Practically I hate tears!

For first time in God knows how many years,

I felt tear in my eyes for someone…

All I could utter was - Bless You

Kabhi sheeshe dhundle hote hain,
Kabhi manzar saaf nahin hote…
Kabhi suraj baat nahin karta,
Kabhi taare aankh badalte hain…
Kabhi manzil peeche rehti hai,
Kabhi raste aage chlte hain!!!
Kabhi ankhain dekh nahin sakti,
Kabhi Khwaab adhoray hote hain.

Yeh sab sahi tou hai lekin
Is ashoob ke manzar naame mein
Din raat ke aane jane mein
Duniya ke ajaayab khane mein
Kabhi saya karti ankhon ke
Paymane tou dikhai dete hain
Haathon se agar door sahi
Manzil sey koson door sahi
Par door sahi, ranjoor sahi,
Zakhmon sey musafir choor sahi
Per kis se kahein, "ay-jan-e-wafa"
Kuch ghao tu aise hote hain
Jinhein zakhmi aap hi dhote hain
Bin roye hue aansuon ki tarah
Sapne mein chhupa kar rakhte hain
Aur sari umar nahin rote
Neendein bhi muhaya hoti hain
Sapne bhi door nahin hote
Kyon phir jaagtay rehtay hain?
Kyon sari raat nahin sotay?

Ab kis sey kahein "ay-jan-e-wafa", a ahl-e-wafa
Kis aag mein jate rehte hain,
Kyon bujh ke rakh nahin hote
Imkan tou dikhai detay hain!!

directly picked as quoted by Sunshine

(source)

Better than Da Vinci Code in terms of keeping up the with the pace in movie, interest and direction but still the logics and story of DVC was better according to me. Tom Hanks is at his best as always

Rating: 8/10

In the Land of Women – Its been a long pending review. A moving story involving as many emotions that it can make you rethink about the morals you have been following till now! A must watch for anyone willing to understand a part of what women actually think!!

Rating: 8/10

PS: This post is inspired from I want to from Hema

• Aaja Aaja from Kaminey
• Aahoon Aahoon from Love Aaj Kal

If it is music and beats in Aaja Aaja which attract you, Aahoon Aahoon got unmatchable lyrics with music – both songs make you drool and move out of your unwillingness. These have got class to make you like them.

Aahoon Aahoon has got Punjabi touch and that makes me love it more (though lyrics are taken from another Punjabi song) but the lyrics are meaningful as well which make sense for listening to it. There is another song in same album Love Aaj Kal- Ajj Din Chadheya which has wonderful comparison of beauty in its lyrics sung by traditional singer.

These are recommended to listen at least once.

Thank you Sunshine for always being there as best pal whenever I needed someone by my side.

Winning doesn’t always means being first,

winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.

Though I proved myself better than before, once again but also realized that in this race you sacrifice everything else. I myself had given up this zeal long time back, in fact many years back because once you realize that you are the best, better than anyone else, you don’t want to prove it again.

And then moments like these come up where you have to fight for others. You have to do it for others who are looking up to you, to make them prove themselves, to bring them in a position to have same feeling of satisfaction which you have been having for long time. Happy to see my efforts being fruitful.

And in all this, you realize once again, those old bad devilish management layers which are ready to sacrifice you, your people for any meek benefit – the layers which make you hate them!

Meetings are a way of good time pass

and

Excuse for those who want to avoid work

but

Irony is that we cannot avoid them

…Be it for Good, Better, Bad or Worse

In my case, I preferred to call it a day well utilized to learn something basic which we generally prefer to forget or put in backside of memory. This was the day when I wasn’t able to find solution to a problem which might have not taken more than 10 minutes to a software kid if he had been knowing what exactly has to be done. For me, it went on and on for more than 8 hours as parallel activity with my work to find out the dead simple solution.

