Last week I was on my way home. Most of the branches( actually all except Comp Sci) had planned trips for the weekend. As we didn't have any trip, I decided to head home. And this time I was alone, and so I carried a book to read during the journey.
After a few stops and half a bottle of pepsi, three guys, in their 30s, came and sat opposite me. I gave them a smile and continued reading the book. For most of the time, they were discussing something about their work and also about politics, from what I overheard.
About 2 hours passed. And then I heard one of them ask "Are you an engineering student?" I lifted my head to find all three of them looking at me. I told them that I was. He then looked at his friends and gave them a didnt-i-tell-you smile. I wondered how he understood. I wasn't wearing any t-shirt with the college' name on it. So I asked him. He told me that it was because I was studying for such a long time!! I couldnt help laughing. I showed them the cover page. The guy sitting to his right read, "A Thousand Splendid Suns.... Oh! Its a novel!"
LOL.
They too smiled (the friends of the guy who asked me smiled more than him this time) and then we continued with what we were doing earlier.
But what made him think that engineering students studied all the time! This is the first time I am hearing such a comment about engineering students! One visit to our hostel during the exam time would surely change all his misconceptions. It would have made more sense if he had asked if I was a medical student. Or maybe not. Nerds are there in every college. And there are lazy guys too. You can find people of every type in all the colleges; irrespective of the stream. The college or branch has nothing to do with how much time one spends on studies!
And yes, the book is really good. Khaled Hosseini writes about challenges and attrocities faced by Afghani women especially in the late 20th century; written beautifully and in simple english. The author was able to keep me reading until the train stopped at Mangalore station.
PS: Again... Engineers are not nerds!
Any engineering student out there, who would like to comment on this? ;)
Engineering students == Nerds??
Back in college...after a bad day
Today, I'm back in the college after the onam holidays...but the trip back wasnt very easy this time...My train was supposed to leave Mangalore at 230pm...but before that, some people of Bajrang dal broke into some of the churches in mangalore(Milagres church, and few other churches) and destroyed some idols there!!...and that obviously resulted in agitation; and within an hour, the roads in the city were blocked...people were pelting stones at vehicles and there were police everywhere...So i wasnt able to reach the station. Then we thought of going to Kasaragod and catchin the same train there; but the roads enroute were blocked too... Then we decided to go to the second station in Mangalore, and luckily we got there on time (actually an hour early for a train that was 1.5 hours late!). And I managed to get back to college. Lucky Renzil...he was supposed to come with me, but left early morning because he wanted to watch the race in the afternoon.
But why do these people do such horrible things?! Cant they just forget about others' religion and live in harmony? Yesterday there were serial bomb blasts in Delhi and now today this!...Will this ever end?! Its the duty of us, 'educated' people, to spread the word of secularism. Most of the wars today in the name of religion. Lets consider people before considering their religion, nationality, caste or anything. Lets make India the world, a better place to live in!
Hoping for a better tomorrow...
Links out:
Mlore shut; police protesters clash-TOI
Mangalore tense-IBN live
PS: Do watch 'A Wednesday', a new hindi movie starring Naseeruddin Shah, addressing the issue of terrorism and communal violence. Its good!
Google - The next Microsoft (?)
There is no doubt that Google is expanding at an alarming rate, and is all set to be the biggest company in the IT industry.
Was going through the new products of google at Google Labs. There you can find new projects of google, most of which are in the testing stage. There you can find gtalk-labs edition, with invisibility feature (but it has some other problems). One interesting software I found here is "Lively by Google". Its a chat software; but much better than the normal ones. Here you have to create an avatar for yourself, before chatting. You can have fun playing with the animated avatars. There are many chat rooms too(discos, club bars , cafes, beaches, etc), which you can join. And the avatar sometimes reacts according to what you type too...if you type lol or rofl, your avatar would start laughing!
