http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=112561#112561
check out the pics from todays earthquake.these are from on area only.my id in the forum is ig so i'm not gonna post more about this now :)
Sunday, December 26, 2004
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Long Time No Post
Because long time no net connection at home.and looks like it will be thataway for a while as well.
Have an interview with Sify on monday.wish me luck :)
will post again soon.
Have an interview with Sify on monday.wish me luck :)
will post again soon.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
New Keyboard
Got a new keybpard today.Feels inda weird.i was using a 10 year old mechanical keyboard that i salvaged from my cuzns old comp till now.i kinda liked the feel of the keys and the clack.but then it gave up today and now i have this new tvs champ keyoard with the wrist rest and all that.its kinda comfortable but then the feel of the keys aint the same.that said i like the keyboard even more bcos its white and the old one was dirty brown from all the accumulated dirt from all those hands typing on it.
Week has been boing so far.
My aunt and uncle are going to France on the 12th for 18 days so they have left for Pondy to get the visa.Guess they will be back sometime tomorrow.
When they are gone i will have to move upstairs cos my other aunt and uncle are going to come doen here to look after my gran.
When i told this to my friend all she wanted to know was "so u'll be all alone this winter?"
everyone has a job.i'm sitting at home doing nothin except tryin to learn frominternet tutorials and sleeping all day.
this sucks.
worst part is no one is going to be free and around yet again when i need them around.
Week has been boing so far.
My aunt and uncle are going to France on the 12th for 18 days so they have left for Pondy to get the visa.Guess they will be back sometime tomorrow.
When they are gone i will have to move upstairs cos my other aunt and uncle are going to come doen here to look after my gran.
When i told this to my friend all she wanted to know was "so u'll be all alone this winter?"
everyone has a job.i'm sitting at home doing nothin except tryin to learn frominternet tutorials and sleeping all day.
this sucks.
worst part is no one is going to be free and around yet again when i need them around.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
wtf
now i really wanted to get into onmobile.
esp now that i'm getting around to liking bangalore.
dint pass the test.
found that out before i left the city.
shit.
now i hope i get sify....dont wanna get stuck in mainframes....i want only networking.
esp now that i'm getting around to liking bangalore.
dint pass the test.
found that out before i left the city.
shit.
now i hope i get sify....dont wanna get stuck in mainframes....i want only networking.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Bangalore
well i'm posting this from an iway at cmh road in blore.came here to attend a test to work at onmobile.Since they are part of infy this is something like a second chance to get into infy.
took a bus at 1 pm yesterday and got to hosur some 20 km from the place i was to rite the test.would have preffered to stay alone or with friends but dad made me stay with some me relatives i had never met.
was ok.they were nice but then it was bugging.
finished test which was omniously close to being like the infy test :P
met suchi and sriram after a long time...she is till the same :P
now have to go meet me cousin.
before i meet him i have ti find where he lives :P
more later when i get back home.
took a bus at 1 pm yesterday and got to hosur some 20 km from the place i was to rite the test.would have preffered to stay alone or with friends but dad made me stay with some me relatives i had never met.
was ok.they were nice but then it was bugging.
finished test which was omniously close to being like the infy test :P
met suchi and sriram after a long time...she is till the same :P
now have to go meet me cousin.
before i meet him i have ti find where he lives :P
more later when i get back home.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
bad connection
my phone line @ home is screwd :( dunno how long it will take to come back on....no updates till it comes back on.
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Why Children?
Death in Gaza is a documentary made by James Miller and Saira Shah. Its about the
children of Palestine who have suffered enormously because of the conflict there.
Basically it follows the lives of three young chilren in Gaza. Ahmed and Mohammed
who are 12 and Najla who is 16. Miller and Shah initially intended to make the
documentary with children from both sides of the divide, but then were unable to do
so.
This was because James Miller was killed by the Israeli soldiers while filming for
the documentary. The way the whole video of the shooting (taken by a local film
crew) looks, it seems to be a massacre. Of the whole crew, all of who were wearing
TV crew flak jackets, with TV written on them, wearing helmets, waving a white flag
and using cameras, only Miller was shot dead. This seems to be a way by which the
IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) tried tho show who was still the boss around there.
Miller's death has brought more attention to the film than the attention it would
have recieved had he lived. Ironic and morbid as it may seem, it is a fact. The
unfinished documentary has been released...unfinished because it wasnt completed
with the Israeli chilren in it.
I havent actually seem the whole documentary, but then the parts that i saw on tv
now were enough for me.
All I can see is someone who was trying to bring out the suffering of children in
the middle east to this world was killed, leaving two small chldren
fatherless...and the story of how many adults in the guise of nationalism and
religion are responsible for the deaths of many innnocent children who live under
some of the most extraordinarily chaotic and dangerus situations in the world.
Ahmed in the period of the filming has been recruited by the local paramilitary
organisation. The film shows him at one of the meetings. The leader of the paras
teaches him how to hold a rocket launcher. Then he hugs and kisses Ahmed and says
that they all love him very much. All this and he knows he is sending the boy to
his death. When asked how he can send a child to his death, stuff he says is like :
"We are men and we know responsibility" and "If Ahmed dies there are a thousand
kids more like him".
And he says they all love Ahmed.
