31st January, 06 – when I was still an HCL Tech employee – I had read a Paul Graham’s article – which mentioned that there are two type of people – those who earn their livelihood by doing what they love to do and those who do what they love by earning livelihood from something [...]
New Delhi! (Hopefully) I’ll be reaching Delhi before Midnight Saturday (23rd Aug 08). Very excited and anxious at the same time as I’m traveling via Train Bon voyage Maku!
The week has just started and wait for the weekend has already begun! Here’s why… The finals for IRock are scheduled here in Pune and you bet we arn’t going to miss them! Dodge this – I have just booked 13 (yes thirteen) tickets for this Sunday! Its also my much awaited birthday party (well [...]
Past few months were crazy! An 18 hours work pattern was addictive! But I am so happy to be back to a normal routine. I finally broke a 3 week long jinx and at 7pm, was all set to hit the gym. Its been long since I last smelled myself sweating – and its was [...]
Considering that I am more of a night person, my day starts at 9pm 9pm – Back from office 10pm – dinner 11pm – Start work on ApnaBill.com – pack a solid 3 hours of work – feature/bug fixes. 3am – Plan to watch a movie – search Rama’s collection. 5am – Yawwn! Lets sleep [...]
Ever experienced Speed Dating? As finding friends/partners is to Speed Dating, finding investors/future-employees is to Startup Lunch. Startup Lunch is an initiative on the lines of (and by) Proto.in and in concept, is very similar to speed dating. The startup founders are seated on one side and the candidates get to say hello and have [...]
Generally Saturday mornings are for catching up on sleep or early morning shows at Gold Adlabs – getting up is the last thing on everyone’s mind! But today was different! Everyone was up at around 11′ish – even Kartik (KK) came by (he’s going to be the newest member of D-25 group). And as always, [...]
We were asking Nitin that when is his birthday from past 2 weeks & his answer always used to be (silence) – we had wowed that we’ll not leave him if we get to know his birthday ourselves, using our own means. Well, that wasn’t tough! Today, our cake shy dude had more cake on [...]
Yes, that was on my agenda today when I left for Jogger’s park. From past some days, I was consistently doing 4 laps (2kms) nonstop. Towards the end, a 50m sprint to the end point would mark the finishing of the last lap. Yesterday, I somehow stretched it to 5 laps. Stopping the adrenaline rush [...]
This weekend was like a dream – 2 days, 2 movies, 2 major features implemented for ApnaBill, many bugs solved, slept for more than 12 hours at a stretch, played tennis & what not… ApnaBill.com’s SVN repository is buzzing with code commits. In last two days, I have checked in code which I was expected [...]