i came, i blogged, i ran away

typing practice

2006-06-18T23:59:00.000-07:00

i feel like writing
i dont know what to write
i dont even know if i want to write or its just a way to delay the already delayed work.
weekdays suck, weekends suck even more
being a couch potato rather a mattress potato is bad
but missing the action when its only a remote away is sin
i know its another monday morning blues, come tuesday and it will fade away, rather i'll assume that there wasnt any....

my 2 cents on 50

2006-04-11T23:27:00.000-07:00

I personally am not against reservation but against the misuse of reservation. To me 22.5% for SC/ST is pretty fine, that most of them lack behind in their stay at IITK is a totally different issue. Moresoever we have been living with this truth for long and it doesnt pinch. But even 1% of reservation for OBC beats me.

We dont have to be ultra observant to know that these so called backward classes are some of the financially strongest ones. Yadavs rule UP and Bihar and just to get votes they have been awarded OBC status. And its not the recent past but ever since the time when caste system was formed, remember Mahabharat and Sree Krishna. Few years back Ajit Singh (am ashamed to say that such a chamelon was a product of IITs) got the Jats listed in this OBC list. These Jats are the land owners, the richest people in western UP and by far the most dominant one. Being from UP I dont know much about other states but heard on NDTV that Baniyas are also listed in Bihar. For heaven's sake baniyas!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont we know over whelming population of Gupta's and Agrawal's in IIT, why would any one like to reserve seats for them???

For whatever I know of castes and IITs I can tell that some castes do promote education (especially JEE) more than others. Like I've mentioned before Baniyas are easily the front runners in IITK, next come Kayasthas and Brahmins while Thakurs are far far behind. Now no one can argue that Thakurs are so poor that they cant get their children in a coaching institute and a decent school. It just happened to be that the environment around them is such that they dont prefer to slog over this. There is no way a law can improve this environment. Same I believe can be said for some other castes, some of whom might belong to "OBCs".

Now coming to an even more critical issue, this reservation will lead to seggregriation in the hostels. I am sorry to say but there were wings in IITK who were constitued by the people coming from the SC/ST background. There have been cases of skirmishes between the people from these wings and the rest. It is pathetic but it is true. And most(70% will be a figure close to reality) of the SC/ST guys of our batch did really bad in their acads. Its even more shamefull to say but one of our proff used to refer these guys as born backloggers which is obviouslly very very demeaning. If the reservation is increased I am ready to bet that these cases will increase substancially.

Moresoever what will these people do when they get a degree. Any employer wont be unfair if he asks the category to which the candidate belongs. A simple solution will be to have quota in the private sector but that will complicate the situation instead of solving it. Why will any firm who is here to get cheap labour will like to waste its dollars if its not entirely confident about its employees. Most of the small companies which are finding it hard to break even will close their offices overnight and return to their native country. The situation will be even worse for the Indian start-ups. I'll shudder to think of a group of 3 people who have an idea and talent but need 3 more guys so that they can get themselves register in the Software Technology Park of India.

Last but not the least I question the intentions of Arjun Singh for bringing this suggestion. He has been in the ministry for 2 years and the Madal files would be (l/d)ying on his table for ever since but why he got the sadbuddhi to bring this controversial suggestion when elections are due in 4 states?? This is such an issue which no party can or will oppose. Their will be voices only to change the format like reservation for muslims, women blah blah blah.....

Enough of the problems, now comes the suggestion: PLAIN AND SIMPLE, NO MORE RESERVATION FOR ANY CASTE, CREED OR RELIGION. IF WE COMPROMISE SLIGHTLY NOW THEN BE REST ASSURED THAT GOVT. WILL BITE US IN COMING YEARS. 22.5 IS WHAT IT IS AND 22.5 IS WHAT SHOULD REMAIN, NOT EVEN 22.51

winding it up,
Apoorva Gaurav
BTech, IITK'04

shame on yahoo

2005-08-19T01:33:00.000-07:00

those who use firefox extensively would be familiar with its searching features which really makes browsing fun. this tuesday i foolishly installed yahoo messenger 7 beta version and was shocked to see when that it has eaten up these. any search on url field start redirecting me to yahoo! advanced (?) web search. i treid many things like: uninstalling and reinstalling firefox, uninstalling and reinstalling various versions of YM going to numerous JS files on my comp, deleting yahoo search plugins, visited many online forums (for e.g )and what not. i could get sucess only in accomplishing google search on typing google keywords but couldnt get back i am feeling lucky feature. this is the most blasphemous action by any software firm which i've encountered, leaving M$ guys way behind, i feel robbed.
plz plz plz if anyone can find a solution for this, get back to me. advice for all firefox lover dont install anything from yahoo till you need it desperately.

