Metamorphosis of Sudeep

This post is inspired originally by the post that covers metamorphosis of bipin. It was written by Sudeep; and it occurred to me; what an irony! Its like Vijay Mallya blogging about Gandhi :).. So I pulled up a few pics that rightly depict the metamorphosis of our own Sudeep. And please forgive me if they're not strictly chronological :P. Let the pictures speak for themselves.

Right from childhood; Sudeep had developed the nack of making friends;

No! That nack wasn't because he looked like he was a girl.. come on! there are confusing times in everyone's lives :(

And there are times when you feel like you are god! That too god of what? Now we're in business

We don't have much to talk about the times between above two photos.

The only difference between the 2nd photo and this one; is that his mom isn't carrying him (this time no confusion hehe)

Don't believe it? He was once (for a short period of time) adorable.. and no sir this isn't photoshopped.

He Maintains his adorability for a while

 Basically he sleeps the same way when he's home and on the same type of surface

 Hehee.. its not his marriage :)

Then he goes almost bald.. metamorphosing has begun friends

Take that sunlight reflected off my baldy head you jobless blog readers!!

I can't help it if you can't see.. But I can see him pretty clearly

He's Just looking at the above picture and wondering how he fit in..

I honestly donno what he's trying to do..

Feedin the bones I tell you; Sprite combined with potato chips are proven to be highly citrous.

I guess it was around the birthday time of Rajkumar

This was when Sidda was sloking

Send off.. technically for our batch; but he simply joins in for the extra fun; and later on he stays back to have fun with his juniors..

One of the rarest captures

Then after intense dieting and personal coaching under Mr. Ramadevbaba; he becomes like this!

May be he can see that birur train in the horizon?

Except that smile; many things seem to have changed..

This was during Christmas; the entire of Mysore wasted their time searching for Santa elsewhere.. stupids.

I guess it was around the same time.. T shirts speaks brothers..

Ha! This reminds of movie 'Full Metal Jacket' the General asks ' Whats your height private?', 'Sir 5' 8'' Sir', 'I din't know they stacked s**t that high'.. btw he is camouflaged.

Then he goes bald again.. strangely he doesnt seem to like the right kind of hair at right place..

Finally he seems to have found peace!

This is Sudeep in his 40s.

If you really really liked this post... Then share this before its too late.. (before he's forty; otherwise the last image would be such a waste of effort)

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Google New Look

I've never seen google changing the last few years, at least radical changes. But I wake up today morning and I come see that Google's look has changed. Here is how Google looked this morning to me.

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Whats to note is, I feel Google has restructured using CSS, and now it looks more sleek, and One thing I noted is, the moment I type google and press enter, First the search bar, Google Logo, and the two button appears, after a short delay the top bars which shows user logged in appears. Is this an effect or is it a loading time issue? (not the second one I hope :) ).

OK! I thought, I din't recognize it at the first shot, but when I actually gave a search, it returned me the results, I thought "what? this is not google" and trust me I went back to address bar and typed google again and entered the search term again.

And then I was faced with the same new google look, I thought am I being April fooled?? Nope, Its the new look of Google.

Here are a few changes that has appeared in Google

1. New side bar on the left which helps us filter the results (like in bing?) It helps us filter blogs, pictures, news, videos,feeds,updates,discussions (sleek tools for internet marketers).

2. Right below the search bar, Google shows you in which geo location has the search result returned from? I find a Bengaluru, Karntaka beneath the Google search bar, which can be changed.

3. The google graphics at the bottom has definitely changed as far as I see

4. Google used to say these many results returned and these words searched, but the same has disappeared and a small gray line appears at the right of the search bar.

5. On the left when you click more, you get advanced filters, which lets you filter the shops or any other useful info from your search.

All in all, google has changed and has a new look at least in India right now, what do you say about it? Drop a comment about the new look of google and let me know.

Every drop adds to sea

Mr. Henry stood near the window of his office room, located at the 20th floor of his 60 story empire. Centralized AC vents, indirect lights and ambiance by a french interior lights designer, furniture made of rare teak wood, granites and wallpapers imported from Italy, and a very rare painting of American Revolution, fell in his background.

With his hands in his pockets, he looked out at the horizon, stretched across the concrete forest. And his mind struggled to perform simple math.
The door creaked open behind him and he heard a voice.
"Sir, you have some papers to sign. Regarding the acquisition of B&B constructions"
said Mr.Richard, his financial adviser.