They love him because everyone killed there is a martyr...a death and the posters
come out...freshposters with the pictures of the person killed so that more
individual passions are inflamed and more new recruits are found...
Najla has had more than 4 young relatives of her's killed. One was killed as h
emerged from school..another when he left from a private study. Now she wants to
know if she will also die.
I couldnt care less about the fighting. If only the children are left alone. Why is
it that children always have to be involved in the fight? Everywhere there has been
a conflict, be it the African civil wars, the war that was fought between the ltte
and the government in Sri Lanka or Afghanistan under the taliban..why does it
always have to be children also fighting?
In fact this has become so epidemic in Palestine that a while back when an Israeli
soldier asked a school girl to stop and she did not, he just shot her on the
suspicion that she had explosives in her bag.
When will this exploitaion stop??? Who will stop it and how??
And when people like Miler try to bring it out to the rest of the world, They are
killed.
But in the end...all I want to know is: Why Children?
children of Palestine who have suffered enormously because of the conflict there.
Basically it follows the lives of three young chilren in Gaza. Ahmed and Mohammed
who are 12 and Najla who is 16. Miller and Shah initially intended to make the
documentary with children from both sides of the divide, but then were unable to do
so.
This was because James Miller was killed by the Israeli soldiers while filming for
the documentary. The way the whole video of the shooting (taken by a local film
crew) looks, it seems to be a massacre. Of the whole crew, all of who were wearing
TV crew flak jackets, with TV written on them, wearing helmets, waving a white flag
and using cameras, only Miller was shot dead. This seems to be a way by which the
IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) tried tho show who was still the boss around there.
Miller's death has brought more attention to the film than the attention it would
have recieved had he lived. Ironic and morbid as it may seem, it is a fact. The
unfinished documentary has been released...unfinished because it wasnt completed
with the Israeli chilren in it.
I havent actually seem the whole documentary, but then the parts that i saw on tv
now were enough for me.
All I can see is someone who was trying to bring out the suffering of children in
the middle east to this world was killed, leaving two small chldren
fatherless...and the story of how many adults in the guise of nationalism and
religion are responsible for the deaths of many innnocent children who live under
some of the most extraordinarily chaotic and dangerus situations in the world.
Ahmed in the period of the filming has been recruited by the local paramilitary
organisation. The film shows him at one of the meetings. The leader of the paras
teaches him how to hold a rocket launcher. Then he hugs and kisses Ahmed and says
that they all love him very much. All this and he knows he is sending the boy to
his death. When asked how he can send a child to his death, stuff he says is like :
"We are men and we know responsibility" and "If Ahmed dies there are a thousand
kids more like him".
And he says they all love Ahmed.
They love him because everyone killed there is a martyr...a death and the posters
come out...freshposters with the pictures of the person killed so that more
individual passions are inflamed and more new recruits are found...
Najla has had more than 4 young relatives of her's killed. One was killed as h
emerged from school..another when he left from a private study. Now she wants to
know if she will also die.
I couldnt care less about the fighting. If only the children are left alone. Why is
it that children always have to be involved in the fight? Everywhere there has been
a conflict, be it the African civil wars, the war that was fought between the ltte
and the government in Sri Lanka or Afghanistan under the taliban..why does it
always have to be children also fighting?
In fact this has become so epidemic in Palestine that a while back when an Israeli
soldier asked a school girl to stop and she did not, he just shot her on the
suspicion that she had explosives in her bag.
When will this exploitaion stop??? Who will stop it and how??
And when people like Miler try to bring it out to the rest of the world, They are
killed.
But in the end...all I want to know is: Why Children?
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Diwali and Anime....
Ah well yesterday..no.now its day b4 yesterday was diwali here...had fun.no sleep though :(
created my own mini mid ocean launch pad for the rockets :P
The badminton court at home is under half a foot of water..so in the middle of it,i created this small island types for the aerial crackers.
had a lot of fun.
slept till abt 1 pm today :D
Today was the first episode of the much hyped Area 88.Boy does it rock...firstly it about fighter combat.
Secondly the artists have really taken pains to make the planes look true to life and manuver so as well.
If this first spisode is something to go by,i'm gonna watch it for just the flying.
Bigger diwali update soon...me tired now :)
created my own mini mid ocean launch pad for the rockets :P
The badminton court at home is under half a foot of water..so in the middle of it,i created this small island types for the aerial crackers.
had a lot of fun.
slept till abt 1 pm today :D
Today was the first episode of the much hyped Area 88.Boy does it rock...firstly it about fighter combat.
Secondly the artists have really taken pains to make the planes look true to life and manuver so as well.
If this first spisode is something to go by,i'm gonna watch it for just the flying.
Bigger diwali update soon...me tired now :)
Monday, November 08, 2004
My Walk
Well,part of my 9 km walk has a half kilometer strech which has absolutely no lighting.One side has a dark forest and the other a lunatic asylum.
The forest part has pigs running around in it.They are kind of scary as they keep running around making weird noises unlike the oinks that i was brought up to believe pigs made.They sound like a weird cross between a dog and something awful.And they are big dark shapes.
I once had the misfortune to brush against one...it was warm,ahiry and it covered the part of my leg that touched it with some black goo.
