My pensieve

Got up at 12. Went to jupes. Then went to Dept. to meet GS to discuss about our project. After waiting for about half an hour along with Tanmay, Rasheed and Anup, i just remembered that GS might be out of station. So then i asked PKG sir who was available in dept about GS. He informed us that GS was out of station and he would be coming on 8th. We had mixed reactions for this news. On one hand we had got extra time for us do to something on the project, so that when we met him we had something solid to show but also on the other hand, this meant that we would have to stay in Durgapur atleast till 8th. However after that i came back to my room. Talked to Manish and then went to GM along with him and Gautam. Then started cleaning room which had become a complete mess. Spent around 2 hours for cleaning. had dinner. went to techno and then to LH more. Over all didnt do anything worthy.

Well the wait is finally over and the results of the survey on Linux usage by girls in Ladies Hostels is out. The survey has shown that GLUG-Durgapur has tremendous growth oppurtunity among the girl students. Out of the total 228 girls who participated in the survey, 51 use different distributions of Linux regularly either in their own personal computer or in departments as a part of sessionals. 124 girls want to use install and use linux regularly but they havent still because of lack of basic linux knowledge. Out of the 124, only 19 are from software branches(Computer Science, Information Technology and Master of Computer Applications). This shows that huge number of students of non-software branches are not only becoming aware of presence of Linux but also want to enjoy it. Also according to the survey, ____ out of ____first years want to use linux and nearly 80% of first year girls are registered members of GLUG-Durgapur. Also there are 11 students who are really “linux users” but are not registered member of GLUG-Durgapur.

In case of distribution, Opensuse is the leading Linux distribution among girls. Out of 35 girls who have installed and use linux in their personal computers, 16 use Opensuse, 7 use RedHat Enterprise Limited, 5 use Fedora, 4 use Ubuntu and 3 others forgot to mention the distribution they use, hopefully they dont forget to use linux. Some of the interesting points I found is, one girl uses Opensuse 11.2 version(11.1 is yet to be released), and also some girls use linux distribution called Windows.

Some of the common problems faced by girls while using linux are:-

• Audio and video problem.
• Frequent crash of computer.
• Problems with downloading and installing softwares, like VLC.
• Internet problem.
• Less User friendly.
• Dependencies problems while installing softwares.
• Voice chat softwares like Gtalk not available.

I saw the movie about 1-2 months after its release. I was waiting for its DvdRip. I think it is better if i leave the review of the movie to professionals as i wont be able to do justice. I would just say that it is very good as it not only contains every aspect of a movie but all excels in it. Story, sound, dailogues, acting. Everything to perfect. No doubt it is in top 5 in IMDB.

I would like to discuss the role of Joker here. Joker is shown in the movie as a villian who does not do bad stuff for a reason. He does it only because he enjoys it. He doesnt want to earn money or gain power. He just wants to create a chaos. I think he is a saddist and he thinks that every human being in the city just lives for himself without caring about others and they are ready to kill each other to save their own ass. He conducts a what he calls as a social experiment where he keeps bombs in two ferries, one containing civilians and another containing criminals from a jail. He keeps the detonator of the bomb in the ferry containing civilians in the ferry containing criminals and vice versa. Now he says that if either one of them doesnt kill other then he will blow both the ferries. Joker expects both the bombs to explode or at least one to explode and if it did it would prove his idea. However this does not happen and no one from either ferry is interested in blowing other ferry just to save themselves. Strangely i feel that the Joker had not exchanged the detonator and if anyone had tried to blow the other ferry they would end up blowing their own ferry. However i will never come to know whether what i think is right.
I think Joker is not a murderer but he is not afraid of killing anyone who comes in his path. the only problem was that he had chosen a wrong path. This made me think what if Joker hadnt chosen the wrong path. What if he was a person who was ready to kill anyone who comes in his path and his path was to keep the city and world safe and make it a happy place to live. He was perfect for it. He didnt have any dependent and he didnt have any motive other than just creating chaos. So if he had chosen a correct motive, then he would have been a perfect hero.

There is another aspect of the movie which i should mention. The DA of Gotham who also is the present boy friend of Rachel, who is the ex-girl friend of Batman. Batman wanted him to make the new hero of the city who was more real and had deserved to be called hero as he just did his job perfectly and wasnt afraid of its consequences. However there was one problem. He was and had a dependent, Rachel. And this dependency was his weak point which the joker exploited.

