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  • V Vikram A Punathambekar

    Land of the dawn-lit mountains - me too! :-D Maybe we can plan a trip together? Vegetarian food might be a problem.... :~ Count me out of the rest though, except perhaps sky diving.

    Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

    Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


    Carpe Diem.

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    dan sh
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    Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

    Maybe we can plan a trip together?

    Sure. We can.

    Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

    Vegetarian food might be a problem....

    Maggi, salads and veg momos. Enough for survival.

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    • V Vikram A Punathambekar

      I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

      Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

      Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


      Carpe Diem.

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      Eric Goedhart
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      Hi, Yes read the Gita, this is my favorite version: http://www.archive.org/details/bhagavadgitaorlo00besa[^] And congratulations with your birthday!

      With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart

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        Hi, Yes read the Gita, this is my favorite version: http://www.archive.org/details/bhagavadgitaorlo00besa[^] And congratulations with your birthday!

        With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart

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        Vikram A Punathambekar
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        Yep, I downloaded it when you posted it the other day :) And thanks for the wishes!

        Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

        Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


        Carpe Diem.

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        • V Vikram A Punathambekar

          I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

          Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

          Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


          Carpe Diem.

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          Congrats that's a fun age. At 26 I thought I had everything pretty much figured out. Now 6 years later I'm back to wondering what I want to be when I grow up. :-D

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          • C Christopher Duncan

            26 wasn't any particular milestone for me. I was in New York playing in large rock & roll bars, chasing cute girls, drinking lots of whiskey and ingesting substances of dubious medicinal value. As I recall, my primary goals had to do with eating on a regular basis (not as simple as you might think when you're a professional musician) and meeting more cute girls. I didn't get into programming until I was 32. Being new to the game, my primary goals had to do with finding work and eating on a regular basis (I'm sensing a pattern here). By the way, if you think about getting married because "it's time for you to get married," you're quite likely going to end up with a really substandard relationship because you'll take whatever girl seems to fit the bill at the point in time when you feel like you should be married. If you instead let marraige come whenever it comes and concentrate on finding the girl you simply can't live without, your marraige will be an inspiration to your life instead of a burden. And if you haven't read the Gita by now, you really need to hit Amazon today. Put a copy in the bathroom and you'll get through it. That's more appropriate than you may think, as the Gita is meant to promote introspection. Read a bit and reflect rather than trying to sit down and read it cover to cover, and you'll get much more out of the experience. [edit] Since it's been pointed out a couple of times, I felt it worth mentioning that no disrespect was intended in my remarks about putting a copy of the Gita in the bathroom. It's simply my ignorance of Indian culture (see my comments on this in the reply to Vikram below). Where I come from, doing the reading is more important that where you do it, but I understand that not everyone sees the world through my eyes, and of course would never intentionally offer comments that were offensive to someone's beliefs. [/edit]

            Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes In the US? Explore our Career Coaching.

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            Wow! From playing in large rock & roll bars, chasing cute girls, drinking lots of whiskey and ingesting substances of dubious medicinal value to programming and Tao Te Ching, the Bible, the Koran, writings on Zen.

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            • D dan sh

              Happy Birthday!!! Being on the better side of 26(24 :cool:), the figure looks scary. Seriously scary.

              Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

              Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency

              What's the current status? Can you boil water?

              Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

              What long-term goals do you have now?

              I have to visit Arunachal Pradesh[^], watch a ManU match at Old Trafford, bungee jumping, sky diving and....

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              Vikram A Punathambekar
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              d@nish wrote:

              What's the current status? Can you boil water?

              Wise guy - boiling water won't make you competent in my book. I can make rice, sambar, saar/chaar/rasam, many sabjis, chutneys, and some tiffin items (upeet/upma, idli, dosa, chapati). And of course, noodles ;P

              Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

              Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


              Carpe Diem.

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                d@nish wrote:

                What's the current status? Can you boil water?

                Wise guy - boiling water won't make you competent in my book. I can make rice, sambar, saar/chaar/rasam, many sabjis, chutneys, and some tiffin items (upeet/upma, idli, dosa, chapati). And of course, noodles ;P

                Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                Carpe Diem.

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                dan sh
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                You are an expert. All I can do is make tea and all those boil for 10 mins and eat kind of things.

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                  Wow! From playing in large rock & roll bars, chasing cute girls, drinking lots of whiskey and ingesting substances of dubious medicinal value to programming and Tao Te Ching, the Bible, the Koran, writings on Zen.

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                  Christopher Duncan
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                  That's just a small part of the story. It's been an interesting life thus far... :-D

                  Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes In the US? Explore our Career Coaching.

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                    That's just a small part of the story. It's been an interesting life thus far... :-D

                    Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes In the US? Explore our Career Coaching.

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                    dan sh
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                    This could well become a good movie. But the programming thing would be removed for sure. They don't show programmers. Only hackers.

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                    • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                      I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                      Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                      Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                      Carpe Diem.

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                      Roger Wright
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                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                      Read the Gita.

                      You haven't done that yet? :omg: I'd read it a half dozen times by your age. Time's a'wasting, kid!

                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                      going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct.

