Feline crisis

I come back to my room after my CSD class gets cancelled. I find her standing in front of my room. She looks at me in helplessness. Her eyes do the talking, "I have been waiting for so long. I have urgent needs. Where have you all been?" I don't pay heed to her. As soon as I unlock the door, she tries to enter the room, but using my ninja skills I don't allow her. I try to chase her away from my sight since I am not at all in the mood to think about her problems, but she has other plans. She is pregnant.

The curious case of Mug-buddies

Disclaimer: This post is written recklessly, without any effort to maintain sanity or to preserve a good-boy image, although considerable fight has been put to make it funny. References to real-life characters, though maybe true, are not meant to insult anyone. I am just having fun, my way. (Waise bhi kya ukhaad loge!?) Views presented are mostly mine but, as usual, I have taken opinion of several of my like-minded friends. They _totally_ agree with me. :D

     Since my childhood -- okay, fine... since 2nd year in IIT -- I have always wondered why people go to the library/dcf so enthusiastically and frequently. I didn't pay much attention to it until some of my CAT-enthu friends (no, not bestiality... the MBA-thingy) started going to Lib in the summer vacation for taking mock tests. They raped some, got raped in some. I used to join them, thinking I will also mug. LOL, I know. Result: lots of Anime and the beginning of my-fav-english-songs collection *sigh*. But knowledge comes in many forms. There, I got to see the bigger picture: answer to my childhood question.

Current Affairs

I know it's been long since the last blog post. Just shut up and read.

Disclaimer: The following views are not just mine. They have been endorsed by my friends. So I do not take full responsibility for them. If at all, please sue us together.

Revival

Sigh. I want to blog, I really do. No, time is not the problem. I have enough of it. Just the right motivation after an appropriate stimulation -- yes, that will help. So, in an attempt to restart my blogging career, I am publishing this poem that I wrote a couple of weeks back

Break the Break !!

Warning: This post has nothing useful. Just the thoughts of my mind.

    I am in a position in my life which I keep on confronting again and again. On one hand there is lot of work to do -- interesting work -- but on the other hand, there is this wicked mind which compels me to waste almost all the time I have on apparently useful but factually useless things like cricinfo, ebay, imdb, youtube, etc. Did you notice something? Yes, Internet is the platform on which these evils form their brotherhood! Now I guess some of my friends will understand why I am trying to run away from "on-line" services offered by this wonderful product of technology commonly known as Computer.

My flirts this week...

Elisp, Scheme, Java, Ruby, Roadies, Splitsvilla, Steve Yegge !

    So, these are the topics which I was enlightened about last week. Although I spent more time on the latter 3 topics, I gained the least from them. Steve Yegge's blogs are fun to read and you may even (almost) get the impression that they are informative but to me, they are all but useful. Of course, if you are as jobless as me, sure, give them a shot.

Recent Insti Exploits

I. Welcome Srinivasa:
In an attempt to buy a new bicycle, I along with my friend Sagar trod along the narrow but thickly congested streets of Velachery. After being utterly disappointed by the high price mentioned by the shopkeeper for a Photon cycle (Rs. 3600), we decided to make the evening more enjoyable.

About shortening links

I was always amazed by the "short" links that people used in their tweets. So I searched around and I found this interesting website.

On bit.ly, you can shorten your long links and then share them. This is especially useful on twitter since you have only 140 characters to blabber.


Another famous website which does that is tinyurl.com. Although both work fine, I think bit.ly is more miserly when it comes to number of characters in the url.
Later.

Purpose of this blog

My friend prateek read the first blog entry and made some remarks. I thank him for doing so. That motivated me to write the purpose behind creating this blog.

In this blog, I am going to write what I understand from the various things that I do in my day-to-day life; although I'll post on a variety of subjects, nonetheless the emphasis will be on academics because I want to see how much I study during a certain period of time and how much time I end up wasting in the same period.

Apart from that, I want to say that this blog is not a tutorial; it is mostly for my own understanding and future reference. Nonetheless, junta can follow it and understand the topics with a bit of efforts on their side as well.

Having said that, the most important thing is: I'll post what comes to my mind...:P

By the way, the previous MySQL stuff (and whatever is about to come) was kulted from here.