Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The defamation campaign

Since my last entry I've sat in another university exam, written a testimonial for varun jain(I bet he didn't like it) ,co-conspired in a campaign to defame Ansaz and have started reading this novel called 'Brave New world'. The novel has kept me very engrossed today and I'll definitely review it after I've finished reading it. Ansaz's defamation campaign was a brilliantly hatched plot which didn't quite succeed in its endeavors.
Ansaz(he lives in the same house as me) is one hell of an orkut addict. He actually sends and receives scraps to/from some scores of female acquaintances he has made in orkut.So it is often irksome for anybody who is using the system (mostly for orkut) to be often interrupted by Ansaz .
Now joe, manek , afsal pa, ansaz etc. usually study together downstairs. So yesterday afternoon after a strenuous session of studying ANN, I went to inquire how things are going downstairs. I found joe sitting on saif's computer already logged on to Ansaz's profile. He was openly fiddling around with Ansaz's profile. He was manipulating Ansaz's profile in order to present Ansaz as the biggest fagot on earth. I soon realized that joe wasn't alone in this conspiracy. Manek, Rejah, PA,matrix and even the normally taciturn saif were all involved. Saif and ansaz have been room-mates and best buddies for the last three years and to see Saif egging everybody on was quite a surprise. Mails were sent to various communities including aces and inspire so that many could view the debauched profile, testimonials consisting of torrents of obscenities were accepted, testimonials were sent to people so that Ansaz's pride is hurt. Even I chipped in with some suggestions which were flatly rejected by the think-tank. All this was being done when the victim was in the adjacent room possibly dreaming about one of his orkut sweethearts.
In the evening I was studying with Rejah when he received a call from PA saying that Ansaz has come to know about the truth and was in a towering temper.Sujit had spoiled everything by letting Ansaz know. Eventually he made the right corrections and now his profile is back to normal, all the abusive testimonials were deleted.Thanks to his lucky stars not much damage was done. But a handful of people must've visited his profile and it'll be interesting to see how ansaz offers an explanation.I don't think he knows who the perpetrators of this crime are.
So the moral of the story,when you are sharing a computer with other people ,never ever forget to logout from your orkut account.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Almost a superhero

24th November 2006
It's been a while..... . Since the last time I wrote an entry lots of significant things have happened which deserved to be logged down. Like the class trip to kodai, sim cats- city rank 1 in one , mediocre performance in the others, asthmatic cough, visit to the doctors etc etc etc...I've been guilty of cardinal sins like procrastination, laziness and aimlessness in the past few months. I'll write more entries more regularly , i swear.
Today we (my classmates) sat for the 'advanced architecture and parallel processing' examination. I woke up at five in the morning and thought I should revise(ha ha..'revise' i read the subject in parts yesterday) . Five minutes and two paragraphs later i found myself sitting on a bike with glider like wings(i think...) flying in the air. I wasn't thinking about the ensuing exam or about the aerodynamics involved in making this possible. I was nonchalantly riding the bike like i've ridden this wonder- bike a zillion times. Suddenly the wings snapped and the bike disappeared and i was in mid- air feeling gravity. My estimate is that i must've been like 100 meters above the level of the ground and while in mid-air my thought process was something like this"oh.. i'm gonna die.... maybe i 'll survive the crash .... but i'll be a cripple for the rest of my lifetime or at least for the next three months ". But then my falling rate started slowing down.I ended up landing on my feet quite comfortably unscathed from any harm . The place where i landed was quite similar to the mosque in the round-about near BVB. I started marveling at myself. How did i defy gravity? Do I've superpowers?
.... then i woke up. The time was six thirty .. and i had slept off with my head resting on the table. what a disappointment! damn...I was almost superman.
The exam went fine,not exceptionally well. For me an exceptionally good exam is one where i can say confidently that 'yes I'll pass for sure'. Today's was an 'i should pass ' kinda exam .Joe leftthe exam hall in one hour . I was very surprised to see him leave so early .
In the afternoon Dias asked me whether we could go and see the latest Bond flick. I said ok. I really wanted to see casino roylale. Not because I'm a big James Bond fan . Hell.. i watch Bond movies to watch the Bond girls. But Bond girls weren't the reason either. Chris Cornell has sung the soundtrack for this one and i adore the song . You could not guess my elation when they were showing the opening credits with the song playing in the background. I asked sandy sitting on my right that how does he find the song. He said 'The animation shown is fantastic. But the song is nothing special'
The plot of this movie is different from the usual bond flicks . The gadgets are missing . Some action sequences are breathtaking. But the plot lacks sharpness. Eva Green is a beautiful piece of work. Craig is a good choice for the role of Bond . The man has style. They have not shown bond as an infallible superhero. By the way the theater cut the love scenes . damn ....