tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71907959157378561402012-02-17T00:36:14.270+05:30Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.comBlogger2761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-26106263760339163662011-11-15T20:46:00.001+05:302011-11-15T20:46:33.804+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>I look and my mind springs up a rhetoric,<br /> The kind of look that results in a smile,<br /> The kind of smile that makes you feel euphoric,<br /> I think it has been a while.</p> <p>I talk, as if I am the talkative one,<br /> The kind of talk that stretches away the miles,<br /> The kind of mile that is used as a pun,<br /> Trust me dude, it has been a while.</p> <p>I hug, to say everything I cannot,<br /> The kind of hug that I am told is only mine,<br /> The kind of hug that ties friends in a knot,<br /> Remember? No? Well, it really has been a while.</p> <p>Together till death do us apart all say,<br /> The kind of death that occurs when agony piles,<br /> The kind of agony that makes a tattoo fade away,<br /> Haha! Finally you know it has been a while.</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/even-tattoos-fade">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2610626376033916366?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-6919718811704087202011-11-13T01:10:00.001+05:302011-11-13T01:10:32.220+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I have always wished I lived in the time when all the great inventions were made. The ones we read in our science text books. It would be so fascinating to exist at a time when the telephone was invented. Yesterday there was nothing, today we have something that will change the world forever. It is just fascinating to see or experience something being created out of nothing.  <p /><div>To me, every artist is the same. They are not artists, they are creators. Every musician. Every sculptor. Every writer. All they have is their imagination and vision. And just out of nothing, they create something breathtaking. Something so beautiful, it changes the course of lives. Lives of the creator and of those that have been touched by their creations. These are people with raw God given talent to create so called magic. In the way every piece of art, statue, music or poem begins slowly but surely and with every stroke, strike, note or word it lilts its way towards a magnificent crescendo and ends with a final swoosh of the brush, chisel or pen of the creator, it makes you feel as greedy as a man in an orgy. At the same time, it leaves you with a sense of understated achievement. A feeling that at some level, you have managed to understand the creator. For those few minutes that you are looking at a painting or a statue or listening to a piece of music, the art belongs to you. No one can take it away from you. No one else knows what it means to you. And it stays with you, forever. </div> <p /><div>I wish I was as gifted. Enough to create magic out of nothing. I have been told the closest I have to having a talent is with my writing. I will believe it the day I write something that changes a life. Till then, I will keep trying.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/create">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-691971881170408720?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28317083638367910832011-10-31T18:57:00.001+05:302011-10-31T18:57:19.179+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Z9TZcDfQ1A?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9TZcDfQ1A&amp;feature=channel_video_title">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Awwwwwwww! :'-)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/real-madrid-we-are-you">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2831708363836791083?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-19445825450643193772011-10-28T13:03:00.001+05:302011-10-28T13:03:56.838+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tVfg2Db6cqU?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=tVfg2Db6cqU">youtube.com</a></div> <p>And this was also the handover ceremony for this year's cars from Audi! :D</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/real-madrid-players-go-go-karting">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1944582545064319377?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-71874097228265735652011-10-27T12:57:00.001+05:302011-10-27T12:57:56.374+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/qsCButnpcHJlmfsyFsolufnJwkuxGwAdtozbJqrfovgkJvJFspvGoytsgtFj/media_httpnewlookhous_ynEHF.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpnewlookhous_ynehf" height="976" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/qsCButnpcHJlmfsyFsolufnJwkuxGwAdtozbJqrfovgkJvJFspvGoytsgtFj/media_httpnewlookhous_ynEHF.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://newlookhouston.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tattoo-flowchart.jpg">newlookhouston.com</a></div> <p>This is quite funny no? :)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/should-you-get-a-tattoo-flow-chart">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7187409722826573565?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-54788916984119576342011-10-26T12:42:00.001+05:302011-10-26T12:42:03.615+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Today is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday and day after is Free Practice 1! <p /><div>The first ever Indian Grand Prix will take off. The excitement is actually quite overwhelming in India. I think the sponsors and JayPee group are doing a great job in building the event up. I hope it lasts for years.</div> <p /><div>The preparations are going on at top speed at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC). From the latest pictures that have been tweeted about an hour back, they are down to the process of cleaning the track and painting the lines and the grids. All the teams have arrived and started setting up the Pit Garages. </div> <p /><div>I am also posting some pictures taken by <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/F1PaddockPass">@F1PaddockPass</a>. Don&#39;t be alarmed if the circuit looks in a state of disarray. All will be set and by tomorrow morning the lines will be painted. And day after tomorrow, for the first time ever, 24 F1 cars will roar to life! </div> <p /><div>A few more news updates, Karun Chandhok will only be taking part in the Friday Practice and not the race. Narain will be there to represent the home crowd of course. </div><p /><div>The circuit itself has got quite a lot of positive reactions from drivers and fans. Even though it is being criticised as a Tilkedrome (more on this in the next post), it is being appreciated for its radical elevation changes and prospective high speed.</div> <p /><div>Will be posting a detailed layout of the circuit so that people know what to expect out of the race this Sunday. :)</div><p /><div>Till then please enjoy the pictures :)</div> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/BQngh3oHUZ2tuniqDVm3FP6q7WrenVNjshoD6UyJxfVGS8z8H8wRf18sfoaD/30648584.jpg"><img alt="30648584" height="375" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/EXENNOeXRONxSkmjh44DME6T6dAKsaa24sTG8pXmplf4xWy2ZWGzHIIJiCYL/30648584.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/r35HQ8liGwtBhpkeA3Seq97EsezbUga3SKomJ8ovQAwZXkYJDorqpRwXTLxA/puyd.jpg"><img alt="Puyd" height="375" 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src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/qblO5hKLKHuvbTokYAY6btB9wlHaGYcYFFJARBVO6dRkhW4dQ3qwD4MXbb6O/va2q.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://indiangp.net/two-days-to-go">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/two-days-to-go">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5478891698411957634?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-50101735687750970082011-10-09T20:17:00.001+05:302011-10-09T20:17:07.752+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I think, I think and I think,<br />Of everything but now of ink,<br />Why is there no ink in pink?<br />Damn! These rhymes, have no link.<p>So here, I give it another shot,<br />To make sense and just rhyme not,<br />No no no! Again I lost the plot,<br />My head is where rhymes come to rot!</p><p>Now I travel all the way to Khar,<br />It is known to be the land of Sardars,<br />By train I go not by my car,<br />At least this rhyme can be called par.</p><p>This post is akin, to moon-walking in an ice rink,<br />Hence now I stop, before I cause your blood to clot,<br />I know now as far, I will never be a rhyming star,<br />See what I did in this last stanza love?</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-unrhyme">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5010173568775097008?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-13937083048754737812011-10-05T01:27:00.001+05:302011-10-05T01:27:26.666+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/jGIfhrmfdFnFriiEoukJChidiBkccdmgEowimCshzioIsfxtCqlywvGucgbk/media_httpwwwmintcomb_qsqjG.png.scaled1000.png"><img alt="Media_httpwwwmintcomb_qsqjg" height="972" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/jGIfhrmfdFnFriiEoukJChidiBkccdmgEowimCshzioIsfxtCqlywvGucgbk/media_httpwwwmintcomb_qsqjG.png.scaled500.png" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/whats-inside-the-house-of-warren-buffett-092011/?display=wide">mint.com</a></div> <p>:O</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/whats-inside-the-house-of-warren-buffett">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1393708304875473781?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28170608178198517072011-10-04T19:29:00.001+05:302011-10-04T19:29:12.480+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/IxtzFmFqJwmJcFDydhFhhsktnvtdggjzFjexwetpEuCrztfdgDvxutypbDHc/media_httpwwwjoyoftec_lddnF.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpwwwjoyoftec_lddnf" height="589" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/IxtzFmFqJwmJcFDydhFhhsktnvtdggjzFjexwetpEuCrztfdgDvxutypbDHc/media_httpwwwjoyoftec_lddnF.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1598.html">joyoftech.com</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/predicting-tim-cooks-first-event-iphone-5">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2817060817819851707?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-31041678576144728602011-10-02T22:53:00.001+05:302011-10-02T22:53:34.074+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-02/aaeDEbnFIiIgfqhrxDafhrscovrCCBgGjvwiCqEkDpuusCrmimajFreJgrAn/The_egg-man.png.scaled1000.png"><img alt="The_egg-man" height="520" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-02/aaeDEbnFIiIgfqhrxDafhrscovrCCBgGjvwiCqEkDpuusCrmimajFreJgrAn/The_egg-man.png.scaled500.png" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p>Taking forward my earlier tirades/rants/memories of/from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/tag/school" title="School">school</a>, I am going to rant a little more. About pre-school to be precise.</p> <p>Pre-school and primary school are usually considered to be the most important years of our education. This is where the building blocks are laid towards the formation of a lifetime of learning and character building. One would consider each and every word taught in these years to be thought out extremely carefully. Wouldn't you?</p> <p>Read the below sentence:</p> <p>Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top.&nbsp;When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all.</p> <p>How factual. How practical. How real. I mean, this will be the exact sequence of events if the wind blows. We should teach our babies right at the outset that they should never tie a cradle to a tree top. Brilliant!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Let us observe another sentence:</p> <p>There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.&nbsp;She had so many children, she didn&rsquo;t know what to do.&nbsp;She gave them some broth, without any bread, whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed.</p> <p>Another practical statement to make to kids. Family planning. Or else, you as mom will have to whip your kids to bed! Less said the better about this.</p> <p>These are such incorrect things to teach babies. Stupid sentences made up just so that they rhyme! I have not even reached the real violent ones:</p> <p>London bridge is falling down,&nbsp;Falling down, falling down,&nbsp;London bridge is falling down,&nbsp;My fair lady.</p> <p>OR</p> <p>Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water;&nbsp;Jack fell down and broke his crown,&nbsp;And Jill came tumbling after.</p> <p>OR</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run, see how they run!&nbsp;They all ran after the farmer's wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife; did ever you see such a thing in your life, as three blind mice?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>OR the ever popular</p> <p>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,&nbsp;Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; all the king's horses and all the kings men, couldn't put Humpty together again.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I did mention in one of my earlier posts, that we are taught too many impractical stuff in school. I now stand corrected. I mean, if we really have to make our kids aware of the violent and hurtful world, what better way to do it other than making up cute rhymes and make them learn it when they are 3 year olds.</p> <p>I leave you with the cutest of them all:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Georgie Porgie, puddin&rsquo; and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.&nbsp;When the boys came out to play,&nbsp;Georgie Porgie ran away.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Now you know what to blame for all things that go wrong with humanity.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/cursory-rhymes">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3104167857614472860?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-40685497633974946682011-10-02T21:14:00.001+05:302011-10-02T21:14:32.340+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/565wbTJWltg?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565wbTJWltg&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p>As the Indian GP comes closer, all the fans and drivers are anxious as to what the new circuit will bring to the calendar. Personally, I am looking forward to the blind turn. After Austria was taken off, there are hardly any blind turns left in the calendar. </p><p>This video is from the game F1 2011. This is also what the drivers will use as simulation in preparation for the race. Well, more or less. </p><p>Less than a month left! :)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/on-board-lap-of-the-indian-gp-circuit">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4068549763397494668?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-64213262258822955942011-10-02T21:00:00.001+05:302011-10-02T21:00:52.813+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed src="http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/watch_as3-vfl3Eh29q.swf" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="304" 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width="500" /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sergioramosoficial">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Thank you SR4 for uploading this. </p><p>Our boys are having fun! :D</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/casillas-races-arbeloa">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6421326225882295594?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-73656269858157548252011-10-02T19:33:00.001+05:302011-10-02T19:33:05.654+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I started blogging way back in 2006. At that time it was just a way to express my ideas in words. Also, it did help that my words were quite appreciated. <p /><div>My blog has always been an important place for me. I assumed it as something that represents me. And I always wanted to make it better. I never actually wrote to increase traffic or wrote about things that everyone else is writing about just to conform. My blog is my personal space which in time has been appreciated and I thank each and everyone who has come across it.</div> <p /><div>Apart from just writing, there were a couple of things I always wanted to try through my blog. The first one was <a href="http://adityakandala.com/tag/blogwithme">Blog With Me</a>. I was pursuing my MBA at that time and had a lot of people around me who appreciated my writing. I just wanted to communicate the fact that it isn&#39;t as hard as it looks, and if you try, you will be good at it as well. This idea didn&#39;t quite work as well as I would have liked it to. Requests to people requesting them to write for me turned into persuasion and finally begging. Promises were given but never kept. I guess I should have planned it better. </div> <p /><div>Moving on, there was one more aspect I wanted to add to my blog. Images. It gives any write-up a more wholesome appeal to it. But, I wanted to do it differently. So I have been trying to persuade some of my more talented friends to &#39;make&#39; these images for me. Time is a constraint and I have nothing to give in return. Finally, one person took on the challenge and risked her reputation and time for it. </div> <p /><div>Shivangi Sharan is an extremely talented and creative lady residing in Lucknow. I will not say anything more about her. What she does, what she has done and what she intends to do. None of this is important for now. She will be adding more visual appeal to my blog. New posts will mostly have her stamp on them, and some of the old posts might also be updated. Thank you Shivangi!</div> <p /><div>I am extremely excited about this enhancement and sure hope she gets as much out of this as me and the people reading. </div><p /><div>Starting next post, she will make her presence felt. Show her some love. :)</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/blog-enhancement">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7365626985815754825?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-16694754833815053782011-09-20T18:35:00.001+05:302011-09-20T18:35:21.007+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://theoatmeal.com/">Oatmeal</a> always comes up with the most brilliant comics to explain the most complicated stuff in the funniest manner. They have now come up with this new series about what we should have been taught in School. Below are a few of them. Go read the rest <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/senior_year">here</a>. Go! <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/C2TCVgRCaxOIwSMSjPXslWqICiksMB57RmlZbRptxuRXbC340GnbjK88tWxS/english.png"><img alt="English" height="355" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/Awl8w7p7lxT9KPLDCVvs0ViK6GKXFf0kBA0GUecoU7l5P3L91P6EUcpBcDWo/english.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/XdDLtp0YfQluPTwHEqve6YBvqWkFmkoazhaf79mtXCZl3hiwTcCTi7a4l1W1/math.png"><img alt="Math" height="742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/kj7PzqincKByptR1yLMabBJYdLTzAy8DhzLODPA0obdXdQPGgJuOPMWIzSrE/math.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/nIPhlpFrCLhmnO8WENMyYDZWeCd6D5iKV1t6Q5v85MZgfYu1nRjQeLa4tgdZ/sex_ed.png"><img alt="Sex_ed" height="379" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/yZ3ZZU2YWdtCVlTynyOzrlObkjEuYzJ0wE2An5QTnQG553ye0cqN1yFq7jx7/sex_ed.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://adityakandala.com/what-we-should-have-actually-been-taught-in-s">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/what-we-should-have-actually-been-taught-in-s">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1669475483381505378?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-86458522355717727912011-08-14T22:28:00.001+05:302011-08-14T22:28:25.629+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="text-align: justify;">We Indians have had a terrible month of August. If someone could measure the general happiness of a general Indian, it would possibly break the wrong end of the scale. The Happiness Barometer of the mentioned general Indian is majorly governed by three key factors, the performance of the Indian Cricket Team, the performance of the stock markets and the performance of the Indian Government, in that particular order.