still cant believe but lets just face it, i am in real world now! things around me now will be for real. its now time to put the things i learnt to action. but wait, what the heck did i learn in fours years of engineering?! well, i really have no idea what college taught me but it really did give a big load of memories that i could cherish for the lifetime ahead. picking a few among them would be a tough job and picking just 10 is mere impossible. still, a while later however, i could gather my 10 best VIT experiences and put them on my blog here. these are those stories that i would tell my kids and their kids and even theirs hopefully!

1) the time when i wrote one exam for another

you must already know about this blunder if you are a regular reader of my blog. if not, start reading now! so it went like this… i went to the exam unprepared (just as any normal engg student!). i, by mistake, took one question paper for another and started writing it, finished it and even submitted to the examiner. it was then i realized that what a fool i could often be! read more…

2) the day with the chennai trip

how often do you have a hundred things to tell about and all just in one night. it was exactly one of those times. i went to chennai in the day hoping to return by evening. but as it turns out… i miss trains, get robbed, get chased by dogs, held by police, screwed by VIT security all in one night! read more…

3) fire in the hole!

well, there was no fire in any hole. but there indeed was fire in my room, G-753. it was ugadi or sankranti or some telugu festival i dont know about when people set fire to stuff in streets. but in this case i tried that in my room! fire, first went out of control but i could eventually manage to put it out. but the smoke triggered the fire alarm. security officials came to check but i narrowly escaped as i swittched off lights, locked up the room and fled away.

4)  caught for copying

dont think cheap of me. i dont copy, atleast i dont get caught that easily! it was in second year and the day of a lab exam. i hardly had prepared. so i was using my phone for copying transferring data to the answer sheet! invigilator caught me, there was some drama. i was preparing my mind to get kicked by lecturers and parents but just then a senior faculty who taught us in first year comes and rescues me making it my luckiest day. and that was the last time i even turned my head in an exam hall ever!

5) something with a celebrity

i already posted something about this. it was something about doing something to some celebrity. the something reaction of the celebrity turned it out to be something really different. i know there are too many somethings here in this something post but the thing itself was something like that. u get something?! read more…

6) the day i almost broke my bones

if you know me, you know that i am kinda risky person. thanks to that, i once stuck myself in the edge of a quarry in such a position that a slip could actually make me fly for a while! i was scared like hell and dint know what to do. just as i was about to wet my pants, my friend came, took out his belt, threw it at me and pulled me out!

7) for the first time

and was the last time too (for a really good reason!)… but coming back to the point, i always had this big doubt about what it felt like when you are high?! so to find an answer myself, i sipped in a few pegs of solution containing hydroxyl fuctional group at a friends b’day party. it tasted like crap, literally. as i was gradually getting high, i was loosing my common sense. at its peak, i pulled my mobile out, dialed the number of a senior who ragged my friends and talked something that as first year student, i should no talk!

8 ) the payback

as i later woke up the next day, i realized what i had done. now as i regained my lost common sense, i could figure out what messing with a senior means. so there were only two things that can be done (1)apologize and (2)run. i choose the second. six months later however, one day i ran into him unexpectedly… and i am not really proud to mention what happened next!

9) the night on the streets of vellore

when our gang goes for a second show movie, it is usually a custom to spend some time on the roads of vellore! on one such occasion, we were accompanied by about 30-40 other students. then came a buss and the driver offered a ride for Rs.10 each. we all got in. but the driver did not take us to the point he actually said he would drop. about thirty student who all seemed to be together started fighting with the driver. myself with my friends just stood there watching the show. they fought for about half an hour and settled for an refund of Rs.30! can you believe? 30 people fought for over 30 mins for 30 rupees! i wonder what they were gonna do next, share?!

