After almost a decade of living in this wonderful country, I am proud to be a U.S. Citizen on November 19, 2003.
For this important day, I would like to thank everyone who had a role in my life. Thank you for caring, for your friendships and your love. I am grateful for your guidance, your teachings and for helping me develop in many areas.
Here are some pictures from after the ceremony.
Earlier this year, I founded a product development & consulting company called Effectuation (www.effectuation.net) with some associates. We are involved in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Media/Publishing and Open Source.
Hang gliding over beautiful mountains and the beach was great fun, so with land and air covered, I needed to learn to swim. I’m one of those few adults who didn’t learn swimming as a child.
So now as I’m learning it, I’m really enjoying swimming — efficiently and fast!
And that reminds of one my favorite cars: The Gibbs Aquada - A cool car and a sleek speedboat! http://www.aquada.co.uk/
Well, it does not fly yet, but what a vehicle it is!
My younger brother Vik graduated from Villanova University with a double major in Management Information Systems and Finance. Here are some photos from my weekend trip to the Philly area.
We had too much excitement at work pulling an all-nighter. Then when we thought we could go home and sleep, there was a terrorism threat at our building. An stranger placed some threatening packets mentioning anthrax and terrorism.
Fortunately, one of the employees saw this suspicious person and alarmed the rest of us. As we came out and saw him, the culprit took off. Five KRD engineers chased after the culprit, splitting up to not loose him without fear of their own safety while the others called the police and took photos of the scene.
Within minutes several police cars lined up outside the KRD office. Other police cars raced looking for this man. After a long chase in downtown San Jose and almost losing him a couple of times, a KRD engineer caught him and handed him over to the police. The police arrested the suspect and he confessed leading the police to more packets he left at our office we didn’t know about. It seems he was not a real terrorist, but just some disturbed person. What a night!
The full story, photos and videos1 are below.
Knight Ridder is an enjoyable place to work. The employees are diverse, talented, hardworking, friendly and fun! No wonder I’ve been here for almost 8 years.
On this Friday night/Saturday morning, many folks from the Knight Ridder Digital Technology, Product and other departments happily stayed at work late hours to ensure that a data center migration project went successfully. As you can see, besides working hard that night, they also had a lot of fun.
Click here to see the photos on my photos.rajiv.com site (Many of the photos here show folks having fun, but they worked very hard too.)
(Note: The movies may take 2 to 3 minutes to download even on broadband connections. I will move them to a streaming video site in the future.)
I was there that night to provide moral support, food, and entertainment. These photo and videos were posted online while the work was going on. I work for a news media company after all
(From ABCNEWS) At age 29, looking at what lay beyond his third decade, Lars Berg knew things weren’t quite right. The San Francisco software product manager itched for something more. His cubicle, he says, had become “both too much and too little,” and he couldn’t shake the growing feeling that he needed to make some serious changes.
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Over the past two decades, this kind of travel has become increasingly popular with young people from countries with strong currencies, who, instead of taking a vacation from their lives, decide to turn their life into the vacation.
Full Story: Sick of Your Cubicle? Try Backpacking
I went hang gliding, hiking and sightseeing on weekends recently. Some of the photographs of the scenery around San Francisco look beautiful.
