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2005-10-31T16:57:00.000+09:00

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The 10th Year Bash

2005-10-16T14:55:00.000+09:00

Last week was the mega, grand, gala, mala..whatever celebrations of our company. They gave its 6000 employees free "10th-jubilee"-whatever-thingy t-shirts and threw a huge bash at the Corinthian Resorts, Pune. Was a nice affair, really. Lotza good food, booze and dancin. As usual I had the gurlz floored with muh movez, and left 'em beggin for more. Got home 12ish n crashed. :-)

Kishore!

2005-08-22T20:37:00.000+09:00

The other day I picked up this CD of "Sad" Kishore songs and I think that they are amazing. Everytime I listen to them, I feel like I'm transported to another world - asif the stuff he was singin were really happening to me...*Ammmaaazing*

My favorites - "Dil Aaj Shaayar", "Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si"

I think these two songs are outta this world, and I'll never cease to love them. Both these songs are about betrayal- Funny that I like them so much, considerin that I've never been betrayed...never been in love either!

Kishore, you rock!

Mangal Pandey!

2005-08-17T22:15:00.000+09:00

Mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-Ho!
Mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-Ho!

Jaagey Nagar Saarey, Jaagey hain ghar saarey
Jaaga saara gaon ho!
Jaaagi hain bagiya aur jagey hain ped aur
Jaagi hain pedon ki Chaon!

Mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-Ho!
Mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-mangala-Ho!

Ahoy.

2005-08-16T22:09:00.000+09:00

I dunno what Ahoy means. I thinks its da same as "Hullo" or somtin to that effect. So ahoy every one. Friday was stiff-neck day. You know, Stiff neck day? Like when u wake up one fine mornin n realize yo necks not as fine as da mornin. Eva happend to yo? Eh?? It did to me.

I walked like a robot all day in da office. Hohoho. And wen my boss who'ze cube is behind mine called me I turned round - like the whole of me - wid my neck in da same stiff position...muahaha was so funny.

And den i slept widout a pillow for a nite(someone sed it would help) and it worked!
Muahaha...gawdnoze where these stiff necks come from.

*Sigh.*

Live Sh*t Binge and Purge.

2005-07-12T12:54:00.000+09:00

Finally, after years of looking for it, I found a copy of Live Shit Binge and Purge - the metallica box set that I'd been looking for for ages. Muahahaha. I'd been looking for it for it in Hyderabad, Chennai and Even Bangalore - placed orders at Music world, Landmark and Planet M Chennai, all in vain. They said they'd let me know if they ever managed to get it. They never did!

Yesterday I stepped into PlanetM Pune and there it was! In all its finery...In a grey rectangular box about the size of 2 VHS Tapes stacked one over the other, was Live, Shit, Binge and Purge! - The collection that depicts Metallica at their zenith - Raw, Masterful and Arrogant.

The set is expensive - but really worth it if you are a huge fan. The set includes

2 DVDS
3 Audio CDs
1 Scary guy stencil
1 Replica of a pack stage pass
1 72 Page booklet

- all worth it!

The 2 DVDs are from the San Diego and Seattle concerts and pack in over 6 hours of live concert video.
The 3 Audio CDs have 3 hours of live music from thier Mexico concerts.

I finally have all of it, and it was so worth the wait... :-)

July 5 sniff sniff

2005-07-05T18:53:00.000+09:00

The cold is worse. There's phlegm too. Feeling half dead.

Sneeze.

2005-07-04T13:41:00.000+09:00

The weather sucks. It so rainy and cold. Been sneezing. Have a presentation this morning. &$*###.

Theres blood on the dance floor.

2005-06-27T12:40:00.000+09:00

"Keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you might have to eat
them!" - Mahatma Gandhi, November 23, 1969*

"Discos have never been my thing anyways.Not that I have anything against
them, its just that i'm not much of a dancer. So, I dont fancy the city
anymore." - Haroon Imran, June 17, 2005

The date : Saturday, June 25 2005. The occasion : The SIT team's kick off party. The venue : Irrelevant. The Point : I actually danced.

Naah I didnt tap my foot and shake my head, if thats what you're thinkin about. I actually danced my heart out that day. I swayed, jumped and gyrated to pulsating music, right in the middle of the dance floor.

