intl airport to Braintree instead of taxi just to gain some impression on the city and people. It lasted for 45 minutes and bus driver helped me out in getting a cab to my guest house. Cab person had tough time finding my address but he was soo patient until we find our apartment. Over all my observation is these guys has got very good helping nature.

Rest of my experience to be continued...

2008 Memoirs

It was the first day of 2008 and first day in office for that year. I had very huge deployment to go on that day (see the cynic who gave such a work on that holiday day). I was the only person handling it. I was still in hang over and started work. It went for 4-5 hours and smooth (for me). the next day i was on leave and by mails, i came to know that deployment was big flop and it did nothing. for the whole week, i was mentally troubled. I took some time to come back...

It was around 20th of same month, i got an offer from another company. I did some negotiations in current company and on onsite assurance i didn't resign.

Feb and March were perfectly balanced and not of much excitement.

April, May and June - Personally down and that might be too personal to put it on blog. Down doesn't mean i maintained huge beard and all. I was thinking a lot about nonsense. I had fun filled tours with friends and family these months as well. These months had all flavors, but being personally down is the snapshot i get when i think about those months.

July,August - Adieu to my first organization, who has given me first break in career. Certainly i miss my organization and wonderful friends there. In july i started discussion on onsite, but every implementation of promises my managers were direction less. So decided to take up oppurtunity to another company on August 12th.

September - Started off with new company.

October, November - Our project was delayed, delayed and with market having engaged with recession, i got engaged with mental tension. I took maximum leaves in these months and had good personal life.

December- We got a project, started off little bad but gained momentum very fast.

and 31st - It was good. Would rate this year 3.5/5.

Charity wise - I started second innings with Samyukta organization. I started visiting schools little frequent after long time. We handled many operations, out of which many people didn't use the money properly and irritated me most of the times. Thing to be accepted is , i became lazy by the end of the year about these operations.

friends Prakash and Sekhar became my partners this year in all charity programs and they are awesome. Bharadwaj is also one guy helping me out.

Started sahayaspoorthi group with Prakash and it is doing good.

So this is my 2008. Good bye now and i hope i can attain similar rating in 2009 as well.

Sleep well..

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment - Gautham Buddha.

Sleep well...

Little fumble in the begining

It started during my engineering and still haunting me even during my 3rd project. With 3 years of experience and making silly mistakes. doesn't look good.

Have to be little careful in coming days.