A Quizzical Reality...

Ashwin kii Nayya to ram ke bharose

2009-11-08T21:09:00.001+05:30

“Ashwin kii nayya to ram ke bharose..Apni hii nayya ko paar tu lagai le…”

Amity isn’t the University a Perfect Human’s Dream but it’s okay for me. You get everything here from awesome lifestyle to supportive faculty and because there are so many facilities available within campus, a student can just concentrate on his studies. No need to clean your room (sweeper comes every day), no need to wash cloths (yay! to awesome laundry service), food is okay (thanks to Raj Food Company) still even after these much facilities there is none busier than your very own Quiz_Master. I don’t know if my body is getting slow (maybe I am aging fast like a clone) or the world started to spin faster than before but no matter how early I start my day, I end up messing all my day doing nothing. I performed epic bad in Midterm exams and I don’t think there is any hope for me in End Term exam either. “Apni nayya to bas ab ram hii paar laga sakte hai”.

Ask someone for a dollar and you won’t even get a penny, ask someone for one advice and the whole crowd will become an expert in that particular topic all of a sudden. I mean what the hell is wrong with people, poking their nose here and there where it does not belong. A guy who scored much less marks than me in some subject was advising me on how to study efficiently. “Pahle apni nayya to paar lagao”

In other news everything is ok for now, I have a couple of C-Language assignment which I will write after finishing this post and then I must also prepare for my French language oral exam which is scheduled in this week. There is also a Dance Competition “Step Up” in college on 16^th and Amity school of Communication’s yearly fest – “Sanchaar” on 12 and 13.

And in last I would like to thank @sumeet for suggesting UltraSurf to me to access Orkut and Facebook. It’s working like a charm for now.

2 months.. 2 lessons... and stupid firewall

2009-10-31T15:52:00.002+05:30

So here I am back posting.

Life's fun for now. AMITY Hostel is not as much boring as I thought. People are fun here.

Days are spent sleeping (in Hostel room or class) and evenings are spent oggling at chicks or reading magazines in University library. I like here so much that I just went home thrice in 2 months. :P

Voldy is here too, but we rarely get a chance to meet and when we do meet, it's usually in mess or academic block.

I am so happy that each of my friend got selected in A-rank colleges.

Vaibhav is in Acropolis indore, Dheeraj is in Oriental Bhopal. Though Upendra is still in SSIT, Ratlam city (our hometown and college of graduation), I know he has real talent and he will go vey far in life. There is still now news of Asmita though.

Personal stuff aside, Amity university is lotta fun. Workshops, Seminars, Quizzes, Exams - I am more active and busy then I was ever before. Teachers are good (though we all think they are a bit lazy.. heh)

In past two months I've learned two things here :

1.) Don't underestimate ANYBODY. Dont be overconfident.

2.) If you are alone, life sux.

In my midterms performed very poorly and scored just above 55% marks and hell I FAILED in french language paper. Must not take these exams lightly.

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On the other hand I've been trying a way to bypass Hostel Firewall since past 2 weeks but no use.

I've tried TOR, JonDonym, Proxifier, gPass and what not. No access to Orkut or Facebook. No Torrents. I am alive just becuase of Rapidshare and Megaupload premium generator sites. Yes even FileSharing sites are blocked :(

If somebody know a fullproof way to bypass Firewalls at work or School, please contact me.

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So this is an announcement - I AM BACK :P

Off to Jaipur…

2009-08-17T19:18:00.001+05:30

Finally the day is here. 18th August is my reporting day in AMIY UNIVERSITY, Jaipur.

I’m leaving in a couple of hours. I’m not taking my laptop there so i don’t know when I’ll be online next.

Yesterday Dheeraj, Upendra and Juzer called for last reunion before I leave. I said ‘NO’. Voldy was right when he said “When you know it’s your last day at home, all you want to do is stay there for as long as possible.”

Now i think I should’ve gone to atleast meet Vaibhav. He was the one who always warned me about Adi and Cho company, but I, acting in an emotional whim, never listened to him. Moreover I messed our friendship so bad that even he never called me back. Anyways I don’t think I need to explain myself to him since he wasn’t straight with me either and Upendra is here to take care of stuff in case I need someone here.

I’m glad that this 3 year old college drama is finished now and most of the chapters are closed. Mistakes were made and lessons were learned. The feeling is inexplicable when someone rips you out from their life and leave you just there hanging to find out about things from people you hate. A friend of 3 years becomes a stranger in 3 days for no particular reason. Sometimes I think people are right- “In 21st century, there is nothing like ‘Real Friendship’.” People either use you, or get used by you. But then again there are people like Vaibhav and Upendra (and my every online friend) who always proved themselves to me again n again, and trusted me even when I didn’t trust them.

So plan is to reach Jaipur by 9:00AM and then, even i don’t know how things will play out.

If all goes well, I’ll try to be online in 2 weeks time.

See ya guys! Miss you! And even if you don’t see me online for 2-3 weeks, don’t worry, I’m still alive. :D

Evolution of Medicine

2009-08-12T20:30:00.001+05:30

2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."

1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."

1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."

1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."

1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take these antibiotic."

2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial and unnatural. Here, eat this root!"

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Guess we are back to the point where we started!

Technorati Tags: Medicine,History

If I get a – Death Note.

