The final test is here. My priliminaries have started and submissions are going to come soon. Lets see how the results go. As promised, ill stop saying that i suck (despite my academic lamerism) if i can come in the top 10 in the uni (zomg!). Well basically i know that me losing the bet is a fairly small chance so its all good. Still, ive given my friend my word and ill stand by it.

In other news, India sucks for not having the processor, motherboard or graphic card i want. So i am going to get them ordered from abroad by my bro who is coming before the end of this month sources say. So anna, if youre reading this, you’ll be glad to know that there is a good chance that we can spend our vacations consoling 24×7 Just saw RDB and if youre an Indian who hasnt seen it (i hadnt 8-)) then you should. Get the torrent or do whatever you want. If you dont see it, you dont deserve to be in this country. Ive never seen such a good hindi movie that depicts the truth so well. Plus the songs rock (yeah i do listen to hindi songs once in a while Jes ¬¬)
Also, id like to end this with a big thank you to Knuckles who gave me access to a bnc (ive been searching for ages as he knows). Lots of love goes out to him. I am planing a trip up north in my study vacation (i am online 24×7 during that time anyway) so some awesome pics might come your way if that plan materialises. As usual, prospects look bright for the next month or so. Great times ahead.

PS: Damn Schumachers blown engine. He’s lost the title cause the probability that he can win now is really slim. If he does, im getting a Schumacher poster and hanging it in my room! He is a racing god either way

AXIS dominated at the Praxis winning 8 certi’s and a prize (which only the team members know about atm. Its a secret :P). Here are the final few words from my review of the event on the AXIS site.

Overall we bagged 8 certi’s and a secret prize (to be revealed soon ). Dont know about you sam but i started brainstorming the moment we were standing on the 5th floor and talking just before you got your certi’s. Next year, we want an AXIS 1-2 (and a 1-2-3 if we can get 3 teams/projects/packages up )

All hail, the AXIS is here. With its first major title under its weight, we annouce our arrival. If youre against us, you better be ready cause we’re coming all guns blazing

Just as a footnote for personal reminders, i rappelled down the VESIT building yesterday. Nice view standing on the side of a 5 storey building, i must say

Ok here’s another pointless landmark that ive reached. I finished the ‘Harry Potter: Half Blook Prince’ book in 13 hours and 26 mins of straight reading. Nice to have finally read it. It was a nice book. But the reason this blog note is here so i can have a reminder that i have actually read a book for 13.5 hours straight (ignoring the 2-3 odd phone calls, one trip to the store to buy something and a dozen trips to the kitchen to snick something to eat every now and again)

Now if i could only do the same with the php, mysql, networking, one novel and the 2 text books for next sem that i have, i know quite a few people who would be envious of the feat If you read the damn book in lesser time then shhh. I hardly ever read books (Ive read only one novel other than the HP series :tongue:). Dont make me use the Levicorpus on you

Well i didnt sleep last night cause i had to goto the airport to pick up my bro. As it turned out, a guy who lives near us works there so i got special permission to go inside the airport to pick up my bro Never been in there so it felt good … nice merc kept near baggage claim

Anyways back here at home the gifts came flying out when his bags opened. Here is a small list …

1. 17 Inch Samsung TFT-LCD Monitor
2. Samsung Super drive
3. Sony Mp3 Player (NW-A608)
4. Logitech Cam (which i didnt request … random shopping pickup/dad’s request to talk to my bro ;))
5. A Manchester United mini football
6. A lot more random personal gifts which i wont like to state

The monitor rocks. Im at 1280×1024 atm Ill get some pics on when i install the softwares to my bro’s i-mate I could use my webcam but it takes pics of very small resolutions … cant find the option … too busy atm

Plus i havent tested the dvd writer yet … cba to open up my pc and also i have only 2 dvd-r’s

Oh yeah, btw … my exams are still on. I havent started studying for my wednesday exam yet (Last exam was on friday) Academic Lamerism indeed eh ?

Well long back i ordered some ubuntu discs and i just thought i should try them. So i put in the live cd and found that it isnt that bad. It didnt look as good and didnt have all the codecs for the music files but thats like a few hours job once i get the internet connection. My main problem was that i couldnt go online since i didnt have any drivers for my pppoe.

