Saturday, December 23, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
further update on life.................
well its been a while since i've written written anything here, there had been some really big changes that have come around in life during the last few weeks , i have changed my designation of work- from a self employed to an employee . well it sounds strange but everything just took its course and i found this new profile to work on, right now my designation is research analyst, which do sound serious but its a lot interesting as of now.
well do i miss architecture- not really,
do i miss the every day a new surprise syndrome- not really,
do i miss the 'trying to avoid phone calls '- not really; this one has really given me the peace of mind i was looking; for quite some time.
so it actually means that i'm quite happy with my new work profile, which maynot be core architecture stuff but atleast related and would involve architecture too; eventually though maybe at a mere selection or monitoing level but nevertheless .
I anyways feel changes are always good as long as they don't screw you up, also its a step upwards in all respects, opening up to newer, different aspects, learning new stuff, new people to interact, responcibilites ( not much as of now :) .
I don't want to talk about my work in detail, or my reasons for this move but more or less it all just happened, got an opportunity and i took it, pretty much.
+ves so far:
1. Sleeping more peacefully.
2. Don't get irritated everytime the stupid phone rings.
3. gets time to lot more things that i always wanted to do, still trying to be more efficient with time though.
4. reading a lot more , variety of stuff even some wierd but interesting blogs, books on political idiologies etc etc.
5. not driving or running around too much - no more noida- gurgaon- faridabad-delhi trips in a single day!
6. saving money on fuel, phone bill, time, energy, patience to name a few.
7. learning new stuff like finances; cash flow irr, mirr and all the other rate, %,^,@,+ etc
8. much more relaxed.
thats it for now i guess
well do i miss architecture- not really,
do i miss the every day a new surprise syndrome- not really,
do i miss the 'trying to avoid phone calls '- not really; this one has really given me the peace of mind i was looking; for quite some time.
so it actually means that i'm quite happy with my new work profile, which maynot be core architecture stuff but atleast related and would involve architecture too; eventually though maybe at a mere selection or monitoing level but nevertheless .
I anyways feel changes are always good as long as they don't screw you up, also its a step upwards in all respects, opening up to newer, different aspects, learning new stuff, new people to interact, responcibilites ( not much as of now :) .
I don't want to talk about my work in detail, or my reasons for this move but more or less it all just happened, got an opportunity and i took it, pretty much.
+ves so far:
1. Sleeping more peacefully.
2. Don't get irritated everytime the stupid phone rings.
3. gets time to lot more things that i always wanted to do, still trying to be more efficient with time though.
4. reading a lot more , variety of stuff even some wierd but interesting blogs, books on political idiologies etc etc.
5. not driving or running around too much - no more noida- gurgaon- faridabad-delhi trips in a single day!
6. saving money on fuel, phone bill, time, energy, patience to name a few.
7. learning new stuff like finances; cash flow irr, mirr and all the other rate, %,^,@,+ etc
8. much more relaxed.
thats it for now i guess
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Treo 180 NL (No lid)...
The Original Factory shipped look........
The new modified face Plate with built in speaker, to get rid of the flip cover
The new Blackberry look- New Avtaar Treo 180 NL (NO LID)
The back side need a bit more work to make it bit more secure for the inevitable falls.
It took me 3-4 hours to finish this job with lot of back and forth repairing and redoing the joining of the 2 plastic peices (the new extension + the face plate) i used a jagged aluminium strip reinforcement embedded into the joint for further strength. The upper portion is from the redundent flip cover itself to retain the logo . The silver paint job was a compromise as i had some left over paint lying with me , further more didn't had time to go and buy the matching shade. A lot of plastic from the flip cover was melted and fused to weld the 2 peices together useing the soldering irom , finally grindied and smoothened before painting so it loks almost seamless.
BTW i forgot to mention, this is done for my friend's phone who happen to break the flip cover of his new treo using Parry's old treo as the donor. though the entire thing needed couple ofhours but it took me couple of months to to find those precious hours- my sincere apologies to Sant ( My friend- the old style broken treo owner) for the delay!
The new modified face Plate with built in speaker, to get rid of the flip cover
The new Blackberry look- New Avtaar Treo 180 NL (NO LID)
The back side need a bit more work to make it bit more secure for the inevitable falls.
