Saturday, November 17, 2007

Friday, October 19, 2007

Blog moved to wordpress....

You all know i am a die hard google addict, but the blogspot is way too slow and unnecessarily complicated.I came across wordpress on a friends suggestion and fell in love with it.
I have moved all the blogs and comments to anujchoudhary.wordpress.com.
The interface is more faster and easier.So guys please redirect your feeds using this button.


keep visiting...

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Let's see what you 've got!!!!

Think you are very smart, alright, let's see what you have got.write the answers as comments.
Don't try saving your ass by hiding, give it a go.

• Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
• Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?
• A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear? Why? (similar to the Bear riddle in the section Einstein's Riddles)
• If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
• How far can a dog run into the woods?
• One big hockey fan claimed to be able to say the score before any game. How did he do it?
• You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. What is the first thing you light?
• Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men? (Edit: Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do?)
• What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand?

feeling stumped!!!!! keep looking at the image and you might feel good.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Wanna have a pizza!!!!!

Feel like eating a pizza, and don't know the outlet details.Don't worry Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411. Google Rocks guys, just see the video below...

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Sorry you have been rejected!!!!!

I appeared for an online talent assesment test for Standard Chartered Today.There were some uncountable no. of questions which you were supposed to answer in less than 30 min. I did upto the expectations and here are the results.




Dear Anuj

Thank you for applying to the Internship Programme and completing the online Talent Assessment.

We have reviewed your assessment and regret to advise that your profile does not match the requirements we are looking for in our Interns.

We are sure that you appreciate the importance of applying a fair and consistent selection policy to all applicants. Therefore we trust you will understand why we are unable to take your application further.

We realise that this may be a disappointment to you and, on behalf of Standard Chartered, we wish you every success in your search for the right career opportunity.

If you would like to appeal against this decision please email us on:

Global-intern.recruitment@in.standardchartered.com

Best wishes
The International Graduate Recruitment Team
Standard Chartered Bank




Some other friends of mine are attempting the test and i am still hoping to hear some success.
Best of luck guys. if you want to try the test Click here.

When you are in a funk

We all have times when our energy is just blah, and we are generally in a pissy mood.It keeps happening to me again and again. Now after long time i have got through it.But instead of taking out that frustration on our work or people, better learn to identify those down cycles coming our way.
The main thing with cycles is to roll with them and not fight with them.If you are in a high cycle, ride that wave. Get great work done and enjoy your energy. During down cycles when your energy is lagging, your emotions are more edgy, and you want to throw in the towel, just ride it out. Know that an up cycle is on its way. It is inevitable!

If i have a down cycle, i generally try to work a lot and sleep more. It works for me most of the time.

What do you do in your down cycles, Let's hear in comments.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Google Online Desktop

Even though Google offers many web applications that could replace traditional software, the integration between them is barely visible. The closest thing to an online desktop that displays your favorite applications is iGoogle, where you can set up themed tabs.

To switch from Gmail to Google Calendar, you'll click on the navigation bar and open a new window or tab. While you can always resize the windows and keep both Gmail and Google Calendar visible, it would be nice if iGoogle provided a way to freely move the gadgets inside the window, like in yourminis.com.

With the addition of Google Desktop Gadgets, and the customizable layouts, the personalized homepage could really replace your desktop. But gadgets need to be more powerful, offer more than a list of links. Ideally, the Gmail gadget should have an expanded version that lets you read messages, compose mail and search inside the archive.

think that it would be a good idea for Google to group all of the online applications in to a single web application. Something like an eDesktop.


Took your breath away or what.....

Do you agree with it!!!! I do

Friday, October 12, 2007

Gmail will have 6GB free storage by january.

YAY... you heard it right and it's LOUD and clear.
Google is upgrading the storage limitation of your accounts. So, all those 'bit worried' design
coords who were thinking of having a new account by next sem , just Relax! Google cares for you.Increments as per plan.




this space is left blank for you to get back your bottom jaw back to position, which dropped down two floors.
Gmail will increase the free storage gradually in the next days. On October 23, you'll get 4321 MB of storage, then the growth will slow down until January 4, when you'll have 6283 MB of storage. From January 4, you'll receive 3.3 MB every day, that's 10 times bigger than the current rate of growth. Don't go searching for numbers straight away at the bottom of your mailboxes. They will increase gradually displaying the milestones mentioned above.

Happy Googling........

Brain Drain!!! excerpts from TOI

A record number of Indians, both visitors and students, went to the US last year. With 80,000 Indian students already on American campuses, over 50,000 more applied to go to the US last year — the highest number ever. And for the third year running, Indians comfortably beat the Chinese in being the largest foreign student community in the US, according to US government figures.
Overall, 407,000 Indians travelled to the US in 2006, a jump of 18% over the previous year, said Maura Harty, assistant secretary for consular affairs in the US state department.
While 100,000 Americans came to India in 2006, she said, US missions in India issued some 541,400 visas to Indians. Harty said India was set to be one of the top 10 countries sending visitors to the US. Confirming the trend of the past few years, she added, ‘‘We welcome Indians to America.’’

well, why won't you Madam Harty.You are getting Gold in exchange of rags!!!

