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Well Its a Holiday today in Goa, I’m at office catching up with a few things. Not much pressure today, hope to review a few things.

Been to a party late last night, a 21st birthday, kinda forgot how wild at times these parties can be. I dunno at times, i feel i’ve crossed these days of letting my hair down, cant stand loud music or what they call DJ Music. If i had a Crocin in the afternoon coz of data migration, think i had to have 2 for this NOISE! Geez, felt a lil OLD for it!!! or is it that its time to find different avenues of letting my hair down! Well we left at about 12am, the party it seems got over at 6:30 am , Mave and Nave were back only at 11am.

These days, I’ve been using a lot more of technology in routine life, some of it is God Send, some of it, quite interesting. Finally found my long lost adapter of my PDA, so that device is back. Used the NET to buy my bro’s  KINGFISHER ticket. Hope he has a GOOD TIME. Something that i was very very excited to see was the Petrol Pump dispenser actually printing my BILL!!! I was amazed and the attendant was all smiles looking at that huge grin on my face. Indeed Technology does make life better.

Well coming back to the title of the day, well, I must thank one of my first clients who sends me the daily readings via SMS everyday for the last two and half years. Today’s reading is from Luke 6, Well reading through Luke 6, i found this verse, that for me means quite a lot. A lot of times people do things to other people for their own selfish gifts, One example i have very fresh in my mind, is of one person, who will showers people with gifts, luxuries just to see that they are eternally grateful to them and then milk them for their needs. We’ve had such people in our lives, some people i really dont like, bcoz they expect us to always suck up to them. I detest these people and try to avoid any kind of conversation with them. I wish these people really read the WORD of the LORD and use a little bit in their lives, it will make them better.

Well gotta go, see ya Folks!

Hello People

Well Today i came in a lil bit early to work to make up for the half day of yesterday, We\’ve been on the Sharada Mandir project for a while now, and the most challenging thing i\’ve faced is the migration of the data from the old system to the new system. Firstly we really dunno what the heck is happening in the earlier system, Second the database has so many copies of the same table, we cant figure out which one is right or wrong. Once you have crossed those hurdles, the task is to move hitherto unlinked information to a much more organised system. which is easier on paper but a nightmare when trying to do it. Well, the success after a succesful migration does taste sweet for a while, before you know the other hurdles that are yet to be faced. God Willing, We\’ll cross those too.

Bro is down and the leeches are also back. Since my bro is of marriageble age, these matchmaker kinda smell that he is down, that they spare no time to make their appearence. As he is in town to attend the funeral, these guys have the cheek of approaching him even at the funeral, and even exert pressure through other means to get him to see proposals. Give the man a break, he\’s just lost a real good friend, let him recover from it.

Well Ganesh Chathurthi is finally here, the fireworks are back, Somehow i really cant understand a few things, What is the relationship with fireworks and Ganesh and for that matter ROBBED FLOWERS N FRUITS and Ganesh? If only someone could tell me about the same!!! Well the nights are gonna be longer coz of lack of sleep due to fireworks, hope there\’s something interesting on television next few days.

So I\’ve placed my order of SWEETS with Nilesh!!! And I\’m hoping that i can exclusively have them!!! Vishal!! Im waiting for my invite!!! See ya soon!!!

Guys PEACE!! and See ya Soon!

Hello People,

A new week begins today, However if you are in Goa, the festivities of Ganesh have already begun. The Weekend was hectic, Had a wedding on a real Rainy Saturday, Was busy all Sunday cleaning the house, as my bro is down for the funeral of Babazin. His passing away has indeed been depressing. Never knew some one who we knew for just a little time will have so much of effect on all of us. We usually have a lamp lit in our house, every evening, for Dad, We had one running for Babazin for the last 4 days.

Catch u guys later

As another long day draws to an end, I never expected a month begin with such depressing news. Todays\’ day was long, tiring, but has ended with shock and grief. Received a call from Dave at 9.55pm, that one of my Brother\’s closest Friend, Jawaharlal, better known as Babazin, passed away due to a fever. It came as a total disbelief to me, in fact for us. There was this stunning silence all around. Just received a confirmation from Tino, that it was dengue, a haemorregic fever caused by mosquito bite. We all know Babazin as this right hand man of a lot of people ( a la Circuit of Munnabhai MBBS). He was always there, when people needed him, The bubbly character that he was, never could figure out what his profession was. He must have come into our lives maybe 2-3 years now, coz i\’ve never seen him before with my bro, but everyone would take a liking to him simply bcoz he was an affable person. At TI, quite some time back, we had this conversation about people being named after leaders. Of all people in the world, we never knew Babazin\’s actual name was Jawaharlal, The first time Dave n fly and I heard it, we erupted with laughter. Of course ever since then, we\’d smile when he passed by. He may have barely been 30 now, which makes it even more hard to believe. Sometimes, we really wonder, why does anyone have to die so young, Well, we just have to believe that God has HIS plan for all of us. Its just that he takes his favourite people to him earlier than others.

\” The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds\” -Psalm 145, 13.

