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2012 and on..

Its quiet interesting that I’m posting my so called 2012 to do list exactly on the same day I posted last year.

As per the status on 2011 resolution I was able to achieve only 3&4 and partially the 2nd item where I lost 5 pounds but gained it over the end of year vacationing in India. So yeah last year wasn’t the greatest but it wasn’t my fault that I was totally occupied watching India win the world Cup with all my friends.

Thanks to Facebook which I joined starting of last year exactly today my blogging activity has drastically gone down to 7 posts for the whole year.

Well this year I have decided to stick with only 3 items and try to achieve it. Here it goes:

  1. Thanks to my new favorite activity of Running that I picked in Sep 2011,now I would like to run 500 miles by the end of 2012 if my legs can keep up.
  2. Become a Good Sharepoint developer, I’m just now in the ice breaking phase.
  3. Less Coffee more tea.

All of the above require need a lot of dedication and motivation to accomplish. Hopefully I keep my self motivated to achieve all of it before end of 2012.

April 2,2011 a day to remember

April 2,2011 a day to remember in my life and for lot of my friends as well. This is the day Team India won the 2011 cricket world cup after waiting for 28 years.

The last time we won in June 25th 1983 I was a 3 month baby and missed it out but this time I’m here alive celebrating, enjoying every moment and going nuts. I’m still high on the victory and not sure if it will go off in a day.

I feel bad that I’m not in my home Chennai, India to celebrate and party with the crowd.

Lot of people turned for the world cup finals @ my place and we had a huge party after the match and totally enjoyed it. It was worth spending money on Willow TV for watching the match.

Here is an winning moment video:

 

Timewarner internet sucks

After being awake the whole night watching India vs England match my Internet connection dropped during the first 10 overs of second innings still not back up.

I’m pissed,sleepless and really can’t understand y the modem would go offline for an unknown reason.

This has made me to depend on att for the score updates and that’s how desperate I’m to watch the match and couldn’t find any open wifi as well.

2010 & To do list for 2011

Well I know its a little late to post my resolutions for 2011 but its always never late to do things.

Before going into the list 2010 has been one of the most stablest year in my life.No downturns, no pressure, no worries, no unplanned issues rising up,no resolutions to catch up for, tons of free time to spend time with my friends and I even made a 1 month trip to India for Diwali.  2010 was a year where I just roamed around in my own careless way.

So for 2011 I have a list of resolution that I need get it through and pretty much every thing is possible with a little bit of commitment on my end. Here it goes:

  1. To get my California motorcycle license. No more excuses I live in California and I have to enjoy the summer cruising in my bike. If my finances are good may be buy a bike/scooter to ride to office.
  2. To drop off like 10 pounds which I have gained in all of 2010. No more slacking around gotta hit the Gym.
  3. Spend less time on Netflix online.  This will be the hardest one to keep up since I’m a big time movie watcher.
  4. Work on some open source project and being a Coldfusion developer my first preference would be to work on coldbox open source projects/plugins/modules the best CF framework out there.
  5. Blog more on Coldfusion/Coldbox or pretty much any web related technology.
  6. Visit Yellowstone national park. One of the few places that I have been planning to go for a long time.
  7. Visit Tulsa my alma mater and visit some of my friends back there.

Well that’s pretty much the list I can think of right now and hopefully I will be able to achieve some of it by 2012.

Carton of Milk – 2$, Nokia N85 – 300$, the joy when the phone works after dropping the N85 in milk – priceless

I really wish I didn’t do this mistake of trying to save 2$ milk carton from falling down and dropping my N85 in to my cup of milk when I was preparing my coffee while I was talking to my bro at the same time.

I did the usual stuff that I usually do when my equipments has water damage like completely dismantle it and let it dry for a day and try it back again. Most of the time it has worked for me and since the phone is from Nokia, the percentage of survival is little higher then other manufactures.

Multitasking has its share of failures like this, may be that’s why apple decided not to include Multitasking in ipad.

Until then I will try to resurrect my old HTC SDA phone which had suffered its own 30 feet drops, water damage and living in freezer for an hour :) and btw it worked all the time without issues. I decided to replace it only when its charger connection got loose which made it harder for me to charge the device.

