Celebrating Manchester United's 19th title
14 May 2011
14 April 2011
AG Books
" I don't quite grasp the concept of AG Books. I mean what is it? I understand that Autograph (AG) Books with respect to a college final year student, are regular-but-with-a-fancy-cover-attached-and-you-pay-triple notebooks that students give one another, when they finish college to write something. Ya something. But what do I write? Do you want me to write about you? Really? Isn't that a bit like posting a FB status with just the words 'comment on me' and tagging everyone? Or do you want me to write about myself? Do you wanna know more about me? Ore confusion!
I think in all fairness, the AG Book-er really means to say to the AG Book-ee, "Err this is a book. With lotsa pages in it. Forget the fact I gave it to you and asked you to write. Write whatever that comes to your mind. Anything you want. Anything that you can come up with your knowledge of the universe. Anything. And yeah, one tiny, small detail. Make sure they are all relevant to me, alright? (grin) "
Ok. If you know the person, its kinda ok i guess. I mean, yeah I will write something and you will get it now, what you could not get in the past 4 years of being with me.
But it gets especially tricky when you don't know the person good enough. I mean, I understand you talk to a friend of mine and you are my classmate and I was standing near him, when you gave him the book. But no, I m not the widowed mother of two children and you really don't have to be polite dear.
But again, 'Politeness' is a reciprocal privilege when it comes to AG books. So the ones who write, always write good, sweet things. Not necessarily true things. Just good and sweet stuff. You will never come across a AG book that reads,
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| Yes. I know the picture ain't related much to the article. |
"Dear owner of this book,
May you rot in hell for all eternity :)
Sincerely,
The guy who you never passed the bit to, keeping it for yourself and so failed his internals :-@"
The true Indian way of doing things would be to look at the previous writers and write your own tweaked version of what they write. Doing which will tell you every AG Book would contain the following :
- There is atleast one six-page-writing, with xoxos, love yous, mmmuahs thrown in, best friend girl for every girl.
- Everyone wishes you for "a bright future", but doesn't want you getting a higher package than them in your campus placements. True story.
- The owner takes in strenuous efforts and writes an introduction in the page put in to separate the content from the bounded cover. Some greeting card stuff.
- The recession version of AG books is an old diary. Has an antique look and let writers choose their own day of the 365 days!!! woohoo!
- Everyone gives their contact details. Their address, phone numbers, DOB and all. And you are forced to think if attaching a resume is a good idea.
All the best!!
Have a bright future!! :-D "
Vishnu Gowthem.
29 March 2011
Irreversible
:-(-:
We humans are happily SELFISH creatures.
Nothing stops us.
We do bad things all the time. Mistakes. Faux pas. Bad decisions. Love. Mokkai. Words. Engineering. Supporting Arsenal/Chelsea FC. Appataker-ness. Fantasy team selection.
We are wicked.
We do the unthinkable. :-(-:
We do it first in our mind itself!
At times, we do hope that we could finally hit that elusive, yet promising, Kemmar Roach-will-turn-white-someday level imaginary "Rewind" button in life.
We just don't want things going wrong.
Any fair chance algorithm logic would point out that, the one thing we don't take into account is we don't want the rest of the world to go back along with us.
Any fair chance algorithm logic would point out that, the one thing we don't take into account is we don't want the rest of the world to go back along with us.
We want it to happen to us.
We wish we alone could go back a few minutes/hours/days and get it right this time.
We are confident now.
We are hopeful we wont go wrong.
We ooze determination.
But,
Reality strikes us down.
All the time,
Why the vaaiika-thagararu between Reality and human beings?
We don't relish the prospect of facing reality??
Reality sucks???
:-(-:
P.S - Now that your done, for a different perspective read the article bottom-up (Sentence line wise with punctuation)
19 March 2011
College - Review :-)
Assuming that I ll pass the rest of the subjects and Sai(lazy fellow!) will finally complete the hashing module of our project, here goes my list on 4 years at TCE. :)
(For a better experience to be read point wise correspondingly on both sides. :) )
(For a better experience to be read point wise correspondingly on both sides. :) )
I loved/ I ll miss
| I hated
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21 December 2010
25 things that could happen to your mobile phone
This post/experience is dedicated to all honorable men and women, who hold on to That bruised, battered, why-did-it-switch-off-now, still working, sorry-excuse-for-a-mobile-phone mobile phones.
That means not you, M.K.Sarvesh Ghautham, who keeps changing mobile phones faster than Manchester City's starting 11 or you, people who own those nothing-cud-happen-brick-like-phones.
