Phani at the University of Cincinnati

Hello World.

Ha ha , I couldn't resist that one. After all , programming is my profession (read: Hobby) . I left India on the 29th of July (My home state was bifurcated into 2 regions as we began our ascent) and reached Cincinnati on the 30th.  It was an entertaining journey on Air India , and I watched 6 movies back to back. Seeing the clouds for the first time from above was a was a wonderful feeling  :)

Contrary to my expectations, Cincinnati was nowhere close to what I had imagined it would be. It was not filled with skyscrapers, it was not full of people, and more importantly, it was not cold .(YET) . I was provided temporary accommodation  at two places ( Thanks to all the people who made my stay pleasant).

I finally moved into my apartment on 7th, with Yuvaraj, Arun and Abhilash. What a feeling it was, to be some place HOME finally. College started on 26th, and we had a couple of orientations along the way. My team and I won the "Best Communicators" award (Thanks, Hope Schneider) in the communications workshop.

We (International Students) had an trip to the Ohio river, and lunch on the boat ( where i accidentally ingested a small quantity of You-Dont-Want-To-Know-What  from a vegetarian's point of view) . It was an enjoyable experience as we traveled through the downtown area of the city.

We also had a Ropes Course(Team building Event), where I got to know people from various teams, and nationalities.  It was really worth it, and I had to walk blindfolded on a tightrope (a few inches off the ground, of course :P )

I bought a new laptop (Acer Aspire V3-772G-9829) , a Targus Drifter II backpack, and a Sony MDR-ZX100 headphones.   Everything is expensive in USA ( He He, Dollar to Rupee conversion mode is still on).
Met old friends and made new friends here.

I went to the International Friendships Inc , where I met several american friends. Had a great Indian meal  there , and that night, we saw the fireworks celebrations at the university. WoW. I also met with the University president Santa Ono there ( He was very Cool :) )

The library at UC is the one I loved the most :) There is a large (read: HUGE) collection of reference materials there . We can even borrow projectors (he he, picture my wicked Grin) , cameras, and Laptops (miniature ones).

I speak to my family twice a day (on SKYPE only) , and so far, i feel comfortable. Hoping  for the best :D

Coding till exhaustion !

Hi Guys,
     
        I have successfully created 8 Blackberry apps within 2 days,  sitting at a stretch . ! Tough work , but considering the returns expected, it is worth the effort :D  In the final phase of creating 4 more apps today , and then will come the actual task of submitting them to the vendor marketplace ! Lets see what happens .

       Meanwhile, I saw a traffic constable chasing a thief today. They ran past me in a flash, and it took me a few moments to realize that the guy being chased was a thief. They quickly took a turn at the corner of the street and disappeared from sight ! 
 
     I , Vamsi Krishna , And Ganesh Gangarajula had a midnight bout of CS and i thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the game.I slept at 3 am ! 

    In the morning, while I set up my music system to listen to Krishnam Vande Jagatgurum, I had a conversation with my dad . H told me that he had bought his first radio (huge one with to big woofers) , the very same one that greets anyone who visits our hall , and that there had been license at that time to possess a radio ! Unbelievable, isn't it ? To have a license for a radio and pay an yearly fee , or risk it being confiscated !  Thank god, we are not living in such times.

 

Passions !

Hi Guys,
       I had a great time coding today ! Learnt Blackberry application development right from the scratch.  Discovered the insanely useful bbui.js that aided me in building 3 apps in a day. Yeah, 3 apps today, though "far lesser" than my initial estimate of 5 !
       Apart from the fact that i couldn't go to office due to an upset stomach (Are those Hajmolas to be blamed ? I popped in two packets without remorse yesterday .. alas, a childhood addiction :P )
Mentally preparing for a goa trip (starting on the 10th of Jan) .
      I am exhausted , I did almost nothing else apart from coding today ! I desperately need some water, and some exercise for this body.  Hmm , I did remove my fully grown beard though , now my chin  looks naked and awkward for the eye.    
      There were several funny events that happend while i was coding. It is from a technical viewpoint, so I wont be sharing it here , but i did spend a couple of hours today resolving syntax errors ! Hopefully i should be able to double my pace and build 6 apps tomorrow :)
    I couldn't write my story today, neither could i write a few rhyming lines. My guitar lay untouched, and so did my phone.  Only my 3 Tb external drive and its predecessor, the 2 Tb drive  , made contact with me. I am addicted to the "Krishnam Vande Jagatgurum" song - not the whole, but a few exciting parts.
    My mind tells me i can descend into a new world , constantly writing , pouring my thoughts onto the paper or screen .My body tells me it is too late in the night and i might already be delirious. For now, i'll go with the body's version.  See ya tomorrow folks

    

The 31st of December ? No Big deal !

Hi guys,

        Guess how my day started today ? I woke up earlier than usual (by my standards, of course). Sat in front of the PC, searching for some content on Blackberry applcation development.  I have challenged myself to finish atleast 10 apps by the end of this week , so its gonna be hectic for me :D . Aaah, whats life without a bit of challenge anyway :P

        I decided to observe and jot down a few things i saw.  So while I sat in the bus,  instead of writing my novel as I did regularly, I peeked out of the window for a change.  The first thing I saw was a playground, at  8 am in the morning, teeming with university students doing their warmups and playing cricket. It would have fileld me with some usual envy of not being able to go and play there , but today was different.  I saw a guy with a single leg , playing cricket . Astounded,  I watched him for a few seconds , and realized that his spirit  was not marred by his absence of a leg. Yeah, he was doing Captain Dhoni's job, but still , not many teams have the open mindedness to include a player with different abilities . That brightened up my mood for the day .

     A few minutes later, as the bus passed by a cowshed, where a large number of cattle are fed and bred , I happened to notice an ox, staring hard at a crow.  The crow was walking  up and down a railing , as if it were a Philosopher musing in deep thought , before it  finally settled on the ox's back and gave it a nudge.  I could have bet there was some symbioic communication there !

  Our bus halted at a traffic signal , and I watched the intersection as the people passed by.  Suddenly a pair of really small girls, maybe in their second or third grade,  started running across the road.  There was an RTC bus driver ,  watching the signal as he was the first at the intersection , but taking no notice of  those kids.He was drinking water thankfully,  or else it could have resulted in a major accident ! The kids and the drivers should be extremely careful !

I fell asleep after a while, and when I woke up , I was nearly at my office.  I quickly adjusted my bag, and gt down the bus as usual.  When i neared the ckeckpoint inside the gate, i realized that my phone was not in my pocket.  Having lost a mobile nearly 2 months back in the same office bus, i was jumping to conclusions this time :P i hurried and went out, only to find that the bus had already left.  I asked a security guard to ring my mobile, while I took my bag and went inside.  I had a hunch that I might have wrapped it inside my hoodie. I unpacked my bag and there it was, in silent mode !

Relieved , I walked fast and decided to go from a different path than usual.  I unexpectedly  met my Delivery manager there, who gave me several tips on confidence, posture and attitude .. The conclusion was "Look in the eye , it convinces people of your intentions".

Office was pretty normal today, the only deviation being that i had forgotten to eat my breakfast. I had asked mom to pack me corn flakes and milk , and my stomach began rumbling at around 10.40 am.  I quickly downed the cupful f flakes and the glassful of milk, getting relieved of hunger temporarily. I did complete a significant portion of my office work today , before venturing into Blackberry application development at the end of the day.


Not so boring after all , right , that too being the last day of the year :D  Well , there's more .

I did write about 3 pages of plot while returning home. I also slept again for the most part of an hour, waking up just 2 minutes before i reached my stop.I did muse of several things philosophical , but I'd rather wait and edit a few drafts of what I "thought" , or people might think i am delirious :p   Came home, did manage to glean a bit into the workings of Blackberry apps. Finally started writing my blog so that I might have a remember what happened today.   Hoping for more observations tomorrow  :D

A photo for a photo ?

Hi Guys ,
  Its been a long time since I have written anything besides code, my novel and my application essays .  Yes, i did write quite a few poems , about 62 in all , but I haven't shared them with anyone outside Infosys , so that doesn't count.
    This was supposed to be just another regular weekend, where I would be sitting in front of my laptop and playing a few bouts of CS online,  then go back to TV series mode , and finally sit down to code at the end of the day.
What actually happened was my brother was leaving to IIT Kharagpur  and my family was shifting to a different flat. 2 months ago ,  I had booked a ticket in IRCTC and also ordered an alienware m17x for him . The plans went haywire when the person bringing the laptop from US arrived a day late. I had to battle for tatkal tickets, and finally, after being placed on wait list  no 1  for nearly 12 hrs, his berth was confirmed in the sleeper class by  the Indian railways . 

I just got  a glimpse of the sleek and awesome alienware while I sat beside him to unpack the contents for the first time.  An unruly gentleman (gentle ? not even close ) , scoffing and shifty eyed, sat right in front of my brother.  My father tried to speak to him , to make an acquaintance , but the man grunted something incomprehensible, which later turned to be Howrah ,Calcutta.  My father , quite concerned that my brother was taking valuables with him alone n the journey ( i meant the alienware) , took a pic of  my brother, and then the guy  , just in case. He had an experience long back, when thieves struck in the compartment he was traveling in.  I was watching both the man and my dad with silent amusement , when the man took out his phone as if he were making a call , and clicked my dad's photo.  Nobody except me noticed, and the man quickly started playing songs on his phone . :P  When i came home , I told my mom and dad that the guy had clicked dad's photo in this "tit for tat photo scheme" and we all had a great laugh :P

Later, when i called my bro and brought up this incident, he laughed and told me that the man had spoken to him about my dad taking his photo.  He had also informed my bro that he had no intentions of taking any of his stuff  :P  All of us had a laugh again , and finally I decided to write about this so that  I wont forget such comedy :)

Updates From my side

Hi ppl.

   The only reason i am not blogging here is because of my other blog in the Infosys Intranet. I have been writing poems lately, almost 60 of them till date, which i soon plan to post here. I have developed many things in these few months :D  including an ear for melodies, an "eye for a Melody"  and my  novice guitar skills.