I was watching Download- The true story of the internet, a documentary on discovery channel hosted by John Heileman, sometime back. It showed how Netscape had challenged Microsoft in the 90s, but eventually lost the battle to the giants. But google now doesnt show any sign of losing.They have now come up with their browser- chrome- which is not the best browser now, but is only going to get better. Once Google comes up with their own Operating System(they do use "Goobuntu"- a linux distribution based on ubuntu, but only internally), and something to replace MS Office, they can have the monopoly. But microsoft is not going to watch everything, doing nothing!
Rock ON!!
Went for a movie today...ROCK ON!
Nice mov! Its about a 4 guys in a Rock band that splits over a small problem
and then reunites after 10 years...really nice way to pass your time on a weekend...
and a nice performance by debutant Farhaan Akthar...
It reminded me of movs like Dil chahta hai and RDB
Recommended!
Other recommendations for this month:
1.Dark Night
2.Bungee Jumping! (just awesome!)
3.Animal Farm (book by George Orwell...must read!!)
4.CoolIris PicLens addon for firefox(Its simply the coolest add-on)
5.Life is Beautiful(english-Would suggest this movie anytime)
Fasting for a month ;)
Ramzan is approaching and here we have a mess dedicated for students who are fasting during the month. I always wanted to fast once during the ramzan month, ever since 1st year at NITC. (Dont ponder over my name or religion...no i do not follow Islam; just want to try it out the fasting...coz i'm sure once i get out of college, i'l never be able to do it. No harm in trying right)..So this time I asked Faaez to include my name too in the list of guys joinin the mess for this year......but theres only one problem: I have to get up at 4 am to have my breakfast!!It would be a lot easier for me to have stay awake till 4, have my breakfast and then go to sleep!Many guys said I am going to find it very difficult.And moreover I have fallen ill quite a few times this year and lost some weight too. But as this is my last year in college, I decided to go for it this time. Lets see how it goes!
PS: Had a talk by author Chetan Bhagat in our college today. Was quite gud; spoke about current problems in India, and responsibilities of the youth, and also about other 'risks' to be taken by them.
Got 'pool'ed at last!
Its a tradition in our college to throw people into the 'F-Pool' when students get placed! Its a small pool in the F-hostel. So today it was my turn. I was actually eagerly waiting to be thrown into the pool :). There would be 4 guys lifting you, by your arms and legs, to swing you wildly, before throwing you into the pool. Some guys first held me by my legs, lifted me, and dipped me into the pool; head first. Then pulled me out, and threw me on a pile of sand nearby. Then on the count of three, I was again thrown into the pool! After this Veepi put Kunju into the pool( yea.. one guy was enuf for throwin our Kunju into the pool ;) ). Then we startd pickin guys randomly and throwing them into the pool. Everyone except for a few were thrown into the pool. And as it is Ramu's Bday today, he was given a good GPL before becoming wet.
But it was great fun falling into the F-pool. If you are in NITC you have to fall into that pool atleast once; otherwise you are missing something! (sorry gals of nitc)..
India-SriLanka Match's goin on...Chelsea-Wigan match later!Sessionals tomorrow!Time's runnin out!!
Freebies Galore
Who would spend his cash on something if he could get the same free!!This summer, I visited some sites on the web for free stuff! ;).
If you are in the US, then prolly you can live on the free stuff alone! seriously! But its a little difficult to find free stuff shipped to India.There are so many sites out there offering free samples of their products to customers. You just have to give them your address.
I first got the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and Windows server 2008 trial edition DVDs posted to my doorstep during the vacation. After that I signed up for the newsletter from some sites. And kept ordering whenever I found an interesting freebie. And this time when I came back home after about a month, there were a lot of envelopes waiting for me! DVDs (documentaries, full softwares, trial softwares), posters, cards, magazines etc! And all of them without spending anything.
So try them if you've got enough time (and no cash ;) ).
Links:
Freebie empire
Totally Free Stuff
Soprano
Ofree
[You may get irritated in the beginning coz most of the freebies are only for US residents.]
PS: Got placed in Amdocs today :)
1st sessionals starting from day after(monday)...have to start studying somethin :(
Net-Crazy-World
Can you imagine what'll happen if the whole internet crashes?!We've all become entangled in the web and its impossible to think of a life without it!
