Life As I See It

If you dunno Hari and Taggy , then the reminder of the post is not of any interest to you !

Today morning I had ssh-ed to codelabs server , for some small work. As soon i login I see this :

bash-3.2$ ssh root@10.1.39.36
The authenticity of host ‘10.1.39.36 (10.1.39.36)’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is <some big mac address here>
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added ‘10.1.39.36′ (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@10.1.39.36’s password:
Last login: Sat Jul  5 13:09:40 2008 from 10.1.39.34
Hi taggy , clean up your home soon
Else you will find a in your home folder
–Hari
[root@codelabs ~]#

You know what ? I was there when hari did this motd change , but then it made not much  of an impression! But now it brings a lot of happy & funny memories ! Did not want to miss it later , if some one<most probably me> reinstalls the codelabs server

there is a popular joke in tamil , which goes like this !

Some arbit chap : sir, my life is so bad these days , tell me when I will be freed from these problems
Astrologer : (checks his palm..) I am sorry to say ,but its gonna be a dog’s life for u for another year ! <naai padaatha paadu , if that helps with the meaning ! >
SAC: oh ! but will it get over after  an year ??
A: Oh no ! But you will get so used to that it will no  longer bother you (:P)

Some times I wonder How true it can be ! The human mind is really a useless uncontrollable monkey , for it goes and sits in exactly the places I dont want it to go and sit, but as the case of that arbit chap , I guess I am used to that now and in fact doing well these days !

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So what do I need for a really happy life ?
* my really awesome friends and more !
* a bike , just for me and me only
* a laptop which I already have
* some decent job to maintain these all
this will do for now , but it seems “u cant always get what u want” and that is where this whole crap of pursuit of happiness comes in
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I am back in college , having a heck of time ! I just wish me and all of my friends get placed as soon as possible and all of us have a rocking time from there on ! All the best to you guys and to myself.

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My brother has a 95% chance of coming to NITT itself , If he comes me happiness to the power of infinite. Only recently I have been realizing How fond he is to me !

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So whats to this arbit blog post ? I dont have an idea , probably twitter is too much down these days and I dont like friendfeed

Well , another end of holidays ! This time for the first time , I wanted to be free , thoughtless , not bothered about anything, well I _wanted_ to be and It seems you dont get always what you want

So I had been doing a lots of stuff , or the same things again and again , as usual ! Here is a small gist of people places , stuff that had kept me occupied !

House MD -  Anjuta - OSP - Finch - elinks - IIT Alak hostel - basera dinner - Besant nagar beach - football with the kutti pasanga  there - Tiffany’s sambar vadai and Idly - IIT Madras Nueral networks Lab - The funny team there - the invisible brother - the beggar - the prank - water cooler-  - the chronicles of the satya , monkey and the icecream - kakarat and the aftermath - STD calls to hari - Banglore trip - Google Banglore : the big monitors , the microkitchen , the playroom - Yahoo! : foozball  - Alagu’s room and the timeless/precious mokka there (Man i miss it ! ) - Taggy’s truce - some blessed road in banglore - Gopi and gang’s room in banglore - falling in love with django - Big bang theory - Star dust - Murugan Idly shop - MTC buses and footboarding -  Crooked house - Brida - jeeves- the never ending / never satisfying placement preps - The surgery in my toe - lunch and cards at Hari’s home - being the accountant of a settled young man - the back stabbing and the aftermath - the wierd kids - the useless and pathetic two !

There are lots and lots more which I dont even remember properly ! All of it happened in a span of one month or so. So though it is not what I aimed for , its better than the usual poking in front of the computer and whiling away ! Still there is a hyderabad journey sometime soon ! dunno when though ! Hope you guys/girls (well I am just being optimistic :D)  had a nice holidays too ! see you in college soon

Yeah , Big time and Old songs kicks a$$.
The past two days had been a wonderful experience listening to the Maestro’s music. Technically my music knowledge is zero , if not negative , but I could very well feel the difference. His excellency , Illayaraja’s compositions , each and every one of them rocks big time and after each and every song, I am just craving for more Am getting his full collection soon. (Until now , I was very selective to AR only). And when I googled , I came to know that there is a separate chapter for the ‘Isai Gnaani’ in British bachelor of fine arts - Music course. Too good isnt it?

PS : whats more better this time , Now My father would also switch off the TV and listen to the songs from my Laptop. Earlier There was a strict No-No for Music from laptop

PS 2 : This post is my recent found interest in maestro’s music. To each crow its kutti , gold

After a month long project academic project at IIT Madras , I am back home ! Yaaaay ! Nice food and some rest for a day or two ! In fact a rest from seeing NIT Junta - More than half of them are in IIT-M doing a project

So Now that I am back home , What are my plans ?

