Ah, This is Life!

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

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!

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

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?

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

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.

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.