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(Web Comic #5) Ding Dong

2009-11-01T13:07:00.002+05:30

To, The chatspeak haters club on the internet

2009-10-24T13:56:00.006+05:30

This is to all the bozos who think that they are much full of intelligence, consider chatspeak as a retard's teminology and care about their younger generation that they will start sucking in grammar.

So... Wat iz wrong in dis sentence? Grammar FAIL, rite? Lets talk.

Every place has its culture, behaviour, a shape, ascent. These entities define these places, it brings a sense of heritage to the place. And in the same lines I think that internet being a place, should also have its culture. Hey, you cannot sit and decide it one fine afternoon, it just builds up by itself. And thus, OMG u c wat has been built up, LuLz!!111. Not saying that chatspeak was the best thing that happened to the internet, but every culture has its problems. I am not very proud about a number of things of my nation's culture, my mother tongue has issues, my institute's culture had few jerks, but I respect them, I relish them, proud of them! It's my heritage!

YES its difficult to understand it first, but that's what defines it. When you are able to understand and when you write chatspeak, you feel like merging in the internet society. And not to forget, you as an individual, can always go about writing proper grammar english, like I am writing in this post. I, for one, think that chatspeak is awesome! I sometimes like to write it that way, and will continue to write it that way whenever I feel like, and you artards can't do shit about it. Suck it up.

Not to mention chatspeak is quicker to write! And seeing that whatever we read or write on the internet is mostly garbage, why waste your time writing full words? Yes, I knowz adding a 'z' after a word rather makes it longer, but other than those few anomalies, most of the words in chatspeak are shorter versions of oh-so-holy-proper-grammar's version. Also, its funny to read as well too sometimes.

And my excessive usage of internet does not affect my vocabulary at all! We humans are capable of adaptation and understanding many languages/ascents. When I have to write formal emails, I automatically follow grammar and I don't lose it. Moreover many words from different cultures/languages are included in the oxford English dictionary, why not a few from chatspeak?

And seriously, who, in the world, has ever given a fuck about the upcoming generation of your unborns? Fine, few of you care, but, there's your mother tongue, which affects your pronunciation of english, there are bad teachers, local influences, blame them? but, "nooooooooo!! internet is the culprit! Ruining our society and bringing war to this world." Lets face it, you were new in town, got flamed with chatspeak, and now you just want some attention, because no one really wants to hear your shit.

wateva, wateva, i'll do wat i wan! roflz, lulz!!111 omg wtf? imho dis shit doesnt make sense

IGG Bash was sweetness

2009-10-12T14:53:00.005+05:30

Last to last weekend, At Lionhart4xtreme (Gagan)'s house in Nagpur, Reeteshomatic (Reetesh) from Hyderabad, scorpio_gamer (Neeraj) from Chennai and ORB (Shiben) from Bangalore, gathered for some gaming awesomesauce of 2 days. Dude invited us for some gaming time on his 46" HDTV with all possible consoles. Reetesh and Neeraj also got some of their carriable rig, so the total hardware there was: PS3 with 4 controllers, 360 with 5 controllers, Wii with 3 controllers, 2 Nintendo DS, 3 PSPs. I couldn't get my stuff coz my visit to nagpur was uncertain till last moment. Anyway, check out the pics of craziness :)

Gagan's game collection

The gaming room

he sez, the gaming room was a bar before

4 player halo3 splitscreen

Gaming and booz go together so well

gagan's hotel

Little big planet 4 player co-op

Sleepy, but wont give up

Gears of war 2 horde mode

Lunch and booz (from left: Ashish, Reetesh, Amit, Neeraj, Shiben, Gagan)

All enjoying, so is me, bottoms uping a white wine.. hehe it wasnt a full bottle of course

they are bz playing fifa, so i m playing wario ware on nintendo ds

ok now, 4 player motorstorm splitscreen, rox!!!

Wooooohoooooooooo!!!!

pav bhaji

IGG members (btw, v r Indian Gamers Guild, visit here)

Yeah! thats what I am talking about party people!!!

Full album here. Had a great time, thanks man Gagan 4 inviting us and thank you ashu, reetesh, neeraj, amit for the pureness. I will also invite you guys sometime for an IGG bash

Durga Pooja, Jabalpur, 2009

2009-10-08T16:24:00.007+05:30

Durga Pooja in Jabalpur is seriously serious. The count of pandals all over the city is incredible and the quality of artwork is brilliant. You will just keep looking at the small small details the artists work on. Easily second best Durga Pooja after Kolkata hands down. I was blessed to go home (jabalpur) during dussehra this time around. Some pics:

