Sunday, August 31, 2008

Google Phonebook address facility

Google can crawl almost all the phone numbers and help one to find the US telephone
numbers. To know the details of a particular number just open Google and type
'Phonebook:' keyword. Keyword can be used as per the users requirement. Eg. using it like
below for Bill Gates name gives results for the 'Bill Gates' and respective nos of the people
in USA.

Google has provided the facility to remove your own name from this listing as well...

Posted by P Murlidhar at 12:18 AM 0 comments

Monday, August 25, 2008
Adventures of Comics...
Adventures of Tintin - The rejuvenating session i had after i plotted the pdf copies of TinTin
and the very moment sat down to copy and reading the pdf as well. In between the lectures
I even finished one of the book as well... 'The Calculas Affair'. It reminded me of those old
golden days when TinTin and Asterix were mostly read during vacation days. I still
remember these were one of the costliest comics. Back to grandmas palce in local library
they used to charge twice/thrice to lend these comics... may be to meet their breakeven
sooner.

Why comics reading was always rejuvenating and refreshing... i think they are made that
way only... The best thing is after going for so many places and meeting quite a no. of
people when I am reading comics, apart from the usual fun stuff I can see the way the
author maintains the connect. For example if we are reading TinTin, you can also see the
French connection in the background and people around. In fact the extra funny characters
which are included just like that always come with the distinguished characteris which
author deliberately wanna portray. The other day Anantha, my project guide was telling me
that in IIM they used to do the track of what type of magazines/book are issued from the
library in what season and as a part of study they found out that comics are issued
throughout the year and the consumption touch the sky high in the exam days... So I think
we can say that comics is read in colleges more... and at the same time mostly in B-Schools
:)...

Other day I found out the article telling how comics can make you better writer
- http://alpha.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=74921

Comics apart from a good time pass, are the source of the knowledge as well. U come to
know about the others culture in better fashion as compared to watching the movies.
In/After B-Schools you get the new perspecitve of doing the things and the thought process
definitely modify after doing a business program. Same is happening with me as well. The
different perspecitve and thought process goes when we read the comics now a days. Long
live Comics and all the characters...

To read more about the Tin Tin Follow the following Wiki link :
The Adventures of Tintin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
_
P Murlidhar Naidu

Posted by P Murlidhar at 7:22 PM 0 comments

Sunday, August 24, 2008

The day we had tea in classroom at 3:30 am...
The snaps shown below are the snaps of about 2:30 am at
night, apologies I mean in the morning when Gauthaman came from home and
brought two filled tharmas of tea. People flocked as crowd at his desk to
collect their part and quickly go back to their respective teams for the
assignment part…
The wonderfull way to finish a MBA day is to do the
assignment till say 4.30/5 in the morning and then trying to sleep with the
fact that we have to get up for the 8:30 class and ya we have to submit the
assignment as well before that. This do happened a lot when Dr. Rakesh Singh
taught us ‘MacroEconomics’. His assignments were always awesome and always
came
with the aggressive deadlines. When I say aggressive they can be at midnight
for the class finishing at 7:30 pm or it can be next days morning 8:00 pm for
the class finishing at about 8:30 pm… And as a group of 10 people we used
to divide the work among ourselves, assign it that is dissecting the topic and
then come again with the homework and consolidate to prepare the assignment
report and most of the time a PPT as well to be presented next day. The
learning of such case studies and Assignments were far better that those closed
classes…

Dr. Rakesh Singh always teaches with the grace and specially
the last lecture of the course was so awesome that no one moved from the place
for almost 4-4.5 hrs and we all were struck by the depth an length of the
knowledge.

Lets see how next couse of this prof goes…

{P.S : posting the post from the mail through posterous…
lets see how it goes with all the images}

Posted by P Murlidhar at 2:11 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Posting from ScribeFire...
Getting started with ScribeFire - ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging

Posting from ScribeFire is very easy. Just configure it once and thats it... everything
happens almost automatically ;)... Pls go thru the above link for the details...

