By default

By default, every girl has a boyfriend,
and
by default, no boy has a girlfriend.

(of course, some exceptions are there)

Although it may seem logically inconsistent, it is a simple observation which is practically evident (look around in your office/college and ponder for a moment) , isn't it ?

The 'gamla' welcome

See that ? that's what lies right in front of the lift at one of buildings of the company I work for. I mean WTF ? If we are not supposed to use the lifts, at least use something more appropriate to say the same. And if we can use the lifts as usual, why is this pot there ?

Pune

Nice city...

good overall climate... really good climate...

roads... bad roads... dirty roads... pot-holed roads... random roads... unplanned roads...

traffic... more traffic... and more traffic...

rain... more rain... any time rain... again more rain...

flats... flats... and more flats.... very few rowhouses...

brokers... deposits... disgusting brokers... senseless brokers...

girls... few... plenty... bad girls... so-so girls... good girls... hot girls... hmmm...

food... all kinds of food... good food... bad food... mostly good :)

power cuts... more power cuts... even more power cuts... still more power cuts...

water shortage... 2 days... 4 days... no it's for 10 days...

CCD... another CCD... another CCD... ... ... wtf?...

(That's blogoetry [blog + poetry] - few words, three dots.
Beat that you haikus, sonnets, elegys, odes, rhymes...)

Long time, no see

It's been months since I wrote something here, apart from the last post (which actually is something I rant about every now and then). And it's all because of the fact that I do not have a computer to do any of this stuff.

It's a shocker for me. Like having a girlfriend, always by your side, there for you in every situation except for the horrible fact that she is in COMA ! The same can be said for my laptop. It's very much there, takes in power, the LEDs glow, the hard disk spins, the fan revvs , only the goddamn display doesn't turn up ! Would be almost 5 months since it last worked perfectly alright. It did work with a bit of hammering and slapping a few times in between though.

And the problem is faulty hardware that HP (that lying company that says that your computer is "Personal") has sold to thousands of consumers, me being one of them. They have acknowledged this and extended the warranty by 2 years........ but only in America (the goddamn greatest country on earth, as they say). Indians however, are supposed to pay 20 grand to get the laptop's motherboard replaced. No repair is possible as per those punks who run that crappy 10 by 12 shop known as an 'Authorised HP Service Center'.

Ok..enough of this laptop bullshit. Well, a bit more. Since a laptop was not there, I have been using my mobile phone for all my network cravings. And I thank Nokia for developing a really cool product. Of course, my flatmate, Neo's (no, he's not a hardcore fan of Keanu Reeves) laptop is there (which I am using at the moment for typing out this post). I could have so-called 'texted' a post out of mobile but that just didn't feel right.

I have a few things in mind to write about, one of them will follow. Rest, will probably have to wait until that local repair shop 18km away where I left my laptop last Friday doles out some fruitful results or I buy that killer gaming rig I have always wanted since school !

Headed for disaster

Gone are the days when the brand called IIT had some value. Just the sheer number of new IITs that this ever stupid government of the country is hell bent on creating, is testimony enough as to what lies in the future.

Instead of raising the status of the good colleges like some NITs and others, why create new entities ? Somebody drill some sense into these illiterate politicians who in the name of creating centres of excellence in the field of engineering education are instead diluting the existing ones.

All that is gonna happen now :
Parent 1 : "Mera beta IIT mein hai"
Parent 2 : "Mera beta bhi"
Parent 3 : "Mera bhi"
......
....
..
.

Reminiscence

One fine day I thought of my schoolmates,
How can I ever forget those eternal dates?
Those were the days when life was nice,
Unlike today’s life, devoid of any spice.

Everyone now is busy on his own,
No one even cares to talk on the phone,
Where are the days we all enjoyed together?
All that remains are faint reflections of one another.

Those thoughts are somewhere there in our minds,
We just need to toggle the blinds,
The light of joyous emotions will then come in,
To give us that nostalgic feeling.

And then we’ll all be in an elated state,
Not knowing the upcoming tricks of fate,
Such is the way we live life,
Pretending to be free of worries and strife,
And cherishing those moments,
In a world full of commitments.

Numerology, revisited !

If you are one of the regular readers of the shit I write here (most probably you are not) you have an idea of what's coming. It's basically a date, some Maths and some bits of English :)

So, here it is.

