why are squirrels so “fluffy” ?

yup..thats right. Generally speaking, life in the US ain’t that different than life in India. But some things are really, really strange – The sun sets only at 8:30 in the night, the nearest store/walmart is not near at all and yes..the squirrels are pretty fat fluffy. Now of course, I’ve gotten used to fact to seeing a fat bunch of squirrels on the way to the college. These squirrels are actually pretty scary too. Now, if I were in India, I would have probably walked past the squirrels saying ‘awww….’ and maybe throw a stone or two at them and see what they do. Now of course, I seem to have entered the squirrel mafia territory with tough, fluffy, don’t care, not scared squirrels who keep sneaking up on me, giving the uncomfortable feeling that someone might be following you.

ps1: yesterday was garba and I chose to goto soccer instead .. sources tell me I missed a lot (if you know what I mean) and I am sad.

ps2: I now realize that I should not have done something more productive than blog.

ps3: pati should change the theme of his page again. It doesn’t look good in htmlview/elinks.

ps4: Saw ‘Good Luck Chuck’, Oceans 13 and other films the other day. They are all decent. Would still rock if something like LOTR came along. Bourne Ultimatum is good though.

ps5: Current TV shows being followed include Heroes, Chuck, Life, 30 Rock (guest star was Seinfeld in the previous episode)……

ps6: I am not vella.

ps7: Very good soccer videos at youtube.

ps8: Some good songs/soundtracks,

John Powell – waterloo , John Powell – man vs man (from the Bourne soundtrack)

Moby – extreme ways (also in the Bourne soundtrack)

Fort minor – high road

KC & The Sunshine Band – Boogieman (in the Superbad soundtrack)

ps9: I keep saying ‘toodles’ instead of ‘bye’ now – fker iv !!

ps10: Corrs’ Only when I sleep and Moby’s Life me Up can keep playing in your head for a long time no matter what, ask iv !!

rain, rain ..come again…huh, I didn’t even finish !!

Atlanta’s weather seems to be making some serious jumps towards becoming pleasant. Rain keeps coming arbitly and the weather suddenly changes to gloomy skies. I would love to post some pics but I am in linux (unfortunately?) and I haven’t got my laptop cam to work yet, well haven’t tried to get it to work, well haven’t really checked whether it works in linux. I’ve been repeating the usual routine with deadlines for some assignment or the other almost everyday. (Nothing can beat the assignment routine we had in the first year at IIIT though , hail IIIT ). Been reading blogs regularly on blogroll for quite some days (thank you smr). Also, went to a temple recently (thank you india club) – it’s supposed to be the biggest one in North America when the construction finishes, was very ordinary though and too silent for a temple.

*desides to resort to PS’s for comfort.

ps1: Watched transformers, hey baby (and bye forever baby), superbad recently. Superbad is a decent(not to be taken literally) movie, reminded me of the time I saw euro trip and such movies. (ah, good ol’ times).

ps2: next on the list is rush hour 3 and balls of fury (rofl) .

ps3: its raining really heavily now, if this had happened three months back, I would be in the football ground.

ps4: crime rate has increased near the university, its time for some vigilante justice ……….of course, i’m not the vigilante !!

ps5: this is the end !!

ps6: Also, football videos on youtube are decent !!

keep it coming…

I was never good with titles. Anyways, thats the song I am listening to right now and hence the title. Things have changed since my last post. My first entry to the US has been pretty smooth so far with a lot of nostalgic feelings now and then. Lots of differences between the way both India and US work; die-hard 4 for example seemed to over-portray the country’s dependence on technology but it doesn’t hit you until you land here that the possibility of that happening is pretty high. Anyways, the place is pretty much like India except for the fact that there is day-light even at 8:00 in the night (wouldn’t that be awesome for football ?? ) . Food seems to be the main problem here since the nearest grocery shops (read : walened for a while(mart and indian stores) are at a not-so-comfortable-to-walk distance. Parrupu-podi (nothing mexican  about it, its tamil ) seems to be saving me (a lot) for the time being.

Coming to the more interesting point of the post, there are plenty of chicks to gawk(in a subtle manner of course, you don’t want to look desperate )  at here. Am getting quite lazy and hungry and hence will continue later…..

ps1: (advice) stay at IIIT-H as much as possible, life doesn’t get more comfortable.

ps2: (more advice) damn the samosa guy !! really miss the samosa+ tea + family guy combo.

ps2(1/2): really miss CS, BF2, Dota…..; CeG Rox !!

ps3: Lack of work experience can sometimes hurt you while applying for RA positions.

ps4: Hope to see some familar faces next fall/spring.

ps5: asimov==awesome

rabbit !!

