Mutant of Evolution

last few days!

2009-05-20T03:07:00.003-07:00

I am always confused, there are a zillion things I want to do, from writing, film making, and photography, to the next big online idea or a near dreamy gaming park! never really found out what I WANT to do.

At 15 I was on the verge of starting my own business, web, mobile and phone based orders for vegetables, and groceries , we ran a field test, but I was booed and made to give up, they said I was a kid.

At 17 i got a 95.6% in my twelfth grade, and a call letter from the premiere engineering institute in the country, i threw it into the thrash bin, people called me mad,

At 18, i joined a film & media school, I wanted to be a writer, a film maker, for three years i tried learning the art , but eventually got sucked into the mad rat race after money; i was working on two jobs, sleeping in the college studio, and marketing a college magazine idea all while getting enough marks to keep the top grades.

At 20 when most friends jumped into jobs via campus placements, or scraped into universities to study, I kicked my self out of interviews with my rhetoric, no I am not a communist! Actually I tried my hands at being an entrepreneur, publishing a youth magazine, well first time not so lucky.

At 22 I am working for a US based It firm in India, writing for their clients, on a zillion topics, and I so want to get out of all this, I am not sure what I want, thats the biggest question, may be I want money but thats not all.
Clue less, Lazy, and may be a lill retarded. Right now the only thing constant in life is procrastination. I need change!

Everyone Loves You

2009-03-16T00:02:00.000-07:00

Watch more YouTube videos on AOL Video

I'm just an ordinary man
I wasn't born to be a soldier in a foreign land
Now I'm a prisoner of war
I don't know what I'm fighting for
You tore me from my simple life
To die here naked

That was so cold
Cold
Just like the lies that you told
Cold
Nothing but ice in your soul
Cold
The side of you nobody knows
Cold
And everyone loves you

Too young too innocent to know
How far your master plan would go
You crucify the name of ~~God~~ Love!
Is nothing sacred

Damn you're so cold
Cold
Just like the lies that you told
Cold
Nothing but ice in your soul
Cold
The side of you nobody knows
Cold
And everyone loves you

Microsoft's Vision

2009-03-01T05:49:00.000-08:00

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

It's fun to know what the world over companies and individuals are working towards. And when Microsoft comes up with a video on how it sees the world tomorrow using it's technology, well for me it's a must watch. :)

Dil mera uljha hua hai, Tu magar hai bekhabar,

2009-02-06T20:25:00.001-08:00

Dil mera dil mera dil mera
Dil mera…aaaaaaaaaaaaa
Dil mera dil mera…
Dil gira kahin par dafatan,
Dil gira kahin par dafatan,
Jaane magar yeh nayan,
Teri khamosh zulfon ki gehraaiyaan hai jahan,
Dil mera uljha hua hai wahin kho gaya,
Tu magar hai bekhabar, hai bekhabar,
Dil gira kahin par dafatan,
Kyu gunj rahi hai dhadkan,
Jaane magar yeh nayan..
Sipiyon ke honth se,
Moti chalak rahe hain,
Gazlon ki sohabat mein,
Geet bhi behek rahi hai,
Samunder lehron ki lehron ki,
Chadar odh ke so raha hai,
Par mein jaagu, ek khumari,
Ek nasha sa, ek nasha sa ho raha hai,
Tu magar hai bekhabar, hai bekhabar..
Dil gira kahin par dafatan,
Kyu gunj rahi hai dhadkan,
Jaane magar yeh nayan,
Khushbu mein lipte mausam,
Teri khamosh zulfon ki gehraaiyaan hai jahan,
Dil mera uljha hua hai wahin kho gaya,
Tu magar hai bekhabar, hai bekhabar,
Dil gira kahin par dafatan..

Vote for Spikey

2009-02-05T04:09:00.001-08:00

Vote for spikey!

Spikey is ma friend jyo's pet
just click on the Image and it will take you to a page where you can vote by filling just name n email, 30 seconds off your web surfing hours, so Click NOW. :)

L4YER CAKE

2009-01-21T00:39:00.000-08:00

"If you seek peace, plan
for war."

"Life is so fucking good I can taste it in my spit. "

rockNrolla

2009-01-18T21:15:00.000-08:00

People ask the question... what's a RocknRolla? And I tell 'em - it's not about drugs, drums, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, other the sex game, the glamor, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot.

Johnny Quid: You see that pack of Virginia killing sticks on the end of the piano?
Pete: Yes.
Johnny Quid: All you need to know about life is retained in those four walls. You will notice that one of your personalities is seduced by the illusions of grandeur - the gold packet of king size with a regal insignia, an attractive implication towards grandeur and wealth, the subtle suggestion that cigarettes are indeed your royal and loyal friends, and that, Pete, is a lie.
Johnny Quid: Your other personality is trying to draw your attention to the flip side of the discussion, written in boring bold black and white, it's a statement that these neat little sergeants of death and in fact trying to kill you and that, Pete, is the truth.
Johnny Quid: Oh, beauty is a beguiling call to death and i'm addicted to the sweet pitch of its siren.
Johnny Quid: That that starts sweet ends bitter, and that which starts bitter ends sweet.
Johnny Quid: That is why you and i love the drugs and that is also why I cannot give that painting back. now please, pass me a light.
Pete: Oh you are something special, Mr johnny quid.

Awww shezz so sweet :*

2009-01-14T14:24:00.000-08:00

Its 4:05 Am I haven't slept long except for a three hour nap last night, just watched Slumdog Millionaire Can't wait for 23 to watch it on the Large screen. No time for a review, Loved the movie, more tomorrow from work ;) and hell yeah, Freida Pinto, :*

A.R.Rehman well don't pelt me with stones the sound track is ok, love the tracks Ooo Saya and Jaiho rest are okie dokie, :)

Bye for now, feels good watched three movies today :D

Last day of 08

2008-12-31T02:03:00.000-08:00

The tata wimax dude can't stop reminding every hour, the pop up says 7 hours to go.
i hate the pop-up it eats my bandwidth!

It's a holiday and I have been up since 3:00 am, been playing morcheeba, bjork, loreena and gong, kinda in mood for psychedelic shit spiced with some new age trance.

I look at the walls, the one i am facing is plastered with my fav posters, stick notes dangling to a poster of teh golden bridge I don't want to look at them, most of the to do's have been rendered could have been done, i look to the left a shoe company wants me to believe impossible is nothing, I ask why? A pan to the right and the black letters on a red card RUNAWAY i suddenly cease to see that I have ripped the A off and in my writing is a word YOUR I read it again "run your way" I like my crappy sign and the two letters below it "F.O"

Well that time of the year again, but don't feel like, the lists & the planing sounds stupid
And as it always happens, planing goes down the drain; & it happened today too :D lol
It looks like I am going to be at home, eating chocolate cake and watching some movie; may be I should put traffic on download - 4 Academy Awards and Morcheeba's video make me think i will like it.

Anyways I wasn't thinking of writing this blog-post
it just happened, with pretty much nothing to do on a holiday

So. Adios,

The new year won't be any different,
the days will be no longer, the nights wont get any colder
super heroes wont fly in the air
and the turbonator wont lift the stock market on his shoulders
the world won't stop seeking happiness in illusions
we wont stop playing hide n seek

but as I always say,
We get what we seek,
so here's to a new year,
with love n vendetta,
V.

A must read Analysis of the Mumbai Terror attacks;

2008-12-01T22:54:00.000-08:00

As reported on http://www.stratfor.com/
re-posting as indicated;

I request ya all to read this through, wont take long, please read.

Wriiten by : George Friedman

Last Wednesday evening, a group of Islamist operatives carried out acomplex terror operation in the Indian city of Mumbai. The attack was not complex because of the weapons used or its size, but in the apparent training, multiple methods of approaching the city and excellent operational security and discipline in the final phases of the operation, when the last remaining attackers held out in the Taj Mahal hotel for several days. The operational goal of the attack clearly was to cause as many casualties as possible, particularly among Jews and well-to-do guests of five-star hotels. But attacks on various other targets, from railroad stations to hospitals, indicate that the more general purpose was to spread terror in a major Indian city.

