Faltu Ka Blog

Kab milegi

2010-02-09T13:05:00.000-08:00

"Oye Mr. Uber Geek, girlfriend banayi ki nahi?"

"Nahi yaar, this is IIT, remember?"

"Ah, too bad for you, missing out on girls"

"I prefer to think girls are missing out on me."

"Mr IIT Hotshot eh? One day you will miss having someone to share your feelings"

"Why would I even want to share my feelings? I feel okay just the way I am."

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"Hey Mr Dilliwala, show us the delhi-waala-maal."

"There is no such thing as delhi-wala-maal."

"Of course there is. You were from PPS school na? Kya girls hoti hain wahan ki!"

"You've been watching too much porn"

"And what about you, teri koi bandi to pakka hogi. Mera bhi set kara na."

"No bhai, quit pestering me."

"You must some kind of abnormal guy, no girlfriend even in a school like PPS."

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I work hard.

I play harder.

I get tired.

I sleep.

And then I dream.

Dream of nothing.

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**In the college cultural fest**

"Cmon yaar, we are already in third year. Ab to girlfriend rakhna banta hai"

"Haan haan, you should ask out one of the babes today only."

"Guys, this is completely stupid."

"Ooh! Look at those godly legs yaar! Just go on and ask her"

"Yeah go go, we are right behind you"

"Yeah go ahead, you are the man, you are the PPSite, you are the Dilliwala."

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"Yaar these guys keep screwing around with me. Tease me incessantly about still being a girl-shy child. I am from a small time background. Tu to Dilliwala hai.. Tell me kya karoon."

"Its perfectly okay not to have a 'so-to-say' steady girlfriend."

"Yaar, but there should be someone who would lend a shoulder for you. Hai na?"

"I guess so."

"Pata nahi kab milegi! Till then, I will try my luck on Orkut"

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**Valentine's Day**

"Flowers for you! Will you be my valentine?"

"Of course, mom."

"You could have said that more cheerfully, you know."

"Yeah, right."

"So, is there some girl you want to gift chocolates today?"

"I would rather eat those chocolates myself. Obviously no, ma."

"Now thats not really obvious. You come once a month home, I wouldnt even know if you were in a secret relationship with some girl now would I?"

"Whatever ma. Now hand over my milk before it gets cold."

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A dark angel.

A milky chocolatey angel.

No, a white angel.

As bright as the sun, even more.

Soothing me, hugging me.

Says, "Whatever happens, I will be there for you."

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A Random Chat on Omegle.com

2009-11-06T23:19:00.000-08:00

This is me as 'You' in the chat.

You: Its chilly here in china

Stranger: Om nom nom!

Stranger: What's up?

Stranger: No kidding.

You: om namah shivay

Stranger: om namah shivaya

Stranger: n ts n ts n ts

Stranger: Astral projection?

You: no..

You: its a hindu mantra..

You: you from america?

You: are you dead?

Stranger: No, sorry.

Stranger: I'm in California.

Stranger: yeah.

You: oh nice

Stranger: Ok. >.>

You: venice beach? inglewood?

You: say hi to my poppa..

Stranger: Hah.

Stranger: Tell me about om namah shivaya.

You: om is a universal sound.. a combination of the widest spectrum of frequencies..

You: it is thought that if aliens would ever communicate with humans, it would start with "OM"

Stranger: Ok.

Stranger: Interesting.

You: Namah is a Sanskrit word for humble introduction

You: Shivaya is the Lord of Destruction.. So this mantra is a call to aliens that we will destroy you..

You: that last part was made up :)

Stranger: Uh huh.

Stranger: Yeah, I see that. hahaha.

You: Did you know that hindu mythology has over 80,000 gods..

Stranger: I know he is the considered the supreme god.

Stranger: Yes.

You: one for each family/community,,

Stranger: I studied hinduism when I was younger.

You: yes you are right..

Stranger: He is the destroyer or transformer.

Stranger: In school I was taught that together with brahma and vishnu, they make up the trimurti.

You: Do you know about the other two supreme gods?

You: cool

Stranger: haha.

Stranger: My teacher at the time said that the supreme being was brahma, but after doing my own research it would seem to be shiva.

You: Do you know that ashvathama was the name of an elephant also?

Stranger: No, I didn't know that.

You: ok, actually that part was from the mahabharata..

You: it is the grandest epicest tale of five brothers in war with a hundred brothers..

You: if possible, you should see the television series with the same name

You: dead again? did shiva destroy you?

Stranger: Still here.

Stranger: Are you hindu?

You: yes

Stranger: Ok.

You: can you tell about your religion?

You: mythology?

Stranger: You want me to tell you about what I believe?

You: yes..

You: I am not really interested in your religion, I just wanted to know if you would share any cool myths you might have heard of?

You: Like He-Man of the Castle Grayskull..

You: or Helen of Troy

Stranger: LOL

Stranger: he-man is an american cartoon

You: or the 300 spartans..

Stranger: just a funny story, not a myth

Stranger: the 300 spartans is history, that really happened.

You: hehe..

You: but not really like the action movie...

Stranger: Helen of troy is a work of fiction written over 2000 years ago.

Stranger: No, the movie is a work of fiction.

You: Then tell me something about your mythology..

You: Some cool story..

Stranger: I'm an atheist.

You: ok, thats fine...

Stranger: :)

You: But dont you like any myths?

Stranger: like no man dude I don't.

Stranger: Sorry.

Stranger: What attracts you to hinduism over other religions?

You: my dad said so..

You: Beta, you must be a hundu, or get out of my house..

You: *hindu

Stranger: How old are you?

Stranger: Are you Chinese?

Stranger: Your name is Beta?

