B'day blog - my 28th year

This is an 'I' blog. I have avoided them till now and tried to write generically. But this ones so much about me, it has to be an 'I' blog. An 'I' blog goes like, I like this, I hate that, Iiii. Thats why I avoid them. I am not that confident with using I. I am comfortable with using I, when I make simpler statements such as, I am a good person, but I am gonna f*** you if you play me as village idiot, but I am a good person. Read between the lines dummy! I might possibly be giving an impression of confident, competent, successful etc corporate ladder climber right now, but if you go over the list below, you might think, so theres another unsure dreamy dumb-ass, whos response to aggrevation would most probably be to fall sleep. On with the blog and over with the prologue.


Little hammered in the head by all the booze last night / my bday, I am using Gedit to write a blog. I am another guy who is in-these days, because so is linux. * I think its okay to subvertise linux - i love its black screen shortcut * shiver * So it gets colder at nights in Hyderabad. I tried a number of things this year, lets say they were all missions, which were successful or failures or are still going on. Its a mildly funny list of many diverse activities, see

1. Kayaking - mission aborted - left after I fell overboard and found myself surrounded by islands of floating animal dung in the city lake. It was horrifying. its another funny story, how i was persuaded to show my kayaking prowess on the particular day, when possibly, a huge pipe of some kind, burst somewhere under the lake.
2. Sketching - mission aborted - I sketched a few times, I draw like a kid. Dint get much practice, as i think you cant do it when on move, hmmm... unless its a girl that you are drawing... but then as subjects i prefer objects, locations and landscape; to people.
3. Flute - operation underway - yeah.. old hindi songs, whistle along, as i up and down to work, and play to my grannies, and play it for the mommies
4. Business plan for a car accessory - mission in salvage mode - I have changed the title of business plan to suit a magazine and sent it as an article.
   
5. Paper to IEEE journal - mission failure - It got rejected just as earlier papers. The trick to use sophisticated words didnt work, they soon realized that its too basic. Some of my other friends filed patents this while. It might not be that big a deal to have a patent on your name, who knows.
6. Hip-hop dance classes - operation underway - Well i just started and have injured no bones till. I think this thing will go a long way and make me cooler for a longer time. Well, other than that I am still looking for a comeback to a friend who called me 'wannabe' uncle-bhaiya :-)
7. Electric rickshaw project - mission failure - oh! I really wanted to make an electric rickshaw, I need more focus, possibly come back here again, after I am comfortable taking up some garage type of projects
8. Android SMS application - mission failure - never really tapped a finger seriously on the keyboard
9. Organic farming - operation underway - like other projects am slow on it. the major risk being this project is undefined in objectives.
10. Make a windturbine at home - operation underway - i think, i need to enlist another troop with me and visit the jumme-rat (chor market on thus night in old city) to buy some junk that we can put together
11. Art related business plan - mission close to failure - hey but I can really appreciate art now, and dont find it boring at all. Infact I find it inspiring. I still got one trick left under the sleeve.
12. Becoming a vegetarian - mission failure - i would not succeeded even if i stayed in vashnoo devi or rishikesh; and hyderabad is none like those places.
13. Finding a girl friend - mission failure - now, i have been quite aggressive on this front and tried a couple of really fresh/innovative ideas... finally the guy is taking charge. i came up with a walking service idea, wherein i would walk single women back to their homes after work (same route). I am a better cupid than a lover, because it got some other singles together. Things that dont work for me are - location, sunset, sunrise, new ideas, orkut, LDR, etc etc. No birds hit, the score is 0 and still the thought of commitment issss sssccccaryyyy... to the extent that the bones stifen up and I am put into a timeless still.
14. Learning telgu - operation underway - bagaundi progres... Telgu is known as Italian of the east. My other northy friends dont dig that, but they might not know better. It sure is a sweet language.

I am not anywhere close to becoming an entrepreneur. I thought I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Then I thought I want to do something, where I get to do a lot a experiments and if possible apply them to solve problems. But that can be an entrepreneur. I even dont know, if the above list qualifies or dis-qualifies to become an entrepreneurs. Because there are so many books out there, written by really smart people who have done it. Lets not get into that, they always make me ponder, hey this guy is right... i shouldda said NO to some activity or the other. Theres something with the word NO and these people. I can imagine them stepping into a class full of MBA students, and chalking a word NO on the board, stretched over one end to the other. They they turn back to class, say, "Thats what you need to master. Now I am leaving for a cross-country cycling in Himalayas. You all need to think about it in all the periods that I am scheduled to take for this semester. Thats an example of efficiency..." I can even imagine the students writing a huge NO on their answer sheets...

I have a new job function, other than all these missions. I have been in customer apps team for sometime. In simple terms, which seems to please everyone except my mother, I call it my companies call center. The customer contacts us with a bug or a query on the some use cases for the product we sell (that means a bunch of software modules), we buffer the requests and process them. In 30% or so of the cases, we go back to the development team and have them work on it. There is a lot of customer interaction and internal interactions, I think, something that would do me good. This is an aggressive role, somewhat ante to how I usually think. Perhaps the experience would fill a gap that needs to be bridged. The challenges are, working on a use case means working on multiple software modules, maintaining a balance b/w do-it-myself and passing-tracking-it, and having a vision for tomorrow. One day it looks simple, and the next day, I am stuck in office, cursing the tools or documents, etc with customer issues. Anyway, I am not in line of fire path yet, so its overall a chill.

Its been a good year, though I think I have aged a little faster than other years. I need to be more careful going ahead and keep a check on my dog habits. Possibly cook a bit more myself and get better at buying/stocking stuff. Thats all for the year, and I am 28. Hopefully I will be as young or younger, still next year. :-)


Love you all!!!