I came for a long drive on the highway today!!!

I'm here today. Good market.

hey guys, I have not been able to update this blog because of extra workload. Well thats really not an excuse to make. Actually I

tried to write but my mind was somewhere else so thats why I chose not to write. In the past few days I was thinking whether I should

really update this blog regularly with stupid things about my life or should I write good quality stuff. Well personally I prefer to

write just stupid things, in fact I hardly review whatever I write. I just write it in one go and post it directly. I guess thats

should be a personal blog should be like. I dont really have to review-edit-review-edit my blogs. No. Not atleast this blog. So I

guess I will continue to write stupid things about my life here.

As I mentioned before that I have been busy with lots of work. Frankly it was not the best time this week. I really hate doing extra

work, in fact I do not like doing any work especially if it is for some one else. In this case it was my office work. Well I have

planned lot of things and may be this won't happen for a long time. I am really sick of my office. No, it is not about my work, I am

doing really nice learning stuff but it is not something I prefer. I don't like my mind getting used by someone else. I prefer

freedom, complete freedom. Where I can use my mind in whatever way I like. Well I hope this year I will leave my job forever. Yeah I

am announcing it here for the first time in public domain that 2012 will be the last year I will work for anyone else. No jobs No

clients. Yeah. I suck in taking responsibilities of other. I hate someone giving me orders. I hate selling my mind. No more. I waited

too long for this, 10 years! yes it was tough. Does that mean I have lots of money or I have some other source of income. Well not

really but I will figure that out. I know I will.

Working for someone else is slavery. Yes, it is. No matter how much you earn, whatever position you hold. It is slavery. We are all slaves when we are working for someone. There is lot more to life. There are so many wonderful things in this world to do that to fuck yourself working for someone. Personally I want to explore this world, experience different things, meet new people, eat variety of foods, visit various countries, experience lot lot more than sitting on a stupid computer restarting apache server! What the hell this is slavery. I am not a slave. I will be free soon.

I am glad I have done lots of mistakes in my life, especially the last 10 years and now I have a rough idea of what I really want to do in life. Yeah still rough but believe me it is still much better than no idea at all. Most people, I guess 99% population in this world have really not idea at all about their life and what they want. They just follow what others ask them to follow. I guess we all do what our parents directly or indirectly want us to do. It is not their fault, they live in a society which is made in such a way that we all live a preprogrammed life. This has been happening for so many years, I guess things got worst in the past 200 years or so. We have lost the true meaning of life. If by hit and trial you can find what you really want in life than I think it will be the best thing you can ever do in your life. Don't hesitate trying new stuff. Atleast give it a thought. Change yourself, take new route to office, wear different clothes you never wore before, eat new kind of food. Idea is to break your usual habits and try something new in whatever area you can think of. I am sure it will enlighten your mind and you never know you can find your true passion. when you say you like doing something and it is your passion then doubt it. How come your passion is watching cricket and you work in a software company. I just simply hate the idea of watching cricket or any other sport. Personally I love playing cricket and I have no keen interest in watching it on tv. If you love cricket so much then just go out and play. People say their passion or hobby are different from their work. This is stupid. There should not be any difference between your passion and work. If it is not then you are not on the right track and your life has no meaning.

So what are you thinking now?

I had really fun today. I grilled paneer, onion and potato today!!! Cooking food on coal is awesome!

It is negative thing to say but yes there are many people I know whom I really hate. I can't help it. I have many times to not think about them but it is impossible to not hate them. Feelings of hatred are natural in humans and what can I do not to think about them? I really don't know. I am trying very hard to change this feeling but anyways lets see.

Today was just another average day. I am afraid that I might loose it. The first week of the year started really well and I was very happy about it but since monday this week I am back to my usual stuff. This is not good. I need to stay focused.

I have got some really important things to do and 2012 is going to be a life changing year for me for sure. I am just on the verge of achieving something I was trying for the past 6 years and this is it. Just few more months and I will be there. Yes.

I worked just for few hours today with good productivity but I still feel the day could have been awesome. Anyways better luck tomorrow. No matter how hard I work I always get this feeling of you can do much better than that feeling. Today in the evening I quickly made a very small Drupal video. So far I have made some good videos but I am not really happy with the quality of it. May be I will get a separate webcam for this purpose. Anyways the day was nice. I am not very happy but satisfied. Initially during the morning time I didn't feel very good but I decided that I will do very small, misc tasks but I will not waste my day. I am glad I completed some small stuff and after finishing that video I felt nice.

