Finally I got it!!!

After trying a lot, finally I got it... Thanks for your wishes and guidance...Each one of you has helped me some or other way to achieve this.

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My Manager Incident 1

From long time I was thinking about whether to write or not about him, as its not good to write something bad about some one. But its more funny than bad about my manager's behaviour and yesterday his behaviour was the key reason for my blog posting here...
My manager, he looks very innocent. And I feel that he has this habit of forgeting... Some days back I told him that I am from Pune. And I think everybody in my team(around 6-7 people) know about the native places of the other team members. I think atleast the manager should know these details about team members.

Around two months back, when I came back from my native, I had a chat with my manager saying "Hi...how are you..". Then he replied saying, "Hey Shashi, When did you come back from Bengal?". I was kind of surprised and I told him that I am from Pune...then he said.. oh...ok...

Now Yesterday again after coming from my native, I gave him some Bakarwadis which I brought from Pune. He replied to that, "Oh, you brought it from Bihar?". Now its too much...I don't know next time he might say that I am from Pakistan... :)

Virtual Barber Shop

I was just browsing through Youtube videos and came across this one. Its really a nice video and gives you experience of real barber shop.... Enjoy...

My Pakistani Friend!!!

When we are in India, sometimes we hate Pakistani people. And few are responsible for this hatred feeling. But that is quite serious topic and I don't think this is good idea to discuss it here. Rather here is an incident which happened to me in Denmark.

One day I was with my few other friends, was doing weekly household shopping on Saturday afternoon. So I was coming with 3-4 bags in my both hands. Now I had to take a bus to go to my place. So I was waiting at bus stop. And there came a bus. I was getting into bus and bus driver said, " Are kya bat hain? Itna saman leke ja rahe ho?"

Me - "Are sab le jana padata hain.. pure week ke liye..:)", with a smile.

Driver - "Achha, kaha se ho?"

Me - "India se. Aur aap?"

Driver - "Are sahi hain.. main to Pakistan se hun... Aaa jao.. front seat pe baitho... aapko Hindi gane sunata hun!"

And then he started music player with some Hindi song running.

Driver - "Kabhi suna hain kya ye? Rekhaji ke gane hain..."

Me - "Achha.."

Driver - "Aise hi yahan pe vaise bhi Hindi me kisi se bat karaneko nahi milata... isliye gane sun leta hun... achha lagata hain"

Me - "Sahi hain.... "

Then we talked for few minutes and then after some time, I got down at my place saying "Good Bye .. " to him...
The way he behaved with me is really nice. I will never forget it.

So when you are outside India and when you meet somebody from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, you feel very nice. You feel like we have met our neigbhour, somebody from our own country.

Lunch with my other language friends

Today I had lunch with my other language friends. Three of us were Hindi speaking and other 4 other language speaking friends. I will name other language speaking friends as olang1, olang2, olang3 and olang 4. And 3 of us Hindi1, Hindi2 and myself. This is our conversation until we finished our lunch.

olang1 - safsdakasf sadsa fdsakjfsda asfhyidoterae lksjfasd ds tewlkjrwea
olang2 - asfds lk safdk jioiafsadij kasfask klhklsahf sadifhskl l
olang4 - asfdjakl fsad fsdajkf sdkja fjksdaf sdaljkj jhkk
olang2 - asfsdjk hjkasf sdalskk k sdaf sdafs
olang3 - asfdsakj khhdg dfagf sdkhji ihereamn askdf sd

this continued ....
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olang2 - asfhf sdaksdafksadf sd
olang3 - asdfsdafsdakjk jkhsafasklkjuihu o sdfiasksjafds e rekl

Then myself and Hindi1 finished with the lunch....
Hindi1 - We have finished our lunch, we will carry on...
olang1 - okie guys!!!

and their conversation continued - bla bla bla....

Any comments on which is this olanguage?

What common man thinks about Software companies?

This happened when I was having training in my first company in Pune. It was rainy season and two of my friends were coming to office. It started raining so they stopped at one of the shop so as to avoid getting wet in rain. There was a person and young guy standing there and discussing something. They saw my friends wearing IBM badge. As a curiosity that young guy asked the person, "What is this IBM?".
To that the old person replied like this, "IBM, it is Indian Bank Management!!!. It is a very good company, only here it is private otherwise it is a government company." My friends couldn't say anything and just kept quite.

Another time I was going to my office by auto. I work in ITC Infotech, a 100% subsidiary of ITC. And our ITC Infotech office is located at the place where there was ITC cigarrete factory. Now people don't know that it is now software office. So after coming near to my office, I told the auto driver that you can stop here. Now as he knew it is Cigarrete factory, he asked me, "Sir, Do you work in Cigarrete factory?". And they I had to tell him that, "Bhai, this is no more Cigarrete factory, this is IT company. Cigarrete factory is shifted to new location now.".

