My idea of a Ideal week

This is how I would like my general life to be for the next couple of years.

Monday - Work Hard day

Get to the gym(morning or evening),
Do some serious coding/design/planning at work, hopefully on something new, something that has not been carried forward from Friday.
Get back home from work, get a healthy dinner, watch TV, go to sleep.

Tuesday - Work Harder Day

Get to the gym(morning or evening),
Do some hardcore coding/testing, read about new technologies if time permits.
Get back home from work, visit a temple, get dinner, read a book, go to sleep.

Wednesday - Work and Communication day

Get to the gym(morning or evening),
Coding and other work related issues, update resume if possible/necessary.
Talk to family, visit a friend maybe/social networking. Get back home, get dinner, watch a movie and off to bed.

Thursday - Take it easy day

Get to the gym(morning or evening),
Take work lightly, socialize with work people(an hour of sports maybe), a lavish lunch maybe. Get back home, get wine/beer, watch a movie maybe. Eat light and go to sleep.

Friday - Work Hardest Day

Get to the gym(morning or evening),
Work, work, work and work.
Eat out, get home, maybe video games, go to sleep.

Saturday - Party Day/Go-out

Complete house chores(grocery, cleaning, car-wash etc etc).
Gym(if possible)
Video games, and when sun sets booze and rock n roll ;).

Sunday - Relax and Hobby Day

Read, sleep, eat, sleep/shop/hobby/movie/beach, video games, sleep :)


Lets see if i ever spend a single week like that :).


Ciao

Operating Systems

Now its official and formal, I am doing terribly bad with the only course of this semester CIS 657 Principles of Operating Systems. Two mid terms and a project have been total disaster for me.

Honestly speaking I am not afraid to do bad(A mistake is the second best way of learning as long as you don't repeat it), neither am I amazed by the fact that I am doing bad, but I am totally perplexed about the the question "Why am I doing bad?".

I am not dumb(IQ of 133, current GPA 3.5), to say the least I am fairly decent with C programming, I have already studied two courses of Operating Systems in college. I am working hard, I attend class regularly and I even understand most of it in class. And still I am doing terrible in the course.

God, please tell me why am I doing bad.

Klueless 4 is DONE !

It has become an annual thing for me now. I also wait for it eagerly much like I wait for the thanksgiving break ;).

Anyways Team Klueless I thoroughly enjoyed it this year, in fact Klueless 4 was much better than Klueless 3. Kudos to you guys.

If you dont know what am I talking about, try this link and give it a shot. I assure you, you will not regret it.


And you might notice I have improved greatly on my rankings from last year. I hold the coveted number 23 in the Hall of Fame.

Ciao

It's A Hard Life

Each day new problems keep coming into my life, and they are getting bigger by the day :D. Job search, economy, CIS 657 just to name a few.

I am definitely going home anytime soon, mostly not for another year.


Ciao

I wanna go home :(

It shall be third consecutive Diwali when i will be away from home. I wanna go home very very very desperately and I CANNOT. Well the irony, you are "DESPERATE" only when "YOU CANNOT".

Why I should not go home in the middle of the semester?

1) I am enrolled in a course which surely is the toughest course of my life, missing classes and lab sessions is absolute blasphemy.

2) I am broke, I do not even have enough money to buy a ticket to California leave alone India.

3) I shall miss out on some Job Interviews, being in my final semester JOB-Search is like my Holy Grail Conquest.

4) This is the most crucial period of my degree program, economy is in its worst condition ever, spending 10 days on home is like going for a stroll in the park when your island is expecting a Tsunami.

Why I should go?

No reason, I just wanna go :(. I am missing home.

Am i going? Even i do not know, will decide soon.

Ciao

Employement

I need a full-time Job beginning January 1st !

My resume


Ciao

What was Apple thinking ?

Recently i was checking out the Apple website as i was looking to upgrade the software on my iPod Touch, actually i wanted to read the terms and conditions. And this is how the page shows


See something weird? Read the line carefully, "iPhone 2.1 Software Update for iPod touch".
WTH, why should iPod software be named as "iPhone 2.1 Software"? Mr. Jobs I know a lot of the people around are dumb and need the "iPhone" label just to buy products. But some are not that dumb and understand Shakespeare when he said "Whats in a Name". So can we please not use such fake/stupid names.

