TRIP TO VELLORE part ll

 

So we waited there for a while.
And a new tension took birth. There was sweat trickling down my face, and I was really and utterly confused, because I didnt know which branch I wanted. There was everything except CSE and ECE. There are those who since the age of 6 know that they wanna grow up and end up in VLSI designing, where as I'm almost 18 and still have no idea what branch I'd want. So I called my "partner-in-crime" Aayan and Hyderabad, and asked for his advice, and he told me to go with EEE. It was like KBC man. Anyways, it was my turn finally, and I was to go to the stage and submit my documents. The dude over there, probably some faculty member started giggling as though I was the most ridiculou thing he saw, and asked me (in a stupid manner that reminded of Crabbe and Goyle), "Are you a boy or a girl?", "Sir I have a beard, so why don't you guess that?"
"No No from behind ugh you ha ha ugh look like ugh girl only no?"
If there was ever a facial expression for FucK yOU, I wish I knew it.
So anyways, I had to wait for another 20 minutes, before some 10 of us were taken into an AC room, with 10 computers and guys behind them. This was supposed to be the ACTUAL counselling. The word counselling is sort of misleading. One expects the people to counsel you on the various branches and scopes and past records and stuff, but counselling here has an entire different meaning. Counselling is, going to the comp guy, telling him you're DOB and the branch you want.I was realy really confused man. The main worry was between Mechanical and Electrical, I closed my eyes and tried to recollect the first formula that came to my mind in physics, it was the basic V=IR. So I took EEE. Now please please please dont EVER select a branch this way. I did it because I didnt know what I wanted. You people are smart, you should know better. And then talk to the "so-called" finance dude, who was looking like a jovial drunkard(but nice guy).
After that we had to decide on the hostel room. Got to know that the only rooms availible were the 4 bedded and the 6 bedded rooms. Look Narayana had given me enough homosexuality around me, now I am not implying that homosexuality is bad, or that all men are gay, or that 6 men in a room HAVE to become gay, but then 6 dudes in a room for 4 years is killing. However, I supposed one can change the room after months from the beginning of courses. Atleast thats what was being told to us.
Bas, thats about it, left the campus, came to the hotel, slept for an hour, saw School of Rock. Our train got delayed by 2 hours, so we decided to travel back to vellore city, since we hardly had any luggage with us. I wanted to visit a net cafe. My told me there was one near CMC, so we went through the CMC campus, its ok, like a regular hospital, maybe its better from the inside. While I was walking under a tree, some fluid-gel fell on my head. And it was stinking. OH CRAP! Man I was super pissed, I dint know what to do, I got most of it off my head. Then i went to the nearest store, got a napking, cleaned my head like a zillion times, didnt want to wash my head, coz otherwise the goo would spread over my face. And that would suck big time. Anyways, went to the cafe, ate something there, and came back to the station. Got to know from some other dudes that EEE is the toughest branch(the others who knew ppl at Vit), but by then twas too late so whatever.

Anyways that was the past. I'm happy to announce that I'm not going to go to VIT.
Thats done, the 10000 is gone but thats ok too. So I guess thats that. 

I know you are hiding. C'mon now, reveal yourself.

I've been noticing that a certain someone from Coimbatore has been spending hours on my blog. And I've no clue about who this person is, coz I dont he/she/it has ever commented. This has been going on for some time.

Thank you for you're undivided attention and loyalty.

Most of us who are inclined towards rock, are familiar with Nirvana. And once you know Nirvana, it goes without saying that you know "Smells like teen spirit", their most famous song till date.
I had never seen the video, but when I saw it, it was completely different from what I expected. And I have no words to describe it. Please note that thisnt an expression of disgust nor appreciation, just amazement.
Check it out and see for yourself.

 


So my exams have ended. And I'm a free bird at last and have been bragging about that to one and all. Now I want to do everything I missed out in the past two years. So yesterday I had gone Karting, today morning I joined driving classes, and a gym. I plan to read Fountainhead soon.
Varun, a close pal of mine from school called me up today and we made a plan to hangout. We didnt know what to do. I didnt want to end up in a restaurant eating all the time, I didnt want to go karting again since I had been there yesterday, and plan to go there soon again. We decided to watch a movie. We were discussing which movie to watch, on the phone. He got the newspaper and started reading out what was playing where. It was incredible. The summer is a time when everyone's free, co-incidentally, almost magically, its also the time for the most crappiest movies to be released. We didnt have much of a choice. We decided to go to this movie called "Tom , Dick and Harry".
Everyone please go and watch the movie. Its amazing. Simply mindblowing. Its really amazing at telling us what crap our bollywood industry makes, now i hear many say what about the good ones. Dude, for every lagaan, you have a gazillion "hawas ke pujaari".
The movie has no goddamn story. oK. Its like this, there are these 2 dudes, Tom and Harry, one is deaf and other is blind, and well they are poor, and have a condom agency, and instead of paying their monthly rental of 3K, they pay half of that and few boxes of rubber to their landlord(who is this punjabi horny bear), who hates them. Within a few minutes Deepak AKA Dick joins them and they bond instantly. The happy go lucky threesome get into enormous trouble. The movie is filled with PJ's, Oh and Dick is blind. Now their life would've been cool, but no wait! There is a glitch. You have Gulshan Grover, as some weird gay ass villian named some crap I dont really remember. He claims to be the most deadly villian in the world, and you have Shakaal, Gabbar singh and Mugambo sitting in his court as his bitches. Now apparently the international MAFIA contacts him and confesses they have a fetish for indian women and demand 50 indian women. So then this is the messed up part, this grover guy's goons roam the street and push over dudes from their bikes and steal their girls and lock them up in some sort of a anti-girl escape chamber. And these are like the most expressionless girls I've ever seen, its like they've all been drugged or something.
Ok, coming to T D and H, they are mesmerised by their new neighbour( celina jaitley). At this juncture it'd be interesting to point out that actresses(contemporary) are supposed to turn the public on, and I dont see how thats going to happen when the lead actress has zits all over her nose and cheeks and every other inch. So thats not cool. So anyways the movie is filled with 1001 PJ's and they really are PJ's. And well, Indian public is sorta dumb, they find it funny. I'm pretty sure, seeing a guy fall while stepping on a banana peel makes us laugh as though its the funniest thing in the world. Anyways, I was surprised to see so many people laughing at those 3rd grade jokes, which dont make any sense at all. But watching them laugh for every little thing made us laugh.
Kim sharma was in the movie too. She was bent up on exposing her bust, which kept on jiggling like jelly every second, coz she kept on tightening her blouse(shez supposed to be a fish curry seller), and made me think...did she have breast implants? Oh shucks, who cares.
And in the mean time, expressionless druggie girls kept vanishing from the streets.
And well then I fell asleep, and I woke up after like half n hour and I saw that they were still yapping about something that I didnt understand. And then out of a sudden, there was mangal pandey, salman khan lookalike from Tere Naam, Anthony from the Amitabh block buster and some other rubbish. That was supposed to be some sort of ruralsexual item number.
And well, suddenly police enters and everyone dances and kicks ass at the same time. Acting was pathetic by one and all. Its amazing how someone as hot as Kim Sharma was made to look so repulsive, celina jaitley, well I think she should be hung.
And the movie has to be THE worst movie ever made, THE worst, one one of the worst, THE VERY worst. No coordination between the actors, everyone with weird gay ass expressions, and too many condoms here and there. Well something went wrong somewhere.
-rishabh 

