The Instinct !

In sanity !

2012-02-08T00:29:00.001+05:30

Writing after long.. Blame the overrated course called ‘Yem Bee Yea’, otherwise I’d’ve been an established author by now with 100 books published :P Ok sarcasm n jokes apart, Today I’m gonna talk some sense. Or something that I think is sense :D

You know… We all aspire for things in life...! To become this, that. To get here. To get there. No, there’s nothing wrong in it. One must…. I say…… aspire, dream and work hard for it. I have learnt it the hard way. Point I am going to make here is not to discourage one from working hard. But this will certainly soothe pain of those who have aspired for something but achieved something lesser. Believe me, it happened for a reason. It is not about accepting the defeat. It’s just about facing the reality.

So, we aspire for things in life. Right? But on what basis?

We evaluate whether our abilities, capabilities are enough for us to get there, thus considering only those aspects of ourselves which are positive. But I feel, what we eventually get is something that also takes into account our negatives. This is where my philosophy of life starts, I have learnt this from experiences- personal and around me. So my examples would be related to engineering, MBA, PG entrances to put it broadly, cos that’s where I come from as on 7-2-2012. :P

So, It’s like looking at a company and analyzing it. You are awed by looking at the assets and come to establish that the company is doing good! But the picture is incomplete until you check its liabilities and check whether company is able to pay back the debt while in the condition it is in.
Or….. say it’s like looking at a PnL statement… Looking only at the Sales Revenue is not correct. You also need to account for what’s your ‘Cost’ to come to the actual Profit—i.e. what you are actually worth of.

Similarly, rather than only concentrating on positives, one must also consider negatives while expecting something in life. Now, one is not so capable of evaluating oneself so critically as to get a true picture of what he deserves. So leave it up to Him i.e. God !

To substantiate this with an example:
Take my case, I thought I am fairly good to crack CAT and therefore I took the exam with an expectation of getting into an IIM. I certainly expected more than what I could perform/resist/realize. Or, say, I did not consider my drawbacks but only strengths. Fine, but what I landed up with finally? ---> Something that was in equilibrium with what I am. Something that suited me. Something that matched my personality. Getting into IIM would have meant staying away from home. But today where I am, I’m not actually away from my home (just giving an example, eh) … And who took care of it? HE did! I got something that did justice to my positives but also by taking into consideration my negatives.

They say that- Jo apni marjee se nahi hota, wo USKI marjee se hota hai and that is always better.
That’s soo true. And believe me… USKI marjee is actually a complete package for you! The most you can do, to increase the odds of getting closer to what you expect, is by augmenting the positive part of you.

Ok. Having said that, I don’t mean that one is less capable than someone else. Everyone has his core competency which is different from others’. So, what if the person sitting next to me in my classroom is wonderful at understanding the financial statements and I am not….! It’s ok. As I said, everyone is good at something or the other. I take solace in the fact that I can write philosophical blogs and that’s where he struggles :P …. I hope you get the point I’m trying to make :)

A linear combination of unit vectors is always unique, like, all faces are made up of eyes, nose, lips, eyebrows etc… and yet everyone looks unique. How? Its linear combinations of these various unit vectors!!!! :) Vector logic applies everywhere. And to all !

Homework:
Then, Think why all Chinese look similar?? :P :P

Goodnight/day!
P.S.: Special Thanks To Satyajit Rao for helping me connect the dots in my mind !

DisgrAce

2011-11-23T22:15:00.001+05:30

Life has it scornful way
Of putting things on display
Gives an Ace, so you 'all-in'
And then snatches everything away.

When you are ready to fly up high,
Past comes forth and blinds your view,
It's all black now, nowhere to go,
Just one more way of,
Life mocking you.

(incomplete..... will complete it some other time)

Goodnight/day !

Superhero

2011-11-05T22:01:00.000+05:30

He never probably held you close, he never wiped your tears,he never asked you where Rs 100 was spent. But indirectly maybe, he always taughtyou life’s lessons, some over a short drives, some over lunch time, some from live experiences. He isthat person who you as a girl always thought was perfect. He is the cumulativeof all the super heroes you once admired. Literally.

Each wrinkle on his face is the mark of experience that hehas been through. Chiseled by experiences, carved by circumstances, shaped byworld’s forces in the best possible way, he is the encyclopedia of how thisworld behaves. He is the one who ensures that you grew like a princess and blossomedlike a flower, saving you from every storm that he had to face. He stood like atree in the afternoon sun, only to make sure that you thought it was still cooloutside, when inside him there ran squalls of despair and sometimes also riversof tears. You cried when you were tensed about your exams. But he faced morepractical exams in life with so much at stake and never even let you feel the heat.Didn’t he feel like crying it out? Of course he did. But he did not. For you. Heis the unfathomable ocean of tears, experiences and hardships. But will coverit all up only for you.

He didn’t cry when his princess had to go away from home forstudies. Maybe he cried a river inside then. But he chose to conceal it. Notbecause he is afraid to do so, but because he knows he has to absorb her tearstoo. While leaving the house, you hugged her, and when it came to him, youtouched his feet. But every time you touched his feet, in your heart you felt hisarms embracing you. He never said the words yet always ensured that you tookcare of yourself. He never asked you ifyou were alright, but always made sure that you were. He never asked if youneed anything, but always gave it to you.

As a daughter/son, you approached him only when you wantedsomething. And without a question he approved everything and she always playedthe flow control valve. It was just through that ‘yes’ that he could shower hislove. Cause he never really cared about wording the feeling out.

He wants you to scroll up the heights of success and not plumbtrenches he once had to. He wants you to be happy and safe and strong. You wishyou could be like him. He is THE superhero of your life. He loves you. But hecould never say it to you. You love him too, but you express it only bytouching his feet every time you leave your house.

You are clueless what commotion his heart will be subjectedto, when one day his princess, who loved him silently like he did, the flowerhe so long cared for, will be plucked from his plant to embellish the life of another.With an aching heart and oozing tears, he expects his princess’ happiness, her safetyand the new man in her life to love her like he does. Care for her like hedoes. Be the world to her like he was. Be the superhero of her life.

Love you, Papa.

Goodnight/day

On a somber note....

2011-11-04T11:44:00.000+05:30

We often keep great expectations from others but in the process we fail to comprehend that everyone can make a mistake. Behind the façade of brilliance, there can be a person who dithers, makes mistakes and acts like a complete foolish. And for this very reason I find the word "perfect" actually ‘overrated’. Have you ever thought how fantastically boring a person will become if he meets all the 'set standards’ of the term ‘perfect’ on every aspect of his life?

I always feel that people expect a lot from others and recommend a lot to others. ‘A certain someone should have done this.’, ‘A certain someone could have done better than this.’ WHY !! I find all this completely pointless. But hardly anybody will agree with me on this, I know. What people see, what people interpret is superficial. What lies inside for each one of us is different and of equal essence, not less, not more than anybody else's.

Life is more profound. There are many good things about being the person you are, and one should be thankful for it. There are thousands of people doing the things they are fantastic at. Dancers, singers, writers, poets, philanthropists, managers, entrepreneurs are staring at your face. Businessman cannot mock a dancer for no acumen of doing a business, right? More common examples of successful accomplishments, if you will, are the moms and dads who have given all their life to bring up their kids into good beings. An entire life spent towards realization of a solitary goal or a few goals really proves the worthiness, doesn’t it?

In general, people judge too much based on the more trivial attributes of a person. It’s the coffee cup they look at, and judge, and fail to realize that the coffee being served to you all is just the same. It’s just that some of you have got more expensive cups than others, but how much of a difference does it make as long as the coffee you are having is the same? If this is complied with, then why do people with great coffee-mugs shun those with fractured mugs?

Think.

Goodnight/day

(Thanks to Aniruddha Kelkar for the coffee-cup analogy)

15-12-2010

Back in time...

2011-10-31T19:01:00.000+05:30

Delving into the memories,

I smile...

And wish if i could

Turn back to a page

And rewrite it with a little change

Beseeching to slow down time

For me to frame the words right

To confess to an ex-desire about the feeling

That was difficult for my heart to keep in

Or going back to the dance floor,

With my buddies & friends,

And complete the unfinished dance step

With all grace and elegance

Or moving back in time and shout

The three magic words- 'I Love You', out loud

Then capture the smile on his face

And melt.... as he holds me in embrace

Forever and a Day !

2011-10-13T18:55:00.000+05:30

Our eyes met

And world began to disappear

"Wonderful tonight"

The only words we could hear

You held me close

My heart began to race

A picture of our life

My mind started to trace

Like an angelic star

Crooning to my soul

No matter how far

You make me whole

If ever you doubt,

This is all i have to say

I will love you,

Forever and a day !

Don't know what to say...

2011-09-24T17:34:00.001+05:30

There are people in this world who are really sensitive at heart, no matter how they look prima facie, they really feel the pain when they unknowingly hurt anybody. What we normally encounter are the people who are really indifferent to others’ emotions or pain. I have a long list of such people in my life. Not that I like being pitied or something but the emotional quotient is certainly not there….

My commute to the college everyday involves taking a bus upto CST and then either taking a cab from CST or another bus depending upon how late I am for the class. So today, like everyday, I went to CST and waited for cabs to come by. Since the drive from CST to my college ain’t that long, not many cab drivers entertain me. After about 5-6 drivers refused to drive me to my college, there came a cab. The driver looked really submissive…. docile if you will. I said, “bhaiya, aakashwani?” and he agreed. While on the way to the college, near Hutatma chowk, the cab was in great speed, I had tuned in to my radio.. and suddenly this guy pressed the brakes hard, and I heard some noise “KHATTTT!!!!” …

Taking out earphones, I asked him as to what happened, and in a really heartrending tone he said “Kutta tha” and I got the connection, that he had hit some dog… I asked him stop the car immediately and turned around to see if the dog’s still there… as I got off the cab a bus came along and the bus driver was laughing at the cab driver saying, “kutte ko mara tumne”. In a more poignant voice this cab driver asks “mar gaya kya wo”, to which he replied, “nahi nahi bach gaya, bhag gaya”. After hearing this, I walked some steps back to see if the dog was still there, but I couldn’t find it.

Then as I sat in the car, I looked at him in the rear view mirror (which is tilted in such a manner that passenger can communicate with the driver) and asked him to continue, I saw tears in his eyes. This guy seemed so sensitive at heart, that I was stunned to actually see him cry. I obviously didn’t let him realize that I saw him, but I was deeply touched too.

I didn’t know what say... I still don’t know what to say…….

Goodnight/day!

The Nameless

2011-09-12T11:53:00.001+05:30

Burden of proving to the world,

Heaps up and gets heavier,

Only tussle easier than today’s

Seems to be that of yesterday’s.

Running after The Nameless,

You lose the breath and collapse.

Heart pounds against the beneath surface,

Horizon extends, leaving no trace.

Know you need

To come out true.

"If time has all answers,

You have no clue."

Moment has to run out,

Mocking your inability.

When you are ready to restart,

It’s either too late, or too early.

Don't ask "Why Me ?"

2011-08-02T18:40:00.003+05:30

Blogging after a really long time. But I'm here to share something really nice with you... It's a story. One thing lead to another and i stumbled upon this piece of writing. It's amazing. Check out. And yeah, I'll try and post more.

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

"The world over -- 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me ?'.

And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me ?' "

"Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you humble and Success keeps you glowing, but only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going...

Goodnight/day!

An Update ! #1

2011-06-27T12:49:00.004+05:30

There is no substitute for hard work! There cannot be one! I realized it this year :P Oh yes, Life plays a joke on you at times... Realizing the importance of hard work at the age of 23 ! LOL! I'll explain...

Unlike most people who appear for all sorts of entrances in their final year of engineering, I decided to take a year off and study! A giant step! Questions thrown at me from all directions, yes, literally directions... But after Engineering, I wasn't sure of what next! All I knew was I want to study more and not get into JOB-JOB right away, but it was too late, I was already done with engineering. I gave up the job offer and decided to appear for entrances... but again WHICH entrances??? MBA entrances or M.S., M.Tech. entrances :P.. Yes, now you realize my degree of indecisiveness. No, but eventually, i took a decision...! It was MBA! for obvious reasons :P

A professor in my college did question my decision, and she was actually shocked to see me not going for higher technical studies, as she expected. . Not that I was that bad at all the tech stuff! In fact at the end of 6th semester I had a crush on IC Engines. In 7th semester Cryogenics took over. I was good at it... in fact for some months I was even determined to do something in Cryogenics. But that evaporated soon enough! Eventually, ended up deciding to MBA :P atleast I’ll make some money if not Cryogenic Refrigerators and all... Though I still feel, somewhere in my heart, that the latter’d’ve been more interesting. But running away from places where one needs to do immense hard work....oh well, that just described me! :D

So, studying for the prestigious CAT for entry into even more prestigious IIM was on the list! But I took the preparation lightly... Yes. I admit. I knew a month before CAT that I’m not going to make it. Also the examination fear that I have. Then with that depressed state of mind I appeared for some more entrances but couldn't perform like I expected myself to perform. But one thing was sure, as I appeared for exams my fear factor reduced a lot and my realization, that I’m taking all this lightly, increased..

I had taken a year drop when actually I could have easily taken up a job and earned and shopped like most of my friends do! So it started growing on me. By then I had lost CAT, XAT.. JMET was good. SNAP was good... NMAT was great! I realized that as the exam season progressed, my comfort increased! I soooo wish that sequence of exams was exact reverse, I'd've done better in CAT. Though can't vouch for it.. since CAT is a stupid exam ! (more on this later)

All exams done with, I was left with the CET ! Knowing that I’d not made it big in any of previous exams, I decided to give the CET a best shot, which is really needed since there's only one GOOD college that one fights for through CET. But I couldn't concentrate well since was busy giving GDPI of SNAP and JMET and also 12th boards were coming up and I had to help Akshay and Shubham with their Maths and Physics. Finally, was free by 14th February! CET was scheduled on 27th Feb! Yes, ten days of real hard study... only I know HOW I pulled it off!

What I did was-

I appeared for all the mocks of my coaching class, where I’d opted for the CET TEST SERIES i remember this friend (by serendipity) of mine telling me, while we were travelling by local, to solve as many mocks as possible. He was in that particular college already! i kept his words in mind. Constant practice. I scored consistently well in those mocks... But I knew some areas which ate up a lot of time.. Like Venn Diagrams, Input-Output types...! Worked REALLY HARD on these topics, solved 600 Questions from the giant book of verbal and non verbal reasoning in 2 days! Solved 200 non verbal reasoning questions in a day! I realized the difference in my preparation at this point of time. For all previous exams, I never really worked upon my weak areas instead I kept reinforcing the already strong ones! That was a mistake... I solved 20 mocks at home...! Now again, I hadn't done this for any exam before... Towards the end I could solve all 200 questions in 150 minutes!!! (It's not that easy, believe me)

So, was kinda all set for CET, went to the exam centre.. Pretty confident (unlike before), sure to score well (unlike before), thoroughly prepared...with special attention on weak links (unlike before)... But then, like I said, Life does play jokes on you, doesn't it?

Murphy was the one I thought about at that instant when I was writing the paper!!! :D

The CET, most unexpectedly, diverted from its normal pattern... and diverted pretty much!!!! It was tough!! Not at all like the mocks I took... or nowhere resembling the difficulty level either... I started solving the paper... In first 10 minutes, where normally in mocks I used to solve about 15-16 questions, here I could solve only 5-6!!! I said to myself -- "Damn, this ONE exam for which you gave your best shot at preparation in such limited time, this ONE exam which was certainly CRACK-able... has turned otherwise" I pitied myself.. I knew it was the end... I'll have to take admission in a so-so college...coz giving one more year for preparation sounded ridiculous! (And after CAT 2010 I actually started fearing cats !! :P :D you never know when will it change its mind !! ) After 2-3min of the panic attack, I resumed solving the paper.

