Hi guys,
Just in case if u felt like reading smthgnabt india i guess this is not a bad start.. http://satyameva-jayate.org/2006/05/27/hindu-india-and-bharat-word-origins/
cheers,
Naveen
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
slow poisionin of India
Hello frds...
Just thought of sharing this webpage with u guys....
reason is it speaks about our viallages and more importantly abt agriculture.....
This is smthg we should make aware of and let the ppl back home know.... atleast my relatives are in agri industries..spraying pestisides much more then required and poisionin the environ...
and it does speak abt warangal....
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=118&id=813&wh=1000x720
Cheers,
and frds.. i thng this is pretty Good site.. not the regular BS stuff...
Just thought of sharing this webpage with u guys....
reason is it speaks about our viallages and more importantly abt agriculture.....
This is smthg we should make aware of and let the ppl back home know.... atleast my relatives are in agri industries..spraying pestisides much more then required and poisionin the environ...
and it does speak abt warangal....
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=118&id=813&wh=1000x720
Cheers,
and frds.. i thng this is pretty Good site.. not the regular BS stuff...
Saturday, June 7, 2008
London Updates
Hello frds...
Hope ever1 is doin great!!..
A little update on my side.. (trin to put wats the latest with mightymechies in UK r doin, although we r only 3 at the moment)
presently me, omkar and kunda are in the london.
Me staying in Ilfords, thts south east of london, zone4.:work is same. Routine
Omkar in Canary warf, Financial hub of london, zone2.: says, work is getting on to him (he was actually sick Yday)
Kunda in slough, thts on west, IT hub of london,zone6.: says, project scrapped, donno wats next!
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we three planned to Isle of wight (a small island in uk), however kunda had to drop, sighting his project was scrapped. so, it was me and omkar and one of his collaeuge to Isle of wight...
was a good place actually but,: Marketing yakuvaa, matter takuvaa. I guess its all over UK.
The beach in shanklin is ok, beause of overnite rain, we coldnt able to run into sea or play.
Next day we went to Needles;was really good. its bascially bunch of limestone rocky hills, typically each are of a room size, all in about 4, out of which one was shaped like a needle with 120 feet in height and a big hole at the top, but sadly it could not withstand 1860's storm and broke down, and these ppl sell it with needles till now (after 2 generations after, ha..) But was good, and we seen 7differnet colors of sand all in space of 50 feet, these are formed by errosion, all in the past 100 or so yrs. It was good. and we been to freshwater bay, was also good. not sure why its called freshwater.. All in All its like 3 outof 5 , is wat i rate.
missing all u guys..
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Ok then this is my update from London.
I am sure.. we are waiting for more updates from our home...hyd/wgl...
i am sure some1 has started writing the happeninh in hyd/wgl
missing home.......
its naveen 99316 (sid Istyle......) signin off for the day tata :-)
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sad reality about my garden
Hello Every one,
Here is how my garden looked as of today morning. It is currently submerged under at least 8ft of water. There was a guy who put 8 ft fences to protect his garden from deere. I couldn't not see his fence on top of water this morning. His was the tallest fence with mine being just 4 ft.
It is interesting how the things turned out. I sprayed deere repellent just yesterday thinking that the precipitation that has been going on for past 6 days would stop. All the efforts have been futile. Here is another picture from a different angle.
After this incident, I have got new found respect for the farmers across the world and especially in India where they provide our food, on which we live, while living through the negligence of government, apathetic society and finally harsh mother nature. I think, the amount of disappointment is highest in the field of agriculture especially when a person and his family lives off the income they get from their crop.
I sometimes think, why is such an important field neglected/abused/ignored in India? I still remember an incident that happened during 3 rd year of B.Tech. at Govt. registration office. There was a poor farmer who wanted to register the land on his name. The Govt. employee(clerk) wouldn't register the land unless he pays up Rs.400. When the farmer refused to pay up the money, clerk straight away refused to register the land. The farmer was asked to come later with so many forms the next day!
When every part of the society neglects and abuses a farmer, I think a pesticide can becomes farmers' best friend.
Here are some more pictures of golf course and university rec center which were affected by the flood.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Re-union 2008: PART-1
This is a story of the Re-union of 8 Mechanical Engineering graduate students who went to the college : KITS Warangal from 1999-2003.
Venue: The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN, USA.
