Stupidly Monked

Things I repent I haven't done at IIT

2011-12-18T07:11:00.000-08:00

Mathematics - Being good at Mathematics is one thing that can boost your confidence the most. If I had the even half of the understanding of Maths as the great ones in my batch, I would have real felt that I have accomplished something substantial.
Be a part of a close knit community - MI/TF/CultClubs/Sat they all appear to be so awesome, at least from my point of view. To be a part of something that closely knit can be very satisfying.
Elections - Not because I want to get elected, but because I hate elections. It would have been a massive gain in perspective and in understanding of how to think big and global.
Organize a large event - Or to be a part of a team that does that. I came close to finishing this while I was a MI Cordie.
Attend A Dance Workshop - or something similar. I have always under-appreciated performance arts, except may be dramatics. But I had planned even before coming here that I will learn it in insti. It didn't happen because I was lazy but now I repent it for now, I never will.
Continue Playing Tennis - This is actually not my fault. Someone from hostel lost my tennis racquet and someone else lost my non-marking shoes.
Techfest - Not sure why I wasn't a part of it in freshie/sophie years. It would have been fun.
Be part of a contingent (Cult/Sports) - Because it would mean that I am at least above average at some extra-curricular activity. Unfortunately I am not.
Visit Juhu Beach/Bandstand - and similar shit. People have recommended them a lot and I should have gone there once. Now, I am just too lazy to take the pain.

Feels like I have wasted a majority chunk of my time at IIT.

20/- Luggage charge

2011-08-15T18:02:00.000-07:00

Traffic sucks. Driving sucks. Traveling sucks. Auto rickshaw owners suck. Honking car drivers in their AC car suck. Bikers driving on footpaths suck.
I wish I had a gun, I would have put it on that stupid autowala's temple and pressed the trigger without a second thought. I hope he dies of dehydration after suffering for days, even drank his own urine. I hope he dies slowly and painfully, from burn wounds. I hope he son cuts his hand and put salt and chili in it. I hope that when he asks his son to take him to hospital, the son says - "Nahi, main to Mulund jaunga".

I need a bazooka too. To incinerate that car with that butthole inside it. And before doing this I want to throw him in a tank of acid, just for a moment though because he has to then crawl among snakes to reach his son who is trapped in a room with 120 dB noise. I hope he gets paralized while doing this and watches his son die. And then I will put him back in that car and incinerate him to black smoke and yellow flames.

And if I had a katana, I would just turn and slice the head of that driver. It has to be quick, he should not have.time to think of his family, loved ones or even the reason of his death.

Mumbai sucks.

PS: I paid 20/- luggage charge. The autowala probably meant Parking bribe that he had to pay to the traffic policemen standing on LTT station - so kill them too. All corrupt policemen shall burn in a microwave oven.

How to slow down the world?

2011-07-17T14:07:00.000-07:00

[No, the XKCD way doesn't work. The answer is a lot simpler, inspired by idealism and you might be aware of it already. If that's the case you can think of this as a confirmation of the scientific fact done with ample evidence and careful study.]

Coffee.

Yes, it is CCD.

Don't believe me? Jot down 2-3 cups of black coffee and you will. I am not kidding and why would I? I don't joke about coffee. And no, cold coffee is not coffee. Yes, I too believed that it is but I was a Noob. In last month, I have experimented enough with coffee and the following are my observations:

Coffee is expensive.
Coffee is satisfying.
Coffee doesn't calm you down.
Coffee agitates your mind, probably the way a successful troll does on the internet.
Coffee makes you oscillate your legs the way you would if you are waiting for the most important interview of your life.
Hazelnut Cappuccino is brilliant.
Hate espresso or black coffee? Take a sip of water after drinking them. It feels like heaven.
A lot of black coffee is bad. You will feel as if your body has died, and is not responding to your commands, you would love to puke but that will not happen.
Over caffeinated? Drink loads of water and take a nap. It will reduce the anxiety by a notch.
Don't try to drink a lot of coffee over an empty stomach. That is just stupid.
At Barista, try Hazelnut Cappuccino. Nothing else is worth the money. At CCD cappuccino is decent enough.
Coffee makes you think. Fast. Really. You will hate that your body won't keep up.
Basically, coffee slows the world down.

TODO(mayanksinghal): Learn to brew a decent cup of coffee. Learn to do it in hostel room.

PS: You will be a lot more screwed up if you try this at home.

In insti, there is free lunch

2011-07-17T13:31:00.000-07:00

[On the flight back to Mumbai]

I have always believed that I am the sort of person who doesn't connect to people that deeply, or even if I do it is easy for me to move on, make new friends and continue the cycle. Some part of it is still true, but I think that Kota and then institute has changed my perspective a lot. I think there is this safety bubble around us, that separates us from the absurdities of the world. For example I never heard about people throwing punches at day other, we do have fights of course and ugliness but at the end of the day I believe that we respect each other. When I was interning at Google, about 18 hours ago, and I have mentioned this before, I felt even a larger sense of respect that people have for each other. I don't know how widespread this feeling is, but I believe that it must be a part of growing up. I guess I have diverted. I was speaking of the type of person I am. So this summer I missed insti a lot, more than I thought I would. I mean if you take insti in parts, everything sucks! The food, the rooms, infi rains, humidity and the foostable, it's all really bad. But it is still the place I where I find junta. Junta is awesome and irreplaceable. So I am glad to be back. It will be a tough semester with all the stupid placement stuff and research papers that I have to read for DDP and acads and all the other things!

PS: LAN is not even 1% as awesome as junta. So for those who believe that insti's most awesome aspect is LAN, you need to find some junta and go to a coffee shop and sit for hours.

PPS: In spring semester, print out a list of all the people who got placed in companies that pay higher than yours or people who are apping. Now go to shack and stand near the notice board, and hunt your prey. There is nothing sweeter than a free lunch.

Update, update, update:

The lush green environment of our insti - how could I ever forget that. The sudden drop of 3 degree celcius in temperature as soon as you enter in campus is probably one of the most calming feeling.

Minus One Kilogram @ Google

2011-06-17T08:50:00.000-07:00

I am a man of few materialistic needs. Give me a computer, internet connection, ample sleep and good food and I will live. I think I can even bargain food for admin rights on my machine. And I am not kidding. My life has almost always revolved around computers and internet. That is why I chose Computer Science as a branch and fell in love with the field. I am not very good at it, but I have never loved anything else as much as this. I find the field far more inspirational and motivating than any other field. I never explored much anyway, didn’t have to. There are stories of simple smart men with a great idea and undeterrable determination who achieved a lot. There are no families here that inherited billions or tycoons who publish swimsuit calendars and spend more on booze a day than what others earn in an year. These are people who are known for their simplistic living. I think there is something very humble about the field, and the more people I meet, stronger my conviction gets.

