The weekend ...

Currently Listening to => James Blunt - You're Beautiful

This weekend is a touch different since I didn't have to go to my research lab for continuing my final year project since supervisor is away :) Unfortunately, it turns out to be another pretty much wasted day relaxing most of the day and going to Robinsons for getting some Deepavali shirts and stuff for relatives (I did try to get some gifts for the girls' birthdays but my choosing of gifts for the other gender leaves a lot to be desired :P) and dinner at Komalas after that.

A quick note for an application worth downloading would be The Register News Alert if you really could use with some breaking news on tech stuff ;)

Till the next time then ...

And ...

Currently Listening to =>nothing especially ... Can't be playing songs in my research lab can i? :P

This post marks the revival of my blogging expertise, though I really MUST attribute it to repeated efforts from my 'bro' to get me to revive it. Might make a fun 'diary' of sorts later too ...

Considering there's no way I can possibly catch up with 5 months worth of stuff, I'll just stick to recent happenings and facts ... Today marked the ending of my GEK1534 (Microbes that changed human history) presentation (Yay!) worth 30% for the module - just also managed to kinda wrap up HRM group report, though I'll need to do something else for my individual presentation again :P Final year project is pretty stressful too and with supervisor gone to S.Africa (I think!) for a conference, I can't progress much too - leaving me in pretty much a state of a stalemate ...

Hmmm I can't really think up of anything interesting to report as such unless you wanna know all about how Clostridium Botulinum and E. Coli and Salmonella affect our lives :P:P Oh yeah this I did wanna mention - The Transporter 2 looks pretty good - worth a watch. On a side note, if you have time (and are prepared to spend a few minutes almost each day haha), this online game makes a pretty good one. Oh yeah, and if you want a few laughs, this makes a very good one!

Until next time then ...

Edit: How on earth could I have forgotten this??? Quake 4 releasing in 4 days time!!! (18th October, 2005) [On a side note, if you believe that Quake 4 refers to an earthquake measuring 4 on the richter scale, please refer to this!!!]

Well well well :p

Currently Listening to => Nobody Wants to be Lonely - Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera

Yup - first post in 4 months ... I might qualify for the laziest blogger in the world without any issues at all :p

Yup last sem was quite stressful - esp a module renowned as 'The Boat' - the problem was that though everything works on paper, for some reason the final model kept having issues right upto the time of presentation and even during the presentation :p
Just a part of life I guess. The rest was alright I guess - lets see how things go.
Back to my workspot @ CIT and working here happily debugging those minor bugs in IVLE and load testing and all :)

So for some news now. This site is sure creating waves now - about some guy who's trying to raise donations by threatening to kill his bunny if he doesn't get enough donations :p I wouldn't wanna comment much on the IQ of the people who DO donate for this kinda stuff. And the amount is $50,000!!! No meagre sum! The hate-mail section on the website and his retorts to it are funny enough anyway.

Movies - Sahara isn't a bad movie. Worth watching for sure. On the other hand, Mumbai Express is quite a bunch of crap and just gives a few laughs here and there - a rather sleepy story if you ask me :p
The Interpreter looks good too -Plan to go to catch it soon ...

Well, before I wrap up - This website is sure good if you want to turbo-charge up your desktop/laptop. The application there sure does some good repair work and tweaking work on your computer!

Until next time ... :)

Bowling for me??

Currently Listening to => Craig David - Walking Away
Anyway, yesterday was my first formal bowl in my life (Don't ask me if I had a deprived childhood when young - cricket and soccer were the in thing then, and bowling was WAAAYY too expensive ... matter of fact it still is :P). Didn't do too badly as I expected to do I guess, considering my very first throw was a spare, and in the end got 2 strikes and 3 spares overall, and a high score of 102. Not that I expect to repeat it though, think the 3 slices of the Pizza Hut Pizza should have been the one to thank for the performance.
Week 1 of the new term draws to a close and with it my 'free' time ... Yes I will of course play Doom 3 on the weekends till the mid-term break at least, but that doesn't count ... or does it? Hmm ...
Life seems rather boring as usual, but then again I guess it is meant to be that period in life ... Seeing the various posts on PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) comics, seems that life here isn't as bad as it is for some Harvard students haha ...
Not much comp stuff to report, everything seems rather dull. HL2 looks cool of course ... but no more game till the end of the semester for me. Its this for me for now ... :P

Happy New Year

Currently Listening to => Blue - Curtain Falls
Yah the first post in over 2 months ... Guess I'm just waaayy too lazy :p
At the outset, Happy New Year to all of you! 2004 did end with some sorrow, lets hope 2005 brings us all joy and happiness!

Some of you seem rather interested in knowing my grades (though the reason beats me) - Anyway for their sake, here it is =>

1. Comm. Networks -> A,
2. Microprocessoy Systems -> A-,
3. Engineering Professionalism -> A-,
4. Project (3001) -> B+,
5. Comp Vision and Img processing -> B+,
6. Engineering Electromagnetism -> B+ ...

Post-exam was rather blissful - ending up watching 3 movies (Shark Tale, The Incredible and After the Sunset) in the same week, estimate watched 5/6 (lost count) last month and (quite rightfully) got a bit of a dressing down last night on spending $300 last month alone :p

Now maybe a couple of interesting things ...
1. Wanted to put this one in for ages, but well - better late than never ... M$ and its tricks ... I am not gonna say anything else ...

2. Doom 3 is an amazingly real game ... But gets rather horrifying at times - must admit playing without cheats is unthinkable of ... However this forms a rather distressing msg! I got (ok it WAS A b'day gift :P) an ORIGINAL version of the game ... oh well ...

Thats it for now ... more when I find time and mood :p

More interesting stuff to report ...

Currently Listening to => Green Day - American Idiot
Yah, first being that this is my first post in some time :p
Anyway, SWAN is done, and so is the EE3204 project. Socket due in about a couple of weeks ... And 3001 due next week, 1415 written report submitted, presentation due in a little while. This semester seems like a VERY fun semester :p

Anyway, now for some more FUN NEWS:

• Doom 3 pirated en masse prerelease Oops ... well thanks to my friends I got an ORIGINAL copy of it anyway :)
  
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas jacked
  Less than a week before its release, the wildly anticipated crime game has itself been stolen and republished on the Internet ... Piracy is getting to be the more widely anticipated crime also :p
  
• Gaming helps traders score big-time I KNEW gaming was good for me!! :)
  
• 100 GB mail box!!!! Need i say more?
  
• Yahoo! acquires searchable email outfit To compete with GMAIL I guess. But first let them also offer a 1 GB mail box!!!
  
• Murphy's law in Mathematical form ... And all I knew as Murphy's law until now was - 'If there is something to go wrong, it WILL go wrong' :p
  
• Kazaa declines in popularity. Expected ... they are monitoring too much :p
  

Ok thats it for now. Next update when it comes :p

Nothing ...

Currently Listening to => Lecture (EE2007) :P
Just wanted to add a quick post now announcing nothing ..
:P