Back from Koraput

Yesterday I returned from Koraput. Although I expected it to be an wonderful time of life, it didnt really turn out to be.

The weather was terribly hot, i mean, i hadnt faced such heat ever in koraput. I was expecting that it would be having a good round of monsoon there and i could snap some pics out of it. But the weather forced me to stay at home. And in this burning summer, there was nothing i could do make use of my cam.

A few things that I did at home : ate healthy, slept heavily, finished 2 novels, started third one, and spent lots of time in day dreaming and self analysing.

And yeah, I was already an uncle to two kids, and I got one more to call me the same. This time my brother’s son.

Hope i will get there soon again, with conditions that the maoists dont blow up all the connections to or from koraput.

Yesterday I returned from Koraput . Although I expected it to be an wonderful time of life, it didnt really turn out to be.

The weather was terribly hot, i mean, i hadnt faced such heat ever in koraput. I was expecting that it would be having a good round of monsoon there and i could snap some pics out of it. But the weather forced me to stay at home. And in this burning summer, there was nothing i could do make use of my cam.

A few things that I did at home : ate healthy, slept heavily, finished 2 novels, started third one, and spent lots of time in day dreaming and self analysing.

And yeah, I was already an uncle to two kids, and I got one more to call me the same. This time my brother’s son.

Hope i will get there soon again, with conditions that the maoists dont blow up all the connections to or from koraput!

stack++

Added up one more to my stack of read books. This was Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Moth Smoke’. A small novel plotted in the city of Lahore. A good read it was, though I wouldnt stay it was the best till date. In fact, I liked his second creation (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) more than this one.

Anyways, I was about to start with the very well known ‘ The catcher in the Rye ‘, when Anupam told me to read Harry Potter first! Well, till now my impression about the later is of a book meant for teens to fascinate them telling stories like fairy tales. I never got the urge to pick one of the series and look whats really there inside. I guess I have to do it now, just to see why the world is crazy over it.

Buy a laptop? Pay for an OS too!

Its purely dictatorship.

You buy some amount of potato, you have to buy brinjals along with them. You purchase a T shirt, you have to buy a pair of shorts with them. You ask for a cigar, and it says that it’ll light with a zippo only!

Would anybody accept such kind of dictatorship? No, right? Dont we have the small amount of freedom to get the things of our own choice?

Then why is it so when you get a brand new Intel motherboard with ultracool features, and want to run your own choice of OS over it, then you suddenly discover that it was meant for windows Vista ! (Vista came earlier than the mobo). I am interested in a laptop. When I say laptop, I mean laptop. nothing more than that. Then why should I pay for an OS ? (lets say I chose to write my own OS myself). Moreover, people just buy a laptop, (paying for the preloaded vista as well) and back home they end up formatting the machine and installing pirated XP on it. Clearly the customer himself isnt interested in that OS, still he is paying for it! Now if I say I am interested in a laptop and an OS on it will be fine. Now when I say laptop+OS, I mean laptop+OS. Why should I now pay for a browser along with it ( if i need a browser I’ll definitely buy it or use any freely available one, but why should I be forced to buy one? ).

The only thing I could infer from all these is, the product manufacterers are themselves quite confident that noone is going to buy their product on their own choice (because they know that their product quality os crap) and so, the only way to make their presence in the market is to force the poor consumers to buy their stuff.

Isnt this a kind of dictatorship? As the freedom from the people being snatched away ?

No blabbing while blogging

Bloggers, be careful before you click on the post button for any new entry. : http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/25/stories/2009022555551100.htm

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Shame_story_in_Andhra_Orissa/articleshow/4113227.cms

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090083203&ch=2/11/2009%201:42:00%20PM

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200902112002.htm

http://www.newsonair.com/news.asp?cat=state&id=ST3538

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090210/jsp/jharkhand/story_10461912.jsp

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Media_is_rash_judgmental_Acharya/articleshow/4102046.cms

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Small+and+trivial+incidents:+Acharya&artid=S1TWgd|1SD8=&SectionID=7GUA38txp3s=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=zkvyRoWGpmWSxZV2TGM5XQ==&SEO=

and the list goes on…

This is what makes me feel sick, frustrated. I wonder what kind of society is it? What kind of system is it, where you have the common man more cultured, educated, knowledged than the rulers? You have well defined the qualifications for a candidate to be an administrator (so called) , to be a decission maker (so called) , just to obey the orders from illiterate and greedy creatures having a sound criminal background.

Where are we heading to ? Is there any improvement that we can expect to happen ? Should we flee out of all these complexities? Or should we get inside this shit-pot to give our best contribution to make it as clean as possible, without concerning about whether that really help it or not?

Being rejected.

Just gone through the blog of Amitabh Bachchan.

