Friday, December 19, 2008

Women's appetite for answers ??

For the starters, i am learning to drive a four-wheeler ( bullock-carts / modified rickshaw / tum tum and others are next on the list ;) ). Now being an inquisitive engg. myself, i always thought i ask a lot of questions. And when in mood, i can ask the most stupidest question ever. However, today this long lasting myth got broken and now the fact is that i at-least know one person who asks more irrelevant questions that i can think of. So here it goes ..

Morning 7:00 am, i reach the driving class destination, shivering. Its more cold than i had anticipated and should have worn that sweater instead of trying to look cool. There was this petite young lass. I guess, she was a product engg. from infosys because at-least her bag had those words imbibed on them. 7:10 , she broke the eternal silence and asked .. isn't it cold ?. I was like .. no ..its damn hot here ..feel like going for a swim .I just smiled and reminded her that this is the cold season. Immediately the next question was, how late is this man today. Though she had asked a right thing, i didn't reply back ( simple smile !!).

Finally 7:15, the instructor came. I get to drive first. Its been 7 days that i am driving now. I haven't learnt a great deal yet, but have improved a hell lot !! . Right from the first day , wherein i removed my hands from the steering wheel on seeing a truck coming from opposite side , i guess am at pretty good situation. Straight line drive is comfortable while side turns / U -turns still need assistance.

Right, so there i was completing my drive and driving cautiously on a small slope enjoying the serene morning and the calm and quite surrounding that pune showers on u these days .But that was the end ( of the thought and the calmness). What started next was a whole round of 20 minutes of firing of questions at point blank range.

Am driving, and up pops the question:

She : Sir slope pe konse gear pe gadi chalate hai ?
Instructor (I) : Stares. Thinks that he needs to give sum answer. And mutters "second".

She: Accha, matlab gadi uppar le jate samay bhi second aur neeche aate samay bhi second ?
I: madam, woh aapke speed ke hisab pe hota hai.


Wow... does she always drive with the rule books ?? , drive at this speed on this lane only !! ..

Next i was asked to take a U-turn. Not being good at it, i was a bit nervous and wanted to get over with it as soon as possible. But the champion lady had other thoughts in her mind.

Up pops the question, "sir mujhe aapne U-turn kyun nahi sikhaya ??"

For a moment i felt telling her .. le bhai .. yeah le steering, maar de U-turn tu hi. But sanity was restored and i completed my round of training quite comfortably.

Next it was her chance, and boy ..she clocked more questions than the wheels did the revolutions.

S: Sir clutch dabau ?
I: Aap ka pehle din thode hai Jo yeah basic questions puch rahe ho...
S: Nahi sir, mujhe darr lagta hai..
I: chalo ..

She accelerates more instead of leaving the clutch, hence the car vibrates instead of going ahead.

S: Sir, car main kuch kharabi hai ?? ( What the hell ??)
I: clutch chodo .. accelerate mat karo
S: ohh ..


The moment she gets car moving:

S: Sir second gear?
I: Ruko.

Just when the instructor signals for gear change:
S: Sir sab gears dalu ek ek karke ?
I: huh
S: Sir, woh dusre sir ne aisse hi sikhaya (The other instructor's job is gone i guess now).


After few moments.

S: Kitne thandi hai na?
S: Sir, 4th gear pe kitna speed hona chahiye ( Thatz a valid question)
S: Sir, gadi control main nahi rehti..

While taking a sharp turn,

I: Slow , clutch, third , release clutch, clutch, second.
S: Sir, directly second gear main dal du ??


By this time , i was actually enjoying the whole thing. There was a bus stop ahead, with few people standing there. While going near to that part of the road,the car moved a bit towards the stop. Instead of getting the vehicle back in line, she mumbled out , logon ko laggega main unhe pick up karne aa rahi huin !! .... killer statement.

I must confess,the lady has set new standards in my books when it comes to blabbering and asking useless questions. Looking forward to drive with her the next time around ;)

Monday, December 15, 2008

God, am i a mess ??

When God gave out brains,
I thought He said trains,
And I said I'd take the next one.

When God gave out looks,
I thought He said books,
And I didn't want any.

When God gave out noses,I
thought He said roses,
And I ordered a big one.

When God gave out legs,
I thought He said kegs,
So I ordered two fat ones.

When God gave out ears,
I thought He said beers,
So I ordered two long ones.

When God gave out chins,
I thought He said gins,
So I said, "Give me a double.

"God, am I a mess!!



Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Marvell-ous Begining

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted

Dan Sanford


40 months of work experience and i couldn't understand the meaning of this statement. However it got crystal cleared within 3 minutes one fine day. I resigned (lay off !! ) from my previous company and have joined a new one. Work wise nothing would change i guess ( it might get better ).What is more difficult i how i adapt to new environment, new people (and hence new friends) and overcome the fact that i can't keep missing my old office.

I was ghastly shocked / sad when i resigned as i had never thought of such situation. What was more bad was the untimely occurrence of the event.After the initial hiccup, where the whole world seemed against me, i now think that whatever has happened did happen for a cause which was to open my eyes.

It is in this period that i came to know who my real friends / well-wishers are. I called up some people considering them to be my friends but i was greeted with the words "will call u later" and hunged up to be never called back again. And then there were people, who called me up on their own and gave me all sorts of moral support (which was the need of the hour), some even from outside india ( Just shows how popular i am ;) ). Also it gave me some time to introspect myself and figure out where i stand today in the given scenario, how well can i cope with it, what are my strengths and where do i lack. Hence the real "eye opener".

Another bad thing that happened in the previous week was the Mumbai terrorist attacks. My deepest condolences for the victims of the attacks.We must thank the NSG commandos / fire-fighters / police and all ppl involved in the grueling attack and should be proud of their bravery. Hats off to them. Somebody please give me Raj Thackeray's phone number coz i want to ask him where is he hiding now? , Where is his marathi manus theory gone and his sena of dacoits who can vandalize at an examination centre on poor and innocent students, but are left hiding under their beds when a real trouble came. Also the NSG commandos who risked their lives never said that this is an issue in a marathi speaking region, hence we won't go there. They treated the attack on motherland and did what a true Indian should do.

But then, the good part is that atleast now some steps would be taken and stringent actions performed to ensure such stupid security lapses do not occur again in future.

Coming back to my new job, i still have to get to the terms and conditions b4 i feel settled in. Till then .. tata :)

Monday, November 10, 2008

Mistaken Identity

Rahul Dholakia had a dream., he wanted to be like Ketan Shah. He used to follow Ketan quite minutely and over a period of time he developed a Ketan Shah walk and talk.

However, it turned out that Ketan Shah instead wanted to be like Rajiv Kapoor. So, Ketan made it a point to atleast physically resemble Rajiv Kapoor. He also tried to wear the kind of clothes similar to the ones worn by Rajiv Kapoor so as to look as cool as Rajiv..

So, Rahul Dholakia ended up walking and talking like Ketan Shah in the attire of Rajiv Kapoor.

And Rajiv Kapoor was himself a very big impersonator of Tejas Chandok. Rajiv's every move was in itself nothing more than an attempted imitation of Tejas Chandok.

So overtly, Ketan Shah's attire was not really Rajiv Kapoor's but Tejas Chandok's.

And coming back to, Rahul Dholakia- He ended up walking and talking like Ketan Shah in the attire of a guy called Tejas Chandok mixed with some alterations done by Rajiv Kapoor.

Tejas Chandok, instead was inspired by quite a few people in a quite a few number of things. He tried to follow Amol Deo's style, Ajay Shetty's Accent, Aneesh Gore's build,Shailesh's Tie tying method, Dev Anand's hand rocking ways, Rajesh chawla's watch, Shalini's smile (?) , Ayub's hairs, Ram Singh's moustach etc. etc.

Now, even God doesn't know who exactly is Rahul Dholakia resembling.


Moral of the story: Most of us look upto someone and try to be like that person or attain the heights / traits which a particular person has achieved. In the process we forget what we can do on our own. So it is best to do what u feel is correct rather than trying to do what someone else has done !!


End of Rahul's gyan :p .... chao

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Chinese in the box

Following are my all time favorite 4 chinese jokes !! ... they are really hilarious :p ... IF any1 is reading this ...then you must check out the last joke ...unbelievingly mind blowing to say the least ...




