We got net in our hostel few days back. We now get net through optical cable connection and not with wireless connection as it was earlier. Now everyone is in front of his comp surfin the net. The first day we got net there everyone in the hostel had configured the connection on their comps, within about an hour. I logged into gtalk and I found a huge list of people online... I 
scrolled and scrolled, but the list seemed endless. Then I sat down countin; twas around 70!! see pic..And ofcourse there must have been many people who were 'invisible' too.
So why's it that 'the current generation' is so crazy about chatting and surfing??Why cant they spend time on better activities like playing outdoor and reading books?! ;)
Final lap at NITC...
Hey im back...We are final years now!! Its nice to be the seniormost batch in the campus!
Placements are going on well here at college.. The start was a bit dull for our branch; with yahoo taking no BTech student (just an intern-Anna), and Oracle taking just 2 (had taken around 10 last year)...But we have had some really good placements in other companies..like DE Shaw, Adobe, GS, Mcafee etc.Btw I got placed in Aricent few days back... :)
Other branches too, especially electrical, are having great placement results...I never knew that they could sit for so many companies. They sit for their core companies, then IT companies of Comp sci, companies of Mech, Tronics, Civil...all of them! There are very few companies which they are not eligible for. But anyways we feel its fine...coz their branch is supposed to have had the most hectic time on campus. They have drawing classes even in S7...lol...
Anyways...gtg now..have got to give a seminar on OCaml tomorrow (Its a language for our PPL lab)...
hf!
Placements!!
Our placements are around the corner! Campus recruitment is supposed to commence on the 26th of june with Microsoft Yahoo. Preparations are going on. I hope everyone gets placed as soon as possible without much difficulty.
I'll be quite busy the next few weeks, so will remain dormant in the blogging world for some time.
Cya soon!
Hopefully with some good news ;)
Law abiding citizens??!!
Check out this pic that I had taken a few days back in Mangalore. This is in front of a busy complex, which has a lot of clinics in it.
Can you see the no-parking sign?!!
Blog update - 10,000 hits!!
Yeah! My blog got its 10,000th visit today!!
PS.- Reached college today! Now staying in a temporary room in C-Hostel till the room allotment on 23rd.
Cousin's engagement - Nice trip :)
Today one of my cousin had his engagement. So had to leave to my native in the morning with my father. Here's in brief how the day went..
0807 - Left home in our car with my father.
0935 - Reached my cousin's place. There were a lot of relatives there, whom I hadn't seen for a long time. Its a custom there for the 'men' of the house to go to the girl's place and ask for her hand formally and then decide everything about the marriage.
1040 - So after an hour all of us started off to her place. There were 2 buses and a car to take everyone. I got into one of the buses, and was quite excited as there were lot of my relatives there and I always wanted to go on a 'trip' like this one! The driver put in a malayalam cassette into his player and started the journey.
1110 - Passed Kanhangad. Its a town on the way. Note the last 5 letters ;). By now many people were dozing in the bus. But I was wide awake and admiring the scenery around! And it was raining pouring outside! Guess what?? Only one person in our bus had an umbrella!!I was trying to imagine how it would be if all of us reached there fully drenched!! lol!
1118 - Thadakk!! There was a loud noise. Someone fell on top of the bus??!!Spiderman??!! It woke everyone who was sleeping. Everyone was startled!
The driver told us that just a branch that fell on top of the bus from a tree on the roadside, because of the storm! Haha...Luckily it was a small one :)
1154 - We reached the place - Karivallur. By now luckily the rain had stopped.Everyone from the girl's side were ready there to receive us. We took our seats and were offered refreshments.
1215 - The elders were seated separately. The girl came out with her father, holding a lamp. Then they sat discussing 'serious stuff'. After some time they announced that the marriage was fixed!
1245 - By now my stomach was growling as i didnt have time to have a proper breakfast. Went and sat in the first sitting itself. The food was good, and was served in the traditional way on a banana leaf. The meal ended with a delicous payasam.
1350 - Everyone had their lunch and we left the place in our vehicles.
