tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70555712011-04-21T18:06:33.985-07:00The Onlooker BlogVinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1142807041207957482006-03-19T14:21:00.000-08:002006-03-19T14:24:44.976-08:00

Four Sony QRIO robots are enjoying their synchronized dance on stage.Classic video ! Don't miss it.

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Steel structure - 5 Originally uploaded by kgvinayak.Check out the streetlight on the left. It brings that added zing to the picture.

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Hello guys,These days, work at office at one hand gives me the job satisfaction I always wanted, and on the other hand drains my energy out and forces me to postpone my blog posts. Today I've managed to post something that I compiled couple of weeks back. This is NO FORWARD. This is original but you know, I bet you've heard this if you are into IT.Technical problem? think out of the box, I am

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Okay, now I shall park the 'privacy' topic for some time to be taken up later.Moving ahead with the original topic, few intersting comparisons come to my mind. Not that I didn't know them before I came here. Its nice to jot them down.India: You always get confused whether its 'PULL' to enter or 'PUSH' to enter through a door.America: 'PULL' to enter, 'PUSH' to exit.India: Press down an electric

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Over the last few days, I have been pondering over many a random thoughts on the same old topic -What makes a Desi migrate to US? The simple answer is Money, dollars. If you go a little further, its comfort, basic infrastructure and lifestyle.So what else a true Desi needs? The simple answer is his home. We don't have homes here. They are houses, well most of them I guess. Just like the present

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Light during daylight Originally uploaded by kgVinayak.Light during daylight on a cold sunny sunday afternoon.Look at the angle the glass lamp has bent. That made this picture more interesting.Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)Aperture: f/3.7Focal Length: 14.2 mm

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One nice article...Why What's Good for India Is Good for Us: The Naked Economist - Yahoo! Finance

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Interesting piece of text on self-esteem. Thought would share with you all..Self-esteem is a major key to success in life. The development of a positive self-concept or healthy self-esteem is extremely important to the happiness and success of people. Self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves, and our behavior clearly reflects those feelings. Low self-esteem keeps you from enjoying life, doing

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Walkway lightOriginally uploaded by Colorage. Walkway light on the wall.Manual exposure ONExposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)Aperture: f/3.3Focal Length: 11.3 mmCategory : Lights

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I like Arun's work a lot. I think he is getting to mastering basic, simple but beautiful photographing with his favourite objects, mints. Take a look at those mints.And now he has inspired me to do something about 'my favourite objects', flowers and lights. I am going to follow Arun and form a collection at this blog. The first one goes in my next post. In the process, I am sure I am going to

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"It's not difficult to make every day a happy one."Resolve to do the following:I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. I will remember that the busier I am, the less harm I am apt to suffer, the tastier will be my food, the sweeter my sleep, and the better satisfied I will be with my place in the world.I will free myself today from slavery to the

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A small new chapter has begun in my life. A new place, new job and working with new people. Looking forward to a pleasant stay. Henceforth the posts will be regular, I promise. Check back soon.

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Yes I've quit my job. I've been working for this company for last 3 years and I've had tremendous opportunities for me, all the time teaching me lessons that I could take forward in my career. I am so much benifited from observing leaders, technocrats, visionaries and architects. A very keen observation is one thing that I could manage to learn while working in this company. This job saw lots of

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[STRICTLY FOR HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS] In schools, we studied history as it was taught in books. History books always started off with stone age, bronze age, harappa mohenjodaro civilizations, kings empires, invaders, british, freedom struggle, freedom, 5 yr plans and over to civics. Now I believe that, the first few subjects in this list, didn't look too convincing and need more depth to find the

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I few weeks ago, Arjun pinged me with some meme of jotting down 20 things about myself. I just couldn't do it due to lack of time. Now I present a survey taken by me about myself which should cater to the meme as well though not closely.TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName:VinBirthday:08th AprilBirthplace:A town from coastal KarnatakaCurrent Location:BangaloreEye Color:BlackHair Color:

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I was watching the TV and I hear about the Wilma affected areas in the United States. On CNN, I watch the horror unveil itself in a recorded footage of the nature's fury. I have no words to express the sadness, the sorrow at the destruction, anger at the situational robbers who take advantage and loot innocent people. I sit in silence, trying not to imagine the misery.After a while, I read the

