CountDown Day 00 - Hildesheim ... Und das leben beggint :-)))

The deputation over today... I will be leaving from Hildesheim at 4:30 am

Picchale saat dino me ...

Amazon Shopping spree....

->Transcend 850 MP3 Video player
->Super Talent PICO C 8 GB pen drive ..worlds smallest usb drive
->Western Digital 320 GB My Passport HardDisk
->Canon SX 110 IS, 9MP, 10X optical Zoom digicam. {I lost my old one from ICE Flyer on Mt. Titlis..Swiss}
->Sudoku n kakuro Handheld touchscreen game
->More than 200CHF... souvenirs from swiss(victorinox, bells) .. my fav muahhhh coffee cup
->Jack Wolfskin mountaineering shoe... its a best buy..

CountDown Day 07 - Hildesheim ... Aane wale saat dino me ;-)

Between Heaven And Earth ... Switzerland

The Swiss Dream :)

Swiss Tour... from 2nd Oct to 6th Oct. Heavenly beautiful Swiss... words or pic cant do justice to the beautiful Swiss. If possible one must visit this place to see the nature at its best and engineering marvels(mountain trains, tunnels, steps, cable cars...) that made all the glaciers and waterfalls accessible for tourism.

The best time to visit Swiss will be autumn season and sunny days. We stayed at Funny Farm Hotel (Mattenhof Resort) in Interlaken. This is a great place to stay in best city in swiss...Interlaken

Our Travel itinerary was as follows.

(Day1): Rhine Falls, Schilthorn(Piz Gloria)
(Day2): Jungfraujoch, Trummelbach falls, Interlaken city
(Day3): Journey from interlaken to Luzern, Mt Titlis

Picsss:
http://picasaweb.google.com/manish.mmk/BetweenHeavenAndEarth?authkey=fWt2k5Wn3Rs#

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CountDown Day 16 - Hildesheim

The month of October arrived. Today I will leave for Swiss Holiday. This weekend is called a special holiday because we have got a government holiday on Friday thats 3rd October, The German Unification Day.
In India Robert Bosch Bangalore office is closed from 1st to 5th... what a gr8 vacation to celebrate the Navaratri Festival...

CountDown Day 23 - Hildesheim

Day started when I was awake.. Yep 0000Hrs. I could not sleep. I don't know whats happening to me, but im engrossed in thoughts, could not even relax for a second.

went to office by 9:08 bus. come back 5:35 bus
one label released.. one less bug . :)

Is shaher mein har shaks pareshaan sa kyun hai ...

Next 18th i will be in Bangalore

18th Oct 2008... Life's Completely changed in this one year.
something accomplished. I have forgotten her completely, and now I wont let anyone play around with me, my feelings emotions and my love. It's not that damn easy to forget. I wont let it happen second time... instead I will die.

Google Strike or Dictatorship of Google . Google Sucks... for doing this .

I was expecting something like this since the inception of Chrome..the new Google browser. The day or moment really came today.

What if Google provides its services to only Google Chrome users ??? and not in other browser. thinkkkkkkk...

Each computer user is hooked to Google by some or the other way. Orkut, Blogger, Gmail, Google Code, Google Translator, Picasa and what not... One cannot pass time without using one of these application/services. Today i really faced this problem as usual came from office, and opened firefox and logged in into gmail.... wht no response "Waiting...for gmail" from sooo long... I got pissed off... thought time to reinstall firefox..but TOI and wiki were opening ..felt strange. then obviously tried IE... same problem.. Not even Google Search was working in firefox and IE. Then got the clue..what it could be ...

I had already installed chrome since the day it was made available.. thought I will give it a try to prove my point and TO MY HORROR < IM WRITING THIS BLOG AT THIS TIME USING GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER >. This is only second time I am using Chrome. Its not a coincidence or problem with my setup... This is a well planned Google trial. It's been more than 20 mins since im watching this now... all Google services working instantly fine in Chrome... but "waiting" in firefox and IE. Isn't this approach reminds you of Dictatorship... Yes the more we belong on Google services the more we will face Dictatorship of Google.