* Prepare For placements and get a satisfactory job .
* Topcoder
* Anjuta - Python plugin
* Have fun with my brother, who is coming mostly to NITT itself
* Have a shutdown day and if possible shutdown week. ( My shutting down is not from net , but not signing to Gmail , Orkut , Twitter or this blog)
* Manage a trip to Hyderabad !
And yeah , MGL 2008 is coming up and wish those guys a better luck for a successful MGL !

And there are lots of stuff which I would like to do but wont do out of laziness ! So its not worth mentioning here

I know there are lot of people who don’t like Bus travel , particularly if its a crowded metro bus. At the end of the journey , you end up with sweat all over the body and completly exhausted and you have all reasons to dislike travelling in one such bus.

But I differ. Being brought up in townships like Neyveli ( No points for those who deduce I am from Neyveli) you get deprived of all these city ‘effects’. Like even for the latest Dasavadhaaram movie, ’supposed’ to be so hard to get a ticket , my brother happened to get tickets right out of the counters , for just Rs 35 , in one of the theaters in Neyveli. I mean , there is no fun , camping the ticket counters, which happen in cities like Madras, so naturally,  if you get what I mean.

Sorry , deviated a bit. So my point is , I was always fond of foot-boarding a bus. I cant do that in neyveli , because There will hardly be 10-20 people in a NLC bus any time. If I foot-board in such a bus , the conductor is gonna ask me nicely ! So it was not possible to do that in Neyveli.

Now being in Chennai , I got a wonderful chance to foot-board the bus. I was going to meet my uncle in anna nagar from IIT madras . I took 47 and even when I boarded it was crowded. By the time I went to T.Nagar it was fully crowded and I was one of the 5 guys in the last step. The travel was about for one hour and one of my most memorable one’s. Though I didn’t know any one of my fellow foot-boarders , We had a really wonderful time , helping each other to get some space to stand and passing witty-but-no-way-hurting comments at the conductor and driver , who were having a rough time getting things going. At every stop , we had to get down and there will be more passengers added and we will board the bus back.

Well even as I say this , I no means forget the dangers of foot-boarding. Probably this might be my only try.But Come on I am not going to do this when I am 40. I do hate the MTC travels most of the time, but travels like this are kutti kutti fun in our life. Had you G.K Chesterton’s short story on “Running after one’s hat” , you might understand the difference better.

Probably If I had been brought up in Chennai , might not have seen so much fun in this. But as I am not , these aspects of a normal city life are still an excitement to me and brings out joy when I get to experience them. Its something like that ‘money cant buy you’ stuff that comes in ads

T3 is a very geeky person as Alagu had told me a lots about him. This post is not about t3’s geekiness though. Its about his “food for thought”,

http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/philosophy/food-for-thought.html.

Actually For once I am happy that there are food fans like me

There is still goodness left in this world :-p

PS : this is a very personal post ! never mind 

Hey , This is my place ! I can crap about Whatever I want. Read at your own risk !

Speed Racer ! Well Thats one rocker of a movie I have seen just now. I loved Speed racer since when they started to show that in Cartoon Network. Infact I love lot of other Cartoon shows , rather Super hero based stories : The Justice League , The Batman , The Flash , Johnny Quest, The Spider man , Swat Cats and so on.

I mean I still pretty much love all those fantasies . I seriously dunno Should I grow up leaving these kiddish stuff and do more ‘grown’ up stuff. I always thought I was just grown up just right- meaning I was not taught how to handle delicacies , when to shut up , what to say , whom to say. But seems like all of it gross for I never grew in the first place. Dont take me wrong - I am not sad or frustrated or something, just that seeing the regrettable things I have done, I sometime wish I either grow up very soon or be foolish enough to retrospect. That way i wont have any problems or if there were, I wouldn’t be recognizing them

Note 1 : The author is having a real Hell of a time in IIT Madras.  So dont worry , I am very happy
Note 2 : Hari Once said, “If they were ur frnds , they would understand me” . Well yeah , most of my treasured friends did. I am very thankful for them and really sorry for the times I hurt you , I didnt mean them which You might have realised , which is the reason U are staying with me. I will make it all up ! Please :- )
Note 3 : You didnt understand any of the post right ! I didnt expect you to ! Hey I warned you in the beginning right ?

I dunno how this can happen though

Any Explanations ??? Surely the image is not edited one !

A Wonderful movie ! I loved this movie from the first scene. No body is a villain , not even fate this time. Just people, their feelings, actions and how it all matters. Ellen Page as Juno is just wonderful. I am not gonna review this movie , but its here because it made an impact somewhere and I am happy that it did. If you are sick of the same old action masala plots that we are used to , then Juno would be a pleasant change !