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Sunday, June 12, 2005
It's been 4 days since I unofficially finished with my engineering... and four years since I started with it.
And now I am feeling unhealthy, unclean in every way possible - mentally, physically, emotionally. For the record... Engineering gave me a lot of great things, a lot of good friends. Showed me a lot of things about myself, gave me a few new qualities, and gifted me a couple of the best friends I'm ever gonna make. And I'm grateful. But at the same time, I've picked up some bad habits, some worse friends, some unhealthy attitudes, some bitter vibes, and some more stupid calories. Now it feels like its time to rid my body and mind of all the bad stuff... Some of it is easily done... I've started cleaning up my room (It looks worse than it's EVER looked - the phrase 'hurricane tore through the room is a miserable understatement!), washing my scooter, saying bye-bye to 'friends'... I re-join the gym tomorrow. I'll start reading regular thriller novels tomorrow... It's been such a long time since I read a regular book. I read 'good stuff' for a while... classics and management/self help books like Emma, Fish, Machiavelli's The Prince (Though I never managed to finish it), Rich Dad Poor Dad etc... But I picked up a Frederick Forsyth yesterday when I joined the library. *aaaah* to read a really intelligent novel with no 'preachy preachy' stuff or impossible language like in those Jane Austen classics...
Another adjustment I'm planning to make is to stop writing this blog... Sorry guys, this just ain't working out. And for all those of you who are gonna say "But we thought Diamonds are forever", Sparklerswill continue as before. It will have my take on movies, music, television, and books, erroneous or otherwise.
What provoked this change? Blame my claustrophobia, my dislike of people in general, some bad experiences, an extreme reluctance to let strangers into my life, all the pervs who google weird phrases and end up here, the undescribeable wrist pain caused by excessive mousing, and in part maybe even the dumb 'people watcher' who is not stalking me (Get a freaking life MORON!)... Anyway, what happens, happens for the best. It was nice knowing ya all. Keep smiling always. Bye bye.
Who Wants To Live Forever
- Queen
There’s no time for us
There’s no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment
Set aside for us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
P.S: I'm ending this blog altogether. I'm NOT moving to a new blog. Please, please mujhe dhoondhne ki koshish na karna!!
Diamonds rambled @ 4:39:40 pm
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
I have ben denying it for all these days, but it's true.... I'm hopelessly addicted. Did not know *I* could ever be this weak! *sigh* This calls for desperate measures... Will be back after the exams. Comments, Scraps, mails, forwards, messages and most importantly YM can all wait till the exams are done. After that, I may have to check myself into a rehab centre. Isn't this a relatively 'modern' obsession? Is there a suitable rehab centre around? If you guys know a good place that helps de-addict YM/blog addicts like me (I successfully kicked the Orkut habit :) YES!) - please tell me about it. Ofcourse, won't be checking on comments till the end of my exams...(Keeping my fingers crossed!) IFP, ICE Zindabad!!
Hey, man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time
I’m feelin’ like a monday but someday I’ll be saturday night
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And Tuesday just might go my way
It can’t get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain’t been kind
But somehow I’ll survive!!
(JBJ)
Diamonds rambled @ 9:37:31 am
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Most people wait for weekends... I don't like them. Especially in the PLs (Preparatory Leave before the exams, for the blissful). PLs are long hard tmes, when there is nothing much to do... Naturally, that gives me enough time with the remote to have a fixed timetable with it. Everyday, I meet up with the remote between such and such a given time... The weekend comes along and disrupts the schedule! My favourite shows are no longer on. And frankly... TV has absolutely nothing to offer on weekends!! A movie or two after 8 maybe... but nothing before that.
Then there is another tiny issue... Every weekend reminds you - this is the end of the darn week, and it is one more fruitless, wasted week. I'm one week closer to the exams, and have nothing to show for it, except the lines on my planner. Sh*t! Where did the week go? 7 whole days gone without a second glance.
Only one more week left! Bachao!!!
Diamonds rambled @ 3:31:18 am
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Friday, May 20, 2005
There was a time in my life, when all I ever wanted was a scooter. A few years of begging the folks, and I had the world's most beautiful Black Honda Activa... just 4-5 months after its debut. And all over Pune, one could see enough Activas to compete with the existing remarkably huge population of Scootys and Kinetics. And boy! Was I proud of my better engineered Honda or what!! I loved everything about it, including the Wing logo... I was a true Wing Rider! I still am - you have to see me zooming round the city! For some time, I was the happiest of them all... I wanted nought!