   I wont divulge anything now, but everything is just awesome ! My prep is going on, smoothly, fastly, and more importantly, focussed prep.  Of course , weekends turn out to be a disaster , but i manage somehow !

In fact, if it had not been for my multi tasking, i would have done absolutely nothing in the day :P ! But thanks to it, i read, i play, i write, i listen, and i anticipate ;)

Day 0

Started the day with a dream ! it felt awesome , but 5 min after i woke up, i forgot most of it !
Not the first time this actually happened . So many academy award winning action sequences seem to be racing in my head , but none of them survives the first 5 min. And of those which manage to survive , only a fraction of originality remains !

I have decided to start clean (again) , this time more seriously than ever before. My new Guitar, my japanese classes , and my "study" stuff all have resurfaced again, and "i " shall try to be less egotistic from this sentence onwards !(yeah, even for a personal blog)

The Dell XPS , my faithful and uncomplaining companion for almost 2.5 years fell down from the table , cracking the side of the screen. All for the lack of attention, i wonder !

Dell XPS sat on a table tall ,
Dell XPS had a great fall ...

Rhyming Sucks ! (In general , pessimism sucks !)

My mobile has made up its mind to hide all the contact information behind its broken display , and is unrelentingly lazy. It even refuses to switch on !

Apparently , all my electronic devices seem to be wary of me and my presence ! My creative earphones , the really awesome 1200 bucks worth ones , suddenly malfunctioned and only one earbud works !

My graphics card fan seems to have taken a vacation to "blow " away its responsibilities !
My hard disk's practicing music - some sort of "screeching is fun" genre !

And my speakers , they seem to stop suddenly in the middle of a song unless someone kicks them from the side !

And so does my trimmer ! The battery wont charge when i attempt it , and when i finally give up trying after 15 min , it starts charging !


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Maybe i could conjure a character who suffers from excess of this ! Could be funny. But i need to think of a good storyline .

Coming to books, finished windmills of the gods in around 6 hours , and it was a pretty interesting re-read after a long time ! I m going to read some Sci-Fi soon, so wait for updates on this !

Guitar is awesome too. Practice takes up a lot of my time , but i have to keep it up ! Maybe someday , i hope to play guitar songs that'll make the computers write code themselves ;)
Fancy idea right ! Remember that's mine !!

The end of engineering ~ era of entrepreneurs !!

Yo ppl.

Been a really long time, isn't it. I know. I know. But this time (hopefully) , i am really really free !! I Finished my Computer Science and Engineering course successfully this week !

Here are two languages i learnt :

~ learnt the "f" language !! {for beginners , use 'f ' instead of 'p' }
~ learnt using { heavy , lite }


what of the changes in my Engineering :

year 1 : Lots of Books + dandruff { :P }
year 2 : Lots of Anime / Tv series + low marks
year 3: Lots of management + became fat
year 4: Did nothing (except proj work) + tours :)

I assure you this might give some "summary" sort of thing for my Engineering life...

Where should i even start ? From my first year ? When i didn't even know who my fellow classmates were ? Or from the second year , where i was all of Naruto and One Piece ...

Nah, lets take this somewhere else.. I'll introduce you to the characters in my engineering :)
And here's the final disclaimer :

ALL PEOPLE AND PLACES MENTIONED IN THE BELOW ARTICLE ARE FICTITIOUS AND FROM MY PERSPECTIVE . INDIVIDUAL OPINIONS AND VERSIONS MAY VARY


Day 0: Orientation Day : Saw a bunch of loonies at college.. Durga Prasad, some colonel guy ... felt nothing at all.. :)

Day 1 : ~ College bus . Saw a 6 foot guy with a bag in the back seat. Thought some lecturer, but turned out to be Srinath !

Day 4 : ~ Ragging starts .. I m spared coz of my dialogue { i told i want to get 90% ~ greeted by sarcasm }

Day 7 : ~ Had to safely guide a girl to the bus stop ..{turns out to be Ramya} ....

Day 15 : ~ Classes start {Ramesh Babu , Tirupathi Reddy, Satya , blah blah blah is all i remember }

Week 2 : Stupid stuff ! college is weird ! Get a call from NDA ... Decide to forfeit it for my Engg {maybe ... but somebody told it was height problem}

Week 3 : still stupid stuff .. ramesh babu sends out randomly sampled bakras from the class !

Month 4 : College still remains the same. I know more ppl from the other classes than my own class mates ...

Oh GOD, this chronological order's too hard to recollect...

Year 2 : Got a reasonable score.. No ragging {anyway} ! Become great friends with Srinath ... His house is now at Mallapur...

Month 2 : Visit his house and see an episode of Naruto ... AWESOME !
{i watch it even now, though the guy dropped it off long ago...}

Month 4 : Hear of some guys named Deepak , Ganesh ... Coz the Deepak guy starts sitting beside me !

Sem end : Marks drop .. Attributed to bad luck ...


New sem starts : Only serials ! Heavy F.R.I.E.N.D.S , Pushing Daisies ! Sem finishes !

Year 3 :
Start hanging out with most of the people in our class ! Know more people from our class than CSE B {hopefully }

jump from NIIT in this year only... Faculty are even lighter, subjects are murky !
Then comes TechZeal... Rips out the CAT nerd and brings in my extrovert characters :)

Make a whole new bunch of friends !! {and a lot of good enemies too, from other departments}

Manage to go to Chennai { heavy beach + mahabalipuram}

Manage to go to Goa { ~ purpose : techfest ... can you believe it after what happened at Chennai !} Discovered the most beautiful beach of goa, complete with a sunset package..

Had a near death experience ... fall from the Ghat Roads !

Came back to Hyd. BAD . Year ends.

Year :4 ~
Final year . No classes... CAT prep. Get a paltry 96.9 ...

Project work starts... uneventful. .. project work ends ...

Year 4 ends !



~ What of Entrepreneurship ?? ~
GOD ! Thats a secret .. but if you want a lead, then we are preparing for CAT !

Woo Hoo .. New Year ..

Hi ppl,
Happy New year ! Hope it is a bright year for all of you :)

My last year wasn't bad at all !

I got a new digital camera,and even got selected as a Microsoft student partner, and was under probation till 18th Dec. You can access it at student partners.com .160 points were required to clearing the probation. I scored 340 pts ... :) Very happy on clearing the probation

I also advanced to the Imagine cup IT challenge Round 2. They will be giving me a case study, for round 2. Advancing to round 3 will take me to Poland !!Imagine :)

This is my final year of Engineering, after which i will have to choose either further education or a job. I'd rather go for studies than wear out in a common programmer's shoes. Animation and Web Designing interest me.. but nothing as much as User Interface Design.

I haven't been writing here coz i was updating my new blog "http://thefunnycoder.blogspot.com" . Its a tech blog, where i want to write my experiences, tips, How to's and stuff !

So long for now.

(IIT-Madras Trip) ®

Just as i promised , i am writing about our chennai trip !

Legal terms for reading further.

'our' henceforth refers to the following clients - "Deepak Chaitanya, Phani Challa, Ganesh G, Arun S, and Karthik Racha. Any references to this article outside the blog will be prosecuted .
Our clients have performed activities spanning 5 days , in a land where people speak a foreign language. Their adventures began on a strangely normal day, just like today....

Phani: yo man. Just checked out the IIT site. There's Shaastra from 1st Oct to 4th Oct.
someone: Cool man, will we go there ?
Phani: Why not, just let me check out ....

And these were the statements that created history, as these 5 enterprising young men went to Hollywood IIT M , attended workshops, and acted in a documentary. This is their story ...


Original Plan : Phani,Deepak, Ganesh,Arun.Karthik + Kashyap ( he's my IMS friend)
Actual thing : Phani,Deepak, Ganesh,Arun.Karthik

Original Accomodation : 100 /- per person for 5 days @ IIT hostel
Actual thing: Beautiful moon lit sky and night stars + 5 ppl cramped in my IIT M friend Manish's room .(Access from the backgate , with bonus mosquitoes and a beautiful display of firecrackers )

Journey : By Charminar express - 2760 on 1st Oct, 2009.
Enroute , we got into a bus, got down the running bus with our luggage
[arun's trolley, my suntech day bag, Ganesh + Racha + Deepak s Liviyas'. ]

Got into the train at 7.oo pm. Not particularly cold , but it was fresh. Got in. The compartment had 2 other occupants,one north indian and one ( probably) tamil guy.

Arun started scaring them off, with his adventure. He started with the car-scene at Sri Indu and went into Medival history as far as Bharat's village adventure . Good thing they were not complaining !

After a few photos of us here and there , and we were ready to enjoy the night ride. We started scrambling for window seats n stuff, and someone took out edibles [snacks, mind you] .
We were still eating when Warangal arrived, and Racha Racha's ( scientific name for IT karthik)
parents came. Mom bought some home made cakes [ awesome .....] , few water bottles, and the train left shortly thereafter.

From then on, there was no looking back. We were speeding our way to the AP-TN border , crossing the huge expanses of blackness. It was pitch black, and we didnt have stuff to talk or discuss on.

So what did we do ? ha ha. Look ,let me give a hint. I m very new to card games, courtesy the Chennai trip ! Thats what we did ! Pulled out a blanket, spread it on the upper berth, and started playing . I learnt the game slowly, unable to win a single game that night ! I had several close calls though.

As the night crept over, the familiar feeling of sleep crept over us, and one by one, the wickets started falling [ actualy, arun was the first to fall , and myself the next ]. I found out later that the rest of them were near the door, enjoying the night ! [ really ? i thought something else ;) ]

That ended our Day 0 of the chennai trip !!!! No way. That night, at almost 12.00 , we reached Vijayawada. The train halted there for a considerable amount of time, and we got doen to take some pics ... after that, we really slept.


All rights reserved. PhaniWorks 2009 .

the joy of blogging @ 12 am

Hi everyone.

You probably guessed that this punk is awake at night again ! But you couldn't be more right or wrong ! Paradoxically, i m burning midnight oil ( laptop battery rather !) for studying.

You heard me right ! Studying. I am doing it coz i have lots of competitions ending on OCT 31st , including, but not limited to Aspirations 2020 from Infosys ,Tgmc from IBM and 'thecloudapp ' contest from Microsoft.