Posted by P Murlidhar at 10:53 AM 0 comments

Sunday, August 17, 2008

SWIM - 2008
SWIM – Successful Women in Management, the one of its kind of event in B Schools
celebrating the Success of Women. The first event of the Champions Batch, the
Class of 2009 of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai was carried with the
bang today. The event was a huge success and all the guests, speakers, participants
and the organisers were rocking for the whole day. The SWIM community, initiated
in 2005, works towards identifying and drawing inspiration from successful women
from various walks of life. The SWIM is conducted to identify and promote Women
who have the traits to assume leadership roles in management. It enables and
empowers women to be effective, ethical and socially conscious members of
society.
The SWIM this time has the theme ‘Women as Trailblazers -Dreaming,
Exploring and Discovering new horizons’. The basic agenda comprised of the
Keynote address by the Cheief Guest, MS Anu Aaga, Power Talks by the guests,
Panel Discussion moderated by Mr. T N Seshan and post lunch ‘Quiz’. The theme
was well justified with the list of Chief guests. Ms Anu Aaga, Director Thermax, was
the Chief guest and along with her Padmasri Sudha Raghunathan, Noted Carnatic
Vocalist, Ms. Mridula Ramesh of Sundaram Textiles and Ms. Hemu Ramaiah, Founder
of Landmark agreed to share the main stage along with beloved Founder and
Honorary Dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Dr. Bala V. Balachandran
and Executive Director of PGPM at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Prof. S.
Sriram. All the guests shared their experiences at length with students giving the
insight of the corporate world , Women as upcoming entrepreneur and how she
maintains the balance of society. Ms. Anu Aga in her opening speech said that it was
important to balance professional responsibilities and personal life and emphasized
on Vipasana which is the art of living. Ms Sudha Raghunathan talked about her
journey to becoming a maestro in classical music. She discussed the challenges
faced during her journey, and how she won over them. Ms. Hemu Ramaiah opined
that it is important to think out of the box to reach “the other side” and achieve
success. She elaborated on the lessons learnt in running an entrepreneurial venture.
According to her, entrepreneurs must plan when to start and exit a business plan.
Ms. Mridula Ramesh talked about four success enablers for women, namely role
models, proving early competence in a language known by competitors, courage,
and family support.

Power Talks is followed by the launch of the SWIM magazine having the write-ups of
the eminent female writers and some Champions. The magazine work is all done by
the in-house team of enthusiastic champions i.e members of Gravity team.

The event had a panel discussion on the topic “Educated, Intelligent, energetic, and
just in her forties – can she still pursue her career dreams”. The discussion was
moderated by Mr. T. N. Seshan, former CEC of India. The panel included Ms. Pushpa
Kandaswamy, Noted TV producer, Ms. Indra Subramanyam, MD, Ehrlich Lab, Ms.
Lalitha Maheswaran, HR Consultant and Ms. Sarda Ramani, president of C I Global
Solutions. Mr. Seshan introduced the theme, and enraptured the audience with his
characteristic witty remarks throughout the discussion. Ms Indra Subramanyam
stated that desire is what takes women towards their goals. She also said that for a
country to prosper, men and women must work together without compromising on
domestic life. Ms. Pushpa Kandaswamy said that relations were more important
than numbers. She vehemently supported the theme and emphasized that women
are adaptable, efficient and capable of multi tasking. According to Ms Sharda,
determination and grit are important and even if one were to take a break in
professional life, one can still get back as and when one feels like, and make the
best out of it. Ms Lalitha, a visiting faculty at Great Lakes, addressed the women in
the audience and advised them to define success for themselves, and not neglect
their own selves. She said every decision taken will have its own consequences, it is
important to

make a choice and live by it. This was followed by an open house session where the
audience, comprising of the distinguished guests, students and faculty, posed a
variety of questions related to women’s lives and their career orientation.

The tasty lunch was followed by the quiz ‘Les Quizerables’ in which almost 46 teams
participated from different colleges and corporates. Six of them qualified for the
final round and the winners bagged away with the whopping total prize money of
35000 rupees.

The SWIM and Gravity teams toiled for almost two months along with the help from
Events, BPR and all the champions for the success of the events. It was the best
example of the team work and how team work can bring laurels and charm.

The media covered the event with full heart and some of the links for the same are
as follows :

• Ergo

• The Hindu

• Business World

• Pagal guy

• Cool Avenues

As the dawn comes, the thought process for the next events have already started
grabbing the minds of the Champions… Keep looking the space for the upcoming
events like Sangamithra, The HR Summit, The Lattitude.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 12:13 PM 0 comments

Labels: Events, Great Lakes, SWIM

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Greatlakers are all geared up for the SWIM 2008

Successful Women in Management (SWIM) is an initiative by the students

committee of Great Lakes to equip women with the essential traits to assume
leadership roles in different walks of life. It enables and empowers women to be
effective, ethical and socially conscious members of society.
SWIM 2008 will have key note speeches delivered by eminent guests such asMs.
Anu Aga of Thermax, Padmasri Sudha Raghunathan, Noted Carnatic
Vocalist and Ms. Hemu Ramaiah, Founder of Landmark apart from a panel
discussion which will be moderated by Mr. T. N. Sheshan and featuring prominent
leaders from various walks of life and a corporate quiz between the top B-Schools
and Corporates like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, CTS, Satyam.