I have been to this office last year as well, it was exactly the same. Smart people who are nice and friendly to the bone; so nice that I feel we have a barbaric society at campus. And all are humble and down to earth. They eat, they play, they have fun, they work and they go home. They are all geeks of course and probably not too good at extra-curricular activities, and may be that’s the reason I relate to them even more. I often find people here who love TV shows: SciFi and Thrillers, not Roadies. They love matrix, may be not the last one though. They have read comics Commander Dhruva and Nagraj, and they have a strong stand that Batman is more awesome than Superman. They are all cool, in an extremely geeky fashion and that’s something I would really love to become. And I think they all thrive more for expertise than money. What everyone dearly want is to contribute to the company and to the world as is explained beautifully in this video:

Anyways, the point is, this is the dream place to work at, with brilliant people, great facilities, amazing tools, outstanding culture and pay enough to keep your worries off your mind.

What is obvious is that even if you are at the best work place in the whole wide universe and beyond, have amazing pay and brilliant people around, what satisfies the most is the work. At the end of the day, not-so-evil people are satisfied if they think that they have earned the day’s bread, not faked their way through. The best part about the projects here at Google is, you decide nearly everything on your own. If you feel that your project’s scope is going too huge, cut short it; if it’s too tiny add a few extra features – throw in two three end-to-end tests. Of course the project is relevant to and a part of the larger goal that your team is working on. Luckily, I have a very agile team and I got a project which can be called a product in itself. What it means is that I have very few dependencies on other codebases and no one else is working on a part that is dependent on me. Hence I get full control over the way I structure things and the speed with which I proceed. My last year project, on the contrary, was one where I was adding features to an established and stable system which required a lot detailed pre-analysis before deployment and reviews and permission from people in various offices. My work is to develop a web based service, unit test it and optimise it for better performance and lower bandwidth.

PS: How the hell can I lose weight here!?! Yes, that’s what the title was about. I eat more and sweat less! Damn you stupid genes!

[Originally posted at Insight - Internship Blog 2011]

10 Steps to Write Cheesy Poems

2011-05-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Find an emotion - the more arbit the emotion is, cheesier will be the final output.
Amplify the emotion a hundred times
Make a few really absurd similes. It's modern art
Use an oxymoron, it shows that you can think like an artist: illogically. Stuff like "I would die to live with you"
See. Rhyme's THE key. Really. Believe me.
Self loathing - it's 'poetic'. Bitching & self appreciation - it's Rap. Appreciating someone else - it's popular (At least with the person whom you are appreciating). General comments - no one gives a rat's ass.
Get a pen name - again be vague. It's enigmatic by definition.
Spell check. Because SMS lingo is so GenX
Deviant art - if nothing works, get a beautiful picture to fuel your ride to 'glory'
Tell about it to your friends. They really 'appreciate' it.

Generalized Bodily Motion - Phase 5A - Version 0.21.9 (dev)

2011-02-23T10:14:00.000-08:00

PPS: Can someone please teach me how to draw cartoons, please! This one sucks!
PPPS: Dev channel for Chrome rocks!

Jelly

2010-12-17T00:27:00.000-08:00

I have really gone crazy. Aren't I?

But unlike others, I have my reasons:

What is Jelly?
from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.

Jelly is the semi-weekly informal coworking session I run. We open up our apartment to anyone who wants to bring some work and work around other interesting people.

Join up, or start your own Jelly - www.workatjelly.com

Yet another whining DD Student

2010-10-03T03:22:00.000-07:00

Dual Degree students, you know the unlucky ones, who were not as good as you @ acads and couldn't score as much in JEE, they now want core interns in their fourth years as well. How selfish of them, I must say. I mean you all are getting 2 degrees in 5 years, we got one if 4 long years! I mean that's a big edge already. When BTechs sit for placements they have to work so hard to make their resume and everything while studying. You lazy ass DDs! You just have a DDP and nothing else! You must not be given any more leverage over us and hence you shall not be allowed to do Core Interns.

But I know you all are sneaky bastards who will go higher up, give random logic and everything, especially now that the DDP is only of 72 credits, instead of 108 and now you have 3 more months to think of evil plans to ruin us BTechs, so I shall allow you to do NonCore interns in Mumbai, if you could get approval from your DDP guides (:evil grin:).

-- A DD student, thinking from a BTech point of view

'Official' Reply on PT Cell
Somebody's personal views

THAT HAD TO BE REMOVED

He did mention that you can add, correct, praise etc. but well it's THE END for you anyways!

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End of the Day self analysis:

Slight update in my blog
The reply I posted is *Somebody's personal views" and not the official reply.
I am glad. And after 6 hours of Sherlock (Awesome TV Series \m/) I dont care if I get an intern!

@people-whom-i-fought-with-or-shouted-at
My sincere apologies. I was angry (may be I still am) but I understand that fighting with you is not going to help anyone, it will just increase the tension.

So sorry! I take my rude words back. You all are awesome people, I loved my third year intern! If I get another awesome otherwise it doesn't matter. I will pray to God that you thrive!

This Sunday I have used so many swear words so often that I am a little ashamed of myself. I don't know whether the policies are just or unfair; I don't know whether it's communism or simple logic; but I do know that I acted in a unprofessional and uncivilized manner. Please, I never used to care about interns or anything else; I was above all that. May be that was me being stupid, but there was nothing that made me feel bad/hateful about others. This happens rarely to me and I really hate this feeling.

Really sorry Akash! You are one of my closest friends.
Really sorry Satya! Thanks for allowing some of us to do NonCore interns. PTCell is a thirdie association and asking them to work for forthies is unfair, I guess.
And really sorry Aabhas! Man you are the best! Sorry for all the shouting and thanks for being a great ISAA that you were last year!

At DD junta: Sorry men. Either I am high now (or sleepy: It's 3AM) or I was yesterday (on anger?); I don't know. I will support our cause, but can't be the one who shoots; can't be the one that throws the mud; it's just too painful at the end of the day. May be I can, I just dont know. F**k I am so sleepy!! :(

बाड़ और बाड़ता

2010-09-19T05:22:00.000-07:00

Check out the real deal on Fence and Fencibility

Motivational Posters

2010-09-15T01:50:00.000-07:00

Resume season is gone, all my BTech brothers are free and happy again. Now they seldom bitch about how being a Dual Degree student is so much more peaceful than being a B.Tech. I just nod and smile; empathy, we all learn to fake it.

But really, what I want to say is - "Bastard!". I understand that BTech's get less time to prepare their resume and that resume's a bitch but we will face the same problem next year. But actually that's not what this post is about.

So basically, I saw Rosi's resume. It's made in LaTex and full of things that I could not have done in this life (or a dozen lives like this). Now when I first read the resume, I thought - 'awesome, saala apan bhi kuch to machayenge'. Unfortunately that feeling doesn't last long. So simple tip:

DON'T EVER READ SUCH A RESUME.

It's a trap!

2010-09-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

So, I have two mattresses: one I bought in freshie year, the other in third. It was all well till today when I realized the new one is a trap!

I was using both the mattresses together till two weeks ago when I removed the newer one and suddenly I was sleeping less, attending all the classes and doing a lot of work. Well, the dumb person I am, I didn't realize the benefits. I again put both the mattresses on the bed yeasterday and slept, and there you go! 13 hours long sleep! Missed two classes and I am still not enthu to go down to eat dinner!

Who the hell gave me the idea of having two infinitely comfortable mattresses! that effing RG bitch! May his DDP/BTP guide extend his project!