Speaking of IBM and Microsoft, gotta say some gud news. I got certified in IBM DB2 fundamentals last week, with a percentage of 90.63 % . And of Microsoft, I got selected as a microsoft student partner (MSP). And as a part of this MSP program, i have decided to resurrect my old blog ... phantomphani.blogspot.com

Lots of things going on in life.. but life's going even faster. I would not count myself as one of those countless people floating away into nothingness, ever blaming all on time or rather, the lack of it.

I hope [ once again, it is a hope] that 2012 comes faster ( the movie of course :p ).
If the pot bellied buddha could bring gud luck , so can my lucky hat !

And oh no. I totally forgot to write about my trip to IIT Madras, right ! Well i had a trip at last to IIT M on the 1st of oct. I went there along with 4 of my buddies, Ganesh, Deepak, Karthik and Arun.

My next blog is gonna be entirely of my days spent there ! And right now, the time is really 15 min past 12 am !

Birthday ;)

Hi .
Tomorrow's my birthday ! turning 21 on the 20th ! Seems strange isn't it , that year after year, we keep on celebrating these "special" days. For some insight, lets draw up a hypothetical situation / debate on the underlying social structure and mechanics of special days

Why ? Why Birthdays ? Why festivals ? Why Special Occasions .? Why at all ?

When you start living life routinely, a sense of dullness sets into place, one which - if unchecked, leads to the dampening of the human spirit and vigor. It is an inevitable situation, unless the person concerned has some hyperactivity disorders.

How does the normal dude deal with all these ! If he finds even the Deccan Chronicle (smug expression) abstract, then how will he perceive the higher planes of social behavior.

Well, there's the wonderful system that induces the feeling of wellness and freedom, apart from the huge doses of happiness and interaction. This is the human way of "rejoicing". The way to escape from that all pervasive dreadfulness called boredom.

As long as there's anything happening out of the ordinary, there's a reason to celebrate. For example (i m sick of these examples), when we score well in exams, we do tend to "celebrate" .
If we didn't , it would push us into the category of , as my friend seriously (to those who can understand) calls" geeks" .

Now, enough of digression, let us reposition/ refocus the discussion on the particular issue of Birthdays.

These are days that you spend with your family, cherishing memories of childhood and in the process of doing this, strengthen the foundations of trust and care that are essential for a family.
Whatever may be the day, it does induce a special feeling, of being ALIVE , of being with people whom you trust, whom you depended on, and those very people on whom your survival was guaranteed !

whoa ! Registered for the CAT

Well, ppl..

Finally registered for the CAT . But you thought it was an uneventful process , didnt you ?

Nothing like that ! We went to the Axis Bank Branch ,Tarnaka ( barely 10 mins from home) at 9.30. Stunned that around 150 wannabe managers were in queue, holding out duly filled forms .. we ( i and 3 of my buddies) silently stood in the queue, almost at the last.

Apparently, the bank authorities thought it was a waste of time to have a single counter, and luckily for us, started another counter at the rear of the queue ..[ -->> 3 places away from me <<-- yay yay]

Lucky .. We took our forms, and i resolved i'd work hard for it ! Lets see ...
IIM A -- Will it be there ?

this is what happened ! stupid !

well, i got up from the stupid floor... i just fell down ... from the stupid bed !! stupid stupid world ! Round from the ground ! I tried to open the door.. but it wouldn't budge.. I looked around .. Everything was looking normal, except the fact that i had no legs !! Aaargh... it was a dream,
so lucid and realistic , i thought it was for real.

That was the start of the day ! Got into the bed again, draped the covers , and hey.. had a great sleep that lasted for hours (or so i felt). I woke up again, determined not to sleep, and quickly put the brush in my mouth just in case..

Switched on my lappy, put some algorithm courseware for download, and started CAT prep for today! Barely managed to do an RC , and got ready. 6.50 am. Started for JBS . Got into a 290 , and got down at Sec-Bad station to get an empty seat !

Finally, after a lot of waiting ( and soul searching whether i had to force myself to do this daily) , a 279 turned up ! After 2 continuous minutes of people "flowing "from the bus, i got my seat, and opened my book. Within a few min, we were at JBS. The conductor got down, but the driver slowly came to me and said ... " Dude, this is a Ladies Special "

Got down from the stupid bus, cursing my stupid luck , [ But hey, there's a reason for everything ..as you will shortly see ] .. Waited for another 10 min, and got a seat in the second 279. And guess what, Vinay was running towards the bus.

Opened my books again, and started reading for sometime till the dude drooled over my books... Had to close them and opened the window for some fresh air !

We got into an auto as usual, but the stupid auto driver wouldn't start. There were 7 of us in the small auto thingy and he was still not going. Just then , an RTC bus came and 4 of the dudes jumped into it ! Should have seen the driver fellow's face then..

One poor fellow was asking directions, and he forcibly got that guy into the auto and started driving ! I guess he must have stranded that guy halfway somewhere ...

<--- What is the moral of the intro ----->

Abstractness and existentialism are not too "deviant" from the incident i covertly suggested up there !

The greed of the auto driver, and his subsequent rage at the instant breach of trust, and the ease with which the guys deserted their former mode of transport , and the subsequent use of "literature" by the driver .. all suggest the deep rooted feelings of existentialism ! Live the moment .. Dont try to save things up for the future..

Abstractness, ..---<> End of Transmission..

yo yo !

hi guys,

My communication skills have taken a huge leap since my first year of engineering. Remember me, the shy guy who never even turned his head, was always serious faced except with a a select few, and never spoke to anyone ... Well, i myself remember it vaguely.

I have changed, , partly because of necessity, and partly for self analysis. I came to realize that, atleast in engineering, you cant do certain things alone, and need to interact with people. It was often "help others and get helped" motto that kept me moving in the first !

But slowly, when i started my introspection, i felt lifeless. Like a common nerd who lives more on tech n books, rather than live life. I stopped myself from getting too involved . The first step was important , the transition from ebooks to cartoons and tv series.

i practically watched about 900 cartoon episodes, and so many tv series. They reminded me well of the fun you can have with people, and i felt my inhibitions drop. I began considering communication "natural" , something you do when you have anything to say !

I started talking earnestly, and actively seeked out opportunities to talk. It was the sense of interaction, that made it possible for me for lead the now normal and complete life.
What i had been doing earlier, for the sake of it, now became something i did for my own- self satisfaction.

I do feel very happy to have a lot of freinds, formal and informal, with whom i share stuff n feelings. And one more unintended consequence.... If i am alone , i prefer silence to music. if there are people around, i detest silence !!

So long.. and do observe me when i speak ;)

Stuck ! Dreams of private heavens !

Hi guys.

I am in deep trouble. I was not managing my time correctly, and i have a lot of prep pending. The statistics are like these ..

50 mock cats
80 class handouts
3 arun sharma books
8 basic reference material
10 practice exercises books
5 test series books
over 18 weeks of pending online tests
lots of quant funda

And these are just ones that are for CAT. the other ones include ..

.Net revision
J2se and J2ee
Silverlight
ruby on rails
php

.. i have 60 days for the cat stuff, after which they are not as important as those in the second category. However, i am participating in the IBM TGMC challenge, as well as Microsoft IMAGINE CUP. Both have a totally different set of requirements, and it would help a lot if these were scheduled after my exams in nov.

Technology is often a bane than a boon. <-- wait for the justification --->
Let me first ask , why was "technology" used ? Because it makes things simpler and easier , isnt it ! So the job gets done quickly and we can go home early.
Is it happening like that ? Absolutely not ! in fact, the amount of work to be done is increasing even more, coz the people are given more thngs as time is still left.

So, instead of removing the stress of thinking up some "x" things, techonology is causing us to make up "3x" things. More stress.

And now those of you who would try to bash me up with questions like ..... " you do use a laptop, dont you ? That is technology" , please stop. I have "boldly" mentioned often , not always..I might seem equivocal, but you surely know which side i am favouring.

I will aslo justify my stance. Nowadays, i am staying back after college , in the college, for approx 2 hrs , to prepare for my CAT. the place, located on the outskirts has absolutely no people at that time. So calm , and the silence broken only by the chirping of birds.

I decided that in future, i will buy myself a piece of agricultural land, have a mansion @ the centre, a small pool , and all the food i want as crops there. It will be my private heaven . Total independence, but not total isolation.

I will be managing my tech work online, and spend a considerable amount of time with nature. .! Lets not dwelve too far into the future... bye for now !

The ways of life...

Hi.
My CAT classes have picked up pace, forcing me into a cramped schedule comprising of my college work, project work, research work and CAT work. It was on one such occasion, that i witnessed a scene , which made me rethink of life.

I was walking on the roads of Sec-Bad in the early morning. Time was nearly 6.17 am, my class was at 6.15, and my ambulatory movements gave me no comfort. Further still, it was drizzling, and i had to duck under a few sheets of paper.

Imagine the empty roads, the steady drizzle, the occasional cycle passing by , and a cool morning breeze. It was enough to make my day bright. As i was nearing my institute, suddenly there was the most ferocious growling noise i heard. Not a single growl, but around 6 dogs , baring their teeth and growling at something.

I was rooted on the spot, trying to decide something. The canines had not spotted me yet, or made a move. They were busy growling. I was almost about to take another path, sighing , as i was already late. Menace of the dogs is quite common here, but today it seemed threatening.
After all, what is more scarier on the roads than a pack of mad dogs at your heel.

Suddenly i heard a human voice amidst those harsh sounds. I wondered how brave the person was, who braved the dogs. I got back my courage , and started walking briskly, fully alert and focused only on the road in front.
Now even the mutts saw me approaching, and it was a do or die situation. I wanted to nod at the brave dude on the road, and looked sidewards.

SHOCK of my LIFE !!

It was a blind old beggar , walking randomly on the street, unaware of the dogs till he came close enough. Now he was also scared like me, probably even more, and was frantically kicking his legs in the air, shouting at the dogs.

The dogs themselves were still menacingly rabid, growling at every motion of the man.
Suddenly one of them came sniffing to me, and my adrenaline was getting pumped up !! I couldnt leave the poor dude for the dogs. I was already late anyway. But if left alone, he was bound to kick one of the mutts and end up being bitten.