You: No way

You: Im 19, male, indian

You: and beta means son in hindi

You: unlike the greek beta

Stranger: Ah, ok.

Stranger: Strange.

Stranger: Your father tells you you must think something is true, or you have to get out of his house.

Stranger: However, it does not make the thing more true or less true.

You: Yeah, thats how it is..

Stranger: The thing is true or it is false.

Stranger: His threats do not make it true or false.

Stranger: If he said, "Beta, 2 + 2 = 6. Believe this, or get out of my house."

Stranger: He would still be wrong.

Stranger: And you would know the truth, even if you pretended.

You: What if I like to believe that there are 80,000 gods protecting me, and I like that illusion of safety?

Stranger: You can believe it, but it doesn't make it true.

You: Does your father have a different religion than you do?

You: Dont get offended, I was just asking..

You: In hindusim, we treat guests as gods..

You: you are like a guest

You: and I like to believe in this attitude

You: hence my religion

You: Did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: Nope.

Stranger: Sorry, I'm doing several things.

You: ok

Stranger: Haha.

Stranger: My father is a christian minister.

Stranger: Like a priest.

You: So doesnt your family get offended by your atheist beliefs..

Stranger: Yes.

Stranger: I think people should believe in the truth.

Stranger: Not just in what they are told.

Stranger: We should each think about what makes sense to us and believe in what we know, not just accept everything that we are told.

You: I think you are right in some ways, yet ignoring the presence of a higher power is not really what is right..

You: it gives faith to the weakest of the weak to overcome odds

You: and these are not so called miracles, these are everyday acts of kindness

You: did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: Hahaha. No.

Stranger: I have never seen the presence of a higher power.

Stranger: If I saw it, I would not ignore it.

You: Dont you think there is a purpose to your existence?

You: being a science student, you should know that everything has a meaning

You: does your existence have a meaning yet?

You: It is precisely for that reason that you can never see the presence, only feel it..

Stranger: I think we give meaning to the things we do.

Stranger: I think meaning is what we think it is. Events are neutral, it is we that decide if it has meaning or not.

You: Ok, stop for a moment, and try to look at your self from a third person perspective..

Stranger: Ok.

You: This body, these abilities that you have of locomotion, digestion, respiration

Stranger: Yes.

You: dont you think these are not coincidences?

You: That you have some purpose?

You: Did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: No. These are products of evolution.

Stranger: We have very good scientific evidence of why we move, digest, and breath.

You: Even so, how did evolution put life into organic matter?

Stranger: We can look at the body and our history and show by science and proof exactly why we do these things. We don't have to say that magical invisible gods did it, because we know why we do these things.

Stranger: Evolution did not put life into organic matter.

You: Then what do you think shaped our character into the only possible shape and structure that we have

You: Infinitely many paths are possible through decisions, and yet we chose one..

Stranger: We can only chose one.

Stranger: You would say we chose one no matter which path we chose.

Stranger: We took this path through evolution.

You: Why do you think that every new-born creature is an exact replica of its parent?

You: you would say it is the property of reproduction

Stranger: We are not exact replicas of our parents.

You: but dont you think that it is the perfection of a higher power?

You: and yet we have our own differences..

You: Did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: No.

Stranger: We know why children are similar to their parents. It is because their parents pass down their genetic code to them. That is how reproduction works, and how species are sustained.

You: What do you think passes this genetic code?

Stranger: It doesn't show that there is a god or gods. We can explain it.

Stranger: Sperm and ovum.

You: And who put these genetic codes into sperms and ova?

Stranger: Our bodies did automatically.

Stranger: Any body that failed to do that never passed on its genes.

You: hahaahaa

You: "Automatically" !

You: explain that with science..

You: I got you boy..

You: Did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: If you are interested in how sperm and ovum are created and why they contain genetic code, I would suggest you look it up on wikipedia.

You: WIkipedia is a creation of scientific minds and comminty effort

Stranger: Yes.

You: and its knowledge is limited by our human thoughts..

You: and scientific effort

Stranger: You asked me to explain how genetic codes are put into sperm and ova, with science. This is very simple science, and is taught to students in high school.

Stranger: Science is not limiting. It is educational.

Stranger: We have never been limited by science.

You: Of course not..

Stranger: In fact, most of the great mistakes we have made in the past which we have fixed with science were actually made by religion.

Stranger: For example, we used to believe the world was flat. Scientists discovered it was round, and the religious community put those scientists in jail.

Stranger: Eventually the evidence was overwhelming, and the religious community had to admit it was wrong.

You: Religion did not jail scientists, some misguided priests did..

You: Religion did not believe earth is flat

Stranger: Fair enough. It was done in the name of religion, then.

You: some hypocrites and fat bellied priests did it..

Stranger: Science is not limiting.

Stranger: We learn from science.

You: But where does science learn from?

You: Do you say nature?

You: observations?

You: analysis?

You: conclusion?

You: But where does it all start?

Stranger: We learn from observing our environment, and analyzing what we see.

Stranger: Learning starts from curiousity, I suppose.

You: That is our perception of science, but what really created science?

You: Did shiva destroy you yet?

Stranger: Lol, I don't think Shiva is going to destroy me tonight.

Stranger: Science is the process of asking questions and finding answers through proof.

Stranger: Science is a theory. It was never created, it was only named.

You: Did you know Vishnu was stronger than Shiva..

Stranger: It was first practiced by the first man to solve a problem by thinking about it logically.

You: ?

You: Topic change?

Stranger: I didn't know that.

Stranger: Sure.

Stranger: *shrug*

You: Vishnu was like Batman over Superman

You: Shiva had strength

You: Vishnu had cunningness..

You: Another factoid

You: Did you know there is only one temple of Lord Brahma in India?