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Indian Cricket Team is currently on the tour of England and for the sake of being nice to them, let’s just say they are being humiliated. The first two tests of the four test series showed the glaring difference between a fitter, hungrier and better prepared side and India. Indian supporters typically were not prepared to throw in the towel. We believed this team could still level the series come August. But the bad news kept on coming. Players started getting injured and backups kept boarding flights to England every other day. The scheduled warm up match before the third test too ended in disappointment. We still believed we could pull it off, after all Sehwag and Gambhir were both again fit to play. Well, nothing of that sort has happened and it seems the number one test ranking will be unceremoniously snatched from us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Let us move on to the more serious topic of global economy. Somehow, global economy seems to be doing worse than Indian Cricket. America has quite unceremoniously lost its AAA rating and stock markets the world over have obliged by replicating the domino effect. Investors the world over have lost Trillions of their hard earned dollars and it is no different in India. Oil prices are shooting up, dollar is getting stronger, gold prices are breaking new highs, every share is breaking their lows and ‘Double Dip’ no longer means an ice cream flavor. People are genuinely worried about how the economy will play out in the next few months and eventually in the next couple of years. For the first time in a very long time, America seems to be coming down to its knees and no one really knows how long they will take to stand back up. Everyone is getting ready to hang onto their jobs now and preparing to go on an austerity drive thanks to the lessons they got from 2008. If the bulls don’t show up anytime soon, panic will be the order of the day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">From the serious topic of economics we will now move to the much lighter topic of politics. Shambles is the word that springs to mind when one thinks of the state of the Indian Government right now. The ruling party does not know how many they need to fire to regain face, the party leader is ill (may God bless her) with a secret illness, the Prime Minister doesn&#39;t speak much and when he does come prepared with a speech, the opposition party boycotts proceedings and doesn’t let him speak at all! Apart from all this, there are people going on fasts, CMs refusing to resign and then resigning, inflation spiraling out of control and the economy is not being kind either. The only miraculous reason this government still exists is that there is no other possible alternative. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The irony of this entire situation is that this nation will be celebrating its 64^th Independence Day on 15^th. This date nicely and symbolically splits this month. Maybe the start of the 65^th year will be brighter and happier for its people. But the cricket team might still lose.</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/bears-wear-blue-in-august">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8645852235571772791?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-9062980766370854252011-07-02T03:32:00.001+05:302011-07-02T03:32:40.310+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>As you sit on this balmy night,</div><div>Everything around you seems awry.</div><div>You just don&#39;t remember what is &#39;right&#39;,</div><div>Feels like you were hit by a lorry.</div><p /><div>When was the last time you called,</div> <div>Someone who would call you right back?</div><div>Like a software that wont install,</div><div>Its like all your brain needs is a hack.</div><p /><div>You don&#39;t know what you want it to do,</div><div>If you want it to change time or stop it.</div> <div>Maybe all you want is the hack to reset you,</div><div>So you are back at the start in a click.</div><p /><div>But think about it, is it what you want,</div><div>To do everything you did, all over again?</div> <div>Does it scare you my friend, does it daunt,</div><div>To know you will still do it all the same?</div><p /><div>So maybe there is absolutely no point,</div><div>In asking for another chance ever.</div><div> What you do is pick today, now, this joint,</div><div>And make sure every moment you treasure.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/this-joint-in-time">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-906298076637085425?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-47713851470644531262011-06-21T18:53:00.001+05:302011-06-21T18:53:10.818+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/geek-culture-infographic"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/guykawasaki/wzdmqmjjncAelkFwyrJlJGgymFsabbJpyAcljfkHkcqfcxJwdwmqeuubFvyC/media_httpwwwgeeksare_nCxdg.jpg.scaled500.jpg" border="0" width="500" /></a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/geek-culture-infographic">holykaw.alltop.com</a></div> <p>:D </p><p>Long Live Geeks!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/geek-culture-infographic">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4771385147064453126?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-58338045964593522011-06-09T00:44:00.001+05:302011-06-09T00:44:07.218+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I find this term really really fascinating. Compass Box. <p /><div>It is an absolutely childish term. I for one, cannot ever imagine a grown up using this term regularly. And I really love the way it rolls out of your mouth. I mean, not YOUR mouth. I guess you got what I mean. Apart from how it sounds, it is one of the few terms which directly transports you to only one undisputed place - School. Back in school when all of us used to look the same. Same uniform, same shoes for all. It was so difficult to stand out. My school did not allow the girls to wear any kind of jewelry as well. </div> <p /><div>All that we had to show a difference were our bags, and, our Compass Box. Of course, back then, there were no exposure to famous football clubs, or IPL teams. There were your usual Superheroes and the popular (and now classic) Cartoon Characters. So bags in short had limited options. So, it all boiled down to the Compass Box. </div> <p /><div>Girls had these neatly kept simple boxes, with appropriate number of pens and pencils with erasers and sharpeners. Boys however, were spoilt for choice. From the usual and the original Geometry Set Box (which actually held a compass), to plain plastic boxes, to the ones which were &#39;branded&#39; pouches. However, the ones which never failed to impress were the ones which were robotic. I kid you not! These were EPIC in the truest sense of the word. They had buttons which made the box look like Swiss Army Knives shooting out erasers and sharpeners. It was almost pornographic with the amount of &#39;oohs&#39; and &#39;aahs&#39; it used to demand from its audience. It was like the only way one could actually get a toy to school and play with it. It was a rocket launcher, a battleship, a launchpad, an airport and anything a boy wanted it to be.</div> <p /><div>I know I have rattled on quite a bit about something as simple as a Compass Box, but come on! After all, it is about our Compass Box!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/compass-box">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5833804596459352?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-89251402355099970552011-04-11T19:56:00.001+05:302011-04-11T19:56:25.131+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I went on a week long trip to Sikkim. It was undoubtedly the best trip I have taken till date. The place is quite literally out of this proverbial world. The things I am listing down are not things that Sikkim taught me, but things that &#39;came to me&#39; in this trip. <p /><div><ol><li>I nag. A lot. (You, yes you reading this right now, please don&#39;t give a &#39;finally!&#39; smirk)</li><li>I am bad at bargaining. (I always kinda knew this though, but well, and again, do not smirk!)</li> <li>Beauty is superficial. It should be. It can be.</li><li>Beauty is .....</li><li>English is an inadequate language. I wish there were words that could fill the above blank.</li><li>Looking at something that is unarguably one of the best that Nature could dish out, gives a new meaning to the word &#39;awe&#39;. (Damn you English! And I am talking of Mt. Kanchenjunga here by the way)</li> <li>Sports transcends, unites, exhilarates and is always loved.</li><li>&#39;Sheela ki jawaani&#39; is popular is quite the understatement.</li><li>I am now unsure if I like the beaches or the mountains.</li><li>I have been scarred for life. By Sikkim.</li> </ol></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/10-things-i-learnt-in-sikkim">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8925140235509997055?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-50505832941723581552011-03-28T00:16:00.001+05:302011-03-28T00:16:45.563+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/DeploGaoEolyeaAdkFsvBtaEibIBhhuEwhylxhmAldCBteBaxabzBhgEHnoC/2011-03-27_15.40.37.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/DeploGaoEolyeaAdkFsvBtaEibIBhhuEwhylxhmAldCBteBaxabzBhgEHnoC/2011-03-27_15.40.37.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p>Today, I had to drive my mom around (this is the weirdest way to start a post). Anyway, I will not get into the details of what and how and just get to the point: it involved going to a school. A very quaint old school in Chembur. It was just one storey tall and looked as if it could do with some upgrades.&nbsp;</p> <p>This was where I realised a couple of things:</p> <ol> <li>I have not seen a school from the inside in a very long time</li> <li>I do not know what upgrades schools have currently got compared to ten years back</li> </ol> <p>Due to the above reasons, I could not decide if the school was good or bad (considering it was a Sunday and it was closed for the usual business).&nbsp;</p> <p>However, I did see a few things that made me think. Outside every class window, there hung these 'sayings' which are supposed to build a strong human character. These were the same lines which we were taught in school. And I was happy that they are still trying to instill them. The world seems so different than what it was when I was in school. It seems just more, layered. Everything is layered. Maybe it always was like this.</p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/zonuFsIjprlGbIDcdwDGjuBygJbvcxbgmolGyCEahCEvEdDppfetqCBezGgH/2011-03-27_15.36.45.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/zonuFsIjprlGbIDcdwDGjuBygJbvcxbgmolGyCEahCEvEdDppfetqCBezGgH/2011-03-27_15.36.45.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/JvkhktHrrwtslFsjyAopngGmoaatiEnomhChykuzGAdGlpGnruuqhiEnozHd/2011-03-27_15.37.13.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/JvkhktHrrwtslFsjyAopngGmoaatiEnomhChykuzGAdGlpGnruuqhiEnozHd/2011-03-27_15.37.13.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/oIbaigJiEwlrvEbvauoAzeCuwAHGnxruobmfnryulJqkIildtGlgDFdrBpel/2011-03-27_15.38.44.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/oIbaigJiEwlrvEbvauoAzeCuwAHGnxruobmfnryulJqkIildtGlgDFdrBpel/2011-03-27_15.38.44.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/ugIjyJlsuEIImBxzvdmAcyDxrkxClhqdxfqsvGnnrhwrixAoHcmhhiwogwJp/2011-03-27_15.39.07.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/ugIjyJlsuEIImBxzvdmAcyDxrkxClhqdxfqsvGnnrhwrixAoHcmhhiwogwJp/2011-03-27_15.39.07.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/iixGHHGyfhizxcxyuIlwarsbIwxHweqtCFJIHJFjgJhdxJhplBthIfmjHmgE/2011-03-27_15.46.36.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/iixGHHGyfhizxcxyuIlwarsbIwxHweqtCFJIHJFjgJhdxJhplBthIfmjHmgE/2011-03-27_15.46.36.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/zaJbpbcnlFuDuobtchuzbpfIbbrboGiHsvDzoDHtdeJCIqakJftpfiptBFjf/2011-03-27_15.47.22.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="2011-03-27_15" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-03-27/zaJbpbcnlFuDuobtchuzbpfIbbrboGiHsvDzoDHtdeJCIqakJftpfiptBFjf/2011-03-27_15.47.22.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://adityakandala.com/dont-know-what">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p> <p>I am practical enough to realise that nothing much has changed in the way humans interacted then and the way we do now. The means have changed. But we are still the same fools. Just that new means of interaction have allowed us to do our foolery faster than ever before.</p> <p>I am sure the people who taught me in school knew about all this. They knew what the world is like. Why did they still tell me these things? I feel cheated by all of them. But I guess if they would have gave us a reality check at 6, all of us would simply dread growing up.&nbsp;</p> <p>Idon't know what exactly went through my mind when I read these lines. I was not sure if these words hold true. If these words do not hold true, why do we use them to lie to kids? How much longer will we keep trying in vain to create ideal men? It is not possible to do it this way.&nbsp;</p> <p>I don't know what the solution is. Or maybe, I don't know what the problem is.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/dont-know-what">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5050583294172358155?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-87447972949138840422011-03-22T20:13:00.001+05:302011-03-22T20:13:30.043+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z9dn6U-A5QY&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z9dn6U-A5QY&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9dn6U-A5QY&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>A nice video with a close up view of the DRS/ARW at work. </p><p>Only 4 more days to go! :D</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/michael-schumacher-explains-2011-f1-rules">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8744797294913884042?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-31100970586529002282011-03-22T18:00:00.001+05:302011-03-22T18:00:35.875+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HrbJPsPtTyU&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HrbJPsPtTyU&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrbJPsPtTyU">youtube.com</a></div> <p>I cannot wait to watch this movie! </p><p>Epic movie for an Epic Driver! *Respect*</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/trailer-of-senna-the-movie">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3110097058652900228?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-84048230624721660402011-03-21T01:35:00.001+05:302011-03-21T01:35:30.883+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>So here are a few more pictures of the progress being made at the Indian GP track. The last I had <a href="http://indiangp.net/countdown-to-the-indian-gp">posted pictures</a>, they had just about begun constructing the grand stand. In these picture you can see the definite shapes. <p /><div>And oh ya, the first bit of tarmac has been laid! :D</div><p /><div>Note: I have not clicked any of these pictures, credit to the photographer.</div> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/OI7wAP4L1JGUZ8I3Hz8DXkbBA6dctIzrqMUvS5knXHuVDvjblL5KVWd3roCg/188497_197039333659720_1000006.jpg"><img alt="188497_197039333659720_1000006" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/jUpgqSkknEPDTVA66whmuv57asFtB96fpWvH80yr81qQCrB1Jf0xZlLhum8E/188497_197039333659720_1000006.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/6BRnmZUX4fz1Em1C0ymM93B99ehOjVGsx7aq3bWd6cWARqnAqAtZJg1dhqoO/189211_197039590326361_1000006.jpg"><img alt="189211_197039590326361_1000006" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/gPZD2SgICLCEE8tbxlUtrV1d6JPVFXXUWmBpS9cBaM1S4S1mZhMBhFlu3jEV/189211_197039590326361_1000006.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/OLGy47u33QztpyL1azKmFQ0q5zqhpG3SDMid2RBFyfY3k8qp4D8vV3TiBoMn/189582_197040060326314_1000006.jpg"><img alt="189582_197040060326314_1000006" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/0GrD3h3PznoWOWkudtL2ngZU5VaqHjwvDxHPxZzipyD51nyKz5vJU2NLfnFS/189582_197040060326314_1000006.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/1FEWqdOFjSnxNd92bhwo1DrOvuyRkE9F26TCQDSu2elViCdy7ncEg5p2DXeW/200127_197039840326336_1000006.jpg"><img alt="200127_197039840326336_1000006" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/aX22xX65Z676KlalIqAd0ArDzg1g9GNFqeGd6oxS8mWsaFV3ouy81RRAyBbX/200127_197039840326336_1000006.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/fB6sxJlimQqk6ONCFxcj5AWngxQvltAWPHUE5aBUoxEXaKtffALOsDbBprYh/200661_197040206992966_1000006.jpg"><img alt="200661_197040206992966_1000006" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/indiangp/UAJJwweeB13e1Gz2acxrHb3xu3LovRhNQmASOsIdu3bYd7pE3HURsOWInG6S/200661_197040206992966_1000006.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://indiangp.net/indian-gp-track-update">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/indian-gp-track-update">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8404823062472166040?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-9480717642948919852011-03-18T22:04:00.001+05:302011-03-18T22:04:53.358+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2UBItzOoeA4&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2UBItzOoeA4&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UBItzOoeA4">youtube.com</a></div> <p>I really hope this is a brilliant car on track! :)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/the-vjm04-explained-by-force-india">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-948071764294891985?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-29166236446050106752011-03-18T22:01:00.001+05:302011-03-18T22:01:43.273+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-yE3khtKZGg&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-yE3khtKZGg&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=-yE3khtKZGg">youtube.com</a></div> <p>I really like the video. Though there is MUCH more to ARW than the little bit explained here. </p><p>Still, a very neat video! Watch it in HD.</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/sebastian-vettel-explains-f1-kers-and-drs">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2916623644605010675?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-49862573968655609862011-03-04T21:18:00.001+05:302011-03-04T21:18:19.378+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>The Indian GP got featured in the <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/greater-noida-gets-ready-for-first-indian-grand-prix-ticket-sales-start-next-month/757544/">paper</a> today. The Indian Express to be precise. <p /><div>The focus of the article was sale of tickets. Apparently tickets will start selling online in about a month&#39;s time. </div><p /><div>As mentioned in my earlier post, it will have over 100,000 seats and the good things are:</div> <p /><div><ol><li>Most of them will be sold to general public</li><li>They will be affordable for students</li></ol><p /><div>Thank God BCCI is not in charge of this! ;)</div></div><p /><div> Save up!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/indian-gp-tickets-sale-to-start-within-a-mont">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4986257396865560986?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28339514225836250982011-02-26T00:49:00.001+05:302011-02-26T00:49:16.523+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/qmemkdajtgsExaBkIjmGdHtuzEfsJAwAJBahFhxroGqFavFsdclyzpqvcsgA/1578470573.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/qmemkdajtgsExaBkIjmGdHtuzEfsJAwAJBahFhxroGqFavFsdclyzpqvcsgA/1578470573.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/vcwbqkBnfIbJFsDeqpgxACuwJaxIjhkeyqeoFfpwlosxFfmwonknkoftoppJ/1578470596.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/vcwbqkBnfIbJFsDeqpgxACuwJaxIjhkeyqeoFfpwlosxFfmwonknkoftoppJ/1578470596.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/CfrxkwkdEGerhnkByGFgjEJCiFwtHgdIfaaGbtaxtkydCwHiktqBqHqCAthk/1578470597.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/CfrxkwkdEGerhnkByGFgjEJCiFwtHgdIfaaGbtaxtkydCwHiktqBqHqCAthk/1578470597.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/grgBCBcyimqcxzIsGjpmhJsJbDvJfoyoGlcAJEADGdBecumrhgArBijcwuBH/1578470598.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/grgBCBcyimqcxzIsGjpmhJsJbDvJfoyoGlcAJEADGdBecumrhgArBijcwuBH/1578470598.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/HigFehlzsHADBwaocrbcwErsFuIHlsFixtHrlJsDyIuHmqizrzcGzEpppCjr/1578470599.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/HigFehlzsHADBwaocrbcwErsFuIHlsFixtHrlJsDyIuHmqizrzcGzEpppCjr/1578470599.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/gIvtEteIvEDkjapyIsntmHkjIEhqmiItCiwiDxnghmAlytktJIpCjbugrkEk/1578470600.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/gIvtEteIvEDkjapyIsntmHkjIEhqmiItCiwiDxnghmAlytktJIpCjbugrkEk/1578470600.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/snigdhas-birthday'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p>US Club. Colaba. :)<p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/snigdhas-birthday">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2833951422583625098?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-66626437042032982642011-02-12T21:34:00.001+05:302011-02-12T21:34:40.852+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>I really do feel bad about not blogging enough!</p> <p>Now that I have got that out of the way, let me move on to the topic at hand.</p> <p>I do know that the title of this post sounds quite dreary, but I really&nbsp;could&nbsp;not think of any other, it really has been very long since I have blogged. Moving on, we all know what SMM means. It is because of SMM that you are currently reading my post (well most of you atleast), so I shall refrain from explaing and just point you to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_marketing">link</a>,&nbsp;just in case,&nbsp;and move on.</p> <p>I am not really the most active person on Twitter, but I am an active follower. In short, I use it more for reading than for writing. I do love the concept of SMM and think it is extremely powerful. A couple of days back, my friend <a href="http://twitter.com/Achint">@Achint</a>&nbsp;alerted his 500 odd followers about an ongoing conversation on Twitter. The think you should know about Achint is that apart from being my friend, he is also a founder member of the <a href="http://smcmumbai.com/">Social Media Club - Mumbai</a>&nbsp;(SMC). So he does know a thing or two about SMM. Anyway, the conversation was truly interesting and showed how powerful SMM is and the fact that Indian brands are catching up!</p> <p>This is how it all began - Mr. X wanted buy a TV and asked all his friends on twitter for suggestions on where he should buy it from. He got a few replies from his friends pointing him to a Vijay Sales as you can see below. An hour later he got tweeted by Just Dial asking him if he wants to know his way to the nearest Vijay Sales Store!