Brief history of time: my edition

  much to everyone's relief...the so called fruit basket has to check out of that fair house...gotta thank the orange for his service as the stock markets held good as long as i thought they would and more...maybe the covid scenario was a deadly trap to many a economy...however the amerikaner money train rolled on...the other fruits now having to look for jobs...quite literally...hoping that they will be able to cover all they have done in the past four years before they leave...well perfect example of the fruit season being twenty-two million emails uncovered in the Obama era with a single click of a mouse which had been "deleted" by the dubya era...fortunately for them there were not enough people to process the emails...lol...we recorded the torture years anyways...looking forward to a sensible and straight forward change in administration along with the small fact that a LOT of damage has to be undone...lets hope for science's sake that the space force is used for...

The beginnings of the SE Linux program were "probably" buried somewhere in the backyards of the Super Secure Linux program...i'm not complaining about my download being cancelled half way through...somewhere in the long arduous journey post return from the US...i remember trying to find my park city apartment complex on google earth at IITB...losing control of the keyboard and mouse...and a "drift" into the evanston area with a small tag saying "old place"...man that was years ago...i always end up paying for someone else's mischief...anyways...lets not deviate from the topic...i was never about to intentionally invite the clan into my life...however they did say "Wtf..." on another tag on the screen :) there is a huge difference between what people see and what they know...the first two pages of my file are and will always be missing...there was never going to be a minority report...the idiots go around creating copies of us only to ...

Each person i meet is a like a book...some open...some closed...some half read...some in need of writing...just a tweak here and a pinch there...i wonder if i should start life all over again...given all that i have learnt in this grid...only knowing time will not give me back those twenty odd years...all my life iv'e been compared to friends and family...in some cases even random folks i never knew...i never knew back then why things were that way...only thing i knew was than i felt bad about being the gold standard among all relatives and family till about my 12th grade...then i stopped studying in all sense of academics as i got tired of others being compared...all in all four years of engineering college were at the mercy of the angels...no wonder the first class...i realized at the alumni meet twenty years later that they still remember me by name...but that's a story for another day...a brief stint at rolla didn't change much in terms of concentrating on academic...

The one guy who never sleeps...never complains...never retreats in the face of peril...and who "un"-fortunately watches over me and has been watching for a while...being in my part of town is one thing...being under my very nose and thinking i would not know is yet another illusion...sorry neighbor, no pun intended...life has been very kind to me...for most of us who do not understand duty or have never been on bandobast for 48 hours straight because the replacements were not arriving on time...or have been never fed two straight meals by the very state machinery that promised them a bright future when they applied for the force...for those wearing nikes, rebooks and addidas shoes having no idea of what it is to wear a leather shoe for years with a torn sock and skin grazing the leather only to come off and desensitize the foot...for those who have a wonderful appraisal cycle every year and a bonus that would make the farmer feel aware of his below poverty line life but ...

The sad part about the relief packages being handed out is that the idiots who were protesting against the creation of ID's for NPR (which is the census for those who don't know) and bank accounts during demonetization...have no way of receiving these funds directly as they are not in the system because of their own stupidity...and i'll bet the one layer above these idiots will make a ton because these idiots don't exist on paper or well don't want to exist...and then they will blame everyone from the PM down to the last "bhakt" or so to say...instead of taking advantage of the many programs written out for helping their kind...they will "resist" in the name of religion, sex, caste etc. and then when the monster comes around the corner a.k.a. corona, they are the first to ask for entitlements and roll-outs...this is precisely why the database needs to be populated with the proper information...or well one place in multiple databases so that ...

If dad was around...i know for sure that he would have given his last breath to protect his patients from this or any worse pandemic...let us hope that in this huge populace we find those angels looking over us in their medical gear...iv'e known dad to come home and go to his room in tears after losing a patient...and iv'e seen him go back to work the next day saying he had some to take care of...iv'e also lost him to back to back heart attacks over very poor information dealt by some very irresponsible idiots...you can run around for now...but when the time comes...one should prepared for the same logic to be shoved down the throats of their families...mom and sis in the balcony clapping out for the paramedic staff as i type this [the 5pm thing]...i just hope in the years to come there is a financial sanity in the fees for prospective medical students...one cannot ask them for crores of rupees in fees and then expect that they will work for low wages with the poor fol...

Someone once said "despite the best efforts, you refuse to die"...been a while...i keep thinking of all the events around me...i wonder if God allowed it just so i could study and learn how the code flows all within in this human context...i know that there are "stars" out there that can see through my eyes and listen through my ears...don't know where they got this "tech"...i have always believed that the mind readers have been a very gullible bunch [that chicken and rooster story is going to be so very short lived]...downside is over the past twenty years after returning from the US...i could have been real high in the establishment...karla@tinker tailor soldier spy comes to mind...but is there a point of allowing them to get information from my eyes and ears...iv'e tried my best to keep my silence...and iv'e tried my best to stay away from all approaches...don't know if mother India will excuse my "laziness"...i know i wo...

The queen of all she surveys...i've got one proud cat...she will hunt anything that moves in the house...and of course all that doesn't move too...she will sharpen her claws on the sofa...or my badminton racket cover...and then sleep on it like she conquered something and it was a major achievement...here is one pic of her hunting a beetle...pretty big one i'd say given her size...sometimes i wonder...for all that nature has given us i see plot after plot sold around the house...folks tearing down the trees to build a tower...and then wondering where the rain has gone...why the weather is "changing"...there used to be one house in this zone in the early 70's...today there are more than 40000 cell phone users in the area...and they complain about the heat...there is only one root cause...we are the virus that's going to end up killing us along with every other species on this lovely planet...something tells me its a bit late and she's waking up to ...

That one place on earth where one can go and feel at home @IITB...research assistants over the years have been exposed to cool technology in their early years thanks to ready-to-work-with boards like the arduino, raspberry pi etc...this was only a dream when we were working there 20 years ago...the cost of the ECU was so high that we were told explicitly "one at a time" in terms of usage so that only if the first board goes bad was the second one handed over to us for work :)...today they no longer have fixed wing mini aircraft limiting their research...drone apps are killing the market and the guys at the aerospace department are at the front line of research projects...sometimes i wonder if coming back home from the US was the best thing i could do...if i hadn't, i would not have got to walk the path i did for sure...most people who are in the US for the past 20 odd years have made a killing in terms of salary...however i think that mother India gave me the chance ...

So i wanted to know what an "alumni meet" looks like...22 years down the line i walked the halls of the new building for TSEC with renewed intent...loads of memories while i took that walk...we have truly moved ahead in life (batch of 98)...so far ahead that we have almost forgotten who it was that gave us that stepping stone for where we are today...in spite of the limited access to books, simple electronic boards etc. that can be programmed for pretty much anything within limits, we still had a good time back then...i remember sangy for his math, milan for his ieee antics, sachin for his programming, sunil for his tie, guru for his chat channel etc...i never forgot the limited lab equipment, paychecks etc. the teachers had [and maybe still do!]...however we turned out OK...out of 26 people of our batch that i used to have a bit of a conversation with, 24 went to the US for further studies...i'm still in almost "daily" touch with about ten folks thanks ...

It was that time of the year again...a superbly organized Versova fish festival...always have tried to be a first day first show kind of guy for this festival...having been friends with Sachin [the prince of Versova as i affectionately call him] since God knows back when has had its own plus points...i get to eat the best of fish...and they cook it in front of you...and sometimes i get away with "murder" on the cost of food too...Sachin's family has been kind enough to tolerate me over the years and i guess that's what friendship is all about...i post here a snap of the slice of fish that took me 15 mins to finish...it was almost 2 times the size of my palm...until next year...by the sea...a silent reminder of all the torture she takes from us as mankind...and a cold reminder of what can happen when she loses her cool a.k.a. here i am walking like a hurricane :)

Meeting up with kaki, pallu tai and her kids after 20 years...!