Lin-ux perience

Its 2:16 in the morning, and i am sitting at my comp -most of my entires start of like this...i think i should find a new way to say it;

Tonight, my most recent want has been taken care of. i have been looking forward to using Linux for many years now, and when i got a comp of my own, i decided to give it a shot. So asked a friend(BOOTSTRAP BILL) to download Fedora 9 for me.
its a 3.38 Gigs file, and he had the means to do it in good time. Major thanks to him is on record here.
Before going any further i should tell u THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TO INSTALLING FEDORA.
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First after a mad search ,trying endlessly to figure out if my system architecture is i386 or i686 or x86_64, i figured mine was x86_64.
for those who are not sure,
Most systems are i386. that is if u are not using a MAC. a MAC or macintosh has an architecture called PowerPC, or PPC.
Intel Core2 Duo is an x86_64 architecture.
all those pentium 4, 3....etc are i386.

anyway, after having figured that out(i add that wikipedia is the source of all knowldge), i downloaded a torrent file.
a torrent file is used when we do not download directly but from a number of peers who are downloading the same file.

sat down to install it this evening, things weren't exactly how i wanted them to be, ran in to absurd errors that claimed that a corrupt file was downloaded. but all the same, stuff started rolling.
Now i did not know that linux uses 3 seperate partitions.
one is the 'root' the notation is '/' - that is the ROOT directory, where everything is supposed to begin.
it also needs something called a 'swap' partition. when frequently accessed files are present, they are placed in the swap partition. they say the larger the swap the better it is. and the third is '/boot' this is required to store the boot information. and well, the installation is good enough to do this for you, but what kind of a comp science student would i be if i didn't notice all this.

after the installation was done, as if i didn't run into enough problems during the installation, my Windows refused to boot. apparently, i had messed up my boot file.
soon enough i managed to fix that, and now can use both vista and Fedora properly.
Fedora is new to me, and as all new things are- novel to the mind, it is novel, and interesting.
I hope i can figure this out and manage to gain "Extensive knowledge and experience"
All the best to me!

Ugg...M sick of it

Today was wonderful. I feel sick. :( i know all of u know how lousy it is to fall sick, but i'll tell you my view on it anyway.they do say, share your sorrow, it'll become less--so here SHARE WITH ME;
To start things off, there's this nauseating feeling, associated with severe distention(thats what a balloon is when u fill it up)...how they co-exist within the same body i'll never figure out. you cant do much, all you really do is lie around going...uhhhh....m not feeling welllllll.....it gets u the attention just like the squeaking hinge.

you cant eat anything nice, but thats not that bad part, coz with the nausea u dont feel like eating, the whole though of food is full repulsive.If you have loose bowels then you are all set, make a dash for the closest available loo, and when u are out, and think u can finally rest that aching back, owing to the fatigue and lack of food intake, and u have to run back to that same available loo.

the nights are the worst...u keep twisting and turning in your bed, and then you're so groggy and u still want to visit your new favorite place in the world, so you are like a person far from sobriety reaching for the lights; and thats if u are lucky to have the time to reach for the lights. Otherwise u're just running hell for leather for the aforementioned place.

but given time and medication(fully supervised) things get better. m now feeling better though, therefore this post :D so its just a matter of time till u are able to recount to others the sorry and kinda disgusting tale to everyone else.


but sometimes some of these are just preludes to more major illnesses. we always hope that we are lucky enough not to be infected by any of those. i recall something my dad said to describe life and illness inducing germs. (i dont remember it verbatim, but its something along the lines of-)

"We walk on a path that is surrounded on both sides by virulent and dangerous bacteria and other illness causing agents, we are lucky if we get through without too many scratches"

i suppose falling sick is part of life as my mum put it, and the best way to deal with any of them is to laugh it away. they do say "Laughter is the best medicine". my sister helps me laugh whenever i am unwell :)

anyway...now i well. so i must get back to my books....I HAVE A FRIGGIN EXAM in 2 days!
i'll leave u with this thought:

"Those people who feel time heals everything, have not sat it out in the doctors waiting room"