10) year of being a day-scholar

i was joined in VIT as a hosteler  and was never allowed to be a day-scholar by my parents. so in the third year i left hostels, took refund and blew the money off. then started the troubles. with the advent of finger-print attendance system, it became impossible for me to sneaking around in the hostels illegally. so i had to take a room outside for real and cook for myself which my parents donno about till date! it was then i realized how difficult cooking is, seriously how do moms do that?!

remember the time i said about how things backfire?! well, this time it climbed a whole new level as my lappy screwed up right the day before my project review. don’t be sorry, i deserve it! like barney once said,”even the greatest shooter often shoots his on own foot!”, it seems i have now joined the streak of the shooters who shot their own foot!

i was just “playing” around in the command prompt when some wrong stroke of a key changed the windows administrator password and locked the computer away. the sad part is that i realized this only after i logged off, too late! i made some calls to hp customer support which din’t help. as suggested by a faculty, i went to the center for technical support at VIT. now, they could not help me but they really impressed me with their equipment and expertize. it was then when i wore a pale face as they were taking turns in examining the situation. since i never created a reset disk or took a backup or maintained a higher administrative account, there was absolutely no way my lappy could be reset without losing the installed data.

at last, i went to this guy at the computer store just outside the campus. he managed to extract all the data out of hard disks and format the computer. i had to lose all the installed software and mainly the installed project i am working on for this final semester. the fact that i recovered the precious How I Met Your Mother episodes actually helps a little! re-installing the project would take some time. i somehow managed this review with the little chunks of source code i had. we have the final review in about a week’s time. let’s see if its enough time to pull things back together.

meanwhile, to all those who are reading this now, i seriously advise, create a password reset disk and save it before you close this page!!

i dint realise it is april fools until a little school boy tried to play a fast one on me (i prefer not to mention how it went!). that reminds me of the things i did to people when i was in school. it also kinda gets me into thinking that how the traditon dedicating a day for it and fooling around with people started. anyway, who the heck cares as long as its fun! so, on this aspicious occation of april fools, i would like to wish the following people a great fools day. those lucky ones are…

• nandamuri fans

• makers of pavan kalyan’s puli

• my special friends

• people who don’t read my blog

• nokia users

• people in love

• all IT’2011 batch except C9

• facebook users who r logged in for hours

• people who don’t want xperia arc

• non-android fans/users

• people who missed the ind/pak world cup semi final

• 9, 8, 6 and 5  pointers

• people who don’t know about Google Motion

this is as far i could get the list go. if you think i missed anyone, add them up along with yourself through the comment section!!

now i know what my next phone is. for a sony ericsson fan like me, this would be a great day as i got to lay my hands on the much awaited xperia arc. i was in the service center for a problem with my existing xperia mini when i heard from someone working there that arc is out. i jumped out to the showroom beside to have a look at it. oh boy, it was just… (still thinking!).
it had a huge screen which makes it look sort of a tablet and is totally weightless for its size. cool interface, loud volume and did i tell u about the LED display?! well, these are all what i had already known about it. but here’s something that surprised me, its price. as i was expecting it to be not less that 40K, the price of 28,000/- blew my mind! since my old phone is not even three months old, all i can expect from my dad is a finger if i asked him for new one right now! so, few more months and baby you are mine!!!

when i am lazy, only imagination limits the possibilities! this is one and perhaps the only reason that kept me away from my blog. anyway, its not that anyone would have missed if i were not posting!

for a lazy guy like me, to keep the blog running, there gotta be some strict resolutions. mine for the year is that i would write atleast one post every month. as an attempt to stick to that, here goes my entry for the month of march!

just when i was on the verge of committing to hate facebook forever, out of nowhere, i recieved this email from the fb team about restoring my facebook account (that i screwed up!). this was a total surprise as i had completely given up on that. infact i was about to create a new account later in this week.

having a fb account of my own is important to me b’coz half of my phone’s applications won’t work without it. moreover facebook is the only link i have with many of my old friends so its not worth loosing at all. i was little scared that i might had to start allover from scratch again but thankfully things got right themselves. i now curse the movement i decided to experiment with my account. it was definitely a bad idea but on bright side, now i at least know how crappy the facebook’s security is and how dumb the account recovery processes are!!