The problem in my case was that a specific file type wasn’t opening in the way it should have opened in my favorite IDE (Eclipse). It was being opened in different color syntax and I wasn’t able to get code assist/content assist in the way I was expecting for JSP files. I copied/recopied/re-re-copied and so on… the fresh installation of IDE, tried to compare it with the one I was working on, exchanged the core files and experiments in as many different ways as I could but still the problem remained the same. Yeah, of course, (I know you are brilliant enough to have already thought that out) - googled again and again and again in all these hours. Also tried to migrate my existing setup to fresh setup but of no use. Finally (or perhaps not) I had started thinking of giving up on all my tries. Just then this simple piece of code over web brought sparkle in my eyes -

You have missed out one thing that we have to make the ABC viewer as the default viewer for *.xyz files under Windows->Preferences->general->Editors->File Associations.

Thanks to the brilliant lady who provided the unwanted and perhaps not so important solution to that problem – not to forget it was what exactly I wanted and hence wasn’t useless in my case at all. Once again many thanks to this intelligent gal for this simple looking but generally overlooked solution. In this specific case, I had to go to File Associations inside Eclipse and change the association of my file to different/default editor. Stupid me!

In general for any file, if we aren’t able to view a file in the way we want it to appear, all we have to do is to change the editor in which it opens.

Yay yay yay, I am feeling amused while you are smirking.

Still I will call it a day well spent learning the basics than have wasted it.

Another such stupid mistake is to open Javascript extensive websites in Internet Explorer (6/7/8) with default settings. By default, IE has Javascript disabled (don’t know what made intelligent developers and GUI specialists at Microsoft decide that!!). So in order to view those websites properly, you better first enable the Javascript in Internet Explorer or you will remain fooled like me finding the exact problem with website content.

In my case, to enable Javascript in IE7/IE8, I followed following steps:

Tools > Internet Options > Security > Custom Level > Scripting > Enable > OK > Yes > OK

You can find different steps to be followed for enabling Javascript in different browsers at this location.

PS: It was told once long back in past – it all depends on perception.

HTML 5 Ushers in New Era of Web App Development at Google I/O 2009

 

…

Java Language Support in App Engine: Today Google is launching general availability of Java language support in Google App Engine, providing all developers with an end-to-end Java language solution for building AJAX web applications. An early look at Java language support in App Engine was released to a limited number of developers at Google’s April 7 Campfire One developer event, and in the last two months more than 10,000 Java language applications have been deployed on the platform. Over 80,000 applications have been built on App Engine since it was launched in April 2008.

…

Other new step from Google is making their applications available in form of embeddable gadgets or web elements. You can directly get the code for embedding GTalk or Spreadsheets on your website and there Google goes beautifying your website/blog while making you look geek to others!

Appreciable step from Google – once again the first in its own era.

Rating: 7/10

Chameli Ki Shaadi – Hilarious movie. Thank you for recommending it, Sunshine otherwise I might had missed this masterpiece.

Rating: 9/10

Amar Prem – Only movie which makes me think over and over and drizzle. A movie about selflessness, minimalism and love without expectations.

Couple of dialogues which can touch your soul -

Agar koi apna na ho kar bhi bohot apna ho to usse kya kehte hain…bohot payara rishta hai na!

 

Zindagi ke kuchh chakkar aise hote hain, jinka maza sirf vohi le sakta hai jo zindagi ka share jaan boojh kar ghaate mein khareede.

My favorite!

Rating: 9/10

The Rundown – Lot of fight and little use of brain as well.

Rating: 5/10

Bhram – The problem with both Milind Soman and Dino Moreo is that despite knowing how to act well, they do the wrong movies and this time they were together…so what can be worse.

Rating: 2/10

Coyote Ugly – Movie about changing generations, cultures and mentalities. Inspirational for young gen.

Rating: 7/10

Thanks to Hema for being another supporter for Deccan against all odds

Enjoyed IPL 2009 thoroughly. Liked the way Namaste was told by representative Mr. Duma. His address was one of the best speeches in IPL I have seen so far. Lots of love all the way to South Africa for hosting this year’s IPL.

