Posted by: Krutika on: July 4, 2008
Once on a fine morning (technically approx 2 in the night), i penned this poem. I have used blank verse which is my favourite style of writing.Maybe it is because there are no hassles of rhyming..(grin)
It was written in December 2006 out of a whim and i got it published in the Valentine’s Day issue of EVE TIMES, in 2007..Eve Times is a special feature newsletter of the TIMES OF INDIA.
I was overjoyed to see my poem in print in the local edition of the top newspaper of India(who will not be?) and it gave me renewed inspiration to keep writing..:-)
Feedback is welcome;-)
Posted by: Krutika on: September 15, 2009
Gawd! I just dont know what happened to me. These days i am just jawing like hell. And guess with whom?
With my cousin cum close friend – Vibhu and Binal, one of my besties…
I have just discovered a newfound intimacy in my relationships with both of them. I am just kinda enjoying it. Well i just wonder…is it me now? or was it me before?
I just remember those months( ya months) when i dint talk to them..i dont know why…not talking to any of my other close buddies too…I had just gone into a shell or something…and feels like I am coming out of hibernation!!
Maybe i was angry on something..Because whenever i am angry on someone or something mostly i just retract…go away from the place and have some tea or something… (and also silently brush off my tears
big secret out )
Whatever it is …girl talk is supremely liberating…;)
Amu and Sammy its you next…
Sorry Sammy and Binal for those days when i was not myself..when i was not talking normally…and you guys maybe just wondering what i was upto…and yet you sticked around…
Especially when i was not so much fun to be with…
You guys are wonderful!
Thanks!
P.S.: This was my first sort of personal post on this blog…See the change!??
Posted by: Krutika on: June 2, 2009
Never before in my life..had i wanted something as much as this. Or even worked so hard for it and put in efforts. Of course i might have. But my memory fails me. I am notorious for amnesia. Ahem! What did amnesia mean anyway?
But it was this heady feeling that i got throughout the process mixed with lots of optimism that kept me going. And i learned lots of things. Made me wiser by 1%.
But yes the most important thing i learnt is: there is light at the end of the tunnel, but how desperately we need the sunshine? Thats what matters and thats what counts.
Now that is a different thing that in my case, i wanted it like hell but there an eclipse occured. Somebody switched off the light bulb.
The song that fits in perfectly :

Posted by: Krutika on: February 10, 2009
Hey whats happening?
I have lost my pen drive. Dunno where i put it! Totally misplaced.
Along with two movies which temporarily resided in the pendrive. Is there some secret place where misplaced or lost things go?
I had read a book called The Burrow, (i guess) where they had a theory that there exist some creatures like elves which are the reason for your lost things. Interesting i must say!
The only thing left for consideration is what the hell do they want to do with my pendrive yaar!??!

Posted by: Krutika on: January 12, 2009
Aloha..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I am 12 days late for the ushering-the-new-year-post…
Well! Well!
It feels great to write a ‘SOLUTION POST’ as the first post of 2009 ![]()
I have been facing a lot(read:4) of problems with gmail lately. Here’s the list. But these problems should mostly be the problem of the browser used ,not some problem or bug inherent in gmail. So atleast i have solved one of them
PROBLEM: Cannot scroll chat window while chatting in Gmail in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 Beta.
SOLUTION:
Go to Tools Menu -> Internet Options.
Click Advanced tab.
Clear the check box for ‘Use smooth scrolling’ to disable the setting.
Restart IE and voila..you are done!
YAY! Wish i could find the solution for the other three too..
Aloha!

Posted by: Krutika on: December 25, 2008
Hello Gmail,
Everyone is using you these days! You are ubiquitous. Up until recent times i was a snob who dint want to use the much Gung Ho Gmail. ( i had been among the early birds to know about you,but still….)
But i did need another email id and i thought i shall give you a chance. Glad to say you have been a great thing to lay my hands on.You are still in beta (as those self pleased guys at Google would like to call you modestly) but you are doing a great job of all that coding behind you.
Just to state two four problems i have been facing with you:
1. You dont allow me to paste tables from Excel whilst using Opera and Firefox. Whist with IE you work fine. Should i smell something here? OR is it that it is the problem with the browser end that they are not able to render your coding? ( all that supported browser thingummy!)
2. You dont allow me to become invisible in chat while using Firefox. You simply hide the option! Thats not fair! Whilst this time you work fine with Opera and IE. So whats the fine print eh? Edit: And now i can , so what was the problem?
3. The latest version of IE i.e. 7 as well as Internet Explorer 8 Beta dont allow me to scroll while chatting in gmail..:( Now thats an IE problem definitely..i m not blaming you!)
4. Opera (9.63) doesnt allow me to type anything in the search box and so cant search anything. Now what do i do!?
Using myriad browsers,
Your user since 2008(!),

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
WISHING THE MERRIEST CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!
Posted by: Krutika on: December 13, 2008
There is so much i want to do and want to have that if stretched like a chewed bubblegum, it would encompass the four endpoints(imaginary) in each direction of India.Can you imagine that? I cant because i have seen it in my mind. You dont imagine what is there,you see it.
Take a sneak peek into some of what i want to learn, what i want to be, what i want to do.