four already! the count for the marriage commitments i’ve heard till now. i am 21 so i am guessing people around me here should be somewhere near too. a marriage i think, anywhere around this age is little awkward and a bit surprising as well. we are just getting out of college into the real world and i just can’t imagine things getting so much real at once!

the whole wedding whirls around got me thinking of my own fate. surely, there is a long way to go before i might even consider settling down. b’coz.. you see, playing the marriage card is like making the final move. you set the timer off for the countdown to start and everything that follows is quite the same for everyone. so only the life lived before that counts. hence i am gonna live my life up to it before i finally give up. i was also kinda wondering when i get married, what kind of marriage that would be?! love or may be arranged?!! can’t really figure out, let’s wait see which one of that strikes first!!!

often things backfire and sometimes so badly that you may totally end up losing them. this time, it was so with my facebook account! i was just checking on the facebook’s security trying to screw with my own account assuming that everything was under my control. but as it turns out facebook doesn’t like someone flirting with its security policies. i knew, i wasn’t good at flirting anyone but now that extends to anything!

i tried to access my account with a different email account once after establishing my identity. just around then, out of curiosity to understand the security algoms, i poked facebook with my existing email account and that blew everything up. i could not open my facebook account from either of the email accounts anymore. i tried viewing my profile from my friend’s account but it seems that i have totally disappeared from facebook! i wrote an email to the facebook team describing the situation and have been waiting desperately for their response. oh facebook, so much for a little experiment!!!

i never thought the final semester of the college would be this odd. the days start with an alarm set at 8 am and literally end in an hour! b’coz you see, after i go and sign in the attendance sheet, i am done for the day. there is nothing i have to do for the rest of the day and it is boring as hell. though it is something i would have liked few months ago but now i find, it is completely annoying. at least, if there were many friends around, it would have helped a bit. my four bedded room is completely deserted and i have the other three beds for myself too!!

as always, the entertainment industry has come to my rescue. i am engaging myself in watching movies, serials and every such stuff. there was a time when i used to enquire and take only good movies but now, any movie i haven’t seen in past finds a place in my laptop! i had been watching the same episodes of how i met your mother and big bang theory over and over again but recently i found this new tv show called outsourced, good one. set in indian backdrop its a complete comedy entertainer. only ten of its episodes have come out and i am already digging it!

i was under the belief that this last semester is going to be lite as there was no need to be at the college for the project. but just when i reached college today, i found that there was a change in the programme, damn!!

they not only made attendance  mandatory for everyday but also stated that the attendance should be given early morning, 9 am every day at the site office. i hardly ever woke up for classes at that time! and moreover the minimum attendance is now 85% which is way more than my aggregate attendance for all four years in VIT.  i started having a feeling that this project may not  be going to be that easy!!

i’m already missing them. those last bench moments will never come again. i wish, they have similar last desks in offices!

just gave the last exam of my life (probably). the exam too was a bit unusual. the question paper contained three pages printed on both sides stuffed with stories. on first look, it looked more sort of a newspaper! the unfortunate thing is that they din’t even give an extra time to read the paper!! whatsoever, that ended the exams streak.

since this is the final semester, we won’t be having classes anymore. just pinging the project guide once in a while would be enough. i wonder if i could see the faces of all of my classmates again! most of the time now will be in the hostel (well, i can’t promise that!). here’s the beginning of the climax of the VIT chapter of my life. lets see how thrilling it could get!

not a day passed when i din’t think of my future with Google from a month. the most awaited Google’s written test results appeared. huh, destiny plays the same damm game with me, again!

out of the 1200 students that gave the test, Google was merciful enough to select 60 for the further rounds. i sincerely hoped that i might have a shot at that but donno what went wrong. things lately i my life have not been going my way at all. if i ever get to see god, i have a question for him…

if a person can’t get what he wants, why do you make him want that in the first place?!

