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I like to call myself a Gamer...Ummm....I used to call myself a Gamer...But not now...Well I think it is a life cycle. Like everything else in this world. There are 4 stages in any product lifecycle which are listed below Introduction Growth Maturity Product Extension Decline                         (picture courtesy tutor2u.net) Like any other "Gyan", I can relate this graph to my personal gaming journey.  1. Introduction My gaming journey started with (and can be attributed to) Prince of Persia (MS-DOS edition). My maternal uncle (who lived in different city) had to travel a lot and was given a "80386" powered laptop. And on that apart from Lotus123, he had this amazing game. He was a big fan of the game and had saved the princess, I mean completed the game in the designated time. And passed on the fandom to me. So whenever he visited our place, I used to hijack his laptop and...

Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous new year. Wish that you all are able to fulfill your resolutions. My new year resolution is to restart writing blog. Hope I am able to write something good and  you find my blogs interesting. Cheers!

Yes it is true, there really are benefits of Working.I am not kidding!! So let me tell you about benefits of working in office that you never realized. Benefit #1: High levels of Endurance By continuously working on the same things over and over again, you develop high levels of endurance. These skills come in handy in various situations like waiting in line or while watching a really boring Bollywood movie.Please note that this skill can be sharpened by attending meetings Personal example - the last two movies that I watched. While I totally enjoyed "Nautanki sala" and "Go Goa Gone", my friends who went with me got very bored. The slow pace and lack of story bothered them, but not me. By being continuously exposed to "work" I my level has gone so low, that I tend to enjoy even most unappealing phenomena Benefit #2: Faster typing speed Due to continuous work(supposedly) on laptops/desktop throughout the day (which seems like eternity) , our...

I just wanna say one sentence for Barfi - a heart-touching, rib-tickling and mind-blowing movie, with awesome performance from Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. I went to see the movie with very high expectation and it did not fail at all. I will not tell the story or anything of the movie, just what I found so good about the movie. But, I will start with what I found not so good in the movie. This movie can be said to be another movie portraying main character as happy-go-lucky, a love triangle, parents against love etc just like a dozen other movies. And comic scenes looked inspired from Charlie Chaplin movies. The multiple parallel timeline storytelling was switching over too fast early in the movie (but later was positive). And the rest of things (good things) now follow. Firstly the songs. All beautiful. So melodious, that it can he heard over and over again. Also my eagerness/enthusiasm/keenness to watch the movie increased when I watched its Video songs. Beautif...

Sometimes i feel awed by the way Shopping habits have changed over the last two decade of my life. I remember when i was a kid, we used to go shop on Thursdays. Not that we had holiday on Thursdays but we lived at a small place Korba and the market (vendors) used to come on Thursdays only. It was "Buy when available". And then some time mid way the shopping habit again changed. Items were available round the clock and round the calender. And it was "Shop when u want". And now with the avdent of online shopping and sites like snapdeal, crazeal, timesdeal etc. The shopping is now "Shop when there is a deal". This i consider as a great change for many (including me). Because u may or may not need the item (most cases it is the latter) still we buy the deal. We delay or prepone the purchase to buy during deal. It also makes one feel that he has payed more whenever he buys from a "brick and mortar" store.

Yesterday I would remember for two reasons, One I helped (or at least I believe I helped) a friend at office to have a better day and secondly learned never be taken back by failure - twice. So this is what it was. One of my good friend's birthday was yesterday. So I thought to make it better. She likes my home cooked pasta. My Plan: I thought that I would make Pasta for lunch which she and rest of my team loves very much. (I even got an offer to open a pasta shop in patnership). And since I bring lunch to office pretty often, so to make it more special I will make breakfast also. I decided to make a mix sprout salad for breakfast, which I remember she liked when I made it the last time. I also took some 'Ferrero Rocher' as additional ammunition. I woke up early morning (so that I am finished cooking well before my morning gym time). While I made the sprout salad as I desired, the Pasta turned out to be not quite to my liking (or in other words almost disaster. I bla...

