The Insane Times

Pictures from the Jodhpur Trip

2008-02-26T21:47:00.000+05:30

2008-02-26T16:29:00.000+05:30

5:20 AM on the 3rd of Jan 2008.
Happy New Year All! :-)

Sent the last few days away from my hometown in Delhi/Rajasthan on vacation. Currently returning on a flight which left Delhi at 4:45 AM. This post is going to get grumpy.

Luckily the flight has been rather empty. Got an aisle seat, and the middle seat is empty.Using aunts lappie to good effect to fight the boredom on my 2.5 hour flight. iPod was found to have died sometime. So hint, hint to all those who want to get me something :-P You can even get a refurbished iPod from the Apple store. Would prefer large storage with video :-D

Chap next to me just got some water out of the air hostesses. Seems to be his fist flight. Was sommunicating fine, till he decided to use stuff in hindi without pointing to his seat belt. Which of course was out of my purview. Thankfully the air hostess who had given him his water was around and told him he needn't pay :-P

Yes I is that bad, Also I am taken, so random well wishers may stop maiing me with offers of help. All you will get is a "Thank You, but NO" and your emails will be deleted. if I see the same subject line, then I might not even reply. Which of course many of you are used to for other mails as well.

Sorry about that :-( And for the lack for the lack of posts. Been generally busy and lots of rather painful stuff going on in life as well. Was so effing fed up with life in general that this whole trip, I have been away from email and mobile. Completely for the mail and mostly for the mobile.

Gaah. The one problem with aisle seats on an economy airline. Airhostess selling stuff with carts, stopping flow of words.

Weird airhostess on the way in to Delhi. One rather skeletal one was giggling through the safety instructions while taking off after the first stopover at Hyd. Nice one just now. Aircraft fully dark and she came in and switched on reading light, which makes it so much easier to see the kbd. Parul I thinks it is. Thanks Sista!

Turbulence.

Somehow is still prefer SpiceJet to IndiGo. Must be perception issues. And the fact that I can get frequent flier miles on SpiceJet if they ever open one scheme like that on it.

oooo 80% battery. More mokkai per mile :-P

Dad was rather sick around the begining of December. In hospital for about a week and was in vey bad shape that time. After about one point five months of recuperating is back to work now.

More turbulence. This aircraft in general is rather more noisy than normal. And there is so much darn turbulence, I think I will be killing my own record for not having barfed on board for so many years. The ice tea inside me is going to come out from the looks of it. Uncle had given me a half bottle of Johnnie walker Black label. Said take a sip a day and enjoy it. Was planning on doing just that and acquiring the taste, but the chaps at the x Ray made me take it off during check in, saying that the bottle was not sealed and hence cannot be taken :-( Had to return it with my cousin, according to whom rum pani is a nice drink but rum and coke is pansy :-( Will get nice bottle of old monk once done with fligt and getting settled in. Think I will have a sip a day of rum to make up for missed whisky :-D Yes I know they dont compare.
Gonna sleep for a bit now. Goodnight :-)

24-Feb-2008 - My new laptop is also a HP dv6000, and I finally retrieved this from my aunts lappie :-P

Trip was brilliant.
Photos will be posted later.

Initially went to Delhi by SpiceJet and landed with the green apple splatter. Suspect being some doughnut I had at Chennai airport.
Got picked up at the airport, and then went to my uncle and aunts brilliant place at Lodhi Estate. Nice old house, and really really huge lawn, with brilliant greenery, and some very nice birds :-) Had lunch with my aunt and then spent some time sitting in the winter sun chatting. Oh, btw, since it was December, it was rather cold :-) Evening came and so did DD. Aunt kept complaining that my jacket was a windcheater and was not enough. Ended up wearing a sweater, thermals and the jacket. More layers than I ever remember. This was the day Bhutto got assasinated. Went to Connaught circus and then roamed a bit. Go rather sick by then and was hunting for a pharmacy. Painful part about this was the fact that there seemed to be no 24 hour pharmacy in Delhi. Also the locals were not too interested in giving directions to the one Appollo I located. All they would say is "aagae" [forward in Hindi]. Got home and slept like a log.

Next day, woke, and went to the Delhi Museum. Was brilliant. Saw the Nizams Jewels. one thiing I never understood was, why spend that much to buy those and spend more in guarding them, when you cold spend those for the people of the nation. In the evening we left for Jodhpur and got there the next morning.

In the next few days we had a lot of fun. Kinda forgotten all I wanted to write, will write more later.

A Lot Like Love is a brilliant movie. Not because it is brilliant, but more because it is brilliant ;-)

Yes, I know my previous travelogue is also not complete yet..

Karnataka Trip - Part 1

2007-08-30T22:36:00.000+05:30

Music : On the Go Playlist from my Ipod

Starting with Dilemma – Kelly Rowland feat., Nelly.

[Yes I listen to stuff other than Classic Rock :-p]

Its been a while since I posted.

Yes, I know, I am a genius :-D

Even TheGirl has kind of given up asking when I will post next.

In any case, it’s been a good few months J

Among other things, have completed an almost 2000 km road trip on Trin [my Pulsar 180, full name Trinayan J] in Karnataka.

Its almost 2:15 AM on a Sunday morning and I am typing this in total darkness except for the laptop screen. Dad has seen foit to leave his new laptop in my room and I am using this to my full advantage. If only he had got his wireless net setup as well I would post this directly and not be bothering with Word. And I currently see that I am stuck using word with Courier New font at 12 point, which is a major hangover from wark L

Is irritating to type with this on my lap cos of the way the pad keeps moving the cursor above becos of my gut L

Ok, back to where we were.

