About me

Despite being an electrical engineer, I shifted to absolutely unrelated verticals, thanks to my love for web technologies and blogging. Yes, I am the tech journo that you get to hear about, so much, these days.

Personally, I shall call myself just a chilled out guy (too chilled out to be termed darned lazy, at times). Known to don a nerdy look most of the times and am overtly obsessed with my BlackBerry :-) Currently based out of Bengaluru, working in an IT company as the 'SMM Guy'!
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My tryst with Jetlite – from Bangalore to Delhi

January 26th, 2010 by Shayon received 3 Comments »

So, where am I right now? Well, humbly perched within a JetLite flight, on my way to Delhi. While my flight was delayed by about half an hour, it didn’t prove much inconvenience any more than that. Anyway, I have hardly slept last night, so decided to catch two winks in the flight itself. As the Almighty would have it, the air conditioning was turned up a bit too hight and I ended u watching the Bruce Willis movie, Die Hard.

Yes, I hadn’t watched the classic until now. What do I say? I am just glad that I got the rest 2 sequels too, safely copied onto my hard drive. Hopefully I’ll get to catch up the with both thof them by the time I land back in Bangalore, which would be the day after.

Don’t worry, I ain’t one of those those bastards who get to go online while on a flight too. I am just typing down this impromptu blog post on gedit (notepad on Linux) which I plan to publish after I end up at my dear friend, Madcap Loon’s place.

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Posted in Bangalore, City Life, Delhi, Life Sucks, Personal, Thoughts | 3 Comments »

Beautiful Again!

January 9th, 2010 by Shayon received 40 Comments »

5 years! Yes, it’s gonna be 5 years of being in a relationship, next month. And I wonder, what had it been that tied us together for so long? Now, I normally do not discuss my relationships on my blog. But her last 2 blog posts, kind of, got me carried away.

It’s been a while since she got bit by the “marriage” bug. No, I am not complaining. As a matter of fact, it was actually me who had first started speaking about it. It was me who started weaving the “future“. It was me who started making “plans” and even executing them. But then, hey, aren’t guys supposed to be the ones to shy away from the M word? Then, what was I thinking?

The fact is, I got tired. I got tired of seeing her go away, every single evening. I got tired of trying to pay attention to her whispers, every single night. I got tired of not being able to drift off to sleep, in her arms, without keeping an ear on the ticking noise. I got tired of staying miles apart, checking out for cheap flight tickets and wondering if I could just plant a kiss on her lips, next weekend. Yes, I even got tired of waiting for weekends, to be able to make plans of meeting up. Yes, I got tired!

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3 idiots made me wonder about the chemistry of a t...

January 3rd, 2010 by Shayon received 8 Comments »

Just watched 3 Idiots, today morning. Watched it online. No, I am not a supporter for pirated movies. But after all the hullabaloo that have been created by Mr Chetan Bhagat, VVC and Aamir Khan, couldn’t wait till the opportunity of getting a ticket to the multiplex.

Anyway, watching the movie, I had been strongly remembering Dil Chahta Hai, one of my all-time fav movie. And I had also been wondering, do all good set of friends are in a set of three? I mean, I have been in quite a few schools, and cities, in my life. And in all those places, even I had always had a close knit group of 3. Not a single more, Not a single less.

Yeah, just wondering.

As for the movie, I am surely gonna influence my own parents to go, watch the movie. Of course, they hardly have any more career choices to make, for me, but maybe it’ll help them dissuade their friends to stop imposing career decisions on their respective kids.

How about you? Did you watch the movie? What’s your reaction, on the movie’s tagline “Strive for excellence – success will follow“, on the controversy served up by the team and the author, and on my question of whether good friends are always in a set of three?

Posted in Personal, Society, Thoughts | 8 Comments »

Good Times…

December 29th, 2009 by Shayon received 4 Comments »

Writing a blog post from office, after a long long time. It was a pretty fruitful day, today. Woke up late because I was watching Aladin last night. Moreover, skipped office during the morning and stayed back at home, working on a document I had to submit by lunch. It was during this time when a slew of thoughts came to my mind. It is these thoughts that this blog post is all about.

The company that I have recently switched to, seems to be pretty cool. I mean, this is one of the few companies I have found that do not have any Internet access policy, as such. All I had been told, the very first day, was “Do not download so much to choke the bandwidth for the rest of the employees.” I mean, how cool is that? How many companies you have found where they do not care a fig about what pages/sites you access?

However, the reason why I am so excited is the fact that the employees do not have any fixed working hours. I mean, while they do maintain an official timing of 9pm to 6pm, the employees have been given the freedom to choose the timings when they wish to be in office, and also for how long they wanna be here. I mean, there have been quite a few days when I landed up in office at 11am and left at 5pm. Of course, there have also been times when I had to stay back till 11pm :-p But, that’s beside the point.

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Experiences in Bangalore

December 27th, 2009 by Shayon received 7 Comments »

Firstly, let me wish you belated Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!!

Bangalore (or should I call it Bengaluru?), officially known as the Silicon Valley of India, is the city of dreams for many a software professional. What entices all the more is the temperate climate in the city, thus earning it another name, Switzerland of India.

Landed in this mega city on the 30th of November, ‘09, and the first thing I was greeted with was the ‘jalebi’ language. Yes, that’s how I address the Kannad script. No personal offence meant, just a light-hearted jab at the way Bangaloreans show utter disregard to both English and Hindi, pasting every single sign board around the city with the jalebi language. They didn’t even spare the buses. How in the world is a common man supposed to figure out where a bus is headed to?

Bangalore-City

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