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I am not a big fan of the "Atlantis" theory. But I believe in the "Mother culture" which might have given rise to so many civilizations that we know of. We are not sure until we get some solid evidence. So far its yet treated as ancient civilization.Couple of weeks ago, at Landmark bookstore, I came across this novel "Raising Atlantis" by Thomas Greanias and after going through the back panel, I

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In the 3rd week of July, 2005, I was seen catching up with the California sun with my little digital camera at Newport beach, California. It was not too windy, certainly cloudy and people walking with their doggies, people cycling on the beachside road could be seen. It was pleasant.If not the sun, check out the Newport pier (Google maps) on which I stood face to face with a brilliant sunset.

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This is an index of movies I've seen. I update this page, after I watch every movie. (:: Since October 2005)17/03/2006 - Parameshi Prema Prasanga (Kannada) - Rating: ***Cast: Ramesh Bhat, Arundhati Nag, Shankar nag, Anant nag, Master Manjunath.Direction: Ramesh BhatSynposis: Sansara tapatraya, a husaband and a wife, kid, a bet, tears, happy ending.Pros: Good performance by leadsCons: Some

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If you are like me, you don't like to eat outside. I like homemade food to eating at a restaurant anyday. We often don't find recipes to cook home made food. We've got loads of them on different cookery sites but I still didn't find any which has recipes to home made food, especially the one I like. Konkani food. Not essentially Goan. But Konkani's who are spread across mainly on west coast of

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Continuing my previous thoughts on "Significance of language in future", this post. Strictly for argument's sake, I am talking about kannada language here and then come to the point. Read on. (many of you might know this)Kannada...is the third oldest language of India. ( After . . Sanskrit & Tamil ) is as old as 2000 years. is 99.99% perfect - logically and scientifically. kannadigas got 7 Gnana

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I've talked about this before, but just to rearrange thoughts again, I wanted to know what others feel about "significance of language" not today, nor tomorrow but 25 years down the line. Over the years we have seen how we have englishised every indian language from hindi, marathi to konkani, tamil, kannada. Now a common educated person uses english nouns all the while, only the verbs will tell

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Its the 60s. A lady is living in a small town. She has a son and a married daughter. Coming from a very poor family, for them its enough to have "do waqt ki roti/chawal/kapda and makan" (Food twice a day, shelter and cloth). The lady used to do one thing every month without fail. Her son who worked in a hotel, used to bring her some very small amount of money. I guess it was less than 20-30 Rs a

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During my engineering days, the beginning of thrid year, fifth semester. I had to move from my anti-hostel position to a pro-hostel one. It was not because I loved the hostel environ so much. It was friendship. Just a clean, sincere, and nicest friendship. My friend was and is one of my achievements during my college times. Let's call him "Dekta". Because of Dekta, I was fortunate enough to have

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I've read several English novels by now. My reading has seen more of my time in the last two years. Thanks to the sleep I get while I finish close to 10 pages a day. Recently got an email forwarded from a friend which had a prologue of a novel called "One night @ the call center". The title was catchy but nothing great. I moved on to read the prologue and was so impressed that I went on to buy

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From Majestic, we had to carry some luggage and ourselves to Jayanagar. The auto guy demanded Rs.150. I said I'll pay whatever the meter charges + Rs.10. He kept arguing. Came down to Rs.100. Still argument continues. I almost shout at him. He still continues. Now Rs.80. I am tired, I get off the auto. He continues and I get back in looking more tired. He continues with his plead for Rs.80. I say

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This is awesome, Google has done gr8 work on GD 2. Nothing new though. We had Dashboard of Apple, Konfabulator of yahoo. But right now I love the useability of the Google Desktop 'sidebar'. Its good.I was disappointed with earlier Google Desktop Search (GDS). Now with the sidebar GD 2 simply rocks. However one major problem. I am behind a proxy, So... No News, No Stocks, No What's hot, No Web

