కిరణం

2011-01-15T05:11:00.001-05:00

Sankranthi Shubhakankshalu!

At last Ram Janma Bhoomi gets long awaited judgement - Truth Prevails.!!

2010-09-30T10:36:00.001-04:00

At last Ram Janma Bhoomi long awaited judgement was delivered by three Judges Hon'ble Sibghat Ullah Khan, Hon'ble Sudhir Agarwal and Hon'ble Dharam Veer Sharma of Allahabad High Court!

It is accepted that Ayodhya disputed land is Ram Janma Bhoomi. The masjid built by destructing temple. Hindus get 1/3rd of land and Ram idols stay in the main dome where they originally placed (belong to). Muslims get 1/3rd of land to build their masjid. At last Truth prevails...

Complete judgment can be found at official website of the court @ http://rjbm.nic.in/

Hey Ram... Mera Bharat mahaan!! Jai Hind.. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan...........

One of the best Op-Ed from New York Times

2010-09-13T03:00:00.001-04:00

Just came across this Op-Ed by Thomas L Friedman explaining current state of US emphasizing the value of education and most importantly - values!!

We’re No. 1(1)!

Principles of successful team

2010-01-07T04:30:00.001-05:00

The principles are:

I was at : 5300-5444 Staples Mill Rd, Henrico, VA 23228,

Devudaa.. enduku?

2009-11-08T21:39:00.001-05:00

Naa Jeevitham lo chaala baadhakaramaina sangatana maa priyathama naayakudu.. maa guruvu YSR pramaadham lo mammalni vidichi vellina roju.

Prathi roju.. prathi raathri..prathi vekuva jaamuna YSR gurinchi alochanalu.. aavedhana.. baadha.. emi cheyyaleni nissahaayamaina paristhiti. Devudu enduku intha goramaina nirnyam teesukonnado ani baadha. Okate aathma gosha. Enni vidhaalu ga gunde nibbaram chesukoni dairyam ga munduku podaam anna.. YSR ika manaku leru ane baadha kalichi vestunnadi.

Raastraaniki Jala yagnam dwara projects katti.. anni poorthi aithe.. Raastram pachaaga vuntundi ani asichinaaanu. Avannitini munduku nadipe dikku evaru ika? Polavaram, Pulichinthala, Handri Neeva sujala sravanthi, Velugonda.. inka ennenno projects YSR chetilo poorthi ayyi raastram Subhiksham gaa vuntundi ani enno aasalu pettukonnanu.

Devudaam, YSR meeda enduku intha katina nirnayam teesukoni raastra prajalaku loka naayakunni dooram chesavu?

Maa ayassu tagginchi YSR ki inka konni samvatsaraalu brathikinchi vundochu ga swami?

Nee nirnayaalu artham chesukone shakthi ledu.. Maa guruvu ki emi chesi nivaali arpinchaalo kuda cheppu swami............! Nuvve daari choopinchu..

YSR Zindabad... Congress Zindabad

2009-05-16T18:03:00.002-04:00

Congratulations to people of Andhra Pradesh and Congress party workers for electing YSR and Manmohan Singh for another term!

hmm...

2008-11-16T05:58:00.003-05:00

Chaala rojula taruvaatha blog ni update chestunnanu. Andariki Namaskaram!

Welcome Pennsylvania!

2007-08-17T07:18:00.000-04:00

It is been a long journey since then I started my job at BBBY in New Jersey. I have learned a lot and it was wonderful to be part of dynamic team and most importantly under the leadership of Su. As circumstances and priorities changed, I have to work towards new goals and tried different options.

Learnt few biggest lessons during this process and lost a wonderful opportunity at Cisco. At the same "MS - world wise" interview process ended on a disappointing note. I hope I will not repeat such mistake by putting 100% efforts on a single interview.

Then.. landed up in Philadelphia on an assignment that require none of my skills and my experience and views. Being consultant, that's how this field is and I have to embrace it. Browsing through my favorite rent.com brought me to Pennsylvania! The place I live is really wonderful when compared to NJ. I am confident that our journey will be smooth and we are very happy being a Pennsylvanian!

- V

Punaraagamanam

2007-08-16T22:44:00.000-04:00

Chaannalla taruvaatha malli ee blog dummu duluputunnanu. Kshaminchandi!

Tondarlo oka sarikotha post tho vastanu! Stay tuned!

Winter in new jersey

2007-02-17T10:43:00.000-05:00

Chaala vintha ga chali ga vundi!

Five Principles for Happiness in 2007

2007-01-05T06:04:00.000-05:00

A good article to start 2007 on a positive note!

Five Principles for Happiness in 2007

courtesy: anonymous

Saddam Hussain

2007-01-04T20:30:00.000-05:00

A determinstic ruler hanged brutally .. my deepest sorrows to people of Iraq and the family of Saddam!

A great leader never feared to die at gallows!

May your great soul rest in peace!

Our Times Square Adventure

2007-01-02T08:49:00.000-05:00

We have been to New York Times Square to celebrate New Year. we had lots of fun and had lot of surprises to both of us!

Nuthana Samvatsara Shubhakankshalu

2006-12-31T09:38:00.000-05:00

Oh Nestama,

Nuthana Samvatsara Shubhakankshalu!

Ee nuthana samvatsaram kotha velugu.. nuthana vutshaham nimpi.. chepatte prathi kaaryam neraveraalani asistu...

Oh My Friend,

Wish you and your family a Colorful and Happy New Year 2007

May this new year bring more joy, happiness, prosperity and cherish your dreams!

Setting up IIT in Basar, Adilabad (district), issues we have to face

2006-12-26T00:23:00.000-05:00

Setting up IIT in Basar became an issue and every politician, educationalist talking about it. Initially they might have thought Saraswathi Devi temple sentiment bring the IIT sooner, but looks like they did mistake by choosing that place and controversy now. We group of students have raised same questions during that time and no one listened to us.

Basar is very remote place with no signs of place for higher education. Basar do not have the basic facilities a town consists of. The place barely has two roads, temple complex and some commercial establishments around temple for devotees. Literally it has no scope for development.

Any research oriented institute must have industry connections and access to diversified industry personnel and infrastructure easily and well connected to the city and trend. Some people argue that setting up IIT will prosper the industrial development activity around that place are absolute ridiculous. There are hardly any industries in Basar. The major industries are: Sugar industries near Bodhan and Kamareddy, seed processing facilities and rice, haldi and oil mills. In this corporate economy where quarterly profits are must, no industry is going to be setup in that area that has no natural source of raw materials. Any premier institution being setup must go to places where huge industrialization happening not vice-versa.

Keeping industry connection in mind OU started PG center in Biknoor, Nizamabad (120 KM from Hyd) with MSc chemistry (Sugar Technology) for Sugar Industries connection. It was big failure. OU at one point of decided to close that center because of lack of funds, staff and not many interested students.

It is very hard for students to go and study IIT course and live their all years until they complete their education in a virtually remote area with no social life. I am sure the staff will run away from that place for sure no matter they build a multiplex and shopping complex. It is the driest place in all means. If anyone still argues blindly that the place has scope for development are prejudiced with their mindset. I will give an example of the District head quarters and the situation in that city.

I have studied MCA in Nizamabad for three years and we had tough time even though our college was very good and our management did their best to keep us in the college. I feel people must know the hardships we had faced in the district headquarters itself.

Facts of NZB:

It is a district headquarter
Major business trade hub (haldi, paddy and commodities)
People are highly influenced by Mumbai cosmopolitan culture.
The town is major educational town in the district for Inter and Degree.
Nizamabad have one Engg. college, 4 Degree colleges (1 Govt, 3 Pvt). I guess some more added for each Revenue division recently.
3 PG college (2 pvt, 1 Govt – Biknoor PG center).
It is 31 KM far from Basar.
Single line (meter gauge until end of 2004, now broad gauge) Rly station connects Secunderabad and Mudhked.
1 2 star hotel, around 10 lodges with 50 to 100 beds capacity.. Most of them are badly managed.

Despite economically well developed and trade hub and most importantly district headquarter the challenges we faced are:

No staff to teach computer subjects or any engineering subjects (I heard this from Vijay Engg college guys)
No good library to cater professional students. Every college has a small academic library of their own.
No college book stall for books (you can place pre order and it is damn expensive) and it is monopoly.
Not much of places to spend few minutes peacefully.
No social life except going to movie.
Don’t even get good food even though that place is expensive. For students it is very difficult to survive unless we have our own arrangements.

