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That was interesting!!! June 4, 2009

Posted by karthicksundararajan in India, adventure, chennai, life, people, wildlife.
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I have a fascination towards mountains. In fact, I grew up seeing them. The town I was in during my school and college is surrounded by several mountain ranges (Western ghats, Kodai hills, Palani hills) from all the sides. All the bus and train journeys around the place are exorbitantly pleasing. I had always wanted to go into the mountains, see how the green carpet over the mighty peaks look underneath. The various shades of the mountains, seasonal changes, huge forest fires, etc are still fresh in my memory. I remember seeing a golden flame line in the hills that grew on and on for a week – a forest fire when I was in my 7th class. That was a view from my terrace. Having gone to the Kodai for about 15 – 20 times, I still love getting there and am ready almost all the time when someone ask me for a trip. Lavishly green, pure, cool environment, slow paced life, my superbia for scaling(??!!) up to the devil’s kitchen (which is now blocked for public after costing many lives) when I was 14 and what not – It has all. These interests have rooted deep in my heart when I was young, and now that I am grown, I am in the similar (even better) minded big boys league. The Boss is an avid trekker who has gone places jungles, mountains. He has created a wave of awareness in the local community about backpacking, trekking and weekend getaways from concrete jungles, as he fondly says. Briefly, he has made some difference in style.

Last weekend was a getaway to the Nagalapuram which starts from some 90+ kms from Chennai. We were entering the Nagala from the western side this time which took 50 kms extra one way. Most of the times, trekking was thoroughly enjoyable for most of the people, but for those who thought it as some kind of picnic or lacked some stamina, sometimes, it was penalizing. This time, we were told that we would not be seeing water for atleast 8 hours and were advised to take enough water for self until we get on to some source (free flowing water is the purest in the mountains than what we drink daily). Andhra summer had taken a toll on the trekkers and few were beaten up really hardly. Sweepers, as usual, did an amazing job of collecting the dropouts, motivated them, and brought them back in action. I saw water after 9 hours with some easy trek for first few hours and moderately hard trek for the rest. I was heavily dehydrated, did not drink water after 7th hour, went readily into the spurting stream and gulped like an animal. Never mind, it was refreshing and gave me life.

Initial relaxed walks into the mountains, breath taking view points, lonely walk along a dry stream for one and a half hours in jungles, socializing with some great new people, unlimited water fun in a natural water pool with a small cascade, swim and cross 40 feet deep pool, crossing huge gorge – these were all part of the trek. Not only them but also equally had risks like walking in the woods which houses number of deadly reptiles and animals, rock climbing and crossing where in a simple miscalculation could turn fatal, swim in deep pools, etc.,

Overall it was great, and I was under an impression that the first day was dry, hot, hard and the second day was cool wherein I had loads of water fun, diving, photography, easy trail walk, rain in the jungles, great weather, me getting pulled off by folks as a weirdo :( since I confessed something in the rain shelter and so on. On the way back, in the highway Sri Vari restaurant where we had yummy full meals at 1 AM, I thanked The Boss for the trek and said him that the second day was total fun. In a thick accent, he asked back “I thought the first day was interesting, wasn’t it?”. After coming back to the concrete jungle, a couple of days later, my heart still thinks about the first day where we had no trails, no water, no energy at last and nothing else except thrill and hope, yes, I could say that the first day was indeed INTERESTING!!!

For those who read this rambling to find any technical details about Nagalapuram, here are a few points:

  • Nagalapuram is a reserved forest.
  • Google maps show Nagalapuram in a very detailed scale… It shows satellite pictures upto 1:50m level where in one could see the even temples enroute, water streams, mount ridges clearly.
  • Ofcourse there isn’t any problem if you exactly know what you are exactly doing.
  • Somewhere between the mountains, airtel cellphones picks up signals ;)
  • Heard that the river gets flooded sometimes due to major rains which could block the trek progress easily and is not usually safe.

That’s all with this… Bye bye now, see you then!

My blog is a Fucking Fabulous blog! March 14, 2009

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Award!

Awarded by bloomsUnlimited, I am deeply honoured with this! ;)

Every nice thing in this world comes with a price tag, don’t they? So, this award comes home with a set of rules:

* Put the image on your blog
* List 10 truths about yourself
* Give the award to 5 other people
* Provide meaningful quotation

I have already put the image top up in the post. Errrrr 10 truths about me to put in the internet is GROSS! RUCK FULES! I hate ‘em, afterall rules are meant to be broken.

Maybe I can try writing some truths about me, but just can’t think of passing the same to 5 another guys – I have quite a few in the blogroll and I have been trying to maintain this site as a semi-informative and most of the hits come for them and not to read my personal yada-yada.