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This is amazing piece of work. The Bus Monster makes use of Google Maps, King County Trip Planner, and UW ITS and gives you bus routes, timings, traffic conditions and more. This is one of the many ways you can make use of Google Maps. They are world's eighth tech wonder anyway.In the Bus Stops section, type in an address, intersection, or landmark to find bus stops near that location. In the

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What happens when a public TV news channel sensationalizes a private affair of a public figure? It tarnishes the image of that public figure for whatever reason. It is a complete intrusion into one's private affairs by a well known TV channel. It is against any moral ethos of journalism. It is journalism to telecast a story of a public figure. But its completely unfair and uncivilized to "

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Last friday on the day of the much hyped, much awaited "Mangal Pandey - The Rising"'s release, we went out to watch it on the very first day itself. I couldn't wait any longer. Coz if I wait I would never be able to watch it, and the interest would die down. Contrary to all the opinions, critic reviews, I think the movie is exceptional. Aamir and Toby's performances being the highlights. The sets

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After I read this post on "Google blog", I though let me try this phrase on Google."Bangalore is the * capital of India" and voila I got the following answers (in order of appearance).Bangalore is the Ham capital of India (Ham???)Bangalore is the dance capital of IndiaBangalore is the IT capital of IndiaBangalore is the yuppie capital of India (yuppiee??)Bangalore is the technology capital of

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Awrrite guys, was home and away for the last few weeks. On and off its been the feature of this blog to go in for a blogbreak, no matter how hard I try to keep it buzzing. Anyways this time the reason is a bit different from the usual "I was too busy" thingie. I had to travel to US on a short assignment and though I was on the internet, it kept me away from blogging for some reason. Instead I

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This is the lovely stick insect we met up with on the way to our trek to Hebbe falls, near KemmanGundi. The trek was the most memorable I ever had. Previously the trek to karikanammana gudda (Near kumta) in my school days was the best. That means I never did real trekking after that.

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This is the beautiful yet scary error that appears when you try to do too many things with Lotus notes, I agree I can't reproduce it, but I've seen this monster many a times. Beautiful, isn't it? If you've read one of my previous post (last yr) I guess you would know how much I "Love" lotus notes. hmm...

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What is meaningful cinema?* Hero, heroine meet, Poor guy-richa girl. Rich guy-poor girl. Fall in love, duets and want to get married. Parents/Brothers/Some relatives reject the proposal, Solos. Then hero ........ heroine ......... (fill in the blanks with whatever they can do). Parents/Brothers/Some relatives get convinced. Happy ending/Hero-heroine die-Sad ending.* Everyone from hero to villain

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Anyone can be cool. But how do you keep cool? For this purpose, I offer to you, the “What-Would-Travolta-Do” method. Developed after years of research, I find that this works much better than the competing “What-Would-Jesus-Do” and “Who-Would-Madonna-Do” methods.(via Kingsley)Read more on Kingsley's blog.PS: This is an amazing method to keep cool I would imagine. I would share my experience with

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In the past couple of years, I've seen so many hoardings of politicians either asking for votes or acknowledging the coming of their leader put up all over Bangalore. With plastic screen printing. But one thing to notice that was common for almost all of them was that all the figures (politicians) featured, held a mobile in their hands attached to their ear. Okay, fine..but why is this necessary?

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I got a helmet that I am using since about 3 years now. I recently changed the front glass cover. I am planning to change its inner lining as well. I don't want to buy a new helmet and abandon this one, just like that. But even after I change the inner lining, it'll get dirty after few months. I am not sure how to clean this inner lining effectively. I had it cleaned with a cloth few times. But I

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When I was a kid, I always used to like to sit on the front seats of car, auto, tempo, scooter, bike, cabin in trucks and lorries. It used to be fun to be seated beside the driver, watch him changing gears, moving steering. Watch the road from the wind shield, just for the thrills of it. Sometimes I used to feel like I am driving. I guess this is true with most of the kids. They hate being back

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Just was pondering over a thought yesterday. Jotting it down here so that I don't forget what I've been pondering over.In today's high-tech era what's the common language people are using? Undoubtedly English. People are ashamed of when they talk in any other language other than English. Its a symbol of being knowledgeable, modern, educated and commendable. Its a fashion statement. There are also

Vinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1118130041598510202005-06-07T00:40:00.001-07:002005-06-07T00:40:41.603-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Aeroplane crossing, originally uploaded by Colorage. We have heard about railway crossing or bus crossing or even shipcrossing under the bridges. But have you ever heard about aero planecrossing?????See the

Vinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1118130009058405922005-06-07T00:40:00.000-07:002005-06-07T00:40:09.063-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hebbe falls, originally uploaded by Colorage. This is an amazing place. Hebbe falls near KemmanGundi, requires a trek of about 10kms (Steep 70-80 degrees decline included). A perfect falls amidst the serene

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On Sunday, we friends atlast started out for a trip to Mekedaatu (98kms south of Bangalore) which turned out to be a Looong drive and beautiful sceneries. It was a long pending outing we had in mind. But we made it.Important notes:1. Quite unscheduled we visited this place called Vishranti Dhama, 30 kms from Bangalore on Kanakapura road. Has a 45 ft Ganesha statue, Venkatesha temple, Resort like

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Its been reaaaal long I blogged about anything. Motivation and time can be attributed to this. Meanwhile just to give you an update, here are the highlights I can put if you ask me what's up with you, your interests, happening, movies etc.Not in any order.1. Travelled around Kemmangundi (a hill station), went trekking to Hebbe falls - quite a skill.2. Visited Belur and Halebid, the historical

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This I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. - Swami Vivekananda

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Yeah I was byuzyyyy... but I am back. You'll see more of me writing.

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Out of sheer excitement with Google Maps, I sent out this suggestion to Google Maps team. And never expected a reply, that too in a matter of hours. This is what makes Google, what it is.Hi Vin,Thank you for the praise and for your message. Currently, Google Maps onlysearches locations in the United States and parts of Canada. However, welook forward to expanding this service to other parts of

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This was sent out to a few friends of mine couple of months ago. Just making it public here so that more people can read it.The following is a text of someone who is capable of casting his shadow of fear on small people like us who live in blore. So...Coming to the question of Dharshan tugudeep, I have to share some more info about him. He is The star who is way above any of his contemporaries.

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Random FAQ - Q1Random FAQ is about anything based upon my understanding. This is subjected to time and external influences. The understanding can change over a period of time owing to various reasons. Read at your own risk.1. What is the purpose of creation of life on earth?There is no purpose. Its as random as Math.rand() function. It just got created out of the matter. Finding a reason for this

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Watched "Black" yesterday. For 2 hours watched it without a blink. I was really amazed by Amitabh's acting skills. In my view this is the best performance of his career. Ofcourse Rani is good too. But the teacher has really got into the character's skin and performed. Then there is the little Michelle who steals the show during the first half. I expected a better background score. It was okay,

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This falls is one of the best I've ever seen. Much better a view than Jog falls. No tourist eminities or lack of tourism development has taken away the due recognition this nature's masterpiece needs.Posted by Hello

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This has been the longest break for Avlokana in recent past. Almost a month. Mann...why is the internet so not accessible to me? Anywaz.. that was one of the reason why I am unable to write something. It was my routine. It hardly took me 10 - 15 minutes a day to pen down certain somethings and mind you it was a good habbit. A very good one. But they are trying to take it away. Okay now I wont let

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The last few weeks have been very hectic personally and work wise. So fat I've managed to cope with the pressure. Willing to do so for the future as well. Meanwhile friday night's have been hectic too. Reason: Watching movies in cinema hall. We have a theatre near by and on most friday nights we are there unless the movie isn't exciting. Watched Kisna. What a waste of efforts. Nothing strikes a

Vinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1105162440838393812005-01-07T21:05:00.000-08:002005-01-07T21:49:09.963-08:00

Well its a new year again. A new year ahead, new dreams in eyes. A new way of looking at things? well I wanna do that. That's the resolution. Last couple of months passed like a couple of weeks with literally no time to sit back, relax and mow down the pitch of thoughts and memory lane to come up with something substantial on this blog. You need time and energy both to come up with something

Vinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1103563880901754532004-12-20T09:28:00.000-08:002004-12-20T09:32:38.883-08:00

