my wishlist

I wanna do lots of scuba diving
Wanna learn how to skate
And to ski
And how to play lawn tennis
Wanna learn lots of foreign language-french, german, spanish... Wont mind more :)
Even music language would do
And before all that ofcourse improve my english; hindi is hopeless at this stage
Wanna learn how to play piano; first gotta learn how to do anything worthwhile with my left hand!
Wont mind learning a bit of dancing too
Wanna reduce my waistline
But wanna eat all the good stuff in huge quantities
And wanna learn how to cook them too :)
Wanna live with normal blood pressure for sometime atleast!
Always wanted to learn some martial art too but guess that would be wishful thinking even by my standards now!
Wanna learn how to fly a plane-even a biplane would do
Wanna go on a month long cruise
And spend a weekend on a yacht
and own it too
Wanna see all the "1000 places to see" locations
Wanna travel on palace on wheels
Wanna read all the good books-preferably reading them by a beach or a lake
Wanna learn anything and everything that i wont have to use in my job
Wanna construct and civil structure from ground up
Just a damn wall would do
Most importantly want the patience to learn even one of the above!
Thats all i wish right now. Last thing i want right now is going to office 5/7 days of my life for the next 40 years. But probaly would be doing that only :(
Its like paying 71% of life as tax to enjoy the rest! God is the biggest socialist for sure! Damn i'll miss these college days! Last 2 months to enjoy and do absolutely nothing; too lazy to even start with the list above :p

Would really like to read this list 10 years down the line :P

-written from mobile so bad formatting + spelling mistakes!

i can cook!!!

aalo ke paranthe

marinated chicken 

mehnat se goonda hua aata!

masoor daal

mushroom matar ka pulao

aalo matar

chicken biryani

chola "bhatura"

mushroom matar

aalo curry

chole

egg curry

semi made poori/bhature

and the kisaan talks!!!

my response to shanky's response!!


Although I have quit playing farmville (after playing madly for a week)....but as I have a lot of free time so here goes farmville 2 in response to http://sr-itbhu.blogspot.com/2010/11/jai-jawan-jai-kisaan.html : 

* you cant do anything destructive in the game
- You can be destructive by being non constructive !!
--destroying others not yourself!
* its more of brotherly (or sisterly) love. the more you share the more you win!
- Not necessary . You can go the dhanendra soni way!
--and see where it leads! within a week he would have been with the lowest level!

* the game is as aimless as my life (maybe even more if thats possible!)
-If it wasnt aimless we wouldnt have being playing it :P
--no you play many a game with aim too (_which have a end_). think COD

* you get a lot of ribbons to decorate your farm (and come to think of it thats the aim of the game!)
-Who would miss 10k gold and 1k experience..and sadly we cant decorate those ribbons!
--a1 told me you can decorate with ribbons :(

* wheat is the cheapest
-cheap but low money+xp/per hour
--cheap!

* berries give maximum profit and grow quickly (heard a lot about raspberries)
-to grow berries you should be ready to abandon anything you might be doing when your berries are ready to be harvested!! Eating ,drinking, movies,talking anything!!
--my point still valid



* you need a lot of friends (a good way to add girls you wanna talk to :P)
-Not exactly as a LOT of those "girls" are 30+
--but surely some would be there under 30! and some of 50 million is good enough :P

* you keep sending gifts all the time
-Not necessary as given above
--dhaniya doesnt count!

* you keep refreshing the page to claim the gifts all the time
-If you havent got a good connection dont start playing!!
--you played for a week on bhu connection. if youre mad you can play even on mobile!

* you can have a farm size of max 28x28 (but that too aint the aim of the game!)
-Well the game IS supposed to be aimless ,then why should it strive to have an aim!!
--for a good dignified end (compare smallville to avatar)

* every time you grow something you have to do 400+ clicks thrice! (ofc depends on farm size)
-WEll, we have a LOT of free time so whats the harm :P
-cant argue

* everyone is too poor to use the tractor/harvester/seeder
-As I said LOTS nd LOTS of free time + we should ALWAYS avoid using up petrol when we can walk :P
--will remember that next time we goto spicy or for that matter anywhere else! and never say you dont have enough time!



* you can have animals (nah they also dont harm your farm)
-TO have animals you need to have a good handspeed to steal them before your "friends"
--good net connection to refresh the page every min!

* you can build yourself a house
-you cant build a house ,although you can BUY a pretty expensive mansion!
--then what the heck do the following do : nails planks and all the other stuff you kept fighting about!



* you can dress up your character (thats why girls play this for sure!)
-Who wouldnt want a virtual character with a MASSIVE mustache and a skully tshirt :P
--who wouldnt want a virtual character as a girl (a1)

* the girls goes out of sync so many times!
-time time time we have lots of 
--againc ant argue time factor! (after all it cant be worse than writing this post!)



