Check this warning I found in the book Programming Pearls. Really nice one too.

The title says it all. In fact, it is so apt for this post.

I post a letter to my friend. It is lost. So simple. The letter is gone now. Simply gone. :( :( :(

There are few times when you do everything perfect and at the end fate just smiles at you and makes you forget the meaning of the word perfect. Hmmmm, this is one of those :(. I simply hate Indian Postal Service for screwing things up and myself for posting that letter.

Anyway, now I can’t do anything else. Just have to forget this.

Murphy is god. :)

Looks like my blogs are only about animals now :P

I’m “working” as a software engineer. I joined two months back, which implies I don’t work at all and just enjoy killing time at office. I meet many new people everyday (in and outside office) and the way they talk is quite funny. One day I happen to hear a girl say to a guy,

“You are as strategic as a pig.”

The first thing I thought when I heard this was “Why pig?”. What makes a pig strategic? I’ve heard ‘as cunning as a fox’ but yeah, there is that crow and the vadaa story to prove that the fox is cunning. Is there any story to prove that a pig can be strategic? I was suprised to imagine a pig thinking of something and coming up with some sort of strategy. I can imagine a pig to be too lazy even to think, forget about coming up with a strategy. I tried googling for this clause but no useful results. Still I have no clue what makes a pig strategic.

Is that statement sarcastic? That looks more probable, though since I was there when she told this, I don’t think she was sarcastic. She actually meant it. Though I don’t know whether it is right to call an employee a pig. That is totally different argument.

Though one thing is for sure. I can never forget this clause. Have thought about this for more than 2 days with no final conclusion. :P

If anyone has been using this clause for any damn reason, do educate me more on this.

This story is created by a few vetti engineering students (who are supposed to a project) and a vetti software engineer(who is supposed to work). :-) The main story is contributed by only one, but many own the copyright for this story now. OK, lets stop the intro here and begin the story.

Long ago, long long ago, there was a kaaka. It was a black one living on a black tree. So no one was able to see that kaaka. The kaakaa used to always sing as

“ka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakakka kakaka”.

One fine day, it met a kaaki[ female kaaka in our story :) ]. So started the kaaka love story. But the villain kaaka knows about this and comes with a pistol. There were bullet sounds everywhere. “DISH DISH DISH”. This time also kaaka sings “kaaakakak”. But there was a sad tome in that voice which only the other kaaka can realize. “kakakaka”.

One kaaka dies. Guess who???

Suspense. :P :P :P

The villian kaaka die of heart attack after hearing the bullet sound. But everyone feels sorry got the villan now, coz it didn’t even eat a vaada before dying. It’s last wish was unfulfilled. So that villian kaaka becomes a ghost (rememver this is not om shanthi om remake, coz villain won’t meet kaaki this time). It’s fed up of this mere kaaka world. It likes a rat this time :). The rat too likes kaaka. Kaaka likes rat :) [love at first site!].

Now comes the song :-)
kkaaaka vin paarvai ratin paakam
kkaaaka vin paarvai ratin paakam
ratin pakkam, ratin pakkam…

Now only people realise one great thing about the villain kaaka. It was MGR’s pet! MGR kaaka. So new evolutiong called kaakarat came into being.

THE END.

Hobbits - cheerful, short - BILBO, FRODO, SAM, PIPPIN, MERRY, SMEAGOL (GOLLUM)
Men - serious - ARAGORN, FARAMIR, BOROMIR, EOMER,
Elves - wise, immortal, silent, magic (three rings) - LEGOLAS
Dwarfs - short, sturdy, good with metals, stones - GIMLI
Wizards - wise, serious, magic - SAURON, SARUMAN, GANDALF, ELROND
Orcs - ugly, fierce, wicked
Ents - Tree shephards

