My Dream World

Starting a brand new season

2006-07-29T17:28:00.000+05:30

I am ending the long fruitful or rather not so fruitful season with Blogger..

coz it has invited not many visitors as I had expected..

and I am disappointed with this system for

not providing many utilities which are must

for a serious minded blogger.

So moving on with my own personal blog and knowlegde management zone

at a new scale and level ..

http://nitinpai.wordpress.com/ ..

Wish to see your footprints out there... so long !!!

Diving deep in SOA

2006-07-23T17:04:00.000+05:30

I am working currently on the service oriented architecture implementation in JAVA with the newly launched web service pack JWSDP 2.0 by Sun Microsystems which include working on the different api's like JAXP, JAXM, JAXR, JAX-RPC, JAXB and finally the leader of all JAX-WS. Its a sophisticated pack complete with the set of tools to assist in any kind of requirements for handling a web service for any organisation. The research work on this field has been delegated amongst me and my team mates and I in particular am currently dealing with the implementation issues for JAXB which is a supreme framework for generation of classe from XML schemas and XML parsing alongwith XSD or DTD validations. It moves over the concept of XML parsing as has been maintained all this long by legacy parsers like SAX and DOM altogeher to new heights. The mainf feature I am completely impressed is the XML bindings given through the means of XSD for implementing customizations in the generated classes. The main analogy of using JAXB is to enable the applications which hold XML databases to the Object Oriented Principles and gain the power of programatically feeding and storing information retaining the security of the schema through objects which are automatically generated by JAXB.

Saints from Hell

2006-07-11T23:01:00.000+05:30

I am writing this post for the first time from my company. And I am not here due to some deadlines or pleasure to work in late hours. Its because of the blood hounds who tamper and play with people's life by putting the innocent souls to rest by means of keeping bombs in the same comparments which were meant for them to reach their destination with a dream in their eyes of fullfilling the wishes of their families after returning from their work. The rascals causing such obstruction will never give up their pathetic ventures in making a life out of others. I just made sure that my freinds and family members are safe and sound and am feeling relaxed. But as I step into the shoes of those who are struck with tragedies, life seems bitter than watching death come nearby. I fail to understand the underlying cause of such barbarism, the misery of blood for blood, the never subsiding nature of human needs all to add in to the upbringing pathos. God! please take my life away or stop making me watch people do such henious crimes. It isnt pretty in any sense!!

Lost in Translation

2006-06-26T00:14:00.000+05:30

Sometimes there's a particular phase in your life which makes you think "Aw, C'mon which way am I supposed to go now? I am clueless".I think I am going through the same phase and particularly when it comes into introspection about my career. I am absolutely clueless about the path I have to choose from hereon to reach the uncanny destination which I seem to perceive every now and then. The destination to be the perfectionist and attain expertise in whatever fragment of an arena I have ever dwelt upon till now.

Its unattainable yet believing it to be happening somewhere along the span ignites the deep lying dormat excitement of doing the work in the right spirit now.Maybe or maybe not I might be able to perceive it into reality at all but for the present the goal seem to be lost amongst hefty demands of the brain which make me succumb to the mere thought of losing to the paradigms defined for a human feat.

Its possible says the heart and the adrenalin gushes up in the blood to make every moment come alive in the upbringing of the thought process and the mind in the moment starts to reel and the soul finally get lost in translating these different predicament which I have to realize in this short span. God help me!!

Back with a Bang

2006-05-27T22:17:00.000+05:30

Finally, yes finally i am back with a bang!!!
This seems so exciting to make a comeback so loud and clear that it feels like immortality for me. Yes this is the real world for me even though virtual. I feel all the heritage of the past run through by my skin, like some one close me coming by my ear and saying "i was waiting for you all these years and now you are hear my dear".

So what does it all mean?
It only means I have regained my original form and now ready to take on some action. Being the chosen one aint that easy you see. Haha. Good joke. It feels so energetic that I cant come below of thinking like a superhero coz the powers are like ounces of blood that a shark far away from the source can smell and come in search of it, just like a nomadic seeing an oasis in a desert comes for it thinking his thrist will drift away!! With all these great powers, come great responsibilities. Who am I .... I am the chosen one... meant to take over the world in a few moments from now .. and the countdown begins here.... 10.9.8............... hahahaha

Exclusive : Coming back in form, Nitin has gone insane, maybe some evil forces have prevailed in him while he was fighting for survival. Age no bar, here he goes now again..... aar ya paar....

Coming Soon : Nitin goes in the boom zone..... watch out for his antics.

Goodbye for three months!!

2006-01-12T21:56:00.000+05:30

As I am going to start my training programme at L&T Infotech Ltd. Mahape I will have to stay in their accomodation for 3 months which happens to be the duration of the training since it would be impossible for me to travel. The training schedule is 12 hours per day and 6 days per week and it takes almost 4-5 hours to travel in a day to reach the training center from my residence. Since we don't have access to the net I wont be able to post in my blog atleast for 3 months. So long then....

Category: Personal

Host Name Resolution

2006-01-09T21:51:00.000+05:30

I wonder why havent the mobile companies come up with a scheme which I would prefer calling HNS or the "Host Name Server". I am thinking it in terms of the DNS or the "Domain Name Server" which is an integral part now in the world wide web without which it would be literally impossible for us to remember the address of a number of sites as they would have to be accessed with their IP address and not as something like "www.yahoo.com". So why not apply the same in case of mobiles?

For any person, names are the most easiest to remember than a huge list of numbers. Given a minutes and 10 mobile numbers and 10 names a person , without doubt, that person would remember atleast 5 names and not a single number. Its a universal phenomenon and I am surprised as to why the mobile manufacturing companies havent traversed this path.

With an implementation of the concept as an HNS each person round the globe would have a particular ID and no matter which mobile piece he uses his ID would safely be stored in a central server due to which the problems arising in updating the numbers of a person on event of a new card would, for the better, be avoided. Now one problem which can be faced, is the existence of a large number of brands. But according to me several phone numbers can be alloted to the persons ID as we have multiple landline numbers existing for the same address.

So for dialing a person, one has to enter only the person's ID and the HNS would have all the mobile numbers which are currently being used by the person being called. The HNS would resolve the numbers and if one mobile cannot be reached or say, is out of usage the other mobile would be tried by the HNS. In this way the person calling wont have to dial several numbers of get frustrated in event he hasnt got the changed number of the person whom he intends to call. In this way all miseries can be solved.

But I know there might be several scientists out there who must have tried to make this work but still I am amazed that it hasnt been yet implemented... or am i missing on some huge drawback on this concept!! But all will agree, this concept would definitely make life much much simpler...

Category: Technology

New Year Memories

2006-01-02T01:23:00.000+05:30

Well, it did actually turn out to be a bash when I had not expected to be one. Just a call and a couple of more secondary calls and a fast enough executed plan made it into one. We quickly formed a 9 member gang and headed for a boys nite out of the occasion of this new years eve. I never had partied untill this time and since all the guys were my long parted schoolmates I decided atleast this year the image needs some renowation. The 9 of us headed to Vasai gaon where we just had planned to have a look at the Fireworks display which is put up at midnight 12am. But first we made it to a remotely located hotel which was abuzz with the eve's happenings. People had eventually crowded up since it was a lonesome hotel with a huge customer list and less number of waiters to do the servings so much so that the owner himself was taking the orders. We managed to get everyone of us a seat on the outside since it was a house full and ordered our stuff. Much to our desparation the orders were arriving one after the another with a interval of 30 minutes between each which made our tummies go now-full-now-empty. Anyways who cared, since we were there to have fun. We started our talks with our updates of our lives, our current positions which gradually progressed to jokes, gazing hot chicks which flocked in the hotel, then banging the table, singing songs and later joining the people who were so tired of waiting for their orders that they started dancing to the songs the DJ was playing. The hotel soon got the appearance of a discotheque with all the crowd joining in the merriment. We all were immersed in dancing or sometimes giving budday bumps to each one the members one at a time that we forgot to notice that the clock had struck 12. But soon enough we were alerted by the boom boom of raging fireworks which decorated the midnight sky so lavishly that it resembled a huge lamp hovering on us. It was the start of the fireworks show!! Oh gosh! we missed it but not much.. since the rockets flying high up in the sky made a point to make everyone notice the mesmerising moment of joy. The advent of a brand new year! Hurray! we all shook each others hands and hugged by wishing a year of happiness, properity and success. Finally, after a while our order arrived and ate our stumptfull. Then after another round of freaky dances and all were exhausted but didnt want to give up. It was aleady 2:30 am Some of them stayed while the rest with me made a dash to our home to have some sleep so as to wake up early in the morning with a fullfilled heart and a happy soul and with memories that for at least some moments we were together making merry in the same way we used to in those good old school days where there was innocence, no tensions about the future and a jolly good time. This moment will be embeded in each one of us now as we move further ahead in this new year to succedd in establishing our careers and having a good life which would ensemble all the joys and sweetness that we hoped to have when we all studied together. I will definitely make it a point to do it every year from here on....

Category: Personal

Letter of hope

2005-12-29T22:56:00.000+05:30

Finally and hopefully finally I got the appointment letter for the much awaited oppurtunity for which I had kept waiting anxiously for a whooping long time of 6 months keeping my fingers crossed. So the stage has been set in Mahape and a date of 18th jan in this new year where I will enter into the world of professional. Nothing more seems exciting to me than this precious opurtunity. I would definitely strive to make out them most from it and hope to put on a rocking performance.