so much to write. 32 days since i last posted anything here. i dont see why i stopped filling in my blog in first place? there are many things that are different now from then.

the first one to mention about would be me! i went home in between and when i was to return, i was down with a bad flu for about a week which burned at least 5 kgs! it was a tough time as i was ill and the dates for final review and comprehensive test were nearing. finally when i returned to VIT, i was so badly in shape that my father had to arrange a person to carry me from hyderabad to vellore (not literally!). and you won’t believe, the instant i stepped into college, my health restored. such is the air of VIT!

the second change around me is the change of my lappy. i changed my laptop to hp mini, the cute one. it is slightly bigger than the HTC HD2 mobile and a lot smaller than my last laptop. though there’s one hitch here. the mini runs on the intel atom processor, not so powerful one. but so far so good. the processor is comfortably supporting the use of all the applications the i generally use, except games! in short, change from…
compaq to hp -> good!
amd to atom -> bad!!
motion games to flash games -> sad!!!

and of course the farewell party! i missed the buffet that was arranged that night of the photo session. now don’t ask what photo session?! you know that i am in final year, right? though missed the dinner, i was at the photo session anyhow. the dress code for guys was formals and gals was, i am guessing, sarees. oh boy, i never thought the gals of my batch had so much in them. i suppose its the saree effect that added up!

true! i had a very bad experience with the vellore traffic police today. the inspector told me to get a licence fast and i obeyed him by getting myself a license fast, how fast?… 1 hour exactly!

that was easy. the moment i returned to hostel, i borrowed my friend’s license, scaned it into my lappy and opened the photoshop. and ½ hour later, by the time i closed Photoshop, my driving license was ready. don’t go by what looks in that one above. except for my name, nothing else in right about me there!!

finally the Google day. i had been counting days down for today as it was the day of Google’s campus visit for recruitment. i was preparing all the week like for a supplementary exam. this is one of the rarest moments when you see me study!

the selection process started with a written test with 3/4 questions on the general internet stuff which anyone who spends a decent time on internet can answer. the other 1/4 was aptitude. the good thing is that i nailed the test and the bad thing is, everyone else did that too! i donno why, but i still have a good feeling about this. they said that it would take about two weeks time for them to correct the papers and get back (hopefully, with a good news for me). later at the pre-placement talk, they told about the company and the job profile which only made me slip deeper into love with Google. then there was a little Q/A session where i won a flashy Google badge!!!

is what i followed in my second review of that freaky project i wrote about the other day. it wasn’t tough at all as i was myself very confused with my project. some said the project was right and some said otherwise. i could not decide on one thing to explain about the project.

i had many things revolving in my mind when i started my presentation to the panel. so i threw up everything that was in my mind and… yup, it worked! i convinced  the panel members that the project was correct but complicated and that settled all the freaky stuff that was bugging me from a week. seems, it also made a way for an A!

not a clue what that title means but what i mean to say here is that the mighty Google is coming to our college for campus recruitment in a couple of days and as a fan, i can’t be more excited. i read the job profile. its is the user operations department that fights the frauds in various Google products to make them efficient and it doesn’t ask for proficiency in programming skills which is something i am terrible at. moreover the job profile states that the students must have experience in SEO and related activities. now thats a good news for me as i have some knowledge of the SEO operations from the webbie stuff i did all of last summer.

so for the first time in years, i have opened my first year books and dusted them for a read. there is absolutely no way i would have opened those things if it wasn’t for Google! i just hope i have a good day that day. you know, i even thought of a status update if i get into this job: my job is to make the best… even better!

met you for first time around august,2007 and ever since you showed up twice every semester uninvited. i was serious about you in the beginning but later on you were no more than a surprise test. there were days in first year when i started preparation a week in advance. but gradually that preparation time decreased. from a week’s time it slipped to a day’s in second year, an hour’s in the third and to a mere walk’s time from hostel to the exam hall in fourth year.