The trip to Vellore-PART I

Vellore in the past was known in the educational domain solely because of its Medical College, CMC(Christian Medical College). However, the past few years another institute has been coming up, or so the media claims, this one is in the engineering stream. I'm talking about Vellore institute of Technology
An interesting fact to note is that the isntitute received 7000 applications in 2004, 45000 in 2005 and 89000 in 2006. Quite a progress dont you think? Well most of it has to be because of their huge budget of advertising. I remember during the days I was preparing for my JEE, I'd see VIT's sprawling campus on the last page of every major daily every alternate day. Huge, Lit up, Bright!
I too was mesmerised by those huge pics of the campus. I gave their exam. And it has the weirdest syllabus of all the exams, those who gave it this year know what I am talking about.
Anyways, I gave their exam, and cleared it with a very good rank(according to my peers). Their counselling was in a month. Another interesting point about Vellore Insti's counselling is that, its a month before any of the other counsellings, and so is their fee due date. I guess that says it all.
On 16th of this month, I left for Chennai, with my dad, from where we'd catch a cab to vellore.
Chennai to Vellore in an AC cab cost about 2500 Rs. It was later that we realised that the AC cab wasnt very meaningfull, since the temperature suddenly fell down drastically once the late hours of the night started to pass.
I was listening to some Nirvana on my dad's lappie, and the our Cab broke down. In the middle of nowhere.On the highway, which had no divider, no lights, nothing. And we were in Tamil Nadu, we couldnt understand what the cabbie was saying, and the feeling was mutual.
He had spares thankfully,and after 30-40 mins, we were back on track.
We had a room reserved in a hotel, which was 7-8 kms from VIT.
Next morning, we took an auto to the institute, my dad communicated with the guy in telugu. I told my dad, "Hey, he's tamil, he doesnt understand you"
"Arrey you dont know, its all the same"
"No its not dad"
Apparently it was.
We reached safely, and he didnt loot us too.

There were huge posters with VITEEE counselling
"WELCOME STUDENTS AND PARENTS" written . Deep blue they all were.
The institute was pretty green and clean. It was really quiet, probably because only the 4th year students were on campus( that too only a handful){ got to know this later}
They explained to us all the formalities for the day, we sat in the auditorium, where some old dude was going on and on about the college, I heard phrases such as "You're ward is in the safe hands of our esteemed faculty...", "...we teach basic SW skills to each and everyone...", "....having a tie-up with *some german* university, and have introduced *some degree related to energy*", "...the insti is great in harnessing...", "...saale jaldi join kar na bhe...", ok maybe not the last one.
The days ranks were from 750-1500. I had got a 1400 something rank, which basically meant that I had come really early, and my turn would come towards the end of the day only.
The wait wasnt too bad, as I found a pal of mine from college. We talked about the college, saw its library, which was infact the most impressive of the buildings in the campus. It was totally air conditioned, and had a huge multimedia room, with LCD monitors, and a huge database of cd's etc.. I saw some seniors there, and we started talking to them about the placement, and ambience, and student-teacher realtionship, and branch preference etc.
They gave us some official and some *ahem* non official info.
Anyways, we returned to the counselling hall. The counselling was simple. we were in an auditorium, where the number of seats admitted and remaining in each course flashed. They'd yell out the rank and name, and we'd have to give the xerox documents and select our branch. But something was happening. All everyone were taking were Computer Science(CSE), and Electronic and Communication(ECE)
No one was taking anything else. It was shocking( well not really). And then it happened, CSE and ECE seats got over. Now came the funny part. No one wanted anything else. It was as though the other brances were for people of smaller dreams and ambitions, and they were'nt worthy of taking. This included Electrical, Electrical(Instrumentation), Mechanical, IT, Bio, Civil, Chemical, basically everything else. It was funny, that for the next half an hour the counselling progressed very very slowly, and we'd see that only after a long period of time would someone select a branch.

end of part I

Finally hyderabad joins in the protest.

Found this on Orkut, as well as got hazaar offlines on my messenger regarding. If you are a hyderabadi, or in Hyderabad and you are against reservation or quota or any of that, plz do read this and join in. That will be all.


After taking permission with the police commisionor, here are the protest details:

Day: Sunday, 21st May
Time:10AM
Venue: Indirapark Main entrance (Near SnowWorld), Lower Tank Bund Road

All of us will get together at Indriapark and go around it on Tank Bund Road. Thereafter, a few representatives would go and meet the Governor on the issue.

Pls pass this meesage to everyone to join us at Indirapark on Sunday.
In this protest ppl frm all all walks of life (students/IT professionals/ social workers/doctors) are coming together . So be a part of this great moment and spread the word. For any details contact
Sumeet Gupta (9885077147)
gupta_sumeet@yahoo.com

This is a test I saw on sidharth's blog



I'M Apparently the SUPREME nerd GOD. rofl! I always thought I was little nerdy, I guess I was wrong.