-(i dont know who said this)

blogger

In the constant drive for writing blogs, i suppose i forget the whole aim. for a few days now i have been in search for ideas to post a blog. while realization dawns on me (always if u notice...realization dawns on one ...suggesting that before that they were in the dark) that i am writing for myself primarily. the others who read this are reading it for me.
Thank you to my readers.
Just done with my first exams, it was ok-ok. i wasnt ecstatic or anything, a run of the mill paper. i suppose had i studied some more answers i would have done better enough to be ecstatic.
but that approach strikes me as the worst kind of approach possible towards after exam reflection. If we did have a choice among how modes of after exams reflection...this would be the least productive. even in other spheres of life, regret is never something worth holding on to. learning from the past mistakes yes...but i dont think i gave my paper as bad as to have to go through it again.
4 more days for the next exam and i cant even pull myself to get off the net and start. this is the sem i wanted to do really well. i KNOW i am going to regret this kind of management of time where i pretend like i am a millionaire in time. I am sure its happened with you, *snigger* and then finally a dash to the finish line. dash it i say, time should be spent well, and when u must read u must read, when u must write u must infact, write.
i think i have reached what they popularly call a writers block, only it seems ludicrous to suggest i have that since i have hardly ever written much in my entire life. i suppose when u begin to write u begin to develop all the symptoms as well!
till next time, or till the block is removed--Adios Amigos

Catching up

I am sitting at my lappy, and i have nothing particular to do. keen on finding something to do...i begin hunting for sidebar applications. these are small apps that go on to something called the sidebar in windows vista( yea baby...VISTA!!! WOO HOO) .
searching for cool apps, since i am on the MSN site, i remember that i had a blog going there. that was when i was in the first sem or second sem.
now whenever i look back at myself i tend to believe that i was an ass! in a way its a good thing to have believed that we are better today than we were yesterday. i figured i just had a post or two, so i started reading. turned out i had more than a couple, at least five!! (may not seem much to you full time bloggers... jobless buggers) as i read through them the feeling of a distance from my past self crept in. i swear, i began to wonder when was the time i used to think like this.
its a satisfying feeling to be able to listen to yourself speaking your mind a few years back. the way i spoke about serious on going rallies(youth for equality) or young love.
i think the most amazing thing was when i read myself say,

"i am using blogs like a diary entry, i have never bothered to use a diary cause it involves writing, and that ...u guessed it, is a lot of work. so that even if no one reads this, i will atleast read it yrs from now, (cause i will still have nothing better to do then!) and thats going to be fun."

i find my current boredom ebb away, and make place for immense joy. its like i am traveling back in time, and i know now thanks to documented evidence how i used to think, how i used to function.
the feeling is rejuvenating.in all this i feel i should have stuck to blogging, at least i woulnt find myself now, not being able to express this joy and ecstatic sense. the name of the blog is idiosyncrasies ... thats exactly what i recall of my time then.

The Write of way?

its not everyday that people get epiphanies.Today isnt one of those special days either. i just decided to take up writing as a stronger hobby. when i say hobby, i mean to dedicate some time to this avocation, and when i say stronger i mean spend more time than i do now.

i like to write, i just dont dedicate myself to it. unlike many of my blog buddies, i dont find a lack of topics to write about. i can come up with simply wonderful or strange, depends on your state of mind when u read it, topics and then try to build on them. its just my laze that keeps me from writing.

hopefully with time i will get good at it, (or better...again depends on your state of mind when u read it) .
Wish me luck again!

Sleepless in bombay

Its 2 30 am and i feel a lil strange. i am not the kind who finds himself turning and twisting in bed, when all signs indicate that i should be fast asleep. that of course under the implication that one who turns and twists in bed, is not in fact fast asleep! what can i do now is the most popluar thought in circumstances such as this? i went through my mobile contacts...is there anyone i would like to call? finally after debating over who to call..., anyone who thinks the debate it self would be stimulus enough to bring sleep, hasnt really spent a night so completely distanced from sleep, i decide to just read my cells inbox. so thus...i start reading through 450 odd messages!

i always wanted to delete those messages, but a certain happiness filled me, that they were there, with happiness, some hope, that reading messages in the dark would be the soporific medium i was wishing for! like they say -it wasnt meant to be!

