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Also testing the Hindi transliteration feature .. तन्हाई संग दिल तन्हाई संग लायी याद तेरी संग लायी बार बार वह बहार फिरसे याद आई सूनी सूनी राह दिल कि जिसने थी सजाई तन्हाई रोया रे दिल रोया रे हर तरफ बिखरे है तेरे याद के निशाँ मेरी हर चीज़ मैं हैं तेरी ही परिचायियान तू ही होता है तू ही रहता है मुझमे हर दम सदा पास भी तू है दूर भी तू है है यह कैसी खला याद बनके अश्क तेरी आंखों में समाई याद बनके इक हंसी होंटों पे भी आई तनहा दिल चाँद सूरज भे वहीं है है वहीं आसमान ज़िंदगी भी चल रही है चल रह है जहाँ मैं ही ठहरा हूँ खुद में सिमटा हूँ दिल है गम से भरा बिन तेरे कैसे जियूं कुछ तो दे मशवरा साए से भी अब तेरे हो गयी जुदाई तनहा दिल रोया रे

Date : 29th December Place : Hogenekkal falls Route : Hosur -Dharmapuri-Hogenekkal Journey time : 3.5 -4hrs Who : Rani,Shivaji,Guru and Dakshina

After coming back to bangalore ,I have visited quite a few places around Karnataka.And I realized that Karnataka is gifted by mother nature . Just to recall the places I have stepped foot on in the last 2-3 months : Mysore ,Srirangapatna : The land of Tipu Sultan Coorg,Kushalnagar,Talakaveri,Bhagamandala : Coffee estates , brahmaagiri ranges,origin of the Kaveri River Chickmagalore, base to the Mullyanagiri Hills (the highest peak in karnataka),Bababudanagiri hills Belur :Cradle of architecture ,a world heritage site Kemmangundi,Kalahasti : Awesome forests,bhadra wild life sanctuary Dandeli : Home to thick forests besides the raging River Kali The Coastal stretch :Talk of temples and u have Sringeri,Horanadu,Kalsa,Udupi and beaches :Murudeshwar,Maravanthe,Malpe,St Mary's islands And finally Kumar Parvata ,standing tall and mighty behind the Kukke Subramanya temple .. And there are so many more places I have still to see ..And all these have been travelled just over the regular week

Date : 21st ,22nd 23rd december 2007 Destination : Kumara Parvata Crew : Guru ,Dakshina along with the BMC (bangalore mountaineering team - the organizers) Sadly couldnt reach the top as I was not keeping well ,but am not losing heart Will try again .. Still reached up to Bhattara Mane.Came down ,drove via scenic Coorg to Somvarpet,caught up with the rest of the gang.We camped besides Kabini lake ,had a camp fire ,tried making some veg grilled kebabs over it ..Was fun .. Just thought would make a note ...

Sunset at St Mary's island Guru at St Mary's island At Murudeshwara !!! Date : 8th and 9th December 2007 Places Visited : Sringeri,Horanadu,Kalasa,Udupi Temple, Murudeshwara via Marvanthe ,St Mary's island People : GuruDakshina !!! :)

After Kailas Kher,looks like the flavour of the season is Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.. O Re Piya ,Naina "Saiyyan" by Kailash Kher still remains an alltime favourite!!! Lovely lyrics of Taare Zameen Par Title track!! "Dekho inhein yeh hai oss ki bundein Patton ki godh mein aasmaan se kudein anghgradyi le fir karwat badal kar Nazuk se moti hashdi fisal kar Kho na jaye ye, taare zameen par Yeh to hai sardi mein dhup ki kirane Utare jo aangan ko sunehra sa karne Man ke aandheron ko roshan sa Kar de Thithurti hatheli ki rangat badal de Kho na jaye ye, taare zameen par Jaise aankhon ki dibiya mein nindiya Aur nindiya mein mitha sa sapna Aur sapne mein mil jaye farishta sa koiJaise rango bhari pichkari Jaise titliyain phulon ki kyari Jaise bina matlab ka pyara rishta ho koi Yeh to aasha ki lehar hai Yeh to ummeed ki sehhar hai Khushiyon Ki nehar hai Kho na jaye ye, taare zameen par ...."