Date: May 23-26
This is just my version of the story. I am sure each one of us has their own stuff to add to. But mostly this should cover everything to remain as a memoir.
*****Flashback****************
It was around January/February 2008 times, I believe, when we started talking to each other on having a get-together. Sandhya had organized the conference calls for our "telephonic get-togethers" several times.
In the initial calls we got GV, KP, Kiran, Sandhya, Prashanth K, Vinay, Shireesha, Divija, Deepthi joined and discussed of the re-union for May.
We had options like: 1) Washington DC 2) California and 3) Smoky Mountains, TN.
Finally after a couple of calls we decided to go to option # 3. The Smoky Mountains.
Later on we also called up Prashanth M and Harini K for the trip details.
The final list of people who confirmed their travel were: GV, KP, Kiran, Sandhya, Prashanth K, Vinay, Divija, Prashanth M and myself.
KP was chosen as our Primary Organizer and he took the initiative on booking the cabin called "The Great Escape" for us.
Sandhya, Divija and I booked our tickets for flying to Knoxville Airport. Rest of the folks were driving.
Vinay booked our tickets for White-Water Rafting.
On Friday, Divija called and told us that she cannot make it as she had a twisted ankle. We tried to ask convince her to come despite it, however, she was not in a position to travel, so she dropped, unfortunately.
*****Day 1..The Knoxville Airport Episode*******************************************
On Friday, May 23, I was calling everyone that was driving to make sure they started. Vinay was the first one to reach and he gave us the "land-line" of the cabin so that people from outside can call, because in those woods, there is no signal for any of the cell-phone service providers.
On Saturday, I started from my home at 04.00 AM towards the O'Hare Airport. My flight was at 06.16 AM and I was planning to reach the ORD earlier, as Sandhya, who was flying from LA, had a connecting flight here. We thought we will try to get on the same flight so that we could save some time in waiting at the Airport!! :-)
I reached the airport by 05.00 AM and waited for a few minutes and tried calling Sandhya, her flight was supposed to land at 05.05 AM. After it was sometime, I had to go through the security and so, I left a voice message for Sandhya and said we will meet directly in Knoxville.
When I reached the gate from where I had to fly, the time was around 06.00 AM and I called the Cabin in the Tennessee woods.
After some "period of time", I heard a familiar voice attending the call, it was Prashanth M. He told me that everybody reached last night between 02.00 AM - 04.00 AM. I informed him that my flight will be landing at 09.00 AM and Sandhya's at 09.30 AM and asked someone to start at 08.00 AM so that they can reach by the time we land there and hence save the time!!! :-) :-)
My flight started on time and arrived at the Airport slightly ahead of the schedule at 08.30 AM.
I had voice messages from Sandhya that her flight got delayed and she missed the connecting flight and the only next flight was at 11.30 AM Chicago time. That means, she would only land at Knoxville at 02.00 PM on the afternoon.
I called her and suggested to find any other options.
Meanwhile, I called the cabin again and to my surprise NO ONE had started yet towards the Airport. It seems they got the message that Sandhya's flight got delayed so they thought they will pick us up both at the same time.
I asked them to come to the airport as I would be bored to death waiting alone, from 09.00 AM to 02.00 PM (like 5 hours dude!!!).
So, KP and Prashh started for me and finally reached at 10.30 AM. During this time, I almost called the cabin every 15 mins as I was longing to meet everyone and could not withstand waiting any longer to see them.
I was very very happy to see them, old friends, after such a long gap and got into the car, as they kept poking and joking at my not so modest tummy!! :-)
We decided to wait for Sandhya as they said that the road was not very good to drive again and come back. So be it!! We went out to eat at the Sub-way as all three of us were feeling hungry.
Prank #1: I called up the cabin and spoke to GV and said that these guys have still not come to pick me up and that they have hit the car and the car broke-down on the high-way. GV said that the car was on Kiran's name and neither of these guys were legally supposed to drive the car and decided to start from the cabin to meet these guys half-way. I could hear Kiran in the background, he seemed to have guessed it was a prank and was very cool.
Finally I gave up and told him the status that we will have to wait till Sandhya comes.
As these guys did not really get any sleep, we parked the car in the shade of a tree and they slept for a while.
After a while, we called up the cabin and decided that we will directly go the Rafting event from airport as we did not have enough time to go to the cabin and come back.
At this time the we asked the folks in the cabin about the address and the conversation was hilarious.
