Dapper Drake ROX !!!!!

well in the last post, i did mention about the ManU-Chelsea match. Well it was a tame draw ( not that it was boring). Anyways ManU have beaten Benfica and have qualified top of their group in the CL. And they lead Chelsea by 5 pts in the EPL.

so not bad huh :D


At last, i've got dapper drake(read Ubuntu 6.06) up and running on my 20 gigger hdd. Its A.W.E.S.O.M.E to say the least. i mean where the hell was i all along, missing all the fun with Linux. I've used it for 2 days now and Windows is sooooo boring. The only problems i have is with the commands in Linux but no sweat, you always have the GUI to help u. and not to forget, the millions of forums that cater to various open source softwares.

Any problem under the sun can be googled and presto, there u have the solution

Now i can watch movies and do everything i could under Windows. When i used FC for a few days, i hardly could figure out anything about it but ubuntu seems so friendly.

Well, other than that i have nothing better to do these days. I now possess a movie collection that boasts of nearly 300 movies. Thats kewl but i haven't watched even 10 of those. i'll prolly keep on collecting these until i'm bored.
And hols are really boring. i'm surprised that i can hardly read any books these days. i'm so immersed in the comp that i forget everything else.

sheeesh

try this www.ubuntu.org

yeah it seems my template is all screwed up now.
so had to delete a few posts that suddenly turned up in Webdings (i dunno how :O)

back again

this has been a long time coming.
i dont know whos reading this stuff but maybe i'll write just for myself being the narcissist i am.

Well for starters, i was reading my previous post and realise that Schumacher is no longer in F1. he's bid adieu and its very depressing that he left without that 8th star on his cap.

Well i dont wanna talk about F1 anymore. Its boring and when u have drivers like Lamer and Fisico who can put their foot on the pedal only if the pedal exists ;)
There are a few good ones still like Kimi etc. whos prolly the single most unluckiest driver in F1 and bright new talents like Vettel and Kubisca. But F1 now is all about luck. Talent no longer is the key to winning world titles.
Sheeesh i'm digressing again.

ok to hell with F1. My endsems are going on and i'm lazing around hopelessly. Everyone i speak to is mugging tonnes of books, while here i am browsing the net for that next DVD RIP thats available.


These days i've been able to utilise the true potential of torrents. Heil Bram Cohen and Bit torrent inc.
I've been able to obtain access to literally anything under the sun (And this has compounded my laziness). Now i download anything, i mean anything off the net. Actually i've become so hopeless that i prolly can't live without the internet anymore :(
Private trackers to Torrents are absolutely awesome. I found this site
www.midnight-torrents.com and it provides me with almost everything i need and at blazing speeds that fully utilise the complete potential of my broadband connection.

the only regret i have is, I'm prolly torturing my Comp to death. The thing hasn't been switched off even for a second since 12 days, 16 hours and 52 minutes to be precise :D
the thing is so slow that i'm sure even a 486 would be faster. ;)

now i've got an exam to mug for but that doesn't seem to deter me from leaving this thing. This has gotten me addicted and i have no idea how i'm gonna live without a comp if ever such a situation arises.

i'm digressing again lol.

So where was i ?? Yeah Torrents. Torrents seem to be the best gift that the internet could have ever been given. i also now understand the necessity of sharing and helping others and how much that really benefits me.

I actually have a dumb ADSL connection that on paper gives me 256kbps download capabilities and 64kbps upload capabilities. Thats grossly misbalanced and yet i end up seeding more than that i leech(for n00bs, seeding==uploading and leeching==downloading :D lol )
hey i also realise that a few small tweaks and mods on the software can actually improve ur bandwidth by a HUGE margin.

so even though i'm stuck with that gross unbalance in the upload and download speeds, i get speeds of around 100KBps for download and 20KBps for upload.
BSNL rox ;)


maybe this blog is soporofic, i'm really drowsy after writing so much.
i'll be back sooner rather than later (hopefully :) )

and..................................................

well i'm back.

i spent nearly an hour trying to figure out the HTML tags. That really put my limited number of gray cells to some real agony ;) Hope the new links to the various sites are much better than the previous ones. Even the blogs that link to from this one need to be updated. i will do it now if i do get the time.

