Some sense at last...

I was just stunned by the incredible stupidity of our broadcast media while showing the coverage of the mumbai attacks. Moreover, a few news channels were stating in between reports that, we are the first ones to bring out this and blah blah. Keeping ppl well informed of the situation is different from playing with the sensitiveness of the issue (never thought that, freedom of speech can be stretched to such an extent). At last, some sense prevailed over these broadcast media. Saw this piece of news article floating on the net : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/14181780.htm . At last, they are back to their senses.

PS: This news merited to be published as an article, just because, this entailed the incident. Had the regulations been brought about earlier, i dont know how many would have cared to publish the same. It is just the way, Mr.Taleb had explained in his book, The Black Swan.

Bose Headphones . . . . My Precioussss

Oh my god!!! Today i got the pleasure of listening to "Azeemo-..." in Bose Headphones. I am already running out of words to explain it..... One should experience it.
My roomie, Mr. B was describing me about these headphones, one day. He was so excited about it and started explaining about the noise cancellation and stuff. Being, not that much a avid music lover, i was quiet nonchalant about it, at that point of time. And this guy, started going to the Bose outlet everyday.... Thought, he went off his rockers. And suddenly, he bought one for a whopping 19000/- . I thought "OMG!!!!, this much for 19K" .
I understood the value of the money he parted for the headphones, only when i put them on. The noise cancellation stuff was awesome. It was like in another world.... My preciousss.....

Enna Koduma Sir, idhu!!

Translator's Note:: Title -> Huh

I was just getting acquainted with people in our new apartment (yeah, i just moved in, yet again!!!). I was talking to a lady, residing in the house just above ours. As usual, i was introducing myself "am doing my final year, compsci in NI..... blah". She suddenly interrupted me.
"did u try for iit ?" . I replied "Yeah, I did".
And that lady replied with pride brimming in her tone, "Even my son is attending AIMS classes".
Me: "Oh nice. Is he in XI or XII???"
She hastily replied, "No!!! No!! No!! He is in VIII". With great difficulty, i managed a smile and left the place.

Chronicles of Fruitania: Episodes 1 & 2

The digests of 'fruitania' are being published like Star Wars (in out of order). These were posted by Srikanth (Shreik) on our lan forum during the final days of our college (Late April and Early May 2008, to be precise) . Am just pasting them directly from the forum:

Note: KKS had publised a paper in an international conference recognized by IEEE.
Episode 1:

Me, Adi, PK, Damal and KKS go to a restaurant...

Server: Orders Please...

Me: 2 Idlis
Adi: 1 Pongal
PK: 2 aabayils (half-boils)
Damal: 1 Muttai Poriyal

KKS: 1 roast... 'Paper' roast...

Thus was born KKS' hunger for papers which has brought him here...



Episode 3:

A TYPICAL DAY IN FRUITANIA

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Scene 1: Moral issues involving mess and gate

Location: Room 58, Garnet 'A'
Adi browsing forum, Venkat reading pdf, Shreik tagging meesic...

18:59:00

(Enter *)

*: Mess? Mess? Mess?
Venkat: *, athukulla yenna avasaram?
*: (with a hinged wrist) Thalaiva, anyayama pasikkudhu...ok naa sappida poren... hum chale chalo...(Adi pukes)

(Exit *)

19:00:00

(Enter Damal, with a half inserted T-shirt)

Damal: Mess guys?
Shreik: Adanguda CID... (to others)time paathala? 7 pm... (To Damal) you machine...
Damal: (With an indifferent attitude look) Yennada olarreenga?
Venkat: innaikku GATE thane?

(Day is one day before cycle test)

Damal: Actually, Innaikku enakku avlo pasi illa...na mess poren.

(Enter KKS)

KKS: Mess?
Damal, Shreik, Venkat (in unison): Thalaiva...
Damal: Enna Thalaiva...preparation over-a?
KKS: Wehehehell...Avara kelu (Pointing to Venkat)...'n'th revisionla irukkaru...'n' tending to infinity.
Venkat: Thalaiva... En uyire oosal adittu irukku.
Damal: (holding Venkat's Collar) Nee pesariya da? Un internals classla 4th highest...
Venkat: Aana nallaikku ethavathu aiduchuna? Heads-ku badhila tails vizhundhuduchuna? (Whole crowd goes "shabaaa..." )
KKS: He's the Padips...

(Enter Kutty)

Kutty: Dei Vengattu, Annen Compre-la gunna irukken, intha book-a innaikku night fulla padikkallamnu irukken, eduthkavva?
Venkat: Unakku edhukku Kutty, neethan anga kannadiya thookikittu (Imitates Kutty)funda pottuduviye...
Kutty: Dei Vengattu, yennada kolaveri unakku yemmela?
Shreik: Power Electronics Pavan Kumar!
Kutty: Dei, naan kelambarein da...