For full details please click here.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 9:09 AM 0 comments

Friday, June 20, 2008

Different People Assorted Aversions II

Seldom it happens that you are complimented for the dresses (atleast for me this is rare
phenomena ), so when someone comes to you and specially says something about ur
wardrobe you feel elevated. Similar was my reaction when one of the most respected Advt.
Bond came to me to tell that you know my hubby did used to have the exact T-Shirt you
were wearing… then a big smile… I feel good… oh seems I have got a good T-Shirt dude…
and I started appreciating myself… lil did I know that calamity is reserved ahead when she
continued that… the day I saw my hubby wearing this T-Shirt I just throw it away… just
throw it… again a big smile …

I replied… (as I still managed to reply ) why direct throw.. you may have donated it to
someone…(see the effects of Karma Yoga are working :D) and again got a candid reply…
some things if u don't do it on time then they just don't happen… if I may hve thought of
donating it then that T-shirt may have stayed for couple of more days and hence I took the
simple step to throw it away… Smile Smile smile… I said (still replying… ya I am a fighter
yaar) but it carries the tag of very nice brand… the reply was simple… still that T-shirt was
not good…

Sometime… when people just don't like things they just don't like… their should not be any
reason for it and one should not even try to find it out… Psychology says the Schema works
that way and we and our decisions goes as per the schema we set abt something or
someone… Life goes on… That T-shirt died but mine has to go a long run… Ya definitely I will
avoid wearing it when she will be around :)…

(P.S : Submitting the Blog directly form Word 2007… lets see the results)

Posted by P Murlidhar at 5:26 PM 6 comments

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Ignorance is Bliss... Knowing is Blisser...
 At the Chennai Bloggers meet when I told
about the Ria-Rui.org, the new society we are coming up for Rich Internet Applications and
Rich User Interface users and implementers I got some astounding results. I intoduced
myself as Murli from Great Lakes... thats it and after returning from the stage, one of the
guy asked me... R u the same Murli whose PG (PagalGuy) id is meetgmat... I said
ofcourse... But it just came as a shock for me... I just felt that Dude... I am famous... but
how come... I haven't robbed/hacked/beaten any of the fellow Great Laker...Still...

Just to take me out from the state of trauma he replied that as I replied on PG to come for
PG meet and mentioned the name and coll. name... thats why he remember... Dude... here
I got it... its all coll. ke naam ka jaaduu working... Good hain...
Secondly this guy must be having very very good memory as well... because remembering
someones PG id that also just after one forum interaction... Is like heaven...

So Indiblogger meet was fully succesfull as for a moment hi sahi I got the feeling of being
celebrity...
So... Ignorance is Bliss... Knowing is blisser... If it is making someone famous it is Blissest...

Posted by P Murlidhar at 5:11 PM 1 comments

Labels: Blogger meet, Great Lakes, indibloger, PG

Glory in borrowing...
Hey...
Sometime its good to hear from someone that he/she wants to be mentioned on my blog...
Gives the feeling that Hey man... My Blog is becoming famous...

After Fluffy's Post... Mr SK (nah!!! not ShahRukh Khan) from our class mentioned that I
used his charger and still I havent even cared to mention abt that on my Blog... I said...
sadde puttar... don't get angry... I will have a separate post for you and will sport the snap
of ur God Blessed Charger as well... :)

Sometime when my charger (being brit) disagrees to get coupled with the indian socket
then I do search for someone carrying HP or Compaq lappy so that I can lend the charger...
and everytime SK was their for me... I mean for my Laptop...

The way we all give and take the things in India with utmost casual approach is the best
thing...
The way we dont care someone borrowing our 'the things' is the best thing...
The way we dont expect the 'Thank U' for this big task is the best thing...
The way we agree to give and lend the helping hand when needed the most is the best
thing...
And
This rejuvenates the 'Unity and Diversity' feeling...
We are the young India...
Striving daily to change the India and its perception in the World. We the young India are
successful and will be successful in similar fashion in future as well in our goal...
The attitude of Young India is one of the key factor to drive the way India is approaching to
the glory...
We will change the World... with Global Mindset and Indian roots...

Posted by P Murlidhar at 4:33 PM 1 comments

Labels: GLIM, Great Lakes, humor, India

BlogSpot Unblocked...

Hurrraaayyy!!!
BlogSpot unblocked by the insti. firewall.
Ultimately the IT department has given an ear to us and agreed to open the Blogspot for
the students. Somehow this was blocked at our place right from day one !!!
We Bloggers @ Great Lakes were quite furious with that and raised the concern with the IT
Dept... And Yes... After all this is the Student Run Institute of one of its kind in India... And
With proper reasoning everyone gets convinced... Its as simple as that...
Thank U IT Dept. for opening the gates of BlogSpot...

I will like to give the link of my coll Bloghere. It is really cool Blog having all the updates of
Great Lakes, chennai... :)
Keep Blogging...

Posted by P Murlidhar at 4:06 PM 2 comments

Friday, June 13, 2008

Launch of Ria-Rui.org society at BarCamp Chennai

I am pretty excited for my presentation at Barcamp Chennai. As per

suggestion from My guide Mr. Anantharaman (CTO, Heymath) we are starting a new society
for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and (RUI) Rich User Interface. The launch for the same
is scheduled today at Barcamp, Chennai. I am excited as people launch new initiatives at
BarCamp and it was one of my dream to launch something at BarCamp... and here it
comes... Today the day has come when we are also launching something at BarCamp.