1:一艘船失事后,1名女乘客和10名男乘客漂到了一个荒岛上。
一个月后,那个女的自杀了,因为她觉得这一个月发生的事情实在太恶心了。
一个月后,他们决定把她埋了,因为他们觉得这一个月发生的事情实在太恶心了。
一个月后,他们决定把她挖出来,因为他们觉得这一个月发生的事情实在太恶心了。
一个月后,上帝把那个女的复活了,因为他觉得这几个月发生的事情实在太恶心了 。


2:有一个成年男子来到一家旅馆,他看到车库里有很多漂亮的车,于是就问老板,怎么有这么多漂亮的车啊,老板告诉他,我有一个五岁的儿子,他做三件事,如果你能跟着做到,这里的车随你挑一辆开走,如果不能,就把你的车留下,很多人做不到,所以。他想,五岁的小孩能做到的,还能做不到嘛,于是就试一试。老板就带他到一个屋子里,里面有一个漂亮的裸体美女,小孩过去亲了她一下,他跟着做了,然后小孩又过去摸了美女的全身,他也跟着做了,第三件事,小孩掏出小弟弟弯了三下。


3:某男隐居深山,一曰赤裸身体躺于草丛中休息.突然来了个采蘑菇的小姑娘:“1个,2个,3个,4个,5个,5个,5 个,5个...“最终放弃离开.此男甚爽.第二天依然裸睡于此,来了个采蘑菇的小熊:“1个,2 个,3个,4个,5个,5个,5个,5个...6个,7个,8个......“


and ...

4:说白雪公主与皮诺曹生活在大森林里,一曰,白雪公主终于耐不住寂寞,抓住小匹的头夹在两腿之间说道:“说实话、说假话、再说实话、再说假话...”这样说了一千遍,公主才把小皮放开。






wasn't that funny now ? :p


chao !!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Windows - A virus ???

The one thing i do everyday religiously is browse the web and figure out what is new in linux. Needless to say i come across comparison with M$ (windows ..if u didn't figure it out ;) ) at various levels. I do have a few points to say from my side too. I was reading about what virus does and have seen uncanny resemblance in what windows does. Herez a small peek-view

1. Virus are known to perform haphazardly and block all your system resources for its own usage.
Windows works the same way. somehow i always ran out of system memory as the OS was doing something "more important" thing of its own.

2. Virus replicate themselves.
Well once problem starts in windows, a reboot is the only option, or the problem just keeps on growing !!.

3. Virus usually reside inside a piece of code and get activated when the code is executed.
Official Windows come in packaged form,that you buy ,and once you run windows ...

4. As i mentioned, Virus hog the system, making u to buy new software.
Windows does that all the time :-D .Though its not just software up gradation but also hardware in some cases.

5. If anti-virus fails, reformatting the file-system is the best known solution against virus.
In windows, sometimes i feel formatting and reinstalling things is the only option available :p

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:

a. Viruses are well supported by their authors (You can actually see the signatures of the proud owners)

b. They run on most systems (Sometimes viruses are made cross-platform )

c. Their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature. Some serious man power is utilized in creating virus !!


So from the above differences mentioned, i conclude:

Windows is not a virus. It's a bug




ha ha !!!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

12 sep 2001

Seven years before, exactly this day, I stepped out in a new world. It was the first day of my engineering life which would then be followed by my service (job) days. It was the first day of what would be my ever-lasting , fun-filled most precious years of my life that would shape up and bring me to the point where i am today and i must confess that i have enjoyed every tiny-weeny bit of it.

I still remember that day, because just a day before it ,that is on sep11 ,the twin towers were brought down by "osa mama". I had enthusiastically taken up Information Technology as my engineering . branch in a college which was hosting that particular stream for the first time. Despite the never-ending looks and scoldings i got from my near and dear ones for taking up such a step when i was easily getting the more established streams(E&TC / mechanical etc. ) ,i still stuck to my decision. After all ...bhai merri jindagi hai ..kuch bhi karu.

However the US bombings had made it clear that the IT boom would no more be a story ..and all the people had started saying "You taken IT ?? " with the pity full eyes. Amongst this high tension volatile surrounding i had gone to a place which somehow was filled up with loads of people and yet i found myself all alone. Though this was not going to be a for a long time because i met up the 40 odd people of my batch. And boy , how much i should thank God for giving me the best college mates i could have ever asked for. The actual learning process did start with a bang ( and is still continuing ). The assignments, the college canteen, standing in the corridor and doing "bird watching" , mimicking college professors , completing (copying) assignments at the last moment, studying together to scrap through the exams , and the celebration on even the smallest achievement. Such memories are hard to forget :)


4 yrs of college was followed by almost 3 yrs of service in the software sector.Right from being this college pass out who took his job as just other practical assignment, to now where i guess i am more serious about what i am doing , is also worth applauding. (Altough my dream life is that of a pensioner's ... sit at home and u get monthly wages :p ). I had never expected myself to do so well. The fact that my company has yet not kicked me out does somewhere tell that i am not doing that bad either. Well done Rahul !! .... (This is called blowing your own trumpets ..hi hi)


Seven years onto this day, i think i am fairly placed to take up responsibilities (family / social) .. have made really good friends .. made horrible mistakes in those 7 yrs and have learnt tons of things from those mistakes.If someone would ask me that if i had a chance what would i change in those 7 yrs ?.. then i would say that I am proud of what i am today and every aspect of those years have helped me to become to what i am and hence nothing needs to be changed. Its just PERFECT !!! ... ( Shouldn't i get some award for such a good answer ?? :p)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Olympic fever

Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps are once again making news in the 2008 Olympic edition. I came across this link which gives a slight overview of their diets.