PS: Only disappointing thing throughout this tournament was Lalit Modi’s power-show-off. Hope he learns to handle power appropriately or gets taught for same.

PS: Got it little more than the same price on which I had bought 160 GB external HDD in 2006 – I wonder the way gadgets become cheaper but not faster than necessity…

Rating: 6/10

English

Action – Thriller

• 88 Minutes (2007)
• 310 Yuma (2007)
• Barrier 13 / Banlieue 13 (2004)
• Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
• Heat (1995)
• Righteous Kill (2008)
• The Departed (2006)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• Untraceable (2008)
• V For Vendetta(2005)
• Entrapment (1999)
• Gladiator (2000)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Scarface (1983)
• Se7en (1995)
• Spiderman-2 (2004)
• Spiderman-3 (2007)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• The Butterfly Effect (2004)
• Butterfly Effect Revelation (2009)
• Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• The Mummy 3 Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008)
• Goodfellas (1990)

Children

• Harry Potter 1-5
• The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian (2008)
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
• Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

Comedy

• Ace Ventura Pet Detective (1994)
• Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
• Get Smart (2008)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
• Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
• Ratatouille (2007)

Inspiring

• American History X (1998)
• Boy A (2007)
• Cashback (2006)
• Changeling (2008)
• Erin Brokovich (2000)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Jersey Girl (2004)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Kung Fu Panda - Secrets Of The Furious Five (2008)
• Meet Joe Black (1998)
• Pay It Forward (2000)
• Rain Man (1988)
• Raise Your Voice (2004)
• Scent of a Woman (1992)
• Schindler’s List (1993)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• The Guardian (2006)
• Valkyrie (2008)
• 21 (2008)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)
• Remember the Titans (2000)
• One Flew Over Cookoo’s Nest (1975)

Romantic

• Addicted To Love (1997)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Atonement (2007)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• P.S. I Love You (2007)
• That Thing You Do! (1996)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• There’s Something About Mary (1998)
• What Women Want (2000)
• When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
• A Walk To Remember (2002)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Serendipity (2001)
• Shall We Dance (2004)
• Sweet November (2001)
• The Notebook (2004)
• You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Hindi

Action – Thriller

• Dev.D (2009)
• Don (2006)
• Lakshya (2004)
• Life In A Metro (2007)
• Om Shanti Om (2007)
• Ram Aur Shyam (1967)
• Haasil (2003)

Comedy

• Andaz Apna Apna (1994)
• Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006)
• Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)
• Padosan (1968)
• Gol Maal (1979)
• Angoor (1982)
• Khatta Meetha (1978)
• Chupke Chupke (1975)
• Hera Pheri (2000)

Inspiring

• A Wednesday (2008)
• Anand (1971)
• Chak De! India (2007)
• Pardes (1997)
• Swades (2004)
• Taare Zameen Par (2007)
• The Blue Umbrella  (2007)
• Bunty Aur Bubbly (2005)
• Dil Chahta Hai (2001)
• Jab We Met (2007)
• Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander (1992)
• Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
• Rock On!! (2008)
• Bombay (1995)

Romantic

• Devdas (2002)
• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
• Hum Tum (2004)
• Ishq Vishk (2003)
• Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001)
• Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
• Mohabbatein (2000)
• Munnabhai MBBS (2003)
• Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
• Vivah (2006)
• Kismat Konnection (2008)
• Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
• Yaadein (2001)

All are on your way, Dearie!!

Here are excerpt from true and motivating story -

Apex court orders Rs.10 mn compensation for medical negligence

 

Nearly two decades after Bangalore-based Infosys engineer Prashanth S. Dhananka became paralysed waist down after a botched surgery, the Supreme Court ordered the Nizam Medical Institute of Hyderabad to pay him a record compensation of Rs.10 million, while praising him for fighting the case himself though confined to a wheelchair.