Life has become very nice for sometime now.

Some stuff was revealed. Some acceptances have happened.

TheGirl and I have done a bit of early morning walking together as well J Taken her around Fort St.George as well J

Road trip was great. Thumper, B, Scam, Das and self went on it. Thumper’s T’bird, Shyam’s 350 and My Trin were the bikes.

Early morning on the 15^th after some confusion and lack of sleep we left for Karnataka.

To start with Thumper was irritated about frequent stops all through the ride :-P

We were supposed to leave at around 5AM after fuelling at the Shell opposite my apartment. Scam and Das turned up there pretty early on and were ready to go and I was there at 5 AM as well. Th and B however turned up only around 6 AM. We finally left around 6:15 AM and hit the Golden Quad road to Blore pretty soon.

Ate breakfast at Arusuvai Arasu and then went on ahead. Somewhere midway we stopped for a break. Stood in front of a parked truck cos of lack of shade. Took few pictures, including that of a goat wandering nearby. Started back off on the road. The road is rather brilliant, with practically no traffic in the day time, straight and smooth. Which of course is also a major issue. Not the smoothness. The straight and empty. It leads to a lot of sleepiness. Now on my bike, I had luggage strapped on the back. I also had my backpack on the tank like a tank bag. On the top pocket, I had a couple of stick of the new Polo Cinnamon [ not as good as altoids, but decent nevertheless] , and a bottle of Orbit sugar free. Had to keep popping one of both once in a while to keep awake :-P

A bullets rhythmic thumping can put one to sleep rather effectively :-P We were in a triangular formation with me on the left rear. Two bullets were thumping around rhythmically, and boy did I feel sleepy! I nearly kept riding into the dirt on the left more than once, before I broke formation and raced ahead. The route has some brilliant scenery though.

[The Guys – L to R – Das, Scam, B and P, Scam’s bike and some lorry]

Long story short, we kept breaking more often than we thought necessary and got into Blore around 2 PM. Ended up at Woodys in Jayanagar for lunch. Horrid place. Discussed for a bit, met Himan from college, who turned up to say hi, and a friend of B’s who came as well. There were these hifaultin’, foreign accent English speeking types who turned up and cribbed to us about the amount of space we were taking up, which we as expected, just ignored.

Around 4 PM we started, riding on the Mysore Bangalore Highway, with Madikeri as the destination. Sunset on the road was brilliant. Had a clichéd but nice shot of a temple silhouetted in the sunset, but couldn’t take the shot as we were already behind schedule and riding hard to catch up. Finally got a few shots near a petrol pump.

The higway was brilliant, much better than the road to Blore, mainly cos it was just as smooth, but was a lot more curvier :-P Took a right turn off the road after sometime to get on the State Highway [66 I think] to Madikeri. Here the road turned very bad, and my cold started getting worse. I already had a cold from two days of long hours and one night of very little sleep for getting lotsa work done to get time off for the trip. Around 10:30 PM, we were still about 50 KM from Madikeri, and at the outskirts of a town called Kushal Nagar. There we found a shop run by some sympathetic people from TamilNadu :-P They advised us that the Ghat section was better not tackled at night and for us to stay in Kushal nagar was the better option. I was also not feeling too optimistic about our prospects for getting there on time, so we opted to stay in a hotel in K nagar. Slept very soundly till about 10 AM the next day.

During the ride to Blore, was listening to some music I hadn’t heard in quite a long time. Old faves like Culture Beat’s Crying in the rain. Does anyone remember them now? This includes the nut who showed them to me and used to listen to Mr.Vain quite a bit. You know who you are :-)

Is now 3 Am, and I think my plans for the day are effectively changed :-P Will now go sleep for a bit and blog more later...

And now it is the next day. I am in Tam and using the laptop there. From what my dad has told me, this is mine, for all intents and purposes :-P

Next day night now.

Woke up around 9 AM the next day. Promptly ingested the mornings crocin dose after some essential activity. [Come On, Come In – Velvet Revolver] Finally got a bit ready [read, bathed and ready for breakfast]. The one decent place was shut for a puja, so we ended up at a hole in the wall, one where the dosa and idli alike were too salty and bad, and the chutney looked a lot like just white powder which had been mixed with some chilli and water. Tried another place, but had a bad time there as well. Finally settled for a bakery and gorged there [brilliant honey cakes!] B was trying to eat when two kids turned up, and asked, so he gave them the cake. Then the next, a mother and her baby came. B gave them his next cake, took another piece for himself and we left pronto before more people turned up.

[Scenes from our hotel balcony when I woke]

Then we set off for Madikeri and then to Manglaore. The road to Madikeri from Kushal nagar was decent. Wish we had more time though. We went past Dubare Elephant camp. If we had more time, would have spent a night and day there. Place is supposed to be brilliant. Finally reached a fork in the road which took us to Abbey falls. The road down to the falls was a decent ghat strech. Got to the falls. Y this time I started wheezing a bit and took an Asthalin. Which of course I haven’t in a while, but that story later. :-P .

On the way to the falls, there was this beautiful viewpoint. Spent almost and hour taking pics there.

[P and B en route to Abbey]

[Self, minus haircut and shave, with a fully loaded Trin]

To be continued...

Turning Heads

2007-08-02T10:08:00.001+05:30

Exhibit A - Wearing all ColorPlus T shirt and all, very nicely rounded, nice figure, etc., [ stopping the flow, as it would go on forever otherwise]. Discussing something very seriously with..
Exhibit B - Fat, wearing old, faded Adidas T shirt, wanting to change topic being discussed seriously.

