barber - barbaric

I usually have my hair cut in my native place (after I moved to Chennai; very difficult to communicate for me where to trim and how much to trim in Tamil) - some times in Vizag too.


This time when i was in Vizag I went to a saloon nearby and was waiting for my turn (on Sunday). Next to the saloon couple of butcher shops were selling meat. Because of more demand, the meat was finished in no time. At this point, a boy of aged around 12-15 years of age was killing the chicken & lamb in a barbaric way. I couldn't see it and didn't want to explain - it is barbaric and savage killing. whatever is the reason - irrespective of hunger or taste for meat. it is cruel and couldn't stop myself to slap that bastard - didn't do it and didn't want to singled out at that point. Coincidentally a temple (Durga goddess) is just opposite to the butcher shop.


In another situation during lunch at office - one of my colleague is favoring to allow beef meat or any animal (who are willing to eat) meat to fill the gap.

I don't want to argue as i have no answers - this is the only place :)


/Srinivas

a tip on pivot charts

when plotting bar charts using pivot tables, it is little difficult to hide/delete unwanted rows:

for example the below pivot chart shows some data for years 2012 and 2013 spreading over months. But it is not important to show the data for future months - or other wise any month which is not important. If we try to delete a row for a month let us Jan or Feb of 2013, in pivot chart or table, Jan or Feb of 2012 will go out of the bar chart.

To get the correct representation, go to pivotTableOptions->Display-> select "Classic pivot table layout"

The table will be shown in expanded form with years and months. copy the pivot table data and paste into another sheet (only values). Delete the unwanted rows. and plot a bar chart . Then you will get like this: for example, i dont want to represent the data of Sep 2012, and March to Dec of 2013.

September 2012,, and March to Dec of 2013 are not shown in the above chart.

This is one easy way of getting bar chart when we wanted to show data with zero values.

I faced lot of issues to get this done, in the mean time i had to do some image manipulation. but this one is clean.

child hood memories

Some child hood memories:

Until higher secondary education, i had no specific interest in watching particular movies or songs.. of course one reason is we had no television in my home - it happened like that. So, to me and to my family very little interest over movies or entertainment. but some part of this is compensated by reading some novels, books, engaged in playing activities.

During my school days, we used to have tut ions after the school hours - one girl of my class will never come on time (our homes are near-by and used to go all-together). We had to wait at her home until she finished watching some of her favorite movie trailers - one such movie is "Gulabi". the movie has great songs, i realized very lately. Myself and my friends were so frustrated waiting  for her and could not find out why she is so obsessed with the movie and songs of that movie - i missed those moments, whatever is the reason first impression is the best one.


the other similar situation had happened with the movie - Gitanjali by Mani ratnam. During those days our neighbors bring VCD's and play during Sundays. Of all movies myself and my sister request my neighbor girl(we call her "akka" - elder sister) to play "Jagadeka veerudu athiloka sundari" - one of the greatest movie of all time in Telugu industry, a nice movie to watch by children at all times. But she used to play Gitanjali several times. i had to watch this movie "Gitanjali" with patience so that she will play the other one after she is bored with "Gitanjali" . no action, and the movie is very dull to my brain. I could not follow one song in "Gitanjali" - "ohh priya priya" - my brain is so small and absolutely no idea why the song is so sad and is so different from the context. Anyways, again this is another nice moment and missed great first experiences of such movies and songs in my child hood. of course age and exposure (circumstances) make difference.

Now, i am a different person :)