My Life As It Comes

Damn busy to update my blog!

2009-10-22T10:46:00.003+05:30

For the first time after starting this blog, I feel I'm running out of time to update my blog. There are many things that i wish to blog, but i do not find enough time and resources to post.

Probable posts that you can expect are:
A discussion with my colleague at my previous organisation that made me decide to quit that job, The successful interview, New job - New life, Diwali Dhamaka, How i keep myself busy, The art of earning and spending money
and many more updates in my life that deserve a post in this blog.

Wish i get some good time to post all these stuff. There is no PC for me here and I expect to get it in the next 2-3days. Have to take an internet connection here in Hyderabad by the 1st week of November. I desperately need to earn and save some money :D

51 Facts that Reveal Real Me

2009-09-20T01:00:00.011+05:30

Hmm.. Blogging after so long gap, i decided to post something unusual. Well, in this blog post I'm going to explore myself as i write and let you know somethings about me more in depth and detail. This is going out to beat out all the longest posts of my blog! And for all those who love my blog and my life and the way see it and present it, this is going to be a full meal as a compensation of not blogging a good post in the past few weeks.

1. I have Tractor phobia. It all happened when i was in my 2nd standard. I took a bicycle for rent on a Sunday and was roaming my entire village. I used to ride that very short bicycle at great speeds and at one point, i overtook a heavy sugarcane loaded tractor in a narrow turn. A person aged above 60 yelled at me.. "Orey.. tractor kinda padi potav royyeee.." (You gonna fall under a tractor and die!) From then, if i need to overtake a tractor even on a bike, i get nervous and accelerates higher to pass that tractor at blazing speeds.

2. I get some really weird dreams like riding a car at tremendous speeds, falling from heights, buildings, sky, plane, and sometimes drowning deep down in an ocean. In most of such dreams i get up all of a sudden. btw, we do not possess a car.

3. I started watching movies in theaters all alone from the age of 7. Right from then i used my dad's name and profession to get tickets directly. He works in a public service department.

4. I'm an internet addict and a PC enthusiast. I spend about 100hours a week online.

5. I prefer watching movies all alone in theaters and not in a group.

6. In the past one year i have never changed my PC wallpaper or mobile wallpaper. Both are custom made by me in photoshop :D "I love myself" is the quote on my mobile screen and that reflects me.

7. I have my parents passport pics in my wallet.

8. Tough I do not care a damn of what people think about me, I always like to know what they think about me.

9. It is very difficult for me to remember names of people and even friends whom i know well. So friends, this time if i ask you what your name is.. you know what to do. Reply your name :P I might have just forgot. And my efforts to overcome this for the past 2years are showing signs of improvement.

10. I love smilies or emoticons a lot and use them regularly over internet chat and text :P

11. I can use keyboard shorts than you can think of and can survive with a dead mouse :D

12. The movie for which tears rolled out of me for the first time was Rajanikanth's Muttu. As usual i was watching it all alone in theater at the age of 8-9 i think. The incident was when Rajani got pushed out of his own palace and that backdrop music. Got it?

13. My childhood friend during 1-4standards was Joshuva. Later my dad got transferred and we moved to the current place. I could never meet him later. Would love hear that he's all good. I still remember him. The same with our Princi Sr.Janitya. She loved me lot and said that she would write a letter giving reference to me to get a seat during mid academic year in SFS school. But my dad had plans for other school then. I remember her tears when i was leaving the school. Which princi would love to lose such brilliant and smart kid? ;) - I plan to go to this school someday and inquire about these both people.

14. I danced for the first and last time on stage in a group at the age of 8 for my school annual day celebrations. I headed the group. Guess i was in 3rd class then.

15. I can walk for 5-6Kms at a stretch on the road looking at the shops, names, wall posters, ad banners, road bumps, people, bikes, cars and still enjoy every foot of my walk even if it walking for the 1000th time on the same road.

16. There's always a good and bad in me and the same me and 'inner me' who always conflicts with my own decisions. I'm complex, amazing and amusing to understand :D

17. I write really long. I believe i can write damn good and pen down my feelings. Not sure how that gets conveyed to the other.

18. I rarely get bored sitting in home. I enjoy loneliness too. I dream and listen music during those times.

19. I still wave my hand a bye for my mom when i leave home. In my entire years of education there was never a day i came off home without waving a bye to her. (few exception wen i was angry)

20. I have had hit my sister innumerable times and ran off. Notorious me :D

21. My friends burst into laughter whenever i say that I'm sensitive :P But fact remains same.

22. The best of my friends say I'm complex, straight forward, very friendly, damn humorous, fun loving, logical thinking person, intelligent, too good and an idiot.

23. I google my name and see where my name ranks in the pages in my free time.

24. I can quit my job right now for a challenge.

25. In the past 5 years i might have gone to temples not more than 20times. In this year 2009, i went to temple on Dec 31st 2008 midnight(1st- 12:00AM). What a wonderful way to start a new year. Right? On my b'day. And on the day i got job. That's it.

26. As a child i always love rains and got drenched many times. I used to roam on my bicycle on the entire roads during and after rain. If there's a rain on early morning, my dad used to wake me up knowing how i enjoy the beauty of nature and rain.

27. I make quick, reliable, trustworthy friends faster. I have 1ox of friends in college and equally online too. Among my online friends 90% are my juniors, sub juniors and one guy has just passed out his 12th and is an ardant fan of my blog :D Engineers love this blog. hehe..

28. My love story started in Orkut all with a scrap. Little did i know then that i would be loving her in no time.

29. Most of my blog readers find my life and blog very interesting and even conveyed the same to me. And for the blog posts, i always write the content first and then the title, 1st para and PS.

30. You will get amazed seeing my text messaging skills on mobile. My old nokia has all white keyboard and i can literally close my eyes and still type sms text faster than a newbie B-) Now, that skills has diminished as i do not send even 10SMSs in a month.