You: No one is allowed to establish a temple elsewhere..

You: Did you self-destruct yet?

You: :)

Stranger: I didn't know there was only one temple of Lord Brahma in India.

You: Its a loong story, do you want to hear it?

Stranger: Well... probably not, if it's that long.

You: Okay, I wasnt going to start anyway..

You: You read any Batman comics?

You: Your age?

You: Did you self-destruct yet?

You: Or are you bored?

You: My gmail Id is thundercoder@gmail.com

You: would love to chat some other time..

Stranger: Ah, sorry

Stranger: I was talking to someone else

Stranger: I'm 22.

Stranger: I like some comics, not batman so much.

Stranger: The Dark Knight by Alan Moore is pretty good.

You: Arre, nice...

You: That is the best Batman work ever..

Stranger: :)

You: So are you employed?

Stranger: I'm a Marine.

You: seen Full Metal Jacket?

Stranger: Yes.

Stranger: Haha.

You: Which type are you, the fat one or short one?

Stranger: One moment

Stranger: http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5742/260911847557v.jpg

You: Looking nice..

Stranger: Lol. Thanks.

You: Do they torture you like in the movie?

You: Any specific field of specialization?

Stranger: I don't think there was torture in Full Metal Jacket

Stranger: I'm a rifleman and a network specialist.

Stranger: What do you mean 'torture'?

You: The fat guy was bleeding.. and bullied, that led to his suicide..

You: Are you off duty now?

Stranger: Yeah, I'm in my barracks room.

Stranger: He wasn't bleeding until he shot himself, lol.

Stranger: we had a couple of people in boot camp try to kill themselves, but they failed.

Stranger: No one died.

You: Why did they fail?

Stranger: One jumped from the third level, but he was ok

Stranger: lol

Stranger: another tried to cut his wrists with razor blades but they caught him and sent him away

You: Must be a tough guy..

You: the first one, I mean..

Stranger: If you land on your feet you probably won't die.

You: How high have you jumped?

Stranger: not more than 12 feet.

Stranger: Onto ground.

Stranger: Water, much more.

You: My friend can jump 13 feet, is he qualified to be a marine?

Stranger: Hahaha.

Stranger: Marines do more than jump. ;)

You: He can run 100 m in 10.7

Stranger: meters?

You: He can jump 7 m

You: yeah, 100 m

You: meters

Stranger: Very fast.

You: Can he join the marines now?

Stranger: To be allowed to try you have to pass intelligence tests, have no medical problems, you have to be American, and you have to have a high school diploma.

Stranger: And then you can try.

You: He has an IQ close to 160 I think, and a Bachelor Degree in Engineering..

You: The problem is that he is not American

You: Can you work that out for us?

You: Hmm?

Stranger: I can't.

Stranger: I'm just a normal Marine.

Stranger: he could immigrate, he may be allowed to join for citizenship.

Stranger: He may not like it here, though.

Stranger: It's not a lot of fun.

You: I will tell him, actually he's in Indian Navy

You: training for Marine Engineering

You: Did you self-destruct yet?

Stranger: Nope.

Stranger: That's cool, though.

Stranger: Indian Navy. Hm.

You: Protecting the Arabian Seas and Indian Oceans from Somalian Pirates..

Stranger: :)

Stranger: I wish America did more protecting and less attacking.

You: True

Stranger: It's out of my control, though.

You: Obviously..

Stranger: Obama is less war-mongering than Bush, though.

Stranger: I like him better.

You: Our Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh is also cooler than Bush

You: Maybe even ccoler than Obama.. never attacks or offends anybody..

You: Plays defensive game everywhere.. in international, as well as domestic politics..

You: are you a Bush supporter?

Stranger: No.

Stranger: I support my president always because he is both my president as an american citizen and my highest officer as a marine.

Stranger: I am loyal to him.

Stranger: But I did not vote for him, I wish Al Gore had won instead of Bush.

Stranger: Or Kerry.

Stranger: I am glad Obama won.

Stranger: I like Obama.

You: Bush was a very energetic president, they compared him to a monkey..

You: Always jumping around..

Stranger: No, no.

Stranger: They compared him to a monkey because he has small eyes and big ears and he does not speak well

Stranger: he speaks as if he were not a smart person.

Stranger: So they call him a monkey. It is an insult, to disrespect him.

You: Oh, sorry..

Stranger: No problem. :)

You: I am sorry for Bush..

You: Clinton was good too, before his accident..

Stranger: Yes.

You: The Monica Lewinsky accident

You: He was very close to Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee..

You: You should see Shri Atal Behari Vajpayeeji's videos on youtube

You: Very energetic !!

Stranger: hahaha

Stranger: I will look it up now

Stranger: Hm.

Stranger: Can you send me a good one?

You: ok, I will find one for you..

Stranger: :)

You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjufY0_n4ss

You: mind the Hindi though..

Stranger: He seems angry. I don't like it.

You: It was when he was young..

You: I could not find the latest video..

You: Watch this

You: Indian Railway Minister in Parliament

You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JekaXmlrohw

You: See this, it is funny.. He speaks English too..

Stranger: Ok :)

Stranger: I don't understand why it's funny.

You: Oh ok, its his dialect that we find funny...

You: I have to go now, have to finish my engineering project..

You: You are a funny guy, nice to meet you

You: I'm coming to States next year..

You: Will you host me?

Stranger: Yo.

Stranger: Host you?

Stranger: What do you mean?

Stranger: om nom nom.

