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As I announced earlier, I am going to join ThoughtWorks, Pune development center. For past 18 months, I lived in Hyderabad. This was a wonderful experience. People of different language, culture and attire! One of the best times of my life!

For all the good time I had, I owe thank to following list of people. Shriram (raamya) for his coffee breaks and wonderful thought experiments. You're the man! Akshay and group for helping me in first days @ Hyderabad. Madan and Surabh for providing occasional company!

At last my crew from Akanksha; Rambabu for wonderful political, regional and personal views, movies and entertainment. I had lots of good discussion with you. Kameshwar for his humor and enjoyable discussions. Sridevi, Padmavati for their co-operation and fun. Sneha for her brain biting discussions! Manoj for wonderful times having technical discussion and countless fun parties!

Radio City 106.4 / 91.1 FM for their wonderful music! Aparna (RJ for 'Chalo Chalte Raho' show) for her wonderful talks and entertainment. Thank you for giving me opportunity to speak me on Radio for 90 seconds on 6th December, 2006. I specially enjoyed your show everyday on the way to office. You are my favorite RJ for the year 2006! Gautami (RJ for 'Nato Vastara' show) for her sweet talks and cute behavior. You are a wonderful person with a great smile. I don't know Telugu but just your show taught me to understand some of words! Being a Marathi person, I enjoyed your show everyday on way back to home!

Thanks to Sify for providing me internet services for whole year. Not the best, but you are good provider. Without you, this was impossible to have wonderful discussion with my loving friend Neelesh in USA.

Thanks to Neelesh for talking me almost everyday and talking on lots of topics. Great company dude! Hope to continue same discussions from Pune.

Final thanks go to my movie library person (Anna) who provided me hundreds of movies throughout the year! You made my holidays enjoyable! Thanks to Prasads IMAX, PVR Cinemas, Sangeet, and Raja for showing me great movies for the weekends and holidays.

Altogether, the stay at Hyderabad was wonderful and definitely added lots of memories to my personal life. I learned lots of things which will help me through the rest of time. Tonight I start my final journey towards Pune. Given a chance, will love to be a Hyderabadi! Again!

Thank you for the all persons who became part of life in Hyderabad. I always owe a big Thank to you.

Good bye Hyderabad!

Need for Speed: Carbon is the latest release from EA. This game is way ahead of its predecessors in physics and modeling. The stunning graphics, great music and nicely arranged plot made my day.
I have been playing NFS since NFS 2. Since then I played every release and my all time favorite is Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed. That game was something really stunning graphics, Porsche theme and way too real than its competitors!
I was wondering, what will be the next version of NFS: Carbon? If we see the trend of games, it can be categorized as follows:

• NFS 2 - Plain racing
• NFS 3 - Pursuit
• NFS 4 - Racing with better physics and realism
• NFS 5 - Theme based game (Porsche lineup)
• NFS 6 - Pursuit (Reloaded version of NFS 3)
• NFS 7 - Underground theme
• NFS 8 - Underground theme reloaded in much better way
• NFS 9 - Mix n' match of pursuit and career mode
• NFS 10 - Underground theme revisited again with strong pursuit and territory based career mode

EA has always tried to put new race modes and latest cars. A constant effort to make NFS more than just racing can be observed in previous games. So what can be the next theme? I think a more realistic betting could be another option. Player earns and bets in racing. If you loose all the money, you are out of the career mode and your cars will be lost.
The customization is the key now. Autosculpt in NFS carbon has done a great job. NFS carbon was having many other things such as crew members and some racing modes. I miss drag racing though!

What you think?

After taking a look at fantastic sneak peak of leopard I want to have one! Hope Santa gives to me on Xmas

... Back after a while! I was busy in lots of things which you can notice now on. I have a great announcement on personal front. I am going to be a ThoughtWorker! I am very excited to be there.

I will keep posted about new happenings as things happen. For the time being, enjoy fresh look of my blog!

I was on vacation for last few days. I got chance to talk to once of my friend who is using Ubuntu on his laptop. He was using Breezy Badger distribution and the laptop was little old and upgraded one. I was curious to have a talk with him regarding his suggestion / feedback.

He was also going through same cycle of happiness which I experienced before! What made me more curious was, he was using a 3-4 years old laptop which was upgraded in terms of RAM and other hardware. That was IBM Thinkpad with earlier Pentium 4 processors. He said, he could run it smoothly and there were no hardware issues at all! He could install everything very easily and comfortably. That is a reason for toast!

He was happy with performance and also features. I would like to mention his one quote, which everybody will agree... "It is better than Windows XP!"