Me Myself Ashok

World Aids Day

2009-12-01T13:57:00.004+08:00

Dedicating this post to World Aids Day spreading the awareness to all. http://www.worldaidsday.org/

Below are the worlds latest stats
33.4 Million people living with HIV worldwide.
31.3 Million adults
15.7 Million women
2.1 Million children under 15

**Practise Safe Sex & Never share needles, syringes or any other injecting equipment.

Must Watches For 2009 (Thriller&Horror Fans)

2009-11-25T16:49:00.007+08:00

Though I havent been blogging for couple of months I been doing one thing regularly...watching lots of muvees :):)

Here I'm listing couple of movies which I watched over last few days thats been best thrilling and creeply horror it was really worth watching them.

First comes the Orphan released last month October was one good physco thriller I watched in the recent times with lots of anxiety building to know more and more about the characters. I couldnt miss any frame of the movie and never felt bored at any part of the movie. It just glued me to my seat for the entire run of movie finally the overall movie was thrilling and new with good screenplay and casting.

Paranormal Activity I had this movie for a week but didnt had time to watch it untill I received a mail from my friend saying the movie is a must watch for all Horror Fans and I watched... Man it was awesome terrific and mindblowing movie the concept was so simple&plain...A couple shooting their daily stuff inorder to find out a creepy ghostly entity troubling the lady in the movie. Although there wasnt any scary background score or any special effects it just sends you shiver across your spine and I literally couldnt shut my mouth up especially at the night scenes and movie builds up so much anxiety to know whats going on...Trust me a must watch movie for all the Horror Fans.

Won 5K run at Astro this time

2009-11-01T01:45:00.004+08:00

Thrilled excited it was a smooth finish unlike the last year one when I ended up exhausted quite early inspite of the daily jogging I do, But this time all the health freaky stuff I did paid off finally getting me 2nd position in the 5K run held at our client company Astro.

Rest In Peace Y.S.R

2009-09-03T17:15:00.004+08:00

It has been a non stop turmoil all over the Andhra Pradesh for last 24 hours since Dr.Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy and his entourage went missing after taking off in their chopper from Hyderabad yesterday.
Felt very saddening to see someone all fine and healthy go missing and finally news come out he is no more...It has been quite a disturbing news for their families and dear ones may they have all the courage to stand this situation.

Though personally I'm not any political clan supporter since after the 2009 poll results came out I was impressed by YSR for his charisma and dynamic leadership for leading up congress to power for the 2nd consecutive year. Though there were lot of new changes in AP politics during 2009 elections with new parties popping up and the movie glamsham taking bigger role in campaining. YSR stood firm with out any such aid to bring back congress to power.

May his soul Rest In Peace

Hope whoever takes the next role of AP ruler be much more efficient and good administrator than the previous leaders and shape our state in good terms.

So Bored Until I do this

2009-08-10T16:12:00.018+08:00

Might be coz of lack of content work at office or should I say life moving on pretty slow mode...put me in new arena that's online gaming which I normally ignore saying that its some junkie addictions but now have been spending most of the time these days playing games on Facebook like FarmVillie, Just for fun quizzes & Mario etc.
Until I stopped watching online news and stuff even felt dreaming the online games sometimes when I sleep.
And here's one such just out of killing time have been looking back at pictures of me visiting the Malaysia's Signature Twin Towers Sky Bridge which till now I did 3times in my three and half years stay here in Malaysia and Here how I was looking and changing year by year from past to now...

In 2007 at Twin Towers Sky Bridge...

In 2008 at Twin Towers Sky Bridge...

In 2009 at Twin Towers Sky Bridge...

Escaped from a P2P Trojan Virus on my PC today

2009-07-09T16:47:00.007+08:00

I just had quite an awful experience today as soon as I unlocked my PC in the morning at work received virus alert from my Avira Anti-Virus Guard saying "AntiVir has detected 'TR/Agent.coxr' in the file D:\Documents and Settings\User\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\rncsys32.exe"
And also noticed changes in my active desktop where some of my icons were unable to display and seemed corrupted which really scared me.

Then I realized the download I put last nite from not a very good trusted torrent site. And immediately scanned my entire PC for the malicious files and programmes which proved really good and detected few files immediately and healed them. And did a reboot of the PC that's it everything started back normal. Thanks to the Avira Anti-Virus Personal edition.

But in this process I learnt and came across some really useful info thats worth sharing:

1. Virus Guru is a website that helped me with its neat and clean description of the various virus, its risk factors and healing procedures.

2. Trusted Torrent sites with enormous increase of users who love downloading torrents the risk of getting trapped in malicious sites is higher and from today I choose not to search for any torrents in other than these sites which are been reviewed some of the best and here's the list"
1. The Pirate Bay
2. Mininova
3. Vertor
4. Demonoid
5. Torrentz
6. BtDig
7. Nowtorrents

Feels good to be 1year OLD

2009-07-02T22:35:00.019+08:00

Its the time to look back at what I have started a year back on this very same date...And thats my blog and today is its the first anniversary.
So it is time to look back on how did it work in world of blogging. During the start of my blog I’ve been using a widget which integrated with my site and collected the visitor count which was lacking details in the information then later I came across Google Analytics. It just impressed with its detailed report it not only shows visitor counts but also web browser people are using which version and at what screen resolution. It also gives average time each visitor spends on the site. For a free web analysis I suggest Google Analytics is very rich tool to look into it.

