Time to write something?

There are times when you have so many things to write and still you do not feel like writing. Today is one of those days. It is really strange because I had been looking forward for the weekend when I'll have time to write.
However, just an update - I got an invite from Abhaya for wordpress.com and I really wanted to try it out. Thanks buddy! :-)
More later!
-Gauraw

Khrrap!

This is one word, I would describe the movie 'Salaam Namaste' in ...The word which Nik (Nikhil Chopra, that is Saif) uses more often than necessary in the movie. I finished watching it just an hour back with GS in Waves. Yeah, I had heard some negative reviews of the movie. Just yesterday my colleague, Praveen, told me that he wanted to run off from the theater just after the first half was over and that even the first half was tormenting. This is when he generally like movies and specially the senti ones. Still I went to see the movie because the reviews promised something different. I thought it would be a fun movie. When I went to watch it, I just wanted to have some laugh and watch the bubbly Priety. Only if it were what I thought! The movie was a complete crap and the Priety, who plays Ambar in the movie, has started looking old. Okey! The subject was good. It was bold and this is one thing that is probably in mind of many of the youths. The idea of 'living in' is attractive. Because we always think of the positives and we think that we can do away with the negatives. A very good movie could have been made with this subject. In fact, 'Kya kahna' was a very good movie which dealt with the subject touched in the second half of this movie. But NO. They had to mess up with everything... I literally mean 'everything'. And that 'sorry - eckjhaktly' part - what the heck! [What was even more sad was that people around us were actually enjoying it - How can one!!]. The only thing I like in the movie was the role of Abhishek Bachchan, not that there was much to do. But still, I think he did it pretty well.

Now, let me try to be a little objective. Why don't I like this movie? Is it because - as one of my friends among fairer sex had said - it has feminist shade. Not that I have any very strong opinion against feminism. But people (read girls) say that guys generally don't understand what feminism is all about. Agreed. I don't claim that I know what it is 'all' about. But I know enough to say that this is not the reason for me not liking this movie. Then, what is it? Have I grown above yash chopra movies? Because I did like 'dil to pagal hai' and 'kuchh kuchh hota hai' in those times. I still don't dislike watching those movies. Yes, I am not so fascinated about those as I was when I saw those first time. But still. Or is it that Yash chopra's creativity and directoral sense has taken a dip? Well, may be! Anyway, enough about it.

I saw 'Chocolate' on the weekend with my flatmates. But I would probably write about it later. Other than movies, there have been plenty of things in past one month and a half that I would have liked to write about ... only if I had time. I had been very busy with two projects in hand. And now that one of those is on the verge of being over, I think I shall have time to be regular with blogging next week onwards. I am sorry if you have been visiting this blog all this time only to find that I had not made any post. [although I don't think there will be many of 'you's :-)]. It's next week then.
Till then, adios!
-Gauraw
ps: By the way, the title of this post is 'crap', just in case you have still not been able to get it. I know that i wrote it in a crappy way. :-)

A sound post

I was about to leave office for the reasons I wrote in last post, when I thought of browsing through my friends' blogs. And I makes it really happy that I did that. I came across this profoundly sound post 'To bend and not to fold' on my friend Abhaya's blog.

And as Kaps wrote in the comments of the same post, this one is undoubtedly his best post. Akshaya is no-less correct in saying that abhaya's word flow when he is nostalgic and sentimental. I wonder if anyone can put it in any better way.

Be it Akshaya, Abahya, Diwaker, Kaps or me, we are all proud that we spent some of our best years in IIT-K and we have a very strong sentimental value attached with the place. Abhaya has echoed those feelings in such a sound way that I can do nothing but feel overwhelmed with. After reading his post & thinking of the days I spent there, I am very much tempted to write something on the lines of his post. But neither I am anywhere close to a good writer as he is nor I am in such a mental state right now. I am feeling really sleepy and I better leave office now. But I shall get back to it sometime someday. I got to do that!

-gauraw

Aug 04, 2005

The day started like any other day. I reached office & the first thing I got to know that the DR which was finally fixed yesterday, is not running in US. Bad start of the day in office! I tried it one more time here, it worked. I tried couple of other ways to compile it, it worked again. Finally reported it to the concerned person.

I was pretty happy with it and I decided to chat with one of my friends who was not in best of the moods yesteday just to check that the things are ok now. Thankfully, it was. Then, after a long time, there were some mails on my wing yahoo group as today was the b'day of two of my wingmates. There was some interesting discussion going on and I participated in it. Overall, pre-lunch was all fun.

Post lunch, there was a traning session for the new project in which I am supposed to be working for next two months. The product is internally known as Diamond. And believe me - its design part sounds really good! I still have to check out the implementation part but I have heard that it is also very good. And if it continues to develop the way it is doing right now, we shall be able to leave the competition far behind. I think I shall have great time working in it.

Post training before I could get into action and do some of my work, I was held up by freshers. Today was the last day of HDL code-contest and one of the groups was having problems with their design. I (along with my friend CV) spent two hours debugging it and pointing out the mistakes they made. It was pretty apparent that the group was not coherent and that's why the design was so badly written. I was quite sad to see that the efforts we had earlier put in during HDL trainings have not been fruitful to the extent we expected. But yes, some other groups have grasped the concepts very well. Hope that only those guys/gals join my group.

All said and done, the result was that I was at my seat at 8:30 pm to do my work. Not that I was not mentally prepared to stay late, but this was a bit too late to start working. Also, my plans of playing badminton in the night were shattered by now. Anyway, I was at it when this issue surfaced. I had to build my executable one more time and am firing the regressions with this exec for the release. And this is a tedious and uninteresting thing to do. Currently, I am in middle of it. :-(. Running those on different platforms with different options.... only if I get time to automate it all once!!

And since I had some time in between these routine deeds, I am here to catch up with my blog. I was thinking of writing yesterday itself. But then one of my colleagues was giving his b'day treat. Now when it comes to treat, I almost never miss one! :-D. It was a wonderful treat and we had a great time. Thanks, Amit! There is another treat due sometime soon.. and that of my flatmate who also had his b'day yesterday. It is 'sometime soon' because he is too busy working in office! I hope that he will get some time on the weekend :-).

That's it for now. I am here, in office at 1:34 am, waiting for the results of at least a part of regressions so that I can leave. It is already late and today (i.e. Aug 05) I have to come to office in time to attend a meeting. And I better be in time as this is a meeting with big shots!

Signing off,
-gauraw

The First One

I contemplated for a long time about writing a blog, weighed it's pros and cons, thought about what all I should write in a public domain like this if I do write a blog.

Then one day, after a long time, I decided to go for it and I did all the settings for this webpage. And since then, I am thinking about starting to post & what I should write in the first post.

That's a lot of thinking. Isn't it? :-).

Today, couple of minutes back, I decided that I should stop thinking and should take the first step in blogging. So, here I am - doing my first post. :-)

-gauraw