Christmas Weekend

Wow..what a cool Christmas this has been. Usually its just a normal weekend with me usually going to the office on Christmas Day (it being a Restricted Holiday and sh*t), but this time I took the day off. I had a nice 3 day weekend for me...and with still 1 day to go, its lined up to be awesome one, considering the events that are to unfold. On Friday..I woke up late to a chilly Christmas morning. I had an awesome lazy breakfast followed by an afternoon of brandy delight! Ever since winter kicked in, my folks have switched their drink to Brandy. Nevertheless, me being an "in-discriminating" alcohol paramour, I joined the gang to some afternoon happy times. I baked a nice li'l chocolate cake in the evening...something which I had done after close to 3 years. I had a nice time and it came out soo awesomely well that I was about to finish the entire thing yesterday night itself. However, I was stopped because I had some guests the next day. Saturday saw me waking up at 9:30 a.m. by my mom, who was frantically shouting (literally..with waving menacing hands) to get ready. I had to go pick up my cousin from R.K. Puram who would stay at our place till Sunday. Guests at my home obviously means more booze. I reached back at 12:00 pm..all ready for yet another Brandy afternoon. After lunch, my friend Rohit called up to make plans for the evening. We would meet up with Harman who had to do some shopping. We headed for our (my) favourite hang-out - Superstars afterward, for a couple of beers. A couple of beers down, Harman suddenly got this craving to have Shwarma at some place in New Friends Colony. He promised more beer...which sealed the deal and I was up for it. We reached the place at 8:20 or so...had 5 shwarmas (dont judge me...there were 2 of us and they were pretty small)..and headed for a pub called Pebble Street. Its a nice joint..where we spent 2 beers (yah..I have started counting time on "beer" units)..and had a nice time chatting up. Harman left me at my place at 9:30 much to my folks' delight. Tomorrow, we would be going to a rock concert to see one of my favourite band Zero performing at Cafe Morrison. I would be attending a gig after sooo long. Hopefully it would be awesome! Anyways..its dinner time..let the celebration continue!

RROD again!

Damn..yesterday evening, I was happily playing away on my precious XBox when it suddenly froze...and so did I .. thinking of what it meant. I was really afraid to restart it but I really had no choice. I restarted it ..and this time it froze right at the starting itself. Upon restarting it again, it flashed the dreaded 3 red lights. My fears had come true. The fix lasted barely a month. However, this time, I am planning to do the fix myself. Yup, you heard it right. I see no use going all the way to the repair guys who make you wait and treat your box like sh*t. There's loads of info on the net about the fix. I plan to try and do it on my own this time...maybe include dad as well who is really interested in fixing broken things (like all dads). Come to think of it, it would be really interesting but really sad if I mess up something. However after seeing the guy who repaired it the last time, I kinda get this cocky feeling inside me that if he can do it...so can I!!

God bless the CGPA

I just got my first sem results for my M.S. programme and I was totally expecting to flunk atleast in one subject (if not more). But surprisingly (believe me thats an under-statement), I passed in every subject and actually ended up inside the top 35% of the class. Trust me, I dint study a word...atleast not before the last minute..and that too did not help. I totally f*Cked up my exams but I guess so did everybody else. Wohooo \,,/ . God bless the CGPA!

