Virat Sarswat's Blog

Cleaning of a Corrupt nation

2011-04-09T11:16:00.000+05:30

Now a days nearly every Indian is talking about corruption. either remove it or preserve it :)

Anna hazare is portraited as new generation's Gandhi and this is what he deserve. He is my hero. But i will not spend my time on what's happening because media is already covering that. I will share my experience about corruption and how my frd circle react about it. How they feel about this against corruption campaign.

I have seen few supporting the campaign virtually i mean they stayed in there home or office. Clicked links on web page or given a miss call. If they wanted to do more they joined the local groups for supporting the campaign. I respect it and i think at least something is done. But this doesn't make me comfortable that corruption will be gone from my nation.

This is something which is very similar to freedom fight of India. When everybody joined hand in hand against East India Company. That was the time no one care how much they need to suffer in order to get the freedom. But it is the case in my Nation right now ? Are we ready to suffer in order to clean our nation from corruption ?

I am not negative person please do think i don't support current campaign. I have done this virtually and yes i have not done anything else for this campaign. Now one can say then why writing so much when you are also not better than anyone else. But as i am free to think about my country i am free to write about what i think i happening around me.

Some of my friends are still not convince that something gonna happen. For that same reason they are ignoring this campaign fully but i am not in that group i grab every possible opportunity to do my bit. But what i do is not important. Important is what whole nation does.

I agree a single person "Anna Hazare" made the difference. But think about a single person stopped paying bribe in my current nation what will happen. Yes he will be screwed royally. Starting something and getting media's attention is not tough now a days. Forcing government to listen you is tough. But the toughest thing is to clean the building blocks of a nation and that's US.

Now i am leaving this post unfinished because after this every individual has to write by his own self. What their thought, what they want to do and how they will clean their nation.

Ya kundendu tusharahaar dhawala

2010-08-01T19:39:00.001+05:30

Yes it's been a long time and now also i am not very happy about the topic i am writing. As many of as might have forgotten as i have done THE "Saraswati Vandana". From last two three days i was trying to search few nice violin scores. During the search of those 3-4 minutes music wonders i came across a concert recorded by Ustaad Sultaan Khaan (Great Sarangi player) and Ustd Zakir (Tabla player). i started to just get the flavour of Sarangi as well. I started without paying attention on the length on concert recording but this over an hour length of recording was great pleasure to listen and same time i was ashamed of not listening this earlier.

Apart from the guilt of not able to listen that earlier there was another guilt and that was the forgetting the roots. In mid of the concert Ustad Zaakir hussain stops the people from distrubing them from continous photoshoots. Which makes a point that few people still don't go for these concerts for listening them playing, they just simply want to show off. So lame !!! While Ustad Zaakir hussain stopping others he took the ref. of sarswati vandana. Which make me recall, YES recall i have forgotten that. As now a days we people take every art is just as medium of fame and money. Today i have a reason why our musicians are not so popular as from other countries because they get pleasure in there sarswati vandana. For these mastros sarswati vandana is their music. They really don't care about fame and money.

And sucha a shame for we people that we still didn't heard many of those maters of music in this country. At least i feel shameful for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQU9Egoe2Q Link for the concert which hold me for over an hour while musicians like Samvel Yervinyen and Yanni wasn't able to grab my attention for 2-3 minutes.

Please do go for these concerts atleast if there are any near you. Not for telling people that u have been to such and such concert, But to listen and experience the legends.

The jail and Poseidon's place

2010-04-17T04:36:00.006+05:30

It's nearly 12:00 am and I am in The Jail... Yes, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that i am in The Jail; though you might wonder about it. I always knew this day will come someday but I never expected it to come so soon. I was accompanied to Jail by 3 of my friends - mohit, atul and abhishek. While sitting in there, I recalled the time when once i asked a small-shop keeper "Bhai jail kaise jaate hain ??" and he replied to me "bahut aasan hai, kisi ka khoon kar do". And I told him "Kuch tod-phod par bhi jail ho jaati hai na, lekin mujhe to jail jaana hai".

Oh, I guess by now you people might have guessed it. If no, then let me enlighten you that 'The Jail' is a place here in mumbai to eat and drink. This place has theme of Jail, waiters are dressed as convicts, Managers are dressed as cops. Overall, a nice place to visit. Later I managed to come back to home around 1:30 am and slept around 4:00 am.

While sleeping i felt something was scratching my feet. At first I felt it's a mouse or something else. I opened my eyes just enough to grab a glimpse of what's there on my foot. But i had to open them wide enough to grab full view of Vivek (my roomie cum college Junior). I tried an unsuccessful attempt to go back to the sleep after letting him that I wanted to sleep (I think it's was around 7 am).

But he said it's serious and he made a blunder. It was time to pay attention, obviously, when he woke me up in morning there would be a good reason to grab my attention is such wee hours. I thought, It better be. I jumped from the bed to talk to him with all of my attention but holy god, what was that? I was in Poseidon's place!!! Everywhere was water (let me stop for a moment and tell you that the flat we live in, is on 2nd floor). This discarded the possibility of flood at once. I asked him few questions which he answered without delay. I was informed about a tap of our kitchen which was left opened when water supply was not there. That bloody f***ing tap !!

And to get you guys some extra but relevant information : there is a 1500/- fine in our society over water lodging + some 1000/- plumbing charges. So taking these things in consideration my roomie looked a bit tensed. By now I was rolling my eyes on the surroundings which included my newly bought desktop cabinet which was on the floor in nearly 3' water with the home theater lying beside it. Suddenly I got the chance to look on the black thing in my roomie's hand it was my 5 years old laptop dripping the water line. It was enough to stop looking for the losses. I tried to look stable than angry to avoid increasing the tension around. While, Vivek tried to avoid it unsuccessfully by letting me know that water was flowing out of flat.

After analyzing the situation I was in the action mode. I had to start doing something to show myself that situation can be controlled and it's progressing. I asked him to grab a clothe and start pushing water in bathroom. While, he was doing this I went to the kitchen and opened the choked sink by removing the plate covering the vent. This gave me a bit relief that something was happening to smooth our pains. When i joined him back to guide water-flow towards bathroom. We had a small discussion about getting wiper which was ruled out by me within nano-second by considering there was no way we could get one in morning 7'O clock.

I used my bathroom sleepers to join the rescue mission and used them as wiper. Which worked quiet well. Being an Engg. it's the benefit, I guess. Within next few minutes, water level was reduced and to confirm it I asked him to check if water had stopped flowing outside the flat. He nodded in a 'Yes'. I asked him to use my hand made wiper which he refused to use within less than 30 second after giving it a shot as he was not able to use that. But he kept pushing the water with the cloth he was using earlier. I pushed water to the toilet with my self-made instrument. After some time I asked him to use the cloth to soak the water and then rinse that in bucket. And then we came back to the living room where I found that every thing which was lying on the floor was flooded by then and most of the papers ( including my schooling and degree certificates) were drenched.

I was not angry at all, I don't know why but I was laughing. I was laughing for no reason for next few minutes and then I came back to the work of getting water using towel soaking and rinsing in bucket with him. Within 1:30 hour we cleared the water from flat. And without saying even a single word we both went back to sleep as we were too tired to discuss anything.....

P.S. Desktop got saved because motherboard was high enough inside the cabinet to avoid water. Laptop and home theater are still in getting dry. Certificates are not so damaged as we thought at first.

Thanks to @Viveky for doing some editing on a short notice :)

Encounter with snow [Episode 2]

2010-03-10T10:01:00.001+05:30

Ram wanted to go by walk and see what's blocking the road. So we started walking but after not more than 10 or 20 meter i relaised this is foolishness and i told ram to walk back. Ram took this seriously and agreed with me and we headed towards bike. now Because of mud we were not able to move bike back but somehow after 5 minute we were able to rotate bike 180 degree and we were heading back on the track towards karsog. We were tired hungry but if we would have stopped we couldn't have reached karsog on same day. Point to be noted we had breakfast at around 9:30 in morning and since afternoon we are hungry & riding. Now on this way back to karsog i was on rider seat. I was having only one aim reach karsog before it even get drak [Main reason was we were having very less money to afford food and accomodation]. I started riding bike at 3:30 Ram was riding bike from 8:30 in monring and he was tired enough to not on rider seat. It took me 5 hours to reach karsog and i didn't stopped at any place just to reach karsog ram was asking me to stop to loo. But i just kept asking him to hold on till karsog. Finally we reached karsog at 8:30 and everything was at halt. Very rear shops were open. Some how we we got few person on road to ask about accomodation. While asking the hotel we again fallen down. This time my knee doesn't supported me and i couldn't support bike while it was on halt. I start blaming ram for this fall but i knew this was sole my fault. Anyway ram didn't reacted harsh [Later in hotel i confessed ram that was my fault].
Sooner we reached karsog we withdrawl enough money for the trip and kept that with us. Later we found a costly hotel (according to locals rent was 500/- very nice room but it's costly). There we saw that there is pipe unjoint at one end hanging from bike. Trouble again but we left that on morning task and went for dinner. I purchased few warm clothing which really helped me. We got nice food in hotel and slept nicely.
Next morning 6'0 Clock we started our journey towards manali via sundernagar and kullu. We drove for hours but during this ride we saw very beautiful nature we saw jungle. So many curved roads. We were so in touch with curved roads that when we got straight road we were riding on speed of 30-40 only. Later we realised we can go on some high speed. Around 1 we reached mandi. Which was only 110 Km from Karsog. We had lunch and again started the trip. We encountered very beautiful road ahead very sencenic. Beas River was adding more charm to this road

