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Math Puzzle : CAT standard answer !

Team India : What concentration ? Besh besh romba nalla irukku !

Dilbert ! as always Rocks..

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Call it ! :)

Match-Fixing(Fixed)

MATCH-FIXING ! NONSENSE ! BULL-SHIT !! OTHA ! THEV**** ! Bucknor Pottiya Vangitaan.. Cancel the Tour !!

These are some of the thoughts that every indian felt on watching the 2nd test match (Farce) between Australia and India @ Sydney.

Here are some new rules that the ICC has formed ... Padichu therinjukkongappa ..

(1) Ricky Ponting – (THE TRULY GENUINE CRICKETER OF THE CRICKET ERA AND WHOSE INTEGRITY SHOULD NOT BE DOUBTED) should be considered as the FOURTH UMPIRE. As per the new rules, FOURTH UMPIRE decision is final and will over ride any decisions taken by any other umpires. ON-FIELD umpires can seek the assistance of RICKY PONTING even if he is not on the field. This rule is to be made, so that every team should understand the importance of the FOURTH UMPIRE.

(2) While AUSTRALIAN TEAM is bowling, If the ball flies anywhere close to the AUSTRALIAN FIELDER(WITHIN 5 metre distance), the batsman is to be considered OUT irrelevant of whether the catch was taken cleanly or grassed. Any decision for further clarification should be seeked from the FOURTH UMPIRE. This is made to ensure that the cricket is played with SPORTIVE SPIRIT by all the teams.

(3) While BATTING, AUSTRALIAN players will wait for the ON-FIELD UMPIRE decisions only (even if the catch goes to the FIFTH SLIP as the ball might not have touched the bat). Each AUSTRALIAN batsman has to be out FOUR TIMES (minimum) before he can return to the pavilion. In case of THE CRICKETER WITH INTEGRITY, this can be higher.

(4) UMPIRES should consider a huge bonus if an AUSTRALIAN player scores a century. Any wrong decisions can be ignored as they will be paid huge bonus and will receive the backing of the AUSTRALIAN team and board.

(5) All AUSTRALIAN players are eligible to keep commenting about all players on the field and the OPPONENT TEAM should never comment as they will be spoiling the spirit of the AUSTRALIAN team. Any comments made in any other language are to be considered as RACISM only.

(6) MATCH REFREE decisions will be taken purely on the AUSTRALIAN TEAM advices only. Player views from the other teams decisions will not be considered for hearing. MATCH REFREES are to be given huge bonus if this rule is implemented.

(7) NO VISITING TEAM should plan to win in AUSTRALIA. This is to ensure that the sportive spirit of CRICKET is maintained.

(8) THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE: If any bowler gets RICKY PONTING - “THE UNDISPUTED CRICKETER WITH INTEGTIRY IN THE GAME OF CRICKET” more than twice in a series, he will be banned for the REST OF THE SERIES. This is to ensure that the best batsman/Captain will be played to break records and create history in the game of CRICKET.

These rules will clarify better to the all the teams VISITING AUSTRALIA.

L BOARD

There comes a time in every man's life, when he has to take to the road .....
Be a roadie, live life on the dirt street !

The time has come for me to take my passion for the machine to the next level. Yes, Sudi is learning to drive the mean 4 wheeled machine....

Taming the beast , so to speak :)

Here are some ground rules to follow for all those newbies learning to drive...

Lesson 1 : Do NOT OVERLOAD the vehicle.

Lesson 2 : The message is self-explanatory.. For those who STILL dont understand, Thanni adichu vandhi otaadhingoooooooooooooooooo..... apisaar sollaradha kelungapa !

Lesson 3 : Know the Facts and Phigures (andha figure illa pa)

Lesson 4 : Putta Case !

Stay Tuned .. Definitely more to come on this topic.. Next week we will see what Sudi's driving preparations are for the German Countryside. Schumi here i come !

Snapshots - A Picture speaks a 1000 words ..

Itz been a long time since i last blogged here. As usual, was busy with work.
So enjoy the pictures below (hopefully more to come). This is don corleone signing off...

Meesic .. (Isai / Music )

Samiyey Saranam Ayyappa !

Varungala Mudhal Amaichar - Shilpa Kumar !

Send off to "Client" site

Behind the Scenes - Making of Dosa !

Direction : Adi
Cinematography : Sudar
Production : Appalam / Karthi
Editor : Sriram

Audience : Neenga...

Idha Pathi - no comments. Pathaley Comedy nu theriyudhu... HAHA !









Microsoft Stuff

My Trophies

My Cubicle / Workspace

View for MS building .. breathtaking.... :)

SRM Convocation

Bachelors nu pesikaraago..


