My Trips!

Indian Driving License in Australia

2011-10-19T13:14:00.000+11:00

There are different rules in each of the Australian States/Territories. But basically, if you are coming from Overseas, specially if you have an Indian drivers license, then you will need to follow through with the below: 1. Before you leave India, get a letter from your RTO validating and verifying the drivers license and all the details on it. It needs to be in a format where all the details

Settling in Australia

2011-10-16T21:28:00.000+11:00

I have been making plans to write something about my Australia venture for sometime now. Just the issue being that I can't make up my time to go about it :-) . The thought for writing something on this topic came up soon after I recieved the final go ahead for my Australian PR, which materialized last year. So, here are a few things which helped me in settling down here (these experiences are

Beijing Subway vs. Mumbai Trains

2010-11-22T22:23:00.000+11:00

During my recent trip to Beijing, China; I got to make good use of the extensively laid out Subway trains of the capital city. It was an experience unto itself, when I climbed one of the older lines and was instantaneously reminisced of the Mumbai trains... The crowd in China is to be seen when you try and get onto the subway during the office hour rush (morning 9-10 and evening 6-8). It looks

Journey to Beijing!

2010-11-10T20:43:00.000+11:00

It began with work transitioning from the China office to the newly opened center in Bangalore. People started talking about getting the Visa's done and arranging for flight tickets. Our's being more of a startup, all travel arrangements have been outsourced to AMEX. They did a proficient job of getting the Visa and the tickets (although at a good premium :-) ), and off we were to the land of

गग्नीत सिंह

2010-10-21T21:29:00.000+11:00

Bangalore RTO and other Government Agencies have started insisting on getting your name in Hindi! So, here it is ... with a little help from Blogger and Google :-)

Coping with Issues using Selenium

2009-12-27T23:22:00.000+11:00

Have been trying to work with some real Selenium projects using Java as the programming language. It is interesting to work on this and have been trying to come up to terms with a new language for use with Selenium. The main was the use of Eclipse as a IDE to build the test suite has been a great learning experience. So the basic thing to do is to record the actions of the web application using

Education and Literacy

2009-07-23T22:20:00.000+10:00

Why do we think that Education and Literacy are the one and the same thing? I have added a few of my thoughts to this topic, based on what I personally think and feel.http://gagneet.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/education-and-literacy/

Dad's Thoughts on the Election Manifesto

2009-04-06T23:04:00.000+10:00

Dad sat down one day after he got a request to review the Election Manifesto of one of the contesting parties. These are what his thoughts and expressions hold:"I received a copy of Congress Manifesto for the coming elections with an invitation to participate in interaction on it with their coordinator. Given below is my reply to him." - DadDear Mr. XXX XXX [don't want to put names :-)],Congress

Journey's and Life

2008-12-15T14:13:00.001+11:00

It is amazing how things turn out when you wish to go out an explore. Well! I am planning on doing a journey from Delhi to Bangalore along with a friend and get back my car. This is going to take about 3-4 days of travel and around 2100 kms will be covered in the same.

Honeymoon Trip?!

2008-07-24T03:04:00.000+10:00

After marriage you wish to head down for a good and a great time, which most refer to as the honeymoon period. I also thought I would make the most of this hype and started planning way ahead for it. Choices were initially - India or Abroad. Abroad seemed like a great place to go to, but the major question posed was where?Finally I choose Australia or Austria... but choices do not go hand in hand

Mangalore Trip

2008-04-26T13:15:00.000+10:00

This was supposed to be one of those more planned trip, where we headed out with the much married couple... :-)The plan was to go out to Mangalore, stay there and eat a lot of fish, while the veggie with us have their fill of the ocean and the beach. Ultimately it came to a showdown between JP and me and JP's unlogical thinking won the day and we headed out to check out the Jog Falls (without any

Trip to Bandipur Forest Reserve and BR HIlls

2008-03-30T13:09:00.000+11:00

It started off as an unplanned activity, with JP deciding to check out his prowess on the car over hill roads and me being what I am agreeing to the adventure in it. We had decided to use the tents for camping out and taken the pick-axes along for safety purposes... :-)Slept over at JP's place after packing the camping gear, woke up early at 4 in the morning and called up Fateh (who also wanted

Trekking through Antargange

2008-03-17T22:40:00.000+11:00

We had a team outing to Antargange!!This is a desolate place with an overgrown clump of rocks making a big ridge in a dry area! :-)The trek was good with a lot of stops for my aging body. But finally reached a plateau which had some shade. A lot of incidents in between made me realize that I need to get back into shape and that is when finally agreed to go on the health checkup sponsored by the

Of Lost Baggage!!

