VIM issues with powerline

What to do if you get this annoying issue -

vi requirements.txt Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 4, in ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'powerline' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 9, in ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'powerline' An error occurred while importing powerline module. This could be caused by invalid sys.path setting, or by an incompatible Python version (powerline requires Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2 and later to work). Please consult the troubleshooting section in the documentation for possible solutions. Unable to import powerline, is it installed? Press ENTER or type command to continue

It means the your bash uses powerline and within your virtualenv your vim does not find the powerline python modules to exist. hence install powerline-status (yes 'powerline-status', as powerline is taken by some other project) That should resolve the issue

List directories via 'ls -d' - surprised me

List directories via 'ls -d' - surprised me

This was one of those feelings where I was left surprised with the humble linux command 'ls'

Here is what the man page says about ls -d -

-d, --directory

list directories themselves, not their contents
tried many times 'ls -d' all I got back was -

[sanjayu@dhcp-0-69:~]$
ls -dl
drwx--x---+ 110 sanjayu sanjayu 12288 Nov 10 19:39 .
[sanjayu@dhcp-0-69:~]$
ls -d
.

Now definitely there is something wrong, and I started searching the google. frankly not much came out as a help. I know we can do this via find ie find ./ -type d (using -maxdepth one can control recursive-ness). However, what intrigued me was man page and the contrary behaviour.

Finally found this - http://www.rapidtables.com/code/linux/ls.htm

ls -d */

Yum: search for a package through the disabled repos

Recently, I was searching for a package, it soon turned out that I need to archive this at least for myself. Here is it

Look for all the repos :

[stack@undercloud ~]$ yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.raystedman.net
* extras: mirror.pac-12.org
* updates: mirrors.sonic.net
515 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id repo name status
!base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 9,363
!centos-ceph-jewel/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Ceph Jewel 82
!delorean delorean-python-networking-bigswitch-2dd6c2693b8b203b9ac2148e9747609161514af9 520+236
!delorean-newton-testing/x86_64 dlrn-newton-testing 830+515
!extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 264
!rdo-qemu-ev/x86_64 RDO CentOS-7 - QEMU EV 70
!updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 856
repolist: 11,985

Find a package in disabled repolist

#!/bin/bashset -ex

for i in `yum repolist all | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d '/' -f 1 | sed 's/!//'`;
do
yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="${i}" search $1done

Breaking up the script

1. yum repolist all | awk '{print $1}' --> get the first columns and remove anything after '/'
2. sed 's/!//' remove the annoying ! at the beginning
3. search for the package use -

 yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=$REPONAME search $PACKAGE_NAME

More here

Uploading to gist and sharing

Gist is a cool tool, here we are going to see how to use it from cli and use it as archiving or sharing utility.

Steps - 

• pip install python-gist
• create a personal token at github
• create a .gist file under $HOME with the following content

[gist]
token: 
editor: 

• Now you are set, use the following - 

gist create  - creates a new gist
gist edit    - edit the files in your gist
gist list    - prints a list of your gists
gist clone   - clones a gist
gist delete  - deletes a gist from github
gist files   - prints a list of the files in a gist
gist archive - downloads a gist and creates a tarball
gist content - prints the content of the gist to stdout
gist info    - prints detailed information about a gist
gist version - prints the current version

Skydive (real-time network topology and protocols analyzer) on Fedora

Skydive Installation on Fedora 25

Dependencies

• Go >= 1.5
• Elasticsearch >= 2.0
• libpcap
• libxml2
• protoc >= 3.0

On Fedora, Install steps are -

• Install GO
• wget -c https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz
• tar -C /usr/local -xzf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
• add the following in /etc/profile or ~/.profile
  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• Install Elasticsearch
• Elasticsearch requires JDK, hence we will install openjdk, as it works with it
• sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk icedtea-web
• Download RPM from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
• Install and start the services - 
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service
• Install libpcap, libxml2
• dnf install gcc gcc-c++ glibc unzip libpcap libpcap-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel
• Install protoc (via building from source)
• wget -c https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.2.0/protoc-3.2.0-linux-x86_64.zip
• unzip protoc-3.2.0-linux-x86_64.zip
• cd protoc-3.2.0
• ./configure 
• make install
• Build skydive
• export GOPATH=`pwd1`
• mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/skydive-project
• git clone https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/skydive-project/skydive
• cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/skydive-project/skydive
• make install

