Without a destination

Well its been a busy few days, weeks i guess... had a lot of work that had piled up and i need to get it done, but i finally got my project printed and submitted; On time that too! :D Sure there are a bunch of silly mistakes in it but then, perfection is so boring doesn't leave any room for creativity :P hehe
With all this work piled up you feel bogged down living in your own little world, its at times like these i wish that i could just get away from it all. There's this thing that i do at times like these that i find calming, and unfortunately i haven't been able to do that for a while, i guess its time now :) ... the simple solution that i have is to walk the streets, no purpose, no reason and most of all no destination... Just wander the streets and take in the life around me.I don't know why it calms me down, i guess its because it gives me a sense of detachment from all that's around me... you truly get to observe how life works and truly how diverse the people around you are. We spend all our time living in out own little world and that for us is the universe, moving along like mindless drones doing what is needed of us and then back to our little world. I guess the only analogy that i can see is looking at humans as blood cells doing everything with a purpose, do your job and nothing more, to truly understand the nervous system you need to lift yourself above the microscopic level, then and only then will you see the delicate, intricate and beautiful world that you exist in, the subtle similarities and the stark differences, the diversity!
i remember this one time when i was speaking to a rickshaw driver, an old chap and he was telling me all about his life, how his family has been living in the same house for over 150 years, about his kids.. another guy was telling me how he used to work in UAE and had to leave the country in fear of his life, this shoeshine who despite being well educated ended up on the streets for lack of a job. It really is a good reality check and makes you wonder if your life is really that bad... and it also makes you thankful for what you have. I guess that's why i find the experience calming. The words "Kindness of a Stranger " comes to mind makes you believe that people are inherently good :) a bit philosophical i know .. but still
and the best part bout whole thing is the irony that in order to get away from it all i end up being more connected to life :) a nice little side effect that! :)
I guess its time that i wander off without a destination again :)

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There are days when you have so much to say but cant get a word out...days when you just feel so helpless...

Pointlessness II

Define a consumer.

According to the Indian consumer protection act (1986) a consumer is...

i) any person who buys any goods for a consideration which has been paid or promised or partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment and includes any user of such goods other than the person who buys such goods for consideration paid or promised or partly paid or partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment when such use is made with the approval of such person, but does not include a person who obtains such goods for resale or for any commercial purposes

OR

ii) hires or avails of any service for a consideration which has been paid or promised or partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment and includes any beneficiary of such services other than the person who hires or avails of the service for a consideration which has been paid or promised or partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment, when such services are availed of the approval of the first mentioned person!


WHAT??!!!

Pointlessness!!!!

AHHHHH!! This shit is so frustrating! Ever tried filling out a bloody web form... you know the ones with the "submit" button... and usually right next to that is some button called "clear" or "cancel"!! That's just horse shit!! Nobody and i mean NOBODY!! takes pains to fill out the whole bloody form and then think "oh! darn it i've filled the whole thing wrong. Well thank god for this nifty clear button right here"... what inevitably will happen is that for some stupid ass reason you'll click that button ... cause the button that destroys ALL your work of hours is right next to the submit button!!...case in point...

Project Internal Deadline Up!!

Well the title kinda gives it away doesn't it! Anyway...its really late now so i'll keep this short. I went to college today after ages and was greeted with the good news that we have our internal Project Vivas on friday.. THAT cheered me up at 7 bloody 15 in the morning!! hehe :D I've not seen so many people in college for a while now... nor have i seen such wide spread panic, you'd think they were on the sinking Titanic!! hehehehe! Everybody , and i mean everybody was busy today, doing this, making that, looking at books, looking for faculty, some running around like headless chickens not knowing what to do.
Its funny really, i think i was the only one today not doing anything(but more on that later). The notice for the presentation was put up weeks ago, just the date was missing. and yesterday the date was filled in! Its only then that all of us actually bothered to even read the notice to see what we need to do! hehe seems like no matter how much of a heads up you give a student , the only time he'll even start work is when he's neck deep in water and sinking fast!
I think i annoyed the hell out of most people today cause i was doing absolutely nothing! Just sitting around looking at other people doing there work, occasionally just randomly annoying them. The reason for that oddly enough was that for some weird reason i'd already finished most of what was required of me! :o!! I read that notice 3 times just to be sure! hehehe. The thing was that in Jan i'd got this thing in my head that i have not yet started my project(which i hadent), so for like a week and a half thats all I did, got a whole lotta work done, n then i used to do a little a day, n that effectively meant that i got most of it done. haha who would have thought that a stitch in time really does save nine!! :D The one odd thing however was that while i was in the lab annoying the hell out of people this one guy said to me..."dude youre lucky that your work is done"... n i just looked at him!... i mean what does luck have to do with it? Lady luck didnt come down and do my work, nor did anyone else... i did it... people definitely did help out no doubt about that and a big thanks to those who did, but at the end of the day i was the one who put it down on paper (or rather powerpoint), just because i did my work and that person didnt that makes me lucky?... :-?
I've been sitting online for a while now going through websites gathering matereal for the paperwork . Its the most boring thing that i have done in a while... its just read, edit, type!!!...I HATE IT! =D hehehe! still glad that thats all i gotta do!