Category: Personal

A feeling so good

2005-12-25T01:00:00.000+05:30

It feels really good to have so many gr8 things round the corner. The auspicious season of christmas, the merriness in the hearts of the people, the end of the year. Especially I like the ending of the year and starting of a whole new, fresh one. Its like changing the phase of one's life. Putting an end to the bad things that happened and starting with new recharged optimistic energy.
Oh ya! another thing to add on all this amount of happines is the arrival of my b'day which falls on the 28th. Although all these days are not much different than the usual days but the excitement makes me more enthusiastic about what lies in store in the coming brand new year. Moreover the long long wait for the arrival of my precious appointment letter of my job at LnT which is going to end soon this week. These feelings cannot be described in words.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year !!

Category: Personal

Left with a Lesson

2005-12-17T02:48:00.000+05:30

Started my gyming routine from yesterday after a tiresome gap of about 2 weeks since 2 weeks ago while doing a new course setup I think I did something wronn while doing push-up's due to which I got tremendous pain all of a sudden in my left arm. After one set I had taken rest but foolishly again started the second set thinking that the pain was temporary. That was the point of a big mistake. The second set proved lethal and a sudden jolt of pain arised in my left arm and made it immobile. I panicked that this surely might be a fracture but was not ready to believe it since a fracture cannot result unless you have a fall. I skipped the rest of the excercises and went home to rest. Even after 2 days of total rest I was not able to move my left arm so went to the local orthpedician. I was relieved when after some observations he concluded that it was not a fracture but was a ligament tear and I adviced me to take a rest of 3 weeks or else the tear would last a lifetime. I was shocked to hear it but I decided to give my gym a break which was gruelling. I wasnt able to move my arm freely for about a week but later the pain started to diminish and now, 2 weeks later I am normal as before. Thank God!! But now I am more cautious and will always tell myself not to push hard for getting in shape quickly which earlier I used to do. The lesson I learnt from this situation is "Haste may be quick but it always comes at a price."

Category: Personal

Harry must not die

2005-12-09T20:20:00.000+05:30

Recently while reading the tabloid I came across the news that J.K.Rowling, better kwown as the "potter author" was getting immense pressure to keep continuing Harry Potter's adventures so much so that it was taking a toll on her personal life. So she has finally gone public saying that Harry is bound to die in her next n final novel or rather she is gonna kill him on purpose to put an end of the world's most popular boy hero. This news has bought about a shockwave amongst the kiddos who have turned ardent fans rather worshippers of Potter mania. I, on the other hand have never read a single story of him, nor I am a great fan of the author but have seen all the Potter movies up till now. Yet, I respect the imagination and creative nature of Ms. Rowling and the immense fame she has got with her creation. Hearing the news did somewhat made me wonder that instead of killing Harry, why not write some short stories on his heroism, thereby retaining the popularity and also not disappointing the kiddos. Its not always necessary to always keep writing huge novels about the adventures or better still even other authors can contribute their imagination if Rowling should stop with potter mania. Here's my message to her.......

Harry must not die

Hey Ms. Rowling, Harry must not die,
I am feeling it strongly but I don’t know why,
He is so popular that he just can’t leave,
Why are u so hard on the kids which is hard to believe,
Have u got fed up, are u now bored to go on?
With your own creation which u been carrying for so long,
I say please don’t drop your pen, its still has power,
When Harry can be put to good use, why make it sour?
Superman, Spiderman did teach lessons to the bad,
Sent messages of happiness relieving the sad,
Taught morals to the young ones, which was great,
Made them into nicer beings making them think straight,
Don’t kill Harry; he can do it too,
Why are u so hell bent on giving him a “boo”,
Make him teach some manners while you can,
Why simply make him run with the prisoner of Azkaban?
Goblets or Quidditch, to the society, don’t do any good,
Where as, cleanliness, honesty, politeness would.
Harry can be an idol; Harry can be a priest,
Why do you have cruel desires? Why are you acting like a beast?
Life doesn’t run on spells, or with people who have scars,
Talk through him to real people to stop making wars.
Maybe this way u will obtain your fancy golden snitch,
Killing him will just make u feel more like a witch.
Hey Ms. Rowling, Harry must not die.
Make him do good deeds, at least give it a try!!

……………..Nitin.

Category: Poetic

It happens only in India

2005-12-08T13:24:00.001+05:30

Yesterday while chatting with my friend Pascal I had a heated debate sort of conversation. I was discussing about the talents about the people here in India and those of the people staying out abroad and why Indian people were lacking the main exposure to the computers domain. This lead to the discussion on how the infrastructure was based in India and why the government was so inconsiderate of improving it or put in other words my concern was why India couldn't make computer technologies established as seen in other countries. Many interesting points came forward in the conversation. Here is the excerpt of it......

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Category: Social, Political

I have a date!!

2005-12-04T18:19:00.000+05:30

Finally I received the most awaited thing in my life. Its my joining date at Larsen n Toubro Infotech. Received it 2 days ago and I am finally am happy that atleast the job is confirmed. It was actually supposed to start on October 5th which was later postponed to 21st November and yet again postponed to 1st week of January. It was a frustrating long wait and still many days are left when I finally join it. They have given the date of 18th Jan. SO 1 month 18 days more to go. But I am all the more ecstatic since I had the fear of losing the job since there was hardly any communication from the LnT people. But the fear still lies somewhat since the I have to wait for the appointment letter which they have said will be given to us in a few days. I am keeping my fingers crossed untill then. Hope they wont disappoint me this time!!

Category : Personal

Big Deal !!

2005-12-02T02:07:00.000+05:30

So Mr. Big B fell ill. It was as if a catastrophe had occurred which seemed even bigger than the Kashmir earthquake for his fans. People all over the country gathered together for prayers, havan's which even included the kids in schools n what not. Celebs, young n old flocked at the hospital to meet Mr B as if he was on his death bed (rather for some publicity gimmick).

Its feels so embarrassing to see people acting this way. I don't understand why there has to be a fan following to such an extent that they make their idols seem more like God's. Mr. B surely has earned quite a humungous reputation but that's because he is doing good at a job which he has chosen as his profession. Every working Indian contributes to the society to shape up the country's progress n growth n whoever gives dedication to his work has the right towards gaining respect. But alas! The Indian media is filled of so much hype n hoopla that it seems that here only actors persevere more than any other person. All over the celluloid there are nothing but celebs.Acting celebs, playing celebs, hosting celebs, and the one being interviewed also celebs. The people who actually impart to India's role in the world are completely sidelined. It is but natural to the geek people here to just respect n aspire majorly becoming a star who would eventually rise to fame by doing work which imparts almost nothing to the society.

Nobody will ever care for the people who were killed, raped, murdered, kidnapped, died on the very same day Mr. B went a very minor surgery which I myself find hardly worth mentioning but will find solace in worshipping their self-proclaimed godly idols. Living in the presence of the stupidity of such ignorant people and the media capitalizing on this ignorance, sometimes I really feel ashamed my country which breeds these dumbbots. There's a strong need amongst the people to grow up and I don't see it happening very soon either which is a sad aspect.

Nitin's Joke of the day :

Why did Big B's condition worsen after being admitted to the hospital?
Bcoz the security was so tight that even doctors werent allowed to go inside.

Categories: Social

Unbounded Visions

2005-11-29T22:47:00.000+05:30

Its been a long time since I had written my last poem. Almost 4 months. So felt really like wrting something, not just anything, coz I often put my thoughts in a poetic manner whenever they seem to overflow out of my head. The greif of not getting selected in Hurix despite my best attempt made me to sit down in a glum mood and write down the following poem. Its all about what I want from life, or rather, in life.

Unbounded Visions

The only emotion I prefer is to be happy,
Away from the riches of the world to seek natural mirth,
The consequences which follow are sometimes sappy,
But what appeals to the heart always has its worth.

Amidst the sad realities, I lie unabated,
Constantly soul searching, in which I find real peace,
For others, being real, doesn’t make them feel elated,
For me, it’s like fragrance streaming through a breeze.

Remorse over facts from the past, I choose to ignore the most,
How would that help in bringing life its meaning?
I would rather prefer staking my life if not worst,
Foreseeing my future, even if, by dreaming.

Honesty, I swear, is a quality to treasure,
Not a single guilt to burden down thy conscience,
It helps to live life up to its umpteenth measure,
Making others feel the wealth of your presence.

Life may not always be a bed of roses to walk,
With thorns always pricking on your course,
I want to live like a warrior with actions doing the talk,
To secure my chosen destiny right from its source.

……………Nitin.

MMS for Dummies

2005-11-25T20:34:00.000+05:30

what's an MMS?
Dude! An MMS is the fastest n the cheesiest thing to achieve fame n glory across the globe.

How does it spread?
Enlightened by the prior explanation you charge up and dash to your nearest dealer n get a cool gizmo called digicam and you are all set for the dreams you were chasing to come true in an instant. You call up your girlfriend and tell her you are missing her a lot and what does she think of spending a night out at your place. Your girlfriend likes the idea (She was waiting for it dude!!!). You make the stage set , candlelight dinner, fragrance spray , romantic music , a classic movie DVD , neatly combed hair n stylish clothing and wait for her. She arrives perfectly at dinner time (Man! She looks gorgeous. Poor you, you have to finish the dinner before your special moment).