 
So I just got BiT Torrent. And there's one word that comes to my mind. As Will Smith would've put it "Damn"!.
Its fast as hell.
I am not THAT net savvy. So the most I would download from the net would be some pdf files, or some other document files, or some pictures, or at the most a song from a site.
Then after a while I downloaded Kazaa, a peer-2-peer software (P2P). Its a sort of a platform, where people come and crap, and others interested in the crap, come and wipe it from there and take it home. No middle men, no banners. I downloaded 3 songs I liked. Then shut down my computer. For a month my computer wouldnt work. It was as though it had got AIDS, or syphillis. It just would'nt start. It had been infected.
I hated Kazaa since then. But maybe it wasnt Kazaa's fault. Maybe it was just some dickhead from a thirdworld nation trying to spam the world. But when you get out in cricket, you dont blame you're self do you( most of the times anyways), you blame the bowler, or the umpire. So that was my brief association with Kazaa.
Recently I was told there's another P2P software called Limewire. After hesitating I downloaded it. And whoa. It opened new doors that I never knew existed before. It was much faster than a website, and had EVERY SONG i could imagine. It was unbelievable. I was overwhelmed. It was like god telling me "Hey asshole, go download." So who wants to say no to god right? (Even if there isnt one)
BSNL(The internet connection I have), has unlimited download from 2-8 AM. So now you all know I am awake in the night.
I thought this was the best thing. But there was the next best thing. LIMEWIRE PRO. Now this thing costs like 10-15$. But I got it from my pal(stihor, you know who you are) for free. So now I log on. And I agree this is the BEST thing. Its so fast! Its like really fast. A 4 MB song in little over a minute. And I am like WOW. So I started downloading videos, you know like concert videos and episodes of SOUTHPARK. I'll talk about this addiction later, but right now I am talking about Limewre PRo. It was amazing. And I thought, naw man this is the best thing EVER. These things are cosmic(shruti are you listening) I think. Coz NOW I GOT BITTORRENT. And let me tell you this, I've not seen anything faster than this, maybe there is , and I'm sure of it. But I have not seen it yet. 32 MB file in less than 5 mins. And I go like WTF man this is INSANE!. But its true. So i'm on a rampage, downloading all the southpark episodes. The total has already crossed 1GB. Its amazing. I love technology. Let me know if something's faster than BIT tORRENT. 

 

Shane Warne
Many rate him as the best spinner of the cricket ball. Since the time he bowled that ball that spun ninety degrees and bowled the maestro Englishman, Mike Gatting-He has been a star. The thing about most stars is this-They get into huge controversies, that increases the number of hits their names give when you punch it out on google dot com. Shane Warne has had his share of controversies. Be it the match fixing scandal after the 1996 world cup along with Mark Waugh, or the 1998 controversy where he admitted having provided info about the pitch to bookies. And then the dude was drugged by his mom(ofcourse unintentionally), or so he claims and that made news too. Then there was his publicised divorce. But there's now another one to add to that list. And this one is hot news guys.
A british tabloid published pics of shane standing in his undies while a blond and brunette both topless fooled around with dildo
The dude was having a THREESOME. Man have you ever heard of a cricketer doing that? I know its no big deal nowadays, but it its the first time something like this has come to the surface, especially concerning a cricketer.
Apparently the two found Shane Warne extremely "Fit" and "thanked" him for satisfying them and "trying" new things. So I guess the pitch isnt the only place where Warne experiments. And if one would think this would tire him for his match the following morning, the guy took 7/99 against a county side.
His wife is apparently is happier after the divorce.
Now is cricket turning into rock and roll? We already have drugs (many players have been caught doping) and now the bizarre sex. 

Tagged by swathi

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line
A. To check the dimensional correctness of a given equation.....

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can
A. And? Is something supposed to happen?

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?

A. Some gal kept eating her hair, and in a span of few years her stomach had to be opened, coz the hair island in her gut was affecting her health.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?
A. 10 pm

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
A. 10.49 pm

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you
hear?
A. Some dhin chak dhin chak crap on FM.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing
A. Yesterday. Getting dinner from hyderabad house.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
A. Another web page

9. What are you wearing?
A. Nothing. I like walking round in the nude.

10. Did you dream last night?
A. No re, ran outta all my dreams. Must've dreamt each one ten times.

11. When did you last laugh?
A. An hour ago, while watching some stuff on NDTV bout elections in TN.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A. A corpse with its genitals erect. Nah. just the usual, paint, paintings, photos.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
A. yep yesterday, on the road, 3 dogs having a threesome.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
A. Hmmmm...... it ok i guess. Same old shyt.

15. What is the last film you saw?
A. In theatre, RDB,
on TV School Of Rock,
on cd, scary movie.

16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A. Google. Wait a sec, isnt google worth more?

17. Tell me something about you that I dunno.
A. Who are you, and why are you bugging me? Well if you must know, I'm a very good listener and an understanding person, though by appearance I may just look as a horny poser.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

A. Legalise free download.

19. Do you like to dance?

A. Is this a trick question?

20. George Bush.
A. Yeah he's got issues...and...???

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
A. Girl

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
A. Boy

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
A. Nope, might work there for a while though

24. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
A. Considering god is a sexy woman. "How you doin?"

25. 5 people who must also do this in their blog.
1.engineer
2.shruti (haha u dont have a blog yet, but when you get one, this is first thing u shud do)
3.aesa
4.i chatter a lot
5.Akhil(incase you see this)

I was going through some of the past questions of the state CET of Andhra Pradesh, more commonly known as EAMCET. One mathematics question caught my eye. Not because of the math associated with it. The question as such was a rather simple one, which any mathematics student who is familiar with basic probability could answer.
The question:
From each of the three married couples, one partner is selected at random. The probability that all the three belong to the same sex is
a) .25 b).5 c).125 d).375
Now most of you would give the answer (a), and you'd prolly get full marks. Yet could the same answer be given after say, 10-15 years. I'm pretty sure, after 15 years, another option e) would be included in this question, which would say INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION, since it is not mentioned in the question, how many of the marriages are between those of "same sex" or "different sex". The world is mixing. People from tokyo are marrying people from siberia, guys are marrying guys, women marrying women, hell I've heard reports of people marrying their pets because they feel connected to them at a certain level. I am a very tolerant person and believe in "whatever makes you happy", but how do the others in our society take it? Especially in India, where half the population is married through arranged marriage , how can such a nation tolerate same sex marriage? Me being a kashmiri, has yet to hear of a kashmiri pandit, who is gay or lesbian, how would such a person be looked in the eyes of the society, his/her own community? Will they be accepted? We all talk about us being OKAY with people being gay, but what if someone close to us was one, or in course of time became one? Would we embrace them? Thats the question you ask yourself.

