Violet Lillies by Mahesh

This man, with a smile mixed with innocence ( dont think he is so innocent though !) and fun, has always walked ahead of the crowd. He amused us with his Eigen, his indigenous project on signal processing, shown his vision and organizational talent during our college event Principia. 

He was my classmate during my graduation. As a lateral entry guy ( one who joins from 2nd year of an already set batch :))  I was initially asked to write couple of papers from the year that I missed by the university. Branded as the 'C' expert of the class, Mahesh's name was suggested by many to ask advice on 'C' exam that I had to appear..

I found him in library one day and voiced the million dollar question, "Mahesh, which book would you suggest for 'C'  ? " The answer was a smile, curious look with some words following after a 20ms delay  " Valleytta.. ( Big Brother, thats how they used to call me) , these are just weired concepts ( ???? what are ???)  If you think about the truth of the life, you do not really need a book to study 'C'. Everything is very evident "

I was not used to such enlightening words earlier.. So I left the task of searching the books to my eyes and found "Let Us C'. From that day, I have been very careful handling this man..

Mahesh alias MRV stories are plenty.. We had many discussions on things that were half practical, however was fun to discuss..

One who already has a craze in technology, imagine the after efects of he being affected with a bad habit of capturing light .. Mahesh has shown reasonable justice to the Canon (or Nikon ?)  SLR that he is owning.  ( Dont ask him what happened in bangalore after he tried to fix his tripod and then adjusted the CAM to shoot one of the important place. Poor Bangalore police thought he was upto something. )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maheshravivarma/

Was planning to write a little more.. But time to move for me !!!! :-)

P.S.: Mahesh secured 2nd rank in GATE exam 2009 with a perfect 1000/1000 .. Well done Mahesh !!!

Our Short and Sweet Trip :-)

                                                                    


The idea of visiting Vizag or Visakhapatnam came natural  to me.. I always loved this place. A hectic life and job in those areas for almost 4 years just couldn't make the place boring for me..

It is really a nice feeling to be at a place after a gap, where you have spent good amount of time ... You start relating things.. You start switching between past and present... You start seeing places in an all new perspective..

It was a short trip for us.. around 4 days..  We tried the new train service Garib Rath for the first time... A real nice experience... We checked in to a hotel named "Orange".. A comfortable stay.. Vizag has some real nice beaches.. And a must watch is a decommissioned submarine put up as a mesuem... Kailasa Giri ( Kailasa Hill ) is one hill very close to the sea.. You have "Rope Way" to go up and Tram service to see around... Real nice view.

One place that topped our "Must watch places "    is Arakku Valley.  The best time to be there is during November-December when the whole valley appear as yellow.. This I heard is the best hill station in Andhra, and the next one is Horsleay hills.

I am back :)

It has been quite long a silence. I was indeed busy with couple of key project deliverables. :-)

Has been doing some reading on Robocopy and other possible data transfer mechanism to perform a bulk data transfer.

Last week I did try booting up and installing "Ubuntu" too.. 

Will see you guys soon with more posts !!

P.S. I am a much fit person now :-). I started getting up early in the morning these days..  And yes !! I am playing badminton too..  See what change a medical report with a note on high cholestrol can make to a person. :-)

Cheers !!!

 

What I heard from Anirban today

We, (I and Anirban) always enagage in small discussions on life.. sports ( I remain a listener most of the time)... Music.. and stuff like that..

This is what he said today.. And I immediately liked it...

"You should never make a decision when you are angry nor should you make a promise when you are very happy."

The beauty of Banana..

 

To capture this beauty, you need to have;

• A decent enough digital cam. You could even  borrow one as I generally do !!
• One Nendran type banana ( http://www.ficciagroindia.com/production-guidelines/fruits/banana/Varieties.htm )
• A sharp knife to cut the banana in small pieces.
• Ghee.
• Sugar.
• A Microwave oven to cook it a bit. Please go ahead with any other innovative ideas to heat it a bit.
• A plate from your dinner set collection.
• A dining table to place it on.

Once you are finished with the photo session, you could eat it too !!!