31. In my schooling, my hobbies list included but not limited to playing chess, watching cricket, tom n jerry cartoons, philately, drawing, badminton, cycling, video gaming. Later internet and PC gaming took over everything.

32. I love my dad very much and to the best of my knowledge he doesn't know that! Would love to tell him someday that how much i love him.

33. Till my engineering i never went to a restaurant and least do i know the menu items available in such places. It was in my 2nd year of engineering that i went to a restaurant with friends. And in 4-2 it was like a weekly trip with my batch. By that time i turned out to be a freelancer and thus earned few extra bucks online for my mobile bills, petrol in bike and these parties. Financial independence rocks.

34. I acted as a personal English-Telugu and vice-verse translator for my principal Sister Janithya in my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th classes. She was proud of me and I'm was a live exhibitor of our school standards for the rest of parents who come to meet her.

35. I'm a bad cook. But I can cook white rice extremely well.

36. The only complete sentence that i can speak in Hindi is "Krupaya dhyan karo.. ghadi no. xxxx Howrah se Yeswanthpur jane wale ghaadi ek no. platform mae aa rahee hye".
This is the only line that Ashok too knows and he taught me this when i said i do not know Hindi.

37. I once sang a song.. that too a Hindi song for her, recorded it on mobile, converted it to mp3, uploaded it and emailed the link as a New year gift with the song lyrics that i managed to put on a good image using photoshop, wishes and an apology letter. I realized then that i'm a horrible singer and imagine.. she never spoke with me till date from then :-/ It was one of her fav. songs.

38. Even on a hot summer and mid day i need luke warm water to take bath.

39. I'm so impatient that i run 3 floors up the stair case than waiting for the elevator to get down to 0 from 3.

40. The 'crazy me' can get down running on a rolling up escalator from first floor to ground at BigBazaar mall, Ameerpet. All for a pic and unmetered fun!

41. Black and Orange are my favorite colors. Next comes white and then blue and all the others. There's no particular color that i do not like. My colour preferences change depending on the things on which they appear.

42. More than one third of the blog posts are written and published past mid night 12.

43. To our knowledge and other friends observation, I and Ashok are the only two students in college who can shout and converse or run from any block to any block at any point of time in a day under anybodies supervision. And during those runs we used laugh like hell and if it is for fun and laughs, we never cared what others would think of us. We tried to live every moment of life.

44. Surprsingly, all during my life, the people who taught me English had a greater impact on my life and the way i see it. They have built up my character and what i'm today. Sr.Janitya during primary schooling, Mr. Babu Antony during Higher classes, Dr. JayaRamulu during my intermediate education and Dr.Hanumantha Rao during Engineering.
There are very few others whom i adore. Mr. MVP and Mr.Ajit are the other two.

45. I consider numbers 6,7 and 9 are lucky though i have no preferences to any numbers. If i had to choose some or say some then those would be the numbers.

46. In few slam books, i filled the "My aim" space with - "Will start my own firm some day. Will be an entrepreneur." during the end days of my Engineering. I dream big.

47. If i have to divide my student life in two equal parts, i rate my 4th year of engineering on one side and the rest 15years of education to other to equal the ratio. Got it? ;) And if there's a chance, i skip my 2 years of intermediate from my life. Horrible 2 years. But i learned life there and later lived it up in Engg.

48. I like Home made food, Thumbs Up with samosa, icecreams, kushi movie, beach, candle lights, orange skylight that get reflected on white walls during some evenings, shape of kinley mineral water bottle, volvo buses, any pen with only black ink to write, smell of new text books( lol, the fragnance still remains the same as i never opened them in engg), my watch, melodious music, alu chips, fried ground nuts, hot jilebi, sugarcane juice, Appy, Sprite, Yamaha, Nokia, Most Wanted PC game, Google, my wallet and my love. There are many many others and it makes a bigger list. This is what i could think of while compiling.

49. In my home, my dad or mom never ever forced me to wake me up on a holiday till midday. They never tell me a single work to do. They groomed me up with such extraaa care and love. Sometimes my mom says in a kidding fashion.. "If this is the case, then definitely in near future the girl who comes will scold me out for bring you up this way."

50. Are you reading till now? I can get down on my knees keeping the Ego aside to propose the girl whom i love even if i knew there are good chances for rejection. But i doubt if i will be able to still keep my trademark smiling face then.

51. I just wanted to end this post with 51points as i cannot pen down 451points right now.

And finally, i took long time to write 51points and you too took much time to read on. Can't you spare 2minutes of your time now to write a comment on this if you have read till this line entirely? That boosts of some blogging spirit.

PS: There can come a part-II of this post. Surprised on what's more to write still about me? hehe.. Scroll up to point 22 and the last word in it. It is said for that. Not a joke.

PPS: 3:10am Need some sleep.
Cheers! (Non-alcoholic)
Jagan

1st week in Office

2009-09-04T02:53:00.004+05:30

26th August 2009

This is the day i joined in office. After failing in about more than 10 attempts and interviews to get a job, i had packed up everything and decided to return back to see if i can do any good with my to-do list. But on the last day of my stay in bangalore, i attended one more interview and got placed to my utter disbelief.

4th September
It's a week now I'm working and here is my take on my job.

1. Seems i became coffee addict. I can always be found around the coffee machine in the free cafeteria. I do not have the habit of drink coffee/tea in general. It's always Boost in home... even today! 90% of the Employees in the Engineering team smoke! Thanks, i'm in operations and the work is not stressful.

2. Work is quite ok ok sort. Feeling comfortable as the days pass and the day passes.

3. Made friends already in the department :) Few can understand telugu and there's one Telugu guy in my team.

4. Orkutting at the times of night shift is common among our network operations team and when i said i have no Orkut id, my team got surprised and shocked! They looked at me as if they were seeing an Alien. Thinking time would answer everything, i was not interested to tell them my Orkut expertise. At the time i swam across Orkut and closed it for personal reasons, they must have had learned the process to add/scrap friends.