The wish to be unique is visible in many statues. Single color, marble sort of look given to the whole setup:
Goddess on lotus (giving the illusion of) floating on water.
Pandal entrance. See the crowd. Perfect for pick pockets. But you know what? I havn't heard any such cases, people really have faith during the celebration.
Some like to go unconventional, and try to depict a war scene mixing with the traditional stances
Some organizers maintain consistency. For e.g., the Pooja at telegraph are known for angry face goddess Durga (since my childhood, thats arnd 25yrs, they have remained consistent)
This is one of the small pandals, believe me
See the size of the following statue Some times, just watching the pandals gives the fillAgain, compare the size of the statue with the person standing in front. Truly divine.Check out the complete album here

Bird Pooping problem [pyaj]

2009-09-08T18:36:00.002+05:30

Recently birds are pooping over innocent bystanders on the road riding their Honda City, Audi or expensive racer bikes. This kind of havoc is giving mental trauma to these simple people on the streets. Upon endless number of complaints, authorities have finally shown a ray of hope as they said they are working on a solution. Recently the municipality chief said that they will cut down the trees of Bangalore to remove the habitat of birds, which in turn will remove the birds. This of course is the most straight forward way to go.

However, industrialists see an opportunity of business here, and are stalling authorities by saying that they can remove the birds without cutting down the trees. Their business claims that they can catch the birds, put them in cages, and sell them with high price point. Even though their main motive is business, they claim, this will improve prople's buying power as all of them would really like to have birds closed in cages. Since rich people have a lot of money and time to waste, it will feed into the countries economy.

This of course stirred up the environmentalists, as catching birds and caging them is not a natural way to get rid of them. Cutting down trees will incidently remove the birds from a city of peaceful, simple and calm people. As nature plays its roles, destroying birds habitat will remove the birds too. The natural way to go according to the environmentalists.

Although along with all the debate going on with the big bodies, it is finally the innocent people who suffer at the end, who just want to live their lives peacefully inside an AC'ed office, sipping coffee, calling various customer care centers and talking to peers about their credit cards and taxes.

Disclaimer: Above all is arbitrary imposition of text, absolutely meaningless, is not supposed to attack anything/one. However, definitely has a deep meaning based on our society and media.

PS2 added to my Rig, sweetness

2009-06-21T18:49:00.005+05:30

And thus I become SONY Complete, Playstation2 as you know, was the best console ever created, and after ten years it still has its charm. I have all Sony Consoles now (all of these three can play PlayStation One too, but they cannot play each other).
Kept Just beside my PS3, PS2 feels proud among it's homies
Thus you can see the deal on the table :D
And you guessed it right, the first game I am playing on it is God of War, the amazing Kratos's adventure. Man seriously, this game is so fucking awesome, its epic. I mean no wonder it made PS2 such a huge seller (it still is a huge seller). Note that most games support widescreen so it doesnt look flat on a widescreen TV (not HD though).
Kratos about to enter the Pandora's temple
Kratos between circulating blades trap
Also I tried this game called Black, man good graphics cramped in such an old hardware
Of course GTA games too. This is Liberty City Stories.
PS2 is of the same size of your typical DVD drives in your computers. Its a modded one and I already have around 25 games for it :D. OK let me get back to God of War :)

And thus she gets vectorized!

2009-05-11T23:41:00.004+05:30

So I made a sketch long back, but she did not have colors, she looked very dull, and I am too lazy to sit with water and acrylic colors to fill her up. Thus, recently after getting comfortable with Adobe Illustrator, I could vectorize her! That is right, Illustrator (and Adobe Flash as well) can create paths and curves out of a raster image (too bad I didn't know). Anyway, after getting the curves, you can do a lot of things, and I gave her some colors. Rest speaks the image (click to see ):

My New Orange, Yamaha FZ16

2009-02-11T12:34:00.005+05:30

I saw that bike for the first time, I was like, I want that thang! I mean, did you see that? This bike is original man, fucking awesome. Every other bike copies something from some other bike. This is original stuff and this color, flaming orange, is killer. Its almost like, if ghost rider will ride a sports bike, he will ride this one man! He wont ride any other ghetto bike.
Its rear fat tyre is bliss to the eyes! Fat tyre on a bike looks fantastic. Even R15 doesnt have such a fat tyre, hell, even Maruti 800 aint got such fat tyres man. Its like when I overtake some dude, he will be like, "Sonova-bh, what the faaak is that?".
Talking about some technology shit, it got this mono suspension uh thing, which is supposed to be very comfortable. Check out the exhaust! Looks like a lazer gun. And a making-hulk-look-like-a-mouse headlight. It got this nice LCD display too dawg, shows some shit.
It got some serious kick man. Almost like, if I keep it vertical and fire it up at first gear, I can go to moon. This bike so advanced looking, that if I meet aliens, they will get scared since they'll think humans are advanced species.
I will put more updates about my bike. I luv it man :D its special.

What is that in my room? WTF!