The other side is a large walled and barbed wire fenced off mental asylum.According to my uncle when they had just started off, they used to badly ill treat the patients,even after taking humongous amounts of money as admission and other fees.Its pretty creepy :(
Today a few piglets were running around.I walked past them and the next thing i knew...a loud noise and a large pig was running after me.
Had to run.Did the clever thing and ran across the road.Pig did not chase bcos of the traffic.
Now i have to think...do i change my normal route or do i just ignore the danger and walk anyways :(
The forest part has pigs running around in it.They are kind of scary as they keep running around making weird noises unlike the oinks that i was brought up to believe pigs made.They sound like a weird cross between a dog and something awful.And they are big dark shapes.
I once had the misfortune to brush against one...it was warm,ahiry and it covered the part of my leg that touched it with some black goo.
The other side is a large walled and barbed wire fenced off mental asylum.According to my uncle when they had just started off, they used to badly ill treat the patients,even after taking humongous amounts of money as admission and other fees.Its pretty creepy :(
Today a few piglets were running around.I walked past them and the next thing i knew...a loud noise and a large pig was running after me.
Had to run.Did the clever thing and ran across the road.Pig did not chase bcos of the traffic.
Now i have to think...do i change my normal route or do i just ignore the danger and walk anyways :(
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Meeting @ Elliots
Ah well, we of the Digit forums who live in this city met at the beach 2 day.Only 4 of us turned up cos the others were all in the middle of their exams.
Was good fun,with ppl with id's like drgrudge,wizard,smooth_criminal and me ig.
Every bit a meeting that proved the old rule of the net : do not judge a person by his nick :P
drgrudge turned out tobe a nice dude who seemed every bit a good boy. Wizard was what i thought he would be. Smooth was a bit of a revelation but a nice bloke neways.
Was a perfect day except for one unintended meeting with a person we hadnt know till then on the beach...
This guy called Easwaran or so he called himself,came up and started to talk to us.
Was pretty obvious he wanted cash to drink.
As he kept talking it was pretty obvious that he was well educated.He knew stuff about flying that very few ppl know.
Gave him 15 bucks.The guys with me found it funny.
ont really know what i'm going to end up like..will i be ok till the end or will i end up like Easwaran in my old age,tryin to get ppl to give me money for food or a drink or whatever?
Was good fun,with ppl with id's like drgrudge,wizard,smooth_criminal and me ig.
Every bit a meeting that proved the old rule of the net : do not judge a person by his nick :P
drgrudge turned out tobe a nice dude who seemed every bit a good boy. Wizard was what i thought he would be. Smooth was a bit of a revelation but a nice bloke neways.
Was a perfect day except for one unintended meeting with a person we hadnt know till then on the beach...
This guy called Easwaran or so he called himself,came up and started to talk to us.
Was pretty obvious he wanted cash to drink.
As he kept talking it was pretty obvious that he was well educated.He knew stuff about flying that very few ppl know.
Gave him 15 bucks.The guys with me found it funny.
ont really know what i'm going to end up like..will i be ok till the end or will i end up like Easwaran in my old age,tryin to get ppl to give me money for food or a drink or whatever?
Friday, November 05, 2004
Listening to Lisa Loeb:Stay
Remembered the mvie "Reality Bites" after a looonnnggg time. Dont remember why.Its one of the few movies on whose soundtrack i like more than one song. This is the mvie that has "My Sharona" and "Baby I Love Ur Way" on it.Those are most probably the first songs that would have come to ur mind :D Not too bad considering there's even a cover of My Sharona by Nirvana.
Well Stay is also on the sondtrack.Like it a lot. Along with the song queued up next: Luka by Suzanne Vega.
Yes I am in a weird mood :P
My class advisor from college is in hospital. His blood platelet count had fallen drastically over the last week and he was bleeding from his gums.Platelets are the stuff that make ur blood clot btw.
At least he was ok when i saw him.
Got soaked in the rain on the way back home. Wanted to take a rick from the station to my plac but the guy wanted 60 bucks instead of the normal 20 just bcos of the rain.
Told him to take a hike and took the bus instead.
Was fiddling with some new templates yesterday.So if anyone did not find the comments link today thats cos of the template changes. Have set it rite now :)
Was never really into the Googoo Dolls except for Iris either. Then i heard Slide...dont know why..lyrics are normal except for this one line: "i wanna wake up where u are"....never really heard the song before anywhere...always the same nonsense like baby i love u,i'll do anything for u and all that shit...but then this one line sort of makes this song so complete..rather it makes it something else...something that i cannot describe here.
I know...inane :P
I dont really know what to make of life.Its so good one moment and then shit the other...think i was happier when i dint really give too much of a damn about anything and just took life as it came.This becoming cautious and then trying to stop unnecessary stuff from happening,and worrying about the future...SUCKS MAJORLY.
oh and i know there will be at least 2 jokers who are going to leave comments about my choice in music.
not going to change it for u guys.
---------------------------
I wanna wake up where u are
I wont say anything at all
So why dont u slide
-Googoo Dolls.
Well Stay is also on the sondtrack.Like it a lot. Along with the song queued up next: Luka by Suzanne Vega.
Yes I am in a weird mood :P
My class advisor from college is in hospital. His blood platelet count had fallen drastically over the last week and he was bleeding from his gums.Platelets are the stuff that make ur blood clot btw.
At least he was ok when i saw him.