I was still wondering what to do, when a milk van came out of nowhere. All the dogs suddenly stopped, and the man hopeessly turned in every direction to get a sense of what was happening.
The driver had apparently thought the man would walk away, but there was no movement from him. All 3 of us were subconsciously aware of an accident that was about to happen in a few moments. Didnt know what to do, so i shouted at the man to move.

No avail.

The driver suddenly turned his vehicle aside, missing the man by a couple of inches, and in the process, crushed a poor mutt under the front tyre.

Gruesome .. I couldnt bear the sight. The driver stopped and started to yell at the man. I called to him and told the driver he was blind. All of us were silent. Even the dogs. All of us were looking at the mutt under the tyres ,, except the blind dude.

There was nothing to be spoken anymore. The blind man continued , kicking in the air, unaware of what had happened. He still expected some dog, and i couldn't bear his helplessness.

It was strange. Should i pity the blind beggar who still kicked in the air.
Should i pity the mutt that lay dead ?
Should i scold the driver as he could have hit the man.
Should i laugh at myself for going there in the first place.

Time Constraints ... Blogging addicts

Hi.
Guess i should be consistent in posting things. I was actually a bit "busy" ...Well, actually i was procrastinating, and i have got nobody to blame.

Really, clearing the conscience can bring a great amount of relief, as i observed several times in my childhood. I am totally honest with everyone only because of my experiences. If i have anything to comment, i do it directly on the face, all my opinions are direct, and i always tend to forgive n forget.

After all , I have more things to do than bearing malice to the society. In this regard, i will say one last thing -- I think the society ( atleast the one closely involving me) can be convinced with reasoning.

I make friends with everyone, no doubt, but i do tend to linger more with those who have similar thoughts, habits or patterns as i do. This actually enhances the degree of understanding we have with each other, building up trust, and of course, the much needed competitive spirit.

There have been a lot of unfortunate events recently in the circle of friends i have. Some of them have even met with serious accidents.
For instance, consider Sanga Nikhil.
He was slated to go on a tour, but fell victim to the hazards of 2 wheeler travel.
He had an accident resulting in a broken nose, a clot in the head, blackout for 2 days, a bout of fits, and continuous medication in the hospital.

I wont condemn or exalt private transport in 2 wheelers, but i leave it to your own discretion whether or not to embrace such a hazardous( in the present road-congestion-accident viewpoint) mode of travel.

My project is nearing completion. Letz hope it rocks...

Cricket...photoshop..and still in One Piece

Hi friends

I browsed till 3.30, when my mom scolded me for spoiling my health. I had to surrender to the threats, pretended to switch off my laptop, (but it was still running) and went meekly.

I turned off the lights and slept till 5.30, then happily found many songs finished downloading.
Notable among them are 21st century breakdown(by GreenDay) , Red Hot Chilli Peppers (thats the band name dudes !) and some songs of Beyonce.

I detest rock,pop etc , but the ones i heard were not in that ' outrageous' category. Not likable either. Especially that Beyonce stuff. They were wacky..

Then i started w3schools, concerned that i had to complete my mini project. I still have to create flash banners , design the web pages, create an ajax chat client, and integrate it in my project.

But first, i had to finish the few remaining One Piece Manga episodes.

I read them quickly, and then remembered I had to play cricket with my friends.
I hurriedly cooked 2 omlettes, hot and spicy, and ate them.

The weather was surprisingly cool, and my friend came right to my house to pick me up. I quickly got down, got on his bike, picked up anoter friend on the way, and drove off to the ground.

It was a multitude of pitches, none of them physically separated of course.
One team's fielder was in others territory( as if they existed) ... nevertheless, it was quite interesting to play the matches.
I finally began sweating from the effort, nearly an year and a half since i last played with them.

All this happened by 9.15. Racha Racha dropped me near st.no 8, and i reached home by 9.40. I had a quickie shower, sat down infront of the lappie, and started tutorials. Today, i was a bit serious in reading, and managed to complete the template creation part of it( learning ).

As i said earlier, i started Photoshop , read through a lot of tutorials, and SLEPT !

Again from 2.30 to 4.30 in the afternoon, i slept. And i woke up from Basha's call.
And i have decided to go to College tomorrow ! Just for checking out the situation on Mohanty n his ideas abt our mini project.

Then i worked on photoshop, started tutorials on css again, got the impulse to write the blog, and here I am.

SO the remainder of the day, ie .. from 7.30 pm, will be nothing but an event in the history ( nice story.... will write later..maybe tomorrow)

BuhBye. I plan to devote this time to my photo manipulative soul.

Midnight Bandwidth

hi buddies

How do i say it. From today on, if i don't mention anything about my waking up, take it for granted that i burnt the midnight bandwidth !

Hey, that's a great term, don't you think !
"Midnight Bandwidth". Let me guess. This post's title is dynamically changed to it.

I downloaded great scenarios and maps for AOM. Umtimate obsessiveness. But i love it this way. Know why ?

It is this feeling that makes me enjoy the day, and also makes me sick of the game so much that i dont play it again. To my advantage. This is a very common strategy i employ. Some of you might find it strange, but it works out quite well for me !

My parents attended a marriage in a friend's home, but i and bro played till we got frustrated to max. I even went to the extreme, and Deleted AOM. I said..DELETED.

But then what did i do ? I foolishly opened One Piece manga that i had downloaded a long time ago, and started reading it. Crazy me !

But Luffy's even crazy, the protagonist in One Piece. Great creativity in the series though !

I plan to unveil my photographic manipulation techniques tomorrow , after a lot of tutorials in noon, and you can find my finished works in my picture blog on the 19th.

So good night. Sleep well (not oversleep)
Bye Bye.

P.S I fixed the second cooler in the house, and i have it all for myself.Working heaven at the bedside ! Bye now !

LOTR , AOM ... going too much to the fantasy side of life !

Hi friends.

Thinking i woke up as usual at 2.30 ?
Nah !
I woke up at 8.. nearly 13 hrs of sleep. Fully recharged ! I managed to switch on the internet daringly, stop all downloads, and log into my online life.

I opened my various accounts ( social networking, you know ! ) , responded to queries and friends , and turned internet off. I again started AOM , wasted my time for it, ( but what to do ..it is an obsessive game ) and finally quit at 4.

Gosh ! What am i doing with my holidays. I managed to read some CAT stuff, then switched back to Flash, and tried creating a banner. Bah..Boring lot. I didn't have enough stock photos to make a good one!

If this goes on, i am definitely gooing to waste holidays. But wait. I forgot to say one more thing. I started LOTR again, reading the book.

LOTR ..Lord of the rings, for god's sake. 1000 pages fat ! And next in line is the accidental series from Dakota cassidy.
Though i claimed to start it a few days ago, i never made it through more than 3 pages. That itself contained a lot of vulgarity. But that's the author's style ,i guess.Let me read a few chapters and pass my Judgment !

Bowenpally thop went to his home yesterday, hope he brings me the reliance sim ! Waiting eagerly for the shitty sim that gives me pretty offers !

So long for today.

Youtube, Java and AOM. Terrible combo

Hi friends,

I woke up , us usual, in the eerie time range of 2 to 2.30 am , compulsively started my lappie toppie, and frustrated myself witht a constant disconnection problem ( which later turned out to be a loose cable !!)

I switched on my utorrent , kept a few torrents for download, and opened Flock.
It is the most social browser , as it claims. All accounts in one place. Very easy and comfy for lazy bums like me !

Nearly 3 am, my eyes started itching. I cleansed them with cold water. Instant relief. I opened w3schools , started out with css , and felt silly learning the kiddie stuff !

I saw a few telugu comedy scenes on youtube ( Search them... very funny ..atleast for me, they are ;) ) The time was nearly 7.40 am, when my friend came, surprising me !

I got ready in 1o min, and came back, but she had to see job openings in Java @ Infotech. We saw them, then jumped directly into JavaWorld , swam through threads and classes , dodged garbage collectors, fought with Jdbc, and finally VICTORY !

We managed to have a quick glance through entire Java in 4 hrs. Before lunch, my friend left, and i sat, as usual, in front of lappie, started AOM in lan, and fought with my bro.

4 hrs of continuous battle for survival really washed me out, and i couldn't even manage to read one unit in asp.net

I slept , right on the sofa, with the laptop still on. Nearly an hour later, someone noticed, woke me up and told me to switch off the laptop !

I turned it off, skipped dinner and slept. But you know what ? Mom woke me up forcibly for dinner, and thats the sole reason you ppl are still reading this post today !!

Good Night ! Heavy Sleepy !

Lucky Luckie ... n extreme 'CAT'ing

Hi .
First day of holidays. Supposed to be memorable, isn't it ? The sweetness of freedom, the lack of responsibility, unlimited sleep , etc etc are the bonuses you get with holidays.
But not me ! oh Man ! I have a mini project , to be completed by the 31st of this month.
I know its a piece of cake, but that's not the only thing i am doing !!

CAT stole its rightful place in my today's preparation. After browsing the internet for various articles from 5 to 8, i got bored with my lappie, or rather, got interested in doing some CAT material.
Guess what ! I started reading Verbal first, prepared 3 topics from our IMS stuff, and then jumped to Quant ! I started Geometry and finished triangles and lines.
Then i saw a mail from IMS ,regarding a doubts session, being held in the afternoon from 3 to 5 for quant, and from 5 to 7 for verbal.

I thought, "arey yaar, its been a long time since i went there, let me just brush up my fundamentals in the doubts session". With that intention in mind, i started walking out, armed with 6 of my prep books, a waterbottle, and a cap.

Luck.
That's the factor that showered upon me today. Not in drops or trickles but in rivers and oceans. Just as i stepped out of the house, the clouds hid the sun, making it very shady and comfortable to travel.
I smiled at myself, thinking this was a good sign. I approached the jam packed road which i couldn't cross normally,but there was a car that suddenly broke down in the middle of the road. The entire traffic halted, and nobody moved. Laughing to myself now, i slowly crossed the street, wondering what was special ! Slowly I started walking to the bus stop, but then i remembered i forgot to take money for the travel.

