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2006-04-24T04:37:00.001-07:00

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mourning for dummies

2006-04-22T09:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome, to 'Mourning for Dummies'...

The ingredients for this recipie are all easily available and im sure each and every one of you will be well prepared for mourning in style!!

ingredients:
10 juveniles, free for the day
3 policemen
2-3 goats
sticks
stones
tires, preferably steel radial
buses, for taste
buildings made entirely of glass (presentation items)
electrical pliers
VHF/UHF selective noise generators
sports equipment
some 'bhangra' music
food for thought

method:

1. take two juveniles, a hockey stick and a goat each and mix them together. the goat should be a scapegoat prefereably. mix them properly to form a nice thin and fluffy 'diversion', that will attract the police men and flies from all over town. then scoot from the area and let the diversion settle in the freezer.

2. now that the policemen and scapegoats are out of the way, lets work on the tires. take 3-5 tires and mix them well with a few drops of vanilla essence. Now douse well in brandy and sprinkle some brown sugar and icing sugar to give it a heavenly look. remember to light the 'rings of heaven' on fire before serving. you will get the sweet smell of vanilla,caramel and burning rubber. now play the bhangra music and make the juveniles smile and dance in the background while the news crew use Optical face recognition to find out who you are ( to arrest your sorry ass, the minute this is over ) and broadcast it to the world

3. take 2 juveniles, some sticks and stones and look for a fresh bus. The fresher , the better. the freshness can be identified by breaking off a window or two. if you hear a crisp crackling sound, you know its fresh. now we want to bake the bus to a near golden brown colour, so make a few holes in the bus with the sticks and stones. choose sticks and stones that will break your bones for best results. now after you have prepared the batter ... i.e. the battered bus, set it on fire until you see a light golden brown. when you see this, run for your life, since the fuel tank is most likely to explode.

4. now for the decorative images, look for a building made entirely of glass, and proceed to redesign its front walls to look like the broken lcd of a calculator. remember the motto, leave no stone unturned, and , if the windows aint crashed, then theres something wrong. So proceed to break every alternate window. And assign points if your stone hit your target window.

5. now comes the fancy part. Locate your cable operators / broadband service providers. use the electrical pliers to splice the satellite uplink/downlink cables and connect it to your set top UHV/VHF transceiver. Now tune in the CRO to make sure that all intelligent signals are drowned out , and only white noise is allowed over the analog medium. ( ** For those using DTH services, now you can receive white noise in 5.1 digital surround sound ** ) . The same can be done with the nearest radio station.

6. If you are still not happy, then go to the nearest cellular operator and hijack their tower to broadcast your own signal. Now the only thing a frigging GSM / CDMA user is going to hear on their phones is what you transmit... ( how about the handshaking music all day ? eh ? )

Serve all the items fresh and make sure that all shopkeepers are out celebrating with you.
When all the others return home starved, take out the food for thought and eat half of it.
Keep the other half for the remaining of the celebrations...

~tta

hijackers, redheads and low skirts

2006-04-08T09:13:00.000-07:00

hijack ... is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit. One who hijacks is known as a hijacker.

(wikipedia..) either way, mani is well versed with the art of being hijacked. broadly classified into weekend and workend .

a weekend/workend hijack is the forcible capturing of ones ability to conciously make a decision that encompasses the scheduling of planned/unplanned activities in the near future. now the only thing worse than not having a plan, is, the hijacker ensuring (by powers beyond your own control) that you cannot have a plan.

the downside of a hijacking is that someone else now controls your every move... sounds mighty similar to a real hijacking doesnt it?

manijacking is the process of having to sacrifice ones financial independence in order to satisfy the debitary condition caused by the society having to console thier palate by alienating themselves from their base location....

manijacking can be spotted by watching for the fateful keywords "u~pe" ... (pronounced as 'u--p-ay' ) ...

Now. coming to the redheads? i have seen scores of hot redheads and (not black heads) dark haired beauties parading around flaunting themselves . These redheads walk around the house topless ( and bottomless ) taking control of whichever sector they please, and occasionally taking a bite out of me.... Damn those blasted redheads...

As for the low skirts... Mani was fortunate enough to attend the Medc .. the maicrosshoft hembedded thevelopers konference call in the workend hijack of april. On the last day, of the Medc india challenge,

"Microsoft Gives away Apache for the MEDC India challenge"

Well... i doubt if it will make much sense to most, but for those who do get the jist .... theres my point. Who saw it coming ? Yes , and the host mentioned about why ladies are not called gentle ... as in gentlemen. Assume you fall asleep on a bus/train and due to an involuntary muscle spasm that causes a constriction in the fibres of your neck , god forbid, making your head tilt to one side, and possibly land on the shoulder of the pretty lass sitting next to you...

:: SLAP :: ( this was a unanimous response.... no choices needed, we are sure this is the end result...)

Now reverse the roles here... If by chance this pretty lass happens to fall asleep on the tramp... then (like the host said) , the gentle (tramp) man would most probably miss his stop (or for that matter, be as still as possible ) ...

See.. Gentle man ... :D .. Also, this gentle man happened to see some mighty fine legs walking down m g road... ( and they weren't on a chicken either!! )

In other unrelated news.... , can anyone tell me what the "Mis-interpreted magic words" are ? :) Anyone ... Anyone ?

~tta

of Lap tops and we men

2006-03-20T09:36:00.000-08:00

status update for the 2nd tuesday of february...
no mani , no honey ...

our hero continues to roam the streets of the city, with one eye on the road, and the other eye on the scenery , pondering about sweet (pizza hut) ~memoiries .

yes. its as simple as that. a unsuspecting person can get caught in the tangled web of a short treats, or a delicious pasta toppings in all flavours... our hero is a connoisieur of fine dines and wines , and enjoys dishing out attention just as much as they enjoy receiving it.

we men, celebrate a function known as international we mens day. now as i come to understand , these 24 hours are supposed to give we men superior powers , that allows them to rise up and take over the world.... but then thats only for the day. Whats all the fuss about those 24 hours you say? its the 24 hours you hear we men screaming about how its their day , and those who do not belong to we men should not intrude...

after all, they say, those who are not we men , own the other 364 * 24 hours of the year. whats with the empowering crap i say! the only thing needed for empowerment is a facial reaction that stretches a few muscles and goes ( ** smooooch ** ) ...

.... well, the sound effects were just added for credibility ... after all, as the saying goes,
for every ** smooch ** there comes an even harder ** slap ** ...

yes ... the word is smile ... imagine walking down the road, surrounded by em pretties ( who by the way mani does not object to , or meet, or treat ! ) all smiling away to glory.... but they dont.

we men seldom smile. but the smile is something far more empowering that we men understand. we men dont need a day to feel powerful ! we men just need to smile !

The next time mani sees a pretty ( pretty == patient responsible endearing talented techie youth ) , he is probably going to invite her ( to buy him ) a cup of coffee :) ...

heheheh....

whats the deal with we men in the work place or house place anyway ? (Seinfelding here)

we know them ,we work with them , every family is made up of them , we cant live without them ( well it seems that we cant live with them either ) .....

we cant live with em because, when you hear noises behind a closed door, its ho*** ******g going on , that involves the use of several foreign objects like a b***m and a m*p , or even a v****m c*****r !!! ( god ,i cant beleive i said that out in public! )

to all the saints out there giving a bad name to the "Dirty old men" , get a life , or better yet, get a wife :)

on the subject anyway,

look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities,
forget about the worries and your wife(s).....
looook for the bare accessories, they are mother natures recipies,
just forget about your worries and your wife(s) ...

hehehe

not to mention, we men aren't that bad when it comes to focussing thier optic nerves at a point for long intervals. it only seems erroneous when a we men is focussed at by a non we man.

for those who havent lived with we men, you are seriously missing out on something. and they talk about empowerment ?

the beauty of a lap top lies in the packaging... ,
and the best faces/fibs are the ones that are not made up...

~tta / frasier / seinfeld / mani ...

Vis-a-Vis

2006-02-08T10:48:00.000-08:00

Uncle Sam is calling! ... And so our hero jumps on the bandwagon and proceeds towards the light, where the grass is always greener, and the ladies daintier (proven by documented evidence :) ) ...
He travels not by an airbus, but something much more powerful, comfortable and much cooler.

With a rear-mounted, 6-cylinder,7-litre diesel engine, capable of 260 bhp @ 2200 rpm, 6-speed manual, fully synchronised gearbox ...

7 hours later our hero is travelling across town whilst his generous host awaits at the terminus. Only the wrong terminus... After finding his way to the right terminus, our hero is escorted home...

Where the grass is greener:

Our hero rests a day and figures out the his Jukebox doesn't like the voltages on the other side, and refuses to turn on. Within minutes, an autopsy reveals the internals of the once famous jukejam. After several failed attempts to defibrillate the dying device, our hero lets it rest till it returns to its homeland.

All importance is given to the PSP, who reigns supreme in this land. It has white earphones too!

'The day after tomorrow' would be the day after the eventful event and would turn out to be too late. So the next day, our hero proceeds to the place where no man has gone before* (*= without an appointment) . Reaching the entrance, he is questioned why his p******* is significantly shorter than others! Without an answer, our hero, proceeds into the inner chasms of the castle.

Inside, he is greeted by endless lines, and long rows of chairs. He becomes a sitter, a face in the crowd. Minutes later, his fingerprints are scanned and he is sent back to the drawing board for more waiting.