1. The first thought that struck me on seeing this pass by award and intimidating someone to write 10 truths is “It is guckin fay!” lmao – NOT to offend the award originator or the midway passers or the daisyblue(oom) who generously passed on the award to my blog (Thanks Dais :) )

But I seriously believe that these sorta things are humongously girlish. After all who will read all nice things about guys nicely written and posted? lol, guckin fay!

I decided to continue writing – I ain’t a gay, but just to maintain the f*kin dignity of the award!

(This is a truth to be counted in ;) )

2. I drive bikes at real crazy speeds (kinda my possessed obsession). I know it is bad, but always I’ll be sure that I don’t harm the public. I am trying to dampen it after I saw a freak that overtook me at about 115 – 120kmph in a bessie beach sunday eve drag race crashed with a pedestrian and got the ped’s skull opened. It seriously SUCKS.

3. I cuss a lot and it’s already evident from this post lol

4. I hate my current profession.

5. I was seriously pissed off, distressed for the past few months for various reasons n just getting out of it.

6. Sixth truth is that I don’t really get anything from my grey cells that I could harmlessly put in the internet – They are awfully asking for a good sleep which I haven’t had for the past one week. So, cutting the crap with this.

Rules are meant to be broken as I already said :D So, am stopping my rambling with this, and I aint passing this to any fellow bloggers (Rather I follow a very few non-technical bloggers) – If in case you have a blog, you read this and you don’t have this award already, freely treat it as an award that I pass on to you, my READER ;) – Go on, have fun.

Oh, missed it – the “Meaningful” quotation:

“Dreams are like greams road, fruitshops and gallopin gooseberries might be there, but reality is like “Andhra mess” where all the crowd is in” – makes meaning, no?

chao.

New Year 2009 January 1, 2009

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A nice new year wish that I got from one of my friends. Hats off to the one who made it.

Wish you all a HNY!

SCDL Assignments November 26, 2008

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Alright, as promised few weeks back, I’m back with the SCDL Assignment crack tip.

You gotta read the disclaimer before learning the trick -

  1. Do this at your own risk. SCDL assignments are supposed to be taken without copying from any resources.
  2. This article and any information enclosed within the article, contains restricted and/or privileged information and is intended only for learning purposes and not for taking final online assignments. The author is in no way responsible for any issues, damages or law suites filed from whomsoever for whatsoever reasons.
  3. I would rather suggest not to use this method while taking up the assignments.
  4. This method need not always work, although most of the times it worked when I tested.

What do you need:

  1. Old assignments downloaded from www.scdl.tk, www.esnips.com, http://www.4shared.com/dir/2025142/4d3c56e7/SCDL.html, and http://scdlpapers.blogspot.com/
  2. Google desktop installed in your system (http://desktop.google.com/)
  3. Internet connection to take up the assignments.

OK, Here is what to do:

  1. Save the assignments in a folder (example C:\SCDL\3rd\).
  2. Run Google Desktop, click preferences, under Search Locations, click on ‘Add drive or folder to search’ add the assignment store folders (example C:\SCDL\3rd\). It will look something like this -Google Desktop indexing page
  3. Ensure that the status is Up-to-date.
  4. Start the assignment in the SCDL website and consider an example question shown below -SCDL assignment question
  5. Open the google desktop browser search (you gotta be online for this to work), search for the question in the google search bar, you will get the questions and answers from the indexed old assignments (ONLY IF IT IS AVAILABLE and that depends on your luck). You can use the link ’show preview’ and use CTRL + F to find the question inside the sub text area and that’s it. The picture below shows everything -                 Search for the answer in your google desktop
  6. This way may seem bit complicated, but indeed this is simpler than reading the subject books ;)

Google Chrome + Indic Transliteration = A disaster September 27, 2008

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Sub: Toggle key not working

Previous post, I was trying to write in a mixed form of my own style english + tamil using Google Indic Transliteration. I am using Google Chrome for quite sometime now and so far, so good.

But of late, I found that Google Chrome doesn’t seem to support the ‘Ctrl + G’ toggle between two languages key in the Google Indic Transliteration page. It slowed down my pace and I finally ended up with writing in English fully. 

Ctrl+G, Ctrl+F has the same “Find” function in Chrome. Awesome, Google! Is this a bug or was something really meant for this which I aint knowing?

I later checked with IE7.0 and it works good.

IT Culture – Bizarre article by vikatan (Sakthi Vikatan) September 27, 2008

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என்ன கொடுமை சார்…8( இத வாசிச்சிட்டு கமெண்ட் பண்ணுங்க.. என்னோட கமெண்ட்ஸ் inline ல.