I have always been early riser. I got this habit from my school days and I think it is one of the most important very good things in me :) For me if I do not get up on time I consider my day a waste. Seriously. If I can't do the first thing right then how can I expect the rest of the day as good.

There have been many times when I couldn't get up on time. The main reasons for this is lack of motivation or laziness. I usually get up at 4 AM every day and the moment alarm goes off I just get up and stand on my feet. Thats it. Rest of it is easy. Once I am up I never go back to bed.

I wish I could maintain this habit through out the year 365 days. I will try to do that this year!!

Al right the first week of this year ends today. The whole week was good overall and I am really happy that I actually spent time on various productive stuff. Today the day started well and I worked with good dedication till lunch time. Then things just got out of hand and I couldn't do much there after, that ok though.

It rained yesterday night and it is little cold during the day time as well. I wish the sun comes out tomorrow.

Yesterday I didnt do any work. It was my wife's birthday and I spent the whole day roaming around and planning the occassion. Finally I bought a barbeque and made paneer tikka in the evening. It was really fun, the paneer tikkas turned out really well. I know I should have made some non veg item but my wife is vegetarian and on her birthday I just ate what likes. Today I will make mutton kebab. I had bought some precokked kebabs from republic of chicken and I will bbq them today. Can't wait.

It was nice to take a break yesterday after so long. I felt little fresh when I got up this morning. Today there were lot of things pending and I just got little scattered in doing all the tasks. So far the day is just ok if not great. I still need to do lot of things and I know I shouldn't be blogging right now but working but I just took a break of few minutes for writing this blog.

From time to time I need some self motivation to keep me going. Sometimes we all tend to deviate from the right path. That ok, its human nature. We all need to control it. Staying focussed is very difficult and staying disciplined takes lot of practice and years of habit.

Let me just go back to work now!

So far I have been blogging everyday this year, except 1st Jan. Today is 4th Jan. Things are going on track and as planned so far. I have set some goals for myself for this year and this time I just have this feeling that I will achieve most of them. I am trying to get more disciplined now and more than anything else I am trying to overcome procrastination, which is the habit of delaying things, mostly things that are either boring or little difficult to do. Last year I did improve a lot in various aspects but delaying things is something I needed to avoid. This year I have not really delayed things yet and I am sure I will not procrastinate in the future too.

I wanted to share my goals in this blog but I prefer to keep it personal. Though I can share some of the new things I am trying this time. I have divided my Goals into 3 parts. First one is the short term goals which I intend to achieve within 6 months. In this category I have some deadlines of March and June. Second category is the medium term plans where I have put the goals that I will achieve in the 6 Months to 5 Years from now. The last category is the long term goals which I intend to achieve in the 5 year to 10 year period. While doing this exercise of putting my goals in these three categories I found it most difficult to put things in the long term goals and I think it is very important for me and anyone to visualize themselves what they want to be in 10 years for now. I guess I will do more brainstorming for my long term plans. The things that we really want should be very clear. When I see the list of things in my short term and medium term plans then most of them are tasks or steps that are really important for me to achieve to reach my tru goal.

I was moving my mails and I had few minutes to write this mail. I need to get back to work now!

Have a nice day!

Yesterday my jacket got torn. Felt sad, may be I will get a sticker stitched on it.

Yeterday I went to Metro Walk, Rohini with my wife. The first day of the year was good. I got up on my usual wake up time, got ready and started working. Yesterday I made one site live. It is the last website that I made for someone else. So I am glad that there won't be any more client work. I will spend the next 3 months 100% on preparing Drupal training videos. Last year I made some plans for myself and I set some goals. I achieve some of them and I failed in rest. That ok with me. Atleast now I know what wrong things I did. I also made some goals really big that I eventually couldnt achieve. So this year my goals would be easy and small and I will gradually add the difficulty level of my goals. Achieving goals is more important no matter how big or small they are. When you achieve something you feel good and you get more motivated to do more. Big goals can be scary and difficult to achieve, infact I sometimes don't even try to work on those big goals and in the end I feel sad about them. So that was an important lesson and this year I will take care of that.

Once again I wish that this new year will be a great year for me and everyone I know!!

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!!

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.