Barcamp details can be found by clicking on the WiCamp image above. The details in brief
are :

Theme: Discipline vs Creativity

Date: Friday, June 13, 2008
Time: 2 PM till 7 PM
Venue: Wipro Technologies- Genesis Hall, 2nd Floor, Recreation Block, Wipro BPO Solutions-
CDC 2, 475 A, Old Mahabalipuram High road, Sozhanganallur,Chennai: 6001189

Posted by P Murlidhar at 4:58 AM 1 comments

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Chennai Blogger Meet...
I am all excited for the Chennai Blogger meet being organised by Microsoft and
IndiBlogger... However the event date are clashing with my lectures and next day we do
have two Final tests... :)
Lets see... I will try my best to attend it atleast for last 2 hrs...
Renie has sent me the cool poster and I have circulated the same in my class... lets see
whether i can generate/rejuvenate the interest :)
Following is the link and adjoining is the Poster :
http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=9

Posted by P Murlidhar at 9:52 PM 1 comments

Different People… Assorted Aversions…

Some people do have the intense aversion for the uncleaniness and the perfect example of
the same is one of my Study Group mate, Fluffy. Especially when it comes to her all new

laptop she just don’t want a

single finger print on the same. Neither on the screen neither on the top. May be the no of
time she wipes her laoptop with her esteemed handkerchief can be the topic of the ‘impirical
study’ in itself. The way she takes care of the laptop reminds me of the new born child taken
care by the sensitive mother :)

I really don’t think this much care is needed however it is best if someone cares the

belongings in this manner. My way of taking care is lil

different and it involve minimum maintenance (no wonder I m a lazy pie ). So as
far as Laptop is concerned I am just taking care that the plastic came pasted with
the top of laptop should not be peeled off. That’s it. Hey if u believe that this is
simple task… then beware… You know there are hundreds of disturbing elements in
society who periodically attempts to remove as a result of their envy and ecstasy
and jealousy. Still for almost an year I have managed and the plastic at the top of
my laptop is still intact ( if we ignore the top right corner :D)

Long live the plastic on my lappy and finger print less screen/top of Fluffy’s Laptop…
Amin !!!

Posted by P Murlidhar at 7:28 AM 1 comments

Friday, May 30, 2008

Together WE stand, Apart we bland...

All Said and Done...

Today’s Group Test was good (atleast we all group members are feeling so…) Prof.
PKV has tried his best to googly us with his challenging and beautiful questions and
we all fumbled like the cards however still it was good…

I think I am a good team player and should not play the games which don’t involve
the teams like giving exams alone and something similar… hey… but I represented
my school and coll. in chess as well… kindaa conflicting however I can say that I
was a good sole player earlier and then eventually I am converting into a good team
player and then next I will be slowly transformed into a Leader … After all this is
what called as ‘Transformational Leadership’ (gyaan… just lapeto bhai log

Okiee… I was telling about the Group Test psychology. Group Test fundaa is cool as

• Group Performs better that individual

• All in the group gets almost equal marks

This is the normal thing isn’t it., so where is the part of psychology. Now if one can
observe; in a group even if we get lil low marks we don’t get that much
disappointed as we do when we perform and earn lil lower grades alone. Probably
one thing to solace here is that as some more people are getting similar marks we
go with the ‘its fine’ (Chalta hain) attitude. Good in some cases at the same time
not so good in some cases. Sometime even as a group when we fail to perform then
it raises questions on the group’s strategy, team work, coordination, communication
and most important management skills.

Group Activities are the best thing and all exams under MBA should go that way
only… I am a firm believer of this after the major accident happened yesterday
(those who don’t know can read my yesterdays post). In fact I joined MBA to do all
sorts (don’t think too far, come back) of group activities… Luckily I got a very good
study group… Fluffy, Kaydee, Polly, Manchow and me Phantom (all our nick names
in the group) we all really enjoy working together. Be it PKV’s googlies, Psychology’s
Q&A session or Karma Yoga we have enjoyed each and every part of it till date…
and I pray and believe that let the bond strengthen as passes the time.

After one more exhausting day (was it really, Oh ya my committee meeting

converted the simple day in exhaustive) of MBA now I am waiting for my roomies to
gather together for the blessed Dinner so that we all can happily return to our den
and study (please read sleep) and slog(read internet, chatting and blogging).

Logging off… kindaa long one from unusual me ;)

Posted by P Murlidhar at 5:00 PM 5 comments

Labels: group test, MBA, teamwork

Thursday, May 29, 2008
When exam result comes as a Shock...

