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This photo is taken to celebrate the joy of me leaving the team  for another goodwill company.

We have been together for about 4 years, I would say myself is one of the long service member in the team. On the same day 3 left , Boon-Suk (Philek) went back to SCB Thai, Glenmor Fatingana to GTSD Intel Team and myself..

 can u spot the difference , Frankie & Aggie ??

Yesterday we had dinner in of the UluKlang Chinese restaurant. Steam fish was served and as usual Keshav had something to say . He wanted to try eating fish eye.. after much coaxed.. he ate them with some funny gestures.. hahaha.

We had Chicken + ginger , Steam Talapia, Kang-kong belachan, Yam, Hot Plate Beancurd with Chinese tea to quench our thirst. The food was tasty and came about 100++ for 9 of us which I consider is reasonable. Can’t exactly remember the name of the restaurant but it is opposite UluKlang Seafood Village ( we plan to go here next time). There was ample of space for parking. Parking was never a issue…

You could lose N R Narayana Murthy in a crowd twice over. First, because he is slightly built and looks far more of the common man on India’s streets than R K Laxman’s distinctive creation, and second, because in attire, speech or manner, he does not seek to stand out.

But all that changes once he begins by telling you that until three years ago, he worked 14 hours a day — 6.20 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. — including Saturdays, and half a day on Sunday, writes Subir Roy.

The contrast between appearance and aspiration finds a good metaphor in Infosys’ campus at Bangalore’s Electronics City. It has 42 buildings, has a global bigwig visitor every other day - prime ministers, presidents, heavyweight customers and so on.

This spectacular campus was conceived not after Infosys became big but over a decade ago when the cost of the campus, as then computed, was more than the company’s annual income.

The dining room, close to the corporate offices, is like the rest of the campus - modern, precisely efficient, sans embellishments. The food we have is similar - wholesome, moderately tasty and unlikely to make you want to overeat. We are served several vegetables dishes - soppu made of spinach, badhanekayi made of brinjal, alu-capsicum, and panchratna dal - all cooked in south Karnataka style. Murthy eats very little and we finish with coffee.

It adds up with Murthy’s admission that he eats not for pleasure but out of necessity. A vegetarian, he earlier ate north Indian food but these days he sticks to his native south Karnataka cuisine that is light, nourishing and, to my Bengali pallet, decidedly bland. He mentions in particular "bisibele bhat" - rice, dal and vegetables all cooked together, precisely what the doctor would advise if you wanted a long life.

The food, the man and the company that he has built are in harmony - south Indian, non-showy, middle-class, and driven by the intellect and will-power to scale stupendous heights.

The one relaxation that Murthy enjoyed in the past was going to see Hindi movies with his wife regularly. "In fact, the other day my wife and I were with Tina Ambani and we told her how we liked several of her movies. But in the past 20 years I don’t think I have watched a movie, except an English movie while on a flight."

To read complete story click on : http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/24infosys.htm ( source)

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2.vgdisplay <volume grp>

3.vgdisplay -v <vol grp> perform this on all vg’s found

4.ioscan -fn | grep NO_HW

5. ioscan -fnkH <disk id> , you can get disk id from command (4) points to which disk tht is having issues.

Now verify on all the vgdisplay cmd, should see atleast 1 disk is unavailabe and stale..so you will know which disk and LVM is problematic. Try to sync the disk, if still can;t Contact local vendor for replacement. Check whether the disk is mirrored and stripped ?? ( Mirrored is ok but it is stripped then gotta becareful). break the mirror for engineer to swap and resync again to sync the disk.

Im not good in HPUX Volume management, im more to AIX and Linux but slowly learning on HP-UX. The worst till today which i can’t absorb is Sun Solaris !!

My mom carrying Frankie…

This photo is taken at Maha Vishnu Temple & Sri Venkatachalapthy whom are my favourite god. In 2003 I went to Thirupathy and was almost in tears when touched the temple’s sanctum sanctorum, such a strong positive vibration. Im praying every year and hoping I would be able to go again.

