Times like these.....

Its New year's eve and i still dont know what i am gonna do tonight. Sitting at dean's office and pretending to think about it doesnt help that much...anyways.


Its an year when i might not be in the campus of iit.

Its an year when i might not be in India at all.

Its an year where i will be spending new year's single (again!)

Its yet another year and if not anything i know i havent gained much over the years.

Its yet another year which promises a lot and fails to deliver.

Its yet another year where we fail to keep our resolutions.

Its yet another year where we know our hardships are gonna grow factorially (since factorial grows faster than an exponential term).

Its yet another year where i hope Arsenal might turn their fortunes around.


Anyways, i think i have my magic beans to get me going :)

To keep things simple my new year's resolution is to repair my computer and to upload the pictures of my wingmates. Not too hard hunh. I thought of including the repayment of my outstanding debt(s) in my resolution, but naahhhhh. I dont want to break yet another resolution :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HAVE FUN AND PLAY SAFE :P

My tryst with autowallahs

grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> kernel /v(tab) ro root=LABEL=/
grub> initrd /i(tab)
grub> boot

Turns out my mom and dad are among my devoted readers. No wonder my hit has almost reached the 1000-mark. Anyway, just in case you guys are reading this one....SATSRIAKAL!!

I was in Hyderabad for the weekend. It was comforting to know that there are places where rain is not a daily happening. Luckily, it was my friend's bday the day i landed there and for the treat he gets a bike which has an auto start on the key. I was stumped! Why in the name of Thierry Henry would you need ignition on ur keys?? Probably for a quick getaway. But from whom???
Anyways, the bike wasnt the talking point of the day. Had the honour of meeting...pack. will get killed only later.

Ahem..Ahem.....So after a thoroughly enjoyable trip, i come back to chennai. The rain, slush and auto drivers welcome me back. And to add to this wonderful settings, I hear that Arsenal lost to Chelsea. Ah!! How i missed this tramp of a place. But there is one thing i cannot understand. Why i get into fights with auto drivers in madras. It doesnt happen in Hyd. Thats probably cos of the fact that autos here dont have a meter system. Just to give you an idea, here is how my conversation with an auto guy went:

Me: Sir, IIT ponnam
Autodriver: hostel aa gate aa?
Me: Hostel Sir
Autodriver: pollaam Sir...okkarungo
Me: evvolo?
Autodriver: 250 rupees Sir
Me (After picking myself up): Sir 250 rupees naa evvolon terriyuma?
Autodriver: Sir, petrol velle errirthu, time vere aachu...enne Sir
Me: Sir...Hyderabad lend vanden...train ticket velle ye 280...ingendu IIT k porrtuku poi 250 aa Sir....koncham sollarthuku kuda koochadu vongalk
Autodriver: Appo train ye puddichindu IIT k pongo
Me: final aa sollungo evvolo n *What a smart alec autodriver*
Autodriver: Final 225 Sir...ennun kizhe muddiyadu
Me: Poyytu vanga....Ennan' avvolo kekarang?
Autodriver: Sir...Luggage irruku (Btw i had one airbag and a school bag), IIT dooram, vulley ponna return kaali
Me: *Aaaaaaargggggggghhhh*
Autodriver: Enne Sir neenga ellam paanam pakkreng
Me: Poyya.....call taxi e 160 daan ne enna da na 225 aam.

You get the gist, right. Twice i almost got into a physical fight with them. Once in tarams and the other outside Sheraton. The same thing happened with the auto driver at Koyambed. I was sleepwalking and had not even brushed my teeth. I get off the bus and the sucker wants 200 bucks to drop me off at IIT. The nerve these guys have. Autowallahs are like parasites. They kill you slowly with their constant pestering before and during. And fortunately or unfortunately, I am in no mood to take the crap. Good for me though :)...I have my bit of fun.

Anyway I am still searching for my bluetooth to upload scandalous pics of my wingmates.

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This is what it said about my name :)