Chrome is at present available for windows and is open source... but I guess Google will be soon launching an all OS compatible Chrome. I can even write one browser on my own, but what if Google has a tech-know-how to know the browser type before authenticating any service requests from Google servers.. the catch lies there.

Going one step further, if tomorrow Google launches a new OS, and they stop supporting open source and charge for everything ! and imagine if Google OS is mandatory if one wants to use all Google services... Are to biting your nails or shivering at this idea !!! Anything can happen... After all they have tamed the web, internet and a vast huge set of net users worldwide. That's why I am a strong supporter of Open Source and Free Software Foundation. No harm in growing together.

Though it may be some problem with my machine, or just so that Murphy is on my side today... or may be just because my head is aching.. BUT still.. Just Imagine... if one day... What if Google decides something evil like this... and continues it's strike in all available popular browsers. then it's a great big Challenge before Microsoft and the open source community... anyway I have learned how to use Chrome and also it's free to download ;-)

At the core of all this free services, Google has it's hidden commercial interests. Have you ever thought how the advertisements in your Inbox are relevant to your mood/travel plan/shopping decisions etc. It's all scanning through your mails/conversations/likes/interests/gossips and providing suitable ads, generating revenues for Google.

Ever wondered, how the junk mails that use to come from bot like addresses are now bearing your best friends names or the ones from whom you read every mail , message or frequently keep in touch. You cant resist ti immediately click open the mail and read the contents only to know its an advertisement. Google is doing at it's best in getting every bit of information about you to make them salable to the ads/marketing world. AND who is at the receiving end. You & Me.

Guys and girls think many times whether you really need to depend so much on this online world. It's a sheer compromise of personal privacy and we can't fathom upto what extent it can be exploited.

Be Damn Careful !

Ciao.

what's happiness.. i guess i know :-)

What makes me feel good nowadays is im still breathing. No craziness but the art of living evolves as one grows older. whether u get what you want or loose, for sure you learn a lesson worth carrying forward. One damn crazy idea is to live freely. Neutralize the needs, neutralize the expectations ...be a child and look around. When you see at grown ups as a child, you see a life. Every single different person, carries a life with him... a story different from anyone else's.

Sometimes the faces are happy, sometimes longing, sometimes searching, and some are like me... perfectly neutral at that moment and observing the "a small part" of the most amazing drama's moving around. Is it so easy to call it a Drama... Well no but don't take it seriously, when you look back in your own life you will find many moments you couldn't stop laughing over your behavior.

Some people free themselves with a little intake of Alcohol.. :-) I will appreciate them. Its good to be bound by some rules... but it's best to loose yourself for sometime and become neutral. Intoxication works best too loose the worldly sorrows for some moments and go close to ones subconscious mind. its a paradox but its very much true... One looses the consciousness but awakes in a different world where he is in his own boots and still completely naked !!! Sounds crazy but its true. ;-)

It's not intoxication always, but sometimes it's a feeling of happiness that makes you feel exactly the same. It's a feeling when you know that someone loves you and care for you. You get equally unconscious in your world with this feel good feeling.

Wall - E Full 5 stars to this movie *****

What humans are made up of.... watch this movie.. machines will teach you.

Im torned between Me and Myself.

Everyone except one or two has seen Myself...
The real Me is know to me and only to those very few 2 or 3 who had spent time with Me.

Me:
is soft, emotional, sensitive

Myself:
is strong, practical, brainy.

Now the Me is getting often revealed before Myself. Myself is on the verge of breaking down into pieces. This is not a change to welcome but to fight against the invading Me on Myself.

The real big challege before Me is to somehow survive Myself...

Rimzhim gire sawan...

main aur meri tanhai aksar yeh batein karte hai.. yu hota toh kaisa hota...

Open Prison ... sometimes Hildesheim is like that.

No government has arrested me, I am not a criminal.
Then why am I feeling like I am being punished for something.

Whats the reason? When I went out of my house after one and half day long... neither the mild breeze was exhilarating nor the sunny weather, and evermore the fresh air also couldn't satisfy my breath. I wanted to scream loudly, I can't go back to my friend who suffered a loss. Whats Life??? I cant answer. It makes you weep, it makes you scream... it makes me realize sometimes that I am hopeless... It reminds me that I am in open prison. YES when life punishes someone he is send to a open prison.
No walls, no guards, no locks, no handcuffs... but the legs don't want to go out, the tongue becomes tasteless, the eyes no longer want to see the sunlight and the hands... they are spread wide open asking for something which may not come back again once gone.

hopes time courage ... thats what is required to break this open prison.