1440 - Reached my cousin's place.
1515 - Left for home with my father.
1645 - Reached home
Ran into the house and grabbed the remote of the television. India Pak Final!! Pakistan is moving towards a good score :( Hope India will bat better!!
P.S. :I havent simply guessed the time here. I had noted down the time everytime we reached a place, or did somethin.
hf
Its Vacation Time!! Looking for a hotel to stay??
Recently one of my friends, Amith had planned a trip to Mysore, with his family and wanted a good hotel to stay. He had tried calling few hotels there for booking. But there was no room vacant there for those days. And so he called me up, two days back, and asked if I knew of any good hotel in Mysore. I had no idea of hotels there; but I told him that I would ask some people and get back to him.
I called a few guys here, who had gone to Mysore earlier, but they didnt know much about hotels there. So took the help of one of my best friends - my Comp!
Searched on the net for hotels in Mysore. Then i came across this site - Hotels Combined.
It was so easy searching the site for hotels there! I just had to enter the city, the number of guests, and the date of accommodation. And the site gave a huge list of hotels! Most of them were sold out but there were still few hotels left. The site gave every detail you needed to know about the hotel, with the price, photos of the hotel, user reviews, and map showing its exact location too!
I immediately called up Amith and gave him details of some of the hotels and also the link to the site. He then booked rooms for himself. In the meantime I started searching the site for hotels in Mangalore and Calicut. And there were a few big hotels in both the cities that i had never heard of!Impressive!
Its Vacation time for most of the schools and if you are planning a tour and want to book rooms in any hotel, you've got to check this site! Its got hotels from all over the globe.
Anyways take care, have fun!
Other useful links:
Hotel Club
Lonely Planet
Side Step
Browse hotels by Country
Hotels in Mysore
Dataquest T-school Ranking - NITC in top 10
Dataquest recently came up with their ranking for the top technical colleges in our country.
And guess what?? NITC is placed 9th in the ranking!!
There are a few new entries in the top 20 and a few premier colleges are missing.
Here's the list:
Rank 2008 | Institute | Score | 2007 rank |
| 1 | IIT- Khadagpur | 84.0 | 1 |
| 2 | IIT- Delhi | 81.4 | 4 |
| 3 | IIT-Roorkee | 79.9 | 5 |
| 4 | IIT- Kanpur | 75.0 | 7 |
| 5 | IIT-Guwahati | 73.7 | 6 |
| 6 | IIT-Chennai | 72.4 | 2 |
| 7 | IIIT-Hyderabad | 69.1 | 9 |
| 8 | IT-BHU | 67.9 | 10 |
| 9 | NIT-Calicut | 67.3 | 15 |
| 10 | NSIT | 66.9 | 23 |
| 11 | NIT-Warangal | 65.7 | 8 |
| 12 | DA-ICT | 62.5 | 22 |
| 13 | Thapar Institute of Engineering | 62.1 | 18 |
| 14 | IIIT-Allahabad | 61.0 | 13 |
| 15 | BIT-Mesra | 60.2 | 19 |
| 16 | PSG-college of Technology | 60.0 | 24 |
| 17 | M Vishvesvaraya Institute of Technology - Bangalooru | 59.9 | – |
| 18 | MNNIT-Allahabad | 59.9 | 17 |
| 19 | VIT- Vellore | 57.9 | – |
| 20 | NHCE-Banglore | 57.0 | – |
Parameters :- Placement (40%), Infrastructure (10%), Intellectual Capital(20%), Industry Interface (5%), HR Perception (25%)
Reasons for NITC entering top 10:
There was a 35.5% increase in the placement score in 2006-07 over 2005-06. The infrastructure score went up 1.9%, and the score of academic environment went up 15.7% in 2007-08 over the previous year.In terms of IT/BPO companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 33 in 2005-06 to 41 in 2006-07.When it comes to all the companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 58 in 2005-06 to 92 in 2006-07.
Links:
Dataquest Rankings 2008
India Today Ranking 2008 (NITC - 19th)
Wanna be invisible?
