ACT – A Conspiracy Theory

There is a fine difference between unemployment and joblessness. -Vishnu Modi

Boredom is overrated. -CeG<oBelIX>

Good things to give to me this birthday / christmas / <you really dont need an occasion for giving> : a PS3, a WII, an XBOX etc … -CeG <oBelIX>

I have never been a fan of conspiracy theories. Of course, the fact that I could not think any did not help much. Anyhoo, I came up with my first conspiracy theory. It’s not exactly what I would call original. Actually, its not even in the same zip code as original.

I used to watch a lot of cricket at home. Hence, there is still a piquant interest in the blessed game. My conspiracy theory is simple: Someone was match fixing. Now we will see a dramatic set of Indian victories culminating in India winning the series. The fact that Rahul Dravid falls sick so comfortably only means that he found out about it and refused to be a part of it. (I know the theory has many loose ends but lemme have my two bits of joy).

So, when you see the crowd thin at the television on an India SA match
day, well before time is up it means that we are in big big shit. It also means that my magnum opus of Conspiracy Theories is in big shit too. However, I am still trundling through these last few waking moments under the hope that HB Singh will win it for us. (and save my theory). (If someone tells me that he is not playing then …)

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PS – Fauji accuses me of copyright violation. How evil is that.

PS1 – Booshi kicks too hard

PS2 – TOEFL soon. Life not rocking.

PS3 – It is a rumour that we loose to the non-IIITians in dota.

PS4 – Tipo is already working on Honours Project 2. Someone please kick him.

PS5 – I want my own satellite so that I can access the net a lot faster

PS6 – Did you know: Overrated means make too high an estimate of. Underrated means make too low an estimate of.

PS7 – Baba’s last few posts were awesome. Halley’s last post was also very good. I am, of course, trying to maintain the average here. (pun intended). If you did not get the pun then you are Anand Vasudev.

PS8 – There were more PS’s in my head. They have gone out for a walk now. They will be back later.

PS9 – The last PS was initially PS3.

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of GRE, Universities and Life

Manish Jain can be made chinese by changing one letter aka Manish Jian. -CeG <oBelIX>

You know you have seen too much whose line when you can recognise the chics behind Drew Carey. -CeG <oBelIX>

This is one of those status update type of posts. Yeah, I know that I said I’d write about the horrors of Kasautii but that post seemed very crappish. So in short, Kasautii Sucks. If someone makes anti-Kasautii T-Shirts, I’d buy them.

Have been looking at universities to apply. Its one of the most mundane, boring processes in the world. It just sucks. The probability of going out seems bleak. Yet  Manish Jain’s optimism is like the light at the end of the tunnel.

Some goddam hillbilly checked my Analytical Writing paper.  I managed a 3.5 The Chennai Chaps all managed 5+. English is always the screwing. Horrific history with testing the bloody language. My English just does not suck enough to justify the type of marks I have got in it.

ManU drew with Chelsea. After pwning the first half, they kinda lost steam in the second. Chelsea were all over the place (except they didnt have much goal bound action). IMHO, ManU need another good CM.

Was playing bits of CS. Thats also stopped courtesy of placements. Of course, that was when I was pretty much in lab all day due to non-functioning wireless.

The inability to connect to wired LAN on DC is pissing me off. Most irritating … am going to do something about it (as soon as this univ thing calms down).

Finished Cog Sci Paper. Took a while. Hoping to get an A.

Going to work on GGP this sem. Seems interesting. Will pwn if we win.

Have a reasonably light sem (as soon as the univ thing finishes).

What a crap post, My apologies …

A job well done

There is infinite joy in doing a mundane job to perfection. -CeG<oBelIX>

Good Joke. -<DTA>Zaknaf3in

Okay, this post is a little late (oh and the begininning is slightly philosophical). At home, I was reasonably jobless. Dad was going out on a trip so he needed something let us say an object about 3 feet long, two feet wide and two and a half feet high. [More clues as to the identity of the object follow].Of course the dimensions are probabilistic which imply that they are subject to change depending on your perception of a foot.

Since I am the **engineer** of the family, I was entrusted the task of packing the damn thing so that it wouldn’t tear (Another Clue). If I had been a couple of years younger, I’d have said IIT prep or something and made my sister do it. However, since my sister is kinda busy, and I have become a responsible young chap I decided to approach the challenge head on.

The first problem was the lack of equipment. There was no box measuring 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet high. The stupid thing would not directly fit in a suitcase or attachi. I couldn’t even saw it in half or something like that. (Another Clue). So, I had to improvise.

To cut a long story short, summarize two hours of work in a sentence, I first wrapped it in newspaper. Then put a layer of a new hybrid material BubblePlasticPolyThene around it. (BubblePlasticPolyThene – is the material made when you run out of Plastic Polythene and use bubblewrap …). All of this was held in place with Cello-Tape.

Anyway, the point of the whole story is that it was fun. And I was happy after finishing the packing. I was even happier when my Mom said that I could get a job at a Mover’s company (This does not in anyway imply that I am going to get a job at a Mover’s company. Anyone asking for a treat on this account will be lynched – unless they are bigger and stronger than me). Thus the saying – There is infinite joy in doing a mundane job to perfection. This does not in anyway imply that you keep doing mundane jobs perfectly. You’d probably get bored out of your skull with all the joy ;p.

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PS – The next post on the living hell of watching Kasauti Zindagi Ki

PS1 – More posts coming up …

PS2 – Best of luck for Catters.