SAURON’S COUNTRY - MORDOR
NINE NAZGULS
ELENDIL (ISILDUR’S SIRE) - ………………. - RANGERS - GONDOR
SHIRE - HOBBIT’S VILLAGE

FRODO, SAM, PIPPIN, MERRY, ARAGORN, BOROMIR, LEGOLAS, GIMLI, GANDALF

When asked to read for any exam, I end up doing everything other than reading. It can be cleaning my room, washing clothes, bathing, chatting, coding, reading novels and so on. This time, when I had to give my SCJP test, I ended up watching How I Met Your Mom. ;)

Btw liked the scene I’ve pasted below. Maybe, doing other things when you have to read is not a mistake after all. :-)

Scene 1:

Lily: Yes, it’s a mistake. I know it’s a mistake. But there are certain things in life, where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say, yup that was a mistake. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake. Because then you go your whole life not really know if something is a mistake or not. And damn it, I’ve made no mistakes. I’ve done all of this, my life, my relationship, my career mistake free. Does any of this makes sense to you?
Ted: I don’t know. You’ve said mistake a lot.

Scene 2:

Marshal: It’s a mistake
Ted : Maybe, but it’s a mistake I have to make.
Marshal: Wrong, it’s a mistake you don’t have to make….
Ted: Here is the thing about mistakes. Sometimes, even when you know something is a mistake, you’ve got to make it anyway. Even really really dumb mistakes.

Do you play Topcoder? If yes, then there might be something for you in this post. If you don’t know what topcoder is, check http://topcoder.com/tc and then come back here.

If you play topcoder, then keeping track of when the next match is a big headache. There are many many people who login to the arena one day before the contest and ask why there is not many playing today. Come on, it is not funny to get up at 5.30 in the morning to know that the match is not today and it is tomorrow. The rest think the match is one day later, who curse themselves, bang their head for missing a match. If you want to forget forgetting :P about topcoder matches, follow the simple steps given below.

All you need is a Google Account.

• Login to google calendars at http://calendar.google.com/
• Search for “Topcoder” in public calendars. ( By clicking “Search Public Calendars” button). I got some 50 results when I wrote this. This may increase or decrease later. Choose anything from the list (anything from the first 5 will be good enough).
• Click on the “Add to Calendar” button.
• Go back to your calendar page. You can see the Topcoder calendar in the “Other calendars”.
• You need to activate mobile setup by activating your phone number. This takes less than a minute. Give your country and phone number. Google will send you a verification code in 1 or 2 minutes. Type that validation code there and voila, you are done with the mobile setup. :-)
• Now click on the “Calendars” tab in the settings page.
• Click the “Notification” of your new Topcoder calendar.
• Click the “Add a reminder” to add new remainders.
• You can have upto 5 remainders for this calendar.

See my notifications page here.

Have been searching this picture for a long long time. Wasted so much time to search in all servers in my college. Finally found this in my picasa account. Anyway, better late than never. :-)

Manas, the Cook :D

My last post from LRSL (Last Row of Sun Lab, Octagon) I guess.

Exactly one year back Manas told me, “You won’t miss the place, but you’ll miss the people.”
Hmmm now I realize what exactly it means.

Hmmm, list of people whom I’ll miss next year

Ankit
Anshu
Arun
Balli
Donatello
Doniv
Evo
Gcdart
Hajela
Ht
Iyer
KKS
Lavanya
Leela
Maruti
Mrrajesh
Nutty
Preeti
Sachi
Sachin
Sahil
Satya
Saurabh
Suren
Swami
Taggy
Verma
Walrus
Yazhini

If your name is not in the list, sorry. It just means your name didn’t occur to me in the last 2 mins I typed this in Sun Lab.

And yeah, one thing. I’m not senti. :) For one thing. I’m pretty sure I’ll keep in touch with these people. Come on, I won’t lose my friends for nothing :)

Bye Bye NIT Trichy :) :) :)

WordPress gave me so much trouble when I tried to upload this pic. Still uploading pic in Wp 2.5 is a headache :’(.