With the eyes still fixed on the horizon, Henry spoke "920 millions, Richard! hard to sum up; but, exactly I own 920 million worth property!" as he turned to smile and look at Richard.
Richard walked forward and said "True sir! If you could sign these documents, we can make it 925; sir" with a smile, and showed the folder to Henry.
Henry took out his pen and started signing the page briskly.
"Recently I've started noticing that you don't read the documents at all, sir" Richard spoke.
"How long its been, you are working here Richard?" asked Henry, while he flipped through pages.
"3 years sir, 3 years 2 months precisely" Richard replied.
"Well, It took that long for me to trust you to this extent" Henry said with a smile.
"Thanks sir" replied Richard and started walking towards the door.

"You know Richard!, My dad always used to say this thing, about life and business; you wanna comment?"
Richard stopped, turned and said " Sure sir, whats that?"
"He always used to say, save whenever you can, If you think something is expensive; it is so. Be a business man in your daily decisions too!, what do you think Richard? should the holder of 920, sorry 925 million dollars property, should consider something like this?" asked Henry with crunched eyebrows.
"He was right sir! He is true in all sense. Very logical indeed" confirmed Richard.
"Then prove it Richard"
"What ? But how sir?" Questioned Richard, as confusion climbed up his face.
Henry walked towards his bar, poured himself a little red wine and he took a sip and spoke again.
"5 million!, prove it to me and I'll give you 5 million Richard, its a bet. Convince me! What do you say?"
"Good enough sir, I will consider giving it a try" said Richard and closed the door behind him.

For the next five years, the company kept growing consistently. Henry acquired 20 more companies, and also entered consumer market with cosmetic products as his main line. Being the entrepreneur of month, year, and being the cover man of various business magazine, he was unstoppable, and he became worth 2.1 billion.

But very next year, an accidental chemical leak in his main factory ended up with hundred and odd deaths, right then on, his shares fell in market, questions arose against the machinery quality and many

investigations were filed. The company was forced to liquidate few properties and save itself from legal attacks, both on the record, and off the record, illegally.
In the next four years, the company lost even more assets, closed its production lines, resold the companies for cheaper tags, as many of their products were rendered useless by their rival companies, and Henry didn't have enough left to open and furnish new R&Ds for research.
In the next 3 years, the company boiled down to a mere 'company acquisition and outsourcing'. Many economists called it the fall of the decade, and many predicted that the company will soon come up in near future.

And the headlines were " From 2.1 billion to 35 million: Mr. Henry"
Henry reclined on the chair in an old office room as the newspaper lay on the table.
Richard walked in with few papers " Hey Henry, few more tax issues, sign these" he said as he sat down in front of him and pushed the papers to Henry.
Henry flipped through the pages blindly and finished signing them, and pushed it back to Richard.
"You still don't read them Henry!"
"I trust you Richard! STILL" Henry said.
"You do!"
"Richard! , I can't do this anymore, Its been 7 years since we've had any considerable profit! Thanks for always being with me man. Huh! Today I sit in this old office and hope and pray everyday that I do not lose anymore money" yelled Henry with his fist on table and a tear in his eye.
"Not your fault Henry, things will get alright"
"My dad was right! I understand it today, Richard he was always right! Be a businessman in daily decisions! How could I not save a single penny! He was right!" Henry folded himself in his arms and started weeping on his table.
After a moment of silence
"Why did you take this long to say this? Why would it take for anyone to say it, this long ?, why Henry? why?" Richard held Henry's hand firmly and shook it.
"What do you mean?"
"Huh! I.. I won at last! I did win, Ha!" Richard stood up, and he couldn't stop his tears.
"What are you speaking for God's sake!" Henry was getting impatient.
"Richard bent down on table and kept his hands on it, "Everyday Henry! everyday since the day you posed me that bet, I've been secretly saving your money!"
"What! I do remember that bet, but how could you..."
"Your blind eye signing of documents my friend! since that day, in every deal I hiked the buying price by 3 to 5 percent, and selling lowered by same amount, and I diverted that extra money to that Swiss account of yours which I later informed to you as cancelled.
"How come no one complained of missing money? diversion?"
"I got your signature on the circular regarding the same and convinced Board that you don't want to discuss about it to anyone, I misused or may be.. used your trust on me, and as of now the balance stands 146 millions" Richard said with a smile and tears in his eyes.
"You took that seriously! what... how.. and why you took so long to tell me this?"
"How long have we been losing our property?"
"7 years"
"Henry! It took me that long to teach you this little thing", Richard spoke in a low voice, as his eye brimmed with tears.
"Thanks, Thank you"
"You owe me 5 million"cried Richard.
Henry hugged Richard and they shared tears for next few minutes.
Richard's savings did not have much impact on business, but Henry learnt, that anything was possible, and found a new ray of hope in his life. Henry and Richard became partners and started working together for a bigger fortune future.

