Weekend Ends

I was not able to fill the blog for a long time . Training .......Training .............Training ..... Being trained on what .......GOK ..................... It was on BPEL , the buzz work in apps world these days.
"Business Process Execution Language for Web Services provides a means to formally specify business processes and interaction protocols."
To know more about Oracle BPEL Process Manager visit www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/

I need to now do lot of the exercises to understand this thing .

Weekend was exciting , Sids friends had come from Chennai and went around some places in Bang... was hectic but fun.........
Sunday evening my friends dropped in with a surprise cake to celebrate my belated B'Day .... it was really nice ...........there were close to 15 people at my house making hell a lot of noise ......music .........dance and ofcourse pizza ........... Hopefully my landlord will not throw me out of the house.............

Back to work today .....nothing much to do.... have a bad throat today ........people are making fun of my voice ......... but its nice to hear your own voice in a different way ...........

I am planning to post some interesting dishes on the post ....... I got a beautiful cookery book which has almost everything in it ..... only that I don't cook ............. Cooking is my passion ..........but I hardly find time and people to test it.... (you need rabbits right ).

If I find time and have the mood will post more later in the day

H5N1 Avian Influenza

WHO official site says so on H5N1 avian influenza popularly known as "Bird Flu"
"All available evidence indicates that the virus does not spread easily from poultry to humans. To date, very few cases have been detected in poultry workers, cullers, or veterinarians. Almost all cases have been linked to close contact to diseased household flocks, often during slaughtering, defeathering, butchering, and preparation of poultry for consumption.
No cases have been linked to the consumption of properly cooked poultry meat or eggs, even in households where disease was known to be present in flocks."

WHO official link -> http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_02_21b/en/index.html

Dull Day

Aha ... Today is a dull day ..One good thing is spent sometime and reorganized this blog . Feel bit down due to ill health..... thinking of leaving home . Got to attend that BPEL training tommorrow. Should study something for that. Took tons and tons of printouts back home but didn't bother to read a line. Sometimes , I feel as if I am getting contempted in life and feel like I have reached the saturation point. I think thats not a good sign.

Lot of things happened in the past few days. One of my colleagues who met with an accident on December 15th 2005, didn't survive the treatment and died on January 28th 2006. Felt very sad. She didn't live to celebrate her first wedding day on Feb 11th . Sometimes life has something else in store for us.

Another close friend of mine , Shan is getting married on March 10th ...... I am so happy and excited and in a shopping spree for the wedding.

mmmmmmmmmm...............brooding over...........................catch up later................................

Creators Creation

Sids friends whom , I admire have wonderful talents and they have their own sites. I am really surprised to see people with so much talent.
http://www.dyankayn.co.nr/
http://www.chrispuggs.net/

Seeing them , I also want to learn painting. Infact bought some painting stuff and attempted to do some ..... but I lack patience and hence I don't think its my piece of cake .... anyway I am giving it a try........

Narnia

Heard about this movie and was really excited to know that Linux Clusters were used for creating the creatures in Narnia....................
Rhythm and Hues studios made a presentation in Bangalore on their experience with using Linux clusters on a large scale for the making of Narnia. They mentioned about a system called MASSIVE to animate all the creatures.
There is also a opensource API which will do the same thing.
Try and Enjoy. -> http://opensteer.sourceforge.net/

Wish List

What do I want to do ? a big question, but I need to answer this ..................
1. Fashion Desgining.
I need to learn making dresses ... How ? Where? When ? no idea
2. Cooking as profession
Again need to attend and learn more about international cooking.
3. Photography ... not really passion but would like to learn for my guys sake ......
May be I can be helpful to him.
Let's See if I can do anything about it .........