Myself 

Yipppppppppppppppe

We are leaving for India tomorrow nite. Finally...after 3 years, going back
to visit India. I am very very excited and a little nervous. We are flying
on China Airlines. And I do not have a great feeling about it. Also, I am
worried about the luggage for the fact that we are not allowed to lock the
suitcases.

Well, I am keeping my fingers crossed. Lets see what happens. We have a 12
layover in Taipei, and hoping to see Taipei 101 building..currently the
tallest building.

I do not understand Indian guys and gals.

They live outside India. They date people. They commit to relationship, but thats just it. They are so shit scared of their parents and society, that just can finish what they started.

In recent time, I've heard from 3 different people who were led to believe that they were loved and going to be married to him/her, and then...they go back to India for a visit, and come back with a wife or husband. I mean...what is that !!!

If you are looking for fun, don't get the girl (mostly) or the guy get involved with you with promises of marriage or long term relationship.

If you ARE lloking to get married with the person you fall in love with, but not have guts to stand up to your parents and/or society, DON'T FALL IN LOVE !!!

How hard is this to understand. While you are dilly dallying with the thought of marrying or not, and then actually not marrying, the whole Indian community is becoming infamous for individuals being mistreated. And then I hear, "I WILL NAVER DATE AN INDIAN GUY/GAL".

This is so sad. Common people...get some courage, to fight either your feelings or your parents.

Are Indians Crooked By Nature

I was reading article on outsourcing to India in American magazine. And it talked about this girl in BPO center in Mumbai who was caught copying project files into her private yahoo account. And then the article went on to show how tough it is to do business in India with large scale copying and bootlegging.

And then I also remembered about this guy in my ex company, who took leave of adsence citing his mothers illness. The CEO (British Indian) also loaned him money in good faith to help him out in his troubled times. And later we find out he is in USA working for another company !!!

With so many cases you hear about well educated individual coming from good family background, it makes me wonder if we Indians are crooked by nature ?

On the otherhand, I have friend, who works for Pepsi, and he is so proud to work for Pepsi, that he does not drink any other drink. Not only that, he yells at me, when he sees I am drinking Coke :-). Then my best friend, advised me never to cheat on Insurance, cuz that affects every one, unlike many Americans who we hear commit insurance fraud. And ofcourse my brother in law, and my idols, my father and grand father, who have lived all their life with integrity and straight.

So, then I come to conclusion, that we Indians are like any other people of the world. There are good and  bad. Since there are people in US who are against outsourcing, they will highlite the cons in India, not recognizing hardwork of thousands of professionals who bring so much profit in their pockets.

However I do think, due to immense competition ( we are after all a country of over 1,000,000,000 people), an individual has to fight to survive and then it becomes easy to look for ways to become better than most.

Are Indians Crooked By Nature

I was reading article on outsourcing to India in American magazine. And it talked about this girl in BPO center in Mumbai who was caught copying project files into her private yahoo account. And then the article went on to show how tough it is to do business in India with large scale copying and bootlegging.

And then I also remembered about this guy in my ex company, who took leave of adsence citing his mothers illness. The CEO (British Indian) also loaned him money in good faith to help him out in his troubled times. And later we find out he is in USA working for another company !!!

With so many cases you hear about well educated individual coming from good family background, it makes me wonder if we Indians are crooked by nature ?

On the otherhand, I have friend, who works for Pepsi, and he is so proud to work for Pepsi, that he does not drink any other drink. Not only that, he yells at me, when he sees I am drinking Coke :-). Then my best friend, advised me never to cheat on Insurance, cuz that affects every one, unlike many Americans who we hear commit insurance fraud. And ofcourse my brother in law, and my idols, my father and grand father, who have lived all their life with integrity and straight.

So, then I come to conclusion, that we Indians are like any other people of the world. There are good and  bad. Since there are people in US who are against outsourcing, they will highlite the cons in India, not recognizing hardwork of thousands of professionals who bring so much profit in their pockets.

However I do think, due to immense competition ( we are after all a country of over 1,000,000,000 people), an individual has to fight to survive and then it becomes easy to look for ways to become better than most.

Movies I hope Bollywood Would Make Someday....

1) Jalianwala Bagh - Showing how inhumane British were
2) Indo Chin war - celebrating our brave soldiers who gave their life
3) Indo Chin war - Showing what went wrong between India and China relations ship
4) Veer Savarkar - Biography
5) Rani Laksnmibai - Bio
6) Subhashchandra Bose - bio
7) IPKF - Bio / Celebrating soldires
8) Coup of Maldives
9) Battle of Plassey
10) Battle of Pani pat (I and II)
11) Battle of Gazni's attack on Dwarka
12) Ind vs WI (1983) - Kapil's Century
13) Mihir Sen - First Indian to Swim English Channel
14) Champaran - British forcing Biharis to grow Indigo resulting in Famine
15) Bhakra Nangal Dam - Bio
16) J&K - What happenedin 1947
17) Premchand - Bio
18) Kalpana Chawla - Bio
19) Aryabhatt - Bio
20) Operation Blue Star
21) Milka Singh - Bio
22) Earthqauke in Gujarat and Maharashtra
23) Vivekanand - Bio
24) Kabir - Bio
25) Mother Teresa - Bio
26) ......

 

Mayank Raja
Asyst Technologies Inc.
48761 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.
ph: 510 661 3441 fax: 510 661 5101

Songs I am watching

1) Goodies - Ciara

2) Dip It Low - Christina Milian

3) Toxic - Britney Spears

4) Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle

 

Google Adsense

I just signed up for Google AdSense. Hope my application gets approved.....

 

If I had My Way, Sports in India Would be SOOOOOOOoooooooooooo Di fferent.

