Gawd! I just dont know what happened to me. These days i am just jawing like hell. And guess with whom?

With my cousin cum close friend – Vibhu and Binal, one of my besties…

I have just discovered a newfound intimacy in my relationships with both of them. I am just kinda enjoying it. Well i just wonder…is it me now? or was it me before?

I just remember those months( ya months) when i dint talk to them..i dont know why…not talking to any of my other close buddies too…I had just gone into a shell or something…and feels like I am coming out of hibernation!!

Maybe i was angry on something..Because whenever i am angry on someone or something mostly i just retract…go away from the place and have some tea or something… (and also silently brush off my tears big secret out )

Whatever it is …girl talk is supremely liberating…;)

Amu and Sammy its you next…

Sorry Sammy and Binal for those days when i was not myself..when i was not talking normally…and you guys maybe just wondering what i was upto…and yet you sticked around…

Especially when i was not so much fun to be with…

You guys are wonderful!

Thanks!

P.S.: This was my first sort of personal post on this blog…See the change!??

Never before in my life..had i wanted something as much as this. Or even worked so hard for it and put in efforts. Of course i might have. But my memory fails me. I am notorious for amnesia. Ahem! What did amnesia mean anyway?

But it was this heady feeling that i got throughout the process mixed with lots of optimism that kept me going. And i learned lots of things. Made me wiser by 1%.

But yes the most important thing i learnt is: there is light at the end of the tunnel, but how desperately we need the sunshine? Thats what matters and thats what counts.

Now that is a different thing that in my case,  i wanted it like hell but there an eclipse occured.  Somebody switched off  the light bulb.

The song that fits in perfectly :

Hey whats happening?
I have lost my pen drive. Dunno where i put it! Totally misplaced.
Along with two movies which temporarily resided in the pendrive. Is there some secret place where misplaced or lost things go?
I had read a book called The Burrow, (i guess) where they had a theory that there exist some creatures like elves which are the reason for your lost things. Interesting i must say!

The only thing left for consideration is what the hell do they want to do with my pendrive yaar!??!

Aloha..

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I am 12 days late for the ushering-the-new-year-post…

Well! Well!

It feels great to write a ‘SOLUTION POST’ as the first post of 2009

I have been facing a lot(read:4) of problems with gmail lately. Here’s the list. But these problems should mostly be the problem of the browser used ,not some problem or bug inherent in gmail. So atleast i have solved one of them

PROBLEM: Cannot scroll chat window while chatting in Gmail in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 Beta.

SOLUTION:

Go to Tools Menu -> Internet Options.

Click Advanced tab.

Clear the check box for ‘Use smooth scrolling’ to disable the setting.

Restart IE and voila..you are done!

YAY! Wish i could find the solution for the other three too..

Aloha!

Hello Gmail,

Everyone is using you these days! You are ubiquitous. Up until recent times i was a snob who dint want to use the much Gung Ho Gmail. ( i had been among the early birds to know about you,but  still….)

But i did need another email id and i thought i shall give you a chance. Glad to say you have been a great thing to lay my hands on.You are still in beta (as those self pleased guys at Google would like to call you modestly) but you are doing a great job of all that coding behind you.

Just to state two four problems i have been facing with you:

1. You dont allow me to paste tables from Excel whilst using Opera and Firefox. Whist with IE you work fine. Should i smell something here? OR is it that it is the problem with the browser end that they are not able to render your coding? ( all that supported browser thingummy!)

2. You dont allow me to become invisible in chat while using Firefox. You simply hide the option! Thats not fair! Whilst this time you work fine with Opera and IE. So whats the fine print eh? Edit: And now i can , so what was the problem?

3. The latest version of IE i.e.  7 as well as Internet Explorer 8 Beta dont allow me to scroll while  chatting in gmail..:(  Now thats an IE problem definitely..i m not blaming you!)

4. Opera (9.63) doesnt allow me to type anything in the search box and so cant search anything. Now what do i do!?

Using myriad browsers,
Your user since 2008(!),

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
WISHING THE MERRIEST CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

There is so much i want to do and want to have that if stretched like a chewed bubblegum, it would encompass the four endpoints(imaginary) in each direction of India.Can you imagine that? I cant because i have seen it in my mind. You dont imagine what is there,you see it.

Take a sneak peek into some of what i want to learn, what i want to be, what i want to do.

Is it too much? Its relative(Einstein-thanks for that). Depends on the timeframe obviously. If i say that this is want i want to learn, want to be, want to do in next 10 years. Its too less to ask of. But if say i shorten the timespan then obviously its fine or even maybe too much if i overconfidently tell you that i expect to do all this in a quarter of a year!