Few days back there was a CA in our company for filling out IT returns. He asked me, "I heard that employees get free cigarrete in your company. Is it like that?". I have to tell him that , "No sirji, not at all.".

Denmark Police

This happened when I was in Denmark. I have a friend there who is working in some Danish company. As he is also Marathi, there was kind of closeness among us, so I used to do leg pooling. In Denmark, if you get call from some number which is not already store in your mobile, you can't see the number, instead you get it like call from 'Unknown'.

Now one evening, when I was as home I was just thinking about what to do and got this idea, so I called my friend and this is our conversation..

Me - Hi, Is it Mr. XYZ?
Friend - Yes, who is this?
Me - I am calling from Norrebro(place where we used to stay) Police Station. Where are you now?
Friend - Actually I am travelling home from my office, Why? What happened?
Me - Okie... Can you come to my office tomorrow?
(In that time my friend was in full tension...He was not sure what happened? And that to something serious as Denmark Police calling him).
Friend - Yes, I can do that. But can you tell me what happened?
Me - Yes, I have a complaint against you. You just meet me tomorrow morning..
Friend - Yes, I will do that....

And then ... after guessing his state, I started laughing loudly. Then he realized... oh, this is me......and he also started laughing...
I don't think he will ever forget this call... After coming home he gave me 2-3 kicks just like that... that was one of the coolest movement...

I know its not good to do such kind of jokes with somebody, but if you are sure that you will make it joke and keep it away from seriousness and you know the person well, I think its perfectly ok.

My Best Friend - Gaav!!!

This post is dedicated to one of my Best Friends. Those of you who understand Marathi..... Majja kara.... and others please forgive me for not writing in English -

Gaav... ek gondas naav....
Gaav la amhi premane gaav mhanto..... karan to purn gavache jevan ekatach khato....
khar mhatale tar he khote aahe.... pan khote sangitalyavar lokkane avadate.... mhanun apale sangitale....
Tase gavla mi IBM ELTP batch madhe bhetalo... tevha evadhi javalik navathi... pan jevha to Bangalore madhe NGV madhe amachyabarobar cricket khelayala yayala lagala... tevha mala kalale.. he karat tar apalyac typeche.... mhanun amhi tyala amachya flat madhe jaga dili.... tyala ekadach mhatale asel .. ye re... lagech ala ki rahayala...
pan changala aahe tasa swabhane.... mhanje mazyashi tar changala aahe... ata jagashi kasa vagala tar apalyala kay tyache.... manane swachh aahe..... kadhi kadhi kahitari vait vichar karato... pan te kay sagalech karatat..... to pan manuch... swari... to tar hatti.... karan amhi tyala hatti hi mhanato.... ata hatti ka mhanato... karan to hattisarakha aahe... mhanaje hattiche takad tyachyat aahe.....
baki pudhachya testimonial madhe...


amhi cricket khelatana khup maja keli..
ratri ghari tv var kasale kasale boring pictures pahile....pan gav cha sahavas changala asayacha.... ekada tar amhi khadejang bhandan dekhil kele.... kay tar inernet varun.... ugich amacha cool dhummya ne sodavale nahitar gavala sodale nasate mi......
tasha gav barobar bharpur athavani aahet... ekada amhi nashta karayala gelelo taparavivar.... ani mi chair var basanar.. toch gavane mazi khurchi odhali..ani mi dhabkan padalo.... pan kay.... ase prasang alyashivay jivanat maja kasali.... tyacha badala mhanun mi gavala room madhe dhakale... tar gav fadkan padale....
amhi GOA, Ooti, Balaji ani Sai temple, Andhra.. asha kahi trip kelya.... majja aali..
gaav.. tu asach raha... asech changale vagat raha.... khush raha... ata punyala chala aahes.. changale aahe.... mitrana visaru nakos... tase apan punyat punha bhetuch....
Enjoy Madi..... jara kannada... :)

Free Fruits in Office - Denmark Corporate Culture

In Denmark, most of the companies provide free fruits in office. Different varieties of fruits are available. In my office they used to keep fruits basket near our cubicles. Generally they keep one basket for one project. We are allowed to have fruits in any number and at any time, but only in office.

Also in my office they keep the fruits in canteen, so after your lunch you can take fruits from there as well.  But as there are lot of people and its difficult to manage, they have one rule that you can take only one fruit.