At times like this, One begins to ponder, We really do not know, when we will be called to him, are we ready to face him? Have we done enough on earth to be worthy of him? Ever since my  Dad\’s illness, I\’ve always been looking at the worst case scenario situation, What could the worse thing be? When the Doc called us in at the time of my Dad\’s operation, we never ever imagined what the doctor would tell us. Had we given up hopes at that time, we\’d never ever would have the oppurtunity to keep Dad alive for 11 months and give us the chance to grow up. Today, most of my decisions in life does analyse the worst case scenarios, before taking any step ahead. It also allows me to look at life much better, smile at the small joys around us and try to be with peace with all around.

Today morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see my bro also commence his own blog, I dont know if this was sheer coincidence or if we are falling for all the marketing gimmicks of yahoo and msn, but in any case, All the Best to you! The Blog can be found in my blog roll to the left of your screen.

Yet another defence institution may be using our services, This time its the 6TTR, Ponda. In the last 8 months, we\’ve been in circulation with quite a few defence installations, ranging from Verem to Vasco. Its mostly been due to referrals by one organisation to another and not forgetting Suchita\’s constant shuving of our visiting cards in their faces. Thanks Suchita, I know you\’d scream at me if i did it in person.

Our Web Servers are constantly in problem these days, Quite a new excuse this time, being affected by KATRINA, Believed it for a few moments, until i realised that Katrina was in Louisiana, that\’s South of USA and the servers are in California! I like the cheek of one of my client, who claimed that i was only decorating A site and not treating his site as MINE, Well, Excuse Me for that, If you gave me a lil space to try my ideas, you\’d get a real kick ass site, but Oops!! U weren\’t listening!

My Skywards Miles are expiring this month, Hey I\’m not scheduled to travel at all, So rather than waste those miles, I might as well allow Tino use them anyway he can. I think I\’m gonna wait a while to travel by plane again, Totally excited with the A380, even more excited that Uncle Mallya is gonna give me the Good Times in it later on in life. Well until then, hopefully i make enough money to fly KINGFISHER Class.

Well, no television for me today, real no mood for it, I will say a small prayer for Babazin, and say Good night then.

Hello Everybody! Well, Welcome to my Blog, Cant find an appropriate name to give this blog, simply coz i really dunno how long i\’d write this blog. Currently Im watching one of my favorite movies, Notting Hill, its been a classic with me, somehow i love Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in this movie, A simple bloke falling in love with one of the most gorgeous women in the world.

Well Its been a long month this August, a lot of hardwork gone into the month, finally getting stuff done in an organised manner, A highlight of the month included the Goa Legislature website, www.goavidhansabha.gov.in. Another important highlight has been the chance to learn more about the AIRPORT of Goa, Let\’s see how it goes.

So what do i write on this blog, I havent the faintest clue, why i want to blog, i think it gives me a good chance to sit back at home, relax in front of the television, with my laptop and reflect upon my day. Well, like most of you know, my life revolves around work, home and my friends ( especially the special ones!). Since its the beginning of a new month, a few things up this September.

Work Wise, We\’ve got a few deadlines to meet. We got some interesting characters also read as clients to deal with. One who wants to find out how many messages or requests she has on the first page, even before she logs in. Yea interesting, imagine people getting to know the number of mails in their inbox, but just going to the Google home page. Wierd, but may even happen! The other character is driving Sujjo bonkers, and i think we\’ll leave him to sort her out.

Home Wise, Its my Gran\’s third year mass. Dave\’s on his India Darshan Tour, so he\’s off to Mumbai first, before he goes to Bangalore. My bro Tino is finally moving to Dubai. So he\’ll take a lil time to settle down there.

Friends, Melinda has left NIIT to start preparing for her wedding, Wishing her all the best. Alfy\’s second fella ALFY[2], i mean Joel will be baptized mostly on Sept 11. Ganesh Chathurthi will be celebrated on 7th and 8th, a nice time to see old friends. Nilesh and Vishal are down in town next week. Warren is in Delhi, would be interesting to see him down this September. My newly found Friend Eliza will also be tying the knot this September, Wishing her all the very best. It may also be Elaine\’s last month at NIIT, as she too prepares for her wedding. Interesting, Plenty of weddings this year.

Well, it was raining like the British rain, persistent drizzle today in Panjim. No stink today, hopefully the people wake up and take care of their garbage, coz the Corporation cant figure out what to do with it. The Assembly Session is over today and i\’m perplexed and really dont know how these bunch of morons will give us governence. These SOBs will just see that they plunder every lil paisa that we earn.

Ok, for all those people yawning, well thank you for staying till now, Im just getting started, so we\’ll just wait and watch if i get interesting or if im just going on and on about myself.  I shall end here, before this looks like the boring premiere of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

See ya guys tommorrow

Hello People!!

Welcome to my First Attempt at Blogging, Found it quite intriguing. However did not start until i found this option in Yahoo!. Well, I hope to have all my friends updated with my life, Life at TI, Family Life, My Life and other stuff.

Dunno who’s gonna be reading this, so if its just me writing, then be it. Im gonna BLOG!!