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Facebook

2009-06-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

2009-05-09T23:47:00.000-07:00

This is for all you CS & Linux freaks out there, check out this cool rap on AIM chat from www.bash.org :

djahandarie: we ain't here to do e-c-e
djahandarie: we're here to do c-s-e on the w-e-b
djahandarie: listen to me spit these rhymes
djahandarie: while i program lines
djahandarie: and commit web accessibility crimes
djahandarie: word, son
http402: You talk like your big on these I-Net kicks,
http402: But your shit flows slower than a two-eighty-six.
http402: I'm tracking down hosts and nmap scans,
http402: While Code Igniter's got you wringing your hands.
http402: Cut the crap rap,
http402: Or I'll run ettercap,
http402: Grab your AIM chat,
http402: N' send a PC bitch-slap!
http402: peace
djahandarie: you're talkin bout down hosts and nmap scans
djahandarie: while i got other plans
djahandarie: you're at your new job, but you can't even do it right
djahandarie: you just create a plight with your http rewrites
djahandarie: i've been on the web since the age of three
djahandarie: you just got on directly off the bus from mississippi
djahandarie: respect yo' elders, bitch
http402: You've been webbin' since three, but still ain't grown up,
http402: Gotta update your config and send the brain a SIGHUP.
http402: You say you're that old? No wonder you're slow!
http402: You're knocking at the door while I run this show!
http402: Elders my ass, you're shit's still in school,
http402: Hunt and pecking at the keyboard like a spaghetti-damned fool,
http402: Rim-riffing your hard drive like a tool,
http402: Face it. I rule.
djahandarie: i erase my harddrives with magnets (bitch)
djahandarie: all you can do is troll on the fagnets
djahandarie: and son, my brain's wrapped in a nohup
djahandarie: it wont be hurt by the words you throwup
djahandarie: dont mind me while i emerge my ownage
djahandarie: while you're still over there apt-getting your porridge
djahandarie: you say i'm still in school
djahandarie: but the fact is that i know the rule
djahandarie: cuz you need to go back to grade three
djahandarie: and you better plea, that they take sucky graduates from c-s-e
http402: Time to bend over and apply a patch,
http402: Your brain's throwing static like a CD with a scratch.
http402: Your connection got nuked and you've met your match.
http402: You run a single process like a VAX with a batch.
http402: I'd pass the torch to a real winner
http402: But it'd just scorch a while-loop spinner
http402: Caught in a loop that you cant escape,
http402: I run clock cycles around your words and flows,
http402: Cuz your rhyme is like a PS fan: it' blows,
http402: Your water-cooled lyrics leak and it shows,
http402: Take your ass back to alt.paid.for.windows.
djahandarie: Good god, I can't even respond to that. :P
djahandarie: You win haha
* http402 takes a bow

"Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders" - Anonymous

Banzai

2009-05-01T06:54:00.001-07:00

I will tell you story: (It aint the ping-pong ball story, that can wait....)

Kamikaze (japanese, kami=god, kaze=wind) are the world famous suicide bombers from Japan. The Japanese realized in the middle of World War II that they were down in technological superiority than the Americans, and so they devised a plan. They would make planes, but would not mount guns on them, instead carry extra explosives on board. The pilots thought they were fighting for their family honour, as mentioned in the bushido code: loyalty and honor to the cause until death. And so, the suicide planes were born. The Kamikaze.

The plane was single propeller turbo fan, and had poor weight balancing. But there was a single kanji written on the airplane - "Banzai".

Banzai is the warcry for the brave, the desperate or for plain foolish. It is a kind of religious feeling one gets by thinking less, and doing more, and not giving a damn about personal life. Emotionally charged kamikaze would fly their banzai planes into the enemy heart, and give them a hell of a time.

This should be our warcry too. Banzai your thoughts, Banzai your actions, and Banzai your words. Strike terror into the enemy heart.

BANZAI!

The Humdrum of IIT Delhi Poltu

2009-03-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

IIT Delhi Politics, affectionately called "Poltu", spares none, bars none, and yet people get scared (a better word may be cautious) by the very word. I am going to describe the most common symptoms of IITD Poltu:

1. Hushed Voices: If the volume of voice of the person talking to is getting lower by the minute, it is best to start shouting, because people who try to promote their agenda ought to say aloud what they want to say. If someone is deliberately trying to quieten down, its best to be alert, and raise the heat of the argument.

2. Uncertain commitments: If you ask a candidate for a pre-election party (and by that, I mean a real party!) and they seem uncertain, their post candidature and effectively their confidence of victory might be low too.

3. Pointing out people: If they are trying too hard to sound subtle while pointing out people, mud slinging them or accusing for their own twisted reasons, be warned. If they don't have the guts of point people and be proud of it, and do not care what the world thinks of them are truly leaders.

Having seen the in-fighting and black-talk over supremely silly issues, I feel its time for people to wake up to this menace.

A wise man once said - "If there are barriers, you have to take sides."
A wiser man said - "If there are barriers, they are meant to be broken."
(Words of wisdom from my soon-to-be-ex-roommate)

And did I tell you I was aiming for Computer Room Secy?

Bottomline is (as is always): VOTE FOR ME !!!

Evolution

2009-01-17T21:34:00.000-08:00

100 Things that Bug Me

2009-01-12T09:51:00.000-08:00

Why the beep would I want to write down this stuff here, you'd ask.

This was supposed to be my "MEP202: Design Innovation and Manufacturing" course assignment

But Billie Jean Still Aint My Lover...