The bottom line this town is not student friendly.

The hardships we had are:

The college we studied was founded by well settled business family and they spent lot of money in promoting the college and getting the best staff and tried all sorts of methods to retain the staff. We had hard time to get lecturers to teach the computer subjects Osmania University introduced for MCA course for 2000 batch. Every week one new lecturer joins, next Monday we never see him again and in some cases, they continue for a month and jump. We used to complain. College decided to go with guest lecturers and used to spend 100000 Rs to bring guest lecturers for each subject for a week from JNTU and other city colleges providing hotel accommodation and transportation. They used to hate that place for lack of facilities. Since we don’t have good library, our college requested students itself to buy books for library and get reimbursement. Even then we used to feel shortage of books.

Very limited full time staff and they too retired staff used to teach for non computer subjects. Our seniors, juniors and we used to teach for Degree computer subjects and in other institutes/colleges and in our college itself. There were some enthusiasts in computer field who helped Nizamabad to pickup the trend and they helped people to familiarize with it, but they too used to depend on the same staff. Few weeks back I talked to my friend and situation has not changed.

Health care in Nizamabad is good compared to surrounding places. Unfortunately it has reputation of treating patients unprofessionally with unnecessary tests and wrong treatment. The district Govt hospital politics issue still going on because of the private hospitals mushroomed around the district hospital and to siphon patients to private clinics.

Have no parks and facilities to relax out or spend free time. We have one park and it is occupied by beggars and district administration encroached 80% in constructing offices in it. We have a district sports complex ground and it is like gymkhana. The only happening place you see athletes practicing and people jogging around.

You don’t get anything including tea twice a month for any tense situation in the district. Curfew situation appears every time a police or naxal killed in encounter.

Not allowed to go out after 10PM. Public are not supposed to roam on roads without reason beyond 10PM. If you do it, you must prepared with genuine reasons (keep tickets and have any valid proof) and inform your near and dear that you are going out on some specific purpose. (If you are in between 16 to 40 yrs old just to make sure you have some witness in case they don’t believe your words). Town is heavily patrolled during night for safety of the people and they check every bit of it if they found suspicious. Police itself avoid moving in uniform alone and if they do it, they roam in civil dress. If Police want to move around, they must move in groups with another force protecting them all the time. If you go to any tea bunk and police come to have a Tea doesn’t get surprised to see a security party covering the group of police and public from all sides with AK47s.

For any reference books, software or any major stuff we have to run to Hyderabad. You don’t get any assistance in learning or coaching. It is 5 hours journey and costs couple of hundred bucks for return journey. Winter is coldest and Summer is most horrible. This area has huge drinking water crisis in summer (I guess it is common).

We don’t even get Tea also beyond 12 midnight in the town. Only place until midnight we have is opp. rly station. We have been questioned by Police while having midnight chai during exams. In case you don’t get food and everything is closed, drive 15 miles to reach Dichpally NH7 road where you have Punjabi dhabas to serve Chai. From Basar it is 45KM to NH7.

Nearest places of interest are around (up to 100Km) Basar (a temple and bathing ghat on Godavari banks) holi place but still we visit to go and hang out on the banks of Godavari, Pochampad dam (Sriram sagar), Ali Sagar dam, Nizam Sagar dam, Kunthala water falls in Adilabad. All these places are good in winter and rainy season. Tour to Bodhan sugar factory also two hours thing as most of the plant was closed down because of negligence by the government.

This is the situation of Nizamabad and you can imagine situation of Basar now. With IIT campus we can resolve all basic needs, but it is very hard for people to live in four walls to study most reputed courses and spend valuable life in such dry place. Most importantly, even if IIT is setup and sourroundings are developed it may take another 20 years to bring it up to the speed of other IITs. If it is any other metro like Hyderabad, the gap will be less than 5 years. This is one of the key fact we should keep in mind while setting up IIT. BITS Pilani also starting its branch in HYD for the same reason since Hyderabad is good in all means. We must consider all these facts and reconsider setting up IIT near Hyderabad surroundings.

Road conditions in New Jersey

2006-12-19T20:12:00.000-05:00

Everyday I have to drive 20 miles to work of which 5 miles is surface and the rest is GSP (Parkway). I feel sick of the way the surface roads are designed here.

The most frustrating thing about the surface roads are: They are SINGLE lane. If you have one slow bummer or any creepy driver on the road, the whole road is messed up and you face this problem all the way.

What makes me feel sick is: The current roads are wide enough to convert into a double line with little effort. It will help us in moving slow moving cars in right lane and passing cars on the left lane. It eases traffic and never blocks for those who want to move ahead at the pace they wanted to.

Also, the drivers are very rude and impatient in honoring signals. They jump the signal even if it is orange/red and make us delay. They honk as soon as the light turns to Green. How can we accommodate the signal jumpers and the guys behind who keep honking for few seconds while we wait until the intersection is cleared. I am afraid whether it is only me or someone else thinking in the same way? :rolling my eyes:

Monday blues

2006-12-18T21:38:00.000-05:00

Every monday I keep big TO DO list and start very early to work thinking I will finish it by end of the day. To my surprise by end of the day, a new set of items come into my TO DO list and they get finished too very quickly. But my original TO DO list never finishes.

I try my level best to make sure I finish all creepy work by friday and keep myself free for *new* MONDAY. I am afraid, I cannot get such Monday in my current job. :(

Boozu dulupesanu

2006-12-17T16:17:00.000-05:00

Chaala rojula taruvaatha blog boozu dulupe panilo *new* Blogger beta use chesi template update chesanu. Some how felt this new look is cool! Template layout designer chaala cool ga vundi. Ee new tool naa lanti nirakshyaraasudi pani easy ga cheyyadaaniki veelu kalpinchindi.

Telugu Paluku

2006-12-16T21:52:00.000-05:00

With the help of my two other online friends, we put together our thoughts to start a website. The purpose of the website is to share information related to Telugu and provide a community forum to discuss ideas, experiences and things we face in our everyday life.

తెలుగు పలుకు

I am sorry to admit that I am kind of Arambhasurudu (A guy who starts things very fast and never works on it until completion). The site started with lot of enthusiasm. Later everyone of us got busy in life and no updates made to the website. I realized lately that I should spare time on regular basis in updating the website. I have updated the web site today. Hopefully I will continue adding content or at least an useful link/blog to the pages to meet the basic purpose what we have thought of six months ago.

-V

Sorry

2006-12-16T17:38:00.000-05:00

Sorry raa.. this is nth time I could not keep my promise.. to update you every day or atleast once in a week!

Wifey joined me recently. So we are busy settling up ourselves and understanding each other!

keep u updated now on... promise! :)

I am back.. not alone!

2006-09-14T21:45:00.000-04:00

Hi!

I dont know where to start.. days.. weeks.. months passed by since my last post and could not update it. Sorry about it.

During my absence in this blogosphere... so many things happened in my life. The most memorable one is a new person entered into my life! She will be with me forever and we are together forever......!!

My circumstances and a worry used to bother me a lot and made me to go through most critical phases of realization and learning process in my life. This blog itself shows some of the things I could express it out. If this would not have happened I would never realized the value of life. I am very happy that God gave me an oppurtunity to go through it.

During all these days I am graceful to few people and who were with me in every moment of my life and helped me to achieve what I could and supported me all along. They are my friends! Without them in my life, my existance have no value. I pray God every moment to keep us together no matter what comes in our lives.

Was busy

2006-07-01T21:04:00.000-04:00

I was busy last month with lots of work and so much was going on personal front.

Have learnt from another mistake I have done on one of my lowest self esteem point I get into some times. It is not a mistake, it is my weakness that puts me in trouble. I express it out and get into the situation I have been to.

Anyways.. everytime I am learning something big in my life!

pariksha

2006-06-11T15:49:00.000-04:00

Devudu enduku naaku intha pedda pariksha pettadu?

Hammayya!

2006-06-03T08:20:00.000-04:00

Ee roju vaathavaranam chaala baagundi!

Nestama

2006-06-01T06:37:00.000-04:00

Nestama!

Thoughts

2006-05-31T06:17:00.000-04:00

Some thoughts make me crazy and some of them make me so confident.