KP was speaking to GV and GV was giving directions, here it goes:
KP: ఎక్కడికి రావాలి రా?
GV : అరేయ్ Exit 447 తీస్కొని వెళ్తే వస్తుంది రా
KP: Exit 447, ఎ Interstate మీద తీస్కోవాలి రా?
GV : మీ దగ్గర్లో ఉన్నా ఏదో ఒక Interstate తీస్కొని రండి రా.
So that was hilarious!!
Finally we went to the airport by around 01.50 PM and waited in the "Phone and Wait" parking section. We found a camera in the car and took some pictures while we were waiting.
We picked up Sandhya at around 02.10-02.15 PM and then started directly to the "Exit 447".
After a few moments of suspence and mystery we were on the correct Interstate and in fact we were the first to reach the place. We had some coffee at a gas station and then left towards the river.
This was where we actually met all others and the real "re-union" started.
Now, Rafting is a different story in itself and cannot be covered in this part. Perhaps someone else can write about it!!
Venue: The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN, USA.
Date: May 23-26
This is just my version of the story. I am sure each one of us has their own stuff to add to. But mostly this should cover everything to remain as a memoir.
*****Flashback****************
It was around January/February 2008 times, I believe, when we started talking to each other on having a get-together. Sandhya had organized the conference calls for our "telephonic get-togethers" several times.
In the initial calls we got GV, KP, Kiran, Sandhya, Prashanth K, Vinay, Shireesha, Divija, Deepthi joined and discussed of the re-union for May.
We had options like: 1) Washington DC 2) California and 3) Smoky Mountains, TN.
Finally after a couple of calls we decided to go to option # 3. The Smoky Mountains.
Later on we also called up Prashanth M and Harini K for the trip details.
The final list of people who confirmed their travel were: GV, KP, Kiran, Sandhya, Prashanth K, Vinay, Divija, Prashanth M and myself.
KP was chosen as our Primary Organizer and he took the initiative on booking the cabin called "The Great Escape" for us.
Sandhya, Divija and I booked our tickets for flying to Knoxville Airport. Rest of the folks were driving.
Vinay booked our tickets for White-Water Rafting.
On Friday, Divija called and told us that she cannot make it as she had a twisted ankle. We tried to ask convince her to come despite it, however, she was not in a position to travel, so she dropped, unfortunately.
*****Day 1..The Knoxville Airport Episode*******************************************
On Friday, May 23, I was calling everyone that was driving to make sure they started. Vinay was the first one to reach and he gave us the "land-line" of the cabin so that people from outside can call, because in those woods, there is no signal for any of the cell-phone service providers.
On Saturday, I started from my home at 04.00 AM towards the O'Hare Airport. My flight was at 06.16 AM and I was planning to reach the ORD earlier, as Sandhya, who was flying from LA, had a connecting flight here. We thought we will try to get on the same flight so that we could save some time in waiting at the Airport!! :-)
I reached the airport by 05.00 AM and waited for a few minutes and tried calling Sandhya, her flight was supposed to land at 05.05 AM. After it was sometime, I had to go through the security and so, I left a voice message for Sandhya and said we will meet directly in Knoxville.
When I reached the gate from where I had to fly, the time was around 06.00 AM and I called the Cabin in the Tennessee woods.
After some "period of time", I heard a familiar voice attending the call, it was Prashanth M. He told me that everybody reached last night between 02.00 AM - 04.00 AM. I informed him that my flight will be landing at 09.00 AM and Sandhya's at 09.30 AM and asked someone to start at 08.00 AM so that they can reach by the time we land there and hence save the time!!! :-) :-)
My flight started on time and arrived at the Airport slightly ahead of the schedule at 08.30 AM.
I had voice messages from Sandhya that her flight got delayed and she missed the connecting flight and the only next flight was at 11.30 AM Chicago time. That means, she would only land at Knoxville at 02.00 PM on the afternoon.
I called her and suggested to find any other options.
Meanwhile, I called the cabin again and to my surprise NO ONE had started yet towards the Airport. It seems they got the message that Sandhya's flight got delayed so they thought they will pick us up both at the same time.
I asked them to come to the airport as I would be bored to death waiting alone, from 09.00 AM to 02.00 PM (like 5 hours dude!!!).
So, KP and Prashh started for me and finally reached at 10.30 AM. During this time, I almost called the cabin every 15 mins as I was longing to meet everyone and could not withstand waiting any longer to see them.