But on an entirely different note, i've begun to admire (worship is a much more appropriate term) open source software. I first experienced open source on my iPod. I used Rockbox which was actually suggested to me.

Well since i've got nothing better to do, maybe i'll share my experience on installing Rockbox on my nano.

INSTALATION:
well the installation was pretty much straight forward actually. All i had to do was download the latest build for the iPod Nano. Once that was done, i just had to unzip the package and copy the boot loader files using DOS. other than that u also have to copy the original files to make sure that the player does not end up as a paperweight.

that was how simple the installation actually was.
i was surprised too.........

then came heartbreak

BOOTING :
well when i first tried to boot Rockbox, all i ended up with was a blank screen. That really baffled me. I tried every possible combination of buttons on the nano but to no avail. Being the ever pessimist that i am, i thought i had bid my last farewell to my nano.

but........

then i realised the power of Open Source. The various forums that exist really helped me.
Some of the threads there specifically addressed my problem and i was heartened :)
that gave me hope. Finally realised that all i had to do was to keep the Menu+Select buttons pressed for about 5 seconds and VOILA my Rockbox booted on the nano.

that started a whole new Apple :D experience for me(rather a Rockbox experience).

Now i can actually play Doom on the nano and also a host of other really exciting games and that isn't all. Now the nano has its own graphic EQ with custom settings that can really spice up that Guns and Roses classic and play it as i want it :)


"Heil OPEN SOURCE, Heil ROCKBOX "

Boredom

long time.
i've been very busy(that is an understatement) during the past couple of weeks. Firstly i had my mid sessionals to contest with( i say contest b'cos they were really a challenge). Then after that, my daily workload is being multiplied with tonnes of assignments being handed out everyday and to top things off there was Carpediem '06 which was a pretty big fiasco in my words.

I realise that i seem to have the knack of attending to chores that really are worthless. I went to Carpediem when i could have been doing better things at home ;).
then the other day i wasted a day for my driving test when everybody else i knw didn't even step out to get one.

But the most depressing moment turned out to be on 10th. Schumacher was awesome as usual in the race and the icing on the cake at the Italian GP was that Alonso retired after an engine failure. But i received a rude jolt when Michael announced he was gonna retire after this season.
that was really saddening to hear. he's the best and will always be the best.
But the silver lining that i can see now is that he can probably win a record 8th drivers title and then retire (he's now only 2 pts behind Alonso). Also next year Raikkonen is gonna don the scarlet colors, so another bright spot :)

i've now received almost all my marks for the mid sessionals and they are nothing to boast about. the less that is said about them, the better.

I've finally managed to download Fedora and installed it last week. i haven't yet been able to figure out the nitty-gritties of Linux. The main reason has been the lack of time.
I hope to spare some time next week and sit for some time and meddle around with the thingy.

CBIT seems to be getting boring as each day passes on. Nothing interesting goes on. Its all the same everyday. I really wanna take a break and have phun in the proper sense of the word. A vacation of sorts would really do me a world of good but my timetable does not permit me such luxuries right now :(

Shaastra is around the corner and i'm hoping to go there. Maybe that would really be helpful. But me going there alone is boring, so hopefully someone will tag along with me.


"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Independence Day.

Independence Day.

Hmmm. That’s a real fancy term to use. How independent are we in reality ? This question has been hounding me since yesterday when I realized that today was the 15^th of August. Well for starters what has freedom achieved for our nation ? I could actually go mentioning points that I actually read in the newspapers today morning.

Most of them mentioned how our freedom fighters toiled day and night to ensure that we achieved freedom. Some of them (rather most) even sacrificed their lives in the battle for independence. But has their martyrdom been realized for a broken cause ?

I would certainly think so. I have never been anti-India ( though I always support Pakistan in sports ) but the bureaucracy and the political system here has surely left me exasperated. Things have degraded to such an extent that a return to normalcy seems like eternity.