mangal pandey - the setting

2005-08-19T01:03:00.000-07:00

am not blogging anything for a long time, but this movie compelled me to put forth my views

watched the rising last nite, and though i had very low expectations after seening the promos and much too overhyped buildup, it cud barely meet those expections (the unexpected delight was the banjarans songe :) )
the film started off brilliantly with the painting coming into life scene which probably is the best starting scene i've seen since 2001 a space odyssey but it remained only exceptional scene of the entire movie. there was far too many underdeveloped characters of no or little use, the dialoges were uninspiring, the music just about average, the direction ordinary..only saviours were amir khan and toby stephens..but the nail in the coffin was the skin show (am seriously appalled how censor board gave it a U, FYI in UK one need to be atleast 12 to watch this) the pointless act of the maid exposing her areola for feeding the baby, the ever so low cleavage of the whores (which dint have any significance in the story) and worst of all the "zulmi manbasiya" song which will put most of the music videos to shame...it doesnt only show that they had hardly any story worth telling, apart from the last half an hour but it also signifies that amir even though how much he pretend himself to be hasnt got the courage to pull a Rs 50 crore movie entirely on his shoulder. the buildup was like that its the greatest movie ever made (even though the greatest movie ever made wont deserve such a hype) while it wasnt even the best movie released this mansoon. agreed that amir didnt do a film for 4 years but that doesnt give him the certificate of doing any crap and pretending to be the biggest intellectual in the industry.

my rating 2*'s out of 4, but guys do watch it for the for the banjaran's song :D

the longest mail...

2005-07-08T06:51:00.000-07:00

Hi,

First of all thanks a lot for providing me something
to do on a boring morning :)

secondly if u bother replying this mail, send it to
apoorvag@gmail.com, yahoo sux and so does orkut, isnt
allowing me to change my primary id :((

thirdly if there is a factual mistake please forgive
me coz i hv seen the movie only twice and the last
viewing was some 16-17 months back

now coming to the discussion, requiem.. is definetly
among the most powerful movie i've seen if not the
most powerful and believe me i hv seen enough movies
to trust that its one of the most powerful one ever
made. my first viewing was when i hadnt become an avid
movie fan and this flick one of the reasons i became a
buff. each frame of the movie is amazing, be it the
scene when the guy is taking away the tv to sell and
old ladies are having their skin tanned, be it the
mother's thoughts of getting in to red dress and
appearing in the tv show, be it the final sequence
when the girl has joined porn industry (wait a minute
have u seen the uncut version???), all in all i can
say that its many brilliant sequence..
the cinematography is amazing, the split screen
sequences, the protrayal of the procedure of taking
drugs (opening of bottle, injecting etc..)
the OST is great, cant remember any thing in recent
past to have such a good score(LOTR trilogy will be
distnat second)
the acting is superb, especially Ellen Burstyn as the
old lady, each expression on her face is so good,
Jennifer Connelly is great as well, she really
displayed great courage in doing such a flick
especially the last sequence, cant think of many
hollywood actresses to get ready for that...
what to say of direction at the age of 30 Darren
Aronofsky has acheived what most of the directors will
never be able to (watch pi, his first and only other
movie, not so shocking but really good)
but above all arguments are invalid if u take away the
screenplay, such a grim display, no hope left
watsoever remaining... if i have never turned to
drugs(i've got many offers) probably this is the
reason....

i agree that the movie leaves one wiht nausea but then
its a successful movie, you loved it in a sense, why
hate it?

enough of adulation, winding it up, but before that
would only like to tell that i am a 'subscriber' (nice
command on english you have, especially when it comes
to picking words, i m so bad at it :(( ) to all kinds
of movies and i believe that not only hollywood, any
country's flicks coming to india is good.

bye for now, hoping its not good bye,
apoorva
--- Priyanka Agrawal wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sending u a message... since this was too large to
> fit in the scrapbook.
>
> Yes... I'd definitely like to have a discussion on
> requiem b'cos I had very negative emotions after
> seeing the movie while I thought it was a very
> popular movie in my circle of acquaintances.
>
> Let me first clarify... I am not necessarily a
> subscriber to 'feel good movies' which is the reason
> y i do not see so much of indian cinema. I believe
> that hollywood flicks coming to india are more
> realistic at times and have better themes. I
> personally liked movies like 'girl interrupted' a
> lot even though its just not a feel good movie.
>
> With 'Requiem..', I do appreciate that the movie
> portrays the effects of addiction in any form (be it
> with food, drugs... anything!). So the theme is
> good, but the movie in itself made me feel sick n
> nauseous. I mean, i cannot imagine anything worse. I
> don't want a 'feel good' movie, but i definitely
> don't want an utterly 'feel-bad' movie which is
> enough to sink a sensible soul into the abyss of
> despair and nausea. It is just so extreme... too
> extreme to suit my slightly fragile sensibilities.
>
> I'm not sure why my friends liked it.... kinda
> attributed to a guy thing (till now i've only heard
> of guys liking the movie... don't know any girl
> apart from myself who has seen it so don't know how
> they find it). Which reminds me... i hated Kill Bill
> 1... ofcourse all my friends (again, all guys) rave
> about it.
>
> So whats ur rationale for having it in ur favorites
> list??
>
> Priyanka
>
> This message was sent by Priyanka Agrawal to As u
> like it.
>
> To see Priyanka's profile click:
>
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=15374071357055785542
>
> http://www.orkut.com/
>
>

time to kill.....