One day one of person(A) from my company from India took some 4-5 bananas after lunch. We have a kind of HR person there in client location in Denmark who look after employees and their behaviour and all. So here he saw that Mr. A has taken 4-5 bananas and he came and started talking to him.

HR - Hello Mr. A. You are supposed to take only one banana at a time.
Mr. A - Oh, Is it? Okie..

And then Mr. A just took one banana and kept back remaining bananas.

Now next day Mr A. took 4-5 apples with him and by chance HR saw him doing that. And here is the conversation -

HR - Hello Mr. A. I told you yesterday, that we should take only one fruit at a time and now you are taking so many apples?
Mr. A - But yesterday you told about banana, Right?

Lazy Guy!!!

One of my good friend with whom I stayed for some years. We were in same college. He is kind of lazy guy. When he was doing project coding for academic project, he used to ask his project mates to type and he will tell what to type.

This happened when we were staying in Bangalore. We had a maid for washing clothes and house cleaning work. Everyday she used to come and whatever clothes are there for washing she used to wash. One day there weren't any clothes. So she asked my friend for clothes for washing. He said, "Ok.", went inside his room and took all the clothes kept over there(should be around 5 pairs of pant shirt atleast) and gave it to maid. I am sure she was tired washing all those clothes and she would have thought that why did I ask for the clothes.

After that day she never asked him for clothes..... Hats off to my friend!!!

Don't go against nature!!!

Just try out this thing... Move your right leg cicrularly in clockwise direction. Now try to move your right hand in anticlockwise direction. Try to do both the things simultaneously. Can you do it?



I know you can't. There are some things which are very natural. They are designed in a way that you can not change it. And if you try to change it, you will be in trouble and the example for this is the side effects of cutting trees.
There are a lot of problems which indicates their origin from human activity against nature. Major two of them are Pollution and Global Warming. We should try to solve these problems instead of putting hand in increasing it.

Adarsh Gav - Ideal Village - Hivare Bazar... Ahmadnagar - India

Adarsh Gav - Ideal Village - Hivare Bazar... Ahmadnagar - India

This village is located in Ahmednagar district, around 10 km from Parner Taluka. This village is rewarded with Adarsh Gav(An Ideal Village) award. And different organizations have given few more awards to this village. The villagers and Sarpanch Mr. Popatrao Pawar have contributed a lot to make this village an ideal village.

They say that before 1991, the condition of this village was very bad. There was a liquor shop and most of the people used to drink a lot. School was not in good condition. There were no toilets, so people used to go road side to finish their morning work. :) So basically condition of village was very bad.

In 1991, Mr Prataprao Pawar became Sarpanch of the village. Having Commerce degree, he could have easily got nice job with high perks, but he chose to become Sarpanch. He wanted to do something for village. He wanted to change the things.

After becoming Sarpanch, during first meeting with village leaders, he decided to improve school buliding. As he was educated Sarpanch, villagers thought that, he will surely improve things. And they followed their leader. Step by step they improved lot of things in village.

Now each house have their own toilets.Villagers keep the village clean. They have kept big dust bins for thorwing waste material. They have put many water pumps in the village, idea behind that is even if you can go anywhere in village, you will get atleast drinking water. They have built a Marriage hall, which can be used free of cost by the villagers during their son/daughter's marriage.

They have done different projects for improving the ground water level in the village. They have stopped people from taking artificial bore wells, as it reduces the ground water level. They have planted lot of trees basically by carrying out 'One person one plant' project. Each boy/girl in school has planted one plant and he/she has to take care of that plant untill it becomes tree.

They have received some award for carrying out the water conservation project.

For doing this, they didn't hire anybody, but they themselves have done this. This is basicall called as 'Sramadan' - Donate our time by working for the village. Now for keeping village clean they have created schedule saying who will do sramadan during what time.

Mr. Prataprao Pawar has taken lot of initiatives, created project plans and showed them to the indian government at different times to get the money for those projects. Indian government approves lot of plans for improving villages, but most of the plans go in vein as different Sarpanchs are not much educated and they are not aware of these things. But Prataprao has used these plans in better way to make his village an Ideal village. I really feel proud of writing about this village!!!

Check this link about rain water harvesting - http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Rural/Hirve.htm

Copenhagen - Malmo bridge

While coming to Copenhagen, when our fliat was about to land, I saw this bridge. It looked like some part of bridge is below water and other part is above water. It looks interesting. Yesterday I went to Malmo using that bridge. It would have taken very much time to construct that bridge. Its quite long and constructed over sea connecting Denmark to Sweden.

Check in Google Map

Google Translate added support for Hindi

Google has added few more languages to Google translate including Hindi, check it out -

http://translate.google.com