Nanbban's diary

Allow me to release Kuselan in K'taka, says Rajini

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:58:27 GMT

Tamil Super star Rajini had to literally eat back his words which he said during the Hogenakal drinking water project agitation. He has publically apologized for the comments he made against Karnataka.

Speaking to Kannada channels, Rajinikant said, “This incident has taught me a lesson. I shall never commit such a mistake again. Please allow the release of Kuselan in Karnataka."

"The people who are opposing me are also children of Karnataka. They are doing it for their state. Please, please forget the past and whatever I have said. Allow me to release my film. I am ready to help Kannadigas also,” the actor added.

Don’t know how is he going to handle the backfire in TamilNadu due to this public apology.

Allow me to release Kuselan in K'taka, says Rajini

Blood donation by nanbban

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:57:39 GMT

I closed my shop early yesterday and went home on the ultimatum given by my wife as I was skipping shopping for the past three days. As soon as I reached home I got a call on my mobile, a lady was speaking to me asking for blood donation for her sister who underwent surgery in the morning. She also told that she got my name and number from friendstosupport which I registered long back.
When I told this to my wife she told “Please drop me at BIG BAZAR and you go ahead to save the life.” So sweet of her….
As soon as I reached the WOCKHARDT hospital in Cunnigham road the lady who called me was waiting for me and she had ask me to go to laboratory which was in the fifth floor of the hospital to test my blood. When I reached the laboratory and I saw around 7 to 10 people waiting for test results and most of them were rejected due to the low hemoglobin count or group does not match. I was bit tensed after giving my blood test, praying it to be fit for donation.
I have got the result as fit for donation and immediately I was asked to fill the form which contains my health details and they had checked my weight and blood pressure before taking the blood. I had curiously asked about the hemoglobin count of my blood and they told me it’s 15.4, came to know that the count should be from 13 to 16 for blood donation. I have given 350 ml of blood and I thought I can donate more if they want. But being the first time I thought thatz enough for this time. After taking the blood the hospital people gave me a small cup of glucose water and 2 biscuits to eat.
I felt very satisfied after giving blood which I have been thinking from long time.

Nanbban using BMTC bus

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:35:11 GMT

Today morning I came to office by BMTC bus, there are two reasons behind this. First of course to save fuel and the second reason is if I come by bus I will have to walk for some distance which ultimately burn some calories and help me to reduce my weight considerably if not to a great extent. I am not sure how long I can do this, as my friend sandy_tr had tried this long back for his own reasons and had continued it for a month or so but now he is coming again by his bike.

Nanbban is slightly over weight

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:23:00 GMT

After a long time today I got a chance to check my weight. I was hoping it will be 80 + and it is just below 80. My weight is 79.8 Kg. My BMI is 25.6. The weighing machine says my healthy weight is 71.4 Kg. Last month I have checked my weight in one of my friends home and it showed 82 Kg, I was telling them that you machine is showing 5Kg more think my weight will be around 76 to 77 Kg. They were laughing at me when I said so.

I am planning to have balanced diet starting from 23rd June as tonight we have a party @ Ista (5 star hotel) and in the weekend I am going for a movie so I will take some junk food from outside.

Also I am planning to have a regular eye on my weight and targeting to reduce 1 Kg per month, thought of not being aggressive in reducing the weight.

Learning JAVA

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:31:12 GMT

Yes, finally I am learning JAVA which I started thinking about in my initial career days. Thanks to our manager who not only initiated the process in the team but also doing a good tracking and following up so that everybody is in same level in the team. He conducts regular clarification sessions so that we can clear our doubts with him and also conducts a weekly test to make us know where we are and how much we need to improve. I think he has a vision to get our team to main stream Java developers.

Some of our team members including me are feeing hard to have a dedicated time for Java learning in a day along with our usual work and deliverables. While starting this learning process we were advised to dedicate just an hour to this, as we are progressing we are feeling that just an hour is not enough to learn the chapters which includes practicing some examples as suggested to complete before next clarification session i.e 3 chapters in 3 days. Thinking we need to add some value to the initiative our manager has taken, we are sitting late after our work and not hesitating to come on weekends for Java learning.

After all these hard ship I will feel happy if I could to some Java coding.