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Music System

Sonic (Classic Version)
This is the Music System designed by Me , Neta and Mamme for Aesthetique at shaastra 2007.We are through to the finals and hoping for the best.

Full view

Side speakers

The Equalizer

Woofers
The detachable Control Panel.


Concept: Arpan(Neta)
Design and Graphics : Anuj Choudhary(Hula)
Clay modelling : Aniket(Mamme)

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Idle Indians : what a same!!!!

A few days ago whole Darjeeling was celebrating the triumph of their lad in Indian Idol. Even today they are celebrating, but in a different mood by burning setting their home to flames!!!
And how did it actually happen? Well, Out of the trillion Radio Channels out there, some A**h*le radio jockey (RJ) made derogatory remarks on Prashant Tamang. The singer wasn’t complaining and was fount saying “there is nothing like this…….. it is a misunderstanding. Nitin (RJ) has not said anything of that sort.”
But who cares. That was more than enough to give our Idle Indian Junta some real time pass. Who else would have had time to go out and spend time setting vehicles ablaze, including Police Jeeps (!!!), shops attacked and brickbats exchanged. They also prevented an ambulance headed for a nearby hospital from passing.
I wasn’t to ask one question.
When will we Indians develop some commonsense??!!!!
In my short life i have witnessed lot of such incidents happening all over the place.A comedy show anchor on the idiot box said shahrukh is good for nothing & what follows?Two guys who were very good friends had a lethal fight.
What has happened to india or i should say, what will happen with india ,if this continues.

Monday, September 17, 2007

THE BROKER

This exquisite piece of literature mastered by JOHN GRISHAM portrays the fall of the most successful broker Washington had ever witnessed. The outgoing president of USA granted a speculated and rather controversial pardon to Joel Backman in the eleventh hour, who had spent last six years in a federal prison. The actual reason behind the pardon was the enormous pressure of CIA. It was speculated that the broker in his heyday, acquired the secrets that compromise the security of the world’s most sophisticated, state of the art satellite surveillance system.

Backman was smuggled out of the federal prison to Italy. He now had a new name, new ID, and a new home. Well the home part was rather skeptical. It kept changing every week and sometimes even before a week. He was put through rigorous training of Italian etiquettes and culture by a personal tutor. His every step was closely watched and reported back to CIA headquarters. A lot of people out there wanted to skim his head off his hood. The
CIA was sure he is going to die but who‘ll get his head was the question.

Before going to Jail he was trying to sell a unknown stealth satellite system named "NEPTUNE" discovered by three pakistani scientists while trying to locate foreign surveillance satellites.They hacked into these satellites and rendered control oner them.They never had any idea to whom Neptune belonged. It was not a US system, hence CIA was interested in finding the real owner.

The CIA planted the bomb and was now doing what it’s best at, Sit back and watch. Marco Lazzeri aka Joel backman was left assured by frequent threats that, the only chance of his survival was to quickly melt in the Italian espresso. He was to leave no trail, for the slightest chances of his survival. Marco put his bone and marrow in adapting him to the place, but he never understood the idea of spending so heavily on teaching & disguising him as Italian while he can be left in places like NZ or GB. It‘ll be helluva lot easier for him to adjust there.

He was no ordinary man & was getting more and more skeptical. In the meantime he started planning his great escape. This book gets slow in between but the impeccable narration, the plot, Drama, Suspense and thriller makes it a must read.

PS:You will understand Italians much better by the time you finish reading it.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Hurray!!! SlideShow in Blogger......

One of my favourite past time is to collect wallpapers.

So, i thought adding a slideshow of my collection here. It's very simple, just follow these steps...

1. Sign into Picasa web albums.

2. Upload some pics or walls you like.

3. Create an album of these pics.

4.Then click on the album to see the pics, on the left side you will see something like this



5.After clicking on it you will see this box. Select the size of the slide show. A URL will be generated in the yellow box.

Copy and paste the from the yellow field of the box to the HTML view of your Blog editor in between these " div and /div" tags or you can paste it before any "/div" .
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That it. Happy Blogging....

You can add slideshows from Flickr too, but there is a restriction on the space and other requirements. I like to stick with GOOGLE for most of the things :-).

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Mega b'day blast.....