 

Ordering the compensation for medical negligence to Dhananka, a bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal also asked the apex court’s registry to send the verdict to the victim through registered post at his address in Bangalore.

 

The bench also recorded its ‘deep appreciation’ of Dhananka for his having argued the entire case on medical concepts himself in the apex court with the deftness of a lawyer.

 

Justifying the payment of the compensation, the court said, the sum is justified ‘keeping in mind that a brilliant career has been cut short and there is, as of now, no possibility of improvement of his physical conditions’.

 

Dhananka, son of a Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) employee, was admitted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in September 1990 after complaints of unexplained intermittent fever. Doctors from BHEL hospital referred him to the Hyderabad hospital for ‘further’ tests, which showed a large tumour in his left chest cavity. After an X-ray and a CT scan confirmed this, he was asked to undergo a biopsy.

 

Though the tumour was found to be benign, doctors decided to remove it fearing that it might later exert pressure on his respiratory, cardio-vascular and neurological systems. The doctors feared it could also later turn malignant.

 

A team led by a cardio-thoracic surgeon removed the tumour. In the process, a part of his ribs had to be cut. After the surgery, Dhananka, developed paralysis of the lower portion of the body, including legs.

 

No allegation of medical negligence was made then. But, six months later, Dhananka’s father wrote a letter to the institute in 1991, alleging negligence.

 

In 1993, Dhananka moved the NCDRC seeking damages of about Rs.50 million. The commission held the doctors negligent and directed the institute to pay Rs.1.4 million to him and Rs.150,000 to his father.

 

The institute moved the apex court challenging the NCDRC finding that it was guilty of negligence.

 

It contended that it had not associated a neuro-surgeon in the surgery from the beginning and had not exchanged any opinion with sister institutes in India and abroad.

 

Dhananka also approached the apex court in 1999 saying that the compensation awarded to him by the consumer court was inadequate. The court had reserved its ruling on the two cross-appeals on Sep 17 last year.

 

While calculating the Rs.10 million compensation, the bench accounted Rs.2.5 million for the loss of his prospective earning, anther Rs.2.5 million for his medical care, Rs.1.08 million for his physiotherapy, and Rs.1.44 million for his nursing and care, among other costs.

 

Earlier, the Madras High Court had in May 1993 ordered Apollo Hospital to pay compensation of around Rs.2.9 million to former national table tennis champion V. Chandrasekhar for medical negligence in treating him. The ruling had been upheld by the apex court later.

It is August. In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening. Everyone is heavily in debt.

Luckily, a rich Russian tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel. He asks for a room and puts a Euro100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor.

The hotel owner takes the banknote in hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes E100.
The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.
The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay E100 for pigs he purchased some time ago.
The farmer triumphantly gives the E100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit.
The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she owed the hotel for her hourly room use to entertain clients.
At that moment, the rich Russian is coming down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and takes his E100 back and departs.

There was no profit or income. But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town people look optimistically towards their future.

COULD THIS BE THE SOLUTION TO THE Global Financial Crisis? Or, is there a catch here?

PS: It isn’t  a new solution but something which has been in play for centuries. The only difference in game at this stage is that the owners of game have changed and new owners aren’t ready to play by old rules but old owners are equally adamant. Someone will have to continue the game.

I believe it as one of the reasons that why Punjab is that ahead of those many states in terms of economy and growth – because people here are more aware and concerned about their rights/duties while states like Bihar (40%) keep asking for special status from centre government so that they can do some growth.

Please cast your vote

After lot of advertisements shown in media and still going on, nation-wide campaigns started by bodies like Tata Industries and Times Of India, I feel quite small to make this request but after reading about just around 50% voting in metro cities like Mumbai and capital Delhi, I feel that perhaps my words might make some difference.

