Hmm

I just realised today that it has been more than one and a half months since I last posted That sucks huh. The reasons for this rather long hiatus? Hmm I dont really know. Oh well who gives a damn.

I also realised that I have more CCA points than a lot of people who actually need them (CCA points are required if we want accommodation on campus and the number of points decides where we get to live). Or to paraphrase it, with the little work I did without ever thinking about the points I was going to get for them, I have more points than those who consciously worked all year for points. Just shows what a farce this whole system is eh.

I bought some tea bags the other day to keep myself from starving when I woke up too late for breakfast/lunch or dinner. Since the package didnt mention anything about what we should put the tea bags in, I assumed it was water because, after all, water is the universal solvent and all that. For the first time, I did try with water and what I ended up with was some particularly bad black tea which I couldn’t sip twice.
After asking around, I found out that people had started using milk these days and that I would be well advised to use it too. So I went to the mart and found out that there were 5 different types of plain milk available. Since no one had told me what protein content of the milk makes the best tea, I didnt know which to choose so I just bought the carton which had pictures of cows on it because…well, for obvious reasons.
So I poured out some milk in a cup and put a tea bag in it and kept stirring. 5 minutes later I realised something was not right because, as little as I might be aware of of the art of tea making, I still knew that when I put a tea bag in milk, it should turn brown. But for some reason, the milk stayed white and the tea bag remained a tea bag. Hot milk. Damn it. So I put the cup, tea bag and all, inside the microwave and heated it for 2 minutes. Milk took on slight brown tinge, enough to satisfy me, so I drank the whole thing up. It still sucked. They should put some sugar in those things.

Making tea shouldn’t be so complicated :

What IS an EQ ??

Your EQ is 133

50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick! 51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you’d have better luck understanding Chinese. 71-90: You’ve got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely. 91-110: You’re average. It’s easy to predict how you’ll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that. 111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt. 131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin. 150+: Two possibilities – you’ve either out “Dr. Phil-ed” Dr. Phil… or you’re a dirty liar.

What’s Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

Hmm its been a long time since I did one of these tests. Im sure a few of you, starting with my pessimistic and very sadistic guardian angel, disagree with the accuracy of the test but I think its bang on. I only just realised though that I seem to know quite a few big losers. Well ok make that two…

Oh and Kreeda football starts day after tomorrow. We have to play the toughest team in the competition. More on kreeda and my team name later, its already 230 and I have a class at 9, which I “plan” to attend. Doing laundry is a drag. Especially when the driers dont work. I tried drying my clothes using the washing machine, I set the thing to just “Spin”, hoping it wouldnt go through wash and rinse. But I didnt realize that it would pour water onto my already washed clothes. fark…..

Well, this is probably my last post from chennai for quite a bit of time. Im off to singapore today, off to college and umm to face the challenges of life. Packing is usually a drag, but since I havent done any of it, its not all that bad. blah who cares. I dont have to be at the airport for another 7 hours !

Deciding what I want to take is hard, and I dont refer to clothes. I have to choose between Age of Mythology and Quake4 and Total Club Manager and WarCraft and the decision is made harder because my father has decreed that I should not take any game there. Well every law has a loophole and I still have 7 hours to find one in this.

So to cut a short post shorter, Ill miss everything about chennai and my school and all my “old” and “older” friends and the idgits who wont be reading this for another two weeks because they either dont know how to turn on a computer or how to find one. ( aimed at two of you in particular !)

Adios !

If you want to search for evidence of ET…

..hack into NASA, the US army, the US navy and the US airforce !

That is exactly what this guy did.

I saw this interview on BBC/click of the guy who hacked into the aforementioned networks and was searching for evidence of contact with ET and some super power generator devices which he believed the US government was hiding. He was accessing the networks for over 2 years before he was finally arrested in 2002. He now faces upto 60 years in prison if convicted.

Those of you @#$%@!% s with free internet/broadband can watch the interview at that site.

