Vegetarianism!!!!

The word 'Vegetarian' will bring instant "I can never be a.."..I can't resist eating..","Nothing harm in eating..." ," Meat is no less in giving nutrients as.."  random thoughts in the minds of many like me.

While  growing up in a locality with kids from various communities,i had chance  interacting with pure veggie kids,vegetarian but eat eggs and  with few vegetarian whom i invite to my home on special occasions to serve meat which  use to give me  kind of thrill and a sense accomplishment to me


World is now moving at the rapid phase ,a dedicated category for every thing is the key for any technology or the process development,for example 25 years back in India there was one television channel to broadcast movies,entertainment,sports,music,news,regional updates but now you have different category of channels.

Recently came to know of a dedicated cookery channel and a  channel for only comedy flicks and no wonder you have a dedicated new channel for  telecasting only crime reports all day,and another one for 24X7 political news like we have a dedicated channel for business :-)

Nowadays same Analogy is applied to  class of people who eat vegetarian ,there are vegetarians who can be classified under the following category

Lacto-Vegetarian:-Vegetarian but takes milk products derived from animals
Egg-trian:{Lacto-Vegetarian}+Eggs
Fish-terian:{Lacto-Vegetarian}+{Egg}+fish
Vegans:Only Vegetarian..no milk products derived from animals,use soy instead
Vegorganics:vegetables and fruits produced organically no artificial urea or medicine used in producing them
Purest of pure:{Veg-organics}-Don't eat veggie produced in ground like onion and potato and don't use products tested on animals or made with some animal derivatives

As far as I know no category for meat eaters if at all to classify then give yourself the name of the animals you prefer to eat and frequency of your consumption :-)

Why Meat eating is considered to be evil to many,Never came across an extensive cover story from any media about meat eating except few random articles on the well-know celebrity nutritionists blogs where the entire theme is de-mystifying the myths of certain class of meat and adding the bad effects of over eating of meat.

And people eat meat despite many campaigns on ill-effect of over eating it regularly ). I believe the taste is the first that i vote and fat that contained in the meat which makes it tastier so no wonder many like red meats to white ones with the former containing more percentage of fat.

unlike vegetarian foods coming from the plant kingdom ha literally no fat at all!!..and  veggie food being in the raw form can be eaten directly but many don't prefer as it bring no  thrill to your taste buds but this i consumed with the other spices and most importantly cooked with oil which gives taste to the vegetarian food due to the content of fatty acids in it

Thanks to celebrities who are turning Vegetarian and coming forward promoting vegetarian foods,but for celebrity turning to vegans is easy as they hardly eat any food  letting go of something which i easy but we normal mortals have a tough time where we have problems of overeating either veggie food or meat :-)


As I agree with many..moderation is the key to anything..eat meat but follow it with some veggie stuff rich in fiber to digest the meat and at the same time don't eat more fiber food than necessary to avoid the ill-effects of the meat

How to manage your diet as per sadhguru

And one questions why vegetarians are not all non-meatarians :-) always intrigues me.

November 25 is the meatless day and I have some chicken in the fridge to be cooked today!!!
Happy Vegetarian day!!!!

Java...hot and steamy kaapi

Learning a programming language is not difficult but not easy at the same time.A dedicated,committed and determined you is needed to learn it.How many days will this take is never known.It is you the learner can know that you have enough expertise and skill to embark on solving problems on your computer.

I can say despite  a Qualification ,a  PG in engineering that too in computer science and engineering never made me an expert in any programming language.

All though my eight year career i like programming and hating but never loved it.One thing i understood is real programmers do more coding than talking.

I learnt from my experience that becoming good in programming language is not important but it is  required to solve real world problem on the computer

Java is very fascinating and easy to learn language given you have some basic knowledge in programming and with fundamentals on how computer works.

Thanks a Zillion to those community of active users who have put their efforts,energy to bring up several libraries and ready to use classes to solve literally any problem you come across to solve on a computer 

Selenium is Automation tool am playing around those days.Being the tool ,having an option to code in different languages,Java is the choose n with its rich set of features and capabilities.

Learning Java for selenium should be done with a commonsense,as java being a a big ocean with the rich set of abilities don’t just jump right away learning everything from cover to cover from the book you  bought to learn java.

Basic java contructs,grammer to build variables,Keywords,decision statement,looping contructs,awareness of selenium libraries,importing them in the eclipse IDE is something that needs attention at the most.

The building blocks that make up OOPS that include polymorphism,inheritance,Abstract classes,encapsulation should be known but are you using all these in your automation depends on the context,Moreover I believe a good knowledge of java script will give you an edge on Automating browsers.

