Nukkad

2003-01-27T12:30:00.000-08:00

This is my first blog after being moved to NY. Its been a harsh welcome for me to NY since i moved here in one of the coldest winters in past 20 yrs.

Me being from India and lived in Singapore and California had never seen cold in my life, so it is really tough for me to bear this cold. Its 12 F today (-10 C) :-(.

If its just cold its okai...its cold and windy, it just goes p your head. My head pains everyday. I wear 'n' layers of cloths.

there are so many things to carry with you
1. Jacket
2. Subway Ticket,
3. Chapstic
4. Subway Ticket
5. Gloves
6. Hat
7. Muflar

i just keep checking on them, so that i don't forget any of them anywhere because life without any of these things will suck bigtime.

People are not as bad as they say. they are helpful and do pass a smile on occasion. Girls are amazingly beautiful. Subways are as DITRY as the characters of those amazing loking girls lol!! Singapore MRT is so much more cleaner. I miss singapore for hte good food and the cleaniless.

Traffic is bad, people do not follow rules, Insurance is soo high, you never get parking. All the cars look old and dirty... people do not value their cars (so it seems).

Jackson Haights (Little India) is the dirtiest of all the places in NY (amongst the places i have seen). But you get everything there. So every desi has to go there.

Times Square is happeneing even in this dirty cold, i am wondering how its going to be in summer, they say the crowd increases five folds in summer. :-( jsut to reach office i will have to dodge 5000 visitors with their handycams looking up.

All n all i have still not figured out the city much and still am wondering if I have missd somehting,or something will happen that will make me like hte city. May be its the summer i am waiting for.

2002-12-20T19:03:00.000-08:00

Today we had a last party at our office, people were dancing and having soo much fun, like there is no tomorrow. Well there isn't any, atleast in this company, cuz we are closing down on 31st.

Company will look like a ghost town from now on, cuz most of the people have already left, or are on vacation starting from monday.

One month back the whole picture was so fade, no one knew what lies in the future, who will be where donig what, but now its getting much clearer and in most cases for good.

People have moved to many locations, in various companies and we have made few yahoo groups to keep in touch. Feels like we have representation in many comapnies now.

Technology is making a big difference in keeping people in touch and sharing the resuorces. Hail Internet.

I hope people who have jobs will try and get some of the other talented people in their company.

Once again as they say, whatever happens, Happens for good. Lets see, I shall come back to this comment 6 months down.

2002-12-15T11:30:00.000-08:00

BJP wins in gujrat

Oh well, looks like hindu's outnumbered muslims in Gujrat (gald to know, muslim population is growing like crazy in india). This election was just matter of numbers. And Nothing else Matters.

If you are itching to blast a paki, or just in for a laughter check this morons blog

2002-12-14T10:52:00.000-08:00

ANOTHER COOL SITE FOR FREE 24 HOUR HINDI SONGS

I love the selection. I am falling in love with the old songs all all over again.

2002-12-13T16:19:00.000-08:00

for those of you related to Web Services Interop issues, i just wanted to mention

-C# doesn't work with anything but Soap Arrays, if you plan to use minOccur, maxOccur forget about interop

-If your web service return an object holding an array inside it, it will not work with C#, its too dumb to understand an empty array with an Object

2002-12-13T15:49:00.000-08:00

Everyone in my office is being laid off , the company is shutting down on dec 31st.

I see a lot of people with sad faces everyday, there is frustration, uncertainity, fear and for some H1B people, its an ultimatum to find a job within 30 days or go back to their own country.

Most of them have no idea what they will be doing after 31st. New yr with new challange.

few thaings that i have heard are-

"i'll go on extended vacation"
"i'll move to east coast, there seems to be more jobs there"
"i'll sit at home and ask my husband to feed me"
"i am planning on having a baby, since i think its going to be a while before i get another job"
"India isn't such a bad place after all, i should get a job easily in india."
"government pays 1300$ per month for 6 months, i am sure by then i will have something in my hands"
"i'll go to places where i couldn't go due to less vacations, now that i have an open ended vacation, let me fulfill that dream."
"Perfect time to get back to studies"

Company informed us about this closure 6 months in advance, It was in a way good and bad.