2009-08-03T16:31:00.001+05:30

Death Note is one of my favorite animes. It’s dark, twisted, mindboggling and at the same time fun to watch. The story revolves around a notebook called ‘Death-Note’ which grants the holder a reaper like authority on deaths of people. The owner of death note can write anybody’s name in that Death Note and that person dies. Death Note is 100% foolproof with just 1 quirk – You must know the person’s name AND face. Here are the rules of a Death Note :

You must watch / read Death Note to understand what I’m talking about.

So here, last night before bed, I was thinking about weird stuff and thought, what if I get a Death Note of my own. What will I do? So far I’ve planned to do this :

1.) Since ‘Light Yagami’ was caught based on the fact that his first kill was a criminal from his area - Japan, I will write the name of a Local American criminal first and will write cause as “Suicide”.

2.) Then I will write the name of Osama-Bin-Laden. That man deserves to die.

3.) Then I will write the name of Stevey Jobbs (of CrApple Inc.) in it and will write cause as “Heart stroke just after donating all his money to an African social-working organization” .

5.) Then I will send a tape to Al-Zazira proving that what I can do (without showing my face) and will host a competition for 3 pages of Death Note, which I will give to person with most noble goals. Everyone should have fun.

6.) I will write the name of every known terrorist, smuggler, criminal and any person who is too much rich including politicians.

7.) Then I will head to Social Networking sites and kill everybody I don’t like.

8.) By this time, I will turn complete insane. So I will write the name of anyone I see in Newspapers/TV.

9.) Since now I’ve wiped out 20% of earth’s population and earth is once more a happy place. I will burn Death Note so it can’t be used against me or to identify me.

~PEACE~

Music for the Week [2]

2009-08-02T01:30:00.001+05:30

Wondering what music to listen this week. Worry not, Welcome to the Quiz_Master’s weekly Music Suggestions column. One song for each day of Week. Here is August’s First Week’s music suggestions :

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Monday) True Friends – Miley Cyrus

Today is friendship day, so first song dedicated to all my friends specially – Vaibhav, Upendra, Dheeraj, PrinceSS, Ankita, Surabhi, Aditya, Moon, Sanjay and Vinay Bhiya.

A true friend you're here till the end
You pull me aside when somethin' ain’t right
Talk with me now and into the night
‘Till it's alright again

Tuesday) Here Is Gone – Goo Goo Dolls

"Here is Gone" is a song by the American alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls from their seventh studio album, Gutterflower. It reached #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, #21 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and #29 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

I'm not the one who broke you
I'm not the one you should fear
We've got to move you darling
I thought I lost you somewhere
But you were never really ever there at all

Wednesday) Too Much Food – Jason Mraz

A damn fast song. I’ve been practicing singing this track for 2 months, but no use but the lyrics are fun to listen in amazing voice of Jason. Love this track!

People say that I'm crazy for not moving on to better things
Instead of sitting around trash talking with the onion rings
But it's much too soon to leave this easy life
Pass me the spoon, pass the analytical knife

Thursday) Bet on It – Zack Effron

Zack Effron is the star of High School Musical movie franchise, and he’s a great singer too. This is a song about a guy promising to set everything right after he screws up. Sounds like my story :D On the side note I recently watched his ‘17 Again’ which is an awesome movie too. Watch it.

How will I know if there's a path worth taking?
Should I question every move I make?
With all I’ve lost my heart is breaking
I don't wanna make the same mistake

Friday) My Alien – Simple Plan

A funky funny song by Simple Plan. Describing a ‘Perfect Girl Friend’. Wish I get one like the one in song! =D

She can take me to the place that she calls home,
in a spaceship that will someday be my own
Please take me to your leader
Tell her I will surrender ( errr errrr)
I will surrender

She has two arms to hold me and
Four legs to wrap around me
She's not your typical girlfriend
She's my alien

Saturday) Blood on the dance Floor – Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson roxx! May he R.I.P.

Susie got your number
And Susie ain't your friend
Look who took you under
With seven inches in
Blood is on the dance floor
Blood is on the knife
Susie's got your number
And Susie says its right

Sunday)

Opaline - Dishwalla

Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band. The band's name comes from an Hindi term for a person providing cable television to an small area like a suburb. This is an Alt. Rock track. to finish your week.

without you I am nothing
without you I can't believe
this gilded place has everything
but this comfort is not what it seems
it is not what it seems
in between is everything I need

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You can check out last week’s music suggestions here :

Music for the Week [1]

More music suggestions next week. Ciao!

A list of books searching a publisher

2009-08-01T19:23:00.001+05:30

I dream of becoming a writer, not just any 50_copies_sold_in_50_weeks writer, but a millionaire writer, a STAR WRITER (with flares shooting from my ass), like Michael Weiner and Charles DICKins and it’s easy, look at the world, every person with or without a testicle, thinks their story is more important then other dumb’s story. Being a writer is sooo easy, no investments either and I’m most appropriate to be a writer- I have no life, no girlfriend, no job – but that’s because I’m still a student, my English is more terrible then a 5th grader, I drink coffee, I stay up all night, I copy stuff from places on the name of inspiration, I’ve conspiracy theories which have no heads-and-tails. I’m just perfect like a whore you don’t need to pay.

At the moment I’m too lazy to write anything, but I do have some fantastic book ideas. So I’m sharing those here, on this blog for my readers (and that’s only me). Do not steal my ideas, these are booby trapped. Any plagiarism will result in you loosing your productive organs.