Running Skydive

• Now that skydive installed, check via running - skydive allinone. If this works, we are ok, we can configure skydive to run with our tripleo setup
• Create skydive.yml with the following content -

https://gist.github.com/adc0ded6c4d648cb9d1b531d51b90c1f

• start the analyzer via - skydive agent --conf /etc/skydive.yml
• start the agent  - skydive agent --conf /etc/skydive.yml
• Fire up browser and watch the url http://hostname:8082/

Running some test scenarios

• Download https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive/blob/master/scripts/simple.sh
• run it, sudo bin/simple.sh start 172.16.99.1/24 172.16.100.1/24 to create two VM over a bridge br-int. Look at the flows in UI, enjoy!

Final Results

UI screenshot -

Youtube video to mp3 music for your music player

I listen to a lot of music over youtube, and I feel, thats an awful waste of bandwidth.

If I could just get the MP3 downloaded and listened over and over. Well this is possible! Let me tell you how?


youtube-dl -https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

This is a Python code which is a downloader of the video - 

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlsudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlyoutube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKz6Jpg9op8

you can download a playlist as well in a folder and once the all are downloaded you can run this small shell script. Copy this in some file and run it

for i in *; do
f1=`sed 's/.\{4\}$//' <<< "$i"`;
echo ${f1}; f2="${f1}.mp3";
ffmpeg -i ${i} -q:a 0 -map a ${f2};
done

Docker based application on your laptop

You want to have apps running in docker container. why?

1. Its convenient, to upgrade and twea k the app independent of changes to your own OS. 
2. To have multiple images of upgrade apps, which you know are experimental and buggy.
3. Ship-able, so things can be shared in a way which is exactly reproduce-able 
4. Hype!

How to do it in the easiest of ways.

Git checkout - https://github.com/jfrazelle/dockerfiles

Someone has put a lot of hardwork and have made all the dockerfiles for most of the things you need - 

It is an exhaustive list.

Build it, hack it, resubmit it, use it!

I use the firefox, chrome, tor, slack containers. The sound is a bit buggy and doesnt work straight out of the box. Here are some blogs to get you started - Jassie Frazelle's Container on desktop, Setting the sound up.

Here is how I build and fired up chrome - 

#>cd ~/workspace

#>git clone https://github.com/jfrazelle/dockerfilescd

#>cd dockerfiles
#>docker build -t saneax/chrome-stable chrome/stable/

#>docker run -it --rm \

  --net host \ 

  --cpuset-cpus 0 \ 

  --memory 512mb \ 

  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw \ 

  -v /dev/snd:/dev/snd \ 

  --privileged \ 

  -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm \ 

  -v /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id \ 

  -v /var/lib/dbus:/var/lib/dbus \ 

  -v /run/user/`id -u`/pulse/native:/run/user/`id -u`/pulse/native \ 

  -v ~/.pulse:/home/$dockerUsername/.pulse \ 

  --name chrome saneax/chrome

Happy docking!

Create a customized KVM on laptop

What do I mean by saying I need a customized KVM?

1. A way to get the external DHCP IP address to the KVM
2. A qcow2 image modified maybe?
3. Multiple network nics with specific needs, ie over vlan, host only etc.
4. Use specific nic cards ie for DPDK reasons

etc etc.

The above are some of my reasons I moved out from Vagrant etc.
I have a Vagrant file which can pretty much use a yaml file to create a set of KVM's with some option to nics. But as usual more than that is required.

Here in I will state (for my own good) steps to do what exactly I want -

Network

I want two nics, one external bridged so that others on the LAN can access my VM directly via an IP (assuming the general LAN has a DHCP server with free IP addresses and is freely giving those IP addresses, if your administrators have mac binded the dhcp ip addresses, then the only way you can get this functionality is the SNAT way)

Disable Network Manager. How?

