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Read it here A very intersting ( and short ) read

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul Valery I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

Your determination will get u the time if not ur boss ;-) (That was a quote from a very good friend of mine... i knew a lot of people out there will identify with this ... so posted it ...) Enzoy the day

Everybody starts out with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before the luck runs out.

We, the unwilling, lead by the unknowing , are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long, with so little knowledge that we will one day qualify to do anything, knowing nothing . (i frankly found this thing so intriguing that i couldn't help posting it here on my blog after receiving it almost 5 times in my mailbox in 2 days)

CHERISH YOUR GOLDEN - OLDEN DAYS A tribute to DOORDARSHAN ... our entertainment destination on the idiot Box in those old times ... The generation gap. Stuff that those who belong to my generation will identify with...that people even a few years younger won't. Because they belong to the new liberalized India with cable TV and all that. National integration videos: The ek chidiya one, the one where people sing in different languages- mile sur mera tumhara ...where I'd pretend to sing along with the languages and dialects I didn't know. Or the one with Indian sportspeople running and that fantastic shot of P.T. Usha running along some deer and Kapil Dev emerging from a tunnel to give the flame to a drenched Sunil Gavaskar. And remember Narendra Hirwani singing in the first video?? Or that bit where the three heroes- Amitabh, Mithun and someone else (Vinod Khanna I guess ..) sing lustily?? And the Calcutta Metro shot where P. K. Banerjee does that thing with his hair as he i...

Jaaneman ... A recent release from bollywood ... To start with .. When i heard of a movie called Jaaneman .. i said Not Again ... yet another stupid romantic ... When i heard of Salman Khan being the lead star .. i said Not Again ... when was the last time he 'acted' ... When i heard of Akshay Kumar being supportive actor ... i said Not Again ... a la Dil to Pagal Hain ... When i heard of Priti Zinta having a new born baby in movie... i said Not Again ... isnt she getting tired of being Pregnant in movies ... When i heard that the movie was good from my friends ... i said Not Again ... oops .. no no .. i did not say that .. i just said ... NOT AGAIN (loud and clear)... I saw DON on your reviews ... But Damn ... how can i not listen to my friends ... and so I saw it ... And BOY .. was i surprised ... Jaaneman turned out to be everythign that DON was NOT ... Great Movie, nice dialogues, fantastic screenplay, fantabulous creative and art direction , superb Direction...

Ever heard about the FREE HUGS campaign ... have a look here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL7Jo_1Z3Y8 (Tried to put the video here itself but did not work) Today we had a similar Free Hugs meet in Geneva ... 30 Enthusiastic Volunteers of GenevaOnLine.ch Community gathered to HUG the World For two hours ... the HUGGERS spread warmth around them ... One Unique thing about this meet was the Global Representation we had. geneva, being a city of UN Organisations, we find people from practically all parts of the world here. The 30 Huggers practically represented people from all over the world Of course, I am not uploading any video of the same for the simple reason ... I did not shoot one ... After all, I was one of the HUGGERS .... :) Will post the Geneva Free Hugs Video as soon as i can get a copy :))

I had heard that Don (2006) had not got good reviews ... some friends liked it .. others said it was a waste of time ... then someone ... hey ... nice twist in the end ... I was myself recomending people NOT to see the movie based on these perception ... But ... as fate may have it ... i ended up spending 3 hours of my time watching the movie ... My review ... based on personal experience and not on hearsay ... DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS MOVIE ... DON (2006) is the shoddiest, most ill-concieved, ill-directed, ill-scripted, ill-choreagraphed, ill-acted , ill-musical'ed, ill-etc ... movie I have seen in the recent past .... Farhan had thought out a very fantastic twist in the tail .. or is it tale .. whatever .. but he messed up the movie .. completely ... I cannot appreciate a single thing in the movie ... The story line was confused .. not confusing .. but confused ... there were soooooo many inconsistencies in the movie .. in the dialogues ... in the storyline ... it ...

I dont know what to say ... Its devastatingly Beautiful ... Compilation of Atomic Explosions

In an interview, an Army General was asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists and also the terrorists themselves. His answer was classic - He said, " I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." ------------------- Recently, i read another version of the same .... Forgiving or punishing the Developer is left to Manager. But, fixing their appointment with Manager is our responsibility - Software Tester :)

Heres is a short (2 page) sci-fiction story ... its the Most amazing piece of Sc-Fiction literature I have ever read. Am not sure if i have shared it earlier but it is definately a fantastic read .. (I am sure you will love it after you have read it atlest 3 times to come close to understanding it ) btw ... I am still searching for the author of this piece .... Kaalachakra Bar! 1975 Jan 1 It was about five in the morning. Father (I am not bothering with names) woke up with a start. Many years had passed since he had founded the orphanage. He had named it ' X-Orphanage ' , a rather funny name. But looking back, everything about his life seemed funny now. Hearing some noise outside, Father decided to have a look. A child lay there in front of the orphanage. It was a girl. Seeing her abandoned like this in the cold morning, Father felt a sense of anger for the merciless being who had thrown her away like this. He took her in his arms. He would raise her like his own child. 17 Ye...