Okie all said n done dinner begone. Now you start your performance (Oscar nominations were just meant for you). You tell her how much you love her n caress her. She becomes vulnerable to your moves. The next thing you want is to make a movie out of this special night. She agrees (You lucky dog). So the cam is set. Your festivity begins. You start to...... (censored).

Ok its day time. Now she has left thanking you can't wait to show your best friend (me who else!) how passionate lover you are n how do chicks fall for that easily. So you bring over a copy of the recording and we both enjoy (Man you are a Spielberg!!). You leave the copy with me for promotion of your instincts. True friend as I am I upload it to the web so that your near n dear ones can be proud of your "soft" skills. (How sweet).

Oops...a pervert surfer gets your file and does editing on it and makes a movie by the name "Kya Kuch Kuch Ho raha hai?" and pastes in Bazee for auctioning. The next day bazee sales increase by whopping 50 % due to your movie. But watch out, the cyber crime cell notices that n catches Bazee chief n throws him in jail for allowing such passions to burn in his site. The news is all over in television, tabloids, magazines. You see yourself being discussed all over the globe (wasn't I right in the first instance?).

Your girlfriend is so embarrassed and angry with you that she dumps you and flies away to a tiny place in Canada where no one knows her (Why worry when you are a Casanova ?). Her parents files a case against you for kidnapping their daughter (She didn't inform her parents...too bad). The cops come n arrest you. The college authorities take quick action by debarring you from their college coz they don't want criminals graduating from their college (You were in the final year of graduation...remember?) . Your parents are ashamed of your act and publicly declare that you are not their son and don't know who are? ( Jesus...you just lost all your credit cards!! ).

Its over (No its only the beginning dude. Fame has still to come)The police agree with your parents and refuse to hear you out and now you are considered a refugee with a faked passport n nationality. You come in contact with a terrorist in the prison cell. He hears your woes and lends a helping hand (Dude ! he has gone through the same thing!!) . He offers you opportunity to run away from prison with him. You do and land up in Pakistan where the ISI is recruiting freshers (criminal degree is a must!). You take up the job and join forces to destroy your country for the damage they did to your digicam (shit!! your digicam was burnt to ashes). You put your brain power in making nuclear bombs and schedule a date to lauch them in your country. You come back to country and decide to plant the nuclear bomb in the capital on republic day...but hey the black cat commandos notice you (They had seen your movie!!) and capture you.

Dont worry, you have a cyanide bracelet which you open and eat and the next thing you land up at the gates of hell!! Where all the satans are watching your movie (dude the digicam which got burnt also reached hell...now you are happy!!). You are recognized as the most sensational star to do a movie with Mallika Sherawat(what!!! somebody has morphed your girlfriends' face)......
Fame fame n more fame....do i need to tell more how to achieve more fame or is this quite bearable.....huh?

You are a famous star, a stud, a ferocious terrorist, and satans most trusted PA...what else could you ask for more than that?

But what's an MMS??
Holy crap!! you ate you entire cream pie and now you are asking who put the algae for fermentation. Dude!! you suck (really?). An MMS just stands for More n More Scandals

A day at Hurix

2005-11-25T16:33:00.000+05:30

Yesterday and today Hurix Technologies, Andheri had held a walk-in for the post of a technical writer. I came to know this after I got the news that two of my classmates has got in yesterday. Excited, even I decided to give it a shot after inquiring about its whereabouts.

Taking a CV I caught the vasai local of 8:20 am which seemed a little less crowded which a momet of surprise for me. 2 more of my classmates joined me at the Andheri station and we together took a walk of about 20 minutes from Andheir (east) station and finally reached the venue. The company interiors were plush and attractive. But the thing that amused me the most was all the employees seemed to have a gala time working there. Some were fiddlling with paintbrush, some were grooving with mp3's and some were chit chatting. Not only this, all of them were casually dressed with jeans, tees etc. The atmosphere looked more of a call center than an IT company. I was looking forward to work in a similar atmosphere.

A lady guided to the test room for our first test which included 300 questions of plain grammatical sentences which either required to be completed with the given options or correcting them. The time given was 90 mins. All 3 of us started at 10:10 and finished at 11:40 in the meanwhile some more candidates joined us. After the test we were made to wait outside for about 30 mins for our results. I got through with 84% which I feel was damn poor. One of my collegues couldnt make it n had to leave.

The same lady then guided me to the same test room for a second test which was of 3 hours consisting of 4 sections viz. Aptitude, Jumbled paragraphs, 2 essays to be written and finally 9 comprehensions!!! It was a really boring to spend those 3 hours which I started at 12 and managed to complete all the stuff at 3 pm. I was happy since I was confident that i had done well.

The lady then asked me to wait for another 15 min after which I would receive a call for an interview If I had cleared the tests. And I did clear them. A fat lady took my interview which included of typical interview questions like strenghts, weakness, expectations, etc, etc. Though I was not exactly prepared for an interview after those exhaustive 3 hours I think I answered her decently. But much to my disappointment, at the end of the interview the lady told me that she was looking for experienced writers than freshers. I began to wonder if that was the case then how could my friends got through the other day. While I was wondering the lady told me that she would forward my resume' to other dept's which were looking for freshers and that they would likely give me a call within a day or two. I did not have the guts to question her decision and finally I remember I just said "Ok fine. Thanks". Outside two girls were overly excited, who were besides me giving the test, since they had got selected and were asked to join on coming Monday. I inquired them if they were experienced or not but was heartbroken when I found out they were freshers too. I couldn't understand the lady's decision but would have felt much more better if she had rejected me straightaway. I just congratulated the girls and left the center with a heavy heart.

Power Failure

2005-11-23T22:28:00.000+05:30

I am really pissed off by the MSEB load shedding schedules. Prior to 2005 the day when load shedding was done was on Friday's for 6hours. This year it becoming worse by their new strategy or whatever you call it in taking of 2 hours of electricity early in the morning at 5 am sharp to 7 am alongwith with our little bit of sleep. Now further down the year its becomeing a virtual hell when these bloddy people are also keeping the power switched off in the evenings and sundays for 4 hours. How much of power do they require? Is there a dearth of it? I dont think so. And if there is then y the bombay people arent made to suffer the same thing? And to talk about the lathargic amont of money we spend in bills without even having electricity for half the part of our lives. I get the feeling like we are turning back to rural lifestyles than becoming urban with the depletion of facilities that the government brags of providing. It would be far much more better to hand over the work to private parties. I woudln't mind spending a bit more to get what is required rather than spending over miseries. Will someone do something about this?

Categories: Social

Watch out, Santana!

2005-11-21T16:20:00.000+05:30

I had the interest of playing any of the musical instrument since childhood. Out of my favorites which include the acoustic guitar, synthesizer and drums the acoustic stood top of my priority always. Owing to the 6 month vacation I had received for my job to start I had done nothing besides goofing up here n there. So with a final decision for doing something creative in the 2 months left till January I went to buy an acoustic guitar at S. B. Musical Stores, Malad (West).

Some interesting theories I came across while chatting with the store owner which are worth sharing.Guitars come in major 4 categories :
Acoustic : Hip guitars for playing peppy songs. They have steel strings which basically are used for strumming.
Classical : Playing tunes like the classical English Music. They have nylon strings for playing melodious single notes.
Electric : Rock on baby!! Time for some head banging. Can be played only with an amplifier.
Bass : They havethick strings which make some deep sound particularly for producing your base music.

Hobners, Givson, Ibaneez make classical and acoustic types which start at the range of 1800 bucks for small sizes and 2500 for jumbo sizes. Granada makes to the top list for electric and bass types.

Two types amongst the acoustic guitars include :
Round holed : Requires some amount of stress for playing tunes where the sound is produced from a round hole in the center.
Side Cuts : Sound comes from side cuts without any hole in center. This sound has greater depth than the earlier one. I liked these.
Full Flat : Normal guitar types perfectly symmetrical in geometry and have only 12 frets ( notes ).
F- Cut : Asymmetrical guitars which have been provided with a cut in the right side to include up to 14 frets.

I had been advised by my Sir of whom I have joined classes for some Guitar coaching for getting Hobners. So I bought a cool looking Hobners 265 which happens to be the most popular brand amongst starters. Its an acoustic, side cut, F-cut, jumbo sized guitar with red-black gradient look which came at a price of 3,000. The other brands worth trying were Givson and Ibaneez but I decided to stick to the advice.

After my first lessons in playing only 4 chords namely A major, C minor, F and G minor the feeling that playing Guitar is simple has faded away. The proof lies in my swollen fingers right on the very first day. It really is a tough job but at the end of the daywhen you come up playing a nice melodious tune nothing seems bitter about it.Its hardly now 1 month left and lots of learning to do. I just cant wait to play my favorite "Hotel California" on this sweety.

Motherly Nightmare

2005-11-21T16:01:00.000+05:30

Phew! It had been a nightmare for the past one week for me as my PC came to a standstill way back on the 13th of November. Its 21st today and so I had to survive without my PC over 9 days. Luckily I did. Something went haywire and due to some unknown reasons my motherboard and the SMPS connector has got burnt even though my PC is connected via UPS. The HP guys whom I have purchased my system did a fast job by getting my system to work in 9 days where it should have been done within 24 hours as they constantly brag about their "within 24 hours" service. The most satisfying thing was that I had a warranty till 30th December so I managaed to save about a whopping 20,000 bucks if I had to repair it myself. Anyways my system is finally working and the feeling of being virtually dead disconnected from the rest of the worldwill soon diminish. Happy days again!!! yippee.

