Analytics September 2, 2010
Posted by admin in : Techie , add a commentWorking with google analytics.
Analytics data for the site waamax.com
Forming an Organization (2) August 19, 2010
Posted by admin in : Business, work , add a commentSo finally all the meetings we had for the last 3 months and the all the discussion on our strategies about the new organization (VTMBAA), are finally taking shape. I can see things falling neatly in places and it kinda reflects in the mood of the executives and the members.
The success of organization (esp with student organization like ours) depends on the number of people willing to join and offering help to be a part of what’s going on; adding more energy and directions to the existing force.
We presented our agenda to the first years to market our organization and encourage them to be a part of our organization. The interests so far has been encouraging.
(more to follow.. )
Pakistan Natural Disaster August 10, 2010
Posted by admin in : Insight, world , add a commentFirst of all, it’s already hailed as a disaster which has more deepening impact than that caused by the 2004 tsunami. The number of lives lost might have been less but the lives affected and the rebuilding effort needed is compared to none.
And it’s a shame, amid such local disaster president Asif Ali Zardari continued with his european tour. Disgrace.
I was going through Wall Street Journal article on this matter and saw this comment by a person named Michael.
The one picture of the houses kinda looks like New Orleans? Curious, how much money did Pakistan give us to help the victims and rebuilding during our flooding?
Although a valid point, but still makes no sense.
(Picture: Daily Mail)
About Love (1) August 9, 2010
Posted by admin in : Insight, Living, love , add a commentThat Treacherous Thing …
I vividly remember my long afternoon walks in the park du Luxembourg in the Latin Quarter in Paris, as I used to lived across from it, Rue d’Assas. There were retired men talking about their war stories and playing pétanque, lovers silently hugging on benches, people just trying to be friends with each other, and me, flaneur crossing the park because it was on the Eastern side (the 5th arrondissement) that the philosophers were based, rue d’Ulm and I felt something vibrate in me there, just breathing the air & imbibing philosophy and the hype that came with it; it was a pilgrimage to my promised land. For years, as I routinely crossed that park, the same APlatonic depressing idea haunted me upon seeing the lovers embracing & cuddling each other on the benches, the idea of the transitory aspect of such intensity, and its potential reversal. The more intensely enthralled two being are with each other the harder they will try to hurt each other upon separation. They seemed to want to unite with each other, care about each other, protect each other, minister the smallest need in the other, cure the other of the small wounds, but, at some point in the future they might be inflicting the most scathing injury to the other. The nonlovers might be less close, but, in all likelihood, they should unconditionally stay friends, or, at least they are not expected to inflict harm on the other. I realized that there was an element in this treacherous thing called love that was not for philosophers.
(Words: Nassim Taleb)
(Picture: Colors ~ Rabin Karki)
Cheers to Life!! August 9, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living, fun , add a commentExactly a year since I landed in the JFK international airport, NY for my study here in the USA [August 8, 2009].
And it seems like life has just started. Cheers to the exciting times ahead.
Cheers to Life!
Picture: Lonely bench by the lake side (Rabin Karki’s flickr photostream)
A day in a lake ~ Polaroid way August 2, 2010
Posted by admin in : Outdoors, fun , add a comment
A tribute to two of my favorites. Lake & Polaroid pictures.
Tell Me Your Dreams July 21, 2010
Posted by admin in : Ideas, Insight , add a commentI have always been fascinated by the concept of dreams. I learned a lot about dreams and their interpretation from that Sigmund Freud book “Interpretation of Dreams”.
Now after watching this movie “Inception”, I have rekindled my curiosity for this topic again.
Dream on.
Tasty Neighbor July 18, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living, fun , add a commentWhat do you say when you had an amazing dinner in your apartment complex and you still don’t have to worry about a thing?
- You have a good neighbor.
Thanks Suju and Ekta.
On Trends July 13, 2010
Posted by admin in : Business, Insight, work , add a commentI love discovering pattern.
Trends analysis should be an awesome work.
And yeah, Google finance rocks!!
OC was an absolute cracker!! July 6, 2010
Posted by admin in : fun , add a comment
Thank you frens.
Champions are Out ~ Disgrace June 24, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living , add a commentItaly are knock out of the group stage in WC ‘10.
I hate surprises.
Here’s to the Italian supporters.
pic from: bbc.co.uk
A few life lessons (2) June 23, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living , add a commentThis was funny. I mean I looked an idiot at the end of this whole incident but it can happen to anyone.