While it is not clear precisely who carried out the Mumbai attack, two separate units apparently were involved. One group, possibly consisting of Indian Muslims, was established in Mumbai ahead of the attacks. The second group appears to have just arrived. It traveled via ship from Karachi, Pakistan, later hijacked a small Indian vessel to get past Indian coastal patrols, and ultimately landed near Mumbai.

Extensive preparations apparently had been made, including surveillance of the targets. So while the precise number of attackers remains unclear, the attack clearly was well-planned and well-executed.

Evidence and logic suggest that radical Pakistani Islamists carried out the attack. These groups have a highly complex and deliberately amorphous structure. Rather than being centrally controlled, ad hoc teams are created with links to one or more groups. Conceivably, they might have lacked links to any group, but this is hard to believe. Too much planning and training were involved in this attack for it to have been conceived by a bunch of guys in a garage. While precisely which radical Pakistani Islamist group or groups were involved is unknown, the Mumbai attack appears to have originated in Pakistan. It could have been linked to al Qaeda prime or its various franchises and/or to Kashmiri insurgents.

More important than the question of the exact group that carried out the attack, however, is the attackers’ strategic end. There is a tendency to regard terror attacks as ends in themselves, carried out simply for the sake of spreading terror. In the highly politicized atmosphere of Pakistan’s radical Islamist factions, however, terror frequently has a more sophisticated and strategic purpose. Whoever invested the time and took the risk in organizing this attack had a reason to do so. Let’s work backward to that reason by examining the logical outcomes following this attack.

An End to New Delhi’s Restraint

The most striking aspect of the Mumbai attack is the challenge it presents to the Indian government — a challenge almost impossible for New Delhi to ignore. A December 2001 Islamist attack on the Indian parliament triggered an intense confrontation between India and Pakistan. Since then, New Delhi has not responded in a dramatic fashion to numerous Islamist attacks against India that were traceable to Pakistan. The Mumbai attack, by contrast, aimed to force a response from New Delhi by being so grievous that any Indian government showing only a muted reaction to it would fall.

India’s restrained response to Islamist attacks (even those originating in Pakistan) in recent years has come about because New Delhi has understood that, for a host of reasons, Islamabad has been unable to control radical Pakistani Islamist groups. India did not want war with Pakistan; it felt it had more important issues to deal with. New Delhi therefore accepted Islamabad’s assurances that Pakistan would do its best to curb terror attacks, and after suitable posturing, allowed tensions originating from Islamist attacks to pass.

This time, however, the attackers struck in such a way that New Delhi couldn’t allow the incident to pass. As one might expect, public opinion in India is shifting from stunned to furious. India’s Congress party-led government is politically weak and nearing the end of its life span. It lacks the political power to ignore the attack, even if it were inclined to do so. If it ignored the attack, it would fall, and a more intensely nationalist government would take its place. It is therefore very difficult to imagine circumstances under which the Indians could respond to this attack in the same manner they have to recent Islamist attacks.

What the Indians actually will do is not clear. In 2001-2002, New Delhi responded to the attack on the Indian parliament by moving forces close to the Pakistani border and the Line of Control that separates Indian- and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, engaging in artillery duels along the front, and bringing its nuclear forces to a high level of alert. The Pakistanis made a similar response. Whether India ever actually intended to attack Pakistan remains unclear, but either way, New Delhi created an intense crisis in Pakistan.

The U.S. and the Indo-Pakistani Crisis

The United States used this crisis for its own ends. Having just completed the first phase of its campaign in Afghanistan, Washington was intensely pressuring Pakistan’s then-Musharraf government to expand cooperation with the United States; purge its intelligence organization, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), of radical Islamists; and crack down on al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Afghan-Pakistani border region. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had been reluctant to cooperate with Washington, as doing so inevitably would spark a massive domestic backlash against his government.

The crisis with India produced an opening for the United States. Eager to get India to stand down from the crisis, the Pakistanis looked to the Americans to mediate. And the price for U.S. mediation was increased cooperation from Pakistan with the United States. The Indians, not eager for war, backed down from the crisis after guarantees that Islamabad would impose stronger controls on Islamist groups in Kashmir.

In 2001-2002, the Indo-Pakistani crisis played into American hands. In 2008, the new Indo-Pakistani crisis might play differently. The United States recently has demanded increased Pakistani cooperation along the Afghan border. Meanwhile, President-elect Barack Obama has stated his intention to focus on Afghanistan and pressure the Pakistanis.

Therefore, one of Islamabad’s first responses to the new Indo-Pakistani crisis was to announce that if the Indians increased their forces along Pakistan’s eastern border, Pakistan would be forced to withdraw 100,000 troops from its western border with Afghanistan. In other words, threats from India would cause Pakistan to dramatically reduce its cooperation with the United States in the Afghan war. The Indian foreign minister is flying to the United States to meet with Obama; obviously, this matter will be discussed among others.

We expect the United States to pressure India not to create a crisis, in order to avoid this outcome. As we have said, the problem is that it is unclear whether politically the Indians can afford restraint. At the very least, New Delhi must demand that the Pakistani government take steps to make the ISI and Pakistan’s other internal security apparatus more effective. Even if the Indians concede that there was no ISI involvement in the attack, they will argue that the ISI is incapable of stopping such attacks. They will demand a purge and reform of the ISI as a sign of Pakistani commitment. Barring that, New Delhi will move troops to the Indo-Pakistani frontier to intimidate Pakistan and placate Indian public opinion.

Dilemmas for Islamabad, New Delhi and Washington

At that point, Islamabad will have a serious problem. The Pakistani government is even weaker than the Indian government. Pakistan’s civilian regime does not control the Pakistani military, and therefore does not control the ISI. The civilians can’t decide to transform Pakistani security, and the military is not inclined to make this transformation. (Pakistan’s military has had ample opportunity to do so if it wished.)

Pakistan faces the challenge, just one among many, that its civilian and even military leadership lack the ability to reach deep into the ISI and security services to transform them. In some ways, these agencies operate under their own rules. Add to this the reality that the ISI and security forces — even if they are acting more assertively, as Islamabad claims — are demonstrably incapable of controlling radical Islamists in Pakistan. If they were capable, the attack on Mumbai would have been thwarted in Pakistan. The simple reality is that in Pakistan’s case, the will to make this transformation does not seem to be present, and even if it were, the ability to suppress terror attacks isn’t there.

The United States might well want to limit New Delhi’s response. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way to India to discuss just this. But the politics of India’s situation make it unlikely that the Indians can do anything more than listen. It is more than simply a political issue for New Delhi; the Indians have no reason to believe that the Mumbai operation was one of a kind. Further operations like the Mumbai attack might well be planned. Unless the Pakistanis shift their posture inside Pakistan, India has no way of knowing whether other such attacks can be stymied. The Indians will be sympathetic to Washington’s plight in Afghanistan and the need to keep Pakistani troops at the Afghan border. But New Delhi will need something that the Americans — and in fact the Pakistanis — can’t deliver: a guarantee that there will be no more attacks like this one.

The Indian government cannot chance inaction. It probably would fall if it did. Moreover, in the event of inactivity and another attack, Indian public opinion probably will swing to an uncontrollable extreme. If an attack takes place but India has moved toward crisis posture with Pakistan, at least no one can argue that the Indian government remained passive in the face of threats to national security. Therefore, India is likely to refuse American requests for restraint.

It is possible that New Delhi will make a radical proposal to Rice, however. Given that the Pakistani government is incapable of exercising control in its own country, and given that Pakistan now represents a threat to both U.S. and Indian national security, the Indians might suggest a joint operation with the Americans against Pakistan.