My Book Ideas :

1.) Novel : Lords of the Shoes :

Dumbledwarf the Pink (Yes! Pink, so even girls can like this book), is on his journey to pwn evil king Googlota with the help of the girl of prophecy, Hellioona De Triskyposka Muhettaswisky the 19th was her nickname, for her full name was too hard to pronounce by writer (yeah, that’s me). Together they must find the Ultimate weapon of mass kicking : The Show of Addas.

Three shoes for the rotten-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dumb-lords to stop their cry,
Nine for Mortal Men for playing ice-hockey,
One for the Dark Lord – “King-Susu” on his dark throne
In the Land of LOTS where the nerdness lie.
One shoe to kick them to lick, One shoe to kick asses,
One shoe to bring them all and in the playground pwn them all
In the Land of LOTS where the nerdness lie.

2.) Biography : Mine Hump : The unofficial sequel to Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kumph (or whatever it is called, I can’t write german tells the story of New York’s famous ‘social worker’ who had expertise in woman affairs. *details can’t be disclosed, big brother is watching as well as big momma*

3.) Encyclopedia : A Complete Idiot’s guide to Intelligence :

Wondered all your life to what Intelligence zibber-zabber is about? Buy this guide. Learn everything from unperfectible art of opening a soda bottle to talking in English that makes sense. You are an idiot? Buy this book to prove that you are not.

4.) Children Short Story Collection : “Little Jhonny’s adventures in the XXX land : Strangers have best candy”

5.) A series of personality development books (Since I’m born expert in the field):

    a.) You are different and that sucks.

    b.) Daddy’s New Wife : Thomas.

   c.) A Kid’s guide to Hitchhiking.

   d.) I punched a Bully. // Sequel : He punched me back. Twice.

   e.) That’s it. I’m Putting you for adoption : A guide to parenting.

   f.) Grandpa gets a casket : how to socialize at a funeral.

   g.) You were an accident : A parents guide to child bonding.

   h.) Daddy drinks because you cry : Essays for a happy family.

I’m looking for publishers with deep pockets and who don’t know dick about writing and must not be gay. If you like to promote my writing skills, you can donate me a new MacbookPro. I will not use it for watching p0rn. I pr0m!s3. Contact me @ quizmasterashwin [at] gmail [dot] com for details.

Firefox 4 mockups released by Mozilla

2009-07-28T18:21:00.002+05:30

First Mozilla released Firefox 3.7 theme screenshots (HERE) and now they’ve released Firefox 4 theme mockups for windows :

And now buttons and other theme elements change colors according to current activity.

Mozilla is considering two designs : ‘Tabs on Bottom’ (current design – 2nd screenshot) and ‘Tabs on Title Bar’ (First Screenshot).

Mozilla summarizes the pros and cons of the two designs very succinctly:

Positives:
- Save Vertical Space
- Efficiency/Remove Visual Complexity – Right now the tabs have to be connected to something. So we are adding an extra visual element for them to connect to.
- Shorter Mouse Distance to Page Controls

Negatives:
- Breaks Consistency/Familiarity – Moving things confuses existing users.
- Title is MIA – With the space removed from the titlebar you only get the truncated version in the tab.
- Longer Mouse Distance to Tabs – Takes longer to mouse to a tab.
- Lost Space – Sandwiched in between the application icon and the window widgets you lose some space.

My Verdict : The new theme looks gorgeous and is very much welcomed but can’t Mozilla developers think of something new? Tabs in title bar? That’s so Chrome like. This is a proposed design and will surely change a little bit over time. Overall I’m satisfied with Theme changes.

These theme changes are for Windows Vista/Win7 with ‘Aero’ turned ON. Not much improvement for XP users here.

I just hope with theme changes they also solve Firefox’s stability problem.

: SOURCE

‘Luck’ and Picnic

2009-07-27T20:54:00.001+05:30

Today was the movie day for me and my friends. Since most of them only watch hindi movies (they are dumb!) so we went to watch ‘Luck’.

It’s an action movie Directed by Soham Shah starring Jaane Tu… fame Imraan Khan, newcomer Shruti Haasan, Sanjay Dutt and some small names.

The movie is good if not awesome. The story idea is new. Hindi movie bashers (like Aditya) should stay away from this. I just noticed one song in the movie – ‘Khudaya Ve’. The movie is clean unlike recently released Kambakht Ishq, means just 1 bikini scene of Shruti. So perverts should stay away from this too. Action sequences are badly done. Imraan is India’s answer to Keanu Reeves. The only emotion he can express with his face is anger. He’s just no that good of an actor. Shruti Haasan on the other hand is one hot chick. I mean TOTAL HAWT. The bikini scene, wooh, my dumb friends must me jerking off mentally, don’t blame them, they are so desperate that they don’t even mind doing an Ugandan chick (Me? No.I am devoted to Hilary Duff…ehmm). Sanjay Dutt was OK-OK. The guy is getting old, tension of jail and the politics, I’m giving the poor fella a break. Everyone else was just there, not much to do for them (Sorry Mithun da, sue me if you can!). I rate this movie 7.5/10. I liked the story. And the the song at the time of credits (Jee Le ) is awesome. Me likes.

After the movie we went to riverside, 40KMs from our town. Bathed in river (fucking cold water), for entertainment a friend performed ‘Fish Dance’, drank beer (not me, I’m a teetotaler) and came back home. That was fun. It was my luck that we went to picnic without a plan (which rarely happens). ;)

Music for the Week [1]

2009-07-26T17:33:00.001+05:30

Wondering what music to listen this week. Worry not, Welcome to the Quiz_Master’s weekly Music Suggestions column. One song for each day of Week.

