UK Experience...

UK is a beautiful place... I just wanted to list down my experience in UK in the last 10 months...

• Beautiful place. Greenery all around. Less pollution. That means clean air...
• Unpredictable weather. People in UK do check the weather almost everyday, the same way we check what our politician do or for that matter do not do in the daily newspaper.
• People enjoy life. Party hard and they do have fun...
• Lots of thank- yous and sorrys... Sometime it tires you... But well they are very polite.
• Money isn't everything here. Everybody is respected here irrespective of the work that they do... I have seen how property services people in our office chat and have fun with senior managers...
• Chips are their main dish... Now I got tired of this... How can I forget Potato which has to be their on their plate in any of its incarnation... Jacket Potato. Hashbrowns, Chips...
  They also love their sandwiches the way we love our chapattis and rice
• Though I refrain from generalizing but most of the people here have three priorities - Football, Wine and Sex (in no order)
• People hate politicians here also...
• Beautiful Sexy Girls - No, I do not want to get started on this... Most of them are sexy... Control Sunil... Control... I guess that is why I always thought that they are more in number here... I corrected myself after googling for the statistics...
• One thing which has always puzzled me is this. During the winter I found girls on the street in the middle of night, in freaking cold wearing absolutely wearing next to nothing... I just do not understand how.I guess that is why we call them HOT...I had my own crazy thoughts but... no its not possible lets forget it... But still...
• Me at 25 with no girlfriend ever was a big news for them..,. They obviously figured it out that I have not slept with anybody.
• I was eveteased by a gang of drunken girls... Now frankly it freaked me out... Now I can not shout at girls... but for the first time somebody asked me my mobile number...
• Girls getting pregnant before 16... Where do they learn it actually... well obviously they do it but... before 15... I am 25 and I have not kissed one let alone do it... Let me tell you it is a big number... (7.9 per 1000 in UK and 9.9 per 1000 in London is a big number to me atleast).
• Be careful when you open a news paper... There are 9 out 10 chances that you will find a lady displaying her big breasts or hiding her nipples with her fingers or well pressing them between her forearms...I cannot help it, they are everywhere... Well disappointments for the ladies they do not have a quasi male section... or may be I never noticed it...
• Ya egg and fishes are considered to be vegetarian...
• You can use the word fuck the same way you use "be as in abe, chube..." back home...
• Tissue Paper... I am still unable to figure out how does it serve the purpose...

It can be a big list... 10 months is a big period... The above are the points I remember as of now and thought worth mentioning...

Just Another day

Post for yesterday... posted today...

Not a great day must say... Woke up in the morning with that call hangover of yesterday. But anyway got ready for office. Picked up the best dress I could in a hope that it will cheer me up... only to reach office and be told that a small miscommunication by a colleague of mine has created some issue... got that sorted out (hopefully)... Was not feeling very good so took half day off only to be woken up by a call from office regarding some urgent issue... now can't they just leave me alone for a while...now even the weather is not good... the forecast was supposed to be sunny and here we go-its raining...

But yes India won the match... A convincing 6 wickets victory over another Asia Cricket powerhouse(Pakistan)... That was good...

I know tomorrow will be a better day...Definitely...

Love Sunil

Call

Yesterday night ended almost in an irritating way... Now I do not like it when my call ends abruptly because I have no balance left in my phone. And to add to it my calling card also did not work. I was trying desperately to call from my calling card and there we go... The only thing I hate about this hotel is - I do not know why but I am not able to call using my calling card... FUCK yaar...

Fucking angry (after a very long time) I go for my dinner. Now it is early in the morning and I am still angry and this time I have my blog to vent my anger at...

I will try calling again but people do get busy... I might get busy or it might be on the other side also...

Baby I Love You

A promise...

A promise to keep you happy
A promise to keep you smiling
A promise to do anything for you

I love you...
Baby, I love you...

A promise to stand besides you
A promise to hold your hand
A promise to wipe your fears

I love you... Baby I love you...
You gotta believe me...
I LOVE YOU...

