The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken, originally uploaded by Prabhakar Doraisamy.

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Purple Reminders :)

Purple Reminders, originally uploaded by Prabhakar Doraisamy.

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and so we danced!

We invited Matt Harding to do a video in our Yahoo! office. watch here:http://ycorpblog.com/2008/08/04/and-now-we-dance/

and so we danced! Can you find me in the video? (it’s hard to, but try!)
This video was broadcasted at the end of the all-hands meeting which happened at the peak of 6-months take-over battle with Microsoft. Still bleeding purple, and stronger than ever!

Tags: california, dancing, matt, matt harding, sunnyvale, wherethehellismatt, yahoo

And so it is…

“I remember when I came to my (then) empty apartment to clean it and prepare it for moving in. I was feeling so nervous, … and was hoping that I had not made a big mistake in my choice… I was also experiencing a sense of separation of the support system that I had gained so suddenly, earlier. My angels and my paradise. And all I had with me (other than cleaning supplies) was a radio… and when I switched it on in this place of silence and emptiness… this song was playing. That song touched me then, so deeply. Somehow filling the emptiness with a sense of love and hope. I remember putting my head on the kitchen counter where the radio was, as I was listening, and experiencing a sense of connectedness.”

… for things gone and lost, for others that have not come yet.

This song is by Seu Jorge (I first knew him as an actor in the movie City of god) & Ana Carolina. This is the portugese version of english song Blower’s Daughter (with english lyrics) by Damien Rice based on the movie Closer. If you’ve read this far, here is the raw english translation these words go so much deeper than raw human emotions.

And when you feel it, air is scarce at these times, and lungs don’t cope, breaths are shortened and we wait until that part of us that belongs to them dies.

É isso aí (And So it is) Lyrics:
É isso aí
Como a gente achou que ia ser
A vida tão simples é boa
Quase sempre
É isso aí
Os passos vão pelas ruas
Ninguém reparou na lua
A vida sempre continua

Eu não sei parar de te olhar
Eu não sei parar de te olhar
Não vou parar de te olhar
Eu não me canso de olhar
Não sei parar
De te olhar

É isso aí
Há quem acredite em milagres
Há quem cometa maldades
Há quem não saiba dizer a verdade

É isso aí
Um vendedor de flores
Ensinar seus filhos a escolher seus amores

Eu não sei parar de te olhar
Eu não sei parar de te olhar
Não vou parar de te olhar
Eu não me canso de olhar
Não vou parar de te olhar

You WILL Do This.

My training for uvas triathlon 2008 has started. The actual race is on May 18th. It covers about 3/4 miles swim, 16 miles bike, 5 miles run.

Below is a ironman triathlon video to get some motivation.
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To play music you’ll love - and nothing else.

I recently switched from lastfm to Pandora founded by Tim Westergren (based on Music Genome Project, in it’s own words, ‘the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected’) after lot of frustrations with lastfm’s interface and unnecessary complexities with the page navigations. I think this smart radio concept has been successfully executed by Pandora compared to other already-established players including Rhapsody, Napster, slacker.

Pandora edges out other internet radios through its simplicity in its UI, smartness in picking the next right music based on deep musical understanding from its big collection of catalogue titles. I also live feed my blog with my most recently listened songs from Pandora under ‘Listening’ section.

Getting Used to Gas Price Run-Ups

…this is what I saw on the price board of the nearby gas station today morning…
I got ‘both’.

This is me again!

What’s going on with me and Flash MX 2004

With the release of Flash MX 2004, things have changed a lot around.

My sleep timings have changed, as I get to spend time messing with Actionscript 2.0, crashing the Flash program every half an hour.