Create a manual Bridge via brctl and link with a physical network -

brctl addbr <bridge_name>
brctl addif <bridge_name> <phys_net -- connected to the local lan of the DHCP server>
ip link set <phys_net> up
ip link set <bridge_name> up
ifup <bridge_name>  (we will call this brex, for further use)

OR via ifcfg-

#> cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
DELAY=0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT=yes
DHCLIENT_IGNORE_GATEWAY=no
GATEWAY=10.2.0.254
DNS1=10.2.0.26
DNS2=10.3.0.26

#> cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1
DEVICE="eno1"
ONBOOT=yes
UUID="f423eb24-2c1d-49d1-acdf-9a63ea867ff4"
IPV6INIT=no
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet
NAME="eno1"
BRIDGE=br0

disable firewalls for bridges - These control whether or not packets traversing the bridge are sent to iptables for processing. In the case of using bridges to connect virtual machines to the network, generally such processing is *not* desired, as it results in guest traffic being blocked due to host iptables rules that only account for the host itself, and not for the guests.

net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0

Define one host only network (this is virtual). DHCP server is required if you want to auto populate IP address. However generally having statically configured openstack nodes help.

(without DHCP)

cat > /tmp/hostonly.xml <<EOF
<network>
<name>hostonly</name>
<ip address="192.168.17.254" netmask="255.255.255.0"/>
</network>
EOF

(Load and autorestart, remember the bridge name is virbr0 ^^)

virsh net-define /tmp/hostonly.xml
virsh net-autostart hostonly
virsh net-start hostonly

virt-install pass the bridge for network - Below will set two nics inside your VM, 1st one should be the hostonly nic, can be used for provisioning openstack clusters. 2nd one is the external access nic.

virt-install <blah.. blah..> --network network:virbr0 --network network:brex (A complete virt-install is given below)

VM Setup

Check nested virtualization support and please enable it, docs here.

install all the required RPM's for this excercise -

yum install libvirt qemu-kvm virt-manager virt-install libguestfs-tools xorg-x11-apps xauth virt-viewer libguestfs-xfs -y

Get Image (centos - url to check latest qcow2 - Index of /centos/7/images )

Lets create the directories for our use

mkdir -p /vmimages/{qcow2-arch,qcow2-kvm}
cd /vmimages/qcow2-kvm/ (lets stay here and use all the commands from here)

Copy to a libvirt images folder ie 'cp CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 /vmimages/qcow2-arch/'

wget -c 'http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2'
mv CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 /vmimages/qcow2-arch/

Check the size of your qcow2 image disk (this is the max size of your VM disks, alas! this is not enough)

virt-filesystems --long -h --all -a ../qcow2-arch/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2
Name       Type        VFS  Label  MBR  Size  Parent
/dev/sda1  filesystem  xfs  -      -    8.0G  -
/dev/sda1  partition   -    -      83   8.0G  /dev/sda
/dev/sda   device      -    -      -    8.0G  -

Lets increase it!, step 1. create a black qcow2 image of your desired size (remember these files are parse files, so when you create they wouldnt take all the space required)

qemu-img create -f qcow2 centos7.2-kvm1.qcow2 40G

Step 2. expand centos (downloaded qcow2 image) into the newly created 40G empty qcow2 image

virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 ../qcow2-arch/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 centos7.2-kvm1.qcow2

check via virt-filesystems, of the new qcow2 image

virt-filesystems --long -h --all -a centos7.2-kvm1.qcow2
Name       Type        VFS  Label  MBR  Size  Parent
/dev/sda1  filesystem  xfs  -      -    40G   -
/dev/sda1  partition   -    -      83   40G   /dev/sda
/dev/sda   device      -    -      -    40G   -

If you want to use the awesome feature of KVM called 'Copy on Write', then some more steps are required. What it does, is it uses another disk for the VM to write the changes. So all the VM's can have one master disk and write the changes to there own copy disks.

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b centos7.2-kvm1.qcow2 packstack-node1.qcow2 <-- choose a name of the backup file intutively so that it reflects the node you would be running.

