Lady luck arrived in my life...

I don't know whether luck arrived in my life or not but Lady for sure... :)

27th June
I would never like to forget this day...

You've got to find what you love

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

 

-GK

 

 

 

Love Letter

(By a Programmer...  )

Sweetheart ,

I`ve seen you yesterday while surfing on the local train platform and realized that you are the only site I was browsing for. For a long time I`ve been lonely; this has been the bug in my life and you can be a real debugger for me now.

My life is an uncompiled program without you, which never produces an executable code and hence is useless.

You are not only beautiful by face but all your ActiveX controls are attractive as well.

Your smile is so delightful; it encourages me and gives me power equal to thousands of mainframes processing power.

When you looked at me last evening, I felt like all my program modules are running smoothly and giving expected results. /*which I never experienced before.*/

With this letter, I just want to convey to you that if we are linked together, I¡¯ll provide you all objects & libraries necessary for a human being to live an error free life.

Also don`t bother about the firewall which may be created by our parents as I¡¯ve strong hacking capabilities by which I`ll ultimately break their security passwords and make them agree for our marriage .

I anticipate that nobody has already logged in to your database so that my connect script will fail.
And its all but certain that if
this happened to me, my system will crash beyond recovery.

Kindly interpret this letter properly and grant me all privileges of your inbox. Error free...

Regards,
Software Pogrammer
Today This company
Tommorrow That Company
But always want u r company!

10 years journey in Hyd...

14 th June, 2000

The day I landed in Hyd with Masab Tank polytechnic college admission letter in my hand and hell of big dreams in mind….
I was able to make only few of those dreams true and a long way to go.. don't know how long.. Journey continues..

3 years gone..!!

Its been three years I have started my career..

 

Nothing has changed in my life. The same old bike.. same office.. same road…  same traffic.. come to office.. go home.. again come to office…

 

Its really boring..

 

The only change is I have become alone…  Nobody is near to me now and I feel alone in Hyd….

 

In the first year we friends used to meet at our college once every weekend or two weeks.. The frequency shifted to once in a month in the second year….

 

In third year we met 3-4 times at most….   Now the only way is fone or skype…  L     missing you all….

 

I am about to turn 25 years…… I never wanted to be like this when I turn 25. Reason being I couldn’t switch gears at any point of time during these three years. I will always be the first one to hate for putting the reasons… But….  ????

 

I already lost 1 year in doing diploma and joining OU..  adding that one to these three.. Literally wasted 4 years in doing nothing..  Hopefully my next step will compensate for this wasted time..

 

-GK

 

Why there is no stopping Congress in Next Decade..!!

Its been more than a decade I closely watched state politics. In 1995 and 1999, I heard people from TDP with zero political experience beaten the established leaders of Congress... My social teacher used to speak

Whirlwind trip to my Village

Telkapally - The village where I was born and spent all my childhood time.

 

In 2000 I left my village and then after I can count the number of visits on fingers

I always want to be there but at the end of every visit I had tears in my eyes.

 

Almost after 2 years….

My friend Laxman called me and said he is getting married. I said I will surely come to your marriage reception.

 

On 27th, I woke up at 6 in the morning and I started on my bike at 7.30.

 

I was driving my bike all the way around at 90-120kmph.

 

On the way I saw a devastating accident where two lorry’s collided. I paused for few minutes and started again.

 

In couple of hours I reached my village. 120km in just two hours…

 

The moment I stopped my bike in front of the famous Karim’s hotel some other biker came fast from backside and collided with my bike and he fell down.

Thank god…  nothing more than small scratch on my bike silencer.. otherwise this time I would be having tears in my eyes at the start of the visit itself..

 

I just thought for a moment, Telkapally is surely not the lucky place for me…

 

On two of my previous visits,  I had two accidents with my car. One was because of my driving mistake and the other serious one because of a brainless auto driver. On each occasion no injuries to anybody but loss of money….

 

Once again began with a minor accident…

 

I went straight to my home to see my grandmother but she was not there.. L

 

Back to my friends home where the reception arrangements were going on.. I didnt find a single friend.. .. disappointment....

I met my friend and wished him.. chatted for an hour...

 

I came out and took my bike and went to see my old friends.. no body was there at home and I just their parents and came back..

 

This time I went back to my school Siddhartha Vidyalam.. where I studied from 1st class to 7th class..

 

I met Vijay and Srinivas guruji’s and chatted for sometime..

 

Went back to Naveen home and again spend sometime there..

 

Meanwhile all the arrangements for the reception completed at Laxman’s home and reception started..

 

My friends Sai, Bhasker, Raju and Naveen joined and we went together to wish the new Couple..