Got soaked in the rain on the way back home. Wanted to take a rick from the station to my plac but the guy wanted 60 bucks instead of the normal 20 just bcos of the rain.
Told him to take a hike and took the bus instead.
Was fiddling with some new templates yesterday.So if anyone did not find the comments link today thats cos of the template changes. Have set it rite now :)
Was never really into the Googoo Dolls except for Iris either. Then i heard Slide...dont know why..lyrics are normal except for this one line: "i wanna wake up where u are"....never really heard the song before anywhere...always the same nonsense like baby i love u,i'll do anything for u and all that shit...but then this one line sort of makes this song so complete..rather it makes it something else...something that i cannot describe here.
I know...inane :P
I dont really know what to make of life.Its so good one moment and then shit the other...think i was happier when i dint really give too much of a damn about anything and just took life as it came.This becoming cautious and then trying to stop unnecessary stuff from happening,and worrying about the future...SUCKS MAJORLY.
oh and i know there will be at least 2 jokers who are going to leave comments about my choice in music.
not going to change it for u guys.
---------------------------
I wanna wake up where u are
I wont say anything at all
So why dont u slide
-Googoo Dolls.
Friday, October 29, 2004
Finally A Job
I got my offer letter on the day before yesterday.
Funny story though.
My friend Shobha had to go collect her offer on tuesday. There she asked the dude why i had not got mine as yet as i had completed my interviews before her.
The guy said that they had my offer with them for about a week and that they had not called me because of the confusion in the mass recruitment drive. They are coordinating for the whole of South India or some story like that.
Then they ask her if she can give me the letter cos it would be easier.
Shobha had a fever on that day. And she had not taken a file and being the nut she is kept the letters in her hand bcos they would get crumpled otherwise.
The bus was crowded so she gave the letters to someone to hold on to them while she stood.
And when she got off, the bus left before she could get the letters from that person.
offer letters lost.
She got sooooo upset.Cried a lot and got someone else to call cos she thought i would yell. I dint.
Neway the next day we called them and then they told us to come over.Gave us copies of our offers immediately.
:P
Yesterday i had my medicl examination at Apollo Hospitals.
Again confusion.The TCS ppl had apparently forgotten to tell the hospital they were sending a lot of ppl. So the hospital had not prepared for 70-80 of us sudenly crowding up their place and after a lot of confusion we got our tests done.
According to instructions I had to transport my urine and stool samples across the city for about 30 km to the hospital.In bottles.Yes thats gross. But i had to.
And then after my first ever ECG, and an Xray, both of which involved women and was pretty nice :P i had my final physical examination.
The dude told me my bp was high.140/90.The way he kept going I thought I was going to be declared unfit.
Today i found that i have been declared fit.
So i guess by the first of december i will be working....
Now i'm looking for a java course to do in the month I have.
Funny story though.
My friend Shobha had to go collect her offer on tuesday. There she asked the dude why i had not got mine as yet as i had completed my interviews before her.
The guy said that they had my offer with them for about a week and that they had not called me because of the confusion in the mass recruitment drive. They are coordinating for the whole of South India or some story like that.
Then they ask her if she can give me the letter cos it would be easier.
Shobha had a fever on that day. And she had not taken a file and being the nut she is kept the letters in her hand bcos they would get crumpled otherwise.
The bus was crowded so she gave the letters to someone to hold on to them while she stood.
And when she got off, the bus left before she could get the letters from that person.
offer letters lost.
She got sooooo upset.Cried a lot and got someone else to call cos she thought i would yell. I dint.
Neway the next day we called them and then they told us to come over.Gave us copies of our offers immediately.
:P
Yesterday i had my medicl examination at Apollo Hospitals.
Again confusion.The TCS ppl had apparently forgotten to tell the hospital they were sending a lot of ppl. So the hospital had not prepared for 70-80 of us sudenly crowding up their place and after a lot of confusion we got our tests done.
According to instructions I had to transport my urine and stool samples across the city for about 30 km to the hospital.In bottles.Yes thats gross. But i had to.
And then after my first ever ECG, and an Xray, both of which involved women and was pretty nice :P i had my final physical examination.
The dude told me my bp was high.140/90.The way he kept going I thought I was going to be declared unfit.
Today i found that i have been declared fit.
So i guess by the first of december i will be working....
Now i'm looking for a java course to do in the month I have.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
My Birthday
Its already yesterday. And i'm 22 now.
Lots of ppl called,many messaged and a few mailed in or im'd :P .
Spent the whole day in Spencers. Think Shobha was upset that i dint seem to like the t shirt she got me....i do but then its not my type...but then i trust her and she says this is the type i've got to wear to work on firdays.
Besides i like it.
Except that it has nothing funny written on it, but let it be.
I still like it a lot.
Just got back from dinner at the Eden.
Gtg Sleep.
Will write more l8r.
Lots of ppl called,many messaged and a few mailed in or im'd :P .
Spent the whole day in Spencers. Think Shobha was upset that i dint seem to like the t shirt she got me....i do but then its not my type...but then i trust her and she says this is the type i've got to wear to work on firdays.
Besides i like it.
Except that it has nothing funny written on it, but let it be.
I still like it a lot.
Just got back from dinner at the Eden.
Gtg Sleep.