A poor boy yells "pachhees paise ..paani lo paani" at a train station. Mohan looks at him and feels for the boy, with his expressive eyes. Buys a lota of paani and gives him the money. This particular scene is shot so effectively and acted by SRK so brilliantly that I could connect to many similar situations in my own life. It was almost being in Mohan’s shoes. Ashutosh has made another

Vinnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1102388432893587972004-12-06T18:57:00.000-08:002004-12-06T19:00:32.893-08:00

Ek din jab savere savere surmayi si andher ki chadhar hatha ke ek parbat ke takiye se suraj ne sar jo uthaya toh dekha... dil ki waadi mein chahat ka mousam hain.. aur yaadon ki daaliyon parr.. unginat beete lamhon ki kaliyaan... mehekne lagi hain.. ankahi ansuni arzoo.. aadhi soyi bhi..aadhi jaagi bhi.. aankhein malte huve dekhti hai.. lehar dar lehar..mouj dar mouj.. beheti huvi jindagi jaise

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if you've seen Veer-Zaara..and if you are software pro...you'll know what this means... Main DESK NO number 98...... cubicle ke dewaron ke us paar dekhta hoon apni hi tarah khaali baithe ek colleague ko dekhta hoon kabhi mail karta kabhi coffee peeta kabhi IP pe baat karta EBIZZ me ladkiyan dekhta rehta woh kehte hain woh PL hai

Vinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1101270307908029112004-11-23T20:22:00.000-08:002004-11-23T20:25:07.906-08:00

After Veer-Zaara one thing is clear. Yash Chopra is unwilling to give away his hallmark style of filmmaking. One of the thing he has developed consiously over the years is a punjabi background for the main characters in his movies. Be it a DDLJ, a Mohabbatein, a Hum Tum or a Veer-Zaara. Invariably you got bhangra, dhol, holi, characters speaking punjabi, basically punjabi people. Over and over in

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Main qaidi no 786 jail ki salaakhoan se bahar dekhta hoon...you listen to an emotionally exuberant Veer reading out something he has written. He has spent 22 years in a pakistani jail, sealing his lips "hothon ko siye", sings "tere liye" (in background) when he finally meets his zaara in a pakistani court. Emotionally charged scenes, DDLJish dialogues, DDLJish sequences, eye-candy khet, jharne,

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After I got back to Bangalore last month, one of the things on my to-do list was to watch some new hindi movies in cinema hall. I am yet to do so. Reason : Theatres in Bangalore would not show any non-kannada movies untill a period of 3 weeks after their release. I was really shocked to hear this. This is heights. This is attempting to murder freedom of expression, a basic right. Cinema halls

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May the warmth and splendor, that are a part of this auspicious occasion, fill your life with happiness and bright cheer, and bring to you joy and prosperity, for the whole year. May this Diwali bring you happiness and prosperity... And I am off to exploring photography at my native land as well as celebrate the festival of lights. Hope to capture some bright lights and joy this Deepawali.

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So I am back in India. Its been a pleasure, fun, creative, interesting, adventurous, learning experience for as long as an year in Sydney. I will write more about it later. I would certainly want to summarize it. Mean while I've been busy getting settled and used to my own things out here and its been quite an effort and time. So you see this post after a long break (it isn't a long one, is it?)

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Chumma - The kiss [WallArt] Originally uploaded by Colorage. Sydney has abundance of wall art. I've never seen this craze in any places that I visited in India. Not sure if this wall art thing is common in other countries. But they are so expressive, vibrant and beautiful most of the time. They have some kinda celebrating feel to them, though the message in many is not celebration.This

Vinnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098778421238473442004-10-26T01:03:00.000-07:002004-10-26T21:51:30.863-07:00

Category : Science I like anomalies. Because I think out of anamolies are born revelations, truth and sometimes facts that might have gone previously unnoticed. Thinking out of the box, though hardly with any solid evidence helps in giving a direction to think about. Sometimes it may well be worth the effort. Sometimes it may not. But my take on this is that better to have given a thought than

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098767744537735092004-10-25T22:13:00.000-07:002004-10-25T22:18:05.723-07:00

Category : Feel good I've gotten to liking witty and interesting quotes and offlate this one brings a smile on my face everytime I think about how that means. If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers... If you find the inherent meaning more convincingly, do share it.