Can anyone tell me if there is a syndrome or something for this,where you want to learn variegated thingummies?  Sure it exists. Like eternal-student-syndrome exists!

Or should i invent one after me?! What should we call it? Ah..Yes..The Olive Syndrome….:-)

Why Olive? Why not Krutika Syndrome? Well thats the subject of another post altogether. We shall talk about you soon, Olive!

I woke up yesterday after almost 15.5 hours of sleep. Told ya i am a voracious sleeper. At such times, i really feel a great rush of love towards my mom who never minds when i gradually pay off my accumulated sleep debts.

Its best when you wake up by yourself- without the alarm. You feel so fresh. There is not a single thought flying to and fro through your synapses. Thats what i felt yesterday. Then it occured to me that i have no thought in my mind-like a child perhaps.  But then this qualifies as a thought. Then how can i be thoughtless?

Okay you might say that the time when there was no thought was ‘t’ and the time when it occured to me that there was no thought in my mind was ‘t+δt’…

But δt→0. What of that?

So it is a paradox, you see. And , i love paradoxes.

Another example is the title of this post.

Yet another : I never write anything in italics coz i hate it.

Yet another: My email signature : “Expect the unexpected”. Tito(my boss at MAXIM) says its a nice brand name for myself. So it must be….

This is Jug Suraiya’s article for today’s Times in his column “Jugular Vein.”

FLIGHT CONTROL

It is so downright funny..I thought you might want to check it out and have a laugh.

A view of rush hour lights in motion at Subhash Bridge, Ahmedabad.

I was passing by Subhash Bridge and luckily i had a camera in my bag and so my mind went ‘ting’ at this Sony moment which i thought i could capture. This shot is the best among the shots of that night. My personal favourite. I am always befuddled by the four lettered word which contains ‘f’ in it. And i mean the word ‘LIFE’.

After such shots, like a tiger which has tasted blood and becomes a man-eater, you want to exercise your amateur skills at some more motion photography.
But i dint know how to convey motion in the background and i searched and i found this very good tutorial called A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography.

And after i hone my skills and learn the technique, i will post my experiments. Till then Aloha!

I appeared for an interview recently- actually not one but two. One with the boss of the company and one with four senior employees of the same.

The scene at the second one:

…….

{Co-Life is a word coined by me. Meaning: unit of people. Here i am using the word to represent the interviewer}

Co-Life: How many percentage did you obtain at your M.Sc. examination?

Me: …..{cant believe i took almost ten seconds to answer this} 71.19

Co-Life: Aggregate?

Me: Yes. Aggregate of all four semesters.

Co-Life: What about your last semester?

Me:….{ten seconds again this time..} Uh i dont remember..{i could have said approx this n that bcoz i remembered the approx marks but i dont know why i said i dont remember..the sad fact is that it was partially true- i dint remember my exact marks:-( }

Co-Life: {initial shock expression then covers it up} It happens with us too sometimes.

Co-Life2: When did you get your results?

Me: August

Co-Life: ….{shifts in her seat- i think it conveys its not okay to forget your own hard-earned marks}

[rest of the interview]

….Of course its not okay.. {horror} is there any serious candidate out there who doesnt remember his/her marks. I am. I totally goofed it up. I know.

And i dont even want to delve into the gory details of the rest of the interview. Because i dont want to commit a personal hara-kiri…

EDIT: The little respite i can offer myself is that i had confirmed it would be only a written test but after the test they also took out-of-the-blue interview(s) ….

I save you the hard work by telling you that this post contains videos..Laugh out loud videos..and how i dint know about Steve Allen but i know who he is, now..

1. Steve Allen does not recognize his new bride when she appeared as a mystery guest on the game show “What’s my line?”

2. Steve Allen’s famous line “Is it bigger than a breadbox?”

3. And the best of all..Steve Allen’s infectious laughter. I bet you will be laughing too by the time the video ends.

My coincidental discovery of Steve Allen’s existence:

Once upon a time..okay okay..

I had been in the big university library that might look like an inspiration to a book lover to take up the challenge of reading the whole lot. But be assured there is more probability of aliens coming to earth to check us out than the probability of someone finishing reading the whole collection. It is that vast. Like any university library should be. There are scores of old books. Books that have not been touched since decades. One day when i decided to pick up some light reading instead of the usual electronics reference books, i came across the humour section, and the first book that caught my eyes was the one with a humor suggesting font with size 72 pt(perhaps) and written in colourful letters:” Bigger than a breadbox“.It had not been issued since 1990! Immediately, I reached for the back cover description and it said this. I read the book not once but twice. That began my fondness for Steve Allen. I am surprised till that time, i had not even heard of him! I liked the coincidence of stumbling upon the humour section because i was reaching for the fiction shelf. The book is great, just like him. Its such an old book, i doubt it is to be found anywhere other than university libraries.(Atleast here in India)

I was barely six and my brother eight. By that time we knew this song by heart. It was the catchy tune that got to us perhaps. Our first duet public(read:a group of 20 people) performance was of this song. And no prizes for guessing, the crowd was awash with wonder and delight at two toddlers performing such.