Will write more l8r.
Monday, October 11, 2004
What else should i be,
All Apologies
What else should i say
Everyone is gay
What else could i write
I dont have the right
What else should i be
All Apologies
In the sun-in the sun i feel as one
In the sun-in the sun
I'm married
I'm buried
...............
------Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Sometimes i feel just like this...all that this song seems to mean to me is that i am who i am and i have to be apologetic about it....screw apologising...i somehow cannot be the way i was...why in fucking hell do i have to end up bending over backwards these days?
If i dont want to talk to someone why do i have to be told to talk? She's related to you. Yeah right..and that makes what kind of sense? She gets on my nerves screws my happiness.I wont talk to her.Dont call me to tell me this.
I think it time i stopped doing stuff i dont want to do.This is becoming too much of a habit.I just want to be myself.And not be sorry about it...just like i've always been.
If i werent already insane i'd be going thataway about now...
Screw life....its doing the same to me anyway.
All Apologies
What else should i say
Everyone is gay
What else could i write
I dont have the right
What else should i be
All Apologies
In the sun-in the sun i feel as one
In the sun-in the sun
I'm married
I'm buried
...............
------Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Sometimes i feel just like this...all that this song seems to mean to me is that i am who i am and i have to be apologetic about it....screw apologising...i somehow cannot be the way i was...why in fucking hell do i have to end up bending over backwards these days?
If i dont want to talk to someone why do i have to be told to talk? She's related to you. Yeah right..and that makes what kind of sense? She gets on my nerves screws my happiness.I wont talk to her.Dont call me to tell me this.
I think it time i stopped doing stuff i dont want to do.This is becoming too much of a habit.I just want to be myself.And not be sorry about it...just like i've always been.
If i werent already insane i'd be going thataway about now...
Screw life....its doing the same to me anyway.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Two Exhausting Days LOTS Of Confusion ....
I had two really exhausting days. The past two that is. The day before yesterday i tried to install my modem in red hat. and found that the kernel source whatever it is was not there. So i tried to do a clean install and found that i could not install cos of some problem with the installer cds :(
Spent the most of that night upto 3 am the next day. Then went met this dood and got Suse and Mandrake cds from him.Then i went to a friends place to help the dood finish some documentation. Took about three hours. Came back home. Then this other guy calls and says he want study material pronto cos he has an exam the next day. So my friend and i at 9 pm take a bike and drive down to see him. Finished that and then i got back home at something like 11.45 pm. And then started to install Suse.
Surprisingly unlike red hat it was quite easy.installed in about 20 minutes falt. but then i found that i did not have the source kernel either.
So i tried mandrake.It installed alrite but the source kernel cd was screwed :(
by this time it was 4 am what with some hardware problems and all.So i went back to sleep.
Today i reinstalled Suse and now am looking for its source kernel. If i get my hands on pcq2004 Linux then i will change from suse to pcq just to c if the source kernel exists init :P
i know.u dint want to know and its confusing anyway.
Spent the most of that night upto 3 am the next day. Then went met this dood and got Suse and Mandrake cds from him.Then i went to a friends place to help the dood finish some documentation. Took about three hours. Came back home. Then this other guy calls and says he want study material pronto cos he has an exam the next day. So my friend and i at 9 pm take a bike and drive down to see him. Finished that and then i got back home at something like 11.45 pm. And then started to install Suse.
Surprisingly unlike red hat it was quite easy.installed in about 20 minutes falt. but then i found that i did not have the source kernel either.
So i tried mandrake.It installed alrite but the source kernel cd was screwed :(
by this time it was 4 am what with some hardware problems and all.So i went back to sleep.
Today i reinstalled Suse and now am looking for its source kernel. If i get my hands on pcq2004 Linux then i will change from suse to pcq just to c if the source kernel exists init :P
i know.u dint want to know and its confusing anyway.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
My Bday : October 19
Got started on a new diet and exercise plan today. Have been exercising for quite a while off and on, but now the treadmill's in my room so i'm kinda working hard...just hope i dont overdo it :P
This wait for the TCS people to make an offer is kinda bad. I dont know what to do with my free time which i have so much of so i end up on all the tech forums i can find. And it is quite boring. Then i started going to some other blogs...there are some really good ones out there...and those i posted a comment in. Till now only one person has posted back friendly comment...the other has posted a comment "as a favor". Thank you very much. Now i know i'm Bad :(
Spending a lot of time wondering what to do with my free time. I got to know that i may have to wait until december to start on the job cos they dont have enough facilities to train so may ppl at the same time....if only they gave me a date i could at least go out and start on a new course. have been eyeing red hat courses for quite a while but i dont really know whether i can go ahead and join, cos its a 2 month course and i dont know what my joining date is...
Maybe i should just go ahead and join the course.
Maybe i should also post more regularly as the "sane genius" seems to want me to :P
Maybe i should just finish with this for today.
This wait for the TCS people to make an offer is kinda bad. I dont know what to do with my free time which i have so much of so i end up on all the tech forums i can find. And it is quite boring. Then i started going to some other blogs...there are some really good ones out there...and those i posted a comment in. Till now only one person has posted back friendly comment...the other has posted a comment "as a favor". Thank you very much. Now i know i'm Bad :(
Spending a lot of time wondering what to do with my free time. I got to know that i may have to wait until december to start on the job cos they dont have enough facilities to train so may ppl at the same time....if only they gave me a date i could at least go out and start on a new course. have been eyeing red hat courses for quite a while but i dont really know whether i can go ahead and join, cos its a 2 month course and i dont know what my joining date is...
