Digital Dreamer in a Analog World

And you thought only Bangalore can do this... Never Underestimate Namma Kudla... the South Canara district & Mangalore under "high alert" in the wake of heavy rain. PS: All photos ' lifted ' from http://mangalorecity.blogspot.com / :) “Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”

Mungeri Lal ke Hasin Sapne... Location : My Office Oh! God its 7:30 already, one more SRS’s and I am done for today…on the second thought.. I can do it tomorrow … I got up from seat locked my locker and Comp. Now I am going towards car parking. On approaching my car, viola! The car lock opens automatically from the ‘Bio-Chip’ implanted in my body, I sit down stretching my legs, Yawn,.. Its been a hectic day with all the meetings and mindless discussions and my boss kept on testing my patience..Suddenly, A pleasant female voice…” Prashanth, Please fasten your seat belts and enter the ‘destination’ “ (umm that’s my ‘Kar-Komputer’ reminding me to fasten the seat belts, as I always forget to do that). I fasten my seat belt and said ‘Status’, the Kar-Komputer starts reading out all the details of the car status like.. Fuel 80%, Air pressure…. blah, blah etc. And a scratch on the rear door…(I almost yelled) WHAT?!!, when did this happen? , Kar-Komputer replied “ Today morning dur

Mr. Deepak Tijori you made a big ' Oops! ', out of ' Tom Dick and Harry ' and just be ' Khamosh ' for gods sake, dont do any more ' Fareb ' with audience like us. A Movie for any Tom, Dick & Harry... It's a story of 'a mindless comedy' (literally) where Deaf (Dino), Blind (Anuj) and Dumb (Jimmy) shares a apartment. All these guys fall for a same neighbhourhood Girl(Celina-A true blonde) and try to line maroo and rest is supposed to be comedy (unfortunately). The main villain Soprano (Gulshan,with one more getup) who has a export buisness of indian girls to foriegn countries (thus making our India a true economic super power ?!!!). Celina and Kim Sharma (machi wali cum undercover (who never cover...) cop) are lives up to the classic saying " Ladkiyoo ka Dimak Gutno mein hota hai... ". The dialogues like 'Ande','Defective Piece', 'Items', 'Condoms/baloons' etc . are supposed to be combedy direct fr

This incident was told to me by my dear father and I cant stop laughing when ever some body asks me to teach ' Tulu ' (A sweet spoken language from sourth Karnataka with histroy of its own , and my mother tounge,... coincidently Aishwarya Rai's too :)). It all happened when one of my dady's colleague (a young beautiful one) showed her interest in learning Tulu and requested my dad to teach one Tulu sentence per day. My dad who till this date speaks un adulterated Mangalorean Kannada readily agreed to teach her some Tulu . Like any typical language learning excercises she made note of common spoken sentences like " Oota aitha?... " in kannada into Tulu and so on. She wrote down the Tulu sentence for "Oota aitha?..." as " Daneye vanas aanda?... " (What man, had lunch?...) and very excited on learning a new language. Everything went well until one day she decided to experiment her new found Prowess on a fellow lecturer (who is a mangalorean)

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Remembering those OOPS moments !!! Prelude: It was the first year of the college and we were excited about each and everything, especially we were very happy seeing ourselves without uniform. Everything seemed new and different, one day somebody suggested that we will bunk the Biology Practicals and lets see a ' Tom & Jerry' (!!;) movie in a near by theatre. Incident: Now everything was planned and i was told to buy the tickets as i was the only non-localite and nobody will recognise me. Once the ticket was bought someone suggested that we will go after 15 minutes so that nobody can recognise us. We entered the theatre and the theatre was totally dark and we took the seat which ever we found. Now we were busy watching the movie..and lights were 'ON', after some time. It was intervel time and to our amazement and shock, we saw our 'Mathmatics Lecturer' sitting next to us. ( oops! ) Both were shocked & embarrassed see each other in that theatre that too

Remembering those OOPS moments!! Prelude: Like everyday evening around 7:30pm, after out cricket practice it was our 'lounging time' on the ground. Where we hangout with friends and discuss on every topic under the Sun (Setting Sun to be precisely). And obviously most of the topics were about ahem..'girls'. Even though this incident happend during my teenage years, i feel embaressed whenever i think about it. Incident: We were chatting and busy in our own world, suddenly 'I' noticed a 'Beautiful Girl' walking near our cricket ground with her pomeranian dog, I had never seen her before near our cricket ground and she was so gorgeous... I could not control my excitment and uttered somethig (me & my BIG Mouth..) like " wow,what a chick!, who is she? ", on listening to this all my friends who were relaxing on the ground, got up and started looking at her ( drip...drip..) with all the possible comments you can imagine. Now, kahani mein twist y

Remebering those OOPS moments..!! I want to share one of the most embaressing moment in my life. Though It is very embaressing incident, at the same time Its very funny too. When i remeber the whole episode now, all i can say is OOPS... So i thought i can share this with you all people and make you laugh too. Prelude: I was selected for the one of the most Prestigeous Camp Republic Day Camp-1995' in the NCC. ' It was exciting and rewarding experience to get selected for such a exclusive & elite camp. We had a very tough training schedule and drill sessions every day which almost squezzed every drop of water in us. Even druing the night also we had to practice for a presentation on Karnataka-Goa culture. Fortunately or Unfortunately i was given a part of ' Tipu Sultan - A Great warrior of karnataka' . Where i had to enact the great warrior's secularism towards all the people during his rule. I was very proud of my 'golden' voice (!) and my acting abiliti

Happy National Tecnology Day: The technology has been touching our lives in many ways, to add ' life ' into our life. To me technology is not just flaunting latest cell phones and latest gizmo's rather reaching out to the people who should really benefit and make their lives happier and more livelier. What is Technology? The application of knowledge to meet the goals, and serve the people who need them. I feel happy when.. a farmer from small villege in karntaka(or any where) invents a new method to cut cocanut. or uses a new sprinkler method to utilize water irrigation to grow quality crops more. a simple girl student of Engineering from kerala designs a Washing machine powered by bicycle pedaling. when i hear/read that entire city is getting 'wi-fied' so that people can access information whenever needed. when a women Entrepreneur uses technology to maximize profit from her cottage industry. when India is considered next Super Power not because of its nuclear/mi

Giving Linux a try Today I bumped into a nice article on Desktop-Linux. This article is very informative at the same time, very simple in its apporach towards the LINUX, I hope you'll like this article by Dough Roberts . I met few people who took up Linux only because they hated MS-Windows (as if they have a thing or two to prove against Mr.Bill Gates). I always enjoyed benefits of both the world and our iLUG Mangalore Group is proud to educate people on Open Source benefits. Try something new and support Open Source. Following is the link written by Doug Roberts titled ' Giving desktop Linux a try ' is a must read for the people who want to try thing s differently. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3688964005.html Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.