Anybody who lived in the late 80’s and early 90’s in India could never have missed this song. One of my all time fauvorites, the lyrics are still etched in my mind even when i heard this song nearly after a decade. (although i don’t know the meaning!). In those days cable connections were rare and everyone was confined to the good old Doordarshan and this song would be played myriad times everyday. It beautifully portrayed National Integration. The song had totally around ten languages and had many of the leading personalities of that time from various fields .

Watch the original version of “Mile sur…” HERE
(The video quality is very bad…). If anybody finds do tell me where i can get hold of a good print of this video.

While i was searching for this song in Youtube, what i found was another version of “Mile sur…” and what a surprise !!! This was made by some damn cool Indian students at MIT. It beautifully reflects their nostalgia and passion for the country. All this have been shot in the MIT campus in Cambridge and some other scenic places in the US of A. The ending part wherein the robotic arm waves the Indian flag is really excellent.

There are also many other crappy versions where people have simply tried to imitate but this one really is the pick of the lot. Do check out some good chicks in the video!!!

Many of the net users have got addicted to Mozilla and with the release of Firefox 2.0 there is no turn back. Coming to the point….Here is one cheap method to steal the passwords from someone’s computer(a person who uses Mozilla Firefox as the browser). One good feature with Firefox is the remember password option and almost everyone who uses Firefox uses this option. Whenever your friend gets off from his system, there you go…..Hurry up! few seconds u can get all the passwords that he has saved…..
Click on options–>Tools–>Security

In the dialog box which you get, in the second row click on “Show Passwords“
It first shows all the user names(websites) for which you have enabled the remember password option and on confirmation it shows all the passwords.
If you wish that this is insecure in your system you can set a master password but the great disadvantage is that you have to type the master password every time you open the browser so as to enable the remember password feature.
I found this when this kedi bugger was trying this in my system.

Other Cheap tricks!
*The best way is to peep over the shoulder when a person types his password.
*Many people see the keyboard while typing their passwords and mostly use the “tab” key to go to the password text box after typing the user name. Simple, just when the person presses the “tab”, casually hold the mouse and place the pointer in the user name text box and when he rises his head he (we) can see his password in the user id column!( I am not kidding, this has worked out many times and that too when many friends sit along in groups)

Yesterday was World Usability day 2006 and the chennai conference was held at Tidel Park. I was not sure whether to go there or not and later chucked it. It was supposed to start at 4 o clock in the evening.

3:20(at my home): I was completely out of the world!I was inside the Heart of Gold spaceship on the Infinite Improbability Drive. Ok…It was in the nice book The Hitch hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in which i completed reading the first part today.
Grrrr…..Grrrr…..
[My cell phone vibrates….]
Sagaro: Machan, we will go da…..
Me: it’s 3:20….ok i will start now.
[cut…After the 8 seconds call]

I closed the book and hurriedly took a shower and in another ten minutes i was standing outside my home ready to go to tidel park. It is some 10 km from my home ( i guess) and it was 3:35 already and i would noway be there by 4 0 clock. The bus stand is in front of my flat and no use in waiting and i stopped an auto …

Me:Tidel park ….
Auto driver: evlo kudupeenga????
Me: nengale sollunga….
Auto driver:Hmmmnnn…..120 rupees..
Me:?!?!?!?
Just then the aadi ku oru vaati amavasai ku oru vaati vara direct bus which travels between my flat entrance and Tidel Park entrance came….
I took the bus and reached there to see that i was the third registrant and the event was delayed by some 45 minutes.Huh! corporate world! Anyway saved Rs.116.50 !

Only few people were there and i sat in one chair after collecting the papers they gave. Jammy was roaming there and he waved…

Jammy: Inga enna da panra??
Me: Knowledge Foundation….
Jammy: Ada paavingala!!!!

I was waiting for S and others and after 5 min i heard a familiar voice and all the Knowledge Foundation(TKF) makkal were sitting in the far end. Some of the sessions were boring. The last one by Prof Anirudha from IDC,IIT Mumbai on Human computer interface and software engineering process was nice although i didn’t get most of what he said except the cartoon which he played at the start. In between Vijay spoke about Proto the event to be conducted by TKF. We took the usability quiz and dropped the papers but the results were not given. Overall the event was nice except the cold samosas at the break;) Also met Thennavan and had a few words with him. Later thothified with kiruba and due thanks to him for dropping me at home:)

World+usability+day WUD+chennai usability

People should always be be open to experimentations and new explorations. But never experiment with new stuff at a cafe like vicky who didn’t know whether the sizzling chocolate brownie was an eatable or a drink. Every week when we meet at some cafe invariably he does the experimentation with new stuff. Two weeks back it was vijay’s treat and he ordered the costliest item on the list which turned out to be the sizzling brownie. Everyone else got their frappe and other stuff but brownie didn’t come. At last the bearer brought in the brownie which was really sizzling with some foul smelling chocolate sauce and ice cream on the top. Really sucks!!! Ask him, he will say it was good. Then the other brownie which syed had ordered also came and sizzled.

Next week, he orders new thing and is called “Tropical trizzle” or something like that. It tasted like some panchamritam which you get in the kovil mashed and diluted in water. He pays some 70 bucks for the diluted panchamritam for the same price which u can get one half kg dabba at Palani.