Here's a breif snapshot of my blog stats:

589 Total Visits
331 Absolute Unique Visitors
00:02:09 Average Time on Site
80.65% Bounce Rate
56.20% Percentage of New Visits
Malaysia, United States, India, Germany, United Kingdom, France being the top 6 countries contributing major traffic to the blog.

A very big THANKS to all the my visitors who spared their time to read the stuff on my blog I hope to continue this spirit of blogging with much more zeal and interest in coming days and bring up some best posts on it.

**************************Have a good day all you************************

Indegenously Bonded

2009-07-02T17:50:00.003+08:00

Being at new places always amazes me I always loved sneaking around new places and try a bit of their lifestyle (might be food, culture or language) and I had this chance being in Malaysia from last 3years which really made me bonded to this place sometimes I myself realize the way it just transformed me start from the food I eat, turning fitnessholic and even the TV programmes I watch daily every thing looks so changed.

I now mostly knew a lot of local dishes here from friends and have given it a try and coming to television I mostly watch out for AFC, Travel&Living or SITCOMS or Japanese/Chinese games shows on TV and sometimes even try my luck in making up conversations with my local friends here in my own knowledge of languages here.

Even the weather here the cloudy skies, sudden downpours, chilly breeze & greenery all around makes you feel pleasant after a tiring day at work. And the pleasant places so close to nature really a treat to watch for. And I decided to get my Mom & Sis here to Malaysia for a visit to experience all that I have been through.

Everything was set...things worked out so perfectly well that both my Mom & Sis finished their trip to Malaysia with fun and good experiences.

Creative logo designs with hidden symbols

2009-04-22T01:00:00.001+08:00

This ones is interesting and really caught my attention which I didnt notice for a while though been used to view them somewhere or the other. Here goes the list:

1)This logo is designed for a puzzle game that involves unraveling four clues . Hence the letters C-L-U-E are arranged to give a maze like appearance . Another cool part of this logo design is that it looks like a key when viewed from a distance . Now that's what I call sheer brilliance .

2)Amazon.com is a perfect example of powerful yet simple logo . The yellow arrow that points out from "a" to "z" neatly represents that they sell everything from A to Z . The subtle smile of the arrow's curve is an added bonus reflecting customer satisfaction .

3)

Toberone originated from Bern , a city in Switzerland that is rumored to mean as “The City of bears” . Now do you see the yellow bear in the logo of Toberone's Swiss Alps ? Pretty sneaky eh ? Its nice to see a little known fun fact being hidden in such a popular logo .

4)

The illustration of the Australian map in between her bent leg and stretched out arm is perfectly subtle . It would have been cooler though if the map was made on the lower part of her body posture ... as Australia is refereed to as the land "Down under" .

5)

The hidden symbol in this logo is known to many . Just in case you haven't seen it , there is a hidden white arrow between the orange alphabets "E" and "x".

6)

Notice the diamond shaped logo at the right actually had the alphabets S-U-N in it. Talk about symmetry . Now that's creative.

7)

Goodwill industries is a North American nonprofit organization which aids people with disadvantages . At first glance their logo looks like a face with a smile , but with a closer look you will notice the lower case 'g' in their logo .

ToDo list for 2009 I am doing 8 things!!!

2009-04-09T01:19:00.003+08:00

I knew its not the start of year or any special occasion to kick start something like this...ie setting goals and trying to achieve them but I do feel it necessary since life's just going so empty these days that I feel to light it up with some fun by dotting down few ToDo list.

AND Here's my list I'd like to achieve or atleast try to attempt doing this year:

1. Learn something new everyday either be professional skill or any personal stuff. (and post it in my blog)

2. Make sure to blog at least twice a week.

3. Trim down a bit & build a lil muscle by working out regularly.

4. Learn to do a Swimming Flip. This is fun i hope to post back with pics of me doing a flip

5. Try being more innovative...work the smart way instead of the other way.

6. Start continuning my higher studies.
Its been a long pause between my left over studies and first few years of work.

7. Enhance my skill set in my carrer stream thats Software Quality Assurance.
could be writing a white paper or learing a new tool or could be attending some training or so.

8. And lastly be regular to church, be good & do good for the people around you.

Lets see how far I suceed...hope I could atleast get out of emptiness and boredom with the cause of trying to achieve any of the above ToDo list.

Essential Checks to follow before any Website Launch

2009-04-08T18:48:00.004+08:00

Read this while digging today...looked quite useful and could be used as a set of standard regular checks to be performed by Software QA or DEV team before releasing any Website to production or Launch.

Here's the Checklist

Mails Poured Out Today...

