eternal Optimist..

Little Jonny

2009-09-06T16:21:00.002+05:30

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to weat a soo" Little Jonny said.
"A what?"
"A soo" and points at a leather emporium.

The father was caught completely by surprise.
What should I do?

"Listen to me Jonny, shoes are meant to be worn in your leg. Shoes are dirty, nobody eats them, they are not meant to be eaten"
"I know that. I won't want to weat a wold dowty soo. I want to weat a new shiny soo."

Ok, this isn't going to be easy.
After 10 minutes, the father gives up and takes Jonny inside the shop.

He tries to explain the situation "Yes, see my son has a strange idea that he wants to eat a shoe. Can you just sell me a shoe so that I can shut him up."
"I am sorry Sir but I am not at liberty to sell a single shoe. I suggest that you buy a pair, may be your son can eat both of them"

"I am not weating choo soos, thats stoopid"

A Lie

2009-08-26T18:59:00.002+05:30

I am swimming in my own despair
tearing
spiraling
My whole existence is a lie
the beginning of the end
Trent's words illuminate my soul
the rush of the razor is the sweetest pain
Nobody raises their eyes to heaven, no, not one
screaming
one day i will have what I want
everything and everyone is below me
endless bleak night

Like it?
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What?

Movies of 2008

2009-03-25T20:55:00.005+05:30

Twitter is a blog killer, this is a ~~desperate~~ semi-desperate attempt to salvage what's left. So, here I am; with my personal views on some of the 2008 hollywood movies worth mentioning.

As for Hollywood '08, I can remember only one thing : The oscars blew. Here is a list of little known movies which weren't good enough for the oscars.

Be kind rewind: This is yet another Jack Black goodness. The movie has its flaws, but still a must watch for any 80's and 90's movie buff.

Burn After Reading: After 'No Country for Old Men', the Coens were hailed as one of the best movie makers of their times. This is them saying "No no, we're just goof balls". This is definitely the goofiest movie you'll see this year.

Chaos Thoery: Yeah I know, its just another hollywood crap. But it is just fresh enough to make it to the list. It's a journey of a guy from Mr.Timetable to Mr.Chaos to Mr.Just another guy in just another happy ending in just another typical hollywood movie.. whatever

Choke: Crazy movie about a sex-addict seeking redemption; in other words, its a Sam Rockwell movie.

City of Men: What's a good science fiction made of.. special effects? space travel? robots? futuristic sets?
Wrong.
You want the answer? Watch this movie.

Definitely, Maybe: It's just another romantic movie with some fresh ideas. Was I stoned when I made this list? Definitely, Maybe.

Ghost Town: Watch for Ricky Gervais's comic timing. This movie's got some of the wittiest one liners of 2008.

Gran Torino: One word - Clint Eastwood.

Happy go Lucky: Are you feeling down? Watch this movie.
Message for bollywood: This is what you mean by a feel good movie, stop making shit!

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Hilarious movie, Simon Pegg at his best, and it's got Megan Fox. I rest my case.

In Bruges: Beautifully made movie; slow at times but leaves you immensely satisfied in the end.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Didn't watch.
Yeah, I know, I'm a lucky bugger.

My Blueberry Nights: The first half an hour is pure 'Kar Wai' magic. From there, it's a bit of a slump but worth a watch none the less.

Pineapple Express: If you've ever used the phrase 'Owww shiiit duuude', you've gottt to watch this :)

~~Slumdog Millionare:~~ Yeah, you wish.
Now that I've mentioned, the part with the young actors isn't half as bad.

Speed Racer: Cliche, cheesy, campy and awesome fun :D . Watch out for the races.. Epic! "Go speed racer....."

Step up 2 The Streets: Feel the beat, watch the moves, forget the rest.

The Day the Earth Stood Still: This is a must "don't watch", watch the classic instead.

The Forbidden Kingdom: It's Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Yo.

The Wackness: What is life? Yup, thats the answer. It's an honest movie which'll leave you with a smile. No happy endings here.

The Wrestler: It's Mickey Rourke on steroids. No, seriously, I mean steroids, literally.
It's about the journey of an aging wrestler, it's got the touch rarely seen

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Scarlett Johansson + Penelope Cruz + Woody Allen's magic. I promise, you won't look away from the screen even for a second.

Picture this

2009-03-04T01:33:00.004+05:30

Our very own Kallu Mama.

