farewell my ROKR

My phone is atlast about to die. It is down, and doesn't work on battery or with a sim inserted. It was awful. What that city could do to you. When i took it to the service center, after a 2 day analysis they said that the whole internal board has to be replaced and it would cost aroun 6.5 k and the same bought new costs 7k. But it was too much, i had retire the device. It has been of great service to me, and i can never forget that extension of my arm..... To buy another piece of the same would not be proper. Until something worthy of your successor arrives, i will have to make do with some other device. Am looking around, but everything is out of my budget. Ever the DEXT is around 35K which i am not in a position to buy. (it is not a question of affordability, it is about the question of value for money).

XMMS and Rockbox on Rokr E6

 

What is the joy of hearing music, without it's ooh's and aah's.  my phone Moto Rokr E6, is good.  the sound quality is really cool.  but still, in the inbuilt real player, if u choose any equalizer settings, u cannot observe any change in sound, even with headphones the sound remains the same.... 

XMMS a winamp clone for Linux has been ported or reworked for Moto Rokr E6 (ezx).... this works on both E6 and A1200 (aka Ming).....   the interface is cool, very similar to winamp...  the controls are also cool.... u even have skins...  and the best thing is the equalizer.  mannnn it rocks....

thought i am satisfied with the working on it entirely still i faced a small problem (it depends on the severity), i was unable to play 2 particular mp3 files with XMMS which i was able to play properly with real player and zmplayer.  now lemme ponder a little ova this, and see it i could find any reasons for it.  if i couldn't i will go back to the trusted forums to get an answer.........

The iphone theme

 

hmmm.  successfully installed the iphone theme  on my rokr e6 yesterday night.  took less than 3 minutes.  The anxiety was too high when i was doing this, and i could have bricked my phone, but i didn't.  Now the phone is working cool. 

i had to install and use linloader and a good lin script to install the theme.

if any of u need the theme file, leave a comment and i will send it to u, coz i don't have any place that does not expire with time.....

the procedure was simple.  extract the theme and take it to mmc card.  make sure there are no spaces in the folder name.  then long tap the iphone.lin file and run it with loader.  leave the phone as such for a minute till the installation is complete.  you will get a popup saying installation complete.  now switch off the phone now u will be able to see the iphone switch off screen. now switch on and voila, u have the iphone theme installed......

this worked for me, and i am not facing any problems....  still there is a easy and safe way,  that uses a theme installer, which u can find in mobile junkies forums.  you will have to register (free) to download....

Birthday celebrations

Hi, all

me and Siva took some pics with my mobile during my birthday celebration in my office today.
Hope ya'll like it.

you can see them at http://picasaweb.google.com/nasarabna/MyBirthday2007

TT

How is TT played? that was what i thought when santosh called me for a round of TT. Anyway i know that i have to hit the ball and send it to the opponents court. and i played with that approach. later mid wat jana came in and gave a explanation on how this game is played.

well anyway we had a good time, and i sweated a lot after a long time. Was good fun playing TT. Myself, Santhosh, Vimal, Balaji, Bharathi, Pavitha played for some 2 hours or so. then we returned to work. We took some pics, will post them soon.

Psst : if u don´t know what TT is, it is the short form or abbreviated form of Table Tennis.....

A few more dayz....

it is been long, really long time. and i am missing chenai, like never before, i don't know. I am still in bangalore, and i am writing here coz, today is Janmastami, the bithday of Lord Krishna and so a holiday and in here in guesthouse there is Internet available without any restrictions.

great huh!...

well, it is a little frustrating... i just don't wanna be here... and u all know how i hate bangalore... this is one city which i hate deep down to the core... even may be till the next side of the core... But i am stuck here... and the client is . I hope i come down to chennai soon.....

well one of the bright things is, i saw my friends Rahul, Nityanandam, and Jeyan, and made a last minute dash and applied to Japanese Language Proficiency Test. I am writing level 4 this year... had struggle though, but i have confidence i will clear it... let us see....

well, anyway i don't have mood to balber now, sitting here in this chair.. watching this LCD screen, it sucks.. i'm a bit old skool, yeah, and i am not ashamed.... I am proud to be old skool...

well, will write in detail everything once back in chennai or when i get to a old skool which suits me.. got some photos too. everything after i come down to chennai leaving this sick bangalore... till then bye...

The past 2 weeks

Man, it was tough...
Rules... i hate them...

Well the past 2 weeks saw me becoming a good part of the project that i was alloted with... (actually i was alloted to it and not the other way around...)

it also saw the 60th Independence day, and there was nothing special in me.... I just did not even care. i was working my heart out, trying to make everything work. i came home only at 1 pm...