It seems that last year has been very good for song lovers with not only a quality songs but songs with versatility as well. There is a song for every occasion, every emotion. Here are a few songs that I find apt for the fore said situations. 1. Stress Buster If u are feeling stressed and depressed and do not know what to do, this song is the best stress buster I have found. Song: Dil Dhadakne Do Movie: ZNMD 2. Venting your anger Similarly, if you are feeling angry and need to vent out your anger then go to a sound proof room/ very open area  and sing this song in the loudest possible way. Song: Saada Haq Movie: Rockstar 3. Feeling Lost If you are feeling lost and do not know if you are doing anything right or what you want from your life, then this song is for you. Song: Toh Zinda Ho tum Movie: ZNMD 4. Recovering from Heart break After heart break, if your heart still goes looking for trouble. Song: Dil Samhal Ja zara Movie: Murder...

If you wanna bow to anyone, it should be Time. The importance of time i am geeting to know only as it is passing by. According to ecomonics a resource is defined as something which can has more than one utility. And hence time come out as the only resource with so many diff ways that it can be utilized. Tilk engineering college time, we have so much time and almost nothing to do. We do not value time so much. This time should be utlized in doing things that would later take up our more presious time and maybe money. Like for eg i had my Passport prepared when i was in 6th semester and saved my time and money of now. During my MBA days i used regret the fact that evryone has to sleep. Sleep seems such a waste of time. Post MBA i got into habbit of watching movies. I used to watch every movie. But that too now seems such a waste of time. Time it seem now, should be utlized in things that would develop us or make the world a better place to be. Everything else is just lying to ourself...

If i have to summarize the movie in one sentence this would be it - Two awesome songs one Ok movie. First I would like to point out the few negatives because a whole lot of positives are there. Don't go with very high expectations. If you go with even medium expectations you would love the movie. The bad parts were a bit slow middle part where you wish the movie would end soon. The second negative in my case was the theater. A hell lot of trailers and advertisements was enough deal breaker that too loud sound that made my head ache was not required. But if you keep aside this, it is a good movie. The direction was very good. And I suppose everyone could relate to any particular situation of one or the characters. Those who say it is a copy of the movie What happened in Vegas are totally confused. Some of the best things in the movie is the novel attempt to show things. Like the movie started with engaging the audience with examples how different childhoods "occur...

Today we had our company's President giving us presentation during the annual Town Hall. It was a normal afternoon and I was listening carefully. All of a sudden I remembered a similar situation during conclaves in my MBA college. And it was then the "mental conditioning" taught us under psychology was again proved correct. No sooner did I remember similar situation in college auditorium than I stared feeling sleepy. It was just out of the blue. A second before i was fully attentive, but late it was damn hard to keep my eyes open.

Bulletined synopsis of Dominios Double Burst Pizza review Reason(s) for ordering Dominos Double burst Pizza 1. The new ad 2. Its predecessor, the 'awesome' Cheese burst pizza's success. Reason(s) not for ordering 1. Not remotely as good as the Cheese burst pizza. 2. Totally sweet taste because of the 2nd layer of "creamy spread". Even the Mexican green wave (double spicy) pizza was sweeter than any candies available.

Remember Google Buzz, well i hadn't until this morning when i saw it's link below the Gmail inbox. It has been long since since i used it. Don't know about other junta, but i like twitter better. I am following many people and its great to read what they are thinking and also to reply to them. Even though twitter has some limitations (140 character limit) which Buzz does not still it twitter seems better. (Some more technical difference here) . I can say the 140 character limit is for good only, as it makes the twitter users use the "hip" short language. I did not do much research but thought to set up a fight and see who wins "Buzz or Twitter"

In life we face ups and downs, highs and lows, but i think it is the time where i am feeling lefts and rights. I have left many things and I do not know what i am doing is right. My new journey in life has taught me many lesson, a bit too many to absorb. Drawn from the simple life till now to the unclear life later. Pressed from issue you do not want to deal with but cannot run away from. Life far away from idealisitc scenarios and closer to wicked cruel reality. I try not be philosophical but sometimes venting the anger helps.

There are things you never imagined you would ever do. But life such that you never know what turn it takes. So right after my MBA I had some free time which I thought to utilize doing something constructive, but then I got desperate. Not that the work mentioned below is inferior ,but it was just that I had never related it to myself. A person Tall, skinny built, wearing light Shirt with sleeves folded, and dark pants was standing in front addressing us. "We will be talking about great revolution in the insurance sector. So as you know Manmohan Singh was the finance minister in 2000" Silence. "Excuse me sir, but during 2000, it was an NDA government" "Was it?" "Yes" "SO what? Still Manmohan Singh was the FM" Then I interrupted. "Sir i think you must talking about 1991" "Yes yes sorry...I mean 1991" Before moving forward i want to tell you that these excerpts are from a training session that me and one my friend(from ...