What that joint operation might entail is uncertain, but regardless, this is something that Rice would reject out of hand and that Obama would reject in January 2009. Pakistan has a huge population and nuclear weapons, and the last thing Bush or Obama wants is to practice nation-building in Pakistan. The Indians, of course, will anticipate this response. The truth is that New Delhi itself does not want to engage deep in Pakistan to strike at militant training camps and other Islamist sites. That would be a nightmare. But if Rice shows up with a request for Indian restraint and no concrete proposal — or willingness to entertain a proposal — for solving the Pakistani problem, India will be able to refuse on the grounds that the Americans are asking India to absorb a risk (more Mumbai-style attacks) without the United States’ willingness to share in the risk.

Setting the Stage for a New Indo-Pakistani Confrontation

That will set the stage for another Indo-Pakistani confrontation. India will push forces forward all along the Indo-Pakistani frontier, move its nuclear forces to an alert level, begin shelling Pakistan, and perhaps — given the seriousness of the situation — attack short distances into Pakistan and even carry out airstrikes deep in Pakistan. India will demand greater transparency for New Delhi in Pakistani intelligence operations. The Indians will not want to occupy Pakistan; they will want to occupy Pakistan’s security apparatus.

Naturally, the Pakistanis will refuse that. There is no way they can give India, their main adversary, insight into Pakistani intelligence operations. But without that access, India has no reason to trust Pakistan. This will leave the Indians in an odd position: They will be in a near-war posture, but will have made no demands of Pakistan that Islamabad can reasonably deliver and that would benefit India. In one sense, India will be gesturing. In another sense, India will be trapped by making a gesture on which Pakistan cannot deliver. The situation thus could get out of hand.

In the meantime, the Pakistanis certainly will withdraw forces from western Pakistan and deploy them in eastern Pakistan. That will mean that one leg of the Petraeus and Obama plans would collapse. Washington’s expectation of greater Pakistani cooperation along the Afghan border will disappear along with the troops. This will free the Taliban from whatever limits the Pakistani army had placed on it. The Taliban’s ability to fight would increase, while the motivation for any of the Taliban to enter talks — as Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suggested — would decline. U.S. forces, already stretched to the limit, would face an increasingly difficult situation, while pressure on al Qaeda in the tribal areas would decrease.

Now, step back and consider the situation the Mumbai attackers have created. First, the Indian government faces an internal political crisis driving it toward a confrontation it didn’t plan on. Second, the minimum Pakistani response to a renewed Indo-Pakistani crisis will be withdrawing forces from western Pakistan, thereby strengthening the Taliban and securing al Qaeda. Third, sufficient pressure on Pakistan’s civilian government could cause it to collapse, opening the door to a military-Islamist government — or it could see Pakistan collapse into chaos, giving Islamists security in various regions and an opportunity to reshape Pakistan. Finally, the United States’ situation in Afghanistan has now become enormously more complex.

By staging an attack the Indian government can’t ignore, the Mumbai attackers have set in motion an existential crisis for Pakistan. The reality of Pakistan cannot be transformed, trapped as the country is between the United States and India. Almost every evolution from this point forward benefits Islamists. Strategically, the attack on Mumbai was a precise blow struck to achieve uncertain but favorable political outcomes for the Islamists.

Rice’s trip to India now becomes the crucial next step. She wants Indian restraint. She does not want the western Pakistani border to collapse. But she cannot guarantee what India must have: assurance of no further terror attacks on India originating in Pakistan. Without that, India must do something. No Indian government could survive without some kind of action. So it is up to Rice, in one of her last acts as secretary of state, to come up with a miraculous solution to head off a final, catastrophic crisis for the Bush administration — and a defining first crisis for the new Obama administration. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said that the enemy gets a vote. The Islamists cast their ballot in Mumbai.

cant think of a title

2008-11-28T02:19:00.000-08:00

Yesterday after work me met Atul at somajiguda,and then we guys met chnadu, and satya and ended up landing at Monty's, and we did talk about teh firing spree, we were all equally angry and disturbed, we spent tiem talking what we as simple citizens could do, not much, any ways it was late and soon we went home, to the comfort of a safe night, hoping tomorrow we would still see each other.

"it's weird n sad. what u said is so true…I am, anyway, psychologically prepared to die any moment, at any corner of the city where I live in.
n I decided n am working fervently on this…to be kind and caring to all those animals that move around in my neighbourhood, to love my parents more sincerely than ever before, to write a few lines to those who I feel I am in love with or I truly care for….death lurks in the corner…." - jyo

And now , a lil rant coming from a fucked up mass of nerve cells; who else's mine.

What happened this Thursday is no different from what happened on 13th September in Delhi, or the long list of dates dotted with blood and death of innocent citizens, and it is no different from 9/11/2001
we have to act strong, its time we tightened the loose nuts and let some sense into the system, decentralize action, centralize strategy, de-link politics with national integrity and safety.

we need a centralized body to monitor terror, monitor human emotions, we need to filter the numerous so called fundamental systems that brainwash youngsters, we need to guard our borders more securely, we need to deploy a public force, we need to train general public to be aware, we need to mobilize a people movement to bridge differences, and to culturally bond, for long we have left teh differences brew, but some one wants to make stew and have a party, they want to claim ownership, divide our country, and decentralize our system. Will we let them do that,

and it all has to begin with us, we have to stop being indifferent, we need to vote, we need to question, we need to act,
look at what happened in the last 36 hours, people sitting at home, used social networking tools, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, blogging tools,and mobile phones, text messages were complied, twitter updates refined, data mined and general public kept themseleves awake and compiled a list of the dead, the where abouts of their bodies, teh injured, their hospital location, blood group, and some even left tehir contact numbers for round teh clock updates, And all this even before teh government did anything similar, and this is where the government ahs to accept taht teh public has a bigger roel to play, it was peopel who mobilized, people walked on teh street daring death, and I think we should all eb ready to do the same, we have to be alert.

the power of social networking is beyond rhetoric, we need to monitor the glaring bull shit on social networks, we need a network of citizens, and government officials, that can serve as the information backbone in times of emergency, we need to ignite a sense of awareness to issues that will define our lives, today and tomorrow, technology can harness change, and we have to quickly move in the right direction, we can't let politicians enjoy the liberty of mudslinging, we can't give them the liberty of deciding our future based on their ideoligies, or manifestos and literature, It has to be a humane effort, and this could well mark teh shift to a new age of democracy. We have to hold them responsible, we have to do our part, and we have to do it now. It our right, and it is all we can do, we can act, we need not be mere observers, we can impact change all by being aware, by questioning.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

2008-11-26T20:01:00.000-08:00

WHY?

That's the only question in my head right now. I am angry, feeling sad, but every time I look at the picture of the dude in his t-shirt holding a AK47 spreeing bullets at innocent people, with a smile on his face, I go numb. I ask why is he doing it.

The news widget blinks. 101 killed, 900+ injured,
9 terrorists recognized, 2 still holed up in Taj with hostages, 3 flee,
NSG commandos break into hotel,
and a new name floats, Deccan Mujahiddeen

The world over mdia reports are flooding, so are voices on the internet, I dont feel like writing. on the online edition of the telegraph, I see this comment by username : AHIMSA

Rise and realize! These manic extremist Terrorist groups have no specific religion or a specific country. These are ghastly fear mongers that feed on blood and pus. "Hatred" is their religion and "Hell" is their country. In this most crucial moment, let us unite all around the world to help shoot these stray dogs at the very sight!
ahimsa
November 27, 2008
03:53 AM GMT

well, for now I am going to the loo, wondering if I will be shot in my head by a maniac who is doing so because its holy war. Fuck religion, and god, philosophy and bull shit, and bush shit, theory of relativity and crap. :-|

Lara Jade's Camera on Sale

2008-11-16T13:35:00.000-08:00

I remember a few months back when I was all excited about buying a DSLR camera, a Olympus e-510 I even made Aadishpa buy it over a Canon 400D and rightly so, the Oly can kick ass any day , and I would tell her that my camera would be named Lara , yeah after Lara Jade an amazing photographer who is just 19. Love her work,

I had to pay-up to the investor of my then start up, and being the asshole I am, I never cared to save, I dumped my Adsense account for I didn't like Google's treatment to Wikipedia !!! loosing over 3 years Adsense money, didn't bother to pick cash from people I did freelance work for, money has never been a priority.