. There was an 2-3 Km tunnel in between which was also a great pleasure to ride on. While driving we stopped just before kullu to swith the rider. That time ram told me take a look on road sode snow

. Now as ram was on rider seat he started to get bad road and he was not so happy to ride on. But there was no other way. After some 10-15 mintue ram applied a sudden break while i was enojoying the nature without any clue that ram is going make a sudden fall. I just managed to jump before we fall again. Within seconds we managed to get bike on wheels again and riding back on road :). Ram was pissed off by now as few junkyard eligible trucks was fooling around on road. Finally off there this and that we reached to manali. And i tell you ram was back in full "Josh" as he was heading towards rohtang pass. Which didn't said anything but we took stopped to see manali natural beauty

.
Now ram was riding with aim of rohtang pass which i was not in accord but i didn't told him. We saw some really bad roads and this was nearly 4 after noon. i was worried about night stay. Ram was riding with his aim then later saw some really bad road where we were not able to move

. Indian Army was on work to make it clear. some people were in hurry

. But we utilized this time to enjoy the nature

. We headed again on roll. Reached to shilong. This was the real natural beauty which were aiming for. Now this was satisfying this much long journey

. We reached to the place where snow games were going on. People were enjoying the sking and paragliding. Some couple were happy with snow only. anyway worthfull to come this far. Ram were trying to go ahead but locals told there is no way furthur road is blocked due to snow.
We stopped and done the paragliding which earlier ram was not ready to do so. But finally he did.

. Later we made frds with rinkoo the guy who arranged the paragliding for us. He told that we can do skiing in the morning around 8 as we were planning to leave manali in morning. He showed us one beautiful, shortcut (bad road) for manali which was really helpful for bike riders

.

        Later came back to manali nearly 6 was on clock. We decided to watch "My name is khan". We had dinner and taken some rest in hotel. At 9 we reached at mall to watch movie. Movie started ok and in interval as expacted on rash thing happened. Some local couple were on seats infront of us. Ram tried to take out his mobile from his jeans pocket and his shoe hit the seat back infront of him. And this lady sitting on that seat got rash. This i tried to make her quiet but things went wrong. Not only wrong way wrong too much. His mate got angry for various reasons (might be for talibans also but i have no clue). Locals also came in support of those couple. Justg because of this i think "chadyaan di joon buri". It's an punjabi saying which means bachelorhood is worst. One uncle grabbed my collar and dragged my out of hall. I was in shock all was happening so fast. Ram was asking everyone to stop it but i was not i mood to avoid the collar drag.

      Later somehow uncle who grabbed my collar taken me with him to lower level to watch the movie infact he seated next to us and watched movie along us. He was actually protacting us. from thos locals who were in chance to take some cheap advantage in there city and in eyes of there girls. Later in end of movie uncle again dragged me by holding my hand with him towards his car. Ram also approached me uncle dropped us to our hotel for avoiding the problems which could have happened. Thanks a lot uncle.

      Next day in morning ram was not in mood to go for skiing but he got ready some how. We headed towards skiing aread and called rinkoo to be ready there. We reached to shortcut rickoo was already there to help us to reach skiing area. We reached there and done skiing. Nice experience

. Later head back on our long and boring jouney to back to chandigarh. We started around 11 in morning and reached chandigarh at 9:30 in night. After mandi full journey was very boring. but over all total trip was great...

Encounter with snow [Episode 1]

2010-03-10T00:06:00.002+05:30

Hmmm..
This time i will be wrtiting about my road trip to Manali. Thanks to RAM to arranging everything from start till end. I reached to the Chandigarh on 17th even and according to the plan we had to leave for shimla. Ram has smsed me that he will be picking me up from tribune chawk. There i had to wait for some 10 minutes with no sign of RAM as he wasn't expacting me so soon. Anyway he came in full formals directly from his office without taking off so he has to go back to office. We headed towards his office. There again i have to wait for few more minutes as he went to make excuse about his absense and off for the day to his leads. Now we were free to go... (oh yes one more thing RAM didn't took leaves formaly for this trip). Now as per RAM's plan we had to leave tomorrow morning but i insisted and made it possible to leave as per plan. And around 5 of clock's we started our journey towards shimla (YES.. shimla !!.) As we wanted to enjoy more so our trip was not directly towards manali. We decided that we will be going to shimla->Kufri->Narkanda->Luhri->Ani->JaloriPass-> Kullu->Manali. (In actual we were forced to change the path :) hehehe)

We filled the fuel and headed towards shilma it was about to take some 3 hours (110 KM) and Ram was riding the bike i was on pillion seat. Sooner then expacted we got sign board pointing SHILMA 90 KM. we got happy atleast we have started. Again after 1 km we got same sign SHILMA 90 KM. After 2 more KM we got SHILMA 90 KM. Friends you will not believe we got more than 4-5 milestones which all were pointing SHILMA 90 KM. After this incident we agree on trusting our bike's trip meter instead of Inidan Govt. After this nothing exciting and unusual happened apart from we were not reaching to Shilma. There were not much milestones and no sign of having shilma near by and bike's trip meter was telling in 1-2 km less in 100 KM. Chilling wind and dipping temp was the biggest hurdle in riding bike. (Ram was wearing thermocoat but poor me was there without any prepration of this chilling weather). My Knee started paining because of low temp. Luckily ram didn't stopped before reaching to shilma. When we reached to shilma suddenly ram stopped and told me he is not going to ride futhur. So now it was my turn to ride on. It was not big deal as we have to just search for the place to stay and then go for dinner. We got the place for 500/- and then we had dinner at one local dhaba as most of the places were closed by 9. After dinner we reached to the place for sleep as we had to start our quest to snow in early morning. I am telling you the truth even in the room it was not warm everything was chilled. Pillows were freezing where you keep your face only that place was warm rest were freezing, but blanket was too good (Ram termed that as Sher-ki-khaal ka blanket). After some time we slept because we were tired.

In morning we started getting fresh get then i realised if you have to get fresh you have to do that with icey water (i termed that ice cubes). Don't get confuse there was warm water but in toilet only icey water was provided. Soon we were on roads heading towards kufri in excitment (in hurry we ignored all the ATMs which was a big mistake in sooner than expacted future). After 21-22 km we were talking that in shilma people told in kufri we will surely get snow but still we havn't seen snow. Suddenly ram told just watch on side of road there was snow with mix of dust we got excited and as soon as we took next turn we got a great view and the snow

. But i tell you we were expacting more so we planned to go on.. and nearly immediatly we left kufri. Through Thiog we headed towards NarKanda ( actully ram was [mis]informed that in theog someone was seen snow). These roads i tell you were among some of the best roads i seen beauty viz. In Theog we got snow again

. This was better than Kufri but still we needed something more. We headed towards JalohariPass. As we start this time i was riding the bike and immediatly we got BLACK ICE. Yeap friends BLACK ICE. this one is the scariest thing i got encounter on my road trips.
This is the thing most of the ram's frds bewared him. They told to drive on black ice is not a joke. Because it's difficult to control bike on slope with curves and over that black ice make it almost impossible to avoid skitting. On first patch of BLACK ICE we were saved by god as speed was a bit more. But just few meters ahead when i was explaining ram what had happened and he told this was BLACK ICE. I lost focus and when i regain the focus we were lying on the road rubbing ourself. Luckily we were on hill side not on valley side (scary huh). Within 5 minuted we were back on the bike heading towards jaloahri pass. When we reahced next village we stopped to check if there sumthing wrong with bike or everything is just fine. I thought of utilizing this time by asking the road for next stop. People were taking sips of tea at near by road block. We headed there and started asking about next stop. There was a strange fellow among them he was an daily traveler from chandigarh to senz. This was not only irritating he was also not aware how to talk to strangers. This guy told some wierd thing which is pointless to write here. Moral of mentioning him is someone discourages us to move on towards destination very badly.
Anyway we left the Theog and headed towards narkanda. There we got more snow but still this was not we were travelling for. We kept on and on. That strange guy followed us and in between he start talking to us again some 15 mintues he given advise us to take the root for Luhri to karsog but as par plan we have to head towards jalohari pass. which was oposite route. In Luhri we stopped near satluz

. We spent some 10-15 minute here. Then we decided to go for Jalohri via Ani. This road were to scary and dengerous that i will not advise anyone to go on that road. We kept movign as it was 1 in noon and we doesn't has much time to cross jalohri pass if that's open otherwise we need to take alternate route via karsog (which was advised by irritating uncle). We crossed Ani there people told that pass is closed due to snow but ram was in mood to see that closed road. Now i was not at all convienced with that view of ram but didn't said anything to maintain his enthusiasm. At last we reached to the place from where we can't go furthur

Bungee Jump Recall

2010-01-09T17:42:00.000+05:30

Today i was going through my some of the old videos. There i found this kewl bungee jump video i did last year in january. And here i am back with some logging of my old memories.