2009-04-07T23:29:00.002+08:00

Now don't interpret the mails I meant to be any of my fan mails etc...:) was just jam packed at office today hit more than half century I mean received & replied as many as 55 mails on different stuff related to my work today. Time was just running out of hands so fast could see hours passing by with out knowing...But at the EOD been satisfied for sweeping off all the mails with out any thing much pending and made it on time to catch my bus to go back home and do my routine workout.
Now chillz have a good nite...

Everything Bouncing Back to Normal

2009-04-03T00:38:00.002+08:00

So glad to hear that everythings good at back home and spoke to mom she is just recovering good. Thanks to the almighty Lord. Quite relieved now feel everything bit light now.

Feeling bit low...

2009-04-01T00:23:00.001+08:00

For every one at some point of time have to give away few things or say miss being at some needy situations which we know are very important but its life and have to obey things that come along.

Recently after a regular diagnosis mom discovered stones in her Gall Bladder and the doctors suggested her to have treatment done for the problem but I being out of reach and Mom only being aided by sister in such essential times in India I feel pretty low though I read articles on NET and checked with few friends and families who consider the treatment to be very simple and doesn't even need to worry big about. I have my own fears for letting my Mom & Sister be alone...I just pray to the almighty Lord for a very safe treatment and get my Mom cured for the problem forever.

Hope everything goes in the way planned Have Mercy Upon Me Almighty Lord AMEN!!!

Slim Down Yourselves in Pictures with Weight Mirror

2009-03-31T11:35:00.004+08:00

Weight Mirror is an interesting web based tool I noticed across NET which I thought might be useful to friends and ppl who wanna see themselves instantly slim & sleek in their pictures...they advertise very high about themselves in satisfying the needs of slimming down the pictures.

**Personally I haven't tried this service anytime so don't blame me if it doesn't work to serve your desires, Use your un-used mail id while registering for the service.
Try it if you wanna have some fun and comment if you get turned slim with the tool.

FUN Web Tools I noticed...across last week II

2009-03-30T12:00:00.003+08:00

Here are few fun tools I noticed from few tech blogs and websites...

Type Alyzer - This is fun stuff just type in your blog address and see what it says about your personality, etc. Though it might not match your features exactly but it is some fun analyzing ur personal or friends blog details.

URL Rate - Type in your website address and know your value.
This actually evaluates the value of your website based on several factors shown in the website like Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.

EarthQuake Text - Try typing any text and see the text effect can download it and save it in any of your personal sites.

Did You Know?

2009-03-30T00:18:00.003+08:00

A nice video about the revelations of some fantastic surveyed proven data...

Google Launches new Feature Street View

2009-03-20T11:59:00.003+08:00

Google today launched the UK version of its Street View service, allowing people in the main British cities to view pictures of their homes and neighbourhoods online via the search engine's maps.

Look at this

View Larger Map

Read More From Original Source: Telegraph

Introducing HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol

2009-03-19T18:26:00.001+08:00

IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today...

Read more from the Source : Economic Times

Here comes the Google Voice!!!

2009-03-13T00:27:00.003+08:00

Google has released the priview of its latest and yet another feature that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable.
For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of GrandCentral Communications, a telecommunications service provider that it bought in July 2007, it said in a posting on the Official Google Blog.

Little trivia abt GrandCentral
GrandCentral offers customers a single number through which they can forward calls to their work, home or mobile phone, filter calls before answering them, record conversations and access an archive of recordings and voice mail via the Web. Just like Google's promise that with its Gmail e-mail service, you'll never need to delete another message, GrandCentral promises to archive voicemail "for life."

Source: CIO

Next-Generation search engine to Google

2009-03-12T12:53:00.003+08:00

Tech experts believe Wolfram Alpha could prove as significant to next-generation search as Google has been to the first-generation web.

The search engine is due to launch in May, and aims to understand people’s questions and answer them directly. These ‘natural search’ capabilities mean that web users can ask questions online in much the same way as they ask them in real life. The artificial intelligence of the computer answering the query will be sufficiently well evolved to determine the nuances of the inquiry and provide the appropriate responses.

Read from original source: Telegraph.co.uk

Test Your Website with Free Web Tools

2009-03-06T14:40:00.006+08:00

Would you agree me if I said you don't need any extensive training or certifications to understand & perform automated testing for your websites? Yes. Across the Net there are many free web tools which are built and being campaigned to help and simplify your complex testing process of any e-commerce websites.
Consider me I'd love to do the functionality testing first which usually cover's the business logic of the system and later go on testing with the regular QA standards of the website. Those are scenarios which require lot of man effort & patience in performing regression after regressing to test broken links, spell checks, browser compatibility, mobile resolution compatibility and load testing with various variations, etc.....uhhhh

After going through lot of tech blogs and web posts I have come across these few tools which are really useful for performing such time taking boring tasks in a short span & efficiently. And I'd like to share these info with all my viewers & fellow software QA engineers.

Browsershots - Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is extremely popular and you may therefore have to wait a few minutes for this service to render screenshots of your website.