</p> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/fFIhwCAlzJHfcEFtgHGICmImFhHCgpzIbfAtqznDCaGDDAezwpoyixoCmsiJ/VijaySales1.png.scaled1000.png'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/fFIhwCAlzJHfcEFtgHGICmImFhHCgpzIbfAtqznDCaGDDAezwpoyixoCmsiJ/VijaySales1.png.scaled500.png" width="500" height="472"/></a> </p> <p>That was quite nice! But it did not end there. It seems Vijay Sales has a twitter handle too and do their own <a href="http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCQQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FObject-relational_mapping&amp;ei=WqZWTdXhIs2mrAfXn4TFBw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEB3nyK_8ZjwMGbKLUgGMact8Hp4A&amp;sig2=0ZAcOncJYyx_qNWK4n9NeQ">ORM</a>. Detecting that people have been talking about it, they dived right in as you can see below.&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/qlEhEGiczbIGdtzxigBsalBmCpoHnDkbCqdyIzIxfibfybaexfjsCppgccmi/VijaySales2_.png.scaled500.png" width="439" height="494"/> Now, this was awesome! They tried to help him find a brand and model, but not once did they tell him to come to the store. Polite, friendly and cool. The conversation went on for a little while more and ended with 'thank you' all around.</p> <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/ngmjvpwJzdgJGCjfBgsuBfGCIoyvctrnjCuxDgBnngtqfHcjjfwcgcoCGJuf/VijaySales3.png.scaled500.png" width="447" height="553"/> </p> <p>This ensures that Mr. X will not go anywhere but Vijay Sales. Atleast I would not go anywhere else.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you have experienced something similar and would like to share please do leave your comments.</p> <p>I would surely be posting more frequently on SMM from now on. It is a topic that deeply interests me and I really do believe that it is the future of all things.</p> <p>If you are interested in SMM please do join the SMC where Achint and others are going to talk more in detail regarding this example and more.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/social-media-marketing">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6662643704203298264?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-35570273882799925922011-02-12T19:18:00.001+05:302011-02-12T19:18:35.774+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>It has really been ages since I have posted on this blog of mine. It is about the Indian GP and I haven't really found a lot of time to keep posting updates over here. I will now try to cram in as much as possible. So here goes.</p> <ol> <li>We will surely have one Indian driver in an F1 car at the Indian GP - Narain Karthikeyan. Atleast as of now, considering how things went for Karun last year</li> <li>Force India is looking really good and Vijay Mallya's dream of getting a Podium Place at the inaugural Indian GP is not far fetched at all. In fact, we would be disappointed</li> <li>The construction at the Jaypee International Circuit has been going on with full steam. Below are some pictures of the same. I am just crossing my fingers that it doesn't join Eden Gardens and the Commonwealth Games in the Wall of Shame. But I doubt that, considering it is being taken care of by a corporate house with its eyes on profits!</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.immc.in/">Indian Motorsports Marshals Club</a> has finished its exercise of collecting volunteers as Race Marshal. They have received more applications (one of which is mine) than they can do justice to and will start selection soon</li> <li>Below is also a simulated flying lap of the Circuit with a voice-over by none other than the Brand Ambassador of the Circuit - Karun Chandok. The circuit design looks really good by the way. Tilke hasn't let us down!</li> <li>Ticket sales have obviously not started yet, but fear not, the GP can hold 150,000 spectators, so you will mostly get a seat. Just make sure you do not 'forget' to buy the tickets when sales open.</li> </ol> <p>I am looking forward to this more than anything else this year! :-)</p> <p>Please leave your comments if you planning to attend the Indian GP :-)</p> <ol> </ol> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/fcsCIvbxkJyolofciHCEpHkhjknbGAbrszkqklrrnidoExsDgszqofuotejC/jaypeeinternationalrace.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/fcsCIvbxkJyolofciHCEpHkhjknbGAbrszkqklrrnidoExsDgszqofuotejC/jaypeeinternationalrace.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/auytlxjEIiBdIdxeEmuhkzzoHaprInibsGsfjIDqDfciacyvfvgekjhlbhdA/w6wli.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/auytlxjEIiBdIdxeEmuhkzzoHaprInibsGsfjIDqDfciacyvfvgekjhlbhdA/w6wli.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/DyhGaHvdGAGAuFkHAlnFqawlcDEnBaqaAdwznnuxmEdDbvpFtJgkHpfbfJyd/sngff.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="480" height="640"/> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/pfCDshconjdxhElrGffArlHvJClkwpbuailzlHyavcAfzDsxfngzGebwIwzC/picture001zd.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/pfCDshconjdxhElrGffArlHvJClkwpbuailzlHyavcAfzDsxfngzGebwIwzC/picture001zd.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/EuvljesieIsGgxtqIioFhIebgfcECpabroFcwgDDsAbyvevGgtJtHDGetbco/picture074a.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-12/EuvljesieIsGgxtqIioFhIebgfcECpabroFcwgDDsAbyvevGgtJtHDGetbco/picture074a.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <div><a href='http://indiangp.net/countdown-to-the-indian-gp'>See the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y837W0ZeOPA" frameborder="0" height="390" width="640"></iframe></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/countdown-to-the-indian-gp">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3557027388279992592?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-17763769398075645102011-02-12T18:33:00.001+05:302011-02-12T18:33:46.802+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>So we just got done with the winter transfer window and we are already speculating over summer transfers. Every year, every single year this happens. Every year there are rumours of big-ticket players switching loyalties. But this year seems a little different. The year after the World Cup. <p /><div>Last year a lot of players got noticed in the World Cup and all of a sudden big clubs across the continent made a scrap for them. First in line were Real Madrid and Barcelona. Well, they are the <a href="http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/02/10/2345167/real-madrid-barcelona-lead-football-richlist-as-manchester">two richest clubs</a> in the world at the moment. However, there seems to be too much money going around for players who don&#39;t deserve so much for my liking. Yes, I am a Madridista, but I don&#39;t agree with the way they end up spending their money most of the times. I am sure this holds true for fans of all clubs.</div> <p /><div>We now hear that Madrid is willing to pay 60 million euros for Cesc. I mean, what is wrong with the current team? They have just lost two matches in the league! They haven&#39;t lost a single match at home! Why mess it up? They are just unfortunately in the same league as the best club in the world at the moment. </div> <p /><div>I feel that every club should have a limited number of jerseys for each position that they give out to new players. Clubs should not buy players just for the sake of buying them! Yes, Cesc maybe unhappy at Arsenal, but that doesn&#39;t mean you have to buy them! The club which NEEDS Cesc should buy him and not one that just wants him. But this will never happen. And I will keep ranting!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/cesc-to-real">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1776376939807564510?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-64275850951873842512010-12-24T21:18:00.001+05:302010-12-24T21:18:31.128+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Guys love making lists. Especially lists which are similar to <a href="http://adityakandala.com/tag/10things">10 things…</a></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Considering it&#39;s Christmas Eve and with all the wish/gift lists going around, I though I would make one too. I will keep it short and simple for Mr. Claus.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Here goes nothing:</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"></p><ol style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_458_Italia">Ferrari 458 Italia</a> (Black/Red)</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500">Fiat 500 - Abarth Edition</a> (Yes, I want both the cars)</li><li><a href="http://www.lg.com/in/tv-audio-video/lcd-tv/LG-55LD650.jsp">LG 55LD650 LCD TV</a></li><li><a href="http://home-audio.toptenreviews.com/home-theater-in-a-box/onkyo/onkyo-ht-s7200-review.html">Onkyo HT-S7200 Home Theatre System</a></li><li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect">Xbox 360 Slim - Kinect Bundle</a></li><li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D7000">Nikon D7000</a></li><li> <a href="http://www.fonearena.com/blog/25235/samsung-galaxy-s2-leaked-with-specs.html">Samsung Galaxy S 2</a></li><li> Be a <a href="http://immc.in/">Race Marshal</a> at the Inaugural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Grand_Prix">Indian GP</a> on 28th October 2011</li><li> Tickets to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cl%C3%A1sico">El Clásico</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Bernabeu">Santiago Bernabéu</a> in April 2011</li><li> Tickets to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Grand_Prix">Belgian GP</a> at Spa Francorchamps on 26th August 2011 </li></ol> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">No, I don’t want some of them.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yes, I want ALL of them.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">No, they are not in any order.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yes, only Mr. Claus can grant me these wishes; for now.</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Merry Christmas!</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <br /></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Happy New Year!</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/dear-santa">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6427585095187384251?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-36375107873615342532010-12-24T13:22:00.001+05:302010-12-24T13:22:23.309+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hSv1JnPvrM0&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hSv1JnPvrM0&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSv1JnPvrM0">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Sigh! </p><p>Ok, I agree this is not the best you might have seen, but you have to see how Madrid has been playing this entire half-season to know what I am talking about. </p><p>Hala Madrid!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/absolutely-delicious-football">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3637510787361534253?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-83867537165669322242010-12-15T13:04:00.001+05:302010-12-15T13:04:09.661+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/Uvhb061MuzEKYlM7IutYR1CSOo9TIyKzBYqJcUg1hve6LYrYGHYRR1lrh341/2010-12-15_12.45.57.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/Ly2aJqL3mZrBdPDQou1bPC2AOxoOGfzF2Xr8PwckzuK30K27vUunhEkb0Kuy/2010-12-15_12.45.57.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <p></p><p>Check out the Converse!</p> <p>P.S. It also reminds me of a certain Super Model friend I know. ;-)</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/all-star-0">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8386753716566932224?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-65908376538892989832010-12-15T13:01:00.001+05:302010-12-15T13:01:30.581+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/LJ9jdwY9adVTaCIcKWZ0K7KopXKPmC7weVHCYqgRZALwkPwbq1aeX5ttWk8r/2010-12-15_12.45.57.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/kgcCK2POPlmx3vMhG9CJTHj3bZF1Vf0Ka3fY73RebCKLFEZfvVJyYnsUn2vn/2010-12-15_12.45.57.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <p></p><p>Check out the Converse!</p> <p>P.S. It also reminds me of a certain Super Model friend I know. ;-)</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/all-star">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6590837653889298983?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28543212434807021082010-12-04T01:26:00.001+05:302010-12-04T01:26:12.484+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Today I read this article by <a href="http://www.managingmadrid.blogspot.com/">Gabe Lezra</a> on <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/532213-real-madrid-humbled-but-not-broken-after-clsico-defeat">Bleacher Report</a> about Madrid&#39;s Clasico defeat. I agree with every word of it, right from the emotion a Madridista goes through to his feelings about the current squad and their chances. It is a must read for every Madridista. </p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/humbled-but-not-broken">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2854321243480702108?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-41984207767782291832010-11-01T23:19:00.001+05:302010-11-01T23:19:39.062+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xsLIZYeU_cQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xsLIZYeU_cQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500" /></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://blog.achint.net/the-biggest-show-in-town-obama-comes-to-mumba">blog.achint.net</a></div> <p>Hat-tip: Achint Parekh</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-biggest-show-in-town-barack-obama">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4198420776778229183?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-62771548918803871422010-10-18T01:05:00.001+05:302010-10-18T01:05:22.646+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Well, I have never really looked forward to go to weddings. I always find it to be a noisy, overcrowded, loud for every other sensory organ and most people who are there for the food rather than to &#39;bless&#39; the happy couple. Except, when it is a wedding in the family. That I liked.<p /><div>Yes, I said &#39;liked&#39;. Every wedding in the family was all of the above as well. But considering it being a South Indian family, the food was the type I could not go wrong with, noise was in a language I mostly understood and there was considerably less &#39;bling&#39; to spare my eyes the torture. Also, it was a genuinely happy occasion to meet most of my relatives who would come from far off lands (well, mostly all of them come from Hyderabad, but its still not close by). It was good to catch up, see who has grown out of pre-school to school and so on and so forth. It was funny when people used to explain at the magical effect of time and age on me and exclaim at how I have become older in spite of the fact that everything around them has refused to change. All of this was good. It WAS. Not anymore.</div> <p /><div>It is not that I dislike all of the above now. It is not that the food has become boring or that the people have become inhospitable. What has happened however, is that the miracle of aging has gone on for too long now. Apparently it is time for me to be sitting at one place and stare into the fire while others try to wonder what time lunch will be served. It is about time that I get hitched. And I can&#39;t say I am surprised. I am surprised however that it has taken them so long to start the discussions. Considering that all of my cousins close to my age (none older than me though) are already married. And also the little matter of being 28.</div> <p /><div>Today I had to attend another of my cousin&#39;s wedding. The irony is you can&#39;t really miss these weddings. Once I am there however, I try to steer yourself away from all the women after saying a customary hello. I know that if I stick around a minute more than it actually takes to say the usual pleasantries, and WHAM! They will hit me with the question. With a sheepish smile on the face, which is out of genuine concern but still bordering on looking like a triumphant glee at being able to corner me, they ask &#39;So when is your turn aye?&#39; I am amazed at how many people can ask this same question but still get the same reaction out of me every single time. It seems to be a question for which there can be no adequate amount of preparation. There cannot be an answer to it. It is for sure a rhetorical question one would think. Yet, every questioner does not merely ask the question and move on to some other topic of equal irrelevance as one should do once questions of rhetorical nature are put forth, they pause and just look at my face. Either out of sheer sadistic joy of looking at the myriad of expressions mirroring my unique state of mind or out of genuine expectations to get an equally genuine answer. How can I answer? WHAT can I answer? Am I supposed to give a date? Every other answer apart from a date would just draw a look of disappointment making me look like a blasphemous soul. </div> <p /><div>As of now, I am not sure what sort of feelings I should have for the following fact. The next wedding in the family would most probably be mine considering the next eligible bachelor/bachelorette is at least four years younger to me. This pleasantly assures me that I do not have to prepare answers to the above mentioned question. But it brings about another feeling. It is the same feeling that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)">Neo</a> had when he finally realised he was &#39;The One&#39;. It meant that everyone would stop asking him if he really was &#39;The One&#39;, but it also meant that he would eventually and inevitable die trying to save the world. (I am only talking about the feeling he has on realisation, not the dieing part, no, that would not be prudent.)</div> <p /><div>Anyhow, I finally cast aside my miseries and bless and wish the newly married couple (Jyothy and Murali), a very happy and successful life ahead :)</div><p /><div>Enjoy the pictures!</div> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/QsHOetHVbw8dApPLqpSyskjIe4L05AHYLziHOEihU5u9MJkWXO8PJ0r8axON/DSC00919.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/0wIZ3UvBWvxkuVcoa7Q3TfKpTXeg2tyuESWBDHZWhHAYpxA0UwSaMOm4ab8A/DSC00919.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="481"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/cDrz90hhFbF4jsTWPSq1SuZQa12NaNSLlgcy1veKrm2fDX1RYCSJWAjXEqko/DSC00920.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/mfB1IfStxRwBQuSOIWAnjuSwUTW2y8mktQNDzDwNys6YFIMzs65gXHP4Z67H/DSC00920.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="374"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/aMO70oOimCnsuIfR6KlOfWbAx97ljJzgfCqRPAMszp6QBbNGqHPzVpQbHMwQ/DSC00921.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/jePCXU4AtjzgtYUD8KzvwoEcWQNEhAkF34mkJkC09Jpy0uQbA6L8oV6Ata08/DSC00921.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/B42X0FGVNrHXFSDruGfFckl2tf0Ec8TPrPeuteDoQ4WlEJ01sQJllSfrk4qZ/DSC00922.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/bapHYlGS1HDsLlMqK90BqJFU3ZB9hbpR71BoqnQLplj3AcyrV8xPapaXluZC/DSC00922.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/CK4mioa72AyiiF58uXaHG1tcWGbcldO7g4QXId0wluujLtIQDjTms4g6rKR3/DSC00924.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/9ZvwRAcJcOJ8rvRa8k80cdAqNK6AP2PGqQ5LeKq3dtt8hI3Q0cdc9mp4kuMJ/DSC00924.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/pDQubFfe7Q4apIpkNfmphDkbObO3cVjdl1vibc7rSVSqvKXHYkcxVYSrCqm5/DSC00928.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/xy28F4O9LfGmMmFhK0zuiSg0TOZeZKqvq4L83xJQG8jFRY7NiOcG1TYYbBG3/DSC00928.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="467"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/lmstKR49meOtFah3ADxMMv6Dta3KMe5S7s5nICuQq40y3RBQaFPEMld0eBpN/DSC00937.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/fNztNRGk9MLP4qTzNDaEB1A03EZZuaAqoRhUg2XbpHPmZcjoO8XukExgIolL/DSC00937.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/awykJwdZ9csnRWIwrvFJq4UfIDzbB0uBIrzKaMtddazjlyeMMJIJeWHZG8yT/DSC00968.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/Wyua7gNGZN95b2RVYAwXyYw8ppMP4zd2ydfKUCtW2o6rb1hp3cAW9BlxPUeW/DSC00968.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/K5ul8bKtHrhWUVLWDCH6KibhTXQpY9dnyt3iFwaShypMVkdDKSJer7thMM3H/DSC00990.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/edQMnt8DAOzip7S4uFuKhlSE2r5jxtFNuQ2WdkWzHd2SHAa1KR2rXybfosuY/DSC00990.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="485"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/uB0msB0sFXcNnAGmnonAaIX59yZTBW6Oojote4lxr2WJyhgkTYQKrUHL8Pud/DSC00991.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/e0KoxqDDjS4NpRmV8Wj1VRmoawt7ZYgZBTfRgwWpLNHvEmEvqqwKxAZieJSq/DSC00991.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="553"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/lFCiYOst3huzh1bH5Sdj805ivk9ziOT9jJpw9DwXjEwzg7mJsJYtY4sMZftd/DSC01001.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/AN69KyVfKdDjnAugn5mhup6MlEBz1wyptH5frGqlddGcInV025CP344oj9Ob/DSC01001.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="445"/></a> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/mera-number'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/mera-number">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6277154891880387142?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-20016682366864172542010-10-12T00:25:00.001+05:302010-10-12T00:25:31.267+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>These are screenshots that have been taken from my Kindle by pressing [Shift] + [Alt] + [G]. <p /><div>The screen is exactly like this.