Groundhog day

An excerpt from the movie Groundhog Day :

Phil : What do you want out of life?
Rita : I guess I want what everybody wants: career, love, marriage, children.

Surprisingly only the first one is in our own hands! No wonder they taught us "Man is a social animal" in our first Civics class...

Thought of the day!

Everything can be a fairy tale if you remember it that way.

The Cup of Life

And as you can see, I need a refill!

Thought of the day!

If Life is a book, currently I am sleeping using it as a pillow.

The Conversation

They : Life is a box of chocolates
Me : Just one box!!
They : Yeah
Me : Can there be any exceptions?
They : Nooo..
Me : :( Well, what about the box size?
They : You caught us :)

Does this make any sense?

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." -Jack Handey

Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner,
and someone saw my grin -

When he smiled I realized,
I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth,

A single smile,
just like mine,
could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected -

Let's start an epidemic quick
and get the world infected!

---Author Unknown

Fundamentals of a Programmer's life

1. A Programmer works when his code doesn't.
2. Ever wondered why the terms "Programmer" and "Program error" are so similar!

Thank you sir!

Teachers never die. They live in your memory forever. They were there when you arrived, they were there when you left. Like fixtures. Once in a while they taught you something. But not that often. And, you never really knew them, any more than they knew you. Still, for awhile, you believed in them. And, if you were lucky, maybe there was one who believed in you.---From episode Goodbye of Wonder years

This post is a tribute to the a teacher who believed in me and my math skills in high school. The free home tutions where he taught how to unlock the mysteries of Mathematics began my love with a subject which seemed so boring till then. Even today, solving simultaneous equations brings back those memories. For all this and everything, Thanks Ingle Sir. May your soul rest in peace.

Happy Teacher's day!

Love is..

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. - Ayn Rand

Shortest movie ever?

Some background: My company has decided to organize a short movie making contest! And so, I and my colleague, Gopala came up with this script for a verry verry short movie.

Name of the movie : Bullet - The Movie
Plot/Script : The movie begins with a blank white screen and in the background we give the sound of bullet being shot. Next frame, the screen goes blank.

Well the movie is already shot! Isn't it?

Well, we are not shot yet as the last date for submitting entries to the contest is over :)

Joke for the day

I cant "carry" on with my work..because I am in "Half Adder" mood :)

LIFE

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Surprised?

Aur kya ahde wafa hote hai

log milte hai juda hote hai...

Few lines

Finally I woke up!
Started thinking about my favorite lines from Hindi songs..Ended up with this list till now! To be continued :)..(Even u can add!)

1)Bahut khubsurat hai har baat lekin, agar dil bhi hota to kyaa baat hoti. --Huzoor is kadar(Maasoom)
2)Hai mithi uljhan, bairi apna man, apna hee hoke sahe dard paraye--Kahi dur jab(Anand)
3)Tum itna jo Muskara rahe ho, kya gam hai jisko chupa rahe ho(Arth)
4)Humein tumse pyar kitna ye ham nahi jaante, magar jee nahi sakte tumhare bina
5)Ek lamhe me simat aaya hai sadiyon ka safar, zindagi tez bahut tez chali ho jaise(Tum bin)
6)Tere pair kee komal aahat sote bhaag jagaye--chandi jaisa rang(Pankaj Udaas)
7)Yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi--Zanjeer
8)har mulaqat ka anjaam judai kyun hai, ab to har vaqt yahi baat satati hai hamen--zindagi jab bhi teri bazm mein (Umrao jaan)
9)main jaanta hu ke tu gair hai magar yun hi..kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai(Kabhi Kabhi)
10)maahiyan ve aj mainu aive kyu hai lagda..aashiq jo saccha hove roop honda rab daa (Jaaneman-Aryan)

Hidden Talent..not any more :)

Your Hidden Talent

You are both very knowledgeable and creative. You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential. Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them. As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there.

What's Your Hidden Talent?