2005-06-22T07:18:00.000-07:00

some interesting sites i came across recently:
think clear
don't click
MFC controls
tarot

the omnipresents

2005-06-22T07:04:00.000-07:00

this weekend i saw documentries from round the globe (find more about the films here). i m not going to talk about the documentries apart from saying that they were good. though some of the flicks were disturbing but what i was appalled by were the peresence of coke and/or pepsi everywhere. be it pakistan, mozambique, ivory coast or argentina these bevreges were everywhere and not only they are prevalant they are so widely spread that its difficult to shoot a scene on street and avoid their ads. i had a discussion with my friend last night and he said that which ever village in india has electricity has got coke/pepsi and many of those who havent got electricity have also got cola and all this in span of 12-13 years. wonder if anything can be that fast.....

not so happy coincidence

2005-06-06T04:27:00.000-07:00

date : June 3, 2005
time : 09:15 hrs IST
place: 1st Main, Lower Palace Orchards, Bangalore

as soon as i put my first foot out of the house i sneezed, a though flashed in my mind what will happen today (as sneezing is not considered auspicious in hinduism, not so sure abt other culture but feel that they arent too differnet). started walking, about 40 seconds later saw a black activa and a silver santro colliding at 90 degrees(refer to the figure). i was hardly 10 metres away from the point. both were in good speed the way the girl flew after collision was really heart wrenching. though she didnt get any visible injuries i think she would have been very very lucky if there werent any broken bones.

though you might have seen deadlier accidents (i cant recall offhand of any) but it provides a shiver down my spine whenever i think of it. also the ugly coincidence of accident following sneeze would remain in my mind for a long time. i know its highlt unscintific to think of omens, but this memory will take ages to fade away........

things ppl do to kill time

2005-06-02T03:23:00.000-07:00

from infy bulletin board, start reading from below:

From: Saket_Khanna
Posted At: Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:18 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball Sold!

Hi Guys!

This crazy auction comes to an end and Shuvadeep has been sold the ball at Rs. 16.
Sorry for not putting photo on BB!

Thank you everybody.

Regards!
Saket

-----Original Message-----
From: Shuvadeep Chakraborty
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:25 AM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Rs 16
Shuvadeep Chakraborty
Software Engineer
APAC
Infosys Tech Ltd--PUNE
Extn--71828

_____________________________________________
From: Saket_Khanna
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:23 AM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Well done Prashant. That is a wonderful move.
Guys there are only 40 minutes to 12pm... so please place your bids, otherwise you will lose lifetime opportunity.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prashant Bipinchandra Nariajoshi
Posted At: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:22 AM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Hi Saket,

I bid 15 Rs for that ball.

_____________________________________________
From: Nishad Dilip Manerikar
Posted At: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:41 AM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Hi Saket,

Is it your own Crazy Ball, or are you acting as agent? If that is the case, I would like to urge all fellow Infoscions to not go in for it. BB is for our benefit, and we will not pay brokerage for Crazy Balls.

Nishad Manerikar
Software Engineer
CAM Application Team
Extn : 76827
Direct : +91 20229 76827
Mobile : +91 98508 17939
Infosys Technologies Limited ()
Powered by intellect
Driven by values

_____________________________________________
From: Balaji R D
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:51 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

I would like bid for Rs.6 /- J J J

Regards
Balaji R D

_____________________________________________
From: raghav_misra
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:58 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Hi Saket,

How does your crazy ball compare with Chintan's?

Do tell.

Rgds,
Raghav

-----Original Message-----
From: Saket_Khanna
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:48 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Allegations!

Guys...

It is a good ball, it has served me faithfully.
It's a ball which only I and good friends and Vaibhav have used in the past.
Do not believe allegations of people who are trying to buy the ball themselves at cheap price.

Do I hear Rs. 6/- anyone??

Saket

_____________________________________________
From: Mayank Gupta
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:16 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: God Save Infy !!!

Or still better...... Infoscions crazy abt Crazy ball!!!

_____________________________________________
From: Sumit Kumar Gupta01
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:04 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: God Save Infy !!!

I cant believe ppl selling stuff for Rs 5/-

GOD save Infosys !!!
_____________________________________________
From: Madhur Ashok Kulkarni
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:01 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Specify the % decrease in bounce of the present ball as compared to a brand new ball

Regards
Madhur

Regards
Madhur

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "

_____________________________________________
From: Mayank Gupta
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:49 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball

What's the total surface area of the ball???

_____________________________________________
From: Vaibhav Bharat Shah
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:38 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball

This gentleman is not giving you true details.

The ball has been multi handedly used....I have used it many a times myself..
Also the number of bounces is a lie...it must something around a lac by now...

And as for the price....asking is too high..
Not worth more than Rs.1.25

_____________________________________________
From: Mudita Mangi
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:35 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: RE: Crazy Ball for Sale

Do u have the bill of the ball.... And have u prepared the contract papers....

Regards.
Mudita

From: Saket_Khanna
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:26 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale

The ball is beautiful fluorescent orange.
I will try to upload photo of ball tomorrow.

No warranty on life of ball or bounce quality. Payment must be made in full ( Cash/DD).

If interest is shown, I will close bid tomorrow 12pm :-)

Regards,
Saket
-----Original Message-----
From: madhur_laddha
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:23 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale
Can You please chip some more detail like ...
Color of the ball, does it have 'chamki', also is it under warranty period ???
Till when in the bid supposed to be on ...
I quote Rs. 5.50...
Regards,
Madhur Laddha,
no Me no Fun, know Me know Fun !!

