This time last year and last-last year

Dec 31 2006 - Optimistic Anoop in Office

Dec 31 2007 - On the way to Trivandrum in Train

And this time alone in Bengaluru.... Hope some surprises come!!!!

Year End Resolutions.......

This time for a change instead of 2009 newyear resolutions.. I have taken 2008 year end resolutions with a deadline.. 31st Dec 2008!!!

And I have progressed. What the resolutions are is a secret! But time is running out, and I plan to extend the deadline till 5th Jan 2009.

"Every day is a new one.. "

My looks!

Last-to-Last week there was a discount sale of shirts/pants in our campus. As usual I went there to purchase one or two.

A fat lady came for purchasing pants for her partner probably. She asked me "Where do i find pants of 38 size ?" I nodded her with my head that I am NOT the one she is looking for. And the sales guy came to my rescue and pointed her to the 38 size pants...

I felt bad, for having a look of sales guy. I am an R&D Software Analyst working for a leading firm and a leading product. How can i have ordinary looks ?

To add to my grief, she came back again, and asked me whether we accept cards ? This time i felt slightly better, she may be thinking i am the Master of the stall.

Anyway i dont hav a IT bengalurian look it seems. How can i make it ? Will "facial" help ?

My vocabulary

Its bad that we used "malayalam" as the official language in my earlier companies :( My english is the worst!

And now in bengaluru i am forced to speak "saippu's language. And my mallu accent brings laughter to many of friends here. They force me to tell - "coke" and "cock"; "pink" and "ping"; and "lorry" and "uncle" and all.... But still i have not improved.

But still i could go on talking on technical subjects with my mallu accent without any difficulty. So i was able to handle the official discussions properly. Till last-last week I didnt realize that my vocabulary is too bad...

Going to BTM layout from my office, my car was stuck in silk board junction for more than 45 minutes... And my collegues/friends who were in the car were frustrated that my car doesnt hav good audio system also. Finally they forced me to say the story of "maharathi" film which i recently saw.

I found out why "story telling" is the way english is taught in good kinder garden schools.. It is the way you learn the language. And for me - the only words i know are: "for", "while" , "is", "and", "or" etc etc... I was suffocating telling the story. No right words were coming to mind.

I dont want to attempt to tell the story here again. But finally when i was about to tell the climax my friends asked me - "Where are those kidnappers? ; What happened to Nasarudheen shah ? " Those who saw "maharathi" film will understand how well i told the story.

And now this has become a long post. So i bet, you have not understood anything from it.

God save my vocabulary!!!!

Vacation!

First time in my 12 year career I have been totally out of office work for 9 days.......

Earlier also I had taken leave for other reasons..

But its nice to be @ home doing nothing but playing with lachu, and not worrying about other things!

Like Tamura san says "Its better late, than never"

Andhra Police Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andhra acid attack case: Row over 'encounter' of accused

Andhra Police Rocks! Let human rights activists who condemn police action also be shot down. We dont want these activists. We want justice. We dont want inefficiencies.

Police Rocks!

Maharathi.... movie

Nice movie. Nice to see Ompuri, Bomman Irani, Nasirudheen shah and Paresh rawal in one movie.

The twists in the movie are predictable. But for the first time i screamed on one scene where Paresh tries to take the dead body out of the freezer and bomman irani comes suddenly behind him.. Man, I am telling the climax scenes..... Dont read this!

No slowdowns visible....

In bangalore no signs of slowdown visible.....

Malls are full in saturday morning. Difficult to get a seat in food courts. And impossible to get a movie ticket for weekends.

But could get tickets for "Maharathi" on sunday morning show :)

Back in office now for the pending works i always left to do :(

US Policy on Terror

Act against Terror when it strikes against US!!!!!

Sadly it will need anoth 9/11 for US to take tough actions against rogue terror nations.. And without Uncle Sam's support nothing can be done in this world!

Were Next ?

Changanacherry ---> Kollam ---> Trivandrum ---> Chennai ----> Bangalore ----> ?????

Where next ?

20-twenty

20-twenty Rocks! Its nice to see all the Malayalam Biggies coming together for this venture.

When the film started, it was dragging and boring and I really wanted to get out of the theatre. But once the three Mega-starts - Mammooty, Suresh Gopi and Mohan lal comes its a super-duper entertainer. The clashes btw these titans have been filmed very well. Its nice to see your favourite starts fight each other.

Mohan lal and Suresh Gopi gets all the Clap-padi scenes. Mohan lal is at his best in the movie.

I dont want to see the movie again if its free. But its a must to see it in theatres atleast one time if you love these stars!!!

Investments.........

Believing in India's economy I am continuing my investments in MFs. My huge profits have turned to huge losses.... But never mind, I am investing long term for my grand children. I will not get disturbed by economic slowdowns or even economic depressions!!!!!!!!!

What should we do ?

Bring TADA or POTA back and bring all types of terror down. How can we make sure Politicians and Police does not misuse those special rules and torture innocent people.

How can we strengthen our nation's security and people's life ? How can we make our Intelligence Wing and Police strong enough to thwart these terrorist attacks or minimize damage to people ?

People from all country should unite against all acts of Terror.......

Peace for All!!!

Worst that can happen.......

1. Lose my job
2. banks collide and i lose my FDs
3. Fund houses bankrupt and i lose my equity investments

But still life will go on........... !!!!!!

Mallu behaviour - Volvo

Always in train or bus - I dream for a beautiful unknown girl to sit besides me. It never happened before. But four weeks back - while i was returning from trivandrum to bangalore finally a girl came to sit with me in kpn travels.

She was quick to get help from me, in pushing her seats backside so that she can sleep. And i helped her, and she started sleeping without even saying a thanks.

I sat awake till midnight because of the late night coffees I had. But finally I slept.

Around 3am in the morning I woke up... and saw a hand coming from behind. Waking up from sound sleep I could not immediately react. After a 1 or 2 seconds delay, I immediately looked behind. The mallu moron behind,was lying with his head rested on the front seat, and attempting to grab the girl from behind. When i looked behind, he realized and went back to his normal sitting position pretending sleeping..

I could not make a scene. If the guy's attempt had succeeded the girl would wake up, and i would have got beatings ( may be even from that mallu moron guy ). Luckily it did not happen. But i felt bad because i could not catch him.

The guy - seems to be a software engineer - bulky fellow - and got down at electronic city stop. I will remember his face.

Anyway I dont need any more "jab we met" experiences in future.. This is enough!!!

Reading a lot......

Atleast i coule read Chethan bhagath's masala novels....... Read all the three in a two week's time. "Five point some one" his first one is really interesting.

And also read "Games Indians Play - Why we are the way we are"...

While searching "Modern Library" got into one book - "History of God". Remember that book with my friend say 11 years before. So got curious and bought it. Its a bulky one. So dont know whether I will complete reading that.

Operation BAD.....

Even terrorists have named the operation - "BAD".. Then why dont they just STOP.. ?

In the latest blasts a 9 year old kid has lost its life. Nobody gains from acts of terror....

A briefer history of time....

Recent experiments done by CERN on simulating BIG BANG has generated interest in me back to science and physics... Started reading "a briefer history of time" by stephen hawkins.

Now I have a feeling that science and humanity are much better than reading subjects like GOD/relegion.....

More later......

bomb blasts.., communal voilences.., never ending!

Innocent people are dying.. whether its communal violence or terrorists attacks..

And its happening so frequently, that it has become no news at all.

What can we do not to spread hatred.. ? and stop these killings ?

Get up, Stand up, Dont give up the fight! ( lyrics: Bob Marley)

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!

Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!