Soporofic Tediums

at last the demon's off my back :p

now that i've got loads of time to waste, i need to think up of innovative ways to waste time. A second seems like an eternity now. Wonder when was the last time, i felt this way about vacations.

The Monaco grand prix,2007 has to be a historic event.
It marked the first time, i mean first time ever i had slept through a Formula One race. omg.
Ever since i've been watching F1, ( its a looong time, 12 years to be precise and 169 races to be exactly right) i've NEVER slept through a Formula One race. Maybe it was because i was relieved at holidays finally but that aint reason enough.
The race was nice, from the Mclaren point of view, so boring for me. I could not bear to see the Ferrari's losing time hand over fist as the McLarens set fastest lap after fastest lap.

Yeah, i've seen that umpteen times with the McLarens at the receiving end but this time was inexplicable. Ferrari were outclassed or thats what the news is ( i slept after the 30th lap and never saw Monaco again :( )

Maybe i can take consolation that monaco is a one of a kind circuit with real high downforce levels and when we go back to sane circuits in the form of Montreal and Indianapolis, i hope the prancing horses can dish out some McLarenesque treatment to the others.



btw Man United won the premier league :D for the 9th time and the top division title for the 16th time. Giggsy now has 9 medals in 16 seasons. Wow thats some longevity in a sport where 10 years is a premium.
They lost the FA cup though to Chelshits. yuck.

Federer beat Nadal at long last at the Hamburg masters. It was on the cards but it did take a long time coming. Now i hope Federer realises his dream of THE Grand Slam.
He has a silken touch thats its a pleasure watching the ball off his racquet. The grace and beauty of his shots are profoundly heart warming

need to crash. later

Exams- for the last time....

The general opinion(read Shashank) floating around about this blog is that i crib a lot about exams :P
when one is a part of a system where exams are basically the be-all and end-all of life, one cannot help but complain about the highly ridiculous values attached to exams.
Today, all that one looks at is ur marks.

This was a conversation with a dad's colleague(AB) and me

AB: Hi! Hows it going ?
Me: Fine. The usual nothing new.

AB: So hows college ? Did u know that my nephew achieved a whopping 94% last year. U know thats no mean feat. Lotta companies are actually queuing up to get his signature. I hear he has an offer for 50k +
Me: Wow.Thats so amazing.

AB: Wow ??? thats an amazing achievement which is unparalleled so far in his college. so how are ur academics shaping up ?
Me: They are alright. I've managed a decent 84% aggregate so far and hope to keep it hovering around that figure.

AB: 84 ???? (hes shocked) thats nothing in today's world. no one is gonna offer u a penny more than what they offer those backlog riddled canditates. U need atleast a 90% if u wanna get into a decent company.

This irked me and i was nearly losing it now. First he makes a saint outta his nephew, who does nothing but mug all day and then he makes a mockery of the marks i so struggled to score.
Thats the way people treat u. ur marks either make u or break u.

But this trend is highly prevalent only in the southern states as it is with a professional degree. Only in the southern part of India will u find a person who scored 95% and gets into a commerce course being ridiculed.
When i gave my class 12 boards, to get into St.Stephens, Delhi for a B.Com(hons) course, one needed an absolutely mindboggling 94%. here in hyderabad, at nizams college for a similar course, a 80% would have sufficed. Thats quite evident of the demand for professional degrees and the lack of it for traditional commerce and arts degrees in the south.

Today if you arent an engineer or doctor or if u arent studying to be one, ur a misfit in the society. Thats the craze and i must admit that even i've been caught up in this mad race for minting greenbacks.
i would have loved to take up history as a major but reasons and circumstances not to be disclosed have ensured that i too have jumped into this pool of to-be engineers.

wow. i've sure come a long way. So as i was saying, i am justified in complaining about my exams cos they serve no purpose atleast in my case. they are just another waste of time which i could have spent a little more constructively.
But life aint a bed of roses and yeah these are some of the thorns u do encounter. I only hope to get rid of them without injuring myself too much.


P.S. i've decided this is the last time i'm talking about exams on this platform. ;)

P.P.S. i'm very bad at making resolutions :D

"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”--- Natalie Portman

Jobless exams

the jobless community now witnesses the return of its most honored member. Well all i have in my defence is that now is exam time and thus i am jobless :D

newayz endsem time and as usual these end sems suck. they are going down the same lane as all end sems are meant to- the drain. i cant seem to comprehend the fact that my attention span is no longer what it used to be. Cant even seem to sit for a couple a minutes with any book be it text or otherwise. After some detailed analysis, the conclusion points to one fact- my ubuntu box :((
Improbable is the word when i realise that i'm still running Ubuntu. Fesity Fawn rocks \:D/
God bless Ubuntu :)

and then i've found my long lost love- Mine sweeper- that pic beside this post, says something about my minesweeping ability :p HAIL Robert Donner and Curt Johnson. and i hate admitting this but need to give credit where its due and that is the case with Microsoft. Thank you for introducing me to the best game in this big bad world.

Talking of games, i realise that computer gaming is big time in India today. A multi million dollar industry, sure tempts me with all the moolah involved. But what would i create- maybe a franchise like Warcraft or FIFA. Would go a long way in making me uber rich :)

and yeah end sems are here to stay for another 3 weeks or so and i realise that i need to buck up and start else i may end up with a backlog-the ultimate deterrent in my quest to get rid of engineering in one go. and yeah i think i gotta jump the bandwagon again in terms of the GRE and crap like that. some people never listen :(

found this quote in the papers and realise how true it is
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

thats male chauvinism i suppose :p