Sankranti vids

Back where I don't belong

After god-knows-how-many delays, SPM exam finished today. I was still not out of my 'train-lag' after the
excruciating 12 hour journey in that counfounded 'Kakatiya Express' and the project managemt bullcrap drove me to sleep again. I fought off waves of torpor and rinsed my face with cold water to keep sleep at bay.

The bus journey after almost a couple of months drove me crazy again, I could swear the suspension was
wrecked. I've seen my share of boring before but as I sat under the shade of the mosque trying to grasp what
I could, I realised boring held an all new meaning today. At exactly half past 11, I was tearing my hair out trying to comprehend what the bloody hell it all meant.

This exam was so boring there is nothing to describe about it.

Moving on, I didn't take my Airtel phone with me on my manuguru trip during the Sankranti holidays, I was
cutoff from the internet totally. This trip proved way better than the previous ones with several high notes and
a few stinkers(my fate).

Sunil and Jaffrey were the 'guests' and proved helluva fun (with equal doses of humiliating antics). Rakesh was at his usual best. Sankranthi holidays are always special with musical nites and 'other' exciting stuff. The orchestra troop started with some devotional songs and moved on to telugu numbers to the screaming 'public'. They tried a hindi number which promptly made us take a somersault right where we were standing. We laughed so hard we got some very

stern stares from the 'public'. Thankfully they went back to telugu numbers. Then we were lost in gossip as a
couple of my frens did other stuff.

"Mera chine wine sab uthra....", holy shit, we collapsed again! The song sucked so much it started raining!
Everyone scampered for cover as the wasted troupe sang on. the show stopped midway and we were back
home soaked and sad.

Went on a small trip in Abhishek's Estate to the nearby railway tracks. Jam packed with 8 blokes with one
sitting on the spare tyre, this trip will go down as one the best ever.

As I mentioned before, the trip was good. If only....

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Sony DSC H50

Sayeed Bhaiya let me use his Sony DSC H50 prosumer camera for a coupla days. Just brought it home.
The interface looks a bit unintuitive so it'll take a while getting a hang of it. Looking forward to two days of clicking fun!

Stayin alive...

After the CD drive failed, my jurassic Acer Aspire 3000 was reduced to a helpless and obsolete laptop relying on its two USB ports for data I/O. After the operating system crashed a month ago(after a long 5 year run), I was left clueless as to how to get it back. Wintoflash came to the rescue and a new Windows xp was up an running in 3o mintes thanks to the USB boot function on the mobo. But the worst was yet to come.

I was installing essential softwares like VLC and foxit when the OS crashed with a BSOD. Now what?
On restarting, it refused to boot and gave HAL error. I knew it could mean a hard drive fault or misplaced some issue with the drivers. I tried booting from the flash drive again, no luck.

256 MB of RAM and a paltry old AMD processor can't handle new age OSes like vista and w7 so I decided to install a linux distro on it. The laptop was pretty much obsolete anyway, a few basic functions like music playback, videos and occasional notes is good enough for me.

I started with Linux Mint. I knew new versions of linux like Ubuntu(hardy heron, ibex and all) wouldn't work.
But it turned out Mint was too much too, it dragged and crawled through windows. I then tried installing Moblin, it a gave a low memory error and stopped. Then tried fedora, no luck.

After some research on the internet, came across PCOSlinux, designed for older hardware. Installation took a mere 20 minutes and the laptops's back to life....for now atleast.

Eh-thics

We need grace and discipline for everything, day in and day out. The world is a better place because for every undeserving, indifferent and ill mannered idiot, there is a person who puts up with him. it has been proven time and again that a life without ethics is useless. There are standards for everything, a moral code to be followed for everything from eating to sleeping. The Indian 'tradition' of 'slurrrrping' to dishes and the loud resonating burp at the end of the meal or the snores that can wake up the dead. All it takes to correct oneself is to take a look around. Is not the disgust on people's faces deterring enough?
Not that I don't have bad habits. I'd be more than glad if someone pointed them out to me. I bet I'll do my best to get rid of em.
Chat ethics
Talking bad habits... I hate it when someone logs off suddenly while chatting over the internet. It puts me off
instantly. it's more or less like ending a face-to-face conversation abruptly and flying off.
For the record, I hate IM chatting. I reluctantly signed up coupla years ago after a few friends abroad insisted. I prefer talking over phone.

When some work comes up, I make it point to apologise to the other party and leave after asking permission. This ensures there are no hard feelings on the other side. Logging out abruptly is like hanging up a phone on someone.


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