Who : Ravi ,Suchi ,Amit ,Priyanka,Guru,Dakshina When : Nov 24th -25th 2007 Dandeli is a very small town 57kms from Dharwar and 95 kms from Belgaum. Although I have stayed most of my life in Belgaum,i never knew there was so much beauty so closeby waiting to be explored.The very idea of travelling from bangalore seems stupid,but we did it .. Dandeli can boast of dense ,moist decidious forests and the gr8 river Kali flowing across it. The town has very little to write abt ,but around the town there are a lot of resorts and nature camps --jungle lodges,bison resort,kulgi nature camp ..Also the Kavalla caves,Ullavi temple,Supa Dam,Syntheri rocks are other places of interest ... You can find a lot of info abt these on other sites .. What we enjoyed there was the river rafting and the leech ridden forest trek !!The first splash against the chilly waters to feel one with it ,the ride on the rapids,the "full servicing" as the local guide called it ,the adrenalin rush as we rowed upst

3,4 Oct 2007 Junta : Ravi,Suchi,Raghu,Guru,Shivaji and Dakshina This weekend,we set out to explore Karnataka's most beautiful ,yet less explored hills based out of the simple town of chickmagluru. The 2 highest peaks in Karnataka , Mullyanagiri hills and Bababudanagiri range of hills are a trekker's paradise.The sounds of the winds,the streams flowing through,water gushing down from remote waterfalls,the sound of insects,the wish-washing as went walked against the grass,the sound of trees swaying to the music of the winds as against the motors honking in the concrete jungles that we have created,was such a wonderful change... We , a group of 6 friends,rented a Qualis and started out from Bangalore on a Friday evening,halting at Hassan and moving on to Chickmagluru,visiting the historical ChennaKesava temple at Beluru and hitting Sarpadari at around 10.am . Photo Caption: Raghu,Ravi,Suchi,Guru and Shivaji in front of the Beluru temple We asked the driver to meet us up at the top

Last weekend,we headed out to Madikeri. It was an unplanned trip and lemme tell u its best that way.Surfed a l'll bit to see which places are to be visted,took a print out and moved on. We set out on a Friday evening ,travelling by our very own KSRTC Rajhamsa . We stayed at a homestay called Maithili comforts ,but there are other good lodges there too. Sightseeing in Coorg can be broadly covered in a span of 2 days .At one side of the city u have Nisargadhama, Kushalnagar ,( Namdroling Monastery) , Dubbare falls and Harangi dam and on the other side you have Talakaveri ,Orange county ,coffee estates and Bhagamandala .Coffee estates can be found all along actually. You can either hire a taxi and he would show you all the sites in a day or you could take private buses from Madikeri which will take you to these places. Local places like the Raja's seat and Omkareshwara temple are at walkable distances from the town centre and they are best seen that way.Abbey falls is another

I had just picked a book titled "Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom" about 6 months back and somehow never had the time to read it.And amidst the shifting from Mumbai to blore,lost track of it.Yesday when i was looking out for something to read,i found it here at my belgaum home.And after a really long time,I would say i have completed a book on a single day. The book ,as the name suggests is describes the journey of a girl ,born in free Afghanistan and lived through the Taliban regime.Very simple narration,very candid and having no frills,the book will surely leave an impression on the readers.

Date : 13 Oct 2007 Mysore At the Gumbaz !!!

Came across an article by Max Bruning [ The Solaris internals Guru ] on differences between Solaris and Linux. Just noting down few points from the detailed article for quick reading later on. For ppl interested in the complete article please refer to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/article/2005-10-14_a_comparison_ of_solaris__linux__and_freebsd_kernels/ Linux ========================================================================= Uses a Virtual File Switch mechanism for abstracting file system details from users Inode is the file system indepent data struct Default local file system is ext3fs .ext3fs is an extent based journalling fs Uses LRU as a page replacement algorithm Uses a pagedaemon called kswapd for page replacement Basic unit of scheduling is task_struct Processes and threads are rep by task_struct A single-threaded process in Linux has a single task_struct Schedul

Lohagad Trek : 26/08/2007 Along with Pallavi ,Rajendra and Guru The foto shows the part of the mountain popularly known as Vinchu Kata .