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Monday) Energy - Keri Hilson

What a best way to star your week with an energetic R&B track.

I wish I could rip out a page of my memory
Cuz I put to much energy in him and me
Can't wait til I get through this phase
Cuz it's killing me
To bad we can't re-write our own history

Tuesday) 21 Guns – Greenday

A track from Transformers 2 OST by Greenday. Slow soothing track.

When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Your faith walks on broken glass
And the hangover doesn't pass
Nothing's ever built to last
You're in ruins

Wednesday) The Way I are - Timbaland (feat Keri Hilson)

A fast paced dance track. Shake your hips!

Thursday) New Divide - Linkin Park

A hand-banging Rock track. From Transformers 2 OST.

In every loss, in every lie, in every truth that you'd deny
And each regret and each goodbye was a mistake too great to hide

Friday) Crazier - Taylor Swift

Straight from Hannah Montana : The Movie OST. Love song!

I've watched from a distance as you
Made life your own
Every sky was your own kind of blue
And I wanted to know how that would feel
And you made it so real

Saturday) Can you hear me - Enrique Iglesias

A track for weekend’s party mood.

I’m on a coaster-collision
Am not about to give in
Can’t explain my position or the condition that I’m in.
Where I am is no limit, no walls, no ceilings
No intermission, so let
Let the party begin.

Sunday) U R A Fever - The Kills

Just listened it in an Episode of Gossip Girl. Awesome Track.

dancing on the legs of a new born pony
left right left right, keep it up son
go ahead and have her, go ahead and leave her
you only ever had her when you were a fever

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More music suggestions next week. Ciao!

New Age Therapies

2009-07-26T12:50:00.001+05:30

I was just watching TV (I sometimes do), and watched this Color Therapy thingy. “New Age Therapies (like Color-therapy, batch flower therapy etc) uses Natures elements in different ways to disentangle the stressed out nerves and brain, relaxing the mind-body as a whole.”

Sounds like shit-fact right? Even I thought so. But researching I found that people (with IQ < 70 ) thinks these color therapy and flower-smell therapy actually works (though success rate is not 100%). For me it’s all bullcrap, spread by some jobless retards to earn some moolah. I can not believe that watching yellow-pink-red or any color can make me happy, that flower smell therapy is bogus too since I am allergic to flowers, meditation is just boring, touch therapy sucks cuz none of the young chicks are into it (I don’t like getting touched by women in their late 50s or so) and yeah there is this ultimate retarded ‘Past life regression’ in which a ~~therapist~~ retard hypnotizes you gets info of your past life : information which can be used in this life to solve any kind of problem; now even if it’s possible to do this mumbo jumbo I’m staying away from this kinda therapy shit (I’m sure I must be a Dolphin of Houston, Texas and that information won’t solve my any problem).

Prof Dawkins (a.k.a. shit-face anti-religion dufus DICK-in) says that alternative remedies constitute little more than a "money-spinning, multi-million pound industry that impoverishes our culture and throws up new age gurus who exhort us to run away from reality". Duh! Shit-Brain is getting smarter!

Satish Kumar, a spiritualist and the editor of the ecological magazine Resurgence, whose fans include the Prince of Wales (The sheepshagger’s Prince) and the Dalai Lama, tells Prof Dawkins: "I represent the entire history of evolution, I was present in the beginning, the first big bang, and I'll be here for billions of years to come." – ASSHOLE! Sorry, I mean retarded asshole.

India is always ahead in things which remotely involves ‘Spiritual Fun’. Pune’s Sahil Surati says : “The essence of some flowers can be used to heal emotional imbalance and is effective against hypertension, diabetes and various phobias.” (ROFLOL). Past Life Regression (PLR) Therapist Mumbai’s Neeta Yuvraaj points “Our past life holds many answers and experiences, we can use that knowledge to solve today’s problems”. Delhi’s RJ Rochie Rana (damn, she’s Hawt) is a Color Therapist solves career problems, hypertension and heals STDs just using colors. Ok Not STDs! :P (I totally believe in her work, Now please someone gimme her number).

So my recommendation is to any timepasser who’s reading this is : New-Age Therapies are unproven, go to a Doctor (I am getting no money from Indian Doctor’s Association for this article, but they can donate me if they want).

Back with a BOOOM!

2009-07-25T21:32:00.001+05:30

Exams finished long time ago and I’m done lazing around, so I’m back in action.

I know, I was supposed to be offline all this time, but there I was on twitter (damn twitter!), tweeting every incident of my life (including Exam Status and all that shit-facts).

A lot has happened in past 3 months. I went to places I’ve never been before, made new friends, fought (both physically and mentally) with enemies, perfected the imperfectible art of lying, kissed (a girl, a waterbottle, a donkey and a cat), got slapped (twice) etc.

I’m still waiting for my BCA result, but I’m sure I’ll pass, or those eff-ers will have to endure my wrath. Being a college graduate means – responsibilities. I’m already handling my dad’s Share Trading Profile (I decide which stocks to buy and which to sell), and I’m doing it very well (7K of profits in 2 months on investment of 40K).

MP’s Professional-Examination-Board (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal = Vyapam) hasn’t announced a Counseling date for MCA yet (those lazy bastards!), so I’m free for now (shucks!). This means I can finally write more for this life-blog.