And someone please help me with this.. Midsems are coming, and I really don't want to get screwed up (again)

Work @ Google

2010-08-15T20:39:00.000-07:00

"I will have to work in Java! Shit!" - was my first reaction when I was given my project. I have mostly used C++ for most of my assignments. We did use Java in the Software Systems course and then again in Databases but never gave it as much importance as C++. The code base I have to work upon; I thought it will be very complicated and I will never be able to understand it. Apparently that was not the case. Code is written and reviewed against very strict style rules and must pass the readability tests. This helps a lot because unlike our tiny course projects these codes are huge and code ownerships move from engineer to engineer very frequently. Now, if one writes very tricky hacks to make things work; it will be a disaster for the next person who reads the code, right? Yeah, so the code was very much readable, well annotated (Java annotations are awesome!) and thoroughly reviewed. Every line makes sense. Every comment makes sense.

So, was given the code I was supposed to work on. I was adding a feature o an already existing API for bandwidth optimization purposes. This was a web based API and in production setup it would have changed real user data. So, to understand the flow of data in the API, test servers are set up with live data. I spent many hours, first learning the technologies to build the code and to test it and to understand the new and awesome IntelliJ IDEA editor that was made available to me.

IntelliJ IDEA

Google has spent enough resources to develop the best and the most innovative libraries and tool for better coding. Even the Operating System is different and so is the versioning system they use. One needs time and help to get used to these new technologies, and this is never an issue in Google. There are many helps sessions in the first few weeks. If one wants to learn something specific, there are many videos tutorials and code examples. I certainly hope that this is the case with all other companies because it really boosts the learning curve.

At Google, test-driven coding is appreciated. That means, for the code that you write, you must also write some automatic tests that will show how to use the functionality and also test the output for most general (as well as limiting) cases. This is very useful when developing an API, because then one can see what is more intuitive for the user. User’s intuition, I found out, seldom matches programmers’ expectations.

The work was peace mostly. I started with writing OKR, Objectives and Key Results. In OKRs we write our aim for the quarter, for me this was my internship period. This is done with help from one’s manager. I was supposed to update the OKR with more details as the internship proceeds; I was too lazy to do it. However, most employees do it religiously. Unlike in most Indian companies (or so I have heard), at Google every moment of your work life is not planned out for you by the manager. One has the freedom to find and progress with his own pace; of course it should be good enough to justify the pay check. We used to have a short meeting everyday at 12:45 where everyone used to update everyone else with the progress he/she has made since last day. We used to call them Stand Ups. They were not comedy but still fun?. We also had weekly meetings where design issues were discussed and also issues that the engineers are facing in development of the product. The managers are always there to do the dirty work for you, engineering driven firms rock! :D

One of the good things about work @ Google is that there is very less friction between teams and between employees. The atmosphere is very friendly and one can approach any colleague for help, guidance or technical discussion. The ‘1on1’ meetings were very useful for me at least, and I hope every company has this culture.

I soon started making small changes in the code. When one has to make changes to an API, a public one at that, the challenges are very different from normal. There cannot be any loopholes in the design and the final implementation. And everything must follow the guidelines, because security of data is at stake and so is the reputation of company. I spent more than a month working on the design, thinking about authorization issues and about how to reduce the load on server. There is always a trade-off between how much functionality one provides to the users and how much load per request can the server handle without degradation in performance. So, my job was to discuss all these choices with everyone, people in my team and the one that owns the API, and people who actually wrote the API but now working on something else. Approval is also required from engineers that maintain backend services that the API uses.

During all these discussions were going on, and the design document was getting bulkier and the discussion threads longer, I was also completed basic backbone of the code. That was the easy part I guess. When I got the final go for the design, I started dividing the code I have written into smaller independent chunks and sent them for review.

At the same time conversion interviews started for people who were eligible for it. I have two more years left, so I didn’t get a PPO. But many others did. Conversion interviews are also about algorithms and data structures.

So the change-lists; I couldn't submit all of them. The last one is with my mentor. I gave a technical presentation to my team who’s going to manage the code after I am gone. Murphy’s Law of demonstrations: Demo fails at the last moment. And it did, but the presentation went well. There was another one for the whole engineering team in Hyderabad. That was more informal, we discussed more about cricket and foosball than my project. :D

Finally, I just hope that my code will get submitted soon. After many rounds of live and load testing, may be in a 3-4 months they will push it on production servers.

Everything else is illegal

2010-06-13T03:21:00.000-07:00

ルール

2010-06-10T23:02:00.000-07:00

And no there will be no disclaimer.

Psuedonoogleration

2010-05-19T22:20:00.000-07:00

[As on Psuedonoogleration - Once Upon a Summer!]

“So what’s Google Office like?” – asked My Uncle. I replied – “Fun! It has already been 2 weeks and I didn’t even write one single line of code!”
He said – “That probably is the biggest difference between Indian and US companies. Nearly all Indian companies will plan every single second of your time in office, US companies are much more relaxed, Google especially. You will soon start putting efforts yourself, neither your mentor nor any one else is going to pressurize you, ever!”

Oh BTW I am doing my Intern in Hyderabad office, working on Bandwidth Optimization for a project. 17 days ago, I arrived Hyderabad, had a cab waiting to take me to a decent Guest House where I ll be staying for 2 more months. The room is like a luxurious suite when compare to the hostel rooms that we live in. The next week was mostly tutorial and introduction to teams. The work culture is Ultra-Friendly here. It’s nearly impossible to not mingle with the teams. I played footer/gully cricket with the team, daily from 6PM to 8:30PM.

There are food counters even 20 feet or so. There are two awesome cafeterias, a CCD and a Barista and may be more things that I have not explored yet. I can live here in office, No I want to live here in the office, but bed’s more awesome in the guest house.

Google Hyderabad office, is the biggest in India; but the engineering team if only of about 120 members. The rest 90% are Marketing, Adwords or HR. There are about 2K vendors too who work on manual testing and stuff. That brings me to one of the key features I noted about Google. We all know Google has given awesome tools for communication and everything else, they also have a gigantic library of tools that help in coding! They have their own OS Goobuntu (modified Ubuntu), addons for most IDEs, and many more tools (I dont know whether I can list them or not )

The coding is test driven here, first write the tests and then the code. I was surprised to see the effect this has on a person’s coding. The APIs are much more user friendly, tests can also be used as a sample code. And the confidence they put in employees! People have access to refer to most of the codebase (NOT userdata and NO! I CANNOT hack that girl’s gmail account for you). And just FYI I haven’t wasted all my time, I did learn some cool stuff, more than what I learnt in the entire CS296 course.

To summarize, this place is awesome. Start solving puzzles(interview prep.). Google is God (No not the one with a double century). I hope my project will be pushed to production. And Cloud 9 sucks even though they are freely available in the freezers.
[TRIVIA: New googler employees are called "Nooglers"]

Getting Googlified

2010-05-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

[As on Getting Googlified - Once Upon a Summer! ]

Okay, so the editor says that I am supposed to write about how I landed when I am. I got mail through PT Cell and I added my name in the list of Googler Wannabes. I was shortlisted for Google Hyderabad, some others were shortlisted for Google Bangalore.