Role Reversal

2005-11-10T07:22:00.000+05:30

The ad's recently on the television are showcasing more n more on making men look handsome and fair. This latest fad had managed to capture the best of the celebs who endorse the product as the originale which helped them to dominate the stardom they enjoy currently. With the current debate going on the newly coined term "metrosexual male" more feminism in being introduced in a man's masculinity. I fear that despite the inablity to accept the facts of homosexuality, where this new facade is going to take the new generation to. It is also clearly visible that females are increasingly adopting man's style, be it in the hippy looks, jeans, shoes, formals, hairstyles.... in short they are capturing into a man's domain. With such ideologies implanted in the new generation, I think the world is heading for a major role reversals of the sexes and it sure gives me creeps.

After a long time

2005-11-05T17:16:00.000+05:30

Its been a long time since I last posted in my blog. Its just that I got deeply involved in other activities like reading some articles on the net and learning some new languages, softwares which didnt give me much time to post. Besides I was overly enthusiastic of getting my own domain http://www.nitinpai.net on which I was adamant to redsign my previous website to upload in it. Now its almost ready and open to critics. Its coded in PHP 4.0 which I was learning in the meanwhile and managed to make it XHTML CSS 2.0 compliant. Well the outcome seems fruitful now. Im relaxed a bit. So will resume my posting sessions in this blog shortly.

For those who missed my hearty apologies to them. :)

Power Game

2005-09-28T19:30:00.000+05:30

Well its time we had some different kind of a governing body which could work for our interests and always strive to be the best even if had the entire country scorning for its rule. I think all these marks in our lives have been made by one such authority on which we thrive for our better survival. Can’t figure it out? Simple enough, it’s the media!!

Yea the media right from its root of coming into existence it has ever grown stronger and stronger becoming out daily dose for survival. Could you ever imagine how worse would our life be without single source of media? I bet you can’t. But does that mean it has made our life better. It could a topic of debate. I am specifically talking about the news agencies when I talk on media. Lately the barriers of public and private life is becoming more thinner than earlier with the help of these power hungry media people leave alone the paparazzi. They have been interfering with the daily matters of the celebrities from ever they came into being and now they have sworn to make common people celebrities too. They have their go at anything which can make them world famous.

The lone reference can be taken from the first sting operation which came in like a storm and was blown as a whirlwind into everyone’s lives. I am talking about the Tehelka sting operation. Though it helped out to bring the black souls from the white collared leaders in front of the public, it also gave birth to the infamous "stings" which are even now biting to the one who is unaware, be it you, me or anyone.

How on earth would you know that your conversations are tapped, your adventures being filmed by a hidden camera, your privacy being sold in public without your consent? I bet you have no idea, neither me nor anybody, until we hear about our own life from others to get all the more shocked! Believe me its happening. Previously it was a thought that hackers only were the men who intruded your privacy through your computers. Okay that can be dealt via some or the other tactics but who will save from the invisible hunters of the media. You can never be sure if your life runs parallel with the life of Harry Truman being broadcasted worldwide just for entertaining other masses in the name of a "reality TV show" or being filmed by your own family members as shown in "saade saath phere" without you having the slightest of the hints for making some pocket money.

Who can forget the now famous pornographic tapes which are made for the one special moment and later get leaked out for others to enjoy as well!! Okay what’s the big deal if you are not going to make them? Somebody else will and then would fake it out for you. Thinking of such matters gives me shivers. The media has become so much injected into our lives that we neither can ignore it nor can accept it fully. But if we let this power game to carry on then in no time we definitely will reach a stage where only the fittest will survive or I should say the smartest will survive and its gonna take a toll on everyone’s life.

Yes we do require a governing body which could differ from the present corrupt officials and power hungry animals, not the one which governs us in our home but makes this world a better place to live in.

Mayhem in Mumbai

2005-09-23T18:19:00.000+05:30

Rain Rain, go away,
Dont come again in any way.

Bah! Its been a hell of a month with these torrential err.. I mean torturous rains and I guess it doesnt seem to end either. I have hated rains my entire life coz it makes me stuck up in the bounds of my house and I dont intend to get my feet dirty (alongwith my jeans too) going out wading out in the sea that lies outside ..due credit given to the BMC people for those gorgeous potholes..err..I mean..craters. My new sandals are now making that errie squish sqaush sound as if a baby wearing those squeaking baby shoes would walk around happilly...Duh!!

Didnt the rain find some other location or has some glue evaporated and gone into the clouds to make them stuck up there?? Plz cmon, time out, gimme a break, atleats give some time for my umbrella to dry up...

Rockstar: INXS - The Big Fight

2005-09-21T22:11:00.000+05:30

Recently I had a debate in IdolForums whether a female is capable of becoming a rocker or not which was raised by one of the members. The reference was to the reality show Rockstar : INXS in their campaign of choosing a lead singer for their band as the earlier singer Micheal Hutchenance had committed suicide.

The question was Did a female ever really have a chance as INXS's ?

ME:

the thing i feel is that they were not really looking for a female..particularly in my opinion it shd be a fact since i dont think female can provide as much power n edge to a rock band like INXS ...bcoz even though female can do anything a male can there are some things which happen to be male dominated and people too like it that way..otherwise marty and mig never would have topped so many times neither would have suzie toppled down to bottom 3 so often....all of them are talented but me thinks power of a male rockstar is more exuberant than a lady...as a matter of fact INXS was open to female contestants.... they didnt put suzie in bottom 3 ...people did and then it was on INXS decision to choose her or drop her..so its not INXS fault..they would obviously chose one from the 3

Member:
You know nothing about the capabilities of female singers or life in general.Female opera stars have held their own with men for centuries. Even over shadowed or dwarfed them in range and power.In regards to R&R. Aretha Franklin, Grace Slick, Heart, Janis and I dare say Deanna were very powerful. I think Suzie has some balls to her voice when she wants too.

ME:
...i didnt tell that there arent exceptions..all i wished to tell was what people in general thought about..y would u think suzie was in the bottom 3 so many times...or why only the girls have been in bottom 3 and been rejected as opposed to mig who just happened to go in the bottom only once last time....there are powerfull ladies i agree...but what would u consider about the peoples opinion??

Member:
What I consider about peoples opinions is what I have felt for a long time about the general listening public. And I beg that no one takes this as offensive, but: they are a fickle bunch of followers. Big record companies (some of which I have worked for even) force feed the listener EXACTLY what they want them to hear.So when someone as talented as some of the females on Rockstar deliver fantastic performance they are ignored. Why? Well they are not up there wearing next to nothing singing "Genie In A Bottle". They are doing rock.Add this to the fact that I would GAMBLE that the fan base is predomininantly female (who seem heavily attracted to the males in this and other competitions...proof? read this entire board).On the otherhand, I am a male, and every week I actually DID vote, and voted every time for Jordis and Suzie, bar not one week.No doubt there are other reasons to, but this is a great place to continue this discussion.

ME:
no need of proof.....its a well known fact. so u agree male rockers have greater fan base...well thats the point..INXS will capitalize on that ..so a male rocker was destined to be the front man...

Member:
I never said otherwise. I just linked to Kirk's comment, and wished that his ideal in that interview had been a reality. Like I said...it is too late now.Destined? Could be, but that has nothing to do with the power or lack of power of the female singers...it just has to do with the fickle public and the desire of the record companies associated with INXS.

ME:
this is about INXS we are talking about....not the general public..........in general everyone has a very good chance to be an allrounder but it does depend on the situation and the event where past happenings are taken into consideration when the public's opinion is taken into account.. people applauded INXS due to the male lead singer and maybe thats stuck up in their minds to have a similar persona ....having a female as lead is OK but preference definitely was for a male...i never have biased and nor did i have a chance to vote due to zonal diffrences but i was talking about how the people have reacted based on the poll results...it may have a hidden element too but thats there in every big event....if u know wat i am saying but i was not considering it ...maybe i have too now

Much ado about blogging

2005-09-01T20:19:00.000+05:30

I don’t understand why people resent getting the meaning of some terminologies and just prefer to using the rationale “Ignorance is Bliss” and put the thinking cap in the back seat of their car instead of on their dumb minds (getting pretty angry). It hurts(ouch!) to see my fellow colleagues try to act like they have seen something out of the blue even though they have spent half of their lives trampling on them (that too from the computers background, can you believe it !!!) . Believe what?? (now you are asking me? Hell). Man, I am talking about these blogs, the ones seem to rule the world today (yes indeed…I saw the newspapers taking the stuff from blogs and claiming to be their articles…Duh!!) and people are ignorant about the fact that they exist!! You don’t believe it? Go asking people this question, ”Heard of a blog ..eh?” (in a john Travolta Fashion ) and they go blitzkrieg hearing about the sound of BLOG as if they just heard a spaceship land from mars (seeing too much of sci-fi these days). “Man, what does that mean??”, they ask. Is that supposed to be rhetorical or ironical, much to my disbelief it seems that finally it turns out to be the former one, ALWAYS (Bah!). For instance, I will tell you my own incident. There is this friend of mine called “FRIEND” (name undisclosed to protect his dumb nature…heh) and there is this "ME” (me, myself who else could it be?) who wanted to see my SITES as he knew I was doing web designing these days. So I gave him 3 links:

http:///www.geocities.com/mail_at_nitin
http://nitin2005.blogspot.com/
http://bfgworld.blogspot.com/

(For those unconcerned the first link is to my personal SITE (check the highlight) while the other two are for my BLOGS (check highlight again))

Reference:
SITE: Representation for something you are or your company or your business or others’ in the form of web pages on the internet.
BLOG: Space for some ideas you put or anything anyone has to speak out on some things in life, anecdotes, ideas or trash (u may say crap), or even maybe works.