Tulips

2006-05-28T15:49:00.000-04:00

Tulips
Originally uploaded by vissulife.

My last weekend (6 and 7th of May) in Michigan was spent roaming around as the weather was pretty good. As part of this adventure, I have been to Tulip festival in Holland, MI to see tulip gardens for the first time in my life. Liked so much and some of them are really beautiful.

Here are the pictures I took.

Flickr Album: Tulip Festival!

One week Passed by

2006-05-23T06:48:00.000-04:00

Successfully finished one week in one of the busiest places in US, New Jersey. I could adjust to this place easily. Have missed the route many times, took so many wrong turns and exits so far.. but making progress.

I was worried about the job when I came here. I could see pretty good progress at work. Right from day one, everything is going smooth even though I have given new work which I never did so far. I am confident I can perform this. It is an opportunity to work in full cycle development with 100% environment. I also have my day to day operational stuff to be handled. All I have to do now is to perform. I have been put three months review, so have to prove myself.

My Boss is dynamic and cool person. My friend used to tell and I also believe in that "Working with a good manager is a key factor in growth". I could see that difference. She went through the details I am supposed to do and take ownership of some of the tasks. Whatever I talked to her and other guys when I was here for interview are noted down and asking me to perform. Whenever the issue comes, they are making note of what I spoke during interview. Thank god I did not speak anything stupid which I did not do.

Coming to housing, I am having good time in searching and talking to people. I am getting calls to my AD and getting to know how many kinds of accommodation and situations we have to see in sharing accommodation. I am concerned on this now, since the kind of responses I am getting. I wish I get a good room mate. I went to little India or "Desi Adda" Edison during weekend.. I felt very happy to see so many Indians and people around. Met few people whom I know.. One guy made me crazy while driving.. I should be more careful while driving in New Jersey. The place I live now is very near to Newark Airport.. Here it is more difficult. A single line is treated as double line and people squeeze into it. Getting adjusted to it.

Settling up...

2006-05-18T22:37:00.000-04:00

Getting used to the complex traffic of this new place.. the traffic in this place is so confusing and irritating..Not many people obey traffic laws and the lanes are used it double or single lanes whenever they want.. for guys like me.. it is difficult.. but getting adjusting to it. People complain about LA traffic.. but I learnt that it is one of the best to follow rules and road sense after seeing the way people drive here. Since two days I am doing the same thing otherwise I can not survive.. Hahahahaha :)

I am back

2006-05-16T05:52:00.000-04:00

I am back. :)

So many things happening with me.. I took up a new job and had a very warm welcome at new work place. Keeping the experiences, lessons learnt I am doing my best to perform well and hoping everything works well here in this new place. I pray god that everything goes well in my new work place.

Taata!

2006-05-13T10:27:00.000-04:00

The day has come.. I am leaving Michigan today. Right from the day I moved in here, the weather is pretty different snow fall, rain and everything. Since three days rain is pouring and I had tough time cleaning up apartment, selling furniture, packing and shipping my stuff.

I am going to miss so many things which are become my part of me. I wish I will visit them again if I get a chance.

I wanted to write up a lot on the things I have come across but I dont have time.. so ending it here.

Taaata Michigan!

Free bird

2006-05-12T22:18:00.000-04:00

Now I am free bird..

One of my sorrow is over. I quit the project I have been in to until now. The people I was associated with directly are highly unprofessional, no trust, mean and narrow minded bunch of stupids. It is one of sickest working environment I ever seen. My optimism, open ness, respect to values and ethics become useless in front of this bitching people. I repent for my decision of taking this job after seeing the way things turned out.

As part of this frustration and trauma, I have to resign from my consulting company too to get things straighten up in my career and my decisions I have made that costed me a lot.

I am very happy now that I am starting new career, new life with new hope and spirits.

Full cycle of consulting life

2006-05-11T23:44:00.000-04:00

My full cycle of consulting with H1B and living a life of its own coming to an end. These days are my most challenging and darkest days I ever lived by paying price in terms of my life, money and experince and what not. Anyways I must have to go through this phase of life to understand what are the problems in career and personal life.

things are settling down...

2006-05-10T19:29:00.000-04:00

Today I could make some progress on the crisis.

have to edit blog also..

2006-05-09T21:49:00.000-04:00

will post the edited content later as this is not the right time to do it. :|

Stupidity at its best

2006-05-09T20:10:00.000-04:00

Since then I told my boss that I may have to travel to Canada and to India if possible, he came up with an idea. The idea is to make an Oracle DBA who dont know or ever heard a word of Teradata to a Teradata DBA. It is an idea floated by boss and it is happening now.

They knew I worked in Teradata database internal and server software development and they made a plan to get a DBA at no cost. Fine! Everyone does expect some talent being shared among us and have no issues with it. I told and explained the situation to the folks that it is not a day or two task, he must go through basic training and certification to atleast understand the architecture to be a Teradata professional before he reaches to a DBA level. Without my words, they made him offically a Teradata DBA by themselves and started taking him to meetings without even informing me where I should represent. He know nothing of Teradata but since Boss is helping him out he is on cloud 11 to be in that slot.

I have seen my friends who finished all 6 certifications and still having hard time in doing it on the system. Being a TD master, I find myself challenged when a strategy issues have to be answered since I do not have complete understanding of the system or not encounterd to such domain yet.

When they asked me to train this guy, I told clearly the process and training cycle he must follow to get to that stage. We spent years to understand the architecture and internals to reach this level. He comes to me with all sorts of questions everyday and I explained him.. he thinks if he gets the script and commands he can do better. He do not want to learn anything beyond that, all he want is tips and tricks to get around and make things done. It is a huge data warehouse platform and do people invest this kind of people to manage them?

I am open to explain all my day to day activities (which I already did while leaving to Canada) and basic troubleshooting information. I can not create clone of myself right in a week? I can make him to atleast understand the basic stuff if this is business critical.. but we already have one backup resource who is handling this platform even before I joined the project. So why do you need a second backup when it is not critical?

These stupid smart asses think that if I give out all the code and documents, they are confident that they can handle it without any new resource and feel enough for them for this moment. My co worker is a ***** and she was trying so hard since three months to get every piece of code and command I execute to do my job and keep the system running. When I argued about providing every piece of stuff I do, she made huge fight more than twice. She gone to a level where she took it personal and stopped talking me as earlier. We have three external pieces of tools to deal with and she is directly handling them. She dont even want to give access to them as she is so worried about her job security. Even when it was necessary she just avoided after so many requests and never want to share a bit of information on that part. Why the hell these guys expect from me the same when they dont have attitude of sharing information and work in collbarative environment?

I worked with many teams, individuals and learnt a lot by sharing things across and thats the reason why I am here. I always believed working together and helping each other, sharing information and thoughts will be useful for growth. But if mutual exhange of information is missing, I see no point of doing it and especially the scenario I faced looked so mean to me.

I never seen such stupidity at business critical systems management level. I feel bad for being associated with such team where they dont have basic ethics and professionalism and trust and understanding of professional environment.

I am really paying huge price for my mistake I did 6 months back. :((

My H1 Blues

2006-05-09T19:54:00.000-04:00

Last two days are most stressful days at work. I have been into different situations but not this kind of one ever. When they want to fire us, they do not use any discrimination in giving pink slip right away. Why the hell they make it a huge issue when I want to leave the job for my good? I don't understand this logic.

I submitted resignation to my current job to come out of one of the frustrating and mean work environment I ever come across and to take up my new assignment. Since then I informed folks, everyone is on their toes.

Here are the challenges:

-> A stupid middleman (recruiter who works on % basis) making every effort to keep me on the project for another month. This dumb ass called me and threatening over phone and try to explain the basics of the business and consulting process. He is such dumb ass that least bothered to follow up my paper work with 2nd Sub and not even informed me the start date and details of the client (I came to know that my start date is changed just before I was starting to Lansing. I bought flight tickets and booked hotel before itself. I had to wait in the motel paying from my pocket at the cost of that stupid's mistake). Now he is worried since his % of billing will not come.

-> The 2nd sub tells me that he can pay what ever salary I want and he is promising me good billing rate. What the hell he was doing these many days and where did he get extra billing rate? Does it mean, he is already being paid decent rate by 3rd sub (I could not get the details of how much I am being invoiced by the vendor).

