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a kid on a slide

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

A small child was climbing up a slide in a playground today. He was trying hard clambering up the ladder – almost fell down at one time but was caught by his alert father – and finally reached the top. It was a small slide but I suppose it felt gigantic to him. And what […]

Jain for another day

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Managed to fast again yesterday. This time it was much easier, completely effortless. Maybe I’m getting faster at it 😉 [ugh, couldn’t resist]

writing in Kannada

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

ಇವತ್ತು ಹೆಚ್ ಪಿ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುವಾಗ ಕನ್ನಡ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಉಪಾಯಗಳು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದವು… ಬರಹ ಡೈರೆಕ್ಟ್ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿ ಆರಾಮಾಗಿ ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ನಲ್ಲೇ ಬರಿಯ ಬಹುದು! ಇಷ್ಟು ದಿನ windows 2000 ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ enable ಮಾಡಲು ಸಾದ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೆ… ಆದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ವಿವರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ 🙂 ಆದರೆ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರಿಯುವ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬರಿಯುತ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಿನಿ ಆದರು ಸಕ್ಕತ್ ಮಜ ಇದೆ 😉 ಯೆಷ್ಟು ತಪ್ಪುಗಳು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೀನೋ ಯೇನೊ ಆದರೆ ಶುರು […]

real faith | ನಿಜವಾದ ನಂಬಿಕೆ

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Build up your faith so that in times you will not be shaken This was a quote from a friend, and it was nice to read it – but in my opinion, faith “gets built” up, one cannot actively build it. If one actively tries to build it, it may end up becoming disillusionment.

currency comparison

Monday, September 5th, 2005

My friend was asking me the other day – how can I possibly take off paid leave and go out somewhere every now and then.

austrian alps

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Managed to upload something from one of my archives… austrian alps This was written a couple of years after the actual trip, and while the month/year is correct, not sure about the date.

[flashback] considering a shortcut

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

flashback = old memory. In this case, something that happened over twelve years ago (when I was a teenager)… and nothing to do with me today! If you read this article, please read it completely – do not jump to any conclusions and abandon it midway!! 🙂 —— Sitting in stillness may at times bring […]

I am a software engineer

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

This is how he’d introduced himself to Kichu and everyone else in the room in 1998 – and to anyone and everyone he’d ever met since he’d started working a year ago. And Kichu had remarked “No you are not.

leave phobia

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

One of the biggest differences I see in the work cultures of the east and the west are in taking leave – atleast a few days off from work. I’ve come across people in India who have worked for a decade or two at a stretch – and proudly proclaiming that they have not even […]

freshers in the software industry

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Sometimes freshers come with ambitions of, as Jigar says, “writing an entire operating system” right from day one, but have to be confronted with ground reality of doing something less ambitous like reading up some documents.