My tirade against destiny

Ever felt that everything that you do has a meaning, and a purpose? Ever felt that the destiny has been playing a cunning trick to fool you into doing what you really dont want to do? Ever felt that doesnt matter what you do, it would result in exactly the opposite of what you thought?

Welcome to my world! This has been my feeling since last few months. Not to blame anyone, not even my destiny, I have no reason to complaint about anyone or anything. I have been furious and angry and feeling all sorts of emotions that you can think of. And now that I have had a chance for thinking about myself, and my future, I have figured out what needs to be done.

There are times in your life, when you simply cannot fight your daemons, and I think this is my time. I have never been a person who takes the easiest path and stay away from troubles. But it seems that this is not going to be a standard day. Last few months have taught me some very important lessons in life. If I wish I could write a book about it, and I strongly believe it would be a best seller (I would have to find some good words for my feelings before doing so!), but seriously, I dont plan to do it as of now.

If you want to know more about what's happening, keep coming back to this blog, and you will know exactly about how I am trying to change my destiny.

Wonderful site that saves you time.

Hi all,
This weekend I was just browsing through the net, and guess what? I came across this wonderful site CallHunter. The site is still new in the market but saves you a lot of time and efforts.
Okay, I'll tell you how I came across this site. There was this caller who kept on calling on my cell, but because I did'nt knew the number I avoided taking the call. So after a couple of days of ignoring the call, I was wondering who is this caller. So I asked the great Google who this guy is, and landed on this site. This site gave me the details of this guy, who turned out to be a mobile contract telesales person, who I avoid seriously, as I am quite happy with my provider right now, and dont plan to move across.
So guys, if you have any annoying person who keeps on calling, this is the site to know who he/she is and get back with a bang next time they call you. Try scaring them, by telling exactly which company they work for, and where they are based and threaten to report it to police with all details if they dont stop. I tried and it works!

Save the earth

Hi all,
I am back as promised with new stuff that I find interesting in my life. Lately I have been surrounded with all things going green and all organisations promising to do their bits for the environment.
I have been thinking of what a common man, who has nothing to do but spend money can do for the world, and then this wonderful idea struck my mind. If we stop purchasing stuff with excess packaging, the corporate world will get the idea of what the consumer is thinking. For example I have started visiting my local market more often for my vegetables and fruits, and I have been saving atleast one bag of rubish every week.
Okay if you ask me why does it matter? The answer is I have a Tesco clubcard, and they probably track my shopping habits throughout each quarter. From last couple of quarters they have been sending me more offers for vegetables and fruits, because someone out there has noticed that I am not buying anything from their shelves.
If more and more consumers start doing the same, I am pretty sure the corporate strategiests will notice the change, and they will take action to address this. No one wants to loose business.
So it's actually we the consumers who have to take action first, and then the corporates will have to follow.
Try this site LayZgreenPeople.com for more ideas. I did.

Back to blogging

My last update here on the blogosphere was me moaning about being irregular. Here I am again doing the same thing. Well there are couple of good news and some bad news to share here. Good news in chronological order as they happened, are as follows.

1. I was there at my best friend's wedding, and all the friends managed to be there. Can't believe we all met after almost 5 years. The bonus - everyone was there with their wives, or to be wives (as was the case of me).
2. If you read the first one carefully, it gave away this bit. Yes I got engaged and married in a short period of time. Got engaged on 2nd of December 2008, and married on 18th of December 2008. Well it was an arranged marriage, so this kind of things are normal. I am tempted to write about this kind of rituals in India in a separate post, so will stop right now on this one.
3. My sister gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, and named him Ark! Welcome to the world Ark Vyas!!! I hope I have spelled it correctly. No one wants to get tagged with a misspelled name.
4.  I started my new project at work, and will be using pretty cool tools. This is going to be the biggest thing on my CV I guess.

So 3 months gone since my last post, and I have so much material to write on, not bad. Now going on the bad news,

1. After coming back from India, I have lost motivation of joining back my Gym. The membership ran out in March 2009, and could not find a good deal to renew it, so at the moment, doing nothing to keep fit.
2. Marriage was a costly affair. I will have to re-invest all the time and money into applying for tier 1 visa in UK, which I was planning to do in the first week of March. Now it has went back to August.
3. It is going to be about two months before my wife can join me in UK, due to the British High Commission dealing with unprecedented amount of visa applications this time of the year.
4. My phone bill is running high for second successive month of year. I will have to recover the money from somewhere. Cashback claims, I am not gonna forget you.

So with the balance of good news and bad news. Let me end this quarter with lots of informative posts. I hope I manage to keep the motivation going for blogosphere atleast.

What Would You Be Doing If Computers Didn't Exist?

This is a blog by Scott that I religiously follow. The extent is that I have a iGoogle widget for this blog, so I make it a point to read all the new posts. Well enough about that, but the point here I want to make is the last post. The question posed is quite an imaginative one.

I'm alive

I can't believe I have'nt posted anything since August. Well honestly, it was'nt out of choice, but I have been busy with the release of our new project for the company CMS and a bunch of 28 industry specific sites. This was a massive project, and a high profile project considering it would be shining like anything on my CV. The project was released in October first week, very silently. I cannot put emphasis on the word silently, because we did celebrate the release in our team.

Then I was busy with Diwali celebration, and my birthday, which was during the same days as Diwali. So it was lots of shopping, and preparing and celebrations. I guess this was the time, since when I have been regularly irregular to the gym. By the way, this was suppose to be a all time favourite statement from our mathematics teacher in school, Mrs Krishna Raman. I think I will write a separate entry for all my school teachers.

Coming back to the excuses, November saw my company being bought out by a media giant called Progressive Group. In a way it is good, as I can boast of being part of a huge family. This followed by the usual trimming and downsizing of the company. I did lose couple of friends in this process, but then you have to accept it as a part of life. Life just moves on!

And now we are approaching the end of November, and the things that is on my mind is nothing but my holiday. I can already hear the Christmas bell ringing....

Last Bank Holiday of the year 2008

It is'nt as gloomy as it sounds, because we still have christmas coming before the end of the year. But then it is still four months away, and that is when my India holidays start, so this was practically the last long weekend for me this year.

There will be some day offs here and there, and a long weekend just before my holidays as I would be visiting my Sis's Graduation ceremony at Lancaster University in the second week of December. But the idea of four months without any holiday is still bearable, with the incentives at the end of it.
If I would have been in India, it would have been the start of the festive season. August, September and October marks major festivals for all the religions and cultures in India. The week before we had Rakshabandhan (I was planning to write a separate entry for that, but could get into the mood of writing), and last weekend we had Janmashtami (The birth anniversary of Lord Krishna).

Just like Rakshabandhan I am planning to write a detailed essay on Janmashtami as well, and guess what? I also have started a blog for my local Hindu Temple. I would be writing all my articles on Hinduism and it's values over there. The address is http://vaishnavinlondon.blogspot.com. I am also planning to start up a website with informations about the temple, but that is still in the conception phase, and will see how it materializes. But till then do visit my other blogs and drop a line of feedback on how to improve on anything and everything.