Mera number aayega..

About 30 minutes later, he hears his number called out! A pretty young lady gives him a 3 second preview scan and asks the first question for a thousand rupees. "So how long have you been working for __________ " . Our hero wonders.. 'being the first question, it couldn't be a trickie.. , and proceeds to answer.. 1.5 years... !! Woo hoo, now on to the second question, What are you coming to the other side for? Our hero answers this also without blinking an eyelid. ...
The third question , "When are you planning to have kids?" ... eeeks... ok.. our hero was not asked that question .. so may it be stricken from the records ...

The third question asked to him is how long he plans to work on the other side... He answers looks down, and is sent aside like a batsman dismissed before he starts his game. He is ushered to another counter, where he is made to pay the price ... the price for being granted what the world seeks ... a non immigrant classification used by aliens in specialty occupations....

After paying the price, our hero leaves the scene of the crime and is intercepted by an chauffer whose primary interest is the status of our hero's alienation. He refuses to budge till he is informed of the status... Sharing in our hero's joy, he proceeds to direct the limo in a general direction and proclaims 'How much!!!' 'How much!!!' ... Confused , our hero asks him 'How much!!!' this happy news is going to cost him. 'Whaat how much!! One lakh.. Two lakh... How much!! ' comes his reply. Our hero quickly proceeds to jump out of this one track minded one way limo and sets out on foot, listening to the blessings of the disgruntled limo driver....

A day passes by, and its time for our hero to return to the side from which he came, by the similar means... As he somehow finds his way to the platform 3 , which is somewhere in between 1,2,4,5,9 ( and after walking around in circles ) , he discovers, that his medium of transport has departed without him.

What follows is a close rendition of what ashok amritraj pulls off in Octopussy. Our hero travels by a bus till the main intersection , and whisks away in a high speed turbo charged autorickshaw, chasing through traffic, zig zagging around vehicles like no 3 wheeler has gone before... . Then they stop and give up chase, as they saw the omnibus, travelling past the horizon. Dismayed, they turn back and proceed homeward . A little while later, the autoracer notices that indeed there is another airbus hovering about the horizon , in wait for us, and proceeds back towards it, more fervently than before, with turns that would put a pulsar to shame...

On the omnibus finally, our hero proceeds to try and get some rest after the excitement dies down.

0400 hours, our hero opens his eyes, and he sees people disembarking the craft. On further enquiry, he discovers that he has arrived at his destination, a bit further than he should have de planed....

Another autoracer ride later, he is back at home and proceeds to eat the food of the gods, 'What it eez!' , the perfect early morning snack...

Our hero now has alien status in a specialty occupation and can be deported at any time...

till then eh?

~tta

The lady and the tramp...

2006-01-19T05:21:00.000-08:00

'twas an ordinary day...
mani rushed out of his house to catch the last bus to work with his certificates and certifications in hand.

getting into the bus he proceeded to his usual seat, and started to read up on 21st century employee manual, 'Dilbert and the Joy of Work' . He looked up and noticed the lady sitting in the seat across from him. She seemed to be totally engrossed , or in a trance of some sort. ( The trance will later be revealed as Radio Mirchi on a nokia 2300 ... ) Our hero, ( the tramp ) smirks and chortles at the witty humour of Scott Adams, while surveying the wondrous surroundings every once in a while.

... In the challengers corner, weighing ??? pounds, listening to radio mirchi 91 FM , bathed in sunlight and glory, and looking absolutely wonderflous,presenting 'the lady' .
And in this corner, weighing way too many pounds, reading intellectually humourous literature, surveying the wonderous surroundings, presenting... 'The Tramp...' .

Round 1: Ding...
The lady pulls a fast one and dozes off to slumber land... The tramp is left looking at the silhoutte of the sunlit 'whites whiter, colours brighter' lady in earphones... who every now and then opens her eyes for a quick look around, and then re enters her state of musical meditation.

Round 2: Ding...
The tramp is gently interrupted from his intellectual reading by what seems to be actual conversation! The lady mumbles out a few words, and the tramp looks up... The lady Spoke!! The lady spoke!! .... Only to understand her frantic mumblings indicate something like ' .. please .. move ..your .. bag... ow.... my .. feet ... ' . Non plussed, the tramp proceeds to remove the bag, only happy to be of service...

Round 3: Ding..
The lady re enters her state of meditation, and the tramp notices what they call - true inner peace ,also expressed as 'zzz zzz zzz ' ... After one quick glance at the scenery, that tramp too proceeds into suspend, only to awaken at the turn to the workplace , where he sees the lady, open her eyes , awakened by the bus crossing over the last bump in the road....

The lady and the tramp part ways...
Who knows? they might meet again next week??

~tramp :)

(s)nazi camp!

2006-01-15T08:49:00.000-08:00

mani was on his way back from work, on friday the 13th. it was a normal day. started normally, went on normally, and sucked just as much....

mani is quickly whisked onto the back of a waiting motorcycle, and carted off to what he knew to be a snazi camp.... but he was not worried. for he had with him, the PSP and the secret weapon - the GKI Offensive-XX !

After travelling miles more in the wrong direction, in search of ramamurthynagar platform 9.75 near the railway bridge, we travelled to kr nagar and saw the spectacular sight of the diesel loco shed.

immediately, shifting the discovery dtsi into -1 gear, we were carted off in the reverse direction seeking the so called platform 9.75 and looked onward for the Efemsee.

The Efemsee is a secret undercover lab run by some people where secret conferences are conducted under high levels of secrecy.

The Efemsee features:
* Fooz ball
* Badminton
* Table tennis
* Internet access
* Photon based thermal generators
* nourishment cabinets
* confidential rooms
* clean rooms...
and so on...

any way, the activities at the (s)nazi camp, the Efemsee, was titled,
The ultra super secret society meeting of the systematic extraordinary ladies and gentlemen.
i.e. the U.S.S. SMOTELAG

the meeting involved a lot of chanting, eating, sleeping, brainstorming, witnessing, dumb charading, and a special event for the WCDA - World Coffee Drinkers Association, a coffee drinking session at an undisclosed location.....

mani faced his opponent, darth vader, and battled to the finish in ba-dmin-ton and tablatannis, but was defeated in his attempts to overthrow the black suited man.

Our hero was made to stay in his cell along with the other inmates. A cell it was, for 20 inmates, but only 2 lay beside him. One proceeded to esc@PE the next day under the pretext of having to fix some automobiles in the capital.

thats where our hero meets fellow inmates.... err partners in crime. Namely, the Prince of Persia - Chucky , Girlwhosnamehecannot remember ( prema , sneha , ... sneha i think :) ) .. and fellow co-conspirators , a certain 'chachie' who is related to a the one who's name i cannot recall... ,

Somewhere along the line , he hears the familiar name of TJ mentioned. He listens closely. He asks, is it the TJ from CMC ? Ahh.. some kind of relative relatoin perhaps? Or maybe a relative of Cherrie from ABB?

Well.. they made us stand in a triangle and took photos of us :O !! The crazy veteran photographers!! What will they think of next?? Later , after several witnessing by a certain Sa?ia Mirza, the co conspirators proceed to split to oversee the embarkation of domestic officials, and to visit other important delegates of personal conferences...

48 hours later, our hero is released from the (s)nazi camp, after severe witnessing sessions , and 6 heavy meals, he tries to regain his composure.... Back home , our hero slowly regains composure and slowy proceeds to record the activities in the last 48 hours.

Hmm.. A (s)nazi camp for sure. I was a changed person. My wallet a lot lighter, me , a lot heavier, for sure.

mmm mani, mmm mani , mmmm mani.
No Chinta, even less mani. :)

~tta

#006

2005-12-31T10:30:00.000-08:00

#006, Hysteria lane seems strangely silent now, especially since our hero had to leave town so soon.

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times. #006, where our hero spent the last two months , sharing joys, sorrows, pizza's, cookies, and many more things. However, his sudden disappearance must have sparked supsicion with the neighbours, and left all of em plotting.

There were raised eyebrows ever since he moved in to #006, Hysteria lane. That house had a shady past, and an even shadier future. And not many noticed, that he had a visitor that came and went as he pleased. He didn't look like your typical manager, yet he had with him the signature imitation leather carrier, and a fat wallet ( stuffed with change... )

He fell in love with this place, the surroundings, the fresh air, and most of all , the pleasant atmosphere. He would never need to move again. Hysteria lane, wud be his dream come true.

What, me, worry? ... Also the famous words of Alfred E. Neumann, of MAD magazine. Yes, this was the only thought flowing through his head. Well, not exactly. Due to reasons beyond his control, our hero was forced to flee from his castle, while all his neighbours were asleep, in the middle of the afternoon...

Rushing away in a spot taxi, he turned to look back at his dream house, for the last time, only to be stopped by St. Peter at the pearly gates. A minute later, after serializing his velocilaptop, he fled from the town , never to be seen again....

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Legend: #006 not directly related to 2006, rather the house number in hysteria lane

Things that have changed from 12/31/2005 to 01/01/2006 ?
The psp appeared to have lost all the colour in life. Everything appeared in silver, a killer after the brilliantly bright red of last year
Our hero is now 12 miles farther from work than he actually was last year.
He is going to miss going to sleep at 3:00 a.m. , waking up at 9:30 a.m. , and trotting into office at 10:00 a.m. , and of course 3 hours of olympic style table tennis...
Our hero bid farewell to hysteria lane, and now he is the only desperate housewife around....
Never to be seen again, till monday morning, when he has to return to work!
~ tta.
ex #006, now in SF2

Bangalored II - The land of the lost...

