This was all together different car servicing experience then this one where I spent 2hrs by walking on train station, watching kids playing football, visiting fresh farms market and walking around the window shops and This Honda agency charged me $285 for 15000-Miles service.
Well It happened almost three times now to believe that "The World is Small, at least Investment Banking–IT world"
The First time I realized this was, when I was quitting the job and informing the manager that I will be joining some another Firm. The Managers replied back with "Well, See you there!" and soon I found that He also joined same firm.
The another incident was, while waiting in Bus Queue I met my old time manager who was working for the same firm for which I was working.
Even thou I am currently off the job market, I do get a random e-mails about current openings from many Consulting Firms. So when I opened one of those e-mail today, I found that the opening is with the same Client and in the same Project for which I am currently working and they wanted(consulting firm) me to apply for same one.
Call it Coincident or What?
I’ve used Netflix for almost a year, but I can’t recall the movie which I could remember for the years. But yesterday I happen to watch ‘In Good Company’ which I randomly picked from the Local Library turns out to be surprisingly VERY good one. A nicely crafted 109 min blended with melodious sound track playing along.
The thing is there aren’t many movies which deal with corporate world and at same time personal life issues while drawing the fine line between them. The movie deals with various corporate scenarios like mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, impact of down-sizing & layoffs on human lives, employee’s fear of loosing a job in late years of life. Even some where it mentions about a 360 degree Evaluations process.
The movie is delightful to watch due to its humorous handling of such serious subject add-on to that are the funny dialogues between the characters. Few of thems are
about Layoffs:
Carter Duryea: I'm gonna have to let some people go.
Dan Foreman: Why do you say let them go? They don't WANT to go. Why don't you just say fire them?
Carter Duryea: Because it sounds better.
Dan Foreman: Not to the person getting fired it doesn't.
about perfect marriage:
Carter Duryea: Dan, you seem to have the perfect marriage. How do you do it?
Dan Foreman: You just pick the right one to be in the foxhole with, and then when you're outside of the foxhole you keep your dick in your pants.
Carter Duryea: That's poetic.
While watching the movie, you might hear the word 'Synergy' quite a few times. Well, the Film was originally titled Synergy, but changed because a survey administered at various test screenings proved that 9 out of 10 people don't know what the word "synergy" means.
Synergy refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents.
Corporate synergy occurs when corporations interact congruently. A corporate synergy refers to a financial benefit that a corporation expects to realize when it merges with or acquires another corporation. This type of synergy is a nearly ubiquitous feature of a corporate acquisition and is a negotiating point between the buyer and seller that impacts the final price both parties agree to.
Since last two days my computer has been hijacked by Spyware and Adware. Believe me it’s most annoying and helpless feeling you will experience while using your own computer.
Having faced this kind of attack previously, I knew it was a tough & tedious task to win the war against Spyware and Adware. Now, I only wish if I could have remembered the software that I used previously. It would have saved lot of time and efforts. Suddenly, I was in need of software which could perform 'The Job' without costing a dime. The plan was to 'Find and Destroy'
The first in the line was Windows Defender but couldn’t install it due to the missing upgrade of XP service pack- 2. The Microsoft auto-update failed to apply XP service pack-2.
The next one was Ad-Aware Personal from Lavasoft but after running server times in normal and safe mode, it failed to destroy the enemy. I knew I was in deep trouble.
Then the Spybot-Search & Destroy, which could only ‘Search’ in free version and was asking for upgrade to destroy it. I said “Next…”
The Next was, Spyware Doctor which also failed to destroy the enemy after many attempts. It just wasted huge amount of time scanning the computer.
After wasting enough time, It was time for a change in strategy, I found its process in memory which is causing this. I used Security Task Manager, to identify the memory process and deleting it permanently but it failed to identify the malicious process, which might be behaving like windows genuine process. It was too risky to delete window genuine process, which could have disastrous effect on entire operating system causing failure to restart.
The manual process of deleting entries from Registry using Regedit also did not work successfully.
It was time to take a bold decision. The decision was to Remove the entire Internet Explorer. Yes, you heard me correctly. Being a Firefox fan, I knew I would survive without IE for a time being.