Two months ago when I went to collect my Voter ID, I was asked by the election officer at the polling booth about my choice of vote in the elections. I was frankly taken aback by the question. I replied that my vote would depend on the circumstances and the performance of the individual parties. He turned down my answer and replied that I would have to collect my ID the next time, because this time, the IDs were being issued only to voters of a particular party. He refused to give me my ID though my name was clearly endorsed on his list. That was disgusting. My mom who was with me then, told me to forget it ( She hasn’t been allowed to vote for the last 2 elections though she has a valid voter ID ). She asked me to come again next time and if I don’t get it even then, maybe I could think of pursuing the matter further.

But I am still reeling from the shock of being denied my fundamental right to vote because I may not vote for a particular party.

This shucks. There have been many other incidents that completely rid me of any feelings I might have towards the political system in this country.

Today, I was watching the news on TV when a few MPs were quizzed about the Indian country as a whole. It was shocking to know how ignorant our so called “leaders” could be. One of them didn’t know what the colors of the national tricolor are. Another thought that the national song (Vande Matram ) was written by Rabindranath Tagore. Another said that the chakra in the flag is white in color; another said the topmost color in the Flag is Green. Not even one of about 4 Congress MPs didn’t know what Gandhi’s actual name was. Some guy even had the audacity to mention that he frankly didn’t care about someone who is long dead. That’s how high our leaders’ IQ actually is.

People do not know about the so called stalwarts of their own parties. Man this country is really going to the dogs.

Such incidents and the knowledge that we are actually governed by a bunch of clowns, with no sort of resemblance to sanity actually makes me wonder if it really was worth sacrificing so many lives and ridding ourselves of the British.

I have always been anti Gandhi and I think this is my best time to criticize his policies.

I really think, he wasted his time roaming around the country half naked and preaching non violence for nothing. He rid us of the most efficient disciplinarians in the history of the sub continent only to set us up to be ruled by a herd of inefficient and incompetent morons.

But maybe my generalization of politicians as a whole is wrong, and I know I do respect a few of them but once a politician, always a politician.

Today as we enter the 60^th year of independence, I am really overwhelmed by the thoughts that the British were actually good for us.

Hey I too love my freedom, which we may not have had under the British but I rather prefer the British than a group of jokers framing policies for me.

“God save the queen , nay, God save India”

Big SIR

Well I had been thinking of this post for a long time and even now, I can't decide what to write.
I always thought I must write some sort of a post on Big sir (a.k.a Mr. T.V.R. Murthy). I don't know what I want to write but I know that the man had a profound in my life.

I spent 13 years at his school and my memories of him r still very fresh. He is unforgettable.
But the reason I wanted to write this post was because, on the Harvard community on Orkut, there were pretty derogatory remarks about him which made fun of him. I would be lying if I said that I didn't laugh on reading them. But my conscience will not allow me to rest without me portraying my true feelings about him.

I vividly remember the first time I actually encountered him. It was in my Lower kindergarten, when some older guys (volunteers) asked me to step out for the morning assembly. I remember telling them that I won't and also cried, when one of them went and fetched Big sir. He asked me to get out and I was terrified to see him. He was so huge, and big I was scared (I still am). I remember his angry face, and I told him I wanted to pee and he said ok. I really had to pee cos he frightened me so much that day.
That day is etched in my memory and served as the foundation for the fear that has been instilled in me about him.

The next meeting that I remember, is when I was in class 1. That day I wrote my exam and was coming back to class, when I saw him standing there near the office. I wished him and to my surprise, he actually caught hold of my ears and took me to the library and told me to behave properly especially at home. Later that day, at home I realized that my mom actually complained to him about me being very naughty and disobeying her at home.

There have been many incidents when I was actually reprimanded and also sometimes caned for not behaving or for some misdoing of mine. There have also been incidents where he scolded me for no fault of mine.
Then, maybe I hated him. Maybe till class 9 I totally despised him.
I remember my school excursion to Goa where he treated me like a nobody most of the time.
Some times he was very good, explaining all about the customs and traditions of the Goans while for most times he was in that unforgiving mood of his.

But in class 9, when I was writing my annual exams, he actually gifted me a pen. I kept hold of that pen till my class 10 and when I lost it, believe me I cried.
In class 9, when he was taking us for a Harry Potter movie on occasion of his birthday, I didn't want to go so he came and shouted at me for not reciprocating his feelings towards students. In the evening, he told me that I had no option but to go the movie. Next day I went and apologized to him and he shrugged it off by saying that I acted like a typical moron and he knew that I would surely go to the movie with him. I was very happy that day.