If i had been in my usual mood, I would have cursed myself, frowned, crossed the street again, walked back home, climbed three floors of stairs, searched for the missing purse, shouted at everyone to search, finally accepted defeat and asked mom money, and then hurried back to the bus stop to reach the destination early.

But today was the first day of holidays. Also, i had done a lot of studying. With that in mind , and hoping for more miracles, I proceeded , ( my father's office was also in the same direction).
Luck.
My father was coming in the opposite direction on a bike, and i waved at him, took money from him, and happily walked to the stop. My new found happiness and luck directed the rare 250/49M to manifest itself before me within a few min of my arrival.
I now confirmed that my lucky day had come ! Ha ha ha.

I reached IMS , walking under the hot sun, and sat in the classroom. I was alone. To my utter disbelief, i was the only student who had come for a doubts session today ! My class at IMS had AC ! Lucky again.

My sir cleared the 4 doubts i had, and sat down to do his work. I also started doing my work, and amazingly completed 2 topics, both concept and workbook, sitting right there ! Then my verbal sir came, suggested that i practice , and he also cleared few of my doubts. Then i left IMS, hopping all the way.

I was jubilant, owing to the fact that i completed 4 units in quant today, 3 in Verbal. Anyway, i got home , switched on my laptop, learnt a bit of Japanese, and then shut down my lappie.
I again started reading a few concepts of ASP.Net, then switched back my lappie, and came here to blog. So long fow now. Will keep you updated about the rest of details later.

Last exam ... damage control mode ... CAT

Hi buddies,

I woke up in the morning at 4 'o ' clock , mostly due to the heavy moonlight , finding its way to my face through the open window.
It was the most scenic incident at home , early in the morning. The cool air outside attracted me for a couple of minutes, after which i resumed the 'as-usual' laptop usage, and sat down in my sofa.

With such a great start, i excitedly opened silverlight, and attempted to integrate it with my Visual Studio. Bloody windows updates nearly 50 to 80 mb daily! I think it will cross well over 20 Gb for just the updated installation !

Damped hopes for silverlight ! I ditched the attempt (like i did yesterday for something else) and watched Twilight for sometime. THEN i remembered ! I had an exam tomorrow !
I started revising the previous concepts, and wrote my photblog. Check it out sometime.

I finished my breakfast, got ready and started reading when my friends came. I made it a point not to play today ! We read seriously,( napped only 1 or 2 times today) and by lunch time, my friends left.

My old temptations urged me to hunt for the hidden laptop, connect via Lan, and play an offensive against the computer. i and my bro barely managed to save our skins today, considering the fact that i changed the mode to Hard from normal.

We played till 3.30 pm, after which i had to quit , read for 40 min, and took a nap . Not a nap actually. Naps aren't supposed to be 3 hrs long. Everyone forgot to wake me up, until a call from Basha forced me to get up and call him back.

Started revising all topics. Amazingly, i finished all 5 units in a record 1.5 hrs. Cool !

I dont know how to remember the side/sub headings. Maybe i'll study them tomorrow !
I cant wait for the exams to end ! I have 2 parties to attend tomorrow, neat NIIT.
So good night for now ! Let me recharge my soul !!

But wait ! CAT is lurking around ! Serious issue. I have to resume my meagre prep to full time ! I hope to spend a max of 1 week on my project, another on 4-1 subjects, another on the trip to tirupathi , and in the meanwhile , read CAT daily for 2 hrs.

Now. Good.Night. Cute Dreamzz

Lan Kingdoms, Testing things , and no power cut !!

Hi friends.

I had a terribly good time today.

I accidentally woke up at 2.30 am, started my internet, and the first thing i did was to download an update patch for the Age Of Mythology.
Then i tried to download a software 200mb, and when it was at 93% there was a disconnection and all progress was lost! (you cant afford to live without a download manager ) ! But i wasn't in for a defeat . I located the same file in torrent, (actually, it is age of empires 2), and it was downloaded in 13 min approx ( super speeds here dudes !)

I downloaded NFS undercover.jar for my brother to play on my father's mobile. As if that wasn't enough, he made me download TonyHawkProSkater .jar and princeofpersia.jar
I stumbled for a lot of time, found some interesting stock photos for later photo manipulation, and then started the Age of Mythology. I had to disconnect net at 8.00 , because my brother woke up, connected his system through wireless, copied the patch, updated his version, and 'demanded' that i play with him.

I also 'surrendered' and started playing heavily. We were one team, with 2 other teams of Big Boomers , i.e Dangerous (an understatement ...rather Deadly Powerful) enemies.
About the same time, my friends came, and I again persuaded them to wait for a few more min before I actually started reading.

We started reading , and finished a unit by lunch. One of the guys,(Warden) left, and others were inclined towards a little nap. This helped me to launch the game covertly, and play it with my Bro. After an hour or so, we had a serious shunting from mom, and we closed the respective computers.

I started reading again, completing a part of 2 to 3 units. Great units. Easy to study.
Then , when we were full of enthusiasm, I got a call from RachaRacha. It was apparently his birthday that i had forgotten. I hurriedly wished him a happy day, and he calle dme out for a party. My friends left, and i got ready, prepared to meet my school friends who alse were coming for the party.

It was too cool to get together , and they were cool to enjoy with. We went to Goodlands , had a veg corn soup for a starter , then ate malai something with nan , and then korean paneer, and then paneer masala something.

It was sumptous ! As if we hadn't enough, we again went to King Horn bakers, ate a cornetto icecream, and then finally had a sprite.I was bursting with excitement (and food !!). I finally took leave of them, and promising to plan out our reunion in the holidays.

I came home,i am writing this post with a lot of effort, and now i am going to bed and 'sleep like a log' . Bye.

And suprisingly enough, there was no power cut today!

Mythology ....and The Photoshop adventures.

Hi ppl.

The previous night was unbearable , with no electricity as usual. It was like remembering Einstein's theory of relativity ! Sleep with a fan for few hours, you wont notice anything , but sleep in that power cut for a minute, and you feel getting fried in the pan.(bad comparision :P )

Today i installed my fav strategy game - Age of Mythology. I tried to connect it on LAN with my bro, it the stupid version was showing version different error. I thought it was probably a messed up installation, and started playing in single player mode.

I was totally engrossed in the game , and my friends arrived. Warden and Hali came , and i still didn't quit playing. Starting from morning, I went on playing continuously till lunch, took a break, and then started playing till evening 5pm.

Hali had already left, unable to bear the mundane repetition that usually occurs in the game. Warden was there, expecting that we read atleast a unit. I finally ditched the game and started studying. We saw a small part of the units, suddenly, when there was a power cut ! God !

Warden scurried away hurriedly, and i also started walking in the balcony. After a while the power returned,I called up a friend of mine, after which i sat in front of the Television after months,( serious viewing), and watched some stupid Telugu channel.

Then the original session started. I opened Picasa, took a few nice resolution poses of myself, and started editing them. I am still debating whether to put them on the net or not ! Anyway, that will be taken care of in my oicture blog, as soon as the final touches are over.

Finally, i read a few more pages of Necroscope, started blogging, and i will take leave shortly. I hope that there will be much more interesting things to hear in the holidays. Good Night !

New Tag Cloud ... Feeling proud.

hi.
I woke up at 2.30, started on Joomla again, went to w3schools.com for the basics , and started studying. Nearly 3 hours later, i managed to complete a sufficient part of CSS.

I updated the "photos" link on my blog. It is a brand new page, with one photo daily, describing it , its significance, and what it means to me.. basically from my point of view.

And you must have already observed the cool flash type rotating cloud on the right part of this blog. It is a blogger gadget, with keywords called tags. Yo can see posts related to that keyword there ! After weeks of trials with old versions, i finally found a working script.I m very happy !

I watched Bleach 217, got bored, and started watching Twilight ! After a few min, i decided i should start reading STM. My friend came over to my house, and we started reading it. The entire afternoon, there was a power cut, and it was miserable.

My friend took leave after lunch, and i installed Age Of Mythology, and tried it on lan with my Bro. Didn't Come. We were frustrated after trying many times. I sat down listening to tutorials , and my bro watched Alien vs Predator on TV. Telugu Version,Horrible.

The stupid internet didn't connect for a while, and everything today was getting me frustrated. I tried to install Dreamweaver, but couldn't find it anywhere. So i made a mental note to download it first thing in the morning.

And i also resolved my slow download speed proble,.Quite a story actually. My wireless is always on, and the local ethernet adapter was configured for Lan Play. So i was unable to connect throug lan, instead it was connecting through wireless, which guaruntees "low speeds".

I had a looong chat with Basha, over phone, for nearly 40 min, and he was also lamenting on the lack of electricity. I decided to finish my mini project essential requirements in these holidays itself, so that when exams finish, i can concentrate on the project.

I read 50 pages of Necroscope, by Brian Lumley. It is a "speak to the dead" supernatural fantasy stuff. I hope to finish the entire series in a few days !! Interesting. But i am looking forward to read the "accidental" series much more than these !

I completed creating a css template , when we had a power cut. I am writing this post in a notepad, hoping to copy it as soon as power returns back.Bye for now ! Good night !

H ..sessions, G..sessions , J.. sessions

Hi !

Care to know about H , G or J ? Holidays ..Gaming and Java...simple enough !

I woke up late , unexpectedly, had a very bad download speed, got bugged by the system restart and automatic updates, ... and so on . But pessimism has a limit too .

I had peace of mind finally, as this was the beginning of a 5 day endeavor into Java Server Pages.
I still had one more thing to do first before i started studying ... LAN Gaming !!

I called my friends to get ready for the gaming sessions, for which they were less than enthusiastic , and they even stayed in bed till 10.oo am ! Despite this, I packed my laptop and reached my friends house by 10.30.

We installed Ghost Recon advanced warfighter, and played it a couple of times. The big downside of the game was that it had to be restarted after every match. This consumed most of our time.

We managed to play till 2.00 , during which I tried installing Visual Studio 2008 ( His copy on a very nice sony DVD , packed in a Sony Case). Finally, we met our school friend on the way home, and had a chat in the hot afternoon sun for a few min.