  

Right so another one in the sack. Just came back from the examination centre after writing, probably the most important of all the competitive exams(realistically speaking) The All India Engineering Entrance Exam, aka AIEEE. The exam was good. The AIEEE had taken a leaf out of the the IIT book, by changing the pattern, well it was sort of innovative. The paper was easy actually, though not really easy, but comparatively easier than last few years, another indication that this one could have high scorers. The examination centre was OK-ISH. I think the exam council, not only AIEEE, even IIT and probably also EAMCET, have this unique way of alloting centres. What they do is, they note down our address, and keep that as centre of a circle of radius 20-25 kilometres draw a circle on the map of our city. And almost as though it was an unwritten law, mark a point on the CIRCUMFERENCE of this circle, thus alloting to us, our test venue. So far all my centres have been a one and a half hour journey from my house. The roads are narrow, the heat is incredible and the traffic is mindblowing.
Coming back to this year's AIEEE. The paper was easy like I said, but then this wasnt really tricky, pretty straightforward, unlike its sibling, the biggie-JEE. This had pretty strightforward questions, once you attempted it and knew the concept and got an answer, you could be assured that it was the correct answer, without having to think twice. I have made it a habit to mess up maths in every exam I write, and AIEEE was no exception.I did P and C really well but didnt have enugh time to really nail Maths, something which every 2 outta 3 serious aspirant must've done today.
At this juncture I'd like to announce my feelings towards the usage of ball pens or any pens during an exam. I SAY ITS BOGUS. But then its prolly just me, because this tactic doesnt work in my favor, atleast it didnt to some extent toay. I lost 12 marks because of marking the wrong option and later realising it, but it was too late to change anything then. But i guess, its all in the package of the exam, no use complaining about it. Que sera sera, what will happen ,will happen.

I wanted to be a writer. Wanted to get into journalism, write a best seller, yeah all that. I was almost certain to go that way. I used to write articles, stories, take part in literary competitions and so on. It was all good. Untill the following summer. The IIT-JEE bug was fed into my head. It was stuffed deep into my head, and no body let me shit it out of my body.
Summer came and went. I decided I still want to write but will come to a halt for these 2 years. Prepare to get in IIT, then will get back to writing. How gullible was I?
Anyways, everyone were dissapointed, my teachers, my friends were shocked, "Abhe tu engineering karega bhe? You are better than that, go do your thing." "I'll do my thing after 2 years" I'd tell them. 2 years have changed me. My vocabulary has been screwd, I've stopped reading novels for almost a year now.(C'mon, One night at call centre isnt a novel now is it?).
I think it has something to do with the sort of company I was in. Uptill school, it was good. But in 11th and 12th, I was surrounded by these guys who had only IIT on their mind, and nothing else. Well when you stay with drug addicts, you become an addict you're self, similarly, staying with them, I started to talk like them, Hyderabadi hindi mixed with Telugu started to take over my English. My sentences would now comprise of 3 and a half languages. And the number of swear words in my lingo too increased at a rapid pace. The internet didnt help me much either. Blogging and chatting has increased my usage of SMS style language. The otherday, on ORKUT, I met this guy, and told him "btw", he asked me what had I just told him. I took it for granted that a 19 year old dude should know what BTW is. But then, it was just me. I realised, the fault was within me.
Rap music didnt help my english either. I mean how do you expect a person to speak and write better english when all they hear day and night is "They is treating us right, We was chilling and shit". All this began to take its toll on me, I would actually use words such as "ain't" or "wassup" in my english paper, and I began realising that no man, something has to be done.
I've decided, after the exams, I mean once all these competitives are over, amongst the long list of things I've to do, READING must take top priority along with losing weight. I'm going to sink myself into hard core literature by Ayn Rand, Salman Rushdie, Khalil Gibran and the likes. Though I will still listen to rap music.

She was every man's wildest fantasy. Hot, sorta dumb, young and rich. For a moment it looked like she had it all. Then some grave career mistakes, and well portraying her self as a hollywood ho, didnt help much to that either. She realised she had to act quick, so what does she do? She kisses Madonna. That puts her photos back on page 1. Then after a while, she has to do something radical again. Now what? Ofcourse. Getting married in a hotel lobby, in jeans and a cap, a marriage which could'nt last a week. Annulment. But she wants to get settled too, doesnt she? So she hooks up with Kevin Federline, who is incidentally commited, but what fool will say no to Britney Spears? So now what? They get married, and he knocks her up, and they have a beautiful baby. But maternity duties have taken their toll on britney. LOOK WHATS HAPPENED TO HER!!!!!She looks like his MOM!!!! 

 

Last year, I had gone to B'lore to spend 2 weeks with my many cousins, uncles, aunties etc etc. One such uncle and aunt(masu and masi) had to attend a corporate party, and asked me to accompany them. I told them I'd feel bored and left out there. PLus corporate parties is just major ass-kissing playgrounds, what would i do there?
My uncle told me, this bloke is different, and he isnt you're average businessman.
"Who is he?"
"He is a brand maker/promoter"
"Oh you mean like Prahlad Kakkar"
"Not so much into Ads as Mr Kakkar"
"Whatever"

I went along anyways.
It was like a rave party man. 16 year olds at these parties are like little puppy's with their tongues hanging.
And this guy is pretty cool. He's damn creative too. Apparently their board room, where they have their meetings is a huge open space in the building with few steps, you sit there and discuss.
I had to take a leak, I went to the toilets, though nothing was mentioned I clearly understood which door to take.
It was something like this...

  

and this is btw my 100th post.

The Much Awaited Sequel

Aiite people. This is it. Titanic 2. Jack's Back. This is just too hilarious.You'd end up farting and laughing.The credit for this goes to Mr Derek Johnson. His website is
www.vekay.com/titanic.html and his email address is mrderekjohnson@yahoo.com.