</div> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/rULtVTshN04TD0ABGfkUD3rIV4o9Pbhfv4S0LivshgGwTvFHy7sLLMh1BbIu/screen_shot-58648.gif'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/VNgIQBinnmfska6ZXMDAeZbTWAgjbyH6CDqGDluzgpG1Xe8XFes7NjRTq5TU/screen_shot-58648.gif.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/XKD5C2zONkQPZBWKWaJDLnO9gwnmzYsOROVfMmiL9gg4qS7ZoNx6K68iLyJp/screen_shot-58619.gif'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/VWnQCAPCB1HIayGsYp5mIVhsblL5AS5jqEwTTR9pif3ReZxHfdCQJvqhpCiZ/screen_shot-58619.gif.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/i5kpYXf5pMtgqiG3Wdn37PgHklLgcnpEPRGcwbJ04bT3AC18WZZFac3Ia6Gu/screen_shot-58622.gif'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/qNVjbHYNky5Kl5sMOOtfYAkuCjnuVLDOuQKgHudYpOXMnx8iPLjnlrNZ8vwr/screen_shot-58622.gif.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/2D8Avd69lId4uWeQBcGUEiQyvd6XYFv3DRDo9RBtbRe8o5hfeiwrlP4W6w6l/screen_shot-58649.gif'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/wrTBhEJCovXaPWmUDZlOazrOXHopUSVyaBthPcoldNcnvnxhOfeJy44RZE0n/screen_shot-58649.gif.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/kindle-3-screenshots'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-3-screenshots">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2001668236686417254?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-50896004114099356272010-09-22T18:38:00.001+05:302010-09-22T18:38:01.668+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>It has been more than twenty days since I got my shipment and I was still wondering how much I had to end up paying for Customs here in India. I finally decided to call up the DHL office and asked them how much I had to pay. So here is how much my Kindle finally worked out to: <p /><div>Kindle 3: 6,500</div><div>Shipping: 1,000 (it took less than 3 days from dispatch to delivery)</div><div>Customs: 2,160</div><div><b>Total: 9,660</b></div><div>The figures above are in approximate INR.</div> <p /><div>I know this is high (the customs almost killed me) and could have been just below 7,000 had someone got it along for me. But I do not mind paying a premium for getting it two months or more early had I depended on someone else. And anyway it is still much cheaper than any other e-reader available in India. And undoubtedly the best there is.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-shipment-update-2">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5089600411409935627?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-57655630046489747242010-09-21T23:20:00.001+05:302010-09-21T23:20:55.182+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>It has been a little more than 3 weeks now that I have been using my Kindle 3 and I have loved every day of it! It is an absolute joy to read a book and seamlessly got to another one once I done with it or if I just need a change from a certain book. The best part is, it fits right into my trouser pocket. This helps a lot while travelling in the Mumbai trains and buses as I don&#39;t need to put it back in my bag everytime. <p /><div>I have been able to use most of the feature till now except the music player. But this only shows that the quality of the reader is so good that I don&#39;t really care about the music that much. I have my cell phone for that. I have been using <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">Calibre</a> as my ebook management software. It has worked like a charm all this while. It has helped me tag and sort all my ebooks. It also converts all my ebooks (except PDF) into the format which Kindle would understand. PDFs have to be copied as is and are also read as is. The best feature however by a country mile for me is its ability to download feeds from news sites and compile them into an ebook format with a table of contents! This I have configured to be mailed directly from Calibre to my kindle email id, which automatically converts them into the .AZW format. These books are then put into my archives and downloaded the next time I connect via WiFi. This email conversion feature is however chargeable if you have bought a 3G Kindle.</div> <p /><div>The browser is something that I have been asked about by a few people. The Webkit browser is pretty cool in its basic abilities. It is however a little cumbersome to do anything more than read on it. So you can read your mails and login to your facebook/twitter accounts to read updates and maybe tweet a little. Reading blogs is easy with the &#39;Article Mode&#39; feature enabled. It clips the blogs by removing side images and making it easy to read. But anything other than black text again becomes a little difficult to read. Apart from this, the best idea is to browse mobile avatars of traditional sites (like <a href="http://m.gmail.com">m.gmail.com</a>) and they would be a breeze to read. But I would discourage anyone who wants to buy this based on the ability to browse. It is a workable feature but not robust enough to be a selling point yet. Buy it for its ability to be the best at being an ebook reader.</div> <p /><div>I have not heard from Amazon yet about my customs refund and hence have no update on that. </div><p /><div>To sum it up, I am more than happy about my Kindle. What I do not like that much is the stares I get when I am reading in public. What I hate more is the number of people who stop me from reading by asking me questions about the thing I am holding in my hand. I would really recommend everyone to buy a cover if you can afford it. I did not and am going to buy one soon. I doubt I would get one locally for the Kindle 3. This surely makes people believe that you are reading a regular book and not staring at what appears to be a slate!</div> <p /><div>Please do leave comments if you are planning to buy a Kindle here in India and I will try and answer as best as possible.</div><p /><div>P.S. I will try and post a few screenshots of the Kindle in my next post.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-update-3">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5765563004648974724?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-46453383324818104632010-09-21T22:28:00.001+05:302010-09-21T22:28:14.525+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>He labors to wear those clothes again. He has already had a long day. This is not the day to start. Not today. Can he not wait one more day? No, he hears. He has waited enough already.</p> <p>He tries to remember the path he used to take. It has been eight months after all. He tries to remember the distance that he had measured, the milestones that he had placed in his mind. None of them come back. It is all a blur.</p> <p>He puts the earphones in his ear and tries to find the correct playlist. He has been walking till now, trying to stretch as much as possible, preparing his muscles for the assault that is coming their way. It has been eight months after all.</p> <p>As the music starts, he pushes himself to a jog. His feet pound the weathered road; trying to match the rhythm playing in his ears. His breathes gets shorter. He has forgotten how long he can keep running without slowing down to a walk. He keeps running.</p> <p>As the songs pick up rhythm, he tries his best to match it. His lungs are trying to crack his ribs. He feels like there is only hot air around. It has been eight months after all. He feels a sense of euphoria as he crosses familiar terrain with every step.</p> <p>After a point walking hurts more than moving faster. So he keeps moving. As he reaches closer to his destination, his body finally remembers what it had gone through eight months back. This is just the beginning, it is reassured. He stops short of feeling agony. Making sure he does not over spend. The last song sends a surge of adrenalin through his blood as he starts sprinting. Soon, the adrenalin turns into endorphins. Happy. It has been eight months after all.&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/8-months">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4645338332481810463?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-21316434909560236242010-09-12T23:59:00.001+05:302010-09-12T23:59:32.393+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>I wake up at 9 AM. I am already late. Try to set a new record in getting ready. Trying to beat the record I set yesterday.</p> <p /> <div>I am ready. It is 9.30 AM. The professor would be getting ready to enter the class now, as I leave my home and run towards my bike.&nbsp;</div> <p /> <div>I try to find the shortest and straightest route possible. Quite difficult considering the route I take everyday really is the shortest and the straightest.</div> <p /> <div>I keep looking at the time on my bike's display, by now knowing which part of my journey cost me a minute and which part saved me one. I reach the campus and park my bike; wishing the parking was right outside my class!</div> <p /> <div>I take an entire 2 minutes to decide if it is appropriate to enter or not. A couple more come along who believe it is their right to enter regardless. So I try to blend in and slyly make my way to the nearest vacant seat. The class ends.</div> <p /> <div>I go near the canteen and try to spot as many people I know as possible. I know this is going to end soon. I go up to the third floor and enter my workplace. I go back down and attend more classes.</div> <p /> <div>Once classes end, I go to work. Try to do what is possible, with my friends, right there in that room. We fight, yell, scream, laugh and play catch.</div> <p /> <div>The sun changes color and the sky disappears soon after. I am still there. We are still there. I go back down, meet more people. Try to find out who is going where for dinner. Make a decision based on what combination of people and food suit me the most that day and tag along. It has normally got more to do with people.</div> <p /> <div>With tummy half-full, I come back with them to the hostel. Stay till we hear the guard whistle. Say our byes and start walking in opposite directions.</div> <p /> <div>As I make that lonesome walk, to where my bike is parked, all I think of is that I will soon not be lucky enough to say goodbye to friends everyday. Hop on my bike and take a relatively leisurely ride home.&nbsp;</div> <p /> <div>Reach home and fill up my tummy. Switch on my laptop and see all my friends yet again. All of them present, as mere names on my screen. All I think of is that I will soon not be lucky enough to see this screen full of friends again.</div> <p /> <div>It is now 3.30 AM. I blink off to sleep, knowing very well that I have to set new records once I wake up.&nbsp;</div> <p /> <div>That day........was everyday.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/that-day">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2131643490956023624?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28750382950104086302010-09-05T01:50:00.001+05:302010-09-05T01:50:56.081+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Now that I have been using my Kindle 3 for 5 days, I thought maybe I should stop obsessing over it for a while and write a small review about how she has been behaving until now. <p /><div>The thing is, I really love reading. That is the reason why I doubt I will even dislike a product like this. It is a pleasure to have something like this in my bag all the time. I am currently reading 4 different books at the same time and I also read my newspapers everyday on my Kindle (more on this later).</div> <p /><div>You can read all the reviews on the net and they will all tell you that the display is as close to paper as possible (I think its better). They will tell you that it is extremely light and handy. It really is all of this and more. I like reading on it in the train or in the bus or on my bed.</div> <p /><div>Coming to a couple of issues I have faced. There was an occasion when the battery that usually lasts one month went from 70% to empty in a matter of hours without me even using it. For this I blame the indexing. I had loaded about 300 books at the same time and that was a mistake. It uses a lot of resources to index every book and all the words so that it can give instantaneous search results. The second issue is that of freezing and restarting. This has been faced by other users as well and it has been credited to a bug in the firmware. Amazon has confirmed that they are working on it and will deploy a software update in the next ten days. This issue comes up only when the processor is over loaded with indexing or heavy browsing or too many PDFs. These issues should be fixed in the next update. Till then I shall go light on my Kindle and make sure I do not overburden it with too much work. These teething problems are bound to occur with new launches or new versions. It balances out the satisfaction you get out of buying something before most other people do. Do I care? No.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-update-2">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2875038295010408630?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-64977088663761383782010-09-05T00:55:00.001+05:302010-09-05T00:55:03.737+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/dying-and-facebook-infographic"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/guykawasaki/mfaabEbmJCEomhxvlspepjfiGwAbibCebbBgjoaHchutvHcEorlwIyvcrHyb/media_httpeditorialde_bbmim.jpg.scaled500.jpg" border="0" height="1964" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/dying-and-facebook-infographic">holykaw.alltop.com</a></div> <p>This was something I always wondered. What happens to your profile after you die?</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/death-on-the-social-network">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6497708866376138378?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-81984498954430773182010-08-31T21:56:00.001+05:302010-08-31T21:56:15.932+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Well, I know this is a little late, but if you would have read my Facebook status you would have been informed that I successfully received my Kindle 3 - WiFi (Graphite) yesterday. The Blue Dart guys, who deliver for DHL here in India delivered it yesterday evening.  <p /><div>Firstly, I do not think there was any customs paid on it as there was no sticker on it from the customs guys. However, I did have to pay INR 474 as octroi on it (they did give me a receipt for this). I should have thought of this earlier and got it shipped to a Mumbai address itself. Stupid mistake! </div> <p /><div>Moving on, the packing was quite satisfactory, though I kinda expected a little more fanfare than a just a DHL cardboard box protecting my dear Eleanor inside it. But, I guess it works. This also negated the sense of occasion for me. So as I was trying to rip out the outer package expecting to find a box with &#39;Kindle 3 - Your smartest choice&#39; or something to that effect written on it, I just stumbled onto the device itself. Took me off-guard for a moment. But there it was!</div> <p /><div>It looked quite meek actually. With what looked like a sticker on it telling me to plug it in for charging. I realised that it was not really a sticker but the e-ink display playing tricks on my eyes. It vanished once I plugged it to my laptop and gave way to another sticker like display telling me that it was charging and I can also transfer books if I would like to so much. I cannot possibly exaggerate on how small this thing actually is! It is superbly handy. In fact, even though it is the lightest Kindle ever, it actually feels heavy for something that size in your hand. I say hand and not hands because you will feel weird holding it in BOTH hands at the same time. It is THAT small!</div> <p /><div>I had been working on my resident ebook collection with Calibre and had meticulously tagged them and sorted out the Author&#39;s names in correct order and all that so that I am good to go ASAP. So I selected all the books I wanted and clicked on &#39;Send to device&#39;. Another mistake. Kindle 2 and 3 give you the advantage of sorting your books in what are called &#39;Collections&#39;. Collections are to Kindle what Labels are to Gmail. So you can have all your books in multiple Collections and it makes it easier for you to get to them. Ideally you should create the Collections first and then add books to each of them. I ended up adding some 200 books first and then sorting them in Collections on my Kindle. Not very convenient. Once the books were loaded, it was pretty simple to open them and extremely pleasurable to read them. Mission accomplished!</div> <p /><div>I also tested the browser with my home WiFi connection and it worked quite well. It is weird to see Gmail and Facebook on a 6&quot; black and white screen, but it works. I would not however for a moment suggest that one can this for idle browsing (if anyone is thinking of Kindle 3G). It is quite a strain. Wikipedia is however quite nice!</div> <p /><div>All in all, I am totally happy about my purchase and would not flinch before recommending this to others who love to read. It is a brilliant invention! </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-update-and-review">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8198449895443077318?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-45590482340182458192010-08-30T01:13:00.001+05:302010-08-30T01:13:15.247+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I am really happy by how closer to me Eleanor (my Kindle) is getting everyday. Amazon has shipped it using DHL and given me a tracking number as usual. I have never got anything shipped from the US before and I am fascinated by the updates that it is giving me. It took about 24 hours for it to reach from the West Coast to the East Cost. Now in less than 24 hours it has not only reached London, but also began its journey towards home! It is already in the air having left Heathrow airport and I assume will be taken out and scanned at the Mumbai airport in the next 24 hours. So I assume it should be in my hands by 2nd of September (as Amazon estimated) or before that depending on the efficiency with which our Custom officials work. <p /><div>Speaking about customs, I know I will have to pay the duty to get it shipped from the US direct. However, inspite of the fact that I declared myself as un-Indian for doing that, I could not refrain from trying to find a loophole. Customs rules say, that if you are getting an electronic item shipped in, you have to pay duty on it. However, if that shipment is a gift that you are receiving, the value of which is below INR 10,000, then it is exempt from duty. I have got it shipped from Amazon as a gift. So it will be marked as a gift, but the value would still be printed on the box. The value being USD 139 which works out to around INR 6,512. The problem with this is, the billing and the shipping address both are mine. This might work against me. It would be better to give a local billing address, which I could have easily done. I shall however find this out in a couple of days time when the local DHL/Blue Dart guys give me my package and the duty receipt along with it. </div> <p /><div>Note: Amazon charges Import Fees Deposit for anything that it ships abroad. I was charged USD 56.34 over and above the Priority Shipping charge of USD 20.98 (which I think is not that high). They will then pay the duty on your behalf and credit back the amount that is left over. It saves you the hassle of dealing with the Customs guys directly (which however also negates the possibility of you evading the duty altogether by greasing a couple of palms).</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/kindle-shipment-update">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4559048234018245819?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-80201548472503664352010-08-29T02:16:00.001+05:302010-08-29T02:16:58.649+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Oh yes! Eleanor has been shipped already! When I ordered my Kindle 3 on 2nd of August, I was told that their order books are full and my shipment will be released on or before 4th September! But trust Amazon to delight their customer! They shipped my order on 27th of August - their original launch date.<p /><div>I can track my order every step of its way. And I am told I will receive it on 2nd of September. But I am sure that is a conservative estimate from their side :)</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/she-has-been-shipped">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8020154847250366435?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-4478133040401560702010-08-26T21:59:00.001+05:302010-08-26T22:00:00.045+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">The saga started over a month ago. Actually, the planning started over a few months ago! I was really quite keen on buying an e-reader. I really like reading and I really love gadgets. What better way to combine the two eh?</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Initially I was looking at the <a href="http://infibeam.com/pi">Infibeam Pi</a>, which seemed pretty convenient considering it was sold by an Indian company with local warranty. It is quite neat too, as it read all possible formats and had the same standard 6&quot; E-Ink display that e-readers the world over have. Of course, this e-reader was manufactured in China along with 95% of the others. I still think it is a decent device that does the trick. However, I was still in college and had to get one of those job things first to help me pay for the device which is worth 10K. (Yup, this is quite steep)</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Eventually I got myself a decent job and decided it was time to splurge a little of the not- so-hard-earned money. When the time came to order, I could not! I could not order the Pi, knowing very well that there are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">at least ten other devices</a> which do the job better and are cheaper! The problem was, however, that all of the above-mentioned ten devices were in the land of the free and the home of the brave! Getting it here would be a problem. This made me do what every Indian does. Ask around to find out if anyone I remotely know is flying down from the US in the near future (this, I thought was my true &#39;Aha&#39; moment). It became a totally &#39;Whoa Baby&#39; moment when I got the results of my social networking-based research. I suddenly knew of the existence of 5 (separate) people who were flying down from within a week to Christmas.