Certified correct :)

When I take a long time.
I am slow.
When my boss takes long time
He is thorough.
When I don't do it
I am lazy.
When my boss doesn't do it
He is too busy.
When I do something without being told
I am trying to be smart.
When my boss does the same
That is initiative.
When I please my boss
I am apple - polishing
When my boss please his boss
He's co-operating.

When I do well, my boss never remembers
When I do wrong, he never forgets

Don't you ever cry. All the best

Does it happen in India?

Three Double Decker buses belonging to same bus service in a queue at the bus-stop. The buses behind waiting for the bus ahead to move so that passengers can board the bus. AND all three buses were destined for the same location!
Having lived in two cities, one where bus to a specific location runs at an interval of 30 minutes atleast and another where i have not even spotted a bus so far, this incident left me in some shock surely :)

Please enter/swipe/tap ur card

That is the message I see a lot of times every day.
My wallet is really heavy nowadays. And the singapore currency i carry in it contributes very insignificantly to that weight. All possible places within the wallet have been occupied by cards. And as u will see, each card has a purpose :). If you dont carry your cards with u, you are only inviting some trouble. So first lets list down the cards:
1)Access card to Graduate hall: Cant enter hostel without it.
2)Metric card: kind of I-card here. Also this is access card to lab so somewat important!
3)Student pass and Visit pass: Issued by Immigration and Checkpoints authority, these cards allow me to stay in Singapore.
5)[Notice the "and" in above entry] Singtel Chip card: needed to make local calls from payphone
6)Singtel Hello card: to make internation calls.
7)Ez-link card: mandatory for travelling in Metro railways which is the most convenient and most importantly cheap mode of transport here. Also it can be used for bus travel.
8)IITK I-card: The only useless card may be..but yeah it could have got me a thrill ride in NTU motor fest in a FIAT or a Mini Cooper!(Yeah ..details in next post :)
9)Last but certainly not the least..Debit card of Parents:Another card from India and most important. Hopefelly i ensure that money on the account lasts :)

So wat happens if one forgets some card? Well I forgot one card and perhaps that prompted me to write this blog.
We had to go for the Asia Pacific Science and Technology centre(APSTC) meeting at Sun office in Singapore last Monday. The meeting was at 8 AM! We had to meet Melvin(One of our supervisor and Technical specialist at APSTC) at Clarke Quay MRT(Metro railway station) at 7:30 AM so that he could take us to Sun office as we did not know the location of office. As expected, we woke up a little too late for comfort, managed to get ready in time somehow and were out before the Sun(not Stanford university network :P) had decided to come out![Yes..this happened..SACCHI]. We saw the bus to Boon Lay MRT approaching a bus stop and rushed to catch it. And just as i was to enter, I realized something. Wat? that i had forgotten something..and it was Ez-link card!! So basically i could not board MRT from Boon Lay to Clarke Quay. We thought that Counter which issues Ez link card will be open at 6:40AM in morning and so decided to go ahead by paying in cash for the bus travel. But there are normal people in Singapore who wake up a little late and so the counter was closed. So Kaushik decided to go ahead for the meeting while i had to head back at NTU for my Ez-link card. And it also sealed one thing: I was going to be late for my formal meeting with a research team:). Anyways I caught a bus to NTU, got my card ASAP and reached Boon lay again at 7:45 AM. Basically after arnd 45 mins of travel, I had managed to reach the nearest MRT only but I had all my cards now with me. I saw on the monitor that the next train was just departing...so ran on the escalator and entered the train with the doors clossing red bulbs flashing before me. Yeah almost like Shahrukh caught a train in DDLJ..only tini-mini difference.. Kajol was missing [It has always been that way :(]. Anyways at 8 AM, I was somewhere near Queenstown far far away from Sun office. I needed to change train at Outrem Park Interchange for Clarke Quay. Again I caught another train with same last minute entry style with one thing at back of my mind, how to find Sun office from Clarke Quay MRT. But God's angel had sorted things out. I caught hold of Jasleen in train. He is a final year student here who is doing his project under my supervisor only. We reached at Sun office just in time for our supervisor's presentation and also in time to order breakfast :). But still, I learnt my lesson..Carry all the cards with you or else be ready for some trouble!