Srinivasa Mangapuram/Kalyana Venkateswara.

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Srinivasa Mangapuram is a small village near Tirupathi. Sri Kalyana Venkateswara Swamy Temple is located in this village. Legends say that Lord Venkateswara after his marriage with Godess Padmavathi stayed here for sometime before proceeding to Tirumala, as per Hindu customs newly married couples are not supposed to climb hills, such devotees can have darshan of Lord at this temple and attain moksha.

It is also said that individuals having trouble getting into wedlock can pray here and get rid of troubles. Kalyana Utsavam to the Lord is performed here every day. Devotees get rid of their troubles by attending this ritual. At the end of ritual the Priest ties kankana (Yellow thread) to the right hand of the Devotee...

Travellers can stay at Tirupati and visit temples around. Tirupati has quite a number of Good Hotels(Bliss, Bhimas, Fortune Kences, Mayura). Srinivasa Mangapuram is about 12 kms from Tirupati. Various modes of transport are available APSRTC runs buses from Tirupati , Shared Autos and Private Taxis are also available.

My New Motorola Ming......

When ever I visit my in-laws place at Tirupati I make it a point to visit Kapila Teertham Temple every day along with my wife. Unfortunately last week when I did this I lost my Motorokr E6.
I was very upset as I had recently purchased it after my Treo 650 was badly damaged. Loosing E6 meant losing 16000 Indian Rupees. Well I could not get it back as the person who found the phone would not lift my call :( . After trying for one week I gave up and my wife decided to gift me a new Phone. This time I got to choose the gift :).


I needed basic PDA functionality but nothing came near to my Palm Treo 650 for a descent price. I refused to buy a expensive phone as I had lost lot of money on my Palm Treo 650 and Motorokr E6. My wife still insisted so I decided to go for Motorola Ming aka Motorola A1200. It is a very cute phone and had all the basic PDA functionality I needed. It runs on Unix has Touch screen, Handwriting and speech recognition , 2 mega-pixel camera well here is the complete spec and feature list. It is a cute chick and I am loving it ......
I now need a iPod to play my Audible books(Treo 650 supported audible too..) . Darn!!! I miss my Palm Treo .....

My Library my life ....... Part 1

They say knowledge is power, and we have many ways to acquire knowledge. A Guru plays a important role in mentoring one's life. A Guru need not be a person in physical form, Guru can be in any form books, pictures, idol's, our surroundings,animals......

Here is my knowledge base, I share this to spread the existence of some good material to improve the quality of our life and change the way we live in this world. .....



Audible Books @ http://audible.com :
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• My Audible Books
  

1. How to Win Friends & Influence People (Unabridged) by Dale Carniege
2. A Shortcut to Good Grammar (Instant Scholar Series) by Living Language
3. Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
4. Primal Leadership (Unabridged) by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
5. The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
6. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
7. The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need by Peter B. Stark and Jane Flaherty
8. You're in Charge, Now What? by Thomas Neff and James Citrin
9. Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
10. Start Late, Finish Rich by David Bach
11. Getting to Yes (Unabridged) by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton of the Harvard Negotiation Project
12. The 8th Habit (Unabridged), Part 1 & Part by Stephen R. Covey
    

• My Audible Subscriptions :

1. Marketplace Money
2. Harvard Business Review
3. Forbes Magazine
4. Knowledge@Wharton

Text Books/Reference Books

• Technology
  

1. Applied Cryptography , Protocols Algorithms and Source Code in C by BRUCE SCHNEIER
2. Professional Java SOAP by Henry Bequet
3. Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Obejct -Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson,John Vlissides
4. IP Telephony Packet-based multimedia communications systems by Olivier Hersent,David Gurle and Jean-Pierre Petit.
5. Thinking in C++ by BRUCE ECKEL
6. The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J.Bach
7. Turbo C++ by Robert Lafore
   
8. ALGORITHMS by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L .Rivest
9. C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
10. Designing Web Services with J2EE 1.4 platform JAX-RPC, SOAP and XML Technologies by Inderjeet singh , Sean Brydon, Greg Murray, Vijay Ramachandran, Thierry Violeau, Beth Sterns
    
