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Its All Part Of The Plan

Gowtham — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:38:37 +0000

Now You Have All the Reasons To Hate The Spiderman

Its Simple Kill The Batman

Why So Serious

Lets Put A Smile On That Face

Are We Having Fun Yet

hahahahhaHAHAHA AHAHAH ~~HAHAHHAHAHHha~~ hahhah ahh a

National Car Loan Service

Gowtham — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:53:52 +0000

Everyone may not be that financially stable enough to get a car, paying the complete cash at once and get a new car or may be even a used one. Thats were people think of getting Car Loans for buying. But the very concept of getting loan and buying a car itself makes many step back from having a car, the problem is, they many times don’t get the finance from the reliable and trust worthy loan providers.

I know one reliable car loan provider who are good at getting you car loans easy, simple and faster. Be it new or old cars, getting a loan is just simple , you can even get the loan by applying for it online new car loans as well as Used Car Loans, it can’t get easy and simple than this. And they are providing the loans for people all over the country no matter how good or bad your credit is, thats the beauty.

Graveyard Shift Made me to Forget Eating

Gowtham — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:50:47 +0000

I have been put in the Graveyard shift in office for the past two days, err nights! The shift starts from 12 am and ends at 08 am, no big deal for me, really! As i am used to be awake in this timings, but this has a major impact on my appetite, i eat at 8.30 pm and leaves for office after 11 pm, i will have nothing till the morning in the office and come back home at 8:30 am. I will be feeling so tired that i hit the bed straight away. I wake up in the evening and sit in front of the computer, and have my food(i like to call it that way for now, cos i am really confused in what i should call it now) in at 8:30 pm and leaves for office at 11 pm, and the routine continues.

So that means that, i eat only once for a day, no this shouldn’t happen. I should be eating 3 times a day. I am in confusion of how i can change my meal timings. Good suggestions are welcome

Gtalk Freezes Due To Winamp 5.5

Gowtham — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:33:11 +0000

Winamp is one of the best music players i have ever used which has loads of features, unlike Windows Media Player. In Google Talk there is this option to show the currently playing music track as status message. This was working in the older versions of Winamp, but when i upgraded my winamp to Winamp 5.5 and tried to show the the currently playing music track as status in Gtalk, Gtalk freezes and stops responding. Winamp was working fine so i tried out it with Windows Media Player, then Gtalk was able to show the status perfectly and it was working fine. But come on, i don’t want to use win media player, really i don’t, neither do i want to use older version of Winamp cos winamp 5.5 is freaking cool. So i found out this solution in Gtalk Help, finally they have solved it Phew. Cos, i have been searching for a solution for quite some time.

Exit Google Talk and Winamp.
Click start on your Windows taskbar.
Select Run and enter: [ type nul: >>"%programfiles%\winamp\winamp.m3u" ]
Make sure you use two carets (>>), not one (>).
Click OK.

Note: If you installed Winamp in a different location from the default one, you’ll need to use that location in the command in step 3. Replace %programfiles% with the correct location.

Cleared Versant

Gowtham — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:26:45 +0000

For those who doesn’t know Versant is a communication testing system. The technology uses a speech processing system that is specifically designed to analyze speech from native and non-native speakers of English.

This Monday i had my Versant test. The test is totally divided in to 5 parts.
Part A: Reading
We were given a set of 12 point, where the system asks us to read the sentences at random. It was quite easy, as i practiced reading all the sentences before itself

Part B: Repeat
Here we have to hear to the sentences what the voice says and repeat it back. This was a bit tough for me. Cos, i cant even guess the words in some sentences, but still i managed to add some words in between.

Part C: One word questions
The voice will ask you some simple questions and you have to give the answer in a single word or a phrase. Again i fumbled for 2 or 3 questions.

Part D: Sentence Build
Here the system will split a sentence and jumble it and we will have to tell in the correct way. This was a bit tough. As i was not able to understand some words.

Part E: Free Speech
This is the only part i liked. The voice will give u 3 topics one after another and you have to speak on it for 20 sec each. I was talking all bullshit, since these questions don’t have a specify answer.
Like for instance i got this topic
” What family activity you will suggest to improve bonding within family members”

For that i told some crap… i said something like this…
” To improve the bonding within family members, they should all go to the beach and jump in to the water. Or may be they should also try scuba diving. They can catch fish and eat it …. “

Finally i got out and had no hope that i would clear. I got 66 up on 80. Phew! i was not able to believe it. I got through Versant

The Little LULU Show

Gowtham — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:12:20 +0000

Little Lulu show, this was one of my favorite TV shows, when i was studying my 9th class, i was a teenager but still i liked this kids show, use to watch it on cartoon network, the story revolves around a little girl named Lulu and and her friends Annie, Tubby, Iggy and some others. They get into adventures and the story always ends in a comical way. I liked Iggy very much after Lulu he was little cute and very innocent. There was only one thing that annoys me in the show is the fact that in most of time there will some competition between boys and girls and girls always win it, but hey its Lulu so its ok. Even though the show was to be happening in 1990’s the cloths were really old and looked like it was 1930’s. I never miss this show, those days my favorite cartoon was Batman (And till now it is) and next to that it was Lulu. I hope they will be showing The Little Lulu Show again on TV, i will be glad to watch it. I tried to download it, but i couldn’t find any good torrent link, after searching for for such a long time i got this 2 link, but got pissed of, for it had no Seeds

I found most of the videos in Youtube

India’s biggest ever gay parade

Gowtham — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:08:08 +0000

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of gay activists prepared to march in three Indian cities Sunday in the largest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country where homosexuality is illegal, organizers said.