Also another thing is that I went to quizzes only at his behest.
He was the one who really encouraged me to participate in quizzes. Whenever I lost, he was disappointed, but he always gave me one very valuable piece of advice which was to never give up. He always used to tell me, try and try again till u succeed. Those words I think have always held me in good stead.
To me that also revealed how valuable his lessons were.

One incident that could never be erased from my mind is when he hugged me when I won the Group Quiz at Harvard. He wanted me to win, but after the first round, when we were trailing, he left to his room. And to his surprise when, we won he just hugged me and that meant a whole lot to me. That was the most memorable moment of my 13 yrs. in school
Also when I wanted to participate in the TCS quiz, he actually convinced my Principal, to allow us to take part in it. I was really happy to repay his faith by coming in 4th out of 600 odd teams.

All these incidents surely make me feel nostalgic, but I can't bear to see his face since I haven't met him in 3 yrs. now. I don't know what he would say. He might actually shout at me. Well I'm ready to face that. But will he feel hurt that I haven't visited him even once in 3 yrs.
well I really want to go but my brain says no. I always thought I would only follow my heart and not my brain. But my feelings r really mixed. Maybe I will go but I'm scared that it is now too late to actually repair the broken relationship but am I distancing myself even further, I can't decide.

Whatever, I may meet him in the future or not, but I will always have a special place for him. He was the one and only person, who could change my day with one lecture of his.
Many people have told me that he actually misbehaved with them, but I want to tell them "horse shit". I know what sort of a person he was or at least I knew him much better than them. I know that he was special and the best teacher I ever had.
I don't think I would be wrong in saying that, I wouldn't be the person I am today, if it wasn't for him.

Sir, you were special and hope that u will continue to mold lives as you molded mine.
And lastly I would like to say a big Thank You for all that you have done for me.

introspection

Today, in college someone told me that i actually changed since my first year. i was taken aback. Me changed ? huh that sounds really interesting. The first thought that struck my head was to ask the guy to go jump.But then on further thought, i realised maybe that guy did make some sense.
Maybe what the guy was telling me was true. maybe i had changed. So i decided to do some introspection.

Well for starters, in my first year in Prod. i stood out like a sore thumb ( my height was also a reason ) ' cos i never bunked classes. Everyone went out to either play or return back home while i played the spoilsport and religiously attended classes. I even remember a day when i actually went to my Chem prof, when nobody was there and requested her to take a class. She said no,'cos i was the only one. That did upset me a bit but what cheered me up was the fact that i had actually earned some brownie points with her [;)]. Since that day she a mighty good impression on me and actually gave me my lab marks though i did nothing.

Then on another occasion (this is my fav.), the day of my fresher party, i actually attended college [>:)]. I went to my engg. drawing prof and told him, no one's actually attending 'cos they planned a mass bunk. The prof was so impressed with me that he immediately gave me attendance and made sure my attendance touched 96%. Great huh. later that day i was off to meet friends and party.
People might find my behavior disgusting, and they have every right to feel that that way (especially my prod. classmates) but what i did was selfish,no doubt, but then i didn't give a damn.

Also never in my first year did i ever step into the parking lot ( 'cos i was raggingphobic ). People thought of me as a serious misfit in the college. I actually escaped the ritual of ragging, by confronting some of those seniors and telling them to go to hell.
They didn't go to hell but they were surely pissed off to hell. But i don't give a damn now, ' cos i'm now in a different branch and the seniors here are different.

But coming back to that guy today, he noticed that now my attendance is actually only 56% (a drop of 42% from last year, whoa, i need to buck up ) and i'm actually spending more time in the BBC (basketball court) than in my classes.
He also thought the rest of the time ( when i'm not in the BBC) ,i'm found in the Parking lot. Then how come my attendance is 56% ??
Well whatever he says, i think its true that i've changed. I actually tease him in the bus (which i wldn't have dared to do in my 1st year ), and he didn't like that. Maybe i was wrong i teasing him but he did tell me some crucial info. that does make me realise that i've got to mend my ways.
I wldn't be as extremist as i was in my 1st yr. but now i've got to balance the good and the bad and also ensure that in the process i also have fun and enjoy myself.