Load Impact - Load Impact is an online load testing service that lets you load- and stress test your website over the Internet.

IE NetRenderer - Allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed data center located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out!!

BrowserCam - Test your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use our bank of testing machines remotely to test your website

Opera Simulator - To see how your website appears on the small screens of mobile phones

Pingdom - It test's complete page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser and records the timing to load each object.

Firebug - You could use it in Firefox to detect elements on your web page that are increasing the load time of your web pages.

html2txt - This ensure's that screen readers can interpret your website. This is an online Lynx simulator (text-only browser) and will also help you understand how your website appears to Google spiders and other search engine bots.

Also finally validate your web pages against online HTML validation and clean-up service like the W3C HTML Validator and HTML Tidy.

Won Blog Of The Day Award - March 5th 2009

2009-03-05T23:37:00.003+08:00

Just really thrilled to receive this award which is a good kick start & lot of strength for making my blog presence much bigger and keep going strong ahead.
Thanks alot Bill

*Blog of the Day Awards are been awarding the “Best Blog of the Day Award” on a regular basis to weblogs of various topics. The award’s judges look at dozens of sites each day and decide which are the best on the basis of key factors, such as content, quality, design, clarity and creativity. The best sites are then announced on the award’s homepage.

FUN Web Tools I noticed on NET across last week

2009-03-02T12:21:00.002+08:00

XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
Download XML Notepad 2007 From Microsoft

You just have to upload an image of yourself and then MyFistYourFace creates the fight video replacing the fighter’s face with yours.
MyFistYourFace

"How Old are You" is a Hot or Not style web application where you can upload a photograph and let other users of the site guess your age. The voting results are sent to you via email.
How Old are You

Upload your photo and see yourself travel back through the evolutionary timeline... it's not an exact science but it is a lot of fun!
Devolve Me

Changing Town name for better Google Ranking

2009-03-02T00:25:00.004+08:00

Sounds very techie rite.....Yea it is true EU, a town in the North France its authorities are looking out to change the name of town to have a better ranking in the Google searches as it is being missed out due lot of other things associated to the letters EU such as European Union or Eurpoean Domain names and even scientific chemical symbol for Europium.

Read it here for more on this...

Indians had it big at 2009 Oscars

2009-02-23T12:05:00.009+08:00

Yet again a proud day for all the Rahman Music lovers...it was a big proud moment catching the glimpses of A.R. Rahman the first ever Indian receiving the Oscar for the Best Original Score & Best Song for his excellent compositions for the movie Slumdog Millionaire!!!

Rahman just rocks!!! may he continue doing such great music ahead and touch more greater heights.
Congrats again for one of the finest & best Musician India ever produced.

2009 Oscar Winners list: http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/

Trick to Flip text upside down -- uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ dılɟ oʇ ʞɔıɹʇ

2009-02-17T12:19:00.003+08:00

Noticed this fun service from some website its a simple interface to flip the text you entered to upside down, but the restriction is the flipped text is always in the lower case in spite you enter the text in upper case.

Have fun....Click Here to Try this out

Re: Rihanna Live Performance at Bukit Jalil ;)

2009-02-11T10:01:00.002+08:00

The “Rihanna Live In Kuala Lumpur” concert scheduled for this Friday at the Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil has been postponed.

The R&B star involved in an altercation with her boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, after a pre-Grammy Awards party, that left bruises and a scratch on her face, according to US media reports.

Source: TheStar click here to read more

The Mom Song

2009-02-10T15:49:00.000+08:00

What a mom says in 24 hours compressed into 2 minutes and 55 seconds! Hilarious!

Chaos at Moulali & Surrondings last night

2009-02-10T11:36:00.000+08:00

Last nite was a day which sent me a shiver of fear under my spine...Usually Mom call's me daily she does to check on me in case she doesn't I do the call to check on them at home back in India. Yesterday before getting on my bed I wondered Mom didn't call me and I tried calling Mom which didn't went through later tried calling to my sis mobile which was either accepting any calls just wondering what they been doing with out picking up the call I hanged up and continued to close my day by getting on to sleep. But after an hour or so received a call from Mom saying that they had experienced tremors in the apartment which caused chaos in the whole near by surroundings and every one ran down to the road away from the apartment fearing it might be earth quake.
There after people called up press and informed the details happened and upon all things settled it came to notice that there was a big earth shooking blast happened in SM Labs, a Chemical factory in Moulali about 2kms away from our house at around 9:15pm following a major blast triggered by two reactors the blast was so big that the earth was shaken in the vicinity and the sound was heard till 4 kilometers away.
Was really grateful to Almighty GOD for not having any adverse effects of the blast. Hope the regional authorities look into the matter and investigate thoroughly what exactly caused the blast as it is located quite near to a lot of residential complexes any reckless human mistake can claim lives of people around it.
Yet God showed again his mercy by not letting any one suffer from this blast.

