26 th day of each January brings lot of meaning and value to me. This day India celebrates Republic day, Australia celebrates National day and most important this day is my younger brother's birthday. Cool ! triple celebrations for me. To know more on Australia day as well as republic day of India refer links below;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(India)

My dear Amit(Appu), Many Many Happy returns of the day!

Wishing all Australians and Indians a very happy National and Republic day

I and Jyoti had a great fun on Coteslow beach yesterday evening. Prakash and his family joined us. Sunset at beach was awesome and here is the picture attached.

ciao again
padmakar(paddy)

"Cheeni Kum" (Literal meaning is less sugar). The storyline, concept, script of this movie was entirely different than usual Bollywood stuff. I and Jyoti did enjoy this movie as watching Amitabh Bachchan is always pleasure. Tabu's performance was fantastic.

Apart from India, I have travelled and/or worked in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar( Burma), Australia and New Zealand. I am very fortunate to visit these places. Its very difficult on my part as how to describe the beauty of these countries which also includes India. I am not a great photographer but few pictures I have taken and one of is attached herewith. This place is in New Zealand and near to Auckland, popularly known as "Hole in the rock". The whole earth is awesome and mother nature is truly fantastic. Whenever I pick my handy cam or Digital camera to picture some great scenic places, I always remember a song from a Bollywood film titled "Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti" - "Hari Bhari Vasundhara pe Neela Neela Ye Gagan" I managed to trace the link of the song as well as lyrics and here it goes;

http://www.esnips.com/doc/88d2a522-cd3e-4441-8db1-aae16d1bfd87/044-BOOND-JO-BAN-GAYE-MOTI-=-YE-KAUN-CHITRAKAR-HAI

http://www.hindilyrix.com/songs/get_song_Yeh%20Kaun%20Chitrkaar%20Hai.html

good day ciao again,

Padmakar(Paddy)

Last week I was very busy at home front and at office. After a very long Christmas break everyone is back to their office desk and suddenly I have observed a busy atmosphere all around. Though I was at work for few days during Christmas break, It took a day for me to come to normal level of routine.

First week of 2009, IT sector in India was in a bit of shock after Satyam's incident. In my view, 2009 is not going to be easy for all of us. We really and seriously need to work out on our plans. Its good to think twice before you spend. In fact, I believe one should work out on what are the needs and wants. if there's a need then there's no alternative or choice, we have to spend money but expenses can be controlled on "wants" " I want this and I need this" there is a huge difference in both. I am sure if everyone make this happen then there won't be any issues.

Tyre safety is very important when you have your own car or if you are driving a car. My friend Mr. Prakash Eswarappa shared a piece of information which talks all about tyres. Its very important to know about tyres when you buy or drive a car.The file which has all the information about tyre safety is quite big in size (3 MB) and due to limited space available, I am not attaching here. Please send me an email if any one of you is keen and I will send it to you

Visiting temple in Cannigvale suburb is our regular routine now. I will share the pictures of this temple soon.

ciao again

Padmakar(Paddy)

2009 !!

We are already in 2009. Two days of the new year are over. Three hundred and sixty three days are balance and if each of us will start planning on what we must do in this year then I reckon time is short, isn't it? Someone has rightly said, "Time is more precious than GOLD"

Here in Perth its warm summer and temperature is on average 37 deg C. No choice other than sitting at home, very hot weather does not permit to move around. One has to wait until evening. Good thing about summer in Perth is one can find very good sunlight until 8.30 pm in the night. "

Bhootnath" - We watched this movie yesterday night. It was good and as usual Mr. Amitabh Bachchan's performance was flawless. I have taken this picture during the visit to cameron highlands in Malaysia.(http://www.cameronhighlands.com/) .I wish year 2009 should bring freshness and happiness in every one's life just like this colourful flower.