People can adjudicate physical things categorically very sleekly in a much treacherous way that I happen to wonder what losses they incur to do the same for the above terminologies. For example:
Person1: Hey man! You seem to be busy reading something ..
Person 2: Yeah man, got this today.
Person1: Which book is it.
Person2: (Eyebrow raised and nodding head as if he was sitting on the top of a throne like a king talking to his jester) … Oh man..Its not a book (Really!) ..Its a Novel (that was tough..indeed!!)
Person1: Oh,,,sarry (Pleading guilty)

Now do u see how people differentiate a NOVEL from a BOOK. That propels me in a zone where I too feel comfortable to refer to proper terminologies in the case of the internet. There are portals, blogs, sites, forums,e-shops etc and they should not be ever related by a single word viz. a SITE (rotating fist)

Okay, now said and done the reason for wasting my time writing this post:
Meeting of FRIEND with ME at college campus, the conversation about seeing my links I had given a day before started as follows:
ME: So, saw the links?
FRIEND: Yeah, pretty cool dude, never seen such awesome stuff before (Liar!!)
ME: Chee, Thanks mate, So read my blogs too?
FRIEND: Blog (Thunderbolt falling from the sky sound)…wats thhhaaaaaaat?
ME: Heh,, (Kidding me eh?) what did u see then?
FRIEND: Hey you told to see the 3 sites ..i saw,,pretty cool stuff
ME: 3 Sites (Damn!!) Hey its not 3 sites, only one site and 2 blogs
FRIEND: Whatever, pretty cool man
ME: (Whatever… Grrrr !) , wat exactly did u see? (politely)
FRIEND: all of them
ME: okay, (let me try differently) what did u like on the 2nd link
FRIEND: yeah, lot of writings on it man
ME: (Wat a joke!) Well yes, did u read any of them (posts)
FRIEND: nope
ME: (raising eyebrow) then what r u appreciating about it
FRIEND: The layout man, pretty awesome
ME: (Holy Crap!) Layyyyouttt,, all u saw in my blog was layout??
FRIEND: yea pretty cool man, how did ya do it?
ME: (Sweet Jesus!) The layout is provided already, I just post in it
FRIEND: Oh ..(some thoughts later) ..ok…keep up the good work
ME: (referring to the 3rd link) atleast did u see my 3rd link, my works
FRIEND: yea pretty awesome man
ME: Wow, thanks mate! Which one u liked the most
FRIEND: not seen entirely
ME: From those seen atleast (getting annoyed)
FRIEND: the layout man,,splenidid
ME: (Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh) leave it dude
FRIEND: well ok
ME: (lets ask about my SITE now) how is my site
FRIEND: I told ya ,, all sites were cool
ME: (All SITES???? I am gonna kill this idiot) very well then
FRIEND: yeah
ME: (just before leaving) hey signed my guestbook ?
FRIEND: wheres that?
ME: (take him away GOD plzzz) it was there as a link in the first page itself
FRIEND: no man didn’t see it..didnt have much time u see
ME: then my friend for Pete’s sake, what did u like??????
FRIEND: The layoutttttttt mannn (as if I was being the idiot)
ME: thanks for the appreciation mate (got to get rid of him now)
FRIEND: hey man, did u mean those other links were a sort of Forum
ME: (takes out a sword and slashes his throat…heh..well sort of wanted to do it) chal bye gotto go time out
ME AGAIN: Phew !! May day May day

Good Ol' School Days

2005-08-20T17:06:00.000+05:30

I’m just having a nostalgic feeling about my good old school days and I don’t know why maybe because the vacation I’m enjoying prior to my job is what is reminding me of those lovely school vacations where I used to have fun and frolic with my school mates without having any tension, no hassles from family, no pressure from the outside world which has changed drastically now. There is tension about my future, hassles from friends and family alike in deciding my further step and pressure when you want to do what you want to do at your will thinking whether it will be right or wrong. Yes, I’m going to step in a different world altogether when I will first take my step from my studious days to working days where I will be alone and on my own to make a striking fortune with my personality, the knowledge which my teachers, parents, relatives have endowed in me, the trust with which I have confided in my mates and from all those people who have helped me in making an individual out of a brat to what I am now. There wont be any teachers who will scold me for any mistake I have done or to give a pat on my back for something I accomplish, there wont be any mischief that I would be doing like those I used to do with my friends in school, no lunch breaks like I used to have with my friends where we used the play hide n seek, catch catch, football etc.. At this moment I remember my sweet teachers whom I shall miss forever in my life. Miss Tina, my English teacher who taught so sweetly and was totally involved in her work that I was inspired with her work in a way that I did whatever I did with my full dedication and been loyal to the work I did just as she used to do. Miss Crisilda, my class n history teacher who was very soft spoken and appreciated every tiny effort the students put in their work. I won’t forget her way of punishment either which was pinching the ear of the student with her sharp nails that almost w freaked us out on not doing our homework. Well, I used to have a hearty laugh on those getting punished, seeing the fear on their face since I was very punctual with my work and never suffered any punishment from any teacher and I was one of their favorite students. Miss Shobha, my maths teacher also known as the fear factor of our class since she was very harsh on disobedient children since she herself was not blessed with any and she wanted us to be perfect in whatever we do in our life. But at the same time I liked her very much since she was the one who provoked or I should say ordered me to participate as the lead dancer in a musical story in the annual festival. Till then I did not at all have the confidence of going on a stage and that too as a dancer. In fact I’m a good dancer but had never shown in public. The same confidence doubled in me when Brother Pinto, my grammar teacher showed the faith and confidence in me to take part in Elocution eliminations held every year in school. The impact was such huge on me that I won the competitions three times in a row till I grew from a tot to a teenager and my voice became harsh and had to pull my feet back from the eliminations. The one person I would never forget in my whole life and to which I dedicate my success is my favorite or I should say everyone’s favorite person and our dear principal Brother Keanes who was so addicted to children that wherever he went he was surrounded by a flock of chirping small kids and I was one of them who liked sitting on his lap. He was very very considerate about each and every kid that he was like a parent to us. He even had invited me to his house where we had a nice time and gave me some dry fruits to eat. I was being so emotional to the kindness that he lent to everyone. I don’t know where he is now coz I never stayed in touch with anyone in my school after I passed out from there and I would say that it was indeed very foolish of me. (to be continued….)

Independence Day – A Big Fiasco !!

2005-08-15T20:13:00.000+05:30

There are two types of men in this world who either are hypocrites and those who are not. Those who are, say that some things in this world are not meant to happen when actually they are the ones who want it all in the first place. Like the politicians who end up being a part of the jester clan even though their self motive is to help people they fall into the category of those who help themselves in the bargain, in the gradual course. They are designated as the white collared men who run the nation which is in "dire" need of their so-called services. They are there to play the big game called "Who wants to be a millionaire" whose prizes are sponsored by the sweat and blood of working honest people like you and me. What difference do they bear with a petty thief? The only one which can seem to fit in the bill is that, the thief does the loot without the consent of the one being looted by lurking away from everyone's gaze whereas the politicians do it in the wide awakened eye of public!! And we are left with no choice but to succumb, not because we are afraid, but because we don't want our somewhat present comfortable life to be ruined by the harsh sufferings we might have to face. This is the scenario of present India I am talking about. In pre-independence days the throats of the ones who did the revolt were slashed while today there's no difference made to it but is done in a rather euphemistic manner. We still are puppets in the hands of the "leaders" who are not imparting any progress but degrading the nation's value by focusing their goals on self-esteem rather than of the nation. Behold comrades! The mighty fall of the nation is soon to occur once again maybe not to foreigners but to our own disloyal countrymen. Till then let's plead for a happy independence day to all!!

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2005-08-08T20:41:00.000+05:30

No its not about the famous English band. Its about Ram Gopal Verma, the southern movie maker turned debutant's aspiration in Bollywood ! Ramu has had his tastes varying all the time. Time and again his variety in film direction, productions and film-making creativity has touched vivid horizons making him a complete king in his regime of filmdom in the current field of cinema. An amazing facet about Ramu is the never ending inhibitions for creative movie making. Whether hits or flops Ramu has had it going all the time after his first big time Hindi success "Rangeela" through which he launched the girl who was a quizzer on a science show aired on DoorDarshan. Yea, I am talking about the sex kitten Urmila Matondkar. Man! did she have a great mentor in the form of Ramu who totally carved a niche for her.

Ramu has launched several magnificent actors after that, so much to say all new aspirants who want to make their successful launch in Bollywood turn to him for blessings. Surely he has turned the fate of such debutants to those of glamour dolls. The successful launches include the remarkable roles of Chakravarty in "Satya", Vivek Oberoi in "Company", Randeep Hooda in "D". All of these have earned their fame as the bad boys of Bollywood by doing their first film which targeted the underworld. Ramu has a Midas touch which has made the opportunities golden for these 'dudes'. And now we are not far away from another bad boy making his entry in Ramu's new venture in the form of "James". The sleek trailers of the movie make the actor seem like a hunk! ( might also give Hrithik a run for his money ). The many different varieties seen in his movies right from Rangeela to Mast, from Road to Naach, from Satya to Sarkar Ramu's films have been a launch pad for small time and big actors alike, as I would like to mention the acting of Abhishek Bachhan in "Sarkar". Even some of the movies have only been produced by his production house called "Factory Productions", have been directed by those who also are making a directorial debut. "Road" saw the full time launch of svelte siren "Antara Mali" who shot to fame as a yet another glamour doll after Urmila along with the noticeable dance number of Koena Mitra who later got her fame as an "item" girl.