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Deadliest Wall Writing Originally uploaded by Colorage. On my way to the city on train I found this wall writing by some unknown entity, and mann it was the deadliest ever. Couldn't stop clicking my camera. Wonder whether anyone has seen it or actioned. Coz in this anti-terrorism devoted country (AUS), I wonder what they would do with this kind of wall writing.BTW, I love flickr more than

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098438185231543802004-10-22T02:38:00.000-07:002004-10-26T21:48:54.333-07:00

Being born in India and to have lived there for more than a quarter of a century, its not a good news that I am yet to see the "wonder" - The Tajmahal. The following is a sad thing to know. Apparently one of the minarets is tilting. Before something happens to the beauty of Tajmahal, I wanna see it. I surely wanna see.Agra - Authorities in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state have launched an

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Category : Feel Good Be aware. Positive "Gyan" ahead. Your Life is a Sacred Journey and it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous risks, embracing challenges at every step of the way. You are on the path exactly

Vinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098417358819606722004-10-21T20:52:00.000-07:002004-10-21T21:05:00.340-07:00

Category : Music Kenny G is one of my favourite Instrumentalist. I listen to Yanni too. But about Yanni on some other post. For now its Kenny G. Whenever I am sad or down I listen to his sax. And it lifts me up. It brings an air of nostalgia, a smoother feeling about life, it makes me feel good. Refreshing the surrounding aura it brings tears in my eyes, fills in the heart. Music has such an

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I always wanted to avoid wasting time on checking different email accounts that I have across Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail. I wanted a quick and easy app that tells me when a new mail has arrived across all my email accounts. Gmail notifier wasn't just enough. And then I found dynAdvance's New mail notifier.This tool notifies users when they have new e-mail on several types of account types. Gmail,

Vinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098238300211420802004-10-19T19:08:00.000-07:002004-10-19T21:43:56.843-07:00

Category : Studies "Scientist of Nitte" had me read his/her mail in my inbox this morning. Quite a useful site for MBA aspirants. The mail goes like this...Hi, I have created a website styled www.flyhighonline.com regarding MBA courses offered by various Institutes in India under guidance of my Professors, Professionals and Friends as a maiden venture. The object of the website is to see that

Vinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098238017039464612004-10-19T18:59:00.000-07:002004-10-20T01:28:05.800-07:00

Category : Googlog This going a bit overboard, nothing... my Google watching. I guess I've to now start limiting it to have invested more time to GoogleWatch. Googlewatching is fun nevertheless. Ask anyone who does that. So unless its too critical information that I would like to share here, I do not intend to bore you guys more with Google watching info. Here's one last... A detailed analysis

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1098145875100856592004-10-18T17:25:00.000-07:002004-10-18T17:31:15.100-07:00

Category : Feel Good Got this one from my good friend in email this morning, and couldn't help posting it here, have a read, just don't miss. Thanks Abhi... All our lives, we’re made to feel insecure when compared with peers. It is important not to give in Second in class! So X came first again? What's wrong with you - aren't you good enough?" Perhaps you've grown up hearing lines like this

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Category : Books So you ask Shock truly gave you shock? and I say what? I say a big NO. But not necessarily would Joanna and Deborah agree with what I have to say. Coz, they were shocked to see some real shocking things happening at Wingate clinic during their detective stint. They were after money. They were after that much needed financial security to give away a few eggs to the Wingate clinic

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Category : General I like Navratri (Dusshera) for its fun and its got some real liveliness to it. I love goddess Durga, for not only she is my ancestral goddess, I see all my ancestral dadi amma's in her. I see my mother in her. I like the graphical represenation of her face in this image. With colors, it looks so beautiful. It is said that Goddess Durga starts her 10 day journey around the

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For those who are interested to have some good read about online security, here is Yahoo's security center. I am not sure when Yahoo put this up, but I visited it only today. Good source of information. It has information about Passwords, Protecting my computer, Protecting online identity and more such stuff. http://security.yahoo.com/

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1097797044372016382004-10-14T16:23:00.000-07:002004-10-14T21:19:19.473-07:00

