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