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...