B puts hand on A's nice, well shaped, pretty head, turns the head to the right and says, "Nice Tree", showing A a tree which looks nice.

B concurs with emotion "Yah".

A then laughs and a little while later remarks on how easy it was to change to topic.
And gets pinched :-P

2007-05-29T18:13:00.001+05:30

God, Grant me the Serenity,
To accept the things I cannot change,
The Courage, to change the things I can,
And the Wisdom, to know the DIFFERENCE.

Sunset, Adayar Bridge, 20 May 2007 , 18:21:46,

2007-05-21T21:22:00.000+05:30

Late Night Rides, Old Friends, Heat, Powercuts.......

2007-05-12T23:57:00.000+05:30

Today was fucking hot. Rode to Tam around 7 PM. Trinayan got rather hot and was growling more than usual when pushed past 6k revs. Got to the hospital, hung out with my uncle and then went on home. When I got home, I felt Trin's fuel tank and got a nice surprise. It was hot :-(

Left after about an hour and as I was at Pallavaram signal, it began raining. Not real sharp showers and all, but a nice drizzle to cool things down. Stopped at around the airport. Was lovely riding in the rain. And the spectacular lightning strikes that I saw on the way from around Chromepet added to the beauty of the night. Trin cooled down a bit and I had the heart to push again :-P

Its so much fun to ride in the rain. The smell of the earth is still the same, in spite of all the pollution. No exhaust fumes, not even from dying, unmaintained diesel engines can kill the smell. And I was tired out of my mind, now I am awake and writing this, a lot less tired.

Its been awhile. Laziness for a bit. A lot of work. Running behind everything, going slightly insane. Change of domains within the team, and staying for 12+ hours everyday to finish work after a long time. Its painful to be in Ambattur. In Vad, I could pop out for personal work and work as late as I liked without worrying about getting home, which was only a five minute walk away.

Ka had come down a few months back for one of his brothers wedding. Another got married last month, so he's still here, waiting to go back to UK. The bro's wedding was in Arakkonam. Went through the Bangalore highway and then through Takkolam. Brilliant road, curvy, smooth, empty except for a few places. Rode hard and fast to there and back. Had Vella (Scientist) , a college type, pillioning with me. Scam and Tortoise on the T's 150. Vella, as usual clucking his disapproval and any other conversation from behind. And keeping account of each whack and insult to take out on us later :-P

Ka still is here. Trying to get rid of his corns now, which had started with an ear infection :-P

Spending very little time with TheGirl these days :-( Both of us at work leaves us with only a few hours a week together :-(

One weekend though, got to goto Dakshin Chitra with her and the Tortoise. He so totally cracks her up. Starts humming and she starts laughing :-P Maybe I got immune cos of the time I've known him and spent with him, pillion.

The city, in the middle of the night, while in the passenger seat of a dying Honda City, in black and white..

Dakshin Chitra was nice :-)

End of Lunch :-P

Went to ECR a few times, changed a tyre on a car in the middle of the night once..

The things you find on the beach :-P

Muttukadu, Sunset..

Met an old firend yesterday after years. Brer B was one of the toppers in school. He finished and then went away to become a priest. Spent some time catching up with him yesterday. He has come down on a 15 day break. Was nice to reconnect with old school friends, remember shit. Might goto school tomorrow to play bball even with some old mates :-)

Was bloody bugged/pissed day before night.

The whole city was lit up with extra tubelighting for the Chief Ministers fiftieth year as legislator.

I wont even go near the part where people say that he hasnt actually completed 50 years.

The celebrate this momentous event, his family had a feud between his sons.
And three innocent people dide.

The city was lit with close to a lakh tubelights, causing several powercuts. Serial lights draped with scant regard for private property.

A few thousand cutouts and posters. Each would have easily cost about a lakh.

Ten lakh people bussed in for the event along with the Prime Minister, who,most probably, flew in on the taxpayers money.

The teeming masses who were brought here would have had transport, food and booze supplied to them free, or else they would not have come.

Because of these, half the city was shut from Friday afternoon. Companies shut down half day because of the expected problems due to the family feud.

The thing is, the whole thing would have cost crores. Lots of crores.

If he was really doing service to the people, why not spend the money on them?

http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/index.asp?id=254&category=human is what this reminds me of.

So that they could not be caught similary, the whole show was put up and removed in three days. Magnificent planning and execution.

In the end, with such organising capability, so much money, the state would have benifitted, no, the people would have benefitted, those who really need the money.

I'm no saint, but I dont waste stuff like this.

Instead of all this, he could have fed hungry poor people.

He could have created shelter for the homeless.

He could have used the same organising skills of his party members for helping people out, doing good, but no.

In the end, he will still be remembered fondly. For if anyone remembers him otherwise, they will be beaten up and shit like that.

Such is our world.

Music : Maroon 5 's new album
REM - Being the Begin.

Photo on Top : Me, by TheGirl

Tagged!

2007-03-23T21:29:00.000+05:30

Tagged by J

Here goes :-)

1. One thing you are very much afraid of?
My Temper

2. Two incidents you can never forget in your life?

One is a chat
Another is a yes.

3.Three books you would love reading again and again?

Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
The 5 books in the Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Makes 6 :-P

4. Four women who are most beautiful?
4. Arti (My Baby Neice)
3. Megha (My New Baby Neice)
2. Aditi (My Baby Sista!)
1. TheGirl (My Baby, period)

5.Five of you favorite food items?

1. ****** (I *am* a hungry baby :-P)!
2. Vendakka Fry wihtout too much oil
3. Oreo Shake at Mocha
4. Idli anywhere as long as it is soft and the sambar and chutney are good.
5. Actually just ****** totally :-)

6.Six words you use very often oral/written?