Do some customization.. This has good docs here and more here!! (Here i start feeling the similarity with docker build)

Here we are removing cloud-init from the qcow2 image (its a nuisance, unless this image is being spawned in the cloud)

virt-customize -a packstack-node1.qcow2 --run-command 'yum remove cloud-init* -y'

Here we are setting a very complex password!

virt-customize -a packstack-node1.qcow2 --root-password password:Cent05

Finally! Create VM and start

We have come to the stage to start the KVM. ( --cpu SandyBridge,+vmx is to enable nested VM's. It is CPU architecture dependent and to be enabled in bios, more details here)

virt-install --ram 8096 --vcpus 4 --os-variant centos7.0 --disk path=/vmimages/qcow2-kvm/packstack-node1.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 --import --noautoconsole --vnc --network bridge:virbr1,model=e1000 --network bridge:br0,model=e1000 --cpu SandyBridge,+vmx --dry-run --print-xml --name packstacknode1 > packstacknode1.xml

Load your XML into libvirt

virsh define packstacknode1.xml
virsh start packstacknode1
virsh console packstacknode1

Some tyding.. login to console

create the ifcfg-eth{0,1} files

cat << EOF > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
NM_CONTROLLED=no
IPADDR=192.168.17.101
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
EOF

cat << EOF > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NM_CONTROLLED=no
DEFROUTE=yes
EOF              

put a hostname

hostnamectl set-hostname --static packstacknode1.redhat.local

Yay! you have a shiny new packstack node with e1000 ethernet nics, which supports ovs-dpdk
check 'ip a l' you should be able to connect to VM from your laptop on both the IP addresses.
From outside your laptop, you should be able to access the VM over LAN

Required ports for Consul to work properly

What was not clear from the consul docs HERE, ports required to be open on the server. Here is the list of errors seen - 

Error joining the cluster: dial tcp 192.168.59.18:8301: i/o timeout

2015/01/14 23:55:50 [ERR] agent: failed to sync remote state: rpc error: failed to get conn: dial tcp 192.168.59.18:8300: i/o timeout

Ports the consul requires are

• 8301 - RPC
• 8300 - TCP
• 8500 - HTTP
• 8600 - DNS (domain lookup)

SSH important options and there meaning

These are important to me, in the following cases. (Disclaimer, there are potential security loopholes in using the suggestion as given)

These are options set on source (from where you are ssh’ing)

• Host *
• ForwardAgent yes (forwarding ssh-agent, so that you do not need to distribute your private keys everywhere)
• CheckHostIP yes (probably good to have for security)
• StrictHostKeyChecking no (disables security attribute associated with keys to hosts)
• TCPKeepAlive yes (very handy in shaky internets)
• #AllowTcpForwarding yes (this is only required when you use ssh as a socks proxy)
• UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null (security threat, handy when you have a cloud env, where the same IP are assigned to new setups)
• IdentitiesOnly yes (very handy, when you have a large no. of keys loaded into your ssh-agent and occasionally you have to log into a server with another key)

Thanjavur - The Great 'Raja Raja Chola I' built this enormous temple exactly 1004 years ago!

Thanjavur!!!

Taken from wikipedia, The name came from the killing of daemon called Tanjan by 'Neelamegha Perumal' a form of Vishnu, thus Thanjavur!

Brihadeshwar Temple  is one of the largest, temples in India, built by The king 'Raja Raja Chola I' in the years 1003 tp 1010 AD.

Amazing place and amazing food. The drive was even better, took the Bangalore -> Salem -> Namakkal -> Karur -> Trichy -> Thanjavur route.

Stayed at Abbi's Inn

Here are some pictures from the trip.

Living Life or Leaving Life

This question has always intrigued me, and this has nothing to do with my stint at Iskcon.

Mahi Gal, Coke Studio Pakistan, Season 6, Episode 4 (excellent music and lyrics) archived

 

Thanks to 'Syed Obaid Hasan Raza' for translating, archiving it here as well -

shaam payi muk aasaan gaiyaan
Evening has fallen and my yearnings have reached an end

ni mera chaḍ gaye kaag banera
The crows have flown from their perch above my wall

maape sab sahelaṛiyaan
My parents and all my friends

ni mainoon taa’nah dende tera
Taunt me with my love for you

ho panchhi wi muṛ gharaan noon aande
Even birds come home at the end of the day

kyoon chit naeen karda tera
So why does your heart not urge you to return?

aa sardaar wasa ja jhokaan
Come, my master, and make this dwelling flourish

kadi pa tatṛi wal phera
Come and see this miserable beggar sometime

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

teri deed ghareebaan da hajj ve
Seeing you is the supreme pilgrimage for us poor beggars

haaye ve
Oh!

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

teri deed ghareebaan da hajj ve
Seeing you is the supreme pilgrimage for us poor beggars

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

saabat rakh pareet noon
Let love remain constant

kite pa watnaan wal phera
And come visit your home sometime

ho panchhi wi muṛ gharaan noon aande
Even birds come home at the end of the day

kyoon chit naeen karda tera
So why does your heart not urge you to return?
(sargam)

‘urfi to may-andesh ze ghaugha-i raqeebaan
Urfi, don’t worry about the uproar your rivals create

aawaaz-i sagaan kam nakunad rizq-i gada ra
The barking of dogs does not diminish the humble beggar’s daily bread
(sargam)

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

teri deed ghareebaan da hajj ve
Seeing you is the supreme pilgrimage for us poor beggars

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

nah main sohni nah gun palle
I’m not beautiful, nor have I any great virtues

nah main sohni nah gun palle
I’m not beautiful, nor have I any great virtues

mere ‘aib nimaani de kajj we
Please hide the flaws of this miserable wretch

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

teri deed ghareebaan da hajj ve
Seeing you is the supreme pilgrimage for us poor beggars

kade aa ve maahi gal lag ve
Come sometime, beloved, and gather me to your heart

Davmail Gateway server implements EWS Cal, mail, smtp

My search for a EWS way of fetching email came to a halt. An awesome software exists. DAVMAIL!
Awesome part is, it implements POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP   which is awesome! 

recommended. 

Hanuman Chalisa Lata Mangeshkar I Shri Hanuman Chalisa

How fortunate we are to hear Lata Mangeshkar Mataji (she is the same age my mother is). Humbled and awe stuck. Jaya Bajrangbali.

Shri guru charan saroj raj nij mane mukure sudhaari
 Varnao raghuvar vimal jasu jo daayaku phal chaari
 Budhi hin tanu janike sumirau pavan kumaram
 Bal budhi vidya dehu mohe harahu kalesavikaar
 
 Jai hanuman gyan gun saagar
 Jai kapis tihun lok ujaagar
 Ram doot atulit bal dhaama
 Anjani-putra pavan sut naama
 Mahavir vikram bajrangi
 Kumati nivaar sumati ke sangi
 Kanchan varan viraaj subesa
 Kaanan kundal kunchit kesaa
 Haath vajra aur dhuvaje viraaje
 Kandhe moonj janehu saaje
 
 Shankar suvan kesri nandan
 Tej prataap maha jag vandan
 Vidyavaan guni ati chaatur
 Raam kaaj karibe ko aatur
 Prabhu charitra sunibe ko rasiya
 Raam lakhan sita man basiya
 Sukshma roop dhari siyahi dikhaava
 Vikat roop dhari lanka jalaava
 Bhima roop dhari asur sanghaare
 Ramachandra ke kaaj sanvaare
 
 Laaye sanjivan lakhan jiyaaye
 Shri raghuvir harashi ur laaye
 Raghupati kinhi bahut badhaayi
 Tum mam priye bharat-hi sam bhaai
 Sahas badan tumharo yash gaave
 As kahi shripati kanth lagaave
 Sankadik brahmadi muneesa
 Naarad saarad sahit aheesa
 Yam kuber digpal jahan te
 Kavi kovid kahi sake kahan te
 
 Tum upkaar sugreevahin keenha
 Ram milaay rajpad deenha
 Tumharo mantra vibheeshan maana
 Lankeshwar bhay sub jag jaana
 Yug sahastra jo jan par bhaanu
 Leelyo tahi madhur phal jaanu
 Prabhu mudrika meli mukh maahee
 Jaladhi langhi gaye achraj naahee
 Durgaam kaaj jagat ke jete
 Sugam anugraha tumhre tete
 
 Ram dware tum rakhvaare
 Hoat na agya binu paisare
 Sub sukh lahai tumhari sarna
 Tum rakshak kaahu ko darna
 Aapan tej samhaaro aapai
 Teenhon lok haank te kanpai
 Bhoot pisaach nikat nahin aavai
 Mahaavir jab naam sunavai
 Naase rog harai sab peera
 Japat nirantar hanumant beera
 
 Sankat se hanuman chudavai
 Mann karam vachan dyan jo lavai
 Sab par raam tapasvee raaja
 Tinke kaaj sakal tum saaja
 Aur manorath jo koi lavai
 Sohi amit jeevan phal pavai
 Charon yug partap tumhaara
 Hai persidh jagat ujiyaara
 Saadhu sant ke tum rakhwaare
 Asur nikandan ram dulhaare
 