Was it the music? Or was it the Vodka? I have no idea! All I Know is that once the DJ put on his phones and my friendz took the floor, I got sucked in. As if by electricity. Being a metal head, I found myself headbanging a bit at first. And by the third song, all hell broke loose. The normally composed Imran(except at metal gigs) was in a world of his own. The next 15 tracks saw more dance, more Vodka and more dance.

Anyways..hmm...its monday morning now. Trying to get back into the mould of wht they refer to as a "Software professional" (hate that phrase). Another week to go.

Saturday is just 4 days away.

Heheheh.

Money.

2005-06-18T15:36:00.000+09:00

Money is very important. Full stop.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

2005-06-17T12:56:00.000+09:00

Today is my 10th day at the new office. Think I'm beginning to like the place afterall. The weather is great here, and the coffee machines quite liberally scattered about the place.

Ever since I got here, I've been dying to go to the city.Can ya believe it? Still haven't ventured out into the main city. Its supposed to be a "happenin" place n all. Buzzing with loadz a young people in pubs, discos and junk food places. Yeah, so damn happening.So fckin awsome. And then I read this health magazine that changed all.

"Oh my god!...I've been killing myself all these years!"

Junk food completely disgusts me now. So no more Pizza, burgers, fries and coke. And no more eating out. As in "eating-out" eating out. No Chinese, no thai, no bull shit. None of that. They're serving poison out there. Am content with the Phulkas, and Rotis that the little neighborhood shop serves us each evening.
And obviosly no pubs, coz all i drink is beer, and beer isnt any good at trimmin my paunch. Jeezus christ, I have a paunch. And I'm 22! Been joggin to work on that.

Discos have never been my thing anyways.Not that I have anything against them, its just that i'm not much of a dancer. So, I dont fancy the city anymore.

So what's he gonna do eh?..just jog, work, eat grass and blog?

Far from it. Find some rockers, get his guitar and amplifier from Chennai and tear the ground apart with his riffs and vocals. Thats what he's gonna do. And of course he's gonna jog, work and eat grass.

And coming back to the question of why the chicken crossed the road:

I have no fucking idea.

The Convovation

2005-04-20T01:18:00.000+09:00

After four years of toiling in what is commonly called an Engineering College*, they hand you what is referred to as a Degree Certificate** in a ceremony, thats alluded to as The Convocation.

Why why why?

Couldnt they have just given us the darn thing without us having spent four years of our lives doing the crap we did in the name of Eng*n**ring?

Anyways, it was the usual bullcrap^^ with long speeches by guests of honour, guests of ill repute, and other people with pea sized brains.

(Except of course the principal of the college whose brain is known to be marginally larger in size than the average pea.)

Later in the day we went to watch a movie that made the 4 year engineering experience look like a one week paid holiday to Hawaii for two(you and your super hot chick friend)

Got home at 9ish. Stayed on till 1 ish. Crashed.

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*Engineering College: An Euphemism for a four year bullSh*tting ride
**Degree Certificate:Evidence that you survived it, and therefore can survive any kinda bullshitting experience

^^Bullcrap: A lump of pasty green material that emerges from a bull's digestive mechanism:

The Cyber Squatter

2005-04-15T01:59:00.000+09:00

Here's what you get when you type thinksoft.com(It takes you to some Korean site, Click the "English" Link):

A squatter who obviosly hopes that Thinksoft's going to pay him big money for the domain.

Presently the Thinsoft site is available at http://www.thinksoftglobal.com

A picture of my floor

2005-04-15T01:44:00.000+09:00

This is the picture of the floor I work on. It was taken a couple of months back.

Phoebe, I love you!

2005-03-09T03:41:00.000+09:00

Remember the song from friends that Phoebe sings? Well, they've made a real one and released it! The band "No Doubt" actuallly made a whole "Smelly Cat" version with Phoebe featured on it! Its darn funny!

Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat.

She's the funniest gurl in the universe! I love you Phoebe, I love you!!!!

Screw U guys, I'm Going Home!

2005-03-09T02:54:00.000+09:00

"Screw u Guys, I'm going Home" - Eric Cartman (Southpark)
They asked us to execute like 40 cases at work today. And that too when the application wasnt even fully ready. Dammit.