5. The team got to know that I'm a freelancer and earn online. This made them generate interest on me and in no time i became a Guru for them. Questions on paypal, $ transactions, working online, online scams, how i earn, website that help, how do i know, to which clients i work for, where did i get that clients, where do i work online, how much i earned till now and such stuff poured in one after another. I started enjoying this strange feeling.
And this made them realize, having no orkut account need not necessarily proves a person to be internet illiterate!

6. It takes time for me to get adjusted here and so for all my team to get adjusted with me! Anyhow, this job is on a contract basis and for a duration of 4 months only.

7. People started saying.. "You are very fast. Please be slow, think slow and act slow." This is a pure contradiction to my style. I take faster, quicker, better decisions and act. Seeing me use the system and keyboard, the team lands up in confusion and they yell at me asking me to STOP :D
Hoping that in coming days they would learn to accept my speed or i would give up working speed.

8. Addressing and calling a team member, the team lead, team manager, manager and even the CFO of the company with their first name made feel different. The 50+ year old CFO runs in the office working, cracking jokes with the subordinates, smoking with them and loves getting called with his first name by any impressed me. Zero aTTiTude!

PS: Signing off at 3:45am :)

Shattered To-Do list!

2009-08-21T19:04:00.004+05:30

1. 24th-31st Aug- Apply for all the engg colleges for the faculty post. LoL, me as a faculty in engg college!? Never thought of it even in my wildest dreams during my education. Though i dislike almost everyone who taught me in engg (1-2exceptions), I love the process and profession of teaching. I love the dais and try to conguer it and my listeners (if any) :P

2. From Sept - Incase due to my worse academic performance in engg, if I do not get a job as a faculty member, I decided to make my freelance works in a more bigger and brighter way. Even planned to take a small decent office space in tanuku and shift with home PC there so that i can dedicate quality time for my online works and can work hard. In home, I waste time sitting idle and lazy all the day and night.

3. We are three months old with our VPS web hosting service - HeroeHost
Three of us (Online friends - one from UK, the other from Nellore and Me) are running this hosting business with a recurring expenditure of more than $150 a month from our pockets. Now as we have got some decent clients, the investment has lowered down to $25 per head. And in a month or two, we are going to reach a stage where, the business runs itself with no extra funding - Breakeven point. So, planned to market a newsletter to all the newly established engg colleges, that we can design, host and maintain their college website on robust dedicated server at cost and quality which no competitor of us can dare to think of :D

4. Be among the editorial board for an upcoming college magazine - CampusStar, a hard copy monthly magazine that targets the Engineering college students of AP exclusively. My friend made all the plans to launch the magazine next month and is working on getting the name registered and bring in VCs and sponsors.

5. A professional blog is in the list. It's my friend's wonderful idea. We decided to implement it in this week. But now.. seems i cannot dedicate full time to it.

6. Apply for SBI bank test (in November) and simultaneously prepare for MAT. - MBA is always in my list.

But now, i fear above things may not be accomplished in time.
The reason, I got a job!! :)
On a day which I had declared as the probable last day for my hunt and job in Bangalore.
More in next post.

PS: This is a sudden surprise for me after having attended about a dozen interviews.

10 reasons for Declining a job offer!

2009-08-10T13:27:00.006+05:30

I have attended many interviews these days both in consultancies and few companies too.
For customer support, i'm over qualified :P
And for tech support, the competition is very high with flooding number of BE/Btech graduates everywhere.
And at this point of time, when i'm planning for a job desperately, i declined an offer from a startup firm.

Here's how it went on.
On the last saturday, i travelled 90minutes to reach a newly established company Rafter Info Systems. Inspite of my serious efforts to find a job, i declined the offer for many reasons.

1. 8k is the salary. I expect a 5digit salary. I h counave this strange way of counting in dollars though i have no dreams of greener pastures. may be this is because all my online transactions and works are done in $$. The pay is less than $200 and it looked so absurd to work for such amount all the month. Hardly it is my 2weeks earnings at the comfort of my home and PC.

2. No travel facility. Travelling 90minutes by bus is ridiculous.

3. No incentives or bonuses.

4. 6days a week work - Not 5days a week.

5. Upto 10hrs a day work. No fixed shit timing. We should be available there at the drop of a call.

6. A newly established call center by an individual. Didn't start it's operations yet.

7. Just less than 1k Sq. feet offfice with 2 a/c s and 13 computers hardly.

8. I was asked to keep all my original certificates with them for atleast a period of 6months.

9. I'm planning to build a career not just a job.

10. The best reason among all, i find myself in the shoes of that employer - Launching a similar firm in 5years down the line. I'm worth more than $200 a month for the amount of work i need to do there. This is because i know the industry standards, how much they earn on outsourcing processes and the inner business secrets. This is a strong reason for which i felt as if being ripped off. Ofcourse i might do the same as an executive, but as a jobseeker, i couldn't digest the fact of me working for few little bucks all the day/night. There's always a entrepreneur within me. I cannot think of leading my life as the same tech support executive even after 10years of my life.
May be i'm of this kind and thought some other person should deserve this job. I cannot do justification to it even if i accept the offer.

Brandname and Salary are my keypoints in dropping this offer. I can compromise on one of them. But not both. Lack of transport facility and shift timings added up. The contradictory fact is that i love start-ups 'cos i get a chance to grow along with the company.

PS: After seeing the interviewer (owner) and infrastructure, my aim of landing up my own firm got just stronger ;)

Not so special Friendship Day

2009-08-05T17:44:00.009+05:30

2nd Aug, 2008

One of the many memorable days of my engineering. It's the day before friendship day and the entire class celebrated it at the canteen outside the college.
As usual, knh didn't give permission to cut the cake and celebrate in the classroom and so all of us moved out of the college. Who's gonna risk questioning us there? Definitely none. Yet again, that left entire faculty of our department think, ece-b guys rock! :D

It was great fun, running at the empty grass lands outside the college with pieces of cake in hands to apply them on the faces of friends and trying to escape. Playing with the sandals kicking them all around in the ground, and going for a photo session.
It was full of fun and fun unlimited. One good incident was that the misunderstandings between me and P were gone that day. She has become a friend. Friendshipday is one great occassion to speak to the friends, make surprise call to old friends, gather at a place, share memories and have fun.

