My People My Culture- IndiBlogger Meet Bangalore Oct 2010

#Indiblr . It was a nonstop drive to Bangalore this time. Karthik tried stopping me at several tea shops and road side restaurants but I was just too keen in reaching Bangalore. Anoop was waiting to throw a bomb on us when we arrived “dude IIMB ditched us man, we don’t have a venue now and the meet is just in three days”.

We all switched our modes from “relax have a beer mode” to “what the fuck mode” but we knew that this isn’t going to stop the show. So we head out the next morning determined to find a venue and close the deal by EOD. My driver Sohail helped us in finding Hotels and thats how we came across the Fortune Park JP Celestial near the race course road.

Thanks to Varun Oberoi the head of sale and marketing of the hotel who vouched for us and helped us with getting the venue for the date and time we asked. Big thanks to him. And the LCD tv idea was cool man. Thanks!

I stayed overnight at the hotel before the meet and had a hard time to get some sleep. I slept at 6 am and woke up at 9 am. It was the day of the blogger meet.

We all were relaxed and we know that it is going to be a great meet and so it did. The sponsor for the contest and prizes HP did a great deal in terms of connecting and reaching out to the community. Really appreciate Soumya Dev of HP for all his efforts.

Varun and Soumya they have now become my people and they belong to my culture.

The venue was great, it was on the 7^th floor and it overlooked the race course. Great ambience and the bloggers loved it. 200 + bloggers in a hall live blogging, tweeting and more. Bloggers from age of 14 to 62 were present in the meet.

HP gave away more than 10 printers and some of them was the latest e printers. E printers are basically really cool. Send an email to the printer and the machine takes prints. That cool they are. Mohan was gifted a super duper printer who won the first prize for HP wall of fame. He may put a pic soon on his blog. Check it out later.

IndiPolice - Addy and Hemal as usual making all the noise. Have to put them behind bars for being blogger meet nuisance. Lol! Addy came from Mumbai and Hemal flew down from Delhi. And there was Chada who flew down from Hyd.

I got to continue this on to my next post as it might be boring to read a long post. Really

Born lucky or foodie???

I am born lucky man...i mean...if i was born in china then i would have only left with eating noodles or anything that can crawl or move on my noodles...but i was lucky to be born in India and can taste the blissful biriyani...thank you lord. and yes i am a foodie :)

PS: as i was looking for the image of dum biriyani ... i found lotS on g images and before i could paste it on this post ...i ordered three portions of dum biriyani...murgh, gosht and egg and i am gonna have them all... (with beer)
sorry? can't hear you ...wats that? ... oh no... i am not at home...i am in some undisclosed location. ok...later

Pay Attention!

I never thought I could make it … to what I am now. I was branded 'underdog' , 'way below average' or something worse amongst the ‘smart’ and the ‘wise’. But there is definitely a comeback for those people who thought they were smart and wise. Eventually, time answers to all questions.

As a child, I couldn’t relate to anything in the world I live. I could not see the difference of what is real compared to what I think and as I see it.

A B C D E F…. I thought alphabets are friends and should never be separated so I always placed them together ABCDEF. And some found it inappropriate. My teachers ...But for me it was cruel to separate friends. That was my world. So speak to me in the language I understand…reach …relate.

Alice’s wonderland was acceptable but not mine? Trust me, mine is way better than Alice’s. A talking rabbit? I had a flying tiger! beat that ! game over !

I can’t look at the dull black board for more than a minute because I like yellow boards with blue writings on it …do you have any? No . I can’t hear you as there is too much of sound around me. I can’t see you since there are too many other good things to look at. What am I talking abt ‘ADD’ man, but no complaints. I took it with good spirit. Yes of course , I did went through shit …a lot of shit…I mean a loootta shit but I made it and I bet you will too.

I don’t quite agree with the terms like… ‘ADD’ or ‘dyslexia’ it is not a disorder or a disease …it is a harmless phantom in your mind. It is just a phase and it cannot be disruptive.

None knew about this at that, and the teachers who are supposed to know about this did not know and they try to reason out with the parents…”out of all the children yours is not what we want here” .

Oh, do you know me too well?? Or you don’t since I haven’t raised my hands ever to answer your “what did the rat say to the cat” questions? …yea… bite me bitch!