What were they thinking?
I executed like 10. And went home.

:-)

Sunday! And it was good.

2005-02-21T03:23:00.000+09:00

Sunday was reely kewl. This bloke i know frm college got this Mayajaal Coupon and so 4 of us drove down to there and watched a movie ("Black"), did sum snow bowling, Played pool...was decent fun.And we saw that it was good.

Sea Shells on greams road is a cool place if u love food. U get awsome shawarma there..fckin rocks. went there too. And we saw that it was good.

And finally, to Starrock, coz wats a good day out without drinking? But the dumbfcks didnt have K.F...had to settle for some Sandpiper beers. A good thing, Coz S.P is light and I had to drive home.And we saw that it was good.

Got home 8 ish and Ankur dropped by with his Big-ass digitech and we playd territorry a couple - o- times over..., and one thing looks clear - we're getting somewhere!

And it is good.

A poem and a Metal Song.

2005-02-16T06:12:00.000+09:00

I started this thing called the "Moshpit Magazine" during exam time 6th semester, to fuck around with HTML before that exam. It still exists, though its totally screwed up except for this amazing poem by this really sweet chick I know. CLICK HERE

Its also got a Metal song I wrote at the back of my "Data communiction" question paper, when I ran out of answers at one point.

NOTE: You'll have to hit the browser's back button to come back to this blog.

See ya round >:)

The wishing well.

2005-02-16T05:06:00.000+09:00

Heard this today and thought it was fucking hilarious.

A couple find a wishing well. The man peers down the well and makes a wish. Next, the Woman does that too...except she bends a little too much and falls in.

Guy says "Fuck, this really works!"

Was laughing my ass off in the office when I heard that.
MUAHAHAHA....

Me minus the internet : Day Four.

2005-02-12T00:06:00.000+09:00

Today marks day four of the phenomenon that I've come to call "Me Minus the Internet". Of the various disasters that have happened in my life over the past decade, I'd easily rate this as one of the most unsettling. You're not going to beleive this at first. You are going to shake your heads in utter disbelief. "Holy shit!" you might exclaim when I tell ya what this is all about. The fainter hearted amongst you might pass out or slip into a coma. I know its absolutely shocking, but here it is:

Friends, I have been without Internet access for 4 days now.

If you havent passed out yet, read on..
I have been without Internet access for 4 days now.
And it sucks. Totally. Completely. Absa-fckin-lutely.

Oh I just get online 5 min a day in da office to check mails n update blogs. Gone are dah dayz when i used to be online 10 pm to 2 am from home. Those video downloads, those amateur hackin attempts (thats when I deface websites of friends who've trusted me with their passwords), those Yahoo messenger chats, and all the rest of da general net surfin.

Gona miss all that.

:-(

Ciao.

Office blues. And blacks.

2005-02-09T21:51:00.000+09:00

Today was one helluva hectic day at work. The kinda day where BB* strolls by your cubicle n u dont bother to look. Eyes glued to the monitor with glue in the guise of test case documents on the table.

"Every cloud has a silver lining" . On any other day, my reaction to that line would have been "HAHA..what BULL CRAP!"
Not today. Today that line makes all the sense in the world. Infact it makes more sense than "A ring on hand is worth two on the phone." Coz for some fckin maintenance purposes or some shit, the systems r gona be switched off at 6:30. Sharp. Woohu. So i dunt hav to stay in dah damn office foreva.

Tell u what, this is easily the best thing since sliced bread. No idea why i said that. And before I ***k off,

*BB - A big boobed chick in the office.

Goin down southpark...

2005-02-05T05:04:00.000+09:00

Southpark's cool, so here's my blog about it!

Just when i think no animated series can beat the Simpsons, Southpark comes along.
And I'm damn right. It doesnt beat the simpsons! But its fuckin cool anyways!

Goin down southpark, gona have myself a time

Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation...

Goin down southpark, gona have myself a time

Ample parking day or night, People shouting 'howdy neighbor!'

-Primus , Southpark Title Song

Oh my god, they killed kenny! :

Kenny.
Ever wondered why this poor asshole gets killed in every episode? Yeah, they kill him. "They" always kill him.
"OH my gawd, they killed kenny!...You bastards!" - Stan, Southpark.