After a few years, the business magazines read
"Rise of the phoenix"

Its not just God who watches

I was late for office, and I knew it was a risky business, being so. I pulled out my hand and looked at my watch! bad! I was already 15 minutes off the stipulated time and I was still 20 minutes away from office. I was walking briskly dodging fellow pedestrians( taking my car out in this wee hours would be foolish act).

"Gray! Its your favorite color" came a voice through few pedestrians who soon walked away to reveal a lean and skinny man who sat in a bench under the tree.

I stopped for a while, it was true!. Gray was my favorite color; and is; "Wild guess!" I told myself and as I was about to move, 

"You like Lee cooper for your shoes and waterman as your pen", He spoke again.

"This cannot be a wild guess!" I thought,and I turned my course, I knew I was getting late,but I couldn't take spies on my back.

"Hey you! do you know me? are you spying on me ?" I yelled as I approached him.

"Of course not ! I don't know you, and if at all I was spying on you, why would I tell it to you?"  The man replied with a smile through his black beard.

"Then you must be those money sucking astrologer? Ain't you?"

"No I am not! I speak of past" He replied.

"Oh! so you can tell my past is it ?"

"Yeah! Quite up to the mark!"

"Whats my favorite car?" I asked with my hands on hips.

"Wolkswagon" came the reply, and it did startle me!. I drove Toyota, but I was always fascinated by Wolks.

"Whats my favorite brand for shirt ?"

"Van Heusen", And he was right again, I was getting anxious, this can't be happening.

"Whats my favorite drink?"

"Fermented Apple, warm". Holy crap! He didn't name all favorites though, but this was surely one of it!.

"And the socks?" I asked with a grin.

"100Rs for every fact I tell about you" He replied.

"Thats ridiculous! What makes you think I'll do that?".

"You'll be astonished to know what I know about you! I can give you a discount though, 1000Rs and I'll personally tell everything, and if you aren't happy, ask me and I'll give every penny back you paid, right then".

Weird though, he made sense! 100% money back guarantee was good option.

I pulled out a 1000Rs note from my vallet and handed over to him.

He began with my favorite vallet, to my comfortable watch!, to the color I hate, to the people I like to see, to things that make me laugh, things that makes me mad! My hair style, my leg operation, my bad days at office, my bad days at home, my holidays, my promotion!, my bonus, my wife's birthday! my anniversary!.

He didn't tell everything though, but everything he told was accurate to nanometers. Sure I was impressed. I sighed and said "you are the man!"

"Yeah I am!" he said and smiled.

"How did you do it? videotape me?" I got curious.

"Nah! I ain't that rich! anyways its a secret"

"I'd like to purchase the secret! I won't leave this place without knowing" I insisted.

"I know you can do Mr. It'd be just 5000" he smiled.

"I pulled out 5 notes of 1000 and handed over to him, this time I didn't regret, If he knew anything more about me, sure he'd be my wife. He kept money in pocket and slowly pulled out a big old torn notebook from his bag.

"You see, I am good observer, I believe in attention to detail, I observe people everyday" he said.

"So you just saw me for few days walking by and you knew all these?" I asked again.

"Its not that simple, I observe very few people, who pass by this place everyday, everynow and then, and I write about them everyday, what they were wearing, they were eating, drinking, their mood, body language, facial expression, hair, color. People they talk to, when they laugh, when they get angry, I write on a daily basis. Its from that end of the corner street to that end of the road I get to observer anyone. In simple words, to observe anyone, I get only 10 minutes.

"Is that enough?" I asked.

"Its not, and thats why I watch every single person in my list for exactly 1 year. Precise, and by the end of it, I'd have collected 80% accurate info about them, I don't know about you, but your name in my record is Mr. Black050606, as you wore black suit and I decided to start watching you on 5th June 2006"

"And its 5th June 2007 today, so you decided to tell me about it?"

"Precisely! From now on I won't keep your record! Here! Have your pages" he said and tore almost half of the notebook and gave it to me.

"Why do you do this?" I asked.

"I am a good observer and I can only do this" He replied.

And that night, I was excited to read every minute detail he wrote about me. It took me 4 hours to finish all the pages and in the last page he wrote 'I know you are surprised, you can stop pulling your hair!' I relesed my hair that I kept pulling with my other hand and a giggle emerged from nowhere.

I dialled few numbers on my phone.