What needs to break the hibernation is

the big shock or something unusual… I m writing the after long long time… So yes
you can speculate that something similar must have happened to me… Yes
something bigger than planet hit me today when Results of Mid Term exams of one
of our favorite subject ‘Financial Accounting’ were declared…

Though my score is not the lowest in class (though I tried my best for that) still this
is the lowest in my career… Today I broke all my engg. records…

Little introspection for the last 1 month has told me that yes it was me who can be
held th culprit… when others were studying I was enjoying reading some Blog or
watching IPL or EPL or something similar or reading magazines… I mean I was doing
everything else other than studying… I mean everything which is not at all going to
contribute for my one year roller coaster ride…

This coll. is really providing the best of best and wonderful professors… Fin
Accounting Prof. Dr. Suryasekar… was a saint I must say… I haven’t seen the simple
and saint like prof like him in my life… And when it comes to Subject Matter we may
not have got the better teacher and teaching than this… Thanks to Uncle Bala and
Coll. Management for assigning the best prof for one of the most critical subject…

I will like to wind it up as for a change I have started studying for tomorrow’s group
test of ‘Statistics’ taught by another gem of a person Mr PKV…

Signing off with a promise to myself that I need to rejuvenate the blog which is
nothing less that S*** at this time… like I haven’t updated anything new from
couple of days… I was writing but due to lack of final touches posts are still in
drafted status… will do this regularly now  and complete the unfinished posts as
well…

Till then… keep studying / reading / analysing as these are the only things which will
sail you through tough times  (Gyaaan nothing else)…

Posted by P Murlidhar at 4:37 PM 4 comments

Labels: exam, MBA, screwed, shock

Friday, December 21, 2007

Its a 3-column Blog now...
Hurrayyy!!!
At last I succesfully converted the 2-column blog to 3-column blog... lil bit tweaking in CSS
code of the template and here it goes...If one can notice i have modified the header image
as well...
Result is in front of u...

Now there is serious need to take posting serioulsy... Don't know how and why somehow i
postponed the postings from long time... Lets see whether I will take it seriosly
hereonwards.
¬
Murli

Posted by P Murlidhar at 11:27 PM 1 comments

Labels: 3 column blog, advance blog

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Jayege hum to Onsiteeeee...
Posting something after long long time… it seems that nothing special happening in my life…
nah nah its not like that but still haven’t got the chance to post something… sometimes ur
procrastination takes over everything… and that’s the way I am… life is going on…
If you haven’t bugged up with my notion and motion of “…” yet then continue… I think I
somehow started using these notions a lot… they tell most of the things without even
making u realise that u have conveyed really a big thing…

So long long ago a guy with lots of hope came to onshore with some plans in the mind like :
Ø I will join the library at new place and will manage to get some students to whom i can
teach Maths…
Ø I will post the Blog daily
Ø I will enjoy every bit of my onsite part…
Ø I will learn everything right from cooking to every aspect of work… even the work beyond
my work…
Things don’t go as much as u think… and people like me wo dont believe in doing something
as per plan things just never happen... but life goes on…
After lil tussle with some good people at homeside (offshore) when I was most desperate to
go to onsite, my beloved Manager called me up to tell that u may have to travel after 3-4
weeks. I said it is the week of Diwali and he confirmed tha after Diwali only I will have to fly
but at the same time will not be getting much holidays in Diwali, less I was knowing that I
will not be getting any holiday apart from the one scheduled as company holiday.

I called home to tell the good news, ofsourse I was happy, afterall the thing I was waiting
from last one year is going to happen… I talked to my father and told him that I may have
to fly after Diwali, atlast company is sending me onsite… then comes the answer which I
was expecting the least… (and ofcurse which proved that he is a very Good Manager
compared to me) ’So u will not be giving CAT this year” and I realised that my God... in this
excitement I totally forgot that I have filled my CAT form this year (also). May be if I may
have taken lil effort to open the CAT book, my grey cells must have conveyed this to me...
but... chalata hain... My father was happy and I have never heard such joy from him many
time, some similar happy hearings were there when I cleared my Engg., First year with First
Class, My first job news and now this one… so for me definitely it was very rare incidents… I
was feeling like a Proud Son who has brought proud to my family. Mom and Dad both were
happy and this time they were happy like never before, after all there only Son was going
abroad thru company, the feat which very less people has achieved in my family. So many
things started coming in my mind right from my onsite spree to next appraisal… but putting
aside everything I started calling my dearest ones… I tried to call Avinash, Naveen, Priya,
Roomies, Shrinath (names in alphabetical order J ) to tell them the good news… the news
which is good according to me… I called a friend at night and told her that I wanna tell u
something special and we are meeting tomorrow for the same… to my surprise she guessed
it perfect just after few seconds… so as usual mere surprise ka popat ho gaya… Everyone
was happy… Priya once told me that Avinash ke aane ke baad hi jaana… and it is happening
almost that way… All were happy as they know how important onsite was for me at that
time. And I was really at peak of happiness, it is not big achievement but yes it was like the
thing which u deserve and want and still got delayed due to some reasons… I haven’t slept
the whole night (the same way as I haven’t slept the night when I got my first promotion in
TechM) it was really thrilling feeling… cant be expressed…