PS3 – This is the end

U.M.Rao Jaan

Sanity is easily lost when enduring 2.5 hours of a darn slow hindi film. -CeG <oBelIX>

FeatherSleep – Sleeping so awake that a feather will get you up. -CeG <oBelIX>
Whenever I go home, I usually eat a lot, sleep a lot and read a lot. To elucidate the above statement (Yes, my English deteriorates considerably at home), I also blame the cable operator a lot, catch up with my friends a lot, play “chase the dog’s tail” a lot, and curse the computer which I am using a lot.

Actually, I am writing this post on a laptop. My hand keeps accidently touching the touchpad. So it keeps clicking randomly on the screen. Besides, I cannot find the end / home keys. And its kinda dark here. So please bear with the horrendous grammatical quality of this post.

One of the constants of home is that my sister takes it upon herself to inflict every form of torture. She accomplshes this by making the whole family go out to Hindi Movies. Earlier, some of these films were quite bearable. We saw Main Hoo Naa, Raincoat etc … which were quite good. But lately the trend has been to go see movies that are … well … to say the least … downright boring. The current incumbent (Okay, so you have to bear with the litetoray quality of this post as well) Umrao Jaan was choosen over my suggestion of seeing The Departed.

First things first, Aishwarya Rai rocked in the movie. If you had too describe her in three words they’d be pretty darn awesome. She really acts her socks off. Probably the only reason any sane man would watch the film. The first half is so atrociously slow that when the interval arrives you’d go “Oh Thank you god”.

The second half is quite decent. Overall, its a movie with female lead protagonist. Its a sad movie. It does not have a happy ending. Its an art movie, so you can pretty much be sure that it aint going to be the Block Bluster of the Year.

For a change, I haven’t been given much of an opportunity to curse the Cable Operator. In earlier times, whenever I’d come home, there’d either been no Star Sports during the F1 Race, or no ESPN during the ManU match. There’d be one movie channel (when the other one is showing the interesting film). Star world would come with a lot of white static. This time around, I am pleasantly surprised. Everything is in order, and I have already seen reruns of Chelsea vs. Some Club, Arsenal vs WHU, Liverpool vs Reading etc.

There’s also been about 4 months of “The Economist” to read at home. Ever since the subscription to “India Today” finished, “The Economist” is the only magazine that arrives at home. Its a pretty decent magazine. Nice English. Anyway, today I finished the last unread issue. So, from tomorrow onwards, I guess its back to re-reading Asterix, and Calvin and Hobbes for the umpteenth time.

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PS – waiting for the weekends matches

PS1 – Everyone here already applying. Have some work to do.

PS2 – Nothing good comes on Star Movies / HBO during the day

PS3 – Why is each PS spilling across the line?

PS4 – Oh that one did not

PS5 – Worried about cog sci paper

PS6 – This is the end

If you are bored ….

The difference between xams and xmas is just one letter. -CeG <oBelIX>

Two blog posts in a day. That has got to be some kind of a record. Especially after a huge while of inactivity. So, the point here is what do I write. Given the lack of material, and the lack of ideas I pretty much have nothing funny, humourous, innovative, thought provoking to say.

However, this post does have its merits. During exam times, especially when people are preparing I like to have something fun to do.

• You can’t watch a movie because a movie will take a few hours. And at the end of the movie there’d be this feeling that you wasted waay too much time.
• You can’t watch a show like OTH or something because there is nothign new to watch
• You can’t go and play CS / Dota because no one will come to lab
• Playing in the lab means going to the lab and mostly you dont feel like that
• Sleeping also takes up way too much time.
• Very few people online for chatting purposes

The ideal thing to do is to read a blog post. The problem with this is that there are very few people who blog during exams. Studious chaps like T.Prashant dont write. Ultra studious chaps “whose blogs would be fun to post insulting comments on” like Manish Jain have posted only one post. The Chennai Chaps like Wooster, Anand, and Bobo-RAM do not blog. The fun to read bloggers like Gokul and VVHB have been hibernating for a while now. Amd one daily dose of VBH philosophy is more than enough. Of course, Mythalez has resorted to beautiful poems instead of accounts of life in the UK. (I dont like poetry a lot …). So, this post is sort of to make up for all that is missing.

The second most ideal thing to do is waste time on orkut. Generally exam and holiday time is when I am most active on orkut. Sometimes even posting 3-4 scraps in a day. (to the same person).

I just saw the vertical scroll bar. And I was worried about having nothign to write. And I can see some PS’s as well. Wow …

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PS – they are knocking off Saddam Hussein

PS1 – Manish Jain is playing NFSC … A new era has dawned

PS2 – This is the end

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Exams

If everyone on orkut is 80% sexy then why isn’t there more sex happening? -CeG<oBelIX>

This is the pseudo traditional end of semester beginning of exams post. Course, this time with two exams its pretty sweet. The only problem is simplex and some pivot method in LP.

Malcolm in the middle is pretty decent timepass.

NFSC is out. Its a decent NFS game. I still wish they’d put in the style points. The Near Miss x5 and drafting and stuff like that …. The crew funda and canyon races are good. They should have had Josie Maron or Elisha Cuthbert … somehow I dont like Emmanuelle “Whatshername“.

Monga found this site which calculates the net worth of any website. Dont remember the link or anything. students was worth 100$. SMR.co.in was worth 860. My 200 page was worth 18. The high point was that this blog was worth 1000+$. Pretty cool … if someone wants to buy it please go ahead. Tipo’s blog stood at 800ish. VBH was pwning at 1160 or something.

Oh and something which I think I said last year as well. J2EE sucks. Way too complicated. Way too little documentation. Anyway gg to bokaro who got it to work after aeons of hit and trial with respect to various parameters.

This is the end.

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