So....lot of discussions going on India's prospects at Olympics, what with 1.1 billion people, and only 77 delegates with hopes of couple of medals, with even fewer actual tally.

 

I am not the one to critisize only. I'd like to make India great in sports. I love to see a contigent of over 500 athletes with almost all of them being medal hopeful and over 20 percent a sureity.

 

But I don't think our government can help us achieve it. So  in my plan, I have no place for them. Politicians are bad for India. I use help of forgotten sportsmen and women, technocrats, sports lover, businessmen and women and above all, 1.1 billion Indians.

 

Get to the basic. We have to catch them young. Those already in sport and representing the country may not be the best.

    So, I want to start a school which even though has equal commitment towards excellence in studies and sports, does not force every student to excel in sport AND curriculum. Those good at studies, they enroll in clubs like math club (with goal of competing in math olympiad), science club, arts club, may be even somthing like Eureka club, whose sole purpose is to develop ingenuity in kids, trying to invent new things and patent them.

    So, I'd have one Vice-Principle to over look these activities.

 

    There would be another Vice-Principle, whose job is to make sure students who have prospects for sports do atleast ok in studies but excel in sports. Makes sure there's equipments, gym and coaches for students and they are trained as if they are training for olympics.

 

    I would invite retired sportmen, who now have long been forgotten. Why waste such good talent. I'd make that before accepting the job, they understand they have to coach winners. They must adapt to new technologies, new styles, have younger assistants who are always working on how to improve each player and study the competition to be always one step ahead of them.

 

    I would hire scouts, nothing new, it's being done in US....both for studies and sports, whose sole job is to go around country, more so the rural areas and try to enroll the kids with natural talent to my school.

 

    Now, all this needs a lot of money. Well, I am not going to politician to beg for money. There are so many corporations and people with enough money to support such cause. Tatas, Birlas, Reliance, Infosys, TCS, and even Intel, Philips, Motorola, ECC, L&T, Ford, Maruti...I am sure if they see a good proposal, they would be more than happy to support such a cause.

 

    Start one school ,and slowly and steadily, open more andmore such schools under one umbrela.

 

    I would start with sports such as hockey (the school should have astroturf for practice), all atheletics (which don't need much investment), weightlifting, swimming (start with community pool and then own one).

 

I think, we have enough talent to win 100s of medals. All we need is plan and effort from past to help future. Let us not waste our vast pool of talent. Both teachers and parents have to changet heir attitude towards sports. We can and should control the world of sports.

 

SO LET'S DO IT.

 

 

Ok, so last nite was sitting and watching Knock Knock, I am looking to marry ! (KKIALTM), which is about a guy and a gal in IT working in silcon valley of India, my beloved city Bangalore who are being forced to get into arranged marriage.
It shows how guys come to see girls and think they are doing a favour to both the girl and her family by marrying her.

Anyway, these two, who come from different family background (girl is tamil pandit and guy a punjabi) and fall in love and finally get married.

So, I see shots of bangalore city, and so happy. Then I see credits and it shows TGIF. And I am thinking there's a TGIF opened in bangalore !!!!!!!!

Now that pisses me more. You ask why...well same old thing, OUTSOURCING issue.

So, I tell my wife, now you see why I am against ppl who are against outsourcing ? So many US owned franchises and companies are doing buisness in India. And all that money is going to corporations....who do not want to put money back in US, and so you have a problem. Nothing to do w/ ouitsourcing. And if they do ban outsourcing in US, what stops other goverments to ban US companies from doing business in India, China.

Can you believe how much money they make from foriegn countries..I dunno myself, but I won't be surprised it's it;s in billions.

So, how would that affect the US and world market. US started this free world market and WTO, and now it's hurt a little and you want to ban outsourcing.

See, that's why I like Kerry. He doesn't want to stop the good US started years back. There must have been put a lot of thoughts in creating WTO, UN etc and now...on every instance Bush wants to get out of it. Then when he's in mess..he wants help of US and WTO again. !!!

What a loser.

Go Kerry and Go Outsourcing.

Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant

So, it's my mother in laws anniversary, so she had us go for dinner tonight. Me and Farzana decided to go to Zeni again.

Last time we went w/ friends, they had 2 year anniversary celebrations going on and we had to wait 60 to 90 minutes on our table !!! But the food was worth it.

Con: Not smiling waitresses

Pro: The food is delicious. Thinking about it makes my mouth water. Not to spicy, so next time I think I'm gonna tell them to make it spicy.

They have bar stools, family tables and ethinic ethiopinan style chairs. Nice warm place.

What we order is:

Ye Doro Wot - A drumstick or thigh cooked to tenderness in a hot and thick red pepper, onions, garlic, ginger and purified butter sauce. Served w/ hard boiled egg and home made cheese.

Vegetarian Combo - A combination of Ye Misir Wot, Ye Kik Akitcha, Atakeli Wot, Ye Gomen Wot, and Ye Timatim Fitfit.

Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant,

1320 Saratoga Ave @ Payne

San Jose, CA

(408) 615-8282

www.zenirestaurant.com

Zeni's Menu

Suggestion for Transportation problems in Bangalore - 2

Ok, I have second thoughts about multiple airports. Well, I still stick with major, international at Devanhalli and smal domestic one at Electronic city. Thats enuf.

Now don't turn bangalore into another west coast US city. Plan ahead for mass transport. Use the help of major industrial companies as BHEL, ISRO, BEL, colleges such as IISc to come up with instruments to make underground or elevated rail system. Only elevated won't help. It has to be mixture of both. Make them so that people don't need to commute by their own cars or bikes. People should choose these mass transits.

