A sad and shocking day, 13 Feb 2010

Yesterday a bomb ripped apart a restaurant called the German bakery in Koregaon park. It killed 9 persons and injured another 50. Terror in the real sense has reached Pune and me in person. Until now I was aware of all the news of terror attacks in India but this time it feels very different because you were there, in that very place many many times in your life. The last time I felt like this was on the day of Sept 11 2001 in New york as I watched in horror the twin towers come down right in front of my eyes. I was standing near a window on the 34th floor of the Morgan Stanley 750 building in midtown and watching the attack take place. I am a little scared and afraid of what happens next now. History is in the making all around me right now. Pumpaa and I are expecting twins coming July. Those children are going to be born in a world full of hatred.
As have al the children till now ... wry smile... As in the words of the protagonist in the "Blood Diamond"....."When was the world ever not in conflict?"

My experiments with House Improvement

It all started with the idea that the kitchen is way too small for my standards. So i decided to take off the side panel granite on one side and after 1 day of hammering with all kinds of tools I managed to pry it off. Looks like this.

 After filling the remaining hole I put in Plaster of paris there.  अता मज्जा अशी आहे की साइड कडप्पा इतका बकवास दिसतोय की त्याला कसा झाकायचा?

last post of 2009

This year is summed up:
1. Pumpaa had a miscarriage
2. I dabbled around with management in Tieto for the first time.
3. Some long and short trips to Finland
4. Learnt professional management courses
5. Learnt professional technical courses.
6. My department in Tieto is probably shutting down. Have to look for a assignment myself.
7. A very memorable trip to helsinki/Stockholm with Pumpaa.
8. Pumpaa has tested positive with twins 2 weeks back.
9. AS every single year ending entry has been, I do not know what to do next and where I am heading. Its horrible when you are a person who knows not where to go.

cheers.

helsinki and Stockholm in October 09

एक महिना मी आणि तृप्ति हेलसिंकी आणि stockholm मधे राहून आलो. फार सुन्दर होता असा तृप्ति च आहे.

अणि अत तर तिची ड्रॉप ची वेळ अली आहे. माला तर जरा कुचु कुचु होतय. एक दोन फोटोस इथे ताकतों. काल नेहा च मुलाचा बरसा होता. नाव इशान ठेवला आहे.

Move to Ubuntu

Pumpaa and I just bought a new laptop acer 6930. And after 2 days of struggle i got it loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jakelope. We are hoping to say bye bye to XP and not feel guilty of using illegal software. :-). I tried once before in 2007 but at that time ubuntu 7.04 failed to load with my earlier acer 5050 with Amd Turion X2. this time around I have the Interl core 2 duo and things are working about 90% stable. and recoverable.

Not so good experience at Lagoona, Lonavala

a week back i was in the Lagoona hotel, Lonavala for a week. The experience was not good at all. The food was junk and the other guests were rowdy and pesky. If they let in these kind of customers, I dont want to go there any more.

Small little work in office

I created a parking auction site today in office. We have now decided to subsidize the bus service by way of making car owners pay for parking. the website looks something like this.

People are crying foul all day long cause no one likes to pay for a service which was free so far. :-)

I have no choice and and have resigned to the fact that I have to live more frugally now.