Posted by P Murlidhar at 2:27 AM 1 comments

Monday, August 21, 2006

Cubicles...
Cubicles…

Pechane Pehchane se cubicle khali najar aate hain

Sabhi dost onsite ya nayi company mein najar aate hain

Mil baith ke coffee piya karte the kabhi

Sahara deta hain bus yeh mobile phone abhi

Kabhi movie, kabhi natak dekh liya karte the,

Saath mein hum log kaafi mauj kiya karte the

Weeknd pe kaafi baar hua karti thi trekking

Ab saath mein kar pate hain sirf chatting

Jhagada aur jhol to bahoot kiya karte the sabhi

par dor nahi tooti nayab dosti ki kabhi

Aisa nahin hain ki aaj bhi bilkul nahin mil pate hain

Har roj koi na koi sapane mein dastak de jaate hain

Aur kitne utar chadhave dikhayegi yeh jindagi

Itna jyada to main jindagi mein kabhi hara bhi nahi

Bhagwan aur manager abhi bhi discuss hi kar rahe hain

Aur hum to abhi bhi offshore se hi support kar rahe hain

Aayega voh bhi din jub hum mil baithege sabke saath

Hoga doston, London aur New York ke logo ka saath

Ummid to aaj bhi hain ki hum bhi milege unhe vidhesh mein

Vahi dekhege movie, play aur wax museum aish mein

P Murlidhar Naidu.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 3:12 PM 4 comments

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Me, Movies and Ragging Days…

While returning to home from Office in Office bus miraculously for the first time bus
conductor switched on the TV and started the movie KKHH (Kuch Kuch Hota Hain). Watching
KKHH again after so many days reminded me golden old days of college first year. Those
were the ragging days and we were not used in fact not allowed to go outside neither to
watch movie nor for hotelling. Ragging used to come in different form for everyone. Me
being lil shy and introvert type person (at that time) haven’t went thru the hard core
ragging. But most of my colleagues used to get tough treatment. One of my very good
friend Amol Talkikar and his room mates have written the full lyrics of all the songs of KKHH
this was the linen link between KKHH and my first year coll. days. I think due to such type
of ragging only he successfully got admission in IIMA similar is the story of all Hostel janata
all of whom are perfectly placed/settled in their lives. Life used to be cool even with all this
ragging and hoopla around. Specially those days when I, roomies and all freshers toiled
hard for Ganesh Pooja decoration, all arrangement right from day -3 to day 11. Similar was
the enthu when I got selected as Mess Secretary and many more small events which were
big for us at that time. We were doing everything… Sports … Mess management… Hostel
Management… Self Management… Managing the lecture bunks…but the best part we
successfully managed is not to study a single word for whole year…and in my case it
continued even in PL days. Then the way I cleared my papers is still mystery and all Hostel
guys believed that there must be some terrible mistake from university side. They should
not be blamed for this as it was rare scene with me that I got first class and all subjects
cleared in first attempt in First year. So it came as astonishment, joy and of course agony
for some. My movie spree actually begun after Hostel Day. The day for which every fresher
waits eagerly, as this is the last day of all restrictions and rules for freshers. After that we
get equal rights as seniors like watching all programs on TV, reading newspaper, freely
roaming in and around hostel, watching movies in Theatres, boozing. The day after which
no senior ever expected the salute or wish, no shirt-ins in hostel, no saying “Sir” to seniors
and of course many more which even cant be told in BLOG. The best thing abt hostel
ragging days we are not kept apart from sports. All the interested and enthusiastic janata
used to play vis-à-vis with seniors and some used to give a good fight also. The best part
used to be inter hostel matches in which we always used to win whether its Cricket or
Soccer. Coming back to movie spree from hardly one or two movies an year(ya its true 1 or
2 movies per year) this hostel guys have converted me in fully equipped movie buff. The low
rates and popularity of movies in that city added fuel to this. We started watching movies
almost every Fridays and Sundays. Any movie and we used to have the tickets. The spree
went to such levels that hostel mates started coming to mine and adjacent room for asking
the reviews. We even used to have our own rating chart for movie in our rooms which hostel
janata used to refer. In second year first semester I may have watched almost 30 movies in
theatres. This figure is apart from the movies which we used to enjoy in hostel. I really
wonder how we hated to miss a single movie program on doordarshan be it ChayaGeet or
Fridays Movie. I was also part of an elite group of 5-6 people who did not used to miss the
Regional Movie on Sunday night. There used to special seat for me in strategic position
whenver we used to bring the movies to hostel. Gone are the golden days.

However even today that movie love has not went off. We i.e me and my roomies not miss
the Sunday/Saturday movie. We do bring 2/3 movies to watch at home. At my room u can
always find the CD/DVD’s from library and sometime janata returns them even before I
watch it. So the condition is reverse now. With all this work stuff me not getting enough
time for movies but yes I just don’t miss a single chance to what one.
That’s it for today… I generally don’t BLOG on weekdays but the special bus event I told
above initiated the thought for this BLOG. Chalo then… Looking forward to meet at some
Theatre buying / waiting for movie.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 7:32 AM 3 comments