Damn Mosquitoes.

2005-02-05T04:24:00.000+09:00

Damn mosquitoes.I just hate them. Like totally totally hate them. They obviosly dont have a conscience. I mean what the fuck do they think? They are getting at my feet even as I type this. BASTARDS.

Tell you what, these guys have a self esteem problem. Just coz they're small, they believe they gotta get your attention through cheap blood sucking ways and stealth.

And they are total cowards. They always(invariably) attack in packs.Yup.

I'm not trying to get sexist here, but did u know that that its only the female muski'z that suck the hell outta you? The malez dont give a fuck about ya. They are just livin their lives, man. They dont wanta poke their probocis* in others' business. Its the damn females.

So fuckin what!

2005-02-04T14:31:00.000+09:00

Ah, its been ages since I blogged. Nice to be back. Lifes, not all that happenin n stuff...the job sucks, and things are just plain boring generally.

I'm probably gona be late to work today...mom seized the car keys(its "her" car) coz i couldnt wake up in time to drop her to the office. Cant imagine goin in an auto again. Oh and she doesnt even drive!...she just took them away so i wont get to have it...*Dammit*

My project team were asked to come in and work on Sat and Sun this week end. Tight schedules, they said. Asif the shit that we're going through on weekdays is not enough...!

Yeah it all sucks....So fuckin what!....just get on with it...MUAHAHA.

The Search for Sweatbands!

2005-02-04T14:09:00.000+09:00

Did you realize that buying yourself sweatbands (particularly black ones) like the ones James Hetfield is wearing in this picture isnt easy as it seems?

Metallica: Jaymz Hetfield

Damn right. And I learnt it the hard way. I went all over spencers and the only ones I found were red. Red! can you imagine red sweatbands? YUCK!...you know what I mean. Blood is about the the only thing that looks good red. Not cars. Not clothes. And sweatbands? No fucking way!

They gotta be black.

June rock Out

2004-07-29T00:26:00.000+09:00

Well well its been a while since i've put up somtin here. Been quite a while actually. Thats coz nuttin worthwhile was happening....Untill.....

C.G, Shanab & I went to JRO 2004 to watch some of the best indian rock bands tear the ground apart with their heavy music.Here's the Review of that rock show!

This gig was not as extravagant as the Saarang show, but was worth it. The gates opened almost an hour after schedule - that kept us waiting and we were getting a little restless. Three bands were scheduled to play:

Myndsnare (from bangalore)they played Heavymetal, thrash metal & death metal
Split(Mumbai) - played hard rock, alternative rock and a lil bit of heavy metal
Helmsdeep(Chennai) - no idea what kinda music they played, coz i went home b'fore they took the stage!

1.MYNDSNARE REVIEW!!
Myndsnare were the first band to rock the unwind centre. They started off with one of their original songs called "MIRROR OF NOTHINGNESS". This was followed by a cover song by a band called "Death". They were alternating an original song with a cover song - next was the song "Layers of Hypocricy"(original) followed by 2 Slayer cover songs("Blood red" and "Raining Blood from a lacerated sky")
This band sounded pretty impressive! However the frontman was not growly enough and his rythm guitar wasnt loud enough. We kept yelling "more volume on the vocals n rythm please!!" after which they increased the rythm volume a bit but it was still too low!
The most impressive was the drummer of the band - a girl! She was a machine!! She had awesome stamina throughout the show as she pounded the drums non-stop with incessant double bass. Her name was Yasmin - impressive!! She looks good too!

2.SPLIT REVIEW!!
They were not that bad...but they played bands that i dont like much! like "audi0slave", "system of a down".Their godsmack cover song wasnt bad. But most of it was alternative rock with rap mixed with it - i hate rap and and was disappointed. They also played a song by "Nirvana". tHat was good.These people played a heavier rythm-guitar.
Due to avoidable(yes avoidable) circumstances we dint wait for the third and last band.
My final wordS!!:
A good show on the whole. There were no Moshpits coz the place was small. but there was some intense headbanging. I bought Myndsnare's CD titled "Preliminary Quest". Its great to see rock growing in this otherwise sleeping city!

"Bang the head that doesnt bang!"

Redone from the scratch.