This recalled me some of the nice and bad memories of my thailand holidays with bro anupam. Bad memory first as i want to get those over fast. Just before the jump i had a sheer argument with my bro which spoiled the mood which is refelected throughout the video.

When reached there mood was totally spoiled but thanks to the god i didn't dropped the idea of jump. Later instructor took my weight. One of my frd asked can over-weight people perform bungee jump (she thought she is over-weight but she wasn't, how < 60 Kg considered as over-weight). So here is the info for age and weight criteria for bungee jump. 45 kg to 110 kg and minimum 10 year of age is required for bungee jump. With this specification any healthy human can do the bungee jump with a little courage.

Ok later instructor kept some foam padding on my legs to avoid rashes. tied the hook having rope at one end with the padding at my feet. After this i have jump like frog to reach on the plateform from which i have to jump. From this point onwards you can see the video. In video one can see i am trying hard to smile and trying to communicate with instrucator cum video grapher. His name was 'A'. After 1:42 minutes A asked me to come to edge of plateform and jump from there. Here i am telling you the truth the point i reached to the edge i got scared. Even i knew i am not going to die i have all the safety measures. I am not going to jump on hard earth surface there is a pond just below the plateform. But this all was not enough my mind was telling me to jump but hands was not letting it go. My hands just got firm on the grip of railling of plateform. By this time 'A' started conviencing me for the jump. But it took full 40 Seconds to convience my self for the jump. And let me tell you as soon as i jump i was a level above from what i was before the jump. I have broken a specific barriar in my mind related to fear to doing something unusual.

Enjoy the video

Virat

Strange Mind, isn't it..

2009-12-11T05:13:00.002+05:30

Today somehow i got to read one blog which made me think about it. And here it goes in form of blog. that blog was written by harshika sethi. I met her only once few days back when she visited Mumbai for her exam. Quiet an interesting gal. http://girlwithsmallhands.blogspot.com/2009/12/letting-go.html is the blog.

Here she has written about her discussion with her uncle which was quiet an interesting topic. My opinion about mind working was always fascinating. I think human mind is most interesting and nicely crafted thing god has ever created. Because it's the worst thing and the best thing for the world. Any day one worst and capable mind can spoil full earth and one great and capable mind can turn earth in a very beautiful place to live[more than current, it's my favorite planet.. as never been to any other planet :)].

In that blog she wrote how your memories fade away along with time. I totally agree with that as from few year back i started to realized that i have lost few memories of my childhood but the good thing is if you start recalling those you can recall with a little effort now.. but as one become older. It get more harder to recall such sweet memories. I do recall those days every now and then while laying on the bed and trying to sleep. Year by Year, month by month, day by day.. seriously i can recall only few shots of my LKG :(. I wish i could have a camera then to keep every shot along with me to recall. You i use to think i was studying in a very big school (by size) but when i visited it when i was of age 20 that time i realized it was a small one. I remember my 2nd class. When i was playing in the class room with divider and my teacher came from back to slap me on my head but as human nature i tried to save myself and divider goes right in her palm. shit scary memory it's as fresh as happens yesterday. i can recall the cover of pencil box i was using that day [it was pink].

I think people can remember things they want to remember. Because they do recall those quiet often. Those memories can be good and can be bad... but for sure one can't forget the special one's like first kiss.. first girl friend. Like i can remember how i proposed my first girl friend.. shit i was so nervous. She had seen my legs shaking in nervousness. :) nice feeling. Got smile on face... But here are some bitter one also which need not to be written to think about them any more needlessly.

Hope people will start recalling their life old memories time to time and often so those memories remain fresh and alive. Otherwise as harshika has said mind will heal those memories and in my words mind will erase that content from memory to free up some space, so it can be used for newer content. :) technical and geeky ?? leave it then go with harshika's words keep remembering good memories to keep those alive !!!!

Windows Folder Size 9.10 GB

2009-11-29T21:51:00.002+05:30

Hmm....

Windows strikes again. Today i noticed my system doesn't have any space left to save even a zip of pictures from internet. After a slight investigation i was sure that windows is doing something goofy stuff. My system's C:\Windows folder was taking 9.10 GB of HDD space. After 30 minutes i am able to reduce it to 5 GB which is still big but i can live with it right now.

So following are the step which might help other also. Deleting the folders can safe space but do it on your own risk as it can lead you from no turning back stage

1. Delete "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations"
2. Delete "C:\Windows\$NtUninstall*****" folders These folders are hidden...
3. Delete "C:\Windows\$hf_mig$"
4. Check for file "C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP" if present delete.
5. Delete "C:\Windows\Prefetch"

I had to check now another folder called C:\Windows\Installer this folder holds the unistallation files of application you install on your computer. But if you manually delete the applications then MBs of space is occupied by uninstallation files will remain in this folder for eternity. just use following command if you have installed the window installer cleap up utility already other wise install. After installation go to programfiles folder and in there you will get Windows Installer Clean Up folder. In that there is a command line tool which can be used to remove orphan uninstallation files from C:\Windows\Installer. Type the command given on command prompt once you are in same directory on command prompt.

C:\Program Files\Windows Installer Clean Up>MsiZap.exe G!

this command will helped me free 100s of MB space on my disk.

Following are few more thing which helped me to gain 6GB space from 4GB. I stopped the restore points. Use Control Panel, System, System Restore. After this i moved page file as system managed from a high value saved by me last year when i had enough space. :) hehehehe

Ok now i have enough space to happily write this blog... Hope this help others also..

The guy named Raja !..

2009-11-17T11:37:00.001+05:30

Yeah.. Some people have guessed it correctly.. I have a very good frd whose name also start from R.. but writing about him is something will take 4-5 blogs and then also i can't finish that. But this blog is about people i met in mundane moments, let me clear the meaning of the title of this blog. This blog is about how Raja named people has a good impact on my life not about A Guy named Raja.

One more important thing is why i took this much long time to write this specific blog. Actually i was studying the IT Act 2000 and IT Act 2008. So i will not lend up in any trouble again. Anyway last time also i was safe but i removed that blog "A Company without name" because i didn't wanted to hurt anyone's feelings through my blog. Sole intention of my blogs are to share my exp. with others [not only to a specific group].

Very first encounter with Raja named guy was when i was of 10-11 year old. I was traveling towards my grand pa's place. This guy met me in bus. He was coming back from Dubai and being naughty enough i got attention from fellow passengers from bus. He played along with me for an hour and introduced me with my first foreign currency. Yeap i got 10 Dirham from him.

Next guy named rajai met was around 4 year ago. Yes he is the one most of you were waiting to read about. What i am going to write about him. There is nothing new what i want to write as i know him very little only on the professional front i come to know about him. Very first time when i met him he had to take my interview. That time i wasn't very good in communicating and a bit less in confidence. But i don't know how come i cracked the interview and got the job.

Later during the probation period once i told Raja i don't want to work anymore here. That time he taught me how to fight till the victory. He sat with me for next 2-3 hours and shown me anything is not impossible. [Ya some people can think i am just writing, but this is what my first impression about Raja]. Later There were many time when my office mates ask me to get some permissions from Raja by saying "Go ask your brother". And i never felt bad as this is the way i use feel about Raja. There was another incident when we in office were talking about how bad i feel in being the company and in bangalore. One of my frd in office wrote a mail and shoot that to Raja from my mail-id about my resignation [some 1 and half year ago from when i actually left that company]. That time also i just have to tell raja there was a mistake on adding mail address at To field. If it would be any other management person it could be a big scene.