You have to be a bit different to get noticed After all, who would give the 'Tower of Pisa' a second glance if it were standing straight

“..Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.. ” Agent Smith to Neo- The Matrix Somehow ... I not only agree with Agent Smith ... but i would even go ahead and say that Humans are precisely doing all sorts of things which are in fact going to endanger its own existence in near future ... With all the pollution, agent depletion, global warming, growing number of natural catastrophes (ultimately kinked in imbalances in the environment caused by human activities like deforestation and pollution ) .... will the human race last through Year 2200 ??? Its all money ... very large corporate houses ar...

Different Moods of Aishwarya ... One of the most beautiful women out there on the planet !! :-)

Wont say much ... Just watch this ... and let me know if you agree with me ... "I could go to School all over again ... "

Hey all fellow bloggers ... Did you hear about BlogCamp ??? I hear it but pretty late ... almost when zerO days were left (no it has nothing to do with my name :-) Read about BlogCamp ??? ... You might just find it interesting :-)

Happy Birhtday Arbit !! My child .. oops ... Brain*child, Arbit Choudhury turns 2 today. It was on September 5th 2004, that the World's 1st B-school (MBA) Comic Character was born. Officially launched into the real world through the virtual means of an online business games event - MastishK. A relationship born in NITIE between three people ... Nikhil , Shubham and me, took on the challenge of first spearheading MastishK and then continuing with Arbit, working across international boundaries and time-zones (India, UK & Switzerland). The Arbit Choudhury Yahoo Group become one of the largest Yahoo Groups in the Comic Strip category . It entered the Top 10 within a year of inception and was in Top 3 before the end of second year. On the occasion of Arbit's 2nd birthday, we have decided to give a special gift to all Arbit Fans across the globe. We have unvieled the new and improved Arbit Choudhury Website today. Have a look and let us know what you feel about it. I wou...

Well .. First comes the picture ... here it is ... And the story behind it ... well ... You should hear it straight from the horse's mouth ... in fact from the blog of the person in the picture ... Nikhil ... Nikhil visited Switzerland last weekend and we went around Switzerland ... This picture marks his entry into Swiss but his adventures began right from London .... This picture comes at the end of the following two blog posts on his blog ... Blogpost 1 - The Murphy’s Laws ! (Click Here) Blogpost 2 - Adventures Galore (Click Here) enZoy ... (soon I will be posting some of the pictures and something about my Swiss Darshan ... watch out .. )

Well ... this is me in the CERN parking lot with The Globe in the background .. There was no real need to post this picture here ... i was just experimenting with Flickr tools and one of them was direct blogging of an image ... coool tooool ....

I visited CERN this weekend (July 22nd) .... CERN - The world's largest particle physics laboratory ... where the web was born! Read more about CERN on their website - http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html CERN's Flagship Project: the LHC - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. The RING for this experiment has a 27 KM circumference extending across Switzerland and France ... Running 100 metres under the ground ... (You will find some pictures with a large circle indicated on a map) http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html Also, in the album, you will find some pictures of a Globe ... Details here - http://globe.web.cern.ch/globe/ It had been a long time since I saw something so massively scientific :-)

Hi All ... I had promised that I will post a blog on the various good news that i have received from people around me, my friends and all ... it is taking a bit to compile ... not because they are too many .. its just that my memory is revealing them one by one at its own snail pace ;-) Will post it soon ... till then enZoy these picture ... In continuation to my earlier Breathtaking blog post ... These pictures were shot a couple of days after the previous one ... Date - 30th October 2005 ... Time - 7 AM early morning (Swiss Time)... Place - On the banks of Lake Leman (Geneva Lake) Once again ... The early morning sun was just about to rise over the Swiss Alps ... I had just reached the lake side ... the first burst of sun rays was just appearing over the Swiss Alps ... You can see the effect :-)

Date - 26th October 2005 ... Time - 7 AM early morning (Swiss Time)... Occasion - My First International Flight ... Place - A couple of 1000 metres above sea level, inside an air plane, flying from Zurich to Geneva, Switzerland Doing what - Staring unbelievably out of the window What I saw .... The early morning sun was just about to rise over the Swiss Alps ... the plane had climbed just above the clouds ... the Swiss Alps visible in the distance as small hills standing on the vast expanses of cloud fields ... You can see the effect :-) btw ... I took this picture using a Canon Powershot SD200 digital camera ... belonging to my friend ... I did not have my own at that time at least ... ;-)