He claims though that he found pictures showing some “cigar shaped spacecraft”(I am quoting from the interview I saw) floating about the Earth’s hemisphere.

There was something he said in the interview though. He said many of the computers had “blank passwords” i.e. the passwords were set to default. Funny, with so much sensitive information you would think they would atleast have a password protecting it.

I guess this is a lesson for all of us. Nothing is worth searching for two years for.

Well moving on…

Here is my attempt at writing junk poetry.

On second thoughts, I’d rather not share it here due to..er..liability issues.

Its a beautiful day though(its about 3 minutes past now) and I won’t waste the entire post talking about nothing.

So hm…I think I’ll waste more space here by mentioning for how much time I have been staring at the previous sentence. Actually, blogging ethics and conventions demand that I should do so everytime I find nothing to talk about. But as some of you may have noticed, I haven’t done anything of the like in the 77 posts(this being the 78th) where I found nothing meaningful to say. So for the record, I stared at the aforementioned line for exactly 2 seconds and 73 milliseconds. Any longer would generally indicate the presence of a fused cerebellum. Of course, there are always exceptions made for certain mobile containers on 6 wheels so none of my readership need be alarmed. There is no need for a brain transplant, yet.

While I was scavenging for ideas for this post, there was something suggested to me which I think i’ll take up.

On second thoughts, a frappe over my head doesn’t sound very pleasant. But still, I have always asked what is life without a bit of risk and some frappe ?

There are often times, when you feel like 30 cents. When life deals a few low blows and its already strike 2, you are pretty close to a knockout. At such times, its understandable if you dont feel very zestful and lose a bit of your enthusiasm for life. At such times, its also good to know someone who isnt as close to the panic button as you are. Preferrably someone who is warm and understanding and who’s zest for life hasn’t waned yet. Someone who can speak a few words of wisdom and kick you back on to the right path.(It is an added bonus if the person doesn’t call you “monkeybum” but you learn to make sacrifices). You just have to realise that life is bigger than one exam or one college or one raised finger. (though sometimes, its hard to believe the last. For those you dont get what I am talking about, watch the latest airtel ad)(incidentally, I really like that ad)

This post may appear severly disconnected and there might appear no relation between the first and second parts. Just bear in mind that the post was written as the poster thought up ideas.

But then again, I am sure most of you are used to it.

Oh joke joke :

Why did the uncreative painter get arrested for driving a car ?

He had no artistic license !

I’m sure you are used to this too !

Ludricious !

This is something I was asked to read by a friend #.

So, post-mortem :
To start with the “About Me” column, is it really surprising if a “15 year old” is able to describe himself or herself in 150 odd words ?(I personally couldn’t think of anything to say but lets just consider the majority). No one is expecting a graduate thesis for gods sake and does it really matter if the “15 year old” hasnt done/wont be able to do an in-depth self psycho analysis ? And finally, in a community network, not having an About me column would kinda make no sense dont you think ? You aren’t going to add people because ” third letter in our second names is the same…” and an About me column would help you figure out what kind of person he or she is. I agree, “I am Chandler Bing” would be a bit misleading.

Orkut is just another medium through which the “15year olds” of today choose to communicate. If it was cell phones 2 years ago, its Orkut now. As to asking how your friend has done in the boards, I would have thought that was natural.

Raising kids does not mean forcing them to do anything. A “15 year old” has to be given his or her freedom. A word of advice : Nazism has lost its appeal. Long live the revolution!

Taking breaks is absolutely necessary and I am glad the author agrees to that. Books can get very distracting and its not easy to put them down. And uhm I admit its a long time since I read a Tinkle book(More evidence of “Times are changing” ?). Most of us dont have STBs and I would prefer orkut to watching “Midday News” or “Oswald the pink penguin” or whatever. Ofcourse when the match is on, I doubt if anyone wastes time on orkut. And…do you really blame us if we dont feel like watching Titanic in tamil ?

And uh, to the last statement, I cant find words which capture what exactly I felt when I read it. This is what my friend said : “Utter bullshit”. That captures it fine I guess !