The thing about Ramu which is admirable and lovable as most about the movie goers would have noticed is his style of cinema making which has evolved more and more in the years gone by. His movies have touched all the epitomes of categories be it action, romance, political satires, underworld related, horror etc which diversify him as a versatile showman as place him in a different group of movie makers which is way beyond formula film making ones. The mix of vivid essences and flavors of commercial cinema is a thing ha will be remembered for ! His new evolving style of song-less movies is what anybody would reach out for in this current trend of mindless songs plotted nowhere near the storyline. I have watched many of his films like Rangeela, Mast, Daud, Road, Satya, Kaun, Ek Hasina Thi, Darna Mana Hai, Bhoot, Company, Gayab, Naina, Sarkar and I would say that though some films have been utter flops I wouldn't mind to watch his way of experimenting with different kinds of stories and his bunch of new comers coz I am always in for ambitious personas over the routine seekers. I am really impressed with his style of movie making and am looking forward for his further projects. Currently awaiting the much hyped movie "James" which is bound to hit the theatres bloody soon..... and has been portraying another college girl turned bimbette in the form of Nisha Kothari who was noticed in a small role in Sarkar.

Cant say much about her acting prowess since that role was more of a guest appearance but does tend to heat up the screen to scorching Fahrenheits the same way Urmila and Antara did when they reigned the big screen. Will it be a feather to add in his cap or will it go down the drain? Will the debutants rise to fame?. Keeping my fingers crossed for that....

What am I upto?

2005-08-06T09:35:00.000+05:30

This question sometimes kinda freaks me out but nevertheless keep on asking this to myself. Right now I am in the collision of my thought process which keep drifting along with time and tide and whose forces seem to keep me pushing on the edges of the cliffs of decision making whose outcome is nothing but a series of dramatic reactions and frequent changes in the paths I seem to choose. Earlier in the month of July I was had so much attached myself in graphic designing and 3D modeling that my ambition changed its path from being a professional programmer to an animation artist of a graphic designer. But my heart always tell me that even though I like designing and animation which always top my priority lists whenever I indulge myself in learning something new at the end of the day I find solace in programming which I have been doing now in 4 years of my grads.. Eventually I begin recalling the fine days I had been programming my favorite routines in C and C++ it mesmerizes me in the arena of programming leaving behind a trace of the much liked path in animation in thin air. So now I am back to my old dwelling and putting my entire forces into learning a better language like JAVA which suites my desires coz I am much inclined to OOP and I think I will be able to regain my confidence back in this field which I seemed to lose when I began to retaliate my thoughts of heart to the thoughts from my brain. Surely the mind controls over the heart but when my heart reinforces me to a new dimension it leaves my mind boggled.

Engineered to perfection

2005-07-25T21:00:00.000+05:30

Highs and lows, throughout the 4 years, taking many blows, riding over the flows, now my career glows...
I can feel the freedom from the life of a student and the arrival of the life of maturity, independence and a sense of security; for my results got declared yesterday on the internet and to my shock or still better a shocking surprise the result stated aloud "you passes with a distinction. congratulations!". Boy O Boy, was this for real, i am not gonna believe untill i see the picture clear on Monday at my college. Just cant wait more to drop those dreaded reigns of assignments, file completion, namesake expertimentions and freaking days during exams. I am proud to have atleast the single distinction in all of these 8 semesters and man! do i feel of fresh air flowing amidst the gardens of practicality, commercialism and a reason to put your efforts to where they belong.I dont want to waste my life just running the corners of colleges. Rather i would struggle down the path to make a glorious career out of labourious work , not just sitting down sipping the juices sqeezed from others sweat. I want to taste the success lying in my blood may be it bitter or sweet. I feel the anxiety disappear from my brow as i follow the path to conquer and rise and excel over the ones who have already tread on those lines...

I Bid Adieu to u, my fella engineering...u have given me a time of my life...even if a roller coaster of emotions u spread in me ...ill remember how i felt the torments u threw at me..the angst u pushed in me....the hatred u caused in me..i know this wont happen to me in future...but for the future u have given me this way through a pleasant surprise..i will never forget this saga ..the trials n tribulations that u put me thru...he way u made better individual out of myself...in maturity and sense alike...for all the pains and the gains rising from putting a challenge to them...for all those friends who stood by me when i encountered u..i think ill miss ya bad !!

Adios Amigo my dear ! Hope your companionship will make me rise and shine forever ........................

Renovation is the key to success

2005-07-25T20:50:00.000+05:30

I am creating the first entry of my self designed blog and the the whole lot of excitement creeping up my body for my first original innovative style of designed site is evaporating my sleep into thin air. Gosh! its 3 am already and i am not getting a slow wink in my eye. My excitement vested in my interests doesn't seem to let me think about anything other than my work. I have to say to myself "Good keep it up but boy don't make this a habit or your dreams will be short-lived". Mama! please scold me for doing this to myself but I don't know what to say its all up my shoulders and over my neck creeping over to my head slowly. I am drowwwwwwwwwwning ...glug ..glug. ..Gulp!!!

Me against Myself

2005-07-17T20:42:00.000+05:30

Elementary philosophies i may seem to doctor to my conditions and dish out some few morals which seem to fit in the way i presume to live amonngst the people i wish to fulfill my desires in my quest to make the most of the very seemingly difficult constraints in this very life and i dont wish any quads of my strength to become feeble to lower down the enormity of my ambitions and mingle amongst those who just think that life is a bed of roses and the thorns that they would succumb if need be without putting up a battle and having a victory amidst those who have already traversed a path which seems similar to my array of thoughts which dont give a damn to dismantle themselves in the ocean of disbeliefs. Amen !

Caught up in the act

2005-07-04T16:16:00.000+05:30

Well Ive been quite busy for some time concerning my quest to get a hands on with 3D MAX for digital imaging and animation for the aftermath. Well this blog seems to have missed me much ..so just giving it a refill this month since i am not sure about my next re entry in this dimension. So bloggers, if you wanna hook up with my progress , keep a check on this sapce .

Tell then Nitin says Bon Jour

Free at last

2005-06-10T22:04:00.000+05:30

The 4 year long saga has been fuitfully put to an end with the closure of my final B.E exams...hoping that the results be also fruitfull in consequence of the hard work put in to making it worthy. Not ezpecting much , not less either..but apart form 3rd paper rest have gone much according to my beliefs....

I dont have an idea to start enjoying the vacations or to start myself preparing for my life ahead. Life seems very different when u come to the start of a brand new enterprise for your future...A whole new lot of doubts n confusion....but somewhere lies the thought..."I have come till here now with success.. Ill lead the way for it as I always did" ....lets see how much it stands its worth after being a B.E.

Mail from Nick Jenson

2005-06-01T20:29:00.000+05:30

Here is the mail i got from Nick Jenson. Nick Jenson is a 2D/3D Web Designer who lives in Denmark. He is a true inspiration for me after i saw his terrific works on www.maxforums.org.

I had asked him about some fundamentals on 3d imaging. Nice guy that he is! he took his time to reply I am posting this so that those who are really interested in 3d imaging n animations must read his advice.

Hey Nitin

Sorry about the delayed reply, but I am working doubleshifts these days.We have a deadline on a presentation of our game (or how far we have come with the game) to our investor - and on top of that i am finishing op a big freelance job too. Hence, time is rather limited.

Thanx for the kind words - its always nice when others appreciate your work. About 3dsmax - what can i say. Complete hand over it you will never get. You should try the various aspects of creating content in MAX - find out what you like to develop mostly -HiPoly content for tv/print/movies - og LowPoly content for games and realtime vizualisations. Also try to figure out what you like most - modelling/textureing/animating. I myself have completely eglected character animation - simply because i think it is a chapter of its own. You'd proably want to do sketching/drawing classic animation etc. first to get the basics down properly. And that is
easily several years alone. So i mainly model and texture. Thats my preference. Usually i've been doing HiPoly, but these days
i do LowPoly for "Seed". And - I'm all selftaught in 3D. I've had 1½ years of general training in computer apps, but 3Dsmax is selftaught. I recommend doing all sorts of tutorials - get some books and join some good 3D communities (maxforums.org, cgtalk, cgnetworks etc.)

- good luck with it :)

Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,

Nick B. Jensen
2D/3D/Web/-designer
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www.hatetank.dk
www.vomic.com
version2@hatetank.dk

B.E. Trauma

2005-05-26T16:13:00.000+05:30

I think Im getting a hangover on the subjects of BE. My dreams are filled with completing reading then entire syllabus though it doesnt show up in reality. :( . And my talks are also comprised of enginneering jargons. Just a few days i thought of writing a poem and to my shock or surprise i came up with the below stuff...... Read on!!

Distributed Love

i am the client to her soul she is the server of my heart,
we had overflown the buffer of our love though had a flase start,

seemingly endless was the way we shared our memories,

surely our distributed thoughts now had no redundancies,

my feelings started to get encrypted by her mysterious signs,

i couldnt compress any more of them, i had tried many times,

i became the object of her desire so much that i lost my stature,

she considered me as the key to her digital signature,

the nodes of my heart wihtout her, felt lifeless ,

which scared me like i felt i had lost her access,

no viruses, no worms, can now cut us apart like a sword,

ill protect her like a firewall, love forms my password,

in any way i dont wanna lose her so as to have a restart,

i shall always be there for her, till deadlocks do us part!!