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From: Saket_Khanna
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:20 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale

No, price is not negotiable.
Balaji, I have got a buyer for Rs. 5/- so if you want, you can quote higher price :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Balaji R D
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:17 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale
Is it up for auction ?????

Regards
Balaji R D

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From: Pradeep Venugopal
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:17 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale

is the price negotiable??
-----Original Message-----
From: Saket_Khanna
Posted At: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:13 PM
Posted To: HJW Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: Crazy Ball for Sale
Subject: Crazy Ball for Sale
Hi all

A single handedly used Crazy Ball is available for sale.
The crazy ball was only used by its owner and good friends, so wear and tear was minimal.
It has done only 1000 bounces.
It is only 2 months old.

Note: The crazy ball has a small dent.

Buying price: Rs. 20/-
Expected price: Rs. 5/-

Reason for selling: Wish to buy new crazy ball.

Genuine buyers only.

Regards
Saket

sound of silence

2005-06-01T08:10:00.000-07:00

feel like listening to this again and again:

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left it’s seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
’neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out it’s warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.

by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

so long......

2005-05-25T07:04:00.000-07:00

didnt post for quite some time, was not getting any enthu, not that today i'm feeling a lot..
watched naina last nite, didnt have any nightmares but the front row in PVR has its toll...my lower back and rib cage is aching. but above all i felt that how difficult is it know something which you are not supposed to, especially future. and worse if u also believe it. u'll be always tempted to know abt ur future, but at the same time u'll have worst fear abt this as well. and also when u'll see something bad abt someone close to u..
again not getting any enthu to post, so cutting it here...

go firefox go

2005-05-15T22:27:00.000-07:00

.....still long long way to go

06:78

2005-05-14T22:47:00.000-07:00

i had this dream on friday morning:
i wake up to see the time on my cell, its showing 06:78 i m amazed. later on i come to know that earth is being ruled by a dictator and he overnight ordered to change the units of time. now everything is in 100's; a minute consist of 100 seconds, an hour of 100 minutes and a day of 100 hours. (on calculating i came to know that the second in new system is just 0.0864 times the second in old system)
so all you dream readers, any interpretations......

:-|

2005-05-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

BLACK out

2005-05-12T01:10:00.000-07:00

so the cannes film fest has begun, over next 10 days or so ToI headlines wud be colored in eastmancolor and pics of mallika, aishwarya and nandita will be occupying place which sonia, manmohan and chidambram hold. but i find it quite baffaling thats why BLACK is not in the competition. 3 years ago devdas with all its hype and huppola was there so why not black???? without a shadow of a doubt and without any apology to its fan i will say that devdas was no way near black. i wud also go on to say that black is better than last three golden palm winners (if u dont remember u can see the list here), but after all its a funny world.

PS: u can find schedule and other info abt the fest here

coding and caffeine

2005-05-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

it was a horrifying day, bloddy coffee machine of my office was out of order. i guess if earth wud have attacked by some other planet i wud have been less trobuled. how the hell am i supposed to code without coffee, afterall JAVA wasnt baptised for nothing. this is plain and simple exploitation and May Day was only 10 days ago. i did my best to protest against this by cursing my manager, wasting more than an hour in lunch outside and of course by not working. thankfully it was repaired by around 5. but i had decided to protest for the day so didnt do any work :P

only thing gud abt the day was that i this blog has moved upto the third place if u search my name of google, so if u reading this plz google my name and click for this blog u'll get gud wishes for free :)

:o

2005-05-10T06:53:00.000-07:00

source

nice pic, isnt it?

2005-05-09T05:26:00.000-07:00

click here for complete story

555

2005-05-05T04:18:00.000-07:00

....considered to be the most auspicious number, the day had something special for me. two totaly disjoint events happened and affected me in a very unique way.

at around 11 in the morning my boss says that he is going to the blood donation camp and asked if we wanted to come. the guy was in real enthu to pull some of us. i had never done this before so agreed just out of curiosity. blood coming out of the body and me pumping for it was an amazing feeling, i was very calm away from all the thoughts of the world and just enjoying the flow of it. afterwards felt some dizzy quite like the feeling u get after 2 pegs. but felt really proud of myself.

second one is related to my carelessness and somebody's care towards another human being. i had lost my ID badge two days back in an auto. a phone call came to my office regarding this yesterday's morning. today around 4:30 i get a courier, opening it i found my badge. thanks Mr Ramesh u saved me some 500 bucks and wasted some 20 bucks of urs but u really made me believe that in this IT still some soul is left.

things like these dont happen everyday and when they occurred that too on 05/05/05 i hv been left short of words to describe my feelings.

my brother(?) shiree

2005-05-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

u wud have met a lot of characters but beating him is next to impossible. i believe that no writing howsoever discriptive it is cant even come close to what he actually is. thr are more reasons for me writing this post than the stars in the sky, like his amazing ability to judge autodrivers by the stickers of there auto; his hobby of keep forgetting pin nos; his dreams of establishing fight club; his three wishes; his capacity of drinking; his habbit of extrapolating others statement and answering without listening; talent of not seeing the obvious and jumping to some extraordinary concilusions blah blah blah..... if u havent met him than u wont believe me, so wait for the day when u do meet him. till that time i can give u a little glimpse of him by following conversation(the person with him cud have been his employer), so read from the end and scartch ur head:

Hi Chandra,

I am sorry for being unable to answer your phone; I had a long meeting in the morning. Can we have a talk tomorrow at around 10:30-11:00 in the morning?

