Raksha Bandhan Greetings

Sun Rise

How does this अवतार (avatar) look on me??

'Bright Eyed & Bushy Tailed Babloo Saheb' - is the avatar worn by me as - I need to lead important initiatives (hence Saheb word as part of full alias and Babloojee as short name for showing respect this position carries). Babloo being a childlike name indicates challenge my soul faces to work as formal leader. Bright Eyed & Bushy Tailed indicates the inspiration I take from गिल्हेरी (Gil heri) that is simply our cute friend squirrel! (S)he is very alert before jumping from the heights (thus bright eyed) and though she does not know the depth ahead, (s)he knows that her/his bushy tail will act as wonderful parachute for her/him to land joyfully (hence the other attribute of being bushy tailed) I seek to imbibe these values over next few weeks as i wear some important hats for few projects in my life and hope that these values become intrinsic part of me so that the avatar can be freed for use by someone else :) .

Credits: Image to Photobucket , Predictive (read easy) Hindi typing by Quillpad, Inspiration to be an Emcee from Tarana, Creativity borrowed from Sree and Confidence from the Folks around to back me up as well as pull me if needed and for their (and your) unconditional love & trust on me! and the phrase - bushy eyed & bright tailed to Comrade PEN

Its time to Camp Fire!

I am sure you are longing to have a campfire so here is a fantastic opportunity for you and me to have fun while doing many other interesting things. I feel excited and priveldged to be part of the gang behind the concept and am just getting into the goorve, keen for you to come along as per your convenience and interest. Do leave your views on the subject or call me at 98410-61512 or Yahoo !M at suneet_21 or Skype at babloosaheb.

Its our event, come on, confirm what are you gonna doing there!

Hey guys i assume you are aware of (Blog)Camp happening in Chennai in Sep'06, else pls do so quickly as janta is talking about it and as a someone close to me I don't wanna you miss this, i mean it...

....though Bill Gates may not be there this time but we will have some people who have been associated with him closely, likewise Sachin & Dhoni may not be there but we are expecting some promeniet sports personalities, like wise there is long list of intersting people who may not be there this time, but there is more compelling list of people who will be there.

Click here to check who amongst you is attending, wanna check folks working on the event and do something to help in Green Room, do let me know so that we can have you on board asap.

Sincerely hope that you will be there too.

Event will be mix of conference as well as un-conference format based events filled over 2 fun packed days.

I am handling Hospitality that would typically involve things such as taking care of logistics related to outstation and instation participants etc., proper support system for les conceirge needs etc. Seeking some volunteers to make it a memorable experience for all of us...

Ganesh is handling funds management. Syed is handling Sponsorship.... and there are folks handing media relations, events details, website management, promotions etc.

We are actively working on multiple things including soliciting some very lively and famous folks to share their insights as part of the event.

Question now (again) is What are you doing ?

(Blog)Camp (is) in, If you not there, you don't have (fire)

ps - This entry is to promote BlogCamp(in)India, Chennai in Sep'06, it is expected to be Asias most happening event for Sep'06. Check details at www.blogcamp.in and http://blogcamp.in/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. Its a Wiki so you and me can edit the content of the site without any programming skills and offcourse, we can also be part of defining and then achieving the spirit of the event!

Chance to create interesting history corss our life time sometime in fairly simple manners...is this for you...Looks like its one for me!!

My Hours? Do they run faster!

Did you ever face challenge with 'Time' as a vanishing asset....?

I am trying to take better control on 84000 odd secs which are presented to me at each sunrise.

Just trying my hands at myhours.com and will also test few others...Over next 90days help me utilize my time...

Catch you soon and lets do IT now !!!

Will you accept my invitation?

Well I know you love me and care for me!

But you know what I am missing you and all of you might also be missing me (or my unkept promises :) )

I suddenly realized that its around 750 calendar days since I exicted and jumped in habit of blogging...my few random posts won't reflect at all the kind of experiences I have had as direct outcome of this hobby by reading from several folks, meeting few and relating with a few.

During last few years I seem to be missing on few hygiene aspects related to managing my time for best benefit of myself and others in many personal matters. Thus I am lucky that you all have still been with me and are always gonna be there as we move along...

So what I am gonna do is list some of the things which i promised to each of you with some indication of time i desire to close the and all I would do is strike these off as and when they are closed... so keep pulling me and encouraging me, cheering me as I crawl to these simple steps...