there were even times when i wrote one subject for another and realized it only after coming out of exam hall. there were also times when i bunked you just for a good night sleep and even had to sacrifice you for some movie’s first day release. hope you understand. it all worth it!

frankly, i think there was never any point in even writing you at all. you hardly ever gave me marks in two digits, i never passed you after first year and my parents still think that CAM marks are out of 20!! whatsoever, i am sorry for treating you so carelessly! i guess it was mutual. nice meeting you CAM, i am gonna miss you!!!

huh… not even a long time since 26, august when i wrote one exam for another and it almost turned out to be the same today. it was cam-1 then and now its cam-2 this time. from that day on, i started seeing the name of the subject on the question paper first, without fail. i did that even today but seems the m-tech students have a subject with the same name. we had the subject called SPM and so did the m-tech students who shared the exam hall with us. though both of us had the same subject, their syllabus was different from ours. i dint know about this before. i picked up their question paper and found some numerical problems on the paper. that was weird, as we had only theory for syllabus. still as i prepare only half the portion, i almost started off.

but lucky for my habit of a brief discussion with my neighbor in the beginning of every exam, i got to know that i had actually picked a wrong question paper before i started. now, i learnt that just checking the name of the subject isn’t enough!

i don’t clearly remember when i took the last additional in an exam. probably it was in the first year and now after a long time, another in the final year. it is the first time in two years, can you believe?

since i blew the cam-1, i am putting an extra effort for this cam-2. still, i never thought i would be taking an additional at all; it just happened. i was writing and writing when i suddenly realized i was out of paper and i said “maam… additional please”, all the class froze!!!

the day started with a phone call… or the alarm, i don’t remember exactly. little later my friend called me up for help about buying some stuff on ebay. he wanted to buy a mobile. there, in the list of items, i saw a wrist watch with an inbuilt mobile! it was in my mind to have something like that from very long. i had considered having that in the past but the cost then was about 30K but this was only about 6K. though it was a china piece, its applications were immense. all i wanted was a working mobile that can be strapped on to the wrist. i was almost ready to hit the buy it now button when i realized i should have a look at the seller’s profile. i found that he was from chennai, only 2 hours away from where i was.

we had a placement training programme that day for which attendance was mandatory. so i set up a friend of mine to attend that for me when i was away. i packed up and left for chennai at 3 pm supposingly  to return buy 11 pm max.

i first headed for the railway station but missed it by a kilometer. i walked back to the station only to find that there was no train to chennai until 6 pm in the evening. i went to the bus depot and took a bus and reached chennai at around 7 pm. after struggling for about half an hour, i found the sellers address. the movement i saw the thing that brought me to there, i was taken aback! though it resembled the pic posted on ebay a bit, nothing in it seemed special when seen in live. it had a poor interface, loose keypad and a very low quality camera. in few words it was a piece of crap! i din’t want to be rude to the seller so i said to him that i liked it but would come again to buy it. i left thanking the movement i decided to come to chennai and see it for myself before buying. if had ordered it online, i would never be able to forgive myself. i started back to college at 8 pm and the trouble starts now…

i went to the chennai central railway station and enquired about the next train to katpadi station (the station near VIT). the guy in the counter, told me that the train was cheran express on platform no. 10 at 9 o’ clock. i bought the ticket and went to the train and what i see in there?, there was a layer of people sitting on the floor and there was another layer of people standing over them! i wanted to get out of there and take a bus back to college but the chennai’s bus depot was very far away from there and also the train was a superfast so it would get me to college within two hours. i boarded the train it started. after patiently waiting for 2 hours, i find that train won’t stop at katpadi station at all!!