 

We had nice lunch there and everyone dispersed..

 

I came back to my home now my grandmother is there.. spent an hour there and returned for Hyderabad..

 

I started at 3pm and reached Hyderabad at 4.45..  this time 120 km in 105 mins..

 

It’s all again the same routine in Hyd......

 

-GK

 

 

 

 

 

After being rejected by google a record 6 times in a row and only one call... just feel that Google is not for me.. Its not like giving up but one should be aware of his strengths and weakness and act accordingly.. its more like Sachen cannot hit like Sehwag and Sehwag cannot drive like Sachin.
Just learned that everyone has strengths and weakness..

So what next ??

This is the question that comes into everyone's mind when things are not going in your way...
Probably the whole Indian youth are fighting to find the answer to it

When I decided google is not for me... At the start of the year I just wanted to try my hand in Trading..

I thought when I work for D.E.Shaw why dont I take the foot steps of D.E.Shaw.

Started with equities in Feb.. just buying and selling shares randomly.. ofcourse I was making littly money in intraday trading but I was frustrated with 2 days delivery time and for each transaction I had to take permission...

Then I came to know about various websites which give you 1% daily, 20% monthly on the capital.. Just researched and found that they give such returns because they do trade with currencies.

Indian CEOs

“A promise is a promise”
- Ratan Tata


“We call it infectious impatience. That's his (Dhirubhai Ambani’s) hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organisation. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time..”
- Mukesh Ambani


“The real power of money is the power to give it away”

“A successful person is one who, when he walks into a room, people's eyes light up. If he brings a smile to people's faces, then irrespective of whether that person is educated or not educated, that person is still successful. And going by that definition, I am still not sure whether I would consider myself as being successful.”
- Narayana Murthy


“I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory “managed relationships”. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money..”
- Anil Ambani


“Work is love, not stress.”
- Sunil Mittal


“With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.”
- Ajeem Premji


"--------- ------ ----------- ---- ----------- -- ----------- "
- Giri

I love you...

ninnu modatisaari chusi nappudu naaku 10 yrs...

neekosam andaroo padi chastunte andarikee pichaa anukunnanu...

tarwaata naaku pichi ekkinchaavu...

ninnu chudataaniki oorloo anni godalu dookaanu...

naannagaari chetullo tannulu tinnanu...

chivariki dikku leka oori avtala kalisaanu...

school period gap lo nee dhyase..

interval discussions loo nee gurinche..

school nunchi raagane books intlo padesi...

ninnu chudaalani parigettukuntoo vachaanu...

neekosam kitiki addaalu pagalagottanani...

entho manditho godavalu paddaanu...

police station ki kooda vellaanu...

neekosam podduna 4 gantalaki lechi wait chesaanu...

nidra maanukoni night 2 gantala varaku chusaanu...

15yrs gadichi poyaayi...

ainaa ninnu marchipoleka pothunnaanu...

I love you.. I love you Cricket..!!!

Hyderabadi Kind of issue..

When I was interestingly watching Mumbai-DC match, In the middle I switched to a news channel.
I saw the Breaking News "Riots in Hyderabad".
and then my brothers daughter came and said, "babai, someone is doing something in front of our home". I dont know what was happening but for fun I said, "who is that, shall we beat them?", she said "yes".
I saw, people tying orange flags. I thought may be there is a pooja tomorrow. But later realized that they were doing this in opposition to Muslims green flags in the colony.

I just thought, Hyderabadis found a new issue for time pass. But this is a kind of violent issue.

am missing..

It doesn't sound good when we show a reason for failure. But sometimes you have to dig yourself and question what could be reason. At the end, What do you feel if you find the people you have loved most as the reason..?
Huhhhhhh.......... pain ?
Ofcourse.. but what can we do if the things are going wrong which are not in our control? We just need to live with them and move on..

As Harsha said, the reason for success of Tendulkar, Dravid and Kumble.... "they came from stable families, they married solid girls and have lovely families of their own. It's an aspect of success that is rarely studied."

that is something I am missing...

Now I can just wish good luck to myself and hope I have a family which supports me in every aspect...

Back From Tirupati tour..

If it has to happen it will happen..

Indore Tour..

Lift Chaahiye Kya..

One of the funniest moment we had in Indore tour...

We reached Bhopal early morning, and we planned to go to Lake and Zoo..

We went to zoo and we took three cycles to roam around in the zoo..
I had quarrel for sometime with the guy who is giving cycles for some silly reason.. :) that's a kind of me...

On cycles we roamed in the zoo... and enjoyed a lot cycling, fotos.. ..

We reached end of the zoo, there three girls were returning.. Just surprised they are roaming by walk..