Hmmm .... I think i can reach the mark set by Michael. I am already eating as much as he does (may be more biggrin) . A bit of more food here and there and Michael Phelps will soon have a competition razz.


Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Three Mistakes of my life ....

SPOILERS ALERT !!! .... Only read it if you have already read the book or are not planning on reading it



Hmmm... so where do I start ??. This piece of Chetan Bhagat is one of those predictable kind of books where in you just guess what would happen next and most of the times it works out that way (apart from some surprises here and there, but off course.) But hey, this is in fact the best compliment an author of a book can ever get cause the reader is able to connect to the characters in the book and can foresee what is going to happen :-p.

Story revolves around G Patel (Govind) and his two friends Ish and Omi. These three are chaddi friends. All three have certain qualities (good / bad ) that the other two are aware of and yet they stick with each other through thick and thin (almost i would say) without complaining.. After all Isn't that what friendship is all about ?? . Add in some more characters like Ish's sister, their parents, a Muslim boy and few people who form the "anti-social" genre and u have the complete chat-pata story in your hand !! ...

Since its fictional, be ready to accept the fact that the mistakes are not planned ones and coincidentally happen by chance. Also i have not come yet to digest that those three were actually mistakes.razz


Mistake 1:
Govind books a store in a big posh building where he invests all that he had saved and also borrows a lot of money thinking he could repay. However an earthquake causes the yet unfinished building to collapse and also the dream of Govind to make it big. Sheer bad luck i would say. cry

Mistake 2:
Next, Govind falls in love cool with his best friend's sister thereby breaking the code. Personally i don't see this as a mistake and is one of the points where i don't agree with the author.

Mistake 3:
This is really a mistake that if i would have committed, even i would have felt bad about it for a long time. Govind's inability to save Ali (Muslim kid) from being injured which could have been averted had Govind shown better presence of mind.

However if i were to judge the three mistakes, i would say that not able to save Ali from injuries is not that big mistake. I would say that the third mistake would be that of Govind calling Omi to the fateful place on the night of the riots which lead to eventually death of Omi. Circumstances created by a person which unknowingly initiate a chain of actions and causes loss of a dear friend is a far bigger mistake than injuring a kid's hand. But then ..thatz my opinion ..so tomorrow if i write a book, u now know what to expect wink .

On the whole, a very good book and a satisfying one !! ... The climax is full on bollywood style ... and the end is i guess purposely left a bit hanging ... just in case author decides to make a sequel to this book. How smart na ??? ... both author and me too cause i have figured it out . . ha ha ..

Monday, June 09, 2008

File converter

Before you start frowning and saying what gr8 stuff is this, my explanation: arre bhai free of cost hai aur kafi accha hai cool [ I wish i get paid for such publicity razz ]

So herez this one file convertor that works for linux and converts any file format to any....any matlab ..any . yakeen nahi hota ..toh yeah dekho

File Converter is free of cost web based utility. Quite good and i have really felt its importance when my boss suddenly asked me to give a document in a "abc" format when i had taken so much pains (yes ..for a change) and did the document in "xyz" format.

Do have a look :).

Friday, June 06, 2008

Googlization of google

Every Software Engineer believes in GOD ... yeah got it right ..Google Oriented Development biggrin.

We all know the success story of google, two college students starting it as a project which today rules the internet. However not many would know how google's web page used to appear previously .

The first thing to catch anyone's eye is the fact that google boosted of indexing ~25 million pages. Last heard, this number had risen to some billion pages razz.

Another insight, when google was still a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub. It was called so because google implied a technology that checked backlinks to determine a site's importance and hence the name wink .

The site also has a special note saying ""Google is research in progress and there are only a few of us so expect some downtimes and malfunctions." Imagine today google going down !!

Lastly, i really think google's webpage still resembles its first layout. If you remove the text part from its predecessor, it will almost come down to what google's webpage looks today (If you excuse the logos i.e. ). Simplicity .. isn't it ?