Just Another Piece of Crap on Rediff

2009-02-09T22:12:00.000+08:00

I just come across this one while reading Rediff.com highlighted to be as
Claim your undelivered tax refund from I-T site but unfortunately any one who had tried this would have been fall flat with the way the website works. Just wonder how come one could do such press releases of their product with such blunders lying in it.
It really sounded good that someone has come up with the idea of providing the information on the undelivered tax from the IT department but yet again it just showcased the half done work of the IT department and blind editing of Rediff for such articles.

Google Launches Google Earth 5.0

2009-02-03T11:22:00.000+08:00

Google Inc. has launched Google Earth 5.0. This new version features ocean in Google Earth, and enables users of Google Earth to dive beneath the water surface, explore 3D underwater terrain and browse ocean-related content contributed by leaders in ocean science and advocacy.

The new version of Google Earth also introduces Historical Imagery, Touring and Google Mars 3D. With the new version users can dive into the ocean, travel back in time and visit Mars.

Have fun checking the new features of Google Earth!!!Click here for the download

10 dumb blonde quotes Beauties with no Brains :)

2009-01-30T17:02:00.000+08:00

It is quite natural logic to see a lot of beauties around created with no brains and brains created with no beauty.
Here are few examples of some dumbest quotes made by some hot blonde's....as I read in an article.

1) Paris Hilton talking to press about the US chain store: "Wal-Mart... do they like make walls there?"

2) Jessica Simpson on NewleyWeds: "Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.'

3) Alicia Silverstone on her role in Clueless: "I think that the film was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."

4) Chantelle Houghton when Big Brother said she had changed since becoming a celebrity: "I've changed? What do you mean... I've changed my clothes?"

5) Jodie Marsh in a recent interview: "Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops."

6) Paris Hilton on her technique on the red carpet: "I don't really think, I just walk."

7) Jessica Simpson on her first day at high school: "A teacher asked us if anybody knew the names of the continents. I was sooo excited. I was like, Damn it! It's my first day of 7th grade, I'm in junior high and I know this answer. So I raised my hand, I was the first one, and I said A-E-I-O-U!"

8) Goldie Horn on her favorite types of films: "Comedy is funny".

9) Sam Fox on fitness clothes: "I've got 10 pairs of training shoes - one for every day of the week."

10) Britney Spears on her taste in clothes: "So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants... all I have to say is that self-esteem is how you look at yourself and I feel good enough about myself so wear that kind of clothing... the breast implant issue has nothing to do with that..."

Rihanna Live Performance at Bukit Jalil ;)

2009-01-29T12:17:00.000+08:00

For all you Rihanna lovers for the first time she is performing in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) at STADIUM PUTRA BUKIT JALIL as a part of "The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour".
Wish I'd get some free invitations or tickets for the event the venue is so near to my condominium just a walk away of 10-15mints.

For more info on the event CLICK MEEEEEEEE

Happy Chinese New Year

2009-01-29T11:40:00.000+08:00

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calender. And considered to be a prominent occasion in the South East Asian countries and working in Malaysia got me to see these celebrations pretty closely. About 25% of the Malaysian population is Chinese, Kuala Lumpur is a well packed place with all the nationalities including Malaysian, Chinese & Indian.
2009 CNY had been a bit different unlike others I spent in KL one of our boss had arranged for a open house party for the CNY and invited us to join them. And frankly I'm the one who has a big YESSSS on face for trying any new foods or any new adventures and I was the one who readily agreed to go to their place and see how it would be to share their chinese new year celebrations.
After we all gathered we started driving and managed finding their home which was a beautiful house by mid afternoon just by seeing the footwear lying outside the house I could estimate the celebrations inside. We went in there greeted all the people in and our boss and she just introuduced her hubby and few others to all of us and shared some time with us and we all later joined the lunch table with her and tried few special dishes of their's and spent the rest of time gambling, glancing the house and chit-chatting and after everything its the chinese tradition to give guests who are single "lucky money" in red envelopes. Red symbolizes fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck. And came back and just hope this Chinese New Year of OX gets good luck to each and everyone and sheds some magic in everyones life.

What a sight it was to watch..

2009-01-21T15:25:00.000+08:00

millions of people gathered around the capitol building and national mall in Washington DC to be there for one of the historic moments of United States the oath taking ceremony of 44th president. With so much hype being given by all sorts of media about the US and its presidency couldn't blame I just got stick to my Television watching every list of items being telecasted in the process of the OATH Ceremony. Entire nation cheering its new leader who they think might bring some new regulations and get in to peace making process.
Also for all techies Obama has also announced a new position in his cabinet as CTO (chief technology officer) hope he makes things better for the IT sector in and out of United States.

Few Top Post Shuffles in IT Sector

2009-01-16T16:52:00.001+08:00

Lately with all the recession speculations and various other reasons IT sector in India has been in News quite often...Midst of all these bluff there are some ongoing changes happening in some of the Top IT firms here's the update's for all who are reading this post here...