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">What did I do? What would any self-respecting Indian do? I went for the one coming down the earliest. Yes, I had never met her, but she was one of my friend’s mom. I mean, what else are friend&#39;s moms for anyway? I went on a rampage to find out which was the best e-reader in the world for use in this part of the world. I drew up spreadsheets and elaborate comparison charts showing me comparative &#39;page turn rates&#39;. After wasting more tree-burning electricity in research than the amount my ban on paperbacks can save, I finally ordered the <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">Nook</a> (with Express Shipping and a Canvas Cover). It was now in the capable hands of the boys at UPS to ship it within 4 days so that my friend&#39;s mom can smuggle it in. Alas! Not so capable after all. It never left their warehouse and I ended up cancelling my Nook and my dreams along with it. There went my fantasy of holding Eleanor (ahem, yes, I had given her a name) in my hand and reading <i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</i>. I would now have to wait for two months more for yet another smuggler to leave those shores.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">But I have not called this story a saga just for dramatic affect. The day after I cancelled my Nook, fate (also called as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">Amazon</a>) gave the world the brand new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Graphite/dp/B002Y27P3M/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">Kindle 3</a>! It was &#39;lighter, slimmer, brighter, faster, double the storage with improved battery life AND cheaper&#39;. How could I NOT buy it? I punched the air in zest and clicked the mouse in quest. Quest for the &#39;All new Kindle 3 (Black)&#39;. I obviously became un-Indian quite fast and asked it to be shipped directly to India. Yes, all of you who are shaking your heads, I decided to pay Customs on it. I just could not wait anymore. But there was another twist. I had clicked my above mentioned mouse on 2nd August and the &#39;All new Kindle 3 (Black)&#39; was to launch on the 27th. By the time I clicked, mine was to be shipped by 4th September. So I had to wait anyway. Well, so I waited! An entire month and 2 days! Paid with my Credit Card, which was not charged as I they would still allow me to cancel my order. (Meanwhile, the often mentioned and thanked friend&#39;s mom decided to wait another week and leave later. Is this story right out of the theme park or what? I swear no one can just make this up.)</p> <div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> So I still await Eleanor. Today, on 26th, Amazon has already charged my card and has told me that my order is being prepared for shipment. It is quite surprising as there is still a week more to go. They have already <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">started</span></p></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> shipping two days before the scheduled date of 27th (compared to this, Infibeam delayed the launch of its own version of the iPad - &#39;Phi&#39; - by a month).</span> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> This is where my saga has reached. I shall update you further once Eleanor is shipped whether you want me to or not. And then once I have it with me. And then once I open it. And then once I start using it. Basically, you will hear a lot about Eleanor.</p> </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-saga-of-my-quest-for-my-fabled-device">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-447813304040156070?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-55331342291785269972010-08-02T21:35:00.001+05:302010-08-02T21:35:23.349+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object data="http://flv-player.net/medias/player_flv_maxi.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="332" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://flv-player.net/medias/player_flv_maxi.swf" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="flv=http%3A//www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/flash/Dark_Knight_Live_Cut.flv&amp;title=Dark Night Live Performance&amp;width=640&amp;height=426&amp;showvolume=1&amp;showtime=1&amp;showfullscreen=1" /> </object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/newsite.php">hans-zimmer.com</a></div> <p>I LOVE this movie! It is very hard for me to choose between this and Inception. Apart from Nolan, the other obviously common string between the two is the background score by Hans Zimmer. Here goes for all the Dark Knight fans!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/hans-zimmer-dark-knight-live">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5533134229178526997?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-29493457858030094142010-07-31T21:29:00.001+05:302010-07-31T21:29:30.268+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AY69-AgUmDQ&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AY69-AgUmDQ&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY69-AgUmDQ&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>The credit to the link AND the line below goes to my friend Aviraj Saluja. </p><p>Holy mother of EPICNESS!!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/inception-up-trailers-mashup">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2949345785803009414?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-59943054490987842762010-07-26T23:07:00.001+05:302010-07-26T23:07:07.596+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p><b>Eleanor</b> (pronounced <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English">/ˈɛlɛnər/</a></span>, except in North America where it is usually <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English">/ˈɛlənɔr/</a></span>; also spelled as <b>Elinor</b>, <b>Elenor</b>, <b>Eleanore</b>, or <b>Elynor</b>) is a female <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">given name</a>.</p> <p>The first known bearer of the name was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a>. She was named after her mother, Aénor de Châtellerault, and called <i>Aliénor</i>, (from <i>Alia-Aénor</i>), which means <i>other-Aénor</i> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a>).<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from April 2010" style="">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup> It became <i>"Eléanor"</i> in the northern <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl" title="Langues d'oïl">Langue d'oïl</a></i> and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>. Therefore the meaning of the name is sometimes given as "The Other." Aénor is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect" title="Provençal dialect">Provençal</a> name whose meaning is not surely known, maybe coming from Latin <i>lenire</i> ("to heal"). In English the name is sometimes connected to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_(name)" title="Elena (name)">Elena</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen" title="Ellen">Ellen</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_(given_name)" title="Elaine (given name)">Elaine</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_(given_name)" title="Helen (given name)">Helen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_(name)" title="Helene (name)">Helene</a>) as well. It could be connected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <i>eleos</i> ("compassion") as well. There is however an earlier Eleanor on record. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Normandy" title="Eleanor of Normandy">Eleanor of Normandy</a>, William the Conqueror's aunt, lived a century earlier than Eleanor of Aquitaine. The story of her might be apocryphal.</p> <p>Cognates of the name in different languages include <b>Leonor</b> (<small>Portuguese pronunciation:&nbsp;</small><span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Portuguese" title="Wikipedia:IPA for Portuguese">[le.o.ˈnoɾ]</a></span>)(Spanish and Portuguese), <b>Eléonore</b> (French), and <b>Eleonora</b> (Italian). The similar Hebrew name <i>Elior</i> means "God is light".<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> The similar-sounding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> <i>Allahu Nuri</i> also means "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah" title="Allah">God</a> is my light"; the modern version is <i>Nurullah</i> (<i>Noorullah</i>) ("light of God").</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor">en.wikipedia.org</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/eleanor">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5994305449098784276?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-37311882104001056442010-07-15T22:48:00.001+05:302010-07-15T22:48:13.134+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g6BzDVKYjE0&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g6BzDVKYjE0&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6BzDVKYjE0">youtube.com</a></div> <p>I do not know if this video makes any sense to you. But this is the most awesome piece of news for me right now! :) </p><p>Actually you can check this link out for background check <a href="http://adityakandala.com/no-la-liga-broadcast-in-india">http://adityakandala.com/no-la-liga-broadcast-in-india</a></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/la-liga-on-ten-sports">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3731188210400105644?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-13935274675551192472010-07-14T00:36:00.001+05:302010-07-14T00:36:43.423+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Its been a long time since I have blogged about marketing or sales. Its been a long time since I have blogged actually. But something happened today which must be shared.<p />Most of you by now know that I am currently working with <a href="http://www.hclcomnet.co.in/default.asp">HCL Comnet</a> as an Account Manager in the India Sales division. Being practically &#39;in training&#39; for the past month and half, my eyes and ears are beginning to get attuned towards anything sales. Being a resident of Thane as I have often mentioned in my earlier posts, any place else in Mumbai is far away. Today I chose to come back home by train having had enough of traffic on the road. <p /><div>I am predominantly a train traveler and would prefer trains over buses anytime. Most of you who have traveled in the Mumbai local trains - otherwise called &#39;locals&#39; - would be aware of the frequently annoying salesmen who travel along. Selling everything from pens to pens that are torches. Anything you buy normally costs 10 bucks. They come with loud noises making limericks and poems which makes you feel you would be robbing HIM if you buy his product for only 10 bucks!</div> <p /><div>However, today I saw a very different kind of salesman in the train. He boarded the compartment at the peak hour of 9 PM and stood in the most crowded part between the seats. Standing there, he started talking as if he was talking to his friends. It felt like he was giving a discourse! Extremely calm and extremely patient. He started explaining home remedies for common ailments that anyone in a family can suffer with. For some time I could not understand what this man who has the attention of everyone who can see him is trying to sell. His way of explaining was unique and his concern for the well being of my family seemed quite genuine. Finally, after almost 15 minutes of his well practiced and articulated speech, he started talking about a book which has everything he just spoke about and more! And guess what the price of the book was!</div> <p /><div>This guy according to me is brilliant! He came in calmly with a product which would be difficult to sell by just yelling out to everyone who does not want to hear. He surprised everyone by calmly talking about problems that everyone has had. So much so that people were leaning in to listen to him! In the end he sold 9 copies, made 90 bucks in 20 minutes and moved to another part of the compartment.</div> <p /><div>This guy:</div><div><ol><li>Knew the problems you have</li><li>Knew how to tell you about those problems</li><li>Had simple solutions to those problems</li><li>It was cheap</li><li>He made sure you noticed it was cheap. After all you spend 2 bucks a day on news, why not spend 10 for your family (says he, not me)</li> </ol><br /></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/sales-trainee">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1393527467555119247?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-13130310279153349252010-07-11T02:36:00.001+05:302010-07-11T02:36:43.991+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Yes, I know I have not really taken a LOT of pictures. 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</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1313031027915334925?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-57051755329065062792010-07-10T11:21:00.001+05:302010-07-10T11:21:45.948+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/sexiest-world-cup-final-ever"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/guykawasaki/IChADtwelfhEtAEDAxDygsooJczmyFpHCxvsoHcmbypGuAnJcttGaHJkzAtm/media_httpsakbuzzfedc_dAqDa.jpg.scaled500.jpg" border="0" height="308" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/sexiest-world-cup-final-ever">holykaw.alltop.com</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/sexiest-world-cup-final-ever-ahem">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5705175532906506279?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-32112324915991444322010-07-10T11:20:00.001+05:302010-07-10T11:20:07.916+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://reflectionof.me/octopus-interference"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/clementine/c2vitHdNuflpgH8H5eAf2GgD9x8XZ3YedeqTGoFl1hRttYdsBSSbjDWOwhCU/1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" border="0" height="544" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://reflectionof.me/octopus-interference">reflectionof.me</a></div> <p>Go Spain!! :)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/the-damned-octopus">Real Madrid</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3211232491599144432?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-60290266644297304122010-06-29T16:43:00.001+05:302010-06-29T16:43:51.790+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Remember all the essays we used to write back in school? I am talking about the ones in Hindi or Marathi. The autobiographies. <p /><div>No no, these were not autobiographies of famous people. Far from it! These were autobiographies of objects. Inanimate ones. I think it was a brilliant way to test our imagination and the extent to which we can push our vocabulary. After all we pretended to be an umbrella, a coin, a worn out shoe, a torn note and many more things. However, most of us just read a bunch of these from books and reproduced them in the papers. I guess it did help somehow nevertheless.</div> <p /><div>Moving on, I am all of a sudden got this urge to write those kinds of essays again. Obviously it has a lot to do with my curiosity. And this time it will not be like a day in the life of a coin or a shoe. It will be about how I wish I was a coin or a shoe and why. So from now on I will be writing some of these posts. Let me see where this leads me to.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/i-wish-i-was-a">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6029026664429730412?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-76969253316381566012010-06-09T20:40:00.001+05:302010-06-09T20:40:16.219+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>If some of you do not know yet, I am in Noida right now for the foreseeable future. So, being here for a week now, I have been finally able to get an internet connection and I have been itching to blog!</div> <div> </div> <div>Here are 10 things that I thought of about the Delhi Metro.</div> <div> </div> <ol> <li>It is awesome! It really feels great to be in it. It is quite an experience when you get into it for the first time.</li> <li>It is Air Conditioned! This definitely a boon anywhere in India. More so in Delhi! They have somehow managed to keep the inside of the trains at quite a cool temperature in spite of the 45 degrees outside!</li> <li>It is really affordable! It has to be. But for an air conditioned transport it is surprisingly so. The distance which will cost you Rs. 5 in the Mumbai local train costs just Rs. 10 here. No wonder no metro transport anywhere in the world has been profitable. Neither will this be, otherwise it wont be affordable. </li> <li>Fully loaded! With all the jazz of escelators and automatic ticket entry and announcements in the train regarding which side the station will come (this kinda gets irritating sometime). All of this is great though.</li> <li>It is an equalizer. Where else will a businessman and a normal worker get into the same train using the same facilities and sitting in air conditioned comfort? No matter who you are, no second class or first class here!</li> <li>It is awesomely maintained! Everything looks clean. Minimum littering. Constant cleaning. Helpful staff. Great!</li> <li>It has some weird stickers. I saw one which wanted to say that this seat is reserved for pregnant woman. So it has a 3 figures. One was the pregnant woman, second was a man giving the seat to the shown woman. The third was what bothered me a little. A small boy holding the woman&#39;s hand. Why show a boy? Why show a second kid? Errrr, family planning?</li> <li>The entire system looks great from the outside. I mean beautiful! The steel cars with lighted windows whizzing overhead every 5 minutes! Then going underground. Some places have two levels of stations underground! The huge stations above the roads. I like it!</li> <li>I have absolutely no idea how the people living in the national capital managed to commute in the city before 2002! Absolutely sad!</li> <li>I love it! Just like I was in love with <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-linker-just-a-bridge">The Linker</a>, I am in love with the Metro as well. It represents the same things for me that The Linker does. I cannot wait for the Mumbai Metro to be up and running!</li> </ol> <div> </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/10-things-about-the-delhi-metro">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7696925331638156601?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-86968113577808376312010-05-17T23:24:00.001+05:302010-05-17T23:24:33.908+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/hkngIekeHHikDwazawyeCvEqononvhjaiGBEuIgxsIuGAzssxDknraGHykhy/media_httpsethgodinty_Djffo.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="320" height="394"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/05/the-circles-no-more-strangers.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29">sethgodin.typepad.com</a></div> <p>Sometimes I LOVE the way Seth Godin puts things across. Most of the things he blogs about are not at all path-breaking. It just can't be considering he averages more than one post a day! But just the way he puts across things that are taken for granted is what he is all about. You should read this post if you are remotely attached to marketing or sales.</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/seths-blog-the-circles-no-more-strangers-6">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8696811357780837631?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-20515603172630918552010-05-16T00:43:00.001+05:302010-05-16T00:43:01.031+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ya-fpuxyeoI&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ya-fpuxyeoI&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-fpuxyeoI&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/pit-stop-with-force-india-f1">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2051560317263091855?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-86434323965336947062010-05-15T11:53:00.001+05:302010-05-15T11:53:18.614+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7FRwCs99DWg&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7FRwCs99DWg&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" wmode="window" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="500"></embed></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRwCs99DWg&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Respect dude!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-google-job-experiment-35">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8643432396533694706?