Finished the paper somehow! Had 180 genuine attempts, 8-9 educated guesses and the rest blind darkening of circles!!! Compare this with 20 mocks, where I could genuinely attempt all 200 consistently!!! It was like a slap on my face for the careless attitude till now... Came out, interacted with people and there were like, really good people attempting in the range of 100-130! And that was when I thought I still stand a chance... But you never know how the cutoffs would turn out...!

Meanwhile, converted 2of 3 SNAP calls, missed NMAT gdpi (biggest mistake), did not appear for TAPMI gdpi... still have their call letter in my cupboard...... :P

Then dawned the result day! I was not expecting anything great! I knew how horrible the paper was and how awful it was for me.... Result came out, and as expected, the scores were too low! Hence, it was good for me :) Where I stood after results, there were about 115 students ahead of me...! But a good score, good percentile.... overall good! But it still did not guarantee me the top most college... the next big thing was gdpi! CET GDPI, they say, is a gamble! It's the most important thing, probably more important than the written exam! :D It is that BIG THING that decides your fate! And this time I knew I can't take the GDPI lightly like I did for previous exams.. One month of GDPI preparation, actually 20 days, and I did my best! Towards the end of the month, there were gdpi's conducted at my coaching institute... participated in like 7-8 GD's... (Had not given mock GD or PI for SNAP or JMET) realized where I need to build up! Learnt a lot by observing people... It was a decent crowd that we had... coupla CET toppers, others were also good speakers. Had a good time collecting facts and figures, reading newspapers, watching news, developing my own perspective towards things, was not that hard, it was indeed good ! Used to watch LokSabha TV for hours together to get updates on facts! I enjoyed the process and realized that I’m ACTUALLY working hard for something....! I felt good...

GDPI went great!

Provisional list came out on 16th June and according to it I’m in for the top most college that I have been talking about. And now there were only 42 people ahead of me... Such a giant leap was not expected!!! 115 to 41!!! Felt great!!!

But then it was discovered that there were some errors in allocating work ex marks to people who deserved it... So it is being predicted that the final list will deviate a bit from the provisional list. Final list is going to be out on 29th and here I am, two days before that, writing this blog... describing all the fucked up stuff I created for myself to bring myself where I am today! :D

But whatever the result brings out, I don't care (actually i do :P).. But I have learnt my lessons... and that's more important... Hard work pays off ! Work hard, it will never go unnoticed or unrewarded! :)

Life teaches a lot and such bull shit is digested only when you learn from life... There was a time when I used to laugh at sentences like "Life teaches a lot" but today, having learnt from my own life, I can say that!! :) And whatever went in to get me a lesson learnt, was worth it!

After all everything happens for good!!! And whatever unfortunate happened before -- chuck it!!

Because SHIT HAPPENS! :D

(Will update you all about my result, pray for me)

Goodnight/day!! :)

Time

2011-06-01T00:23:00.002+05:30

‘Time’ has its own way

Of putting things on display

Infinite showers of love, sometimes,

Timer of parting pricks and chimes

Forcing out a smile with a tear

As it carves us up from someone dear

Losing to the triumph of the greatest fear,

The time is now, the time is here

All feelings I had to portray

Everything that I had to convey

One odd day takes it all away

Screaming are silent words that stay

How will I replenish the blank

Or sing something I never sang?

Time will decide flame or fumes,

It will tell if I stay together.........

.................................

Or get dissolved into molecules.

(To my close ones who will soon be going too far...... Love you)

Hi !

2011-05-18T09:05:00.001+05:30

A few days ago, someone told me that an IT engineer couldn’t get a cheque or something cleared in bank because his sign did not match, even after trying like 10 times… Reason: He hadn’t held a pen in his hand for many years… Well, I saw a similar thing happening with me since a few days… No, not with pen… but with the keyboard… I just couldn’t come up with something good to share about… not that I have always done. But you know, when come to visit your own blog once in 3 months, people do expect from you something worth reading :P … or the blog becomes obsolete… in my case though, now I feel it has already become obsolete, so I don’t really care what I write and not… I don’t understand what kept me away, lack of inspiration maybe. I even thought that I might lose the style I have, which most people love. I was afraid that a shade of sarcasm and a comic touch, they say it has, might go away.

As I went through some of my recent posts, I realized I am totally handicapped to even come up with anything close. Such kind of commitment and fervor and passion….! Most of my blog posts came up when I was graduating, after that I have not come up with many, and whatever things I have written aren’t that good….! I think it’s the constant working of your brain on different topics, no matter how lame, stupid or at times rational, that keeps your mindscape in shape and helps add to the blog’s landscape.

Let’s just hope that I am not free from the jinx of my style.

And please let me know who all still visit my blog.. please raise your hands… :P or … just say a Hi in the comments section, so I know who still has/have hopes from the hopeless… :D

Goodnight/day !

How can it be fine.... Without T9 ???!!!!

2011-03-22T17:02:00.003+05:30

I was shocked to know that some of my friends do not use the T9 dictionary feature which eases the pain of typing. If you’re a QWERTY keypad user, don’t bother reading this… but for all those whose cell phones have 9 keys only and yet do not use T9, Welcome to the Earth!! : ) No, Seriously… You must read this! And to all those who already use T9 and believe that entire world uses it, I wanna say- No, few days back I believed so too… but it came as a shock to me that some people (known for typing really long msgs) actually do not use T9 :O :O :O and WHY !!!!! God knows… I wonder how many hours they spend to come up with that one msg !! :D

T9 -Text on 9 keys is a software which predicts the word which can be formed by using the letters on the keys that you have pressed… ok… example:

Suppose you want to type the word ‘home’, all you have to do is press 4-6-6-3 once once once & once respectively… :P :D because ‘h’ is on 4, ‘o’ on 6, ‘m’ on 6, ‘e’ on 3 !!! Now you’ll see that the word ‘good’ is displayed on the screen. This is because 4-6-6-3 combination can also generate the word ‘good’. So, when you wanna explore the all combinations of given set of keys, you can toggle by pressing “*” (star)

Typing the same word without T9 will cause some pain in your thumb :P because only for typing ‘home’ you have to go like this- 4-4-6-6-6-6-3-3 :D Senseless innit…???

Try typing MONICA. All you have to do is type 6-6-6-4-2-2 with T9 on, as against 6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-2-2-2-2 with T9 off….
Choice is yours……

Btw, I wanna tag some friends here ;) --
Renuka, Sukumar, Janhavi, Vrishali…. And the list goes on.! :P... Do Use T9, dear friends ! : )
Goodnight/day !

PS- i felt like a kindergarten teacher while writing this :D :P
for more info click here

Why We Oppose the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

2011-01-22T15:16:00.008+05:30

Something that we must know before coming to a verdict of NPP in Jaitapur..

A perspective that'd probably never reach us.

Decision is tough. It's always tough to choose whenever such scenarios have occurred, for India it's always been so..

But if what's written in this letter to CM is all correct, i think the government should reconsider the proposal... Especially consider the fact that the place experiences seismic tremors..!

I got this letter from South Asia Citizens Website... one must go through it once...

Please read the following and do leave your take on this issue.

Take it as a case study...

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http://www.sacw.net/article1864.html

Goodnight/Day!

Ending From SCRATCH . . .

2010-12-27T21:59:00.000+05:30

Let’s say you get a terrific idea one day- one which sends your head reeling into trans-Uranian orbit immediately. Assume you've discovered how to encode The Encyclopedia Britannica onto a tiny scratch on a six-inch bar of metal. And, as if that wasn’t enough to rock Neptune around the Sun(hehe), that scratch of yours wouldn’t even contain any information on it like those old
vinyl (short, medium and long) playing records used to.

While the whole World falls at your feet in delirious astonishment, you produce your stardom. There are (you explain to them gently like one talking to bunch of silent lambs) fewer than 100 different letters and symbols in the print Encyclopedia.

What you plan to do is assign a 2-digit number to each of these symbols. For instance, letter A might be 01, letter B might be 02, semicolon could be say 51, a space between words say 67 and so on till u have them all covered. Now just like with this cipher system the word "bat" could be encoded as say, 020120, you can also, and obviously encode the entire encyclopedia into one huge number.

As many earthlings faint with awe, you then unleash your master stroke by placing a decimal point in front of this monster number and converting it into a decimal fraction.

Then you place a scratch on the bar dividing it precisely into lengths ‘a’ and ‘b’ so that fraction “a/b” (a upon b) equals the decimal fraction of the code. All you have to do now is, have a Super
Computer, measure the rod, compute the fraction a/b, and print out a copy of entire Encyclopedia!!!

Two questions--
(a) Is there anything theoretically wrong with this premise?
(b) Could it work in practice?

COMMENTS DEMANDED….. Please make sure you do leave your thought over this………
Have a nice day/night!

Movie Review

2010-12-08T17:02:00.003+05:30

Movie: Phas Gaye Re Obama.

Starring: Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Amol Gupte, Sanjay Mishra.

Director: Subhas Kapoor.

A complete laugh riot, Phas gaye re Obama is a very intelligently made film. With a very small budget of 3Crore, the director himself seems to be quite impressive as a businessman, coz the profits he is gonna reap out is massive!

The movie is based on the global recession which started in the US and the upshots of this ‘bimari’ (as is stressed upon by the director time and again) on the kidnapping world. The hierarchy of the underworld depicted is so witty with the ‘respected’ Mantris on top of the chain of command.

Rajat Kapoor is, not surprisingly, brilliant. He is one of the actors I really adore, and lives up the expectations, as always. The otherwise glam-girl, Neha Dhupia, has delivered the role of ‘Munni’ (Gabbar’s sister), very convincingly. Full marks. There are no big names in the movie, but still the movie is carried really well. Great direction, apt dialogues and spanking new take on the recession hit underworld of India and big businesses in US.

Om Shastri (Rajat Kapoor), a successful businessman settled in US is worst hit by recession and loses all his property wrestling with it. To pay back the loans to the bank he decides to sell his inherited ‘haveli’ in India. In his quest of finding a buyer in recession-hit India, he ends up getting kidnapped by Bhaisaab (Sanjay Mishra), leader of a small gang in the city. The movie shows the pecking order of Om Shastri’s abductors, & how he manages to break out from kidnapper to the one above him in the kidnapping ladder, making huge profits for himself and his abductor.

A Businessman who came here to save his property in US from being sold out ends up not only in making huge profits for himself but also for the underworld gangs and the minister. And this is why I call it ‘an intelligent’ movie.

My Rating: A must watch !!!

Stars: 4.5

Goodnight/day

India Unbound

2010-12-04T17:44:00.002+05:30

After thinking for quite a long time, I finally fixed on to writing a review of the book I recently read- “India Unbound” by Gurcharan Das. The author is a graduate from Harvard College & Business School. Former CEO of P&G, India. To know more about him click here.

The book eloquently analyses India socially, economically, politically in the post-independence era. How the leaders took wrong lessons from history and stuck to the Nehruvian philosophy for 40 good years which, to a great extent or completely, restricted liberalization and made India rigid when the globe and the Asian tigers revolutionized.

The British-Raj, The License-Raj, The Inspector-Raj, The plight of entrepreneurs, The bondages of Socialism and finally the reforms of 1991 followed by emergence of the economy as an uncaged tiger. Each period so powerfully expressed providing a deep scrutiny to the economic & political changes in India. The author grooves not only into the socio-economic India but also the managerial failure of the leaders post independence.

Author cites various examples from ancient history, relevant in the context of new India. Here I state one such, Alexander-Porus battle (326BC) signified the lack of team work of the Puru’s infantry-cavalry. The caste system in India since the very beginning engendered this disarray which prevails even today !

Author also elaborates on Marwaris’ and Gujratis’ acumen for business. What makes them so successful in their ventures and what exactly distinguishes them from others. He has quite satisfactorily tried to answer “If we were once rich, why are we now poor?”. Comparison between India and other nations (esp. China) made by the author at every significant point of time provides a lot of understanding.

In narrating the stories of most of India’s entrepreneurs, he paints his personal story into the framework of contemporary history. His family moves to America in mid 1950’s, his education in Harvard, his years in India as a young marketing executive, wrestling with social system which he feared would underestimate the country’s vast potential .His final decision to retire at the culmination of his career as a CEO in USA company and return to India in order to ‘make a difference’ in the Indian society and economy.

He concludes saying that, “India will never be a tiger .It is an elephant, which has begun to lumber slowly. It will never have speed but will have stamina. Although slower, India is more likely to preserve its way of life and its civilization of diversity, tolerance and spirituality against the onslaught of global culture.”

Well, I could have written more in the review, but I’m thrilled…..!!!!!
Wait for my next post ! sorry for leaving the review halfway thru…… :P but i gotto rush upstairs right now...

see ya...

Informing about your death !

2010-09-04T18:28:00.000+05:30

"The world's tallest building is 508m tall"

I came across this fact when I was just sifting out my all my books n random papers (cupboard of a to-be-engineer is full of Xerox pages, mostly crap). I read the fact again, and my brain resorted to thinking. As follows-

'If you fall from this above mentioned building, will u have enuf time to take out your cell and call your mom to inform her the catastrophe? Or call your the-loved-one and inform him/her that its all over, and say the last 'I love you…' before you hit the ground?'

Analysis:

(every analysis follows assumptions, that I'll key down later)

So,

1. To make this analysis, we need to find out the terminal velocity, I had to stretch my memory lane back to the days at Lakhakar's, plus some phone calls later, it was decided that terminal velocity for human with limbs outstretched is about 55.6m/s. (the amount of research that went into coming up with this blog is enormous. ;)
2. so, the body accelerates to this speed from 0 m/s at 9.8m/s/s (metres per second square), we assume. Time taken to reach terminal velocity from rest turns out to be a shade less than 5.7 seconds. (infamous Newton's Laws of motion)
3. and distance descended during this time is 160.6m, assuming, tho, that you don't hit the sides on your way to death :P
4. total time you take to hit the ground or so to say, to meet death is 5.7 + 6.27 = 11.9seconds.
5. is this time enuf to say, to your loved one, specifically that, "I'm falling from world's tallest building. I love you. Goodbye." -- assuming u speak 3 words per second?

The answer is Yes!

(You can test this one by phoning your loved one from the ground, saying these things, and timing yourself, to check out if it's possible. Ofcourse, do call them back to reassure them)

WARNING: You probably wont have time to text an sms.

Assumptions made:

1. terminal velocity,
2. the value of 'g'=9.8m/s/s,
3. you don't hit the sides on the way down,
4. the number is assigned to some speed dial key, n u press the correct key.
5. you press the key the moment you fall,
6. the recipient receives the phone at the first ring itself. `
7. The network coverage is great. (MOST IMP. ASSUMPTION)

Time it would take to hit the ground if you jump from---

-Eiffel tower(300m) : 7.7s
-Empire state building (381m) : 9.16s
-Mount Everest (8848m) : 2min 42s
-The depth of Mariana Trench(10924m) : 3min 19s

I guess three min is long enuf for death by heart failure than by hitting the ground.

Now, Wonder if Mount Everest and Mariana Trench were next to each other, the depth of fall from Mount Everest into the trench would be about 6mins and distance of about- 19772m.

Hehe!

"Oh shut it, let me sort out my books n arrange the cupboard…" says my brain after exploring those equations and those goddamn values . . .