I never like when he use to utter the F word. This i told him also. I never liked when he use to be like other management guys. I don't know whether i was wrong in thinking that he is different from others or he was one of them. I learnt from him many good things which are helping me till now.

The biggest reason i left that company was him. As i started feeling like i have lost the mentor-ship. His guidance became limited and i had to interact with someone not at all likable person. I have observed that during that period he was a bit diff. a bit tense, rash, angry which wasn't his attribute as par my knowledge. Hope if he is feeling any problem soon those will resolve and he will become the same. Guiding and teaching newbies. I heard from some of new company fellows that it's reverse of my exp. for them as being a newbie in that company. I hope they will get the same raja as i got to know. Where i use to talk him as freely as i can talk with any of my frd, i hope others can do the same.

Yes i know many of you might not find this blog as interesting as my other blogs might be. But this blog was actually scheduled after my blog "A Company without name.." but due to some reason it got delayed and lost the impact on readers. Anyway better late than never.

[Added after first published]

Overall i consider him a gentleman. He taught me how get and handle a true feedback.One of my frd asked me you should have balls to write about raja [Second in this blog]. Then i thought why i should fear for truth. Only fear is he shouldn't feel bad as he is a imp. person in my life who taught me many things for good.

Kissa Yoni ka....

2009-10-31T01:33:00.008+05:30

Friends don't be surprised. There is nothing pornographic about this blog. This is the title of a play i saw yesterday. I watched this play at legendary "Prithvi Theatre" where raj kapoor and prithvi raj kapoor had once upon a time performed.

This is the first play i have seen in Mumbai. It was great experience to be touched by a vertical at which this city is best, "ACTING". Icing on the cream is the topic of this play.... yes it's very bold title, actually it's translation of play called "The vagina monologues". This play is written in 1996 but one of my frd told that this is a 30 year old play :) .... sorry bro it's my nature i don't trust till i am done with my research. I was stunned by the way actors performed the play. This play reflects the sex, relationships, and violence against women. YES violence against women which most people think it's the thing from history but still i think i have over heard some of the incidents which made me think that violence against women still exist in this whole world but not only in India, and not only in non-developed countries. This can happen anywhere on this planet with the help of a psycho/stupid person. So point is this happens and this is what the play try to cover and tell each of it's viewers that think and avoid this violence, to all of it's female viewers it tells don't be shy about your own body part and don't neglect/avoid it.

(Taken from Wiki and bold part is addition from me)
Some monologues include:

I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me: a chorus describing many young women's and girls' first menstrual period.
My Angry Vagina, in which a woman humorously rants about injustices wrought against the vagina, such as tampons, douches, and the tools used by OB/GYNs
My Vagina Was My Village, a monologue compiled from the testimonies of Bosnian women subjected to rape camps.
The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could, in which a woman recalls memories of traumatic sexual experiences in her childhood and a self-described "positive healing" sexual experience in her adolescent years with an older woman. In the original version, she is 13, but later versions would change her age to 16. This particular skit has sparked numerous controversies and criticisms due to its content (the play i seen told her age was 13).
The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy, in which a dominatrix for women discusses the intriguing details of her career and her love of giving women pleasure. In several performances it often comes at the end of the play, literally climaxing with a vocal demonstration of a "triple orgasm." [Performed by Rasika Duggal and she was too good in her act and yes she was also pretty more than she looked in Agyat's (movie) pics ]
Because He Liked to Look At It, in which a woman describes how she had thought her pubic area was ugly and had been embarrassed to even think about it, but changed her mind because of a sexual experience with a man named Bob who liked to spend hours looking at it. [Performed by Rasika Duggal and it's was too good to see her act and her too ;)]
I Was There In The Room, a monologue in which Eve Ensler describes the birth of her granddaughter.

This play and after that a healthy debate with my room-mates left me in thought that is it right to project only one side of coin or is it really not possible to project/draw a full picture???? Many thoughts and More than that questions after these question very less answers left in mind. Mind is totally jinxed with so weird thoughts. Being in Indian family i know what a woman has to go thorough on the name of tradition and culture. But thanks to my parents [Might be because they don't have daughter which they would love to have one] they always told me to respect a woman/girl/female. Is it the same in many Indian families ? No !..... One of my frd [who is a FEMALE] who was not allowed to choose his spouse but she went with her own choice and married to her chosen of man [ Happiez endingz ]. So !... the contrast exist in our lovely India so does in world.

Play was so powerful and on some occasions extra vulgar which can be avoided [yes few frds will be not agree on vulgar but it's my opinion]. People argued me that that thing which u felt as extra vulgar was an art but i think spreading the message without being vulgar would be more beautiful art.

One more good thing i seen in the play was the courage to speak the [publicly] unspoken words. No matter how comfortable you are with your frds on speaking these words still there should be some kind of dignity while using the these unspoken words. One should chose carefully what (s)he is going to use in these kind conversation. Yes i can speak/discuss on any kind of topics with my frd [Point to be noted frds it doesn't matter frd is male or female and my frd knows it] thanks to my parents who gave me this much direction that i can choose what is wrong or right. Even if i choose wrong i come to know what is wrong :) so i can choose right next time. I guess this courage to speak unspoken words in a decent way people can get only from the family where they might have to be in the dignity ;) so don't be shy if your younger family member try to ask you about these unspoken words and give them a easy environment so they don't need to deal these words/topics as untouched, which can avoid a lot of problems.

So over all i feel it was a good experience to see that play. Some of the struggling actors were there too. Theatre in juhu was also very nice and interior was no less than great.

More than 3 Lacs in 4 Months

2009-10-22T01:59:00.002+05:30

Hi Again to all,
Just few minutes back i have realized that there has done transactions of more than 3 lacs from me in last 4 months. Vivek [My college Jr.] and one of my room mate has done cross verification of calculations to make sure i haven't done wrong calculations as par habit. Now again why i am writing this.. because i want to write it :) . Anyway jokes apart actually i wanted to make a note for myself that i don't have to spend this much loose way again in future. Yes i admit people can think that this is for show off but frds just think now i don't have money for anything so what is there to show off. I have taken money from saving hence i have to start savings again. I have to lend money from frds to get bread and butter for next 10 days (Thanks to ram). For sure i haven't done any great thing with this money . I am really feeling ashamed after getting this reality in front of me. I could have purchased a car from this much money.. i could have invested this money in equity. I could have done many more other things which i have planned (I guess u know what i am pointing at Aravind M.). Yes i have done some purchasing for home but that's again a responsibility which one have to follow. Anyway no point on trying to make excuse, as i am the person who is responsible for making a way out of this mess.
following are the figures from credit cards and ATM cash withdrawal i come to know :-
Credit Card :- 201319.05 /-
Cash withdrawal :- 99445 /-

too much regret but i have to do something to overcome.. totally down to dust.. had to recover financially. will be back soon as wealthy Virat.. :) kidding again

Indian Individuality

2009-10-09T01:21:00.008+05:30

Hi All,
I have been thinking about this from last few days. As in last few days i have met people from a special category to which many Indians belong. I have met many like them.. (i am not quiet sure if i belong to this specific category, please do post a comment if i am so.). Many of us [Indians, from now on i will be saying we for Indians and I for myself in this blog] don't even think about their own existence in this world. What they are doing what they should be doing. We people usually take cover of a group to which we are a part. whatever that group think we think, whatever that group like we like, whatever that group feel we feel. Where is the our own individuality??

When we will become mature enough to take our own stand. What WE like, we like! no matter anyone else like or not. I have seen and often get irritated with people who can't even say few words for their own will, wish and likings. Many of this kinda person always try to be in a group. They always speak when they are in a group who back them. Here one shouldn't take a wrong note that i don't like to be in group. I always had a big group of frds around me since college. Since i have started working i got few really good frds. But the point i want to make is i never try to follow what my mates are liking until i like that too. One can face these kind of followers very easily.
First sign of this kind of followers is [Please cross check you might be in that category also], they are much quiet when they are communicating with you one on one.
Second these fellows follows jackals who speak in chorus, meaning they try to back each other for anything, whatever one of them has said. Without even having a clue what they are trying to backup. ok ok sometime they have an idea whatever they are trying to backup is wrong! But still they do backup it because later sometime in future they might need this backup to speak up.
[Update on 31st Oct'09]
Third After finishing the statement they ask "Kyun sahi kaha na", "Achcha tum kho galat to nahi kaha na" to their group members.
Rest i leave on you fellas to write in on comments... if you can figure out the ones what i have already.