And today Lara Jade puts her camera on eBay for auction, I run through my three accounts, gather every penny, think of stuff I can sell off, people I can borrow from :D for I fucking want her camera, I am not bothered how old it is, not bothered by how much shutter life is left in the camera, or if there are lenses being shipped, I am not bothered by how much I will have to shell out to Grease our Customs officials, if needed. Its about 3:00 A.m a few minutes back I placed my Bid, I am in :) lets see which fan of her outbids me , :D

Wish me good luck, and be ready to lend me some monies :P
And yeah the pic, thats Lara Jade and her Canon Eos350D

wooottt!!

2008-11-16T01:56:00.000-08:00

First things first :)
Got connected to Tata Vsnl Wimax
384 Kbps , 47Kbps download speed on utorrent , 20 mins to download Katie Melua's new 2008 collection
and I am Loving it :D

Its just been three hours yet whatever, happies.

In other things;

watched Surya s/o Krishnan on Satday, I loved the movie may be the father - Son relation and emotions helped me ignore technical blunders, but even teh Surya Sameera Reddy part was nice, and yeah Sameera Reddy is HOT , can watch the movie again :) and its definitely worth a watch.

An yeah now, Grooveshark

its a online music portal, rather application, feels like a music player hooked up to endless musi, you have a keyword they have a song :D
I can now be not bothered about downloads and disk space, seriously. I like the audio quality too, And with lill tweaks to my Realtek HD audio hardware The 5.1 sounds just perfect. And now that I got 384 Kbps I need not even wait for any buffering :D haha Rocks \m/
Check it out, if you got enough brawn on ur broadband you will love it,
Morcheeba, Katie MElua, Jason Mraz, GooGoo Dolls, Tokio Hotel, Maroon5, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, Hinders, Donovan, REM, motley crew.... well I found them all and more, Kick Ass Cool.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/

The Pics;
My Wimax Modem Fixed to the wall,
Sameera Reddy from Surya s/o Krishnan
Grooveshark screen shot

Random

2008-10-31T21:53:00.000-07:00

"Motherfucking cocksucker motherfucking shit fucker what am I doing? What am I doing? I don't know what I'm doing. I'm doing the best that I can. I know that's all I can ask of myself. Is that good enough? Is my work doing any good? Is anybody paying attention? Is it hopeless to try and change things? The African guy is a sign, right? Because if he isn't, than nothing in this world makes any sense to me. I'm fucked! Maybe I should quit. Don't quit! Maybe I should just fucking quit. Don't fucking quit! I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to fucking do anymore! Fucker! Fuck shit!"

These are the opening lines from I heart Huckabees, (working title: I love huckabees)\
Last night I reached home a lil late than usual, and after quick feel like rockstar loo time; I was back at my comp only to realize the dumb ass Gateway for SIFy Broadband was down, and I can't connect. I am not sure when the network will be back.
So with no access to internet, I flipped a few magazines started writing and then I remembered I had a dvd under a pile of clothes, I pop it in;

I love Huckabees is a movie not every one may like, At big-Flix I found it under the Comedy Collection, but knowing who arranges the disks I read a online preview on their search kiosk before finally putting it in my bag.
And it was rated V/A a comedy Rated V/A !!! Even Naked MIle is rated U/A hehe :D
But the story is not a Comedy, It's about life, the meaning the purpose or the lack of it, It is about the big connection, or just nothingness, Characters for once are realistic not in what they do, but in what they think about and talk.

I would giev the movie a 9 out of 10, most of my friends wouldn't even watch it, It is not geeky, inspite of all the philosophy and nerd talk, but It is teh most beautiful visual description of what is Humane, I would request every one to watch it.

the movie talks about looking at the universe as an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Towards the end the film has this to say:

The woods are hopeless. Don't waste your time, they will be destroyed. So will the marsh. It is a losing game mankind has played for more than a century. Sadness is what you are, do not deny it. The universe is a lonely place, a painful place. This is what we can share between us, period.

what did I learn from it?

If you look close enough you can't tell where my nose ends and space begins.

But more importantly it helps me understand my connections, with everything, infinity. :D
Now this movie sits right there next to Fight Club in my list

and today I found-back this;
www.rememberthemilk.com

A great help for someone like me, I have been thinking of recharging my mobile for quite some time and yesterday night I realize I don't have any cash left in the damn mobile, no internet and no access to oxycash so I am stranded and now taht my balance has hit below 150 for few days I wonder if I still have my free GPRS
My visiting card is pending printing for a whole four months period, :D
I have to download Death Magnetic ! pending for more than a month now
I have to collect my ten grand cheque from a client, pending for near one month and half,
I am an Asshole, Lazy Procrastinating asshole and still the world thinks I am smart.

3Days of doing nothing;

2008-10-28T07:39:00.000-07:00

Thats 72 Hrs;
4320 Minutes;
259200 Seconds,

And what I did;
Watched three flicks, downloaded near 1gb crap, spend hours reading Syd Fields Screenplay,
Went out on Monday, checked with Tata Wimax, they say the wireless signal catcher has to be placed at a height not more than 9mts !!!! WTF? What percent of Hyderabad's possible broadband subscribing population lives at a height less than 9mts, I hate dumb asses who get paid fat cheques at these stupid Service sector Companies.
So what do I do, I hate this Sify Connection, off late stability has been restored but downloads at 5kbs for a 256Kbps connection at 1200/- per month nah, I need to figure out which of the first floor neighbors would be willing to get their walls drilled, :(

Apart from music, books, and movies, I have been mostly sleeping, eating and doodling, trying to play around with the graphic tablet, getting introduced to Ajax (nah not the Giant from trojan war) MooTools, getting to know basics of survival skills for tomorrows web design, apart from all this not so useful stuff nothing much.

FUCKIN BORED :D

Kabhi Kushi kabhi Ghum :D

2008-10-25T22:53:00.000-07:00

Thats KJ's blockbuster movie, but I am not a KJ fan like Aj :D
but this phrase pretty much sums up the world economy; kabhi kushi (global growth) kabhi ghum (recession)

The other day Ritu left a comment :
"dude, i still dont understand the situation,,, the great depression after WW1 had reasons behind it... reasons that were easier to understand,, this one's crazy, i stil dont get it... THere is money.. its all there... so where exactly is it going wrong.. when someone's money is going down the drain, there should be someone making hoards of money.. so ehre is it all goin?"

It's nice to see him here; so I decide not to mail him and blog the answer :)

To begin with actually it's not at all different, it is the same sectors, read Banking, and Investment that are pulling down the economy, in fact every recession was centered around them, why? Simple thats where teh money is.

Some one's loss, some one's gain? Money out, money in? Not always, especially when money is dollar somewhere, rupee somewhere, and more so coz money is a pair of levis here, and a a day at teh hospital some where, money is risk included share in a company, money is a piece of land, and money is a piece of pizza.