It is available on our isp’s site. So if i ever think of having ubuntu or any other windows ill download it

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Apparently since midnight my cell phone has been continuosly ringing either for messages or calls each one of them saying the same thing, “Happy birthday”. I still need to figure out what it means so i called up a few “linguistic scholars” but none of them could solve the puzzle of the Birthday. After some looking into it, i came to the conclusion that i should google it but since that led me no where i followed the link to the definition of the word “birthday” present on that page.

Answers.com seemed to have led me to the wiki definition which stated ….

A birthday is the date on which a person was born. It is customary in many cultures to celebrate the anniversary of one’s birthday in some way, for example by having a birthday party with friends in which gifts are given. It is also customary to treat someone especially well and generally accede to their wishes on their birthday.

Since i didnt get any gifts or parties i sent messages to everyone who wished / called me stating exactly what wiki did. Finally my brother called me and wished me. Just as i was about the say the same thing he offered me a gift. It was only then i realised, omg its my birthday today.

On a more serious note, i turned 19 today. The birthday gift is something i am “supposed” to recieve when my bro comes back home. Dont worry, if i do get the thing that he told me, i would definately make a post about it :p

Btw i did message back all my friends as a prank. I had already looked up the definitions and had the templates ready for the past 3 months

Just incase some of you thought that i was still under the bridge about me being robbed then i must say you are deeply mistaken. I am ok but as usual really busy with all my work

I have been busy with quite a few tests (scoring really well in all of them) and submissions and its going to be more hectic soon. Next month i shall (hopefully) have a priliminary examination and then some submissions. After that my PL will begin. My sem 2 exams are from around 22nd may.

Just to reiterate the point that im expanding my music gallery and listening to more artists as fast as my connection can download the songs (:P), here is my music page to check up on to the music im listening to. Thanks again to the great service that last.fm provides.

Lately i have downloaded quite a few albums from OiNK. My picks have been Eminem - Encore (Edited), Eminem - Curtain Call, U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb and Flipsyde - We the people.

If you have some good recommendations then please, go ahead If you are a last.fm user then you could send me a recommendation. My username is janderton

So the fight begins. Me and another few thousand students against the almost insurrmountable task of cracking the sem 2 papers of Mumbai University. Lets see who wins round 2 We still dont know who won round 1 cause the results aint out

Anyways i can already see similarities in the begining of this sem as last sem. Just like last time i’ve had a head start in studies. Just like last time ive read a few pages of my computer programming book and im going into this sem’s subject with nothing more than a good intuition, liking towards the subject, a good background and a bit of knowledge. Similar to the previous sem eh ?

Anyways lets see what happens. I am still hoping that my maths 1 paper clears out well …. my result depends on that one paper but i think its ok. I hope to get really good marks …. but wait who doesnt

Lots to say but no time …. its getting late and i have to get up early tomorow Lets see what happens.

Id just like to leave you with these words.

May the force be with you.

If you had one shot,

One opportunity,

To seize everything you ever wanted,

Would you capture it ??

Or just let it slip ?

3 Days back i was invited to Live Mail Beta testing Today (well overnight) i got 15 invites to windows live messenger (WLM)
Live Mail Beta is pretty good. Its still underdevelopment and simple. It has a cool new feature called reading pane which is really cool imo The 2 gb space helps too. The only problem is that it doesnt completely support firefox and IE 7 that i use needs to be refreshed a few times for it to work

Actually i should never had gotten those 15 WLM invites cause im a WLM User which means i was invited by a tester who was invited by microsoft. I think microsoft is opening up the servers to more users gradually so they can test the load on the servers and they want to slowly increase the number of users using protocol 13.

But everyone got random number of invites. dt, who invited me, got 5 invites like chris (surfi) got as many as 19 Odd huh ?!?

Its finally here. The big 06. I didnt have much of a celebration. I just went out with a few friends, came home and spent the remainder of the night with my family watching I,Robot and driniking 2 lts of softdrinks with some icecreams and other stuff

I wouldnt like to say much other than a lot of expected of this year. My upcomming 1st sem results and much much more. Once my third sem starts i hope i can go for my GRE classes so i can get into a univ in the US for my masters degree (which would still be 3 years away from that instant). As far as i can see these are the 2 biggest things this year apart from my usual “getting good grades” thing There are a few other things id like to do which no one knows about so lets just keep it that way. They shall be revealed in due course of time My biggest short term wish would be to be able to change my univ at the end of this sem. I hope all the stars align to pass the necessary paperwork and pull the necessary strings to get an inter univ transfer cause good grades aint all they look for, they need to be told by higher contacts

Here’s wishing all of you a happy new year