Ok now why i have been thinking about this so seriously? Good question !.. actually i really feel bad when i realize that i am living in a country which has world's second largest population and still we people have to look at other countries for world's best in any field. Ya i know i am being harsh.. we have some really good talent in India but still we are not the best in many fields where we can. For being the best we need to change our thinking. We need to start putting faith on our self. This is about being the one not someone. I guess many of my reader might have got what i wanted to share from this blog.... Please do post what you feel about it

What i write

2009-10-09T01:21:00.006+05:30

Ok this is a really nice topic. many of my frds asked me what i write and why i write. Hmmm..... to answer this question i don't have to think much but i dídn't answered them right away as i wanted to answer my frds by writing. :)

What do i write ?
I write whatever happens near me. Whatever i feel. Whatever i think i can share over Internet. Whatever is striking to me. And let me tell you one of my writing has already attracted a legal notice. As my blog was too much straight forward and people can't digest the truth.

Why i write ?
I write because i think this is the best way to share the thoughts and ideas among people. But why blog because now a days my frds feels easy to read a web page have few paragraphs instead of a book. OK not all of my frds hate reading a book but none hate reading a web page :)

Anyway i will be updating my old and new posts if i see any post need any updates. So this post also can be awarded with updates if later on i think my writing cause or content has changed. Aur kyun na change karoon mera blog hai kabhi bhi change karoon :) :)

Not so plane simple visit to home

2009-09-26T00:31:00.005+05:30

Hi All,
this happened on 4th of september 2009. I was about to go home for that i had to catch a flight around 5:40 PM. I was about to leave office around 4:30 but some how it got delayed as usual nothing goes according to the plan. After so much efforts i left around 4:50 PM from office. I was unable to get auto then for airport. airport is only 15-20 minutes away from my office. around 5:10 PM i got the auto and due to the indian traffic i reached the airport on exact 5:35 PM. now i have to get on the flight within 5 minutes which is not possible at all. But like always i had to give a chance to my luck and i entered to the airport with no hope and there u go. Flight is delayed by 1 hour. there was an accident on airport one plane cought into fire. i collected my boarding pass and rushed to security check and holla.... how can everything go smooth. My handbag is not cleared from security. Police asked me to come to X-Ray machine for cross check the doubtful item. He asked me to drag that item. I tried to find out the object removed all clothes and given back back for security check. Again i got the same item in bag now three police fellows gathered around me and people near me was trying to get a good view of possible criminal. Now this time i removed my all of the credit cards from the bag and all chargers and other wires from bag once again doubtful object still there in bag. By looking to those credit cards [10 cards] security fellows asked why u have these many cards again raising question for me being a threat. Now this time i have to squeeze my bag with my hands to figure out what there in my bag. Wow i got my lost iphone dock in my bag yes this is the object which our police was thinking to be a suspicious object.

Now i was free to go and other people who were watching this with full hope of watching a criminal has a strange expression on there face. Like they have lost something. like this have missed a chance.
After this my trip to home was quiet silent and nothing much happened till i decided to visit ram in chandigarh. I hired a cab and started my journey to chandigarh on saturday evening around 4'O clock. I asked my cab driver to stop the cab on any ATM so i can withdraw the money as i was having only 40/- Rs in my pocket. But this cabbie was in high spirit and started driving the car in high speed so we passed by nearly 3-4 ATMs. Later on i asked him to stop and come back for one punjab national bank ATM. Lucky me this ATM is out of order. Once again we start with nearly no money and we got one toll gate. He asked for 20/- Rs which i gave him and we proceed during this time my cabbie told that there is one more toll so we should have money. I asked how much he has. And here it is we have only 60/- Rs now as he has only 40/- with him. Now till the next toll we didn't got any ATM reason is again the speed of cab. On next toll we asked the toll collector that we have only 60/- with us and toll is 75/- Rs. He was surprized that how come a person in car can asked like this to lay off the toll. He was staring at us like we are some person from belonging to any other planet. anyway some how he got ready to manage only with 60/- Rs. Now we were happy that we can get money in chandigarh as there is no more tolls. But how can everything go smooth with me. From nowhere we got another toll [My cab driver doesn't had the latest info about tolls]. Now we have to pay 25/- Rs of toll and we have no money with us. This time we have to tell the toll collector we have no money with us and if he can swipe the credit card we can pay the toll. Again we got the same look which means which kind of fellows u r who don't have any money but travelling in car. After few minutes he let us go with promise of paying the toll while coming back. So overall this trip to home is somehow giving me totally diff exp. which i had never expacted.

Ok while concluding i would like to inform on delhi airport also security had to stop me for the same object and i have to tell them this is not something dangerous thing it's only iphone dock. After making an entry in the security log they let me walk for writing this blog.

Mom Says....

2009-09-07T21:22:00.002+05:30

Lajj marenda andar wadeya.. Moorakh kayee mere kol darya..
Means If you are avoiding any situation a fool can say you are afraid of me.

booee te aayi jann te vinno kudi de kann..
Means Avoiding the tasks till the moment it's really not required and one has to do that in hurry

JS Menu Over Drop down

2009-09-01T02:15:00.005+05:30

hi all,

this time i am back with a technical blog. I have been working with one javascript menu. Everything was going fine till we have seen a notorious issue at our screen. This was about java script menu was going below select/dropdown control. As shown in image.

I found this is happening because select control is a windowed control and it has higher z-index over simple div which were used for creating the popmenu. Later i found a simple solution to overcome this issue. Similar to select control there is another control which has a high z-index but unlike this control respect the normal html control's z-index. Hence this control allow other html control's like div to come over itself. And this special control is IFRAME. One can see once i have used that control i can have menu over the drop down.

following is the code i have used to remove the ie bug [Note : This bug is removed in IE8]
function showPopUpMenu(elemID)

{

var divPopup;

if(document.all) { divPopup = document.all(elmID); }

else if(document.getElementById) { divPopup = document.getElementById(elmID); }

var iFrame = document.createElement("IFRAME");

iFrame.setAttribute("src", ""); //Match IFrame position with divPopup iFrame.style.position="absolute"; iFrame.style.left =divPopup.offsetLeft + 'px'; iFrame.style.top =divPopup.offsetTop + 'px'; iFrame.style.width =divPopup.offsetWidth + 'px'; iFrame.style.height =divPopup.offsetHeight + 'px';

document.body.appendChild(iFrame);

divPopup.style.visibility="visible"; g_PopupIFrame = iFrame;

}

function hidePopUpMenu(elmID,mmObj)

{

var ID = .. code to get div id;

if(document.all)

document.all(ID).style.visibility="hidden";

else if(document.getElementById)

document.getElementById(ID).style.visibility="hidden";

document.body.removeChild(g_PopupIFrame); g_PopupIFrame=null;

}

Virat....

The Hangover

2009-08-18T01:29:00.002+05:30

[Some people can find this content disgusting so don't read if you don't want to read something disgusting]

Okie dude and babes... here comes another topic on which i have real nice incidents to share. i guess you people also might have some exp. so you all are free to add as comments.. All the incidents i am keeping here are true..

Once few fellows started drinking tequila they had 2 liter of the drink. when they stopped drinking 1.15 liter of the drink was over. one person was vomitting and another was washing his face on washbasin. But on taking closer look you can find that the person who was washing the face actually trying to find out his organs in the vomitting as he just now had the chicken and everything was red. Hence he was tense that everything from his stomach. :) another fellow who just fell asleep was getting a kick for vomitting and he was trying to reach toilet seat by crawling as he wasn't able to walk. he was looking like a army man trying to reach to his post. another was putting his head under the water tap. later next during discussion they have figured out that few of them don't really remember what had happened that night. :)

Ok on next incident one fellow was that much drink that he went just behind to the fellow who was pissing and kept his hand just below the piss... both guys didn't had any clue what's going on. But just after 2 sec. everyone in that house was laughing out louder.

one fellow was trying to push the toilet wall as he wanted to make more space in toilet... ;)

another is like one fellow had too much of drink that after drinkin while sleeping he felt thrusty so he started searching for water on the place where water was 2 days ago just before switching the place for water. so instead of switching on the lights he was searching the water bottle by hands and during this searching he was getting people's face. making them scared. what's crawling on their face.

Virat..

Movie Review for Kaminey from Shivendra

2009-08-14T21:34:00.000+05:30

Fimply Awefome: Dhan Te Nan! created the magic that is not easy to forgot. Great performances by lead actors.Guddu is outstanding and charlie perform well.Couple of scenes are the souvenirs i.e Guddu and Sweety conversation.Bhope Bhau and Charlie's conversation.Milestone for Shahid.Great must watch movie, but yaar maa behen k sath mat jana aur girlfriend ho to zaroor le jana aise hi "A" certificate nahi mila hai.Totally paisa vasool hai. cheers for Vishal Bharadwaj !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merc and Umbrella

2009-08-12T02:28:00.005+05:30

My First month in mumbai is quiet wet ;). It's July of '09 and it's a rainy month here. All over u can see the rain and people say this year there is no rain.. when i walk to office i can swim through the water. but still people feel there is no good rain.. i don't know what kind of rain they want. Anyway in this month i have seen so many things happening around. One incident which occured at my office canteen.