MUSIC!!! thats what will put me to sleep, nice soothing music. i got out of bed, and hunted for my iPod. made a playlist of the songs that i figured would be lullaby like. which they were, i assure you, the fact that i was still awake is no fault of the songs. they could put some who awake after a marathon sleep, into a doze. having failed in this attempt, my mind was figuring new ways to get sleep.i share with you a secret, thinking of new ideas to find sleep is not way to get sleep.

Fine...i said to my self...i have a viva tomorrow...i'll study for that! super idea that was...i decided, anyway i would be getting up early, better if i used my time well now and then i can get up late in the morning, which was inevitable. enthusiastically i tossed aside my blanket and turned on the lights and found my book. i opened it to the chapter, and found my self no different from what i do in the day! forgive me...i dont think there is word but i was nightdreaming. still thinking, if i could find sleep.

i tried, drinking water, going to the loo, (which remains unconnected with the drinking water part), turned on the comp, decided to blog. after writing some my account to a certain point in time, i lean back to stretch my arms, and think of a suitable way to end this. my dilemma i am sure you all will appreciate, how does one end a story about trying to get sleep, especially when he hasn't slept yet! thus i begin to find ways NOT, to sleep...BUT to relate how i slept.
within minutes i hear someone calling out to me!? Oo? at such a late hour?
it was 5 hours from the time i started this blog, i had dozed off in front of the laptop thinking of a way to sleep! well...atleast i managed to get sleep! (next time i'll just think about telling people how i slept ;)

Man Vs Woman!

I am sitting at home, and watching Star Movies.A movie called The Namesake is on. what the movie is about isnt really even close to what the central idea of this post is. the scene is where the son of the just deceased man is performing the final rites. it occurs to me that the son is always the one chosen to carry on the family legacy.
whether its the family name, or inheriting the family business. its always the son who must carry on the family's ....everything...even the last name.

what comes to me next is that thats NOT the way it was intended! if you actually take notice, God wanted it to be the LADY to take on the family legacy. Which sex is it who is given the power to give birth? who is the kid attached to naturally? i am sure you have heard....."its the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world".


even for every mating season among animals(or man) the man spends the time attracting the female, and very rarely the other way around! so really the way of the world is for the females to be WAY WAY superior to man. she should carry on the family legacy! the current situation where the male takes on the legacy is all set up by the human man. ...i think we should just abscond, before the women figure it all out and overthrow us! :D

Woah!: Setting up a router (linksys WRH54G) to a modem

Woah!: Setting up a router to a modem

Setting up a router to a modem

I bought a wireless router from linksys yesterday, to connect my laptop and my desktop pc to the net. and i ran into quite a few problems(although setting up a router is supposed to be the easiest thing on the planet! )
so i blog this for anyone who wants help.....

basically its just another network device that connects your computer to the modem. i use a PPPoE connection, so what i am documenting is for that kind.
PPPoE means Point to Point Protocol over the Ethernet.

try all this only if u are sure u want to do it yourself, and dont want to get professional help.
we do the wired connection first. then any wireless connections.(u can use the wired connection as a wireless connection later if u like. )
before we start....make sure u have recorded the ip setting of your machine.
open command prompt (start->run->type cmd)
there type ipconfig/all
just copy all that u see exactly as you see it and save it as a notepad file. (you will have to type it down)
Run the Cd provided with the router, and things should start working.
If they dont.....Continue read, thats why you are here :D
many ISPs bind your computer with the modem, that is the modem will accept and send packets only with your computer.
that is because it recongnizes the address of your computer, not the IP address, but another kind, the PHYSICAL address, or MAC address. so either u call your ISP and tell them to bind the routers MAC address with the modem, or use a feature called MAC cloning.
this just makes the routers PHYSICAL address the one that was your machines. so that the modem still thinks that it is communicating with the computer to which it was bound.
to do this:
go to your browser and there put in the ip address of the router, most routers come with the default ip of 192.168.1.1
in the address line of the browser just type http://192.168.1.1
it should open a page that describes the setup of your router.
if it doesnt,
then check your LAN card (Ethernet card) settings.go to network connections, right click on LAN, goto TCP/IP and hit properties. there make sure the ip is obtained automatically.