2005-12-29T10:31:00.000-08:00

Greetings weary traveller.

If you are reading this, then by all means, i am still bangalored, awaiting my sentencing.
In the times that have passed, authorities have confirmed that they want me to stay here and get lost, both at the same time...

The poor downtrodden soul, accused of treating objects like women. Oh what greater shame can there possibly be? Unable to walk down the streets for fear of being assaulted by some woman hating woman in a bad mood looking for an unsuspecting soul to pounce on...

Never-never-mind. Theres an old chinese proverb:
Q: How do you keep a software engineer waiting?
A: I'll tell you on monday.

Yes. This is one of the unwritten laws of the industrious workforce that binds us all together. Its like the centripetal/centrifugal force , or put in simpler terms, its like in the movies where the lead lady says, "I love you, but I have to go...".

i.e. Total crap... So our hero end up in the same location, only almost disowned by his so-far generous hosts, that provide him the basic necessities, i.e. a roof over his head, electricity, hot and cold running water, a laundromat, cable television, a telephone, a comfy king size bed with a blanket and two sheets, coffee/tea/a kettle, a Pizza parlour with room delivery, room service, housekeeping, LAN/Internet connectivity, cycles, and a peaceful nights sleep.

Ahh, the basic necessities of life. What would one do without them... especially in bangalore!!

It just so happens that after our hero is assured that he has to stay put, there is joyous celebration around the world, infact his own group from down south was so happy about it, that they organized a getaway tour on the weekend and got-away on the weekend. Another group, called for a group photo, hearing the wonderful news of our hero's sticky situation.

Bringing us to more recent events.

Scientists have discovered a new lingo-grammatical strain of the previously undiagnosed mad cow disease that causes violent out breaks, unheard-till-now foul language, high levels of charge,buzzing(Ctrl-G) every few seconds and most of all, plain b-yatch-iness in the fairer sex . They have termed this strain as the full stop, or simply the . .

Now the symptoms for this are not easily noticable, they say. We have been through so much abuse that its hard to tell the difference between ppl who are suffering from this grammatical disorder, or who just enjoy being plain nasty to others all day long.

Scientists have been working for months to come up with a cure for the innocent bystanders that are affected by the constant explosions of rage and terror. They called their invention the 'Year-Plug'.

This year plug is made from a variety of materials and offers sufficient protection from the evil verbal abuse and insults that may flow your way.

When using the revolutionary 'Year-Plug', all obscene language is automagically filtered out !

Guy: Hi, may I know the time please?
Ans: No you may not , you worthless s** of a *****, why don't you ****** to the ***** you came from and find some other ***** to bother.... Hmmmph! Men!

These scientists have won a million dollar grant from the university of Middlesex, to continue research into this mysterious grammatical flaw.
They have found that , similar to the atomic theory of too many protons and neutrons spoil the pie, a single . every now and then is managable.

eg: Hi! how are you? Im fine.

but, in cases of grammatical addiction, the results can be fatal.

eg: hi . why you little $%^&* . #@$@ . go to #$# . ...... :p

This example is classified as a 9 on the Vector scale. 9 = If you encounter one of these, you are probably dead by now...

But, what can i say, I'm in bangalore now . hee hee hee
~tta

The 12 Days of Christmas...

2005-12-24T11:18:00.001-08:00

On the 1st day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 2nd day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 3rd day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 4th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 5th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me,a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 6th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me,a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 7th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me,full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 8th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me,a wipeout pure UMD,
full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 9th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me,a gift coupon worth 250/-,
a wipeout pure UMD,
full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 10th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, directions to the BB,
a gift coupon worth 250/-,
a wipeout pure UMD,
full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 11th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, an invitation to high tea,
directions to the BB,
a gift coupon worth 250/-,
a wipeout pure UMD,
full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

On the 12th day of X'mas,my dear friends sent to me, seasons greetings for free,
an invitation to high tea,
directions to the BB,
a gift coupon worth 250/-,
a wipeout pure UMD,
full access to KEC,
a reply to me Ayehdee,
a birthday boy with a short memory,
a pain in my tummy,
no more stay in the ECC,
a project in electronics city,
and a friend with a limited vocabulary...

Merry Christmas Everyone....

~tta

meta morph osis?

2005-12-19T12:14:00.000-08:00

Yes...

It all starts with this. It's inevitable. Its what drives us humble caterpillars out of our skins (literally) and drives us to perform more than what we thought we could. And to who do we owe this great honour of being the driving force? The fairer sex of course!

Take the case of this poor humble cat(rpillr) who was sitting at home one night minding his own business, when he gets an im... from a seemingly innocent stranger.
(This seemingly innocent stranger happens to be high on banned substances on a dieters list...)

>> do you or do you not happen to know a mr . X
<< hmm.. maybe
>> so you claim to know this mr. X and do not deny that you don't know him...
<< umm.. well yes.
>> right. and what do you knw about metamorphosis?
<< umm.. its what those other cats do, u know the ones with plans to go abroad and study and stuff.. well they work so damn hard , infact they grow wings and then fly abroad...
>> and in your confession of knowing this mr. X, do you deny not knowing him well enough to be responsible for his actions?
<< umm.. well.. can't say.
>> So... our reports say, that this mr. X who you seem to know so well was involved in the staging of a corporate shenanigan , a meta morphosis of sort. Would you have any part to play in it ?
<< umm. i hope not...
>> So... u didn't do anything to stop it , did you?
<< umm. well.. no ?
>> And you certainly weren't a part of it, now were you?
<< ... umm.. i dont think so. But i was a part of the 'worst' event. Hey dont look at me like that!! There was an event called the 'worst' ...
>> Yes , Yes, im sure you were. Well , its because, this boat of mine, a B-yatch, was very adamant on proving to me that this corporate event was a grand slam when i came to the fashion scene.
<< corporate ? fashion ? yuk. rubbish.
>> aha. So you dont deny having a part to play in the shenanigan. Mind you, i'l have that pesky B-yatch hunt you down so fast that .. that ....! That pesky B-yatch is always trespassing into international waters without a permit. Even our repeated warnings from the coast guard have not dissuaded they pesky B-yatch from keeping its nose out of other peoples business.
<< would this B-yatch happen to be from kottayam ?

>> ::shreiks:: how the f*** did you know that the p€$ky B-Yatch was from there ?Answer me ! now!
>> i think its better you answer, the B-Yatch is trying to bite off my ear lobes!
<< hmm.. elementary my dear angels, you see, i happened to be browsing through the hi5 network and happened to see these beautiful pictures of some people along with a picture of an abnoxiously familiar face. When i proceeded to investigate, i noticed that it had some sort icing / glossy covering that made the camera man/woman ::shudder:: in his/her footsteps when taking the photo...
>> aha.. so u checking out the mallu profiles eh?
<<>> what ! why you objectivist! I object your honour. object oriented programming my foot. How dare you. Treating me like this....
<< ::utter-confusion::
>> hmmmph. Men
<< ::bewilderment::
>> higher pitch hmmmph
>> even higher pitch hmmmph. Men
<< Rubbish. I am an innocent cat . I am innocent until proven guilty in a courtroom of courtship! me ? an objectivist? Why i am a strong beleiver in the are of procedure oriented following. i wouldnt treat an object as an object if my life depended on it!! How dare i be accused of the crime treating another caterpillar as an object!
>> Hmmmm. Objection overruled.
<< ::silence::
>> So you dont deny that these so called 'objects' are moderately attractive?
<<>> No... not in our case.. here we get dressed up to attract other female cats. You see, we are plebians..
<< ahh. So u dress up to attract,distract, interact and finally press charges on all the poor onlookers?
>> eggzactly!

court recorder please note, the inhabitants of that institution are dressing up for their own courtship/courtmarshall rituals and are not to be confused with normal social aspects of life.

By now the B-yatch toots its horn pleading to be left out of the converstation.

Yes, now where was I . Oh yes metamorphosis. The changes that take place in every caterpillars life, to attract one of the same/opposite sex ;) . Knowing that there are lady caterpillars at home driving them nuts with their three phrase limited vocabularies and badgering them on how they knew they were from kottayam , it doesn't surprise me that the usual eat+drink+watch tv+sleep couch potato caterpillar struggles,sprouts wings and leaves the headache at home!!!!

In a way, we are all driven by that badgering B-yatch thats constantly tooting its horns pushing us to excel ( and rake in more money in the bargain... ) .

Come to think of it, where would we be if not for them? Eating mulberry leaves, sipping nectar and relaxing in from of the tube... till we were 50....

Naah. This Cat is flight ready.... Like they say. The butterflies are always greener on the other side.

Adios.
~ muahahahah!

P.s. Thanks a lot to the devil and the boat ( B-Yatch ) for an interesting discussion...

For want of the net.... Dear Santa...

2005-12-16T08:09:00.000-08:00

Our hero enjoyed high speed blessings for the past month.
In fact, blessings straight from the gods....

There's an old saying, seek and you shall find. Well our hero, sought, and he found.
The end result? A broader than usual band. Well all that came to an end recently when our hero felt like a fish out of water, out from the frying pan and into the fire.