2nd Aug, 2009

A complete 360 degree turn.
Not even a single call.
Not even a single mail or greeting.
Not even a single sms.

I kept the mobile switched off. I didn't log in to my mail. It's better to stay that way than to expect someone to wish you and later get disappointed. This is one lesson that i learned on my b'day when i stayed online for 22hrs uninterruptedly hoping some special person to wish me :(

The day went fine with me sticked in home to the tv. Even i didn't call any of my friends this day ~~(National call rate isn't cheaper unless you are with docomo).~~
Nothing great happened. - except that i cooked (rice :P ) for the first time in my life. Nothing worse happened

An attempt to Fly!

2009-07-28T15:00:00.001+05:30

One fine day during my final year final days of engineering, i decided to fly for a snap. I made the arrangements. Arranged the teachers table, switched the fan off, closed the opposite windows, made sure that no girls were present in the class, closed the doors and was set ready to fly!

And who can be behind the cam? Yep yep! It was Ashok behind his dirt old N73. I climbed the table and made 2-3 attempts and finally jumped up raising one hand up.

Execution failed :P Shutter speed was low and beside was the resultant pic.

I narrowly missed bumping my head to the first bench :D

Withdrew the idea and decided not to try it in the classroom

after having rolled on the floor laughing :rofl:

If you think i cannot go anymore crazier than this, you are wrong! There were such wonderful fun moments many during my engg life.

PS: I live every moment of my life. Do you?

31 Things learned in Bengaluru

2009-07-27T01:11:00.001+05:30

I'm back home today after my ~~trip to~~ stay in Bangalore. Here are few things that i learned in these 3+ weeks of my stay there.

1. Bangalore is now Bengaluru.

2. To read 'Kannada' font. It's damn easy. All you need to know is Telugu font.

3. To wear a Helmet. Yeh! For the first time. Traffic rules are much stricter there.

4. Learned that my head is real big. The helmet could hardly fit my head in :D

5. 'yes' and 'no' in Kannada.

6. Learned to interact in English most times. Most can understand telugu too.

7. There's availability of Cow's milk everywhere and not the Buffalo's milk you get in AP.

8. To count the no. of the Pani Puri that get dropped in my plate before i gulp them. I always forget the count midway inorder to catch up the speed of the guy who puts them in the plate :D

9. Got to know that more than 50% of local residents do not know Kannada.

10. Searching the address locations and route maps using Google maps.

11. Taking in telephonic interviews.

12. To be smart enough in saying "About Me" during a telephonic conversation with consultancies.

13. To make Boost, cook rice, Rasam, fry Califlower and learned how cooker works.

14. Minimum auto meter charge is rs14 / 2kms and there after 70paise for every 100meters distance traveled.

15. PVR Cinemas has the highest price rate for a special theater (Gold class) in it's complex. Rs650/- a ticket! I was surprised. I can watch 130 movies on my player here in Tanuku for that amount! (Rs.5 a movie cd). It has got a total of 11theaters in it's complex, ForumMall. Weekend shows have higher ticket prices.

16. People come in cars to buy vegetables in the market! Well, the amount they spent on fuel is noteworthy.

17. People are much aware of traffic rules and they follow them. Not the way it is in Hyderabad.

18. If a stone is thrown in air on the roads of this city, it either hits a Dog or a Software professional. No exaggeration!

19. Potato chips in sambar rice combination makes a real good taste to eat during lunch.

20. Staying away offline without using internet is not as difficult as i thought earlier.

21. If it isn't my own home here in Tanuku, I'm not allowed to sleep until 12mid day elsewhere. Learned to get up before 9am from bed and sleep before 12midnight :D

22. Choosing fresh vegetables from the nearby market. Selection isn't an easy job!

23. There are a ton of job consultancies in Bangalore most look for some sort of money investment in the name of training or tests.

24. KSRTC sucks! Buses do not ply regularly in all routes and the fare is also high.

25. Registering in naukri or monster doesn't bring in jobs or offer letters. Most of them are fake out there.

26. INR1lakh a year is the donation for a LKG seat in popular schools. Horrible!

27. Exploring Bangalore on foot is not a bad idea! You get people to give u a lift on their bikes at times you need. This is a friendly city on my observation.

28. Even, all the fruits are sold in "weight" terms and not in dozens. Felt strange hearing an order of 1kg bananas in the fruit market :D

29. Airtel has a clearcut domination in providing broadband services in the entire city.

30. There are good number of Opel Corsas, Fiat Palios. I haven't ever seen an Opel on the AP roads.

31. Learned the way how not to narrate a love story ;) after telling everything.

PS: That's all i could recollect while compiling this post at 1:20am. Yes yes! I'm back home. May be 'll stay here for a week or two and be back to bangalore again. I'm in need of a job desperately.

4 in All

2009-06-28T23:09:00.002+05:30

Ashok, Me, Satish, Praneeth

About an year old pic. During the initial days of my newly owned 'HH Glamour' all we four used to bunk classes in the afternoon session and find our way on my bike to the ice-magic.
We used to plan ahead in the morning itself if there are chances for escaping the afternoon session. I used to go to college on my bike and during lunch hour all we four used to return back.
It's a 5 miles ride back to the town and we have no proper place to spend the rest of day.
Everytime it used to be either JK, icemagic or MahaRaja. And then a chitchat for sometime at Railway station and then me alone used to ride back home all alone 20kms away.