WARNING: Some material might be incriminating, or even downright confusing for Non-IITians. Anyways, here goes

1.	Academic Scoring System
2.	Ankur Badonia
3.	Butler of our Mess
4.	Bad Toilets
5.	Unclean Room
6.	Delhi Winters in IIT Hostel
7.	Geyser Not Working
8.	Rush for Toilets in Mornings
9.	Construction of IIT Hostels
10.	No Canteen in SAC
11.	Mess food is bland
12.	Choosing courses
13.	Buses not available
14.	Dusty construction of road near Juice Corner
15.	Making this List
16.	Poor LAN speed / Internet speed
17.	Nalanda ATM not working
18.	Old classrooms
19.	Pens keep getting lost
20.	Can't wake up early enough
21.	Compulsory 75% attendance
22.	Practical courses
23.	MEP202
24.	Cycle not working
25.	Internship hunting
26.	Unavailability of courses
27.	Bad Quality of SCOOPS Notebook
28.	Roommate losing the door lock
29.	Antique Lab Facilities
30.	Space Constraints
31.	Less Number of IIT Girls
32.	Humanities
33.	Security System of our Hostel
34.	Manish Bansal
35.	Redundant Report Submissions
36.	No bookshop in campus
37.	Faulty electrical switchboards
38.	Not getting Computer Science Department
39.	Spiders
40.	Mosquitoes
41.	Bad cable TV in Hostel
42.	Politics in Hostel
43.	8 to 5 Classes
44.	Birthday Bumps turning into slugfests
45.	Water cooler only on ground floor of hostel
46.	Ankur Badonia singing
47.	Bad image of gaming
48.	1 km walk from Hostel
49.	Maddus in IIT Delhi
50.	Auto Fares in Delhi
51.	DTC Buses
52.	Lack of entertainment venues in Delhi
53.	Blueline Buses
54.	No metro station near IIT
55.	My mom!
56.	Limited hard disk space
57.	Java
58.	Department change system
59.	Assignment deadlines
60.	No TT Table from hostel
61.	No inter-hostel LAN
62.	No Rapidshare account
63.	No position of responsibility
64.	Saurabh Jain
65.	SAC Barber
66.	Salman Khan
67.	Cricket
68.	NSS
69.	UG Section
70.	No paranthas in Sassi
71.	Uth Café / fX
72.	Arjun Singh
73.	Computers in CSC
74.	Non-availability of books in Library
75.	Japanese Language Course in IIT Delhi
76.	PHP100
77.	Group Making in MEP202
78.	Early Closing of Sip-n-Bite Canteen
79.	Earphones not working
80.	Micro$oft
81.	Cold hands
82.	Roommate waking up late
83.	Burning CDs
84.	Over-enthusiasm for Counter-Strike
85.	Broken extension cable
86.	My Brother!
87.	Outdated Software
88.	Craze for Graphic Cards
89.	Overpriced food at Malls and Cinemas
90.	Unorganized study table
91.	Terrorism
92.	No Dustbin in Room
93.	Mess Dues Payment
94.	Manish Bansal playing loud music
95.	Lack of good magazines in Common Room
96.	Misuse of Hostel Property by Mess Workers
97.	Old Configuration of my Laptop
98.	Washing Laundry
99.	Being Lazy
100.	Not doing anything about this list

Yippee! I got a 100 things to bore you with now :)

Beep That Beep

2009-01-06T20:58:00.000-08:00

Choises, Fingerprinting, Ghajini and Password Cracking

2009-01-03T20:35:00.000-08:00

Wake me up, when semester ends...

It was back to the usual, waking half an hour before class by the great Tennosama, and believe me, fitting hagga, breakfast, and a 1 km walk in half an hour are things that IITians swear by. Ghoomte, ghumate, we rounded up our lecture classes ("Choise of Chemical Reactors") My scheduling was excellent, 8-9 then 9-11 free then 11-12, so if i could skip the first lecture, then i could get good sleep till 11 :) Tutorial sessions were the real deal, and when our Energy Conversion prof publicly humiliated us (publicly because there were two chem guys also in our mech course) on not knowing basics of thermodynamics, it really hit the spot. So, we get a graded assignment (punishment) for Monday.

No, the other finger please..

The babudom of IIT Delhi had a field day in registering courses. And fingerprint biometric scanning was supposed to be the miracle method to speed up the process. What ended up was a long queue outside UG Office, rampant line jumping, and chants of 'MAARO! MAARO!' in the corridor. With outdated software crashing randomly and only one fingerprint machine, it was almost a 1.5 hour affair. These shameless babus should respect the time of iitians :)

Maddu fight scenes, Excellent romance, Asin Rocks !!

That pretty much sums up the PVR Saket Ghajini experience with Mittal-san, Jitu Bhai, Kitty, Gabbu and the great Tennosama. Apart from missing the dinner ofcourse...

Day destroys the night,
Night divides the day,
Try to run, Try to hide,
Break on through to the other side

Last night I started simultaneous attempts on cracking our hostel server,academic site server, our dns server, and our ftp sunfire server. After several blocks along the way, and a better understanding of network functioning in IIT, i was able to extract 17 passwords from Sunfire, what we all better know as "the linux machines in CSC", or "the 4mb ftp server".

As an example:
User: ee1040313
Password: matrix

Just try out if you dont believe me. I dont even know the poor chap, if someone does, please tell him to change his password.

How'd I do it you ask? Well I will give you the keywords and leave the rest to you..

Cain, JTR, FSCrack, FireFTP, Firefox, wordlists, ARP Poisoning, SuperScan, telnet, passwd.yp

It wont hurt to put comments once in a while dudes. More next time :)

Guess Who's Back.. Back Again...

2009-01-01T11:52:00.000-08:00

Shady's back... Tell a friend....

Cutting the crap on the rap, I'm back in IIT, way before the wayward text messages and greetings drift ashore my digital beach-life.

"And all I wanna do is
BANG BANG BANG BANG
and Ka-Ching
and take your money.."