                      That's about right. I seem to recall taking the GMAT and GRE both at 25 or so.

                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                      What was it like when turned 25 or 26?

                      Nothing hurt in the morning; beer tasted better; housing and gas were affordable; jobs were plentiful and paid well; there was no Internet or cable TV or cell phones; we thought herpes was bad; California was still a part of the US rather than a socialist police state; Republican and Democrat meant different things; the enemy of freedom was the USSR, not the federal, state, and local government; we really could call a cop for help and get it, instead of being harrassed, searched, and arrested for absolutely nothing. Other than that, not much has changed.

                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                      What long-term goals do you have now?

                      To wake up again tomorrow...

                      "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                      • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                        I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                        Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                        Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                        Carpe Diem.

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                        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                        Happy birthday brother :) The Gita is on my list of must read items, haven't gotten to it yet! 26 was a fun age for me :) I was in China at the time and I was (and still am) madly in love with my then girlfriend, got married when I was 27, best thing I ever did, though she says that she made me do it and she might be right! Anyways, don't fall into the trap we easterners get from our mothers (though my mum is a Cannuck she's been here long enough!) and accept an arranged marriage, wait for the right one to show up :)

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                          Happy Birthday!!! Being on the better side of 26(24 :cool:), the figure looks scary. Seriously scary.

                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                          Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency

                          What's the current status? Can you boil water?

                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                          What long-term goals do you have now?

                          I have to visit Arunachal Pradesh[^], watch a ManU match at Old Trafford, bungee jumping, sky diving and....

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                          Dan Neely
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                          d@nish wrote:

                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency What's the current status? Can you boil water?

                          Boiling water is trivial. The skill comes from being able to scorch it. :rolleyes:

                          The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                            This could well become a good movie. But the programming thing would be removed for sure. They don't show programmers. Only hackers.

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                            molesworth
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                            You never know - he might have been a hacker as well. :-D [a few of us were back in the "good old days"... ;) ]

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                              You are an expert. All I can do is make tea and all those boil for 10 mins and eat kind of things.

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                              molesworth
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                              d@nish wrote:

                              All I can do is make tea and all those boil for 10 mins and eat kind of things.

                              What? You haven't mastered the wonders of the microwave yet?

                              There are three kinds of people in the world - those who can count and those who can't...

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                                d@nish wrote:

                                All I can do is make tea and all those boil for 10 mins and eat kind of things.

                                What? You haven't mastered the wonders of the microwave yet?

                                There are three kinds of people in the world - those who can count and those who can't...

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                                dan sh
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                                I don't have a microwave. I tried using it once to heat my lunch(Looks ugly. Id that correct English?) and ended up with a fire. I had put a paper plate inside. :doh:

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                                  I don't have a microwave. I tried using it once to heat my lunch(Looks ugly. Id that correct English?) and ended up with a fire. I had put a paper plate inside. :doh:

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                                  What did you have in with it? In normal use that shouldn't've happened. To get pyro out of a working microwave you either need metal inside, or to have the unit running while empty (nothing that can absorb the RF if you want to pick nits).

                                  The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                                  • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                                    I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                                    Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                                    Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                                    Carpe Diem.

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                                    Chris Losinger
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                                    when i turned 25, i was working for a cool software company, was playing in a band at night, and was about to meet the girl who i would marry in less than a year. i have exactly the same number of long-term goals as i do now: 0.

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                                    • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                                      I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                                      Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                                      Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                                      Carpe Diem.

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                                      Pete OHanlon
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                                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                      I can no longer call myself 25

                                      I can. I'd be lying of course, but I can.

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                                        I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                                        Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                                        Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                                        Carpe Diem.

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                                        Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                        I can no longer call myself 25

                                        Congratulations :)

                                        Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                        What was it like when turned 25 or 26?

                                        Windows 2000 pro was released, a small leap forward :thumbsup:

                                        Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                        should be getting married in a couple of years

                                        "You can't hurry love". Take your time for this one, you'll be spending a lot of time with each other once you're married :)

                                        Carpe Noctum :suss:

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                                        • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                                          I can no longer call myself 25 :) Four days in Coimbatore, with just my parents and the dog (my brother is in Delhi), and I also watched the Ashes (no TV here in Madras). I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency - figure out a good direction for my career, should be getting married in a couple of years, buy a house roughly within the same timeframe. Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language. Must travel to see a few places (Bhutan stands out) - difficult to do that with 'da boyz' after marriage. Read the Gita. Expand my culinary horizons beyond competency. I'm also going to book my GMAT date for mid-Oct. What was it like when turned 25 or 26? What long-term goals do you have now? :)

                                          Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

                                          Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


                                          Carpe Diem.

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                                          Pierre Leclercq
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                                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                          Lots more to do, lots more to read, perhaps learn a foreign language

                                          Ok let's start with some French! See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwI40T91uB8[^] Basically, it shows several Barbie dolls priced 19.95, and one priced 399.95. So why the price? This one is the divorced one, it comes with all of Ken's stuff... So concerning this:

                                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                          I now have a slightly heightened sense of urgency

                                          Do you still have the same sense of urgency?

                                          You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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