Slightly
Yeah Right
hmmm...
mhhh...
:-)

In no particular order...

7.Seven things you like about yourself?

ME! :-D
(Except for certain neuroses :p)

8. Eight film personalities who are your all time favorites?

Jack Nicholson
Cuba Gooding Junior
Vijaykanth ( No one can make "comedy" movies like him :P)
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and Star Wars)
Rowan Atkinson ( See Blackadder to know why)
Derek Fowlds
Paul Edington
Nigel Hawthorne

9.Nine movies you wont mind watching again and again?

Happy Feet
All Carry On Movies
All the Star Wars Movies
All the Indiana Jones Movies
Men Of Honor
Goodfellas
Scent of a Woman
And lots of others I dont rememeber roght now..

10.Ten songs you would like to listen to everyday?
The Cuppy Cake Song
A Hundred Years - Five For Fighting
Lullaby - Shwan Mullins
Dani California - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
By-Tor and the Snow Dog - Rush
Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Walking in Memphis - Bruce Springsteen
Through Glass - Stone Sour
All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan
And More...

Tagging :

TheGirl
oopsmommy
Anyone else who reads this blog and wants to pick it up! :-)

Cowji on the beach.

2007-03-11T22:51:00.000+05:30

Group of cows on a day out on the beach.
Photog'd by Self and TheGirl
Title inspired by : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106408/

No actual cows were harmed in the making of this blog.
Nor were they forced to do anything.
We just followed them onto the beach as they go in and then went off :-P

Catamaran

2007-01-27T20:36:00.000+05:30

Was on the beach with TheGirl today and we saw a catamaran being beaten up by the waves, getting broken and then getting fixed.
Photo Blog Below :-)

Garbage.

2007-01-07T21:19:00.000+05:30

The city is finally waking up.
Following image is of a dustbin in Beasant Nagar.
Also seen.Playboy and Cooptex cobranded Dustbins made out of rabbits.
Said Rabbits have been cut and gutted and then put up on Thiruvanmiyur beach, for people to throw their garbage into them. Seem to need the above note on them too, as quite a few miss.
Ended with the sunset at Kotturpuram bridge.
Taken a bit too late to be seen in full glory, but nice none the less :-)

Watching : Major League and The History of the World Part 1.
Listening : Free Bird by Lynrd Skynrd...Amazing Solo...
Reading : Basic BGP Configuration :P

Good Morning Sar...

2006-12-10T22:34:00.000+05:30

And I thought I was the only one who used to say Good Morning at weird times of day.

Today while coming back from Beasant Nagar beach with B, through the blue cross router, we were stopped by the cops for checking.

After checking Bs license and letting us off, we heard the cop talk to a superior on the radio, as we were pulling away.

He started the conversation with "Sar, Good Maarning Sar."

And I just realised i said router instead of route.
And that I am using route instead of road.
Crap.

Been having a bit of fun for the past month or so.Quite a bit. Thats what has been keepin me sane.

Essentially, saturday nights we dont get home before 2 AM.

Saw Casino Royale.
Good Movie, new JB is pretty good.

Very convincing and all that.

B and Thumper were to join the doctor, rg and me for the movie.
They land up about 10 minutes late.

As usual, Thumper was to blame. Apprently came at 10 for 10:15 show to pick B up. And then slowly filled fuel. And then tried to convince B that the time was 9:50 by showing his watch.

Still had fun. T then asked B a few days later if he had seen Casino Royale.
After sitting next to him through the whole movie minus ten minutes at the start.

The two of them went and saw VV last monday. Cos I was too busy to go see Dhoom2 wit them.
Today T asked B if he had seen VV.

Fascinating fella, this T. And his Jaanu.
Who is the real thumper when there is no starting trouble.

I always say the love is one sided.From T to Jaanu and not reciprocated.
Oh never mind.

Last weekend went the Pondy.
Left around 6 AM and had breakfast at the Mamalla Anexxe.
The got to Alahambara for a boat ride.
Chap took us to a nearby island and then back.
On the way back I had a bright idea.Asked him to drop us off at the centre of the ruins instead of the edge.
Which he tried to execute.
And then we ended up wading through ankle deep water 'cos the boat ran aground on some sand bank.

Went into auroville after losing the way a couple of times.Werent able to go to the Matr Mandir, so had lunch and made our way to Chunnambar and took the boat to the island.

Had a couple of beers, tried playing cricket and ended up playing catch.

Went back to the mainland and then the normal gang (Scam, DJ, Das, Kr) split to go buy DVD's.
We (B, the tortoise and self) went to the rock beach. And then to the Promenade to enquire the rates.
Ended up having the best cold coffee ever at the Cafe le Soleil.

Came back late at night, listening to B talk.

Which he does more of than me :P

Organinsing team outing tmrw...hope its a sucess.
Would be the last one for more than one of the team.
Both ppl who I will miss.

Current Playlist:
Lynard Skynard : Freebird
Lisa Loeb : Stay
Wyclef Jean : Gone 'til November

Stuff I havent heard or heard in a long time.
Stay is lovely.
Wish I could say that to someone and then have it happen.

Every time I make a run, girl, you turn around and cry
I aks myself why, oh why
See, you must understand, I cant work a 9 to 5
So Ill be gone til november....

Unhibernate :-)

2006-12-03T00:31:00.000+05:30

Unhibernating after a long time.
Two comp crashes and a lot of data lost.
Lots happening, less time to write about it...

Among other things, went to Yelagiri and Yercaud on bike.
Had a lot of fun. Over 2000 km run on these out of twon trips.
Off to Pondy tmrw with Bharat, my pal from orkut.

