About Me
In brief
Name: Priyank Thatte
Location: Toronto, Canada
Home town: Mumbai, India
Status: Full-time MBA Student
Interests: Nature/Outdoor, Travel, Indian Classical Music, Web designing, Photography, Yoga, Sleeping
Curious to read more?
Quick note (22-Apr-08): All the stuff on this page is OLD 
Take it with a cup of salt.
Priyank Thatte, born in Dombivli, a cultural hotspot of Mumbai, the financial capital of India, on a splendid rainy day of August 05 ‘81 claims to have created this website as a medium for expressing his random thoughts and idle musings. Priyank created this website in early 2000 and in all the time it existed, it has served no useful purpose to the world, other than to entertain himself. A true Leo and classic INTJ to the core, Priyank believes that he is a perfectionist, systematic and an intricate planner, while being fecundly intuitive and passionately creative at the same time. He clings to the phrase he coined “I believe I can fly” (which sometimes smacks of overconfidence and smartassedness).
Currently Priyank is in Toronto, Canada enrolled in a b-school for master’s degree in business administration (MBA). He previously worked hard as a Project Planner at Tecnimont ICB and Aker Kvaerner where he was chosen right after completing bachelor’s degree in Chemical engineering from Mumbai university. Occasionally he used to take up small web-design assignments that fetched him some extra income, which was promptly squandered on junk food and late night weekend parties. Alas at his present avatar as a student on debt, he thinks twice about buying the overpriced Canadian coffee.
This dude will do anything that you throw at him. His primeval instincts have driven him into doing weird things like bicycle expeditions in Konkan and Himalayas, hiking in Sahyadris and Himalayas, etc. while his grandma prays to God to put some sense into his brain. But she likes other things he does such as playing the Sitar and practicing Yoga. I think Priyank gave two solo Sitar performances so far and now he is going to be a Yoga teacher too! He now plans to explore Canadian cycling tracks and go riding across the neighborhoods.
Occasionally he loves raving some sentences in German or practising the pictorial Japanese scripts. His inextinguishable appetite for books or any reading material in general can be appreciated, but once he snatched a little twig of paper which the roadside food stall owner uses to wrap his goodies - now that’s annoying. He is always spotted with a book in his hand, which I believe is a habit he picked up from somewhere or someone (quote nothing sexier than a man who reads… unquote).
His rediscovered obsession is his camera - Canon Powershot A520 and he clicks endlessly with different camera settings under the pretext of “learning the manual controls”. Now who would want to play with lights and shadows when you’ve got the ‘Auto’ function in the camera!! Never mind.
Our guy likes to pretend that he is very busy with the activities mentioned above and often you will notice him grumble about lack of time (“24 hours a day is just too less”). Also, he sleeps six hours a day, dreams a lot, and claims to remember all of them after waking up. Nevertheless, he spends lot of time attending to his social and personal commitments which have resulted into a sizeable network of acquaintances.
Contact
Priyank loves to meet new people and he will usually reply to all nice emails he receives. You may ask him specific queries, comment in general on the website, or simply say ‘hi’.
Additionally, you are encouraged to leave your footprints by signing the Guest Book
E-mail: m a i l [a t] p r i y a n k [ dot ] c o m
Yahoo messenger: final_transit
About this website
History: This website came into existence in September 1999 when Priyank was barely getting introduced to the internet and was still in early stages of evolution (casual remark: at this rate, the process will never end). Consequently there was no mental vomit on this domain until the beginning of year 2001 when revision 2.0 was unveiled. Version 4.5 of this website, released in mid-August 2005, is the result of several developments - both technical (understanding of computers and internet) and mental (various complicated electrochemical processes in neural cells inside the brain) - over the period of time. Current version is 4.7, with significant upgrades. (Actually these numbers don’t really make sense, but anyways)
Core: This website does not use traditional tables, but works with absolute and relative positioning of CSS Layers. Additionally, the content and design have been explicitly separated, thus facilitating the implementation of themes. All webpages are designed to be W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0 Standards Compliant.
Software: This site has been hand-coded using Notepad, one of the few nice things Mr. Gates did, and TopStyle Pro which is a superb XHTML and CSS text editor, also supporting PHP. The Gimp and Paint Shop Pro 9 were used for image creation and editing. Tested successfully in Linux (Mandrake 10.1), Windows 98 and Windows XP using Firefox (v0.9, 1.06) Internet Explorer (v5.5, 6.0) and Opera (v6.01, 7.23) at all common screen resolutions. Rendered incorrectly in Windows 3.1 (Priyank loves it. weird!) and older versions of above browsers.