Dude, i seriously owe u one.
btw the guy's name is Sandeep from C-1 2nd year.

Hurrah!!!!!

I’ve been too lazy to post (also too excited). Well lemme tell u ‘bout the good news first.

I’ve shifted to IT from Production and life is so much better now that I can never explain.

I’ve finally rid myself of math (though I’ve discrete math this sem, its much better than conventional math). On the flip side, I’ve got to use my brains a helluva lot more than in prod.

The bad news is that, I’ve got to submit a project on something by the end of the 1^st mids and that shuccs. Now I hope to have better classmates (not that all of them in prod were bad). I now have funny but interesting (by the sound of it) subjects like micro electronic ckts., Signals and systems, fundas of IT etc. hope they don’t turn out to be a waste of time like drawing or Mechanics.

There’s a Kcircle quiz this Sat and Karry’s going with me. We have no idea how we’re gonna do ‘cos the last time we scored a meager 7 on 25. The quiz is seriously tough and hopefully we’ll do better this time. I feel like doing nothing right now though I’ve got to finish that dumb project.

BTW Shilpa’s my classmate again for another 3 yrs atleast.The girl seems to be my only hope of salvaging something from the first 3 weeks of classes. Anyway, I tht. of a project when she asked me for one. Maybe I’ll do the same one.

So now that the summer hols are almost over, everyone’s going back to their places. Shashank’s already left. Hemanth’s leaving 2moro and Rahul the day after. So life’s gonna shrink back to that same old shell again.

My brain does not want to work on anything right now. It seems that its gonna switch off any second now. So maybe I gotta take a break and recharge the dumb thing.

Life and Israel ......................................

Tht I wld write ‘bout a lot of things but can’t remember any of them right now. Life sucks as usual. Today being a Sunday, tht of hanging out someplace but cldn’t seem to find any place worth it. Bari suggested McD but turned it down, then tht of alleyg8or and KFC but turned down both and we were stuck plucking guavas and gobbling them. The tour de France is gonna end and am happy to see that Landis is at last winning one

Just found a comm on Orkut regarding Harvard (thanks to Aparna ). Met yashraj there and found quite a lot of my seniors and juniors there( can’t believe nobody told me ). I’m wasting my time doing nothing. I have to finish 5 drawing sheets and haven’t yet bought a TB. Luckily no Math HW and I’m lazing around. Can’t seem to find anyone online (very surprising).

I’ve just remembered that Israel sucks big time. Bombing Beirut and Lebanon (whatever the reasons) is SICK. ppl losing lives is BAD and nobody gives a damn. Not the US, the UK or even the UN. UN passes a resolution which is nothing more than a hogwash.

I think this is how ppl like Laden are born or groomed. Autocrats like Bush and Blair seriously need a smack on their bottoms for unleashing AlQaeda , LeT et al on us.

Just realized that I hope that the allegations showered on Bush bu Mr.Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 are absolutely true and Bush is kicked into Oblivion.

Enuf of world politics (I suck at them but anyway ). Theres a Kcircle quiz on the 5^th of Aug and Karrys hopefuuly gonna turn up with me. I’m actually fed up of college and think its not worthy of me gracing the classes. Letsee tomorrow’s another day and hopefully, better than last Monday.

I'm CALVIN!! ha ha ha!!!!!

Calvin		100%
Hobbes		68%
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Susie		21%
Mom and Dad		14%

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College and life in general.......

On a completely different note,

My college has started and I bunked 5 days (that’s 6% of attendance. Horrifying isn’t it. I’ve decided to bunk at least 20 days so that I can just scrape thru the attendance. Last year’s 98% didn’t help anyone so time to bunk) already. The first few classes I’ve been to have reinforced my belief that engg. is not for morons like me. I can’t believe I’ve another sem of boring Mechanics and Math’s. I just seem to hate math. The subject is for gr8 brains and not mud brains like mine. I seriously thnk I’ve committed the gravest mistake of my life by agreeing to study engg. I now know that Archaeology is my subject and what I wouldn’t’ do to swap courses. This is BORING, college especially. No proper connection at college and I’m regretting this dumb decision.