Theatrealli full jaatre, India will never change.
C sharp is mightier sword.

- musickills@aiyappa201.com

Notes .. (1)

2009-01-03T09:51:00.003+05:30

1. Always keep your eyes open damnit
2. Sleeping for 18 hrs can have repercussions
3. Listening to a song for about 20 times straight changes nothing, Kurt Cobain is God and Metallica are still a bunch of douchebags
4. First viewing under influence is not a good idea (reconfirmed)
5. Preconceived notions are mostly baseless, I don't hate chocolates as much
6. Nothing beats Comfortably Numb

Old man says

2008-12-29T21:13:00.002+05:30

All problems have solutions but all questions don't have answers for our mind seeks more than mere truth

Comfortably Numb

2008-11-26T03:06:00.004+05:30

A Voice Said
"Let there be music",
And there was music.

sweeet..

MasterTard

2008-11-04T21:11:00.003+05:30

Bacardi Rum - 490 Rs
Cool Drinks - 90 Rs
Snacks - 140 Rs
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Edition) - ?? Rs

Not being able to finish either LOTR or the rum in one sitting - Shameful :'(

The Dark Knight Returns

2008-08-16T01:21:00.002+05:30

Knock knock Nolan.

Bollywood actors say the funniest things

2008-08-13T13:14:00.002+05:30

I'd love to play Ledger's role in Batman: Bipasha Basu
- Yeah, right!

What matters is that people should say, ‘Wow! We loved Deepika’s performance in the film’: Deepika Padukone
- She had to say performance.. sigh!

I'll produce a film and it's not really a period film. It would be a period film, but it won't feel like one: Saif Ali Khan
- hmm

94% Likely

2008-08-08T18:13:00.004+05:30

Every time I shave my mustache, my masculinity keeps smacking my head - repeatedly.
Today finally I found something to feed him, it's a site which predicts your gender likeliness.
Here is the result:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 6%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 94%

Obviously the result was very satisfying. It's like feeding alcohol to a monkey(manganige henda kudisida haage) :)

Update: The above stats is at office and shouldn't count at all since most of my browsing is at home. The result at my home pc was nothing but shocking; and trust me, there is no foul play involved.

for real! :o

Batman revisited

2008-07-24T01:26:00.004+05:30

Batman in his prime.

As Oscar Wilde would say
"He can't fly, he can't shoot lasers, he can't even suck blood like a bat, but he sure does look good in tights..."

(courtesy uncyclopedia)

The Dark Knight

2008-07-24T00:18:00.006+05:30

Best comic book movie ever.....Legendary Joker performance.....Stunning cinematography.....blah, blah, blah
.....
All the hype aside, you can never deny that it was an extremely well made movie and there are a few moments I can never forget.
- the pencil trick, who would've thought.
- batpod coming out of the tumbler. Sitting there all I could think was, why the fuck didn't I think of it. There is the tumbler and there is the batpod, it should've been as easy as adding 1 + 1.
- everything with the batpod, its bloody genius.
- joker burning the money. It looked majestic, why didn't anyone think of it before this.
- batman beating up joker. This is the 'de ja vu' moment for all batman fans .

Inspite of the movie being so complex, not only everything fits in together but fits in so well that in the end you have a beautiful masterpiece. Hats off Nolan.

P.S: Somehow I couldn't avoid feeling that the entire movie looked like a sick joke by the Joker with every other character as a pawn in his twisted plan.

w00t!

2008-06-26T21:25:00.007+05:30

There is good news and there is great news; and sometimes there are two great news in the same freakin page!

as I said, w00t! :D

What more can you ask for?

2008-03-06T23:20:00.004+05:30

What do I think about the promo
- it looks insane
- it looks stupid
In total, it looks insanely stupid; but then what isn't. Plus - its got Angelina Jolie in it, what more can u ask for :)

The parkour price

2008-01-30T02:38:00.000+05:30

Heard 'bout parkour?
Heres what it looks like.

I know what you're thinking, 'Casino Royale' rite?

I tried something like that and twist my ankle. Well, it was sort of closer to this.
It was like a Saturday Night Live for my roommates, I was left neither comfortable nor numb :(

Its been four days and I'm still recovering :(
I may be down but I'm not done.
Expect us.. err, me.