And for those kids around me who thought they made it great at school and later turned out be a bunch of losers… man…I laugh at them….like point my fingers and laugh at them.

Oh the number of times I was compared to other kids…made me hate the system, the people who made it …the people who supported it and the people who did not take a minute to understand what exactly was going on.

My education, that is what I accepted as education was for about 3 years… my college. I learned everything there.

My school sucked…the teachers pay all their attention to kids who is smart and who pays a lot of tuitions fees and ‘donations’ for home improvements…and the kids were so corrupted in that age, they knew had no guilt or shame about the whole deal.

So here is the deal ! I can’t Pay Attention to you, your baseless system , I can’t pay attention to your face…I can’t hear you…in the words of Arnie…”talk to the hand cuz the face can’t hear you” …

I couldn’t even turn to my parents for help…I mean…what do you expect from people who were born and brought up in a small town in Kerala. Both my parents are smart…they had great academic history for that matter even my sister. Now , you know how it is … I was the ugly duckling or something. Not many ppl are lucky enough to get parent’s like Suchitra’s who did understand what was going on with their child.

But things do turn around for good…and time did answer it. I was great in everything later… but much later. I was into all kind of sports…college meets…at work and now I have my own business and am well established. I am not working for any dumbass boss, I haven’t been to States and suck up to my American salary. I am right here and living it up. I made everything from scratch for myself and not my inherited wealth. I believe in myself and that is what is more important. So you do that too…if any of those fat sons of bitches or glasses wearing snobbish skank trys to put you off. Show them how we do it alright ???

And please do not commercialize it and make money of some sensitive issues that you don't understand.

Chennai Blogger Meet - March20th 2010

Has almost been two years since the last Chennai blogger meet. It was on June 8th 2008, inside a basement of an old hotel, 130 bloggers from Chennai got together to meet fellow bloggers. It was in fact a historic day for, Chennai was declared as the blogging capital of India.

Two years back, there were approximately 300 bloggers from Chennai registered with Indiblogger and today it is almost 1500 bloggers. Oh yea! Chennai is definitely the blogging capital.

Since then there were 22 blogger meets conducted across the nation and believe me …what love! It was true spirit. Powerful minds join together; it’s like a seven nation army of sane people …woodstock of wise people! A space station of sharp people…ok that’s enough I guess …I am not geeky …you will see me at the meet and you will figure out the rest.

As I was saying … the Chennai community is more versatile, more of substance, more of interaction among fellow bloggers and so much enthusiasm. But if you look at my last post , most people would think that this blogger is dead after leaving a online suicidal note. See , that was total paranoia after mixing vodka, tequila, sambuka and something else which I don’t know what it was. So I thought I was dying… happens man…

The Chennai blogger meet is open for registration http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=73 and it is 150 limited seats. We checked the IPL schedule and Chennai is not playing on the 20th of March. So hurry and sign up for the meet and we will see you there.

So again, THE CHENNAI BLOGGER MEET IS ON THE 20th OF MARCH 2010. We shall announce the venue and the agenda soon. It will be on the meetings page.
Oh yea…btw, this time, Univercell , your friendly neighborhood mobile store…is sponsoring us for the meet. Thanks to them for the support.

At the end.

Broken wings, bleeding eyes and the fallen ground. crawled…sheltered within four walls... collapses of dampness. Turning cold and naked, moving towards the corner for a little warmth. Snakes hid in darkness…hissing blames and spitting curses.

once touched, once loved, once trusted and once lived. Walking dreams and living nightmare.

It is so cold here…to where I move now?

Om Beach!

Shambo Mahadeva...

am spiritual and not religious. Some of the pics that i took at Murudeshwar (OM beach) . the beach is in shape like 3 , which is like the symbol 'om' ..so om beach ...ok




look close and figure out the actual size of these statues.

Lock and Load…

I am not a person who prefers violence. But I am a person who reacts to violence with rage. That is exactly just what the Mumbai PD‘s Special Task Force had in mind to upgrade its counter terrorism capabilities. They are replacing arms that were used during World War ll , you know the revolvers, and a semi automatic older version of M15, and you got your .33 pistol.
The AKs we use are not the authentic Russian, they are mostly Chinese made and they tend to get jammed after about 200 rounds.

