My Technical Side

Been busy with work. I am planning to take a Hadoop Certification Exam.

Here are the details:

Hortonworks Certified Apache Hadoop Developer (HCAHD)The Certified Apache Hadoop Developer certification is intended for developers who design, develop and architect Hadoop-based solutions, consultants who create Hadoop project proposals and Hadoop development instructors.  Those certified are recognized as having a high level of skill in Apache Hadoop development.

Link:
http://www.webassessor.com/hortonworks
Test Duration: 90 Minutes
Fee when converted to INR : 9200 approx.

Will share more ...

Gadgets that make me go GAGA

Well today i have decided to write about the gadgets that i use on a daily basis. Me and my gadgets have a very complicated relationship, it began when i was 9. A brand new 486 PC with windows 3.1. Wait .... hold on this started way before i was 9.

My first toy was a Brick. At a tender age of 5, I was the master of Tetris. We used to have challenge rounds where i used to compete with Dad and Sis. Half a dozen bricks later ( some of the died,some submerged in water and most of them were subjected to military grade drop tests). 

Later i graduated to Terminator. Well those poor souls who don't know what Terminator is ... it is a 8 BIT video game. Wow 8BIT!!!. It worked on Cartridges. My favorite game was not Tetris, It was Contra which is as good as it gets (Esp. when you worked with a buddy on Multiplayer mode). My sister hated the game.
I used to plug in my console when my parents were asleep ( Happy Hours :) )
I would like to recall one incident very clearly, One day when i did not share my TV Video game with my Sis. Guess what she did?. To my horror ,She picked up my console and threw it out.(Yes i have had a very troubled childhood). I cried for days but i got over it. ( It was tough) . Again after 3 8bit Consoles / TV video Games i moved on to Nintendo.
(1 destroyed by sis, 1 joysticks stopped working, 1 again destroyed, don't remember by whom by i suspect my Sister).

More on Part 2 of the post!.

My Expense chart Using Google Docs

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My First Google Chart

Hi Guys,
I am exploring Google charts for BI. I will share what worked and what didn't with you. Lets hope i go a long way.
Thanks

Google Charts

Sri Sri Yoga

I have been wanting to write about Yoga for a long time. Yoga for me now is not just Asanas, its a lot more than that. Doing Asanas was a pain (literally). Touch here touch there .... weird poses. I literally used to skip the warm ups so that i can do my meditation. But alas life is not so simple. My body started rebelling and knees started hurting (I promise you that meditation is not possible even if your with god himself). This was when i woke up to the fact that meditation and yoga are complementary. During one of  the Yoga sessions i found that i was in completely meditative state yet in action. This was a very very new experience for me. Doing Yoga is definitely not about stretching more than other person.

I had sinus since i was in 4th std+back ache. Today i am a free birdie.

If you are deeply in love with yourself ,do come and attend Sri Sri Yoga.
(We will be preparing for Yogathon an all india national event where we will nail 108 suryanamaskars..... and yes certificates will given ....... ) .

Minor Side effects :
a) Increased Intuition
b) Happiness
c) Weight loss / Weight gain
d) Bye bye back ache!.

Details:
Dates: 16th to 20th March
Venue: Sri Sri Kutir, Kalyannagar
Timings :
Morning: 630am to 830am
Evening : 630pm to 830pm
Contact: +91-953834128
Email: krishnakalyan3@gmail.com

THAT FIZZY FEELING

I am republishing this post !! .....

This post is dedicated to my sister for making my life so much easier. I was studying in Hyderabad and I had a group of friends in my colony with whom I would hang out. One of them was like 5 years older than us. His name was Raj. Every one used to use the choicest of words to curse him b'cos of the simple fact he was too old (he looked like a nerd too). Well one day he came up to me and said "Krishna do you want to have something to eat" I obviously said yes and 15 minutes later I was happily munchin chips and had a bottle of Mountain dew to drink.This routine continued for a month and steadily my friends got jealous because he was'nt treating them. One day Raj came up to me and told me that he was in love with my sister and he wanted my help to woo her.
Well I considered my options :

1) He was too ugly. My sister would never fall for him even if all the angels and the gods were with him.

2) C'mon Gross!..... which loser would tell someone's brother that he loves his sister! it is the most pissing off thing one can do.

3) AND the most important thing >>Chips(Lays) and Aerated Drink(Mountain dew)<< every day for the rest of my life.