(Kutty exits with an advanced power electronics book and goes to bed within 5 minutes)

(After learning the mess menu from * and Swami, the gang decides to go to Gate)

PK: (Shouting from upstairs with a bucket in hand): 5 Minutes wait pannunga... I'll be back.

(45 min later)

PK: Let's go...
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Scene 2: Those long walks to Sam Fox

Location: Road
Adi, Pk, KKS, Shreik, Venkat and Damal walking

PK: (To Venkat) Thalaiva...Innaikku naan driving class-la highway-la ottinen. Anyayama irundhadhu.
Venkat: Oh...scene!
PK: Anga oru U-turn pottu, appdiye 3rd gear-la...(oral sounds resembling car acceleration)
Algo Adi: Jei, Hardy Heron-oda KDE 4.0 applets pathen...Its cool...
PK: Repos downloadeda?

(PK's SMS tone)

Venkat: PK, Gate-a Date-a?
PK: tsk, Please...


Shreik: (To KKS) Thalaiva... adutha paper eppo?
KKS: Nice try.
Shreik: Oh, sorry. Nalaikku morning illa?
KKS: Enna Thalaiva solreenga...
Venkat: Thalaiva, intha paper matter unga aalukku theriyuma?
KKS: Anita-ku theriyadhu thalaiva.
Venkat: Thalaiva, Anitakku theriyadhu but unga aalu Gayathri-ku theriyuma.
KKS: Gayathri akka Thalaiva...
Shreik: Gayathri akkavukku theriyuma?
KKS: Wehehehelll...
Venkat: At least unga cartoon partner-kavadhu theriyuma?
KKS: Yaara Thalaivaaa solreenga?
Venkat: Tweety kudutha Sweety
KKS: very wehellllllllll...

(A few barely visible faces pass by)

KKS: Hey fruits...
Damal: Adha nee solraya? Unnoda biggest fruit irukkave mudiyadhu da.
KKS: I am a bad man...

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Scene 3: Coffee for a good night's sleep

Location: Room 58, After dinner, Shreik, Venkat and Damal reading

21:45:00

(Enter *)

*: Coffee shop?
Venkat: Star, 15 minutes wait pannu, appram polaam.
*: OK. Anyayama thookam varudhu thalaiva...
Shreik: Star, unakku yetho vyadhi irukkunu nenaikkiren.
*: Illa thalaiva, computer munnadi...CRT-la...U understand right?
Damal: Appadiye poi yengayavadhu vizhundhu sethuru star.
*: Para, nee moodu , nee yeppavume appadithaan (Laughs, looks at others for support, in vain)

(Enter KKS)

KKS: Coffee?
*: hey, kozhand...
KKS: It's a strike...
Shreik: Paper Karthik!
KKS: well.
*: Ha, ha, ha, Paper Karthik

(Enter PK and Adi)

Adi: We're gonna start a new bakr about Wally's adventures in Kodai lake.
Pk: And it's gonna be completely edited in Gimp and will be put under GPL .
Adi: So people, suggest some good topics...
Shreik: Manoj Night Shyamalan's "Daddy in the water"!
KKS: (Low decibel laughter) Daddy in the water...

(Enter Wally)

Venkat: Strict Daddy!
Wally: Going to coffee shop?
Shreik: Yes
KKS: Daddy in the water
Wally: What daddy in the water?
Shreik: Yes, coming to coffee shop?
Wally: Wait, wait, wait! (to KKS) enna da daddy in the water?
Shreik: Forget that, what do you want from Nescafe?
Wally: Lays 1 packet, green or orange and 1 Jim-Jam
Shreik: OK
KKS: Daddy in the water
Wally: (Looking at Shreik opening Winamp and pausing it using mouse) Why are you doing that? Go to DC++, download a tool called Winampctrl, its in my softwares/windows/music. Install it, and go to winamp and open preferences. Double click the accesibility tab and scroll down to global shortcuts. Open it and set the shortcut for pause as, say Ctrl+Alt+P. Click on OK and then apply the settings. Now you need not open winamp at all for pausing. You can work in your word document or watch a movie in PowerDVD and control winamp parallely. Seriously, it is THE best winamp shorcut manager.
Shreik: OK
KKS: Daddy in the water
Wally: (Adjusting his hair) And ya, it only works for winamp versions 4.1 and above.
KKS: Daddy in the water

(Wally exits, confused)

Damal: (Without having a slightest scent of the things going on in the room)Idhukku mela padikka mudiyadhu...mokkaya irukku
Everyone: Adangu da CID...