Once upon a time ...

There was a boy...

He was strong as rock,
He knew how to stand alone against whole system,
He was courageous and in love with solitude,
He was in complete harmony with life knowing the ultimate truth.

The boy is changed now,

He is sentimental,
He is emotional,
He cries often,
He needs support,
He fears loneliness,
Though he still knows the ultimate truth but now he is restless to live before he...

He is completely changed.

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61st Indian Independence Day ... in Hildesheim

Independence Day

An encounter with Life at Hildesheim

The life goes on and on, what it leaves behind is the trail of unforgettable memories. The true sense of living is beyond explanation but the essence can be surely preserved in authentic words.

This encounter with life may bring tears to those who left Hildesheim when they had got there best friends here, in a way they had seen a whole new world with new eyes.

I was ever interested to come to this place but never thought that it will be so tough to really pack n go. The day when I got the call to go, cried in office toilet thinking I am going to loose the whole year from my life. A place far away…. no friends, leaving my parents alone here. Then friends boosted the morale saying go and see the world it's a rewarding experience. Also the first time excitement was backing my decision to leave India and land in a foreign country.

The Plane landed on foreign land in a cold climate, the days n nights were different here than India. First day to office.. remarkable …I thought I will sleep and spend day at home.. but the foreign silence was killing, immediately got up and went to office. and when I was returning back, saw a girl in saree at bus stop... totally amazed… was thinking Boschlers kept Indian ness alive here in Germany !!!
Who she might be? Later I came to know that it was her birthday that day. She became my good friend. We were sailing in same boat...A year long deputation.
any guesses who is she? Deeps.. One of my best friend.

When the bus stopped I got down somewhere and gosh … I forgot my house, first day, 11 pm. Where to go?. Trial and error and finally found the home.

I was wondering what these people are made up of, they are disciplined, they progressed so ahead of world despite of this strange adverse climate.

Hmmm there were many changes waiting to accommodate me.
The crook that never bothered what goes inside kitchen, who never bothered to prepare anything for him, learned what is happiness when he prepared food in his kitchen for his friends. That's life. The happiness is in living and sharing and not allowing yourself to escape into loneliness and shy away from sharing the moments which one can cherish for whole life.

I have spent one best year of my life here. The feeling of loosing a year has long back left behind and …the learning from life what I gained in this year is simply more than a year. Here I stand Separate, Alone, Strong, Self sustaining.

(... to be continued)

Before I end up being a part of crowd,

In the end it says "Thoda hai thode ki jaroorat hai" Zindagi phir bhi yaha Khoobsurat hai"

Life is nothing but something I dunno…

Life is nothing but interpretation

Life is nothing but enjoyment

Life is nothing but meeting people

Life is nothing but pain

Life is nothing but fulfilling desires

Life is nothing but surviving the odds

Life is nothing but caring for everyone

Life is nothing but getting attached

Life is nothing but being unattached

Life is nothing but missing someone

Life is nothing but forgiving the mistakes

Life is nothing but forgetting the mistakes

Life is nothing but moving forward

Life is nothing but loving someone

Life is nothing but departing from someone

Life is nothing but unexpected happenings

Life is nothing but Expression of Joy

Life is nothing but preserving the childhood innocence.

{more to be added here gradually}

Life is nothing but .....
Life is nothing but Life
{ Each Line is a lesson L.I.F.E. has taught me, I will keep on learning -- mmk }

Show me the meaning….

Tell me what’s the worst disease in this world

Cancer

AIDS



neh.............................................................love



A cancer patient knows when is he going to die, he has those many days left to enjoy life.

But a lovelorn person, he doesn’t know when he is going to die. And his plight is he can’t live anymore.



A patient can come out of illness and enjoy ...but coming out is not possible when someone is caught in love.

What’s in life for such a loser? Infinite wait until he meets his end and a long suffering if it takes long.