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~Kiran

पु.ल. च्या फँन्ससाठी खास मेजवानी!

खाली दिलेली लिंक तुम्हाला पु.ल.च्या बर्‍याचश्या लेखांचे संकलन केलेल्या वेबसाइट वर घेउन जाईल.
येथे क्लिक करा
~ किरण

…and finally I have learnt motorcycling!

….husssh…and finally I have learnt motorcycling!. Actually it was enjoyable journey while learning it [:)]. I thought, I should share it with you all.

Have you ever watched film award functions?? Whenever any actor wins a title, he gives a long speech to thank all of them whoever have contributed in his success. If the same thing is told me to do then first of all I will thank to traffic police (better word “Mamu” [:)]). Why? Why because he has not caught me yet while driving, even if I don’t have driving license with me.

Jokes apart. But really if somebody forces me to take their names, then I will take Archana’s and Ankit’s name.

I brought up in that family background which has not seen 2 wheeler in its veranda before I buy it.(In last week only, i bought Bajaj Discover). In school-hood, I have learnt cycling. That cycle was the only 2 wheeler we had. But I had not got a chance to learn motorbike.

I should thank Archana for giving me confidence in driving her “Scooty Pept” during traffic peak hours. As I had learnt the cycle, I could balance the vehicle very well but there are some small small things which are necessary while driving; she taught me them. She taught me how to use mirrors while driving and how to use indicator buttons while taking turns and etc.

Ankit helped me knowing details about the “geared” bike. He taught me, how we can control the bike using its clutch and break combination, changing the gears while driving.
One important thing, he trained me to understand bike’s language. [:)]. That makes me identify differences between the noises engine makes while I accelerate and therefore to know whether I should change gear or not.

~ Kiran

Let us conserve water and electricity!

Today, as soon as i entered into the office and opened my desktop, a mail flashed on my desktop screen. The subject line was "Humble request". and The sender was "Neha Shaikh". I have recieved so many mails from her to help the child or old person immediately for rare blood group. I always feel there is hidden social worker in her. (Later on, i came to know that she is member of "Vanrai" group which activates against tree cutting.)

But today, mail message body was suggesting something different. It was request to all of us to use less water and electricity. The reason for this scarcity of water and electricity was long break in the mansoon leading to reduced water level in dams.

Whatever be the reason of it. But i love Neha's proactiveness making people aware to their responsibilites. I also want to put forward my steps in that direction. I loved the last sentence from her mail “Together we can really make a difference.” :). I am pasting excerpt from her mail:

Hi All,
As we all are aware that there are no rains since last one and a half months and MSEB has planned to begin load shedding program for Pune, we can definitely do something to conserve water and electricity.
This is my humble request for the following:
1) Kindly ask everyone to switch off the machines at EOD if their machine is not a server, if
anybody’s machine needs to be kept on for project requirements then that is an exception.
2) Kindly ask them not to waste water and use only as much as required. Usually we do not consume all the water we fill up in the bottle and the next day we just pour off the water and fill up the bottle again. We can save a plenty amount of water by not doing this.
3) Can we save electricity at office by not using all the tube lights and bulbs and only use only as much as we require?? We can at least keep toilet/pantry lights off and can switch them on
when we need it and again switch them off after the use.
4) Kindly ask people to switch off the conference room lights after the meeting is over. I have observed that people just get out of the room without switching off the lights and the lights are
burning even if there is no one inside the room. We can also ask the people to just burn one light in the conf room while in the meeting.
5) Last but not the least, we can also request people to follow above at home to conserve water and electricity. I would really appreciate if you forward the mail to your friends/relatives.
“Together we can really make a difference.” :)

~ Kiran

Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation

While surfing the internet, i came across a very good article.
Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation

~ Kiran