Metallica concert.... !!

Recently been to a Metallica concert in Fresno :) Amazing concert with so much energy around !

If you have not listened to these bands, then you have missed something in life... :P :) My Fav List :P

A- AC/DC, Aerosmith
B- Beatles, Bob Dylan
C- Cranberries, Creed
D- Def Lepard, Dire Straits, Deep Purple
E- Enigma, Eric Clapton

G- Guns n Roses
I - Iron Maiden
J - Jim Morrison , Jethro Tull

L - Led Zeppelin
M - Metallica, Megadeth , Mark knopfler
N - Nirvana
O - Ozzy Osbourne
P- Pink Floyd
Q- Queen
R- Rolling Stones, Rammestien
S - Scorpions
T- Tom Petty, The Who
U - U2




my salutes to gods of Rock n Roll !!

A typical day... !!

9.00 am - get up in the morning, realize its late .. blame it on alarm clock !!

10:15 am : reach office, check email in outlook. Hopefully no hot brewing issues which require immediate attention. Then log in to gmail /orkut, see if any interesting emails or scraps.

10:30am : read a bit of lightreading.com ( btw telecom industry news) , yahoo finance, business week, cricinfo and get warmed up, which sets the mood for the day :P

10: 45am - continue working on the code, you left yesterday night.

1:00pm - think of lunch, its canteen down stairs, or working lunch in cubicle or nearby restaurant. all depends on how much work I have. Start thinking why I am stuck in this all- male geeky team. Where are all pretty girls ?? If you are in a kernel developement / embedded systems team, except HR or receptionist you will hardly find any girl in the team :P :(

5:00 pm - realize its evening, make a mental note of how much work left. Soon you will realize there is a build-release 2 days later and you have to check in the code.

6:00pm - you will promise yourself that you are going to finish this in half an hour, then its time for some work out in gym or swimming. You tell yourself, you don't want to be those workoholics and keep working even after 7:00 pm and have no other life.

6:30pm - Oh man.. your build system is broken, and it will take atleast 2 hours more to fix it.

7:00pm - Hungry :O plan is changed now. Go home have dinner, relax for some time. Then work from home over VPN.

7:30pm - have dinner, watch some serial ( Scrubs, seinfiled). Bit of talking with flat mate, usually todays stock market, US elections, world politics !!!

9:00pm - Back to work. Plan to finish this in 2 hours and then watch some nice movie late night. Then suddenly some one pings you in gtalk. I am busy to strike a conversation, so run away. Yet another soul thinks, you are very rude, or not friendly [ what ever depends on who is that person]

12:00 mid night : Finally your code is in some shape and working ( hopefully !! ). Say yourself that its too late for a movie. So let me finish one chapter in the novel I am reading now.

1:00 am - Its time to go bed. You will say, from tomorrow definately I am saving some time for work out, also its been long time I watched an interesting movie. And what the hell, I am in SFO, should hit some nice club this weekend !!!

Kayaking.. in Monterey

Had been to kayaking in Monterey around 2 weeks back with Amar.
Busy to write in detail ... :P ( also read as lazy !! )

For guys who want to check out kayaking
http://www.montereybaykayaks.com/info/monterey.php

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are you busy.. ??

I used to consider myself pretty busy, weekdays hardly any time for anything else other than work. I was talking to a person, who is planning to move from semiconductor industry to Investment banking. think about this...

An average invest banking associate, say in Goldman Sachs spends at least 80 hours a week in work for atleast first 4 years, until he becomes VP.

thats startling... some motivated, crazy guys even log 90 - 100 hours a week.

May be thats a sacrifice , when you make more than 200k per year.

Now I need to rethink or rephrase... when I say or think I am busy :P :)

Politics.. shouldn't it concern us ?

I was watching Larry King show on CNN today. He was interviewing Oliver Stone about his upcoming film about George W Bush. I was really pleased to see such a high profile director taking so much interest in political events and who had clear opinion about everything.

Politics is some thing which touches our daily life. Decisions made by these people affect our life so much.

I do not see any Bollywood guys taking any stance on political events or having any meaningful conversation [ I should say except Aamir Khan ] . Most of them can not talk anything beyond page 3. Most of us talk / think / involve so much about Movies, Cricket. Is not political events more important than these ? I guess most of our directors are happy making same old masala movies.

mobile phones .. next frontier

Today , I got a chance to attend a talk by CEO of Nokia, . It was very interesting. He was mainly talking about how mobile and internet worlds are converging. Some interesting statistics like Nokia was founded on 1865 and how fast we have around 4 billion mobiles now. Thats about 2 mobile phones for 3 people.

He was talking about joint strategy of Nokia and Symbian. How to tackle new guys in game like google and apple. He was a very humble guy for a Nokia worldwide CEO. Imagine you are like most powerful man in Mobile industry.

I kinda got up to date with whats happening in telecom industry and a glimpse of High profile corporate get togethers. It was very diverse group.. financial firms, tech companies, people from Japan, Russia, Finland.

Dostoevsky.. the legend

I have read so many authors, but no one can come near Dostoevsky. That craziness, depth of analysis and ability to make you think, these are mind boggling. This 20th century Russian , supposedly wrote for sheer love of it and partly to support his gambling addiction. Now reading his notes from underground novel. Whole novel dwells into darker psychology. He tells that he will never achieve anything [ actually in sense of materialistic world ]. Because he is too conscious. And worst part is he thinks !!! Its so true. Life is hard once you start thinking about everything and start asking questions.