Then came the interview rounds. I had 3 phone-screen interviews. As a general company policy, EVERYONE is supposed to know coding. They asked me to explain algorithms on phone and write code in the google doc[TIP: Format the code!!] they have shared.

he interviews last about an hour; there were 2-3 weeks gap between them. Interns have technical interviews only, and No difficult questions like “Tell us one interesting thing about you?” etc. The questions were puzzles actually, CS/coding related. [TIP: Read sorting algos and Dynamic Programming and Data structures]. The interviewer helped me out when I was stuck. I had mentioned that I work for Lolland, a startup in the resume, so the HR asked me about the details. I think HR had to present my case in front of hiring board, so don’t screw up even while talking to HR .

Happy Go Peppy

2010-05-04T10:47:00.000-07:00

If you know me even the tiniest bit, then you know it very well that I am random and that I complain a lot. Hell, I say that it is every man's birth
right to complain about the current situation. And I have a perfectly random philosophy to justify my actions - "I want to make future more awesome by
making present infinitely painful...". Well, it used to work very well till 2 days ago, but this place is insane. IMBAMAXXX. These were probably the
best 2 days of my entire boring life!
I am surrounded by the most awesome people there can be... Awesome food... Awesome machines... Awesome accommodation...!

PS: Eclipse is naaice!
PS2: My laptop screen is a bitch x-(
PS3: Moma, you rock \m/

(Sorry for the bad quality pic)

The y0 Factor

2010-03-27T03:10:00.000-07:00

A message in public interest in reply to http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=141370&id=100000602416998

The Facebook Girl

2010-03-16T05:28:00.000-07:00

And this is supposed to be a funny joke, if you are a boy and you don't find it funny, please go screw yourself. If you are a girl and you have time for facebook, I just want to say that this is a world of social networking and all the hot & awesome women like you, use facebook and I don't want to die.

The Box full of Chocolates

2010-03-05T06:17:00.000-08:00

My professor asked us to write a poem related to networking, this is what I submitted.

Lame's good :P

The L Word

2010-02-12T11:20:00.000-08:00

It's always about the L word

5 Things to do on Valentines Day

2010-02-12T09:33:00.000-08:00

Watch How I Met Your Mother S1E1 and sigh on 00:05:55
Watch Jessica Alba in Sincity and sigh
Watch Zara Zara Touch Me and sigh
Delete Vodafone's Valentine Day special offer SMS and sigh
Put up a random HVD status message/post and sigh

But seriously low telephone bills and no ass kicking by MNS/Shiv Sena seem like good enough reason to me. sigh

The Plunge And The Peak

2010-02-01T02:42:00.000-08:00

BTW, my batch sucks big time! There aren't enough people contesting for even General Secretary Posts!! So it although I doubt I have any Polt Power, still enthu tha, uski bhi watt laga di :(

6 Best Stop Motion Videos

2009-11-24T13:58:00.000-08:00

Stop Motion animation is a very old technique, you can say that all the old disney movies that you saw very stop motion(not really... but let's forget the technicalities)

Stop Motion is simple: Create motion using a series of photographs and play it really fast so as to give an illusion of continuous motion.
Recently there is a sudden surge in the number of stop motion videos and they are getting really very popular, thanks to Youtube and Digg and Facebook and Twitter. (No not orkut)

So here are the 6 best Stop Motion Videos that I love(read Laaaaaav)

6) Muto
By Blu
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche). If you like Graffiti, then this is Grand Daddy!

5) Fat City Reprise - Long Gone

This is a music video, like most other stop motion videos. Created using 45000 photographs!

4) Deadline
By Bang-Yao Liu
Believe it or not, It's a College Project! And it's done using Post it Notes! 100 points for innovation.

3) Strawberry Swing

By Coldplay, Direction Shynola
Coldplay always made very beautiful videos. Scientist, Speed of Sound are all very nice songs with equally attractive videos. With Strawberry Swing, they become the band with the best artistic(I know this is not the correct word, but you get the point) taste(Sorry to phressies who still think Linkin Park's videos are the best).

2) 8 Bit Trip
By Tomas Redigh & Daniel Larsson
We have all played with Legos, when we were kids. Well, I never thought there is anything much to Legos untill I saw is video. Using Lego's for stop motion is a popular theme but execution and idea in this one is simply marvelous.! This is 1500 hours of work packed in just 4 minutes. All the great games of 90s and more!

1) Her Morning Elegance

By Oren Lavie
This is my favourite. The music is really awesome, the video is very awesome. This doesn't use Sketches to draw indiviual frames but everyday object in life. Although the later sounds more simple as less effort is required but the way they used them... wow! Check it out:

Second Rounds

2009-10-22T22:18:00.000-07:00

I am scared... I guess it happens when you have your dreams at stake. I just hope I won't screw it up, all the rest is uncontrollable.

IIT Hospital

2009-09-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

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P.S.: I created this strip a long time ago, my humour level has grown a lot since then... You can skip the painstaking exercise of posting a "This is Lame" comment. :P

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Intel Star

2009-08-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

This is definitely an awesome ad:

The Best thing about this ad: It's funny
The Worst thing about this ad: It's funny

Happy Friendship Day

2009-08-01T14:27:00.001-07:00

[Well, first of all I am very cynical (you will soon understand why) so if by any chance you are offended by this post, deal with it...]

So, I am going to post the real hidden messages decoded after several months of research and 23.45 seconds of supercomputer processing. All the messages are intercepted by NSA and (as mentioned before) worked upon by many expert (& extremely boring) mathematicians and cryptologists. The concepts of cryptography used was probably too deep to be mentioned here, for you all are worthless mortals. (oops! There goes my 23.45% traffic) at Aug 2, 0000 there was a sudden surge in transmission of one particular message "Happy Friendship Day". Although the text was almost the same in all transmissions but the key was different in all cases... Here are the decoded messages:

Sender: The Boy
Receiver: To his mate
Message: "HFD" via SMS
Meaning:
Hey there... Sorry to raise this topic again... we swore not to discuss this but u know me, i just wanna confirm that we are not gay right? I mean, you know... that was just one time thing... and we were drunk...!
Sender: Some Boy
Receiver: The Girl
Message: "Hey! Happy Friendship Day :)" via SMS
Meaning:
Hey babes! Would you like yo take this friendship to a different level, coz you treat me like I am your brother... and incest is probably not my thing!
Sender: The same Girl
Receiver: Some other Boy
Message: "hfd 2u2" by SMS
Meaning:
"Oh! you are such a good friend! Now I don't need a girlfriend anymore! I can bitch about my bf and his ex to you any time I want!"
Sender: The Girl's girlfriend
Receiver: The Girl
Message: "Heyyyyy Happpy Frrriendship Dayyy" via SMS
Meaning:
"Hiiiii... I wish you a happy and profitable Friendship Day ;) Why don't you get some more silicons this year??"
Sender: That other Boy
Receiver: 2 followers
Message: "Happy Friendship Day to YOU all..." via Twitter
Meaning:
"Please please reply to this message... I never get any replies... except that 'hfd 2u2' which looked more like an windows error code"
Sender: That same desperate boy
Receiver: 23 Online 'friends'
Message: Happy Friendship Day
Meaning:
"I wish she will read this and buzz - 'y0 my love! wassup! let's go on a date... will u?'"
Sender: That same desperate boy.... yet again
Receiver: The Girl
Message: "Happy Friendship Day" + A Fancy Gift via FedEx
Meaning:
"If you are even as smart as George Bush... you already know that a gift worth 500 bucks is not for just a friend"
Sender: Pervez Musharraf
Receiver: All the countries
Messages: "Happy Friendship Day" via ISDs
Meaning:
Actually... I don't know yet... It's just too confusing.
Sender: That blogger
Receiver: The readers
Messages: "Happy Friendship Days" via Blog
Meaning:
"I know the content is not good... but may be this message will touch your heart and you ll Cl!cK (Getting banned on adsense... is last thing he/she wants) that Ad on the right"

