Chirkut

I got dragged into this thing called orkut by a friend of mine, a very good friend of mine...its like an obsolete version of facebook, for those who live in the latest technology.

and for those like me who got dragged into this ... its a website where a person creates his ID and gets in touch with his pals through their IDs, kinda like IMs on website .. and u can jump from your home to others and send scraps and stuff..

Its really nice .. you like it till u get in touch with all the people in the world... You see even the theory of "Six degrees of separation" really works in this orkut thing.... i got lots of friend's friends who are friends of some other friends of some other friend of mine ... so in all we look at each other on this site and yay to each other ....

I even realised I could be a friends friends friends friend who might be the relative of mahatma gandhis sons wife's sister's brother in law... and i yay again...

At greenville in the evenings we would use orkut to while away time and anyone found on orkut would be termed chirkut .. as in the movies .. the bollywood ones... where the smartass roadie hero would come and "wassup" the sidekick by saying "aye chirkut kya dekhrela hai"

Today I took orkut really seriously and turned my ID into Veejay Dinanath Chauhan! Haayin!

Yay ! Chirkut !

Elevator Raves

My school recently had a bunch of students so bored that they plugged in their laptops and a storbe light in the elevators during non office hours and kept on dancing all the night, as the elevator rode up and down bringing helping grad students reach their labs and offices to and fro.
They called it Elevator Raves or summat like that.

They had an argument to it too....

It saves energy as they arent at their individual rooms consuming their own power
It brightens the moods of stressed out grad students
Its a cool place where the cops wont show up to keep it low.

If only I had time like that.... I would have definitely gone to the gym daily....

damn it guys

Ive had a couple of innocent pals who wudnt know what they r doing and just install stuff on the pc ......

my bro even thought the 100 different smilies were cool and he insisted i shud get em ...
not that i blame the smilies for it .. but soon enough my bros pc crashed ..

I hate a pc crash .. like any other person does ...

and I hate to wait for ages till the window is switched over ...
guys .. we dont need to crash all pcs .....weve got one down and now everyones workin on the other one in the office .. which now plays songs in packets of 5 seconds at a frequency of 1.5 packets per minute.

For all Friends Fan

Their Apartments were here

Real Vibrant colors here...
� shailen

I have a Wallpaper in my Window

I know I know everyone has .... but everyone has a wallpaper in windows Here Im talking bout my window.

The bright orangish yellowish 5 pointed leaves that look into my face while I type this really make it worth staying up here in houghton,MI. Some may say whats so special bout the fall in Houghton? or Houghton? well for one.. I experienced my First Fall in Houghton.

My complete 5ft by 7ft glass window is covered by a tree thats brighter than govindas brightest shirt. And it even lets me look beyond to the other trees that are a mix of green yellow orange and red.

I remember a girl had once enquired about my university as she wanted to enroll here. She never even applied to this univ after my reply started like this: " If you ever want to create your own wallpapers for your desktop, pack your camera and apply to this university..."

This is Houghton. This is where it all begin at for me.......

The only thing....

No Armani suits
No Gucci boots

The only thing I want
The only thing I need
The only thing I choose
The only thing that looks good on me .....

is you.

the week that was

IIPM contrevarsy .. galore.... they ought to be taught a lesson there.
an 8 hour meeting with the advisor...
less fights more love over the calls
a wakening to the hip hop liking of music
the end of ipod u2.
beautiful mornings as i sipped my rich in taste french vanilla coffee in the mug and the morning chill making the vapours around the mug as i stand on the balcony
kinda rough mornings when i had to get up at 6 to reach the gym a new begining
a strong desire to purchase 295 $ per 2 tickets to the U2 concert
a potluck to celebrate dassera ...
a weekend spent playing age of empires on the lan with my roomie.
a weekend which didnt give me any break so far

Cat chase mouse

I did it again ...
proved I can goof up simple things like signing up on time .....

had an offer of signing up for a campus interview with a great company ....
what do i have to do for the job? graduate out in time.

what do I have to do to graduate out in time? work on my project.

So on a darned friday evening basically the whole night... i slog out with my advisor till right now .. ( 3:32 am) forgetting all about the sign up that was scheduled to start at 12 am not that i had forgotten but I cudnt ask my advisor hey hold on while I do this ..

And here I am just about to think what a nice day this was when i see all the interview slots full........

Fate you play the sickest jokes on me....

thanks.

*Updated: Have got an interview lined up and I wasnt the only one who missed out... They had offered an interview to more number of students than the slots available .. that was the issue.
No fate business here.
Thanks .

St Pauls Cathedral

© SM n SC

Now its really a collectors Item and im sore

This is freaking Cool as well .. but nothing like the U2
Before I can save enough for it......
they stopped selling Ipod U2....

Taklya !!!

You have room mates and you have room mates!!!
One such person whos tolerated the agony of being my room mate for more than half a year is taklya (Marathi for bald headed guy)....

A swimmer, blogger, dummy guitarist, wtf***er, puneite, perenially sleepy, lazier than his ass, weirdo.

thats how id put him.

now i know you might be thinking wats with the wtf****er... well

Taklyas first day in houghton. just landed after a 28 hour flight from india. reaches home and demands food. seems nwa gave him their best service too. so he was hungry ...
we all get to cooking something... naa naa dont get wrong ideas about us being nice hearted people. it was around dinner time and we need some grub too..
so while we prepare taklya dozes off on the couch.

foods ready .. taklyas still dozing .. so someone thoughtfully decides to wake him up ...

guy:"hey wake up your foods ready"
sleepy dopey taklya startled all of a sudden: WTF.

I know its not humorous when you read it .. its more like sienfeld where you gotto see it to get it... "not that theres anything wrong with it" types.......

oh yeah you may wonder why taklya ... yeah .. the lazy ass gets bored of cutting hair every other time and just gets a bald cut .. since then .. taklya...

oh yeah .. y you wonder this post on taklya ...

the guys decided his future and is going back to his hometown to work with his dad. and to get married.

all the best dude... have a great life.... dont forget me i might need a job sometime ;) .. afterall we cant be so goddamn lucky to remain students for our whole lives.....

PS taklya ... dont get offended but now that you wont be meeting me for some time .. you wont get a chance to kick my ass :P hehehehe .. enjoy dude.

May they get the strength to fight these tears.

I didnt want to post anything regarding this, but couldnt resist feeling for these two and many of their like who are suffering from something that cant be controlled. Hopefully at least the governments would not intensify their sufferings any more and learn to live in peace.

Linux

My Mathlabs have linux machines installed in it. I dont know if they tweaked it a lot to get what it is right now. it just looks like a marriage between a SunOS and a MacOS. But I am really enjoying this. Feels a whole lot better than the usual xp.

Also am just in love with firefox. the tools Themes, tools Extensions are way too cool.

hehe got the itunes theme for my firefox right now and also got meself the pdf extension.

although im not quite sure if i had to install linux on my pc if i could use all the peripherals on my pc like the BT, or wireless out of box options or even the quickplay for that matter.

and of course the religious every morning visit to the ipods site just wants to make me buy one ..... have to look at the pros and cons...
next post pros cons of the ipod.

now some mallu !!!

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