Would be ok if I send you an updated copy of resume later tonite?.

Regards
Shireesh

On 4/19/05, Chandra Shekhar Kumar wrote:
Shireesh,

I tried reaching you on the number 09448802655 but nobody is picking up.
Could you please suggest me some suitable timings today for a technical discussion.

I request you to send me your updated profile also.
Thanks for your time and interest,

Regards
Chandra Shekhar

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:41, Shireesh Agrawal wrote:
Hi,

Iam really sorry about the number, its actually 09448802655.
Regards
Shireesh

On 4/18/05, Chandra Shekhar Kumar
wrote:
Shireesh,

I tried reaching you on the number 0 9884402655 , but it looks like this number doesn't exist.

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:57, Shireesh Agrawal wrote:
Hi,

Sorry for the delay, I had some deadlines. Actually my cell number is
changed. You can catch me on 9884402655.

Regards
Shireesh

On 4/14/05, Chandra Shekhar Kumar
wrote:
Hi Shireesh,

I tried to reach on your cell number 9839421585 but I was told that you are
in Bangalore. Could please mail me your no there so that we can have a technical discussion.

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:04, Shireesh Agrawal wrote:
Hi,
Here's my resume, you can have a more detailed information about me on site http://www.geocities.com/shirsoft
Regards
Shireesh

On Apr 9, 2005 12:55 AM, Chandra Shekhar Kumar
wrote:
Hi Shireesh,

Can you forward me your number and cv, then it will easy to talk and discuss about the opportunity.

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:32, Shireesh Agrawal wrote:
Hi ,

I am recent passout of IITK. I have been into game programming since
my early school days and this looks like a promising oppurtunity. I am interested in knowing about the game development team and the
games that you are working on.
Regards
Shireesh

one of the biggest night of the year

2005-05-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

four years of college have changed a lot in me and one of these is the decay of interest in soccer. Now my knowledge of the game and the players is as round as a ball. but shud say i have become a fan of Jose Murhnio (I know that many ppl will be raising their eyebrows but still, also in no mode to give reasons).

tonight its Liverpool vs. Chelsea at Anfield. Liverpool needs to win to go through while Chelsea can go with a draw as well, provided they score. hoping that the blues do it in style with a win, and go on to complete the treble.

why why why

2005-05-02T05:58:00.000-07:00

the person answering my question satisfactorily will get a reward of 20 chintoo candies:P
today i fopened a file then opened another one in place of this, keeping the name of file pointer the same. surprisingly it was still referring to the older file. banged my head for this, built and rebuilt the solution. then changed the name of the file pointer and everything become fine. any idea what the hell it can be??????

beauty without brains

2005-04-27T04:13:00.000-07:00

winfrey in saree and ash in suit, die laughing
goes on proving that ash is no amitabh

news of the month for me

2005-04-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

exploding toads reminds me of the climax of magnolia......and an interesting article on this as well, the end is nigh

speechless

2005-04-26T05:38:00.000-07:00

hail IT cities bangalore and hyderabad........and we talk abt UP and bihar.

films on films

2005-04-24T23:03:00.000-07:00

.....and you thought that films are for relaxation.
collective chaos
films on films can be translated in hindi as films pe films which can be interpreted as films ke baad films means films after films and thats true to the fullest extent. it
for the first time in my life i went through such a spree of movies, was a really tiresome experience but at the same time very satisfying. of the 10 flicks in the fest i cudnt see the first one partially bcoz i hv already seen it and mainly bcoz i was stuck in the office. out of the rest 9 i enjoyed 8.1 (cud enjoy only the last chapter of 10 on ten). sorry for those who came looking for reviews but i m not gonna review any of the bcoz firstly i m damn lazy in reviewing any thing (my second blog is a perfect example of that), secondly i m almost illeterate when it comes to non-indian non-american cinema. those who want to read the reviews can look at the collective chaos or this blog; i m sure he will come up with reviews (and some really good ones) in a day or two.
the fest can easily be divided in two categories in which story has the upper hand and they happen to be films on films; second which are films made on films and story takes the secondary posiotion. camera buff, man bites dog, cinema paradiso, 8 1/2 and rashomon constitue the first category while man with a movie camera, five obstructions, 10 on ten and salama cinema constitue the second; close-up comes some where in between, probably more on the second side.
there is another quite glaring difference iran vs the rest. there were three iranian movies and they can easily be distinguished from others. i wish to see more of the iranian cinema in future and want to know that is it true in general or just happened to be a coinincidence.
how ever hard i may try i cant keep myself from putting forth my choices. lets take it this way if i have the chance of watching a flick again then the order will be rashoman, man bites dog (warning: it is one of the most gory movie u'll ever see), camera buff, five obstructions, cineam paradiso, salam cinema, 8 1/2, close-up, man with a movie camera and 10 on ten.
a very good thing about the fest was that it didnt have most renowned works of many directors for example kryzstof has three colors and decalogue; kiarostami has the wind will carry us and taste of cherry; makhmalbaf has the cyclist; lars von trier has dancer in the dark and dogvile and so on. this has ignited in me the desire for watching more of these directors and hence for third language cinema in general.
one thing i didnt like about the fest was the anti american feeling, inclusion of 10 on ten is a glaring example of this. also among number of directors whose quotes were put on the boards there were only two hollywood names, hitchcock and chaplin. if i have to choose a film for such a fest, my first choice will be singing in the rain. thats to me is the most entertaining as well as most knowledgeable movie made on movies.
kudos to collective chaos, looking forward to other screenings...