Feel its humorous?? but i think not ...i think my brain neurons are getting corrupted...n i hope they dont get crashed.....oops....here i go again!

Launch of BFGWorld

2005-05-24T22:14:00.000+05:30

I always had the idea of making a site only for works on graphics when I had started to get acquainted with Photoshop 7. The site took shape a year later but due to the heaviness of the site which was made entirely in Photoshop everyone refrained from accessing it. Well it still lies dormant at www.geocities.com/bfg_world. Fast Forward to 2005...here I am now tryin my hands on some serious 3D stuff...n I had the privilege to make some good work out of it right during my exam time. So it was time for me to display my assets to the world. But I didn't have enough time to build a good looking site for posting the works n then I thought of making it accessible thru a blog which would entail me to receive some comments if anybody thought of putting in anytime.

So finally the long awaited dream had come to life in the form of http://www.bfgworld.tk/ and Im relieved! Hope I get the same feeling after the exams :)

Tensed

2005-05-21T02:40:00.000+05:30

I am really scared as earlier i have never been. Though the last semester..just litle barrier to jump over to freedom i feel like climbing a wall without a ladder. Just keeping my fingers crossed that the papers wont be so tough enough. I hope it doesnt gimme a nightmare!

The Third Dimension

2005-05-15T02:38:00.000+05:30

My head has been filled with the imaginations of making some astounding 3D effects in pictures or animations as i have witnessed the artifacts of the millions of master artists on numerous websites. Man ..Hats off to them for their remarkable efforts and impecable imaginations..I am trying a feeble attempt to follow their footsteps but have crashed in between several times before even having a good start at some of the 3D rendering softwares. I had tried programming 3D renders with Pov-Ray earlier but laziness took toll into leaving the software as it is on my hard-disk. My attempts have been largely to get a nice simple s/w which does not involve much complexities as the one i have been facing in 3Ds MAX6. Woo boy! it sgoing bouncers for me to learn it. Cinema 4D is simple enough than 3Ds but still i am not going skin deep in it. I dont have that much patience to start learning from the basics. I just love to jump on the very last of the tutorials to see upo what extent the software can help me in rendering an amazing artifact. I was thouroughlt impressed while working on Xara 3D and the way the simplicity was maintained in it ..more to add the user made design done in Xara X. Two more s/w have found my attention which are looking quite simple enough, one is Swift 3D and another is Strata 3D CX which are amazing when you look at the Flash trailors on their official websites. I have recently worked on them and found quite good enough.But the problem lies in gettiing these s/w's crakced as they are new in the market the cracks arent available n i am not keep to spend either to buy them. The only open sourced freeware i found with user interactivity like the rest of them is Blender 3D but due to the configurations required for it by compiling the scripts made in Python i have kept myself away from its usage. I tried to download Lightwave 3D and ZBrush dues to its extreme brushing effects but they require a gruelling procedues of registering on their sites. So i am still in search of a simple s/w since my plan is to get into the third dimension atleat before my sem exam gets over. Lets see if i get my hands atleast on one of them.

Style Smile

2005-05-06T02:34:00.000+05:30

I feel so relaxed after m vivas are over that i fear enjoying myself to the extents of not opening those books again.I feel like my BE is over. Well for some days i will have to overcome this feeling coz its too dangerous for me. I just revamped the look of my darling..i mean my PC ..studded with new themes wiht this new s/w i got called STYLEXP.Anybody reading this should n must try it out (XP users) .Its gorgeous and a hell lot of themes to look out for rather than exasperating your breath over the resource hungry PLUS! themes for XP. It will just overwhelm you wiht its graphics qality in Bowling Alley games but the themes are just as the older styles of XP. But style XP rocks! do try it out.

Click the link to get the lastest version of style XP ansd check for the smile it gives to your face http://www.tgtsoft.com/downloads/StyleXPInstallMale.zip

Bigger the Better?

2005-05-03T20:36:00.000+05:30

Finally today was the D day. I mean the final day of my viva n to top it was the day of my project presentation. Srinivas, Thomson, Vishal (my project partners) and I were in full zest to give our best and leave the rest to the examiner. We had waited for his moment from the last one year and all had contributed whatever they could to make this project a success. Our project was popular in my class since we had actually done 2 in place of 1 final year project due to some circumstances but we managed to complete both in the nick of time and to present in an organized manner so much to impress the examiner was my dream. I wanted to be rated amongst the best. Well the presentations turned out to be smooth enough to my relief and everybody showed up with enough enthusiasm which made the examiner impressed which I am sure she was when I heard her saying “It’s a very good project” and the way she was being involved to know more about it and ask about how it could be done more better. But it was frustration time for my colleagues who were waiting for their presentations outside as our presentation took a humungous 1 and half hour to get completed and the time given for a presentation was only half an hour. The only thing which made it look pale to me was the absence of our dear Save Ma’am who was our internal examiner, internal project guide and HOD and my favorite professor. I was really awaiting her presence during the demo to show that we stood to her expectations. This was the biggest of the final year projects she would have seen but due to some problems she couldn’t just make up for it.

Anyways no complaints, no regrets, no frets. Just I am keeping my fingers crossed to see what marks we would be getting for our efforts. As they say the bigger the better… size does matter, but what about the prize?

mail-jhol

2005-04-30T22:56:00.000+05:30

This is the fourth n final time (hopefully) im changing my email-ID. I don’t know what the hell is happening to my email accounts. Every time I create one it gets a loophole in between.

Let me tell u my story before u start to think of me as a de-facto fool...I had created my first ever email ID as rediff which was nitin_pai1@rediffmail.com . I was happy with this ID until the day i noticed why i was receiving no mails. The thing was nobody even cared to see the "1" (as in "one ") attached to the end of my name in the ID and those who saw mistook it for "l" which made it look "pail" (as in "to fetch a pail of water") ..really pale!!! Frustrated i decided to go in for a new Id as one does by shifting his home to a new location when he goes thriving for a pail of
water at his old location... Whatever!. My new home...err...i mean my new ID was now at yahoo ...the most trusted inboxes as mentioned by my friends.....n now i was verrrrry careful not to have another "pail" in my list of pathos. I made it 2004 ..heee....that was my new ID ... nitin_pai2004@yahoo.com ....Happy n lucky was I when i received the first mail which from yahoo itself stating that I was welcome onboard to their domain n to have fun with my latest
inbox...But I think my happiness was bound to that single mail only..bcoz i never got any mails after that....The thing was that I had actually registered in as nitin_pai2004@yahoo.co.in n to that moment n further I bragged about my new ID as being at nitin_pai2004@yahoo.com . maybe bcoz i was "com"ming too well with the internet excitement. Till then i had registered in many groups which included my college friends group too and my tragedies spawned me in a way that i had to get the mails by logging in to the group inbox bcoz i never got any of the single mails in my personal inbox due to my gr8 knowledge about com or co.in. phew! what a racket these people were making by distributing their pains over different servers i fail to understand n still more to withstand. Okay Okay u got it I am indeed a fool..but now that i armed with this enlightenment i was all in ready for a brand new ID ...an ID which would be very simple to remember for all and the most important be placed at a single server...no com ..no co.in plz. Voila! or should i say Lo and Behold! my new Id was ready once again coming back to my previously faithful website..yes which boasted about its lightning fast mail delivery called rediff.com..oops that was the mistake i forgot to tell you about....i had given my friends my email Id as nitin_pai1@rediff.com ..instead of nitin_pai1@rediffmail.com . On yes! now i know y had i not got my mails on that ID ....but forget i am going to have a new Id thats what i had in my mind. Then the ID became a very short n friendly one which was nitin2005@rediffmail.com . I was in the fast track for my Id beared the signs of 2005 even when the year was 2004 so much to my despair that one my friends commented that ID's are not meant to be updated every year as done to antivirus....the joke was pathetic indeed as my mail Id's.. . Just have an edge over my new found happiness in the form of my short ID along with the power of 1GB storage i was over the rage of losing my previous ID's..yeehaa 1GB ..i could only dream of mailing a movie in there. Then I thought if i was to keep all my friend's forwards without deleting any of them in my inbox i would lose a track of any important message from any website or job offers (i have registered over so many places that sometimes get surprised to see my name present in the list of ID's at different websites). So i thought of going for a special ID for formal mails strictly. Enchant as it grants..as new born infants come out with their chants i had created another ID ..abracadabra..gilli gilli phoo... my number of ID's groo..umm...i mean grew.... n the formal Id after a larger than life thoughts over it became pai.nitin@rediffmail.com . Now everything seemed to go normal and i started to receive the group mails at these ID's ..phew! I thought this was an end to the long wait for a trustworthy ID...but sometimes long lasting batsmen too get run out..n that happened with my ID too...but before that let me tell you that i had notified n told my friends that my first ID was nitin_pai1@rediffmail.com n I was still using it n a hell of mails i had received in it. Now let me tell you how it was hijacked n i couldnt use it no more......how bore! Once i got the opportunity to surf in the college a rare opportunity as for me to get a chance n excited I was that I opened my inbox to check my mails ..ok that wasn’t the bad part of it. The thing was I had little knowledge that auto complete feature exists in this Internet Explorer which sometimes makes me hate it...but all the very good if u avoid typing the username n pwd everytime u wanna login but it is dangerous all the very same outside your premises...n to my ill luck that bloody feature was kept on n i wasn’t aware!!!!
i logged off after checking my mails n the next day when i wanted to log in my ID n pwd came on the click of a mouse n i was shell shocked to see it...did it mean anybody could have used my inbox ?? anyways there isn’t much more than crap but still.... but my worst fears were yet to come when i discovered that the ID n pwd gave me an error saying "Invalid User"...hmm ..i shd have guessed it..somebody crept into my inbox yesterday n changed the pwd..how cheap of that person..n then i thought what a fool I was to lose my first ever ID in this way..hey its not fair!!...try hacking it ..take a challenge ...why work on my foolishness...utter distress!...to add it all in a mess. So now I look like a traditional fool. Anyways let me continue from where I stopped..ahh..yess…my new ID nitin2005 was indeed as I thought it was for me a lucky ID..coz my friends never jotted down but yet seemed to remember it n to top of it I received all of my mails in my inbox n all all my forwards in others n I was so excited that I became the forwards bomber amongst my friends since their inboxes seemed to chants only my name..fame!! at last..ahh this was so revealing…err…relieving…made me sing..ohh la la la… Yet as nature has some disasters planned for u in its inbox it forwarded some in mine n the day was 10th of march where the songs n fame came to a halt….whose fault? I have no idea. My inbox seemed to behave very erratically coz my mails now never reached anybody’s inbox after the 10th (I came to know this in form of a surprise thru my friend’s comments who asked me if my PC was down coz he received no forwards)..drat! n double drat!... What should I now say…curse my fate or gloom on my state…mate?..umm…well finally I had decided to have a final ID that I wouldn’t ever betray me like this n then came in Gmail with its beta version on email client n since yahoo was so popular n as said by others the most secure I thought lets give both a damn..i mean ..try….once again I am back in form with my yahoo account which they r saying will turn to 1GB storage …yeehaaa…I mean..yaaahoo…..
n the rest as they say is history…

