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!!

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!!

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.

I have lots of memories of this place!!

I am finally uploading the pics I took during Drupal Camp on 7th November. I was amazing to see and listen to Dries's Keynote(Drupal creator).

click on the pics below for enlarged view!

Yesterday I had a decent day, I was able to complete some tasks but nothing really great or exciting happened the whole day. I was kinda getting bored. Somehow the clock reached 5 PM and I felt little assured. It is time to go back home. I didn’t actually go home directly to my home. I stayed in the cab and got out at Model Town and took the metro to Civil Lines. Model Town metro station is little different from other stations I have seen. The entry to station is only from one side. If you are coming from Model Town then remember to take the stairs from the Alpna Cinema side. It happened to me once that I took the wrong stairs and had to come down. Although they have written it clearly “No entry” but frequent metro travelers will never notice the sign boards. Anyways I got in the station, put my backpack into the X-Ray machine and cleared the security check. It is funny to see your stuff in the X-Ray machine. It shows everything. I saw my bag and I can clearly notice my Laptop. I generally use stairs in metro stations but I was getting late so I took the escalator and reached the front side of the platform where Women Only coaches stop. I find it uncomfortable to stand there even for few seconds. Reaching the platform I immediately rushed passed the middle section. Metro came within 1 min and I stepped in. Luckily I got the seat too. Though I only had to travel 3 station but I preferred to sit instead of standing with my heavy bag. It is human nature to draw conclusions and judge others by just looking at them. Everyone does it. I do it but I don’t know if it is good habit or bad. May be I should control myself. The moment I sat, they guy next to me started starring me. He did that for atleast a minute. I knew that he was starring at me because I could see his reflection in the mirror opposite us. I too tried to look at him and when he realized it then he turned his face somewhere else. I don’t know what he was looking for? May be he knew me or has seen me somewhere. I don’t really know.

Soon a man came and sat between me and that boy. I have a strange bad habit of looking at people’s mobile. I feel jealous when someone has a better/costly phone than mine. The new guy who came and sat had a Querty keypadded Nokia phone. I stared at his phone ad that new guy also realized and looked at me, as if he is saying “You beggar don’t stare my fancy phone”. He then started browsing some site on his phone’s default browser. For a moment I didn’t do anything but I couldn’t restrain myself from pulling out my shiny but old Blackberry Curve 3G (with Enterprise Plan). I was sitting little behind him touching the back side of the seat. He didn’t notice my phone for a moment but then my phone’s screen sparkled I am sure he sensed the shiny thing behind him. He looked at my phone and may be said something in his mind “Kaise Kaiso ke pass ache phone hote hai”. May be I am just assuming all this but I don’t know.

I realized I reached Civil Lines Metro station. I got out.

I had to meet someone living on Under Hill Road. Civil Lines is a nice place with lots of trees around, thanks to the adjacent ridge, the area is generally colder. I walked all the way to the Under Hill road which is just at 5 mins walking distance. The moment I entered that road my eyes just couldn’t blink even for a second. I was amazed to look at the fancy houses. Big houses with mega gates! I just couldn’t believe how much money must be spent on these houses. May be something like 100 crores! Really. All the houses are big and grand. I don’t know what people do who live there. What kind of business they do. I felt strongly to have a house here someday. Imagine a place with lots of servants, swimming pool, 10 cars, servant houses and a big garden. Do I really need a house like that? I could be modest and say that no I don’t really need a place like that, I am happy living in apartment but the truth is that I do want to have a house that big and beautiful. I know living happily has nothing to do with big house but somehow I feel the need of experiencing the luxurious lifestyle. Why not? I then put a note on my ultimate life goals – Buy a house on Rajpur Road/Under Hill Road. When people say that they are not interested in earning lots of money and giving up materialist things. I feel that they are just big loosers. First achieve something and then give it up. When people give up without achieving anything and make excuses then and act like loosers. I know there must be many who read my blog will disagree with me but this is my personal thinking, don’t get senti :) Yeah I know if you are happy driving your Maruti 800 and living an average life then good for you. I feel that no matter how much you achieve, the hunger to achieve more and more should never go. That’s how life becomes fun.

I am waiting for auto wala to get gas refilled in his auto. I am going back home. Winters are here, loving the weather! Also the wedding season now, got lots of marriages to attend!!

I dont really know what should I say. This pictures speaks itself. It is so quite yet one can watch it for sometime, there is some mystery on this lady's face. I dont know how to explain this. She is probably reading some holi text, I took this picture near Jantar Mantar, Delhi early morning. The sunrays falling on her back has brighten up the whole image. Also check the "roti" besides her.

I was lucky I got this shot.

In the last couple of days I have received few calls from people and the first thing they said to me - I need to get a website developed in Drupal. I need a Drupal website. Mujhe Drupal mein site banwani hai. I was so happy to hear that. More people want to get their website developed in Drupal now. I think people these days search on the net and learn about various web technologies and Drupal of course offers amazing features over other CMS. I am not saying that other CMS are not good but Drupal has its own advantages and that is why at Sparxsys Solutions we only work on Drupal. Also I have noticed that their are many companies now who are shifting their base to "Drupal Only". More competetion for us for sure, but it is in a way a good thing for us. The price, service and the value we give to our client, I am sure no other company can do that, at least in Delhi

and NCR region (shameless self promotion) :)

Also good to know that people are migrating to Drupal too. Either they want to get their website moved to Drupal or want to re-develop

it again in Drupal.

Cool!

Today is sunday. This day is fine so far. Didn't do much of a work today but I somehow feel ok. Last two days were very busy, in fact last 2 weeks were hectic.

I have lot of new work which is good thing. Weather is finally changing now, sep has seen heaviest rainfall. Time to meet someone.
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These pics were taken last month when I went to India Gate during the Anna Fast. A Rally was organized from India Gate to Ramlila Maidan.

My favorite Pic - Indian Spirit

This man was holding a flag in his hand. I couldn't take the full picture because I used Tele Lens.

While going to Gurgaon via NH8 you might have noticed a Dargah on the left side just before starting of Express Way flyovers. While going to office we stopped our cab there for sometime. I quickly clicked couple of pictures for sharing here on the blog. Very less people visit this place. I saw some security guards of express way resting there.

Yesterday I went to Model Town for some work. I have been to this place many times before but yesterday I thought of paying a visit to Naini Lake in the heart of Model Town.

This is liberty cinema.

Just went to the janmashtmi pandal near by. Saw lot of electronic jhankiya. Lot of chaat stalls. It is raining. Someone is singing bhakti songs and some VIP sitting in special area.
Happy birthday lord krishna!

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I am blogging after so many days, but there is a good reason for it. We revamped our company website completely and we tried to gave it a complete different look.

Check this out.