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In brief
Name: Priyank Thatte
Location: Toronto, Canada (unless he is traveling)
Work: MBA Student, Business Analyst
Interests: Nature/Outdoor, Travel, Indian Classical Music, Web designing, Photography, Yoga, Sleeping
Curious to read more?
Page updated on June 7, 2008. Personality of the subject is highly volatile and is subject to changes within the defined ambit.
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 uses adjectives quite liberally (as you just saw), 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 at the Schulich School of Business for master’s degree in business administration (MBA). He is also working as a Business Analyst (wow! finally a fancy title) at Hydro One, Ontario’s electricity distribution utility. 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.
Priyank insists that his life is not boring at all as you might have thought after reading the paragraph above. He loves to travel a lot and intends to have Visas of 10 countries on his passport by 2011. As of now he has Canada, USA, Israel and Peru, which is a good pace. Russia is going to be next. He desperately wants to travel to Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, all over South America and to Tanzania. Apart from travel, he loves his Sitar and uses it to produce some funny notes which he calls ‘music’. He shamelessly proudly plays at several gigs (restaurants, weddings, parties, etc) in Toronto that fetches him some extra income which is promptly squandered on junk food and shopping for stuff that will never be used. A century back, Priyank was a Yoga teacher at York University, but currently he claims to be working on researching about beers and therefore his favorite line is “Yes, round is a shape.”
Since he lives by himself (more or less), his thoughts while biking to and from work are often preoccupied with grocery lists, laundry logistics, dishes and he passionately talks about rising commodity prices and relating that to the fancy Economics jargon he is learning at school. Priyank dismisses the idea of single tasking and calls it inefficient. “Life is too short to do one thing at a time. All activities, except recreational sex, are dominated by the use of one or two sensory organs and there is no reason to keep the other three idling.”
Occasionally he loves raving some sentences in German or practising the pictorial Japanese scripts. He is currently learning Russian at full speed and next year he wants to start Hebrew now. His inextinguishable appetite for books or any reading material in general is attributable to a quote he read on some gay blog that went - “Nothing sexier than a man who reads.”
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, simply say ‘hi’, or offer him a drink (last one works best).
E-mail: m a i l [a t] p r i y a n k [ dot ] c o m
Priyank isn’t shy about meeting you either, if you are around downtown Toronto, let him know and he will show up on a bike. He hates cars because they consume oil, damage the environment and cause pollution. He also hates cars because he doesn’t own one.
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 4.75, with significant upgrades. (These numbers don’t really make sense, do they?)
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 (Ubuntu 10.1), Windows 98 and Windows XP using Firefox (latest build) 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.
excellent!!!!
i never knew u were sooo good…
lagey raho…
dude, 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.
Great 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
I didn´t know you were that good, man. alrgiht keep it up! congrats!
I am at York too!
Hi, Puku.
Fabulious web.(I will make you crazy about my spelling. Ha!)
Now I realy believe you can fly.
Dombivili, eh? Small world. I lived there until I was 8 years old.
(West side).
Hey what is your problem about isarali guyz man ? just take light and remove tht stuff if possible for you…
- Neela
Genius… Perfect!!!
Wooww… What a style of introduction!! Flattered!
Keep writing. Nice blog!
Hi kasa ahes? this is my number: 001 320 761 8663
Please, give me contact address (email or msn) of this site administrator…
Thanks!
please fly over for a weekend blogging..))
kindest
hans
Istanbul
How do you know about Banjar and Shringi Rishi Maharaj Temple.
Vijay.
You are a GENIUS !!! I am sure you will look forward to the maximum height !!!
Too kool…!!!! enjoyed reading ..!!!
Hi 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.
One 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…
Hi, 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?!
hi my name is also priyank
Hi Priyank,
You’ve been tagged.
Regards,
Mahendra
[...] Done! Damn… I can write fifty more! I’ve already rambled a lot here… [...]
Hello! 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!
For 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?
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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.
Niiice! neat place you got here!
will be back when I have more time on my hands and roam around..
Interesting 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….
nice intro page…and we share more things in common…one of them is birthday
Hi.
Good design, who make it?
hi, 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
wow da…simply awesome !!! !!!
oh…. u r funny and serious at the same time. gud to read
Impressive! i.e., the ‘about me’ page. Will check the rest at leisure.
[...] give the whole tagging thing a pass but would welcome others, who would like to take up these meme. Priyank , Bachodi r u [...]
dude there are no compulsions ! dont bother if u dont have the time
please let mr. priyank know that it was nice to read about him.
he seems like an interesting character!!
Hi 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.
[...] a sheer torture, because the keyboard placements are a mystery to most humble souls. But Priyank, the net गुरु, showed me the way of the the master blogger and communicator who uses multiple languages to [...]
Hi, mate my name’s Priyank too. I stay in bhandup,mumbai. Nice to hear that you still are intreseted and have great respect for Indian culture. Dont you ever visit India ?. I am an 1st year engg. student. What have you done? Engg….?
loved your travelogues
Hi Priyank,
Landed up on your blog thru Zhu (Thanks Zhu!) Loved your name & Loved your blog too
I will be regular visitor now!
Take care,
Ann
Thats an awesome introduction … I liked your site … Dude just wanted to know how you are managing your expenses of travel while you are still a student?
Nice piece for work…
So nice of you to leave a comment on my blog, thank you!
I have lost my old favorites (blame FireFox!), and enjoy having your url back up on my new list!
I will be back when I have a bit more time on my hand (or am not as powered out as I am right now *g*).
Good luck!
Hi Priyank,
Came across your blog through a listing of top Indian blogs.
I am still going through your Andean explorations. It is simply amazing.
A superb blog. Please accept my compliments.
Cheers!!!
hey dude!!
stumbled upon ur site just like that!!..and im so glad abt it
its wonderful that you stay true to ur dream n travel that much..
hope to see u soon in india..on a fantastic trek i suppose!!
enjoy!!
your site is looking like sify or any other good site
Nice to know you, accidentally ended up visiting your blog, was a pleasure being here. Thanks.
That was winter of 2000, i thought let me find something related with my name , and till that date i really visited your site and always surprised that u managed to put your website with all new feature and each time i got something new, however i couldn’t find your face on this website as i was so curious to see you, and finally i found that as i saw your pictures uploaded on site, i am really impressed with all you achievements, your cycle visit from goa , your blogs always gave a good ideas of writing blog in an exiting way. your comments everything seem managed and worked a lot to make them wonderful . i really appreciate your work on your website. best of luck for you future prospects. have dude…
it looks even better now. love the new ‘gateway’ and the welcome address.
Hi webmaster. Good Work!
lol
inspiring design
i am impressed.
Think i am going to be a regular at your site.
hi there..came across ur blog frm my friend Jo’s blog.. I guess you are a regular visitor there..
I read thru some of the replies that u hav written as an answer to his blogs and found them to be very good.. Me and Jo recently had a tug or words between some comments that i hav posted in his blog in the “Myth: Relgion is tolerance” post… I wud lik u to go thru my posts there and giv an honest opinion to what u think i hav posted.. thannx a lot.. 
PS: I think ur blog rocks..
Love your site, and everything you write.
Do be in contact when you’re in Tel Aviv next year.
All the best.