2004-06-29T20:08:00.000+09:00

Found the blog template boring and i decided to redo the whole thing. From the scratch. Think it looks a lot better now. Basically more of black and less of the other bright and gaudy colors. Black's always been muh fav. Yellow sucks. Thats why its out. Chucked out that chat box coz it was an eye sore after the new design.

Added a visitor counter right down at the bottom. Was tempted to make it a totally black n white affair, but then the green-black-white combo looked just perfect. I'd used that combo before on a poster long ago.

The chat box mite make a come back if i find the right color combo! I'm also tryin to get rid of that horrible blogger ad that comes right at the top. A major page-spoiler. Yuck!

Hahask! It can't be!

2004-06-29T06:27:00.000+09:00

...but its true. Did you realise that Gmail and Blogger.com have the same business strategy? Well I did. My first blog was on Kazaa(for no particular reason), and barely an hour after i posted it, what did i see? A Kazaa ad. right on top of my blog page! Its still here...dunno if it'll vanish by the time you read this though! Anyways. So these fuckers at blogger had a program scan my blog, and pick out things of commercial value from it, and display an appropriate banner ad!

Incidentally thats exactly how Google plans to make money outta its new email service. The contents of your email will be scanned by alogrithms that decide the kind of ads you'll be subjected to. Except that my blogs are for everyone to read but my email isnt! Personally, I dont think its much of a privacy issue coz programs are reading your mails - not people. Mite still leave a lotta people feeling uneasy though.

Btw rediff's givin 1GB now, in an obvios reaction to Gmail's plans. I've signed up. But they might find it difficult to sustain that coz it costs a lot to maintain 1GB per user - and unlike Google which has put in months(maybe years) of planning n programming into the mail project, rediff's is merely a reaction. (Atleast thats what it looks like!)

I wouldnt be surprised if the kazza ad on my page is replaced by a Gmail ad by the time i put this up! Shhhh. They're watchin my every move (and yours). They know where you live, and what you ate for dinner! Fuck, this is scary! MOMMMIEEE!!!!

Just anotha manic Sunday

2004-06-27T20:31:00.000+09:00

Ahem. Kashl kashl. Woke at 10:00 ish today being a Sunday. Weekdays is usually 11:00ish. Swatted a mosquito or two n jumped outta bed n read the nooze papaer n all that regular crap. Mom busy with project n Seestah hurt her hand n so I had to make lunch myself. Not bad it turned out be. Made mutton biryani, Hyd style. Wasnt bad. Ate demonic amounts of it, (Demonic? muahaha). And then I pamperd myself with ice cream in titanic proportions. Chocloate sundae. All of 750 ml. How decadent.Hehe. Kashl kashl now. But who cares.

Burned 2 CDs of downed Mp3s. Mostly heavy shit from Corpse and M' Angel. Got some new Amon Amarth. Not very impressed with that. Gotta burn a software CD or two. Got enuff shit off kazaa for that.

Finally i've realized anisotropic filtering sux on the intel integrated board. Even anti aliasing aint much to speak of. Must get one of those glitzy cards from ATI. That'll set me back by 10g. BUT DUDE!! wat abt the gat?? Bah! Haha nevamind the gat.

The job search..Arrgh!

2004-06-24T22:41:00.000+09:00

Uh, yes. Hullo. Today marks thirtyseven days in all of my job search. It all started on a good note with a crappy test i wrote for a company called CrappySoft Inc.(Name changed to protect identity) one evening to avoid having to go to the beach with my dumb neighborhood "pals".(Muahahaha)
"Sorry pals I hav this test coming up this evening." (hehe)
And I did go to the test.I filled out 27 out of 60 multiple choice questions after having worked them out on a slip of white paper they gave me. Time had run out. All of 43 minutes. I had to do something. Two minutes left and 33 hardcore aptitude questions to solve."Ahem" I said to one of those incharge. "Does this thingy hav negative marking?"
...Chap sed "No."... I sed "Zanks yeww." The rest was easy.
A week later they called me for the interview, obviously impressed at my ability to tackle 33 q's in barely 2 min. This was a totally non-tech round. They jus wanted to know about the non-academic me. I told them i was a metal-head n beer drinkah an a wannabe drug abuser. Guess they were impressed coz they smiled and nodded.

I'm waiting for the call.