Sunday, December 27, 2009

3 Idiots of my life

The Song that made me say Gimme another chance I wanna grow up once again. Meet all of them once again whom I call my Friends not because I had chosen them to be my friends but they live upto those levels that made me proudly say that you are my Friend. The talks, the times, the moments that I still share with them on the fly calls me back to hold them more close to my heart. If I look back now they are the gems of with different colours, different shines, different prices but precious in every aspect. The one with whom I always fought in my school, never get tired not even today, never afraid of him even when he is 1 feet taller to me, thrice as strong as I was. The one who can bear a slap and say ‘It was good with a thumbs up’. The event that gave a different blow to our friendship that continued, still continuing and I wish continuesJ. The one who taught me to stand upfront and argue.. do not hide away. Surely missing you _ e _f

Moved out a bit and there came the culprit of all – competition, that make you stand against your own friends, the one that makes you to learn cheating and the one that makes you loose in the end even if u won. Never thought that the opportunity can be so challenging that in search of avoiding it I will meet up with someone that unknowingly made me realise how contended one can feel with the win of your friend can be so satisfying that it overruns all your defeats. Never understood the difference between friendship and love..cant create that thin line between the two..what I believed is that they coexist. Even in the life o becoming something, proving something you can still find yourself in the comfort zone of your friend where nothing can touch you, the secure layer of friendship can never let you down. The effort that was doubled, the spirits that are heightened when you know your friend is just standing by you to say Come on, I know can do it… u can tear the sky apart. The classes in which we used to ignore teachers, the lectures where mimicry used to capture the high point of the day, the assignments that with night calls we somehow completed, the tests in which we copied, the practicals in which we dictated answers from the window, class bunks, birthday celebrations, nicknames, the laughs at our scores and the events in which we fought with the Bub Bub kind of people. I enjoyed the steepest high and the deepest low with you and rest yet to visit. The two extremes are created by you where I surmount myself. One promise given to myself …you remain my friend and I cherish your friendship forever you need to do something really really worst to make me forget you. I wish to be there for you the way you have been there for me.

The list does not end, life moves on even at a higher pace this time. When you find yourself in a completely unknown world, standing alone in a crowd, no known faces, away from your home. You introspect and say was this the life you have been fighting for. I found one more who met like a smooth breeze flowing through, lightly touching my ears and whispering slowly. Slow steps, gradual highs, sudden turns unknown to the world made it grow stronger with every uncertainty we decided to face together. Nothing could let us down until my friend believes in me, runs away when I shout and come back with a small flower to say Welcome back and makes me smile. Remembering the one who flirts with the hep girls of the college just as a naughty move to raise his share value, the one whom I can hit and hide, the one whose shoulder is always for me to sleep. As bad as I can be in making plans but still make it, all time dance partner who loves to see me dancing but cannot dance. A complete makeover of Chimpi, with a hint of hairy bear which you can easily pull to see monkey’s high jump J. Seriously wanna go back to those days where we were a call away. Calling each other to wake up for gym, class and still sleeping over the ongoing phone call till the tipping point is reached, alarms set not according to self but to your friend. Moderating every other plan just to be together for late night walks. I miss those walks and talks.

Monday, December 14, 2009

TWILIGHT SAGA...

Feel the feelings of Bella...the one who met and loved a Vampire


Pond of my heart I believed is shallow, Gets filled quickly never seemed so hollow,
I never knew where my jump will let me in, things may be new, exciting, good & be evil though.
One day I got a spoon to dig, that was the day when I asked to cross my limits,
I found it astounding to reach those heights, Was alarmed before I could miss the ground hits.

Found one who just wants to swallow, living in its own empire,
Look at his attire, I bet u can’t guess it’s a Vampire

Touch of him is so subtle,
That makes you cross all your hurdle;
Runs with the speed of hare,
But wins with the rule of turtle;
Reads my mind like an open book,
Gives it a glance where no one can hook;
When we first met created the effect unusual,
Living the expected but every minute is substantial;
The way he cared, the way he loved,
The way his warmth, holds me through;
Crossing the top of mountains, the end of sea,
He created his land, where only he can be;
I thought never to bleed in front,
The moment came when my hardness burnt;
Feelings turned tender, up to blow,
See the divine change in the eyes that glow;
No fear, no hate, no boundaries will stay,
Praying to the majesty to put them on this way;

Now I want every bit of him to hire, That will be the D-day when I’ll also be a Vampire
The world will see our empire, growing higher and higher without any fire.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

WOW

Slowdown, layoffs, cost cutting , operational efficiencies etc. all heard, read and ready to experience it as I am now a part of WOW. WOW – how many of you are aware of this acronym... it’s not Wow(Whaooh) but WOW (mark all caps). Those who know must have guessed uptil now as what is to be followed next but those who don’t then I must request you to be patient but saying “Be Patient, it pays” (sometimes) and rest of the times Your Insurance company pays... ha ha.