-> 3rd sub never tried to contact me during all this period and now also.

-> The 4th sub/the master contractor to the client( to whom I directly report) going through all means to get his work done which is due on 6/24 and not in this week plan or not even in this month plan yet as far as I know. It was not on plan nor it is not part of the work I supposed to do this month. I really pissed off when they asked me to finish in 3 days/24 hours a month worth of tasks and planning activities for a production release. We don't have any high level design/plan for that. How can they expect me to finish that much work at this moment? It is not a small one. Their plan is to have that stuff in hand and then work on the actual documents and plan to look better to the client. I understand every job role have some business goals to reach and to perform, but they have some limitations and constraints which they should have understood. I felt they took me for granted.

-> My employer HR says he is losing money on me which is stupid. If he is not making enough money why would he accept that rate and put me on payroll?

-> I am not directly associated with client and except I work under their name and their guidelines. Client dont want to know and know nothing about the practices and the way the master contractor does things to look good to the top level bosses.

I understand that in consulting all the above things are common, but the attitude of the people whome I was directly involved made me feel so bad for the kind of work I did in the past 6 months. One painful thing I felt was, they seem to have no trust on me. One best example is: They knew that I can not finish things in 8 hours and I have to connect to office and work from home to finish off pending backup/restore jobs late night. They disabled my VPN yesterday without informing me as soon as I informed them that I resigned from job. Yesterday few things did not work well and our system was slow. I left work in middle to take some break from the headache and went to volunteering. When I tried connecting from home it kicked me out. I have to run back to work without dinner to make sure things went well. My afterhours badge did not work either. :(( Luckily one guy came in from no where (to refill coffee vending machines) and gave access to the office after verifying my ID. I have to work until late night to finish the stuff and have to provide the information he asked for. When I asked my boss about this, he did not admit it was disabled. I know that system very well and they did it. Whom to ask for justice? :(

I thought of providing some basic outline document to help them out and wanted to have a smooth transition. But all these folks made the situation worse and literally put me in stressful situation just to save their ass. Why do I have to face this situation? Why should I help these folks when they are so mean and stupid to me?

I feel like, I did a mistake of taking up this job with 4 layers of sub contracting. I have to accept this job since the new company who processed my H1 is not ready to take me into payroll unless I find project on hand and I can not continue working on L1 after my H1B visa was approved. Since time was running out at that time and other circumstances forced me to take up this one. I was optimistic..but my optimism did not work infront of these people.

Lessons learnt.. endless.. I need time to overcome this situation since it is still going on and I have to get everything done by Friday including my relieving letter and COBRA insurance to make sure I have a health insurance plan from Saturday onwards.

Bangaram Cinema chusanu!

2006-05-06T21:36:00.000-04:00

Raathri volunteering chesaka.. ekkada late avutundo ani direct ga Detroit ki trip vesa Bangaram chuddamani. Friend ni pick chesukoni theatre ki vellam.. tickets konukkoni.. dinner chesi 9:30 show chuddam ani. Velthe 8:00 show inka start kaledu 8:30 kaavastunna. Idedo baavundi ani 8:00 show ki tickets koni movie chusesam.

Hard work tho successful journalist korukone oka yuva journalist ni factionsim tho mudigatti..premanu kalapadaaniki tana laksyaanni tyagam chese charactor lo Pawan Kalyan ni present cheyyalsina story lo director dharani gaaru three hours janalaki himsa chupittaru.. right from the starting frame. 30 mins scene artham ayyindi this is not a movie PK should act or consider. Viewers ni enni rakalu gaa himisinchaalo anni rakaalu try chesaru.. In all departments: hero ni establish cheyyadam lo, comedy, Villanism, Story concept, screen play and what not.. even in songs.. In every aspect of the movie roots to Malayalam extreme comedy, extreme factionism, extreme voilence and unnecessary scenes and sitations. For me it looked as if he do not know the basics of screen play. Overall ga one of the worst movie in Pawan Kalyan's Career. I would not have see such dud movie in my life.

Trip to Hollywood Pictures

2006-05-06T21:32:00.000-04:00

Here are some of the pictures I took during my trip to Hollywood Hills Trekking.

Hollywood Hills Pictures!

flickr

2006-05-06T15:22:00.000-04:00

Today I explored flickr to upload images and I become fan of the flickr instantly. I could upload my Ottawa trip images to flickr. I created a flickr badge and the blog editor is not accepting it.

Here is the link to the picture set:

Ottawa Pictures

Canada Parliament Hall Pictures

2006-05-02T22:18:00.000-04:00

I have taken some pictures of parliament hall of Canada. I am unable to create an album on flickr now.. Will upload them and provide the link soon.

Until then some of the images I liked:

Pokiri Cinema chusanu

2006-04-29T19:43:00.000-04:00

Ninna Detroit lo friend tho kalisi chusanu. Opening day antha crowd ee movie ki leni range lo vacharu. Andarini tosukontu athi kastam meeda theatre loki velthe seatlu kaali ga vunna maa vaallu vunnaru ani samadaanam raavadam tho pakkane vunna bulli tera lo 3rd row lo moola seat sampadinchamu.

Movie ni chaala baga enjoy chesanu.. When Mahesh and Ilena are on the screen we enjoyed a lot. Mahesh action lo maturity kanapadutundi. Choodalsina movie for Mahesh.

my views:

Story lekunda action and love ni mix chesi entertaining ga teesi paresaadu Puri. Voilence ekkuva konni chotla. Comedy track kuda chivariki vegatu pettinchaaru mahaneeyulu.

Ilena stills and songs lo baaga kanapaddadhi. Her histronics in action scenes are not good. Songs are refreshing. Mahesh action is really good. Puri tried some B class (RT style) comedy with him and it did not suit well for Mahesh.

Editing of the movie is big spoiler to the Mahesh action scenes. Graphics athiga vaadesaaru fights ki akkada antha cinema lekunna. Puri should rethink twice while making same genre movies with a different taking. People want new ideas not old wine in new bottle.

Naakaithe trip to Detroit worth anipinchindi..

I am Happy

2006-04-28T16:07:00.000-04:00

Reason: Result of my efforts!

Feelings: Want to cry loud holding my mom or my friend.

Mood: Very happy.

I am back

2006-04-28T08:29:00.000-04:00

I am back. The trip to Toronto was really good. Everything went cool.

More details soon.

Live from Canada

2006-04-26T10:05:00.000-04:00

Posting from Ottawa, the national capitol of Canada.

Good news is my H1B Visa got stamped. I had an appointment at 8:00 AM. I reached little early since I dont know the route to consulate. I was the third person and It took 30 mins in total to go through security, screening and wait time before the window is open for accepting applications.

The visa interview was simple. He asked me since how long I am staying in USA. Later he checked that I have an L1 visa till now. He asked me questions on my previous company and the current employer. Reason for switch and about the technology and client I am working on. Asked me to show the proof of employment and experience letters. After verification, he asked me to pay the fee and come back for reciept. Total time took for interview is less than 5mins.

The weather is awesome (40F). In hurry I did not bring my cold weather clothing since I was enjoying the Michigan spring temparatures of 60s. While walking felt bit of cold.. but used to it.

Feeling: Happy
Mood: Very content

Indians Know How to Get Down!

2006-04-23T10:13:00.000-04:00

I am sure it brings us big laugh if you know how some of us celebrate weekends with co workers or friends in India. I mean those folks dont have much rapport with girls and still try to enjoy most of it.

Check out this Video from google. It is one of such party:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7942583370526412

Looks like guys having a blast pool side in their own world where we can 10:1 boy to girl ratio and still everyone enjoying and dancing to the numbers.

It brought me my first job memories at Satyam being fresher. We used to have Disco every month at Satyam Club, STC. Everytime most of the crowd turnup is of boys. We become groups of 10 and make fun out of it in the middle of the club house. Very few girls used to come and they are being protected by their body guards (boy friends) or else they are more like closed group (only girls) gangs can be seen. Friends those who come with their spouses busy talking to each other and watching us.

Even though we dont have a girl partner for dancing, we enjoyed every moment of it since that was the first time we had exposure to such kind of fantastic music, lights and crowd as single guys anyway have no entrance at city Discotheques at that time. Now I donno.