set the DNS field to obtain automatically.
the page should open in your browser now.
if it the linksys router, then goto advanced setup, and there on the setup tab to MAC cloning.
now, in the fields provided enter the PHYSICAL address from the notepad file that u saved. it should be a 12 digit alphanumeric. and save the settings.

now go to the command prompt and do the ipconfig/all command again.
for your Ethernet Controller(LAN card) make sure the default gateway is 192.168.1.1

this means that for your computer the gateway to the internet is your router(with the address 192.168.1.1)
you do not have to change any other settings. just enter your User name and password correctly that u use to dial to the modem.
other problems that could hamper connection is that the comp and the router now have the same MAC address. common sense has it that that cant be....so we will manually change the MAC address of the computer.
read carefully if you have never done this before.
goto network connections. right click on your Ethernet controller card, (lan card),when the window opens, u will find a button with the name configure. hit that.
a new window opens, hit the advanced tab. there u will find network address, change that from not specified to value, and enter the MAC address u noted down, but with any one digit changed (the value must range only from 0 to 9, or A to F)and save it.
thats should help connecting.

after each step, it takes a while to identify the changes, so my advice to u is not to get impatient.
its not complicated, but if it goes wrong, u will have to change a lot of things.
anyway...after a lot of banging my head on the wall, (which i realize now is of no particular help) ITS WORKING. u can set your wireless connection after the wired connection. the wireless connection must obtain the IP automatically too.
i dont think i have missed anything, mostly if u did everything right, u wont have to dial at all after the router is set up. u should be all set to access the net.
All the best, i hope this helped u, many sites give a varied way of doing this. i hope this helps you out.

Setting up a linksys route(WRH54G)r to a modem

Woah!: Setting up a router to a modem

Setting up a router to a modem

I bought a wireless router from linksys yesterday, to connect my laptop and my desktop pc to the net. and i ran into quite a few problems(although setting up a router is supposed to be the easiest thing on the planet! )
so i blog this for anyone who wants help.....

basically its just another network device that connects your computer to the modem. i use a PPPoE connection, so what i am documenting is for that kind.
PPPoE means Point to Point Protocol over the Ethernet.

try all this only if u are sure u want to do it yourself, and dont want to get professional help.
we do the wired connection first. then any wireless connections.(u can use the wired connection as a wireless connection later if u like. )
before we start....make sure u have recorded the ip setting of your machine.
open command prompt (start->run->type cmd)
there type ipconfig/all
just copy all that u see exactly as you see it and save it as a notepad file. (you will have to type it down)
Run the Cd provided with the router, and things should start working.
If they dont.....Continue read, thats why you are here :D
many ISPs bind your computer with the modem, that is the modem will accept and send packets only with your computer.
that is because it recongnizes the address of your computer, not the IP address, but another kind, the PHYSICAL address, or MAC address. so either u call your ISP and tell them to bind the routers MAC address with the modem, or use a feature called MAC cloning.
this just makes the routers PHYSICAL address the one that was your machines. so that the modem still thinks that it is communicating with the computer to which it was bound.
to do this:
go to your browser and there put in the ip address of the router, most routers come with the default ip of 192.168.1.1
in the address line of the browser just type http://192.168.1.1
it should open a page that describes the setup of your router.
if it doesnt,
then check your LAN card (Ethernet card) settings.go to network connections, right click on LAN, goto TCP/IP and hit properties. there make sure the ip is obtained automatically.

set the DNS field to obtain automatically.
the page should open in your browser now.
if it the linksys router, then goto advanced setup, and there on the setup tab to MAC cloning.
now, in the fields provided enter the PHYSICAL address from the notepad file that u saved. it should be a 12 digit alphanumeric. and save the settings.