I just walked in to the canteen and i saw it's over crowded but as like all indians i have to fight for my place in this people jungle. With swinging arms and steady steps i walked towards the counter for ordering the food. I got the slip which i have to produce on food counter to get the food. Now i have to do the struggle for get a place to sit. In first and last glimpse i understood there is no place to sit alone. So i have to share the table with some one whom i don't know. Yeppy there is a chance to sit with girl. But "wah re meri kismat" none of the girl is sitting alone. One lean guy with very normal looks sitting on one table all alone. Here is the chance dude go and sit.. or stand and eat.

I walked to that fellow. He seems to a nice guy. We started talking about random topics which not at all related to us. like diamond jewellery and some highways.. then chat mover toward some relevant topics like phones, stock market. So over all he was a nice guy and we had a nice lunch. When we walked out of canteen we saw a heavy shower. Rain was on full pace. This guy seem a bit tense how he is will go out. I ask him to share my umbrella with me which he agreed after first polite refusal. We started walking towards my office and just after 10-15 steps he moved towards on Merc and opened the door. He offered me lift in "The Merc". I was like totally shocked by that merc i refused the offer which i still regret but what to do tht time i wasn't able to understand what to say. And i told that guy i prefer walking after eating. junk, shit, bullshit... i like to sit in Merc.. why wouldn't i.. please drag me in that. Later i really laugh out louder on myself that i was offering umbrella to a fellow who owns Merc. :D:D hhahahaha what a ****** joke !...

but the truth and reality is i refused sitting in that Merc which i still regret. :(

Virat

Got my gmaing machine

2009-08-12T02:11:00.005+05:30

After a long wait i got this wish also completed. I got PS3 80GB on 8th Aug '09. This machine is ultimate gaming machine.

This is the picture quality i got when i started the game. The first game is Killzone 2, which comes free with the console right now. It has bluray player. Wifi joysticks with force feedback ( player feels the actual shocks of the effects during the game). Rotation is also there in joystick because of motion sensors. i can surf the internet on the console. I can play Movies from USB drive and watch them on HDMI channel.

This is the pic of that beast. It generates too much heat but who cares about the heat. another pic is there of my sony bravia along with playstation.

Hope you like the images i posted. Do visit me for playing the games.

Virat...

Image from my grandmother..

2009-07-05T22:54:00.004+05:30

Hi all,

This is the digital copy of 100s of years old image my grand ma has. This image is quiet old and been with our family from long time by now. Just felt like sharing it with all of my frds so putting a digital copy also.

My grand ma claim that this image has some fine work of silver [the gray part] and some gold [the yellow one] but i never checked that thing. this image is on paper. Every time i see this image i feel like re-energized.

Hope you people also like this one.

Words from my big Mouth

2009-07-03T10:16:00.010+05:30

"Things are costly only when you don't have money"

"Shit happens dude Move ON !..."

"In order to get Class A comforts one must have to leave Class B comforts and need to stay in uncomfortable state for few days"

"If you don't want to understand !.. You can't understand."

"Everything need a start.. and everyone has first time to do new things"

"Nothing is costly when you have enough money"

"Tum bas tum ho"

"U r Important If you are important to yourself" [Updated on 4 March 2010]

"Talent has no limit but experience has limits so Talent is always above than experience." [Updated on 10 April 2010]

"i always go correct, situations go wrong" [23 July 2010]

BSOD with 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x804e7418, 0xaa91b654, 0x00000000)

2009-06-25T10:27:00.002+05:30

Over the week i was trying to install .Net 3.5 SP1 and every time i complete the installation system start crashing with BSOD [Blue Screen Of Dead]. My machine is IBMR50e with WinXPPro SP3 installed on it. So at first my guess was there is somthing wrong with driver isntallation during the .Net 3.5 SP1 installation. So i uninstalled the all .net frameworks by using framwork cleaning utility from url dotnetfx cleanup tool and updated all my machine's drivers. Later i tried to install all framework one by one as 3.5 SP1 install 2.0,3.0 and 3.5 framworks. Now as soon as i installed .Net 2.0 Framework i started getting BSOD. i knew there is some thing wrong with .Net framework installtion. I tried to check the event log by starting my machine in SafeMode. I got the following entry in EventLog

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 6/11/2009
Time: 8:54:17 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XYZ
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x804e7418, 0xaa91b654, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I Checked and found that these are the Exceptions KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED for STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION which in term tells about invalid access of memory. Which can be because of many issue few are null pointer access , with my less disk space, confusing about checking drivers installed during .Net framework installation. But as expacted these were not the real issues with my machine.
Now i tried to go for virus infect or malware check. I downloaded latest ComboFix.exe from combofix.org . I run this tool from safemode and followed all instruction as appear on screen. I allowed combofix to download microsoft recovery console and clicked yes if it appear to kill any running application like anti virus. Later i proceed till end without quitting or killing the ComboFix.exe and yeappy once combofix completed the process after rebooting it will take some 10 min to complete it's operation but that was worthy. Now i have .Net 3.5 SP1 framework and it's working like charm without any issues. Hope it can help you also if you ever face this kinda no clue problem.

Virat

Winamp global hotkays

2009-06-16T03:36:00.004+05:30

I was great fan of winamp in my college time. That time i knew each and every shortcut key for using winamp without mouse. later since we passed college i never used winamp. few days back i found my room mate had installed winamp 5.0 on my laptop. I saw him using some hotkey which were new to me but were very cool. One can control the playback without even launching the winamp screen. One need to enable these keys from Option->Prefrences->Global Hotkays.

These key are really nice and easy to use. Now i am not using windows media player which was my fav. player in last few days for music.

No plastic in kurkure

2009-06-16T02:02:00.000+05:30

I got another mail claiming that kurkure contains plastic in it. So here i am after a small search about this mail.

http://www.kurkure.in/FAQ.aspx

This url is from kurkure and in FAQ b. they have cleared it that kurkure doesn't contain plastic. Please just do a little search on internet before forwarding these kind of false mails.

Virat

Checking javascript using ie adressbar without file

2009-06-16T01:40:00.000+05:30

Hi all,

I was surfing through the net and i there i tried to copy one url which was something like

http://music.guruji.com/redirects/mp3Redirect.php?target=%20http%3A%2F%2Fmobiblaze.mobiblaze.com%2FCompressed%20Mp3%2Fhindi%20mp3%2FN%2Findex.php%3Fdir%3DNew%20York%2F%26file%3DHai_junoon_%28remix%29_kk.mp3

now in this url i am not able to read the actual redirected url at first attempt as i have to unescape this url no make it human readable. I so recalled that i use to alert the javascript variable values from address bar at workplace.

so i tried this in addressbar javascript:alert(unescape("string to unescape"));

and it worked like charm. And if some want to read more complex examples one can visit.

http://mikeoff.blogspot.com/2006/07/javascript-in-address-bar.html

Virat

My Scuba dive at Thailand and info about places to dive in india

2009-06-14T12:52:00.000+05:30

Hi,

I was thinking about writing this from long time, now i got a little bit time so here it is. I did scuba diving first time this year at Pattaya, Thailand alng with my brother. We booked a diving tour from padi instructor. It cost us some 4000 bhat[nearly Rs 6000] for 2 person [each 2 Dive]. They picked us from our stay next morning around 9 AM.

Some 30 minute later we were at the diving location already decided by our tour operator. There they told us about some theory about how to dive and what are the symbols we use underwater. What we will be doing there they some practice out side about balancing the pressure underwater. Yes this is very imp. i can tell from my experience, As one need to balance the water pressure with the body through ears and if one has cold please don't dive. I know how painful it can be if you are not able to balance the pressure (will tell you how that can be). We were five to dive that day 1 Dive instructor ,2 Dive buddies and we 2 brothers. Two dives were already planned for 45 minutes each. At first dive we learnt how to tell your dive buddy about oxygen outage,how to clean water from the eye glass, how to throw water out of mouth without removing the gas supply and use of the symbols. This dive was gr8 in overall learning and experiencing the underwater world.

