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love you facebook

Amit Gupta — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:35 +0000

Love the facebook’s tagging feature with face detection. It identifies tisya and my face as one.

naming our baby daughter

Amit Gupta — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:48:56 +0000

Holi this year splashed million of colors in our life and brought a colorful bundle of joy in our life. we become proud parents of a little angel.

So the next daunting task after settling the hospital bill (she was born at the cradle, gurgaon) was to find a name for our princess. I would like to mention and thanks Cradle for the amazing hospitality during our 3 day stay. They have brilliant set of medical staff on duty to take care of all little things.

Coming back to naming, we had very simple requirements (really !!!).

Primary:

a) name should have origin from Sanskrit language

b) should have positive meaning in major languages

c) Should be less than 7 characters

d) Should not be as common as Amit and Monica

e) available domain name, preferably first name

Secondary:

a) easy to spell & pronounce

b) should not have 10 more child with same name in close relative and friends

c) Should sound good with Singhal our actual surname (Yes, Gupta is a generic surname for bania community).

Most important : Both of us should agree to it (That means my wife has the final authority).

So the search begin and i trusted my best search buddy for this , who else Google. And Google didn’t disappoint us by returning About 61,000,000 results (0.11 seconds) for ‘baby name’.

Try refining to Sanskrit baby names and Google gives About 244,000 results (0.29 seconds) Simple isn’t it. I still love Google. Okie so the job was to pick a name matching the above criteria from baby name sites and also few other suggestions as shared by family and friends. Some of them are:

a) www.babynology.com

b) www.indianhindunames.com

c) http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com

d) www.birthvillage.com

and many more… (oh yes there are these excel sheet for anyone interested to download)

a) baby boy names b) baby girl names

But finally after close to two and a half month later we finalized our princess name “Tisya”. By that time even our daughter get bored of nodding to all the names and meaning we keep fighting on.

So, Tisya is a 5 character word which has a origin in Sanskrit language and means “Auspicious” and now tisya.in host a photo-blog of our daughter. phew ! job well done and finished , at least we thought so.

The next step is to get a birth certificate of our daughter… means locking horns with one more government deptt. updating soon…

It’s time to retire now

Amit Gupta — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:19:07 +0000

I am announcing my retirement today from active working life. I have spend quite a lot of my quality time and effort in building a retirement estate for my self. And now i feel like a chilling out and enjoying the fruit of my efforts well spend.

It was not an easy decision to quit. The ever lasting greed of earning more and more & never ending race to beat the world keep pulling me back to it. But then I set a target for my self and determined to stick to it. I wanted to retire in style and man i think i have achieved it.

My dream estate boost of a retirement villa with orchid , vegetable farm , stud farm, dairy , chicken and pig farm, small pond with lots of swans. Oh did I forgot to mention a entertainment arena with elephants and much more for my visiting friends and family.

Looks like a self sustained ecosystem , jealous… huh wanna see.

Click on the image above to have full view

Isn’t this beautiful, ok stop admiring it now.

But retirement is also not that easy a job, it’s now time to feed the cattle and pluck some ripe fruits & vegetables.

So catchya later.

BTW you need to be invited to visit my farm. Invitations can be sought at http://facebook.com/amitguptaz or tweet me @amitguptaz

Long time no see

Logging out from makaan.com

Amit Gupta — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:32:47 +0000

Now when i am logging off as a product manager for makaan.com after two and a half year, i am tempted to peep into the past and relive some of the moments that i’ll cherish for life. My session with makaan begins with an email request (typical web 2.0 style) to aditya verma (business head & vp, makaan.com ) and i got the invite to join in the core team to build a real estate portal.

First day @ makaan My Laapy

We started out with a small team in a makeshift office in south extn before moving to beautiful building in gurgaon. We started in a typical start-up environment with a daunting task of going commercial in the least possible time. But this gave me a rare opportunity to work and understand every aspect of setting up a new business and felt like an entrepreneur.

The proud moment arrived on August 15, 2007 when we formally launched makaan. I lived so many sweet and sour experiences during my stay with makaan. Few of them become part of my blog and can be read below and rest will stay etched in my memory for ever.

- Offsite visit with makaan tech team (& family) to Chamba, Tehri dam and Mussorie.

- Endless wait in aircrafts for takeoff.
- I become a jealous economy class traveler (I pass it of as austerity).
- Been an alien in my own country.
- I spend a night at airport terminal.
- Completes 1 year @ Makaan
- Offsite to daman with software team
- Launch of makaan mobile application
- Launch of makaan 2.0
- Offsite to karjat with product team

Some more unforgettable moments captured on camera

Team makaan on second anniversary

What next ????

I’ll be logging into the domain of social bookmarking. To know more details keep watching this space or add this page to your favorite (web 1.0 style) or better bookmark this page

My new N95

Amit Gupta — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:24:21 +0000

Now why have I got a new N95 without having a poll on facebook and asking for opinion on model on make. Couple of reasons, firstly I have done it very recently for my Nokia E63 and more importantly why would my friends spare time for it. But on second thought they might have its better than stupid facebook applications to find out what flower, color, actor, emotion, ghost. But that’s a different story… coming back to my N95.

This white beauty come with certain exclusive privileges. Just flaunt it and you get preferential treatment at almost all outlets. I have experienced it at bank, chemist and the grocery shop today. All the experiences are worth sharing.

My first encounter with royalty was at bank today. Being saturday branch was only open for half day and there was a long queue. But as soon as I entered the branch, an executive escorted me to the teller and my job was done in less than a minute. I was the center of attraction and maybe jealousy (I can see in their eye). This was my shortest stay in a bank branch in last 15 years.

My second stop was a chemist shop. Needed some medicine for my viral fever. And surprize surprize I was the first one among the 10 odd aspirants to be attented to. I was through with my transaction and out of shop in flat 5 minutes again.

Last but not the least , same treatment was dolled out for me at the gracery shop. Everyone paved way for me to the busy cash counter. My daily shopping was never so convinient but thanks to my N95 , I was feeling like the king.

I am down with viral and wanted to wear a mask as a precaution. My brother in law got me N95 out of love , affection or fear, God knows.

PS : N95 is the mask I am wearing in the above photos to prevent spread of virus. Any resemblence of name to mobile is purely dilebrate.

Rules of life

Rules of life

Amit Gupta — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:38:00 +0000

Rule of life from an email doing rounds (Claiming these are actually delivered in a high school speech by Bill Gates). Whatever they sound very realistic and the best is kept for the last.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Shades of me

Amit Gupta — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:58:03 +0000

Logging out from makaan.com