The Little Book of Hindu Deities

Sanjay Patel, an animator and storyboard artist at Pixar animation has designed this wonder book on Hindu Deities. He has given a total new approach towards looking at Hindu gods and goddesses. The book brings new life into old mythology, by telling the stories of various deities at same time drawing us in-literally-with joyous and unexpected full-color illustrations.

I am sure this book can certainly help educating your child on Hinduism without taking many efforts.

The book is also available on Amazon. Also, check out some Sample pages and Sketches from same book.

This shows that, Given a better presentation & style Hindu mythology can be cool and interesting.

Its Orkut for Me

After staying away from social networking sites for quite long time, I finally joined Orkut.

There are many Social networking websites in the market. The popular ones are MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn, Classmates.com, Friendster, Yahoo! 360°. But I found Orkut is the most suitable for me due to the availability of friends on this web site. Orkut turns out to be the most popular social networking website used in India.

It seems like now a days everyone is on Orkut. I noticed it is a better way of maintaining contact with those long-lost friends; otherwise it would have been never possible to find these people. Its like you scrap my book, I'll scrap yours.

For me, There were many surprises found from school days to office colleagues listed in the search.

Toad's Project Manager Tool

Sometime working with large database team on single project is challenging. I found that everyone is creating their own application schemas, database objects inter linked with common objects, creating dependency on each other. Soon it becomes complex environment to manage and work on.

As result of this; while working on particular module you get distracted by all these unrelated objects. A simple task of finding a table or Package which needs modification takes a while; it takes too much of clicking and scrolling.

So yesterday while going thru Toad Menu I found this very useful tool called "Project Manager". At the beginning, I was skeptical thinking that it’s just another not-so useful fancy tool, but it turns out to be very handy.



Basically, Project Manager allows you to easily organize your work area. It provides a centralized screen to manage our most frequently related objects.

All you need to do is find out all the objects you need to work on and then just drag-and-drop in Project Manager Panel, you are all set to work on your module.

The beauty of this is you can even add your ad-hoc Sql files, OS Folders, URL, Unix FTP Server and even make "To-do" list related your project.

Bollywood’s Children song

Somehow our little one loves music; particularly bollywood songs and so far his favorite songs are from “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”. He hints by clapping his hand when he wants to listen 'Pal Pal Har Pal' song.

After repeatedly playing these songs from many days he got bored and so did we. Therefore I thought to find out songs that he will enjoy. I could hardly find more than five songs that could be counted as children’s song made in bollywood which has enjoyable music. Those are

Lakdi Ki Kathi from Masoom (1983)
Chanda Chamke from Fanaa (2006)
Mere Paas Aao from Mr.Natwarlal (1979)

I still remember I loved ‘Lakdi Ki kathi’ most in my childhood days.
Unlike bollywood I did find many songs in Marathi known as "Bala Geete" including most popular
"Mamachya Gaavala Javooya"
"Zuk Zuk Aagin Gadee"
"Naach Re Mora"

Barcamp2 at Pune

I am not sure when I will get a chance to attend one, But certainly I've added this thing in my "things to do list". This is second barcamp happening in Pune within period of one year time...not a bad start.

The BarCampPune2 is happening on 16th December at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Pune. You can find it more about it here.

M&M's Scorpio to enter US Market.

Scorpio has been my favourite SUV in the Indian Automobile market ever since the day I rented it for my wedding. It was love at first sight due to its comfort factor and smoothness on Indian Road. It got the same ruggedness style with performance which had in good ole Yamaha Rx-100.

Soon M&M's Scorpio will be seen on the North America road, The exact date of the US launch will be announced in April ’07. M&M will be the first Indian automaker to enter the highly-competitive American passenger vehicle market , an uphill battle for M&M. I wish them all the best and I hope to be proud owner of Scorpio one day in future.