My DOB -> 16-01-1985
1 + 6 -> 7
1 + 6 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 -> 22 -> 2 + 2 -> 4

CAT 2008 Pay-in slip no. -> 845907 -> 7
CAT 2008 Application form no. -> 360463 -> 4
as per the Maths above (do it urself :P)

I seriously hope that though the numbers have repeated themselves, the results don't !

P.S. - Previous encounters with numerology: http://tarun7.blogspot.com/2008/03/lucky-number-se7en-again.html

The Dark Knight, no. 1

Within just two days of its release, The Dark Knight has become the no. 1 movie of all time on IMDb.


I cannot tell how happy I am. Not because I wanted this movie to be no. 1, but because I didn't want The Godfather to be no. 1. I have seen TG only once, and frankly speaking, I didn't like it much. The ending was a waste. I know, you'll say "WTF, this guy sucks !" just like millions of others who have acknowledged that TG is the greatest story ever told.

However, this humble blogger here doesn't feel the same. And I will go on to say that Marlon Brando's role was nothing spectacular. How much of screen time did he have ? huh ?

Thanks to all who voted for TDK and I think the folks at IMDb would also welcome the change. :P

Life

10 seconds of laziness =

a crushed pair of spectacles.

And here's how.

Those spects in the pic are the ones I used to wear at night while driving coz the lenses on them had an anti-glare coating. After I come back from office, I leave them in the helmet. I did just that last night. Today, I wore my other chashma and then realised that these were still lying in the helmet. Lazy as always, I didn't spend even 10 seconds to put them in their case. Instead, I kept them in my shirt's pocket so that I could put them in their case once I reached office. But that was not to be !

They jumped off (lol) from the pocket and got crushed on the road. I realised it when I had reached my desk. Hurriedly, I came back and found them on the road, bruised and battered !

Someone took a bite !

Look closely at the third piece in the top row. Someone took a bite and then packed it in :(((

Advertisement

Kya zamana aa gaya hai... aloo tamatar bhi cell pe ad deke beche jaa rahe.

Nerdy

The Nerd Handbook

N.A.D.D.

These two articles make an interesting read. While goin thru them I was like, "WTF, how do they even know how I think and behave ?"

A taunt that haunts

Yesterday, Mom said, " Beta tera weight to tere papa ka shaadi ke time jitna tha, usse bhi jyada ho gaya hai. Control kar."

Status Messages

Now that's what I call friendship, sharing the same status message.

Double Delight

IPL gave me a reason to be happy , and now u know why :)

Carmencita

"Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face."

Carmencita is the first video registered with the IMDb.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000001/

Have a look :

:(

No girl called :(

Sue these duffers !

Movies are something that ppl like to go n watch at the cinema halls. But before jumping the gun many of us (like me) go through reviews and ratings. So last month I opened up Rediff's review of the movie Race. And guess what... the entire climax including who dies in the end etc is written right on top of the page. The stupid writer says "I have just spilt the proverbial beans because it'll be a far more interesting movie for you if you go in knowing how it ends."
WTF ?

And then yesterday, Pune Mirror carried a story on Tashan revealing who among Saif/Akshay gets Kareena in the end, what does Anil Kapoor do, who all die , who works for whom etc etc. It was only a day before that I had heard on the telly that the producers of Tashan are trying very hard to keep the story under wraps... and it all ends up in a newspaper !

What fun is then left in goin to the cinema hall ? Aren’t these dumbos depriving the janta of the few hours they could have enjoyed ? Movie producers, please, sue them !

No. 1

HSBC - World's No. 1 Company

LOL !

Day of Days

Last Thursday (March 27th) was a day of events which started from the night of the 26th.

Holi had just passed and my friend Sammy was back in Pune from Lucknow. Mom had given him some stuff (gujia and all) to pass on to me. He had returned on Tuesday and since the items involved were foodstuff I was supposed to collect them asap lest they go bad.

Now, the thing is that Sammy lives in Kothrud which is like the other end of the city. I have never even been to Kothrud or any place nearby. I had decided to go thr on Wed evening after office. Goin by an autorickshaw would have cost a fortune. The place was easily 15 kms away. So I decided to shell out only half of that fortune. I went to the station by an auto and had decided to take a bus from there. My first bus ride in Pune; how romantic ! LOL !

The autowalla dropped me off at the station and from there I had to walk a good couple of hundred metres to get to the place from where the buses ply towards Kothrud. A bus for Kothrud depot just crossed when I reached the stand. It was a choked affair. Had I decided to go with that one, all that was needed was a mad dash to get to the backdoor of the bus and then push my way in. I decided to pass off this one. "Buses to aur bhi aaengi", I thought.

