Platonic

I have been quite busy this month with both work and studies. Mean while have been making short trips to home and office almost every day. Till yesterday it was quite hard to think about driving as there is no one yet to fill in the next seat. So, I had to go ahead tag along a Pioneer Music system with JBL GTS Series Speakers with Components  and now my car rocks. Hop in when you get time

Pioneer DEH-P5090UB

Features

o Segmented OEL (Organic EL) display
o MP3/WMA/AAC playback
o Direct AUX-in by mini jack (rear)
o USB direct connection: USB 2.0 (full speed)
o iPod direct connection (Optional: use with CD-IU50)
o Bluetooth adapter ready
o IP-Bus
o Advanced Sound Retriever
o EEQ
+ 3-band parametric equalizer
+ HPF/LPF
+ Bass Boost
o Rotary Commander
o Direct Sub Drive
o 3 RCA pre-outs (front + rear + subwoofer)

JBL GTS 650C for Front with Components  and Rear Oval’s

Next I got to put an Amplifier and a sub woofer finish with my audio system shopping.

Its time to Rock…

Me and my recruitment crew @ HKBK Engineering college, Nagawara. Bangalore.

We gave an intro about the career opportunities available in Free and OpenSource World to students who are in search of jobs.

Studying “Economics for Managers”… Have got two papers to clear tomorrow.The topics covered under this subject reminds me about my highschool social studies classes. We used to study Social Science in first period on most of the days as my class teacher used to teach Hindi and Social Science.

There is lot that happens in world economics every day and its time for me to study some basics.

Its tempting to take some rest during the weekend though

After 4 and a half hours of play, Rafa Nadal beats Roger Federer in the Men’s Wimbledon Tennis Single tourney. Nadal’s 6-4 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-7 (8-10) 9-7 victory will go down as one of the finest in Grand Slam history! One of the logest match recorded. Its an end for Roger Federer’s 5 year reign over Men’s wimbledon trophy.

Ah! At last I’m done with first set of MBA exams. Exams are always fun for me but this time it was bit different as I was away from all this for quite a long time now.

Asking tricky questions on work floor, on blog posts, during lunch and coffee fills in joy. Every one enjoys and at times they get irritated too along with me as I also get to face such questions from others. Today it was quite easy to answer the papers both in morning and afternoon sessions as I had to mark the answers in OMR sheets. Question papers were easy enough. It would have been difficult if I had to write the answers for all 70 questions in each paper.

Till today morning it was a big burden to finish reading what all I had planned. Now relaxing at home. Watching Wimbledon Championship and enjoying Federer and Nadal once again on this green lawn. Desperately want to watch few movies tonight and forget the nightmare created by exam for a day and then I will be back to studies again as I have got 6 more papers to finish in coming 3 sundays this month.

I have got to share few words about Chetan Bhagat’s new book “the 3 mistakes of my life” I shall do it once I’m done with the reading tonight.

Till then, enjoy few more good hours of your weekend…

Image source: Sampada.net

Well known Kannada science and technology writer and music critic Prof. G.T Narayana Rao passed away this morning. He used to write science for the masses. His writings were appreciated for its style and simplicity used in language. Its a great loss for Kannada science literature world.

I got to know more about G.T.N after viewing podcast posted at Sampada and his views on technical writing had really moved me. I would like to follow his path and try my best to make technology reachable to all. That will be a small tribute to Prof. G.T.N from my end.

Read more :

• Ismail’s write up: My Father, Stars and G.T.N
  
• Sampada Podcasts (Audio and Video)
• G.T.N Profile and News updates @ Star of mysore
• Teacher’s Day: Yet another Routine Ritual - By G.T.N

Me and my friends wanted to spend some time outside the city and we decided to visit Mahadevapura bird sanctuary in Mandya district. Its a very small village with a 600 year old Shiva’s temple which is displayed in the below. A quite reservoir where in you get to see lots of bird and you can also see “Kaveri” river flowing quitely near the village. Most of the village population found to be busy in their farms. Childern were found near the river enjoying the afternoon. It was a bright sunny day.

By afternoon we were too hungry, after visiting the temple we decided to visit “Sriranga pattaNa” but we ended up landing in Mysore. Had nice lunch and finalized our plan to visit Chamundeshwari hills. You can see the gopura of chamudeshwari temple.

I learnt lots of driving tricks from my friend during this trip. Gained some confidence too on highways. It was all fun and adventure. By the end of the day I was so tired but had to drive back home on my own for 2 hours with in the city limits. Felt so releaved once I hit the sack.

Hard work is on

Sun set in Mysore

I could not update my blog about my car after that day. As posted earlier days have been quite busy. Not because I bought a new car. The day I took my new car home on my own driving carefully on the rush hour in Marathahalli, Habbal I don’t know what really happened to me. I started driving with all josh and never felt that I’m driving the car for the first time in such traffic. I still had my learners license in my wallet.

I had to come back to my office that night as I could not pickup one of my friend who works in JP Morgan on ring road. It was all first time for me on main roads. Searching for some address on a rush street. I had to concentrate on traffic, signals, pedestrians, time, petrol in my tank (I had got only 2 liters of petrol in my tank).

When I reached office I could share some sweets with some night shift colleagues and then started off from there at around 12:30. Roads were damn empty and I found that to be an heaven as I had no fear driving in smooth roads.

Road blocks were found to be waiting for me at Binny mill near Mysore road. I had to take ‘U’ turn and get back to an another way to reach Majestic via “goods shed road”. But there was an another block near City railway station and I was tested to drive in a narrow way near “Ananda Rao circle” which is just apposite to City Railway station and City Bus stop. Once that is done, I could drive the rest of streatch with lots of ease. One of my office cab drive had come along with me for help incase I had any emergency. I could drive without any issues and he was a moral support for me at that time.

When I reached my home it was around 1:30 or 1:45 AM and my parents and my younger brother who were still awake to see my vehicle were too happy to see me driving the vehicle.

All helped my take my bags inside and we got less chance to talk that night as we had to go to temple next day morning to do pooja for the vehilce. I had a nice sleep for 3-4 hours that night and I was back online

Next day morning I took my family to near by Ganesha temple and did pooja for my new vehicle.

Wanna know what happened afterwards? An another long story. Will tell about that some other time. I can just give you an update here about the current status. I have touched 500 Km’s last sunday and currently my speedometer reads 810Km. Planning to hit 1000/1200 Km in next month first week and leave the vehicle for first service. (Oh yes, right now my vehicle is in service station. will give you an update on that too) Till then check out these pics.