Within few days Nitin joined us and there doubled the fun :D
There added his Glamour and later his new CBZ Xtreme. Thus, we got another hangout place - Nitin's house :P

5 of us used to sit in the same bench and yo yo! Josh unlimited.
Singing, sleeping, smsing, pushing, lifting, chatting, playing, laughing, screaming, shouting, gaming and what not!? We have done everything except listening to classes and writing notes.

Wonderful days of Engineering. I miss them all :(

PS: Pic snapped on the move with N70 front cam.

Jagan Ganti rules Google's 1st page results

2009-06-26T04:18:00.012+05:30

Hooray! Jagan Ganti is a btech ece 2009 svec passout graduate and owns entire Google's 1st page out of 7,190+ search results. :D

When i googled my name, here are the top 10 results.
I really worked on bringing this result. SEO here too ;)
Here are top 10 results when google searched with the words Jagan Ganti

I conquered entire 1st page of Google
1. Facebook Profile - link
2. CodeProject profile
3. Google Profile - link
4. Hi5 Profile - link
5. Shelfari Profile - link
6. LinkedIn Profile - link
7. eSnips Profile - link
8. Blogger Profile - link
9. PaGaLGuY Profile - link
10. jagan's blog - link You know it :D

A perfect 10/10. I'm on cloud9.

lolz.. my popularity even continued in the 2nd page.
11. My own startup - iDump.in
12. Facebook again
13. DigitalPoint Profile - link
14. This Blog's post - I'm an engineer now - link

20. My another blog

The only profile in which i'm very much active and missing is the twitter. It's because twitter doesn't has a follow attribute i guess.

It was last year that i Googled for my name and was sad 'cos i couldn't find any relevant results of mine then. At that moment i decided to get into the 1st page of google and in no time i achieved that. I left it there. And now, i feel as if i owned the entire 1st page of google :D
And now this added up to be one more reason why i love google.

Click on the image to see a full view of the results page.

Interestingly i even challenged the even more tight keywords Jagannadh Ganti
page1: 1. JOSO profile - link
2. Facebook alternate link
Had sever competition with Jagan's Educational Insitutions, YS Jagan, Cheddi Jagan and director Puri Jagannadh.

Do know how longer i stay in the first page results. i don't think i can get good competition unless someone challenges me with my keyword :P

PS: As i expect now you can find even this post in 1st page results. hehe..
Published@ 5:03am

[UPDATE] - 5:12am
My guess never goes wrong!
This blog post is updated to the 5th position in 1st page.
In less than 2minutes!
Woah.. Seems Google loves jagan's blog ;)

1 year to my PC wallpaper

2009-06-25T03:25:00.008+05:30

And for the past 1 year.. i have been using the same wallpaper.
Last year somewhere during this time, i installed photoshop and decided to create a desktop wallpaper, with my amazing photoshop skills :D

For those who are wondering if i can PS, hehe.. I'm multi talented and have my hands on everything. You name it and the most probable answer would be an Yes! :P

I still use this same quote as my email signature. I wrote this message on the first page and last page of all my engineering note books in the final year. Just 2-3books for that matter :D

I know this wallpaper isn't anything attractive. But for reasons unknown i loved it and have been using it for almost an year now. And i have no ideas to change it in the near future unless i make some great art in again photoshop :D

PS: The image is a full 1024 x 768 resolution wallpaper. Click on it to open the full view, right click and save.

The best pic in SVEC

2009-06-23T21:12:00.006+05:30

Out of tons of images taken in college, this is one of my all time favs.
Found this now just while browsing the galleries of my PC.

Sometime during 4-1 i guess. I don't remember.
I and Satish went on to the dais of our class room during the lunch session and played this game. I don't remember now how we calculated or played that. But the result is -

Jagan likes Satish - 82% and
Satish likes Jagan - 99% :)

Satish: Hey..! You stupid. It's me who likes you more and is proven. Came for a hug.
Me: I fail to express and so this board did fail. It's more in heart than in a game.

We clapped, whistled, screamed, shouted, hugged and jumped and then snapped this image as a sweet memory.

I broke the ice

2009-06-22T22:02:00.005+05:30

My clossseee friends know it.
My blog readers know it.

So why not should my mom know that?
Thus told her everything.

Awesome conversation took place.
Never knew that my mom can be this supporting. Or i can be that convincing.

It took some time.
It took some courage.
It took some planning.
It took some thinking.
- To start off. To take off. And end with a perfect landing.

For the last two days i have been waiting for the right moment.
She sensed it. Guessed it.
And i revealed the same.

PS: You can fool some people all the time. All the people some time. But you can never fool your mom.
Cheers!

My Dad is the strongest.

2009-06-21T23:34:00.001+05:30

PS: love u dad

Bye Bye Hi5

2009-06-19T23:25:00.005+05:30

After successfully quitting orkut three months ago, i moved now to Hi5 to close the account.
Actually i had an Hi5 profile long back before the Orkut's. The popularity of Orkut has made me stick to orkut and the google's name made me love orkut.
But due to some reasons i wished no longer to continue orkut.
And now, i don't find a reason to continue with Hi5 either.

Here used to be my hi5 profile.

నేను భావి భారత ఇంజనీరుని! - ఇప్పుడు నిరూపితం

2009-06-17T02:03:00.006+05:30

4 years of strain
4 years of deadlines
4 years of time-frames
4 years of shit

4 years of fun
4 years of joy
4 years of entertainment
4 years of LIFE

4 years of thought
4 years of path
4 years of knowledge
4 years of wait

FOUR years of AGE

Comes an END. I'm an engineer now.
Results declared. And my total aggregate % is 58.something
Narrowly missed the 1st class degree.

The best thing with me, i know the way to enjoy my life as it comes.
Whatever. No regrets.

PS: Failed in DDLV. VLSI result is pending. Still have gained sufficient credits to obtain a bachelors degree :P

PPS: I'm an Engineer. Officially declared.