Bday happened. Cakeless yet another year.

CuznBro turned up one day late.
Got me a new helmet.
The helmet he had been using while flying his MiG21 :-)

K is bak in town...not met yet, but that should be a while, considering
she is always busy. And has forgotten to call me as she had promised sometime earlier today.

The cousin from France came.Aunt also came.Spent some time with them.
Usual questions as to when I intend to visit.
Aunt was rather bugged. And gave it to me :-(

Ahh well, the siamese twin had come earlier around August.
Made him buy my camera from the US0fA...about the biggest purchase made after my bike.
And tied with my computer. Actually 200 bucks less.

He also got me some Bailey's Irish Cream.CuznBro is in France now.
Making him get me some again.Gotten kina addicted to it.

And, he also got me and iPOD video. One that died in a month and then
had to be replaced under warranty, but then I gots iPOD video now :-)

One that travels with me on my bike, playing moojiks all the time :-)

Plan for new year are afoot.Plan A has sorta crashed.
Plan B is being formed...lets see what works out :-)

Is about all.
Only, I haven't got cake at all for another year :-(

Evryone gets one except me.

Created with : vi Editor.
Music : None.
Mood : Nearly Sleepy.

Rain

2006-09-16T00:05:00.000+05:30

It rained and I was trying to sleep. Wish I could have slept under the rain....maybe it would've washed it all away...Memories...One picture can make them all come back, the repressed image of her smile, the voice that sings the song, the song that I end up singing no matter what other song I am singing...I leave at 4 am tomorrow...and ride to Yelagiri..250 km away...a trip that seemed to be stillborn, but has kind of taken shape...inspite of Scam's chickenguniya...let see.

Oh and if ur reading this K below is a pic of my helmets :)

BlogDay2006

2006-08-31T07:40:00.000+05:30

http://abovethewall2.blogspot.com/
http://standingonthebox.blogspot.com/
http://www.kevinsites.net/

Too Tired to find 2 more links...standingonthebox is fun to read, kevinsites is good...
another recommended blog, esp the latest post is wwwwaiterrant.net
yet another : www.opinionistas.com :)

2006-08-31T07:30:00.000+05:30

Happy Birfday :)

2006-08-28T08:10:00.000+05:30

After one week of sitting at home, half bed ridden with high bp...finally going back to work.And wake up with a headache...aarrghhh...i hate this...I dont want to go back to work now :(

Signature

2006-08-24T16:09:00.000+05:30

It was K's birfday on 16th Aug and we went out to dinner on the 17th. Dinner was The Crown.

Now the Crown has two places where you can sit.There is the inside which is a normal restaurant and then there is the outside deck.The deck has a beautiful view of the city....some 7-8 floors above and the beautiful city at night spread out below.Marred only by the sight of Saravana Stores on on side.But if you go late enough, the place wont be visible.

I got to the towers and was waiting for K who had gone off to get all beautiful and all. Place with a history for me, of sorts....this was where my best pals sisters reception was held some years back and has a lot of memories. He is in India on vacation and was in blore for the week, so tried calling him then, but couldnt get thro :(

After a bit of waiting and getting stomach burnt by looking at the SriLankan food festival, I went up and was informed that due to a light drizzle, the deck could not be used. So I took an inside table and started on a Tall Islander when K turned up. And then we went off to the deck, cos the rain stopped :D

There we had a couple more drinks and wanted to order the main course. We settled on the Signature Kebab Platter and told this to the waiter.

Us : We'll have the Signature kebabs.
Waiter: Yes..one large or two large.
Us (thinking aout size of platter) : Will one large be enough for two or should we have two?
Waiter (rather flumoxxed) : One should be ok

Waiter goes away and we are wondering.

Chap returns with on glass of Signature, large and vague smug look on face. Signature, for those who dont know is Whiskey.

We then have a nice laugh, send it back and then go onto order correctly from waiter who knew what was on menu.

And later regretted sending the drink back.

Dinner went well, we had fun, we ordered dessert and were about to leave when the birthday cake finally arrived.

: For dessert I had tiramisu and K had an expresso..and she wanted demerara with it.
The waiter on being asked for this : "I hope we dont have demerara, let me check" :D

Ah well....longer post in abit.Lotsa stuff happening, I am unwell and at home.

Worst part being K not in town. I miss u muchly...come back :(

hmmm.....

2006-07-13T18:46:00.000+05:30

Music : Dixie Chicks : Not Ready To Make Nice

Was talking to a colleague at work today.General discussion going on and at one point she was like, if she wasnt commited, she would have picked me. Was rather surprised.Long time since anyone said something nice to me, wht with ppl either telling me I look butt ugly, or picking up stuff from school to put me down.

The second thing had me rather upset for a bit. Being made fun of by a teacher in front of a while class ....never mind.But this one off hand remark, most prob not meant...has got me out of the dep :)

The first point also hurts, but wth. It isnt something I worry about too much.

But then the other thing was almost like..it made everything I have done since then, where I was and where I have come now seem pointless.Achievements screwed.

Never mind. Going back to sleep and praying for those in Mumbai.

Back to Blogspot :)

2006-07-08T22:45:00.000+05:30

Music : The Wallflowers:How Good Can It Get
Back to blogspot from livejournal.After the last fiasco, I decided that I would not really give a shit if anyone had issues with my blog anymore. Hence the change back and the new template for the blog :) The main reason why I cam back to blogspot is the template can be changed as much as I want to. Gonna start learing to code in TCL properly in some time.

