The House of the Rising Sun

The song was surely on my mind when i had seen this building for the first time.
It is located at the edge of Hill leading to Powai facing east. I always imagine seeing sunrise from this place. I have seen Sun rising from far east from top of the hill at IIT and it was something i will always remember. The building is appropriately called Sun City
Recently my friend Rohan brought a flat in this building. Last Saturday I went to hang out with him and oversee the work of fitting accessories to the flat. His flat is on 12th floor. The view from nice french windows was fantastic. It faces west and overlooks glowing Heeranandani.
We then went to the Top Floor which is still under construction and the views from the TOP is nothing short of mind blowing.
I only had my cell camera to take the pictures. These pictures have been published in previous posts.
One of these Mornings will find me there with a nicer camera very soon. Inshallah!

Here the proud owner of the lovely flat :)
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Over the Hills and far away
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View From Rohan's Terrace
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Can You See Powai Here?
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And guess what happens at the basement of such magnificient buildings:
I was pleasently surprised yesterday to see my collegues holding makeshift school for the slumkids ever since the rain started
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This magnificient building is where i work ..
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New Urdu?

Saanson mein laakhon karodo ki saansein khuli
(Ghut raha hai dum ghutansi ho rahi hai)
Phir bhi savere akeli hain ankhein khuli
Koyi aaj, mil hi jaayega, chehera jaane pehne kaunsa
Dar se, nikle dhhundhhe ghar hai kaha
(Kya din kya raat hai yahaan par, ki saala dono baraabar
Na raaste kabhi ho khaali, na bandh hoti hai gaali)
Kya din, kya raat

Kiske liye raah chalte ye jhoothhi hansi
(Chhod na kissi ko kuch nahin padi)
Kaise sahe telephone ki khaamoshi
Sune, bistaron par so rahe, bhooli khushboowein ko ro rahe
Neeche, sadakein, kehti hai aa kud ja

Kya din kya raat hai yahaan par, ki saala dono baraabar
Na raaste kabhi ho khaali, na bandh hoti hai gaali
Maa behan ki yaad sab ko aati har paher
Halla gulla shor gul ye kaisa hai shaher

-Paanch the movie
(whenever it gets released)

Interesting. For most of my friends the entire passage above will make complete sense. Words written in English while meaning and sounding in hindi.
T9 dictionary in my cellphone and in cells of most of the people around here is full on words like this. Even people who understand the basics of English use it in SMS, emails etc where they cant type in Devnagri script.


Is this new Urdu evolving?

Powai in full monsoon glory
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Mumbai NightLife at 3 AM
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D'Addario strings are AWSOME!!!

Yesterday i replaced my old Karuna strings for a barnd new EXL110 - Regular Light. My friend told me that im going to enjoy playing on it.
It is awsome. Loved playing it like anything. It is so easy and smooth. My aching shoulder reminded me its 3 hours since ive been playing without a break. I never knew changing strings could make so much difference.

At the End of the Passage

The sky is lead and our faces are red,

And the gates of Hell are opened and riven,

And the winds of Hell are loosened and driven, And the dust flies up in the face of Heaven,

And the clouds come down in a fiery sheet,

Heavy to raise and hard to be borne.

And the soul of man is turned from his meat,

Turned from the trifles for which he has striven

Sick in his body, and heavy hearted,

And his soul flies up like the dust in the sheet

Breaks from his flesh and is gone and departed,

As the blasts they blow on the cholera-horn.

Himalayan

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Pocket Expense Tracking Program

This Blog attempts to chronicle my learning and development efforts in realms of mobile computing, specifically with Microsoft compact framework.

Pocket Expense Tracking Program

Premise: Benefits of expense tracking are very well known. It helps to keep finances tightly controlled. Moreover one can study expense data to quantify spending habits and this can be used to cut down expenses. Certain reoccurring wasteful expenses can be identified and dealt with in suitable manner. A mobile enabled program in which a user can punch in exact details for each and every transaction can be very helpful as it removes the drudgery involved with writing down expenses later when the details might be lost. Features:

1. The Application should allow user to quickly punch in the Item on which expense is incurred. Ideally this information should be available in a drop down with options of adding new Item.
2. The application should store date/time of transaction.
3. User should be allowed to add some notes to each transaction.
4. This information should be stored locally on the device till the Application 'synchronizes' it with the main central repository. This central Database can exist on a Desktop and sync may occur using a web service or active Sync.

Application Architecture:

The Pocket Expense Tracking Program is a microsoftCF based application. It will save the expense in an XML file. It will use active sync to synchronies the data.

UI

• Item input comboBox: On change a new window will open. This window will allow user to choose expense.
• New Item check box:
• New Item Text Box: if checkbox is selected then new textbox should not be empty. This value should be added to items table on submit a new row will be added to table.
• Date Text Box: By default current date/time will be displayed.
• Amount Text Box:
• Notes Text Box: Multiline memo field.
• Left Menu: Submit
• Right Menu: Cancel

On submit thank you window will be displayed. Thank you window will have two options new and close. Close will close the application.

Synchronization

Synchronies with active sync. This will connect to server application. Server application will add to excel file. This will use active sync. to upload