 


Hyderabad, is away from the sea. It has Hussain Sagar at its heart, which isnt exactly a water body. Hyderabad's weather has had a major change in the last 72 hours. Couple of days ago it was fine. Like, this sunday, I had my IITJEE, and it was scorching hot-41 degrees, 42 degrees, and climbing steeply, thats hyderabad in summers. Its hard to go out in the afternoon. However the last 2-3 days have been different. The days have been hot as usual, with me feeling like baked cake, thanks to this nest I have on my head, which also weighs a Ton. But, once the sun goes to slumber, the weather takes a major U-turn. Its as though the weather gods are having rave parties everyday. Thunderstorms for the last 3 nighs, and one going on as I type this entry. The thunder too is louder then most thunder's hyderabad has witnessed, and it actually feels that some gods are farting upon us, as though trying to tell me, "Listen Kid you already have enough on your mind, with all these exams, I'm sure a little thunder and lightning wont break your spirit."
Yes sir, thunder wont. However, power cuts will. Especially long power cuts in the afternoon, while the heat is burning my butt. The power cuts are like an added attraction this summer, as if summer wasnt bad enough. The power cuts last anything from a few milliseconds to few hours. Thankfully, we havnt had any of hose in the last 2 days. I hope some at the power department, whipped the asses of those dudes who were messing around with the power transmission to my area. Anyways, lets hope peace lasts.
As of now, the thunderstom is still going on, and its raining. I love standing outside in my balcony, with a cup of coffee at 2 AM while the rain drizzles onto my face. 

OMG, I've got to tell this to someone. Thought might as well share it here in my space. Ok this came in the newspaper somedays back, The municipal corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) has enforced this law, that if it catches anyone urinating on public property such as walls, or roads, they will tranport the guy 5 kilometres from his current location at the time of downloading.
I found this rather amusing. It was funny because, Hyderabad authorities are trying to make the city something like Singapore, ok thats an unforgivable comparison, but what the heck.
The thing is this "punishment" can sometimes work out in the guilty's favor. But the probability of that happening is quite negligible.
Now to the more funny part. Imagine, the person who is urinating has parked his vehicle, say a scooter next to him, and this municipal van comes and takes the guy away. The guy says, Hey I have my scooter over here, how will I come back if you leave me 5 Kms from here. The MCH guys would say, We dont really give a crap. Then this guy would be like, ok why dont you give my scooter a lift too.
Now whats going to happen is that, such a rule being implemented in Hyderbad isnt all that smart. The reason being Hyderabad has 6 million people. That is on an average 3 million leaks (considering the women folk dont urinate in public, which is actually not entirely true), so the chances of catching more then one person urinating at a spot is likely. Now it'll be rather amusing for the people to see that 10 guys are being taken in an MCH van, and being dumped on a main road. And the 10 guys have no clue as to what jus happened.
Another funny incident that could take place is if the van that is on its way dropping people 5 Kms away from their "Crime Scene", gets stck in traffic. Thats gonna be wicked man. Just picture that these, all they did was take a leak, and now they have to spend half an hour in a van stuck in a traffic jam, and then gettin dropped 5 km away. Man thats just so funny. And just so that we're on the same wavelength, A mans gotta go when a man's gotta go. Though I agree that a women has also gotta go when she has gotta go too.
-Rishabh

jee-2006. It was obvious that this year's JEE was different. For the ones interested in JEE and its related areas must've read the paper's on 10th April, and hence know about the new pattern.
The new format was like a tight slap on the faces of corporate institutions. NOT a single institute could predict the paper to be like this. While this turned out to be good for some, it proved to be fatal for some. Your's truly, like always is caught in the middle, neither having screwd it up , like many of his peers did, neither nailing the paper so as to be confident of clearing. He still has doubt in his mind , as to whether he will make it.
The thing was that, this time the questions werent tough, but were simple. Not even tricky, direct straight forward. I think except organic chemistry, rest of the paper could be answered by any hardowrking EAMCET-AIEEE preparing student. Solving books like IRODOV and D C PANDEY wont help you score in these exams, since I remember them asking a direct question from H C VERMA, in JEE 2006, a book that is looked down upon by many people on account of it being "simple".
I felt maths was tough. Many found it easy. I dont know, may be I messed it up somewhere, but then no one really knows, till the results come.

Hours after the JEE was over, students rushed to their institutes and vomited the questions onto their lecturer's head. By now all the major corporate institues have come up with their "ORIGINAL SOLUTION". Yeah they're original all right, some options which werent there in the JEE can be seen in their solutions, so that way yeah they have been quite original,
One more thing, one on close inspection will see that more than 50% of question's answers dont match. I have myself referred to FIITJEE, Resonance and BRILLIANT's solutions. All three have different solutions, contradicting each other. While one institute says that they are the "TRUE PLACE WITH ERROR FREE SOLUTIONS", another offers Analysis, and expects to tell you your rank by feeding in your score. I doubt you will get the proper response because after all, your expected rank will depend on how many other people have fed their results into the site, and my intuition tells me not more than 15% of the total students will give their data to one particular. No, thats not going to happen. I suggest all who are really confident of cracking JEE 2006, sit back and relax, and the rest who are unsure, prepare for the upcoming exams like AIEEE and BITS. Peace out.
-Rishabh.

This poem was nominated poem of 2005 for the best poem, written by an African kid.........amazing thought!!!


When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black.
And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray.
And you calling ME Colored ??

Beautiful isnt it? I thought so too. I mean i marvel at its simplicity. Amazing.