Scrap'em all , for urban war far and especially for situations like the Mumbai attack, you require weapons that are effective in engaging at similar ‘weapons parameter’ range.

The new weapons that the MPD team has purchased is the, M4 used by most US marines, largely used from the ‘Desert Storm’ times. I can go on about this gun, this lethal weapon can be attached to a 4x4 scope, laser spot, even to a stunner…

Then comes the compact, stealthy, B&T MP9, the most loved gun in Israel, it is also called the Israel UZI… It is fully automatic, as easy as a using a TV remote and the most effective gun for close range parameters.

The next is my favorite the M107, SAR, 50 caliber. Basically a sniper rifle , range between 900-1100 mtrs…oh yea…’one shot one kill’ ....

Now , the part which really pisses me off is that the ‘commission’ has questioned the force for why it has purchased these weapons, without knowing the effectiveness or conducting ‘field test’…field tests it seems

I now realize how much the Defense Force is Ignorant about weapons, usages and everything else related to that. But, one thing, it is not about the weapons, it is about the heart. If you don’t have the balls, there is no point you have a gun in your hand.-move forward, keep the rage in the heart, the war in your mind and defend - KILL.

Ma beboo's poem

ma luv wrote a poem and she got 2 stars and has become one of the finalist.
I hope she gets all stars for her poem.
All the best beboo..am so proud of you:
http://www.voicesnet.org/poetrydisplay.aspx?poemid=141461

Bloggers gonna head bang

Calling all Maiden fans to the "Heavy Metal Bloggers Meet" here in Bangalore, the day before the famed "SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME" concert by the Gods of Metal!

Kingfisher Heavy Metal Blogger Meet

14/02/2009 at 16:00

Okk...hmmm...

we came across this girl at a restaurant in Chiang Mai. she was serving food there and she seems to be fine and cool.but i think her co workers were trying to pull her leg or something. I'm sure they gave her the t-shirt man...can you read it...?
i'm sorry but ..that's just hilarious!

Tia and Mia

I gave them those names then, cause their names were long and twisted. It was like learning the whole language ' thai'. So i kept it simple...they were very peaceful and very funny.
Tia and Mia...

What are you doing?

This kid was sitting around and playing with his cat ok...and i thought i can be friendly and take some pics...man, that kid has some childhood problems i believe.
He gave me a look like 'why are you taking my pic, you damn tourists, do i look like a freak show to you'...
i sensed that out, took a shot and gave him 20 bath. he took it and continued with his stare and i moved off to keep a safe distance.

Bring It On !

We kicked ass in Kargil… and now they want to get a dosy dose again ?! alright its christmas, season to give and lets give it to them.

And now I don’t understand why our PM acts like a little girl in a big boy pants…’we don’t want war’... this isn't war man …this is justice , this is judgment and we will sort out the good and evil.

And if any commie from the east tries to support our enemies…man…it would be personal.

I would purchase a Barret M107 .50 caliber and place myself in the border and gun down every single mf before he takes his position or a shot. Yea…bring it on you SOBs !

Image taken from here

My dream home

That's my dream home man , what a design and master piece architecture ...this castle is located on one of the islands near Phuket ...i can settle down there for the rest of my life...all i need is a record player and tons of led zeppelin tracks and some apples... "drink all my wine, smoke all my stuff" and wait for "the spring time of my loving" ...i step out and it would be the sea...and i can enjoy both, the sun set and sun rise, that's better than watching tv man.
and by the end of my journey i shall smile and drift smoothly into the 'bright white light'...

Two colors only

I've been shooting pics with all colors and with flash and stuff... but i also love to take b/w photographs.Since i have a Nikon D40 i have to put it in P mode and play with lot of functions to take a decent b/w pic. I have trouble doing all that since i gotta learn to use the camera.
My inspiration is from Suchitra, she is my blog list , google her name or you can find her in flickr.
I love her work...some amazing b/w pics from Cairo...do check it out.
So now i have started to take few pics which i know is not so good but i'm working on it you know.
so if anybody has anything so say...write back an opinion.