Till I set my eyes on a Sony music system... I had no peace till I could see it nesting in my room, playing beautiful, soothing, peaceful Def Leppard. I kept track of all the latest models, and the features. I sent repeated appeals to the finance ministry, till suddenly one fine day, my appeals were heeded!! Was I happy to receive into my room two beautiful speakers that played the loveliest music! Truly Sony systems are a piece of art!
Soon, it was time for a new PC... which self-respecting engineer uses a P2? Souping-up the PC was a relatively easier proposition... The BE project demanded it. Welcome P4, welcome broadband! My next object of desire (obsession?) was a cell phone... DARN!! I did not even want one... It was just the 'itch' to be 'with it'. And though I wanted a QD, I settled for the 3200. A very good choice, it turns out, though, its the least popular of Nokia Models. I would still rate it perfect 10.
So it's been quite some time now since I've had a real onject of desire. A 'boy's toy'... I satisfied myself with following digi-cam trends, a screw-driver set, firefox, and playing with the LAN card... But for the last few days, the need for an iPOD has been growing on me ever-so-steadily! 90% of my classmates have probably never heard of iPOD, but then... What the Hell! I have - and I want one. And checking out Percy's new mp3 player has made me go bananas... the sound quality was awesome. And it was sooo tiny!! Less cumbersome than a CD even... and so so so easy to use. No cluttered menus, or keypads. An absolutely fool-proof interface. Such a convenient way of carrying around one's music!! I want an mp3 player... GOD, if you're listening... please do something!! :)
Diamonds rambled @ 10:11:39 pm
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Monday, May 16, 2005
Loads of things to talk about... Ummm... where should I start?
* Saw an advertisement in PT a few days ago... The various versions of the iPOD can now be bought in Pune... starting at Rs 8000/- Chicken feed, eh? We'll now be seeing an iPOD in every rich kid's pocket...! Afsos... I'm not a rich kid *boo hoooo*
* A little bit of 'looking inwards' brought home a few points...
~ I can be really, really stubborn when hurt.
~ I can be really, really rude to people online (yes, I can see so many of you nodding in agreement!)
~ I can be really, really indisciplined in some matters (read studies).
~ I am really, really not into food... Can not-have 'sweets' and enjoy it... In fact, I don't like sweets!
~ I really, really don't like people. *yuck*
~ I can really, really ramble!
* I've been repeatedly playing 'Bunty Aur Babli' on my PC. So much so, that now, I am afraid the songs must be fed up of me!!
* All of you who saw the Defence Minister 'defending' himself yesterday, must have had a laugh or two!! It was great seeing Pranab Mukherjee 'handling' the hecklers!!
* Will Zee Cafe stop re-re-re-re-re-running the same season 9 of FRIENDS and the same episodes of Caroline in the City... It was fun while it lasted... buut not anymore!! Show us the next seasons!!! There is very little stuff I watch on TV, and repetitions are killing those shows as well... Well, it seems to be a problem with all of the Zee 'family'... Zee Studio (formerly ZMZ) keeps showing the same movies month after month after month... Gangs of NY, Chicago, Laws of Attraction, The Wedding Planner,... playing every single month! And I'm also fed up of watching the Kill Bill 'coming soon' ads... No sane channel shows 'coming soon ad for more a month and a half!! Show us the darn movie now!
* Meeting some long-lost relatives can be fun!!
* I'm missing my roomie... come back!!!
That's all I can think of now... Over and out!
Oh yes... one last thing...
A warning for all of you who are looking for a broadband connection in Pune. Don't go for IQARA BROADBAND... The connection sucks - Big time. To be precise... the connectivity is a biiiig problem. And the service is a big joke! The technicians are impossibly incompetant and unreliable. This has been my experience with Iqara (in Pune) for more than 7 months now. I'm fed up of their service. The speed etc is fine, once you have the connection. But if, for some reason, the internet refuses to connect... GOD SAVE YOU!!
This is supposed to broadband right? I'm not supposed to have 'connection problems'? Whatever happened to instant connectivity?
Welcome to Iqara!!
Okie guys... this time is really, and truly over and out! We'll meet again... if Iqara allows it!
Diamonds rambled @ 12:37:11 pm
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