11:49 PM 7th September, My nap was snapped by Yawps & High-pitch-fart, walking out of my room i found the corridor full, and realized, all were waiting desperately, passing threats to doodh and discussing most deadliest tactics.
If you haven't guessed it yet(you must be lame to do so!!!), these were the preprations for the Bumps session of the newly Proclaimed "Fart GOD" of our wing, who had surpassed Anty by a definite margin to get the title.
Anna was trying to justify his "hacksaw-in-the-Ass" idea, while neta was all ready with his hockey leg guards.Bhondu was settled with his bucket of water.Anna was finally setteled with his "hawaii chappal".Doodh was found literally begging for life to every soul around the corner.Finally going by the wing rules, the hits were fianlized *two bumps each + chappal shots (As Much As You Can????!!!)*. Doodh frowned, devils cheered.
The bells ranged and Ajinkya was one of the very few wished b'day before bumped hardcore.
Quadrangle was waiting and so were 5th wingers.Some problems here, none volunteered to lift as everyone wanted to HIT.dilli and hulli lifted & Finally it started.............................

Dhamki>Moli>bachha>Anty-aah....>tattu-b*nc**d>anna>dhamki>mamme>bhondu>Chappal time>>>>>>Lifters changed> Hula-anna-double shot -aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.......> tattu> dhamki>dhamki?(WTF) > dilli> no stopping chappals now>>>>>>>>>>>>>>aah's uh's everywhere> Anty>Dhamki(too much!!!)>Hula> bachha>chappals-(Lando's shot, too loud)......>>>>>>>Some more bumps>Dragging on the ground> anfield> pani ki balti>> ferocious dragging on the ground>PI>Some final hits>>>>> and the catastrophe ended for doodh.
Everyone wished him happy b'day(he was wearing his killer smile which earned him a lovely testimonial today).
Bhale and anna had satisfied looks on their faces, Dhamki on the other hand was crying-"Oye aur maro, mujhe 4 guna pade the" "yeh galat hain"...... Well i wasn't there on dhamki's b'day but i am very skeptical about his comments.......
That was one of the most ferocious Bumps session i have witnessed. Hail doodh for standing on his feet after those hardest of bumps & hottest of chappals.

Man, i am having very bad feelings abt MY DAY now('ll it be a B'day or D'day?????).

The treat followed, and all went well.I wish him happy returns for the rest of his b'day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOODH BHAI.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Walk to remember

This page was waiting for it's first mark on the blogosphere for quite a while. If it remained unscribbled even after tonight's incidents then dawn is nowhere in the horizon.
As a placement Representative(PR ), it was my first working day(or was it!!!) at the workshop by Lehman Brothers.
Reporting time was 4:00, which was stretched to 4:30. I was waiting for yells from irshad for ruining his Trading game ticket, but escaped it with some luck on my side.
Me & mamme were dormant in the IC&SR when other Representatitves were running around like ants have invaded their pants.
Doodh was concentrating hard to catch hold of some misfired bouncers by Lehman pros, and was also irritated by tattu's Fart & Fundaes and his unforgettable workstation (No points for guessing........ his cell!).
After filling our potbelly with chunks from friends burgers & sips of appy , it was finally working time, as the perks were at stake, and all around the place. Living by expectations, the two mortals did what they are very best at(No points for guessing again ;-) ), Souvenir Collection for other mortals .

So far so good, but you must be wondering where is the all hyped walk!!!!!!! Don't give up, keep following....

The clock kept ticking and we kept dodging some more bouncers from the Pros, while some were standing tall and making a collection of books tagged in pounds, which were given as a reward for answering witty questions.
It was dinner time and the plates were full again but this time it was the domino effect which stole the show.
Moods were further lifted after monkey returned unharmed from the Lion's Cave (Dean's office).
Now the Unpredictable Chennai weather stole the show and poured like it rarely does. While we were busy adding to our stores of domino's and coke's for wing treat, rain was adding to it's aroma and poured with full verve. The more we kept Eating and Waiting for the rain to stop, the harder it poured. The domino’s were getting colder, and Neta being the only one with a cycle and no chance of getting lift, four of us were left with no option but to walk back. Mamme and bachha arranged few plastic bags after some persuasion from bhale and me. After securing the Eatables and Electricals we left the shades and walked to the shadows.


The rain was all over us and we were socked through and through. Roads were full of water, and the mortals were all set for a lasting night. We crossed library and I turned to see a car stop by our side. Windscreens came down and I saw a cute face offering lift. I looked inside the car and observing my condition reluctantly refused the offer, although she gave “it’s-fine-with-me” expression on the refusal. She left but with an impression. Mixed feelings pervaded the atmosphere with bhale getting softhearted and mamme naughty (Remember 5 point someone>>>).


The walk continued and this time it was a scooterwala stopping at some distance, turned back, gave a look and left before bachha reached him. Another miss!!!! Then Bhale threw his vaguest of ideas deciding to empty a half-filled coke in the running water. He did it with verve and I am sure he is adding a post on his blog for this. Nothing odd followed and we reached hostel.


We emptied the eatables and Bhale announced the party. The empty corridors were filled with shor and the treat happened in the ganga fashion. Following it was the regular photo shoots in the most creative and pseudo-put poses.


DSC05288 DSC05284

It is still raining, while I am writing this post. All in all it was “the walk to remember”………..



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