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

scratchbox in hardy

One sunny morning, i decided to upgrade to hardy on my desktop.I upgraded , and it started to rain (literally ..its raining now in pune :) ).

Starting scratchbox gives the following error in hardy:


Welcome to Scratchbox, the cross-compilation toolkit!


Use 'sb-menu' to change your compilation target.

See /scratchbox/doc/ for documentation.


Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void
*) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void
*) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void
*) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!




The work around for this that worked for me is as follows :

Execute the following commands:

# sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled'
# sudo sh -c 'echo 4096 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr'


The explanation i gathered is that the first echo enables video support. The virtual memory "mmapped" page size is set to 64K.Therfore compiling inside scratchbox won't work. Hence the second echo.



If any1 has more insight about the same (other method / reason ) , feel free to enlighten me about the same :).

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Last Few days......

OK ..first a explanation for the pervert frnds (yes you there), the title is intended to mean what happened in last few days ..and not my last few days. hah u wish !! ..

Apparently the best way to describe the last few days would be "unimaginable ". Yeah ..really. The last few days have been full of activities which otherwise i would have taken around a month to do it (considering how lazy i am .. may be over that :) ).

For the updates, last week top officials of my company went to showcase our product at 3GSM in Barcelona. (Inside news ...we are getting lots of good responses ;) ..yipeee )

On the weekend, family members ( mom particularly) decided that i have to go with them to nashik to attend an event. The important part to mention was that i was "told" about the decision and was not part of "making" decision . Not that i was busy a great deal ...but still ... kuch toh bhav hai apna :-p.

Tickets were booked, and the journey started. The only thing i thought of in the whole 4 hours bus travel was that our state government must do something about the state of the roads. I couldn't help but remember the famous words:

"Everyone travels on the left side of the road, in india we travel on what is left on the road"

However i later on realized that throughout the journey ,there was actually road repairs going on and our bus was forced to go from the leftover side roads. So much for the tax i pay ,huh !



11:30 pm we made up to our destination and soon i was dozing away in the comfy- cozy hotel room we had booked. Next day morning 8 pm sharp India-Australia match :-D. I know .... parents were just short of hitting me as i switched off the TV on time :).

I visited this place called Muktidham . It was real nice ..huge in fact. And then started the function. It was good, apart from the fact that most of the people were interested in finding soul mates for their son/ daughter , but it was still good. What mattered at the end was that it had good food and i had lots of eye exercise which was a welcome change:). In fact i had promised some one that i would take a girl's picture without letting her know and guess what i just won the bet :).

The return journey was more harrowing compared to one i had while going.It was nothing as i was promised.Nothing comfortable, stale AC , old movie . I was literally counting minutes before the torture ended. Infact, i couldn't forget the conditions for the whole next day as i could still feel the pain in my back :( .

Just when i thought that i had enough, an amazing thing happened which has never happened before in like almost 12 yrs. I woke up and early morning i had an unexpected guest having aaram in a nice place. Now am proud to say that our place is completely void of such frnds, but have no clue from where did he make it upto my bedroom's window. What followed next was a bit mayhem with mom sis going into the aggressive mood while i could tried my level best to get a momento of this uninvited guest. I guess he ( i guess it was he and not she , gut feeling u see) got real bored of watching all the motion happening with him being the center stage and decided to call it a day. He quite acrobatically returned from where, i assume, he had entered. I don't want to exaggerate this incident but am definitely going to remember this for a long time because thatz something unusual in my books.


In the end, hectic week with lots of events.Won't say didn't like them, but then had they occured every now and then i wouldn't have noticed it either this time around ;)

END !!


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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Only in Pune

If you know some one staying in Pune (India) let them know this. If you
are in Pune, do go through this story COZ, its a real one. Read this
true story…and let everybody you know in and around Pune especially
University Road……….


My friend lives in Deccan… One day he went to University Road to visit his uncle for some days as his parents had to attend a wedding in Alibagh. One evening he and some other of my college friends went to Adlabs for a
movie. He had so much fun that he forgot that it’s very late.

He caught the last PMT to University Road….. he reached University road around midnight. He had to walk about a mile from the bus stop to home. It was pretty late and not a single soul was visible for miles.As he was walking alone, he could sense that the night felt very creepy as it was so dark. While walking, he was astonished to see an old weird-looking guy selling some books. It was a very unusual thing to see a thing like that (man selling books so late ).

The situation got worse when he noticed that this old guy was unusually pale and staring at him… The old guy said “Son why don’t you buy a book…it would keep you company”.