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-15766336964544936942010-05-14T01:10:00.001+05:302010-05-14T01:10:14.334+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://random.aviraj.com/guys-are-always-right-uhm-wait-a-second"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-05-13/pjAumxcuuumbBqDgfkhacnzzeyCpykAwixFssfCzAlnfzchlymeIpvzqtehH/doghouse_diaries.png.scaled500.png" border="0" height="284" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://random.aviraj.com/guys-are-always-right-uhm-wait-a-second">random.aviraj.com</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/guys-are-always">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1576633696454493694?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-35298792515210044072010-05-07T00:56:00.001+05:302010-05-07T00:56:43.487+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/IdlrBoulHeIzcGDDbtBCkdqdqixcDyrcuxvHvIhzeBvFujymwIttaakehkrj/media_httplh4ggphtcom_mDuAA.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="465" height="618"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bspcn.com/2010/05/05/how-to-get-chicks/">bspcn.com</a></div> <p>Ok ok! I know you are laughing! But let us give this guy a chance at the least! </p><p>After all, he knows 15 guitar chords and has blue ray's something in his big TV! How often do you come across 100% real guys who have never gone to jail? I surely cannot think of anyone! </p><p>Oh, did I mention he shook Obama's hand on TWO occasions? Now how cool IS he?</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/how-cool-is-he">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3529879251521004407?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-59883487321842741872010-05-05T23:00:00.001+05:302010-05-05T23:00:41.094+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://reflectionof.me/the-girl-paradox-1"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/clementine/VNXeUG5umRwpb5mUc3h4NCsxjRSYrpnUEQkVaYLKTIHXRGxoxtAOIv5j0Nik/1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" border="0" height="448" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://reflectionof.me/the-girl-paradox-1">reflectionof.me</a></div> <p>A few months back I had posted a picture which showed the 'Boy Paradox'. And now look what I found!</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-girl-paradox-2">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5988348732184274187?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-32478076773532649002010-05-05T22:18:00.001+05:302010-05-05T22:18:42.603+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>For quite some time now I have had the domain name <a href="http://adityakandala.com">adityakandala.com</a> with me. A little over 2 years actually. Apart from this, I also have the domain <a href="http://indiangp.net">indiangp.net</a>. No need to explain where the inspiration for this came from. I did also have a few others along the way, but then got rid of them eventually. <p /><div>I have always believed that one should only buy a domain name if they intend to develop a website for it. So, I always did intend to develop two websites for the above two domains and now that I have some spare time in my hand, I think it is the right time to begin. </div> <p /><div>Going with my personal website first. I intend to develop a simple website for now which would basically act as a resume of sorts and would subsequently also have links to my blogs. Basically I have not really thought a lot about this till now.</div> <p /><div>So if anyone can give me ideas - on design as well as concept and content - it would be splendid. Also, if anyone can point me to some personal websites, it would be quite helpful! </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/domain-name-website">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-3247807677353264900?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-23967049943645382182010-05-01T20:32:00.001+05:302010-05-01T20:32:34.174+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://reflectionof.me/1980-vs-2010-0"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/clementine/gLi5e0YXqo6vsX53MtzfCG1p0xF1WiRCUtgT3OIggPa71OP1TXOaz28kLH9s/1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" border="0" height="960" width="500" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://reflectionof.me/1980-vs-2010-0">reflectionof.me</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/1980-vs-2010-2">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2396704994364538218?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-47836329581472590022010-04-29T00:10:00.001+05:302010-04-29T00:10:31.198+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I have lost it! <p /><div>I have completely and utterly lost the will to blog! Actually I am wrong. I have not yet lost the will to blog, otherwise I would not really be writing this right now. It is funny I said writing when I meant typing! Don&#39;t we do a lot of it? We say write a text message when we mean type, we say mail it when we mean e-mail it and many more such blasphemys&#39; we commit!</div> <p /><div>Coming back to the point, I do not think I have lost the will to blog. Quite the contrary actually. I badly want to blog! Really badly! But somehow I have nothing in my mind that I can pen down (there I go again!). I have always wanted to write (yes, we will let it go now) about economics. I adore it! But it requires a certain frame of mind to make something meaningful enough. I do not have that frame right now. I want to write about ads and advertising, but the sheer disdainful quality of advertisements is absolutely mind numbing! </div> <p /><div>Well, basically I do not have much to write about. And this is where the title of this post comes in. I do not expect actual people actually commenting and giving me ideas or suggestions, but I thought I should give it a shot anyway! Say what?</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/help-2785">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4783632958147259002?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-1299000258001819472010-04-21T21:58:00.001+05:302010-04-21T21:58:38.892+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/hnlJWernN8n1U6KKJRAbKPRJl9kOEuDct9qPoNVDSfWCF1uyTAPGNiGS1o68/h38_22694777.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/OicfRUf4KntX7Jt0oIa1R511YXA22Ck5RzAEqYVNaAaqSYAUDLK9xjzZKA8l/h38_22694777.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="357"/></a> <p></p><div>We meet people in all walks of our life. Each of them has a purpose and span for which they linger in our life. Few become an inseparable part of our existence. They teach us the true meaning of life and help us get through the grind of life. Sometimes it is not as much as what you learn from them, but what they make you appreciate in your own personality that makes the real difference. With each moment you become a better person and learn to appreciate the bounties of the world.</div> <p /><div>------------------------------------------</div><div><i><b>About the author:</b> </i><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/pub/nitya-shivraj/10/15a/825" target="_blank"><i>Nitya Shivraj</i></a><i> is an MBA (Finance) from SIMSR and is about to start her career at the largest bank in the country. Extremely gifted with words, she is sarcasm personified. This post is dedicated to her closest friends.</i></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/bwm-tsk">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-129900025800181947?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-68070215962835225082010-04-06T02:05:00.001+05:302010-04-06T02:05:39.158+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/DerekSivers_2010U-high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DerekSivers-2010U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=814" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="326" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/DerekSivers_2010U-high.flv&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DerekSivers-2010U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=814" width="446"></embed></param></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html">ted.com</a></div> <p>This is for all the budding leaders and entrepreneurs. How do you make people believe in your idea? How do you make people follow you? How do you create a movement that will eventually snowball? Excellently explained! </p><p>Hat tip: Guy Kawasaki</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/how-to-start-a-movement-9">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6807021596283522508?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-78549611943674186192010-04-04T20:29:00.001+05:302010-04-04T20:29:59.699+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object type="application/x-oleobject" height="346" classid="6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="500"> <param name="FileName" value="http://www.mumbaiindians.com/micms/Video/MumbaiIndiansAnthem201031117355590.wmv" /> <param name="autostart" value="false" /> <param name="ShowControls" value="true" /> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false" /> <param name="ShowDisplay" value="false" /> <param name="ClickToPlay" value="true" /> <param name="TransparentAtStart" value="false" /> <param name="StretchToFit" value="false" /> <param name="Autosize" value="false" /> <embed name="MediaPlayer" autostart="1" src="http://www.mumbaiindians.com/micms/Video/MumbaiIndiansAnthem201031117355590.wmv" type="application/x-mplayer2" height="346" width="500"> </embed></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.mumbaiindians.com/VideoGallery.aspx?VideoId=PgVcjLB6OSg%3d">mumbaiindians.com</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/mumbai-indians-anthem">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7854961194367418619?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-10437227069028585262010-04-03T17:13:00.001+05:302010-04-03T17:13:05.278+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>After a topsy-turvy rain hampered qualifying meant that both the Ferraris and the McLarens are outside the top 15. The highest position any Former World Champion could get was 8th by the out-of-retirement Michael Schumacher. Only Red Bull seems to be the team who got it right among the front runners. The only thing all this assures is that we are in for a treat of a race tomorrow :) <p /><div>Here are the qualifying results:</div><div><ol><li>MW</li><li>NR</li><li>SV</li><li>AS</li><li>NH</li><li>RK</li><li>RB</li><li>MS</li><li>KK</li><li>VL</li><li>VP</li><li>PDR</li><li>SB</li><li>JA</li> <li>HK</li><li>TG</li><li>JB</li><li>JT</li><li>FA</li><li>LH</li><li>FM</li><li>KC</li><li>BS</li><li>LG</li></ol><div>So, AS starting at 4 and KC starting next to FM.</div><p /><div>If this is not a mouth watering line up, I do not know what would be.</div> </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/malaysian-gp-qualifying">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1043722706902858526?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-71786866256364574192010-04-02T01:06:00.001+05:302010-04-02T01:06:56.717+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="text-align: justify;">It all started with me entering the Room No. 4 on the first day of my MBA journey. I was just about on time thanks to the incessant rains that were pounding the city that entire week. On entering, I saw a room full of people staring down at the most recent entrant. Quite unnerving! I glanced at the list of students put up on the soft board and did not find my name in it. I was told to go the next room. The thought of entering a room full of strangers staring at you again was at the back of my mind as I opened the door to Room No. 3. This time I entered however, something felt right. It felt as if I had entered the right room. I saw my name and reluctantly sat on the first row of chairs next to two people who I guess were the last two people to come in. These two people were the first two people I met at SIMSR, Divesh and Sonia. <span> </span>This was MMS A.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As we settled in to know each other, Kunal decided that we should utilise the time to introduce ourselves instead of sitting idle. One by one, all 60 of us introduced ourselves. Most of us were trying to search for a common thread in each introduction that was being made. The freshers were looking out for other freshers, the BMS graduates for BMS graduates and IT guys for fellow IT guys. What we didn’t realise was that we already had a huge common thread tying us all together inside that one class room. This, was MMS A.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As the first week moved on, our seniors (who were surprisingly invisible till then) came to greet us. They told us about numerous committees and the confusing selection procedure for each of them. With this started a week full of interviews and GDs and results being declared for them. Quite a few of us were selected in some committee or the other. The first week also marked the arrival of the first event. It was basically a welcome event called ‘Ice Breakers’, which seemed like a fun filled event with quite a lot of enthusiasm from their side to break the proverbial ice. <span> </span>We got into it with the equivalent to match theirs and started practicing dances and dramas. Come event day, I guess I can sum the event up by saying MMS A was simply awesome! </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">After the end of the first week started the grind of regular college work – project reports, presentations and various submissions. Words like Hard Copy, PPT and case study could be heard all around. Subjects like Organization Behaviour and Financial Accounting which even though were not the favourites, got most of the effort focused towards them. One of the stand out subjects were most of us were just there to have fun was French. Even though it was a difficult subject to grasp for most, the lectures used to be usually filled with fun and laughter. Apart from this, most of the other lectures were also fun thanks to the jokes cracked by the people sitting in the last bench. We were a fun class, where everyone wanted to have a good time while doing what they were doing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Simultaneously, in all this hoopla there was the chaos with Summer Placements. Companies were regularly coming to campus and my classmates were converting most of them quite consistently. Most of the companies went back with at least one MMS A student on their payroll for the two months of summer. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">After the first semester exams, we discovered that not only were we having fun, we were also scoring better than the other class. We were quite a serious lot when it came to the exams. The unity and the friendship in the entire class showed when we decided to hold lectures for ourselves. It was decided that people who knew anything more than others would try and make sure everyone else knew it too. This effort labelled ‘Parallel MBA’ helped a lot of people cross the crucial 70 percent mark. It was great! </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Then came the end of first year and all of us dispersed to our start our Summer Projects. We were half MBAs and were looking forward to get back to the work environment. Most though were looking for their first stipend. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">On came the second year, and all of us came back to college on the 1^st of July, 2009. Greeting each other with hugs and smiles as we met after more than two months, we realised how much we had missed each other. The excitement was however short lived thanks to us being separated to our chosen specializations. It felt awkward and weird to sit in a different classroom and with different people around. Of course we were never far away with our classrooms right next to each other, it was still not the same. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Time passed on and we got busy with the different subjects and different projects and different professors. Half of us still don’t know half of the other class as much as we should and the other half we knew; we were not very impressed anyway. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The class of MMS A cannot be summarised on a few pages by listing down the experiences we had each day of the past two years. Yes, we had great experiences every day. But they do not define MMS A. It is something else that defines MMS A. There are millions of reasons why a person is the way he/she is. However, we do not need millions of reasons to find out why MMS A is the way it is. The following 60 words in the next paragraph are the reasons why MMS A is MMS A.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Aditi Dinesh/Divesh Archana Sonia Reddy Bhavik Manoj Shankar Viral Babik Aldon Dhara Tilo Darshini Saurabh Nishant Nishit Priyanka Saurin Vrushali Colton Chirag Shweta Siddharth Abhijit Mansi Nilima Sarika Aditya Deepa Sanket 33 Alfonse Aniruddha Chaitali Utkarsh Jayant-Mokashi Anjali Shrenik Samip Sujit Shridhar Kunal Chintan Hemali Keyur Mayur Parag Riddhi-Aggressive Riddhi-Dancer Urvi Jinal Piyush Karan Akhil Nimit Nikesh Jinesh Gaurav Dhara.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Each and every person made it what it is. Even the non-existent Jayant Mokashi was able to provide us with moments that we will remember forever. No other class can boast of having three working PCom members who have lasted all two years. No other class can boast of having more than one CR and all of them working equally hard without bothering about being the CR. Above all, no other class can boast of having the sixty people listed above. Each one is as special as the other.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As happy as I am to say that I made 58 friends who I will never forget, I am sure the 58 others will be equally happy. It was in Room No. 3 that all of us met for the first time and introduced ourselves to everyone. I wish I had recorded all of the past two years in MMS A. On second thoughts, I don’t need it to be recorded, every moment is etched in my memory as if it was 2 years that started and ended yesterday. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">We want to go back to Room No 3,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">To the days that were fun, wild and free,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">When there were cakes every month and Christmas was red,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">‘Nothing else matters!’ together we said.</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">We want to just return,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">Want our lives to take a U Turn,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">Back to the day when we all first met,</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; line-height: normal;">The day which all of us will never forget.</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/mms-a-the-journey-of-a-lifetime">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7178686625636457419?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-61073890029614950282010-03-16T03:40:00.001+05:302010-03-16T03:40:04.932+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>In the past two years of my MBA, there have been various occasions where the need for designing a poster has come up. I have seen some people do this with real ease and others like me struggle to even come up with a good design concept. <p /><div>Here are some great poster designs. They range from the design intense to the real simple (OIL) ones. Great concepts and really creative designs. The <a href="http://creativefan.com/30-outstandingly-creative-poster-designs/" target="_blank">full list of 30 posters</a> at CreativeFan surely deserves a dekko!</div> <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/MW4q4MWDYeEMvs0fqS0b2C50EbsyAUIrL62hvd6GXD9BnbD9t8c18xwHGQwH/4-500x681.jpg" width="500" height="681"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/5uxlKGVAOgbOwhmuKdCwkqbqXWtRIOHEyssBggS3HVKCfv6AV2eisoIqa0Qz/Environment_Poster-500x715.jpg" width="500" height="715"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/dZwPnVPe4FFaO1lWItNCSysc29KHFI9VT2reHwxjGq5WNYOS4Iek6Hpcf5wH/global_war_n_ming_def-500x710.jpg" width="500" height="710"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/4SCIY6ggt7ziCwyasJWAYqNdqxo7MKZpreJy1yiPV5C3YHo7uFTJxWvIAACx/INDIVIDUALISM_POSTER_by_fatiht.jpg" width="500" height="700"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/aIIz27cKyWUVkztwbiydo4w9jGNRXWZc42JF3bfgDwEKEdsu58JPB1R29tgc/poster50_70-499x700.jpg" width="499" height="700"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/iACi9RVDzame0BJ7RXKv0mmA56yo5hz6TGc1ZyNF38BnwdhIfZD7iaB99q04/Poster_Ad_for_Typography_by_ml.jpg" width="499" height="730"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/7dthRl3GDZpc6JmSEJ2M5DONFDBIb7bdx8KpaU1eDEE0fCe8zLLH9DUYzmOY/Stel_Christian_Cambas_Poster_b.jpg" width="500" height="704"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/NJTEVL2mSSoVf7YeGQZ3HoCSWjEpO5eNhwVaQsHyu6vZR31Uh7zPzItj0E9s/what_s_your_identity_poster_by.jpg" width="500" height="706"/> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/great-poster-designs'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/great-poster-designs">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6107389002961495028?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-84439174095142356752010-03-14T23:26:00.001+05:302010-03-14T23:26:39.372+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>It is quite known that celebrities help sell stuff all over the world. Well, they are celebrities after all. <p /><div>Quite a few brands, especially Consumer Durable brands have used a liberal dose of celebrities. However, what has caught my eye of late is LG trying something weird. They have hired Akshay Kumar (who at the same time is also endorsing Micromax mobile phones!) to launch their 3D TVs. At the same time, they have also got John Abraham, Abhay Deol and Genelia D&#39;Souza to endorse the LG Cookie. I don&#39;t get the sense in putting all these three celebrities in one single ad of average quality.