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Happy New Year - 2012

Submitted by ravisagar on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 13:50

Alright so 2011 is almost over now, in just few hours 2012 will come. New Year yeah!! I really don't understand why people celebrate

new year. I have no clue and I really fail to understand. New year doesn't really change anything. It doesn't bring you more money or

some opportunity that will change our life then why do we celebrate new year? It is just another day!! May be it is just human nature

and we all need some reason to celebrate. New year is probably the only event that is celebrated all over the world in almost every

country.

I really never celebrated new year. I will not be celebrating this year. I mean to say that I dont really party on new year eve. May

be when I really feel the need then I will celebrate new year. Not now. Yeah I might sound boring here. Actually I try to enjoy my

life every day so I don't really wait for any special day to treat myself. My parties and enjoyments come on day to day basis when I

reward myself when I achieve anything small or big. It gives me encouragement to do more.

New year does bring some changes. I need to create a new folder on my computer where I keep track of my bills, bank statements, daily

expenses, mails and lot of other stuff. Nothing really much.

I don't really have any new year resolutions but I do need to do lot of things this year.

Happy New year guys. 2012 will be awesome year!!

Checkout my Mobile Blog

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 16:23

I have been blogging from my mobile since last year. I have setup my flickr account in such a way that I can upload the photos I take from my blackberry to flickr by sending a mail to a private email id. Now once the pictures are uploaded on flickr I have setup Drupal Blog api module to post the pictures uploaded on flickr as a blog on this site. Cool!. So now I have started tagging all the blog posts that I post from my mobile with "mobile" tag.

Here is the link to my mobile blog: http://www.ravisagar.in/category/topic/mobile

I still have to tag the old blogs with the mobile tag. I will do it tomorrow. It shouldn't take long time.

Others updates
Just a while ago I though of blogging atleast once a day. Sometimes I post mulitple blogs in a day and sometimes I don't post anything for couple of days. Anyways these days I blog quite regularly and I like to keep it that way! I love doing it. I don't really care if anyone reads my blog or not. I blog just for myself :) It is my blog and I can post anything here freely without thinking twice. In the past I have tried to follow other blogs but I didn't really enjoy it. I just love to keep my blog the way I like it. Simple.My blog is very simple without any fancy stuff. The main focus is on the content.

I had been working on a website for wedding cards. It is for a friend who is into this business. The site is not complete yet but we are launching it on 1st Jan. We will do rest of the work later.

I am thinking of buying either a nano or alto car. Lets see. Nothing unusual these days. A day before yesterday I got a message from Vipul Sharma and now it is time to prepare for Aikya 2012, the annual alumni meet of our school. This time it is little late as normally Aikya happens in Jan but this time it will be on 18th Feb.

Overall everything normal. Tomorrow is 31st Dec, the last day of the year and I really want to finish this year on a good note.

Drupal Meetup in Delhi

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 08:33

It is good to see the buzz in Drupal Delhi community. I can see people are planning a meetup in January 2012 first week. Good to see activity from Drupal enthusiast in Delhi. Drupal seems to have good future in web development. Client's these days do there research before getting their website developed from vendors. Drupal has some solid portfolio with many big websites running on Drupal. When it comes to content management system Drupal offers many advantages over other CMS. I personally love Drupal because of its flexibility and speed with which we can develop a feature. It has thousands of modules that can pretty much do most of the common things required for creating any web portal.

2011 is about to end and next year will be exciting for me. I will be starting a Free Drupal Video Podcast and there will be a completely different website for that. I am going to put all my energy on this. I can see that there is a gap when it comes to good drupal training provider in India. Especially in Delhi. My focus and goal is to promote Drupal to as many people as I can. The new website will be targetted for that purpose only. Besides that from the month of Jan I will start organizing free Drupal Workshops in various colleges in NCR region. These days students are busy with the end term examinations so by next month everyone will be free to attend these workshops. I am super excited and gearing up for the next year!!

I wish everyone a very prosperous happy new year!!

Absolutely no client work now

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 07:59

2011 is about to end now, it has been a year of ups and down. Mostly downs. I have had tough time this year in every aspect of my life be it career or personal life. Though I never let my expressions and behavior reflect the real feelings of me. I am good at it :) This year also was the year of enlightment. I started seriously thinking about the future for the first time ever in my life. I came to know about few good blogs on the net and then I started following them. I started reading some books on self realization, time management and personal growth. I am glad that this year I spent considerable amount of time on all that. It will be an ever learning process and I am sure I will be more happy, successful person next year.