I owe a lot to this game. It is a name written in bold in my gaming part of my life. Me and the game Price of Persia goes a long way back. Prince of Persia(POP) was the first game I ever played. Even before solitaire, even before windows. Even when Windows was not even there. On a 386 processor (might be even a 286) on my Uncle’s laptop when he used to visit us. I was a fan of that game ever since. I have played POP 1,POP 2, then POP3d. And then got my hands on the awesome POP Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones (gaming currently in progress). I especially liked the fighting sequels of WW, many ways to finish off an enemy. The POP SOT,WW have a terrific storyline with lots of twists and turns, superb ending (They are even making a movie on these two...can't wait for it). Enough to get people hung on to the game. In WW you even get different ending depending on how you play the game.

Hello all, I have been not-writing my blog since a very long time, due to many reasons, some genuine and others sounding genuine. But now I am free of all that MBA stuff and am just waiting for my joining date in TTSL. So have a lots of time to kill ( though i strictly oppose killing for fun). While I am waiting a very good friend of mine suggested writing during my “supposedly” free time. So I thought to sit back do some thinking and stop talking to that friend for a start. But any way I would love to show the world all the loony ideas that I have gathered during the decade and one more decade and another decade minus 7 years of my life. Your feedback are welcome and they would be suitably filtered and then posted on my blog thank you. Yours faithfully Piyush

Today I volunteered for the first time to give blood in a blood donation camp. The camp was set up by Prathama, an NGO, in our college campus. I thought I would overcome the fear of ‘first time’ very easily and I was almost there,except that my BP was 145/85. But just before I was to lie on the bed for blood transfer, a person in the room fainted and had to be given attention by the doctor. I came to know that he was a first timer. Now I was a bit scared. He might have missed a precaution that maybe I have also overlooked. Damn! why didn’t I read the instructions again this morning before coming here. I took God’s name and went ahead. Then, Dinesh and Anupam maybe sensed my fear and approached me. They talked to me all through. I felt relieved (that if I fainted, they would immediately look after me). Arnab, who was also giving blood in the bed next to me, was also a great support. I would really like to thank all of them for making it smooth.

Home Away As the summer seems ending (ahh...3 weeks to go) I can’t wait to go home. For the past 1 year I have been away from my family and seeing them only for a couple of days that too after every 2-3 months. I am longing to go home not only because I want to see my parents, but also because it is the place I have absolutely no work to do. I sleep 12 hrs a day, sit in front of TV and do nothing. More than me, my clothes want me to go home. Alas they cannot suffer the agony of me washing them and debasing them exponentially towards a rag. Of the various types of dwellings that I have seen- hostel, PG (paying guest) room, shared apartment, I find a house (home) most well organized. My PG room would come in next in organization. There is no space or things, which I can disorganize. All that can be moved from one place to the other is the TV remote. Next in line would be my hostel room. Since it is more spacious and has more things and hence more scope for disorganization. But this is li...

Going too far I don't know why but i keep getting spams from a greeting card site ( must have left a checkbox checked). With the subject like- A beautiful morning from Editor Bob, Be in high spirits from editor bob, and many such positive outlooking thoughts from the site. I have never opened any of the mails (really) but also did not unsubscribe because it was kindof good since it used to remind me of some positive thoughts. But today I was shocked when I got a mail from them titled "Remembering your first kiss from Editor Bob".

The God has given us the world along with it many things like iso-propane, neo-pentane, leaves,shoe lace, glass etc. But the three most important and basic necessary things, for our survival in this world - shelter, food and Internet. So these are the things I was looking for when i went to gurgaon. I reached Gurgaon on Sunday. I had been rest assured by ashish that the first two necessities will be taken care by him till i find the two for myself. I took some space in ashish's livingroom/bedroom for that day. Well space in gurgaon is very costly. Even a match box occupies land worth lacs of rupees. So now I owe him a match box. That day we just visited a few mall and came back and slept. I went to office the next day and the details are given in the previous post. As told it was an experience not quite the one i expected. No induction just start working(or sitting). I was not even told where the toilet is in my floor. For two days I used to go to the on...