Devil's Workshop

Taking a break from blogging for some days, now paying attention to work :) Comments-[ comment(s)]

While coming to the office today I saw a brand new Ambassador, which is quiet rare now-a-days. I am not seeing many of these cars; even taxis are getting replaced by Tata Indica. When I was a child owning a car meant having an Ambassador or a Premiere Padmini (commonly known as Fiat).When Marutis made their entry, I remember people used to say – “How can one buy a Maruti? Even a cycle can dent it. Look at Ambassador, how strong it is”. Slowly Maruti and other new generation cars replaced it, but still Ambassadors brings back good old memories of past:). Comments-[ comment(s)]

Trying to get up early in the morning, but not able to. It looks like my body needs at least 9 hours of sleep as opposed to some who can sleep for 7-8 hours.So I should sleep at around 10 to get up early which seem to be a distant reality. There is a friend of mine who can “transfer” his sleeping hours. That means he can be awake for say 24 hours and sleep for next 18 hours. I don’t know how he can do that, even he doesn’t :).Probably I need to practice this, so I will be able to get up early on weekdays and cover in weekends.
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Came across this interesting blog about current outcry against outsourcing to India (via Blogger).
In its own words-
“Blame India Watch is concerned with the increasing anti-Indian/anti-India sentiment among tech workers, as well as media coverage that focuses disproportionately on Indian workers or propigates anti-India(n) sentiment.What began a few years ago as IT grumbling about Indian-specific H-1B "Temporary Guest worker" and L-1 "Intracompany Transfer" workers and immigrants has now morphed into the outsourcing issue, and is now gaining international attention. We aim to highlight this scapegoating, encourage IT workers to put a stop it, and redirect the anger to where it belongs.”

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A famous theater group in Bangalore conducted auditions recently and I cleared the first round. I was planning to leave Bangalore to celebrate my B’day and Holi with my folks who live in a north Indian town. I got a call from them just a day earlier to my departure. Now I was confused, what to do – should I cancel the whole journey or should I go for it? After all it’s once a year kind of thing and it’s nice to be with family members. Also, what if I am out of second round? Or should I try it, who knows if I get another opportunity or not? A friend suggested that I should ask them if they plan to do the auditions later. I took a chance and called them up, but as I knew they didn’t have any plans.

Ultimately I decided that I should stay and give it a try. So there was I, celebrating my birthday evening in the auditorium. I liked the way auditions were conducted. Initially we were asked to introduce ourselves, background etc. Then some physical exercises and then we were asked to act. Somehow I knew in the end that I need to work more, if I want to take theater seriously. And I could not get through; not a good B’day gift :(. It was a nice experience though and I learnt a lot.

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