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Post from Kerala

I am writing this post from Kerala. I reached Kerala today morning to attend one of my friend's marriage. Friends from bangalore are coming to Thrissur for attending the marriage. Planning to visit Athirappally waterfalls today afternoon. Will return back to chennai tomorrow afternoon.

The life in chennai is very busy. We are planning to shift to a new house in chennai, mainly we are looking for a very good residential location. All brokers are asking for rent above 12,000/ only. Still, difficult to get house in a good locaton. Search is going on. Because of this, not getting much time to spent in Office.Luckily, not much work in office.But planning to start work from next monday. I bought a second hand splendor bike and a new mobile, Nokia N73.Traffic in Chennai is not bad compared to bangalore. Otherwise half of my salary i have to spend for auto itself. One thing i dont like in chennai is uncontrolled auto charges. New mobile is having a lot of good features i was looking for. 3.2 Megapixel camera,GPRS, MP3 player..and i got 2 GB memory card with mobile. Now i can save as many contacts i want in my new mobile. That was the biggest problem i was facing with my Nokia 1112.

Planning to start house construction in Kerala next month, hopefully. Plan is ready. Some formalities are needed for applying loan. The process is going on. A very good financial planning is required in the near future.

Blogging after a long time

I am blogging after a long time..Blogging sites are not allowed in Office. So getting very less time for blogging. Life is going fine in Chennai. Started work in Office. But not much work. 2 Weeks vacation was good...3 days I was in Bangalore. Rajesh too returned back from onsite, Nepal.

It is raining in Chennai. So, not much hot here. But planning to buy one AC. Else, next two months will be difficult. Started playing football again. Will post new blog entries in other two blogs also...

Planning for some trips in the coming months. Will update latter.

Reached India..

Going to sleep..Will update about the journey later.

Last weekend in Ottawa

So, last weekend in Ottawa started..!! It was a very fast 5 months here. Now 5 more working days here. After that bye to Ottawa.

It was happy days in Mckellars 605. Except weather i liked everything else in Ottawa : friendly people, good food, a lot of free time ..Weather also was good in the first two months. September and October. And by mid November snowfalling started. Still continuing...But it was a different experience. I still remember my North Indian Trip in the last january..i was feeling very cold in the 15 degree celcius of Agra. But now even zero degree is good and if it is positive it is a very good day. In the next saturday i am returning back from Ottawa winter to Chennai Summer. ..:) First few days in Chennai it will be difficult. It is a change from -30 to +30..You can imagine that. Correct?

I reached Ottawa on Sept 23rd evening. Balram and KV was there in the airport to welcome me to Mckellars. I visited Niagara falls in the first weekend in Ottawa itself . Eventhough i went alone, that was an awesome trip..Niagara is really a must see beauty in the world. Before visiting downtown, Ottawa i visited Niagara..:) First few days work was difficult, due to the Night shifts. In Chennai i used to enjoy working in Night time. But here the daily Night shift was not easy in the starting days. Then i started enjoying it by watching films, chatting, reading..really i was lucky. I didnt have much work to do in the Night time. Thanks to all Chennai colleagues for that..:)

Then in September end (? ), Balram returned back to India. But before going he introduced two good friends to me - Riyas and Hisham. In the coming weekends they gave me good company to different restaurants in Ottawa. Special thanks to Riyas for introducing me to the great food of Nandos and Mangolian Village...:). Karthick returned back in November mid. After that two weeks only me and KV was there in Mckellars. December first Ravi and Keshav joined us. Then the next trip was to Montreal. Four of us cannot forget that day. If you check my Picasa album ,you can understand how much difficult it was - worst storm. But really the Biodom and Olympic village was memorable visits. December mid Manju also reached Ottawa. He was staying in Mckellars only..in different appartment. Then what else in December? December 26th, Boxing day..me and KV reached Futureshop at 5:00am. But still we had to wait about 1 hour in the queue to enter Futureshop. Then New year Eve in addiction.. Gaurav(Gauji) reached Ottawa on Dec 31st, 2007.

Then January ..it was one of the best time here. Because we five guys were there in the appartment and thanks to remix guru Ravi's great effort..!! Our cooking experiments went to a different level in January and the food was good. January mid KV and Keshav and in the end Manju returned to Chennai.

February first week Renga joined us. But unluckily Renga and Ravi had to return back within one week due to some issues in the project. Then for the last two weeks only me and Gaurav in Mckellars..Days of experimental cooking..:) But we are successfull. Now i know how to prepare very good Chicken fry(really..). Thanks to Gaurav for recipes..

Anyway it was a good time here.. with some new friendships, good experiences and ofcourse with some savings in account. I will return back to India on March first. Planning to take two weeks vacation after reaching there. I need some rest..to enjoy homely food and the good weather of Kerala...with parents and relatives. Uncommon luxuries of a software engineer..!!

Weekend of Sleeping..!!

I am writing this at 4:30 am Sunday morning. Three days i was sleeping almost 75% of the time. Since I was not feeling well, i did not go to office on Thursday. That was due to lunch from an Indian restaurant on Thursday..!! no, not because of the food. Food was very good. But on the way, i had to wait for about 20 minute in one bus stop. It was very cold(about -20 degree celcius) and i did not check the weather reports also. So, i was not in proper dressing. I was litterally shivering that 20 minutes. After coming back home also, side effects of that cold was there. My sleeping starts from there..then till this moment( Sunday early morning), i was sleeping most of the time.

Today planning to go outside for lunch or dinner - Haveli or Coconut Lagoon. Have to do some shopping for the next week.

Then, Rajesh (he is my brother) reached Nepal again for one month onsite work. Most of you must be knowing that he is working in Huawei and he was in Nepal for the last 4 months. January mid only he returned back to India. Two weeks he was in Kerala and Two weeks in Bangalore. So, he will also miss the Festival in my village temple on February 29th. This is one of the reason i dont like this job (i mean the job of an IT professional) very much. It is giving good salary, sometimes good work. But the unpreictability of the work timings and work pressure is still a problem. Anyway, in the present situation in India, this is still a dream job. Correct?

I am counting my days in Ottawa. Today is Feb 17th. So, exact 13 more days here.

Higher Studies - an option for me?

I am thinking about going for higher studies. There are two options: Mtech from some good institution in India or do MS from somewhere outside India. Not decided anything, just in a planning stage. For doing higher studies, need to pass some barriers. First and the most important one is the financial dependencies. It will take two years minimum to finish Post Graduation. Have to find out some source for expenses - including family support. So, considering that, i think the best option will be to do Mtech in India itself.

Anyway i am just writing about it here, just for my reference later and for getting good inputs from all readers. Nowadays i am thinking about many options in life..So, it is easy to forget one of them. But this option seems to be interesting, eventhough i have to spend a lot of time and effort for getting admission itself. Have to prepare for GATE. Have to go through all the Electronics and Communication subjects once again. For the last 2 and half years no touch with that subjects. Currently , i am interested to do Post Graduation inDSP or Embedded system.

Anyway , we will see whether this will work out or not.