We used to comment on each other as "Arre yaar? hum 'Gay Disco' mein hai kya?" Hahahahahahahhaa..........

Miles to go before I sleep...

2006-04-22T10:04:00.000-04:00

I was occupied with lot of other crap because of work place horrors and marriage decision and could not concentrate for THE. Today morning I did a recap of what I all I should be prepared and the list goes on..

Time to keep all this away and work on it.

Till then.. Have fun! :)

Is Dell Designers ran out of Idea?

2006-04-21T21:31:00.000-04:00

Now a days the new laptop designs being introduced by Dell sucks bigtime. You take any model they are more or less same design and ergonomics and looks so bulky. When each other competitor building new sleek and light weight laptops with excellent look and feel with little over the price of what Dell is selling. The other brands lack marketing and thorough testing cycle (huge user base) and not able to succeed.

I want to write a huge on note on
-> Dell pricing
-> Dell coupons
-> Dell New laptop brands making us confuse a lot and no resale value or no reliability in terms of a brand name.

I still vote Latitude D600 is the best laptop I ever used from Dell and I prefer to buy it again anytime in the same style it used to come.

What to buy?

2006-04-21T18:45:00.000-04:00

This happens many times to me since then I moved to Lansing. When I shop groceries at Meijer the good deals are available only if I buy food in the largest available measure or in numbers. I am single and I can not stock groceries for months. Even though I can wait until they finish, I hate to see groceries beyond the usage limits and also I dont get oppurtunity to kill my weekend evenings if I dont buy groceries. Everytime I endup buying what I want and sometimes I give up my stand and go for the huge quantity. I waste it anyway at home or some way other. Most of the time I endup paying more than what a family of two pays.

Today I went to buy milk,

the choices I have:

1. quart - 1.39 cents
2. 1/2 Gallon - 1.96 cents
3. 1 Gallon - 1.65 cents

Need: I will be drinking only 5 times (early mornings) in this whole month. Rest of the days I dont have to.

Ended up buying: 1 Gallon.

Wastage: 3/4 gallon go waste by the time the expiry date is reached.

What to pick up?

Beverly Hills and Iranian Culture

2006-04-21T09:17:00.000-04:00

I was reading this article in msnbc and found an interesting note. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12411737/

This note brought me some memories and I want to put down here.

When I was in Los Angeles with NCR, one of the department manager invited us to his house in Beverly Hills, Hollywood. His house is really wonderful place with Irainain culture and art. Every room is decorated with a tradition. He prepared traditional Iranian food and served us. As soon as we entered his house, he welcomed us with Sharbat a juice kind of refreshment (a concentrate made in Iran) and some snacks from Iran. We spent whole day in his house and in Hollywood. We also cooked some Indian food as part of the dinner and spent time over there.

Later evening he tooks us to Irainan market on West LA (I forgot the name, street). It was so crowded and not able to stand there for while since many of them pushing us. The shop truly represents Iran and everything is available in that store for middle east people. He also took us for a guided tour in his car all along Beverly Hills , Hollywood. He shown us all the mansions and consulates of different countries and what not.

Then we trekked to Hollywood hills where the famous "HOLLYWOOD" is installed. That evening was wonderful with many trekkers busy walking with their pets. It was really an amazing trip to the movie capitol.

We took some pictures on that day and I have them in my PHOTO ARCHIVE CD and have to search and upload them for a glimpse of the trip in Pictures. I will do it later in the first week of May.

Work place

2006-04-20T21:25:00.000-04:00

Sometimes it is a huge mess and I hate the people around who make it more complicated to work with unprofessional ways of handling issues and people.

Truth

2006-04-19T23:55:00.000-04:00

Truth is very hard to digest. Just face it.

Discovered something big in my life

2006-04-19T04:35:00.000-04:00

Yesterday two incidents in my personal life made me to know the root cause of the problem I have been facing all these years. It gave me a new insight in mylife to understand new spectrum of life.

I never forget yesterday in my life.

hmmm

2006-04-17T21:59:00.000-04:00

today is hectic day. meeting lo kulla bodichaaru. lessons learnt.. work lo work ledanai edava veshaalu este.. itlane vuntundi

Teja TV chustunna

2006-04-16T21:47:00.000-04:00

Chaannalla taruvaatha Teja TV chustunna.. Telugu ADs chustunte entha navvu vastondo.. I miss my TV days back home! :)

Rang De Basanthi Songs

2006-04-16T19:02:00.000-04:00

Since two weeks I am listening to the RDB songs.

I liked the following songs:

Ek Onkar
Paat Shaala
Tu Bin Bataye

The Film Nagar Story

2006-04-16T06:30:00.000-04:00

http://www.idlebrain.com/news/2000march20/thefilmnagarstory.html

The author was correct in many ways.

This is a normal feature in Film Nagar. The journey from stardom to fall to banishment to comeback to redemption (and the possibility of beginning the cycle anew) shares a common thread: Each stage is newsworthy and attracts eyeballs. A controversial story transforms itself into star-gazing. The entertainment business is not unique in resurrecting the disgraced and exiled. Comebacks abound in every sphere.

If success is defined as the absence of failure, it is a hollow victory. Filmmakers, should be judged on their best work, not their worst. After all, anybody can make a bad movie. But how many can make a great movie? It is just a matter of time before these celebrities will be in the reckoning but what you can notice here is the fickle ways of the industry. You are as good as the last film. And beneath the thick layer of make-up, the actresses suffer from anxiety, strain and emotional fatigue. Sometimes relationships drive them to the verge of death. Ankita, Arthi Agarwal, Gazala all have been lucky enough to survive relationship trauma.

These beautiful and talented ladies with their seemingly foolish act have put a break in their careers and will have to wait till some meaningful project comes their way. Work for them will definitely crop up but another repeat act, its goodbye to cameras. The old adage "Success has many parents but failure is an orphan" is certainly true of Tollywood, where people get triple hernias taking bows for projects that they had nothing to do with. Failure invites introspection, humility and self-awareness. Success can spawn arrogance and the appearance of omnipotence.

In our film industry celebrities often have more difficulty in dealing with success than failure. Part of their problem might be that there are fewer role models for winning than for losing. What's needed is a working environment that recognizes the value of failure in achieving success.

Well said.

This is true in any aspect. Failure gives us an oppurtunity to retrospect ourselves and learn from mistakes. The best thing one can do is: understand and support those who went through such stage.

Subbulu

2006-04-16T06:09:00.000-04:00

Bangaram movie lo chedugudante bayam song vintunna... Ee paata nu ela picturize chesado movie lo.. mundu gaane Pawan Kalyan movie lo songs picturization ni naasanam chestadu. Examples: GS, Balu.

Interview tips

2006-04-15T09:39:00.000-04:00

Stage 1: Preparation
* Re-read your CV/application form
* Prepare questions to ask and to be asked.
* Work out clothes to wear
* Reharse interview
* Anticipate the obvious questions
* Work out a strategy for dealing with stress
* Read vacancy details, employer's literature - what they are and what they want
* Know where the interview will take place

Stage 2: First Impressions Count
* Arrive in good time
* Make a good entrance
* Body language - handshake,posture,eye contact
* smile

Stage 3: The Interview
* Be yourself
* Be honest
* Be prepared to talk - but not too much
Don't be afraid to ask for clarification
* IIlustrate your answers with examples
* Be ready to sell yourself
* Be interesting

Stage 4: The Final Stage
* Know when the interview is over - read employer's body langugage
* Thank him / her for his / her time
* Learn from the experience - ask for feedback if necessary

courtesy/source: unknown.

problem naalona leka vaallalona?

2006-04-14T21:11:00.000-04:00

No matter how good i am people show up their same behavior. Some people dont even know me and they also behaving different. What is going on there?

Anyways.. it depends on how I see it. for time being let us ignore it. :) You know the truth and it does not change your life any manner unless you worry about it.

Failed

2006-04-14T12:16:00.000-04:00

I failed to keep my promise. :|

A new beginning on the cards!

2006-04-12T10:38:00.000-04:00

This thought was going on in my mind since long time. I will update the details once it is materialized.

Tiil then keep guessing!

Misinterpretation

2006-04-11T09:00:00.000-04:00

The problem is my way of communicating things. I think I am doing the correct job by putting a note or message to people and I feel conveyed the right message. It happened yesterday for my "Sorry" note. IT was taken as if I am trying to pity myself or sympathy or what not.

