bored..

i jst told sarnoff m nt joining thm..they were pretty nice bout it..cool ppl :)
neways..m getting bored again..

ding dong
i wanna sing a song
hail lord o great one
who gets all the work done
who is mightier than the sun
save me from this place of no fun
for i hav a lotta time to kill
in the house of boredomville

i hate travelling..

i really do..i had to com by bus to hyd. for the address verification nd thn i had to com bk by bus..nd both the experiences suckd bigtime!! hyd was no bter than chennai..rama's open login (is it?) mail says it all..neways..
bsides tht i heard barca won in the champions league final 2-1 against aresenal..thts cool :D .. i stil havnt seen the match..hpfully i wil catch a replay..
with exams coming for my frnds m stuck @ home nt doin nething..
i really feel sm1 needs to maintain the programming club website..it hasnt been updated since a really long time..interested ppl plz leave a comment..

y did the chicken cross the road?

wat wud b the replies of certain *celebreties* for this question -

Jessica Simpson
Why would he be one a road, I thought chickens lived in the ocean?

Homer Simpson
There was free beer on the other side of the road

Isaac Newton
The duck suggested to the chicken that they play follow the leader then the duck crossed the road causing the chicken to cross after it, but at the same time holding up traffic, thus proving that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Shakespeare
To cross or not to cross, that is the question.

Rene Descartes
Since the chicken does not really exist it was only an illusion that the chicken crossed the road. This illusion was only in my mind. Therefore I created the chicken that crossed the road.

Gandhi
All chickens should peacefully resist by crossing the road.

Steve Jobs [my personal fav.]
Because of the brand-new iChicken- a portable device that crosses roads, lays eggs, gives wakeup calls and provides dinner, automatically. This amazing device can simply plug in to the $4000 iCoop to produce additional iChickens and recharge existing iChickens, or plug it into the $9000 iChop to convert iChicken files into iFood. iFood-to-Regular Food converters sell for an additional $50/month fee, however the optional iFood-to-FoodXP converter is still in development. iChickens are only available from authorized iDealers, which can be found in nearly every US state. If your iChicken develops a disease or stops working, you must send it by FedEx Overnight to Littleton, Montana and our iTechnicians will send you a replacement within 3 months. The iChicken. Wow.

Darwin
chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected
in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.

Moses
And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Neil Armstrong
To go where no chicken has gone before. That's one small step for Chicken, one giant leap for Chicken kind.

George Bush
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.

Al Gore
I invented the chicken. I invented the road. Therefore, the chicken crossing the road represented the application of these two different functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people.

Bill Gates
I have just released eChicken 2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook [and of course crash..hehe] - and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.

Martin Luther King
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Grandpa
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

Saddam Hussein
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in
dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Bill Clinton
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?

Einstein
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

For more go here

FYI this is another site i gt while stumbling..stumble upon rox!!

edit: the champions league final was nt on tue. nite as i thot..its wed. nite..so i hav to wait 1 more day :(

template tampering nd more stumbling

after posting yesterday i spent most of the nite tampering around with my template..i quite liked the result..specially the background image of my blog's title (the image with the blue swirls)..incase ur wondering hw i did tht u can go here ..u'll need java installd btw..nd to save it as an image the only way i found was to printscreen nd cut out the required part ;)
after tht i did a lot of stumbling (sigh..tht seems to b my only timepass)..nd i found an image of the cutest dog evr..i wish i had one like this :)



also i found out sm other cool stuff..like google trends..if u dint knw earlier it is smthing tht can b used to analyze searches tht were made on a particular keyword/s..go here to find out more on google trends..
i seem to posting a lot lately..gues m getting really bored at home..i also finished tomb raider 3 today..nw i really dunno wat m gonna do..
waiting eagerly for the nxt topcoder match..

edit: also tomm nite is champions league finals..arsnenal vs barcelona..m a ful fledged supporter of barca..prolly hav to do a sleep over at my frnds house tomm nite (coz i dnt hav setup box at home)..waiting eagerly for the match as wel..

A poonal i went to..

incase ne of u dnt knw wat a "poonal" is its the thread ceremony brahmins (and others) have..neways last sat nd sun was my cousin's poonal nd though i dint want to go my parents forced me to..nd after those two days i was thanking my parents for making me go..
i hadnt met ne of my cousins for over 6 yrs!! neways..i thot it wud b pretty embarassing nd boring to be with thm..hwevr it was exactly the opposite..my cousins were a cool lot..though only arnd 6 (out of mayb a zillion) cousins were ther it was a load of fun..
on sat after the initial ceremony we were all sitting arnd nd chatting bout nothing in general..after tht we decided to goto a movie..went to 36 china town..after getting tickets we went to the qwicky's opp. satyam theatre..jst chatted ther for sm time..thn watchd the movie..was very bad..bk to cousin's hm nd thn off to my house..
the actual ceremony was @ 6 am on sun..i thot i surely wudnt go..coz the only times i've evr been awake at 6 on a sun is if i had done a nite out..bt yet again my parents forcd me to go..so i went thr..again started chatting with my cousins..went to ccd..had fun ther..nd thn bk..after tht we went to sandhya's house nd chatted more (gues we're a talkative lot!!)..neways..after tht i wnt bk hm nd cudnt help feeling tht i hav a bunch of cool cousins..atleast a few of them ;)
here's a pic of my cousins nd me..

wat to do at home??

well..i spent the first week thinking bout wat to do at home..bt thx to vandu i gt a mingw cd nd managed to install it in home pc \:d/
so nw i spend most of my time programming nd solving problems frm the uva site..also participating in topcoder
if u didnt knw this b4 one of the coolest ways to waste time on net is to use stumble upon - its a firefox extension nd it gives u pages of ur liking (which u gt to choose whn u sign up)..neways i spend a lot of time stumbling..bt i gues i over did it coz today morn when i tried to stumble this is wat i got -



lol..neways besides stumbling nd coding i waste time by tampering with my blogs template, eating, watching movies nd sleeping..home has been a welcom break frm coll..bt m looking forward to coming bk..coz my joining date in google is 29th of may..plus i gt to take a flight back to hyd..my first flight evr is being sposored by google!!

nursery rhyme

i dunno y bt i suddenly gt reminded of the nursery rhyme - chubby cheeks...
m sure all of us must hav heard it..i tried to image wat i wud b if i lukd like the one being described in the rhyme..the rhyme goes smthing like this -

Chubby cheeks [OK]
Dimple chin [OK]
Rosy lips [OK]
Teeth within [OK]
Curly hair [OK]
Very fair [OK]
Eyes are blue [OK]
Lovely too [FAILED]
Teacher's pet [OK]
is that you?? Yes, Yes, Yes.

so here is my creation ..





would i want to be this thing..NO!!