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Telepathy Exist …
Today was one of the best Saturdays for me. I spent whole day at home with my roomies
apart from the lunch, hospital and movie time. This is the rare scene at least for the guy like
me who don’t believe in staying fulltime at flat on holidays. This week something special
happened and hence I was at home…so called full time. I got up with a cold stroke, harsh
and irritating throat and uncontrollable cough on Friday. I suddenly realized that I was in a
deep sh!t. May be something to do with last Sunday’s intimate encounter with the Rain.
Luckily I got the chance to see the doctor and got some medicines. So I was in the position
to talk and walk today. Morning went away with lil surfing and more sleeping. In afternoon I
was busy with lunch, ortho visit, left knee X-Ray (for those who don’t know left knee story
clickhere) and recently released movie ‘Corporate’. Evening again at room. Now here comes
the event somewhat related to the heading. I was just wondering and trying to find one of
4th class friend on Orkut and Hi5 but haven’t got any success. Then I even had a talk
regarding the same with my room partners that I was not finding this very old frined of
mine from lots of days even after gr8 effort. And then after some time phone rang and it
was from my home. Dad just had a chat which we almost have twice daily and after that he
told me that one of my class four classmate has came to home and her name is followed by
her first name. I invigorated in joy to convey the full name of hers. The immediate reply was
“Ohhhh!!! U even remembers the full name…That’s gr8…have a talk with her.” And he
handed over the phone to her. I talked with her for sometime to reveal that she is working
in the same city after completing her MBBS. We had good chat. I asked for her no. and
stored it so that we can communicate in future with the help of this mobile technology. She
was the same friend abt whom I was talking with my room partners just couples of
minuetes ago.

Hushhhhhhhhh…………..So Telepathy exists and it works some time very perfectly. Secondly
it’s a small world. U will definitely find ur friends somewhere somehow after a small effort.
The way world is shrinking to be a global village, even border lines are dissolving fast.

So in short a gr8 Saturday for me to find one more old friend J. Ended the day with dinner
at flat, shared the tiffin with roomie and after that combined show at flat only of a good
bollywood movie “Mr and Mrs Iyer”. I will be sleeping after posting this blog.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 9:37 PM 0 comments

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Trendz Setting and Unsetting…
Today I broke all my trends I set or developed in the tenure of last few weeks. So this
Friday was trend breaking day for me. I went to office in time… Actually I caught the bus in
time, as I left my bike at office on the previous day (so no option) Everything in time… Right
from Lunch, Work, Meetings, Code Deliveries even returning to home, then meeting my
friend and then again sleeping at night with some resolutions for next day... Everything was
done perfectly and in time. It feels gr8 to have such fun-tastic day time bound day.

And next day was even surprising. I got up at 6.00 am in the morning (I still cant believe
it). I went on morning walk and small trek near my home with my friend. So everything was
going ideal. But I was not knowing that this so called " " ideal thing will come to end shortly.
While coming down I noticed that left leg's knee was paining lil bit and realised that from
last 13-14 months I haven’t went on major trek or walk spree. After some more time by the
time I was almost at the starting point I noticed that nah... something majorly wrong with
this knee. I took no time to recollect that this leg suffered a lot during my last accident on
bike. Thought left let was not directly involved but as injury was on right leg, and due to all
that limping this leg started behaving differently. It survived some 2 more lil accidents after
that first accident but lil bit injuries were there. I thought all these is coming collectively and
effectively and its time to see some expert in Ortho. Ortho expert said nothing to worry, just
have these medicines and do come next week but ya no treks and jogging. What else a laxy
guy like me needed, now i got doc's approval for not jogging...

Neway there is end to everything and my so called ideals hours came to end just in one day.
Next day again the same routine followed as I got up at 11.00 am as I enjoyed Godfather
DVD a night before :)

Life goes on but ya that one day getting up at 6.00 has proved that
> I can get up early
> I can go for walk/jog
> Its not easy to achieve ideal things...

Life is b..e..a..utiful and u must know how to enjoy it.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Mohabbat...
Unhoune dekha to najakat hain
Hamane dekha to shararat hain

