Swimming lessons

Learning swimming is a tough task. Particularly when you go for swimming lessons in winter mornings.

I hope I’ll survive till the end of the training!

HNY 2010

I wish everybody a happy and prosperous new year 2010.

A ‘resort’

In the quest of a little pleasure, relaxation and fun, people have learnt to satisfy themselves withcheap stuff considering them as heavenly!

Thats what i realised when a guy, (from Delhi, visited Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Pune, Kerala and many places of Karnatka), designates a bullshit place as ‘equivalent to hill station’.

And he was not alone. To my surprise, I found people REALLY enjoying that resort (so called). It was the time, when I felt like Holden of Catcher in the Rye who saw the world full of phonies and fakeness. Archery, Bicycle riding, Vollyball, Cricket! Goodness, I did not find a single thing that was even near to ‘enjoyble’. Still I see people praising the same and enjoying it with good amount of craze!

Is it that they havent seen any better place than this ? Definitely not, cause I personally know many of them who have travelled many places in India and abroad. Then is it because they enjoy everything let it be a fake and cheap stuff. Thats above my understanding. Or is it the problem with me that I see them as bullshit crap and not able to derive pleasure from them ? In this case, I am happy that I am not a phony.

NIT Hamirpur revisited

Just uploaded a few pics of good old NIT Hamirpur that I took during a visit, after 2 long years!

Photos at my flickr page.

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

confused

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 !