This is the video of the song: Brotherhood of Man: ANGELO

LYRICS :ANGELO

Long ago,
High on a mountain in Mexico
Lived a young shepherd boy, Angelo
Who met a young girl and he loved her so

Rich was she,
Came from a very high family,
Angelo knew it could never be,
They ran away to their destiny

Running away together
Running away forever
Angelo
Running away from danger
Hiding from every stranger
Angelo
They knew it wasn’t wrong
They found a love so strong
They took their lives at night
And in the morning light
They found them on the sand
They saw them lying there, hand-in-hand

Long ago,
High on a mountain in Mexico
Lived a young shepherd boy, Angelo
Who met a young girl and he loved her so

Running away together,
Running away forever,
Angelo
Running away from danger,
Hiding from every stranger,
Angelo
They knew it wasn’t wrong
They found a love so strong
They took their lives at night
And in the morning light
They found them on the sand
They saw them lying there, hand-in-hand

Running away together,
Running away forever,

Angelo
Running away from danger,
Hiding from every stranger,
Angelo
They knew it wasn’t wrong
They found a love so strong
They took their lives at night
And in the morning light
They found them on the sand
They saw them lying there, hand-in-hand

Running away together,
Running away forever,
Angelo
Hiding from every stranger,
Angelo
They knew it wasn’t wrong
They found a love so strong
They took their lives at night
And in the morning light
They found them on the sand
They saw them lying there, hand-in-hand…

May dad had so many tapes like ABBA, Brotherhood Of Man, Carpenters that we ended up hearing most of their songs and even learnt many of them. I even had drawn a Cinderella on an old gramophone record and had hung it on the walls to proudly display my artwork. Oh, how i miss my childhood! {Keeping my fingers crossed for the time travel machine *wink*wink*}

Do you remember your first English song?  If yes then do share it with me. I would like to know…

Then you need this novel writing software.

Latest software recommendation from Inscrutable Girl: Ywriter4.

Its free and awesome. You can download it here.

There are loads of features including organizing your writing in terms of scenes and chapters. You can define your characters and store a short bio. Write goals, conflicts etc for scenes. Tracking your progress in terms of wordcount. Etc. Etc. You ask it and you have it. A full summary of features here.

Great for Nanowrimo. Because it also has a feature for obfuscating the text for submitting it for your final count.

So you want to chuck me out from your PC.!??[demony laugh

Vundo Trojan also known as Virtumonde, Virtumondo and MSJuan. Symptoms: You get denial of service for websites like Google etc. The manifestation of symptoms depend on the type. There are many Vundo variations out there. Your browser may be hacked. The Vundo rogue files are named as for eg. curywtju.dll or any other such nonsensical name.

Methods to remove the Vundo Trojan:

1. The Vundo Trojan can be removed by McAfee. See the list of variations that McAfee can recognize.

2.  Alternatively you can download the Malwarebytes’ Antimalware from http://malwarebytes.org {Strongly recommended by Inscrutable Girl if you dont have McAfee installed..}

My brother’s laptop went on a sudden date with this virus after he clicked some popup which had the word ‘Microsoft’ in it.

Statistics say that 1. Ninety percent of users will blindly click on such a popup 2. 75% of all statistics are made up.

So we searched the net for Vundo removal. We found one called FixVundo from Symantec. But we dint have to bother with installing that too because we had already downloaded Malwarebytes and his laptop must be thanking us as we watched the antivirus proclaimed 22 infections..:-) In my interactions with readers infected with rundll32.exe virus, it has happened that after they read my post and tried the step, they couldn’t remove the infection. So in case the above mentioned steps dont work, then try downloading the Trojan Vundo removal too from Symantec that i mentioned above. The latest release version is Nov 4, 2008 so there are fat chances that it will remove the infection. Wishing you a Happy PC Take Care,                                                

Dear common cold virus (shardu:hindi),

You have paid me a visit after almost two long years. And i am extremely honoured  that you chose my body as your temporary residence since last 3 days. I do want you to realize that i have yet not taken any analgesics and am letting only my white blood cells fight you.( Bravo guys!).

But enough is enough!

NOW WILL YOU PLEASE LEAVE??

Yours,
Krutika