2007-08-30T12:18:00.000+10:00

So it finally comes to a point where I culminated my US trips with a lost baggage counter. It so happened that I had gone on a vacation to my family members in Nashville and was supposed to catch a flight from there back to SFO. In between on the same day we had this batchmates meet coming, so decided to go for that too :). The final result was that when I reached Singapore for the next lap of my

San Francisco and Beyond

2007-08-26T11:19:00.000+10:00

This time in the US, I made quite a few trips to SF. That seems to have become my favourite haunt on the West Coast, with all the hustle and bustle of a live city and the exhilaration that you feel when coming in there. The City is LIVE!!I landed in SFO and then there was the 4th of July celebrations. Went over to a house party organized by one of Wil-ta's friends and enjoyed the same a lot [even

लॉस वेगास कि सवारी

2007-07-30T10:46:00.000+10:00

I was in the US and then there were a couple of us who decided to embark on this journey to go to the Casino Capital called Las Vegas in the state of Nevada. It all started as a idea of going somewhere for the weekend and we ended up with finalizing on Las Vegas. It was a 9 hrs journey (according to Google Maps), which we could do in a rented car and I had the rented car :)It turned out that I

Cauvery Fishing Camp - Bheemeshwari

2007-05-27T02:44:00.000+10:00

काउवेर्य ट्रेकिंग ट्रिप Originally uploaded by gagneet. We were to start on this Team trip (sponsored by the Company) early in the morning, when we would be getting a pickup near our house. Most of the crowd was arriving at the office complex and the rest would have to be picked up on the way to the trekking spot. Got a bit late due to the late arrivals at the office complex. Finally, we

The Religion we Portray - Sikhism

2007-05-20T04:34:00.000+10:00

There are times when I feel as to why are we still having issues related to religion. Sikhs have been a race which is supposed to be the most tolerant towards any kind of caste-ism and open to religious discrepancies. I used to propagate Sikhism based on these virtues. It is Ok, if the religious place is desecrated and a whole army of troops sent in for the people to raise their voices and they

Indian Education!!

2007-03-13T17:54:00.000+11:00

Seems like there is a lot going on on the Education System in India. I had written a short blog on this a long time back and thought would explore it more now that it has become a hot topic. So, would love to add my thoughts on it too. :-)The education system here has evolved mostly around a few basic fields of interests - engineering and medical being the main in these. I would attribute the

Trip to Hyderabad

2007-01-26T20:34:00.000+11:00

It just happened that Gautam and me decided to go on a car trip to the famed city of Hyderabad. Actually, it was more driven by Anshul, who wanted to go on a long drive and have the 'fun' of a car drive. Well! everything started off fine, we got up EARLY in the morning and got ready to leave for the city. It was going to be Gautam and I driving, with the back seat converted to a sleeping den. And

HR Woes

2006-12-27T21:32:00.000+11:00

The major thing with HR in every Organization is that they are very vindictive. I have encountered HR and had major tiffs with them in almost every Organization and the only place where I found them to be accommodating was Macromedia and then later on in Solidcore. Here, the major reason was that all our activities were taken care of either by the Administrative Staff or by our Managers, who went

Rishikesh Trip - Part 2

2006-11-23T19:44:00.000+11:00

So, finally we reached the tips of the camp. It was a dark place but looked well maintained. They had a separate shack which was working as the dining room and the place to sit out and enjoy. We had our 'early' morning snack there and then went over and hit the sack. The next day, miraculously, we were up real early around 8 and the rafting season started. Gaurav A and Gaurav Z along with Gautam

Rishikesh Trip

2006-10-21T05:14:00.000+10:00

The trip started off fine, with the four of us getting out of town at the desired time of 1700 hrs from Gaurav's house, then the things got messy, as we had not bought the medicines and the snacks. Also, Gaurav A forgot the chocolates which were bought by Gaurav Z... :-) Finally started off from NOIDA towards Ghaziabad around 1830 hrs. It was one hell of a journey towards Rishikesh, w;ith us

Thought Processes

2006-09-12T02:43:00.000+10:00

They say that we are the thinking brains and hence we have risen to wherever we are today. Now, if someone wishes to stop that thinking process and make us all into just workers, what will happen. This is the thought that has been crossing my mind for a long time now. Specially since there have been many new developments at my workplace which are leading me along that path. I have often wondered

Lazying around

2006-08-21T19:44:00.000+10:00

Things seem to be going downhill for me. Concentration levels are at a new low and I do not feel like working on anything anymore. This was the same feeling I was getting when I had began to get fed up of the work allocated at MM. Things seem to be moving too slowly and also I am being dictated a lot about what is to be done and what is not. Seems like I had started enjoying the cool laid back