The first attempt to remove IE in normal mode failed due to ‘File in use’ error. It was the Safe Mode restart that has completely removed IE.
Finally, I restarted the computer in normal mode, connected with Internet, opened Firefox browser, visited random websites and waited for 5 minute still no pop-up, no flashing banner and that was the moment I felt sign of relief.
I am not sure if I won the war against Spyware and Adware. There might be a process waiting for IE to get installed and start attacking again or the Spyware Plug-In might have got deleted with the Removal of IE. For now my strategy is Just Wait and Watch.
Sometime unexpectedly you get to see surprising things, Thats what happend this weekend when we stumbled upon the Build to Scale exhibition of Auto, Plane & Boat Model Masterpieces. Certainly, It was treat for the eyes !
While browsing thru some Photo sites, I found this amazing Swiss Style home. The color combination makes it more cozy and appealing.
Previously, It didn’t matter much any Pizza was just Pizza, but after trying out Two different Pizzas each consequentive Friday and having tasted other Pizzas before, We found that Domino is the winner.
Here is the Ranking:
1.Dominos
2.Singas Pizza
3.Little Caesars
4.Papa Jone
5.Pizza Hut
I remember in those New York days, After working late hours we use to get a ride back home in these Lincoln Town Car. But today I read that Ford Motor Company will be shutting down the production of these Cars after 2007.
Most of the time, We use to meet our South Asian Fellows in the Drivers Seat. Indeed, It was spacious car with comfortable black leather seats. The 45-60 min. journey use to cut down while listening to 1010 WINS AM Radio station on the air.
I am skeptical about the advantage of joining the Gym in this early age, But none the less it seems like a good away to have a Fun at same time they gain strength, balance and coordination.
Many Thanks to our Little One that, He allowed us to watch LRB on Big Screen without any trouble. We entered into Movie Theater with our fingers crossed but came out with relief that we didn’t miss the opportunity to watch such great Movie on Big Screen.
In fact, seems like he also enjoyed the movie, specially he was imitating the clapping and asking for that Birthday Balloon when he saw it on the screen.
Moved this Blog on Beta version specially to use the Label feature which allows to categories the post. This makes searching easy and gives a good glance by category.
As you see, I’ve already labeled few old posts. Labeling all the old posts will be big project but will surely label future post accordingly. I wanted to have this feature so badly that I had to give up already customized template as this wasn’t supported on previous version.
Restoring previous customization in new template was quite challenging task but being a programmer I could manage it restore it almost. Thou it was all try and error basis due to unawareness of HTML/XML tags.
Another great feature I liked is hierarchical archiving. This archiving style certainly gives more visibility & makes it easy access old posts.
If I am correct, it’s all AJAX technology which heavily replacing tradition html websites, an initiative started by Google.
For a moment we thought we really won the 1 million dollars
The letter stated
Dear Sir,
You’ve won the third prize in Inter’L Lottery of amt 800,754 Euros (equivalent of 1,014,815 USD) which was played for you by your agent. We request you to collect your prize before Oct 9th thru any of following method A. Cash B. Check C. Bank Transfer . Your agent will receive 6% commission on your prize. (I didn’t mind even giving 10 % commission to that unknown agent)
Please provide your bank details on attached form and mail it back promptly.
Congratulation Once again!
I must acknowledge, even thou I knew It can’t be TRUE; Spontaneously my mind started planning how to spend this money. Even my wife started imaginary packaging bags to go back.
It was that Real. It has nice professional letter with signature & stamp from Board of Director, Attached to it a duplicate copy of lottery ticket with my name printed on it. It was mailed from International address.
But Soon after Googling on the name of Lottery, the Truth came out that It was nicely done SCAM. Beware ! If you get such kind of letter.
Two worst things a man can do on the long weekend
1. Stuck up in the traffic for 4 hrs
2. and Visit a crowded outlet mall after that.
I would like to know what are they laughing at, but certainly just looking at this poster makes me smile.
Today is Sep 1st and Lage Raho Munnabhai is out in the theaters. The Reviewers are praising about it, The Blogsphere is talking about it. After long long time I see movie with real * * * * (out of 5)