best of the beast

2005-04-22T00:17:00.000-07:00

videh bought walkman yesterday, along with it he got the cassette of best of the best by iron maiden. prior to this maiden only meant fear of the dark and aces high to me and have never really appealed me. but those 50 minutes were amazing, for the first time i realized the power of walkman and more importantly power of iron maiden. be it number of the beast, bring your daughter to the slaughter, be quick or be dead everything touched me, but most moving ones were 2 minutes to midnight and can i play with madness. i cant remember being moved by 1 band in such short time in recent past, b4 this it was simon and garfunkel who instantly swept me away but thats abt 3.5 years away. it seems things wont be the same again.

some probs here

2005-04-21T05:52:00.000-07:00

just a dummy post

still grrrrrrr...........

the world the universe and everything

2005-04-20T23:41:00.000-07:00

yesterday had a discussion with rohit. navratri (nine nights: a period of nine days considered to be auspicious by hindus, comes twice in a year) has just passed so rohit was happy that he can get back to his not-so-saitnly life again. i asked him even if there is god and 42 is not the answer of everything then how can HE make some days auspicious and some not so. he asked just a simple question which shut me up "kya tum mandir mein ja ke daru pi sakte ho" (can u drink in a temple). i am still thinking about that, why the hell cant i kick the concept of holy places out of my mind if i cant comprehend the concept of holy days??
is it the sapce-time duality :-?

most frustating PJ

2005-04-20T00:52:00.000-07:00

CAUTION: If you are already frustated plz refrain from reading this, you might throw away you monitor. If you have any arms watsoever, keep them out of your reach, it can be extremely dangerous for your as well as your friends' lives. Here comes the pain:

ek baar ek murgi hoti hai, wo doctor ke pass ja rahi hoti hai..ki achhanak use chicken pox ho jaata hai...to wo kaafi pareshaan ho jaati hai...tabhi saamne se ek murga uski pareshaan haalat dekhkar kareeb aata hai..poochhta hai, ki kya hua murgi??? murgi kahti hai chicken pox..
to murga jawaab mein kahta hai ki darne ki koi baat nahin hai, mujhe bhi tandoori chicken pox ho chuka hai...murgi kaafi khush hoti hai..kahti hai, main isliye pareshaan thi ki mujhe yeh pataa nahin lag paa raha hai ki kaunsa chicken pox hua hai..tandoori, butter, chilly, or ra ra. murga poocchhta hai, ki tumhein kya pasand hai..to murgi jawaab deti hai ki sawaal yeh nahin ki mujhe kya pasand hai, par yeh hai ki use main pasand hoon ki nahin...murga apna case bataate hue kahta hai- ki maine chicken pox hone se pahle yeh shart to nahin rakhi thi ki wo mujhse pasand karta hai ki nahin.murgi kaafi enlightened feel kar rahi hoti hai aur murge se kaafi impress ho jaati hai...aur murge se chudwaa leti hai.

ROTFLMAO: the funniest resume

2005-04-19T06:36:00.000-07:00

the character of this blog is real for confidentiality sake his name has been withheld. here is the summary (dont blame me, he only calls it) of his CV

Skilled at learning new concepts quickly, working well under pressure, and communicating ideas clearly and effectively.
Extensive computer training, including knowledge of multiple networking environments and business software packages.
Enthusiastic and experienced in overseas travel.
Can mould into any working environment and make a difference for the team on board and off- screen too.
Firm believer and implementer of I(a)mpossible and Rene Descartes’ “ I Think Therefore I Am”
Pragmatic and Visionary, excellent communication skills capable of motivating fellow mates and juniors.
Excessively ambitious and want to make it really BIG in this short life-time.

moral of the story dont give a summary of ur resume, if u give then dont give such a detailed one, even if u give such a detailed one plz dont ask me to forward it :P

cooRG(L)ed down/up

2005-04-18T06:20:00.000-07:00

posting after a long time, though my regular visitor(if there are any) will know that there was a report of a war in between. for them i wud say that's history and the parties have sorted(?) out the differences and being a fan of 1984 i felt compulsory to delete the chapter from history :)

cast
videh : direKtor
anil : photographer
shireesh : sleeper :P
gaurav : actor (even my close friends will be pressed hard to find his identity)
me : blogger

this weekend i have been to coorg, with aforementioned friends, in the next few minutes i m going to bore u by bragging abt it. it all started with ever enthu diro. poor guy hates blore (i cant understand why) and he hates his office guys even more who often plays spoilspot, so he planned or rather misplanned that we g2g some where. the obvious choice was coorg, supposedly the most beautiful place in karnataka. we hired a scorpio and off we go.......