Well my friends knew about this and did all the things possible to stop me from accepting coke and chips. "C'mon man, its your sister!, If someone said something like that to my sister my brother would beat the crap out of him" said Sarfu. Sarfu had a brother whose name was Rizwan and his occupation was in import/export business. He had lot of friends and they used to go around in bikes. Well i didn't have a brother, I figured that god has given me brains, using my yukti I didn't say anything. This treating went on for few months but Raj wanted results I didn't help him a bit.

One day he got tired of treating me and said he is going to say the three letter word to my sister. My response : "No. leave my sister alone!".

He got angry and said "Its gone too far already". Well, he had never spoken to my sister or even remotely tried. I think he was referring to the money he had spent on treating me with Chips and Coke every day.

In full josh He decided to go to my house and tell my sister the dreaded three letter word. I was damn scared for myself if Raj spilt the beans that he was treating me every day. Mom and Dad would definitely not be pleased. Well he went home met Dad and after that the details are vague because i wasn't there, it seems my Dad told him to concentrate on studies and forget about it. That was the last day I got my treat. Later on when i spilled the beans to my sister she got pissed because I didn't share the coke and the chips with her.


Moral of the story: coke and chips are unhealthy.

Balchetna Shibir

 Well i cannot imagine getting up @ 6 in the morning without a reason. Past few days the reason for waking early and doing my practice early are these cute little innocent kids!!. I guess i am learning more from them :D. Teaching 150 kids!!!this is as good as it gets. (There is always one kid talking, One kid throwing stones at others and one kid fighting at any given point to time). My life feels more useful at the end of the day. Today was the third day of the workshop. We shared a very stupid joke and all of them burst out laughing. Comon i am known for my horrible pjs but when you have audience which really appreciates ..... nothing like it  :D.
I am taking this beautiful course with Kiran. Kids love him. They love him so much that while playing the game they think he is a participant and form groups with him. Kiran being Kiran gives instruction for the course and also for the group he is in. At this juncture i do not know who is teaching whom. 1 word to describe this course is UTTER CHAOS and CELEBRATION!!. I can feel that god through them. This post is dedicated to '150 Beautiful KIDS who literally rock my world'.

Satsangs!!

When i was studying in hyderabad i used to have a bike to travel. Usually I would just hum some tunes while driving (Usually Satanic Rock songs and Hindi Songs). Well let me confess that i am not much of a singer. When i was in school my music teacher tagged me as one of the 'besura' students and did not make it to the school choir (Thank GOD!!!). One fine day i was driving back home and started humming a bhajan. That day i realized that there was a shift in the way my brain thinks (consciousness). I would feel elated when ever i would listen to devotional music (get goose bumps ,throat chocking with gratitude,etc ....). I was completely transformed. Some how i was talented enough to play the guitar without any formal training and  i started singing. When we open up our minds to the infinite possibilities in life talents come up. I cannot imagine my self the way i was before the Art of living. Now I feel and think differently. There is something inexpressible in music and i do my best to express it and i have always FAILED.
(Above Pic from Left to Right : Me,Namita Di, Shreya Didi, Rahul ,Meenal Didi) YES!+ satsang at Visnagar with 500 kids!.

1st moblie post

Ahmedabad

Well I just finished MY TTC!! and gurudev blessed me to take Art Excel,YES! and YES!+. Decided to organize and take my first yesplus. As an organizer i learnt a lot. It changed the way i look at life. The stakes were as high as ever. YES!+ with SHREYA DIDI. It need to be BIG!!. Usually when complete responsibility is taken it comes with stress (tension that where will people come from?). I mentally made a note that full responsibility will be taken by me like a feather not like a rock on my head and that's how my experience was. 400 + youth did kriya . Course was organized by students who had not done the AOL course. Used technology (SKYPE sessions with didi), Online database, Bulk smses . The management was shocked by such a good response.

Got bored of intro talks and started doing satsangs in classrooms. Realized it doesn't matter what you say more important is in what state of being you are blabbering. It doesn't matter if you sing,dance ,play games ,talk for 5 min or talk for hour and half at the end its your range and signal strength to the TOWER. Students in ahmedabad are good dancers. The moment we played music they automatically formed a circle and stated dancing in a FORMATION (garba). Rythm and beat are ingrained in their DNA.

I felt i had made a mistake...... and i asked didi for her feedback shreya didi replied " Krishna i don't see any mistakes because i don't see any faults in you" . Its very easy to be critical but to have perfection in feeling level...... this is one of the amazing qualities in shreya didi .