Category : Googlog As expected by many Google watchers that Google is going to come up with some new product pretty soon, Google is up here with its Google Desktop Search. Though it doesn't look as sophisticated as Copernic Desktop search, it is with its hallmark Google style simplicity, light weight and split-second speed as ever makes it a very useful utility at hand on my dektop be it at home

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Generally I don't like patiently going through a questionnaire and answering those questions to see who am I? what am I like? blah..blah..blah blah.. aka. Quizzilla. But sometimes its good to do some patient self-assessment and answer questions honestly. Sometimes its really funny..I mean fun...Look who am I? a neurotransmitter. You are a neurotransmitter. You believe in thegood-naturedness of

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Category : Q-Series Being a history enthusiast, and history being one of my favourite subject in schools, I get this shots in my head every often. These shots are mostly related to questions that I might have read in text books or knew about over the years, but forgotten or confused about. Since last two days I wanted to get hold of this answer for the question which seemed like, ..... How did

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Category : Googlog This is a big news going around in Google watching blogs and news sites. Page and Brin's Indian visit had 'Meeting the PM' as well which didn't materialize I read. However they met the most knowledgeable and visionary President of India His Highness Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. They were happy to learn that Dr.Kalam apparently knew more about Google than they themselves did. Don't

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Category : Photography Arun of MarginalPost liked my FlowerPower wallpaper style photo as he says in his blog. He has this sax wallpaper style photo shot, which really looks soo good. The brownish color, the shadow, the shape makes it look good on any desktop. Not to forget the sax itself. Great stuff Arun.. When I asked Arun sometime back on his blog, whether the dust at Palm Meadows,

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1097538332553170252004-10-11T16:40:00.000-07:002004-10-11T16:57:11.673-07:00

Category : Blogging The commenting system by blogger isn't good. Haloscan might force you to go for the pro-account anytime now. Blogback has some other issues. Why don't you check out, Metempsychosis Comments Hack 1.02 at http://bloggerhacks.blogspot.com ? The hack there solves all the issues by combining both blogger's commenting system and the ease and features of Haloscan(Name,Email,URL,

Vinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1097215026835509352004-10-07T22:53:00.000-07:002004-10-07T22:57:06.836-07:00

Category : Humour Beware..a long one..but worth a read..I mean ROTFL.. Let's say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else. And

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Category : Insearch I am not a pure atheist. But I like to question. I like to ponder. I like to understand the 'why's and 'who's in us. I can't accept anything unless I am convinced completely. Simple questions that haunt. Simple answers that won't convince. 1. Why beg god to fulfill your wishes? Wouldn't he ask you 'What did you do with whatever I've given you?'. If he has created us, he

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1097142099153626462004-10-07T02:30:00.000-07:002004-10-07T17:32:08.963-07:00

Category : Blogging Ravages of Selective Amnesia reviewed this blog and has posted the following comments at Blogstreet, India. Avlokana is one of the blogs that I visit regularly. Nice collection of posts, amazing insights, (pretty often, too) and a very readable, usable blog. Thanks Ravages, its a pleasure. That inspires me to write more quality stuff, one thing I wanna do better. I know I am

Vinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1097050109076876172004-10-06T01:52:00.000-07:002004-10-07T18:35:06.066-07:00

Category : Design Over the long weekend I spent some time again into refreshing the blog design. Here are the changes I made. 1. A new logo and a tagline. The font used for the logo "Avlokana" is "Ajile". The font for the tagline is "verdana". BTW, "The Onlooker Blog" reflects the meaning of Avlokana. It means looking on, observing over. 2. Some effort also went into little design tweaks. Now

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Actually I wanted to know what people talk about in IRC chats about Google Browser. Now that GBrwoser, the Google Browser, based on Mozilla is evident and it might be out sometime soon. Speculations are on. I used Philipp Lenssen's FindForward service for Chat search and found the following. Though not of much use here, its amazing that now we can search IRC chat sessions for stuff to find out

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The last weekend was a long one. We had a holiday on Monday i.e. yesterday. Most part of this long weekend was spent either watching tamil movies (kaakha kaakha, virumandi), old classics (baaton baaton mein, gol mal) or taking frequent naps amidst the movie watching exercise. But earlier on saturday we set out to see inside the Sydney Opera house. The interiors are as beautiful as the exteriors.