Now although the vice versa is true, why does everything have to be a her? So I, Vishnu Gowthem Thangaraj assume mobile phones to be a he. Covering as much as organisational behavior, attributes, ownership activities and physics as possible,
1. For starters, Mobile phones love gravity. They are in a relationship with gravity infact. And like any guy, he just keeps falling over and over again. And the worst part is everything happens in slow mo as well... .. .
Without any warning, the mobile slips out of your hand.
Its in free fall.
you extend your arm.
you cry a muffled noooooo.
you can almost feel it in your outstretched palm.
You would think at some point you can surely catch it before it falls.
But you cant. you fail.
And without any command, shitty dismantles itself.
2. Phones are like prophets. They try and warn you. I mean how often do you accidentally cut an incoming call, while coming out of the message inbox?! Not to mention the famous your-call-will-be-disconnected-due-to-insufficient-balance?! But again with too much money(balance), like any prophet, it turns nithyanandha and it lets you make that call you shouldn't have.
Tut-tut.
3.Immaterial of the size, mobiles always get misplaced/lost. You leave them in all sorts of places. The bank you visited in the morning. The refrigerator you took iced tea from. The washroom time you spent pondering on world economy. Of course you could call it from another number and locate it. Its just simply too much work.
Its the washroom or wait till someone calls :)
5. Your phone probably has a speaker or mic or some kinda opening and if no one told you, the bloody Besant nagar beach sand seeps in when its windy. Now I carry my thai mannu everywhere I go. Literally.
6. Handle cell phones carefully in a restaurant or a pub. Before you know it, there it is, smiling at you from a glass of water. (And although imaginative, bubbles do not come if you call your mobile then)
Now, I understand talking over the phone while driving bikes. Its like we are hard pressed for time at that moment. And its not that dangerous if you are a good driver. The same can't be said for your mobile though.
Tips to use mobiles safely while driving rashly as you want :
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7. Never keep phones in your upper shirt pocket while driving. Keep it on the fuel tank between your legs if you wanna use them. Your thighs will protect it from jumping out. Fail to comply and the shiny mouse like thing speeding past your bike in the next speed breaker is your mobile phone sliding on the road! zzzzzooooooooooing.
9. And try reducing talking while driving during rains alone. Hands can get slippery and the damn phone slips. And falls on the mud. And if you are as lucky as I am, you get to drive over the poor little thing like a speed breaker. And if you are really as lucky as me, nothing still happens to your phone!
~
10. Exercise aarva-kolaru people be careful of sweating. Mobile phones act like a battery-weak terminator as a result of sweat water. Stop running to the service center and put it on charge. The heat dries the sweat up and phone works like a charm. :)
19. Mobile phones are bouncy objects. Like this one time, I was running really fast (yes running. yes fast) to board a bus and my mobile popped out of my shirt pocket, fell on the hard black tar road and amazingly bounced off a couple of feet from the ground. I caught it on the run and still managed to board the running bus. And applause! (Right. No one saw. Sigh.)
20. Look here dear. Straight into the lens. Smile now. Say cheeseeee. Crap.
21. When the Canadian lady next to you on the flight, uses an Iphone 4, its best not to take our mobile out. Right. Mr.Embarrassment has finally arrived.
25. And the best worst thing that can happen to your mobile : Switches off itself and stops working without any reason or rhyme. :)
That means not you, M.K.Sarvesh Ghautham, who keeps changing mobile phones faster than Manchester City's starting 11 or you, people who own those nothing-cud-happen-brick-like-phones.
Now although the vice versa is true, why does everything have to be a her? So I, Vishnu Gowthem Thangaraj assume mobile phones to be a he. Covering as much as organisational behavior, attributes, ownership activities and physics as possible,
1. For starters, Mobile phones love gravity. They are in a relationship with gravity infact. And like any guy, he just keeps falling over and over again. And the worst part is everything happens in slow mo as well... .. .
Without any warning, the mobile slips out of your hand.
Its in free fall.
you extend your arm.
you cry a muffled noooooo.
you can almost feel it in your outstretched palm.
You would think at some point you can surely catch it before it falls.
But you cant. you fail.
And without any command, shitty dismantles itself.
2. Phones are like prophets. They try and warn you. I mean how often do you accidentally cut an incoming call, while coming out of the message inbox?! Not to mention the famous your-call-will-be-disconnected-due-to-insufficient-balance?! But again with too much money(balance), like any prophet, it turns nithyanandha and it lets you make that call you shouldn't have.
Tut-tut.