And aur buses nahi aai. I waited for almost half an hour. There were buses for n other parts of the city, none for Kothrud. In vain, I asked an autowalla. "100 Rs sirji", was the prompt reply. How dare he even say that! It's my hard earned money. hehe...

A change of plans was needed. I decided to go back (after wasting 100 bucks and a good one hour) and go next morning by bike.

27th morning came and the day starts. 6:10 by the clock and I am up. It's too damn early. 6:35 and I am game. I didnt know anything about which way to take. Le Meridien goes by and then I ask someone which way to go. I do this tens of times over the next 15-20 minutes. Finally, after a lot of twists and turns on the way I am there. Kothrud Bus Sthanak, it said in Marathi. I called up Sammy and told I am at the bus depot.

He asked me to move on the same road and then there would be a path going down just before a bridge on the highway. I did exactly that and after a good 15-20 mins of confusion, the conclusion was that I was at the wrong place ! How could that be? I asked some guy there who told me that the 'Kothrud Bus Depot' was a separate one. What a shocker ! This was the bus stand. Stand , depot ... wtf... all to confuse us people .

Anyway, time was running out. It was 7:30 already. So I decided to finish it off quickly. I asked Sammy about the way back. He said that I must have missed a bridge in between. Had i taken that bridge I would have landed straight at the depot. Damn that ghaati who told me to skip the bridge and go by the road below ! It's all a plot against us north Indians.

On the way back I stopped at a junction and looked around for clues as to which way I had come from. I had hardly crossed the damn small bridge there that a thulla came and asked me to stop and come with him. Apparently, that small bridge didn't allow 2 wheelers in the day time. WTF. What insane traffic rules are these ? He pointed towards a small board which had something written in Marathi. Now, how is someone unknown to that part of the city supposed to know that that goddamn bridge isn't for two wheelers.

The thulla kinda took away my DL and said that I was supposed to go the RTO , pay a fine there and then take my license back. No way was I going to do that. To cut the story short, he took away a 100 bucks and let me go. Damn ! "Isse accha to auto se hi aa gaya hota" , I thought.

Skipping breakfast (nayee team join kari hai to thoda to natak karna padega na ki time pe aa raha office ) I was at my desk at 9:30 somehow. Then we went for a meeting to GLT 4 (another building of da company) . The project I am currently involved with is on an old framework and they are planning to migrate it to the new version. Meeting isi baare mei thi. After a whole hour and lotsa discussion as to what to do and what not we came back. It was a frustrating affair.

Lunch ho gaya and I was back at my desk. I had to get RAD7 (an IDE used for development) as the new framework I talked about earlier is supported by RAD7 only. The IT ops guy (so called expert) started the installation. Then there was a team meeting ! Ek aur lamba session.

They were discussing the database tables used in the project. It was all Greek n Latin for me. This key mapping here, that mapping there... oof ! After about one and a half hour the meeting got over and upon returning to my desk I found out that the installation had failed ! What a pain !

He started the installation again. 20 mins , 30 mins, 45 mins ... bang... the installer gives an error and fails again ! I didn't know what to do. It was already 6. He then asked me to logout and give him control of the machine. I did some scribbling on my notepad, pretending I was working on something. 6:30 and I leave.

Enough for 1 day !

P.S. I stole the post title 'Day of Days' from an episode of the same name from Band of Brothers.

Lost in The IT Crowd

in

Aren't we all ?

At least I am, in a company of 7000+ employees. After all, wtf does 'Tarun Varshney' mean to anybody out there rather than being a name with a never heard before surname !

P.S. :
LOST on IMDb : www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/
The IT Crowd on IMDb : www.imdb.com/title/tt0487831/

Lucky Number Se7en, again !

My DOB -> 16 Jan -> 1 + 6 = 7

Our society has had some tie-up with Reliance and they are providing a free landline as an intercom (which can be called from phones outside of the society as well). And guess what do the numbers say.

The no. is 30586417

3 + 0 + 5 + 8 + 6 + 4 + 1 + 7 = 34 → 3 + 4 = 7

And then my flatmate Ankur got an Airtel BB connxn. Yet again, the sevens were upon me.
The no. is 40027750

Lakhpati !

A bug in Orkut !

How can that member count be ZERO ?