I look like my nana

I just realized, looking at myself in the wafer which acts as my mirror, that I look like my nana (Maternal grandfather). After the hair cut, which I made really short, spikey :-), i have big nose, big protruding ears...just like nanaji.

 

 

A sign of things to come

Ordering Pizza in 2008

Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"

Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."

Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"

Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."

Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland
Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at
Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email
address is sheehan@home.net. Which number are you calling from, sir?"

Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"

Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."

Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"

Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This
will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"

Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your
All-Meat Special pizzas."

Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."

Customer: "Whaddya mean?"

Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that
you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol.
Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy
choice."

Customer: "What?!?! What do you recommend, then?"

Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."

Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"

Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your
local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."

Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."

Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four
kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is
$49.99."

Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash.
Your credit card balance is over its limit."

Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your
driver gets here."

Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."

Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready.
How long will it take?"

Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45
minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while
you're out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle
can be a little awkward."

Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"

Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so
your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled
the tank yesterday"

Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!"

Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got
a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see
here on September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a
judge." "Oh yes I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in
the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your
return to society?

Customer: (Speechless)

Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"

Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us
from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits
this.

Thank you for calling Pizza Hut!"

Suggestion for Transportation problems in Bangalore
 

So, bangalore is expanding exponentially, and so is the traffic problem and any other problem with it. With so many jobs getting "Banglored", wouldn't it be nice that people coming to work in Bangalore (permanently or temporarily) or NRIs returning to Bangalore, don't have to see all the traffic jams, pollution, and water logging during monsoon.

 

So, here are some of my suggestion:

 

1) Small domestic (initially) airport south of Electronic City.

Imagine peepul flying from Delhi to bangalore in 2.5 hrs, have to drive to electronic city where vast majority of Tech and Biotech companies are located in same 2.5 hrs.. he he irony haan ?

 

So, I think, let couple of private airlines who want to make bangalore there hub (as in airlines in US) come togeather with state govt or central govt  in whatever ratio to Build Own and Operate the airport, with some part of profit going to state and or central govt.

 

1.1) Create a Suburb south of Electronic City.

This city should be incharge of the airport. People live there and coomuute to their job within 15 minutes.

 

2) Small domestic airport east of whitefield

Same a (1)

 

3) Build Freeway system between Devanhalli, Whitefield, Electronic City and west bglr

This freeway can be tolled, and local companies can be tacked 5 paise per Rupee they earn, to help the city build this transit system. There will be some road leading to and from MG Road, etc.

With over 1000 crore business, that would generate 50 crore per year to build this. And corporations would love such a system, so I am thinking would mind the extra tax. In the past Infosys has helped cleaning and building road to Electronic city..

 

4) Create sub-burb near Devehalli

Encourage companies to open up there and developers to develop there. With malls, shopping centers, movie theaters.

Peepul come to M G Road, Brigade Road and Commercial street only during weekend.

Hell, if the suburbs are developed well, they don't even need to do that. Decentralize bangalore.

 

5) Finally, build power plants for bangalore AND karnataka

Why should everyone have generators and still, even now, the major industry of every state and coutntry is agriculture. Why should poor and some rich farmers suffer for the limited electricity which may be diverted to bangalore to woo the foriegn investment.

 

6) Oh one more thing, encourage ingenuity in Indian companies..like helping students in IISc to come up with ideas and start companies, rather than copy things from other countries and or just to work for foriegn companies.

 

mayank_raja's launchcast station

Wi-Fi Hotspots - search results - JiWire

Campbell Ca, US
2 locations found

Blendz Of Campbell
267 East Campbell Avenue
Campbell CA 95008
Map | Directions FREE

Orchard Valley Coffee Roastery
349 East Campbell Avenue
Campbell CA 95008

San Jose Ca, US9 locations found

Altamont Commuter Express train between Stockton and San Jose
65 Cahill Street
San Jose CA 95110
Map | Directions FREE

Central Courtyard area of Santana Row
355 Santana Row
San Jose CA 95128
Map | Directions FREE

Central Perk Cafe
3143 Stevens Creek Boulevard
San Jose CA 95117
Map | Directions FREE

Coffee Cantata
1702 Meridian Avenue
Suite I
San Jose CA 95125
Map | Directions FREE

CueTopia Billiard Cafe
4700 Almaden Expressway
San Jose CA 95118
Map | Directions FREE

Hot Zone
84 West Santa Clara Street
San Jose CA 95113
Map | Directions FREE

Hotel Valencia at Santana Row
355 Santana Row
San Jose CA 95128
Map | Directions FREE

Paloma Caf?
1111 Streetory Road
Suite 1003
San Jose CA 95122
Map | Directions FREE

Rafiki's Coffee Hut
3103 Alum Rock Avenue
San Jose CA 95127

Engineering Conversion Factors

Engineering Conversion Factors

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This list is based on Basic Units and Derived Units. I use the standard Multiples of Ten where appropriate.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you find any errors or can't find some unit; email me and I will include the conversion.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To Convert To Multiply By

