Yet Another Software Junk | മറ്റൊരു പാഴ്‌ജന്മം

(scene : He is shaving)

She: why are you using shaving cream while shaving?
He: make shaving smoother and avoid scratches in the skin.
She: that I know; what I am asking is... why you are using it?
He: what?

dedicated to all those have less 'romam'(hair) in his face

What is this? Ice Cubes? You might be wondering that this lake is at northern pole !!!

If you happen to take a short cut from HAL Airport to Bellandur Junction, you will never forget this lake and the bund road. The first reason is the stinky smell as soon as you enter to a small bride over lake side river. The village men wash their buffaloes, cows etc in this lake side area. And I guess, they have no shed for their cattle. so they dump cow dung on this lake. What you see in the picture is a kind of foam formed due to a bit heavy stream of water from the lake to this river.


Second things is the beauty of sky at evening, mist spread over the lake and of course a cool breeze...and how long this lake would be here in Bangalore? As long as someone thinks 361 hectare is good enough to start an industry!!! Somebody says that there exists a small lake in Koramangala. Now it is a sports village residential layout. [link]. Did anybody see it?



Third reason is that you can escape from Marathahalli signal and Samson's odometer indicates that this short cut saves 2KMs.

Publishing new Beta version for Mashithantu Nighantu... with double click feature.

Hope you will enjoy!!

Happy Republic Day !!!

...In this late twenties ...

I am experiencing the meaning of a word for the first time in my life... perseverance !!

And the result is ... a Malayalam Nighantu. For the last one year, myself and my crew were involved in this mammoth effort and still need to travel a lot before we sleep.

Thanks to all who supported us through their time, efforts, suggestions, editing etc!

Have a Nice day!

New year... New look... New blog... and New Server !!

Yup, Mashithantu Nighantu server is upgraded with 40% faster loading mechanism and added a new blog. Also optimized its interface to load faster with a cool new look.

Check its new blog here and new look here.

Beta 3 is up and running now; but I am down with fever :-(

Thanks to all who take time to express their dissatisfactions through a single click.

I've got more than 300 such clicks and able to understand what a user expect from a dictionary better. Your feedback helped us to fine tune our searching method.

Please check this Malayalam English Dictionary[link]. and please click this button if you are unsatisfied. Thanks!

It is Nov 1st. 51st Kerala Piravi.

So here goes our simple contribution to our mother tongue... Malayalam Dictionary (Beta-2) .

This Dictionary contains 25000+ Malayalam words with its meaning. Please choose Malayalam Malayalam English Dictionary mode and type manglish in the input box. You may also try English Malayalam Dictionary mode and get the Malayalam meanings for 7000+ English words.

My sincere thanks to those people who stand solid behind me. See their list here.

You may search Malayalam words using "Google Search" button embedded in the site.

See the Beta-1 announced by Thiruvonam Day here

I think somebody want to go home early on this pooja Holidays. His Manager might not approved his leave or so. What will he do? He called up on to HP office and placed an 'info' : "somebody planted a bomb at HP building, Bagmane tech park, Bangalore".

Now security official are leading the original fire 'drill'. Many people left their precious car in the parking slot and ran away for their life. Many drive out with their vehicle and created a long traffic Jam in the Lake Side road. (it may lead to block the fire force)

when I came out of the office building with my bike I saw all chicks in the building setting their eyes on our building to see a original bomb blast. I felt like a gate picketing during my college days.

Now I am safely blogging at my home. Not at all sure whether our building actually blasted or not. However my office phone is working and remote login to my desktop is also working. (FYI I am not working for HP and I am not going to my home town tonight)

Part I : Life is like that !!!

Take a closer look at my criteria to choose my wife.

Long Hair: Like all men I like all women with long hair. At my teenage, I set my eyes on the girls who have long hair reaches their knee. But unfortunately I couldn't find many. In fact, their number can be counted in my finger. In my Graduation Days, I reduced my expectation. What about the hair touching their buttocks? Still I found difficult to see such a Girl. ehh... Today's girls are lazy to maintain their beautiful hair. Then I became Normal. Set my mind to accept a girl with short hair that reaches the half of their backbone. At the end I married a Girl whose hair hardly touches her shoulder ;-)

Computer Graduate: While I completed my graduation in Computer Science, I can not even think about a lady other than computer stream. She may not be able to adjust with a junk software engineer. It is a normal expectation, right? B.Tech in CS or MCA or even BSc Computer science were seemed okke to me. But… I married a Civil graduate who has a very less interest in Computer Science and Software Engineers !!!

Sacred Heart School: In my school days, I happened to visit Sacred Heart School for a competition and impressed by the beauty of school and of course the chicks walking around. And I scared even to dream BIG to marry such a girl. My wife is a product of same school and I walked into St Mary's college, Thrissur along with my wife to visit her old teachers. Hence fulfilled the dream of St.Thomas' College alumni.

