Friday, August 28, 2009

Random Rantings of a Relentless mind

Where do we begin? A year ago, these cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened?
Wait doesn’t the sound too familiar to “The Dark Knight”. Of course it does ,cause I was quoting it.

Well quotes aside, what I wanted to talk about are the Clichéd behavior of common folk. People nowadays have become way too predictable. It kinda sucks to know a person’s next move, like if you want to shoot a picture of your friend. He is bound to throw in gang signs. This was supposed termed as super cool 15 years ago. Girls or guys would be like “Omg look at his hand signs, it must mean he is a super cool dude”. If only one could interpret gang signs now.


1)Throw in a “V”, you are mostly a virgin and never got a chance to speak to any girl, except on Instant messenger. Speaking of instant messengers I assure you that there are only 10% women on there. All the cool, hot, sexy chicks you boast off about are just men living their feminine fantasies.(On the other hand chuchill looks super cool with it)

2)The Shocker: Throw in this one, it shows that you have no idea about anything whatsoever. You got to use this with extreme caution.

3)The Horns: People wearing (not limited to ) Jonas brothers/linkin park/savage garden/Britney t-shirts listening not limited to Jonas brothers/linkin park/savage garden/Britney spears throw in this Sacred symbol. A true headbanger can be identified only by another headbanger

4)Then of course there is the Morose-faced-thumbs up as though the photographer is holding a gun and a camera against you, and Is deciding what to shoot.

Then there are the types of poses.

A group of people standing in a circle with their heads touching and looking down at the photo, or a bunch of people jumping in mid air to have a frozen moment. There is also the super gay pose, all guys hugging (not complaining if girls hug each other ;)). And there are some guys who just can’t smile for nuts , Like me.

These are some of the clichés I have been noticing lately.
Other than these you see people who complain a lot about other people posing for pictures *wink wink

Friday, October 31, 2008

Why am i here -Part II

Phew! been a while since i updated this blog. Almost a year, So here i am Still in Dallas ,Its 10:21 PM . Halloween night , just staying home sipping my wine.

Previously in my blog , i was ranting about why i am here in US.
So i got a job in India , and towards the end of my last semester there was an on campus job- training kinda thingy . I was hoping it would be good. They promised to "teach" any "engineer" some basic skills in computers , and by basic skills i mean C, C++ , Pointers in C , DBMS, Algorithms , Networks. They were very ambitious . said that they would teach all the above in 2 days (way to go guys...good luck) .
They started the day pretty early. There were many guys who were gonna talk that day . There was an old Telugu dude and a quite young Telugu dude who used to squeak a lot. The old dude seemed like the alpha male that day, He started with how to dress up in a professional way , he said that he doesn't like people to wear jeans and they are worn only in discos ( ya they were worn in discos when his grandfather was as a teen.) If he found anyone wearing jeans he would give them a black mark. He also said that if he finds anyone using their phone he ll throw them out. As soon as he finished the above statement , he picked up his phone and called some female in Hyderabad and started talking ."ahhhh evvery thingah is fine here . i have the session startedaa.. i willa call u later " ( rough translation from Telugu to English).
He then asked everyone to call out numbers from 1-5 in order. and asked everyone of the same number to group onto a place. So there were 5 groups of people. Then he said that he wanted boys to alternate between girls. to my luck all the good looking girls got onto group 1,2 and 3 and all the SO called "girls" were in 4,5 . Luck plays a cruel joke on me always. And again i got placed beside another irritating "girl", i somehow never run out of irritating non males. I didn't want to talk to her but she started talking some shit which i dont and choose not to remember.
So the squeaky guy started with his talk . God !! his voice was annoying, it was like puberty forgot him. He started talking some lame computer stuff which obviously was written by his relative. Sheesh , he was so textual. I was yawning away to glory and counting how many holes there were on the roof. He used to ask "now what do you mean by a pointer? " when the audience answered , he used to say " no no no no ..don't answer , i will ask the question myself and answer it" .I counted how many times he said that ,eventually i got bored of that too . The old dude was seated in the back and used to intervene once in a while .
After a while of talking some computer BS.He started talking about software licensing. He squeaked " Now , i have a software which is a shareware (boy ..this guy buys a lot of PC quest mags with free cd's), if the software license expires , What do i do ?", a lot of people lifted thier hands , A fella at the back answered "change the date ". Squeaky laughed saying that worked a few years ago , and that software was evolving and this method wouldnt work now a days.
At this time there was some dude in the audience who was kinda shy and hesitant about giving answers. So squeaky pointed him and said that he shouldnt be shy and go ahead and answer without hesitating , doesnt matter even if the answer is wrong.
And he asked again " what do i do if the date changing doesnt work? " another guy said " go into the registry and change the keys ".He now laughed again and said that Registry is like "Chakravyuha" very easy to enter and very difficult to exit. Till date i dont know for what Reason he said that. From the day i learnt how to use windows 95 , i had no problems with registry. How is it difficult to exit registy , dont you see the 'X' ?? Are you retarded, do you need 'x' on the left of the window ? or do you want a huge button hovering over saying "click to close registry". Why do such losers give seminars on how to use a computer? The fate of IT is in the hands of a retard who cant close "registy editors".
So he asked again " what if the registry thingy doesnt work? " somebody shouted "download the crack", needless to say everyone does that. I havent met a single guy who has paid for software such as winzip, ( i still remember the key byheart , was registered to "LTC" the key was "D27300DA" ) winrar and so on. The old geezer at the back got furious and started shouting " i ll fire you immediately this is very unethical " . For all you know he would be running windows which was installed by his "computer engineer " and would also have Ms office. Talk about piracy.
Sqeaky continued saying "cracks contain virusses and are also unethical, any other solutions?"
The dude who was hesitating a lot said " change the motherboard" .
This guy has to be a serious dunder head. Insteading of Disagreeing with this dunder muffin , Squeaky said "so everytime i want to install a new shareware , i should change my motherboard?"
wow what a serious bunch of retards.
Then the old man went on saying that tomorrow it was compulsory to attend the seminar and no one should call up giving reasons. If some one missed they would get a black mark.

He wanted us to dress up in a unique way and the girls in another way. This was totally a waste of time.
I went home , dug up my gre books , studied ,passed GRE , Got visa and am here now ..
Thank god i didnt join that company. :)