Goodnight/day.

Candid Confessions....

2010-09-02T19:22:00.000+05:30

There were certain beliefs/principles/ideas I used to believe in when I was very young.
It was very difficult to convince my brain and persuade it to let me blog it because one part, the merrier, knew how juvenile it was and the other, rather mature, had full conviction of its foolishness. : ) the latter always got the better of me only till today afternoon when I finally made the former more powerful.

These were really my misconceptions and I’m sure everybody in life must’ve had one, if not so many.

--If we light a candle from a flaming candle, the flame of the candle should get halved. (How stupid! but that's what i feel now.)

--If there are 2 people infronta TV initially, and if another 2 add up, making it total up to 4, the Audio volume of the television should be doubled too. That if no. of persons were doubled, screen size should be doubled, tho, never came to my mind (I wonder now, why)

--A typical ‘Doctor’s Prescription’ looks something like this…

Mom used to sign it and give it to patients. This means ‘blah-blah’ medicine (here, say, Combiflam). Encircled number (here, 6) means- ‘so many’ to be bought. This is rather hilarious. I used to conceive it in an utterly diverse manner! I envisioned what the patient does as- cuts the encircled part of the paper perfectly along the circumference drawn by mom, puts it in a glass of warm water and ‘those many’ number of tablets would precipitate out ApneAap! :P
When I confessed this to mom, she went mad in laughter! And Pa? he says its rather awful to even think of me to be a daughter of two Doctors! :P

--Spellings- I never had much problem with spellings ever. But in my more immature days, I was more dim witted, or say an extra-thinker. Anything. Once while I was in my ‘junior kg’ish days, I was going thru spellings of eleven, twelve et al. when the spelling ‘thirteen’ brought some skepticism in my mind. I ran to my sis, who was then in ‘mine+3’ std and asked her about it. She said what’s wrong with the spelling, dear. And I, totally bemused, asserted to her that the spelling ‘thirteen’ is wrong! And so are some more spellings following it. She said – WHAT !!! (she was shocked seeing my confidence, :P)
I explicated- see, it should be ‘thirtteen’. She says BUT WHY ??? My answer was- (innocently) one ‘t’ of ‘thirt’ and the other ‘t’ for ‘teen’ making it ‘thirt’+’teen’ = ‘thirtteen’. She tried her best to convince me of ‘thirteen’ as correct spelling but nothing seemed to quench it. Only over a period of time now, I’m satiated after observing entire world following ‘single ‘t’ ‘ in thirteen.

hehe...

Some more adding up to the list are as follows :)

--While a child, I used to think that more the hair are watered, like grass, more will they grow. This was rather very verry innocent... <3

--At that tender age daily soaps that mom n sis used to watch had some deeper & weird impact on me. I used to feel that WE sitting in India can watch these people, present somewhere else in the world, on TV. Whatever they talk, whatever they do, how ever they behave, we either like or dislike. And I used to imagine that somewhere in the world, ( I clearly remember the name of the country- RUSSIA :P, dunno why only Russia! )In Russia, people can see what we are doing as well :P… which probably gave me inspiration to behave well :D :D talk good… study good (in those days) :D The more I got exposed to reality, all these good things started to alleviate :) Sometimes I even used to look at the ceiling, in search of a camera that aids them to see us :P

--Whenerver I used to go out with mom, on two wheeler, seeing the vehicles flow on both the sides, I used to wonder, why don’t any two of them collide ever ???!!! :P Mom never even bothered to answer my question. :D !! Worse, why did I bother to even ask????

Goodnight/day.

A toast to my buddies..

2010-09-01T00:33:00.000+05:30

There’s a reclining corner in everyone’s life, you know, a place where you can just tilt back, seek comfort, and talk and talk and talk yourself out, with the conviction that the person who you are talking all this out to, isn’t getting bored stiff and is listening to you with equal concern. Well, I’m lucky. I have made many such corners in life, the people I love, my friends!

I have been truly blessed. My friends- the major part of what makes me. I wanna tag a number of people here, to begin with: Janhavi, Neha, Renuka [din’t know which name to put first, thank God the alphabets have a sequence :D ] These are my friends since….ummmm……. ever. I dunno where it started. But we make the best best best of friends..

Friends!! Sometimes we have so many words to say about them and some other times we fall short of the very words. Today is that one odd day when I have so much to write but no combination of words will do justice to what I wanna convey! Reaching out to each other in times of dejection, sometimes just some long SMSs to undo the blues, talking about resp. boyfriends [ :P :P , @boyfriends: ;) ;) yes we do! ] recollecting all those hilarious gaffes; to mention a few- when renuka fell off the stairs in jnec college or the one at the ‘Monica Chowk’ or the fship day when I, completely drenched in rains, lost my footing and fell down. Each time we recollect it, we laugh, laugh even louder than ever before. There are special moments that bring us even closer, reinforce the friendship, tighten the bond and make us establish, every time, firmly that yes, these are the people I don’t wanna lose ever!

Minus 4 years:

Onset of a new life- the graduation, we parted our ways, so to say. Different cities……. different group of friends…. Lesser meet ups... To be honest, I was scared. This was the only concrete group of friends I had… I didn’t wanna lose them, sure, but more than that I never wanted them to have a group better than ours…. :P [Mean I am, I know]

And my wish came true …….. : ) its “US” even today for each of us !!! :D : )

Today when we are at the inception of a newer life… jobs and PG and what not… I hope things will remain constant as they have been till now. I love extrapolation. And the trend says, nothing will change : )

You all have endured my worst of behaviors and yet I have you guys there as the firm rock that I can rely on. There have been times when I have mistaken, misbehaved, crossed my line but each time you all disregarded it. What? What more can I ask you guys for? Thanks for being there through the best and worst of my times. All the happiness I have had in all my life, has mostly come outta the fact that I posses you all, my best friends… the best best best best people of the world !!! [ quite often, in describing you gals, one ‘best’ doesn’t decipher all the feelings, multiple ‘best’s fall short too :P ]

@Janu: I’m still serious about having our houses next to each other’s and all ‘those’ things we dreamt of !!! ;) ;) Oh what fun, it will be !! : )

Love you all…

Goodnight/day!!!

[ feels good being prosaic after a long long time, poetry is off for a while, I hope : ) ]

T for Time

2010-08-15T15:45:00.000+05:30

I generally don’t get absorbed by nostalgia, perchance ‘cause I’m a completely mind-numbing when I’m alone. But once I’m teamed up with certain ‘things or people’, nostalgia starts oozing out. These ‘things or people’ are ‘friends and trains n rains’. The desk partners, their crushes, the teachers, their bloopers, the exams and the scores, quizzes and debates, the common offs and attendance, siblings and fun, everything just flashes in fronta my eyes when I m in train, as if the entire view outside the window is a slideshow of my life till now. It makes me smile in innocence or at times guilty of my mistakes. Or even worse, at times, makes me have certain realizations of how wrong I was then … all that and much more, ofcourse the inability to describe it here doesn’t condense its intensity. What I have in my mind are memories which I rarely feel inclined to go through, only to cherish them when I’m teamed up with my friends.

Friends, trains and rains have some magical powers to access my memories. Not the sad ones, only the glad ones. Some incredibly amazing authority to completely take hold of my memories, and then imparting an inertia to relapse to the Present! My mind gets completely soaked and all it wants is to remain there, not to come back in today’s worries or tomorrow’s uncertainties and (im)probabilities. It deports my brain to some sorta world in which there is no ‘Time Government’ unlike in the present where it governs you and will always do so in future too. Its some state of being where we have been and where we cant ever be again.

Sometimes I end up repining about how it has been, and sometimes cherishing that i-am-so-glad-its-been-this-way. Its mixed. Mostly the latter part though. Its some sorta gizmo, yes, memories are gizmos, that cheer you up! Memories are latent, something that is there but cant be seen. Its something that plenishes your blanks! I can stroll deep into these lanes and absorb myself in them until something external reverts me to present, only to the realization that, Time does exist no matter how much you hate it and will keep governing your life, no matter how much don’t want it to.

So here I’m, wasting my time, writing this obtuse blog, coz I really hate thing called Time. Waste it if you hate it….

Goodnight/day !!!!

an insect... whatever the name is...

2010-07-11T14:35:00.000+05:30

An insect, found lying on the floor outside this hotel in Kerala, invited my attention when I was just just about to step over it : ) I observed it for some moments.. each time I turned it upright, it turned itself upside down as if it had jumbled definitions of sky and earth … :P I picked it up and placed it on a Tata Indica :) to get some good pictures of it before it was dead :P

Minutes later did it strike to me that insects turn upside down when they are about to die… Felt sorry for the little creature… it was breathing its last air..

Googled about why do they die turning upside down.. this is what I got through Yahoo! Answers…

“often we come across dead insects in buildings, that have died of insecticide. Most of these insecticides are organophosphate nerve poisons. The nerve poison often inhibits cholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down acetyl choline (ACh), a neurotransmitter. With extra ACh in the nervous system, the insect has muscular spasms which often result in the insect flipping on its back. Without muscular coordination it cannot right itself and eventually dies in its upside down-position”

PS: Click on the pic to see the detailed/enlarged view... Thanks to Sony Cybershot... (The best shots are not posted :P)

PPS: Tell me the name of the insect, incase you know..

PPPS: Keep visitng !! :P

Goodnight/day!

The Crow-cratic City

2010-04-21T22:13:00.000+05:30

I have been monitoring this since last 5-6 days... Every evening, around 6.10, 6.15 starts the clamor of crows, yelling their throats out at its threshold. Irritated by their screeching and squealing, I opened my gallery. And there I go astonished to discover that there is an abnormal accumulation of crows here in parel! More precisely- in fronta my flat !

Certainly something was methodical with the way they assembled. There was a sync in their conduct. There were three places where these 100-120 Crows were strewn. One group of 35-40 in my front-left.. Another of 30-35 in my front-right.. and third one on top of my building, should be around 30, which for obvious reasons I couldn’t capture.

TO MY FRONT LEFT

And TO MY FRONT RIGHT-

A cluster would fly from one place to another, yelling like idiots!! They would move in random demeanor pretending, to us humans, to be REALLY conscious of what they’re doing, hehe... It seemed to me very amusing, for One- How do they know WHO flew from where, ALL LOOK THE SAME !! :D hehe.. Secondly, even if there was any tactic to single each one out (which, ob, only those black bodies would understand) Why do they scream out so loud as they fly!!!

Hehe, and I did try to get an algorithm of their system of mannerisms, but there was nothing of that sort sensed, by me atleast : ) But it gave me an impression of a sort of a play-school of crows where they would gather every eve from 6-7… Coz right around 7 they would start getting meager in number.

Crows are never described as ‘beautiful’ by poets and philosophers, for they are really not.. but a more impartial reason for establishing that can be that crows look uglier when viewed from bottom.. check out the bottom view if ever you get a better chance :P ( I do have pics but aren’t so clear to give you any idea, still an attempt)

<—the bottom view

Succeeded to capture some CLOSE pics too : ) check em out…

<-- this WHEN ONE FLEW JUST ALONGSIDE ME…

<—In my gallery, Floor no. 5

<-- in my gallery to invite me to click its pic…

<-- hope you can point-out the crow in the Green :P

<-- when two of them were mad at each other .. :D

A Citation- Although Mumbai is considered to be a city with, probably, maximum pollution but, observe the next time you visit Mumbai, trees in Mumbai are ubiquitous… and so are crows :D and chiefly in my area Bats, too, are markedly abundant in number. I have had a bad experience of bats, but I shall save it for another blog.. :D

For now,

Goodnight/day!!!

: )

FRIENDS and a foe

2010-04-12T12:34:00.000+05:30

No, this time I ain’t talking about F.R.I.E.N.D.S.-- the series, but friends, the people : )

People who understand, be with us, allow us to be what we are : ) because bettering us will change the person we are : ) and they really don’t want us to change coz they love US and not the better person emerging out of us :P

So much has been already said about friends… so much written but even after everything is said and done, there still more.. and I feel each of our lives is just incomplete without this realization. Understanding your composition is the most satiating thing one can do in life. And when one realizes it, believe me, world’s the bliss land!

Not that I have figured it out all and rightly, but the incoherence of my mind of understanding my constitution has started to un-mess up : ) Ob it is the family, that goes even without mentioning it. But My Friends are the most significant part of who/what/where/how I am … its dire for me to think of myself without my buddies. There have been times when I might have helped them but there have been more of it when they’ve understood me totally without making an issue of my mistakes. And there’s no way I can thank them for what they have given me. A guilt free life. I love you all, friends! ( I really wanna tag so many people here )

Even as I write this, it all flashes in fronta my eyes, the times we spent, the fun we had, the quarrels we had, the crushes we had, the pokers, the rides, the laughs, the trips, the accidents, the lunches, the brunches, the naps, the Coffees, the movies, the walks, the talks, the gossips, the nights and I can go on and on and on, (don’t get me started :P)

There should be somebody who is there to give you a stern look when you’re drifting from the hypothetically correct path, somebody to share your laughs to make them denser somebody to share your blues to make the shade lighter… somebody who makes you realize that you have a might of a Tiger (even when you are actually a bheegi billi :P) , somebody who’d give it up all to make you realize your strength (irrespective of its actual existence : P ).. who compliments you and complements you…

They're the indispensable and most significant part of who I’m or for that matter who whoever is! It’s oozing out right now coz of the realization that now graduation’s on the threshold of ending and everybody at the onset of a new life ahead… this realization, though, is hell.

My foe consistently wins… yes, my foe, the TIME, who will soon take away all my friends… all my people….a major part of what composes me.. But it’s a struggle. Struggle where I’ll make a supreme effort to dilute its, weaken its resolve, offset its aim and de-intensify its effect! I wont let ‘time’ take away my friends from me for its my priceless & beautiful possession. And this struggle, I name it LIFE !!!

Its all about being apart yet so close, and subside effect of TIME.

All In

2010-04-08T23:59:00.002+05:30

My heartbeats diminish,
Remain only a few,
Each time I see the gate,
That leads me away from you.

I would defy the forces
Doing us apart
In your eyes I would hide
Won’t let you go any far.

It was life till a point,
What followed is a dream,
Been a series of the sweet firsts,
Don’t wanna face that of worsts.

Can’t know if I am alive or dead,
Everything’s already been said,
There’s something I still want to
But I cannot say to you.

Take me outta myself,
And have me only for you.
I have tried it very hard,
I cannot ‘All In’ you.

The Wall

2010-03-18T23:36:00.002+05:30

As I reveal to conceal my fears

They are all undone.

As I try to bury my tears

I found a shoulder to cry upon.

As I finally give up n doze

The sun in all its elegance rose.

As I find myself in a storm

I realize a Wall to bear down on.

And when the tumult caved in,

As the nastiest of calamity once will,

The Wall I didn’t disregard ever

I always have it nearby still.

T for time

2010-03-03T22:42:00.001+05:30

Filtered by time
I enter the future
Only to realize
There’s only more to bother
Each time when I
Ingrain in this world
I realize the nothingness
Of my very existence
I can’t shout, I cry
I pout and I just lie
Powerless, clueless
Tired to fight my
Destiny dubious.
Here I lay,
With my given up plans
Don’t wanna be battered
By Time,
Don’t wanna be filtered ;’(

Petrified..

2010-02-20T19:04:00.002+05:30

What we together traipsed into

Serendipity unplanned

Treasure of pure and miraculous joy

The days of togetherness

Will be lost for an interim

A part of me dies

Each time I come to think of it

And the remaining becomes numb

Petrified,

The corpse just lies.