* best way to earn experience is to join a co-op when its almost done!
-AGREED
--11

* you can create multiple profile to help yourself! (more farms more tympass more clicks more gifts and blah blah blah)
-this works but might lead to severe hair loss in some cases
--111111

* last but not the least 50 millon ppl do play this!
* 54 and growing !! -1 me ofcourse!
--will take it as 54 only! pp would have created another profile to compensate for yours!

jai jawan jai kisaan

I have never played farmville.
I have that app blocked since god knows when

But recently all my friends turned into farmers and here is what I got to learn everytime I was with them:

• you cant do anything destructive in the game
• its more of brotherly (or sisterly) love. the more you share the more you win!
• the game is as aimless as my life (maybe even more if thats possible!)
• you get a lot of ribbons to decorate your farm (and come to think of it thats the aim of the game!)
• wheat is the cheapest
• berries give maximum profit and grow quickly (heard a lot about raspberries)
• you need a lot of friends (a good way to add girls you wanna talk to :P)
• you keep sending gifts all the time
• you keep refreshing the page to claim the gifts all the time
• you can have a farm size of max 28x28 (but that too aint the aim of the game!)
• every time you grow something you have to do 400+ clicks thrice! (ofc depends on farm size)
• everyone is too poor to use the tractor/harvester/seeder
• you can have animals (nah they also dont harm your farm)
• you can build yourself a house
• you can dress up your character (thats why girls play this for sure!)
• the girls goes out of sync so many times!
• best way to earn experience is to join a co-op when its almost done!
• you can create multiple profile to help yourself! (more farms more tympass more clicks more gifts and blah blah blah)
• last but not the least 50 millon ppl do play this!

I guess I should get atleast 10-15 levels in farmville for knowing this much :P

teacher teacher

everyone followed the policy: learn and teach (i was always the student or photographer :P)
thank u guys (for the pics)!!

also see that a1 is taught munim and bansal but studied under shanky! so u can guess who was our guru! :P

3rd pic only to confirm ki dhaniya masoom bhi padha tha!

Then & Now

4 saal ki kahani! see how shareef guys came from kota/coaching and how they are leaving itbhu!
4 years of hard work and study :D :D

who says collg mein log patle ho jaate hain :P

agar kisi ko (only valid for dhaniya) pic remove karwani ho then tell me. tried for dohte but itne zyada changes hain 5 saal mein ki cant capture it in one picture :D

Aim (read Futility) of Life

This is one topic everyone everyone must have thought of: What is the meaning/aim of life? I too have spent much time thinking about it and till now have got no other explanation than the fact that life really is futile and is aimless! First let me talk of the various views put forth:
(In the whole post am nowhere being critical or satirical nor am I unhappy with my life in any way. On the contrary have been having a good time these days but am still confused what is life for!)


For religious persons who believe in life/death cycle, attaining moksh is important for which one must live an ideal life and blah blah. Well if you are believer then you can live with this logic but am agnostic so never thought much on this topic.

Life is for helping other. I too lived by this until I thought: Then what is others life for? What do we as well as what do the people we help gain by helping? And what is their aim in life? Even for the researchers who have developed brilliant things how has life in general improved? 100 years ago everyone had problems in life and they still remain. Human Kind obviously will never be content with whatever they have. Maybe unless there is perfect equality with nothing new coming out but then life would be too boring.

There were wars 1000 years ago. There still are. Majority people still crib about their life most of the time. Some dont like their jobs, many dont have jobs and many other factors. So its not like world is going in right direction and sometime later everyone will be happy.

So why live? That the question I have thought about a lot. Best answer I can get is to live for people you care about (or rather for people who care about you). Now the question is how to live? Any gain by living the ideal way or trying to help everyone you encounter? Well I feel that one must live every moment as he feels like. Who wants to live boring life for 100 years anyways! If living ideal life pleases you then so be it. Otherwise there is nothing like absolute right and wrong. I feel that as long as you're not harming another person (or even animals :P ) its not wrong. Defining 'harm' is much more complicated though!
So these are my thoughts.

I know many will feel that this topic is being too immature at this age. Maybe it is. Maybe I too will laugh at this later on. But right now I wanted to write about this somewhere.

My Travel Map

Have been wanting to write many posts since quite some time, but as I am not a writer so couldnt get enough enthu to ditch DOTA and write blog! But will certainly write about my Andaman trip esp the sea experience and scuba diving as I'd very much want to preserve it somewhere.

I also wanted to make a map of my travels and this is one thing I have finally done.
So here is India map (haven't been out of India yet) with all my travels marked!