2008-12-28T16:19:00.003+05:30

Now few days back this was my room like.
But recently it became like this. And that white thing is a Xbox360, yeah. Wait, WHAT? WTF did I say? OMG What the fuk is that? Thats a x-fucking-box 360! what the fk is that doing in my room?
So my office during winter has shutdown period. The console would have been waste for this whole period, so I brought it home, LOL.

That is Gears of War 2 on my widescreen. Its a killer!
Some GTA4 too
And I am not able to believe this, but I am actually playing HALO3 right now.
I wanted to play this game since ages man.
The game for which I wanted to do an internship in Microsoft.
So all in all I have the following games for the holidays
That includes GTA4, Gears of War 2 and Halo3... WTF!
So, these are the consoles I play my games on these days (apart from PC)
Happy holidays and Happy New Year guys!

I own awesomeness, HDTV + PS3 = awesomeness

2008-11-06T11:45:00.006+05:30

Alright I spent a lot but lets leave that and chk the shit out. This is a Samsung 26" HDTV with a native (maximum) resolution of 1360x768 (It can support up to 720p). It's connectivity is great! Connects to all kinds of stuff, even has a VGA input for PC.

And now comes the real thing = Da PS3!!1 The PS3 is connected to my HDTV with an HDMI cable (which I had to buy since PS3 doesn't include in its box). That's pure digital connection to run it in its full glory.

When I hooked it up, turns out my HDTV supports 1080p as well, lol! (Well its max resolution is still 1360x768 but it can support an input of 1920x1080 and filters it to 1360x768)
Bought 2 games to begin with. Heavenly Sword, that's a God of War style game, only with a sexy female as the main protagonist. And Ratchet and Clank - Quest for Booty, it was cheap and Ratchet Clank games are good I have heard since ages. Later I got Resistance too.

That's Ratchet and Clank game, a typical platformer like Daxter (PSP) or Psychonauts (PC) if you have played. Almost looks like an animated movie, this is not even a good looking stage.
Following is Heavenly Sword, this game is awesome and crazy.
The regions looks amazing! simply amazing!And there is this one stage, where you have to kill 500 enemies out of the 2000 rushing towards you. Epic-er than 300? (the lines that you see are because of the Digital camera)
This is another game called Resistance, quite a nice first person shooter game.

Of course the PS3 can play VCDs, mp3 CDs, DVD movies and BluRay movies, lets see if I can find some movie rental shops (for BluRay it seems difficult though).It is supposed to play typical audio and video files as well but I have not tried.

The PS3 connects to my PSP as well, and gives the control wirelessly over to the PSP. You can see the menu of the PS3 on your PSP screen, play songs, videos, internet etc.. The games definitely don't work in this mode. Dont really know the use of this for now.

The awesome controller! So the Indian version is still the old version (40GB), so this is just the six-axis controller without dual shock which is a bummer but if it doesn't exist nothing can be done. Heavenly Sword has some awesome areas where you have to shoot arrows and then the arrow is controlled by motion of the controller.

I have not even tried its online capabilities. It supports built in wireless. Ethernet port is also there. There is PlayStation store and shit, download trailers and stuff, only heard about these things for now. I desperately need an internet connection!

I got Resistance as well, Will get Resistance 2 and Need for Speed Undercover next. My friend (who has a ps3 too) already has GTA4, Drake's Fortune, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Burnout Paradise, will borrow them from him.

New awesome upcoming PC games

2008-09-04T00:04:00.003+05:30

This end of the year line up of games is huge. 2007 sure kicked ass but 2008 is gonna do that even better. I am talking only about PC games, let alone considering all platforms. Lets take a look at the major ones which are bound to be pure awesome, releasing in or around november (It is possible that some of these releases can get shifted to next year).

Grand Theft Auto IV (Open World Sandbox)
Reference: All GTA games have been great.
Why will be awesome? Didn't you ever think... ok, GTA is good, but if it looked a little better it would have been so much better. Well now, there you go. GTAIV is truly next gen. And not only that, the city is your favourite 'Liberty City' with interactive elements increased. Its shooting has also been worked upon well and it doesnt feel like a turd as it felt in older GTA games. GTAIV had been sold like crazy on consoles with every game website giving it 10/10 rating (that doesnt happen in million years) and its heading to PC.. Isaac Awesomo!

Far Cry 2 (Open World FPS)
Reference: FarCry's awesomeness is awesome.
Why will be awesome? FC2 is not going to be in a green beautiful tropical island but in a hot african village sorta place. It is supposed to be truly open ended, there is only 1 level in the whole game, 1 single huge level. There is only one objective given to you in the begining which you have to accomplish in whichever way you can.

Crysis Warhead (FPS)
Reference: Last year's most beautiful game Crysis and 2004's hit FarCry.
Why will be awesome? Mainly because its based on the same revolutionary engine Crysis was based on: Cryengine2. Also because Crysis Warhead is claiming that its visuals will be similar but performance will be much better.