1. Nandika - let me get your bicycle fixed up - target - 8th/9th jul

2. Neetu - let me go to sleep by 2.15am 8th jul IST (i know we need to continue living happily and thus stay away from this 'Dream Express' - nick name of my newly acquired PC, beyond healthy hours)

3. Dr Lolla - will send you updated Synopsis and Approach document for my PhD Thesis by 10th Jul'06 and will also call you after that to share my ideas on your upcoming program on 'Art for Non-Art folks specially those in IT'

4. Rampi - can we meet on 12th jul for dinner? will catch up reg my ideas on quillpad
and Kids Hobby club etc more often and supported by timely actions as mutually agreed :))

5. Umashankar Sir - hope we can meet soon and you can get me started on getting Linux based gaming and entertainment center soon...

(more later)....Jayu lets visit your new house this month....Ash lets spend some time relaxing and doing nothing etc...

Lets Meet @ Ascendas on 24th Jun'06 @ 3pm

Its great to know from Kiruba that next Chennai Bloggers Meet is planned. Click here for details. It was very good experience for me to attend the last meet. Now that there are many people whom I know personally well who are blogging (some of them are David, Jayu, Balu, GS, Somu, Kiruba, Kiran, Rampi, KS, ....) and I also relate to many many blogs without having ever met the authors.

As once Kiruba shared with me that there is so much of goodness around, it makes one feel very comfortable. Offcourse, he and me discussed that there are occassions in blog world related interactions which one may not prefer, but then those could happen any where else as well.

I like many other people believe that blog is a tool and end result for its usage is purely in the hand of the user.

Its good that I have had chance to read and meet good people and now I started even hearing and watching some of them.

I look forward to have enhanced lifestyle and would like to leverage blog as a key vehicle for that in years to come. Look forward to have your presence for the meet.

Theme of my (career) dream

As usual this time of the year, like many other companies, we have our annual performance review and career related discussions. I have had fairly interesting change in my profile this time. I look forward to maximize our performance by aligning my talents in line with the new team.

i have come across someone who relates a lot to what i would like to do and also the manner in which i would like to do that.

The person is - Robert Scoble.

If you don't know who he is, "Well, you need to crawl out of that big rock you have been hibernating in".

Why do i relate to him?

1. professional recognition he has - click here to check what The Economist wrote about him in Feb'05

2. frankness & honesty that he conveys - my love on these aspects is based on the read and hear i have done on him over last week or so

3. affection and sincerity he has for family - this is what i liked most, that he is taking 1 month off in August'06 to spend time with his mother and clean up her place!! Not that any other son won't like to do, being able to do this in today's fast moving world is great. I also read that he has been scheduling time for his son's school on key dates. He works closely with his wife in life and thus leaving life fully each day, probabily one day at a time.

Here is my wishing him all the good luck for his new initiatives and I hope he would visit India soon as indicated in his interview to Kiruba.

I also hope to evolve as "unofficial official credible" spokesperson for organizations and bodies i am associated with............

On the right is my snap from BarCamp Chennai, this was clicked by The Money Machine, I am sitting (in white T-shirt) next to The News Maker (in orange T-shirt) on my right.

i Will b Camping few days in Bar :)

Hey Folks, don't get astonished, me-the nice behaved guy has decided to get himself "poured" and "soaked" into whatever flows at BarCamp .

On top of it, one of the host, Kiruba, intends to delegate HOSPITALITY Function for the event to me, yes, thats correct.

Now imagine this, already I am participating in Vodkathon! so in what state of mind and body I would be to take care of esteemed participants at BarCamp.......

Jokes apart guys, this is very very interesting forum of us and us only. I mean there will be Sharkhun or Aamir of the cine world, nor will be NarayanMurthys or Azim Premzis of the IT world or for that matter any one already having traditional fan following may not be permitted.

Just get an idea of the "spirit" of the show before you proceed, this will help you make better sense of my chatter in following few paras.

All we aspire in hospitality desk is to treat each of our distinguished participants / volunteers / sponsors/ partners / organizers / other BarCamp Champs, with respect for their mindshare and pertinent participation / contribution in making this event happen as planned.

It is already being reported to be a world class kick off an international forum in Chennai and incidently also at Hyderabad on 8th-9th Apr'06.

We are working out exact details on the hospitality related support we need, however, do let me know your queries/comments etc via post on this blog or at skgc7j at gmail dot com or SMS (98410-61512) or YahooIM @ suneet_21 or Skype - babloosaheb........I am sure you have some thing to say after reading this so am sharing all the coordinates which can be used to reach me on the subject.

