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The Butterfly Flutters

September 7, 2005 General

The ButterFly After all that depressing moments earlier, I have some cheerful news to share with you folks. You must have seen this red cutie as my favicon. It has been selected by Daniel Burka on his website DeltaTangoBravo. Do drop in to check some of the classy stuff that people have done and also to check my cutie. Really, I never knew favicons could be such an important source of creativity for designers. Many thanks to Daniel and his concept.

I have already finished redoing the butterfly in a totally new avatar. You can call it my new identity if you like. I will display it at an appropriate time to all :-)

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A Day I Would Love to Forget!

September 5, 2005 General

I don’t know how many of us can foresee an eventful day when we wake up early morning. I couldn’t either and hence this article comes up :-)

It was like everything had to go wrong for me right from the word ‘go’. When I was taking mummy to the hotel from the hospital, the taxi driver took a longer route and I ended up paying out of my shallow pockets. He didn’t have the necessary change to give me too. Then on my way to the office I encountered another driver who did a similar thing by taking a longer route. I guess every one was briefed about taking their passengers on a ‘joy ride’ today by the Taxi Union. By the time my day was over and I met mummy again at the room, I took another taxi ride to the station. This time the driver didn’t have even 2 rupees to pay me the extra change for Rs. 20. So I obliged by fishing out the last penny that I could find from my big bag and yet it was 50ps less which he didn’t mind :-)

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Macromedia Studio 8 Launch

September 2, 2005 General

Macromedia Studio 8I was priveleged to attend the launch of Macromedia Studio 8. I say so not because I received a special invite from Macromedia but my plans almost got scuttled with Jayant announcing the monthly marketing meet today. Thankfully Giri understood the importance of attending the seminar and I was relieved for half a day.

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Here Comes ‘Katrina’

August 29, 2005 General

Hurricane KatrinaMy fellow Indians are excused from thinking that I am going to talk about Katrina Kaif but this really is much more serious than even her acting. Hurricane Katrina hit the US landfall today morning (IST) and was headed towards the city of New Orleans. I experienced the fury first-hand on CNN and they did a fantastic job of sending reporters right in the path of the storm. The eye of the storm is said to be 50 kms and it was rated to be category 5. This evening though it was downgraded to Category 3 but still devastating enough. All this information was thanks to Randhir who got me into thinking mode and I searched the web franctically for more information. As I mentioned somewhere on this blog that he has this passion for following hurricanes.

As the storm narrowly misses New Orleans, it is now heading towards Mississippi. Meanwhile read more about Hurricanes/Typhoons/Cyclones here.

Confirmed @ TCS

August 27, 2005 General

Well sorry for my long absence from the blog but I was engaged in making my presentation for my early confirmation which finally happened yesterday. I was more tensed & nervous then when I was first interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The presentation I made was in Flash which was different from the rest who would normally use Powerpoint. It was segregated into 6 categories namely Production, Creative Design, Web Design, Client Projects, Internal Support & Future Plans. It was more of verbal discussion than anything else and I did a fine job of it. In the end my work, my presentation and my achievements in the short span at TCS were appreciated by the Head of Internal Branding and HR. I was so relieved after the interview that I ate like a hog later in the lunch time! :-)

Later in the evening, we went to Cafe Mondegar at Colaba where Suku, Giri, Sindhu, Randhir and Aadesh , we all chilled out. It was a party which they gave me for my confirmation and I am grateful to them. I was supposed to be there for half an hour but it stretched to 9 in the midnight.

Here’s to my happiness & prosperity at TCS. Cheers! :-)