I used to be a hesitant kid, poor in physical coordination, not very good looking, good at studies and computers, an obedient son, a deserving student, the class topper, not very popular, bad at sports, and so on. That was my self-summary in 2003.

Anyways, moving on from there, though I am still most of those things, all that has been neatly covered in a shining sheet of confidence, coordination, communication skills, popularity, a lot of thinking (and not just thinking but actually generating thoughts that people can relate with and appreciate), a responsible employee of Yahoo! India R&D (whom the senior people can trust with things, who can deliver things and handle crisis situations) and so on.

I find that there are many people living inside me, inside the same physical body. A person, generally has one streamlined thought process, a singular conscious state. Instead of that, inside me reside multiple opinions, conflicting, contradicting with ideas and opinions I have previously generated. Sometimes I think that some particular solution is the best thing, the right thing, the most beneficial thing to do. And in some other moment (which might be a little distant temporally), I fear that my solution is dragging me down, its the thing that will ruin everything.

I am stable to an acceptable extent, though my few close friends differ on this. This is because I am two persons, one is the Software Engineer, Anurag Singh Rana, working at Yahoo! India R&D, a 22 year old guy, with a great resume, a great future, supposed to be really sensible and all that. The other person is Anurag (or Anu or Rag), real friendly, very childish, annoying sometimes, unorganized, irresponsible, impulsive and so on.

I am left handed. Well, my 'used-to-be' best friend (name not disclosed) was really amazed by left handed people. When she came to know about my 'ailment' of being left handed, she was jumping for hours about it. Yeah, most things aren't made for me (where the hand matters), but there are other cool things, like I can write and use a mouse at the same time. Sometimes I get annoyed by people who pretend that I am some alien they're seeing.

I am open to discussion, thoughts, ideas, new ventures, anything that is included in 'non-abusive' conversation between two human beings. I think a lot about various things, both real, unreal, imaginary, of the past and the of the future to come. I generally am very flexible about my opinions, but I fight back hard when someone just tries to force his opinion no matter what.

I am not very fit, and I am working on it. Thanks to my friends and office colleagues, I've become motivated enough to join a fitness program, though I am very irregular and irresponsible about it.

I am single. But still, I have not joined this site to find a soul mate, or to get involved in any kind of adult conversation.

Its difficult to annoy me. I don't get pissed off easily. So, if we stop talking, its most probably you who'd get fed up of me rather than the other way around.

Thats pretty much it, what do you think?

Its a tricky question. What am I doing with my life? Well, most of the times, life does things with us, instead of we deciding its course. Forces of nature, the survival of the fittest have forced me to pursue the life I am pursuing right now. I am really good at, well, scoring in examinations.

So, somehow, I cleared the first race of my life, when my school selected me to study there, through a written test in English. To put things in the right context, I didn't know English beyond A B C D...Z and a few words like cat rat bat. My parents worked hard with me, to teach me some basic language, and I don't really remember how I managed it.

I was a good student, a quick learner, slow at forgetting, precise at recalling, concise in answering. All my life, I've been one of the first 5 people to leave an examination hall, irrespective of the number of people in it. And I've been one of the top scorers always.

In 2003, I, stood against 300000 others, and beat 299000 of them. This helped me join IIIT, Hyderabad where I finished my BTech. (equivalent to BS) and managed to get recruited by the company who runs the most visited web network in the world, Yahoo!. It was a dream come true, and I am still living it.

I don't know the future ahead, its really very hazy right now. I am very ambitious, I want to leave a mark of my own on this world. A mark which wont be forgotten ever, though it seems close to unachievable. But I believe its better to try and lose than to regret not trying when you were young and had time left on this planet.

Really good.. this term almost removes anything I could possibly add to this list. I could probably mention a few activities that I do, and I am somewhat better than newbies in those.

I know programming, and can write fairly complex applications in various computer languages. I know website designing, and I can pretty much do most things that anyone in this world can. I can play cricket, badminton, foosball, football, volleyball. I have a reasonably good capacity of running on the treadmill, cycling and so on.

I am really good at making friends. But that has a meaning. I am really good at supplying a friend that someone needs, rather than myself taking him as a friend. Yeah, eventually I choose some of the people I interact with to be my friends, but all of them get a feeling that I take them to be friends. Maybe its deceptive, but if someone was concerned enough to ask about it, I openly tell them the truth.

First thing people notice about me is that I don't talk to them much. I am kind of introvert at the beginning of a friendship. It requires an effort from the other side to force me into friendship.

I am a little fat, but I am working on it.

I generally don't read much, so there are no favorite books.

Movies. There are a lot of movies I like, English and Hindi. In English ones, I like.. Sixth Sense, 50 First Dates, You've got mail, City of Angels(... ohh Meg Ryan is my favorite)... In hindi movies, there are an infinite number... this is a small subset... Duplicate, Main Hoon Na, Hera Pheri, Sholay, Tum Bin.. etc.

I generally listen to Hindi music, any kind. In English music, I listen to Backstreet Boys, Avril, Enrique .. in a very limited domain.

I like all sort of Indian food. I prefer chicken when eat non-vegetarian stuff. I am allergic to prawns. I don't like sea-food either. And I hate Chinese. Give me anything Indian, or a pizza, a burger or sandwich, and I am up for it.

Physically speaking, Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Treatment and Protection from wild animals.

Emotionally speaking, my parents, my friends, my family, Linux, Yahoo!, Second life.

Spiritually speaking, Freedom, Peace, Humanity, Brotherhood, my faith in God, my consciousness.

Ecologically speaking, All flora and fauna, the ozone layer, the earth, the delicate mixture of atmospheric gases, the sun and the moon.

Biologically speaking, my blood, my heart, my brain, my kidneys, my soul and other organs.

Thoughtfully speaking, ... well here is a copied phrase... "I think, therefore I am" ... all I need is... the inner self.. that is called "I".

Ah... forget it, no more speaking.

There is a device, which has some couple of million inputs. Inside, there are circuits that take the inputs, apply some non linear functions on these inputs and then pass on the signal only if the result exceeds a certain threshold. This whole network has millions of such switches, and is connected to millions of output nodes. The circuit is peculiar for the fact that it can change itself, grow or shrink, change some functions, some thresholds, and so on. And it is known that a few billion such machines exist today.

If that wasn't clear, each of these machines refers to all the human brains around. And I too have one. I guess that gives you an idea about "what I spend a lot of time thinking about".

I used to go out with friends on Friday nights. But, at least since about an year, Friday is the day to relax. After a tiring week of work, I resurrect myself, recollect my lost energy, and mostly sleep.

If its really painful to keep thinking in the mind, I start blogging.

I don't have a thing to reveal here. One reason is that a 'secret' for you might be 'just another thing' for my close friends. And a 'secret' for them might not be appropriate to disclose here. Just ask me if you are interested enough to know something.

No criterion. Just message me. But please don't expect that I'll be prompt in replying back, sometimes its months before I open this site.