And oh I almost forgot.... Happy Friendship Day my dearest friends! :P

7 random things about me

2009-05-27T07:14:00.000-07:00

So, Praveen tagged me. And now I will have to write 7 (!) random things about me!! And since I am all stupid and random, it's just too difficult for me to choose 7. My condition is very similar to a mother(!!!) who's asked to choose between her sons.

The compulsory rules:

Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
Let them know they have been tagged.

The Randomness

Yesterday, for the first time in my 'IITB life', I went to CST for fun. I hate travelling and one of the most important reason that I went there was that Nikunj and Arvind bribed me. They said they will read my blogposts and digg them. :D
The first thing I do on waking up (even before opening my eyes completely) is a F5 on gmail tab on my lappy.
I used to write poems in my middle school, never tried it in high school, restarted it in Higher Secondary. I find poetry beautiful but boring, so the only I restarted it was to impress some people. :D
Google Trends say that my all time top 3 searches are: (1) Mood Indigo (2) Mahatma Gandhi (Cult Council Work) (3) Google Calendar (I always forget the link's calendar.google.com)
I prefer: Coding over Designing, My Lappy over Movie Theatre, Chatting over talking, Sleeping over Exercise, Knowledge over Fun, Sitcoms over Movies, Painted Portraits over Actual Photos, Sweet over Sexy, Winters over Summers, Friendship over Love.
I can't understand fandom and celebrity importance. I am not (good wala) crazy about any person but Himesh Reshamiya, Ekta Kapoor and some others drive me (bad wala) crazy.
OK! So I was a little wrong: GOGGLE IS GOD!!!
My last dream: I got rejected (like in coupling: A no before the question) by 7 really awesome babes when I tried to ask them for dates.... then I, with my cousins and friends, went to beat them with baseball bats in Auto-Rickshaws(this was from Aap Ka Saroor >.< ). And I still had my lappy bag with me [:D].

The Victims

Arvind - so that he restarts blogging
Nikj - he can always add one random post to this random blog
Antrix - this kid has always got something to talk about
Andy - coz he's just awesome
Vibhav - who's doing an intership and blogging about it
Vipul - coz mind is over matter
Astha - coz it's hello, hi and namaste!

Invisibility Potion

2009-05-06T03:59:00.000-07:00

It's better you go invisible when it's

Ayush Baheti: Anytime!
[Basically, it’s the reason he’s always invisible… It’s the only way he can find visible friends on his chat list]

Nikunj Jha: Before any Mood Indigo Meeting… After walks

Arvind Kr. Singh: After trips to Crosswords

Antariksh Bothale: Just after he points out you used the word “fart” the way IITians use

Devanshu: Before Creative Team Meet

Vibhav: 11:45PM just when you thought the day’s over

Ritika: Before Data Structures assignment

Prashant Sachdeva: After you get(*lost) marks for quizzes, endsems

Shreya – If you are In Mood Indigo team (I have no idea…. I am just quoting what I heard :P )

Zibran – If you are in CS.

Mayank – After quizzes, Cult Com Meets, Endsems, CS296 assignments and after he's sets his status message to "XYZ" on "ABC.blogspot.com"

Anyone from Kota who starts with these words – “Aur Phodu?”

Half a Click!

2009-05-03T04:31:00.000-07:00

OK! So that's my new blog... For things that are not so interesting to everybody as they are to me...

Give it a try...

Places of obsession

2009-05-03T01:44:00.000-07:00

Nikunj Jha (Orgi) : Shack with seniors
Nikunj Jha (Cordi) : Shack with juniors
Nikunj Jha (CG) : CCD with any damn living being available. iRobot if there is none.

Arvind Singh (Freshie) : Just outside his hostel room with his ears pressed on the door
Arvind Singh (Sophie) : Crosswords especialy after he found out that working women are awesome.
Arvind Singh (MI Aftermath) : Bars.
Arvind Singh (Handing Over Aftermath) : Hostel Mess

Mayank Singhal (Freshie) : Hostel Room
Mayank Singhal (Sophie) : MI + Comp Room
Mayank Singhal (CS296) : NSL

CP (before MI) - Baheti's Room
CP(MI Aftermath) - GG

Baheti (freshie): Nikunj's Room
Baheti (Salsa Aftermath): In Sync Dance Room
Baheti (Laptop Aftermath): His room
Baheti (Orkut Networking aftermath): Nirmal Lifestyle + R-Mall

Titlator

2009-05-02T04:30:00.000-07:00

Yet another javascript...
This time it's funny and stupid just like this blog...

In case you find something useful about them, do post a comment...

Check it out here

Panorama

2009-04-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

A very small javascript that uses background positioning to create a nice look.

Have a look

Old and Colorful

2009-04-28T02:23:00.000-07:00

Doordashan... just before an advertisement :)

In Noah's Boat And Grey Matter

2009-04-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

So, I just thought that I can help you guys making your home.iitb pages.
Here are two templates you might like....

"In Noah's Boat"
(Thanks to Smashing Magazine for that boat illustration)

Grey Matter
(100% mine)

Heartfelt Patriotism

2009-04-26T01:13:00.000-07:00

Ritika Goyal - God save the star spangled banner...
Tahalka - IITian Girls get inspired by Mein Kamph!
LK Advani- Yeh hindutva ke khilaf sadish hai...
Soniya Gandhi - this is not sadish, this is happy-ish
Vijay Malya - Oh! Picture Perfect Synchronization!!! I needed Indian Cheerleaders!
Raghu - Malya you think you are a roadie!. And In case you don't know, I am a feminist.
DOSA - Shut up! or I will shift you to H13 Ground Floor
Arvind Kr. Singh - Chal isi baat pe... daaru peene chalte hain
Nikunj Jha - This proves that God doesn't exist
Rohit Kiran - Anna Rascala! yeh bandiyan ayisa salute kyon karta hai?
Abhinay Jain - Dhishkyaon! Dhishkyaon!
Prashant Sachdeva - But Linux's better...
Akash Singhal - Gokari Sucks!
?? to CP - Cute Pie... tab ham kahan the???
CP to ?? - Obviously... GG mein...!
Antariksh Bothale - Au contraire! La Isla Bonita...
Ayush Baheti -hehe... Yeh salute to.. hehe... mujhse bhi zada... hehe... gay hai... hehe
StupidMonk - awesome! yeh to blog post hai!