I’m also creating new 2 new blogs (blogger ftw!) = 1 for technology and programming (boring stuff), and other a PhotoBlog (sorry no porn!). So not techno-shit in this place from now on. I will soon post the URLs and Titles of new blogs soon (as soon as I finish watching that Victoria Secrets show). Here on ‘A Quizzical Reality…’, I will write about one and one thing (person actually) only – ME (and everything .’I’ like)!

So stay in Peace! The Playboy is back (please notify the chicks)!

Note : This blog isn’t going to be PG-13 anymore, so advice to parents = add this blog’s URL to your firewall’s blacklist please!

Quiz_Master... Logging Off!

2009-03-13T06:51:00.000+05:30

Hi Guys.
It's 13th March, 3:30PM when I'm writing this blog entry (It's a scheduled post). It's been busy days. I just got my JAM09 Admit card. That means MCA entrance exam (and semester finals) are close now and I must work hard now or as Mehulved puts it, "I should get my a$$ off internet". So, time to say bye for now. I will be back in three months after my entrance and semester exams.

Will miss ya'll. Logging Out.

EDIT :

Well, You might be thinking why I need to go offline for some silly exams?

Well, I've JAM (for IIT-R and Delhi University), JNUEE (For MCA in JNU, Delhi), Amity Entrance, KIIT Entrance, BHU MCA Entrance, AIMCAT (All India MCA Common Entrance Test), Pre-MCA Test (of my state), VIT MCA Entrance and a couple more. I also need to give recertification exam for CCNA(Before October).

Getting into a A grade university is life n death matter to me (And I will be getting A Dell XPS M1730 laptop worth Rs.121,900, If I get myself into JNU or IIT). SERIOUSLY. So Off I Go.

Watchmen [Movie Review]

2009-03-11T18:38:00.002+05:30

First off, Happy Holi everybody :)

I didn't play holi because I hate it. Instead I spent my time watching few episodes (actually whole season) of The Big Bang Theory. And then I watched WATCHMEN.

From left to Right: The Comedian, Ozymandias, NightOwl, Silk Spectre, Rorschach

Now I've read the Comi... err I mean Graphic Novel already. And apart from climax, everything is true to Graphic Novel.

Story : Most comics fanatics already know the story, so there is no point describing it. If you havn't read the Watchmen yet, then just watch movie and save time. It's about a group of retired Superheroes called Watchmen. The story is narrated from the perspective of a number of characters like Rorschach and NightOwl. A member - The Comedian, dies and thus begins our story....

Charachters : When I first heard that there is going to be a Watchmen movie, My reaction was how can you give every character enough screen time that it deserve? Watchmen proves that it can be done. Every character is so detailed.

A.) Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is World's Smartest Man (and also World's Richest Man). He was responisble for organizing the Watchmen II group. He doesn't get much screen time, but he plays a very importent role in story nevertheless.

B.) Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is like, Batman with Gadgets but without Detective Skills. He doesn't get to do much things in movie except making out with a SuperHeroine, throwing a few punches here and there and crying like a whiney grownup baby.

C.) Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino) is a SuperHeroine and your average girl confused between this boy and that boy. Did I mention she's hot? No? Ok! She's hot specially in her yellow-black suit. She only has one action scene (actually two *action* scenes) but her role is not small. (I am trying my best to not post any spoiler).

D.) The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) : Who's Jeffrey Dean Morgan? He's Jon Winchester father of Sam and Dean Winchester from TV show Supernatural. The Comedian's character is like Harvey Dent's character in reverse. First you'll hate him. You'll think - Thats not hero. That's a Bad Guy. But as story goes, you'll find that he's not what it seems. Nobody is not what they seem.

[In a SuperHero meeting :]
Ozymandias: It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems.
The Comedian: No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for them to handle.

E.) Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) or Jon Osterman was a nuclear scientist. An accident changed him into a glowing blue God like entity with ability to see future and control the nuclear particles. He is immortal and can change his size and density. In short - He is Invincible and yeah, he doesn't wear underwear.

F.) Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) is the most impressive character of the movie wearing a black-white mask. He is 10X darker and 100X more violent version of Batman. He's the first one to figure out what's going on. His interrogation skills are just like batman's. First half of movie is narrated by him. Definitely an Oscar level performance.

Rorschach: [reading from journal] Rorschach's Journal: October 12th 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll whisper 'no'.

Background Score : The background score is composed by Composer Tyler Bates and he did an accelent job doing it. It's just perfect for the movie. For instance in a scene where Night Owl and Silk Spectre rescue people from a burning building, he's used four to the floor guitar rhythm to give it a treditional SuperHero action scene feel. Me likes the OST!

This is a Must Watch Movie and in my opinion better then The Dark Knight in some (well most) ways.

My Rating :: 10/10. (What can I say, I'm really really impressed.)

Goofups : You might want to read this section after watching movie. Here's a list of goofs I noticed when Watching Movie.

1.) Movie is set in 1985, but most of the cars and gadgets you see in movie are quite advanced for that time.

2.) When NightOwl breaks into Ozymandias's office and tries to hack his 'Desktop Computer', he's shown using a two button mouse and a keyboard with 'enter' key. In 1985 they didn't have two button mouse.

3.) In a scene "Addicted to Love" song's videos is on TV screen. The song was released in 1986, while the movie takes place in 1985.