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well i am a great believer in destiny and i think today was a very good example of it. Somehow i slept yesterday at 10 and woke up at 9(am and not pm). then i found santya’s compu unattended and so i sat there and logged in gmail. as soon as i logged in, Shainky pinged me and we chatted for some time. she told me that she was planning to go to Langar held at gurudwara as it was Gurunanak Jayanthi and she invited me to come along with her group. I wasnt very interested at first, but later when she told that Sultan and Singla would go, i also thought of going. Then i invited Dabba to come along with us and so he also joined us, ofcourse with his better half,Dhakan.

We reached gurudwara and bowed in front of GuruGrantSahib, the holy book of Sikhs. Then we sat little while to listen to the songs that were being sung by the group at the dias. It was nice soothing music. After listening to it for 10 mins, we got up to join the queue for the people who were waiting for the langar lunch. Our plan was to become volenteers first, and after some time to have our lunch. However it wasnt as easy as we had planned. Very obviously there were many volenteers there and so we were asked to wait. The wait as always was very long and what made it longer was that the wait for really around 45 mins long. And after we crossed the first gate, we not only had to wait longer but we started suffocating also. However it was totally worth it.

Firstly, I got to see Baccha in suit and she really looked beautiful. Secondly, I got to do what i always like, volenteer. Thirdly, it reminded me my days in mangalore car festival where i used to volenteer to distribute food items. ofcourse there i used to distribute the one which is most easy, the laddo, u just give one to each and people are ready with their hands cupped to catch it. But with curry items, it is difficult as u have to serv the right amount and also keep asking if they require more of it. However today i selected the difficult part as there was no easy way out. So i started distributing daal. I distributed for around 15 mins and then sat for lunch myself.

Lunch consisted of roti, daal, aalo ki sabji, rice and prasad. It was very tasty and since we were very hungry, the food became more tastier. After lunch, i again started distributing for some time and then we came back to hostel.

If i had not slept early last night, i wouldnt get the chance to visit langar at all.

i was thinking about should i also maintain a secret blog unknown to anyone other than me. but i didnt find any reason to do so. infact i found why it will be a mistake for me to do so. as far as i know myself, i keep very little secret inside my stomach and most of “should be kept” secrets are known to one or other friends of mine. so it is deffinetly not a reason for me to maintain such a blog. another reason why someone can maintain a blog is to write down some of the most bad things he has imagined or would like to do but isnt allowed to do in normal life. but then, i think, if those are bad things why should anyone think about it, more-over spend time thinking and writing about it in a blog. while thinking this is when i realized that the most horrible things done or imagined by one which he would like to keep it as a secret are the ones he committed when he was alone.

this reminded me of the shloka in sanskrit–” the crime committed when one is alone, is the one which haunts the person most”.

that is one plus point i feel christianity has. their tradition of confession in church is very good to get free from such horrible experiences.

i feel like i am writing this from heaven. this might just be silly but i thought that i should mention it here. i luckily got a chance of laying my hands on dabba’s philips headphone and i wanted to listen to kailash kher’s saiyyan and tu meri jaan hai. Coincidentally the volume was maximum. the first line i heard made me reach heaven, that i swhen i thought i should enter this in my blog.

It seems that I might be the last person in our group who has not tasted alcohol yet. Well I dont say it as an achievement as I have not gained anything from this, other than a little self esteem that I still have some part of my brain under my control. However the war so far against so called bad habits (i no longer think controlled drinking and smoking is a bad habit but anything in excess is bad and i think smoking and drinking habits are more prone to reach that level) hasnt always been one-sided and there have been times where in the barrier was almost broken, but luckily that time has not yet come.

courtesy ::: math point

Think of any 4 non-zero digits, where not all four digits are the same. Arrange the digits in descending order and ascending order and compute the difference. For instance, if the digits are 3,3,2 and 1,

3321-1233=2088

Repeat the above step by rearranging the result into ascending and descending order and compute the difference.

8820-0288=8532

Reiterating,

8532-2358=6174,

Strangely,

7641-1467=6174

The process terminates when the number reaches 6174. We can use another example,

9750-0579=9171
9711-1179=8532
8532-2358=6174

and Viola! We get the same result again! Can you figure out why this happens?

last time i wrote in this blog, i was feeling very sad and disappointed with life. this time the situation has not improved any better. but i know the reason why i am feeling so. i havent been doing any good with my studies and that is why being treated as a waste body by everyone. however as always i am waiting for my time and i know it is going to come soon. just need to be very careful so that i dont do anything very foolish so that i loose any good friends. just want to complete my final year as soon as possible with some passing marks. have got bored of this daily life of leaving without any purpose. present plan is to start studying for CAT but again finding very little interest to do so. however the good thing that has happened between the last time i wrote in this blog and now is, i have gained good information about share market and trading. will try to collect more and more info about it.