Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

The Weekend of Clearing Backlogs ... This weekend had been scheduled in my Todolist towards clearing up a significant amount of backlogs. Even by 11.32 AM, I have almost cleared most of the activities that my Todolist was pointing at. This includes, a significant amount of bad notifications at http://deepak.blogdrive.com/ , which were checked and cleared. Besides this, I also had the following activities pending with me for long. An application letter to my Bank of India branch for a service request. It had been submitted. It had been there for a while since my bank account had discrepancies in the opening form. This got cleared off.

Ninth Prize Winner of Community-Credit January 2009 I am happy to share the information that I have again won the ninth prize in Community-Credit January 2009 contest. You can check out other Prize winners and prize details over here . It is a sheer pleasure of helping peers in various technology forums and knowledge sharing and a recognition to cherish for ever. A quick update of the prize (from the prize page) is below: Japanese Popping Edamame Keychain FEVER! FEVER! Edamame are baby soybeans, picked before they blossom into adulthood, and boiled. Edamame are also delicious and fun to pop out of their pods (especially when they shoot across a crowded restaurant and you have to explain to a room full of people how the 5 second rule still applies in public). But say you want the fun of popping edamame, but you're not very hungry. Oh, then have we got the keychain for you! Each Japanese Popping Edamame Keychain has three beans. The end beans are small and immature. The middle bean, ...

"Laughter is the best tonic for Health" -- Now Satellite Television Channels from Tamil Nadu are patronizing humor It is a well-known fact that "Laughter is the best tonic for Health". It relieves us of the umpteen amount of mental stress and makes us feel and float lighter. Almost all satellite television channels from Tamil Nadu have been contributing to air comedy shows in the night so that one can watch those, feel lighter and free up oneself from the various types of stresses and then get-n-grasp a wholesome sleep for the whole night, without needing artificial tranquilizers. Two of the tamil channels are now innovating on this spree to bring a 24 hour comedy channel. They are Sun Network and Kalaignar Television. The Sun Network has brought in a channel called Aditya , which is already on air from 8th February 2009. Just yesterday, when I fiddling with my television remote, I came across an advertisement in Kalaignar Television that they are planning to air a ...

A Sine Curve Crossing in Guindy One would of heard of Zebra Crossing, Pedestrian Crossing etc. What is this Sine-Curve crossing in Guindy? I just thought of this today whilst slowly negotiating the road-rail crossing from Guindy Race Course to Guindy Industrial Estate. If you are commuting from Velachery and beyond to Ashok Nagar, CMBT, there are two viable options for you: Alight somewhere between Velachery Vijayanagar to Velachery Checkpost and get D70 to reach your destination. Option Two: Alight at Guindy Racecourse. Negotiate the rail overbridge to reach GST Road. Take the subway to cross the GST road to enter Guindy Industrial Estate If one carefully scrutinizes option two, it would be looking like a sine curve whilst walking from Guindy Race Course towards Guindy Industrial Estate. First, you climb up the stairs to reach GST road and then you take the subway (underground) to cross GST road to enter Guindy Industrial Estate. But there is one another small confusion, I keep nurtur...

Winner of Sulekha Yellow Pages Contest on January 18 and January 29th 2009 I hope you would have read about the Sulekha Yellow Pages contest that we have discussed a few weeks back over here . I am glad to share with you that I have been winning two times in January 18th and January 19th 2009. You can find the winner list for the month of January 2009 over here . January 2009 Winners Publish at Scribd or explore others: Maps Illustrations lists contests

Winner of Sulekha Yellow Pages Contest on December 18th, 22nd and 25th of 2008 I hope you would have read about the Sulekha Yellow Pages contest that we have discussed a few weeks back over here . I am glad to share with you that I have been winning three times in December 18th, December 22nd and December 25th of 2008. You can find the winner list for the month of January 2009 over here . December 2008 Winners Publish at Scribd or explore others: Illustrations lists contests

Away Away from Sinners and Back to Normalcy in the Service of the Lord There had been a little turbulence rocking on my minds because of a few sinister set of people for sometime after my 'back-to-India' trip. I am sure I have discussed them periodically over the following post here . But, my bad, inspite of the renaissance, some of the mundane creatures had a little eclipse on my mind. My horoscope too showed signs of debilitation of Kethu and hence I believe, similar to the eclipses where Rahu and Kethu attempt to devour the Sun/Moon (solar and lunar eclipses), there was a little turbulence on my mind. With the support of well-wishers and the blessing of my Lord , now a clear route empowered by the ray of hope has been reinstated. Sometimes the politics at workplace gets influenzed by crazy caste and religion factors and infect us as an influenza paralysing the productivity ratios. The need of the hour then would be channelizing and prioritising the tasks without getting tak...

My Valentine Day Celebrations It had been a novel way of celebrating Valentine's Day (February 14) for me since from 2007 onwards. A quick recap of my Valentine's day celebrations are hereunder: February 14, 2007: On way to Dallas where I developed love with Dallas Fort Worth temple . February 14, 2008: It was part of my regular Thursday Triplicane Sri Parthasarathy Temple Visits. The week preceding this (February 7, 2008) was a ' Winning Thursday '. February 14, 2009: (on plans). Currently, I am in Sabarimala Vratham and I would be visiting the Sabarimala Sri Ayyappa Shrine on February 13th and February 14th and intending to return back to Chennai on February 17th. Again, I thank my Lord for giving me the opportunity to have only the love and affection towards Him rather than being carried over/seduced and mesmerized by mundane worldly bestial ghastly attractions and pleasures. Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa!

Sabarimala Temple Opening and Closing Dates for 2009 Thanks to Hindu Blog for publishing the Sabarimala temple opening and closing dates for 2009. I have tried to include them in the YahooGroups calendar of sriayyappan . Interested pilgrims can now join the group itself so that they can stay tuned with the holy discussions on the Lord besides getting updates from YahooGroups calendar on the temple opening and closing dates besides the various other festivals. Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa!