Brief history of time: my edition

 Spending time with family this Diwali...Took a lot of pictures at IITB only to come home to a bunch of bad sectors on the camera SD card!!! But was fun spending time taking those pictures at IITB...will do it again someday...posting my equivalent of heaven on earth...the IITB Library :)

  It is not every day that something this big comes around the corner...and that we cannot learn anything from it is pure stupidity...we've know from time immemorial that the wireless infrastructure is frying the planet not to mention our brains too...however we are turning the oblivious eye and are paying the price...it very simple...if you touch a live wire you get shocked...well there are trillions of atoms that carry this effect in a 3-d interferometric scenario...they all carry just a itsy bitsy component of the wireless traffic and warm up due to the nature of radiation...I've maintained all along that the planet heats up with our in-discretionary use of the spectrum...its a miracle we have not fried ourselves into oblivion as yet. On a slightly different but related topic the US and everyone else needs to learn to treat kids that are not their own with a little bit of discretion...you cannot torture children that belong to nature and then expect that there will be no fee...

When your best friend visits you in hospital not for checking up on you but for placing a selfie on the whatsapp group chat...!!! :) maleen...the brother i never had :)

  The loss of a gentle giant...an instrumental force in Indo-Japanese relations...Abe will be sadly missed...its so unlike Japan to report an incident of this magnitude...RIP Shinzo Abe. (1954-2022)

  Will the real tiger please stand up and say something for once everyone said...a lot of months later the cub grew up into a beautiful beast...lets hope he can lead this tiger family into the future as it should be for my lovely state of Maharashtra. Mumbai will probably change a bit now...new cabinet...hopefully a new team that actually listens to the pulse of the state...amongst the outgoing lot one charlie piper...dad had once met him by chance while he was with the economic offenses wing twenty two odd years ago...nice guy...will miss this guy. I hope the coming years are placed with a full effort to ensure that all corners of my state are heard and prosper the way they should...lets digitize the systems a bit more efficiently so that there is less headache for the common man...welcome back to the lead team lotus boy...lets hope you continue to serve with the distinction you have in the past...good luck and god speed.

While reading the book on Hemant Karkare I realized how much these terrorists are extremely wasted in their execution plans...since time immemorial, the neighbors have aided and abetted, fed and bred a lot of terror cells...now that their economy is on the brink no thanks to the economics intelligence wing allied probably with no such existing agency...we feel that there is a good chance for them to hand over all their terrorists and collect the prizes from the IA, Bureau etc...five million here...ten million there...it will add up to a decent amount given the number of terrorists there...it would make way for the next generation of idiots to pick up where the old brigade was handed over to the respective agencies and as always we thought about it...and then we laughed and laughed and laughed :) after all they wanted to export terror...now be forced to export you idiots...only to the respective agency that wants their heads on a plate...man is there anything going right in their heads ...

  Eleven years have gone by since he passed away...not a day goes by when I'm not reminded of how he went away...took eleven years but finally got some of the paperwork for the house in order...all thanks to a wonderful start to this process by his close friend and confidant at Nanavati hospital...I have come to realize over the years that its always only what impressions our friends carry of us that matter over time...one may stay...one may go away...but it always those whose lives we impact however small in manner that matters...he collected so much good will in his time...its difficult to imagine how I could even reach that magnitude of impact (even at the age of forty five today)...one comes to agreement with the fact that one needs to make a lot of money to maintain the house etc. that one inherited...something most people in my workplace will never understand...anyways...happy fathers day to all those dads in heaven who walked the walk to look over this little boy who needed ...

 

 My brother in arms visited after a break of 17 years with family this time around :)

The best part of the Goa vacation was supposed to be the air travel...but we took the road this time and boy o boy have they made the highways super nice...hats off to the Central, Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra governments...job super well done...one tiny suggestion the toll gates should not need slowing down a vehicle...it can be done at normal speed :) we also learnt that google optimizes stuff on its algorithm in a way that it decides for itself is a time saver route...while coming to Goa...we took some forest road that was in a condition that reminded me of Germany after the world war...someone please send that forest officer some funds for a road and a thank you...we did not see too much wild life...except the jungle warfare unit of the MLIRC on their exercises right in the middle of nowhere in the forest :) anyways...having a car in Goa is a boon...you save a lot on travel which would otherwise go through the Club Mahindra travel desk...my mom and sis always use the travel desk....

Ten years gone by already...another visit to the passport office...tried the tatkal option this time...went in "uniform" as maleen (my close friend) would say...went through the whole process in less than an hour and a half...and to beat it all my passport was printed and shipped the same day!!!! I have to hand it to the TCS interface with the passport office and the Mumbai Police...I have never seen such consistency maintained over 10 years in a government office...ye naya India hai...kaam bhi karega aur theek se ghar tak bhi dega aapka passport...I must say I am the proud recipient of the new passport from the Government of India...thanks for the quick processing. :)

  Oh boy...what have we done here...just to put into perspective, the comparison of the size of the two countries on this "golf ball" of a planet...never got the gist of this "plot"...the distance between Russia and the US is about 83 kms on the short side, given the king of Alaska gave away something that burns the poor Russians to date due to all the oil there...I didn't quite get why the NATO sacrificed the Ukrainians in this stupid chess game of "life"...everybody knows that the bigger state here is poised to encircle and starve out the smaller one into submission...the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis is just as big or maybe even bigger than the one down south in the afghan region...but here since it is eastern Europe or well almost...the dreams sold to the Ukrainians of a better tomorrow with the EU and NATO seem to have been the bane of the dreamers in today's time...i cant imagine what mother Russia would gain in here except a few trill...