acres ft2 43560

acres m2 4046.9

acres rods2 160

acres hectares .4047

acre feet barrels 7758

acre feet m3 1233.5

angstrom, å cm 10-8

angstrom, å nm 0.1

astronomical unit, AU cm 1.496E13

astronomical unit Tm 0.1496

atmospheres (atm) feet of water 33.94

atmospheres in of Hg 29.92

atmospheres mm of Hg 760

atmospheres psi 14.7

bar atm .98692

bar dyne cm-2 106

bar psi (lb in-2) 14.5038

bar mm Hg 750.06

bar MPa 10-1

barrel (bbl) ft3 5.6146

barrel m3 .15898

barrel gal (US) 42

barrel liter 158.9

BTU Canadian BTU 1.000418022

BTU ISO BTU 1.000527124

BTU cal 251.996

BTU erg 1.055055853 * 1010

BTU joule 1054.35

calorie (gm) (cal) joule 4.184

centimeter (cm) inch 0.39370

cm m 10-2

darcy m2 9.8697E-13

dyne g cm s-2 1

dyne Newton 10-5

erg cal 2.39006E-8

erg dyne cm 1

erg joule 10-7

fathom (fath) ft 6

feet (ft) in 12

feet m 0.3048

furlong yd 220

gallon (US) (gal) in3 231

gallon liter 3.78541

gallon (Imp.) (gal) in3 277.419

gallon liter 4.54608

gamma gauss 10-5

gamma tesla 10-9

gauss tesla 10-4

gram (g) pound 0.0022046

gram kg 10-3

hectare acre 2.47105

hectare cm2 108

horsepower W 745.700

inch (in) cm 2.54

inch (in) mm 25.4

joule (J) erg 107

joule cal 0.239006

kilogram (kg) g 103

kilogram pound 2.20462

kilometer (km) m 103

kilometer ft 3280.84

kilometer mile 0.621371

kilometer hr-1 (kph) mile hr-1 (mph) 0.621371

kilowatt hp 1.34102

knot mph 1.150779

liter cm3 103

liter gal (US) 0.26417

liter in3 61.0237

meter angstrom 1 x 1010

meter ft 3.28084

micron cm 10-4

mile ft 5280

mile km 1.60934

mm Hg dyne cm-2 1333.22

Newton dyne 105

Newton pound (lbf) 0.224809

Newton-meter (torque) foot-pound-force .737562

ounce lb 0.0625

Pascal atmospheres 9.86923 * 10-6

Pascal psi 1.45 * 10-4

Pascal torr 7.501 * 10-3

pint gallon 0.125

poise g cm-1 s-1 1

poise kg m-1 s-1 0.1

pound (lbm) kg 0.453592

pound (lbf) newton 4.4475

rod feet 16.5

quart gallon 0.25

stoke cm2 s-1 1

slug kg 14.594

tesla gauss 104

Torr Millibar 1.333224

Torr Millimeter of Hg 1

ton (long) lb 2240

ton (Metric) lb 2205

ton (Metric) kg 1000

ton (short or net) lb 2000

ton (short or net) kg 907.185

ton (short or net) ton (Metric) .907

watt J s-1 1

yard in 36

yard m 0.9144

year (cal) days 365.242198781

year (cal) s 3.15576 x 107



Basic Units
Length meter m

Time second s

Mass kilogram kg

Temperature Kelvin K

Electrical Current ampere A



Derived Units
Force Newton N kg m s-2

Energy joule J kg m2 s-2

Power watt W kg m2 s-3

Frequency hertz Hz s-1

Charge coulomb C A s

Capacitance farad F C2 s2 kg-1 m-2

Magnetic Induction tesla T kg A-1 s-2



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Multiples of Ten
10-12 pico p

10-9 nano n
10-6 micro µ

10-3 milli m

103 kilo k

106 mega M

109 giga G

1012 tera T



While these multipliers are most often used with metric basic or derived units, the multipliers are sometimes used with english units, creating confusing combinations.
Examples are kip which stands for kilopounds (1000 pounds) and ksi which is a combination of k and psi resulting in thousands of psi.

Types of Democracies:
Types of Democracies
Parliamentary:
A parliamentary democracy includes an elected assembly or parliament whose members make decisions, pass laws, and supervise spending of public funds. Parliaments also act as a sort of �middleman� between ordinary citizens and the government. The government is accountable to the parliament which, in turn, implicitly represents the views of the people who elected them.
In a parliamentary democracy, the top officials are known as ministers. The ministers make up an executive body that is called the cabinet. Ministers can also be members of parliament, and so they carry out legislative or law- making functions as well. Both the government and the cabinet functions under the control of the parliament as a whole and remains in power only as long as it has the support of a majority of the members of parliament.
In most countries with parliamentary government, the chief executive is called the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is the leader of the largest party in parliament or of a coalition. A coalition is a temporary joining of parties that together have a majority of seats. The prime minister is not elected by voters but is nominated by the majority party and then formally administered the oath of office by the official head of state who may be the king or queen of a monarchy or the president of a republic. In most parliamentary governments, the Prime Minister selects his or her ministers. The United Kingdom is an example of a parliamentary democracy.
Presidential:
In a presidential democracy, the chief executive participates far more directly in the decision-making and can exercise a considerable degree of power. In the parliamentary system, the head of government and the head of state are two different persons. For instance, the Prime Minister is the head of the government and the king is the head of state. Today, the duties of the head of state have often been reduced to purely ceremonial duties, or merely to perform official appointments. In contrast, most presidents carry the responsibility and authority of both head of government and state.

The forms of presidential government vary, but in many countries, including the USA and France, the president is elected separately from, and independent of, the legislative branch. He or she is commonly elected for a fixed term - often four years - while the Prime Minister of a parliamentary government has to resign if the parliament does not support the government's policies and calls for a vote of "no confidence."

In both presidential and parliamentary governments, the judicial branch functions independently. However the powers of the judiciary under the parliamentary and presidential systems differ in degree. For instance, the Supreme Court of the United States may, in some cases, declare an action of the president or congress (legislature) unconstitutional; but no British court can overrule the prime minister or parliament.

I won't travel to US in future: Fernandes - The Times of India

It's outrageous..treating any govt. official..it's outrageous.