Among other things have shifted completely to Linux. Using the latest release of Ubuntu and in the spirit of all things *NIX, writing this post on GVIM editor...Nothing like notepad being used. Maybe later to add the html tags I will use the OpenOffice version of word, but for now its all :wq style. GVIM is a more friendly version of Vi. Not that most of you would know or use either. I kind like the vi editor since I work with it all day. Simply put, with a few keyboard shortcuts, the mouse use is minimised drastically. Though GVIM is taking some getting used to. Vi is different to use.So using vi with terminal now.

Enough of that :D

Got back some twenty minutes ago.Was out with my orkut-ster friend Bharat and another friend of his.Went to his office and played cricket on the terrace. Was fun.Especially since the open terrace was the bowling area and the batsman stands at the entrance to the terrace which is a small room of sorts. Was good fun including the two occasions the ball fell into the houses on either side and the few where it fell down the stairs into the house below :)

Going for Imsai Arasan now....One movie with Vadivelu as the hero..should be good fun :)

Back from the movie. Was quite a bit of fun. At the right moments, just as the movie would get serious the jokes would flow. And some of the names were hilarious. Like this poet who is called Vanaputra Onandi. And a new word called "Dariyal". Which is supposed to mean something like broken.And which I suppose will gain popularity as more people watch the movie. The movie is very likely to be a hit.

On the whole was a good movie, except for a bit of language chauvinism at the end, but that would be playing to the masses. One good scene is where the twins are united and an old man says that he foresaw it. When asked how, he (in an aside to the audience only) says that if there are seperated twins, how else can a movie go...another is at the end where along with Kattabomman, Vadivelu asks people to be inspred by Braveheart Mel Gibson. Most ppl dint get the connection..is that all the ppl he talks about fought the British :D

Had been to one of my class type's wedding out of town. We went as a class, as many as we could get. I forgot and realised over again, how much politics are there in the small class of 33 we are in. The oter gang acted decidedly cheap and were not communicative at all, when they could have just said something out and that would have been done. But somethings they did later was really cheap and pissed me off totally.Along with some stuff one of them said. Completely fucked up. I regert actually going there together when we could have just taken our bikes along and gone and not botered at all.S says we will do it again and we will forget, but I doubt I will.This is one time too many. Among other shit, is the fact that the so called "A Section" - the other gang - have never ever seen it fit to come along with us whenever we invite them out. Nor have they ever made any attempt to go out with us. But they still talk to us and act nice. Which really pisses me off.

The two weeks the Bihari Lunch guy wasnt in town screwed my stomach up. I was eating the food from the office lunch caterers and had a ver bad experience. I dont understand how ppl eat that shit day in and day out and never complain.

The weekend following the wedding Scam, DJ, JR and I went to pondy. Landed there on Saturday night and realised that the booze shops were closed cos of the elections. Watched France play that night and then the next day got slodhed. KR had 3 beers and then tried a large Bacardi and *soda* :P bottoms up. At which point he went bonkers and tried a lot of stuff and went on and on in english. Scam just rolled over and slept. Finally KR got up and then the booze really hit him. On the way out, he threw up twice and then was conked out till we ended up at his place in Velachery.

The next day went to Superman Returns. Movie was pretty ok. A bit long, but ok on the whole. Brandon Routh was a pretty convincing Superman. Liked the movie.

Went shopping the day we went to Pondy with S. Picked up a pair of jeans and then *finally* got her a laptop bag she liked. Was with her for a while a day earlier and found out some stuff I hadnt known earlier. Was kina upset, but then she is one of my closest friends and kina sister as well. In case ur reading this... >:D<

Bought a pair of sneakers finally to replace my old walking shoes..Started walking in the morning again today :)

I missed you so much this morning. I dont think I will ever not miss you again. Its been 6 years since u left...and in those six years I've loved you the same.RIP >:D< . And I miss you too.

new blog url posted for a.

2006-01-30T02:01:00.001+05:30

theinsanegenius.livejournal.com

or

snipurl.com/h03n

or

livejournal.com/users/theinsanegenius

new blog url posted for a.

2006-01-30T02:01:00.000+05:30

theinsanegenius.blogspot.com

migration

2005-07-16T09:54:00.000+05:30

have migrated to livejoural.
a certain person has created problems here.
have left the url in the comments of most of u guys.
if i did not pls let me know here and i will mail the url to you.

Live Lobster

2005-07-02T11:28:00.001+05:30

Spent the last weekend in bangalore.Weather there was absolutely amazing.Only thing is the city is a bit too boring.Only two places (mg and brigades) where u can really hang out and then everybody hangs out there :P
Went to a few pubs, drank a lot of beer and did not get drunk :(
saw batman begins....the dude looks abso fuckn lutely constipated.Movie was ok.not too great.
Slept the whole of sunday.Was god.Plus something about the place that makes u get this real great sleep :D
blossoms in blore has this amazing collection of used books.spent a few hours there and picked a few up.
The whole of this week has been something of a blur.our manager from the USofA came down.On thursday we went to Green Park for lunch.Wasnt too great.Place is so hidden in the middle of the city :D
Yesterday was dinner at fisherman's cove.Food was ok....played criket on the beach as well.Fun evening only thing being we dint get to have time to have a drink.
becoming one kudikaran only i am :D
At the cove u have this place that serves you fresh sea food.Fresh as in live lobster that you choose from a bunch and then they cook it for you.will post the pic if my comp ever recognises my fone :P
Ok.Three hours later and a nap later my fone is recognised.will post the pics here :P
The images are not too great, but they are from a phone cam that isnt too great :P

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The chefs all lift the lobsters carefully by the antennae....cos the lobs snap and apparently if u do get snapped "nothing will happen.only two days it will pain".