Some of the pointers for you to think -

0.a) Participate by Presenting on what is up your sleeves - it could be any thing about per se or could be in IT related areas....act fast and there is tremendous pressure for 2 days of action (read fun) packed learning (read leg pulling of new ideas) ahead

0.b) Volunteer - i am told there are tons of them, but I believe there is no problem of plenty ever and thus do let me know for Our Hospitality Cell I am looking for -

1. People who can lend cars / any other 4 wheelers / CABs etc for helping outstanding folks commute seamlessly

2. Volunteers who can accomodate esteemed outstation speakers as family guest for 1-2 nights

3. Folks who can receive and also see off outstation teams / delegates

4. Center Operations Center - would need to work 24 x 7 from 7th Apr'06 till we wind up the show (that includes cleaning the premises and cleaning the Wiki site based on the proceedings)---- here we will need a place with land line(s), net commection and probabily a rest room ie working home cum office

5. Sponsors

5.1 Helpline cells - we can play your desired mp3 tune.....if needed :)
5.2. Banners for Railway Stn and Airport, Bus Stand etc.....(who knows if UFOs could land at venue as well)
5.3. Stickers for all Vehciles being used for commuting on duty

6. Strong Admin Team - To get to interact with Police Dept, any other government agency and also Les Conceirge services for ticket changes, First Aid Support, Babby Sitting?? etc.........

Drop in your ideas/queiries/comments/etc as soon as convenient to you, have nice week ahead, take care, see you Soon :)

Bud(ing)IT(e)

Well it has been a battle well fought.....and am happy that winner is me the net savy cool person aspiring to achieve maximum with zilch or minimal effort in an ethical manner.

It has taken me 2 years of (blog) reading - Kiruba, Somu, Jaydeep, GS, Balu, and few months of following Gaurav for a an oldie like me to make some sense of whats happening across us. Let me confess that names mentioned here are just an indication and they atmost represent 2% of all those whom I should acknowledge for helping me understand the world today a bit better.

Last weekend saw some interesting developments in my life and now I have discovered what I was always seeking, more on that later.

I am pleased to inform you that starting tomorrow my raddiwala will have lesser work as I am no longer under information overload syndrome. I am starting with chopping newspapers out of my life. The leading national newspaper, probabily only one with Readers Editor and the leading national business daily may not realize that I will nolonger miss them.

But some where I will be welcomed with red carpet(of nice banner ads) as I am slowly moving into more engagements with them. Yeah you are right, I am watching Budget 06. So chill and relax, don't worry when everyone is rushing to buy some things which are produced by cutting trees (thats how (news)paper is produced i was told), some others might be glued to TV channels and enduring misery of having no control on sequence of events, here is the choice you make today and once for all, that given 2 ways of attaining same experience whichever way you choose defines what you get and also the option chosen decides what kind of earth you leave behind - a clean, green one or some what worser than today - choice is yours !!

I am a simple person who intends to maximize benefits with minimal efforts and almost no restrictions. This Way suites MyWay....

So as markets react to Mr P Chidambaram's announcements, go ahead and relax amongst chaos...I am damn impressed with all the agencies - Sify, NIC and any others involved would have worked together to make this happen. It is incidental that I work in Sify. I am once again feeling proud of my company and this time also sharing the feeling with you.

One thing which impressed me was Finance Ministry website - they don't have a single snap of their boss...gr8 guys ....ways to go....

Sunny

ps - below are some details just to share few tools that helped me reach here
Credits -
1. My Personalized Page at Google
2.NewsFeeds and Alerts by Google
3. Search Engine Optimization by Sify
4. Creative Inputs - expected from Alie - watch out this space
5. Personal Content Management by MyWay

Quotes of the day (as taken from 1)

"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Anonymous

2mins silence for Mr Nathu Ram Godes, Anupam Kher and off course the Mahatama Gandhi

Why should we have 2mins silence on death anniversary of someone who got assasinated several decades ago by probabily a voluteer of an organization - also known well for its positive culture and discpline etc.....

We can never find facts, and especially I for one have a belief to respect the Unknown.

Was that an accident?

Was it that a protest become a murder by chance?

Was there a bigger plot which we could not see?

Can we visualize what would have been our world today had The Father of (The) Nation (India) - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi not shot by Mr Nathu Ram Godse on this day nearly at this time soon after we became politically (once again) independent from the British Raj?

What went wrong against Mr Gandhi that today we don't even care for what he lived for that is "Motto of Customer Above All".....

Can we take this occassion to dedicate each of us to extreme heights of customer delight? I am starting .....would need your cheering when I am down and do applaud when I do something which relates to your value system on this matter

ps - any critque can be emailed to sunil at c7j dot net and avoided here.....:)

Have a nice day,

Gong Xi Fa Cai