The DVD ROM writer available with Compaq Presario R3140US (Toshiba SD-R6252) does not support DVD-R discs. Buy DVD+R or DVD+R/W

FW: Guess what

-----Original Message-----
From: Nair, Vinod [mailto:vnair@hbmaynard.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:38 AM
To: Binod Tripathi
Cc: kaziin@msx.upmc.edu; Rodrigues, Kevin J.; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu;
Raja, Mayank
Subject: RE: Guess what

dang forgot to add saala!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Binod Tripathi [mailto:binod.tripathi@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:36 AM
To: Nair, Vinod
Cc: kaziin@msx.upmc.edu; Rodrigues, Kevin J.; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu
Subject: RE: Guess what

ur bowling skills are deader than marlon brando so this must be gods
smiling on u

 

             "Nair, Vinod"

             <vnair@hbmaynard.

             com>
To
                                       "Rodrigues, Kevin  J."

             07/06/2004 11:25          <Kevin.Rodrigues@jhuapl.edu>

             AM
cc
                                       <paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu>,

                                       <kaziin@msx.upmc.edu>, Binod

                                       Tripathi/Edison/IBM@IBMUS

 
Subject
                                       RE: Guess what

 

 

 

 

 

 

well I didn't get a chance to bat.. Waterboy and Doc took charge and
completed the game .. Your bat did play a big role.. Waterboy batted
with it.. he was lucky to be dropped couple times and 2 other times was
lucky to be caught on no-balls...but hey luck plays a big role in
cricket doesn't it.. but he batted extremely well with that bat.. some
superb out of boundary/straight shots.. doc played a marvellous hook for
a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge six.. which he had never played in his
lifetime (the hook)

with regard to my over.. I will let waterboy/doc explain the course of
that over.. he he he!!! but the best thing was I never got hit for over
1 run in each of my 30 balls that i bowled.. can u imagine that!!!!!!
usually i get spanked for a 4 or a six always!

From: Rodrigues, Kevin J. [mailto:Kevin.Rodrigues@jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:21 AM
To: Nair, Vinod
Subject: RE: Guess what

4 wkts in 1 over. Now v have a story to tell our kids about  vinod
uncle's greatest over in addition to his last ball 6.
Can u elborate a bit more on that over? tera six khi kahani sunteh
sunteh kaan pakh gaye.
Also, did the bat play any role in your easy win?
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Nair, Vinod [mailto:vnair@hbmaynard.com]
      Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 2:20 PM
      To: Rodrigues, Kevin J.
      Subject: Guess what

      Apun this past weekend solid cricket khela.. took 4wkts in 1
over..
      hooo haaaa in the second match... and didn't give a 6 or a 4 in 5
      overs that I bowled!!!!!!

      doc and waterboy batted very well too.. infact they won the game
for
      us easily.. we won by over 3 overs to spare.. wanted 81 runs in
12..

Netgear WGR614v4 Cable Mode/DSL Router

I had some problem with this router. Basically it would drop connection once after I connected. After browsing net for info, I found out that I need to download new version of firmware.

Once I did that, it has never dropped connection again.

So, now rating goes to 5 from 4 :-)

HP-Compaq Customer Support

So, it's been over a month since I bought Compaq Presario R3140US laptop. I was already very happy with the product.

Then I had some questions and a problem (created by me) and had oppurtunity to use their customer service. I tell you, very rarely I am satisfied with customer service. I always have some complints. But this time, zilch, nada, zero...

Both the times, customer service were knowledgeble, knew what they were doing and before they started, they told me what they are going to do or ask me to do.

HP instant support downloaded the whole configuration automatically to their support database, it was amazing. Didn't have to wait for more than a minute to reach them, and second time my problem was infact solved over chat online.

Full 5 stars for their effort and process.

BMA - Chairman of the Staff and Associate Specialists Committee, Mr Mohib Khan: "And my final story.... Dr. Vijay Kumar.... A man recognised abroad but not in his adopted country.
Video Clip - Windows Media (887 k) Real Player (871 k)

Video Clip - Windows Media (694 k) Real Player (681 k)

Video Clip - Windows Media (130 k)

BMA - Patients sent abroad as skills of UK doctors go unused, film reveals: "Patients sent abroad as skills of UK doctors go unused, film reveals
Press release date: Tuesday, 29 Jun 2004 (BMA London)
Patients are being sent abroad for operations when they could be treated by doctors in the UK, a film screened at the BMA's annual conference has revealed.

Many of the U.K.'s 12,500 staff and associate specialist doctors who are distinct from junior doctors and consultants - have years of training and experience. However, the current medical career structure prevents them from taking referrals from GPs, managing their own clinics, and potentially performing thousands more operations.

In his address to the BMA's annual conference in Llandudno today, Mr Mohib Khan, chairman of the BMA's Staff and Associate Committee said: 'Patients are losing out because highly skilled specialists are being prevented from offering their full expertise.'

As part of his speech, he showed Untold Stories a film featuring interviews with three associate specialists. One of them, Mr Vijay Kumar, held a senior post in a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia, and many of the doctors he trained there have qualified to practise as consultants in the NHS. Ironically, he has not been able to do the same because his experience is not recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons.

Despite having performed hundreds of operations as a locum consultant in the NHS, he is prevented from carrying out the same work as an associate specialist. Mr Kumar says, 'It's frustrating that so many patients waiting for operations are being sent overseas, or to independent sector treatment centres staffed by surgeons from countries like South Africa. I fail to understand why they can't be treated by someone like me."

Legislation to allow doctors' experience to count towards inclusion on the specialist register – which would allow them to apply for consultant posts - was passed last year. However, Miss Pushpa Dudani, a breast surgeon in Rotherham, says change is unlikely unless the bodies that oversee doctors' training shift their stance.

"As an associate specialist I can do the same things consultants do, but I'm not allowed to become one because the royal colleges don't recognise all my years of experience. They have tunnel vision and unless they change their attitude, we're not going to move forward at all."