In a no jargon explanation, that doesn't give credit to real factors, and doesn't dig into various factors, heres a lay mans look:

Assume a village, full of farmers, artisans, bakers, and blah. The village church is where we deposit our faith, and the annual feasts are our dividends. The Sheriff looks after the governance, the village grows; in population, in wealth and in overall prosperity. Around this time a smart ass approaches the Sheriff and proposes an idea; the Sheriff sees the greater good, and doles out some tax money and the village has a Bank, we now deposit our monies, and some faith. The bank promises to give dividends in the form of money! cool. The bank makes money by lending, to you, to me, and to the burger joint round the corner, the soda shop down the lane, the theater near the church, and the fruit market, they grow, they employ many neighbors. Happy! And one day people suddenly need money more of it, people want bigger houses, they want better things, they go to the bank, they get money, but when it comes to paying back, they are reluctant, they are used to spending big, everything overvalued, the bank feels the pinch, it wants money, it snatches houses, it puts everything on mortgage for sale, for a DISCOUNTED sale, suddenly prices fall, for land, when one thing goes cheap others follow, soon there is a huge divide, there is inflation is some markets, and some others are undervalued, ! bank is short of money again, it asks the soda shop, burger joint and blah to pay more and pay quick, they start feeling the pinch cut costs, and fire people, people start asking for more money, banks can't give. the big F word pops-up, Fear, the bank is feared, ATMS get mobbed, Deposits Fly out and a big hole in the bank's wallet, bank stops lending to our soda shops and burger joints, they cut more costs, people Fear more, they start hiding money, money goes black, and every body starts to panic, we call it recession. It won't last forever; teh sheriff will pump more tax money to save the bank, but next year his tax money wont be as good, but still teh village will survive, years later Fear will erode and Faith will restore, hidden money will come out, Banks will get back to work, and we will eat at Mac Donalds, while Sipping Cola that will cost 30 for a Fountain.
Untill that happens we will call it Depression 2.0 and we will struggle.

More serious stuff can be found elsewhere on the web, google or ur fav search tool, key words remain same; Reasons for current recession.

On an Indian point of view, we will suffer more, but our Gov differs with this view, they claim we are insulated, their ass, :-/
With elections, subsidies still being offered, a doomed agri sector, and with Obama all set to win, Leftist ideologies entering the west economies, will cripple growth,
Sample this ;
January This year the total wealth on BSE was $3.5 Trillion thats three times India's annual GDP
today it is less than half of that, money eroded, ! Where into hiding, into foreign hands, into darkness, and most of it is lost forever, as in it is dead for us to count. Thats the biggest loop hole of the system, volumes are large and investments small but they all disappear.

With bigger bets, they just withdraw and look for safer places, where? teh answer is not evident.

And Indian economy lured foreign Investments by offering a risk free investment module, while u and me avaerage Indians and companies either mutual fund or banks or other companies invested by taking risk, foreign buyers were offered a means by which when the stock value falls beyond base price, the money they gave turns into debt, and they can claim it! so companies like Reliance are loosing all teh money from these foreign investors who find it safe to take away what they invested, rather than waiting for some amendments to the rules that may put them in risk of loss. And the world over rates have spurted by additional 2 to 4 % for industries, which means the debt for all companies increased, with a stronger Dollar, our economy will need to bleed more. And still our politicians tell us all is fine, and resort to mud slinging each other, shit all fuckers.
Soem hope lies with increased exports, but they will FALL,
the actually pinch will be felt in mid 2009, people will stop spending, stop investing, and start hiding, they will stand to pay less taxes, and the government will loose money, many companies will start selling out at drastic rates, it will be a tough time, and we need to be ready.

Read the Economist, or reports in the WEEK, Outlook Money, for more. For a better review of Indian Situation we will have to look up for alternate sources like Blogs and Forums, and University Reports. Teh Mass MEdia is again backing teh lame government, you won't hear much truth.

The Fall :(

2008-10-24T10:21:00.000-07:00

Sensex fell by 1000 points, :(

I am now feeling sick, Last january I traded all stock in Rolta India, and the markets started fluctuating since the day after,

my money since then has been reduced to a paltry 40% of the actual total then, !!

My portfolio includes, Reliance Industries, Moser Baer, Indian Overseas Bank, Samkrg Piston, Abhishek Industries, and Reliance Power,

Biggest looser here is reliance Power, I put in a lot in the IPO, thankfully due to over subscription I was left with near nothing stock, some happy face :)

Though I am a lill pissed off, and worried, I think in about four years now, Reliance Industries Should scratch it's way back to the top,

the rest may not really comeback so soon,

may be IOB, it will hit 70 or 60, and stay there for some time,

I have seen it grow steady from 10, to 120,

four years it should be back to 100, and hopefully so this has some of the largest volumes in my portfolio,

I wonder if Abhishek Industries will survive, though their shift to agri business is promising, I am not sure if they can get away without liquidity and teh credit crunch,

Moser Baer is the most interesting scrip to watch out for, I bet a lot on this, used to debate with dad why it will win, I have seen it go to 1900 fall to 1000 then 500, then 200, then 100, bounce back to 300, and now its 64 !!! but still, Its a player to watch out for, Solar Power Plants, Micro Chips, TV and other peripherals they are innovating and I kinda liek them,

there are a couple of other scrips too, but not interested, I assume my total cash will hit as low as 25% of the actual figure during jan, and in four or five years be back to 70% I am in no hurry, I can wait,

But what worries me more, is the impending recession and probably economic depression,

With the probability of several people loosing jobs, Industries piling up surplus products, the inflation may go down but the income may as well lag, it's scary to think of living through a depression have heard the most scary stories from my Grandpa, and even dad, Have seen a lil Recession action during 2001 ! but that was predominantly affecting IT and back then I had nothing to do with the industry,

Bank Savings with ICICI, and Investments with ICICI Prudential, now thats another scary concern, but I guess they are the strongest private players in respective industries, and I don't Fuckin want elections next year postpone them, drop them, bring in presidential rule, You morons don't have the right to play with the TAX we pay, :(

The great depression lead to the birth of the greatest dictator ever Hitler! if anything can fuel a revolution it is a recession, but for a sensitive and broken society like ours, it will be Anarchy and not economic reforms, so my dear dumb ass government, stand up stop filling your swiss bank accounts and be realistic and for once in your life be true to your responsibilities a lot is at stake now than it was a few days back! Thats life, evolution.

Hard Times are here ! & They Are Coming

2008-10-23T23:19:00.000-07:00

A whole generation is searching up articles on the great depression, the r word is more popular than the F word, no more extra cheese, Printers now come with free pink colored paper, The google search analytics popularly known as trends points out "how to survive a recession" is the most searched phrase. So do we now accept, The Hard Times are Here.

The Fm says don't worry, why should I listen to him, may be most people whiling their time off MTV crap, and watching a super star take revenge in his agla janam, and making a beeline at the local f-bar on a TGIF night can listen to him and say, India will bounce back,

but let one of these spy camera men from the hindi news channels be sent on a special assignment, they will give you the right news, "We are in a very, very, very bad economic situation, and unlike the west, we are acting indifferent"

Just a couple of samples;

kingfisher airlines head banger and bum badge superhero, the king of happy times, walks into the competitors den to seek help from teh jet flying Indian superstar of entreprenurial superstardom, but whats going on in the jet flyers mind, how to pay salaries to his corporate slaves.

Hyderabad metro rail project slated for a seven year from now completion is going no where, reason the US bank drops out, and the government is scrambling to help the private player, what will they do subsidize land acquisition, but nothing beyond that, may be no taxes, but hell teh money needed is more than that,

the reddy company needs $500mn to reneovate mumbai airport, and with a big NO from foreign investors, where will they run, Government?

The big dicks of indian IT were enjoying the returns on financial and banking gaints service sector needs, now the giants are in a rumble, and if Obama wins, which is evident; he pledged to cut taxes for any organization that stays away from outsourcing, and an additional tax may be levied on the ones that outsource, where will that lead teh outsourcing business, what will happen to teh zillion Indian youth who slog their asses in BPOs, will my government give them jobs? where?

The biggest paisa wasting moment in Indian economic life cycle is elections, and we can see them coming, inspite of the economic crunch, you hear netas promising free power, tax cuts, and subsidies, which of course will never recah teh needy, what will the next budget be like,

can we not turn these bastards upside down and empty their pockets, that may bring in a few billion dollars, may be more, but isn't it already hawalafied, black money,

What about pending loans, Industries big and small, have huge loans to pay and now they have hardly any further income flowing, what will they do?