Prince of Persia (Open World Action Adventure)
Reference: Prince of persia sands of time, warrior within, two thrones
Why will be awesome? Its an altogether fresh game and not a sequel. We all remember the great level design of old prince of persia games, but this time there are 3 main features. First of all its open world, developers claim you can follow any path to reach your destination, second, combat is 1 on 1 with enemies, enemies are mostly big ones i.e. mini-bosses. Third that it's visuals are artistic, non photorealistic. Just see the fantastic abstraction in the screenshot.

Need for Speed Undercover (Racing)
Reference: NFS games (except ProStreet) have been rocking!
Why will be awesome? NFSUC is going back to its roots of telling a stylish blockbuster story like in NFSMW or NFSC etc. and ditch the simulation style racing of NFSPS. Best part is, have you seen Die Hard 4.0? rmr Maggie Q? She is the NFS girl this season! :O

Left 4 Dead (FPS)
Reference: Its by Valve (makers of Half Life games, Portal etc.)
Why will be awesome? L4D is a 4 player Co-op (play the whole game co-operatively with total 4 players) zombie shooter. You are trapped in a city full of zombies and you have to escape sticking together. Its by Valve, so it will be good anyway.

Project Origin (Horror FPS)
Reference: FEAR
Why will be awesome? Project Origin is sequel of FEAR... and FEAR was the most scary game I have ever played. Honestly, it was scarier than some best horror movies I have seen, since in a game, you are inside the fking atmosphere :O. And thus, its sequel is not a miss.

Mirror's Edge (First Person Action Adventure)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? You see the genre name? Thats a genre this game is going to create. We all have played action adventure games in 3rd person mode (Prince of persia, Tomb Raider etc.) but how about playing them in 1st person mode? No one has done this before, and thats the reason this game is gonna rock.

Tomb Raider Underworld (Action Adventure)
Reference: Tomb Raider games are adventorous and Lara Croft is a dream of every guy out there.
Why will be awesome? Well its a new Lara Croft's adventure. We dont get to be the part of her adventure every now and then you know. Secondly, every Tomb Raider game in the past have been a hit since gamers always wanted to see how Lara looks in the upcoming generation graphics. TRU is supposed to have killer visuals and we all are waiting to have a look at how sexy she is created this time.

Battlefield Heroes (FPS)
Reference: Remember all the multiplayer hours you had fun with the battlefield games?
Why will be awesome? Well 2 reasons, first of all its a cartoon shooter i.e. it looks are similar to those of an animated movie. A good multiplayer military shooter which the battlefield series is always good at. And that its a free game! :O

Call of Duty 5 - World at War (FPS)
Reference: Of course all the previous 4 call of duty in which none of them were flawed.
Why will be awesome? The related work speaks why this will be entertaining too. And oh wait, this call of duty game is going to have 4 player Co-op! omg!

Mercenaries 2 - World in Flames (Open World 3PS)
Reference: Similar to Battlefield games
Why will be awesome? Well, hearing the game's name I was not that excited but seeing the trailor I was thrilled. It is a (sorta) military shooter with 2 player Co-op. The game has just too much explosions. (Its out already!)

Legendary (FPS)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? A man opens a pandora box kept in meuseum and it unleashes monsters on the planet... ohkay, thats a cliche, how many times will games use that same story again and again? BUT when you will see the trailor, you will see how monstorous those monsters are, how destructive they are. There was a monster larger than buildings made out of the debri of fallen houses, cars and buildings; cars flying, buildings crumbling down, flying creatures tearing humans apart, Man! Its a total apocalyptic game! Never have I seen disaster shown in such vivid manner in a game. Has to be played!

Prototype (Open World Action Adventure)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? You will be a character who has the abilities to copy the appearances of anyone around (thus hide very easily) and you have special destructive abilities, and you are left open in a open world city. Do what-the-fk-ever you want now. I see that evil smile coming on your face

me doesnt plays RTS and RPG games, otherwise I would have written about
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3, Diablo 3, Fallout 3, Spore

Some more interesting games to look forward to:
Borderlands, Cryostasis, Burnout Paradise, Guitar Hero 4, Pure, Necrovision, Saints Row 2

The Last Guy - Awesome Funny Trailor

2008-08-29T19:37:00.007+05:30

"The Last Guy" is a Playstation 3 game being developed by Indians in a cave in Himalayas by 3 people (2 of them are bengali). Just see the fantastic funny trailer they made. If you know bengali its even better to hear! lolmao!

Youtube Link: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=mU7JyZ3mKDw

I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!

EDIT: Turns out these guys are not the developers at all. Its just done by Sony-Japan. Oh well, but still the trailors fun isn't it? :D

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2008-07-30T19:43:00.004+05:30

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We are here! We are here!