After enjoying the best of the best, our hero found himself strapped for air, the last 24 hours, trapped in his captors intranets. Struck with claustrophobia, our hero considered banging the 15" Dell TFT on his head to ease the suffering.

Our hero prays,

Oh mentor,
please give me unlimited access...
to the body of knowledge...

within minutes he gets his reply...
Approved!

In his moment of joy, he remembers that he needs higher approval , and proceeds to pray to the meta-mentor!

Oh meta-mentor!
Do grant this wish!

within minutes , he gets this reply.
Approved!

Woo hoo! Our hero is overjoyed! He can breathe again. He proceeds to fill out an Ayehdee!

For the uninitiated, an Ayehdee is like a letter to santa claus. You want something bad enough, you write a letter to him , and start praying that he grants your wish.

So our hero sends an Ayehdee for in high hopes that his wish will be granted. Some time later, he gets a call...

Elf: Hi, i see you have written a letter to santa wishing for something that you are too young to get?
hero: yes, thats right... The gods have spoken , so please grant me the unthinkable gift.
Elf: Well , i would , but you see, you are from the south, so you need to contact the local north pole, not the global north pole.
hero: but .. but... but.. im at the global north pole now!!
Elf: Well... Hmm... aaah... Ok, in that case.... ok, you can't get it because.... because... hmm.. wel... because, .. ya , because your mail id was made in Tvm! Yes, thats it..! You need a mail id from the north pole! So please ask god to transfer your mail id to the north pole!!

Hero: ... umm.. ok .. north pole .. mail .. transfer.

--> Our hero proceeds to write another letter to Santa, Ayehdee #2. Dear santa, please get me a north pole mail id!!

Hero enters an unlimited wait state...

0x2000 NOP
0x2001 JMP
0x2002 00
0x2003 20

By 5:00 p.m. that evening, our hero is distraught. He hasnt got his first wish granted, and is no closer to getting his second wish granted!!!

He decides to add a comment in the Ayehdee to santa, and expresses his excitement, hoping for speedy action.

The next morning, our hero arrives at work as usual and is dumbstruck to find himself greeted with less priviliges than a fresh inmate to tihar jail. Not only doesn't he have access during the privileged hours, he cannot access during the normal grace period ( 7-9 am , 5-7 pm!!) ...

The next 8 hours are like solitary for our hero... He quickly calls up the CCD helpline ( Cardiac Care Department ) ...

Heelp, im having a card-iac arrest... I cant breathe, im trapped on the intranet!! Heelo..

CCD: Hi, we cant help you till Santa grants your wishes. Now if you were a 'special case' like a senior person, or a return traveller, i could hook you up with something, or..... if you had some kind of approval from the gods...

Come 5:00 pm the same day, our hero still has no room to breathe and goes completely mad...

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Yes , dear readers, mad people can get madder... if exposed to the right conditions...

Our hero plans to see just how long his Ayehdee can go unanswered .... he is going to expose the full power of the CCD's SLA....

With net on the phones, net on the pdas, net on the laptops, net on the PSP's , net on the gizmondo GPS's , net on the Treo 650, net in the villages, net on airplanes, net on ships, why should it be so damned hard for us to get it ???

TTA
Still disconnected.

The case of the Bad S*******

2005-12-10T02:03:00.000-08:00

There are two kinds of S******. Good S****** and bad S****** . Now noobody wants to be stuck with the bad S******.

T'was the yeat 2003, and all throughout the campus
everyone was stirring, making a rumpus

stalls were set up,displaying their wares
some were crowded some were bare

computer makers tried their best
to capture our attention, and convince the rest

One soul in particular seemed to be drawn,
into the web of mystery, that AMD hath spawn

all his ideas, fantasies and rest
were driven to the ground by a friend, his best

Dont buy AMD, he said with a smirk,
they are made with bad silicon, or so i've heard....

I happened to be an unfortunate bystander at CUSAT for an IT Fest during which this incident took place.... ! Being an avid AMD supporter , i knew that people were only drawn to intel b'cos of its marketing gimmicks. True the pentium was a great microprocessor. But thats not true for Pentium the 4th.

Some of the other DBA (Dont buy AMD) humour that i have had to put up with...
1. Dont buy AMD, i've heard it gets very hot!!!
2. Dont buy AMD, i've heard the processor becomes slower after some use
3. Dont buy AMD, the semiconductor used it of lower quality.
4. Dont buy AMD, they need an extra fan to work

And finally, the one that takes the cake... Dell's response on why it wasn't selling AMD based PC's: Dell is constantly evaluating new technologies and at the present time, we don't have AMD processor-based systems in our portfolio

(In english, it goes something like this....)
We didn't think that AMD would kick Intel/our butts so hard. We are really sorry for not opening our eyes and realizing that AMD rules. We are really sorry, and will stop using Intel.

Hmmm. Now all that remains is the worm in the Apple. Apples are going to feature Intel's inside Talk about misled intentions? Well, Steve Jobs was kicked out of his company once. Who's to say it wont happen again! Stevee.. Are you listening. Go with the flow man.

This reminds me of the F*** man , i.e. A*** from Shaajah! (Spelling is intentional). After educating him on the Intel/AMD scene and showing him some benchmarks of the AthlonXP kicking the P4's ass, he went out and did the only logical thing. i.e. He bought a P4.

The story continues :) , cries/screaming could be heard from his house, when his Pentium Generation 4, would crash royally on opening Winamp , and he the best he could play was Road Rash!

If i remember correctly, isn't it the global giant Intel that once made a processor ( the pentium ) that would show 4/2 = 1.99.... :)

In my closing arguments, i would like to nail the lid shut on intels dominance of the Desktop processing world . Do take the time to go through this article!!!

Yes folks. For intel, the end is near.....

Del.icio.us

2005-11-11T10:50:00.000-08:00

Yes. its true. For those of you who have heard of it, the buzzword is 'Social Browsing'.

A little about del.icio.us . It's a brilliant service that lets you save your bookmarks and let you continue from where you left off later. Browsing happens in sessions. Rightly said, I think its a brilliant idea. The only problem being, saving a bookmark is not enough. The mind wanders and meanders and different ideas catch its fancy at different times. If it was possible to save ones memory and resume from where they left off?

All in all, I'm a social browser. This would have something to do with delicacies round the city. Ahhhh, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. I must say i did enjoy being amongst 500 others @home, but being 1 in 10,000 is quite something else. Sure its a much wider audience, and theres bound to be a lot more people to meet, but walking up to someone with a 'Helloooo....' , I would possibly end up with a ....ooooW!!

The dressing sense is a lot easier on the eyes ( as confirmed by an opthamologist!! ) , and for some mundane reason , after my latest med-checkup ( during which it was confirmed that I am mentally absent and phsically present) another i-doc advised me to marry someone without glasses.

So dear bangaloreans, pay no attention to my furtive glances ... ( i blame it on eyestrain!!!! ) , and of course, i'm just looking for a pretty young lass without glasses !

Rx: Marry someone without glasses.

Now who said anything about marriage? Like i said, im just a harmless social browser! So do flock around! A little flirting around never hurt anyone , besides, its good for the ego. Ahh, the colours, the designs, the presentation, the cuisine! mmmmmmmm....

Till then, Eyeeees Front!

Advice for the day: quoting Jerry Seinfeld (though not entirely in context) - looking at cleavage is like looking at the Sun!! You dont stare at it! You get a sense and then you look away!!!

I I'M Bangalored - A tale of two cities!

2005-11-07T11:50:00.000-08:00

mmm Mani, mmm Mani , mmmmmmm Mani!

Act 1, Scene 1.
A guy was relaxing in his cubicle, one evening, when the Man beckoned for him to proceed towards the open door. He proceeded towards the con-ference room, like a sheep to the slaughter not doubting the gravity of the situation.

'You have been noticed around here.. ( All xx kilos of you) .. We have decided .. to bangalore you .. '

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Flashback.
A guy walks into an office, shakes hands with the boss and tells him he wants out.
The boss, looks up in bewilderment and chuckles silently. As the guy leaves the room , he hears a distinct roar in the background...
hahahahahahahahah What ? him ? Trivandrum ? Bangalore? aaaahhahahahahahaah....

Back to the present, the guy regains consciousness after a few seconds and stares at the man. Using soft skills, he proceeds to paraphrase what he thought he just heard.
If I heard you right, i beleive that I have been laid off because my jobs has been moved to india?

...

The Guy, also known as Chintamoney , reclined readily in his swivel chair . Only Chinta, No money as he was called, he was well known for his wit and his ever dwindling bank balance.
He couldn't figure out what it was about his fantabulous character that made him the scapegoat for all kinds of odd jobs around the office. Go get the knife, go fix the printer ... but he never complained. A simpleton , he was amazed by the complexities of simple day to day gadgets like the Sony PSP and the effect it had on unsuspecting souls with a little extra cash to spend. Drawn into bad company by Sony (C) , he threw away his lifetime savings and purchased enough PSP to keep him happy for a while. Thinking it would be the solution to all lifes problems, he invested heavily in technology, the technology he had promised to uphold.

A week later, the new member of the family arrived. It was white in colour , with a brilliant black scar over the front. Chimo was captivated by its beauty and swore never to let it out of his sight again. This was his sorcerers stone. It gave him the power to browse the net wirelessly and to view photos/videos and listen to music anytime anywhere. Nothing could interfere with his destiny, nothing , nothing, nothing other than the fact that bus to bangalore would leave with ot without his presence .