the next station was after 1 hour which sounded something like jagglurpet. i got off the train at 1 am and was going towards the counter to take a train back to katpadi when the platform ticket collector halted me. he asked me the ticket and which i gave him. he said i have to pay a fine of 250 bucks as my ticket was only till katpadi. i tried to explain him how i was misinformed about the train but he won’t listen. right when i was about to pay the fine, he said, “you seem to be a student, so just pay 150 and i’ll manage!”. idiot, i knew exactly what it meant. however, i gave him that as it was saving me a hundred. a train came at 1:45 am that brought me to katpadi station at around 3 am. instead of exiting from the main entrance of the station, i took a shortcut towards the college and ended up on the main road that lead to VIT. there were no autos or buses at that time. i could have walked but there were many dogs at a distance. i waited there for almost half an hour then came few bullock carts. i requested one of them for a lift and reached the college main gate another half an hour later. it was a tough time explaining the watchmen what happened, particularly with the bullock cart ride.

the movement i stepped inside my room, the time was 4:30 am. i din’t even have strength to explain what happened to my friends. i curse the movement in the morning when my friend called me. so much for a help!!!

i am addicted to it! i watch it when i am free, when i am busy, when i am happy and when i am sad. it is like my day doesn’t complete without a dose of it. i have all 5 seasons of it in my lappy without missing a single episode. for over three months i have been watching those episodes over and over again. the more i watch, the more interesting they get. such is the magic of HIMYM.

the greatest news in months is that the season 6 of HIMYM is starting today, 8:00 pm in USA. for this one reason i wish, i was born in america! it may take few more hours before that episode gets into internet for download. a new episode every week from now… ha…ha… ha! just can’t wait!!

there was nothing new left to see in pondicherry as it was already my third time. i had been to pondy in 2008, then in 2009 and now again in 2010 (probably the last). i dint really feel the excitement this time. to make things worse, one of my friends who was with us on the trip, had (actually, did) an accident and wreaked up a brand new rental bike. that costed a huge sum of money and a great deal of patience in explaining that to the owner. and the funny part is, the accused won’t accept his mistake, idiot!

click on the image for more pics

except for that, the rest of the trip was ok. we din’t plan much in advance and that troubled a bit. we went to the auravali beach on the first day. the second day was mostly in the room and the rock beach by the evening. i had plan of a movie but nobody supported the idea. there were mainly three things i learnt from this trip. they are…

1. plan in advance!
2. DO NOT ride a bike if you can’t!!
3. pondicherry is actually Puducherry!!!

my friend planted a bug in my head since he got tattooed and that bug was eating the inside of my brain ever since! finally i got relieved of that thing, by getting myself tattooed on my last day in hyderabad of this brief vaccation. i selected the place to be the under side of my left ankle. it turned out to be a really good place to hide the tattoo because i was at home for a full day without getting noticed by anyone at all.

it can be hidden by strapping the watch on it too. well, i know there will be some day when my parents would see that, lets hope that day is far far away. i wonder what their reaction would be???

worst would be a very gentle word to describe the movie! omg, i don’t think it even makes sense as a movie. the director s j surya, bloody ****** (pardon my language, i can’t help) made crap and threw over telugu audience. such movies may be accepted in tamil industry but not here. if they don’t understand this fine difference, why do they even come to the industry? and it isn’t just about the director, what happened to the common sense of the power star! was he out of his mind to select this script?

you may think i am little over reacting. but look, if you wait for over a year just to find the movie is a crap and see your favorite star being humiliated, this would not be over reacting at all.

not everyday you find a celebrity online and its only once a while you get to chat with them. today turned out be one such day that i would cherish forever.

the person in this case is a big south indian actress (assuming it wasn’t a fake account!). frankly, i wasn’t ever a great fan of her but from this day i am. after such close encounter, its a great feeling that i am left with which is hard to explain. well i know, they must be seeing hundreds like me every week but hey… its me!

i did something (stupid, of course) that i can never forget and i bet neither would she!!!

the long awaited day has arrived. results of the supply exams i wrote few weeks ago are out. atlast i am clear of any backlogs. well, like i said, that was intentional (and stupid too) which costed me a chance in companies that have visited campus so far this year.