Thoughtful Abortion Debate

2008-01-28T13:16:00.000+05:30

"Anyone who references Dune should be aborted"
Now, please tell me thats not hilarious. Why the eff didn't I like the movie?? I even remember saying "Holyshit! its rated 8 in imdb".
Goes to prove my hypothesis - Never go for a first view when you're comfortably numb.

More of the fat kid in Superbad.

Minesweeper

2008-01-26T21:14:00.000+05:30

"Don't you ever forget why you're here soldier" :D

This is nominated for ECNY award for Best Short Comedic Film, I sure do hope it wins.

Whats the worst thing that could happen

2008-01-24T02:49:00.000+05:30

Go on, take a printout of the web page. Whats the worst thing that could happen?

You can be sentenced to death. Well not you, but somebody was.

Act I

2008-01-24T02:29:00.000+05:30

The Start:
Imagine yourself browsing using firefox2. You've got like a number of windows with gazzillion tabs each.

The Freeze:
The system freezes, keyboard and mouse stops responding.

The Call:
You do what everyone does, call for help. Ctrl+Alt+Del - nothing, repeat - nothing, .....

The Rescue:
You pull out the internet cable, wait for a few seconds. At last, the task manager appears.. slowly.

The Climax:
You check whats wrong. FIREFOX.EXE CPU:99% Mem Usage:780M!

The Rescue:
Close Firefox.

The Ending:
Realize that I've been browsing for the past 5 hours straight and its well past bed time. Go to sleep.

The Poster:

The Hope:
Firefox3

Why I don't call myself a gamer

2008-01-23T01:51:00.000+05:30

Finally!
An Indian gamer's blog, I admit its quite impressive. Calls himself a gamer/geek/dreamer. How I envy him, I've never been able to call myself either of the three(yes, I sleep a lot but I don't dream).

He has an interesting post where he has some useful tips(not about gaming) and a list of great games of 2007.

And I play this.
Don't laugh, you've got to beat me first.

What the?!

2008-01-11T20:01:00.000+05:30

Holy Shit!
It got published on the same freakin date :D

For Tech freaks

2008-01-11T18:40:00.000+05:30

I came across the coolest and lamest display devices (can't call them monitors, just can't) today. Courtesy CES 2008.

You can't call them monitors, just can't.

Gamer.. what kind?

2008-01-09T14:24:00.000+05:30

Thinking of gaming consoles? Here, let me help

Isn't this great

2008-01-09T11:50:00.002+05:30

Censorship in India targets Video Games:

"This is true that there is a proposal that the Censor Board should start censoring all video games--and I agree with proposal totally," India's Censor Board chairperson Sharmila Tagore told the news outlet.
....
....
Tagore also told Daily News & Analysis that the Censor Board would make developers remove certain features from a game if they "are not suitable for children" and would like their game to be available in the country.

Ain't that great news folks. Finally our government is taking steps to protect us from the harsh realities of the world, and you thought they don't care about us - stupid.
I feel they should do more and more on similar lines.

Sigh!

Bye bye 2007

2007-12-31T18:27:00.000+05:30

I'm not sure what inspired me to start blogging again, it's probably sepsis's mail about blogging kumaarrs(yes, there are quite a lot of them doing it, blogging I mean ;) ). Especially now that I don't have net at home(we shifted our residence again, our fourth house in past 1 1/2 years) I never thought I'd be blogging so soon. Ok ok, cutting the crap...

I had never seen a jatre(can't think of a word in English, fair doesn't even come close) in a messenger before this.

I'm not a big fan of foxtrot(not the dance) but this is good stuff.

Heard that JKR is thinking of eigth book, I just hope it doesn't end up being a parody of the previous installments by rediscovering the sexual orientations of it's characters. Only Tarantino has the right skill to do those things.

I always support gamers, by principle.. but d00d!

No year end posts ends well without saying something about coming year's anticipated movies.

Peace.

Whatever..

2007-12-30T18:04:00.000+05:30

Ok, here is the thing. I am writing this post just for the heck of it and to some extent to not have the disgusting rodent post(exact words by Deepu don) on the front page of this blog anymore. I am stating this at the very beginning 'cos I'm not a sadist and am fully aware how frustrating it is to read a totally worthless blog(kumaarrs would know what I'm talking about ;) )

Sepsis wrote something about terrorism recently and I would like to add one thing, the definition of terrorism I came across while digging, it is bang-on accurate.

Don't blame me, its a professional hazard to seek all explanations in block diagrams.