Pinch me somebody

2010-02-20T19:03:00.002+05:30

I will do anything at all

That this life may dare me to do

I can wait all my life for

Drenched in your love, bottom to top

That I can cross any damn mountain range for

Only to get a glimpse of you

Whatever I've said, I cross my heart,

I know it's true.

Eternal togetherness

Nothing left to confess

The land of our imaginings

The infinite words

Only sweet nothings

More I come to think of it

The more I am amazed

Is it the truth pointblank

Or am I just day-dreaming

I wanna know. So,

Pinch me somebody?

9/02/10

2010-02-10T00:56:00.001+05:30

2hrs Gas Turbines lecture in college, Watched TOW They all turn Thirty, Roamed n Dined with Milind Mama, in the offing was a surprise--A Cake to be cut (planned by sameer- my cousin n Aunty), around 180 SMSes, Infinite calls, Wall posts, Scraps, Unfathomable Love……. Thanks all you guys for making it so special.. love you all !

Goodnight/day ! :D

untitled/uncategorised; depressing !

2010-02-08T20:06:00.005+05:30

I don’t feel upbeat. Buoyancy has disappeared! I’m not excited. I’m not looking forward to it anymore.. its gonna be just another day… My 22^nd birthday is gonna suck!Why is everything in my life going wrong (except for that one thing, ie )?

With all the choices I make with my life, it keeps turning out the wrong route! Plus the goddamn expectations, the pressure, the loneliness!… I am not made for all this ! I wanna breathe fresh!

“I break traditions

sometimes my tries

Are outside the lines…

We’ve been conditioned

To not make mistakes

But I cant live that way…oh..oh!”

Nowadays I either come up with poetry or resentment towards my life… The two things, way contrast, yet co-existing..! The moment I find a reason to be happy, I see a ghost waiting to turn my joy into horror.

I hate this.. I wasn’t made for this. [ maybe I made this for me] And if this lasts for more, I maybe another entrant to a mental hospital. But this is what I made outta my life, so I can’t even blame it on somebody else, to cry out loud !! :-/

[ Lesson 1- Let others take crucial decisions of your life, atleast you then have someone to blame it on, incase it doesn’t work out ie. ]

Sucks! This sucks! It’d be great if nobody wished me “happy birthday” tonight. I don’t wanna feel special. Infact I wanna it to be like how any other day makes me feel. Coz if I get to spend a GREAT 9^th feb, the 10^th feb is gonna be difficult to deal with!

I’m just 22 and I have no driving force to do pretty much anything…

I’m just 22 and the amount of pressure I feel is enormous..

I’m just 22 so Hey! Don’t you grin at my screwed up life, I ‘might’ as well emerge out into something that is not as bad as your ‘grin’ thinks! :-/ I agree I ‘may have’ taken some tradition-breaking steps but…. Its my life, I’ll try to deal with it…!

[Lesson 2- Never challenge Lesson 1, and if you do, be equipped to face the yelling world ……. at the age of 22]

I have no clue where my ship is heading to- serene waters or turbulent ones.. all I know is, whatever it is…. I need to survive… not for I wish to… but for the people who count on me... and for those who smirk while reading this..

I just wanna be freely suspended…… I don’t want anything forced upon me… ( Gravity is ok :p ).. don’t direct me.. don’t dictate my life… just let it advance/recede however it wants to.. or just let me QUIT !

Goodnight/day!

Petrified...

2010-02-04T23:07:00.001+05:30

Why!
When I should be extremely happy and supportive, I’m not.
When I should be diving in to Congratulate for the success, I choose to dump myself on a rock and stay there petrified, blank, wordless…. Mortally afraid of my life ! 

I knew this was going to happen! Then why it bothers me so much?

I CAN’T WRITE !!!!!
I have no mood to…

Goodnight!

Darling, it’s still dark !

2010-01-31T22:44:00.002+05:30

Even at my worst,

I’m best with you

The more I say,

Even more is still left to.

Words won’t suffice

To portray your smile

Or the pride that’s mine

As we walk the patent style ;)

Universe disappears

As around me you drape,

I unleash me into you

Entangled we make a shape

Yielding to the magic

The world we disregard

Don’t wanna relapse,

Darling, it’s still dark!

Leave out all the rest

2010-01-30T00:50:00.001+05:30

I have been wanting to write something since so many days…But couldn’t get time or the flow or that frame of mind wherein I could gather it all and type it down, not that now I have either of it :P but I have that nudge in me tonight, that I d come up with something.. atleast something… 
Seems people are bored of rhymes and poems or anything that seems close to it.. to all you out there, if at all anybody is, Sorry !! : )
[ I got an sms saying, come up with a blog, not a poem :P ]

The New Year by far has been a cocktail… it started with a bang! A night full of fun n laughter with my 4 friends… twas fun.. missed *somebody* like hell that night who was in solapur. Later on, some really special time spent with *somebody and his family*…… then my cousin’s news of being diagnosed with a deadly dengue (thankfully he is out of danger now), then the MS,MBA thing, all the tension, the confusion, all the worries about the future, which still seems dark like this template. Another tragic thing that happened was reopening of college. I hate the people there. I hate the college. And no, I’m not even A BIT sad that its my last sem in college, in fact I m happy. i just wanna get outta it soon as possible ! (calm down, mon! )

Well, then happened the SALSA :) which transported me to an utterly different world. It was a thing to cherish for life ! a thing that I’m gonna value forever ! Who’d’ve in the rarest of his/her dreams thought that, of all the people, ME n SATYA ‘d perform a SALSA !! :) that too in ICT !! :O ……:P :D but we did.. n describing the experience is too appalling a task for words.. nothing NOTHING can describe it. I won’t even attempt to.

So to sum it up, new year has been a sinusoidal curve, n I hope the interval isn’t the entire year. :P (uffff !!! the maths!!! ) ( ve been taking math classes for shubam :P ) (sorry )

So the thing called life Which seemingly belongs to you but is controlled by anybody but you !
And I hate this fact. If I make mistakes in life, LET ME!!!! to cry out loud! Coz that’s the best way I m gonna know life well. But no, 10 people visit …… n leave after giving 10 unwanted suggestions EACH !!! WHY ! no amount of this kinda frenzied typing is gonna convey the anger !!! not that I’m in a very good condition either.

MY CONDITION …-- a 7+ ptr, mech engg, who chose to *not* give cat (n all that) during final year fearing it might hamper the performance in college [ as if she was gonna top it :D ]. She *doesn’t* want to do job coz ‘job+studying for mba wont work’ is wat she believes in. So she decided on taking a year drop to study for entrances. [She hardly believes in herself ] All this after eliminating MS option for the love of MBA. This is ONLY point where she is poised, that she wants to do mba. [thank god]

So what?

Loneliness kills me. I get disturbed by slightest of disruptions. I tend to think only negative about my future. I have no idea how am I even gonna cope up with all this pressure of giving n getting good marks in ‘cat n all that ‘ right in the first attempt. :( ….

N even after all this, I don’t regret what all I did or did not.. maybe that’s a good thing.. or....... maybe bad. dunno.

“When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I have done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don’t resent me
When you’re feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest.
Leave out all the rest “

Feels better.. :|
Goodnight/day!
@Satya: thanks for being with me thru it all....

Constant

2010-01-29T22:54:00.001+05:30

In the equation of your life
I’ll always be a constant
Where everything else varies
I’ll be there, persistent.

When everything else pulls you down
No matter how bad it’d go
Just quit all the worry and smile
Coz I wont let you turn to zero.

If you wish to integrate
I will adapt as you state
Assure me you wont differentiate
Coz that’d mean I eliminate.

(Too childish, I know)
(For a change)………… (or maybe, AS USUAL :P )

My Point of Contact with Happiness

2010-01-23T22:53:00.003+05:30

Placing a bookmark to this day,
The thing hard to describe and say
Happened …….
Thing that happened was life…
No one can ever take it away…

Was it the Truth or a Dream
Nothing left to hold onto
I wish I could just scream
Like you did,
When they urged you to ;)

The day of no inhibitions
Love was in the air and space
I don’t know if right or disgrace
‘t was nonetheless,
My point of contact with happiness.

QUIT

2010-01-11T15:56:00.002+05:30

Silence

As loud confusions begin

Smile

As more tears develop within

Sleep

When the sane-you arises at night

Run

Run to a place safe to hide

Dream

But forget when its dawn

Give up

When dies the nudge to go on

Study

Coz they want you to thrive

Eat

Coz they want you to survive

Quit

When you are too weak to give a fight

Wrong????

Yet doesn’t stop feeling right.

the mute expression...

2009-12-24T23:17:00.000+05:30

Just how beautiful life becomes when you find out that someone you eternally knew as your closest friend, and the very one whom you’ve endlessly admired all your life for his intelligence turns out to be the very person you dreamt of in your subliminal thoughts and the very person who governs your concealed feelings…Like a ray of light that illuminates the walls of your heart and makes visible the things written…. Who takes you into a different space and time… makes you dwell in a state which is rather indescribable by human aptitude…

Defining this person is too awful a task for words…… but in the end that’s all I have…

Each day the realization rises to a different level and I fall for him all the more, unwarranted. Too much written in rhymes but its still not even 0.01% of what I actually wanna say. It is also about his folks, their love, their care, their support…yes, their SUPPORT without which we couldn’t’ve been as open about all this… yes, the very fact that the elders know… is a great support in itself…

I was good at expressing when I was inexperienced… the more I probe into the depth of this beauty, the more wordless I grow. Coz you can either have words or love. Try out. :P
He takes me into this mad comfort zone…. And makes me forget myself… i don’t have to feel guarded or cagey before speaking anything that comes to my mind. i can be the ME and that’s the most I can do for him… no pretence. Just like I am to myself… : )

I cant thank him enough for all that he is to me… just knowing that he’s just 15min away keeps me composed and calm.. easing me just by the certainty of his presence, putting to rest all the turbulence of mind, … what more can I ask for? I just wanna ensure him of the same from my side… but no matter how many rhymes I come up with, or words I write on this blackboard, or how many times i say it, it wont be even remotely close to the assurance that he gives me of his love forever, by the little things that he does. yet he derives it all and leaves no real need to actually express it.

I have never been THIS close to any guy in all my life…even when we were friends, good friends, best friends, close friends, we were true to the relationship we shared. Never ever it occurred to me or him to think of it to be something more than what it was.. and when we knew it was “something actually more” we dint have to say it… it was mutely expressed….. and this mute expression gave a voice to all words that would have fallen short to express even with volume…

“It’s what you do to me….
Oh… its what you do to me…”

I just wanna say it to you, my Best Friend-
That… although you don’t have that dimple-icious smile you can die for… for me, yours is the sweetest one in the world…. \m/ and… its not the dimple that refines any smile… it’s the truth in your eyes that does..

I dunno why m I writing all this down ... this feeling is out of the world….. I still have your home-paper book open in fronta me.. (you know why) : ) n’ve gone through it like ten times by now…. ;) n my fellow chemical engineer, I tell you, chemistry rocks .. \m/ ;) ;) hard to decrypt for others... hehe... :)

(bigger dramaaaa) :D :D :D hehe..

Love you..

and i believe in it each time you say to me that "nothing is impossible for you,girl"... you know why do i believe in it?? because the most impossible thing has already happened to me :) - YOU!

Goodnight/day..

15-12-2009

That Somebody….

2009-12-23T23:30:00.000+05:30

It’s been a year of eternal happiness, 365 days full of memories. Each special !!!
I say, even if I die today, it’d be with a smile. A smile so obviously spreads out on my face when I look back. The last one year has taught me so much, changed me so much.
A year of the sweet firsts. A year that incorporated in me enormous courage to face anything that life subjects me to. All this only because of one person. It makes me wonder how can one person have so significant influence on somebody’s life to this extent. And for me this person was ‘that somebody’.
That ‘somebody’ who believes in you so much that even the things, you almost know are impossible for you, feel like a cinch. That somebody, who loves you with all your mistakes. That somebody. Believe me, the day you find ‘that somebody’, life becomes an easy task, a walk in the park. And then you have infinite walks in thousands of parks :P
When you have that person in life, it’s but natural that your blog, notes, diaries, books are sooo filled with poems. I was never before so fluent in my thoughts. The song I remember even as I type this is- “Main shayar to nahi…. ” So true. :P
And what luck when that somebody is the very somebody you have admired for all your life. The very ‘somebody’ who has known you with everything that you are. Just the second self. I could not have been any luckier.
I cannot pen down each of the zillion feelings that are in my mind. All I can say is… I have never been THIS happy ever. I cherish each day spent so much that I feel it necessary to make note of it. And today I have an account of each of the 365 days in a word file. Each!
Waiting at the bus stops, getting imli after searching like 10-15shops, BEST rides to south Mumbai, needless to say, the loooong chats at marine drive, seeing a thousand times the setting sun, begging for kaju katli even when I don’t like it, wondering how useful ATMs are as they give us a chance to have walks around, clicking pics for no reason at all, feeding on the memories, talking about the future, walking in the patent style, eating pohe and wada pav, walks, talks, serious talks, journeys, movies, bike rides, car drives, dreams, fantasies, chaats, …Oh!
Now when I look back, all these cute little things seem soooo sweet. So small yet so noteworthy. I already feel like I belong to their kinfolk. Their unassuming nature, their constant love and tremendous support. I love you all already !!!
Everything said and done, there’s still more to!!
Hey my ‘that somebody’, Thankyou for every little thing that you taught me, that helped me live life with a good change. Things, little for you, but life-changing for me. Can i BE more thankful?
:)
goodnight/day!
14-12-2009

can be an innings defeat

2009-12-20T11:21:00.001+05:30

People look at you

But with eyes blind
Your worth
And your love
Probably they’ll never find
Somebody’ll hold your hand
Paint a road map
To channel you to
The top of the hills
Unexplored and uncharted.
Confused and sad
That you have become
Whatever made this happen
Must be so horrible
And so bad.
Give life to your dreams
Lift your spirits
Time and again I repeat
Don’t give in,
It can be an innings defeat.

5th dec

2009-12-06T23:20:00.003+05:30

Smile on your lips

A serene arch.

And the stunned eyes

Shooting swift radiant glance.

The amazement

On your face,

Leaving no chance

And allowing no space

For pretty much

Anything else.

Your word or wish,

Is my law.

There’ll be no misstep,

To you I vow.

When you held me close

Then, And even now

I feel warmth

That bars me to exist,

And nudges me to live.

Uncategorized and Untitled

2009-12-01T00:33:00.003+05:30

I've been dozing off too late these days, exams over; reading books, cleaning room, talking excessively on phone with mom, sis and bro, or just chatting/commenting/interviewing/passive fbing..... plus, i discovered this electric heating coil in the evening, in one of my abandoned old bags.... i bought some milk powder, coffee powder in eve. And even as i write this, i m having a glassful coffee....! thereby jeopardizing the remotest of possibility of sleep...

Read 2 states... wonderful story...... well written...... more of entertainment.... u feel like u just watched a Hindi film.... Chetan Bhagat's books have always been like that....

started with Frederick Forsyth......

why m i writing down this random stuff, u may question... please bear with me coz even i dunno what i m writing... or thinking... or even doing.. or writing.. oh i cant believe i wrote it twice.. see, din't i say!

Exams are over, don't wanna talk of it, though... they are OVER !!!