heres a pic of the login screen! click to make it larger... =)

Stumble Upon

I came across a wonderful new add-on for my internet browser today! its called "stumble upon" for mozilla! all you gotta do is specify your interests and it takes you to random websites that you may like! ITS BRILLIANT! I've seen sites that i never would have thought of even looking for! like this one where it asks whats in your fridge and cupboards and suggests recipes!! :D HOW COOL IS THAT!! I feel like a kid in a candy store today! The internet is truly as amazing place!

if interested you can download firefox at:
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and stumble upon at:
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I Want be a Little boy

Joseph Heller said "When I grow up i want to be a little boy". Today i wish that i could; i haven't laughed so much in a while. It was a lazy Sunday today and we decided to go bowling, decided not to and went to sheesha instead, sheet, abhi, pia, veena n i. sheet n i in the front, others in the back, they were haven't their little conversation, and sheet was just rambling. He was in what i like to call his 2/10th mood! hehe but that's a separate story. For some reason he was extremely frustrated and everything just kept annoying him. It all started when this guy on a bicycle cut in front of the car, so sheet honked, and that guy just gave him a dirty stare!! sheet's like "damn! what an asshole! i should just go and kick his hut down n that guy will be fucked! I just hate poor people. they all should just drop dead!" hehehe! funny to see such extreme frustration!

Sheesha was a chilled out affair. Just lazed around on the deewan with a hookah. some beer and eats and jazz playing. they had rolled back part of the roof at the end we were sitting at, it gave the whole place a Caribbean feeling.

After that we all went to the regular hangout ...Bliss. Met up with Vikram and a friend of his there. Sheet ,Vikram and I were in the same school, they were a year junior to me and we were just discussing all the stupid thing that we did in school, from being suspended for hanging n the basketball hoop, making our English teacher cry EVERY day! giving out physics teacher a nervous breakdown till she left school, locking the other physics teacher out of class, spraying ink on Tommy our vice principal, putting her obituary in the paper!! co-ordinating 10 alarm clocks and hiding then all around class to ring at 2 min intervals, skipping class by jumping out of windows as the teacher came in, putting wax in the principals office lock, firecrackers in the toilets till they broke! randomly clapping in the assembly till the whole school started clapping! All this was just to the teachers! what was done to the student was an entirely different story, kicking people as they were peeing, randomly giving people birthday bums, kicking all new students as they walked the corridor to their class, hide kanwars scooty in the bushes!..soooo much more! :D

i cant believe it! as kids you just cant wait to grow up, and when you do you wish you were a kid again, no worries, no responsibilities... no nothing! we grow up too fast! i wish i was a little boy again! =(

It's Been a While

WOW!! Its been absolutely ages since i posted anything here...i kinda forgot the password and then today while cleaning out the old documents from the computer found this old file with the password in it :), so i thought that i'd post something here. The last time i posted anything here was when my results were out for the second semester..its almost to the end of the fourth semester now... so its definitely been a while... lots has happened which i'll post later, for now just some photos that i took, since i was feeling nostalgic =) here they are (yes.. you can click them to see the full image...)



1)The first one, kinda obvious that, hehe the pyramids and the sphinx silhouetted against the setting sun. The sheer size of it all! It makes you realize what man is capable of if he puts his mind to it!



2)This was taken at Lang lake in Ontario, Canada, my second vacation of 1998!!! :D We were out camping on this lake, it was breathtaking. This photo was taken from the restaurant that we ate at regularly, overlooking the lake and the island in the middle. In the summers people come in on sea planes, have a meal by the lake and fly away to where ever they came from, in the winter when the whole lake is frozen you can see people coming in on snowmobiles



3) A cold gloomy day in England. This for some reason is one of my favourite photos. Its looks so typically English =) The palace in the back is Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill spent his childhood



4) This photo was taken from the top of Edinburgh Castle, showing a view of the city.