I am going to be at home for Diwali after 4 years which were all spent in the College hostels. It feels a bit awkward, strange to feel that the other day when I saw the streets warming up for the “Festival of Light” and Kali puja I was 4 years younger but it still feels like the other day. Looks like the office break is perfectly timed on my part.

Also it is a perfect time for me to invest my time in my vested interests.

Happy Birthday Tamm, God bless you

I have a few packages held up in the Review request queue for quite some time. I would really appreciate if someone can take some time to review them.

1. Gnurobots

2. Gnujump

Thanks in advance

Happy 15th birthday Debian

Today morning as I was on my way to office, I boarded a rickshaw which was being driven by a person almost thrice my age. He was driving it slowly and every inch of the movement kept on making me feel pity and sadenned by the whole affair. After some distance I alighted from the rickshaw and paid him the money. He was so happy over his ‘bohni’. I did not have any change other than the money I gave else I would have paid him more.

What came as a shock is the disparity in the wealth distribution in the country and how the lack of education is affecting all. What also hit home was the point that we don’t call ourselves lucky over what we possess but just crib about it. Probably with a little bit of help and a little bit of compassion we can do something to make this world a better place to live in for everyone. I am still searching for the answer.

Right now I am leaving for New Delhi from Kolkata to join my first job in Belzbar Software Design Pvt. India Ltd. Its quite exciting time for me. Looking forward to a new juncture in life

After pushing from NIT Hamirpur, I had been on a whirlwind tour of meeting relatives. After 14 days of neglecting my mails finally after 2 days I finished most of my pending work. An interesting stuff which came across was when I went to my sister’s school Auxillium Convent School, Bandel near Kolkata to get her ISC marksheet’s photocopy attested, the school authorities asked Re 1 /- per copy to attest it. It was really surprising to find a school principal asking money to attest her stuedent’s marksheet or is the cost of her signature Re 1 /- ?

Its a bit difficult to unravel.

Its time to say goodbye to National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur my alma mater and most of what I am today. I am leaving in 2-3 hours time and its time to bid everything goodbye.

I was looking at Planet GNOME when a post regarding foresight caught me eye. I was especially sad at missing the bounties up for offer or rather let’s call them prizes . I will look into the porting and packaging bit and the entire project looks rather luscious to me. BTW, looking forward to the Fedora 9 release for syncing to the mirror so that everyone picks up from there.