With various Chinta's crossing his mind, he wondered how he would take his family with him . After all, a boy of 23 would not be expected to carry around the emotional baggage of a laptop,a jukebox, and a PSP all at the same time? There's polygadgetry for you! Married to multiple gadgets! Theres a good reason why this is banned in modern society. But no. chintamoney was traditional. He loved all gadgets equally. After all, in his eyes, all gadgets are created equal, its the designers that screw them up.

Chinta packs all the necessery files and folders an attaches them to the suitcase. He puts the payload in a packet on the set of wires connecting Tvm to Blr and gets on himself. This cabin turned out to be air conditioned!
On his way to bangalore, he decides to make note of his great journey, the day he left trivandrum , to make it big for himself in the big city...

-------------------------------live journal--------------------------------------
Sunday, a day of infamy.

Bangalore Ahoy!
The Names Mani. International Chinta illatha cash illatha pani illatha project code illatha PC illatha Mani.
Employee number 3060333931
Favorite numner: 420 55 111 91 02 06 05 3014 43 00000 213

I got on to a bus said Maadi Wala! Having heard great things about this Maadi , i got on boldly. Bangalore was all about Enjoy Maadi. So I was not going to be left out! No Siree. Not me
Not ICICI PIPPCIPCI Mani. I was got off the bus at the hub of the city. More so, i saw most of the people getting off there. I figured this had something to do with the Maadi. I was no more a
regular wala, for that instant, i was a Maadi Wala! Even my mobile phone agreed with me , those two very words appeared on the screen and everything else faded out of sight.

I had to meet some eminent personalities incuding the Master Bachelor of Asia, the great Johnny Kurian. Johnny kurian, not to be confused with Johnny Bravo , is the more intellectual of the lot. He beleives that people will do anything for the right amount of money. So he decided to learn how to earn money by making people do mundane tasks. He was going to be a ..... ..... ..... a Manager.

For the ladies in the house, Johnny Kurian can be found at

Johnny Kurian
No. 9, Private Drive
Lethargic Avenue

He demonstrated the power of a brand name. To Chinta, he was just another Cosmo Spacely wannabe. After all that would be a dream job, "Jetson!! You're Fired!!!!" . But no. Not this manager. He had other plans. With the cloak of manliness handed down to him from a certain Professor Dumhelldoor , he put it on , and withing an instant , was surrounded by all the female staff of Indie Joes were on him. Now Chintamoneys eyes lit up. He had seen similar cloaks of manliness on the roadside, that too for quite a bargain! He could pickup one of them and he would also be a 'Chick magnet'! The plan was infallable! He was on a mission.

Chintamoney proceeded to get himeself a one of a kind cloak of manliness that captured glances of many ladies and got him noticed. No where could he escape the knowing looks of the haute crowd of Bangalore . He was Maadi. No Chinta, Only Maadi. The mystery behing his sudden instant sex appeal can be attributed to one thing. Well actually two things. Brand power and a lack of a spell check feature in the fashion industry.

Here we see the Cloak of manliness handed down from generation to generation of street vendors.

Instant Sex appeal guaranteed , or your money back!

As the saying goes,

Sony PSP 12,500 rupees
Ipod Nano 10,500 rupees
Acer Ferrari 99,500 rupees

Instant sex appeal cloak of manliness - priceless

No bangaloreans were harmed during the production of this event. TTA

Air Deccan - Simplifly*

2005-10-16T05:47:00.000-07:00

* conditions apply.

i.e. Simply fly(or ... walk,run,hitch a ride) to the nearest metro to catch one of our flights.

Low cost flying. The dream of every Indian. Deccan , Spice , Kingfisher are all well known names by now. But come to kerala , the only well known name you are likely to hear is KSRTC,Kallada,KPN!

Is there anything fundamentally wrong with the Air Deccan hoarding saying "Now everyone can fly..." popping out behind a petrol pump in Trivandrum?

Technically, no. Well, theres nothing wrong in a bit of advertising now is there? I'm bugged. No reason, maybe because AIR DECCAN DOES NOT OPERATE IN TRIVANDRUM!

Why the hell do you put up a billboard in trivandrum with a silly plane sticking out, if you want people to travel by road,rail,sea,bus,bullock cart,auto rickshaw ... to Chennai,Bangalore to catch the darn flight?

Assuming one manages to purchase a ticket for the so called amount - the magic Rs. 500 (+taxes extra) , why spend an additional 1500 to get to the airport! Wheres the fun in that? People agree that AIR DECCAN is a saviour , and AIR DECCAN this, AIR DECCAN that, but AIR DECCAN will remain a DAKKAN till they start flying to Gods Own Country. I beleive GOD still relies on Volvo buses to reach Bangalore to catch his/her AIR DECCAN flights to other cities.

Remember the Master card ad on tv...

Gift for dad: Rs. 250
Family Photo: Rs. 150
Flexi recharge: Rs 50
Air Deccan ticket to Delhi :Rs 500
Travel to Bangalore to catch AIR DECCAN flight to delhi: Priceless!

Priceless? Well, considering the time one spends travelling to catch the flight is countless hours longer than the actual flight, it would turn out to be priceless. Although , some people do think highly of the service,this remains to be seen...
I had countless options plannend out for a Trivandrum - Delhi trip!
Low cost airline to delhi, Train,Bus,Costly airline to Bangalore to catch the low cost airline to delhi.

In the end, a whole lot of time and money wasted...

SPICE, Kingfisher, Deccan, get here fast!

Brilliant Ubiquitous Leverage Limiting Simple Hideous Interactive Trends - Part II

2005-10-08T04:52:00.000-07:00

The wrath of Airtel.

Airtel One-to-One. A perfect example of 'Brilliant Ubiquitous Leverage Limiting Simple Hideous Interactive Trends' . i.e. B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.

Why? Dial 121 to find out!

Kanekshun Setup Phaze
Step 1: Pick up a phone. Not any phone, but a phone with Airtel written all over it.
Step 2: Dial 121. First Dial 1, then Dial 2, then Dial 1 again.
Step 3: Press the button that says 'Call' or the button with a picture of a phone on it.

Kanekshun Establishment Phaze
Rrrrrrring. Rrrrrrrrring.

Kanekshun Established Phaze
121: Welcome to Airtel Customer Care.
...
Our menu options are constantly changing.
...
This is done to make your meaningless lives more complicated
...
Please listen to all our options to make the right decision.
...
Any wrong option selected will be severly penalized.
...
For info. on your account , Press 1
...
For info. on someone elses account , Press 2
...
For info. on extra services , Press 3
...
For changing your menu and language options , Press 7
...
At any time,to get back to the main menu, press #

Step 1: Fumble with the keypad and press 1. ( After all , it comes first! )

121: To know your balance, Press 1
...
To change your billing options Press 2
...
To activate or deactivate a service Press 3
...
To Go back to the previous menu, press 0
...
To Go back to the main menu, press #
...
...
...
To talk to a customer care officer, press 9

Step 2: Press 9!!

121: "Please hold the line, one of our officers will be with you shortly."
...
Ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta ta da da da da. Vi Vi vi vi ....
( thats the sound of the airtel tune being played on a whistle... )
...
"Sorry to keep you waiting, all our officers are currently busy!"
"Sorry to keep you waiting, all our officers are currently busy!"
"Sorry to keep you waiting, all our officers are currently busy!"
...
"Sorry to keep you waiting, all our officers are currently busy!"
(This goes on till someone decides to pickup the phone...)
Thank you for calling Airtel, my name is ______ , how may I help you?

Step 3: State your problem. Only one problem per call.
"I have a problem with .. "

121: "Yes sir, may i have your name?"
"May i have your number?"
"May i have your model number of the phone?"
"Sir, please hold the line"

"But ... But...!"

121: "Thank you for calling airtel. Have a nice day"
Ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta ta da da da da. Vi Vi vi vi ....
"Thank you for calling airtel. Have a nice day"
Ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta ta da da da da. Vi Vi vi vi ....
"Thank you for calling airtel. Have a nice day"
Ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta da ta ta ta ta ta ta da da da da. Vi Vi vi vi ....

Around 8 - 10 minutes later...

"Sir , thank you for holding the line. I had gone to have a cup of tea. You didn't tell me your problem."

(At this time they look into the Airtel 121 handbook ... )

a) We will perform a system reset
b) Please turn off your phone and turn it on again
c) Please remove the sim and insert it again
d) Your sim is actually blocked. Please try to make outgoing calls now
e) We are only customer care, please contact the technical department
f) We cannot give you the numbers of the technical department.
g) Actually, do you work for airtel? Are you an Airtel employee?
h) Sir, please go to SIMSON communications. They are the dealers here. They will give you a repeater.
i) SIMSON communications? Repeater? No sir. We did not tell you to go there. Why would we do that?
j) Actually if you ask us to disable the connection, it means that we will keep it enabled, but you should not use it!
k) This connection comes with no activation/usage charge for international roaming. You just have to pay for it.
l) Please send a reply "YES" to 121
m) Please hold the line once again.
n) Actually, we do not have any control over that.
o) I fully understand your problem.
p) Yes sir. I know it is a very big problem, our people will visit you and solve your problem.
q) Sir, from the report we have received from the technical department : 'Customer is 1km away from the tower, will get satisfactory outdoor coverage."

- Keep cycling through the answers till the customer gets tired.