Check for username availability on 100+ social networking sites

2009-03-04T20:52:00.001+05:30

You just got internet and want to have a online identity for yourself? Or maybe you are bored of your current online identity and want a new one? In either cases, one always prefers that he/she have same ID on all social networking sites. For example I only use IDs : Quiz_Master or QuizMasterAsh everywhere. But usually you can only check if a User-ID is available or not when you are registering on a particular site. Sometimes you get your desired ID when you register, sometimes you don't. Wouldn't it be good to have tool which can check every popular Social Networking site for availability of username you desire?

OK there is one....

Head to : http://checkusernames.com/

Here you can check that the username you want is available or not on about 106 social networking sites.

My Evil Plans for the future

2009-03-04T14:47:00.001+05:30

Quizz's Evil Plan (tm)! (Copyrighted by a wannabe World Dominator. Do Not copy it and piss me off, I will keel you)

My objective is simple: Dominate the World (and the eyeland of Lost TV show and The Prison Fox River).

My motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure

Stage One

To begin my plan, I must first incapacitate a rich and powerful CEO(Who? Voting is on. To Vote for Stevewy Jobs forward any SMS to 000-000-101 by an iPhone (GoodLuck with that), to vote for Steve Bomber, email Microsoft from a gmail account). This will cause the world to slaughter a sacred calf to appease the gods, terrified by my arrival. Who is this unholy menace? Where did he come from? And why do he look so good in a corporate suit?

Stage Two

Next, I must destroy the internet and the pink "Prn" sites (After backing up data from my social networking accounts, can't loose 5K+ tweets and countless scraps in Orkut). This will all be done from a space station, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will wet their pants, as countless hordes of classic thugs hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three

Finally, I must unleash My doomsday device (which is shaped like an illegit child of Wall-E's Eve and a pocket calculator, and no! I am not talking about iPod), bringing about nightmares for every man, woman and child. My name shall become synonymous with slaughter, and no man and woman will ever again dare roll his or her eyes. Everyone will bow before mine mind-boggling insanity, and the world will have no choice but to give me control of the planet.

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Any mortal reading this will die on 30-02-XXXX.

What's going on with NSG

2009-03-01T17:11:00.002+05:30

The invincibility of NSG (National Security Guard) and their unrivalled professionalism to achieve their basic objective of safeguarding the people and our country from terrorists and other enemies has been demonstrated from time to time and we all accept this. Their superb role in latest Mumbai attack of 26/11 is a clear testimony when others were unable to tackle the terrorists NSG has only served to highlight their invincibility and their presence in all major cities of India because we saw in Mumbai that a lot of time was unnecessarily wasted for the NSG commandos in travelling from Delhi to Mumbai. This could have been avoided if the NSG were deployed in Mumbai prior to terrorist attacks and this city would not have been held to ransom by terrorists.

The NSG was set up in 1984ing (Punjab was burning from terrorism that time) as a federal contingency deployment force primarily to handle terrorism situation after the State Police and other forces raised their hands in despair. It was modeled on the pattern of the SAS of UK.

There are grand plans to set up four regional centers for the NSG across India but as the elite commando force is working out on how best to implement the proposal, the logistical challenges such as tremendous shortage of military personnel and lack of suitable sites are coming to fore. NSG’s garrison at Manesar in Gurgaon is the sole training facility right now which is spread over an area of 1,600 acres. Also NSG’s anti-hijack teams are stationed at Samalkha in New Delhi, which is located close to Airport. According to NSG officials Mumbai and Kolkata will house a regional centre each, while the toss up or choice for other two centers will be between Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and My state’s Bhopal.

NSG is however most affected by the fact that it would need to induct at least 4000 personnel from Indian Army and central paramilitary forces to man the new regional centers. According to a NSG officer: “Each of these four new centers need to have strength of two battalions, roughly 1000 men, to begin with. With the army and Paramilitary forces already feeling a staff crunch, it will be difficult for them to spare volunteers for deputation with NSG”

The NSG- which draws all of its strength from central paramilitary forces like CRPF, CISF, ITBP, BSF and the state police force – already has around 50% vacancies in it’s Special Rangers Group and around 20% vacancies in Special Action Group. It’s high time that our Government now must step in and expedite its relentless efforts to not only fill all vacancies but also create new ones and plug all the shortcomings on a war footing because we rely heavily on them.

NSG's regularly updated portal :: http://nsg.gov.in/

Recommended Watch : Delhi 6

2009-02-23T20:06:00.002+05:30

In Morning I watched Delhi-6. I didn't have much expectations as many people on twitter suggested that movie is ''epicfail" and 'overrated' and what not. But let me tell you, IT'S NOT.

Movie is really enjoyable. I really really liked it. I was going to review in detail here, but one of my friend from DigitForum and Twitter @drgrudge (He is Ashwin too ) already summed it up very beautifully in his recent post HERE.

Here is the comment I posted in response to his movie review ::

About Story == It was just perfect. As you said - makes you think. Like in scene where ‘Gobar’ doesn’t let ‘Untouchable Jalebi’ come inside house where some RaatJagaa is going on, and in next scene, in RaamLeela- Raam is eating those ‘Shabri ke jhute ber’. What an Awesome comparison.

Also the song in which they showed ChandniChow+NewYork. Awesomeness.

I had this movie’s song album since a long time, but I never listened it thinking it’s overrated. But when I listened them in movie, then realized how wrong I was. Most of the songs are awesome. My fevorite being Delhi6 and Genda Phool (because both have dancing beats). At first I thought Genda Phool is some dehati kinda stupid song, but after finishing movie I must’ve heard it 50+ times.