Recently I read an article about sharp increase in number of failed love marriages and things responsible for it, my question - can you blame anyone for your failed love marriage? Its like saying "Dude, my suicide was so uncool." (This is of course a completely hypothetical situation. No one asks who is to blame, its always the man's fault)
Having a lame death is alright, but not when you do it yourself. A lame suicide is completely your own fault. While you're still thinking about suicides.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support suicides or even marriages as a matter of fact.

PS: Reading about marriages has got nothing to do with me. Its just that the topic is coming across a lot recently in conversations and stuff.(No offense meant, to anyone)
If you think the post is crazy and offensive I blame Superbad for that, my mind has gone totally insane after watching it.

I smell a rat

2007-09-03T23:17:00.000+05:30

"I smell a rat" thought came to me at a chicken center I had been recently. It turned out that it was indeed a rat and not the effect of watching "The Departed" for the nth time.
"Is it for sale?" I asked and the shopkeeper smiled, I hoped it wasn't a "You'll know when you get home" grin. I took a pic and he smiled again.
Well, next time if you order chicken kabab and something tastes funny, you know what the joke is.

Movie masti..

2007-07-17T18:46:00.000+05:30

The weekend was rather uneventful except Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which we watched in IMAX 3D. I'm not a big fan of HP but staying with one for quite some time seems to be rubbing off on me.
The movie wasn't half as bad as I had expected(especially after Goblet of Fire), the visuals were fantastic. The new cast Imelda Staunton and Helena Bonham Carter were good, Ron and Hermione didn't get the screen time they deserve, the twins rock and I really miss Richard Harris who played Dumbledore in the first two installments. The movie was a bit slow in the middle but picked up pace in the last 30 minutes(which was screened as 3D in IMAX) and was wrapped up quite well.
The rest of my weekend was idle, didn't have much choice with both my roomies working(yeah!). Well, as Calvin says "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something complete pointless."

Watched Man of the Year yesterday night. Robbin Williams was brilliant, as usual. I've picked up quite a liking for stand up comedy after watching the movie for the first time a few months back. Damn I miss television.

I've always wondered about my position in the food chain(not to be taken literally :P) and Times of India had something interesting to say about this.
They stated a totally random quote(not related to any of the articles) saying
"Women like mediocre men and hence men are striving to be mediocre!" (..really)
Me: "Good. I'm already mediocre".
Frastu: "No you are not. You aren't trying hard enough".
Well, guess I still have hope :)

Things are back to normal..

2007-07-13T12:59:00.000+05:30

Well me n frastu did some spending and had crappy food yesterday night and psycho was working well past midnight. Seems like I went back six months in a time machine, the only thing missing is net. Missing it, seriously. Looks like the post trip hangover is finally over.

Good thing: Now I've got a sturdy footwear which tempts me to learn kick boxing
Bad thing: Things are back to normal. Sigh!
Worst thing: yet to start ;)

2007-05-28T11:22:00.000+05:30

Holy Shit!!

PS: No comments

Free Will?

2007-04-18T21:12:00.001+05:30

Is Free will a Myth?

I am sure everyone must've come across this question. It's not the question itself that triggered the thought process, but the nature of the question. How do we try to understand something which is beyond perception by definition?

It's the same case when we debate about the existence(and nature) of God. The main problems with the existence of God is with logic, we do end up with many contradictions.
Some Classic contradictions are
- can He create a stone He can't lift(omnipotence)
- can He change the past/future (omnipotence and omniscience)
and so on..

Coming back to free will we see that this is not very different.
- we either have free will and choose our paths or
- we don't have free will, all that we do is predetermined and unchangeable but still we have an illusion of free will giving the impression that we do choose our paths

I tried to initiate this discussion with my roomie but he was busy with Rubik cube I got a few days back. For the past few days all he does is sit in front of the monitor with some cube solving tutorial with the cube in his hand. It's been real fun watching him break his head over the cube :D

I personally choose to believe in free will only because of the reason that it appears to make more sense. With Occam's Razor on my side I at least have some basis for my belief.

Ah, This is Life!