This is the age of World Wide Releases ... Yes .. I am talking about Movies ... Be it Bollywood (Indian) or Hollywood (American) Movies ; These days movies are released all over the world pretty simultaneously unlike the yester years when the movies took several months and sometimes a year or more to be to released over seas ... And with the Internet becoming omnipresent movies are also available on the web for download ... (of course illegally - pirated copies - camera prints and otherwise shot in theatres etc ...) Over the years I had observed the internet availablity of movies coming closer to the actual date of release of movies ... from months it shrunk to months and then to days ... in the past 6 months, i heard several people talk about movies being made available on the intenet for download almost after 2-3 days of release ... weekend upload after movie release on Friday ... I was almost shocked (or lets be more specific ... SURPRISED) to hear from a friend that a certain muc...

Life is not about the amounts of breaths you take ... Its about those moments that take your breath away ... - Will Smith in the movie HITCH Couldn't help posting this ... I have lods of blog posts ... in my mind ... and hardly any time to transfer them from my gray matter to my blog ...

Read a nice quote today ... Rich and poor are first created in the mind. A poor man asks, "How much will it COST me?" A rich man asks, "How much will it MAKE me?" As soon as i read the quote, something happened. Not somethig new ... something which often happens to me .. inside me ... The entrepreneur , the business inside me starting a dialogue with the salaried me once again ... trying to convince him that he was on the wrong track ... Interesting they are ... both are a part of me ... yet they think so differently ... both have different priorities and different value systems ... sometimes its difficult to manage both of them ... One uses his brains and takes logical and somewhat selfish (or more specifically self-centred) decisions. Its concern is My Success, My wealth, My future, My comfort, My contribution to the world (mind you .. intentions are all good ... but the focus is me ) .... Its more spontaneous ... Other is more heart oriented ... considers feelin...

Frankly speaking ... I dont know ... I was bitten by the Blog Bug way bak in NITIE ... its pretty infectious ... Blogging was getting popular at NITIE in those days and i got to know about it from Nikhil ... and I started off a journey ... It has been a pleasurable journey ... with some very regular posts as well as some large breaks ... Off late .. I have wanted to blog but time and will-power were simply not enough ... And a question struck me ... Why do I blog ?? And franly speaking ... I dont know ... Why does blogging go down in the list of priorities in life ... my life at least ... why do other things supercede and blogging is what gets affected most ... why is that I have some 8-10 blogpost themes in my mind and I have made none ... why ? why ?? why ??? I will have to find out ... B'coz if i dont ... i will probably stop blogging ... I am not comfortable in doing something unless i believe in it ... Its not that I have been blogging for the past 2-3 years without any purp...

Long time ago ... We read in school books ... The basic needs of life are Food, Clothing and Shelter ... Round about the same time ... i also saw the movie starring Manoj Kumar.... 'Roti, Kapda aur Makaan' ... Just looking back at that paradigm and in perspective looking at my own life today (and that of several of my friends and colleauges.... ) ... there is a change .... Today ... The basic needs of life are Bread, Butter and Broadband :-)

Heres some news from that side of my life which belongs to my child ... brain'child ... Arbit Choudhury Arbit in Mobile space After entertaining fans across the world though the Web, Arbit has now forayed into the Mobile Space. Arbit Choudhury Jokes are now available on India's 'Indiatimes 8888' SMS Service !! Just SMS "MBA" to 8888 to receive Arbit zOkes .... Arbit on Wikipedia Arbit reeived a mention on the Front Page (Home Page) of wikipedia for one complete day. Read about Arbit on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbit_Choudhury Arbit on Orkut In response to several requests from Arbit fans ... we now have an Arbit Choudhury community on Orkut. Visit the Orkut community of Arbit at http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=10533730 Arbit Yahoo Group We continue to release fresh new comic strips every fortnight (on the 1st and 16th of every month) through the Arbit Yahoo Group. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbit_mba/ and click on the ...

Our knowledge of things and our viewpoint of issues is often dependant on what is popularly known and publicised. We think we have an opinion .. an independant opinion of our own on any particular issue .... How true is that ?? Often it is the media or the politicians of the world who feed our need for information which we feel is essential to make our opinions ... oblivious to the fact that our own opinions are so much governed by the info fed to us by the very media we are using to seek the info .... Commercially, product companies will try to publicise a perspective, a thought process conducive to publicity and sale of their product / service ... tell the world through 'trusted' media sources that your product / service is the hottestone today ... and it might just become so ... Here is a small part of an interview .... which looks at a historical event and an individual of historical significance from the other side of the fence ... Read for yourself ... Note - I do not ...