Learning OOPS concepts really helps in enhancing your programs readability , understand-ability and in winning interviews :-)

Advantages of learning Java programming language are 

1.It makes you think.

2.It makes you famous.

3.It makes you happy.

4.It gets you noticed.

5.Getting a job as an expert programmer is very easy and fast

6.It makes you pay well.

I barely scratched the surface of java,I till believe there is a long way to go for me.

It never my goal to be a expert programmer on this planet earth but an expert in solving problems  through computer programming and java is my ultimate choice as of now...so java forever...enjoy

'Bugnormal' activity

I always like putting some  status on MS lync, the IM tool at my work place.As a tester with a build ready and  loads of test cases to execute against it  ,i wanted to reflect the lync status to my activity so i had a thought for a while came up with 'bugnormal' activity inspired by paranormal activity where one involves in finding existence of ghost, experiencing some horryfying moments in the process.

In contrary to paranormal activity my bugnormal activity is not horryfying to me but to the feature developer where i was uncovering some uncommon observations which are potential defects.

In the end there were indeed some good defects logged in the tracker.I would say every tester involved in bug hunting should go involve  bugnormal activitivy with deep intent to uncover the existance of major flaws and defects in the Application under Test giving chills in spine to the feature developer :-) but in the end its a win-win with developer fixing your defect you uncovered.

My status 'bugnormal' activitity however  went unnoticed  from any of  my co-workers which i anticipated will strike up a good conversation at water cooler but it never happened and it didn't cleared the status till the other day and I totally forgot about that then I got a 'bug normal activity' with a smiley response from my the develpment team lead and that gave me a chance of feeling proud as it was noticed.

News paper ,Peas pulav,Rum and Coke

Sunday morning, woke up late attended morning call, brushed teeth, thinking of having coffee realized no milk :-).Opened the main door a cool Bangalore weather welcomed me .I bent down to pick up the daily news paper and closed the door behind and immediately hid the news paper to avoid my wife reading it which will further delay doing the usual house chores :-) and also there was only less than hour left to attend the Regular Sunday mass.I learnt from my wife that she is not feeling well to come to church then I got ready myself and I realize I have only  fifteen minutes for the Sunday service to start, I picked up the My motor cycle keys, helmet and I started feeling hungry as breakfast wasn't prepared yet at home I headed towards canteen near by had pooris which I see  well be served faster .

By the time I reached church, service was started and after the service I headed to pick up some chicken to be cooked for lunch and on the way stopped at liquor shop to pick up some wine and a McDowell rum with Caribbean twist print ad with Gale holding the rum bottle attracted me.I enquired but couldn't find the 1/4 bottle but took MC regular rum and Sulas rose wine ,some snacks, coke went to chicken shop stood in the line to pickup chicken came home home gave to my wife to cook.



She cooked peas Pulav and chicken for lunch and while lunch is getting prepared I mixed some Rum and coke and had few drink while doing some facebook and thought of keeping some Rum to dinner but I finished for lunch,had Pulav and chicken until its full and with out I realize I was lying on the sofa sleeping and I woke up by my wife's calling me loud that my snoring is interfering her TV watching and demanded me to go to bedroom and sleep :-).I went to bedroom slept for few hours and woke up completely freshed.


Feeling Afternoon lunch still full in my stomach and thinking of having ENO to get the gas out but abandoned the idea :-).I don't want to eat anything tonight but opening that rose wine bottle for a peg is something that is ringing in my mind right now :-)





 

Daily musings 26/01/2013

Quiet Recently  getting more interested in searching(Googling),learning, knowing more and more new things from the web .I get to  know or hear  a new thing from someone or while  reading a book or while watching any movie) and as few sites are blocked by employer   I come home sit on the web and Google for new found things and forget  the gyan I got and this really something I need to tap-in to become a Geek:-).I believe Geeks gather info, think on them, implement in some form or the other.

These Friday evening at work  had few minutes of free time  and I started surfing web  for something that struck my mind and I happen to navigate to this company website which makes and sells products and services around webhosting, innovative chat apps proclaiming they are doing best in the realm they are working. whenever I surf such websites what intrigues me more is their career link section, If  a company claims to produce such a innovating stuff then I would be really interested in what they look in their potential candidates

They have openings for Lead architects,UI designers with added trivia for the candidature qualification, I started googling with this trivia and found a blog by bradcockford who was currently javascript architect with Yahoo! where he mentions about weight loss and an idea to blog the food you eat daily in a blog



Woke up Saturday  morning with Zeal and passion  attended the morning call ,brushed my teeth ,feeling hungry ate five coconut biscuits I picked up the other day and went out to have breakfast. Ate three pooris and four idlis and bought some breakfast for my wife.