These holidays i was in front of my computer most of the time; always signed in on gmail and yahoo messenger. I prefer remaining invisible on the chat engines, because of the huge list of people online all the time. The people keep changing but the number remains constant at about 20. So you keep getting chats throughout the day. Not that i dont like chatting; thats what i do most of the time, but, you cant keep chatting all day, right?
Gmail has also added the invisibility feature recently. And i was wondering the other day how it would be if i could really be invisible!! A thousand pranks creeped into my mind! ;)
I would leave even my computer too, to play pranks on others all day. Also you could know lots of secrets by being invisible.
You could top in all the exams ;by getting the question papers beforehand ;) ..You could get into any restricted area, get into concerts without tickets...and above all scare the hell outta people ..haha...would be real fun!
But then, on second thoughts you would perhaps see and hear a lot of stuff you would never want to experience. You may hear people, maybe some of your closest friends, speaking ill of you, and you would wish you never heard anything or saw anything. People wouldnt always have praises for you, and you would hear a lot of sad things. You could also end up witnessing a lot of miserable sights too.
I decided i would be happier with my invisibility limited to the chat engines. :)
What do you think?
The art of Tagging - Yes i'm weird!!
Last year,Parvathy had tagged me...So here I am,passing the tag...
The rules are simple:
1) Put down 8 random / weird / habitual facts about yourself..
2) Tag eight ppl.
3) Ask, bug, coax , bully them into taking up this tag :)
The last two rules are quite simple...but not the first one...Never gave
it a thought,though few ppl have called me a really weird person :P
Okay...let me list out some weird things about myself...
Hmmmm...
1.I toss black pepper into mouth like groundnuts. Weird enough??
I find really hard to eat chillies but can even chew pepper easily.
2.I sleep really late..most of the days at around 5 in the morning...and wake up at around 2 or 3 in the noon. Perhaps am the last person to wake up in the country!
3. I dont snore ;) cant think of many weird things abt myself now so writin down watevr i can thiknk of...
4. I can sit with many people on the same table and not listen to anythin the person sitting next to me is saying. If i feel that the topic is not relevant to me i can turn a deaf ear easily and go into my dream world ;) ...It has happened a lot of times with me that people around me suddenly burst out into laughter and then i find all of them staring at me, waiting for atleast a smile. I would then humbly ask them to repeat the funny part.
5. I bathe everyday, in the morning before goin to class. haha...thats actually a little weird when you stay in the hostel. Many guys in ny hostel would agree. :)
6.I am weird.
7.I am weird.
8.I am weird.
Sorry. Couldnt think of anything else!!
If you have found something weird about me, please write them in the comments section. ;)
Just wanted to finish this post. I had actually started writing this post long back. Then kept adding points whenever i could think of. Each time changing the first few words. In the beginning it was ' Yesterday, parvathy tagged me...'.Then it became'Few days back, parvathy tagged me'... then 'few months back'...and now 'Last year, Parvathy tagged me...'!!
And now its time to tag....this part is a lot easier..
1. Naru (Varun Narayanan) for defining bloggin to me...
2.Anna coz of whom i started blogging
3.JD for giving me company while blogging...we startd our blogs almost the same time...we used to discuss about our posts earlier...
4.Shanker who comes up with really gud posts...but only once on a blue moon day...
5.Mithun for his poems and jokes.
6.Mammen(Justin) who started recently.
7. Parvathy (i think i am not supposed to return the tag...but its ok...u dont have to tag 8 guys again..)
8.Kiruba...I thought i could save one tag for a blog i visit often, but for someone i dont personally know... and then thought why not keep it for some really famous blogger!! So Kiruba, here you go. Lets see how weird you really are!!
Pfff...
Be part of a world record!!
Firefox is all set to create a world record for the most downloads in 24hours! The release date of the latest firefox 3.0 is yet to be announced. Around 744,072 people have pledged to download the software on the release date.
I'm actually using firefox 3.0 (b4 d official release date), and trust me, its the best!! It has many more features than the previous versions. I always preferred the previous versions over IE 7 ; so the latter doesnt stand any chance in front of firefox 3.0.