Wow(Whaooh) – an expression for something very amusing, exciting.. Trust me, WOW of which I am a part, is not just an expression but a lot more which cannot be clubbed under one roof.

Time to reveal full form of WOW is actually “World Of Workers”.

Decades back, when I was born, Technology was growing. Today, I am growing older but Technology is still new and growing. WOW, in my honest opinion, consisted of long beard brainees, doing wonders in years they spent working, low in quantity but high in quality but it gradually cone to a point where Darwin’s Theory – “ Survival of Fittest” can be applied without a doubt. And here I am being welcomed with smiling faces who clearly knows that soon I will be crowned with all the things that they are handling and one day I will be standing on the other side of the table to welcome the next victims.

The best part is – I am loving it

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Making RUP more AGILE

Think in my terms
Its very Hot, wanna have Mango Juice, so what do I need to do
hmmmm...
1. I know about Mango and its very juicy.
2. I know about a juicer which is very handy.

Use 1 and 2 together, use juicer for making juice and put mango for making mango juice.

Similarly, I want to be adaptive to changes while building a software using Rational Unified Process, so what I need to do
hmmmmm...
1. I know about Rational Unified Process, its lifecycle, its disciplines.
2. I also know about Agile Software Development and its principles.

Can I use them together ????
This was the thought that lead to my topic for the discussion and then the search begins.
Here, I am presenting what I understood as "Ways in which RUP can be made mor AGILE"






Google Videos Link for my screencast : Ways To make Unified Process more AGILE"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6119645895906946175

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Useful Tips

1. Awesome Tip For Gmail Users

Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.

  • GeorgeBush@gmail.com
  • G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
  • Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com


  • GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com
  • GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
  • G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
  • Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com


  • GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com

And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’

Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘GeorgeBush+anythingyouwant@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well.

One email for every purpose

Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by ’sent to’ address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to ‘Name.Surname@gmail.com’ can be put to folder ‘work’, messages sent to ‘NameSurname@gmail.com’ can be put to ‘friends’, ‘N.ameSurname@gmail.com’ can be used for newsletters, and so on.

2.Convert Microsoft Docx files to Doc

Zamzar is an online service to convert files between various formats, docx (and pptx and xlsx) being one of them.The website is free of advertisements and the service speedy. What more can you ask for ? All that Zamzar asks for is your email address to send over a link to the converted document, and of course the original document.Just point your browser to the website, upload your document, give your email address and you’re done. No need to download any docx viewer.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

SWITCH – on the verge of being WITCH

SWITCH comprising the IT biggies(Satyam, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Cognizant and HCL) of India may soon left with WITCH with the crash of Satyam seemingly very close to happen after the resignation of its chairman R.Raju admitting the frauds made in the Balance Sheet from last few years. Wooden chair over fire has to burn today or tomorrow without letting the one sitting on it to be safe from being burnt. Confession of Satyam’s chairman mentioned that acquiring Maytas was an attempt to clear the existing financial irregularities in order to continue to ride the tiger.
What comes as a question mark is : What will be the next prominent step of board of directors to safeguard the company and its image

Friday, January 2, 2009

Organizer: A new Start up Project

Software Development Methodologies Workshop as a part of our curriculum is being conducted and it surely began a chain of thought process since the start of the session. Be it regarding RUP Vs Agile or RUP with Agile, which one fits the best and where etc... Now, in the last session we (my team: Prerna, Manpreet, Rahul, Pawan and Harkul) took up a new start up project of developing an for an organization to define roles, responsibilities, expertise, current projects etc. of each employee within a hierarchy. Organizer helps in allocating tasks to employees according to their expertise or skill set. We decided to follow RUP methodology, in which Inception and Elaboration phases are complete. Thinking process initiates when I started thinking of what can be taken up as a project start up. Then head on to deciding it with my team and the work begins. We started with developing a business case and based on that we completed with the inception phase. While the critical high risks use cases and sequence diagrams were reviewed by Mr. Parag Shah, a concern stuck in our way, whether or not to show failure cases in sequence diagrams or not. Because there can be so many failure cases that our one sequence diagram can be swamped with and whole motive of drawing the diagrams is all in vain. So, we decided to make it more clear, hence our next exercise will be to show diagrams with and without failure cases and see how much time can be saved or how to identify which failure situations if not considered can turn into a high risk later on. So, stay tuned for the results..