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Sunny

Dancing to the daily doses of destiny 



I woke up to sunshine more friendly than any over the last week. For those who don't know me, I had exams before today. I had the coziest sleep ever. Poor Vamsi had to sacrifice his place for me again. All night yesterday Chaitanya and Akshay were after me asking me to teach them their course - Data Structures and Algorithms. So much for that ! I'm glad the fellows did not insist on having them for they'd surely have flunked their exams in such a case. All through the exams I wanted to play Counterstrike. Look at the irony. I'm not enthusiastic about it anymore.

I was in Vamsi's room yesterday night. These people were trying to install Starwars game on the computer. They tried their best to create space for them by waking me up. But I refused and told them I was only half asleep. After a while, I don't even know when, I dropped into a very peaceful kip. Of course, as a result of which Vamsi had to go to my room to sleep. I can't help it. I'm very lazy to go to my floor and sleep. Vamsi's is the first floor and mine is on the ground one. That's lazy me for you.

For some reason I do not understand why Starwars makes an interesting game. Gautam was talking to me about it. In our discourse he said that Gamespot rated Half-Life 2 9.2 on a scale of 10 only because they expected a better storyline though the whole game was remodelled. Otherwise Half-Life 2 seems to have scored an average of 9.6 on the whole gamer sites. This is the maximum any PC game has scored till date (Source: Gautam. I cannot guarantee it). I've seen only a demo of the game which is very rich in its texture contour and close to reality. An average of 9.6 is no joke, so an ardent gamer could blindly buy it. Coming back to Starwars, the storyline appears to be very similar to the original one. But gameplay is ridiculous. The first five minutes gave me an impression of a very boring RPG. There is this Commander who says the Sithlords are preparing an attack which they'd have to face immediately. Then he begins to explain who he is, then gives the whole history of someone called Bastila. Then starts the whole comedy. The programmers and the designers put absolutely no sense from hereon. All the voice introduction of the role is agreeable. But a character of the game begins to say "Move your mouse to the right top corner of the screen to access the inventory. Blah Blah Blah...". I mean there could be an extra voice in the background instructing people on how to find things which could be activated by a hotkey. You cannot expect a character of the storyline saying "Click the mouse for this", "Move the mouse around from X to Y to choose skill Z". This is downright silly. The character has to continue with the flow of the story to involve the user. But this one really made the whole hype about the storyline and all look sleazy. And look at this. The commander is in a hurry because the ship is probably under attack (I do not know because I was bored by the game already and did not want to proceed). But he seems to have all the time in the world to explain him things about the ship's crew and all their activities.

Then I had to get my AII MAS ticket cancelled. I was bothered because I could not find my drawer keys. My room is a mess when my presence is not tangible. I've made very less visits to it this semester. There is still no sign of clusters of cobwebs or layers of dirt on the floor. But if keep paying as much attention as I am now, I'm sure these things will be palpable. Amidst the partial presence of all these I tried to discover the lost keys but in vain. But look at the advantages of living in a hostel. There is every probability that you'll find a matching key to your drawers in the same corridor. The fourth room I went to resulted in a success. Rajshekhar's keys matched with mine. I was very happy to see my cheque book after a long time. Thanks to Raghu for those extra twenty minutes he gave me or I'd bored at the reservation counter for sure.

Trust me, Gandhinagar's reservation counter is one of those places I'd not like to visit on days I've had a good start. The fellows in the cabins are absolute nutcases. To add salt to the wounds, they have this elite way of typing with a single finger which delays the process. Morever there is no separate section at the place for enquiry, so you have to wait for a while and then you have to wait for a while again. The queue ended at the door when I joined it. It was kind of scary because I knew I had to stand for at least two more hours to get out of there. Out of the two counters that issue tickets, only one was open as if everything there had not made my life miserable by then. When I went in I saw that DA-IICT students were all over the place, some from the sub-junior batch and precisely two from our batch. They were Anand and (Lo! Behold) her. So I was ensured of my eye candy for a while. (To clarify why, I repeat, I exulted upon seeing her). Then I thought I'd sit down and write a poem because ideas seemed to pour in. After a while I got seated in the queue, took out the paper to scribble. A guy came out announcing the opening of the second counter. So everyone got up from their chairs to join it. I wished I could imprecate the most ghastly curses on him. But the poor fellow was doing his duty. He had no intention of harming my creative session.

