Bangalore Rollercoster

It's been about a week since I arrived in Bangalore,a week which went like a roller coaster .First of all Yahoo! is one of the coolest place to work and is the ultimate geek pilgrimage.I got a cool Yahoo! bag , a Tshirt and a new corporate mail ID ( atandon@yahoo-inc.com) on first day,got to meet my mentor (who is really cool !!) on 2nd day,got an extra large cheese burst Domino's Pizza as a refreshment for attending a 2 hrs class on the 3rd day.Got access to confidential Yahoo! CVS server and source code on 4th day.The source code here is open to all ie. anyone can checkout the source code for any application be it mail or messenger.The developers/ops guys here don't even remember when was the last time they worked on Windows ( Ok Ok .. some of them do remember but you get the idea rt?).Everyone here is a true Unix/Linux geek.And My project is even more cool ,I have been given a code to extract ..... Wait Wait Wait ... that stuff is confidential I can't tell that to you,sorry folks but Policy is Policy. Boy !! I will cry like a little baby if I don't get a job offer from here.
Now for the bad part of the week .... first shock in Bangalore ,my mobile set got stolen in the public Bus.The culprit was kind enough to leave my wallet and Snacks coupons for Yahoo! untouched , which besides some anger also left me with some admiration for his skill (The creator of this Blog wishes to notify that either the Thief was highly skilled or the Creator was highly stupid and being the Self worshipping man that the Creator is ,he will gladly accept the first option ).
Then came the signs that I have an abnormal family and I am one of them when I called home to inform my parents about the theft a conversation which went something like this......
Mom : Hmmm Bad !!! [PAUSE] Thank god !! Now for heavensake, buy a new good cell ,For last 5 years you were stuck with that Nokia 1100,it looked bad on you!!
Me : Huh !!@#$ [PAUSE] ,But I loved it..It was a marvell of Engineering ....I got emotionally attached to it.
Mom : Ya Ya whatever !!
Even today my eyes become wet when i see the charger alone waiting for its counterpart.
But my troubles were not yet over ,I had to Lodge an FIR because lets face it ,the last thing I wanted was my beloved mobile being used by some terrorist for calling his girl friend in Peshawar and the whole Karnataka Police's ATS coming after for me !!! ,so I went to the Police Station and I had to wait for some 30 min before I even had a chance to speak.
It took the Policeman some 5 questions in Kannada and me to reply "I don't know Kannada " 5 times to figure out that they have to bring in an English speaker.The Person they brought asked direct questions.His First question was "Problem What is " (The only English speaking person in Police Station was a "Yoda"(Star Wars for the ignorant) fan). Anyway after 20 minutes of speaking in god knows which language I got the FIR done . The Wise Yoda finished of with "We will try for mobile", to which I wanted to say "WTF !! people are being raped , murdered and you want to find my mobile" but thought it would be better to just get out.
Now I am trying to get adjusted with my new Motorola set, Maybe its time to change my 8yrs old Rs 200 worth Maxima watch too..... Maybe later :D .

PS: - If Any one of you have any extra Balance in mobile to waste .... Then Please dial 91-9945947175 ** and if anyone picks up then swear at him like hell .....Yes !! I know your mother told that swearing is bad .... But you will have the blessings of a lonely Nokia 1100 :(
** Normal STD charges apply(Within India ,International Call charges from outside India)

Happy New Year

A very Happy New Year to all of you.First of all I would like to thank Mr George Bush for keeping less interest in India's oil resourses, hence not declaring India as a member of Axis of Evil and giving a chance to me to see the lights of another year.Unfortunately some people in Iraq and Afghanistan are not alive to share my Enthusiasm.Lets see how other people are celebrating New Year,well one President took the revenge of another President by hanging/killing another President,Bombs exploding in Thailand,bombs being defused in Delhi,UP politicians claiming that not the serial killer ... not the police....not the parents but the Chief Minister is responsible for Serial killing and Rapes in Noida UP,the whole country's Media going crazy for the justice of murder of a Lecturer come Politician's prostitute,people dying in Iraq...Afghanistan..Kashmir..Thailand..Lebanon..Gaza .In total a pretty peaceful New Year celebration i would say ... hey its better than a Tsunami.