25 Random Things About Me…

Sunday, February 22, 2009

I’ve been tagged by Praveen and pertaining to his tag, have to tell 25 random things (Note: This will be in a random order too).

  1. As a child, I was very possessive about my parent’s stuff. I would bawl all over the place if anyone drove my Dad’s car or wore my Mom’s shoes and stuff like that.
  2. I also used to be in everyone’s arms. If I ever walked, every few centimeters I’d start cleaning the bottom of my shoes with tissues. My Dad would eventually get bugged and just carry me after that. I barely walked even till the age of 5!
  3. I used to cry a lot to go school. On the first day, the beginning of my school life, I cried all the way from home to the school banging on the car windows with my fists. I clung to my mom while leaving from home, then my dad’s watch at school. The servicemen at school ( 3 of them) finally freed my grasp on Dad’s watch and dragged me inside! Phew..
  4. I am a total foodie and I love eating junk food such as burgers, pizza, French fries. I also savor several exquisite dishes from the continental, south Indian and north Indian cuisine.
  5. Muli ke Paranthe with Curds (yummy!) is my hot favorite and the fact that not one place in Mangalore has authentic paranthas to serve makes me really furious. Especially at the Empire Mall, the paranthas there is an insult to the authentic ones. Even Punjabi Dhaba is disappointing.
  6. I suffer from road rage. Most people who drive here have no road sense or driving ethics. Sometimes, I feel like driving with a crate of eggs so that I can throw it at someone who is an utter nuisance on road.
  7. Books are my passion. I can read everything  that can be read. I can’t do without them…excellent stress buster.
  8. I love playing ALL word games. Words add a dimension and depth to anything around or within us.
  9. When I was small, my English was so sad that when anyone asked me if I ‘know’ English,  I’d say I ‘yes’ English.
  10. I also used to create my own weird words to suit my convenience and the situation. For example, whoever or whatever used to bug/irritate me was called ‘pakaatali’.
  11. I’m not at all  a morning person ( By morning, I mean the period between 7 AM and 11 AM). No matter what I do, I always feel sleepy in the first class of the day.
  12. During my grade 9 summer vacations, I used to work part-time in the supermarkets trying to sell curry pastes every weekend and used to be paid Rs 200 for 4 hours.
  13. My mother is the best person to go (window)shopping with as I won’t trust anyone else’s judgment. She gives great advice and has a pretty good taste (though sometimes there are clashes..but negligible!).
  14. I can be very determined when I want to do something. If I can’t do justice to anything, I’d probably not bother about it. If I want to do anything, I want to make it really good.
  15. Adventures gets my adrenalin pumping and thrills me (Mom thinks otherwise). I want to do a lot of things like sky diving, paragliding, space walking, mountaineering, white river rafting and many such things at some point in life.
  16. I love dark chocolate. The bitter it is, the better. What a divine taste it has! Ferrero Rocher, Hershey’s Kisses and Snickers are my other favorite chocolates.
  17. I hate travelling! Whenever I’ve got lots of travelling to do, I stay awake the full 24 hours so that as soon as we start travelling, I can just sleep it off.
  18. The first drops of rain on soil tantalizes me…what a heavenly smell it is of the wet soil!! I love running early morning and the feel of the pleasant breeze on my face.
  19. I love most Disney movies and all Disney Princesses. My favorite princess is Ariel, the little mermaid!
  20. I have this real bad habit of involuntarily associating the subject with teacher. If the teacher is sad, then my subject suffers. I find it particularly hard to get over this but things are better now.
  21. I wish I was Garfield… Then I could eat, sleep, watch TV without feeling like utterly wasted.
  22. I can’t stand hypocrites, whiners, liars and those who want to be spoon fed and get on with life without a day’s work!
  23. I usually don’t bother with anything anyone does, but if someone intentionally crosses my path and intends to harm then I know how to get back and what to do. When I really really get angry, I’m cold and ruthless.
  24. I’m quite accomplished at playing agony aunt to all my close friends.
  25. I wish I had some more interesting random things to write but anyway I think this should suffice! smile_wink

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Posted by Ni at 3:50 PM 4 comments

Home Sweet Home :)

Friday, February 13, 2009

Another hectic week at college passes away. I can’t express how delighted I feel using the internet at home!!! I really love our college project labs but it wouldn’t kill  to update Windows, considering the fact that we’re having  a lot of trouble installing stuff which I did with ease on my laptop. And the system administrator acts as if he pays from his pocket for every internet connection granted in the project lab. Despite getting a signed approval from the HOD, we had to make 5 trips to his cabin and he finally granted internet access. However, the others are yet to get it. I’ve no Wi-Fi access as yet ‘cause I guess he’s too lazy register my MAC address and it’s been three days of waiting! So after all this internet fiasco, it feels great to be at home finally! I can literally sleep and wake up to internet… download to my heart’s content and eat whatever delicacies I want at any time at home ( Food at College doesn’t exactly cater to your taste buds and if it does, it’s either measly on quantity or heavy on the wallet)!!