Maybe i should just go ahead and join the course.
Maybe i should also post more regularly as the "sane genius" seems to want me to :P
Maybe i should just finish with this for today.
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Stuff....
My dad ended up buying my new mobile for me.So much for my getting a job and then buying one for myself.Actually he' s got me a handset that is a lot better than i could have dreamt of with what i expect my pay to be when i do get the job :P.
My old handset kinda refused to get charged up after i made the mistake of cleaning the plug with a pin.It shorted and died :D
So i go for my hr interview and when i come out see my dad waiting at the gate. Said he'd get me the new handset then and there. And did so too. Got me a Nokia 6100 which cost about 3 times as much as the one i asked for.
Thanks a lot dad. I'm in love with it, inanimate as it may be.
Today was kinda fun in a way. We (as in me and four of my ex classmates) gave an informal lecture of sorts to our junior batch in college.
We had never got along with them in the three years they have been our juniors.Hated them and they dont have a good rapport or rep with anyone else in college either. They have never ever sat in any lecture or seminar or any kind of meeting for more than 5 minutes without disrupting it .
Today they sat for almost two hours and listend carefully and asked intelligent questions.Did not make much of a fuss about the time either. Finaly someone got their attention and had to be us :P
Guess when we told them all that we knew about facing interviews and getting through aptitude tests to get jobs and more they just could not refuse to listen....its their future after all.
And it feels good. Considering that we now gave our juniors the kind of guidance there was no one gave us.
Coming back to mobile phones. I kinda miss my Samsung. Although it gave me a lot of trouble and made me go around mobileless for about 3 times in the one year i had one thing was certain....its battery would last me 3 days with normal usage...well normal for me,cos i switch the backlight and other stuff off.And when i did use the backlight at nights, it was as good as a small torchlight.
The only gripe i have with my new Nokia is the battery. It lasts for a maximum of 48 hours and ther is no way i can switch certain power hogging features off-like the backlight :(
My old handset kinda refused to get charged up after i made the mistake of cleaning the plug with a pin.It shorted and died :D
So i go for my hr interview and when i come out see my dad waiting at the gate. Said he'd get me the new handset then and there. And did so too. Got me a Nokia 6100 which cost about 3 times as much as the one i asked for.
Thanks a lot dad. I'm in love with it, inanimate as it may be.
Today was kinda fun in a way. We (as in me and four of my ex classmates) gave an informal lecture of sorts to our junior batch in college.
We had never got along with them in the three years they have been our juniors.Hated them and they dont have a good rapport or rep with anyone else in college either. They have never ever sat in any lecture or seminar or any kind of meeting for more than 5 minutes without disrupting it .
Today they sat for almost two hours and listend carefully and asked intelligent questions.Did not make much of a fuss about the time either. Finaly someone got their attention and had to be us :P
Guess when we told them all that we knew about facing interviews and getting through aptitude tests to get jobs and more they just could not refuse to listen....its their future after all.
And it feels good. Considering that we now gave our juniors the kind of guidance there was no one gave us.
Coming back to mobile phones. I kinda miss my Samsung. Although it gave me a lot of trouble and made me go around mobileless for about 3 times in the one year i had one thing was certain....its battery would last me 3 days with normal usage...well normal for me,cos i switch the backlight and other stuff off.And when i did use the backlight at nights, it was as good as a small torchlight.
The only gripe i have with my new Nokia is the battery. It lasts for a maximum of 48 hours and ther is no way i can switch certain power hogging features off-like the backlight :(
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Saturday, September 18, 2004
After A Very Long Time I'm Posting...Hence a Very Long Post :P
Well, it so happened that a few days after my last post i attended the walkin test for tata consultancy services. The thing is , the first day was for for people with certain qualifications and nearly 16000 ppl turned up.So to get to the test earlier my friends made me get to the place at around 6 am.for a test whose first batch started only at 1 pm. All my friends live near the center but i dont.So i woke up at 3 am got into a train at 330 am and got there at around 530 am. There were around a 100 ppl there in line before us. And we got a test slot of 130 pm.
There wasnt much of a crowd on that day.the funny part was some other friends of mine came inb after me and they got to write the test at around 11 am....bcos there was not much of a crowd.
Wrote the test at 2pm.The results were announced at around 6 pm.We were told to fill in a form and leave. To use an old cliche between the test and the announcement of results, the tension could have been cut with a knife :P
On september 3rd we were called for an interview.The first round was technical. Since I absolutely deny any knowledge of programming :P they started off on my other subjects..electrical enginnering and networking. The ladies interviewing me were caricature s/w company interview panel types...one lady who was doing most of the questioning had this 'i know u dont know anything' look on her face...and the other i barely noticed :P
After a long wait...first for the tech interview...supposedly to be held at 1130 am but actually at 3pm...there was a loonngg wait to see if i had cleared it to go the next round the hr round.
Hr was simple.nice dude.it was around 7pm.He asked me something and i went on from that to something else which was only vaguely related and so on and then he smiled a lot throughout.Finally he said 'thankyouwewillgetbacktoyou'.