I have also seen that most of you have already viewed my blog at least once. Thanks for investing your time reading my blog. I appreciate if you can leave your comment(s). This will really help in bringing more improvement. I remember one of the reader has mentioned on " How to put a comment on this blog?" You all will receive a separate mail from me on how to post a comment(s). I encourage others who are yet to visit this blog site - Please do it whenever you feel free and provide the feedback.

ciao again,
Padmakar(Paddy)

Last day of the Year 2008

Next 6 hours and year 2008 will be in the history books. ( This is based on Perth- Australia Time). 2008 was a year of mixed events, happier as well as sad ones. One should leave the sad moments and go ahead with positive frame of mind to welcome 2009.

Personally, 2008 was a good year for me and Jyoti. We spent a good time in Kuala lumpur and now continuing to do so in Perth. Year 2008 has broaden our social network. On career front, I enjoyed working with rnz sdn bhd (www.rnzgroup.com). and at the same time was happy to back with my previous employer WorleyParsons (www.worleyparsons.com). Few personal setbacks but still it was a fantastic year for me and Jyoti.

"Hamari Library" our charity programme/project for underprivileged children was kicked off in 2008. Thanks to all friends who directly and indirectly helped to make this project successful. Refer links below for more information. Thanks to nanhi kali and naandi organisation for their support to turn this project into reality.

http://www.nanhikali.org/news/archivesdetails.aspx?strid=28

http://www.nanhikali.org/news/archivesdetails.aspx?strid=38

If you want to be a part of this programme, do drop me a mail or leave your comment on this blog.

There's nothing special we have planned for today i.e 31st December 08. We opted to stay at home and enjoy TV programmes with a nice dinner. We probably will watch fire works

I read information regarding usage of paper in my office. This was glued in front of the printers. I roughly remember, it takes 12 trees to make 22000 paper sheets*. This made me to think twice before taking a print. Do I really need it? I reckon now the time has come to think seriously on saving trees and green cover. This will be a good resolution for the year 2009.

' Before printing a paper, ask yourself do I really need it? - I am sure this will help in saving trees by some means.

(* Data specified above is directly picked from the bulletin and no justification was given on how this has been arrived. However, the essence of the information is one should limit the paper usage which automatically help in saving nature.)

"Wishing you a very happy new year 2009"

ciao in next year

Padmakar(Paddy)

I have decided not to put day numbers and date from today onwards. As there's a likelihood that I will be publishing post once every alternate day or in a week.

After 5 days of break, I resumed office today. It was very quiet in office as Christmas and New year official break is still ON.

I have tasted non vegetarian dish first time when I was in my engineering school. In a hostel mess, caterer used to serve non vegetarian dish once a week i.e on Sunday. During those days my knowledge of non vegetarian cuisine was limited to chicken curry and eggs only. As days passed, I started liking non vegetarian food and over the period of time my taste buds were well developed to cope up with variety of non vegetarian cuisine. Today my favourites are Thai and Chinese dishes. I will never forget Korean cuisine which I had in Kuala Lumpur with a traditional Korean liquor - Soju. Simply awesome.

Stunning performance from South African cricket team in Melbourne cricket test match.(Dec 26-30 2008 MCG) Jean-Paul Duminy was fantastic with his bat while Dale Steyn done a fantastic job with bat as well as ball. I reckon these duo brought South Africa very close to victory.

Ciao again

Padmakar(Paddy)

Day 5, December 27 2008

Holidays are still on here and will continue until January 5, 2009. I have work to do and will resume office on 29 December until 31st December 08.

As usual, I was reading reading the newspapers in the morning. I found one news which is worth to mention. This was regarding only Indian citizens can represent country. This is more towards sports sector. Please read the link below for more information.
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Dec262008/sports20081226108963.asp?section=updatenews

I and Jyoti had a discussion on the above topic and it sounds reasonable and logical to us.

I have already mentioned about gardening experiences in my previous post. Today, I really struggled to operate water sprinkler station (this is fixed in front of my house). This station provides water to all garden. Jyoti and I could figure out the logic behind it and now its up and running.

ciao

Padmakar(Paddy)