Why I am so dumb in sending across the right message and the time and situation I chose causing more pain rather to clear things off. I dont know how to explain the things and situations to people and I feel I better leave it all and move on.

The lesson learnt was: It is no use to explain the things to someone who do not care about that anymore. Silence is the best solution for all this kind of things.

Could do it!

2006-04-10T17:07:00.000-04:00

It took me so much pain all these days to post there and face that embarrassing moments when some one I avoid or vice versa happens. Just to break the silence and clarify those who dont know what is happening, to respect the feelings of those who are good to me for that moment, I said "Sorry" by explaining what made me to do it and ended it.

I hope I will live upto my words this time and would never get into this kind of situation.

I am bit relieved now!

Retrospection about Discussion boards!

2006-04-08T19:20:00.000-04:00

I must have done this 100 times so far and took so many decisions. Many times I was successful in keeping my words. Atleast I could identify my negatives and did not do that mistakes again. It looks silly to people who know me in this virtual world, but this kind of retrospection made me to lose my natural flow and nativity in my content. I am not able to post as I used to be. Have to think so many times to say something. When I know people around me and about their attitude offline, I am not able to keep the same pace and attitude and openness in responding to them.

Of late, I started avoiding people in a forum I recently started posting. All those folks hanging out there are my ex virtual friends. Many of them I know virtually and some of them personally and some of them electronically (e-mail only). Still I could not talk to them or respond to them as I used to be due to the way they treated me and they took on me. Some of them very rude and behaved stupid with me even though I was so open and explained everything to them.

In the worst note, they created an image which I never wanted to be and I never was in such position. It hurt me so badly and that made me to take such step not to interact with anyone those who could not respect my feelings.

As person with ethics, I should stop visiting that forum. Previously I could do it successfully with another forum where I explored myself in this virtual world and still I am maintaining the same status quo on that regard. But in this case, I could not do it since I want to kill time and also my instincts took me there. I had a very little hope that they must have forgetten my identity and all that. I was totally wrong, the same attitude was continuing and I could not avoid that. I was embarrassed for the way things turned out. One day took a big decision (refer my previous notes) and did not even open for few days. Later on one fine day when I was totally bored at work with NO WORK to do, I opened it again. While browsing, an incident made me to post it again and it continued.

Now I feel like, it is no use to continue in that circumstances there. I need some oppurtunity to make things better to myself and never wanted to visit that URL again.

Waiting for that moment to happen. I will update you when I do that.

I hate

2006-04-03T16:35:00.000-04:00

to see people making crappy statements to save their ass. I hate people being nerd for no reason!

Spending

2006-04-01T09:48:00.000-05:00

I thought I can reduce my spending by noting down each and every expenditure. Looks like I am spending way beyond that.

I should control more and more...

ఉగాది శుబాకాంక్షలు!

2006-03-30T06:40:00.000-05:00

వ్యాయ నామ సంవత్సర శుబాకాంక్షలు!

sick of the DBs

2006-03-29T18:45:00.000-05:00

Hi Raa stupid,

You think of this world will be open for you all the time for your crap. It is not true. realize you dumb head.

anyways, it is enough. shutup your dumb ass and close all the shit related to it from today onwards.

Take this as a challenge for the nuthana samvatsaram lo nuvvu baagu padaali ante cheyyalsina panullo idi kuda okati.

Forget everything happened till now and be happy!

-V

Privacy

2006-03-29T08:13:00.000-05:00

People take things for granted and poke into our lives for no reason. I was trying to be an anonymous in a discussion forum. Some dumb heads dont value that and try to prove they did a great job.

I just hate this sick attitude of people.

missed you so much

2005-12-18T23:10:00.000-05:00

hey buddy,

I have been ignoring you for no reason.. may be i am not feeling comfortable since then. :| Anyways, I am back.

will update soon. :)

Buddhi ponichukoni kukkalu

2005-11-11T08:18:00.000-05:00

Raastra prabutvam Sonia gandhi kaallu pattadam.. aame kosam Andhra prajala aatmaabimaanalni taakattu pettaddam maamule.. Kaani ee paristhiti maree daarunam ga tayarayyindi.. Aame naakuduki limit lekunda.. last week priyatama Telugu natudu NTR gaari meedunna award ki 10 lakshalu levu.. ippudemo oka Cricket stadium ki Rajiv peru pettadam kosam.. 6.5 kotla rupayalu vachesaayi.

Thu deneemma jeevitham.. manaku eppudu vadulutundo ee sani.. Oka congress ni abhimaaniche vyakthi gaa naake siggu chetugaa vundi. :)

Last Friday at Ocean

2005-11-11T07:36:00.000-05:00

This is my last Friday and last 4th working day at my Ocean which I am gonna miss soon. Mixed feelings, emotions. I am sure I will never get this flexibility at work in US. Able to experience all kinds of situations, able to meet and see different faces and many more. I want to think about what are the most important things happened in my life during my days at NCR in terms of work. I pity at my ignorance and my current state of mind that I am not able to recollect all of the major accomplishments I have acheived and compare it. I will recollect and make a note of it by end of the day.

:)

hmmm

2005-11-05T23:05:00.000-05:00

devudu enduko naa meeda enni saarlo.. anni ichinatle ichi.. adah paathalam lo padestaadu. jeevihtam lo ippatiki lekkanennani saarlu ayyindi. ippudu marala ayyindi. anni nee manchike chestadu emo devudu. leka neevu chese paapalaku devudu ee vidham gaa kaksha teerchukontunnadu emo. :|

Happy now!

2005-11-03T11:53:00.000-05:00

Finally things worked out. I found a new opportunity to prove myself. :)

Hmmmmm

2005-11-01T21:49:00.000-05:00

Few things in life settling up.. hope everything goes well. :)

Andhra raastra avatarana.. Deepavali panduga.. ee roju naa interview.. anni okate saari vachayi.

స్వర్ణాంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్‌

2005-11-01T03:00:00.000-05:00

మా తెలుగు తల్లికి మల్లెపూదండ
మా కన్నతల్లికి మంగళారతులు

మా తెలుగు తల్లికి మల్లెపూదండ
మా కన్నతల్లికి మంగళారతులు

కడుపులొ బంగారు కనుచూపులొ కరుణ
చిరునవ్వులొ సిరులు దొరలించు మా తల్లి

మా తెలుగు తల్లికి మల్లెపూదండ
మా కన్నతల్లికి మంగళారతులు

గల గల గోదారి కదలిపోతుంటేను
బిరబిర క్రిష్నమ్మ పరుగులిడుతుంటేను
బంగారు పంటలె పండుతాయి
మురిపాల ముత్యాలు దొరలుతాయి

మా తెలుగు తల్లికి మల్లెపూదండ
మా కన్నతల్లికి మంగళారతులు

అమరావతీ గుహల అపురూప శిల్పాలు
త్యాగయ్య గొంతులొ తారాడు నాదాలు
తిక్కయ్య కలములొ తీఅందనాలు
నిత్యమై నిఖిలమై నిలచివుండెదాక
రుద్రమ్మ భుజశక్తి మల్లమ్మ పతిభక్తి
తిమ్మరుసు ధీయుక్తి క్రిష్నరాయల కీర్తి
మాచెవులు రింగుమని మారుమ్రోగెదాక
నీ ఆటలె ఆడుతాం నీపాటలె పాడుతాం
జై తెలుగు తల్లి
జై తెలుగు తల్లి
జై తెలుగు తల్లి

మనసు

2005-10-31T02:13:00.000-05:00

మనసు పడే కష్టాలు ఏమని చెప్పను!

తొలి తెలుగు ప్రయోగం!!

2005-10-30T12:37:00.000-05:00

రాత్రి పదుకొనెముందు అభి తొ మాట్లాడాను.. అభి బ్లొగ్‌ చెదలు పట్టింధి అని అంటుందగా, ఎప్పటినుండొ మదిలొ మెదులుతున్న తెలుగు లొ పదాలు యెలా వ్రాయలి అన్న విషయాన్ని చెప్పాను. ఈ విషయం చాల సులువు అని ఈ ఫద్మ ట్రాన్స్లెషన్‌ అప్ప్లెట్‌ లింక్‌ ఇచ్చాడు. ఈ లింక్‌, నా తొలి తెలుగు ప్రయోగానికి నాంది పలికింది. ఆభి కి చాలా థన్యవాధాలు.