Orkut is a necessary evil(much like chemistry). It maybe a waste of time but well we consider it a better waste than the alternatives. And as a side note, we are 17 years old now. Well, most of us. And surely, there are other more important social issues to write about than how a 17 yearold supposedly isn’t studying for the boards ?

DeFreeze – random thoughts

I wasnt planning on posting before the end of boards but intense boredom and maths coupled together have driven me here.

Well to begin with, the match…as V rightly says, the third umpire is a jack ass. He had watched the damn replay in fast motion, slow motion, from in front of the stumps, behind the stumps, using ultrasound(or whatever they call that slowmotion thingy) etc etc. AND he ruled that Kevin whatshisname was not out. Every tom dick harry and kris srikhanth could see that the ball hit the ground first and bat second. Dont we have a third umpire just to avoid screwups like this? The first umpire or the leg umpire could have given the same decision and we would have saved the hours that he took to come up with a not out. Well besides that, I think it is time for Sehwag to retire…and Laxman should be kicked out, not Kaif…and Chappell is a moron.

And I also noticed, most of the Indian batsmen look like school boys when facing the English fast bowlers (Im not talking about their skill alone). Those guys are so HUGE !

And, Javagal Srinath should stay away from the commentary box. Though not as bad as arun lal, he still SUCKS. And he sucks BIG TIME. I really think I can do better match analysis than him…like yesterday, when Cook was on 80something and there was 15 overs to go, he was talking about Cook needed to get his century but England needed to score quick runs so the interests of the team would clash with his interests….I guess the runs Cook scores dont count for England ? Isnt there something under POTA to make him shut up ?

Also, I think what this country needs is a secular right wing government…but right now that combination seems hard to find. We should pack all those bloody communists off to china. Effing terrorists and backstabbers.

And about the Godhra train accident thing, why does the Sangh parivar and the BJP feel so sure that it was not an accident ? To justify what happened later ?

And in my next life, I hope to be born a blackbuck. Atleast someone avenges my death. Life as it is certainly looks very scary. We had an essay in english about death penalty. But dont we need convicts first before awarding them death penalty ? Why do we have to debate and waste time over it when everyone is walking away scot free thanks to “for-sale” policemen and co-operative, conscientious witnesses ?(one of them actually said “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Leave me alone and let me get on with my life”. I may agree with the first bit but…does it say anywhere in the law that you are given the privilege of choosing whether or not to testify against a murderer if he happens to be your friend ?)

Watching the news, I sometimes wonder how our country is still running.

Some interesting thoughts

Posting at 12 AM screws up all notions of “yesterday”, “today” and “tomorrow”. Sometimes I write a post today but I tend to post it tomorrow. But then I should have written it yesterday and should be posting it today because…well er thats how it should be.

So if I DO write a post today and say I post it today too. And when I view my blog 10 seconds later, today becomes tomorrow and tomorrow, when I view my blog, the post would have been written yesterday. But since today is yesterday tomorrow and yesterday, tomorrow will be today, today technically can be yesterday or tomorrow but it cant be today.

SO, today does not exist. Since since it was already today yesterday in Australia, yesterday doesnt exist either. And since today is tomorrow in California, tomorrow doesnt exist either.

Thus it follows logically that the board exams should not be conducted because of ..er..bad lights.

Yay !

er..This is my 50th post ! thank you ! thank you !

I doubt if anyone else has been jobless enough to keep track of number of posts(ok, blogger does it for you) but I am sure no one has actually written a post about it ! Hey, someone has to do it !

Ok, Most of you have already told me I post just for the heck of posting and that most of the posts arent posts at all and I say to you, you are all right ! But just keep in mind that this is MY blog

Me got a tagboard !

After lots of experimenting and time wasting, I finally got myself a tag board. I actually put a different one first but when I tried to change something er..something else happened..and..er.. well I decided that I didnt like that tagboard. I have put this one up without making any mods and will customize it later. Right now, Solder beckons

Happy Farewell !