now go to the command prompt and do the ipconfig/all command again.
for your Ethernet Controller(LAN card) make sure the default gateway is 192.168.1.1

this means that for your computer the gateway to the internet is your router(with the address 192.168.1.1)
you do not have to change any other settings. just enter your User name and password correctly that u use to dial to the modem.
other problems that could hamper connection is that the comp and the router now have the same MAC address. common sense has it that that cant be....so we will manually change the MAC address of the computer.
read carefully if you have never done this before.
goto network connections. right click on your Ethernet controller card, (lan card),when the window opens, u will find a button with the name configure. hit that.
a new window opens, hit the advanced tab. there u will find network address, change that from not specified to value, and enter the MAC address u noted down, but with any one digit changed (the value must range only from 0 to 9, or A to F)and save it.
thats should help connecting.

after each step, it takes a while to identify the changes, so my advice to u is not to get impatient.
its not complicated, but if it goes wrong, u will have to change a lot of things.
anyway...after a lot of banging my head on the wall, (which i realize now is of no particular help) ITS WORKING. u can set your wireless connection after the wired connection. the wireless connection must obtain the IP automatically too.
i dont think i have missed anything, mostly if u did everything right, u wont have to dial at all after the router is set up. u should be all set to access the net.
All the best, i hope this helped u, many sites give a varied way of doing this. i hope this helps you out.

Ho Ho Ho!

"Jingle bells,Jingle bells,jingle all the way...oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh..."

ah, the songs of merryment, and joy. The children sleep on chirstmas eve with expectations of a jolly elderly man coming down the chimney, and giving them gifts!
the joy of recieving those gifts, and opening a beautifully wraped present, is what we see on the childs face.
Singing songs that bring cheer to everyone, spending time with family, laughing, playing games, eating together, bringing back the life from the day to day mundane existence. What a feeling!!

in all this...when do i make a reference to any religion? these songs and ideas are now merely a symbol of happiness.

for example:

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Oh! You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why:

Santa Claus is coming to town!

He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out
who's naughty or nice.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

(http://www.christmas-carols.net/carols/santa-claus-coming-town.html)

image from(www.wikipedia.org)

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Its got a nice beat to it, its catchy, and its telling kids something nice. why put a label of religion on it? I'm not chirstian, so what? i like the idea of a grey haired old man, who makes children happy!
Santa is so much of a "global figure"(considering his size and where he lives! :P), and hey, he seems like a fun guy.
look at him, he looks like he loves kids, and that kids would love him instantly. Children deserve all the fun they can get. Childhood never comes twice, and they should spend it laughing, dancing playing, (yea...lets be honest...learning too). Happy childhood, ensures they will live happy lives.
Its all about a fantasy, and kids love fantasies..fairy god mothers, large giants, small friendly birds, and now the newer flying brooms, wizardry.
So what if this one fella has something to do with a saint. (saint nicolas)

So its decided santa is fun...and kids should be told about him, and allowed to bask in this big bellied tank of happiness. heres hoping that all kids can enjoy the spirit of christmas, and partake in the cheer and happiness santa brings.

Sing carols, spend time with your family, eat good food, and be happy....coz "Santa Claus is coming to town....."

Heres a song thats nice to hear, if u get a chance to hear it...do so, its by Jim Reeves:
The Merry chirstmas polka

This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason we can't dance the Christmas polka
Hear sleighbells ringing everybody's singing dancing the Christmas polka
Christmas trees and holly make everyone so jolly and love just fills the air
It's a wonderful world for a boy and a girl while dancing the Christmas polka

The merry Christmas polka let's dance let's dance let's dance
Everyone's so happy the air is filled with romance
Watch the sweethearts kissing as they dance neath the mistletoe
It's a sight to behold for the young and the old the merry Christmas polka

This is Christmas season...


MERRY CHIRSTMAS TO ALL, and TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Education and the masses

I was watching a movie called Swadesh again, it talks about a young man who returns to a village in India, from the comfortable life in the United States, and upon return, sees the pitiable condition of this counrty.

Now, I have always wanted to leave here, and go abroad, and many of my friends, after watching that movie, taunted me about it. But, what are those who stay here going to do?