The people who say that adolescents and youth are found mostly responsible where fuss is kicked up are false. I condemn their impractical statements. There was an old lady, too old to reserve a ticket for herself, confusing everyone in the hall. Then came another one, not old, requesting the fellow inside the counter to cancel her ticket fast because she had to catch a train to Mumbai before the next 3 hours. By then someone else went in to get his ticket reserved fast. For this he declared himself contact of some MLA for which he also made call to assert the truth. I hate people abusing their powers even in matters of least concern. I mean, using recommendations even at a railway reservation counter, how much more can a person stoop ? Finally after the quest was completed we made our way back via Webworld, had a couple of Strawberry Smoothies (with cream topping, I love it).

Gautam logged on to Orkut again. He was irritated by the misuse of his login. We added a couple of girls to his friends' list from our institute he was not familiar with. He had no clue what to do next. I asked him to make them his friends. He was impressed with Vikas when I showed him his blog and his Orkut profile.

I came to know that Sanjeev ruined his DSA examination. I have not met him yet, he was a bit depressed about that from what I heard of him. A day before this I had a scrap for Vikas saying I am a weirdo. I knew someone else wrote it from his login which was confirmed later. So I'm no longer a weirdo. Meanwhile there are a lot of people who are asking me to write testimonials for them on Orkut. Let me see what I can do for them. Akshat met me, assuring me his help in the UCD project which I haven't started yet.

When the temporal tag assigned by Pope Gregory XIII suggested 12/03/2004 11:27:00 PM IST, the Reverend Whatchamacallit apportioned crumbs of his intellectual property ( read I can remember things ) to planet Earth which engendered from the gentry of Blogger


I'm being misunderstood and misinterpreted. Apart from that I've completed my examinations for this semester.Hopefully ! Choosing the right open elective could bestow you the boon of experiencing an extra holiday in the semester. The way I messed up my electives, no one else could have and any faint possibilites of exceeding the limits I've set are rather loose contingencies. But Andrew Dufrense is still an inspiration providing me sufficient scope for Hope. The first of these exams had been terrible. I had some bizarre feelings during the paper which I don't remember having anywhere between the June of 1985 and December of 2004. There's always a trade-off. Today was my lucky day. I almost thought I lost my source for the Open Book examination conducted today. Believe me. For a course with 4.5 credits to it, Computer Networks is no piece of cake. The fact that the book was my senior's bothered me the most. Until yesterday night I never laid an eye on the book, involved myself in a room where people were discussing things, but later slept like a log. Before that I prepared myself for any disaster that could have befell me this morning. To my luck, I found a source adequate enough to prepare a mark scoring carbon copy by the end of two and a half hours. The girl who sits in the row next to me is reputed to score good grades. So I never had any second thoughts before I started taking chances. Maybe I should have gone upto her after the exam and asked if she did her paper well, just in case, to confirm my secure state.

Yesterday was my UCD examination. We were given the same Aura for the GOMS analysis question. I'm sure no one took a proper shot at the question which in itself was very abstract asking us to explain the collaboration between the various elements of the video. The sites that were supposed to be judged by us were unfortunately our own institute's and the intranet's webpages. I've been using both of them for so long, been accustomed to the system for so long, I found it very hard to act as an impartial user who finds out the merits and flaws of the site. At the end of an hour, I was freaked out because the question indicating 30 minutes of solving time had already consumed a quarter more than an hour. But to my relief, our instructor was munificent enough to provide us with an extra hour. Maybe he deduced from the conspectus that we really needed some extra minutes if we were to take some sensible attempts at the question paper. After that, as I'd expected I had to follow my instructor to his room to discuss my project. I tried to assure him of its completion but I guess he still isn't convinced about the validity of the idea and the possibility of submission.

Now, I seem to have issues with public relations. Some people have started developing strange misconceptions about me. I cannot completely discard them as wrong, because no one ever means something without a reason. There will be no problem with that thought. In due course of time I'm sure everyone will understand who I'm; I'm necessarily not a weirdo if they consider me one. My pseudo-vacation will at last begin from tomorrow. I hope to make the most of it. I'm actually pretty scared of the kind of project I might have to face at my internship.

When the temporal tag assigned by Pope Gregory XIII suggested 12/02/2004 11:47:00 PM IST, the Reverend Whatchamacallit apportioned crumbs of his intellectual property ( read This is not my December ) to planet Earth which engendered from the gentry of Blogger


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