"Mr Shaw, there is this interesting man, who'd be hell of use to your anti terrorist squad... yeah... tomorrow then?.. Thank you".

And few months from that day, he is a succesful vigilance keeper in hot shot areas of city, and a well known employee of anti terrorist squad. And occasionally we two sit at that bench and he says "That guy over there in white shirt, likes to drink appy after coffee! I mean how can anyone like to drink appy after coffee?"

"Stop it man!" I say and pat him on his shoulder.

"How did you know my favorite car?" I still had a question.

"Quite simple, rarely you drew car, whenever you did drive your Toyota, you only stared at Wolks that stood around you stuck in traffic" He smiled. I smiled too.

A coffee you can never drink

"How could you do that to me?" said the lady with a sob and a tear in her eyes!

Jack turned to the woman, who sat a few yards away from his coffee table along with a man who was apparently her husband. Jack kept his ears open as the conversation went on.

"I trusted you so much! and you go sleep with that bitch!" cried the woman as tears followed.

"I'm sorry baby, I'm really sorry, I never meant to hurt you, I love you!" said the man.

"Don't say that to me!,If you'd have known what love is, you'd not have done this! I can't take  this, I can't".

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" man started sobbing.

"Enough! It was great being with you till date! I loved you till today; but today; I hate you! I hate you from the depths of my heart!!" She grabbed the purse and ran away with tissues puffed to her eyes.

"Huh! what a couple" said Jack and sipped the coffee and that man across the table continued to sit, and slow cries continued. Jack finished his coffee and went home. The next day Jack was granted a leave from the office as there was an audit planned with higher officers, and Jack decided to go to the safe cafeteria.

The moment he entered the cafeteria, he was surprised to see the same couple at a table.

"Wow! fight didn't last long enough I guess!" said Jack to himself as he occupied a chair few tables across.

"I'm sorry, I can explain! I can explain everything! Just listen to me! listen for a minute!" came the voice of that man. 

"What the hell to listen? I saw you with these damn eyes!, how would you like to see me with someone else on bed? ha?", she was about to cry.

"Sorry honey! please! listen to me!"

"I heard enough, I've seen enough! I'm happpy I came to know what a creature you are! I hate you! I hate you!". She pushed away chair and she wasn't out of sight, there were already cries and sobs audible.

The man sat and looked at the skies as tears ran down his cheeks.

"Coffee sir?" waiter enquired Jack!

"Oh!.. what? what is this ? some kind of deja-vu? they fought for same reason yesterday also right?" replied Jack.

"Oh them? actuallly its a little different story. His wife by chance caught him sleeping with another woman, and as she was running out of apartment crying, she met with an accident. And.. after that accident, she can't sustain any new memories, all that she remembers is, her husband slept with another woman! And thats the last thing she remembers.

And they come here everyday, and her husband tries everyday to convince her, make her happy, and to make her say " I love you" and all that he gets to hear is " I hate you". Bad luck! huh!".

"So coffee?" asked the waiter again.

"No... No... I'm full, No thanks" said Jack and left.

A Letter From Heaven

My fellow Earthmates,

I am Pradeep from Mysore. I died last month, quite precisely, I committed suicide. Ah! How! I jumped from the TV tower and smashed my head to the stone board below. I'm happy that I died after that fall, fortunately I was not there to clean up the mess.

Question people ask is WHY?
Why ?
I lost my wife ?
No! I'm Unmarried. Still :).
I lost my girl friend ?
Yeah! But I was happy to loose her! that's not the reason.
No family ?
I do have, they are good!
I lost my degree? sucked in studies ?
Not at all, I was placed in IBM.
I don't look good ?
No! I think I look quite good.
Cocaine? Heroin ?
Not at all! ( Whats a cigarette ?)
Didn't have money ?
Why would I die for money ?

The reason is, I wanted to die, I wanted to know how does it feel to die ? Is it painful? Is it relieving? and what after death? what happens to that feeling of "ME! MINE!" what happens to my thoughts? And where do i go ? Is heaven really there ? Is hell there? do they serve vodka there ?" Is there something called reincarnation? will I be born again? will I pee in diaper again!

I wanted to know and there I stood on the tower, my arms stretched, with deep breath! I looked around and the world seemed endless and lost in haze. Wind blew through my shirt and I knew that was the moment I was about to discover the secret of death, and probably I will not be there to explain it.