2008-06-21T21:12:00.006+05:30

Horton Hears a Who! Have you seen this movie? Go see it please! Horton Hears a Who is easily one of the best movies I have seen ever. When I say I liked Matrix, I liked a part of it... When I say I liked KungFu Hustle, I liked it for its action... when I say I liked Hot Rod, well, my crazy side enjoys it, I like inspirational movies like V for Vendetta and Lagaan... but Horton Hears a Who! is a movie that I liked for everything, all adjectives possible, for comedy, noise, values, fast-paced, drama, survival, emotions, inspirational... simply everything.

I know some of you have severe allergy from animated movies since they are (so called) kids' stuff. Well I wont spend time arguing that animated movies are good but I would like to convince you to just see this one animated movie please.

Those who like animated movies, you will forget all those older moving ones like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monster Inc, Cars if you see this one: Horton Hears a Who! Also you might have got bored of some recent copy cats of each others, like Madagascar, The Wild, Open Season, *some pengiun movies* etc etc etc.... NOT WITH THIS!!!

When these days it seems creating an oscar movie is incredibly easy... just make a war movie, or cast Robert De Neiro and other mueseum statues, or show gigantic production figures, or make something anti-racist (being racist inside, e.g. 'The Kingdom') or spell superb special effects... Horton Hears a Who! goes in a totally lateral direction. When movie critics (aka tards) think deep to justify some movie as a classic (serious gay oscar stuff), it is not hard to call this movie great and memorable.

Ok I wont be harsh on Godfather-ish style movies else you wont see this movie. I take all back what I wrote in above paragraph, else you wont see this movie. Please see it!

Horton Hears a Who! shows an elephant's extreme determination and amazing forgiveness (voice acted by Jim Carrey). The movie starts as a really good comedy flick but catches seriousness, wonderfully maintaining its humorous touch, not to forget the movie moves just quite fast. If you know 'Steve Carrell' (Bruce Almighty, Evan Baxter), he has also done some awesome voice acting of another main character in this movie.
The movie's soundtrack has unbelievable amount of noise! The context of the movie makes it really beautiful! The movie does have a message at the end which simply doesnt matter. The whole movie has just so many messages the last one sounds insignificant.
Nothing's perfect: the animation is not top quality but honestly it does the job of depicting everything in appropriate detail, nothing more was necessary but could have been better. That is the only complaint I guess I have from the movie.

Noticable thing is that this movie (I bet) will be enjoyable by everyone from a child to a teen to a middle aged to an old person. Whether a superficial viewer or a hardcore-movie-critic, you will enjoy it. A suggestion that I will give is that if at all you like this movie, see it again! It gets better and better in each replay.

Please see it!

CVIT Lab Board Art

2008-05-26T20:52:00.002+05:30

Click on the image to see properly, Click here to view the original (very high resolution)

Ayesha Takia is beautiful

2008-05-19T02:39:00.005+05:30

Talking about Ayesha Takia, the first thing which comes to your mind is SOMETHING but am not here to talk about that. She is simply the hottest actress in Bollywood. I am a fan of her since I was a kid, when she used to kill on 'Good Morning Disney' as a co-host. Of course it was mainly a cartoon show so I wasn't denied to see it :D. One day she announced she wont be hosting the show anymore because of her higher studies and stuff... it was the same day I stopped watching disney cartoons too. There was this video of Falguni Pathak "Meri Chunar ud ud jai"... Though lame video but, Man, she looked divine in that too!

If you see, Ayesha Takia has a really tall neck, something which is noteworthy in models (Deepika Padukon, Aish, Priyanka Chopra... If you noticed, Miss Felicity 2008 also had a long neck) and, I dont know why, but I just go crazy about tall necks. Moreover, her eyebrows shield the whole world, wine filled eyes, a perfect nose and dont even talk about how beautiful her face is. She is tall and has broad shoulders. She is a perfect early woman, an early encestor, may be she is a Goddess.

A long neck is just really artistic (If it is really an artist who has designed woman). It fits very aesthetially on a woman's body, It is like a tall vas, with the grasses coming out to protect its shine, and balanced perfectly on a tall and strong violin.

Its not like I dont have anything else to do but notice necks, its just really easy. Just see if the woman's hair are long but still they are able to reach only her shoulders, if, then her neck is long.

Yes I know, people have been talking about she is is growing fat which may be true, but her resume for now has very little experience (She hasn't acted in many movies + she is very young) so she will definitely take care of herself.

I recently watched Sunday, quite nice movie. Earlier I watched Salaam-e-Ishq in which her boyfriend's name was Shiven (that 'v' causes 'V for Vendetta'). I have to watch all Ayesha Takia's movie now.