PS1:
Special Thanks to Arvind :)

PS2:
If you dont know what this caricature is for.... do drop me a mail: manku.singhal@gmail.com

and finally, PS3 is awesome

EndSem Frust!

2009-04-23T14:52:00.000-07:00

P.S: Unfortunately S.M.A.R.T.ness backfires sometimes, especially if it's a code and not ink.

Violent Ad

2009-04-16T13:24:00.000-07:00

Need to release some endsem frustration??? Visit Quadehar@MyBrute

Yes...

2009-04-16T09:57:00.000-07:00

S.T.(upid)

2009-04-15T06:52:00.000-07:00

And so they said - "Let's make a 7 floored extension for H10..."

Well if it's Valfi

2009-04-12T14:02:00.000-07:00

Hurray! It's valfi season...All the nice food, Night outs... No classes and 24 Hour fun + devastatingly humourous profiles of 'Oh-So-Pseude' seniors!
Believe me it's AWESOME...

So here is a check list to make a valfi profile :)

Chandu And Arbitgiri
Chandu And Chindigiri
Chandu And Despogiri
Chandu, The Nabadu
Chandu, The RG
Chandu And Grant Road
Chandu And Senti

From our stupid lives

2009-04-07T23:05:00.001-07:00

Some trivia for those who think they know their stuff...

Nevada »» Java »» ?????? »» Africa »» Inca »» Atlantis »» Apollo
Konqueror 4.2.1
85
Opera 9.64
85
Firefox 3.0.8
??
IE 8.0
20
Google Chrome
100

MOODLE is an acronym for ------

Eminem's "Sing for the moment" sampled ------

The first "hello world" program was in ----- programming language.

Assigned

2009-03-19T11:18:00.001-07:00

I love web designing and coding.
Luckily we have a course CS296 aimed at these stuff...
In case you trust my skills and want to check out my homepage that I made for out HTML-CSS assignment click here :)

-------------------------------------------------------
Unfortunately CSE server's down... Check the site here
-------------------------------------------------------

Stupidly named?

2009-03-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

I guess not... These are some of the most 'amazingly' named computer languages...

brainfuck : An esoteric programming language meant to tease programmers
Chef : Where programs look like recepies
Chuck : It's used for creating sound and music
Curry : This one's for logic and functional programming
Cyclone : There is no Katrina though...
Euphoria : Suspected to be backronym of End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications
Fortress: Intended to be successor of Fortran.
Groovy : Alternative to Java
Lingo : actually many languages used that name
LOLCODE : Another esoteric programming language like brainfuck
Lucid : A dataflow language.
Moby : No, not moby dick...
Pizza : Superset of Java
Water : for prototyping of XML apps

L337

2009-03-13T03:45:00.000-07:00

Awesomeness???

/V\3

2009-03-12T05:42:00.000-07:00

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------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------


P.S.
For those who are not familiar with the concept:
http://www.geekcode.com/
And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

NO!

2009-03-05T21:01:00.000-08:00

I hate March 5th because it showed to me what real world is like.
I hate it because I lost because of my own faults
I hate it because I came to know I was not good enough
I hate it because I started believing that I would have been really happy if I didn’t loose
I hate it because when people said I won, I had to smile and say “No I didn’t”
I hate it because although I didn’t care about winning but it made me sad about losing…
I hate it because It ruined my Holi vacations
I hate it because I can’t smile right now
I hate it because I will be a object of sympathetic feelings for some and laughter for others.
I hate it because I will become a standard joke in a week.
And I hate that unknown bastard who started that rumour.

Decalogue

2009-02-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

You shall have no other browsers before FF
You shall not make for yourself a QuickLaunch Button -- any likeness of anything that is in IE or that is in the Outlook Express.
You shall not take the name of the IE your foe in artistic designing.
Remember the Download Day, to keep it holy.
Honor your Ctrl and your T.
You shall not marquee or blink.
You shall not commit Yahoo! ChatRooms.
You shall not phish.
You shall not bear false witness against FF.
You shall not swear at your PC's looks; you shall not covet your PC's ram, nor its hard disk, nor its display screen, nor its processor, nor its graphic card, nor anything that is your PC's.

P.S. : Exam time sucks! Third Hat problem Sucks!

My Valentine's Day Resolutions

2009-02-13T00:48:00.000-08:00

1) I will study hard on the day (Exam hai Baba!)

2) I will not check out non-males around me (Mera bhi status hai!)

3) Exam time is for answering questions and not thinking about Cobie Smulders [Robin! :* ]

4) I will not pain Baheti about him not asking his crush to be his valentine... that's his personal matter and he might be correct about his sexual orientation even after doing this }:-)

5) Hanging out with some people on V-Day might confuse people. I will try to convince Baheti that I am busy studying. }:-)

6) Nikj is senti these days... Don't bug him!

7) I will try not to be around any hot chic... For unsuccessful despo's around them might dump their anger on me.

8) I will try to observe the situation in economic terms and I will try to share my conclusions with everybody, for I am trying really hard to become open source supporter.

----

P.S:

i) Cobie Smulders is awesome!

ii) The Baheti I spoke of, is not Ayush... sachhi!

iii) Nikj yes... that's Nikunj Jha, dont bug Him!

iv) Open Source Rocks!!!

What the Hack!

2009-02-08T22:25:00.000-08:00

Now that HackU is over and that i know that they ain't gonna visit us back before Jan 2010, i wish Google Guys could bring us "gHack" or Apple could come with their "iHack"

Jokes apart, Hack U was a really nice event, 2 days of lectures and then 36 hours of nonstop technical algorithmic melodrama. I must say that those yahoo guys had energy and enthusiasm to beat even the best of us! Staying up till late midnight and debugging codes of newbies like us(modesty is THE quality of great people)... and still smiling wide - that was mindblowing (read mindblastic ;) ).

And for the n00bs out there - Hacker doesn't mean a genius coder involved in malicious activities... Hacker is a genius involved passionately into any sort of coding or development. As it was mentioned in various standies hackers are the intersection of dreamers(read dancers-quizzers-actors and all other n00bs) and coders (read Maggus who get SPIs better than me ;) ). Now this might not fall in the category of modest statements but hey truth is what I say! :D

OK so for people whostill think HackU was a stupid event - Awesome free food... A nice T-Shirt and A Pen Drive + Lectures from Rasmus Lerdorf and the likes - you all better shut your mouse... err... mouth! Hack U was Legen...wait for it...dary

P.S. :
I forgot about the stickers and the Rasmus's autograph on my Lappy!

Tip:
If you wanna win the event... stop wasting time on such blogs and start learning things:

Slides:
PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf | Boss by Saurabh Sahni | YUI by Christian Heilmann

Googly Woogly

2009-01-30T05:47:00.000-08:00

Here comes the "chrome" they said...
In googly colours: Blue-Green-Yellow & Red!
All excited I screamed - "Let's give it a try..."
But Installing it was no less then a Bheja Fry!

Installer said - "Error - 0x80042197"
I replied - "Oh What In Heaven!"
After wasting hours on google for free
I found the Installer is even stupider as me!