Is it too much? Its relative(Einstein-thanks for that). Depends on the timeframe obviously. If i say that this is want i want to learn, want to be, want to do in next 10 years. Its too less to ask of. But if say i shorten the timespan then obviously its fine or even maybe too much if i overconfidently tell you that i expect to do all this in a quarter of a year!
Can anyone tell me if there is a syndrome or something for this,where you want to learn variegated thingummies? Sure it exists. Like eternal-student-syndrome exists!
Or should i invent one after me?! What should we call it? Ah..Yes..The Olive Syndrome….:-)
Why Olive? Why not Krutika Syndrome? Well thats the subject of another post altogether. We shall talk about you soon, Olive!

Posted by: Krutika on: December 7, 2008
I woke up yesterday after almost 15.5 hours of sleep. Told ya i am a voracious sleeper. At such times, i really feel a great rush of love towards my mom who never minds when i gradually pay off my accumulated sleep debts.
Its best when you wake up by yourself- without the alarm. You feel so fresh. There is not a single thought flying to and fro through your synapses. Thats what i felt yesterday. Then it occured to me that i have no thought in my mind-like a child perhaps. But then this qualifies as a thought. Then how can i be thoughtless?
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Okay you might say that the time when there was no thought was ‘t’ and the time when it occured to me that there was no thought in my mind was ‘t+δt’…
But δt→0. What of that?
So it is a paradox, you see. And , i love paradoxes.
Another example is the title of this post.
Yet another : I never write anything in italics coz i hate it.
Yet another: My email signature : “Expect the unexpected”. Tito(my boss at MAXIM) says its a nice brand name for myself. So it must be….

Posted by: Krutika on: November 23, 2008
This is Jug Suraiya’s article for today’s Times in his column “Jugular Vein.”
It is so downright funny..I thought you might want to check it out and have a laugh.

Posted by: Krutika on: November 13, 2008
I was passing by Subhash Bridge and luckily i had a camera in my bag and so my mind went ‘ting’ at this Sony moment which i thought i could capture. This shot is the best among the shots of that night. My personal favourite. I am always befuddled by the four lettered word which contains ‘f’ in it. And i mean the word ‘LIFE’.
After such shots, like a tiger which has tasted blood and becomes a man-eater, you want to exercise your amateur skills at some more motion photography.
But i dint know how to convey motion in the background and i searched and i found this very good tutorial called A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography.
And after i hone my skills and learn the technique, i will post my experiments. Till then Aloha!

Posted by: Krutika on: November 12, 2008
I appeared for an interview recently- actually not one but two. One with the boss of the company and one with four senior employees of the same.
The scene at the second one:
…….
{Co-Life is a word coined by me. Meaning: unit of people. Here i am using the word to represent the interviewer}
Co-Life: How many percentage did you obtain at your M.Sc. examination?
Me: …..{cant believe i took almost ten seconds to answer this} 71.19
Co-Life: Aggregate?
Me: Yes. Aggregate of all four semesters.
Co-Life: What about your last semester?
Me:….{ten seconds again this time..} Uh i dont remember..{i could have said approx this n that bcoz i remembered the approx marks but i dont know why i said i dont remember..the sad fact is that it was partially true- i dint remember my exact marks:-( }
Co-Life: {initial shock expression then covers it up} It happens with us too sometimes.
Co-Life2: When did you get your results?
Me: August
Co-Life: ….{shifts in her seat- i think it conveys its not okay to forget your own hard-earned marks}
[rest of the interview]
….Of course its not okay.. {horror} is there any serious candidate out there who doesnt remember his/her marks. I am. I totally goofed it up. I know.
And i dont even want to delve into the gory details of the rest of the interview. Because i dont want to commit a personal hara-kiri…
EDIT: The little respite i can offer myself is that i had confirmed it would be only a written test but after the test they also took out-of-the-blue interview(s) ….