    Its been quite some time since I had anything to write about. I still don’t.. just making sure that the blog doesn’t end in itself !! Been awfully busy and jobless at the same time the past few days because of the sudden increase in shopping for people I ‘may’ meet in the future.

Also saw fantastic four, shivaji, chennai 28, and other blah movies. The fantastic four experience was funny with the intermission coming at the 45th  minute. Shivaji is decent – not like the previous rajini movies. However, Shriya’s presence makes up for the disappointments in the movie.  Chennai 28 is decent ( it seemed to be over-rated though)  with lots and lots of ‘machi’ in the script.

ps1: life is moving at a very slow place.. waiting for the day I get to connect to some good CS servers on the net.

ps2: hilarious pics on iv’s and pati’s latest post.

ps3: The external USB case for my SATA hard-disk didn’t work

ps4: got interviewed by the cute-Indian  at Chennai for my visa.  She is really ga-ga’ish!!

p s5: This is the end !!

Graduate admissions…the tag !!

Its been quite a long time since my previous post. One reason could be the fact that I have been busy the past few months. Anyways, I am still waiting for the graduate admission results. The guys at the universities seem to be taking a hell lot of time to review the applications. I assume they are searching for the logins on orkut and going through the profile to get an insight into their candidates. If this happens though, only a miracle can get me in one of the univs.

The tag:

One thing you are afraid of

The green thing (refer previous posts)
Two unforgettable incidents

Getting into IIIT and the fun@Felicity’07.

Three books

——–not applicable———

Four beautiful women

Scarlett Johansen, Monica Belucci, Elisha Cuthbert, Aishwarya Rai

Five Fooditems

Ragda, Bhel Puri ,  Paneer, Bindi, Donda
Six oft used words

ye ye ye, asimov, nonsense, HUHA (yeah baby)

Seven things awesome about me

————-memory overflow———–

Film personalities (Eight)

Tom Hanks (pure brilliance), Al Pacino, Tom Cruise (amazing performance in Rain Man, A few good men), Dustin Hoffman, Kamal Hassan …..sorry, no more !!
Movies nine

Green Mile, Rain Man, Anbe Sivam, ……there are too many.

Music ten

Lift me up, Porcelain, Bitter sweet sympony,Ruby Tuesday, Gimme shelter, Chinnamma Chilakamma , Posthumus- cuzco, Campione, PF – Learning to Fly, PF – us and them..

List of jobless souls tagged by me:

anand, monga, shamanth, peesu, elisha cuthbert !!

ps1: ug4 mailing list is busy

ps2: halley is sick

ps3: ramji rox

ps4: himanshu and anuraj also rock

ps5: I also rock

ps6: awaiting graduate admission results, pray for me pls

ps7: more later

ps8: This is the end !!

caution !! sucky days ahead!!

yeah, thats been my status on yahoo for over a week now. A note of advice before I start this post (heck,this was what the post was supposed to be about) – The process of applying for an MS in american univs. sucks more arse than it can actually take. To make matters worse, I’ve just realized that the university web-sites are very misleading in terms of deadlines. For example, while the graduate admission deadline in the grad page of a university is somewhere in january, the line following this mentions that each department might have a different deadline. So, here I am sitting in my wlan enabled room waiting for pages to load slowly. Annoying me more are the constant time out’s in the “ping” terminal.

Placement season has also started here in IIIT. Contrary to popular beliefs, I ain’t studying for the placements seriously. One reason could be the fact that I am not looking for a job at this point. Anyway, my best wishes to all job aspirants.

ps1: I suddenly lost all interest to continue this post.
ps2: football finals tomorrow – agni V prithvi ; hope agni wins atleast once in the four finals faced.
ps3: whose line seems to be my only reprieve !!
ps4: I have decided to leave my fate to the gods
ps5: My last sem was “supposed to be light” ..now i wish, I could repeat the third sem !!
ps6: dinner at obh, first floor sux.
ps7: Saw bb finals – agni V aakash ..no comments.
ps8: This is the end !!

A post devoted to cs !!

