blackforest cake smeared on my face :-) 

Birthday at office

Today folks at my workplace celebrated my birthday by sending a card and singing a really funny song, which goes like this

' jungle jungle pata chala hai...chaddi pehan kar ankur khila hai'

hehe..really funny..and i never ever in my life got so much and so loud applause...it was hard to believe :)

thanx to all for making it so special...ill never forget it.

:X

HAPPY BIRTHDAY..

...TO ME..Hey its my birthday today..i am 26 years young now ;)..but i don like it...time is flying..i want it to stop and lemme enjoy the moment...

my day started with SMS from supandi and ended with her phone call.. :) thanx buddy..u r the best

in between i got SMS from charu, phone calls from anjali, kavita, sanjukta, shyam, shravan, anup, preety, and charu and as i said my ended wit supandi's phn call.

i didnt partied or something..like always i was at home watching TV and writing my MBA assignmen and also went to the post office :-|

though last nite i went out for dinner wit charu, anup and shyam..we went to this new resturant in City Center Mall..Moti Mahal Deluxe..The cuisine is mughali and it was very good..a typical indian food made very well and also like all resturants in ggn..this one's ambience and the decor was very different and nice..the cost is ok not very high compared to the quantity they serve...we also had golgappas before goin to the resturant...all in all it was a good experience

also we spend sometime roaming around the malls and talkin all the latest gossip happenin at our workplace. the folks gifted me Robbie Williams ACD, a pen and a greeting card. Thanx buddies.

its 1150pm now and almost the end of my birthday...and tomorrow a new start...27th year of my life... :-|...no please stop it...i dont wanna get old..i wanna be 27 years young ;)

BlueLine Bus

Today..after a long time, i travelled in a blueline bus..and it seems nothing has change..u still need to push and pull yourself through the crowded bus to move ahead..and if you are standing..u need to hold the handle bar really tight...and you will swing like pendulum...from left to right and vice versa...bcoz the drivers put on the breaks at high speed; very frequently and the some roads in delhi are bad..full of potholes and debri...and if u loosen the grip and the driver puts on the brake at high speed..ull land up at the bonet of the bus..next to the drivers seat.. :) bcoz of the force with which the bus comes to the halt..And this will happen if u r standing some where close to the conductor seat and the bus is not that crowded...if u r standing in the middle or somewhere near the driver ull probably be out of the bus :D.. and nobody seems to care..conductor is busy shouting the route and askin for tickets and driver is anxious to speed on and leave the other blueline bus behind...ladies are fighting for the reserved seat...someone got on the wrong bus number...some people have staff..there will be small kids singing vaishno mata ke bhet...the entire experience is worth the 10 rs ticket...u get more then the value :D

Focus

After attending all the Macromedia Conferences where they showcase all their products...i wonder what is their primary focus?? do they wanna make all kind softwares for web?? do they wanna be the one single standard for the web??
Each and every product of their serves some or other user group and each product is so good with the features it has that it makes life really easy (only while attending the conf). And to add to that...FLash is goin all over the place...web, tv, mobile, pdas, gaming consoles..etc etc.. and also after attending the conf it makes me that there is so much i dont know and there is so much i can learn (again..only while attending the conf)...but then after sometime i think...do i really need all of this..will these thing be really reqd in future...may be...may be not..but i think i should learn some of it... :)
so now i have decided to put my brains on CSS, FLash Lite, FLex, Breeze, and ofcourse Flash MX 2004 and AS 2.0...
HUH!! thats too much yaar...what do i focus on???

Macromedia MAX: Day 2

Aahh...today was the 2nd and the last day of the conference..and as yesterday the day started off with great Greg Revis. Today he took session in CSS, Templates, Dynamic Pages in dreamweaver. And as usual..he was at hi best..all charged up and everything on tips. CSS is great way of building HTML pages. A change in font color of 10k pages can be made by changing the style in the css file. The change will be reflected on all the pages.

then came CHAK..with Contribute...yawnnnnnnnn!!! this is wht we all were doin in this session..yawning...it was very boring..

and then came Breeze again by CHAK...but this was interesting since i like breezr and my NPI idea (Rapid Learning) is based upon it. it was very informative and there are lots of things you can do wit breeze when it comes to elearning. You can record audio, sync it with animation, include video, build quiz etc etc...a complete elearning development and management..and all very easy and less time consuming. :)

next session we had CHAK talkin abt mobile devices and flash lite. flash lite is another cool thing happening at macromedia and in the mobile world since macromedia wants flash to be available at all the devices which have screens. like mobile, pda, xbox, tv, fridge etc etc. Bill Perry also build an APP using flash lite. Its really easy to build an app as the actionscript is based on Flash 4 and its very basic. Nothing Complex. So anyone can build an app for mobile devices. Really Cool.

There were other presentations also..but really useless.

The fun part of the 2nd day was the way Bill Perry gave away the goodies to the audience. THe usual way is to ask a question and give the goodie to the person who answers correctly..but bill was jus throwing stuff at the audience..and the audience being Indian..showed their true colors...most of them were jumping over, diving, and pushing others to catch hold of the goodies. Free mein mil raha hai...toh kuch bhi kaise bhi pocket mein dal low...am sure Bill mus be enjoyin it and also sayin..."BLOODY INDIANS" :) really poor audience.

All in all it was a good day and hope next year we have a better conference...as they say at macromedia...USER EXPERIENCE MATTERS.

Macromedia MAX: Day 1

Today was the first day at the MaX conference...and as always i was very excited about the event. No...more then the event i was excited about the goodie bad ;)

The entire day we ran behind schedule as the we started late and then the sessions were very interesting...al bcoz of Greg Revies..who i think is a great presenter...the best i have seen anywhere so far...he really keeps you into the prsentation with his style..he always remains pepped up and keeps on tellin some or the other joke, especially abt his mom :)..really cool..he covered the RIA and videos. I think everyone who drinks and eats SODA ;) at my wrkplace should have attended his session on RIA and User Experience. It was something what we are tryin to acheive wit our elearning courses but haven't been able to do so. How to maximise user experience??

After the break things got boring. Actually there was too much information in too little time and to add to that presentation weren't as good as Greg's. I was finding it difficult to keep my eyes open ;D. But at the end things got interesting with a session onFlex. At the end of the day we also got Wrist Watches with Macromedia Logo on it...

All in all it was a good outing and a break from daily routine stuff ;)

Womens Day

today is womens day. women - a great gift to MANkind :) they are the best thing on this planet. salute ladies

Sony Walkman Phone

Sony has launched a new mobile phone and they call it W800i Walkman phone. The phone looks great and as the name suggests it has a music player which plays mp3, AAC, and ATRAC formats. it also has a 2 mega pixel camera. it great gadget to have. check out more at w800i.

Nokia 6230i

Nokia has come out with an upgraded version of my phone 6230. :(

It has a 1.3 megapixel camera and a bigger screen. Also 3D menu, higher internal memory. check out @ 6230i

why? why? why nokia? why do you have to this??

I want to buy a new phone now :-