My luck sucks big time these days (not that it ever shone upon me). Yesterday noon session was off and I decided to come back home and that started off all my troubles. First the 7-seater(7-seater !!!no way they must be called 15 seaters) guy didn’t budge till he filled the vehicle to the brim with ppl. He was finally satisfied when there were 11 of them in the auto excluding the driver and his assistant. Then we started crawling and finally near Vasavi, the guy realizes that his tyre is deflated( no wonder with 15 ppl in the auto, it was obvious). He tried replacing it, and the other one too is out of precious air. So he robbed me of 6 bucks and left us to the fate of finding buses or autos. I didn’t find either for 20 mins and luckily, I got a normal auto and hired him till my place. The meter actually stopped running on the way (the fare actually far exceeded the max 99 bucks) and the guy was a pretty dumb guy. He took 105 bucks and went away.

Cool day and now my bus seems to have given up on the driver. Everyday, it stops for at least 20 min( I think its actually programmed to reach college at 10:15) and the driver wracks his brains out trying to figure out the prob (it actually varies with each day, today it was a failed gear box) and actually manages to push the bush till college without actually rectifying the prob. Gr8 guy.

I have Homework everyday. Dumb actually and that too its math. I hate math( i think Mrs. Santhanam had a very big role to play in compounding my fears ‘bout the subject , though ppl like certain VVHGR and CHS may disagree , its actually true) Santhanam was a “beep” and KV was a dumb mistake before this engg. one. (I am making too many mistakes. dumb ones and can’t help it). Gotta go .

Na math can wait. It can actually wait forever. I’ll pbbly never do my math HW. Hmmmm maybe I’ll do it if things turn out to be real bad. Anyway lets see that’s in the future and not now. So lets procrastinate.

What else is there to talk about, yeah I know Schumi wins 8^th time at Nevers, Magny Cours. The guy is staging a comeback and I hope he doesn’t fizz out like some of the others maybe the Ferrari dominance is here to stay. Fine now I’m bored of this post, lets get out and get some air. Maybe next time I can write about something better

Minesweeper

Well I guess being a minesweeper aficionado, a post on the beautiful game was inevitable.

But what makes me write this post is my achievement of a 1 second time in beginner. I know it isn’t a big deal for some of those Gods of the game but for ppl like me that gives me the bragging rights and the fact that I can get actually beat the 2 second barrier (even Bari wasn’t able to break it) gives me renewed confidence that I can also beat the 70 second barrier in Expert. Also I think my long term goal with regard to this ever addicting game is to break that 15 second barrier in Intermediate, though I know its not possible at this juncture.

Another thing I was wondering about is the effect of music when I play the game. Almost always when I play the game, Abba is playing in the background. Maybe even the music had its role to play.

Zinedine Zidane- the master of Trickery

'Zizou' the best ?The best footballer of the modern era

The world cup has reached the SF stage and for the first time for i don't know how many years, no south american team in the last 4. Surprised, be very. Again Zizou proves to be Brazil's nemesis with an awe inspiring performance against the current world champions, well they won't be in a weeks time. So my bets are now all on Germany, i think Klinsmann has moulded a terrific side whose progress to the SF included terrible bad luck for Argentina. Even England lost out on the shoot out. the Penalty shootout sucks (though i love it).

The refereeing has been going from worse to worst as the world cup enters its last phase. My personal fav, the Dutch lost out b'cos of that dumb Russian Ivanov or whatever he is. I hope the KGB or the GRU actually torture him in those camps in Siberia. Let him rot in hell. The dutch were easily the better side against Portugal and didn' deserve to lose.

