Orkut gone dumb!
March 5th, 2009Check this out…
Dumb part - after clearly identifying my profile gender as a “male” (meaning properties on my user are correctly set) - Orkut is using an incorrect pronoun to identify me with my activity…
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Long time, no see!
March 4th, 2009Yeah! Its been real long time since I last blogged - almost >2 months.
A lot has happened between 1st Jan and today - I won’t iterate over all of it again but just that I’m happy being at home. Just today, I was answering rapid fire questions to a good friend and one that I was real happy to answer was “Pune or Delhi” - and my answer was obviously Delhi! - “apni dilli”.
Okay, so fast forward to 4th march 09.
Went out for a quick shopping spree - accompanying me was apna dude bro. Objective was to get a new pair of casual shoes and a nice pair of jeans. It wasn’t a mamoth task but it took us more than an hour to zero in on the pair of jeans I wanted. We surveyed more than 9-10 showrooms and finally bought it from the very first shop we had went to 
- One peculiar thing I noticed in almost all of the shops were “effects of cost cutting”. Almost all of the shops had turned down their air conditioning (resulting in an extremely uneasy temperature inside). So much so, some shops were turning on their music systems only when customers used to enter the showrooms. Wow! I hope it saves them more $$ than it shoo’s away the customers…
Anyways - shopping for a pair of trousers was easier than shoes. Another half an hour and we were still wandering and looking for a decent pair of casuals 
- somehow the shops here didn’t seem to have much variety… - or my tastes are different hahaha - some assurance was that Sammy didn’t liked any either. (okay, so I am not so much off the mark here )
And before retiring back home, we went on to play a quick game of pool. It was first time for Sammy - but he’s a quick learner. In the half hour we played, he managed (or I should say, I managed 
) to draw the game at 1game each - maybe next time! lol
Nothing like being at home on a weekday, sleep till 1pm and have fun in the evening
Ye hai apni dilli…
Oh yes, how can I miss this - Sunil uncle (dad’s close friend) visited us in Feb. Here’s a capture form the get together we had at Pizza Hut…
Dad and Sunil Uncle
–over-and-out–
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Single minded objective for 2009
January 1st, 2009Another new year with a bunch of new wishes. This is what happens every new year - year after year.After completing almost 70% (3.5 out of 5) last year wishes, I am feeling all charged up to touch the magical 100% wish completion this year. It has never happened with me before - but I’m a firm believer.A quick roundup from the last year’s new year wishing post…
Launch ApnaBill.com on or before 31st January- DONE (we showcased ApnaBill.com at Proto in July 08, Our interview by PuneTech)Be back with family- DONEPizza holiday in January (more months to be decided laters)- DONE (more months were covered during the year)- Dedicate 1 hour, 5 days a week to fitness - jogging (gym maybe) - PARTLY DONE (2008’s fitness record was much better than 2007’s).
- Play Tennis once a week atleast - keep bugging Ratish/Kapil/etc - MISSED
Owning to the very first wish that got completed on 15th June 08 when we launched ApnaBill.com to the public - the year 2008 was one of the most wackiest and busiest year in my life. I was never so focussed thoughout the year - ever! The launch was just one of the stepping stones for what is in store for the future…and that alone decided the only single objective I am going to have for the coming new year - 2009.Objective(s) for 2009
- Make Four Fractions a profitable venture.
- Bring ApnaBill.com out of Beta
- Graduate the <ff.labs/> experimental projects to Betas
- Rake in first Million Rupees (in profit) for Four Fractions
- Start working for Four Fractions full time
- Build a full time team
- Convert JD 10-B as Four Fractions office.
- Outsource finance, monitor it personally
Anything that is not converging to this objective, either gets dropped or gets sidelined.Looking forward to 2009 with open arms and a ton of new ideas!
…
with dreams in my eyes
and a fire in my belly.
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Celebrating a year at Four Fractions - our First Anniversary
December 20th, 2008Four Fractions completed a full year into existence on 20th December 08.
This is the greatest milestone in my nearly 4.5 years of professional life.
For those who might not be familiar with Four Fractions, it is the company behind ApnaBill.com and other new stuff that we are working on.
The following lines by Shri Harivansh Rai Bachhan sum it up aptly…
I would like to express my special thanks to my parents (Mom, Dad & Sameer), my business partners - Sameer and Sandy and all other friends - for being there when the company needed them.
Looking forward to a hectic and eventful second year
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Home-coming!
November 23rd, 2008Nothing beats home!
A small proof
Four Fractions had its first official team meet - though nothing official was discussed, we had a ton of fun - pure simple fun.
Chilling over coke! - Sam and myself
The pizza that we destroyed - we sure were the costliest customers that evening - costed Pizza Hut an extra 350+90+70 bucks!
As it turned out - we were served the pizza and garlic bread with onions when we specially requested them to serve it w/o onions. …and ofcourse PH paid the price - a free pitcher of Coke
All the w/o onions thing made everyone so damn hungry!
Mr. Sandy - our chief guest for the evening
- brainstorming -
Ofcourse - he is shadow practicing for the future… just in case!
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