I don't have any appointments or any work,visited a barber shop in my locality and had a hair-cut,head massage and neat shave to trim my goatee.







My wife wasn't in a mood to cook lunch so went out got some puffs,cakes,bread toast and had them for lunch and after lunch went to sleep for three hours 

I woke up ,freshened up logged in to Facebook ,had four dosas and ground nut chutney for Dinner .And later got a call from my neighbor Suresh, went to meet him  and we were discussing about his up coming house and as we were having this conversation in front of my house ,we get to see  people ,kids going  with their mom,a teenager with back pack returning home, couple on the motor cyle,couple in a small car,apartment watchman smoking beedi,a self-proclaimed real estate guy said hello and spoke to us on the past deals he made and enquired us on some deals he knows if we are interested, and after he left we a had a short walk in our street  and found few  empty plots, houses, their construction styles and saw a women in her fifties walking  a back and forth in front  of the house as if it looks like either  she I doesn't have time to go on a morning walk or she is realized the importance of exercise and finding time after dinner  and we walked back to the Suresh's apartment and I said goodnight to him and came back to my home a  block away.

Just came home started browsing for a while on python languages and slowly as always, my mind drifted to watch some non sensual  stuff which I try to avoid but this time also am defeated and spent sometime on it and I went to bed switching on the FM radio playing old Hindi songs.



 

IFSC code and MICR code.

what is  IFSC code and MICR code?.You are often asked to fill in these details most probably during filing your IT returns.Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) is used for electronic payment applications like Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Centralised Funds Management System (CFMS) developed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Code has eleven characters "Alpha Numeric" in nature. First four characters represent bank, fifth character is default "0" left for future use and last six characters represent branch.

MICR Code: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition as printed on cheque book to facilitate the processing of cheques

You can easily get this info from the cheque book



.However, Many people don't carry the cheque book always then what?.One simple solution is to go to sites like http://bankifsccode.com/ and punch in your branch details to get the IFSC code and also don't forget  that you can save the IFSC and MICR codes in your cellphone,gadget that you always carry with you. 

Exercises for 50+ Adults

source:www.fitness.com
Let me give you 8 important reasons why You should work out.

1. Sleeping Aid for Seniors
Because exercise effects the body is so many positive ways, it is clearly the most natural option for helping address sleep related issues. Regular exercise will first of all help tire the body physically, ensuring a natural form of fatigue that the body will address with aneed to get appropriate rest.

2. Strength Training = Strong Bones

A critical aspect of aging is the general weakening of both muscle tissue and our bones themselves. One of the surest ways to reduce the stress on our weakening bones is to increase our muscles mass through strength training. Strength training has repeatedly been shown to be a safe and effective method of reversing muscle loss in the elderly

3. Strong Heart

People who exercise vigorously and often will reduce the risk of heart disease the greatest, but studies also show that any exercise can be beneficial. Studies have found that moderate exercise is also beneficial for those people with existing heart disease.

4. Arthritis Help

Arthritis is defined as the inflammation of a joint, but it can certainly seem more painful than that. It can cause searing pain that leaves the body feeling weak for days. As people age, arthritis tends to develop from the extended every day uses of the body.

Exercise, though, can assist with arthritis by strengthening the muscles near the joint which helps reduce joint stress. While exercise is necessary for everyone, it is essential for those with arthritis

5. 58% lower risk for Type 2 diabetes

A study reported a 58% lower risk for Type 2 diabetes in adults who exercise for as little as 2.5 hours a week, even if the exercise was of a moderate level.
People with diabetes are at high risk for heart disease, so the protective effects of aerobic exercise on the heart are very important for people with Type 2 diabetes. Initial indications are that strength training to increase muscle mass and reduce patient fat is also helpful for people with diabetes

6. Increased Overall Fitness

Being physically active appears to stimulate immune cells that target many viruses and infections. Though exercise appears to stimulate such cells, that stimulation appears to last only a few hours. However, regular exercise appears to lower the overall risk of being susceptible to the flu, colds, and other viruses.


7. Increased Stamina and Slowing the Aging clock

Physical fitness allows the body to perform to its full capacity. Fitness helps us appear, feel, and act to our full potential. Exercise is essentially the capability to complete everyday responsibilities energetically and actively, with energy remaining at the end of the day for appreciation of other activities.

8. No Brain Drain

How many times do you hear yourself or other seniors say, "Sorry, I'm just having another senior moment? Many seniors are making exercise more of a habit so their sharp and educated minds don't suffer। Studies across the country are showing that seniors who exercise their bodies have the least trouble exercising their minds