A promise is all I have today
A promise is what I can give you today
A promise of love to you for my whole life

Now I know what you are thinking...
I do not want you to feel sorry...
I know how you fee about all these...

But...

Can't help it...

Baby I love you...
Ya... I love you...
And I will always love you...
Isn't it enough

Its lonely out here

Its fucking lonely out here. Days and nights are passing away in oblivion. I think about it but sleep with a hope that tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day. There is this hurriedness in the morning, business  as usual the whole day and by the time the sun sets down (it sets down here very late in the summer) its a thought that comes to mind - another day gone by and you are no different than yesterday. There is darkness staring at me - many times asking me a question which I do not want to answer. I do dish out my frustration at nobody but me. Nod my head, give that smile which has nothing but despair in it.

But then I say it to myself. Come on buddy, all is not lost. You still can fight it out. You still can run that extra mile and achieve your aim. There is still hope. Its just a bad day today and tomorrow will be beautiful. And these words are relaxing, comforting. I smile and with a sense of hope I have my  blanket pulled over me and close my eyes wishing for a beautiful morning.

Life is a war and days are the battles which you fight. The victory is announced only on the day you take your last breath and hope is what you need your whole life.

So I will keep trying with the hope that the dream will come true one day. What if the day is not today!!!

With Love
Sunil

Love...

No this is not an article on the topic that you are thinking about... There are thousands of great work on this written by many famous writers, poets and now many bloggers. I will not waste your time by writing another one... I am going to talk about human behaviour - loving to hate.

One of the thing that has baffled me a lot is the amount of time we spend in thinking, discussing and worrying about the things we do not love rather hate. We are always seeking something which we do not like and once we get one easily few hours are spend on it. And in comparison to that how much time spend on enjoying good things about our lives. Less rather dismal in case of few of us. I am not trying to say that the world is perfect. It is not and there may be lot of things which are not correct. The world is not like a dress which can be customized for each person.It is a generic platform where everybody has to come, perform, give their best shot and then disappear. But we instead of spending time to love the people/things that we like, we spend our energy and time on hating the things that we do not like.

Just notice the people around you and keep a tab on the discussion you are having with them . You will find very few sentences that starts with - " I love" or something similarly positive. Most of the sentence will have a negative connotation - " I do not like", ".. is bad..", " I hate ..."

Is loving such a difficult thing, and hating something so easy? Does thinking and cursing and abhorrent feeling bring peace to your mind. I do not think so. Don't you think spending time in hating someone or something is sheer waste of time. Cannot we just spend our valuable time in loving the things we like. Time is one thing that we can never buy or produce in our backyard but we are unnecessarily spending it on the something we abhor. We won't spend a single penny to buy something which we do not like Do we?

I do not say we do not love, we do like things... we love our parents, friends, relatives, our favourite star, etc. But we seem to be dedicating less time to them and more time towards other things which we can avoid. Does this not pollute our mind further and just calculate the energy that we lose because of this? Does this not make us narrow minded and lead us to a situation where the importance of all the people we love diminishes? Will this indulgence not lead to us situation where it becomes difficult for us to smile. 

Why waste our energy on such an unwanted feelings? I have been pondering over this question for quiet sometime and have not found an answer. May be it is human mentality that ignores the white things of life and notice the black holes in it. If that is the case we should try to come out of it and enjoy life to the fullest.

It is a short life and let us not waste it on things we hate. Love is a beautiful thing. Let us ignore everything else in life. Life is precious and love is great. Le us live life the loving way. It is very easy to love others...

With Love
Sunil

Happy Birthday to you

Today is my Best Friends Birthday and its sad that I cannot be with her.

But here is my wish for her...
Wishing you a very very happy Birthday dumbo...

Your birthday has always been special to me... Buying gifts for you, meeting you and chatting with you ... And how can I forget the all important midnight call, all the time  hoping that I am the first person to wish.... All these have been nothing but special...

This year I cannot meet you, cannot spend time with you but as always my wishes will always be there with you...