Kanekshun Termination Phaze
Customer: "Go to hell , you **** *** *** ****** ! "

Need I say more?

Brilliant Ubiquitous Leverage Limiting Simple Hideous Interactive Trends - Part I

2005-10-03T10:28:00.000-07:00

In short... B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T. !

Yes , thats right. What do you get when you connect IDEA@458 , AIRTEL@121 and the banking superpower IyIyI ( pronounced Aye-ye-ye-ye-ye ! ) bank... Complete and utter destruction!

Lend me your ears...

The year 2005, the mobile phone revolution. Everybody who's anybody has a phone . Now consider the power of linking your phone with your bank account!

Act 1 Scene 1:
Lady on the phone: Your balance is running low, please recharge immediately.
TTA: Bah. Hogwash. Lemme check out the flexi plans...

Idea cellular flexi plans... Go broke - flexibly.

You pay	We Get	They Get	You Get	for how long
100	30	60	10	0
150	60	70	20	0
…	…	…	…	…
…	…	…	…	…
199	200	90	20	0
200	90	100	10	30
599	200	300	99	0
600	200	350	50	30

Right. Now that’s what I call simple stuff. Notice the plans in Green vs. the plans in Red. Some of them give you more money with less time to talk, while others give you much less money, with much more time. I guess I would have to memorize that table before I could make any sense of it…

TTA heads for IYIYIbank.com > Prepaid mobile recharge > idea and enters the phone number and the amount to zap to it. Moments later, voila - the money has been zapped from the confines of the account into non existence. 24 hours later, and there’s still no sign of the cash that went missing.

TTA proceeds to call up IDEA prepaid helpless-line @ 458. Moments later, I’m made to listen to irritating music till his/her highness the (ECC) Executive of Customer Care grants me an audience.

ECC: Good evening, someone here , how may I laugh at your problems?
TTA: Hello. I recharged my phone online through IYIYIbank.com yesterday.
ECC: through an ATM?
TTA: no…… through the website!
ECC: oh! So, what’s the problem?
TTA: The money has not reached my phone yet.
ECC: Hmmm, Sir, has the money left your account?
TTA: Yes, it left yesterday.
ECC: Hmm….mmm, ( nod of dissatisfaction ) I have the solution!!!
TTA: yes?
ECC: You need to go to our Pattom head office. They will take good care of you and your ‘problem’ there.
TTA: ‘most gracious thanks O mighty one.’ By the way, how are we supposed to know the amount that we get when recharging online/at an ATM. (it is not displayed anywhere)
ECC: Ha ha ha ha, you don’t get to know… Only we get to know. You have to call us to find out.
TTA: @#$%&*%!@#%^&^
ECC: Thank you for the inconvenience

Act 1 Scene 2:
Idea postpaid helpless line: 12345 , 9847012345
Idea prepaid helpless line: 458 , 9847112345

Assume you have 2 idea connections, a prepaid and a postpaid. You cannot call up the postpaid Gods from your lowly prepaid connection.

Why not? Because the number has been blocked.
Why? Because there are some dimwitted blockheads that never figured that someone ~might need to call up the postpaid helpline from a prepaid number.

You need another phone ( i.e. a landline / another idea postpaid / any other company phone ) to make a call to the postpaid helpline.
ECC: Oh… , yes sir. It is like that.
TTA: @#$%&*%!@#%^&^

People who run these companies obviously don’t dare use their own products…!

Act 1 Scene 3:
Idea prepaid helpless line: 458 , 9847112345

I visited NIT Surathkal for ‘Incident’ and headed on to Bangalore for CEED in Feb ‘04. My next visit was in June ’04. My contacts were using Airtel connections, while I was roaming on Hutch.
One has not experienced true joy until they have spent countless hours calling up IDEA customer care in Kerala from Karnataka explaining to them why they cannot call Airtel numbers that supposedly 'do not exist'.

It’s a real treat to be stranded on the roadside at 04:30 in the morning because ‘the number you have dialed does not exist…’ . Let me put it this way. The number I have dialed does exist, it’s just that IDEA roaming on Hutch did not want to route outgoing calls to Airtel and found it quite amusing toying with people.

Well, I did finally get through to the Airtel number. How? I called up a guy on his land line at 04:30 a.m. and requested him to call the Airtel number.

IDEA , HUTCH, AIRTEL . ( Guess which finger I’m holding up. )

Coming Soon. Part II. The wrath of Airtel.

ROTY anyone?

2005-09-01T09:05:00.000-07:00

Stardate 090405 2018 hrs, We have received official word that the Ms Vista is now out of reach of the enterprise. We are in the process evacuating the area and are proceeding to new frontiers.

i.e. Vista 64!! note : contrary to popular assumptions, the two are in no way connected...

Right, now like i said earlier, back to the drawing room. There have been some strange happenings at the workplace , with people referring to me as 'Rookie' . I have noticed this behaviour change over the last 3 days. Hmm, it must have been something they ate?

Also, i find this strange plate sitting on top of my machine at wrk. Seems like some space age material. Amazingly, it can collect fingerprints of people who approach it. I collected 20 the other day! It must be the shiny light reflecting surface that draws in visitors from far and wide.

Yaanyway, this is Rookie of the year (ROTY) signing off. Do forgive me if you see any stray '€' or '$' characters, since these two keys are placed above the arrow keys on the lappy keyboard.

Disclaimer: this ROTY bears no resemblance to other ROTY's living or dead in other IBUs across the company. Any resemblance is purely co-incidental and entirely unintentional.

back to the drawing room?

2005-08-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

Drawing Room?

Drawing Board + Boardroom ... its all the same to me.

~activity()
{
free(masterplans);
*masterplans=null;
}
...
technically, i am back to the drawing room , see this

Anyways, Best wishes to mmmm... & ro·gue (rō-jē)
I was pretty tied up with a worldwide conference and of course, the mission ,deep deep undercover ( G15 Classified ) . All I can say is that a lot of money went up in smoke and I now have access to some deadly pixel-punching hardware that can cause destruction at medium/high detail.

(Can't Get My) Head Around You

2005-08-27T08:37:00.000-07:00

4:30 p.m. ...
searching the streets for the answer.

5 hours later...

Deep inside your soul there's a hole you don't wanna see
Every single day what you say makes no sense to me
Even though I try I can't get my head around you

Somewhere in the night there's a light in front of me
Heaven up above with a shove, abandons me
Even though I try I fall in the river of you
You've managed to bring me down too

All you're faking (Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up)
Shows you're aching (Get up, Get up, Get up)

Every single day what you say makes no sense to me
Lettin' you inside isn't right, you'll mess with me
I'll never really know what's really going on inside you
I can't get my head around you

All your feeding (Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up)
Shows you're bleeding (Get up, Get up, Get up)

Deep inside your soul there's a hole you don't wanna see
you're covering it up like a cut with the likes of me
You know I've really tried, I can't do any more about you

(Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) The cut's getting deeper

(Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) The hill's getting steeper.

I guess I'll never know what's really going on inside you
I can't get my head around you
I can't get my head around you
I can't get my head around you
I can't get my head around you

- The 'Offsprings'.
taken from www.sing365.com

Right.
For all those souls pondering endlessly on the so called double meanings if any, all i have to say is
muahahahahahah!!!

Superpowers at War - Part 2: n-gaged already?

2005-08-21T06:53:00.000-07:00

If you visited n-gage.com , you would read something like this!
"NOTE: slightly modified for the situation! "
Welcome to N-Gaged.com!
Find out more about the N-Gaged, or keep up with the latest events and more. Be sure to chat with other N-Gaged gamers!

Sometimes you want to call on your friends. Other times you want to challenge them to a multiplayer gaming showdown. More than just a mobile gaming device, getting N-Gaged allows you to do both....

Scientific studies have shown that events taking place at IATA:CGY will cause EMI and a fair amount of attenuation in 900/1800 MHz frequency band at IATA:TVC.

IntelligentMAN (refer here) seems to have pulled a fast one on the general public :
... the Celeron D joins the line of 64 bit enabled processors ...
As far as I know, thats a load of cr@p. The word that comes to my mind when i hear that: b*llsh*t...

AMD ActivityMan has launched the counter attack with his new GPRS enabled secret weapon, the Turion64 . This will enable him to be in constant contact with the rest of the IPV4 enabled world!
muahahahah! Victory Dalais Placait! (the actual translation is lost. Refer the Asterix collection for clues...)

AMD ActivityMAN was supposed to reach CGY today but was unable to do so as he kept getting this error while doing a 'tracert CGY'
Unable to resolve target system name cgy
Baffled by this, he checked his own setup, but was unable to find a problem (tracert TVC...)
Tracing route to TVC [98.47.37.57.69]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1>
Trace complete.
Nevertheless, our hero entered into the ACPI state S3 from S0.

Early morning, the next day...
Our hero awakes and finds that the search is still futile.
Pinging CGY with 32 bytes of data:
Destination host unreachable.
...
Destination host unreachable.
Ping statistics for CGY:
Packets: Sent = 262144000, Received = 0, Lost = 262144000 (100% loss),
Dejected, he re-enters S3 and waits for a magic packet via WOL/WOR.

About an hour later, he receives a reply...
Tracing route to stantonys.com [48.130.95.45.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 750 755 87 TVC
2 814 815 116 CRY
3 819 820 119 KVU
4 834 835 128 VAK
5 844 845 139 PVU
6 910 915 152 QLN
7 950 952 192 KYJ
8 1001 1002 200 MVLK
9 1013 1014 213 CNGR
10 1023 1024 222 TRVL
11 1033 1034 230 CGY
Trace complete!

