Well, the task was to get a railway ticket preponed. Somehow me and Bansi got pushed for the job. After spending half an hour searching for a bike/scooty/activa, we finally got Harsh’s kinetic. As Bansi doesn’t know how to drive, he handed over the key to me (yes, i know how to drive ). Me and Bansi standing near the kinetic in front of OBH and me thinking “How on earth we start a kinetic ???” I tried pressing some random buttons on the dashboard(i hope thats what it is called), but it didn’t help.

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When you watch 40 episodes of a third class Indian family comedy show called “YES BOSS” back to back and actually laugh while watching it, you know you are sick!!!

Before watching that I watched a movie “Amal” in which nobody from director, producer, writer to actor(ess) knew what they were doing or rather trying to do. I just remember one dialog by Nassiru Din Shah, “The poorest of men on earth can be the richest”. And since then, I somehow can’t get this out of my mind, “Did he try to point out Bill Gates?”.

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Whenever I see a new unread item in Google Reader, I try to capture few keywords from the summary. Today I was reading a summary which contained “yuktahaar food”, “food pretty much sucks“, and I eventually got interested to read the entire post. Couldn’t really figure out what was going in the post as I don’t really watch FRIENDS (I don’t understand why they write in all caps), but this line “Well this exercise just goes to show how much free time we have on our hands these days” inspired me to write this post.

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Thanks Tifosi for tagging me for this.

Google Search Stats

Observations

1. Top queries suggests that I care a lot about my name in Google search!
2. Top queries also suggests that I tend to care a lot about the visibility of the work I do.
3. Top sites stats are awesome! I visit my own sites more than orkut and any other website.
4. November has to be my lucky month!!

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After countless written tests and two interviews I finally got the job offer from Airvana ( A mobile broadband company). This was the second written test which I cleared. The interview was very simple and straight forward. You can obviously outperform when somebody asks you something from your areas of interest. Main focus during interview was IntelligentMirror and VideoCache, you can guess the rest

Before The Interview

**FUNNY PART**

Checklist before going for interview

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A few days ago, I attended a PPT (PrePlacement Talk). Frankly speaking, it was the only talk that turned out to be of some use of all the talks I attended till date. The speaker was a Vice President of the company. While delivering the talk, he reached a point where he started explaining the different between Innovation and Invention. And the explanation was mind blowing. I thought I will share it with everyone

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THIS IS MY 101^ST POST

I wrote about a mobile blah almost two months ago and something similar happened today. Previously they were looking for a PhD but this time scenario was totally different

Me, Deepak Vig, Dharmeet Hora were having lunch in our favorite mess “Yuktahaar”. Deepak’s phone rang. He started talking to someone and started looking at me. I thought it was Randeep, who has called and asked Deepak not to say anything about me. But he passed on the phone to me. Though I didn’t want to talk, I had to.

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We just received a mail from IIIT-H help desk stating

New year special proxy server has been created for all users as gift from
IIIT Server Room staff. There are no moderations done on that proxy so all
websites are accessible. Even better there is no connection limit per IP
or per user on the new proxy.

Proxy is accessible at IP _SNIP_ on port _SNIP_. Please feel free to
download as much as you want from this new proxy server.

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After failing few (will be disclosed later) written tests in a row, I got a call for an interview. I was pretty surprised as I never expected it to happen. Initially I was nervous because I don’t know c/c++/data structures/algorithms. All I know is Python, Computer Networks, a few Open Source technologies and how to use them to generate cash. Well, after waiting for four hours, I got a chance to meet the interviewers (two). I was nervous as it was my first interview. They asked me for the resume. Below is the conversation.

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Well, the big day has come for everyone. Its morning 6:30AM and hundreds of people in almost the same dress walking down the road towards the same goal! Everyone thinking as high of himself as possible. The scenario on IIIT Roads these days is same as in front the newly build DLF building. Hundreds of people in white shirt and black pants. The dresses successfully hiding the actual personals, makes me feel very high of everyone I meet.

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