Thank you for being there for me always... You always have been a source of inspiration for me. Your words of advice. 
Thanks for everything... You mean a lot to me and I will always be there behind you in case you need me... Just give a shout and you will find me...

Happy Birthday again...
blow the candles hard...

 

iphone

iPhone 2.0 is launched...

Before I start, take a look at the keynote address by Steve Jobs at the WWDC 2008. Its a long one...

I have been waiting for this for a while. You can find the detailed review here

I do not want to repeat what has said million of times by many experts.

For me the key thing is will be launched in India by Airtel and Vodafone and is cheaper ($199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model).

Below are the key points I would like to comment on

Why is it so cheap???

Steve Jobs pointed in the Keynote address that 56% of the people do not buy iPhone because of the price. So they have made it affordable. Now if you are thinking that Steve Jobs has charity in  mind then I beg to differ.  Here is my point

• Use of plastic instead of metal.
• Rumours doing round that they might have been offered subsidy by AT&T (iPhone's US carrier). So we have to wait and see what will be the cost in other geographies
• Cheaper chips for cell thanks to improving technology
• And one thing which many people have missed till now is - revenue  from the revenue sharing for the 3rd Party Apps.
  Now there are already 4000 developers for the famed iPhone SDK and many cool apps have already  been developed. Just imagine how the future is going to be when more and more developers lay their hand on this great phone and start using the Apps. Its going to be crazy. And Apple is going to earn 30 bucks for every 100 bucks you pay to buy the third party apps. Surely because of the low price the volume is going to increase to crazy levels. There is now a whole new ecosystem being built around the iPhone. The same way Apple was able to create a whole new world around iPods. All those  speakers, alarm clock and other funky gadgets being created specially for iPods. This time around it is going  to be more in the virtual domain. This man is just great. He is a marketing genius.

What about competition?

Now watch what the competitor are going to do. What will happen to blackberry phone after iPhone offer such a great enterprise support. What will happen to the traditional phone developers like Nokia, Samsung, Sony? Will they be able to match the price? Will they be able to match the features without looking like copycats?
Are the corporates going to move from  the Blackberry to iPhone?
Many questions. No answer as of now. Only time will tell. But make no mistake other will follow the suit in some way or the other. The mobile phone industry has got a great business model in front of them. Lets see how they build on it. Apple will definitely have the 1st mover advantage.
I guess many of these mobile company bosses would not have slept the whole not yesterday. Its the price I say which Apple is offering is going  to give them long sleepless night in the days to come. I do not want to write them off. I am waiting for their answer. How are they going  to react.

This is great for the consumer who have nothing to complain.

Isn't that fantastic

My Laptop

Model : DELL XPS M1530
Processor : 2.4 GHz
RAM : Dual Channel 4.0GB (2x2048) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Hard disk : 250 GB SATA hard disk,
Graphics Card : 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT
Wireless : Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-PCI Card
Battery : XPS Primary 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion,
Misc : CCFL backcover black  & 2.0mp camera
Operating System : English - Vista Home Premium
Display : 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen (1440x900) TFT with Truelife
A DVD writer and a remote... You read it right... This model of Dell Laptop comes with a media centre remote which easily fits  into the express card slot... This one came handy while watching movie...

Read some bad reviews about the speaker but does not seem bad to me...
Price : 819.84 GBP... Fuck.... That's a sum but worth it

Now that is my black beauty... I know that make me a nerd but wtf I always wanted this beauty and now it is on my lap...

Have used it extensively for the past 3 days (the shipment came on Friday)and has given me good performance and am very happy with this... Have loaded VSTS 2005, SQL Express 2005, Office 2007 and it still has not shown any sign of fatigue (installing SQL 2005 now)...Vista also rocks.. I just love it and with free wifi broadband in my hotel I could not have asked for more...

 

Sunil

 

p.s will try to blog more regularly now...

Post from Live Writer

My 1st post from my new laptop using Windows Live Writer... Its cool...

Will update details regarding my new laptop in my next laptop