Somehow I am getting a growing feeling each day I spend with Apple products, In my head their price tag is outweighing their quality. My iPod touch has crashed thrice in last two months. I accept the fact that it is jailbroken and so I inserted a lot of instability but I am not impressed even with the basic software that comes with the hardware. It is definitely not as sturdy as Mr. Jobs claims it to be.

Somehow I am glad I havent bought a Macbook and a iPhone yet, both of them were high priority till some time back, not anymore though.

Shantanu Mishra

Art, does it mean the same anymore ?

The whole world is crazy about Jaane tu ya Jaane Na. A few days back one of my friends pinged me on IM and without even performing the formalities of Hi, How are you? he/she asked me "have you seen Jaane tu ya Jaane Na". So i said "NO, I have not", and as god as my witness i regret that honest answer to this day, he/she went on and on about the movie for at least fifteen more minutes. Almost the same thing happened with every single desi person I have on my IM friends list.

Seeing the enthusiasm of so many people i thought I myself should give the movie a try. So i went to the usual online movie portal and decided to have a dinner date with this movie. The result, i could not bear the torture of such an ill-constructed movie past 50 minutes. I dont know what is the correct word to use here so i am writing the ones which i think collectively express my opinion about the movie, (disappointed, sad, discouraged, let down etc etc).

I questioned myself on the different aspects of movie making with respect to this film and here are my questions and answers,

Acting - Even my hypothetical dog could have acted better. Actors do not even look good.

Story - Probably the production house was too short of finances to pay an actual story writer to write one.

Technical Details - There were none that are worth talking about.

Entertainment - No humor, no thrill, no action, no horror, no reality, no virtuality, no comic-ness, no seriousness, very very average music composition, less than average lyrics for songs.

I had this notion in my mind that movie making is a form of art and various artists particiapte in the process to contribute their skills to the whole process. But clearly someone is misunderstading the concept. And i get a feeling its not ME who is on the wrong side of the line. Well so what, millions of crappy movies are made around the world every year. The part that is astonishing, saddening, thought-provoking, a lot and i mean a lot of people like this crap.

And i dont give a F**K that so many people like it, the movie always was, still is and always will remain a piece of crap.

Ciao

I Missed It !!! :(

The Wimbledon final match between Federer and Nadal is being claimed as one of the best sporting events ever and I missed it [:(]. To top the irony i was sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. This is absolute blasphemy for a boy of my age.

The only way to make up for the loss is to see a final match live sitting on the seats of theeee "Center Court".

I hope I do that someday.


Ciao

Head Fake

I just learned this term (Head Fake) from a video.

The video



It is from Randy Pausch. Its a little long but a must watch for everybody, so go ahead and enjoy it whenever you have a hour and half to spare.

Ciao

Is beauty worth all the trouble ?

Hellos

My Motorola A780 was almost 2 years old and i thought it was time to bid farewell and retire the oldie and buy myself something new. My latest acquisition is a NOKIA 8600 Luna mobile phone. The phone is an absolute beauty and is by far the most expensive phone I have ever bought.


As much as I am impressed with its looks, i tend to think was it worth all the money i spent on it? It costs as much as an IPhone and doesnt even has one third of its features. I always wanted a small sleek phone and so Apple's chick was never in the race but the beauty of this phone has come at a very high premium. Maybe thats what is always true about beauty, it always comes at a high premium, so i am still left with a question inside me, Is beauty really worth all the effort?

Ciao

Is beauty worth all the trouble ?

Hellos

My Motorola A780 was almost 2 years old and i thought it was time to bid farewell and retire the oldie and buy myself something new. My latest acquisition is a NOKIA 8600 Luna mobile phone. The phone is an absolute beauty and is by far the most expensive phone I have ever bought.