2007-04-18T21:10:00.000+05:30

Fire in my hand, spirit in my blood
Altitude gives high, shaken by the strong wind
It's dark and peaceful, while music plays in my head
Ah! This is Life :)

PS: Everything above is meant to be taken literally(not metaphorically)

Confrontation

2007-03-21T22:41:00.000+05:30

Realist: Dude, what are you doing?
Optimist: What?
Realist: This is bad, could've been so much better
Optimist: Yeah
Realist: And that! You know what, you suck
Optimist: I know
Realist: Why don't you do something?
Optimist: Can't, no time
Realist: What do you mean no time?
Optimist: Busy.
Realist: Busy doing what?
Optimist: Other things.
Realist: And how are the other things?
Optimist: Not very good
Realist: See what I mean? A man who is truely busy never says he is
Optimist: I know
Realist: You know, you can easily forgive an ignorant idiot. But..
Optimist: Who asked for forgiveness
Realist: Arrogance without strength is futile. You know what happens when you build over a weak foundation
Optimist: It falls
Realist: Precisely, the higher you build the harder it falls
Optimist: Ok Mr.Know it all, what have you done?
Realist: Duh, I don't even exist!
Optimist: Damn it

Realist: Where are you going?
Optimist: To sleep, too much bullshit makes me sleepy..

Get a Life!

2007-03-05T01:14:00.000+05:30

A few days back, one of my roommates was telling me about his dissatisfaction with the inactivities in life. I just reminded him one of the axioms.

The Axiom: Each individual is designed to have three kinds of lives
Professional Life, Personal Life and Life(you can call it Miscellaneous Life).
Now, we have only the former with the latter two missing. It is not a wonder that we feel incomplete/hollow, we are living only 1/3rd of what our life is supposed to be.We hardly go outside and involve in any sort of activity other than work(by we I am referring only to me and my roommate :)).
It is not like we haven't tried or something. We are planning to go running/jogging in the morning, from past 6 months. We even had a serious plan to go play Tennis at a nearby court, but haven't registered yet because of what happened last time.

What happened last time?
Nothing much actually. Last time when me and mechi had serious plan to do something, it was about going to Gym. We even registered at a nearby Gym for a month's membership. But we did underestimate our indolence, we ended up not turning up at the Gym for the whole month and were sane enough not to extend the membership.
Our other roommate Littal was rolling on the floor laughing after the incident.
All I said was this..
"Laugh all you want. We may have fared very badly, but are still one step ahead of you. We tried. You have to go through this phase to at least get where we are :)"
Hum Honge Kamiyaab.

SCREEEECH EEEECH KEEEEEE

2007-03-02T20:53:00.000+05:30

Sometimes driving here in Hyderabad gives me chills in my spine. Today a car charged into the main road at a speed of over 50kmph and almost slammed into the SUV ahead of me. There was this "SCREEEECH EEEECH KEEEEEE" all over. Fortunately both vehicles only got a dent each. After arguing for a while before entering the vehicle the driver clasped his hands and thanked god, and I wished I had a camera in my hand :). "Yeah, you better pray. If you continue driving like this, you need all the help from your GOD if you want to stay alive".

And that wasn't a singular incident, people's lane changing talent puts Hollywood stunt-men to shame. None of the two-wheelers have rear mirrors and auto-wallahs drive with their legs on the seat(really!).

Why am I compaining? I wished for Need for Speed and Fast n Furious to be true, didn't I.

Why I hate TurboC?

2007-02-10T21:07:00.000+05:30

After a long time I decided to code something(in C) for personal use, the last time I remember was an auto-shut down timer which was meant to save on some download time(Yup, we don't have unlimited download). Code was just for some online game(which I've actually been taking a bit seriously) and we had to monitor some sort of pattern in it.
Coding in C is something which I have been doing for a long time, but this time it was a bit different. Unfortunately I didn't have linux installed in the system, so I had to code in windows. When I began thinking it couldn't get worse I realized I had to code in TC, me and my big mouth.

Well to cut the long story short, it was one of the weirdest coding I've done in months. I looked like a joker coding with three windows, one for sciTE(only thing which beats this is vi), one for the TC(which I used only for compiling, and by compiling I mean just Ctrl+F9) and one for an open C library(this is one of my best finds, whole of C library in a single HTML file). Just to make it worse, I couldn't stop thinking how easy this would've been in unix all the time...

Why I hate TC?
That is because currently I am stuck with a 'Null Pointer Assignment' error, which mysteriously makes TC compile perfectly and run only parts of the code and execute successfully without performing certain actions, I mean the output. Execute successfully without the output, I know I pity myself too.
The agony, AAEEEE

Statutory Warning:
This post will make sense only to those with basic knowledge in programming.
Oops I guess I should've put this in the beginning of the sections :D

One word

2007-01-14T02:02:00.000+05:30

How would you define a typical software professional in one word?
Huh..? Ok , from the beginning.