Assurgent Technologies Scam

2009-06-13T06:37:00.006+05:30

Here comes Assurgent Technologies Scam!
My 1 lakh rupees are stronger! :) I didn't lose it for the Assurgent Techno, Kolkatta.
Last year i got placed in Assurgent technologies through campus interview. I was asked to pay INR 100,000 to them as a security deposit. I was reluctant and didn't dare to deposit that money and thus forfeited the job offer. And now, the company is no more. They ran off!
Their websites are closed. Their office is vacant. Police case filed against them.

Here is some info about the company

Established in 2005 as a Pvt. Ltd. Company and Registered under Government of India Company Act (ROC) by the shareholding pattern. This is purely a Software Development, Sales Management and KPO Company in collaboration of PMS AG a world leader and SZ Vermessung, Switzerland, an European Service Provider for measurement and engineering software tools.

And now, they ran off! Ran off with crores of money overnight.

Exactly an year ago, i decided to check the company info and gather some information whether to trust this company or not. In that attempt, i and Nitin went to Madhapur - where the office is located. Found few of my friends of other department and other colleges there with a 1lakh rupee DD in their hand, certificates and formal wears. They were suprsied seeing me in a funky T-shirt. i said i'm not going to pay and have come there jus to checkout around.

First things first - Facts i noticed on my visit!
1. It's a 2 storied small building. (As big as my house)
2. The building is for personal use and later converted to commercial pupose. Thus it has a hall, double bedroom and a kitchen. lolz :D
3. Few chairs outside and an irresponsible watchman.
4. No proper checking of the certificates. They are much more concentrated on collecting the DDs rather verifying other proofs.
5. The offer letter is not on a letter head.
6. Only two people in the office, that too on a working day!
7. I really found it hard to locate the office building. Asked 10s of people arounf to find the company, but none knew that such company exists in their premises!
8. It is a rented building.
9. A laid down flex title board "Asurgent Technologies" reclined to the wall at entrance.

Isn't that list enough for me and Nitin to come to a conclusion and Vrrooommm back on our RX100 from there :D

Global crisis has hit down one more software company.
One may point out to GM or Lehman Bros. But guys, they didn't run away with our money.
And it isn't the same case either. They have an history of a century. Not an year or two.

PS: The image is a symbolical representation of the news "Board tippesina assurgent" :D

A busy week flew away

2009-06-05T02:19:00.007+05:30

lotsa work did! Heck lotsa work to do!

Loads and lot of work!

A week has just flew and didn't find time even to look at this blog in this week.

And now, posting for the sake of updating it at 2:20am with no sleep.

btw, why am i so busy?

June 3rd 2009 - My first biggest online venture started along with two other online friends.

Started a VPS hosting business (heroehost) with a monthly recurring expenditure of $150+

And i have a 1/3rd share in this.

I took the responsibility of providing content for it and sitting there almost 24x7 customer support there along with the other two. More about this stuff later ;)

Made myself busy being a freelance article writer.

It's all about a psd tutorial, tutorial on blog transfer ebook, lose weight, credit reports, tax, acne and Phuket in Thailand.

Most used sites in this week are google, gmail, digitalpoint and heroehost.

Have some niche blog ideas to start on in partnership with PC from next week.

So, probably it's all more busy days ahead!

In mean time got an email from JKC (for which i joined on 8th October 07 ) asking if i'm willing to attend for Infosys BPO in the 2nd week of this June. Accepted.

Mastered in Multitasking! The only problem lies with the efficiency :D

Signing off! 3:03am

PS: Still still i find lots of time being killed by me doing nothing.

Mission - Vision - wtf !

2009-05-29T13:29:00.000+05:30

Why is the vision written in such a terrific launguage?

lol, else if we could understand it we would laugh at their ass aloud and guess the management doesn't want that to happen and hired a best proffesional to compile a "Vision" that no student probably understands in the first read.

Why are there more than one mission?

I guess, these guys need us to understnad that this college has some missions at least and is not solely run to reap money. But who cares? None of the stated runs in practicality.

Why are these boards hung in every class, corridor and around college?

It's for the NBA (National Board of Accrediation) grading. OR

Atleast someone would blog about this so that this college's mission and vision can get up live over internet! lol, i'm the only blogger in college. Hence took the responsibility :P

Let me go for a detailed review of each of these missions

To create and sustain and agile community which is highly professional with due consideration for ethical, ecological and economical issues.

I wonder how can these people create a quick community when none of them are mentally quick. Shit! these people are also talking about professionalism. Wah...! Excellent use of triple E's to show off.

To impart quality - education that servers the need of present and to energize the technological world.

Why is there an iphen (-) between quality and education? Does quality means only serving the present blah blah? I guess you have spoken about ethics?

To forge mutually beneficial commitments with government, industry, society and alumni.

When i see that last word (Alumni) my blood boils. F ! These morons couldn't even arrange a send off or at least a meet when we left the college after last exam but are speaking of the Alumni. If at all i become a HR and goes to this college for campus recruitment, definitely would call up the concerned people and and 'll get explained of each word on this board if at all if they can. And also would enquire on the progress of these missions. :-P

Commitment to learn, adapt and change as a means to perpetual development.

yes! Commitment to learn more ways to play with students during lab sessions, adapting a blackmail list to award marks and grades and change (for girls) as a means to an indefinite development.

To purse research and disseminate innovations to the society.

lol :D you people know it better.

PS: Please please someone try to explain me better what this shit is! Click on the image for a full view.

PPS: And unfortunately, i guess the list is compiled by the faculty member (Eng) whom i like the most and is the only one in my college whom i respect. It's his job and he did it perfectly well. But it's my 'duty' to rant over. No issues whatever.

Suggest me a Movie please

2009-05-25T19:19:00.005+05:30

Plenty of holidays and free time to kill. Thus i decided to spend 3hrs a day/night to watch a movie. I really have very much time to spend on.

