2011 - A brilliant Start!!!

The New year 2011 was approaching, it was DEC 31, 2010 where we planned to witness the splendid fireworks at London Eye... well I was very much excited to experience a different New Year celebration!, also had heard about the crowd, rather hell a crowd at there... but nevertheless my mind was all set to watch the beautiful, sparkling, brilliant dazzles...

We walked up to London Eye, made our places for the best view - We stood right in front of London Eye, The London eye was looking more colourful and beautiful than ever, with different lights changing periodically! the trees nearby were decorated with serial lights and there was Dance music on, with powerful speakers! ...it was electrifying :)

But I'l tell you the crowd was horrible, mad crowd, people were drunk, gals were fagging, few had lost senses, they were acting Topsy turvy... my god I was scared... we had to wait there for two hours to start the year 2011 in a most beautiful way!

There were threatening fights, people screaming like hooligans - most of them being Asians and students, localities were faintly visible, they lacked manners, of course they were drunk... I was worried about stampedes, they were pushing each other... It was indeed horrible, I somehow pacified myself to just hold on for some more time!

Finally the count down began before 1 min to 2011, it was projected on to a wall and the crowd roared at their best in unison with the count down display, loads of whistles and howls and when it ticked 00:00, the crackers went on showering!

It was one of the best and amazing fireworks I'ad ever seen! One after the other the rockets and brilliant fireworks went on, we could not see the London Eye in that flashy-spectacular fireworks... It went on continuously for exactly 11 mins...I thoroughly enjoyed it, I really forgot the bad crowd! the chaotic atmosphere... I felt it was really worth waiting for this magnificence... it was mind blowing, I was awestruck, spell bound!

For me, It was probably the best way to start off the new year 2011!

Happy 2011 :)
May this year bring in loads of happiness and good health, effacing off the evil and ignorance from our lives!
God bless!

Merry Christmas!!!

Wish U and your family, Merry Christmas! :) 


A nice day to start off with... beautiful weather, with loads of sunshine and no much chillness in the air! Logged in late to office...


Celebrations for Christmas at Cousin's place in the evening and a Week's holiday! until New year...
 what else is needed to make one like me, HAPPY!

Happy Christmas again :)

Jagadhodharana...

jagadoddharana adisidale yashode
jagadoddharana maganendu tiliyuta sugunantarangana adisidaleyeshode…

mesmerising lines truly! so very divine and soothing

I am really not very sure if Lord Sri Krishna existed, but I really appreciate the epic written by the great Vyasa Maharishi!… and these lines, I salute to the composer, the great "Purandara Dasaru" - who was a miser merchant later believed in charitable life and took up Sanyasatva… and is known as carnatic classical music founder…

His compositions are so very simple and pleasant and easily touches the common man, who do not know sanskrit/upanishads/vedas…it-seems he used to sing his thoughts instantaneously, apt for the situation for ex: "kagada Bandide, namma padumanabhanadu" and "Duggani yembedu durjana sangha"… etc.

His compositions show the way to attain the purity of thought, word and deed regardless of caste, religion or creed. He believed that purity of mind over mere outer purity!
I bow to this mahanubhava who practiced what he preached!

Tester v/s Developer!

Sometimes it gets so though to convince a or even make him/her understand that there is some issue with the code! before looking into the bug description, they hop on us, to say it s not a defect, I feel y d hell u guys feel so bad to read our bug descriptions fully,  they just look into the titles and  faint off, saying what not, 


"That's weird"


"It works on my machine", 


"It was working in the morning"


"Thats an environment issue"


"That's not a bug its a feature" !


My God, atleast try to appreciate the testers for whatever they have found or observed... 
and accept if something has gone wrong or explain to the tester, if they have got it wrong!


But the way they act is as though they wanna run away from it! saying thats not my code and other funny stuffs!


Sometimes they get irritated to fix it; forget about fixing, even to accept a defect as defect! 
They say thats not big!, "Come On" defect is a defect big or small!


Testers remain humble most of them at least... but I dont know why some of the dev guys behave as though we have eaten up their codes!
they make faces as though we are barging into their homes without appointments! 


phew! One needs an extra talent and knack to get the work done - especially from these guys and saving our defects from getting deferred or rejected!




The saga between the Tester and the developer never ends! 
I am trying my best to use my talent... to  keep the healthy pace ON, but sometimes I do stumble!!


God please show some mercy on we testers! :)

'GOD' cells of the Brain

The question, "Does God exist?" was quite a bit hitting me, with no much sound... when things go gud, we tend to praise GOD 
but if things go the other way we blame GOD (why, did we not find anyone to blame for the situation)
As a Kid, we were thought by our elders that, we got to be good kids, else GOD would punish us for our bad deed, this was to imbibe the goodness in us, that at least inn the name of GOD (may be the fear) we try to behave good.


At the age of 5, we have a view of GOD as the person who would Punish us, if we steal other's things, if we kill insects
if we bad mouth, if we do not respect elders...and he would help us, with your homework, studies...