Overall, I have nothing against this movie except that the climax should be longer. After beating Roshan they explained all things in a hurry…. oh well…

Everybody has different taste when it comes to movies (really.. ask those who liked High School Musical 3 he he he...)... You might like it.. give it a try ;-)

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

2009-02-19T12:40:00.001+05:30

I just got this via email .... so thought to share it with u all. Its a bit lengthy but inspiring.

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things ---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else---the small stuff. 'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for

the things that are important to you.

'Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.'

'The coffee just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

Secret to a happy life is like a encrypted file. We just need to find the correct key. :)

Quizz... The Party Star...

2009-02-16T23:08:00.002+05:30

If you know me personally, you will never believe the above quote. I am the guy who wears specs all the time, never talks about anything else but computers (and girls), wears a Cargo- T-Shirt - Addidas sports shoes, Cap and rides a 8 year old Hero-Honda CD-100. A typical nerdy image.

It is hard to imagine that a guy like me can ever go to parties. But looks are deceiving my friends.

Today was wedding of of my classmate Vipul's brother. Me and the gang which includes Vidip(the other guy who used to like same girl I did... thats all in the past though), Upendra (The Algorithm Master), Dheeraj (The_Fatso_Comedy_King), Sachin (Neha ka Sachin :P ), Vivek (Karmyogi Baba ), Vaibhav (ex-BestFriend but now a nobody) and Sulabh (The laziest but coolest and most handsome of the gang) met at Dheeraj's place, and went to a gift shop. After that it was time to have fun in Baraat . There I unleashed the party dominating star monster in me. It was like The Hulk. There was nobody dancing. So I started, and before I noticed,every Camera was focusing on me. BANG! And the party started. We danced for about 2 hours - non stop. When we reached the place, where actual marrige ceremony was going to take place, we danced for another hour on DJ's music mixes. It was quite fun. Too bad Vipul didn't invite any girl from class or it would've been one heck of a coolest night, WHOLE gang together.

And this was also our last party together. In a couple of months each of us will go his own way. \\

Last year of college is FUN!

Rapidshare Downloader : All Night D/Ling

2009-02-08T20:00:00.000+05:30

While surfing a warez site, I found this amazingly cool app. It's called 'G-RAP-IT Share'.

click image to enlarge it.

What it does is, you can enqueue as many Rapidshare Links as you want in it, and It will download them one by one. Of course it will wait 15 minutes after each download (thats a Rapidshare Imposed limit for free users), but thats not much considering you will not have to stay up all night to start a new RS download.
I am using this app from last two days and it's working really great. If you are a Rapidshare Leecher- This one is for you.

Download it from here :

http://ifile.it/4u57v1e

Enjoy Downloading... Spread the word!

Nick n Norah's Infinite Playlist [Movie Review]

2009-02-06T21:04:00.000+05:30

This day was one of the day's when I get really down. My confidence vanishes, I shut myself in a room and all that emo stuff. Nothing productive to do, so I watched this chick-flick 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'. Turned out this movie is just opposite of what I expected.

The movie stars Michael Cera (of Juno,Superbad) and Kat Dennings (I first saw her in Hilary Duff's Rise Your Voice). They both look so good together.

Nick (Michael Cera), the only straight band member of "The Jerk Offs"
has recently been dumped by his hot girlfriend, Tris (Alexis Dziena).
Nick believes that he can win her back by sending her special songs on
CDs that he has mixed just for her. Nick has sent her about 10 CDs, but
Tris only throws them in the trash. However, Tris' classmate, Norah
(Kat Dennings), has retrieved most of them, and she loves them. Norah
has never met Nick, but the music he loves touches her heart. Norah and
her friend Caroline are at a nightclub where "The Jerk Offs" are
playing, and Norah is attracted to Nick while he is playing his guitar.
Tris shows up at the same club with her new boyfriend. Norah doesn't
want Tris to think that she is dateless, so she asks Nick to pretend to
be her boyfriend for 5 minutes and gives him a big kiss. Then Tris
tells Norah that Nick is her ex-boyfriend. Now that Norah has Nick, the
heartless Tris decides that she now wants him back. A night of
searching for the band "Where's Fluffy" will end up with one of these
girls winning Nick's love.

So where was I? Yeah "movie is just opposite of what I expected"... In a good way... in a amazing way to be honest. Today when all romantic comedies are filled with gross slangs, sex and dirty jokes, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist sets itself apart with clean screenplay and a gripping storyline. There is 0% nudity in this movie and just two kisses - a completely family movie even by Indian standards. lol

It's the story which is strongest point of the movie. This is not actually only a romatic comedy... it's an adventure too.
Nick is part of a gay band (he's only straight member in it) and Norah is daughter of a music studio owner. Both alone and dumped by life. Both nerdy and dorky. Kinda like me really... :P
Ari Graynor, plays one of the most
ridiculously likable and cute drunks I've ever seen and she is lost. It's up to Nick-Norah and gang to find her while also keeping an eye out searching for their fevorite band's concert location. Come to think of it there are not a single adult actor in cast. Whole cast consist of young energetic actors. Alexis Dziena plays a strikingly hotttt (makes you shout w00t!) and jealous ex-girlfriend of Nick. This movie is also about journey of a chewing-gum whic goes from one mouth to another mouth and even to toilet filled with shit and back to someone's mouth.

