that s it. its the end of the fourth semester.. and well vacations are here. very much needed. Lot of things are stacked and waiting. Wondering if they will all be done by the time college re-opens.

i read Chetan Bhagat’s The 3 mistakes of my life. i liked it. Some parts were real good. while some i didnt like. Right now am addicted to Satyajit Ray’s Feluda. am reading The Complete Adventures of Feluda: Volume 1.

well i finally got round to watching it. Liked it. Everyone i know (almost) who watched it has liked it. Since i had missed the big picnic to Adlabs i had to watch this at home else all alone at Adlabs

The Movie is a refreshing change from the usual boring “love stories”. It s about this group which could be quite similar to your own group and has some very crazy ideas. The beginning of the movie reminded me of a good friend and she said the she was reminded of herself too The middle part dragged a bit with the “i love u-i dont love u” part. but most of the movie was good. Also finally India has got a romantic movie with an awesome airport ending.

well after 2 days of being really sick, i felt better today. so i decided to watch The Girl Next Door. i had just got the movie although i had watched it quite a long time back on Star Movies. it was way back in puc 2 ( or 12th std) when while completing my Bio records i ended up watching this at 1 in the morning that too on star movies- the censored version. perhaps im one of the very few guys who did watch it on Star because i havnt met anyone else who did. i didnt know the name of the movie at that time though but a conversation with a friend who talked about the movie(uncensored one) gave me the name.

this is one of my alltime favourite movie.

21-the movie

here i am back with another movie. this one was recommended by Karthik. its about a bunch of exceptionally brilliant students, coached by their professor at MIT, who learn the art of card counting to hoodwink and win big at the Las Vegas casinos by playing blackjack. Its a good watch. Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne are good at their roles-the professor and the Vegas Casino security incharge.

here’s the official webpage.

Watched this after i ended up missing out on “Jaane tu ya Jaane na.” Everything was planned but i had to come down with high fever yesterday night. so i couldnt join the other 25(??!) today. Yes, 25 of us ended up opting for the Adlabs show. *Sigh*

p.s. this has actually been done by MIT students. There’s a History channel documentary and all.

well the Movie was just the thing i needed after that horrible LIC exam. Had waited way too long to watch it. Go watch it just for fun. the ending leaves you with Some Questions but the antics of Jack Black is worth everything makes you want to swede a movie.

Here’s the official website: they sweded Google page. There’s a How to Swede stuff.. i downloaded the pdf for later reading and you can also swede yourself into Movie posters, like i did below

see the wiki external links for more sweded videos by fans.

yes.. there’s been CS, SS and finally HDL today. CS was ok-Nyquist saved me. SS , too easy. for the first time in engineering i actually wrote all 8 Qs !!! guess it will also be the last one. HDL was Boring. just filled with bad theory Qs asking examples every single place and how to program Adders in vhdl and verilog. half adder, full adder , full adder using half adder.. Sheesh! i wanted to just go to sleep there. The weather was almost right for that too.

Today was the All India Bandh called by the BJP to protest against the Amarnath shrine land controversy. It had mixed response i guess. Mangalore stayed pretty closed down since its under the BJP government. Bangalore didnt have too many problems. Infosys stayed close today i heard. The worst thing was the part that we had Exams today. The morning saw all 2nd year engineering students trying to catch their respective college buses as there were no private buses running. after exams at 12:30 we had a special bus trip back to mangalore. About 100 of us crammed in there somehow for the nearly 2 hour journey back. Its fun when your around friends, on a empty stomach as you skipped lunch to cram urself into the middle, trying to get a decent footing or perhaps even hanging on for dear life in some cases

i just found out that Oasis will be releasing their new album this year.

‘The Shock Of The Lightning’ new single out September 29th

‘Dig Out Your Soul’ new album out October 6th

this was announced on june 24th, yesterday. i got about 4 of their albums and hope to get the rest soon especially the Mtv Unplugged one. i watched it today on Vh1 and loved how the Orchestra substituted for the electric guitar wanna listen to it properly again.

read more here .

thats the last paper of mathematics in engineering. There wont be any more to give you that sense of relief. A subject you can take for granted and chill out with, which almost everyone studies with Music blaring or iPods plugged in. i didnt do all that for this semester exam though. thought i will study it seriously well the paper turned out easy and i was out REALLY early; like at 12:05, after attempting 6/8 questions.

That s my personal Best for any exam

well i’ve been putting off this for quite some time now and well today i decided that enough was enough. So some accounts had to go. These were of no particular use to me nor did i even visit them nor do they influence my online life in any way. Hence the few that i deleted had to go. About 6 so far. Well i wont be deleting my various email accounts because i use them as IM accounts bascially except for the Gmail one-thats the official one. Twitter will stay as will Orkut, Stumbleupon, Delicious and Facebook. if i do remember being part of anything else that account may be a risk. One of my backup gmail and orkut accounts did also get deleted

Deleting accounts was a bit tedious as i had to remember the password combinations on all the different accounts. somehow i remembered. one thing u do come across while doing so is that every service asks you why you are deleting the respective account before it allows you to go any further.

lets see..

Exams start on 24th my rants on them coming up.

yes. after the much yes and no, only one exam of ours is supposed to be postponed and that too from 26th june to 15 july-for me its Microcontroller and Graph theory and Combinatories for the CS/IS students. read more here. we got it confirmed from college too although there’s no news on the official website of the VTU.