It took me 3-4 hours to finish this job with lot of back and forth repairing and redoing the joining of the 2 plastic peices (the new extension + the face plate) i used a jagged aluminium strip reinforcement embedded into the joint for further strength. The upper portion is from the redundent flip cover itself to retain the logo . The silver paint job was a compromise as i had some left over paint lying with me , further more didn't had time to go and buy the matching shade. A lot of plastic from the flip cover was melted and fused to weld the 2 peices together useing the soldering irom , finally grindied and smoothened before painting so it loks almost seamless.
BTW i forgot to mention, this is done for my friend's phone who happen to break the flip cover of his new treo using Parry's old treo as the donor. though the entire thing needed couple ofhours but it took me couple of months to to find those precious hours- my sincere apologies to Sant ( My friend- the old style broken treo owner) for the delay!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Somehow for last ............as far as I can remember, all I’ve been doing is running after time, trying to catch up on work, things to do and probably sleep too. I definitely need to relax!
Yesterday being Sunday, I was lucky enough to be at home and not really working the entire day or going out DRIVING again for something. It was a really peaceful day, washed my car, kind of started to fix my bike’s battery problem (still pending) and just be at home.
Almost finished the current book I’m reading- In Xanadu, by William Dalrymple, although his previous book I read was far better, looking forward to his new book ‘The Last Mughal’.
Managed to watch the movie- Gangajal the other day, have watched it earlier too in parts but saw the complete thing yesterday. I would say I was really impressed but superb direction, acting and most importantly the authenticity of the subject and the locations. It was as real as it gets, though in reality the ending would have been less dramatic and lots more disappointing then what was portrayed.
Coincidently watching the special report on Satyendra Dubey, and IIT Kanpur engineer who was killed 3 years back for standing upto the corruption in our government. Poor guy's only fault was to stand upto his given name and fight against the evil of corruption which has now completely plagued the entire governance mechanism in
Even after so much hue and cry by hundreds,thousands of people, media and masses on so many similar issues on these shameful acts of injustice nothing seems to bring about any change in the way things work. My salute to you Mr.Dubey may we also have the same courage when required.
But isn’t that completely obvious, when people who are meant to impart these judgments and investigations are them selves corrupt, so how can one see any fairness from the system? Or how can one stand against it?
The only possible answer that I can think of, though it really can’t bring any big difference but nevertheless, is to be as much fair and just to the things that we do, how we interact with people around us, be truthful about our work, our responsibilities and maybe once in a while help somebody without expecting anything in return for it.
I always use hate all those people who go to a 5 star Hotel and spend couple of thousand rupees per person on a single meal! Imagine in a country where there is such vast disparity between rich and the poor, isn’t it criminal for all of us to do that. I agree we are not saints but it always seems to baffle me when I see people spending hundreds of rupees for a few minutes of pleasure over a drink or something more trivial and at the same time bargaining with a rickshaw wallah or a poor guy on the street selling a ‘Bhutta’ for a rupee or two. I think we do become hypocrites many a times on these issues including myself but as long as we remember to respect and value the basic principles of humanity we should be managing to be good human beings and citizens.
I think as a race, being Indians we have become almost blind and worthless that we have stopped fighting for the best. We have now even stopped appreciating the good from the bad. Our cities are dying; dying by simply loosing there character, there identity, culture as a whole; we have lost so much over the years that the damage cannot be even reversed.
Even with so many negatives you do find some good things, some good gesture, a smile, a happy moment and a ray of light coming out from the thick cover of sheer madness all around us.
Smiling back to a kid making funny faces looking at you from the car in front; middle of a mad traffic jam.
Catching up a cricket match on pan shop with so many unknown faces throwing up intelligent remarks on the game.
Will continue more…………………………………………………..
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
I was trying to sneak into the room when he clicked
Picture by: PaurushSunday 5th November, Trend Micro
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
A lot about me..............
This page is going to be a collage of my life so far; with some bit of my aspirations, regrets and most of all the things that I value the most in my life.
I’m a 26 years old, a practicing architect working in Delhi from my own firm which completed its first year of existence couple of months back.