After a long and deep breath, I bent a little and leapt forward, and the calm winds suddenly became ferocious and they ripped through my ears and eyes and I was already falling, waving my hands and legs, and halfway down, there came this minute but very acute and piercing thought! A desire though! A desire to live! to see my mom again, to drink a cup of tea, to watch phoonk and laugh again!, to smell roses and my socks, to taste budding mangoes and rotten fishes!, to climb mountain and slide down the ladder, touch a girl's lips, to kick a dog,
TO LIVE! TO LIVE! Before the tears could escape my eyes I saw my face hitting stone board. I felt no pain!

So.. So What ? Who cleaned the mess ? I don't know!
How does it feel to die ? IT SUCKS!
You can always say ' I wanna die' every time you are freaking feeling lousy, but you can't actually say ' I wanna live' when you are already dying and escape death!
IT SUCKS!

And what after death ? Hell or heaven ? I am right now in heaven, well its beautiful here, everything is neat and tidy, I get everything to eat, everyone is nice to me, I have all kinds of clothes, and no soil here, so I never get dirty, so no need of bath, I never get ill, so I don't take pill. No need to work, no need to walk, to run, get tired and sweat! everything is at my doorstep, no burning sun, no crowded places, no boring lectures.
Sounds good doesn't it ?
TRUST ME! THIS SUCKS TOO!

Whats the fun of cool breeze if you are not tired and sweating? whats the fun of bathing if you never get dirty and smelly at all? whats the fun of eating anything if you never get hungry at all! whats the fun of hot coffee, if you are not burning 100 fever and your nose is not running down the chin? How can you ever feel free if you weren't ever stuck in local trains and didn't see your toes for hours? where the hell is the fun if in heaven you aren't allowed to utter the F-word ? what fun is it if you can't use your middle finger efficiently to appreciate your friends' deed? what fun is it anyway if you can't pick on your best buddy's sister ?

What life is it if you can't laugh your stomach out looking at the face of your friend who just finished a PJ? Its not heaven if you aren't taking your veggy friend and tutoring and forcing him on eating chicken burger? and laugh at him when he is guessing the chicken parts!

Heaven isn't anywhere in the sky my friend! Its beside you! Don't search for the happiness in skies and stars, Its present beside you and you are missing it every moment.
Every senseless smile, laughs and giggles, every little good and bad moments, your tears and teeth, your fears and your feasts, your friends and foes, altogether make island of heaven across the planet!

If you think your life stinks and there is no point in living, and if you feel that you are in ditch, DIG Deeper and penetrate across the earth, a whole new world is waiting for you to come out!.

Yours Faithfully,
Late Pradeep.

A Tiny Conversation

" A man's response to an event do not just reflect his background but his character too!" Charlie was getting irritating.

"I do understand it, but that's a negligible part of what you haven't seen yet, and you and I have to accept that, with time and repeated encounter of an individual with the same event, a reaction or a response in compliance with that event can be mastered right ? It's not always reflex action! During some events you CAN, in fact take the help of your conscious thoughts and let the brain do its job of analyzing all the circumstances and then take a decision which considers common good of mass". Jones stated with a diplomatic voice.

"And what about statistics brother ? Every time our friends have tried to make a living by peaceful and friendly manner, they have been either beaten to death, killed by their breath, flooded by their homes and families and children are killed even before they are born! How fair is that ? can't those who are little more superior and powerful and strong, wilfully make some sacrifice so that millions others can live ? can't they donate a drop of blood ? How much do these people ask for anyways? they don't want luxurious and cozy life! they want to live my friend! and if it involves a little sacrifice from superior with a little pain, I don't think thats too much to ask for!"

"I do accept and support your statement regarding unsafe place! Its death everywhere! You don't know in which corner death is waiting for you, you can't fly, as its polluted and has deadly gases, a trap! you can't walk or run! there's trap too, neither can you swim! there is death too invisibly dissolved seamlessly in the depths of water. But still! how much have we taken our superiors and more powerful for granted ? We demand from them, and when we don't get what we want, we don't even ask from them, what do we do instead ? we disturb their lives, their peace, and we hurt them and snatch from them. Is it less than stealing?"
Jones kept his hand on Charlie's shoulder.

"Do we deserve death for that? Do we? that is what we are my friend! we may be thieves, but they out there are killers! killers they are!" yelled Charlie.

Right then door creaked open and someone walked in and pushed a switch on wall and a red light started glowing.

"Red alert! Red Alert! Charlie! Jones! Its a trap! Its mosquito's repellent! fly! fly!" someone yelled from distance.

Jones looked into Charlie's red eyes! and felt there were no words left with him!
"I told you Jones I told you" stammered Charlie, and both Charlie and Jones flew towards the window.