I readched home on his 'bike' , and he left to buy a HDMI cable at Koti. Expensive Stuff.
When i got inside, my brother pounced on me, demanding an explaination for why i had taken his keyboard and mouse, along with the USB connector.

I explained in a 'gruff' manner, reasoning that it was necessary for gameplay, and then I came into my room. Installed Net Beans in the system.

One major problem with it is that it is not supporting 32 bit apps efficiently. Hope that the service packs amend it satisfactorily !

I sat down , read JSP's for a few min , then checked installation progress, and read it for a few more min. I didn't have the resistance to stay away from STm, and i read a part of one unit today !

I plan on completing STM tomorrow ! Since i have already ''gamed '' a lot, I will read the rest of the two days for competitive exams ( You know what i am talking about !! )

The Day ends... Night begins ... and gives way to Twilight !! My Vampire instincts tell me its dinner time ! Be careful ;) !

P.S : I had a few sessions with Picasa photo capture tool, and the results were superb. Will post them on orkut ...! Goodbye for now !

Half century ... after a century !!

HI friends..

Successfully completed 50 posts on my blog ! That's a surprise .. even i wonder how i ever managed it ! Daily perseverance does the trick.

Well, i wrote my exam well , except for one answer which was moderately okay ! You will simply laugh after reading what i wrote in the exam.

The question was to describe about a neuro-controller with a case study. Now,.who the hell knows about such stuff , not even present in the text book.. ?
I decided to play safe and wrote the following :

"A neuro-controller has three main functions:
1) It takes the input and optimizes it
2) It processes the input
3) It produces the output for the given input !!

Ha ha ha..can you see the simplicity of this ! Its not right , but it is not wrong either !

And as for the case study, i had to 'create' my own case, with a light sensing robot.
I wrote that the robot takes light as input, processes it, and follows the light !!

I only hope that the examiner sees no pun .. hope he thinks it was seriously written stuff !
Hope against hope. ..!

Wat else. Today is the ' last ' day of exams .. ( we have the real last one ..a week later !!)
Basha wanted me to come to his house, but it was not even remotely possible ! So he left alone, and i walked towards home.

I played carroms for more than an hour, then started Lan G with my bro.
My vista's too new. Not even VLC's installed !! I cant even play a video file ! See the state of affairs. The rest is all known to you ppl. We played till our eyes hurt, then i came back to blog , saw that this was my 51st post, and dynamically updated the title , to honestly indicate that it has been a very long time since i started blogging, but a very short while since i was really active at it. And now i am going to sleep. Tomorrow , maybe if i remember, i will share my dreams and take you to my world ..!! Till then ... ASP.Net jai ho !! good night !

Night out ! Virus out ! Try it out !

Hi again..

I had a fight ,
put all my might,
cornered it tight ,
and then did it right,

what did i do ?

I put the disk,
calculated the risk,
ordered it to die,
and sat down to pry ,

what did i do ?

I typed the key,
and skipped the fee,
and waited to see,
hee hee hee ..

what did i do ?

I FORMATTED MY SYSTEM.

This post is the first one to be written from this beautiful laptop with an extra beautiful Vista 64 bit OEM. Sitting out late in the night, battling with power cuts and drowsiness, i managed to install it at 1.30 am, (technically.. today, though i started it yesterday night!!).

I slept for a little over 5 hours, then woke up, got ready, and braced myself for another study session. I was still famished with the new installation, and started basic stuff like listening to music, exploring the new OS, etc.

My friends came , and we had a good study session in the morning, completing more than 2 units before lunch. I and my friends lost tract of time in the afternoon session, with all of us drowsy after a meal.

My brother told ud stories about his sir, who couldn't pronounce"shh" ..and instead said " iss".
The funny part was : for fish, he said "fisss" ,and the students all did the same !! He also told numerous other tales of how his teachers were, acted and behaved in his class.

We were finally able to glance the whole book , and my friends left. I had to read from the ebook i had in my lappie. I started reading , and soon there was a power cut ( but i was lucky because i had a laptop with a battery !!)

I continued studying for some more time, and then went to sleep. Then i again remembered blogging, and came back here, like countless other times. Now i am drowsy and have an exam tomorrow.
Let me take leave, and i will come back to blog again tomorrow !! heh heh heh ..as if you can stop me !! good night !

"Cool ".. Exam was easy ! Air was Breezy !

By the time you read this post, i would have formatted my system, reinstalled Vista 64 bit , and be engrossed in the process of installing stuff !

I wanted to wake up late in the morning after a good rest , but i couldn't stop myself from waking up at 2.30, staying up till 3.45..and then going back to sleep again.

I have written my exam successfully, without much ado and 'technical' difficulties.
After exam, the travel in the college bus with Basha was totally uneventful, with both of us napping alternatively. Finally, my stop came, and I dragged myself home.

IS was a simple paper...but a bit lengthy,and now i can start reading Neural Networks. This sub is easy for me .. but i don't have a text book. Ironic that Neural Networks is the only subject I read entirely in the holidays ! I felt confident about the subject !

Wasted the entire evening , but just when i was about to quit, my friends came to study.
(My laptop was not formatted at this scene.) . There were a couple of " power cut - low voltage -power cut - no voltage " scenes, but we enjoyed in the night. A few min passed when we began to doze off together, and my friends, already tired from their journey took a heavvvy nap. We promised to study early tomorrow, and they left.

There was also a lot of breeze and cool air circulating , reducing the temperatures drastically. Enjoyed the temperatures dripping down after a lot and sweating day !

I have paused only a few times while writing this post, owing to the power cuts that are now very common ! Good night ! Maybe my next post will have some info ;)

cryptic studies ... hectic life ... sleepy maxx !

Hi friends.

If you are wondering about the cryptic part of the title, dont even bother ! It is my exam tomorrow. Network security, dealing with cryptography and networking.

Lets start off with "my problems" today for a change. Minor ones, but ... moderately bearable

The electricity guy
*He must have got a brain tumor.
That nutcase switches off the electricity at 11.30 in the night, making sleep impossible !

The OneManga guys.
*They dont update Bleach, Naruto, OnePiece ( even though it is not their fault !!)

The News channel guys
*They always show crazy stuff about biased politics.

The BSNL guys
* They always send the bill by the 2nd of the month.

The neighbours
*They always steal our milk packets

The Housemaid
*She lost nearly half the smaller items (spoons , soaps, pens, toys ..all vanish without a trace)

The Internet
* Connects at the wrong time, disconnects at the right !

The Cooler
* Gets hotter than it cools !


Thats just the tip of an iceberg. Those are the external problems that i am facing.

At a deeper level, you ought to examine the constant pangs of chocolate addiction i resist so hard.
The effort is nearly killing me off !

I woke up at 2.15, switched on the laptop as preplanned earlier, and immediately went back to sleep. I dreamt of 2 MBps download speeds.

My vista 64 bit is now ready to be installed on my Laptop. I finished scourging my bro's system and dumped nearly 60 gb of stuff ( mostly one piece !) . then i reinstalled XP in one of the drives on the system.

I have to admit defeat on the front of resisting novels. I couldn't stop myself from gleaning a few pages from Lord Of The Rings. My B.Tech books are jealous of the novels.

I must inform you people that my forum is now officially active, though i am the only member there ! (P.S : It is http://phanichalla.freeforums.org ). You are free to join there. Purely for those who consider themselves my friends. he he he ( That means you too !! )

Then , in the afternoon heat, we went to TTD office at himayatnagar, to confirm our reservation for the Tirupati trip on the 9th of June. I got myself photographed and fingerprinted there, came home , and faced my waiting friends at the doorstep. (near the door and on the steps actually !)

We entered into study mode, switched on the cooler, started preparing, and managed to finish off a thorough 3 units. I hope to finish the rest of it in the morn !

As soon as they left, i switched on this lappie toppie, uninstalled a few softwares, and finally switched on the net ! Pleasant browsing, occasional stumbling, active chatting, instantaneous messaging, and a strange burining sensation in the eyes..

I spent some time in facebook, then in orkut, then in ..blogspot obviously. Now i have to sleep, to accomodate the necessities of my body, and to uphold the rules of nature. If i dont sleep now, i will begin to hunt again at night! Vampire style. In the Twilight .

My day ends here, on this line ... and after the next ellipsis ... HERE ---> ' . ' <---- HERE
Have a GoodDay ( ting ting ti ting ! )

Holiday ... jolly day ..... but i still have the exams !!

Hi friends.

I had a great day ! Woke up at 1.am today, chided myself for getting up early, and immediately went back to sleep ..Next time i woke up was at 5.30. The air from the cooler was so pleasant that i didn't get up, and dozed off ! The last time i woke up was at 7.30 am, when i hurriedly rushed and switched on the internet !

I helped my mom in pulling out the dried food items we made yesterday, and ate a few after frying them. Tasted good ! Then i read Midnight sun for a while before my bro interrupted me !
I flipped through the countless pages without comprehension, as i was lost in another world,.. a world of..well...chocolates ;)

I didn't do any useful stuff in the morning ! Listened to a couple of devotional songs, sat on the floor, and tried to sort my computer. After a few hours, Warden and Bowenpally thop both came home, and sunil (Bakra ;) remember !! ) also came !

My aircel sim might not come , but there is every possibility of getting a Reliance sim ! Lets hope for the best ! My mobile was strangely silent today, an ironic signal that the day was a holiday ;)

Surprisingly there was no power cut, and we enjoyed the afternoon in comfort !
We had our lunch and started reading. We managed to finish 8th unit in IS. Pretty simple. I thought of revising it , but hopelessly failed to do so. And even my 160by2.com didn't open properly.

After my friends left, i assumed i wouldn't sit in front of the computer, but things turned pretty compelling for me. I switched on my Desktop, started cleaning out files from my brother's system ( VIRUS infected) and browsed it through wireless from my laptop.

I had to part with Pushing Daisies also, trashing over 5 to 6 gb of stuff. Even some foreign language tutorials had to go. Well, i have a BSNL internet connection. It doesn't really matter what i download or delete !