beer is the men's patrol so offcourse we had to fill in our tanks b4 we go, knowing that this will enhance the chances of us reaching in morning by providing some extra indespensible halts :P onward journey was phew...... so many jerks and so less space, after ur diro and photographer refuse to give u any space. thanks to musafir to make our safar somewat easier with gr8 music.

early morning we reached madikeri to find out that almost all the hotels were full. my sincere thanks to gaurav for getting a place when it seemed that we have to live in scorpio for next 2 days. so we got some place and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........................................................

we woke up to find that we that the trip was even more meticulously planned then we had anticipated; no toothpaste, no soap and no undies and we were supposed to visit a waterfall :D so off we go to ABBEY fall (i always marvel at the talent of our puvajas, christians name there sons on their name, we name all our falls ABBEY wtf) . all of us (though unknowingly) decided that since thr are no undies, we wont even need towels and none of us carried the bag (thank got there wasnt any Ford Prefect). the fall was good, we swam and bathe and got ourselves hurt on all possible parts of bodies. but the real fun has just started, we have to change and we havent got towels or undies, so u can feel the desperation. we.........CENSORED............
now its the time for the beast within, to conquer the mountains (god i m good in exgerrating the facts), the ascent was steep and naked, in other wors dangerous atleast for me. twice there were places where one can neither go down nor go up, (well almost....)

off from the abbey falls we now move to talkaveri, i hv heard that its one of the most beautiful sceenery around but the way was simply mindblowing. so greeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. talkaveri is told to be the origin of kaveri river, but i just can comprehend the origin of a river from a pond less than the size of my flat. but the real fun is some 200 hundred stairs up. u climb up and see the beauty, i dont have terms to describe that neither can any pic do justice to it. i only have to close my eyes to see that and yes there is no telepathy available so i cant show it to u.

there wasnt any adventure in the evening other than shireesh histrionics after getting drunk, so will jump to the next day. we were supposed to get up at 5 and we eventually got up full 9 hrs in advance :D still no toothpaste so we saved some precious moments but by the time we started it was 10:30. now its the time to make a move and we dont know whr to go. the desitantaion we were discussing was 80kms apart so didnt make sense to go. we planned to go to a forest though i dont remember the name (any of my humsafar's if u remember plese add it as a comment) the forest was dense and dark was the mind of our director. all his life he has been forgetting paths (accounts for his poor attendence) and here he did it delibrately. so we are in deep forest without any water and salt/whiskey (there were horrifying leeches) and we have lost the path, plus we also faced some burrows (supposedly snake) and bog. everybody starts blaming everyone else. atalast after some panic and hot words we finally got the way out. i am not going to tell u how i lead the crew but i should be promoted and made PM for my leadership qualities :D

next it was tibbetiean monastery. by this time we had got the news of indian swashbuckling performence at kotla so were looking for some respite under the holy roofs. wat we saw was a pulsar150 modified to look like a ducati, but the surprises was there to follow. as we enetered the first pagoda we were stunned to our bones. there were most gothic paintings on the wall, ppl sucking blood from there own organs, heads being boiled, snakes and vultures picking out flesh from the body and graphic details of sex. wud u expect animals fucking men(:o) being painted on the walls of a monastery?? none of us did... the idols as well as the architect was majestic but they were unable to take our attention away from the horrifying images. i tried looking for some explanataion on net but till now havent got any success, will post as soon as i get some (nice way to advertise ones blogs)

i am still left with plenty to write, but its 8:30; empty stomach and tired palms are screeming so winding up(anyway u wont be reading this so doesnt matter) bbye!!!!!!

underwater safari

2005-04-04T05:23:00.000-07:00

i had an amazing dream last nite, me and some of my frnds are going for an underwater safari. we met many fishes and other water animals. best thing abt was that we were not wearing oxygen mask or any other gears and were just walking easily. it was one of the most colorful dreams i have ever seen and has been lingering in my mind ever since i woke up. wish life is as easy as dreams....

auto ya kato???