Dying to go back home...i hear its chilling cold out there in a'bad [unlike Mumbai where the Mercury's Thermal Expansion or Contraction never occurs] not that i can stand low temperatures, its just that i love all my sweatshirts [:D] .... This city (mumbai) will never be subjected to such low temperatures except for exam in Cryogenics...

i m excited about the return journey for certain 'ssshhhh' reasons tooo [ ;) ] hehe...

just the journey is gonna be fun. coz all my folks there will be busy writing their exams :( and the 'sssshhh' reason will be just for a day ;(

gotto finish off license thing in any condition... [weary eyes]
gotto do project work...... [ :x ]

ufff!!! Life's a bitch, didn't i say???

Goodnight/day !!!!

Remember???

2009-11-24T21:21:00.002+05:30

Remember the night

when your eyes revealed

The words you wanted to confess

And left my eyes

Rather wordless?

Remember the vow

Of never to regress?

And predict the smile

That’s a “no-marks-guess”

Remember how we

disowned ourselves

To the love and the tenderness

And first expressed

the feeling that had

a meaning engrossed?

Remember how you

Whispered in my ear

The words of wisdom

That undid all the fear,

……~~made the road clear~~

~~And boosted me~~

~~To hit the top gear ..~~

Next year, this time..

2009-11-14T11:55:00.001+05:30

Realizing how things will be changed next year, this time. I know it’s gonna be more unbearable than I can ever even perceive…. Why does it have to change at all??? Why can’t we all get down at the same stop, stay together forever.. Or, or, why can we all stay where we are??? Why do we have to leave everything that we love/we are used to… and go to somewhere we know we wont be as happy?? Why’s life a bitch????

Some will be into job-job, some will be studying their asses off, some will go to USA, DAMN GRE !!! [although, I dunno which category I fit in]. Into an utterly different world, doing things that life makes one do… why can’t WE make our life??

How troubling this thought is!! Agonizing, to say the least effectual. [:| ]

Will I have those night outs anymore with you gals.. ???

Long phone chats with Janhavi until the cell-battery gives up????

Or an sms fight with Neha????

Candid Confessions with Renuka???

Or those “India played superb!Din I say Sachin is God!” conversations with Ameya???

Or those “hi sis” “kya bhai” dialogue with Sumeet???

Or those ‘Friends’ discussions with Neeraj???

Or those Voyages with Satya??? {aaaaAAAaaa!!!!}[ :( ]

Why’s it all gonna change???? I don’t wanna miss any of these…. I don’t want all this to alter either… but figuring out that it’d not be anymore ‘like this’ after, say, next 7months leaves me marooned.

Only if you guys can offer any help to get me outta this.. …..[:(]

Reminds me of :

“Livin' alone,
I think of all the friends I've known.
But when I dial the telephone,
Nobody's home.
All by myself,
Don't wanna live, all by myself anymore”

[:(]

Goodnight/day!

House arrest

2009-11-11T18:29:00.001+05:30

I don’t even know if anybody even drops in on this blog these days, Neeraj Ameya Sumeet AND Satya, do you? Atleast???

[:)]Quite a lull since pretty long. I do have reasons [;)] but I’m back !!! and right in the middle of my exams … Thanks to the supposed “CYCLONE” that is/was going to hit Mumbai [:)] that we got our Mechatronics paper postponed to 27^th nov, and I got sometime off to bother about my blog after it had become all outmoded with boring poems that I keep on writing and which people appreciate only coz they love me. [:P] I subject them to all this, forgive me, God.

Last few weeks…. Very bad.. submissions… exams… tensions… running after Xerox…Uffff !!!! the sum of money engineers spend in Xerox-ing is enormous; makes me consider it as a stand-in career option if I don’t land up anywhere good. [:)]

So I was saying- tensions took toll on me leaving me like I have expressed in “In this despair, In this fear” [:P] ( See, I endorse my poems [:P], Shameless I’m) and I wonder, I’d’ve not been so tensed if I knew my future! I’ll elaborate on it more after exams though. Its about mechatronics.

So, the purpose of this blog is to let the readers… if any…… know that the writer is very much alive but busy with some more important stuff in her life [:)]…And as everything falls well in place she’ll be back to this black-board keying in all the relevant and irrelevant…. interesting and boring……. prose and poetries [:D]

Currently it’s a house arrest for me with a liability to do pretty much nothing else but study, . And anyway most of you guys must be busy doing submissions or enjoying PL’s or passive FBing or voyaging!!!

Oh I miss our voyages !!!

Goodnight/day!!!

You

2009-10-24T22:59:00.002+05:30

You have heard it all

Yet you don’t mind hearing it again

Each day for you I fall

In your love I rise up again

You let me talk n talk

Until I find my way

Then you pronounce it all in silent words

The thing I just tried to say

Angry silence or my glum heart

You decode it and with art

Offer me an embrace

All I need, you know in a glance

Seems magical how you read

All unwritten n unspoken

And I realize lying here in bed

How my feelings are always stolen

Tonight, for you I wait

I close my eyes and see

All the dark hills you’ll have to cross

To reach me

To grace this aching heart

And then never depart

I just wanna belong here...

2009-10-20T10:00:00.002+05:30

(based on my experience of 19th Oct, breathtaking but lovely)

Outside love's lair
I shape up my messed up hair
And then slowly knock on the door
Of your hearts and stand on the golden floor

Let me in, for i want to stay
I don't wanna anymore sway
I'm tired of staying away
Here, tell me, can I lay?

The door opens…..
I lapse as i hear the creak
My heart skips a beat
I'd been over all this in my head
Can’t remember now, a single word i'd said
And as my anxiety kicks in
Leaves my body tremblin’
I begin to wonder how it'll turn out
But the sight of you ends all doubt
And my thoughts arrange in a line
I’m sure it’s all gonna be fine
Your words and laughter
Spraying comfort to reassure
A conviction that me derives
From those speaking eyes
Of Staying forever near
I just wanna belong here....

Tonight

2009-10-12T17:53:00.002+05:30

Sitting by the window,

Engrossed in thoughts of you,

I see…

I have a life..

Celebrated like only a few.

In course of a stream..

Flows the craft of my dreams,

Those dreams promised by you..

The reason….

I want to continue.

In a flash you show up,

Dark walls of my heart light up.

All I dreamt so far

Befalls …

And I fall for you even more..

Another voyage..

And truth lies,

Tonight….

The Lovers ..

And the Night skies.

Untitled…

2009-10-01T20:23:00.002+05:30

His fingers in her hair

He wants her to hold

From heart he told

What will I do without you, dear,

Me, Who’ll scold…??

Embracing her tight

Boosting her to fight

But conceding to toxin

She lost her might…

However she wanted

To be the reason

Of his smile

The toxin she had

Made her docile

A tear rolled

Down her cheek

And another dropped

Over her eye.

Embracing, she said to him,

“Hey dear, YOU don’t’ve to cry…

Coz I love the smile in your eye…

Beside me why don’t you lie

Sing all the old tunes I couldn’t comply

Take me to our land of imaginings

Only you and me

Nobody else ever spanned

Of all the joy I once pledged

Of our long life that we planned

By all that, honey, I couldn’t stand

Leaving you alone

In this unknown land..

‘d dreamt to spend my life with you

I did…..

But couldn’t pull through

The pain this life subjects me to”

And she’s lost in the haze

To her he tries to chase

There’s no chance

There’s no trace

She froze…

He lost the race…

Silent words…

2009-10-01T00:06:00.002+05:30

The unspoken words now
We hear so clear
Quiescent they were
For all these years.

“When, How, Where”,
They demand,
The thing that was said
Without words but the heart
You tell me how
Do I tell them the start?

Solving muted riddles in my brain
I knew to a perfect choice I came
And the smile
On your face
Ensures me of
You thinking the same

I lay there in a trance
With you in all
Extents of my glance
You draw me
And I come close
‘Wonderful Tonight’
And we dance…

Tell me…

2009-10-01T00:05:00.002+05:30

Happy time
Or hard days
Through it all
Tell me,
You wont change.

In gloom
Or in fun
In rain, or in sun
Tell me,
You’ll be the one.

Words of silence
Spreading meanings of love
To it all
Tell me,
You will keep up.

Trees dressed up
Or undressed
To your love,
Tell me,
There won’t be Autumn.

In silence,
In laughter,
Or if I banter,
Tell me,
You won’t alter.

Near …..
Or far we are
The distance,
Tell me
Won’t be the winner..

In this Despair, In this Fear….

2009-09-24T01:24:00.002+05:30

You see no light at the tunnel’s end
Hours of darkness would just never end
You see around the walls of prison
Right when you were ready to latch on

You cry, you screech
You try, yet you can’t reach

The heights they set
By you can’t be met
At this riotous joke
Nothing but you yowl
Raise a ruckus of wrong choice
Lost in regret within a trice

In this Despair
In this Fear
Silent shouts, no one to hear

In this Despair
In this Fear
Longing to hold truth near

In this Despair
In this Fear
Finding a direction to steer

In this Despair
In this Fear
Life’s stuck in second gear

To The Truth,

2009-09-01T16:39:00.002+05:30

Leaves me blank,

When I think

You’ll depart

Difficult to identify with

The ache of this dispirited heart.

However I refuse

To have to do

Without ‘Those Eyes’

I know,

I have to.

It sure is hard

For me and for you

But in the end

I’m sure

Promises will come true.

I promise you

For you I’ll be waiting

Be it, then,

Years ..

Five or Fifteen!

Being yours

Is all I want

The distance isn’t

At all

Gonna make it gone.

The simple idea of

Getting to spend my life with you

Has me smiling

A smile…

That I want to continue.

Thinking of the day you’ll leave

Makes me numb

But to this gloom,

I promise,

I won’t succumb.

All I want is you

To flourish and thrive

About this love

Leave it to me

It will sure survive!

It’s impossible to fathom

The love you show

The bliss I feel

In your arms

In all the moments I steal.

‘Time’ will advance

But I will remain,

Giving ‘time’ no opening

To make ‘TRUTH’ refrain

From ‘Winning’.

The very ‘Truth’

that promises me

To take me

to a place

I’m so longing to be….

A mountain, A small house

A glut of trees

And Me…

On my knees…

Smiling…

Offering you a ring

Nervous ….

Thinking which song to sing...

Aaaah Those Eyes!

2009-08-31T22:05:00.002+05:30

Eyes that speak the truth of the heart

And that so crave when we depart

Aaahh those eyes…

That never say lies.

Eyes of truth that love even from a distance..

And show nothing.. just pure innocence

Aaaah those eyes….

Come lie on the pillow next to mine

Wanna see those eyes all through the night

When they are open and they speak

Speak of the love between us so deep

When they are tired and about asleep

Love from it still does seep.

When they are closed and in peace

Allowing all musings inside to cease.

When they open up in the morning

And Smile seeing me next to you lying..

Aaaaah Those Eyes!!!

The Heartbeat

2009-08-02T00:34:00.004+05:30

A drop of rain,

In the lands enduring sun,

He comes with all the grace

Transporting each drop of fun.

Putting behind you

All your worries

He holds your hand

However grave the crisis

The smile, the laughter

Each facial expression

Memory obtains each moment

Like derived from equation.

Comfort has no bounds

In his vicinity

You realize other things in life

Is just a futility.

Is this what they call

Friendship to the core

Or shall we assume

There’s something to it more?

There is no certainty

Of the slippery heart

How difficult it’s sometimes

To conceal its beating art

In bid to single out

The meaning of its trait

You apply your math

To cancel and to equate

~~Then the calculations~~

~~commit a mistake,~~

~~Putting the beauty of the relationship~~

~~Into a pool of sabotage~~

~~Now your beats wish~~

~~To go back in time~~

~~But in the end~~

~~You sit back and pine~~

~~Its not your fault~~

~~Or anybody’s design~~

~~Beats to be blamed~~

~~For all the bruising.~~

~~Do not trust the beats~~

~~For they tell all rubbish~~

~~Follow your brain~~

~~Here, I establish!~~

Bandra-Worli Sea Link

2009-07-27T00:00:00.001+05:30

Because i do not have a photoblog, and don’t wish to have one, i share with you, my friendly blog readers, the photos here.. as you must have already observed..! :)

So this is about the much awaited ride on the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link that connects the two of the busiest places of the city.. Bandra and Worli… and does so extending along the Mahim Creek.

The photos are not at par with the expectations because- one: They are taken from a car… in motion.. two: Winds blew brutally so i was scared camera slipping off my hand.. three: it was RAINING!!

Googling can give you much better views and pics, i admit ! But these have come out of my camera, so i have an inherent right of sharing them… :)

The Welcome board at the Bandra-End of the Link.. There are controversies on with the name given… .. .. who cares !! :P

not to forget mentioning- this was the 25th of july.. designated to be ‘the day with second largest high tide..’

Takes you away, although for five min and 6km, from the chaotic city… A ride, worthwhile…

There lies the Mahim, Dadar, Bandra… the Mahim creek along which this is constructed…

it was that dark …. but a pleasant weather !!

The Mahim Creek…

The toll plaza, that’s at the Bandra-end of the link… We were crazy enough to buy a return ticket. :P hehe.. we started from Worli to Bandra… n then back from Bandra to Worli

pic taken from inside the car…

TAJ Lands End, Bandra… This too at the bandra-end of the link.

…..

again. taken from the car..

You just cant stop wondering about the Engineering… !

The another 4 lanes of the link are still under construction…

Goodnight/day!!!

A Relief from Reality called ‘Lectures’

2009-07-20T22:25:00.001+05:30

Some days of our lives are worth a rubric, not only coz they are out-of-the-ordinary in the way they are consumed but also coz of their circumstantial occurrence.

Today was the second Monday since reopening of my college… and lectures aren’t on in full roll yet…2weeks, and just 2lectures… ! Today ie-Monday, after the 9-11 lecture of FEM, (Finite Element Method, or something close to that :P ) ( Fyi- 9-11 denotes the duration of lecture) making ourselves oblivious to lectures further, we all decided to go out and have fun. Not to forget, it was also the birthday of my friend, not permitted to put name.. : )

It all started with a treat at Naturals’ (just next to the college) ofcourse from the birthday girl…(A Must Mention- try out CoffeeWalnut at NATURALS :) !!!) Thereafter, advancing to Dadar station by hiring a taxi… boarding on a local, we “customarily” went to the Marine Drive…... it was raining extremely heavily, plus there were these tides mounting high enough to soar beyond us! 40-45 mins at marine drive…….. a walk along the shore......... clothes outright saturated by water from tides and rains… it was a perfect afternoon spent… although it hardly seemed an afternoon …. Thanks to the overcast skies and breakneck winds…. And the ‘nowadays-sleepy’ sun of Mumbai… :D

Going to South Mumbai and eating in McDonald’s is a ritual followed by me till date… hehe.. Consequently, keeping with the tradition, we all went to Colaba McDonald’s after some window shopping at the Causeway : )

What I regret is, yet again, I didn’t have the digicam with me as we fled directly from college to Charni Road.. (therefore, this post is pics-less) (I’ll get them soon from a friend of mine who had this cell with a respectable camera :P ) But, what makes this escapism to be more satisfying is the fact that we absconded from having to attend the lectures which, I still don’t know, were conducted or not… : )

Its 5pm as I write this… but will be posting at night… as I have now opted for a night-unlimited plan : ) (which is a mistake I guess, now)

PS- The pic above … Courtesy-Internet… ….Those taken by us, will be put up later…

Goodnight/day!!!

Untitled

2009-07-01T21:39:00.000+05:30

They welcomed me on the Earth today when finally I gained some perspective of what-FB-actually-is … Funny, innit? : P : P ….. hehe…Whatever : )…….

