Rules!!!

I broke one of my sacred rules yesterday!.

i sent a link of a post to some people.

i never wanted to advertise. But... I had to, i think, that was the only way out....

Gold Star!

Unconference:
An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. (Wikipedia)

It was not fair!, I attended the whole session today just to win the gold star. But, all i could manage was, my second consecutive silver star. Mani, did not make a note of the questions asked today, unlike previous sessions. But i cannot put the entire blame on him. even i did not remember what questions i asked... That was not right from my part also.

so well, better luck next time. I will win my gold star next time.

I have taken leave from tomorrow. so i can study for jlpt. Hope i pass this next time.

Rain

It's been a long time since it rained cats and dogs like this. Since, Thalakona today's was the best rain which i saw in the recent times. But, that was a different experience altogether.

I couldn't get enough of the rain since i was carrying my laptop from office today. this darn thing would have become waste if it gets in the rain. Just now, i went out stood in the rain, it was dark out there. chill and the rain was cool.

WOW!!!, how much i miss those days, when i and satish would walk home from school to home in the evenings in the rain, How we rode thru the entire city during the flood causing rains of 2005 in his bike. from beach to Tambaram and then back home, all thru the small streets, coz the GST was too heavy with traffic coz of rain that day. The day when i made whole of rohit's house wet with rain water. THe hot pakoda's which we ate in the center bus stand in madipakkam, The cricket matches which we played. The infamous jump from the first floor, The whole way down it was fun. i would break everyother bone in my body, just to have all these fun again. Kidding, but it would be nice to enjoy all these again.

Today's was a start. maybe the days are coming, and i will enjoy the rain even more again. But!, who will get me those Pakodas? who can bring satish back here!

Surprise Call, Maggi & El Dorado

The day started with a surprise today. Akka foned me. she called me up to day morning. She was not feeling well for the past few days, and i was tryin to reach her since a few days after i came here. But couldn't get thru to her. Yeah! she is ok now. i don't know, but after talking to her, i will have to believe, what she says.

And later my parents left me reluctanly to a function. well and good. and i was having fun watching movies all day. Later i cooked Maggi, and saw Eldorado again. I have seen it innumerable times already, but still every time you see, the movie is still watchable. It is magic. Elton John's voice, miguel and tulio's adventures, Altivo's expressions, you can even watch it n number of times and still sit to watch one more time.

It was great today. I was so relieved after i talked to akka, and knew abt her health. Nothing can beat those 12 minutes today..........

Aegan = Main Hoon Na!

To Miss Nayanthara,

You ain't no sushmita, to do justice to that role.

Jewellery

This Saturday dad & mom took me to a jewel shop and started to look for a ring for me. i just could not bring myself to that idea. I have seen many wear these things, i have even seen some who were wearing a shop worth of things on them. Yet i could not stand the idea of wearing any jewels on me. In the shop too there were many who were looking for a ring which suits them, i just couldn't understand. It was something unusual for me. atlast i had to scumb to the pressure of my parents, and i had to go thru the ordeal of wearing a ring. and i am now wearing it.....

Another year passes : One more little step.

yet another un event full year passes. Nothing great happened, I got few new pen friends though, of which few stayed, and few left. I failed the JLPT test which i took last december. It did not even rain yesterday!!

and here i am taking another big step towards death,

So will atleast something happen this year? Will atleast something interesting, adventurous happen this year?

Dinner at Residency!

It was really a long time, since i had met up with anyone who went to collage with me. Though i have been in constant touch with some of them, this was the first time i met up with some one. I met Viji and Kavitha (Coach) yesterday, we had planned our dinner at Residency!, we did catch up with so many things which had been left to talk. all the incidents of the past 2 years, and everything. We decided to meet up more frequently here after, and to get some one else for the next time when we would be meeting.

I would remember this evening for a long time.

Deepavali?! or just yet another holiday!!

It was tat time of the year yesterday. The time of joy. The festival of lights, the festival to celebrate the victory of good over evil. As a kid this was the day other than my birthday i would eagerly wait for (though both would come in so close that i would not be able to enjoy both fully).... I would run around the house, visit the relatives, burst crackers. wait the whole night to be the first to burst crackers in my street. Sneaking around to steal the confectionaries and sweets. The thrill of lighting the 100 walas and 1000 walas, the joy of wearing the new clothes, to check out the next door kids what he is wearing and try to better than him. That was the deepavali which we used to enjoy.

But, I haven't bought crackers for the last 3 years(though for logical reason in 2006, what abt the last 2 years), we did not make any sweets for the last 2 years and i slept the whole day yesterday, did not visit any of the relatives or friends, leave visiting, i did not even call any one to wish happy deepavali. Man, what has become of us, why are we moving away from this fesivities. why?!!!!


Deepavali has become something like just another national holiday. I can't understand. During the rest of the year, when someone asks why you work like this day and night (that is a saying, we don't even work half the time, they are pointing.), and we say, that to be happy and be together friends and family for the festive season and yet here i am, sleeping away most of the time, coughing and covering me under sweater feeling unwell. Why can't we enjoy this day like those days of yester years. why?!!!!!!

Installing JDK 1.5.0_15 on Damn Small Linux - Not

This actually is a no brainer, any one can do it, but still i thought i would right it down, may be a reference for me, to remember what i did. It was pretty much same as how you do it in rest of the linux distros, no exceptions.

First i went to sun's website and downloaded the .bin installation file. (not the rpm one). since i wanted to install in a place from where i can access it for all users. i became root. then i copied the .bin file to /usr/local, then enabled executable permissions to it and then executed the file. that is it. it got installed into /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_15.. I will list the exact steps which i had done.

$su
$cp /home/dsl/jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin /usr/local/
$cd /usr/local
$chmod a+x jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin
$./jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin

after this, i logged in to another terminal and edited the .bashrc file to set the java_home and path variables, so as to access the commands directly in command prompt.

in terminal enter
$cd
$vi .bashrc
(or)
$vi .bash_profile

then at the end of the file add the following lines.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_15
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/lib

save the file and exit, and do a machine restart(it should work if you open another terminal and check, but all failed and only a reboot worked in my case).....