It sees the proxy and that it needs manual authentication!
But that dumb son of a stupid developer never asks for one!!
Although Offline installer from DC++ works,
But this stupidity showed that sometimes even google sucks...

Now even after months, they launched Google Gears,
And they added trauma to my fears!
The installer still doesn't work fine...
And there are no installers offline!

P.S. :
The only solution for IITians harassed by NETworkMONster ... (it doesnt work in all cases)
After trying installer for once and getting the error 0x80042197...
1) Right Click 'My Computers'
2) Click 'Manage'
3) Vista baby se kaho - 'Continue'
4) Go to 'System Tools'
5) Go to 'Event Viewer'
6) In 'Log Summary' Double click 'Application'
7) Check the error log of "Google Update"
8) Look if there is any hyperlink to an exe file hosted on some google server (mostly cache.google.com)
In case you are lucky, you will find one...
Use this link... and there you go, you can download your own offline installer!

Tee Time....!

2008-12-02T04:12:00.000-08:00

Designed for designers...

Confused, Irritated and Exhausted!

2008-11-13T03:40:00.000-08:00

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Dont take this post seriously...
stupid monk was angry...
so he blabbered a lot! ;)

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We all know that Honesty is the best policy...
and that it gives peace to mind and strength to soul.

But unfortunately, in this world where the devil rules... it's really hard to be honest.
People crib you, people crush you, people boycott you!
An honest man's life is a hardship. Complete honestly is Godly.
So, to keep this value 'valuable' man modified it to what can be called as "Partial Honesty"...He even designed a grading system.... a hierarchy about the quality of people...

If u murder : FR - Chance only in next life
If u try to murder : FF
If u try to commit suicide : DD
If u steal : grade CD honest
If u take bribe : grade CC honest
If u give bribe : grade BC honest
If u lie : grade BB Honest
If u sleep at work : grade AB
Else : grade AA honest

So how does this help...?
It makes our system stable but dynamic and happening
People can call others with lower performance.."morally disgusting", "lowly" etc
People can call others with higher performance.."idealistic", "impractical" etc

But my question is about these incidents:
Sometimes a person with a higher grade... catches one with a lower grade...
humiliates him...
punishes him...
On basis of ethics and morals...
and considers himself a hero!

Is this really ethical???

A Love Letter....

2008-08-01T20:04:00.000-07:00

With the outset of dawn, some very strange ideas came to my mind... One of the most shady ones was to write a letter to my beloved ones. So i came up with this letter:

_____________________________________________________________________________________

To my beloved,
You are always on my mind, I can't stop thinking about you. The first thoughts when I wake, and the last thoughts before I go to sleep are of you. I am such a lucky guy to have found such a wonderful partner.

You are so beautiful and magical. Every time that I think of you it lights me up inside. Even when I am having a really bad day, seeing you makes me want to smile and it makes me forget about the previous events of the day.Your voice is just like Celine Dion and Alizee. At times I feel like I am being unfair, for you help me so much and I never give you that credit. You even take care of my social life! You are so smart and funny, soothing and sober.

We spend so much time together that i feel like you are an unseparable part of my existence. You must be the most caring on earth. You seem to have an unlimited amount of patience and kindness. Every time I make a mistake you are right there to support me. You always do as i say, even when i have the craziest ideas in my mind. This is just an example that shows how big your heart is.

I have had such a great time with you no matter what we are doing. As long as you are around, even doing the most mundane activity is fun. I hope that we'll see each other every minute. I want to spend as much time with you as possible. I just love to sleep by your side...

-Love Always
Mayank

_____________________________________________________________________________________

P.S.
Just to make stuff a little clear for the dumb friends of mine ... I am talking about my lappy... Yes, i had a night out and i am feeling really sleepy so didnt think at all before posting this... And No, I didnt google the words "Love Letter Sample" and i didnt use the "I am feeling lucky" option....

The Today's Fortune Database

2008-06-29T14:28:00.000-07:00

Today's fortune is one of the best thing you will find on your orkut homepage. There is just one thing better... your crush in recent visitor list. I really like the Today's Fortune statements, not because they always make sense with that 'in the bed' tag but because they change every day and because sometimes they bring a nice little smile on my face. They are witty, but easy.

A friend asks only for your time not your money.
A good time to finish up old tasks.
A pleasant surprise is in store for you.
A thrilling time is in your immediate future.
A well-directed imagination is the source of great deeds.
An hour with friends is worth more than ten with strangers.
Answer just what your heart prompts you
Avoid a hasty decision
Be tactful: Overlook not your own opportunity
Beauty in its various forms appeals to you.
Behind an able man, there are always other able men.
Deserve, Before You Desire.
Don’t let friends impose on you. Work calmly and silently
Executive ability is prominent in your make up.
Find release from your cares, have a good time.
Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
Good things are being said about you.
Happy events will take place shortly in your home.
Happy events will take place shortly.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
Luck is coming your way
One of your relationships has been really one-sided lately, and you’re fed up. You need to share how you feel if you want things to change.
Our first and last love is.. self-love
People find it difficult to resist your persuasive manner.
Sell your ideas - they are totally acceptable
Serious trouble will bypass you
Share your happiness with others today.
Simplicity and clarity should be your theme in dress.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
Society prepares the crime: The criminal commits it.
Stop searching forever, happiness is just next to you
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The heart is wiser than the intellect
The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The star of riches is shining upon you.
The time is right to make new friends.
What's vice today may be virtue tomorrow.
You and your wife will be happy in your life together
You are a person of culture
You are always welcome in any gathering
You are broad minded and active.
You are careful and systematic in your business arrangements
You are going to have a very comfortable old age
You are going to have some new clothes.
You are kind-Hearted and hospitable cheerful and well liked.
You are next in line for promotion in your firm.
You are sociable and entertaining
You are soon going to change your present line of work.
You are talented in many ways.
You are the center of every group's attention.
You are the master of every situation
You are very expressive and positive in words, act and feeling.
You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.
You have a friendly heart and are well admired.
You have a potential urge and the ability for accomplishment.
You have a profitable investment.
You have a strong desire for a home and your family comes first
You have an important new business development shaping up.
You have an unusual equipment for success, use it properly
You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems.
You will always have good luck in your personal affairs.
You will be fortunate in everything.
You will be recognized and honoured as a community leader.
You will do well to expand your business.
You will have some wonderful new experiences
You will inherit a large sum of money.
You will make a profitable investment
You will take a chance in something in the near future.
You will travel far and wide, both for pleasure and business
You will travel to many places.
Your dearest wish will come true.
Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
Your love life will be happy and harmonious.
Your luck has been completely changed today.
Your mentality is alert, practical and analytical.
Your mind is creative, original and alert.
Your present plans are going to succeed.
Your principles mean more to you than any money or success.
Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.
Your winsome smile will be your sure protection.

