My 20th bday

Well my bday didnt start very well as I had badly injured my foot during the evening and then when my dear friends showered their love in form of GPLs, it was just like a applying salt on a burn. However when i saw the 2 cakes kept beside eachother, I really felt very good for a moment. I remembered the days of my school where the bday boys and girls would stand together on one part f the stage and others would sing the bday song for them. I was sharing my bday party with someone after many years and I felt really special. Well that was just the start of my wonderful bday. After the party, I watched the movie 1971, a movie about the Indian prisoners of war of the 1971 war and how they are tortured in pakistani prisons.
Then in the morning, VT asked me if i was interested in going to 89 cinemas to watch "Rock On". Even though it is a wonderful movie, I wasnt interested in watching it again(I had already watched it 2 days ago). So I again went back to sleep. And around 12:30 i got Dabba askes me to come to CC from where he had decided to go to Panagarh dhaba which around 30 mins form there. Since I wasnt interested in having lunch in mess or in jupes or in techno as that would mean more GPLs, I immediately agreed. Then I alongwith Manish and Topo joined Dabba, Gautam and VT in CC. Then we climbed on the top of the bus, not caring about the sun who was showing his full power. After we reached the dhaba, the first impression of everyone except me wasnt very good. Since i was the only one who had been there earlier, I tried to encourage them by saying that the food which to other's disappointment was only vegetarian, was very good and it was worth the trouble we had taken. When the waiter told us about the menu, I was surprised. The dhaba offered only 4 type of sabjis and no paneer items. Well we took it as our fate and ordered the sabjis. Again to our disaapointment, the food quality wasnt very good. However we ate our stomach full and ordered lassis, which wasnt again not very good and lacked the thickness that the dhabas are famous for. Then after paying the bills, we waited for the bus. This time, Dabba asked everyone to enter inside the bus but when we were climbing the bus, the bus-driver who was in a hurry started the bus and VT and Gautam couldnt board the bus. We got down at CC and then decied to have fruit juices till VT and Gautam come by the next bus. After we had our juices, we called them and they told us that they were coming back on a truck and they would directly go to college. So we decied to go back to college and suddenly we noticed that a group of around 100 girls were coming towards us. Well for a moment everyone was shocked. Then we decided to have a good look at all the girls and so we stood on a side as all the girls passed by. They were being lead by a Professor and mostly they were first year girls of some college who had come for shopping with their prof to avoid ragging. However, as most of us are frustated enough,, we decided to follow them and we entered Big B. But as soon as they entered Big B, they spreaded and we werent able to talk to any one of them. So disappointed we decided to go back to college. However our adventure wasnt over. On the way, some drunk guy started following us. He asked Manish if he had worked in any movie recently and he looked like some Kapoor whose movie was recently released. Apparently he was talking about Ranbir Kapoor. However, we asked him to go back to his house and asked him to stop following us. However he was very reluctent and we were about to thrash him badly, but he stopped and went back.
I was very tired after this trip to dhaba and was very reluctent to meet Baccha. But since I also had to go to temple and I wanted to spent sometime with her during my Bday, I went to meet her at 7 at LH more. We went to Kali Bari(Benachity) in a cycle rickshaw. She was reluctent to enter the temple but again i had to force her to enter the temple. While i was praying near the shrine, she was standing near the enterance like a student who is made to stand in the staff-room as a punishment(I have experienced it ). Then we caught a bus and went to her favourite eating place in CC, Wonder-Vatika. All the time we were there, i was wondering why she liked this vatika so much. However from there we went to CCD and after requesting to have something, she gave her order. Just when we got what we had ordered, I got a call from Santya asking me to bring bday cake for Pa2, as we had to celebrate his bday in the night. After buying the cake, I left her at her hostel and returned back to my room. And i thought it was the end of all the importent events of my bday. But it wasnt. At around 11:45, I just thought of checking my mails and in my inbox I saw that, the patch which i had submitted for a bug in evolution around 2 weeks ago had been accepted and it was added in a revision to the trunk version of evolution. Also my name was mentioned in the Change Log file. What a perfect ending of an wonderful bday.