More to come.. Cheers !
--
Sudar

People,

Please check out the following link http://greenfuturz.com/

This is a start-up company by one of our friends Suresh.

They offer RFID solutions for supply manangement, library inventory and many more things.
Please pass on the above website to all you know and lets help make it a grand success.

It take great guts and courage, to take the untrodden path and we should encourage and help one of our own, whose has chosen to take this route.

All the best Suresh ! :)

--
Sudar

? The Art of Quizzing ?

? The Art of Quizzing ?

Musings on the current state of affairs...

There comes a time in everyone's life, when you just want to break free and get away.
Usually this time in a man's life comes @ 30-40.
But for me and many youngsters like me, it has arrived sooner than expected.
After a year @ the job, the constant monotonous routine of everyday life becomes boring. Sometimes you just want to let go and fly away from this hectic life..

Most people percieve the Software industry to be a place to make quick bucks and get rich soon. Let me tell you from my personal opinion that it is not a realistic picture of things. Yes, there is money. But also it comes attached with a lot of sacrifies. Both personal and professional.

For the young kids out of college, they are lured by the grand picture and big pay cheques. But never once do they stop and think, IS this what they really want to do with their lives ?? Is this what they want to be ??

Many people i know after a year in the industry are already thinking and planning for a different career role. Many prefer a management role these days. But my take on this is , how can things be different there ? Management today looks & feels like the IT of yesterday. It will be the same people running the show there as well.

SO you gotta ask yourself, what is it that you want to really be in your life. what is it that you want to do and become ? Most people will not be aware of what they want to be right out of college. That is why you have to learn and become aware in your job as to your next plans. i.e. Also the same reason that most people quit their 1st job after 1-2 years. That is because they have decided on their plans.

I dont want to preach and sound moronic, but "the grass i always greener on the other side". So you must make your own choices, take & stand by your decisions . You must not let others influence your decisions, but can always take them into consideration.

Our state of affairs have become a 12-hour work life , 2 hour travelling , 6 hour sleep and remaining to attend to your daily routines. No time for personalizing at all. Where do you find time to pursue your ambitions, learning new things, innovate etc..

For people like me, i would pay anything to spend another year in college with the Entire Gang, doing nothing, sleeping in class and just vetti talking. Sounds like fun all over again..

More on this topic in my next post......

-- Sudar.

Dandeli Wildlife Adventure

The Journey Begins ....

Wooden House :- Rumble in the Jungle ..

Dam (not Damn!) :)

Kattu Kullai ... Out to conquer the River Kali...

That's All Folks !
-- Sudar signing off.. Adios !

Amazing Race - simply stunning.. The number of times the lead changes and its so legitimate driving. Gilles and Arnoux are amazing..
Take a look !



Formula 1 - The funniest home videos are here

My New Quiz BLog !

I have created a new QUIZ Blog...

Happy Quizzing @ http://artofquizzing.blogspot.com

The Journey to Odyssey & beyond...

Varusha varusham thatti thadamadi, odi adi, kushta pattu, we all take part in the Odyssey quiz. This year was no different ! This year was even more difficult as most of the team was in bangalore.

To start off with we spent a long long time "Thinking" of a team name..
in fact, our aim was to somehow win the best team name prize of 3000K. :)

we expected atleast 6 of our friends to turn up. as usual, peeps at the last moment bailed out. reason : school reunion( his school reunites about 4 times a year!)
Baldy the ever "punctual" fellow, arrived from the friendly neighbouring country of medavakkam at about 3.30 pm, after they had given away the papers. his usual dailogue of "heh, baad" was forthcoming.

Me, malai and navaz - all of us out-of-towners (2 from bang , navaz from mysore) had travelled in train and come on time... but the concept of time is lost on our local thatha baldy. I had even applied Leave for the quiz!

Getting to the quiz itself, it was a big dissappointment.. The quizmaster was a new host and was a bit tensed. the old quizmaster Dr.praveen had a sense of humour about him, which was missing with this QM. The usual teams mad it onto the stage.. Finally VV.Ramanan & team took the days honours.. ennakku ninavu vandha nalu layndhu vv.ramanan was trying to win the quiz. ippo avan oru thatha! anyways congrats..

Overall it was a fun experience as we gained some knowledge, met some quiz friends and infact performed better getting 14 correct. That was good considering we were all busy with work and absolutely no touch with recent happenings and no TV !

Getting onto the main matter, both our quiz team names got a mention on stage..
They are as follows:

"There are some things in life that you can get with Mastercard, for everything else therz Odyssey " - (this was my brainchild.. icu)

"Chennai la Color tv parisi, Rendu ruba Arisi, varey enna, Varsha varsham Quiz @ Odyssey.. " - (Malai's brainchild)

we were rather hoping that this team name would win us the prize.. even navaz like it much... here it goes .