Now I have stopped taking new projects or clients. I will continue supporting existing projects but I will not take new projects now. This will really affect me financially but after to be honest I didn't enjoy that as I expected. Working for client's is like just another job. I know it is impossible to run away from clients or bosses to survive in this world but until I find out something else I will keep on pursuing my passions.

So from next year onwards I will focus all my energy into things I really, deeply love and enjoy. No matter if I earn money from it or not but I will continue to pursue them. What are my real passions? In simple words it is Open Source, Drupal and Linux on the tech front and Photography, Travel on the personal front. So I will focus on these things completely. No more making stupid websites for other people. I will enhance my knowledge in these areas and spend lot of time on these. So does that mean I will live a saddhu life without earning money? No. I want to spend some time to learn more about these things and then I will figure out how to earn money :) In the past few years my primary motive was money and I was working so hard to earn more and more money that I almost forgot my real passions. Not anymore.

I have made some strict deadlines for the year 2012 and I have set some goals that are inline with my passions.

To give you a brief idea about my plans I am working really hard these days on creating free Drupal videos and useful tutorials that will be targeted to people who want to learn Drupal or want to switch to Drupal from some other technology. Also I would focus more on my photography. I never really took it to another level. I really want to learn various aspects of photography. May be I will join some course! Lets see. I am pretty sure that 2012 will be a great year for me!

I wish all my friends, family and well wishers a very happy new year.

Bus number 912!!!

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 13:08

OMG I am travelling in route # 912 today. This is the first bus I travelled in 1998. I used to go to IITS at ashok vihar vardhman complex back then for engg entrance preparation. I studied in KMC college of north campus for sometime and then also I used to take this bus. Those were the awesome days! Nostalgic.

Blue Screen of Death - Again

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 04:26

What the hell. I was working an suddenly I got this stupid BSOD. Not cool thing to happen in the morning. Now it will take 10 mins to start the computer and another 10 to 15 mins to start all the apps and servers :(

Anyways. It is Xmas time and all of my team members in US and France are on leave till Jan! I am all alone.

Brownie my dear stray dog

Submitted by ravisagar on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 15:12

This is brownie. I have known him since he was born 4 years ago. These days it is so cold that he comes to our house for dinner :) I prepared a bed for him and he sleeps here. I love him, very nice dog!

Watching MI4

Submitted by ravisagar on Sat, 12/17/2011 - 06:49

After ages I'm watching movie!

I need more focus and need to preserve my energy

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 13:58

I feel I could do much more and much better. No matter how hard I work, no matter how much planning I do I always feel that I could have done better. I don't know if its good or bad thing. Anyways. Past few days were good, I have been doing my work smartly and doing good. I finished lot of tasks and I feel great about it, though for the past 2 days things are going out of track. Yesterday and today I got out of the bed late, I didn't plan my day, I didn't exercise. I forgot to do some important stuff. Not Good. I will not let this happen tomorrow. I hope tomorrow will be a wonderful day and so will the next few days. I really need to accomplish some really important tasks this month. I want to start next year with no backlog.

When I look at many successful people I know some of them are my friends, some of them are my clients and some of them are people I just happen to know, I wonder how they achieve all that success? Are they all lucky? Is every successful person lucky or they always had everything right in their life? I need to find out and learn that aspect. I think no matter what, no matter how hard things get in life, if a person smartly plans out well and keep going then he/she can achieve anything. There is lot I need to learn in that area. For the past few months, probably since June this year I am trying to find out or rather I should say I am trying to make it a conscious decision to improve things in my life in every aspect of life - Career, Family ans Social. I did start thinking seriously about my future, about my life 10 years ahead.

It is going to be a continuous learning process, but I am still looking for that formula to make every day better and happier than yesterday. Some days are good and some days things don't go very well. Not everything is in our control but what is the secret formula to not get affected by those external factors? I think it is all inside our mind. If somehow we can manage to keep it under our control then we can do anything in life. Isn't it?

Al rightie! time to log off now. Good night!

Seat in red DTC bus!!!

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 10:31

I took this bus from satya niketan to punjabi bagh! Awesome I got the seat as well! The AC is right on top of me and I am sitting on the last row of the bus which is raised and I feel like a king! I just had mutton egg roll at satya niketan and now I am feeling relaxed in this comfortable DTC bus! Wow delhi has changed a lot in these years I was expecting fully crowded bus but I am lucky to get a seat. I have travelled a lot in DTC buses and remembering my old days when I had to stand for whole journey in the bus.

I think public transport has improved a lot! Good! Time to relax and enjoy the journey till punjabi bagh!!!