A week later was told i was shortlisted. Went to fill in a personal declaration form two days back.Will kow in Two weeks whether i got the job or not.... :(
other than this been pretty jobless.
There wasnt much of a crowd on that day.the funny part was some other friends of mine came inb after me and they got to write the test at around 11 am....bcos there was not much of a crowd.
Wrote the test at 2pm.The results were announced at around 6 pm.We were told to fill in a form and leave. To use an old cliche between the test and the announcement of results, the tension could have been cut with a knife :P
On september 3rd we were called for an interview.The first round was technical. Since I absolutely deny any knowledge of programming :P they started off on my other subjects..electrical enginnering and networking. The ladies interviewing me were caricature s/w company interview panel types...one lady who was doing most of the questioning had this 'i know u dont know anything' look on her face...and the other i barely noticed :P
After a long wait...first for the tech interview...supposedly to be held at 1130 am but actually at 3pm...there was a loonngg wait to see if i had cleared it to go the next round the hr round.
Hr was simple.nice dude.it was around 7pm.He asked me something and i went on from that to something else which was only vaguely related and so on and then he smiled a lot throughout.Finally he said 'thankyouwewillgetbacktoyou'.
A week later was told i was shortlisted. Went to fill in a personal declaration form two days back.Will kow in Two weeks whether i got the job or not.... :(
other than this been pretty jobless.
Monday, August 23, 2004
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Michael Moore's FAHRENHEIT 9/11 desreved the Palme D' Or it won. To use an old cliche, it is a 'hard - hitting' documentary... and it has got me thinking in a way i have never before thought.
The thing that is obvious to most people now is that the world will not be the same ever again. But to me the most obvious fact is that America will not be the only superpower in this world of ours for much longer. From what i can hear and see, their troops are being slowly demoralised because of extended tours of duty. Even more so, since those extended tours of duty are for fighting a war that for most part they dont understand.
And the people of the nation will also soon be demanding answers as to why a war based on lies. As will the people of Iraq. Saddan Hussein restored electricity and water supply to most of the country within six months of the first Gulf War. The Coalition of the Willing has not done so even after having much more time and resources.
This topic will be continued in later posts. For now, Good Night
The thing that is obvious to most people now is that the world will not be the same ever again. But to me the most obvious fact is that America will not be the only superpower in this world of ours for much longer. From what i can hear and see, their troops are being slowly demoralised because of extended tours of duty. Even more so, since those extended tours of duty are for fighting a war that for most part they dont understand.
And the people of the nation will also soon be demanding answers as to why a war based on lies. As will the people of Iraq. Saddan Hussein restored electricity and water supply to most of the country within six months of the first Gulf War. The Coalition of the Willing has not done so even after having much more time and resources.
This topic will be continued in later posts. For now, Good Night
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Monday, August 16, 2004
Busy Day
Today was quite a busy day. Spent the morning whiling time away as usual, listening to music and checking mail once an hour :P
Then at around 2 pm my friend Chander called up to say that since the guys were all free we could go out somewhere. So we set off, 6 guys on 3 bikes on the wide open Grand Southern Trunk Road. Went all the way to a bird sanctuary called Vedanthangal about 80 kilometres from home (after lyin to my aunt that we were going to the hostel nearby :P she still dont know so anyone who knows her, dont tell her) . Funny thing was that there are no birds around there except the common bat which can be found even at home. But then Chander had his mind set on going there so we went there...spent about half an hour there and left again, this time for the famous East Coast Road (ECR).
Now theres this entertainment multiplex called Mayajaal over on the ECR. And my uncle decieded that if he is going anywhere for a movie, he will go only to that place, cos he somehow decideed that its close to home. So Chander and I were deputed to go buy the tickets for the movie there, and the other guys were to come there after a while and meet up.
Its been a loonngg time since i took a powerful bike for a long, fast ride on an open road. Powerful as in powerful made in India. Not superbike types. The road from the sanctuary to the multiplex is 1 part on the GST and most part on the ECR. And the ECR is one hell of a place for this kind of a ride. Average speeds were between 80 and 110 kmph. And the scenery is fantastic. On the right we had the ocean and the sea breeze was fantastic.
Finally we ended up in Mayajaal and bought the tickets and met up with my folks.My friends split and then we had a family dinner and movie :P Movie was good. More later.
Then at around 2 pm my friend Chander called up to say that since the guys were all free we could go out somewhere. So we set off, 6 guys on 3 bikes on the wide open Grand Southern Trunk Road. Went all the way to a bird sanctuary called Vedanthangal about 80 kilometres from home (after lyin to my aunt that we were going to the hostel nearby :P she still dont know so anyone who knows her, dont tell her) . Funny thing was that there are no birds around there except the common bat which can be found even at home. But then Chander had his mind set on going there so we went there...spent about half an hour there and left again, this time for the famous East Coast Road (ECR).
Now theres this entertainment multiplex called Mayajaal over on the ECR. And my uncle decieded that if he is going anywhere for a movie, he will go only to that place, cos he somehow decideed that its close to home. So Chander and I were deputed to go buy the tickets for the movie there, and the other guys were to come there after a while and meet up.