3.Immaterial of the size, mobiles always get misplaced/lost. You leave them in all sorts of places. The bank you visited in the morning. The refrigerator you took iced tea from. The washroom time you spent pondering on world economy. Of course you could call it from another number and locate it. Its just simply too much work.
Its the washroom or wait till someone calls :)
5. Your phone probably has a speaker or mic or some kinda opening and if no one told you, the bloody Besant nagar beach sand seeps in when its windy. Now I carry my thai mannu everywhere I go. Literally.
6. Handle cell phones carefully in a restaurant or a pub. Before you know it, there it is, smiling at you from a glass of water. (And although imaginative, bubbles do not come if you call your mobile then)
Now, I understand talking over the phone while driving bikes. Its like we are hard pressed for time at that moment. And its not that dangerous if you are a good driver. The same can't be said for your mobile though.
Tips to use mobiles safely while driving rashly as you want :
~
7. Never keep phones in your upper shirt pocket while driving. Keep it on the fuel tank between your legs if you wanna use them. Your thighs will protect it from jumping out. Fail to comply and the shiny mouse like thing speeding past your bike in the next speed breaker is your mobile phone sliding on the road! zzzzzooooooooooing.
9. And try reducing talking while driving during rains alone. Hands can get slippery and the damn phone slips. And falls on the mud. And if you are as lucky as I am, you get to drive over the poor little thing like a speed breaker. And if you are really as lucky as me, nothing still happens to your phone!
~
10. Exercise aarva-kolaru people be careful of sweating. Mobile phones act like a battery-weak terminator as a result of sweat water. Stop running to the service center and put it on charge. The heat dries the sweat up and phone works like a charm. :)
11. Yes I have already established the mobiles's (ya ya I know its written wrongly. :P) relationship with gravity, now I m gonna talk about his mistress. Fate. Yes the ruddy thing falls down often. Where?
On the carpet, on the road, on you, on me, everywhere. But also on the dark theater floor once the lights go off or beneath the legs of a lady sitting in a restaurant, near enough that you could take it by yourself without asking her but also far enough that you could miss and grab her ankle and look like a pervert. Uh oh.
12. Mobiles and pride. The guy with the new mobile is undoubtedly a prick. He doesn't let sight of his mobile, gets a scratch guard from the bazaar, keeps it very safely inside the pocket like nestling a baby in a cradle, he licks it clean and does a lot of gay stuff too. After a few drops (mobile) , he turns straight.
13. Missing/Not working keys! This is perhaps the most normal natural calamity that can happen.
That single key which has to be pressed harder than the others or the rare case where you cud use sharp objects (like a stylus?) inside missing keys to press them or that key which is responsible for going to the previous menu stops working and makes u press the total cancel key (red one) each time and start afresh are like your future kids. Small things that irritate you initially. But later you get used to living with them.
14. One fine day, you go to college and give your mobile to a friend, thinking you will be altruistic for a change. And the next thing you know, you watch him shout/insult/dare a customer care representative to bar your number permanently. classic.
17. Pragmatically, most Indians live with a fear that mobile phones will be stolen in a public place. So they try protecting that crappy 1100 with more effort than required to earn the money to purchase the mobile in the first place. In offbeat situations wherein their mobiles do get stolen, they turn all sad and gloomy. For a 1100? really?
psst, Incase its a 5k+ mobile post it in FML.
18. You could be a member of the fall-on-bed-ouch-what-bit-my-ass-oh-its-my-mobile club.
20. Look here dear. Straight into the lens. Smile now. Say cheeseeee. Crap.
21. When the Canadian lady next to you on the flight, uses an Iphone 4, its best not to take our mobile out. Right. Mr.Embarrassment has finally arrived.
22. Certain All humans (yes we can call them that) who are in relationships talk hours over the phone with their inamorata. And at times when things get rough, certain people have a habit of venting out their anger by throwing things. And more than most its the communication device in their hand.
Note: beware of penny-pinchers in relationships, they just might get angry over their mobile. keep it in their pockets and throw the happen-to-pass you's mobile on the floor. "These women! cha", they bark and leave.
24. Mobiles can get very very hot on prolonged usage while charging.
Solution? Mooditu, cut the phone call.
15 November 2010
Worry not, Wilbur's here
I have lots and lots of movies. But still get bored at times.
So, I go and do this.
Me : "Dai unaku ellam soodu soranaye illaye da"
Him : "Hi Friend"
The Man,The Phenomenon,
The Icon,
The Legend.
Wilbur Sargunaraj.
Get a piece of him :
Facebook , Facebook Album, Personal Site , Youtube , Google.
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