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs going on Medical leave due to health complications and handed the company's day-to-day operations to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.
Carol Bartz, former head of software firm Autodesk, was named chief executive of Yahoo! after a two-month search for a new leader of the Internet company.
N Chandrasekaran current COO of TCS is stepping into the shoes of S Ramadorai, who has been MD and CEO of the Tata group's since 1996

Weekend Trip to Fraser's Hill Pahang

2009-01-15T12:07:00.000+08:00

One of the most flexible point being a bachelor is that you never need to really plan hard for anywhere you go or choose to stay for and here we did that again going to Fraser Hills with a very short span of plan just telephoned the hotel seeing it on web and asked for a flat to stay and that's all didn't plan anything packed up our bags with clothes, drinks & just raw chicken with hope of barbecuing after reaching there as its hill station and BBQ suits most there.
headed towards the Puduraya bus station hoping to get a direct bus to the hills and to our disappointment cant get a single direct bus connecting to that place and finally on enquiring to our surprise had couple of city buses connecting to that place and we all boarded into the city route bus.
Finally reached the place by evening and checked into our hotel rooms got freshed up and were out with our cameras snaping each other and the beautiful scenaries all around. Much to our surprise we had everything needed to BBQ available there and managed to cook the entire chicken that we took there and trust it really tasted good...didn't left a morsel of chicken.

After eating drinking slept heavy and woke up for the 2nd beautiful day at fraser hills amazed by the morning fog and feeling the chill in the weather headed for another round of photos. Later visited Jeriau Waterfalls had some good fun time there and headed back home with nearly 2GB of photos covering every minute thing of the entire trip. And yet again a safe and well executed trip guys....kudooooos

xoxo
Ashu

86% Passed with an Above Average Score

2009-01-08T17:31:00.000+08:00

Tried it after seeing it in a friends blog just try when you are free!!

Have a Try: http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/internet

Draw Pig and see what it tells about you

2008-11-25T17:09:00.000+08:00

Here something found on web while browsing just drop in and draw a pig and it reveals about you by the way you took the drawing challenge.
Actually was just been lazing around couldn't been able to blog much these days thought posting some stuff at least will make ma blog alive instead of being dead...

Here's my results: http://drawapig.deskto...

Open Source Economy Conference KL 2008

2008-11-24T09:40:00.000+08:00

Held at Putrajaya International Convention Centre which was organized by both MDEC and SUN Microsystems Malaysia. Was attended by few tops of the industry like president for SUN system’s South East Asia, MySQL community developers,

CEO of regional companies like MDEC and other registered participants for the conference.

I was one among few others representing my company at the conference as we entered the place it was big and quite attractive with the event managers guiding the participants to the respective seating & breakfast sections. Finally it started and been good quite informative in expanding my knowledge about the Open Source Systems, its Usages & implementation strategies.

The main motto of the conference was to officially launch the MySQL combining with SUN Microsystems and supporting MDEC (Multimedia Development Corporation) for the Government planned OSS programmes.

Few facts I learned about few Open source software’s there:

1. MySQL was acquired by SUN for almost 1Billion USD
2. MySQL releases in 2 versions the community and enterprise versions while the community versions are used mostly by the mid-range applications while the enterprise versions are used by big IT vendors which offers support and additional enterprise tools.
3. Many of the Internets popular websites use MySQL as there back end Database systems like Google, Facebook, YouTube & Flickr etc.
4. MySQL records on an average 50-70k downloads per day
5. With the adoption of the OSS schemes in various government agencies the Malaysian Government saved up to RM32 Million.
6. SUN actually stands for Stanford University Network
7. Did you know the 70% of world Air Traffic Control systems run on Sun Solaris.
8. Microsoft Windows XP took about whooping 40billion lines of code done by 1800 developer team.

For more info on SUN systems and MySQL just browse on to www.sun.com

Worth Reading it once Being Yourself...

2008-11-17T15:32:00.000+08:00

This is an article about the speech of Apple's Co-Founder Steve Wozniak at Software AG's Innovation World 2008

Apple's co-founder recounted his fledgling career as a young computer programmer starting the company with present CEO Steve Jobs.

Wozniak said his beginnings as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard gave him access to resources such as hardware parts which he needed. He eventually had to leave HP, when he approached the company to help him make a line of personal computers but was turned down.

"They were a great big company, but couldn't stray from their ordinary line of business," said Wozniak. The personal computer product he had envisioned eventually became the popular Apple II.

Wozniak related how he encountered resistance from the HP engineers when he tried to share a method he had discovered, for working out a particularly error-prone equation. In spite of proving that his workaround would be faster and easier to help solve the equation, his colleagues could not switch to his new methodology, Wozniak said.

"People don't like change," he said.

The message he put forward, directed at Software AG's partners and developers present at the conference, highlighted that the path to being an innovator is understanding that one does not have to seek validation from everyone to achieve personal goals.

"You don't have to convince people to do everything like you. Do what you want to do--you have to know who you are," he said, adding that innovation is sometimes also "squeezed" out of a lack of resources.

"When you don't have a lot of money, you [want to] find out new and innovative ways to get the job done," he noted.