I was born and grew up in Delhi, although moved to Faridabad some years back (to which I still can't relate very much)
I'll say I’m pretty lucky to have a very decent upbringing with the right amount of freedom put into it. I think it would be fair to add that I was never a very brilliant student or anything like that. I would say I was average with a mind of my own but I was never held responsible for not being something that I was not. I had a very comfortable school, comfortable not just because it so close to the house, but there very friendly teachers (most of them) and supportive too, so overall it was a joyful experience rather then a painful one. I always enjoyed art; maybe because I inherited it from my grandfather who himself was an art teacher and somehow it skipped a generation and came to me. So selecting architecture after school was sort of a natural choice especially after a disastrous escapade through chemistry which actually made me steer away from opting engineering which also was something I would have loved to get into if it wasn’t for the damn chemistry (or my teacher).
Architecture was an alien subject for me; I had never read about or knew any architects in my life before I joined it, so it was almost like an adventure, especially when out of the entire science batch only two including me opted for it.
Even my parents had no clue what I was doing with my life, actually from that point onwards I was on my own, and soon I had a founding for my new occupation.
My college and my work were everything to me, fortunately without compromising on freedom, in fact I can bet if any other studies would give you that much freedom of thought, expression and medium. There were no rules to follow but to break.
It was a completely different environment, especially after a very normal household and a pretty normal school but somehow it all seemed interesting and challenging and I gave it all.
They were the most enjoyable 5 years of education. I did a lot of traveling during that time partly because our course required it and other then that I was fortunate enough to go for an exchange program to Greece with 3 of my most wonderful friends.
Though we were small close knit campus so everybody knew everybody by name, so there was hardly any short fall of friends but as always you do end up having an immediate circle of friends you are more close to.
As a matter of fact my performance in college was far better or as good as it gets if I compare it to my past, probably because I was in love with the subjects (again most of them).
Well all good times comes to end so did college but it was beginning of a new life, the real life may I call it, all the dream architecture part was over and it was time for stepping into the real world.
Exactly couple of days after my last day of college I got a job as a trainee architect, which required me to go to some villages in Bhuj. And of course I took it with couple of more of my classmates and I was off to Bhuj.
My time in Bhuj left a huge mark in the kind of experience and professional upbringing which ultimately sets your “rules of the game”. It was so unique and different from anything one can dream off may not be a fancy dream but real then any other thing. Imagine right after college, used to all the comforts, privileges and other frugal things that you take for granted, and suddenly you have to get accustomed to bare basics in life. I was there for a little more than six months working in the villages, staying there- sleeping under the sky at night watching the lovely stars in the sky that you don’t get to see in Delhi. No concept of bathroom leave alone running water, washing the damn clothes which sometimes one used to forgets for days leaving them dipped in the washing, only to find all the clothes turned into one monochrome color, it was so much fun managing those things because suddenly there was so much time on hand- no television, telephone, family; the entire routine was transformed.
Again it was an experience of the life time, everything there meant so much, and everything seemed so valuable. The kind of respect and acceptance that I got, attachment with village people can be so overwhelming. Also the kind of responsibility we had to take care of.
Coming back to Delhi was both a relief and distress, getting back to comforts but at the same time the physical distance also added to the distancing from old friends, “out of sight out of mind” do happens and I moved away from couple of my very close friends. During that same time I needed a break so badly that I quitted my job from an office which was and still is like a family to me, probably I got too comfortable there which scared me a bit; that I may not be able to work in a more pragmatic office scenario so I tried my stint at an product design office for a while but that didn’t ring any bells so I half heartedly joined a famous ( at least in architecture fraternity) architect’s office in Delhi, time passed and I just simply kept myself busy with work and literally closing myself off completely, but then got more involved in office work proactively got to handle more responsibilities and gradually found myself busy again with full steam.
During the same time I with my other college friends started doing some freelance work simultaneously with the offices that we were both working with laying the starting ground for our future office. That was the “BCUBE” time; our virtual office.
So eventually after working for 2-3 years with couple of offices over a wide variety of projects I along with 2 of my other college friends decided to start our own office in 2005. That was the beginning of “IE Design”. And the Life countinues..............................................................
I’m a 26 years old, a practicing architect working in Delhi from my own firm which completed its first year of existence couple of months back.