I was very very happy to see them, old friends, after such a long gap and got into the car, as they kept poking and joking at my not so modest tummy!! :-)
We decided to wait for Sandhya as they said that the road was not very good to drive again and come back. So be it!! We went out to eat at the Sub-way as all three of us were feeling hungry.
Prank #1: I called up the cabin and spoke to GV and said that these guys have still not come to pick me up and that they have hit the car and the car broke-down on the high-way. GV said that the car was on Kiran's name and neither of these guys were legally supposed to drive the car and decided to start from the cabin to meet these guys half-way. I could hear Kiran in the background, he seemed to have guessed it was a prank and was very cool.
Finally I gave up and told him the status that we will have to wait till Sandhya comes.
As these guys did not really get any sleep, we parked the car in the shade of a tree and they slept for a while.
After a while, we called up the cabin and decided that we will directly go the Rafting event from airport as we did not have enough time to go to the cabin and come back.
At this time the we asked the folks in the cabin about the address and the conversation was hilarious.
KP was speaking to GV and GV was giving directions, here it goes:
KP: ఎక్కడికి రావాలి రా?
GV : అరేయ్ Exit 447 తీస్కొని వెళ్తే వస్తుంది రా
KP: Exit 447, ఎ Interstate మీద తీస్కోవాలి రా?
GV : మీ దగ్గర్లో ఉన్నా ఏదో ఒక Interstate తీస్కొని రండి రా.
So that was hilarious!!
Finally we went to the airport by around 01.50 PM and waited in the "Phone and Wait" parking section. We found a camera in the car and took some pictures while we were waiting.
We picked up Sandhya at around 02.10-02.15 PM and then started directly to the "Exit 447".
After a few moments of suspence and mystery we were on the correct Interstate and in fact we were the first to reach the place. We had some coffee at a gas station and then left towards the river.
This was where we actually met all others and the real "re-union" started.
Now, Rafting is a different story in itself and cannot be covered in this part. Perhaps someone else can write about it!!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
First time happy in US
Hi guys,
I am not sure if you are going to believe me, but after meeting all of you in the US after 5 years, I felt very very happy, first time ever. It was with the same feeling I flew back to Chicago, the way I felt when I went to my home for vacation in Feb-Mar early this year.
Lets keep publishing on this on more.
Kiran, when you get a chance, write something about your new job.
Prashanth, keep us updated on your garden and the harvest and anything you might want to share with us, including your comments on the Tour 2002 video.
I am waiting for others to accept the invitation.
Once everyone is on, we will have the story telling of the Re-union once more.
Cheers,
Sid.
I am not sure if you are going to believe me, but after meeting all of you in the US after 5 years, I felt very very happy, first time ever. It was with the same feeling I flew back to Chicago, the way I felt when I went to my home for vacation in Feb-Mar early this year.
Lets keep publishing on this on more.
Kiran, when you get a chance, write something about your new job.
Prashanth, keep us updated on your garden and the harvest and anything you might want to share with us, including your comments on the Tour 2002 video.
I am waiting for others to accept the invitation.
Once everyone is on, we will have the story telling of the Re-union once more.
Cheers,
Sid.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Welcome
Hello fellows,
I just started this blog to share literally ANYTHING under the SUN, that we want to with our old friends.
After the successful re-union, I felt like we would want to keep in touch with each other and to share with our friends anything we might remember from our college days or things that we want to tell our friends on what's going on with life.
I found that these days people "blog" a lot and especially in groups. So I came up with this idea to start a blog exclusively for the 2003 Mechies of Kits Warangal, with all of us as the authors.
I currently invited those who came to the re-union, we can add others too very soon.
Just think about it!! It will be fun and a very good medium of being in touch with most of us at the same time!!
Cheers,
Siddartha 99301.
I just started this blog to share literally ANYTHING under the SUN, that we want to with our old friends.
After the successful re-union, I felt like we would want to keep in touch with each other and to share with our friends anything we might remember from our college days or things that we want to tell our friends on what's going on with life.
I found that these days people "blog" a lot and especially in groups. So I came up with this idea to start a blog exclusively for the 2003 Mechies of Kits Warangal, with all of us as the authors.
I currently invited those who came to the re-union, we can add others too very soon.
Just think about it!! It will be fun and a very good medium of being in touch with most of us at the same time!!
Cheers,
Siddartha 99301.
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