Green-Air travel
Blue-Sea Travel
Pink/Purple-Rail Travel (ofc the most)
Brown-Road Travel
Grey- Places I supposedly have been to but was too young to remember much!

I always thought I have traveled quite a lot but seeing this map I guess have traveled a lot of times to same places. Have been to Delhi countless time, 5 times to Mumbai, twice to Goa, Manali and Nanital each and ofc many times to Hyderabad (for entirely different reason!)

So can certainly do with more travel esp the NE which I'd like to visit again (childhood memories hardly count as traveling). South should be covered if and when I get a job which probably would be in Bangalore. And yeah Andaman once more would be nice :D

PS: Big thanks to http://www.ajourneyacrossindia.com/travel/241/high-resolution-india-map/ for a high quality India Political Map.

Glitterati by KashiYatra

There is a contest Glitterati being organised by KY with details in their own words:

Select the photographs which you think can be on the cover of a fashion magazine and send a soft copy in any format

Send us your three best photographs and grab the opportunity of being a fashion icon of the institute.

Who needs any model when we have our very own dhaniya model in our branch. So I sent three of his classic pics (from recent Goa trip where whenever I ook my camera he was in front of it!). Now guys tell with dhaniya as model am I not the clear winner :P

You decide!

Life in last few weeks!

Didnt got time+energy+mood together since quite some time to sit and blog. A lot has happened since last semester or my last post.

First was the Goa trip of which am uploading just one pic. Have a huge collection of pics which havent yet uploaded to picasa even (donno whether have enough space there or not).

Well ofcourse most of the pics are classified :P Goa was fun beyond words esp with 4 best friends. IDD rox :D (for neo!)

Then came to coll on 20th Dec after just a week at home (yeah am home sick) and then came New Year. Last new year party was similar to a kitty party. This time we had less of party but was still better than kitty party. Well the kitty guys of our branch were not satisfied so on 1st a trip was planned for Vindhyachal. Now this is what we were told of Vindhyachal (before leaving and on the way): Hill with jharnas (small waterfalls; even water in sight would have satisfied me), temple on top, we can cook our own food on the slope. So considering this we even took football and cricket bat with us. What we found there: Only temples with no place to even walk properly. And all along the play my car-mates were having their kitty party with dumb charades (watever be the spelling). So for me it was listening to ipod in a car and cursing the kitty guys.

A pic of the trip:

Had a small ACM event on 4th Jan. Not so significant. Also got news that I have got first S of my life thanks to KKS. Its another matter am gonna get E on another subject of his. Watever S was new atleast! Went home once again on 13th (told you I was home sick :P) and got a party from shanky at home (will get another one here in bhu too!) Also got one 1.6k wallet as gift. Now I never have so much money in wallet so donno how to use it. Its still kept packed.

And now its 21st, KashiYatra starting from tomorrow. For the first time since my life in BHU am optimistic about KY. Usually it sucks but this year it looks promising. Also Jal coming to rock on final day so thats the main attraction. But then troubles start. There is a conference starting from 27th which is making all my days hectic. Then comes first ct's and finally GATE on 14th Feb (pity on all those guys who are committed..atleast have a gf). There is 1 lakh rs on stake with GATE. So cant afford to mess it up to bad. And during all this time there is CodeFest which is being handled by our branch chulli Shishir Mittal so everybody gotta work hard (forced to work hard?)

So here I am with quite enough work and no mood to do it (nothing unusual). Hopefully will be blogging more often. These days instead of blogging have started keeping a sticky of things I wanna blog about. Even thats missing these days as have shifted to Windows 7 and dont have the sticky gadget yet.

Finally to end this post some random (not so random btw) pics that need to be shared!!

Foggy!

Came to class in this weather at 8 in the morning!

Not everything can be captured

Somethings need to be felt as not everything can be captured in a camera. Esp a scene like this: mighty ganga below, a thin layer of fog floating above in the atmosphere, feeling the cold air on the face in a moving train on a bridge above and and orange morning sun in the horizon. Add few birds around and ofcourse trees and green fields around the river. What i felt was a thousand times greater than what came in the picture (which i 'll upload later).
This is more of a long tweet than a blog. Is this what is called micro blogging?


Edit: Here I finally upload the pic or whatever came of it from my mobile camera.

Finally moon!

I was able to get some moon pics but it happens that getting a good image is difficult. Getting an image of moon requires full zoom plus a very slow shutter speed. And if you want it with the least ISO then even the slowest shutter speed! So getting a pic with a blur in it isnt that difficult to get. Now I know that I dont have very steady hands but I got most of the images blurred even with a tripod! Maybe the wind or maybe my stomping around was enough to give that blur!