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Posted by Ni at 11:49 PM 5 comments

GNU/Linux Habba 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Past Saturday, February 7, I attended an excellent event , namely GNU/Linux Habba 2009. This was the third version of this event which was sponsored by and conducted at our University. Since I’d resolved to try Linux, this was a great way to begin with. The tech team from Sampada were really good. They are a group of Linux hackers who are very passionate about their work and make a contribution to the world of free and open source systems. The day began with installation of the Debian distro of Linux they had been working on. The pace and interest of the participants were maintained with real good rapport the team had built with them via a lot of interactions, discussions and yes… 2 animated movies. Everyone loves a nice animation movie! The main agenda of this event was the emphasis on free, open source software and localization of technology so that it can reach the common man. We were also made aware of several tools that we can use for educational purposes and development among a few other things.

All in all, I really admire Linux but it’s difficult to make a complete switch to Linux at this point of time. However, I guess I’m soon going to finally join the bandwagon by installing Ubuntu on one of the partitions and seeing how it works out. The most important thing to keep in mind is not expect Linux to behave like Windows because they are quite different actually. And I also want to tell a mighty thank you to our Asst. Prof. Ashok Kumar for organizing and coordinating the entire thing really well. We all hope to participate in more of such events in future!

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The Chronicle of Escapades: Bunking Classes

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Just the other day was chatting with two of my close friends on Google Talk who are now studying in US and Canada. It brought up some very fond memories of our pre university days. One of them was the official bunker of our class! How many classes he bunked yet never got shortage. Whereas we would plot and plan and sometimes miserably fail to bunk.

For instance, there was this guy in our Hindi class who once tried to bunk through the back door as soon as our teacher entered. Unfortunately for him, he was so busy looking out for her, that he banged right into, none other than, the Head of Department of Hindi. LOL! It was certainly the most hilarious thing.

Another time, Sanam and I finally decided to skip the Physics class. Those classes were unbearable to me after I was condemned to the first bench and the lecturer was super weird( after 2 years of being our class guide, he asked us if we were the PCMC or PCMB batch!)… he used to freak me out as always. After a lot of debating we thought lets just skip it and grab a sugarcane juice and go home. Sadly, too late, because he was already waiting outside for the bell to ring and enter our class. However, the daredevils we were, we decided to sneak out through the back door and ran straight towards the pillar and hid behind it. We thought we would slowly slink away after he enters. Too bad, it didn’t work out that way. He saw us hiding behind the pillar and we didn’t know whether he saw or not. After a short game of peek-a-boo hiding behind the pillars, we ended up attending the class. This was a better option instead of going with a leave note next day and explaining the peek-a-boo  game! And yeah… I got a lot of amused looks from him in class! Drat!

Golden rule of bunking was to last the entire day without being seen by that particular teacher whose class we bunked else we would be dead meat while handing in our leave notes the next day. On yet another occasion,when Sanam and I bunked Hindi and were off with our French class friends ( they were always free! I was so envious), the entire day was an harrowing experience of dodging the teacher as we nearly seemed to run into her the whole time. Our luck lasted till evening until we spotted her coming up the slope where we were standing in the middle of a crossroad and all four of us, who were leisurely conferring about yet another function, ran for our lives in four different directions within a fraction of second!

Comparatively, in engineering, the scenario is much better, you don’t need to worry about leave notes. Nevertheless, I’m not a chronic class skipper. I’ve known to have 96-100% attendance in a lot of my classes, just as long as it is worth sitting. In fact I  attend all classes even if the attendance is not an issue because of some real good teachers who “actually” and “really” teach! I only feel like bunking when I feel that I’m just pointlessly attending class or I’m feeling sleepy or hungry or if I want to run home soon. Last semester, I attended most classes purely for the sake of attendance save for 1 or 2 classes. Hopefully, this semester should be different since we are having some new teachers (fingers crossed). Aargh!!! College begins tomorrow! I hate getting back and dealing with a lot of nutters on a daily basis! So long then bunk safely and most importantly, reasonably… If the teacher is sad, try to get a change instead of going on a bunking spree.

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