I have been driving everyone in my contact to cast their vote. It is once in five years when you get a chance to correct your mistake and to find what wrong went in the government you voted for, if you give your vote. Otherwise you loose your right to find wrongs in government if you don’t vote at all.

That’s what I believe.

Feels good that if not everyone, some got driven. I am going to my hometown to give my vote on this Wednesday.

In the end, I would request you to please go through this link to find more wisdom on whom to vote

PS: Little disappointment does occur when you know that even in politics, reservation is introduced from back-door and there are seats where candidates only from reserve castes can fight elections but that shouldn’t stop you from thinking about the big picture.

Rating: 7/10

Butterfly Effect Revelation – Some people get capabilities to correct their past and some people come up with believable logic behind that. This is third in such sequel and was still good to hold you on the seat. Good storyline.

Rating: 7/10

There was a contest in a company to write a fictional story for 500 words max which would start with the line "On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station". This is what a guy wrote for the contest and surprisingly, it was adjudged the best short story )

On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station. At once I was held back to see someone in that position during midnight with no one around. With curiosity taking the front seat, I went near the body and tried to investigate it. There was blood all over the body which was lying face down. It seemed that a ruthless blow by the last train could have caused the end of this body which seemed to be that of a guy of around my age. Amidst the gory blood flow, I could see a folded white envelope which was fluttering in the midnight wind. Carefully I took the blood stained envelope and was surprised to see the phrase "appraisal letter" on it. With curiosity rising every moment, I wasted no time in opening the envelope to see if I can find some details about the dead guy. The tag around the body’s neck and the jazzy appraisal cover gave me the hint that he might be a software engineer. I opened the envelope to find a shining paper on which the appraisal details where typed in flying colors. Thunders broke into my ears and lightening struck my heart when I saw the appraisal amount of the dead guy!!!!! My God, it was not even, as much as the cost of the letter on which the appraisal details were printed…. My heart poured out for the guy and huge calls were heard inside my mind saying "no wonder, this guy died such a miserable death"… As a fellow worker in the same industry, I thought I should mourn for him for the sake of respect and stood there with a heavy heart thinking of the shock that he would have experienced when his manager had placed the appraisal letter in his hand. I am sure his heart would have stopped and eyes would have gone blank for few seconds looking at the near to nothing increment in his salary.

While I mourned for him, for a second my hands froze to see the employee’s name in the appraisal letter… hey, what a strange co-incidence, this guy’s name is same as mine, including the initials. This was interesting. With some mental strength, I turned the body upside down and found myself fainted for a second. The guy not only had my name, but also looked exactly like me. Same looks, same built, same name…. it was me who was dead there!!!!!!!! While I was lost in that shock, I felt someone patting on my shoulders. My heart stopped completely, I could not breathe and sprung in fear to see who was behind……… splash!!! Went the glass of water on my laptop screen as I came out of my wild dream to see my manager standing behind my chair patting on my shoulder saying, "wake up man? Come to meeting room number two. I have your appraisal letter ready".

It was played at National Habitat Centre in New Delhi and I happened to be there with a friend. Play was beautifully staged and wonderfully directed to keep it within time limit and maintain the interest of viewers.

Good acting by those playing as main characters of Bhola, Bindu, Guru Vidyapathi and Master Pillai – Manav, Pakhi, Sachin and Charanjeet respectively (I think).

Recommended for all those who loved the movie.

Computers - They are reliable, they always follow the programming.

Once computers tell you something, it doesn’t really hide what it means.

Rating: 8/10

The Guardian – I was recommended and turned out to be very good. Few scenes in this movie happened to map directly with Major Saab. Appreciable acting by Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Skills acquired are better put to right use for betterment of mankind than making records.

Rating: 8/10

The Pink Panther 2 – Not as good as Pink Panther and nowhere to original sequel starring Peter Sellers but still watchable if not for anyone else but for as good as always – Steve Martin and Aishwarya Rai.

Rating: 6/10

A very warm welcome

To a friend

Flying from far far away

After years

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