Finally, A lead! Unfortunately, he finds that it will be difficult to move this large mass of data/code to this location in time, and gives up chase.
...

AMD ActivityMAN goes back to S0, and is called by the D.M. [MCP,ECNR]. He jumps into action and sets off to the battlefield to wage the 'multiplayer gaming showdown'. After a hard yet victorious battle, and consumption of large quantities of C6H12O6 with H2O our hero returns to the drawing board.

Hmm...
I guess the N-Gaged theory is slightly flawed. I was able to challenge my friends to the multiplayer gaming showdown, but not call on the friends I was supposed to be with. Hmm, so I guess the multitasking only works at one place at a time eh? FYI: I think virtualization would be useful in this scenario......

Well, thats the way the bowling ball bounces. AMD ActivityMAN wishes to congratulate IntelligentMAN and the maiden My-croissoft 'Vista' (aka Longhorn...) and wishes them all the success and happiness for the years to come...

Now , if only he could figure out a way to get to IATA:SBC by next Saturday!
Thats one Fast Fourier Transform that even an itanium/opteron is going to have trouble chewing on.

signing off. (for my own good.... :) )
~TTA

Death by Reverse KT!

2005-06-26T20:18:00.000-07:00

TTA, 08:49 A.M. IST

There's a time and a place for everything,
this is neither...

TTA, 19:01 P.M. IST , 02-July-05

Captains log , stardate 020605,
The enterprise was caught unaware by a cloaked Klingon (cling on) vessel and locked in its tractor beam. The key crewmembers have been taken hostage. It seems the Klingon high command developed a new kind of bio-weapon, that can penetrate our force fields.
...
...
...
The crew was subjected to a cruel and inhuman punishment known as Reverse-Klingon-Theologies ( Reverse KT for short... ) . This form of punishment, very popular on the Kilngon home planet seems to be some form of entertaintment for them . We were made to endure the happenings through obfuscated fables of systems and services beyond all possible and plausible logic.

ob·fus·cate (ŏb'fə-skāt', ŏb-fŭs'kāt')
To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand

The second part of the torture involved full reconstruction of the illogical events that were carried out in the previous sessions along with intense exposure to radiations from a XGA resolution laser . We were mentally and physically drained after the exposure to the XGA radiation.

Two crew members were too weak to continue with the intense gruel of the Reverse-KT and dropped out in its early stages. ( They are recovering well in the ICE - Intensive care environment )

We are slowly becoming immune to these tactics and have developed a Counter measure - Codename 'Confusion'

Confusion - Confusion through infusion of ideas beyond resolution of diffusion.

Our initial attempts at 'Confusion' were successful , we managed to resist the torture and escaped unscathed. We are working on a plan to overthrow the Klingon empire and put an end to the inhuman activities performed on the planet!

Long live the Confusion ... err revolution!

In loving memory of...

2005-04-24T00:59:00.000-07:00

There's a good reason for this un-natural silence from my side.

Blindfolded... Dad /Chapter 2

"Welcome to the real world..."
It takes more than the usual dose of reality to wake me from my usual 'perfect world'.
Although, that's how I prefer it, looking at the world through rose coloured glasses is how most of us get on with our daily lives...

It came as a shock to me the night KD called up and explained his sudden itinerary. I'm sad to say a strange sense of dé·jà vu came over me (Tvm, 2000) and I feared the worst. Nevertheless, I assured him that everything would be alright.
...
...
...
In a way,
life is short, so make use of every moment you get,
to remind someone how much they mean to you,
to tell someone how you feel,
rather than wait till its too late and ask yourself,
"What if...?"

Superpowers at War - Part 1

2005-04-14T04:50:00.000-07:00

DeeDee News:
moments ago...
IntelligentMAN has unleashed upon the earth a series of 'evil dual core processors' in a monopolistic move to take over the minds of innocent PC users all over the world. IntelligentMAN who had been in hiding after his commanding officers
(Chips-that-must-not-be-named) PentiumMAN, PentiumMMXMAN, Pentium2MAN, Pentium3MAN and of course, Pentium4MAN were banished from earth by the hero AMD AthlonXPMAN. In a battle that lasted 7 semesters, every last supporter of the evil wizard Pentium and his MMX technology were driven away, finally freeing the people of Townsville.

Peace has reigned for 4 years , and with the resurfacing of IntelligentMAN, the world is once again in peril !
When asked to comment on this, IntelligentMAN said : two heads are better than one, so now i'll use my "Indian Society image" (ISI) mark to make people believe that anyone who does not buy an evil dual core processor from me (for 3 times the cost... ) is the doomed ! Never again will they be able to show thier faces in public , without "intelligent Inside" technology sticker on their PC's... muahahahaha

AMD ActivityMAN replied: IntelligentMAN seems to have used a brain scattering ray on the general public. If you see the popularity meter, it seems that people are hailing him as a champion, and the innocent public are flocking to buy his evil processors. Little do they know that its just a marketing gimmic and fancy packaging with all the hi-funda words like hyperthreading,1 MB cache and net-burst architecture that have the gullible public asking for more.

Also, after the if-it-aint-broken-dont-fix-it pearl harbor incident below (see the previous blog entry ) , i have almost fully recovered from my injuries. (which were mainly to my ego)

The superhero roadmap shows that IntelliegentMan's popularity in 'the elite circle' has been shooting up after the recent incident. AMD ActivityMAN fans, never fear.. for our hero will be back soon with another Master Plan to "take over the world" all from his Secret Laboratory....

Our hero AMD ActivityMAN is currently working on the high level design phase for a new Master plan to recapture the market share and properly utilize his 64-bit processing capabilities to overthrow the competition.

Many beleive that the source of the rivalry between the superheroes is to gain favour of the Goddess/heiress to the multi-billion dollar empire of my-croissoft technologies. My-croissoft technologies is the current software giant that controls the operation of the world as we know it.

Any business tie up between My-croissoft technologies and IntelligentMAN would cause the the world's economies to enter a downward spiral fuelled only by new releases of resource hogging versions of my-croissoft Windoors and successive evil-processors launched by IntelligentMAN.

Stay tuned for the next edition of Superpowers at War where AMD ActivityMAN strikes back...

If it aint broke , dont "Fix" it!

2005-04-05T06:57:00.000-07:00

To the Congress of the Empire of Activity

Yesterday, April. 4, 2005 - a date which will live in infamy - the Empire of Activity
was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the US.

The Empire was at peace with that nation and... was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Indeed, one hour after US air squadrons had commenced bombing in Activity, the ambassador to the empire and his colleagues delivered to the Emperor a formal reply to a recent 'american style' message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Activity from US Headquarters makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the US government has deliberately sought to deceive Activity by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Activity has caused severe damage to Activity's forces. Luckily no lives have been lost. In addition, "lightning strikes" have been reported bringing down all communications and causing damage to millions of dollars of equipment.

... and the story goes on!

Well, thats the 'historical' way of putting the events of yester-week.

Putting it in simple english....

1. 'Twas the night before Tuesday, when all over the floor
Not a creature was stirring, not even a door;
The techies were asleep snoring through the night
when all of a sudden , lo the sky became bright!

Lightning struck everywhere , like a 1000w light
and circuits in smoke , all in plain sight!
People are silent, how can they call?
No more telephones, extensions and all....

2. Infy loses out to Deloitte on a Billion dollar tie up with Accenture ;-)
pun intended... (The inspiration for the title)
Warning: All characters portrayed are completely fictional and any similarity to real places/people living or dead is unintended and purely coincidental. he he he

Some Matches are made in heaven, but Match Fixing happens only on earth ...
(sorry, i couldnt resist that one! stabbing cricket in the back ;) )

i.e. If it isn't broken, find something that is, and fix it.

with excerpts from magnetron,IfItAintBrokeDontFixIt and FDR's speech!

I've still got IT

2005-04-03T06:07:00.000-07:00

I just remembered how much fun my college days were...

i.e. the days that i spent 'away from college' participating in arts and technical festivals in and around kerala. As soon as we saw a poster with the words "Prize money" and sufficient zeroes after the leading digit, we (me,nithin,atholi,... ) would go zooming off in that direction like bounty hunters.

I'm famous out of college, and infamous in college.

I went for a Technocrats quiz yesterday organized as a part of Ingenio '05. The event was a bit of a letdown and a drag. (like most college events conducted on the same day as a Cricket match/GATE exam??) .