Then my friend did something which he would regret for the rest of his life. My friend started to act brave & thought why not & had a look at his collections. My friend’s hair started to stand on end as he noticed that all the books were related to supernatural activities…but he found one that was very interesting.

So he asked the old man “how much is it, uncle?” The old guy replied, “Well son…this is an interesting book…it’s only for Rs 250.

My friend was shocked and said “but…but… it’s expensive”.

This time the old man stared which freaked my friend. My friend did not want to cross this scary old man, so he quickly checked all his pockets & found Rs.200 & said “This is all I have.” The old guy replied “It’s OK son… you can have the book for that price”.

As my friend was just about to run for home…the old man called back and said “Son … whatever happens, don’t ever flip the book to it’s last page… remember these words or you will regret…!!!!!”

My friend nodded and never looked back. Reaching home, he quickly asked his Uncle whether there was any new old book seller nearby?. The Uncle replied ” I haven’t seen him but ….we’ve heard that therez one old man who comes once in a while during full moon nights but heard that there is something creepy about it…why son?”

My friend freaked out. He told his uncle “nothing uncle… just asking”. He started reading the book with the old man’s parting words on his mind…At night, 2 o’clock, as he went to bed, a gush of wind blew which chilled him up to his bones. At that point, he noticed the wind had blown the pages to its last page. He remembered what the old man had said !!!

But we humans tend to have the tendency to know. Out of curiosity, he flipped to the last page & fainted… What he saw at the last page is stated below:

Don’t look further down if you have a weak heart

I warn you

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Disclaimer: This is a very old story i had read when i was in school, but i actually remembered it when i was just strolling FC road sub-lanes the other night and it kinda felt good at remembering such a old thing that i had read once :). three cheers for my memory :p

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Matrimony Personified

Over a period of time ,i have come across a number of mails which showcase (rather esoterically ) the profound emotion (desperation) of people to put across their "down-to-earth" and "i-don't-expect-much" attitude while applying for a profile description for matrimony.However their supreme command over the language not just conveys the "correct" message but also tickles even the hardest punter !!. I really felt like picking up few , which stand out ;)

Right then ... here we go ... keep your brain out to have more fun


Hello To Viewers My Name is Shekhar , I am single idon't have female, If anyone want to Marie to me u canvisit to my home. I am not a good education but iworking all field in bangalroe.. if u like me uwelcome to my heart...when ever u want to meet plsvisit my resident or send u letter.. Thanks yoursRegards Shekhar

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i want very simple girl. from brahmin educated familyfrom orissa state she is also know about RAMAYAN,GEETA BHAGABATA, and other homework

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she should be good looking and should have a service.she Should have one brother and one sister. she shouldbe educated.

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I am a happy-go-lucky kind of person. Enjoys everymoments of life. I love to make friendship. Becausefriendship is a first step of love. I am looking formy dreamgirl who will love me more than i. Because ilove myself a lot. If u think that is u then why tolate come on ........hold my hand forever

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My wife should be as 'Shivani' as in Kahani Ghar GharKi and as Tanwerr as in KSBKBT......

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i want a girl with no drinks if she wants she can wearjeans in house but while stepping out of house sheshould give respect to our cast

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whatever she may be but she should feel that she isgoing to be someone bride and she must think of thefuture life if she is too like this she would becalled the woman of the lamp

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i love my patner i marriage the patner ok i search mypatner and i love thepatner ok thik hai the patner hasa graduate ok

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iam kanan. i do owo businas.one sistar.he was marred.

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ssc failed three times and worked with privated ltdcompany which not paying salary at present

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iam very simpel and hanest. i have three sister onebrother and parent. i am doing postal sarvice andtailor master my original resdence at kalahandi distenaw iam staing at rayagada dist.




priceless statements !!

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Geek Code

The other day i came across this cool geeky thing and decided to give it a try.

My geek code is as follows :

GE/IT d- s:+ a-- C++++ UL+++ P+ L++ E+ W++ N+++ o+ K++ w--- O M V PS+ PE+ Y++ PGP+ t+ 5++ X++ R+ tv++ b+++ DI+ D++ G++ e++ h r--()>+ y



ok ok ... to understand what that means u need a geek decoder ( now how smart is this :) )

You can find a geek code decoder right here.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

speed up menu popup in ubuntu

I came across this cool hack which helps to fastens the menu popup in ubuntu. Add it really works :)

Create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory and copy:

gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0
in the file. Now relogin and experience the difference :-D