2005-03-30T00:24:00.000-08:00

auto is the short form of auto rickshaw. all of u who arent familiar with auto rickshaw can visit this. ya means "or" but for those who dont know what kato means, i m sorry i cant give u a proper english equivalent. it basically means to take undue advantage of somebody(especially of a helpless creature).
now all those who have been to bangalore know that its a perfect example of how not to plan a metropoliton. the traffic is horrible to say the least and only public transport is bus service which have some fetish about kannada language. so if you dont have a vehicle and dont know how to read kannada ur transportation depends on ur feet and autos. first depends on how strong u are and second on how strong ur purse is. for me both of these strengths are absent but still i prefer the easier way so second.
before writing anything further i wud like to give the immediate reason for posting this, i had a dream last nite that i m going to indranagr which is some 10 kms away from my home so the fare comes out to be some 50 bucks, but by the time i reach there the meter is showing 75 bucks and i faint. also while to the office today i have a heated discussion by the auto-driver on faith of ganguly, laxman and sachin(damn chinnaswamy falls in en-route).
so now come to the topic, some glaring examples of how autowallahs rapes or atleast try to rape poor guy like me.(while reading this consider that the charges are Rs5/km)
me on the basham circle asks an auto to drop at malleshwaram 11th cross which is some 1.5 kms away, response "40 ruppye de dena"(plz pay 40 bucks) !@$%$#%$^$^
coming home from office within 1.5 kms the meter has clocked Rs15 i altercates with the driver quoting him the rates. he says "woh zamana gaya"(those were the good old days) grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
9 in the night, am at the brigade road, ask autodriver to drop me at cauvery theatre which is some 5 kms away. he solmenly asks me to pay 80 bucks; i explode saying "pi rakhi hai kya"(are u drunk), autowallah start accusing me of insanity. gosh......
these are the very few incidents i have talked abt, each morning even before leaving from home i start thinking abt what strategy to adopt to save my neck from these fellas. now and then i hear how my poor friends were molested by these guys and wat not.
in case u r reading this plz transfer some money to my Citibank a/c 5350563808 so that i can sustain myself and u can continue reading crappy blogs from me. :)

the weekend that was

2005-03-28T04:44:00.000-08:00

getting increasingly bored in the office and annoyed by the poor performence of indians in the third test, i thought i shud write something.
this was a great weekend, infact any weekend which has more than 2 days automatically qualifies for gr8ness, regardless of the content :) had a visit to chamiya bar on thursday got really irritated so took the haven of a bar and quenched my thirst with 8PM the most ghatiya whishkey possible. but it is good for sleep, istnt it? had my first joint (rather half joint) of grass that night b4 i dozed down to sleep, and slept really sound.
come good friday had a real idle day giving my back much awaited rest, in the evening discovered another cheap bar and have some red wine till i got a bit drunk, but worst(or the best) part of the wine is that it drains down quite easily. so my roomie who was a bit high demands to see a porno and we go the CD shop at 10:30, get it opened and get the some shit called anal adventure(its another story that it didnt cotnatin any anal in watever clips i saw). i also had an interview rather for some studies dealing in CS or psychology, god know what at 11 in the night. so here i m in my home at 11 waiting for the phone call and here my flat mate is trying desperately to get the porno running but to no avail. the call comes, it happens to be the first time of my interviewer and i feel that she is more hesitant than me. the interview which cud have gone for 2hrs(thats wat she told me b4 calling) lasted 18 mins in which u can give 2,3 mins to formalties. didnt i tell u that we had also sneaked a copy of million dollar baby from the CD shop. started the flick, the print was good but the sound wasnt and above all some intelligent human being had decided to put some subtitles as well. this mr X(i m sure its a he coz she's dont have brains or balls to think abt such wonderful ideas) has a terrible sense of humour or even more terrible knowledge of grammar. in the movie he has used to trained atleast 10 times, wtf. and even more interestingly he has written subtitles for less than 40% of dialogs, i blame it on poor sound quality and am sure that he has got worse pair of ears than me. so the movie goes on, i shud say it was good but doubt that it was the best thing to come out of hollywood last year(i'll discuss my fav 2004 flicks probably in some later posts). acting was excellent, its tough to choose b/w eastwood, swank and freeman for the best performence, story line is good as well and the editing in bang on target. the kind of movie which always have good chance of winning the osccars. 2:30 movie comes to an end, time for a quick jackijng off b4 sleeping.
(wow i have finished less than half the weekend and already felling bored)
so its the saturday and holi, the festival of colors + indian batting day at chinnaswamy. my day started early, too ealry i guess, some where around 6:30(gosh only 4 hours of sleep). woke up, called my friends who were planning to go to the match, had a charlie chaplin style toothbrush, shitting and bath(in a record time), off to chinnaswamy. by now u wud have guessed that we didnt have the tickets, so circling around the stadium, ask each and every person for the black tickets, finally got them from a face painter. bloody bastard was asking for the painting charges after getting 1000 bucks for tickets worth 150. luckily we got a real good seat, dead square of the wicket, but sadly had a dictator of a policeman in the next row(got a club on my ass for charging at a sehwag boundry). shifted to the third floor in the post lunch session(however diehard fan u are the sun doesnt forgive u), had three dumb girls in the bench previous to us. all three have come only for cheering (and for accompanying their dumber boyfriends) with absolutely no knowledge of cricket(as if i have some : D). scolded them numerous time for cheering sachin in place of sehwag and vice versa, but had a good collision with one of them (gosh the girl was all shocked!!!). tea time and we came out, blame it on my not-so-enthu friends. back home it holi time, so got soaked in colors and painted on all parts of the body. roamed around on streets of bangalore on my friend's bike, by the time i m done playing and then cleaning myself i m completely exhausted. the body demands some refueling(read it as time to have some beer). so of to BUNKER, had some beers, but got majorly irritated by the DJ and the crowd who didnt know difference b/w metal and punjabi pop :X back home, sleep.
so its sunday, not much to talk abt apart from wake-eat-sleep-wake again routine. discovered a beautiful and cheap place for wining and dining. watched frida in the night, nice movie. liberal body display by salma hayek as well as the acting talents.
that all for my blog, phew.................