</div> <p /><div>The plot of the ad is basically 3 friends who are just fooling around with each other. Firstly, it is quite difficult for me to think of John Abraham, Abhay Deol and Genilia D&#39;Souza as good friends! They are not even in the same league as far as movies are concerned and none of them even do the same genre of movies! I don&#39;t really follow the tabloids, but I doubt they are pals in real life as well.</div> <p /><div>If this is not a case of Celebrity OD then I don&#39;t know what is!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/celebrity-od">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8443917409514235675?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-28945551099272655512010-03-13T23:30:00.001+05:302010-03-13T23:30:55.382+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Let me get the Qualifying Results for the 2010 Season opening Bahrain GP out of the way first: <p /><div><ol><li>SV :)</li><li>FM :)</li><li>FA</li><li>LH</li><li>NR</li><li>MW</li><li>MS :)</li><li>JB</li><li>RK</li><li>AS :)</li><li>RB</li><li>VL :)</li><li>NH (Nico Hulkenberg)</li><li>PDR</li><li>SB</li> <li>KK (Kamui Kobayashi)</li><li>VP (Vitaly Petrov)</li><li>JA</li><li>TG</li><li>JT</li><li>HK</li><li>LG (Lucas di Grassi)</li><li>BS (Bruno Senna)</li><li>KC :)</li></ol><div>Phew! That is a lot of cars!</div><p /><div>So, I am looking forward to a lot of things this season. Every year I think we need more races and more cars. This year we got them.</div><p /><div>Cannot wait for the lights to go green tomorrow!</div> <p /><div>Promises to be a spectacular season! I get that feeling :)</div></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://indiangp.net/24-cars-12-teams-19-tracks-1-winner">Countdown to the Indian Grand Prix</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2894555109927265551?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-72969311976234144062010-03-03T01:04:00.001+05:302010-03-03T01:04:15.968+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); line-height: 18px;">When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, <p /> 1) Michael Schumacher was yet to race an F1 car,<br />2) Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, <br />3) Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, <br />4) Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. <p /> When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, <p />1) Roger Federer was a name unheard of <br />2) Lionel Messi was in his nappies,<br />3) Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters<br /> 4) The Berlin Wall was still intact<br />5) USSR was one big, big country <br />6) Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to &quot;open&quot; the Nehruvian economy<p />It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.</span></blockquote> <p /><div>- Time Magazine </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/sachin-ramesh-tendulkar">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7296931197623414406?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-79945877283567799162010-02-27T22:21:00.001+05:302010-02-27T22:21:33.653+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>It has been a year since the sad day came and passed<br />It has been a year since my favorite person left us<br />It has been a year since.....<p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/a-year-gone-by">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7994587728356779916?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-44065619437215057172010-02-21T00:52:00.001+05:302010-02-21T00:52:49.179+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I love watching the Olympics on TV! It is awesome to know that you are currently watching the best in the entire world trying the best they ever have! It is where dreams are made and the happiness and joy on the face of the athletes is irreplaceable. <p /><div>At the same time, Winter Olympics has always fascinated me even more! It is brilliant to watch so many speed based events on a blanket of snow or ice. It is truly a spectacle. And boy does it make for some of the best photographs. By now most of you would have realised that I am an ardent fan and follower of the pictures that The Boston Globe collects and puts up on The Big Picture section. A few pictures from their latest set are below. It is absolutely worth a visit to watch all <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/vancouver_2010_part_1_of_2.html">45 of them here</a>.</div> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/lIP8UQUdWlzHPSy3tgcQDk4fQstTYGzhPUCWKiUV1YPNWLmeIsrwG9mKwQth/v02_22189749.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/b3ng9Bcei9UlMhZ7GAdRvE0TvuQiLMDQwedjMXSOdLRfssmGMPqZM4IF2nut/v02_22189749.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="319"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/BGDRJafKNSByXBh1agWxVNKKbcFHX5zb5P4lnM64DwtK5ZOCEtgDwEKNlLvN/v22_22177715.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/af1fBpluJoy4bqdJ3rKNDmfkMuZqEGykb0YehoBwp8Rp1pyp8VnBUVQAxOmq/v22_22177715.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="333"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/yTl8edqx97eiZSv6tvSG3Dnq1UYhN21Go5QQZO9MbYsBNVPSKppTDH8KZBrL/v27_22190393.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/vDhx72I20VIdkZkfQ0vY1mLj5oMKOsQ2dRLFd6Tb3tNIgb7sOi95hQJeqt04/v27_22190393.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="319"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/nrtJrYwCh71P9FKOXGLJWkFnUFqseBK3ekT0xImuScDOkuhsDa0xoHPXbR59/v44_22248521.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/M8GGB6SXKttJ1BwBURRV06btx7VG70bVu6BtZ98Hm2if9LEqjfx30shmMHrC/v44_22248521.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="319"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/swOxDKNsA8Vdxso45CRyfZY5KBAfQPt6R3EXbmfIOt9wecEHhOaP8C0OTqlA/v45_22207609.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/wkYkBuIl5Hbvli3islbnYTBPfMeHTPFpDbquTWei5kVOUIp3WWgc6mmO2BtR/v45_22207609.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="278"/></a> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/vancouver-2010-winter-olympics-23'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/vancouver-2010-winter-olympics-23">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4406561943721505717?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-49705084280661435042010-02-21T00:30:00.001+05:302010-02-21T00:30:13.639+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/iFuckAmDJuhncmyCbsICdylAAsgpxnfwGyoEsefuGaDxIvDnjEnfhgImjDcr/media_httplh4ggphtcom_ulBHE.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/iFuckAmDJuhncmyCbsICdylAAsgpxnfwGyoEsefuGaDxIvDnjEnfhgImjDcr/media_httplh4ggphtcom_ulBHE.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="515"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bspcn.com/2010/02/18/pirated-dvd-vs-legal-dvd/">bspcn.com</a></div> <p>I am in no way trying to promote piracy :P</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/pirated-dvd-vs-legal-dvd-2">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-4970508428066143504?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-72492321556295028872010-02-18T12:09:00.001+05:302010-02-18T12:09:32.669+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>It is the Year of the Tiger and these pictures are of the celebrations in China. Environmentalists think this is the perfect year to get some attention to the problem of reducing number of tigers in the wild around the world.  <p /><div>To watch all the amazing pictures of the celebrations, click <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/welcoming_the_year_of_the_tige.html">here</a>.</div> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/60E6KSEbwV1UeaNRAbeWFfQPr4u7TQELZcdeM7dNdnLwrHCB4bjJy6fhaHpQ/t21_22165805.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/NXdP9BLe5zhrVmhuJXOzYXk6UDe7OBToyUMlABFnq4dbGZa0QW8R27LQXiTA/t21_22165805.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="320"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/jOJXriym1hJRLHaTA54kmFgbau6ysUM8rKibOwsOzfe2FH6PslnJ8TYBWkDJ/t18_22054063.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/xoMdS59ddxom8xVWhM71qWf69jzHGP7O6UnyKDTQfGHm4mFtQYtHxDjD4234/t18_22054063.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="331"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/tCLs3TQ5lA0lP9DT1ilWotjrNPxMsz7cfsWxqCFTkNqLiHUPwe21gmEXFlk9/t24_22160647.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/ghK8SF61J9qg4OPdYZprzHyy0KjnpIDzson0Um6qPVIu8BWazdDrPihkeaaK/t24_22160647.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="331"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/sdltiWDt2QK4iIY6QaYAH7xdncZnUstC6QAr5MZUw3r1KksDv3F8CKIceBJc/t36_22143499.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/tlatNiHcdz6hb9BucAzbssBEhZUI8Zzgvb36redMlEfTBJTQvvTlD5ARlOcZ/t36_22143499.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="332"/></a> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/hcRtWddWKDX0gu2lYhSOKD98A9pJUZzztLZr3uL1dyZrSt6O0Fs49mYH12Hy/t07_22054247.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/RmctTHfpAvQwD0mvN5vveyYh4geaZW9mAeofAHug0r2AWervHZ1DkdE3GZpY/t07_22054247.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="335"/></a> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/happy-year-of-the-tiger-3'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/happy-year-of-the-tiger-3">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7249232155629502887?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-7666971764626768662010-02-18T03:31:00.001+05:302010-02-18T03:31:15.281+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/J3IArJTfUy8&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/J3IArJTfUy8&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3IArJTfUy8&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>This is one of the most well made car commercials I have seen in recent times. I love the way it is attacking all the marquee and established manufacturers at the same time. This ad is made for the US market where Audi appears to be the underdog; and everyone loves the underdog. </p><p>Audi is trying to position itself as the rebel which offers all the choices that their competitors are offering under one brand and without the stereotype. It basically is telling people that you are doing nothing but conforming to stereotypes if you drive the other cars; and this would reflect directly in the statement you are trying to make about yourself. As I said in my last post, it is all about making a statement. </p><p>This commercial is an excellent example of how one can throw an open challenge to the established players in a cluttered market and try to change the thinking of the consumers to force them to choose your brand. </p><p>Finally, I love the way the R8 pulls up in the street for the kid to drool at. I just wish it was not silver! ;)</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/audi-trying-to-break-the-spell">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-766697176462676866?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-70709304837656299342010-02-13T20:17:00.001+05:302010-02-13T20:17:43.400+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I love cars! I love them beyond everything. It does not really matter whether they are Ferraris or Mahindras. I just love the idea of a car. It is so much more than a ton of steel, plastic and glass over 4 wheels! It is just a romantic experience for a car lover to own any car.<p /> Indians got the first taste of this experience in a big way in 1983 when the Maruti-800 was launched. <p /><div><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/YfUkWzlTMv5563AYR76BV5nO9VL1Jz9v8XlAxqiKuaTvgAKsNbJiYCkLvqb5/maruti_20090420.jpg" width="370" height="257"/> <br /> </div><div>Picture <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?240258" target="_blank">Outlookindia</a></div><p /><div>The one pictured above was the first model of the legendary car. It was small, good looking, utilitarian and did the job. Most of the other cars were the bulky Ambassadors by Hindustan Motors. The 800 was the perfect Indian car. </div> <p /><div>Then came the upgrade in design. </div><p /><div><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/0PEQxGTUaFdl7lN4CPZsaciuNPPqTTzxuw10tmc1S97SRdSxJKh716LZQ56B/maruti-800.jpg" width="400" height="267"/> <br /> </div><div>Picture <a href="http://www.car-pictures-world.com/maruti/photos/800.htm" target="_blank">Car Picutres World</a></div><p /><div>My family had this one. The thing about 800s is, that it was the most common first car. It was the cheapest, most practical, most economical to run and not really ugly; basically a proper value for money buy. Which is the most important quality that any Indian looks for, in anything, in everything. </div> <p /><div>Then came another major upgrade in design for this workhorse.</div><p /><div><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/IXeWfhZZtUV3eeintVODeVkvypsvoAT8PAkzTmbWEH792bZYu4PzJmEy0tzy/Maruti_800.jpg" width="309" height="205"/> <br /> </div><div>Picture via <a href="http://www.indiacar.com/infobank/firstdrive/maruti800_mar05.asp" target="_blank">Indiacar</a></div><p /><div>This was to keep up with all the major launches from the likes of Hyundai and Tata. </div> <p /><div>Somewhere around this time Maruti also launched the Alto. This was basically to hedge against the people who were growing out of their first cars (which more often than not were 800s) and moving on to other manufacturers.</div> <p /><div><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/plYPtgmLvebJFKL0cWhr66g9K3QYiejEhV6A5BjhBRE1FqCUT3rA58hjhNLY/maruti-suzuki-alto-1.png" width="377" height="262"/> <br /> </div><div>Picture <a href="http://www.rushlane.com/122476/review-maruti-alto-review.html" target="_blank">Rushlane</a></div><p /><div>This was not only more contemporary in terms of design, it was also more powerful, better equipped and a little more car for the little more money you paid. Once this was launched, rumour mills started working that this was the replacement to the over worked 800.</div> <p /><div>The 800 was never just a car, except maybe now. It was a dream. It was an aspiration for the Indian middle class. Let us not getting into an economics lesson and analyse why it did well for so long, others will do that. This car is a part of our culture and history now as Suzuki plans to <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/auto/automobiles/Maruti-to-bid-adieu-to-M-800-from-April/articleshow/5566416.cms" target="_blank">phase it out</a> in India. One of the major reason for doing this of course is that the dream of the Indian has evolved now. </div> <p /><div>At the same time it is also time for those who could not even dream of an 800 to start dreaming. </div><p /><div><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/gOLZN1MnTU1UOzN2uJ099YID8gpDdt7423gVGcpFTEZhpBwAY3nOskj2CIEJ/2182989910_c83b50ecc8.jpg" width="500" height="321"/> <br /> </div><div>Picture <a href="http://speakindia.wordpress.com/tag/car/" target="_blank">SpeakIndia</a></div><p /><div>But this is not the space to talk about it. Today I reserve a permanent parking space for the first Indian dream. </div> <p /><div>I love this car! The original design the most. It was epic!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/dead-end-for-the-first-ever-indian-dream">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7070930483765629934?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-24016104565084504412010-02-13T14:15:00.001+05:302010-02-13T14:15:05.446+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/pirfeveLutyuwZvLVEbAQG5aYM7ZvPMeo9sV6nySdvxDz20PLhI1FzFZ5keN/Make_a_Difference.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/inRrcsyFbYWe6r94tXA2sgGivbXhVVhwpK07qQGGMkP3XNTrHwe6RgY6FvQY/Make_a_Difference.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="663"/></a> <p>So?</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/are-you-making-a-difference">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2401610456508450441?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-67336675408491059752010-02-11T00:36:00.001+05:302010-02-11T00:36:49.017+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Series #1;Vol #1</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Zuk and his pal Zak are sitting on a branch of a tree and chatting.</em></p> <p>Zuk: &ldquo;Once an egg.. always an egg... well not literally.. because an egg was once a zygote and, if lucky, would once be chicken, and if more <span style=""> </span>lucky, would be egg-curry!!</p> <p><span style=""> </span>My point is that people seldom change.. or atleast we tend to think so. I don&rsquo;t remember the last time I changed my first impression about <span style=""> </span>someone. The irony here is that there can only be one first impression while it is the most lasting one!!&rdquo;</p> <p>Zak: And there goes a flop one!! When would you learn to make funny jokes?</p> <p>Zuk: I am trying to draw a hypothesis here&hellip;</p> <p>Zak: Oh well.. I still remember your last one on boys and their temptation to all harmful things..</p> <p>Zuk: Yeah mate.. I was damn sure right.. boys seem to get most tempted to things that harm them like smoke, alcohol, rash driving, physical <span style=""> </span>fights,&nbsp;etc</p> <p>Zak: Bang on man! That explains why they are most tempted to girls !! :P</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>------------------------------------------------</p> <p><em><strong>About the author:</strong> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09491634202842515598">Sana Khan</a> is an MBA (Finance) student at SIMSR and a dear friend. A thorough professional and intellectual person, her style of writing is absolutely entertaining. This post is a part of a series that she has planned for the character Zuk. You can read more about it <a href="http://anda-curreau.blogspot.com/">here</a>.</em></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/bwm-zukism">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6733667540849105975?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-834831771381269252010-02-09T01:55:00.001+05:302010-02-09T01:55:03.728+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nnsSUqgkDwU&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nnsSUqgkDwU&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>This is the Google ad which was screened during the 2010 Super Bowl. To the uninitiated, Super Bowl has long been the event that everyone looks forward to not only for the 'Football' but also for the awesome commercials showcased during the quarter breaks. </p><p>Some of the best and most extravagant commercials have been launched during the Super Bowl. I really like this one by Google. </p><p>What do you think? Do they need to spend so much (the most expensive ad slots in the world) to advertise their search engine?</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/an-ad-by-google">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-83483177138126925?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-82294134243563582672010-02-08T01:36:00.001+05:302010-02-08T01:36:43.821+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>This is basically the first piece of writing that I had ever put down (quite literally on paper actually), titled &#39;The Facial&#39;, back in November 2006. Well, obviously it does have its errors and what not. Here it is, unedited :)<p /> A time comes in every man’s life when he is forced to do things that he would rather not do; he is pushed to foray into the territories where he would rather not go to. This force, as found out by a very popular survey conducted, 99% of the times happen to be a woman. Yes, the other kind, the type of human being with TWO X-chromosomes to be more precise.<p /> Well to come back to the applicable topic, I was recently influenced by such force, to be more exact – my mom (love you mom), to get a…well…a facial done, the reason being a wedding in the family. Having agreed to her, I embarked upon this quest of getting my face cleaned up by someone else. Throughout my journey upto the saloon, which is a very long and exhausting 2 minutes, my mind was still contemplating this decision. When I finally reached there, I decided to get a haircut to start with, which would give me enough time to think it over. This as it turned out was not a very good idea. People generally talk about this little voice they have inside them, the voice that tells them what is right and what is wrong. Well, I did find that little voice, and millions of others that live with it. If I deduce, that one little voice belongs to a little person, then I am pretty sure that I have a whole country of these little people inside me. They also surely will give India a run for its money to become the largest democracy; and boy do they practice their democracy. They made sure that each and every one of them was heard and for the first time I didn’t hear the snip of the scissor going through my hair. They debated right from the facial being expensive to the risk of one of my friends walking in on me. But the majority thought that I should go through it, and hence by way of voting, I decided to do it.