Gay rights supporters planned to take to the streets of Calcutta, Bangalore and New Delhi with rainbow flags and banners calling for an end to discrimination and pushing for acceptance in a society where intolerance is widespread.

“We are saying for the first time we feel safe enough and strong enough to come out to the streets and say we have our rights and we demand them,” said Lesley Esteves, 32, a gay rights activist who helped organize the New Delhi parade.

While small groups have marched in the eastern city of Calcutta in recent years, Sunday’s events are the first gay pride parades in Bangalore and New Delhi.

The marches come just days before the Delhi High Court is expected to hear arguments about overturning a law against homosexual sex that dates to the British colonial era. The law, which forbids acts “against the order of nature,” carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.

The law is rarely enforced, but activists say it sanctions discrimination.

“Discrimination is widespread because there is no protection or law or societal understanding,” said Esteves. “There’s discrimination in the workplace, there’s discrimination in the family - it’s on every level.”

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a senior leader of India’s main Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, called homosexuality “unnatural” and said he opposed the gay activists’ march.

“I don’t think it will be accepted in our country. Most of the people are traditional people, religious people and it will not be accepted in Indian culture,” Naqvi said.

Naqvi said BJP supporters would not protest the march because “we are not going to give importance to such behaviour.”

Still, there are signs that homosexuality is becoming more accepted in India, at least in big cities. In New Delhi, gay and lesbian groups hold biweekly movie screenings and parties, and organizers say attendance is rising. Newspaper editorials have called for revisions to the law, and prominent writers and activists have signed petitions expressing their support.

Activists say marginalizing gay people is also a serious health concern because it drives them underground and makes them more likely to engage in unsafe sex.

More than 5 per cent of gay men are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, compared to 0.36 per cent of the general population, according to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health. An estimated 2.5 million people in India are infected with HIV.

Source: The Canadian Press

BPO’s Do Need Engineers ;D

Gowtham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:44:34 +0000

Two days before one of my friend called me and told that we both could attend a interview at SutherLand. So i started from my home 9 am and reached the SutherLand office near Santhome at 9:30 am and waited there for an hour or so until they called me for the 1st round, the general HR, which was quite easy, and which had some expected questions like, tell me about yourself and some other usual questions which are meant to be asked during an interview. After they told that i got selected, they asked whether i want to go for the Microsoft process, i had no idea what they were they talking about, but i said, yes straight away and attended the Technical HR for Microsoft process, i got through, which had some simple questions about windows like, what is system restore and what is ‘regedit’ and some other simple question about windows after that they asked me to talk to this American named Paul over the phone, So i talked with this guy, who was clear with his questions and i think i answered good as well, but they rejected me, may be my accent was not that good, for that guy to understand, but he showed no sigh like that, his replies were like i was very clear to him. I can’t really guess what these people expect.

With a bit of disappointment i went to attend the interview for the DELL process, the interview was pretty easy there as well, which mainly concentrated on testing my communication skills. After this i took the Online Test, it had some simple aptitude questions, basic maths, and of course some questions to test my Language. After which i was offered the Offer Letter, It was nearly 6:30 in the evening. Now i am undergoing the training. If i am going to do bad in this, i would be kicked out.

BPOs Don’t need Engineers

Gowtham — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:15:52 +0000

I know that i am going to have a couple of arrears, in the results which i am awaiting, so i decided to join some call center until i clear my arrears. Yesterday i went to CTS BPO near Perungudi, I went there and submitted my resume, and found out that they are not recruiting B.E, B.Tech, or MCA graduates. It was strange for me, thought that they are having some stupid criteria to attend the interview, so without losing hope, i went to Ajuba in Tidel Park, there they got my resume and asked me to wait, i waited for an hour , only to find out that they are not recruiting Engineering graduates as well. I called up one of my friend who was attending an interview in a BPO near Nungambakkam to ask whether i could go there, but they are not taking up engg graduates there as well. What could be the big reason behind this

WoW Awesome

Gowtham — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:51:17 +0000

Days are gone when Marc used to provoke me with all those great looking screen-shots from WoW. Since WoW is a paid online game and it will take 8 gb of my hard-disk, i was thinking for a while to start playing the game. You can play the game on private servers, but it can’t get worse than that, where the server will be devoid of players and lots of bugs.
Finally a week ago Marc offered me an WoW account, poor guy, he thinks that i am going to pay back his 17$ which he spent on creating the account Started playing WoW 4 days back, played only a night since i had to leave for Banglore the very morning. Arrived chennai this afternoon have a lot of playing ahead! Have to catch up those who started playing with me.