And above all firefox a free and open software! So i think it deserves to set the record!! So go to the site and pledge to download on the day of release; and do download!
When mother nature loses her temper...
The Chinese witnessed mother nature's fury on may 12th.The official death toll from the in Sichuan province is 67,183. Many schools were destroyed, including one that had at least 900 students in it. This earthquake is the worst natural disaster to hit China in 30 years. Two further aftershocks have destroyed more than 420,000 houses in the Chinese region hit by the massive earthquake. You can find the facts, figures and more details on the net...and so please do.
Another recent incident was the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. This was even worse, and even more unfortunately, most of foreign aid to Myanmar are blocked. The death toll is believed to be around 1,00,000.
For a little perspective in death tolls, both are about 10 times worse than either 9/11 or Katrina.
These are a few sites where you can donate and help the victims.
1. Mercycorps
2. America Red Cross
3. International Federation of Red Cross
4. Canada red cross
5. Americares
6. Salvation Army
7 . Foundation Burma
8. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
9. International Rescue Committee
10.Exotissimo
Do read about the two tragedies, discuss with our firends, write in your blog if you have time, and help them if you can.
References:
BBC news, Red Cross .org, An article on digg( i dont remember d name, but that inspired me to write this post)
Foxit reader
Recently i had to reinstall windows xp into my computer because of some problems...but since then i was having difficulty installin some softwares...especially those of adobe...flash, photoshop, dreamweaver, and others. I dont use these softwares a lot, but theres one which for me ( and i'm sure for many of u too) is the basic necessity in windows!! and thats adobe acrobat reader...
There again was some error installing it...tried different versions...the latest one, old ones...reinstalling different copies of each version 2-3 times...but didnt succeed...
I couldnt just stop and say that the grapes were sour.
Could have used linux, but i prefer working on windows.
So I started searching the net for pdf readers...and then i came across foxit reader. I got it as a suite with a pdf reader, page organiser and a pdf editor. Its really cool, and i feel is much better than adobe reader. You can edit the pages very easily, add comments, add bookmarks and do a lot of stuff!! If you havent used it yet, you've got to check it out!!
Some of you perhaps knew about it earlier...but Im sure there are many who didnt.
If there was some easier way out...lemme know..
Links:
Download foxit from
1. Download.com
2. Softonic.com
Weird world
Have you noticed the news that appears just above your gmail inbox? Today i saw
an odd news - a court orderin car makers volvo to pay a man compensation for
he complained that his foot was too bid for the accelerator of his new car!! lol
After reading that article, i googled for 'odd news'...and to my surprise i found
that almost every news website has a section dedicated for odd and weird news!!
Lot of weird n funny things happenin in the world - young kid jumps off a 2 storey
building emulating spiderman, a cow swallows gold chain, croc eats shark for
dinner, lost parrot tells vet his address, donkey goes to jail for acting
like an ass!! and lots more...rofl
Trust me...I didnt cook them up just now...click on the links to read the whole article.
You can google and find many more. Its fun..
As shankers blog suggests, this indeed is a really weird world!
Quit Smoking!!
I just hate smokers...especially if the person is smoking when i'm around.
Just can't bear the smell.
I can't understand why they do it. I know once you are used to
it, its not tough to keep smoking. But i'm sure it would have been
very difficult taking the first puff.
Then why take the pain, when you know about its ill effects?
Just to show that you can do it??!!
It kills! Everyone knows that..wanna sacrifice your life??then be it...
This video shows how smoking harms you. You'll find millions of them on the net.
Non-smokers watch this video and avoid the cigarette. Smokers watch it and try to quit.
I call it sucking death out of a roll of paper !!
Agree??
How much is your blog worth??!
I came across a small picture at the side of a guy's blog
saying that his blog was worth a few dollars ( around 500)..
so out of curiosity i clicked on the pic; which took me to this site
where i could calculate my blog's worth by enterin the blog url...so i did..
and trust me it showed a four digit number!
It said my blog was worth $1129.08...dats around
50k Rs. !!