Sample what some companies are doing;

no more artifical lighting, rip off those window blinds, ac's run periodically, no more tolilet paper! yes really, it does save money!!! no more uneccessary ad-spends, no bonus, no incentives, soem offices have gone zero paper, its all electronic documentation, no printing, no paper,

So is it doom time,

Not exactly, it's tough time, and we have to accept the fact and panic a bit, learnt o tide this wave of recession which can last for a while, teh 2001-2003 period was not a recession it was just a dotcom bubble burst and with web 2.0 and greater internet penentration we survived, we fought back,

Like a gentleman said "This is not the end of world, we will march ahead, and so will generations to come. We will learn, and we will grow stronger, but yes It may not be all pleasent."

So buckle up for some unpleasent times, and save for the hard times, check on your financial situation, well some of us don't need to, but most have to.

In other news;

Yes they are coming back :D

The Transformers2 is under it's way, may take some time to come, but heres a preview :P

will be waiting for the movie, hope I will still be having a job that will help me buy a ticket for the big screen at prasadz :D

Where are we going?

2008-10-23T02:52:00.001-07:00

We are India, the elephant that keeps marching ahead? We are branded by political parties as "glowing" as developed, children read about our so called great history, culture and traditions in text books, they growup with this picture of a vibrant great cultural society that to them is India, but how true?

Tourism ministries promote states like they were cola brands, or sports shoes, and yes we have tag lines, "athithi devo bhava" - (read we rape innocent tourists, and if the rapist is a ministers son, lets get justice when earth meets its end) IAS aspirants prepare themselves for number crunching tests, reading statistics assimilated decades earlier, the only ones updated are the ones that have a positive upward mobility on the graph,

We have the second highest number of Billionaires in the world, several Indian companies have joined the global elite, Tatas buy Jaguar, and Rover. TCS buys Citi group BPO, Mahindra's set foot in Europe, aren't we fuckin shinning, India Shining?

Really? The FM claims, the markets will be stable, yeah at 9800 points the Sensex redefines the word stable, RBI assures credit flow, don't be kidding, show me the money, Inflation on check, how long? and by what points? Tomatoes selling at 30 a Kg is a downfall of inflation? Money in the banks is safe, if needed "Government will infuse Funds" whose fucking money is it, and where is it going to go?

I conclude this part of the blog-post stating we India, have failed as a Nation, but are not ready to accept it, we are divided, we are corrupted, and most of all we are Greedy assholes, Jealous, Incompetent mostly, Intelligent To a Large extent, Unethical, and most of all we are heartless and gutless rats in the race. Vision 2020; my ***@#$, is a plan to feed every leaf in the politicians family tree with the green food (money).

And now coming to the actual post, yes the above was the foreword by this part of me, that wakes up at 2 in the morning to quickly turn a page or two in yesterdays newspaper.

The Global Financial crisis; where do we stand & where are we heading?

Thats the last question I would have wanted to answer in a term paper, luckily this ain't a fucking exam for marks, there is no personal goal in writing this.

It by today is clear that we are fucked up, and yes it sure is going to a economic depression, great, small or manageable, it for sure will have a huge impact.

Step One: Save money; and stop believing you are safe. Don't trust that asshole who will come on air to assure you we are still shining, the only thing that probably will shine is his bald head under the lime light.

Step Two: Learn to live a real life, a life that needs you to sacrifice, to survive and not dance to a tune, or dress for a theme. May be you can read your grandfathers Diary to learn a thing or two about these values.

Step Three: Question & Learn.

Step Four: Become Human.

Capitalism, did it fail us?

No, we failed Capitalism. An Ideology that voiced economic Liberalism, that questioned control, and sought Freedom was too noble to remain a saint, it had become alcoholic over years, and in the process become what has been termed as Hyper Capitalism. So?
Well there is still faith, and hope. A new capitalistic model, that sheds its Hyper tag, and evolves into a more ethical system.

What went wrong with India?
Everything! Don't be surprised, for beginners, we are no more India, we are divided into two, and those who deny to accept may go to hell (read a mid north western village in India).

Our Country can boast of super computers, and now of a mission to moon, not denying the credibility fo these achievements, we have to accept the miserable failure of our Governance, Beuracracy, educational & economic models.

Fuck Democracy, politics is a family business that does not require one to maintain accounts, you can claim all wealth as gifted, and pay no taxes, you are given Z+ category security (from who?) and if your son has his hormones kickin he can go rape any woman on the street and still contest in the next election with his face plastered on every wall and pan-shop in town. and ofcourse win he shall.

Education, yes we have the bells, the balls, and the honors. We are undoubtedly the cheapest provider of labor, or else why would MNCs set shop here, and our so called universities are breeding hells for anti social elements, teh elite list? Oh fuck that, there are quotas, there is NRi admission, and after all that even if something is there for grabs, you have a price tag to pay. and it can range from a silly number to a even more funny number, and yes banks will give you the money, go take it.

Economics, Holy Cow, that is such a bad word, the pundits should que up to cleanse it :D
Economics in India has a different meaning, it represents the Nexus between politicians, capitalists, and anti-social elements,

In the name of development, we have sacrificed public wealth in breeding private start-ups, our governments built policies and laws to protect them from foreign players we called it Nationalism, they claimed these would generate wealth and prosperity, for whom? Jobs, and security, in return for what?

But as our moto has always been. "adjust kariyo" - Bharth ka Vishwas Mantra

we have adjusted to the system, we were too busy to question or learn, we let things happen, we were least bothered by quality of life, we dumped ethics in the drainage; some rich men flushed it down the western at a press of a button, all the while, the nexus was clebrating, for it has succeeded at every stage in letting a whole generation become allienated to reason and thought, we the generation bred on the so called change, we sought solace in entertainment, our DNA is now encrypted with what they want; Greed, Indifference, Fear. we my fucking generation are now useless to a large extent, and reading magazines about so called struggling artist won't help you, nor will eating namkeens while watching broadcast shit.

So what?
Let you be sent to the second hell, (read a village in Orissa)
We today have a bunch of business czars who command near 50% of our GDP, this wealth is inherited to their next generation by birth, they determine laws, they are saved from taxes in the name of industrialization,they accquire public land in teh name of SEZs, they drill into natural resources, they control US,
And we pay taxes, for what? for building roads, that are contracted BOT to one of these companies, they milk us to make cheese, We pay VAT for what for education, whose fucking education? for teh downtrodden, where are they? in fucking factories, so where is the money? under the asshole politicians bed,
We pay for education, for what? for lab resources? no, for Teachers Fee? no, For the chalk and duster? No you moron, for the Private institutions to Invest in real estate.
Don't we own a piece of these companies, isn't that sweet? I can buy stock, I am a smart ass, :) Yeah let the african elephants fuck your royal ass, what you own a sugar crumb in the pie, or in bigger companies a grass blade in a forest, and your dividends are sent after tax deductuions, theres? nah, no tax. And how do you knwo how much is your money really giving back? the Annual reports? no my sweet innocent lill prick, annual reports are fabricated shit of mass statistics.

So am I anti capitalist?
No!!! I am Not!!
Look at Warren Buffet, look at Bill Gates, they are true Capitalists, warren buffet's elder son is a farmer, who writes journals on agricultural development, buffet has pledged all his wealth to social cause, show me one Indian business asshole whose son is farming, and I will show you the Abhishek Bachhan who is a farmer and not a film actor. (as was reportedly claimed by his noble father the Big B)

So what I am talking about?
I am asking for change, and change that is born out of a generations learning and questioning,
I seek Capitalists that are humane, I seek the end of Democracy, and teh death of all these idiotic politicians, who do I ask/ I don't pray, I don't believe in miracles, so i ask myself, I ask people I know, to do what, kill some one? No you moron, death was part of the rhetoric not the plan of action,

The points don't actually ask you to do anything, other than learning, questioning, and very importantly changing self.
That is all,

Is it the point of all this rant?
yes you moron,
Now what?
nothing!
You can cease to exist and save this world and save yourself, if you don;t have the balls, then try surviving and some day you will be knocked off your balls, and when that day comes, you will see sunlight in your face, and you will ask yourself Did I miss the train? No, my sweet sugar pie, you missed teh purpose of living.
So does that mean I am useless?
No, my boy, with your most simple, adjusted life you might have pleased your mamma, pappa, and may be a prominent significant other, you did a great job, but you could have done something better, something more profound than just fornication, and then owing responsibility of the results and calling it life.