8401 Days Older!!!

2008-10-10T17:02:00.000+08:00

8401 a big count of days rite yeah that's my current age once again passed through yet another year with the surprise packages of happiness, excitement, little tensions & little crap yet memorable all the credit for my Lord* :)

Just happy and satisfied with the way things going on in life hope everything continues in the same way.

Here's just a snippet of my having some fun time with me at our flat in KL

*Praise the Lord

Cant Stop Humming this!!

2008-09-15T22:39:00.000+08:00

This is one such tune which I been hearing & humming from the time I saw this Movie..which was few months back and was really mesmerized by the tune and brilliant composing of the tune!! Just love the way it sounds...

Now Chillz Just Hear It......

My Addictions In Malaysia

2008-09-08T09:35:00.001+08:00

1. Soya Milk yummy I been missing this all these years...:)
2. Pasar Malam the weekly colorful & happening spot around.
3. Steam Boat Chinese style hahaaa!!!
4. Astro (now I'm so addicted to watching Tamil stuff on Astro)

5. Speaking the most common exclamation in Bahasa Malay "lah" (Boleh lah!!!)

6. KFC & MC Donalds hanging around there whenever feel like adding up some fat to my torso.

7. MidValley, KLCC & Times Square spent half of my weekends here..have u ever spotted me anywere??

8. theStar News paper though its weird reading such a big book of news its fun on weekends.

IT Services at Beijing 2008

2008-09-05T16:17:00.000+08:00

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games have been the most information intensive Olympic Games ever.
Top class athletes from around the world have broken 43 world records and 132 Olympic records during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, while behind scenes the IT team led by Atos Origin has smashed records of its own.

Atos Origin has successfully delivered the IT infrastructure that makes the Games happen and transmits the results worldwide in less than 0.3 seconds. The IT team and the scale of the IT infrastructure has been similar to that in Athens, yet in comparison to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the IT team has:

The massive IT infrastructure comprises:
Fully redundant data network
1,000 servers
1,000 network and security devices
10,000 computers
4,000 printers
4,800 result system terminals, including over 2,000 CIS (Commentator Information System) terminals and over 2,000 Intranet terminals (INFO2008)
200,000 hours of testing

More about the IT services at Olympics 2008

My first 5K jogathon results

2008-09-04T16:49:00.000+08:00

Filled with excitement, nervousness and pride participating in my very first 5K Jogathon after being regular at my jogging schedules daily I had confidence that though I may not end up winner but finish up the 5K track with out any hiccups.
Finally the moment was on and everyone started jogging competing each others I started running too!! keeping up my steady pace thinking I can increase my pace slowly after reaching a distance but there been few joggers who catch up a good pace at the start itself and maintained well distanced gap between us which we never could compete to overtake. And the same gap been through entire the race and they finally finished up winners and I end up 6th struggling and exhausted.
Anyway being winners or losers all just part of the game it was important gaining the experience running such long track and keeping up the spirits to run more such races and surely win some race later.

Me with my mates ready for the Jogathon
Ready Set Go..........
All exhausted, sweating & drooling!!!

Gonna run my first 5K Jogathon!!!

2008-08-28T17:32:00.000+08:00

Stuck with flu, dizziness & body aches what else you would expect from any one who is getting ready to go on his/her first 5KM Jogathon (Jogging Marathon).
This is what my current situation is :( tomorrow 29th Aug 2008 I'm gonna attend my very first 5K run organized by my corporate. After being so regular at jogging all these weeks which made every one knowing me to think that I'm one who is capable of running boosted up my confidence in taking part in the activity.
I wish somehow I get rid of this sickness and get fit for my run tomorrow (jeeezzzzzzz)
Its gonna be really tough got really 30 participants in the event and though I jog regularly I never tried running 5K at a single stretch. I hope i'll go through this get some good reputation among my colleagues and keep up my friends impression on me.

Shall update Jogathan status tomorrow.

Cheers For Abhinav!!

2008-08-13T21:00:00.000+08:00

It was a very proud moment for every INDIAN as Abhinav Bindra shot his final shots in the Mens 10M Air Rifle Event making India win its first ever Gold medal in any individual event. Its been really long any INDIAN dreamt of winning a gold at Olympics in spite of having a population of more than 100billion next to CHINA :) India was always been on a lower stand in the matter of Olympics.

This was an awesome feat by Abhinav Bindra winning the very first Gold medal in Olympics 2008 truly mind blowing performance. I really wonder how he could be so emotion-less in spite of achieving Gold.

Anyway I wish him all the very success and more medals in future.....

Hats Off Abhinav!!!! Made us proud

Ever Been on Cover Page of Magazine!!!!

2008-07-29T16:39:00.001+08:00

It takes firm hard work and luck for any one to excel in any field. And one should be really careful through out his career to keep up the good name.

Personally I never feel it hard carrying out the success with care it was with me always....Here some brand top class magazines which carry me on their Cover :)

Hooey.... chillz!!!! excuse me for the crap just kidding ;) this is just simple tool have you ever imagined yourself being on top of a world class magazine cover page. Here is your turn to ride the cover page of your favorite magazines. WWW.MAGMYPIC.COM

Mind Color

2008-07-18T13:02:00.001+08:00

Your Mind is Blue

Of all the mind types, yours is the most mellow.
You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles.
Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Mind?