Well here are some pics that came good enough to be posted:

On 22nd even the best pic is with some (acceptable?) blur!


And this pic is just for the yellowish tinge on clouds thanks to (once again) the setting sun!

Moon and setting sun existing peacefully. A much better pic would come out of (full) moon and rising sun. But as I said am too lazy to get up so early in the morning.

And here is the video of the white tiger in zoo whoso pics are there on picasa and whose blog post I forgot to write :D

(its 30 mb and taking a hell lot time to upload here on blogger)

HIMYM and Friends

How I Met Your Mother

Friends

Well have watched part of both of the above series (more of HIMYM percentage wise :) ) but enough of both of them to know whats going on! Friends is from 94 so direction wise and location wise it looks kinda old. While himym look fresh both in terms of characters (much more beautiful) and dressing style.

Both the series revolve around the same concept of presenting the life of group of friends living together. Basically it can be classified as romantic comedy with less of romance and more of comedy.

Well i like himym better as it keeps bringing more characters so provides a little bit of change. Also its more of present times and mostly because its actually a narration. So gives a different kind of presentation than any other series.

And with himym and friends coming back to back on TV from 11 pm to 1 am I get a nice timepass :)

PS: going to watch HIMYM S5E01 just after finishing this post :)

Night pics

Well only birds dont play truant. Went at night wishing for some moon pics. But yes the moon was absent. Being a day after the Eid, I was expecting a nice slice of moon but I guess due to clouds got nothing! Well anyways here are some pics that I took while trying out the night capabilities of my camera. Landscape mode for night sucks. So had to go manual. As is given all over the net (and which I found out later) z980 is good enough for high ISO settings. And in smart mode it chooses high ISO. So instead of high ISO in manual mode I opted for slower shutter speeds (was written as 6" - wonder what it menas) but took about 3-4 seconds of shutter spped (was trying to hear shutter open and close by keeping my ear close to the camera!). Obviously with such shutter speeds I was using the tripod without which all I would have got is a set of blurry pics!

The view which I have taken many times during the day now taken @ night. Mind you its 9:30 pm pitch dark and no flash (obviously no flash for landscapes).


A little darker pic of my street.


No mood so had to be content with a star :P



The first pic is in manual mode, second one in the night landscape mode provided by Kodak guys! You can be your own judge as to which one is better!

Another set of pics!

Yeah I know its getting monotonous posting similar kind of pics again and again but currently thats my only timepass at home so I havent got anything else thats interesting enough. Unless ofcourse if I start posting travian stuff :P

So well today I wanted pics of flowers but as they are scarce during this time of the year I had to settle for birds and finally for the sun (thankfully it wasnt a setting sun today!).

Whole set of pics can be seen @ http://picasaweb.google.com/aug21st/CamTest

So today I first clicked around the birds that were sitting in the lawn downstairs instead of going to the rooftop directly.

Thats what I call timing! Was just in time to click before that bird disappeared behind (inside maybe) that tree.

The only flower that I was able to find in my house at this time. And it is the size of my thumb!

Just as I was packing up saw this bird sitting just above my head :)

Again showing off the manual focus with focus on the leaves and building in the background!

The sun was too bright for me to even observe the clouds with my naked eye! Had it not been for the clouds it would have been just an ordinary pic.

More pics

First of all the pic of my camera. Taken from my 3 mp camera phone so you can expect some pixelisation. Well the camera model is Kodak Z980 and this pic is taken with full 24x optical zoom:

Now today I was more interested in bird photography. I was interested but can hardly say the same about the birds. Forget about any flying shots or group pics it was so damn difficult to get any close up of any bird. Maybe I was a little past their flying time or they are camera shy..watever here are the results. The whole collection is also uploaded on picasa @ http://picasaweb.google.com/aug21st/CamTest. Putting up some better pics here too:

Now this is one of the rare occasion when the bird was sitting on my rooftop. It was just thirsty and was looking for water overflowing from the tank :)

While sitting on the roof I tumbled backwards getting this pic. Thats only cause of my slow reflexes and the time it takes in manual mode to get focus and proper brightness etc!

Another one on my rooftop. The background was varied collection of clothes hanging in Girls PG ( :P ) so had to brighten it as that multicolor backgroud hardly justified this bird's beauty.

Now here am just testing the shutter speed. Taken at 1/2000 shutter speed which I guess is equivalent to 1/2000 of a second. Whatever I had to set a very high ISO to get any picture at that shutter speed (and I have no idea what ISO is).

Now ofcourse some sunset pics (as they are the only pics that come real good).

In the last pics you 'can' notice that I was using manual focus and focused on the nearby mobile phone and hence the blurred effect of the background :)

Will obviously keep posting more pics as long as this hobby lasts!