List of favorite music tracks

Music is one of the ways I enjoy,as everyone else does, to get relaxed. Main constituents viz. lyrics and composition are very important to any one as such. Even if any of these is good, that bit becomes a hit. There are many who can't work literally without playing music in their machines. In countries like ours where plethora of languages exist, songs have different flavor varying on the language. Even then there are many common strings existing amongst them.

In my stay @ IIITB, I was exposed to songs and music of most of the languages. Recently, owing to the popular radio fm channels in Bengaluru, I made interest in few Kannada songs. They are truly awesome.

I list out here few of my favorite movie music tracks here (not an exhaustive list though :P) in the order Language (Song, Movie/Album) apart from Telugu, my native language which I would update later.

Tamizh:
Uyirin Uyire - Khakka Khakka
Aasai Aasai - Dhool
Lesa Lesa - Lesa Lesa
Malare Malare - S5 album
Vennilave - Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu

Kannada:
Ninnindale - Milana (terrific one)
Mungaru Maleye - Mungaru Male
O Gunavantha - Jothi Jothiyele
Minchagi - Gaalipata
Nee Amritadhare - Amrithadhare

Malayalam:
Oru murai - Manichitratazhu
Parayathe - Udayananu Tharam
Symphony - Devadhoodan
Ente Khalbile - Classmates

Hopefully I'l keep this post updating frequeuntly populating each category. Possibly I'll provide links so anyone can listen them online.

Meanwhile, enjoy maadi

Hell with this Bengaluru traffic

Yes, I mean it. Infact anyone who stays in Bengaluru agrees to it in a blink of an eye. I spend more than 3-4hrs daily for commuting between my college and office. Wish I could use this precious time for some other productive work. Non-regularized Traffic is very common issue in many other cities too these days.

Today I witnessed (rather I've been a victim) of yet another worst traffic jam. I boarded BMTC city bus from Marathalli to ITPL which I do usually, that stretches around 7kms. It took me total of 1.10 hrs to cover this distance !!! This was disgusting. The reason for this traffic jam was that people from one lane, having noticed no vehicles coming in opposite direction in adjacent lane, just jumped to that lane. This stream of vehicles included BMTC buses, company buses too apart from usual commuters. So at the next junction, there was a deadlock. No vehicle could move anywhere. Funniest thing at that moment was that few cab drivers were arguing on who went wrong. There was some foreigner who was happily shooting all this jam & fighting in his funky camcorder. I wonder they find everything interesting here. Somehow after a long gap of 1/2hr, some traffic was cleared and finally we resumed our journey.



Its foolish on our part when we forget basic traffic rules (infact common sense) for the sake of reaching our destination early. We are not only getting ourselves to trouble but creating havoc to others too. Just earning huge amounts and moving in posh vehicles doesn't have to make one a rule-breaker. Its responsibility of each one of us to ensure that we follow proper traffic guidelines and reach our place happily & most important SAFELY.

another new blog

I've started blogging in my "Telugu" language very recently. For all those who can read [and understand too :)] please check
www.eemani.wordpress.com

Life as intern

My observation in recent days is that interns / project trainees, though constitute minute percent of people working in any company, they do some really good stuff. There is lots of learning in this duration of internship either technical, professional ethics, social networking etc., That is the reason why most students try for internships companies today. Moreover companies too try to absorb interns as full-time employees after the internship duration. Its a symbiotic process where the company has the advantage of recruiting people without much input and flip side the student needn't search for vacancies elsewhere.

I already had the experience of interning at IIT Bombay for 2 months in 2005. Later now in MTech, I joined in IBM-ISL as intern starting this Jan for a period of 6 months as part of curriculum. I, Ashutosh, Preeti all from same college are in the same group. Our Project Manager Dr.Manish Gupta is very well known for his research work in System software, JVM. He is on assignment in India from his regular work place IBM TJ Watson Research center. He made some significant contribution in IBM's BlueGene supercomputer.

Its been 2.5 months now working with IBM. Don't know how time just passed by. Its faster than what it was in student life.

I was so excited on the very first day when all joining formalities were made. I also opened a citibank account where my stipend [the only source that makes us work when both company and project sucks :) ] would be credited. Later we reported to our PM when he briefed the project named "Vamana". More details about the project in later posts.

Due to lack of space in EGL campus that is located near to our college, we were assigned work desks at FTP campus at ITPL. Project members are good and fundoo too. Having great time working there. Only problem is traveling in the well-known Bangalore traffic between places that are about 30kms apart.

Few of the things I liked here are - brainstorming sessions in weekly meetings. They are awesome. All people involved in this project get interlocked in this meeting. I liked the way ideas churning out from the discussions. Other is no strict yes to formal dress which I rarely do wear.