Finally, I had a good meal, watched Kung Fu Hustle one last time, deleted Denna Coil entire series, and read a few tamil words ( Guess what ! Someone's gonna get a surprise ;) ).
And what else should i say ?

I ate a chocolate icecream today. I even had a couple of photos of me eating that. It was comforting to have something cold in the mouth , in this sultry weather.

Is it really fair that exams are conducted for such an extended period of time ! How happy it would be if all the exams were held in one single week, and no delays . It would cease to induce the lethargy among students that is widely prevalent in the ongoing scenario , and would also eclipse the minor inconveniences of holiday extensions.

I connected my bro's keyboard and mouse using a ps2 to usb connector. It works fine, The mouse had a wiring problem, and i fixed it with my screwdriver set ( cool set ! All types available ;D )

Now I am going to link my paypal account to my hdfc bank account. Hope to do it tomorrow morning !

I plan to read 4 units in the morning ! So i take leave, dazed and drowsy, to meed you tomorrow in this place. And if i have a dream that i remember , i will blog it immediately ;)

Halfway through the exams ...

Hi
I am back from the examination, having written a paper comparatively "OK" than the other two days. I wrote it great, but my handwriting got worse in the last 3 pages.

It was fun reading , and watching people read seriously for these JNTU exams..! Well , dont underestimate JNTU just because i am saying so. JNTU's got a lot of reputation in this regard, for instance, awarding 72 marks even when the attempted questions were 3 of 5. ( not me of course !)

Ate Manchuria in canteen.
Lost 20 rs.
Got scorched in the afternoon heat.
Heard that CAT is being held ONLINE
Didn't read in bus .
Had a conv with curious abt villian.
Asked Ramco for student database.
Had a power cut at home.
Browsed the net .
Created a facebook profile for Basha.
Downloaded Basha's fav song.
Fiddled with computer.
Spoke on phone with my school friend.
Saw Rab ne Bana di Jodi .
Pushed the damn washing machine into the spare bathroom.
Helped mom in cooking
Sorted brothers system to a small extent.

Sat down to read.
Lost the mood , started novel instead !
eyes burning ! still idiotic mood !
ok. gotta sleep.

This is the gist of what i did today. Maybe today was exciting after all ! I didnt have to think of reading because we have 2 holidays before the next exam. Ha ha. What a bonus ! Vista is just 1 gb away ! Hope to download all my drivers for my dell .

I am seriously planning to learn origami . (duh ! is it even necessary ? ....yes boss. it is !)
I know people will be curious to know why. I just felt like learning it !

Hey..forgot to tell you ! My Japanese classes are going to be resumed from tomorrow morning ! Again from the beginning ! Lets hope that this will generate interest in common folk ..


My WordPress blog is waiting for me to enter content, and i cant do so unless i read some other book. So an active deadlock condition is occurring here. The only solution is to wait for "Holidays" .. the same non existential holidays, throught which i will be forced to do a mini project, read several dozens of novels, create windows and web apps, prepare for my 4-1 syllabus entirely, and EXTREME CAT.

Easy .. turning me Crazy..

Hi friends..

Wondering what this is all about ? guess ? It is about the stupid UNIX exam we have tomorrow. It is not difficult to read, in fact , so basic that we keep forgetting everything ;)
Let me not bore you with the mundane facts of exam prep , but i still had lots of trouble with the electricity today! we had a power cut for a whopping 5 hrs.( from 1 to 6 ....hell to congress !)

I am in the mood for a little prep now, because i slept a lot in the afternoon, wasted time during the power cut, and even watched the daily serials on tv instead of reading commands. UNIX is Lite !!

I am turning 'crazy' ( that means eccentric...not dumb) . Crazy about Java mobile edition, and MS.Silverlight which i finally integrated with Visual Studio today !!

I also installed a dictionary in my mobile again, reset the java apps, searched for a lot of time, downloaded Bleach 217 , got disappointed when there were no updates on onemanga.com , read lots of spoilers for naruto , and finally sat down to read.

How can you procrastinate so much like me ? i bet nobody can ! I am always postponing things.. whatever they may be ! Today i even managed to postpone reading for exam ... now thats ultimate procrastination. ( agree ....or agree to disagree?)

CAT prep is low from yesterday... didn't do more than 3 pages today. How will i ever get patience. Hmm.. However, one thing's for certain..i am writing my SCJP examination before May 20th.

SO long for now. My exam prep wasn't tooo exciting, but it will be sufficient for tomorrow ! If i try hard ! Gud nite.. or gud whatever :)

Chimpings too .. and Developing evening time apps !!

Hi friends.

Wrote my exam well again.
What the hell ! I and my friend had a very quick revision of 5 units in the college bus, and every question i got was from that only. My poor friend didn't get even a single question !!

Luck aside, the paper was late and i got extremely bored in the hall,then started yawning, looked around , and hoped for the paper. We had a small entertainment session from 'agam' ( an unfortunate nickname :) ) before the actual papers came. And you know what my first impression was ? JNTU's gotta be crazy !

Besides wasting 40 pages of paper, printing every detail of every student, deciding which sets the students should get and even setting up substandard question papers , JNTU's giving a day or two holidays between every exam. I really hope that this gets CANCELLED from the next year ! At least then, students will begin reading from the start of the semester !

Typical expected responses for the 'controversial' statements above :

Abba chaa..
Why so pessimistic yaar !
masti kar le !
why to read stuff right from the beginning !
you must be crazy !
wow man , nobody can read that much !
We are in Engineering buddy !


So let me narrate a few incidents that happened while we were returning home from exam ! I and Basha were isolated and sitting in quarantine in the first seat, for the first time, reading a new unix book . We barely managed to finish a couple of commands in 2 units, got tired and crept back to our usual places. Didn't get the chance to sleep today also.

We got down at habsiguda, with Basha urging for a soda. We had one each in the hot sun, relishing it, and then rushed home before we were dehydrated ! As we reached home, we had a power cut ! Shit man ! Basha was disappointed and left soon enough, and i resumed my CAT prep for a few min before a call from Racha Racha interrupted me !

He offered to come to my house to study unix, and i asked him to bring his laptop. And guess what ! I watched i-robot movie, a couple of scenes from Mirrors , and even a scene from Australia. Then we connected our PC's wirelessly , and i started developing the Contact application that i started a few days ago. It took up most of our time, but we finally shut down our lappy toppies, opened our books and began to read. I completed Vi editor, when Karthik , unable to resist his homesickness, left in a rush.

I started listening to the video songs i downloaded, enjoying them and sorting my system files. I will never manage to clean up my PC in its present state. So i am going to format it soon, for added functionality and better performance.

Today i am going to finish the first chapter in UNIX , come what may ! So long for now ! I also have the pleasure of informing you that I 'almost' have my DELL OEM Vista coming to me .. .. Happy installing ! Happy browsing ! Happy blogging !


Goood night ! ( or day .... as long as everything's good )

Compiler Design .. going to be recompiled ... and Java On my Mobile

Hi people.

I was almost reluctant to sleep yesterday , watching the curious case of Benjamin button late at night ! It wasn't such a great movie , apart from the very creative idea of a man growing from an old man to an infant ( creeps me out !!)

I started developing a windows application for storing contacts, but got a constant nagging error of SQL server missing ! I dumped it temporarily and tried to focus. It was nearly 12.30 @ night , and i was showing no signs of sleep ! I hastily switched off my laptop, promising myself i would wake up and keep my downloads early in the morning @ 2.am.

I was a bit late, i woke up at 2.40, and switched on my Lappie Toppie , and started mu-torrent.
I downloaded 3 video songs
1. Girlfriend - by avril lavigne
2. Ajab si - From Om Shanti Om
3. Andam ga lena from Godavari

Multi lingual and excellent pieces of music, and i really love these !

Then Iwent back to sleep ! When i woke up again, it was 8.30 am. High time !
My friends were arriving in a few minutes, and i got ready hurriedly. Heavy studies. Tried our best to read ! Did whatever was possible. Completed all the tough portions .

Finally, in the evening, all my friends left, and I had some time to revise approx 2 units. Then suddenly i had an idea about my mobile not connecting with my PC. Tried to install jad files and Jar files with the help of Softick PPP. After about 10 failures, i finally managed to install some java apps on my mobile !

Sweet success ! And it was really thrilling to watch the java file being loaded into the mobile after days of frustration. Tomorrow maybe, i have to start searching for apps. I love the free spirit of the internet ! So many things for free out there !

And did i mention, I created an account for myself at Demonoid.com after several months of waiting ! Super cool site ! A whole lot of torrents to download ! So i take leave for now, to take a good rest for the exam tomorrow ! If i manage to write this exam super good, then prepare yourself for reading a double post tomorrow !

Chimpings...

:D
Hi people !
Guess what ! I got the easiest question paper of my life, and i enjoyed writing every word of it !
Wrote everything well. After exam, i went to the library to return my textbook. But to my surprise, i found it was not issued in my name. Did a lot of background searching and finally narrowed down the choices to Chinni..or Johnny.

Sat in the library for a few minutes, begged syllabus book from the librarian, read the probable units in CD, and prepared myself for the upcoming 'challenge' . I sat in the bus, neither slept nor concentrated, and then reached home. I and Basha had a mazaa on the roadside , and started walking towards my home. We also purchased a chewing gum on the way.

Basha had a root canal a few months ago, and his cement filling came out accidentally ! Poor guy ! He has to get it fixed again !

There was nothing much left to do, and in the evening , i and Basha came home to study 2 or 3 units. However , all stories do not have happy endings, and our study story ended there with the entry of a special guest .

I sat for some more time, discussing happily with sravan, while the guest (name hidden for unknown reasons) caught srinath. Soon after Jumper and Warden arrived, the duo of Sravan n guest left, leaving us in a pool of helplessness and disinterest.

We pepared a few questions for important topics, watched the IPL scores intermittently,

Soon everyone left, and i switched on my PC , and all is while, i have been watching the curious case of Benjamin Button . Let me tell you my review once i finish it ! I hope that once these exams finish, i will be writing full page testimonials on all of my 500 or so friends !

Now i am trying to implement a photo-contact list software in C# , and if i manage to develop it quick, i will upload it. Bye for now !

