Sourabh’s blog

You know those TV-show teasers which AXN throws between the shows. How their lineup consists of some of the very best TV shows out there. Right from CSI, House, 24, Supernatural, The Shield and some others. Right now, I so wish that I hadn’t see all of them. That way, I would get something to look forward to on the TV.

But, anyways some of my favorite TV shows return for their next season sometime later this month. House and Prison Break start from 25th and 17th respectively. There’s CSI Season 8 starting around the same time. Dexter S2 starts too. In all likelihood, I may get a Rapidshare premium account because downloading so many GBs via torrents is something I don’t wanna get into. Probably get it in October since most of these shows resume in second half of September. Speaking of October, it’s that time of the year again.

The mid-semester exams start from Monday. This is the first time when I’ve all the books, notes and write-ups with me before the start of the exams. Well, almost all of them. Not that it matters, but it’s nice to know I can study if I want to. That’s a huge improvement from the last time. It just seems like yesterday when I gave those exams and they are here again. So, I’ve to see through them and do well. Everything else takes a back seat for the coming week.

The next installment in the Saw series and the third season of Prison Break. Both of them look very interesting, especially Prison Break!

Prison Break Season 3 Preview

Saw 4 Teaser Clip

Saw 4 releases on 26 October while Prison Break S3 starts from September 17.

The last few days have been very busy. Everything will finally fall in place from Monday(!). Well, hopefully. Getting back to college after a three-month long vacation is very difficult. It’s not the going which kills, the getting up early (sleeping early?) part does.

So today, for your viewing pleasure only, I will dump some random pics from my digicam to flickr. For those unaware, I got myself a modest little sucker called Nikon L11. I found out yesterday, the 2GB memory card couldn’t hold on to any more pics. At 3MB per pic, I’m looking at approx 700 pics to separate the good, the bad and the ugly before I go shooting again. Almost done deleting the useless ones and could-do-without shots. Unfortunately, the L11 doesn’t offer much to tinker around with. Whatever it does, I fiddle around to find the best settings for a given condition. I will post some of the better pics which will make some sense for others. Just to state the obvious, no people, just the its and thats can be seen below. Beginning with the best shot I’ve managed to take so far.

Doesn’t it look just awesome?
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I have no more reasons to give. No more false hopes. This blog is officially dead and screwed. Blogging in your real name does more harm than good. I’ve learnt this the hard way, but still blogging is fun. So, here I am..

I have decided to take some time out and clear all the mess on the server where this blog is hosted. Literally, 3-4 instances of some irritating CMSs, useless videos, project files, images and what not. The SQL database size had grown to a size of 45megs. Hell with Spam Karma and BAstats for that. Cleaning & upgrading has already taken more than an hour. But well, the blog will soon be on Wordpress 2.2! Feels nice to have an up-to-date wordpress after a long, long time.

I guess this is good for starters. I may have to find some new ways to motivate myself to resume blogging and post something on a regular basis. I hope I really mean what I’m saying right now.

Demonoid blacklisted Indian IPs. May be some Indian ISPs banned demonoid. Fine!

Now isoHunt says:

You have been banned from this forum.
Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information.

WTF is happening…

I hope this is a mistake, a very bad one. isoHunt cannot ban Indians users. Block mininova and eztvefnet too, and torrents would be a thing of the past.

“Nothing lasts forever,
Dinosaurs didn’t, Torrents won’t”

Perfect World.

Edit: isoHunt is back to normal.

Things are happening at such a fast pace around me, I feel I’m missing a lot. I don’t want Aussies to win the World Cup again. That is just so dominating. Ban them till the next World Cup, I say. Let us bring some competition in the game.

The recent price cuts on the Intel Core 2 Duo processors is so tempting. The laptop, laptop/PC, PC, laptop… dilemma continues. Moreover, the sodding exams just don’t end. I don’t get any time to think anymore. My next exam is on Monday and it is really the moment of truth that I’ve been long waiting for. DSS is just not my cup of tea! I hope I just pass through it, barely works for me!

Laptoplogic.com now gets a dedicated shopping website in the form of LogicBuy.com I wish them good luck for the same.

This weekend would be very very dull for me. I will try to study as much as I can to get the Holy 4/10 in DSS! Design of Steel Structures, I will never forget what a PIA you’ve been.

I have no idea how each sem just passes by. What is all the more interesting is how these exams and submissions stand right in front of you when you are least prepared. When they come, it is time to say good bye to everything for a couple of weeks. It is that time of the year again. So, fine, I have to study and take my mind out of the things I usually do. But life is never that simple.

Your relatives, your friends, everyone and even all important things just have to come up when your exams begin. The season is such, it is vacation time for most and here I’m making plans to actually study. But people around me take their vacations as national holidays.

And my laptop just has to die on me a week prior to the exam. I have wasted all my time (not) deciding for my next laptop. As days pass by, the frustration builds up. Two years ago, it was my parents who insisted that I should go for a laptop. Now, it is otherwise. I don’t blame them. What good is a computer which dies in just 2 years? I don’t really know what will I use next. Dell’s 3 year ‘Complete Cover’ is really the thing I should be looking for. With time not on my side, I will think about the laptop purchase after the exam.

Beginning from Monday, I don’t have a PC to work on. What am I gonna do, I have no clue.

Just testing the new theme for a change. I know a couple of people who would kill me if I revert back to Kubrick after this. But I just have to.. Kubrick rocks!

Shit happens and there is nothing you can do.

It is out of my control, only thing I can do is try to fix whatever it is leading to.

Don’t expect me around for quite some time. Will update soon when I am in better shape.

Good bye.

That says it all.

But since I feel so indebted to my blog, I will write a few more lines.

Everyone has just accepted to believe nothing on 1/4. Doesn’t matter if it’s the newspapers, press releases or Google pulling off a crazy service or product. Believe nothing, right? I don’t really give a damn about what date it is today for most days in the year, but I do make it a point to know when it is the first of April. Who wants to believe those crazy two or three ‘news’ before you realize you got tricked by a shenanigan. If you are in school, college or work as previous April Fools day of your life, you are habituated to those crazy pranks and the usual. Mostly the predictable stuff. But when it is a dull Sunday and you have nothing to do, throw in a April Fools day - it becomes very annoying.

Those breaking news on websites, SMSs, unexpected emails and messages on messengers are not even amusing. I would love to be called as a person with no sense of humor than to respond to those messages. What can I say - ‘Are you insane! This can’t be happening. Definitely this must be an April Fool’s day prank’ or ‘Thanks for letting me know. I will do my research and find truth in this regard. If it’s not, you tricked me and I am a retard’. And let me not even talk about those stuff with alerts saying - “THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’s DAY PRANK. WE ARE AS SERIOUS AS SERIOUS CAN BE’. Honestly, what does April Fool’s day stand for? Non-funny people to be funny, never mind for a single day? I don’t know.

If you want me to spell it out for you, I HATE this day. I never gave a damn about the World Shutdown Day on 24th March to experiment if one can live without computers for a single day. But had it been today on first of April, I would have loved to be part of the ‘experiment’ with a smiling face and non-abusive tongue. Damn!