We had lunch at the restaurant and spent some time there..

then we returned..

On the way in the middle, we saw those three girls were sitting under a shelter...
I Thought they are tired by walking and taking rest..

I told Kaly and Suri, we will ask them "we will give lift". They said Okay.. we will ask..

I just looked at those girls and said "Lift Chahiye Kya ..?" they replied "Mangeee kya..?"

now, typical Kaly's punch...

looked back and saw, Kaly and Suri are 100 meters away from me...

atu nuvve itu nuvve

atu nuvve itu nuvve
manasetu chuste atu nuvve
etu veltunna em chestunna
prati chotaa nuvve

atu nuvve itu nuvve
alikidi vinte adhi nuvve
adhamarapina pedavula painaa
prathi maata nuvve
appudu ipudu yepudainaa
naa chirunavve neevalanaa
teliyani lokam teepini naaku
ruchi choopaavulee
parichyamantha gathamena
gurutuku raana kshanamaina
edhuruga vunna nijamekaani
kalavaii naavulee

rangu roopamantu
lene lenidhee premaa
chuttu shunayamunna
ninnu choopisthu vundi
dooram deggarantu
needa chudadu ee prema
neela chenta cheri
nannu maatadistundi
kanupaapa lothulo
dighipoyinthalaa
oka reppapaatu kaalamaina
marape raavuga
yada maaru moolalo
odhigunna praanamai
nuvvu leni nenu lenu
anipinchaavugaa

atu nuvve itu nuvve
manasetu chuste atu nuvve
etu veltunna em chestunna
prati chotaa nuvve
atu nuvve itu nuvve
alikidi vinte adhi nuvve
adhamarapina pedavula painaa
prathi maata nuvve

naake teliyakunda
naalo ninnu vodhilaave
nene nuvvayela
prema gunamai yedhigaave
maate cheppakunda
neetho nuvvu kadhilaave
ituga chudanantu
nannu ontari chesave
yekaantha velalo
ey kaanthi ledhu ra
nalusantha kooda jaali
leni panthaalenti ilaa
neethodu lenidhe
manasundaledu ra
ne peru leni prema
naina oohinchedelaa

atu nuvve itu nuvve
manasetu chuste atu nuvve
etu veltunna em chestunna
prati chotaa nuvve
atu nuvve itu nuvve
alikidi vinte adhi nuvve
adhamarapina pedavula painaa
prathi maata nuvve

Just have to find some honest loving in this life

I lost my touch, OK I went a little over board
Suppose I said too much
Best believe I got good reasons for, acting the way I did
Smiling Judas with open arms, and your hard to forgive
But I don't know where we start
'cause we had some good times, didn't we? Them bad times too
But the bad times were simply, made better by you

'cause in this life, you gotta roll with the punches
Do your best to hold on to something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing
Just have to find some honest loving
In this life, you gotta roll with the punches
In this life, you gotta hold onto something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing
Just have to find some honest loving in this life

Thought about you every hour, on the hour, a little bit everyday
I cut myself in the shower, the blood runs down the tray
Can I be honest for a minute?
Would you prefer that I lied?
Well you a Goddess among women, my reason to be alive
Now I know Hell has no fury, like a women with class
I take my time, I don't hurry, I want every moment to last

'cause in this life, you gotta roll with the punches
Do your best to hold on to something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing
Just have to find some honest loving
In this life, you gotta roll with the punches
In this life, you gotta hold onto something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing
Just have to find some honest loving in this life

(?) Letta(?) said Koaster, you're falling off
In your old age, you're getting soft
They said Koaster you're pissing me off
And I don't wanna hear about the love you lost
They said Koaster you're falling off
In your old age, you're getting soft
They said Koaster you're pissing me off
Boy listen, boy listen, boy listen

'cause in this life, you gotta roll with the punches
Do your best to hold on to something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing
Just have to find some honest loving
In this life, you gotta roll with the punches
In this life, you gotta hold onto something
In this life, you ain't promised nothing

Just have to find some honest loving in this life....

Main Aisa Kyun Hoon

I could write thousands of Java programs... but, I couldn't write a single love letter.

That could win your heart... Even though I think about you Zillion times a day...

How can I tell you that I truly Love you...

I pray to God.. to Make me Tagore for a brief period..
so that I can write a "Geetanjali' for You...

I feel like yelling "Giri is for you.... and He is WAITING FOR YOU"....

new year wishes

Bid adieu to the year which was filled with the tears..

Bid adieu to the year which was filled with the fears..

I wish all the tears and fears disappear in the New Year..

And I wish A very Happy New Year to all of you..!!