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Win Fail

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Slow and steady wins the race.
Rats are not slow. Rats are not steady.
No one wins the rat race.


Slow and steady wins the race.
I am slow. I am steady.
There is no race to win.


Anyways Fail Blog fans will get the twist in the title.
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General Knowledge of Fishing

Thursday, October 8, 2009
"There are plenty of other fish you know!"
"Thanks for sharing tha knowlege...lekin...


Jab Dil Hi Toot Gaya...
Hum GK kya karenge...!"












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PS: Somebody from Singapore landed on the main page of this blog by google search of  'loma 280 score'! LOL!


PPS: Is she called Lola Kutty because she is such a LOL!a Kutty?
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Being sane is insane!

What are you looking at? Title is all I meant to write. Insane people don't write anything in post body :P

(Damn. I already wrote so much. Am I becoming sane? ****mightly alarmed! runs away!!!!****)
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Free

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I dont owe anything to the world.
And 'owing something to my own self' sounds like an absurd creditor-debtor equation anyways.

Chill!
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Life...

Sunday, October 4, 2009
Its fragile.
Its sturdy.
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Lost Into The Mirror World In Transaltion!!

Saturday, October 3, 2009
I saw you, and I realized...
Life is sunshine, while You are a deep dark shadow.

That sounds like life is pleasant, while You is quite a vile person, like Voldemort or Sauron . But actually I have merely translated the lines of a Hindi song....

तुमको देखा, तो ये ख़याल आया...
जिंदगी धूप, तुम घना साया |

And they mean quite the opposite, isnt it?!!!

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Bachna Ae Haseeno...LOMA Aa Gaya! Part 1

Friday, October 2, 2009
Oops I meant

...Lo Main Aaa Gaya...Kyonki LOMA chala gaya!!!

Ye LOMA LOMA kya hai? Ye LOMA LOMA?
LOMA ka matlab I'L(L TELL) U I'L(L TELL) U!

For one, LOMA is what I wrote with 'typo' as LMAO in previous post ;).

But what is LOMA anyways?

Well, till 8-9 months back even I didn't know or care what LOMA is.
Now I know, but doesn't mean I care ;). Of course I know, but not exactly. Probably because I don't care! Not really care.

Then how did I find myself in the middle of this LOMA mess? Of course I haven't yet explained "What LOMA mess?" either, but I guess both will be answered together!

As some of the old folks here, and some of the new folks who have 'grown old with the blog' acceleratedly will know, I got into a new job a little less than a year ago. At the new place, our customer, who is an insurance and finance giant, and for whom I write stupid business programs on mainframe computers, prefers all puny little beings who work for it to be 'LOMA certified'.

Did you just ask what the heck is 'LOMA certified'? OK OK again I am running ahead of myself. Lets get some basics out of the way...

Well LOMA is some (pretty big) association that conducts research and educational activities to help its member financial companies and their people work better.

Here are some more details if you really want to know...


So if you read the first question amongst the FAQs you will realise that LOMA is an association which itself doesn't know any more what LOMA acronym currently stand for ! ;-)

I myself have not read most of the above two links. If you do find something interesting in them , (though I really doubt if that is possible!) tell me about it in the comments section ;-)

Now that we have the generic stuff out of the way and out of sight and out of mind, lets get back to my life's connection with LOMA.

Because client prefers employees to have it so that they understand better what the heck they are doing/programming, my manager had set one of my annual goals as 'getting LOMA 280 certification'. Half yearly appraisal went by and I had not met this goal (but appraisal was a normal decent one, don't worry ;) ) So I registered for it 3 months back and got a big 400 page book to study, with same title and topics in the course link I gave above. Book can be obtained from company library only after paying course fees (licence issues) and once the fees are paid (40 US $) you have only 3 months to study and clear the exam. The fees are deducted from salary. If you clear the exam in 3 months, company refunds them otherwise they are lost.

400 (full size) pages and 3 whole months may sound pretty easy, but throw in 9 official hours in office per day (10-11 hours actually due to deadlines etc :P), huge tendency to waste free time online, a Stupid person, and a kind of subject that Stupid doesn't really like, then its not such a piece of cake!

My 3 months to give the exam were ending on 30 Sep. That is why I stopped blogging 3 weeks back.

The good news is, I cleared the stupid exam on 30th, with 97 % score.
Nice. But pretty inconsequential :P.


Well, if its such a pointless exam, why did I apparently get so serious about it?
1) Confidence building activity. I can do anything I want to do, or need to do even if I may not really care to do it.
2) I was spending too much time online. Proved self restraint.
3) When I joined the company, within a month or so I got the nickname of Don. Of course that Don is always preceded by 2 syllable abbreviation of my name, which I will not mention here ;). Stupid Don doesn't sound well either so not mentioning it with that representative modification either ;). However, along with that compact consolidated compliment, I was have also been at the receiving end of hostilities from my colleagues, precisely for being SO AWESOME! There were also some slanders about me being just a phoney. But I have got an 'IN YOUR FACE!!!' attitude and so never miss any opportunity to show them that I really am SO AWESOME!!! Of course showing off to them is just an added advantage. I do good for myself in the process ;)
4) I would and would not like to do higher studies like MBA or MS. I have different pro and con reasons for both of them. I may or may not blog about them some day. I may or may not do one of the two things one day. But at least studying for this exam brought me in contact with academics after 4 years, which does good to confidence (which I already mentioned in point 1). So if I do the course some day, I will have the memory of these few days of intense reading to boost me up.
5) I had become a horribly nocturnal and indoor (office + home) creature, sometimes sleeping as late as 4-4:30 in the night, then simply waking up and going to work. For studying I experimented with early morning studies and found mornings to be beautifully exhilarating! I have even taken some early morning pics which I may post on my photography blog (which I have not started yet). I studied on terrace, benches under trees etc. So nocturnal and indoor tendencies have reduced. Even after the exam on 30th I have woken early/been out more. My energy at work has increased in spite of hectic schedules **
6) I was trying out a new technique of 'motivation' 'self restraint' etc. I publicly declared that I will not blog for three weeks. If I did, it would be INCREDIBLY STUPID. So imagine if I did blog, and I did do bad at LOMA 280 and also maybe at the hectic work deadlines ** that I have these days! Then I would know that I did act INCREDIBLY STUPID, and that too everyone is quite aware about it. That post might have bit at me in times to come. So by writing that post, I had checkmated myself in public. Expect that I will use similar technique in times to come! (Of course I did bloghop and comment around (though very little) and also chatted/emailed some blog fellows who correspond with me on id write.to.stupidosaur@gmail.com. I guess thats why I got 97% and not 100%. It was an objective test after all! Damn!

P.S. : From comments in last post, it seems some of you actually thought I was on a vacation. If anything work** has been a lot more hectic :P.

** Continuation Part 2 post on bad workloads during these same 'no blogging' and LMAO oops typo' days. Though it will probably not be as long. I will only be dumping what I am not adding to this one due to lack of time. Going to sleep now. Bye!



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