Weblog is powered by WordPress (WP). “Initially its difficult to understand how WP works. But once you bang your head against the wall, you’ll discover the power WP unleashes, and enjoy the way it supports php templates, stylesheets and modularization in general”, is how Priyank describes it. “It was lot of fun, after several failed attempts, to create these themes (Prithvi, Agni, Jal, Aakash) for my website”, he adds.
Residual thoughts
None so far. You are welcome to add.
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#1
solti Dec 10, 2006 21:22excellent!!!!
i never knew u were sooo good…
lagey raho…
#2
Vaarun Vijairaghavan Jan 23, 2007 7:35dude, how sad it is that now, you are going to get reduced to trekking between home and Schulich, reading nothing but textbooks and sleep three hours a day
But really yaar, this is a really wonderful website. It suddenly feels like I know you better. Best of luck man!
Vaarun.
#3
Aashish Jan 23, 2007 10:38Great site Puku, you are inspiring me .. we are going to have to talk about this soon.
Looking forward to see your reflection on your first assignment
Aashish
#4
Yoga Position For Beginners Feb 15, 2007 7:26I didn´t know you were that good, man. alrgiht keep it up! congrats!
#5
Ananya Mukherjee Reed Mar 12, 2007 17:37I am at York too!
#6
Chunrong Mar 17, 2007 8:55Hi, Puku.
Fabulious web.(I will make you crazy about my spelling. Ha!)
Now I realy believe you can fly.
#7
Vi Mar 18, 2007 10:14Dombivili, eh? Small world. I lived there until I was 8 years old.
(West side).
#8
neela Mar 22, 2007 6:09Hey what is your problem about isarali guyz man ? just take light and remove tht stuff if possible for you…
- Neela
#9
Alpana Kulkarni Apr 11, 2007 0:52Genius… Perfect!!!
Wooww… What a style of introduction!! Flattered!
Keep writing. Nice blog!
#10
Vaibhav Apr 11, 2007 21:13Hi kasa ahes? this is my number: 001 320 761 8663
#11
ExLabordiner Apr 12, 2007 7:40Please, give me contact address (email or msn) of this site administrator…
Thanks!
#12
hans Apr 20, 2007 17:00please fly over for a weekend blogging..))
kindest
hans
Istanbul
#13
Vijay Pal Singh May 09, 2007 1:40How do you know about Banjar and Shringi Rishi Maharaj Temple.
Vijay.
#14
ajoba May 17, 2007 7:41You are a GENIUS !!! I am sure you will look forward to the maximum height !!!
#15
vinaya aatya May 17, 2007 7:44Too kool…!!!! enjoyed reading ..!!!
#16
Job Blogger May 31, 2007 5:36Hi Priyank,
I liked your bio.
Your blog has an amazing design too.
Would love to use any such design for my blog.
All the best.
#17
Mahendra Palsule Jun 09, 2007 8:42One of the best “About Me” pages I’ve ever read!
The “I didn’t know you were so…” comments prove you’re a real INTJ!
Will spend more time reading your blog in the coming days…
#18
Madhavi Sanghamitra Jun 23, 2007 11:28Hi, can’t seem to figure out how I came across your page, but you seem reasonably insane which is a quality not appreciated adequately. And therefore, as a reasonably insane person myself am forwarding an invite to you… We havent figured it as well, but if you can take some time out , would be grateful if you might let me know what you think of it..
Madhavi Sanghamitra Bhatia
here goes….
the invitation – “a call”
This is a call to build a cross-cultural, cross-regional, cross-racial, multi-skilled organization. Today, we are based out of UK and India. So far, we are one half-English, half-Chinese British holistic healer, one completely English & completely focused journalist, one very passionate Indian travel writer, one South African-Bosnian compelling storyteller, one very Indian, very British business woman, one tactical Indian food journalist cum senior editor, two Indian entrepreneurs and a Star Wars light saber sword wielding Indian programmer.
Clearly, we’re not adding up.
