My Year 2009 in a Video!
By Prashanth on 29 December 2009 under EGO, Events, Experience, Past, People, Social, Tech, Thoughts, Videos
Wave with me!!
By Prashanth on 30 November 2009 under Social, Tech
A sample demonstration of Google wave embed!! You can wave with me right from here. Though you need to have a Google wave account to do it. A detailed post coming up on my Google Wave blog, keep an eye on it! Blogpost is up over here.
Missed out a day on Twitter? Just check @tsuvik’s timeline!!
By Prashanth on 25 November 2009 under People, Social, Tech
I met this tall guy Vikas SN at a random tweet up around a year ago! Which essentially means we were following each other. I used to pull his legs saying “You are a human RT bot 
”, he never took it seriously & went on & on!! Then after few months I realized that, without knowing, I had started a practice!!! Whenever I’m busy & couldn’t check Twitter whole day, I just visit his timeline at the end of the day!!
This is his typical timeline!! Any thing interesting or impressive happening of the day, it must be present on his timeline! His handpicked RTs could never bore you. Today, this timeline made my day by linking to a “20 Essential Tips and Tricks Every Flickr User Should Know” where I discovered really awesome tools which can help me use my “Pro” account at it’s limits!!
Hope this dude continues doing this great job! You can follow him @tsuvik
Second most popular “Prashanth” on internet!!
By Prashanth on 20 November 2009 under EGO, Social, Tech
Google Search for “prashanth” and you can see me in third place! First two results are about Tamil star Prashanth [DAMN!!] & the third is mine 
So effectively I’m the second most popular “Prashanth” on internet *right now*. Why I’m stressing on *right now* is, Google results are dynamic, they can change drastically at any point of time! I’m happy to get there since “Prashanth” is very common South Indian name.
Orkut facts!!!!!!
By Prashanth on 20 November 2009 under People, Social, Thoughts
Some of the facts about Orkut which I found with set of friends I have there, but it’s the same for most of you I guess.
- Most of the people on Orkut have personality disorder!! They pretend to be something which they are actually not.
- Though there’s a separate box provided by Orkut to update status, most of them still edit their First & Last name to update status. Like: “Rahul – back from the trip!”
- More than half of my friends don’t have their own picture to upload, they use some actor or actress’s pictures!!! <This annoys me a lot>
- “LOLZZ” is the most used word!!! in status messages, scrapbooks, etc…etc.
- They use some jinck-chack characters in their names, which takes a while to understand to read & understand who that person is! Like: ♥●• ♪Ğø|{$.. ♥●• …not lonely any more
!! - Some of them are so ego conscious, they force you to write a *good* testimonial for them, rate full on “Cool”, “Trustworthy” & “Sexy”
- Most of them are “Very attractive” or “Mirror cracking material”
That’s it for now!!!
Childhood Pics
By Prashanth on 14 November 2009 under Past
Saw so many people changing their DP to childhood pic on twitter, facebook…etc. I kinda liked the idea & started looking into old photo albums. So, following are few nice moments of my childhood which I love to look back again & again!
With Grand parents:
First hair cut!
Krishnawataara!!
With Mom & Dad:
When I was afraid:
That’s it for now!
Happy Children’s day!
Featured on VK; Mom’s win in the long run!
By Prashanth on 08 November 2009 under Past, People
Exactly a week ago, last Sunday I was featured on Kannada daily Vijaya Karnataka. It has such a huge reach that I got calls from friends whom I haven’t met from 4-5 years!! They had no clue about me getting into blogging & all. They knew the guy who was collecting rupee by rupee, make it 15bucks, visit a cyber cafe to check Gmail every week!!
Though getting featured on a news paper isn’t a big deal for me, it is for my mom. She literally called up everyone who were rude about her & me when I screwed up my 2nd year PU. So many people, relatives scolded me with every other word available in dictionary! People said like “Send him to my hotel, I will hire him as a cleaner”, “Let him work in my estate, will pay 1k/month, should be helpful to you”, “Why don’t he hang himself?” & lot lot more. Moms said to their kids “don’t mingle with Prashanth, he’s a bad guy!”. I was all alone, eyes filled with tears, looking out of window. I was abandoned to all functions, even if go it was ending in an embarrassing situation.
Because of all these comments & bad economic status, my father decided to put me on some job. He took me to some factory nearby to get me a job of loading/un-loading goods! Thankfully the manager of that factory didn’t accept me & suggested my father to give me one more chance. Mom still had some trust on me & forced dad to give me one more chance. Dad finally accepted with one condition that I shouldn’t ask for a single rupee from him!
I decided to go for Diploma in Electronics.
Sponsors of life!!
I looked for all diploma colleges in Bangalore, I couldn’t make it to Govt. college since my SSLC aggregate wasn’t that great. Finally chose a private college with very less fees & requested them to accept fees in installments! I visited many Swamijis, ashramas, needing economical support for my studies. Ones who contributed most of my college fees were Vireshananda Swamiji of Ramakrisna Ashrama, Tumkur & a far relative named Vijay. Remaining I collected from relatives & others. Somehow I raised funds for my studies & finished Diploma with first class.
Change in tone!
Though I am into blogging from a very long time, never cared to tell about it to my relatives. They got to know about it only after article on VK. Now they say to my mom “Your son is brilliant”, moms of my cousins ask me “teach something to my boy also na!”. They might have forgotten what they said before, but how can I? I just smile at them & say “Sure, why not?”.
Heights of Movie Craziness!!
By Prashanth on 27 July 2009 under Experience, Past
Back in my Pre-University College (PUC) days I had huge craze about movies. That’s one of the reasons which made me run away to Hyderabad! Five movies in a week, in theater was my record! As I already mentioned in some other post, I was a huge fan of Hrithik Roshan, watched his every movie released in that period! one of the most hyped movie at that time was Kabhi Khush Kabhi Gham. I was eager to watch it before everyone else. Since I was pursuing PU in Tumkur, I had to come to Bangalore to watch bollywood movies.
So, I came to Bangalore to watch so hyped Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham in the first week of it’s release. Unfortunately I didn’t get the ticket that day. But I wasn’t ready to give up, I decided not to go back without watching the movie! There was a cheap lodge infront of the theater who charge around 120 bucks a day. I took a room there & spent my night over there. Next day morning I woke up early & went to theater, stood in que! And yay! I finally got the ticket to watch that movie!!
It’s just that (teen) period we go crazy about some things! I don’t watch movies much, am very selective about movies now.
P.S:- K3G is now in my list of most hated movies