So whom do I have to sell it to?? ;)
Links:
Check your blog's worth
Tristan Louis's research
Another long vacation
At home after a really long n hectic sem...any previous sem was much better than dis one...bad things happenin everywhere; lab,class,hostel...everywhere...
but its all over now... :)
back home its very much like d prev summer vactn...lots of movies...lots of sleep
The only difference is that this time im not disappointin d tv too..
With the ipl (d team i support always ends fightin a losin battle), epl and champions league (chelsea's chances still very much alive in both the leagues) going on, my schedule has become really hectic... ;)
Our placements will start after dis vacation...actually durin d vacation...in the last week of june So will have to leave for college a month earlier this time...
Eagerly waiting for the next sem to start next year to start... we are gonna be the final years now.. gonna be 'THE seniors'...most of us(guys in my batch) have been idle drifters even in the most hectic of semesters...wonder hw it'll be when we are really jobless...
Will miss many of my seniors in the next sem...there were some really cool guys...really helpful seniors...their absence will linger around for some time for sure...but then, our batch is not bad at all ;)
have lots of plans for gaming...have already kept some cash aside for my gaming mouse and mouse pad...gonna snipe everyone down next sem...
dats for the next semester...got to worry about the placements before that...not chasing rainbows but still will have to start preparing after a few days...
k gtg ...its almost 2 now..
coz this time its unlimited download for me here only from 2 am to 8am...so got some work to do ;)
hf
The cutest pop star
Recently found a video of this 3 year old kid, Cleopatra Stratan performin in her own music video, on our lan...She has done a few concerts too...and her first album La vârsta de trei ani has sold more than 1,50,000 copies in romania alone!!
Check out this video of her song Ghita..
Lyrics:
The coat is inside out,
There is no sun above
Nothing is going good
Since I think of Ghita.
But Ghita's not in town
I asked why he's not around
It seems to me he's gone
He's gone abroad
Hard, I think it's very hard
Want, I don't know what I want
I know that you like me too
Ghita, what is up with you?
Young, come on in or go
Young, tell me yes or no
Ghita, please dont´t anger me
Tell me how your life will be
Ghita,
Tonight I'm waiting at the wicket
Me at the station I bought a ticket
Come to,
But don't come as you did before
As usually with empty hands...
Who else
Will wait and sing for you as I do
Entire evening just getting there
Ghita,
Show me a girl who's fond of you
That loves you more as much as I do...
Ghita, te-astept diseara la portita
Langa portita de la scoala
Vino da numa nu vini cum vii tu
De obicei cu mana goala
Cine te mai asteapta ca si mine
O seara intreaga numai pe tine.
Ghita, arata-mi tu o fata care
Sa te iubeasca asa de tare
Solving a Rubiks Cube...part II
I used to believe that solving the cube was something really difficult, something 'god level'...that only very few people could do...but trust me its not!!I learnt to solve the cube during the last semester in my college...there are many ways to solve a rubiks cube...you can check the net for different algorithms...i use an algo with a layered approach...ie solving the cube one layer a time...
Check the videos below for one of the methods...
So go get your cube..and impress your friends...
Adeiu 2007
yea...i know..its been a long time...almost a year...i was too busy wid college work ( and gamin)
...and wasnt totally jobless like the previous summer vacation...
A lot of things happnd durin last 10 months...a lot of things happened in 2007...but still it feels as if january 07 was just a week back...time flies!!
S5 was fun...but was quite hectic too...wid 2 labs and a software engineering project...but its nothin compared to the current semester...
...3 labs, a mini project and a dbms project!! omg!!hope everyone manages to finish the sem well...
We had our technical fest, Tathva last sem... and i was in the gamin comittee ;) ...2 sleepless nights...but really enjoyed it...And I learnt to solve the rubiks cube during the last semester(without breakin it :) )thanx to ramu and rohit...now im in d elite club of rubiks cube solvers...
We are having our cultural fest, ragam next month...and again im in d same committee...gaming...will post about experiences during ragam later...
Hope all of you keep smiling throughout the year...and later too ;)...have a great year ahead...