There is this funny thing I saw on the office leave application.
Please avoid using characters like semicolon(;), greater than(>), less than(<), asterick(*), pipe(|) in the fields
and I was just wondering what kind of stuff they had to face for THAT to be there..
$> grep home contact* | cat > Contact_when_Off.txt ; \r - in contact field??

THAT wouldn't be pretty. :P

It was then that I faced the question.
How would you define a typical software professional in one word?

Nerd?
A person with limited social, but advanced technological skills and interests. - Close but not close enough.

Geek?
one who eats (computer) bugs for a living, an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. - That's more of an insult than a definition.

Well, I am bad at one word definitions I guess. I couldn't even get one for me, the closest one was 'Lazy' which is actually not bad. It atleast it explains why I don't post blogs frequently.

2007-01-08T00:14:00.000+05:30

Hah, it's finally 2007.
I am not wishing new year to anyone now, it's way too late.

Hey I got my bike from Bangalore a few days back, now I tell myself
"Bachelors crave for only three things - Money, Bike and Girlfriend, you have one now. What are you going to aim for next?"
Nah, I am happy for now.

What's new in 2007?
Well I did take a resolution.
I will minimize my idle time. I will utilize my time for more constructive things and stop wasting it.
What constructive things?
I am not going to waste my time thinking about that. :P

My GTalk status message for many days has been
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky
I had heard this before but hadn't understood it's essence until I became an active member of orkut and mylot.

My best weekend

2006-12-10T21:14:00.000+05:30

This is surely by best weekend in Hyderabad till date.

Huge gang of my friends from Bangalore landed in here on Saturday morning. We had a lot of fun in Snow World, Golkonda Fort and Prasads IMax(Open Season which is my very first 3D movie).

Secondly I managed to crack into top 20 in a russian defrag contest.
My aim was top 10 but still it is a good start. Screenshot inline.

Oh Captain, My Captain!

2006-12-07T16:11:00.000+05:30

This was said by Walt Whitman but I am talking about 'Dead Poet's Society'. It shows us what poetry and innoscence is, just like 'School of Rock' shows us what is rock n roll.
The first thing I told Mechi after watching the movie was "I didn't have any issues with Mohabbatein, untill I watched this movie".
The movie makes you feel like a kid again.

I had a similar feeling last weekend when me baby n manchi were shopping in the toystore. I realised two things
1. Now, at 22 I am slowly realizing things I should've done as a school kid.
2. By the time we begin to get a idea about what we want to achieve and what we would love to do for the rest of our lives we area already in our final year of graduation or are already working.

May be these are the reasons I spend so much time playing computer games like romanduels and defrag. Defrag.ru is holding some competition recently, hopefully I'll be able to crawl into top 10.
Carpe diem.

Waste(day)++

2006-11-26T23:23:00.000+05:30

Yes. Yet another day wasted. Well, what's new.
I can so easily be convicted of killing time. Good thing is I can't be framed for it twice :D

Well today in metacafe I saw a dude who posted a lame shutdown shortcut thing get a 'Producer prize'. He didn't even assign it a keyboard shortcut, what's the world coming down to?

One of the most interesting thing I saw today was this

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

The part
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen

Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on"

When played backwards
"Oh here's to my sweet Satan.
The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.
He'll give those with him 666.
There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan."?

I had heard of it before but never got to hear it.
It is demonstrated in this site. very neat.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

After a long time

2006-11-20T13:03:00.000+05:30

After a long time, a long time indeed.

I would suggest men to discover the magic of shopping, you'll see why ladies spend so much time on it.
Warning: Men tend to spend more, a lot more than ladies when it comes to hard earned cash on stuff and that too at an alarmingly short time. So Beware.

After watching 'The Departed'(it is a masterpiece) yesterday evening, I remember my friends commenting on the climax of the movie and it not being in good taste. I admit that I was pretty shocked too. But the movie is Martin Scorsese's creation, I am sure he had his reasons for it to be that way. To demand the movie or a part of it to be something else changes the movie and I certainly wouldn't want it. What people don't get it is that 'Changing any part of something.. well.. changes it, it ceases to be the same'.

One more thing caught my attention very recently. It is a comic strip. I seriously have no idea why I liked it so much.
Source: http://www.xkcd.com/c167.html

Hello World!!