Good because many people while at work were looking around for job and some were lucky to find one.

Bad because it was like dying slowly, instead of saying Hi in the morning people will ask "Kuch Mila Kya?" (any job news) just to hear the same old sad NO.

Most of the people have left. Remaming 30% of us have just decided to celebrate the last few days, parties, games lunches. Making yahooo groups, taking pictures stuff like that. But deep inside everyone is SAD. It sucks to be one of us right now.

2002-12-13T13:50:00.000-08:00

BASSDRIVE

for all you techno music freaks .. check out this 24 hour amazing techno music site, its free.

If you like it..drop a couple of bucks..in the online beggin box (paypal).

2002-12-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

GOOOOOGLE THREAT

I fear google is another Microsoft in the making, There is absolutely no compitition, they have the biggest database of sites which is getting bigger everyday.

To make a company to compete with Google will not be an easy task, just like microsoft. They might start chargnig for easch search. Even if they charge 1 cent per search they will be HUGE within no time.

check out Google lab and FROOGLE, i mean as a company they are doing really good and the products are nice and user friendly. BUT i just don't like them to be the only player in the search engine market.

BTW, bloggin is really messing up google's search algorithm.

How google works is it weighs a web page depending on how many other web pagers have a link to the web page being evaluated.

So with weblogs, since there are so many circular links from each site, its messing up the algo. So if blogs become a huge success they will have to change their such a successful algo for searching.

2002-12-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

I know i have not been posting lately, but i was in the midst of a huge career problem, so first things first.

Also, what I think is, to be a good blogger one needs to make openion about things one observes and reads, I am not particularly good at that. since i believe that i might not be able to think from all the angles and i might miss out on some crutial view...

but then i should not think so hard, its just a blog

2002-12-13T09:59:00.000-08:00

I was reading this blog by these two indian girls in Sunnyvale,
Dancing with Dogs. Good stuff.

The top comment was regarding these manufacturers who use the images of Hindu Gods on the various products, and how they would not write ALLAH on the same things may be due to the scare.

According to me, if we care about our feelings about Hinduism, we should make sure that they have something to worry about before they use the images.

I am not sure how to do it and I do not support what Muslim Extremists have done in the name of religion. There must be a way.

For all you know, they might not even know that it’s an image of Hindu god. They might think its just a good-looking design.

2002-12-13T09:47:00.000-08:00

So finally i have decided to move to NY, new year in new york. The work seems good, the future prospects look good and I HAVE NO OTHER OPTION.

I hope I can take 'The City' and its cold.

2002-09-05T10:33:00.000-07:00

Still decidnig.....long decision eh?

2002-07-01T16:07:00.000-07:00

which place sounds interesting to you for living??? Mumbai?? Bankok?? Paris?? NY?? St Luis (i dunno where that is....but some where on the east coast...)

I have to make a decision pretty soon....any suggestions?

2002-06-26T11:52:00.000-07:00

Google is one company that i thought was untouchable by microsoft in anyway, but i think they are gettting there...
Special Treatment to begin with.

BTW for all of those who have a programming KIDA in their backs...here is some Food for thought

2002-06-26T10:36:00.000-07:00

There is nuthing called 'Good time to get into stocks'....

when the market went down to 1700 after 9/11 i asked a few friends how low could it go..and that was the best time to invest..I EAT MY WORDS now...the mighty NASDAQ is hovering around 1350-1400 damn!! (thanks to worldcom)

... now i know the lowest positive value it can go is 0, does nasdaq software allow negative index?

thank god i just watch it....i never got into it...:-P

2002-06-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

Everyone interested in INDIA should listen to Luda Krishna

2002-06-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

i started using Mozilla lately..i use one feature of MSN mesanger wherein i can check my mail by just clicking on a link provided in MSN, now how that works is..it creates a temporary short lived file somewhere on your hard disc and opens thats file in a browser window..which in turn calls hotmail.com with the login details.

Now when i chenged my default browser to Mozilla, what happens is if there is no instance of the browser running... it takes so much time to load mozilla first time that the life of the file created by the MSN messager is over and the browser which tries to load that file gives 404 :-( but if we alreay have an instance of Mozilla running..it just works fine.