Specs: I have no problem to marry a girl with specs. But my father doesn't like specs. He never ever showed such a girl's photo to me. My wife wears specs all the time. She purposefully wore specs in her proposal photo though her father didn't allow her to wear the same @ marriage.

Virtually Rejected: What is that ?
4 years (flash) back… My cousin was in his search for a life partner. He got a proposal from Thrissur and my father got assigned to get more details about the girl's family. It was very easy for him to collect the data. The report about the family was A++ . Whenever my father says good things about a family I become curious to know more ;-) Who else in the family... and what they are doing etc ... My brain was particularly looking for the details of their daughters (around 4-6 years younger to me). Yup… as I expected this proposed girl has two younger sisters. One is exactly 4 years younger to me and other one was 8 years younger.
"So father what is her 'younger' sister doing ?" - I inquired.
"She is studying @ GECT, I guess Civil" - He seemed to be less interested.

ohh Civil !! It didn't take me a sec to reject her in my mind.

And yeah... I married the SAME GIRL now :-)

Ha ha... My life is like that !

തലവര :-)

Contd…

"കേരളം ഒരു ഭ്രാന്താലയം" എന്നു മുന്‍പേ മനസിലാക്കിയ സ്വാമി വിവേകാനന്ദന്‍ വളരെ വലിയ ഒരു ദീര്‍ഘദര്‍ശി തന്നെ.

നാറാണത്തു ഭ്രന്തനോ... മുഴുവന്‍ കേരള ജനതതേയും പ്രതിനിധാനം ചെയ്യുന്നു. "വാട്ട് കേന്‍ ഐ ഡു ഫോര്‍ യു" എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു ദേവി എന്തിനും തയ്യാറായി വന്നപ്പോള്‍ ആ ഭ്രാന്തന്‍ മൊഴിഞ്ഞു... വലത്തേ കാലിലെ മന്തുരോഗം ഇടത്തേ കാലിലേക്കു മാറ്റാന്‍ !! എന്നിട്ടു മൃദുവായി ഒന്നു പുഞ്ചിരിച്ചുപോലും... തനി പൊട്ടന്‍ തന്നെ!!!

നമ്മളും അതു തന്നെയല്ലേ ചെയ്യുന്നതു! എല്ലാ അഞ്ചു വര്‍ഷത്തിലും നമുക്ക് ഒരു വരം കിട്ടും ... വോട്ട് ചെയ്യാന്‍ ... അപ്പോള്‍ നമ്മള്‍ നാറാണത്തു ഭ്രന്തനെ പോലെ മഹത്തായി ചിന്തിക്കും... എന്നിട്ടു പൊട്ടിപ്പൊട്ടി ചിരിക്കും. എന്നിട്ടു ഇപ്പോള്‍ വലത്താണു ഭരിക്കുന്നതെങ്കില്‍ ഇടത്തിനും അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ മറിച്ചും കുത്തി, പഴയ മാറാപ്പും ദുരിതങ്ങളും തുടര്‍ന്നും പേറി ജീവിതം ഹാപ്പിയായി കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്നു !!!

ഈ തരം പാമ്പുകടിച്ചാല്‍ ഒരു പ്രത്യേകതയുണ്ടു്... കടിയേറ്റ ഭാഗം തടിച്ച് വീര്‍ക്കും. കുറച്ചുനാളുകഴിയുമ്പോള്‍ ആ ഭാഗം പൂര്‍വ്വസ്ഥിതിയിലാകും. പക്ഷേ... എല്ലാ വര്‍ഷത്തിലും ഇതേ സമയത്ത് കടിയേറ്റ സ്ഥലത്ത് പിന്നെയും തടിച്ചു പൊങ്ങും. കുറച്ചു നാളു കഴിയുമ്പോള്‍ അതു പഴയപടിയാകും. ഇതു ഇങ്ങനെ മരണം വരെ നീണ്ടു പോകും.

offnote:
സ്വാശ്രയ കോളേജു പ്രശ്നം തത്കാലം കെട്ടടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നു... karanataka യിലുള്ള seat allocation കഴിഞ്ഞു കാണും ! ഇനി അടുത്ത കൊല്ലം ഇതേ സമയം ഇതേ സ്ഥലത്തു ഇതു വീണ്ടും പ്രത്യക്ഷ പെടുന്നതാണ്... കാത്തിരിക്കുക.

I am not getting any mood to write blogs. whenever I gets sometime, I spent it on this നിഘണ്ടു (Malayalam dictionary). I don't know much about HTML, Javascipt, PHP etc. But this dictionary is all about these languages. Need pretty a lot of efforts on searching Google 'God' and get the tutorial, Cut/Paste and Test. Besides that whenever my wife see me on laptop, she says... mar ja (hindi). she extends her angry against all computer engineers... "computer sicks"... they can live without food, water, and electricity(!!!). At the end she adds..."Do you want some coffee or tea my dear?" :-)

Another motivation is to spent time on this extra tedious works is the "counters". It shows 600+ users in less than one month, in search for 1240+ words. Among those 600, 70+ users found this online site using Google. They badly want the meaning of some Malayalam words.