2006-10-26T11:12:00.000+05:30

I am a programming enthusiast and this is my first blog.....
What else did you expect. :D

What could've been my first blog post

2006-10-25T16:09:00.001+05:30

I was cleaning up the dashboard by deleting all the unpublished blogs, surprisingly there were quite a lot of them. One of the entries caught my attention, probably because it was the longest published/umpublished entry I had written(even though it was incomplete) or may be because had I published it then it would've been my fist post, even before this.

Was just wondering what the blog started as and what it has become, I blame the second law of thermodynamics, it applies to all systems right. Anyway here is the complete content of my first incomplete blog.

South Indian('s) Trip

Thursday 19th October 22:10
Waiting for the bus to Banglore, The VENSON Volvo was supposed to pick up at 21:45, but still not to be seen. I was wondering about the Kanyakumari trip planned for the weekend, this would be my first long trip with my family for some time. I had taken leave on friday and tuesday for the very same reason. The Travels guy was shouting something in telgu, on asking he told me that the bus had arrived and waiting near the cross due to heavy traffic. 'Lage raho Munna bhai' was played during the journey, the only decent movie to have been played in the bus till date( and I go home often, quite often). The movie was interrupted due to CD problem, damn u Murphy.

Friday 20th October 10:00
I know 10'o clock, the bus was very late. The first thing I did after getting home was something to eat and go for a ride(fun time for me n my bike, we've got 1:1 relationship - very faithful :) ). Soon as I got back Dad started rushing with the packing, I thought that we had time cos the flight was at 5:15, but we had to report there one hour earlier and it takes more than an hour to reach there, needless to say why. After reaching the airport inspite of getting there one hour early, due to the luggage mix up and disposal of some dry cells( which were not allowed in handbags) we barely managed to board on time. For the first time I got the chance to sit by the window, the view was beyond words. It actually make me think about the evolution of my childhood dreams. At first I wanted to join army, later it was to be a pilot, finally I settled to what I am now :( . After getting down at Cochin we got to the taxi which was booked earlier. The driver was Mr.Attitude, and it was fun watching my father give him long speech about how to behave. Finally we got to the Hotel in Cochin city which was about 25km from the airport, all the way I was wondering how Kerala looked so much like Mangalore.

Saturday 21st October
The day started with going in search of a cobler to mend my chappal at 7 in the morning. I managed to get one, Murphy must've been asleep. We traveled to Kottayam, and searched for the resort we were supposed to stay for the day. We reached a dead end in the road which was supposed to lead to the resort. On asking some guy at a nearby shed, after a lot of inquiring he told us that we're near the parking and we were supposed to go to the resort by boat. After reaching the resort we went for a ride on speed boat(it was fun except for dad, he thought its very risky and repeatedly kept asking us to hold the seat tightly :-|) and swam for a while later. That day Damien Martyn lead Australia to victory against England, I was watching the match while my family was enjoying kathak at the hall. I was later told that the show sucked. Hah! strike 2 Murphy.

Sunday 22nd October
We were supposed to go to the bird sanctuary by 7:30, but by the time we got ready it was past 9:30 :). We had to take a boat to the place, I was having enough of boat rides for the day and we had a boathouse ride planned too. The bird sanctuary had everything but birds(we saw a few crows though), it was only while returning that we saw a couple of birds fishing. After shopping for some snacks we boarded the boat house at around 12. The ride was mostly uneventful, except for the part where we went searching for fish fry and got some crap at a local hotel(by local I mean really lokkal). I called up baby and he said he was hanging out with one of his friends and my roommates in Hyderabad went for go carting, I wondered how I manage to miss all the fun. The journey on water ended at around 4:30 and we left for Kovalum, a place near Trivandrum. We spent the night at a hotel which had brach right next to it. I tasted Oyster for the first time that day, I used the famous words "Yumm, tastes like chicken" but no one got it.

Monday 23rd October
The day started well with playing at the beach next to the hotel, the beach was very good but there were too many fishermen and way too many nets. After swimming for some time at the pool we left for Kanyakumari,....

(not to be continued) how I wanted to write this to some post :)

BTW, did I mention that we missed the famous sunset in Kanyakumari. A friend of mine(Sudheer) had been there recently, they managed to miss both sunrise and sunset. The words I was looking for - "Amazing da, is that a talent or something", courtesy wikidude.