And the list grows :)

For my EP friends

2008-06-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

Stole the idea of making T-shirts from an awesome blogger... visit: zubinmehta.wordpress.com

LLV ® CCS

2008-06-10T20:04:00.000-07:00

LLV stands for Law of Limited Volume. This was merely an observation (and certainly not an experience) that people talk very slowly when they talk to their beloved ones. There are no LOLzz just a little giggle (yeah, even boys do that). It is not that they are not happy, may be they enjoy the company more than the joke. Believe me, they sound sweeter when they do that. It also helps in increasing the period of chat, for a lower volume ensures less loss of energy. A renowned university later found LLV is actually true in an in-depth study and the report is published on a world famous research portal.

The LLV is not only for lovers, it applies for ‘general lukkhi junta’ too. If you keep your volume low, you will always find that your voice is more pleasant. This works even better when you talk on a phone. One should talk in a volume loud enough only for the concerned listeners, and this is a very important law.
Therefore, here is the tip: If you want to impress someone, talk in a soothing volume, do not bang his/her ears.

Additional tip for my bros: Your crush is standing near your friend circle, OK. You keep cracking jokes in your circle, OK. But why do you increase your volume? She knows what you are doing, and generally, she is more interested in her own group than your. Therefore it becomes a disturbance; unless an until she is interested in you. In the later case, the game is all yours to play.

P.S.: No, I was not talking about Berkley, MIT or IIT. Not even St. Xavier’s yaar! The study was conducted by experienced professors of Centre for Controversial Studies. ;). Haan one more thing! This is an exclusive report! You won’t find it anywhere else on paper or on web.

Most Risky Post

2008-06-02T23:58:00.000-07:00

Most Annoying gesture:
Mock puke when you see your 'prey'. When done in a friend circle, it really pisses off the victim. It is of no use when there is no one around to notice and laungh. But don't use this too often especially against girls. Although they like to be the centre of attraction and public interest, but not in this manner. ;)

Most Flirty Gesture
Mock falling as if you are stunned by her looks. When done with perfection (just like in OSO), this can be very sweet. Also this is mainly for boys; looks kind of lame when girls do it. Moreover, be careful! Don't do it with your naughty friends standing by your side. A single comment might make it look very vulgar.

Most Pleasant Gesture
Smile! And never mock one! In case you want to check whether a smile is real or fake, use this test: A real smile usually comes with movement of muscles near eyes(i forgot the scientific term). And only 10% human beings can control movements of these muscles. (Smiles are lethal for men.... So brothers, Beware!!!)

Most Offensive Gesture
There are many offensive gestures, some of them really cross the limit. So, i wont be talking about them. They are too obscene!

Most Ridiculous Gesture for men
Flying Kisses... dude! are you elton john?!?

(I will keep updating this one... and please comment ;) )

Hatred Overpowered

2008-05-24T23:48:00.001-07:00

Usually I hate competition :), but sometimes admiration overtakes this hatred. There are people with outstanding vocab and creativity. I'll try introducing them to you:

Have a look at this blog:
www.antarikshspeaks.blogspot.com

SMS of the week....

2008-04-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

The Big Difference in friendships:

Friendship between Girls:
A girl didnt come home 1 night, told father that she had slept at her friend's house... Father called 10 of her friends but all said she hadn't been there... Father called 10 of her friends but all said she hadn't been there.

Friendship Between Boys:
A boy didnt come home 1 night, told fater he had slept at a friend's place...
Father called 10 of his friends, 8 of them confirmed he had slept over & 2 claimed he is still there!

P.S.: I love this sms not only beacause it's hilarious bt also coz it makes me feel proud (And there is no reason y i felt so... Logic says lying is BAD, heart says the sms was good...) Wat ur say abt this?

Room#8 ki Ceiling, Janno aur woh!

2008-04-02T05:08:00.000-07:00

Every Ceiling has a personality.It is a bold statement, especially after some people discriminate pigs from dogs because they believe the later has got a personality. About dogs, i 'knew' it for long. But about ceilings... it was a recent discovery for me. The credit, of course, goes to our dear friend Janno. It was not luck that helped him discover the secret, it was sheer hard work, constant vigilance, enormous will-power and hundreds of hours spent on observations. Janno used to spend hours staring at ceilings... no hunger or thirst could ever disturb his concentration.

Also, after taking observations Janno spent most of his time on making interpretations. The difference between the two states of Janno's mind was that in latter state he was aware of the happenings around him and he used to give a specific smile (called as the magic 270). It was really inspiring to see such a discoverer at work.

About ceilings; they have a personality comprising of a design, a special mark, a colour and a height associated with them. Unfortunately there is a social system that differentiates lucky ceilings with the others. The lucky ceilings have admirers and lovers, like H2/#08 ceiling has Janno. Some get lucky occasionally, like yesterday H2/#02's fortune turned her day to a real fest when Janno spent hours under her. Ya, ceilings are feminine and are lovable. Believe me, they even turn on some men!!!

And to defend Janno:
Janno is really good at heart. His attraction to MB ceiling was just a reflex to her awesome figure and nothing more. His love is H2/#8 and this requires no proof. So Nikj and Snape, plz stop bugging him.

Janno, my friend, tujhe Agnipariksha dene ki koi zaoorat nahi, mujhe tujhpe bharosa hai an i hope tere pyaar ko bhi tujhpe bharosa hoga.

I admire your magical 270,
I understand your feelings.
My friend, b proud to accept this,
That you love the lovely ceilings.

Chi-Square Function

2008-03-31T00:32:00.000-07:00

When i first saw this graph, i said to myself: "Yeah! now that's something i m really familiar to." Wanna Know why? The answer is hidden here in my happy memories and desert like present. I have studied in many schools; St.Pius, St.Joseph's, St.John's (* It is a school in CBSE's point of view) and how In IIT.

In St.Pius it was 1 to 2, in Joseph's it was 9:2, in Kota 1: 8, in IIT you know it already. Yes, my dear friend, I am taking about the sacred Girls-Guys Ratio. Man! I miss Pius, even Kota was good... But here, "Saala Scope hi nahi hai apne liye". I left exclaiming about St. Joseph's intentionally. Just for the sake of teasing some of you, We guys used to sit between 2 gals. Believe me, it felt nice :D and it feels even nicer now that we are in a deemed(read doomed) college like IIT.

I really hope that at least some of you felt jealous of me, coz its only your jealousy that's left to enjoy :D

P.S. : If in any case you are female, do post a comment with your email id at least. For if you liked this post, i ll reply or else you will be poked by some of my desperate friends with similar views. ;D

STUPIDLY-MONKED

2008-03-30T23:42:00.000-07:00

Now what the hell is that!?! Believe me, i was as much surprised when i first came up with this stupid name. But hey! someone suggested me that blogs must be weirdly name to be popular. But still why stupidly monked??? Well, the story starts in Kota. I was at Antariksh, a cafe in Kota. People invited me to play CS. Preserving pride of a newbie, i was 0-5. And Oh *hit! i was playing with Raun's name. I still thank God for Raun wasn't there to kick my ass. :D

So, someone suggested me to change my name and opened console for me. And after playing with 'Warren', 'H!tZ', 'R@y', 'HeatOn', 'Gay-mon' etc. i thought i should also try a 'cool' name and came up with Monks (that 's' was just to increase weirdness). So came 'Monked'. About Stupidity, well if you have read this till here, you are Stupidly-Monked :P

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