Roadtrip

Me, Viral and Jain were dying to go some place once they were free with their CAT exams. They were raving about this place called Neemrana Fort, 198 kms away from my place on the Delhi - Jaipur highway. We had heard a lot about that place from our colleagues at the office. We had heard of a really cool adventure sport called Zipping being offered there by a company called the lying fox. Zipping or zip lining consists of a pulley suspended on a steel cable mounted on an incline. The incline along with the momentum of your body takes you from one point to another at speeds close to 70 kmph. Its at a decent height as well. Basically...loads of fun. Reading about it really made us excited to venture on this roadtrip. We packed the booze for the day...which was Vodka..cuz its winter and all, packed in some snacks for the way and headed towards Neemrana fort at 6:00 am in the morning. Actually I started at 6:00 am by my car towards Jain and Viral's place. Being the bitch*s that they are, they dint even get up when I started from my place. Anyways I reached their place at 6:30 as promised but waited for them to get ready and also had some much needed breakfast. We left Noida at 7:30 and started cruising the highways. Delhi has awesome roads esp when they are empty. I was cruising at 90kmph on the DND to the airport and finally on the NH8 which is not bad either. The drive was awesome..nice sunny day...heavy metal blaring into our ears and empty roads. We opened up the Vodka at about 9 in the morning..and finished half of it. I dont know what it was. but we were sufficiently high after having around 2 pegs each. We kinda stopped after that since we had to trek and other adventure sports stuff. We stopped around 15 kms away from the place at a small tea shop and enjoyed a nice cup of tea. Tea after the vodka was somehow really nice. I never had tea while I was high...and it does kinda take it to the next level. Anyways I can go on and on about alcohol. We reached the place at 10:00am. Its a huge fort...with loads of sculptures and the works. We reached the Flying fox guys who told us that they can move our slot to 11:00 am instead of 1 pm. Since there wasnt much to do in the fort, we agreed. We were all really very excited...and also a bit high. We trekked for 1.5 kms uphill which sobered us up real nice. We had a small practise session before the real thing. There are 5 zips in total. Zip 2 is like the longest in south asia. Its close to 400 mts. That was awesome. Zipping does get your adrenaline right up there..its like flying!..the wind on your face feels awesome. Sometimes if your weight isn't completely balanced, the wind sways you to the sides. Its a nice feeling to just let go..and for fatsos like me..the momentum really helps. After the zip lines, we headed for lunch at the fort. We were informed that lunch would cost us Rs. 1100 (or 1400?) per person. We promptly decided against it and thought of having lunch at a roadside dhaba. Since there wasn't much to see on the fort, we left for Delhi at about 3 after having lunch at a restaurant nearby. The drive back was equally fun except for the small rush near the Delhi Airport...but the second half of the vodka kinda lifted our spirits. We reached at 5:30 and since we were crossing South Extension, decided to head towards Cafe Morrison. Its a nice little pub which plays rock and metal. However, maybe because we were tired or the crowd wasnt that cool...the entire atmosphere inside was pretty boring. The music was not loud, there was only chinese on the menu and they were offering 1+1 happy hour beers only for Kingfisher pints. Anyways we had a couple of beers and headed back. I reached my place at 8:30 or so but hit the sack early since I was really tired. All in all an awesome trip...would love to do it again!

MTV What the hack (continued)

Damn..I couldn't help but browse around for some more videos. I think this is some new kind of a TRP improvement strategy. Show some shitty things on TV and ppl will keep on seeing the show to know how shitty it would be the next week! Anyways I cant post all the videos..but you can find it here. In the meantime, here are some priceless answers to the questions given by the hacking extraordinaire.

How do I restore deleted files?
Answer: Go to recycle bin and click restore! (F*ck ..really? I dint know that!!!)
Answer: Use a recovery software! Aarrgh!

Best Answer: Make a copy of it in your pen drive and hang it around your neck like a necklace. Seriously..watch episode 2.

How do I remove my embarrasing online photos ?
Answer: Untag yourself if you are tagged. Upon being asked further that the website would still have the pic..he goes like.." A better way is to not do those embarrasing things" or "Lodge a police complaint"

How do I access blocked websites?
Ankit Fadia goes like..."Do you mean boyzone.com??" Shit .. he really is Ankit Fagia!

There's loads of stuff on him on the net. Here's a nice read which I got from Rohit.

MTV What the hack

I was watching TV at my friend's place and stumbled onto something which was called MTV What the hack. Intrigued by the name, we stopped. We saw some VJ named Jose (pronounced as Hose..infact.. होज़े) with Ankit Fadia..the "ethical hacker" fag. Anyways he promised to show us some very cool..mind blowing "google hacks"!! Wow...the terms he uses. Anyways...here we go.

1. How to find the local time in Sydney?
Answer to this was believe it or not....type "time in Sydney". No..thats seriously what he said. Can you believe this guy??!

2. How to convert between units. i.e. say 6 Inches to cms..and stuff like that.
The answer was to type "6 inches to cms". I swear...everyone of us in that room slapped our foreheads. I mean..cmon!!

3. How to find the meaning of a word.
Type "define:" and the word. Me and my friends are like watching literally with our jaws dropped.

.. there were more and each and every one was hilarious and sooo god damn obvious.

This guy is on MTV!..there is a channel which actually pays for guys to say this on camera. I really think (hope?) MTV wants to secretly expose this guy. I could not see any other reason he's on TV. I mean he doesn't look good...he's not funny...zero personality...hell at one point of time I am pretty sure होज़े was being sarcastic when he said "hacking extraordinaire" after all this!

Catch this episode where he tells how to protect your accounts from hackers. Really priceless stuff like you should have long passwords, never click "remember me" in Cyber cafes...hell at one point he says "You should always sign out after visiting a web site". Yah...thats how email accounts get hacked...hackers lurk around till you forget to sign out and swoop right in!! I mean this guy is on TV!!! I still cant get over it! Watch on..its hilarious...I couldn't find the google hack episode but this one is fun as well!