Konark Award ceremony at Polaris

Hi All, After lot of waiting I the photos. These are the onces taken during the Konark Award Ceremony as part of Polaris Annual day celebrations at Hyderabad. I am among on of the Award winner. Wanted to share some of the photos captured. For me it is the first award to received on stage in work life. You can watch more photos at the following link: http://picasaweb.google.com/madire.kishore/KonarkAwardCeremonyAtPolarisHyderabad

Diwali Celebrations

Here are the details/photos of Diwali Celebrations had in the last week. This is first time Lucky is celebrating the Diwali in India. He was bit scared when he saw the cracker bombs. Later he started lighting them one by one, and continued till 10 pm in the evening. Even he was not tired and wanted to have more. After returning to Hyderabad, we brought some more so that, he can enjoy them till Kartika powrnami. I tried to capture some of the photos during the celebrations and uploaded to my google photos, Click on this photos to see the full album. Do not forget to leave your comments :)

Dasara Celebrations

At last, today, I was able to upload the photos of Dasara Celebrations we had. You can see some of the photos @ http://picasaweb.google.com/madire.kishore/DasaraCelebrations?authkey=Gv1sRgCInL1KvxxdqdHw

Don't forget to add your comments :)

Vinayaka Chavithi Celebrations

This year we had a wonderful celebrations of Vinayaka Chaviti festival. Our trip started on 9th Sept 2010. We went to Bontapalli Veerabhadra Swamy temple, which is 20 kms from Hyd. After Darshan, we went to Chamundeshwari Temple (http://chamundi.org/) via Narsapur forest road. The route was very pleasant with full of greenery. Due to sufficient rains this year, most of the area was under cultivation. We stopped at few places and took photos as well. Around 8 PM we reached Jogipet.

On Sat'day early morning the pooja started. My dad did the pooja and Lucky and myself was reading slokas. It is first time for Lucky to celebrate this festival in India. In the afternoon, Lucky along with Sreeja and Sravya (his sisters) went to see Vinayaka idols in town with Muralanna.

On Monday we return to Hyd. In my Apartment also there was 5 day celebrations of the festival. We were able to attend the last two days and took part in Ganesh Visarjan (immersion). Lukcy was thrilled and joyful in participating the event.

on 20th Sep 2010, we visited Khairatabad Ganesh, which is nearly 52 feet high. On 22nd sept 2010, it is celebrated as Ganesh Visrjan across city and all major cities of India as well.

Overall this year Ganesh festival ended with lot of good news, happy moments and joyful events.

You can see most of the event photos @ http://picasaweb.google.com/madire.kishore/VinayakaChavitiCelebrations?feat=directlink.

Travelling hometown for vinayaka chavithi celebrations

We will be travelling tomorrow evening to my hometown Jogipet for Vinayaka Chavithi Celebrations and will be returning on coming monday. More details to follow.

Rakshabandan celebrations

For the first time Lucky is celebrating Rakhi festival in India. Sreeja and Sravya from Jogipet came to our home to tie Rakhi to Lucky.

Also Ammulu came to tie Rakhi, but as she is just months baby, Lucky tied Rakhi to her. They had very good time. I was not able to join the celebrations from the morning as I had the office. I joined them late in the evening.

Lucky's Photo of the week

Y'day, while playing Lucky dressed in such a funny way, I was not able to stop taking photo of it. Which is what you see here. These days he turned so crazy and noughty that we are not able to manage him. From last 10-15 days, he is not going to school and because of that, he is thinking that the school headache is gone. Tomorrow will be his school day after a long holidays. Need to see what he says?

4th Wedding Anniversary trip to Basara

Hi,

For the 4th wedding anniversary, we planned to visit Basara Temple (http://www.basaratemple.org/), the only temple in South India for "Goddess of Learning". As Lucky is turning 4 years, its time for having Akshra puja, we thought of going to Basar and have the Akshrabayas there. The reason for choosing this on 13th is that, its my Marriage day, my Wife's Birthday and this year it is the first Friday of SravanaMasam, auspicious month in Hindu religion.