Article from Sakthi Vikatan: My source - http://www.muthamilmantram.com/viewtopic.php?f=156&t=28295

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ஐ.டி. (தகவல் தொழில்நுட்ப) துறையில் பணி புரிபவன் நான். என்னைப் 
போன்றோருக்கு தாங்கள் தரும் அறிவுரை? – கோபிநாத், சென்னை-28 

             sun music ல யாருமே போன் பண்ணலைன்னா studio க்காரங்கலே போன் பண்ணி பாட்டு போட சொல்ற மாதிரி, கேள்வி கேக்க ஆள் இல்லைன்னு இப்புடி மொட்டையா ஒரு கேள்வி! gopinath from சென்னை-28 டு சக்தி விகடன் asking for an advice – நம்பற மாதிரியே இல்ல…
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நீங்கள் கூடுதல் புத்திசாலிகள்- கெட்டிக்காரர்கள். எந்த ஒரு விஷயத்தையும் 
பளிச்சென்று பிடித்துக் கொள்ளும் கூர்மதி உங்களுடையது. வெற்றி என்பது 
உங்களுக்கு ஒரு விளையாட்டுப் பொருள். வாழ்க! 

                              ”வெற்றி என்பது உங்களுக்கு ஒரு விளையாட்டுப் பொருள்” - சும்மா ஏதோ கீழ கெடந்து எடுக்கற மாதிரி இல்ல எழுதிருக்காங்க…   Simple example- ஒரு வேலை கெடைக்கறதுக்கு Infosys off-campus written test கிளியர் பண்ணவங்க கிட்ட கேட்டு பாருங்க என்ன பண்ணாங்கன்னு. I (not only I did, but most job seeking freshers I knew did) used to practice over 1000 puzzles from Shakunthala Devi Puzzles to Puzzle you, More Puzzles, The Great Book of Puzzles and Teasers by George Summers, Logical Deduction puzzles by George Summers, Quantitative Aptitude by R.S.Aggarwal, Old question papers for the written test (heard that the pattern has now changed) in hardly one or two month’s time. So, there definitely IS some hardwork behind all the so-called-easy-success. And, I can say that there is nothing in this world that will come fall into your hands so easily as you have thought off and written.

 

பணம் மட்டுமே வாழ்க்கை அல்ல! உங்களின் பெற்றோர் தங்களது பணிக் காலத்தின் 
இறுதியில் வாங்கும் ஊதியத் தொகையை, நீங்கள் முதல் மாதமே வாங்கி விடலாம். 
அதற்காக, அவர்களை விடவும் நீங்கள் அதிபுத்திசாலி என்றோ, திறமையாளர் 
என்றோ, பெரிய மனிதராகவோ எண்ண வேண்டாம். 

                  How Sarcastic! Worst written part of the whole article.

உறவினர்களை அற்ப ஜந்துக்கள் போல நினைக்க வேண்டாம். தம்பி- தங்கைகளைப் 
படிக்க வைக்க நிறைய செலவு செய்யுங்கள். குடும்பத்தின் பந்த- பாசத்தை, 
இணைய தளத்தில் டௌன் லோட் செய்ய முடியாது! 

                Past times, same kind of useless desperate remarks were being made on the Bank jobs and other white collar jobs and now IT taking its turn. Who knows, same kinda comments could be made on GOOD writers tomorrow.

வெளிநாட்டுப் பணம் வரலாம்… வெளிநாட்டுப் பண்பாடு வரலாமா? பிற மனிதர்கள் 
எல்லோருமே நாம் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ள மட்டும் அல்ல! 

               Every Culture has its own merits and de-merits. Neither Dravidian culture is the perfect one nor Western culture is the worst one. Sicko writer needs foreign money but not their good practices.

பத்து ரூபாய் கூடுதல் சம்பளம் என்றதும் கம்பெனியைக் கைகழுவுவது கொஞ்ச 
காலம் பெருமையாகத் தெரியலாம். ஆனால், ஒரு நாள்… இந்தத் துறையின் 
செயல்பாடே இதனால் ஸ்தம்பிக்க வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது. 

                      Echooos me, first learn that job hops mainly happen for money, challenging work, new opportunities and not for name and fame.

உணவு, உறக்கம், ஓய்வு, காலா காலத்தில் இல்லாதபடி உடம்பை- மனதைச் 
சீர்குலைத்தால், 40 வயதுக்குப் பிறகு உயிர் வாழ்வதே பிரச்னையாகி விடும். 
யோசியுங்கள். 

                        Exaggerated truth. But still I second this.