Hope the Lord of all Lord will bless me sooon….

I keep both of them on my cubicle.

5th December was my dad’s bday, he turned 60 years old. We took him for fav seafood. We ordered Fried Rice (Specialities) , Petai with Udang (Specialities), Grilled fish , bbq clams, Squid bbq & mix vege. The food came with home made Thai Chilly sauce with peanuts gravy. Although i didn;t touch the gravy but according to my cousin Keshav (See in my blog.. Keshav into Kumari)  it is very tasty and spicy.

This is seafood restaurant ala Hawker style located at Taman Cahaya by the side of the main road. Parking is little difficult because the road is always busy. The food came to RM76 which i would say cheap because of the portion and the prawns are quite big ! Good Food.. my dad enjoyed.

Much awaited PC Fair is here back kickin-buggin all KL-ians to  get the latest geek in the market. Well I participated and bought external HDD 2.5′ 40GB for RM209 (Samsung), nicely packaged in the Leather Pocket + MP3 Player Transcend 512MB ( RM170 after discount)…i have started loading latest songs. My sister bought Aztech Wireless Router (RM300) , 1GB SDRAM card + 1GB USB Key <$159. Good Deal huh ??

After 3 years i visited my birthplace, it was such a wonderful experience. Well thanks to my cousin brother Vigna else i wouldn’t have got such a enlightening dayss..

First was his Wedding at Majlis perbandaran taiping on 25th Nov, we woke up as early as 7:30am (not tht early ) , bfast straight shoot off to hall for Kolam decor, infact my cousin Vignes has already completed the kolam.. wejust need to organize the lights and clean up the entrance. Once tht is completed we rushed back home..

here comes the most difficult part,, tie’ing’ saree,, whooooyooo.. My aunt Choo rescued us. she helped and guided ( my dad complains that we’re not taking interest learning to tie one....

My and my sis duty is to welcome people at the entrance.. this is the normal job task given during any relatives wedding…dang !! Manage to meet up with many relatives from my daddy’s side..it was a total reunion.. some of them i met when i was a kid..20 years back..brought back some memories.

The same day evening we went for supper , I had the best mouth watering kueh tiow.. Cost about RM2 only but a i didn’t expect a big and huge plate ( in KL it would easily cost RM6) !! , delicious the vegetables are fresh. To quench thirst i had Air mata Kuching for RM0.80 !! Cheap tho !! The place is called as Pusat Penjaja Taiping (PPT).

Next day I had same kueh tiow goreng but at different place this is at "cashier Market , old Fajar" near main town on Taiping. But it didn’t taste tht good compared to PPT. Before we head back to home , my cousin bought alot of Nyonya kueh ( those sticky and yummy) which is again my fav and you can only get the good angkue kueh here.

On the same day we went to Chinese Seafood near Lake Gardens, my uncle throw us a treat..Udang Curry, Baby Kailan, Mix vege + squids + mushroom wrapped in egg, steamed fish, thai chicken with hot plate beancurd, and chinese jasmine tea to wash our oily throat.. the food was fresh and ever and again yes delicious. It is like giving some taste sense to my tongue again..

Later tht night, my cousin Vigna anne drove us down to Lake Garden, i passed by my ex ex ex school Convent Klian Pauh where I started my primary days in a fully stricken catholic school. The school looked so different , I wonder whether the old teacher’s are still around Mrs.Jambulingam ( Music teacher) , Mrs. Robert, Puan Soh..etc.. Along the way my memories reversed to 18 years ago back..(flash back), down the road I manage to catch Musuem, Prison (Landmark to school) , King Edward Secondary school……. all looked so different now. Although the building is old but it was repainted and kept very clean.

 Bye Taiping.. Will see you again next year.

CONGRATULATE TO THE NEWLY WED DR.ENGR.VIGNA & SHARMINI