Everyone decided to dump their plans for RNBDJ and Ghajini for Slumdog Millionaire, and in hindsight, I feel it was a good idea. SM is a masterpiece, in terms of artwork, and character portrayal. Some might say it is just another art movie, but give it a dekko once atleast before commenting.

Begun the timetable planning has. Discussed the courses we have. Attend the classes tomorrow we must. May the force be with me :)

Stress Management

2008-12-31T06:53:00.000-08:00

With so much hustle-bustle and frenetic time scheduling in IIT, comes the important of stress management. ‘Stress’ itself is a hi-fi word for students and if somebody even says that “I am stressed out”, he gets laughed at by others. This is because, in IIT, we students lead a ‘chilled life’ (couldn’t find another word for it!). We cannot blame anybody but ourselves for deadline pressures, academic pressures, or even extra-curricular pressures. So we need to look at stress from another perspective. We face stress in the form of being unable to play Age of Empires, or play table-tennis, or go for quizzing and so on. Of course, academics is primary, but academic pressures are secondary, and become chief concern only at deadlines.

Moving on to the definition of Stress Management we once again invoke Mr. Wikipedia:

“Stress management encompasses techniques intended to equip a person with effective coping mechanisms for dealing with psychological stress, with stress defined as a person's physiological response to an internal or external stimulus that triggers the fight-or-flight response”

In simple words, stress management involves methods for coping with stress. For that, we need to define stress, which is understood from the reactions of a person to a given problem.

On a scale of 10, I would shamelessly give myself a 9. That would be a statement “in general”

I would not say that I don’t face stress at all, or react neutrally to stress. Even I am a normal student, I make exclamations of excitement or throw curses at the situation. But internally, I believe that I can stay calm in most situations.
I believe I am rational enough not to think about taking foolish measures like taking to alcohol, smoking, drugs which others fall prey to, or in some rare cases even suicide.
My stress management is not direct, just because I believe that things get done when they really have to get done.
Things that I do to calm down can be as ordinary as going to Nescafe for a quick coffee, starting a ‘short’ game on the laptop (which rarely ends up being short), watching a good video or a movie, and best of all, spending time with my friends.

What really catches my attention are the lengths to which people go to manage stress, taking breathing exercises, attending encouraging talks, or even going to the lengths of shelling out huge money to listen to a celebrity author giving tips on the so-called ‘stress management’, which I can go to lengths describing. I wont do that here, because I don’t believe in them, and that’s my conscience talking. People say they benefited them, yes I wouldn’t disagree, but I fail to believe that they can boost my confidence in my lifestyle or reduce my stress.

I certainly wouldn’t deny that I face stress, its just that stress management is situational for me, and in most situations, I am able to manage stress pretty well. Living the life of a hostel student has definitely taught me to judge stress factors and coping measures. If you are satisfied and able to remain calm from within, then nothing else matters to you.

Time Management

2008-12-31T06:50:00.000-08:00

I'm fairly sure all of us are familiar with the fact that IIT has some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If this comes as a surprise you may have been looking for that other college/institute...) But one of the largest challenges, at least for me, has been finding the time to try and ‘report’ all that needs to be ‘reported’, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Counter-Strike. There's a popular saying: "Academics, Friends, Sleep; pick two" and having been here for almost a year and a half I can certainly see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact that can be part of the challenge that's so exciting. I mean, would you really want to do nothing but study all day? Of course not! And neither would I. So with all these things begging for my attention, it's not surprising that my humanities teacher asked me to write on time management.

As it turns out, managing your time is a fairly easy process.

Let’s begin by defining Time Management.

“Time management is commonly defined as the various means by which people effectively use their time and other closely related resources in order to make the most out of it” (Thank you Wikipedia)

Removing the flashy words, time management is about having confidence in how you use your time in the best possible manner according to you. Feeling comfortable with your routine is basically what time management is all about.

On a scale of 10, I would rate myself as 7. Reasons follow:

· A lot of days, I fail to do any thing, accomplish any target, achieve any goal, or even begin doing anything. I easily get drifted away, and when the deadline is upon me, then only I begin doing it. Same goes for this assignment.

· On other times, I can prioritize things in the order of importance and approach targets confidently, and not feeling bad about low priority activities not getting done.

· Things keep rotating in my head most of the time, and sometimes I have and sometimes I lack a clear vision of what to do next.

· But I am able to find time to do sufficient preparation for the same.

To improve, here are some basic principles of time management I've observed are most important which me and in general everyone should follow:

1) Make a schedule: You really do have more time than you think if you write out all the things you do in a week. You'll see gaping holes of time that you don't know how you wasted. Start by taking a weekly schedule and putting in all the things that don't change from week to week. Like, say, class times, sleep times, breakfast/lunch/dinner times. That way when you go about scheduling your week you don't have to try and remember all the same things, you can focus on the new stuff you have to make time for.

2) Find a method that works for you: Some people are post-it note people. Others are calendars, some using digital calendars like mobile, laptops, alarm clocks and what not. There are still a majority of ‘others’ who prefer using their heads and taking it out when time comes (that’s me!). Your particular system of organization doesn't really matter to anyone but you, but make sure it's working for you. If it isn't don't be afraid to try something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom, you want me to be organized don't you?").

3) Stick to it: By far the hardest part. It's easy to get inspired and motivated from a seminar or a new technology, but you've got to stick with it after the newness fades. Same goes for your time management technique. Make a desperate attachment with your new schedule plan. Take it everywhere, in your words, in your actions. And just do it, no matter what.

If you can manage all that, you'll start reaping the benefits soon enough. Grades will improve, you'll get more sleep, emotionally you'll feel better for being more productive.

Time management can’t be so difficult after all…

Why Blame The System ?