Will write more later.Have a lot to think about before i write :)

2005-07-02T11:28:00.000+05:30

Update_notfrommycomp_28May05

2005-05-28T15:56:00.000+05:30

This sucks.My comp got fried a couple of weeks back.Did not have the time to fix it and now when i did take a look at it a few minutes back,its nothing i can fix.Need help :( Will possibly get it only in about a week more.
Life has been hectic.
One of my closest friends from work left. He now works for one of our clients competitors and from the looks of it is having a lot of fun.....but boring at work without him around.
Saw a movie kanaa kandein....movie was not very good but soundtrack was good and then the villan was absolute toops.Guy is a mallu actor and man does he do the role justice....excellent acting to say the least.
Work was hectic for about the last two weeks.Think it will settle down for the next one week.
Dad lost his mobile at a movie.Guy who stole it was a pro.Switched it off immediately and then removed the sim.Now he has bought himself a 6670.....have to see it and fiddle with it yet :P
Saw all the three major tamil movie releases for the new year.Mumbai Express sucked.Sachein was worse.Chandramukhi was good.
Saw the original of the movie in malayalam on tv.....Shobhana is definitely much much better an actress when compared to Jyothika.
Mind block cannot think of much to write.Most prob gonna watch revenge of the sith tomorrow with frends.....will blog again later.

==>Update_050421.unhibernate<==

2005-04-21T20:42:00.000+05:30

Had a whole post lost bcos of this stupid blogger :(
Reposting the summary.
Had fun at work over fools day.
Had fun at frends brothers bachelor party.
Got myself a new phone.http://www.nokia.co.in/nokia/0,,59884,00.html.
Certain Little Girl She's On My Mind :==> J.
Thats about it :=P

A Milder Interpretation...

2005-03-20T23:44:00.000+05:30

What I had forgotten about what was this.

Lately a lot of people,principally the vc of Anna Univ and few of my college types (that i know of) are going aroud saying that when someone finishes studying enggineering in one branch,they shoul stick to it and then work only in it.Otherwise they are doing a grave sacrilege.

Lets face facts....most of the people in engineering are there because they think that there is not much of a future in other branches of study.For most part engineering grads are able to get decent jobs almost immediatly after passing out if they have any sort of actual intelligence.This is taking into cosideration that many of the afore mentioned people dont actually know anything about their core subject.

I dont know much in E&E.I did not even want to do anything like E&E,CSE or IT.I wanted to do mech.But i ended in EEE.So i studied the subjects,cleared the exams and now am working in a software company.So are most of my classmates.

I dont see why this makes us traitors of any sort.This field is the one with the most opportunities in any case.The pay is decent.The prospects of future advancement are good as well.

I dont give a shit about what one does for a living and whether what he does for a living has anyhitng to do with what he or she studied in college.Bottom line is are you happy doing what you are? If you arent, stop cribbing and telling people what to do.Shut ur trap and lets see you first leave the industry and take up a lesser paying job in ur core field.Even after that dont disparge others who dont want to stick to theie core subjects....they made a choice and its theirs to make.Dont pontificate and tell us we are shit.

I love what i do.*line removed due to sensitive nature of information*.I sure as hell would not be happy with any shitty bus bar and stuff.

Plus today i found that a bad dream about death means good stuff gonna happen.Not necessarily a wedding :P :P

My World Last Week....

2005-03-20T22:56:00.000+05:30

Latest musical addiction: Steve Vai's The Blood And Tears.Its actually an instrumental piece....Vai being a gutarist and it has some of the words from the Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Service for the Interfaith Call for Freedom of Worship in Tibet and Universal Religious Freedom .

"Let the might of your compassion arise to bring a quick end to the flowing stream of their blood and tears.
By their rough actions, these masses of cruel beings are bringing down ruin on themselves and others, so drunk are they with demonic delusions. Forge the glorious unity of friendship among them, these objects of compassion, and with love and mercy help them acquire the wisdom eye to tell right from wrong."

Maybe i just like these words in it.But I have been listening to that piece non stop for the last four days...

Wilbur Smith is such a good writer...one of the prerequisites of a good book, to me at least is that it should take me away into its own world and his books do just that.I came home tired and wanting to sleep and started on "the Sunbird" at six.Got really engrossed into the book and by the time I realised the time it was around 9 pm.Excellent book.

Went out on a team outing on thursday to MGM resort.Good fun.A little around 4pm four of us guys went tot the restraunt and sat there and had a drink.Twas very peaceful and so damn relaxing.We have promised ourselves that we will got there and do this every weekend.With or without the drink.Just got and sit there.

Went and saw the movie RAM today.Was run of the mill psycho tamil movie.Pretty ok but ending was very lame.

Got my dad's bday gift.Spent the most that i have spent at one time of my own money on it and also use my debit card.God save me now :P

Gonna go sleep now....have an overwhelming feeling that i am forgetting to say something though :(

Dream....

2005-03-06T20:46:00.000+05:30

Suddenly I have taken to listening to two songs of Godsmack.....somehow I cannot understand this latest fascination.

One Song is I stand alone and liking that I can understand practically.... but the other, Voodoo I cannot....maybe the song just sounds nice?

