A Lazy Sunday Morning...

Frankly speaking, the only reason i am writing this blog is that i am really bored. The world has come to a standstill. I read the newspaper today after almost a week, and the news remains the same. Absolutely nothing new to read about. I know I am in the middle of my semester exams (the last one at that) and I should be studying for the next one, but it is still two days away. And as a mechanical engg in SVR, its a big crime to start off so early. Specially when your subject is something as dull as TQM (I am sure most of u out there know what it stands for, so please tell me about it). Just went through the stuff once some time back, and I realised then itself that my answer paper is gonna be a jumble of the following words :

1) Customer Satisfaction

2) Training for the workers

3) Continuous Evaluation

4) Self-Improvement

5) Scientific Methods

Mix them up, and make the full usage of the oh-so-flexible and versatile English language, and voila - thats my answer paper! It pays to have a decent knowledge of the language, u can easily play around with words and escape scot-free. Trust me, it works.

As for my previous exams, well...things were going fine till "Friday, the 28th" happened. Easily the biggest disaster of my illustrious academic career (yup...i am serious), the only consolation I have is that i have already seen the worse. And the next two being not so difficult, i can safely say i am almost done with engineering. Looking back, i was not so hard.

Amazingly, we have been getting internet 24 hours a day for the past one week. Yup, exactly the same time as our exams started. What sort of conspiracy is this! Dont they wanna let us go out of this place with some peace? We thought that if somehow we manage some decent scores this time around, maybe it will make up for all the previous catastrophes. 'Cause as they say, Alls well that ends well. But it was not to be. And with the orkut fever reaching it's peak, the guys end up spending almost 4-5 hours per day only on orkut. People like Pole and Hunk have their scrap counts increased @ almost 100/day!!! Unfortunately, urs truly has also fallen into the trap. Its like, ek chapter ho gaya...lets orkut for a while. So u study for one hour, and to compensate (!) for it, Ur orkut for almost 2 hours!!! Its is so goddamn addictive!

Now that i am coming to the end of my wonderful hostel life, one thing i am gonna miss the most is the college LAN. What an amazing storehouse it is! One stop destination for all ur computer needs. How can i forget those hours and hours that i have spent on LAN playing AOE? So many things to see, so many things to do. I was counting yesterday, and the number of movies available on LAN was close to 150!!! and this i am talking about only Hollywood stuff. Just dont know how i am gonna manage my comp at home with the LAN. I have spent the past 50 hours trying to collect all the stuff that i can, and burn it away on CDs/DVDs so that i can carry some part of it along. My dear ol' Compaq Presario is working overtime at the limit of its processing powers. Let us see how AMD Athalon holds out to this work load. And while all the work is going on in the background, this is the only thing i can do without using up too much of my CPU resources.

Now with the mouth watering sunday lunch around the corner, time for me to hit the showers (though no such thing exists in the hostel). A sumptuous lunch, and then to do what i am best at...

Zzzzzz!

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The decision of PM and Arjun Singh last week of getting reservations in premier institutes like IIMs, IITs and NITs raised a huge furore on virtual world too. Messages being pased around, strikes being called, orkut communities and yahoo groups being created, and tons of other such activities. but i wonder how many of them realise that this is not going to help in anyway. I mean, do they seriously think that our PM and president spend most of their time on orkut!!!

Anyway, check out this interesting scenario:

Suppose we have job reservations in all the fields. I mean ALL of them. Even sports. Com'on, aren't they called "professionals". Even that is a job.

Let's start the reservation with our cricket team too. BCCI should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. Theboundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player.The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kmph.

And then since there is only a minimum limit and no maximum, lets fill the whole indian team with them.

To hell with Chappel and his De Bono theories on thinking hats (6 colours at that!!!)

Dekhte hai phir world cup jeetne se kaun rokta hai!!!

WI, here we come.

Some things i find really irritating...

Ok...this is not something entirely orginal. But i saw a similar forward which got me thinking.
What are the things that I find irritating?
This is what I ended up with. Not necessarily a wholesome list, but just the things on top of my mind

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time...I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the tv remote because they refuse to walk to the tv and change the channel manually.

3. This one just came into my mind, since its my birthday in another hour.
When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it?

5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid a 100 bucks(yup surat is damn expensive) to come to the theatre and stare at the damn floor.

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya?

7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, it couldn't be new.

8. When you are waiting for the bus (not in surat, but in hyderabad) and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

9. When they say, "Hey, what's up?". Its always the ceiling or the blue sky idiot.

Am pretty sure everyone of us has had a similar feeling sometime or other, but then why dont we stop saying such stupid stuff?