I am furious.
Today I went to he the ,much hyped Rang De Basanti. BUT wait..this is not a movie review, this is anything but that. I am not furious at the movie( which btw i could be, but i'll post a long post on that).
I feel strongly about this issue. When it says on the screen, that please switch off your cell phones and pagers(do people still use them), you are supposed to switch off your cell phone and pages. Now you might be think, "yeah right, the nation tells us to have protected sex, but i see no one buying condoms", yeah but then only 2 people are getting affected by that, two stupid people i must say. however with the cel phone thingee, the whole theatre(due to reverberence) gets pissed off.
While i was getting all comfortable in the seats, man PVR has great seats, though their cup holders need a major makeover, and the movie was great, made me laugh for the first half every second(hey wait, nothing bout the move now), every now and then there are cell phones beeping. I wanted to stand up, unzip my zipper, piss all over the crowd, screaming :WHAT PART OF SHUT YOUR FUCKING CELL PHONE DONT YOU UNDERSTAND?". yeah. right.
The first instance, was quite normal. Phone rings. Man receives the call
Hao bhai, bolo miyan?

sachi mein bhai?

kyaa yaaron...

arre bhai picture pe mast scene dikh rela baap.

potte mast acting shacting kar rele....

this went on for about a minute.
now lets analyse that conversation.
the guy said that the actors were acting well. hey why not call the news paper and give them a running commentry about how you feel after each scene bitch.

exhibit b

some real lame ass ring tone, ya know, tough guy trying to be cute, ya know gentle giant sorta thing.
Hey man, just watching RDB...

man this is awesome *beep*

sacchi?

no ways man

acchcha i'll come there and then we'll discuss about that thing.

yes and tell to come.

critical comment:
.RDB makes rang de basanti sound like a cheap struggling beer company.
.smart people can understand what *beep* means

and then there was this one:

hello

arre mummy

picture dekhroon

picture ammie

arrey chal rahi hai.

ghar aakar baat karte, abhi kya ammie

nahi mujhe woh nakko, baad mein dekhenge

hao aakpe liye kuch lane ka hai kya?

hao

hao

nakko

hao

mmm, theek hai. shukriyah

critical comment:
no comments

the same guys phone rings again

hao kya re itne din, koi phone nahin? bhool gaya kya bhe *beep*

eh chal be *beep*

teri *beep*

picture dekh roon,

it was at this moment that his pal told him to switch off his phone, and after initial protest, he agreed. the irony was, at this moment, the actors in the movie were getting beaten to death during the lathi charge.

critical comment: what the hell man. whats all this? why should he talk to his long lost buddy in here? this is a place where fatsos like me come to watch a movie,after a long time must i add that, not losers like him, talk on and on their phone. agar dost se itna hi pyaar hai, phir movie sekhne kyun aaya be.
I think something ought to be done.
Its not right. The sound reflects in the theatre and even the slightest of murmuring can be a pain in the ass. You have see the larger picture( pun intended)
I feel that there should be a guy with a electric shock machine cornering any one uses these phone. the phone should be seized and returned withzero talktime and the guy should be electricuted.
I agree if its an emergency, lik an accident or someting, then its fine, but talking on the phone as though you are in your living room, with no pants on is just not required in the theatre. I feel strongly about this.
There are a gazillion other issues I feel strongly about. One of them is to do with promoting mediocrity. Will talk about that someother time.

 


hmmm, a turn of events i see. 

its 5 in the morning. i've hazaar formular and theories crammed in my head. each theory trying to prove its ingenuinity, trying o screw the other theory. each formula giving way to a new greek alphabet, new constants, same constant but in capitals. i want to break free from all this for a while, say for about 15 minutes. I listen to this 3 times.

When you were young
and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live
you know you did
you know you did
you know you did
But if this ever changin
in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

What does it matter to ya
When ya got a job to do
Ya got to do it well
You got to give the other fella hell

You used to say live and let live
you know you did
you know you did
you know you did
But if this ever changin
in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

cheers
rishabh

Hair, Exam, Girls etc

Boys having long hair is considered a li'l odd in our society. Ok it considered really odd. Some how, only rockstars and rebels are allowed to have them, and if you are sporting one, then you're either a rockstar or a rebel. Thats it.
While walking down the street, guy with long hair invite millions of stares. All the heads turn. Some giggling with laughter, some staring with amazement, some trying to figure out what the fuck you're trying to prove by having long hair in the summer heat.
I personally used to hate the giggling. I didnt mind the "OMG u look like a terrorist" stares, that was fine. But the giggling, that got on my nerves. Little girls giggleing. Old men giggling. Guys on rickshaws giggling, boys on bikes giggling. Girls in buses giggling.
I feel like going to them. smiling. Then giving them one tight slap across their face and wiping that demonic grin of their face. I guess I am over-reacting. But what the heck, its my blog, so I can do whatever i want.
And there is a unsaid rule to the giggling. Among the guys with long hair there is also some sort of hidden competition, some sort of a prestige issue, tell me bout it. I found out all this quite recently myself. Tell you more about this later.

On a more serious note. I did'nt the S R Nagar area had such good looking girls. I mean agreed most of them are like the usual "chalta hai" types, but for once you also have the ones that makes the heads turn and go like "wow", or atleast "hey look at her". One thing is for sure, they arent from my college, or atleast the boys campus. Now you might be thinking how will the boys campus have any girls. Well they do, but in a minorty. Anyways, like I was saying, they must be from the neighboring colleges, and probably from the Biology sections, because of the obvious reasons. I know I sound a typical horny 17 year old, but I'm just displaying the facts.

On an even more serious note. Today was Maths 2 a. I felt it was really easy. But...Yeah , There's always a but is'nt there. I mean if there was'nt a but, how'd this world move. How would we live without "but" in our lives. So, like i was saying, But, I comitted 2 silly mistakes, which shouldnt cost me more than 1 mark, but then you never realy know with these examiners and examinations. Some you get what you're not expecting and sometimes the opposite happens and you shit your pants.
So hears wishing all those who have exams going on in the near future, Best of luck. I have to go now and attend to more important matters.

so i had my first board exam. ya know THE board exam, the stuff that's supposed to decide your future(not now anyways after the inclusion of the competitive exams). i had sanskrit. now go on asking why i have to write sanskrit in 12th? people from andhra and around know why, and the rest go figure out.
Anyways, so learning sanskrit was a cakewalk. The reason being that I wasnt aiming for 99 marks. Its quite simple. If ya want 99 marks your have to learn for 5 days or 3 days with no breaks. If you are aiming for a 90 or so, you have to study for a little over 2 days, and the amount of time i spend on blogging and orkutting tells you for a fact how much break time i take. It's all good I think, minimal effort, not that bad results. Why should i mug sanskrit all day just for few extra marks, not that board marks matter here. And trust me gettin a 95% in AP state aint no big deal. You are considered dull if ya dont get above 93%(Am I?)
So I felt the paper to be quite easy. Left 2 questions, thats about 6 marks, thats it, rest all i answered perfectly. But now my hands are aching , coz i wrote so much for the essay question. And for all those 3 hours( 2 and a half actually, i left the hall after that), 2 songs were stuck in my head. Hollaback girl by Gwen baby and Aadat by the hugely popular JAL. Now it's extremely weird, trying to write the BHAJAK shabd roop with " Ahha, This is my shit, All the girl thump your feet like this......" running in your head, and guess what I could actully hear feet thumping, prolly my own. Man I have a problem, if I like a song, I listen to it till I get bored of it(at least temporarily). It happened to me when I heard We Will Rock You by Five, Hero by Chad Kroeger, Numb/Encore by Linkin Park, Oh this list is endless. So what I guess I am trying to say is that I have impeccable concentration(har har).