Saw there ‘fans’ posting their comments starting with ‘ helloo Amitjeeee’ , ‘dear Big B’ .. etc etc. Not a single post of Amitabh will be having comments lesser than 500 at least! My god! how many hours does that busy person would be spending just reading and moderating to those comments? A hard task, isnt it ? ;P .

I too posted a comment to his most recent entry.  Well, ok, i didnt start with ‘Helloo Amitjee’.  To my dismay, he rejected my comment. Now I am heartbroken, disgusted and utterly depressed and probably commit suicide [:p].

Was I being too arrogant Mr. AB ?

Anyways, who cares !

All new Microsoft Windows 7

2 days back, I got to know about the release of MS windows 7 with its ultra cool features.
They claim it to be a ‘faster’ version of their old product with eye-catching visuals and user interfaces. ( I dont believe anyone who ‘uses’ windows really care a lot about its looks, and those who care, i dont think its a good reason for them to spend some extra buck. Well, pirated will do fine )
Anyways, I got to know about the features from : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx
On the website, it looks fine though! The User’s response will make it more clear ( I am definitely not one in the list ).

Please shutdown your system

This is to all who use computers, either for their own personal work or at office. (Thogh this applies to anyone who uses any electric appliance, i am specifically addressing it to Desktop PC users, because i encounter them much frequently in life.)

I have observed people leaving from office and keeping their system running overnight, or over the weekend or even over  long holidays.

Now, assuming a cabinet is having a 350 watt SMPS, it will consume 1 unit of electricity in just 3 hours. Suppose you leave your system running, at 5 in the evening and start working on it again at 9 next morning, that means for 15 hours long, the system will consume 5 units of electric power. Just imagine, what the figure will be, if you count on the weekends. Now, if you just estimate for a mid size software firm, can you guess how much wasted power it would become? Forget about large size software companies.

And the main thing that to be noted is, switching on the system overnight, when you really dont need to, and you are doing this just to save yourself a few minutes of switching it on again, isnt doing any good for anybody. Does it ? So why waste energy in vain ?

So, its high time, that we realise its consequences, and do not waste any more power and make it available for the needy. That’ll be better for your company, your locality, your city as well as for others too.

You can tolerate a few minutes to switch on your system in the morning, right ?

Junk Dilemmas

i slept on the floor. my limbs, my head, my fingers, every part of me feeling disastrously heavy. i tried to move my toes. it didnt move. i tried to move my eyelids. even it didnt move. i thought to myself, how can anyone do such a tiring job at all? how the hell people manage to move their bodies? is it really possible? yes, this is possible, even i used to be moving creature a few minutes ago. but now, i am surrendered. and not trying any more.

they couldnt see me live happily. i was in my state of numbness, isolated from the universe, not affected by any of the laws of nature. they tried to drag me up. moved me. i followed. because i hadnt got any other choice. i had my own wishes, but wishes cant make you move.

now i am sitting. dont know how. perhaps they made me sit like this. i felt like vomiting. i went in to the toilet. i spit out every drop of fluid from my stomach. i was feeling the tastes of certain things in my nouth, those i had eaten a few hours ago. i continued vomiting till i was exhausted. now i am sleeping again. and again, they cant see my staying happy.

i went to the toilet again. cause i felt like shitting. i dropped my pants to the knees and sat on the sandas. i left all my holes open. cause i dint know what might come out from which path and when. i sat there some more time. nothing happened. i tried to force the shit out of me. nothing happened. i stood up. i forced the piss out of me. nothing happened. again, i sat and concentrated on my arsehole. nothing came out of it. now i am feeling the whole scenario too funny. i am not able to shit or piss even though i want to. i stood up and tried to vomit. nothing happened. now i am laughing inside the toilet. laughing hard, because my holes are not in my own control. and they are confused outside. who are ‘they’. well, i dont want to use my brain to findout who are they. they are just stupid people wanting to findout what i am doing here inside the toilet and laughing at what? but they dont know, that the whole thing is too funny that i cant control my laughs. perhaps they’ll know it when they’ll lose control over their holes.

Now its the morning.

Happy new year

With this one more ‘New Year’ has come. Not so special for me though, just like it has always been for till now. And with the awesome success that I implented the last year’s resolutions, I have decided not to waste my energy in these things.

Some events that I feel notable, which occured last year are :

1. Elder bro got married.

2. Bought a DELL notebook.

3. H3C went back to china closing its operations in India and leaving me jobless.

4. Got a Job at SAP Labs and joined the same on 2nd of July.

5. Oct last week, Notebook got stolen

6. Spent the diwali with family after 5 years

7.  Bought a Sony DSC-H50 digicam

8. Had a trip to Ooty, another over hyped place of Karnataka

Ok, nothing more to talk about what has occured in the past. Starting with this new calender, I wish myself as well as others a peaceful and happy new year.