"Our quiz team of 3
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1 can't answer.
2 don't answer.
So, we 3 won't answer."


well, with that am signing.. what do u guys think abt the names... plz leave ur comments..

MEMORY DUMP !

* 77E6B7B6 Module(kernel32+0002B7B6) (GetCurrentProcessId+0000034E) & blahblahblah

well, are you guys wondering what this line of code above is ?
it is the ACTUAL STACK in the OS and in that, is the first line of call to the Windows Kernel 32 + offset , made by the application SQL server 2000 to get the current process id in the address space & load into the memory. ! phew !

I hardly find time to blog these days. My training is going at a hectic place, and initial niceties r wearing off and extreme tech stuff has started..
i feel like saying what Pink Floyd sang - "Hey, BillG! Leave them kids alone ."
We don't need no education . We dont need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom!
Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

My brain feels like this full of tech stuff and OS concepts (thank god it wasn't linux. Can't manage to fight with both concepts and the GUI) .... see below for my " thala sayunja mandai "

appala vandhu innum vettiyana varthaigal adiakaraen ( read as= will come back later and type more titbit news).
Keep tuned to this space for more happening news...

VISTA is HERE !

I am very happy to "Announce to the World" that Windows VISTA has been RTM'd.
i.e Build is complete and release date fixed for jan 30 to worldwide consumers. Almost 5 years of R&D has gone into into creation . IT ROCKS! and it will bring 'Clarity to your world'.
(and guyz, right now am composing this blog on IE7 running Vista RTM Build. sexy baby! even the case cover is sexy na? )
The BIG DADDY of OS's is here to kick some serious ass...

Office 2007 has also been released ! It UI is awesome. Itz in tune with Vista's theme. WMP 11 released some months back, so did Windows Live One Care (antivirus solution). ZUNE released. XBox 360 Released. Great going you Developers @ Microsoft. Happy times indeed with so many product launches. .

But one sad news, Jim Allchin our Co-President, PLATFORMS & SRVCS division is retiring in sometime... thanks jim for everything !

well who knows what the future is in store... until next time. adios my lads !

The INSIDE STUFF @ Mike

Here i am @ Microsoft Apise.















My cubicle ! :)
Can you guys see Vista there in the 2nd PC. Ain't it sexy!!

= SELECT me from My_Training_Room

WHERE user_id='Sudar'

view from "the Bridge" @ MSBanglore... Looking out into the future skies......

Up on Cloud # 9

yeah am flying.. feels like i'm flying..
itz such a long way up, from the start..

tatz exactly where i am now... on top of the world !!!
Microsoft is DA NUMBER 1 !


don't wanna get into the details.. itz against policy and ethics..
but i just wanna say itz amazing, lotsa fun.. getting to know the history of the company( which i know to a certain extent already). the work culture is amazing.. all in all, am having fun...

Yeah we're flying - feels just like flying
We're such a long way up - from the ground !

I do miss chennai.. but those who know me already, know tat bangalore is like a 2nd home to me.
and the best thing is, i get to watch EPL and La liga back again.. i've missed these two, like i've never missed my GF !! muahhahaaha...
Man utd. r gonna rock this season..
tatz it 4 now.. me signing off now..
user "mike sudhar" logged off :)

Right back where i started from ...

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
(and i told tat somebody to go fuck himself! muhahahaha!)

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Back to the rule and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun (obviously)
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
( tatz wat happens when we use too many Microsoft products, especially Windows !
ironic, ain't it ? )

So much to do so much to see ( and i don't mean only the Booze)
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow

Hey now, I'm a MIKE star, got my game on.. Get going..
All that i did here is now over,
Only the shooting star to aim for, yeah ! ;)
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I need to get myself away from this place !
I said yep what a concept
I could use a little fuel myself
And we could all use a little change !!!!!!!!!!!!

so, i say this to all yo guys out there.. take care
Good afternoon, good evening and Goodnight !

Cheers amigos ;)

CAMPUS DIS-CONNECT !!!!

muhahahahaaaa !!!

as the title suggests, my campus job opportunities can be made into a blockbuster movie
( starring ME, of course ;) ) .. even shakespeare would've been proud of the twisty plot of the saga..
where to begin.. ok here goes.................