On the emotional level this movie really touched me. I mean the concept of- "Boy sending mix CDs to a girl who dumped him" is not new to me (long story). This film put a smile on my face, and made me
believe in 'clean' films again.

All I want to say is let the infinite playlist play and enjoy it.

My Rating: 8.5/10.

P.S.: I am definitely gonna get this movie's OST. Loved it!

This site may harm your computer : Google Goofup

2009-01-31T20:56:00.002+05:30

Thats Right! Thats what Google thinks right now. I found about it when I searched myself in google. Surprised, I searched some more terms. For every search google displayed same message :

First I thought I am struck by some Spyware/Malware. But upon investigation found that it's a google screw-up. LOL
It was funny seeing that message for google itself.

__________________

This will give a lot to bash about to google-bashers.

Edit::
The Problem is fixed Now. Well, it was fun while it lasted :p

I am writing study notes.. whoaa!!

2009-01-28T22:38:00.001+05:30

For the first time in my college life, I am preparing and organizing my own study notes. Why? Well Vaibhav and Aditi used to take care of notes-management for me but since I'm talking with neither of the two, it's up to me. Writing your own notes is not that atrocious actually and efficient note taking can help you increase your score by a great deal (thats what i'm aiming for). Note-Taking is an art in itself. Its all about practice. But here practice doesn't make perfect, but Perfect Practice makes Perfect . So how should one write notes? Here is how I'm doing it

1.) I keep the course-sheet (topics I need to study) in front of me. I read it twice or thrice. This gives me a notion of what I am dealing with(my initial reaction was: WTF! I have to study that much in 4 months ), which topics I already know about and for which topics I don't have sufficient study resources (books, rough notes etc.).

2.) I arrange all study material in front of me. Books, college's rough notes, surveys, reciews, printouts from wikipedia etc. Since I need to gorge something every half an hour, so I also keep a packet of parle-g within reach .

4.) In my opinion, the best place to keep notes is in a loose-leaf notebook. I use color coded bookmarks to seprate notes of different topics. If you are also using a loose-leaf notebook. be sure to buy a good notebook, as it will get a lot of wear and tear.

5.) I read all the resources I have on a given topic. I read them twice if I need to. Now comes to most crucial part - writing down the notes. Notes should be short, concise, clear and readable. I follow the following proforma while writing notes ::

1. Main idea 1 (Sources, BookName:PageNumber)
    - detail 1
    - detail 2
      - further detail 2.1
    - detail 3
      - further detail 3.1
      - further detail 3.2
___________________________

2. Main idea 2 (Sources, BookName:PageNumber)

Dragram Number 2.34 in Book : 'BookName' at page 56

___________________________

3. Main idea 3 (Sources, BookName:PageNumber)

Source: C:\MyDocuments\ComputerGfx.txt
___________________________

etc.

This is very efficient. As you can see I cite source so later I can find original article.

How to study these notes?
Hehehe.. These is an algorithm to study notes :

WHILE there is a next sentence to read, DO:
BEGIN (* while *)
    Read it, SLOWLY;
    IF you do not understand it, THEN
      BEGIN (* if *)
        re-read the previous material, SLOWLY;
        re-read the incomprehensible sentence, SLOWLY;
        IF you still don't understand it, THEN
           ask a fellow student to explain it;
        IF you still don't understand it, THEN
           ask your Teaching Assistant (TA) to explain it;
        IF you still don't understand it, THEN
           ask me;
        IF you are in an upper-level course & you still don't understand it, THEN
           write a paper about it (!)
      END (* if *)
END; (* while *)

So is my way the right way? Any suggestions welcome. (Next few days am gonna be busy ).

Exams Finished!

2009-01-22T18:41:00.004+05:30

Yepp. My exam offcially finished yesterday (It was last practical) and without any gap or winter vacations, classes began from today. This sooo totally sux. I download so many animes and movies. No time to watch them.

Boring stuff later. I am officially in my 6th semster of BCA now. 'The Final Semester'. This is critical time. Pressure of Final Semester + Preparation for MCA Entrance.

It was first day of college today AND it was no phun. Timing is 9:00AM to 11:00AM (Really... :D ).

But waking up THAT early is really tough atleast for me since I sleep at around 4:00AM. Having a headache because of lack of sleep. Final smester is not very interesting either. I have following subjects in this semester ::>>

1.) Computer Graphics and Multimedia (Boring.... I know 80% stuff already)

2.) Operating Systems (Boring.. Complete Theory...)

3.) Microprocessor and Assembly Language Programming (I am least bit interested in hardware stuff)

4.) Computer Oriented Numerical Methods (Using C language) [No Idea whats it about.]

5.) Principles and Practices of Management. (Geez, whats this doing in Baclor of Comp. Appz ?)

6.) Practical (VB.NET) [VB? Yuck! I am sick of it now.]

7.) Practical (Graphics and Multimedia) [Nice....]

8.) Practical (Numerical Methods, Using C) (If it's 'maths', I hate it.)

9.) Practical (Assembly Language) (Already finished on my own in 2nd sem itself, LOL)

10.) Software Project. (Have to decide YET!)

I am searching for related e-books on internet. IF internet fails me (that rarely happens though), I will scan my books (like I always do, my motto- Save Paper - Read from Digitzed Notes :p ).

Life ahead is gonna be busy... Will try my best to keep this place updated.