Some more actresses with long necks:

Holly Walance

Aishwarya Rai

Eliza Dushku

Amy Walz (NFSU girl, She is the final boss)

Example short neck: Hilary Duff

(Web Comic#4) How wasted am I?

2008-05-09T14:19:00.003+05:30

(Click on the image to view it large)

(Web Comic#3) Sick!

2008-03-19T01:34:00.003+05:30

(Web Comic#2) Wire the less

2008-03-13T23:46:00.004+05:30

Tag Post - Tagged by p4t1

2008-03-10T12:51:00.000+05:30

10 things I miss in my Life (Chronologically)

- Mom's cooked food. Believe me, every day, before breakfast, lunch or dinner, I used to think, "Wow, something wonderful must be there today" and it used to be. I miss it the most. There have been many times when I would tease other ladies in the house for not cooking like my mom... mom used to be so proud of me at those moments, lol :D

- Evening cricket on the huge neighborhood ground. I was a emergency situation player, I was either highly effective or just average. So I was brought to play in critical situations to quickly take wickets or make some quick runs and then go out. I miss being that important cricket player.

- I miss this girl from 7th standard, divine cute. She had her roll number before me, so she used to sit in front of me in exams. Our thing was fantastic, I was good in math and formulation stuff and she was good in remembering things. So we used to cheat like hell, I would ask her all mugging based questions, and she would ask me the formulation and proofs stuff. Guys were quite angry with me that she used 2 get a rank within 10 bcoz of me, and I must admit that I was the class topper because of her :D. It was going gr8 until I started liking her, said somethings and things got messed up, Bah. She must be doing gr8, hope she is fine.

- I miss my sister a lot, she doesnt live in India now. She is the best. We went into fights from time to time, but not anymore. She was/is/will-be always helpful, caring and good to me. I just hope I did the same in past and would in future too.

- I miss this one epic moment of my life (8th class story). Father came home from office and said he got something for me, it was a big box, I was thinking, is it what I think it is? IT WAS A NES (8 bit video game console)!!!! OMG! I went crazy! I was insanely happy that day :)

- Free Periods in school. Well I was one notorious kid in school... Free period means I am going to go out of discipline completely and bug each and every1 in class. It was even better when the class monitor was a girl, I would just annoy her like hell. Later one of the girls got so annoyed she complained to a teacher and I had to face a lot of music.

- Bunk school for games. Well, this friend of mine and me, (10th class story) used 2 bunk school to go a video game parlor to play Sega Genesis games, mainly Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 & Contra Hard Corps. Later we started playing Playstation games, mainly Mortal Kombat Trilogy, King of Fighters etc.. Mom found out about this once and beat the hell out of me.

- Lunch time in school was girl watching session. Girls are generally typically mostly hot man, wtf?

- I miss KV (Kendriya Vidyalaya) school where I found amazing friends and created a lot of havoc. There was this chick in my class, killer hot, wrote on her desk when she was not there, "You are a property of Shiben". It was a small prank and the girl was fine with it. But the boys were angry like hell, haha, suck on that! Some flirting with a girl went too high to reach ears outside the school and I had a nice visit from 3 huge college students, man was I scared! Good thing they dint beat me up. On the geeking side, I used to write all kinds of stupid fox-pro programs in free time. Later I became too much of a geek and thus Jesus came here.

- I just miss the endless BC we would do in the wing outside our rooms. Some times it would go till morning and the next whole day would be sleeping. Sweet.

10 things I want to achieve in a decade from now (in no order)

- Have a lot of MOney! Haaaaaaaah!

- Long term relationship wali Girl friend.

- Build a personal killer Home Theater system, I have it all in my mind, just need MOney! haaaaaah!

- Play a lot of games, own consoles, make many gamer friends, and if possible, become an official Game reviewer hired by some good game website.

- I wish to stand on the stage of one of these: CES, GDC or Siggraph animation festival, giving a killer talk about something I (or my team) made, followed by a huge round of applause. I don't consider it to be achieved in the next decade, but this is my dream.

- Take good care of my mom and dad.

- Own a car, so that I can customize it, add vinyls, spoilers, bumpers and crap. w00t!

- Within 10 yrs from now I think I will HAVE to get married. So the thing I want to achieve is, I should get married to a good and caring woman.

- Learn some martial art, like Kung-Fu, Kick boxing, drunken master...something! This I have to do, this is highly important!

- I would like to have a hall in the house where I can practice KungFu everyday... "I know KungFu"... "Show me"... hahahhaa!! it will be fun and it will be good exercise too! Yeah rite, lazy ass.

Thanks for tagging me skp

(Web Comic#1) Why Why Why?