Is there a solution?
for what? you mean for the depression, economic? your life? or anythign else?

I mean the whole thing?
understanding the whole in itself is a great solution,

You din't answer the where are we going part?
Ok, well we will either revive like teh us did, but i hardly see any billion dollar sharing intelligent soul in indian business line up, nor do I see people becoming more politically active, and less indifferent, less greedy, or less wanting, so its not a mathemetical problem, it just may be.
we may end up like Russia, for worst.

So is it goodbye?
No its I need to pee time, and then it will soon be I need to go home, and shout at the Sify broadband guy time, so yeah for now its Adios,

Any parting words?
When you die ask your self this very same question, those parting words will be more relevant than mine.

Where are we going?

2008-10-23T02:52:00.000-07:00

Wait Over, & a quick review of AGL

2008-10-20T23:58:00.000-07:00

well i finally got hooked to the web, this temporary Sify thing sucks,
yesterday I finally got an Ip, yeah a static Ip and non-auto detecting DNS to connect to,
and finally when I do, my password is 123456 aha great, what security,
so yeah connection, the paper says 256Kbps Unlimited an dI paid 1200/-
my speed test shows 124Kbps Down and 88Kbps Up, WTF !!

First thign I try updating my AntiVir and generally on Reliance broadnet it would talk 59Seconds, yeah less than a minute,
and yesterday it took 22 fucking minutes, why well the download rate was 0.8Kbps max to 0.2 Kbps min average 0.4Kbps ................ Is this what I paid the money for, ???

However it was at ten thirty,
at about twelve in the night I put a gigantic 926Mb file for download via Utorrent, I had half of it downloaded via relBroadnet in 8Hrs,
and SIFY hehe :D it says 11hrs to go when I finally hibernated my PC at 7:30 in the morning !

So, this damn thing ain't gonna last more than thirty days, and some good news is that,
the tower I complained I had to view every time I peed in my bathroom happens to be a VSNL Wimax tower
so after some web research I may go for it, :)

So apart from web rantings, in other things The "Marjawa" song from fashion is my current fav,
check it on youtube, can't embed here as Youtube is blocked at work, :D

And If you guys din't hear this from me, there is a new magazine in town, yeah yet another, :D
its called Avant Garde Life, (what a disgrace) avant garde was anti norm, anti capitalistic, was anti mass-media, was described as a street movement, was ridiculed as Kitsch and downplayed as non artsy, and the movement rose out of dust in the street, broke norms, and pushed boundaries, from france, to europe, to americas, and the rets of the world, and finally found place in the english lexicon as a word that describes breaking boundaries, an anti - fundamental innovation,.... and what do I see on the cover Sneha Ulal, :D

i bought the mag, coz I was curious to see the people behind it, the first thing i checked a line of text with a drop shadow and i knew it was fresh out of print from pragati printers, I skip the initial full blown full page ads (probably free) and I read a lill text about some gadgets, which to be frank were all crap, I wonder what generation gadgets they were, and if any of the Hyderabadi janatha would ever buy a Vertu mobile phone for 38Lakhs, especially Avant Garde janatha, teh street artist punching text sms on a Vertu !! :D

Before I percieved more, I had to read about teh people and their mission statement I had skipped it to glimpse the mag, but i flipped back, haaa, here the remenants of hydrogen stink, :D well the target audience, not clear Young Generation? Struggling Artists? ok somewhere in between,

160 pages of nonsense, mostly, I did like one of teh interviews, but nothing Innovative here, not even teh design,
And teh photo diary, was damn funny, NGC kinda pics, bought from getty reportage, via Visage, about a african tribe, the text is dead in the dark tones of teh image and I wonder why not something more relevant?

Anyways once i read the mission statement & teh editors letter, I knew this was teh last time I was buying this mag, so another dud, ha, :(

Verdict: Nothing Unique, if you find it at a coffee shop, flip through, Don't buy it ain't worth 100 Bucks, and for teh Guys at AGL thats hwo tehy call themselves, You should eb able to easily find crappy writers in hyderabad, especially from the glittering collegia so hire some of them and they will help you look like Dc's abandoned child, pump in local crap, and who knows people may start liking, just hwo it happened with WOW,

And the next time you interview a Noob, don't ask him/her questions you would pose at a pro, there is a way to promote new artists its called feature not interview. Six pages of crappy talk aint helping anybody,

V.
P.S; their website ain't working, :|

And for those who respect culture, Avant Garde Magazine was a cultural revolt, published by highly criticized journalist, and publisher Ginzburg, whose designer friend created the popular AvantGarde Font,
and AGL use teh exact same Logo and Font, that was used by Ginzburg on his Magazine cover.

Britanica has a collection of some highly controversial cover designs of teh mag, do a google search.

Warning: please don't waste your tiem reading my crap talk, it is use-less

2008-10-16T21:38:00.000-07:00

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

well I was watching fight club the other day, :D

Any ways,
Thanks to me being born in a third world country where corporates and psus all function alike, I am still nowhere near getting a broadband connection.

India's biggest communication network can't find a way to connect to my home, and for fucks sake its 5 minutes from teh central nervous system of the city, a walk away from the only premiere foreign language university and half a mile from asia's biggest University, I pee in the bathrrom all i see outside teh window is huge towers streaming data via sattelites and they fuckin tell em sorry sir our service is not available in your area.

And look at their dumb ass advertising water, food, and connectivity balls to your connectivity,

Thanks to the fucked up service sector its been near half a month and I am clueless, I checked with hughes and they only provide sattelite internet to corporates not homes, ahhhhh. I have few options left and I have to find something soon before my other half left to thyself on the bad bad world wide web floats dead.

So what apart from my broadband woes, ?

Well I kinda realized no ass really cares what i rant here, not any, or not many.
Some peek through at random forced by a scrap book entry or diverted here via pings and ping backs on gtalk, but anyways I started writing for self and visitors are always welcome, I am not living off my blog hehe :D even those ads from google are off, my blog is clean and pure now! :P

In other things the quest continues, it is alarming that i am becoming very impatient and angry, i have hurt many a dumb soul the last few days, the BigFlix store chick puts up all telugu movies in the main display area, that pissed me off, I made it a personal task to search all david fintcher flicks, and a few personal favs and then stocked them all stylishly all the while dumping those telugu flicks in a heap in one shelf, she probably was shocked, but good thing din't dare to say a word.

And the other day, when my call got cold transferred to a senior rep at reliance communications, my very first words were how much money does your company spend on bald heads and fat asses you hire from IIMs and she was like how can I help you, me: Fire them, She: chuckles, Me: and if you can record this call it could potentially eb used not just for training your dumb customer care execs, as well for your business development. She: was silent. I continued; has it ever flashed in your minds that you are providing a service that can have a lot to do with someones day to day living, for your kind information you are providing me with an internet connection and not selling candy, I would appreciate if you can be more concerned when dealing with people who use your service,
She: 9was probably cursing me and wished a bomb exploded right under my ass) sorry sir, we will do our best to help you, please tell me how I can help you.
Me: the next time somebody calls up to your service center reporting a problem don't tell that it would be resolved in 72 hours, tell them they can either dump your service or expect to wait for a full week or more.
She: silent.
Me: You probably must have looked at my account details, I have a pending complaint, in fact I have six complaint numbers and I have spoken to probably half your staff, so all I wan't you to do is come and pick your damn modem and stop billing me,
She: Sir may I knwo the reason why you wan't to disconnect your service with us.
Me: thankfully you don't need to do that part, you have succeeded in keeping me away from getting connected to your remote DNS for ten days now, so don't bother about that just stop billing me, and take that blinking thing from under my computer which has your comapnies logo on it.
She: Sir, are you asking em to terminate your account with us.
Me: for the first time somebody has understood what i am trying to say, congratulations, please go ahead and terminate my service.
She: for that i would need your account details.
Me: my account number is 2632920/.... blah blah, and its in my name, .. my security question blah blah, my alternmate number blah blah. Now when are you going to stop billing me,
She: it would take 360 Hours for the account to be terminated, and you can always call us if you would liek to continue. and you would be billed till the day your account is terminated.
ME: (WTF) So you saying you will charge me for a period of fifteen days from now, and also for the last ten days wherein I haven't used your service!
She: You will be billed for the period untill your account is confirmed terminated.
Me: all I needed was an yes or No, anyways have a wonderful day, and I wish not another call like mine ends up in your shift time, I regret being rude but your dumb service doesn't help. Either way i completely understand that I would be spending useless hours of mine If I were to try to ask you ..........call continued for another five ten minutes,