We stay in Basar for 1 day and then went to my hometown Jogipet 200km from Basar. We spent our weekend and went to Warangal, my in-laws town, which is nearly 200 kms from my home town. On Monday evening we are back to Hyderabad. During this trip, I captured few photos which I just uploaded to Google and can be found @ http://picasaweb.google.com/madire.kishore@4thWeddingAnniversary#

and some videos of boat ride on Godavari river:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ed8mqbX44s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiFp3gwVww



Bye for now.
-Krish

Banglore trip details

Bangalore is a beautiful city. I liked the weather and greenery within the City. Though the Bangalore airport and Hyderabad airport started functioning on the same day, Bangalore's one completed much earlier and the connectivity to City is very well established. I liked the traffic discipline the people have their. Even autowala will not accept more than 3 people and they follow the meter. I heart that if we are new the place there are chances of cheating but I had not faced any such event in 2 days.

As I had very little time to go out, I am planning to visit it one more time (or course with family) to spent some time in the Green City.

Travelling to Banglore for the first time

Heard so much about Banglore and thought of travelling many times but never got a chance or need. Tomorrow I am travelling for the frist time. Will share more news after my return.

Lucky is Sick due to Climate Change

Since last 2 days, Lucky is suffering with high fever due to change in Climate. During the last weekend, we visited to my uncle's place, we had outside food, and at the same time we were having bad rains. Not sure for what, but, Lucky caught with high fever (102 degrees) along with cold and cough.

Y'day night, Ambi took him to hospital and after using medicines for two days, now he seems bit okay.

We should be very careful about climate change particularly for kids. We should be careful with Water, outside food.

Dream come True

At last, after 6 months of waiting, now its looks like my dream of getting PMP certification looks possible. Nalanda/Polaris being R.E.P. for PMP, started training batch at Hyderabad. We are nearly 50 people who would undergo this training of 35 hours by meeting every week for 4-8 hours to discuss each knowledge area/process group starting from first week of August. After 11 weeks, there would be 3 mock tests conducted. Then we will be almost ready for taking PMP Certification.

Recommended books offered by Nalanda are:
PMBOK 4th Edition
PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy, 6th Edition.

Lucky Birthday Celebrations at Srisailam

We thought of celebrating Lucky's 3rd birthday in unique way and planned to visit Srisailam (www.srisailamtemple.com), a holy place of Lard Shiva. Along with my parents, brother's family, brother-in-law's family, we all went to Srisailam on 22nd July evening.

As usual, the day started with drizzling, which is indication of beginning of celebration in my family. Early morning of 23rd July, we started the celebrations by performing abhishekam to Lard Shiva and it was really a wonderful moments we have. After lunch, we booked local transport to see all near by places and it was really awesome to know the routes of our heritage and curture. If you are planning to visit any of the places near by Srisailam, I suggest to visit the above link to get more near by places to see.

On 24th July, after break fast, we went to Patalaganga by ropeway and then we had a pleasant boat ride in River Krishna. After Lunch, we started our return journey. On the way to home, we also visited Umamaheswara temple, very beautiful place which also has the stunning water falls near by. Late in the evening we returned to home.

Good Article on Leadership skills

I found this article (http://itmanagersinbox.com/1257/leadership-skills-%E2%80%93-the-top-5-skills-needed-for-it-leadership-roles/) is very interesting discussing about five most effective skills and qualities for a leadership role.

Good Book - You can Win

Though I read the book 'You can Win' by Shiv Khera long back, I found this book again when I visited Anil's home. I personally recommed to read this book on regular basis. This is one of my like books to have in your bookshelves. You can find pdf copy of this book free online. One I found is http://www.citehr.com/83346-free-pdf-you-can-win.html

Good article on Job satisfaction

I just read one good article on evaluating your current satisfaction: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/07/16/india-career-journal-10-signs-its-time-to-leave-your-job

Drowsy Sat'day

Today started very drowsy. After morning tiffin our side, We went to Lucky school's school 'Samskar (www.samskarkids.com)' for our first Meet the Parent Program. I met with some of the other kids coming this school and spoke to their parents. Later I spoke to Prasad, school head, and discussed about my suggestions on arranging teaching material and also discussed with Lucky's class teacher about how Lucky spending his first days of schooling.

Later we thought of going to Ameerpet for doing some shopping for Lucky Birthday but post-poned to tomorrow as I was feeling very tired. Then we had lite Lunch and then we watched the Rajanikanth's movie 'Shivaji'. At evening my brother kiran anna came to home as he visited near by store here in KPHB.

Late at the night, We watched the movie 'Amaravathi' and then Lucky and myself went out for shopping some snacks and then after we return, we played for sometime and then he went to bed.

As usual I just started browing net and found good article on Agile. (http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/138-are-you-ready-for-agile). that's all so far. Good Night. Subharatri

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