In one of the satsangs in bangalore ashram some one asked swami bhramatej "how do i get rid of negative thoughts" and swamiji replied " i dont know...." "i don't get negative thoughts"(WHAT!!!!) but it was the way he said it that i realized, that i am in the presence of perfected beings.

What Have i been up to

Well i have finally completed my engineering and now i am on cross roads of my life. My engineering degree has been a gift from my guru. I never attended college and when i did attend i slept. I have been extremely lucky ( I had got placed without me even trying ...... ) . I am right now in bangalore ashram doing seva in Sumeru Sandhya Dept. with sahil bhaiya. I am have also applied for the next TTC. Took morning yoga sessions for two YES!2 batches. I totally loved it. The grind of getting up early morning every day and doing

sadhana with children rocks :P. Have also been practicing my guitar in vasuki till now no one has complained to the admin. :). I also lost office mobile phone and observed my mind saying "see i have come so far from chennai to do seva ,why is this happening to good people like me". I am also putting an effort to improve my communication ( speaking to people without aaa, and,umm,like, etc etc.) anyway figuring out a way to live in knowledge CONSTANTLY (guys the first step is to listen to knowledge:P). Am happy with the way things are going ( i seem to get offended very fast) am still naturally arrogant to some people. I recently read a book on maharishis of india (agastya, vashista, bhrigu.... ) feel totally inspired to do tapas and achieve perfection in my life, some how i feel connected to them :).

Tuffy The Puppy

Well i am sure you like my blog and like what i write. This blog is dedicated to all my roomies. I will introduce them as the story progresses. Ashwani was my roomate,now he a full time YES!+ faculty in lucknow. As we were getting to know each other as roommates very well,one day we contemplated on having a dog. Dogs are cute (puppies). I had gone to do my thing during summer vacations to bangalore and when i returned i saw a cute puppy. All of us fell in love with him. It could barely walk straight. The innocence in his eyes would make any one cuddle him. Its one of those things one has got to do as a bachelor (ex: going to GOA, adopt a STRAY dog,all the things mom would not let us do,watching movies non stop for a days without going to loo). Getting a doggy seemed so right especially when the dog was stray. We were not sure if the dog had rabies( Being in Art of Living we dont judge people/puppies and accept every one beyond race,cast,creed,religion and sex). Responsibility to feed the dog was taken by Ashwani, as he had got it home. We expected the dog to walk itself (we had a 2000sq.ft floor space). But little we knew of the evil it could do.
Be tuned for the next post:
Prewiew:
Snehil to Ashwani "either the dog stays or me" ,Ashwani "fine you leave"
Maid quits after seeing the "poop"
Tuffy gets a kennel to sleep in :D :D.

Failing

Well i wanted to write about failing. Only those who fail can go to a state of helplessness.This feeling is so beautiful. Generally people pray truly when they fail. WELL LET ME TELL YOU THAT I HAVE FAILED CONSISTENTLY. When i started doing seva in my teens every thing would become fiasco. I could not register people for course could not speak without stammering and everything used to breakdown when i touched it(literally!!). YES I have broken (glasses,cups,motors,... and much much more). Simple tasks like getting getting some vegetables for my teacher would end up in a mess. I still remember that night when i was walking alone in bangalore streets, UTSAH 2007 was a few days away and i started crying. Every thing i did was counter productive and useless.I screwed up the course accounts, ordered the wrong pizzas for my teacher (YES @ that time pizzas were very important), Lied about the number of registrations and got caught. I knew all my actions were out of love. Still there was failure. Suddenly and automatically a deep prayer came up. I felt that moment completely. It was a moment of deep perfection. perfection in feelings. Such a perfection that even now just the thought of that night ...... can trigger that perfection in my life even now.

Concert Coimbatore

My inspiration has always been guruji of course but one person also stands out. My YES! teacher sahil jagtiani. He has always guided me on how to be on the path and how to balance life almost. He has tolerated my foolishness. He has launched his new album avataran 3. Its come out awesome. Recently i went to coimbatore and didn't sing this time though but i learnt a lot about sound engineering. i was managing the effects, echo etc. Mixing sounds to get the optimum end result is a tedious task. Also noticed the perfection in him. The concert was just ...... amazing(understatement). Even its like a month since the concert i am still humming the tunes. There is a part of me which is in pursuit of happiness and another part which is totally blissfully. Also have learnt some new bhajans which i will try out in the satsang soon. I am also planing to take my guitaring skills to next level. Last year was great but .... next year you better watch out bcos i am comming sooon to party.
The above picture >> Bhaiyas First YES!+ course in delhi.