Aside from that i have got addicted to this web comic called Something Positive... its pretty funny and I would recommend it highly to most people especially cynics :P

Work hasnt really got into full swing yet. I am into my project team and am *totally* having fun :P
Buch of cool guys.And the three guys around me have become good friends. To begin with there's t Karthik.Then there is Poovi.He's a Coorgi and is bent on learning Tamil.Plus he is also bent on teachin me Kannada Slang :D And then there is Sathish.BAsically ever since I got there the place has got really noisy, what with me trying to learn from three people at the same ime and also trying other assorted crap like having a *LOT* of fun :P :P

From wednesday on next week i have to spend three days in the office where I did my training...Quality and some tech stuff.....something tells me quality is gonna be a lot of english and little else :( :(

Someting tells me that I am gonna miss both Mark Knopfler concerts...

Had a very weird dream for three days in a row.I am in jail and am feeling overwhelmingly hopeful.Then the cops come and take me away.At the last moment when its all balck and I know that there is no escape a feeling of desperation just takes over me and then all goes black and I wake up.

The feeling of desperation lasts for a while and man it makes me feel sick.

The thing is I told a friend of mine about this dream and then she said her mom said i was to wash my feet before i sleep.

I told my aunt the same thing and she tells me that I am gonna get married soon.Whyd o they equate marraige to death in dreams???

Any other interpretations? PLs let me know :D

Gonna go sleep.

Currently listening to Cos I'M High by Afroman ======> Hilarious song if you listen to the lyrics :P :P

I'm Not The One Who's So Far Away....

2005-02-23T19:23:00.000+05:30

Darn it...she did not get the point and she continues to not get the point...I am so after her but she wont seem to understand that...Just a denial would do :( Something for me to be sure of.
Ah well...back to trying again.

long time.back with a job:P

2005-01-31T22:18:00.000+05:30

unhibernate complete.
well a couple of weeks back i go a job with hcl cisco....finally!!!! good break too considering i have a ciosco certification.
joined on the 17th.that too after quite a bit of confusion.i had my interviews on wednesday and thursday.but my actual interview was scheduled for the monday b4 them :P
i thot they would inform me before hand as they had said but they dint.later on tuesday evening when my frend went to see the results....my name was there.
so i called the hr and after 2 nail biting rounds got in :)
been in training ever since.
have 3 evaluations and cleared one.have another on wednesday so wish me luck.
my first pay also came in today.and for 13 days i got a pretty large amount :P
neways have to go study.
will write agin later :)

Unhibernating....Now.

2005-01-09T01:57:00.000+05:30

Have been workin for the last week in Aid India. Doing relief work for the tsunami victims.
Have met new ppl,made frenz...felt like shit at the one time i went on the fiel.going back to the field.will blog again in detail after that.

earthquake

2004-12-26T13:40:00.000+05:30

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 :)

Long Time No Post

2004-12-18T13:03:00.000+05:30

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.

New Keyboard

2004-12-02T01:42:00.000+05:30

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.

wtf

2004-11-23T01:50:00.000+05:30

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.

Bangalore

2004-11-21T14:54:00.000+05:30

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.

bad connection

2004-11-17T21:06:00.000+05:30

my phone line @ home is screwd :( dunno how long it will take to come back on....no updates till it comes back on.

Why Children?

2004-11-14T16:34:00.000+05:30

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?

Diwali and Anime....

2004-11-13T01:42:00.000+05:30

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 :)

My Walk

2004-11-08T22:36:00.000+05:30

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 :(

Meeting @ Elliots

2004-11-06T23:53:00.000+05:30

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?

Listening to Lisa Loeb:Stay

2004-11-05T22:57:00.000+05:30

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.

Finally A Job

2004-10-29T18:30:00.000+05:30

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.

My Birthday

2004-10-20T01:51:00.000+05:30

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.

2004-10-11T01:09:00.000+05:30

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
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------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.

Two Exhausting Days LOTS Of Confusion ....

2004-10-08T23:18:00.000+05:30

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.

My Bday : October 19

2004-10-05T22:57:00.000+05:30

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.

Stuff....

2004-09-30T23:02:00.000+05:30

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 :(

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2004-09-26T23:49:00.000+05:30

After A Very Long Time I'm Posting...Hence a Very Long Post :P

2004-09-18T01:29:00.000+05:30

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.

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2004-08-23T23:55:00.000+05:30

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

2004-08-18T23:15:00.000+05:30

Microsoft is selling Windows XP Lite in some Asina countries..supposedly a cheaper watered down version of the XP OS.... :)
Looks like the competition scare is getting to them.

Busy Day

2004-08-16T14:20:00.000+05:30

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.

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2004-08-14T12:20:00.000+05:30

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.

2004-08-10T12:20:00.000+05:30

i have sucessfully cleared my cisco exam :P
more later when i'm back down on earth....

2004-08-07T03:00:00.000+05:30

welll i flunked my ccna exam on monday last....dit know i could actually get nervous b4 an exam but i did...and i failed the exam miserably :(
on the brighter side...my dad has been veryunderstanding...did not yell AT ALL...so iget one last chance to write it again on monday....wish me luck :)

2004-08-04T18:50:00.000+05:30

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.

I'M BACK!!!

2004-08-04T00:09:00.000+05:30

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)

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Karnataka Trip - Part 1

Turning Heads

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Late Night Rides, Old Friends, Heat, Powercuts.......

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Cowji on the beach.

Catamaran

Garbage.

Good Morning Sar...

Unhibernate :-)

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A Milder Interpretation...

My World Last Week....

Dream....

I'm Not The One Who's So Far Away....

long time.back with a job:P

Unhibernating....Now.

earthquake

Long Time No Post

New Keyboard

wtf

Bangalore

bad connection

Why Children?

Diwali and Anime....

My Walk

Meeting @ Elliots

Listening to Lisa Loeb:Stay

Finally A Job

My Birthday

Two Exhausting Days LOTS Of Confusion ....

My Bday : October 19

Stuff....

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Busy Day

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