The "Holy" dip
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
This holi was one of the ebst ever for me...Why? cuz I spent it on the banks of ganga in rishikesh. It was an eventful weekend as we (around 30 ppl in all) celebrated an extended holi with white water rafting (2 sessions of 28 km and 24 km respectively), body surfing, cliff jumping, mountain climbing, rappling, kayaking, beach volley ball, etc...
The rafting part was especially adrenalin pumping. It was just an amazing experience as we passed over thrilling rapids like "The Wall", "Daniel's dip", "3 Blind Mice", "Crossfire", etc...And when are boat filpped over the crossfire and I went under the water for about 5 seconds in the raging rapid, it was one hell of a feeling.....it seemed as if I had spent an eternity coming towards the light....
Most of the time we all were body surfing in the water instead of being on the raft...
I also climbed a mountain and though I didnt feel it at the time, my hands were shaking when I came down finally and I just coudn't move my forearms, such was the stress that one had to put on the fore arms...
And the standing under the waterfall was so kewl, it felt like someone was massaging my back and head (albeit with hammers instead of hands)...
All in all, it was one great trip....
Neways, enuff abt the trip, I've my visa interview tomorrow, so wish me luck....
Still No time...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Am back from home but still there's not much time to write much...Am unable to visit you all too. Please bear with me for a few more days ... :)
Meanwhile, just wanted to let u guys know that yesterday, bro and me gifted a Maruit Alto to Dad as a birthday gift. His first car...Dad was so happy and I was even happier cuz it was my first step to *try to* repay everything he has done for me so far... :)
And yes, my roommate has written something that is in context of a common friend of ours but applies universally. It happens so often with the poor male species..tsk tsk..
Go and read
"Neha Network Systems" by
Amit.
Finally some respite
Friday, March 18, 2005
Whew, that was a tough week...But now its a bit light and am going home today :)... So will get some good food for a change...
"Maa ke haath ke bane khane ki baat hi kuchh aur hoti hai... :D
neways, just d/led this video by green day "Boulevard of broken dreams" and it totally rocks...
Green Day always seems to surprise me with the variation in their style and they do it in such a kewl way..
The song is from the "American Idiot" album and if the title song (american idiot) was written and sung with loadsa attitude, this one shows us their sentimental side as Billie Joe longs for someone to accompany him in the journey of life....
If you haven't heard this song yet, then go here to download the video
Green Day Videos.
An apology
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
An apology to all my visitors for not having written anything lately. Work load has increased a lot all of a sudden and its hard to find time or energy to write on anything....
Guess, it'll remain like that for a few days...Something new and interesting is in the offing, so lets hope that turns into reality...
Will get back to you guys soon...
Someone's gotta do something..
Friday, March 11, 2005
While coming to office today, I just ran a cursory glance over the newspaper and a small news item settled at the back of my mind "Bugs bunny to be a superhero". After coming to office I thought about reading up on it. A quick search on google news revealed a lot of news items. Gladly anticipating to see our own *wabbit* in a new role, I scanned the results which were something like:
Bugs Bunny turns slick superhero!:Bugs Bunny and pals getting futuristic makeoverBut what irked me was the presence of these results:
Bugs a bugged bunny over 'Loonatics'Look what they did to the wabbitExploring a litle more I found that Bugs will now be renamed "Buzz Bunny" as he, along with five others, is transported from the looney toons to "Loonatics". Quoting from one of the reports:
Hes got no eyeballs, or his eyes are shaded. His ears look like spears. His paddle-fists look like theyre groping for some kind of weapon.By Golly, is this the Bugs we know.
More importantly, is this the bugs we
want?Where will be the good ol' humour, where'll be the funny antics, where'll be that "being cruhed by a tractor and coming out flattened and then getting air pumped in to regain normal body", where'll be our wabbit.
Where will be "What's up Doc?".Quoting more from the report:
"He sports Mel Blancs funny, nasally voice.And, its not you better laugh or Ill shoot you.
When you reach inside a figure and pull out its guts, put an iron over its face and smash down its expression, you have ruined its legacy, a state-of-mind and body passed on to descendants."
For God's sake, we don't want a new superhero. We already have enough anime action and enough american heroes are cleaning the streets of evil just good enuff. But if warner bros. still wants a new hero, fine, go ahead and create a new one, leave bugs alone...
I don't want a gun-slinging, hard-talking, lean-mean-fighting machine, I want my buggy, looney, bugs back...
Somebody do something :*( :*(
A lesson learnt
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
I learned this today " Never get too excited too ealy" and i learned it the hard way :(
Had posted this earlier today:
---My earlier post----
Ever heard of recursion through google??
Quick, open a new browser window and head over to
google. Write "shantanu goel" (without the quotes) and hit the "I'm feeling lucky button". Guess where u end up....
Where else but here :) :)
Yeah guys, my blog has finally acquired the no. 1 rank for my name as the keyword....
:)
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But as soon as I posted this, just a few hours after that, my blog again slipped to the number 2 spot. Guess it was a case of
The Page Rank 100 Incident...
Go away..Let me sulk a bit so that I can overcom this... *boohoo* :(
Google Desktop Search
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Just when I was about to switch over to Copernic, there came another update on the google desktop search and man, is it just WOW!!
Google Desktop now supports:
Firefox
PDFs
Music
Videos
Images
Just what the doctor ordered...Go and download this baby [
Link]
Tada......
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Here's a brand new template....
Comments, Compliments, suggestions are welcome....
Do tell me if u find something broken cuz I think there are many. For one, I can't find a way to modify my archives template which is not showing blogger comments section.
Till then... :)
Something to wait for....
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Wait for a few days...U guys are gonna get something new soon....:)
And my sweet doodle-board has died. Doodle-board is going to be a paid service. So, the hunt for a new one begins..Any suggestions??
Side note: Just a small incident that happened yesterday. As the axe of the Taxman approaches, ppl are running helter-skelter arranging bills. My room-mate (who is a bengali and doesn't know hindi that much) was doing the same. He went to a few medical shops to get few bills made. Now, every shop he went to, he found a board there in hindi, on which it was written "Dawai ki Dukaan" (in Hindi, meaning a Medicine Shop). After visiting 4-5 such shops, he got very confused and returned home with a puzzled look. After a while, he just cudn't resist asking me "How come I never heard of this "Dawai" chain store brand in Bengal. All we have there is "98.4" ".
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