Sunfeast World 10K Run

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:21:11 GMT

Sunfeast is organizing a marathon run in Bangalore on 18th of May. Three from my team have registered for this event among the registered people one is my manager himself for 10 Km rum. Me and my team mate have registered for 5.7 Km run.

So thought of getting prepared for the run and I started getting up early in the morning and jog for an hr and so some stretching exercises. It’s been 3 days since I started this and whole of my body is aching. I also want to control my diet as suggested by my manager so that we stay fit for the run but contrary to that from the time I started jogging I am having heavy diet due to some or the other reason.

I have made up my mind to have healthy diet from today at least till this event is over.

Lazy Nanbban

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:59:21 GMT

Some times back I use to implement what ever it comes to my mind, be it some kind of personal task or official or a carrier task. The reason behind it is I use to do lot of industry, hard work and above all I was active.

Now a days in particular after joining my current company I feel that I am loosing the active character in me, I am feeling I am becoming dump. I had several plans, lot of operations to eradicate this unhealthy character, but all became failure. Now a days morning I am waking up with a negative note because before going to bed I will think that I will get up early and do some study work but when my mobile ring the alarm @ 5:30 am I will get some or the other reason to continue the sleep and when I finally get up in between 7 to 7:30 am I will feel very down as I could not get up even today.

I am trying my best to get up early and do some study work. With some good hopes and a positive attitude I am taking a pledge that I will get up from my bed before 6 am. Let me see how far I will get successful in this.

Writer's Block: Last Twenty Bucks

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:04:44 GMT

List three things you'd buy with your last $20. One practical, one frivolous and one of your choosing.

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Practical : Invest in Stocks [ test my luck for survival ]
Frivolous : Watch "Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aaga" [ gives hope to raise from debacle ;-) ]
My Choice: Travel to some good holiday destination like Ooty [ I should enjoy at least my now ]

Betting on my weight

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:15:37 GMT

Yesterday while having snacks betting happened on my weight with my colleagues, I was telling that my weight will be below 79 Kg and my colleagues had challenged it. The bet was if I cross 79 I will give a snacks treat @ Food Court (Garuda Mall) and If I am less than that my colleagues had to bare my expense.

I had agreed to the bet keep in confidence of my previous weight 77.6 Kg couple of months back though I had small doubt on it as I had been to native for Pongal and had some good food.

Finally I have won the bet with a narrow margin J I was 78 Kg , an ideal weight but still I have to reduce 7.2 % of my actual weight. So I am targeting to reduce 1 Kg / month from now on.

Wish I will succeed in this task

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:56:48 GMT

There was a new initiative in office for playing cricket. The organizers had searched for a suitable ground in Bangalore but finally settled down for NGEF ground in Old Madras road.

I was the first person to be in the ground by 7 am as decided by the organizers but it took a while for the other colleagues to get assemble in the ground. Finally the game started at 8 am, I was leading one side and my other Rakesh was leading the opponents each team has 7 members on their side. Totally we played 3 innings, first innings I had won the toss and elected to bat and we had set a modest target of 31 runs to win. I had played the captain’s knock and stayed till end. Praveen had batted well in Rakesh team and they could achieve the target in just 6 over’s.

People thought that our team is weak and they had offered for reshuffle, which I had denied thinking our team is strong enough to beat the opponents (I was thinking as if I was leading Dhoni’s Twenty20 teamJ). Now Rakesh team has the chance to bat first being the winning team of previous match. They also set a modest target of 30 runs to win for us. Chandra Prakesh has bated well hitting the ball to boundaries and we had won the match comfortably.

Now we had tossed the coin to decide who will bat first and I have lost the toss and obviously Rakesh team had opted to bat first, it looked like they are going to cross 50 in the beginning as they did not loose any wickets till 4^th over, then I had opted to ball as I had started to feel bored by just fielding luckily I had taken wicket in my 4^th ball and broke the partnership by bowling a bouncer which tempted the batsmen to go for a big one and there was a fielder on the offside and he took the catch. Finally we could restrict them to 26 runs and set the target of 27 runs to win. In this innings also Chandra prakesh and played well and won the match for us comfortably.

At the end of the game everybody became tired but enthu enough to carry on the Ten10 weekend cricket for the coming weeks. I personally feel that software professionals has to do such activity apart for the official team building trips at the end of the day everybody were satisfied.