2008-03-08T22:23:00.002+05:30

Pirates 0wN Assassin's Creed

2008-03-06T11:47:00.007+05:30

Assassin's Creed is a game (from Ubisoft) released last year for xbox 360 and it got a lot of coverage and hype for its wonderful looks, highly artisitc style and it's producer Jade Raymond
(Man! She is hot!).
They decided to release it for PC (yay!) and April 8, 2008 was set as its release date. However pirates somehow released it in the pirate scene already. This is a double-yay but this is really bad for PC gaming future. I will talk about this in the end, lets see some screen shots taken with full settings (1600x900) on a Nvidia 8800GTX:

The game basically is a regular action adventure game with some gameplay elements improved, but the graphics are killer.
Not photo-realistic as crysis, but highly artisitc, looks fantastic!
The large environments it is able 2 show is amazing.
Inner areas look good too and Buildings, huge.

Because of piracy, first game devs (in general) decided not to release the games for pc, but later an even better solution was, to release the stuff for pc later. This way the game would have already been bought for consoles (and thus make money) and later when released for PC, if it gets bought, well good! else, oh at least the community is growing and its getting good marketing. Because of this people should not worry about GTA-4, since it will come for PC 1 year after its 2008's release on consoles (like what happened for gta3, gtavc, gtasa).

In the case of Assassin's Creed (and this has happened many times before with other games too) people who wanted to buy the game, will have to pirate it because they will choose not to wait!

PSP is da best!

2008-03-04T19:11:00.013+05:30

PSP (Play Station Portable) is a handheld gaming device which can also do pretty much all the other gimmicks Iphone-wannabe-handheld-devices boast about. PSP can game (of cors) with a powerful hardware behind it and a game database of over 800 titles. I bought it from my online friend Gagan on Gamespot.

I hacked my PSP to free it from DRM crap thanks to Suhail who also has a PSP. Games officially come in UMD for this device. But a modded PSP can run games stored in its Memory stick.

Let me show you some screenshots I took on my PSP and some pictures. This is God of War - Chains of Olympus demo, new game to be released for PSP... pretty awesome.

Racing games are fun with the analog stick. Since NFSps sucked on PC, I am gonna play it on PSP. This is Burnout Legends:

Fps games are good too, I finished COD on psp, this is Medal of Honors Heroes 2:

This is Patapon, a rythm game, its hella fun (This image is not forged)

Loco Roco is Physics based game... fantastic!

Being a powerful system, PSP can emulate NES, SNES, Sega Gen, GBA etc. and some old games (Eg. Doom) are ported to PSP as well:

And yeah, it can play MP3s as well (shocking!), with killer visualizations. It can play Videos as well.

Did I tell you, PSP has wireless capability as well, so you can browse on it too.

Also people with PSPs can wirelessly play multiplayer games. Suhail and me play Co-op games sometimes :D. Not to mention, recently Skype was released for PSP, so it pretty much becomes a VOIP kinda phone too. It's a little big but small enough to fit in my pocket. Battery life is 4Hrs for continous gaming, else its more... havnt noticed much, I just recharge it once a day. PSP has a big community, so community software are always there to enjoy.

Oh! and other than that, CVIT got another Graphics Card: NV Quadro FX 3700, this is an equivalent of a 8800GT

SlipStream movie review

2008-02-17T14:08:00.002+05:30

Anthony Hopkin's SlipStream movie is a pile of garbage thrown at the audience. Basically the movie is a practical joke and it works out pretty well. The fans will like it no wonder, "Anthony Hopkins this and that, Omg, its Anthony Hopkins!", and for the ones who didn't like it, the fans will start booing on them on not getting it. So for the movie maker, its a win win situation. Why do I care? Well, people pay (money/time) to see movies, thats why.

The thing is that the movie's concept is not bad but its done before. Well yeah, time traveling is done before too, but they use time traveling to tell stories. Here, the concept is the story, and it is a highly narrow class, and thats why it feels like a copy paste of the originals.

Basically the movie shows a story writer, working on a murder crap with a stressed brain, and he starts seeing his characters in his life etc. !!!SPOILERS! Basically he is dreaming the whole thing possibly at his last moments or at the moments of his brain's maximum stress (Well both are true, since there are 2 endings, one more ending after the credits). !SPOILERS!!!

The concept is good, but if from the starting of the movie, you sense the concept, the movie becomes meaningless (cause theres no story) and you seem tortured throughout the movie. If you don't know what is really happening, then that is even worse, since you will feel a kick in the nut when the movie ends. !!!SPOILERS! All of the movie's random segments just wants to tell you that its a dream and thats why its random, thus dont stress on trying to connect the loose threads of the story. !SPOILERS!!!

One movie which I know, uses the same concept, "STAY", but it is so beautifully done that whether you know whats happening or you come to know in the end, its awesome in both ways! !!!SPOILERS! The characters were so well woven in the dream of the protagonist and they were really likable. You feel for all the characters, you remember all the characters. And when the world is shown outside the guy's dream, you can connect all the roles of the characters in the real world with the dream world... and thus understand why such events in the dream. It is so wonderfully connected. !SPOILERS!!!

