April 2009

Why Bike Ride?

It is the easiest and environmental way, no pollution, no hassles. Even if you don't have a bicycle, you can hire one from Delhi University Metro Station @ Rs 10 Only/- on showing your college ID card (they might keep a copy). The bicycles are available from 7am to 9pm. Quite a time that is to do our business.

I received this mail from the HR department yesterday.
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Dear Ravi,

Further to the performance review for 2008, we are pleased to advise you of the grant of the following:

AIP: Rs. 2242.00*

All other terms and conditions of your appointment remain the same as the present.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation of your contribution in the Organization and hope you would continue to give your best in achieving Company Objectives.

Regards
Human Resources
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Today I have resigned from the position of the Secretary and the Executive Member of the Alumni Association of my school. I think I was wasting my time and efforts working for the association.

I am disappointed with the way things are progressing. I love my school and was extremely happy to be part of the school association but things are not good now.

There is a lack of transparency in the association and I my ethics don’t allow me to be part of such group.

“Life is not about what you can do or what you can't do. It's about what you wanted to do and what you choose to do.”

I downloaded the latest drupal from the cvs using the command below.

Somewhere in Connaught Place

Can I read all these in one life?

Shastri Nagar red light

Ok this nothing new but I request all the paan-chewing people in Delhi to please spit in buses, parks, roads, cows, dogs and anywhere you want but please spare the road signs, especially when it has the name of historical figures.

Just below the sign you can read - "MY DELHI I CARE".

Motia Khan red light

It's embarrassing to see silly mistakes like this.

Life is good

Picture taken last week during the Hail storm and rainfall in NCR

I took this picture from my mobile while I was just about to cross the Gurgaon toll. Our cab has a tag in it so we don't need to stop at the toll to pay the money. Every morning all the cabs with tag line up back to back waiting for their turn. When you reach the toll gate an automatic barrier sense the tag from a distance and open up on its own. So you can cross the border. Wow! it is so cool huuh. Well I hate crossing that border and scared too. May be its because I don't like leaving Delhi even for work. May be its also because I don't like going to office. Life seems good when I am in the cab. The moment the cab crosses that automatic barrier the dream gets over. Just after crossing the border we have to get on the left side of the express way and not to go up the flyover. I always wish that may be someone I will drive my own car there and will not get on the left side of the road. I want to go up on that flyover and just drive somewhere far far away. May be Jaipur!

Taken outside my office in Gurgaon

I am happy, tired and exhausted today. I didn't even exercise today. Why? Well I have been working for 2 days non stop on some new feature on my site www.ggsipu.info, it is done now and I am glad that it is working fine.

When was the last time I shaved? I think it was two weeks ago.
When was the last time I cut my nails? I think it was forty-five days ago.
When was the last time I washed my Jeans? I think it was one month ago.
When was the last time I wore pants? I think it was six months ago.
When was the last time I cleaned my room? I think it was one year ago.
When was the last time I cleaned my desktop? I think it was one year ago.
When was the last time I took a leave from office? I think it was 5 months ago.

Do I care? No.

These days I am working on my other site www.ggsipu.info to build the database of all the colleges affiliated to GGSIPU. I created a Custom Content Type to have various fields like college address, phone, fax, email, rating, etc. During the counselling time the students wants to compare various colleges based on various parameters like infrastructure, campus and other things. Now I wanted to create a view where a table is shown with the names of the colleges in the header and these parameters on rows.

I created a view table, but obviously it showed the college names in the rows as it is the dynamic part. I searched around a lot on drupal and google and found this amazing piece of code that transpose the rows/columns.

You just need to replace YOURTHEME with the name of the theme and VIEWNAME with the view name and that's it!

I know I am late. I installed firefor3 on my fedora 8 just three weeks back. I have been using FF3 on windows workstation in office ever since it was launched.

When I installed FF3 I noticed that the flash content is not working in it, though I have it installed on my system. I searched around the internet and found this way around.

You just need to link the flash module from your old firefox folder to the new folder.

Yesterday on 1st April 2009 I officially completed 6 years of my work experience. I have worked in 3 companies during these years. I still fill like a fresher :) I think I have to learn a lot. There are many things that I have never done and want to do.

It's that time of the year when thousands of students give entrance exams for taking admission in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. I have a website dedicated for this university called www.ggsipu.info