As much as I am impressed with its looks, i tend to think was it worth all the money i spent on it? It costs as much as an IPhone and doesnt even has one third of its features. I always wanted a small sleek phone and so Apple's chick was never in the race but the beauty of this phone has come at a very high premium. Maybe thats what is always true about beauty, it always comes at a high premium, so i am still left with a question inside me, Is beauty really worth all the effort?

Ciao

MasterCard

Dreamz: Contd Part 1

So let the show begin, Scene 1:Maserati S

Dream No. 1 - To own/lease and drive this car. I would be at peace with my life even if i do this at the age of 65.



To be contd.

"No Sentiments" Policy Applies from Today

A few weeks back someone came to me and said that "Ok dude you have proved yourself enough and so i shall bestow some honor on you". So obviously I agreed to accept the honors, i would not take the liberty of saying "I deserved it and etc etc" crap but i certainly can say i would not have brought any shame whatsoever to the honors.

Well a few weeks passed and that someone went back on their words. The honors have been revoked and now they sit on someone else's back.

Not that I am depressed on loosing the honors (every one has their ups and downs) but i feel going back on your own words is not a good characteristic of any existing being.

Well lessons have been learnt and in future I shall ensure that elements once bestowed on me are definitely mine until i voluntarily give them up. For the age of 24 i have learnt a lot and for once in life I thank my Dad for something, independence and solitude in the real world and the harshness offered around has taught me the meaning of life in many dimensions.

Ciao

Dreamz

Hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dum nikle.
Bahot nikle mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle.

To be contd .... :D

Gym it is!

Well two days after i wrote my previous post, life changed and i got out of the muddle. So here I am living 8 hours a day working-and-utilizing time life. Out of the left 16, 8 are for my dearest sleep and the leftover 8 are being spent meaninglessly and carelessly.

So i decided to pull of some from the last 8 and devote it to better things. As my dad always said to me "kuch body shody banao", so from tomorrow I am going to head to the gym dedicatedly 5 days a week. I have tried this like millions of times before but never succeeded. I agree i lack discipline but that does not stop me from trying again and again hoping that someday i will conquer that feeling of giving into the temptation.

Anyways GYM it is from tomorrow. If all goes well i should be good enough for my R1 in a year from now.

Ciao

We come to this world alone (except for twins,all of us do), we die alone. Yet all our lives we seek togetherness. I do not understand the rule, why do we need companion, friends, family so much when that is not the way

Life just got jucier

Hello

Just a few days back i got to know that i do not have a job after May 3rd and so obviously I am on the hunt for a new one. With the economy not heading towards its best days my hunt needs to be more like a hound.

Honestly speaking i feel its an interesting turn of events. I was not expecting to get into the job-hunt process till at least august, but life would be so boring if it would always work as planned or expected. So here I am in a big muddle of dirt which is getting dirtier each day. The goal is to fight for those keys to the door out and get out of the muddle. As much as i like the world in the comfort zone i also cherish these 'fight for the keys', makes me feel good about myself when i am out. I had gone a little lazy in the past 1-2 months but this will keep me on my toes for at least another 2-3 months :).

Some of my friends and acquaintance suggested why dont i take a break over the summer break and i was like a break for three months !! WTF i am like 24, taking a 3 month break at 24 is worse than not taking a break at 65. I really hate breaks bigger than 4 days because then they leave a hangover, and a sense to take a vacation again very soon. Not that i am against vacations but i just like work better. Yup thats the way I am. Girls, irrespective of the kind of relationship i had with them told me I am WIERD.

Ciao

MS Interview

Recently i was in Seattle to interview with Microsoft for a Summer Internship position.

Birthday Gift

The biggest and most expensive birthday present i ever got.


Q.Who bought it ?
A.Me.

Q.Is this a joke ?
A.No.

Unlike the previous years of my life this year it was a very tough competition between a 2008 Yamaha R1 and a 2008 Honda Civic Coupe and after a month of pondering with my emotions and practicality i let practicality win and bought a Honda Civic coupe. The gal cost me my arm and a leg but in the end it was worth every drop of blood.

People who know me from orkut, I promise someday i ll get that picture with me on the R1. Till then let my RIDE shine.

Adios (attending spanish classes :) )

P.S. Show me more pictures of the car