India won a damn test series again england after some eons i suppose... They are gonna surrender the one day series... sachin cracked a 99 yesterday. it must have been heart breaking, any one who gets out at 99 will be heart broken, but wat to do azhar got out at 199.....

Well, i was asked to learn the entire upto which aravind had done. and i was asked to develop the file management, and billing sections. it was fun.. yes i should say so.. i just worked my heart out, i would say. it was challenging and entertaining....


we flew to Bangalore, with the slightest hope that our demo is gonna work, and i was saying to myself, Murphy's second law ( i would say s0)

smile, tomorrow will be worse....

but still everything went fine..., the project worked, everything about future was planned, selvi left, and i was stranded in the same place, from where i came back running, without the slightest idea how i was gonna proceed......

But still considering everything that happened in the last 15 days or so. it was good, fun, and i don't know what else to say....

going to the church on a sunday morning with selvi, (instead of sleeping), walking the length of MG Road, working on apple i'Mac (wow!!!, i never thought that i would even get a chance to touch it, leave touching i thought i would never see it in flesh and blood other than in pics, and here i was working on it, browsing on it, hacking on it, bug fixing on it, configuring it)

well Chidambaram's and G3's bday passed, i wished them, I tried to meet up with some of my friends, but see i am sitting here in chennai, writing this...

i think i just ran over selvi with certain comments of mine, and that sure would have hurt. if i had, i wish to say sorry.... but i would never have the courage to say that... or if i say so, there won't be any fans for my fun... It is just for fun, i never mean to hurt anyone...

well, i took some pics, some sneaky as usual.... will upload them to picassa, u all can comment on it...

and know what!, most of this blog was composed with my Rokr E6, except those that depicts today's events...., it was edited so as to appear that i typed the whole thing in a single sitting, moving text from here and there and changing the tenses, and stuff.....

I saw, major payne, Blade, and many other films, even munna bhaii.. i should never forget to mention that.. it was really hilarious though i was seeing it,....... i don't know how many times i have seen it...

they say the client place wants everyone in formals, i have been wearing from the beginning of my life, i wish to wear jeans, but one half of me says follow the rules, and the other says

"Rules are made to be Broken"

and i did follow both my halfs......

i wish i could finish of the entire thing soon and run back to chennai... we'll see, how long it will take.... Got to fly back, to banaglore on monday morning again .... I don't why, but i hate that city... Bangalore S U C K S .....

the traffic nightmares, the mess they call food, (i am not talking about the food that we ate), still somewhere down the heart, i like this place, but that doesn't mean bangalore rocx, it still sucks, big time....


I don't know what, even after all these happened in my life, like how Tanaka Yukio, a.k.a Koyuku, the main protagonist of BECK (Mongolian Chop Squad) would say,

"It was a normal life, a very normal boring life"

I wish the second line too comes true in my life...

"Until the day, i met him"

where are you Ryuske?........................................

Picking up my dad...

 

Today i was woken up early in the morning, by my dad's call.  He called me up to ask me to come to station to pick him up.  It was as early as 6(see it is early morning these days) in the morning. i got up and left half heartedly leaving the sleep.  But i did reach the spot earlier, much earlier, i shot a couple of pics.  But as i was waiting there i was taken back in memory of the school days when i used to get up early go to tuition, going to cricket camp, or just that ncc practise, or whatever it was,  it was fun, i am missing all of em these days, waking up daily around 6:30, getting ready running to office.  It is not that fun though.  the sky was beautiful, the trees swaying to the gentle breeze, the hazzy sunlight, half dark, half light, the coffee, everything that time was beautiful..  i seem to be missing everything these days.  But still why i'm not ready to getting up early.  why all these beautiful sights are not thrilling me to get up.  or is there something  else overwhelming that this  which is preventing me from waking up...?

Motorokr E6, Nikil Chinnappa....

Hey yo, i got a new Motorokr E6 mobile.  this thing is cool.  well more on that later after some days of using that.  ok.

 

Well today i read some column on lifestyles on msn by that my favourite MTV VJ Nikil Chinnappa, man wat was it, he was saying some thing about how women and men behave abotut a fight between his friend and her boyfriend.  and everything started because of some 30 seconds advertisement in the idiot box,  as he puts it in the end

"A commercial. That's where this came from. 30 seconds of advertising drivel on the idiot tube. 30 minutes of mental agony for my friend and me.

Women (and God) really do work in wondrous ways."

it was really hilarious.

wanna have a full look at it then check it out @ here