Mr Khan will also highlight the plight of Mr Subhash Halder, an associate specialist doctor in Halifax, who has invented an implant that has revolutionised the treatment of fractures of the neck and arm. Despite winning international acclaim, patients cannot be referred to him directly, which he describes as demoralising: "I was getting referrals from different hospitals nearly every month, but I couldn't admit any patients under my own care. They had to be admitted under the care of a consultant, even though I did the operation, I did the follow-up and I got the results."

Click here to see the full speech and view the film:
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/ARM04chSASC

Pro Cricket - Fast n' Furious Global Action >> Home Page

Welcome To Agni Solar

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI): working in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development

A good website on solar energy. Every one in India should think about this.

Solar Energy Heats Up in India

and

TATABP SOlar Domentsic applications

and Serach for Businesses Around Wolrd

RE: Thats Baloney!!!

wow..that came NOW !!!

 

Mayank Raja
Asyst Technologies Inc.
48761 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.
ph: 510 661 3441 fax: 510 661 5101

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raja, Mayank
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:22 AM
To: 'Sanghvi, Kuntal'; Raja, Mayank; Mallu; Binod Tripathi
Cc: ajay.belambe@gmail.com; iftekharkazi@gmail.com; globalcor@yahoo.com; kevinjr@gmail.com; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu; rjoshi@us.ibm.com; sangivp@aol.com; kmadhu@aol.com; naishadh.somaiya@nttaus.com.au
Subject: RE: Thats Baloney!!!

USD....United States of Desistan

Mayank Raja
Asyst Technologies Inc.
48761 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.
ph: 510 661 3441 fax: 510 661 5101

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sanghvi, Kuntal [mailto:Kuntal_Sanghvi@acml.com]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Raja, Mayank; Mallu; Binod Tripathi
Cc: ajay.belambe@gmail.com; iftekharkazi@gmail.com; globalcor@yahoo.com; kevinjr@gmail.com; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu; rjoshi@us.ibm.com; sangivp@aol.com; kmadhu@aol.com; naishadh.somaiya@nttaus.com.au
Subject: RE: Thats Baloney!!!

what's next ? hyderabad ? aurangabad ? ahmedabad ? where does it stop ?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raja, Mayank [mailto:mraja@Asyst.com]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 12:12 PM
To: 'Mallu'; Binod Tripathi
Cc: ajay.belambe@gmail.com; iftekharkazi@gmail.com; globalcor@yahoo.com; kevinjr@gmail.com; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu; rjoshi@us.ibm.com; sangivp@aol.com; Sanghvi, Kuntal; kmadhu@aol.com; naishadh.somaiya@nttaus.com.au
Subject: RE: Thats Baloney!!!

although most of the times I think J&K is integral part of india, sometimes I tend think, is it worth losing thousads of lives ? Just give kashmir to pak. And if kashmiris don't like it..too bad, thay can then fight to be independent..or just let Kashmir be independent, whether with POK or not..and jammu be with us. end of story.

Mayank Raja
Asyst Technologies Inc.
48761 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.
ph: 510 661 3441 fax: 510 661 5101

-----Original Message-----
From: Mallu [mailto:vnair68@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:45 AM
To: Binod Tripathi
Cc: ajay.belambe@gmail.com; iftekharkazi@gmail.com; globalcor@yahoo.com;
kevinjr@gmail.com; mraja@asyst.com; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu;
rjoshi@us.ibm.com; sangivp@aol.com; kuntal.sanghvi@acml.com;
kmadhu@aol.com; naishadh.somaiya@nttaus.com.au
Subject: Thats Baloney!!!

'What is good for Pak is good for Kashmiris'

PTI[ MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2004 04:44:48 PM ]
 
 
Indian Foreign Secretary Shashank (L) with Riaz Khokhar 
NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Monday suggested the establishment of a
mechanism to involve the people of Jammu and Kashmir "at some stage"
in the dialogue process to resolve the vexed issue, and said whatever
satisfied Islamabad would satisfy Kashmiris.

"At some stage and point we must come up with a mechanism to associate
representatives of the Kashmiri people because it is their fate that
you are deciding and they must be associated with the process. It is
the most desirable thing to do," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman
Masood Khan told reporters at the end of the two-day Foreign Secretary
level talks between the two countries.

"But as of now there is no such mechanism. But as you go down the
slope of dialogue and confidence building, you can come up with a
mechanism if there is the requisite goodwill, understanding and
momentum," he said.

Asked if such a mechanism was "mandatory", Khan said it was "imperative".

When pointed out that the Joint Statement issued after the talks
mentioned that the Kashmir issue should be resolved to the
"satisfaction of both sides", he said "what satisfies Pakistan will
ultimately satisfy the Kashmiris. That's the simple answer".

Khan said there were three parties to the dispute and "when you are
resolving the issue, it would be both advisable and sagacious to
consult the people of Jammu and Kashmir because they are the ones who
are to decide their future political dispensation".

-----------------------------------------
The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Please note that we do not accept account orders and/or instructions by e-mail, and therefore will not be responsible for carrying out such orders and/or instructions.
If you, as the intended recipient of this message, the purpose of which is to inform and update our clients, prospects and consultants of developments relating to our services and products, would not like to receive further e-mail correspondence from the sender, please "reply" to the sender indicating your wishes. In the U.S.: 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105.

Dilbert Quotes Contest Winners.

