About me

Who Am I :
    My name is Onkar Shinde, born and grown in Aurangabad. I have done my B.E. in computer science from P. E. S. College of Engineering, Aurangabad (Maharashtra, India).

I admire :
    My brother for taking right decisions at right times.

I like :
    1) Making new friends. 2) Reading books (any other than political) 3) Watching movies 4) Listening to soft music

I dont like :
    Wasting time doing useless things.

I love :
    Spending time with friends.

I hate :
    Loosing friends.

My best friends :
    They aren't few to name here.

My favourite books include :
   English :
       Bullet For Bullet (An autobiography of super cop Julio Riberio)
       Doomsday Conspiracy (Sydney Sheldon)
       Hound of Baskerville (Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
       The Unexplained (A Reader's Digest production)
       Chariots Of Gods (Erien Von Daniken)
   Marathi :
       Mee Maza (Short poems by Chandrashekhar Gokhale)
       Virus, Preshit, Waman Parat Na Ala (All sci-fi novels by Dr. Jayant Naralikar)
       Saata Samudraacha Sultan
             (Translation of 'Twenty Thousand Ligues Under The Sea (Jule Vern)' by late B. R. Bhagwat)
       All the 'Faster Fene' stories by late B. R. Bhagwat
       Bolgani (Poems by Mangesh Padgaokar)


Some of my good experiences :
    Seven nights spent at in the tent feeling cool breeze all night, in NCC camp at Khultabad in 8th standard.
    Telling jokes to my room-mates with lights put off after 10:00 pm at SSB interview in Mysore.
    Visit to tank museum at Ahmad Nagar. This museum is world's second and Asia's first in order of establishment.


Some of my bad experiences :
    A journey of 34 hours in train from Banglore to Aurangabad via Purna which included
i) 24 hours in fully flooded general coach of Humpi Express (worse than a passenger train) with all night spent sitting on suitcase having no sleep at all & only one friend to accompany me till Beedar
ii) Missed destination (Parbhani) due to sleep
iii) 4 hours spent with a stranger having dinner with him and sleeping on road out side station waiting for next train at Purna.

I am proud of :
    My mother who is very good teacher and a tolerant person.
    My first school - Anant Vidya Mandir - that gave me all the good qualities I have.

My assets :
    My memory (It specially likes to play with numbers).

Qualities I want to develop :
    Good decision making capacity.

My motto :
    Live for the present and think for the future.

What others think of me :
    Some find me a cool person while some find me careless.
    Some always like to make fun of me and some like to spend time with me.
    Some think that I am of jolly nature while some think I am lazy.
    For some I am mentally strong & for others I am extremely thrifty.

If you want to become my friend:
    According to a latest survey only one out of eighty people get true friends. You will be damn lucky.