What is our purpose? Do we have one? We study to become engineers, businessmen, lawyers, we form the layers in society, and help build a beautiful cake. What about those places where society is a fable. Unheard, unseen, and not understood. We worry about an exam that is two weeks ahead, or the car running out of gas, but there ar people who can do NOTHING, but worry about a square meal.
We(as families) live with the comfort of not worrying about where our next meal is going to come from, therefore we dont understand what a life it would be, when the thought, of a eating a dry chappati means eating a morsel too much.
I know people who talk about education as if its our job. We attend classes, colleges, various institutes of supposed learning, to do what? move on with our lives. Then what am i doing different? I just choose to do it in a different place. Just life people move from Infosys in Bombay to Infosys in Banglore.
Who can really USE this educated state of mind? We learn things , applications of the mind, and we do what? work our ass off so that at the end of the day, WE get to live a comfortable life.
but arent we as human beings supposed to help each other??
Why not try to help those who need what we have? There are children out there, who dont know abc, dont know numbers, are so ignorant that no civilized world would accept them.

What good use is our knowledge of the abc's and the tables if we cant help others who dont have access to it, to understand use the power that it holds. for if it wasnt for numbers, we would never have had computers.

I just gave my Electrical networks paper a few days back, now what can i do with what i have learnt? NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING. but if i were to teach a village boy, how to handle current, and voltages, what the best way to connect lights and fans are, what the concept of wattage was, about storage batteries. THEN, he has gained immensly. he can now do his best to get more power out of what little electricity he gets.

Another example, if those people knew, how to treat minor ailments. it would help. they wont have to worry each time the youngest gets a bout of diarrhea. they'll know what to do.

if someone knew how to work the finances, we would be able to set up funds, we would be able to help those who need it most.
i hope u are getting my drift.

The very foundations of our society was build by educated minds, that were tuned to help the other man, not for his/her own needs. and a fact remains that the way we learn today, cant help anyone ever. we are growing into a worthless breed of spawns, that can do no service to humanity, and can only think of themselves.

Education wasnt about gettin money and big jobs, it was so that, life would be easier for all of mankind. not just for one of us.

Doing the right thing

"I have come to the crossroads in my life, ..and I always knew the right path, but I never took it, Why? Cause it was too damn hard..."
-Colonel Slade(Scent Of a Woman(1992))

Isnt that so true for so many of us. Anything that is right, but is uncomfortable is never done. we have some how lost our sense of right and wrong in a world where everything is done to play it safe. An office stamps on a little guy, we call it bureaucracy bitch about it a little, and then continue to roll in the mud we fell in. some just get out of it, and walk away to let others fall in.

Who has the guts to stand up and question it? Maybe they would if they didnt stand to lose. We fear a backlash. It would displease the people in question and they would make life difficult for us. People who are that worried deserve no better.

If we ever feel that we are being wronged, we must by all means ask, for if we never ask, we will never know. and then find a solution for that, instead of throwing up your hands and saying, thats how the system is. why is it that when ever it is a matter of asking a superior for what is rightfully yours to know, we shy away. we look fr 1000 reasons not to ask, and just say leave it.

Large scale examples? Iraq war, the UN did nothing. small scale? The office charges you with unaccountable fees, we dont say a word.

i clearly remember a time when we were charged soemthing called "breakage" fees, not one person asked to know what it was that was broken. was it so difficult? its not right charging it, we know that, but then who wants to have issues with the office?

Despite this trend being so popular with todays youth, we expect a change in our nation. i dont think that will ever come, the idea of taking the right path probably didnt come with Gandhi, but it sure as hell died with him. Because we dont have the guts, we dont have the courage to say- "I know i am right, and i am willing to face the consequences" . thats what beats the system, and to know that u did the right thing despite what people might say, it feels too damn good.

Science goes out the window!

"...ignorance and fanaticism are forever hungry, it needs feeding..."
- Henry Drummand(character) Inherit the Wind(1998)

"Miracle Water" the headline said, and millions flocked to taste it. Once again we proved to the world how ignorant a large majority of our countrymen are.