Where the mind is without fear And the head is held high Into that heaven of freedom,my father Let my country awake ... ---Rabindranath Tagore

The climbup : Rainy,muddy ,tiring ,never ending,scary At the peak : Lovely , windy , i was filled with a sense of pride being there The return : A mishap of all sorts ..... I can never ever forget this trip

Guru and I went trekking couple of weeks back to Karnala Fort and to Naneghat More details abt Karnala at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Karnala We were thereeeeeeeeeeeeee !! almost at the top ... More details later

Consider a LSP . Let us suppose that R1 receives unlabeled packet P, and pushes on its label stack the label to cause it to follow this path, and that this is in fact the Hop-by-hop path. However, let us further suppose that R2 and R3 are not directly connected, but are "neighbors" by virtue of being the endpoints of an LSP tunnel. So the actual sequence of LSRs traversed by P is . When P travels from R1 to R2, it will have a label stack of depth 1. R2, switching on the label, determines that P must enter the tunnel. R2 first replaces the Incoming label with a label that is meaningfulto R3. Then it pushes on a new label. This level 2 label has a value which is meaningful to R21. Switching is done on the level 2 label by R21, R22, R23. R23, which is the penultimate hop in the R2-R3 tunnel, pops the label stack before forwarding the packet to R3. When R3 sees packet P, P has only a level 1 label, having now exited the tunnel. Since R3 is the penultimate hop in P's level

Jo beet gayi so baat gayi .. Jeevan mein ek sitara tha Maana woh behad pyara tha Woh doob gaya to doob gaya Ambar ke aanan ko dekho Kitne iske tare toote Kitne iske pyare choote Par bolo toote taron par kab ambar shok manata hai Jo beet gayi so baat gayi .... Jeewan mein tha who ek kusum The us pe nitya nyochawar tum Wo sookh gaya to sookh gaya Madhuwan ki chaati ko dekho Sookhi kitni iski kaliyan Jo murjhai phir kahan khili Par bolo sookhe phoolon pe kab madhuvan shok manata hai ? Jo beet gayi so baat gayi Jeewan mein madhu ka pyala tha Tumne tan man de daala tha Woh toot gaya to toot gaya Madiralay ka aangan dekho Kitne pyaale hil jaate hain Gir mitti mein mil jate hain Jo girte hain kab uthte hain Par bolo toote pyalon mein kab madiralay pachtata hai ? Jo beet gayi so baat gayi

walking the less taken path although it doesnt seem right to all tough choices then,no regrets now ..

Perhaps it was the wrong time to visit Matheran ,or the mood wasnt just right or for whatsoever reason.. Matheran didnt turn out to be the beautiful place i expected it to be..Guru and I set out at 5.30 am from home and reached Neral by local train at around 8.00 am. Firstly the long queue at Neral station put off our spirits. The journey by the really slow toy train was just about Ok.Thegood part was that the whole bogey was filled with kids who were super excited with small things that didnt quite as much excite us ..It was good to see them enjoying themselves.Probably Matheran is best visited just after rainy season or at the onset of the rainy reason.Guru was all the time in an imaginative world trying to tell me how the valley might look just after rains and that we shud visit it then.The toy train pulled on really slowly and it was unbearably hot at some places on the route. And it stopped at 3 intermediate stations for aroung 10 mins each .. We finally reached the dusty town of

Just before leaving Sun our team submitted a whitepaper on the enhancements in SCM . Its been published and here it is http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/container_management.jsp

Among other transitions,that life's taking me thru ,one is the kind of work i am doing. In my prev company ,I was working on SCM(Solaris Container Manager) .And here i'll be working with Routing solutions for networks.So am studying MPLS,routing algorithms and brushing up SNMP .My new company is called Vegayan systems(www.vegayan.com) and the product we are developing is targetted at ISP's and will be used for intelligent routing and will be dealing with traffic engineering ..

