Hey. I am back!

Been away for a while. Was attending to some exams.

I wonder if everyone is like that but I am hard coded with a fear for examinations. Maybe from the childhood days when the surrounding used to by haunted during the exam days. Everyone used to be so sensitive to us kids wasting any single moment on something not meant for scoring marks in exams. Suddenly the time used to become so important for all the poor kids. All eyes on us!

And then there used to be those padhaakoos (specky book worms) in the colony that served as a catalyst to engage our parents against us. "See HE has been studien since monin, HIS mom says HEs haven't even eaten or bathed!". I hope someone out there is relating to this?

Blah! I would say poor chap has only 10% of my IQ and has to work 10 times harder. Attend more coaching sessions and buy more books to get the concepts right (or cram them right).

Eventually, all those padhaakoos scored a couple of percents more than me. That's all. They were only good enough to get my parents charging at me with study-more-verbs. Now most of them leading lives similar to mine. Well, some are doing better too. :-)

But this continuous conditioning year after year four times a year or more was enough to have me worry even now. Crazy isn't it! As a reflex, suspended most recreation. But today I walked a free man from the exam center and here I am - connecting again.

What else? Yeah! a small update. I turned 100% veg. No more eggs! More on the 'why' later. I need to relax a lot now. Watch movies, TV,do random stuph, read books, attend to pending projects and so on.

Ciao!

Big B Tweeting in Punjabi today

Hey!


A chair was bothering the great Big B while he was Tweeting today @SrBachchan.

Few very amusing tweets by him in light mood turned to Punjabi.

It was amusing and good to hear own language from him.

Also good to see a really candid side of him while he shared some more facts about his linguistic skills with the TwFmXt (Twitter Extended Family) as he lovingly calls his Twitter followers!

Got little time today guys wanted to quickly share this . Good night. TC. See ya soon.

Hello...? ubuntu here!

Hi all!

You know what is unique about this post?

This one, I am keying in from ubuntu 10.10 running from my 4 GB USB drive! Reason is that I have to revise some aspects of Linux for an upcoming examination. So I thought that there must be someway to quickly try some commands.

What I was searching for was some public server that I can access using telnet or remotely try something over a web sharing session. But here I got it running on my own PC within 5 minutes of downloading the ISO file from http://www/ubuntu.com.

The process was so straight forward! Download the ubuntu ISO, download the USB installer, enable USB boot device in the BIOS, select removable drive to boot! That's all.

I have not set any persistence area on this USB device so will not be able to create any files or save any settings I make to the environment. That is, I will get to use a brand new installation of ubuntu in every session I log in. But that serves my purpose.

Also it reminds me of some games that I used to play on my RedHat installation when I was graduating. Even then the purpose was academic: Shell programming. This time I will just be running some file system commands and get to know the file system and device management in Linux. That'll be all.

Nice experience and it has got nice effects like wobbling windows that stretch and wobble when you move them around or resize and maximise and icons that you can right click to stretch. Something new and different from what I have been seeing on my XP...cool!

I got to play with this for a while. Seeyaround.

Take care

Parallel chases

As India is chasing Australian target of 261 to move up the WC2011 ladder, I am on a different kind of chase here. A day before the big day, all the likes of us have been through this kind of chase, racing through the  subject material for a three hour long performance. Target 350 pages, need 250 in next 6-10 hours at 25 per hour :-) Hope I will make it.

Of course I will because so many people have passed on best wishes for tomorrow. Call me superstitious but I believe that my lack of faith in religious deities is compensated by positive synergy that flows for me from my well wishers' hearts. I move ahead to accept any challenge and so far have managed to emerge with flying colors. Thanks to my close friends, parents, siblings and well wishers whose wishes and blessings protect my back and force my destiny to rule in my favor. So blessed I am!

My greatest regards to all these beautiful human beings in my life who keep me going on. Keep me from giving in. Keep me motivated to make that last effort when the times are toughest. I absolutely can not afford to make a slightest dent in their hearts. Amen!

Have to stop here because my right hand is bandaged due to suspected RSI. I dread that horrible term to be attached to my extremities. Hope it will be fine by morning. :(

Take care!

Ready-Set-Facebook!

The title says it all.

The fad is infecting all and it is getting so addicting that now I am feeling that I would need a parental control tool for my own self! There is so much useless amusement about the internet that it takes some effort to switch to useful work while online.

By the way, a friend suggested a cool site for listening free Indian music online http://www.muzikwar.com/. Is it legal? Anyways listening to a nostalgic song by Safri Boys: Rahe rahe jaan waliye (Hey you fair lady walking along the way). The lyrics promising a love-till-death, unconditional, unending. The love that love should be. A nice way to recharge after spending a really hectic day at office!

Reminds me when I used to listen to a lot of music when I was schooling. Even switching off the fans so that I can enjoy every note of the song in solitary room for a few minutes. Sweating was ignored in favor of great food for soul: music.

Still a fan of music that used to captivate during those old days. More now when I often get out of sync with the latest bands and albums, I enjoy those tracks all the more.

Few days ago, someone asked me when I find time for bogging as I am working, studying and reading (technical) stuff at the same time. My answer: We can always spare some time for what we like to do. Just as we find time for whom we love.

Well, I think I went a little astray. Got to get back to work. Remember 5 are still to go? Actually 4 now.

Off I go. Take care.