ఇంక అసలు విషయానికి వద్దాం. మొదటి సారి గా ఎవరి పెరు రాయలి అని అలొచించా.. ఎప్పటిలాగనె (కొత్త పెన్‌ కొంటె మొదటి సారి ఇష్టమైన అమ్మాయి పేరు రాయడం ఇష్టం) ఒక పేరు రాసెద్దం అనుకొన్న.. ఇది ఎవరు చూడకుండ పెపర్‌ కాదుగా చించెసెదానికి.. ఇంకొంచం సేపు అలొచించి నా పేరు టైపు చేశాను.. :) ఈ భ్లొగ్‌ లొ నా పేరు వుండటం కూడ ఇష్టం లేదు. చివరికి నా బ్లొగ్‌ పేరు ''కిరణం'' నా మొదటి తెలుగు పదం అయ్యింది.

ఈ రొజు ఈ తెలుగు పద ప్రయోగం చెయ్యడానికి నాకు 50 నిమిషాలు పట్టింది ఈ విషయాన్ని ఆర్‌ టి యెస్‌ ఫార్మాట్‌ లొ టైపు చెసేటప్పటికి, పదాలు వెతుక్కొవడానికి..

ఇప్పుడు చాలా సంతొషంగా వుంది.. :)

ఇట్లు,
మీ వి

కిరణం

2005-10-30T02:10:00.000-05:00

కిరణం

Kompa munchina "Oka voorilo"

2005-10-29T17:03:00.000-04:00

Ee cinema gurinchi oo tega aatram padipoya... Release ayinappudu screening kuda cheddama annantha buildup icha.. hopes pettukoni.

Ee rojuki partlu partlu gaa finish chesanu. Chee naa meeda kaaki retteyya ani nannu nene tittukonna.. deenikosamena wait chesindi ani.. :angry@self:

Full review next week pedatanu.. ee three days busy...:)

H1 Blues

2005-10-22T17:14:00.000-04:00

First lessson learnt: 1. Never believe in people words. Handle it electronically or on paper.

keep you posted.

March 4th 2005

2005-09-24T13:38:00.000-04:00

I told few things about myself to my friend.

Few quotes I saved from friends!

2005-09-24T13:31:00.000-04:00

This one I read it many times when I get confused about friends:

Few of us are unlucky in friendship ...and are even punished for being too loyal....nothing really pays off in friendship..its a puzzle.

You lose few and you win a few....but yes its certain you never win the one you really want to win...

But life goes on, right!!!!

Source: Unknown

Another one:

Success has many relatives but failure only has many excuses antaru mama.

Source: Unknown

Another one from Hema.

Well life is what I am taking it into.

Life getting tough

2005-09-23T02:27:00.000-04:00

Looks like this week onwards.. I am getting into another phase of life. Job search.
It is almost 5 years back I had prepared for job interview. Now again and in a new environment US. I have to work 1000% hard to make things work atleast look GOOD. I am not even spending 50% of that 1000% now. Have to keep the goddamn things in my mind aside and move on to the challenge infront of me now.

Have to work hard now on. Time is running out and have to make lot of things in this short timeframe. All these issues will keep me engaged and make my life tough. But this is the hightime to get on to it and let things move on!

Miles to go before I sleep... Miles to go before I sleep!

Good night!

- V

My hello world blog!

2005-09-19T02:50:00.000-04:00

During my initial days of blogging with lots of enthu..started the Hello World! blog in Vedana . Vedana a Telugu word means "Expression of one's self". I used to blog under this title most of the time. Some how I did not continue blogging there. I dont know the reasons, but I was unable to express myself.

Later few more came up during the same period with my ID influence in BT, named: Tuntari and tuntarievent . I put down few thoughts in here also.

Finally I ended up with Kiranam. For this moment I settled with this and I liked it very much. Since I dont want to lose any of my old ones, took a small task of linking them to this blog. Forgot the HTML code learnt in my MCA days while learning Java, JSP, Java Servlets and SWING. Have to depend on google to create links such that they open in new window.

Here is the resource I found useful: Advanced HTML Tutorials .

Have to experiment few more and make this one my virtual home. Thats all for this weekend. I learnt few things, able to finish the linking task. Got to get up early and start a hectic week ahead.

Good night! :sleep:

Choodalani vundi views

2005-09-19T01:51:00.000-04:00

Cinema lo pedda story lekunna.. Chiranjeevi action, mannersims, Anjalaseneous beauty, Soundarya classic action in drama and innocent character, Excellent music by Manisharma made me to glue to TV and to the computer to finish 90% of the movie.

The songs brought my MCA days hostel memories.. where I turn off lights and listen to this movie songs everyday with lots of damn things going on in my mind with a hope that someday I get good things in mylife. God did not disappoint me.. he shown the taste of it. Love.. has enormous power and it is one of the sweetest things in life. I have not encountered a love of my life so far.. but so far what I have been felt, expereinced and shown on me is memorable in my life. I never forget about it.

Damn.. become nostalgic about my expressions of life - Love. But it is true.

Simply enjoyed watching this movie and wanted watch these songs until next Saturday almost daily since DVD will be in my possession whole week.

So will finish rest of the 10% movie some time over the week.

Got to have dinner and lots of stuff to read now.

Taata! -V

Chooodalani vundi!

2005-09-18T13:26:00.000-04:00

Movie choostunna... Chiru rocks in this movie.. Manisharma Music kuda chaala baavundi...

sye update

2005-09-18T13:23:00.000-04:00

could finish only more than half part as my friend have it upto that part.

movie is totally a college backdrop story with nothing related college as such.. madyalo stupid murder scenes including the startign one..pure crap..

first song is fine.. based on normal things we see they penned down lyrics. nice idea. :)

rest of the movie is crappy drama to bring richness, colors to the movie... i did not like it. :)

anyways.. a time pass one!

Sye

2005-09-17T20:39:00.000-04:00

Sye cinema choostunna...

Ento cinemalu college ni intha ultra posh level lo choopinchadam nerchukonnaru... Deenikena mana Telugu vaallu Hollywood level creative Telugu director ani Rajamouli ni decide chesaru. Karma raa babu!

Ruthuraagalu fame Hero mother gaa kummestondi...

more to follow!

mr. and mrs. krishnamurthy

2005-09-11T00:49:00.000-04:00

movie choostunna!

Nuvve Nuvve choostunna

2005-09-05T13:34:00.000-04:00

A master piece to prove love... :)

thoughts...

2005-09-04T13:26:00.000-04:00

boundaryless....

Siva Putrudu views!

2005-09-02T19:42:00.000-04:00

Ee madya kaalam lo ituvanti extreme characters meeda teesina cinema chooddam ide modatidi anukonta.

Right from the starting frame to end of Movie characters ki elanti hungulu lekunda vaati paathra poshinchi vellipoyinatlu hungulu aarbaataalu lekunda teesadu cinemani.

Vikraman action: Animal insticts tho behave cheyyadame kastam.. alantidi tanakichina oka amayakapu kaati kaapari.. veshaanni.. aa instincts ni kalagalipi cinema motham (nadaka, choopu, maatalu and haava bhaavalu) ade shaili lo chesi.. chesi meppinchaadu.. Really one of the wonderful master peice I have seen so far.

Surya: Mosaalu chesukontu batikese oka vilakshanamaina character (ilanti vaallu TN/parts of Chittoor lo ekkuva) ni 100% justify chesi... Sidda lo maarpu teppinchagaligina oka character gaa.. chaala baaga chesadu.. his episodes with Laila is one of the best.

Laila: I had a different opinion all together on this actress after watching Ugadi, Egire paavurama?? (JD chakri and nirmalllamma fame) movies. But after seeing this movie I changed the opinion her action in the visting room in jail, at her house with Surya and when he was beaten to death and aftermath is the best emo.

Sangeetha: Wow.. another excellent performance.. Oka orphan lady gaa... Siddu ki companion gaa chaala baaga meppinchindi.

Simran: Ee episode comedy ni pandichadaaniki include chesaru kaani.. still she did well and brought lots of humor with Peradi song all of them were nice beats.. so kick vachindi song ki.