Listening music, watching movies, being online on gtalk, playing games, experimenting with photoshop, html, css, reading blogs, tutorials, ebooks, magazines, youtube, lyricswood, writing articles, blogging, friends, google and what not?Doing all these things on each day. But still i'm let with plenty of time.

Should i try my long cherished dream of writing an short ebook? A small novel - a love story :P But somehow i feel this is not the right time to do that.

I have covered all the possible good Telugu movies. The rent of a cd is jus Rs.5/- and for a 5.1dvd is Rs.10/- per day.

And i have very little idea on Hindi and English movies.
Need your suggestions in choosing some good Hindi movies.
Comedy romantic entertainers preferrably.

As i have aimed for 30movies in a month, in the past 4 days i have watched Rab Ne Bane De Jodi, Dostana, Singh is King, Rainbow(Te).

PS: Thanks for the suggestions i received through gtalk :D

3months - 0movies : 30movies - 1month

2009-05-21T00:15:00.007+05:30

The title says all and nopes.. it's not a movie title :-D

Few months ago i stopped watching movies for a while. As ever, i can't point any reasons for the decisions i take :P I did it because i felt not to watch for certain amount time.

I didn't watch movies because i just wanted to check myself how long i could be without watching movies either in theatre or pc. And i stayed away from cinemas for 3 succesful months.

And now i'm back. Back with a bang!

Vedokkade, Kick and Ananthapuram1980 in a row :)

All the above three are avg+ movies. And Ananthapuram1980 has made a mark in my mind.

And all through this evening there's a constant repetition of a scene in that movie. Heart touching!

Ananthapuram 1980 is worth a watch atleast for the song "Konte Choputhoo.. nee konte chuputoo" A marvelous song! The first time i heard that song, i fell in love with that and played it in continuously for 5 (yes! FIVE) hours is repeat mode right from the moment i heard it for the first time.

The last time i took a break from movies was from Pokiri to Bommarillu and then recently from Konchem ishtam.. to Vedokkade. 3months and 0 movies is a big deal for me. I'm a sort of movie freak and watch movies very regularly. And now for this summer i decided to watch minimum 30movies. Probably will cover most of them in my PC, ofcourse NOT the crappy pirated cam prints. And for this time, there are no worth movies to watch in theatres. I love movies with a difference (story, screenplay, technical aspects or whatever) than the crappy commercial useless movies. (Mithrudu for instance :P )

PS: Waiting for the release of Prayanam.

4 days trip and no Internet

2009-05-19T01:32:00.004+05:30

I was on a vacation to my grandma's house and to Arasavalli and Rayagada (Majji Gauramma Talli).

lol, both the domain names suryadeva.com and arasavalli.com got expired to my surprise!

I found these site urls everywhere within the temple and decided to blog..

huhh.. now i can't tell you what those places are except that Arasavalli is a famous pilgrim spot as it's the only Sun God's temple after Konark and besides one in Tanuku. Don't get confused. As far as i know, there are only three temples for the Sun God in India. Asaravalli is one among them.

Life without internet is strange.

It's only in these 4 days i realised how much i'm GooGle addicted. Ofcourse, i kept an eye on my inbox with the help of my mobile. GPRS sux! but had to use 'cos you never know when you can receive a special mail ;)

I enjoyed the most in these 4 days. I love travelling and travelling all alone in most cases. Hmm.. u know the reason :P The total trip included journey by buses, trains, autos, bike, cycle and on foot too. And for the first time ever, i have travelled in a bus which has 4 TVs!!

Yes! 4 color TVs playing the same movie in a single private city bus! I couldn't belive my eyes! I travelled on almost all the known classes and types of buses in AP, but not this one! What surprised me is that, this bus shuttled within the Vizayanagaram and Srikakulam districts which are known for their under development and backwardness!

Though there isn't much greenary, I most found rocks, hills and barren lands and sparcely populated regions. Did 20hrs continuous journey almost. Travelled 4hrs only to meet my intermediate frnd (laxman) for 2hrs! Went there just to see that suprise in his face. He lives in Patapatnam, 2hrs from Srikakulam.

After visiting him it got proven again that money can't buy few things and "few" friends too. For rest i have got a Visa and Paypa l :-P

No gtalk, No twitter, No blogger, No meebo, No paypal, No DP.

No clients, No deadlines, No articles, No turnaround times, No work, No PMs, no $$.

I'm back home yesterday and an YES to all the above! :-D

2:20AM. Cheers!

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Unconditional LoVe !

2009-05-10T23:31:00.002+05:30

Love has it's own terms. It's own feelings. It's own selfishness.

But can there be unconditional Love?

No, no there isn't.

Was that all i thought. Until this day. Until this day.

Thought that there cannot be anything unconditional and infinity.

Love's no exception for this was all had in my mind until this day.

I felt everyone is selfish. Selfish in their own ways.

Selfish that one has to be loved.

Was that all i thought.. Until today. Until today.

Everyone searches for their own happiness.

Everyone loves to be loved and not love the other.

Everyone has their own wishes, their own prayers for themselves.

Was that all i thought. Until today. Until today.

But there can be love where -

Love is unconditional, ethical, moral, valued and treated.

Wishes and prayers are not for themselves.

Happiness is found in others success.

Tears build in other's pain.

And yes i witnessed it and it took 21 long years for me to realize the above stated facts.

The love of mom. The undefined.

You never prayed for youself.

You never wished for anything yourself.

You never even thought for yourself.

But I do remember

All those prayers when i go for exams (lol, can't stop from laughin)

Your warnings when i say i ride the bike fast.

Your care when i come home hoping falling from the bicycle. ( A million times :D )

Your tears when i fell sick.

Your smile when you see me happy.

Your wishes for my success.

Your blessings for my better life.

All through your life, from the moment my life began it was me.

I'm the reason behind all your actions.

And what made you do this?

Isn't it your love towards me?

What ever did you expect from me for yourself in return?

