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.
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.
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
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- 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!!!
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!
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?”.
By Prashanth on 02 September 2009 under Tech
By Prashanth on 30 August 2009 under Uncategorized