2008-12-31T06:47:00.000-08:00

We all love to play the blame game. Bad marks? Blame the teacher. No water/electricity? Blame the government. Traffic jams? Blame the roads. Crime problems? Blame the police. Caste riots? Blame politics. Shamelessly we go on. And yet feel proud about it.

Owning up responsibility requires a certain amount of courage and will, and here lies the biggest fault of our system, i.e. the inability to create responsible citizens. When people contemplate on a problem, the easy way out is to just blame and get away with it.

When we are school kids, the only authorities guiding us are parents and the school. However, both are working at their maximum efficiency in building our character, yet we blame our teachers for the bad performance in exams. We are unable to truly appreciate the fact that they have our best interests in their mind. Even in most situations, they would never mean selective harm to us.

As we grow up, in later stages of our education, we say that the rat race for engineering/ medical colleges and the associated coaching and tuition is caused by lack of quality institutions in the country that are able to compensate for the increasing demand for higher education. We blame the government for not providing infrastructure, but we are unable to exploit the facilities to their full potential.

On a parallel note, this fact becomes increasingly evident when we observe the government mechanisms, especially democracies. Here, every decision requires approval of all members of the decision making body. Even so, the opposition party often criticizes the government for any kind of mistake. This is well publicized by the media as blame-passing of politicians. The truth, however, is that its the job of the opposition to blame the government, to ensure its strict functioning. Also, the babus are lazy enough to ignore pleas of change in the system. They are ready to criticize other agencies for their own faults.

This case finds it strength especially in an academic environment such as IIT. As far as I have observed, every discussion here tends to end on ‘blame the system’ note. We have all kinds of passionate outbursts against the system which end up benefiting no one. On the other hand, no one bothers to channelize these energies in finding feasible solutions to these problems and getting them implemented.

This mindset of letting things be and constant procrastination ultimately leads to half-finished jobs, for which tomorrow, someone else will blame you, or, you yourself will start finding excuses. Determination and will are the keywords here.

Seriously, the tendency to blame the system is a convenient way of leaving no one accountable, and the faceless identity called the system gets a beating, which gives you a false sense of accomplishment of pinpointing the error in the situation

Causes

When we are angry (which is often), we need to release our tension. Typically, we do so by blaming someone.

Some of our problems are NOT: the hostel mess; an election rally speech; or the sports captains not procuring sports goods. Our problems ARE, respectively: people not getting quality food; words that do not lead to actions; and poor performance in sports.

Blaming fails to "cure" or even change anything for three reasons.

1. Blaming is seductive. It vents our anger and frustration at a specific target. They: made bad food; said one thing but did another; did not equip the players properly. Fire/Sack/Dismiss them!

This may feel good but does it: Get us better food? Match words with deeds? Improve our players?

2. Blame is usually placed on the wrong person or group. The problem is the system, not the mess secretary. It feels good to blame a specific person with a name badge, a weak personality, and an accident-prone character, but the system is too vague and amorphous. Blaming ‘the system’ does not satisfy us.

3. Blaming lets us off the hook: We fantasize that we actually did something. We identified a bad guy, punished him or them; and that solved the problem. Oh really?! When something is wrong, blaming does not make it right.

Fight vs Adapt

For proceeding to solve the problem, we must decide whether we have to fight the problem or adapt towards it. We can choose to either make efforts towards changing the existing situation, or change your own thinking approach for the situation. The first approach requires considerable time and effort, whereas the second method is much more feasible and easier to do. I shall describe both in detail.

The ‘Fight’ Approach

Fixing the problem requires identifying the real cause (not the person), and changing the circumstances so the cause ceases to exist. If market analysis was done and bills were passed on time with consultation of the seniors, the procuring of sports goods would have been a small task. If you really started making constructive suggestions to the mess committee, then you would feel part of the process and be less inclined to blame others for it.

We need to identify some real people or real political forces and not just some faceless entity that you call the system. We need to resist the urge to ‘Blame Someone’ or nothing will ever get better.

The ‘Adapt’ Approach

I feel that satisfaction has a greater self component than group component attached to it. It comes from within. We need to learn to get the best possible output from the opportunities provided to us, which I am pretty sure there is no dearth of. There are usually more than one way of approaching a task, and the search for these alternate ways often gives us advantage over others.

Instead of cursing on the bad mess food, we should appreciate the fact that we are at least getting three meals a day, which is a luxury compared to the street children fighting over bits of food just outside the campus.

We should have a strong sense of character judgment which cannot be swayed by the marketing tactics of the political leaders. Of course, if they are disturbing and intruding upon your daily activities and your choices, then that is ultimately their own loss, they are not getting your vote!

Real sportsmen seldom care about the lack of equipment. They can enjoy the game minus complaining equally well. If you are complaining, then that is plain egoism. Instead of complaining about the lack of facilities, we can always strive to perform better with the existing services.

No matter what stumbling blocks are thrown on the pathway let's use them as stepping stones to keep going and keep striving, and when one door closes be assured that another one will always open. Stop pointing the finger of blame. When we blame, we give whoever we blame the power over us. We are saying they are stronger, greater and have the power to keep us down.

Let us show that we will not curse the problem, we will be the agents of solution, and with our persistence and determination, the problem will come to curse us.

Case Study 2

2008-12-31T06:45:00.000-08:00

1. Background Information:

The subject for this study is an 18 year old male engineering college student. He is from a well to do middle class family. An active student at school, he would be the eternal attention grabber. Having spent early part of his years in Moscow, Russia, he had developed a very distinctive and open outlook towards society and culture when he moved back to India when he was 10 years old.