Unhoune kaha to adab hain

Hamane kaha to sabab hain
Unka propose propose hain
Hamara propose oppose hain

Unhoune chaha to pyaar hain

Hamane chaha to bekaar hain

Unhoune cheda to ikraar hain

Hamane cheda to takrar hain

Unka comment deep hain

Hamara comment cheap hain

Kya kaare yahi to mohabbat hain

Par for a change is baar yehi hakikat hain

Ab yahi hamari sabse keemti amanat hain

jisko sambhalte sambhalte hi kayamat hain

~
P Murlidhar Naidu

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Parag's Party

It all began after i posted the party's mail to everyone on friday. Parag may hv cursed me
that why me myself and murli is posting which he was supposed to post. But i waited for his
mail upto 6.30 pm and then started drafting the mail after he havent picked up the phone. I
called Parag at 11.00 pm (he may hv cursed me again... after all is this the time to call a
recently married beautiful couple) He said we will decide abt the venue tomorrow after
having a talk with all. Here came the next day. Parag started preparation. Me and Vivek
decided some 3 venues : Jazz at Esquares, Garden Court or Ambrosia. Then couple of calls
and lots of confusion. Then again some calls. Ultimately i told Parag to call Prashant as he
always have some venue concerns, ask him and decide abt the venue and call everyone as
everyone is saying it is Parag's party and why the hell is this bloody Murli conveying
everything to everyone. Parag said calling all will be problem but then I convinced him. Then
Parag maharaj havent called up upto 4.30 pm I called at his home and he was not there.
Thankfully, Prashant revealed everyhting abt the venue. I started sms'ing (is this word
correct! ) people abt the venue. There by the time Vivek also came to know abt the venue
and timings and he also started floating sms's but his msg was not having the venue and
time.
So the plan ultimately formed was :
Veneu - Hotel Riverside. and it can be called as one khopcha of Koregaon Park. I will pick
mannu from Corporation. Avi will be obviously coming with his bet-ter half Priya. And Vivek
decided to come in car with Abhijits ( Kawre and Choudhary ). Aarti denied to come as she
was tired (after working upto 4 am in morning she went for the presentation at 10 am.
Sorry boss i may have gien a shot and taken a full day boss. How can people manage all
this things.) But vivek a.k.a "the guy with guts" convinced her. As usual me and Mannu
reached the venue before time (though mannu came to Corporation 20 min before our
decided time and I reached Corporation 20 mins after deicded time, still we managed to
reach venue before time - Pulsar is a paisa vasool bike boss.) It was almost 7.15pm by now.
Then as no one except some mischievous couples. (Hey Mannu do u remember those
couples) came out from that bushes. We enjoyed the sight.
But after say 15 mins they also got some good idea and moved. So again leaving Me and
Mannu outside hotel (with the darkness around becoming even darker) alone. We decided to
take ride around Koregaon Park. We came back after half and hour.
Still no one in the hotel...
So we decided to have a seat and then i plotted the ravishing lady and our own
hero, the couple of millenium-> Parag and Renu. Parag all equipped with his cam
and Renu's Saree mindblowingly superb(I mean to say that apart from Renu her
Saree is also superb).
After that everything happened is history. The guys or gals who were not there
have missed a lot of things right from Vodka shots to some hilarious incidednts of
mauritius naratted by Parag. Then one by one guest started coming. I think
Prashant was the first person to come(after all this place was suggested by him),
then Vivek, Abhijit both kaore and chaudhary, Aarti and then another couple Avi
and entrancing Priya. The alluring chemistry between both the couples was
tempting. So once and all all were set for the dinner. Starters started flowing in
along with the boozing material. Some courageous ladies also decided to give a try
for some new types of drinks. So that’s the way it went. Some tequila shots,
Vodka, Beer started flowing like never before. Then comes the starters (please
don’t ask the whole exact menu as there were so many items flowing in and as all
know we care to eat and eat only). And then second round of booz flowed in. And
then main course.
So that’s the way it went, The most important thing is that we all enjoyed it very much.
Thank U Parag from the bottomest part of the bottom of …. What ?!?!? ofcourse Heart yaar.
Then we handed over the Parag’s Gift (in the form of cheque) and then as usual Tata Bye
Bye. Areeeeeee wait we even spent some time a a Ice cream parlour where everyone
praised after havingt Vivek ke pasan ki icecream. It was some fruit mix and specially tubbed
in Mango. It was also fabulous. After that everyone started for home.
Parag and Renu Thank U very much. I m still waiting for the day when Renu will
call all of us at home for dinner as 2nd Party (this is what she commited on that
day).

Posted by P Murlidhar at 10:03 PM

1 comments:

Shrinath Ramamoorthy said...

Hey Murli,

Your discription about the party is great, seems i missed lots of action bro...You guys
are rocking in Pune. I dont know how many more parties I would be missing ..
jio dost

10:58 AM

Saturday, June 04, 2005

A Poem - Pehla Pyaar.
My Poem on First Love...

Pehla Pyaar

Pehla Pyaar
jivan mein bahaar
Khooshiyon ki fuhar
Magar ho jaate hai mala mal

Koi jaata hai bar

Agar hoti hai taqrar
Life ho jaati hai taar taar

Jiski hoti hai naiyaa paar

Voh ban jata hai star
Ho jata hai alikhit karar
Phir bhi, Kabhi kabhi hoti hai war
Lekin kabhi nahi aati darar

Kisiko padti hai maar

To Koi hota hai in qatar

To phir bhaiyaan, thoda ghoomao radar

kam se kam ek baar to Lao jivan mein bahaar
Ajmai lo kaisa hota hai pyaar

Aur kya kahe

Pehla Pyaar…
Aisa hi hota hai yaar
Bus Aisa hi hota hai yaar

_
P Murlidhar Naidu.

Posted by P Murlidhar at 10:00 PM

1 comments:

Pradeep Rathi (Thakur) said...

Kton murli Ye kya chal raha hai... bhai tumhe pehla pyaar ho gaya aur saale humein
bataaya bhi nahi...
From your poem, I can remeber the famous ad jingle..
"Pehle Pyar... Laye Jeevan mein Bahar"

5:37 AM