Finale ...

hi friends

I woke up at 3.am ,didn't feel like sleeping, and i exercised a bit. I also switched on my laptop and started browsing the Internet .Started solving CAT papers and then did a bit of browsing, checked my emails, and then opened my books to read. By 6 am, i was hungry, and ate all the chocolate ice cream in the house !

The curious case of Benjamin Button finished downloading, and i saw nearly 20 min of the movie. B that time, my brother woke up and we both were engaged in a series of lan games. We tried playing with everyone against us in the expert mode, but never survived more than a few min !

By that time, Warden also arrived, and i forced myself to start preparing for the grand finale.. this year's entire education put to test ! Our external exams were going to start from tomorrow ! The subject is CG, as i said earlier, and is very easy ! Hoping to get a good score in it !

I had a good nap in the afternoon despite all the protests around me ! The daily power cut drained all the resistance in me, leaving me at the mercy of the god of sleep ! A 'few' quick naps did the trick, and i was rejuvenated again :)

I read till evening, then peeped and saw nearly the entire "Dead Man's chest" movie ! It was cool ! I then sketched a plan for tomorrow's exams and started talking with Srinath ! We had quite a long chat , and called it a day !

I made one final revision now, and I am off to bed in the few moments that come after this article. Good Night ! Exam time wont bring out very good quality stuff, but i prefer to consistently keep my promise .
Bye for today..srry..tonight !

Exam Recursion..

With exams so near, there's a strange excitement in the atmosphere ! I am not going to speculate my performance or prognosticate my marks , but i can definitely tell that i am going to do well this time !

I have a feeling of success, as always , before the start of exams , all credit to the successful completion of at least 3 to 4 units in each subject. Lets leave this alone.

I have started my CAT prep seriously , one topic per day, apart from daily online practice !I am allocating 1 hr daily for it during exams, which seems enough at present.

Let me tell you my adventures with my mobile ! I started developing wallpapers for my mobile, and it is like a sort of addiction. Happy making wallpapers :)
I even downloaded Samsung PC suite, found a way to store my sms without deleting them, fiddled with it, and still i find it exciting !

Yesterday was no different from the day before, and i warned everyone that things get strangely repetitive during exams. Read, ate, read, drank, read, slept.
But i always come online at least once a day as long as i have internet @ home.

Basha finally came back from village. He was going to dilsukhnagar to see project details. Told him to enjoy.

i have to get up early and jog . good night

Mobile are fun .., exams from mon !!

Chocoboy rulz !!

Hi friends !

The title is apt ! Mobiles are fun ! especially my new samsung e250 , coolest piece in my hands ! I tried a lot to install applications for it, but it didn't succeed !

However, i started developing pics for my mobile phone , to be used as wallpapers, as i got tired of searching for stuff online ! Today, even though my friends came, i was in a very good mood for developing wallpapers, and did them finally !

We read, inefficiently as it was, sweating in the afternoon power cut , sleeping and stretching .. and managed to wipe out most of CG.
Tomorrow is IS's turn ! Kick its butt !

Today evening, we had a discussion on topics like USPC,CAT, GRE,GMAT etc, and it started a strange desire in me to read for the CAT even now !
I forced myself to sit and do CAT for 1 hour, and i was surprised at myself for the little patience i had !

I
Finally i cam online, started a conversation with Racha racha (nickname) ,and a good chat with "sweety" ( nickname ) , and then started blogging!
While i was about to quit, i met my school friend "aku" ( nickname) after 5 years. I had a small chat with her, remembered i had to finish my blog, and so i am here !

Another great piece of news is that i am going to jog from tomorrow morinng ! First few days on the terrace, next few days to the park, and then cycle trips to the nearby temples early in the morning !

K. Got to sleep ! Bye people ! Nothing much to say today !

Exploring new Vistas ... and the visit to Charminar

Hi friends.

Adventures are meant to be fun. And we had a great adventure today :D

I slept in my friend's house, after reading a bit of computer graphics till 12.30.
The next morning , when i woke up, it was 2.20 again !
Damn. My biological clock was getting haywire.

I silently sat there, amidst the 5 sleeping people , who were also in a state of semi consciousness.
I started listening songs on Warden's ipod for quite sometime, then heard the audio book from my own phone, and finally sat near the window gazing outside, waiting for the clock to strike 4.

There was much hype about the market, and i prepared myself mentally to enter there for the first time. I walked along with others to the MGBS, just a few min away from my friend's house , with the intention of boarding a bus. We finally had to get into an auto , and we reached there by 4.30 am.

It was deserted, except for the few cloth stalls that lay scattered over there. I were disappointed as we had to wait for another 1 hour. But we decided to roam and explore the city.
The funny part is, we had Charminar in the vicinity, and i had never visited it even once. So we started to walk in that direction, slowly crossing the lanes and roads.

I observed an unusually large number of poor people sleeping outside in the cold, shelter-less and unprotected. Almost on every road, we observed them sprawled on the ground. Then we came to the court road. It was totally deserted , and the place made me feel calm.

I and Bowenpally thop started jogging, and early as it was, it helped in clearing our sleep clogged brains a bit. We did a bit of excercising also, ran ahead , waited for friends who were far behind, and managed to reach Charminar.

It was huge, and though i don't find historical buildings "wow" , Charminar is a very important landmark of Hyderabad. So i stared at it with interest ,had a few biscuits in a nearby cafe, and decided to go shopping !!

We waited for an RTC bus, and managed to get into one. But what happened then ! The bus driver .. demanded 5 rs from each us even though most of us had a pass ! Absolutely shocking for my friends !

I finally reached the place we had been so eager to visit. Though it was nowhere near my imagination, it was still pretty interesting, with all sorts of wares and goods available.

Want to know the funny stuff available there ?

1. Tata Sky dish ( freshly stolen )
2. Cycle seat
3. Pulsar headlights
4. Cycle handle
5. Used rubber balls
6. Childrens tricycle tires
7. Coin operated box
8. Shop Name banner
9. Airtel hoardings
and lots and lots of stuff ...


There were several dedicated clothing stalls, which sold cheap goods at amazingly low prices. To our surprise, there were auctions there too. I personally waited for over half an hour to buy a trimmer ( ha ha.. the barber's gonna cry ). I saw several interesting items, but they were way beyond my budget of 200/-. So I settled for a small key chain and a cover for my mobile phone, apart from that trimmer.

Bowenpally thop bought a webcam at 40/- ( amazingly low) and to all our pleasure, it worked !!
We examined each and every stall there with curiosity, amazed at the diversity of things.

We found mobiles being sold there, at amazingly low prices, and they were just our of our budget range. I made a note to bring extra money the next time i came here.

And there's one other thing i wanted to mention. A dvd player, with features like usb support ( those are the latest features buddy) were distributed at throwaway prices of 800/- to 900/- . I also found several things of interest, but the lack of vitamin M made me back off !
(Now I am fully aware of the place and the goods, and I are sure to go there again in the holidays. )

I came back to my friend's house, sat there to study for sometime, ate, and then got ready for home. We traveled to MGBS, waiting for bus. In the meantime, Warden took some photos of me posing with an RTC bus. We were drinking pineapple juice for quenching our thirst , when my direct bus arrived !

I gulped down huge mouthfuls of juice, faster than i expected, and ran into the bus. It was already full, in the few seconds that delayed me. I purchased a ticket, stood there near a pole, and silently slipped into a nap.
It was after Shankermutt that i woke up , that too ..startled, as the bus lurched forward.

Laughing at myself, i clung to the trimmer and got down at Habsiguda. I walked home, had lunch, and then directly jumped on the bed for a nice slumber.

I slept for nearly 5 hours, woken up by the phone call of a friend,and studied for a while before i lost interest again.
I switched on my PC, switched on the net, and started searching mobile wallpapers.

My friend Warden came home, and we , already in the mood for a nap, opened Computer graphics Text book, completed an amazing 3 units in a record time, and he left at 11.00

Bye for now. I am terribly sleepy even after my afternoon sleep session. Heavy enjoyment. Heavily tired. Its 11.59 pm now.
Good night !

Strange timings ....Strange Travels ..

hi friends

I have got to blog early today !

Yesterday's effects were too much ! want to know what happened ? i was chatting, browsing and finally blogging till 11.45 pm. I thought of sleeping comfortably till 6, get ready, and go to Begumpet ! But you know what ! I woke up at 2.15 am. I didn't even notice the clock ( this is happening too regularly ), brushed my teeth, and switched on the PC.

It was then i noticed that the time was 2.35 am. I promised myself i would sleep in a few minutes after starting the usual downloads. But it was meant to be broken, not slightly, but utterly and totally.
Guess what! I was browsing for mobile phone soft wares till 4.45 am.

Now my eyes started paining seriously, and i couldn't continue further ! I quietly slipped into my bed and slept soundly. When i woke up, to my total discomfort, the time was 7.50 am. I had promised my friend i would be turning up by 7.30 , but I failed there too .

I called him and told him i would be late, got ready and started for his home. And what did i do in the bus ? I was listening to TWILIGHT audio books that i had previously downloaded ! Ha ha.. in a world of my own ..even when i was being pushed around by the crowd.

Well , i reached his stop, made a few crude guesses ( i had no balance in the phone and i forgot to recharge) , and surprised him by turning up right at his home !

We sat for sometime, then started our NN syllabus, and completed a great deal of the portion !
I had a very nice revision. We studied non-stop till 1.30, when all of us were exhausted and took leave.

I was fortunate again, .. I got a bus to Secunderabad as soon as i reached the stop. I got in, bid my friend farewell, and reached sec-bad. Today my luck was hugging me ..and i got an impossibly rare bus direct to my home.

Came Home. Ate. Started browsing. Tried mobile installation. Gave up. Confirmed the trip to Jumeraat bazaar, and here i am, now blogging.

By the way, i ate chocolate ice cream at 5.30 pm , sent all my buddies messages from the internet, and successfully transferred wallpapers and ring tones into my phone.


I am bidding farewell. I plan to take 200/- of cash. Lets see what that will fetch me there ! :D

P.s : If you read this post till the end, buy me a chocolate :D