 

 Some of these sound awful familiar

Subject:Dilbert Quotes Contest Winners A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest.  They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers.  Here are the top ten finalists.  [They must be true; how could anyone make these up?] 1."As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the   building using individual security cards.      Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks."   (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp. in Redmond,WA) 2."What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter."  (Lykes Lines Shipping) 3."E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data.   It should be used only for company business."  (Accounting manager,Electric Best Company) 4."This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it."                     (Advertising/Marketing manager,United Parcel Service) 5."Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule."  (Plant manager, Delco Corporation) 6."No one will believe you solved this problem in one day!  We've been working on it for months.  Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them."  (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.) 7.Quote from the Boss:  "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."  (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation) 8.My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday.  When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year.  He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday.  He said, "That would be better for me."  (Shipping executive, FTD Florists) 9."We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees."  (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division) 10. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on.  I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough.  He said, "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!"  (Hallmark Cards executive)

 

Saw 3 movies from Netflix. I joined on Wed for 14 day free trial, after I got offer to join from http://www.snapfish.com, which folks ig reat place to develop your photos. It's cheap, and they scan your pix for free and post the album on their site.

Anyway, I basically decided to watch movies that Farzana does not like. She's coming back on tue and I thot I'd watch all the old classic.

Started with Scarface ( which I had seen longtime back, but I think got up in middle as I couldn't understand the accent), Being John Malkovich and finally Serpico.

All very good movies, loved them. Only I got up late and didnt send the DVDs back today. Now they will go out on monday only !!!!

Yahoo! Groups : controlandautomation Join This Group

Yahoogroup to discuss PID techniques and algorithms

Offtopic.com

OFFTOPIC.com is the best discussion board ever.

Go register at www.offtopic.com No adds. gr8 ppl. Lotsa meets. Total fun.

Offtopic has grown over the years with efforts from a single person. Fazle.


Check it out at http://www.offtopic.com/

It's a good day. completed a task and my boss happy. Oh yeah, day b4 yesterday, finally vishal gave me his toll free number to contact him vis VoIP. It was gr8. Now we can talk more often and longer w/o caring abt money and can have three way too with Hemant.

So now every I know has a gmail id. Why don't I get it ?

What do I have to do to get gmail...

Tickets to India

Finally booked tickets via China Airlines. Keeping my fingers crossed now. I hope the flt.'s are good and we have a good transit in Taipei.

Cost me 1120 plus tax during End of decemebr.

Cricket - Start of run up 

Here we go 

Take that 

ready 

Cricket - What a sixer. 

Mayank and Shona 

Farzana and Mayank 

test 

GMAIL

So, I've been active with google for so long, how come I don't have a gmail account, where as ppl are getting 'em left right and center and they are making money with it.

I am dissapointed.

Problem in XP with detecting CD/DVD drives.

I have faced this problem b4 too, with my desktop, but then I did not have any help.

But this time I got help from customer service of HP, Nirmala, operating from bangalore. Gr8 lady.

Anyway, if you get a problem with device not getting recognized even after uninstalling driver and still get explamation sign against driver with problem report being registry being corrupted (code 19), try the following.

1) Click on Start->Run and type regedit and click on OK

2) Before doing anything, clicnk on My Computer, the File and then Export. Save current registry in some filename

3) Click on plus sign of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

4) Click on plus sign of SYSTEM

5) Click on plus sign of CurrentControlSet

6) Click on plus sign of Class

7) Click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

8) Right click on "LowerFilters" on right hand side pane, and then delete

9) Do the same for "UpperFilters" is exists.

10) Reboot.

It should work.

I am so tired trying to book tickets to India

I started last nite, w/ live help from makemytrip.com from almost 9:00 to 11:30. And ended up finding that I do not have many options. Unfortunately that means, we fly not so good airline (Asiana or China via Taipei) and we will not be able to spend time togeather with my sister and her family as they plan to leave by 2nd Jan. And we might just reach there arnd 31st.

That sucks, flying in dec..next time i'm flying in Summer, but anyway, I guess, I'll have to start looking for tickets 9 months in advance.

I hope I'll be able to finalize tomorrow. Good...help me.

Toxic
Kelly's Mission Rock, San Francisco

Last nite myself and Manoj went to Toxic, Desi Dance party arranged by Ecstacy Production. It was fun. It started off slowly and ogt interesting only aftr 12:00. Well, we were there at 10:00 :-) I guess, I was going for first time I was anxious. Since I had put both of us on guest list, we paid only $10.00 and women were free if on guestlist before 12:00.

We went in. It's a kewl place with two lvels. The place was very romantic with deck right on the bay and u can see bay bridge, oakland lights, bay and ships. It's beautiful.

On lower level they played bollywood and bhangra. I was there just for bhangra, but with Manoj almost drunk and staring at lovely, sexy and beautiful girls, I had to dance alone, which, without being drunk seems a little foolish. So, I went out on the deck and enjoyed the beautiful place.

On upper level, they played hip-hop.

It was fun overall. So, I plan to go with Farzana and may be Fasiha when her ankle gets better.

Last nite i slept at 8:00

Yup..i've been getting up at 6:00 every morning this whole week. I was so sleepy when I left work. Then I started watching 2001 Space Odessey.

U wanna sleep, watch that movie..it just doen't move. I dunno who it got hit....anyway, i just had to go to bed to sleep, and then got up again 6:00. Feel much better today after 10 hrs sleep.

Lunch at Gen Ramen
So, I was alone for lunch, as Rich went with Pablo. So, I went to Gen Ramen on Warm Springs.

I've been there before with Steve, but alone..i usually don't go to any restaurant alone. Anyway, I went there and ordered Kimchee Takana Gen..i think, with no meat. Although it was lil tough to explain to the lady..but a guy helped.

It was very very tasty. It's diffrent from Do Henkatsu on Saratoga and moorpark, in that this is miso based, while Do Henkatsu is pork soup based, I forgot whats it called, may be henkatsu itself.