 Ashta sidhi nav nidhi ke dhaata
 Us var deen janki maata
 Raam rasaayan tumhare paasa
 Sada raho raghupati ke daasa
 Tumhare bhajan raam ko pavai
 Janam janam ke dukh bisravai
 Anth kaal raghuvir pur jayee
 Jahaan janam hari-bakht kahayee
 Aur devta chit na dharehi
 Hanumanth se hi sarve sukh karehi
 
 Sankat kate mite sab peera
 Jo sumirai hanumat balbeera
 Jai jai jai hanuman gosahin
 Kripa karahu gurudev ki nyahin
 Jo sat baar paath kare koyi
 Chutehi bandhi maha sukh hoyi
 Jo yah padhe hanuman chalisa
 Hoye siddhi sakhi gaureesa
 Tulsidaas sada hari chera
 Keejai das hrdaye mein dera
        
 Pavantnayi sankat harana mangal murti roopa
 Ram lakhan sita sahita hrdaye basahu sur bhoopa

Sandeep Maheshwari's Inspirational Talk

Sandeep Maheshwari's Inspirational Talk

I liked it for a change. This was a video recommended by youtube, and for a change I watched it. At 2 AM, right! Woke up and was looking at mobile for time-pass and happened to watch it.

Here are the take aways.

1. Firtile Land, for which you should have the right believes
• money is on the tree
• enjoy the work, Hardwork is what you are not enjoying.
• To say is easy however to achieve is difficult
2. Discover the seed (its easy) (the thing you enjoy is your desire)
3. Action
4. share

So, I am not sure how much I agree, but the things did make sense. I stay away from all of these so called inspirational talks, this was good. It's in Hindi, although. The biggest take away from the talk was. 

"Close your eyes and jump". 

We can have hundred of good things in mind, however, at the moment of doing, we falter (he called it paralysis of analysis). Asaan Hai Or its easy is a term he coined, however I have reservations on saying asaaan hai. Some one said rocket since is also easy, and Sandeep started thinking. I think I saw this before, but couldn't recollect where. I get these occasional pauses in my psyche, where it starts to feel I heard or saw these sequence of events, I know more than that moment kind of feeling, hard to describe.

Cheated on road, by a bystander pretending to be blind

So, yes. Again. I was at infantry road, which is one way. A fellow with a blind man's stick was trying to cross a busy junction. I should have guessed there only. However, I went to help him to cross. He started speaking in Kannada. My teammate understood and was reciprocating. He had lost his bus pass and was standing at a corner, where no busses come (I should have guessed now! alas not to be). My teammate gave him Rs. 100. we asked him how he will catch the bus. He said he will go ahead, and he started moving ahead in the right direction, trying to fake he cannot see. Right direction means towards the direction the traffic was going. Strange, how did he figure out! so we waited at a point and watched him to dupe another gentleman with probably the same story.

Sad Sad Sad.

A Sad song! He stopped loving her today!

 Humbly, the best love songs which will be ever sung. 


Lyrics below for my reading

 He said "I'll love you till I die",
 She told him "You'll forget in time"
 As the years went slowly by,
 She still preyed upon his mind

 He kept her picture on his wall,
 Went half-crazy now and then
 He still loved her through it all,
 Hoping she'd come back again

 Kept some letters by his bed
 Dated nineteen sixty-two
 He had underlined in red
 Every single "I love you"

 I went to see him just today,
 Oh but I didn't see no tears
 All dressed up to go away,
 First time I'd seen him smile in years

 He stopped loving her today
 They placed a wreath upon his door
 And soon they'll carry him away
 He stopped loving her today

 You know, she came to see him one last time
 Aww, and we all wondered if she would
 And it kept runnin' through my mind
 "This time he's over her for good"

 He stopped loving her today
 They placed a wreath upon his door
 And soon they'll carry him away
 He stopped loving her today

my work desk, thought its untidy, but quite comfortable.

After Yahoo!
Work from home after office hours are more possible, hence I have setup a mini office at home. Here is the picture -

Time to move out of flickr? upload fails most of the time

trying an upload for some time and every time gives me "Bonk! errors must be fixed" - which errors?

time to migrate, since all the free space is of no use if the service itself is unreliable. I am not sure anything compares to flickr although :(