AsVelaAsCanBE

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Who's voice in the MoRe Room is CUTE?

I learnt a new thing today.
K's voice, whatever he says is supposed to be cute!!(according to people in Mo Re Ro)
How i wish i never hear things like that for the rest of my life.
I mean i am called by my nickname for a certain reason.

So Sheeets, say it once more so that i can say 12. or 13...?
Dunno, i lost count.

The Best Hostel in the world

For old times sake..........

Mandakini Hostel

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Awesome sites

If you think you have seen it all on the net.

Think again!!!

A German company is making wallpaper for people who live alone. The wallpaper has a photo of a "flatmate"

hmmm Maybe Su can try this!!!

Spoken too soon!!!

Yesterday while i was talking to Casio, i mentioned that i had nothing to do and i was bored.

Violaaaa.

Within minutes i had work to do and ended the day making 5 calls and working till 7:30 in the evening.

So here's to staying Vela and not saying anything about it. CHEERS!!!!

Monday, August 01, 2005

All’s well that ends well @Shivasamudra Falls

After months of planning, deliberation, postponement, rescheduling and more planning. We finally got to go for the outing. Now I consider this initial tirade about planning essential as we as a gang were planning this trip since about a year and when it finally materialised it did live upto its expectations.

So we got together on Friday evening to celebrate R’s birthday and during dinner & drinks at Inchara, made the final arrangements. Then the plan actually got into action as K and I went to get booze (about 48 cans of KF strong and an Australian wine did the trick). Came back and hogged like crazy before Su dropped me home with plans to go to some sanctuary and saying that he would pick me up at 6 in the morning.

Well the plan was still tentative and I got a reality shock in the morning after I had taken a bath at 6 (the whole narration is non-fiction, so hold your breath) and came to know that the venue had been shifted to Shivasamudra Falls and also that people had just woken up and the whole program had been revamped as A was flying down from Hyderabad for this event.

Now knowing our gang I knew it was highly improbable that they stick to even this altered plan or for that matter any plan. So proceeded to wash my clothes and do Sudoku before I got a call saying I should come up to Su’s place instead of they picking me up. Since Su’s car does not have an audio system I also had to take my TP along with me and the fact that autos are extremely difficult to obtain near my place, I had to walk lugging my hand-all for a considerable distance and two phone calls, before I actually found one auto.

Once I reached Su’s place (at about 8:30) I realised that I was the last one these and we started at once after a round of vulgar obscenities. After that it was a nice drive where I and Su changed hands on the driving wheels and generally took the new Maruti for a ride. Had breakfast at Kamat, which was a bloody awesome place and then went on to a Reliance Bunk in a certain City/Town/Municipality/Taluk (as claimed by our very own R) but the city (read village) was so advanced that it did not even have credit card access in the filling station.

We reached Mandhya at about 12 and from there it was a 30 minute drive along which they are quite a few beer cans scaterred amid chaotic shouts as one of the beer cases was done with. Reached the falls at about 1:30 and soon Su was commenting that this was not the place he came initially. So all of us were a bit apprehensive and thinking whether we made a mistake coming here, but our confused and confounded host had hit the jackpot as the first view of the falls themselves were awesome. As perplexed and baffled he might have been, Su was soon beaming with pleasure and forgot to lock the car in a hurry to get to the water.

From the next two hours, we had fun unlimited as we tried to compete with the furious tirade of the water by consuming as much beer as humanly possible and disrupting the flora and fauna with wave upon wave of subhuman noises. You would be surprised to know how difficult it is to open a beer can once you are drunk enough to break the seal opener with which it is manufactured.

And then began another round of antakshari with R signing yet another Dig song that no one understand but all of us got thoroughly wet with continuos splashing and generally behaving like a bunch of behemoths. Anyway at this point A got totally smashed and fell into the muck(later, he would claim that he did not remember changing his clothes or where he kept his watch).

After some more frolicking on the water shore, we changed and made our way back to the vehicles in a haphazard manner while trying to see that we did not leave anything except empty beer cans behind (all you environmentalist, please excuse us). Once we reached the vehicles and were deciding where to eat lunch, we heard a scream saying that Sa way injured. Apparently Su had tried his hand at throwing the ball and Sa was playing fetch when he fell into a ditch and injured himself severely. He could not even get up and the screams we heard were only partly due to his severely intoxicated, injured state.

We quickly went down to the place he was lying and saw that he had cut his knee really badly. Someone got the First aid kit from the car and I tried patching him up as well as I could. We then carried him over to one of the cars and put him beside another of that days victims ‘A’. ‘A’ had absolutely gone over the edge and was seen puking his guts out quite a few times.