This thing, dunno what to call it, is kinda making my brain face some major turbulent-thinking-disorder wherein it tends to think in a dire complicated manner and in the end fails to perform effectively in stretching to the conclusion. Its about Friendships and relationships… and their inter-conversion and de-conversion … :P

I’ll elaborate on this when I myself get some concrete standpoint : ) for now, I’d say friendship is the purest of all relationships! and never lose a friend out of senseless tagging-of-relationship business.

Goodnight/day!

I hate myself for loving you -- Songs I like #3

2009-06-29T22:35:00.001+05:30

Midnight, gettin' uptight. Where are you?
You said you'd meet me, now it's quarter to two
I know I'm hangin' but I'm still wantin' you.
Hey, Jack, It's a fact they're talkin' in town.
I turn my back and you're messin' around.
I'm not really jealous, don't like lookin' like a clown.

I think of you ev'ry night and day.
You took my heart, n you took my pride away.

I hate myself for loving you.
Can't break free from the things that you do.
I wanna walk but I run back to you,
that's why I hate myself for loving you.

Daylight, spent the night without you.
But I've been dreamin' 'bout the lovin' you do.
I won't be as angry 'bout the hell you put me through.
Hey, man, bet you can treat me right.
You just don't know what you was missin' last night.
I wanna see your face and say forget it just from spite.

I think of you ev'ry night and day.
You took my heart, then you took my pride away.

I hate myself for loving you .
Can't break free from the things that you do.
I wanna walk but I run back to you,
that's why I hate myself for loving you...

Untitled

2009-05-31T13:56:00.002+05:30

No updates, no posts of late as I’m home now. Our car driver has left the job and now its me, yeah right, the unpaid-car-driver. Blame Mom for the redundancy on this blog :P coz I have to be with her all the way through the day :

Holidays aren’t as exciting yet, as people here are still busy with their exams.
Btw Btw, it was a “ :O ” reaction when I encountered the new CCD opened at the PVR. That means A’bad now has 3 of them. :O …….. :P

On the other front, it’s a long wait for the results… I just hope they sail me safely in Java.

On the yet another front, I’m trying to get my permanent license : ( (with weary eyes)

On the yet yet another front its about movie that I recently watched, ‘Mi Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale Boltoy’ (such a huge name)! But a must watch for each Maharashtrian!
(READ: Maharashtrians NOT Marathi !!) I’m not willing to give any review of it, coz most of you have either already watched it (and discussed about it all the way home from theatre) , and the remaining most of you must be disposed to watch it (so I don’t wanna nag you with a comprehensive review)… : )

All its comparisons with Munnabhai and maxim that, it’s a Marathi edition of it of another kind is all false. I tell ya, this one goes much better than Munnabhai : )

A well-balanced and unprejudiced movie is all that I can say about it.

AHEM AHEM, MNS!!!

AHEM AHEM, Shiv Sena!!!

To everybody else,
Goodnight/day!! : )

Lal Bahadur Shastriji…

2009-05-22T00:45:00.002+05:30

The discussion was about the present scenario that our nation is facing and the present leadership that it has. The comparison that follows in this post will be a certain injustice but still worth a do. The Lok Sabha Elections have cleared in, ‘talk-to-the-hand’ thing’s up, the most significant win has come up for Indian Congress, but is it a win? Considering the fact that only 47% (or 49%something) people in the country voted to this effect. Glory be! That’s not my point of discussion though, it’s the leadership! Today, we have Dr. Singh as our P.M. But is he, or for that matter, anybody after Hon. Lal Bahadur Shastriji is as devoted for the nation?

Man who took moral responsibility of the train accident that claimed 160 lives in TN and therefore resigned in 1956 during his occupancy as the Railway Minister, was certainly a man of principles. Nehru had once said, "No one could wish for a better comrade than Lal Bahadur, a man of the highest integrity and devoted to ideas". A man of principles and values as he was, started the Green Revolution and the White Revolution in the country for the increased productivity. Today’s men, I hate to call them people’s representatives, have sold their scruples. After the Mumbai terror attacks, it took some shoving and cajoling to make them realize their inabilities, which then led to their resignations, which certainly didn’t come out of what they felt guilty of, but out of the fear of losing the vote banks.

How much do we know about this leader? How much do we know about his murder? How much do we know about what Indira Gandhi was all about? How much do we know about this man, who took pride and honor in serving the nation, no matter if that could claim his life? How much do we know about this PM who actually visited the site of live war between India and Pakistan in 1965, where he approved all authority to the force and said, “The force will be met with a force.” Only after UN demanded a ceasefire was the war stopped and that showed the amount of aggression this man of mild-manners had !

Today’s scenario demands a leader of that quality. What Lal bahadur Shastriji has done for the nation is unparalleled! And today’s fellow leaders are not even worth being his watchmen! What today’s so-called-leaders want is Power, Vote bank, stupid publicity and ofcourse MONEY! How immaterial has the politics grown in a country called India, one of the largest democracies! In our tender ages, we studied in civics, ‘Democracy is Government ~~by the people for the people~~ blah blah…..’ but its only today that we realize what it means ‘Buy the people, form the people’.

When we talk all about Shastriji, we can’t wait to mention about his mysterious death.. We had won the 1965 war, (UN forced to ceasefire), We went to Russia to discuss the ceasefire and what we got? PM’s dead body! We had almost tore Pak apart but this death/murder of Shastriji still holds an anger in our hearts, many unanswered questions, answers to which even the succeeding PM- Indira Gandhi didn’t bother to find. This thing, though, was not hyped by media, as against even the most insignificant of things blown outta proportion! Several theories that go about his death are as under-

Shastriji wanted to send Indira Gandhi to England as the new High Commissioner (in a recent book by one of the secretaries of cabinet level). To not let this happen, she conspired against him. Can’t dismiss this possibility so easily because she is also accused to have conspired of her own son’s death. She was an overt and highly ambitious lady.
CIA was behind Shastri’s murder. Don’t know how true this might be, but lets not deny the fact completely either.
According to the Soviet sources, a glass of milk was bought for Shastri by personal servant of Indian Ambassador TN Kaul. This personal servant, Jan Mohammad, was never questioned or interrogated by any one in the Soviet Union or in India despite his being the prime suspect. This is indeed mystifying, because just after consuming milk Shastri complained of “pain in the chest” and “difficulty in breathing.” Thereafter the Prime Minister slipped into coma. The Soviet doctors were called in and they declared him dead
There was no proper medical report stating the cause of his death. The Indian Govt. didn’t even try to obtain one. It’s shameful of India to have gulped down the insult this big so easily by Indian people, the Congress, The Indira Gandhi!!! Again making us re-deem in point 1. It’s a shame for all of us that we don’t even know about a prime minister who has given India a status in international showground after independence!!
USSR wanted a government which it could use and abuse during cold war. Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to remain neutral which was against soviet interest.
Some theories establish that he died of the third cardiac arrest after having survived the first two.

After Everything is Said and Done, there’s much more to be said than Done!

we can come up with as many reasons as possible.. but what makes blood inside me boil is the very inactivity of the media in making this issue a major one. Maybe Congress influence, Maybe Indira influence. What I feel is, today’s India would’ve been very different if we had him alive. Even today if a full enquiry is carried out, little would come out, but all Congress greats will shiver!

There are only few things that make us proud of this Country. And in that small list Shastriji earns a well deserved place. Murder, natural death, nobody knows. But he was somebody who could have done even more considering the money spent on the defense budget that could have gone into better areas. But we have to live with what we have. And what we have?

That I leave for you to think……..

On a very somber note,

Goodnight/day

6 / 7 = 0.5

2009-05-18T19:12:00.005+05:30

Half my Exam’s over.
ie 6 papers over out of 7 : )

Not that I’m bad at ratios, : ), just that, the one which is left is JAVA PROGRAMMING, of which I know only the spelling (not quite sure of that either though!) Too much to prepare, too much to understand, and in the end, hardly anything to be able to produce in the paper.

In my Engineering days, most difficult subjects that I have faced have been of programming. And therefore the conclusion that, I have the weakest programming brain. Hehe.
So in that way, half my exams are over, the next half finishes on 20th, soon! A 100 marks paper of Java, 3 hrs of sitting-and-doing-nothing, and a life full of ‘why-din’t-I-study JAVA’ guilt!!!

Now talking about the First half of exam, ie, Dynamics, Design, Management, IC engines, Control Systems, Refrigeration and Air conditioning. Yeah, the first half! Was good. Not too good though.. But then what can I expect from a ‘Procrastinator’-me.

That’s an update from my side.
Will soon be back after my exam’s completely done with.

Goodnight/day!

Vodafone Zoozoo Ads

2009-05-01T10:21:00.003+05:30

WELCOME TO EARTH !!! If you have not watched the Vodafone’s Zoozoo ads.

Gone are the days when people used to switch channel during commercial breaks.. Especially this IPL season, yes, the IPL sponsor Vodafone’s famous new series of advertisements is creating a sway all over..

Attracted 30,000 users on FaceBook, and still counting. What’s so special about these ads is these Creatures, who come from a different world and speak an unidentifiable language… endorsing Vodafone’s wide range of services and products in their own innocent-smart way! : )

For all those who, even for a moment, thought that these are animated, read on- here’s a revelation/disclosure… These are real people wearing white costumes. Ogilvy & Mather, the agency handling these ads said that they had to use real people as time didn’t permit them to create animations as IPL was on its way. Generally, task is to make Animations look as Real as possible but they had it other way round. To project Real thing as Animated was their job! : )

The actors are basically small-bodied, thin women wearing the white fabric made of light matl. Zoozoos’ head is almost 7 times that of normal human head, to make body look relatively small. The facial expressions are made of rubber and then pasted on it. Shadows happen to be spray painted… :O Everything sounds so unbelievable!! Doesn’t it?

The movements are hurried to make it look comical, this is achieved by filming it at 20fps (frames per second) instead of normal 25fps. The Zoozoo language is done by a trick too… these are no specific words that are identifiable in any language, the words are rubbish/garbage and the voice is tweaked by increasing the pitch and the speed of recording. Because Zoozoos are extraterrestrial, their language has to be alien too : )

These ads are a real treat introducing us to a parallel world of funny characters… and simplest expressions : ) There are a total of 29 ads, one released daily for over the entire IPL season.

If you haven’t watched them yet… Wake up, coz they are real thing happening.. Chuck IPL :) Catch them… HERE

If the link doesn’t work.. go to Youtube and in the Search box, write Vodafone Ads.

all info mentioned above; Courtesy: Google and HT.

Have fun !

Goodnight/day !

Voted … ?

2009-05-01T06:41:00.002+05:30

A pic in HT ...

Good, Bachchans, that you voted.. but whats this gesture about ;P

hehe.. kidding..

For all you people out there, reading this, DO VOTE !

Goodnight/day

The Vodafone Bhabhi :P

2009-05-01T00:55:00.001+05:30

Baffled? Confused?

Yes, this is about my friend/bro ‘X’ (name not disclosed on request), who uses a Vodafone Postpaid card.. : )

Since a couple of weeks he was getting countless missed calls from this girl ‘Y’ (name not disclosed, though, she,‘Y’ disclosed it to X). Missed Calls, SMSs, Calls, Sweet Talks and for everything, ‘X’ was at the receiving end : )

Rate of recurrence was taking no back seat.

A few of the SMSs:

Shayad Aapko achchha nahi lagta mujhse baat karna, but I like you. I’m waiting. Mujhe aap pasand ho.

And this guy ‘X’ had little idea of what was going on, Befuddled and Frustrated (also due to submissions), he once called her back and asked what was the entire thing about …. In response, she gave X her Rediffmail email id and password to know who she was. X went online, logged in… Clueless about what to do further, X asked Y what to do next. As told by her he checked out her pics in the My Photos section (dunno since when rediff keeps such a section).Anyways…

Seeing the pics, X recollected her face..and BANG !!!!!!! she was the Vodafone Receptionist who took his payment at the store the other day. He fell down laughing.. X’s mom too couldn’t help but laugh !! : D She confessed her feelings about him, that how she fell for him in the first look and how she is not interested in anything else, but just wanted him to know about it.

And my idiot friend/bro ‘X’ oblivious (or pretending so) of the entire thing didn’t even go and try having a chat with her the next day… Mad, Isn’t he? Hehe!*Dude, ask her out for a Coffee atleast ! :D*

BUT,

Now I know about Vodafone’s success in such a short time :P , nice way to get hold of customers n forever!And what did it take? Some miss(ed) calls? Some SMSs? Worth it if it assures you a customer X who will, ‘then’ceforth, always pay his bill on time : ) .. Cheers Vodafone! Great way to get Promising Customers ! :D

To find out X and Y , Solve the equations in your Algebra text book, class Tenth :P .. . Coz that’s the only way you get to know what is X and Y.

Goodnight/day!

OMEGLE . . . ???

2009-04-30T23:12:00.001+05:30

Yes, Omegle.

Not on the lines of Orkut Facebook Hi5 or Zorpia and the likes … This is utterly strange with an entirely out-of-the-ordinary concept.. but quite addictive.. (not to me, tho) (my friends)

Check out how they establish themselves…….

Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.

He ends with saying- Send feedback to Omegle (or a job offer to its founder)

Its real exciting, I tell you, and coolest thing is YOU DON’T NEED TO LOG IN OR SIGN IN…. JUST GET STARTED !!!

Try out once guys, Its worth it…. Cant write much coz have to sleep, got to study tomorrow, sorry! But hey, saw? :P just yesterday i posted this On a Break… post and today I’m writing again! Neer, I guess, you were right!!!! : )

Goodnight/day!

On a Break..

2009-04-30T00:17:00.001+05:30

Hehe… No, not ON A BREAK like Ross and Rachel . (F.R.I.E.N.D.S.) ( Sad, :( I’m going to miss it too).I’m on a break from blogging for ~~almost 20 days from now~~ don’t know exactly how many days (Max 20 days)… Blame it on our 6^th semester exams… ***Hey, its my Third year Engineering coming to end… only one year left now, for Graduation.. sounds not so good : ( ***… anyways… without deviating much from the topic… let me confess…

I wont be able to blog much (ha!, as if I do much!)

I’ll try posting but I find it hardly possible coz of great workload that surrounds and the fact that I have not been studying regularly amplifies the workload.

Secondly, I need suggestions from you, my friendly blog readers.. Refer to the right side column. If I should change the template or keep this on.. the reason why I want to change is present template’s inflexibility.. it doesn’t allow me to change the colors and fonts on the page. But in the end its your choice, my people! : )

Do post your choices, no hurry though, coz last date’s too far..

P.S.- Never trust me when I say I wont be able to post… A bad paper can shatter me severe enough to come and vent my anger/sadness here. (Considering my situation right now, this is most probable)

Again P.S – Do vote on your option. Its voting season everywhere… here too :D

Take care, Friends! Until I return from the exile… :P

Goodnight/day!

Fake IPL Player

2009-04-26T21:17:00.004+05:30

This entire IPL world is buzzing, one thing thats making the hearsay is the 'Fake IPL Player'

He claims to be from the KKR's team! and has successfully kept his identity hidden! He posts all the happenings of the dressing room in detail by using code names for the players...

eg:

Lordie- Sourav Ganguly

Sheikh- Shane Warne

Dildo- Shahrukh Khan

some which i could make out...

If you haven't read it yet, make sure you do ! He has posted as many as 28 posts ... each worth reading atleast once....

check out here

This can be a fake faking on a fake profile but we cant dismiss it so easily. Why? well, you have to read it once, to believe it...

The fake ipl player has as many as 2570 something followers and each post he posts gets, on an avg, as many as 130 comments.

Its an extremely popular blog!