This is how the story goes, some person went to the water body in question, and drank it to find the water "sweet". now thats his own choice of words. Sure enough, sea water is supposed to be salty...so this ignoramus spread the word. What is naturally salty is now SWEET!!!! "what could it be..hmmm.... GOD HAS MADE IS SWEET" how bout that as his thought process? whats worse millions think the same way.

What state is the science in this land, where any unexplained phenomenon is automatically claimed to be the work of god? In the day of the Rajahs i can understand, lack of sufficient knowledge, and backing of science. Similarly, i would not have been surprised if this had happened in Bihar either, but in the city which is home to places like the BARC and other advanced sciences facilities? Its a shame.

All we now need is some paranoid fellow to say that his problems are cured because he drank this water...Then is when the problems start to flow in. People from all over the country are going to want in, depsite all the advertizing of the fact that its unhealthy, and the over crowded city will just keep filling. whats a worse case scenario, the people predomintently in that area, will claim that its their religion and that no other religion should be allowed. ladies and gentlemen, another ayodhya issue, and over what?, sewage water.

Thats rather far into the future, or maybe not , eitherway, presently i hope the hospitals are readying themselves for truck loads of people who come in to get them selves treatment for the bacteria that infests them, and for those who are immune resulting of flithy living, should get their heads checked, and may be get into a course for science.

How they picked up their tails!

A few days back the HC instructed the govt. to fill all the pot holes that are a dime to two dozen in the city, or the officials would be pulled up! So dont be surprised if the roads are suddenly a flurry of activity on it. the dead line is up in 10 days!!!

i was on my way back home, and the Bombay-Pune highway, that was a disaster due to the rains, is now being worked on in a hurry! its hilraious, they are working at amazing speed, and this would be "impossible" had it not been for the HC order. "nai sahib...vae-l lagel". the trucks are out, they are puttin in tar, the road rollers touching speeds they arent build for. AND for this it took a HC order!

Its a sad state of affairs when the officials who are paid to do a certain job, need to be frightened to do i. thats the one biggest wrong thing bout this country. no body thinks it their job. they maybe equipped to do it, but if it means moving a muscle more than what they are "supposed" to do, they wont do it.

we passed our 59th year of independence, what do we have to show for it?? for all practical purposes, we just show that we cant manage anything, without big papa coming to tell us to do it. the other things(the frills so to speak) would have been possible (in this era) even if we were a colony of england.

College life..

college is gettin better, from the mundane place it was...to a more hip college. The socities, are moving gettin a move on, the magazine is going to be great fun. as it is, writing for tp is good news for me, and now when its gonna be done in group its better. Looking forward to it.
the techincal soc, had its first run in this year, with a seminar on robotics. i remember the one last year, not very different. altho the response was quite sad, but my class(se comps) turned up...nearly 75% of the crowd was my class. i love my class!!!
Apart frm good points...everyday, i manage to find a sour side of the college. today was just as bad as any other, the office staff, are gigantic megalomaniacs...when its their time to work, instead of finding ways to make it easier for us to be done with all these stupid formalities, they just make it more difficult.One could always assume that this is how an office weilds power in bombay, but then again, its ridiculous.
Lectures are one hell of a wasted excercise, except for the attendance, thanks to certain profs, and when 1 hour is too long, how in gods name does one sit for 2???
thats college life for today, hoping something cool comes along, for the next few days, and me come back to write.

Ahem..may i have ur attention plz

emm....my first blog...in the public domain...how does it feel?...not really different. except that there is this thing that people might just read this shit, and then go...'hmm....what a n00b", to them...a thank you is due...coz they are taking time out of their life....TO READ MY BLOG! very nice!
And why not read it, i spent a lot of time and THOUGHT in making this ...and getting a friggin domain name is so tough! what didnt i try...omg, lets see, something was taken, so was anything, then i tried no name, then really no name, jeez...i think ....I THINK i landed with damn-no-name.
so score....so in future NO one asks me...y i put it that way...the comp made me.
right now, i think this is more than nuff, so me leaving, come bak and read later ..ta'