final year

yes.... it is finally happening... i am now in my last year at UNIVERSITY??? who would have ever thought that this day would come?? As i work on my project, it still hasnt properly sunk in yet that this could possibly be the last year at uni. but if you put your head down and sacrifice all the partying and clubbing AND drinking.... only to concentrate on assignments and tests and studies... then it will happen. i got my diploma. i am about to finish my degree.

i suppose a lot of it has to do with the people that were there for me and supported me through it all... they know who they are... :-D

thank you for being in my life...

peace

possible blog updates

so... i realise that i have been using this same blog layout for a while now... apart from a few minor changes. What i am doing now is some brainstorming. as to how i can add a few things here and there just to spice it up a bit. some nifty little tricks with HTML and javascript.

so i am currently brainstorming ideas. possibly maybe put some photos up. a slideshow of some sort??

anyone got any ideas??
lemme know

Sankalp

Recent Movies i saw and what i thought of them

so, since exams are over, i now have a lot more free time to justify watching movies.... which is just great coz everyone knows that this time passes by too quickly and soon it will be back to the hustle and bustle of uni life and these holidays will feel like they never took place.. so me making the most of them thought would catch up with the movies that have come out and thought would give you guys out there in the blogging world my 2 cents of opinions about them.

Terminator Salvation
for all you termminator fanatics out there, it was a nice movie. i enjoyed it... but i have a bone to pick.... NO ARNIE!!!! well... ok there is like 1 SCENE in which he has been "digitally" edited in. but its like watching Rambo or Rocky without stallone. yea sure the story might be good... but no arnie.... which sucks... although, i give it 6/10. i wanted more of arnie in it to make it worth my money

Star Trek
yes.... yes... YES!!! this was a great movie. and me being the geeky trekkie fan that i am... i thoroughly enjoyed it.. and helped me relive those old memories... what a great trip down memory lane "Beam me up scotty!!" the reason why i decided to become an engineer... 9/10

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
now this is one of those very few movies where the sequel is actually better than the original. its all cylinders go from the start and the action never stops. seat gripping.... leaves you feeling satisfied with the ridiculous amount of money you paid for the ticket.... that a 10/10

The proposal
this one i was FORCED to go to. part of the deal i made with the mrs... i HAD to go to a chick flick. it was an OK movie... did gety very boring at times... too much lovey dovey... no action whatsoever... no rating as i dont rate chick flicks.. :-P

New York
a hindi movie... very nice. the story is about the persecution of colour people in new york after 9/11. did seem like a very anti american movie. made me hate the bush regime at the end of it. but then again, very realistic. very touching. and the message at the end... it definately hit my soft spot. it is definately worth a watch. 10/10


these are just my opinions. so dont blame me if you dont like a movie i recomended... if you dont like them movies, something is wrong with you and you should blame yourself for having such a bad taste in movies. hehe...

Enjoy

Sankalp

iiO- Rapture

here is this great clubbing music i found.... its awesome... i am loving this at the moment

The big shuffle up

so, todays entry begins with a bit of a sad news really. my sister and my brother in law are moving away with their beloved pet jack and as part of their moving away wind-up, they are getting rid of most of their possesions by doing what normal people do and selling a lot of them on trade-me. but to save them the hassle, i agreed to take a few of their things. shelving units mostly.... coz only i know how badly my room needs it.

so, today i picked them up and brought them back to my room... and surprisingly, they fit pretty much as well as i guessed they would (prior to what other said). but as part of that fitting to take place, i had to get rid of my "box-o-memories" which is where i had taken all of my stuff after year 1 semester 1 from uni and put them in there.... with all my high school stuff and had sealed it.

i finally opened that box today.

and i must say that it took me forever to go through all my memories.. some of them are about 9 years old... and still as fresh as the day i packed them. my favorite of them, my sheet music from high school band (i used to play the trombone). not many friends who claim to know me very well now know of that. but at one point in my life, it used to be a big things for me.

stuff included my year 13 electronics final year report. harry potter and david gemmell books. all my high school year books. letter of rejection from auckland uni from when i had applied there. so on and so forth. wow.... wasnt this a trip down memory lane.

oh well.. best to leave the past behind and move on... i am over my nostalgia moment now...

but i leave you with this question, have you ever tried this, packed all your memories up to a certain point in your life?? everything including bank statements and university letters. you will remember a lot more things than you packed when you open them..