As we grow, as our maturity level grows up, the GOD concept or the view of GOD changes rather estimation of GOD gets better... 
we realize that chocolates and home-works are a mere thing, we realize GOD helps those, who help others, so better to be good than to be bad,
in turn to get good things!


GOD is all there for your good and bad! we grow up portraying GOD - human like, since our elders have been believing in so and so forms of GODS and GODDESSES!


As our maturity level reaches to a better level, the view of GOD gets still clearer, a lot clarity!
We realize it is not that we have to be good and reasonable, just because GOD is watching us, GOD punishes us otherwise nor 
that we would be deprived of his help, its just that being good does not cost anything, shedding out egos and living a better life, makes everyone happy around and eventually we are happy!


Happiness is what's needed! Troubling, hurting, or planting any negative effect on others, hampers the very living zone of theirs.
Its really not a good feeling at heart, when you hurt others... GOD never comes here, its just that how we feel at that moment, 
what our conscience says, we feel the guilt - The balance is destroyed, there is no peace.


And, great people like Buddha - enlightened, never saw GOD, he failed to... it was when he said that "Desire is the cause of Pain".
To such great legends, view of GOD is way beyond our perception of GOD, it depends on one's thinking ability, limits and the maturity levels


When GOD is beyond everyone's thinking, people get him down by involving him in some mere things like caste, creed and race... 
well when I here of the Universe, galaxies, star's life cycle, cosmic-civilization... its enormously massive, 
it gets tougher to kinda digest, I wonder how big the entity GOD should be - the very force!


GOD does exist - the force ultimatum - controlling the universe, but no one knows the actual form, he/she/it is one such 
which is very very hard to be conceived by man's power!
If triangles had GOD! he'd have 3 sides...

Deadly winter to Snowy winter!

Deadly Biting, cold Winter!


For the first time in my life, I was cursing and cribbing about winter! the first deadly winter, I ever faced at London!
Ofcourse it was my first winter in London... boy 'o' boy... winter started by october and temperature sank like anything...In India, atleast in bangalore, the temperature never went below 17' c even in the coldest winters... but here in London.. 17'c is summer!


My fingers tend to freeze, n feels like needle prick! It really gets tuff to step out wid out a pair of gloves, a cap n good layered fur! and I always wonder... what a place of contrast Earth is... at places the temperatures shoot up to 50'c and at places dips down to -15' may be still lesser ! watta creation! 


Nov-29th 2010 - was the coldest day for me! it was 1'c and min was -2'c... was feeling, y on earth did I come to London... but somehow had to manage the dark day (most of the winters are dark here : which makes me think of vampires do they really exist in here, I donno... nyws! ;-) 


The Heavy snow! weather, was forcasted for Nov-30-2010 and this time I was a lil excited as my sixth sense ticked me off with some positive signs about the snow fall!...


Snow fall was always a fascinating thing to me, never had seen snow apart from seeing them on movies like Roja and few other english movies,... as the cold day passed by - with my household chores, had completely forgotten about the would fall - snow.


The next day early  morning by around 6:30, my husband peeped out of the window n gave me a big shout, "look its snowing"... I was in the shower... just wanted to finish it off asap... wanted to have the first glimpse of the snow! wanted to feel it! I was desparate :)


I did get time to go out n feel the snow!! the streets were like ice carpets, cars and trucks were iced too... walked on the snow clad streets, felt a lil funny to leave the foot trails on the snow! It was a wonderful feeling... felt so happy when the snow flakes were falling on my cap, my scarf... Held out my palms to feel them! 


Ah, watta a wonderful place ;) truely a snow day out!!! :)

Weekend got better finally!!!

Oh My.. My, never felt that a week could go so much heavy all of a sudden... never had felt so heavy before!

I was upset for some reason... none to blame, but somewhere I started feeling sympathetic about myself (which I never ever would wanna feel - but may be the first time I felt so). It was Thursday evening and the guilt poured into me that I would end up spoiling the weekend! I was in two states - the state of Guilt and the state of pain... Some how wanted to get over it!

Friday was all about this : There were lot of questions and things running over my mind! There were lots to analyse, to think and the main n a little hardest part was I never wanted to hold a stand, by sympathizing myself, rather I wanted to reach a state where I had an understanding of the truth... the reality! N just know what was right and what was wrong...N how I was supposed to handle things and react in the best possible way...

Staurday rose up!... I was still trying hard to come over it... was silent in thoughts, never had a heart to speak out... this is the way I am, silence dominates when I am either too angry or in pain... n sometimes a surge thought appeared as if, was it a reality or something in disguise...n ofcourse tears outlined the situation...main reasons were Possessiveness and attachment towards people... but I just cant live without them coz, I am a human.. somehow cant get over these two n I do not want to! 

I could finally come out of the blues...thanks to my husband who helped me out to sort out things...he made me to feel better and breathe easy... Things were settled n yeah the rest of the weekend was mine n literally got better!! :) and now I am all set to start a good week!

Happy week ahd!!! :)