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Recently there was a two month long event happened in my workplace. Two month is too big for an event but it was great. It was a competition of walking or Walkathon. So?  what is great about walkathon?  It's common now a days and happens everywhere. Well, but it happened in my company, it was two months long and it was executed with help of digital technology (supporting Digital India Drive 😀) and most importantly I participated in it 😋 and no...I did not win :( but I participated and walked 5.5 Lacs steps, around 335 Kilometers. This may not be accurate, but even with 10% error, it will be 300 Kms. Wow. Winners completed around 15 Lacs steps and 900 Kms. It was organized by my company in cooperation with another fitness club. We used google fit for measuring steps. And one another application for teams formation, and statistics. Here is it how it happened... All the employees of the company were divided in 12 groups, one Capton was selected for each team. And competiti...

For last two weeks I am coming to office at 5.30 AM. Yes 5.30 AM. No, I am not working in night shift or any shift. Its just that my company needs me to come at this time for some days to attend some meetings. Initially I was freaked, when I was asked to come office at 5.30. I was like, are you OK man? But then, I agreed unwillingly. If I have to attend meeting at 5.30, I have to get up at 4.15 AM , max 4.30 AM, duff  WTF. And worst part, its not just me, even my wife have to get up too. I need to get lunch outside for all these days. And, it is not that I can sleep early at night thanks to my kids. So I end up having less sleep. Well I am not writing this post to put up my complaints..ok let me share bright side of it too. Thanks to all these meetings, I am learning lot in totally new domain/area. I am getting huge knowledge and at the same time I am becoming a unique person who hold knowledge in two or more domains. So my value as a professional is increasing, globally. I am...

Wow, I wrote last post 8 months back...time goes so fast. Actually having kids makes us very busy. I have toddler at home and he keeps me and my wife full time involved around him. Our life became so monotonous. I and my wife wanted to have a short break. Recently we were able to get it, finally.  I had nice evening with my wife and with kids, ya they are always with us so far. I am waiting for time when I can go with my wife for dinner alone. 😊 we went to a nice restaurant nearby. And I had great Mexican food. Well I really don't know how original Mexican food looks like or tastes. To be precise I had Indian version of Mexican food and I am loving it. I know that Indian Chinese food have no relation at all with Chinese food in China. Maybe this is the case with Mexican food also. But what I had was really good memorable food. It was all worth for money. I ordered Nachos and tachos. It was perfect. No spicy, very gentle balanced taste, slightly sweet but not much. Tortilla...

Hi guyz, I have moved five new posts, from my another blog. I wrote these posts earlier in 2014 when I was in Paris. I am planning to delete my another blog hence I moved it here. It will be fun to go through them. Enjoy. Five posts are Disneyland Exploring Paris, Office office in Paris, Eiffel Tower, Chennai - Dubai - Paris See you later.

Few days before I had laptop disaster. My laptop was on the floor and my wife was cleaning balcony. She poured water that went below my laptop. It was power off mode but after seeing this she tried to start after waiting for some time and that's all. It never started again. I mean something gone wrong fan starts, but nothing is displayed. And then I did some research on google about what to do and what NOT to do in this situation. There are many ways suggested to restore laptop to normal working but one and most important thing is never switch on it until we are completely sure that it is dry. So we did what is STRICTLY prohibited and now I don't hope it will start again without major repair. So I thought lets share this.  Things to do Switch off laptop and remove the battery immediately if laptop is ON.  Remove the battery and other easily detachable components. Hold it upside down so water or liquid will spill out and not go inside Clean it by dry and clea...

There is March already, we have some festival coming in next few days. Today here at Maharastra we celebrate a festival "Holika". And tomorrow it is Festival of Holi (Festival of colors). Although Holi is becoming very popular festival internationally and many people visit India just to enjoy holi, this post is not about Holi but its about Holika. Note the difference in the name. I feel that all Indian festivals are designed so that people in society should gather and mix up with each other.  Good news is its holiday tomorrow and its a long weekend. After long time I will be celebrating Holika. It is very interesting festival. Like all other Hindu festivals, it is about victory of good over bad. This time it is about victory of good within over the evil within us. On internet there are many stories how Holika started and so I will not discuss it here. Indians believe that fire is pure. It burns evil and what remains is pure. Anything that survives fire is pure. W...

Happy new year to all.. I wish this year will bring all sorts of happiness in everybody's life. I wish that all the people on our beautiful planet will be happy and healthy. I hope that all the wars, fights, disputes will end this year.  There is enough on our planet to fulfill everyones need. I also hope that recent decision of government of India will bring prosperity to my motherland. Well this is time to make resolutions. We should make resolutions and try to keep it. There is no harm to plan something and hope for the best. I have many new and some old resolution to make at the beginning of the new year. Improving health is the first and most important.  So I will be exercising daily hopefully. This is pretty old one and I have failed to keep my promise in the past. Last year I was able to achieve only 30% of my target 🎯.  But there is better possibility this year to follow this resolution because I am in Pune now and weather is not hurdle here. I am really ...