எப்போதும் ஏ.ஸி-யில் இருப்பதால், உங்களுக்கு வியர்வையே வருவதில்லை. அது, 
உடலுக்குக் கெடுதல். உடலை வியர்க்க விடுங்கள். தண்ணீர்த் தாகம் எடுக்காத 
போதும் நீர் அருந்துங்கள். கண்ட கண்ட குளிர்பானங்கள் குடிப்பதை விட்டு 
விட்டு, எலுமிச்சை, ஆரஞ்சு, ஆப்பிள், திராட்சை சாறு அருந்துங்கள். 
பார்லியும் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள். தினந்தோறும் நிகழ வேண்டிய காலைக் 
கடனை முடிக்க மாத்திரைகள் சாப்பிடுவதும் நல்லதல்ல. கண்களிலும் கவனம் 
வையுங்கள். 

                     I accept. But this is exaggerated as well.

உட்கார்ந்தே இருப்பதால் எடை கூடும்; சர்க்கரை அதிகரிக்கும். 
கொலஸ்ட்ராலும் பழுத்துக் கிடக்கும். மூளைக்கு வேலை என்பதால் ரத்த 
அழுத்தமும், சக்கைப் போடு போடும். எல்லாவற்றையும் எதிர்பார்த்து வெற்றி 
கொள்ளுங்கள். 

காதலிக்கும்போது அல்லது திருமணத்துக்குப் பெண் தேடும் போது… சம்பளம், 
வேலைவாய்ப்பு, செலவழிக்கும் இயல்பு போன்றவற்றை இரண்டாம்பட்சமாக வைத்துக் 
கொண்டு, ஒழுக்கம், குணம், பண்பாடான குடும்பம் ஆகிய விஷயங்களுக்கு 
முன்னுரிமை கொடுங்கள். 

                          This has been ruthlessly pointed to IT bachelors. I personally feel that this advice suits for almost all unmarried people.

‘இன்று போலவே என்றும் சம்பளம் வரும்’ என்று கனவு காணாதீர்கள். சிக்கனமாக 
செலவழிக்கப் பழகுங்கள். உங்களால் அதிகம் செலவழிக்க முடியும் என்பதற்காக, 
சிரமப்பட்டு சம்பாதிப்பவர்களது மனம் புண்படும்படி ஜம்பம் அடிக்காதீர்கள். 
அந்நிய நாட்டின் தயவில் அதிகம் சம்பாதிப்பவர்களாகிய பலரும் இந்த நாட்டு 
வெற்றிக்கு உழைப்பவரை இளக்காரமாக நினைக்காதீர்கள். 

                     Again a misleading statement. Not only IT people work abroad. It is so dumb like saying that every Afgan is a terrorist! 

வெளிநாடுகளில் வேலை பார்த்துவிட்டு ஊருக்குத் திரும்பும் போது, 
ஓட்டல்களில் தங்கிக் கொண்டு… உறவினர்களை- அம்மா- அப்பாவை, ”என்னால் வர 
முடியாது. இங்கு வந்து பார்… ஆட்டோவுக்கு வேண்டுமானால் காசு 
தருகிறேன்!” என்று கூறி அசிங்கப்படுத்தாதீர்கள். பணத்தை விட ரத்தம் 
கனமானது. 

                   No Comments. I have seen this only in movies, haven’t even heard of people doing such things. Writer might have seen Vadivelu-Parthiban-Dubai comedy before writing this, maybe, ya :)

வெளிநாடுகளில் பிறந்து வளரும் குழந்தைகளுக்கு எதிர்ப்புச் சக்தி குறைவு 
என்பது உண்மைதான். என்றாலும் சிறிது நேரமாவது தாத்தா- பாட்டி… அதாவது 
உங்களின் பெற்றோர், உங்கள் பிள்ளையைக் கொஞ்சுவதற்கு- உணவு ஊட்டு வதற்கு 
அனுமதி கொடுங்கள். 

உங்களை காயப்படுத்துவதாக இந்த பதில் அமைந்தால், என்னை மன்னியுங்கள்! 
உங்களை நோகடிப்பது எனது நோக்கம் அல்ல. இவை யாவும், உங்களைப் போன்றோ ரின் 
பெற்றோர்கள், உங்களிடம் சொல்ல முடியாமல் என்னிடம் புலம்பிய புலம்பல்கள். 
நான் வெறும் தபால்காரன்… அவ்வளவே! நமக்கு வரும் எந்த நோட்டீஸூக்கும் 
தபால்காரனை நோக முடியாது

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PS: Due to some technical problems with my browser, I couldn’t write the whole post in Tamil :(

Back to blogging September 10, 2008

Posted by karthicksundararajan in karthick, technical.
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4 comments

Back, after a pause!

I will soon come up with an easy way to crack SCDL’s (Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning ~IIM-A ;) ) online assignments. My page gets lots of hits with similar searches. So, I decided to reveal my ’secret of success’ lol.

Keep watching.