rahul is ok but dillan needs to take some typing classes
rahul is about a cute little boy who tries to unite his estranged parents
rahul is not the typical launchpad
rahul is among anu malik
rahul is a warning on how adults will sometimes traumatize the lives of their offspring by using the kids as pawns against their ex
rahul is an integral part of the indian team
rahul is played superbly by one helluva talent in little yash pathak
rahul is a lad ?different? from your run
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rahul is not
rahul is one cricketer who likes to learn more and more about his game
rahul is a movie of a boy whose parents are divorce and fight for him by going to the court
rahul is the scion of the typically successful nri family
rahul is a graduate of georgia state university in atlanta
rahul is an adopted son
rahul is following in his footsteps
rahul is
rahul is a refreshing film looking a life from a child's eyes
rahul is unaware of nisha's feelings for him
rahul is married and upon their return
rahul is that he is arrogant and a flirt
rahul is studying
rahul is a photographer who visits dehradun for an assignment to shoot on bridal apparel
rahul is about
rahul is not responsible if you are browsing around and
rahul is a subhash ghai presentation and one wonders why he wanted to enter the field of small and meaningful cinema since his films are usually massive
rahul is in love with tina
rahul is drawn to seema
rahul is a dreamer and a loner who likes to keep his feelings to himself
rahul is a remarkable departure for subhash ghai from his kind of love stories
rahul is a shy
rahul is an extremely fussy eater
rahul is totally dependent on raj for all his needs
rahul is shocked to see that his friend's fiancee is none other than his beloved
rahul is blazing away at the world cup
rahul is a cheater
rahul is in mumbai overseeing his film's release
rahul is madely in love with sandhya
rahul is an international business and economics post
rahul is a story about a little boy's search for his mother
rahul is dying and he doesn?t know about that
rahul is the only son of a rich industrialist parents
rahul is filled with the presence of love
rahul is 12 years old
rahul is a small film
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rahul is adopted and has been kicked out by his father who claims that he only has one son
rahul is the romantic character that feels his sole aim in life is to find that special someone
rahul is satisfied with his life and his family
rahul is romantic and is photographer by profession
rahul is a carefree
rahul is deze dus ctr en voor bram ctb
rahul is quite a cool minded person in our group
rahul is feeling quite mellow and chilled out due to some intake of alcoholic beverages
rahul is very angry with her about this
rahul is unable to come to terms with his new lige
rahul is a class act
rahul is in the process of organizing his next big musical ?maya
rahul is involved with grassroots activism in madhya pradesh
rahul is more of a charmer and indubitably
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rahul is a nice name i like rahul name
rahul is working on the restoration of the sassoon library and some old city clubs
rahul is the son and the youngest disciple of the legendary santoor maestro pt
rahul is reminded that he's adopted and told to leave the house which he does
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rahul is arrested by arjun and rahul is killed by someone in the prison
rahul is currently the lead architect of the jax
rahul is unhappy at the thought of going to boarding school
rahul is a playboy
rahul is working as
rahul is also extending the cricket to use in a workshop with visually impaired children
rahul is even unable to be part of his brother's funeral
rahul is the pr guy
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rahul is here
rahul is shocked to learn that the girl he has fallen in love with is also the girl that he has suggested his best friend to marry
rahul is no exception and is currently playing for kent
rahul is a graduate hunting for a job whilst romancing the daughter of the landlord
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rahul is inclined towards
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rahul is madly in love with her
rahul is an adopted child
rahul is born and brought up in the us he looks indian
rahul is given this news
rahul is prakash's brother

This is better than it said for my nick :D

Seven down, One to go.....

Well the time has finally come. It is what we have been waiting for so long. The hiatus had led to a period of chaos and wretchedness. No...its not my new post but the completion of my endsems :D

After yet another end semester examination, I was pondering over what I have learnt so far. They can be summed up in a few points.
1. Its not much really.
2. I can buy a cup of coffee at gurunath and drink it before I reach CLT.
3. I could have saved a lot of time by cycling to my department instead of walking to it daily.
4. My computer is beyond repair.
5. The DCF is the best place to be in the summer, unfortunately everybody else thinks so too.
6. The tea at MBA office is better than that in gurunath.
7. I can buy a cup of tea at MBA office and drink it before i exit CLT.
8. The wing is the best place to while away time.
9. Ashik kurian can get physical at times, so we , in the wing, have to thread our path carefully.
10. Not to mess with Ashik kurian's computer...I learnt this because I wasnt aware of point 9.
11. Shit happens a bit too frequently in insti.
12. Sass is staying a bit too close to my room.
13. Torso bought a new 5.1 speakers (#12 and 13 reinforces the validity of #11)
14. Rain makes us lazier than ever and I almost put a W cos of that.
15. I wasted a lot, i mean a lot, of time studying things I did not relate to.
16. The institute library has 5 floors ,which I found out last week. Apparently they have an amazing studying room with couches, and taking advantage of this are couples studying each other.
17. Boredom cant kill you, but sometimes you wish it could (like now).
18. Something about concrete and it containing aggregates n cement. Not too sure.
19. IIFT stands for Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. (Dont ask me how i found that out :D)
20. You live to die another day....I learnt it from my quizzes.
21. Never let a crying girl fool you.
22. Not to eat vague stuff at gurunath. It either tastes yuck or u will be having a LM solo show in the bogs for the next two days.
23. *Bulb*
24. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
25. Go to #1.

That should give you a gist of what I have learnt so far. With another sem to go, its wierd to think of life beyond the insti. Its something which I havent given much thought about. Guess the only thing to do now is to maximize enjoyment from my time in campus and to think of optimal ways to achieve boredom subject to spatial, economical and emotional constraints ( finally OR helps me somewhere :P)