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The author Roshan Singh is a fellow college mate and heads all technology related issues in at NIT Durgapur.
I have a feeling I will blog a LOT more now 
Sunday
The day began with seeing off Shreyank (http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com/) at the Majestic Bus Stop (Bangalore). Vignesh and I then proceeded to Sandeep’s (http://ssandeep.wordpress.com/) place and had lunch. On Vignesh’s (http://2cents-by-viggy.blogspot.com/) insistence we then went to Jaydeep’s place at J.P. Nagar . Jaydeep had a life threatening motorbike accident a month back at NIT Durgapur. He had a brain surgery and was unconscious for almost a month. We spent around 2-3 hours with him. He has lost some memories and some part of his skull, but he is recovering very well.
We then went back to Majestic bus stop and explored the Market there. The shop keepers were quite rude. I asked a shopkeeper the price of a mp3 player and he said 600 Rs. Then I asked him the price of a mobile and he said “Ye dukaan daam poochhne ke liye nahi hai, item khareedne ke liye hai” (This shop is not meant for asking the cost, but for buying items). I was disgusted, and I told him that he lost good business. That shut him up.
We went around some more. Vignesh boarded a bus to his aunt’s place and I boarded the bus to R.T. Nagar. I noticed a young guy sitting at the opposite row of seats in the bus. He had a Diesel bag with a Fedora badge on it. I immediately felt the urge to talk to him. However, he was looking out the window and had earplugs on. Somehow, I could never bring myself to interrupt his activity.
Then I came to this cybercafe. Lets see what I do with the rest of the day. I do have a few things to buy. A door mat, and a duster cloth.
A great initiative
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A senior of mine from the 2k7 batch at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal has recently undertaken a great initiative. He has started a “Home Library” in Assam. “Manjit bhaiyya is 2007 batch passout of CSE department of our college and has worked in Microsoft for two years. Now he has setup a home library in his hometown in Assam with a vision of opening these Home Libraries in whole Assam to make India a more litrate country. With a motive of giving back to the society, he has started pursing this Dream and I am sure as with his strategy and execution he will reach to the stars and make it happen. Best of Manjit We are with you”
Bangalore
I came to Bangalore on 2nd June to join DeepRoot Linux (http://http://deeproot.in). My train tickets were not confirmed hence I had to burn a lot of money and book a flight from Kolkata to Bangalore. Jet Airways was far better than Indigo. They served breakfast.
I came from Bangalore Airport to Nandidurga in one of the kick-ass BIAL Volvos. Went to the office, met Vignesh, and started work.
My work involves developing the next version of deepofix mail server. That means replacing the MTA with something cutting-edge, improving the installer etc. There is also some work to be done on the LDAP front. The code is mostly in Perl. Take a look at http://code.deeproot.in.
One great thing is that Vignesh, my close friend from college and fellow GNU/Linux enthusiast has also joined along wit me. So we have a galla time.
The weather in Bangalore is very nice. There is always a nice breeze blowing and it rains intermittently, but not too much. In the mornings it gets quite chilly and taking a bath becomes a difficult proposition.
The business community in Bangalore (shopkeepers, auto drivers, bus conductors) is a turn off. They try their best to rip you off. Learning to fend off their cunning ways.
Thanks to Nishant and Mithilesh (from our MBA dept at NIT durgapur) I did not have to face too many problems in finding a PG. I found a newly constructed PG in R.T. Nagar.
R.T. Nagar is a nice place. You can find the Pizza huts and Cafe Coffee Days and also the Andhra Mess and the Tea stall. Life in all sizes.
It takes 15 minutes to go to office from RT Nagar bus stand.
Yesterday was a special day in office. We had a NIT Durgapur alumii meeting. A couple of seniors from 2k7 batch dropped in and we had a nice chat on how to improve the relationship with our alma-mater. A few hours later I was introduced by Abhas to Arki, of FSF Kerela. It was a pleasure to talk to him. He works on accessibility issues for blind computer users with Braille without borders. Then at around 7 pm we cooked Maggi in the kitchen with Medhamsh (http://medhamsh.org/) and Vignesh.
A little more about my PG. The PG was actually supposed to be a school. The front facade does say xyz school. The instead made a PG out of it. I guess it saves them some tax. Just adjacent top our PG there is a graveyard. A huge one. I look at it daily. Lets see if I can see something out of the ordinary some day
I got a new sim. My recently bought Nokia went into an infinite loop of screen-blinking after i used it and I had to make do with an old Motorola that Abhas has.
Its Sunday, 7:06 PM now, and I have no plans in mind. Lets see what lies ahead of me.