I got a call (it was from “Anil” and I never looked at my phone while it was buzzing) while I was busy at work. I was about to complete the task and decided to call back later. So “Anil”. Ok here’s the catch. What happens when you see a missed call from someone who happens to share his/her name with 3 of your other friends? You randomly pick up one.
Here were the options - the three Anils I know.
Anil Bhari - Fellow batch mate at IOE
Anil Maharjan - Senior at college and co-worker at Nepasoft
Anil Somraj - Senior fellow MBA
The order here makes sense. Coz that’s how my brain prioritized when I saw “Anil” in my missed call. One more thing, I can hardly remember a phone conversation with any of those. I just have an entry “Anil” in my phone contacts.
So I called back.
Mistake no. 1. As soon as one of the above Anils, picked the phone (at this point I was still thinking it was Anil Bhari) I talked in the way you talk to a fren you haven’t talked in like for a year (The second and third Anils are my senior, so the talk wouldn’t be as informal).
Mistake no 2. I kept on pouring questions before I got any reply from the other side.
Now, after some moment of awkward silence from the other side I finally paused (Till this point my mind thought there is only one Anil in this world - Anil Bhari). The voice sounded different and I heard something like “Dude I can’t speak Nepali here”.
Snap. In a split of seconds my mind out of no where made up that it was Anil Maharjan (well when I later retrospected my thought process, I guess my mind made conclusion based on this fact - Anil should’ve been working on some companies here in US and during work time he should be speaking strict English).
So I shifted my tone from Anil (friend) to Anil (my college senior). I was still talking in Nepali. But the conversation still made no sense.
Finally, when I heard the confused laugh from the other end, my mind finally made the right guess in the last 5 minutes. It was Anil Somraj. When he said “He can’t speak Nepali here”, he really meant it. He is from India.
Funny.
Moral: Save the full names of your friends in your phone contact
Picture from: http://www.waldo.com.au
A few life lessons (1) June 21, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living , add a commentToday somebody disappointed me. But I let myself sulked and got miserable all day long. In fact I should have spent sometime assessing and reflecting that incident and move on.
Is it always so hard to move on?
Moral:
- Spend less time focusing on things you can’t control.
- Accept, don’t Expect.
Tired of Pretending June 21, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living , add a commentGet Real.
Biking @ Huckleberry Trail June 8, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living, Outdoors, fun , add a commentSome of us decided to explore the Tech’s outdoors at Huckleberry trail with our bikes. It was an awesome experience.
Clearly, Cycling is a flight from Sadness.
Garden State (movie) ~ A winner June 8, 2010
Posted by admin in : Movies , 2commentsThere’s no big story nor a big cast. Infact you hardly know anyone. But still the movie managed to awe you with its little details and originality.
There’s a guy who has been living in pills almost all his life, been a quasi Hollywood success and seems to get lost in his own world until he returned back to his home (Garden State) and things seem to fall in places. He finds all his boyhood friends messed up completely with their lives - different from what they have dreamed about themselves. He meets a gal who is everything he isn’t and that changes his world. Cliche but this is done is an impressive way.
My best moment? - When the guy takes her out for the first time to his weird friend’s house who pulls that fire arrow in the air. They run for survival until that arrow touches the ground. And immediately after that, the gal pulls her ear (a signal they agreed upon to - Get the hell out of here). Awesome.
Garden State (2004)
Written/Directed: Zach Braff
More details @ (IMDB)
Joel on management June 4, 2010
Posted by admin in : Ideas , add a commentOf course this is in reference to the west coast based high tech companies.
What I was used to was an attitude that management is just an annoying, mundane chore someone has to do so that the smart people can get their work done
Joel on Twitter June 3, 2010
Posted by admin in : Ideas , add a commentJoel Sposky on Twitter:
It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying
He’s partially Right.
The May 31 long weekend belonged to outdoors. May 31, 2010
Posted by admin in : Living , add a comment
Mc Afee Knob
Clearly I’ve been thinking
The hikers
The Tarzen.
All wells, that ends up well - Happy Everything.
Outliers: The Story Of Success (Review) May 31, 2010
Posted by admin in : books , add a commentOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell is a good read.
Perhaps out of zillions reasons behind success, Gladwell bets on culture. He considers cultural legacies as powerful forces.
They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