Now that Zizou has eliminated Brazil, i hope Portugal eliminates France and lose to Germany in the final. That wld be the icing on the cake. nah, maybe i wanna see more of zizou, so let them go to the final and lose there, thats much better. I hate Luiz Felipe Scolari though. He sucks big time. The grumpy a$$hole.

life goes on

My results are out and I scored around 85-90%. Lousy marks especially when compared to some of the others like Shilpa or some of the others. I’m pretty pissed at the evaluators ‘cos I scored just 54 on 75 in CP. That’s a shock considering the fact that I did that paper the best. Shilpa scored 94% and maybe is the college topper or even the varsity too. Well all the best to her and her sister. Maybe they will break all records. NERDS nah Boogerbrains

Any semblance of insanity in me seems to be lost ‘cos of that dreadful day. Karry scored 80%. The guy scores and actually doesn’t open books at all. Another NERD. Wish I was like him. I got this bband connexion and life seems to have taken off.

I now download everything off the net and i mean literally everything, including Windows. I wanna stop this but my speeds of ‘bout 60 KB/sec don’t help either. These days I’m maybe burning the midnight oil a bit too literally. I sleep not before 5:00 in the morning. I’ve always been a late sleeper but my mom’s absence seems to have worsened this condition, not that sleeping late is bad.

Bari actually screwed EM and hopes to clear it soon. Me too. Been in touch with Aparna a lot these days. Almost everyday in fact. She only hardens my beliefs that girls are impossible. She needs something, well she actually goes to any extent to get it even undergoing drastic mood swings. Girls can be a real annoyance and l’ll pbbly never understand them.

As Calvin says, girls are the most mysterious beings, and I do agree with him (never remember the last time I disagreed with Calvin). The guys just 6 yrs old and his philosophy of life is just awesome man. Well I feel really lazy typing this and will try to fill up the other details the next time.

The soccer world cup has started and so did my late night stands with the TV. I can’t believe that most of my favorite players are actually watching the WC on the sidelines. Well if not most, at least 4 of them. The Dutch win have to carry the tag of my favorites but realistically speaking, other teams like Argentina and England look to be better equipped to go all the way. I hate admitting this, but I think Brazil really do have the class and the resources to lift their 6th title. I have been a perennial hater of Brazil and no amount of football from them can change this view of mine.
Well the first rounds of matches have been pretty exciting so far, with Holland winning both their matches so far. They face the Argentines today, who have done likewise. The match can be exciting but the fact that Robben, van Bommel et al are gonna be rested, dampens my enthusiasm for the match.
England drew Sweden yesterday and will now face Ecuador in the second round. Rooney’s first start of the WC must have rekindled the memories of ’66 for the English fans. The guy’s a phenomenon. I mean I watch him week after week for ManU and he fails to disappoint me. The guy can play.

The fact that Nistelrooy may be leaving ManU after the WC really breaks my heart. The guy is an incomparable striker. He is a goal poacher par excellence. I hope somebody kicks Sir Alex out and not Ruud. I was hoping that the Glazers would try to cut Alex to his size but they seem to be more interested in monetary matters than football. They really suck. I hope sir Alex compensates at least by getting someone like Torres or Van der Vaart

Man U need to buck up and the time is now. The world’s best are in Germany, and this is the time to spot and scoop talent from all corners of the globe. U know what I’m hoping for is that Roman Abrahamovic gets rid of Chelsea and Chelsea go to the gutters. The team sucks and they SUCK big time!

Dhoni: The best????

The whole country's going ga ga over M.S.(Master Slogger) Dhoni and i'm not at all surprised cos we Indians do have very short memory spans. Well aren't we jumping the gun by calling Dhoni, the Adam Gilchrist of India. I mean look at Gilly, he's achieved so much and Dhoni has just started. Ok the guy is pretty good at making the bowlers dance to his tunes but has anyone ever realised that the 30 odd matches that he's played, he's played them only on the placid sub continental pitches where the bowlers get no help worth the name.

Gilly had an average of 32 in his first 30 odd games and a strike rate of 97, while Dhoni has an average of 51 and a strike rate of about 108. Well the figures are certainly impressive but also remember that he's never got to face quality pace or spin for that matter on pitches where bowlers rule the roost.

He's first gotta prove himself in places like SA, down under,England etc. and only then can only one tag him India's gilly. Lets not count our chickens before they hatch.

The beginning

Well its a very modest beginning i guess. Will try to expand on this topic later. Have my tests from tom and gotta study. will be back soon