  Since time "immemorial" i can feel an attachment to this place...its like i belonged here as a student but didnt really belong...! IITB has been one of those few places in my life where i have always felt at home.

  Taken on sis's iphone 12 :) With my pup...senior now :) Temple at home :) With my pup...by the front door.

 

As of April 2021, more than 71,000 Afghan and Pakistani civilians are estimated to have died as a direct result of the war. More than 150,000 Iraqis have perished in the conflict there. More than a 1,000,000 vets have filed for some sort of disability upon return from active duty...and more than 15000 NATO and US military personnel are in the ground because of the idiots who followed a bad leader. Some would even go so far as to say that it was an inside job...but then who knows. The Afghan countrymen and women are doomed to their fates because they are not united...generation after generation has been lost in the one war after another...the Pakistanis have no great credentials to show anyways...they found the worlds most wanted terrorist in the middle of their country...!!! The funny part of it all is that the Americans could completely blanket carpet bomb all that now troubles the afghans oppressors without remorse as they are technically no longer present in that country and the air...

Its not everyday that we get to hear that the pests have a "hold" of technology...in today's time drone attacks are a problem that we had foreseen a millennia ago when we were creating them and testing them...in the wrong hands and with a bad bent of mind these creatures can cause a lot of mischief...we need to understand a way to track these little ones locally...I had suggested to choms once that a simple way would be to listen in to the oscillators banging away in a local listening post...or well many local listening posts around the area needing protection...this is because the electronics guiding this stupid thing cannot live without the clock...and that thing NEVER stops :) the reason we were insisting on these things having a NAVIC interface with a credit card like packet processing response time was that we could track the ones that were genuine enough, to keep them in the air...while taking out all those without a proper UID...problem isn't that they cant be ...

  World Peace...almost sounds like the ms. universe pageant theme...well its in pieces...and guess whos to blame...??? The idiots ran a six day war and lost and now want to irritate the winner...well bad idea...very bad idea...what the small tiny state spends on christmas shopping is the budget of the entire opposition...so there is no comparison in terms of whos the boss in terms of money...they also have good friends in the west and europe who will back them up in all manners of speaking when it comes to bossing around the pests simply because they can...speaking of because they can...there are a lot of things that can happen on this planet simply because someone wanted it that way or thought of it that way...the pests need to realize that eat me is not a good philosophy...i know...ive been there...only i was on my tour of duty... different scenario different outcome...but anyways...when you are such a small pest you need to be aware of some things before you are exterminated...t...

  Was an eventful day...for the second time in my life I went to Cooper hospital today to get my vaccine...the first time I went was when I injured myself during cricket as a kid...I reached the vaccination center...was in a queue for about ten minutes...then reached the seating area...separate zones for first dose and second dose folks...the guys kept the entry organized to the tee...when my turn arrived I was asked to meet the medical staff with my file for medicines for sugar and liver issues!...they looked through the list and sent me through to the vaccine area...less than three minutes later I had my vaccine...the attendant said I looked like someone who had already taken the vaccine :)  I assured her this was my first dose...once done I was requested to wait in the observation area...thirty minutes later I was on my way home...all in a days work...I have NEVER seen the government so organized on such a scale...there must have been at least hundreds of people lined up......

Of late i've been wondering...what happens when a lot of ships are in a small cramped up space...and something goes wrong...? The luck by chance fact that the sun moon and stars saved the day a.k.a. the high tide in the suez canal...else the ever given could have been forever unforgiven :) the tide in the south china seas are kinda similar...only here we have a ton of locked and loaded war machines waiting for a whisker of a contact to start something...i think its time the chinese realized that the whole world is suffering because of them and that all of us know of, if not having lost one of our own around us...i think it is time for a regime change in bad old chinese land...or one that gets some sense drilled into it...sooner or later the supplier of raw material in the african, european or south american areas are going to get an idea either of loss of resource or independence...and the market the free world has been pilfering (including your freedom) will be not available any m...

  Went shopping the other day...was looking for a cell phone...so at Croma I checked out the I-Phone 11 (I was too poor to even ask the price of the 12) and the One Plus 8T...both excellent phones in their own right...then the salesman showed me the Mi 10T Pro...I was in love with the camera features instantly...5G etc. was present however the cam was fantastic...108MP was enough to blow me away...after listening to the guy explain the features of all the phones...I told him i was very impressed by the Mi 10T however at this point in time i would rather not but that phone...he quickly asked..."why don't you want to buy it sir...all phones have either parts built in China or the whole phone comes from there"...I looked at him and told him politely "Every soldier counts"...he went quite silent...gently nodded and walked away...coming from a military family (both grandparents served)...I know the pain of having a young lad come home wrapped in a flag (my mama was i...

  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 ...