Check out! HERE

Goodnight/day!

Thought of the day

2009-04-26T17:11:00.002+05:30

All's well that ends ~~well~~.

Murphy in Cricket

2009-04-25T19:03:00.003+05:30

Lack of posting on my blog has worthy reason behind it, tons of new stuff going on in my Life. I wanted to write today and it’s unbelievable I am actually writing a post! *Someone please pinch me, to make sure this is real!* ‘cause things aren’t going my way, of late, and this has made me bank so much on the Murphy’s Law.

Statement of Murphy’s Law-

If anything can go wrong, it will.

And in my life, it is!

No matter how hard a fight you give, if you were destined to lose, you do lose! Yes, I’m talking about the Thursday’s match between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. Everything looked decent. The score- gettable, The Wickets- Available, RR- Attainable, Dada- On the crease. BUT!!! Murphy’s law- so true…

The match turned out to be a tie, calling for the Super Over. Now this is where everything went wrong ~~correctly~~ hehe!.. I don’t understand what in McCullum’s brain/mind made him come to a verdict of sending a spinner to bowl the super over! x-(

A spinner!!??? That too, one who’s not a Shane Warne or a Murali or a Kumble!!???

One who himself doesn’t know where his ball is going to turn ! Now considering everything else went hell so perfect, WHY McCullum’s brain disregarded that spinners get thumped much easily!Anybody? -That’s where Murphy’s Law gets the due recognition!Yet again.

A most Stupid decision in the History of Cricket, I call it, rendering every person in World questioning every bit of it. and the core of it being WHY!

Only one answer-

Murphy’s Law- If anything can go wrong, it will.

It did.

Thank you, Murphy, for giving us one law which accounts for everything which a mortal can’t. Only you could answer WHY regarding the decision of the Captain of KKR!

In Murphy.. we trust!

Goodnight/day!

IPL* + no PL**=Excuse for bad Result

2009-04-22T20:55:00.006+05:30

The IPL fever is on...

The everyday debate in College. The Supporters, The Critics and The Indifferent ones (this category must get a life!), all doing their every bit to make their point heard!

Person 1:"Aaj to Rajasthan Jeetega! Shane Warne kya bowling dalta hai."

Person 2:"kya Ukhada usne 3 wicket leke??"

Person X: "Dude, this time it has to be Mumbai ya!"

Person Y: "Nahi Yaar, Hyderabad ka team dekh, Kya team hai, Gilchrist aur Gibbs! Aur kya chahiye!"

Person A: "You saw? Dada kaise out hogaya pehle match mein, khelna ata nahi to khelta kyun hai, that too wasting 2 Goddamn overs producing only one run, WTF!!"

Me : (hitting him hard in his back) "Shut up, A, Stop judging him right in match one!"(in vengeance, I hide the assignment of this person A, just prior to submission :P, i did return him, but only after the submission was over :D)

Person D: "Enough of IPL guys, how much have you done with Control Systems, portion's too vast! "

All of us: (ignoring him) "Whatever!"

Then there are people wearin T shirts of the teams they support, with Kolkata's Tee looking the best in the lot, black and yellow. Then the Mumbai Indians', the Blue tee with the Mumbai Indians icon, this Tee though is more popular here. and looks really fabulous!

Not only the students, the teachers too are gripped with the IPL fever, a teacher literally relieved us to catch up with the 4pm match!

On the whole IPL rocks the whole nation like a Calamity !! :D no matter where its played, here or abroad! :) What i like about IPL is the 'Unity in Diversity' that it brings in! And only thing i don't like about it is, its time. its scheduled just before our even sem exams and what makes it worst is 'no PL' !!! though it offers us great excuse for scoring not so good. :P

Will come up with more, soon. have to study for Machine design test scheduled tomo. :)

Sorry.. wanna write so much but, hardly possible. bubbye!

*IPL= Indian Premier League ( get a life, if you dinno this)

**PL= Preparation Leave (do Engineering to experience its useless-ness)

Goodnight/day!

Worth Reading !

2009-04-20T23:02:00.001+05:30

The best post I ever came across!!!

Click HERE Folks!

The thing called . . .

2009-04-17T21:08:00.005+05:30

Yes, haven’t been posting much of late, blame the submission spell, not me. Submissions, the inevitable part of engineer’s making!!!

So, there are certain worries that are eating me up since last couple of weeks…

The thing called Life; dunno where is it heading to, and why.
The thing called F.R.I.E.N.D.S.(the American Sitcom); its eating most of my time of submissions, the upshot of which is my incomplete submission file till the last moment!
The thing called Loneliness; I’m alone since a couple of weeks,(this family where I stay as PG has gone to their native Kolkata) and as much as I always say that it doesn’t, but loneliness does get the hell out of me!! Not that I’m afraid to stay in this 2bhk apartment, I’m of course not, but the ‘loneliness’ is taking my breath away! “Aunty, Uncle, I miss you, Come soon!!!”
The thing called Responsibility; I have realized that my shoulders aren’t yet strong enough to bear any additional responsibility. Coz these people have gone, the entire flat is mine, Therefore, along with the freedom comes also the responsibility which I hate to accept. Responsibility of managing the house.
The thing called IPL (Indian Premier League); which comes free packed together with our End Sem. Exams (or the other way round)! And I m gonna face a real challenge yet again, a challenge to control myself from watching it (and ofcourse Saurav Ganguly)!
The thing called Captaincy of the Kolkata Knight Riders’; which has been passed on to Brendon McCullum from Saurav Ganguly! This news has taken me to rage against THE THING CALLED COACH OF THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM!!! Why every coach has to make sure that he removes Saurav Ganguly from under Captain's hat and get a replacement???!!! First Chapell and now Buchanan!!! Both are *ssho***!
The thing called Cooking; as I have to take care of myself since last couple of weeks, I tried my hand at cooking. And mind you, I’m a disaster at it !
The thing called Vacations; Confused as to how to spend the vacations to get the max out of it, this being the last vacations of Engineering. Do CAT classes or a Summer-job.
The thing called Friends; though I’m making new ones and great ones, there lies this little fear and guilt inside me to have lost the older and dearer ones.
The thing called Time; my enemy since the time I came to this world! Its slipping away (since the time I was born)so easily without being made much use of.
The thing called Realization; that Engineering will be over soon and that’d mean being exposed to a greater world now! The Realization that how much friends will be needed in this phase of life where we will all be loaded with a glut of responsibilities.
The thing called Blogging; for which I dunno how much I’ll be able to squeeze out. But I certainly will coz this is something that directs my brain to a focused although for half an hour or so. Coz otherwise, my brain is un-focused!
The thing called ‘The thing called’; ie this post. Its not ending and its making me grumpy and ill-tempered.

Life has become sick and tired of itself. There’s nothing that seems to make me upbeat. Not friends, not family, not nobody!!!

Makes me recollect these lines from a song by Raageshwari, one of my favourites:

Duniya mein chalo akele,

Apne ho armaan,

Apne hisse ki ho dharti,

Apna aasman.

Ambar mein udi hoon main duniya ke..

Are haan, ye duniya, ye duniya badi rasili.

The lines seem so ideal. IDEAL??? IDEAL is only a word to describe the imaginary state of being called ‘ideal’. What we have in life is REALISM not the IDEALISM/impracticality.

Be it your Thermodynamics or Mechanics or any process or just GODDAMN ANYTHING, Have we ever reached THE IDEAL thing??? NO!

We have always lived a Real life not the Ideal. We have always lived the Approximations not the Accuracies.

Its just there to make us realize that we are not in an IDEAL world. Bloody then why is this word defined, when it doesn’t really exist!!!?? Makes me wonder, why was 0(zero) introduced when that really is the state of non-existence of anything. (But that’s totally a different debate, 0 is essential, I know)

0 is nothing then why is it defined? Similarly, IDEAL is nothing then why is it defined? Is it to only make us extra-sure of other things that exist???

Maybe yes, coz the entire world is a Relative concept. Nothing in this world is Absolute.

The more I write, the more I realize how complex can be the structure of brain. Its hell in there! My brain is a hell! I started with something, ending with some other thing. Maybe that can make you realize the struggle that my brain is going through these days. Struggle with life and Struggle with ‘the thing called …’ Whatever!!!

Goodnight/day!

A Theory or a Metaphor?

2009-04-05T10:43:00.008+05:30

This theory/metaphor i'll be talking about is not really theorized/metaphorized by me like i didThe Apparent Speed Theory of Time (A Theory) few weeks ago :) .. I just came across this and thought to share it. Its called the Frypan Theory! Have you ever looked up at the sky and thought, "Hey! that really looks like a scrambled egg?" Well, some people have.

The theory is that-

"The Sky really is a scrambled Egg, and the Yolk? well thats the Sun. God is up in heaven with his little Frypan cooking a scrambled egg.. and darn it, it's taking a real long time!!! So long in fact that little bacteria are growing in the egg.. hehehe! and guess what!! we're the little bacteria, as we are very clever bacteria we have been rapidily growing and creating our own little city.. which means God's gonna have one hell of a time trying to clean the frypan when he's done with cooking his egg for breakfast.

So you may ask, well whats the deal with all these natural disasters.. Well, earthquakes are quite obviously God getting impatient and giving the frypan a bit of a shake, as any bloke would.. he's getting hungry!!

As for fires well sometimes the frypan slips and well a bit of bacteria or bacteria buidings (being us and what we have created being so darn smart and all) catches onto the flame...

As for tornados, cyclones, volcanoes.. Well these are all just the mysteries of what happens when a guy is desperate for some food, and when will God finally get to eat his breakfast??? Well thats anyones guess... but he is ready for lunch.. he's preheated the oven, which is what we call Mars.. that's why the pathfinder didn't find any intelligent life on Mars, God hasn't put his lunch in the oven yet, he can't till he's done with his Breakfast."

Quite Metaphorical, innit??

But one thing goes unanswered or say, The Drawback of this theory, as it goes is-

The theory doesn't account for the natural phenomenon of day n night ..

ie visibility of yolk in certain part of bacteria land and not so in remaining part.

Any help on this will be highly appreciated :)

You are free to put up more drawbacks that you reckon or more 'metaphors!'

Goodnight/day!!

May I have your Attention please ?

2009-04-04T10:43:00.003+05:30

Hello Readers,

Check out the "Quote and Word of the day" space (on the right sidebar, below the pencil) for :P obviously, a quote and a word :P hehe!!! I've become quite familiar to this HTML Scripting by now, but my lackadaisical attitude and indifference towards programming, be it any language, will never kinda make me conceptually clear in the programming thingy..

The 'Words' in the "word of the day " are not the dictionary words or any GRE flash card words.. these words come from the English 'Lingo' (read: Lingo) (not language!). So, they can be quite worth noting down. From where do I get them?? I get them from this Newspaper Daily I read. I just felt that it'd be great to share it with all my readers :) ..

Watch out 'the' space for more...

Goodnight/day!!

The Metaphorical Tree

2009-04-02T12:57:00.000+05:30

When you don’t know about a Tree, tie a Goat to the tree and explain about the Goat!

that's how we attempt Questions in Engineering exams :P

Goodnight/day!

What’s Next? :D

2009-04-01T23:16:00.000+05:30

This idea just popped up in my blog-obsessed ~~brain~~ (Oh, i don’t’ve Brain!) thoughts today. But making it reach to all my friends was a big ‘bugging’ task. You know, convincing 10-15 people needs atleast about 5 ‘convincing’ SMS per head !! Summing up to 75 SMS !!! meaning around 18.75 to 20 Rs subtracted from balance in a day.. hehe.. (Enough of the Math now!!!) :P

So, I used this 160by2 Free SMS service. Though it sucks, I love it coz it saves my balance :P

Now coming to the crux, Me has come up with this group blogging idea for the first time in my life. Obsessed with the idea for about an hour, I finally resorted to SMSing my friends. After about 2-3 constant hammering by SMSes, my friends, so kind! , agreed to the idea : ) I dunno if they are really keen on it, but right now, as scenario goes, I feel they are ( : unless ofcourse, they are not just saying yes to keep me upbeat : ) Lets see how well it goes.. :)

I, hereby, tag (alphabetically)-Aakanksha Abhishek Aditya Ameya.K Janhavi Kaiwalya Mandar Neeraj Neha Renuka Satyajit Utkarsh and Me

Will be updating the URL soon on this blog. It’ll be fun!!! Oh, I’m so damn excited !!

Goodnight/day!!!

Something you shouldn’t miss, if you use Cell Phone and Car!!!

2009-03-29T11:13:00.004+05:30

I received this through email, and couldn’t hold myself from spreading it through Blog too. The info that follows is of prime importance for cell phone users and also car users. : ) And ofcourse, if you’re a thief, think 100times before stealing any handset.

Press *#06# and get this 15 digit no. called the IMEI no. (International Mobile Equipment Identity) which is original for your handset. Check the 7th and 8th digits in this IMEI no.

If they are 02 or 20, cell was assembled in Emirates and is of BAD quality.

if they are 08 or 80, cell was assembled in Germany and is of FAIR quality.

if they are 01 or 10, cell was manufactured in Finland & is of VERY GOOD quality.

if its 00, cell was manufactured in original factory and is of the BEST quality.

if its 13, cell was assembled in Azerbaijan, not only is of very BAD quality but also hazardous to health.

NOW READ CERTAIN THINGS WHICH YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO.

1)Cell phone – A LIFE SAVER !!!!

Before me mentioning anything here, try this out! “Keeping your cell phone’s keypad locked, press 112. The number could be dialed even when keypad was unlocked !????!!” Because, The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you.

2) Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?

if you accidentally left your keys in your car, and the spare are at home, your cell phone can unlock your car, Read HOW !!

all you have to do is, call somebody at your home, ON CELL, ask the person to hold the spare key remote near the cell phone and press Unlock button. You need to hold your cell phone a foot away from the car door. And Bingo! The car is Unlocked !!! Distance is no issue, you can be hundreds of miles away and still get the car unlocked from somebody in your home.

** it works. We tried it on Wagon R from 5^th floor.

3) Hidden Battery Power!

Imagine your cell battery is very low , you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.

4) Disabling a stolen mobile phone

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset. Blocking the handset renders cell completely useless, no matter whichever SIM is in. Doing this you probably won't get your phone back, but at least you now know that whoever stole it cannot use/sell it either.

IF EVERYBODY DOES THIS, NO ONE WILL EVER STEAL ANYBODY’S HANDSET.

GoodNight/Day!!!!

when 2--->3 !

2009-03-29T00:18:00.001+05:30

I love the color Black!

Here goes a new template to my blog… MINIMA with 3 columns : )

Wanted a Black ONLY but a 3 columned! With some searching and help from a friend I am finally here, with this three-columned, Black template, yes, its Minima-black! : )

There are few more additions, here they go,

The Popular Posts – left , And…

Oh, there’s only one ! :P oops!

But one problem that I encountered was-

The Pic in top right corner, which previously was in the header space, cannot be placed there anymore. Cant quite get, why?

Any help in that front will be heavily valued.

Goodnight/day!

The ‘X’

2009-03-27T14:33:00.002+05:30

I have been mentally completely bankrupt for quite a while now. This feeling is kinda taking over me. Sounds more like the mid life crisis, say, Quarter life crisis???

But that’s how its going, I have everything and everybody to keep me upbeat, friends, people around me, the 10pm Badminton friends, 24hrs laptop n Ipod, but something’s missing. Its something which comprises more of ‘me’.

The fun, the laughter, the mirth, the high spiritedness, everything that used to be very first in the attributes of who I am, is missing.