part 1, scene 1 : Status Quo
7th sem, this cool guy named sudhar, with high hopes, dreams and ambitions went to meet the placement apisar ( henceforth he shall be called as pongalsamy or koodhi). at this point of time thru bad-luck or bad-correction, he and a coupla other guys had a single paper backlog ( decent name for arrear!) mr.pongal told them not to worry, he will do his best, speak to company hr's.... blah blah blah and a whole lotta other shit !
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part 1, scene 2 : Utopia
glad tat the pongal is backing them, they happily went and started preparing.. but nothing materialized. company after company came and went, came again, went again.. no chance of job in site ! again we approached mr.pongal .he told them tat company hr's were adamant.. he couldnt do anything.. his hand were tied .. ( it was a blatant lie !! )
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part 2 : the awakening !
Now, it came to our notice, tat other colleges as part of the same process were allowing students with 2 and even 3 arrears to attend and get placed !! very angry by this fact, we approached koodhi.. he scolded many of us, and told us tat for our marks we didn't deserve anything, and tat college reputation will b at stake. we were resigned to our fate and deeply saddened and left the place!
(anecdote: as it so happened, 4 ppl were of my college were caught in answer paper scam, the prinicpal appeared on live tv and had to meet chancellor of university... subsequently a few months later, our AICTE approval was cancelled and a riot took place in college campus.. labs were trashed, college was closed down.. SO the whole "college reputation" argument of Pongal goes right out of the window)
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part 3 : He who Must Not Be Named a.k.a Pongalsamy !
the rest of the 8th semester continued in this manner. we hated tat bastard from the bottom of our souls. thought no less talented or % wise than our friends, we were jobless and had to face lot of pressure from home & elsewhere. we had already started to look at off-campus opportunities. then results came. college days got over ! to show our anger we created communties of hatred against tat pongalsamy ( which is progressing well!).. i must point out tat in this whole saga, out I.T department were least helpful, doing their bit in tormenting us.. giving us less internal marks, levying fines and so on..
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part 4 : PAYDIRT !
as if to say what pongalsamy did to us was wrong, we were proved right!
remember tat gang of ppl who went and spoke to him.. well, it so happens tat.
1 of them got a job in Siemens, 1 in Alcatel , 1 in Mahindra-BT ( maybe Microsoft in the pipeline).. and this after just a month on the job market.! 3 more are sure to get placed in the coming month ( my best wishes to them..). well, notice that all r MNC's. in hindsight, am glad we did not get placed in campus. i know; this sounds ironic, but tatz the naked truth !!!!!!

Grand Finale :
well, i leave u to judge what happened to urselves.. the guy didn't even care a nickel for our careers ! there was a lot more that Mr.Pongalsamy said.. too much to type.. some extracts include :-
1. unakellam edhuku s/w job = why s/w job for you ?
( he said this to a core I.T guy with above 70% aggregate!)
2. U.S la poi nee enna pannuvey. perukuviya ? = what will u do in U.S. sweeper job?
3. BPO is best for you. for u thatz more than enough !
4. ICICI bank is there for ppl with arrears like you ( he said dis in a derogatory manner!)

plz do leave behind ur comments on this.. i insist on a feedback !
signing off now.. adios amigos

Sudhar - THE ONE !

End of an Era - Goodbye Zizou !

The World Cup is over ! obviously i'm disappointed , 1st the english go out, thanks to referee horacio elizondo... then the French. i felt the WC deserved a draw btwn france n italy..
ZIZOU....ZIZOU....ZIZOU - u are my champion..


One of the GREATEST footballers ever to grace the scene.. Zinedine Zidane, a man of such grace, skill, technique, flow, panache, rhythm... i could go on & on describing him.. Words just aren't enough..

Then suddenly, Wham ! non-one on this planet could've predicted wat would happen next..
Zidane was wrong in head-butting Materazzi.. we forgive u. But Fuck the SOB Materazzi. such a foul-mouthed, idiotic, buffoon.. he spoilt the Wc finals..
It it were me, i would've have kicked materazzi in his balls !

well, anywayz its all over now. the Azzuri have won.. though the sheen seems to be off the winners, as they r embroiled in bribery sham back home..
The French played brilliantly, defeating Spain, Brazil( yahoo!), portugal - all favourites... they've finally put the ghost of 2002 behind them. VIVA LA FRANCE !!

S.A.F please buy Andrea Pirlo from ACM.. we need a holding midfielder..
It was fun watching the world cup. intense moments of joy,ecstacy,passion. sorrow.. this is wat makes football such a beautiful game..

After a long time, i got to watch Espn & star-sports on tv.. it was great.. i was watching each & every match , even South korea vs togo.. believe me ,i was nuts abt futbal !

well after this, i had my microsoft interview in bangalore, which thankfully didn't turn out to be a dissapointment.. i got thru written test, and had 2 interviews.. after which there was a telephonic round... fingers crossed, & waiting for the results !
odd thing was, the WC finals topic did come up in my hr interview.. and the hr person also turned out to be les blues fan ;) .
now am back again to the chennai heat. wastin time on orkut and back to downloadin moviez..
i'd end this post by saying this, and repeat after me guyz..
Hail Zizou ! Hail Zizou !