Hmm a horrifying revelation of teh great Indian Service sector, Giants and minnows all work alike, dumb> nobody has common sense and our stupid education system fails to help improve any standards, if it has helped any I am sure it did, people at 13 talk about doing a 69, and feed on MTv junk they have been enlightened by the global culture, and thats all that my great Indian Education system has been able to achieve. There are exceptions but we are talking in general,

So back to me , (ha again!), this is my blog you moron (only to those who thought to differ) It has been long since my knuckles truned purple or teh paint faded any further on the walls, but we have announced a ceasefire and it looks like safe for a while,

Over teh week its been a damn boring time spent contemplating with the devil in my head over several issues, some time spent shopping, yeah again, found this place called Splash, pretty good, and 3 on 5, coming from me! bought a couple of things, was nice and bought a tee that says Rock n Roll Warrior , yeah me :D

Have bought oh so many magazines, thanks to lack of internet, I need to feed the urge for learning, photomags, gossip crap, film mags, fashion, lifestyle, local, business, well found a new mag published from Hyd, teh size is quite odd, as long as A3 a lill less wide, crazy. Good design it's called avantgrade Life, not really interesting read, but is well designed and has enough eye candy for 100 bucks, audi, ferrari, dell ATG reviews, and a batmobiel review, yeah worth the 100. so cool.

I had thsi weird idea of wanting to venture into agriculture, :) A few acres land, and give me a Mahindra tractor, I will sow seeds for tomorrow wearing my lee coopers hehe, :D even on a serious note, I really think someday I would try my hands at commercial farming, even if it will be on a small scale.

In other news I am getting really impatient and bored at work, and eagerly awaiting any news form any of those dumb broadband companies, The day i get hooked to the internet I am going to do a lot of work, reminds me I need to collect cash from a client, deliver work to another, I need to buy a server, and its all getting late. Ha, time for doing some work at work, so here it ends, my random talk. Lets hope I get hooked to the internet soon.
Adios,
V.

Updates ahoy, ;)

2008-10-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

its been a long while since I posted a blog entry,
lets just say I have been busy elsewhere.

I completed a long pending freelance work,
and took up another project, so its going to be as usual busy.

but as you know I always have something to rant, :)

Well yesterday was a holiday & I had no access to Internet, that was like the worst holiday in the recent past.
I had work to complete & I call up the reliance Broad net service, a sweet voice tells me it is festive season and it would take three days to get the thing fixed, that's shit. My Big Flix account remains suspended, and my repeated calls have no effect on getting my refund money. but I still love Reliance!! not just coz I am a stock holder in it.

Moving on, I watched Rock On, last week I guess, it was good. Ok,
things at work aren't any better, been getting offers from elsewhere but nothing exciting,
so, Well I am at work, need to plan on a lot of things.

I had this weird thought, I have for long been telling my self that I am just out of coll, and I don't really need to let the system fuck me up so early, I have been toying around with ideas, and very importantly not respecting Time! so a realization of some sorts, Kinda need to buckle up, and get ready, to go join the race, :D
rat race, or bat race, you decide, but I need to take things into control,.

the other day as I had no access to internet I took time to do things that i would other wise have skipped, like I picked up the new book By Chetan Bhagath , sorry to say i din't like it, 48 pages and I dumped it.

then I pulled out all those debit card statements from my lee coopers, and newports :D and I realized i am left with 17K , shit ! And I have a month to go, I haven't saved anything, shit, hehe, :D
I am very bad when it comes to managing my money, i can be extremely careful with others cash, but not mine! some serious planing needed here.
But hell i am a 20 something right? But even then, Ok I am saving up with one of those ICICI stuff, don't knwo what it's called my friend, buddy and investment advisor Varun aka Sai made sure I save a couple of thousands every month, thanks to him, :) the guys refer to it as the honeymoon fund.But i wonder if I will need that money for the specific purpose in three years, that when I get the cash, may be I can buy a Dell Monster, ha chuck I will build my own Beast, hmm Nezxt casing, Nvidia Quadro, 64Bit O.S, Core2Extreme, DDR3 Ram, :D thats one hell of a idea, of course unless I really need to do something else with the money.
Hmm let's see one and half lakh for a trip for two to some exotic place doesn't sound bad either, :P

I decide it's time to plan for saving money, but not so necessary to hit the panic button yet.
For now I have more prominent things to focus on, the stock market has rendered 5.5 as 3.2 in less than three months, and for a moment i thought i was stupid for not trading last january when the stocks were trading high.
but I guess the economy will be stable soon, or late I am in no hurry, I can play the waiting game, and the companies at question are Reliance and its subsidiaries, and a couple of other long term investments.

Hmm I hate not being able to check my to do list on rememberthemilk.com I wonder if I am missing out on anything important, ahhh Internet. My mobile always doubles up as a decent on teh go mailing device but yesterday it just keeps stating insecure network, whatever.

So well, I spent my precious holiday at home, Chandu was sick, vardu was sleeping probably he ate too much sambar idli, Atul would sure be busy Pooja is in town, Varun called up he wasn't doing much but our places are so distant and i am too lazy to move my ass over to Alwal. I had work to do but no internet,
so what do i do, I sleep. I spend time doodling statistics about my expenses, income, predict stock, and investment options, and realize that I am way better than a 2o something average, so for now back to teh Big Dream, where are my loved software developers. Hmm well I had a lot of other stuff to write may be some other time, I gotta rush and mail some logo samples, bloody Reliance assholes, please fix my broadnet connection soon, fuck you.

In other news, I have come across this really cool tool for script writing, and pre production planing, as most of you guys who visit this page are either classmates, friends, and juniors, or complete strangers, chances are you too like me are working on some story idea for a film, so check this tool it will be great help.

Pre-production Management Tool
http://www.celtx.com/download.html

Adios,
V.
P.S: i am moving all my Google rantings to a different blog, will export them as atom feeds and save .xml files probably soon.

Predictions come True

2008-09-23T05:12:00.000-07:00

Speculation ends. Predictions come true.

Long ago several p2p economy scholars, and the ones who promoted principles to build a "socialistic capitalism" model, that for a change is not just built around users, but built by users proposed an idea.

A very interesting proposition in the p2p economy was "smart grid"

However I feared and many economic pundits predicted that like all noble ideas this would be co-opted and monetized by corporations. Since then there have been speculations as to who would be the first company to jump in and claim "smart grid" throw in its money, and laugh a few years later. One name that was prominent was "Google"

having bought out 'doubleclick' Google may not really have to worry about Microsoft's advertising plans, and yeah they have a browser now, and they will let people love it, and once that happens, Linux will give way to Windows supported by Google, running chrome, which in turn will be running apps on Googel Cloud. Hmm, so not much to worry about in the web market or precisely teh pc user domain, so here they go.

Google has "officially" announced it would be partnering GE in developing the next genration Smart grid ( I don't have time to explain what it is)

You can read some recent magazines, including business Week India edition, that feature this old man who is building the foundations for a independent democratic energy system, it is a noble idea, but now that it has become a business opportunity we can expect it to get better. What is disheartening is the revenue sharing aspect or rather the energy sharing aspect will be replaced by an obvious monetizing model; energy buying by the giants.

I wish people could file patents for ideas,