Apart from this, this dictionary was my dream before 6 years itself. And I am very happy to see that it is reaching to its final format. And some people are keen to see its performance. Thanks to all who supported me through their helpful hand and motivated me though their kind words directly and indirectly.

Offnote:
I hope that I can release its completed version within two weeks.
Umm, I have to send my wife her home for two weeks. (എല്ലാ വിജയത്തിന്റെ പിന്നിലും ഒരു സ്ത്രീയുണ്ടാകും മോനേ ദിനേശാ...)

Let me begin with my trysts with the competitive exams: Kerala Engineering Entrance exam. It was outright rejection on the first attempt itself. (With the rank I managed to grab, I was only eligible for Production Engineering, that too somewhere in North India. The situations forced me to spend one year at my home town, Thrissur. Dedicated to studies, sports, movies and a few social activities (mainly renovation of our local library).

That was a wonderful year!

There was light at end of the tunnel. I successfully got through the exam and managed a CSE seat in our great GECT. When I turn back, the year 1996-97 was unforgettable.

As I’ve written many times before, I’ve struggled a lot to get a good job. I have been rejected by many interviewers. I lived with a broken heart through those times. Two years… jobless in Thrissur…But, I’ve enjoyed these years too, I would say :-) Finally I landed with a job in an Chennai MNC. Again, prior to my date of joining I was invited by two more companies, that too with better offers. Anyway, I didn’t bother much to reject their offers.

Where were they for those two struggling years?

I grew up! Destiny has chosen me to wear an interviewer’s hat too; Interviewed – 12; Selected - 2; Rejected - 10.

Further grew up. Started thinking about my marriage. To reduce my parent’s burden, I thought of helping them out. Ha… here is one... In my company itself. Looks pretty, with an innocent look. I wrote a letter to her. What about a chit-chat? She declined my offer politely… “Hmm... I’m not interested and do not misunderstand me”. Ok.

I had to seek my parents’ help. Tick tick tick… here comes one. A typical Thrissurian. + She looks very innocent and polite. She said… OK… lets go hand-in-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder. Wow… It took me more than 3 years to find a job. but in less than 3 months, I found my girl. Cool... isn't it?

Every thing is settled now. Here comes a letter from a girl: “May I occupy the vacancy of your better half, if available?” And she puts forward very simple, logical conditions to live with her. She also looks pretty, simple and straight forward.

Really… I was shocked. First time a lady took an initiative, and found that I am a good human being to live with :-)... But she was too late. Searched for the mail I have received from my old crush who rejected me, made some changes, added “where were you two months back?” and send it to this lady.

The End.(ശുഭം)

My life is always like th... whenever I search for something; it will go away from me. But will come to me some later time, may be with a lot better add-ons.

"Delayed Response is not Denied Response"

Contd…

If I were there, I could be part of the winning combination again. Congrats to Bijoy, Raveesh, Bibin, Greeshma, Lookose and Team! Theme... 60 years of Independence, HCL's Transformer initiative. The team was successful to merge both theme to a kathakali face.

Link to my last Onam @ CODC3.

A thought by Ashwin :The 50th Pillion

In short: Share your vehicle space to others. Or do not use 4 seater car for singleton use.If possible, use company transportation.

A Chennai solution

Divider all over the road+ Traffic police + Good automated signal system.

A Singapore Style solution:

Private Car tax : 250%.
And they provide luxury buses(plenty of them).

Tail: If Tata's 1 lakh car hit on road...?!!!

Just a few words about this മലയാളം നിഘണ്ടു.

You may type Manglish patterns to search for the meaning. Please make use of Manglish Keyboard provided in the site.

"Find meaning" to get the meaning of Malalayam words you typed.
"Count" button is for counting the number of letters starting by what you typed.

Offnote: it was my dream 6 years back to build a dictionary.

...a Malayalam Malayalam English Dictionary on Thiruvonam.

Kid is famous for his policies/arguments in his big family.

It was a summer vacation. Kid and his cousin was playing പാമ്പും കോണിയും (Snake and ladder game) in the hall. As usual Kid's Grandfather took his umbrella and was ready to leave home for opening his shop. He asked Kid's cousin to close/lock the front door after he leave. So obedient cousin stood up and started walking to door behind Grandfather.

Kid was disturbed between the game and shouted towards the cousin: "നില്‍ക്കടാ അവിടെ (Stop)", he continued, "Why should you obey your grandfather".

All aunts, uncles, cousins present in the hall were stunned ! How dare the Kid to shout these nonsense.

Kid made his stand clear, "Did our grandfather ever obeyed our words?!!"

A smile appeared in his grandfather's face. and also awarded a "coffee-byte" while he returned from his shop.

Beat CGI, Herman Miller, PMC Sierra ; lost against HP in the quarter final.