 

on the eve of my exams, i am supposed to be studying. how can i do that, when i have this in my head? 

 


these guy are the shit. they give me company in the night and help me to mug things that are beyond my reach. chips with creed is heaven. 

 


long haired huge guy walkin down the street wearing this, gives out quite an impression, dont it? 

make love, not peace
-anonymous

So this is how it is. I have my boards, ya know THE boards in little more than 2 weeks. I have started preparaing for it now. I mean, I had learnt all the concepts in the IIT classes, but you know that is different from writing them down as a page long aswer for the board exam. It's because you should know where to draw the line, its like I can go on and on about Acid and Bases, but you should know what all to write, because if you write more than what's needed or something out of the text book, you end up losing marks.
The main challenge are the languages. Only serious muggers can do it all in less then a week. Mugging languages can be a real pain in the ass, writing down the answers on the paper 3 times, and then going on to the next one. That can be a real pain.
Guess what? I've finally stopped sleeping in the day, and am now like the average junta, who sleep in the night. The reason I think is not necessary to explain, as its obvious.
The other day I selected my BITSAT date, 20th May 4.30-7.30. Thats a really weird time slot. The best is the morning one you know from 8.30 to 11. But i preferred this one because I am a little bit cranky in the morning, but then the 4-7 one aint all that great either is it. Who likes to write an exam at 4. Thats like weird. But what the heck, an exam is an exam.
On other topics, I've been eating a lot lately, the "i am feeling like a loser" syndrome hits me everyonw and then, its really annoying, one second i am fine, and next i'm depressed, but i guess thats how its for everyone, so food is my stressbuster. I feel sex and food are the best stress busters, but since i aint getting any action, i have lots of food, though the non vegetarian intake has considerably reduced because of the obvious reasons.
My bro is obsessed with seding SMS's these days to my dad, dunno whats that all about.

cheers

rishabh

 


As I picked up the three newspapers that we receive every sunday, i saw all three of them sporting almost identical headlines. "BIRD FLU REACHES INDIA". The only time I had heard of this earlier was on the OPRAH primetime advertisments. Over 50000 birds have died of the suspected bird flu in the last 15 days in the Maharashtra/Gujarat are. That's where its right now. Its affected the chickens in many of the 50 odd large poultry farms in the area. More bloodshed is to follow, coz apparently another 300,000 birds are gonna be slaughtered as a safety measure. They will be buried in deep pits. The cause is a H5NI avian flu virus. So people please becareful. The next time you visit McD or KFC, it could be your last meal. Nah i'm just messing with your heads. The virus apparently can't live at temperatures above 70 degress centigrade, and obviously we cook chicken or fry or bake whateva, at temp well over 100 deg. But don't eat chicken raw or uncooked, who knows... 

 

my latest crush! Kaley Cuoco. Its an outrage if ya don't know who she is. She can currently be seen on 8 Simple Rules For Dating my Teenage Daughter as the hot and popular Bridget, and as Billie on Charmed. She's almost perfect. She looks incredible, is smart, but mostly shez just hot. Its great to see that in this world of drugs, illegal driving and weird sex, some celebrity stars do take the right path and not get into shit, others in this category include the Olsen Twins. 

we don't need no education
we don't need no thought control...
-roger waters

 



I've finally decided to look presentable and shaved my beard. this is the final result. 

The grammy's were yesterday. Many dissapointments. I got about half an hour of the show. But god it was mind blowing.
The most vivid memory is perhaps of one of the most defining moments in music history.
ROCK-RAP and Pop merge to form an incredible fusion. While Jay Z and Linkin Park were jamming and really rocking the place, in the middle of the song, the music changed completely, i was like wtf, wha's happening. Chester B started singing a slower number, and from the shadows came Sir Paul and started taking over the song, while jay z was adding hi jhatkas to the song.
Another performance that i thoroughly enjoyed was Kanye West. Man i just love this guy's music. He's incredible. I don't care about his anti-american feeling, or that he's black, he's just so cool. He came with an entire state band, which started marching, and drummin, and then the sounds came, and then the all familiar voice of Kanye saying, "I ain't sayin shes a gol' digger, but shez messin with no broke nigga"
man that was electrifying.
Perhaps the biggest dissapointment was mariah carey not winning enough grammys. Three. Just three. and allthose at a pre-televised ceremony. It was awful. Her music this year was sensational. I cant stop humming the tunes of Its like that and We belong together. She really deserved this one this time. But the one who beat her were prolly more iconic than her. true legends. Delivering again n again for over 2 decades. Make way for U2. 5 grammy's and sweeping the show with their charisma, due to their album's breathtaking success, and an even weirder name, "How to dismantle an Atomic Bomb", whose justification Bono gave yesterday, sayin it was after his dad. Other winners include, Green day, John Legend, kanye west, Linkin park n jayz, Kelly clarkson.
Another dissapointment was that no indian went home with the gold. Anoushka and ASHA, comprised of two-fifth of the entire nominations, yet they succumbed to some other bloke. And the monk didnt make it either.
But the NIGHT belonged to U2!

the forms for manipal are out. their infrastructure is amazing. and so is the fee they are demanding, but it'll be like a back up option, incase the unthinkable happens. 

the prospectus, quite decent eh? 

have i just seen whoopi goldberg naked? 

look look, i finally got it. now i have to screw this in less than a month, one for each subject! 