try it out
ciao

Square Root of 3

Square Root of Three

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun,
as 1.7321
Such is my reality,
a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

Sticking it to the inbuilt nokia GPS software

so. this episode starts ever since i grew tired of my old nokia 7610 and decided that i wanted a new phone, which has been long overdude... as i have had my trusty old 7610 since i started uni...

but never the less, decided that that phone was just too damm slow and i am getting mad at how an old granny can react much faster than my old phone...

so i started looking out in the market for whats out there that catches my eye. there is obviously the iphone. but me being the fanatic nokia fan i am, decided that i wanted a nokia, and i had my heart set very much on the N95 until i saw the 5800 XpressMusic.

the reason i like this one above all others was the fact that its fully touch screen... and also has an inbuilt GPS. fastforward a few months, and i got my 5800 on my birthday.
YAY i am all happy and over the moon and cant let go of my phone and all the usual yada yada yada....

i even connected it to my PC and loaded the maps on and all and started using the GPS. which worked great for the first week. after which it decided to be annoying and started asking me for money to navigate my around. and not like a one time payment of $29.95 or something... a "YEARLY SUBSCIPTION OF" $200 or something along the lines. WTF!!!

kinda reminds you of your broke friends who want you to pay for their movie so they can watch it with you. and THAT JUST PISSED ME OFF!!!! so after a lot of hard searching that (unofficially) to the mecca of searching (GOOGLE), i found a cracked version of Garmin for mobile XT. and like with all garmins, there is a ton of free open source stuff online. everything from maps, POIs to even customized voices of stewie from family guy or cartman from southpark.

and the best part is, it works!!!! so i am a happy camper now with my brand new and lets not forget FREE software that navigates. and its all updateable whenever i want.... its all just a click away.

mind you, it is a bit of a hassle, took me about a day to get it all up and running. but then again, all good things take time.

so before i go, i leave you with this:
Ask not what open source software can do for you, but what YOU can do for open source software.

take care
Sankalp

Delhi 6

it truly has been too long since i last saw a movie that truly rocked me from my core. and after watching the last few, there was still something inside me that didnt really feel right. even the critically acclaimed slumdog millionaire didnt quite do it for me for some reason. But this latest one that i have just seen hass moved me in the most memorable way. Delhi 6 encompases what i as an NRI feel when i go to india... Even though the people may be a bit backward, even though the communal flaws are obvious, even though the water only runs for 2 hours every morning. there is some vibe there which can only be described as intoxicating. that it is something that you long for even though you know what the flaws of that place are. whatever it is, it just works. it moves you from the inside. puts a smile on your face. whether it is the nightmare traffic, or whether it is the population density. be it the old or the new. that vibe is something that is truly unique.

the concept of a kaala bandar AKA black monkey, although ridiculous, is merely a symbol for the hatred in each of our hearts. the hatred that sits in the back of our mind and feeds on greed, anger, jealousy and envy. and with this diet, grows bigger and bigger until it takes over our body. and funny how we always blame the kaala bandar for all the terrible things that do happen in life.

as far as the music goes, it is truly a moving experience. especially masakali and arziyan. words cannot describe it. i suggest you watch it


all in all.... an awesome movie... do watch it

Ciao for now

mention not tension not

as the mid semester break is over, sudden realization hits that there is not enough time left to "start" studying the material from earlier in the semester. there is so much to do and not enough time to do it. and with exams approaching at a scarily fast speed, its gonna be upon us in no time at all. all the slacking off from the start of the semester is now catching up all at once. and it seems like everyday, there is something due. and now is when i am really starting to hate myself for putting it off earlier. i was supposed to do this stuff in the 2 weeks i had off... but they passed by so quick that it was over almost as soon as it started. SHOCKS MAN!!!!

uh oh.......

sudden realisation hit me today.... i am 20 NOW!!!! HELP!!!! well... is it really that bad?? its getting to a point now where its the same every year... its one less reason to celebrate.. another year of feeeling older and more miserable about it... and like every year, the studies get harder... old friends drift further apart and more people come and go from your life. so what exactly is there to look forward to this year?? NOTHING :-(

and already, at this point i feel like my countdown has already begun. i HAVE to finish studies asap.... coz the next step of life is already awaiting. but there is so much to do. so many things to see... so many places to be... will i be able to get it all done?? or will i miss out on those things in life??