Ilayaraja: chaaala soothing music ni pakshula sounds ni.. tragic, sad, voilent scenes lo istu... adoka feeling ni induce chesadu emo anipistundi. the song chirugaali veechene..kuda chaala baagundi.

Direction: Oka baahya prapancham tho sambandam leni character ni drustilo pettukoni kuda..inni different characters ni mix chestu antha extra ordinary screen play ichi.. oka master peice chesinanduku really hats off to him..

Oka perfect characterization ki oka extraordinary screen play and wonderful music ni.. veeetanniki ee maatram teesi pokunda andaru paathralu (Vikraman, surya, laila and sangeetha) their career best performances ni ichi.. motham cinema ni.. "Na bhuto na bhavisyati" anipincharu.

Really a wonderful movie.. in my view foriegn category lo Oscar performances ki teesiponatlu gaa vundi cinema

Few negatives are:
1. In few cases unnecessary conversation and prolonged scenes will irritate viewers and does not make sense to people.

2. Too much of characterization may not be liked by people and in few instances it brings -ve impact in the movie. Espcially Siddhu action in Jail is kind of routine torture and fights shown again and again.

3. Fights should have avoided further and length of each fight should have cut down by half.

A week Passed by

2005-09-02T19:39:00.000-04:00

A hectic week to be specific horrible week is just finished. Dont know what I did... but did lots of things which are useful, fine and not bad and bad.

Anyways, able to identify few things in life which are important to me. Have to work on them without fail. Will let you know the results.

-v

Ee Vaaram Cinemalu!

2005-08-28T13:17:00.000-04:00

Ee vaaram cinema project lo baagam gaa "Leela Mahal Center" mariyu "Siva Putrudu" choosanu.

Views tondarlo post chesta.

-v

Athadu Cinema views

2005-08-23T18:58:00.000-04:00

The movie starts off on a simple note a boy killing a local Goonda, running away from the scene, settling up with another Goonda and helping him in a Bank robbery and become hero in saving his Malik. Out of all these incidents "Athadu" is born… titles are rolled up along with Athadu title song. PERIOD.

The story revolves around the Hero taking up an assignment to kill a politician, the mission failure, how Hero escapes from the scene, getting into *new* character with an extraordinary twist, living in the new character in all together a different world with lots of fun and frolic by a mischievous girl playing the lead role, police running after him, the drama of the police in their investigation, back home adventures by the new character with old friends, people in the locality, flashbacks and loads of romance by the lead pair and *so called comedy* and what not. Overall mix of many strands to make a thread called "Athadu" a plot with lots of unanswered questions in its completeness. The formula worked well since no one bothered about the completeness, everyone looked at the performances of lead roles, music and the screen play.

Ink performances ki vaste:

Story: Story was tailor made to the Hero and added masala kind of family back drop and songs to the movie. After finished watching, questions arise in my mind that are not explained by director:
1. Why the Boy kills the Goonda in the first place?
2. Why no one in the family is being questioned Mahesh when he beats up all the goons of Tanikella. Where was the Police and His grand pa?
3. In the train Shivaji and Mahesh sitting in front of each other, how come the missing photo of the other is still posted there?
4. Why Kota not bothered about the money he shed for the initial plot and the way he handled the whole issue?
5. Why he chose Church to kill his friend? Don’t he have some kind of respect for places of worship?
6. When a killer had a plot to kill a political leader, he walked away without any hassle just because he is a professional killer and not triggered the bullet? wow..???%%$4## wait a sec….yeah ...you can walk away.

Screen play: It is a kind of screenplay concentrated only on a single point "Athadu". Director created everything around to it and Hero did not discourage him and utilized the extra push given in the form of tight screen play around the both the characters he was involved in. In this aspect, Trivikram succeeded and it is the unique selling point of the movie. Rest of the characters Trisha, her family, comedians are seem to part of the story did not add much energy to the plot except little bit romance by Trisha.

Direction: Trivikram taking of an action film is really impressive. I must say director did well in bits and pieces and overall he lacked the consistency in showing energy and tempo in scenes involving Mahesh and when it was mixed with other regular frames. This can be seen clearly when he is trying to interchange the frames that involved action and family drama & comedy.
Director wanted to show Hollywood style fights by involving lot of cameras and high definition lenses to capture 10000 frames per second to get the slow motion of bullet path. He forgot one basic thing, the amount of energy and technology used for such a simple incident is totally unnecessary and the place chose (church) to execute is an absurd to me. This kind of things will increase the cost of the movie, nothing else.

Use of graphics may add value to the scenes, they should have limited to few scenes. Throughout the movie director depended on graphics to get effectiveness. It looks foolish to me depend on them heavily. Fights are executed well. For Mahesh it worked well and the Matrix fights came well since they hired an outsider.

Family, comedy and sentiment scenes Trivikram excelled in it and nothing to point out as such.

Camera:
It is one of the nice camera work done by the cameramen in many situations. In few instances, camera work become useless because of indiscriminate use of graphics even though it is not required.

Choreography and songs pasteurization:
Title song placement is really a dumb decision. Director should have used the song background for the frames where song is actually rolled and actual song should have been casted later when he want to show off Athadu. He failed in this aspect by showing it in two parts.
"Pillagaali allari" song is a good. "Pilichina raanantava" is nice creation and my vote goes to this one and next title song (but I was disappointed the way it shown in the movie). Dances composition for Pilichina raanantava and Pillagaali allari is good.
Except these, the other songs picturization is not up to the mark. The costumes, the production values and the quality of the frames for these songs are below par. Aa songs appudu film ee 10years mundo teesinantha worst quality maintain chesadu in costumes, poor graphics and sub par camera movements.. They lacked light, crispiness and tempo of the beats. Trivikram failed here.

Music: Manisharma gave good music to the movie. Back ground score is good in few instances. But not that appealing. I liked Audio of Athadu title song followed by Pillagaali and pilichina raanantava… A good album from him.

Mahesh:
He ruled the movie single handedly in the Nandu character and off course in Parthu too as a lover boy and angry young man. His histrionics improved a lot from his previous movies in expression of love, anger and seriousness. Kudos to his excellent performance.

Trisha:
I did not find anything extra ordinary for this girl in this movie. Mischievous and jovial all the way and did well. Not an MS Raju movie to show off.

Sunil and other actors: Sunil, Brahmam and all performed good in their limits. Kota, Shiyaji shinde, Prakash Raj, Nazar performed well.

Few instances where I liked, Mahesh excelled in performance:

-> Killing Old city goonda in day light busy day
-> Mahesh conversation with Kota both the times
-> Scenes involving Tanikella, Brahmaji
-> Scenes with Trisha when expressing love saying "Nuvvu talupu ela terchukontundi ani atu vaipu vechi vunnavu, nenu talupu eppudu teruchukontundi ani itu vaipu vechi vunna" is really good. Scene involving romeos and Trisha, getting angry on Trisha
-> His complex expressions to people throughout the movie is simply superb

Few things I did not liked:

-> The screen play would have been more tight and too much interference of family related scenes would have made this film better.
-> The suspense of the film director wanted to maintain throughout the movie was grossly uncovered by the director itself in the frame where things are happening. It looks foolish to me.
-> The matrix fight is unnecessary including the location it was picturized. May be director want to get the effects of an old building washing away with bullets. But it should have done it differently.
-> Title song placement is absurd to me and few songs picturization is sub par.

Overall the movie is very good and can be watch able for Mahesh action, Trivikram taking and Manisharma music.

i am back - i am happy now.

2005-08-21T13:21:00.000-04:00

As I used to worry about my friend.. is still a friend.. still a puzzle... Now, whenever we communicate.. she leaves a note.. which I can understand better.

In this journey, now I am happy since I learnt from mistakes and become strong rather I used to worry, feel sad about it. lot of change.. isn't it? :) A memorable one ever seen my life.

few answers

2005-08-21T10:26:00.000-04:00

this kind of obsession can be controlled when u feel confident that ur loved ones also in the same boat and have nothing to worry on that part ani comfort chesukonnappudu.

Athadu movie choosanu!

2005-08-20T05:08:00.000-04:00

Just back from Athadu movie. Watched with friends in Laguna hills driving all the way in my new VW Jetta... the drive was smooth. Movie was good and it is a different one. Will post views later on this movie.

Also met two ex Satyam friends over there.

eyes are closing... good night.

- v