Missed calls

"Got to go to the office now. See you in the evening dear."

"Remember to call!"

"Ok. I'll give a missed call once I reach office."

"Let me know when are going for lunch. Give me a missed call then"

"Ok dear. When I'm leaving office I'll give a missed call on the land line. If I'm going to be late I'll give a missed call on your mobile"

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"Dont pick up the phone yet"

"Why not"

"I want to know the number of rings if its a missed call"

"Aunt, do you and uncle have a missed call code?"

"Hehehe. Yep. 1 ring for I miss you. 2 for I love you. 3 for I am having breakfast/lunch/dinner and 4 for Good night. There were 3 rings that time, your uncles having dinner. It will ring 4 times in an hour so"

Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani

Delightful. Its hard not to grab your stomach and laugh out loud. Usually the interesting parts of the movie are used for the trailer and watching the movie becomes a 'fill up the blanks'. Thats not the case with Ajab Prem ki Kajab Kahani. The movie will push audience to forgive Ranbir Kapoor for the towel dance and Katrina Kaif for her movies before New York. Rajkumar Santoshi has produced a rib-tickling comedy completely different from his Andaz Apna Apna. The movie fits in nicely with the string of quality productions by Bollywood. Dont download this movie, watch it on the big screen.

know thyself

Remember the java coaching mentioned in a previous post? P is senior to me, has sound knowledge of Java and is a very good manager. He is leading the initiative. P came up to me today to talk.

P: Hey, I have the habit of barging into conversations and stating my views. Its one of my weaknessed. Do you... find it irritating?

(I left a previous session when P starting talking to my class, and generally do not have my happy face on when he starts to speak)

Me: (with a smile) To be honest, I was irritated the first couple of times. I understand now you did not mean to interrupt me. I liked it when you gave the examples today.

P: Great! Thanks. Good to know.


This conversation could have taken a completely different turn if P were not aware of his behaviour or I had confronted him and not listen to what he had to say.

Solar water cooler

Last year:
1. Open hot water tap. Water too hot.
2. Open cold water tap. Water still hot.
3. Open cold all the way. Done.

This year:

1. Open hot water tap. Water too hot.
2. Open cold water tap. Water still hot.
3. Open cold all the way. Water still hot.
4. Close hot water a little bit. Water still hot.
5. Close hot water all the way. Water still hot.

We need a solar water cooler now.

New language

I've wanted to learn PHP for sometime now and started reading through the basic material at w3cschools today. Having used Java for the past 5 years PHP seems a fairly easy language to pick up. Going though the materials, and the fact that I'm training a few colleagues in Java, led me to draw this mind map:


I intend to use it whenever I start learing a new language.