They say life's very fast in Mumbai.But I think it depends on whether how far your workplace is from your home.Life's become easier that way for me in Mumbai .. My workplace is just around a 7 minutes walk from home and it is within the IITB campus --so the only minor inconvenience is crossing the road and walking into the IIT campus which takes you into a difft world altogether ..You forget that u're in a monstrous city like Mumbai and believe me u can feel the change the moment u step into the campus ..you feel u're in a protected and safe world altogether ..That wasy contrary to what ppl told me life's easier in Mumbai .I spent around 2.5 hrs commuting to and fro from office and now i have that much more time to myself here ...So generic statements dont hold true ..

They say that the change is the only constant thing in life .. And its very difficult to accept change . Coming from a peaceful place like Bangalore, getting used to Mumbai is taking quite sometime .. Things I miss in Mumbai that I loved abt Bangalore --Darshini's (Shanti sagars ,*sagars) --I didnt find neat decent places to eat here --Idlis --Badlu's cold idlis at KRESIT are no match for the hot steaming idlis that SS's offer .. --Kannada movie hoardings and the silly catch lines each had :) --Nandini outlets and nandini buttermilk --Ganesh fruit juice centre --The vijaynagar market (I stayed at Vijaynagar and visited the veg market daily) --The morning soppu wallas :) --Nalpaka ..(Ppl at navrang would understand ...) --FM radio --radio mirchi --I havent got a radio here ..otherwise there is FM here also ... --BMTC buses and the namma bengalooru lingo ... More to come later

I had a meeting to attend at 8.30 am ,(which is veryyyyy early by my standards).So I left home by 7.40 am .I had to pay a fare of 6 Rs to travel from Vijaynagar to Majestic .I discovered that I had exact 6Rs and a 100 rupee note. There , I boarded a bus that was going to Richmond Circle . I was just hoping that the lady conductor would have the necessary change(The fare again being 6 Rs) :Usually when they dont ,they only pay u back the rest of the change after grumbling throughout the travel (which is also acceptable). But I was totally shocked when she asked the driver to stop the bus at some point and asked me to get off the bus ! I was in no point to argue and so got down,managed to get an auto and reach office.Ended up paying a couple of Rupees extra to the autowala as well --which is always the case,as they never have the exact change. The idea of a bus pass does not hold for ppl who dont travel regularly by bus. You shud have a smart card which actually simply deducts the fare,

Holi Celebrations at the Sun Office !!!

I just wanted to check if i still remembered using pointers in C..Its been quite some time since i have used them,so I tried this simple program this morning ...and thought I'd post it .. #include void foo(){ printf("In foo \n"); } int bar(int i){ printf("In bar\n"); return(i+1); } typedef int (*gptr)(int); /* gptr is a function pointer which takes in an int and returns an int */ typedef gptr(*cptr)(gptr); /* cptr is a function pointer which takes in a function ptr of type gptr and returns a function ptr */ gptr cfunct( gptr pf){ gptr rf; pf(6); rf=bar; return(rf); } main(){ int ret; void (*fptr)(); int (*bptr)(int); gptr pfi,rfi; cptr cpfi; fptr=foo; (*fptr)(); bptr=bar; ret=(*bptr)(6); printf("Returned %d from bar\n",ret); pfi=bar; ret=pfi(6); printf("Returned %d from bar\n",ret); cpfi =cfunct; pfi=bar; rfi=cpfi(pfi); ret=rfi(8); printf("Returned %d from ba

In the foto from L to R : Amit,Pranesh,Sudhee,Shivaji and Rani,Priyanka(Mrs Amit :) ) ,Guru and Dakshina This foto is a reminder of the trip to Hampi when we went to Hospet to attend Ragya's wedding . We also went to the beautiful Tungabhadra dam in our 2 day visit.

Just thought that there was no entry this year ..so here i am scribbling something just to start it off and keep it updated .. Anything memorable :My last week trip to Surathkal and to the Udupi Krishna temple ,with ny sis and Dad . My dad wanted to go there to visit the temple,but my sis and I were also happy as we got to go to the beach.There's a beautiful temple near the Surathkal lighthouse and you can have a fabulous view of the sunset . I remember spending my time with friends there when I was studying at NITK .. So this time when I went there I took my sis along .While returning we ate the typical Surathkal Bhel (which has carrots,mango and beetroot!!!) --Its all the same ..The same ppl ,same taste ..nothing seems to have changed much ..the same quiet place --And i hope it stays that way .