Then started a series of arguments which generally had only one purpose which was to scream at the top of your voice while trying to appear sober. Firstly the colonial cousins P and Su had a go and after that I and Su had a shouting binge. After unanimously deciding that we would all start back only after all of us sobered and that would take atleast one hour, we started at once and drove to the nearest cliff edge.

Friends, Romans (whoever) and countrymen who are reading this. Please do not panic as the gist of what I am about to say is that we just went to the edge of the cliff not to commit mass suicide but to enjoy nature and view the scenery which was truly breathtaking.

After downing a couple of sodas and having a refreshing talk where the words “Sorry” figured prominently. We decided to get Sa back as soon as possible and so decided to drive back. The drive back was uneventful except that we came back via kanakpura and saved about 50 kms worth of distance, petrol and effort.

Lesson learnt: You tend to drive effectively when drunk.

Anyway 5 of us had dinner at a dhabha while the others took Sa to the hospital. He had about 4 stiches on his leg while. K on the other hand had taken a bus to gultland to meet his better half. A recovered completely to even give us insights about the weather and how India fares in cricket matches. I must say I liked him better when he was wasted.

Anyway a not so glorious end to an awesome triip but as Shakespeare once said and wrote “All’s well that ends well”. So for the people who missed you can make lots of Oinks, grunts and guffaws because that’s what you can do. Sayonara.

PS.. I would have uploaded photos along with this narrative if it had not been for a certain Lazybones who goes around showing his new CASIO watch.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Yahooooooo

People actually asking me: “Why I stopped Blogging?”

They actually read this crap!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s one of the two compliments I got today.
The other being that I am an all-rounder and should not worry about not topping in class.
Hmm guess I am really starved for compliments if I actually put these up here!!
And I also guess that you are complete losers to actually read these blogs.

Anniyan

Anniyan breaks all records.

http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1176229.cms

PS.. DDedicated to a moron who’s moving to Tam Land.
GoD Bless Tam Brahs!!!!

Monday, July 25, 2005

Life at IIT Madras

A bit outdated but still worth a read.

http://www.angelfire.com/id2/rmukund/IITlife.html

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Life sucks and then you die!!

Reflects my mood today.
No idea what the problem is but i feel wretched.
So i thought i shall share my crappy feeling on the blog and let off some steam.

So repeat after me
Life sucks and then you DIE
Life sucks and then you DIE
Life sucks and then you DIE
Life sucks and then you DIE

Friday, July 15, 2005

Finally The WEEKEND

Well its almost upon us and I know its eagerly awaited.

Not so for the fact that you can sleep all you want but for me this weekend is going to be special as Anil from Hyderabad and Suman from Birmingham are going to be here. Both morons have decided upon a small trip which means a cramped schedule and a busy weekend just lazing around.
That also means a lot of booze (for them) and good food (for me) and a good time for all around. Hopefully I shall get some long overdue shopping done.

Anyway for all those jobless morons still reading this, Chill madhi and have an enjoyable weekend.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Am i Shameless or What!!!!!!!!

What does Shameless mean?

According to the common man Shameless means Feeling no shame.

According to the dictionary Shameless means Brazen, Unashamed, Unabashed, impervious to disgrace etc. These adjectives apply to that which defies social or moral proprieties and is marked by a bold lack of shame. Shameless implies a lack of modesty, sense of decency, or regard for others' rights or feelings: a shameless liar; a shameless accusation.

But Shameless according to my definition is inviting a friend to a movie and making her pay for both tickets and then shamelessly (repeating the word but this occasion warrants it) asking her for money to buy snacks. And to round off the shamelessness I even took money from her to pay for the fare home.

Now competition among Shameless People must be really high, but I press home my point to being the most Shameless by adding that I am shamelessly writing a blog without even thinking of paying her.

How Shameless is that!!!!!!

Interesting Article

A follow-up to one of my previous blogs.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jul/12lp.htm

And for all the people who have been through the http://www.nehrufamily.com, Make sure you read the Secular Links and the Pseudo-Secular Links on that page. They reveal an interesting perspective into Indian Politics.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Food for thought

Interesting site which offers a unique look into Indian Politics

http://www.nehrufamily.com/

Cool Joke

On a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam.

Bonus Question:
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is
compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into
Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not

leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of
these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.Since there is more than one of

these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With

birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the

rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to

stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1.. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in
Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2.. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop
until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in
Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true,

and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that, since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and
is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night,

Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"