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I'm back to office after 7 days. I was down with chicken pox for the last 7-9 days. I was off from work for a continuous 7 days and thats the first time in the last 3 years. Chicken pox(CP) is an air borne disease and its absolutely non-seasonal. There are several myths surrouding CP. Traditional myths and regional myths for the attack but the technical reason is a virus named varicella-zoster . I wonder why scientists name viruses or diseases in so tounge twisting way. CP generally shows up many visible changes in your body for easy identification. Itchy scalp, small insect bite sized blisters growing up to red lesion all over the body. The blisters start generally from scalp, face, trunk and then crawl to lower body gradually if the intensity of CP is more. You will feel a deep urge to scratch the blisters. A big NO to scratching. Scratching leaves you with scars once the lesions are healed after CP. Sometimes these scars may be life time. You may not be able t...

Its peak time 7:30PM. Obviously it is then you get to see some traffic police ACTIVE at the signals. If you have lived in india for a while now, you get what i meant by active. The CI or SI sitting beside on a bike or in a patrol vehicle and some constables trying to catch the terrorists. I mean the two wheelers. This is a regular scene you will get to see at major junctions or traffic points. These extra active constables makes sure to let go the autorickshaws or APSRTC buses, running autos etc leaving out huge cloud of black smoke. Its doesn't look like pollution to them. But they would certainly stop the two wheelers with full gear helmet, registration certificate, pollution check, insurance papers etc. What the f***...you guys? Is that what you are trained for? Is that what you are asked to do? Last friday, i was on my way to home from work. I stopped at the red signal. I was in the first lane of the crowd. Just a moment and i felt a snatch of my bike keys. I...

Ok! Pega CSA is my second certification. One before this was SCJP Certification in 2009, where i excelled with 89% . I know, 89% is bad considering many 90+ & 95+ or even 99+ percentiles you generally hear about. The reason was that i didn't depend on dumps. Infact, i just spared 10-12 hrs going through the dumps. But i'm happy with 89% i scored in SCJP. Fast forward to 2011 and now its Pega Certification for a Certified System Architect(CSA) . I know theres lot many CSAs out there in the Pega community. But its special for me. I was the only one being trained at my companies Hyderabad location. So, the formal class room training went for some 16 odd hours and a bit of bootcamp and a small poc compromising 5 screens and some database interaction was all that i had. Ofcourse some 10-15 days went into preparation for the CSA certification. So, you see, its not a formal training phase by any trainer who is trained to train people.  I accomplished 91% . I'm really rea...

Have you ever watched an advertisement on tv or paper or somewhere for Maruti Alto in the recent past? I haven't. But, why would they advertise for the best seller of the country? Why would they advertise for the model which sells around 20,000 units per month across the country? Then, Why now? Yep, you guessed it right, competition boss competition. Maruti woke up from the deep slumber it passed in to after the launch of Hyundai EON. Now India is ON. Well Maruti is the 1st to take the shock on. Now Alto is advertised on blue screen, freebies offered, cash discounts & more importantly Maruti Suzuki introduced the limited edition Alto Xplore, mere hours before the unveiling of the Hyundai Eon. Now, the Xplore gets over 10 new features and now imagine leather Seats in an Alto. Till yesterday Maruti Suzuki didn't have much of resistance for the Alto. After the Maruti 800 is stopped in Tier 1 cities, Alto took the top seller slot. Most prestigious Tata Nano tried...