10:00 am. Reach the venue (kerala university )
Not a banner or a 'well dressed' soul in sight. I started to have second thoughts (as in -- Where the hell am I?) .
10:15 am. My partner Anoop (in leiu of Tall/bald guy) arrives , equally surprised.
10:17 am. Proceed to a seemingly empty hall.... "Senate Hall"
10:20 am. Greeted by pretty ladies , and instructed to kindly take a seat.
10:30 am. "Sorry for the delay, the events will start by 11:00".
11:30 am. "Sorry for the delay, the events will start after the seminar".
I ask, "when is the seminar?"
"Sir, it will start shortly, i should be about an hour long, but will finish in 40-45
mins."
11:55 am We go for a walk , look at second hand books and make a beeline for LUNCH
12:10 pm Order Chicken Biriyani and Chappathi/Chicken fry
12:12 pm Receive a frantic call asking us to "Sir, Please report backstage immediately"
12:13 pm Quickly tell the waiter to cancel the otherwise mouthwatering order
12:14 pm Rush out of the restaurant and head back to the venue.
12:15 pm Back (on) stage
12:30 pm A surprise quizmaster to conduct the quiz....
-- the surprise is that the person who was supposed to conduct the quiz is 'missing in
action' ?
12:40 pm four teams take part in a quiz meant for 6 teams.
-- Infy-r-us ;) , US sw, IBS, M2
The powerpoint presentation for the quiz has got 6 questions per round , but there are only 4 teams! The quizmaster remains unfazed. He conducts the quiz like a 5th grade teacher teaching the students.
12:45 pm 2 rounds later, we are still at duck, and the other teams have scored some points. Our most popular answer was "pass"
1:05 pm We pick some points here and there 15 to be exact.
1:15 pm We pick up close to 40 points in the last two rounds....
1:20 pm We walk away with the grand prize...
--just a gift wrapped "kathahali" head. but a prize nonetheless
1:25 pm all the teams still gaping in disbeleif. ( so are we... )
1:35 pm Go back to the same restaurant and continue from where we were so
'rudely interrupted'...
2:15 pm We have contented looks on our faces after lunch
2:45 pm return home, carry on with normal day..

end of story for now...
The author wishes to indicate that the quiz seems to have benefitted us in no way, but served as an entertaining event for the assembled crowd? Also , where is the proof that we participated and/or won?

Aaah... Welcome to the wonderful world of organizing an event. Apparently, you didn't think of everything did you?

Trinfosys - Infosys@Trivandrum

2004-12-05T06:01:00.000-08:00

Happy new year to all....

Its the 1st anniversary of the Trivandrum Developement Center of Infosys, or Trinfy as we call it.... It has been an eventful 4 months here packed with activites. We had a month long sports week , and now we are preparing for an arts festival like no other to be held in Mysore DC.

Here are a few snaps of Trinfy/Technopark for the newbies...........

trinfosys

You've been Bangalored!

2004-08-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

Greetings friends , romans and fellow software engineers....

Its been two long months and 2 pay cheques since, i just havent been in my element......
If you refer to Bangalore times , im sure you would have read about the term Bangalored
A life of excitement, glamour, girls , sex , money, high speed vehicles,spooky stuff and plenty of aspirins. Allow me to elaborate.

The excitement: sure , if you see the joy in peoples faces as they walk hand in hand, hand in pocket , hand in someone elses pocket, you know , its a place to have fun. I spent the last two days of my 60 day jail sentence in "the forum" . thats a hip hangout in koramangala. So0mething like visiting heaven for a brief instant before being sent to hell. visited Pizza hut, enjoyed a 400 buck monster with two friends . L & R. (monster as in the 400 bucks and not the size of the pizza ). Compared to the last two months, i must say it was a hell lot of fun.

glamour. yup . cant go wrong here, when im back in kerala, and look around, then i know what im missing here. Anyway - bangalore ppl, you sure know how to dress ..

girls, sex, money - the three things that i dont have, :( makes sense doesnt it.

high speed vehicles: im sure you have never noticed just how fast a guy carrying a sackload of vegetables on a TVS 50 moped can actually go? well, ill say he'll give schumi a run for his money.

spooky stuff. theres a time in your life when your head gets soooo messedup with things going on around that you get spooked & scared senseless by the shadow of a guy on a cycle heading straight for you. yup: Cuckoo cuckoo.. (@ gone case )

finally the aspirins. something regular at last. heres a good reason not to skip meals . To hell with the deadlines. Go for £$R£$ lunch. after breakfast,lunch,tea,snacks and dinner are the most important meals of the day. then popin an aspirin to get you through this day and to the next one.

Electric switches, are used to turn on lights fans .. so on. In my house , when i put on the switch, all the light go off. (usually for a day..)

I was a regular at Cafe Coffee day. My friend D cannot survive without her daily dose of cappuchino (hope i spelt it right..) And A , or Madam A as we call here loovoes chocolate cake. Now it just so happens that A & D are roomies. So thats a good way to keep both of em happy eh? Cappuchino et Chocolate cake.....

Hmm. i will miss the sips of coffee and the tiny fragments of cake.....

now on to hell...

Welcome to trivandrum. sorry, welcome back to trivandrum. This is like the indian who got an excellent job abroad and posted back at home. whaatever.

Stay tuned fot Life in tvm.

tta

Home sweet home..

2004-06-27T03:15:00.000-07:00

..is something i miss very much now! Well hello cruel world! Anyway, thats the way life treats you.

So the tale be told, i am in bangalore now, very very far from kothamangalam, my home for the past 4 years... For starters , i am joining Infosys , the "Company" , tomorrow. As they say, survival of the fattest .. er fittest , whatever. So im out of the frying pan and hanging from the flames. B.tech results arent out yet. Hmm , so i guess i'll be hanging around till then.

IIM-B students,be warned! Jeni Kurian has landed. right now in wonderland (hostel) ,surfing on his laptop, wondering what the next two years have in store for him. Oh, the joy of sitting together in class and bashing your brains out every now and then..

Big Jake, (Jake the Fake) is coming to Ingersoll Rand, remember him the next time you see those fancy road rollers repairing our roads..

Finally me, down to the last straw. Lets say , I dont see too many people with kids in Pubs... (or people drinking lime soda either ) .

People tired of big city life, may i strongly advise you to visit Kothamangalam (-land) !!
From tomorrow, im a working man (it was nice while it lasted)
Now if only the work environment was like Dilbert or Drew Carey!!!

Seeya ..

Chatrapati Shivaji Airport

2004-06-19T22:25:00.000-07:00

this is your captain speaking...

So here i am at Mumbai "International" Domestic airport. On to trivandrum in an hour or so. Mumbai's been fun, but im sure the flight will be more. Flight Sim , stand back.. here comes the real thing!
On to the lounge for some birdwatching.....

Enjoy your flight!

the Azkaban ..... IMAX Experience

2004-06-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

Something wicked this way comes....
are the words that pop into my mind when i heard the exorbitant ticket fee for the "complete" experience!
The complete experience consists of:
0. IMAX Adlabs at mumbai
1. 12,000 Watts of digital wrap around sound
2. The largest ever film size
3. Digital something or the other
4. did i mention the 12,000 Watts of digital sound?
5. The largest dome theatre in the world.

Now for the experience... After buying the tickets and making our way in.. (me and aunt) we made our way for a snack - the life giving force. So anyway we made our choice fromm the 1000+ seats available..

Armed with a sandwich, we braved the whatever was in store for us. First a dolphins trailer, yup, thats truly amazing, it felt really realistic, the dolphin filling the huge dome screen!! and diving right at us. Next a brief clip of space and the milky way also really cool! Hmm, looks interesting i think. No.

Act 1, Scene 1, Action.

A huge WB logo (Warner Bro.s) filling up the screen, wonderful! makes you wonder what a huge cinema screen wrapped around your head would seem like. Then the movie begins.. So far so good, i had to keep tilting my head left right (like a tennis match) to see who's where.
So harry potter - the poor little kid with a short fuse. Gets angry easily, eats a Lot of chocolate. Hmm, for an IMAX movie, it didnt seem any different from normal, just take a normal screen and pull the edges towards you. Every now and then I had the feeling that I was in Azkaban.

........ Watch the movie, not that its amazing, but watch it anyway.

Result: my aunt is cured of her "imax fever" , i guess .

National Roaming (Literally)

2004-06-17T10:19:00.000-07:00

Greetings fellow earthlings,
U get the feeling sometimes that things just arent going your way?
Im getting that feeling right now,The third attempt to start this blog, after two seemingly unrelated incidents with an injured big toe and a cut hand thanks to a revolving office chair and a door handle.... Well , not too sure about this blog thing but i figured, its worth a try. I've got a B.Tech and a B.Sarc, as in technical writing and sarcasm. Two qualities i think have me undeniably prepared for the future.

Somehow , i think were all a bit too dependant on our mobile phones as a lifeline. In a way true, as we do feel a bit helpless, when we try to contact someone and hear a recorded voice saying "no can do"... Or your pulse and heartbeat would be replaced by the little flashing indicator keeping u informed that u are still in range. Hmm, I wonder how people got along without em.
Mobile battery dead -- similar to brain dead !! Im sure everyone has heard of something called TRAI / TDSAT . TDSAT sounds something like a fancy satellite .. no can do. Tribunal something something something. TRAI is like a fairy godmother telling ur mobile company not to Overcharge you when you go on those trips of little or no importance. Well , thats about as much as it does. So while my mobile company buggers Overcharge me and tell me " your complaint is being processed all i can do is twiddle my thumbs.

I am in mumbai rite now,in the neighbouhood of Master Blaster Tendulkar and Miss Bliss Aish warya Rai.... So whats there to see? Plenty, more 'wildlife' than a bird sanctuary, so one might have to keep one or both eyes on the road while trodding along.

As the school year has started and my cousins S(11) and T(9) have gone back to school, i feel it such a releif to have "passed out" such a long time back .. rather than "pass away".... Oh the homework, the tutions, and more homework. Engineering students have it better. Great minds have decided to classify the homework as "ASSignments" ..the more the merrier.
Where would we be without them? Better off,as I always say.

Well thats one small step for man, one giant leap for Blogkind...
sayonara..

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