For next dive we plan to just enjoy the sea life during full dive period. So no more learning only enjoyment. We didn't carry our digital camera on this dive as we were having a normal digicam and we were not sure how to carry it underwater [Later when we were doing some shopping we saw some plastic covers for digicam :( ]. Anyway we asked our tour operaor about clicking the images underwater trust me that doesn't worth because those image were so blur and low quality that i can't post those images here. Anyway we went for the dive with keeping in mind that atleast we should enjoy the dive. And here things started to get messy for me because my dive buddy was quiet novice and he took me down very fast, so fast that i wasn't able to balance the pressure and it was a great pain in my brain vains. anyway my dive instructor was quiet experienced that he figured out that something is wrong and he came behind us and took me up carefully and later he carried my dive buddy also :) . Anyway this wasn't that scary as it seems overall the dive was worthy and i would like to go again for diving. So i started searching where i can do diving in india. So here are some of the places in india where one can dive.

Goa [barracudadiving.com]
Netrani Island, Karnataka (near Goa) [ one can book dive from goa for netarni]
Lakshadweep [lacadives.com]
Andaman Nikobar [diveindia.com & diveandamans.com]

As i heard from people diving in Goa is not much great exp. as water is not clear but i heard there is a shipwreck which i feel will be pleasent to see. Along with that netrani and pigeon island also might be good places to dive. check this link http://www.barracudadiving.com/courses.htm for cost of the courses. I never had and discussion about lakshadweep and andaman scuba diving but i feel those should be much costly and much exciting than the goa's scuba diving.
Some important things before you go for scuba diving
1. Never dive alone
2. Don't touch anything underwater untill your dive instructor tells you to do so.
3. Don't dive if you have cold, going through heavy medication, have recently faced surgery, just came from a flight or about to catch one.

Virat

Checking camera used for clicking image

2009-06-12T17:22:00.000+05:30

Hi all,

Two days back i was in discussion with one of my frd that how to confirm when image was taken which camera was used for clicking that image. After one hour of search i was able to find out some easy ways to do so. Actually this information for which we are looking for is stored in the image at metadata part and called Exif data for the image. Now a days this information is kept in the images from nearly all cameras in world. One can use following link for getting that info from images

http://camerasummary.com/ [For online check]

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/jhead.exe [For checking on desktop]

viewing this information is much easier in WinXP Without using any extra software. Check screen shot given below

Ok there are some other ways also with even using any specific software. One can open the file with notepad or anyother file openning software. And by reading some specific locations which were easily indentified by vieweing them. just have a look on below image as understanding depends on computer knowledge i left it on you. which mode you choose to open the file. yellow ring tell camera make. red ring tells camera model and pink rectangle tells the date image is taken.

Virat

Tracking ip using email, tracking email

2009-06-12T15:09:00.000+05:30

Hi All,
Actually today when i was chatting to one of friend i got one request from XYZ@gmail.com to add as friend at Gtalk. I accepted that And then started i got some nude images from that XYZ. Now when i was getting these mails i was thinking to figure out who (s)he is ???

i tried to check the mail header but as everyone knows that google removes the sender information from the mail header so hopefully i didn't find any thing useful there. Now the real mystery begins but after one minute thinking i got fairly simple idea. i have one server for http://abc.com there i kept one image and then i embedded the link of that image in my email and sent to the XYZ@gmail.com and bingo!!! as soon as that fellow opened the mail i got the IP on my server's Access log and i know with whome i am dealing with. :)

One can get the server access log location at win server using following steps:-

1. type %SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc in run box
2. then right click on default website
3. then at website tab check the enable logging option
4. then click on the properties in that option. which will open a new dialouge.
5. now in this new dialouge box one can see the log path. and just below the path log file name is also provided.

Now once you got the current log file open that

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2009-01-29 20:25:04
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
20:25:04 127.0.0.1 GET /images/12n2ous7jwh9x16dfo51.jpg 404
20:25:04 127.0.0.1 GET /images/usgeacviq89qexvvu3gd.jpg 404

here i have 127.0.0.1 as IP but once user open the mail you will get that same ip in log.

Virat

Group By on DataSet using DataView

2009-04-01T23:51:00.000+05:30

I've got a GroupBy function on one forum[http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6330927813/m/349006142831] . I feel this is something really nice i am using this right now after come changes but here i am pasting there the original copied code from that forum(check it before you use it for your need)
public static DataTable GroupBy(DataTable table, string[] aggregate_columns, string[] aggregate_functions, Type[] column_types, string[] group_by_columns)
{
DataView view = new DataView(table);
DataTable grouped = view.ToTable(true, group_by_columns);
for (int i = 0 ; i < aggregate_columns.Length ; i++)
{
grouped.Columns.Add(aggregate_columns[i], column_types[i]);
}
foreach (DataRow row in grouped.Rows)
{
List <string> filter_parts = new List &l;string> ();
for (int i = 0; i < group_by_columns.Length; i++)
{
filter_parts.Add(string.Format("[{0}] = '{1}'", group_by_columns[i], row[group_by_columns[i]].ToString().Replace("'", "''")));
}
string filter = string.Join(" AND ", filter_parts.ToArray());
for (int i = 0; i < aggregate_columns.Length; i++)
{
row[aggregate_columns[i]] = table.Compute(aggregate_functions[i], filter);
}
}
return grouped;
}
And you should use something like
string[] column_names = new string[] { "number", "avg_price", "total" };
string[] column_functions = new string[] { "count(products)", "avg(price)", "sum(charge)" };
Type[] column_types = new Type[] { typeof(int), typeof(decimal), typeof(decimal) };
string[] group_by = new string[] { "order_id" };
DataTable grouped = GroupBy(data, column_names, column_functions, column_types, group_by);
Which will be the equivilant of the SQL command:
select order_id, count(products) as number, avg(price) as avg_price, sum(charge) as total from data group by order_id
it may need some extra handling to account for DBNull values in the columns that you are grouping by.

Synchronous process execution from VC++

2009-04-01T16:27:00.000+05:30

Following is the Sample code for executing a process in VC++ synchronously. We can use System command also but that display a command propmt flash also. To avoid command prompt flash i have used earlier ShellExecute API but that runs a process Asynchronously.

ShellExecute(NULL,NULL,"C:\\Test.exe","Test Argument Param",NULL,SW_HIDE);

ShellExecute just returns the value 42 [If it fails return value is suppose to be <= 32] and program execution proceed to next line of code. This can create problem when one want ShellExecute to complete it's processing before it go to next line of code in program. Following is the solution i implemented for the same after avoiding ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx APIs.

STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);
si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW; // For enabling custon flags e.g. wShowWindow
si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; // For hiding the window of application
ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );
if (!CreateProcess( "C:\\Test.exe"," Test Argument Param",NULL,NULL,FALSE,0,NULL,NULL,&si,&pi))
{ printf("%s\n","ProcessFailed"); }
WaitForSingleObject( pi.hProcess, INFINITE ); // Wait until child process exits.
CloseHandle( pi.hProcess ); // Close process and thread handles.
CloseHandle( pi.hThread );

Please do comment if need anything furthur.

fatal error C1083: Cannot open type library file: '<>.dll': No such file or directory

2009-03-28T13:55:00.000+05:30

Hi,
When one get this error it means whenther developer don't have <<AnyName>>.dll on the machine or dll is not registered. I faced the same error as follows

fatal error C1083: Cannot open type library file: 'regobj.dll': No such file or directory
Later i corrected it by downloading the regobj.dll from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/update/6.0/w9x2k/en-us/regobji.exe
i place the dll in System32 but one can keep it anywhere they want.

Same can be done for <<AnyName>>.dll , just check do have the dll one your machine. if not then get it on you machine by downloading or taking from any other machine. and then register that dll. using one of the following
regsvr32 <<AnyName>>.dll
or
regasm <<AnyName>>.dll /codebase

That's all for this issue. feel free to mail me on viratsarswat@gmail.com for any queries.

Virat

Airport Hassle

2008-10-20T02:25:00.001+05:30

I was at airport on 17th Oct [2008] and looking out of window of airplane. I was looking at the kingfisher cabs roaming around the plane. suddenly i recalled a very nice incident of mine, one of an airport trip. I was coming back from my cousin's marriage to Bangalore. i had a hectic schedule for his marriage. For two days i couldn't get a proper sleep and i was totally rest less. I reached at airport around 3:30 AM to catch my flight from Delhi to Bangalore on 5:00 AM. I collected my boarding pass and moved in at boarding area. it was about an hour for my flight, so i started reading newspaper. My eyes were burning because of restlessness so just for sake of giving them some rest i closed my eyes. Suddenly because of some announcements i opened my eyes. There was an announcement for some passenger who is still not on board for his flight. I started cursing people like these who cause flight delay like this and make trouble for others. Same time i looked at my watch and i was shocked it's 6:30 AM and i had a flight on 5 AM. I had missed my flight. Suddenly from angry mode i came to sad mode. Just now i have wasted Rs. 5K. I started thinking what should i do now.