So if there is a book you want to publish, music you want to write, a chartbuster you haven’t sung, a game you want to develop, a river you want to save, a news you want to post, a road you haven’t traveled on, an island you haven’t sailed to, people you haven’t met, consciousness you want to expand, or maybe have a world to save, come aboard. Share your ware and see if you’ve got takers.
If you have been there, done that already, that’s great – show us how! And if it is something you still haven’t, take a shot now. If you can do it alone - brilliant, if you need people to make it happen, better. Write your idea/project/wish. Work on somebody else’s idea and expand your talent. Create a collaborative platform where we can pool-in our skill-sets and make things happen. Where help is not a four letter word and where “we” scores over the “I”. Where impossible becomes possible if we just collaborate.
It’s fun and everybody’s invited! …It’s fun and you are entitled to have it! …
a call
There is something about you,
And it isn’t quite yet said
There is something about me,
But I am not that sure
There is something about here,
That might lead us somewhere
There is something about now
That escapes us somehow
Could there be an “us”,
Could there be a “we”?
Can we lose the “I”
Without losing “me”?
I have something to say
You have something to show
Where’s the perfect stage?
Who will be host?
How about now?
How about here?
Can you…
Work at the edge - in word, in color, in clay, or in song?
Be a page that might get words wrong?
Hold the hand that brushes a blank canvas?
Light a flicker of a moment
Write a song within a drone
Bounce the ball that becomes a winning goal?
There is something to be built
We’re not quite sure what it is
We’ll build it with words,
We’ll build it with songs,
We’ll break down clichés
To make it strong
We’ll shout when we triumph
And laugh if we’re wrong
The idea is here
Who will be the first to dare?
It’s fun, so who do you want invited?
PS For the rest of us who just like to watch, please don’t give it a miss. Don’t we all just love an audience?!
#19
Priyank Jul 18, 2007 14:27hi my name is also priyank
#20
Mahendra Palsule Jul 19, 2007 16:30Hi Priyank,
You’ve been tagged.
Regards,
Mahendra
#21
Priyank.com [Priyank Thatte] » schöne Tag Jul 20, 2007 20:03[…] Done! Damn… I can write fifty more! I’ve already rambled a lot here… […]
#22
AltaGid Aug 20, 2007 22:17Hello! Help solve the problem.
Very often try to enter the site, but says that the password is not correct.
Regrettably use of remembering. Give like to be?
Thank you!
#23
Mahendra Palsule Aug 21, 2007 14:54For some reason, your site is acting very unresponsive and loading very slowly since yesterday. I’m not sure if it’s a problem localized to me. But once I even got this Wordpress error:
“Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at mysql12.powweb.com. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.”
Feel free to delete this comment after you’ve looked into it.
#24
Priya Sep 06, 2007 14:40Niiice! neat place you got here!
will be back when I have more time on my hands and roam around..
#25
Rambodoc Sep 25, 2007 23:38Interesting to see your pictures. You clearly have seen more of the world (at least India!) than I have, though 1981 was when I had pubic hairs….
#26
Neo Nov 23, 2007 17:00nice intro page…and we share more things in common…one of them is birthday
#27
naisioxerloro Nov 28, 2007 10:22Hi.
Good design, who make it?
#28
priyank pawar Dec 02, 2007 6:52hi, i am also priyank reside at amravati from maharashtra. i just searching about our name meaning or something which related abt our name and fortunately i got your web side .i am proud of yr work which you have done thank u .
priyank
#29
shilpa Jan 16, 2008 5:13wow da…simply awesome !!! !!!
#30
piyusha Feb 01, 2008 7:10oh…. u r funny and serious at the same time. gud to read
#31
Deepika Feb 11, 2008 0:01Impressive! i.e., the ‘about me’ page. Will check the rest at leisure.
#32
Movie Quirks « Tech and Trek Mar 17, 2008 6:54[…] give the whole tagging thing a pass but would welcome others, who would like to take up these meme. Priyank , Bachodi r u […]
#33
prax Mar 17, 2008 23:49dude there are no compulsions ! dont bother if u dont have the time
#34
Minal Mar 18, 2008 3:37please let mr. priyank know that it was nice to read about him.
he seems like an interesting character!!
#35
Amit Mar 18, 2008 14:18Hi Priyank,
Nice to know you’re interested in yoga and sitar - two of my interests too. Well, Indian classical music in general, which includes sitar. Have you played at a public concert in Toronto or elsewhere? I think Boston is having a classical music festival in a month or so.