Flirt king’s Nose cut
This one was absolutely hilarious. Sagaro apart from being a highly talented geek is also known for his flirting capabilities. After completing some flirting exercises at the cafe he comes back and sits in his chair. A girl clad in yellow dress who happens to be a friend of Kausik opened the rear door.

Yellow girl(To kau): Hi!
Kau: Hi! This is Sagaro…
[sagaro turns back and starts….] Hhhaa…..i
Yellow girl: Ok! I m leaving!!
Sagaro:?!?!?!?!

He usually takes the minutes of the meeting and last week….
Sagaro: Ok! I will write it down.
Vijay: Hey man! Stop staring like that at that gu(a)y.
Is this why you are growing a mush!!

This is how Sagaro became SAW-GAY-ROW!!!!

UPDATE: Sagaro gets over delighted over the comment conversations and comes up with his latest version of Sagaro Cards for Ramanujam—>HERE

My model exams somehow got over and practicals are in progress also got over.The lazy me! i drafted this three days before. I got one of the biggest mokkai in the recent times. we have a network programming lab in which we have some 10 odd lab exercises. We have got to pick the lot for our experiment during the exam like in a lucky draw and so invariably people leave at least 2 or 3 programs without studying hoping that they will not get it. The lab is like no one will get the output except for some 2 programs. Anyway we are not going to get the output then why should i study those programs and hence i took a glance of the rest and studied the concepts of only those two easy programs.

I picked the sheet and fortunately i got one of the two programs(call it BGP). It is one damn easy program which any kid can do. Basic array manipulations and will take 10 minutes for writing, another 10 mins for doing the program, attend the viva and you can leave the lab in less than an hour. Same with me, i wrote it and mam asked me to put the graph and explain the concept and all was over except that the output matrix was not aligned. I showed the output and she asked me to align it and get the output verified and leave the lab. It may take another 30 seconds. Ok….i inserted the ‘\n ‘ and ‘\t’ at the appropriate places but it’s not working. It tried my level best inserting it at all possible places and executed, no way out! then after half an hour called mam and said it’s not working. “What man! you don’t know to do this simple stuff,go and sit in first year”. No mam, i will explain the concept but it’s not working. Ok,Do it before me….
Shame on me! I learnt that a program needs to be compiled before executing!

After the “Jaaaaai Channakesiva” videos some chaps buzzed me saying that those goltis are in no match to our own Gabtun. So here it goes…
I am sorta guy who will not watch a Gabtun movie even if you get me the ticket and pay me some additional 100 bucks for watching the movie. When people said about Vijaykanth intro in his latest blockbuster! Dharmapuri i was not able to stop laughing. After watching this i was LMAO. Never miss this…..
Great action after 2 mins

Short clip here(1 min)

This is electrifying!

PS: From here on all gabtun movies in theatre! Pharst day pharst show daan!!

It is that time of the year when we had to write our model exams. This sem was no good than the previous one Oru “PEN”in Kathai-Part1. Since our university practicals are alloted in the second slot the exams have not yet got over and only 20 more days for the university exams. Usually by this time our study holidays would have started and i would have started enjoying and sleeping.

The model exams are conducted for name sake and we have started taking it very lightly sem after sem as it does not have very great effects on our internal marks. This semester was equally funny for me. Previously i used to have the book of the corresponding subject for which the exam is happening hoping that i will study in the college bus which happens to be a one hour journey for me. But generally i never take it out in the bus and only change it the next day before going to college. As some of the books are heavy i have stopped carrying those this semester and my bag will have the novel which i am currently reading, my camera and a lot other junk.

Some teachers are kind enough and they even go to the extent of giving the questions which will come for the exam but still there are people like me. With fifteen to twenty minutes of studying you can easily clear almost all those papers with some basic stuff and blabbering which i am very good at. There is one theory paper called “Principles of Management”(POM POM in short!) and generally for such the correction is based on the number of pages you write and no one gives a shit about the content. I write all my stories, song lyrics, in that paper and if i remember correct i used the F*** word 6 times in my answer script. An exact extract from my paper!!!!
Write about Maslow’s theory of Motivation.
Maslow has proposed the theory of motivation and categorizes it based on five levels but what i feel is the theory was fucking bad. The first stage requires food clothing and shelter and only if he gets all these he can move to the next stage but what i contradict is he can move on nude to the next stage and satisfy the safety needs

Today we had one other exam which required some 30 to 45 minutes of writing and we are not supposed to leave the hall till two and half hours and the new rule is we are not supposed to sleep. So what can i do. Count the number of leaves in the tree which is outside for some 20 minutes and then decipher what all is written on the desk. Generally college desks will have the circuit diagrams, programs and some stuff which are difficult to mug up and people write it on the desk. The side in which i sit and write is occupied by girls and i found this today…
“Diviya is Lesbian” and search more intensively “Gaythri and ramya are lesbians”. So i have been sitting and writing my exams on a bench which was previously occupied by Lesbis!

We come out of the hall and samba out of frustration tears the question paper into pieces and put it on the floor.”Dei, what are you doing”. Then he sees down and he has torn all the ten rupee notes which he had in his left packet and unfortunately he had stuffed the question paper in his right pocket.
PART 1