Sucks when you have a huge break between the exams. The only good they do is let you relax and tell you that there’s still enough time left to study. But right now, I just wanna go through these exams, put them behind me and move on.
Good thing, the next batch of exams are back to back.
This one goes out to my long-lost school pals. All those suckers who thought I was kidding about these ’special coins’ which were kept in a secret stash at my home. I may have gone a bit overboard with the stash thing but well…these are special right?
So, for those who’ve not been fortunate enough to see the 100 and 10 Rupees coins, watch these pics closely!
That’s right, 1982. To cross-check, refer the wiki entry.
This time I’ve been caught napping. Usually my calculations concerning the exams, the preparation required, time at hand, etc… are very good. When you study everything at the last moment, you gotta have that. Now, all thanks to Diwali celebrations, the days leading up to it and those during the actual festival, were wasted cleaning my room, attending to guests, poojas, and all other stuff you’d associate with Diwali.
But now, Diwali is just about to end and the very next day my seventh semester exams begin. So, I have to get out of the festive mood and get in to the serious examination mode for cramming/rapid reading/visual reproduction or all of those. And that has to happen right NOW! It’s 00:25 on Sunday. The first test starts in a day. This is usually the time when i say to myself: the next sem would be different, I will not keep things for the final day, I will try to get the same marks with minimum efforts and so on. But I guess no time to do that either. Unleashing these feelings on a personal blog can do a lot of good to your mental state and that is what I’m banking on right now.
See ya guys sometime later.
It’s one of those bad coincidences again. Everything just had to come tomorrow. It could have very easily not come to the 31st of October, but it did. Someone’s obviously not happy with what I do or likes to see me running behind things and being miserable while at it. I have to wake up at 4:30 am, do the same old stuff which will always remind me of the 4 years I have wasted in an Engineering college, forever.
I’ve surely had better birthdays in the past. Will have some great ones in the future. But just not this time. I wish I could just have a day off and just sleep. I deserve it.
The so called celebrations and other stuff to happen sometime later in the day. I at least get to enjoy my favorite cake flavor tomorrow, if that’s some consolation.
The magic number is 21! I guess. I’m happy with how things are in my life right now. So, there’s a nice wave inside me. Thank you everyone for the good wishes!
I’m finding it real hard to find a certain piece of paper. I distinctly remember to have seen it on the table last week. But now, its vanished. No one except me ever moves anything in my room. I know it’s right here. Somewhere. But still, I’m not able to find the damn thing.
I’ve been looking for it for the past three hours. Cleaned the entire cupboard and flipped the pages of endless numbers of books, magazines and notebooks. But still no luck. Showed complete disregard to the piles of CDs and DVDs. I’ve tried my best to keep my frustration under control so far. There is no one else to blame but me. And that makes it even more difficult to find it. The moment it went out of sight, I knew it would be quite a task to find it. Now, I’m seeing how big a ‘quite’ this is turning out to be.
Not finding it is not an option. If I don’t find it after a break of hot shower and cup of tea, I’m gonna go crazy. For sure.
I’m a bit late to post this. Actually very late, so late that these pics are posted after the visarjan. This time I’m blaming it on Twenty20 matches, my excellent attendance in College, Internets and some other not-so-important stuff.
So, now that I’ve got a digicam this year, I plan to post no less than three pics. I’m sure that would please HIM a lot. Continuing with the same old family tradition, the statue of Lord Ganesha continues to be the same. Enough of the jibber-jabber, here are the pics…
Okay, I won’t quote the entire song. I was just dying to use it once after listening to it first on a CSI episode.
Getting back to the topic of this post:
Couldn’t have asked for a better day after the exams. Bunked college, slept like crazy for 10 hrs in the day. Got up, did my rounds of browsing the internet for interesting stuff and news. A very long day in that.
The India-England 6th ODI went right down to the wire. Sachin played true to his real self. Robin Utthapa somehow managed to play some cheeky shots and won the game for India. I don’t think anyone else in the Indian team would have pulled 20-odd runs from 15 balls. Not even Dhoni. So, that was some time well spent watching cricket on TV.
Between cricket and surfing, I got linked back here on sourabh.net from engadget for tipping them on a news. For the Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve Edition. Actually, I wanted to get it linked back to LaptopLogic, but the Engadget news editors had something else in mind. So, they linked the source to some PR agency. We had recieved the news directly from Lenovo (agreed to embargo). So, well, the backlink, got a lot of hits for my blog. Feels nice! But the original aim of tipping Engadget was not achieved. So, I kinda feel bad for it. It wasn’t in my hands.. so, I guess nothing can be done about it.
The Apple Special Event was a 10/10 on the excitement scale. Honestly, the most kick-ass ever within the last couple of years that I’m tracking them. Most of the stuff which were announced are some real VFM. The new 4GB Nano or the 80GB iPod classic would be my choice of PMP at the US price. Conversion in rupees when it’s launched here will make me change my decision. I know. I don’t think this will ever change. Greed, taxes or just inflation (is that the right word?)..whatever be the reason behind it.
A few days back I expressed my love for Kubrick as my personal preferred choice of Wordpress theme. Out-of-nowhere, some coders have started expressing similar affection for it by rolling out modded themes similar to it. The good ones. There’s a three-column Kubrick and Kubrick with some good AJAX abilities. Will give them a try later this weekend.
So, that’s just about it. Couple of hectic days ahead at college and then the much needed weekend.
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 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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iPhone is the most expensive phone known to me. I’ve never been into cellphones and iPhone is something which I don’t really care about. For those interested, here is something you’d be interested in.
India to Get Unlocked iPhones via the Gray Market
If you’re poking around the city of Mumbai, you may be able to enjoy the Apple iPhone sooner than the official launch in the area next year. It seems that the gray market has completely opened up shop, providing celebrities and other well-to-do folks with unlocked Apple cell phones, but it’ll cost them a premium, of course.
I’ve seen unlocked iPhones already showing up at online stores in Canada and the United States, so I don’t see why they can’t do the exact same thing and ship the glossy musical handsets across the pond. Naturally, users in India may not get the full functionality of the iPhone, because many of the features may be AT&T specific, like visual voicemail.
Gray market dealers are offering to SIM unlock the iPhone for as little as Rs 1,000 (US$25), but that’s assuming that you can get your hands on an iPhone in the first place. Alternatively, they are also selling pre-unlocked units for Rs 30,000 (US$700). That’s for the 4-gigger.
If this is indeed true, I may get lucky to see the iPhone in person very soon.