Its been a loonngg time since i took a powerful bike for a long, fast ride on an open road. Powerful as in powerful made in India. Not superbike types. The road from the sanctuary to the multiplex is 1 part on the GST and most part on the ECR. And the ECR is one hell of a place for this kind of a ride. Average speeds were between 80 and 110 kmph. And the scenery is fantastic. On the right we had the ocean and the sea breeze was fantastic.
Finally we ended up in Mayajaal and bought the tickets and met up with my folks.My friends split and then we had a family dinner and movie :P Movie was good. More later.
Saturday, August 14, 2004
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Have spent the day listening to and classifying my new music collection...after the interview yesterday was just too pooped to do anything else....and i just realised that i like Kylie Minogue. For someone who just abhors most pop artists this is a major confession :P still having fun listening to come into my world.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
My friend DD's (http://ddspace.blogspot.com) Dad is sick...my wishes and prayers go out to him. Here's to hoping that Uncle will get better real soon.
Let me get this clear. My problem is not with Bil Gates and Microsoft. A lot of people think i hate them both....i used to..i dont now :)
I however am against their way of doing business. They are trying to create a monopoly and a kind of dependency on their product that is,to me, completely unacceptable
.
A few years back, in court, Bill Gates argued that Internet Explorer was an integral part of windows ad that removing it was not possible. An expert programmer in that very court went to work and unbundled the program in about twenty minutes.
Then again, Microsoft is trying to create dependencies for their products. They sponsor a lot of projects to computerise the schools in developing countries. By computerising them with computers running their own software. That is commendable. What is not however is their reasons for doing so.And then you have kids growing up using windows which is SO user firendly, that they will not so much as look at other operating systems that are not half as pointer friendly, but offer a much better option in terms of power and flexibility, if only they would think a little bit.
To me the worst part is that i spend a lot of money on the operating system or any other commercial software that i buy and then I am told that it is a license. I can use it, and it ends there. Not so with open source products. The very idea of an open source product is that if you pay for it, you OWN that copy. And you can modify it any which way you want. And distribute that modified software.
A while back, an Asian government asked one of the majors to provide computers to its people at a low cost. They were. It turned out that a large part of the cost was reduced by providing Linux as the operating system instead of Windows :)
Think about it. In India, the Microsoft Office Package costs almost Rs. 10,000. The same functionality can be got from the Open Office.Org package for FREE. The only drawback is the Open Office has a very small learning curve and is not as user friendly as MS Office.
The future is Open Source. That is the only path that i can see :)
Quote for the Day:
History repeats itself and thats one of the things that is wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow.
Let me get this clear. My problem is not with Bil Gates and Microsoft. A lot of people think i hate them both....i used to..i dont now :)
I however am against their way of doing business. They are trying to create a monopoly and a kind of dependency on their product that is,to me, completely unacceptable
.
A few years back, in court, Bill Gates argued that Internet Explorer was an integral part of windows ad that removing it was not possible. An expert programmer in that very court went to work and unbundled the program in about twenty minutes.
Then again, Microsoft is trying to create dependencies for their products. They sponsor a lot of projects to computerise the schools in developing countries. By computerising them with computers running their own software. That is commendable. What is not however is their reasons for doing so.And then you have kids growing up using windows which is SO user firendly, that they will not so much as look at other operating systems that are not half as pointer friendly, but offer a much better option in terms of power and flexibility, if only they would think a little bit.
To me the worst part is that i spend a lot of money on the operating system or any other commercial software that i buy and then I am told that it is a license. I can use it, and it ends there. Not so with open source products. The very idea of an open source product is that if you pay for it, you OWN that copy. And you can modify it any which way you want. And distribute that modified software.
A while back, an Asian government asked one of the majors to provide computers to its people at a low cost. They were. It turned out that a large part of the cost was reduced by providing Linux as the operating system instead of Windows :)
Think about it. In India, the Microsoft Office Package costs almost Rs. 10,000. The same functionality can be got from the Open Office.Org package for FREE. The only drawback is the Open Office has a very small learning curve and is not as user friendly as MS Office.
The future is Open Source. That is the only path that i can see :)
Quote for the Day:
History repeats itself and thats one of the things that is wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow.
I'M BACK!!!
The earth has shifted, the fog has lifted and the most irregular and craziest blogger on this planet earth - The Insane Genius - is back!!!!
The previous attempt at blogging which was aborted by a certain someone who hacked into it and changed the password, cos she dint like my making fun of her.. :P .This new and improved blog will feature a lot of things from stuff about my life, my friends lives and how to shift to open source products for the betterment of your everyday lives...
I will update this blog about once every two days....do keep coming back for more and tell me what you think of my posts and me :P
Quote For The Day:
The Label On The Box Said 'Use With Windows Xp Or Better....So I Chose LINUX.'
(found on a badge on sale online)
The previous attempt at blogging which was aborted by a certain someone who hacked into it and changed the password, cos she dint like my making fun of her.. :P .This new and improved blog will feature a lot of things from stuff about my life, my friends lives and how to shift to open source products for the betterment of your everyday lives...
I will update this blog about once every two days....do keep coming back for more and tell me what you think of my posts and me :P
Quote For The Day:
The Label On The Box Said 'Use With Windows Xp Or Better....So I Chose LINUX.'
(found on a badge on sale online)
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