11. UML 2 Toolkit by Hans -Erik Eriksson, Magnus Penker,Brain Lyons, David Fado
12. JAVA Threads by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong
13. The unified Modelling Language Reference Manual by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
14. EJB Design Patterns Advanced Patterns,processes and Idioms by Floyd Marinescu
15. Concurrent Programming in JAVA Design Principles and Patterns by Doug Lea
16. Core J2EE Patterns Best practices and Design Strategies by Deepak Alur, John Crupi, Dan Malks
17. Practical Cryptography by Bruce Schneier and Neils Ferguson
18. Programming in C by Balaguruswamy E
19. Writing Unix Device Drivers by Geroge Pajari
20. Java Certification by Khalid A Mughal , Rolf W Rasmussen
21. Java Enterprise Design Patterns Vol 3 by Mark Grand
22. Effective TCP/IP Programming 44 Tips to Improve your Network Programs by Jon C. Sander
23. ASP.NET 2.0 security, Membership,Role Management by Stefan Schackow
24. Network Management Principles and Practice by Mani Subramanian
25. Unix Network Programming by W.Richard Stevens
26. Java Server Pages by Hans Bergsten
27. Java Server Programming J2EE Edition by Subhrahmanyam Allamaraju et. all
28. Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
29. Java Programming Language Third Edition by Ken Arnold, James Gosling,David Holmes
30. Mastering Enterprise Java Beans by Ed Roman,Scott W.Ambler, Tyler Jewell
31. Software Engineering by James F.Peter and Witold Pedrycz
32. J2EE Technology in Practice by Patricia Sueltz
33. JXTA by Sing Li
34. SNMP ,SNPM v2 , SNMP v3, RMON 1 and 2 by William Stallings
35. Unix Power Tools by Jerry Peek, Tim Orellly and Mike Koukides
36. Inside COM by Dale Rogerson
37. Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman
38. Principles of Compiler Design by Alfred V.Aho and Jeffery D.Ullman
39. Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices by William Stallings
    
40. Patterns in Java Vol 1 & 2 by Mark Grand
41. Unix Shell Programming by Yashwant Kanetkar
42. An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering by Pankaj Jalore
43. Object Oriented Programming with C++ by E Balaguruswamy
44. Pro Java EE5 Performance Management and optimization by Steven Haines
45. Expert One-on-One Oracle by Thomas Kyte
46. J2EE Sun certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE by Paul Allen and Joseph Bambara
47. Core Security Patterns Best Practices ad Strategies for J2EE,Webservices and Identity Management by Christopher Steel, Ramesh Nagappan, Ray Lai
48. Distributed Operating Systems Concepts and Design by Pradeep K and Sinha
49. XML Bible by Elliotte Rusty Harold
50. C# Programming Bible by Jeff Ferguson,et. all
51. Web Security Privacy and Commerce by Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford
52. Science of Living by Dr. N. GopalaKrishnan Scientist CSIR
    

• Aptitude/Language
  

1. Test of Reasoning by Edgar Thorpe
2. Primary Level Complete Grammar by Peter Yam
3. Grammar and Composition by Geetha Nagaraj
4. Course in Mental Ability and Quantitative Aptitude by Edgar Thorpe
5. Conversational Kannada by N.D Krishnamurthy and Dr. U.P Upadhyaya
6. Objective Arithmetic by R.S Aggarwal
7. High School English Grammar and Composition by Wren & Martin
8. Puzzles and Teasers by George J. Summers
   

• Spiritual / Management
  

1. Message of the Vedas - Dimanod Books
2. Winning in the Game of Life by TOM GEGAX
3. Relaxation Techniques by Prof Avinash Chandran
4. Save a Lot Invest Wisely by SLN Simha
5. Four Objectives of Human Life (Dharma,Artha,Kama,Moksha) by J.M.Mehta
6. One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Robert Lorber
7. Moral Stories by Jayadayal Goyandka
8. Instructive Eleven Stories by Jayadayal Goyandka
9. How to be a STAR at WORK by Robert E. Kelley
10. Simplified Physical Exercises by Thathuvagnani Vethathri Maharishi
11. Self Managing Leadership by Prajapita Bhrama Kumaris
12. The Nature of Consciousness in the Light of Raja Yoga, Gita and some other disciplines by B.K. Jagdish Chander Hassija
13. Education in Values by Bhrama Kumaris
14. Values of Better World by Bhrama Kumaris
    

• Books by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabupada founder of ISKON- BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST
  

1. The Quest for Enlightenment
2. Beyond Illusion and Doubt
3. Krishna- Pastimes of Krishna in Vrindavana
4. Dwarakadisha Krishna - Pastimes of Krishna in Dwaraka
5. The Nectar of Instruction
6. Civilization and Transcendence
7. SRI ISOPANISAD
8. Easy Journey to Other Planets
9. Civilization and Transcendence
10. Perfect Questions Perfect Answers
11. Message of The GITA
12. SRILA PRABHUPADA A Brief Life Sketch
13. The Journey of Self-Discovery
14. Laws of Nature
15. Srimad Bhagavatam - All Volumes
16. Narada Bhakti Sutra
17. KRSNA The Reservoir of Pleasure
18. The science of Self Realization
19. Teachings of Lord Kapila The son of Devahuti