Music!!! Mania

2008-07-17T12:03:00.000+08:00

I'm one of many who love listening music be it any kind of genre/album/band/language!!!!

I just love listening any music that is good to hear and suits the situation you are involving with (love, joy, depression etc)....

Music really has its own way of healing when one is in ecstasy or bottoms of boredom!!!!

Here are the seasons latest composing's done by the Maestro A.R. Rehman.... so smooth melodies that has soothing effect on you

Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi _ Jaane tu Ya Jaane Na

Feels splendid :)

Kahin Tho Hogi Woh - Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

This one is nice haunting voice....

Bachelorhood!!!

2008-07-11T01:50:00.000+08:00

In my opinion every guy should be a bachelor at least once in his life to grow up as an independent individual as well as to get a wider scope of things going around him.

Best part of it is every bachelor follows the law of Bachelorism religiously for instance consider my self being bachelor in overseas after being with parents until my graduation made me start thinking broad about life and understand issues in the youth & started to explore both the sides of a coin.

I always wanted to taste every inch of being free and live life king size with out any restrictions and hiccups I come home from work and just sit with friends have a chitchat and if any conclusions come up in our chit chats like about any interesting movie or about any new restaurant serving good food outside or going out to play pool or bowling. We just go for it nevertheless whether its going to be late or have to work the next day.

Who cares we are bachelors :)!!! most fun filled and amazing stage of being single. These are the days surely one would think off once he get's set for marriage realizing how his attitude was towards life while being bachelor and after being settled with some one in life.

I just cant end up telling of being bachelor so shortly now itself let me go on sharing my share of bachelorism here and then whenever got any thing interesting on my blog.

Cya Soon
Ashu!!!

Fitness Freak

2008-07-06T19:54:00.000+08:00

I'm one of many such guy's who think of working out and being fit all the time. It would be for quite few reasons may be out of personal health interest's or else to be impressive for the opp sex ;)

But I rate my self to be on the side who is more on to set the words rather than practising it in terms :D heheheh!!!! I have my own reasons to justify myself that I wont practise work out regularly coz of my work culture or the lethargic bachelor hood making me consider everything in a very casual manner.

But as quoted by someone "No Pain No Gain" I feel to make myself stand on words I plan to be fit and turn my self more health freak in the coming months. And do lot of jogging, push-ups & swimming to turn out to be fit

Wish my dreams of being fit come true very soon.

Signing Off!!!

Ashu

My Onsite Trip

2008-07-05T23:23:00.000+08:00

Being a software engineer it is most likely to be on mind's of every one to go on for an onsite trip until and unless he/she has any un-avoidable commitments or relationships to take care in his/her home country. I got employed in to a software firm just after my studies (*PTL) and started working pretty good for myself.... ok ok also for my employer ;) and I feel good about what I was doing I was very narrow in thinking at the time was more inclined towards gaining good experience in my job as well as the so-called corporate society but after gaining pretty good experience in what you are doing then it was time to think broad and be greedy for more.

I used to work for the clients located out of INDIA and there used to be set of people from my company working at clients location to meet the needs of my client and communicate with the team in India there were times when these guys used to visit INDIA the way they had attention from everyone while their presence in the work place was quite good which made me feel excited more about the idea of working with them one day or visiting their place one time.

At that time I been playing a key role in my team and started feeling my importance at my work place which kept building my confidence all through with my professional growth as well. Then came the moment one day heard from some of my superiors about their decision in sending me to work onsite woww!!!!! yipeeeeeeee I was quite surprised as well as excited to hear it, And literally sometimes I dreamt that I was ordering food in a restaurant there somehow in there local language & going out in beaches there. And to my destiny what ever channel I used to watch on TV was also leading somehow to the place where I was about to go in for work. Then the final confirmations came out from management asking me to get set to fly onsite very soon I was then quite excited and with the mere support from my family members to go in for it I did all my preparations for the trip start from fetching my passport :D I didn't had it until I was declared to go onsite too bad :) to buying my very home needs which my family insisted to have, out of their curiosity and love.

And now I'm here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia working for at my client place since 2years and there had been quite lot of exciting adventures, experiences and many more things to share.

*praise the lord!!!

All About Myself

2008-07-03T17:27:00.000+08:00

"Winning doesn't always mean being first,
Winning means you're doing better than you've done before"

As quoted I wanted this blog badly to have something of my own in the world of Internet, being a software engineer I had spent 100's of days browsing on net and somewhere I wanted something of my own in this.
Would like to have a blog of mine was the thought I been had to urge my desires to create something of my own and here comes the day which would be a kick starter for my personal and professional updates MY BLOG "Me Myself Ashok"
Having no much experience in the blogosphere I don't think my writings would be worth glancing for my friends or viewers. But I assure my self that I will start to improve everything coming up in this blog.

In a short will end up this post now.

Signing Off!!!
Ashu