<p /> Then it started, my man, the barber, started off by first applying something on my face and thoroughly rubbing it in, making sure that every inch of my skin was covered with it. For some reason, he had taken a liking to my nose and preferred giving it the maximum attention and rubbing it like it was no one’s business. He kept doing it as if he was extracting some heavenly pleasure out of it. He then left me for a few minutes and came back with something new and slapped it onto my face and the rubbing resumed, there goes my nose again. Though by this time I had got used to the cold in the air conditioned place, he kept applying things that were getting colder and more difficult to bear, sending my skin into shock every time.<p /> Then I guess it was time to bring out the big guns, and out came some thing that actually looked like a gun. I for a second thought I had mistaken a dentist for a barber and was ready to bail out. He plugged it in and thrusted it onto my face. Again maximum attention was given to the nose, which was sure to be the shiniest part of my face at the end of this ordeal. After this gun got done with, out came a machine which was breathing out steam from it. And boy was it hot. Fifteen minutes of steaming later, I was wondering if I had been mislead by my country of little people, when suddenly on my face came a towel which was wet and so cold, it felt like it was on fire. One thing for sure, if my skin can withstand such drastic variations in temperature, it can go through anything. Off came the towel and a minute later, when I thought it was finally over, the man comes in with a brush and starts painting my face with something as I later found out is called a mask. After this I was left by myself to literally dry out and mull over life’s irony. How can we trust a stranger with our hair and our face….HOW? Talking of ironies, while I was left to dry, my man switched on the TV, and was watching a movie with our old friend Jackie Shroff in it. And the irony here, if you are wondering was, Mr. Shroff was trying to get a plastic surgery for himself in the movie. Though I certainly was not getting a surgery done, I surely was expecting a result which was comparable to the same. After drying me, and my skin feeling as if it was being pulled from different directions by the same little people, the man comes in and starts spraying water onto my face, which sent a sizeable amount of jolt through my skin. Then I suddenly heard the sound of ice being taken from an ice tray, and to my worst fears, the man comes in with an ice cube and rubs it onto my face. This sealed the argument, making me want to bomb the country of little people inside me.<p /> Finally, to finish it off, as per trend, the man goes ahead and applies something that burns the tissue out of my skin, making sure that I am not doing this again and making me want to bomb the country again. The question that you would now be asking is, was all this punishment worth it. Am I more pleasing to the eyes of the onlooker? Well I guess the only way to find out is by risking using your own eyes. Till then CYA and take care.<p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/my-first-blog-post-26033">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8229413424356358267?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-26869844186526365502010-02-05T20:19:00.001+05:302010-02-05T20:19:43.486+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>What are we all.. except for being someone&#39;s point of view? <div> </div> <div>We gather our thoughts, take our steps, speak our words and when all is done we look around. Seeking someone whose point of view we were without really knowing we were. When I am 90 and you somewhere around 86 and then we pass on under the lovely trees to a different world, all that will remain is a pale white skull..completely unmasked. That is the end of this glowing skins of ours that we cherish like nothing else. We all probably know that yet we fill ourselves up, yet we wear masks of different hues and colours on us. All this on a body that isn&#39;t quite what it seems to be, for thoughts that are not really ours but someone else&#39;s, for words that aren&#39;t ours but someone else&#39;s, for work that wasn&#39;t really ours but neither no one else&#39;s. </div> <div> </div> <div>Right, wrong or obscure.. doesn&#39;t matter..it is just your point of view. </div> <div><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div><em><strong>About the author</strong>: Maneesh Madambath is a serial blogger and an extremely funny guy. He was my colleague at Directi and now a friend. If you like what he has written, read more of his thoughts </em><a href="http://hari.posterous.com/" target="_blank"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/bwm-point-of-view">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2686984418652636550?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-65593071961456119442010-02-04T22:03:00.001+05:302010-02-04T22:03:55.219+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Dear Friends, <p /><div>It delights me to know that quite a few of my friends read my blog. So, it means one of my friends is reading it right now. So, I will make this post in second person (you being the second person). </div> <p /><div>The thing is, I like writing. I think it is one of the easiest things one can do and get appreciation for just being true and simple. I have encouraged quite a few people to blog and a few of them actually started. Most of them then stopped after their first post. To all of them, I request you to please begin again. Just write; then post.</div> <p /><div>I want to go a step further and tell all of those who have never blogged, to start. I know you are apprehensive about doing it. But start.</div><p /><div>I have been quite inspired by <a href="http://the3six5.posterous.com/">the3six5</a>. It is a blog which is attempting to give 365 different point of views in the year 2010. It invites bloggers from across the globe to submit a post about a day in their life. 365 days, 365 points of view. I really like this idea. And I want to attempt something using this idea.</div> <p /><div>I invite all of my readers - each and everyone of you - to write a post, for my blog. You can write about anything you want to and mail it across to me. I will post it on my blog, anonymous and unedited, regardless of the topic. Once posted, I would want all the other readers to comment with their honest views on the post (this will encourage the author). The name of the author need not be revealed till the author wants to. This is primarily to encourage those who are apprehensive about what or how they have written. </div> <p /><div>A second reason for doing this is: I have a lot of friends who are fellow bloggers. I like the way they write and each one of them has their own way of writing. I would absolutely love it if they could write a post for my blog. It would be kind of an honour for me. </div> <p /><div>I do not know if this is going to work. I do not know if you will take this seriously and actually submit a post. I would be delighted if each and every person who reads this post mails me something. Even a paragraph would be just awesome. </div> <p /><div>With Love,</div><p /><div>Aditya Kandala.</div><p /><div>P.S. Mail me: mail(at the rate)adityakandala(dot)com. (Please do, I doubt I have ever wanted anything else to work as much as this before :))</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/blog-with-me">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6559307196145611944?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-8398222701683663762010-02-03T01:55:00.001+05:302010-02-03T01:55:11.207+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dwsmBdL9jR8&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dwsmBdL9jR8&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwsmBdL9jR8">youtube.com</a></div> <p>:O</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://realmadrid.adityakandala.com/talking-of-backheels">Real Madrid</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-839822270168366376?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-80778597504021777632010-02-03T01:53:00.001+05:302010-02-03T01:53:48.733+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dwsmBdL9jR8&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dwsmBdL9jR8&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwsmBdL9jR8">youtube.com</a></div> <p>:O</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/talking-of-backheels">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8077859750402177763?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-85328130962863885862010-02-02T00:35:00.001+05:302010-02-02T00:35:46.505+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UXziurFkQxM&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UXziurFkQxM&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXziurFkQxM&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Watch it for how well it has been made. </p><p>Otherwise you are just Procrastinating.</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/procrastination-138">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8532813096286388586?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-24222557196145680262010-01-29T11:33:00.001+05:302010-01-29T11:33:29.725+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/49HdqtWHEoo&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/49HdqtWHEoo&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49HdqtWHEoo&amp;feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>*drools*</p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/how-to-advertise-a-supercar">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-2422255719614568026?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-67239743416780377532010-01-24T22:41:00.001+05:302010-01-24T22:41:09.822+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://reflectionof.me/dubito"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/clementine/Nq0O0QF8B7v9YT9JeOBvh8kTmA4TqxOQelNy9aB9cwFwu7drZo5wiN9VlAGG/1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://reflectionof.me/dubito">reflectionof.me</a></div> <p></p></div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/therefore-i-am-0">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6723974341678037753?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-87312684095016974592010-01-24T01:37:00.001+05:302010-01-24T01:37:26.310+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>Right now, all the 300 students of my batch are filling away Google Spreadsheets which are supposed to be our yearbooks. Trying to sum up the best they can, their experience of knowing everyone they did - one cell at a time. <p /><div>This reminds me that it will soon be time to move on. It will be time to live our lives away from the people you have been meeting everyday for the last two years. And for some, living with for the last two years. </div> <p /><div>It will soon be time when you would sub consciously choose the people you still want to be in touch with. The people who have touched your life the most in the two years and left a mark forever. No one will hate you for that. The feeling will be mutual. </div> <p /><div>It is that time of the life again, when we will say good bye to everyone and hope that you would bump into them some day when you least expect it. So that there is the wide smile across your face when you need it the most. </div> <p /><div>It is that time of the life again, when I wish I had interacted more with some people when I had the chance to. </div><p /><div>I do not mean for this to be a good bye post. There is still a lot of time for that. This is just something that crossed my mind when I was filling those cells.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/it-is-that-time-of-the-life-again">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-8731268409501697459?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-72153194646438055712010-01-19T11:58:00.001+05:302010-01-19T11:58:12.651+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, &#39;Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well&#39;.</blockquote> <p /><div>- Martin Luther King Jr. </div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/do-your-job-the-best-you-can">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-7215319464643805571?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-16873084504840035442010-01-17T23:53:00.001+05:302010-01-17T23:53:57.038+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>I ran in the dark. <div>I ran in Bandra.</div><div>I ran on <a href="http://adityakandala.com/the-linker-just-a-bridge">The Linker</a>.</div><div>I ran with the rising sun.</div><div>I ran in Worli.</div><div>I ran along Worli Sea Face.</div> <div>I ran looking at Ducatis, Rolls Royces, Land Rovers and Jaguars.</div><div>I ran alongside Mahalaxmi Race Course.</div><div>I ran near Haji Ali.</div><div>I ran on Pali Hill.</div><div>I ran on Peddar Road.</div><div> I ran on Marine Drive.</div><div>I ran in Churchgate.</div><div>I ran in CST.</div><p /><div>It was an experience that everyone should go through. Running on the streets of Bombay. Will not happen otherwise. Saw Bombay like I have never seen it before.</div> <p /><div>The best site for me however was watching the African contingent running in sync with each other at sprint pace while we were jogging along. It was like watching horses galloping down the road, all in matching yellow shoes. Absolutely beautiful!</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/i-ran-13">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-1687308450484003544?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-60593077815179857492010-01-16T19:46:00.001+05:302010-01-16T19:46:47.639+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>I finally got my running number (14330) bib from WTC today. Yes, I am still running the half marathon. Although I did not write anything in terms of updates on my preparation for race day after the first post, I have somewhat done some training in the past week and more (ya, I know it is not enough). Anyway, the bib collection counter was at WTC (Cuffe Parade) at the Get Activ Expo. I had no clue what this was going to be. </div> <p /><div>I went there half expecting to see just a few counters handing out the bib and my goodie bag :). However, it was a whole marketing machine at work there. The Expo was an entire hall at the WTC and all the sponsors had their own stall. The bib collection stall was at the absolute corner to make sure you pass each and every stall on your way to collect your bib. The bib collection itself took a couple of minutes and then later I was directed to get my time chip verified and collect my goodie bag. I did not stop at any of the stalls as all of them were a bit crowded. There were quite a few deals on running equipment by Nike, Reebok and the event sponsor Basic.</div> <p /><div>Coming to the goodie bag. Every year SCMM gives away goodie bags to all the participants when they collect their bibs. This goodie bag contains all sorts of stuff that a health conscious or a self conscious person would require for their daily needs. This year, the goodie bag is bigger than ever with goodies worth Rs. 450! So, effectively, you can pay Rs. 300 as entry fee for the Dream Run and get goodies worth 450! I however have paid Rs. 500 for my half marathon.</div> <p /><div>This is a very nice way of giving away free samples. You as a marketer are assured that the person getting your sample is someone who can spend a minimum of Rs. 300 on what is basically a pleasure activity. In a country like India, I doubt there is a better way of distributing free samples. Also, you are assured that a minimum of at least 75% of the participants are those who care about their health. The target is acquired. Apparently, Marico and HUL have spent around Rs. 14 and Rs. 27 lakh each with Piramal Healthcare spending a massive Rs. 50 lakhs on free samples. Only time will tell if it is really worth the money spent for the brands. My money spent however is totally worth it :)</div> <p /><div>The following are the items that I found in my goodie bag:</div><p /><div>1 Packet of Aliva Crackers (Classic Salted) worth Rs. 12</div><div>1 Water Bottle sponsored by Kingfisher</div><div> 1 Trial-pack of Sugar-Free Gold</div> <div>1 30 gm trial-pack of Quaker Oats (Strawberry)</div><div>1 20 gm pack of Kuber namkeen worth Rs. 5</div><div>2 Nasal strips from Breathe Right</div><div>1 15 gm pack of Hippo chips (thai chilli) worth Rs. 5</div><div> 1 20 gm pack of Bingo Mad Angles (Achaari Masti) worth Rs. 5</div><div>2 Sample sachets of Volini Gel</div><div>1 100 ml bottle of Clear Anti-dandruff shampoo worth Rs. 69</div><div>1 400 ml bottle of Minute Maid worth Rs. 20 (with a free Kitkat worth Rs. 5)</div> <div>5 Mint-o Gol Mint Chew worth Rs. 2.50</div><div>1 Sunfeast Marielite worth Rs. 5</div><div>1 bar of Nature Valley&#39;s Cruncy Granola (Oats and Honey) worth Rs. 15</div><div>1 RitBite nutrition bar (Merry Berry) worth Rs. 15</div> <div>1 Parachute Advansed aftershower gel worth Rs. 35</div><div>1 Lacto Calamine Classic worth Rs. 11</div><div>1 Lacto Calamine Aloe Moisturiser worth Rs. 32</div><div>1 Sample sachet of Nivea for Men Moisturiser</div> <div> 1 Dabur Gulabari gulab jal worth Rs. 12</div><div>1 Pack (8 capsules) of Supractive Complete energy supplements from Piramal Healthcare</div><div>1 Fridge magnet from Standard Chartered telling me to get my eyes checked</div> <div>4 Information leaflets. One each from Quaker Oats, Lacto Calamine, RiteBite and Nature Valley</div><p /><div>So, on to tomorrow when I attempt to complete my 21 KMs. Yes, that is all that I am trying to do, complete it.</div><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/run-mumbai-run-0">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6059307781517985749?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-63140970601541363512010-01-15T01:33:00.001+05:302010-01-15T01:33:56.996+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/dbphiE2aX5IihrI4tOQNHJMLw2FJC92tRh9i6kojQ7hvKnqYTHIO7tYNfPEy/1.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/blFtQRm27rd4KXK2dItDGctlgGrxqXO3CQNJKFmxJsmbQdrbLWZFygpJXdEb/1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="148"/></a> <p>This is so uncannily true! I used to do this almost everyday when I used to travel by bus!</p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/is-this-how-you-catch-a-bus-too">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6314097060154136351?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-54937345874305375582010-01-15T01:27:00.001+05:302010-01-15T01:27:22.344+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>A business card can be something which is very simple and just has your contact details. But if you really want to get noticed and want people to remember you for a long time. You have got to get your card made like <a href="http://creativefan.com/25-brilliantly-creative-and-visually-sharp-business-cards/">one of these 25</a>. They are really eye catching and it you will surely remember the person who gives you one of these. <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/HZJQ2dzjgAFtnCo22g0fJkwACd8IJUp16MBldGohKVabNjqWKVdulwtKRmor/bcard1_880x-500x375.jpg" width="500" height="375"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/ybKumtB0g1YGVfD6OLAmsi60oXckkOPQ74u8jlHDzHRidbuE2p503sZ7Vc0G/bizCard_mg_02-500x346.jpg" width="500" height="346"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/mu9DBMlKzhDfYzwbZE2L1J35HuSeQrJpCQLDPTnmzhaTtzfJ6LJAR3mKeMm8/df-card-500x397.jpg" width="500" height="397"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/CzwnCDhbXb3kPKHtNMld2y54sDnviJHHw2BpKoNLALOBwBAleU2gZqUZxmxg/orderin-cards-kjxphk.jpg" width="500" height="260"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/oXORO7VONrrLbBU4LBCGLcrDkzYiLWPFCFjBy8AMiekE1bJi3qg2a2vxC5H7/visits-accentuate.jpg" width="500" height="260"/> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/25-creative-business-cards'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/25-creative-business-cards">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-5493734587430537558?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190795915737856140.post-69708613386147850562010-01-13T00:39:00.001+05:302010-01-13T00:39:23.552+05:30<div class='posterous_autopost'>We have learnt a lot in theory about what a logo is and how it is important. One can go into further detail of designing a logo and what aspects of a logo are important and vital to attract maximum attention.  <p /><div>Below are a few of the most creative logos from 2009 compiled by CreativeFan. You have to view their full list of 20 logos! Just <a href="http://creativefan.com/the-20-best-logos-from-2009/">click here</a>.</div> <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/rOuYvPDzbWVr2aSMe4d6l17UHBqcRcLLxlOGJmLbElnM4Kg8gUPecVyP0CIo/8fish_m.jpg" width="500" height="247"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/AAtpZWsGz6uIVhYmeoq6gt2N7MT6VFLo4UIXgiKymONZZPgdEnVpoOWnMImB/bridges_m.jpg" width="500" height="247"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/UmMqdZokwfxAmAnc2SPLxi7OFU6UJxZG5ARwjP1p3f85zJFhUob9q7wFIir3/cf_m.jpg" width="500" height="247"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/S5g4O0RgnomhkRDhURVimLBrQQRDlVzqa3HxWG8fRkEhJAhZCyNMoaUxoapw/horror_m.jpg" width="500" height="247"/> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/adityakandala/WY44RxdsXCgPjNmPmkj5McQcfcMbVvFe34zqYDNf4jdfMapfPIccWB62mxA5/mc_m.jpg" width="500" height="247"/> <div><a href='http://adityakandala.com/most-creative-logos-from-2009'>See and download the full gallery on posterous</a></div></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://adityakandala.com/most-creative-logos-from-2009">Aditya's Blog</a> </p></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7190795915737856140-6970861338614785056?l=adityathinking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11565664913318363638noreply@blogger.com0