Team Lunch at Pongsri Thai Restaurant

Another Holiday lunch at New York City at Pongsri Thai Restaurant and this time I did finish Pad Thai completely. The dishes were tasty and prices are moderate. Thou the wine was disappointment, I would have preferred Thai Ice-Tea instead.

Growing a Beard

Usually Monday morning is the time, when I shave which last for 5 business days and by weekend it come backs to its original growth.

Last few Mondays, I've skipped the shaving process due to laziness which resulted into light beard. Now it has become a curiosity factor to really see myself in full grown beard. Its been almost 2 weeks and the plan is complete 5 weeks which will put this into New year. Start the New Year with clean shave and slim hair cut in well groomed manner.

On scientific note, Winter is the best season for growing a beard which can provide protection against the bitter cold. While in summer, it can sweat your face.

But for next few weeks I’ve to live with this itchy feeling of Beard.

Handy Hand

Our little one has started understanding few instructions and properly following them. Few of them are “Where is a remote control?” once he finds the remote, He sincerely brings it to us, so we don’t get need to move our lazy ass.

Another useful one is now he knows where to throw dirty diapers, exactly in the bathroom dustbin.

It does not hurt having another handy hand in the Home.

Winter Time

Its winter time and we are trying to spend much of our time by staying indoor.
So just to make our winter time entertaining; we got for our self these toys.

For us


For our Little one

Unusually Warm Weather

We have been waiting for that November's cold weather, but so far we are blessed with unusually warm weather.

Today is Last day of November and we are still in 64's when we were suppose to be 46s.

The extra warm days are always welcome with open heart.

Ending of Vacations

The Vacations ended with not so good incidents few of them are:

*Forgetting the Car Seat Base at the Airport
*Delays in getting Baby strollers back from Cabin check-ins.
*Confusion with Airport Parking Pick-up service.
And last but not least Finding out the car with dead battery.

But Finally It feels good to be back Home.

Drive to Miami

After enjoying the Hot tub at Resort's swimming pool in the morning; our next stop was IHOP restaurant, where we had relaxing breakfast resulting into delays for water park.

The planned Typhoon Lagoon theme park was disappointment due to the cold weather and late arrival and early closing. So for our next destination we started the drive on Florida Turnpike and I-95 from Orlando to Miami. The average speed on this freeway is 80 mph. If you are in the left lane then you need to maintain 90-95 mph to go along with traffic and don’t get surprised if you see the road sign with “Next Exit 41 Miles”

Disney's Magic Kingdom

As they say it’s must see theme park and the one of the major attraction of Florida and Disney world. We entered the Park with presumed expectations but left the park with sweet memories. Our favorite and the best ones are ‘Wishes Nighttime Spectacular’, ‘Splash Mountain’ & ‘Winnie the Pooh’ thou we did cover following ones in one full day.

Swiss Family Treehouse
Splash Mountain
The Haunted Mansion
Liberty Square Riverboat
Mickey's Country House
Minnie's Country House
Fantasyland Play Area
Mad Tea Party
Tomorrowland Indy Speedway
Walt Disney World Railroad
Tomorrowland Transit Authority
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
Wishes Nighttime Spectacular
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Snow White's Scary Adventures
SpectroMagic Parade

Only regrettable missed ones are
Pirates of the Caribbean
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

The unfortunate thing was, It was too late to discover how FastPass Service works, which could have saved huge waiting time for each rides.

Disney's Animal Kingdom

After watching Travel channels ‘Walt Disney World Resort: Behind the Scenes’ TV program, I was more interested in 'Kilimanjaro Safaris', 'The Tree of Life' & experience the ‘It's Tough to be a Bug’ show.

Even thou we entered the park at afternoon, we did cover most of them.

The Tree of Life
Kilimanjaro Safaris
Expedition Everest
It's Tough to be a Bug!
Wildlife Express Train
TriceraTop Spin
The Oasis Exhibits

Only regrettable missed ones are 'Kali River Rapids' & 'Maharajah Jungle Trek'.