Happy Days-- did not make me very happy

When I downloaded the movie from dc++, as I had heard very good comments from non-gulty friends. That was the main reason why i thought of watching it. I had great expectations from the movie but unfortunately, it was not upto my expectations.
The story is about 8 students,4 boys and 4 girls who have just joined an engineering college. They become friends because of the ragging process that they face and in very little time they become very close friends. Till now, it was fine. But then the ragging gets intensified and surprisingly, one of them slaps a senior. That was the first incident which took the film away from reality. And the reason was because even the senior was behind the girl and he was using seniority funda and forcing her to come with him for a movie. And amazingly, to settle this matter between juniors and seniors, someone i dont know whom, comes in between and arranges a meeting and in that meeting they decide to settle this matter in a way simple manner, a cricket match. Well i suppose everyone had just watched Lagaan and when Britishers can agree to decide matters by the result of a cricket match, then why shouldnt the college students follow the same. After all, for every system in India, we follow the British style. Well my disappointment doesnt end here.
During the cricket match, in which the seniors have State level players(as in all movies), there is a fat boy in the senior team and to lure him, what the juniors do is throw a boiled egg on the ground in which they mix some drugs (I dont know which one, but i surely would buy loads of those drugs!!). And the fat boy picks it up from the ground during the match and eats it(what happened to hygiene!). The effect of the drug is that instead of fielding the ball, he kicks it outside the boundary line(Sorry, i forgot to say, The fat boy is fielding at boundary!!Imagine Inzamam ul haq fielding at boundary, India would have won so many matches). And after all this, junior team wins the match and guess what it is the end of their ragging period. You see, we werent so lucky. Even our year guys had won the college cricket tournament in first year but till then our ragging period was already over :(.
After all this bullshit which made me loose all the interest I had on the movie, the story goes on like any other movie involving friends. there is some difference among friends and then they fight amongt eachother. In between there is also fight in between all the couples and blah blah blah.
The only good thing that i found was the way they show how all these friends in their final year, concentrate on their futures and the way they show how all of them are sad for leaving the college. Well i might have liked it because even now i am in my final year of engineering. However i always try to find some good point in any thing, and this is what i found in this movie.
Also please remember that i have not discussed about the boy is in love with a senior right from the first day of the college and how one of them proposes a college teacher who reacts by showing him a box which contains all the love letters she recieved from her students(hehehehehe) and also the way the placements are held in their college.

In short, I would say even though the frist 15 mins and the last half an hour was good enough and the theme was wonderful and different, the writer sadly fucked the story in middle.

I would give it a rating of 5/10. But again the theme was good but it was badly put into a story.

understanding gtk

well i started reading about Gtk when i started fixing usability bugs in evolution and the main thing i found about Gtk was that it has many many functions.

poem

I feared being alone
until I learned to like
myself.

I feared failure
until I realized that I only
fail when I don't try.

I feared success
until I realized
that I had to try
in order to be happy
with myself.

I feared people's opinions
until I learned that
people would have opinions
about me anyway.

I feared rejection
until I learned to
have faith in myself.

I feared pain
until I learned that
it's necessary
for growth.

I feared the truth
until I saw the
ugliness in lies.

I feared life
until I experienced
its beauty.

I feared death
until I realized that it's
not an end, but a beginning.

I feared my destiny,
until I realized that
I had the power to change
my life.

I feared hate
until I saw that it
was nothing more than
ignorance.

I feared love
until it touched my heart,
making the darkness fade
into endless sunny days.

I feared ridicule
until I learned how
to laugh at myself.

I feared growing old
until I realized that
I gained wisdom every day.

I feared the future
until I realized that
life just kept getting
better.

I feared the past
until I realized that
it could no longer hurt me.

I feared the dark
until I saw the beauty
of the starlight.

I feared the light
until I learned that the
truth would give me
strength.

I feared change,
until I saw that
even the most beautiful butterfly
had to undergo a metamorphosis
before it could fly.

The English Language...... Do you find it perplexing?

• The bandage was wound around the wound.
• The farm was used to produce.
• The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
• We must polish the polish furniture.
• He could lead if he would get the lead out.
• The soldier decided to dessert his dessert in the desert.
• Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
• When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
• I did not object to the object.
• The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
• They were too close the door to close it.
• The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
• I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
  

what i counldnt do in around 15 days, was done in one hour

today atlast i have fixed the bug in Evolution . I had tried fixing this bug in my holidays for around 15 days. But due to some or other reason evolution used to crash with whatever code i had written. At the beginning, I was trying to destroy the categories-dailog and restart it. But later, after jjonny's advice, I tried to reorder the list instead of restarting the dailog. But still I was not able to write any correct code. However, today I dont know how I did it.

I slept at around 2 am(strange considering that i had spent night-outs for last 8 days). I was feeling so sleepy that i thought it was best to sleep. But I woke up at 4:45 am. Since I had nothing to do for entertainment(due to some missing dependencies, I have not been able to install any video player in Opensuse 11), I thought I should try to fix the bug. So I again started to write fresh code to fix the bug, as I had re-installed Opensuse and due to my foolishness, I had lost all my previous codes. After about half an hour, I had completed writing about 15 lines of code which was very similar to codes that i had tried earlier. And when i re-builded Evolution, strangely the bug was fixed.

Ofcourse, now i have to see whether my patch will be accepted. If it is accepted, then it will be my first bug that i have fixed successfully. let us see.

philosophy

today Debayan made an excellent comparison of soul and body with software and hardware. it made so much sense. if hardware stops working, software disappears. but without software, hardware does not have any purpose. it is just some matter. but with software, it gains a purpose and becomes a machine. similarly, body without soul(after death) is just some matter without any purpose. but when body is alive, it runs due to some software which we call as soul. ofcourse, the software associated with the body is highly architecture specific and its future highly depends on the environment in which the hardware is present. also, the software continuosly changes the hardware. now getting more deeper, let us think about the main memory and secondary memory. I think the role of main memory and secondary memory is played by heart and brain, not necessarily in same order. ofcourse, what is what changes from person to person. people keeping everything in their heart and listening to brain, use brain as main memory and heart as secondary memory. but people using their brain to store memories and who listen to their heart, use heart as main memory and brain as secondary memory.
another importent observation is that there is no restart option. you can just put it to stand by for sometime by sleeping or you can shutdown only once.