Anyway, so after a few times, it tasted very good. Love it. Only if I cud go often. Cost me $8.12 with tax and is cash only.

Marine National Park

This is a beautiful place. I went to these islands for camping thru world wildlife fund..WWF as it was known as then.

Since it was in 1986-87, when I was 13/14 years old, I do not remember the details. But we stayed on two islands. We travelled by a boat, a big boat to one island. Stayed there over night. At night the waves were crazy. Collected a lot of jelly fishes. Then next day, we went by a sail boat to another island.

THAT WAS WICKED maan...i remember the boat was going from one side to another and I was holding on to the rope so tight, that at then end of the trip, i cudn't open my grip.

Anyway we reached there, had to get down in water with our luggage, which consisted of one suitcase and one sleeping baggage (a big one). Walk what seemd like miles and miles .. me a small kid .. finally reached destination. It was like a dessert..well almost, but then when we went for trekking the next day to the other end...it was the best thing i ever saw...corals..all kind, sponges, electric rays, crabs, jelly fishes, It was beautiful...there were all kind of fishes i had never seen..so shallow water. Maaan, i wish i cud go again.

Next day we started back to the first island we had stayed on, and next day back to Okha. It was fabulous, and a trip I can never forget.

So, I tried to post a few messages by mail. It worked, until I tried to send pix by email. After that none of the emails have been published.

I don't know if it's supported or not, but it sure did hang that part of the system :-)

Marine National Park

Hotel Hingolgadh Palace Gujrat, Gujrat Heritage Hotels, Heritage Hotels Booking Gujrat, Heritage Hotels in Gujrat, Gujarat Hotels Booking, Budget Hotels Booking, Discount and Budget Hotels in Gujarat

List of movies to see

Before Farzana comes back from her trip to Houston..

• 2001 Space Odessey
• Scarface
• Being John Malkovich
• Hart's War
• Mangnolia
• The Russian Prisoner
• Doctor Zhivago
• Rakh
• 28 Grams
• Double Jeopardy
• Minority Report

To buy a house or not to buy ?

I have started rethinking on whether to buy it or not..and my latest thots...not now.  With so many things going on...Farzana's graduation postponed...my job security, my GC, visit to India..too much stress. Can't handle any more stress, not to mention, tight budget. So, I guess Di's mother-in-law's astrolger's prediction will come true.

 

Shield

Man, last nite's shield was intense. I hope they kick out Shane from the show. He's such a loer..two of his team players, and nice guys are srewed up thanx to him.

Vic's character is so varied..he's brutal, he's funny, he's emotional, he's sneaky and loving father...can't wait for next series.

man it's so hot outside. Went for usual walk and now I am sweating and puffing.

So I was aksing Bao, if he would take offense if I called him oriental He's vietnamese. I fail to understand why one would. I can understand why nigger or jap are offensive. Cuz these words came out of hatred and disrespect. I do not think the same for oriental.

My boss said I should use the word "Asian" for being politically correct. Now that confuses me cuz, geographically, being from India, I am an asian too and so are middle eastern ppl.

So, what word should I use without offending any1 when refrening to ppl from china, japan, vietnam, laos etc etc...

Blooging via email

So, I say to all Indians., BOYCOTT CNN.

I was watching a news item on India, and CNN shows whole Jammu and Kashmir in shaded area, outside India's political map. This is ridiculous, Now CNN and not UN is incharge of world politics and policies !!!!!

Wots this fuss about stem cell research. If embryos have life, then why not charge a murderer of a woman with mutiple counts of muder.

If cells have life, ever time someone cuts oneself or cuts other person, they should be charged with murder 1 :-D

This is ridiculous.

So, my boss has me addicted to these japanese soft candies..called HiChew.

They come in different fruits flavour and are yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy. Thats not all he's got me addicted to.

I started eating Sashimi (LOVE IT), J-Noodles and Mongolian BBQ thanx to him.

Sashimi everyone knows. But what everyone does not know that all places are not same. If you really wanna enjoy sashimi and what the fish (I dunno about other stuff, cuz I don't like it so didn't try it), you have to go to special places like Yuki in Fremont near Ohlone college and Sushi Kuni on D'Anza.

At Sushi Kuni, you should sit on the bar and ask the chef whats good. And try to have what he recommends.

As for J-Noodles, well thats the name he's given to Ramen Noodles places and we specially go to Do Henkotsu on Saratoga and 280. Awesome noodles soup. If you a veggie you may tsill try it, thats what I do, I do not like beef or pork, so I just have it w/o meat. However mind you, the soup is cooked in pork meat..or something like that.
Try no. 1, 3 and kimchi one. And do try their fried rice. It's the best fried rice eva.

There's another place for noodle soup, on Warm Spring called Gen Ramen. Now thats Miso based, you if you order w/o meat, you are having all veggie stuff.

So, i was getting these annoying pop-ups and no amount of Lavasoft adaware and Spybot-SD would fix it. And also, I think I deleted one of those application which started up on start up and I kept geting messages from windows, yada yada file not found.

Finally, I realized, a lot of a apps are not started from Startup folder but from "\Windows\Prefetch" folder.

So, if you have applications that startup w/o being listed in startup ... check out that folder and just deleted app.pf file. And u r good to go :-)

Also if you had Kontiki installed earlier, and deleted only Kontiki folder in program files...it won't work. Delete "\Windows\Kdk" folder too.

My PC is clean again..yippppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeee :-D

Thats moi. 

This is what I will use to make CD for Farzana :-) 

Mayank Raja's thoughts

just read abt washingtionnet..kewl.

broadband � Speed Search

NDTV.com - Latest News from India

Testing from IEMayank's blog

Testing