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One of the disciples of Dalai Lama rubber-necked and peeped into the seemingly holy scriptures that the Lama was referring to on his lap while meditating. To his utter astonishment, instead of Buddha's teachings it was O'Reilly's C# for beginners edition 1. 'With the global IT revolution taking over, we got to be prepared' grinned the wise man to his disciple.

NIIT Chennai has started evening classes for off-duty traffic policemen, vegetable vendors, dhobis (washermen) and such people to learn Oracle 9i. I realized this recently when I stopped at a traffic light in Chennai. The traffic constable grins at me "Do you know what Sybase Stored-Procedures are?" I gaped open-mouthed as he waved his wand and said, 'Green light mister. keep moving'. I sped from that spot, quite dazed.

Ofcourse everyone knows about the miracle baby born in a Government Hospital in India. Its father was a simple construction worker earning minimum wages, mother was a house maid doing chores for minimum wages and the baby weighing in at 6 pounds smiled at the nurse who delivered the baby and spoke its first words within the first 30 minutes of being born - "microsoft...glug! glug!". Media flash-bulbs went off in a frenzy at the IT baby, a boon to India.
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If you share my passion for poetry read this for imagery:
http://glenavalon.com/rubaiyyat.html
and the controversy surrounding it:
http://www.geocities.com/sitabhra/khayyam/fitz_crit.html
and
http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html
(I love what Gibran has to say about thought being a bird of space which in its cage of words can indeed flap its wings but cannot fly....profound!)

Love my passage through BITS Pilani.
If you are a BITSian out there somewhere and you should chance upon my website do not hesitate writing to me.

videos.yahoo.com, videos.google.com and youtube.com have plenty of videos with several themes free to watch. I watch a lot of dance choreography since I used to do that a lot in college. (have I become an old dog that cant learn...?!) Just a rhetoric dont answer that!:)

I am a big movie buff. I have listed some of my favorite movies below.

Big-time fan of this guy Mr.Bean (Rowan Atkinson)
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/1570/pics.html
That a guy can turn into a cartoon character is quite hilarious!

I am a fan of TinTin, Asterisk Obelix, short stories of O. Henry, Jeffrey Archer, Greek Mythology (unmatched imagination in my opinion), and science fiction like Asimov and Greg Bear. My serious hobby is writing poetry and short stories and I am happy to say they are print-worthy material.

Another hobby is raising fish: http://fish.mongabay.com/
I am still not ready to raise Discus fish which is kind of a challenge... workin' on it!!

I have an ecclectic choice of music ranging from metal to trance to ethnic and indian music. I have listed some of my favorites.

Thanks for reading my profile and Good Luck! I leave you with some quotes:
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. "-Socrates. (I already am one!)
"If all you got is a hammer everything around you looks like a nail" - Anon.
"Perfection is attained at the point of collapse" - James Stroustrup.
"I am not sure how the World War III is going to be fought but I know how the World War IV is going to be fought - using sticks and stones"
-Albert Einstein
"If there is a way to overcome the suffering, then there is no need to worry; if there is no way to overcome the suffering, then there is no use in worrying."
-Shantideva