since the time i came to college after summer, everyone and everything seems to be talking about placements. for my burden then, i had to slip off in every such conversation but not from now. since its phase two of placements, i am eligible for all the companies comming from now. so dear companies… one at a time please!!!

as a fan of google i hate to admit this, google chrome sucks!

i had been using chrome for almost an year by now and never had a hitch with it. all was well for so long but suddenly these days, it started troubling very much. it gets stuck up in middle of anything and wont respond for a while. i don’t know if its just with me or so with everyone else. whatever… i liked the new interface of firefox 4 very much and supposed its the time for a change.

firefox 4 seems fine. i am trying to dress it up in the firefox mockups theme which will give it a more chromish look. the only problem i have now is importing all bookmarks & passwords from chrome which is difficult as there is no facility of a direct import provided. i guess, i’ll have to start over from scratch again!!!

some of them like me, some of them hate me, some of the don’t even know me! but there is some thread that binds them all together and brings them to my list of special friends. special because they are…… hmm, i better not mention that!!!

since its the placement season, i think a good opening would be…..

The following people have been short-listed for special friends

ever tried???

neither did i but this is how far hunger takes you! i was damm hungry and i only had a pack of maggi noodles. there was no boiler nor a heater anywhere and all i could find was an iron box. looked impossible at first but hey… its me!

amidst huge mockery i started off by inverting the iron box, placing a steel tumbler over that and let the water in it boil. and then i emptied the maggi noodles and the tastemaker into the water. stirred for a minute and…

finally, my friends, i pulled it off and should i say… maggi never tasted so great!!!

my phone screwed up this evening. seems it had its independence at last. it was a fall of about 8 feet down, which i could have handled comfortably but the poor thing could not! it served me for almost an year. it was a smart, stylish and a tough dude!! it survived severe experiments in my hands even those like flashing. it was going to celebrate its b’day next month but see the irony. my phone was like a trophy for one of my big adventures of all times and that only makes it more special. may its soul rest in peace!!!

it was such a busy week, one of the rare times when i work hard. i had been preparing for the supplementary exam which i had this morning. no movies, no serials, no jibber-jabber all the week…….

the subject which i had was a tough one and since it was a supply, there was no other chance. the paper wasn’t so tough but lengthy. so lengthy that in the last hour i just closed my eyes and scribbled like anything (u can understand how that affected hand-writing). i wish the evaluator too closes his while correcting!!!

now when you visit harshix, do not forget to get into your sweaters since its gonna be snowing here… all the year!!!

right from the movement i saw this on a website (that i am not proud to mention!), i just could not wait any longer to get that on mine. and finally, a few clicks and minutes later i could make it up for my site. its damm cooool!!!!!!

some of the status updates in facebook and orkut make me feel very sorry! i don’t understand if they think they are cool or catchy. for instance there was a guy who wrote lyrics of some song which i bet he doesn’t understand. there was another case where someone wrote about some travel experience (trust me, it wasn’t a status update but a full story!). there was again my friend who updated his status in a very funny way and claims to be hacked though i seriously doubt that!

to mark a token of sarcasm for all such people, i have decided to throw around some of the lamest status updates on facebook. i am sure you won’t find any lamer stuff anywhere else. keep checking on my facebook wall…..

i jumped off my seat as i read this mail. since i flunked in an exam of last semester (actually, that was intentional and turned out to be a big mistake!), i cannot appear for any company’s interview until i clear it off. at the time of exams i din’t expect core companies to be visiting campus so soon. e bay, which is in list of my favorite companies, declared its interview on 05/08 and already shortlisted students. for my current arrear, i was’t shortlisted for the written test… at first. but thanks to my website and all the webbie stuff i started, i may get into the lists for the test. i never thought they would help me this way! e bay is giving chance to students who have experience in web designing, open source development, forum participation and such other stuff.

since results of the supplementary come out only after august, i was counting only on companies visiting beyond that. e bay’s re-consideration was very helpful. now its to be seen how much use i can make of it!