He would start questioning things that are quintessentially a part of Indian traditions and practices. Many things came as a culture shock for him. However, he adjusted quite well to the best of his capacities. He gained a high sense of confidence, which often came out at the time of problems and difficulties. He developed a cherubic, outgoing and talkative personality, which made him quite popular among girls too. In short, he was highly extrovert and took part in all kinds of social activities.

After getting reasonably good marks in class X boards, he moved to a good school with a modern outlook. There, he was a nobody. This sudden change of environment made him change his habits and personality. He moved towards westernization of thought, words and actions. Brand labels, mall hopping, rap music, disco nights attracted him. He was often ridiculed for his elitist thoughts and fake pretensions.

He would indulge in activities that were taboo, or at times, immoral. In the process, he flunked his school term exams as well as coaching tests. Not being a part of the engineering exam rat race gave him a unique sense of liberation and independence.

Being the smart guy that he was, he realized that it wasn’t possible for him cope up with the huge amount of syllabus that he had piled up. In the process, he started staying indoors and instead of aiming for a topshot college, he changed his goals in time for a college that was decent enough and started training for it. He started regaining overall confidence, and was able to enjoy the last of his school years thoroughly.

He got into the college he aimed to study in. He still has drinking problems, which I hope he will realize and rectify soon. But he has become much more focused on his study goals and aims to get an MBA degree, which will put him on a much stronger foundation, and will give direction to his communication and socializing ability for an excellent future ahead.

2. Emotional Analysis:

Being an extrovert, and quite socially active, he rates high in amount of Positive Affectivity measures.
He has a high degree of variation and control of emotions.
He has emotion-focused coping approach which he actually uses very effectively to get out of sticky situations.
He is emotionally intelligent, in the sense that he can easily identify and react to emotions of other people.
His self-esteem, which was once very low, has now increased considerably in college

3. Cognitive Analysis:

He has a non-autotelic personality, and so gets easily distracted, and does activities superficially.
However, he is a highly creative personality, and infuses creativity into everything he does. This is evident from his interests, that include music / DJ Mixing
He often shows mindfulness in his activities, however, he can attain much higher levels of attention control and curiosity.
He has high level of positive optimism, even for the immediate future.

4. Behavioral Analysis:

Self Efficacy component is very high in him, i.e. he has full belief that he can complete challenges put to him
Sometimes, he is unable to generate workable pathways to achieve his goals, in other cases, he lets his motivational level fall down easily.
Ability to set short term and realistic goals and achieve them is very high in him
He often lives in an illusory world where he thinks all his needs are fulfilled. However this is his short term behavior, and behaves realistically most of the time.

5. Why I chose to study him:

A conclusion that I can observe from his history and profile is that the present free will of an individual is important. Certain environmental factors can affect us in different ways, but overall, we grow the way we choose to. Good and bad are subjective, but we always have certain shades of grey. It is the manner how we cope with them that is important.

Pehchaan kaun??

Case Study 1

2008-12-31T06:16:00.000-08:00

1. Background Information:

Subject is 18 years old and a student at IIT Delhi. He has been a physically healthy teenager. He was born in a well-to-do family and has enjoyed their love and affection. He has never been a problematic child for his parents. Before IITD, he went to school regularly without fail, studied hard, got good marks at school consistently, and took part in various extra curricular activities also. He is a highly creative person, and can use creativity in emotions also effectively. He is a highly autotelic personality. Overall, he remains quite optimistic about his future.

2. Problem Faced & its Symptoms:

However he faces a problem i.e. his nagging character. After interacting with him, it was found that he became overenthusiastic in any activity, and became easily irritated when what he wanted was not given to him. He was good in making friends, however, they couldn’t stand him for his useless talk, and nagging character. When he finds a competitor in an activity, he puts all his (mainly verbal) energies in defeating him/them (as is said in Hindi, “Neecha Dikhana” ) and neglects everything else. When he cannot defeat them, he starts denying his loss, and finds excuses for explaining himself. He cannot take jokes made on him lightly and interprets them as a character attack. He behaves saintly only with his room-mate, for reasons unknown, and often treats others (mostly friends) as little more than timepass. He starts shouting (for no reason at all) in his daily conversation with friends, which often comes across as rude. He has a dominating and short-tempered character. And for some reason, he cannot seem to control himself.

3. Diagnosis:

· He has emotion-focused coping approach. This is evident from his character of denial and excuse making nature.

· It has also been observed, that his demographics (he hails from Chandigarh) also go against him, as that place is often scrutinized by his friend circle. They have made a general opinion about the people from that place being losers. Thus, his behavior is heavily affected by environmental factors also.

· Resilient Ability: When faced with a crisis, a negative resolution leads him to become pessimistic and even more irritated.

· It also seems that he lacks optimum emotional intelligence i.e. his ability to regulate emotions. Specific problem areas are emotional understanding and management.

Pehchaan kaun??

Hmm (or is it hmmmmm...) !?!

2008-12-31T05:48:00.000-08:00

Opening blogspot after a long time, (call it writer's block, or the lack of it), forced me to update my own empty and discarded blog. So it took me days of thinking of what pieces of crap I had written all over my computer that I could upload here, and besides computer programs (dont jump the gun, they were programming assignments), there was only one thing that came to my mind.

My humanities assignments from the course: Positive Psychology. It was a course we all loved to hate..

So here I kick off my series of mindless copy-paste sessions from my various assignments, which I am proud to say, I wrote myself (or do I hate myself for wasting time?)

FaltuKaBlog.cpp

2007-07-06T01:13:00.001-07:00

#include "iostream.h"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout<<"Hello World! Welcome To Faltu Ka Blog. Keep reading, and you will";
cout<<"successfully brainwash yourself \n";
return 0;
}

Oh, and by the way, check out this list of "Hello World" programs in 193 programming languages (including Brainf*ck).