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Flower power Originally uploaded by Colorage. One of the best wallpaper-style photo I've taken oflate. At the circular quay gardens, these beautiful flowers caught my attention immediately. The contrast that they feature along with the wooden pieces on the right hand side and the leaves on the left, forced me to capture in a wallpaper style. Observe that the focus has been in equilibrium

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Category: OfficeSpace 1: I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood. 2: I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring you. 3: You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all. 4: Sorry to have missed you but I am at

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I couldn't get to listen to other songs in Swades. So far I've listened to "Yeh jo des hai tera" by ARR and "Yun hi chala chal" by Udit and co. Both are gems. Simply amazing. Can't stop listening to them. I noticed one more thing this time in Swades' music by ARR. The sound. Its of exceptional quality. Sound engineering is superb. This is what someone has to say on ARR egroup. Wow! Rahman did a

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Story: I am a civil engineer/builder. My mission is to work on high-value assignments which give me exposure and create value in the real estate marketplace. Mr. Ramakrishna who's well to do and owns some business comes to me and says I want to build a house around a prime residential area. With all enthusiasm of having a very important customer and making my own mark I assure Mr.Ram that I am

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Okay, here we go. I finally made the shift to FireFox, after evaluating it for about two weeks now, after the 1.0 Preview release. I have to say I am happy with it, so far as my browsing needs are concerned. And heck! thats what it matters. I had tried it few months back, but disliked it for lack of so many important features (for me) which have been incoroporated in the latest release. It

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The most exciting movie season is eagerly awaited. The diwali time of the year. Two talented directors doing their most awaited job. Ashutosh Gowarikar and Yash Chopra Two melodious music albums for the epic movies. A R Rahman and Late Madan Mohan One super star who has been saleable and entertaining. Shah Rukh Khan and Shah Rukh Khan You guessed it right.... Swades and Veer-Zaara I just got to

Vinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1095896785352396662004-09-22T16:37:00.000-07:002004-09-22T16:48:55.940-07:00

I suffer from cluster headache/migrane not constantly though, and so far I haven't found a medicine which cures the pain. But wait a minute, I've found it. Its LAUGHTER. The moment I realized it can cure my pain in minutes, I've constantly tried to be happy and laugh more than I used to. Its a bit hard, but if you consciously develop it, its possible to be more happy than you were. Here are some

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Chirayu has a nice Google quiz for all Googlesiders (A word used for those who are stuck with Google for all their webby needs) or even if they are not. Over at his blog, There is God and then there is Google. If you are a believer in this saying, then this quiz is for you.Take the Google Quiz. Nice quiz Chirayu!! I am a pucca Googlesider as many of you know by now and I thought why not share

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I've added a new section on the side navigation bar of this blog - "Recent Flickr Photos". Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world as they say. I would post new pictures I take with my new G600 camera in a persuit to learn good photography. I also planned for a photoblog through Flickr. But at the moment my internet connection doesn't

Vinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1095672376844729452004-09-20T02:23:00.000-07:002004-09-21T00:00:25.080-07:00

This is some idea for a blog. The guy finds a memory card of a digital camera in a taxi. It's got 227 photos in it. He decides to post it each single day on this blog and narrates something about the picture. Its imaginative, amusing and interesting. All until the card's owner claims it back from the guy. Nice concept. So keep checking while it lasts. I found some of your life Update: I told

Vinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7055571.post-1095658978423506142004-09-19T22:42:00.000-07:002004-09-19T22:44:10.906-07:00

Now if you really wanna laugh out your heart, have a read or two following through the links. I had enough of stomach ache LOUGHING on these ones. Worth a read. Cute matrimony ads - Part I Cute matrimony ads - Part II Really GoodOnes !!!

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Category : TBYD TBYD#1 Today I am starting a new category with a series of posts to mention "78 Things Before You Die (TBYD)". Why 78? why not 10, 20, 50 or 100. Well that's just a number I thought is imaginative and I am sure I have those many things to do before I die. Listing them down here would be a good idea to make myself aware of them. This idea is originally from Arun of MarginalPost,

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