What i am wondering is...does mozilla seriously takes such a long time...or is it some microsoft tric to force users to use IE?

i know its a stupid observation but may be this should go under JK's Observations lol!!

2002-06-17T16:24:00.000-07:00

for all the single dudes..who like good food... Make it yourself

2002-06-17T10:03:00.000-07:00

I saw "The Legends Of Bhagat Singh" this friday, man o man... what a movie, i mean i really loved it...

This movie tells us what some people have gone thru to get us freedom from the GORA's

And now that we come back and work for them just for some money...and comfort???? YIKES.

There is a seen in the movie where Sukhdev makes fun of a few students who support british thoughts...and it seemed to me as if he was directly addressing the todays young generation.

All n All a must see movie.

I was looking up the net for some history about Bhagat Singh and i came across this site which has all the history of india..and very interesting contents... Kamatz

And if u like a bit of indian look on your computer background.. here is one that i liked... Wallpaper

2002-06-13T17:55:00.000-07:00

aren't u tired of IE? i am..:-)

if u are tired but dunno any as good compititor....try Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11T15:44:00.000-07:00

In Java Object's Reference is passed by Value

2002-06-11T10:48:00.000-07:00

for a little more serious stuff about india and books..and life...check out...JK's Observations

2002-06-11T10:23:00.000-07:00

for those who get stuck to the mexican channels just because of the beauty..or for desi's who love all the easy mexican chicks in the clubs.. make it easy for yourself and LEARN SPANISH!!!

2002-06-11T10:19:00.000-07:00

If you spell amateur as amature See this It might be really really helpful

2002-06-03T17:02:00.000-07:00

change is the only constant thing in the world

2002-06-03T14:59:00.000-07:00

Facts,

1. When I lived in India, I couldn't wait to leave it...

2. Now that I am in the US, the fear of loosing my job scares me to death.. why? because I might have to go back to India....for good

3. I feel the people who have Green Card have reached Nirvana....

4. Most of the Indians when faced with others...see them as the biggest competition, and wouldn't even pass a smile while they would go out of the way to ask "hey, howz it going" to a firang...with the biggest smile possible.

5. How we feel great in taking credit for all the tradition and things that our ancestors have created over the years.

6. The biggest topic when a bunch of Indians get together is to crib about all the things that are bad in India, about all the people who are running the country badly. Or to compare the two societies and just tell ourselves how great we are.

7. Still I keep saying to others and myself how much I love India... and am proud to be Indian...

Doesn’t it seem weird to you how there we talk one thing and do another???

How can there be any love for India in your heart when even the dream of living there...scares you???

When we talk about bad things in India and bad people running the country…ask yourselves …Why isn’t u there to make the difference? Why aren't people, who have the greatest potential to run the country and make a difference in its modern existence there?

Why are we making other countries that might not represent ‘the Indian way’ more richer more advanced?

We are a bunch of selfish, mediocre, educated, slaves of our status, best place for whom is Blogger as all we do is bla bla bla...

This is true for most of us...but there are certain poeple like Mahatma Gandhi who came to india when he was 30-35 and then changed the whole nation with his vision and wisdom that he gained by travelling all over the world.

2002-06-03T14:02:00.000-07:00

I want money.
I don't need it, just want it.
Will accept all kinds(pennies,hundred dollar bils,pesos,etc)
I have no skills nor desire to acquire any.
I have nothing to barter or sell.
Not willing to help you out around the house or help you move.
I am lazy and don't want to work, but still enjoy the finer things in life.
If you have any laying around, or want to go get a second job and just send me the check, let me know.
You can send it to my pay pal account as soon as you set one up for me.
Otherwise you can deliver it to my home.
No, I will not come pick it up.
You can set up monthly payments if it is more convenient for me, or you can just give me a lump sum.

-Money-ish

2002-05-31T17:06:00.000-07:00

did u know.... not doing anything is harder than doing the biggest thing on earth...??? i just realized it..

2002-05-31T16:00:00.000-07:00

When will the War start and when will we kick Paki Ass...???