'Stay' kept a suspense which was really not needed, but still that worked out great. Suspense movies are not re-watchable since thats what really is in the movie.... but for Stay, it turned out opposite! It had to be watched at least 2 times in my opinion (Because of the suspense, a viewer can forget the events in context of what really is happening and thus may need to recall them). Aaah, some of you smart heads will not agree on watching it twice, but sorry, I am a normal person and have a normal brain.

Back to slipstream; The characters are random, the movie doesn't let you get attached to the characters, there are tons of them, and it really doesn't want to. The events don't make sense and guess what... the movie doesn't want you to either. What the movie really wants, is for you to get the overall picture... !!!SPOILERS! and what is that overall picture? He is seeing a dream. Wow so original! my ass.

Why the hell would I see 1.5 hours of random stuff just to understand that its a dream (and thats why random and senseless things are happening) ? At least do something creative in those 1.5 hours. Some senseless things are entertaining (action, high school rip-offs, special effects, super-powers), but no, this movie contained pure random garbage! !SPOILERS!!!

The worst part is the way the movies gets rated after this. Stay was awesome! and its a 7 on imdb I guess (which is fine with me, 7's not bad, there may be glitches in various aspects which only the mighty respectful movie experts can understand), but SlipStream (since made by Anthony Hopkins) is 8! Good work people, keep recommending garbage! I am really starting to think I should see Hindi movies, they are getting better.

To the fans: Anthony Hopkins is a good guy, he (is not Hannibal Lector and thus) wont kill you if you rate his movie bad. He probably will work hard and will thank you later for being honest. Be a fan but never put the fanship before your judgment.

Review: Felicity 2008, IIIT Hyderabad

2008-02-11T10:27:00.000+05:30

Felicity is the cultural annual festival of IIIT hyderabad. Threads, the technical festival, runs along with it. This year's celebration was fantastic backed up by quite sincere hard work. I was not there in most places, but whatever I saw I enjoyed. I wish to review it, there will be some honest opinions... good and bad, please dont hate me :)

Day 1: Though events were on full heat in other areas, e.g. Kalakshetra, Zombie Zone, etc etc. Day 1 had a dry stage for the most of it. Indian Ocean's performance was fun but running a little boring. Didn't attend War of DJs, because of boredom, I hope it was good.

Day 2: Seeing that along with Indian Ocean on day1, Sledge is also coming along on day 2, the current 3rd years proved that they have taken felicity to a next level. You got Sledge and AWESOME bands from all over Hyderabad for a rock competition. OMG!!! Fking awesome.

IIIT Band: A nice start, Female vocalist did well (for Cranberries' song), she could have sung more songs, some Evanasense may be? Male singers need to work hard (Insomnia used to choose songs with less vocal input so that the good Guitar talent shines, pretty clever). Blood Brother's was quite nicely sung, good work. Our Malaysian FESs did good job too, nice.

Mosh Pit issues: I dont really know what happened when moshing started over (I am guilty that I started it) while Sledge's performance, but I guess the organizers took the matter a bit too serious. Dont get me wrong, but the guys were doing the moshing in a controlled way, in the middle, a circular pit, exactly the way it should be done. It was violent, yes, but thats the way it is (I was not a part of it later coz those dude were too big to mosh with, I was just in the perimeter). No one was getting hurt in the surrounding, just visually scared I guess. Anyway, alls well that ends well. The rock night was amazing.

Day 3: The western dances were nice as always. Best part was that most things were not that late as I expected seeing all previous felicities. Contribution from college CBIT, Vasvi and Osmania University was nil which is not good (notified by Parry), they have been an important crowd previously, dont know why they didn't show up this time. ICFAI and NIFT people as always were a good part in the celebration.

Day 3 nite: Mr. and Miss felicity was enjoying, the audience was great (hehe, I was a part of it of cors). The participants on the male side were weak I would say, confidence seemed less from their side although final judging was perfect. The female's were much more better in terms of right attitude and confidence. The results of Miss felicity seemed odd, which doesn't matter though, since for the audience the good organization was more important.

Om Shanti Om: The closing dance by the famous faces was nicely done. It was a highly intelligent work done by the Choreographer. The way people were emerging on stage matched the way its in the movie. The similarity excites the crowd a lot. Nice work.

Overall this year's celebration was wonderful and faithfully well executed. It was clearly visible that the organization was good. Decorating the campus was a clever idea, truly, it brought out people living under rocks. Some newspaper coverage would have been nice. Food and stuff was ok, there was nothing wrong, costs were not proposterous. Website design, a killer video and forum's idea was good.

Nicely done ug3. Bravo.