While i was thinking about what to do next after missing the flight I paid attention on announcement. it was about my flight and those fellows were calling my name. Hurra !.. i picked up my baggage and started running towards the runway entry. As soon as i reached there i saw two eyes staring at me like i am a waste fellow who is causing delay for others. :) what big deal if one airplane is waiting for me. They called cab to board me on plane. I started feeling like prince who was getting a royal treatment. People are waiting for me and i was getting treated very nicely.

All this day dreaming ends when i boarded on plane and come to know plane was delayed because of fog not because of me. They were giving just a formal announcement before takeoff and luckily i woke up. :)

When i finished this recalling moment, person sitting next to me was amused why i am smiling without reason and i kept on smiling leaving him guessing.

Memories

2008-10-20T02:12:00.001+05:30

I am visiting my native and rolling eyes over my old papers i just saw one of the poem i wrote when i was in college. So here it is..

If I cry in the rain
can u see my tears..
if i blew a kiss in the dark
can u catch it..
If i hug u in my dreams
can u feel it..
if answer is no then y
don't u try it once for me...

If i sing a song far away from u
can u hear it...
if i didn't show u my feelings
can u know about it...
if i say "i coudn't live without u"
can u belive it...
If answer is no then y
don't u try it once for me

and in the last
if i die without your love
can u bear it....
if answer is no then y
don't you....

Google Chrome :- Beta Can't Make User Happy

2008-09-03T14:14:00.000+05:30

Wednesday, 2nd September 2008

Ok Last day it was all over internet that google is about to launch a browser tomorrow. From the morning i was checking for the download link for chrome every now and then, just like a kid looking at door when dad is coming home with gifts. by the evening i got some link telling that it will be available by US morning time. That has been past by the evening 8'O clock. Anyway i was keep trying the link provided be the google search. [Ya google search was giving the page to download and even eula page, but when one click on these links it was getting redirected to google home page].

Anyway by the 1:30 AM [3rd Sepetember 2008] I got the link working. I downloaded the Chorme installer. and as soon as i downloaded the installer i start installing my latest toy. As i have already gone through the comic book provided by google, and even i have seen screenshots of chorme than also i was excited.

Ok I got the chrome screen asking me to improt browser settings from my system and i granted the request. Here comes the first screen. it's simple with quite boring looks. i started using it by typing in Omnibox [yes this is what google call address bar]. here i got nice search [as google is expert in this field]. Ok all google product work nice and smooth in this browser as expacted and even all other popular sites are working fine. but here comes the first drawback i faced i visted http://www.bseindia.com and holla!!! ... java applet is not loading.... it tells pulgin is not available and even don't provide any way to solve it. here point is i am able to visit this same site without any issues using safari.

next i tried to load my work site. that is totally messed up as that doesn't follow any standard so ok problem is on our side. here i come to know few very nice features like "inspect element" and "Task manager" both are quite handy and easy to use. Task manager let you know about which browser and which process under chrome is taking much memory. one can see this all under "Stats for nerds" :) . while i was using these three browsers [Chrome/IE7/Safari] side by side i saw my mouse have difficulty in moving and switching between tabs is also damn slow. One more issue !!!!.... Chrome is taking more than 60% of CPU at most of occations. And the issue is whenever you are openning "inspect element" CPU for Chrome is hoving over 60%.

Next thing i tried is popup blocking for this i try to do a automatic test i tried AuditMyPC.com for this test. i clicked on test link and yeappy pop-up pop-up and pop-up, and good news is all are blocked... it's different story that this site doesn't consider them blocked and score chorme as poor in pop-up blocking... but if i have to rate i will rate 100/100 for popup blocking to chrome.

When i am typing this blog, the text area is keep getting hang.. my cpu usage is less than 40% and Memory usage is also not much for a hang.

Now i am stopping to go futher with this "checking my new toy" thing, hopeing soon chrome will become good and give nice fight to other browser...

Another Glorious day of my life

2008-08-20T12:46:00.000+05:30

Wednessday, 20th August 2008

As soos as the day started it started to spread it's glory on me [Now i thanks god for starting this particular day late with 10:30 AM wake up]. i found my mobile is dead as there is not charge sooner i checked this my heart told there is some thing about the day. i found there is no clean cloth in my wardrobe so i have to manage with cloths i already sported one day. as i was late to office so started to be ready for office in hurry. left for office around 11:00 AM. after 500 Meter ride i realized i left my wallet at home. as usually i don't need my wallet so i decided to move on for office as i am getting late. after 2 KM i reached to the forum to diary circle road here was a big traffic jam. i started cursing the fellows who started the jam because of wrong traffic sense [later i realized it was whole because of me as my day was great]. anyway after 5 min struggle i crossed dairy circle flyover and moved towards office. i hardly covered 2 KM traffic cop ask me to pull over. I parked my bike with full fear as i come to know i am in big trouble, my licence and emission test paper was in my wallet. Anyway i tried to ask cop that i forgotten my wallet and these docs are in there he asked me to show the bike papers i shown those to cop and bingo !!!! my insurance for bike is expired i have to pay for this blunder now. anyway cop told me the sum of 1000 Rs for all these missing papers so only one thing can save my money now is go home and get as much as papers i can. so they shown me way towards auto. Autowaala looked at me like dog look at meat. as closer as i was coming to him he gettig that much happy. i didn't realized why but i sensed this. when the distance was 20 Feet he started his auto and run aways bloody hell why it's happening ????

Anyway i recovered from this shock sooner then i expect and started chasing other autos but see the glory of the day i found 100s of full auto none of vacant auto. after walking 2 KM and looking for auto i reached to the dairy circle here one autowaala was resting i asked him to come with me he asked for 200 Rs bucks only for 10 KM ride. i was shocked again. and i decided to move ahead without auto. after walking one more kilometer i was in fornt on a IT comp. there i found one auto who was vacant and i just run for 10 meter to get him as he just started his auto when i ask him to stop. i asked will he give me ride we asked "vehicle hai wahan par" i said yes. so he said no i will not take you there i asked why he told no waiting.. then i understood he was asking "waiting hai wahan par". i told him i just have get my wallet and have to come back. he agreed and finally after tedious 3 KM with paining leg [history of paining leg is we played cricket in recent weekend and we did this after an year]. finally i reached at home after this much happening. i found my wallet is missing i searched for full home but no luck. then i called my Jr. cum room partner who might have know where my wallet is ? he told last night you carried your wallet to phone shop. i recalled i might have putten that in my jeans i was sporting last night. i checked and bingoo !!! again i got my wallet after 5 min of search. now i collected all papers and came out of home. autowaala was waiting luckily but he scolded me for holding him on wait. After this all he took my back and in middle of way to traffic cop. few guys just jumped infront of auto they pulled out the key of auto and started scolding my autowaala and me in Kannada [native language of karnataka] i was surprized why it's happening but innerself i was aware it's the glory and beauty of the day. sooner i come to know there is auto strike in bangalore today. and my autowaala somehow managed to escape from there. he dropped me at traffic cop place and asked me for some ammount which was greater than fare but not very much so i paid that and move towards cops. And glory flashed again till the moment i reach there all the cops were moved from there only my bike with few other bikes were parked there but no one was there. i was having no clue where to go where to get key for my bike. after some 10 minute one traffic cop was walking towards me i got some light in my eyes. i asked him to raise a ticket for no isurance but he asked if i want to manage without ticket but i insisted on paying fine instead of bribe. after paying fine i was not happy but was in pride was feeling stupid but feeling no guilt. after this all i guess day has taken it's toll. so might be nothing will happen in rest of the day..

i have already reached to the office. small things are happening like already compiled code is throwing error but nothing major so i hope glory of the day is ended now.

Wow what was the day.. i have many days like this but from last week onward i will write down these here.. for remembrance

A bike ride without shirt at BANGALORE ROADS...

2008-08-18T15:32:00.000+05:30

Thrusday 14 Aug 2008,
Today it was raining like hell.. i started from office [Jayamahal main road near cantonment] towards my flat [BTM 1st Stage]. That time rain was not in so hard mood. it was gentel but as soon as i reached cinnappa stadium it was so much hard. i was in white shirt and all the autos and fellow bikers was throwing road water on me. So i decided so remove shirt as it was a little day light and i was in helmet so no one can recognise me there. And within minute there i was without shirt riding my bike at 60-80km in bangalore's traffic. splashing water on other as few minutes back i was feeling bad about it when others were splashin road water on me. but now it was like fun splash water on others and run aways in muntes.. but this wouldn't last long as on one single one auto driver asked me what the hell i was doing splashing water over him and other road users. Soon it started to get sour and within seconds i saw green signal i ran away from there and yes escaping from road water as now i don't want anyone else to give taste of road water... [:)] anyway it was full fun riding bike in bangalore's prime roads without shirt......