Time To Relax

Sitting in front of computer with nothing else to do, started scribbling my thoughts and with that came the realization that i have not written an article since shifted base to Bangalore. Man have i been that busy! No its just the procrastination habit that i have become so habitual of in my new found independent life. In the short time here ,pampered with new found freedom, and all the money at my disposal, really have spoilt myself. The self-disciplined Himanshu is somewhere in the background. I have changed. First for Bangalore . It has been fantastic. Awesome weather, friends, work . Life has been on a fast lanes. And i thought life was fast in Delhi. It has been 3 months and 12 days and looks like it was yesterday only that we were in our guest houses enjoying the first days in bangalore. Away from our family, we are exposed to the term “family of friends”. May be this is the reason i have not felt much of “home-sickness”. All the “social gathering”, just spending “vella” time ...

An eventful and important day.Akhir hum aaj undergraduate nahiin rahe* ;-) ..Conditions Apply :-D .Went to college to give my presentation for Final Year Project(only we know how we made it work ;) ). Went early for it .after a wait of about an hour or so , we were finished with ppt . I have had waited for this moment so anxiously for so long , so it was all but natural for me to be really joyed after the exam , and so was i .Then started with all the formalities of “Passing out” from college(and there a lot). Got signature of teachers on dues clearance form , and den i brought my library books to return. This was the time for clearing up library dues . After Clearing library dues , i returned my library card . That moment a different feeling struck me .  Seeing written “Pass Out” and return of card ignited the feeling that m leaving this place .I was getting nostalgic .Never thought i would be like that. Well hard to except but true, i have to leave the college. This feeling...

This is one of the best satire i have read of late, so posting it here . http://www.hindustantimes.com/ID-India-Dreaming/H1-Article1-515996.aspx It is  by Manas Chakravarty, Hindustan times(Editorial-7th March 2010) , Hindustan times site deletes the old articles , so i am also posting the complete text here (for future reference ;-) ) As Aam Aadmi (AA) cradled his new-born daughter in his arms, he had a wonderful dream about her future. He pictured her skipping happily down the village roads built under the PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana) to a school run either under the SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) or the NMFL (National Mission for Female Literacy). She would be enjoying a sumptuous lunch at school, thanks to the MDMS (Mid-Day Meal Scheme). AA wondered whether he had got that right — the scheme didn’t sound grand enough. Maybe it was the Rahul Gandhi MDMS, he had better find that out. He then debated whether he should send his daughter to a school under the K...

A Poster by Peta Reducing Meat Consumtion can bring down Green House Gas Emissions.Such lifestyle changes and behaviour patterns can contribute to climate change mitigation work. A farmer can feed up to 30 persons throughout a year from one hectare with vegetables, fruits and cereals. If the same area is used for the production of eggs, milk or meat, the number of persons that can be fed varies from five to ten Livestock production accounts for 70 per cent of all agricultural land and 30 per cent of the world’s surface land area . These are excerpts from R.K.Pachauri's article published in Indian Express 3rd dec(or HT 4th dec). We all know the personal benefits of Vegetarian food over Non-Vegetarian(i am not going to point those out here). Now there is another reason to avoid meat -Climate .Have a look at the complete article here :- http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleImage.aspx?article=04_12_2009_010_005&mode=1 or http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/rkpachauri/Cold...

Many a times in life we are faced with a situation where both our mind and heart contradict each other.  And  its said we should always follow our heart .  Seems a pickup line from just any movie . Well quite true .  The best situation is when your brain suggests what your heart wanna follow .You can concentrate all your energies in one direction and with that we will achieve our goal or win over situation . And the worst is,even after our brain and heart being in sync, we cant chose which way to go. And often we end up  the other way. Life is cruel .It forces us to do what we hate . What a person needs to do in such a situation ?I a dont know what's correct . But what life has taught me,the little experience i have ,  is - just face it with head on. Life has its own plans for us . Be positive ,who knows - may be thats the best thing in long run  .

Recently tried picasa 3.5 and itz image search feature . Before i move on , a brief about image search .Picasa searches for all images on ur computer and if it finds any "faces" in the pic , it groups the "similar" faces and and put them in "unnamed"album .You can then name the person in the pic .and from thereon all the images having that person will automatically be put in the persons album . Well i must say google does its work quite well .Obviously no algorithm can be flawless , but the way it performed really took me by surprise. its amazing . for more detail got ot :- http://picasa-readme.blogspot.com/ http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/ Now my own experience of picasa 3.5.Picasa scanned and brought so many people's images,new faces , i never thought i had those pics .I have about 80 people's album , and about 1600 pics in unnamed album!!!(i never thought i had so many different pics of people) . SO next came the turn of seeing my pics found by...

Studying at the last moment for midsems this time ,thanx to the placement season , reminded me of an interesting incident told by my friend. There was a presentaion in his college by some successful(!!!) Software Engineer(forgot his name ),an Ex-IITian . He started his speech asking about the definition of an engineer,and how should we be as a prospective engineer in college. Breaking the silence of the PPT hall, A student stood up(very Kapil like) . According to him being a student,we should be obedient , attend all the classes. Study all the subjects with due sincerity before hand and bla..bla..bla.. .Well every thing u can associate with a student like Kapil.After he was done , Engineer said "These are exactly waht u should never do :-P".Every one broke to laughter. Studying at the last moment , handling the pressure of doing assignments(usually just before exams :P) , multitasking actually transforms us into students to engineers . Engineering colleges,apart from studies...