No matter how much I try to resist playing this game (for ungyani ppl CS stands for Counter-Strike) , I always end up giving in to my desires. Its been over a week since I have gone to the lab (for people like me, its a long time) which probably explains why the urge to play the game has increased to epic proportions. It started off at the end of the first semester I guess; age was very [very,very..] popular then and I still remember walking back to OBH after a long session of age at 2:30 in the night. We (atleast me) got the first glimpse of CS in the then ug4 lab. It was beautiful watching a game which actually required so much team-work and attention. The first cs game I’ve played consisted of three people in the then favorite cs_siege map. This was however a nightmare considering that Obelix had played the game before and was hence seen sniping the hell out of me and rexisgod. Anyway, CS is awesome these days considering the type of shots people hit.

ps’s devoted to cs:

ps1: the post was supposed to be longer one but I don’t have the patience to write more.

ps2: The best tourney so far was the one conducted by Majj , It was just awesome considering that it was the first serious, clan based gaming tourney I had played.

ps3: The best CS video in WLAN is “team-eolithic.avi” [ its hard to resist playing the game after you've seen this video]

ps4: For beginners, I recommend watching demos/videos (demos extension is .dem) of this game to improve their performance. (ps : master deagle, maverick, ak47, clarion, defender, sniper )

ps5: I don’t regret playing the game, came to know a lot of people because of this game.

ps6: yet to see an all girl iiit clan.

ps7: two and a half men is a decent series.

the bee, the green thing and rest

If the title is too difficult to comprehend , let me try to help you out here. I got up an hour back thinking it was going to be a pleasant and casual day (you know; the kind of day where you don’t actually go around killing things). My return from the mess however seemed to “bee” on the contrary. I was welcomed by a pretty abnormally large bee in my room buzzing near the window . Turns out the bee was actually building something in my room. It looked like sand to me. The rest is actually quite predictable — I took a shirt hanger and eventually broke the sand mould. To my surprise, I saw a green wormish thing trying to  come out. Before people start telling “Awww….cho chweet”  ,let me clarify that it wasn’t anything chweetish. (thr , one more word to added to the dictionary). What happens next is again quite obvious, the mold was destroyed and I spent the rest of the morning locked in my room hoping the parent bee won’t notice me.

ps1: A new word “chweetish”= “sho shweet”= very sweet has been added . My GRE vocab seems to be improving

ps2:  people please visit http://172.16.14.6/btp/player.html . Download it and use it

ps3: ArMMOr thinks I shd have dropped iv’s smps on the bee.

ps4: this is the end!!

the yearning for better education

So, I am in the fourth year and i think its about time that I start deciding what I want to do with/in life ( keeping aside the fact that its every human’s soal aim to ensure that his species propagates ).

My gre got over on 19th of this month ; sadly the scores suck. iv’s hypothesis relates to some kinda conspiracy by the ets people to not give more than 600 to any one in the verbal section on that day. Ever since then, I’ve been interrogated with more or less the same questions “Is – enough ? Will you be writing again ? “. I’ve heard getting into a univ in the u.s of a is actually not difficult. Its kinda like the local eng. colleges here where thr are around 60k odd seats available. However, its the good colleges which one is after (of course).

A premonition in this regard — Its quite dangerous when your parents actually see the campus of colleges like MIT, Stanford cus this just raises their expectations. I don’t have an actual number for the number of people from iiit who have actually got a place there( from what i’ve heard ; i don’t think its high).

Continuing from where I left, the gre exam officially sucks. With several arbit words like  “slight” meaning “to show disrespect” i think you can understand my plight. For those giving the gre , do not trust the visu wordlist book ; you’ve got to finish barron’s + some confidence would help. More advice if/when I give a b8r gre.

ps1: the audio streaming player is finally out, last chked thr were two users using it;

ps2: mid-sems from tomorrow, gotta read LP

recap of freshers

It started off like any other day. A properly won football match, an LP class where manish’s name was chanted in chorus; the only thing remaining was a fun freshers night. So, I reached there at around 7:00 to see the performances. Agni’s performance was going on and people told me that it sucked ( I ‘m an agnian ). This was followed by prithvi, aakash and vayu’s performances. Aakash had actually performed very well ( for a change ). Of course, the fun part of the programme was performed by the classic IIIT audience. With people booing and shouting so loud so as to make the contestants inaudible, it seemed like a re-enactment of the mr & mrs felicity contest. Special instruments were also imported to make the night more loud and lively.

While all forms of slogans were used ( usuals like “ek do theen char…”…,etc) , the only thing missing was the “ram ram satya hai…” routine (heard this from shamanth; turns out this is commonly done by iit’ians during shastra).

The first session ended with an active participation by the audience in charles darwin’s Survival of the fittest” at our very own mess. With people jostling their way through the long line, it was only a matter of time before “the prodigal iitian” gave his haughty stare . Sid of course lost his cool . After the gruelling session in the mess, the mr and mrs. fresher resumed at 9:30 followed by some kinda dj night (is it ?) .

ps0: I still can’t distinguish the first yrs from the rest of the people I don’t know.
ps1: I am bored
ps2: ug3 is having a carnival day today. While sundays are typically used to laze around, here’s to hoping their event is a successful one.
ps3: Aakash were declared winners up & until they decided to express their happiness on stage
ps4: this is end