highway to hell, essentials among others 

this is like a god book to me 

One night at The Waterside

yesterday was my parent's 21st wedding anniversary.
we all decided to go to this restaurant, called the waterfront. the place overlooks the hussain sagar lake here in hyderabad, but once you are inside you look at the lake in a totally different way. it looks so spectacular and marvellous, probably 'coz there's no stink of the lake, and no periodic noise of cars whooshing by at 100 kmph.
The place has an odd rule. One is supposed to pay Rs. 350 per person when one enters. This money is reedemable for food inside, but its to ensure minimum billing of 350, so that guys dont just come in for a juice or somethying.
We sat down.
My bro was all sad and stuff coz i had called him an "ass" few hours ago (he's 8).
It was less than 3 minutes of us sitting, that one waiter comes and starts serving some chana-like stuff into our plates. my dad and me look at each other. He says, "It must be complimentary". "But I thought you get to decide what you redeem for the 350" I asked.
I let that rest. Now one more guy came, and started serving some sort of fried chicken, now this was unusual. My mom who is th inquisitive one was on the phone, so she didnt bother much. Suddenly from the background, i heard a whisper. "arrey aa table ladu ra, table no.36 bhe".
me and my dad burst out LOL. My lil bro however was enjoying the food. the other three of us, hadnt touched out plates. The waiter came and took out plates away( the 3 of us). we started laughing even more. Then after a while, my mom finished the call and asked us what happened, we told her. OMG it was soo funny, all these waiters running around, tell us how sorry they were and how it never happened. I just wished they did not fire the poor fella.
Now we ordered stuff, and my dad gave me lecture on how i was stepping into adulthood, how i should stay away from drugs and cigars. How i should limit my self to occasional social drinking and not become a drunkard like how it turns out often, how i shouldnt have sex right now(several people turned their heads, expecting something else). I had heard this before and me and mom had discussed this a long time ago. but still hearing dad talk about it was different, i was like "dad i know know, ya can trust me". he said" i do".
And then came our soups. It looked great, it was like a marsh filled with chicken. As i started to slurp it, something hit my nose. It was this really awful smell, somwhat like horses urine, or like the sea water. damn it was really bad. I told me dad to have a sniff. he didnt notice anything much. I didnt touch my soup for a while. then in a while came my dad's soup, he had ordered the same thing(he ordered it after we all did). after about 10 seconds, he yelled to me, this thing tastes like crap. And we returned the two bowls, and ordered something else, that DIDNT stink, but still i felt like suing the damn place. My mom told me , that true the smell was awful, but thats how it smelled in china and japan. I was like no way. She told me naw, thats how it is, when she had gone to japan, and singapore(i went to singapore as well), the soups had the similar aroma(aroma lol). She said this was sea weed water. eitherways i was disgusted.
Later i got to know that, this place The Waterside, didnt not entertain birthday parties, and social gatherings. why? because the owner wanted only fine dining ova here. Allowing it to the genral public(asit may happen during a party) will destroy this place's image. I found it a bit odd. I mean as long as the money is rlling in, all is good right.

there are probably very few things sexier than hearing priyanka chopra say the word "kinky" with kareena standing next to her. people who have seen the last pepsi commercial know exactly what i mean. btw didja know this was her fist commercial. way to go miss india!

You scored as Peter Pan. Your alter ego is Peter Pan. You are a child at heart. Anything you believe is possible, and you never want to grow up. Peter Pan 88% Cruella De Ville 75% Ariel 69% Donald Duck 69% Goofy 63% Sleeping Beauty 56% Cinderella 56% Snow White 44% The Beast 44% Pinocchio 25% Which Disney Character is your Alter Ego? created with QuizFarm.com

u turn

the weather has taken a u turn, the temperature which was steadily rising, has dropped suddenly. so the woolens have come out again.brrrr

i guess he's influenced by shoaib akhtar 

can't say the same bout this one though! a huge let down after reading FPS. 

i love this book! 

there's something about kid rock's music. something that just makes you stand up and start jumping for no reason.

murphy has been proved right again.
i decided to skip the part 3 fiitjee aits, since i wasnt totally prepared for it. and i didnt want to write it without preparation coz knowing the standard of fiitjee, its be like suicide, but then as it turns out, the test was the easiest of the three tests so far, and guys who studied almost nothing for it, ended up with scores of 150 plus in the exam.
the lord giveth and the lord taketh.
peace
rishabh

one of the things assosiated with growing up is that you start to think differently. words which you didnt think could merely be more than words, are. you never start to look at words the same way.
for example, many many years ago, the words like- balls, buns, horny, squirt, pussycat did actually refer to balls, buns horny squirt and pussy cat. now, that can't be said. its taken for granted that by the time we're in our teens we lose our innocence. we might be cute and stuff, but still filthy in our minds.
it so happens that when you come across a person of you're age, who stil does think of balls and buns, as balls and buns, you start calling him a lier, or crazy or a nutcase and so on.
i heard myself speak my first swear word when i was in my fourth grade, and things have never been the same since then.
i miss the times when i used just simply use any word, without having to think of the consequences, i prolly dont even remember that time anymore.
the first time i heard the title of the famous rabbi shergill song"bulla ki jaana", i was amused, i was like, did he actually name his song that. it was later i realised that the name of his song did not refer to anything profane.
more on this later.
on another note: i love kelly clarkson

WITHDRAWN

just so that you know, i am not writing tomorrow's fiitjee aits. my prepartion for this part test is too weak and hollow. i suck at probability, and also at binomial theorem. i suck at geometrical optics. i rock at electrochemistry, but thats not good enuf, so i'll start writing them from 22nd onwards, from when the full tests begin.
and i received my acknowledgement card last week, yippee and yikes!

new year resolutions suck!

one of the most frustrating things to see a ;ist of new year resolutions of someone you know. its really patheitc. if the person has not already accomplisjed the stuff written, he'll prolly not do it for a really really long time. new year resolutiuons are as they seen an excuse. An excuse to delay things for a while. Its like, if ya wanna lose weight, and you realise its the first week of december, you'll decide to stop eating a lot from january onwards, and hence "dieting" becomes your new year resolution, however you hog like a horny bastard till the clock strikes 12 on 31st of december. the same goes for studying hard, keeping your room clean, and avoiding viruses on the internet.
i hate new year resolutions, never had, never will .
-peace
rishabh