My current ID is mail_at_nitin@yahoo.co.in as my official one n I have kept another just in case that too gives away nitin.vcet@gmail.com but isn’t gmail a beta version....boohoo!!...when am I gonna get a secure Id where I can trust
to get the mails i want....somebody plzzz help

Sense and Sensibility

2005-04-30T00:18:00.000+05:30

God has made the mankind.... Much to his surprise he got the idea to give man a sense to think and sensibility to enact the things he sensed.. Sometimes this means a whole lot of complexity to think how a man is structured..How was he incarnate to his sole living stature that he dwells in the current environment...Ever thought about it! ..How could we! ...Where do we have the time to give simple thoughts a touch when the time is to enjoy to the fullest or spend the span running behind accomplishments.

just I wonder how our brain was made...So little to come in our palms yet so fragile that one misalignment might take away an entire lifespan..How does such a tiny tot control our lives that we become so much established in our senses that besides ours we start to control the lives of others or take to rule over the entire mankind...phew! That's one hell of a craziest inventions man can dreams of making...Of making something that would start to live on its own...Get established..Get diligent to grasp the facts..Get more mature and finally to earn a livelihood ...

I thank god in every aspect...n I respect the way he has made us evolve ..Its a great feeling just to think about how a child who cuddles to his mother ...The next day crawls..The third day starts to talk..n after some years gets so much a sense that his visions can foresee the advent of a new glory that mankind has yet to witness...An inventor...An philosopher ..A evangelist...A ruler...u name it ..What man cannot become!! theres no doubt that we are the sole survivors n will be in the ages hereafter ....

sense n sensibility for the mankind,
is a virtue that we have to embed,
n make the mortal senses immortal,
by rising from the paths that have been tread.

viva - la - viva

2005-04-29T00:44:00.000+05:30

vivas have started finally ..the last of the season after which no more vivas ..yes the completion of BE would mark the end of the histioric struggle between life n studies in the college campue n i am gonna miss them ...yea unless ..um..ofcourse i do get them cleared !!!

ANN...eeks ...that subject which makes me shriek...i am gonna recommend not to any geek to take a subject as such which makes me weak....
phew! i managed to get past the first obstcale of ANN vivas ....maybe it was OKAY acc to me ..lets see what the examiner in store for me.

3 more to go..DC, MS , SS...quite friendlier than ANN....aargh!..i hate to take its name...

as per the wise man said "Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"

yea...indeed Artificial neural networks ( ANN ) is more bheja fry than a subject..but let me clarify... i am not a stupiddddd...it was enforced on me..plzzz....

may the lord help me out from the main exams...Amen!

Say to your fullfillment

2005-04-16T20:23:00.000+05:30

I am reeling under the thoughts of some enlightened sayings...mine..of course
Here are a few samples of them...

On the lines of philosophy, my thoughts run around in circles..... :)

The downpour of tears is the amalgamation of weathered mind and the resillenece of the body towards pain...

Tender thoughts are salvaged by peacefull minds...

Rascals are just the metaphors for traumatized saints...

In the land of jesters...the tenancy of buffoonary might be a pretence...but the mirth sought from it sure can avert maladies !!!

Type in your comments...or add a few sayings yourself...maybe we can have a collection here...

Feeling Triumphant !!

2005-04-16T01:47:00.000+05:30

Finally, the day has arrived. The day which i was eagerly waiting for.Yes, its the day of the final visit to th company for showing the demo of the project and taking a last goodbye for good. I had a hell of a time doing the coding of the project but all in all it was a thorough adventurous and good learning experience through which i wish to make new paradigms for my next step in future.

The project according to me can be defined as a state of art and creativity since I have put in the maximum of my potentials for completing it and the major reason for my happiness is that I am thoroughly satisfied with its outcomes and the expressions of achievement on the one who required us to do the project.

Tomorrow's the big day..hope so we have a joy ride back home..n a final sense of celebration..
but hey wait a moment...two weeks later I am having my vivas..oh no..mummmmmy!!!!

Unfathomed Fragilities

2005-04-15T22:42:00.000+05:30

Unfathomed Fragilities

Ever since I thought about it,
It made me feel somewhat better,
The things I wanted to achieve,
Revolved around my desires for her.
She was someone I felt near to me,
Closer to her, I tried to make her feel,
Some things cant be controlled I then realized,
For she was in love with someone I despised.
Out of the blue no one seems so close,
She seemed to be my guide on the paths I chose,
Always to be with her, was one wish I held,
To rise to new heights from the ones in which I dwelt,
I used to ask myself if this is right?
My life with her seemed ever so bright,
Why then the situation for me was being so tight?
Such that I felt like being in darkness in daylight.
Sure they were strong the way I would say,
The feelings for her are lost but I do fear them stay,
No future even though have with her, I could,
Kept pushing me, in my mind that I should,
Left right from the day, my mind, wandering,
I had to her, been, over depth, surrendering,
Lost, I don’t wish to be in miseries as such,
In trying to fade away the thoughts that,
I loved her so much…….

……….Nitin

You are a stranger!

2005-04-15T01:19:00.000+05:30

Queer are the ways of this world.Sometimes you meet people around you who often seem that they are very much interested in the way you have been living and how your past life has been untill this moment. Such people show you there deep rooted affection and tend to somewhat make you feel that you are made to be theri friend at some point in life and bestow your trust on them. They make you feel that they will cooperate with you always whatever the path you seem to chose and lend their helping hand whenver you are heading for the swamp!!

Well, I must say such people make you feel so much theirs that you would like to leave no stone unturned for any of their matters. Well ..here is the point I would like to make! This life is a purpose for all of us. We dwell in this world to fulfill that purpose.We do not know whom we are surviving for...some think its for their family..some for their children...some for others...and some for themselves....But comrade! I would like to tell you that in this entire world in all of your senses you are a total stranger..and you live for no one except for the one who wants you to lead this life for overcoming the tasks for which this life was bestowed to you!

Just think about it! How many people that you trusted for life have given their much needed shoulder when tears trickled in your eyes or how much sorrows has anyone shared with you to lighten you up. Some surely would have done it but i would like to voice a question...was this help entirely out of their self or had it some underlying selfishness..Everybody is selfish for his or her requirements ..not necessarily monetory but some upto amount it does! So you can now ask a question to yourself ..If everyone is selfish then who are you in this world...A person who lies meekly on others support to fulfill their expectations or just another person in their life to make them memorable for you without a reason at all..Doesnt that make you in real sense a total stranger in your own thoughts??

Start in the midst of heat!

2005-04-14T02:08:00.000+05:30

Hello Friends,
This is my first blog entry.Well just guessing what to write about.
Thers so much to say and so much to share that it becomes very difficult to be aware of happenings around me....Did you notice the rhyme of words. share and be aware....cool..aint it? haw haw...dont you think it isnt fair..heee..one more rhyme...

Yesss..i got it what should i write in my first entry....lets make the shubh arambh with a poem...
to write about my experience,
i someimes become tense,
you wanna know why it is so?is it alright if i say no!!
ok alright..my life is made of dreams,
hearing them i can take out your screams,
this is not one of my wish,
i dont wanna bring anybodys anguish,
hope u have fun time reading,
let the bells of hapiness start ringing.. :D

style

Personal

2005-04-04T14:06:00.000+05:30

Technology

2005-04-01T22:26:00.000+05:30

Poetic

2005-04-01T20:23:00.000+05:30

Political

2005-04-01T13:54:00.000+05:30

Social

2005-03-31T22:51:00.000+05:30