Yet again another lazy weekend started. watching Swadesh on star one and trying to get used to these touch screen phone.

Nice song from hindi movie Guru

“Jaage Hain Der Tak
Hamen Kuch Der Sone Do,
Thodi Se Raat Aur Hai
Subah To Hone Do

Aadhe Adhure Khwaab
Jo Pure Na Ho Sake,
Ek Baar Phir Se Neend Mein
Woh Khwaab Bone Do”

Since last few weeks Pune has been hub of swine flu in India. Thanks to indian media, without this could have not been possible. Everyone residing in pune get call’s from there friends and relatives, if situation is really bad they should come at there place

Creating awareness is one thing and creating hype is another. Media did gr8 job in creating awareness regarding flu, but after that  they crossed the line( reporting every single death, and just single case it was due to swine flu) .  Now situation becomes that city is partially closed for 2 weeks.  No movies, No schools/colleges.. and for me No Gym

Anyways.. I hope situation become normal soon and Punekers get back to normal life again

Today I had a funny experience of missing Saturday. I am in Taipei these days at my office head office. It was a working day today, as it was adjusted last week(holiday on Friday) for long weekend, but I was not aware of this. 

Today morning I went to office around 10:30 AM, thinking will finish my pending work without any disturbace of meeting and all. But when I reached my office I found office was already open and everyone was in place and working. I was totaly confused and thought I must be misteking and today is friday :p . Now before I could have started my machine, Alex came and told me everybody is waiting for me for meeting :O . I was still in confused state and directly went to meeting room. During meeting also in back of my mind, I was thinking if its Friday or Saturday.. but I was then kind of assured that I must have misteken and its Friday only.

After meeting when I logged in into my machine and saw the day then realized ohh its Saturday ..

Today after opening my inbox, I saw a query regarding Cloud Computing. I found a nice video explaing Cloud Computing ancd would like to share with everyone.

Below is extract of article from Data Storage connection about Proware’s Epica 42 bay high density raid storage.

“The global leading data storage company, Proware Technology Corp announced to release EP4429, the first high density storage solution of EPICa family, to meet the increasing needs of enterprise customers. As the first large storage provider in Taiwan, Proware is holding the 3rd place in global storage market associated benefits at cost-saving of supplies, space, and power consumption, EP4429 provides.

EPICa RAID system is the new generation of RAID products capable of supporting SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and SATA drives. In order to meet the needs of its enterprise level customers, Proware chose the Seagate Barracuda ES Hard Drive family product. “Seagate’s Barracuda ES and ES.2 enterprise drives are designed for RAID and new applications where high capacity, high reliability, low power consumption and tolerance to rotational vibration (RV) are primary requirements” said Brian Wickman, executive director, Seagate Taiwan and Korea.” read all

I came across a informative video about Xen. Ross Chevalie talking about Xen and how important of Virtualization in future. Also explains para-virtulization.

This weekend I attended two day workshop on film making organized by MovieMechanix. It was a wonderful experience, though in very short time, They told us all basics and do’s and dont’s for movie making. As a spectator I never thought about details of film making, but after attending workshop I got clear picture, How many things and stages are required in Film Making. So many thing needs to be planned.

Even the worst movie we had watched so far, it had also required too many efforts

Film making can be broadly classified into three stages.

1. Pre-Production: It involves script writing, Direction ( Director interpretation of script, selecting actors, rehearsals, Visual and sound choices.

2. Production :It Involves use of camera (angle, movement, lenses, camera position, lightning etc) , Art Direction, choosing Actors and make them act according to script .

Using camera is very tactful and it one of more effective tool which gives meaning of a shot.

3. Post Production : Most time consuming part Editing and adding sounds. While editing one gives final touches to film and makes it watchable.

As for my first film making exp, I had only 1 evening( 2-3 hours) to think for story, script and to shoot i.e. the pre-production and production. Half day for editing. Anyhow late in evening I decided to make film on exams. So I caught Sonu ( My brother) and started discussing about story( just came in my mind while discussing, what should be story). As the restriction of 2 minutes for length of movie, I thought depicting a small dream of day before exam will fit best, So I explained him the story, and we started shoot by 8 PM. Dialogs we decided as the shoot goes . Took may retakes and did few rehearsals.

Finally, by 9 I was able to complete my shoot, and in morning I stated the editing part. completed my first short film of 2 minutes by 12 in noon . Though the final product was not gr8 but still thinking of first film making experience and in such short time, its not bad .

Its been long time, since I have not updated my blog. Though I had lot of stuff to write but my work and other activities has kept me away from updating my blog. Anyways.. I hope from now I will keep updating my blog on time.

I would like to share few things I did in last in last 6 months.

- Worked on raid6 implementation for our RAID Controller proSUN™. I got some good exposer on IOP331 for implementation of XOR engine for raid6. With raid6 we also successfully released proSUN™ 1.1

- Went for hiking in North-east Taiwan placed called Tsaoling along with my Taiwanese friends. You can find few pics here . It was really nice place with lot of natural fountains. We walked almost for more then 16 Kms. The path of trek was along with Pacific ocean, so the landscape views were amazing.

- Proware IDC made finally its presence on web. We build our website , though very simple yet, we will add more information in coming days. Thanks to IDC team and my friend Dheeraj Rai a.k.a Rai for their sincere help.

- Read few good books like Good to Great, iWoz, Future of Management and Founders at Work. You can visit my book shelf .

- Apart from work, I am also exploring Flex and its capabilities to power our( Paresh, Dheeraj and Me) few ideas and convert into something fruitful. You will read more about it more in coming days.

- Also studying Xen and would like to explore its capabilities along with my few office friends. Again in coming days you will read more about it in my blogs. Also we may like to engage few BE project students on such ideas. So I plan to start guiding projects students from this year.

Apart from all I missed few marriage’s of my very good friends . This week though I finally attended Sujay’s marriage. Spent two days in Nasik and did lot of photography .

Thats all.. for last 6 months, See you in next blog.

-Kunal