I was born and grew up in Delhi, although moved to Faridabad some years back (to which I still can't relate very much)
I'll say I’m pretty lucky to have a very decent upbringing with the right amount of freedom put into it. I think it would be fair to add that I was never a very brilliant student or anything like that. I would say I was average with a mind of my own but I was never held responsible for not being something that I was not. I had a very comfortable school, comfortable not just because it so close to the house, but there very friendly teachers (most of them) and supportive too, so overall it was a joyful experience rather then a painful one. I always enjoyed art; maybe because I inherited it from my grandfather who himself was an art teacher and somehow it skipped a generation and came to me. So selecting architecture after school was sort of a natural choice especially after a disastrous escapade through chemistry which actually made me steer away from opting engineering which also was something I would have loved to get into if it wasn’t for the damn chemistry (or my teacher).
Architecture was an alien subject for me; I had never read about or knew any architects in my life before I joined it, so it was almost like an adventure, especially when out of the entire science batch only two including me opted for it.
Even my parents had no clue what I was doing with my life, actually from that point onwards I was on my own, and soon I had a founding for my new occupation.
My college and my work were everything to me, fortunately without compromising on freedom, in fact I can bet if any other studies would give you that much freedom of thought, expression and medium. There were no rules to follow but to break.
It was a completely different environment, especially after a very normal household and a pretty normal school but somehow it all seemed interesting and challenging and I gave it all.
They were the most enjoyable 5 years of education. I did a lot of traveling during that time partly because our course required it and other then that I was fortunate enough to go for an exchange program to Greece with 3 of my most wonderful friends.
Though we were small close knit campus so everybody knew everybody by name, so there was hardly any short fall of friends but as always you do end up having an immediate circle of friends you are more close to.
As a matter of fact my performance in college was far better or as good as it gets if I compare it to my past, probably because I was in love with the subjects (again most of them).
Well all good times comes to end so did college but it was beginning of a new life, the real life may I call it, all the dream architecture part was over and it was time for stepping into the real world.
Exactly couple of days after my last day of college I got a job as a trainee architect, which required me to go to some villages in Bhuj. And of course I took it with couple of more of my classmates and I was off to Bhuj.
My time in Bhuj left a huge mark in the kind of experience and professional upbringing which ultimately sets your “rules of the game”. It was so unique and different from anything one can dream off may not be a fancy dream but real then any other thing. Imagine right after college, used to all the comforts, privileges and other frugal things that you take for granted, and suddenly you have to get accustomed to bare basics in life. I was there for a little more than six months working in the villages, staying there- sleeping under the sky at night watching the lovely stars in the sky that you don’t get to see in Delhi. No concept of bathroom leave alone running water, washing the damn clothes which sometimes one used to forgets for days leaving them dipped in the washing, only to find all the clothes turned into one monochrome color, it was so much fun managing those things because suddenly there was so much time on hand- no television, telephone, family; the entire routine was transformed.
Again it was an experience of the life time, everything there meant so much, and everything seemed so valuable. The kind of respect and acceptance that I got, attachment with village people can be so overwhelming. Also the kind of responsibility we had to take care of.
Coming back to Delhi was both a relief and distress, getting back to comforts but at the same time the physical distance also added to the distancing from old friends, “out of sight out of mind” do happens and I moved away from couple of my very close friends. During that same time I needed a break so badly that I quitted my job from an office which was and still is like a family to me, probably I got too comfortable there which scared me a bit; that I may not be able to work in a more pragmatic office scenario so I tried my stint at an product design office for a while but that didn’t ring any bells so I half heartedly joined a famous ( at least in architecture fraternity) architect’s office in Delhi, time passed and I just simply kept myself busy with work and literally closing myself off completely, but then got more involved in office work proactively got to handle more responsibilities and gradually found myself busy again with full steam.
During the same time I with my other college friends started doing some freelance work simultaneously with the offices that we were both working with laying the starting ground for our future office. That was the “BCUBE” time; our virtual office.
So eventually after working for 2-3 years with couple of offices over a wide variety of projects I along with 2 of my other college friends decided to start our own office in 2005. That was the beginning of “IE Design”. And the Life countinues..............................................................
Monday, August 21, 2006
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