This is mainly because of the surreal, callous and malicious people I have encountered recently in my life. Not that it is bothering me so much but then I can’t stand it when one steps on my happiness. I cant. And in vengeance I end up in an argument which may not bother the person who I m talking about but makes me feel perturbed. This follows with a never ending feeling of guilt and culpability. I start questioning my blameworthiness.

Not that this person, say person ‘X’, I’m talking about is a friend of mine, or even remotely close to be called one. But then, this is the one whom I have to encounter everyday. If not part of my life, X happens to be a part of my everyday! and for reasons inarticulate to me, X seems to be very much at comfort to live in pretence even in smallest of things! Nobody would, would you?

One part of me hates X and the other part rather subtle, wants to forgive X. But both the parts the Anti and the Subtle are equally formidable and any try to strengthen either of them puts me into more frenzied turbulence. I cant do away with X but I cant even stand X.

Then wakes the more sensible and sane part of me, and thinks of this as just another unwanted-but-there part of life; Worrying so much about it, only makes it more significant. This side of mine makes my mind more strong to resist the turbulence created by the previous two; I can’t let myself ruin my days just for one person- X, who I don’t even care about or give a damn about!

Feeling much better after writing it down. : )

(X is purely an alphabet to denote here, any resemblance in name to any person living or dead is purely co-incidental)

Sometimes i feel, Blogger has become my best friend ! Anytime, Anything i feel, i can come up and expel here. Love you Blogger!

Goodnight/day

The FAIL Blog.

2009-03-21T11:10:00.001+05:30

Misuse of Mathematics! hehe… found this picture on a site, and couldn’t help laughing out loud! Check out some more on this site!

Windows Live Writer..

2009-03-20T12:56:00.001+05:30

Post-Test post…

Windows Live Writer Works.

And it works just fine !!!

. . .

2009-03-20T12:52:00.001+05:30

This is a test post!

I’m using this ‘Windows Live Writer’ for blogging. This post is being written (when you read- was written) in the Windows Live Writer.

It provides you with all options that you find in Create Post of Blogger. Plus. It gives another built in facility, of ‘Set Publish Date’. Which I haven’t found in Blogger as yet. (Tell me if you’ve found) and some more features that aren’t present in Blogger>Create New Post.

Worth trying once, Windows Live Writer is rather an easier way to blog, cutting down time for opening Blogger>Sign in>New post.

Try out once.

Goodnight/day!

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

2009-03-15T20:44:00.007+05:30

This is an upsurge of feelings after having watched this series’ 2 seasons in 2 days and for maybe the millionth time! No matter how many times I see it, its difficult to get enough of this series called F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Everytime I see it I feel a superior impulse of having a life like that portrayed!

F.R.I.E.N.D.S , CENTRAL PERK, small job, stay together, have fun, make fun and ofcourse, at the end of the day, be there for each other ! What fun! Remotely close to what life we lead, burning our asses for studies and in the end settling up for a clichéd life with a job that earns you a bomb salary.

"When the rain starts to pour
I’ll be there for you
Like I’ve been there before
I’ll be there for you"

Monica with her OCD but a great hand at cooking, is always spirited and obsessed with neatness. She is the one who actually bridges all the Six of them.

Ross, Monica’s big brother had a wife who was discovered to be a Lesbian but only after their marriage. Breaks off with three of his wives but his sincere love for Rachel is to die for, till the end. And not to forget Marcel : ) the monkey…

Rachel, hot, sexy, bold and a rich dad’s daughter but often ending up in wrong man’s land unless it’s Ross, ofcoss! : )

Phoebe with her terrible SoH (Sense of Humour) but a great heart is rather too cute. Her Absence of Mind (read: Absence, not presence) at times, makes you go mad in laughter!

The “how you doin?”-guy; Joey.
Joey, the neighbour is kinda person without whom a friend’s list looks rather incomplete. Its just so jaded without him.

And Chandler, Joey’s roomie, a complainer of his job, is a man full of sarcasm. But he is too sensitive when it comes to feelings. His cynicism in a way brings too much of jesting to the plot. Chandler gets married to Mon(ica) in later season ( I guess, 7th)

Watch anything a hundred times and get bore(d),
Watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S a thousand times, and you can only ask for more.
Its indeed more fun when you personify certain friends in your life as the characters in it. After having reigned for ten seasons and ten years it was finally taken off in 2004.

I wish I could put in all seasons in my Ipod and carry it wherever I go but I guess 8GB is rather too small a space to make it happen.

All I have to say is-
Your life is as incomplete without F.R.I.E.N.D.S as it is without Friends!

Love you all ! : )
Goodnight/day !

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. ---SongsI like #2

2009-03-14T14:01:00.005+05:30

So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or evenyour year, but

I'll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour
I'll be there for you
Like I've been there before
I'll be there for you
'Cause you're there for me too

You're still in bed at ten and work began at eight
You've burned your breakfast so far, things are going great
Your mama warned you there'd be days like these
But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees, and

No one could ever know me
No one could ever see me
Since you're the only one who knows what it's like to be me
Someone to face the day with
Make it through all the best with
Someone who always laughs at
Even when I'm at my worst, I'm best with you
Yeah!

I'll be there for you
I'll be there for you
I'll be there for you
'Cause you're there for me too

Orkut Says...

2009-03-11T22:52:00.002+05:30

Today's fortune: Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Really??? More the weaknesses, greater is the strength !!! (?????)
and how's that?
couldn't quite get it...

any help on this is truly valued.....

goodnight/day!

!@#$%^&()_(&^#@!

2009-03-06T15:00:00.002+05:30

Dynamix2 wasn’t bad either!!! : )
It’s a record ! : D All papers were quite reasonably good, unlike ever before, hehe.
Except RAC tho.

Btw, I’ll be going home tonight.
I had been waiting so eagerly for the MidSems to get over and now when they finally are, I’m not as excited as I thought I’d be … : ) hehe, not that I love studies, that’s the last thing that I’d love. No, maybe the second last, last is something(body) different, hehe.

Watched ‘Oye! Its Friday’(Ganguly Special) 8 times …. And he’s more wonderful each time I see it. : ) And Ganguly is just without equal, unparalleled! I love him beyond limits!

Have nothing much to talk about right now.
Yet to pack up stuff, I hate journeys these days!

catch ya.
Goodnight/day!

just for fun.......

2009-03-04T20:36:00.001+05:30

Click here... HERE !!

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2009-03-04T16:29:00.002+05:30

Finally, half the burden is over, IC Engines paper was great and I expect most out of it! Not so much from RAC though, my laxity towards the subject….paid off. Only one paper remaining and that’s on Friday : )

Noticed the header of the page?
Do! ;)

My blog titled ‘. . . ’ said-
“My MidSems gonna be hell(as always, this time more severe!) .. haven't been studying much this sem..”

But I’m awfully surprised to ascertain that it wasn’t actually so bad or severe!!! : ) Although, one paper is yet to go, so I’d rather be silent than deduce that – fortunately n surprisingly, it wasn’t as severe as most of my other 5 have been!

Have to catch up with Dynamics 2.

I’m very happy today chiefly because I have finished downloading ‘Oye! It’s Friday’-s episode- The ‘Saurav Ganguly’ special, from torrents.
Started on Saturday and even as I write this, it’s on the way to completion.

98% !!! and on………

: )

Goodnight/day!

'Apparent Speed' theory of Time !!! (???)

2009-03-02T23:06:00.000+05:30

Not the best, but my first two papers were respectably good. :)

That makes me bit happy and augments my urge of blogging past limits! Here I go..
Today, when I left for the exam, it was almost 10:10 and guesstimating it almost impossible to reach college by B.E.S.T. bus before 10:30, I decided to take up a taxi, and reach if not in time, on time!

Some theory goes, -‘Time sneaks off when u want it to stay right there.’ Right?

See the quirk of fate now, I needed time to go through the syllabus as a final revision, surfing through all important points and formulae, only to realize every living second that time is passing at double its normal speed- 2seconds per second , till the taxi finally stopped at the signal where, now, because I wanted signal to go green asap, time was lagging behind its original speed!!! - 0.5second per second..

Why, when you actually need time, it runs away with double its speed and when you want the scenario/circumstances to change asap, it stays for double its limit!!???

My entire ‘time’ was wasted in coming up with this ‘Apparent Speed’ theory of time (???), and finally had to appear for the paper without revision :P …

Btw, I reached in 'time'….. after juggling so much with its ‘apparently’ incoherent behaviour..

What do I call it? Circumstantial behaviour of time(???) or Anomalous Behavior of time
like water (???)

Hehe!!!!
Goodnight/day!

. . .

2009-02-28T21:39:00.000+05:30

Btw, my midsems from Monday... So will be too irregular in Posting for about a week ...Getting responses to "So much to come up with", but friends, i'm sorry. MidSem. Wanna tel u people so so much but.......... everything comes to mind exactly when there's no enough time to actually Blog it down... :) My MidSems gonna be hell(as always, this time more severe!) .. haven't been studying much this sem.. routine broadly encompasses of College, Net:P and Sleeping!

Got two pprs on monday, n they both gonna screw my termwork marks... both are with tempting 9 credits to it... not that the temptation will amplify the hard work put in... infact, it doesn't matter really..

Will keep u updated...

Goodnight/day!

Breakaway!--- Songs I like # 1

2009-02-27T21:55:00.003+05:30

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I'd just stare out my window

Dreaming of what could be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)

Trying hard to reach out
when I tried to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me

Wanted to belong here
something felt so wrong here
So I prayed

I could BREAKAWAY!

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change

And BREAKAWAY!

Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change

And BREAKAWAY!

Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean

Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane,
far away

And breakaway!

Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around revolving doors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me
but Gonna keep moving on, moving on
Fly away,
breakaway!

I'll spread my wings And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I ll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change

And breakaway!

Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from

I ll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change

And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway !

Singer: Kelly Clarkson
Album: Breakaway

Goodnight/day!

-

Beggar; Am I ???

2009-02-25T21:02:00.000+05:30

Life sometimes plays a big joke with you and subjects you to some queer things/incidents.
One such incident-

I keep my pace quick while walking the Dadar station for certain reasons. I generally follow the tip of my nose and try to traverse the bridge as speedily as possible to avoid the scuttle and bustle with crowd, to avoid the stalking of vendors and ofcourse, the beseeching of beggars who just almost follow you like your school bag!

Once while crossing this bridge, a small boy (12-13yrs) stood in fronta me- “Didi, Didi kuch to de, Didi…” -while I was in all hurry, rushing to get a bus from outta station, my fav 43 no. bus, the only one from Dadar Station to place where I stay. And he –“Didi, paach rupaya dede, Didi” and I was so astonished to hear “paach rupaya” said so bluntly!!!

I explored my pocket to find some chillar, got a 2rupee coin and handed over to him.
Says- “Didi, paach!” I was again surprised at his demand.

Irritated coz of the terminally boring day in college and tensed of forthcoming exams, rubbing the wrong way and infuriated, I said in frustration- “Yaar, Nahi hai paach rupaya!” (now I regret why I said it :)

In response to which he restored the 2rupee coin in my hand and said “Didi, nahi hai to tu hi rakhle!”

I was aghast, surprised, shocked but most of all, I was bemused at his gesture. For 2 moments I felt like a beggar. Now, when I recall, the Puzzle perplexes me enough to smirk it out and wonder at the guts of the boy!

It only makes me recall the proverb in marathi-
‘Khaeen tar tupashi, nahitar upashi!’

Hehe..
Goodnight/Day!

So Much to come up with....

2009-02-24T22:51:00.000+05:30

I'm almost certain that I'm going to write them (not to ignore 'almost' here) but uncertain as to 'when'...
Here are some of my forthcoming topics (I hope i.e.) and what it includes.

1) PPt,P- Paratha Point, Parel.
2)A Changed Life!
3)Things that Mystify me.
4)Theoretical and Actual (not mass flow rate or Power or any sorta Output! :P ,as most of Mech enggs would prefer to think)
5)A 'B.E.S.T.' bus ticket.

Note: Author is Authorised to change the order or post a topic which comes to her mind at
that instant even if not revealed here.
However, Readers can express their choice of preference, if at all.

xyz

2009-02-22T20:05:00.001+05:30

this is a test-post

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2009-02-22T19:17:00.000+05:30

My Dear Friendly Blog Readers, now you can easily get an email subscription whenever this blog is updated...

All you need to do is, enter your email id in the space provided, (on the sidebar, below the clock) and follow the instructions..

1 Copy the code which they provide you.
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Happy Reading!

GoodNight/Day...

At Random........

2009-02-20T22:15:00.000+05:30

Sorry, My Friendly Blog Readers, I ve been mentally completely bankrupt for quite a while now…..
Call it Emotional Atyachaar…… or Intellectual Bankruptcy……

All these days, not that I didn’t’ve time, just that was too bankrupt on thoughts n ability to think to actually come up with something really interesting ..

Not that I assure u that this post is something interesting, but then waiting for ‘something interesting’ would have made me barmy coz not comin up with something new for so long was making me obsessed too much… with the blog ofcourse…

If you know me, you will know that customarily, the thoughts in my head are processed at Mach 2...
For a change, today, due to my ill health, I actually CAN think slowly enuf n write it down…….So here t goes..

-coldn cough, body aching…
-I HAVE to start studying.. midsems comin up! ;(
-Mite go to BCL (British Council Library) tomorrow.. I should find some good books to read..
-I love my brother so much..
-I'm 21 now...
-IC engines book is in fronta me..Maybe I can switch off the laptop and start reading/studying..
-Naa..Too sick/tired..
-Mom gifted me Reliance netconnect this bday, now I cn easily put up my blogs whenevr I feel like against earlier- when I had to carry it in my pen or usbhdd n goto a café n post it… 
love you mom!
-I wish bro was here :(
-I'm 21 this 9th feb onw…. I think I should be more responsible... Responsible? Wats that?
-Got this Sony Cybershot DSC W220, but not really very satisfied with the performance… only good thing about it is it’s 12.1megapixel .. but then that’s not the only judging criterion for digicams!
-Maybe I should just clean my room...Its so messy...
-Naah! Too lazy to get up
-I'm 21..I should grow up and do things on my own.
-Ahhh Im tired...
-Tomorrow is holiday, boring day. Maybe I cn go n buy a bag chiefly for my gadgets, from nearest VIP store ..
-Shall I redo my iTunes library with better songs for iPod??? Maybe sometime later....
-Maybe I should really pick up my book and start studying for a while..

Or Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Good day/night……

Towards Century...

2009-01-22T15:06:00.000+05:30

check out the bottom of this page, guys! :) :)

A Feedback for a Feedback

2009-01-22T11:46:00.000+05:30

Thank you, my friendly readers, for commenting. Keep doing so, getting feedbacks from you al helps me to sort my thots n blog better.

You can also drop comments instead of texting(on cell) , coz, when we comment and then counter-comment, we form a forum where we eventually happen to discuss upon certain topics n let the new readers kno our views n allow him to form his.

right? comments can be anonymous too. :)

so keep blogging and keep commenting.

thank you, my friendly blog readers,

Love you all.

Wiki in Danger

2009-01-02T14:56:00.000+05:30

An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales

Dear Reader,
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?

Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003.

At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising.

But Wikipedia is more than a website. We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment.

Your donation helps us in several ways. Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia -- making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. We are committed to growing the free knowledge movement world-wide, by recruiting new volunteers, and building strategic partnerships with institutions of culture and learning.

Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia in history, written by volunteers. Like a national park or a school, we don't believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia. We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you.

I invite you to join us: Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world.

Thank you,
Jimmy Wales

visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more