Isn't it your smile in my happiness?

Is this called unconditional love?

And it did take 21 years of my life to know this. May be it's now i actually grew up.

Always thougt it's her responsibilty but only today when i pen down this post i realized it's only her love towards me that's making do all these.

All those memories flash before my eyes as if they happened a day ago.

Standing at the closed school gate with tears, waiting for me till lunch time with a carrier in hand at the age of 4.

Holding my bicyle and running behind me to teach me cycling at the age of 6. It was a re.1/hr rented short bicyle and a hr duty for you in the evenings :)

Running behind me to catch and kick me off when i first tried to test what electricity is at the age of 8. (lol, i have plugged in a power cable in the socket and with the other two end wires in my left hand, i opened my right palm and slowly placed those wires in right hand to learn what actually and how shock 'll be. Luckily i was stading on a wooden stool as i could not reach the switchboard. Really was a smart kick ass child :D )

All the little b'day celebrations you arranged in home till i reached 15.

Tears in your eyes when you had to leave me in hostel for my internediate education.

Worry, anxiety and inquiry in your face when i listen to all those tragedy love songs. lol, i love them for no reason. The "Nuvvante pranamani.. ne vente lokamani.." song(Naa Autograph) was real fun then when i tried to say 100times that there's nothing to worry in me listening that song.

And now, for all the prayers you do for my successful life ahead. (btech, job, ..?.. ) ;)

I do remember everthing mom, but just never thanked you. As i write this i can list a million incidents. Afterall, it's you all through my life.

And to celebrate this day for the first time ever, i went for shopping with my mom. Asked her to buy a saree and that i'm going to pay the bill. Yes! A Mother's day gift. A plesant surprise.

And that moment is framed in my mind. Her happiness and smile.

Happiness not because she's getting a new saree, or for it's price or it's color or brand.

She was happy because it's her own son who gifted it. It's me :)

An offer which she didn't expect this quick.

She was proud and told my dad, rang up to my sister, showed it off to neighbour et everything adding up the story behind it. lol, women :P Never i have seen her with attitude earlier.

lol expect the scenario when she wears it :D

And even till date, if there's my only routine habbit, it's waking up in the morning, going near my mom and say " Amma.. heeee :) " and then a 2secs prayer to god.

I wonder, if i can ever love someone in my life so true and deep as you do love me!

But it was you who taught me how.

May be, if this is magic.. there's magic around me too mom.

I'm a Jadoo ;)

Cheers!

With love, signing off.

PS: This is the longest personal post. Dedicated to my mom. Happy Mother's day to all my blog readers. My sister stated that she's waiting for the Raksha bandhan :D

PPS: Special regards and wishes to Imp's Mom

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Lyrics Wood - One stop search for free mp3 dowloads and lyrics

2009-05-07T23:40:00.009+05:30

lyricswood.com is a free mp3 and lyrics search engine targetting mainly English song, albums and lyrics for free downloads. Telugu latest mp3s are also available. The songs can be played or can be direct downloaded.

My graduation is completed and it is not even a week. I started feeling bored and so inorder to keep myself busy, i have launched a new site, lyricswood which is a complete out and out destination for music freaks especially those who love English albums.

Features:

1. Clean home page with just a search tab - The google way ;)

2. Ability to search audio or lyrics at lyrics wood

3. Can instantly play or Download directly to system with just a click.

4. You can embed the player with your fav. song in your blogs/webpages.

5. High quality 128kbps songs even during streaming. Sorry guys, if you are low speed :P I can't help it.

6. Did you find a great song or a lyrics? You can directly mail it to your friend with just a click.

7. Bookmark or stumble your fav. song or lyric.

Future Plans:

1. A search query counter that counts the total number of searches.

2. Integrate a forum with this site if possible.

3. Fully complete the site with contact, about, legal and advertisement pages.

4. Immediately buy a license with $4 to remove the footer license links.

Marketing Strategies: To-do list

1. Analyse google trends and then try google adwords marketing accordingly.

2. Hire people for cheap to do forum posting on some popular forums related to lyrics to bring in targeted traffic and backlinks.

3. Try buying adspots in PTC and bux sites and drive in traffic.

4. See that ROI (return on investment) is fairly better.

5. Make Bloggers' blog and tweet. Yep! yep! I'm doing this now :D

6. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques for better page ranking in google.

7. Watermark and upload few videos to youtube.

8. Link/Banners are other blogs/sites

9. Directory submission to gain backlinks inorder to increase PR (page rank).

10. Leave links in signatures where ever possible. :D

The path travelled:

1. Bought a domain name that is going to expire for $2 and renewed it for $9/yr.

The reason for buying an existing domain is, aged domains rank good in google. Afterall, you need visitors and google bring them. Also, i liked the name lyrics wood the same as hollywood, bollywood or tollywood.

2. Looked for many free scripts, tried to launch wordpress and then thought of a forum. none worled.

3. Bought a script for $15 with footer link mandatory. I was low on budget in paypal and couldn't afford the extra $4 then.

4. Installed the script on my own indyalabs host.

5. Problems with the host server with the script, thus moved it to a VPS (virtual private server) of my buddy. Thanks Mohan.

6. Strategically placed adsense ads around. lol, afterall lyricswood is a commercial site.

Please try this site and feedback is much appreciated.

PS: The title and the first para are intented for search engine robots and not humans. This is called SEO dudes ;)

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Who said there's no bubble in technology?

2009-05-03T18:52:00.004+05:30

There's absolutely no bubble in technology. Here's a funny video!

And if you think the above words are true, watch this video and change your opinion yourself.

A truly funny and in a way inspiring video. A must watch and a must share and lol and a must blog video :D

Awesome lyrics, tune and the video itself rocks!

The video is for sure a true inspiration.

Watched it 6-8 times in a row. Loved it :) And i bet, you can't help replaying it.

PS: So is there bubble in technology?

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