I hope the N85 can also survive all the sufferings as good as HTC SDA has suffered in my hands. It has gone through a 20 feet drop and made out alive so lets see if it can survive the water damage.

Now I will have to wait for another 24 hrs to figure out if my phone can be revived or not.

Please email/im me if you need to contact me before that.

Yet another quake as I write this post. It shud be easily a 4 and we got after shocks.

-Updated April 4, 2010 @ 7.46PM

Well the phone is working perfectly as of this moment without issue. Thank you Nokia.

Carton of Milk – 2$, Nokia N85 – 300$, the joy when the phone works after dropping the N85 in milk – priceless :)



Stop Rocking when I’m asleep..

Just woke up to the news on radio that there was a 4.4 earthquake near Los angles and I didn’t even feel a bit  although I see a few entries from Redlands in the did you feel site.

Well gotta move the bed away from the windows, lets hope I do it by next year. May be I should use twitter for these kind of posts..

too many list of things of to do and too sleepy as well..time for a quick nap between the snoozes and blogging..

Bitten by the ATT data bug

I was caught unaware, unprepared and without guard when it bit me.

Yes, today I was bitten by a huge bill of 120$ of data charge for 12,000KB of data for my ATT wireless phone service.  So thats roughly a penny per kilobyte which is one of the costliest KB that I have ever paid for in my life.

Probably my new phone N85 should have connected to the internet without my knowledge during the initial days of buying it.

If you don’t intend to use data over wireless please call your provider immediately and block/opt-out of it A.S.A.P because one day or the other you will be bitten by this bug and it will be painful.

BTW my friends have warned me about this for a some time but I didn’t care about it much but today I feel the pain.

You have been warned !!!!!

BTW this wouldn’t happen in India because data plans are too cheap then here.

2 down 3 more to go

Yes people it doesn’t happen all time to me but this year 2009 I’m walking the road that I decided to go through 4 months ago.

Now I will be happy to strike off 2 items from the list.

  1. Lose that 10 pounds that I gained last year. I have already started working on it and lost 3 7 pounds in a month so I expect to lose that 10 by end of April 2009. Its slow but works for me.
  2. Get my parents to USA one that has been failing for the last 2 years.
  3. Jump into Adobe Flex.
  4. Talk/read less about the srilankan ethnic issue which I was doing a lot during 2008. Its just too dragging and I have strong appetite to read about it so I’m planning to reduce that appetite.
  5. Increase my blogs viewers base and posts more on tech rather than on politics. It would be hard since 2009 is a election year in India.

I thought loosing the weight would be the hardest but eventually that was not hard but to control  my appetite to read the Srilanka issue was the hardest. Still I read about it here and then but I have completely stopped my urge to blog about it.

With elections coming up in India Google sends in more traffic for the electoral list search post.

Getting my parents here is still a mystery :)

Still 8 more months to go and I hope I will be done with the other 2 as well.

“Start from where u r then where u want to be”..

Palm Springs 2009 trip

I just visited palm springs today and the weather was good.  As per the tram that’s marvel of engineering going from 2500 ft to 8500ft in 10 minutes you can’t beat that.

Well if you are near by its good to visit now since there is lot of snow out there and probably melt away in a a fortnight. So get moving..

End of Tax Season 2008…

Generally I procrastinate filing the tax every year but this year I filed it too early considering my standard.

Although I’m not getting much in federal and paying some to CA :( tax its the free e-file feature, sudden interest to file my tax and get the return before federal govt goes bankrupt  ;)   that motivated me to file early.

Thanks to FreeTaxUSA.Com for providing free federal tax return using the coupon code ‘FEDFREE‘.

People say California is on the verge of going bankrupt but still they made to provide this free e-file tool called CalFile which is pretty good. Instead of free e-file California can just remove the state tax itself :twisted: , I wish……..

Both the free e-file option are basic  and it should be good for most of my single friends in H1b or in F1 OPT.

Free aaah Kudutha ……. :lol:

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