After the game is over …the King and the pawn go to the same box … that’s the reality of life … A quote from the movie ‘Being Cyrus’ (I have no idea … where did they get it from .. I got it from the movie so that’s my source :-)

"kya cheez hain mumbai … aamchi mumbai … vo vada pav ki chatni … vo mahim ki phirni … vo local train ke dhakke … vo signal pe chakke … vo traffic , vo kuda , vo kachra … vo auto taxi ka nakhra … vo machchi wali ka jhagda … vo bhel, vo pani puri , vo ragda, vo wadala, vo chakala, vo bandra … kahin sakhubai … to kahin sandra vo aunty ka adda … saala main road pe ich khadda … " jaisi bhi hain yaar … apun ki mumbai se apne ko hain pyaar … The above lines are uttered by Don Sunil Shetty when he is hit by Nostalgia in the presence of the meek Akshay Khanna and bomb-shell Mallika Sherawat in the movie 'Shaadi se Pehle' … (the last line above is in a different colour … simply because it is not from the movie … its my contribution … my feeling ) As I went through the scene, Nostalgia hit me too … the third time so strongly in the past one month and that too while watching a movie … I was massively hit by Mumbai Nostalgia earlier this month when I was watching ‘Bluff Master’ an...

Nice Article ... read a part here ... link at the end ... How long will SMS last? Will anything significantly different replace it? This article examines an old technology that is surprisingly similar to SMS. History does repeat. Once upon a time, major service providers around the world introduced a short message service allowing people to send multiple messages to each other for a nominal fixed fee. Typically the message space was small, and as a result people invented methods to deal with this by cramming in as much information as possible using shorthand, acronyms and restricted grammar. It became very popular, creating upgrades to services infrastructure, and employing additional people, all despite the fact that people were already using the same service provider to communicate with each other using similar services. Sounds familiar? So far this story could be about SMS, but in fact we are talking about the arrival of the humble postcard. The postcard was a major innovation of Jo...

I think I have dissappeared again ... well not actually ... i am very much there .. i mean here And i do wish a to post on my blog but i guess there are too many distractions i am having these days ... hope to come back soon with a proper full fledged blog post (now whats that ???) I am still in the state of organised chaos

Valentine Day & Blood Donation – Interesting Combinations … The last time I donated blood ( October 27th 2004 ) was also the first time I donated blood. The experience was really a nice one. The satisfaction of doing something good was real and worth the effort. You can read my blogpost I posted after my first blood donation … it not only talked about my feeling but also about Blood Donation I am currently at the Headquarters of WHO (Geneva, Switzerland) – The World Health Organization … for a long term project … It was in WHO that a Blood Donation Drive was organised today … on V Day J With great hope, I joined the Queue of donors and stood there for over 90 minutes along with my friend to donate blood. We had to fill up some form, get our hemoglobin checked and also a consultation with a doctor before actual donation. When my turn arrived to meet the doctor, in the various questions, came the discovery of the fact that India is considered to be a Malaria prone country so I have...

Change ... sometimes desired ... sometimes desirable ... Most of the time avoided and ignored ... But there will always be some people who are not comfortable with the CONSTANT nature ... rather their interest lies in the CONSTANT Nature of Change ... Must be sounding Interesting ... and philosophical ... coming straight from a Change Mgmt. Consultant ...... But hey ... why am I talking of change ... all of a sudden .... ?? Well ... My Blog has undergone some massive changes in terms of content and content organization .... the ShoutBox has been added in side bar ... also a summary of posts posted by Shubham on Arbit ... A Quote a day Quate to Quote ... new section added ... I am a klind of person, who likes 'change' more often ... otherwise life becomes monotonous .... ambiguity offers more imagination ... change shakes up our dormant lives and brings some action on it .... enZoy Changing :-)) Happy Valentines Day to all in the wide whole world ... across the World Wide Web ....

Well … to put things in perspective … before you read this post … you will have to go back to my previous post … bcoz this is but a continuation of the same (at least read the last 2 para for continuity sake :-) I was talking about getting Nostalgic after reading the title ‘To Do Or Not To Do ... What To Do …’ … the title has a special significance and the significance is attached to the event which occurred on a special date …. And guess what … its about February 14th ( Valentine’s Day )… And guess what … Its not about Love nor about a girl friend … its about something else altogether …. Its about M&A … nope … not about Mergers and Acquisitions … but very much about MastisK and Arbit … and Me … and the two other significant others who had much to contribute to the greatest M&A in my life … :-)) … Nikhil (Baba) and Shubham (Jackal) … The Valentine Day had no great significance for me until 2004 … (that’s what everybody thought and I portrayed … but it was otherwise .. it...